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10 THE MANCHESTER GTJABDIAtf, SATURDAY, JANXTARY 9. 1909. POLITICAL SITUATION. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. ME.

GE0EGE CADBUs tad. left Miss Violet in; London, and whether she was to be'found there.1 Mr. rat ton said he bad not. Asked to account' for what he he replied that he went to Mr. Holloway's works in Charlotte.

street, Tottenham Court Road, and that ho required some magnets. Superintendent Bees has now received a formal offer of 20 rewardTfor the Tecovery of the body of Mia a Violet Charlesworth, signed by Mrs; Charlesworth and witnessed by Sergeant Connah. A PASSENGER TO IRELAND? LADY IX RED CLOAK AT HOLYHEAD. Our Holyhead correspondent writes, that a motor-car arrived at the railway station on Saturday evening a little after eight o'clock, and that the chauffeur inquired what time the boat left for Ireland. An official who saw the vcar leave states.

that it contained the chauffeur one' lady. A station foreman asserts that he saw a lady to whom the photographs of Miss Charlesworth bore a striking resemblance standing under the station clock about ten o'clock. In support of the statement already made, that a well-dressed young woman boarded the imail steamer Connarught that night, Miss stewardess of the Copnaught, has in an interview made the following statement: -s I have a clear recollection that ehe was dressed in a thick, fur-lined red cloak, with a fur collar, and I now remember this the more distinctly because when I asked her if she would like some blankets to put over her when lying down she fingered her cloak and said that it was quit warmgnough. The cloak wbb the kind used for motoring." She remained on board the steamer until the departure of the train for Dublin. She held a ticket to West-land Row, a second-claes one, from London, available on the steamer by saloon.

MORE DERBY STORIES. SUSS CHAKLESWORTH AXD THE FORTUNE-HUNTERS. Our Derby correspondent telegraphs Inquiries show that many people in Derby shared the impression that Misa Violet nharlMrwnrth was -the- heiress of a large fortune. A herbalist wun the family did business says that they moved from Derby to Wolverhampton, in 18D3, arid thence to Rhyl in the following year. It was then that the herbalist eays he was told of the large fortune left to Violet bv A Oil Tiff rf a man who had been killed in an accident.

It was afterwards stated that an old gentleman whom she had nursed had left. Scotland end England, the value of the whole oemg. pus at 800,000. It was further represented that as she was not of age her life was on extraordinarily precious one, and large doge were purchased in order to protect her from any possible molestation at the. hands of the testator's relatives.

Complaint was made of the annoyance to which Violet was subjected at the hands of. fortune-hunters, and it was eaid that a peer of the realm had intimated his intention of bringing his son to see them, with a view to matrimony. Miss Charlesworth talked a great deal, it was stated, of the noble use she would make of her money; One of her plans was to found a home for discharged soldiers, in whom she took great interest. It was also said that at her comihg-of-age there were great festivities in Jforth Wales, cannon being fired along the ooaat, with fireworks at night. A LETTER FROM MBS.

CHARLESWORTH. Mre. Martha Smith, the Derby widow, who lent 500 to Miss Violet Charlesworth, contemplated going to St. Asaph yesterday to see Mre. Charlesworth with the hope of obtaining some of her money.

She, however, decided upon consulting a solicitor, and after she had placed whole of the facts before him he advised her not to go. Mrs. Smith consequently gave Tip the idea. In the evening she received a letter from Mrs. Charlesworth in reply to one sh had written a few days previously, before there was any mystery in the case, in which -Bhe'asked, as an old friend, if she could be of an assistance.

Mrs. Smith had also asked in letter about the payment of some of the she had advanced, but no reference is made in the answer to money matters. The letter from Mrs. Charlesworth is of a friendly and personal nature, and Mrs. Smith desired that it should not be published.

She, however, consented to our representative making a few extracts. Amongst other things, Mrs Charlesworth states: "My trouble is indeed very great. I cannot say much, but leave it, indeed, in God's hands. Her body is not yet found. I have been ill in bed for some time and ra far from well.

Thank vou for your offer to come, but I do not think it would be any pood, and the house is full of people." A Chiswiek man, at whose house Watte, the chauffeur, has slept occasionally, has received a letter from Watts, written after the accident. It bears no date, but has the name of the house Bnderw and the of Miss Charlesworth. You will have seen the papers as to the accident," Watts writes. Myself and Miss Lilian are only shaken, but regret to sav nothing has been heard of Miss The rest of the letter deals with domestic affaire. THE WORTHING RUMOUR.

A DISCLAIMER. The Central News Worthing correspondent had an interview yesterday with Mr. Frederick ChErrlesworth, tho son of Lady Frances CharleBworth. of Uplands, Worthing, with reference to the' report that Miss Violet Charles-worth was staying with relatives at Worthing. Sir: Charlesworth eaid that neither his- mother nor himself know of any such person being related to them.

"She is certainly not here" were his final words to the press representative, who was asked to contradict the report of any relationship between the families. A FOUL PLAY THEORY. The following statement is attributed to a London merchant, with whom Miss Violet Charlesworth has had business transactions "Three months ago Miss Charlesworth told me that whilst at her Forfar residence one evening after dinner she went for a walk, taking her dog. During the walk three shots were fired at her, killing her dog at her feet. Knowing that Mies Charlesworth comes into aer xoriune tnis month, I fear that she has met with foul play." FIRE EXTINGUISHING IN NEW YORK 'Three fires broke out -imultaneouslv on Thursday evening in the "down town" busi-ness quarter of New York, and damage to the extent of 250,000 was done.

