FORTESCUE V. GARMOYLE.

Great Trial for Breach of Promiso

oi' Marriajjo.

Damages, Ton Thousand Founds.

(FROM OUR OWK COEBKSTONDEXT,)

Londox, November 21

A? tho famous action for breach of promiso of marriage brought by Miss Finney (alias Fortescue) against Mr Cairns (known by courtesy as Lord Gannoylo) only look place yesterday, and this afternoon the mail goes, I snail not bo able to furnish you with tho descriptive* account of the case I had hoped to have boon ab> to prepare. Luckily, however, tho proceedings were of tho briefest, and tho newspaper reports tell protty much all there is to toll. It seems a compromise betweon plaintiff and defend ant was arrived at some time ago, but Miss Fortescuo insisted on tho case coming to Court so that the true circumstances of tho engagement should bo understood, and no Blur rest upon her character. On tho whole, I am inclined to think tho young lady has nulled through a vory awkward predicament rather cleverly. Truo, " the dream of her Kfo'WasMr Chas. Russell, Q.C., described the projected marrliigo with tho redoubt blo •• Gumboil") has disappeared, but in its place she has £10,000, nntl ' nunntity of diamonds and jowollory (given her by tho youngster), whilst her reputation as an actress who will "draw" U Himto. As for Lord Garmoylo, his sloping forehead and chin tell their own talo. Miss I'ortescuo may havo lovod him passionately for himself alono ;if so her tastes must bo peculiar. Tho opinion of " society "is that the lady possesses considorablo charac ter and would havo ruled tho little man absolutely. Thero can bo no doubt that whilst visiting the Cairns family in Scotland she oxhibited con siderable) indopendenco — too much, in point of fact, for neither Lord nor Lady Cairns spoke to her afterwards. Whether the story that Garmoyle himaolf was dis enchontod through discovering that his adored one wasn't so fond of soap and water and clean linen as she ought to have been, is or is not untrue, I shouldn't like to say That at any rate, la what the evil-minded loungers at the clubs aver. But thon, it wouldn't do to believe all their stories. In the case of " Finney v. Garmoyle," Mr Charles Russell, Q.C., and Mr Winch appeared for tho plaintiff, who is better known as Miss Fortoscuo, an actress formerly at the Savoy Theatre; and the Attorney-General (Sir Henry James), with Mr R. S. Wright, was for the defendant, who is at present abroad. Mr Winch opened the pleadmga to the effect that the defendant admitted tho promise and the breach thereof, and as admitting liability had paid 40s into Court. Mr Charles Russell: As you havo learned from the opening of my learned friend, thi ll an action for what is called broach 01 promiso of marriage. Tho defendant, by the coarse he has takon, admits that he did promise marriage to the plaintiff, and that he did without any justifiable cause break that promise, so that the question for your determination—if indeed it should come for your determination at all—will bo what is the amount of damage to which tho plaintiff is fairly entitled. Miss Fin ney is a young lady who was born in 1859. She is the daughter of a gentle man once in a very good position, commer cially, in this city—Mr William Finney, who was for many years in business as a coal merchant in the tirm of Finney, Seal, and Co. She is one of two children, tho other child being a daughter a few years younger than the plaintiff in this case. A good many years ago Mr Finney got into com mercial difficulties, whish ended in his liqui dation ; and from that time Miss Finney, I may state in a ssntonce, has been certainly the principal, almost the sole, support of her mother and her sister. She was edu cated by her father as a lady, and having jomewherd about the year 18S0 or 18S1 ob tained an introduction to Mr DOyly Cart, manager of the Savoy Theatre, and also, through him, to Mr Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, of whoso advice and friendship she has ever since had the advantage, sho ultimately received an engagement to play apart in one of tho well-known productions oUneafi gentlemen, the first, I think, being in "Patience," written by Mr Gilbert, and the mnaic to tho libretto composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan. She began with a small salary, somewhere about three guineas a week, but in a short time, as she attained greater efficiency in the parts ! allotted to her, it rose, until at the period to whioh I have now to advert it reached the sum of some six guineas a week. Towards the end of the year ISS2 Miss Vinney met in society the defendant in this action, who is tho eldest son of Lord Cairns. The acquaintance between the defendant (Lord Garmoylo) and Miss Finney appears to havo continued for some considerable time, but ultimately, in July, 1883-1 think the date was the 11th—Lord Garmoyle proposed to Miss Finney, and was accepted by her. Tho matter was at once mentioned to her mother, and both the mother and the plaintiff herself pressed on Lord Garmoyle not only the desirability but the propriety of the matter being at once mentioned to his father and his mother. It is proper on the part of Lord Garmoyle to say that he quite assented to the pro priety of that course, and ho did as soon as possible make communications to both his parents. He could not personally communicate with Lord Cairns, who at that time was not in good health, and was abroad in Switzerland, but he com municated with Lady Cairns. Ho, how erer, communicated with Lord Cairns by telegram, from whom ho received a tele gram in reply expressing what I may for this purpose call, if not a cordial, at least a guarded, approval of the engagement which his eon had maiiu. Lady Cairns her .aelf wrnts to Mies Fortes6*w with great kindness upon July 18, a letter wl^jch does every credit to ber. It is dated July JB, 3883, and I will read it to you. ■ Sir Henry James: Lady Cairns is not a party ia the case, and the latter is not evidence. Mrßusßell: I rrwely read it to show the fealings with which her ladyship regarded ■j Miss Fortescufl at that time. It is as fol lows:-"Dear Was Finney —a name by which you will very shortly bo no longer known—my son asked ms this evening to write to you, as his visit to fiyitzerland /Will delay him for some little time from seeing you,. and I am anxious that he should not hurry back from his/father. I trust it will please God to grant his blessing both to him and to you, for eiperiencehaa taught me that without God'a blessing no life can be happy and no good permanent. I think I havo no greater hope than that you and my truly beloved son will ba really happy, and there is a kindly ueate to further his and your interests on the part of every member of his family." JEssFiouey acknowledged that on the same | W •• " Dear Lady Cairns—l cannot tell you W deeply I feel and appreciate the kind ly feelings which prompted the letter you sent "■cay. You have boon very kind to ■M both, and «o forbesurjng. I have ■only one wish, and tbarf; is to make variaoyle thoroughly and WPy in the true, real way." Two daya «W the defendant caw hia father, who, , «wr stating that the proposed alliance was wtone which lie should have, of his own *■»»», selected, repeated in substance what **ly Cairns had said ip her letter-that jus Ma's happiness was tiis jjjain object of ow life, and he consented to t&e engage ment. Ofl July 20 Lord Garmoyle w«?,t to owberland, and ho writes to Miss Finney '«s follows: "At last I have scon the dread jarest, who I find is overjoyed at my doing anything at all, much mom to find that I -am doing so sensible a thips; as going ■™ tnarry," or words to thai pffoct. :"i July 26 Lord Garmoyle returned to ™glaad, and about the end of the same lord Garmoyle was himself a park; Ir-rttmours having got about and paragraphs laving appeac«f-to the publication of a paragraph annoK&cjiig his engagement to Harry Miss Forteseue. Sho thon, by his wqneat, pat herself in communication with ™»r members of his family, anij received ~™yletters,amongotherf3frorn Mr Herbert ,>«i»s, for whom the defendant entertained, 1 f r«at personal affection and respect. In .™* month of August Lord Garmoylo ex -1 Plained to Miss Fortescue that "his Pf°PV meaning no doubt/ his parents, «W verystrons; views upon the subject of I? 6 Weaaion to which sho belonged i that did not look upon it as a frivolous profession, but that they regarded it as '"an on ungodly ajud profane oj>c. At the ; ™"»et -request of Lord Gargoyle—who «A Li appear persqnally to bay* ■ ™«ea ■'•these views—Misa Fortescup Beir to givo up her career upon S!» S°; nay> Ilnore' her si3tel" )wd ' aS^*1 *"118 for taosame profession, an.i jwiwjg to the same urgent request, and *Hlnng to defer to the wishes of Lord

