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VHE tMANCHESTKB SECOND EDITION MR. HARDIE, ON LABOUR POLITICS AXD PAELJAiLRNTARY REPRESENT ATION. AMERICAN STOCK MARKER (fkom our cobrsspoypent.) New York, Monday. The aggregate business transacted at the Stock Exchange to-day covered about 08,000 listed shares. 16 was an excellent market, with good general buying down nearly the entire list, and no effect worth speaking of was produced by either the larger realisations in a few of the high-priced specialities or by the feverish tone of the Whisky section.

Tho opening was very strong, with the granger and coaler groups acting raising fresh difficulties with regard to the funds necessary to carry out the machinery for working their propaganda in the country. He hoped a word to tiie was sufficient, one of the greatest labours with which thev had had to contend was to break the fetters in which class legislation had bound them. Were they, in this enlightened age, to perpetuate the very error of which they had been complaining throughout the whole of the century? Never would tie lielieve tliat it was the intention of any considerable section of intelligent artUans iu this country to use the franchise fur exclusively class and selfish ends. Appliiu i 1I' rather that, they were prepared to take a broaxl and comprehensive view of the n.ponibilitiei that had thrust upon, them by Jie extension of the franchise, and that they would that in all legislation in tlie future the principle embodied in tiie resolution that of equality of right and equality of opportunity should be extended to ne a as far as it was possible to do so. (Loud was passed, and the meeting shortly afterwards terminated.

MR. FEN WICK, M.P.. AND THK INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY. Mr. Fenwiclc, M.P..

was the priccipa'. at a mwitia of the Oldham Liberal Union held evening in the Co-operative Hall, King-street, Oldham. Mr. -Aram Lse presided, and there were also upon the platform, in addition to Mr. Fenwicfe, Mr.

Aidftnnaa Hood, Councillors Jackson and Ingh.mi, Messrs. 13. Dyson, J. Travis, F. Dixon.

S. htott, J. K. Morland. P.

Shaw, J. Byrne, S. St. Ta lor, secretary. s.tid he hoped a week au" hav; lxou able to concratuhue tiifi people or Oldham ui-oii the j'-uionii-iit of a very costly and protracted trade dispute.

lie deeply rep-eilcd that he was not ablo to do that. lie could only fxprens th" hope that a would soon bo arrived at. that tiiev would Soon have towhed the lowest point of what, whs called a cycl- of and have on a of jrnai 'iru-pi-ritv and (Hear, near. lie congratulated the Liberal p.irty or Oldham iijhiii tin irreat victory aehieved at th" l-t election. He forward under ihe Government of Mr.

lila.HtMic to the carrying of Home Kale and passinu' of the measures sot forth iu the Newcastle programme. THE BKOMSGROYE TRAGEDY. THE INQUEST. EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE. The Birmingham Post says On Sunday a large num her of persons visited the scene of the murder of Mrs.

Pearcy, at Lickey End, Bromsgrove, there being a continual stream of visitors iii the morning and tbe afternoon. The murdered woman has several sisters and other relatives iu and near Bromsgrovp, and a married living at oybury, v. ho paid a visit to the dwell; iri in which the remains of the unfortunate woman lie; Inquiries confirm the that the couple were not in affluent circumstances, especially of late, the husband's indisposition rendering him incapable of do-, ing as much to earn his living as formerly. Previous to removing to I.ickey they lived for many years at Ape's Dale, where they dealt in coal and kept a huckaier's shop, but on a rather larger scale than at. Lickey laid.

Tin' police using every effort to discover the murderer. On Saturday Deputy Chief Constable Wheeler was on the spot, and on Sunday Colonel Carmichael (chief with Superintendent; Jeffrey, were there for several hours making dnor key has not yet been found, nor v.e.ii.im witii which Mrs. Poircv was struck been1 FREIGHT MARKETS. Motoat. Black Sea rates are without change for prompt loading, although a slightly better feeling prevails for Alarch-April.

Only but a small amount of business is passing at ore ports. Easterns, both out and home, unchanged. Americans homewards practically unaltered, if anything hardly so firm. Fixtures Tinie charter: Elsie 1,493 net, three months, U.S. and Brazils, prompt.

Azof Steamer, 10,000 quarters, n.c, 13s. April. Ratoura Steamer. Bombay, 5Jd. March.

Danube Steamer. 11.000 quarters, 10 per cent, 13s. any, 12s. 9d. Hotterdam, 1-15 April.

Odessa Steamer 10,000 quarters, 1.5s. n.c, April 10. Sebastopol Wandsworth s. 11,000 quarters, Ss. n.c, prompt.

Varna Potomac 11,500 quarters, n.c, Ss. 9d. prompt. Honaor Berusaf Linda 3,000 tons, I'liiladelphia, 7s. prompt.

Faranft: William Branfoot 1,323 net. CK. or Continent, 22s. 6d. 10th March 10th April.

steamer, ballasting, 1,000 tons phospliate, rtt. Louis du Khone. January-February. New Orleans Beeswing s. 1.248 net, Hamburg, ISs.

January-February. Philadelphia: Glenmavis 1.353 net. Dun. kirk-La Fallice, 2s. lid.

and 5 per cent, barrel oil, spot. Hull and London Glantivy 3,800 tons, Bombay, lis. early February. NEWCASTLE, MOXDAT. Chartering has been quiet to-day, though with a fairly steady market, and 7s.

continues to be paid for Genoa. Bay. Spanish, and con sting rates, however, are nominal and unchanged. Bilbao ore freights are still weak and homeward grain freights are quiet. Fixtures Lowlands Genoa, also the Snilesworth at same rate us leaders.

Mr. Addison Camniack and his followers are reported to have been large buyers SPECIAL MORNING EXPRESS. (BY PRIVATE WIRE.) MINISTERIAL CILVXGES IN EGYPT. THE KHEDIVK AXL THJK POWERS. The Cair.j corrosponduiit of the JJaily News, last says The change in the is ttie absorbing tu.iic of conversation huri-.

ho nw MiniKtois took ullico to-day, but are not jinisfd by the Kiifjl-sh ofiicials. The feeling vry strong aguinst Fiikry Pasha. It is lii-liuvc'l that France and Russia have the Khedive to take the present step, prevails. The between the KJiedivo and the 'British Minorities have been somewhat strained for v.rveval days. The new was formed i Use Khedive alone, and he seems to be tenacious of his exclusive light of naming without consultni" tlie Jiritisli --nl.

Ai! iie has in this direction has been sin advice as not to name a Christian as agent lias opposed tlie iisiiuig of the decree forming the new Ministry until he lias received instructions from -Anion" (he natives of higher rank the dive lii.s gaiind in by this ooposilion, and the oneHtioii might more diliii if as is t-iimonrecl, the -i decided not to give wuv. 11ULME RADICAL ASSOCIATION. -Mr. AM rinan Hood proposed of this the tins l.p...'. i-it tti.

That 1.1 so lit" Ill identified by anyone who can say that they saw it at A largely attended meeting, called by the Hulme Radical Association, was held in the Hulme Town Hall kit m'giif, when addresses were given on the subject of land nationalisation. Mr. L. D. Pbixce presided, and among those present were Mr.

T. li. Threlfall, Mr. J. Nasmith, Mr.

Joseph Hyder, Mr. W. Head, Mr. T. lirotherton, Mr.

S. I.ightowler, Mr. G. Wildgoose, Mr. .1.

Wiglev, and others. Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P.. sent a letter in which he said the subject iho meeting was railed to discuss was very important, and required discission, as ii was very iittie understood by the public. th r.lrrA-.

rt; Inr til- Iu a to 1 ant vlll -Ml liaiilt't pro- lll'i'ii hrct.y I l- Cu opt-ralc Willi in thea: and 8s. bd. tor goods Jane Kesall s. Savona, 7s. id.

Baidar Oporto, 6s. Coatham Bordeaux, 4s. 3d. I Cossack s. Havre.

4s. 3ik Mary Lohdcn Bilbao, 3s. 9d. Kegalia London, os. Cardiff.

