The Times, No 31, 725: Als Lesebuch für Vorgerücktere [Reprint 2021 ed.] 9783112455067, 9783112455050

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Des AviltopHclnes Wevke. Übersetzt von

Iotz. Gust. Droysen. Dritte Auflage. Zwei Teile, gr. 8. geh. 12 in einem Bande gebunden 13 jK, 60 Deuschlands größter Dichter hat in dem kleinen Scherzspiel, mit welchem er eine Nachbildung versuchte, Aristophanes „den ungezogenen Liebling der Grazien" genannt. Goethe wußte, ein wie tiefer Born in den Stücken dxF attischen Komödiendichters sprudelt. Johann Heinrich Boß, der Vater deutscher Übersetzungskunst, füllte sein Greisenalter mit einer Übersetzung des Aristophanes aus. Die Bahn war gebrochen, immer von neuem reizte die Aufgabe. Niemand aber hat es besser verstanden, den attischen Schalk zu „seinen lieben Deutschen" sprechen zu lassen als Droysen! Und wenn jetzt die dritte Auflage seiner Übersetzung an unseres Volkes Thür um Einlaß bittet, so zieht sie ein, wie ein guter Freund unserer Jugendzeit und wie der ernstheitere Genoß des Mannes.

Geschichte der neueren Philosophie von Nikolaus von Kues bis zur Gegenwart. Im Grundriss dargestellt. Von

Dr. R. Falckenberg,

Professor an der Universität Jena. gr. 8. 1886. geh. 6 jK>, geb. 7 Diese Geschichte der neueren Philosophie wird nicht nur dem Neuling will­ kommen sein, welcher die einzelnen Denker und Denkrichtungen in möglichst präziser Fassung authentisch charakterisiert sehen möchte, sondern auch allen Gebildeten, welche das Bedürfnis haben, das Ganze der philosophischen Entwickelung der Neuzeit in seiner Gesamtheit zu überschauen. Die „Erläuterung von über 150 der wichtigsten philosophischen Kunstausdrücke" (meist Fremdwörter, z. B. Analyse, Idee, Idealismus, Monismus, Naturalismus, Pantheismus u. s. w.), welche als Anhang beigegeben ist, erhöht die Brauchbarkeit des sich durch geschmackvolle Darstellung, gute Ausstattung und (last not least) billigen Preis auszeichnenden Werkes.

Grundzüge der physischen Erdkunde. Von

Prof. Dr. Alexander Supan, Herausgeber von Petermann's Mitteilungen.

Mit 130 Abbildungen im Tert und 20 Karten in Farbendruck. gr. 8. 1884. geh. 7 jfk Supan's physische Erdkunde bietet in edler, allgemein verständlicher Form eine Gesamtdarstellung unserer Kenntnisse und Anschauungen über den inneren Zusammen­ hang jener Erscheinungen, welche das Leben der Erde ausmachen. Die „Grundzüge der physischen Erdkunde" sind ein Buch, wie es nur ein Forscher schreiben konnte, der den Stoff voll und ganz beherrscht. — Die beigegebenen 20 farbigen Karlen bilden einen kleinen physikalischen Atlas.

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Dr. Friedrich Landmann, Lehrer der englischen Sprache an der Öffentlichen Handelslehranstalt zu Leipzig.

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1 finishing, den letzten feinen Schliff geben, daher finishing governess. — 2 Calisthenics, Turnunterricht zur Ausbildung der Grazie. — 3 Premiums, Preise, die für die Kundschaft gezahlt werden. — 4 offices, Wirtschaftsräume, wie Küche, Speisekammer, Keller, Waschküche u. f. to. — 5 Charities, mildthätige Schenkungen, Anstalten. — 6 Lifeboat, Rettungsboot.

metic and shorthand. Lessons by post. and Powell, School Agents (established 1833), 34, Bedforde-stre(4t, Strand, W.C. Established 1840.

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TERS, having the honour of instructing Royalty, the nobility, and gentry, give LESSONS daily in the New Valse and all the modern dances. Four private lessons one guinea, any time by appointment. Prospectus on application. Assemblies.—22, Golden­ square, W.

of the Station on the main line of the South-Western Railway.—To be LET, a Capital detached RESIDENCE, in every way suitable for a first-class school. It contains eight bed rooms, study, dining room, drawing room, library, school room, play room, and usual offices.4 Excellent stabling, with coach-house, gardens, and playground. ancing and deportment.— Apply to Messrs. Edwin Fox and BousMme. G. WEBSTER will be glad fieldf, 99, Greshamg-street, Bank, E.C. to RECEIVE the names of PUPILS wishing to join her dass in London CHARITIES5, Le. during the season. Two or three young ladies can be received for Finishing1 ppeal.—royal national lifeLessons during the Laster holidays at BOAT6 INSTITUTION.—The Com­ her residence in Brighton, 2, Cambridgemittee earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS road, Bove? to enable them to efficiently maintain adame stainton taylor’s their fleet of 290 lifeboats. The Insti­ CLASSES, for families of the no­ tution has during the last 62 years been bility and gentry, at her residence, for instrumental in rescuing nearly 32,000 DEPORTMENT, Calisthenics 2, and Danc­ shipwrecked persons. Annual subscriping. Private Valse Lessons to gentle- tions and donations will be thankfully men.—35, Coleherne-roadb, Redcliffe- received by Messrs. Coutts and Co.h; by all the other bankers; and by the square, S.W. Secretary, Charles Dibdin, Esq., 14, HE LONDON ACADEMY of DANC­ John-street, Adelphi. ING (Founded 1863), 51, Mortimerstreet, Cavendish®-square. The most HE SCHOOLfor thelNDIGENT BLIND, St. George’s-fields, Southwark? complete, rapid modern System of elementary, adult, juvenile classes and Patron—Her MAJESTY The QUEEN. Upwards of 220 blind people receive assemblies. Private tuition and practice with partners. Prospectuses.— the benefits of this Charity. Candidates, totally blind, between the ages EDWARD HUMPHREYd, Principal. of seven and 20, are elected by votes chools for sale and partner- of subscribers; and, free of all cost, are SHIPS.—Sent gratis to intending received for about six years, during purchasers, the PRIVATE TRANSFER which they are taught a trade, and to LIST, containing particulars of over read, write, and cipher; such as have 180 boys’ and girls’ schools. Premiums3 ability being trained as organists. An £30 to £3,000. Address Griffiths, Smith, annual subscription of one guinea en-

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1 finishing, den letzten feinen Schliff geben, daher finishing governess. — 2 Calisthenics, Turnunterricht zur Ausbildung der Grazie. — 3 Premiums, Preise, die für die Kundschaft gezahlt werden. — 4 offices, Wirtschaftsräume, wie Küche, Speisekammer, Keller, Waschküche u. f. to. — 5 Charities, mildthätige Schenkungen, Anstalten. — 6 Lifeboat, Rettungsboot.

titles the donor to one vote for each vacancy at all elections; life subscription1, 10 guineas. Bankers—Messrs. Lloyds, Barnetts, Bosanquetsa, and Co., 54, St. James’s-street, S.W. FUNDS are earnestly requested for the Junior Branch School2 recently erected at Wandsworth? B. G. JOHNS, M.A., Secretary.

NFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM,

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The QUEEN. Bankers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon,d and Co. THIRTY INFANT ORPHANS (every one under seyen years of age) will he ELECTED on Thursday, May 27th, in the Great Hall, Cannon-street Hotel. An annual subscription of half-aguinea or a life subscription of five guineas will enable the donor to give one vote in aid of any candidate on the list. The Asylum, in which there are now nearly 600 children, is almost entirely supported by voluntary contributions. It greatly needs additional annual subscribers. HENRY W. GREEN, Secretary. Office, 100, Fleet-street. ondon orphan asylum,Watford.6

Instituted in 1813. L Patron—Her MAJESTY The QUEEN.

There is accommodation for 600 chil­ dren in the Asylum, but owing to want of funds there are over 100 vacancies at the present time. Nearly 200 orphans are awaiting admission. The Managers are most anxious to admit an increased number of children at the coming election in June. They gratefully acknowledge the receipt of substantial Support at the recent Festival on the 3d March

last, and they are therefore hopeful that the public will generously augment the resources of the Charity so as to enable them to carry out their wishes, SUBSCRIPTIONS in furtherance of this object are earnestly requested. The next Election will take place on 28th June, 1886. Candidates must be nominated on or betöre the 14th April next. Annual subscriptions (entitling to vote at the coming election), for one vote, 10s. 6d.; for two votes, £1 Is.; life subscriptions, for one vote, £5 5s.; for two votes, £10 10s. Bankers—Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co. ARTHUR R. CAPEL, Treasurer. JAMES ROGERS, Hon. Secretary. E. S. WALLBRIDGE, Secretary. Office, 1, St. Helen’s-place, E.C. AGS and THEIR REMEDIES.—The the RAGGED earnestly APPEAL for additional AID in Support of the 180 Ragged School Missions of the Me­ tropolis. These buildings are planted in the poorest districts, and are used for Sunday and Bible Schools, Day and Infant Free Schools, Week-night Schools for Rough Lads and Girls, In­ dustrial Classes, Gospel Mission Ser­ vices , Mothers' Meetings, Ragged Churches, Bands of Hope, Creches4, and numerous other agencies for the benefit of the poor children and their parents. Much is done, too, in hörne Visita­ tion, in clothing the ragged and feeding the starving, and a country cottage is provided for the weakly and convalescent. Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secretary, John Kirk, Exeter-hall, W.C.; or by the bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street, E.C.

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R. BARNARDO’S ROMES for DESTI­ TUTE BOYS and GIRLS. Former Presidents. The Right Hon.1 the late EARL CAIRNS. The Most. Hon.2 the MARQUIS of LORNE, P.C.3, K.T.4

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Treasurer—William Fowler, Esq., M.P.6, 35, Cornhill, E.C. Bankers—London and South-Western Bank, Bow7 Branch, E. These homes, besides doing a vast amount of general mission work in the poorest part of East London, now feed, dothe, and provide a Christian and industrial training for nearly 1,200 poor children, and have since their formation rescued over 5,000 destitute boys and girls. In connexion with these Institutions there are 30 Cottage Hornes for Girls, forming avillage upon thefamily System, at Ilfordb, Essex; a Home for Little Boys at Jersey; a House for Babies at Hawkhurst, Kent; and three large Hornes for Boys and Girls in the East of London. There is also in Operation a Hospital for Sick Children, containing 31 beds, under skilful Professional care; and an Hotel for Young Workmen who have lest the Hornes; while a Labour House for Destitute Youths too old to enter the Boys’ Home, and

a Servants’ House and Free Register8 for elder girls, have kecently been added. An Emigration Department, with a large Distributing Home9 for Boys and Girls in Ontario0, Canada, is also in active Operation. These various Hornes present some special features which distinguish them from all others in the metropolis, not the least remarkable being that poor children are sought for by day and night in the lodging-houses and other miserable haunts of the homeless poor. Really destitute children are always eligible, and may be sent to the office at any hour of the day or night. Other cases not so urgent are, if brought under notice, carefully inquired into and decided upon as speedily as possible. Children are admitted irrespective of differences of age, sex, or creed, and in spite of physical disqualifications that frequently lead to their being rejected elsewhere. No voting or promise of money payments is ever required to obtain admission for a suitable, i. e.10, a des­ titute case. There is no endowment, and the whole work is dependent solely upon the freewill offerings of the benevolent. The Hornes are always open to visitors, except on Saturday afternoon and Sunday; but the best time to see

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1 Right Hon., The Right Honourable the Earl Cairns, Anrede: My Lord; der älteste Sohn erhält den zweiten Titel des Vaters, da earls gewöhnlich mehrere Adels­ titel vereinen, hier Viscount Garmoyle. Der jüngere Sohn heißt the Honourable George Cairns, die Tochter Lady Jane Cairns. — 2 Most Hon., The Most Honourable the Marquis. Anrede: My Lord Marquis. Die Tochter erhält den Titel Lady. — 3 P.C., Member of the Most Honourable Privy Council, etwa Staatsrat (s. Lord President of the Council). — 4 K.T. (keiti'i), Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, 1540 gegründeter Orden mit grünem Band; Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit, niemand reizt mich un­ gestraft. — 5 Right Hon. the Lord, Anrede: My Lord, Titel eines Baron (höher als Baronet); ältester Sohn: The Honourable A. F. Kinnaird. — 6 M.P. (empi'i), Member of Parliament. — 7 Bow, Stadtteil im äußersten Osten Londons mit Bow Church, St. Mary’s, einer der ältesten Kirchen, nicht zu verwechseln mit Bow Church, St. Mary-le-Bow, in Cheapside. — 8 Register, Stellennachweis. — 9 Dis­ tributing Home, eine Herberge, von der nach Kanada Auswandernde in Stellen untergebracht werden. — 10 i. e. (id est), that is.

COURT and SPRING FLECTION3 of this Charity will occur on Thursday, the 29th instant, at the Cannon-street Hotel, E.C., to receive the Reports, Domestic and Financial, to appoint the officers for the ensuing year and for the purpose of choosing 35 applicants for the ordinary period of live years from the list of 145 approved candidates, without prejudice to scrutiny.4 The Meeting will commence at 11 o’clock, the poll at 12, and dose at 2 o’clock precisely; H. GERARD HOARE, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair.5 The Board are grateful for the Support afforded them. They regret to announce a great falling off in the annual and life subscriptions and donations, as compared with previous Founded 1740. Incorporated by years; but they trust that with returnCharter 1758. ing commercial prosperity the funds HE LONDON HOSPITAL, White­ of the Charity may also increase, so chapel, E., is the largest in Great that they may be enabled to elect a Britain, and the only General Hospital larger number of patients in future for the poor of the East-end and subthan they think it prudent to do on urbs, numbering over a million. the present occasion. It is also a Special Hospital for Provision is made for the reception Eye, Ear, and Skin cases, and for of private cases, on payments reguCancer, Tumours, Stone, Fistulab, &c. lated by the Board of Management.6 Reliable income £14,300. Necessary Sir Trevor® Lawrence, Bart.7, M.P. expenditure for the 780 beds, £47,000. for Reigated, will preside at the Annual CONTRIBUTIONS earnestly re- Festival, at the Albion8, Aldersgate6quested. street, on Thursday nextj, the 8th Bankers—Messrs. Glyn and Co. instant. and Messrs. Robarts and Co. Bankers—Messrs. Hoare, 37, Fleet­ F. C. Carr-Gomm, Chairman. street, E.C. A. H. Haggard, Secretary. H. GERARD HOARE, Esq., Treasurer. HE ASYLUM for IDIOTS, Earls­ WILLIAM NICHOLAS, Se­ wood, Redhill, Surrey, for the cretary. Care and Education of the Idiot and Office, 36, KingWilliam-street, E.C., Imbecile, especially in the earlier periods of life.—The ANNUAL GENERAL April, 1886.

the Boys’ Home is between 2.201 and 5 p.m., when the Workshops and schools are in Operation. The Girls’ Village can be reached by train from Liverpool-street Station to Ilford, starting about 1.5 p.m. daily. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for HELP from all those who pity destitute children wherever found. £16 will sufsice to maintain one poor boy or girl in the Hornes for a whole year; £8 will do the same for six months; but any gift, however small, will be thankfully received. All Communications should be addressed to Wm.2 Fowlera, Esq., M.P., Treasurer, or to Dr. T. J. Barnardo, Nos. 18 to 26, Stepney-causeway, Lon­ don, E.

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1 2.20 twenty (minutes) past two. — 2 Wm., William. — 3 General Court and Spring Flection, Generalversammlung und Frühjahrsaufnahme. — 4 without prejudice to scrutiny, ohne genauere Untersuchung ihrer Verhältnisse und Wür­ digkeit, welche erst später angestellt wird. — 5 Chair, Präsidentenstuhl, d. h. H. führt den Vorsitz. — 6 Board of Management, Direktion, Vorstand. — 7 Bart., Baronet, mit vorgesetztem Sir erblicher Titel des niederen Adels : Bart, wird meist geschrieben und gedruckt, jedoch nicht gelesen. — 8 Albion, The Albion Tavern in Aldersgate-street, berühmt wegen ihrer guten Diners.

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EAMEN’S HOSPITAL (late Dread­ at MARGATE, for the treatment nought) *2, Greenwich/. Supported by of Scrofula“, is not a mere convalescent voluntary contributions, and free to Institution, but is the only Hospital for the whole maritime world.—FUNDS the special treatment of this national urgently NEEDED. disease. It has 220 beds, open all the T. EVANSh, Secretary. year round. The expenses exceed income by £2,000. SITUATIONS. R. RUTHYENb PYM, Treasurer. J. T. WALKER, Secretary. ssex lunatic asylum.—The Offices, No. 30, Charing-cross, S.W. SERVICES of an experienced CHAPSEASIDE CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL, LAIN are required. Salary £300 per Seaford0, Sussex. Established 1860. annum. A residence can be obtained PATRONESSES. near the Asylum. H.R.H. the DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE. All particulars as to duties will be H.R.H. the PRINCESS MARY ADE­ fumished on application to the Medi­ LAIDE, Duchess of Teck. cal Superintendent. Candidates must send in their apThe Committee have a hörne replete with advantages, but with their plications, with copies of testimonials, straitened income they cannot venture addressed to "The Chairman of the fully to utilize it. Committee of Visitors3, Essex Lunatic DONATIONS are earnestly SOLI- Asylum, Brentwood,” by the 3d of CITED. May next. Bankers—Coutts and Co. By order of the Committee, Office—36, Southampton - Street, W.P.GEPP, Clerk to the Committee Strand, London, W.C. of Visitors. H. GREEN, Secretary. Chelmsford1, 2d April, 1886.

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LADY RECOMMENDS her GOpool -road, Islington.—The Com­ VERNESS, who resided eight years mittee of Management gratefully ACwith her. Advanced English, fluent KNOWLEDGE the following DONA­ French and German, music (performer), TIONS:— singing, drawing, Latin. Age 30. Sa­ Thomas F. Marson, Esq. . £42 0 0 lary £80.—Miss Robertshaw, 13, Old Duncan Mackinnond, Esq. 10 10 0 Bond-street, W. William Holborn®, Esq. . 10 10 0 R. H. Gamlen, Esq. ... 10 10 0 LADY (experienced) wishes MORNMrs. Gore Lloyd............ 10 10 0 ING ENGAGEMENT, or would give Also the following new Annual Sub- Lessons. Advanced music (performer), scriptions:— harmony, singing, Italian and English John H. Fosterf, Esq. . . £3 3 0 ballad (proper production of the voice), Mrs. Alfred Frost............ 1 10 sight4 singing, French (Continental), Lord Gerald Fitzgerald . 10 0 German, and English. Satisfactory Lord Dorchester g............ 1 10 testimonials.—E. W., Farmer’s Library, E. BURN-CALLANDER, See.1 Edwardes-Terrace5, Kensington. a skro'ufjulae — b ra'dvoen, ri'voen — c si'ifoed — d moeki'noen — e ho'uboen — f fä'stoe — g dä'ätshstoe — h e'voenz — 1 tshe'mzfoed.

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Well-educated LADY wishes an ENGAGEMENT as VISITING G0VERNESS or LITERARY SECRETARY. Can teach French, Italian, and Ger­ man, grammatically and thoroughly. Also English branches and music, and drawing to junior pupils. Good references. Apply to Rev. T. Anderson, Kingston-on-Thames.

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XPERIENCED NORTH GERMAN GOVERNESS, age 34, diplömee3, resident.4 Thorough English, German, French (France), Latin, music, drawing, and painting. No objection to boys. Excellent references and certificates. Salary 80 guineas. Address Fräulein, FRENCH LADY, Parisienne, 20, Stanton-house, Watford. with music, Protestant, seeks for a HOLIDAY ENGAGEMENT, or a Situa­ OVERNESS or COMPANION.—RE­ ENGAGEMENT REQUIRED. Eng­ tion in a good school. Address L. D., lish, French, music, deportment, needle3, Cimball-road, Putney.a work. Cheerful, musical, good reader. S DAILY (£45) or MORNING (£40) Experienced, domesticated.—B., 378, GOVERNESS by a young lady. Mare-street, Hackney, London. English, German (Hanover), French UNIOR GOVERNESS in superior (Paris), drawing, music, fancy needleladies’ or preparatory school. L. L. A, work.1—E. Astley, 91, Ramsden-road, St. Andrews (Honours Latin).5 Ex­ Balham? cellent testimonials. Little experience. Small salary.—A. S., 89, Great RussellS superior FINISHING GOVER­ street, W C. NESS. Thorough English, very fluent French and German (acquired URSERY GOVERNESS6 (GERMAN) abroad and accustomed always to speak), to three children, eldest six years. brilliant music and singing, drawing, Must have experience in teaching and painting. Highest references. Young control, sound knowledge of music and pupils not objected to. £80-£100.—Z., needlework, and good recommendations. 54, Berners-street, W. Apply, to-day and to-morrow, before 1.30 p.m., at 9, Cresswell-gardens, Old SITUATION WANTED, for a SWISS- Brompton-road, S.W. PROTESTANT LADYto teach young children. Music, French or German. RS. C. A. HOARE will be much A comfortable Christian hörne preferable obliged if any lady will recomto high salary. Apply to A. D., 17, mend her a thorough good GERMAN Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, W. GOVERNESS (Protestant) for two little boys, ages eight and five. German, OYS’ GOVERNESS (thoroughly ex- French, English, Latin, and music most perienced) REQUIRES RE-ENGAGE- essential.—Kelsey-manorc, Beckenham, MENT. English, Latin, French, Music. Kent.

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gewöhnlich etwas in der Fluchtlinie zurücksteht und nicht wie bei uns nach Stockwerken (flats) geteilt ist, sondern vertikal mit besonderen Eingängen und besonderen Treppen für jede Wohnung. — 1 fancy needlework, feinere Handarbeit, Stickerei u. a. — 2 Reference five years, fünf Jahre in der letzten Stelle. — 3 diplömee, in Frank­ reich geprüfte Lehrerin. — 4 resident, im Hause wohnend. — 6 L.L.A. St. Andrews, Lady Literate of Arts, etwa Doktorin der Philosophie, ein Titel der Universität St. Andrews, entspricht M.A. für Männer; Honours Latin, ehrenvolles Examen im Lateinischen. — 6 Nursery Governess, Gouvernante für ganz kleine Kinder; nursery, Kinderstube.

OVERNESSES’ HOME, 47, Harley - years. Address S. B., 6, Hyde-parkI street.—At this Home, a branch gardens, W. of the Governesses’ Benevolent Insti­ LADY’S-MAID WANTED for one tution, under the patronage of the Royal lady. French preferred. Age Family and nobility, well-qualified between 30 and 40. Good personal English and foreign ladies reside; and engagements, either resident or daily \ character8 indispensable. Wages £30, by families or schools, may be made including beer. Washing paid. Address without expense to either party. Office C. B. W., 2. Clarendon-terrace, Brighton.4 hours 12 to 5. ÄUSEFUL MAID WANTED. Good needlewoman, dressmaker, and ondon and county scholastic hairdresser. Apply, before 12, this day, and DOMESTIC AGENCY, 67, at 71, Harley-street, W. Berners-street, W.—The Managers can RECOMMEND several ENGLISH and SEFUL MAID WANTED. French. FOREIGN GOVERNESSES, Lady-House­ Must be good dressmaker, underkeepers2, Chaperons3, Companions4, stand packing. Call on Tuesday, be­ Matrons5, Invalid Attendants, Ama- tween 12 and 3 at 25, De Veree-gardens, nuenses, Readers, &c. No Charge to Kensington, W. employers. All disengaged call or LADY wishes to find a SITUATION write. for UNDER NURSE9, where good adame hulbert* appeals to M. upper is kept.—Mrs. L., CollinghamP.’sb, authors, lawyers, clergymen, house, Cromwell-road, S.W. and literary men to EMPLOY highly ADY-HOUSEKEEPER.—Widow lady, educated GENTLEWOMEN on her books6 with unexceptionable references and in need of work, as Copyists, Secreaccustomed to children, desires SITUA­ taries, or Lady-Clerks. She guarantees satisfaction.—No. 19, Warwickc-street, TION as above, with care of young children. Apply D. Deucharf, Esq., Cockspur-street. Manager Caledonian Insurance Com­ pany, Edinburgh. CIENCE ofDRESS.—ThenewANGLOOOK-HOUSEKEEPER10 WANTED, in PARISIAN SYSTEM Stands unrivalled the country, about seven miles for accuracy. The best dressmakers from London. Must be economical, are adopting it. Every pattem is produced at will, French or English. A good manager, active, and early riser. perfect fit may be relied on. Price 10s. Understand dairy and baking. One Agents Wanted in every town. Send from the country preferred. Apply by for particulars to 295, Oxford-street, W. letter, stating age, experience, and wages required, to X. Y. Z., 18, CharlesÄLADY RECOMMENDS a very good street, Grosvenor - square, W. , or GERMAN MAID7, who understands personally on 5th April, from 11 till her duties. Has been with her three 1 o’clock.

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COOK and a PARLOURMAID Established 1857. 30, Mortimer-street, WANTED, in a clergyman’s fami- Cavendish-square, W. The 1 argest and ly, numbering three persons. Apply most successful school of its kind in to Mrs. M—s, Fair-head, Putney. the world. The attendances reach several thousands per annum. Pupils OOK, aged from 25 to 30, REQUIR- received by the day or course. ResiED, at once, in a gentleman’s fa- dence if required. Apprentices taken mily, living in London in winter and for three, six, or 12 months. Send for country (25 miles from London) in prospectus and book of specimens of summer. Must thoroughly understand daily bills of fare.8 her duties, and have a good personal character. Apply, by letter only, statousemaid wanted. One who ing age, wages, and all particulars, to has been second in a gentleman’s Gr. T., 33, Weymouth a-street, Portland- house. Age 26 or 28. Help given until 1 o’clock daily. Wages £30, inclusive.9 place, W. Address C. R. W., 2, Clarendon-terrace, Thorough COOK WANTED, for the Brighton. country, who can undertake a small dairy and baking. Kitchenmaid EQUIRED, by a farmer’s widow and kept. Age 30 to 35. Apply to Mrs. daughter, a SITUATION as DAIRYMilton, Trumpington, Cambridge. MAID, to look after poultry, Le., or any place of trust. Address K. T., 11, EQUIRED, for Westbourne-terrace, London-street, London-road, Southwark, a thorough COOK, House-Parlour- London, S.E. maid \ Housemaid, Useful Ladies’-maid2, Kitchenmaid, and In-door Footman.3 ISS FAITHFULL, Industrial Insti­ tute, 126, Regent-street.—COOKApply, by letter, to Mrs. B., No. 48, HOUSEKEEPERS, Cooks, Nurses,Ladies’Langham Hotel, Portland-place? maids,Upper Housemaids, Parlourmaids, ood plain 4 cook wanted. Kitchenmaids, Laundrymaids. 10Servants Wages £24, all found5 except beer. of all kinds, for London, country, abroad. Apply at 11, Holland-park-gardens, W., COURIERS/1 11—Swiss and United near Notting-hill-gate Station. Couriers and Travelling Servants’ OOKERY.—High-dass French and Society beg to intimate that trustworthy, English Cookery. LESSONS for experienced MEN, of different nationweek commencing April 5, 1886:— alities, may be ENGAGED by applying Monday , fancy cakes6, breads, &c.; at the office, 58, Mount-street, GrosTuesday, best cold entrees; Wednesday, venor-square. dressed fish and fish sauces, hot and LADY wishes to highly RECOMcold; Thursday, best hot entrees; FriMEND her GERMAN BUTLER12 and day, dinner and dessert ices, soufflSs7, TRAVELLING SERVANT, as Under &c. Marshall’s School of Cookery.

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Butler. Speaks French and English land and stock3 if required. Has the well.—G. 0.) 160, Milton-street, Dorset­ highest of reference. Age 36. Married, one child.—A. B., 47, Mount Ephraimb, square, N.W. Tunbridge-wells. UTLER WANTED, Town and counAN and WIFE WANTED, not under try. One footman. Apply, by letter 40, as BUTLER and COOK, in only, stating age, wages, situations filled, and all particulars, 22, Kensington small quiet family. Personal characters preferred. Apply M., Boddington’s Palace-gardens. Library, Notting-hill-gate, 11 to 1 or AN-COOK (head or single)1—a 8 to 9. thorough economical workman, all branches. Has lived in clubs, establish- AW COACH.4----- A BARRISTER (Wrangler5, &c.) COACHES for the ments, hotel Companies, &c. Undeniable references and testimonials.—G. Lucas, BAR6, solicitors’7, and all legal examina233, Vauxhall-bridge-road,Pimlico1,S.W. tions. Terms very moderate. Fach pupil taken separately. Address L. C. ÄRespectable MAN, of matured age, B., Messrs. Deacon’s, LeadenhalP-street. WANTED, to clean boots, clothes, XAMINATIONS.—An Oxford Gra­ and attend to errands, and make himself generally useful, in a gentleman’s duate8, in town all day, VISITS family. Finding bis own lodgings, but or RECEIVES. 200 candidates passed. taking bis meals in the house, whicb Greek, Latin, French, logic, geology, is situated near the Marble Arch, Hyde- English. Moderate terms. Address park. Address G. R., care of Messrs. Zeta, 3, Ladywell-park, Lewisham. Harrison and Son, 39, Sackville-street, S TUTOR9 (Visiting or Resident). Piccadilly. Mathematics, thorough French, SECOND COACHMAN, age 25 to 35, German, geometrical drawing, and topoWANTED. None but an experienced graphy. Very successful in coaching for Army (Line and Militia) and other man need apply, for he will bave entire Charge of eight or 10 horses for Exams.—47, Brompton-square, S.W. two or three months in the year. Apply, N experienced GERMAN TUTOR, between 11 and 12, at 22, New Cavendishlong resident in France, who has street, Portland-place, W. at present a public appointment in ARDENER (HEAD WORKING)2, to London, desires to give LESSONS in any nobleman or gentleman re- schools or private families, on moderate quiring a thorough practical man in all terms. German or French. Address M. branches of gardening. Understands H., 48, Colvestone-crescent, Dalston, N.d a pi'mlikou — b i'ifroeim — le'doenhääl — d ko'ufstoenkre'soent dä'älstoen nä'äp.

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ERMAN COACH, with a long exRTICLED6 CLERK REQUIRED, by an Auctioneer and Accountant7 perience, rapidly initiales gentlemen.—Gr. H., 12, Cressingham-road, in Exeter, with a large practice—a Lewisham, S.E. young gentleman, about 17 or 18. Must write a good band, be quick at cholastic vacancies.1—Univer- figures, and willing to apply himself sity men and other qualified mas- thoroughly to his duties, and to acters seeking APPOINTMENTS for next quiring a complete knowledge of the term are insured timely notice of the profession. Premium 100 guineas. Ap­ best vacancies by applying to Askin, ply Thomasb Martin, Exeter. Gabbitas4, and Killik, 38, SackvilleUNIOR CLERK WANTED. Must write street, London, W. well and be quick at accounts. UBLIC SPEAKING.—TheREV. ALEX. Age 16 to 20. Salary commencing £30 J. D. D’ORSEY, B.D.2, Professor per annum. Apply, by letter, to G. H., care of8 Housekeeper, 48, Queen VicK.C.L.3, assists in the composition and delivery of Speeches, at 13, Prince’s- toria-street, E.C. square, W. MERCHANT, in Barcelona, acting as agent for some first-class EngO PUBLISHERS, Newspaper Prolish firms, is open to undertake the prietors, Members of Parliament, &c. AGENCY for a few more in the metal —The daughter (young) of a well-known literary man (deceased), herseif a skilled or Chemical line, and any other kind Journalist, and author of a work ac- of goods suitable for that market, also cepted by Royalty, and unexceptionally open to take an occasional journey well reviewed, would be glad of im- through Spain if necessary. Only good mediate and remunerative EMPLOY- houses will be treated with. Address MENT.—Alpha, 54, Brecknock-road, G. R. Jones and Co., Sheffield. London, N. USTRALIA.—A firm of export boot and shoe manufacturers REQUIRE UTHORS and others.—WANTED, a GENTLEMAN to REPRESENT them at once, CONTRIBUTIONS (prose in the Australasian Colonies. A know­ or poetry), for magazines, Lc.; also ledge of the boot and shoe trade and MSS.4 for volumes and tales for news- colonial experience indispensable. Sa­ papers. Write for particulars to Editor, lary and Commission. Apply by letter, Chas.5 Tayler and Co.’s Advertisement with references, &c., to Australasia, Offices, 154 to 157, Fleet-street, Lon­ care of Messrs. Powell and Co., 36, don, E.C. Lime-street. ECRETARYSHIP.—A gentleman of SITUATION WANTED, as BRICKPosition, secretary to a Company, LAYER on a nobleman’s or gentlecan undertake another similar APPOINT- man’s estate. Used to building and MENT. Highest references given and jobbing.9 Can have good reference. required. Address Secretary, 59, Eaton- Address T. B., 23, Hurst-street, Herne­ terrace, S.W. hili, London, S.E. a gae'bitaes — b tä'moes.

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GENTLEMAN, farming a small hotel. Address H. M., 503, Messrs. property, who is also agent for Deacon s, Leadenhall-street. another, has a VACANCY for a PUPIL’ ANAGER WANTED, in London, Facilities given for learning carpenterby one of the largest brewers of ing, shoeing1, and blacksmith’s work, pale and strong ale in the country, in addition to arable and stock farm­ ing. Excellent references given and with stores and staff and old connexion required. Address L. Townley Clark­ already established. Experience and a son, St. James’s, near Halesworth, knowledge of both Wholesale and retail trades indispensable. A suitable Suffolk? party3 will be liberally treated, and LECTRICAL ENGINEERING and all Communications held strictly conSUBMARINE TELEGRAPHY. — fidential. Address Brewer, Messrs. WANTED, immediately, GENTLEMEN’S Street and Co.’s, No. 30, Cornhill, E.C. SONS, to qualify for superior appointments in the various departments of Liberal salary and Commission to a first_ciasg TRAVELLER, of electrical engineering, including the electric light, telephone, and sub­ good address4, pushing5, and energetic, marine telegraph Service. Apply Se- well known to the tobacco trade in cretary, No. 12, Prince’s-street, Hanover- London. Gooj references indispensable. Apply, by 1 etter, marked private, square, W. stating age and previous experience, to LORIDA.—The Rev. C. W. Arnold, The Egyptjan Cigarette and French late of Woking, has VACANCIES Government Tobaccos Company, Limit­ in his house at Orlando for YOUNG ed, 86 to 88, Leadenhall-street, E.C. GENTLEMEN desirous of learning orange UPIL.—Architects and Surveyors.— culture; he has also several valuable A firm of long standing has a Orange Groves for Sale on his own VACANCY. Premium6 required.—Archi­ and other estates. Apply G. G., Arnold, 52, Leadenhall-street, E.C.; or Askin, tects, No. 10, South-street, Finsbury? Gabbitas, and Killik, 38, SackvilleEQUIRED, by a gentleman with street, W. small Capital, in town or country, ERMANY.---- Good AGENCIES OCCUPATION as MANAGER, Secretary, WANTED, by a well-established Assistant, or any position of trust, in substantial firm in Berlin. A large ware- an established bank, club, Institution, house in the centre of the City, or or Company. Good references.—E956, securities, if required, for consignments Address and Inquiry office, The Times of goods, and first-class references Sup­ Office, E.C. port the advertiser. Please address to EQUIRED, by a gentleman, of M., E946, Address and Inquiry office, good family, age 29, some EMThe Times Office, E.C. PLOYMENT. Has bad four years’ ex­ otel Manager.2 —Position perience in banking; and also three WANTED, by an active, energetic, years’ practical experience of cattle farming on large ränge7 in Western experienced man, 36 years of age. Eight years’ references to a first-class States of America. Apply, by letter,

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to 8., care of T. D. G. Carmichael*, 13, take the CONVERSION of a sound Arlington-street, London, W. existing BUSINESS into a LIMITED COMPANY, for which they would be OÜTH WANTED, about 17. Stock- able to place Capital and arrange an Exchange broker’s office. Address influential Board of Directors. Address Clerkship, Messrs. Street and Co.’s, F., care of May s, 159, Piccadilly. No. 30, Cornhill, E.C. LADY, having from £1,000 to £2,000 ravellership. London. Foreign to INVEST, may hear of an exhouse preferred. Interview desired. Address A. M. Elyb, Manufacturers’ ceptional opportunity. A first Charge Agent and Exhibitors’ Representative of 15 per cent. will be secured on to International Exhibitions, No. 59, profits, and no liability. Business under administration of the highest integrity. Chancery-lane, London. Applicants (London or «country) may AW.—CONVEYANCING1 CLERK, arrange interview. Address Investment, thoroughly experienced, and who care of F Oddy, Esq., Solicitor, Lom­ has for many years acted without super- bard-Streek London. vision, is open to ENGAGEMENT, at YNDICATE.—A gentleman with £500 low salary.—E960, Address and Inquiry may secure a handsome BONUS3 office, The Times Office, E.C. without liability. For full particulars address A. T., care of J. L. Bloxland, AW PARTNERSHIP WANTED, by a Esq., Solicitor, 7, Queen Victoriagentleman (M.A. Camb.)2 of active street, E.C. and business-like habits, and an expert conveyancer. Small Capital at command. APITAL.—£1,500 to £3,000 WANT­ Principals or their solicitors only need ED, to work4 a new and valuable apply, by letter, to M. A., care of discovery in decorative art. Apply to Messrs. Street Brothers, 5, Serle-street, R. Smith, 4, New Broad-street, London, Lincoln’s-inn.c E.C. artnership required, in an APITAL.—Ad vertiser REQUIRES established City auctioneer’s business.—8., E955, Address and Inquiry £2,000 to £4,000, to promote two proved and bona-fide undertakings. office, The Times Office, E.C. Profits large. Principals only need artnership (Wine Trade).— write for appointment to Omega, Box GENTLEMAN, with about £1,000, 10, care of Willing’s Advertising offices, WANTED, to JOIN another with small 125, Strand. Capital, who has large experience of APITALISTS.—£2,000 REQUIRED, the business, extending over 15 years.— on ample security. Employment Reims, care of Hopcraft and Co., 1, if desired, at a fair salary, for an active Mincing-lane, E.C. and intelligent young man. Arrange­ imited liability.—A firm of ments might be made for a partnership considerable resource and ex­ in a manufacturing business. Address Messrs. F. W. Mount and Son, 17, perience, with an old and influential connexion among capitalists, will under- Gracechurch-street, E.C.

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SSETS and CLAIMS, in France, the O SOLICITORS and TRUSTEES of Large Funds. WANTED, on mortContinent, and America, PURgage of estates of ample value, £100,000 CHASED and RECOVERED, upon Com­ to £300,000, at 31 /2 per cent. Address mission or arrangement.—British and Mr. Norton Dimbleby, Constitutional Foreign Reversion3 Company, No. 32, Great St. Helen’s, E.C. Club, Regent-street, W.

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at 5 per cent., upon mortgage of large freehold1 manufacturing premises oaching4 in England.—“One of of ample value. None but principals the most favourite trips with Americans and colonists “doing” the Old or their solicitors need apply. Address, in the first instance, Z., care of Hep- Country is that by The WONDER burn and Co., Law Stationers2, St. Pan- COACH from LONDON to ST. ALBANSd and back. The owner of this wellcras-lanea, London, E.C. known four-in-hand coach is Mr. RumWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ney, who is a real devotee of coachPOUNDS WANTED, to extend a ing, and spares neither money nor well-established and most profitable pains to secure first-class cattle. The business. Full particulars on appli- road is a charming one, through some cation, by letter, to Ivory, care Wm. of the prettiest villages and townships Dawson and Sons, Advertising Agents, of Middlesex and Hertfordshire®, and 121, Cannon-Street. This is a rare the Cathedra! of St. Albans is one of chance and worthy of Investigation. the finest specimens of old architecture in the world. Ample time is allowed oney wanted.—£12,ooo, at 3f at St. Albans for luncheon and viewper cent., WANTED, on ample ing the Cathedra!."—Philadelphia Press, security, for 15 or 20 years or longer. March 2Ist, 1885. Terminus, Hatchett’s Apply W. B. Hindleb and Son, Land Hotel, Piccadilly. Agents, 23, Park-rowc, Leeds. are OPPORTüNITY.—Excellent PRESERVED SHOOTING and NNUITY of £110 per annum for SMALL , comfortably FURNISHED 90 years, well-secured on firstclass property, to be SOLD, to pay HOUSE to be LET, at a rental barely nine per cent. Price £1,200.—Valen­ covering the actual out of pocket5 extine Robinson, 60, Gresham - Street, penses. Within an hour of the City or West-end. 300 acres (50 wood) good London. mixed shooting. Rent, including keeper, NVESTMENTS in MEXICO. All In­ 250 guineas a year. Address Alpha, formation obtained by B. S. R. C. 18, Bishops-road, London, W. and Co., Broadway-chambers, West­ achting6.—To be let, for May, minster. June, July, and part of August, a sintpae'ngkroesle'in — b hi'ndoel — c paakro'u — d sint ä'älboenz — e ha'afoedshoe.

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a first-dass YAWL1, of 32 tons, built Queen Victoria-street, E.C. Factories, 1884. Four sleeping berths and large Bridgeton, Glasgow. saloon. Indusive hire2, except Insur­ EFRACTORY6 GOLD ORES WANTance, £60 per lunar3 month. Apply ED, to PURCHASE, immediately. to H. P. B., 30, Somerset-street, PortState quantity, particulars, and price, man-square, W. in London, E944, Address and Inquiry office, The Times Office, E.C. lorida.—For Sale, two orange GROVES, about 1,300 trees, siEGRETTI and ZAMBRA’S OPERA, tuated in Orange county. Excellent Race, and Field GLASSES, in Investment. Particulars George Bird, sling cases, complete, two and three 14, The Albanya, Liverpool. guineas.

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HE OREGON4disaster has thoroughly PECTACLES, Folders7, Hand Glasses8, intimidated my family. Where can &c., NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA’S, I find a BUOYANT MATERIAL, or Cork mounted9 with Brazilian pebbles, or Cloth for night dresses, capable of sup- thermoscopic10 lenses. Oculists’ preporting the body in the water? Ad- scriptions receive special attention. dress, with samples and price, James New illustrated price list free by post. Fowler, Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo. ÄSTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES.—NE­ GRETTI and ZAMBRA’S UNIVERSAL RDNANCE SURVEY MAPS.5 Sole TELESCOPE, with terrestrial and astroAgent for England and Wales, nomical powers, £6 6s., £8 8s., and EDWARD STANFORD, 55, Charing£10 10s., in mahogany box, and with cross, London, S.W. List of new publitripod stand complete. cations monthly, post free. EGRETTI and ZAMBRA, Opticians EWING MACHINES.—The H0WEb to The Queen, British and Foreign SEWING MA CHINE CO., late of Governments, &c. The accuracy of all Holborn - viaduct0, has TRANSFERRED Instruments guaranteed. The trade and all its INTERESTS in STOCK and TRADE shippers supplied.—Holborn - viaduct, MARKS connected with Howe machines E.C. Brauches—45, Cornhill; 122, to the HOWE MACHINE COMPANY, Regent-Street; and Crystal Palace. Limited (founded in 1873), of London Price lists free on application. and Glasgow, which Company are the sole successors in business to Elias OLLYS HOSPITAL and CONVAHowe, the inventor of the sewing LESCENT HOME.—The original machine, and are the only manufacInstitution for INVALID DOLLS is turers of the genuine Howe Sewing CREMER S, which continues to be the Machines.—London Show-rooms, 48, only establishment where all the per-

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plexing ailments incidental to dollrtificial manures.—Pam­ hood1, of whatever nationality, are phlet, giving full particulars of successfully treated. Note the doctors effectual manuring for all crops, and address—Cremer, jun.2, 210, Regent­ method of supply by mutual co- Ope­ street, exactly opposite Conduit-street. ration. Published by the Agricultural and Horticultural Association, Limited, BILLIARDS.—WRIGHT and Co. have and sent post free on application to several second-hand TALLES, of Edward Owen Greening, 3, Agarb-street, all 81268, in good condition, to DIS­ Strand, W C. POSE OF, at half the usual eost. Show­ rooms the largest in England. Up- ^)LD SILVER, Jewellery, Coins. wards of 100 tables in stock, from 10 to 150 guineas. Illustrated catalogue LD SILVER, Jewels, Coins VALUED free.—158 to 164, Westminster-bridgeor PURCHASED for cash, if desired, road. A handsome Crystal Palace in large or small amounts, by SPINK match table8 for sale, suitable for a and SON, Goldsmiths and Silversmiths, nobleman’s mansion. Also Billiard Din- 2, Gracechurch-street, London, E.C. ing Tables, our patent. Established 1772.

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FILTER COMPANY, 29, Queen-street, Cannon-street, E.C., London. Sole Hol­ ders of the Patents for Great Britain and the Colonies:—"Paris, March 1, 1886. Monsieur,—By your letter, dated 26th February, 1886, you ask if I have authorized the sale, with mention of my name upon the tickets and prospectus, of Liters other than those of M. Chamberland. I have not given such authorization, and it is quite unknown to me and against my will that this misuse (Usurpation) of my name has taken place. On the contrary, as for the Liter of M. Chamberland—a Liter designed and approved in my laboratory, rewarded by the Academie des Sciences, and of which I know all the hygienic and scientific value—I have authorized M. Chamberland, with good will and on due reflection, to add to the words Filtre Chamberland those of Systeme Pasteur. Receive, Monsieur, the assurance of my very distinguished consideration. (Signed) L. Pasteur.”

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LAW REPORT\ April 3.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVYa COUNCIL.2 (Present—Lord Blackburnb, Lord Hobhouse, and, Sir Richard Couch).0 HARDING V. THE BOARD OF LAND AND WORKS.3

This was an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria of December 10, 1883. Sir R. Webster, Q.C.4, and Mr. Crump, Q.C., appeared for the

a pri'v1 — b blse'kboeoen — c kautsh. 1 Law Report, Gerichtszeitung. Durch die Gesetze von 1873, 75 (Judicature Act) ist das höhere englische Gerichtswesen gegen früher sehr vereinfacht worden. Die früher getrennten höheren Gerichtshöfe sind jetzt vereinigt in dem Supreme Court of Judi­ cature, der aus zwei Abteilungen besteht: 1) Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice, 2) Her Majesty’s High Court of Appeal. Der erstere zerfällt wieder in drei Ab­ teilungen: 1) The Chancery Division, 2) The Queen’s Bench Division, 3) The Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division. Von dem High Court of Appeal kann an das House of Lords appelliert werden. Früher hatte jeder höhere Gerichts­ hof seine besondere Jurisdiktion, jetzt kann jede Privatperson in jedem dieser Höfe einen Prozeß anstrengen. Nur The Queen’s Bench hat eine Ausnahmestellung. Es ist dies der höchste Kriminalhof des Landes, der die Kontrolle über alle nie­ deren Gerichtshöfe ausübt, ebenso kontrolliert er die Korporationen und Magi­ strate. Der Court of Bankruptcy ist jetzt ebenfalls mit dem High Court of Justice vereinigt. An der Spitze der Chancery Division steht der Lord Chancellor. Dieser Gerichtshof hat einige besondere Funktionen, wie die Aufsicht über Hinterlassenschaften, Auflösung von Handelsgesellschaften, Einlösung von Hypotheken, Vormundschaften, Waisen re. Zu Richtern (justices, judges) werden die fähigsten barristers (Anwälte) ernannt; dieselben haben die Pflicht, die Assisen auf dem Lande in den acht Bezirken abzuhalten, in die England und Wales zu diesem Zweck eingeteilt ist (they go Circuit). Die Rechtsanwälte (counsel) sind zunächst die barristers, welche vor Gericht plaidieren dürfen. Die attomeys, proctors und solicitors haben jetzt gleiche Rechte und heißen einfach Solicitors of the Supreme Court, sie plaidieren jedoch nicht, sondern sammeln nur das nötige Material zum Prozeß, außerdem nehmen die meisten als private Rechtskonsulenten, Vermögensverwalter rc. geachtete Stellungen ein. Sie bilden eine geschlossene Gesellschaft (the Incorporated Law Society). An den Ge­ richten wird sowohl nach Equity, Billigkeitsrecht, als auch nach (Common) Law, gemeinem Recht, entschieden, ein kodifiziertes Recht in unserem Sinne giebt es nicht, die Entscheidungen früherer ähnlicher Fälle bilden vielmehr neben den einzelnen Parla­ mentsbeschlüssen, Acts' of Parliament (Statute Law), die Grundlage. — 2 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, die juristische Abteilung des Staatsrats, welche das Oberappellationsgericht für die Kolonieen bildet; die letzte Instanz wird gebildet von den Mitgliedern des Oberhauses, welche höhere juristische Ämter inne­ gehabt haben. — 3 Board of Land and Works, Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten, welchem in den Kolonieen die Verwaltung des noch nicht besetzten Landes obliegt. — 4 Q.C., Queen’s Council, ein von der Krone einem barrister verliehener Titel, etwa: Geheimer Rat; derselbe darf gegen die Krone nur mit besonderer Erlaubnis derselben plaidieren.

appellant;1 the Solicitor-General2, Mr. C. Hall, Q.C., ^nd Mr. Gurner for the respondents.3 The respondents were, under the provisions of certain Statutes of the Colony of Victoria, empowered to make a line of railway from Ararat to Hamilton, for the making of which it became necessary to acquire certain lands in the possession of the appellant, Mr. Silas8 Harding. The question raised in the suit was the amount of compensation to he paid for the land which had been so compulsorily taken and for the injury to bis other land. The Statute which enabled the estimate to be made also provided:—"And the jury, in assessing such compensation, are authorized and empowered and shall take into consideration the enhancement in value of the adjoining land belonging to the person to whom compensation is to be made, or any other benefit or advantages which such person shall obtain by reason of the making of such works or undertaking, in reduction of such compensation/* The issue between the parties was tried before Mr. Justice Higinbothamb and a Jury in November, 1883. The Jury found that the compen­ sation for the value of the land, for compulsory purchase and consequential damage, amounted to £249 5s. 9d., and that the other land of Mr. Harding had been enhanced in value by the making of the railway to the extent of £591. On these findings4 judgment was entered for the respondents, with costs. Later on a rule nisi5 *was obtained by the appellant, calling on the respondents to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a verdict entered for him for either £249 5s. 9d. or £189 5s. 9d., on the ground of misdirection by the Judge, and that there was no evidence of enhancement of value. The Supreme Court discharged the rule, with costs. From that judgment the present appeal was instituted. Their Lordships, in giving judgment, said there had been no mis­ direction on the part of the learned Judge. It was a reasonable construction of the Statute in question that where an owner was entitled to compensation for damage to his lands by reason of severance from them of the land taken or the lands being otherwise injuriously affected, and there was an enhancement in value of his adjoining land, the one should be set off against the other. After reviewing the particular circumstances of the case, their Lordships intimated that they would humbly advise Her Majesty to reverse the decree of the Supreme Court and to direct a sa'iloes — b higinbä'jjoem. 1 appellant, der, welcher appelliert. — 2 Solicitor-General, Kronanwalt, unserem Oberstaatsanwalt entsprechend. *— 3 respondents, die Beklagten, Angeklagten. — 4 findings, Beschluß, Erklärung der Geschworenen. — 5 rule nisi, Beschluß des Ge­ richtes nach common law (Gewohnheitsrecht), gültig, wenn nicht (nisi) der Gegner Einsprache erhebt.

that a verdict be entered for the appellant for £189 5s. 9d., being the total of the value of the land and damage found by the jury, less £60 damage for severance. They made no order as to the costs of the appeal. There were two petitions for leave to appeal heard, in which the counsel engaged were Mr. Bompas, Q.C., Mr. Romer, Q.C., Mr. R. G. Arbuthnota, Mr. Jeune, and Mr. Bray. The circumstances had no ge­ neral Interest.

SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE.1 COURT OF APPEAL.

(Before Lords Justices Cotton, Bowenb, and Fby.) IN RE JOHNSON---- JOHNSON V. HODGE.

This was an appeal by the defendant2, John Johnson, from an Order of the Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine0 Chancery Court3 fixing him with liability to make good to the estate4 of the testatrix all loss which had arisen from his having, as executor, postponed beyond the period of one year from the death of the testatrix the sale of certain shares forming part of the estate. The testatrix, who died on the 14th of July, 1876, by her will, made in 1873, bequeathed her residuary, real, and personal estate to her two daughters (then infants)5, and empowered her executor, the defendant, at his uncontrolled discretion to demise or seil all or any part of her real or leasehold estates as he should think fit, and also to invest all sale6 and any other moneys not required for the immediate purpose of that her will in any of the public Stocks or funds, or upon Government securities of Great Britain, or real or leasehold or chattel real7 securities in England or Wales, or in

a a'aboejmät — b ba'uoen — c paeloetin. 1 Supreme Court of Judicature. Court of Appeal, der höchste Gerichtshof in England, außer dem Privy Council und House of Lords, welche die höchsten Appellhöfe bilden. Es zerfällt der Supreme C. of J. in 1) Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice, 2) Her Majesty’s High Court of Appeal. — 2 defendant, der Angeklagte. — 3 County Palatine Chancery Court, von den drei alten Pfalzgraf­ schaften (Counties Palatine) Durham, Chester und Lancaster hat die letztere noch jetzt eigenes Kanzleigericht und eigenen Kanzler. (Fischel, die Verfassung Englands, 2. Aufl. S. 266.) — 4 estate, Nachlaß, Habe; residuary, nach Abzug der Legale, real, unbewegliche, personal, bewegliche Habe. — 5 infants, unmündig, unter 21 Jahren. — 6 sale moneys, Gelderträge aus dem Verkauf des Nachlasses. — 7 chattel real, Rechte oder Einkünfte aus unbeweglicher Habe (realty), die jedoch selbst als bewegliches (personal) Eigentum angesehen werden, wie z. B. leases.

the purchase of shares or Stocks in or on the securities of any Company or Corporation, whether commercial, municipal, or otherwise, carrying on Business or constituted for any purpose in Great Britain, with power to vary and transpose the same for any other or others of the same description afterward from time to time as occasion should require, of which Stocks, funds, and securities, and the Interests, dividends, and annual income thereof, the trustee was to stand possessed upon the same trusts in all respects as had been declared concerning her real and per­ sonal estates, which were for the benefit of her two daughters, who respectively attained 21 in 1882 and 1883. At the time of her death the testatrix was the holder of 200 £5 shares in the Äppley Bridge and West Lancashirea Seed and Corn Mills Company (Limited). These shares were retained by the executor (who paid calls1 upon them in December, 1876, April, 1877, and August, 1877) until March, 1881, when they were sold by him at a loss to the estate of over £600. It appeared that no dividend had been paid upon these shares since June, 1878, but that they might have been sold at par down to February, 1879, since which time they feil in value rapidly. Vice-Chancellor Bristoweb, when the case came before him in the Palatine Chancery Court, held that the executor was liable to make good to the estate the loss occasioned by not having sold the shares within 12 months after the death of the testatrix, when no loss would have been sustained. From this decision the executor now appealed. Mr. Rigby, Q.C., and Mr. Rotch appeared in Support of the appeal, and contended that although there was no direct authority in the will to retain the shares in specie, the terms of the Investment clause2 were such as to give the executor full and uncontrolled discretion in the matter, and that he could not be made liable for the unforeseen depreciation which had occurred in a security chosen by the testatrix herseif. Mr. Mabebly and Mr. S. Moore , for the respondents, contended that there was nothing in the will to authorize the executor in departing from the ordinary rule of selling at the end of a year from the death of the testatrix. But, assuming that the Investment clause justified the retention of shares on which there was a considerable outstanding liability, there had not been that reasonable exercise of discretion which would alone induce the Court to relieve the executor from bis liability to make good the loss which had arisen by postponing the sale. Lord Justice Cotton was unable to agree with the view taken a lae'ngkshoe — b bri'stou. 1 calls, Nachzahlungen der Aktionäre. — 2 Investment clause, Testaments­ klausel, welche sich auf die Anlage des Kapitals bezieht.

by the Vice-Chancellor of the Palatine Court. The terms of the power were very wide, and would, in his opinion, authorize the executor in holding shares in a Company which was a commercial Company; and he could not accede to the argument that such a power as this would not authorize the executor in purchasing or holding shares which were not fully paid up. What had been done was, in his opinion, not only within the terms of the power, but was a reasonable exercise of discretion on the part of the executor, who appeared to have retained the shares not as a matter of speculation, but because he thought that in a few years* time, when the daughters of the testatrix on attaining their majority would be entitled to have the shares handed over to them, the price would rise. The Court ought not, therefore, to hold this exe­ cutor liable for the loss when he had apparently exercised his discretion in the matter for the best, though in the result what he had done had tumed out unfortunately for the estate. Lords Justices Bowen and Fry gave judgment to the same effect, and the appeal was accordingly allowed.* 1

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.2 QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION.3 (Before Mr.4 Justice Grove and Mr. Justice Stephen.)a SMITH AND ANOTHER V. JAFFRAY.

The hearing of this case, part heard on Friday, was continued. It was an action by the owner of premises in Birmingham, part of which was occupied by the plaintiff5 Smith as a restaurant, while the rest was intended to be let out for Offices, against the proprietor of some Birmingham papers whose printing premises adjoined, for a nuisance alleged to arise from the noise and Vibration caused by the machines. The case was tried at the Assizes at Worcester before Mr. Justice A. L. Smith, and the jury, on the second day of the trial, after hearing several a sti'ivoen. 1 allowed, bestätigt, angenommen. — 2 High Court of Justice, zerfällt in: 1) Chancery Division, 2) Queen’s Bench Division, 3) Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division. — 3 Queen’s Bench Division, der Höchste Gerichtshof Englands in Strafsachen, hält alle niederen Gerichtshöfe in den Schranken ihrer Befugnisse und kann durch einen ‘writ of certiorari’ befehlen, daß das Verfahren derselben aufgegeben werde, er kontrolliert alle Korporationen und Magistrale und kann von ihnen durch ein ‘mandamus’ verlangen, daß sie ihre Pflicht thun. — 4 Mr. Justice, bei anderen Titeln als Justice fällt Mr. weg. England und Wales sind in acht Distrikte (circuits) ge­ teilt, in welchen die Judges of the High Court of Justice, welche seit 1873 ernannt grd, und die Judges of the High Court of Appeal, die seit 1876 ernannt sind, die ssisen abhalten (to go Circuit). (Vgl. Fonblanque, How we are governed. 15th ed. S. 162 flg. (Warne & Co.) 3s. 6d.) — 6 plaintiff, Kläger.

by the Vice-Chancellor of the Palatine Court. The terms of the power were very wide, and would, in his opinion, authorize the executor in holding shares in a Company which was a commercial Company; and he could not accede to the argument that such a power as this would not authorize the executor in purchasing or holding shares which were not fully paid up. What had been done was, in his opinion, not only within the terms of the power, but was a reasonable exercise of discretion on the part of the executor, who appeared to have retained the shares not as a matter of speculation, but because he thought that in a few years* time, when the daughters of the testatrix on attaining their majority would be entitled to have the shares handed over to them, the price would rise. The Court ought not, therefore, to hold this exe­ cutor liable for the loss when he had apparently exercised his discretion in the matter for the best, though in the result what he had done had tumed out unfortunately for the estate. Lords Justices Bowen and Fry gave judgment to the same effect, and the appeal was accordingly allowed.* 1

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.2 QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION.3 (Before Mr.4 Justice Grove and Mr. Justice Stephen.)a SMITH AND ANOTHER V. JAFFRAY.

