Lloyds Weekly Newspaper (Newspaper) - July 17, 1881, London, Middlesex EDITED BY REGISTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AS A LONDON JULY ONE THE TORIES IN THE TEAK The coming Transvaal debate the Commons has cast its shadow The Conservatives have taken up the Transvaal and on made their before the London under the auspices of no less a per Lord as the chief nf the National Union of Conservative and Consti This National Union we a Tory copy of Chamberlains caucus intended to counteract the Radical whose united work at the last general Election carried their ingenious chief straight vestry work at the serene mid dignified abode behind whence he surveys and controls the trade of the The subject which the Tory Caucus Union have their opening performance cannot be Lid to be well nor did it prosper on in the hands of Lord Transvaal debate has been long but it is 10 follow immediately upon the heels of the Irish Land We are therefore within mea distance of The demonstration at Kooms was no by the directing their own particular to effect a sudden reawakening of opinion to the bloodguiltiness of the Government in the Transvaal and so to by an outside for a possible triumph within the walls of a preliminary investigation of the sins of the Gladstone Lord in introducing White and Herr delegates from the loval inhabitants of the irrespective of nationality the old ground with which we were made so while our troops were His told his audience the wellknown story of our yielding to the not after but after open and repeated Precious lives of English soldiers have been thrown away in a cause already abandoned by The ioyal men of the Trans who believed in the pledges which accom are and in many cases are ruined and these have sent two gentlemen as delegates to lav their case before the British Lord Salisbury admitted that the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations were anxious to be their and he hardly disguised the fact that their anxiety rested According to the statement of the fates of the loyal inhabitants of the Transvaal lack and Boers were encouraged to rebel by those who are now the advisers of the Said White The Boer leaders hadnot failed to state that they were ever since the outbreak by a gentle man who now occupies a post in her The speaker named Court ney and Courtney has peremptorily chal him to prove his re that the speeches of Glad stone his canvass had encouraged the rebellion he maintained that tite Boers were Herr Zietsman owned soft impeachment that he had him self boys White just before leaving N an order from one of the members 6i the Dutch triumvirate in the three boys and three According to Lord these statements will weigh heavily in the judgment of the British fear that his lordship and his party will be The English have been bewildered by the contradictory evidence asto the of the with which the papers have been occasionally flooded for two whom the Tories brought at Williss Rooms on Monday will not decide the They are not strong representative They ti 1 hey are sufferers by the policy which the present have and there fore they are ready to play into the hands of the they are not accredited spokesmen for the great majority of the in habitants of the They to speak for white and black but their right is not made The interests of the who are the immense are not identical with these representatives of who con fess to a little dabbling in have committed so many blunders already in Cape that it behoves us to be very cautious the mild agitation begun week in Williss Rooms has an origin of yery suspicious aspect No party nor class her subjects is inclined just to put implicit faith in the opinion of the Marquis of He in this of a Transvaal as a discredited but inevitable leading a despe rate move for place and The Transvaal question is an unfortunate one for a party It is lull of mortifica in which both the great parties of the Hate have a Both have committed It is possible for the Tories to convict of The war was a mis and so was The annexation of the Transvaal was accompanied most provoking conditions and The Career of Sir Bartle Africa was disas both under the last and the present Go the Transvaal debate can be only a series of charges and counter of the most unprofitable was rash in 1877 in sanction Ins the policy of Sir Theophilus Shepstone but the present Government were equally unreason forfeiting pledges which had been Mid in one year what they granted the The independence of which the Boers were deprived under the has been re stored to them by the Liberals and now two are sent to tell us that both courses under the of the party if committed the first Lord Salisbury and his friends rely for their support from the the circumstances under which their opponents yielded to the Dutchmen of the To grant conces sions on the morrow of a defeat is not to assume a position that commends itself to a proud aud courageous It is clear that there is a re ugly and shabby look about the termi nation of the war in the and the restoration of virtual to the men who had been fighting us for But the Tories Mil gain nothing reminding Englishmen of a passage in our colonial history they would fain forget nor by endeavouring to raise political capital put of existing complications in the settle ment of our relations with the of which they are joint authors with the Queens present The slight debate raised by Lord Car narvon in the Lords on Friday was to say the least of it SPECIAL SUNDAY CONTAINING ALL YESTERDAYS LLOYDS NEWSPAPER SUNDAY YESTERDAYS THROUGH GENERAL July is now sleeping Throughout yesterday the President continued to do the return or fever in the afternoon