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THE QUEEN'S SPEECH, Itiiriiinh, Kgrpt, IrnlHDil. the ColonleH, tlie l''liili«rl<m,<'umuii-rrlHl U«|irmai<>ii Hud tliH tlubllee Toiiclii^cl Upon. A. last (Friday) iiit>ht'B Lioudon cable gives the remainder of the Queen's Speech as (oUowB : The treaty between Great Britain and China, with reference tu the relattona between China and Burmah. haa been ratilied. The 'lo'iSdent ho;>e I ex- presaed thai a general pai-irimtinr r'. But- niah would be cfTected during the jireseut year haB been fully realized. A settled government in being gradually introduced in itB remoter districtH. 'J'he convention which vraB concluded between Turkey and niynolf for the purpOBo of defining the con- ditions under which it would be possible for me to undertake the withdrawal of my troopB from ligypt at a tixud date has not been ratified by the Sultan. The course of action imposed u]x>n me by my obliga- tions to the ruler of the people of Kgypt remaiua unchangad. The presence of my forces has secured to Kgypt the blcssiagh of traiKjuility, and Ims enabled me to effectually support the Khedive's efforts to promote good government and the pros- perity of iiis [Jeople. I have agreed with the President of the ('uited Ktates to refer to a joint couimission the diflicult (juestiiins respecting the North American lisheries which have recently been discussed by the two uationa. With singular satinfaction 1 mention the assemblage of the tirst conference of repre- sentatives of my colonies ever held in Lon- don. Their deliberations, directed to many matters of deep practical interest to their respective communities and conducted iu a spirit of hearty c<.>-oi)er»tiou, will, T doubt not, a<ld strength to the affection by which the various parts of my Kmpire are bound together. The cjueeu thanks the House of Commons for the liberal provision for the public B0tvices. and continues, there is Home ground for hoping that the grave dejiression under which all commercial and industrial interestK have so long suffered is assuming a less severe character. I deeply grieve to add that there is nn miti- gation of the Butlering under which large portions of the agricultural com- munity continue to labor. Th>' wants and difficulties of Ireland have occupied your close attention during a protracted session. 1 trust the rcmedius your wisdom has provided will gradually afi'ect a complete restoration of order in Ireland and give renewed eiicotiragi'- ment tr, jwaceful industry. In order to pass them it has been necessary to pustpime many ini|)ortaiit maasures allecting other partis of the king- dom, which, doubtleas. you will be able to resume without hindrance ut the coming HessioD. Alter reference to allotments, coal mines, iiierchaiidiite marks and crimi- nal procedure m Scotland Act. tin- Queen concludeH : This year, the iiUIh anniversary of my reign, has been the occasion of the ozprussiuii of fervent loyalty, which has tieuply touched mu. 1 am indeed truly thankful for the warm, hearty proofs of affection which have reached me from all clasaes. In thankiug God for the bleasingH Ho has vouchsafed me and my country, 1 trust I may be spared to continue tp Teign over a loving, faithful and Quitsd p<k)ple. The QuHon's speech in ,Ianuary last Bpeoilied tlfteeii measures, the passing of which was deemed iiecetuury t > the pros perity of the aiuntry. (Jut of the fifteen six have jmssed aud become law. vi/.., the Irish Crimes Kill, the Irish Lund Bill, the Allotineiil Kill, and three other meusures uecuhur to Hcotland. .Nothing j>artii'ular lias been >i»n« for KiiglaiKl, and everybody aeeiiih very giad to have bemi 1, t alone so Heverely. rarliameiil has sut for a period of thirty-three weeks and Iium lost by doatir five members, and by elevation or RUi:ces nion til the (leerage, uigiit, whiU'twenty-llvr now itieinbers were iiitrodiici .1 .luring the Beasioii. A FATAL HALIire. TniiciHly Ml the Ht«. Auo« llimiipre l-'e«tlvl- iim |py Mir llnrstlnB i»r an Olil C'nniioii. A Quelwc (leapatch Hays : The iii'iVk of A terrible iiitcident. through an explusioii of a cannon, has just readied the city from Ht. Anne, growing out of the ceienionies nt the iHji'onation and blessing oi the Statue of Hi. Anne. His Hniineiice Cunii nal Taschereau. nearly all the bishops of the Trovince. !I0<) olnrgy and about Kl.dOO lieople assisted ut the celoinony. 