The hearing of this case, part heard on Friday, was continued. It was an action by the owner of premises in Birmingham, part of which was occupied by the plaintiff5 Smith as a restaurant, while the rest was intended to be let out for Offices, against the proprietor of some Birmingham papers whose printing premises adjoined, for a nuisance alleged to arise from the noise and Vibration caused by the machines. The case was tried at the Assizes at Worcester before Mr. Justice A. L. Smith, and the jury, on the second day of the trial, after hearing several a sti'ivoen. 1 allowed, bestätigt, angenommen. — 2 High Court of Justice, zerfällt in: 1) Chancery Division, 2) Queen’s Bench Division, 3) Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division. — 3 Queen’s Bench Division, der Höchste Gerichtshof Englands in Strafsachen, hält alle niederen Gerichtshöfe in den Schranken ihrer Befugnisse und kann durch einen ‘writ of certiorari’ befehlen, daß das Verfahren derselben aufgegeben werde, er kontrolliert alle Korporationen und Magistrale und kann von ihnen durch ein ‘mandamus’ verlangen, daß sie ihre Pflicht thun. — 4 Mr. Justice, bei anderen Titeln als Justice fällt Mr. weg. England und Wales sind in acht Distrikte (circuits) ge­ teilt, in welchen die Judges of the High Court of Justice, welche seit 1873 ernannt grd, und die Judges of the High Court of Appeal, die seit 1876 ernannt sind, die ssisen abhalten (to go Circuit). (Vgl. Fonblanque, How we are governed. 15th ed. S. 162 flg. (Warne & Co.) 3s. 6d.) — 6 plaintiff, Kläger.

witnesses for the defence, stopped the case and said they1 were unanimously of opinion that no case had been made out of a substantial interference with the use or enjoyment of the plaintiffs* premises, and they accordingly found for1 the defendant. This was an application for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence and prematurely and improperly given. Mr. H. Matthews0, Q.C., and Mr. Jelf, Q.C., were for the plaintiffs, and were heard at some length on Friday in Support of their applica­ tion for a new trial. Mr. Reid, Q.C. (with Mr. A. Lyttleton) who appeared for the de­ fendant in Support of the verdict, and against the application for a new trial, continued his argument. Mr. Jelf having replied on the part of the plaintiffs, The Court proceeded to give judgment in favour of the defendant, dismissing the application for a new trial. Mr. JUSTICE Grove said the application was made upon two grounds—that there was misconduct in the jury, and that their verdict was against the evidence. But there was no misconduct on the part of the jury, no trace of partisanship or improper precipitancy; they had heard the case for the plaintiffs fully and then heard several witnesses for the defence, and then stopped the case saying they were satisfied, and, after listening to the direction the learned Judge gave them as to the question they had to decide, they gave their verdict for the defend­ ant. The question was necessarily for the jury2, and the Judge could not direct them as to which way they should find, or the verdict would be his, not theirs. All that he could do was to direct them as he did, that a nuisance must be something which diminished the value of the plaintiffs* property or interfered with their use or enjoyment of it. The question was one of difficulty and was necessarily one of degree. In a large city like Birminghamb there must be a great deal of noise, for himself, if he had to determine the question, certainly he should be disposed very favourably for the plaintiffs. For he had no doubt that if he had to listen to these noises for a few hours he should be in the position of Hogarth'sc 3 "enraged musician.” But it was a question not of individual feelings, but for the judgment of the jury as men of business. The question was not whether there was not a case for a mae'kjuuz — b boe'oemingoein — c hä'gaa|>s.

1 found for, entschieden zu Gunsten. — 2 jury, the question was for the jury, die Frage war durch die Geschworenen zu beantworten. Der Sheriff führt in jeder Grafschaft ‘the Jurors’ book’, eine Liste aller Personen, welche Geschworene werden können, aus diesen stellt er eine Liste (panel) für die betreffende Sitzung zu­ sammen, dies ist die ‘common jury’, 12 Geschworene, sie erhallen 10s. den Tag. — 3 Hogarth, berühmter englischer Maler und Kupferstecher, gest. 1764.

the plaintiffs, but whether it was not reasonably answered. A certain amount of noise and many discordant sounds were necessarily incident to the business of a crowded and busy town, and it was a question for a jury to determine, as practical men. The evidence in such a case was necessarily more or less matter of opinion and it must be for a jury to determine. It was a strong point for the defence that previous occupiers of the premises of the plaintiffs had made no complaint. This naturally made a strong Impression upon the jury, and it made a strong Impression on the Judge. The learned Judge was not dissatisfied with the verdict, and though that was not conclusive, yet it was a strong circumstance. Where the Judge and jury concurred it required a strong ground to disturb the verdict. In such a dass of cases what ought to lead the Court to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial? A new trial ought not to be granted merely because the Court could have found a different verdict. There must be a great preponderance of evidence against the verdict, and here there was no such preponderance; there was strong evidence for the defence. If the verdict were to be set aside, then it would be equivalent to saying that the jury could not be allowed to find such a verdict. But that could not be said of a verdict of a jury in such a case unless it could be considered "perverse," and then there would be an end of trial by jury. In this case he could not say the jury were wrong, still less that they were perversely so, and the application for a new trial must therefore be dismissed. Mr. JusTiCE Stephen concurred. Application dismissed with costs. COMPAGNIE FINANCIÜRE ET COMMERCIALE DU PACIFIQUE V. THE PERUVIAN

GUANO COMPANY.

This was another stage in the history of this great case, which involves some hundreds of thousands of pounds, the value of a vast quantity of guano, the right to which is in dispute between the two Companies, and also raises a question of great importance to those interested in Companies, as to the authority of directors to bind their Companies by contracts. It has already been up to the House of Lords upon appeal upon an application for an injunction to restrain the Peruvian Company from dealing with the guano, which, however, had been ultimately settled by an agreement to pay the money the proceeds of the guano into a bank to abide the result of the litigation. That interlocutory controversy having been disposed of the litigation proceeded upon the merits, and the case is now in a fair way to go up to the House of Lords again. The case had arisen in this way. So long ago as June, 1876, the Peruvian Government had made a concession to the Peruvian Company to dispose of their guano for a period of four years,

which in June, 1880, came to an end. At that time the Peruvian Company had on their hands an immense quantity of guano, and had also Claims against the Peruvian Government, which, however, were more than covered by the stock. In February, 1881, the Peruvian Government made a fresh concession to a French Company, making over to them the guano then in the hands of the Peruvian Company. Upon that negotiations took place between the two Companies as to the terms on which the Peruvian Company should hand over to the French Company the stock of guano in their hands, or in the hands of their agents all over Europe, and on which the Peruvian Company claimed a lien1 against the Peruvian Government. The basis of the negotiation was to fix a sum per ton for the guano which would suffice to satisfy the lien, the effect of which would be to leave to the French Company the benefit of the difference between that and the current market price, the guano being released as to that by the Peruvian Company. On March 18, 1881, Mr. Sharp, the chairman of the Peruvian Company, wrote to the president of the French Company professing to be ready to deliver up the stock of guano on the settlement of the terms, and negotiations took place, which, however, resulted in nothing definite, and in June an action was commenced by the French Company against the Peruvian Company for the detention of the guano, in which action, if it had proceeded, the Peruvian Company would have set up their lien. But negotiations were resumed, and resulted, as the French Company contended, in a contract made in Paris verbally on October 6, 1881, and evidenced, as they alleged, by certain documents, and this was the contract which was set up in the present action, and the authority to make which was denied by the Peruvian Company. Various letters passed and Interviews took place, and on the Ist of October, 1881, a meeting of directors took place in Paris. The representatives of the Peruvian Company were Mr. Sharp, the chairman, and four directors, and also the repräsentative of the London Banking Association, the largest holders of shares in the Peruvian Company. On the part of the French Company there were the president and a director. The case for the plaintiffs, the French Company, was that it was inquired of the others if they were duly authorized to enter into the contract, and an affirmative answer was given. The contention, however, on the part of the Peruvian Company was that their directors had no authority to enter into the contract. It was an English Com­ pany. There were eight directors, of whom four were French and four English. The Companys Act of 1867, sec.2 37, provided, as to contracts—"Any contract which if made between private persons would be valid, though made by parole only and not reduced into writing, may 1 lien, gesetzlicher Anspruch, Retentionsrecht. — 2 sec., section, Paragraph.'

be made by parole on behalf of the Company by any person acting under the express or implied authority of the Company.” Then by the articles of association1 the head office was to be in London, and a Board was to mean a meeting of the directors duly called and constituted, and the Quorum2 was to be three directors, and ordinary meetings were to be held at such time and place as the Board shall from time to time appoint, or for other business with seven days* notice, and the Board might delegate such powers as it thought proper to one or more of its members, and especially to compromise legal suits, or delegate to any portion of the Board “all or any of the powers of the Board.” And it was provided that it shall not be necessary to prove the appointment of directors, &c. Upon these rules and upon the Statute it was contended, on the part of the French Company, the plaintiffs, that the contract entered into by the five directors of the Peruvian Company in Paris was valid, whereas on the part of the Peruvian Company this was denied and disputed. And it was also denied that there was a contract, in fact, concluded. When the case was before the Lords, the Law Lords3 who decided it expressed their opinion that upon the case as it appeared to them on the application of the French Company for an injunction4 the authority and the contract were not made out. When the case came on for trial before Mr. Baron Huddleston, he expressed bis opinion that, consistently with these expressions of opinion, he could not hold that a case was made out, and so he directed a verdict for the defendant Company. This was an application on the part of the French Company, the plaintiffs, for a new trial, on the ground that there was a case for them. The Attorney-General (with Mr. Pollard and Mr. Haldane)a appeared for the plaintiffs; The Solicitor-General5, Sir R. Webster, and Mr. G. Barnes appeared for the defendant Company. The Attorney-General , in opening the case for the plaintiff Company, said he believed that the learned Baron in the course he had taken had acted contrary to his own opinion, and entirely in deference to the expressions of opinion on the part of the Law Lords, but he submitted that the learned Judge had carried his deference too far, and that in reality the effect of these observations of the Law Lords upon

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the case had been misunderstood, as they proceeded upon the case as it had appeared to them upon the interlocutory application for an injunction, and not upon a full disclosure of the case for the plaintiffs as to the merits. He recounted the history of the case to the effect above stated, showing how the two questions had arisen; (1), whether there was authority in the directors of the Peruvian Company in Paris to enter into a contract; and (2), whether, in fact, they did conclude a contract. Having gone through the articles, he contended that a meeting of the Board might be held in Paris, and that any directors might be delegated to transact any business, and he said that, in fact, meetings had taken place in Paris. He then entered into the evidence as to the alleged contract, contending that the contract had been entered into, and that it was evidenced by the documents, especially by a letter written by Sharp, the chairman, which he read and commented upon as being most important. According to the heads1 of contract as thus stated—£1,400,000 was to be paid to satisfy the lien of the Peruvian Company, upon which they were to give up the guano to the French Company, the stock being estimated at 400,000 tons, reduced thus to about 250,000 tons, the price of the guano being over £9 a ton. There was a discussion of the terms for six days. Sharp's draft2 was altered, and then the final letter was written which concluded the contract—“We are on all points entirely in agreement with you.” It was, however, suggested by Mr. Sharp that it would be better that the contract should not be finally completed in Paris, as it might Subject the Company to French law, and but for this the contract would there and then have been completed. [Mr. Justice Grove.—Was a fair copy written out?] Yes, and handed to us. Surely upon that evidence the contract, in fact, was made out apart from the question of authority, and not the less so simply because formal documents were to be exchanged in London. Acting on the belief that there was a completed contract, the French Company remitted large sums of money to execute it, and on the very day—the 6th of October—the Peruvian Company telegraphed to all their agents to stop sales of guano. Thus both parties acted upon the belief and understanding that there was a contract entered into. And yet the loss of the Peruvian Company from the cessation of these sales would, it was estimated, be £13,000 a month. It was not until the 16th of November that the contract was repudiated. The documents would have been formally exchanged in London on the 10th of October. It was found impossible, however, to have the accounts ready until two days later, and the Peruvian Company’s chairman telegraphed to that effect. And a letter followed in these terms:—“We hope to exchange documents on Wednesday next." In the meantime one of the directors 1 heads, Hauptpunkte. — 2 draft, Kladde, Vorschlag.

of the French Company was in London with a large sum of money ready for payment of the first instalment. Then, however, the Peruvian Company started a fresh demand—that £200,000 should he lodged with them by way of security. The result was that on the 16th of November they repudiated the contract, and in two days the writ1 in this action was issued. Then came the interlocutory application for an injunction— which was made by Mr. Justice Field and Mr. Baron Huddleston in the Queens Bench, at Westminster. That Order, however, was set aside by the Court of Appeal, on the ground that a contract was not made out; and the House of Lords affirmed that decision. But now, upon the evidence given at the trial, the twofold question arose whether there was authority to enter into a contract, and whether, if so, a contract was, in fact, made. Now, he contended that in point of law there was the necessary authority, and that in point of fact there was a contract entered into. The learned Judge at the trial thought so; but thought himself bound by the opinion expressed by the Law Lords—that is by Lord Selbome, then Chancellor—the other Law Lords concurring. He submitted that the learned Baron was in error in conceiving that these expressions of opinion were decisive, for the evidence offered at the trial was far stronger than that before the House of Lords. For instance the point which had impressed the Law Lords was that there was no evidence that Board meetings were ever held in Paris, whereas at the trial evidence was offered that they were so held, and the rules provided for meetings being held anywhere. Thus the case at the trial was stronger than that before the House of Lords. The opening argument of the Attorney-General was not concluded when the Court rose. (Sittings at Nisi Prius2, before Mr. Baron Huddleston and a Special Jury3.) CLIFFORD V. BRAY.

In this case Mr. Willis, Q.C., this moming, as arranged at the dose of the hearing last night, raised his point upon the pleadings objecting to the defendant’s proposed amendment of his counter-claim so as to claim judgment for £1,950—i.e., upon the whole of the bills of exchange except the one which the plaintiff had met. Mr. Willis also contended that, even were the amendment allowed, the defendant could not recover the whole amount, for although the deed of Charge contained

a clause by which, in case of default in payment of any cjne of the 40 Bills of exchange, the remainder at once became due and payable, yet here in this case that condition could not be enforced against the plaintiff, inasmuch that in this very action an interim1 injunction had been obtained by the plaintiff restraining the defendant from negotiating them. Mr. Baron Huddleston, having heard the other side, said he had not the slightest doubt on the point, and gave judgment for the defendant with costs upon the main issue, and also for the defendant for £1,950 upon bis counter-claim. His Lordship refused to grant a stay in the action, but granted a stay in respect to the counter-claim upon the terms that £1,950 was paid into court within a week.

(Before Mr. Justice Manisty and a Special Jury.) WILMER V. AYLWARD8 AND OTHBRS.

Mr. Channell, Q.C., Mr. Bassett Hopkins, and Mr. De Courcey Hamilton appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Charles Hall, Q.C., Mr. G. A. Vennell, and Mr. Houghtonb were for the defendants Hickcox and Potter; and Mr. Morgan Howard0, Q.C., Mr. Gien, and Mr. Munroed for Mr. Townsend. The hearing of the evidence for the defence in this case was continued this morning. General Sawyer, who was the chairman of the visiting committee of the Board of Guardians2 in 1884, gave evidence as to how he became informed of the state the plaintiff was in from Miss Pollock, a lady interested in the Institution at Camden-hill, and in consequence directed Mr. Hickcox, the relieving officer, to make inquiries and take any necessary steps. Ann Laker, the servant at Camden-houses, was next called, and stated how she found the plaintiff in April one morning in a state of stupor on her bed, with the paraffin lamp burning dose to her, and that she thought she was dead, and so fetched the housekeeper, Mrs. Ray, who took up some tea. She also gave evidence as to finding a rope like a box cord in plaintiff’s room, and said plaintiff had told her she had wished to hang herseif, but had not had the courage to do so, and she also deposed as to seeing the cut and marks of blood on her nose. The two nurses who had attended the plaintiff were called, and related the circumstances as had been opened by counsel and stated by Mrs. Ray in her examination yesterday. The plaintiff refused to take food, and locked them out of the room as deposed to by Mrs. Ray. a e'ilwoed — b ho'utoen — c ha'uoed — d manro'u. 1 interim injunction, vorläufiger Spruch, Vgl. S. 613. — 2 Board of Guardians, Armenbehörde, Armenamt.

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Mr. Burke, the magistrate, stated the circumstances under wliich he became cognizanta of the case, and gave evidence as to the Orders he made. He further stated that he saw plaintiff in the infirmary on the 19th of May, and that he considered her a clever and well-informed lady on all things except the fact that she expressed her wish to him to die, and argued with him about the right to take her own life, and on this point, he said, he considered her to be suffering from monomania. Mary Hunt, who had been a defendant in the case, said she assisted the defendant Hickcox in removing the plaintiff to the infirmary, and that the removal was very carefully and kindly carried out; and the night nurse deposed to receiving Miss Wilmer on the night of the 28th of May and her instructions regarding her. She also stated that she had great difficulty the following morning in getting plaintiff to eat any breakfast, and that she seemed to be in a depressed state and said she wished to die. Mr. Hickcox, the relieving officer, and one of the defendants, was then called. He gave evidence as to how through General Sawyer he heard of the case, and what inquiries he made and the consequent applications to the magistrate and Interviews with the doctors on the matter. On receipt of the report of Mr. Townsend, approved by the magistrate, he made the arrangements to move the plaintiff and carried them out. He further gave evidence as to the way in which the various Orders as to admission into the workhouse infirmary were filled in, and stated that his duty in the matter was merely ministerial. Mr. Atkinson, the assistant medical officer at the infirmary, said he received the plaintiff, as was his duty, on the receipt of the admission Order, and Dr. Potter, the medical officer in Charge, and a de­ fendant, gave his evidence as to seeing the plaintiff in the infirmary. He stated he examined her himself, and from that and what he was told concerning her considered it his duty to sign the detaining certificate. He said he used the word “dementia” in a general way to ex­ press unsoundness of mind, and that it was the usual thing to sign the certificate in the case of patients who were admitted as being of unsound mind. Dr. Savage, the medical Superintendent of Bethlehem1 Hospital, gave evidence as to what were the Symptoms of melancholia. He said he had heard this case, and had come to the conclusion that the plaintiff had been suffering from it. This concluded the evidence, and the case was then adjourned until Monday for the concluding Speeches of counsel and the summing up.

a kä'nizoent. 1 Bethlehem Hospital, Irrenhaus in London (gewöhnlich Bedlam) für 375 Patienten, gegründet 1264. The Times.

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(Before Mr. Justice Hawkins and a Special Jury.) DENNAN V. THE SCOTTISH WIDOWS* FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

This action, which is brought on a policy of Insurance for £3,000 effected by the plaintiff on the life of a Mrs. Haffenden, who died in November, 1884, was resumed this moming. The plaintiff, being further cross-examined by Sir Richard Webster, after being closely questioned in relation to certain bank notes which it was alleged bad been handed to him in exchange for a cheque from the deceased, said he recollected seeing the uncle of the deceased at the time of the Insurance with reference to the age of the deceased. He told him his object was to benefit Mrs. Haffenden. He did not teil him he was arranging her business Investments for her. It was the deceased who asked him to invest £1,600 for her, not he who asked her. He never told Mrs. Lawrence Foyle that he had invested the money of the deceased in an annuity. The deceased was kept to her room for two or three weeks before she died. He prepared her will, in which he was her sole executor. No solicitor was called, nor any of her relatives. If he might explain, the form of the will had been obtained by the deceased, and he only filled it up at her request. She wished to leave him £5,000, but he would not allow her, as such an act might have been misconstrued. He remembered a letter of the 18th of November from the defendants’ secretary to his solicitor acknowledging the Inform­ ation of the death of the deceased, in which it was said, “If I remember rightly it was an Insurance effected by a trustee of Mrs. Haffenden.” No answer was given to this letter until the interview on the 13th of January following, but his solicitor told him it had been fully explained to Mr. Day, the secretary, on the previous July 3. He had torn out of Allen’s letter book all letters between himself and Allen relating to the defendants. He could not remember whether he had set out these letters in his affidavit1 of documents. As far as his knowledge went no doctor was sent for in October before the deceased died, except for some small ailment. He did not consider her seriously ill during that month or he would have sent for a medical man. He knew nothing one way or the other as to her arms and hands being crippled at times with rheumatic gout. It was wholly untrue that she was addicted to stimulants. He had no experience himself as a medical man. He had written prescriptions for the deceased, but only in regard to trifling ailments. He was the last person, except the deceased, who saw Dr. Has­ senden before his death. He promised him to look after the money affairs of his wife.

1 affidavit, beschworene schriftliche Zeugenaussage (wörtlich: er hat es be­ schworen); affidavit of documents, Reihe beschworener Dokumente.

Re-examined by Mr. Williams.—Two letters, one written by the deceased in 1884 and the other to her from her sister in America, were put in and read, the first with the view of showing by the handwriting that her hand could not have been crippled by rheumatism, and the other that she had a bona fide intention of going to America. The witness was still under re - examination when the Court adjoumed. Mr. Murphy, Q.C., and Mr. Roland V. Williams appeared for the plaintiff; Sir Richard Webster, Q.C., Mr. Charles Hall, Q.C., and Mr. Mansel Jonesa were for the defendants. (Before Sir James Hannen and a Special Jury.) BOWRING, JAMIESON, AND CO. V. ROBERTS AND OTHERS.

The trial of this action was continued this morning. The action is brought for alleged fraudulent practices in connexion with the landing and warehousing of petroleum at Rowatts Wharfb, Bow, belonging to Messrs. Roberts and Johnson.0 The evidence up to the present point was reported in The Times of this (Saturday) morning. The Attorney-General (Sir Charles Russell, Q.C.), Mr. Finlay, Q.C., and Mr. John Edge appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. Edward Clarke, Q.C,, Mr. F. 0. Crump, Q.C., and Mr. E. Levett for the defendant Mr. Walter Roberts; and Mr. T. G. Laingd and Mr. E. Bennett Calvert for Messrs. Tricker and Robins, executors of Mr. J. S. Johnson, deceased. Some further evidence was called this morning on behalf of the plaintiffs, without adding anything material on the main features of the case. Mr. Edward Clarke, Q.C., then opened the case for the defendants. He said that he quite agreed with the Attorney - General as to the ex­ treme importance of this case. If the allegations against Messrs. Roberts and Johnson were brought hörne to them in evidence it was a Charge of the gravest possible character. The case of the plaintiffs was in some respects of a very curious kind. They alleged habitual and con­ tinued misconduct over a period of six years, from 1874 to 1880. In 1880 the business relations of the plaintiffs with the defendants ceased, and it was not till August, 1884, that the action was brought and the defendants were called on to answer this Charge. The Jury would have to deal with a direct conflict of evidence. A large number of men had gone into the box1 on behalf of the plaintiffs and had sworn that they were instrumental in the perpetration of these frauds. He (the learned counsel) had been most careful to get from them the names of all whom a dshounz — b ro'uoets wääf — c dzhä'nsoen — d leing.

1 box, der Platz, von dem aus der Zeuge schwören muß und aussagt (witness box).

they alleged to have been concerned with them in their apts. Some of these men bad lest the country, one or two were dead. But all who could be produced would be put into the box and would emphatically deny the actions attributed to them. The learned counsel then proceeded to Comment in detail upon the evidence adduced by the plaintiffs. He pointed out that they had always had their representative at the wharf. Captain White was dead, but, as regards both him and Taylor, the plaintiffs had every confidence in their honesty and competence. Was it conceivable that for all these years Wholesale robbery could have been going on and no suspicion have crossed the mind of either White or Taylor? Taylor admitted that he was not deceived by wrong weights being called, and Sumsionsa evidence also negatived the Charge of fraud in this respect. Middleton had stated that the weights were tampered with and after that no false weights were called. Could the jury possibly believe this story about the weights on the evidence of a man of this character against witnesses of respectability such as were about to be placed in the box? Beferring to the evidence of Dodson and Conway, Mr. Clarke said he did not know what the average of ullages1 was. He had, however, picked out two cargoes at haphazard. In one there were 47 ullages out of 3,495 barreis, in the other there were 227 barreis and two ullages. He was willing to have this calculation tested in the strongest way against him. If it turned out that the average was as low as he suggested, what could they think of the evidence of Conway, who said that he had made the ullages up to 300 per 1,000? It was a palpable falsehood. He thought the jury would find it easier to believe that these men, knowing of the substantial allowance being made to their fellows by the plaintiffs’ solicitors, had thought that the process might be conveniently extended, and had come forward to Imitate their friends and taken their share in the gain. The learned counsel then criticized the evidence as to the deficiency in the landing weights at Rowatt’s Wharf as compared with elsewhere, and stated that he should produce ample evidence with regard to the purchases and sales of petroleum by the defendants. In conclusion he said that there was no one incriminated in these transactions whom he should not place before the jury. Mr. Walter Roberts was then called, and said that he began to carry on business at Rowatt’s Wharf in partnership with Mr. Johnson in 1869. He had been at Plaistowb Wharf from 1863 to 1869. Mr. John­ son died in 1881. They used the same scales throughout the time they

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were employed by the plaintiffs. The weight checker1, as the merchant’s representative, sat close to the scale. The weigher and the checker used to compare totals at every ten, and subsequently go into the shed and make up the larger quantities. Ullages were treated the same as other barreis—rolled up to the scale, weighed, and the weights entered at the end of the landing account. Empties2 were stacked separately and entered in a book. Each account sent to the merchant showed full barreis, ullages, and empties. It was at that time custom to seil by gallons, and a gallon was taken in the trade at eight pounds. Barrels were usually gauged after being weighed. Moody was their gauger; he was the Deputy City Gauger.3 In Order to diminish leakage they used to cooper all the barreis which required it on landing, used to have daily inspection by coopers of all the barreis piled, and used to keep them covered in hot weather and saturate the covers with water. Car­ goes were sometimes in very bad condition. The Thomas E. Kenny showed a percentage of loss 5 26 (a letter from the defendants to the plaintiffs complaining of the condition of this cargo was read, being dated October, 1878). It was never suggested that this difference between shipping and landing weights was due to theft. On the Marl­ borough the percentage was 6 53. Purchasers osten lest oil at the wharf a long time; in such cases the deficiency by leakage was made up on final delivery. Defendants* scales were inspected by a scalemaker at least once in three months. Witness bad never given instructions to any one employed at the wharf to roll away full barreis as ullages, nor bad it ever come to bis knowledge that it was done. He gave similar denials as to all the other fraudulent practices alleged by the plaintiffs. He had made an account showing oil bought and sold by him between 1873 and 1880, but had not all the materials for making out such an account as to oil sold. He had paid for oil bought a little over £7,000 (the average price was stated to be about £1 a barrel). As to the oil sold, the evidence given by brokers on behalf of the plaintiffs covered it all. In 1881 there was a fire at the wharf. Witness prosecuted Sullivan for it, and he received eight years* penal servitude. In one compartment of the shed burnt were waste paper and books not in use. That compartment was kept locked. The usual hours of work were 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in winter, and to 6 p.m. in Summer. There was a watchman on duty at night and on Sundays. Cross-examined by Mr. Finlay, Q.C.—He provided about £300 and Mr. Johnson £200 Capital when they started in business. He had no knowledge when he was at Plaistow of abstraction of oil. Mr. Fry was not at Plaistow when he was there. Mr. Wilson (witness’s present 1 weight checker, Kontrolleur an der Wage. — 2 empties, leere Fässer. — 3 Deputy City Gauger, Hilfseichmeister der City.

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partner) attended the inquiry as to Plaistow Wharf betöre the Official Referee. He knew that Fry, the Superintendent, had admitted they abstracted three Barrels per 1,000. That was not to meet loss on guaranteed rentals. He did not know what it was for and had not thought about it. Witness frequented the Baltic1, and was there in 1879 and 1880. He heard of the letter sent by Matthews to the Petroleum Association, and knew that it informed the association of the petroleum frauds. He also knew that affcer that an action was commenced by Messrs. Power against Ingall, Phillips, and Co.; that was the end of 1879. Mr. Phillips had mentioned the action to witness. He (witness) knew that Messrs. Ingalla, Phillips, and Co.’s books were of great importance in that action, and that when the books had been inspected Ingall, Phillips, and Co. settled the action. Witness’s firm kept a multitude of books, some at the City office and some at the wharf. In the case of parcels remaining long at the wharf reference to the books would not be absolutely necessary. The dates were entered in the warrants.2 The books at the City office were stock books3, charges books4, cash books5, and warrant registers.6 The witness was still under cross-examination when the Court adjourned.

POLICE. At Bow-street 7 on Saturday, betöre Mr. Bridge, a man giving the name of Henry Thomas b, described as a builder’s clerk, was charged with forging and uttering two cheques for £30 and £35 each on the Union Bank, Charing-cross c brauch, with intent to defraud. On Satur­ day the prisoner met a man named Evans in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly and requested him to take a letter to the above bank and return with the answer to an address in Charles-street, Berkeley-square.d The letter was found to contain a forged cheque for £30 purporting to be drawn by a gentleman named Lambert. In consequence of a similar forgery of that gentleman’s name on a cheque for £35, Ina me'shoez i'nggääl — b tä'mces — 0 tshae'oeringkrä'äs — d bce'oekPskuae'ae.

1 Baltic, eine klubartige Kornbörse, wo sich besonders solche treffen, die Handel mit der Ostsee und dem Schwarzen Meere treiben. — 2 warrants, Lagerscheine. — 3 stock books, Lagerbücher. — 4 charges books, Spesenbücher. — 5 cash books, Kassenbücher. — 6 warrant registers, Liste der Lagerscheine. — 7 Bow-Street, Bowstrect Police Court and Office, Polizeiamt und Polizeigericht in Bow-street; London hat vierzehn Police Courts unter je zwei Magistrates (Bow-street drei), die die niedere Gerichtsbarkeit ausüben und vor die jeder Verhaftete ohne Ausnahme zunächst geführt wird.

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spector1 Landsdowne“, of Scotland-yard2, was communicated with. He followed the messenger to the place where he was to meet the accused, who was then taken into custody. He declared that the cheque had been given to him by another man. He was remanded for further evidence. At Marylebone b, Frederick Hadder, 97 D3, and Thomas Gubbins, 134 D, members of the Metropolitan Police Force, were summoned for assaulting Miss Isabel Quain, daughter of Dr. Quain, of 67, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, on March 25. Mr. Geogheganc appeared in Support of the summons; and Mr. Poland, instructed by the Solicitor to the Treasury, appeared for the defendants. The case for the prosecution, as detailed by counsel and supported by witnesses, was that Miss Quain possessed a valuable Polish poodle which had won nine prizes at exhibitions, and for which she had on two occasions been offered £100. It was the practice of Miss Quain to let the dog out for a run between 9 and 10 o clock each morning, and she did so on the morning of the 25th ult. When she let it out she partly shut the door and stood inside waiting for it to return. Immediately afterwards she heard the dog yelp loudly, and ran out into the street to ascertain the cause. She then saw the defendants with her dog, over the head of which they were trying to get a lasso. She rang the bell for the butler, got the dog's muzzle out of the hall, and again went to the officers and said, "Here is the muzzle.” She was going to put her finger between the lasso to prevent it hurting the dog when the defendant Hadder pushed her on one side, and said the muzzle was no good. He also told her to let the dog go, as they meant to take it to the policestation. Hadder had a pipe in his mouth, and when she stooped to the dog the defendant smoked rudely in her face. The dog was a very quiet one. In consequence of the conduct of the defendants her finger was lacerated by the wire forming part of the lasso. She demanded to know who the defendants were, and when they said they were policemen she asked them to show her their cards. Gubbins presented his card, but Hadder refused to do so. Two Constables in uniform, seeing a crowd, came up. Dr. John Bruce, of 70, Harley-street, also came to the spot, and he protested against the defendants taking the dog away when there was no proof given to them who they were. For the defence it was stated that the defendants had been in the police force a lae'nzdaun — b mae'riboen — ° gi'igoen. 1 Inspector, Polizeikommissar. Die Polizei Londons zerfällt fit Metropolitan Police und City Police. Die erstere besteht aus 1 Chief Superintendent, 28 Superintendents, 646 Inspectors, 1168 Sergeants, 12,007 Constables; die City Police zählt 902 Beamte. — 2 Scotland-yard, Centralbüreau der Londoner Polizei. — ® 97 D, Schutzmann Nummer 97 des Polizeibezirks D.

many years, one for 13 years and the other for 16 years, both having been specially selected because of their good character for tiiis particular duty of catching stray dogs. There had been a dangerous dog in the neighbourhood of Cavendish-square, and the defendants were directed to go there on the day in question and catch any dog not muzzled and not being led. When they got to the corner of Harley-street they suddenly saw a small dog running loose and, not seeing where it had come from or any door open, Hadder crossed the road and seized it. When Miss Quain came out and explained who she was, and that the animal was hers, the defendants told her who they were, and as she seemed to doubt them they called two Constables, who were in uniform, to con­ firm their Statement that they were police officers. An emphatic denial was given to the assertion that Hadder pushed Miss Quain or that he smoked in her face. At the time in question the defendants were not looking for the complainants dog in particular, nor did they know that her dog had once before been seized by the police. Chief Inspector Sheppard said that defendants were carrying out their instructions, and that there was nothing wrong in Hadder smoking while on that par­ ticular duty. Mr. Cooke held that the defendants were doing their duty in what they did and that there had not been any assault. Therefore he dismissed the summonses. Mr. Arthur Crowther“, solicitor, of 14, Bedford-row, writing with reference to the case of the London and North British Bank, heard at Clerkenwell Police-court on Thursday, says that his dient, Mr. Arthur Nevill Beresford Leslieb, one of the alleged directors, gave evidence to the effect that when the "bogus bank”1 was started he was in Panama, that his name was put upon the prospectus without his knowledge or consent, and that he never heard of the bank until this prosecution was instituted. His address until recently was St. Albans-house, Park-placevillas, Maida-hill. The address put on the prospectus by the prisoners was St. Alban’s-house, Maida-vale.

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THE EASTERN CRISIS. VIENNA, April 4. It is announced from Constantinople that the Conference has been summoned for to-morrow to sign the protocol which is to ratify the a a'apoe kra'udoe — b be'roezfoed lezll 1 bogus bank, Schwindelbank.

many years, one for 13 years and the other for 16 years, both having been specially selected because of their good character for tiiis particular duty of catching stray dogs. There had been a dangerous dog in the neighbourhood of Cavendish-square, and the defendants were directed to go there on the day in question and catch any dog not muzzled and not being led. When they got to the corner of Harley-street they suddenly saw a small dog running loose and, not seeing where it had come from or any door open, Hadder crossed the road and seized it. When Miss Quain came out and explained who she was, and that the animal was hers, the defendants told her who they were, and as she seemed to doubt them they called two Constables, who were in uniform, to con­ firm their Statement that they were police officers. An emphatic denial was given to the assertion that Hadder pushed Miss Quain or that he smoked in her face. At the time in question the defendants were not looking for the complainants dog in particular, nor did they know that her dog had once before been seized by the police. Chief Inspector Sheppard said that defendants were carrying out their instructions, and that there was nothing wrong in Hadder smoking while on that par­ ticular duty. Mr. Cooke held that the defendants were doing their duty in what they did and that there had not been any assault. Therefore he dismissed the summonses. Mr. Arthur Crowther“, solicitor, of 14, Bedford-row, writing with reference to the case of the London and North British Bank, heard at Clerkenwell Police-court on Thursday, says that his dient, Mr. Arthur Nevill Beresford Leslieb, one of the alleged directors, gave evidence to the effect that when the "bogus bank”1 was started he was in Panama, that his name was put upon the prospectus without his knowledge or consent, and that he never heard of the bank until this prosecution was instituted. His address until recently was St. Albans-house, Park-placevillas, Maida-hill. The address put on the prospectus by the prisoners was St. Alban’s-house, Maida-vale.

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THE EASTERN CRISIS. VIENNA, April 4. It is announced from Constantinople that the Conference has been summoned for to-morrow to sign the protocol which is to ratify the a a'apoe kra'udoe — b be'roezfoed lezll 1 bogus bank, Schwindelbank.

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amended Turco -Bulgarian Convention. Gadban Effendi was expected to arrive at Sofia this morning, but he must use some very convincing arguments betöre he can shake the resolution which Prince Alexander again affirmed on Friday in a letter to the Grand Vizier. The Prince said in this letter that he must take bis stand on the Convention of February 1, which at the time when it was drawn up was recognized by Turkey as the best arrangement possible. To consent to a five-year appointment without any security for reappointment would, he added, be a betrayal on bis part of the cause for which the Bulgarians and Roumeliots had striven. There is a natural fear at the Porte that if the Prince only accepts bis appointment under protest he will not feel bound by the general conditions which the Convention was intended to impose upon him. The Russians are, of course, working upon this fear, and if their private advice were taken the Convention would not be ratified until the Prince had made an absolute Submission. It is unfortunate that at the moment when Russia is trying to excite Turkish apprehensions, M. Rhangabä, the Greek Consul-General, who returned to Sofia yesterday, should be announced as having had a long Conference with M. Karaveloff.a However, the Porte must be quite aware that no disloyalty towards the Sultan is implied by the Prince’s present attitude, which has been taken up under pressure of political necessities which Russian agitations have created. The Turkish Government has only itself to blame for all this, as it refused to sanction the Prince’s life appointment when all the Powers urged it, and yet subsequently assured the Prince that it would consent to this appointment if the Powers could be brought back to their old predilection in favour of it. Turkish timidity and dilatoriness have placed the Prince in a most invidious position, for the Roumeliots, knowing that the Porte objected to the life appointment after having granted it in the February Con­ vention, will not be persuaded that the Prince can with dignity allow himself to be trifled with. Russian agencies are still strong enough in the country to obscure all the true issues of the question in the Roumeliot mind. Instinctively the Roumeliots prefer to blame Turkey rather than Russia for their disappointment, and the Prince can only maintain bis character for independence by appearing to withstand Turkey, whereas he is all the time being thwarted only by Russia and the Powers which have yielded to Russian dictation. Apparently in reply to M. Zankoff’sb letter, which appeared in The Times of Friday, a semi-official despatch comes from Sofia to-day stating that the Russophil1 party in Bulgaria will soon have an opportunity a kaeraevielä'f. — b tsae'ngkäfs. 1 Russophil, russenfreundlich.

of numbering their forces at a general election. The same despatch declares that Prince Alexander has no idea of proclaiming himself King or renouncing his allegiance in any way to the Sultan. With regard to the statement that all public liberties have been suspended in Bulgaria, attention is simply called to the fact that M. Zankoff and his friends are not hindered from meeting, speaking, or writing, and that they make a very stränge use of the liberty allowed them. From Ser via comes the news that M. Risticsa yesterday had to abandon his attempt at forming a Cabinet, and that M. Garashanineb was sent for again. The Viennese papers had begun to speak in very uneasy terms about M. Ristics’s appointment, the more so as extravagant hopes had been excited by it among the Servian Russophils. One of the Organs of this party affirmed yesterday that if M. Ristics were in office Russia’s good will would soon procure for Servia the coveted Widdin district of Bulgaria. Russia, however, has always been emphatic in declaring that Servia should never be enlarged at the expense of Bulgaria, so that if M. Ristics were to plan a policy of territorial aggrandizement he could only direct his schemes against Austria or Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3.

The difficulties of the Porte in finding resources to meet the urgent military requirements in the present crisis are now rapidly advancing to an acute stage, and have forced it to apply to the Administration of the Public Bebt for assistance. A demand has been made for a temporary Ioan of £100,000 repayable from taxes outside of those hypothecated to the Public Bebt.1 The Committee of Belegates are reluctant to give a negative reply, and therefore they put forward as an excuse the necessity of referring hörne for instructions. The Turkish Government is really unwilling to interfere with the arrangement of the Public Bebt, but in such dire straits it is not to be wondered at that it should consider the expediency of making use of certain revenues which under the terms of the Settlement were provisionally given over in expectation that the Bulgarian tribute and the proportion of debt to be assumed by other countries would have been forthcoming, according to the provisions of the Berlin Treaty. Under the necessity of undertaking large armaments in self-defence, it is now easily conceivable that the Porte should think it a hardship to abandon to foreign creditors the income which might help it to meet its immediate wants for that purpose, and should the crisis be further intensified, the question presents itself how far it may be safe to drive a despairing man to listen to the promptings of self-preservation. a ri'stitsh — b goeraeshoeni'in. 1 taxes hypothecated to the Public Bebt, Steuern, welche hypothekarische Sicherheit bieten für die Rückzahlung der Staatsschuld.

An active interchange of Communications has been witnessed between the Porte and Foreign Cabinets this week, and special messengers with despatches have come to and gone from the Russian Embassy. Between the Porte and the Prince of Bulgaria also there has been a constant exchange of telegrams and negotiations, but the Prince remains firm in bis refusal to consent to be named Governor for a fixed term of five years, with a chance of the appointment being revoked after that time by other authority than that of his suzefain. Efforts are now being made to induce the Prince to consent to some arrangement, and a special agent has been again despatched to Sofia for that purpose. It is generaUy believed, however, that the Situa­ tion in Bulgaria and Roumelia is such that it would be dangerous to the Prince’s position if he showed signs of giving in, and the difficulty in finding means of coercion leads to the opinion that he will return the same reply. The time thus lost gives encouragement to the Greeks. The crisis is rapidly exhausting the resources of the country, and is intensifying the sufferings and the impatience of the army, and causing a dead-lock in commercial and financial transactions. The anxiety of the public mind is assuming most serious proportions. April 4. After the interchange of negotiations, it was reported yesterday that it was decided in the afternoon that the Conference should meet to-morrow, to take cognizance of the formula agreed upon respecting the appointment of the Governor-General of Roumelia, which is simply that the Prince of Bulgaria is to hold the office of Governor-General of Roumelia in conformity with the Berlin Treaty. The Conference will not discuss the question but only sign the protocol and dissolve. This afternoon the repräsentatives of the Powers meet to arrange proceedings for to-morrow’s sitting. Sir W. White will leave for Bucharest after signing the protocol. PARIS, April 4. The Bulgarian question, with all connected with it, is considered here to have entered on a fresh phase, and France herseif, notwithstanding the somewhat observant attitude she has hitherto adopted, can no longer avoid watching more closely impending events. The Governments have been officially notified of Prince Alexanders refusal to accept the five years* term, such refusal being in terms indicating a positive decision. The Prince now Claims to be appointed not for a fixed period nor for life, but without any mention of time. He declares that, in the event of Europe refusing to agree to this modification, he could not but deeply regret it, but would remain at his post, and in a proclamation to Europe would show that his duty to his people did not allow him to desert the post of honour in which national confidence had placed him.

As for the Greeks, they appear to be resolved to emerge from their expectant attitude and to enter on action. Of course^ both Greeks and Bulgarians are persuaded that the Powers could do nothing to withstand their resolntions, and that threats wonld not be followed up by acts. Russia, it is true, is making overtures for being commissioned by Europe to restore Order in Bulgaria, but there is every reason to suppose that not merely will such Commission not be given her, but that, if given at all, it would be given to Turkey, who, however—and Russia calculates on this—would at once decline. Prince Alexander is also confident that Europe will not give such a Commission to Russia and that Turkey would not accept it. He calculates upon this deadlock for enabling him to defy Europe, to maintain bis post, and even to proclaim himself King. Greece is likewise convinced that no European Power will fire on her vessels, especially in the significant absence of any French ships; while, as to the Turkish forces, she thinks Turkey will be obliged to leave the greater part of her 300,000 soldiers in Macedonia, Crete, Epirusa, and on the Roumelian frontier, inasmuch as Prince Alexanders refusal precludes a calling away of the troops stationed along that frontier. An almost certain outburst is consequently expected here. What is clear is that both the Prince and Greece must have secret encouragements. The Prince is believed to be no longer backed by the English Government, but is supposed to receive what a French statesman styles family encouragements. As to Greece, she has certainly won the sympathy of the French public, though it is difficult to say whether any Government secretly encourages her. The indecision and inconsistency of the Great Powers are evidently due to the political displacement which has occurred since the Berlin Congress, and to the personal question mixed up with it. At Berlin, Russia, believing in a Russian Bulgaria, struggled against England, which wanted a separate Bulgaria; whereas now England, seeing in the Bulgaria of a Battenberg an anti-Russian Bulgaria, demands a United Bulgaria against Russia, which now wants it divided. The Czar*sb personal action, moreover, is constantly deranging the course of the negotiations. He still thinks he has been duped, and consequently insulted, by the Prince, and his personal feelings are consequently concemed. The Ozars action, however, if at times contradictory, is at other times logical. It is logical when he sends his vessels back to Suda. He does not want the Treaty of Berlin to be torn up either in Bulgaria or Greece, and the absence of logic rests with those who instigate Prince Alexander to tear up a treaty, respect for which is enforced on Greece. a oepa'iroes — b zaaz.

As to Germany, close observers believe that Prince Bismarck’s sole anxiety all along has been to maintain the accord of the three Empires, and they conclude that even now he will, with that view, try to get Austria to adhere to the resolution of Russia. Now Russia, owing to the Czar’s attitude, cannot recoil betöre Prince Alexander, and as for the sake of logic she is pressing Greece to keep quiet, the inference is that Germany will also strive to prevent both the triumph of Prince Alexander and Greek aggression. This policy cannot fall to meet with sympathy in France, it being the only way of warding off an outbreak. France is the more anxious to ward this off, inasmuch as she has nothing to gain from an outbreak which would involve all the Powers except Germany, and would leave her completely isolated in face of an adversary still distrusted. Prince Bismarcks last speech, though the French Press has been judiciously reserved upon it, was not calculated to give France that perfect confidence without which a nation is always on its guard. The stränge hypothesis of seeing the French army preceded by the Red Flag is one of those sarcasms which a nation cannot overlook. The flag of anarchy at the head of an army like that of France implies a nation which has ceased to exist, and this hypothesis launched by Prince Bis­ marck must have shown French statesmen that whatever can disturb the peace of Europe is a danger not to be slighted. Anything, therefore, calculated to insure peace will be welcomed by France, and if she refuses to join in the Suda demonstration she nevertheless applauds Russia in withstanding Prince Alexanders attack on the Berlin Treaty. Europe ought now to consider whether the success of the Prince’s scheine and the triumph of Bulgarian union are worth the jeopardizing of peace. If Europe unanimously exerts pressure on Prince Alexander he will certainly yield, and as soon as he has yielded Greece will feel that she has no plea for provoking the anger of all Europe. *VIENNA, April 3.

The semi-official Fremdenblatt, in announcing the despatch of six Austrian torpedo boats to Suda Bay, states that this measure has been taken in Order to allow of an effective blockade being established in conjunction with the Powers, in the event of the attitude of Greece rendering such a course necessary. *BELGRADEa, April 4.

Notwithstanding the positive announcement made yesterday that a new Cabinet, under the Premiership of M. Ristics, had been finally constituted, fresh difficulties arose last night, in consequence of which M. Ristics at the last moment withdrew. The King again summoned M. Garashanine and intrusted him with the formation of a Ministry. a belgre'id.

It is expected that the new Cabinet will be constiti^ted by to-morrow morning. M. Garashanine will retain the post of Premier together with that of Minister for Foreign Affairs. It is believed that the other members of the Ministry will comprise Colonel Horvatovicsa, MM. Mijatovicsb, Topalovics0, Kaljevicsd, Tshumitse, Kujundzicsf, and MilovanovicsJ The reason assigned for M. Risticss failure to construct a Cabinet is that at the last moment, previous to the signature of the Royal decree appointing the new Ministry, great differences arose with regard to the war budget. M. Ristics thereupon declined the task of the formation of a Cabinet. ♦CONSTANTINOPLE, April 3. Prince Alexander, in his reply to the telegram despatched by the Porte on the 3Ist ult.h, inviting him to accept the irrevocable decision of the Powers, having categorically refused to accept the Russian proposals, the Porte sent a fresh message to Sofia insisting upon the Prince’s acceptance of the amendments. His Highness reiterated his previous determination, however, stating that he had made a similar declaration to the repräsentatives of the Powers at Sofia. Although M. Zanoff had already signed the original agreement between the Porte and Bulgaria, he only verbally accepted the arrangement as amended by Russia, thus reserving to Prince Alexander the right to refuse his adhesion. Another council of Ministers was held yesterday, and Gadban Effendi lest at midnight for Sofia, furnished with fresh urgent instructions. The Porte hop es by this means to induce the Prince to comply with the Ottoman demands. His Highness’s reply is awaited with anxiety, and, in the event of a fresh refusal, it is believed that the Porte will despatch another Cir­ cular Note to the Powers asking their advice as to the course it should adopt. It is not disposed to act upon its own initiative, and wishes for a European mandate, which would be carried out even if coercion were necessary; though it is believed to be very improbable that any need for the latter would arise. All the repräsentatives of the Powers here have received instructions to assist at the Conference, whether Prince Alexander gives his consent to the arrangement or not. The general opinion here is that the Greek question will assume a more threatening aspect in the event of the Turco-Bulgarian arrange­ ment being delayed. The Journal Stamboul has been suspended for an indefinite period. *ATHENS, April 3. On the assembling of the Chamber of Deputies to-day M. Delyannis a hävae'tovitsh — b miiae'tovitsh — c täpae'lovitsh — d koelje'vitsh — c tshumi'tsh — f kuju'ndzhitsh — g milävae'novitsh — h altimo.

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introduced a Bill empowering the Government to contract a Ioan with the National Bank for 25,000,000 drachmas1, together with various measures relating to the forced paper currency. Bills were also submitted for the promotion of sub-lieutenants, the recall to the active list of retired officers, and the admission of foreign officers into the Greek army up to, but not including, the rank of captain. The Minister of Marine has also submitted measures for increasing the number of officers and engineers in the navy. M. Delyannis, amid much cheering, appealed to the patriotism of the Chamber to agree to the measures proposed by the Government, declaring that they were absolutely necessary, in Order that the military and naval forces of the country might be increased. M. Tricoupis then rose and proceeded to criticize warmly the policy of the Government, which he considered inadequate to insure the fulfilment of the national demands. He reproached the Government with submitting Bills having no real aim, while it should have given precise Information to the Chamber regarding the political, military, and financial Situation of the country. Greece ought not to have an unvarying policy, but should suit herseif to circumstances. The Government, however, bad exhausted the resources of the country without pushing forward the military preparations. “Greece,” continued M. Tricoupis, “must show wisdom in her actions. She ought to defend her independence when threatened by the attitude of the Powers, but she should never have recourse to war. The Chamber would have to consider whether it could continue to place confidence in the Government.” M. Delyannis, in reply, warmly attacked the policy of the last Tricoupis Cabinet, which he declared by its inopportune measures bad brought about the present critical state of the finances. The Premier reproached M. Tricoupis with having lest the country disarmed both by land and sea, and with having exhausted the resources bequeathed to him by M. Coumoundouros. M. Bhigopoulo expressed bis gratitude to France and Russia for not having taken part in the naval demonstration, and censured the other Great Powers for their attitude towards Greece. The debate was ultimately adjourned till Monday. The Govern­ ment is confident of obtaining a majority. *SOFIA, April 4.

The opinion prevails here that Gadban Effendis mission to Sofia will have no favourable results, and the despatch of the Turkish envoy is strongly condemned. In well-informed circles it is thought that the only way to arrive at a solution, and guarantee a stable Government, 1 drachmas, 1 dr. = 1 Frank ----- 0,80.

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is to put a stop to proceedings of this kind. It is pointed out that, by influencing public opinion in the two Bulgarias, the Powers would, instead of merely sanctioning the Turco-Bulgarian agreement, be ordering the execution of an arrangement modified by themselves. *PBILIPPOPOLIS, April 4. M. Brom, a former Minister, was attacked to-day in the neighbourhood of this city by eight men, armed with sticks, and sustained serious injuries. The outrage is believed to be due to political motives, and the affair has caused great Sensation. *CETTINJE, April 3. The Turkish Ambassador to Montenegro has notified Prince Nicolas that the Sultan has conferred upon bis Highness the Grand Cordon of the Order of Nichani Imtiaz. Prince Nicolas telegraphed to Bis Majesty thanking him for the honour. The Sultan replied in flattering terms, and informed Prince Nicolas that one of Bis Majesty’s aides - de - camp would shortly leave for Cettinje bearing the insignia of the Order. *PABIS, April 3. A Cabinet Council was held this morning, at which M. de Freycinet informed his colleagues that the Eastern Situation had not improved. *CANDIA, April 3. Ber Majesty’s ironclad Superb has arrived at Suda Bay. *MALTA, April 4. Ber Majesty’s ironclad Sultan sailed to-day for Suda Bay.

INDIA. fCALCUTTA, April 4. The Viceroya lest Calcutta on Tuesday morning and arrived at Durbanga the same evening, where he was cordially received by the Maharajah.b 1 The Municipal Commission also met the Viceregal party at the Station and presented an address of welcome, in which grateful reference was made to Lady Dufferin’sc work on behalf of Indian women. The following day the Viceroy laid the foundation stone of the Dufferin hospital, which was the only public function that marked the visit. The party started early on Thursday morning for Benares.d At Zamania, where they halted for lunch, they were met by Maharajah Dumraon, who had a short conversation with the Viceroy, in the course of which Bis Bighness thanked him for the peaceful Settlement of the Afghan6 frontier question, for the victory in Burmah, and the peace and plenty now prevailing in India. The Viceroy replied that as the Maharajah thanked

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him for plenty, he should see that blame should not be laid on his shoulders if scarcity perchance followed. To this the Maharajah answered that, according to the Hindoo idea, as rulers deserved praise when plenty prevailed, they deserved blame when scarcity threatened. On reaching the Mogul Seraia Station, Lord Dufferin drove to Chakia, the shooting lodge of the Maharajah of Benares. The party go to Benares city to-day. The Begum1 of Bhopalb, after a prolonged visit to Calcutta, has now returned to her State. It is understood that her object in coming here was to obtain a reversal of Orders of the Government of India degrading her husband Mahomed Sadi Hossein0, whose interference in Bhopal affairs has been the cause of the intolerable abuse and misgovernment which lately brought that State into discredit. The Indian Government has, however, stood firm, and refused to withdraw its Orders. Sadi Hossein will no longer be permitted to take any part in the man­ agement of affairs, which are now placed on a constitutional basis, with a Mahomedan gentleman, who has long served the British Govern­ ment in Bengal, as Premier. It may be hoped that Bhopal will now recover its former prosperity and become again a model native State. The Maharajah Scindiad has been for some time in a bad state of health. According to the latest reports there is no improvement in his condition. He is going to Bithoor6, near Cawnporef, for the purpose of bathing in the Ganges, leaving the Charge of the State to his Minister, Sir Gunput Bao. About two years ago the Bengal Government appointed a Com­ mission, with Mr. Ware Edgar as President, to inquire into the cause of the increase in the consumption of spirituous liquors among the people, and to suggest a remedy. After spending some months in visiting various parts of the province, the Commission submitted a report enumerating the following as the chief causes. First, the waning influence of social and castes restrictions; secondly, the increase in the purchasing power of the lower classes; third, the Suspension in 1878 of the old rule limiting the capacity of the still;2 fourth, the excessive number of licensed shops; fifth, the improper selection of sites for shops. They recommended the establishment of central distilleries in large towns, fixing a maximumh capacity for the stills in each district and a Minimum price for the cheapest sorts of liquor, the reconstitution of the excise establishments, and the exercise of greater care in the selection of retail shops. The Lieutenant-Governor referred the report to the Board of a mougal soera'i — b bi'igoemoev boupä'äl — c moehä'moed sa'adi hä'sain — d si'ndiae — e bipu'uoe — f käänpä'oe — g kaast — h mae'ksimoem. 1 Begum, Titel einer indischen Fürstin. — 2 still, Brennkessel, Brennerei. The Times.

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Revenue. After a delay of 18 months, final Orders have at last been passed and published in the Government Gazette. The recdmmendations of the Commission are almost entirely approved. Central distilleries will be established in certain large towns and the remaining suggestions will have a full and fair trial. According to the latest retums, the prospects of the wheat crop are generally favourable, and in some provinces exceptionally so. Only in the Central Provinces have the prospects deteriorated, owing to the cloudy weather producing rüst.1 A certain amount of rüst is also reported from Bombay, but it has done no great injury. The harvest in Berara is almost completed, with an estimated outturn of 120,000 tons. A plentiful harvest is expected in all parts of the North-West Provinces and Oudeb, and the season promises well in the Punjab.0 The Bengal Chamber of Commerce has addressed the local Govern­ ment on two questions of great importance to the trading Community. In one letter the Chamber dwells upon the necessity of allowing it to elect its own repräsentatives on the Calcutta Port Trust2, instead of leaving their nomination as now to the Government. It contends, justly, that the mercantile body, being best acquainted with the requirements of the port and being its chief Support, should have a more direct voice in the management of the port funds and works. In another letter the Chamber points out the great inconvenience arising from the length of time which suits in the Calcutta Small Cause Court3 occupy. This delay is due partly to the fact that the Court is short-handed4 and partly to the recent introduction of an elaborate System of procedure which goes far to deprive it of the character of a cheap and summary tribunal. The Chamber urges that the procedure should be simplified and that the judicial and ministerial staff of the Court should be largely increased, and points its arguments by calling attention to the handsome and yearly increasing profit which the Government derives from that tribunal.

