THE TEESDALE MERCURY—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1888.

surplus over which he estimated—namely, £289,060, DEATH OF THE SULTAN OF DEATH OF AN M.P. THE BUDGET. and he was happy to be able to place before the com­ EPITOME_OF ZANZIBAR. Mr. E. Dwyer Gray, M.P., died the other night at mittee for the year 1887-8 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the course of Said Burgash, the Sultan of Zanzibar, who had only his residence, Pembroke House, Upper Mount-street, Ms speech introducing the usual financial statement Mn. J. G. TALBOT, M.P., ^ A REALISED SURPLUS OF £2,165,000, returned there the preceding day from Muscat, died Dublin. The deceased represented one of the divi­ for the year in Committee of Ways and Means in the Chairman of the Metropolitan AjJ* the largest since 1873-74. Coming next to the in­ the other evening. He is succeeded by Said Khalif. sions of Dublin, and was managing director of tha House of Commons, said: I stand in a somewhat LORD DCNRAVEH is being teresting point, namely, the estimated revenue for the The deceased Sultan was born in 1835, and succeeded Freeman's Journal newspaper, of which he was pro exceptional position this year, from the introduction Pollock in drafting his bill for J coming year, the right hon. gentleman said he esti­ prietor until about a year ago, when the undertaking of the Local Government Bill. (Hear, hear.) Gene­ his brother in 1870. He was a man of considerable House of Lords. mated the revenue of 1888-9 at £89,287,000, as capacity and of independent judgment. Witli this was turned into a limited liability company. He had rally, it falls to the lot of the Chancellor of the Ex­ against £89,589,000 in 1887-8, being an estimated de­ THE Czarewitch—who has country he kept up very friendly relations. In 1873 been ill for about a week from a pulmonary com­ 1 chequer simply to have to consider the claims of Berlin to St. Petersburg—says at>* „ Crook**? crease of revenue in 1888-9 of £302,000. On the Sir Bartle Frere went to Zanzibar on a special mission plaint. the taxpayers to the remission of taxation; but other hand there was a slight decrease of expendi­ visit all his life. ^ Honour ' . in order to induce the Sultan to suppress the slave ldsd on this occasion the claims of the ratepayers have THERE are 4000 theatres in the i- ture of £512,000. There was a surplus, calculated trade. He undertook to do so, and a treaty to that also to be considered. The ground over which I shall THE CRIMES ACT. 1,000,000 dols. a day is paid for, %frrthryV. j on the existing basis of taxation, of £2,377,000, effect was signed. Its provisions were not, however, have to travel is wider, therefore, than it usually A Parliamentary return has been published of the country. but he knew that the President of the carried out. Two years later he visited this country, is, and I trust that on that account the committee Local Government Board would work havoc persons proceeded against under the Crimes Act in LETTERS from Washington ixpt*, I •will permit me to pass with perhaps more rapidity and during his stay concluded another treaty, the and devastation with his proposals. Turning to the Ireland from the 19th of July, 1887, to the 31st here will be no change in the 21 than is usual over some of those details which it is terms of which he faithfully observed, notwithstand­ subject of the new Local Government Scheme, he of December, 1887. The total number in that period {•residential election. customary for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ing the opposition he met with among his own stated that in future imperial and local taxation who were prosecuted was 628; under section 2 for A VALUABLE medicinal oil, a sor submit to the committee on this occasion. I com­ subjects. criminal conspiracy 22, of whom 16 were in Munster; obnoxious to moths, and a stro^, J ob nd mence, as usual, with making a statement with would be separated. The sum of £2,600,000 now for intimidation, 100; for riot or unlawful assembly, are among the products now mail J i^lia« » \ regard to the expenditure of the past year—or, granted in relief of local taxation would be with­ BOULANGER DISMISSED. drawn, but there would be surrendered to the new 180; forcible possession, 31 ; assault or resistance to THERE are rumours current j, 1 rather, the present year. The total exchequer issues " C'est Boulanger qu'il ne vous faut pas." Such county authorities existing licences amounting sheriff, constable, bailiff, &C, 234 ; inciting to above impending engagement between to>1 Dl •will be £27,972,000, an excess of about £44,000 over is the decision at which the French Government has j,' i» " »»' the earl to £3,000,000 and some new licences amounting offences, 17. Under Section VII. (Dangerous Associa­ Greece and the Princess Sophi^ J the estimate, which is due to an issue of the Localisa­ arrived; and General Boulanger, who, with General to £800,000. These licenses would be divided into