'J'lie little villtti'e was en /id', and to udil to the .HUCcesH ol the <lenioiistratiiiii iiiree <:aiiiuiiiH, winch had been orininientH in the lawiiH at lleiiu|iort Asyhmi for years, wore Bhipfied to Si. Anne for llie purjiose of firing ft salute on the arrival ami departure of the I'riiice oi the Church. Hveiything went well iiiilil the boat conveying II is Eminence was leaving the wliarf, v.'hen the villugors again went to lire oiT the guns. One nf tlieiii exploded an' ' ' ' <<iei:cH of metal were blown in all di.-.>.i.Jiui. One report stated thai three meti were killed ontright, while a seooiid rop.irt Rays that only two men iiaiiied IMlodo^.i) ami Hylvaiii were probably fatally iiijriV(!,l, .nil n boy, name unknown, was picked ii,; in an iincnnsciouH state ninl liit i leniaiiied ho over since. It lu said the luiiun of the oxploslon was the age and uned ti[i condi tion of the t,'uim, and the fact that they had not heun sponged, ahhongli iiseil in firing vollev after volley all diiy. As there iH III) tele^;n»pliii: coiiiiertion with Ht . Anne, the e.\uct details of the jnjiirie'i to the victims cannot tie learneil nutil tomorrow. A MuseiilarDlirUMan. Wednesday forennim an Uev.Mr. Hhorcy, of tlieHherboiirnH Htreet MnthodiHlChiircii, Toronto, was walking from hi.i reiiidnnceon Carlton towards Hlierb»iirneiitrent, a horse and buggy niiiuiH a driver dashed pant him, Koiiii; west. In a moment the rev. gentle man was rnniiinu after the runaway, which lie overtook. H« soi/.i'd hold if the top nf the buggy, which wa.i down, and while miming and holding on tothehuggy Vasscd ahiiig to the sidu iind nei/ed the reliiH and Htopped the horse, got nito the buggy mid turned to go aaHtward, mooting on Bleeker .street the coaidiimiii, from whom the horse bad escaped uii lllueker Htr<)at. POLICE VS. MOONLTGHTBBS. Partleulam of the AITray tu Wlileli ('uu>ta- lile Wlitilelian Loat His Life. A iJublin cable says : Details of the murder of Constable Whelehau by moon- lighters at Lisdoonvarne on Sunday night have reached the city. The police, having learned that a party of moonlighters would visit the house of a farmer named Sexton, made arrangements for their capture. Con- stable Whelehan, accompanied by a do;wn other officers, went to the place designated. I'lvfc of liie force v.'eru j'lawH in Sexton's house and the others in a shed near by, while Whelehan himself acted as sentinel in front of the house. When the moonlighters appeared on the scene the door of the house was opened and three of them rushed in with loaded riffes in their hands. They were in the act of searching Sexton when the police secreted in an adjoining room rushed out and a tierce encounter ensued. Two moonlighters who, among others, had been left outside now tried to make their escape, but the police placed in the shed prevented this and drove them into the house. While the tight was proceeding in the house two other outlaws attacked (Nonstable Whelehan on the outside. Policeman Connell ran to Whelehan's assistance, but was immediately knocked down by a blow from a clubbed ritle and rendered in- sensible. Whelehan wasquickly despatched, and the body, with a loaded revolver lying alongside, was afterwards found some dis- tance from the scene of the murder and removed to Sexton's house. Connell was also carried to the house, and at last aocouiits was recovering. Whelehan was a highly esteemed officer. He had been twenty-two years in the service. He was detailed to attend the Prince of Wales during the tatter's visit to Ireland. The I'rinco at the time presented him with a souvenir in the shape of a gold pencil case. Two of the moonlighters taken into cus- tody are sons of well-to-do farmers, aud the others are laborers. All of them â€" ten in number â€" were taken to Galway and placed in jail to-night. A crowd had assembled on their arrival, but no sympathy was manifested for them. It is stated that the leader in the attack on Whelehan has turned Queen's evidence. LOST IN TU£ AKCTIC SKA. Terrible Tale of Hn1U>Tlng by the Nolttary Survivor of a Wrecked Crew. A Victoria, B. C, despatch says : Capt. Warren, of the schooner Owner, arrived from Sitka yesterday. He stated that by the cutter Bush there atrived a sailor in Sitka who is the only survivor of the whaling schooner Napoleon, which was wrecked in the Arctic two years ago. He tells a terrible tale of suffering. The vessel got crushed in the ice, the crew haviug to take to their boats, and the man who arrived in Sitka was one of