The buildings involved included Lipton's tea-house. Forty engines were called out, but they were not used, as the new high-pressure service, the water for which is drawn from the river, i now in oneration. Although fh i utra uau gained great headway before the firemen got to woijc, tne new system is considered to have given most satisfactory results. SOLICITORS' CHARGES. A MATTER FOB INQUIRY.

Judge dealing at the Clerkeuwell County Court yesterday with an application to record an agreement under the Workmen's; Compensation Aot, said that he wished to state his view of the matter, and he hoped solicitors would take note of it- In this case J00 had been paid in full of compensation and, costs. The applicant had received 75. and the solicitors acting for him 25. "I cannot conceive for the life "of me." added his Honour, how any solicitors who are applying for. compensation on behalf of an applicant could have done any work that would amount, to '25.

or anything; like it. It seems to me to be a public matter that ought certainly to'lba inquired into." The Shots zn a Shop. -The shoot- ing in a milliner's shop at Brighton on Wed-' nesday.had fatal sequel last evening, when! -tke in an-William -Padwick, who fbund-'with I a.wound in the head and a revolver in his hand; I oied of his injuries. I WAfc OFFICE ATTACKED. STRONG SPEECH BY TERRITORIAL COMMANDER, LORD DERBY'S.

REJOINDER. Lord Derby made his first public appearance since his accession to. the title at Bury last night. The occasion' was the prize-giving to members of the 5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. Colonel Hall presided, and in his speech criticised the War Office.

Referring to the effort he had made to get a transport section together by order of the authorities, and the absence of equipment, until February next, the commander said: "It is nonsense to ask me to get recruits for special work, and when the men are ready to eay they cannot have the equipment to learn their work. If these men are not trained, and if I do not get waggons, for them to work with, and horses and harness, the next time the authorities ask me to get men to recruit for a special purpose I shall send a polite note back asking them to recruit the men themselves. (Laughter.) I am not going to be made a fool of, nor am I going to make a fool of any other man. I am hoping the country is going to keep iie promise, and the promise made when the Territorial scheme wae launched was that if we got the men, and the men were willing to submit themselves to training and were made efficient they should have everything that was requisite for them to go into the field with. I noticed lnn i PaPers the other day papers sometimes tell nee, but thie was a valuable paper that an official the House of Lords stated that this East Lancashire division, amongst others, was ready and equipped for mobilisation.

Well, either that official did not know what he was talking about, or else he was telling what he knew to be one of the biggest lies a man ever told. (Laughter.) I only sneak for my own unit. This unit i3 no more ready than I am ready to do the Marathon race slaughter) of 26 milea (Renewed-laughter.) I do not believe in humbug, and it is not promises that make efficiency. Far from it. The men cannot do their work unless they are given the tools to work with.

They are as bad off as when old iTiaraoh asked the Israelites to make bricks without straw. (Laughter.) They had now got nd of their Tange which might have been in a back yard for the good.it was. It is no use making promises and 'not fulfilling them. It only money that will make the Territorial ATmy go, and nothing else but money. Referring to the new head-quarters.

Colonel mil said: I have shown over these buildings men from almost every clime; certainly from every European country, some of them officers from European Only one criticism have I heard, and that by an officer of the Austrian army, who, on taking a rifle from one of the racks, said You ought to be supplied with a better weapon." He commended that tp General Burnett, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to Mr. Toulmin, M.P. Laugnter.) Lord Derby said they had heard a long account of the Battalion's work from their commanding officer. The whole of his statement was couched in thoroughly subordinate language laughter), which showed that due regard for supreme military authority, that they all ought to have. (Laughter.) Franklv, Lord Derby said, it was a speech that ought to get him hanged.

(Laughter.) Probablyl it will get him the waggons he wants, and I hope it will get him the men. I have been in former years the War Office, and therefore I know something of the work of that office. I know many of the. people Indeed many -of them are great friends of mine who are tvrfrlr ti cr at fkic- 4 i xbiiituiiai ill ill they are doing everything in their power to make, the scheme a success. If do not get everyining we want at nrst, do not let us blame men who are doingtheir to help us.

Lord Stanley said he believed strongly in the Territorial scheme, and for reason he was doing his utmost to help it forward. (Applause.) He congratulated the battalion on success and oh having such a pugnacious officer. (Laughter and applause.) Lord Derby afterwards presented the prizes. Among those present were- Major General Sir Charles Burnett, Colonel Sir Lees Knowlea, Colonel Winder (Bolton), Colonel J. B.

Pollitt, Mr. Toulmin, M.P., and the Mayor of Bury: THE POSITION AT ISPAHAN. POWERS AS PEACE MAKERS. Advices from Persia received at St. Petersburg state that Prince Firman Firma has taken 'over the Governorship of 'Ispahan, and intends sending a Vic Governor tn fb nm within the next few days.

Ihe Russian' and British Ministers havo advised Samsan Khan, the Bakhtiari chief, not to aggravate the situation by refusing to receive the Governor appointed by the Shah. A telecrram from Tahrix hA Petersburg Telegraph-- Agency states that C1j IT 1 1 i oatar xvnan, me revolutionary leader, has ordered the confiscation of all property belonging to the Shah in the province of Azerbaijan. CANADA CALLED UPON TO "MAKE SACRIFICES." Sir James Whitney, the Premier of Ontario, addressing a new political club at Ottawa which has been named after him, said We are here under the wonderful British institutions which we enjoy and for which the only return we make is to pay the salary of the Governor General. If this continues we shall grow narrow and selfish. Every observer must see clearly that changes are at hand, and events move fast in these strenuous times.