tions), for taking part in meetings of suppressed the Emperor. tion Fund, which is now being practically brought to Negrior, was the youngest Lioutenant-Gcneral in branches of the National League, 27, all in Munster; two classes, one portion amounting to £1,400,000, of THE City of London Corporation eX g an end. I will go through the various items of France, has been placed on the " Retired List." The publishing notices calling together such meeting, 9, l" tf forget it •which publicans' licenses formed the bulk, to be Emperor of Austria will shortly , ,D supply. The army expenditure will be £18,167,000, Court of Inquiry held at the Ecole Militaire was Vis N»y fepued »- collected by the county authorities. Another portion, all in Munster; publishing proceedings of such meet­ does the Fathers will ask his . as compared with a total estimated expenditure of unanimous in pronouncing him guilty of the offences about £1,600,000, composed chiefly ot dog, gun, and ings, 8. freedom of the City. £18,394,000, showing a saving of £227,000. The navy with which he was charged. This opinion—for so far game licenses and carriage tax would still be col­ issues will be £12,326,000, showing a saving of as the Court of Inquiry was concerned it had only to ONE of the oldest industries in t lected by the Inland Revenue, and the county autho­ £151,000. The Civil Service issues will be £18,210,000, give an opinion—was communicated in the course of "WHAT KAISER WILLIAM SAW. egg-hatching, principally engas^l rities would have no power to increase them. The net showing a saving of £52,000, as compared the day to General Logerot, the Minister of War, and An ingenious person has just computed the number There arc said to be 700estahlisha with the Budget Estimate, and of £241,000 as gain in relief of local taxation would be £2,900,000. at the Cabinet Council at the Elysee, under the of Royal and Presidential funerals that occurred in in the country. 1» exclaimed 'compared with the total estimated expenditure, in­ He proposed that Presidency of M. Carnot, it was determined that great States during the lifetime of the late Emperor TOOR old William Rutherford, I ? ber niece, cluding the Supplementary Estimates. The issues for ^SentatSprind THE SUCCESSION BUTT SHOULD BE RAISED General Boulanger should be turned out of the William. During his long span of existence there de­ Wester, a Perthshire village, whilst e the Post-office will be £5,403,000 showing a saving of scend to the tomb six Popes, nine Emperors, five side, fell into the fire. When di , ^ .W'tberectoa one-half per cent, and that a longer time should army, for it is to this that the mise en rctraite sc £18,000. The expenditure for telegraphs will be be given for the payment of succession duty upon Sultans, forty-nine Kings, and twenty-two Presidents foot and leg was almost burnt to ? >»* -little thing I d'officc—to use the technical phrase—practically F^frlsbakletonll £1,940,000, showing a saving of £10,000. The ex­ land than ujion personalty—viz., eight years instead of of the Republic. The Popes were Pius VI., Pius VII., ended his sufferings. amounts. The news created a profound sensa­ ^on^t about tl penditure for the packet services will be £698,000, four, ne asked them not to look at this single point Leo VII., Pius VIII., Gregory XVI., and Pius IX. A SINGULAR affair is reported showing a saving of £1000. The Customs and Inland tion among the Parisian public. General Boulanger, of the scheme, but to take it as a whole, setting like all meji who come to the fore, had his enemies The Emperors :—Francis I. and Ferdinand I. of Whilst some of the inmates oftkl Eevenue expenditure will be £2,708,000, showing a J fellow eight-and-f the relief in other directions against the increase. and his critics, and there is no doubt that the steadv- Austria, Napoleon I. and Napoleon III. of France, School at Craigmillar Park were at saving of £8000. The issues for the total supply ser­ Coming to the arrangement with county authorities, Paul I., Alexander I., Nicholas I., and Alexander II. room a bullet came tlirough one i,, almost shoutedUi vices amount to £59,452,000, showing a saving of going element among his fellow-countrymen regarded he proposed to pay in this year 4d. a head towards of Russia, and Maximilian. Sultans: Selim III., Mus- Fortunately no one was hurt. a very £467,000, as compared with the Budget Estimate, and him as a possible danger to the State; now, however, Poifi is the indoor poor, contributions on account of the turn­ tapha IV., Mahomed II., Abdul Medjid, and Abdul A PLANT has been discovered it J of £656,000, as compared with the total estimated that the sacrifice has been consummated, and an troo. Miss Spent pike main roads, and some relief to the Quarter Ses­ officer who is supposed popularly to have made Prince Aziz. Kings: Charles Emmanuel, Victor Emmanuel, sesses the singular property of des-_ L^Wby, B'ythe-, expenditure. (Hear, hear.) The total expendi­ sions boroughs. They