Garmoyle's parents, the plaintiff's sister also gavo up her intended pursuit of the profession. On Augunt 5, and after Miss Finney had made this rfisolvo, Lady Cairns invited her to visit her at Cromwell House, and SJIO dfd SO. On that occasion sho vaß kindly and all'eetionatcly graetod by Lady Cairns, who received her in a motterly way, talked with her, advised her.and finally led her into the library, where Lord Cairns received her as a daughter. So matters went on for some time, Lord Garmoyle introducing the lady to some relatives of his family as his affianced bride. Later, Lord Cairns and his family went to a placo in Perthshire called Dunira, and in the month of September Miss Finney was received as the guest of Lord Cairns and his family, and the engagement was looked upon as a recognised thing. The plaintiff was introduced to a further number of friends of the family, and later on a conversation took place between Miss Finney, Lady Cairns, and Lord Gnrmoyle as to when the marriago should tako place. Beyond the statoment that it was to tako place in a few months no detinito statement had boen mado. It was then pointed out by Lord Cairns that Lord Gurmoylo had passed through ono preliminary examina tion, that it was dosirablo ho should com plete his course at Sandhurst, so that ho might havo tho profession of tho army at his command if ho liked to pnrsuo it as an occupation of life and havo somothinc to do. It was arranged that Lord Garmoylo should return to Sandhurst and mako an offort to pass a further examination, bo that ho might bo littod to accopt tho Queen's commission in the army if it wore afterwards thought right. This mattor was agreed to by Miss Finney, who aftorwaitls com municated it to her mothor. Sho vory naturally -r probably you will say most naturally—thought thero was groat ob jection undor any circumstances in protracted ongagomonts of this kind, and sho so expressed horeolf to Lord Garmoylo, who wrote a lottor to lior, in which, in language ovory way worthy of a gontleman, ho loft himself in tho hands of Miss Finnoy and her mother, pointing out at tho same time the desirability of not being prevontod from aspiring to a profession he desired to follow, and reiterating his expressions of ndmiration and lovo towards Miss Finnoy, which no one will doubt wore perfectly sincere. Miss Finnoy wrote him in roply that sho had perfect trust in him, and that sho did not de.siro anything should bo done which would tond to mar her future in life, and trusting in his doing what he judged to bo right. Lord Garmoylo returned to Sandhurst, and a number of letters passed ; but Lord Garmoyle does not appear to have beon so keen about Sandhurst as his friends wore in his interest. Ido not desire to pander to any vulgar curiosity, but I will read a letter, dated Oct. 15, 1883, which will givo you an idea of tho kind of letters which passed between them. On that day Miss Finney writes a lottor in every way creditable to her. Miss Finney writes in reference to some very handsome present or presents which Lord Garmoyle made, or pi jposed to make, to hor. It begins, "Dear old sweetheart," and it procoods, " I wore your present at dinner after you left, but I do want you to remember what I say when I bog you not

i ;ive me anything elso for a long time Sweetheart, you see that besides being a loving lad and lassie, wo are a sensible man and woman, who caring for each other more than anything else in the world, have settled to pass our lives together. If this is to be successful, the man must not get into tho hahit of thinking a woman a pretty plaything on whom jewels and toys are to be lavished, and that these things make her happiness. Dear old boy, you must facethe fact that you have heavy expenses, and that you cannot put your income round my neck and arms without getting your affairs into a muddle. All the pretty thingsyou give me are,lknow, in somewaya kind of public witness of your atlbction for me ; but now you must givo mo what I do ask, your compliance with my wish in this particular. You see lam not a brainless doll, whose Bpurious love needs to bo kept alivo by all sorts of appeals to her vanity, thinking of the pleasure of the moment, but I wish to see the future clearly on the same lines. Do not think I do not appre ciate tho sweet thoughts which prompt you to give the prettiest things. I would not have it otherwise; but I want you to look at this from my point of view, and to agree with me. You and I owe something to other people. What I mean is, wo have dono something a little out of the way. We are bound tomakea groatsuccess foreach.sothat every man and woman in perhaps somewhat similar positions may say, ' These two took thoir lives into tlioir own keeping, and gavo up many things for tho sake of each other. They have made it a success, and &o wo will try also;' and it seems to me that it is rather a good thing in life to havobeen ablo to help other people to be strong, bravo, and happy, doing what i 3 right. Remember what you told me, that I am the only woman who overtold you todo that." Lord Garmoyle answered it in a letter every way touching, which appreciated the spirit and conduct of Mhp Finney, and pointing out that since ho had known hor he had felt aspirations for good which had never prompted him before. Well, timo passes, and in the end of the year 1883 it wna arranged, at Lady Cairns's wish, that Miss Finney should pay Lord and Lady Cairns a visit at Bournemouth, in company with Lord Garmoyle, and it was arranged that the visit should take place in tho month of January, 1884. Miss Finney was making her arrangoment3 accordingly, but on Jan. 3, ISB4, she received a letter from Lord Garmoyle in which he requests that showill put otf her vi-it to Lindisfarno a little longer, as both his fathor and mother were not°well. Miss Finney at once assented, and at the instance of Lord Garmoyle she went with her mother and sister and stopped a few days at Brigh ton. Well, at Brighton a visit was paid her by Lord Garmoylo. It ended on Jan. 21, 1884, and that was the last visit he ever paid her. You have his letter, full of affection, full of expressions of respect and lovo up to the eve of this visit. He visits Miss Finney and her mother, he spends a number of days there with them —I thiiik altogether eight or nine days—ia unremitting in his attentions to the plain tiff professes tho same love and admiration for her, and on Jan. 21 he left her, giving her no reason and giving her friends no reason to suppose that his feelings in her regard had in phe slightest degree changed He returned Qn'^an. 21 to Lindisfarne, and ou the very same day on which lie had left kin* Finney, his affianced bride, with professions of love and regard on his lips, ho wrote a letter breaking ofl the engage ment I will read it if necessary, but I can state for all neoesiary purposes the purport of it. Ho still professes the deepest love, he still professes the greatost admiration, he still regards her as a person in all ways worthy of his respect and of his lovo ; but he says sho would not be ac cepted—looking to hor profession, the pro fession sho had followed—would not be accepted by bis friends and his relations as his wife, and that, to uso hia own expression, acting in the interests and upon the suggestions of others, he must break off this marriage, tho promises of which had boon so seriously and solemnly entered into, and, up to this time, kept. I will not trouble you with the answers written by Miss Finney. You may suppose they wore sad and touching letters. This dream of her life, which was to bring happiness throughout her hfe, had vanished What, then, was eho to do? She had abandoned the stage at the request of Lord Garmoyle, and in deference to the conscien tious flings of his relations on the subject. H« &&d done the same. She had her 2S2WS* im <fu lo,? kT ft he o r f for support. She pteh; have lived a life of dleness, and she might We gome into this Court and said she had abandoned her nrofession, left it to become Lord Garmayloj wife and that her profession was closed to ha- But she did that which every honest mtn and. every honest woman will approve o B&W.V I m«t earn my bread for myself and thoau'depeudent upon me in the only way which is open to ige Like a brave woman, with a large w»4 p-orous heart, she resumed that profess^ -eaumed it I need not say with a cad Cf in order to provide for the support she ha/felt b.Guni to come, openly and in b^ y£a^ hrSk caS« niSy-,she is entitled to. I admit that tho friends oi <ie defendant have been willing to make KfIGHT reparation, tot the plaintiff felt it (ncuv^vnt upon her s4 of respect for herself and those wfco ,e'steemes her that whatever was done should be oW "»the form of a ver dict delivered openly and in public. The Attorney-General; My lord.find

gentlemen of the jury,—l appear on behalf of the defendant, and I ask leave to intor pose to make a short statomentin reference to what my learned friend lias just sai4 to you. As to tho propriety of the plaintiff having brought this action, I wish at onco to say that whilst many porsons would shrink from commencing an action for breach of promise of marriage, thero are considerations in tho case which would seem certainly to justify Miss Finny in having sought for money compensation, and tiiat, although Lord Garmoyle has olt'ored and, indeed, desires that sho should rccoive that compensation, there aro certain reasons which justify hor in tho fullest ox tent in having brought this action and this case into Court. Gentlemen, taking that view, Lord Garmoyle desires that Mis 3 Finnoy should receivo compen sation, and compensation which I think you will regard as sufficient. On behalf of tho defondant, I consent for a verdict to bo entered for tho plaintiff for tho sum of £10,000. Lord Garmoylo, further, is de sirous that it should bo said that, from his first acquaintance with Mies Finnoy, throughout tho wholo of his ongagomont to her, from its fust inception to its termination, thoro was nothing in the boar ing or tho course of conduot pursued by Mi^s Finney but what, was becoming a high minded English gentlewoman ; and ho further desires to state that tho breaking off of his engagement has in no way resulted from any act done or in any course of action pursued by her, but was effected by considerations applicable to himself alone. It is not necessary for mo to state to you, gontlomon, what thoso considerations wore. 1 trust it will bo accepted that Lord Gnrmoylo believes them to bo paramount and imposing a duty upon him. While thoy wero considerations which ho felt ought to ollect his judgment above all othors, thoy do not, and cannot, afford any answer to the just claim Miss Finnoy makos upon him. Thorofore ho consented to this vordict, and I have on his behalf made this statoment, which I hope you will regard as having been conceived in a generous spirit of considera tion toward Miss Finney.