BURMAH.d tMANDALAY«, April 2. A large incendiary fire occurred last night in the Southern portion of the town outside the walled city. A gang of about 60 dacoits5 attacked and attempted to* loot6 a house in the town. The inmates resisted them pluckily. The sound of firing brought down Inspector Ford1*

a bera'a — b and — c punzha'ab — d boe'oemoe — e maendoele'i — f fääd. 1 rüst, Brand. — 2 Calcutta Port Trust, Hafenbehörde Von Kalkutta. — 3 Small Cause Court, Gerichtshof für Bagatellsachen. — 4 is short-handed, hat Mangel an Beamten. — 6 dacoits, eingeborene Räuber; burmesische Franktireurs. — 6 loot, Plündern.

and his police. When the dacoits were attacked by the police they fired the house to cover their retreat. The fire began about 1 a.m. and lasted till 3. It spread with great rapidity, and betöre it was extinguished two large blocks, comprising some 600 houses, were totally destroyed. A considerable proportion of the houses destroyed were mere huts. One dacoit was wounded and captured, and the gang was traced some distance to the east outside the town limits. A serious feature in the recent fires is that a number of people are thereby lest houseless. Düring the fire there was much excitement in the city and town owing to the Sound of the firing. Lieutenant Cairns, R.E.1, has accurately surveyed the Irrawaddya from Bhamob to Mogoung, proving the impracticability of the Limbo and Mogoung rivers for steamers. The troops at Bhamo are very healthy. In a force of 300 Europeans and 700 Sepoysc there has been no death among the Europeans, and only three deaths from sickness among the Sepoys. A native of India has arrived at Bhamo from Dilhroghur. He reached Mogoung in 16 days, and was brought to Bhamo by Major Cooke, the Political Officer there. He gives a good description of the route. The Kachyen Sawbawth or chiefs have been informed that no presents will be given to them as under Burmese rule, nor will presents be expected or received from them; but that they are free to trade in Bhamo without hindrance. The Burmese still refuse to sleep in Bhamo. They come to work in the town in the day time, but at dusk they go to Islands in the river for protection. Bhamo is well fortified. [The above appeared in our Second Edition of Saturday. ] *MANDALAY, April 4. It is believed that some of the Shan Bawbwas are evincing a rebellious spirit, and a request has therefore been sent to Rangoond for the despatch of the 4 3d Assam Light Infantry to Mandalay on their arrival from India. The Indian Government has ordered a survey to be made with a view to the construction of a railway between Mandalay and Tounghoo, together with an estimate of the cost of the undertaking. *RANGOON, April 4. General Prendergast and Colonel Sladen lest here to-day for Madras. a iroewä'd* — b baamo'u — c si'ipoiz — d raengu'un. 1 R.E., Royal Engineers.

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tCALCUTTA, April 4.

The Indian Government have received news of the death of the Ameer’sa mother while en route to Mecca on a pilgrimage. It is stated that the Ameer is much distressed.

CHINA. •{■HONGKONGb (via Colombo), Mauch 23. The Chinese Minister to England, Liu, proceeds hence to-day by the French mail with all his Staff, except the eldest son of the Vice­ roy Li. The Viceroy of the two Kwangs1 denies having threatened reprisals for the outrages on the Chinese in America unless compensation were given.

NEPAUL.® tCALCUTTA, Apkil 4.

The young Maharajah is to be married next month to the daughter of the Raj ah of an adjacent Himalayand State. Great preparations are being made at Khatmandu® to celebrate the event.

CENTRAL ASIA. BRUSSELS, April 4.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Nord asserts that the mission of the envoy of the Emir of Bokharaf, who is now so much feted at St. Petersburg, is purely one of courtesy.

FRANCE. PARIS, April 4.

The two Parisian agitators, MM. Duc-Quercy and Roche, who have been doing so much mischief at Decazeville, were arrested in their beds this morning. The former had a loaded revolver on his dressing table, but did not attempt to make use of it. The notorious Deputy, M. Basly, accompanied him to the police Station. The two prisoners were handcuffed and taken in a cab to a railway Station two miles off and lodged in prison at Villefranche. Decazeville is less excited than was expected.

a emiloez — b hängkä'ng — c noepä'äl — d himoele'ioen — c kaetmoendu'u — f bäka'aroe. 1 Viceroy of the two Kwangs, Generalgouverneur der zwei Südprovinzen Chinas.

Another of the wolf-bitten Russians expired yesterday. The Ex­ periment of bringing 2,000 miles for inoculation persons lacerated by a wolf is not likely to be repeated. In the Chamber yesterday M. Wilson reported on behalf of the Budget“ Committee in favour of a Ioan of 500 millions in Perpetual Three per Cents.1, 152 millions to be devoted to superseding Treasury bonds2 authorized last year, but not yet issued, 165 millions to the reconstitution of military material, and the balance to the reduction of the floating debt. A further sum of 400 millions is to reimburse savings bank and other depositors, whose applications for this stock will have the preference, so that this will not in reality be a public issue. The Chamber fixed to-morrow for the discussion. The 1889 Exhibition scheme submitted to the Chamber yesterday estimates the expense at 43,000,000s., towards which the State contributes 17,000,000s. and Paris 8,000,000s., while a Company of guarantors3 undertake the responsibility for the remaining 18,000,000s. The management will be in the hands of the State, but 18 guarantors and eight municipal councillors will form, together with 17 Deputies, Senators, and functionaries, a consultative Commission. In the event of a surplus it will be divided between the three parties in proportion to their contribution, whereas if there is a deficit it will fall solely on the State. The latter also reserves to itself the decision as to charging exhibitors for the space allotted them. In 1878 the expense was 55,000,000s., but 13,000,000s. were absorbed by the permanent Trocadero building, which will be this time available without fresh outlay. * PARIS, April 3. A great fire is raging in the St. Fargeau forest near Joigny. The conflagration is attributed to incendiarism on the part of the woodcutters. Troops have been despatched from Joigny to render assistance. *April 4. M. Sebline, Liberal Republican, has been elected Senator for the department of the Aisne in the room of the late Comte de Saint-Vallier.

A METROPOLITANb RAILWAY FOR PARIS. PARIS, April 4. The Government laid before the Chamber yesterday the Paris Metro­ politan Railway Bill and the provisional agreement entered into between a ba'dshoet — b meträpa'litoen. 1 Perpetual Three per Cents., unkündbare dreiprozentige Rente. — 2 Treas­ ury bonds, Schatzscheine, welche zeitweise ausgegeben werden, um augenblicklichen Bedürfnissen zu genügen; sie sind nicht fundiert im Gegensatz zu den Perpetual 3 per Cents. — 3 guarantors, Zeichner einer Garantiesumme zum Zwecke des Zustandekommens eines Unternehmens.

the Minister of Public Works and M. Albert Christophle, the Governor of the Credit Foncier.1 The Capital of the Company will be/ 50,000,000s. The management will be intrusted to a board of 12 members, eight elected by the Shareholders and four named by the Government, which has reserved two of these seats to the Municipal Council of Paris. Alongside of this board, and representing alike the Interests of the Shareholders, the Government, and the City of Paris, there will be a governor named by the State, who will have a right of veto, in this respect resembling the Organization of the Bank of France. The Objects kept in view in the plan are the easy conveyance of passengers and goods, the direct communication of despatches to the General Post Office, and the Union of the great lines of railway. The plan comprises (1) an inner circle line along which the rails will pass, according to the nature of the ground traversed, Underground through cuttings or over viaducts; (2) two great arteriös destined to connect the stations of the great Companies and intersecting Paris. One Underground will connect the Gare de FEst, pass through the district of the General Post Office and Halles, and terminate at Mont Parnasse Station; the other, which will be above the surface level, will connect with each other (1) the Saint Lazare and the Nord stations by a line which will pass through the Carrefour Drouot; (2) the two stations so united of the west and north with the Vincennes and Lyons stations by means of a line passing from the Carrefour Drouot and leading towards the Avenue Daumesnil by Crossing the district of the Halles, which, serving as a point of intersection of the above-ground artery and the Underground artery, will thus have exceptional advantages. The contemplated stations number 64, of which 28 are to be on the viaduct, 15 over open cuttings, and 21 over the Underground way. The Government intend to divide the various works just referred to into two series. The first series will include those which can be completed before 1889—that is to say, the circles, the Underground artery, and the Union line of the Western and northern stations through the Carrefour Drouot. The second series will include the construction of the overground artery which is to connect the Carre­ four Drouot with the Vincennes Station. The division of these two series will correspond very closely to the equal division of the total expense. The Minister of Public Works has considered it prudent to begin with those operations which are sure to be completed before the exhibition. On the other band, the construction of the central artery will make several changes necessary in the direction of streets and roads to be carried out by the city, and it has therefore been thought wise to give the municipality time to study and prepare for them. It is estimated that the works constructed, the cost of property acquired, 1 Credit Foncier, Bvdenkreditanstalt.

Interest, and, in short, the total expense, will amount to from 450,000,000s. to 475,000,000s. Of this total the first series of works, that is to say the construction of the Underground artery, the circular line, and the union of the Western and northern stations, will require 225,000,000s. The above-ground artery alone will absorb the rest, the appropriation of property in the heart of Paris making the establishment of this cen­ tral line very costly. The State gives a guarantee of four per cent. on the total expense; but it believes that by an arrangement it has made it has considerably diminished the bürden of this guarantee. In compensation for the increased income brought to the great railway Com­ panies by the junction of their lines, they will become responsible to the State for a subsidy of 7,000,000s., and they undertake that this guarantee shall come into Operation in proportion as the construction of the lines is proceeded with. In this way they guarantee 5,000,000s. after the first series of works, the other 2,000,000s. being required after the construction of the central artery. It follows that, the State guaranteeing 9,000,000s. of interest to the 225,000,000s. of esthnated expenses, and the subsidy of the great Companies providing 5,000,000s., the engagement of the Treasury will be finally reduced to 4,000,000s., which may be reduced to a smaller figure if the traffic proves as great as it is maintained it will by the authors of the various schemes. The preface to the Bill says:— “The question of a Metropolitan Railway, solved in London, Berlin, and New York, has remained a probiern for a long period of years in Paris. Its solution is required, and cannot be long delayed. Without speaking of the permanent necessities which would be provided for by the new means of communication, it is indispensable that it should be completed betöre the fetes of the centenary of 1789, and it is unnecessary to insist, on the other band, on the advantage of furnishing without much delay the means of labour for the working population. The general plan having been completed, we bad to consider the best mode of constructing and working the railway. Was it necessary, for instance, to return to the System of contract and to band over the metropolitan line to a Company of constructors who, if they did not ask a guarantee of interest on their share Capital, might be tempted, in Order to secure a remuneration, to economize on the work done at the cost of its good execution? We did not think so. For such a great enterprise, which should be carried out with the greatest rapidity and yet executed with the greatest care, the best course seems to be for the State to retain control over the undertaking, and to reduce the extent of the portions of the enterprise, and thus to divide the work in a democratic spirit. In adopting the latter System we do not, however, propose to place the expenses of construction to the cost of the Budget.

We consider there is ground for conceding the network / to a special Company who would supply the Capital necessary for the construction, and also would undertake the working in consideration of a State guarantee.”

THE BELGIAN EIOTS. BRUSSELS, April 4.

The general effervescence throughout Belgium is not abating and may still last for a long time. The Organization of a rural civil guard is being seriously carried on. A band of Belgian rioters passing the French frontier was stopped there, and two of them were arrested. A general strike in the quarries of Soignies is expected, while in the Charleroi district a general resumption of work is announced for to-morrow. M. Beiwarte, secretary of the Federation of Glassmakers, has addressed a circular to the foreign glassmakers* unions, protesting against the acts of violence committed in the Charleroi district, and declaring that the Association of Glassmakers is innocent of them. He adds that workmen’s unions should be encouraged and not combated, as they offer the best guarantees for the maintenance of Order and for industrial prosperity. Arrests continue. The sentences passed by the magistrates on the rioters and plunderers not sent before the Assizes are severe. *CHARLEROI, April 3.

The state of things in the Charleroi coal district is now satisfactory. Work is now going on in many places, and is expected to be generally resumed on Monday next. Lome of the establishments are still guarded by troops. *MONS, April 3.

General Van der Smissen has addressed a circular to the officers of the detachments under bis command, instructing them to take active measures to prevent the distribution of Anarchist documents in the Army, and to explain to the men the duties which they have to perform in the event of further disturbances. * WETTEREN, April 4, 3p.m.

Perfect tranquillity has prevailed here up to the present. The factories are being guarded by a force of 1,000 men, and troops are also echeloned1 along the road from Ghent to Wetteren. A party of Socialists, estimated to be 400 in number, has arrived here. Patrol 1 echeloned, (längs) aufgestellt.

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duty is being continued by the gendarmes and local police, and no disturbances are anticipated.

GERMANY. BERLIN, April 4. A telegram has been received from the German Consul at Zanzibara stating that, according to advices dated January 8, Emin Bei (Schnitzler) and his party were well near Unjorob, but their further passage through that district was stopped. The Crown Princess was able to go out for a long drive yesterday. Her daughter, the Princess Victoria, has now also quite recovered from her attack of measles. There is a rumour, though it still wants confirmation, that the Imperial Government means to send Professors Koch and Virchow to Paris to study M. Pasteurs method of treating the victims of rabies.*1 "BERLIN, April 3. The Reichstag to-day proceeded with the third reading of the Bill relating to the sugar duties, and agreed to an amendment fixing the duty on beetroot sugar at Im. 60pf. for every 100 kilogrammes of beetroot employed. The amendment also fixes the export premium on raw sugar and on refined sugar of not less than 89 per Cent, polarization2 at 17m. 40pf. per 100 kilogrammes until September 30, 1887, and after that date at 16m. 40pf. The export premium on other varieties of sugar ranges from 21m. 45pf. to 19m. In the course of the debate Herr von Burchard, Secretary of State, expressed himself opposed to the amendment. In other respects the Bill was adopted in the form agreed to on the second reading.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. VIENNA, April 4. A compromise is on the point of being effected between the Minis­ ters of Austria and Hungary, who some weeks ago broke off their negotiations for a renewal of the 10 year treaty owing to difference about the petroleum duties. It will be remembered that the Austrian wanted to protect Galician petroleum by taxing foreign Imports; while the Hungarian sought to protect the mines of Fiume by letting American raw and half-refined petroleum come into the country almost free of duty. It is now practically settled that there shall be a small duty on a zamziba'a — b andzhä/äro. 1 rabies, Tollwut. — 2 polarization, Polarisation (eigentlich Drehung der Polarisationsebene nach Winkelgraden gemessen); dient als Mittel zur Bestimmung des Zuckergehaltes einer Flüssigkeit.

American raw and half-refined Petroleum, a heavy duty^on Roumanian and Russian Petroleum, and an efficient protective tariff against refined Petroleum of all kinds.

THE LATE COMTESSE DE CHAMBORD. VIENNA, April 4. The funeral of the late Comtesse de Chambord took place yesterday morning at Gorz. Two thousand persons joined the procession which started from the Chateau soon after 9, and in it were repräsentatives of the French families of Montmorency, Rohan, Laroche-Jacquelein, Larochefoucauld, Luynes, L6on, Croy, Uzes, Gramont, Sully, Richelieu, Aumont, Blacas, and about 100 others. The deceased Princess having been an Austrian Archduchess, the Emperor of Austria was officially represented by Archduke Francisa d'Este. Four chariots loaded with wreaths and bouquets followed the hearse, and military honours were rendered by a battalion of infantry. All the shops in the town were closed and many of the houses were draped in black. A crowd of about 10,000 people lined the streets. Don Carlos and the Duke of Parma acted as chief mourners and the Duchesses of Tuscany, Madrid, and Parma attended the Services at the Cathedra! and the Convent of Castagnavizza. The Service in the Cathedral was solemnized at half past 9 by the Bishop and full Chapter, after which the procession made its way to the convent. Here another short Service took place and the absolution was given. The coffin, which bad been set under a monumental catafalque, was then lowered into the vault where lie the remains of Charles X., Louis XIX., better known as the Duc d’Angouläme, the Duchesse d’Angouleme, the Duchess of Parma, and the Comte de Chambord. The late Comte de Chambord bequeathed to bis wife a life interest in all bis property, which consisted of the estate of Chambord, in France, two estates in Croatiab and Galicia0, the shooting-box of Brunsee, in Steiermark, house property in Vienna, and about 8,000,000 florins worth of funded securities. By the Comtesses death this property devolves, in accordance with her husband’s will, upon the Comtes two nephews, the Duke of Parma and the Comte de Bardi, the former taking twothirds and the latter one-third. The Comtesse de Chambord's own private property consisted of the estate of Frohsdorf and of 20,000,000 florins deposited with the1 Messrs. Rothschild.4 The Comtesse^ will Orders that her fortune shall be divided between Don Jaime, Don Carlos's son, and a a'atshdjuuk frae'nsis — b kroue'ishiae — c gaeli'ishiae — d rä'pstshaild. 1 the Messrs. Rothschild, Hier gegen die Regel mit bestimmtem Artikel.

Don Alfonso, Don Carlos’s brother. All landed property, both under the Comte and Comtesse’s wills, is to be settled in strict entail1, according to the Austrian law. There are nearly 100 bequests to servants and others in the Comtesses will. PARIS, April 4. A requiem mass for the Comtesse de Chambord was solemnized yesterday by direction of the Comte de Paris in St. Xavier Francois Church. All the Orleans Princes now in Paris attended, as also a host of Royalist notabilities.

EUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Aran. 2. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. de Giersa, accompanied by the Director and Vice-Director of his Chancery, will follow their Imperial Majesties to the Crimeab on Sunday next, and remain there until the return of the Court to Gatschina. The Neva has opened several versts2 below its source. The new Catholicos3 of the Armenian Church reports that the Im­ perial permission has been given for the reopening of the Armenian schools of the Caucasus.® Some Sensation, it will be remembered, was caused by the peremptory closure of these schools some 12 months or more ago. April 4. To-day’s Journal de St. Petersbourg takes upon itself to quiet public opinion about the report of 10,000 Persian troops having been ordered to Ourmiahd in consequence of the concentration of Turkish troops on the Persian frontier. Questions concerning the frontier delimitation between the Porte and Teheran are still pending, but the organ of the Foreign Office knows of nothing having lately occurred to give rise to the above Intelligence or to justify the disquieting character attempted to be given to it. With the departure to-day of M. de Giers and his staff to join the Imperial Court in the south, St. Petersburg ceases for the present to be the chief centre of Russian diplomacy. Several of the chief reprä­ sentatives of foreign Powers, including the German and Turkish Ambassadors, will also take leave of absence in a few days. *SEBASTOPOL, April 4. The Czar and Czarina®, attended by their suite, and accompanied by their children, the Grand Duke and Duchess Sergius Alexandravitch, the a gi'oez — b krimilae — c kä'äkoesces — d urmi'ae — e zoeri'inae. 1 in strict entail, als unveräußerliches Erblehen. — 2 versts, 1 verst, Werst = 1066,71 m. — 3 Catholicos, das Haupt der armenischen Kirche im Kloster Etsch­ miadsin bei Eriwan.

Don Alfonso, Don Carlos’s brother. All landed property, both under the Comte and Comtesse’s wills, is to be settled in strict entail1, according to the Austrian law. There are nearly 100 bequests to servants and others in the Comtesses will. PARIS, April 4. A requiem mass for the Comtesse de Chambord was solemnized yesterday by direction of the Comte de Paris in St. Xavier Francois Church. All the Orleans Princes now in Paris attended, as also a host of Royalist notabilities.

EUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Aran. 2. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. de Giersa, accompanied by the Director and Vice-Director of his Chancery, will follow their Imperial Majesties to the Crimeab on Sunday next, and remain there until the return of the Court to Gatschina. The Neva has opened several versts2 below its source. The new Catholicos3 of the Armenian Church reports that the Im­ perial permission has been given for the reopening of the Armenian schools of the Caucasus.® Some Sensation, it will be remembered, was caused by the peremptory closure of these schools some 12 months or more ago. April 4. To-day’s Journal de St. Petersbourg takes upon itself to quiet public opinion about the report of 10,000 Persian troops having been ordered to Ourmiahd in consequence of the concentration of Turkish troops on the Persian frontier. Questions concerning the frontier delimitation between the Porte and Teheran are still pending, but the organ of the Foreign Office knows of nothing having lately occurred to give rise to the above Intelligence or to justify the disquieting character attempted to be given to it. With the departure to-day of M. de Giers and his staff to join the Imperial Court in the south, St. Petersburg ceases for the present to be the chief centre of Russian diplomacy. Several of the chief reprä­ sentatives of foreign Powers, including the German and Turkish Ambassadors, will also take leave of absence in a few days. *SEBASTOPOL, April 4. The Czar and Czarina®, attended by their suite, and accompanied by their children, the Grand Duke and Duchess Sergius Alexandravitch, the a gi'oez — b krimilae — c kä'äkoesces — d urmi'ae — e zoeri'inae. 1 in strict entail, als unveräußerliches Erblehen. — 2 versts, 1 verst, Werst = 1066,71 m. — 3 Catholicos, das Haupt der armenischen Kirche im Kloster Etsch­ miadsin bei Eriwan.

Grand Duke Paul, and Lieutenant - General Count V oroptzoff - Dachkoff, Aide - de - Camp to His Majesty, arrived hcre safely at 10 o’clock this morning, and immediately continued their journey to Livadia? Vice-Admiral Possiet, Minister of Public Works, escorted the Royal party on their railway journey.

THE UNITED STATES. PHILADELPHIA, April 4. The trains are now moving on the Missouri-Pacificb Railway without much obstruction except at Parsons, Kansas0, where 400 Kansas militia are guarding the railway and preserving peace, and at Fort Worth, Texasd, where the strikers have been obstructing the traffic by tearing up the track; but the United States Court officials1 interfered on Saturday, and are now protecting the railway. The Knights of Labour2 * Executive ** Committee have arrived at St. Louis6, and have begun the arbitration. The uncertainties of the Situation affect the Stock Market, but prices closed steady on Saturday. Dun and Co. report 3,203 failures, with 29 millions of dollars liability, in the United States, during the first quarter of 1886, against 3,658 failures, with 46 millions of dollars liability, last year. This is the smallest report since 1873. A Montreal correspondent reports that a large emigration movement is going on among French Canadians to the United States—larger thau in any previous spring. The emigrants are chiefly married men with families, while heretofore mostly unmarried men have emigrated.

Later. The sheriff at Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday broke the railway blockade and started with a goods train westward. Outside the town the train met a band of strikers on the track. The sheriff stopped the train, and with his force marched forward and commanded the strikers to disperse. Both sides were armed. The firing began with volleys from both parties. One man was killed; five others, including the deputy-sheriff, were wounded. The strikers fled, leaving one of their number fatally wounded. The road is now finally opened to traffic. Great excitement followed this encounter. The merchants held a meeta livaadi'ae — b misu'uri poesi'fik — c kae'nsoes — d te'ksoes — e sintlu'is.

1 U. 8. Court officials, Beamte der United States Courts, der Gerichtshöfe in jedem Staat, welche neben den eigentlichen Gerichten des einzelnen Staates bestehen und von der Regierung der Staaten direkt geleitet werden. Sie entscheiden Fälle zwischen Bürgern verschiedener Staaten, Ausländern und Einheimischen 2c. — ® Knights of Labour, Arbeitervereinigung in den Vereinigten Staaten, gegründet zur Wahrung der Interessen der Arbeiter gegenüber den Kapitalisten.

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ing and demanded that the railway should be unobstructed. The Go­ vernor of Texas ordered troops from various places to Fort Worth, where Order has since been maintained. At Parsons, Kansas, it is reported that the trains are unobstructed; the military are guarding the town, and fears of trouble have passed away. The news from St. Louis is also satisfactory. The Executive Committee of the Knights of Labour are now arbitrating with Vice-President Hoxie at St. Louis, who offers to take half of the men back, declining further concession. The House, by 195 to 29, has passed the Railway Labour Arbi­ tration Bill1, but little expectation is feit of its accomplishing much. It is merely regarded as a sop to the Labour vote. The House has since been discussing the Silver Bills. The Committee of Ways and Neans2 expects to report to the House on Monday on the Revised Tarifs Bill framed by the Democratic majority. The Bill, which places wool on the free list, has little chance of becoming law. Gold exports to Europe have ceased; produce exports are increasing. Mr. James Russell Lowella 3 sailed from Boston for Liverpool by the steamer Pavonia. The general belief is that Mr. Lowell will make England his future hörne. *NEW YORK, April 3. The floods in Alabamab have assumed a most serious character, the waters now being six feet above the highest level ever known. Several persons have perished, and the loss in horses and cattle is im­ mense. Disasters caused by the inundations are also reported from Richmond, Cincinnatic, New England, and other points. The Imports during the past week amounted to $10,490,609, including dry goods4 to the value of $2,256,489.

URUGUAY. PHILADELPHIA, April 4. A correspondent at Montevideo4 telegraphs that a strong Government force under Tajes and Arribio was attacked near the Daiman River by the rebels under Arredondo and Castro. The Government troops were defeated with a loss of 400 men. iBy Indo-European Telegraph.5 *Through Reuter’s Agency.6 a lo'uoel — b aeloeba'amoe — c sinsina'at1 — d mantoevi'dio. 1 Railway Labour Arbitration Bill, Gesetz zu Gunsten gerechterer Bezahlung der Eisenbahnarbeiter. — 2 Committee of Ways and Means, Komitee für finanzielle Vorschläge und Fragen. — 3 Lowell, der frühere Gesandte der Vereinigten Staaten in London, einer der hervorragendsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller. — 4 dry goods, Leinen- und Baumwollwaren; amerikanischer Ausdruck, der sich fiir das englische ‘drapery goods’ eingebürgert hat. — 5 Indo-European Telegraph, Uberlandtelegraph von Europa nach Indien über Persien. — 6 Reuter’s Agency, Paul Julius Reuter,

Princesss Theatre.—The Duchess of Edinburgh and her children witnessed the performance of The Lord Harry on Satutday afternoon. Hunting Appointments.—The Linlithgow“ and Stirlingshire Hounds will meet at Boadshawb to-morrow, and at Preston on Saturday, each day at 11. The Dumfriesshire0 Hounds will meet at Tinwald Downsd on Saturday, not Raemuir6 as previously announced. Jewel Robbery.—A daring robbery of jewelry, to the value of over £200, was committed yesterday afternoon in Bishop-street, Bir­ mingham. The house was in the occupation of a Mr. Gold, tailor and outfitter.1 In the course of the afternoon Mrs. Gold, who was then the sole occupant of the house, visited a neighbour next door and remained there for an hour or so. On her return she found that she could not open the door. She instantly raised an alarm, and heard the holt of the door shot into its socket and the noise of feet on the stair-case. She called to a neighbour, but the thieves escaped with the jewelry. FOREIGN NEWS.

We have received the following telegrams through Reuters Agency:— FRANCE AND CHINA/ PARIS, April 3.

It is expected that the negotiations for a treaty of commerce between France and China will shortly be brought to a successful issue.

QUEENSLAND AND NEW GUINEA.BRISBANE, April 2.

A slight change has been made in the Cabinet, the Hon. S. W. Griffith remaining Premier, and the Hon. B. Moreton assuming the post of Colonial Secretary 2 in addition to that of Secretary of Public Instruction, which he at present holds. Mr. Griffith has drawn up a memorandum, for Submission to the Governments of the other colonies, suggesting a scheine for the administration of New Guinea. He proposes that Queensland should administer the territory, guaranteeing £15,000 annually, but receiving proportional a linli']?gou — b bo'udshää — c doemfri'ishoe — d ti'nwoeld daunz — e raemju'uoe — f tsha'inae — 6 njuugi'nk 1821 in Kassel geboren, kam 1851 nach London, wo er das weltbekannte Telegraphenbüreau gründete. — 1 outfitter, Besitzer eines Herrengarderobegeschäfts. — 2 Colonial Secretary, Kolonialminister.

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contributions from the other colonies to meet the expenses of the Go­ vernment of the new territory. The Imperial Government would he asked to make an initial contribution. The sovereignty of the Queen would then be established over the British portion of the Island, and an Administration appointed with powers to enact law. Mr. Griffith recommends that native Interests should be protected, and that the deportation of natives and the trade in liquor, arms, and ammunition should be placed out of the control of Queensland. The purchase of land, except from the Government, should, he advises, be prohibited. Other matters would be under the direction of the Governor of Queens­ land and the Executive Council af that colony. Her Majesty’s Staghounds.1—Lord Suffield has decided that the Queens Buckhounds2 shall hunt three times a week for the future. The Sünday Society.—Sir Henry Roscoe“, F.R.S.3, Professor of Chemistry at Owens College4, Manchester, and M.P. for that city, is to be the llth president of the Sunday Society, in Succession to Mr. George Howard, one of the trustees of the National Gallery. Sir Henry will deliver his presidential address at the public annual meeting in May. The following is the resolution of which Sir Henry has given notice in the House of Commons:—"That, seeing the success which has attended the Sunday opening of the Painted Hall at Greenwichb, the museums and galleries at Kew and Hamp ton Court, the Dublin National Gallery, and the Dublin Museum of Science and Art, and the absence of all Opposition to the continuance of such opening, this House is of opinion that the time has arrived for extending the policy of Sunday opening to the following national institutions situated in the metropolis—viz., the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, the South Kensington Museum, the Bethnal-greenc Museum, and the National Gallery.” Tweed Salmon Net Fishings.—The produce has not been encouraging at all. Although some of the upper waters bad a few salmon, the yields are very poor. On Saturday the prices were:—Salmon, Is. 9d. per lb.;5 trout, Is. 7d. per lb. On the corresponding date of 1885 the prices were, for salmon, Is. 10d., and for trout Is. 6d. per lb. A Thames Mystery.—Last week the dead body of a man, apparently of good position, was found floating in the Thames, near London­ bridge, and was conveyed to the parish mortuary. The Deputy City

a rä'skou — b gri'nidzh — c bejmoelgri'in. 1 Staghounds, Hunde zur Parforcejagd auf Rotwild (eig. Hirsche). — 2 Buck­ hounds, Hunde zur Parforcejagd auf Rehböcke. — 3 F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal Society. — 4 Owens College, durch Stiftung des Kaufmanns John Owen 1851 in Manchester gegründete Hochschule. — 5 lb. (libra), pound.

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Coroner1 held an inquest the day following, and the doctor who examined the body expressed the opinion that the deceased liad been illtreated first and then drowned. There weie marks of violence about the head, the hands were clinched, and the tongue protruded through the teeth. Death was, the doctor stated, due to drowning, and the body bad apparently been in the water about a month. In the absence of any evidence to show who the deceased was or how he came by bis death, an open verdict was returned, and the body was about to be buried, when Captain Stead, of the Langham Hotel, found that the description of the corpse answered to that of an American gentleman who had been missing since the 3d of March, when he drove to Euston Sta­ tion to take a train for Liverpool. The interment was accordingly postponed, but Captain Stead's surmise proved groundless. Eires.—Yesterday morning, shortly before 2 o'clock, Hames and smoke were Seen issuing from one of the large warehouses in Aldermanburya, and it was found that the premises of Messrs. Eichel, Brothers, and Co., at 2, Fountain-court, were on fire. The outbreak originated from an unknown cause in the front part of the basement.2 Severe damage was eventually caused by fire and heat to the portion of the premises in which the flames had broken out, while the ground floor and Contents suffered by smoke, and the basement and ground floor of the premises of Messrs. Baker and Waters, trimming manufacturers3, suffered by water. Late on Saturday night a fire broke out at 42, South Molton-street, Oxford-street, on the premises of H. Wilson, boot and shoe maker. Eventually the front basement, which was used as a Workshop, was, with its Contents, severely damaged by fire. Soon after 8 o clock on Saturday night an alarming fire broke out at 8, Tustinstreet, Old Kent-road, the premises of E. C. Hutchings, boot-maker. The fire was caused by the vapour of some spirit coming in contact with a flame. In a short time the house of eight rooms and its Con­ tents were burnt out. On Saturday morning, at 4 o’clock, a serious fire occurred at 24, Harleyford-road, Vauxhallb, where the premises of Messrs. Scollick and Co., mastic and paint manufacturers, caught fire. The manufactory and störe, comprised in a two-floored building, about 35ft. by 3 5 ft.4 *in * dimensions, were ablaze when the firemen arrived, and in the result the place was severely damaged. On Saturday night,

a ä'äldoemoenbe'ri — b ha'aflfoedro'ud vääkshä'äl. 1 Deput.y City Coroner, stellvertretender Leichenbeschauer der City; in jeder Grafschaft giebt es 4 —6 Coroners, deren Hauptaufgabe die Feststellung der Todes­ ursache plötzlich verstorbener oder gewaltsam umgekommener Personen ist. — 2 base­ ment, Kellergeschoß; ground-floor ist immer gleicher Erde. — 8 trimming manu­ facturers, Posamentierer; trimmings, Besatzartikel für Damenkleider. — 4 35 ft. by 35ft, 35 Fuß im Quadrat.

about 8 o’clock, a fire broke out in the warehouse of Messrs. William M’Larena, Sons, and Co., South Hanoverb-street, Glasgow. When the fire brigade arrived the entire basement, measuring 11 Oft. by 75ft., was in a blaze. Within half an hour the fire was got comparatively under, though not before damage estimated to amount to between £25,000 and £30,000 had been done. Attempted Mürber and Suicide.—A shocking affair happened in Manchester on Saturday. Philip Hyman0, a tailor, tried to murder his wife and then killed himself. Of good family, Hyman had for a long time past lived a wild, reckless life. His wife had refused to live with him, and had for some three years past lived with two sons and a daughter at 102, Shakespeare-street, Chorltond-on-Medlock, Manchester. She also carried on the business of a tobacconist and stationer in Market-place. Returning from London a few days since, Hyman had, it is said, openly expressed his Intention of killing his wife, of whom he was supposed to be jealous. About half-past 2 on Saturday afternoon he went to the house in Shakespeare-street and asked to see Mrs. Hyman. The servant girl who opened the door to him did not recognize him, as he had shaved off his beard and whiskers. Mrs. Hyman was at the time upstairs, but on being told by the servant that a gentleman wished to see her she came down and went into the sitting room where her husband was. The door was immediately shut, and directly afterwards there was a pistol shot followed by a scream. The servant and the daughter ran into the room, and there saw Hyman in the act of firing a second time at his wife. The daughter interfering to stop further mischief, Hyman fired at her, but, the girl drawing quickly back, the shot fortunately missed her. Putting the muzzle of the revolver to his own mouth, Hyman again pulled the trigger and feil dead upon the hearthrug.1 Little or no hope of Mrs. Hyman’s recovery is entertained. Hydrophobia.®—A woman named Mardlin and a boy named Potman, belonging to different villages in the north of Hertfordshire, who were bitten by a mad dog a few days ago, have lest for Paris to be treated by M. Pasteur. They are poor people, but the affair has caused much stir in the district, and a subscription has been started to defray the expenses. a mceklse'oern — b hae'nävoe — c ha'imcen — d tshä'ältoen — e haidräfo'ubise.

1 hearthrug, kleinerer weicher Teppich vor dem Kamin über dem durchs ganze Zimmer gehenden Teppich (carpet).

IRELAND. *

DUBLINa, April 4.

The heavy shock which the Home Rule1 project has given to the Cabinetb, the threatened disruption of the Liberal party, and the significant indication that the tide of public opinion is setting in more strongly against it have visibly damped the spirits of the Nationalists2, and the tone of confidence—almost exultation—in which they have hitherto spoken on the Subject is now changed to that of doubt and misgiving as to the prospect of Mr. Gladstone’s measure being carried3 in the House of Commons. The change of front which the leading Scotch Journals have feit it necessary to make under the pressure of a formidable condemnation of their previous attitude by the people of the north is a sign of the times which the Home Rulers fully understand. They are disappointed and vexed at it, but cannot conceal their apprehensions that it bodes no good for them. But they still rest their hopes on Mr. Gladstone, and discounting the probability that bis first attempts to establish an Irish Parliament in College-green4 of a revolu­ tionär character, or at least out of harmony with the Imperial Con­ stitution, may be defeated, they are encouraged by the reflection that once a British Minister has declared in favour of Home Rule, the demand is sure to be successful in the end, although Parliament may be dissolved and members put out betöre victory can be achieved. The Loyalists5 are taking advantage of the short time lest to them to ex­ press their hostility to any measure calculated to impair the Union between the two countries, and are holding meetings and passing resolutions in various parts of the country. The Loyal and Patriotic Union are establishing branches in every county and extending their Organization. A meeting to establish a brauch of the Union was held at Brayon 0 on Saturday afternoon. Lord Brabazond presided, and the attendance, which represented different parties, included Viscount Gough®, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett1 D.L.6, who was the principal Speaker, Captain the Fon. Henry Monck, Colonel Tottenham, Gordon E. Tombe, the Countess of Meath8 7, Lady Edith Monck, and a considerable number of the busi-

a da'blin — b kae'binoet — c bre'ioen — d brae'boezoen — e gääf — f ro'uloend blenoehae'soet — g mi'ip. 1 Home Rule, nationale (irische) Selbstregierung durch irisches Parlament, d. H. die Aufhebung der Union mit England. — 2 Nationalists, anderer Name für die irischen Homerulers. — 3 carried, durchgebracht. — 4 College-green, offener Platz vor Trinity College, Dublin, im Mittelpunkt der Stadt, an dem das frühere irische Parlamentsgebäude liegt. — 5 Loyalists, die englisch-gesinnten Bewohner Ir­ lands, meist Protestanten. — 6 D.L., Deputy Lieutenant. — 7 Countess of Meath, die Frau des Earl of Meath; der älteste Sohn ist Lord Brabazon, nach dem Familiennamen seines Vaters so genannt.

ness people and residents in the district, letters of apology were received from the Earl of Meath, the Earl of Wicklow8, the Archbishop of Dublin, Mr. Henry Doyle, C.B.1, and others. Sir Rowland Blennerhassett moved the first resolution, which was as follows:—“That we are strongly opposed to any measure calculated to weaken the legis­ lative union between Great Britain and Ireland, believing such would lead to the ultimate Separation of the two countries.” He said in the course of a long Speech that to estimate the importance of the legis­ lative union for this country they had only to look at the state of Ireland during the 18 years of its so-called independence. They were told continually by the agitators that its material progress during that time was enormous, but, if the statement was tested by the law and logic of facts it would be found as baseless as many other statements coming from the same quarter. The best test of the material progress of a nation was the condition of its trade. What was the condition of trade under the Irish Parliament? A steady and regulär fall in almost every brauch of industry. The shipping trade declined for 15 years before the union, and other branches of trade showed a great decrease. Lord Clareb was able to assert without contradiction that the country had only three years of redemption from public bankruptcy, and it was no wonder that he should have expressed himself as sick at the cant of Irish dignity and independence. It was also commonly said that the union was carried against the wishes of the Irish people. What was the real fact? If they turned to the newspapers of the day they would find their columns filled with the resolutions of bodies in every county in Ireland calling on the Irish Parliament to carry the union. Among the most remarkable of such resolutions were those sent from the counties of Westmeath, Down, Mayo0, Meath, Antrim, Derry, Clare, Lime­ rick, Cork, Kerry, Tyroned, and Galway.® The Catholics of Longfordf, the merchants of Waterford8 and Limerick, the Catholic clergy and gentry of Kilkenny11, and such distinguished prelates as the Catholic Bishops of Armagh1, Elphin, and Dromorek were among the most ardent supporters of the union. These facts surely did not show that the Irish Parliament was the beloved and venerated assembly which so many honest people in the country had been taught to believe. He had seen it stated on good authority that from the union up to 1882 Ioans and grants to the extent of upwards of 60 millions had been made to Ire-

a wi'klou — b klae'oe — c me'io — d tiro'un — e gä'älwei — f lä'ngfoed — g wä'ätoefoed — h kilke'n1 — * aama'a — k drämä'oe. 1 C.B. (siibi'i), Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (1399, 1725); der Orden hat drei Klassen: 1) G.C.B., Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, 2) K.C.B., Knight Commander of the Bath, 3) C.B., Companion of the Bath; Band karmesinrot. Motto: Tria juncta in uno, drei zu einem verbunden. 7*

land. Under these circumstances was it to be wondered at that the whole of educated public opinion in Ireland should veheihently protest against any legislation which would deprive this country of the benefitc and Privileges resulting from her present connexion with Great Britain? They should not Content themselves with passing resolutions, but each could do something to further the cause by stirring up the indifferent, pointing out the extreme gravity of the Situation, and sparing no pains in laying before their friends in England the true state of affairs in this country. When the true aim of the Separatist1 party was understood by the people of England and Scotland, they would not consent to the first step in the dismemberment of that great Empire to whose Service so many of the most illustrious Irishmen bad devoted their lives, and in whose future they desire to share. This Speech was listened to with the more interest from the fact that Sir Rowland is a Roman Catholic and he has always been a decided Liberal. Colonel Tottenham, D.L., seconded the resolution, which was adopted. Resolutions were also passed establishing a brauch of the Loyal and Patriotic Union, and opening a subscription list, &c. The meeting was addressed by Capt. the Hon. Henry Monck, Captain Massey, Mr. Devaynes Smith, Mr. Richard Farrell, J.P.2, a Roman Catholic gentleman, Mr. Charles Gaussen8, and others. A suggestive instance of the sort of toleration and freedom which Loyalists might expect under a Parliament in College-green was afforded on Thursday last by the Nationalists of Limerick. Ät the meeting of the Poor Law Guardians it was proposed to strike the name of Bishop Graves off the list of the dispensary committee on the ground that he had made a Speech in the General Synod against the demand of the Irish people for Home Rule. It was admitted that he is an estimable Citizen, but bis Speech was regarded by some of the guardians as an insuperable objection. It was characterized by one of the Speakers as a violent Speech; but this was untrue, and no one who knows the Bishop of Limerick would believe him capable of using violent language. After considerable discussion, some members holding that the Bishop was entitled to express bis opinion, the Opposition was withdrawn and the name retained. The Subject was again referred to at a meeting of

a gä'äsoen.

the local National League1 the same evening, and the Mayor, Mr. O’Maraa, M.P., said the Nationalists opposed the appointment of Dr. Graves, Bishop of Limerick, on the city dispensary committee2 because his lordship went out of his way at the last meeting of the Synod to belie and defame the Irish people. Had he not been a Protestant Bishop more Opposition would have been shown to him. His lordship was a good Churchman, a good Citizen and Scholar, but he had no right to oppose the wishes of the majority of the Irish people. These observations were received with applause. CORK, April 4.

At a largely - attended meeting of the Cork Defence Union3 on Saturday, the chairman, Mr. A. H. Smith-Barry b, said that since their last monthly meeting perhaps the most aggravated case of interference with personal liberty was that of a man named John Connell, of Lisleigh.43 This man took a farm in 1879, paying £650 for the tenant right4, and remained in undisturbed possession until a short time ago, when he was ordered by the local National League to surrender or pay £1,200. This he refused to do, and on appealing to the central authority of the National League in Dublin they decided in his favour. The local brauch declined to recognize the decision of the superior court. The superior court ordered the dissolution of the local brauch, but the latter declined to submit. Notices were posted in the district stating that Connell was boycotted5, and that those dealing with him would be shot. Up to this it would seem that the local brauch was triumphant. The chairman next read a communication from Mr. J. E. Barrett, J.P., Bantry, giving particulars of the intimidation practised on voters at the recent Poor Law elections.6 Between the 18th and 22d mobs of men armed with bludgeons and numbering in some cases over 200 paraded the country, headed by the Roman Catholic priests, visited the houses of electors, especially those who refused to Support the National League candidates, and forcibly carried away and destroyed the votingpapers7 of these people, amid the shouts and yells and blowing of horns a äma'arae — b baer1 — c li'slk 1 National League, Nationalliga, Landliga, von Mr. Parnell und Mr. Michael Davitt am 21. Oktober 1879 gegründet zum Zwecke, eine freie irische Bauernschaft zu schaffen. Die Zweigvereine der 'Landliga Heißen Local National Leagues. — 2 dis­ pensary committee, Komitee für das Armenmedizinalwesen. — 3 Cork Defence Union, Bereinigung in Cork zum Schutz gegen die Landliga und deren Gewaltakte. — 4 tenant right, das Recht des Pächters, so lange er die Pacht regelmäßig bezahlt, nicht gesteigert zu werden und für die von ihm vorgenommenen Verbesserungen bei Ablauf der Pacht eine angemessene Entschädigung zu verlangen. — 5 boycotted, geächtet, in den Bann gethan; das Verfahren traf zuerst den englischen Verwalter der Güter des Grafen Erne, Captain Boycott, der 1880 infolge der schlimmen Behandlung, die er erfuhr, Mayo verlassen mußte. — 6 Poor Law elections, die Wahlen der Armen­ pfleger. — 7 voting-papers, Stimmzettel.

of the successful raiders. The whole district for three days,/Mr. Barrett’s letter went on to say, presented the appearance of a country in a state of revolution, and great terror was feit by the peaceful inhabitants. Thomas Bride, a naval pensioner, in Charge of Mr. J. B. Johnsons house at Ahandsta in the adjoining electoral division of Leefin, while in the act of handing bis employers vote on the 20th ult., which was duly signed, to the Constable, was pounced on by two men, the votingpaper forcibly taken from him and destroyed. In some cases where the non-supporters of the National League candidates refused to give up the voting-papers to the mobs, their houses were visited at night by armed gangs and they had to give up the papers or take the usual consequences. Mr. Smith-Barry, continuing, said that numberless acts such as the above, were committed all over the Bantrya Union1 and were for the most part witnessed by Mr. J. E. Barrett, J.P., Mr. J. W. Payne, J.P., and Mr. W. 8. Bird, J.P., who were in their capacity as magistrates quite powerless to prevent outrage. Mr. Barrett enclosed the sworn declarations of two men named Timothy Sullivanb and Cornelius Dawley, whose houses were attacked at night by a number of men who compelled them to give up their voting-papers. Sullivan swore that a pistol was put to his head, and he was threatened that his brains would be blown out when he at first demurred to the demand for the votingpaper. Dawley swore that he was compelled to hurn his voting-paper by the raiders; his wife and children were terrified at the violence of the party. It was announced that a report had been forwarded to Mr. Glad­ stone giving particulars of about 100 cases of boycotting that had come under the cognizance of the Union. Mr. Smith-Barry, in a long letter, which accompanied the communication, said the report did not profess to be by any means an account of all the cases of persons who had been intimidated by the National League, for the great majority of the victims, the Union had every reason to believe, considered it advisable to submit in silence, deeming the power of the League greater than that of a private Organization or even of Her Majesty’s Government. “It will be observed,” continues Mr. Smith-Barry, in his letter, “from study of this report that the pressure exercised by the National League affects landowners and farmers of the larger dass far less than it does small farmers, labourers, or small tradesmen, these latter being unable, from want of Capital, to sustain a prolonged attack upon their means or business. We would further draw your attention to the fact that in a bae'ntri — b salivoen. 1 Bantry Union, Vereinigung mehrerer Gemeinden zum Zweck der Armen­ pflege in der Nähe der Stadt Bantry in Irland, Grafschaft Cork.

the more severe cases of boycotting and where the victim has shown a determination to resist shots have been fired into bis house, or violence of some kind has been attempted, proving that boycotting is not a Sub­ stitute for but simply a preliminary to outrage. It should not be considered that because so large a number of cases of boycotting are reported from the county of Cork the influence of the League is stronger there than it is in other parts of the south of Ireland. The fact is that from the knowledge of an Organization such as the Cork Defence Union being in existence people considered obnoxious to the League are encouraged to resist its tyrannical decrees and to maintain positions which the law says they are justified in holding, whereas in other parts of the country where no protection is forthcoming they succumb beneath the dictates of the League, join that body and their cases are never heard of at all. This is especially the case with regard to tradesmen, whose business it is extremely easy to injure and whom it is excessively hard for any Organization, public or private, to Support. The only remedy in such cases would seem to be the re - establishment throughout the country of the authority of Her Majesty the Queen. The Cork Defence Union having nothing to do with the collection of rents, and Information concerning crime and outrage being more easily procurable through the medium of the police, this report professes only to deal with cases affecting the interference with personal liberty.” A murder was perpetrated on Friday night in West Cork; but as far as can be ascertained the crime is not of an agrarian nature.1 Ä labouring man named Daniel O*Neilla was shot dead in bis house in the presence of his wife. The deceased resided in a remote district between Clonakiltyb and Dunmanway.c His house was situated on the public road, and he held two acres of land. He was not unpopulär in the district, and the police have been unable to satisfy themselves as to the motive of the crime except that it was the act of a lunatic, or that O’Neill was mistaken for a farmer who resides in the locality, and who for some years was under the ban of the League in consequence of having taken an evicted farm.2 It appears that about 7 o'clock on Fri­ day evening a stranger presented himself at O’Neill’s house and stated he was going to Leap and had travelled some distance that day. He lit his pipe and lest. Later the man re-entered the house, and, without saying a word, drew a revolver and fired at O’Neill, who was standing

a äni'il — b klanoeki'lti — c doenmaen'wei.

near the fireplace. The deceased feil forward and was found to have received a bullet in the head. The assailant immediately /withdrew, and before any alarm could be given he had disappeared. The description of the murderer agrees with that of a man who was recently discharged from the railway works near Clonakilty, and who was stated to be insane. The murdered man was 75 years of age and had no family. LIMERICK, April 4.

Denis Danagher, aged 70, who was arrested at Rathkeale8 on Tuesday for the murder of Michaelb Kelly in October, 1855, died suddenly yesterday in the Limerick male prison from heart disease. With the exception of Croom the Nationalist candidates have been elected as chairmen of the different Poor-Law unions throughout the country. At Rathkeale Sir Stephen E. De Vere, D.L., was defeated. The latest victory, and the final one for the present, was at Glin, where Lord Monteagle, who has been chairman for some years, was defeated by the Parnellitec candidate, who secured a majority of 12 votes to nine.

MR. T. P. O’CONNORd ON THE IRISH QUESTION. Yesterday evening a public meeting of the Kennington brauch of the Irish National League was held at Kennington-hall, when Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., and Messrs. Deasy6, M.P., Cox, M.P., and J. Nolanf, M.P., took part in the proceedings. Mr. Deasy, M.P., occupied the chair. Mr. T. P. O’Connor, M.P., President of the Irish National League of Great Britain, on rising to address the meeting, was received with loud cheers. After some prefatory observations, he said that they were now in the very midst of a great struggle, in which it was both the interest and the necessity of Irishmen in Great Britain to keep steadily at work in this cause. It was not a time in which he, as a member of the Irish party, feit at liberty to speak with great freedom. The extraordinary delicacy of the position which the Irish cause had now reached had enabled them to show that if they could speak out and speak fearlessly when occasion required they had also learnt how to hold their tongues. Still they could with perfect safety state what was passing in their minds, and in the minds of the Irish people at hörne and abroad, and with perfect safety they could say that the hearts of the people of Ireland were possessed of a spirit of peace and tranquillity and a desire and yearning for permanent friendship with the people of England. They feit that Mr. Gladstone was engaged in a mighty and

a raa]?ke'il — b ma'ikoel — c pa'anoelait — d äkä'noe — e di'iz1 — f no'uloen.

noble effort to close the disastrous chapter of national enmities, and the Irish people appreciated that effort. (Cheers.) And so, he believed, did the English people. If he were speaking to a meeting of Englishmen, he would ask them was it not time when enmity and hatred should cease, and whether the time bad not come to peacefully end the long struggle between the two peoples. He would be very much surprised if on Thursday next Mr. Gladstone did not submit to the country a proposal befitting his name, his genius, and bis reputation. It was Ut­ ting that such a work should be done by a statesman of the great genius and the generous and bounteous nature of Mr. Gladstone. They would not, of course, refuse a just Settlement of the Irish question from any hands. But they would sooner receive it from the genius of Gladstone than from the tardy necessities of any second-rate peddler1 in politics. Confident as they had a right to be, they must remember that Mr. Gladstone had great obstacles in his way. He confessed that during the past month he never saw Mr. Gladstone enter the House of Commons without feeling a great degree of sympathy for him, who in his 77th year had undertaken a task of such gigantic difficulty that might well appal younger men, and had undertaken it undismayed by Whig nobodies2 or Radical deserters. He was sure that Mr. Gladstone feit that the English people would be behind him when the issue came, and that they would demand that the great act of reconciliation with Ireland should be done through him and by him and by him only. (Cheers.) Having stated briefly the Irish case against the Act of Union, which he said equally degraded the character of the conqueror and the conquered, and which had made the Irish people enemies of England, he asked whether any country would not be the strenger by the transformation of its enemies into devoted friends. Whatever the obstacles in Mr. Gladstones way he (Mr. O'Connor) was not afraid of the result. He was not afraid because Mr. Gladstone was not himself afraid. Not a nerve of his had been stirred. (Cheers.) That was one reason for confidence. A second reason for confidence and hope was that Mr. Glad­ stone would make three or four Speeches during the next few weeks against the Union which must seal its doom. If on Thursday next Mr. Gladstone began his Speech at 5 o clock, by 7 o’clock of the same evening the Act of Union would be dead and in its grave, and not all the powers of earth would list it up to life again. (Loud cheers.) For there was no alternative now but a Settlement of the Irish difficulty which would satisfy the Irish party and the Irish people and their reasonable demands, or coercion such as had never before been attempted. He did not think they would try coercion, though he had been in1 peddler, Hausierer, second-rate p., etwa: Pfuscher. — 2 nobodies, Nullen.

formed that a very eminent Radical leader, Mr. Chamberlajn*, had said that Ireland only required three years’ martial law, and that then the Irish question would he settled. (Risses and laughter.) If Mr. Chamber­ lain wanted martial law he doubted if he would get it from the House of Commons. If he even succeeded in turning Mr. Gladstone out of office Mr. Gladstone would be retumed to power again as the leader of all that was best and noblest in English Liberalism and of the Irish party besides. (Cheers.) And even if they succeeded in keeping Mr. Gladstone out of office they would not long delay the Settlement of the Irish question; for within six months or 12, or at the utmost two years, those who ousted Mr. Gladstone would be found laying on the table of the House of Commons the seltsame proposals as Mr. Glad­ stones. (Cheers.) For these reasons they might look forward with calmness and confidence. In conclusion, Mr. O’Connor dwelt upon the necessity of the Irish electorate being prepared for emergencies within the next few months. Mr. O*Heab, M.P., Mr. Cox, M.P., Mr. J. Nolan, M.P., and Mr. Deasy, M.P., having spoken, the meeting terminated with votes of thanks to the chairman and members of Parliament.

Royal Botanic Society of London.—At a meeting of this Society held on Saturday, Sir Walter Stirling, J.P., in the chair, the following candidates were elected into the Society:—Mr. W. R. Moberlyc, Mrs. J. M. Smith, Captain Clifford Probynd, and Mr. R. Wilson. Upon the table were specimens of the Quercus cocciferae (Kermes Oak) grown in the gardens. The secretary said that from this oak, when punctured by an insect (coccus)f, was produced a scarlet dye, which had been celebrated from the most remote times, and was said to be used by Mosesg to dye the hangings of the tabernacle.1 The Rating 2 of the Metropolis.11—On Saturday was issued in the form of a Parliamentary paper a return, with respect to each parish in the metropolis, of the population in 1881, the number of inhabited houses in 1881, the rateable value according to the valuation lists in force on the 6th day of April, 1884, and the several rates made by the rating authority during the year ended the 25th day of March, 1885. This return being in continuation of the return No. 30, Session 1884, the same method of arranging the parishes in the metropolis has been adopted, and they are grouped as follows:—(1) Single parishes in a tshe'imboelcen — b ähi'i — c mo'uboel1 — d kli'foed pro'ubin — e kuoe'oekoes käsife'rae — f kä'koes — g mo'uziiz — h moeträ'pälis. 1 tabernacle, Bundeslade. — 2 Rating, Abschätzung für die städtischen Steuern, wie Poor Rate, Water R., Gas R., School R. Die Staatssteuern sind Taxes, wie Income Tax, Land Tax.

schedule A to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, 18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120-,1 (2) parishes United into districts according to schedule B to the same Act; (3) parishes in the City of London Union; and (4) other parishes and places in the metropolis not included in schedules A and B, or in the City of London Union. In the parishes in schedule A the highest rated parish was St. Luke, Middlesex, where the rates amounted to 6s. 3d. in the pound, and the lowest rated, St. James, Westminster, where the rates were 3s. 7d. in the pound. In the parishes in schedule B the highest rated parish was Putney, which had to pay 6s. 8d. in the pound, including 10£d.a in the pound for the maintenance and preservation of Wimbledon and Putney commons, and the lowest rated was St. Margaret and St. Johnb, Westminster, which paid only 3s. 10jd. in the pound. In the City of London Union the highest rated parish was St. Bartholomew-the-Greatc, where the rates amounted to 5s. l|d. in the pound, and the lowest rated parishes were St. Bartholomew-the-Less and St. Gabriel4, Fenchurch, where the rates amounted in each case to 3s. 10|d.e in the pound. The total rates levied in the metropolis during the year amounted to £7,104,129 on a total rateable value of £28,980,479. The average rate in the pound on the rateable value was therefore 4s. 10jd. Billiards.—On Saturday afternoon at the Palais Royal, Argyllstreet, a match between J. Roberts and T. Taylor of 12,000 points up2, in which the latter player received 4,000 points start3, the spot stroke being barred, which had been in progress during the week, was concluded. The scores at the finish were—Taylor, 12,000; Roberts, 9,710. A billiard tournament for prizes amounting to £100, guaranteed by Messrs. G. Wrightf and Co., was opened at Gatti’s Saloon, Villiers-g Street, Charing-cross, on Saturday, and will be continued every day during the current week. The heats4 are 400 up, spot barred, and the players are—W. Cook, scratch;5 J. Bennett, receives 25; W. Mitchell, receives 25; W. J. Peall, receives 25; T. Taylor, receives 50; H. Colesh, receives 100; D. Richards, receives 100; and G. Collins1, receives 100. a te'npoens he'ipn1 — b sindzhä/n — c sintbaapä'loemjuu dcegre'it — d sintge'ibrioel — e te'npoens fa'ading — 1 rait — g vilioez — h koulz — 1 kä'linz.

1 Metropolis Management Act, 1855, 18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120, Gesetz über die Verwaltung der Hauptstadt (London), 1855 gegeben im 18. und 19. Re­ gierungsjahre der Königin Viktoria, Kapitel 120. — 2 12,000 points up, bis auf 12,000 Bälle oder points wird gespielt; up, vorbei, d. h. das Spiel ist vorbei, wenn von einer Partei 12,000 points gemacht sind. — 3 received 4000 points start, erhielt 4000 vorgegeben. — 4 heats, Gänge, Partieen; final heat, letzter Gang. — 5 scratch, derjenige, der die Bälle vorgiebt.

PARLAMENTÄR Y1 NOTICES.

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HOUSE OF LORDS2,

Monday, April 5. NÖTIGES 3 AND ORDERS4 OF THE DAY.