proposed to give one-third, that von Bismarck and the great mass of Teutons quake Charles Albert, and Victor Emmanuel II. of Sardinia; of sweetness. After chewing theW geet.and.DorothyJ ture is £87,424,000, showing a saving of £423,000 as was 1 per cent., of the Probate. Duty, and to impose at in their boots on more than one occasion is shelved Ferdinand I., Joachim Murat, Francois I. and Fer­ upon the tongue conveys no more tj i» was true; Bet] compared with the Budget Estimate, and of £612,000 once other local licenses. The 1 per cent, of the Pro­ as compared with the total estimate. I trust that and shunted definitively, there is a general feeling of dinand II. of Naples; Frederic I., II., and IIL than grains of sand. ,"ord. had fallen ^ bate Duty would almost pay for the indoor poor, and i been seated, and these figures will not be unsatisfactory to the com­ pity for and sympathy with a soldier who had so of Prussia; Augustus and George IV. of Hanover ; THE American President recent!? the new loans would be a contribution in respect of Frederick I. and William I., of Wurtemburg; album the following:—** Woman's'a mittee. (Cheers.) I do not propose to go into roads. He proposed to put a duty of £1 upon any brilliant a career before him. Of course there are details with regard to savings that we have secured. merciless adversaries of the General who would illumi- Maximilian Joseph I., Louis I., Maximilian I., give away; a man's, his all; it shougl eessity of applying vehicle exceeding lOcwt. in weight, excepting agri­ . „iri occupied the cm I may remark of the sum included in the Consoli­ natetheir windows if they did not fear reprisals from Louis II., of Bavaria; Leopold I., of Belgium; Jerome, —GBOVER CLEVELAND. cultural carts. He further proposed to put a tax of '..room for half an I dated Fund that there has been a saving of £100,000 the mob. The acerbity which has so long been a of Westphalia; Otho I., of Greece; George IN order to commemorate the i i. 6d. a wheel on all carts over 2cwt. in weight. I further was said* on the interests of the funded debt, which saving, of prominent characteristic of political life in this III., George IV., and William IV., of England; Louis Nusserwanjee Petit, the members cl The heavy four-wheel carts would have to pay a duty XVIII, Charles X., and Louis Philippe, of France; subscribed Rs.700,000 to general i J Mrs. Thurston, course, has gone to diminish the funded debt. This of £1 10s. The amount estimated from this duty country has seldom shown itself in so bitter a fashion saving has been partly due to the low rate of Gustave IV., Charles XIII., Charles XIV., Rs 36,400 for the foundation of a f) .pocket, having pu would be £300,000. A duty of £1 on all pleasure as it has done over this " Boulanger Question." Had the Rectory. interest on Treasury and Exchequer Bills, the the popular hero concentrated in his own person all (Bernadotte), Oscar I., and Charles XV. of Sweden; and Rs.80,000 for a sanitorium at i |t0 horses he also proposed. Racehorses would pay a • the particulars average of which has been £2 5s. lid. There has that is most, clerical and most reactionary in the land Christian VII., Frederick VI., Christian VIII., and MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S dancing duty of £5, and horse dealers would pay a tax I the journal relative also been a saving of £15,000, to which I am going he could not have been the mark for fiercer attacks Frederick VII. of Denmark; Charles IV., Ferdinand been approved of in the States, of £15, making a total return of £530,000. The tjfe. When Bertha to allude. It is a saving that I have secured by increased taxation would be £1,976,000, and this he or more unseemly spite. If he spoke he was censured. VII., Joseph Bonaparte, and Alphonse XII. of Spain ; belle is stated to have declared (to* watching the balances at the Bank of England more two Kings and a Queen of Portugal. President of the local prints) that " he takes suet I iwallowa little oft would dispose of by £1,200,000 in the relief for If he held his peace it was because he had not a leg |cut for her, the re"" closely than has hitherto been done. I have not indoor poor; grant for main roads £520,000, and con­ to stand on. He was pursued to Clermont-Ferrand, France—Thiers. Presidents of America, twenty-one— you think he must have practisecl thought it was necessary always to renew the • we go to the libra tribution to metropolis £256,000. He had a surplus as he had been assailed in the Rue St. Dominique. If from George Washington to Garfield. stamp." Treasury Bill notice on the bills when they expired, will be better . after the deductions he had made of £1,302,000. He he turned to the right he was wrong, if he turned to IT is a curious fact that wasps'J but waited to see the needs for the next weeks or •stand each other! proposed to nia&e the taxation on carriages as the left he was wrong too. In short, from the take fire, as is supposed by the c months at the