the eighteen who were on the ice for thirty days. During this time his seventeen companions died from starvation. Ue was picked up by some Esquimaux, and lived among them until the trip of the Bear into the Arctic, when he was found among his pro- tectors. The cutter brought him down and connected with the Rush in the Beh- ring Sea, the latter bringing him to Sitka. KNOWSTOKM IN THK ALI'H. Tl Ilur- Willism Hamilton, recently arrived from Kn^laud, wan rubbed 'f n noM watch and nhaiii, worth alHiiit; ^15,1, \v\\\\f in n hotel on Clialioille. (Kiuare, Montreal, on Thnr;; day eveninu- i)olphii;i Colin and I'olis I<'orest were sent up for trial on the charge offaaviog committed the theft. l^liipreHH iif AiiMtrla AliiioNt l.4iiit IliK H niituutatu AHfieuU A London cable says : Tlio Ijmpress of Austria had a somewliat uniileasant experi- ence recently. The Ivmp'eBs is almost as ardent a mountaineer as sii> .>n» a horse woman, and during liir slay at Inctil went in for a great deal of mountain climbing. One day she made the as-;oiit of the Getli- feld, and, according to her usual cuBtom, took with her l>ut a small ;>iii«i of attend- ants. When half way up a snowstorm came on, ami the Ijmpress and her party were at that moment going along a narrow path a little better ttian a mere ledge, which wound round ttie face of the moun- tuin. To ailvanee was impossible and to return was eipmlly dangerous. So tlie Lmpress had to rliiig to the face of the precipice in the blinding snowstorm, for the s|>ace of more than an liour. At the expiration of that time the storm abated, and an attempt was made to descend. A relief ))arty, whiuli had been sent up from Isclil, when onc<i the position of affairs became known, Dnally rescued the Ini )ierial (larty, and tlie Lmpress met with an ovation (m her return to her villa after her dangerous experience of .-Vlpiiie iiionn tainiHiring ^ A N«w Kxplonlve. A London cable says : It is re|>orted that the llusHian i\liiiister of War has just ciHichided a serieu of experinientN with a new ex)iloKive conipcnind which liids fair to outdo the ijualllies of melinite, robusite end nil other explosives whatever in its a)ipllcatioii to all present uses of gun powder, 'i'his new I'oiiiposition is destinetl, say many persons, to revoliitioni/.c the cxistiiiit HyHtein III iiinmunition. It in the discovery of a Uuhhioii enginiM'r, and has been chriBtened Sleetova. Its strength is equal to that of proxy line, and it has the immeiiKt! advantage of iHiing ten times idicaper than the ordinary villainous salt petiii. .\notlu'i greiit superiority which it possesHi'S over nil known motives of the ilynainite clas,, ih that when tired itH force does not Htrike downward, but entirely in a forward direiaion, so that it can be used for all purposes of (cannon and iniisket iiharges to wliioli ordinary gunpowder is now applied without any ilaniage whatever to the weapon friini which it Is diHcharged. It IH stated, in fai^t. that ball cartnilgcs loaded with it liuve been lired out of card board gun barrelH, iih a test, without the least iniiiry to the latter. So satiBfactory, indeed, have been experiments that it is rejiorted that the Minister of Wai is about to have a H|iecial factory built for its lnanllfal'tllrl^ The lompouition of the new compound is a profound secret. IIIh I'lrni tVlhi IImm Her ReveiiK«. All ICrie, I'a., ilispatcli says: William Weariie, of I'unzance, ('ornwall, came to America lifteen years ago, leaving a young wife and three cliildreii in the old country. He located in Krie three years ago, went into the marble biiHineNH and made money. He was iiiari'ied last Christmas eve to an accDinplished yoimu lady several years his junior. He was inlliieiitial in the society of the Sons of St (ieorge, and his public wed ding was brilliaiitly eelobrated. Last ,liine the ihiglish wife and daughter arrived in this city and Wearne was ariested Ills trial occurred tn day on a chargeol bigamy. The defendant swori' the I'.nglish woman was never his wife. She was in court and tainted at the ileiilarat. on. 'I'lie jury was out only lifteen niinii.eH and returned a verdict of guilty. Ono thousand jieople at teniled the trial, and the result was cabled to Mrs. Weariie's frionils in Kngland. 