Lord Ribblesdale?5—To call attention to the detention of Zebehr Pasha at Gibraltar, and to the effect of such detention upon the Soudanb

a ri'boelzdeil — b suudae'n. 1 Parliamentary. Die ersten Spuren des englischen Parlaments finden sich schon zur Zeit der Angelsachsen. Schon damals stand dem Könige der Rat der Weisen (witena gemot) oder der große Rat (michel synot) zur Seite; die Weisen (witan) wählten den König und berieten die Gesetze. Nach der Eroberung verschwand dieser Nationalrat ganz; der König besaß zwar einen Natshof (curia regis), derselbe war aber zuerst nur von untergeordneter Bedeutung, nahm jedoch unter den späteren Königen stetig an Macht zu. 1265 berief Simon von Montfort zu seinem Parla­ ment außer den 23 Baronen zwei Ritter für jede Grafschaft, vier Vertreter für jeden der fünf wichtigsten Häfen (Cinque Ports) und je zwei für Jork, Lincoln und andere große Städte. Seit 1295 ist es stehender Gebrauch, Vertreter von Städten und Flecken ins Parlament zu wählen. Unter Richard II. (1377) findet zuerst die Trennung in zwei Häuser statt und das Unterhaus wählt einen Präsidenten (Speaker). Etwa seit 1400 werden Steuerauflagen (Money Bills) von der Bewilligung des Unter­ hauses abhängig und müssen zuerst im Unterhaus einaebracht werden. Unter Karl I. erlangt das Unterhaus immer größere Macht. Die Petition of Right (1628) stellt das Recht des Parlaments, Steuern zu verweigern, ausdrücklich fest. 1689 beschließt das Parlament, daß Wilhelm und Maria den Thron einnehmen sollen, und die De­ claration of Rights, in welcher der König die bestehenden Rechte des Parlaments bestätigt, bestimmt, daß der König ohne seine Einwilligung kein Heer hallen und keine Steuern ausschreiben lassen dürfe. Seitdem hat sich die Zahl der Mitglieder beider Häuser durch die Vereinigung mit Schottland (1706) und mit Irland (1801) be­ deutend vermehrt. Seit der Reform Bill (1832), welche die Parlamentswahlen re­ gelte und die Rotten Boroughs beseitigte, liegt der Schwerpunkt der Gesetzgebung im Unterhaus. Durch die Franchise, Redistribution and Registration of Voters Bills, die 1885 Gesetz wurden, ist das Wahlrecht auf die unteren Klassen ausgedehnt, jedoch immer noch an ein bestimmtes Einkommen gebunden. Jeder 21jährige Eng­ länder, der ein Haus bewohnt, dessen Wert einer jährlichen Rente von £10 gleich­ kommt, ist seitdem wahlberechtigt. Beide Häuser sitzen in dem neu erbauten prächtigen Westminster Palace (the Houses of Parliament). Die Dauer eines Parlaments ist auf sieben Jahre festgesetzt, wenn es nicht durch den Sturz der am Ruder befind­ lichen Partei (Her Majesty’s Government) vorher aufgelöst wird. Die Königin er­ öffnet das Parlament entweder in Person durch Ablesen einer Thronrede (Queen’s speech), oder läßt es durch den Lord Chancellor eröffnen. Die Königin und die drei Stände (3 Estates) der weltlichen Lords (Temporal Peers), der geistlichen Lords (Spiritual Peers) und der Gemeinen (Commons) bilden das Parlament. Die Königin hat das Recht, das Parlament aufzulösen (dissolve) und zu vertagen (prorogue). — 2 House of Lords, besteht aus 543 Adligen (Peers) und zwar vier königlichen Prinzen (Peers of the Blood Royal), zwei Erzbischöfen (Archbishops, von Canterbury und Nork), 22 Her­ zögen (Dukes), 19 Marquis (Marquises), 114 Grafen (Earls), 28 Viccgrafen (Vis­ counts [va'ikaunts]), 24 Bischöfen (Bishops), 284 Baronen (Barons), 16 schottischen Adligen, die für jedes! Parlament, und 28 irischen, die auf Lebenszeit gewählt werden; ferner gehören 2 (höchstens 4) Richter des High Court of Appeal als Lords of

provinces, and to move that the time has come when, under certain conditions, his presence in the Soudan might prove valuable in the interests of Egypt and the pacification of the Soudan provinces. The Earl of Courtown.1— * To present a petition from the General Synod of the Church of Ireland against any measure which shall endanger the legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland. Kompensation for Damages Bill,—Second reading. Army (Annual) Bill,—Second reading. Appeal auf Lebenszeit in das Oberhaus (Upper House). Außerdem giebt es 7 Peeresses in their own Right, von der Königin geadelte Damen; dagegen zählen die Baronets und Knights nicht zu den Peers. Viele irische und schottische Adlige sitzen im Oberhaus, weil sie zugleich englische Adelstitel besitzen, so ist z. B. der Duke of Buccleuch zugleich Earl of Doncaster. Die Königin kann neue Ad­ lige durch Patent (letters patent) ernennen und beruft die ältesten Söhne der Her­ zöge, Grafen und Marquis oft durch Verleihung (by writ) eines besonderen Adels­ titels ins Oberhaus. Im Oberhaus kann jedes Gesetz eingebracht werden, mit Ausnahme der Steuergesetze (Money Bills) und derjenigen, welche die Verfassung des Unterhauses berühren. Es werden im Oberhaus zuerst eingebracht alle Vor­ lagen, welcke den Stand der Adligen angehen. Außerdem ist das Oberhaus der oberste Gerichtshof des Landes. Die Mitglieder stimmen ab mit ja (content) oder nein (non-content); das Recht, dies durch einen Stellvertreter (by proxy) zu thun, ist einstweilen freiwillig aufgegeben. Präsident des Oberhauses ist der Lord Chan­ cellor, er sitzt auf einem roten Wollsack (woolsack), der als außerhalb des Hauses gedacht wird, so daß auch ein Gemeiner (Commoner) auf demselben als Präsident sitzen kann. Die Sitzungen, die meist sehr schwach besucht sind, fangen um 4.15 an, die Gerichtssitzungen finden bei Tage statt. — 3 Notices, Anmeldungen von Anträgen und Fragen. — 4 Orders, Tagesordnung. — 5 Lord Ribblesdale ist Baron, geadelt wurde die Familie 1797. Familienname: Thomas Lister. Altester Sohn und Erbe: The Hon.(ourable) Thomas Lister. Die Adelstitel folgen dem Range nach: 1) Princes of the Blood Royal, Titel: His Royal Highness the Duke of—. Anrede: Sir, oder May it please your Royal Highness. 2) Archbishops, T.: The Most Rev.(erend) His Grace the Lord Archbishop of —. A.: My Lord Archbishop oder Your Grace^ 3) Dukes, T.: His Grace the Duke of —. A.: My Lord Duke, oder Your Grace. Die ältesten Söhne des Duke und Marquis nehmen den zweiten Titel des Vaters an; die übrigen Söhne und Töchter heißen Lord Edward, Lady Caroline etc. 4) Marquises, T.: The Most Hon. the Marquis of —. A.: My Lord Marquis. 5) Earls, T.: The Right Hon. the Earl of—. A.: My Lord; die ältesten Söhne erhalten den zweiten Titel des Vaters, die jüngeren heißen: The Hon. George —, die Tochter: Lady Jane —. 6) Viscounts, T.: The Right Hon. the Viscount—. Alle Söhne und Töchter heißen: The Hon. Robert —, the Hon. Mary —. 7) BL shops, T.: The Right Rev., the Lord Bishop of —. A.: My Lord. 8) Barons, T. : The Right Hon. Lord —. A.: My Lord. Nicht zu den Peers zählen 1) Baro^ nets, erblich. T.: Sir Henry —, Bart. A.: Sir Henry. 2) Knights Bachelors, nicht erblich. T.: Sir Henry —. A.: Sir Henry. 1 The Earl of Courtown, irischer Adelstitel, geschaffen 1762, Familienname: James G. Stopford, ältester Sohn: Viscount Stopford. Der Earl of Courtown hat Sitz im House of Lords, weil er als Lord Saltersford zugleich englischer Baron ist.

HOUSE OF COMMONS1, Monday, April 5. ORDERS OF THE DAT. 1

*Crofters2 (Scotland) (No. 2) Bill,—Committee. *Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill,—Committee. 1 House of Commons, das Unterhaus (Lower House) bestand 1887 aus 670 Mitgliedern (Members of Parliament, M.Ps.), davon 465 für England, 30 für Wales, 72 für Schottland, 103 für Irland, den Parteien nach aus 313 Konservativen (Conservatives), 192 liberalen Anhängern Gladstones (Gladstone Liberais), 84 Nationalists (Homerulers, Separatists für Selbstregierung Irlands) und 81 liberalen Nicht - Anhängern Gladstones (Liberal Unionists, Gegner der Separatists). Bei der Eröffnung des Parlaments gehen die Mitglieder des Unterhauses an die Barre des Oberhauses, wählen darauf den Präsidenten (Speaker) und beraten vor der De­ batte über die Antwort auf die Thronrede (Address) eine Bill pro forma. Vor dem Präsidenten liegt das Scepter (Mace), rechts von ihm sitzen die Anhänger des Ministeriums, links die Gegner (Opposition). Die Sitzungen beginnen jetzt um zwei Uhr nachmittags mit einem Gebet des Speaker’s Chaplain. Der Präsident ernennt die Stimmenzähler (Tellers) für die Abstimmung (division); er sorgt für die Ordnung der Verhandlung (zur Ordnung rufen, to name one), er kann, wenn um zwei Uhr noch nicht 40 Mitglieder anwesend sind (no House), die Sitzung ver­ tagen (adjourn). Bei gleicher Stimmenzahl (aye ja, no nein) giebt er den Ausschlag (the Casting vote). Am Ende seiner Dienstzeit wird er gewöhnlich geadelt und erhält eine Pension von £4000 auf zwei Lebenszeiten. Die Gesetzesvorschläge (Bills, von billets, Zettel) werden von den Ministern oder Mitgliedern eingebracht. Sie sind ent­ weder Public Bills, die sich auf das gesamte Volk, oder Private Bills, die sich nur auf eine Person oder auf Privatgesellschaften und Privatunternehmer:, wie Eisenbahnbauten rc. beziehen. Entweder wird die Bill an ein Sonderkomitee (Select Committee) ver­ wiesen, oder das ganze Haus bespricht sie zunächst als Komitee (the House goes into Committee upon it); im letzteren Falle erhält der Komiteepräsident (Chairman of Committee) den Vorsitz, und der Speaker kann sich an der Debatte beteiligen. Nach zweiter und dritter Lesung, wobei der Speaker wieder den Vorsitz führt, geht die Bill (mit Verbesserungen, amendments) entweder durch (passes) und wird in den Saal des Oberhauses gesandt, oder sie fällt durch, was bei wichtigeren Bills meist den Sturz der herrschenden Partei bedeutet und die Abdankung des Ministeriums nach sich zieht. Nach dreimaliger Lesung im Oberhaus senden die Lords, wenn sie die Bill ihrerseits angenommen, eine Botschaft (message), oder schicken sie mit ihren Verbesserungen wieder zurück; wird sie von den Lords nicht angenommen oder erfolgt keine Einigung, so fällt sie. Oft einigen sich beide Häuser über strittige Punkte in einer gemeinsamen Sitzung (Conference). Ist die Bill in beiden Häusern angenommen, so wird sie der Königin vorgelegt; giebt sie ihre Einwilligung (Royal assent. La Reigne le veult, die Königin will es), so wird die Bill Gesetz (Act), verweigert sie dieselbe (la Reigne s’avisera), was seit 1707 nicht vorgekommen, so fällt die Bill. Das Budget wird im Anfang der Session beraten, ebenso müssen die Disciplinargesetze der Armee (Mutiny Act), die jetzt in der Army Discipline and Regulation Act von 1879 enthalten sind, jedes Jahr bestätigt werden, um Mißbrauch der Gewalt durch den Herrscher zu vermeiden. Steuergesetze (Money Bills), sowie Vorschläge, welche sich auf die Verfassung des Unterhauses beziehen, können nur im Unterhaus eingebracht werden. Der Saal des Unterhauses hat nicht Plätze (seats) genug für alle Mitglieder, so daß bei vollzählichem Hause einige stehen müssen. Bei Beratungen sitzen die Mitglieder mit bedecktem Kopfe,- wenn sie reden, erheben sie sich, nehmen den Hut ab und sprechen von ihrem Platze aus. — 2 Crofters, die Kleinbauern in Schottland, namentlich die ärmeren auf den Inseln.

Cape Race1 Lighthouse Bill,—Committee. *Railway and Canal Traffic Bill,—Second reading. Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act2 (1885) Amendment Bill,— Second reading. ^Companies Acts Amendment Bill,—Second reading. *Government of India (Joint3 Committee),—Consideration of Lords’ message. *ülster Canal and Tyrone Navigation Bill,—Second reading. *Infants Bill,—Committee. Prison Officers’ Superannuation Bill4,— Third reading. Supply 5,—Committee. Ways and Neans,—Committee. *Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act (1855) Amendment Bill,—Second reading. *Ground Game Act (1880) Amendment Bill,—Second reading. *Marriages (Attendance of Registrars)G Bill,—Adjourned debate on second reading. *Glebe Lands Bill,—Second reading. Coal Mines Bill,—Committee. *Police Forces Enfranchisement Bill7,—Committee. *Land Law (Ireland) Act (1881) Amendment-Bill,—Second reading. *Salmon Fisheries (Ireland) Bill,—Second reading. *Parliamentary Voters (Registration) Bill,—Second reading. *Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday Bill,—Committee. Places of Worship Sites Bill,—Committee. Sale of Intoxicating Liquors on Sunday (Durham) Bill,—Third Reading. *Parliamentary Franchise Bill,—Adjourned Debate on Second reading. Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill8,—Committee. *To these Orders there are notices of amendment. QUESTIONS.

Mr. F. W. Maclean,—To ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council9, if he could explain why the income of certain property, 1 Cape Race, Kap der Süd-Ostspitze von Newfoundland. — 2 Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act, Gesetz über Beschaffung geeigneter Bureaus für die Beamten, die durch bie Bankruptcy Act 1885 eingesetzt wurden. — 3 Joint, zusammen­ gesetzt (aus Mitgliedern beider Häuser). — 4 Prison Officers’ Superannuation Bill, Gesetzesantrag über Verabschiedung und Pensionierung der Gefängnisbeamten. — 6 Supply, das Unterhaus berät als Committee of Supply über die Höhe der jähr­ lichen Ausgaben, als Committee of Ways and Neans über die Art der Bestreitung derselben (Taxes, &c.). — 6 Attendance of Registrars, Anwesenheit der Standes­ beamten bei Trauungen. — 7 Police Forces Enfranchisement Bill, Vorschlag, den Polizeibeamten Stimmrecht zu gewähren. — 8 Copyhold Enfranchisement, Ablösung der auf Copyhold-gütent lastenden Abgaben, Verwandlung des Copyhold in Freehold. — 9 Council — Privy Council, Staatsrat.

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assured by two deeds, dated the 30th of October, 1682 and the 28th of February, 1786, for the benefit of the poor of Bampwn, in Oxford­ shire, has remained undistributed and unadministered since the year 1868. Mr. J. Hutton,—To ask the Secretary to the Treasury1, in consideration of the annual loss to the Post Office on the cost of ocean transit of mails to British colonies and possessions in India, what amount is received by the Government from each of the foreign countries in the Postal Union towards the expenses of carrying by British mail steamers the letters of residents in those foreign countries, who pay their Government only 2£d. on letters weighing half an ounce, it being borne in mind that, for the same weight of letters, residents in Great Britain pay 4d. to British colonies, and 5d. to British possessions in India. Sir G. Hunter,—As to a bequest by Mr. P. H. Cama, a Parsee* gentleman. Sir G. Campbell,—Whether the President of the Board of Trade will introduce certain provisions into the Railway Traffic Bill. Mr. Biggarb,—Whether the Chairman of the Kitchen Committee2 is aware that in some important particulars the prices are higher in the dining rooms thau they were last session; and whether the Committee over which he presides will make an effort to have prices brought more into conformity with the present prices of meat. Colonel Hughes -Hallettc,—Whether the Secretary to the Ädmiralty will take into consideration the case of the plumbers3 of the Royal Navy. Sir R. Cross,—Whether, in Order to prevent further risk of accident, the Government are prepared to take Charge of the Duke of York’s Column4 and the moneys belonging thereto. Mr. M. Camerond,—Äs to the hours of opening Kew Gardens.5 Mr. Baden-Powell6,—As to a letter signed "Cr. D. Smith, President of the late Bestuur, Stellaland.” Mr. Seton-Karrf,—As to a permanent Emigration Department. Sir C. Forsterg,—As to certain irregularities which have taken place recently at the Church school in Blakenhall.

a paasi'i — b bi'goe — c koe'oenoel hjuuz haeloet — d kae'moeroen — e ba'adoen pa'uoel — f si'itoen kaa — g fä'ästoe. 1 Secretary to the Treasury, Finanzminister, gewöhnlich First Lord of the Treasury, damals Mr. W. E. Gladstone, der Premierminister selbst. — 2 Kitchen Committee, Ausschuß des Parlaments, welcher die Aufsicht über die Speisezimmer und gastwirtschaftlichen Einrichtungen im Parlamentsgebäude hat. — 3 plumbers, Leger von Bleiröhren, Spengler, Klempner. — 4 Duke of York’s Column, 38m hohe Granitsäule am Eingang zu St. James’s Park, 1833 zu Ehren des Oheims der jetzigen Königin errichtet. — 5 Kew Gardens, der größte botanische Garten der Welt, sieben englische Meilen von London entfernt.

Mr. Pulestona,—As to a memorial received from examining officers of Customs. Mr. Brocklehurstb,—Whether, in compliance with the wishes of many of the Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom and of the trading Community generally, who are deeply concerned in the evidence at present being taken before the Royal Commissioners on Trade Depres­ sion, arrangements could be made to admit the repräsentatives of the Press. Mr. Cobh,—As to the report of the proceedings upon the application for a new trial in the case of “Bryce v. Rusden." Mr. T. Rogers,—Whether it is a fact that property-tax paid by the Peabody® Trustees1 for the dwellings let by them at profit rentals is remitted by the Treasury on the ground that the Peabody Trust is a charity. Mr. A. Williams,—To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department2 whether steps will be taken for issuing a larger edition of the complete report of the Mines Commission than it is customary to issue of reports of Commissions at as low a price as possible. Mr. Ashton,—As to the desirability of offering the sculptures now lying practically useless and unseen in the basement of the British Mu­ seum on Ioan to the schools of art and art galleries of the country. Mr. Ashmead - Bartlett,—Whether the Greek Government has now accepted the advice of the Great Powers, and will refrain from breaking the peace of Europe. Mr. Lewisd,—Whether the Government intend to move3, on an early day, the usual sessional Order requiring three days* notice of motion for the issue of a writ to fill up a vacancy occasioned by a member being unseated4 for corrupt practices. Mr. Rylands®,—Whether it is the Intention of the Government, at an early period this Session, to take steps for the appointment of Select Committees to inquire into the administration and expenditure of the great spending departments of the State. NOTICE OF MOTION.

Sir Lyon Playfairf,—Bill to amend the Medical Act, 1858.

OBITUARY. Mr. Richard Edmonds, the seismologist5 and antiquary, died recently at Plymouthg in his 85th year. He was a native of Penzance.11 a pju'ulstoen — b brä'koelhoeoest — c pi'ibäd1 — d lu'uis — e ra'ilaenz — f la'ioen ple'ifaeoe — g pli'moej* — h penzae'ns. 1 Peabody Trustees, die Verwalter des von Peabody (gest. 1869 in London) «eten Kapitals zürn Ban billiger Häuser für Arbeiter. — 2 Secretary of State ie Home Department, gewöhnlich Home Secretary, Minister des Jnnerp. — 3 move, beantragen. — 4 unseated, der seinen Sitz verlor. — 5 seismologist, Forscher auf dem Gebiete der Erdbeben. The Times.

He closely studied the extraordinary agitations of the s^a and earthquake shocks, and published the results of his investigations in the “Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal,” the British Association reports, and the transactions of the Royal Society of Cornwall.® In 1862 Mr. Edmonds published a collection of his papers, under the title of “The Land’s End1 District; its Antiquities, Natural History, Natural Phenomena, and Scenery,” and he appended to these papers a memoir of Richard Trevithickb, the Cornish engineer. Mr. Edmonds was also the author of a pamphlet on “The Phoenician Tin Trade of Cornwall,” as well as of a larger work on “True Biblical Chronology.” Our Vienna Correspondent telegraphs that Lieutenant Field-Marshal Francis von Littrow, the son of the celebrated astronomer, died on Thursday, in his 65th year. He distinguished himself in the campaigns of 1848, 1849, and 1859, and in 1866 was Chief of the Staff of the Seventh Army Corps, which gave a decisive turn to the battle of Custozza.

DISASTERS AT SEA. The Royal Mail Company’s steamer Don, which arrived at Plymouth on Saturday night from the West Indies, brought hörne the crews of the barque Gien Aston, of Liverpool, bound from Tucacas for Llanellyc with copper ore; of the ship Octaviusd, of Falmouth6, with pitch pine, from Doboy; and of the Nova Scotianf vessel Camperdown, with pitch pine, from Pensacola. All three vessels put back to St. Thomas5 in distress, and were afterwards condemned2, the crews being sent hörne by the Consul. Ships were being condemned Wholesale at St. Thomas, and when the Don lest there were no fewer than 12 vessels lying there dismantled. Düring a gale on Saturday night the new steel barque Santiago, owned by Messrs. Ismay, Imrie, and Co., Liverpool, grounded three times in the Foyle at Londonderry11, and once almost tilted over. The vessel has been towed into dock. The administration of the Bureau Veritas* has just published the list of maritime disasters reported during the month of February concerning all flags. Sailing vessels reported lost:—Ten American, four Austrian, 40 British, one Dutch, three French, six German, two Greek, three Italian, eight Norwegiank, one Russian, one Swedish—total, 79. In this number are included four vessels reported missing. Steamers a kä'änwoel — b trevi'Jnk — c laane'^l1 — d äkte'ivioes — c fae'lmoe]? — f no uvoe sko'ushcen — g sintä'moes — h landoende'r* — * bju'urou ve'ritaes — k nääwi'idzhoen. 1 Land’s End, Südwestspitze Englands in Cornwall, daher Cape Land’s End. — 2 condemned, für seeuntüchtig erklärt.

reported lost:—One American, eight British, two French, one Italian, one Japanese8, one Mexican, one Norwegian—total, 15. Causes of losses —Sailing vessels:—Stranding, 48; collision, four; fire, one; foundered, six; abandoned, 10; condemned, six; missing, four—total, 79. Steamers: —Stranding, 11; collision, one; fire, two; foundered, one—total, 15.

THE WEATHER. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Weather Chart, Sunday, April 4, 6 p.m.

Remarks (8 30 p.m.). « The weather over the British Islands is in a somewhat unsettled condition generally, especially over Ireland and England, where the wind is strong and squally from between south-west and west and the weather rather showery. Barometrie pressure is apparently highest over South Germany; within our area of Obser­ vation it varies from a little above 30*2in.1 2 over France and the Bay of Biscayb to a little below 29 2in. off our extreme northern coasts. The gradients3 are, therefore, favourable for the prevalence of westerly winds, and, owing to some local irregularities over Scotland, they are steeper in England and Ireland than elsewhere. Temperature is unsteady; the present readings ränge from 54deg.4 at Rochefort and 52deg. at Scillyc, to 44deg. at Ardrossand and Sumburgh6 Head and to 42deg. at Stornoway/ The wind is on the whole nearly westerly, varying from south-west at our eastern stations to west along our Western and north-western coasts. In force it

Explanation of the Chart. In the above chart the dotted lines are “isobars” or lines of equal barometrical pressure, the values which they indicate being given in figures at the end, thus—30'4. The shade tem­ perature 5 is given in figures for several places on the coast, and the weather is recorded in words. The arrows fly with the wind, the force of which is shown by the number of barbs and feathers, thus:— \, light; —fresh or strong; >—>-, agale; »—>, a violent gale; © signifies calm. The state of the sea is noted in Capital letters. The * denotes the various stations.

a dzhaepoeni'iz — b bi'skei — c si'U — d aadrä'soen — c sa'mboerä — f st&'änoewei. 1 Bar., Barometer. — 2 in., inches, Zoll. — 3 gradients, Gradienten, die senkrechten Entfernungen der Isobaren. — 4 deg., degrees, Grad. — 5 shade tem­ perature, Temperatur im Schatten.

is strong and squally, except in the north, where it is now Jight. There was, however, a strong gale from the southward or south-westward in the west of Ireland on Saturday afternoon, and the southward in the east and north of Scotland about midnight. The sky is now moderately clear in the west and north, cloudy elsewhere, with slight rain at times. The sea is rough in the west and south, moderate or slight elsewhere. All our Western and northern coasts were warned1 on Saturday. Forecasts of Weather for Monday, April 5. (iSSUED AT 8 30 P.M. ON THE PBEVIOUS BAY).

Scotland, N.—Westerly winds, fresh; some showers; but fair as a whole. Scotland, E.—Westerly breezes, fresh to moderate;2 fair, cooler. England, N.E.—Same as No. 1. England, E.—Same as No. 1. Midland Counties.—Same as No. 5. England, S. (London and Channel).—Westerly and south-westerly breezes, moderate; fair as a whole, cooler. 6. Scotland, W.—Wind varying from north-west to south-west, strong to moderate; some showers, but fair as a whole. 7. England, N.W. (and N. Wales).—Same as No. 6. 8. England, S.W. (and S. Wales).—Same as No. 6. 9. Ireland, N.—Same as No. 6. 10. Ireland, S.—Same as No. 6. Warnings.—The south cone3 was hoisted on Saturday in Districts 0 to 1 and 6 to 10. By order, ROBERT H. SCOTT8, Secretary.

0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

BEN NEVIS OBSERVATORY. April 4. Baro­ meter.

9 A.M. 9 P.M.

Temperature.

Wind.

At 32°.

Dry Bulb.4

Wet Bulb.

In. 24*808 24-756

Deg. 26-0 25'2

Deg. Sat.6 w. Sat. Variable For the 24 hours.

Direction.

Cloud.

Force. 0 to 10.

Species.

Am’nt.6 0 to 10.

2 1

Fog Fog

10 10

a rä'boet eitsh skät. 1 warned, es wird von den Küstenwachen (Coast Guards), deren Stationen rund um England verteilt sind und die untereinander telegraphisch in Verbindung stehen, vor hoher See gewarnt; jeder der 11 Distrikte (0—10), in die die ganze Küste ein­ geteilt ist, steht unter einem Seekapitän. — 2 fresh to moderate, frische Brise, die allmählich zu einem mäßigen Sturm anwächst. — 3 south cone, ein schwarzer Holz­ kegel wird von den Küstenwachen als Sturmsignal benutzt, mit der Spitze nach unten aufgezogen (south cone) bedeutet er Südsturm, mit der Spitze nach oben (north cone) Sturm von Norden her. — 4 Dry Bulb, trockene Kugel, Wet Bulb, feuchte Kugel. — 5 Am’nt, Amount. — 6 Sat., Saturated.

Maximum, 28*2; minimum, 25 0. No sunshine recorded. Fog all yesterday and to-day. Rainband* 1, 2. Moderate westerly wind, force 1 to 2, till 2 p.m. yesterday, strong sonth-west wind, force about 3, till 3 a.m. to-day, and squally westerly winds, force 1 to 2, since. Temperature falling slowly till 8 a.m. yesterday, rising till 1 a.m. today, but falling again since. Air saturated. Barometer falling yester­ day and till 2 a.m. to-day, rising till 2 p.m., but very unsteady since. Snow feil on both days, but measurements are doubtful owing to drift. The Times Office, 2 a.m. the Jordan Glycerine Barometer® (corrected for temperature AND REDUCED TO MEAN SEA LEVEL), TALEN AT INTERVALS OF TWO HOURS DÜRING THE FAST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.

Readings of

Hours of Obser­ vation.

Temperature Air.

Dew Point.

Tension of Vapour.

Weight of Vapour in 10 cubic feet of Air.

Drying Power of Air (per 10 cubic feet).

Humidity (Satura­ tion = 100).

Grains. Per cent. Degrees. Degrees. Inches. Grains.5 34 8 81 51 •299 Noon . . 45 83 34 7 50 •299 45 9 p.m.. . 32 86 47 •277 5 43 2 a.m.. . Minimum Temperature—45deg. Maximum Temperature—52deg. ® dzhä'ädoen gli'soerin baerämoetoe — b haigroeme'trik._________________ 1 Rainband, die Stärke des im Spektrum des Tageslichtes bei der Linie D auftretenden „Regenbandes" — d. h. die wechselnde Dunkelheit und Breite desselben — wird in England nach einer lOteiligen Skala annähernd geschätzt, worin 0 —unsichtbar und 10—äußerst stark bedeutet. — 2 A.M., Ante Meridiem, vor mittags 12 Uhr, P.M., Post Meridiem, nachmittags. — 3 N., Noon, 12 Uhr mittags. — 4 M., Midnight, 12 Uhr nachts. — 5 grains, Gran; 15,4 grains = 1 Gramm. Das grain ist das-

Explanation. The Dew-point is obtained directly by the use of a Diners Hygrometer. The Hygrometric values are calculated by using a modification of Glaisher’s8 Hygrometric Tables, 6th edition. The “Drying Power” of the air is the weight of vapour which 10 cubic feet of air were still capable of absorbing at the time of observation. The Humidity of the air (Saturation = 100) is what is commonly known as “Relative Humidity.” BERLIN, April 4.—Overcast, with south-west wind and occasional showers. Temperature at noon 13deg. (Reaumur) above zero; barometer at 28-4. The Employers’ Liability Act.—The Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Employers’ Liability Act (1880) Amendment Bill held their first meeting on Friday, under the presidency of Sir Thomas Brassey. The first witness called was Mr. Samuel Wood, of Wigan, who described the working of the Act among the miners of South-West Lancashire. In examination by Mr. Bradlaughb, he said that in bis district some 28,000 miners had been coerced to contract themselves out of the Act.1 The question of the right of the men to the benefits of the Act was one of the Subjects of a strike, and an attempt was made to secure its Operation in their favour; but the em­ ployers on representations being made to them would not say what course they intended to take, though they stated that they had no In­ tention to coerce the men. The feeling of the miners at the present state of things was one of almost unanimous dissatisfaction, not so much because of the loss of compensation in case of accident as by the loss of that additional care on the part of the employer which would be insured if the Act were in Operation. He thought that if there had been no power of contracting out of the Act there would during the time the Act had been in force have been a prevention of loss of life and limb. Mr. George Shipton, secretary to the London Trades Council2 and the National Trade Union3 Congress, speaking of the men in the building trades, said that working men had never cared for compensation in itself, but valued the Act as throwing upon the employer direct rea gle'izhoez — b brae'dlää. selbe in dem Apothekergewicht (Apothecaries’ Weight): 20 grains — 1 scruple, 3 scruples = 1 drachm [draem], 3 drachms --- 1 ounce, 12 ounces — 1 pound, dem Troy Weight für Edelmetalle und Edelsteine: 24 grains — 1 pennyweight (dwt), 20 pennyweights — 1 ounce, 12 ounces — 1 pound, und dem gewöhnlichen Gewicht (Avoirdupois): 271/3 grains — 1 drachm, 16 drachms — 1 ounce, 16 ounces (oz.) — 1 pound, 2C. — 1 contract themselves out of the Act, vermieten sich unter Verzichtleistung aus die gesetzlichen Ansprüche. — 2 London Trades Council, eine von Bankiers und Großkaufleuten der City geleitete Gewerbevereinigung Londons. — 3 Trade Union, Gewerkverein.

sponsibility for accidents which they were not able to avoid. One way of evading the Act was by subletting1 contracts to a man who was nsually a man of straw.2 To remedy this the Act should be amended so as to make the principal and sub - contractors jointly and severally responsible in every case. The Committee adjourned.

THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. It is impossible to conceive a more magnificent spectacle from an oarsman’s point of view than the boat race which was rowed from Putney to Mortlakea on Saturday afternoon between the rival University Eights3 of Oxford and Cambridge; but only those spectators who had the good fortune to witness the struggle from the accompanying steamers have any idea of the intense excitement, or the altemations of hope and fear, compressed into the interval between the Starters signal and the gunfire from the judge’s boat proclaiming the victory of Cambridge. Mr. Pitmans final rush after a stern chase for upwards of two miles, with all its palpable physical disadvantages as well as its inherent mental depression, will long live in the memory of those who were looking on; for a more striking example of British pluck and endurance in the most discouraging circumstances has seldom been seen on the water. The early morning of Saturday was dull and overcast, and the rain, which had been falling at frequent intervals during the preceding night, continued until 7 o clock, when the sun shone out and a strong breeze from the south-westward cleared away the rain clouds, and, although there was a certain amount of carry4 in the sky and fleecy mares’ tails5 betokening wind, there was every promise of a fine after­ noon. Both crews were out for a short time about 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to see that oars, sliding seats6, and riggers7 were all in Order. The Press boat8 Carnationb lest the Temple-pierc for Putneyd shortly be­ töre midday, the Oxford, Cambridge, and umpire's boats having all preceded it, the number of paddle steamers permitted to follow being limited to four, as is now customary. There was the usual fleet of steamboats, tugs, screw launches, and rowboats9 en route for the scene of

a mä'ätleik — b kaane'ishoen — c te'mpoelpiioe — d pa'tnk 1 subletting, aftervermieten, weitergeben. — 2 man of straw, Strohmann. — 9 Eights, in jedem Boot sind acht Ruderer und ein Steuermann. — 4 carry, trübe Wölkchen. — 5 fleecy mares’ tails, lange flockige Wölkchen, längliche Schäfchen. — 6 slid­ ing seats, bewegliche Sitze, welche den Vorwärts- und Rückwärtsbewegungen der Ru­ derer nachgeben. — 7 riggers, die Ruderpflöcke, welche die Ruder auf dem Bootrand stützen. — 8 Press boat, der Dampfer der Zeitungsberichterstatter. — 9 rowboats, Ruderboote, gew. rowing boats.

sponsibility for accidents which they were not able to avoid. One way of evading the Act was by subletting1 contracts to a man who was nsually a man of straw.2 To remedy this the Act should be amended so as to make the principal and sub - contractors jointly and severally responsible in every case. The Committee adjourned.

THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. It is impossible to conceive a more magnificent spectacle from an oarsman’s point of view than the boat race which was rowed from Putney to Mortlakea on Saturday afternoon between the rival University Eights3 of Oxford and Cambridge; but only those spectators who had the good fortune to witness the struggle from the accompanying steamers have any idea of the intense excitement, or the altemations of hope and fear, compressed into the interval between the Starters signal and the gunfire from the judge’s boat proclaiming the victory of Cambridge. Mr. Pitmans final rush after a stern chase for upwards of two miles, with all its palpable physical disadvantages as well as its inherent mental depression, will long live in the memory of those who were looking on; for a more striking example of British pluck and endurance in the most discouraging circumstances has seldom been seen on the water. The early morning of Saturday was dull and overcast, and the rain, which had been falling at frequent intervals during the preceding night, continued until 7 o clock, when the sun shone out and a strong breeze from the south-westward cleared away the rain clouds, and, although there was a certain amount of carry4 in the sky and fleecy mares’ tails5 betokening wind, there was every promise of a fine after­ noon. Both crews were out for a short time about 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to see that oars, sliding seats6, and riggers7 were all in Order. The Press boat8 Carnationb lest the Temple-pierc for Putneyd shortly be­ töre midday, the Oxford, Cambridge, and umpire's boats having all preceded it, the number of paddle steamers permitted to follow being limited to four, as is now customary. There was the usual fleet of steamboats, tugs, screw launches, and rowboats9 en route for the scene of

a mä'ätleik — b kaane'ishoen — c te'mpoelpiioe — d pa'tnk 1 subletting, aftervermieten, weitergeben. — 2 man of straw, Strohmann. — 9 Eights, in jedem Boot sind acht Ruderer und ein Steuermann. — 4 carry, trübe Wölkchen. — 5 fleecy mares’ tails, lange flockige Wölkchen, längliche Schäfchen. — 6 slid­ ing seats, bewegliche Sitze, welche den Vorwärts- und Rückwärtsbewegungen der Ru­ derer nachgeben. — 7 riggers, die Ruderpflöcke, welche die Ruder auf dem Bootrand stützen. — 8 Press boat, der Dampfer der Zeitungsberichterstatter. — 9 rowboats, Ruderboote, gew. rowing boats.

action, but the number of craft1 afloat was below the average of a year or two ago. Ashore there were large crowds on both sides of the river at Putney, Hammersmith, Chiswick®, Barnesb, and Mortlake, but the attendance has been falling off the last few years. No doubt it would have been greater if the race had been rowed an hour or two later in the day, as the time of starting was a trifle early for the half-holiday folks. Putney-bridge was closed against steamers by the Conservancy2 authorities before 1 o'clock, but rowboats continued to arrive up to the moment of the start, many of them blundering3 about the river in a männer equally dangerous to themselves and to others. By 1 o'clock two starting-boats were being moored off Alexander's boathouse, with a large wherry astern of the opening between them for the umpire's launch Wildfirec to make fast to;4 the umpire, Mr. R. Lewis Lloyd, of Magdalened College5, Cambridge, superintending their arrangement from a waterman's skiff alongside, anxious that they should be placed strictly level. The course was gradually cleared of intrusive row­ boats, and at a quarter past 1 o'clock, which was the hour appointed, all was in readiness afloat, the four paddle steamers having made fast, two on each side of the river, to lighters moored for the purpose—the Cam­ bridge and Press boats on the Surrey side6, and the umpire's paddle boat and Oxford steamer on the Fulham e side of midstream.7 At 20 minutes past 1 o'clock the Cambridge crew, required by etiquette to be first afloat as the Challengers8, had put off from the Leanderf Club boathouse, and paddled down under the Putney shore to the Star and Garter, where they turned their boat and dropped up to the Middlesex Station, having lost the toss9 for choice.10 Ibis had fallen to Oxford, who elected to take the Surrey berth11 in view of the Po­ sition at Hammersmith-bridge and the bend in the river above that spot, to say nothing of the better water in Corney Beach.8 For some time there were no signs of the Oxford crew on the river, and the Cam­ bridge men were kept waiting nearly a quarter of an hour at the post. Düring this delay the tide which had been running up at a good pace, a tshi'zik — b baanz — c walldfaice — d mä'ädlin — e fuloem — f liiaendoe — g kääniri'itsh. 1 craft, Schiffe. — 2 Conservancy authorities, Oberbehörde der Strompolizei der Themse. — 3 blundering, stümpern. — 4 make fast to, um daran befestigt zu werden, anzulegen. — 5 Magdalene College, 1519 gegründet, eins der 17 Col­ leges, die der Universität Cambridge gehören; Oxford hat 27 Colleges, darunter auch ein Magdalen (ohne e) College, 1456 gegründet. — 6 Surrey side, die süd­ liche Seite der Themse. — 7 midstream, die Mitte des Flusses; Fulham liegt nördlich der Themse. — 8 Challengers, die, welche reizen, weil sie im vorhergehenden Jahre geschlagen wurden. — 9 toss, Los, welches durch in die Höhe werfen einer Münze (head or tail? Kopf oder Rückseite?) entschieden wird. — 10 choice, das Recht die linke oder rechte Seite zu wählen. — 11 Surrey berth, das südliche Fahrwasser der Themse, an die Grafschaft Surrey stoßend.

visibly slackened: this was a pity, as the duration of the race with a slow running flood and foul wind was bound to be long, the best of the tide being thus lost. It was past the half hour before the Oxford crew put off from the London Rowing Club boathouse, when they, in their tum, slowly made their way down towards Putney-bridge. After a further slight delay off the steamboat pier, they dropped up to the Surrey stake-boat1, which was moored in midstream—the Cambridge stake-boat being considerably on the Fulham side of the centre of the river and in the slacker tide of the two, as well as to leeward2 in the cross wind3 which was blowing off the Putney shore. Very little time was spent in doffing4 overjerseys5 and in conveying them to the umpire’s launch, on board of which lay a supply of spare oars for both crews in case of a smash-up 6 at Hammersmith; and shortly before a quarter to 2 o'clock Mr. Lloyd took in hand the crews, which were thus manned:— OXFORD. st.7 id. 1.8W. 8. Unwin, Magdalen9 10 11 1. 2. L. 8. R. Byrnea, Trinity ... 11 H410 2. 3. W.St.L.Robertson,Wadhamb 11 7| 3. 4. C. R. Carter, Corpus........... 13 0| 4. 5. H. M’Lean, New..................... 12 12 5. 6. F.O.Wethered®,ChristChurch 12 6 6. 7. D. H. M’Lean, New........... 13 0 H. Girdlestone, Magdalen 7. (stroke)11 129| W. E. Maynard, Exeter (cox.)12 ......................... 7 12

CAMBRIDGE. st. C. J. Bristowe, Trinity Hall 10 N. P. Symonds, St. John’s .. 10 J. Walmsleyd, Trinity Hall 12 A. D. Flower, Clare........... 12 8. Fairbairn, Jesus® .............. 13 8. D. Muddleburyf, Third Trinity13................................... 13 C. Barclay, Third Trinity 11 F. I. Pitman, Third Trinity (stroke) ............................ 11 G. H. Baker, Queen’s (cox.) 6

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Both crews reached14 out awaiting the signal, which, after the customary “Are you ready?” was forthwith given. The oars of both crews dipped together to a good start, neither having any perceptible a boeoen — b wä'doem — c we'Joered — d wä'ämzl1 — e fae'oebaeoen dzhi'izoes — f ma'dcelbri. 1 stake-boat, ein an einem Pfahl befestigtes Boot. — 2 leeward, die dem Wind abgewendete Seite des Schiffes, also hier die Nordseite; Putney liegt südlich von der Themse. — 3 cross wind, Wind, der senkrecht zum Kurs bläst. — 4 doffing, abwerfen, to do off, wie don, to do on. — 5 oveijersey, eine dicke Wolljacke, die über der dünneren Ruderjacke (undeijersey) vor und nach dem Rudern getragen wird; eigentlich Wolle von Jersey. — 6 smash-up, Zerbrechen. — 7 St., 1 Stone — 14 lbs. — 8 1., auch bow oar genannt, die Ruderer werden von der Spitze des Bootes aus numeriert. — 9 Magdalen, die Colleges, welchen die einzelnen Studenten angehören, sind hier angegeben. — 10 lP/a, 11 lbs. 8 oz., eleven pounds 8 ounces. — 11 stroke, strokesman, heißt der dem Steuermann zunächst sitzende Ruderer, nach dessen Einsetzen sich die übrigen im Tempo zu richten haben. — 12 cox., coxswain (kä'ksoen, kä'kswein), der Steuermann, gewöhnlich der leichteste Mann. — 13 Third Trinity, Trinity College hat als größtes College von Cambridge mehrere Boots­ mannschaften (crews), es heißt hier also: Trinity College Third Boat-crew. — 14 reached out, Hollen aus, ohne ins Wasser einzusetzen.

advantage. After a few strokes had been rowed, the nose of the Cam­ bridge boat, which was lighter off band1 than that of Öxford, began to show in front, and forging ahead inch by inch in the hundred and odd yards which intervened between the starting place off Alexanders gangway and the London Club enclosure, Cambridge had obtained a lead of exactly one quarter of a length at the Club flagstaff. Rowing 41 strokes a minute to Oxford’s 40, Cambridge more than held their own up Putney Reach, but after passing the boathouses began to fetch out2 from the Fulham shore towards the centre of the river, the cross wind blowing the sterns of the boats to leeward, and causing their bows to head up to windward, both pointing towards the Surrey shore; but there was also a visible use of rudder line3 in each. The result of this proceeding was to increase the Cambridge crew’s lead to a third of a length off the site of the old half-mile post, and to fully half a length off Craven Cottage? In this they were aided by the Oxford steersman straightening his boat and fetching bis bow side oars into the wash4 of the stroke side oars of the leaders5, a course of action which looked likely to end in a collision, and by which ground was decidedly lost. The inconvenience of the back-wash was so plain that the Oxonian had to use his lest hand line6 and take his boat back again into smoother water to windward; the advantage of doing so being immediately apparent by the Oxford crew gaining upon their opponents after passing the Grass Wharf, and getting up nearly level with them off Walden’s Wharfb and the mile mark after Crossing the water. At Rose Bank Oxford, who were nicely sheltered by the high ground on the towpath shore, continued to draw up alongside Cambridge, and got level with them off the Crab Tree, whence it appeared as if they would cut them out round the bend and through the bridge, provided they continued to gain on them. At this time both crews were rowing about 38 strokes a minute, the boats going very fast, as the wind had now become a fair one and blew them away from the following paddlesteamers, which were for a while outpaced7 by the racing boats. Improving their position after passing the Crab Tree, Oxford showed in front off Dorset-villa, and were in their turn forging ahead for the first time in the race, with a lead of a quarter of a length off the Soapworks, when a forward bow-side oarsman got into difficulties, and Cam­ bridge again drew up level off the Distillery below Hammersmith, and a kre'ivoen kä'toedzh — b wä'äldoenz wääf. 1 lighter off hand, die Ruder gingen leichter von der Hand, die Ruderer hatten einen leichteren, schnelleren Schlag. — 2 fetch out, hinüberrudern. — 8 rudder line, Leine des Steuers, hier: es wurde so scharf gesteuert, daß man es an der Wasser­ oberfläche bemerkte. — 4 wash, die Wellen, welche sich neben und hinter dem Boot bilden. — 5 leaders, die, welche voran sind. — 6 lest hand line, Leine des Steuers, die der Steuermann in der linken Hand hat. — 7 outpaced, zurückgelassen.

remained so to the Bridge. All eyes on the steamers were now directed to the single arch through which the crews had both agreed to go, and men held their breath as the competing eights, racing at top speed and rowing oar and oar, made for the 55ft. span1, through which there is a cross-set2 of tide. The width of each eight with its oars outstretched being about 22|ft., there were but 10ft. to spare at best. As they took it, Oxford, who had been comparatively dose in3 off the Soapworks point, appeared to work out a trifle too much, and Cam­ bridge to be in imminent danger of fouling4 the piles to the eastward in their anxiety to avoid their rivals; but an exclamation of relief from the passengers on the Press boat denoted that the crews were safely through (time, 7min. 18sec.), and, as seen by an observer on shore, strictly level. In shooting the arch the Cambridge coxswain was obliged to apply his lest line so as to avoid the woodwork on his right, and the Oxford coxswain had to do the same thing so as to give room, the result being that the latter crew feit the eddy from the pier, while Cambridge shot ahead by fully six feet as they passed Bissens yard. Almost immediately afterwards Oxford drew up again, and became level in rounding the corner off the Dovesa, where they had the advantage of the inside of the bend to the lest. Off the Upper Mallb, above the Doves, rough water was encountered as the wind became foul, owing to the turn in the river, and Oxford, in the smoother tideway under the Surrey bank, went ahead fast, and led by half a length at the Oil Mills and by a length at the Waterworks, two miles having been completed. The race now seemed practically all over, Oxford having the more sheltered position, the bigger boat, the heavier crew, a commanding lead, and working wonderfully well together. Cambridge were rowing what is called by experts a losing race, with a smaller boat, a lighter crew, and the most exposed position, and, moreover, were knocking about in the heavy roll of waters at the bottom of Corney Beach in a state of partial demoralization, as had been the case in more than one previous race. Suddenly, without warning, and to the intense astonishment of the lookers-on from the steamers, which were now dose up—as steam was telling5 against flesh and blood in the war of the elements—Cambridge steadied themselves, settled together again, and commenced to draw up to Oxford half - way between the Waterworks chimneys and the foot of Chiswick Eyotc, overlapping the stern of the leading boat by a foot or two off the lower end of the Island. Rowing 30 strokes a minute to a davz — b a'poe mael — c a'ioet.

1 55 ft. span, Brückenbogen von 55 Fuß Spannweite. — 2 there is a cross-set of tide, die Strömung geht nicht gerade durch, sondern stößt an der einen Seite an. — 3close in, nahe am Ufer. — 4 fouling, anstoßen. — 5 was telling, machte sich gellend.

Oxfords 31, Cambridge continued to gain all along the lower half of the Eyot, but only an inch at a time, and excitement ran high at such an unlooked for state of affairs. That it was but a momentary dicker of expiring effort seemed only too manifest when just as suddenly Ox­ ford, along the upper half of the Island, drew clear away, and led by a length and a quarter off Chiswick Church—time, 12min. 24sec. And this appeared the more certain as, after passing Thornycroft’s8 torpedoboat factory, and entering a tremendous surf off the Point, Oxford not only added still more to their lead, but crossed over in front of Cam­ bridge, who were toiling in the rear, and took their water, with half a length of daylight1 between the stem of pne boat and the nose of the other. They thus secured the outward advantage of smooth water and comparative shelter under the Middlesex bank, as well as the turn in the river, and the in ward satisfaction of having their opponents in view dead astern. Rowing away with the race apparently safe in hand, Oxford widened the gap to a whole length of daylight, thus obtaining a two lengths lead off the engine-house of the Sewage Works; and once more “Its all over" flew from lip to lip. Off the site of the old bathing creek in the Chiswick meadows the interest in the race, which bad been for some little time flagging, commenced anew, as Cambridge were Seen slowly to reduce the lead of Oxford when they also reached the shelter of the bank; and excitement once more ran high as another rally, like that at the foot of Chiswick Eyot, sent Cambridge flying up to the rudder of Oxford just above the junction of the towpath and Lonsdale-road. The latter, being apparently disinclined to quit their snug berth under the bank, ran a great risk of being bumped2 by Cambridge, but there was fortunately no actual contact. Three miles had now been done. Responding to the effort of Cambridge, Oxford drew away again, and off the Bull’s Head at Barnes once more led by a length and a half. Having previously arranged to go through the centre arch of Barnes railway-bridge, the two crews abruptly quitted the course which they would have taken in practice through the Middlesex arch, and shot3 the centre span, Oxford leading by a length and a half, or a trifle more, in 17min. 47sec. Both fetched in4 again towards the Middlesex bank for shelter, Oxford increasing their lead to a couple of lengths off the White Hart Hotel, the result no longer appearing in doubt, considering how advantageously they were placed. a ]?ä'änikräfts. 1 daylight, Zwischenraum. — 2 bumped, angestoßen; Oxford dem Fahrwasser Von Cambridge; hätte das Boot Von Cambridge das berührt, so hätte Oxford Verloren, weil es in falschem Fahrwasser Cambridge (fouled) hätte. — 3 shot, schossen durch. — 4 fetched in, kamen näher, näher heran.

war in Oxforder gehindert ruderten

Off the Limesa Cambridge spurted* 1 again, and, as more than one man in the leading boat seemed in distress, reduced the interval to six or eight feet. The light blue2 coxswain then essayed to come up outside, but as suddenly went back to his proper water and course, and tried the inside. Unable to shake off their persistent pursuers, Oxford were obliged to give way sooner than run any more risks, and make room for Cambridge on the inside of the turn off Mortlake Brewery, where the latter overlapped by a foot. A regulär set-to3 now ensued, Oxford, on the outside of the turn and in the worst water, doing all they knew to stave off what no one could bring himself to believe was defeat, so short was the distance which bad to be covered before reaching the flagpost. Cambridge, on the other hand, knowing they had the in­ side of the turn and were dose hörne, dashed their oars into the water at the terrific rate of 42 to the minute, and succeeded in getting level off the Ship, where the University Boat Race used to finish when it started at Putney Aqueductb—four miles having been done in 21| minutes. About 400 yards remained to be rowed, and the struggle continued, watched eagerly and intently from the decks of the four steamers which had now come up, the crews rowing as if their lives depended on the issue, and the sight from the Press boat, on the quarters of the eights, being without parallel. Despite a plucky response from the Oxford crew, who seemed to keep together to the very end, the rush of the Cambridge stroke oar proved irresistible, and in a scene of great excitement the eights dashed past the post4, the light blue heading the dark blue flag in the bows of the competing boats, by what looked very like a short half-length when viewed from close astern, but which the judge decided to be two-thirds of a length. The time occupied was 22min. 29sec. Several of the oarsmen were fearfully distressed, especially Mr. Unwin, the Amateur Champion0 of the Thames, who rowed bow in the Oxford boat, and Mr. Girdlestone, the stroke; while the oarsman who seemed to treat the whole affair more as a joke than anything eise was Mr. Pitman, the stroke of the Cambridge crew. His Performance of Saturday exceeded in brilliancy his magnificent rowing of last year, when, try as he might, he could not avert defeat. Both crews rowed in boats by J. H. Clasper, of Putney, Cambridge in a new one built for the occasion, and Oxford in a three-year-old boat lent them by the London Rowing Club. After a rest both crews went ashore at the Grove Park boathouse, and subsequöntly returned to Putney by steamer. Slight odds of 6 to 55 were betted upon Cambridge up to

a laimz — b aekuidakt — c semoetjuuoe tshae'mpioen. 1 spurted, strengten sich plötzlich an. — 2 light blue, Farbe von Cambridge; dark blue die Farbe von Oxford. — 8 set-to, Nahkampf, hartes Ringen. — 4 post, Ziel. — 5 odds 6 to 5, ungleicher Einsatz bei Welten; A wettet, daß Cambridge,

the start, but there were some striking fluctuations of speculation during the progress of the race. 1 There is little to he said of the contest beyond the description of its incidents which appears above. The practice of the crews, their time trials1, their races with scratch eights2 have all been regularly noticed in The Times; the speed of the Cambridge crew, their improvement during their stay at Putney, and their even rowing have all been fully dwelt on: so, too, have the doings of the Oxford crew, not omitting the fact that from the time when they began chopping3 and changing boats they visibly deteriorated, but bad shaken together4 again during the last few days when they became accustomed to the boat they borrowed at Putney. A more exciting race has never been seen on the Thames, not excepting the dead heat5 of 1877. It is to be hoped that the competition between the crack oarsmen of the Universities may be renewed in the Summer at Henley06, with the additional advantage of measuring blades7 with the repräsentatives of the principal boat clubs of the Thames and the provinces. The alteration of the course at that pretty spot ought to secure some splendid racing and some dose finishes. The following is a table of the winners of the University Boat Race from the commencement, extracted from the J&owing Almanach— Year.

Date.

Winner.

Course.

Time.

Won by

14m. 30s. Easily Oxford Henley 1829 June 10 36m. Os. Imin. W. to P.8 1836 June 17 Cambridge 31m. Os. 1839 April 3 W. to P. Im. 45s. Cambridge April 15 W. to P. 29m. 30s. 1840 Cambridge 3/« length 1841 32m. 30s. lm. 4s. April 14 W. to P. Cambridge 30m. 45s. 1842 13sec. June 11 Oxford W. to P. 1845 P. to M.9 23m. 30s. Mar. 15 30sec. Cambridge 21m. 5s.* 1846 April 3 Cambridge M. to P. 2 lengths P. to M. 22m. Os. Easily 1849 Mar. 29 Cambridge — — Foul10 1849 Dec. 15 Oxford P. to M. 27sec. 1852 April 3 Oxford P. to M. 21m. 36s. 25m. 29s. 11 strokes 1854 April 8 Oxford P. to M. Mar. 15 M. to P. 25m. 50s. V2 length. 1856 Cambridge 35sec. April 4 Oxford P. to M. 22m. 35s.t 1857 Mar. 27 P. to M. 21m. 23s. 22sec. 1858 Cambridge a he'nl1 — b ä'älmoenaek. B, daß Oxford siegt; siegt Cambridge, zahlt B 5, siegt Oxford, zahlt A 6. — 1 time trials, Probefahrten, bei denen eine bestimmte Strecke in möglichst kurzer Zeit zurückzulegen ist. — 2 scratch eights, acht zufällig zusammengewürfelte Ruderer. — 3 chopping, Veränderungen vornehmen. — 4 shaken together, sich zusammen­ genommen. — 5 dead heat, unentschiedener Wettkampf, beide kamen gleichzeitig am Ziele an. — 6 Henley, 64 englische Meilen westlich von London an der Themse, berühmt durch die hier anfangs Juli stattfindende Regatta. — 7 blades, Klingen, hier: Ruder (eig. blades of oars). — 8 W. to P., Westminster to Putney. — 9 P. to M., Putney to Mortlake. — 10 Foul, das führende Boot fuhr in den Kurs des fol­ genden, wurde von ihm berührt und verlor deshalb.

Year.

Date.

Winner

Course.

Time.

Won by

April 15 Oxford P. to M. Cam.1 sank 1859 24m. 40s. P. to M. 26m. 5s. 1860 Mar. 31 1 length Cambridge Mar. 23 P. to M. 1861 Oxford 23m. 30s. 48sec. 1862 April 12 Oxford P. to M. 24m. 41s. 30sec. 1868 Mar. 28 M. to P. Oxford 43sec. 23m. 6s.t 1864 Mar. 19 Oxford P. to M. 26860. 21m. 40s. 1865 April 8 Oxford P. to M. 21m. 24s. 4 lengths 1866 Mar. 24 Oxford 15sec. P. to M. 25m. 35s. 1867 April 13 Oxford P. to M. 22m. 40s, V2 length April 4 1868 Oxford P. to M. 20m. 56s. 6 lengths 1869 Mar. 17 Oxford P. to M. 20m. 5s. 3 lengths April 6 1870 Cambridge P. to M. 22m. 4s. U/4 length 1871 April 1 Cambridge P. to M. 1 length 23m. 5s. 1872 Mar. 23 P. to M. Cambridge 21m. 15s. 2 lengths 1873 Mar. 29 P. to M. 31/4 lengths Cambridge 19m. 35s.8 1874 Mar. 28 P. to M. Cambridge 3 lengths 22m. 35s. 1875 Mar. 20 Oxford P. to M. 10 lengths 22m. 2s. 1876 April 8 Cambridge P. to M. 20m. 20s. Won easily ) 1877 Mar. 24 f Oxford P. to M. 24m. 8s.|| Dead heat (Cambridge / 1878 April 13 Oxford P. to M. 22m. 13s. 10 lengths 1879 April 5 P. to M. 21m. 18s. 372 lengths Cambridge 1880 Mar. 22 Oxford 33/4 lengths P. to M. 21m. 23s. 1881 April 8 Oxford P. to M. 21m. 51s. 3 lengths 1882 April 1 Oxford P. to M. 20m. 12s. 7 lengths ' 1883 Mar. 15 Oxford P. to M. 21m. 18s. 4 lengths 1884 April 7 Cambridge P. to M. 21m. 39s. 21l2 lengths 1885 Mar. 28 Oxford P. to M. 21m. 36s. 2t/8 lengths 1886 April 3 P. to M. Cambridge 22m. 29s. 2/s length * The first University race rowed in Outriggers.2 t The first race in which either University rowed in the present style pf eights without keel; also the first time either rowed with round oars. Both used the same kind of oars and boats. X From the High Bridge to Putney-pier. § Both crews used sliding seats for the first time. || The Oxford bow-man damaged his oar.

The crews dined together in the evening at the Holborn Restaurant. THE MAILS.