Treasury, and by this way I kept down THE DYE DID IT. follows :—Two wheels, 15s. ; four wheels, drawn moment when the Goblet Cabinet went out of the wax upon the material of whictj the bills at the Bank of England. The result has been Some of those preparations which females are men understand « by one horse, 21s ; four wheels, drawn by two horses, office, he has been hunted down by his implacable posed. Undoubtedly many fires ofI that 1 have been able to save £15,000—(cheers)—an particularly fond of applying to their hair must be • reiterated £2 2s.; hackney carriages, 15s., and carriages let foes. It was fondly hoped in some quarters in haystacks and farm buildings i amount which again goes to the credit of the Sinking possessed of extraordinary properties. That is, > to me." out on hire for less than three months 15s. There that the Government would be content with the counted for. Fund. Then I call attention to the fact that no sup­ assuming Emily Oowlrick's assertions to be correct. would be a relief in taxation under Schedule A verdict of the Court of Inquiry, and that General REV. FATHER DONAHUE, of Chartef ,ng has she been goi plementary estimates appeared this year for the army Mrs. Cowlrick, who stated that she was an operatic ! of the Income Tax in the case of husbandry Boulanger would meroly lose his command, M. Carnot covered a new explosive, which he I that he was do and navy. (Cheers.) Again, I am enabled to say singer, appeared at the Sheffield Police-court the other where no profits were made at all. He proposed to would place him en disponihilill, and so the quarrel It is made from pine gum. He that there have been no Supplementary Estimates for day, on a charge of drunkenness. After a lengthy jarston ? Oh, she repeal the hawkers' licenses, and the loss to the would end ; but private considerations have been at gunpowder can be made much | the Revenue Department. The Supplementary Esti­ revenue from that would be £25,000. The reductions hearing, in the course of which the defendant indig­ I witli the fellow on | mates for the Civil Service have been lower than in work, and the morrow of the day which saw M. asserts that the new compound TJ amounted to £75,000, and reduced his balance to nantly drew her wedding-ring off her finger and powder in time. t go there, but in re any five years, except last year, for the last 20 years. Wilson acquitted saw General Boulanger stricken any. They are nov £1,227,000. \ handed it to her husband, stating that she would ! MISS BELLINA PRIOR, daughter of i They were only £208,000, and last year they were down and thrust out of the army for the grievous sin urston, has he gone I " never wear it again," the magistrate dismissed the Prior, was the other day arrested at J £105,000. Of course, I do not include the Supple­ of having gone twice to Paris without leave. It may I not any mention L ID. OFF THE INCOME-TAX. case. Mrs. Cowlrick then informed the bench that her mother, Vicar's Hall, Armagh, > mentary Estimates for roads, which were included not be logical, but few can help contrasting the two fou were acquainted I Then he approached the Income-tax, on which he she was never drunk in her life, but the dye on her in the Budget, and over which we have now no cases. Here is a gallant soldier—who, whatever his the magistrates with having f jel this terrible bus! would like to make a reduction on both political and hair affected her 1 control. But I am speaking of the ordinary Supple­ shortcomings, kept his honour bright—smitten hip aged three years. The evidence i Im' Ah, yea, I knei Imperial considerations. In a time of profound peace it mentary Estimates in the ordinary sense, which are in and thigh, while a man who has made a traffic of the j Prior enticed the child into her he* ant to India.'' might be practicable, and he would like to take off 1 d. in SCHOOL BOARD WORK. excess over the amounts voted by Parliament. Well Cross of the Legion of Honour is receivingthe congra. meats, and then drowned it in ts| Bpression, in which I the£, but that would amount to £1,500,000, which was The London School Board appears at last to havs then, we have spent less by £423,000 than our original tulations of his friends. People, says a Paris correspon­ Prisoner said she committed the e Wept over the nob; more than the amount of his surplus. To make up awakened to the fact that it is human, and fallible. Estimates, and less by £612,000 than the original and dent, are shocked at the contrast between the severe was treated unkindly at borne, audi • His hand tightened the deficit he proposed to raise a sum of £50,000 by When its members re-assemble after Easter, it is Supplementary Estimates taken together. (Cheers.) punishment with which General Boulanger has been she were hanged. She was remaaal keb he aat. He j preventing certain evasions by which deeds required intended to discuss the evidence collected through a I will now pass to the consideration of revenue, and here visited, and