Monday. Last night Mr. Hardie, M.P.. addressed a large audience in tlie Cloth Hall, Colne. selecting for his subject "Labour Politics." The hou.

member said it was surprising to mid labour organisations all over the country which gave prominence to questions euch as an improved system of government, extension of the franchise to every adalt, payment of members of Parliament by the State, reform of the registration laws, abolition of the House of Lords, or the disestablishment of the Church, whose programme contained scarcely a single item of what they who belonged to the Labour party considered Labour questions. Those political reforms he had indicated, good though they might be of themselves, were only means to an end. That which to-day hindered the Labour problem from being solved was the lack of economic kuowiedge amongst ihe masses of the people. Whilst he was in favour of all those political reforms, he was much more in favour of abolishing tlie landlord and the capitalist. He found himself iu conflict with those true and trusted friends cf labour who thought their objects would be best accomplished by working in and through the Liberal party.

He hoped never to see the day wiien the Independent Labour party just newly formed would be a tail or a wingof any political party now in existence. If that day came he would retire quietly to his country home but it was because he believed" the Labour party was destined to be a separate party, and in tlie very near future be the dominant party in the State that "he went hopefully and joyfully forward to consecrate his life to the service of the Independent Labour movement. How was that to be carried ouri' There was in the Independent Labour party, as there formerly was in the Liberal party, the Manchester school, who said to-day that the duty of the Labour party was to abstain altogether from voting unless the Labuur party was able to put forward a candidate. )i was a hpoic "proposal, it was the ideal state of affairs tor the labour movement, but after all they were not all heroes. If at a general election he Labour-party contested 272 seats it would do well.

That would leave 400 conslitueucies where there would be no Independent Labour candidate. If they said to the workers in those 400 hundred constituencies that they were to abstain from voting they would very properly not heed them. If they had "in every constituency iu the country the Labour party organised on purely independent "lines, and they were recommended to vote in one direction and for one jioliiical party, not because they believed in that party, but because they believed they were able thereby tii realise their own programme to some extent, would not that be a more effective object lesson to tho party that did not get the vote than if they abstained from voting altogether? Correcting a statement made at Uradfwd, he said that taking eight conslitueucies in which at the last geneial election there was a Labour eamiiiiate in opposition to candidates of both great political parlies, iu these constituencies the Labour vote wii.s 15,000 out of 96,000, or 1H per cent, of Lhe electorate of those coiistitui-uccs. If, "he continued, they could get every constituency in the country to organise the labour vote as il had been done iu those eight constituencies, he believed that when the next election came round the Independent Labour party would bo able to control at least 20 or 25 per cent of the voting power of the electorate of Great liritain and when they remembered liiat the last, general election, leaving out ir CI rles I Hike, M.P., wrote regret tmg lus inability to ear. c-oi ns tiie fubjeot was one in which any tune boiore the murder was As regards; the ax-, there is considerable surmise as to how the murderer could have carried it, about with him without, its being observed and it is stated that one person at least, saw it in hia bag, but this requires confirmation Much surprise is felt, iu the neighbourhood as to bow lh- muolerer could h.ive got away from the spot utter committing the d-ed without being seen, but, as a matter of lac', this would bo tolerably easy, especially if the act had been premeditated, there being so many by-paths, as well as public roads, surroundim; the house, anil leading indifferent tie pi took a imerest.

Atioi it. ic? for their absence Mr. F. Dixon- seconded the resolution. Mr.

Fbswick. M.S'., iVo'iu hi its support. He joined i-jrh tin- Chairman in his expression i rc-cret that the couou trade dispute was still unsettled, and a would soon be arriveil at, the wii-'-U nf hitlutrv aLTain he in that, locality. re'feveiice had been ma.l- to the to'! of cpialirv in of am ailectini; natural and poiir.ir.-il i-iirhts fit the had always thought thiit the true principle was that sUued in "the resolution, ami that ir should he strictly oh-erved by the Government iu pi.wer. to w'natever party if might, belong.

The late were never weary of pri.elaiin'uig tii-ir respect lOr iw and "rder. but it often sc-m him 'iilK FUAXOHNJSSfAX UNDKli Si AS i.l.'i. It I I lesraijhii.i were also sent bv Mr. ('. P.

and Major Sharp Hume. 'lhe Cumukas referred to the recent Comert-nce iu Loudon, which he said was made up of and tenant farmers, and pointed oat that thev seemed to be able to speak about was the heavy burden on laud. As a ma't-r of fact the charges on land did let aniMimt to 8.000.000, whereas the industrial had to hud nearly 160.000 a This question tie- was of far niore vital importance than Home Ku'ie, and as soon as Home Hole had been disposed of, as ii must be "uul'oie anything else was done, they should i mice to reform the land laws. If. instead of directions.

Some confirmation of the report, that, a man; left lilackw-Il station bv the 5 30 train for Five Way i milllcl if Jlnilil says: ft is the of tiie jn weil-tiiioiniud circles here that on Friday evening is afforded by a statement faid to have been made by a woman resident at Vigo, nearly a mile from residence, and between there and 4 tear tnc which they Sfti-at. to Sccio social order and to promote respect forrtie liiw were iil adapTed to the object which thev had in view. (Hear, Kespect for the law'could onlv be tao i i 1 enliven cion which, a8 Count Caprivi is rt-iioi teil to liave said, exists ot Milwaukee, Rock Island. Jersey Central, Delaware and Hudson, and Reading. Southwestern securities, mors especially St.

Louis and South-Western and Kansas and Texas, met a very good demand. Tho pools interested in Union Pacific and Western Union Telegraphs pushed up their price 1 to on extensive transactions, The Boston specialities, stieh as Atchison and England, were, however, responding rather slowly to the movement in other sections. Holders of industrial stocks were encouraged at the opening by Saturday's favourable Bank statement. The advance continued until about noon, when values shaded off a little on profit realisations, but at one o'clock the rise was resumed with the Vanderbilt group, and particularly Canada Southern a prominent feature. Trailing during the last half hour showed a fairly strong tone, the best demand appearing for Reading and Sugar Refining stocks.

The close was firm, with advances averaging 1 in grangers, 1 in coalers. in Louisville and Union Pacific, -J-in Vanderbilt, and about I in industrials. Richmond Terminal preferences are pushed up further '2 points, making about 6 points improvement within a week. Such stocks as Denver, Northern Pacific, Erie, and Norfolk preferences, on the other hand, show very little or no appreciation to-day. Money has been easy.

Call loans wero negotiated at to 4 per cent, and at the close the supplies left over wore offered at '2 per cent. Foreign exchange remains unaltered. Silver certificates have been firm but neglected. The Director of the Mint to-day only accepted 37,000 ounces at prices ranging from 64 -000. to 85'Ooc, other amounts being limited too high.

Tlie official stock hero to-day is 770,000 ounces. Tlie eastbound raiboad freight tonnage from Chicago amounted to tons, against 119,000 tons a year ago. It is reported that the leaders of the Whisky pool had a long conference to-day with tho insiders, and that an agreement regarding future action had been reached. The gross earnings of tho Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago, and St.

Louis Railroad during tlie first week of January were 250,000, being a decrease of SI 0,000. Silver Bullion Certificates. Closing price, previous day, Kxctianges. To-Jav. CallMoney li 2 Exchange on Loudon, sight 4-88 4-88 Cable 4-B8J 60 days' sight 4 66 4-86 short sight 95 95.4 I'aris.

515 515' en ranee ami iiu.ssia is ot a purely Mediterranean rates are stationary, the demand for the upper and Italian ports being gooil. bin for Gibraltar and district very intiet. Fixtures Dante s. Barcelona. lGs.

3.1. steamer, tons, Genoa. 7s. 4Aa. clean; sti-amer, 5,000 tons, Venice, Ss.

clean: Paraskevi Vlassopuolo and Trevaylor s. Port Said, 8s. Ouse Rouen, 5s. 9d. Isabella Koueu, 5s.

6d. Volana Dublin. 4s. Harrington UaiUbowliue, 4s. Froiu Newport Benefactor Gibraltar.

6s. 7id. steamer, 1.200 tons. Bilbao, 4s. 3d.

clean; steamer, 2.500 tons. Torres 7s. 9d. clean steamer, 2,700 tens, Civita Vecchia, 8s. Glasgow.