The Union Company s steamer Roman, from Hamburg, with Con­ tinental cargo for .the Cape of Good Hope, arrived at Southampton on Saturday morning. The following mail steamers will leave Southampton during the ensuing week:—The Elbe (North German Lloyd’s) to-day, with mails 1 Cam., Cambridge. — 2 outriggers, Boote, bei denen die Stützpunkte der Ruder auf Stützen außerhalb des Boytrandes liegen.

for New York; the Medway (Royal Mail Company) on Thursday, with the West India, Pacific, and Mexican mails; the Trojan8 (tfnion Com­ pany) on Thursday, with the Cape of Good Hope and Natal mails; the Ems (North German Lloyd’s) on Thursday, with mails for New York. The Royal Mail steamship Don, with the fortnight's hörneward West India and Pacific mails, arrived in Plymouth Sound at 9 20 p.m. on Saturday. Her dates were Savanilla March 10, Colon 14th, Jamaica 17th, Jacmel 18th, and Barbados 22d. The Don brought passengers, 68 sacks of mails, including eight bags of letters from Her Majesty’s ships, ten boxes of parcel post, goldvalue $27,103, silvervalue $104,452, silver coin value $17,325, jewelry value $450, and the largest cargo brought from the West Indies for many years, which included 21,037 bags of coffee, cocoa, &c. Having landed passengers, mails, and parcel post, the Don proceeded for Cherbourg and Southampton at 10 15 p.m, The Don reported having spoken on March 29, in lat.1 26 30 N., long.2 36 28 W., the Spanish barque HGTP3, steering N. The American frigate Tennesseeb was at Colon on March 14, Her Majesty’s ship Urgent at Port Royal on the 17th, and Her Majesty’s ship Gamet and the Tyne, troopship, at Barbados on the 22d. The Royal Mail Companys steamer Belize0 was at Jamaica and the same Companys steamers Esk, Edend, and Solent at Barbados. The Hamburg-American Company s steamship Westphalia, from New York, March 25, at noon, arrived at Plymouth at 2 15 p.m. yesterday. On April 1, in lat. 47 30 N., long. 30 W., the ship encountered a very heavy storm from north-north-west with terrific high sea and heavy hail squalls. The Westphalia had to lay to4 for 12 hours. Captain Kopfs threw oil bags5 over the side of the ship, which he asserts had a great effect on the waves. A Cunard steamer bound west was spoken on March 27, in lat. 41 36 N., long. 38 W. The Westphalia brought 77 passengers and 88 bags of mails for England, France, and Germany. She landed at Plymouth mails and passengers, and having embarked passengers for the Continent, sailed for Cherbourg and Hamburg at 2 40 p.m. (from Lloyd’s.) ADEN6, April 4.—The Nederlands steamer Prinses Amalia, from Batavia for Amsterdam, has arrived here. a tro'udshoen — b tenesi'i — c beli'iz — d i'idoen — e e'idoen.

1 lat., latitude, Breite. — 2 long., longitude, Länge. — 3 H. G. T. P., die Schiffe erhalten als Marke verschiedene Buchstaben, die sie statt ihres Namens signalisieren. — 4 lay to, beilegen, still liegen. — 5 oil bags, Säcke, die mit dickflüssigem Ol ge­ füllt sind und an den Seiten des Schiffes bei hohem Seegang befestigt werden. Indem das Ol langsam ausfließt, glätten sich die Sturzwellen.

BOMBAY, April 1.—The Clan Line steamer Clan Gordon, for Dunkirk, lest here to-day. GRAVESENDa, April 3.—Messrs. Bullard, King, and Co.’s steamer Palala, from Port Natal, passed here yesterday for the London Docks. LIZARDb, April 3.—The National Line steamer Erin, from Lon­ don for New York, passed here at 9 40 a.m. to-day. SINGAPOREc, April 3.—The P. and O.d 1 steamer Ancona, from London, has arrived here. (REUTERS TELEGRAMS.)

BRINDISI, April 3.—The P. and 0. steamer Tanjore®, with the homeward India, China, and Australian mails, ex2 Nizarnf and Shannon, arrived here at 7 a.m. and the mails lest at 8 30 a.m. to-day. Leiters may he expected to he delivered in London on Monday afternoon.

THE QUEEN AND THE COLUMBINE.3 The following letter has been received by Elizabeth Monatg:— “Windsor Castle, March 27.—The Queen has been mach touched by the account of the sufferings endured by Miss Monat, and was pleased to learn by her brother’s letter of the 20th inst, that she is recovering her strength. Her Majesty has commanded Sir Henry Ponsonby4 to forward Miss Monat a cheque5 *for * * £20. * ” a greivze'nd — b li'zoed — c singgoepä'äoe — d piioeno'u — e taendzhä'äoe — f nizae'm — g ma'uoet. 1 P. and 0., Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Die Dampfer gehen von Southampton und London nach Indien, China, Japan, Austra­ lien u. f. w. — 2 ex, aus, von. — 3 Columbine, Name der Jolle, in der Miss Monat ohne Nahrungsmittel bis an die norwegische Küste getrieben wurde. — 4 Sir Henry Ponsonby, Privatsekretär der Königin. — 5 Cheque, Check, bei Sicht zahlbare Anweisung von Bankkunden auf ihre Bank. Das Zahlen mit cheques statt mit Geld ist im englischen auch nichtkaufmännischen Publikum allgemein üblich. Man erhält von der Bank, bei der man einen Betrag stehen hat, ein cheque-book, dessen numerierte Formulare man ausfüllt und herausreißt, wobei ein Stück zur Kontrolle zurückbleibt. Die Bank zahlt dem Überbringer (bearer) den Betrag, auf welchen der Check lautet, aus. Wünscht man den Check gegen Mißbrauch (wenn verloren, gestohlen) zu schützen, so zieht man zwei parallele Linien quer über (to cross) die Vorderseite mit oder ohne die Worte ‘and Co.’, dann wird der Check nur an einen Bankier ausgezahlt. Ein solcher Check heißt allgemein gekreuzt (generally crossed cheque). Will man noch sicherer geben, so kreuzt man an einen besonderen Bankier, dessen Firma man zwischen die beiden Querlinien schreibt (specially crossed cheque); zu dieser Kreu­ zung können ferner die Worte ‘not negotiable’ hinzugefügt werden; da der Check die Worte ‘nicht weitergeben' auf sich trägt, kann er nur an denjenigen, auf welchen er lautet, bezahlt werden. (Vgl. J. W. Smith, The Law of Bills, Cheques, Notes, and I. 0. U’s., Effingham Wilson, London. S. 101.) The Times. 9

NA VAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.,/ Her Majesty’s turret ship Thunderer, Capt. H. F. Stephenson, C.B., having on Board Prince George of Wales1, lest Suda Bay on Saturday for Malta. Her Majesty’s troopship Malabara lest Bombay on Saturday for Portsmouth. The Admiralty have issued instructions for the following vessels to be put out of Commission2 on their return hörne from foreign Ser­ vice:—The Northampton, 123, armour-plated ship, Captain Digby, from the North America and West Indies Station; the Dragon, 6, composite4 sloop, Commander Charles V. Anson, from the East Indies Station; the Curacoa, 14, steel corvette, Captain G. J. Hamner, from China; the Tenedosb, 12, corvette, Captain C. Drummond, from the West Indies; the Sapphoc, 4, composite sloop, Commander M*Castled, from the Pacific; and the Flirt, 3, screw gun vessel, Commander Craigie6, from the West Coast of Africa Station. Capt. Tyntef F. Hammill, R.N., has been appointed to the Ordnance5 Committee at the Admiralty, in the place of Capt. Morgan Singer, resigned. The Secretary of State for War has appointed Major Richard M. Ruck, R.E., to be Assistant Inspector of Submarine Mining Defences. The Ist Life Guards are under Orders to leave Hyde Park for Windsor, the 2d Life Guards will move from Windsor to Regent’s Park, and the Royal Horse Guards from Regent’s Park to Hyde Park, on the 7th inst.; the 2d Battalion East Kent Regiment will leave Egypt for hörne on the 15th; and the Ist Battalion Middlesex Regiment will leave Dover for Aldershotg on the 20th inst. No. 3 Battery Ist Brigade Scottish Division Royal Artillery arrived at Bengal from Burmah on the Ist of March. According to the quarterly list of the distribution of the cavalry and infantry, just issued by the Horse Guards, there were, at the beginning of the month, 12 cavalry regiments in England, one in Scot­ land, six in Ireland, nine in India, two in Egypt, and one in South Africa. The distribution of the infantry was as follows:—32 battalions

a maeloeba'a — b te'noedäs — c sae'fou — d moeka'asoel — e kre'ig1 — f tint — 6 ä'äldoeshät 1 Prince George of Wales, zweiter Sohn des Prince of Wales. — 2 put out of Commission, außer Dienst stellen. — 3 Northampton, 12, die Salden hinter den Namen der Kriegsschiffe geben die Anzahl der Geschütze an. — 4 composite sloop, Schaluppe, deren Spanien aus Stahl sind, über ine jtdj eine (gew. doppelte) Lage Holz streckt. — 5 Ordnance Committee, Behörde der Schießschule in Woolwich.

in England, two in Scotland, 25 in Ireland, 47 in India, 14 in Egypt, four at Malta, four at Gibraltar, four in South Africa, four in Burmah, one at Aden, one in Ceylon8, one at the Straits Settlements, one at Suakim, one in the West Indies, one in Nova Scotia, one in Cyprusb, one at Hongkong, one at Bermuda6, and two in the Channel Islands. The following appointments were made at the Admiralty on Saturday:—Capt. Cyprian A. G. Bridge, to the Colossus; Lieut. Harry C. Martin, to the Pilot; Lieut. Frederick W. Soamed, to the Ganges, ad­ ditional ;1 Lieut. Henry B. Jackson, to the Vernon; Cuthbert Clifton, naval cadet, to the Pilot; William Bromleigh®, engineer, to the Tamar;f and James Brown, engineer, to the Avon.g

THE VOLUNTEERS. A field day near Shrewsburyh on Easter Monday is being organized. It is expected that the command will be taken by Lieut.-Colonel G. N. Fendali1, who is at. the head of the 5 3d Regimental District (King’s Shropshire Light Infantry). The operations will take place in Berwickparkk, and the troops will consist of a portion of the Shropshire Yeomanry2 (Colonel C. G. Wingfield), the Shropshire and Stafford Artillery Brigade (Lieut.-Colonel Strick), and the Ist and 2d Shropshire Rifl es3, from Shrewsbury and Newport, commanded by Lieut. - Colonel Anstice1 and Lieut.-Colonel Masefield.m A party of about 250 officers and men of the Ist Warwick11 Rifles will march from Birmingham, a distance of about 50 miles, to take part in the operations. There is after all to be a marching column to Aldershot at Easter, though probably but a small one. The llth Middlesex Rifles will go down in a body on Good Friday morning, but on the previous day a column, under Captain Haywood, will go by train to Kew°, and thence march 13 miles to Eghamp, where it will halt for the night. Next day it will complete the journey into Aldershot, a distance of 16 miles. The East London (Tower Hamlets) Engineers will go straight down to Dover on Good Friday. An advance party will start on the previous day with the regimental camp equipage and wagons. This corps possesses a complete equipment. a silä'n — b sa'iproes — c boeoemju'udse — d soum — e brä'ml* — f te'imaa — 6 e'ivoen — h shru'uzbr1 — 1 fe'ndääl — k berikpa'ak — 1 ae'nstis — m me'izfiild — n wä'rik — 0 kju'u — p e'goem.

1 additional, überzählig, etatsmäßig. — 2 Yeomanry, Landwehrkavallerie, 14,440 Mann stark. — 3 Rifles, Schützen, Jäger.

THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET

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Our Portsmouth Correspondent writes:—“The Government have resolved to greatly strengthen the naval force in the Mediterranean in view of the threatening attitude of Greece. Not only has the Polyphemusa, torpedo ram1, Commander Gallweyb, been despatched from Devonportc to Suda Bay, but Orders have been received at Portsmouth for the Colossus to be commissioned2 on the 13th inst, to join the command of Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh. She will have a crew of 400 officers and men, and will be under the command of Captain E. H. Seymourd, formerly in command of the Inflexible. The Colossus is a new ship, which has not as yet hoisted the pennant.3 She is of 9,150 tons displacement and 7,490 indicated horse power, and is generally regarded as the most efficient armour-clad yet afloat, considering the combined power she possesses of attack and defence. The Colossus carries four 42-ton4 breechloading guns in her turrets, five 6in. guns, one being a pivoted stern-chaser5, ten Nordenfeit machine guns, two Gardner guns, and four quiok-firing 6-pounders, besides a torpedo armament. Though not quite ready, the Collingwood, the earliest of the 4Admirals*6, could be prepared for commissioning in a month, and an answer has been returned to this effect by the dockyard authorities in reply to an Admiralty inquiry as to the time of her completion. She carries in her barbettes7 the same number of guns and the same in nature as are carried in the turrets of the Colossus. The after barbette gun mountings8 have not been officially tested yet. The trials, however, are to take place about the Ist prox.9, after which she will be practically ready for sea, as her auxiliary armaments are complete. At the express wish of Lord John Hay, who called attention to the urgent necessity there was for augmenting the torpedo force attached to the Mediterranean Fleet, two first-class torpedo boats have been despatched to Malta under convoy of the Minotaur®, and great efforts are being put forth at the yard to prepare all the similar sea-going torpedo craft for active Service. As has been already stated, Orders were issued a week ago for six first-

a pälifi'imoes — b gä'älwei — c de'voenpäät — d si'imoe — e mainoetä'äoe. 1 torpedo ram, ein mit einem Rammbug versehenes Schiff, welches mit Tor­ pedos ausgerüstet ist. — 2 commissioned, in Dienst gestellt. — 3 hoisted the pennant, die Flagge aufgezogen, welche die Indienststellung anzeigt. — 4 42-ton, die Kanone Wiegt 42 Tonnen, 1 ton = 20 cwt. — 5 stern-chaser, eine Kanone im Bug, welche bei der Verfolgung gegen das Hinterteil (stern) des feindlichen Schiffes in Thätig­ keit tritt. — 6 Admirals, auch Collingwoods, eine Klasse von Kriegsschiffen, welche nach englischen Admiralen benannt sind, wie Rodney, Howe etc. — 7 barbettes, Brustwehren, über welche hinaus (nicht durch Luken) die Geschütze feuern. — 8 after barbette gun mountings, Kanonenlafetten hinter oben offenen Brustwehren. — 9 prox., proximo, nächsten Monats.

dass boats, including the two received of the newest type, to be prepared for commissioning by May 1. Since this Order was given urgency bas been pleaded, and five of the six will, in all probability, be got ready for sea by the 17th inst., when they will be convoyed across the bay1 by the Colossus." Our Plymouth correspondent telegraphed last night:—“Yesterday, at noon, the Minotaur, 10, Captain G. B. Clerk, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir W. N. Hewetta, the Emerald, 12, corvette, Captain R. H. Hamondb, the Polyphemus, steel torpedo ram, Commander E. J. P. Gallwey, and the first-class torpedo boats Nos. 21 and 22, commanded by Lieutenants Campbell and Grevillec respectively, lest Plymouth Sound in Company. The Minotaur convoyed the torpedo boats and the Emerald escorted the Polyphemus. Orders were signalled to the flagship before leaving to proceed at eight knots per hour, and it was intended that all the vessels should keep together until Ushantd was reached. If the weather was then favourable the Emerald would part Company and shape her course for the North American and West Indies Station, while Admiral Hewett would give instructions to the torpedo boats and the Polyphemus to make the best of their way across the Bay of Biscay. Should there be a heavy sea, however, all the vessels would go across the bay together for the purpose of protecting the torpedo boats. Once across the bay there would be a general parting. The Emerald would go on to her Station, and, the Minotaur would proceed to Lisbon, where Admiral Hewett will for the first time take over the command of the Channel Squadron from Rear-Admiral C. F. Heneage6, the second in command. From Cape Finisterre the torpedo boats will push on with all possible speed to Malta, and the Polyphemus to Suda Bay."

Anonymous Munificence.—Another anonymous parcel was received on Saturday at the Swanseaf Infirmary. On being opened it was found to contain Bank of England notes to the amount of £600. Upwards of £3,000 has been received in the same mysterious way during the past few years. ELECTION2 INTELLIGENCE.

Halifax.*—The nomination3 took place here on Saturday, and Mr. Stansfeld was returned4 unopposed. He has been member for Halifax for 27 years. a hju'uit — b hae'moend — c gre'vil — d a'shoent — e he'nidzh — f swä'nsii — 6 haelifaeks. 1 bay=Bay of Biscay, wegen ihrer Stürme gefährlich. — 2 Flection, die Parla­ mentswahl wird befohlen durch die Königin, ihr Befehl (warrant) geht an den Lord

Barrow-in-Furness.8—Our Barrow Correspondent, telegpaphing last night, says:—The circulation of the rumour that Mr. Gladstone had sent Mr. W. M. Edmunds to Barrow as an Independent Liberal candidate to oppose the return of MrK W. S. Caineb has caused, during the past few days, great excitement in the borough1, as it was thought stränge that the Premier should oppose the election of one who had always worked with bim, even at personal sacrifice, with the greatest possible loyalty. But it was strongly urged that as Mr. Caine’s views on the Irish question were not exactly in accord with those which it is believed will be embraced in Mr. Gladstones scheme, the Liberal party in London, through the Whips2 in the House of Commons, were determined to fight against Mr. Caine on this ground. It having been contradicted that Mr. Ed­ munds was a candidate sent down to Barrow by the Liberal party, Mr. T. P. O’Connor, M.P., telegraphed on Saturday to Mr. P. O’Brien0, M.P., who is staying in Barrow at present, watching the interests of the Irish party, in Company with Mr. Sexton, M.P., Mr. Flinn, M.P., and Mr. Conway, M.P., as follows:—“Report utterly false that Edmunds has been started by Irish party. He is a Liberal, and represents Liberal disgust at Caine’s perfidy to Gladstone and breach of engagement with the Liberal party Whips.” The editor of the Barrow News telegraphed to Mr. Gladstone as follows:—“The greatest excitement prevails in Barrow to-night in consequence of a report that you have sent William Martin Edmunds to contest Barrow against W. S. Caine because the latter disagrees with your Irish policy. Kindly wire reply as to truth or not of the allegation.” The following reply to this telegram was received: —“In reply to your telegram to Mr. Gladstone of last night I can only say that the Liberais of Barrow will doubtless form their own judgment upon Mr. Caine’s opinions on the Irish question, so far as they a bae'rouin foe'oenoes — b kein — 0 oubra'ioen. Chancellor, der hierauf die Wahlbefehle (Writs) in alle Wahldistrikte sendet. An jedem Wahlplatz wird ein Beamter zur Wahlaufsicht (Returning Officer) ernannt. Das Wählen (Polling) geschieht geheim durch Stimmzettel (by ballot). Der Wähler nimmt einen mit den Namen der verschiedenen Kandidaten bedruckten Stimmzettel, macht ein Kreuz hinter den Namen desjenigen, den er wählt, und wirft ihn in die Wahlurne. Der Aufsichtsbeamte zählt die Stimmen (Votes) und hat bei gleicher Stimmenzahl die Entscheidung (Casting vote). Die Prüfung der Wahl steht jetzt den Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature zu. Der Gewählte kann nur durch Annahme eines Kronamtes wieder austreten; es bestehen zu diesem Zwecke eine An­ zahl Scheinämter: die Verwaltung (Stewardship) der Chiltern Hundreds, oder der Manors of East Hendred, Northstead oder Hempholme, nach deren Verleihung er seinen Sitz aufgeben muß. — 3 nomination, Aufstellung des Kandidaten zur Parlamentswahl. — 4 returned, gewählt. 1 borough, Wahlbezirk. — 3 Whips, Peitscher, hier die Parlamentsmitglieder, welche bei wichtigen Abstimmungen dafür sorgen, daß die Partei möglichst vollzählig erscheint; whips bezeichnet eigentlich bei Hetzjagden die Führer der Meute, welche die Hunde mit Peitschen (whips) anfeuern und leiten.

are able to do so from bis declarations and Speeches. Mr. Gladstone bas been able to form no judgment on the Subject. There is no foundation whatever for the report that Mr. Edmunds was sent by Mr. Glad­ stone to oppose Mr. Caine. We first heard of Mr. Edmunds’s candidature through the daily papers.—Arnold Morley."6 From this telegram it is clear that Mr. Edmunds has been brought out by the Irish party. He was nominated by that party and is now in regulär consultation with the responsible Nationalists, whose names are given above, as well with Mr. Sweeneyb, the organizing secretary of the party, who is at present in Barrow. Mr. Edmunds has issued a supplementary address, in which he states that, having seen a letter in which a Barrow elector expresses regret that no Gladstonian candidate has come forward, he begs to announce that he is “a Gladstonian candidate, entirely in favour of Mr. Gladstone’s Irish policy, and believes that bis is the only Cabinet which can settle the present question." Mr. Edmunds has stated that if it could be shown that Mr. Gladstone was not opposed to the candida­ ture of Mr. Caine he would at once retire. There is, therefore, some expectation that Mr. Edmunds will return to London this morning after being put in possession of Mr. Gladstone’s views as given in the above telegram. The strängest part of the story is that, although Mr. Ed­ munds disclaims all connexion with the Irish party, he is in constant communication with the Nationalist leaders, and was nominated by a prominent member of the Irish party in Barrow. The matter is still further complicated by the fact, as shown by the official notice published in Saturday’s papers, that Mr. Edmunds is secretary to the British Home Rule Association. The licensed victuallers1 have resolved to Support the candidature of Mr. Bruce. The populär feeling is that Mr. Caine will be strong enough to win over both opponents. Mr. Caine held the closing meeting of bis candidature in the Drill-hall2, Barrow, on Saturday night. The hall was crowded in every part, about 3,000 persons being present. A vote of confidence in Mr. Caine was passed unanimously. In the course of a long address Mr. Caine remarked that the views he had expressed with regard to Ireland were the same views he had expressed at Scarboroughc on becoming a member of Mr. Gladstone’s last Administration, and upon those views he would ask them to elect him now. He would say to bis Irish friends, learn the history of the country and remember that one or other of the great parties in the State must gratify their reasonable demand for self-government. A scheme such as a mä'äU — b swi'ini — c ska'abroe. 1 licensed victuallers, eig. Verkäufer von Lebensmitteln, die einen Erlaubnis­ schein (license) zum Ausschank von geistigen Getränken gelöst haben, jetzt der juri­ stische Ausdruck für Wirte (publicans) und Verkäufer geistiger Getränke überhaupt. — 2 Drill-hall, Exerzierhaus.

he had sketched in his address and Speeches would he the greatest boon that Ireland had received. during the whole history of the 1 connexion of the two countries. It was a right and one which he was anxious and willing to concede. Several questions were asked, one of which was, Would Mr. Caine if returned to Parliament see that Lord Randolph Churchilla was kept in his proper place? (Laughter.) Mr. Caine, in reply, said that it had not yet been satisfactorily decided what was Lord Ran­ dolph Churchills proper place, and he was afraid he would have quite sufficient to do without undertaking the herculean task of keeping Lord Randolph in Order. Mr. Sexton, M.P., addressed a large meeting this (Sunday) afternoon in the Drill-hall, Darrow, and remarked that it had fallen to the town of Darrow at this election to play an important part in the most critical juncture of affairs in connexion with the United Kingdom that had arisen in the memory of living man. He would not have been among them had it not been for the declaration made by Mr. Caine on the Irish question. He was entitled to complain that Mr. Caine, in dealing with that question, instead of doing so on its merits, went upon side issues.1 Mr. Caine had said that it would be a terrible day for Ireland when she was separated from Great Dritain. Who had asked for Separation? (Cheers and “Parnell.”) Not the Irish party, their demand was not for Separation. They desired that the Im­ perial Parliament should deal with Imperial affairs and that Ireland should be free to deal with those with which only Irishmen were concerned. If there was a dynger of Separation between the two countries it was by continuing the present System. If they returned Mr. Caine upon his present address they would return him to the House of Com­ mons pledged to vote against Mr. Gladstone in that which would be the final and crowning measure of Mr. Gladstone’s long and illustrious public life. Whatever might be known or not known of Mr. Gladstone’s proposals, it was certain that a statesman of his experience, his skill and sympathy would never think of bringing forward a Dill for Ireland which would reject and ignore the essence of the Irish demand by refusing to an Irish assembly any powers whatever for dealing with the affairs of the country. He concluded by advising Irishmen to vote for the Conservative candidate. Mr. Gainsford Drucesb vote would only mean one, but if Mr. Caine was returned he might influence a score of members to vote against Mr. Gladstone. The Press Association states that on Saturday a deputation of the Irish party called on Mr. Caine, and promised him their Support if he would pledge himself to Support Mr. Gladstone’s Irish policy. Mr. Caine refused to bind himself in any way, and rejected the offer of their Support on those grounds. a rae'ndälf tshoe'oetshil — b ge'inzfoed bru'usiz. 1 side issues, nebensächliche Punkte.

Huntingd onshire .—Colonel Montagnea has declined to come for­ ward again as a Conservative candidate for the Southern Division. The local Conservative association has, however, secured the Services as a candidate of Mr. A. Smith-Barry, High Sheriff1 *of* *Cork. Mr. SmithBarry was formerly a Liberal, but he is now prepared to give a hearty Support to Lord Salisbury? Ipswich.0—Mr. Charles Dalrympled, in bis address to the electors of Ipswich, says that the country is disturbed by wild and novel projects in reference to Ireland, of which not a hint was given by Mr. Gladstone when the recent appeal to the country was made. He asks the electors at this crisis to declare with unfaltering emphasis for the maintenance of the,Empire in its widest sense, and hopes that the pre­ sent Government will learn that the country demands the preservation of the Union with Ireland as well as the restoration of law and Order there. Mr. Ind, the other Conservative candidate, has not issued an address, and it is generally believed that he has withdrawn from the contest, although no official announcement has yet been made. Sir Horace Daveye and Lord John Herveyf addressed a large meeting of the Eadical Association on Saturday night. Norwich.^—The writ for the election of a member of Parliament for Norwich, in the place of Mr. H. Bullardh, Conservative, unseated on petition, was received in Norwich on Saturday, and the Sheriff has fixed Wednesday, the 7th inst., for the nomination, and Monday, the 12th, for the election. On Saturday a meeting of Conservatives was convened at the Agricultural-hall to hear an address from Mr. Samuel Hoare, who unsuccessfully contested North Norfolk1 at the general elec­ tion, with a view to accepting him as a candidate. Mr. Hoare was introduced to the meeting by Mr. Bullard, and at the conclusion of his address it was resolved to submit Mr. Hoare’s name to a mass meeting of electors on Tuesday next as a candidate for the representation of the city. No candidate on the Liberal side has yet come forward. a mä'ntoegjuu — b lääd sä/älzbr1 — c fpswitsh — d dae'lrimpoel — e de'iv1 — f hoe'oev1 — 6 nä'ridzh — h buloed — * nä'äfoek. 1 High Sheriff, wird auf Vorschlag des Lord Lieutenant, des obersten, auf Lebenszeit ernannten Beamten einer Grafschaft, durch einen Nadelstich der Königin durch die Kandidatenliste gewählt (pricked); während der Lord Lieutenant als Vertreter der Königin die Miliz befehligt und das Archiv verwaltet, hat der Sheriff als Hauptfriedensbewahrer der Grafschaft für die öffentliche Ruhe und Ordnung zu sorgen; er hat neben den Justices of the Peace die niedere Gerichtsbarkeit und sorgt für die Ausführung der Urteile der höheren Gerichtshöfe; er leitet die Wahlen für das Parlament und hat die Aufsicht über die Gefängnisse der Grafschaft. Die Annahme des Amtes kann nicht abgelehnt werden, doch braucht es niemand länger als ein Jahr zu verwalten. In der Regel wird der H. 8. in seinem Amte von einem Deputy S. vertreten.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The important concluding remark of Mr. Mundella’s Speech to us the other day seems to have escaped the reporters. I took it down at the time, and I think it is worth putting on record, because we have taken some pains to point out that countervailing a bounty is not protection, and that the entire or partial removal of the bounties upon foreign refined sugar would have no appreciable effect on the price of refined sugar, the differences being merely between selling a fraction above instead of a fraction below cost price, and therefore would not be of any practical importance to the consumer or the maker of jams and confectionery. Mr. Mundella said:—"If we could do anything which would be economically sound, which would not strike a blow at kindred In­ dustries , and would not injure the consumer we should be most glad to do it.” I am, &c., GEORGE MARTINEAU.» 21, Mincing-lane, April 2.

The Unemployed.—The street collection in aid of the unemployed, undertaken at the request of the Lord Mayor by the Organization of the Hospital Saturday Fund2, took place on Saturday. About 1,000 of the ladies who usually collect in the streets of London on the recurrence of Hospital Saturday were present at their customary stations throughout the metropolis with collecting boxes, but owing mainly to the unavoidable haste with which the arrangements were made the collection was confined to a somewhat. smaller area than that covered on Hospital Saturday, and there is reason to believe that the Oxford and Cambridge boat race adversely affected the collection in several districts. Outside the Mansion-house, the Royal Exchange, the Bank of England, and at other busy centres of the City large sums were, it is believed, obtained. At the dose of the collection, the boxes were conveyed to the Cyprus Restaurant, Cheapside, and thence removed, in vans lent by the Great Eastem Railway Company, to the Mansion-house. Here their Contents will be counted this evening by a staff of 40 bank clerks, organized and directed by Mr. W. H. Nichols, of the City Bank, who have volunteered their gratuitous Services for this purpose. a ma'atinou.

1 bounties, Rückvergütungen, Exportbonifikationen. — 2 Hospital Saturday Fund, ursprünglich wurde alljährlich nur an einem bestimmten Sonntag (Hospital Sunday) in allen Kirchen eine Kollekte für die Hospitäler erhoben, daneben findet jetzt an einem bestimmten Sonnabend eine Sammlung in den Straßen statt.

MEETING OF SCHOOL MANAGEESA On Saturday the Bishop of London, Sir Lyon Playfair, M.P., VicePresident of the Council12, the Rev. J. R. Diggle, chairman of the London School Board, and many members of the London School Board attended the annual meeting of local managers of the Board schools.3 The meeting was held in Exeter-hall, and was presided over by Mr. Sydney Buxton, chairman of the Committee of representative managers. A report was presented by Mr. Doll, the honorary secretary of the re­ presentative committee, and it stated that the Objects the association bad in view, in promoting a knowledge of the duties of school management, improving the working of the schools, and bringing the whole body of managers in touch with the Board itself, were being more and more brought about. The Chairman having thanked the Bishop of London, Sir Lyon Playfair, and the chairman of the London School Board for attending the meeting, remarked, with regard to the administration of the London Board schools, that he thought and the managers belieyed with him that the present Board, in endeavouring to secure economy by diminishing-the staffs of the schools, were beginning at the wrong end, and in a männer which would lead to the evils of pressure upon both teachers and children. With regard to the exclusion of children from school for not bringing their fees, he held that it would have been better for the Board to have taken such action as would have kept the children in school, while the parents who could pay, and would not pay, were dealt with under the law. At present this condition of things existed—that the children were forced into the schools by the Board under the strong arm of the law, and were thrust out by the action of the Board on the question of fees. By the adoption of a new plan, by which the children were sent away if they did not bring their fees, the Board were playing into the hands of the worst dass of parents. He expressed the hope that the chairman of the London School Board would be able to contradict the statement recently made that the new Board were striving to “pack”4 the various bodies of local managers with persons of particular views, and to this end rejecting the nominees of the ma­ nagers themselves. If the Board had taken this course their action would strike at the interest which managers were expected to take in the schools. (Hear.) 1 School Managers, Volksschuldirekloren. — 2 Vice-President of the Council, zweiter Vorsteher des Staatsrats (Privy Council), eigentlich V.P. of the Committee of Council. — 3 Board schools, Elementarschulen unter städtischer Aufsicht (School Board); die höheren Schulen Englands sind fast alle Stiftsschulen oder Privatschulen; vom Staate unterhaltene Schulen giebt es in England ebensowenig, wie ein Mini­ sterium des Unterrichts. — 4 pack, vollstopfen.

The Bishop of London moved the adoption of the report, and said he cordially supported the principle that managers in all parts of Lon­ don superintending the details of elementary education should he formed into an association in Order that they might take concerted action and he animated by a common zeal. He hoped that the managers in the various localities would, in course of time, have all the power they desired in regard to the appointment of teachers; but, at the same time, he impressed upon them the importance of managers taking all precautions to see that teachers were not appointed for intellectual qualifications alone. It was of the highest importance that first consideration should be given to the teacher who was trustworthy in regard to moral teaching, and bad the power to impress children with a strong sense of duty. The teacher who had this power, and who must, therefore, be a moral and religious man with a strong sense of duty himself, was far above one who had mere intellectual qualifications only as shown in certificates and testimonials. In speaking of religious Instruction, his Lordship said he wished it to be distinctly understood that he was not advocating the teaching of any particular religious views, for to do so would be contrary to the principles which should actuate them in the discharge of a public duty. Matters in regard to education, especially in regard to elementary education, were still in a transitional state. It was not to be pretended that elementary education in this country was as good as it should be. There was a great temptation on the part of teachers to go too fast—that was to say, to teach higher Subjects without sufficiently securing proficiency in the earlier stages. When he was Head-master of Rugby8 he necessarily had a great deal to do with the schools wherein boys were prepared for Rugby, and the worst of these were the schools which professed to take the boys furthest, for the boys taught in these schools had the most to make up in not having a thorough grasp of the Subjects which should have gone first. (Hear.) School­ masters were greatly under temptation to press on; but a good school­ master would hold himself in hand, and be Content, at the cost, certainly, of weary drudgery, to make the ground-work of education sure. Ele­ mentary school teachers, especially, must be Content to do this, and they had to remember that systematic education was still in its infancy in this country and that they had to overcome the evils of long neglect. When the present race of children were grown up and their children came under the schoolmaster there would be a change; but it would not be until the then succeeding generation of children came into the schoolmaster s hands that complete success would come, for the children would then come from educated parents, and the change would be marvellous. But the Board, the managers, and the teachers must not attempt a ra'gb1.

to hurry the work, or by going too fast they would spoil all. As a school inspector it had been bis duty to report on the “defects in education,” and he stated that without doubt the great defects in our educational System arose from a neglect of “the beginnings.” He had found boys who were considerably advanced terribly puzzled by small matters, and managers, whose position warranted the inference that they took an interest in education, would do well if they steered the teachers clear of the dangers around the assessment1 of teaching “by results,” and it would be found that the teaching of a few things well was far better than teaching many things ill. (Cheers.) Sir Lyon Playfair seconded the motion, and said that though he had risen no higher in the educational ranks than to a professorship, yet he had, by the events of political life, been placed in Charge of the public elementary schools of the country. After speaking of the advantage the country had received from the managers in the voluntary schools, the Speaker said that he approved the view that the managers should co-operate together so as to carry out the important work on distinct lines, and he dwelt upon the value, from his own experience,of Conferences between those who were engaged in school work. It was unnecessary, he said, to speak in these days upon the advantages of education; but he was desirous of bearing his testimony to the influence which the work of those engaged in education would have upon the future destinies of the country. There was at the present time a very general concurrence as to the depression in trade and commerce—not in one place but all over the world. There must be a universal cause for this universal depression, and it was the duty of those concerned in the administration of affairs to find out the cause of this position of manufacture, trade, and commerce. His own Impression was that much of this was due to the fact that the world had not been able to adapt itself to the great and rapid changes made by the advance of Science. The means of rapid production and rapid communication by machinery, telegraph, and steam had caused all advantages given by local experience and by special knowledge to be lost, and the world was now striving to adapt itself to the changes which had come over every part of the globe. The commerce of every town and of every country had altered, and the people had to meet these new circumstances. It was his belief that the new competition would be an intellectual one—that local ad­ vantages would be of little avail in this struggle, and that new training of the intellectual powers of the people would be a great factor in the success or non-success of a country in trade, manufacture, and com­ merce. (Hear.) G-ermany and France feit this, and were striving hard —indeed, were making gigantic efforts—by general and technical edu1 assessment, Beurteilung»!

cation to obtain a foremost place in the competition, kor those who governed them feit that which was undoubtedly true—that the best educated people would rule in the future under the altered conditions wrought by the advancement of Science. The school managers had, therefore, a great and worthy task in pressing on the work of populär education, and in directing that work which would if worthily carried out enable this nation to maintain the high position it had hitherto held in manufacture and trade. (Cheers.) Several managers and teachers then spoke. The Rev. J. R. Diggle a, the Chairman of the London School Board, on the Invitation of Mr. Buxton, addressed the meeting. He denied the statement that the Board was “packing" the whole bodies of managers with clergymen of the Church of England, and also that the exclusion of children from school on account of the non-payment of fees was a new departure by the new Board. Nearly two years ago, he said, the fee Subject was referred to two committees, who had not reported upon the question, and there was no Intention to exclude children who could not pay. If the parents could not pay then they could obtain remission, and the means of obtaining remission had been made available to the needy; but with the parents who could pay and would not, the Board had to deal in some way. The rev. gentleman then addressed the managers on the question of making appointments to the schools in their particular groups, and urged them not to limit their selections to the teachers whom they knew; but to look to the general promotion list of the Board, in Order to do justice to teachers who had done good work in other localities. After some remarks by the chairman and other Speakers, the report was adopted.

TRURO CATHEDRAL.b TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As a Cornishman I feel ashamed that the clerk of the works of Truro Cathedral should be compelled to appeal for funds to finish the first part of the great work in which he is engaged. One would have thought that some member of the Committee would have undertaken this duty and put the case before bis countymen1, instead of allowing the ladies, who have done so much for the inferior of the building, to be asked for further contributions. There are a great many Cornishmen living in London, and for the matter of that in all parts a di'goel — b tru'urou koejn'idroel.

1 countymen, Leute aus derselben Grafschaft.

of the world, but for so small a sum as £2,500 I should hope 50 could he found to subscribe £50 each without going far afield. I enclose my card, and I shall be glad if you will send it with this conditional promise to the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, who is chairman of the Executive Committee. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, April 2. A NON-RESIDENT CORNISHMAN. The Kennington Election Petition.—The hearing of the petition presented against the return of Mr. Gent-Davis a for the Kennington Di­ vision of Lambeth, which is the last of the election petitions arising out of the late general election, will begin this morning, before Mr. Justice Eieid and Mr. Justice Day, in Queen’s Bench Court II., at 12 o clock. The petition contains the usual allegations of bribery, treating1, and corruption, but the seat is not claimed.2 Mr. Pope, Q.C., Mr. Gully, Q.C., and Mr. Asquith will appear for the petitioners, Messrs. Cross­ man, Garlick, and others; Mr. H. Matthews, Q.C., Mr. Mattinson, and Mr. Macaskieb will represent the respondent; and Mr. H. C. Richards will appear for some members of the Conservative party whose names are mentioned in the petition. The case is expected to last three days at least.

THE GEEEK GEISTS. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

ATHENS, March 28. On Friday last I attempted to telegraph to you the Publication of the decree for the mobilization of the two new classes of the Army, with the report of the Intention to make further calls3, and adding that "The deaths in the present force, not above 45,000 effective, aver­ age 1,000 per month, the weather remaining very severe, snow having fallen last night in sight of Athens.” The telegram was returned to me near midnight, with the endorsement that it was stopped because the passage on the health of the Army was false. That it is within the truth the Government has every means of knowing; if it will not employ them, I may. The estimate of the army now under the Standards given me from various sources is from 40,000 to 45,000 men. To the nominal call for 72,000 rank and file there has never been the full response, and we may conjecture variously the actual number presenting themselves. Of absentees my Information, direct from the frontier, places a dzhende'ivis — b maekae'sk1. 1 treating, frei Halten. — 2 the seat is not claimed, man verlangt nicht, einen anderen an die Stelle des Angefochtenen zu setzen, sondern nur eine Neuwahl. — 3 calls, Aushebungen, Einberufungen.

of the world, but for so small a sum as £2,500 I should hope 50 could he found to subscribe £50 each without going far afield. I enclose my card, and I shall be glad if you will send it with this conditional promise to the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, who is chairman of the Executive Committee. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, April 2. A NON-RESIDENT CORNISHMAN. The Kennington Election Petition.—The hearing of the petition presented against the return of Mr. Gent-Davis a for the Kennington Di­ vision of Lambeth, which is the last of the election petitions arising out of the late general election, will begin this morning, before Mr. Justice Eieid and Mr. Justice Day, in Queen’s Bench Court II., at 12 o clock. The petition contains the usual allegations of bribery, treating1, and corruption, but the seat is not claimed.2 Mr. Pope, Q.C., Mr. Gully, Q.C., and Mr. Asquith will appear for the petitioners, Messrs. Cross­ man, Garlick, and others; Mr. H. Matthews, Q.C., Mr. Mattinson, and Mr. Macaskieb will represent the respondent; and Mr. H. C. Richards will appear for some members of the Conservative party whose names are mentioned in the petition. The case is expected to last three days at least.

THE GEEEK GEISTS. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

ATHENS, March 28. On Friday last I attempted to telegraph to you the Publication of the decree for the mobilization of the two new classes of the Army, with the report of the Intention to make further calls3, and adding that "The deaths in the present force, not above 45,000 effective, aver­ age 1,000 per month, the weather remaining very severe, snow having fallen last night in sight of Athens.” The telegram was returned to me near midnight, with the endorsement that it was stopped because the passage on the health of the Army was false. That it is within the truth the Government has every means of knowing; if it will not employ them, I may. The estimate of the army now under the Standards given me from various sources is from 40,000 to 45,000 men. To the nominal call for 72,000 rank and file there has never been the full response, and we may conjecture variously the actual number presenting themselves. Of absentees my Information, direct from the frontier, places a dzhende'ivis — b maekae'sk1. 1 treating, frei Halten. — 2 the seat is not claimed, man verlangt nicht, einen anderen an die Stelle des Angefochtenen zu setzen, sondern nur eine Neuwahl. — 3 calls, Aushebungen, Einberufungen.

the figure at 13,000, some deserters, but more home on permission, as there is no pretence of keeping up the drill and discipline of camp. The figure of 5,000 dead comes to me from various sources, confirmed by the estimate of personages interested in knowing the exact truth and well-informed from the various localities; and, as items, I give a few that have come to me from good authority. In and about Larissa, where the total of the force is 23,000 men, there have been 119,000 entries into the hospitals; and, as Larissa is most favourably situated for supplies and succour of all kinds, being at the end of the VoloLarissa“ railway, we may accept the death-rate as a low one, but at Tirnovo and Triccala the mortality is severe. A friend, a relative of whom is a medical officer at one of the stations near the frontier, teils me that a letter just received from this officer states the mortality at from two and a-half to three per Cent, per month, the winter having been of a very severe nature in that elevated Situation. I hear of one family having lost three sons out of four who went into the army; and of one village in Euboeab which sends a contingent of 70 men, of whom 20 are already dead. This kind of Information the Government endeavours by any means to suppress and, therefore, stopped my tele­ gram. The estimate of 5,000 dead is, I believe, moderate. Deducting the 13,000 absentees—and of some of the regiments fully half are on leave—and 9,000 for the garrisons and in the depöts1, I believe a mo­ derate estimate, we have 45,000 on the frontier line as effective, supposing the entire 72,000 to have responded;2 and of these 5,000 have died since the mobilization, or a rate of about 1,000 per month. If the whole levy had been present we might have calculated on the destruction of the army by disease by the time the Ministry was ready to declare war. Naturally these things are most carefully concealed from the people, who are led to believe that the Ministry means war and has a magnificent army on the frontier ready to meet, at a moderate estimate, twice the number of Turkish troops, who are stated in the official Journals to be starving, freezing, and deserting in immense numbers, several hundreds having appeared in the Greek lines. My own Information from persons recently arrived from Macedonia is, on the contrary, that, without being in the condition of a German or English army, the Turks are in fair condition and generally well fed and clothed. If there are sections where the contrary is the case, it will be as it has always been in modern Turkish armies. That the spring time has not yet come to relieve either Greek or Turk from the inclemency of an almost unparalleled winter the snow a vo'ulou laeri'sae — b jubi'iae. 1 depöts, Garnisonen der Ersatztruppen. — 2 responded, Folge geleistet, sich gestellt.

which has fallen on Parnes and even on Hymettus* within the past two days is proof to us here, while the bitter and furious north winds have made fires necessary to comfort at a time of the year when ordinarily the heat of the midday is oppressive. And now to eclipse, by comparison, all the old follies of the Go­ vernment, we have a summons of the Ässembly to enable the Ministry to call out three more classes, those of men of 30, 31, and 32 years of age, mostly men with families, and to pour out another flood of paper money in the shape of a Ioan of legal tender banknotes, for the absolute ruin of all the agricultural and industrial prospects of the country, the destruction of the currency, and the bankruptcy of the Government, if, indeed, the last is not already secured. The money derived from the last bank Ioans is exhausted already, and many of the employes1 of the Government are no longer paid. The Ioan of £20,000,000 announced in an Athens despatch to London being pure myth, a new and speedy Ioan is necessary to keep up the apparent preparations for war. As the army law has not provided for the cadres2 of the three classes it is proposed still to call out3, the Ässembly must be consulted, and will probably vote whatever the Ministry asks for. The call of the last two classes of troops has already developed very serious discontent throughout the country, and even here in Athens the number of those who take sober views of matters is increasing, and I am convinced that the better part of the nation would rejoice in an opportunity to escape from the Ministry and from war by any loophole which gave visible satisfaction to the national pride. It ought to know that M. Delyannis is a probable bar to any such concession on the part of the Powers, for there could not be found in Greece a statesman less acceptable to the Powers than the present President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs. His facile evasions and undiplomatic devices have already embroiled him with the most important Legations here. To the affair with Sir Horace Rumboldb, accurately described in a late letter from your Paris Correspondent, he added the incident, which has also been reported, of the gross violation of diplomatic propriety in respect of the confidential communication of the German Minister4, and to this a similar offence towards the Italian repräsentative. This diplomatist, having made a visit to the Greek Minister5 on some matter not of an international nature, but pertaining to Italian Interests in Greece and strictly confidential, a semi-official Journal gave a report of the inter­ view immediately, adding that Count Curtopassi had taken occasion to apologize for the attitude Italy had taken in the demonstration, which, a hime'toes — b ra'mbould. 1 employes, Angestellte. — 2 cadres, Stammmannschaften. — 3 call out, ausheben. — 4 Minister, Gesandter. — 5 Minister, Minister. The Times.

it was added, he stated to have been taken unwillingly, &c. This, like the other indiscretions as to the English and German Ministers, could only have originated with the Prime Minister, there being no third party present at the meeting, and it was instantly followed by a disavowal from the Italian Minister and a demand for an official denial of the statements attributed to him. Assertions, denials, and disavowals of minor importance are not infrequent, and make it evident that the Prime Minister is a bungler at deception, not from love of truth, but from want of Cleverness. If my Information is correct, he has become personally most obnoxious to the Governments whose influence it is of the highest importance for Greece to gain, and his retirement from office may be said to be almost a sine qua non1 for any change in the attitude of the Powers towards Greece or for the Initiation of any negotiations in view of advantages to be given her. And for my own part I am most certain that any opportunity given to M. Delyannis to come out of this crisis with honour would be a disaster to Greece only less than defeat by the Turks, if, indeed, it were not the worse of the two. The best Interests of the future of Greece demand the total destruction of all populär influence of this dass of paltering demagogues, and the established conviction that no man can benefit the country by shams and false pretences, corruption and political malfeasance, but that if the nation is to be favoured by Europe, it must be in the interest of good government and for the strengthening of the hands of men who deserve public confidence. Whom to put in the place of M. Delyannis is, so far, an insoluble probiern. He has industriously spread the conviction that he means to make war and that Greece would have bettered her position by war, knowing that both hypotheses were untenable, and M. Tricoupis, who is the only man who could have made war or who can be counted on to make peace, is met by these superstitions still firm in the populär mind. M. Tricoupis is indifferent to personal popularity, but he is bound not to assume office under circumstances which will increase the popu­ larity of a Ministry which has only inflicted disaster on the country, and whose return to power would be a worse disaster. He can only assume power to make peace, because he distinctly recognizes the inability of the country to sustain a war under the present conditions of almost total lack of preparation and money. Knowing that a fortunate war is out of human possibilities, he will not take office to make war, and if an ignominious surrender is to be made, he declines to take the ignominy off the shoulders of the Minister responsible for provoking it. Unless, therefore, he sees that he can gain for the country some consolation, if it be only for its amour-propre, in making peace, he naturally and wisely refuses to accept any responsibility in the matter. 1 a sine qua non, ergänze conditio, eine unerläßliche Bedingung.

While, therefore, I hold that to make any concession to M. Delyannis’s bluster and menace would be not only absurd on the part of the Powers but really dangerous to the future of Greece, as teaching that such nonsense can influence Europe, it would be sound policy for the Powers to attempt to gain for Greece under other auspices some recognition which would so strengthen the hands of M. Tricoupis as to enable him to keep his control of public opinion. Certain methods have been suggested to the Powers which would fulfil these conditions without compromising the dignity of the Porte, and yet enable M. Tricoupis to assume the government. In default of any such solution I am convinced that the only way to a durable Settlement is to leave the Turks and Greeks free to act and liable to any consequences. The war would be short, and all that Greece could do by sea would not prolong it a week, because one battle in the plains of Thessalya would decide the war. The Greeks dream of what they call a "national war—" i. e.1, one in which every man shall take a gun and fight in his own fashion; but the holding such a delusion shows how far they are from understanding the conditions of warfare in modern times. The Greek army is not constituted to endure a reverse or make an advance; the opinion of impartial military authorities, so far as I know, is that it is not fit to sustain an attack from the Turkish army. If the battle is lost, Volo and the road to Tirnovo fall into the hands of the Turks, and the whole army in that province must surrender for want of food, which can only reach it by Volo. If the Turks are beaten, as the Greeks are not ready to follow up any advantage or to invade effectively, they cannot profit. They would have, however, a right to substantial concessions , which the Powers could then with justice insist on, and the Sultan would probably make. But I have no hope that the Greeks will be victorious, and every neutral military opinion I can gather, with many of Greeks as well, is of this colour. And the more I study the position the less I see any permanent or even real temporary good to result from coercion, as this would save M. Delyannis, and the Greeks would gain nothing and leam nothing, which for Greece is the worst result possible. Of course I speak not knowing what the present exigencies of the European position may be, apart from Greece. Your Constantinople (Korrespondent has been misinformed as to torpedo boats among the Islands. There have been no movements except to Poros (where the fleet is now), Chalcisb, and back to Salamis; but there was a proposition made by certain parties in Grete to blow up English ships if a torpedo boat was sent them at Suda. The Greek Government would certainly authorize no such movement, but its cona pe'soel1 — b kae'lsis. 1 i. 6., that is (id est).

trol is very weak. An expedition has been planned for Macedonia, to he composed of Cretans, but the chiefs decline it. We are told that there will be a great demonstration on the 25th of March (old style), the day of Greek independence, and that then the Government will be driven to show its band. Meanwhile, I hear from Upper Thessaly that beyond Larissa there is a total want of Order or Organisation, incredible waste, and neither commissariat1 nor transport. The Government is just now sending to Italy for mules.

THE SCOTCH DISESTABLISHMENT2 QUESTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—Matters of far more urgent importance are now before us than the question of Disestablishment either in England or in Scotland, and I have no desire to encumber your columns with any controversy upon an issue which is certainly at least postponed. But there is one passage in Mr. Gladstone’s Speech last night on Dr. Cameron’s motion against which I desire to enter some protest. It is the passage in which he seems to represent the non-established3 branches of the Presbyterian Church4 in Scotland as maintaining the doctrines and discipline common to them all, "if possible with greater vigour and precision" than the Established Church. This is not, in my opinion, a fair or an accurate representation of the facts. It may be true that the non-established bodies push the doctrine of “spiritual independence" to an extreme—to such an extreme, indeed, that they themselves do not enjoy and never can enjoy that in­ dependence in the sense in which they assert it. But it is equally true that they are not upholding with any "vigour or precision" the doctrine of an Establishment. It is beyond dispute that this principle was quite as fundamental as the other in the undivided Presbyterian Church;5 and a large section of the Free Church, and of laymen in all branches, are justly dissatisfied with the abandonment of a principle held so long and so determinedly. 1 commissariat, Proviantamt. — 2 *Disestablishment, Trennung vom Staate, Entstaatlichung. — 8 non-established, nicht vom Staate unterstützt. — 4 Presby­ terian Church, die Kirche, welche von Presbytern (Geistlichen und Kirchenältesten), nicht von Bischöfen, wie die English Episcopal Church, regiert wird. — 6 undivided Presbyterian Church, schottische Kirche vor der Trennung (Disruption) in ‘Free Church of Scotland’ und ‘The Established Church of Scotland’ (Staatskirche). Die Trennung wurde 1843 durch Meinungsverschiedenheit über das Entscheidungsrecht des Staates in kirchlichen Angelegenheiten veranlaßt und hauptsächlich durch den Theo­ logen Dr. Thomas Chalmers durchgeführt.

There are not many men now alive who knew Dr. Chalmersa more intimately than I did. He honoured me, when very young, with much of bis confidence on these questions, and I possess many of bis letters. I can vouch for two tbings respecting bis opinions:—First, that to the last he held firmly, almost passionately, to the principle of Establishment; and, secondly, that he looked to the abolition of patronage as the one measure which would accomplish for spiritual independence all that could be desired. This has been now done, and the element of civil rights has been eliminated to an extent and a degree in which it cannot be eliminated as regards the so-called “Free” Churches. Every one of them which possesses a shilling’s-worth of property must be Subject to the Civil Courts in respect thereof. Not one of them can change its own identity by change of doctrine without the risk of losing its possessions. Not one of them, therefore, can ever possess that absolute spiritual independence which, with much “vigour” but with no “precision,” they are complimented by Mr. Gladstone for asserting. Your obedient servant, Inverary,b March 31. ARGYLL.1

NAVY AND ARMY REVIREMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The Gazette2 of March 25 notifies the promotion of two most distinguished retired generals to the rank of field-marshal, one belonging to a seniority corps.3 In your record of their Services you give their ages as 87 and 83 years. Admirals of the fleet, their seniors in rank, are compulsorily retired at 70 and admirals at 65 years, when both are shelved4 for ever. The field-marshal, being worthily treated, is not subjected to that awful indignity, and the retired general is promoted to field-marshal on the active list. The field-marshal, in point of emolument, can receive full pay, £4,500 per annum, other commands or appointments, colonelcies of regiments, &c. The admiral of the fleet is condemned to the hard-and-fast5 rule of bis half-pay, £1,222 per annum, as the maximum, and is the only officer in either Service who actually gets nothing on being compulsorily retired, in spite of the following Gazette notice. On the 22d day of a tsha'almoez — b invcerge'r1. 1 Argyll = Duke of Argyll, Edelleute zeichnen nur mit dem letzten Namen ihres Titels. — 2 Gazette, London G., ältester noch jetzt bestehender Staalsanzeiger, Regierungsblatt, 1665 in Oxford gegründet. — 3 seniority corps, die ältesten Offi­ ziere eines Corps bilden das s. c. — 4 shelved, beiseite gestellt, pensioniert. — 6 hardand-fast, unabänderlich.

February, 1870, the Lords Commissioners of the Admira^ty1 addressed the Queens most Excellent Majesty in Council2 as follows:—“We would further submit to your Majesty some temporary provisions which we are humbly of opinion will fully compensate officers whose future prospects are affected, and allay any possible feelings of regret at being compulsorily retired from the active lists of your Majesty’s Navy.” What can be strenger, though it seems to me a perfect mockery? I rejoice that the Army is considered as it should be. But why not the Navy? My brothers were all soldiers, and next to a sailor I love a soldier. . It has been the Navy's proud privilege to take soldiers to the enemy’s country, after Clearing the way thither, and bring them hörne covered with glory; also to protect them, their food and comforts, when in Great Britain. All this seems to be perfectly forgotten, and it would be a placid sailor, indeed, who could view the above complacently. These two retirement schemes are works of the same Minister, the Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers? Comment seems to me a waste of your valuable space. I am, Sir, your humble servant, ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET THOMAS SYMONDS? Torquay®, April 2.

THE ABBE LISZT. The Abbe Liszt arrived in England on Saturday afternoon from Calais4, accompanied by Madame Munkacsy®, Mr. Bache, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Stavenhagen, and Mr. Littleton, jun. The party travelled by the Dover Continental boat express to Pengef, where the train was specially stopped to allow the composer to alight. It bad been desired by many Hungarians in London to accord a reception to their illustrious compatriot on his arrival at Victoria3, but owing to an alteration in the arrangements, by which, instead of proceeding to Victoria, the Abbe Liszt was enabled to alight at Penge, the project was abandoned at the last moment. Though the arrangement was known to very few of the outside public, there was a little knot of Liszts admirers awaiting the arrival of the train at Penge Station. With the exception of Madame a tshildoez — b si'moenz — c tääki'i — d kae'lis — e mangkae'ksi — f pendzh.

1 Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, oft Admiralty Lords, bilden mit dem ersten und dem ständigen Sekretär (First Secretary, Permanent Secretary) das Marineministerium (Board of Admiralty) und Haben besonders die Ausgaben für die Flotte zu überwachen. Es sind dies 1) The First Lord C., 2) Senior Naval Lord, 3) Second Naval Lord, 4) Third Naval Lord and Controller, 5) Junior Naval Lord, 6) Civil Lord; es sind reine Verwaltungsbeamte, die mit Ausnahme des ständigen Sekretärs mit dem Kabinett wechseln. — 2 Majesty in Council steht für The Privy Council. — 3 Victoria, hier Name einer Endstation der London Chatham and Dover Railway in London.

Munkacsy, who continued her journey to London, the party, on leaving the train, proceeded to the waiting-room, where the Abbe Liszt was warmly welcomed by those who had assembled to witness his arrival. One of the ladies had provided herseif with a basket of flowers, with which she strewed the floor as the musician entered the room. Here Mr. Ferdinand Rath, the founder and vice-chairman of the London Hungarian Association of Benevolence, said a few words in the French and Hungarian languages, bidding the visitor welcome in the name of the members of the association. In respqnse the Abbe briefly expressed his appreciation of the kindly spirit which had been manifested towards him. After shaking hands with some of the little group of bystanders, who pressed around him and were enthusiastic in their expressions of wel­ come, the Abbs proceeded to Westwood-house, Sydenhama, the residence of Mr. Littleton, whose guest he is. He appeared to be in excellent health, and but little fatigued by the journey. In the evening a soiree was held at Westwood-house, Penge, in honour of the Abbe Liszt, when the following, among others, were pre­ sent:—The German Ambassador, the Netherlands Minister and the Countess de Bylandt, the Princess Ghica, Lady Walter Scott, Count Esterhazy, Count Metternich, the Hon. Spencer G. Lyttelton, Sir James D. Linton, Sir George Grove, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Miss Hope Glenn, Mrs. Hutchin­ son, Miss Zimmermann, Mr. and Mrs. Boehm, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Burnand, Mr. and Mrs. Henschel, Mr. Augustus Harris, Dr. and Mrs.1 A. C. Mackenzie, Mr. and Mrs. Mackinlayb (Antoinette Sterling), Mr. and Mrs. Harding Milward, Mr. and Mrs. Orchardson, Mr. and Mrs. Pettie, Mr. and Mrs. Randegger, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rosa, Dr. and Mrs. Schneider, Dr. and Mrs. Stainer, Mr. and Mrs. Winch, Mr. Walter Bache, Mr. J. F. Barnett, Mr. J. Blumenthal, Mr. W. Coenen, Mr. F. Cowen, Mr. W. H. Cummings, Mr. E. Dannreuther, Mr. W. Ganz, Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, Mr. Charles Halls, Mr. F. Hartvigson, Mr. H. Hersee, Mr. W. Kühe, Mr. F. Lamond, Mr. H. J. Lincoln0, Mr. A. Manns.