Mr .Tustico Manistry : Gontlomon of tho jury,—You havo heard the eloquent stato ment mado by tho counsel for the plaintiff, and you havo also hoard the most noblo statement on behalf of Lord Garmoyle by tho learned Attorney-General, Lortf Gar moyle has offorod through his counsel and the plaintiff agroes to accopt tho otter, tho sum or £10,000. You will, therefore, return a vordict for that amount.

A vordict was entered accordingly, with costs.

The Duke of Hesse's Marriage and Divorce.

A cokbespoxdknt writos :—" Tho affair of the Grand Duke of Hesse's marriago and divorce is truly mysterious to tho outside world, and although the knowing peoplo who can undertake to tell you all about everything whispQr various ingenious tales, it is clear that they are really quito in tho dark. That tho Grand Duke of Hesso should marry again after moro than five years' widoworhood is not vory remarkable ; nor is it surprising that ho should have chosen a bride from what is conventionally called a lower rank of socioty than his own. Having married a princess tho first time, and thus secured Royal blood on both sides for tho recognised heirs to his name, tho duke may well have thought himself entitled to chose again in a less limited circle. But it is mysterious, in tho first place, why he choose to be clandestinely united to his morganatic bride on tho very day that his daughter was married; why ho allowed himself to bo placidly led away from tho very altar and dragged over horo in tho train of our Queen.; and finally, what wero tho arguments brought to bear on him to scrow him up to a sturdy resolution to undo his marriago. Those are tho questions which the gossips are asking on all sides, and in dofault of information tho opinion is very strong that tho unhappy lady to whom tho duka was formally and duly married is being most cruelly treated. " At the very momont there comes to light a story showing how callous and selfish the people who aro exposed to tho demoralising influences of the adulation which surrounds tloyalty tends to becomo. Has not Sir Theodore Marti v taught us, in tho slow progress of several bulky volumes, that thore never was a more estimable gracious, and moral prince than Leopold, King of the Belg,iai)3 (with ono sublime exception) ; and that tho counsellor who formed his mind, and to whom much of that transcen dent princoly excellenco was duo, was Christian, B:iron Stockmar ? Well, here is the story of Caroline Biuior, just given to the world, from which it appears that such conduct as tho Queen is now pressing upon her giand ducal son-in-law is only a feoble sort of copy of the action which was taken by Her Majesty's much-rovered undo and tho estimable Stockmar. Caroline Bauor was an actress and cousin to Baron Stock mar : tho hitter served as tho go-botween with her for the Prince. With a peculiar refinement, which I forbear to characteii6o, Leopold explained that his attraction to the young actress arose entirely out of hor close personal resemblance to his sainted and ever-mourned Charlotte. To cut a long and unploasant Btory short, poor Carolino Bauer experienced tho samo kind of treatment that Madame do Kalomino is now receiving. Having beon induced to abandon her profession, she was kept in a gloomy house near Regent's Park, before the Prince, who wns thon intriguing for the throno of Greece, could bo induced to carry out any marriage ceremony whatever; and when at length tho marriage contract was signed, the most cold, heartless, and pedantic selfishness and parsimony distin guished tho conduct of the good I'rinco to his morganatic wifo. Poor Caroline Bauer had to return to the stago for a livelihood. It remains to be seen what Prince Leopolds niece will think suitable for Madame do Kalomine's future"

Louis Napoleon in the Fortress of Ham.

" I found him little changed, although ho had been imprisoned five years, and very much ploasod to soo an old friond fresh from the ontor world, and that world London. As I lind only half a day allowed mo for the intorviow, ho confessed that although lub confidence and courago remained unabated, he was weary of his prison, from which ho saw no chance of escaping, ns ho knew that the French Government gave him oppor tunities of doing ao that they might shoot hiip in tj?e act. Ho stated that a deputa tion Im4 arrived from Ecuador offering him the Presidency of tjjafc Republic if Louis Philippe would release him, and in that ease he would give the King his parole never to return to Europe. He had, there fore, sent for mo as a supporter and frientl of Sir R. Peel, at that time our Prime Minister, to urge Sir Robert to intercede with Louis Philippo to comply wifli his wishes,' promising every possible guarantee for his good faith. The Prince was full of a plan for a now canal in Nioaragua, that promised every kind of advantapro to' British commerce. As a precedent for English official interference, I was to quote Earl Grey's in favour of Prince Polignae's release in 1830. I assured tho Prince that I would do my best, but added that Lord Aberdeen was our Foreign Secretary, and that there was nothing of romance in his character. At this time Prince LOlll3 was deeply en gaged in writing tho history of artillery, and he took an hour in making me explain the meaning of several technical words in English, which he wished translated. He gave me a full account of his failure at Boulogne, which he declared was entirely owing to tho sudden illness of tho officer of the day whom he had secured, and who was to' havo given up the barracks at once. The soldiorehad mostly been gained, and the prestige of his nami in the French army was universal. To prove this, ho assured me that tho cavalry escort of lancers who accompanied him to Ham made him con stant gestures of sympathy on the road. Ho then said, ' You see the sentry under my wincjov- Ido not know whether he is one of mine Qr px>t ; if he is he will cross his arms, if not be will do p.pthfnjj when I make a sign.' He went to the v/indsw ar.d stroked his moustache, but thero was no response until three were relieved, when the soldier answered by crossing his arms over his musket. The Prince then said, ' You see that my partisans are unknown to me, and so am Ito them. My powor is in an immortal name, and in that only ; but I have waited long enough, and cannot endure imprisonment any longer.'"— " Memoirs of an ex-Minister, by the Earl of Malmesbury."

HAH? Asleki*.—''l njjver," ■wrote a young ladt to a friend, -'ko' to tfhul-ch oi> Icohire but I am half asleep, and I never know afterwavdy ■what the sermon or lecture was about." It was o tilain case of nervous lethargy, produced by *ant of action of the liver and digestive organs. §fia was jjersuaded to try Ho<) Bitters, and now |£f writelv^How intelligent and bright are tennOTS and lectores now; and how glorious tha "odd we Uve in fs 1 Hop Bitted are indeed * blessing to me." NoUco.

THE GHASTLY MURDER AT TORQUAY.

An Elderly Maiden Lady Cut To

Piooos,

(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.)

A ORIMK of n poculiarly ntrocious character has startled tho autumnal roposooE ono of the prettiest of our English sea-coast towns. Torquay is well known both for its pictur esquo site and surroundings and for tho mildness of its climato during tho winter months; and Bablicombo, which has just been tho scono of a terriblo tragedy, is a charming marino suburb of this fashionable holiday haunt. It is fortunately long sinco so frightful a crime has been reported, ■Moreover, as if to add to the horrible circum stance! of the deed, there is no cortainty whatever either as to who tho nsaasniii was, or what possiblo motive he could liavo had. All, oxcopt tho fact of tho murder having been committed, is buried at present under a voil of doubt and mystery, which every body will hopo may bospoedily lifted by tho oll'orts of tho police to bring tho guilt of the criminal home to him. In an ablo loading article on this awful tragedy, tho " Daily Telograph " says :—

Thoovidcnco given at tho inquest openod yesterday suggests that two crimes wero committod, both by tho samo hand, murder and afterwards incendiarism, tho lattor, probably, witli a viow to conceal all tracos of tho assassination. Miss KoyHO, the victim, was an eldorly lady, somo sixty eight years of ago, residing by herself, witli four servants, in a solitary and pic turoequoly-situated marino villa, called " Tho (ilen." As this house was sur rounded by extensive grounds, stretching down to the eoa, the possibility of succour arriving in caso tho inhabitants of the houso ncedod help or wero ovorcomo by -a band of midnight robbors was rendered somewhat remote. Anybody, however, would havo thought that Miss Keyso needed little protection, her blameless and beneficent life of private usefulness expos ing her to no enmities, while tho fact that a man-servant, a young man named John Loo, as well as a housekeeper and two other servants, lived under the samo roof, seemed almost to preclude all chance of in jury or peril. Novortholess, such has not proved to bo tho caso. This hapless lady, who, it is said, wa9 formerly v niomber of tho Queon"s household, living in a liouso onco visited by tho late Prince Consort and by tho Prince of Walos, and surroundod by all the rosources of civilisation, was dis covered brutally murdorod in hor own dining-room in the small hours of Saturday morning, while hor abodo had been sot in flames in two distinct places, and the ser vant; woro all apparently sloeping upntairs unconscious of the fate which had bofallen their mistress.