Monday. The market is quiet to-dayr with practically no chanse in rates. A number of fixtures are reported from San Francisco, but at poor rates, tliat market being very dull and disappointing to many owners who have ships loading there. Against this the nitrate ports keep firm for spot loading, aiul there is a fair demand for iron tonnage. From the Kiist the only fixture reported is that of a ship from Chittagonsr to "load next October, and at a rate which in the opinion of many here did not warrant such long business ahead uu the part of the owner.

Australian. Ni-iv Zi'iiliind. and River Plate rates are lifel.s. Fixtures Thistle and Marion Crosbie, 'Frisco, United Kingdom, Continent, less Is. 3d.

direct; Andoln. ditto, less 2s. 6d. direct Adelaide, ditto, barley; ship, Chittagong, Dinted Kingdom Continent '26s. A'ew'Vork S'U, jute, October; ship, Biingiwn, Santos, 27s.

6d. ship. N.S.W., Honolulu 13s. ship, Cardiff, Boca. 14s.

6d. ship. London, Valparaiso, and Talca-huano cement sti'iuner, Glasgow to Venice, 8s, 3d. iii.i.cn ic, i in: Liiat ine law its oper.it ion houuh both rowers are the Midland Railway, that on Friday evening, about five o'clock, she met. a man at Vigo who appeared to be much agitati ami who said to her, tor lod's sake tell me the wuv to Harm station." fihe directed i nature.

allectod the rtch anil poor alike, ami auv exeetitional I eii to lead eat i other military suiiport in I'umbiiug at bad times, the people were only to take tiie matter up in earnest, he heli-ved they eouid place on the wiuiin two or three years such a law as would make a difference uf 200 per cent in their incomes. T. H. Tiiiiklimi.i. niuved i "That this meeting is of opinion that the commercial and industrial distress, which is daily growing intense, ootli being attacked.

The is Unit each Power tiledties i'eni either if "i ihi- i.m.-. l(l .1 v.ouiu iiiiuuinaeuiy lead tn social, disorder and total disrespect, anil irreverence fr the law. Hie could not but rejoice in the democratic tendency of the present time. WhilsL c.ingi-iitiiliiting thi-iti upon tin-de'niocratising spirit iu-trndiited into and imperial institutions, he. dcsinM to bring to their notice the Btrikiinr fact that.

him two roads, cither which would take him there, and he said, Fur iod's sake tell me the nearest way." The man, iu her opinion, answers the description given of the murderer iu most particulars, but she i can onlv hi permanently removed by the speedy relonn uioogiiL ne was IVee.l,,,,, in ,1 men in tne held witnili six tiie declaration of war, and a furtiier within tliiee weeks thereafter, both on a common plan. CoiVililN'M KM' AND THE oitKK.iN ('oHUKSl'ON DENTS. The followinj; amended noliee notice was issued on i n. oi he land laws so as ro bring about th" equitable establishment of public, land ownership." He declared that political parties were not iu earnest on this question, the history of which had sliown tliii' there were landowners who loved tiieir land better tl.an their country. The time hail arrived when the people should grapple Sunday: Police Notice.

Murder. Wanted, lor the i the le.Vt i i murder of Charlotte i lli f.ppi.s.-!l to that icciatic oiiward It erove. on the murium oi rriiiav, January xj, iu i er I ii. Unionist parly with the problem, and even th- sop of an Fight Hours a man, of respectable appearance, who iv hav in th. House oimiiijus iiambtTlaiu- in hlood on Ids from tweuty-eifiht to thirty years l.a.

which la- a rt in tiie i I hat. Jlili, conccled. it might, lie, with the motives which inspired the Ten Hours Hill iu the past, should not divert Paris correspondent tele-ru'iv not have been able to l.cV.c Kit- of age, 5ft. Gin. or Gin.

iu height, clean shaven, supposed to have slight dark moustache, thick-S' dark them from striving towards land reform for whatever was bad, weak, and unjust in our social structure completion, of a Jewish cast of countenance, speaks occasionally with a t'oreiuuauceiit, and at times pretends Ireland, was won by something like five per cent of tho electors who voted, they would see the power which belonged to any party which could control and direct twenty per cent of the voting power of the community. Hefcrring to pending Parliamentary has done, but it may wlietber lie linn acted very Notes published the Uoverumuiit it is insinuated I ectllig In Ih ie oi oJ tile llN'-iei prang primarily from the iniquitous land system by ihi ii we were cursed (Applause.) A beginning should mane i asking the ioyeriimeut to pass a Holdings Act with compulsory powers of pur to be dumb, dressed in dark irock coat, dark cloth vest, brown cloth trousers, brown soft billycock hat (dented bv Iceiions.the speaker said that when the Halifax election irabio rumours concerniiii; th 'ra tlie l.ladsloiuau party were loftily disqualified dealing with labour questions and other great questions of reform because thev had determined, lo of all to do to Ireland. 'Flint, fact, iu his opinion, was the strongest, possible proof of their ability, capacity, and fitness to deal both with the labour problem and the other great questions of reform. Applause. When once the Irish qucsl ion was removed from St.

Stephen's to College (ireeu they would have the ground for action, ami cleared the way for some effective dealing with the labour and other questions Mf reform that were embodied in tlie Newcastle nroeramnie. lint, before i he chase, i-ucii a tui a-iire would benelit the dwellers in was over the Independent Labour party in lhe House of Commons would be one stronger than it was to-day. In M. tie y. ihi eiilieiiii are a political or lb town and country.

At, present our agricultural on ot the Triple Alli- villages were terribly di populated, in tlie village from lie.rnlev the Liberals had distinctly ignored the Labour in topi, sometimes wearing a grey overcoat, carries a square black leather bag, hawks" sham jewellery and writing paper, and also represents himself as travelling for Xtiihlis's Cttzetie. At some places the man exhibited a piece of liued paper on which was written, Would you kindly pardon me for asking you to buy something. Charlie Westmoreland. Please cause immediate inquiries to be made, and if found, arrest and telegraph to 'Diia would to imply that the which he himself came 90 out of every hundred boys party in selecting a candidate, and he trusted the Labour ma an: n.f. tii: party would return the compliment, by ignoring the Liberal selection and selecting a candidate of their own.

made tiieir way to the large towns rather than take up a life in which there was no prospect of improvement. He was glad to observe, however, that the question was removed' fri.nn West minster thev had allotment system was extending. In 1375 there were (superintendent Jeffrey, lSroiiisgrovo. January 15. 183i.

ruvitioii in question, falsi: as it must be ii be. was imt originated in this i try. That, however, has not been satis-i I 5'iovcd. find M. Selecki himself declares runi'itir was Jirst communicated to him join nalist of established position, tiie Triple Alliance had anything to do in umtsr may be dismissed as childishly absurd.

Uic stall ol o-eiie are iiiUlii anno-, c.i mat. AND SI111TJNG EWSL OUTWAKD l'OKLlUN MAILS. iTroiu lhe Manchester l.ncal Pos'al (juide.1 The following mails will be despatched from Maa Chester to-day. The times given thow ihj latest hour of poating in Brown-street West. nipl P.u-ilio, via bVt'jtlianipttjii.

9.i0p.m. St. l'nrlii Hii-o. St. and Il.ivti, by Frencl purkL't.

11 15 u. in. ami 30 p.m. liiiimi t'iiiiiiiy mill Wi at uiiil tfotitli-west Cunt of Afia-ato Lnai.dil, via l.ivi'1-po.il, 1 uilit. The following mails will be despatched to-morrow l.iatioii, Kii Miuni- VitU'i', Itiii'iios Ayri', Simdy Puint.

1'hiti, iiii'l IVi-u, vin l.ivcr'ool, 6 a.m., aiui i.i I.iolioii." I1 l.Sa.m. -Nit imiuy. l'ui'iiiiiiihtiro. iliiliiii. I.in Janeiro, Mi'litc and nnoiuis I'V t'lcnrli packi'l, 1115 ii.ni..

mid a so p. ml laiii. Kii.vpL, Cyprus, and Ueynnit, I17 Austrian packe 9 50 p.m. 1'nited atalcs, Ciiiiu'ia, and Bi'rmuda, via Queensiciw 11, 30 p.m. (Jul'a.

Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, via United States 9 30 p.m. Supplcmenfary mail. IN'WAUD The following mails are due iu Manchester In-day allotments, in 188G 357.795, and in 1890 455,005 so that the process which they all so the murderer should have represented that he was con th; bv strongly deaiml, ot getting the people back lo the lanu, I'lOSillk? I'ricta, ifiil. Tu- I'ruv. nected with that journal, no such being known to them.

Biiviiifyis Sa.l5 liua'. mi IliKti- ltft's it c.i.. 3 60 ilav. had already begun. What, they had to do was lo hurry on that, movement and throw more life and energy into it.

lie was one of tiiose who regarded the Home Utile In Huddcrslield not only had the Liberals ignored the Labour party, but ihey "had literally courted destruction by flying in "the tace of the 'party and selecting a candidate who was chiefly known throughout Yorkshire, by his hostility to the Labour movement', a man who had said, so he (the speaker) was told, that be would rather lose the election thau vote for an Eight Hours Bill for miners, a man who refused to recognise trade union rules in his printing office, where he (Mr. Keir Hardie) was told he printed a newspaper. That was the man whom the Liberals of Huddcrslield had selected lo represent labour in the House of Commons. And those were the men who said they were the friends of labour. lieonje Mills, hawker, of Plymouth, arrested at a lodging-house at Stourbridge late on Friday nighl, on suspicion of committing tie' crime, turns out to be the wrong man, and has been discharged.

piesrion as a branch of the labour question. He was suable to see how any man who professed an interest PKUSI'ECTS IN RUSSIA tn labour could vote agaiusl Home Kule, for that was a Docker coroner foi Yesterday morning Mr. Kdwin ause which was as much a working man's cause as the ight hours movement itself. (Applause.) He would North Worcestershire) opened the muuest on the bou 56 951 5 a ii9 57 95 90J, 29 lie trusted tliat at uuiiuershoin lhe Labour partv would ot Airs. Pearcv.

I he inquiry was conducted at the tnrow out one practical suggestion to the authorities in Lancashire. The Chancellor of the Duchy Forest Hotel, and the Coroner explained that the object select an Independent Labour candidate, and if the election resulted in a loss both to the Liberal and large oowers. What was to prevent the City Council Labour partv the fault be on the shoulders of those men ot the mqcest was to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Pearcy, who seemed to of Manchester, in co-operation willi the other municipal Ciilmnbia, Vciiiiuela, Guadaloupe, c. Fri-iioh pauket.

Australia, IS'cw Zealand. India, Mauritius, Jiyypt. by pud bodies and local boards ot the count irom approaching have been killed on rridav last bv some miscreant wlio the Chancellor of the Duchy and asking him on fair and who were false to the cause of democracy in selecting a candidate such as he had described. Answering a question, the speaker said he did not consider Homo Kule a social movement, but a democratic one, and as at present was undiscovered. There was no apparent reasonable terms to sell lhe ground rights of the fore 103 81 102 79i shore round the Lancashire cuasi 'i There were, thousands reason or motive tor tlie perpetration oi tne oeeu neoiiu the suggestion theft.

Superintendent Jeffrey and his Cyprus. Natal, Cape Colony, and Madpira. The following mails am duo to-morrow Biinios Ayre, Monte Video, Itio, and Senegal, hy French packet. L'niled Stated, via Queenstown. such it had his heartiest support.

assistants wit" ing every posune etuieavour v. un 114jj 114 view of bringing the murderer to justice, but as it was CURIOUS CUSTOMS IX BORXEO. CO 370 40 120 30 90 impossible to conclude the inquiry that day, the jury would hear what evidence was available and then adjourn. 87 534 At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society last 53J concrete evidence in the conduct of members of the Ciovei-ninent that the Liberal part were not onlv 'not disqualified from dealing with the labour ques-'tien but. very strongly disposed to deiil with it.

side by side with tin Irish question, i-'nr instance, for years past at their Trades 'ongresses they had passed resnlut.ioii after resolution claiming for tlie industrial portion of tlie community some, reasonable aninunr of representation upon "the judicial bench of the country. Hitherto to a very great extent liltle had been done in the way of conceding to iln-m their just rights in tli.it direc. ion. 'Tlie lirt departure was made bv Sir (Jeurge Trevelvau. and la- was glad to think that tlie pre-twa Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr.

Hryce, Chancellor the IMi. hv of Lancaster, had shown "that thev wen- of re.il grit, and that they were prepared to act upon the principle of the resolution that of the equality of right of every man composing the community iii the I-iate known as the I'nitcd Kingdom and together they had appointed some thirteen or fourteen representatives of the working men since they came into Price as justices of the peace. (Applause. The meeting would agree with him that there, was lor a much larger number yet, to bo appointed. Hear, hear.) These tilings, to his mind, clearly demonstrated the fitness of the present to deal with labour questions and also with great questions of State policy.

As workniuu they were asked to review tlie whole political si'iiiation, and especially to examine fleer relations with either one or other of the two great political parties in Hie Stale. Iu some quarters they were deliberately counselled to withhold their support from one or" other pulit ical parly and to form an independent party nf their own. -t Hear, hear.) They were aware "that a conference was held last week at iiradiVird with that object in v'n-w the formation of an Independent Labour "parry. Many of the gent lemen attending that conference we're known to him, and of their ability, their sincerity and honesty of purpose, he had in his mind not. 1 he" shadow-of a doubt.

He believed the men to honest and sincere in the object they had in view, a-iid if he had one criticism to oli'er it would not be bie of fault-finding with the men, but with regard to the policy which they were seeking to persuade Working men" to adopt. He thought, he had shown that the Liberal parly ever since it. became a party "of any importance ami strength in the country had been the party of progress, mid had been allied 1 ne first witness was tne wno siaicu niai night a paper was read winch had been prepared by Mr. Charles Hose, resident of the Itaram district, the deceased was aide to get about and attend to lhe small shop they kept. Un Friday morning last she rose Sarawak, describing a journey which he made into the lairly earlv, but in consequence ot not leeung wen ne Highlands ot Borneo.

In the course ot the paper, which dealt chiefly with the geographical features of the stayed iu bed. She did not see him again arter leaving the" bedroom. He heard her cleaning the window, tint did not suspect anything. Presently he heard 154 54 102 1314 75 152 18 54 1014 131 74 country, Mr. Hose incidentally mentioned some curious and thousands of acres of foreshore which to be made lit foreultivation only needed a strong earthen fence to save them from the' sea.

The construction of such a fence, would give work for thousands of the unemployed and would give to the county a vast district which could be laid out in allotments. There they would have laud nationalisation on a small scale. (Applause.) Mr. Josiii'H Hvokk' (secretary of the Land Nationalisation Suciciy) seconded tic resolution, and iu the course oi his speech contended that it was realty on die land quest ion that so many Whigs left Mr. Gladstone when he first proposed the formation of an Irish Parliament.

There were more men yet who would have to leave the Liberal p.irty on this question, and the Liberal party would be tin-better for the parting. What was wanted was not a. patching-up of the land system, but a complete revolution, and the establishment of a better system on a totally different basis. (Applause.) hy that me.ins.he believed, we should be enabled to remove the cause of thaL undeserved wealth which inevitably produced uiniei.erved poverty. (Hear, hear.) Mr.

W. I'imii supported, the resolution, which was adopted unanimously. Voles of thanks concluded the Moscow correspondent of the Standard The "Vw" year (O.S.) promises i l-'ii-lu jicriod of greater prosperity. First if. most, the next according to all iciibie will be more than forueasi is l.uiv-iy warranted by tlie severe :.) "ui iy winter this year.

The same i o-r 'd. the sane; superabundant snows which Kurope cifise pitiful distress to many iuci.tiv.fi.iei.i tn ail. itre welcomed by every i in lPissia u-; tissnrauco of good year to And the winter this year has so far been the whole extent of a continued low temperature Kitii; uiipfecedecicd so early in the season ami a snowfall certahdy tiiiexainplod for tpinn-t wiii'ti we onsidi'i- that even in the Crimea, snow is bv moans an annual occurrence, the fall is some four feet deep, are now i the to look forward to a of prosperity after the trying years of i and disease. AMERICA AN7tHK VATICAN. Thu Konie corruspoiuletit of the ltiilij Chronicle, legiapliin' last night, says: The i'opo has appointed Slonsiguor rtatolli permanent Apostolic Lelegate to tlie states.

