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to pass his waistcoat to one of Shea's daughters who had come into the room. The constable took the vest from both, and on searching it found several documents. One was directed to Patrick Ring, of Horsemount, and ran thus :"This lot of enclosed orders must be performed. Notice-Good men and self in person to appear with arms at an early hour at James Twohig's on the night of the 30th December, 1881, bringing Healy's shears and bayonet out of the stook, and false whiskers from Owen Riordan also." It was signed by "Moonlight." The second document contained regimental orders by "Captain Moonlight" for appointed raids 30th of December, 1881. No. 1. Regimental orders by Captain Moonlight-James Sullivan to be shot in the leg; mother and daughters to be clipped for dealing at Hegarty's. No. 2. Jeremiah Linehan, for story-telling to Father T., clipped also. No. 3. Denis Coakley, for turning out his labourers, clipped also. No. 4. John Murphy, shot in the legs for paying his rent. No. 5. Another man, name unknown, also to be shot in the legs for paying his rent. Signed and confirmed, CAPTAIN MOONLIGHT. Mary Coakley to be clipped for speaking to the police in Macroom. The constable proceeded to say that he found four revolvers in an outhouse between the thatch and the wall; three of them were loaded. Sub-inspector Tyrrel got Connell to write, and this writing being compared with that in the document showed that both were by the same hand. Thomas Cudmore, whose house was attacked, deposed to having been compelled by an armed party to give up his double-barrelled gun. He could not identify any of the prisoners. Andrew M'Carthy, who was staying in Mrs. Fitzgerald's house at the time of the attack, identified all the prisoners. Mrs. Fitzgerald, however, could not recognise any of them. Daniel Leary, whose house was also visited, identified one of the revolvers as having been taken from him. All the prisoners were committed for trial at the Assizes.

6.-Collective Note presented to the Khedive declaring the intention of Britain and France to uphold the authority of his Highness against the rebellious demonstrations of a portion of his subjects, believed to be encouraged by agents of the Porte. Arabi Pasha was appointed at the same time Under Secretary of State for War.

7.-Closing representation of a "Miracle Play" in the village of Rouslench, Worcestershire, the notion having been suggested to the Rector, it was said, by "The Ober-Amergau Passion Play."

9.-Irish official returns regarding outrages show a total of 7,788 reported in 1881, as against 3,505 in 1879, Connaught having increased nearly 2,000, and Munster 2,288; Leinster had increased within the same period 976, and Ulster only 228.

13. Railway accident in the suburbs of New York through a disarrangement of the air-break, several senators returning from Albany being among the passengers killed.

15. Died in Lowndes Square, aged 77, Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Malins, Conservative M. P. for Wallingford 1852-65.

16.-Died in Edinburgh, aged 76, Sir Daniel Macnee, LL.D., President of the Royal Scottish Academy, famous as a portrait painter, but known to a select circle of friends as the best of Scottish story-tellers. Sir Daniel, who succeeded Sir George Harvey as President in 1876, was a native of Fintry, Stirlingshire.

17.—Died in Paris, aged 69, Charles Blanc, art critic, brother of M. Louis Blanc, and of kindred republican sentiments, who also found refuge in England when the Coup d'Etat deprived him of the office of Directeur des Beaux Arts.

20.-Hammersmith station of the Metropolitan District Railway destroyed by fire.

Died in Sheffield, while on a visit, William Miller, of Millerfield, Edinburgh, landscape engraver, aged 89.

Died at Redhill, aged 90, John Linnell, a landscape painter, who began a career famous in the annals of art so far back as 1804.

21.-Garibaldi, presently in an infirm state of health, arrives at Naples on a visit.

Died at Munich, Hermann von Schlagintweit, German traveller and naturalist.

24.-Election contest in the North Riding— the first since 1868-a Conservative (Dawnay) being returned by 8,135 votes against 7,749 given to Rowlandson, Liberal.

25. After a trial extending over seventytwo days, the prisoner increasing in violence and eccentricity towards the close, Charles Guiteau is found guilty of murdering President Garfield, and sentenced to be executed on June 10th.

26.—The Gambetta Ministry resign after being defeated in the French Chamber on a vote regarding the revision of the Constitution.