'i'ho defendant will go to the ponitentiary IJdwaid OarberiN , while working in the Don Itiver improvement works, 'J'oronto, last iiiglit, wiiH Hiirioimly, if not fatally, injured by a iiiass of oartii at least two tons in weight falling upon him. His oonditiuii is critical. Th« total loss of the San I'rancisoo wheat cornoreiH is now put down at about 1«7,."i(l(»,(l()(). A heavy [rosl occurred throughout the Alohawk \'alloy, Now York, im Kriday night, levelling all kinds of vogetatiou. Latest from tlie Norttiwest. Messrs. Trow and Paterson, Liberal M.I'.'s, left Victoria for the east on Friday. They will stop off at a number of places along the line on their return journey. The roof of the Immaculate ('onoeption Church blew off with the high winds pre- vailing last night. The funeral of the late Archdeacon Cowley took place this morning to St. •John's Cathedral and was largely attended. The Bishop of Hu[)ert'B Land delivered the sermon, after which the remains were taken to Dynevor for interment. It apjiears the reduction announced in wheat rates by the C. I'. U. yesterday does not apply to Manitoba, but is a similar re- duction in the grain tariff east of Port Arthur to that made on the western divi- sion last week, vi/.., three cents per bushel or about five cents a dundred. A correspondent, writing from Banff on the 12th iust., says: "Lady Macdonald, accompanied by Miss Macpherson, arrived here on Thursda> morning. Most of Thursday she sjient with her daughter, whom she was very much grati- fied to Iind very much improved in health from the sojourn at the springs. On Friday morning she went on a handcar to Anthracite, and on her return rode to Devil's Lake, where she was charmed with the scenery. On Saturday, accompanied by her daughter and Miss (ox, Miss Macdonald's companion, and Miss Macpherson. 'jady Macdonald started for the Pacific coast with her car attached to a freight train, us she wished to travel through the mountains in daylight." The fall race meeting is now taking place. The horses entered are mostly local. Bishop Lafleclie, of Three liivers. an old Northwest missionary, and a large party of QuelK'C priests, arrived to-day to. attend the cunsecration of St. Boniface Cathedral on Sunday. They are the guests of St. Honi- fauo citizens. The visit of the clergy will have much weight, it is hoped, in inducing I'rench CaPadiaiiK to settle in this country instead of going to the I'nited States. Nothing of importance) was adduce! at to-day's sitting of the Court on the Brown ing injunction. Mr. Munson, for the con tractors, will enter upon his argument to- morrow morning. 1 » THE HOUSEHOLD. lat from Ireland. Professor Baldwin, a well known antfao- ritv on agriculture, died on the Hist ult. in Dublin. The (rordoii Highlanders have arrived at Belfast to relieve the 7l8t Highland Light Infantry, who have been stationed there since IMS."). One hundred and twenty-one meniliersof the House ol Lords own land in Ireland, wliK^li is valued, ai^cording to the Poor Law valuation, at i;i,H42,li:i:i per annum. ilohn Reilly has Imh^ii sentenced at Gran- ard Petty Sessions, under the C'rinies .\ot, to three moiitfas' hard labor for ttirowing lime on a Imiliff and a pohoenian at Cool doney. I'ho self-styled Rev. Dr. Keating, who was seiiteiiood in Dublin to eighteen months' impriBOiimi'iit for obtaiiiini; money under false pretenceH, was liberated on the 1st iiist owing to ill health. He goes to .Australia. .-Vii extraordinary fatality occurred on the iHt iiiHt. at Kilkee, on the west coast of (iiuiity Clare. Throe young ladies were on the roi^ks reading, when a huge tidal wave suddenly broke over them and washed them away. One young lady saved herself by clinging to the rocks, and another was resiuuui, but the third was swept out tnsea and drowned. In Ireland during the present year l,.'it'iL'. I('i4 acres were planted witli cereal crops, being a decrease, as oompared with last year, of 'JS, (too acres. On the other hand, tht^re has been an iiu'rease of 7. IH4 acres under green crops and l.',ill2 under Max, niuUini^ the net acreage under tillaue ls,7!l-l. In niiiauow and tdover under (Miltivation there hut, lieon an increase of I'.l.H'J'.l. Thus, III the i^xtout of land under crops of all kinds, there has Ih'oii since last year an in crease of ;iU,ri3,'> acres. .