Mias Koyso was in the habit of sitting up late, and on Friday sight she ia said to have been writing up her diary in her drawing-room until past midnight. The servants had retired to bed somewhat earlier. Some timo botwoon twolvo o clock and threo or four in the morning aho must havo put asido hor book with tho intention of going upstairs to hor room. She know that she was tho only person awako in tho wl'olo house, and that its situation was a lonely ono ; but apparently sho had no rea son in tho world to suppose that any peril could possibly bo lurking in tho passages and on the stairs by which access would bo gainod to tho story above. Yot thore un doubtedly «as tomobody lying in wait for tho chances of robbory, and in all proba bility tho mistress of tho houso was attacked at the bottom of the flight of stairs loading up to hor own bodroom. At tho prociso spot thoso who wero tho first to penetrate into tho residence later on found a pool of blood. Tho unfortunato lady's lifeless body was discovered lying in tho dining room, with the sku.ll battorod in, and, moreover, with the throat very deeply severed. It was obviously impossible that the caso could bo one of suicido. Murder it is, beyond a shadow of doubt, and murdor most foul and most unnatural. Attacked from behind, and struck by a savaijo blow, tho victim could offer no resistance what ever to hor assailant. liotweon tho hours of twelve and threo this fearful tragody most likoly was enacted, at a timo when deep cmiet would prevnil both insido and outside "The Glon," and when no human boings eavo the assassin and tho mistress of tho mansion wero stirring in tho down stair rooms and passage?. But how did tho murderer ell'ect an ontrunco into the bolted and barred residence, and what "foas the object of his crime? Theso questions immediately present themselves, and un fortunately, thoy do not appear to bo cap able as yet of any decisive answer. Ono individual, howovor, has already beon taken into custody on suspicion of having per potrated tho crime, and that man, dreadful to relate, is tho young and trusty servant, John Leo. This person, against whom thore aro at prc3ent only tho vaguest sus picions, was accustomed to sloop in tho butler's pantry. When, about throe or four o'clock, tho smell of fire roused tho cook from hor slumbers, sho rushed to rouso tho housokeeper, and that porsou went to Loe's pantry to awakon him. She found him ap parently fast asleop. As far as lias been rovealed down to now, tlioro was nothing about his clothes or his room to connect him with tho murder. No weapon has been discovered in any part of. the pro mises which is supposed to havo indicted either of the injuries upon the docoased lady. Tho man-servant's arm, when ho went off to fetch assistance, was un doubtedly covered with blood, but that circumstanco eooms to bo satisfactorily ac counted for by tho fact of his having cut himself in putting his hand through a pane of glass to let out tho smoke. However, all theso matters will be further elucidated at the inquest, whon it is resumed, and at the magisterial inquiry into tho reasons of Lee's arrest. It is enough to say that what seems to havo woighod vnost heavily against tho accused man is his questionable antecedents. If, as is alleged, ho was a ■ youth who had been in a gentleman's service, and robbod his employer of plate, and for that offence was sentenced to a term of six months' imprisonment— of which there appears to be no question—then it seems extraordinary that Miss Koyso or anybody olso should havo consented to allow him to bo, as ho practically was, sole male guardian of a houso tenanted by threo women and containing much valuable property. The explanation that is Riven is to tho effect that Lee, while still a boy, was known to the bonovolent lady who lived at "Tho Glen," and that sho took him into her service when roleased from gaol, onpur poso to give him a chance of redeeming his character. Hor friends, it is said, coun selled hor to bewaro of adopting this course. Sho, however, persisted in her kindly in tention ; and, if it should prove that the suspicions entertained of John Leo aro correct, then Miss Koyso has simply been the unfortunato victim of her own too groat confidence and gonerosity. We need not say that in that caso tho crime acquires a much darker character, as base ingrati tude is added to its other detestable features. Still at presont the inquiry is only in its initial stage, and we would not for a moment assume that the suspicion which attaches to Lee is oven likely to prove wall founded.

At tho same time it is of the utmost im portance that ladies living with ho com panions except female Horvants, and in lonely houses, should select butlers, or footmen, ov gardeners, or any other jmalo attendants who sleep indoors, with special regard to their character and trustworthi ness. This ia a general maxim which may bo laid down as absolutely correct, whether the subsequent investigations^ prove Miss Keyso's man-servant to be guilty or inno cent. We must not, however, loso sight of the possibility of the murderer being_ a burglar who had broken into the house with the simple intention of robbing. If so, there must be some indication of how the man managed to gain an entranco; for without such evidence the circumstantial proofs against some member of tho house hold gather additional forco. The hapless victim was, when discovered, attired only in n'ghtdiess and stockings. It is thus pro bable that Mis 3 Keyse, hearing a noise downstairs, may have ventured out of her room to sep v/hat the, cause of the sound was, The b&H-ropo in fief room was broken, so possibly her first step tfaato try to rouse some of the servants. Failing in thi3, she may have boldly descended the stairs, and there disturbed the midnight robber in his work, and been murdered at once. It is impossible to understand what could have been the motive of the assassin if robbery were not intended. Nothing could have been gained by murdering an old lady in cold blood, unless in some way or other she had aroused the hatred of some "arsop, and this seems out of the question. The Indicailong P«S at present in favour of the theory that the assassin, who ever he was, had planned to rob either the lady or her house, arid ffiat mui'der, wiu; not his primary object. ~ 'Having ■ effect^ his purpose in 'this 'direction, the reason of the robbery not b'eiug actually carried out can easily be accounted

for. Wo may readily understand that a man who merely intended to steal, and who, in horror at being discovered, added murder to his crimo, would not have the heart to proceed with his original intention. On tho contrary, it is quito evident that the porpotrator of this hideous crime was so terror-striken by what ho had done, or so haunted with the dread of dotec tion, that he proceedod to attempt to burn the houso down in order to conceal tho evidences of his crime. He must have tried to ignite tho premises in two distinct places, no doubt calculating that the whole house would soon be alight, and that tho murdorod corpse of tho mistross of the placo would, when found, bo co charrod us to obliterate all traco of her having porished by assassin ation. In this calculation ho blunderord.'as murderers aro generally found to do, and there ought to be no groat difficulty either in discovering the author of the atrocity or in bringing him with speed into tho felon's dock.

THE STARVING NORTH.

A SPECIAL COMMISSIONBB of tho " Pall Mall Gazotto'1 gives tho following account of the terriblo distress at present prevailing in the great shipbuilding contros in the North of England. Writing from Jarrow, he says :—An iron sky seems to enfold tho town; a poevish rain falls coldly, and Jarrow is moro dreary than any placo that I ever saw. Dreary it is for me, though lam warmly wrapped, but it must bo a thousand times worso for tho poor souls who stand listlossly at the corners and gazo round hungrily on tho unlovely houses and the grey, biting mist. Tho town doponds for its existence on Palmor's great ship building yard; Palmer's is tho contro of life, ana thero is not a tradesmen or work man hero whoso prosperity does not vary directly with the prosperity of tho enor mous works established by tho courago and enterprise of ono man. In good times Messrs Palmer omploy 12,000 men, and pay £10,000 per week in wagon to artisans alono. Last year about 80,000 tons of shipping woro turned out, and a vast wage fund employed in gaining that amazing roßult was poured into tho town of Jarrow. At present thoro aro only about 4,000 mon omployed, and tho works aro being carried on at a dead loss for the tiino boing. Mr Goorge I'almor said to me : " Wo aro con tent to loso for awhile. If we closo our yard wo shall ruin tho town, andthetrado might nover comeback; bo we go on losing steadily. Wo have soven ships now on the stocks; wo aro ttblo to koep a few thousands of men from starvation, and prevent our stock from going to ruin, as it would if the machinory wero idle. Wo shall hang on till things look up a littlo, and we aro ready to start to-morrow with a dozon now vessels, if wo had the chance." I saw all that was going on in tho yards, and MrPrico, tho manager, gave mo a most lucid account of tho true position of affairs. I could not holp ad miring his quiet and unostentatious resolu tion. Jlo has tho entire management of a great coucorn in which about throo millions of capital aro invested j tho fate of a great population deponds in a measure upon his ekill and foresight; ho is in tho midst of a desperate fight with unprecedented circum stances ; yet lie is cheerful, hopeful, and unwearied. While other mon are crying out about tho trado unions, and blaming tho workmen's organisations for all the depression that exists, Mr Prico frankly says that ho approves tho unions. "We gee on much bettor now than we did at any time beforo tho oxistonce of tho socioties. Wo can communicato directly with tho officials, and wo lind them businesslike and reasonable as a rule. Lately tho unions have done somo foolish tiicks, but, on the whole, I am disposed to think that thoir inffuoncois good.