POSTAL DIFFERENTIAL RATES.2 TO THE EDITOR QFTHE TIMES.

Sir,—Referring to the debates of last night in the House of Com­ mons, we venture to submit that it is unnecessary to travel over both hemispheres with the hon. members3 for Manchester and Wolverhampton

a si'doenoem — b maekfnl1 — c li'nkoen. 1 Mrs., die Universitäts - und Beamtentitel gehen nicht auf die Frau über, da­ gegen nimmt die Frau gewöhnlich den Vornamen ihres Mannes statt ihres eigenen auf Adressen, Visitenkarten rc. an, also hier vielleicht: Mrs. Alexander Charles Mackenzie. — 2 Postal Differential Rates, Verschiedenheit der Portosätze. — 3 hon. members, honourable members, Parlamentsmitglieder werden häufig, namentlich in

to discover anomalies in our postal rates. One instance nearer home sufficiently condemns the System as absolutely absurd, at*1 least from a commercial point of view. A season illustrated price-list containing in addition to type matter sundry small patterns of material, and weighing under 60z.1, costs us 3d. to deliver in London or any part of the United Kingdom. The same book posted in Paris for delivery in London or any part of the United Kingdom costs 20 Centimes, or slightly less than 2d. Or, to present the anomaly in a more striking form, we send a case containing 8,000 to Boulogne, Dieppe, or Paris at a cost of from £14 to £17 for duty and carriage and postage thence to the United Kingdom for £63, making a total of £77 or £80. The cost of same if posted in London being £100. Were a packet of similar description weighing 50 grammes (rather less than 2oz.) posted in Paris, the cost is 5 Centimes (under Jd.), whereas if posted in any part of the United Kingdom for the same destination it would cost l|d. Yours obediently, DEBENHAM» and FREEBODY. Wigmore-street and Welbeck-street, W., March 31. EW ZEALAND.—Further Conver- K.C.M.G., C.B.), they are authorized sions of the Public Debt.—The to in vite holders ot the Debentures4 *of ** Governor and Company of the Bank the under-mentioned Loans to bring in of England2 give notice that, on behalf their DEBENTURES for CONVERSION of the Agents appointed by the Go­ on the following terms:— vernor of New Zealand in Council, FIVE per CENTS, of the LOAN of under the New Zealand Consolidated 1863, REDEEMABLE 1914. Stock Act, 1877, and Amendment Act, For every £100 in Debentures of 1881, and the Consolidated Stock Act, this Loan surrendered with the Coupon 1884 (Sir Francis Dillon Bell,K.C.M.G.3, for the half-year’s interest due 15th and Sir Penrose Goodchild Julyan, July next attached, a new Debenture deboenoem. Debatten nicht mit ihren Namen, sondern nach den Sitzen, die sie vertreten, bezeichnet. — 1 oz., ounces, Lot, das gewöhnliche(Avoirdupois [ae'voedipo'iz]) Gewicht ist: 16 drachms — 1 ounce (oz.), 16 oz. — 1 pound (lb.) — 0,456 kg., 28 lbs. = 1 quarter (qr.), 4 qrs. — 1 hundredweight (cwt)., 20 cwts. — 1 ton — 2240 lbs. — 2 The Governor and Company of the Bank of England, die offizielle Firma der Bank von England. — 8 K.C.M.G., Knight Commander of ‘the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George.’ 1818 gegründeter Orden, blau und rotes Band, Motto: Auspicium melioris aevi, Zeichen besserer Zeit, hat drei Klassen: 1) G.C.M.G., Knight Grand Cross, 2) K.C.M.G, Knight Commander, 3) C.M.G., Companion. — 4 Debentures, Prioritätsobligationen. ‘A Debenture is a document under seal by which a Company charges its property with the payment of money and interest. Its issue is regulated by Act of Parliament (26 & 27 Vic., c. 118, s. 22), and as a Charge it ranks prior to all preference or ordinary Shares and Stock, and the interest has priority over all dividends or interest, whether ordinary or preference, and ranks next to the interest payable on duly authorised Mortgages or Bonds’. (W. Boyle, The Law of English & Foreign Funds etc. 1875. S. 32.)

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for the same amount, bearing interest payable half-yearly at 5 per cent. for six years from löth January, 1886, to 151b January, 1892, when it will be converted into £110 of 4 per Cent. Inscribed Stock;1 or, at the Option of the holder, he may receive £112 10s. of 4 per Cent. Inscribed Stock, bearing interest from Ist May, 1886, and inscribable on or after 2nd April. In the latter case a Scrip Certificate2, with Coupon attached for the interest from löth January to 30th April at 5 per cent. (payable Ist May), will be issued in exchange for the Debentures. FIVE per CENT. TEN-FORTIES3 of the LOANS of 1876 änd 1877, REDEEMABLE after 1888.

For every £100 in Debentures of these Loans, from which the Coupon due Ist March must be detached, £102 of 4 per Cent. Inscribed Stock, bearing interest from Ist May, 1886, and inscribable on or after 2d April. Scrip certificates with Coupon at­ tached for the interest at 5 per cent. from Ist March to 30th April (payable Ist May) will be issued in exchange for the Debentures. FIVE per CENTS, of the LOAN of 1879, REDEEMABLE 1889.

For every £100 in Debentures of this Loan, from which the Coupon due Ist May next must be first detached, £103 of 4 per Cent. Inscribed Stock, bearing interest from Ist May, 1886, and inscribable on or after 2d April. Scrip certificates will be issued in exchange for the Debentures. SIX per CENTS, of the LOAN of 1860, REDEEMABLE 1891.

For every £100 in Debentures of this Loan surrendered, with the Coupon for the half-year’s interest due Ist July next attached, £109 of 4 per Cent. Inscribed Stock, bearing interest from Ist May, 1886, and inscribable on or after 2d April.

Scrip Certificates with Coupon at­ tached for the interest at 6 per cent. from Ist January to 30th April (pay­ able Ist May) will be issued in ex­ change for the Debentures. SIX per CENTS, of the LOAN of 1863, REDEEMABLE 1891.

For every £100 in Debentures of this Loan, from which the Coupon for the half-year’s interest due löth March must be detached, £109 of 4 per Cent. Inscribed Stock, bearing interest from Ist May, 1886, and inscribable on or after 2d April. For every £100 in Debentures sur­ rendered with the Coupon for the halfyear’s interest due löth June next at­ tached, £109 of 4 per Cent. Inscribed Stock, bearing interest from Ist May, 1886, and inscribable on or after 2d April. Scrip certificates with Coupon at­ tached for the interest at 6 per cent. for the broken periods, in each series, up to 30th April (payable Ist May), will be issued in exchange for the De­ bentures. The Inscribed Stock herein mentioned will in every case rank pari passu4 with the New Zealand 4 per Cent. Consolidated Stock already in­ scribed at the Bank of England, with dividends payable half-yearly on Ist May and Ist November, and redeemable at par5 on the Ist November, 1929. All Debentures surrendered for conversion must be deposited not later than Friday, 30th April, 1886, at the Chief Cashier’s office, Bank of Eng­ land, where the necessary forms may be obtained, and must be lest three clear days for examination before scrip certificates can be issued. By the Act 40 and 41 Viel., cap. 59, the revenues of the Colony of New Zealand alone will be Kable in respect of the stock and the dividends thereon, and the Consolidated Fund of the United

1 Inscribed Stock, Staatsschuldverschreibungen, deren Besitzer ins Staatsschul­ denbuch eingeschrieben sind. — 2 Scrip Certificate, Jnterimsschein, welchen die Sub­ skribenten bis zur Ausgabe der Papiere selbst erhalten. — 3 Ten-Forties, rückzahl­ bar in 10 — 40 Jahren. — 4 pari passu, vollständig gleich. — 5 at par, al pari, zum Nennwert.

Kingdom and the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury will not be directly or indirectly liable or responsible for the payment of the stock or of the dividends thereon, or for any matter relating thereto. Bank of England, SthFebruary, 1886. NEW ZEALAND.—OTAGO HARBOUR BOARD CONSOLIDATION FIVE

per CENT. LOAN of £699,000. Debentures to bearer1 of £100, redeemable at par on Ist January, 1934.—Conver­ sion of previous issues of Five and Six per Cent. Debentures.—The Colonial Bank of New Zealand, as Financial Agents for the Otago Harbour Board, give notice that they are authorized to and now inv-ite holders of Debentures of the undermentioned Loans to bring their BONDS for CONVERSION into

Bonds of the Five per Cent. Consolidation Loan—£549,000 of which have been lodged with the agents and set apart for the purposes of suchconversion —on the terms specified below, viz.: — For 1874 Sinking Fund Loan (balance)2, £232,800; for every £97—One Consolidated Debenture of £100. For 1881 Loan of Six per Cent., due 1921, of £100,000; for every £91 15s.—One Consolidated Debenture of £100. For 1882-3 Loan of Five per Cent, due 1921, of £200,000; for every £100 —One Consolidated Debenture of £100. Balances under £100 arising in the conversion will be paid in cash. The Consolidation Debentures, which are payable to bearer, carry Interest at 5 per cent. per annum8, accruing from Ist January, 1886, payable by Coupons half-yearly on Ist January and Ist July, at the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, in London or New Zea­ land. The first Coupon will be payable Ist July, 1886. Bonds for conversion must be lest a mi'doelzbrä.

at the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, 13, Moorgate-Street, thtee clear days for verification, after which holders can, on application, receive Consoli­ dated Debentures in exchange, and pay­ ment in cash of balances under £100. Applications for conversion in the form supplied by the Bank will be received, and the foregoing terms of exchange will be maintained by the Agents of the Otago Harbour Board, at their office, 13, Moorgate-street, E.C., until 30th June, 1886, after which dato the rate of exchange4 of the different Loans will be Subject to revision. The Colonial Bank of New Zealand, 13, Moorgate-street, London, E.C., 13th January, 1886.

RGENTINE GOVERNMENT SIX per CENT. STERLING LOAN of 1882. —Notice is hereby given, that the Fourteenth Quarterly Drawing of the Bonds of this Loan took place in Paris on the Ist inst., when the following NUM­ BERS, representing BONDS for £5,000, were DRAWN for payment at par on the Ist May next:— 691 to 695 1831 — 1835,

The Bonds will be paid on pre­ sent ation at the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, 3, Rue d’Antin, Paris; and at the Comptoir d’Escompte de Paris, 14, RueBerg&re, Paris, at 500fcs. per Bond of £20; and in London at the offices of the undersigned, at £20 per Bond. The Bonds must be lest three clear days for examination. MORTON, ROSE, and Co.

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William Lidderdale, Esq. The Hon.1 Ronald Ruthven Leslie Mel­ ville.4 Samuel Hope Morley, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer®, Esq. Augustus Prevostf, Esq. The Right Hon.2 *Lord Revelstoke. Albert George Sandemang, Esq. Hughh Colin Smith, Esq. Clifford Wigram, Esq. N.B.—The gentleman against whose naine an asterisk is placed is a new candidate for the direction. The Flection for Governor and 1886. HE following is the HOUSE LIST Deputy- Governor will be held at the of GOVERNORS and DIRECTORS Bank on Tuesday, the 6th April, and of the BANK of ENGLAND for the for Directors on Wednesday, the 7th April, from 11 o’clock in the forenoon year ensuing:— till 4 in the afternoon. For GOVERNORS. James Pattison Currie, Esq., Governor. Mark Wilks Collet, Esq., Deputyational Memorial to general Governor. CORDON.—The CORDON BOYS’ For DIRECTORS. HOME. President—H.R.H. the PRINCE of Charles George Arbuthnot, Esq. Henry Wollastona Blake, Esq. WALES, K.G. John William Birch, Esq. Vice-Presidents:— Henry Cosmo Orme Bonsor, Esq., M.P. H.R.H. the DUKE of EDINBURGH, K.G. H.R.H. the DUKE of CONNAUGHT \ K.G. *William Middleton Campbell, Esq. Robert Wigram Crawford, Esq. H.R.H. the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, K.G. Samuel Steuart Gladstone, Esq. Chairman of Executive Committee— LORD NAPIERk of MAGDALA, G.C.B.8, Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq. Henry Riversdale GrenfelP, Esq. G.C.S.I.4 Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. The following are the amounts re­ John Saunders Gilliat, Esq. ceived at 20, Cockspur-street since llth March:— Charles Hermann Goschen®, Esq. TWENTY-SECOND LIST. Thomson Hankey, Esq. Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq. DaMd Carnegie1, Esq. ... £100 0 0 50 0 0 The Rt. Hon. John Gellibrand Hub­ Sir Francis Cook............... bard, M.P. Mrs. Soames (2d don.)5 . . 50 0 0

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rection of Mr. F. Kingsbjury and C. J. Rev. E. H. Douglas, entertainment1...................... £25 16 6 Hargett. 25 0 0 Many distinguished members of the Lord Home........................ Richard Lee-Bevan, Esq. . 25 0 0 profession have consented to appear. Result of Theatrical Per­ Gentlemen’s tickets, 12s. 6d. (withformance at Fort Wal­ out wine), can now be had on applilington, per Major J. M. cation to the Secretary. 24 0 0 E. A. ANSON, Secretary. E. Waddy..................... No. 9, Adam-street, Strand. Thesubscriptions already announced amount to £31,964 13s. 6d. The numoyal masonic Institution for ber of boys already in the Home at BOYS, Wood-green, London, N. Fort Wallington is 62. Office, 6, Freemason’s-hall, W C. Information can be obtained daily Grand Patron—Her MAJESTY between the hours of 11 a.m. and 3 the QUEEN. p.m. at the office, 20, Cockspur-street. President—His Royal Highness the Subscriptions may be paid there; or PRINCE of WALES, K.G., M.W.G.M.3 to the Lord Mayor; or Messrs. DimsA QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT dale and Co., No. 50, Comhill; or to of the Governors and Subscribers will the London and Westminster Bank, be held in the Large Hall, Freemason’s St. James’s-square; London and South- Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln’sWestern-Bank, Regent-street. inn-fields, London, on Monday, the Further lists will be published in 12th day of April, 1886, for the Trans­ "The Times” on the first Monday of action of the Ordinary Business of the each month. Institution— G. A. BEATY-POWNALLa, LieutTo elect a treasurer for the year Colonel and Secretary. ensuing. No. 20, Cockspur-street, 2d April, 1886. To elect as members of the General Committee, representing the life and R.H. the PRINCESS LOUISE2 will annual subscribers, 12 brethren not . OPEN a GRAND BAZAAR in AID being life governors. of the FUNDS of the NORTH LONDONTo consider the following notice of or UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, motion:— at the end of June or early in July. By Brother W. A. Scurrahb, ViceContributions earnestly solicited. Patron:—That so much of the minutes4 _________ NEWTON H. NIXON, See. of the Quarterly General Court of Mon­ Dramatic and musical sick fund day, llth January, 1886, as refers to alteration of the mode of election of (Benevolent Branch). The THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY the House Committee be not confirmed. To elect 30 boys from a list of 48 DINNER in Aid of the above will be held at Willis’s Rooms (under entirely candidates, as approved by the General new management) on Monday, April Committee. The chair will be taken at 12 o’clock 19th, 1886, HENRY IRVING, Esq., in the chair. at noon precisely. The ballot for the election of boys The dinner will be supplemented by a Smoking Concert, under the di- will open at 1 o’clock, or so soon as

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the general Business of the Court shall wardes), £20,000; Winter garden and have terminated, and will close at 3 concert-hall, £15,000; Recreationground, £3,000; Gymnasium, £2,500; Swimo’clock precisely. By Order, ming baths (given by Lord Rosebery), FREDERICK BINCKESa (P.G. Std.)1, £2,500; Cost of site, five acres, in MileV. Pat.2, Secretary. end-road, £22,400; Furniture and other April 3, 1886. expenses, £14,600. Total, £100,000. The Eighty-Eighth Anniversary Amounts received and Festival will be held on Wednesday, promised, vide5 The the 30th June. The Right Hon. Lord Times, 26th Dec. . . £48,896 11 0 Suffieldb, R.W. Prov. Grand Master Ditto, 2d Jan................ 1,006 2 6 of Norfolk3, has kindly consented to Ditto, 9th Jan............... 1,012 18 6 preside. The Services of brethren as Stewards representing lodges or provinTotal .... £62,737 6 11 ces are earnestly solicited and will be A further list of subscriptions will gratefully acknowledged. be published on the 10th instant. £63,000 has been raised, leaving ETROPOLITAN MUSEUMS COM£37,000 yet to be secured. MITTEE. The Trustees will be in a position President—LORD EBURY.C Earnest eiforts are called for to defeat to commence and carry out the greater Sir H. Roscoe’s motion in the House of portion of the scheine so soon as £75,000 Commons for the opening of the Metro­ has been promised. Only £12,000 immediately required politan Museums and Art Galleries on the Lords Day. For this end FUNDS to make up the £75,000. Further parare necessary, and should be at once ticulars may be obtained from and subscriptions sent to supplied. SIR E. HAY CURRIE, Chairman Forms of petition, with papers of of Trustees; or A. BR0WNL0Wf, Information, may be had of the underHon. Secretary. signed, to whom also subscriptions and No. 28, Commercial-street, E. donations may be paid. Bankers—London and Westminster, JOHN GRITTON, D.D.4, Hon. Whitechapel Branch. Secretary. No. 20, Bedford-street, Strand, Lon­ ER MAJESTY’S THEATRE, Hay­ don, W.C. market, to be LET, on LEASE, or he people’s palace for east offer will be entertained for Purchase LONDON. of the entire Term of Crown Lease.6 Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY Apply, personally, to Mr. Marsh, 4, The QUEEN. Pall-mall east. A liberal Commission The Beaumontd Trust Scheine com- will be paid. prises:— OCIETY for the ENCOURAGEMENT Approximate Cost—Technical schools of ARTS, MANUFACTURES, and for all trades (promised by the Drapers’ COMMERCE.—ARRANGEMENTS for the Company), £20,000; Library and reading rooms (£3,000 given by Mr. Dyere Ed- WEEK ending April 10, 1886:— a binks — b sa'fiild — c e'br1 — d bo'umoent — e da'ioe — f bra'unlou. 1 P.G. Std., Past Grand Steward, früher Großschaffner; die 18 Großschaffner der englischen Großloge unterstützen die Leiter von Versammlungen und haben namentlich die Anordnungen bei größeren Festen u. dergl. zu treffen. — 2 V. Pat., Vice-Patron, stellvertretender Patron, Ehrenamt der Loae. — 3 R.W. Prov. Grand Master of Norfolk, Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of Norfolk, Großmeister der in Norfolk bestehenden Logen. — 4 D.D., Doctor of Divinity, Doktor der Theologie. — 5 vide (va'idii), siehe, vergleiche. — 6 Crown Lease, Pachtvertrag einer Domäne.

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Monday, April 5th, at 8 p.m.—Cantor Lectures.—The Arts of Tapestry Making and Embroidery. By Alan 8. Cole. (Lecture I.) Wednesday, April 7th, at 8 p.m.— Eighteenth Ordinary Meeting.—Bre­ paration of Drawings for Photographie Reproduction. By J. 8. Hodson. Thursday, April 8th, at 8 p.m.—Ap­ plied Chemistry and Physics Section.— Asbestes and its Applications. By James Boyd. Sir Frederick Abel, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S.1, Chairman of Council, will preside. Saturday, April lOth, at 3 p.m.— Special Lecture.—Electricity. By Pro­ fessor George Forbes®, M.A., F.R.S.E.2 Lecture II.—Currents and Resistance. H. TRUEMAN WOOD, Secretary.

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TECTS.—Session 1886.—The MEET­ INGS will be held on April 14, 15, and 16, in the hall of the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi (by permission of the Council). The Right Hon. the EARL of RAVENS WORTH, President of the In­ stitution, will occupy the chair. For cards of admission apply to the Secretary, 5, Adelphi-terrace, Strand, W.C.

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Club will be held on Monday, the 19th April, at 2 p.m. E. LYONS GREEN, Manager and Secretary. Army and Navy Club. HATCHED6 HOUSE CLUB.—The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of

the members will take place on Wednes­ day, 7th April. The chair will be taken at 5 o’clock precisely. By Order. RIMROSE CLUB. — Gentlemen of Conservative views wishing to become original members of this club will be furnished with a prospectus, containing full Information, on applica­ tion to the Secretary, 5, Park-place, St. James’s-street, S.W. RINCESS’S.—Mr. Wilson Barrett, Lessee and Manager.

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IVTOTICE.—As previously announced, A.1I THE LORD HARRY can be presented for a limited number of nights only. rpHE LORDHARRY, a new and original I romantic play (in five acts), by Henry Arthur Jones and Wilson Barrett, every evening at 8. Produced under the sole direction of Mr. Wilson Barrett. Music by Mr. Edward Jones; scenery by Messrs. Walter Hann and Stafforda Hall; costumes by V. Barthe. rpHE LORD HARRY.—“Applause was 1 continued without abatement.”— Daily Chronicle. „A genuine success.”— Bells Life. "Likelytowin alongrun.”— Echo? "Mr. Wilson Barrett, of all present-day actors, is the one fitted to play the brave, chivalrous cavalier.”— Morning Advertiser.1 rpHE LORD HARRY.—"Miss Eastlake 1 has seldom been seen to greater advantage.”—Globe. "The favourable reception accorded by a populär audience seems to justify the prevision of the authors.”—Morning Paper. "As a picturesque and romantic actor, Mr. Wilson Barrett has now no rival.”—C. S. in The Illustrated London News.—PRINCESS’S.

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the glorios of modern spectacle, the grace of French feerie, and the charm of comic opera. Unanimously pronounced to be the finest spectacle ever placed on the stage. N.B.—The evening performances commence with the Harle­ quinade.4 142d performance. TRAUST.—At a quarter to 8. Carriages _E at 10.50.—LYCEUM THEATRE.

TRAUST.—LYCEUM.—Lessee and MaJ/ nager, Mr. Henry Irving. Me­ phistopheles'1, Mr.Irving; Margaret,Miss EllenTerry; Martha, Mrs.Stirling; Faust, Mr. Alexander. Box-office (Mr. Hurst) open 10 to 5. Seats can always be booked at the Theatre in advance, or by lotter. Private boxes and stalls can be frequently booked at the Box-office of the theatre when not obtainable elsewhere.—Lyceum. QT. JAMES’S THEATRE.—Lessees and 0 Managers, Mr. Hare and Mr. Kendal.® Doors open this evening at 7.45. Com­ mence at 8.15 with BED OF ROSES. At 9 o’clock, ANTOINETTE RIGAUD, a new comedy, in three acts, written by M. Deslandes and translated by Ernest Warren. Morning Performance5 Saturday next, April 10. 1\/TRS. KENDAL as ANTOINETTE 1V1 RIGAUD.—ST. JAMES’S THEATRE. 1\/TR. HARE as GENERAL DE PRE1VJL FOND. 1\/f R. KENDAL as HENRI DE TOUR1V1 VEL. A NTOINETTE RIGAUD, at 9 o’clock TO-NIGHT. For further cast6 see under clock.7—The action of the play takes place in the Chateau de Prefond, near Tours. Act I., Evening. Act II., Night. Act III., The next Morning. The new scenes painted by Mr. Harford.— ST. JAMES’S THEATRE.

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THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. Augustus Harris, Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, at 7.20, ALADDIN: Misses Grace Huntley, Nellie Leamar, Kate Leamar, Nellie Bennett, M. Inch, S. Delphine, C. Graham, and Mdlle. F. Zanfretta; Messrs. Harry Nicholls, Her­ bert Campbell, Charles Lauri, jun., Victor Stevens, Albert and Edmunds Troupe, J. Ridley, Dezano, R. Inch, and Harry Payne (clown). THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessees and Managers, Mr. E. Russell and Mr. G. F. Bashford. TO-NIGHT, at 8, JIM THE PENMAN: Mr. Arthur Dacre, Mr. Barrymore, Mr. H. Beerbohm Tree, Mr. Brookfield, Mr. Maurice, Mr. Rodney, Mr. Ben Greet, Mr. Forbes Dawson, Mr. Winter, Mr. West; Miss Helen Leyton, Mrs. Brooke, Miss Lindley, and Lady Monckton. ADELPHI THEATRE. Messrs. A. and S. Gatti, Sole Proprietors and Managers. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE HAR­ BOUR LIGHTS; Mr. William Terriss, Messrs. Beveridgc, Garden, Maclean, Lyndal, Russell, Boleyna, Wentworth, Travers, &c.; Mesdames Mill ward, M. Rorke, C. Jecks, Leigh, Brennan, Carter, &c. At 7.15, FAMILY JARS.

PRINCESS’S THEATRE. Mr. Wilson Barrett, Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, at 8, THE LORD HARRY; Messrs.Wilson Barrett, Willard, Clynds, Hudson, Coote, Fulton, Bernage, Elliott, Evans, Barrington, De Solla, Carson, and George Barrett; Miss Lottie Venne, Mrs. Huntley, and Miss Eastlake. LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Henry Irving. TO-NIGHT,at7.45,FAUST: Mephisto­ pheles, Mr. Henry Irving; Margaret, Miss Ellen Terry; Martha, Mrs. Stirling; Messrs. Alexander, Howe, Mead, Forbes, Tyars, Johnson, Harbury, Carter, Archer, Haviland, Clifford; Misses Mills, Coleridge, Barnett, Brown.

ST. JAMES’S THEATRE. Lessees and Managers, Mr. Hare and Mr. Kendal. THIS EVENING, at 9 o’clock, AN­ TOINETTE RIGAUD: Mr. Hare, Messrs. Barnes, Waring, Hendrie, Pagetb, Cath­ cart®, De Verney, and Mr. Kendal; Misses Linda Dietz, Webster, Rose, and Mrs. Kendal. Preceded by, at 8.15, BED OF ROSES. STRAND THEATRE, Strand. THIS EVENING, at 8, MY SWEETHEART (l,481st time);1 Miss Minnie Palmer, Misses Grey, Baldwin, &c.; Messrs. Arnold, Hawkins, D’Orsay, Roulett, Freeard, Pete, and Roberts. New features, new songs, &c. Open 7.30. Saturday at 2. Commence 2.30.

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—“ Would you permit me to announce that the words ‘compulsory closing* will in future be added to the name of our seciety, which will henceforth be known as the ‘Shop Hours Compulsory Closing League?* May I add that any one wishing to help the movement by forming branches or arranging meetings to pass Sir John Lubbock’s* amendment at the Mansion-house meeting last Thursday should communicate with me at once?” NOTIGES.

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Sir,—With reference to your leading article upon the above action and to the letter of Captain Maxwell Heron, which appears in The Times of to-day, it is no part of our duty to discuss the general questions which have been raised in your columns. But so much attention having been drawn to this case, we feel constrained, as solicitors to the plaintiff, to point out that bis position is simply that of a trustee, aided in the discharge of his duties by a committee of inspection representing some of the most eminent firms in London. The estate of the late Madame Mercier has had to be realized for the benefit of her creditors and her children, and among numerous other Claims appearing as due to the estate was one from Mrs. Maxwell Heron which possessed no unusual features. From first to last we should always have been willing to entertain any reasonable compromise of the matter had any proposal, however moderate, been made to us; but the defence set up was that all Claims had been satisfied and discharged. If in these circumstances Captain Maxwell Heron is gratified with a judgment which leaves him liable for the sum of £283 18s. 6d., as well as the whole of the costs of the action, we are quite sure that our dient has no reason to be discontented. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, KAYE and GUEDALLA. 21, Essex-street, Strand, W.C., April 3. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1886.

It is not always or even generally easy for men to estimate truly the significance of the events of their own time, but there are situations which seem to fall at once into historical perspective. The week on which we have just entered may be pronounced even now to be one which will always have a sinister importance in the history of the English people and Parliament. If present arrangements hold, it will witness the formal acceptance by an English Minister in his place in the House of Commons of a demand which none of his predecessors would so much as discuss, and the formal presentation by him of a scheme for the dismemberment of the Empire. It is hardly necessary to take seriously the contention that Mr. Gladstone’s proposals must be heard before we pass judgment upon them, because, as a matter of fact, both those who accept and those who reject the disruption of the Empire are practically admitting every day that they know quite enough about the proposals to form a perfectly clear and decided opinion. It is doubtless necessary to postpone criticism upon details until we know a he'roen.

“GATES V. MAXWELL HERON”*

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Sir,—With reference to your leading article upon the above action and to the letter of Captain Maxwell Heron, which appears in The Times of to-day, it is no part of our duty to discuss the general questions which have been raised in your columns. But so much attention having been drawn to this case, we feel constrained, as solicitors to the plaintiff, to point out that bis position is simply that of a trustee, aided in the discharge of his duties by a committee of inspection representing some of the most eminent firms in London. The estate of the late Madame Mercier has had to be realized for the benefit of her creditors and her children, and among numerous other Claims appearing as due to the estate was one from Mrs. Maxwell Heron which possessed no unusual features. From first to last we should always have been willing to entertain any reasonable compromise of the matter had any proposal, however moderate, been made to us; but the defence set up was that all Claims had been satisfied and discharged. If in these circumstances Captain Maxwell Heron is gratified with a judgment which leaves him liable for the sum of £283 18s. 6d., as well as the whole of the costs of the action, we are quite sure that our dient has no reason to be discontented. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, KAYE and GUEDALLA. 21, Essex-street, Strand, W.C., April 3. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1886.

It is not always or even generally easy for men to estimate truly the significance of the events of their own time, but there are situations which seem to fall at once into historical perspective. The week on which we have just entered may be pronounced even now to be one which will always have a sinister importance in the history of the English people and Parliament. If present arrangements hold, it will witness the formal acceptance by an English Minister in his place in the House of Commons of a demand which none of his predecessors would so much as discuss, and the formal presentation by him of a scheme for the dismemberment of the Empire. It is hardly necessary to take seriously the contention that Mr. Gladstone’s proposals must be heard before we pass judgment upon them, because, as a matter of fact, both those who accept and those who reject the disruption of the Empire are practically admitting every day that they know quite enough about the proposals to form a perfectly clear and decided opinion. It is doubtless necessary to postpone criticism upon details until we know a he'roen.

what they are, but it is the shallowest affectation to pretend any dubiety upon the maln features of Mr. Gladstone’s policy. Its essence is the establishment of an Irish Parliament sitting in Dublin, with complete authority over Irish affairs. The unknown details consist merely of the more or less ingenious devices by which Mr. Gladstone will endeavour to persuade the country that the Irish Parliament thus created will be at once perfectly independent and entirely powerless to use its independence in ways of which this country cannot approve. Mr. Parnell demands an independent Parliament, and Mr. Gladstone commands Mr. Parnell’s Support. Lord Hartington8 1 refuses an independent Parliament, and Lord Hartington, stauch and loyal Liberal as he is, has been compelled to withdraw bis Support from Mr. Gladstone. These two facts dehne the whole Situation. Its gravity lies in the fact that an English Prime Minister has chosen to shatter the Liberal party, to throw aside its best established traditions, and to alienate the reprä­ sentative men of every section and shade, in Order that he might pur­ chase a brief tenure of ofßce by allying himself with those whom he formerly denounced as the enemies of his country. Mr. Gladstone, we hope and believe, will be defeated in his mischievous enterprise, but he has none the less struck the heaviest blow in his power at everything that an English Minister is bound to cherish and maintain. Liberal principles, party Organization, commercial conßdence, economic orthodoxy, political morality, the supremacy of law, the unity of the Empire, and the continuity of national policy—all are weakened by the course of conduct which culminates in the formal statement promised for Thursday. The present week will figure in history as the crisis of the most disastrous misuse of a unique position that can be found in our annals. A Cabinet2 Council is summoned for to-morrow, at which we may a ha'atingtoen. 1 Lord Hartington, Rt. Hon. Marquis of Hartington, war Kriegsminister (Secretary of State, War Department) in Gladstones zweitem Ministerium. — 2 Cabinet, das dritte (1886) Ministerium Gladstones bestand aus folgenden Ministern: W. E. Gladstone, Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Lord Privy Seal (Geheimsiegelbewahrer), Lord Herschell, Lord High Chancellor (Kanzler, höchste juristische Autorität), SirW. Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finanzminister), H. C. E. Childers, Secretary of State for the Home Department (Minister des Innern), Earl of Rosebery, See. of State Foreign Dept. (Minister des Auswärtigen), Earl Granville, See. of State Colonial Dept. (Kolonialminister), H. Campbell Bannerman, See. of State War Dept. (Kriegsminister — gewöhnlich kein Militär), Earl of Kimberley, See. for State Indian Dept. (Minister für Ost­ indien), G. 0. Trevelyan, Secretary of Scotland (Minister für Schottland), Marquis of Ripon, First Lord of the Admiralty (Marineminister — gew. kein Militär), John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland (Minister für Irland), A. J. Mundella, Pre­ sident of the Board of Trade (Handelsminister), J. Chamberlain, President of the Local Government Board (Minister für öffentliche Gesundheit, Armenwesen und Lokalverwaltung). Der Postmaster-General (Generalpostmeister) und der Chan11*

assume that a final effort will be made to bring about a pnity which, unless rumour is greatly at fault, hardly exists at this moment. It might have been supposed that those who remained after Mr. Chamberlain* 1 and Mr. TREVELYANa2 had seceded were prepared at all hazards to go through with the Prime Minister’s policy. But the peculiar System of administration devised by Mr. Gladstone leaves room for an inde­ finite number of surprises. The Cabinet was got together on the basis of willingness to Support an unknown policy until its developments should become such that Support is no longer possible. The extent of the revelations required to bring this about varies in different cases, and although the disclosures which frightened Mr. Chamberlain logically implied certain consequences not then drawn out in detail, men who take office on the peculiar System just adverted to are naturally careful not to let their deductive faculty hurry them to premature conclusions. Hence we may understand the possibility that some who calmly faced the erection of a separate Irish Parliament under statutory restrictions may subsequently recoil from the discovery that this separate Parliament is to control, say, for example, the Irish Customs. They ought, of course, to have known that an independent Parliament without control of the Customs is a contradiction in terms, but it was their cue not to know anything more thau Mr. Gladstone revealed. This new System of Cabinet management certainly postpones inconvenient resignations, but it has the disadvantage that the manipulator can never be quite sure that he has got to the end of secession. It is believed to be uncertain to-day how many of Mr. Gladstone’s colleagues will be ranged under bis banner on Thursday, and although he might conceivably make his statement without any colleague at all except Mr. John Morley, or in the last resort even without him, the difficulty of carrying the matter any further must be expected to become very plain in case of further defections taking place. Mr. Gladstone’s calculations are in truth becoming very difficult to conjecture. He cannot but be aware of the significance of the repeated defections of his former colleagues, defections which have gone so far that a Cabinet more weighty and more repräsentative of Liberalism a troeve'lioen. cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Präsident der Gerichte in dem alten Herzogtum L.), sowie der Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, sonst gewöhnlich im Kabinett, waren nicht Mitglieder desselben. Die Zahl der Mitglieder des Kabinetts ist unbestimmt. — 1 Chamberlain, The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain bekleidete in dem dritten Ministerium Gladstones anfänglich die Stelle des ‘President of the Local Government Board.’ — 2 Trevelyan, George Otto Trevelyan (jetzt Sir George —) bekleidete im dritten Ministerium Gladstones anfänglich das Amt des Secretary for Scotland, er nahm wie Chamberlain seine Entlassung, weil er mit Gladstones irischer Politik nicht übereinstimmte.

than his own could be constructed out of the statesmen now standing aloof. Even if his present colleagues hold together until he makes his statement, he must be aware that considerable changes are almost certain to be required immediately afterwards. Such incidents as the Barrow election, in which Mr. Caine 1, a member of his last Administration, resists the pressure of the Irish vote, and asserts his right to judge the forthcoming proposals in the light of his own declaration against any weakening of Imperial unity, cannot but prove to Mr. Gladstone how complete is becoming the alienation of the Liberal party. He has been able to form no judgment upon Mr. Caine’s opinions, and advises the Barrow electors to form their own; but this judicious abstention from interference in the triangular2 fight can hardly be taken as proof that Mr. Gladstone does not feel Mr. Caine’s attitude to be one of extremely limited confidence. Yet, notwithstanding the serious defections actually accomplished, the further defections rendered probable by the condition of opinion within the Cabinet, the growing strength of the following commanded by the seceders, and the significant desertion of that portion of the Press in which he has trained himself to look for the wisdom and penetration denied to the metropolis, Mr. Gladstone persists in his Irish schemes. His Parnellite supporters are a fixed quantity. Their 86 votes can be neutralized by Liberal abstentions or transfers which Mr. Gladstone must know to be already provided for. It is difficult, therefore, to believe that he can suppose himself likely to carry his Bill through the House of Commons, yet if he does not hold this opinion on what theory or calculation is he acting? Can it be that he is simply riding for a fall, and has such faith in the plans elaborated with so much jealous secrecy as to feel indifferent to their immediate reception? The hypothesis may seem to many altogether incredible, but it will be found much more easy to reject it than to hit upon another which will more satisfactorily explain the extraordinary course taken by Mr. Gladstone.

The Abb£ Liszt arrived in London on Saturday evening, and his visit, which would be a remarkable event at any time, is likely to give historic importance to a season otherwise singularly devoid of interest. Among living musicians he is certainly the most striking figure. Apart 1 Caine, Wm. 8. Caine wurde in Barrow-in-Furness als Mitglied der liberalen Partei ins Unterhaus gewählt, sprach jedoch offen seine Absicht aus, gegen Gladstones Trennungsvorschläge zu stimmen (s. S. 134 ff.). — 2 triangular fight, Kampf zwischen drei Parteien, hier den Konservativen (Conservatives), den Liberalen, welche gegen Irlands Selbstregierung (Liberal Unionists), und den Homerulers, welche für dieselbe stimmen.

from his fame as a virtuoso, which has not been equalled in our or in any age, he has given to the world creations of his Jwn, which extend over almost every branch of music, from the symphony and oratorio to the song and etude, and which, whatever may be thought of their permanent value, betray at least that rarest gift in art—a distinct and powerful individuality. In England his music was till lately comparatively little known or appreciated. Even as a player his triumphs were less brilliant in this than in any other country. Our musical tastes are conservative, and were still more so forty-five years ago, and when Liszt, at that time in the zenith of his fame, came over to this country he was lionized1 in London concert-rooms and drawingrooms, but other English towns found him too dazzling and too unaccustomed a phenomenon; whereupon, with the generosity peculiar to himself, he immediately consented to cut short his provincial tour and to bear the loss which would otherwise have fallen upon his agent. Liszt always despised money, and probably did not give another thought to the pecuniary side of the question; but the slight put upon his artistic genius was less easy to bear, and it is perhaps for that reason that nearly half ä Century has elapsed between his fifth and his sixth visit to England. We feel sure that whatever unpleasant reminiscence may have remained in the great composers mind will be wiped out by the reception in störe for him. Our admiration for his works has been of slow growth, but that it has come and is of genuine quality no one can doubt who has witnessed the enthusiasm with which, for example, his “Hungarian Rhapsodies” are received at the Richter concerts by our proverbially undemonstrative audiences. That the world-famed author of these and other works will be distinguished, to the verge of surfeit, by every demonstration of hero-worship is a prophecy upon which one may safely venture even before the event. Moreover, such an event has already begun to cast its proverbial shadow before it. Every ticket for the performance of St. Elizabeth, to witness which is the immediate object of Liszt’s visit, has long ago been sold; and the Bringe of Wales and other exalted persons have notified their Intention to be present at the revival of the work, which, in the circumstances, would be certain to call forth thunders of applause even were its intrinsic merits much less striking than they undoubtedly are. Liszt, who counts half the Monarchs of Europe—including the Pope —among his friends and admirers, and who from his tenth year has been used to the applause of enthusiastic multitudes, cannot be expected to be impressed very much by such external rewards, or perhaps we should say penalties, of fame. What will probably interest him much more is to watch the changes which have come over English life 1 lionized, als Löwe des Tags gefeiert.

and English art since the year 1841, when the railway was in its teens, and the reign of Queen Victoria in its infancy, and when the thriving suburb where Liszt, somewhat to the discomfiture of his admirers, has taken up his abode, was a country village surrounded by lanes and green Leids, and not as yet looked down upon by the Crystal Palace. The contrast in musical matters between then and now will be found even more startling. The year in question was one of the most brilliant in the history of Italian opera, and a few amateurs still speak with enthusiasm of the glorious Combination of Lablache, Tamburini, and Rubini, Pbrsiani, Grisi, and Madame Viardot being heard together in Cimarosa’s U Matrimonio Segreto. In the same year Berlioz’s overture to Benvenuto Cellini was hissed at the second concert given by the Philharmonie Society, at that time the chief and almost the only repräsentative of high-class orchestral music, just as the Sacred Harmonie Society at Exeter Hall was that of the oratorio. In our days Cimarosa exists only in archives and libraries, and to Berlioz a place among the greatest masters has been conceded. The recent collapse of Italian opera at Her Majesty's Theatre1 is too well remembered; Exeter Hall is closed to music, and the Sacred Harmonie Society is dead; the Philharmonie Society still exists, but its importance for the development of music has been greatly reduced by the foundation of new institutions giving their performances in new concert-halls, which are not, it must be owned, an improvement upon their less capacious predecessors. On entering St. James's Hall, with its hideous architecture, its draughts, and its abominable smells, Liszt will probably think with regret of the charming Hanover-square Booms, the scene of many mu­ sical triumphs, now serving as the dining-room of a club. Even greater than the havoc which the past half-century has wrought among institu­ tions and localities is the change it has effected in the kind of music to be heard in those localities. The style of concert formerly in vogue can scarcely be realized by the present generation of serious amateurs. It was governed by the virtuoso, to whose demands every other consideration had to yield. As long as a large number of famous names was in the Programme, the kind of music performed was of comparatively little consequence. Sir Julius11 Benedicts annual concerts may be cited as the last survival of a type fortunately now extinct. A pianist who appeared at this kind of entertainment would, after playing a show piece or two, “respectfully request two written themes from "any of the audience, upon which he would play his variations.” The

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1 Her Majesty’s Theatre, eins der größten Theater Londons, auf dem früher meist italienische Opern Von italienischen Sängern gegeben wurden; jetzt werden fast nur Schauspiele dort aufgeführt.

words we have quoted are literally taken from the Programme of a concert given in 1825 by Liszt, who was always famous for bis improvisations. Nowadays we do not expect a musician, any more than a poet, to he inspired at a moment’s notice, and at the Suggestion of “any of the audience.” We look, in fact, upon music as a serious thing—ars vera res severa1—and that we and the world generally do so is in no small measure due to Liszt himself, who, against the advice of cautious friends and speculative managers, would play such works as Beethoven’s last sonatas, which at that time were looked upon as little Better than the effusions of an inspired maniac. It was four years after his last stay in England that Mb. John Ella, the Veteran musician still among us at the age of 84, started the “Musical Union” for the purpose of producing the best works of chamber music, ancient and modern, which in its turn became the precursor of the Populär Concerts. We may anticipate without presumption that, as a whole, Liszt will find musical matters vastly improved in this country. The musi­ cian is no longer looked upon as a social outcast—“a fiddler,” as Lobd Chestebfield a 2 contemptuously and comprehensively called him—and if the widow of a wealthy brewer were nowadays to marry a fashionable singing-master no one would feel the horror and astonishment expressed by Db. Johnson3 and hisufriends when Mbs. Thbale04 became Madame Piozzi. Neither would any modern English gentleman boast of his ignorance of an effeminate art, and disdain to acknowledge the difference “’twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.”5 The reason is that, socially and intellectually, our composers and singers and players are as a race much superior to their brethren fifty years ago. At the same time they would do well to learn a lesson from our distinguished visitor in one or two important matters still open to much improvement. One of these is general culture. Musicians, and more especially English musicians, are too apt to limit their intellectual horizon to the technicalities of their own art. They rarely read a book, they still more rarely look at a picture, and their total want of literary taste is too apparent from the vile trash to which they too frequently wed their music. Liszt has lived all his life among poets and painters and philosophers. Heine, and Geobge Sand , and Victob Hugo , and Hobace Vebnet6, and

a tshe'stoefiild — b J?reil. 1 ars vera res severa, die wahre Kunst ist eine ernste Sache. — 2 Chesterfield, 1694—1773, englischer Schriftsteller, bekannt durch seine ‘Leiters’. — 3 Dr. Johnson, 1709—84, schrieb ein Dictionary of the English Language, lange das tonan­ gebende Wörterbuch, und The Lives of Poets, sein bestes Werk. — 4 Thrale, Dr. Johnson verkehrte viel im Hause des Brauers Thrale, dessen Frau sich sehr für Kunst interessierte. — 5 difference between tweedledum tweedledee, Unterschied zwischen diddeldum und diddeldei, d. h. zwischen Musik und Musik. — 6 Horace Vernet, französischer Maler, 1789—1863.

Flandren 1 were among his intimate friends; and it is certain that bis playing and his compositions would not he what they are without the subsoil of culture and thought from which the creations of his own art draw their nourishment and their power of expansion. Neither could his music he what it is had it not always been inspired by the purest love of the art, into which no mercenary thought ever entered. His compositions are, of course, of unequal value; but there is not one among them, be it oratorio or song, symphony or pianoforte arrangement, in which a single bar has been made more commonplace, or easier, or less characteristic to secu^ a larger sale over the counter. If to this we add the fact that he is the most generous and least jealous of artists, who has done a great deal more for the music of others thau for his own, regardless of national or personal prejudices, we have mentioned the three qualities by which the name of Liszt will be remembered in history, and which the musicians of this and of other countries should strive to Imitate.

The boat race of Saturday will be long memorable in the annals of University aquatics.2 It was a race such as the London world has not had the opportunity of seeing for many years past. From the start to the finish it was a hard struggle throughout, and to the very last moment it was impossible to predict with certainty which boat would come in ultimately the winner. Before the race the Cambridge crew were the favourites. Experts, who had watched the practising, were fairly unanimous as to this. But when the moming of the race came, and when the news went round that Oxford had won the choice of stations, it was feit on all hands that the chances of success had been very nearly equalized, and that there was no such clear superiority on either side as to reduce the struggle to the flatness of a foregone conclusion. Düring the struggle itself the interest scarcely flagged, or if it flagged for awhile when the victory of Oxford seemed secure, and when the Cambridge backers3 had lost heart and had accepted defeat as inevitable, it was only to be renewed to a more intense degree than ever as the Cambridge boat gave proof that the despair of the spectators was not shared by the crew, and that there was still stuff lest to verify the old proverb that a race is never lost until it has been won. Won at last it was, and won splendidly by Cambridge, but it was a near thing to the very end. The issue was decided during the last quarter of a mile, when the Cambridge boat, which had been two lengths behind over a great part of the course, pulled up level, rowed a hard neckand-neck4 race, in which both boats were straining their utmost, and 1 Flandrin, französischer Maler, 1809—1864. — 2 aquatics, Wassersport. — 8 Cambridge backers, die auf den Sieg Cambridges wetten. — 4 neck-and-neck,

finally passed the winning post two-thirds of a length in advance of the Dark Blues. We must go back a good many years ^to find the record of so close a contest as this. In 1867 the Oxford crew won by half a length. Three times only has either crew won by anything less than a length. The common rule has been that victory has declared itself for one side or the other long before the race has been rowed out, and that the boat which has come in first by four lengths or six lengths might have come in first by twenty lengths if the winning crew had done their best to the very end. For the excitement it caused Saturday’s race is without a parallel. Ist a course of over four miles, it seldom happens that either boat gains an advantage at the beginning and keeps it all through. As osten as not, the inferior boat makes a desperate effort, shoots ahead for a time, and then finds itself unable to keep its place, and is steadily rowed down. Good judges are seldom taken in by alternations of this kind. When a leading boat shows signs of distress while the opposing crew are rowing well within themselves1, it is clear to skilled observers that the positions will presently be reversed, and the event shows that the judgment has been correctly formed. In Saturday’s race there were the usual alternations, but no room for a disparaging criticism on either boat. Cambridge took the lead at first; then for a time Oxford led; then Cambridge again; then Oxford by a length; then by two lengths. Then finally, just when victory seemed within the grasp of Oxford, the Cambridge boat rowed up level and, with a last desperate spurt, came in first. Both crews have given proof of pluck and of good powers of endurance, and the general verdict will be that both have acquitted themselves well, and that the best men have won a well-deserved and hard-earned victory. From the spectators’ point of view the race of Saturday was just everything that they could have wished. The day was fine, the hour of the race convenient, and the race itself more exciting than ever before. But that there was a good deal of incorrect prophesying during the course of it may be taken as beyond doubt. There is nothing unusual in this, but it happened on Saturday that the best judges were deceived, and that the final victory did not go to the side which, when the race was half over, the skilled and unskilled agreed for once in hailing as quite certain to be the conquerors. Now that the race is over the po­ pulär voice will declare itself for the winning boat. Cambridge will be the general favourites, as Oxford would have been if the result had been the other way. Those who have believed in Cambridge will insist on having Credit for their foresight, and if they shifted a little during the progress of the race, it was probably in the presence of others who

dicht nebeneinander, Ausdruck vom Pferderennen hergenommen, wenn die Hälse der Pferde auf gleicher Höhe sind. — 1 within themselves, ohne sich zu sehr anzustrengen.

shared their passing mistake, and who are thus bound to keep silence on their own account. To the neutral observer it will seem more important that these races should be rowed than that this side or the other should win. A race between two University boats has an Inter­ est and a value of its own. Every one knows that it will be a fair race , and that if the best boat falls to win it will be by some accident which no care can guard against. Ä boat may sink in a gale of wind or one of the crew may break bis rowlock.1 Such things have happened before now and havedetermined the issue of the race. To those who care about the issue these events will bematters of regret or of unexpected jubilation. The really valuable parts of the race, the training and discipline which it involves and the manly qualities for which it allows full play—these will remain in any case. It is only when the two Universities meet that there is any real rivalry. It is the same on the race-course and on the cricket-field. A match with Surrey or with a Marylebone eleven2 is simply nothing in itself. Victory 1 rowlock, Gabel, Stützpunkt des Ruders. — 2 eleven, jede der beiden Par­ teien beim Cricket besteht aus elf Personen. Während von der Partei a zwei mit einem Schlägel (bat) bewaffnet vor den Thoren (wickets) stehen, um den von einem (bowler) der Gegenpartei b mit langgestrecktem Arme geschleuderten harten Lederball möglichst weit wegzuschlagen, sind die übrigen neun Mitglieder der Partei a müßige Zu­ schauer, die zehn übrigen der Gegenpartei b aber auf allen Punkten des Feldes so ver­ teilt, daß sie den abgeschlagenen Ball möglichst rasch wieder an dos Thor zurückbringen können. Die Partei a, deren Partner, einer nach dem anderen, die Thore verteidigen (the batsmen, strikers), ist ‘in’, während die Gegner b ‘out’ sind (fielding). Für die Partei, welche ‘in’ ist, kommt es darauf an, den Ball möglichst weit vom Thore weg­ zuschlagen und möglichst viele ‘runs’ zu machen. Die beiden Thore, welche aus je drei in der Erde steckenden Stäben (stumps) mit darübergelegten Querhölzchen (bails) bestehen, stehen 22 yards auseinander. Wird der Ball, nachdem er getroffen, von einem der Partei b aus der Luft gefangen, so ist Nummer 1 der Partei a, der ihn zurückgeschlagen, tot (caught out, one wicket down) und Nummer 3 der Partei a nimmt seine Stelle ein. Gelingt es Nummer 2 der Partei a nicht, durch einen Schlag zu verhindern, daß der gegen sein Thor geschleuderte Boll sein Thor trifft, so tritt er ab und Nummer 4 tritt an seine Stelle. Vier Fuß vor jedem Thor be­ zeichnet ein Kreidestrich (crease) auf dem Boden die Grenze des Mals. Ist der Ball von Nummer 3 weit weggeschlagen worden, so läuft 3 nach 4 und 4 nach 3’s Platz und wieder zurück und zwar so oft wie möglich, bis der Ball wieder gebracht wird, dann müssen beide in ihrem Male sein und die Läufe (runs) werden ihnen gezählt (scored). Wird der weggeschlagene Ball jedoch von einem Adder an ein Thor, dessen Verteidiger nicht im Mal ist, gebracht, z. B. an das des Nummer 3, so ist derselbe ebenfalls tot (stumped out oder run out) und Nummer 5 der Partei a tritt ein (3 wickets down). Derjenige der Adders, welcher dicht hinter dem Thor steht, um den Ball für den Fall, daß er nicht getroffen ist, sofort zu fangen, heißt wicket-keeper. Sind nun alle elf der Partei a tot, so übernimmt die Partei b die Verteidigung der Thore und die Partei a den Angriff als Adders. Sind auch alle elf der Partei b tot, so gewinnt die Partei, welche am meisten Läufe und gute Schläge (hits) gemacht hat. In Wett­ kämpfen (matches) verteidigt jede Partei gewöhnlich zweimal die Thore (has two Innings). Der, welcher die Rollen in jeder Partei verteilt, heißt captain, ein Unpar­ teiischer (umpire) entscheidet in zweifelhaften Fällen.

is valued only for the sign it gives as to the probable Jesuit of the great yearly match at Lords.1 So, too, with the various “spins”2 betöre the boat race. As tests of proficiency they are thought important, but in no other way and for no other reason. It is this wholesome feeling of rivalry which gives life and interest to all inter-university3 contests. linder no other Stimulus could men be incited to do their best, and to submit to the conditions which make it possible for their best to be good. Those who seek to defend boat-racing have no need to pick out here and there from the lists of old crews instances of men who have been great as oarsmen and have won distinction afterwards in the professions. Such instances there are, but they are the rare exception rather than the rule, and the defence which rests upon them is for every reason incomplete. We prefer to say that every one who has gone through the needful training for a race over the Putney course, and who has been equal to it when the time has come, has given proof of qualities which have a distinct value of their own. Whether they tend to success in after life is another question. There are authorities on both sides. But it would certainly appear that the mens sana in corpore sano4 is no such bad Provision to start with, and this, at all events, every trained oarsman will possess, whatever may be bis fortune as a member of the winning or of the losing crew. Labourers* Allotments.5—Mr. Henry Chaplin has prepared a Bill, which he will introduce into the House of Commons, for the purpose of providing field and garden allotments for the labouring classes in agricultural districts. At a meeting of the Worcestershirea Chamber of Agriculture held at Worcester on Saturday, Mr. Mince in the chair, the question of the Allotments and Small Holdings 6 Bill was fully discussed, and it was ultimately resolved that, “seeing that allotments and small holdings already exist in most counties, and that this advantage is generally recognized by landowners, this Chamber is of opinion that the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Collings and others is unnecessary, and if made law would considerably add to the expense of the already over-burdened rate-payers without conferring any corresponding benefit on the Community at large.” The meeting also, in reference to the Railway and Canalb Traffic Bill, protested against a wu'stoeshce — b koenael. 1 Lord’s, L.’s Cricket Ground, her berühmteste Spielplatz in England, im Norden Londons; hier finden jährlich die Wettkämpfe (matches) zwischen Harrow und Eton, den beiden vornehmsten Gymnasien, und zwischen Oxford und Cambridge statt — 2 spins, vorbereitende Probefahrten. — 3 inter-university, zwischen den zwei Universitäten Oxford und Cambridge. — 4 mens sana in corpore sano, ein ge­ sunder Geist in einem gesunden Körper. — 5 Labourers’ Allotments, Landparzellen für Arbeiter. — 6 Small Holdings, kleiner Grundbesitz.

giving preferential rates in favour of imported goods over those charged for home produce. Compulsory Purchase of Land.—When works are executed by municipal corporations, public Companies, &c., the adjoining lands are, it is contended by Mr. M’Laren, in most cases increased in value. Accordingly he proposes that, in estimating the compensation to be paid for land acquired by compulsory purchase, the increase of value thus given to adjoining or neighbouring lands belonging to the same owner shall be taken into consideration. linder the existing law arbitrators and Juries are not permitted to consider both sides of the question. A Bill he has introduced for this purpose repeals the 6 3d section of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act1 and re-enacts it with the addition of a few words. Legislation for Wales.—At a meeting of Liberais held at Bangor3 on Saturday, resolutions were passed and directed to be forwarded to the Premier and the representatives of Welsh constituencies, to the effect that the postponement of legislation on all questions affecting the Principality 2 is a grave public scandal; calling upon the Welsh people to guard with greater jealousy their own separate interests even at the risk of acting independently of all English parties; and that if the Government did not immediately introduce a bill dealing with Intermediate education in Wales, the Welsh members should initiale such legislation on their own responsibility and act collectively with the view of making impossible any further neglect of questions affecting the interests and welfare of Wales. The appointment of a Welshman as Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvonshireb was also strongly insisted upon. Long Credit.—Lord Randolph Churchills3 first attempt at legis­ lation was directed towards diminishing the evils of the long-credit System. His proposal was to limit the period during which debts under £100 can be recovered to 12 months. At the same time the late Earl Cairns proposed to reduce the period within which actions may be brought on simple contract debts, from six years to three. This proposal of Lord Cairns's has now been adopted in a Bill introduced by Mr. Hobhouse, and backed by Mr. A. Acland, Mr. Glyn, and Mr. Lacaita. Ecclesiastical Appointment.—The Rev. Arnold Page has been appointed by the patrons, the Master, and Fellows of Balliolc College4, a bae'nggoe — b koena'avoenshoe — c be'ilioel. 1 Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, Gesetz über Expropriation von Grundstücken zum Zweck öffentlicher Bauten und Schadloshaltung der Besitzer. — 2 Principality, Wales ist ein Fürstentum, daher The Prince of Wales. — 3 Randolph Churchill, Lord Randolph H. S. Churchill, jüngerer Sohn des siebenten Herzogs von Marl­ borough, war unter dem Marquis of Salisbury Chancellor of the Exchequer, legte dieses Amt (Dez. 1886) nieder, und an seiner Stelle trat the Honourable George J. Goschen in das Kabinett. — 4 Balliol College, um 1265 von den Eltern John Balliols, Königs von Schottland, gegründet, besitzt 11 Fellowships, 13 Scholarships

Oxford, of which he is a graduate1, to the rectory of Tendring, near Colchester6, in the diocese of St. Albans. The living is worth about £950 a year gross, and is the most valuable in the gift of the College. After having been called to the Bar, Mr. Page was ordained in 1882 to the curacy of St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, which in the following year he resigned upon the appointment of the rector, the Hon. and Rev.2 W. H. Fremantle, to a canonry 3 at Canterbury? Since that time Mr. Page has been curate of St. Botolphc, Bishopsgate. He has also, as hon. secretary, taken a foremost part in the management of the Bishopsgate Schools. His predecessor at Tendring is the Rev. T. K. Cheyned, formerly Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, who has been appointed to the Pro­ fessorship of Scriptural Exegesis6 in the University of Oxford, and a canonry at Rochesterf Cathedral.—City Press. St. Mary's Hospital.—The festival dinner of St. Mary's Hospital took place at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, on Friday evening. The Lord Mayor presided, and among those present were the Hon. H. Noelff, Mr. Lionel L. Cohenh, M.P., Mr. J. D. Allcroft1, Mr. Sheriff Evans4, Mr. Sheriff Clarke, Dr. Broadbent, Dr. Meadows, Mr. H. C. Burdett, SurgeonGeneral5 Perkins, Mr. R. Green, Surgeon-General Gordon, and Mr. P. Michelli? The report for the past year stated that during the year 1885 44 additional beds had been made available for the reception of patients. The cost of maintaining these beds had added very considerably to the expenditure of the hospital. But the governors feit that they were justified in taking the step, as almost daily deserving cases had to be refused admission on account of the crowded state of the hospital. The number of patients that had been treated during the year was 2,613 in-patients6 and 25,515 out-patients. The hospital had been involved in considerable difficulties owing to the fact that the receipts from legacies had fallen short of the average amount for the last ten years by nearly £4,000, but in other respects the funds had been well maintained. The diminution of legacies, together with the increased expenditure on account of the extra beds, had lest a deficit of £6,380 a ko'ultshoestoe — b kaehtcebr1 — c bä'tälf — d tshein — e eksoedzhi'isis — f rä'dzhoestoe — g no'uoel — h kä'oen — 1 ä'älkräft — k mikeT. zu £75 jährlich, 5 zu £60 jährlich, außerdem viele andere Stipendien; daneben hat es 20 geistliche Pfründen zu vergeben. — 1 graduate, einer, der einen akademischen Grad (Bachelor of Arts etc.) erworben hat. — 2 the Hon. and Rev., the Honourable and Reverend, Hon., weil er Sohn Baron Cotteslow, Rev., weil er Geistlicher ist. — 3 canonry, Stelle eines Kanonikers; Canons heißen die Mitglieder eines Domkapitels mit Ausnahme des Dean, der an der Spitze des ganzen Kapitels steht. Bezieht der Canon einen bestimmten Teil der Einkünfte der betreffenden Ka­ thedrale, so heißt er Prebendary. — 4 Mr. Sheriff Evans, vor Sheriff und Justice setzt man Mr. — 5 Surgeon-General, Generalarzt. — 6 in-patients, im Hospital verpflegte, out-patients, Stadtpatienten.

on the year’s working. After the usual loyal toasts, ‘‘Prosperity to St. Mary’s Hospital” was proposed by the Lord Mayor, who dwelt upon the good work which had been done by the hospital in the past and the increasing advantages which would be likely to result from an extension of its field of beneficent labour, and urged upon all present to do their utmost to promote so deserving an Institution. The toast was drunk amid loud cheers. The secretary announced that sufficient funds had been forthcoming to complete the furnishing of a new wing, and that Mr. J. D. Allcroft had, at a cost of over £2,000, endowed a ward of 24 beds for the period of two years. The total of the subscriptions and donations, including Mr. Allcroft’s munificent gift, amounted to upwards of £4,600. Several other toasts followed. Humanity Rewarded.—The Board of Trade1 have awarded a binocular glass to Captain Antonio Jose de Souza, master of the tug Conductor, of Lisbon, for bis kindness to the shipwrecked crew of the steamship Cornishman, of Cardiffa, on the 8th of January last. Education of the Blind.—On Saturday afternoon the annual general meeting of the subscribers of the London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read and for Training them in Industrial Occupations was held at the Society’s schools, Upper Avenue-road, St. John’s-wood. Mr. E. C. Johnson, vice-president of the Society, and member of the Royal Commission on the Education of the Blind, occupied the chair. The 46th annual report, after notifying that the accounts referred only to the nine months from March to December, pursuant to a new arrangement for closing the accounts at the end of each ordinary year, stated that as no election of pupils had been held since 1883, and the number of inmates was lower than usual, the committee recommended that all the five boys and four girls who were candidates for the forthcoming elec­ tion, as well as the four boys and one girl who were candidates for re-election, should be admitted; and they also recommended that the necessity for re-election should be abandoned. The present number of male and female inmates, including day scholars2, was 45, who, besides general education, were receiving instructions in music, piano tuning, chair caning3, basket making, &c. Beneficial results were also found to arise from drilling and other athletic exercises, and the committee contemplated establishing a gymnasium. The balance-sheet showed receipts, a ka'adif. 1 Board of Trade, Oberbehörde für Handel, Handelsministerium, gebildet aus einem Ausschuß des Staatsrats (Privy Council); an der Spitze steht der President of the Board of Trade. Diese Behörde hat die Oberaufsicht über Handelshäfen, Eisenbahnen, Handelsflotte/Handelsverträge, besorgt die Statistik u. s. w., vgl. S. 1763; im Parlament ist es durch einen besonderen Parliamentary Secretary ver­ treten. — 2 day scholars, Schüler, die nicht in der Anstalt wohnen. — 3 caning, Rohr flechten.

including a Balance brought forward of £499, amountiyg to £2,242, and an expenditure leaving a Balance in Band of £187. On the motion of the chairman, seconded1 by Mr. Burnett, J.P., the report and its recommendations were adopted.

COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR CASTLEa, April 3.

The Queen and Princess Beatriceb drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon.2 Horatia Stopford.0 The Hon. Lady Biddulphd and Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Curzone, Major E. Hanning-Lee, and Captain A. Abdy, 2d Life Guards, had the honour of dining with Her Majesty and the Royal Family yesterday evening. The following officers of the 2d Life Guards, who were invited to dine with Her Majesty*s Household, had the honour of being presented to the Queen in the evening:—Captains Anstruther-Thomsonf, the Hon. W. Bateman Hanburyg, Lieutenants H. Freuch, W. F. Peel, and Naylor Leyland. Miss Murray Macgregorb lest the Castle yesterday. The Queen went out this morning, attended by the Hon. Frederica Fitzroy.1 The Queen held a Council to-day at 3 o’clock, at which were present Earl Spencer, K.G. (Lord President of the Council)3, *the * Earl of Kenmare k, a wi'nzoe ka'asoel — b bi'cetris — c häre'ishiae stä'pfoed — d bi'dalf — e koe'cezcen — f aenstru'upoe tä'mzoen — 6 hae'nbr1 — h mcßgre'goe — 1 fredoeri'ikae fitsro'i — k kenmae'oe. 1 seconded, jeder Antrag (motion) muß von dritter Seite unterstützt (se­ conded) werden. — 2 Hon. Horatia Stopford bekleidet das Amt einer Kammer­ frau. Die Mistress of the Rohes ist das Haupt der Hofdamen. Außerdem sind acht ‘Ladies of the Bedchamber’ (Hofdamen), acht ‘Bedchamber Women’ (Kammer­ frauen) und acht ‘Maids of Honour’ (Ehrendamen), welche den Titel ‘Honourable’ führen, bei Hofe angestellt. — 3 Lord President of the Council, Präsident des Privy Council (Geheimen Rats); dieser Staatsrat, dessen Mitgliederzahl nicht beschränkt ist, bestand 1886 aus 225 Mitgliedern für England und 52 für Irland, welche von der Königin aus den königlichen Prinzen, den Ministern und an­ deren hohen Würdenträgern ernannt werden. Die Macht des Privy Council ist eine formelle, in Wirklichkeit regieren nur diejenigen Mitglieder desselben, welche das Kabinett bilden. Die Privy Councillors führen den Titel The Right Ho­ nourable und werden vereidigt. Aus denselberr werden drei Ausschüsse ge­ bildet: 1) The Judicial Committee of The Privy Council (Appellhof für die Kolonieen), The Admiralty und Ecclesiastical Courts (Marinegericht und die geistlichen Gerichtshöfe), 2) The Board of Trade (Ausschuß für Handel und Kolonieen), besteht aus den Abteilungen für: a) Harbours (Häfen), b) Railways (Eisenbahnen), c) Marine (Handelsflotte), d) Statistical (Statistik), letztere Be­ hörde hat außerdem die Oberaufsicht über Handelsverträge; 3) The Education Corn-

K.P.*1 (Lord Chamberlain)2, and the Right Hon. James Stansfeld (Presi­ dent of the Local Government Board). The Earl of Dalhousiea, K.T., Lord Thurlowb, and Colonel J. S. North were introduced and sworn in3 members of the Privy Council. Mr. Charles Lennox Peel, C.B., was in attendance as Clerk of the Council. Previous to the Council the Spanish Minister was introduced to an audience of Her Majesty by Earl Spencer, K.G. (in the absence of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), and presented his letter of recall, and after it the following were introduced to the Queen’s presence and kissed hands on appointment to their respective Offices:— The Earl of Dalhousie, K.T., as Secretary of State for Scotland; Lord Thurlow, as Paymaster-General; and the Right Hon. J. Stansfeld, as President of the Local Government Board. General Viscount Bridport0, K.C.B.4, and the Hon. C. R. Spencer, M.P., the Lord and Groom in Waiting5, were in attendance on Her Majesty. Earl Spencer, K.G., had an audience of the Queen. April 4.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and the Countess of Erbach. The Lord Bishop of Peterborough arrived at the Castle yesterday evening. The Queen and Royal Family and the members of Her Majesty’s Household attended Divine Service in the private chapel this morning. The Lord Bishop of Peterboroughd (the Right Rev.6 W. Mageee, D.D.), assisted by the Very Rev.7 R. Davidson, Dean8 of Windsor, officiated. The Bishop of Peterborough preached the sermon. MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, April 4.

The Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Princesses Louise, Vica daelhu'uzi — b ]?oe'oelou — c va'ikaunt bri'dpäät — d pi'itoeboerä — e moegi'i. mittee, Ausschuß für öffentlichen Unterricht, namentlich Elementarschulen und ihre staat­ liche Unterstützung. Der Präsident des Privy Council ist Mitglied des Kabinetts. — 1 K.P., Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, gegründet 1783. Band himmelblau. Motto: Quis separabit? wer wird trennen? — 2 Lord Cham­ berlain, Oberkammerherr, hat die Oberaufsicht über die Beamten der Königlichen Ge­ mächer und stellt die bei Hof Erschienenen der Königin Vor; ohne seine Erlaubnis (license) darf kein Theaterstück in England aufgeführt werden. Er wechselt mit dem Ministerium. — 3 sworn in, Vereidigt als. — 4 K.C.B. (keisiibi'i), Knight Com­ mander of the Bath, zweite Klasse des Bath-ordens, s. S. 99x. — 5 Lord and Groom in Waiting, Hofbeamte, welche unter dem Lord Chamberlain die Aufsicht über die Beamten der Königlichen Gemächer führen. — 6 the Right Rev., The Right Reverend, Titel eines Bischofs. — 7 the Very Rev., The Very Reverend, Titel eines Dean. — 8 Dean, Vorsteher eines Domkapitels. The Times.

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toria, and Maud, arrived at Marlborough House to-day froip visiting the Duchess of Sutherland at Sutherland Tower, Torquay. Lieutenant-General Sir Dightona Probyn was in attendance. April 5. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Princesses Louise, Vic­ toria, and Maud were present at Divine Service to-day. Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lome) visited the Prince and Princess of Wales to-day, and remained to luncheon. The Queen.—It is expected that the Queen will pay another visit to London to-day, retuming to Windsor Castle in the aftemoon. Äccording to present arrangements Her Majesty will leave for Osborne1 on Thursday. Privy Council at Windsor.—On Saturday aftemoon the Queen held a Privy Council at Windsor. The Ministers and others attending the Council lest London by special train on the Great Western Railway shortly after 12 o’clock, and arrived at Windsor at 10 minutes to 2. Ämong the Ministers were Lord Spencer, Lord Cork, Lord Dalhousie, Mr. Stansfeld, and Lord Thurlow, with Mr. Lennox Peel, the Clerk of the Council.2 The Ministers lunched at the Castle, and after the Privy Council, which was held at 3 o’clock, lest for London at half-past 3. Princess Christian.—On Saturday Princess Christian was present and assisted at a free dinner given at the Town hall, Windsor, to the unemployed of the town. The Mayor and several ladies and gentlemen of the town were also present. Cabinet Council.3—A Cabinet Council which was summoned on Saturday evening will be held at the Prime Ministers official residence4 to-morrow. i The Prime Minister.5—Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone lest Downingc-street on Saturday for Coombed, Lord Wolvertons® residence, near Kingston, to stay two nights. Lord Salisbury.—Lord Salisbury arrived at his house in Arlingtonstreet, Piccadilly, on Saturday evening, from Monte Carlo. a da'itoen — b ma'ashoenoes oevlä'än — c da'uning — d ku'um — e wu'lvoetoenz. 1 Osborne, auf her Isle of Wight; die Königin wohnt gewöhnlich in Windsor Castle, Balmoral (Schottland) oder Osborne, nur zu großem Empfang (Levee, Drawing Boom) benutzt sie Buckingham Palace und St. James’s Palace in London. — 2 Clerk of the Council, Sekretär des Geheimen Rats. — 3 s. S. 1632. — 4 offi­ cial Residence, die Amtswohnung des Premiers ist in Downing-Street, London. — 5 Prime Minister, Premierminister, Ministerpräsident. Die Königin ernennt die Minister, da jedoch ein Premierminister abdanken muß, wenn er die Mehrheit des Par­ laments nicht für sich hat, so ist es die Mehrheit des Parlaments, deren jeweiliger Füh­ rer von der Königin mit der Bildung des Kabinetts beauftragt wird. Derselbe über­ nimmt gewöhnlich das Amt des First Lord of the Treasury und wird, wie alle Minister, Mitglied des Privy Council.

Lord Lyons.—Lord Lyons lest Norfolk-house, St. James’s, on Saturday morning, on bis return to Paris. The British Minister to China.—Sir John Walshama leaves London this morning for Paris, and will leave Marseilles by the French mail of the llth instant for Shanghaib and Pekin. The Templb 1 Church.—The preachers at the remaining Lent special Services on Wednesday evenings, at 8 o’clock, in the Temple Church will he—on April 7, the Rev. J. H. J. Ellison, vicar2 of St. Gabriel’s, Pimlico, and on April 14, the Master of the Temple3 (Dr. Vaughan), who will also preach on Good Friday evening at 7 o’clock, The Late Marchioness Camden.—On Saturday last the remains of the late Marchioness Camden were interred by the private chapel dose to the mansion-house at Bayham, Sussex? No hearse or mourning coaches were used, the coffin, which was covered with choice wreaths, being bome on the shoulders of workmen on the estate, the mourners following on foot. Among the mourners were Captain Philip Green, the Marquis Camden, Lord Alfred Churchill, Lord Edward Churchill, the Marquis of Abergavennyd, the Duke of Marlborough, and Lord Randolph Churchill, M.P. One wreath was from the Queen, "A mark of sincere regard from Victoria R. and I."4 * The Political Situation.—We understand that Communications have been exchanged between the Conservative leaders and the Liberals who are opposed to Mr. Gladstone’s Irish policy as to the course which should be pursued on the introduction of the Bill for the Establishment of an Irish Parliament. The former probably would have preferred to move the rejection of the Bill on its first reading; but in deference to the opinion of the latter it has been determined to let the Bill be read a first time without a division, and to reserve the active attack till the second reading. As at present arranged, Mr. Chamberlain will follow Mr. Gladstone as soon as the Premier has concluded his statement, and Lord Hartington, after Mr. Chamberlain has made a speech stating his reasons for disapproving the Bill, will move the adjournment of the debate.— Observer. Arch^ology6 in India.—At a meeting of the Indian section of the Society of Arts, held on Friday night, at the Society’s Rooms, Adam-

a wä'älshoem — b shaengha'i — c be'ioem sa'seks — d aeboege'n1 — e aakiäloedzh1. 1 Temple Church, eine der ältesten und interessantesten Kirchen Englands, in London gelegen, früher Eigentum der Tempelritter. — 2 vicar, eig. Stellvertreter; Inhaber einer Pfründe, deren Einkünfte der höheren Geistlichkeit zufallen, während der Vikar selbst gewöhnlich nur den sog. kleinen Zehnten empfängt; nicht zu ver­ wechseln mit dem meist schlecht bezahlten Stellvertreter (curate) des Pfründeninhabers. — 3 Master of the Temple, der erste Pfarrer der Temple Church in London führt diesen Ehrentitel. — 4 R. and I., Regina and Imperatrix, Königin und Kaiserin (von Indien).

Street, Adelphi, Mr. James Gibbsa read a paper on “The History of Archaeology in India.” Sir George Birdwood presided, and in introducing the lecturer remarked that Mr. Gibbs was one of the most distinguished officers of the Indian Civil Service1 and had served the State in some of the highest Offices in India. Mr. Gibbs remarked, in opening bis paper, that the archaeology of India had of late years been brought much more prominently before the public than it was formerly, but no full and connected account had yet been put forward by which those interested in the Subject could obtain any correct idea of the extent and value of what had been really done. The British Government had been at times censured by foreign savants for neglecting its duty in collecting Infor­ mation on the Subject, and although this might have been a just Charge to some extent in former years, the Subject had latterly been made a brauch of the general administration of the country, and no slur could now be cast on Great Britain for not taking care of the treasures which had come under her Charge. Proceeding to trace the history of the earliest steps in regard to archaeology in India, the lecturer took the foundation of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, as a starting point, and said that the beadroll of that Society contained many well-known names. Twenty years later, on the proposal of Sir James Mackintosh, the Bombay Literary Society was founded, and became, in 1827, the Bombay brauch of the Royal Asiatic Society. The first collector of ancient inscriptions was Colonel Colin Mackenzie, who prepared a fine collection of copies from stone and copper plates, and among those retired Anglo-Indians who kept up and enlarged their connexion with the antiquities, numismatics, and archaeology were the late Sir James Fergussonb and Mr. Edward Thomas. In 1862, General Cunningham drew up a memorandum at the request of Lord Canning, the Governor-General, which met with approval, and what was now the Archaeological Survey of India was begun. Mr. Gibbs described the nature of the survey made, and detailed the labours of persons connected with it. In 1882 the Secretary of State approved of a scheine put forward by the Govern­ ment of India by which an epigraphist2 was appointed, and the practical result of this appointment would be the collection of a vast amount of new historical matter—the fixing of the dates and the names of rulers of ancient days, which would enable the filling in of many of the lacunoe 3 existing in early Indian history. This important brauch of archaeology a gibz — b foe'oegoesoen. 1 Indian Civil Service, Staatsdienst in Ostindien; die Beamten in Ostindien, meist in England auf Staatskosten vorgebildet (covenanted civilians, jetzt etwa 960), sind fast ausschließlich Engländer und werden als Ärzte, Berwaltungsbeamte, Steuerbeamte, Richter, Ingenieure u. s. w. mit einem Anfangsgehalt von ungefähr 9000 M. angestellt. — 2 epigraphist, Jnschriftenkundiger. — ® lacunae, Lücken.

had thus been placed in a promising position, and its results might he looked forward to with every hope of success. The lecturer referred to methods of restoration, and concluded by remarking that of his own knowledge in ahnost all parts of India, in Bengal, the North-West Provinces, the Punjab, Madras, Bombay, and Scindea, much had been done and many fine buildings rescued from ruin. Charge of Murder.—Early yesterday morning Police-constable Bentley was murdered during an afiray at Leicesterb with a drunken man named John Fox. It appears that Fox, who is a stranger in the town, went into a house and refused to leave it, although the occupiers knew nothing of him. At length they got him into the yard, and the police were sent for. Inspector Hawkins and Police-constable Bentley went to apprehend him, and as soon as they got him on the way to the police-station he became exceedingly violent, used terrible threats, threw Bentley down, and strack him repeatedly in the ehest with so much violence that he died shortly afterwards. Fox will be charged with wilful murder.

HAYMARKET THEATRE. It is a long lane that has no tuming, and it may be that the evil fortune of the Haymarket Theatre under its present management will be conjured by Sir Charles Youngs new Society drama of Jim the Penman, which took its place in the Programme on Saturday evening. It is with the public that the decision of this question rests. A dramatic author is in the position of a suitor who elects to have his case tried, not by a cool, hard-headed judge, governed solely by principles of law, but by an impressionable and impulsive jury. If Sir Charles Young were submitting his play to a tribunal of literary experts, judgment would almost certainly be given in his favour. It would be found that he had conceived a story of absorbing and even oppressive interest, that he had presented it skilfully, and that he had worked it out by means of certain well drawn typ es of character. But it is the public he has to deal with, and the public feel rather than reason about the merits of a play. Successful play-writing is, therefore, a matter of instinct rather than of literary skill on the part of the dramatist; and if Sir Charles Young's very clever and very remarkable piece does not fully realize the brilliant anticipations formed of it, it will be because it has not touched the public Sentiment in exaetly the männer required, as many an inferior work has been known to do. Jim the Penman strongly

a sind — b le'stoe.

recalls the method of Gaboriau1 as applied to bis dram^es judiciaires. Gaboriau’s detective tales form one of the most absorbing chapters of French fiction; and they are constructed on one unvarying plan. He begins by relating a crime that has been committed, quoting, it may be, an imaginary fait divers in a newspaper; he then brings his astute agent de surete upon the scene, and the toils of justice are slowly but surely thrown around the criminal. Jim the Penman might be a companion story to “L'Affaire Lerouge” or ‘‘Le Crime d’Orcival,” divided into four acts and placed upon the stage. No element of Gaboriau’s familiär mise-en-scene2 *is wanting. We have a criminal and a detective as hold and as unconventional in type as any the French novelist ever invented, and the piecing together of the circumstantial evidence which brings the crime hörne to its author is correspondingly ingenious and interesting. Every drama is based upon certain postulates or assumptions which the author Claims from our indulgence, and which, if possible, we tacitly grant. The author of Jim the Penman takes advantage of this privilege to the utmost. In laying the groundwork of his action he asks us to admit (1) that a man should in the course of 20 years have built up a vast fortune in the City without his wife or any of his friends knowing the sort of business in which he is engaged; (2) that such a man, James Ralston8 by name, should become a social power and move in the best Society; and (3) that the agent of a detective firm should, under the name of Captain Redwood, likewise gain admittance to that Society on a footing of perfect equality, and be at any time a self-invited guest in Ralston s town or country house. To ask so much of our credulity or our good nature is certainly to ask a great deal, and it is no mean proof of Sir C. Young’s constructive skill that these postulates should be presented to us in so plausible a fashion as to gain our ready acquiescence. It is quite a minor consideration that the much respected and Philanthropie Ralston should be a member of a secret Society engaged in planning and executing forgeries on a large scale, or that the sobriquet of “Jim the Penman” should be familiär to “the Society’s” dupes and to the police without being associated with any recognizable or traceable individual. The author is quite within his right, if, having induced us to grant these assumptions, his story moves logically forward and with unflagging interest from start to finish. Looked at from this point of view the authors success is complete. There is no doubt that very early in the play, when suspicion begins to attach to Ralston, the a rä'älstoen.

1 Gaboriau, Lmile Gaboriau, geboren 1835, französischer Schriftsteller, Ver­ fasser von Kriminalnovellen (drames judiciaires), wie L’Affaire Lerouge, Le Crime d’Orcival. — 2 mise-en-sc6ne, Jnscenierung.

interest of the house is aroused and that it is never once allowed to languish until at the close the arch criminal drops dead from heart disease just as, through the instrumentality of the detective, he is about to be arrested. The process of tracking a clever criminal is always interesting, and it is doubly so in the present instance, inasmuch as Ralstons wife and the detective are engaged on separate, though parallel, lines of inquiry. In her girlhood Mrs. Ralston had been engaged to a certain Louis Percevala, but while being sought in marriage by Ralston she had suddenly received from the former a letter breaking off their match. She had thus become Mrs. Ralston. Her early disappointment, however, had never been forgotten, and when, after 20 years* absence in America, Perceval appears as a guest in Ralstons house she upbraids him with his perfidy. He is amazed at her bitterness, for at the time referred to he had received a letter purporting to be written by her, declaring their relations to be at an end. In short, these mature sweethearts, who have so long nourished a disappointed affection in their hearts, discover that they had been parted by fraud—a fraud even more heartless than a certain skilfu] forgery by which, previous to his return to England, Perceval had been deprived of a great part of his fortune. Who is the criminal? The money forgery is suspected to be the work of that shadowy personage “Jim the Penman,” but whose was the band that penned the cruel letters breaking off the engagement between the boy and girl lovers? By and by an idea flashes upon Mrs. Ralstons mind. Ralston, in an indiscreet moment, had signed her name to a cheque with her permission, and on comparing his acknowledged Imitation of her signature with that of the letter falsely written in her name to Perceval the terrible truth is revealed. A violent and painful scene between husband and wife ensues, but this is the least of Ralstons troubles, which have meanwhile been gathering in upon him from every side. He has been solicited by a member of “the Society,” the soi-disant1 Baron Hartfeld, to do a final coup2—the forgery of Lord Drelincourt’s name, whereby that noblemans family diamonds may be abstracted from the bank in which they are deposited. Lord Drelincourt is a suitor for his daughters hand, but Ralston consents to commit the forgery as his last; and it is at the moment of the celebration of the marriage of Lord Drelincourt and Miss Ralston that the denouement3 is reached—namely, the arrest of Hartfeld and the sudden death of Ralston under circumstances which, happily for his wife and his daughter, leave his name untarnished. Intensely absorbing is this stränge story as the author relates it;

a pce'oesivoel. soi-disant, angeblich. — 2 coup, Schlag. — 8 denouement, Lösung.

but it is throughout sombre and oppressive in an extraordinary degree, and for this reason its power of attracting the public may1 not, we fear, prove to be proportionale to the skill displayed either in the writing or the Interpretation of it. The playgoing public love to have their hearts stirred with generous emotion; they like both to laugh and to cry. This play holds them like a vice, but the excitement it produces is hectic and unwholesome, unrelieved by any interlude of brightness or humour and unmoistened by a single tear. It does not list us up and make us feel that life after all has something to be said for it. On the contrary, it seems to sear our hearts with a red hot iron, and we leave the theatre with a sense of depression. The absence of a love interest is a serious drawback to any play, love being the one passion that appeals to all hearts and that the dramatist can play upon with the greatest confidence. In Jim the Penman this sentiment does not exist, for Lord Drelincourt’s attentions to Miss Ralston, despite the fact that this part is very prettily played by Miss Helen Leytona, are of the most ingenu1 kind, while the blighted affections of Mrs. Ralston and Perceval appear in a somewhat ridiculous light. The leading parts are strongly played. Lady Monckton is much more than an amateur, as the term is commonly understood, and the part of Mrs. Ralston is happily drawn to suit her aptitudes, which do not comprise the expression of tenderness. Mrs. Ralston is, indeed, a very unsympathetic character, but her shrewishness and heartlessness afford Lady Monckton opportunities which she turns to good account. Such sympathy as the play awakens, and it is very slight, falls strangely enough to the share of Ralston, who is represented throughout by Mr. Dacreb as a man suffering the agonie sof remorse, who would gladly, if he could, break from his evil ways and even make restitution of bis ill-gotten wealth. In a criminal of such a calibre more firmness and backbone than Mr. Dacre shows us might perhaps be looked for, unless we may assume that at the period of the action Ralstons moral and physical nature has been shattered. The sham German Baron affords Mr. Beerbohm Tree opportunity for another of those eccentric and picturesque impersonations in which he excels. His sinister make up2 is in itself a study, and his accent and männer are in keeping.3 With regard to accent, it may be questioned whether the actor, in his anxiety to be realistic, does not inflict upon us a little too much of it. It is enough that an accent should be indicated, especially in a long part; when made to grate upon our nerves it ceases to be artistic. Mr.

a he'Ioen le'itoen— b de'ikoe. 1 ingenu, harmlos, unbefangen, natürlich. — 2 make up, Maske. — 3 are in keeping, sind dementsprechend, passen dazu.

Brookfield3 is also furnished with a congenial pari as Redwood the detective. An English Lecoq1 with drawing-room manners is not a very conceivable personage, but Mr. Brookfield contrives to invest him with a plausible Personality. In other respects the piece is agreeably presented, albeit a remark of Lord Drelincourt’s that so-and-so is “more than you think for”2 does not strike one as elegant English.

A New Minor Planet.—Another minor planet was discovered by Herr Palisa, of Vienna, on the evening of the 3Ist ultimo, thus bringing up the number of these small bodies to 254. It was in Right Ascension 3 14h. 0min. 34sec. and North Polar distance 101° 17' 17" at 12 31 a.m., on April 1. The daily motion in Right Ascension is 48sec. decreasing, and in Polar distance Imin, decreasing. It is of about the 13th magnitude.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM* SPRING MEETING. Epsom Spring Races this year precede the Newmarket Craven Meeting5, instead of following it, as they have hitherto done, and the result has been that up to the present time there has been little or no speculation upon the City and Suburban Handicap6, the chief race of the meeting. Following, also, closely upon the heels of Lincoln and Leicester, where many of the horses were engaged, it has been impossible to know much of the intentions of the different owners, and thus it has happened that up to the present time but little has been heard of the City and Suburban; while the Metropolitan Stakes7, which used formerly to divide the Interest with the shorter handicap, has not been mentioned. Perhaps the backwardness of many of the thoroughbreds which are engaged at Epsom may also have something to do with it; and, whatever

a bru'kfiild. 1 Lecoq, Name des Geheimpolizisten in Gaboriaus Kriminalnovellen: Mon­ sieur Lecoq, Le crime d’Orcival u. a. — 2 think for, erwarten, unfein für expect. — 3 Right Ascension, Nektascension. — 4 Epsom, Städtchen in Surrey. Auf den Epsom Downs ist die Rennbahn, auf der das größte Wettrennen ‘the Derby’ ab­ gehalten wird. — 5 Newmarket Craven Meeting, Rennen in Newmarket, nördlich von London in Cambridgeshire, bei dem Pferde jeden Alters zugelassen sind. Newmarket ist berühmt wegen seiner ausgedehnten Stallungen für Rennpferde, die dort zugeritten werden. — 6 Handicap, Rennen, an dem Pferde von jedem Alter und jeder Fähigkeit teilnehmen, bei welchem jedoch bei schwächeren Pferden durch geringere Belastung ein Ausgleich mit den stärkeren herbeigeführt wird; Vorgabe­ rennen beim Radfahren. — 7 Stakes, Einsätze; hier das Rennen selbst, weil der Preis hauptsächlich aus den Einsätzen besteht.

Brookfield3 is also furnished with a congenial pari as Redwood the detective. An English Lecoq1 with drawing-room manners is not a very conceivable personage, but Mr. Brookfield contrives to invest him with a plausible Personality. In other respects the piece is agreeably presented, albeit a remark of Lord Drelincourt’s that so-and-so is “more than you think for”2 does not strike one as elegant English.

A New Minor Planet.—Another minor planet was discovered by Herr Palisa, of Vienna, on the evening of the 3Ist ultimo, thus bringing up the number of these small bodies to 254. It was in Right Ascension 3 14h. 0min. 34sec. and North Polar distance 101° 17' 17" at 12 31 a.m., on April 1. The daily motion in Right Ascension is 48sec. decreasing, and in Polar distance Imin, decreasing. It is of about the 13th magnitude.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM* SPRING MEETING. Epsom Spring Races this year precede the Newmarket Craven Meeting5, instead of following it, as they have hitherto done, and the result has been that up to the present time there has been little or no speculation upon the City and Suburban Handicap6, the chief race of the meeting. Following, also, closely upon the heels of Lincoln and Leicester, where many of the horses were engaged, it has been impossible to know much of the intentions of the different owners, and thus it has happened that up to the present time but little has been heard of the City and Suburban; while the Metropolitan Stakes7, which used formerly to divide the Interest with the shorter handicap, has not been mentioned. Perhaps the backwardness of many of the thoroughbreds which are engaged at Epsom may also have something to do with it; and, whatever

a bru'kfiild. 1 Lecoq, Name des Geheimpolizisten in Gaboriaus Kriminalnovellen: Mon­ sieur Lecoq, Le crime d’Orcival u. a. — 2 think for, erwarten, unfein für expect. — 3 Right Ascension, Nektascension. — 4 Epsom, Städtchen in Surrey. Auf den Epsom Downs ist die Rennbahn, auf der das größte Wettrennen ‘the Derby’ ab­ gehalten wird. — 5 Newmarket Craven Meeting, Rennen in Newmarket, nördlich von London in Cambridgeshire, bei dem Pferde jeden Alters zugelassen sind. Newmarket ist berühmt wegen seiner ausgedehnten Stallungen für Rennpferde, die dort zugeritten werden. — 6 Handicap, Rennen, an dem Pferde von jedem Alter und jeder Fähigkeit teilnehmen, bei welchem jedoch bei schwächeren Pferden durch geringere Belastung ein Ausgleich mit den stärkeren herbeigeführt wird; Vorgabe­ rennen beim Radfahren. — 7 Stakes, Einsätze; hier das Rennen selbst, weil der Preis hauptsächlich aus den Einsätzen besteht.

the owners of the animals engaged may think, the public ^eems disinclined to have anything to do with the races until the numbers are hoisted. The way in which great favonrites have been beaten this spring rather points to the fallaciousness of the majority of these private trials, and those who take an interest in turf pursuits will incline more to the chances of horses who have already won races this spring, than to those of others that have not yet been Seen in pnblic. The most important races in to-morrow’s Programme are the Great Metropolitan Stakes, the Great Surrey Handicap, the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, and the Westminster Stakes for two-year-olds. The Great Metro­ politan Stakes Handicap of 20 sovs.1 each, with 500 sovs. added, and run over a two and a-quarter mile course, has 25 horses lest in2, and a field3 of a dozen or 15 runners may be found at the post, selected from the following:— Horse.

Althorpa

PROBABLE STARTERS. Yrs.4 st. lb.

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Althorp, who heads the handicap with 8st. 121b., distinguished himself as one of the best three-year-olds of last season, winning this race easily in 1885, by 12 lengths, with 5st. 71b.5 in the saddle, from Hermitage.0 After bis victories at Ascot, Goodwood6, and at Deauville7, he ran in the Cesarewitch8, but could get no nearer than fifth. He is now very well, and as he has not had nearly as much work as last October he may be all the bester for it. Xemad, 8st. 101b., beat Althorp in the Cesarewitch when in receipt of 81b., but he ought to have improved more than she has, and should now hold her safe.9 Raffaello, 8st. 71b., ran badly in the Liverpool Spring Cup10 a short time ago, but he was then backward, and has been improved by some extra gallops. Sheraton, 8st. 31b., on hislastyears Ascot11 form12, should have an outside chance13, but he seems to be inferior to SWellington on the Hardwicke6 Stakes

a ä'älpääp — b a'atshoe — c hoe'oemitoedzh — d zi'imae — e ha'adwik. 1 sovs., sovereigns, sovereign ist die Bezeichnung der Münze, £ die des Wertes derselben. — 2 lest in, übrig geblieben, noch auf der Liste. — 3 field, An­ zahl der Erschienenen. — 4 Yrs., years — 5 5st. 71b., Gewicht des Jockey und der Gewichtsauflage. — 6 Goodwood, Rennplatz bei Chichesetr, Sussex. — 7 Deauville, kleiner Badeort in der Normandie, Trouville gegenüber, berühmter Rennplatz. — 8 Cesarewitch, ein zu Ehren des russischen Thronfolgers, des jetzigen Zaren, benanntes Rennen. — 9 hold her safe, sie sicher besiegen. — 10 Cup, Preis; derselbe besteht oft aus einem mit Goldstücken gefüllten Pokal, kann jedoch auch ein anderer wertvoller Gegenstand sein. — 11 Ascot, Rennplatz bei Windsor, auf dem das vornehmste, vom höchsten Adel besuchte Rennen stattfindet. — 12 form, Zu­ stand, Verfassung. — 13 outside chance, gute Aussichten, ohne der mutmaßliche Sieger zu sein.

running. Cipollina, 7st. 121b., ran fairly in the early part of last season and won a couple of races in the autumn, but she seems uncertain. Diss, 7st. 121b., was in fair form at the close of last season, and he distinguished himself by winning a weiter race at the Epsom Spring Meeting last year. He has been doing long work for some time, and ran second at Croydon to Wise on Friday last, but he may improve upon that running. Radiusa, 7st. 101b., has generally been successful over shorter courses, but on his Manchester September form of last year, when he beat Pirate of Penzance and Prince Rudolph over a mile and a-half course, he should have an outside chance. Studley's running last year was not in his favour, but his stable1 is in such form that he may be dangerous if he starts, though he may not oppose Diss. Swillington, better known as Willie Darling, 7st. 71b., ran many times last year without success, and several times broke a blood vessel in the races in which he took part, but his best form was when, carrying 7st. 71b., he ran second to Bendigo for the Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot, but finished in front of Grafton, Sheraton, Wild Thymeb2, Lucernec, and Queen Adelaide. He has lately bad a satisfactory gallop, and if he manages to get through the race without breaking a blood vessel he may do well. Postscript ran third in the Cesarewitch of 1885, but ran badly afterwards, and seems outclassed.3 Touch and Go4, 7st. 41b., was beaten by Gannet in the Union Jack5 Stakes at Liverpool last spring by three lengths, but at Doncaster4 he won the Doncaster Welter Plate over a mile course, beating Balmorale, Merry Duchess, Criterion, and 11 others, and the next day he carried off the Alexandra Plate by half a length from Hambletonianf, who gave6 him 191b. At the Edinburgh Meeting in October he won the Edinburgh Gold Cup over a two-mile course, beating Stoneclinkg and Lady Adelaide very easily, but he was beaten by Warpath and Mechlinh in the Newmarket Derby at the Second October Meeting, when odds7 were laid on him; and by Cassia in the a re'idioes — ;b taim — c lusoe'oen — d dä'ngkoestoe — e baelmä'roel — f haemboelto'unioen — 8 *sto'unklink * — 11 me'klin.

1 stable, Stall, Prämierung. — 2 Thyme, Thymian. — 3 outclassed, kommt nicht mehr in Frage, bleibt unberücksichtigt. — 4 Touch and Go, haarscharf; eigentlich gerade den Prellstein berühren und weilerfahren. — 5 Union Jack, Unions­ flagge von Großbritannien und Irland, eine Vereinigung der drei Kreuze der Schutz­ heiligen von England, Irland und Schottland; zunächst ein weißes diagonales Kreuz auf blauem Grund (the cross of St. Andrew) für Schottland, darüber ein rotes diagonales Kreuz auf weißem Grund (the cross of St. Patrick) für Irland, und darüber ein auf­ rechtes rotes Kreuz mit weißem Rand (the cross of St. George) für England. Diese Zusammenstellung der drei Kreuze kam 1801 unter Georg III. auf, um die Vereinigung (Union) der drei Königreiche auszudrücken. — 6 gave him 191b., gab ihm 191b. vor, d. h. war selbst um 19 Pfund mehr belastet als H. — 7 odds were laid on him, es wurde auf ihn gewettet.

Liverpool St. Leger?* 1 He is very well, and it is quite possible that the Metropolitan course may suit him Better than the City and Suburban. Holdfast, 7st., was tried a good Börse last year, but he disappointed bis owner in the Cesarewitch, and the stähle may find a Better repräsen­ tative in Beaver, who, notwithstanding bis defeat by Sir Kenneth, Scotilla, and Cravate in the Northamptonshire Stakes last week, defeated Blondei in a trial on Saturday. Kenmore, 6st. 131b., seems outclassed, while Substantif, 5st. 91b., could only finish third to Ashplant and Castorb in the Queen’s Plate at Liverpool. Blondel, 5st. 91b., was a fair two-yearold, but he was Beaten by Beaver in a trial on Saturday and may not run. Scotilla, 5st. 71b., with 7st. 11b. in the saddle, ran second, Beaten three-quarters of a length, to2 Sir Kenneth, 8st., in the Northamptonshire Stakes onWednesday last, defeating Cravate, 6st. 101b., Beaver, 7st. 21b., and eight others, so that she seems to hold Beaver safe, and, as threeyear-olds very osten run well in the race, she may prove formidable. Opinion seems to bc divided between Althorp, Scotilla, Radius, and Touch and Go, but the first-named two seem most reliable, and they may experience most trouble from Swillington. The Great Surrey Handicap, of 500 sovs., run over the five-furlong3 course, has 41 entries, and about a dozen horses may be found at the post. The pick4 of these are Brighton, 9st.; Montroyd0, 8st. 121b.; Fedora, 8st. 101b.; Present Times, 8st.; Blazon, 7st. 31b.; St. Honorat, 7st.; Monte Rosa, 6st. 121b.; and Beaulieu, 6st. 121b. Brighton, it is said, finished behind Monte Rosa and Gordon in a trial on Saturday. T. Jennings’s stähle is sure to have a formidable repräsentative, and as Present Times has only 8st. to carry, including a 101b. penalty for bis success in the Spencer Plate at Northampton, he should win easily if he runs. St. Honorat, 7st., who lost so much money at the end of the season of 1884, is fairly handicapped on bis running and has been satisfactorily galloped, but it is difficult to see how he can Beat Present Times. General opinion is in favour of Present Times and Brighton. The Prince of Wales’s Stakes, a weiter handicap, run over a mile course, has 26 horses lest in, of which Greenwich, 8st. 31b.; Criterion, 8st. 21b.; Gallant, 8st. 71b.; Astrachan, 7st. 71b.; Baldur, 6st. 121b.; Lily Maid, 6st. 71b.,

a sint le'dzhoe — b kae'stoe — c mäntro'id.

1 St. Leger, dies 1776 eingesührte Rennen erhielt 1778 seinen Namen nach dem Obersten gleichen Namens und wird auf Doncaster town moor abgehalten; hier ist ein nach diesem benanntes Rennen in Liverpool gemeint. — 2 second .... to, Scotilla wurde geschlagen und kam als zweite (second to) hinter Sir Kenneth an. — 3 furlong, 1/8 englische Meile; 12 inches (in.) — 1 foot (ft.), 3st. — 1 yard (yd.), ö1^ yds. — 1 rod, pole, perch, 4 rods, poles, perches = l chain, 10 chains — 1 furlong, 8 furlongs — 1 mile (m) — 1609,3 m. — 4 pick, Aus­ lese, die besten.

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and Timias, 6st. 71b., are the pick, and Astrachan or Criterion may prove successful. The Westminster Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, with 300 sovs. added, for two-year-olds, Colts 1, 9st., fillies12, 8st. 111b., and run over the five-furlong course, has 33 horses entered. The best performers of these are Baron de Rothschilds chestnut colt by Hermit—Brie;3 Mr. W. Gardner's Citadel, Mr. T. Jennings, jun/s, Mamia, and Mr. Abington’s Alarm. Report speaks favourably of Mr. Childwick’s Princess Arena and Mr. R. Peck’s Honey suckle, but Baron de Rothschilds colt, who has no penalty to carry and takes the 31b. breeding allowance, may be good enough to win, as he bad something in hand4 in the Althorp Park Stakes at Northampton. The chief race in Wednesday’s Programme is the City and Suburban, now the great event of the meeting. It is a handicap of 15 sovs. each, with 1,000 sovs. added, run over the last mile and a quarter of the Derby course 5, and has upwards of 30 horses lest in, but the field may not include more than 12 or 14 runners selected from the following:— Horse.

PROBABLE STARTERS. Yrs. st. lb.

Royal Hampton ..

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Bird of Freedom, 8st. 121b., heads the handicap, but he is hardly likely to start as he is very backward at the present time. Royal Hampton, 8st. 41b., was a very good two-year-old performer, and last year ran third to Melton and Paradox for the Derby, though it is true he was some five or six lengths behind the last-named. He had, however, been amiss6, and in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Ascot, though he was favourite with 6 to 4 laid on him, he could only finish third to Pepper and Sait and Dandie Dinmont. At Goodwood, however, he showed in better form, as with 91b. the best of the weights, he made Paradox gallop7 in the Sussex Stakes, and the latter only won by three-quarters of a length. Royal Hampton was at one time favourite for the Lin­ colnshire Handicap, but the stähle hopes were centred in Renny; the former, however, ran very prominently, and no doubt he is now in much better condition for racing. Last week he was said to have won a trial with MacMahona, who was at the time first favourite, and since then Royal Hampton has taken MacMahons place, and now Stands at the head of the betting quotations at 11 to 2.8 Lucerne, 8st. 21b., and a maekmoeho'un. 1 colts, Hengstfüllen. — 2 fillies, Stutenfüllen. — 3 Hermit—Brie, Hermit ist der Vater (sire), Brie die Mutter (dame) dieses Füllens. — 4 in hand, hatte noch Kraft übrig, hatte sich nicht bis zum äußersten angestrengt. — 6 Derby course, so genannt nach dem Gründer dieses Rennens, dem Earl of Derby. — 6 amiss, in schlechtem Zustand. — 7 made Paradox gallop, zwang P., sich sehr anzustrengen. — 8 11 to 2, 11 sind auf ihn, 2 gegen ihn gewettet.

Middlethorpe, 7st. 81b., represent Mr. L. de Rothschild, and the firstnamed is probably the better of the two. On his form of 1884 he should have a very great chance of winning, but last year he seemed to have lost his speed, as he only won one race, and that was a sevenfurlong plate at the Newmarket Houghton Meeting, in which he beat Energy by a head. Lonely, 7 st. 101b., won the Oaks1 last year by a length and a-half from St. Helena and Cipollina, but she was beaten on many occasions afterwards, and this spring, though heavily backed, was unplaced2 in the Lincolnshire Handicap. She seems, therefore, to have lost her form, though perhaps, as she has once distinguished herseif over the Epsom course she may do so again. Highland Chief, 7 st. 101b., is said to have been infirm since he ran second to St. Blaise for the Derby of 1883. In 1884 he managed to win one race out of five, but his opponents were only Liberia, Sweet Auburn, and Grenville; and last year he was successful in one race out of three, when with 9 st. in the saddle, he won the De Trafford Welter3 Handicap at the Manchester May Meeting by two lengths from Middlethorpe, 9st 71b., Energy, list., and six others. He was said to have done a good preparation, and was well backed until Saturday, when, after having been beaten in a gallop by Belinda and Somerton, he receded from 10 to 1 to 100 to 7. Present Times has only 7st. 81b. to carry, including a 101b. penalty for his success in Earl Spencers Plate, at Northampton, which he won very easily, and some think he is a better horse over the short course, but he won the Prix de Deauville at the Paris June Meeting, beating Fra Diavolo over a mile and a-half course, and subsequently ran third to Paradox and Reluisant in the Grand Prix de Paris. He was afterwards unplaced in the Stewards* Cup at Goodwood, and did not run again till last week. Considering the very light esteem in which he was held by the Epsom handicapper4, he is bound to be very dangerous if he runs. Kilcreenea, 7 st. 71b., was amiss when he ran in the Lincolnshire Handicap, and though he was made first favourite5 for the Leicestershire Handicap on Saturday he was beaten off. Fast and Loose was defeated by Fulmen in a trial before Lincoln, and was unplaced in the Lincolnshire Handicap, which was won by her stähle companion, but she won a trial with Beitzmer, Glyndon, and Forestayb on Wednesday last. On some of her running she has a decided chance, and may prove more dangerous than her stable companion was in the Leicestershire Handicap on Saturday. Raffaello, 7st. 41b., showed good form in the Manchester November Handicap last year, but he ran badly in the a kilkri'in — b fä'ästei. 1 Oaks, Name eines Pferderennens auf den Epsom Downs. — 2 was un­ placed, gewann keinen Preis. — 3 Welter = high weight.— 4 handicapper, der, welcher die Gewichtsauflage bestimmt. — 6 favourite, der mutmaßliche Sieger.

Liverpool Spring Cup. He was rather backward then, and is said to be much more fit to run now. Portnellana, 7st., disappointed bis owner both in the Lincolnshire and Leicestershire Handicaps, and seems a bad animal. Grafton, 7st., ran Paradox to a head1 in the Two Thousand Guineas of last year, but was beaten off in the Derby. At Ascot, however, he managed to run third to Bendigo and Swillington in the Hardwicke Stakes. He took part in the Lincolnshire Handicap a short time ago, but was unplaced, and seems out of form, if he is not a bad tempered animal. Farewell, 7st., is leniently treated for the winner of the One Thousand Guineas, but she ran very jadily2 afterwards at York and Doncaster, while her best subsequent Performance was in finishing second to Forethought in the Ditch Mile Welter Handicap at the Newmarket Houghton Meeting when conceding him 111b.; she managed, however, to finish in front of Lucerne who was giving her 221b. She is said to be very well, but seems unreliable. Lady Castlereaghb, 7st., won the September Handicap at Manchester with 6st. 91b. in the saddle, and it is said, ought to have won the Manchester November Handicap, in which Raffaello was successful when he was conceding her 51b. She is reported to have lost the race through running wide3 at the turn, and if this be true she ought to run well at Epsom. Cavalier, 6 st. 101b., ran fairly last year and finished second on several occasions, but he did not win a race. His best form perhaps was when he conceded Raffaello 71b. and was beaten by a neck in the Kempton Park Midsummer Handicap, with Toastmaster and See See behind him. The performances of Touch and Go are enumerated above in the notice of the Metropolitan Stakes, and if he starts for this race in preference to the other one he may prove formidable. Prinstead, 6st. 71b., ran badly in the Lincolnshire Handicap and seems unclassed. Orange Biossom, 5st. 101b., after running third in a two-year-old race at Brighton last year finished second— beaten a neck—to Arga in the Studley Castle Nursery Handicap at Warwick, but he subsequently won the Knowsleyc Nursery Stakes at Liverpool by two lengths, beating Kaunitz and Ashplant, and starting first favourite at 15 to 8. He was, however, unplaced to4 Yule Tide, Prudence, and Kaunitz in the Chesterfield Nursery at Derby. He is said to have been well tried, but the same remark applied to his stähle companion Carlton, who was well beaten in the Leicestershire Handicap on Saturday. Protectionist, 5st. 71b., won the Queen Elizabeth TwoYear-Old Stakes at the Kempton Midsummer Meeting, beating Santa a päätneloen — b ka'asoelrii — c no'uzl1. 1 ran Paradox to a head, blieb nur um eine Kopfeslänge Hinter P. zurück. — 2 jadily, jämmerlich, wie eine alte Mähre (jade). — 3 running wide, indem er einen großen Bogen machte, nicht scharf um die Ecke kam. — 4 was unplaced to, gewann nicht im Kampf mit.

Maria and Assignation, and ran fairly at the close of ttye season, while he finished third to Wire and Diss in the Great Welcomes Handicap at Croydon last week. Villeneuve, 5st. 71b., was a fair two-year-old, and at the Lincoln Spring Meeting a fortnight ago ran second in the Blankney Stakes to Ärcadian, who has shown by bis victory at Leicester that he is an uncommonly good three-year-old, and he may even take his own part in some of the weight-for-age1 races of the season. The general opinion is that the race should be won by Royal Hampton, and that Highland Chief and Cavalier are likely to be his most dangerous opponents, but taking this season’s public running as a guide Present Times ought to prove successful. The Hyde-Park Plate, of 500 sovs., for twoyear-olds has upwards of 70 entries, but the field is not likely to be a large one. The best performers are Baron de Hirsch’s Berber and his Guadiana, Mr. Gardnerss Citadel, 71b. extra, and his The Lizard; Mr. T. Jennings, juns., Mamia, 71b. extra; and Mr. F. Barrett’s Rosalie; while Mr. Peck's Honey suckle, the Duke of Porti and's Dodona, Mr. Childwick’s Princess Arena, and Mr. Douglas Bairds* Petulance have high reputations. The general opinion is that the race will fall to the re­ präsentative of Baron de Hirsch or Mr. Peck, probably Berber or Honeysuckle. The Stamford Plate, a high-weight handicap, run over a five-furlong course, has 20 entries, and the pick of these are Montroyd and Sulphur, each 8st. 101b.; Gannet, 7st. 101b.; and Belgrade, 6st. 91b., but the last-named is in the same stable as Sulphur, and the race will probably fall to the selected one of these or Montroyd. Düring the week there will also be racing at Kempton Park2 and Sandown.3 LEICESTER SPRING MEETING, Saturday.

Considerable interest was manifested in the racing to-day at Oadby? Although there was some uncertainty about the weather this morning, which probably kept away many intending visitors, the enclosures were well patronized, and the general public mustered in great strength. The proceedings were much enlivened by the race witnessed for the liberally endowed Leicestershire Handicap, wherein the Duke of Portland's Ärcadianc proved equal to the task set him of supplementing his success in the Blankney Stakes at Lincoln (for which, however, he escaped a penalty) by carrying off one of the riebest stakes of the season—a feat rarely accomplished by a three-year-old so early in the spring. The first race a da'gloes bae'oedz — b o'udb1 — c aake'idioen. 1 weight-for-age, den älteren, kräftigeren Pferden wird Gewicht aufgelegt. — 2 Kempton Park, Rennplatz bei Sunbury an der Themse, 27 englische Meilen Von London aufwärts. — 3 Sandown, Rennplatz bei Esher westlich Von London.

on the card, the Quorndon Hunters* Selling Plate1, resulted in the overthrow of a streng favourite in Spark, Prince Paul, in the hands of Mr. E. P. Wilson, upsetting the odds laid on his Croydon conqueror, though only by a neck. In the Charlton Selling Plate that succeeded Duplicatea ran hörne an easy winner2, and The Cardinal followed up his success of yesterday by placing the Saturday Selling Plate to the Credit of his new owner—Mr. J. Davis—being afterwards bought in3 at the enhanced value of 240 guineas. In this race Isabeau was weighed4 for by F. Webb, and her number was hoisted but subsequently withdrawn. No fewer than 19 put in an appearance for the Leicestershire Handicap, and of these Whitelock, Hambletonian, and Criterion had taken part in last year’s race. On that occasion Lord Bradford’s mare was returned the winner, Criterion then, as now, securing second honours. In the betting prior to the race as much as 10 to 1 was laid against the winner, who carried 21b. overweight for the Services of Lashmarb5, the Liverpool Autumn Cup winner Kilcreene, despite the reports recently circulated, which rendered his fitness a matter of conjecture, occupying the position of first favourite at 9 to 2, odds of 11 to 2 being freely accepted about Hambletonian and Beitzmer, while Whitelock receded to 200 to 15. The last-named caused some delay at the post, and made a bad beginning when the flag feil, as also did Beitzmer, who belied his good looks by failing ignominiously, while Kilcreene and Hambletonian added still further to the discomfiture of backers by running very disappointingly throughout. Arcadian was thus enabled to come to the front at the distance, and, although Criterion made a hold bid6 for victory, he was outpaced by the Duke of Portlands colt, who won somewhat easily by three quarters of a length; Dalmenyc, who occupied the third position, being followed hörne by Kinsky (a stähle companion of Criterion), Johnny Whimple, and Bellona. The victory of Kilt in the Holiday Selling Plate was easily achieved, and a good Performance was that of Warble, who defeated two smart youngsters—Caller Herrin and Fersen—in the Wigston Plate. Details:— Quorndon Hunters* Flat Race Plate, of 100 sovs. Two miles on the flat. Mr. Falcraig’s Prince Paul, by Prince Charlie—Fanscombe, aged,7 13st. 71b. (Mr. E. 1 a dju'uplikoet — b loeshma'a — c daelme'nk

1 Selling Plate, Verkaufsrennen, d. H. ein Rennen, bei dem das siegende Pferd versteigert wird. Quorndon, Ort in der Nähe von Leicester, bekannt durch seine Fuchsjagd (Quorndon Hunt); hunter, zur Fuchsjagd benutztes Pferd. — 2 ran hörne an easy winner, kam an, indem er die übrigen mit Leichtigkeit schlug. — 3 bought in, zurückgekauft. — 4 weighed, das Gewicht für J. wurde bestimmt mit F.W. als Jockey. — 5 Services of Lashmar, weil der Jockey L. das Pferd ritt, The Times.

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Mr. Abington’s Spark, aged, 12st. 71b. (Owner)1...................... /B ... 2 Captain Childe’s Kings County, aged, 12st. 71b. (Mr. C. W. Waller) 3 Mr. H. T. Barclay’s Montauban, aged, 12st. 71b. (Owner) .............. 0 Captain Maudslay’s Southam8, aged, 12st. 71b. (Owner) .............. 0 Betting.—100 to 30 on Spark, 8 to 1 agst Prince Paul, 10 to 1 bar two2 offered. Prince Paul got on terms with3 Spark and King’s County 50 yards frorn home and won an exciting race by a neck; three-quarters of a length between second and third; Southamwas fourth; and Montauban last. Charlton Selling Plate of 150 sovs., for two-year-olds; colts, 9st.; fillies and geldings, 8st. 111b. Mr. DougaH’sb Duplicate, by The Duke—Double, 8st. 41b. (£50) (G. Barrett).......................................................................................... 1 Mr. H. Wood's West Riding, 8st. 111b. (E. Martin) ................. 2 Mr. T. Jennings, jun/s, Myth, 8st. 41b. (£50) (J. E.Tomlisson) ... 3 Mr. C. W. Golding’s Economy, 8st. 41b. (£50) (J. Woodburn) ... 0 Mr. T. Stevens’s Rescue, 8st. 41b. (£50) (F. Barrett)...................... 0 Betting.—2 to 1 agst4 Economy, 9 to 4 agst Duplicate, 5 to 1 any other offered. Duplicate on the rails5 was quiekest away, and, maintaining the lead to the end, won cleverly by three-quarters of a length; a length between second and third; Economy was fourth, and Rescue last. The winner was bought in for 100 guineas. Satubdat Selling Plate of 100 guineas. One mile on the Round Course. Mr. J. Davis's The Cardinal, by Hampton—Atocha,0 3 yrs, 8st. 101b. (car. 8st. 121b.)6 (Archer) ............................................................. 1 Mr. C. Bibbert's Gipsycraft, 6 yrs, 10st. 51b. (Jessop) ............. 2 Mr. Heasman's5 Merrythought, 3 yrs, 8st. 71b. (White) .............. 3 Betting.—11 to 8 on The Cardinal, 9 to 4 agst Merrythought, and 5 to 1 agst Gipsycraft. Won cleverly by half a length; same distance between second and third. The winner was bought in for 240 guineas. Leicestebshibe Spbing Handicap of 2,000 sovs., by subscription of 25 sovs. each, 15 forfeit7 and five only if declared;8 winners extra. a mä'ädzleiz sa'poem — b du'ugäälz — • setä'tshae — d hi'izmoenz. 1 Owner, geritten von dem Eigentümer. — 2 10 to 1 bar two, der Buch­ macher bietet eine Wette von 10 gegen 1 auf jedes beliebige Pferd an, ausgenommen (bar) zwei, die er nennt. — 3 got on terms with, kam auf und überholte. — 4 agst, against. — 5 on the rails, an dem Geländer der Innenseite. — 6 car. 8st. 121b., carried 8 stones 12pounds, trug 124 Pfund statt der von dem Ausgleicher (Handicapper) bestimmten 122. — 7 forfeit, Reugeld, d. h. wer ein angemeldetes Pferd nicht rennen läßt, verliert nur einen Teil seines Einsatzes. — 8 declared, vorher ab­ gemeldet.

