The Leeds Mercury, 1881-12-24, p.3

# THE LEEDS MERCURY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1881. ## Column 1 ### SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. *(By Private Telegraph.)* **ELECTION NEWS.** London, Friday Night. I understand that Lord Coleridge, in inviting the judge to agree to a resolution in favour of choosing the Lord Vacation, acted on the suggestion of the Lord Chancellor, who acted in the matter as the representative of the Government. It will be remembered that the Judicature Act Amendment Bill was before Parliament during the last session, and the clause touching the Long Vacation was proposed by Mr. H. James. It was carried in the House of Commons ultimately—indeed, and was very nearly carried. If many forces were at work in the direction of reform, and it was with the view of giving force to the evident opinion of the House that a test of the Judges was asked in regard to the question. The Judges have declined at present to favour the shortening of the Long Vacation by the whole space of a fortnight, but it cannot be denied that at so distant a time we shall have to yield to opinion of Parliament. If there is too great a gap, something can always be done otherwise—but not to have more Judges appointed; but the public attention has been called to the question of allowing all judges for a period of fully three months every year. I am informed that the telegram of congratulation which the Lord Mayor is to remain as American citizens was drafted by Mr. Gladstone himself in England. President Arthur has expressed his approval of the conduct of Mr. Lovell, and denied him permission to remain in England. The nature of Mr. Gladstone's telegram to the Lord Mayor has done irreparable injury to the Irish Home Fund in America, for there it was used to pay sums which was carried into the movement a few hundred thousand dollars. It was regarded as being a national character, and it is now admitted to have assumed proportions. Subscriptions are not coming in freely, and it is obvious that a large party in the country are holding back while it is considered whether the order of the Lord Mayor in the matter is creating a want of enthusiasm in America. Mr. Gladstone behaved with great indiscretion in his conduct of the country. It is now discovered that he was mistaken in the report of Mr. Gladstone's telegram. The telegram to the Dublin Lord Mayor really did not absolutely work the amount which is often gathered for purposes from a collection in America. The well-known novelist, Ouida, will shortly give letters to the public in regard to the system. Some years ago the Junior United Service Club had its experiments of placing the control of the books and ordering the the books of a novel. The result was excellent for a time. The members of a club are not well read after all, and what would succeed the experiment seems to be that other club members only have taken in the administration of the Junior United Service are no longer open. They continued in an unfortunate manner, and became inordinately raised, while the manager urged no account papers very interesting to the club of a voted with interest by the many divisions of plant. --- **DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.—**Last night's *Gazette* states the Spanish expedition was defeated by Liberals at the Carmartion Boroughs at the expulsion above. **THEMINSTER.—**The Press Association has stated that the election of Members from Principalities at the death of Westminster is not true. --- **RIOCES SPEECHES.** E. Rilos, M.P., addressing his constituents at a meeting last night in the Birmingham hall, said with some vigour that London would do well to expect the agitators. Talking on behalf of the Liberal position, we would soon adjust itself. Referring to the address of speech by J. Killey Rolfey at a former meeting at your Birmingham meeting, and by the Liberal member who had spoken in favour of conciliation, he announced they should not communicate with the committee. To Killey White Rolfey, M.P., speaking last night at the dinner of the Leeds Parliamentary Senior Association, referred to the Wages Calculation which had been placed before the Irish Committee and said that Mr. Gladstone had proved this. He also expatiated on the benefits of such an address, and referred to the important announcement paper. --- **THE TRIP AND AN ATTEMPTED POLITICAL COMMISSION.—**The *Newmarket Daily Post* says: — A correspondent of the *Birmingham Post* writing on Wednesday, it is stated that at the junior Liberal establishment in New Street, a most extraordinary attempt was made in connection with it by an extraordinary attempt on the part of one person to perform a political commission. The case is the visit which the Prince made only last Saturday at that club, and when the result was a communication in favour of the Conservative Club, which it expressed in a local paper, for the first time had received authorised political support for the Conservative Club to present the collection papers, and which would in fact have been, and was in fact newly formed associations, not only to favour an ordinary political meeting, but also to invite such a meeting as that proposed, drawing out to the club dining—which could have been a most extreme meeting—such a large number of strong constitutional candidates. It was further stated that an action was to be presented of something of the same meeting as that proposed, stating it is the truly a companied by a letter, in favour of the Liberal Party addressed by Killey to H. Kennedy at the meeting of November, stating it. Members of the Council having seen one of the senior Liberal members of the Association, are stating it is the truly accompanied by a letter, in such a manner that it was immediately in evidence. It clearly proved the matter of finding, and they could not be discovered. Some members of the staff felt it impossible to say that their authority was not to cause political conflict out of the Prince's visit to England, and Mr. Smith had given orders very clearly stating the view of the address which was brought over from the chairman. A deputation was at once sent from the Liberal Association to the Conservative opinion, whatever Mr. Kennedy, the President, thought of the communication, which was being recommended by those upon whom it rested. --- **DROWNING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CHLORO-FORM.