Collision, during a fog, on the Great Northern line at Hornsey, a train standing at the station being run into by another arriving from London; two persons killed and twenty more or less injured.

27.-Died in Edinburgh, aged 85, Professor Sir Robert Christison, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., an acknowledged authority in medical jurisprudence. On his resignation in 1877, Sir Robert had filled the Chair of Materia Medica in Edinburgh University for over forty-five years. Professor Christison represented the medical profession in Scotland in the newly

constituted Medical Council of the United Kingdom, and had been twice President of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

27.-Died in Belfast, Professor Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie, the occupant for over a quarter of a century of the Chair of Jurisprudence and Political Economy in Queen's College.

Robert Alfred Herman (Trinity) declared Senior Wrangler in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, the last occasion on which this distinctive honour was awarded, the future examinations being arranged to consist of three parts, two held in June and the third, open to Wranglers only, in January. Miss Burstall and several other ladies from Girton College won an honourable place in the examination.

28. -Another collision on the North London Railway, caused by the break-down of a lighttruck train, near Fairfield Road Bridge; five passengers-one man, three women, and an infant-killed.

Died, aged 62, Richard Brinsley Knowles, essayist, son of Sheridan Knowles, dramatist. Died, aged 69, Sir William Henry Drake, K.C.B., Supply and Transport Service.

February 3.-Queen's University, Dublin, closed by absorption into the newly-established Royal Irish University, the old students simulating grief by a mock funeral procession preparatory to interring the gowns of an M. A, and B.A. with a suitable oration.

Jubilee of Chambers's Journal observed in Edinburgh by the presentation of addresses to Dr. William Chambers from publishers and booksellers, and also from his work-people, some of whom had passed their lives in the service of the firm.

United Ireland newspaper, previously suppressed in Dublin, seized in Liverpool and confiscated as a disaffected Home Rule and League organ,

4.-Died in Earl's Court Square, aged 52, Major Sir William Palliser, C. B., and M.P. for Taunton, inventor of the powerful projectile for piercing armour-plated ships bearing his name.

5.-Died at Edinburgh, aged 57, Rev. James Stormonth, compiler of a comprehensive and useful English Dictionary.

7.-Third session of the tenth Parliament of the present reign opened by Commission, intimation being made in the Royal Speech of the approaching alliance between Leopold, Duke of Albany, and the Princess Helen of Waldeck Pyrmont. The condition of Ireland at this time, it was said, as compared with that which I described at the beginning of last year, shows signs of improvement, and encourages the hope that perseverance in the course you have pursued will be rewarded with

the happy results which are so much to be de. sired. Justice has been administered with greater efficacy ; and the intimidation which has been employed to deter occupiers of land from fulfilling their obligations, and from availing themselves of the Act of last session, shows upon the whole a diminished force." In the evening, after an acrimonious debate, Sir Stafford Northcote carried, by a majority of fiftyeight, a fresh resolution for excluding Mr. Bradlaugh: "That, having regard to the resolutions of this House of June 22, 1880, and of April 26, 1881, and to the reports and proceedings of the two Select Committees therein referred to, Mr. Bradlaugh be not permitted to go through the form of repeating the words of the oath prescribed by 29 Vic., c. 19, and 31 and 32 Vic., c. 72." The Home Secretary, on behalf of the Premier, moved the previous question. Mr. Bradlaugh was heard at the Bar, and the motion was then carried by 286 to 228. After another attempt Mr. Bradlaugh withdrew. Mr. Gladstone then stated his intention of moving his Resolutions on Procedure on the following Monday. The arrest in Ireland of Messrs. Parnell, Sexton, O'Kelly, and Dillon, also the release of Mr. Sexton, were reported by the Speaker. Mr. Gray moved to refer the matter to a Select Committee, which was negatived by 174 to 45. The customary Address was debated over a week; Mr. Sexton towards the close defending "boycotting" which, however, he said was not the invention of The League. So long as it was confined within the limits of social discountenancing and negative action he entirely approved of the practice, and was prepared to justify it on moral and public grounds.