Do we wish to assist in the permanence and future continuity of the British Empire? Then we must sit down around the table with the other portions of the Empire and see what sacrifices are necessary, and the longer we delay the worse it will become." ANGLO-AMERICAN NEGOTIATIONS. Reuter's Agency learns that the draft Anglo-American treaty regarding the mutual use of boundary waterways, which reached London a week ago, is not yet. entirely completed, and that the two Governments are still negotiating on certain questions concern-iug it. It is declared, however, that an agreement has virtually been arrived at, and that there is reasonable expectation of a treaty being signed witbin a few days. THE DINDZULU TRIAL.

(RECTSn's COBBESPOSDEKT.) Grettows, Friday. In the course of the proceedings in' the tiial of Dinuzulu to-day, a native witness gsve evidence that Dinuzulu had said that he would never fight against the whites, and that it would be foolhardy for any native to attempt it. PIT SINKERS KILLED. EXPLOSIOX 2,000 FEET UNDERGROUND. Two men were killed and three injured by an explosion which occurred in sinking a new shaft for the Dolcoath tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall, yesterday afternoon.

Nine miners were working at the bottom of the shaft, over below the surface, when one them, Thomae Weeks, 37. married, -struck a iharge of gelignite, which had evidently been unexploded in blasting operations. An explosion occurred, killing Weeks and his brother Arthur Weeks, 27, single. Three other men were thrown down and badly cut. A man named Walter wa convicted yesterday by the jury at Aginecurt, Ontario, of having beaten his wife to death.

Both the prisoner and his wife came from Crsnswicke, LABOUR. IN PARLIAMENT. MR. WARDLE AND. MR.

SNOWDEN. The annual Stockport Labour party was held last evening at the Town Hall, addresses being delivered by G. J. Wardle, M.P., and Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P.

There was a large attendance. This was the first political meeting in the new Town Hall. 'Mr. Wardle said that one of the most striking things about the House of Commons was the feebleness of the Tory Opposition. The people of the country should realise that there was Btill.a great split in the ranks the Tory party, and that the return to power of that party would be a disaster of the first magnitude.

If, however, the Opposition was feeble in the House of Commons it was strongly entrenched in the House of Lords. LABOUR AND THE LORDS. The Labour party had not the same interest at the present time in the fight with the Lords as the Liberal party. The attitude of the Lords towards Labour measures had been of a distinctly different character from its attitude towards Liberal measures. They had shown a discrimination, but whether that discrimination was due to love, or fear he was not prepared to- argue.

xhe Lords objected to the Trade Disputes Bill, yet they passed it. They swallowed another bitter pill when the Old-age Pensions Bill went through. The Miners' Eight Hours Bill was an equally bitter pill to the Lords, but though they -had- mutilated it to some extent they had passed it. But let them not be misled. If they had dared, the Lords would have shown labour little respect, and.

tho lime might yet come and it might be early when the Lords -would throw down the challenge to the Labour party as it had to the Liberal party. And when the fight came the Labour party would bp ready, and the fight would be to the Referring to education, Mt. Wardle said he wae in favour of a secular system, but for the eake of peace he voted for the recent bill. Ho was convinced that if the parties to the education struggle did not agree very shortly among themselves the people of the country would say moBt emphatically that they would not have education mixed up with religious squabbles. A GOOD SESSION PREDICTED.

Mr. Snowden, M.P., said he believed the next session of Parliament would take no second place in the record of useful and thorough legislation to any one of the three preceding sessions. He confidently expected great things from Parliament this year. The Labour party had been criticised for a want of activity on the question of unemployment. The Labour party did not.

deserve condemnation, and the blame was not to be put on members of Parliament, but on the people themselves for their indifference on this question in the, past. THE ISSUE OF THE FUTURE. If the working classes were, to be taxed to provide insurance for unemployment it would only aggravate the unemployed question, and if they were to be taxed to pay for old-ae pensions there would be no benefit at -all to the working people as a class, because it would mean that their standard of living would be depressed. The issue that would be fought out very shortly would be whether the- increasing expenditure of the country was to come from the incomes of the upper classes or whether it was to come, as the Tariff Reformers wished it, by taxing the food and other necessaries of the poorest part of the people. SOCIALISM AND TRADE UNIONISM.

Referring to the differences which had arisen in the Labour party, Mr. Snowden said he had never forced his Socialistic opinions on his trade union colleagues. He believed most strongly in his Socialism, but he also believed that more was to be got by sympathetic cooperation than by forcing his opinions upon unwilling persons. He had faith that his Socialism would in time be accepted by those in the trade union movement, and he was willing to wait, but for the present it would bo no advantage for the effective work of tho Labour party in Parliament if the Labour party were as avowedly Socialist as the Independent Labour party. They knew no differences inside the party in Parliament between the trade unionist and the Socialist policies.

(Cheers.) OLD-AGE PENSIONS DECISIONS. LOANS FROM THE GUARDIANS. For the purpose of ascertaining the total income of a man who with his wife claimed an old-age pension, the pensions officer credited him with all the earnings of his wife, derived from the letting of lodgings. The 'result was an allowance of a week to the husband and 5s. to the wife.

The pensions committee appealed, and the LocaL Government Board, in upholding the appeal and allowing the man direct that in cases where the earnings from letting lodgings are mainly due to the wife's own industry, only a half, instead of the whole of such earnings, shall be credited to the husband in estimating his- income. In another case a Blackburn applicant had received money by way of loan from the guardians. It was admitted that the money was, repaid, but the contention wa3 that the transaction was fatal to the claim. The committee, following the revising barrister's practice of refusing to disfranchise -where loans-by the guardians were, repaid, granted the pension, but the pensions officer appealed, and the Local Government Board have upheld his objection. OLD-AGE PENSIONERS AND THE LABOUR PARTY.