\dvni'S from Zanzibar have been rooeiv ed to the effect that the mesBengers sent by the consuls to apprise Kmin Bey that the expeoition under Henry M. Stanley had been sent to his relief have returned. They state that they reached Lake Albert Nyanza, whore thev met Kmin Hey return ing from an expedition to the rsiingora (Hinntrs. I'lniin Bey was greatly surprised at the near approaidi of the expedition, and warned his troops occupying posts on the western shores of the lake of the approach f Stanley. I'lniiii Bey then returned to Adelai to await the arrival of the expedition. The inesseiigerB report that a tierce war lioH been waged between the King of Tgaii da and the jwople of Cnyoro, in which the former waedefeated. The country between liake Albert Nyan/.a and Lake Maritani-.ige has been devastated by the belligerents, and (lUHsuge is dillicuilt. Hon iloseph Cilley, the oldest United States Senator and veteran of the war of IMI'.', died at Nottingham, N.H., on Friday, aged mi. INlarU Bkiiiner, of Chicago, who, as I're- Hideiil of the Sanitary Coiiiinission, col lected and distributed t>i'i(IO,(KUI to sick and woiindeil soldiers during the cMvil war, died on Friday night at MaiicheBtor, Vermont, aged 7l'i. He had been in feebli^ health for sometime. An estate of #1,(100,00(1 is left by him to his daughters. How to Do Ever So Many Housewifely Duties. Grape-water Ice. â€" Grape-water ice is in season, and is delicious. Take the juice of four lemons, half a pint of water, one pint of sugar, two glasses of grape juice ; mix these well, strain and free/.e. French Mustard. â€" Slice an onion in a bowl and cover with good .'inegar ; after two days pour off the vinegar, add to it a teaspoonful of cayenne popper, a teaspoon- ful of salt, a tablespoonf ul of sugar, and niustard enough to thicken ; set on a stove until it l}oils. When cold it is fit for use. Pudding Sauce. â€" Arrow-root sauce for bread or rice puddings is made of two tea- spoonfuls of arrow-root, the juice of one lemon, a little grated nutmeg, half a pint of water, and sugar to the taste. Wet the *rrow-root with the water, stir it until it is -mooth, add the other ingredients and let it all come to a boil. Peach Cake. â€" Bake three sheets of sponge cake as for jelly cake ; cut nice ripe peaches in thin slices ; prepare cream by whipping, sweetening and adding tlavor of vanilla, if desired ; pet layers of peaches between the sheets of oake ; pour cream over each layer and over the top. To be eaten soon after it is prepared. Pickled Cncuml>ers. â€" Make choice of those which are small and not too old ; pat them into jars and pour over them a brine made of two-thirds of water and one of vinegar, with salt in the proportion of a pound to three pints of liquid. Put the brine on the tire till the salt is melted, let it Btand to settle, and before using pour it off clear. When it is wished to use the cucumbers take off the rinds and dress them like fresh cucumbers. Peach Fritters. â€" Make a batter of two well-beaten eggs, half a pint of milk and a little salt ; beat very smooth and light, and then pour in the remainder of the milk and eggs, to which is added a tablespoonful of butter or olive oil. Peel and cut the peaches in halves ; dip them in the batter aud fry them in boiling fat until they are a delicate brown. Serve on a hot dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Gold C:ake.â€" One and one-half cups of aogar, two-thirds of a cap of batt«r, one cun of sweet milk, three cups of sifted ffour, yolks of BIX eggs, one even teaspoonful of soda aud three soant teaspoonfuls of cream tartar. Stir the sugar and butter to a cream, add the yolks after tieating them thoroughly, then the cnp of sweet milk and tbe Hour, through which the soda and cream tartar should previously have been sifted. To Can Peaches. â€" Rab the peaches bard with a piece of flannel or coarse crash to remove the rough surface, but do not peel them. Make a symp of one cupful of sugar to one quart of water. When it is lioiling put in the peaches aud cook slowly until they are tender ; then put them into the cans and pour over them the hot syrup and screw on the covers. The flavor of the {leach is retained in a greater degree than when the skin is removed wholly. Pickled Peaches. â€" Make a syrup of two pounds of sugar to one quart of good vine- gar. Put into a little muslin bag one table- spoonful of each kind of spice, tie t^iH^- and put it into the vinegar and sugar. Pre- pare the peaches as for canning and cook them in the syrup until they are tender, but not too soft ; then place them in the jar and pour over them the hot syrup. Put the spice bag into the jar with the peaches. Peach Shortcake. â€" The oake is made of one pint of flour, one teaspoonful of baking |K>wder, one saltspoonful of salt, and two taliles{xx)nfuls of sugar passed through a sieve, and then mixed with four tablespoon- fuls of butter. When thoroughly mixed moisten with one teacupful of milk. Bake in two deep pie plates in a quick oven. Have the (waches peeled and cut in slices. As soon as the cakes an> done cut them in halves, butter them, and arrange the slices of peaches between the pieces, sprinkling with sugar. Serve warm with cream. How to Restore the Rubber Rings of Cans.