This is virtually eipiivalont to the establishnietit of a l'apal Nuiiciatuii, the creation of which was proposed by Monsigiior Jreland at tliu Episcopal mfi'ivnce. but was energetically resisted by a majority of the bish.ips present, find especially by the The Pope, however, having insisted mi the present sti p. tlie bishops have accepted bis lloliuess's decision without further demur. I'lif new ddepile will reside at New York, ami oot nt W'ashinirloii. as it is not intended to estab someone coming upstairs; he it.

was the 20 90 native customs. On the journey up the river lunar he stayed at a village called Long Tisam, close by which is one of the stations of the Central liorneo Company. He spent the night in the house of one A van Avit, a Kara wan. doctor's assistant. lucre was a box at.

the top ot 15 15 113 3Gi SSI 52i 90i tl30 29 23 61 102J 80S 124 114i 87 1004 58V 136 1531 172 54! 8 101 1314 741 105 HI 50 59i 109 25 55 102i 50 19 371 i 184 27" 52 845 76 9 37 G5i 1124 36 10A- 418 114 Hbg 102 98g 464 47' 90 121 113i 35i 56i 4 S5 89 128 29 23i CI 1014 791 123i 113s 864- 58i 134 152 17i 542 8 101 130 74. 104 15 50 59.1 103 242 55 102J 49J 18 37 i 111 ICi 23 19 50 i 841 75 94 35 65 .10 41 11 254 101 97J 454 74 89 119 It was not until the next morning that he discovered at the head of his bed a large box, which proved to be a coffin, and on inquiry he was informed that it contained the mortal remains of the chief's wife. It was the custom of these people, he was told, to keep a corpse in 50 13 40 SoiilllltV. fj. S.

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Mexican Central Unquoted. the steps, and the man began to examine it. lie went to a second box. and then to a third. I thought to mvscll," said the witness, this can't be the doctor." 1 raised myself up in bed, and saw a strange man in the room." He made for the door, and I got up.

Without troubling to dress I went after him. but he got, away. He wore a black felt bat, and was not what I should call a tall man. He had on a black coat. He was clean shaved, except a little bit of hair under his nose.

He was dark, and I should judge him to be between 25 and 2G. He never uttered a word. Directly I started to get. out of bed he bolted downstairs. I believe I saw the same man at my house on Monday last.

It was in the morning, and he showed a paper, pointed to tho apples, and put down a hiiioemiv. The paper bore something to the effect that he was deaf and dumb. He also offered 110 594 110 2bJ 1024 50 19 Ill 17" 43 the House tor three monins oetore ourying it. ihey made a large coffin of soft wood and decorated it with various colours obtained from the juice, of the whole being elaborately carved. The lid of this coffin was made air-tight, with a resinous substance pro 59 109 25 102i 49S 18 37i 11 17 46J cured from ftciriico foresf, trees, and generally known as "dammcr.

A bamboo about 20 feet, long 10 110 ind three inches in diameter was then prepared by boring through the joints, so as to form it into what it was really intended for, a sort of drain pipe. One end witii the working men in order to assist them as far of this pipe was driven into the ground, the other end 50 680 was brought through tue floor oi tlie House and inserted in lhe bot torn of the coffin. During the first week after as possible in the accomplishment of their ju-t legitimate and it seemed tn him a mistaken, policy, to say the least of it, to advise working the body had been placed in the coffin a large torch was kept burning day and night at the head and loot. After 94 120 about three months a mausoleum was prepared, made of lish oiiieial relations with the Pope by accrediting men to withdraw rneir support ami their sympathy from men who, through good and evil report, h.ul been their truest and staunchest friends. Loud hard wood called bnhaii, and raised about li! ioet from mi ambassador to the atican.

he ope will the ground on two massive pillars carved wiLh various artistic designs and rigiues of. men and women. The applause.) Apart altogether troin considerations of gl-atitude for lie feared might think there was publicly announce his reasons for taking his step, one of which is that the Roman Catholic body was then removed from the house, and conveyed with much ceremony to this tomb. Kvervoue present 303 IKi question Ol grill.li.uiie inoiei, apart altogether from considerations of gratitude for tlie past service of the Liberal p.irty. it seemed to him a mistaken 10 42 11 25 10 41 25 sent one or more cigarettes, made, ot native tobacco.

(Lloyd's Telegrams.) Port Said, Sunday. Pciho, from Mauritius, left for Mar-seilles. Nalal, Saturday. African, from Mozambique and East Coaat ports, arrived tn-day. JJartmoutli, Mondny.

New Ycrk City, for Trinidad, left to-day. Alsatia, from New York, arrived. Colombo, Saturday. Pe.ihawur lelL for Shanghai. Britannia, from Loudon, left lor Australia.

Columlio, Sunday. clan left for London. Suez, Monday. Arcadia. Sydney lor arrived.

Claa Buchanan, the Clyde fur Calcutta; sailed. tiravesend, Monday. Koslin Castle, trom Table Bay, passed. -Port Albert, from Sydney, pusucd. Britibh tjuuen, from Baltimore, passed.

Kew York 0y cahlp). Strabn, from Rio Janeiro, arrived, iluil. Monday. Martclloand Marengo, both from New York, arrived. York, Sunday.

Mariposa, fcr London, sailed. Philadelphia, Saturday. Missouri, for Jindou, sailed. Marseilles, Sunday. Shropshire, for Colombo, sailed.

IS.Y-U' Orleans, Sunday, Vesta, from Liverpool, arrived; Pallas, for Liverpool, sailed. Colon, Saturday. Australian sailed. (irecuock, Monday. -Australia, from Kr.w York, arrived.

Southampton. Sunday. Conrad, Amsterdam lor BaLtvia, arrived. Liverpool, Sunday. Norseman from Boslon, Parisian from Portland and Ilalifa, and Runic frr-m New York, arrivej.

Sue. Canal, Ken for Cnlcutta, left. Suez Canal, Monday. Arcadia, Sydney, en route to London, passed. City ot Venice, Bombay for London, arrived.

Naples, A v'K-a. for Brislaue, left. Sydney, Sunday. Hohenstanfen, iironi Antwerp and Bremen, arrived. Bombay, Saturday.

Peninsular, from Aden, arrived. Klutnghtri, Sunday. (lleiifruin. from London, arrived. Jliirhan, Sunday.

Alricau arrived. Port Llizabctb, Friday. Clan Mm lcori Hrrived. Singapore (by telegraph). Preusseii, from Bombay, arrived, Iirindii, Monday.

Himalaya, lor Svdnoy. left. tiibraltar, Monday. Cily of Perth, for passed. Monday.

Clan rra.cr, fur ilasnrw, lilasow, Saturday. Cniieonlia, for Portland, sailed. Tenerilfe, Saturday. lainiii, from New Zealand irts, arrived and proceeded for London. Suez Canal, Saturday.

Ophir, from London, sailed for Sydney. "Pfcriuj, Saturday. Yorkshire, frotn Hangooii for London, called. Sydney, Monday. Austral, from London for Sydney, arrived.

Halifax, Sunday. Afoyriaii, from 'Liverpool, arrived. New York, Sunday. Champagne, irom Ilavre, arrived at 3 p.m. Lisbon, Sunday.

Anmcauia, homeward bound, sailed. Oetavns. Sal.urday. Jeliuia, Brisbane for London, passed. Sagres, Saturday.

WtniKth Hall, Boiabav and Marseille for Liverpool, passed. IViniche, Saturday. C'ityof Agra, Clyde for Calcutta, passed. Marseilles, Saturday. Worsley Hall, for Liverpool, sailed.

Grand Canary, Sunday. Slierbro, from Liverpool. Maleuiba, from Hamburg, and Lualaba, from Antwerp, arrived. Yokohama (by Peru, from San Francisco, arrived. Port Said, Monday Clio, Hull for Bombay, arrived.