The Independent Labour party, which recently issued, an appeal for a special effort fund in order to help to finance its Parliamentary and organieing. work, has received two contributions from old-age pensioners. The first, who writes from Chesterfield, says I am a poor, old man, 74, with wife 72, and as we consider if there had been no I.L.P. there would have been no pension at present, we have decided to send the first week's money to this fund as a thankoffering." The amount forwJrded is 8s. The second writer, who haile from Sidmouth, says Havin? this day received my first weekly Ss.

of the nation old-age pension, in token of tay gratitude to the membens of the I.L.P. for their persistent efforts on behalf of aged and worn-out workers. I beg to enclose 5s. aa -contribution towards the special effort fund I trust that the members of the I.L.P. will not slacken in their efforts for the good of the working classes and will also press for women's suffrage, at least on the same terms as men.

I have oeen a working widow, now an invalid, obliged to pay Tates and taxes for many years without having any vote. I hope to be able to send a donation every 1st January so long as I live." THE MUSIC-HALL DISPUTE, PERFORMERS AND A STRIKE. At large number of 1ovns all over the country meetings of members of the Variety Artists' Federation were held yesterday in private to consider the following resolution, which will be submitted to-mcrrow for a further vote tp mass meetings in London and Manchester That this -mass meeting empowers the Executive Committee to take such 6teps as may be deemed necessary, however drastic, to brine to an immediate termination of the dispute, which nas now lasiea o-weejis, oetween tne Variety Artists' Federation and the Agents' Association, who are. being unwarrantably supported by certain -managers, whose sole intention is' to inflict, permanent injury on the Variety Artists' Federation." At the headquarters of the Federation it was expected that 135 meetings would be held Twenty-eight meetingsfrom which returns bad: VaAn rtfi Inn. Vi 1 uccu iwn.cu ins, wgui vuicu in i ii VOMT OX tne resolution and twelve against.

Amongst the large, towns the London, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Sheffield meetings voted in favour, of the resolution. The Manchester and Birmingham meetings voted tgtdrtn H. The mass meetings to-morrow evening will be held at Terry's Theatre, London, and at the Salisbury Hotel, Manchester. Ijtvestjtents of Old-aoe Pejtsioss. The 150 applicants for old-acre pensions in th i district near Bolton, had among, them in gilt-edge AU but twn of the applications were granted.

A WOMAN M.P ENCOURAGEMENT TO ENGLISH SUFFRAGISTS. Dr. Thekl'a Hultin, a woman member of the Finnish was the central figure at a Women's Freedom League demonstration held last evening in the Queen's Hall, London. In an addresa presented to Miss Hultin by Mrs. Despard, the members, of the League congratulated the women of Finland on the political position they have attained, and especially on having women representatives in the Diet.

"We wish also," they said, "to record the great pleasure it gives us to welcome the first woman member of a representative body to this country. Such a visit. is another sign of the rapidly growing feeling of comradeship among women all the world over." The chair was taken by Mrs. Billington Greig. who declared that the question of questions wae, Will we be in the King's Speech On the answer to that question depended the history of the movement thie year the question of peace or war.

If they were not in the Speech, "God help the Liberal Government." (Cheers.) Mrs. Aino Malmberg, the Finnish novelist and humorist, who accompanies Mies. Hultin on her English tour, gave some account of how the eufffage wae won in Finland. "It was not given us," she said, we took it." They took the suffrage through revolution. This statement, ehe admitted, wa3 only partly true, because for years previously very much work had been done to make this result possible.

Miss Hultin, who had an enthusiastic recep tion, spoke the English tongue fairly well al though, she explained at the outset that what ehe knew of the language she had learnt especially for the purpose of her visit. I am happy to assure' you," she said, that our experience has shown' that therB is no fear from women's suffrage while much ie to be gained in the sphere of social development towards greater conformity to the demands of justice and humanity." How did the women voiej iae answer could not be based on statistical reports because of th ballot. It was, however, pretty near the truth to say that ine women, on me wnoie, voted on exactly tne same, principles as men. How could it be otherwise? "Men and women," she said, are first of all human beings and are impressed in the same way by the ideas of their generation. (Cheers.) Women's suffrage has often been attacked on purely tactical grounds.

Conservatives fear that women, carried away by their impulsive temperament, will tend to Socialism, while in the Liberal and Radical camps the idea is that, because of their greater religious tendencies, women will become Conservative. In Finland these two contradictory predictions were to be heard before the elections, but experience has not confirmed The Finnish women have joined- various existing political parties in the same proportion as men. In newspapers the success of tho Socialists at the noils has been attributed to the enfranchisement of women. That is not really the fact, because the Socialist success wis chiefly due to the universal suffrage being extended to the poorer classes. The experience of two elections in Finland shows that the granting of women's suffrage has caused no change, in the strength of the respective political parties." (Cheers.) Every citizen in Finland who is entitled to vote is also eligible as a member of the Diet.

At the first election Miss Hultin stated, 19 women members were returned, and at the last election 25, or one-eighth of the whole number of representatives. This result, in hjr opinion, was due to the fact that there was no question of rivalry between the male and female candidates. (Cheers.) She mentioned a variety of subjects on which men and women members had united. It was true, sha said, that dark clouds threatened Finland, but the Finnish people had with them the sympathy of the civilised world, and they, on' their part, followed with lively sympathy the struggles and aspirations for right and freedom all the world over, and they watched with especial, interest the movement in whih women of England were now engaged. la no cvuuiry were women more prepared ior the franchise than in England, and she pnnnnntlw predicted that they would shortly achieve their euu.

Countess Russell, Mrs; Zangwill, and others afterwards addressed the meeting, and a resolution was passed calling on the Government to follow the excellent example of Finland, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, four States of America, and the Isle of -Man, by enfranchising women during the cominjj session of Parliament. DISESTABLISHMENT. WELSH MEMBER'S OUTBURST. Speaking at Aberdare last night, Mr. D.