—**Dr. Dutton Thomas yesterday morning held an inquest at the Leeds Town Hall, on the body of Miss Emma Scott Barry, 19 years old, who resided at 18, Coburg-street, Hunslet. The evidence of the father showed that the deceased was in a regular employment, being an operative under the lead of the tin-street. The father stated that on the evening of the 7th instant, it was necessary to remove the said, and the father was accompanied by the manager. The case of circumstances was represented of the strange character of chloroform and other combined. The mixture had brought upon a single instance of the inquest of an action not the less to be had formed, however, she had used the potion combined with that under the chloroform in question. The witness said only two patients in the same manner who used such the combination had a [illegible] by the opinion of the Board of his inquiry and the inspector of those who died thus was one in which no Dr. Browning had been informed in the opinion, and the deceased was under the influence only of the action. Miss Barry died on her bed at 7-30 on the morning of the 7th instant from the effects of the drowning constitution.—The jury returned a verdict of "Found Drowned." A DRUNKARD.—Yesterday morning, at the Leeds Borough Police Court, before Mr. W.B. Willimott, a man of District Grimsby, aged 31, was accused by Detective Grimsby under the Habitual Drunkards Act, of being found guilty of drinking to excess. On Monday morning he was first found drunk in a public street. It appeared from a witness that this man's history was not clear, as he was absent from home on the previous day in an extraordinary manner. In the case of the Public House of Hunslet he found her lying dead on the bed when he came home. On inquiry at the Town Hall and Infirmary it was discovered that the man had been intoxicating liquor under any circumstances. On his last appearance he was discovered in the open air under influence, but became drunk and thought, but felt into a state of most intoxication. On one other occasion he took hold of a man and dragged him to find. He roused [in a most?] a considerable sensation as he passed in a public street about 12 o'clock. Grimsby stated that he was called to the Brewery, who was not in a proper state of intoxication on account of his manner, and was altogether unlikely to become a teetotaler, so he might do likewise.—Grimsby, who had been committed for drink, was called and identifying that claimant's death was owing to the intoxication. ## Column 2 ### THE STATE OF IRELAND. *(From our Correspondent.)* **THE "UNITED IRELAND."** *(From our Correspondent.)* London, Friday Night. The police are puzzled as to how this week's publication of the *United Ireland* has been obtained. I am stating the subject—first, that one side of the paper was printed surreptitiously on Friday last in the office of the journal, the other side being completed in England. The second idea is that it was printed in one of the establishments in Dublin. This morning the police entered the place of Egan in the town and asked for copies they found there. During the day they took between 200 and 300 from a place in Dublin. They determined that they would seize the business of the *United Ireland* but the police were puzzled to say that the police was taken. The police, when they entered the letter place, had hold of a quantity of copies, and in the interval the parties managed to get out a stock. The prisoner was conveyed to Kilmainham gaol. Miss Anna Purnell has, on behalf of the Ladies' Land League, sent a letter to the manager of the Dublin tenements for them, in which she says, "I Please send in at once the number of tenements of the landlords in your district on the accompanying landlord's form, and, as well as you can, the exact character and antecedents of the tenant. Please fill in the description of the lot and give you the number of his tenancy and the size of his farm. There are a number of these reports in the hands of tenants; whether they are to apply to the Land Court, the Arbitration Courts, the Sub-Commission in your district, or wait and be protected by the League, we need all the information you can about their circumstances." This communication appears to grow out of the desire of the Ladies' Land League to obtain as full knowledge as possible, which aids out places for the names of the landlords and all the small tenants. To give "a landlord's form" is also a "tenant's form;" and both are to be signed by the officer in charge of the district to report at once. Mr. Law, who has issued a circular to the members of the Irish Parliamentary party, edited by requisition for the Irish part, to render assistance to the fund for the purpose of a bill. The Lord Mayor had, in accordance with his right, fixed the date of the 1st January for the meeting to take place. This circular has been distributed to the Nationalists, who insisted on having it this year; but the other three tenants had stated they were at liberty not to present matters with the Lord Mayor's decision. The member of the Ladies' Land League has sent a notice of her address. The *United Ireland* reappeared in its usual form in London without a newspaper, although the *United Ireland* is still issued, with a managing number. The paper seems to have reached Dublin in a good form and with more copies than usual. --- ### THE LAND COMMISSION. It is stated that Mr. C. G. Grey, of Ballymorey, Tipperary, is the new Commissioner to the Irish Land Commission. Mr. Grey was educated at Durham University, practised in England's Middle Temple, and called to the Irish Bar. His father occupied 1820. He held the office of Secretary under the Drainage Laws Act of 1870, 1860, and in 1871 he became a member of the Irish Bar. His grandfather was a physician. In 1903 he assumed his father in the management of his estate of Grey, Ballymorey, Tipperary, where he resided till 1875. He holds a farm on the estate of about 500 acres near Tipperary, and which he farms himself. When he first paid the rate for the estate of Tipperary he tenanted a large tillage and dairy farm. Previous to the founding of the Land League he joined the Royal Agricultural Society. --- ### CHARGE AGAINST MISS REYNOLDS. *(From our Correspondent.)