being slighter than on any day since July Reyburn states that the case does not present a single unfavourable The physicians not only for the President s but arc to feel EXHIBITION AT July general exhibition of arti cles connected with agriculture and forests was opened Numerous exhibits were sent from Austria aud July Jete given yesterday evening at the Bellevue gardens by the German naval in honour of the British was of a and successful The senior British officers withdrew before while the princely personages remained from nine until 10 Her despatch boat Lively has arrived A number of officers left today on a TURKEY AND July the Greek Minister has representations to the Porte complaining of the establishment of a Turkish Customs house at the bridee of and has further requested the Ambassadors of the Powers to support his The after conferring together on the have cometo the conclusion that Porte the as the demarcation of the frontier in the Arta district is At the same time they Lave promised individually to request the Ottoman in the interests of those per sons in Arta whose property is situated outside the Customs officials until the question raised has been definitively July tha Venezuelan has received official des patches from dated June 30th and July showing that the reports recently circulated of the outbreak of a revolution in and the ill ness of President Blanco ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN THE About 11 on Friday night a woman named Alice shot in the head in by a man who afterwards shot The man was about 30 years of from the his supposed to be a tailor and it has been ascertained that he had been living with Watkins for about 12 in a court off A few weeks she decided to leave and went to live at The man frequent over tures a but this and it is supposed that it was in a fit of jealousy that the shot was fired by The on going out to see what had found the two Iving on the Watkins was at once removed to the Metropolitan iFree while whose wound was the more serious of the taken to the house of in In Ms case reco very was the bullet having penetrated The bullet fired at Watkins entered angle of the right and caused what is considered to be a very serious There was not much external but internal hage She never lost and made statement to the surgeons and the nurse who attended to her to the effect that the attack upon her was caused by Lying close by Robinson on the was found an ordinary four of the cham bers of which were still expired five oclock in the morning from his He Jay at whose surgery is opposite to where tlie outrage was till about four in an unconscious it being feared that a removal would cause The bullet in the from which the brain Shortly after being taken to the Metropolitan Free about five minutes walk from the death ensued SCHOOL FEES FOE NECESSITOUS On Monday deputation from the Warring and other School boards had an inter view with Earl Spencer and with the object of urging upon the Government the desirableness of placing in the hands of the local school authorities the duty of paying the school fees for necessitous but Their memorial stated as thelaw these pay ments were in the hands of the local guar of applying to such a quarter was felt as a degradation by poor but re Earl Spencer said there were great difficulties inthe way of the subject being dealt with just An act of Parliament would of course be and any attempt to change the law would involve almost Herculean the deputation in their desire to bring the class as little as possi ble in contact machinery of and added that he had opposed the substitution of boards of guardians as machinery in con the He should be glad to some machinery devised for the abolition of the appeal to these At the same time he thought in the power of the boards of guardians themselves to find a remedy for the grievances com LORD THE San speaking at of over Lancashire and Cheshire Orangemen in on Tuesday said Orange organization was nearly to take a important by the noble the Emergency committee in He pointed out that awave of lawlessness liad over the from Nihilism to Com and and this was mixed up with a spirit of and contempt of whom their forefathers had pare to meet the great foe ofthe future in ing and the purity of their which werp assailed by that and disturbance whom they had prevented from en tering was so culpable an act English Government as leaving the working people of Ireland to become the prey of a League that was connected with the revolutionists had become to us by the Governments fatal He believed in raising up every class by by improving and by rating colonies with the mother TRIPLE the Queens bounty of three was forwarded to wife of a for a triple The were born on the are very and consist of two girls and a GLADSTONE IN Yesterday who last night attended the Queen at paid a flying ere she left to the Pancras Vestry where she distri buted the prizes to the successful exhibitors of the fifth flower show of the Sunday is in connec tion with a mission work carried on by the con of the was a very good cue 825 specimens of window gardening being shown by 450 children to whom plants had been distributed early in the The Duke of the Baroness Sir Lady also sent cut During the afternoon the Lord Lady Lady and several notabilities visited the which was crowded with the value from one shilling to five were presented t Thomas of carrying Horticultural societys and for the best plant in the At the conclusion of the distribution private secretary of the addressed a few words of con gratulation to the children on Gladstones in reply to a vote of thanks moved by the Oswald and by Mrs who was loudly expressed