the rehabilitation of the son-in-law of I AN extraordinary sequel to the n I his lips firmly, as 1 by law to be stamped were permitted in many cases Special Committee of Inquiry from educational again I am able to submit a satisfactory account to the the ex-President of the Republic. " It is a blunder ; murderess is supplied by the suicidei ,of his mind some t to remain unstamped. The suggestion had been made specialists, consisting of working-men who have been committee. (Hear, hear.) I presumethat the committee worse than a crime," is the cry which one hears in man, named Beckett. There had i lemned. will wish to have each separate head of revenue. (Hear, that revolvers should be taxed. They were, as a matter educated in Board Schools, as well as from such men ference of opinion in Cardiff as to » many quarters. General Boulanger's connection with as Sir John Lubbock, the Rev. T. W. Sharpe (Her have mercy on hear.) The revenue from Customs, taking the year as of fact, now taxed, but the Government proposed to in­ would be hanged or not, and Beckcl troduce a bill dealing with revolvers from the point of the regular army has been severed, but he remains Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools), and Pro­ ii violent effort. concluded, is £19,630,000; it is more than the esti- bet that the extreme penalty of til view of police rather than of finance. On the transfer of for five years at the disposal of the Minister of War, fessor Unwin, of the City Guilds Technical Insti­ | is the worst of all u. mate, but considerably less than the receipts of last who can give him an appointment in the reserves or carried out. Upon hearing that tiff year. The receipts from the excise are £29,597,000, an fugitive securities he proposed to put a tax of Is. per tute, with a view to determining whether the e betrayed by his wifj in the territorial army. In the lobbies of the Chamber had been commuted to one of penal* excess of £305,000 over the estimate. The receipts cent, per year, which would touch stocks and shares, system it has been pursuing is really the Jay thus express myl there was great animation, and the Union of the Lefts Beckett seized a razor and cut his: from stamps amount to £12,940,000, showing an in­ and this would bring in a revenue of £200,000 to the best of all possible systems. The committee reviews I oftentimes a curse t and the Extreme Lefts met to discuss the situation that he died a few hours afterwari | crease that I shall presently dilate on of £1,182,000: Exchequer. He further proposed to put a 6d. its information, and remarks that the physical or bodily 1 am a thousand til stamp instead of a Id. stamp on contract notes. and to determine whether it would be advisable to side of education, including the development of His Highness the Maharajah Hoi ted Dorothy than , the land tax is £1,050,000, giving a deficiency of ried a second wife, a young lady' £15,000 ; the house duty is £1,890,000, showing a de­ He also proposed the imposition of a tax of £1 per interpellate the Government on the subject. For muscular strength, of the accuracy and sense of Bgent and handsome'. age. His first Ranee has borne he ^ ficiency of £30,000; and the income tax is £14,340,000, £1000 upon new companies and the new issue of various reasons they decided in the negative, but colour, and of proportion of the eye, and of the todi-rstands and belief no heir. or almost exactly the sum that was estimated. If old companies. He should get £110,000 out of that. the Radicals talk of laying before the House muscular dexterity of the hand is entirely neglected. J'I and could alway AN attempt to grow tea in Mao there is any change, it will be that it will realise He had £410,000 to meet the £500,000 deficit which bill for the revision of the Constitution ere Parlia­ The child's mind is crammed instead with a mass of ill- lrst day of our acq ua somewhat more than in the past year. The total he had to make up. He cast his eye on wine—not ment separates for the Easter recess. Meanwhile digested facts, merelyappealing to parrot-like memory, Successful. I attractive as other produce of the taxes is £75,447,000, showing an ex the cheap wines—(laughter)—but on the finer wines. M. Bozerian has brought before the Senate a bill and there is absolutely nothing in the curriculum EARL CADOGAN is acting as Mis Hie was pious, and mq cess over our estimates of £1,472,000. The Post He would follow the Act of 1851 and put a tax of empowering the law to deal with the shameless which ennobles labours, while the boys are unduly on the Queen in Italy. I which are safe-gui Office receipts will be £8,650,000, showing an in­ five shillings per dozen on bottled wines. These " traffic in decorations " which the Court of Appeal biassed towards sedentary and clerkly pursuits. THE King of Sweden is expected'] « heart worth crease of £50,000; the telegraph service £1,950,000, taxes would, together, bring his surplus up again to declared itself impotent