A Silly Strilro,

Mr Frico told mo of ono proceeding which seoms to mo uncommonly liko insanity on the part of somo workmen. It was sug gested that the men should accept Gs 5d instead of Cs t)d apiece for coitain plates. At tho lowor rato tho omployor could barely make tho transaction pay, and, really, tho deduction of tourpenco was not a sorious ono. Well, in spito of tho fact that one thousand families in Jarrow aro dependent on charity for food, in spito of the terrible slackness which has rendered tho busy banks of tho Tyno silent and mournful, two hundred and fifty men throw up their work and wont out to voluntary starvation. This happened a fortnight ago. Now, very few mon know more than Ido of the genuine benefits which tho working class and tho nation have derived from the unions ; yot I think that this strikowas most injudicious. Mr l'rico was obliged to exclude tho whole two hundred and lifty, and thoy will shortly bo added to tho woeful army of starvelings. Assuredly they will never get work at Palmer's any moro. I cannot but wish that arbitration had settled this misorablo tquabblo about fourpenco.

Tho Distress,

I lmvo lived for long spoils among tho poor of vnriou.B classes; I have soon the dull misery of Italian peasants, tho sicken ing want of tho people in Sliadwoll and Poplar, tho squalor of tho Dorsetshire labourers ; but I havo never passed such a heartbreaking time as I have this day dono among tlio forlorn mechanics and labourers of Jarrow. You hftvo to harden your heart if you want to do any good, and thus tho system of relief is being carried out with machineliko regularity by a body of quiet mon who rofuso fo givo way to sentiment. Anything moro complete and dexterous than tho arrangements mado by tho Mayor and the Town Clork it would bo hard to conceive Thoy have faced thoir cruel task most coolly, and they contrive to food their swarms of hungorbitton dependants. Yot in spito of their vigour and wisdom, which I cannot praiso top warmly, thoro is a misery all around which broods over mo as I write liko a gruesome nightmare.

Tho Dooont Poor.

Lot mo moat ongerly draw attention to the fate of the decont and thrifty mon who hido their poverty, who reject relief till the last stick is sold, and who, even when thoir is neither bed, nor chair, nor fire, nor clothing, still contrive to keep tho floors and doorpteps of thoir poor houses clean. I was escorted by Mr Batoy, tho sanitary inspector, and I may say that I novor saw any otlior official on such terms with a groat population. Tho peoplo addrossed him as a personal friond, and his gontlo presence is welcomed in ovory houso. In squalid Irish familioa, in tho homos of ro ticont Scotch artisans, in dark and raal« dorous alloys, ho is grootod with kindly respect, and not a door in tho suffering town is closed against him. Ho it was who showed mo how tho docent poor aro faring.

A Horo. A softspokon, dark-eyed man met ua at the door, and introduced us lo his wifo. Poor soul! her face was pinched and drawn, and her shoulders lookod sharp and wasted, yet thoro was not a spot of dirt to be seen on fireplace or floor. "Twpnty-six weeks out »f work, sir. fivery penny I hud saved is gone, and the furniture mußt (jo now. Wo should havo starved long sinco if I hadn't been careful while there was work to be got. Eh, it's bad to broak up the bit home. Bad it is. I was always one for stopping in tho house at nights, and tho chairs and the bits of ornaments is friendly like. It'll break my heart to lot them go." "Havo you had relief?" "No, sir; not yet. Wo go short of food always, but I don't like to tako anything, so I just hungor and hunger." A sweet little child enme in, and the man looked down. " Eh, it's hard to have them asking for bread, and not a bit to give them." The little girl drew near mo, and looked solemnly in my face; then she lifted her baby arms and held her face to be kissed. I kissed the poor little body, and tho father cried. Poor follow ! His dark, patient face will be in my mind for a good while. o

A Paralytic

Damp walls, bare floor, a heavy, earthy smell, a smouldering heap of cinders, and, amid all, an awful sight. An old, old woman, frightfully emaciated, and shak ing with palsy; every limb quivered horribly ; her mouth, gaped and slavered. " Starved I am, Eir, starved," she said, speaking with a stvong Scotch accent. ''Threescore years and ten have I borne it all. Povorty and hunger, sir—poverty and hunger and* cold. Yet do I trust in the Lord. Maybe I shall meet Him soon, and then He'll pay me for all that I have had to bear. I haven't bitten bread to day; I'm dependent on my son, and ho has to keep eight of us. Many a time I've gone all day without a bite. Last week I lived for three days on one twopenny loaf. Starved sir, starved !" I dare, say this old woman drank in her day ; I know she smokes, and she clutches! at the_ tobacco which I offered her. and scattered it in herwild eagerness. Perhaps an old woman should not smoke, Lu(i a? I sf! w her there with her grey pallor, heir qujW^ng']imj3e, nerburcjert^a^a^ly old age,'l; could nob grudge her the comfort of a pipe. Soon she will pass away in cold and hunger, and chill despair. An me!

A Cheery Woman. Bright lire, cosy, polished br.igsvrork, a few flowers in tho window, and two indus trious women knitting hard. The elder of theso women was a most cheery and de lightful croatura. Hersweot Northumbrian accent had not tho rattling burr that I used to hoar among the fishors, and I liked hor to talk. " Soven months he's been out of work, and wo'ye been living on his savings. Wo must just mako the best, though God knows how it will end. We'll trust, you know, sir, and keep our'hearts up. That's the only way. We've kept the bit houso togother, and thats some thing to say. Wo might havo douo better, but horo'y tho lass went and got married inHt February, ; nd her man was only in work throe weoks after the wedding. We've had to keop the two of them." ladmirod this brave, wholesome, kind woman, and I hope she will not come to hunger. A Young Conplo. Ono nico modest young woman told mo that her husband had tramped about seek ing work for ovor four months, and hor liouso was pleasantly clean, but as she observed, "Evorything'ssold. Wo couldn't raise threepence on all that's left." She showed mo a loaf. That sto serve lour of us till Wednesday I" Thero certainly was not very much. A dolicious littlo girl tottered in from tho yard, and insisted on converting mo into a playmate. I notice that children aro apt to tako a fancy to big mon. This little tot gave me her commands quito imperiously. I noticed that tho child was scrupulously clean, and, her skin had nothing of that faint and unpleasant odour which ono sometimes notices in the children of the poor. Tho little doll will probably recoivo the greater share of that loaf. Tho Low Quarter.] Through woeful stroets I worked my way, attonded by my genial pilot. I cannot in this letter, give a list of cases, but I will say that there are lines of tcnemonts in habited by people who have not a rag to cover thorn during these wild nights, not a bed to Ho on, not a place to rest, save on tho rickotty floor. One poor woman sat nursing a now-born baby. She was seatod on a low block of wood, and tho rest of the houso was empty. Hor husband is a strong, boarded follow, who looked mo straight in tho eyes nnd spoke like a man. He had not worked for three months, and his last job had been a turn at stone-breaking. " Anything in the world I'll do, sir, to get a mouthful for tho bairns. There's nothing I would stick at." The woman said, "I sometimes got a shilling or two before I was confined, but I'm over-weak now." | There was no coverlid to wrap the baby in, and I fancy that dreary room will be cold on these cruol nightß. t Tho Homeless. ' Lot it be remembered that in a great 1 centre of industry there are some thousands of poopl« who have no food, scarcely any clothing, and no beds to Ho on. The tradesmen aro being ruined ; tho resources of charit/ avo strained ; and, in spite of the masterly struggle carried on by Mr Price, it is juat possible that the town of Jarrow may by-and-by be utterly forsaken. A great concorn liko Palmer's is not easily to be shaken down ; but no man can with stand fato, and though Mr Prico is a giant among organisers, yot oven ho may bo boaton. In my next despatch I shall have something to say about the remedies which seem to mo possible, but in tho meantime I will go on with furthor dotails regarding the unhappy town.

Medical Rewards.

The following letter from "Truth"dealing with medical rewards, is amusing and in-

structive :—

Dbak " Truth,"—Apropos of your recent Barrel Organ, lot mo givo you a scrap of autobiography in support of tho opinion expressed regarding tho risk run by medical men in tho practice of their profession, and how, compared with military men, their sorvices ars wholly ignored, oxcept when, for sheer doconcy'n sake, they aro rocog nisod as military appendages. About a quarter of a century ago I ontorod the foremost Bervico in tho world as a medical oflicor. During tho first yoar's service, while in tho execution of my duty, I received my baptism—not of fire— but an ejection of vomilo nigvo, a very dangerous weapon met with in medical warfare in tho West Indio3. During the following year, while struggling with an opidomin of " Yellow Jack," I foil a victim to tnat disease, and all but lost my life, sololy owing to exposure to infection rashly indicted upon a whole ship's company, but officially due to the so-called " exigencies of tho sorvico."