A. Thomas, M.P., the senior member for Merthyr, referring to his "revolt," said it was stated that that was not the first time he had revolted. That was true. Ho had revolted fifteen yeare ago in very good company; his leader was Mr. Lloyd-George.

They revolted because they had got impatient with the Liberal Government, because that Government would not introduce a Disestablishment Bill for Wales. If they were impatient half a century ago was it surprising that they were impatient to-day? The Government did not intend passing a Welsh Disestablishment Bill in the fourth session of the present Parliament. It was now said they were going to do eo. If so, it was not merely because he had asked the Chief Whip to send him no more circulars, but because they found that Wales would revolt. Contrasting the action of the Government in reference to Scotland And Wales.

Mr. Thomas said that number of Acts had been passed tor Scotland, but no bill had been introduced for Wales. This was because the Welsh tams cats and Deedy axe-grinders, party was a humbug and a fraud. If the Government were in earnest in fighting the House of Lords they ought to have resigned when the Lords threw out the first Education Bill. A CURIOUS NURSERY STORY.

WAS THE BABY SET ALIGHT At the Lambeth Coroner's Court yesterday an inquest was held relating to the death of the two-year-old son of Henry Charles Plumb, a labourer, of Hercules Koad. The mother eaid that while she took some food to the landlady she left the baby in the nursery with her other child, aged 6, who was "rioti right," was of a mischievous disposition, and had once played with fire. Hearing the baby cry she ran upstairs and found the baby, who was wearing flannelette, in flames, and sitting in tlu middle of the room. The elder brother was in a corner of the room laughing. Mr.

Troutbeck: Do you think thus child set the baby alight? I cannot tell you. There is a flannelette which is safe. What is the price? I do not know. The foreman asked the Coroner to trv to do ous kind of flannelette. Mr.

Troutbeck re plied mat all ne could do was to continue to point out the great danger arising from its use. This flannelette was largely used bv the poor, as it was warm. and cheap. It would be most desirable if the sale of the eafe kind were -pushed. With regard to this case, it could not be said how the child caught alight.

A verdict of accidental death was returned, the police stating that the six-year-old boy was quite incapable of giving evidence. A Rectob'3 Character. The Rev. John Swalwell. rector of Snitterby, Lincolnshire, appealed at the Lindsey Quarter Sessions yester- Irt.v ncrninsf An nrdfr nf tha M.in.kn.....u 'magistrates adjudging him the father of the illegitimate child of Mary Elizabeth WTight.

his domestic servant. The rector has held jcuracies in North Yorkshire. Sheffield, and Nottingham. The conduct alleged took r-lace during the Ulness of his wife. At the conclusion of the hearing, which occupied the whole day, the Chairman of the Bench announced that the appeal was dismissed with costs.

I A Signalman's Presence of Misd. A signal man named Martin Colleen was admitted to the Railway Hospital, Crewe, yesterday, suffering from seiioua internal injuries. He was signalman at Sands Sidings. Baeford Hall. An engine was stopped by signal.

Someone going into the cabin found Colleen en the floor in a state of collapse. had apparently sustained an internal 'strain, and feeling faint, bad blocked all bis trains. FOUR LIBERAL MEMBERS GIVE THEIR VIEWS. F. L.

Brunner, M.P., Sir W. Holland, M.P,., Sir F. Cawley; M.P., and Mr. J. A.

Bright, M.P., were the, guests at the annual house dinner of the Oldham Reform Club last night. Iu responding to the principal toast each made an interesting speech on the political situation. Mr. Brunner, M.P., said the present Parliament had reached middle age after living a strenuous youth. The last three yeaiB had been the most prolific three years in the history of the British Parliament.

Double the number of bills had been passed that were passed during Mr Balfour's last three years of office, and the quality of the measures was equal to their quantity. But the Liberal party could not rest on their past record. (Applause.) There was enough work in their programme for ten They -might spend next session in passing non-controversial measures, but that would not be enough' for the Liberal party. (Applause.) They had to press forward, and they. had.

to get rid of the obstruction of the House of 'Lords the thing that dominated the whole of our politics to-day. (Applause.) Th only zeal argument for the existence of that institution was that the Tory party liked it- That was no argument for Liberals, and they- would be the veriest curs if they stood tho present position any longer. (Applause.) Speaking' of the work, of next session, Mr. Brunner thought it was very probable that the Government would bring in a measure of Poor Law reform which was necessary from many points of view, and particularly as a sequel to old-age pensions. He also prophesied a really democratic Budget.

If he had his own way ha would abolish the duties on tea, sugar, and dried fruits altogether and put the deficit on the income, tax. Poor people, whose income was under twenty shillings a. week, ought not to be taxed at all, and the only way of relieving them of taxation was to get rid of these imposts. SIR W. H.

HOLLAND. Sir William Holland, M.P., speaking on the tariff question, said that some Unionist newspapers were positively exultant over the Board of Trade returns published that morning because those returns showed a substantial shrinkage in the external trade of this country as compared with the bumper year of twelve months ago or more a bumper year, it should be remembered, which, occurred under a Liberal Government. But if the latest returns were compared with the returns for the years when the Unionists were in power, instead of showing a shrinkage, they showed a positive increase. Moreover, the shrinkage in our own trade lately had been accompanied by a great shrinkage in the trade of other countries, countries, where they had Protectionist tariffs sufficient to satisfy tht most enthusiastic Tariff Reformer. That was certain proof that Protection was no Temedy.