- The rubber rings by the use of which fruit cans are made airtight, after bluing used, become hard and unyielding, so much so that fruit seldom keeps as well when they are used the second time. Though new ones cost but little, it is not always convenient to get them. Kvery one should know that the elasticity of ths old ones can be reHtored. and that they can bv iiiaile as good as new by baking them a half hour in a mixture of ammonia and water â€" two-thirds ammonia and one-third water. Try it. How to Prevent the Breakage of Glass ,Iar« in (lanning. â€" Now, in fruit-canning season, the women of the household, to whom we are so deeply indebted for the good things we eat, should be told that the trouble so many of them take in warming glass cans before putting hot fruit into them to prevent breaking is all needless ; that, in fact, it results in breaking more than it saves. By placing the cold can on a wet ra^ taken from a dish of cold water it may be tilled with fruit boiling hot with- out the least danger of breakage. The only requisite is that the cloth be fully saturated -and with cold water. Prepared Pears.- M this time of the year a good many families have such quan- tities of ripened pears that they can neither eat nor profitably .lisiioBe of them. A lady who has tried it finds this an excellent use to make of them : ('utthom in thick slices, slew them, and then, in an open oven, dry them thoroughly, if it take two days. They come opt all lioneyod over with their owii sweetness, and fig like in their substance and eonsistency, at once suggesting both raisins and figs. And they are excellent eating, far finer than any one would txilieve « itlioiit trying. They will kiwp, it is said, a year or two. A USEFUL BUBGLAB. The transfer of the St. Martin A TTphani Railway to the Central Railway Company, of New Brunswick, has been sanctioned liy the (iovernor-in-Counoil. I'orty. eight colored men were arraigned at iletTorson Market Court, New York, on Saturday for gambling. 'They wore all arrested at the (5riteriou and (laterers' ('liibrooniB. .lustiee Gorman discharged them, saying that they had as mooh right to gumbla in tlieir own club rooms as the members of the 11 nion League or Manhat- tan C'luba had in their rooms. It was at tbe end of April. The Gor- hams had gone out to their country seat at Penn-Bhyn much earlier in tbe season than usual, and, as it was intolerably dull with nothing in the world to do, they had asked a dozen people oat to spend a week in all sorts of unconventional frolics. Sally had three or four charming buds for her guests, among them Madge P&Uiser ; her brother Jack had brought several willing victims from the club, and the old Van Coovers came to amuse papa and mamma Gorham and keep them oat of mischief with an innocent rubber of whist in the chimney corner o'ni^hts. Madge was tbe blithest of the blithe. All tbe men adored her openly, save and except Thomas Fotterall, Esq., who never wor- shipped publicly at her shrine, though ho often watched her furtively from afar off with something more than ordinary interest in his half-shut eyes. One night Mr. Fotterall had been sitting beside Madge in the group around the fire, but only Sally's quick eyes had detected the glances they had not infreijuently exchanged. In the bustle attendant upon separation for the night nobody noticed how long the gallant Tommy was in hand- ing bis charming neighbor her l>ed-rooni candle stick, nor how the rich crimson flushed not only her clieek, but her tliroat ami brows, aa her fingers lay not unwillingly in his strong grasp. Sally flew into the room they occupied together and was already nestled among the pillows, when Madge sauntered slowly in, her eyes dancing and a new expression on her face that caused Sally to look again with surprise, and wonder if she were really growing pretty, after all. " Come to bed â€" pray do I' said Misa Gorham, in a sleepy tone. •â-  I'm coming," responded