A short timo after, I was imprisoned on a desert island in tho Gulf of Moxico, known as tho Island of Sacrifices, with no society

gavo a faithful marine servant and a few small-pox patients. All these little things I boro well, for I thought thoy would load to somo professional advancement. Later on, I was ordored to proceed forthwith to a largo hospital to tako charge of the zymotic wards, and receiTO a number of pationts from an ironclad daily expected to arrivn ; in fact, to clear out a fever-stricken ship. No use ; I was not ovon " mentioned." In course of yoars I gave up my little ambition to become a candidate for honours, and, although novor volunteering, plodded away mechanically through small-pox in China, cholera in Japan, and typhoid in ono of our own sea-ports ; but promotion still camo not. The sunny south had to be tried ; so ono lovely morning I found my self in proximity to the northern coast of Africa, near a large city which existed at that time. I had nothing to do. Tho crow wero abnormally healthy, and thoy, as well as tho fighting officers, were kept pretty busy, as it appeared they were arranging tho best methods of destroying somo fortification! by firing guns at them, I hoard that there was some dispute between our admiral and a gentleman named Arabi, but I could not undetstand it, nor was I at all concerned in their quarrel. Altogether, we wore rather jolly, except for the row ono morning some of our messmates made let ting tho guns off. I heard aftorwards that thoy had killed a wholo lot of poor niggers on shore.

Well, 1 had nearly forgotten all about this pleasant morning—the only ono, by the way, on which I did not see a single patient—whon, months aftorwards, I got a mcGsago from the paymaster to call upon him for a sum of monoy which I found was a reward granted me by tho Government for my services (!) on the abovo morning; and I now cruiso about with somo medals and a clasp on my left broast, tho embodied reward of doing—nothing at all.—Yours faithfully, Rodkrick Random.

A Preposterous Ghost Story.

Sift Edmund Hornby, who is in England, ought, "Truth" thinks, to make somo reply to tho statements of the " Overland China Mail" and. other newspapers connected with China. Sir Edmund published a ghost story. Ho has been long a Judge, and his statement, if contradicted, would have be come one of tho accredited and proved ghost stories which pass current amongst silly people. According to him, he was in bed on the night of January 19, 1575, at Shanghai. His house was closed, and by hia side slept Lady Hornby. Suddenly ho heard a knock, aud then a Mr Laing, tho editor of an evening newspaper, walked in. Ho requested Sir Edmund to dictate to him his judgment in a divorce suit that he was about to deliver the next morning. This he did, and Mr Laing disappeared. The next morning the judgment was delivered. But Mr Laing was dead. At an inquest, it was shown that he was in his room at twelve, wheu his wife went to ask him whether ho was soon coming to bed. Ho replied, "I have only tho Judge's judgment to get ready." At a quarter to one, Bhe came again, but did not disturb him. At half past ono, she discovered that he was dead. Beforo him was a note-book. It contained the following entry : " The Chief Justice gave judgment this morning to the following effect" ; and then followed a " few lines of indecipherable shorthand." Sir Edmund the next day told his wife of what' had occurred, and also told, a brother Judgo. Not/ here wo havo certain specific facts .vouohed for by a Judge. What, however, are the real facts ?■ 1. Sir Edmund was married on April 25, 187S, and therefore his wife could not have been sleeping by his aide. 2. The judge to whom he told the story the next day was not in Shanghai, but in Japan ;' therefore/ he could not have told it to him. 3. The judgment waa delivered ten days later; therefore it was not delivered tho next morning. 4. There was no inquest. :5. Mr Laing was not dead when hia ghost roamed into Sir Edmund's room for a report o£ the judgment. He arose on that morning at eight Q'floi.'K, visited his office/theii retui'O.ed to hia. room to dre^s,1 find k iivr winutcEJ later, was found dead 9 n. t<\ c 0^ '»P. 3Wfc f°V a Judgo's gji{i3t"story, ahtf, by reflecting on Its inac buraeies and absurdities, we may form a pntty fair estimate of the ghost stories of people who are not judges,

ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.

Nature has not been pleased to bestow upon me any special gifts, and I cannot call myself a clover man. But I have been brought up in a good school; and whatever natural shrewdness I may have has, so to speak, had a keen edge put on itan an ex perience of many years aa a detective officer. If there is one thing more than another upon which I pride myself, it is that of discriminating character, and being able to at once detect whether a person charged with an offence is innocent or guilty. How far this pet theory of mine is borne out by fact, tho following story will show :—

Somo years ago, in themonth of December, I was strolling in tho neighbourhood of Scotland Yard, when I noticed that I was followed by a short thickset man, of very peculiar appearance. Ho looked about three and four and twenty, and was very shabbily dressed in clothes which evidently had never been mado for him. Each of the garments had a stamp of having belonged to people in different walks of life. The old cord trousers, much too large, were those of a working man ; tho vost, which had been of a bright scarlet, was that of a groom or coachman ; while tho surtout, patched and out at tho elbows as it was, had the un miatakablo cut of a West End tailor. It struck me that wo were old acquaintance", for his was a face onco seen not easily for gotton. Ho was very ugly, bat had not what one would call a "bad face." The greatest peculiarity about him was the eyoa, which woro of a dark hazel and very small, with an extraordinary obliqueness of vision that made it impossible to tell whether ho was looking you in tho face or not. His head was coveroi by an old seal-skin cap, under which was a profusion of coarse hair of a golden red ; whilst his face was orna mented with a luxuriant crop of whiskers of the same fiory hue. All this I noticed as ho twice passed— each time looking as if about to address me. As he passed the second time, I turned on my heel and followed, and, quickly overtaking him, said, "Well, my man, you appear, to know me Y>

"Yes, Mr Sharps," ho replied, "I know you very well, though, I dare say, you have forgotten me. My name is Charlie Fox; and you've had mo before the beak more than once when I was a young 'un."

"Why," I said, "you are the young rascal that belonged to the Westminster gang, and used to give us all bo much trouble." "Yes, guvnor; but since my mother died, which is a good many years now, I've beon trying to keep on the square. I've been to sea, and been working about the docks, or wherever I could got a job. Lately I ain't had anything to do, and I'm almost starving. I knew you directly I saw you ; and I've been a-following you, thinking you might give me something to get some grub. It's hard work, guvnor, to keep straight after you've once gone wrong, 'specially when you're hungry, and a lot of pals a-tempting you." As I listened, I thought his story might be true. I remembered him as a young thiel, with a bad mother, but that was years ago ; and I knew, if he had been knocking about London, and up to his old games, I must have heard or seen something of him. " Look here. Fox," I said, "you may bo telling me a lie or you may not; but, if you aro hungry, I will give you a meal." I took him to the nearest public-house, and gave him some cold meat and bread, and a pint of beer; and his appetite cer tainly confirmed one part of his tale. When he had finished his dinner, he said,

" Now, Mr Sharpe, you've dono me a turn which I shan't coon forget, and I'll do you one in return, by putting you up to a good thing. You know all about the murder of the woman at Glasgow, and I can tell you where to lay hands on the cove that did it. There's a hundred pounds reward; and I suppose, if I plant you on him, you'll give mo half?"

I knew of tho murder. It was one of peculiar atrocity, committed about a month before, in Glasgow, upon a poor girl, an un fortunate. Hitherto the police had been at fault, and the Home Secretary had offered a reward of one hundred pounds.

At. first it etruoU mo a= Improbable LliaC Pox could know anything about it; but he further told mo that he was lodging down at tho East End, near to one of the docks ; and tho murderer, a sailor, who had been a shipmate, was lodging in the same house, and had confessed the crime to him. Still, I could not see a motive for Fox betraying his friend, and I said,

" You aro no doubt very clever, Mr Fox ; but you must not try to make mo believe that because I havo given you something to oat and drink, you aro willing to round on a pal." His reply did more to convince me than anything else. " You forget, Mr Sharpo, the half of the reward, which will take mo out of the couutry, and givo me a fresh start; but, besides that, I owe tho man a grudsro, and if I live I'll pay him." I told him ho could soon prove whether his information was true by showing me the houso and the man. I would take a couple of officers with mo, and arrest him at once.

To this, however, Fox would not listen. Ho said the neighbourhood was a very bad one, the man a most desperate character, and surrounded by friends, and there would be but little chance of taking him there. His idea was to entice him West, and take him when off his guard. Even thon Fox warped mo that thore would be considerable risk, as the murderer carried with him the knife with which ho had com mitted tho crime, and threatened to use it on. anyone that attempted to take him. After further conversation, it was arranged that Fox should meet me that night, and in the meantime I should think upon some Bchome.

My plan was soon matured. It was this: I got an order for ono of tho West End theatres for the following night. Fox was to invite the man to accompany him, but, bofore entering the theatre, was to take him into a public houso, and thon, when he was drinking his glass, we would take him.