7.-The Judicial Committee of Privy Council reverse the judgment of June, 1880, in which Lord Penzance refused to pass a sentence of deprivation on Mr. Mackonochie. The expression of any formal reason was in the meantime reserved.

8. Died at Cannes, aged 70, Berthold Auerbach, a German-Jewish philosopher and historian, author of "Tales of the Black Forest," birthplace of the novelist.

11.-Explosion, thought to have originated through the upsetting of an oil can, in Coedcae Colliery, Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire; loss, six lives.

13.-Died in Paris, aged 68, Madame Céleste-Elliott, a dancer of repute, famous also in melodrama, and a theatrical lessee.

16.- - Conservative returned at Taunton, Mr. C. Allsopp heading the poll with 1,144 votes against, 917 given to Viscount Kilcoursie (Liberal).

17.-The House of Lords by a majority of 96 to 53 agree to Lord Donoughmore's motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the working of the Irish Land Act. On the 20th Lord Granville announced that Government

would take no part in the work of the Committee, while in the Commons on the same date Mr. Gladstone gave notice of a motion condemning the action of the House of Lords (See March 9th).

17. In the Commons Mr. Gladstone moves that the orders of the day stand postponed in favour of his Procedure Resolutions. These provided for the closing of debate by a bare majority approving the putting of the question by the Speaker; but the question under discussion was not to be decided in the affirmative unless supported by 200 members, or opposed by less than 40. Mr. Marriott gave notice of amendment against the ruling of a bare majority.

20.-Newspapers of the day are now much occupied in recording and discussing such items of intelligence from Ireland, as that Mr. Hefferman, the postmaster of Dromkeen, has been waylaid and his skull fractured so badly that his life is in danger. "The house of a farmer named Donellan, near Kilmihill, has been fired into. The tenants at Newgrove have been visited by an armed party, who made them take an oath not to pay their rents. A party of armed men were surprised at Dromblane, near Thurles, while attacking the house of a farmer named Ryan, who was suspected of having paid his rent. They had wrecked the windows and discharged several shots when they were fired on by a police patrol in ambush and one of them wounded. The others fled. The injured man, John Dyer, is the son of a farmer at Mealiffe. He is reported to be fatally wounded. Two daring attempts to blow up houses with dynamite are reported. A heavy charge of dynamite was placed against the house of Mr. Mahon, agent to Lord Clonbrock, in county Galway, on Sunday night, and on its being fired a wall was blown down, and the windows of the house were shattered. A similar attempt was made to blow up a farmhouse occupied by brothers named Lucas, at Letterkenny, the house being partly wrecked, and the inmates owing their escape from injury to the fact that they were sleeping at the back part of the premises. A reward of £500 is offered by the Lord-Lieutenant for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons who fired at Messrs. Carter and Froome at Belmullet on the 15th inst."

21.-A new writ for Northampton having been refused in the Commons, Mr. Bradlaugh stepped forward to the table of the House, and drawing a small volume (presumed to be a New Testament) from his pocket, repeated the words of the oath, kissed the book, and thereafter took his seat. Next day a discussion on Mr. Bradlaugh's case led to his expulsion from the House by 297 to 80 votes; a new writ was thereafter issued for Northampton.

22.-Michael Davitt, a released convict, adjudged guilty of treason-felony, returned for Meath unopposed in room of A. M. Sullivan,

resigned. The return was rejected by the House after discussion on the 28th, only 20 voting in Davitt's favour against 208.

22.-Died in Belgrave Square, aged 87, Catherine, Dowager Countess of Essex, formerly Miss Stephens, famous for her beauty as well as for her singing and acting.

25.-Electric Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, opened by Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh without ceremony.

Died at Cannes, aged 76, the Rev. Dr. Robertson, minister of New Greyfriars Parish, Edinburgh.

26.-Died, aged 75, William White, for many years an officer of the House of Commons.

- Died, aged 80, Lewis Gruner, artist.