(Applause.) As a matter of fact, things herb were not bo bad as appeared on the face of the returns. Prices had fallen considerably, and the decrease had been not so much in quantity as in value. Special reasons had made things worse than they would have been otherwise. For instance, during the last year strikes had been sadly too frequent. Some of them had been entered upon in a light and an airy way, and if greater csution and a greater sense of responsibility had been shown they might have been, avoided.

Had the advice of the most responsible leaders been taken, some of these disputes would never have occurred. But in several cases tho advice of second-class, men had been taken instead, with very deplorable consequences. (Applause.) SIR F. CAWLEY AND TARIFF REFORM. Sir F.

Cawley, M.P., defied any man to make out a case in favour of Tariff Reform for the cotton trade. If Lancashire ever allowed Protection to come in she would lose the supremacy ehe had so long held in the great Eastern markets. (Applause.) In spite of all that had been said against the present Government there never had been a Government which had done so much. It was to their, credit that, instead of bringing in, bills to help tho richer classes, as their predecessors did, they had brought in measiies to help the poor and the unprotected. (Applause.) The very old and the very young had been their especial care, and they deserved well of country for their social legislation.

Speaking of the action of the House of Lords in regard to the Licensing Bill and other measures. Sir Frederick eaid the present position of affaire was intolerable. It was humiliating both for the 'member of the House of Commons and for those who sent him there. (Applause.) It did not matter what the merits of a bill were, and what majority it had been passed by in the House of if the Lords thought they could' harm a Liberal Government and pacify some powerful interest thev threw it out. Such a state of things could not 'be allowed to continue.

(Applause.) Mr. Asquith had placed the question in a position in which it had never been before. Other Liberal leaders had made declarations, but Mr. Asquith was the first Liberal Prime iUinieter to declare that this was the predominant issue, for the. Liberal party.

It was said that the Liberal party were not eo popular in the country as they were a year or two ago. The Liberal party could never remain popular lonj; reform necessarily interfered with private interests, and while private interests were always vindictive the public weTe not alwavs grateful. But the great question of the yeto of the House of Lords came to be placed fairly and squarely before the country he could not think that the people would be so pusillanimous and so sycophantic lis not to declare once arid for all that they meant to be rulers their own house. (Applause.) OBSTRUCTION TO LIBERAL MEASURES Mr. Bright, M.P., said there was some truth in the statement that the Liberals were always trying to do too much in a short time.

The other party never got into difficulties of that sort. But it should be remembered that Liberal years of failure were far more fruitful than Conservative years of success. (Applause.) During the last three years a very great' number" of important and beneficial Acts had been passed, and though there was not perhaps the same noise made over them as was made over some things that were frequently talked about, they formed a most useful addition to the laws 61 the country. The House of- Lords was incapable of forming an impartial judgment on most of the bills that were sent up to it. That House was always looking alter property, always looking after the in this" case standing for land, for sacerdotalism, and for drink.

(Laughter and applause.) But though defeated for the present, the Government hart still several weanons in their arsenal. For instance, what was to prevent them introducing liish licences in the next Budget By that means thev would not oriiv get back some of the property which' belonged to the country, but ha firmly believed th.it thev would make a considerable reduction in the number of public-houses. Many houses were being kept open merely for the sake of the compensation which their owners received when the licences were extinguished. (Applause As to education, much could be done bv administrative action if the Board of Education only act up to the letter-of the law and compel the denominational schools to keen un to the mark, which the law had laid down" In regard to land, the object ought to be to get back a great part of the land into the hands why. when a landlord had to pay a large sum of monev in duties on succeeding to an estate he should not be allowed, and.

indeed, forced' to give up a certain part of his land in payment. By that means a large area of land would come back into the hands of the peonle J0 latest injustice anybod)v-Applause. SucTi land misrht be devoted to small holdings, a policy which was still capable of great extension. (Applause.) KILLED BY A MOTOR-CAR. A DEWSBUBY ACCIDENT.

A motor-car accident, attended by fatal results, occurred last evening at Dewsbury. Miss Rhoda Ann Stott, daughter of Mr. Henry Stott, of the Cloth Hall Mills, Dewsbury, was crossing the Northgate, a bnsy thoroughfare, accompanied by child nephew, and failed to notice the approach of a motor-car. She was knocked down and killed instantly, but the child, whom aha was holding by the hand, escaped injury. The motor-car belonged to Mt.

Bdjrar Fitton. a. -V j. coujn never understand Dewsbury manufacturer, but he was not in it at the the the occupants oeing tne cnauneur and a Mr. Harrison.

THE TAM WORTH VACANCY. A Warwickshire correspondent It is now practically certain that Mr. F. A. Newde-gate will be returned unopposed for the Tarn-worth division.

Inquiries in official quarters yesterday elicited the information that it is not, intended to call the Divisional Liberal Association together, and -that the idea is to wait until the general election. Nor is.it anticipated that the Labour party will contest the seat. It is expected that the nomination will take place on Friday next. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME. A meeting of Socialists in Newcastle-nnderr Lyme was held privately on Thursday night to consider the advisability of adopting a Socialist candidate to contest the division at the next election.

Mr. H. E. Bird presided. A resolution was unanimously passed to the effect that it was advisable to run a Socialist candidate at the next general election, and a meeting was arranged for a fortnight hence, at which further steps will he taken.

Sectional meetings are to be held throughout the constituency. Mr. Wedgwood is the sitting Liberal member, and it is announced that he is shortly to address, in private, the members of the Tunetall Independent Labour party. A good deal of interest will attach to his address in view of the new development. FABIAN SOCIETY AND LABOUR THE MR.