The second to receive 100 sovs. and the third 25 sovs. out of the plate;1 56 subs.2, 17 of whom pay five sovs. each. The straight mile. Duke of Portland's Arcadian, by Kisber—Spinaway, 3 yrs, 6st. 111b. (car. 6st. 131b.) (Lashmar) ............................................................. 1 Mr. H. T. Barclay's Criterion, 5 yrs, 7 st. 81b. (car. 7 st. 101b.) (Gr. Barrett).......................................................................................... 2 Mr. F. Mortons Dahneny, 6 yrs, 8st. 11b. (E. Martin) ............. 3 Mr. Abingtons MacMahon, 6 yrs, 9st. 51b. (F. Archer) ............. 0 Mr. W. Gilbert's Despair, aged, 8st. 51b. (C. Loates)....................... 0 Mr. Smithwick’s Kilcreene, 4 yrs, 7st. 111b. (Fagan)a....................... 0 Lord Hartington’s Corunna, 6 yrs, 7st. 101b. (Morrell) .............. 0 Lord Bradford's Whitelock, 5 yrs, 7 st. 61b. (Wall) ........................ 0 Colonel Offley J. Crewe-Read'sb Kinsky, 5 yrs, 7st. 51b. (White) 0 General Owen Williams’s Hambletonian, 5 yrs, 7st. 41b. (F. Barrett) 0 Mr. Mackenzie’s Prince William, 5 yrs, 7st. 41b. (Luke) ............... 0 Mr. T. Cannon's Portnellan, 4 yrs, 7st. 41b. (Robinson) ............... 0 Lord Lascelles’s Clochette, 5 yrs, 7st. 31b. (W. Glover) .............. 0 Lord Cadogan*sc Kaunitz, 3 yrs, 7st. (Rickaby)........................ 0 Duke of St. Albans’s Bellona, 4 yrs, 6st. 131b. (Brooke) ... ... 0 Mr. T. Jennings, jun/s, Calais, 3 yrs, 6st. 81b. (J. E. Tomlisson)... 0 Sir R. Jardine’sd Johnnie Whimple, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b. (S. Loates)6 ... 0 Mr.W. Wright’s Beitzmer, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b. (car. 6st. 81b.) (J. Woodburn) 0 Mr. Somers’s Carlton, 3yrs, 6st. 31b. (Calder) ................................. 0 Betting.—9 to 2 agst Kilcreene, 11 to 2 each agst Hambletonian and Beitzmer, 10 to 1 agst Arcadian, 100 to 8 agst Whitelock, 200 to 15 agst Clochette, 100 to 7 agst Carlton, 100 to 6 each agst Despair, Corunna, and Criterion, 20 to 1 agst Portnellan, 25 to 1 each agst Dahneny and Bellona, 33 to 1 each agst MacMahon, Kinsky, Prince William, Calais, and Johnnie Whimple. Place betting.3— * *2 to 1 each agst Kilcreene, Hambletonian, Beitzmer, and Arcadian, 3 to 1 agst Whitelock, 7 to 2 agst Clochette, 4 to 1 each agst Despair, Criterion, Portnellan, Bellona, and Kinsky, 5 to 1 agst Carlton, 6 to 1 each agst Corunna, MacMahon, and Dahneny, 7 to 1 agst Prince William, 8 to 1 agst Johnnie Whimple, and 10 to 1 agst Kaunitz. Some little delay occurred at the post owing to the fractiousness of Criterion and Whitelock. The flag feil to a straggling kind of start, out of which the right-hand division came the most successfully. Despair showed the way during the early part of the joumey closely attended a fe'igoen — b kruu riidz — c koedo'ugoenz — d dzha'adiinz — 6 louts. 1 plate, Einsatz; der zweite Sieger erhält 100, der dritte 25sovs. aus den Ein­ sätzen; das dritte Pferd rettet hier also nur seinen Einsatz. — 2 subs., subscribers, Nennungen, angemeldete Pferde. — 8 Place betting, das Wetten auf die Möglichkeit, daß ein Pferd überhaupt einen Platz (place) unter den gewinnenden entnimmt, also unter den drei ersten ist.

by Criterion, who was soon clear of Kinsky, MacMahon, and Kaunitz; then in the centre came Johnnie Whimple, Bellona, and Calais, with Arcadian, Beitzmer, and Hambletonian who got badly away at the head of the remainder. This Order was maintained until half the descent had been made, when Whitelock, assuming the command, was followed into the dip1 by Kinsky, Criterion, Kaunitz, and Calais, with Dalmeny, Carlton3, Hambletonian, and Johnnie Whimple all well up, MacMahon now figuring in the rearmost division; and so they ran into the dip, where Criterion joined the leader. As they breasted the hill Lord Bradford’s filly had given way to both Criterion and Dalmeny with Calais next, while in the centre Arcadian was prominent with Hambletonian at the head of the lest division. Already the field2, so far as the ultimate result was concemed, had narrowed its limits, and by the time the distance was reached, where Dalmeny assumed the command, not more than half a dozen had any perceptible chance of victory. At the end of the principal enclosure the struggle appeared confined to Dalmeny and the stable companions Criterion and Kinsky, until Arcadian, who then appeared upon the scene, raced up to the leader, and, getting the best of a short struggle, won cleverly by three-quarters of a length; a length dividing second and third. Kinsky was dose up fourth, Johnnie Whimple fifth, Bellona sixth, Portnellan seventh, Despair eighth, Carlton ninth, Calais tenth, Kaunitz eleventh, Hambletonian twelfth, Kilcreene thirteenth, Clochette fourteenth, then some distance intervening came Whitelock and Corunna, with Prince William last.

COURSING.3 GOSFORTHb PARK4 GOLD CUP MEETING. The victory of Cangaroo in the Gosforth Gold Cup contest on Saturday was certainly not anticipated, but the winner is probably the fastest greyhound on a racing stretch that has ever been slipped5 at the Northumbrianc enclosure. On the night of the draw6, as well as after the first round of the stake7, 1,000 to 20 was on offer against the a ka'altoen — b gä'sfoej* — c nääpa'mbrioen.

1 dip, Senkung auf der Rennbahn. — 2 field, Anzahl der Wettbewerber. — 8Coursing, ein Hase wird von zwei Windhunden gehetzt; der Richter folgt zu Pferde und zählt jede hervorragende Eigenschaft der Hunde (als points). — 4 Gosforth Park, Rennplatz bei Newcastle-on-Tyne, der eingezäunt ist und für Hasenhetzen (coursing) benutzt wird; die großen eingezäunten Rennplätze in England sind in Sandown, Kemp ton Park, Manchester, Leicester, Derby, Four Oaks bei Birmingham und Gosforth Park; von jedem Zuschauer wird Eintrittsgeld erhoben, während bei den übrigen nicht umschlossenen, wie Epsom, Ascot u. s. w., nur die Tribünen und reser­ vierten Plätze bezahlt werden. — 6 slipped, losgelassen. — 8 draw, Losen. — 7 first round of the stake, erste Runde des Rennens, die daraus hervorgehenden Sieger kämpfen um den Preis in der zweiten Runde (second round) u. s. to.; der Sieger in der letzten (final) Runde gewinnt.

winner, and in the final Greentick was a strong favourite at 5 to 2 on.1 Cangaroo’s exceptional speed, however, more than ontset Greentick’s polished working powers, and although the deciding trial was a near thing there was no doubt about it being a clear win. In going through the stake the victor put out2 Raven, Happy Omen, Jawblade (after two undecideds), De Vere, Craig Lad, Britain Still, and Greentick, and it may be said that speed alone brought him through a severe ordeal victoriously. In the opening course of the sixth round of the Gold Cup 6 to 4 was wagered on Cangaroo against Britain Still, and the favourite won easily. Greentick gave Strongbow a decisive beating, and for the final Greentick was freely backed at 5 to 2 against Cangaroo. Greentick came well away, but Cangaroo gave him the go by and led up by two lengths. He gave Greentick an opening3 every time the bare came round4, but his speed had the effect of putting him in possession again, and a spurt up5 and kill at the dose landed him winner. The victory was immensely populär, Cangaroo being owned by a collier of the district, but it may be said that the runner up6 is the better greyhound. In the Killingworth Stakes Northern Star was a meritorious winner, and Tarpan beat Settling Day in clever style in running off the final of the Annitsford Stakes. Mr. Hedley judged the meeting in an able way, and Bootiman slipped well. A full return of the running is appended:— The Gosforth Gold Cup, for all-aged greyhounds, at 12 guineas each, with £500 added. Winner, £1,000; second, £250; third and fourth, £98 each; four winners of four courses, £35 each; eight winners of three courses, £20 each; 16 winners of two courses, £12 each. 128 subscribers. Sixth Round. Mr. H. Emmerson ns7 Mr. J. Kelletts bk d8 Cangaroo, by Bothal8 Park —Bündle and Go, beat Mr. W. Carvers r9 or f d10 Britain Still, by Misterton—Arama. Mr. R. F. Gladstones bk d Greentick, by Bedfellow—Heartbum, beat Mr. T. Stones f d Strongbow, by Misterton—Graceful Girl. Deciding Course. Cangaroo beat Greentick, and won the Gold Cup

a bä^cel. 1 on, zu seinen Gunsten. — 2 put out, schlug. — 3 opening, Gelegenheit, Vorsprung. — 4 the hare came round, der Hase kam in einem Bogen zurück. — 6 spurt up, plötzliches Vorschießen. — 6 runner up, der Hund, der von dem Sieger zuletzt geschlagen Wird. — 7 ns, nominales, nennt, meldet an. — 8 bk d, black dog. — 9 r, roan, rötlich grau. — 9 f d, fawn dog, junger Hund.

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THE ASSOCIATION2 CHALLENGE CUP.3

About 15,000 people assembled at Kennington-oval4 on Saturday to witness the match between the Blackburn Rovers5, the holders6 of the Cup, and West Bromwich8 Albion. For the last three years the Lancashire town has fumished the winning eleven, and this season the Rovers again got into the final round. West Bromwich have for some time been showing remarkably good play, but it was generally thought that the Cup would be once more taken to Blackburn. The afternoon was very fine, and the turf in good condition. Punctually at 4 o’clock the elevens appeared on the field, and a few minutes later Blackburn, having lost the toss, kicked off7 towards the Western goal, the holders having to face both wind and sun. West Bromwich at once ran the ball dose up to their rivals’ line; but, after it had been behind, Sowerbutts and Fecitt got away along the lest side. Horton cleared the Albion quarters8, and brilliant passing9 between Bayliss, Loachb, and a bra'midzh — b loutsh. 1 Football, das englische Winterballspiel, in dem es darauf ankommt, einen großen Lederball unterhalb (nach Rugby Rules oberhalb) einer auf zwei hohen Stangen ruhenden Querstange (cross-bar) des feindlichen Mals (goal) mit dem Fuße durchzu­ treiben (kick). Jede Partei zählt 11 (nach den Rugby R. 15) Spieler und stellt sich Vor ihrem Mal als Vordertreffen (forwards; centre, right and lest wings), Mitteltreffen (half backs), Hintertreffen (back players) auf; dicht Vor jedem Mal steht ein Wächter desselben (goal keeper). Das Los entscheidet über Wahl des Mals und des Angriffs. Ein Spieler legt sodann den Ball in der Mitte des mit Fähnchen be­ zeichneten, länglichen, Viereckigen Platzes zwischen den beiden Parteien, welche Vor ihren Malen ausgestellt sind, hin und sucht ihn mit der Fußspitze womöglich durch oder über das feindliche Mal zu schnellen. Es sucht nun jede Partei ihr Mal zu Verteidigen und den Ball durch das feindliche Mal zu treiben. Nach den Rugby R. darf der Ball mit den Händen getragen werden, nach den hier Vorliegenden Association Rules ist dies nur dem goal keeper gestaltet, welcher dicht Vor seinem Mal steht. Die Male, welche gewonnen werden, entscheiden. Die Posten der Male stehen Vor der schmäleren Seite des Spielplatzes. (Vgl. The Laws of Football , published by Lillywhite, Frowd & Co. 31/2d.) — 2 Association, Vereinigung einer Anzahl football clubs, welche die Association Rules aufgestellt haben. — 3 Challenge Cup, Wanderpreis, gewöhnlich Pokal (Cup), um den jedes Jahr gekämpft wird. — 4 Kennington-oval, ein ovaler Spielplatz in Kennington (südlicher Stadtteil Londons). — 5 Blackburn Rovers, Name des Klubs, R. die Wanderer. — 6 holders, Inhaber; ein Challenge cup’ muß jedes Jahr verteidigt werden und geht auf den jedesmaligen Sieger für ein Jahr über. — 7 kicked off, die Partei, welche das Los gewinnt, wählt sich eine Seite aus, die andere hat dagegen das Recht anzufangen (kick off)- — 8 cleared the Albion quarters, säuberte den Teil des Spielplatzes, der von dem Albion Club verteidigt wurde, dadurch, daß er den Ball auf das Gebiet des Feindes hinüber­ spielte. — 9 brilliant passing, das vorzügliche Weiterreichen des Balls.

Bell ended in Bromwich having a comer-kick.1 It was well made, and a scrimmage2 near the goal followed. Turner and MTntyre* relieved their side, while good passing among the Blackburn forwards transferred the ball to the other end. Fecitt twice shot at goal3, but Roberts used bis hands4 effectively. Two Corners5 and a free kick6 next feil to the Rovers, who, however, were unable to gain anything. Bayliss then finished up a good run7 by passing to Green, whose shot at goal went just over the bar. Brilliant Combination was now shown by West Bromwich Albion, and for some little time the Rovers* goal was in great jeopardy. On several occasions the ball was nearly sent through, while twice it went over the cross-bar.8 Arthur, who kept goal admirably, next stopped a long shot by Timmins. After an incursion by Lowerbutts and Fecitt, which was repelled by Green, the Birmingham players again closed round their opponents* goal. The sure defence of the Rovers, however, prevented the invaders scoring, while, on the other hand, Douglas and Brown dribbled9 the ball to the Albion end. It was soon taken back by Bayliss, who made a long shot. Arthur, however, had little difficulty in throwing the ball away. Subsequently West Bromwich again attacked, and Arthur had to use his hands owing to a long kick from the right wing. Only a few minutes then remained of the earlier portion of the game, and when Major Marindinb announced half-time10 nothing had been recorded. Bayliss re-started the game, which for a few minutes was even. The Lancastrians, who now had the wind at their backs, soon made an inroad into their rivals* quarters and a comer feil to them. But the ball went behind, and on resuming the Albion forwards dribbled it to the centre. MTntyre, by a long kick, caused the invaders to fall back, and a run by Brown enabled the Rovers to press their antagonists. These aggressive tactics the holders kept up until after a short pass by Horton to Bayliss, when the latter got away.

a mae'kintaioe — b mae'rindin. 1 comer-kick, das Schnellen des Balles Von einer Ecke des Spielplatzes ans; a treibt den Ball Von der neben dem feindlichen Mal befindlichen Ecke über die Köpfe der Feinde Weg seiner Vor dem feindlichen Mal wartenden Partei zu, welche ihn dann rasch Von Vorne durch das feindliche Mal zu spielen sucht. — 9 scrim­ mage heißt der Nahkampf, wenn der Ball Von den dicht zusammengeschwärmten Spielern mit den Füßen hin und her getrieben wird. — * shot at goal, Ver­ suchte den Ball durch das feindliche Mal zu treiben. — 4 hands, Roberts durfte als goal-keeper den Ball mit den Händen abwehren, was den übrigen nach den Association Rules nicht gestattet war. — 5 Corners — comer-kicks. — 6 free kick, ein Tritt nach dem Ball, den die Gegenpartei nicht Verhindern darf. — 7 finished up a good run, trieb den Ball lange im Lauf Vor sich her (oder trug ihn laufend, Rugby Rules), ohne aufgehalten zu werden. -- 8 cross-bar, die Quer­ stange oder Querleine am Mal ist ungefähr sechs Fuß Von dem Boden entfernt. — 9 dribbled, trieben den Ball mit leichten, kurzen Tritten Vor sich her. — 10 half-time, Pause, gewöhnlich nach 40 Minuten; die Parteien wechseln dann die Plätze.

A fine run by the Lancashire captain1 was next witnessed, and was followed by a good pass by Fecitt to Sowerbutts. The last-named sent in a long shot, which Roberts in saving2 turned behind bis own line. No advantage accrued from the corner-kick, the ball going behind. Bayliss then headed a rush by the Albion forwards, and exciting play took place near the Blackburn posts.3 Splendid defence was shown by Arthur, and Turner and MTntyre greatly aided him by their kicking and heading.4 After a fruitless comer-kick, .West Bromwich were driven back and the Rovers in tum became the aggressors. West Bromwich, however, still showed to advantage and passing between Bayliss, Green, and Woodhall caused the supporters of the Rovers great anxiety. Forrest, Suter8, and Mclntyre by superb back play5 soon enabled Blackburn to force the game. West Bromwich Albion were unable to break down the fine defence of the holders and the game was lest drawn6, neither side having scored.7 Major Marindin, R.E., president of the Football Association, was referee;8 and Messrs. M. P. Betts, Kent County, and J. C. Clegg, Sheffield Association, were umpires. The sides were:— Blackburn Rovers.—J. Brown (captain), centre; J. E. Sowerbutts and H. Fecitt, lest wings; J. Douglas and T. Strachanb, right wings; J. H. Forrest, H. MTntyre, and J. Heys, half-backs; F. Suter and R. J. Turner, backs; H. Arthur, goal-keeper. West Bromwich Albion.—J. M. Bayliss (captain), centre; G. Wood­ ball and T. Green, right wings; A. Loach and G. Bell, lest wings; E. Horton, S. Perry, and G. Timmins, half-backs; H. Bell and H. Green, backs; R. Roberts, goal-keeper. QUEEN’S PARK, GLASGOW v. PRESTON NORTH END.

There were about 10,000 spectators at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on Saturday, to witness the match between these Association teams. Only one point9 was scored in the earlier half, and that by Harrower for a su'utoe — b strae'koen. 1 captain, der Anführer der Spieler, der selbst mitspielt, während der President dem ganzen Klub Vorsteht; jede ‘eleven’ des Klubs hat ihren ‘captain.’ — 2 in saving, durch Ablenken, so daß er nicht durch das Mal ging. — 3 posts, die zwei senkrechten Stangen des Mals. — 4 heading, dadurch, daß sie den Ball mit ihren Köpfen weiter stießen. — 8 back play, Spiel der im zweiten Treffen Stehen­ den. — 6 drawn, unentschieden. — 7 scored, gezählt, ein Mal gewonnen. — 8 re­ feree, der oberste Unparteiische, der über den beiden Unparteiischen (umpires) steht und entscheidet, wenn dieselben sich nicht einigen können. — 9 point, Punkt; nach den Association Rules wird nur gewonnenes Mal (goal) gerechnet, nach den Rugby Union Rules zählen außerdem try und minor point bei der Erklärung des Sieges mit.

the Scotchnien. Afterwards the Preston team managed to eqnalize matters, and the game was lest drawn.

THE YORKSHIRE CHALLENGE CUP. Saturday last was the day fixed for the decision of the penultimate round of this Rugby Union1 competition. Batley, last years winners, met Halifax at Dewsbury. Düring the earlier period of the game Batley obtained two minor points2 to nothing. Afterwards they claimed a try and a minor point to four minor points, and at “no-side”3 the score was Batley one try and three minor points to four minor points. The other match was between the Bradford and Brighouse Rangers at Wakefield.The Bradford team won by two tries and three minor points to nothing.

WEST ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE CUP. The final tie in this competition was played off on Saturday at Wrexham between the Druids and Newtown. The former team won by four goals to none.

BOLTON WANDERERS v. NOTTS COUNTY. At Bolton, on Saturday, these teams played a match under the rules of the Association. The Wanderers won by six goals to one. LA CROSSE.4 * * * 8 The annual match under the title of North v. South was played on Saturday at Withington, Manchester. Each side scored one goal in the first half of the game. Afterwards the visitors scored thrice, and eventually won by four goals to one.

CHESS. A match between the University of OxfoM and a repräsentative team of amateurs of the British Chess Club was played on Saturday, 1 Rugby Union, eine Vereinigung von Klubs, die nach den Rugby (Schule in Warwickshire) Rules spielen. — 2 minor points, Nebenpunkte; wenn der Ball über die Grenzlinie hinaus geflogen ist, muß er von einem Spieler berührt (touched down) werden. Geschieht dies von einem Spieler derjenigen Partei, hinter deren Grenze der Ball fiel, so zählt dies nur einen ‘minor point’ gegen diese Partei. Berührt ihn jedoch ein Gegner, so erhält dessen Partei einen ‘free kick’. Geht bei diesem ‘free kick’ der Ball über das Mal, so zählt dies für die Gegner ein Mal, wenn nicht, nur ein ‘try’, vergl. S. 199°, 2009. — 8 no-side, keine Gegenpartei, Ruf, der das Spiel beendet; etwa: fertig. — 4 La Crosse, kanadisches Ballspiel, bei dem leichte Gummibälle mit langen Pritschen ge­ schlagen werden. Diese Pritschen (Les Crosses) sind länger als die Tennis Rackets und mit Bindfaden überspannt.

and resulted in favour of the University by seven games to four and four drawn, the following being the full score:— / Oxford University. C. D. Locock . G. E. Wainwrighta ..

British Chess Club. V2*1 A. Hirch 1 H. W. Trenchard

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HENLEY REGATTA. At a meeting of representatives of the Universities and principal boat clubs, held at the London Rowing Club boathouse, at Putney, on Thursday evening, April 1, present Messrs. J. F. Stilwell, captain London feowing Club (in the chair); D. H. M’Lean, President, and C. R. Carter, secretary, Oxford University Boat Club; F. I. Pitman, President, and E. W. Haig, secretary, Cambridge University Boat Club; E. C. Otter, captain Thames Rowing Club; F. 0. Wethered, captain Marlow Rowing Club; H. Heape, pro captain2 Leander Club; Rhodesb Cobb, jun., and H. Harvey, secretary, Kingston Rowing Club; L. Frerec and J. M. Haslip, secretary, Twickenhamd Rowing Club; W. S. Unwin, Magdalen College, Oxford (holder of the Diamond and Wingfield Sculls);3 C. J. Bristowe, Trinity Hall Boat Club, Cambridge; B. Horton, W. Bergh, Claude Earnshaw, G. B. James, E. D. Brickwood, and P. D. Ullman (secretary), London Rowing Club, the following resolutions were passed:— 1. That this meeting disagrees with the opinion expressed by the inhabitants of the town of Henley-on-Thames that the proposal to place the regatta winning-post at the Point "will be highly injurious to the welfare and popularity of the regatta, and detrimental to the Interests of the town," especially as it is proposed to hold a three days* instead of a two days’ regatta. 2. That whatever the original Intention of the founders of Henley Regatta may have been 47 years ago, it has now become the premier regatta of the United Kingdom, and is productive of the finest exhibition of amateur rowing in the British Isles, if not in the world; that it is indisputable that the result of the majority of races is largely dependent on chance, and not on the merits of the oarsmen; and that it is, therefore, incumbent on the Stewards to do all in their power to remedy this defect. 3. That this meeting is of opinion that, in consequence of the crowded state of the river of late years, the advantage of the Berkshire Station has been brought into greater prominence than formerly; and ____ a we'inrait — b roudz — c fri'ioe — d twi'koenoem.________________ 1 i/z, ein unentschiedenes (drawn) Spiel zählt jedem Spieler x/a. — 2 pro captain, Vertreter des captain. — 3 Sculls, kürzere Ruder, hier Preise, Welche der betreffende Ruderer in mit sculls geruderten Wettfahrten davongetragen hat.

that in Order to obtain a fair course (if the races are rowed up stream) the winning-post should not be placed higher than the upper end of Phyllis Court Wall. 4. That this meeting is of opinion that no "paring off"1 of the Point could possibly make as fair a course as can be obtained by finishing at the Point. 5. That this meeting trusts that the Stewards will adhere to their determination to carry out the proposals of their sub-committee, which have the cordial approval of the Universities and principal rowing clubs. 6. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the secretary of the regatta, to be laid before the Stewards at any meeting at which a reversal of their former decision may be discussed. AHMED MEBCHANT STEAMEBS. At the Royal United Service Institution on Friday, under the presidency of Admiral Lindsay Brine, an important lecture respecting the use of our merchant steamers for offensive and defensive purposes in war was given by a commander in the merchant navy—Lieutenant William C. Crutchley, R.N.R.2, serving in the New Zealand Shipping Company. The lecturer took for the text of bis lecture a statement made by Sir Nathaniel Barnaby8* (who * was present on this occasion), that the power of waging war upon the seas depends, first, on "the quality and extent of the mercantile marine in ships and men, provided that the national tie in both is real and firm." Taking up the view of competent authorities that our enormous fleet of merchantmen would be our most vulnerable point in a war, the Speaker insisted that a great number of the fastest British vessels would be an absolute source of strength, provided that care was taken in a period of peace to place them in a condition to be serviceable on the sudden outbreak of war. He pointed out that our merchant vessels, which used to be slower than the men-of-war, were now, so far as our best merchant steam vessels were concerned, able to outstrip a man-of-war. But the main portion of the carrying trade was done by 10-knot vessels3, and to secure these in war time they would have to be convoyed under the protection of cruisers and torpedo boats. But with regard to the larger ocean mail steamers, like those of the New Zealand mail Service, he submitted that such vessels could be effectively used for offence and defence in case of a war. If England were to go to war with a foreign Power we might fairly conclude that that Power, whichever it was, would be fairly ready to begin when war ____ a ba'anoeb1.__________________________________ _______________ 1 paring off, Abtragen der Uferecke. — 2 R.N.R., Royal Naval Reserve. — 810-knot vessels, Fahrzeuge, die 10 Knoten die Stunde fahren; 1 knot = 2000 yards.

was declared, and that lines of ships coming from distant ports would be watched by the enemy’s cruisers as closely as our meh-of-war would let them, in the hopes of falling in with a big prize that might be useful, both as far as plunder in specie is concerned and as a means of connnitting further depredations on our own ships and commerce. A vessel of English build and rig would, if she were able to intercept one or two coal-laden sailing ships, do an amount of damage that would compare very favourably with the Alabamas1 captures; she would approach our vessels unsuspected and at leisure, and destroy or capture them in detail. There were many comers on this route—New Zealand to England via Cape Horn—where an enemy might establish a coaling Station and depöt for arms and men, and where for a month or so they would be unmolested and at liberty to fit out their ships; for instance, the inlets of Tierra del Fuego and South Georgiab, to say nothing of the numberless Islands, out-of-the-way places, in the Pacific. Our System of ocean surveillance was very perfect, but it was not reasonable to expect that we could concentrate an adequate force at a week's notice in any Corner of the world, and a ship able to steam 350 miles a day for two months without coaling could shift her quarters pretty rapidly. He thought that steamers of the dass of the Kaikoura—his own ship— should be supplied with a moderate armament and kept so supplied with their present crews, when they would be able to give a good account of any scratch pack2 which on the outbreak of a war should try to capture them. He thought the stores in our dockyards and arsenals might be applied to the arming of our best merchant ships, and said that owners would be glad to assist in adopting any scheme of armament. As to the men in the ships, he stated that the typical “Jack”3 was becoming more favourable to the Reserve. The men of the Royal Naval Reserve were, he had no hesitation in saying, the pick of the mercantile marine, not perhaps the prime seamen of 30 years ago—steam had spoiled all that—but for the ordinary duties of a seaman they did well and had this advantage, that they were accustomed to do a lot of work with very few men and to make the best of materials at band. He insisted that a ship under a Royal Naval Reserve officer entitled to carry the blue ensign4 *of Her Majestys Fleet could not be classed as a privateer. In the course of the discussion that followed the paper, Mr. BadenPowell raised the question whether a vessel fought by a Royal Naval a saup dzhä'ädzhiae. 1 Alabama’s, A. war der Name des berüchtigten Kaperschiffes der Südstaaten im Sezessionskriege (1861^-64). — 2 scratch pack, zusammengewürfelte Meute, Hundekoppel. — 3 Jack, Spitzname des Matrosen, auch Tar, Sait. — 4 blue ensign, die Kriegsflotte führt eine blaue Fahne mit dem Union Jack (f. S. 1876) in der Ecke, die Handelsflotte eine rote Fahne mit demselben.

Reserve officer wonld not, under the Declaration of Paris, he a privateer, and this Speaker called for the abolition of that Declaration, so far as England was concerned. Sir Nathaniel Barnaby said he conld not hold the view propounded by Mr. Baden-Powell that a inerchant ship conld not, under the Declaration of Paris, defend herseif against being taken by the enemy in time of war. The shipowners wonld never be made comfortable by all that the country conld do with the Navy to protect the merchan marine, and therefore something must be done with the merchant ships themselves—ships like the Oregon, which was a very good ship, and wonld have kept afloat with two of her compartments filled if she had bad her doors shut. He had talked to naval officers for years on these matters nntil he was tired of talking. Naval officers liked the broad arrow1 *upon everything; but the question was, Conld the mercantile navy of this country be defended by the Royal Navy at any conceivable expenditure? (Hear, hear.) If this conld be done he wished them the joy of getting the money; but if it conld not be done, then they must settle the question otherwise. He should fight against giving up the Declaration of Paris; and it wonld be entirely wrong to go back upon the old condition of things. Thanks were voted to the reader of the päper. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES.

The 5 3d ordinary general meeting of the San Paulo (Brazilian) RAILWAY Company (Limited) was held on Friday at the City Terminus Hotel.3 Mr/Martin R. Smith presided, and, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that the low rate of exchange alone had prevented them from doing on that occasion what they had done at former meetings —present a report more satisfactory than had previously been submitted. The exchange for the first time in their accounts had been taken at 27d.2 The directors had good reason—into which he wonld not, however, enter —for making the change. The traffic of the line had continued to improve, and in the past half-year it had exceeded that of the corresponding period of 1884 both as regards the number of passengers and the tonnage carried, but owing to the concessions in the rates3 which were made about 18 months ago the receipts had been somewhat less. The traffic had been worked at the exceedingly low rate of 30H per cent. of the gross receipts. Out of the amount available for dividend, £133,623, a toe'oeminoes häte'l. 1 broad arrow, Regierungsstempel in Gestalt einer breiten Pfeilspitze, nament­ lich bei der Marine. — 2 27d., 1 milreis steht auf 27d.; 10 milreis = £1 2s. 51/2d. — 8 rates, Frachtsätze.

they proposed a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per aiyium, leaving £33,600 to be carried forward, or less by £26,000 than at the corresponding period of last year; but £20,000 of that reduction was owing to the loss they had sustained by the exchange, and the other £6,600 was consequent on the lower rates. The Santos Harbour improvement had been abandoned, but he trusted that the matter would be taken up by an English Company. The question which had been discussed as to the guarantee was in abeyance. The Hon. R. R. Leslie Melville seconded the motion, which was carried, and the dividend recommended was afterwards declared. The retiring directors and auditors were also reelected. The ordinary general meeting of the Shareholders in the Bahia a and San Francisco Railway Company (Limited) and in the Timbo brauch undertaking was held on Friday at the City Terminus Hotel. The Hon. H. G. Campbell presided. In moving the adoption of the reports the chairman stated that everything was progressing most satisfactorily as regarded the main line. The traffic did not compare very favourably with that of the corresponding period of 1884, but their general manager had informed them that that was owing to the depression of trade, and to the shortness of crops. It was hoped that with a copious rainfall a large quantity of sugar would be brought on to their line. The completion of the Prolongation of 140 miles, which was worked under Brazilian Government administration, had been attended with disappointing results to the Company. By last advices they had been informed that only two trains were run on it in the course of a week—a Service which could scarcely be expected to bring much traffic to the Company's line. He was sure that if the Prolongation were worked in the same way as their own System, both the Company and the Brazilian Govern­ ment would be benefited. Referring to the Timbo brauch undertaking, he stated that its progress could not be more satisfactory. Sir D. A. Lange seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, and a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum was declared on the Capital of the Bahia Company (general undertaking).1 The retiring directors and auditor2 were re-elected. The annual general meeting of the Aylesbury15 Dairy Company (Limited) was held on Saturday at the Offices, St. Petersburgh-place, Bayswater. Mr. E. Grant Burls was voted to the chair in the absence through illness of Colonel the Hon. W. P. M. 0. Talbot0, the chairman of the Company. The profit and loss account stated that the gross profits for the year had been £41,630 and the net profit £10,952. A dividend a boehi'ise — b e'ilzbr1 — c tä'älboet. 1 general undertaking, Hauptunternehinen. — 2 auditor, Revisor.

of 2| per cent. was recommended, making 5 per cent. for the year, leaving £1,048 to be carried forward. The chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, regretted the absence of Colonel Talbot, who was so eminently qnalified to be the chairman of the Company, having been for 20 years a successful dairy farmer. Since last year the number of their Shareholders bad increased from 340 to over 900, and he trusted that they would assist the directors in increasing the Company’s bnsiness. The slight reduction in the dividend was owing, first, to the prevailing depression, for while their customers had increased in number, the quantities of milk they had taken had been very considerably reduced. The sales, however, were now increasing. The other cause of the decrease in the dividend had been owing to the policy of the former directors in not taking steps, which they had themselves admitted to be necessary, in Order to fortify and establish the Company. That cause had now passed away. The acquisition of the Itchingfield estate would not only provide for the necessary margin1 of milk, but it would also open a very large field for trade in every direction within the legitimate lines of the business of a dairy Company. He believed that, humanly speaking, the propagation of typhoid and scarlet fever through tainted2 milk was absolutely preventable. They would find in the profit and loss account an item of £1,652 paid last year for medical and sanitary inspection, and for years they had been spending large sums of money in Order to insure that all their milk should be perfectly pure and free from the suspicion of a taint. Legislation, he hoped, would be proposed in the same direction. The Metropolitan Board of Works had absolutely modified their regulations to make them agree with those of the Company, and they only hoped that whatever legislation might be proposed Parliament would follow the lines laid down by ascertained Science—the lines which the Company had adopted, not only in the Interests of the public, which were paramount, but also in the interests of the Share­ holders. Colonel Talbot had written to say how disappointed he was at not being able to attend the meeting to “express his absolute confidence in the success of their farm policy.” Mr. G. Pemberton Leacha seconded the motion. Mr. Mushet, at some length, criticized the circumstances in connexion with the purchase of the Itchingfield estate, and contended that that transaction was outside the articles of association. He also criticized certain items in the accounts. The chairman, in reply, stated that they had had the highest legal authority obtainable as to the purchase of the estate. The directors absolutely declined to go to any arbitration on the matter, and Mr. Mushet could take whatever proceedings he pleased. The difference between the amount of the purchase-money a liitsh.

1 margin, Uberschuß, Gewinn. — 2 tainted, infiziert.

announced and the amount shown in the balance-sheet wa,s owing to the legal expenses. As to the Balance outstanding of the purchase-money, which appeared in the accounts as £37,500, they had just paid off £7,500, and they had notified that they would pay off the remainder unless the vendor would take a lower rate of interest than 5 per cent. Mr. G. Mander Allender* (the managing director)1, in further reply, stated that if they issued debentures they could easily pay off the balance of the purchase-money, which the vendor could not call up.2 Mr. Mushet held that the proposed dividend would be paid out of Capital. The chairman replied that it was a most improper Charge, and made in face of the fact that the accounts had been audited3 and certiffed by a chartered accountant.4 The resolution was carried with one dissentient, and the dividend was also declared. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS.

The traffic receipts of the Recife and Sao Francisco Railway Com­ pany for the week ended Feh. 6 show a decrease of £90, and Ottoman (March 20) a decrease of £612. The traffic receipts of the Eastern Telegraph Company for March amounted to £53,016, against £68,296 for the corresponding period of 1885. Those of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company for March amounted to £37,804, against £46,193 for the corresponding period of 1885. The gross earnings5 of the West Coast of America Telegraph Company for March were £3,525. The estimated traffic receipts of the Direct Spanish Telegraph Company for March were £1,751, against £1,467 for the corresponding period of last year.

PARNELLITE FAIR PLAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—Mr. Parnell announced last night that, if Ireland were omitted from the Operation of the Intoxicating Liquors (Sale to Children) Bill, his followers would withdraw from opposing it. So they did. But 19 of his merry men voted for the Bill, and as the majority in favour of the second reading was only 17 it was carried by Parnellite votes. Is this fair play? Your obedient servant, April 3.____________________________________ WM. JOHNSTON. a ae'lendoe. 1 managing director, geschäftsführender Direktor. — 2 call up, einziehen, ein­ fordern. — 3 audited, revidiert. — 4 chartered accountant, etwa: geprüfter Rechimngsrevisor. — 6 gross earnings, Bruttoeinnahmen.

Lord Iddesleigh?—Lord Iddesleigh. has written to thank Miss Milner, of York, for forwarding to him a copy of a resolution passed by the Milner Habitation1 of the Primrose League, in which a hope was expressed that the Conservative party would use their utmost endeavours to frustrate any scheine that would imperil the Union of England and Ireland. His lordship says:—“We are still ignorant of the fate for which the Prime Minister is reserving us, but, it is well to find our friends on the watch to meet any proposals which may threaten the integrity of the Empire.”

MONE Y-MARKET and CITY INTELLIGENCE. ***

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Saturday Evening. The India Council2 3called in a further portion of its Ioans to-day, which greatly curtailed the available supply in the open market, and money was consequently in fairly good demand for a Saturday, some establishments finding employment for all they bad to lend. The rate paid was in most cases 1| per Cent., btit there were a few transactions at less. The supply of bills was, however, very limited, and the rate for discounting three months’ paper mied, perhaps, a shade easier than yesterday, but there was not enough business really to test the market. We subjoin our usual table:— Bank of England Rate of Loans.8

Discount (Bank Bills).4

Discount.

6 At present. Changed on 3 4 Day to For short mths. mths. mths. Feb. 18 periods. day. 2 p.c. from 3 p.c. l1/» P-c.4 17< !*/• 7a P-C. l’/4 p.c. l’/s P-c. The Return of the New York Associated Banks appears to indicate that some of those institutions must have found their liabilities to the public increasing out of proportion to their reserves, and have taken measures accordingly. The average of the Ioans and discounts shows a reduction of £1,260,000, and that of the net deposits5 *is* diminished by £1,900,000. The reserve, however, has also decreased by £640,000, and now Stands at £20,940,000, which is only £2,400,000 more than the legal minimum (25 per cent. of the net deposits), against an excess a i'doezlk 1 Habitation, eine Art Zweigverein. — 2 India Council, der indische Staatsrat besteht aus 15 Mitgliedern unter Vorsitz des Secretary of State for In­ dia in London; in Indien vertritt der Viceroy and Governor-General die Kaiserin. Die von der englischen Staatsschuld getrennte indische beträgt £166,931,000. — 3 Loans, Darlehen, Geld auf offenem Markt; Day to day, tägliches Geld; for short periods, auf kurze Zeit. — 4 Discount (Bank Bills), Diskont auf Bankund sonstiges erstes Papier. — 5 net deposits, Wert der bei Banken niedergelegten Kapitalien nach Abzug der Zinsen. The Times.

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Lord Iddesleigh?—Lord Iddesleigh. has written to thank Miss Milner, of York, for forwarding to him a copy of a resolution passed by the Milner Habitation1 of the Primrose League, in which a hope was expressed that the Conservative party would use their utmost endeavours to frustrate any scheine that would imperil the Union of England and Ireland. His lordship says:—“We are still ignorant of the fate for which the Prime Minister is reserving us, but, it is well to find our friends on the watch to meet any proposals which may threaten the integrity of the Empire.”

MONE Y-MARKET and CITY INTELLIGENCE. ***

Printing-house-square,

Saturday Evening. The India Council2 3called in a further portion of its Ioans to-day, which greatly curtailed the available supply in the open market, and money was consequently in fairly good demand for a Saturday, some establishments finding employment for all they bad to lend. The rate paid was in most cases 1| per Cent., btit there were a few transactions at less. The supply of bills was, however, very limited, and the rate for discounting three months’ paper mied, perhaps, a shade easier than yesterday, but there was not enough business really to test the market. We subjoin our usual table:— Bank of England Rate of Loans.8

Discount (Bank Bills).4

Discount.

6 At present. Changed on 3 4 Day to For short mths. mths. mths. Feb. 18 periods. day. 2 p.c. from 3 p.c. l1/» P-c.4 17< !*/• 7a P-C. l’/4 p.c. l’/s P-c. The Return of the New York Associated Banks appears to indicate that some of those institutions must have found their liabilities to the public increasing out of proportion to their reserves, and have taken measures accordingly. The average of the Ioans and discounts shows a reduction of £1,260,000, and that of the net deposits5 *is* diminished by £1,900,000. The reserve, however, has also decreased by £640,000, and now Stands at £20,940,000, which is only £2,400,000 more than the legal minimum (25 per cent. of the net deposits), against an excess a i'doezlk 1 Habitation, eine Art Zweigverein. — 2 India Council, der indische Staatsrat besteht aus 15 Mitgliedern unter Vorsitz des Secretary of State for In­ dia in London; in Indien vertritt der Viceroy and Governor-General die Kaiserin. Die von der englischen Staatsschuld getrennte indische beträgt £166,931,000. — 3 Loans, Darlehen, Geld auf offenem Markt; Day to day, tägliches Geld; for short periods, auf kurze Zeit. — 4 Discount (Bank Bills), Diskont auf Bankund sonstiges erstes Papier. — 5 net deposits, Wert der bei Banken niedergelegten Kapitalien nach Abzug der Zinsen. The Times.

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reserve of £2,565,000 last week. On the whole, the bpuks have still a margin within which they may legally add to their deposits by lending or otherwise, but if the reserve goes on decreasing at its present rate lending will have to be still further checked unless the legal limit of reserve is to be passed. It would seem, therefore, that the New York Money Market is within a measurable distance of hardening1 to some extent. The period of high banking reserves and enormous masses of unemployed deposits is at an end, and for some time to come the banks will have to work with only moderate surplus resources. The Market for Home Government Securities2 has been steady at last night's quotations, Consols3 remaining during the day at 100| 100g for money and 100g for the May account. New and Reduced Three per Cents.4 also closed unchanged at 99| 99|, and Two-and-a-Half per Cents, at 88g. Egyptian Guaranteed Three per Cents, lest off steady at 97j 98. Colonial Government Securities were very quiet, and in many cases the dealers refused to quote prices. Business in the Home Railway Market has been almost suspended. Prices mied rather dull 'for most issues, London and North-Western5 being last quoted at 154 and Great Western at 132, a decline of | each, and North-Eastern Consols feil about | to 145|. Caledonian stock6 was, however, J higher at 97|, and South-Eastem Deferred7 also rose | to 92g. The Canadian Railway Market has been very quiet for Grand Trunk8 issues, with no business doing. The tone was rather dull. Canadian Pacific shares9 were flat, and feil H to 67|. 1 hardening, sich verhärten, d. h. Geld zieht an. — 2 Home Govern­ ment Securities, englische Staatspapiere; Gegensatz: Foreign Securities wie Indian, Colonial etc. — 3 Consols, Consolidated Funds oder Stocks, Staatsschulden, für deren Zinsenzahlung gewisse Staatseinkünfte angewiesen (Consolidated) sind; die darüber ausgestellten Schuldscheine werden auch so genannt. Die B,ank of Eng­ land hat die Verwaltung und führt Buch über die Besitzer und Übertragungen (transfers). — 4 New and Reduced Three per Cents., 3prozentige Staatsanleihen; die New £3 per Cents, wurden 1830 ausgegeben und betrugen £211,381,285. Die Reduced £3 per Cents, stammen vom Zahr 1751 und betrugen £98,208,600. Letztere £3 per Cent. Consolidated Annuities wurden 1751 aus den damals vor­ handenen verschiedenen Anleihen zusammengeschlagen (konsolidiert) und beliefen sich auf £395,830,624. 1888 wurden alle diese verschiedenen Anleihen in eine verschmolzen, welche bis 1903 zu 23/^ °/0, von da ab zu 2x/2 °/0 verzinst wird. — 5 London and North­ western, ergänze Railway Funds (Aktien); die englischen Eisenbahnen treffen in Lon­ don zusammen und werden meist nach der Himmelsgegend benannt, nach der sich ihr Netz von London aus ausdehnt. Es sind Privatunternehmen und keine Staatsbahnen. — 6 Caledonian stock, Aktien der Caledonian Railway im Süden Schottlands; stock, Kapital, Zinspapier überhaupt. — 7 South-Eastern Deferred, nachträglich ausge­ gebene Aktien der Südostbahn; erhallen erst dann Dividenden, wenn die preferred shares 6 °/0 Dividenden erhalten haben. — 8 Grand Trunk (Railway), die Hauptbahn in Kanada mit vielen Zweiglinien. — 9 Canadian Pacific shares, Aktien der Cana­ dian Pacific Railway; die Eisenbahn läuft vom Atlantischen Ocean nach dem Stillen (Pacific) Ocean und ist gänzlich auf britischem Gebiet erbaut.

The American Railroad Market opened at a lower level, following the decline established in New York yesterday aftemoon in consequence of the 1688 satisfactory appearance of the Situation resulting from the strike. It may reasonably be hoped, however, that conciliatory counsels will prevail when the proposals of the arbitrators1 are made public. The transcontinental freight war2, on the other hand, is considered virtually over, but even as regards this the market is awaiting a definite announcement. Chicago, Milwaukeea, and St. Paul shares have relapsed H to 89J, Lake Shore | to 83J, and New York Central | to 104|. Louisvilleb and Nashville shares declined g, closing at 40, and the Pacific Stocks have lost part of the rise established yesterday. Erie securities lest off steady and rather in demand, at a fall of only J to | since yesterday. Illinois Central shares feil | to 142|, and Pennsylvania0 also \ to 54j, but very few changed hands. Oregon and California Gold bonds3 were exceptionally \ higher at 107|. The Stocks of the Mexican Railway were a shade easier. The AngloAmerican Telegraph Stocks were firmer, the Preferred4 rising | to 60| and the Ordinary5 J to 36|. There was less doing in the market for Indian Gold Mines, but the tone was steady. The tendency of the Foreign Market was steady at the opening, but prices gave way subsequently, owing to a few sales on Continental account. The changes shown at the dose were, however, trifling. Egyptian securities lest off practically unaltered, the Unified bonds closing at 67 15-16, after being quoted at 68 3-16. The Preference stock6 closed at 92|, the Dairad bonds at 69j, after touching 70J, and the State Domain Ioan at 92|. Turkish Group IV. declined 3-16, closing at 13|, but Group II. rose £ to 14|. Ottoman Bank shares feil | to about 10g, and Suez Canal shares | to 83|. Italian and Hungarian Rentes were also lower, but French Rentes were a shade harder. Russian stock of 1873 finally lest off a shade easier at 97 9-16, after being dealt in at 97|. Rio Tinto shares feil 3-16, owing to Paris sales, and closed at 11|. There was some demand for Brazilian and Argentine issues, which closed generally | to | higher. Uruguayan6 stock rose to 41|, but afterwards there was some reaction from this advance, and it lest a milwä'äki — b lu'ivil — c pensilve'iniae — d doei'irae — e jurugue'ioen. 1 arbitrators, Schiedsrichter zwischen den streikenden Arbeitern und ihren Ar­ beitgebern. — 2 transcontinental freight war, Konkurrenz der verschiedenen Pacific Railroads in Nordamerika, von denen jede den Gütertransport quer durch den Kon­ tinent an sich zu reißen sucht. — 3 Oregon and California Gold bonds, Schuld­ scheine der 0. L C. Eisenbahn, die auf Gold lauten. — 4 Preferred, Stammprioritäts­ aktien.— 5 Ordinary, Stammaktien. — 3 Dreference stock, Vorzugspapiere, welche bei der Zins- oder Dividendenzahlung zunächst berücksichtigt werden.

off at 40, a fall of The two Costa Rica Ioans feil 2. Ppruvian bonds were firm, but without material change. The sum of £5,000 in sovereigns from Spain was taken into the Bank of England. Bar silver and Mexican dollars are nominally unaltered in price, and no change can be noted in any of the Eastern exchange rates or in Rupee1 Paper. Our Paris Correspondent telegraphs that the Bourse to-day continued dull. There was a slight improvement in the tone towards the dose of the market, due to the more satisfactory news from Athens and to higher quotations on the foreign Stock Exchanges; but prices lest off at about the level of yesterday. Three per Cents, opened at 80f. 37c., and, after touching 80f. 27c., lest off at 80f. 40c.—a fall of 2c. on the closing price of yesterday. Four-and-a-Half per Cents, opened at 108f. 85c., and, after touching 108f. 75c., lest off at 108f. 87c.—a rise of 5c. since yesterday. Suez Canal shares began at 2,087f. 50c., and closed at 2,092f. 50c.—a fall of 3f. 75c. since yesterday. Drafts at sight on London, 25f. 14Je.2—a fall of le. Four o’Clock Prices.—Four-and-aHalf per Cents., 108f. 90c.; Redeemable, 82f. 40c.; Three per Cents., 80f. 40c.; Italien, 95f. 75c.; Spanish External3, 57 9-16; Egyptian Unified4, 342f. 18c.; Turkish, 14f. 5c.; Ottoman Bank, 513f. 75c.; Panama3, 458f. 75c.; Rio Tinto, 295f. We understand that at a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, held on March 31, the following preamble and resolution were unanimously adopted:—“Whereas a plan for the reorganization of the Company has recently been issued by a committee of which Mr. John B. Garrettb is chairman, Resolved,— That the said plan is hereby rejected by the Company, and all bond and share holders are notified that the said committee is not authorized to act for the Company.” It would be interesting to know how “the Com­ pany” propose to avoid the execution of the plan in question, which can be carried out quite independently of them. It is not necessary to ask a bankrupt who has failed to pay the interest on a mortgage whether he authorizes the mortgagee to foreclose.5 The adoption of the resolution may, we suppose, be taken as a sign that Mr. Gowenc and his friends mean to resist the carrying out of the reorganization scheine in the a paenoema'a — b gae'roet — c ga'uoen.

1 Rupee paper, in Rupien ausgestellte Wechsel. — 2 Drafts at sight on London 25f. 141/2c., bei Sichttratten auf London wurde das £ mit 25fr. 141/2cent. berechnet. — 3 Spanish External, von Spanien im Ausland aufgenommene Anleihe, äußere Anleihe. — 4 Egyptian Unified, unifieierte Ägypter, die aus verschiedenen Anleihen zu einer verschmolzen wurden. — 5 mortgagee to foreclose, daß der Pfandgläubiger das Pfand für verfallen erklärt.

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Courts. They will not gain anything by that, and the holders of the “junior”1 securities must suffer by it in the long run. The directors of the Chartered Mercantile Bank2 of India, London, and China recommend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the half-year ended December 31 last (free of income-tax)3, £4,700 being carried forward. The return of the Clevelanda Ironmasters* Association for March shows a further very large increase in the stock of pig metal.4 The total stock of the district is now no less than 641,621 tons, an increase of 29,296 tons during the past month. This is partly due to the poor export business done, the shipments being 9,688 tons less than in March, 1885; but increased production is one cause of the increase. There are now 98 furnaces blowing, against 97 this time last year, and the make in March this year was 215,405 tons, against only 208,644 tons in March, 1885. On March 31, 1885, the stock was only 389,254 tons. Considering these figures, it is hardly surprising that most members of the iron trade are inclined to look with approval on proposals for reducing the make. We have received a circular issued by the Peruvian Bondholders*5 Committee with a letter addressed by Sir Henry Tylerb, M.P., the chairman of the committee, to the Earl of Rosebery.0 The circular says: — “An agreement has been concluded by the committee, in conjunction with the several Continental committees of Peruvian bondholders on the one band, and Messrs. Dreyfus Brothers and Company on the other hand. The parties to this agreement have bound themselves to solicit the further good Offices of their respective Governments, with a view to a united application by those Governments to the Chilian Government for a Settle­ ment of the Claims in regard to the property hypothecated to the creditors of Peru in the territory acquired by Chili as a result of her recent war with Peru.” The circular goes on to say:— “The committee trust that the joint action which has thus, on this initiative of the committee, been adopted by the creditors of Peru will, through the good Offices of the various Governments, at length lead to practical recognition and equitable satisfaction of the undoubted rights in respect of the property referred to, which have so long been withheld from the creditors of Peru.” a kli'ivloend — b ta'iloe — c ro'uzbr1. 1 junior, später ausgegeben, junge Aktien. — 2 Chartered Mercantile Bank, eine Bank, die durch königlichen Schutzbrief (charter) gewisse Rechte und Pflichten erhallen hat. — 3 free of income-tax, frei von Einkommensteuer; von der Divi­ dende ist keine Einkommensteuer zu bezahlen, da dieselbe bereits von der Bank ent­ richtet ist. — 4 pig metal, Rohmetall; pigs (Ferkel) heißen die kleineren Mulden (Gänse), in welche das Metall gegossen wird, sows die größeren. — 6 Bondholders, Besitzer der Obligationen.

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The general condition of the Iron trade continues unchanged, large quantities of pig metal going into störe daily. As out readers are aware, there was some increase of activity in the Glasgow warrant1 market early in the week, owing to extensive repurchases by operators for the fall2, who were alarmed by the renewed rumours that a systematic restriction of the make will probably be arranged. The failure of the two small firms resulted from the general stmggle of the “bears”3 to close their accounts, since which the market has given way again. The rumours already mentioned were true to this extent—that the British Iron Trade Association has convened a meeting of ironmasters from all parts of the country to see what can be done in the way of restricting the make of iron. The hardening of the Glasgow market has produced an advance in the price of Middlesbrough iron, No. 3 being now quoted at 30s. 6d. per ton for prompt delivery f.o.b. Tees.4 The hematite5 market is also a little stronger, but there has been very little actual business. The subjoined statement of the position of the National Bank of Italy on the 20thult. shows, when compared with the return for March 10, an increase of about £14,000 and £13,000 in the gold and silver reserves respectively:— Assets. Lire.

Capital uncalled6 Cash and Reserve: Gold Silver Bronze Total Metallic Money Notes of the “Consortium”7 Notes of the State Notes of other establishments of issue

50,000,000 00 Lire.

176,971,065 36,022,451 254,365 213,247,882 18,788,249 12,862,365 .. 16,563,989

72 40 52 64 00 00 82

Bills 333,101,710 93 Advances 74,938,517 97 Public funds and sundry securities 108,695,564 44 Foreign securities in hand and with correspondents 10,409,821 13 State Treasury, including advances authorized by law .. .. 13,000,000 00 Bank premises 5,956,586 32 [Carried forward 857,564,687 25] 1 warrant, Lagerschein; auf die in Glasgow gelagerten Eisenmassen werden Lagerscheine ausgegeben, welche wie Wertpapiere gehandelt werden und mit denen ein bedeutendes Spekulationsgeschäft gemacht wird; dasselbe geschieht in Middlesbrough. — 2 operators for the fall, Baissiers. — 3 bears, die Baissiers heißen bears, weil der Bär die Schnauze nach unten hält, im Gegensatz dazu heißen die Haussiers bulls, weil der Ochs seine Hörner nach oben trägt. — 4 f.o.b. Tees, free on board Tees, frei an Bord eines Schiffes auf dem Fluß Tees, an dem Middlesbrough liegt. — 6 hematite, Blutstein, bester Eisenstein, Hematit. — 6 Capital uncalled, gezeich­ netes, aber noch einzuzahlendes Aktienkapital. — 7 Notes of the Consortium, Biglietti (ex) giä, Consorziali, von einem Konsortium von sechs Banken ausgegebene, jetzt vom Staate übernommene Noten.

[Brought forward 857,564,687 25] Bills with correspondents for Collection 9,948,90466 Bills received for collection 1,086,83719 Sundry debtors 15,694,55678 Charges payable at fixed periods 334,744 21 Charges of the current period of working 1,013,313 66 Credit fund, Lc. ......................................................................... 25,750,000 00 Value of articles deposited for safe custody 368,883,645 60 Total Lire 1,280,276,689 35 Liabilities. Lire.

Capital .............................................................................................. 200,000,000 00 Principal of reserve 36,452,000 00 Circulation 520,803,188 00 Current accounts and other liabilities payable at sight .. .. 48,771,091 88 Current accounts and other liabilities payable at notice.. .. 66,655,948 11 State Treasury, Lc 6,766,000 98 Service of the Provincial Treasuries *.............. 2,431,512 55 Sundry creditors 11,400,109 51 Interest for current period of working 5,941,345 02 Credit fund, Lc 12,171,847 70 Depositors of articles, as per contra 368,883,645 60 Total Lire 1,280,276,689 35

Mr. J. B. Scott, the Registrar1 *of the London Coal Market, has published the following statistics of Imports and exports of coals into and from the port and district of London by sea, railway, and canal during March, 1886:— Imports. By Sea.

By Railway and Canal.

Ships

Tons.

Newcastle Sunderland4 .. Seahamb .. .. Hartlepool® Middlesbrough. Scotch .. Welsh .. .. Yorkshire Small coal .. Cinders .. .. Culm7 .. .. Belgian .. .. Colonial .. .. Total ..

218 97 26 38 4 4 53 45 23 4 1 — — 513

203,853 81,734 15,117 18,043 2,657 2,578 48,888 8,696 19,046 543 258 — — 401,413

Imports during March, 1885 ..

488

376,477

Tons, cwt.*

165,810 142,676 68,619 238,890 77,118 6,623 — — 2,146

3 0 0 0 4 12

846

5

..

702,729

8

Imports during March, 1885 .. ..

570,503

5

Lond. L N.-Westn.3 .. Great Northern .. Great Western .. Midland........................ Great Eastem .. .. South-Western .. .. Lon., Chat.d, &c.4 Lon., Tilbury, Lc? .. South-Eastern................ L., B., L S. Coast6 .. Grand Jnctn. Canal8 ..

Total

..

4

a sa'ndoeloend — b si'ioem — 0 ha'atoelpuul — d tshse'toem. 1 Registrar, Aufseher; das Kohlenmesseramt (Coal-whipper’s Office), zur Kontrolle und Regelung des Verfahrens bei Ausladung der Kohlenschiffe in London

Comparative Statement, 1885 and 1886. Imported, Jan. 1 to March 31, 1886 Imported, Jan. 1 to March 31, 1885 Increase in present year ................

Tons.

Ships.

Tons.

1,561

1,264,002

1,532

1,232,464

Imported, Jan. 1 to March 31, 1886 Imported, Jan. 1 to March 31, 1885

29

31,538

Increase in present year ................