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-"Moonlighters" at work in Clare County. So far as could be ascertained the facts appeared to be as follows: On the townland of Leighton, within three miles of Feakle lived two large farmers-Michael Morony and James M'Namara. "It is stated that they were suspected of having paid their rent; but, be this as it may, on Saturday night Morony was in M'Namara's house, after spending the evening with him, when a number of men were heard approaching. It was thought they might be troops or police passing, so Morony went to the door to look out. observed some 40 or 50 armed men on the roadside, the major portion being disguised, and at once closed the door after him and proceeded stealthily to his own house, which was on the opposite side of the road. He there informed his wife that a party of 'moonlighters' were outside. Terrified at the announcement, Mrs. Morony bolted and barred the premises, quenched the light, and saw a party of 16 men enter M'Namara's house opposite. The gang placed M'Namara on his knees; he was told to keep his head down and four shots were fired over him. One of the party, it is alleged, was about to fire at M'Namara but was prevented by a comrade. A son of M'Namara, a mere lad, who had concealed himself, was dragged from his hiding place and was twice stabbed with a bayonet, but not dangerously. The men then crossed to Morony's house, but were refused admission. Three shots were thereupon fired through the

window, and ultimately the door was forced and the gang entered. Mrs. Morony was standing in the kitchen. One man demanded why they had been so long detained without being admitted, and in reply the poor woman stated that she was unable to open the door. One of the ruffians then placed the muzzle of a loaded gun to her head and asked where her husband was. She was brutally struck, and then reluctantly stated that her husband was in the bedroom. He was at once dragged into the kitchen, compelled to hold down his head, and struck on the eye with a butt-end of a rifle." A man said, 66 Morony, you paid your rent," when another stepped forward and, placing the muzzle of a rifle to Morony's leg immediately below the knee, drew the trigger and fired, shattering the bones to pieces. The moonlighters then left. The houses of four other tenants were next visited, shots being fired and warnings given not to pay rent to landlord Brady. Morony died from his wounds two days afterwards." A young man, Patrick Freeley, son of a farmer at Ballydrehid, Mayo, was shot dead by an armed party, which broke into the house at night, searching for the father, who had paid his rent.

27. Her Majesty's memorial to Lord Beaconsfield (R. C. Belt, sculptor) erected in Hughenden Church. The centre of the memorial is occupied by a profile portrait carved in low relief. Beneath is a tablet bearing an inscription penned by the Queen herself :"To the dear and honoured Memory of Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield, this Memorial is placed by his grateful and affectionate Sovereign and friend, Victoria, R. I. 'Kings love him that speaketh right.'-Prov. xvi. 13."

Died at Scarborough, aged 73, George Leeman, solicitor, late M. P. for York, and three times Mayor of his native city.

28. A meeting, presided over by the Prince of Wales, held in the Banqueting Hall, St. James's Palace, with the object of obtaining public support for the proposed Royal College of Music.

March 1.-Successful experiments with oil in stilling waves carried on at Peterhead, the pumping apparatus wrought by Mr. Shields making the running sea at North Harbour entrance quite smooth.

The wide historical estate of Swinton Park, North Yorkshire, owned for generations by descendants of Leofric of Mercia and Lady Godiva, afterwards by relatives of the Conqueror, and more recently by Scropes and Danbys, sold for £400,000, exclusive of the timber, to Mr. S. Cunliffe Lister, of Broughton Hall, Skipton-in-Craven.

2.-The Queen fired at when entering her carriage at Windsor station with the Princess Beatrice, and the criminal, Roderick Mac

lean, instantly seized. No one was injured. Tried for the offence of high treason, Maclean was found to have been a disappointed povertystricken person of weak intellect, and confined to an asylum during her Majesty's pleasure. Congratulatory addresses on the royal escape were unanimously adopted in both Houses of Parliament.

2.-Charles Bradlaugh re-elected for Northampton-the third time returned as joint member for the borough.

3.-Monuments to the poet Keats and his artist friend Mr. Severn unveiled in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome, in presence of many English residents, the ceremony of unveiling, in absence of Lord Houghton, being presided over by Mr. T. A. Trollope and Mr. Storey, American sculptor.

4.—Anticipating, as was explained afterwards, some trouble through increasing uncertainty of temper, the Council of the Zoological Society of London arrange with Mr. Barnum, of New York, to accept £2,000 as the price of their huge and aged African elephant “Jumbo,' a metropolitan favourite as he turned out, second to few other attractions off the stage. Mr. Ruskin was among those who pleaded hard for "Jumbo's" retention in the Gardens, where he was so well known and liked by visitors of all ages, but especially by children freely permitted to ride along the walks in his howdah.