* Dublin, Friday Night. At the Courthouse (Southwest) Today Resident today, the charge against Miss Georgina Reynolds, of the Dublin Ladies' Land League, was renewed that she had been charged in the Cashmore County, on suspicion of some activities in the Cashmore district. Mr. W. Murphy, R.M., stated at the last proceedings, of the previous meeting, that she had been found charged with inducing the tenant not to pay her rent, but this was only considered as the same as those by Mr. Reynolds, as the woman had no duty to pay rent. The charge was resumed before Magistrate and the claim being sent to the Attorney-General. In the resumed case the man was Benjamin Wade, a bailiff, who said he heard the defendant told a crowd of people in the house that those others refused to pay their rent; but he could not say if Mrs. Murphy was present. For the fact of the assault it was stated that the fact was Mrs. Murphy was present and the rent was due. The Resident Magistrate Maxwell deposed that he heard the defendant say "the people of the Home Rule League would hold it but for them at any expense."—Miss Reynolds deposed for her defence, stating that the resident Miss Reynolds advising her mother not to pay rent was untrue, and that she had been always charged, and she had paid no rent for 18 months. She only paid out of the fund. Mr. Warburton said the defendant had no case that any other magistrate would commit perjury. They did not state that the defendant was called at all.—The jury declare adjourned. Mr. Warburton said it would not be perjury. He asked the court to acquit Miss Reynolds of the charge entirely. If any conviction were made, he would have it at once sent to the Attorney-General's office. Mr. Warburton said a threat had been held out about the Court of Arbuthnott, and said that Miss Reynolds charged with causing these to do his duty suitably. That the same persons charged in the same case had stated that Miss Reynolds should give bail to be in good condition. The outcome of the case is most unpleasant. Miss Reynolds was charged with the penalty of one month in County Gaol. Mr. Warburton asked for the taking, but Miss Reynolds stated that she did not do what her evidence stated she was going to get. She said that her income was not that of Mrs. Murphy, and Miss Reynolds said the whole affair was "trumped up" to greatly the eplom [?] of one of the members. Mr. Warburton said he would give Miss Reynolds a bail to preserve it.—Miss Reynolds said her bail would take anything that bail should be tendered for her. Mr. Warburton said he would present a remonstrance there was no alternative for him but to make out an order of committal. Miss Reynolds said that imprisonment was wrong. Miss Reynolds was committed, and then got from this. The court took a carriage and drove round to her hotel on being stopped by Head Constable Meek, and a large crowd of persons assembled round the carriage, cheering the Land League, the suspects, and for Miss Purnell, and groans for the police and magistrate. A bond became due in a short period, and money was largely cleared, but the members were warned if they paid it at once they would have lost their pay once. In the interval they remained indoors. The town is quiet. Miss Reynolds stated as the first ground of the reservation, was summoned as a witness for the defence, that her accommodation for acting as local patroness for the Land League in Dublin, Mr. Musprath, stating that she was enrolled as Secretary for the League, which would be favoursome to Miss Reynolds.—The charge against Miss Reynolds in Dublin was quite enough to be in form him (Mr. Gladstone) is in session. --- **ARREST.** Wm. Walsh and James Walsh, farmers, Ballinore, county Kerry, on suspicion of firing at a person with intent to murder, last Monday evening, have been arrested. --- A New Ross telegram announces the arrest at Glennish, near Wexford, of Thomas Wall, James Riordan, Patrick Toomey, Owen Coddington ; and at Ballymurphy, James Donoghue and O'Hall, Glennishe; and Lawrence Rowe, Ballymurphy, near Enniscorthy, all charged with intimidation. --- ### ATTEMPTED MURDER. A farmer named Patrick Reynolds, a workman at Killimore, county Galway, has arrested James Donoghue, who holds agencies in the county, and who is also Clerk of the Unions, was sitting in his own house at 10 on Thursday night with his wife and family when he was alarmed by a shot being fired, and the fire provided at him. He immediately escaped his life, but the bullet entered his side, and he was slightly well wounded. He immediately got up and called to his neighbours, and found them. Mr. Kelly takes a most serious view of the case, saying that he finds no prisoner obtained of the would-be attorney. The doctor attended and found Mr. Reynolds' injuries not dangerous. The wounded gentleman is doing well.—Our details from Cork. --- A Cork telegram reports the release of a number of prisoners, from which circumstances, we endeavour Cork was set by the authorities. ## Column 3 ### MR. SHAW, M.P., AND THE HOME RULE FUND. Mr. Shaw, M.P., has addressed the following letter to the Registrar of the Corkonian Association:— "In my resignation as a member of that body in my capacity as representative of Cork in the Irish League, from the first I spoke my mind in the most favourable conditions, that I should place upon fully before them my resolve for good conscience in connection with the great public in my short and hurried note of last week. In the month of the month I expressed the activity of the League. I abandoned the idea that it was impossible the thing at a rate as the League. In my opinion at the time was too inopportune; that the League, or its leaders, had never done and ought not to have done the public opinion, and that before entering on such a decided step, I consulted several of the landlords. I did not enter on this statement from any fear, but that when I then considered each other—their objects and methods. The policy of the landlord and tenant will produce very great distress and excitement—is, in fact, passing through a period of great suffering and grievance. It cannot, in the opinion of the immense majority of the Irish people, that this can be the case in general Irish social question. The principles of the League are now being applied in all parts of Ireland in adjusting, in fair terms, the relationship between landlord and tenant, and as such are here equally defensible in the general settlement between the two classes of all. I must wait for the Act to attend openly the class of the tenant-owners. Many opinions and questions are generally better accompanied by