Arcadian, from Sydney, with noinewaxd mails, left. Madras, Monday. Goorkha, London for Calcutta, arrived. Aden, Sunday. Salazie, from Japan, left, Unlay for Marseilles.

Halitax, Saturday. Labrador, from Portland, sailed fot Liverpool to-day; not as reported yegturday. Philadelphia, Friday. British Prim-ess sailed. New York, Saturday.

for Liverpool, Jailed. Montevideo. Sunday. Gyrene, from Valparaiso, sailed foi Liverpool via Bahia. Perim, Saturday.

Cify of Oxford, Calcutta for London, arrived. Culi'oa, Sydney for London, paaeed. Vera Cruz, Saturday. Darien sailed. St.

Vincent, Saturday. G-alieea, homeward bound, sailed. Itio Janeiro, Saturday. Aconcagua, outward bound, suiled. Teneriffe.

Sunday. Clan Gordon, Liverpool for Durltui, lilt, Malta, Monday. Clan Macalister. Calcutta for London, left. Suttej, Bombay lor Plymouth and London, arrived.

Plymouth, Monday. Shannon, from Calcutta, left for London. Antwerp, Monday. Clyde, for Souttampton, left. Barbadocs, Monday.

Orinoco, for Plymouth, left. Lisbon, Sunday. Thames, from Southampton, arrived, end leaves to-morrow for Brazil and Kiver Plate. in the L'nitod States should be treated the same manner as the Church iu Europe. THK WKAIIIEU ABROAD.

wrapped in the dried leaves of the wild banana (pisang AnA mLSttcc It, ('finrt inrrrr-jr, fll.iA,... also, that they had the existing ieral party up to the nrcsnnt at policy in this respect a liiicliinery of the Libi 99 934 230 111111 ll U1HJI UtftU Jlllai'n. These cigarettes were placed on the top and around the coffin, and should the body be that of a man his their command. They were invited to become members of the Liberal Association, to take part in its The "New York correspondent of the Daily weapons, tools, ana a small quantity ot rice, with some eijv-elopes and writing paper fur Side. He carried either a small bag or box under his arm.

He appeared to understand me. but I did not take much notice of him. He was then wearing a grey suit. Un following the man from the bedroom I heard the door lung. 1 tried to open it, but found it was locked on the outside.

1 then looked fi my wife. 1 cried, Charlotte, Charlotte, wherever be you Xoutii' answered, and 1 went behind the table "that acted as a counter. There I found her lying in a heap. There was a bag of oranges at 'the bark of the fireplace. I got the chisel and! a spanner, and wrenched the lock to get out.

1 saw a girl named and I said, "That man has settled my wife." It vols an hour or thereabouts before a policeman came. After Police Constable Clarke left the house I went upstairs to see if the money was where my wife told me sh" had put it. I looked into the chest "of drawers directly afterwards and found the bloodstained axe iu the bi.x at the top of the stairs. He had not touched the money. The axe produced, bear-in" the name of U.

Daly, was the one. Thedeceased died at four o'clock, being unconscious the whole time. From the time she went downstairs in the morning until the crime was discovered I never heard a word spoken. In answer to the jury, said the man appeared to be of a resnectable kind. Witness was quite sure it was the same man he had on the Monday previously.

Witness saw him directly came to the top of the stairs, but, as far- as he noticed, the man did not carry an axe. Dr. U. Wood said he was called to the deceased's home, and reached thereabout 11 20. She was sitting li-lceraohitiL' last niifht.

savs Another his conking pot, were deposited in the tomb 90S 1214 89 1134 ait.uisu cold wave is i.assinir over the country and with bun, that he might be able to continue his daily pursuits in the other world. Rut if of a woman, her large sun hat, her little hoe used for the temperature nt many places, especially in is- 106 106 i-Linsin and Alinnesota. is lower than it nas oeeu weedine in the paddy fields, her beads, earrings, and for vears nnst. the thermometer being in some other finery were placed with her body, that she might cases far below zero. Violent snowstorms aiid 57 541 57 5i lil'iv-Mrils nrn reported from various parts of niit-rv.

notablv from the Western States 12 12 s. severe weather has everywhere caused Kx dividend. .1.. siitiWiiifj unions' the destitute. Jbetirs that there may shortly be FIRE ON BOARD A CUJfARDJSR.

voiil liuiiine at Chicago and other places in the owinc to tho extreme cold, the demand e.v.l has increased, ami tho supplies councils and in determining its policy; and vet, with that existing machinery at their command liiachinery which they were besought to possess themselves of tttcv were asked to ignore that fact and set up a separate and distinct party of their own. If he wished to delay tiie solution of several questions which affected Cue home and industrial life of the people of this country he could desire no holier method doing it than of setting up a separate organisation. (Applause. 11,. did not flunk that the spectacle which presented itself to them in Continental Parliaments was one which commended itself to the better judgment of the intelligent artisans of this country- i Hear, hear.) He should infinitely prefer, so long as we were to have party Government, that should be sharply divided into two great sef tious rather than that "they should be sub-divided info Right and Centres anil Extreme Centres, sui ii as existed both in the French and Herman Parliaments at the present ime, as he naturally expected thjit greater progress and more effective work would be done by a Parliament composed as he had said thjJi if it was split up into a dozen atoms or sections such as they had iu some of lhe Parliaments to which lie had referred.

He was. however, not afraid, and never had been afraid, of names. He was not afraid of and he did not look with feelings of honor tqion any isms'' by which they were confronted, for he had long since come to tlie conclusion iu his own mind that wliatever was sound, logical, and true either in Conservatism, lladicalism, or Socialism would live, despite the keenest criticism and the fiercest opposition. (Applause. He did not look, therefore, with dread or abhorrence, upon auv He.

judged not men by the name with "which thev distinguished themselves from one political party or ure prevented from arriving on account of theheavy mow. Vrom Memphis, Chattanooga. Nashville, and It A I A I TK I 0 EAST LONDON. The fifty-sixth half-yearly meeting of this Company was held at. Cannon-street Hotel, Loudon, yesterday.

Lord A. Si'Fstki' Cufuciitt.r. presitkd, and moved the adoption of lhe report. 'file CitAtuMA. said the receipts showed prolit of about, 210, but he reminded them that, the comijanies had not yet decided what a mounts they should bear respectively of the loss on the traffic.

Tiieir latest arbitrator on the matter, Mr. Sccti.er, had lixerl it at Ylh per cent all round. Under that award no company fined for putting traffic on the line. Hitherto nearly all the profit of the lino had come from passengers, the number of whom who passed over their line dating the year was 7,000,000. They might, however, look "for further increase in respect of goods traffic.

Doubt less that would be more demonstrated when the new railway to London was completed, as by that means some of thero.il from the Midlands would be sent over their line to the south. The gross traffic, amounted to 49.000, and as soon as it amounted to 53,000 an entirely different state of things would occur, because under the Act of Parliament the lessee Company would givelo the East London 55 per cent, of their gross traffic. The result would, no douht, considerably improve the position of the holders of stocks. They might reasonably hope, he added, that it would rot" be long before the full amount might be realised. Itcferring to tho Forged Transfers Act, he said that, no decision had yet been arrived at, andas the matter was iu such an embryo state he suggested that, it should be postponed for six months.

Mr. W. 1. Farquhar seconded tho motion, which was carried unamimousiy. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.

The report to be submitted to the meeting of the proprietors of this eompanj to be held on January 25 lias been issued. Tho directors report that the expenditure on capital account during the half year has been 225.603. Ul this 100,000 is for the purchase of the freehold of the entire area adjoining Victoria Station. The accounts of the lialf year compared with hose of he corresponding half year of 1891 showed an increase of 8.657 in gross revenue, a decrease of 1,906 in working expenses, and an increase of 6,061 ininterest on debenture and preferential capital. Sec.

The directors say that the trallic was good during the first two months of 'tiie half year, hut has fallen off since August. This is partly" owing to the loss of about 10,000 in Continental and steamboat traffic, attributable partly to the cholera and partly to the weather. Hut. some allowance must also probably be made for the depression of trade and for the severe agricultural distress, aggravated by a disastrous harvest. On the other hand, tlie receipts from season tickets and goods and minerals continue to increase, and the Christmas traffic has been good.