to punish. Persons con­ Consequently, the Board are prepared to consider Portugal during April. ja, still less her chil which is the exact estimate; Crown lands £390,000, £1,762,000, and this would enable him to tate a victed of having received " presents " from candidates the introduction of manual as well as mental ONE of the ablest Spanish adr fy I feel for both which is an excess of £20,000; interest on advance oenny of? the income-tax, and leave him a surplus of for the "ribbon" will, if the business be carried.out, teaching. The committee urges the appointment of j —the Marquis Rescal—has iustd»| *' this she " on local works of purchase money £242,000, an £212,000. (Cheers.) be amenable to imprisonment for periods varying four peripatetic science teachers, draws attention WE are assured by a Sydney p»fl [or paused ; he was i excess of £2000; and miscellaneous revenue, from one to five years, as well as to fines, and those to the value of the Slojd method of wood-carving, ; Charles Dickens is now a full-w goner hardly beconu, £2,910,000, showing a decrease as compared who have thus bribed them will be visited with which is a training alike to hand and eye, and recom­ i that city of brick-dust and whisrH I 'he earl added, by] mends clay modelling. Regarding the technical wit* the estimate of £90,000. The total similar penalties. "It is rather late in the day,' THE total wheat crop of *] } sentence. " She wa education of such as wish to pursue it after the age n non-taxable revenue is £14,142,000 — £18,000 exclaimed a reactionary member, but it is certainly i 2,000,000,000 bushels, and at f jeara ago—a very I A EEMAKKABLE ARREST. of 14, it is suggested that the school buildings might less than the estimate. The total revenue never too late to mend the law, and many will i bushels are consumed in the com *»• angeL Good < An extraordinary romance of crime has been be more widely utilised in the evenings, and that the is £89,589,009, being £1,454,000 more than the unearthed in Birmingham. A gentleman, whilst approve of M. Bozerian's action—but to return to grown. ~ reflect how many pupil teachers' centre schools could be employed on the m*n'e ain." estimated Budget receipts. The committee will wish travelling from Bristol by train for Birmingham, had General Boulanger. It may be predicted HBNRT RICHMAN, traveller M evenings when they were not occupied by their 1 case there is hap to have some little information with regard to some for companion a man who bore a striking resemblance safely that at the fresh ballot on Sunday ! printers, was charged before th r normal students; while a room might be added for «plate. of course.; of the items of increase. The total estimate of the to the newspaper descriptions of Lye, who was week he will be returned with flying colours i diary with embezzlement. The <*| manual instruction. Of course, the difficulties of deeply - Customs it will be seen is £19,600,000, and the wanted for murdering a woman near Ilminster, in the Department of the Aisne, and will tion was that in January the 1 ; Tet she teaching special trades would be very great; but the , fnyal j J receipts will be £19,630,000. That is a remarkably Somerset. The gentleman, who was perusing the occupy his seat in the Chamber. His enemies must a deficiency of £90 in the pri _ &n< o{ outP close estimate looking at that enormous sum. (Hear, committee has endeavoured to ascertain how the account of the murder, remarked upon it to his fellow have taken this prospect into consideration, and they basis of the early education shall be such as to render agreed to accept £30 from him, *»] [«<»• wife who has I hear.) Now, I will say a very few words with traveller, who manifested great uneasiness. His hope that the Deputy will give the coup de grace to the understanding that no furthBlT llf & sin8'le man—a - a trade easier to learn. n regard to the smaller differences on the Customs' suspicions being aroused, the gentleman communi­ the Soldier. We shall see how far these prognostica­ be taken. They had since dis called to the Bar."! Revenues. Coffee and its two satellites, chicory and cated with the police on arriving at New-street tions are realised. For the masses, General Bou­ ciency amounted to £400, and tfc 1 cocoa—(laughter)—show no remarkable eccentricities. Innn^u " broke out if Station, Birmingham, and Detective Blizzard, who was langer, even on the " retired list," will still be the present proceedings. The stipe" K*** for hia folli They seldom increase the Revenue beyond the esti­ oe in the station, approached the supposed murderer popular General—the only officer who, as they con­ A COMING SCANDAL. prisoner, and refused to allow tal chastisement Is < mate ; they are a dull item. Tea is fairly, though not and accosted him as an old acquaintance, and remarkably progressive. In 1886-7 the receipts from tend, has, since the war of 1870, caused Germany any It is not often, remarks the London correspondent ORDERS have been received»"* observed that he did not expect to meet eaTen alarm. of the Glasgow Herald, that two brothers are obliged ing a number of reductions to H !e^.