Punctually lit tho time appointed Fox met mo. I gave him tho order for tho theatre, and explained what I wished him to do in tho matter, at tho same time giving him a fow shillings for his expenses. I must confess I waited for the following ovening with considerable anxiety. The case was a noost important one, and, if I could carry it to a successful issue, would add considerably to my reputation. I chose two officers to accompany me, upon whom I could depend, both of them ex porionced and powerful men. Seven o'clock was tho titne named j but, to guard against mistake, we were in the Strand half an hour earlier, the three of us> o\ course, being in plain clothes. Seven o'clock arrivod — half-past seven, eight o'clock —but no appearance of our men; and at half-past eight wo gave it up in dis gust. For once 1 felt assured I had been thoroughly sold. Next morning, however, I found at the station a badly-written scrawl from Fox, saying that the man hnd got so drunk the night bsfore that he could do nothing with him, and that he (Fox) would meet me at twelve o'clock, at tho house where I had given him his dinner; and if I could give him another order for the theatre, he felt sure of bringing the murderer up that night. I met Fox, gave him the order, and arranged to be on the look-out at seven o'clock."

This time fortune' favoured us. We had not waited many minutes when I saw Fox coming along the Strand, in company with a tall man, in a rough peajacket. He stopped to look at a shop window, and. as I passed I noticed that the tall man had tfie cut of a sailor. He was broad-shouldered, deep-chested, and long in the arm, and pvi dently would bo an awkward £U3(-orner to contend with. They W^lljed on for about one hundred yarcis, "and then turned into the bay- of a public-house. In half a minute my oolleagues and I followed, and asked for something to drink. Wo five were the only people in the bar, and the barmaid was just Eerving Fox and his friend with two glasses of ale. At. the back of where the tall man stood Tf&3 a small gas-burner, and my two brother officers went behind hta, as'if to light their pipe.?. The moment that he lifted his glass to his lips I sprang Upbn him, and my as sistants, at the 'same instant, seized him from behind. Quick as we were, Vta man aged to wrench his left arm' away, and, striking' straight. o\j+; from "-tike "shoulder, sent me sprawling, op the ftoor. My. two me^ \ffi\o, however, too. rrvuri* for him, and \iy the liihae I regained ray feet had tho handcuffs on him. When I looked closer at cur ja-isoner, I confess I was a little bit staggered. He scowled at us fiercely enough, but he had a fine handEOme face, and certainly had not the look of o^e wW, would commit so dastardly a, ci;jrae a'g that for which we h,a<d juat arrested him.

" Well, mates," he said, " this is rather rough work, What do you want with me'/" " We want you," I replied, "for a murder committed in Scotland." "Murder! I never hurt anybody in my life." I told him that would have to be proved, and in the meantime he would havo to go with us to the police-station. Calling a cab, two of us accompanied our prisoner, tho third officer being left with Fox, with orders to follow us to the station. I stated the charge to the inspector on duty, and tho prisoner was asked his name and address, lie gave that of Archibald Brown, of Greenock, and stated that he was a sailor. On searching him, wo found in his possession two sovereigns and some silver, and a large clasp-knife, such as is usually worn by seafaring men. I took Fox to a coffee-shop off Fleet street, and arranged with the proprietor to supply him with board and lodging from day to day. Two men from tho forco, in plain clothes, were told off to watch him night and day, and wiv.h orders to arrest him if ho made any attempt to escape. The next morning the prisoner was brought before a magistrate. My witness. Fox, would not, I thought, make a very favour able impression in his ordinary costume. In fact, I was ashamed of him, and pur chased at a second-hand shop a suit of clothes for him. When he had his new rigriut, and his hair cut, ho was much more presentable. At the police-court he gave his evidence in such a straightforward way as to favourably impress the magistrate with its truth. The prisoner denied having made any such confession to Fox, and pro tested his innocence, and asserted that he had not even hoard of the murder. He eithor did not know or refused to state where ho was at the timo ; and this, joined to tho fact that ho was a native of a town ' such a short distance from Glasgow, in some measure confirmed the evidence of Fox. Finally, Brown was remanded for a few days, to enable us to communicate with the authorities at Glasgow, and to produce, if possible, further evidence. We immedi ately telegraphed to the chief of the police at Glasgow, stating that we had arrested a man named Brown for the murder of the woman, and that the prisoner was re manded from that day (Thursday) until the following Monday. We received a tele gram in reply that they believed we had got tho right man, and that an officer would be sent up to London in time for tho ad journed examination. Next morning we had a letter confirming the telegram. The murder had, it appeared, been quite a mystery to the Glasgow police until the day before the receipt of our message, when a woman had been found who asserted that she had seen the deceased on the night of the murder in company with a Eailor named Brown, and that she had watched them go into the house together. The letter further Btated that an officer would arrive on Sunday night to take charge of the prisoner. In the meantime we kept a sharp watch upon Eox; but, apparently, there was little occasion for it, as the officer reported that ho scarcely ever left the house where he was staying, and showed no desire to do so. He twice called upon me at the station, and expressed great concern lest any of Brown's friends should get hold of him, as he feb sure that his life would not be safe. Our ihen watched him up to Saturday night, when so convinced had we all be come of his good faith that I asked my chief fi he thought it was necessary to con tinue the surveillance. He agreed with me that if was not, and the officers were with draw)). On Sunday afternoon, I looked in to see Fox, to tell him we should want him at th« police-court the next morning at eleven. I found him having his tea, and apparently quite at home in the comfortable quarters I had provided. That night I met the Scotch officer at the Great Northern Station, who congratulated me on the successful arrest which I had made. I admitted that I thought there was some credit due to me, as there had been difficulties in the way, and the prisoner being such a tall, powerful man, there had been danger also. His reply took all the breath out of my body !

"Eh, mon, there's some mistake here. The mon we want is a wee chap, nicknamed 'Rod-beaded Charlie,' but whose real name is Brown, alias Fox, alias Sinclair, and half a dozen others I"

A light broke in upon me in a moment. A few hasty words of explanation to the Scotchman, and as fast as a hansom cab could go we tore down Fleet-street, but arrived too late, for #ie bird had flown. Fox, the actual murderer, had left the coffee shop about an hour before, and from that day to this we have never seen nor heard anything of him.

I need scarcely say that the prisoner, who was as innocent as I, was bet at liberty the next morning.

Over-Pressure in Schools.

"The following sad case of over-pressure," writes a correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette," who supplies us with full docu mentary evidence, "will no doubt excite general commiseration. Three months ago a poor bricklayer in the East End of London being summoned for the non-attendance of his son, agod twelve years, called in a medical man, who certified that the boy was ' suffering from over-study.' 'The least excitement,' continued the doctor, 'or anxiety about getting a lesson ready, is more than his brain can stand, and if any pressure be brought to bear upon him to force his learning his lessens, the probability is that he will suffer from chorea. Under these circumstances the doctor had no hesitation in saying that his little patient ' not now able to attended school, although he would.probably be fit to return in a few weeks,' arid the summons was of course withdrawn. What makes the case more pathetic is that the poor little fellow must have done all his study by himself at home, for it afterwards appeared that he had never been to school regularly, that he had not passed oven the lowest standard, and that the number of his attendances for the last four months was 0. He had during that period been at work in a coal shop, and the people actually complained of his being 'a nuisance to the neigbourhood.' They stupidly put down to a riotous, disposition what was really the result, of premonitory symptoms of chorea from 'over-study.'"

The Queen's Gold Plate.

No living monarch, European or Asi atic, not even, the Czar of all Russians, can boAst of p.uih a service of plate as that Ojivned by the Queen, to whose guests it is of ton exhibited, on the huge buffets on either end of the banquet ting table in St. George's Hall—vases, plateau*, oups, and candelabra, all wrought in the precious metal, the net value of which is said to exceed two millions sterling. Conspicuous amjng the trophies are the mimic " lyre bird " and tiger s head taken from Tippoo Sahib'eighty odd years, ago, and presented to Her Majeaty's grandfather, King Geoixe 111. Tiji.e Ivre bird's body and tail are composod of solid; gold, richly studded ■with brilliants, rubies, emeralds, and pearls..' As ho stands with all his jewelled pride, one of the costliest follies ever devised to gratify a whim of a lavish Oriontal potentate, he represents a per petual income of i' 1,500 a year, calculated at 5 per cent, upon his intrinsic worth. The tiger's head oiice served Hyder All's masterful ton as a footstool. It is a, life-size model, fashioned in solid silver, richly gilt, its eyes of rock crystal and fts. tongue of pure gold. Liko the lyre bird, it fell into the hands o.£ the British at the storming of Seringapatam, where Tippoo himself, its valorous owner, met his death; and as a brilliant memorial of our Indian conquests, it could not be better bestowed tliflij in entertaining the banqueting haU oj Hindo- Btan's first Eiipress.

Unknown at Stafford House.