The ordinary working expenses are almost the same, the saving" in coal and compensation having been about balanced hy extra expenditure in repairs and renewals of rolling stock, increased tram mileage, and increased charge for rates and tiixes. A special general meeting will be held at the termination of the ordinary meeting, to consider a new treaty with the Western Railway Company of France with respect to the joint service between London and Paris Newhaven and Dieppe, additional provisions relating to the mode in which tlie joint boats shall be vested and as to tho joint capital having been rendered necessary by the requirement of the French Government in recent vears that as the French Company contribute about two-thirds of tlie capital invested in the steamboats, some of them shall be built and registered in France in the name of the Frencli Railway Company and be manned bv French captains and crews instead of all of them being vested in this Company as was formerly the case. The accounts for tlie half year show P.alancc of revenue over expenditure, balance from last half- in an armchair, and was just breathing, lherewasa wound across the skull. The bones were divided, showing that the injury was one caused by very great force, and a very heavy instrument. The depth of the.

wound would be aliout and the length about 3in. It was impossible to render any aid, death being merely a question of time. Witness saw the axe, and this confirmed his impression that the injury was caused by such a weapon. He believed the murderer must have been on the right side of deceased, with his face tow ards her. She might have been just turning away from him, and was certainly standing up at the time.

Klleu Noakes said she saw deceased just after ten o'clock on Friday morning. She bought some coal from Mrs. Pearcy. anil having taken one cwt. she returned for a second.

The front door was then closed. When she brought the barrow- three minutes later she heard some one hammf-ring inside the house, and then learned from Mr. Pearcy what had taken place. The time that had elapsed since she saw Mrs. Pearcy until she heard of the crime was alout ten minutes.

The man as described bv Mr. Pearcv witness saw in the district on another. He endeavoured, he hoped, as those present Qneenstown, Monday. The Cunarl royal mail steamer Botorua, from New York, with tbe mails and a. larue number of passengers, arrived here at 12 47 p.m..

to-day; iiaving uuide! all malls and some passengers, she trocceded for Liverpool immediately. also eiideavourea, to taie an uonesr, intelligent, and dispassionate view of principle rather than men; and Wednesday." Jn answer to the jury, wituess said she did elsewhere the south unpreceaenteu com ana severe snowstorms continue to be reported, and skating is being carried on upon streams which are Varelv frozen over. Business is entirely Etispendeil in some of the southern towns, and it is ot.lv with the utmost diiliculty that railway Iruihi-'is continued. Notwithstanding that the thermometer stood below zero to-day, several Haptists uuderweut total immersion in a creek at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 'iie correspondent of the Standard, tc'icji iijiiiing last night, says The weather has been extremely cold since yesterday over tbe entire kingdom.

Snow has fallen iu great quantities and stopped the railway traffic in the provinces of Calicia. Sautander, and Biscay. The mails arrived to-day at Madrid several hours late on account of the snow in the Basque Provinces, iu Burgos, and between Avila and the Esetirial. The thermometer hist night was 7 degrees centigrade bow zero (Fahrenheit degrees), and 2 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit -'S'-t degrees) tins afternoon with a piercing wind. Heavy gales, with loss of life and of many fishing vessels, are reported to have occurred on tho north coasts yesterday.

The Dunkirk correspondent of the same journal telegraphs Since December 10 the frost here has abated until to-day, when a blizzard set wluch is delaying the mails and impeding traffic. Tlie Berne correspondent of the same journal telegraphs The railway traffic in Switzerland ind'on the German and French frontiers is interrupted in consequence of the snow drifts. in their support either ot one political partv or another thev would be guided more by considerations of the principles of a party than by the party itself. i Hear, LIVERPOOL SHIPPINO. not hear any noise on going for the second hundredweight of coal.

Sanders saw deceased alive at nine o'clock on Arrived. The Cunarder Bothnia, which left New York on the 7th inst. with 32 first, 50 second cabin, and 91 steerage passengers, and 436 sacks of mails, arrived off Queenstown "yesterday afternoon on her way to Liverpool. About noon on Sunday a fire broke out in the grocery storeroom adjoining the saloon, caused either by the upsetting or exploding of an oil lamp. In a short time smoke and flame were observed issuing through the ventilators, which greatly alarmed the passengers who were on deck at the time.

However, their fears were quickly allayed by an assurance on the part of the captain and officers that the fire was not of a serious nature. Prompt measures were taken to extinguish the outbreak. Volumes of water were poured into the storeroom, and in about an hour the fire was put out, not, however, -until tlie greater portion of the stores was destroyed. Tiie water which was poured into the storeroom found its way into the saloon and state rooms and damaged some carpeting. LORD HAWKE'S TEAM IX LNDIA.

(EECTE'S telkjbam.) Calcutta, Mon'dat. The match between Lord Hawke's team and an eleven of Bengal Presidency, which was commenced on Friday, was resumed to-day. The chances of the home team seemed very poor on Friday, when the Presidency were compelled to follow on, but a completely new complexion was put on the game to-day. Tlie Bengal men hit with much greater confidence, even at the beginning of the day, with the result tliat runs came fast. Messrs.

Campbell and Morgan both played capital cricket, each making 40, while Messrs. Hickley and Paine each contributed 35. Mr. Neil made 34, and no batsman failed to reach double figures. When the score stood at 263 for eight wickets the home team declared theinningsatanend.

All credit is due to the Presidency for their brilliant stand, since the visitors' bowling and fielding were both very good. Lord Hawke's team then went in for the second time, having 182 runs to get to win. C. W. Wright and Lord Hawke went first to the wicket and succeeded in making a good stand the partnership only being dissolved when Lord nawke was bowled, his score being 25.

Messrs. Vernon and Robinson, who followed, were alike unfortunate in being dismissed before they had scored, tlie former being caught and tlie latter Mr. Jackson made 13. The Ecoring was by no means rapid, and time did not permit the match being played out. When tlie stumps were drawn 3Ir.

Wright had made 31 not out, the total score being 83 for six wickets. The match was therefore a draw in favour of the Bengal team. not Be touna wanting on ner arrival on tne otner side ot the grave. The earrings were especially important, and were usually made of brass or copper, weighing sometimes as much as two pounds each. The lobe of the ear was pierced when the child was about eight months old, and earrings weighing about two or three oimces apiece were hung in the ear.

This weight gradually-brought down the car lobe to a great length, and, weights being added yearly as the child grew, by the time she had come to maturity the ears would reach her breasts. Mr. Hose was once present when the corpse of a bov was being placed in the coffin. As the lid of the coffin was being closed an old man came out on the verandah of the house with a large gong and solemnly beat it for several seconds. The chief, who was sitting near, stated that this was always done before closing the lid, that the relations of the deceasedwho had already passed out of this world might know the spirit was coming to join them, and upon his arrival in "apo lr-ggari they would probably greet him in such terms as these, grandchild, it was for you the gong was beating which we heard just now.

What have you brought? How are they all up above? Have they sent any messages?" The new arrival then delivered the messages entrusted to him, and gave the cigarettes as proofs of the truth of what he said. These cigarettes retained the smell of the hands which made them, which the dead relations were able to recognise. There was another strange ceremony at which Mr. Hose was present. It was called "dayong janoi," in which the dead were supposed to send messages to the living.

It proved that was a very ancient practice among tho Kayans. Ex-Chief Constable Kinctjant's Psksion. At a meeting of the Warwickshire Standing Joint Committee yesterday it was resolved to cancel the pension of ex-Chief Constable Kinchant, who is at present in Lisbon, if he failed topresent himself for medical examination in England before March 25. Chamber Colliery Company t. the Rochdale Canal CoitPANT.

In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Juetice yesterday, before Justices Day and Collins sitting as a Divisional Court, the case of the Chamber Colliery Company v. The lioclui-aU Company came on for hearing. It was a special case stated for the opinion of tlie Court, and raised a question as to the mode of assessing compensation payable by the Canal Company in respect of coal required to be left for thesupportof the canal. In tlie Canal Act passed in 1794 it was provided that such compensation should be assessed by a jury summoned by landowners of Iincashire and tho West Riding of Yorkshire. The plaintiffs were anxious to get the compensation assessed, and had brought their action believing that the Commissioners referred to in the Act were confined to persons living at the time it was passed.