- the woJ tea were £4,515,000, in 1887-8 they were £4,618,000 him. The stranger denied the acquaintance, but —an increase of £103,000. With regard to tobacco, to unfold their domestic woes in the Divorce Court, crews of tugs and other craft, the f "No, no "ha would not give any account of himself, was arrested ' *ean that, , in consequence of the reduction of duty that took A TOWN DESTROYED. but I understand there may shortly be an instance of having to be reduced by one-h»fc and taken to the police-station. He maintained Intelligence from the north-western States of Buch a coincidence. The case of the second brother ployed in store-ships like the Oi*^ place last year.it was estimated that there would be a silence and was charged on suspicion, was then 1 abe may," loss of £515,000, but the loss was actually £596,000, America announces that terrific gales prevail in that will not be so sensational as that of the first. He has considerably reduced. One-four* I searched, and a scrap of paper bearing the following T taken the precaution of entrusting his interests to the employed in the Portsmouth 6te"| an excess over the estimated loss of over £80,000. 41 region, causing great damage. The town of Nin- words was found on him: He gave chase to me, but nescah, In Kansas, has been completely destroyed, eminent solicitor who is opposed to his brother. sengers are to be discharged. . I This was not so much due to the dislocation of the I ran for a mile and got away." Prisoner then stated Customs as to the considerable delay that took three persons being killed and 17 injured. Severe The aggrieved husband is at the present moment A CANADIAN lacrosse team • J that lie came from Exeter, and gave an address in sleet and snow storms prevail in the lake region. seeking distraction in Eastern travel, and the erring place in the voting of the Budget last year, and the that town. The police at Exeter was communicated Major Hamilton, has arrived in > action of the " watering " clauses, which prevented lady is residing on the Riviera. The marriage has IN Wilmington, Delaware, with, and, a description being furnished them, they not been a happy one for some years past. an excess of water being put into the tobacco; these telegraphed a reply saying that prisoner was not the STEAMER ON FIRE. drunken man collided with an * . clauses did not come into operation until a late murderer, but was an escaped highway robber. the horse was killed. In the ebo*] A small two-masted steamer was observed making 1 period. When, however, they did come into operation Whilst being conveyed from Trowbridge to Mertliyr THE MEDICAL ART. his elbow through one of the they considerably increased our receipts on the con­ rapidly for the beach at Crosby, at the mouth cf the glass broken by this action nr*J Tydvil, he had broken from the officers and escaped Mersey, the other morning. Flames were bursting The Rev. John E. B. Mayor, Professor of Latin in sumption of tobacco. This means that each indi­ with the handcuffs on him. Prisoner was now re­ the University of Cambridge, writes: " Any intelli­ gashed the throat of a boy "•"TJ vidual smoker smoked more tobacco and less water from her deck, and before she went ashore her funnel him so badly that his recovery * charged and admitted the identity, remarking that and mainmast fell over the side. A steamer which gent student of the history of the Pharmacopoeia will than before. (Hear, hear.) Since 1st August there " THERE is very little waist **£J had he been arrested on the right charge at first he was passing at the time launched a boat and went to regard that history as one of the most humiliating has been this gratifying increase in the amount of of Parisian fashion intelligence should have made a bold bid for freedom. His name the assistance of the crew, but the latter left in one chapters of the history of human folly. But rarely tobacco consumed: 26,900,0001b. weight were course, understand. A r&tberj is Robert Ayres, alias Carter, and he is a native of of their own boats and got on board the rescuing has medicine, even in the darkest ages, dared to cleared, as against 25,900,0001b. in the correspondinj Parisian fashions is the oman** Merthyr. steamer. Meanwhile the burning vessel with a full invade the blood directly and inject poison into the period of the previous year, which gives on increase waist with a garland of bird*' head of steam on, took the ground, drove up as far veins. Inoculation did this, and inoculation is now of 1,000,0001b. of tobacco. forbidden by law. Yet the medical faculty, a hundred attitudes, and becoming smaller,! as she could, and remained hard and fast. Owing onf back. In the hair is worn w to the shallow water, some tugs which appeared on years ago, were as convinced of its safety and efficacy, as SAID a sharp lawyer to a rambling