her pleasure at being announcement of her non attendance having been said she had been kindly released from an engagement by the Crown Prin cess of on her Royal highness hearing the ob for which had to The Concordia Or society and the Kyrle society gave instrumen tal and vocal THE ROYAL HOSPITAL Yesterday afternoon the new wins of this which is situate on Putney was formally opened by the Duke and Duchess of in presence of a large and fashionable The of the new building was laid two years ana will accommodate upwards of a hundred 1iie building altogether accommodate 300 The amount required to the building free of debt was and towards that sum a liberal subscription list was While the com pany assembled in the large which was tastefully the of the guards a variety of popular On the arrival of the Koyal visitors they were received at the entrance by the committee of and conducted over the build ing and from thence to the assembly where they received a most cordial Archdeacon Burner having offered up the chairman of the building read an address to their Roval iii which he stated the proceedings of the day were shared in by 450 outdoor who were now in receipt of the suni of There was an actual roll of 632 inmates and His Royal highness re plied in suitable aud expressed the hopa that the institution would continue to do as much good in the future as done in the The ladies then passed before the Princess and laid on the table before her their purses numbering and the sums in each varied from five to ten There was afterwards a luncheon in the marquee on the at which his Royal highness aud in rbe course of his in proposing success tothe wing of the said that after going over he had come to the conclusion that it was more like a comfortable hotel than a The toast was enthusiastically The secretary announced the amounted to Princess having subscribed 25 The proceedings closed with the toast of The The Royal visitors then left but the great of the visitors remained to enjoy themselves in the FOR THE WORKING On the invitation of the Duke of an in attended was held yesterday after noon at Grosvenor consider the claims of the Metropolitan Medical association and its sub in order to extend to the work in in part and its en virons on terms within their and tent with their independence and the advantages of medical treatment on the same satis footing on which it is enjoyed by the nuter including skilled and tender nursing and a to a general or hospital the case requires The James p and supported by Sir Rutherford Timothy Sir Sir read a letter from the Duke of stating that he had received a tele gram desiring his attendance on the Queen that afternoon and that he therefore re he could not as at that impor tant He had tiken 500 fully shares in the Metropolitan Dispensaries company limited The Chairman added that what they proposed to do was during the past 12 founded the Metropolitan Medical ami ly its side they had a oi which Sir was the The association undertook the pro to choose the sites of dispensaries for the first year of trial until the institution was The had capital of in as many shares of approving would build and a and let it at rent to the local body of the In the right gentleman made an appeal to those present to up in the Several addressed the and numerous shares were taken up by the gentlemen COLLEGE FOR WORKING Last an agreeable soiree was held at the College for Working the principal ob ject of the gathering the distribution of certifi cates to 32 who had successfully passed nations in an ambulance The which is for the education and improvement of young women engaged in has a number of educational some 200 students assembling every evening for instruction by voluntary lady entered fur the ambulance lectures being given by of The which were given by the Johns Ambulance were last night by 6be Viscountess who supported by representing the In one of the rooms of the college there an exhibition of and in another private theatricals were indulged the piece being The Happy the the and other objects were rooms being thronged with Major and others ds of a knowledge of ambulance work and We understand that since the college has been seven the demand for advanced instruction has a fact which is attributed to the operation of the School STEAM LAUNCHES ON THE Bench division before Baron field and a special the action Newcombe to recover damages for the result of a fatal collision which occurred between the plaintiffs skiff and the defendants steam launch on the river The action arose out of accident on the near of July when the plaintiffs wife and a and her two daughters lost their The facts were made public at the and the defendant was tried for manslaughter the Old Bailey and Evidence in support of the defendants case having been the jury gave a verdict for and judgment was entered Samuel William and Owen Mac surrendered to on a charge of being in possession of 18 cases of contraband Maltese The called on a restaurant and offered the cigars at much below duty Cox agreed to and after storing the boxes challenged the prisoners with being regained possession of the and They were apprehended for but acquitted of The prisoners pleaded and were fined and the to be THE victim of af shocking act of brutality was admitted to Westminster hospital A voung woman named Catoline aged residing at had a disagree ment with a man the house where she and during the altercation the man knocked her jumped upon and bit her through the A surgical examination at the hospital showed that her ribs were broken on both her jaw badly and her body bruised all INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL AND SANITARY