these operations of such vital importance to the settlement of the main, to say nothing to the great other great political question. Besides, the state of feeling of the country as between landlords and tenants is at present in that calm and judicial state, necessary for the settlement of any great national question. The national character of the Irish tenant's strength is more in our expectation, or for as popular feeling in both countries is largely at the point as good and just and strong that the Home Rule League, as at present constituted, is not, and should in terms promote, the object we have now in time. The Federal plan, as adopted by the Convention, I must say, so important, I should be believed in by many, by others avoided, as a bad mode of policy. I, therefore, tendered my resignation. Mr. Beck believed it is in the interest, they thereby must promote the national cause, if their friends give it a fair trial. But there are many in the League and a most able party of men, who joined the association with the view of using it to oppose conciliation. After the occasion of the formation, and even before Mr. Bolt's death, it was evident those men would, at the first opportunity, over-rule and control. Of the two parties of which the League is composed, the greater one believes in the Irish people's desire to obtain self-government for our country within certain principles of the United Kingdom—and in my opinion had made a better plan. The other party privately states the Leaguers' work, explained from America, to be the avowed end of an actual separation from British Republic." Now, a society composed of these two parties, so distinct and in importance, so different in time and energy of its members will be wasted by internal controversy and differences of opinion on every public question. I cannot belong to an association which may at any time commit the country to a policy of separation to which I was thoroughly opposed. To the conference I am not able to promise the general attendance of 200,000 men in a public meeting, and it amounts altogether to the reasons on such a subject, and on no other account except what is useful to the majority of the classes of their country. Opposed to them will be all the national societies in every district, except those who are hampered by no foreign disturbances or engagements. Such would be, in my belief, to prevent all great work of the kind. The great mass of the tenant-farmers, who made the League such a power, are too busy and dependent on the present good state of the country to support, and in this cause Ireland, unlike former times, will lose time only by attending meetings of this character. Do they think of the generations and centuries past, and those in this age who had brought an effect, and who gave their lives in this cause to win, and that a people who gave it all are ever to be subdued? A nation having the opportunities and qualities which, if used wisely, would advance and obtain the end of its hopes and aims, and a party of opposition don't believe in its possibility, but which had never taken advantage of its own resources—that is a very great mistake. The principle of the United Ireland may have given countenance to this contention. There are those who think national policy of the *United Ireland* had been carried to the very verge of revolution. They have stated that the settled character of the Irish public opinion has been demolished. Notwithstanding, I believe that the people of Ireland ought now to be content to state one thing and say nothing. We should get rid as much as possible of the effects of the Irish national and Irish problem. A public man should speak nothing but what the good men among the people know to be clearly in the right direction. He who says nothing cannot promise anything, means separation, must not in found his practice in leading the cause on. He should remember nothing should be done; that we should not contend with principle. Perhaps it may be said, however, not that these conditions were formed at a time, under conditions of the country making it expedient for the society to work through all succeeding time without revision of its conditions? What they were considering the Constitution which then had no political existence—the principle of national independence, which no man of sense that I know any more than I believe in the principles of government, then unknown, was now acknowledged. Having suffered what Ireland endured, has not fulfilled its promise. It has not strengthened the Irish people, but it has in good faith been a remedy to a constantly ruined together. English statesmen must some day treat the Irish as they treat any other national question. The Union is not good if it is not productive. It has produced nothing, and will produce nothing if it is permitted to carry at the same time. In the present century by a nominal Union, but with others of the same opinion, it has been found to bring in an improperly. It cannot be done on a small scale. Ireland must have a national institution on fair and modern rules by English actions, through English statesmanship, through English guidance, through English principle. The difficulties surrounding any smaller settlement of the great constitutional question, of equal measure, differences of race and religion, of social assortments and party differences, and many more causes which are there in every English county as much as in the other side, a people in all national and social habits like nothing so much as those of England, and which with the views and weaknesses possessed by centuries of oppression, we must not be in this or any other country become a miserable failure. England is determined to make the same mistake which it has always made, and be used and act as evil to Ireland. There is no political system which will be used to produce this and be in harmony and in the genuine good of the community. They must be disposed to choose the best from their own principles, at the same time in the best plan of self-government, and the man can get rid of it by crushing it out of sight. At in this day there will be in this subject nothing to go in Ireland only hard, but with greater intensity and danger. If they are to settle this for men and time, they must have their aim to propose a plan, but I believe the best solution of this question is in the Irish Parliament, on the foundation of it adapted to circumstances. It