We dined at Stafford House to meet Garibaldi. ' The party consisted of the Palmeretons, Russels, Gladstones, Aryglls, Shaftesbtrys, Dufl'erins, &c, and other Whigs, the Derbys and ourselves being tho only Conservatives ; so I greatly fear that we have made a mistake, and that our party will bo lisgustod at our going. Lady : Shafteshuy told me after dinner, Jn a »i,ecA«ntemanner, that we had fallen into a trap; to yhich I answered that I was very much obliged to tijpee w.hp laid it, »3 I should be sorry not; to. see Garibaldi. The Dpwagcy-JPucbess, of Sutherland walked him off to cer.ibpu.doir, where he smoked. This : created; d-eat- astoßishmsntand amusement, 'as this feadolr, which is fitted up most raagnifioimtly with hangings of velvet and 1 everything that is mostly costly, has been considered such a sacred spot that few favoured mortals have ever been admitted into its precincts ; and ta allow anyone to smoke in it is most astonishing to all who know th? Diichesi.—" Lord Malmesbury's Autobiography. '•

"BOUGH ON CORNS."-A>k for WelliiVKcmji on Com*" Quiik relief, complete, permanent eon. Coras, war U *u*l ™l *> j Kemr/thonio. imu * <*_ t vuu. Ascklud.

CLIPTOMANIA.

[From Osjb London Correspondent.]

It may interest young men who leave their country for then1 country's good, and who hope to find lucrative employment in con tinental towns, to hear that for a vacant situation in one of the Parisian Banks—a place worth £48 a year—there were no less than 6,000 applications.—" Truth."

Mr Philip Armour, the Chicago Pork King, is credited with a fortune of £25,000,000, just enough to by the entire kingdom of Greece,

Prom the diary of Lord Malmesbury :— "Disraeli was at table breakfasting, and seemed rather low. When asked what was the matter, he said the Queen had sent him her last book."

It is stated that the private fortune of the late Duke of Brunswick—forty-eight million, marks (£2,400,000)—wi1l go to tho Duke of Cumberland.

If Mcsdames Ristori and Fanny Kemble look into Lord Malmesbury's diverting memoirs, they must, as two old actresses possessing a keen cense of the ludicrous, smile at the ex-Mini.uter's blunt opinions aa to their personal appearance when they were comparatively young women. Per haps a feminine rovenge has been forestalled by them in their memoirs. Possibly la Marchcsa del Grillo has pended her estimate of Lord Hardwieke's guests.

" Are you the llev. Dr. B.?" a young man inquired of a citizen in the street. '■ No, sir; but lam frequently taken for him. We resemble each other closely. I am a lawyer, and make a speciality of divorco eases. Has your object in finding the Rev. Dr. B. any connection with matrimony!" " Well f yes," the young man blushingly acknow ledged. " H'm, I thought so. Just put that card where you won't lose it."

The Waldteufel whose death has just been announced in the papers, is not the Waldteufel, but his father. In this case, however, just as when a few months ago the great waltz-writer'« brother died, wa have been treated to long obituary notices of the composer of tho " Manolo." It does sot often fall to the lot even of a inimical celebrity to be'killed off by the press twice in the space of six months.

"Truth" is surprise! that no mention has been made in the numerous notices on Sir Moses Montefiore of an act which did him the highest honour. Many years ago, owing to circumstances over which he had no control, he failed in business. Having subsequently made money, he called to gether all his creditors, and presented them with the amounts due to them, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent,, calculated from the day on which the debt was incurred.

The awful death of the celebrated Amen* can actor, Frank Chanfrau, has been but briefly alluded to here. He was just about to begin dinner at an hotel. He bad with a party of friends been discussing tho calamity which had befallen John McCnl lough, and had just remarked with a.tiefo "Ah, well, boys, my turn will come next," when he fell down stricken with paralysis. He died during the night, three hours before his wife could arrive to take a last farewell. —" Figaro."

Yet another country has got the start of us in the matter of telephonic communication. A service of public telephones was opened last week botween all the principal towns in Belgium. All in Brussels, for instance, can talk with others in Antwerp, after seven o'clock in the morning, at the rate of twopence for five minute?. From pine in the evening till seven in the morning the tariff is doubled— out of consideration, no doubt, to the greater importance of conversations carried on between those hours.

The death of General England at the age of ninety-eight, leaves General Which cote the only surviving Peninsular officer named in the "Army List." If General England had lived six months longer, he would have been a soldier for eighty years. He got his first commission in May 1805. His death makes General Francis F. Whinyates the doyen of the Royal Artillery ; that venerable officer was posted to the old Madras Artillery in July, 1513.— "World."

The Crown Princess of Sweden's newly constructed dress 13 worthy of special de scription. It is a sown of soft pink satin, veiled in long folds of tulle from the waist. At the edge of the skirt is a thick ruche of waving "tipped" marabout feathers, and the tulle over all is bestrewn with small plumes of the same shade, placed singly. Tho pointed low bodice is of plain satio, and the berthe is a cordon of feathers, which also border the sleeveless armholes. Oa each point of the basque at tho back a looped tab of satin rests straight on the full gathered folds. The effect is most ethereal.

Mr Oscar Wilde has written to Bay that he should liko ladies to leave off Btays «,nd dress improvers, and take to clogs. He does not—as one might at first infer—mean that they aro to be the only article of op^ parel, for he advises Turkish trousers, bnfc he would liko to see them form part of every lady's dress. He would like, also, to see men adgpt the dress of Charles I. If Mr Wilde could g«t his great admirer, Mrs Langtry, to take to clogs, while he donned the doublet and hose, there is no knowing how large a following they might obtain;

" Do you know," said an'extremely viva cious young lady to her excessively bashful suitor, "do you know, George, that young ladies like to be told they are pretty and attractive, whether they are or not?" "I shonld not think of telling you any'BUCbT~ thing," said George, gallantly, "for your looking-glass tells you better than I could that you.are, as handsome as a picture." " Oh. George !" " You have the prettiest faoe and the smallest waist I ever saw.' " The smallest waist! If my waist is small it is certainly not because of having beer* squeezed, George." George fainted.

"A Duke of Brunswick never dies at home!" Tbis German saying, which has almost become a proverb, has again re* ceived corroboration by the death of tho last Duko, who tkus follows in the footsteps of five of his predecessors: to wit, hit) grandfather, who died at Ottensen from wounds received at Aueratadt; his father, who fell at Ligny < his brother, who died at Geneva, where he lies entombed in the weH-kno%vn piece-moniee; his ancestor .Julius Iteopold,, who was drowned in ,an inundation of the Odor; and William, who died in a hamlet remote from his estates, though nearer to them than the death' spot oi any of the others.—" World."

"Truth" recommends the following passage in Carlyle's Life to those young pests who, -without a real notion of music, make the air around them hideous by their everlasting strumming on a piano:—"The miserable young woman in the next house to me spends all her young; bright days* not in learning to dam stockings, sew shirts, bake pastry, or any art, mystery, or business that will profit horsalf or others ; not oven in amußing herself or skipping on the grass-plots with laughter of her mates; but simply and solely in raging from dawn to dark, to night and midnight, on a hapless piano, which it la evident she will never in this ■world reader more musical than a pair of barn, - clappers 1 The miserable young female!"' One of the upper ten thousand;, who was visiting America, accepted the hospitality of a gentleman in New York. When taking farowell of his host, the latter asked him what he thought of, the American people. "Well," answered the nobleman, "I like them immensely, but I miss something." "What is that?'' asked the Yankee. "I miss the aristocracy," replied the Englishman. "What are they," naively asked his host. "The aristocracy'" said th,o nobleman, in a somewhat surprised tone of voice, " why they aro people who do nothing, you know; whose fathers did) nothing, you know; whoso grandfathers did noth.iv.jf, yon know—in fact, the aristo cracy." Here he was interrupted by the American, who chimed in with, "Oh, we've plenty of them over here ; but we don't calL them aristooracy—we call them trampa." Intho forthcoming-account of their travels hy the Prince of Walos's two soys, will Prince Qeorga remember an araosing inci dent which. Occurred at the feall given at Melbourne in honour of the young Princes? Early in the evening Prirj,ee George, having strayed from the rest, of his party, waa strolling listlessly wsiid the ballroom by himself. Ayoapg lady, seeing a boy ii>. midshipman's unjform. wandering abonfe alone, went up and offered to introduce, him to any ladies present if he wished fee i danqe. The youi g Prince accepted, and; - the lady asiod his name. " George," ro / plied be. " But George what V she asked) him. Kathor taken aback, the boy again. answered, "George." "Don't you know your own name?" tho lady was on the point, of asking, when it suddenly occurred to here that thw was one of the guest* of tW evening} so, taking.him under her owm wing, she was not as goncialia her intro ductions as she had at Bret intended.— "World," " ••-■''■-•

THE AUCKJDAND J^VENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1885. '