Died at Bonyside, near Linlithgow, aged 51, Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., late Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and chief civilian in the Challenger expedition.

11.—A party of spiritualists from London prosecute certain occult investigations at Dunecht House for the purpose of discovering Lord Crawford's stolen body. They gave out as having seen the body carried out of the vault to a house on the estate, and "afterwards removed to a field that slopes towards a wood."

Died in Ashley Place, Westminster, aged 67, Captain Hans Busk, D.C.L., zealous as a rifle volunteer in the earliest days of the movement, and author of "The Rifle, and How to Use It," as well as of various important contributions to periodical literature.

12.-Archbishop MacCabe, of Dublin, created a Cardinal.

Died at Sydenham, aged 88, Rosina Wheeler, Dowager Lady Lytton, author of “Cheveley,” and other novels, having entered upon an unhappy course of married life with Bulwer, afterwards Lord Lytton, in 1837.

13.-Earthquake at Costa Rica, and thousands of lives reported to have been lost.

14.-The Queen and Princess Beatrice leave England for a month's stay at Mentone.

After a trial extending over five days before Mr. Justice Hawkins in the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, the jury return a verdict of "Guilty" against George Henry Lamson, charged with the murder by poison of his young and somewhat infirm brother-in-law, Percy Malcolm John. The prisoner, twentynine years of age, and son of a clergyman, was a surgeon by profession, residing a year or two of late at Bournemouth and Ventnor. In the autumn of 1878, he married Miss Kate John, one of several brothers and sisters, whose parents were dead, and who had inherited a

small property to be divided among them. The youngest brother, Percy Malcolm John, was a cripple, afflicted with curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower limbs. He would have been nineteen years of age on December 18, but his death before the age of twenty-one would be a gain of £1,500 to his sister's husband, Lamson, who was in a desperately embarrassed pecuniary condition. The boy was a pupil at the private boarding-school of Mr. W. H. Bedbrook, Blenheim House, Wimbledon. Here Lamson came to visit him; and on December 3, while in easy conversation with Mr. Bedbrook and the unfortunate youth, produced some capsules for taking medicine, but into which he pretended only to put sugar. He persuaded the lad to swallow one, and immediately left the house. Percy Malcolm John was taken ill a few minutes afterwards, and died in three or four hours, having been poisoned by a dose of aconitine. It was proved that Lamson had recently made purchases of that deadly ingredient. At the end of his trial, the jury were in deliberation three-quarters of an hour. The prisoner, on being asked the usual question after the verdict, protested his innocence, and Mr. Justice Hawkins then passed the sentence of death, which he received calmly.

15.-A poll in St. Saviour's parish, Southwark, results in the acceptance of the Bishop of Rochester's offer to foreclose the advowson for £7,000, two satisfactory results being thus attained the abolition of Church rates, and the restoration to the parish of its ancient name of St. Mary Overy.

20. Continued outrages in Ireland, SubInspector Doherty and a young woman being shot at when driving between Ballymote and Tubbercurry; the son of a gamekeeper on Lord Ardilaun's estate beaten to death and his mother grievously injured near Clonbur; while a poor hairdreesser's assistant named Andrews, against whom little could be alleged, was both stabbed and shot within a house in Tighe Street, Dublin. The condition of the country, it was reported, as revealed during the past week in the reports from the Assizes, arrests, and number of crimes and outrages perpetrated in several districts is beginning to call forth an expression of horror and alarm even from quarters in which, until recently it had been represented in a favourable light. Such events as the attempt upon the life of Mr. Carter and the atrocities committed in parts of Clare and Kerry appear to have given a shock to the strongest nerves and disturbed the calm philosophy with which a class of politicians were accustomed to view the state of Ireland. There is for the present a very remarkable agreement of opinion among all parties as to the general facts, but a very wide difference as to the conclusions to be drawn from them. It is admitted on all hands that the measures taken by the Government for the repression of disorder have