There was a brilliant largely composed of in the Albert 011 the oc casion of tlie opening in connection the International Medical and Sanitary which is being heldin the buildings of the Albert and in many of those of the Royal Horticultural It may be the exhibition is and exceeds anv similar exhibition ever Shortly after four the chair was taken by Earl Spencer Lord President of the who was sup ported by Earl Sir James and others eminent in medical Earl who said he believed the ex they wero about to open would be of great value by bringing together the experiences of medical men and ot sanitary belonging not only to this but to every part of That would be a advantage to all who have the health and the prosperity of the community at heart The exhibition would be greatly enhanced by the important International Congress of Medical which would be held in London next The exhibition was divided two medical and the Those interested in the medical profession would find almost every surgical invention and appliance which could conduce to the comfort of those who had to undergo and they would find every from water to the bitterest If they went to the sanitary depart ment they would be struck with tho infinite scope and breadth of They would find not only the best models of house inside and outside the of all the best systems which had been invented to carry out drainage and not only but models of the best modes of wanning a of lighting a of constructing the best and of securing the best And they could see how to go about decorating houses without poi soning their when they invited by the paper on the He most heartily wished the exhibition every at the present moment but also a more per manent so that it would enable those who had the management of that admirable the Parkes Hygienic to place it on a perma nent after the leader of hygienic reform Reports were then read of the Executive committee oi the Parkes by the and ol the Exhibition the who was said that at a moment when London had its hands so full of business and of the presence there of so large a number was very significant of the by the objects of tile Many remembered the remarks of Archbishop Whateley with to the great problem of food for the agglomeration of human beings in the impossible it would be for the Government to do it there were other things almost as and one was most essential as for and for the suppression of He believed that this city was most imperfectly provided in this The question was one of very great but ic was essential that the principles should be and not understood by in order to produce a healthy public opinion on such matters as this was exactly the sort of information upon which an exhibition like that was reasonably Her Government were perfectly alive to the interests of those great sanitary questions They knew how impossible it was this to push forward measures on such but there was one measure respecting the flooding of which had arrived at a point at they might hope it would be passed into which would greatly improve the of towns and In the noble ear wished the exhibition every Earl Spencer then declared the exhibition amid loud THE PRINCE OF THE Last night the Lord Mayor entertained at a banquet in the Egyptian hall of the Mansion the Prince of the members of the Royal Colonial Institute of which his Royal highness is and a number of representatives of tho The which consisted exclusively of num bered upwards of Among guests were the King of the Sandwich of the fiarl of Kimberley Napier dala tho Speaker 9f the House of the Earl the Right Hou and Sir British Premier of RAILWAY as the Mid land train from due in Birmingham at was Bearing the ticket it came into collision with si London and NorthWestern that was shunting some empty The driver of the Midland train had his brake and he sounded the whistle sharply several times for the guard to apply his although the two engines the force of the collision was not very and only thB passengers in the front carriages experienced any considerable Both buffers of tlie NorthWestern engine were broken and plank was The Midland had the face of one of knocked The accident seems to be due to the points being left so that the shunting engine ran on the A curious surprisingly unattended by loss of took place at Portsmouth dockyard early on Tuesday It is customary to run the workmen who are engaged upon the Inflexible to and from the ship by means of open trucks and a At seven as over 100 men were being conveyed to their in three the engine being owing to some defect in the shunting the two kept on their way while the third truck and the engine turned off on the other Tlie result was that two of the trucks were capsized but though the men were thrown in all lives were About nine men were in but only two THE or THE PENNY Tues day a meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers was held in the Ashby the petition of Patrick disputing that the scheme for a penny postage was the conception of the late Sir Rowland and praying the commis to use their influence with the Sir Rowland Hill Memorial Fund committee to obtain a reply to a dated the 7th addressed to them by the on tlie was but on the motion seconded by Wash ington it after being ordered to be laid on the ACCIDENT IN on Mon day evening aa accident happened to the circular railway which has been running for some time in the Alexandra palace The consisting of a small engine with vertical boiler and three open travels round a circle having a radius of about to While proceeding at a considerable the two hind carriages were thrown violently off the Fortunately there were few people in them at the time of two women