The defendants raised the question that the Act proposed that gentlemen in Lancashire and tho West Riding who nowhad the qualification mentioned inthe Act would be the Commissioners to summon the jury. The Court was asked to decide whether the Act was prospective in its operation, and that Commissioners would always esist, provided they bad the necessary qualifications, and whether the section referred only to persons living at the time, and who, seeing that the Act was passed 99 years ago, must necessarily be dead at the present time. After considerable argument, the case was allowed to stand over with a view to the parties being consulted as to whether they would agree to the matter being referred to a special Friday morning. Later in the morning a girl named Adams informed her that Mrs. Pearcy was knocking at Pascagotila Orleans Wemerara Havana Demerara Havre Hamburg Baltimore Sourahava Arizocii Serapis SU Francissa.

a Sarmat.a the door ann crying tor help, witness saw Mr. rearcy Jura British Queen Westmoreland is Harriiwmore Com us Normal Strathspey St. Bonans Newcastle Monkneaton Brunswick partly dressed coming from the door. He was much upset, and said. Come, Mabel, and see what they have done to mv wife." Witness asked who had done it, and has not arrived as previously reported.

Sidled. Sew York I Ptarmigan liottcrdam he reDlied that it was tlie deaf and dumb man. Thomas Weaver. Little Heath, llromsgrove, also saw deceased on rndav morning. As witness was coming bleipner 9 Gothenburg I Sycamore a Boston, Dunkirk I Mignndou 8 CaroLina Fcnwortham a from Tamworth he heard of the occurrence, and reported the matter to the oolice.

The Coroner thanked the witness for the promptitude he had shown, and the turther hearing was tnen postponed until Monday next. BILLIARDS. J. Pexi.lv. E.

Digole. At tbe bitiiard saloon, Catherine-street. London, yesterday, these profuisiozials commenced A match of 8,000 up, soot barred (Dipgle receiving 800 point year, 796,802 of which the payment of interest on debenture stock, requires A novel gathering took place at Sheffield on Saturday afternoon, inthe shape of a parade and march rhrouch tlie town of ex-members of the Sheffield and nn capital, 264,753 406, 726 hear. tie uiougni. ne n.m ita uiem in no sense in a state of uncertainty as to his impression with regard to the wisdom or policy of an independent labour party.

He yielded to no man in his desire to increase the number of labour representatives in tlie House of Commons, and he was as ready and as willing to support a Conservative Government in honestly endeavouring to pass progressive measures as he was to support a Liberal Government engaged in the same work. It had often been brought as a charge against the labour members who had sat in tlie last two Parliaments that they were mere party hacks that, like the other Liberal members, riiey followed the crack of the partv wliip. and that they had no backbone or independence of their own. He did not know whether it occurred to the gentlemen who indulged in such charges to consider what was the cliaracter of the questions that were submitted to their consideration. If they had taken lhe trouble to examine most of the measures submitted to them by the late Government, tliey would have found that they were not of such a character that, as labour members, they could support them but so far as their legislation was of a progressive character he did not hesitate and his colleagues could speak for themselves to vote in the lobby with them.

It would also be found that in the few "months in which Mr. Gladstone was iu office in 1886 that they were just as independent in tiieir action, and would be seen pretty nearly as often voting against Mr. Gladstone and liis party as witii them. Hie Liberal, or, as he preferred to call it, the Radical party, -were as much tlie party of progress and constitutional development as any possible party that could be created and it -was, if they liked, out of gratitude for the past services of tiie Liberal party itself, and -with a view Volunteer Engineers. The idea arose with Colonel leaving a bidance of 590,076.

This enables the directors to recommend dividends making on the undivided Bingham, who desired to ascertain how many able-bodied men who were acquainted with the volunteer ordinary stock 6', per cent for the whole year, dnrv wnnld lie aval able jn time ot emergency. on the preferred ordinary stock 6 per cent for the whole vear, 7 per cent for the whole When the bugle sounded the fall in at the Drill vear on the deferred ordinary stock, and 10s. Hall of tlie Kncdneers it was found that bOO ex members lirl resnonded. One man had come from Kxater. another from Uirmiiieliam, and others had Kurt).

I'eall made chief breaks ot 123, 10, 87, 69, ISO, 1H, bO, and 105, whilst from Difigle came 74, 99, and 74. At the cIom of the day's play the scores were i Peall, 1,333. C. Dawso.v v. W.

Mitchklt Yesterday, at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, thes players a series of spot-barred matches of 3,000 points on even, terms, each game occupying two day. Fur tlie opening 200 the scoring ran very even. In the enurse. of the. day's play Dawson made breaks of 61, 123, 69, 64, 302 (with 60 nursery cannons), 90, 63, 62.

65, 109, 3Tid 245; Mitchell's best break was 117. When, plav ceased for the day ttM scores stood-. Dawson, Mitchell, 407. J. Roberts, v.

3. Routii. Ac tbe Egyptian Hall, London, yesterday, then profesdotuus continued tbeir match of 24,000 up. spot barred (North, receiving 8,000 points start). In the afternoon North held his own very well, although later on Boberts gained very rapidly, and only 201 separated theirs at the close.

Tbe principal breaks were SS. 120, 131 129 off the red ball alone), 89. 198, 93 (81 ofi the red), 85. 70, and 86 by Koberta, and 56, 47, 68, 62, 50. and 141 by his rival.

When play-ceased for the day the scores were Jiorth, Roberts. 13,791. The Lord Chancellor has placed the came ot Mr. II. W.

Lucy, journalist, on the commissioa tfeft 1 Asaco ins ths aLHsUiSi per cent for the whole year on contingent rights, leaving a balance of 22,646 to be carried forward to next bait" year. The directors think it prudent to carry forward a larger balance than usual, as tiie new capital of 537,600 in ordinary stock will come in for dividend from Hie 1st of January, and tho course of the journeved from Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and other towns especially to attend. Seventy ex- THE PAYMENTJOF MEMBERS. The Daily Kexcs says Speculations are current as to Die probability of a provision for payment of members being found in Sir William Harcourt's Budget. Mr.

Gladstone gave to this question a prominent position in i Uis speech at Newcastle in October, 1891. The prisoner Charles Wells, of Monte Carlo lame, left Havre at ten minutes past nine last evening by the boat for Southampton in custody of Inspector Denny, of the Cruninal Investigation Department, London. Ratter. The Daily News Paris correspondent says 'Sir. Thomas Lough, M.P., and Mr.

Tom Mann, of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, have been in this city to study the organisation of the Bourse du Travail. fh'ay return to Lcaaon this jaaaiing. traffic owing to the depression of trade is somewhat nneTtain. The following directors retire by rotation. Messrs.

Samuel Laing, Jonas Levy, and (Siristopher Chakceky or Laxcashibe Manchester District. Cases to be heard to-day Motion Millett v. Sidebottom. Originating motions: Re Charles Cooke (deceased), re James Rostron (deceased). Petitions Re John Byrom (deceased), re Joseph Street (deceased).

Causes: Brown v. Manchester and District Scholastic Company, motion for judgment Beid v. Bailey, further consideration-, Yates Y. Smethuxst, further consideration Oram v. Oram No.

2, further iUr- Baldock Cardew, ana wiu oner UMtaseives, for sergeanu attended, and there were several ex-officers. The veterans were formed into seven companies and put through a series of military evolutions, tlie movements being executed in a prompt and clean fashion. After a march with the present volunteers the whole of the men were massed at the Drill Hall in open square and addressed by Colonel Bingham. The "veterans" who paraded are to be presented by Colonel Bingham with a specially cast medal commemorative of theif gathering. referee, who would have no greater powers than would I to utilise the strength ana organisation of that party that he advocated alliance with them ratiier than the Mr.

Alderman Ohesters Thompson is reported be conferred on a jury if summoned by the Cxanmis- 1 laud Mariand, motioa for jidgman i. -waste of tbeir ia creating a nevenrj-uaHon I tn ha eonsls. fiiOTf myspfiintrri under tta Act,.