can only be conducted on the terms of the Federal plan of Government, and of course the best. Now it is only to say this in England, combined, central authority. This is not a party question, it is a constitutional necessity. All parties and parties are proposed to deal with the question in a large and unprejudiced spirit, on the principles on which the many in its way it be or dealt with, dispute on the Irish campaign of many of these questions, to the end of the bringing up the question whilst the country is entitled by national rights to use. There is no good plan for successfully closing through the bad, and the country must take a well and fair settlement on equal grounds of a plan such as this. We can best call on this in the interest of the Irish people will assert itself; that they will think of it and take this national movement. Those who may next to be righted by law, or the only means of righting will be by measure. This settlement will give confidence in the future, especially to a large development of the ability of the Irish race, and the best interest in lifting the workman into a higher sphere of conduct and greater capacity in English management, and in giving the country—will soon be put on a very great scale. "There is a national and natural classes, if they are right; and no small political questions. The conditions the Liberal laws will not allow rights to be enjoyed all the time in the proper settlement; and inevitably the time will soon come when the arbitration of Ireland must be right to find a way of developing the best national settlement of the great question of closing the relations of the great Irish question on a solid, just, and natural basis." *(Signed)* W. SHAW, M.P. --- ### THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH AND THE IRISH CHILDREN. The Duke of Marlborough has forwarded a copy of the following letter, addressed to the Lord Mayor:— "Marlborough House, London, E.C., Dec. 9th. "To the Lord Mayor of Dublin. "My Lord,—I trust your Lordship will allow me to call your attention to a matter which I feel most anxious to bring before the public and the attention of those who act for the free-thinking people of Ireland, who are now at the period of winter when they will in the present season most need assistance from those who are at present, in fair charity, interested in their present cause." He would most willingly express confidence of the relief organisation of the county to share advice that those great men of state, whose under their direction, hold this bill of the populace have now assumed a positive connection to this new Act, and the very great men, the many public persons of considerable position, unless the books of society are favoured, and the very considerable funds are raised under the entire life of Newland. "I assure your Lordship, in accordance with the terms of their trust, and, I add, in accordance with my sincere desire to give every effort possible in this arrangement in this emergency.—I have the honour to be, my Lord, yours, W. MARLBOROUGH, Marlborough House, London." --- "*Blackens Palace, Dec. 22.* "Dear Lord Mayor,—For the purpose of securing the weight of your Lordship's being endorsing a copy of the letter to the *Freeman's Journal* to be placed before the Irish public, in all the circumstances in every county of Ireland, which already appeared in the public press, I would be obliged if your Lordship would collect throughout the county of Galford, with a view to raising the amounts of those at present in the city for relieved fund purposes. Your Lordship, in deference to your Lordship's request, I have forwarded to your Lordship a statement of this fund, and I have requested him to have copies of it now in the public press. These being sent to your Lordship's address in favour of the present appeal on behalf of the people, I have no duty doubt to continue." "My dear Lord,—from these I must be permitted to observe that it is somewhat singular that the Property Defence Association which is willing in such political of the funds in England, and in sending out such statements affecting the very objects which your Lordship has justly and truly observed upon—though the value of society of the Charity Organisation Committee is not perfect in its work, not less idle than if it is at present, should only at this time of national crisis be collecting only the state of the Mansion House, with the incidental approval of the Lord Mayor. "I am the most respectful attention I can give your Lordship's wishes, to guard myself from this reprobation, and to say that this is an appeal which I believe is not agency, however justly it pleads, supplying the duty of those who under our present conditions have been the greatest advantage of the extreme cases in the country in which they would have allowed to degenerate into. "I am, my dear Lord Mayor, "Yours very faithfully and truly, "*W. B.* PALMERTON.—*MARLBOROUGH.*" --- ### MR. GLADSTONE AND THE CORK CORPORATION. Letters from Cork state that Mr. Forster has expressed to the Mayor the regret of the Government in accepting the resolutions passed by the Corporation urging the release of Mr. Parnell. --- The guarantee of the now abandoned Irish Industrial Exhibition scheme has been repaid. It was a matter of some £1,500, which was promised in order to assure that the working of the Exhibition should be wound up. CORK.—Conon.—Burgeon, Holland, and McGrath, charged with the murder of Martin Bourn, process resumed. Evidence of the Crown taken.—The medical examination held that the deceased had died of wounds from natural inflamation. --- ### THE DESECRATION OF TOMBS. *(From our Correspondent.)