sustained rather serious one having several ribs Two boys were cut about the and a man had his leg ov LOUD marriage of Lord eldest son of the Earl of to Miss Cavendish solemnised yester day morning at Petersham by special The ceremony was Unusually a detachment of the Horse with the SURRENDER OF THE Capetown tele gram says that the paramount chief of the who has so long defied all attempts to capture has with his He has been placed under and will be with his in their old FOUR PERSONS yesterday morn ing three young Bessie Ellen pupil teachers at the National and Annie dressmakers and a young man named Thomas were drowned while boating in the River Brue at BATHING Friday morning three ladies who were on a visit to a friend were caught by the tide while and one of named Miss from Somerset was A railway named Peter who attempted their lost his WIMBLEDON The winners in the Alexandra series were clared the chief amongst whom are Private 1st 65 Corporal 1st 64 Corporal 1st and Private 1st West The Prince of Waless prize was won by Sergeant 5th with 86 points and next to him in order were Private 1st Newcastle Corporal 1st Norfolk and Private 1st 82 points Lanark has thus added another to her list of Private 5th the winner of the Telegraph a full seven bulls eyes for the Snider Association In accord ance with the he fired three other shots in casa of a and made two more an No other competitor made the full and Lath is the The China shot for by 10 men from each was won by Devonshire with 378 Next in Older to them were the with 377 with 376 and Middlesex with 373 The Lords and was won by tin by 440 points to The National Challenge for teams of representing was won by Scotland by 30 the total being The Duke and Duchess of Teck visited the cami during the the usual service will be held in the morning under the Umbrella when Body will ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIP Yesterday afternoon the second annual athletic appointed by the Amateur Athletic was held at the Aston Lower The though rather dull at was and much cooler than has prevailed for some days The attendance of spectators was exceedingly or being present upon the of the results of which are Tha prizes were presented by the wife of of Bir Richard 100 Yards flat heat 1 2 3 4 Won same between second and Second heat 1 2 3 won by two Final heat 2 3 Won by half a six inches between the second and the Weight 16 Jump Race Raby finished and Merrill also but all three the latter fall ing from exhaustion just before the completion of after keeping Raby close com pany for that Flat Race 1 2Won easily by four in 48 35 fastest time on ing the Hammer 9Sft HIM 2 after a good by a yard and 2 2 15 One Hundred and Twenty Yards Hurdle heat 1 2 won by ten Long Jump Jump Two Miles Steeplechase John 1 2 Spartan Won easily by 19 7 35 BICYCLING AT THK CRYSTAL the Lee club held their annual race meeting at tha Crystal in the presence of a numerous The winners were as follows Mile Championship 1 2 Won by 5 yards 3 1315 Miles Championship 1 2 C Won by yards 45 Invitation 1 2 5 yards 6 1015 BETTING IN GOODWOOD to ast to 2 Zealot to 1 Edelweiss to 1 Brown Bess Incendiary reported to 4 Peter Bend Or to 2 Iroquois to Pere Brine Shortly after one oclock in the afternoon the brigade were called to where a fire had broken out from some unknown cause in a workshop at the rear of the The measuring by and its contents were greatly Small fires occurred during the day at Old and YESTERDAY NORTH SOUTH About minutes yesterday finished off benefit match at as his hand was did not go in to and the Souths second in which wickets had fallen overnight ended for Thus the North gained an easy vic tory by an innings and 91 The North scored 409 in their first and the South followed on 197 and THE SEAHAM COLLIERY official report of this by persons their lives on September has been presented to and states failure to arrive any clear conclusion as to the place or cause of the the inquiry has been by no means barren of Professor Abels experiments and the writer of the port have given a greatly increased importance to the questions already stated and illustrated by Frere Mar Lindsay and other respect to the dangers of and it is to be hoped that further attention will be given to this the Seaham disaster adds another warning to those emphatically given by previous but still on two points of the highest importance in colliery If the view of the proprietors as to of of the explosion is this disaster is another that of the Risca of the unsafely of the Clanny Davy is even less a rapid ventilation gas is If the other view is correct this disaster is another instance of the urgent necessity for prohibiting the tiring of shots when any large numbers of men are DISTANCE OF THE David the Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good has published his calculations of the solar made from observations of the planet Mars in the island of Ascension in The result of very ela borate computations makes the horizontal parallax which will give as the mean distance ot tha earth from the sun EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF singular charge of libel was heard at the court on A publican named charged a master named Langley libelling him by inserting in papers a false announcement of his with a view to injure him in The stipendiary magistrate said the act was evidently improper bnt he did not think it came within the definition ot In the Dublin the charge Thomas distributor of stamns in the Irish Court of Queens forged a die and sold forged was From the statement of the counsel for tha it would appear that the accused has issued leveral thousand pounds worth of forced