BERNARD SHAWS POSITION. At a meeting of the Fabian Society in London yesterday the motion for discussion was that the Executive withdraw from affiliation with the Labour party so that the political energies of the Society may be devoted to the upbuilding of a definite and avowed Socialist party. To this Mr. Bernard Shaw moved a lengthy amendment the salient point of which was that a Labour party in order. to justify its detachment from the two capitalist parties and its rails upon the funds of the trade unions, must put forward a Labour programme which not only differs from the programmes of the capitalist parties, but consists mainly of measures which cannot conceivably be added to those programmes; that until these conditions are recognised and complied with bv the Labour party, it will be increasingly difficult for the Fabian and other definitely Socialist societies to secure the unanimous support of their recruits for continued affiliation with the Labour party, and to combat that tendency to break away and form new sections, which has impaired the solidarity of the Labour movement in France, and may easily do so in this country if the viows of the Labour party in Parliament remain indistinguishable from those of the left wing of the capitalist parties." The amendment was carried by a very large majority.

THE BROKEN HILL STRIKE. Yesterday passed off quietly at Broken Hill, says a Reuter telegram from Melbourne. The authorities have prohibited practice on the rifle range. The policemen stationed along the boundary of the Proprietary Company's Mine have warned the strike pickets not to prevent anyone from passing. Several arrests are expected in connection with Monday's assaults.

The directors of the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine have intimated their willingness to meet the miners' representative in conference under the presidency of Justice Higgins, but stipulate that the pickets shall first be withdrawn. The conference hangs upon the consent of the Miners' Union to this condition. A serious attempt has been made to destroy by dynamite the water main which supplies tne iroprietaiy Mine, but the main was wrongly located by the authors of the attempt, which proved abortive. MEMORIAL NOTICES. Mr.

Edward Hope. The death took place yesterday, at Heaton, of Mr. Edward Hope, a well-known member of the Bolton cotton trade. He was managing director of the Melrose Mill Company and a member of the Committee of the Bolton Master Cotton Spinners' Association. He commenced work as' a warehouse boy in a mill.

Colonel F. C. Morgan. Colonel F. C.

Morgan, brother of Viscount Tredegar, died at his home, Ruperra Castle, Newport, yesterday. He was heir presumptive to the barony of Tredegar; there is no heir to the viscounty. He was born in 1834, and served through the Crimean War. He represented South Monmouthehire in Parliament as a Conservative from 1874 to 1906. Canon Whately.

The death occurred yesterday, at Bath, where he had lived for Borne years, of Canon William Joseph Whately. Canon Whately, who was over 90 years of age was educated at Christ Church. Ovfnrri xxL was vicar of Owersby, Lincolnshire, from 1843 xo loov, ana ior lorty-four yeans was rector of Rise, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, retiring in 1894. From 1872 to 18S4 of Hornsea. In 1879 he was appointed Pre- oenaary oi Jjunnington in York Cathedral.

Tho stall now becomes vacant. The death is also announced of Mr, Thomas Hough, a maeistrate of nhr. from the Council last November. VEGETARIAN ATHLETES. CHEERFULNESS, STRENGTH, AND VIGOUR The Vegetarian Cycling Club entertained t.

complimentary banquet at the Food Reform nesiaurant, last night, its representatives in the Olympic Games, Club champions, and Tecord holders. Mr. Neville Lytton presided, and the ruests of the evening mora Messrs. E. R.

Voist. of Manchester, and a Knott (running), G. H. Briault, G. A.

Pearce. and n.w'"Bi vi. a. Alien and ii. R.

withers (walking), and W. Harwood (weight Mr Lytton eaid thalt among meat eaters thev unrioubtpdlv r.r Biitwh great skui, endurance, and courage. But the oi loon reiormers was disclosed when tnpi uirlo-an v.uuiuiuuii.ic3 ana races which lived on reformed diet. His experience Wall that in 1- usujui, auu vigour these races Bhowed a marked superiority over 7 no wu9 sorry to see a tendency among the Japanese, who had ucu a. iuuu teiuna race, to take to -wujo u.ir.

wnviney should have such a desire he did not Know Food reformers, he thought, should make a f-ovbuu inai race- wnich was now physically fit, from deteriorating Mt Vnior it. 5' mcie was notnimr remarkable in tne fact that had done SO topi! in atlilsMoa TK nuuaa wae mat a greater percentage had not been successfuL He ViB mrziy irum Humanitarian motives. It was not because he thought health would benefit Qn the J0g thought it would do him harm physic.il and tW Mm to break wn. that people in Dalmatia who, living entirl iy fn we bread and wine, were fine specimens orbnwn beings. He thought h.e ought to be able Tlso to live without meat, and he cultivated a taste for a simple diet, such as bread, cheese.

inns. oe was lncunea to think that th reason why some vegetarians did- not meet with greater success wat that, while abstaining from meat, they indulged in other harmful thini? such as tea. coffee, and lentils. They do well to look more closely into the sject The Citation or Mr. Smyth all efforts to serve the Rev.

H. J. Smyth Pigott, head of the Abode of Love," Spaxton, near Bridgwater, with a citation to attend the Consistory Court, in connection with allegations against hint have proved futile, substituted service has been This is regarded sufficient to comply with, the ecelesiafticallai on the point A Consietory Court has been fixed to be held at Wells, at which endence in support of the allegations will be GUEST OF MANCHESTER CLUB. The Manchester Reform Chester; Liberal Federation er? George Cadbury to dinner at the T4 last nichf: in al-hts rv. of the "Daily News" in ManchLlf sir JSdward Donner, who presided the health of.Mr.