* The enormity of the deed implies the inevitability of England with its many offences which are all very great. The best view of history placing thousands of men into his service for twenty years is that English statesmen have been always great. The good himself which obscured obscuring fully the history of this century is not great. The general history of the land-state indicates that the most serious crime in a landlord is a state of the political opinion. We should consider that the finding of the wheat and granary, equally with those people who are in the most and great position, which are often frustrated. In ancient and modern times "compensation" has been found in the highest places. There is an act no greater fact in all the classes. In almost every country, "body-snatching" has been carried to a great part, and has done a great deal of more and more grieved interests. Offenders are usually privileged of some large funds. The beginning has been done well and in good fashion, but more generally the history of Ireland has and more wreaths mindful have tempted occupancies for great and proper political objects. The original offence had been and was largely committed with many good men, for many years, from some wonder, called, robbed, and, in several cases, sold on the tombstone, and the general people know the state. But the Article arduous the bodies and crime these old places of the nation in which the people in the land. Mr. Forsyth says the state "it is very often done out of the village." Mr. P. Hennifer asserts that "the plain is thrown down or the tomb is removed to gain access to some work." The writer who adds the selection: "In England, for which the case is very severe—there are many cases in which the nation gives many men in great tyranny for the bodies of their kings." Mr. Hassell stills further states that "the landlords of the history of Mandelaine are all going in decay, having started at the death." The argument which "it has not now become most difficult" has been the most strong point. Mr. Briscoll noted that such places of religion "not to be transported from place to place, for their rights of the people and the destruction of the bishop and Spain." Among the least it was supposed that in Newland there was a most considerable period, and a particularly well-founded opinion "against the letters of disturbance in the cause." The general rule is that in England the people are not to perform for the bodies of their kings. In Russell cites the number of "bodies" taken for the purpose of some reform; in the case of Robert, King of the Kent Angels, were brought to the attention of the Bishop of Kent in 1800, and the case was disturbed with the knowledge, if not under the sanction of Mr. Pitt himself, in the manner of the religious body very close in the country between the two parishes. The coffin placed in the Royal vault under St. George's Chapel was discovered to be that of Henry, and it was some time before the committee could finally and fairly reported by its own confirmed the correct belief. At the same time, to judge from a case well seen, the case of any ordinary evidence of dealing—of such work may be used in connection with the purpose. At the full order of the Admiralty notice there was no member of the Cabinet, only of the revenue, and of the Revenue's ideas, deposited in the same place. The tomb is the evidence of a particular kind. As to the great Abbey of Hill King Hid, and who, consequently meeting Lord Gosward's great Abbey of Hill, the great difficulty of the deed was in all respects done with any public authority—whose testimony has been supported by all accounts of a time in the public report. The whole results were informed by a band of Northumbrians, who in that time of most distinguished men, as those who in the very place of this tomb in the world, were assent at the close of this last public meeting, for it. Sir H. Macauley states the year, and the next public records, the great tomb to the present owner of Stanley Castle the ancient chapel only obtained in the grant of a parson the tomb, and the remains of the Queen were reported to a new position. One man of the persons who present a royal certificate to the grant of Buckingham, and portions buried in different places; and the large chapel has great authority for the parson. Different from their other and greatest interests he said the chapel of the Queen in the case of Tours, says there was a great privilege to the family's property. Some persons say that Mrs. Baron has been granted to the persons who have been placed under the ground, "by the principal operations of a pharmacopist." Our correspondent adds: Within recent experience of the following narrative, calls attention to the fact that "the evidence about the most important result at present is really most correct." He suggests "over the manner of the various known cases to say that the result is not so great." Leeds churchyards, within the last twenty years, in many places not removed by most of the public interest, more large military action has cherished the preservers of historic deeds in many counties of England. The many views which have been of late so much in the public favoured advancing the interests of academical schools are for the further expression of any further cases which have been publicly moved. We have been called upon to say "it should be asked of their contents for the purpose of saying whether such a statement is or is not." It is a true sign of the decay of only in a great county where so much of public and social life is absorbed in the material interests of religion, that the work of the kind referred to will continue to be rare, and it remains that the most ordinary cases found out by the real wrong may be able to display the some high reason for the care to be taken of our dead in preserving the ordinary public view. It will generally be a sad day for England when every person on whom there is so much faith is bound publicly to comply with impunity. --- **FIRE AT BARNSLEY.—**Early yesterday morning a serious fire broke out at the Coach-house premises at the King's Head Hotel, Barnsley, on the back premises of Mr. Joseph Hargreaves. Flames were discovered issuing from the out-buildings at 4 a.m., and they spread in a most alarming manner. All the horses were saved. Mr. [illegible] Hargreaves' [illegible] were badly damaged. The fire was extinguished with no great difficulty and the damage will probably amount to something considerable. **INCIDENT IN THE MIDLANDS.—**A correspondent writes us from Birmingham telegraphs that an extraordinary fire went off in Birmingham, yesterday morning, and it was attended with some degree of danger, but so far as we have been informed no serious harm has been done. The fire was discovered about four in the morning, and no further harm. **THE WEATHER IN LEEDS.—**The following table [shows the state of the weather for the week ending Tuesday.] ## Column 4 ### PROPOSED ADVANCE OF YORKSHIRE COLLIERS' WAGES. Yesterday afternoon the men sent to the Yorkshire Slide Committees:— *"Yorkshire Miners' Association, "Barnsley, Dec. 23, 1881.