witness: " Now the scene were unable to get to her assistance, and they now are of the saving virtues of the Jennerian virus. IN a temple in Cmttaldr**' I you mast give explicit and exact answers. You said the fire burnt itself out, the vessel being gutted. She One convincing proof of the insincerity of the advo­ reported to be an eartraorcunarT, • you drove a milk cart, dida't you?" "No, sir, I cates of vaccination may be applied in any society of Ibe six inches long, five inches t"0*^ Coming to the revenue from wines and spirits, he didn't." " Don't you drive a milk cart?" " No,'sir." turned out to be the Lionel George, a small steamer which arrived the previous morning from Barrow. elderly people. Ask how many have been vaccinated inches thick. It is not certain stated that the income from that source in 1876-7 was •Aha! What do you do, sir?" "I drive a hoss, since infancy ? The vast majority will be found, in man or an animal, but the £30,969,000, and in 1887-8 only £27,043,000—a fall of sir." The fire broke out early in the morning, and obtained such a mastery that the crew were unable to cops their own persons, to disregard the reputed necessity to be one of the Hidimba gi*"" £3,886,000. The decline, however, had been arrested OLD gentleman, to a very rich old lady at a party : for re-vaccination; yet they are not shunned as foci ancient times, and worship it *?. in the past year, and a very considerable increase was with it, and they accordingly ran the vessel ashore. " Who is that handsome young man standing over of infection. That medical practitioners should dare MR. LEWIS FBT, the Liba*' shown in the amount of beer manufactured. He was fi there ?" Old lady: - That's my son-in-law. He's a to slander pure babes as a danger to the communitv, North Bristol, will be oppos^ J $\ credibly informed that the loyal demonstrations— very brilliant young man—made a large fortune by shows how low the once noble art of healing has sunk, •Mr. C Townsend, president m (Radical cheers)—of last year had added to the the law." Old Gentleman: " Indeed ! How's A GREAT destruction of fish has been caused in the and how boldly its professors reckon on the credulity I" Thousand." . • consumption of beer. (Laughter.) The' amount of v that?" "The law made him my daughter's hus­ River Eden, at Carlisle, by the bursting of a creosote of the public." I "I HEAR that the hair of * foreign spirits was stationary, but low spirits had band." 5 tank at the goods yard of the Midland Railway. The increased, although wine fell off £28,000. The turned quite white on the J°~Tt)t I " FATHER," she said, burying her face upon the old creosote ran into a small stream, which is a tributary revenue from beer was £225,000 larger than the Berlin." This is taken & man's shoulder, " if I can win the pure, earnest love of the Eden, and the result was the poisoning of many QOETTA is progressing. Already there are two estimate. On the whole, there was an increase of London correspondence. of an honest, upright man, my life will be full indeed. tons of fish, including salmon and trout. " English " shops opened in the town, and it is locally £860,000 on the revenue from drink. Of the income MB. JAMBS KINO, a woo^L,. I ask not for mere wealth. I would love and honour JAMES M'CLCE, tobacconist, has been summoned at rumoured that a printing office is about to be started. J tax he could not speak with satisfaction, the yield Cumnock, Ayrshire, was «*»"°7 suck a man, dear father, if even one hundred Warrington for having on a Sunday unlawfully exer­ THE mackerel fishing which opened at Skibbereen par penny having fallen from £2,000,000 in 1884-85 Glasgow St. Enoch's Railway thousand pounds were all be could rightly call his cised his ordinary calling as a tobacconist, the same in the middle of March, and which is being prose­ to £1,955,000 in 1887-88. To sum up the result of denly dropped down dead. , p own." " Noble girl!" responded the old man, deeply not being a work of necessity or charity. The deputy cuted night after night by a fleet of boats frem all the the present year the actual revenue had been AN unexampled evidence • affected; " I hope you may findhim. " town clerk prosecuted, and stated that the proceed- fishing stations of the kingdom, as well as a large 1 £89,589,000. The estimate was £88,135,000, there has been shown at New Y" ^ 1»«J ings were taken under the Act of 1677. The de­ French fleet, has proved up to the present an almost thus being an excess over the estimates of £1,454,000. IT is said that whisky is being made from old rags. window a young and P W fendant said he had sold tobacco on a Sunday for over complete failure. All the extensive Kngii.t, buyers DJ He added a saving on expenditure of £422,000, and a Any clothes observer will remember instances where upon her neatly-turned » ' whisky has made rags. 20 years. A fine of Is. was imposed. are represented in tb°i market, but have scarcely got stockings. even a small consignment as vet.