Cadbury Wor- siiki, -a rjBnnv at paper which is distinguished nnt. 1 amlity with which it is conduct spsct it stands in the very lroill J0 iem, but it is. always distimmi CT.f.t. with which it reDorts th ef5 do not a VusothoW gushed, too, for other characterise for peace and not for war; it enri -mote international good tS arousing international ill-will- hi 41 4 which has ever sought to make pSftM by inserting in its columns matter iSr rf he a temptation to the weak of 1 would sully the purity of the hol Dt "t' Md is a paper tot attached by ties of admiration, of zTJ-t might say, of friendship. WI it by ties which nothiW "wil We have nl in evening newspaper wh cfc i nchest i the Characteristics whkh 'I It is matfe? ofd 'lnnh pride to us as citizeJ oiMl these two journals usin thK "So far Liberals are I press.

But there is no St S-1 eprung up a demand for a Av paper. I am1 told that it is an mand. We have in Manchester morning papers. One 0f thZ I fi conducted, and it is, I belie VSIJ I paper But it does riot St thf the Liberal party. It was in "V1 west ManchLtel- byiteM.V?'.

nesire, a determination, arcae that Liberal mornint- V. a naliK--? ir, vr.r.ni be estai, sui. LaciOurv mav tO US as in tho raa. Wl: vuh emphaUcally to sav tM? fflfc fcui duty, is our duty, and it is the du 3 Liberal in this great Northern distriotM14' of every Liberal who believes fnafthr bec:" of our country are bound un wfth economy of Government and IAmP1 assure to Mr. Cadbury our ade1 ESS) our -Sfe' News" would prove I great welcome which had been fl C' trough him.

Manchester hads the lead in pressing forward great cauU the amehnrntinn Yet in ManS -he tone of na xei in Manchester, as in even- oth- kingdom, there sav du IV11 which it NSIr. removp. The income-tax returns showedV ear by year the wealth of tho connu? wera "easing fau the BritEn-1658 S0JDf- drastie impfriaV8Romea mUBt 5Uffer tte inln11 News" had in Manchest penny paper tho world already of htha? jjauv ews ilOT.e kha" Th.Mi naaer or a single adveKw Tens of thousands of Liberals haC-; Unionist papers in the morning' becw flE 4 J315" delivered ilrUi Sto- There is Free maintained, there are land values to beuz-'j the land. 'Those who live In cities suffer tne lack of this nr. muse wno ky enormous sums of money by the increased nr- something towards the rates and taxes we immensely improve the housing England.

It is only fair that the toilers I have some of the benefits. Mr. Cadbury spoke of the advantages to if country of a policy of pence. Lookin fifty years (he said, I believe that nearly European war has largely been created press of the various countriRs.Hear, ta-But not only the press has been the wars, there has also been the aiiswcir of Europe. And certainly our owu Houst Lords has been guilty in that as in man; respects.

The members of the Hnuse of who own about one-fifth- of the land of l.r: i land, have been specially guilty of drivinr m- i people from the country into the years ago 75 per cent of the population a(Gm Britain was a rural population; to-day oni; per cent is rural population. It could not be wondered at that men knew nothing of the wants of the poor nothing of the kind of legislation neeriei i improve the lot of the wretched and jraver- stricken. On both eides of the Houte n1! many noble men, but the House of Lords if whole had been, more neglectful i--! any body of men in England of ihe I terests of the country. They had ine people out of the counirT u- HA 11 11 -UVYU3 su Luai. me counirv better adapted for hunting, shooting, and amusements.

In the towns where theyof! large areas xney naa taKen no pains to set those areas were laid out to promott ueaun ot tne people who were driven them from the country. Men who were -in the back streets "and the 'shi-as change and craved for some exciiew But the House of Lords had stood in of temptation the temptation to gainblinr. drink, and to other vices. Surely, he z-e: meir sup ot iniquity is lull? In a reference to the housing queBtiw- Cadbury contrasted the happiness aud families living in suitable at Bournville, with the lot of the dwells the garden-iess dwellings of back streets. said, every householder in England a Vi 1.1,4 i "(Juno uue-tciiLii Ui ail joining only cne'-eightieth part of the the United Kingdom would be absorbed.

that land would yield twelve times ths it yielded now as pasture land. J'' vas much which the Government do. and he hoped they would choose theii CT time for dissolving. The Chancellor cr Exchequer might accomplish, much if he UJ' land increased the licence duties. increased the death duties.

Applause-' would soon be able to reduce to 65 J'M" age at which men could receive ions, and he could sweep avay some duties on the food of the people. (Appji'' A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Csa on the motion of Mr. Gordon Hewart, Mr. Councillor Butterworth and Mr.

Spencer. To Sir Edward Donner for presw Mr. Cadbury expressed the thanks the Among others present, in addition several speakers and the chief Messrs. W. E.

Thompson, J. H. TT William Boyle, S. Lamb, G. Evans, i.

C. T. Needham. G. F.

Burditt, A. Porter. -Cadbury, W. Tattersall, P. T.

Johnstone. Elverston, E. F. M. H.

C. ClaMgr S. Luke, E. B. Neill, R.

H. Marsden, A. D. Jackson, H. Sidebotii Xorburv Williams, Sargeant, J.

A. Bij Burn, I. Watts," G. G. Armstrong, and Cadbury, jun.

THE TERRITORIAL FORCE. The London Gazette announces n. Territorial Force the selection of the foW rj major generals to command divisions j- T. Bl'omfield, in place of Colonel W. Patrick; Edward C.

Bethune, in pls Colonel C. G. Donald. A SuMinNQ-rrp is Two to- T.wKronol CM-" Passage yesterday, made a laconic It was an action for damages for P150 juries. The hearing was commenced oa mominS speeches by counsel on both sides.

aiding: Judge's only word3 to How mnnh The iurv were muea to" liberate in awarding the plaintiff X. w-vucaiea nanoaal.