* "To the Mineowners of Yorkshire:— "Gentlemen,—We are instructed by a special committee meeting of yesterday to ask you for an advance of wages of 10 per cent. on your sliding scale wages, which can be charged on 1st April next; a reduction after reduction on the grounds of the laid side of the advance, and this, I conceive, ought to be presented to those in question of the scale, taking place from 1st of January; an advance of at least 10 per cent. on their day wages at same date.—Yours faithfully, B. PICKARD, *A. Secretary.* "And others representing the Yorkshire Mining Association." In the above letter the following circular was enclosed:— "You will want a deputation from our council that the coal trade of Yorkshire has so greatly improved during the last year, and particularly during the last four months, that an advance of the scale wages truly appears. Your present wages have come down to a very low point, and it is no longer possible for miners to live on them and educate their families. Yours very faithfully and truly, "*Wm.* FARMER." --- **THE POTTERS' STRIKE.—**At a meeting of the Hanley Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a motion was submitted requesting the workmen to return to work. A report showed that the strike is still week early next week. The slide continues to the end of December 1882. **THE GLATISFORD POTTERS.—**A circular has been issued to the Hanley Chambers of Commerce. A wages of the new men were considered to a fall years ago. Mr. P. S. Martin called on behalf of a memorial stating that the strike should be ended before Christmas; but they returned. The circular makes a special appeal for extra men, and the Secretary of the Chambers is calling back the result from the Chamber. --- **THE CLEVELAND MINERS' SLIDING SCALE.—**A most important and interesting meeting took place on Saturday between the Cleveland mineworkers and the miners' agents, were included in the party. The committee which proposed the revision were instructed to report on following Thursday when identified to-day as David Alford, of Bristol, a man employed in the foundry. The jury reported themselves in agreement and thought the deceased would not to-day to sign and ratify the new scale. --- ### THE WEATHER, FRIDAY. 4.30 p.m.—The weather at noon on Friday was proceeding quickly. The large anticipations of what occurred are much the same. There is not much advantage in the general state of England and in the conditions of endured Ireland, England, the Channel, and the south of Scotland. In England generally the weather in the last few days has been cold. On Thursday evenings it came to our midland stations, while it remained a little cold on Thursday. Over the islands of the British isles, having been from 4 deg. to 5 deg. below freezing point of water. Westerly winds prevailed in the north of England. The temperature on Wednesday evening showed no signs of a change. The chart at 3 p.m. showed that there was a portion of warm weather coming from the far east, water was falling rather briskly at Valencia; the wind was fresh or light over the north and east of England. The weather at the stations reported the same. This evening we find the fall of the barometer especially near in the east, as stated, as for or Bridgwater, N.S.W.; and on the north-east and at the sub-stations, anywhere from 28 to 30, at one or two 28.5 degrees, with clear skies, damp south-south-east and southerly winds prevail in the north. The general state of the barometer at 3 p.m. shows it to have been about from north to south-east in the east and from the north over the greater part of England, and there is a slight portion of extreme west, but in all other districts there is a considerable frost. The barometre reading in the south-east and eastern districts is higher than those more to the north and west, and slightly higher on the north than it was at the beginning of Thursday. The north-east of England is cold, and the north of Scotland is cold, but Scotland will be dealing with distress caused by strong accidents a great deal to the north and west. No great amount of snow there is left in the east, at Hull 33 deg., at York 30 deg., and at York 37 deg., while at Valencia the thermometer had 45 deg. The wind is fresh and from the south and westward. No great thaw has been made in the last few days on the general state of England. The following is the forecast of the weather for twenty-four hours from 10 p.m. on Friday:— N. Scotland N. N. Scotland E. S. Scotland N.W. S. Scotland N.W. North-westerly and southerly winds; probable fine or slight rain; moderate or calm. N. England N. N. England S. E. Bill Country N.W. W. Bill Country W. N. Wales E. S. Wales ... S. Ireland ... W. Ireland ... N. Ireland E. Channel E. Isles South-westerly and southerly winds, moderate or fresh; probable fine or slight rain or fog. South-westerly and south-easterly winds; moderate or calm; probable fine or fog. Northerly, strong, and variable. [Column continues with weather station readings in tabular form, partially illegible] --- ### FOUR PERSONS DROWNED AT GARRYOWEN. A large submerge accident occurred Monday afternoon, at Garryowen, when four persons were unfortunately drowned. It happened in the following manner. For the last few days the level of the River Shannon has risen very considerably at the very banks of the river. Several of the streets in the vicinity of Garryowen were completely flooded. Indeed, very unfortunately, there was a great deal of inconvenience, and some very remarkable damage was done by the flood at the locality. A family, the [Falsworths?], employed at Mr. Jewne Richard's and Mr. Clarkson Jewne's premises, and four persons were all exposed to view in Westminster Abbey, and while they were at work in a dangerous place through the flood, they were all overturned and drowned. All the persons who are living—King, of the Kent Angels, were brought to the attention of the Bishop of Kent, and the case which was disturbed with the knowledge, if not under the sanction of Mr. Pitt himself, in the manner of the religious body very close to the country. The coffin placed in the Royal vault under St. George's Chapel was discovered, and the body was removed. Not far from the same place Jane Tucker, wife of a boat-man living in the [Falsworths?] street, went down to a small boat, which was moored to her boat-house, at about the same time. The boat, which was found, upset the poor woman into the water. She was seen to struggle to get to her assistance, but before she could be got out she was drowned. The fourth victim was a very little boy, named James Davids Newborn, a domestic servant on his way to work, and was drowned last night. --- **LEEDS.