Madge, iu an absent way. But she proceeded, nevertheless, to pat on a wrapper and let down her beautifnl hair, preparatory to brashing it out and putting it up for the night. At last she looked up. Sally was sleep- ing the sleep of the just, with one dimpled hand under her cheek, the other lying oa the coverlet. The old Dutch clock on tbe landing of the Btairs below chimed out a melodious midnight, and Madge began to think seriously of Ixud. As she glanced up, however, her eyes be- held a sight which caused every drop of blood to stand still in her veins. In the mirror opposite her she saw the door of a closet on the other side of the bed open slowly and the face of a man peep slyly out â€" a bad, brutal, scar-seamed faoe, with bloodshot eyes that scanned the scene with evil accuracy. They saw the slamber'ng and unconsciona Bally, the motionless figure of Madge, eri- dently about to follow her friend's exam- ple and retire for the night, and the little heap of rings and pins that glittered on a table near by. With a grin of hideous sat- isfaction the face was noiselessly withdrawn and the door shut softly to again, while poor Madge laid a hand upon her heart and tried to still its wUd beating. What could she do '.' W'ake Sally, who would be certain to cry out in a frenzy of fright and give the' wretch a chance to annihilate them before they could escape 7 Fly downstairs to the smoking-room, where â- he could hear some of the man, still talk- ing over their cigars, and abandon Sally to her fate ? She raised her head once mora in despair when, lo ! an idea 'â-  Lightly, tremblingly, she rose to her feet, lightly crossed the room, and suddenly â€" heavens, bov the floor creaked ^â€"saddenly she turned the key in the look and had her prisoner safe. How he swore, and stormed, and beat against the door, while Sally woke scream- ing, and the entire household, in a state of dire alarm, appeared upon the scene. The men rushed up from the smoking-room and proceedtKl to extract the offender from hia impromptu dungeon and todeliverbim ^ver to the officers of the {leao*', who were ^um- moned by a watchman's rattle, wielded vigorously out of the window by Mrs. Van Coover, in a paroxysm of fear. There was an immense amount of gabble and explanation going on, unstinted praiae of Madge's oourage aud presence of mind, and then a general rendezvous in the hall below, for sleep was felt to be impossible after all that had occurred. But on the way downstaim, on the duskv lauding where the old Dutch clock had' stoo.l for years and told no tales, Mr. Tom Fotterall and Miss Madge Palliser were detained a moment or two behind the rest, quite by hance, of course, and unnoticed by the others. The red brown looks were in a sad state of tumble ; but the pretty pink wrapper was very becoming, nevertheless, and for once in her life its wearer was really lovely, with happy tears in her eyes and the dearest blush m the world mantling her cheek aa somebody's tender arms went about her and somebody said, softly : •â-  At Trinity, tbe last tif May '. " .Vnd that was all. A very brief moment of blisB ; but the next Sunday a paragraph apjKiared in several gossipy journals which electrified society at large. It said : '• The engagement is announced of Mr. Thomas Ercjuhart Fotterall, who is the only scion of the oldest and most aristo- cratic family in Virginia, and Miss Mar- garet lOuphrosyne Palliser, the reigning belle of the season." It is surely no wonder that a man who is on a bender seldom is able to walk straight. Henry Riodel, a weaver, murdered his wife and il-year-old son at Wilmington, Del., on Saturday morning and then made an unsuccessful attempt to take bis own life. Riedel awoke about 1. 'to o'clock and Baid he was seized with a desire to die, and aB he did not want to leave hia wife and child unprotected he took up a pistol and stole stealthily into an adjoining room where they were in bed. Both were sound asleep and he shot them through the head, death resulting inatantaneously. He then aimed a bullet at his own head, but it glanced and made a deep but not dangerous wound. Riedel is in custody. At a conference of Scottish Home Rnlera held yesterday Mr. Findlater, President of the Scottish Farmers' Alliance, advocated Home Rule for Scotland. He oi>enly declared that the Northern aud Eastern countioa wore ripe for it. A oommitteo was apiK>inted to consider the question ana bring the matter before Parliament.