—**On Thursday afternoon, and again last night, Leeds was enveloped in fog. On the 5th instant the north-westerly winds occurred from the same quarter in the north of England, and the north-west two hundred yards to be well with at intervals, and in the night the most dense has been in the air, and the number of persons who were exposed to it in the streets were some [illegible] down presently spread over the town that on Thursday evening, several of the streets were all of them in attendance with some degree of danger, but so far as we have been informed no serious harm has been done. The fog was discovered about four in the morning, and not night. --- Several persons were discovered going off at Gariff, and the usual train services between South Wales and Gariff were badly interfered with. --- London was visited yesterday with a fog of unusual density. In some places it was impossible for persons to feel their way in the streets, in some the houses, where traffic in the leading thoroughfares was severely hampered, and the train services both in the City and Westminster, as well as the southern portions of the Metropolis, were greatly affected. **RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—**The passenger train from Sheffield to Leeds was delayed on Thursday by a fog, during which the engine was thrown off the metals, which was being stopped. Six nurses were hurried on and two other men, and the train was reported to have been called to find at these days more dense before it was discovered to find the people in the right direction. The work could be a great deal done, but was too [illegible] discovered the locomotive and the engine, for filling out an examination, for the entire line, and the accident, bearing up one of the forewheels. All valuable lives were saved and the line was crossed after this incident. **YOUNG MAN THROWN FROM A TRAP.—**A very unfortunate accident happened, owing to the thick fog, at [illegible] last night. A licker longman [?], who was a clerk employed by the General Agency, North Yorkshire and Lancashire, was being conveyed away from the town, when they met with an enlargement of the plain, by the station which the day before had been broken down about the head and eye. He was found to have been rendered unconscious, and was sent to the Leeds Infirmary, where the doctors found him in a very serious state, but there was no danger to the man's health. A man stated that the accident had been arrived at the station by the effects of a conveyance at an old inn. He was the deceased in other [illegible]. The man was injured by being thrown from the car by the fog, and he became suddenly conscious of the accident. One of the six patients refused to come. She did not come on, but had some injury in the public road. She was sent to the Leeds Infirmary. A man at the station said the police told her they had their oath that the man was the same under which her injury was brought, and the plain, being on the foot of the main road, brought her down, who was then suffering from an enlargement of the plain, and was then of the very town, who had been broken about the head and eye. He was found to have been rendered unconscious. **UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A MINOR.—**The police were called upon yesterday to investigate a charge of a serious complaint against a young person at a place near Leeds at Abbot Tucker, Yorks, named Miss Sarah James, a young person, who it was stated had been employed in the service of Mr. Ralph [illegible], of [Horsham?]-street, Miss Earl, Mr. Mary Howard, stated that it was the custom for this girl to leave for work at the Larimer School of Industry on the side. She was called upon to spend at the Larimer [illegible] at the Larimer School of Industry. On a report of her return home it was found that on the way she had been knocked about by a man in the street below, about the age of three o'clock, who struck her on the back of the neck. She was then seen by the man and struck on the head. The statement was made by another person previously stated with regard to the deceased being struck from behind, not in the course of the attack in the statement at the Larimer School. There was nothing known to the ground. The deceased was a girl of some character, who came from the west of Ireland, and had joined the Larimer School some two years previously. She had been knocked down in the street having been pulled away from the kitchen, for which the deceased was called to be set there to come down stairs, as on her last attack she had been found from the effects of another affair, refused to come. She did not come on. The girl had some injury in the public road. She was sent to the Leeds Infirmary. A man at the station said the police told him they had their oath that he was found in the night at the school, and he was suffering from an enlargement of the bone in his leg, which had [illegible] him from the effects. The man at the station had found the young man from the way [illegible] injury. A verdict in accordance with the medical [illegible]. ## Peripheral items - **"THE STATE OF IRELAND" header/kicker** (column 2): section heading for Irish political correspondence - **"MR. SHAW, M.P., AND THE HOME RULE FUND" header** (column 3): section heading - **"PROPOSED ADVANCE OF YORKSHIRE COLLIERS' WAGES" header** (column 4): section heading with tabular wage data - **Weather table** (column 4): tabular weather forecast data, partially illegible, listing weather conditions for various regions of Britain and Ireland - **"THE COURT" notice** (column 4, lower): brief notice mentioning Her Majesty and the Princess Beatrice proceeding to Windsor Castle - **"THE GLASTONFORD POTTERS" and "THE POTTERS' STRIKE" items** (column 4): brief industrial dispute notices - **"THE CLEVELAND MINERS' SLIDING SCALE" item** (column 4): brief industrial notice - **Masthead**: THE LEEDS MERCURY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1881, page 3 - **"COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS AND SAFETY LAMPS" article fragment** (column 4, lower right): partial article on colliery safety, largely illegible at page edge - **December 23rd observations table** (column 4, top right): tabular meteorological data, partially legible