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KERSHAM MANOR CHAPTER XXXV. nwfJ**> They were gono. father bad seen thorn off ; she did not more away (ruin the quay until the ve***l wa* but a *pewk on the gray horUon. A sensation ot great loneliness cams over her when at last she turned to go. They were passing completely out of her lit*. She had don* her ntmoct for thm a* long as she could ; She had not don* much, it i* true, hut *lill etmcihing had lain within her power and ha 1 been acoomj listed. Twice she had given Nina back to her husband in heart and aoul ; twice she had revived the flickering flame of love which seemed so diilicult to keep alive in Nina'* celf-centered heart. When Esther looked her last upon them, Meliestiau arm wa* round his wife, while he, evidently diawlvedin tears, wa* leaning upon hi* ihoulder. It had occurred to Nina that Esther would be a tuefel companion to her in South Amer loan solitude*, and that she might be gor- ernees to Roland and Muriel. Sebastian, oa the contrary was annoyed with her for making theofTer. " Not at all likely that Either would throw up her car- eer in order to teaca our children," he said rather shortly. " You entirely misunder- stand her position." " I dou't know what you mean," Nina replied. " Esther has no position. She earns her own living. And she would be much more comfortable with us, with all her want* provided for and a good salary, than rushing abont to meetings and litting In an office juit like a man !" "You forget that we are not in a position to offer her a good salary. And there are things in the world that she might prefer even to 'being comfortable.' " "Then she is very foolish," said Nina decisively. " What else can anybody w*nt r S*b**ti*n kept silence. It was no use trying to mske Nina undeniand. Bui nothing more was (aid to Ktther un- til the day of the departure, when she stood alone with Sebastian for a few moment* on the deck before bidding her friend* good- by. " I do not know what Nina will do with- out you. I wisli you were coming too," he aid tmiling, yet thoroughly in earm-it. "I wish 1 were. 1 wish 1 could have ac- cepted Nina'* kind offer." "It i* like you to *ay so you have a heart of gold," said he, with more emotion than he wa* in the habit oi showing. " You have done everything for u* during tb* last month I hall never forget how good you have been. But we could not poesiMy have expected y ->u to ,o with us ; she should not have sug edsuch a thing." " Don't say so. I feel a* if I had been self. isli to refine." " You were never selfish ; you do not know how to lie selfish," said Sebe>stian. " You give your whole life for other*. . . . Either, forgiv* a* if we all of n* have asked too muoti from yon ; and do not forget ui when we are awav. "I shall not forget," Esther breathed rather than spoke. " No," he said, looking into her face with SOTS lire in those melancholy eye* than ihe had seen of late ; " do not forget n*. It is a great thing to know that we nave a friend like yon, Esther, true a* steel, faithful to th* heart'* core. If ever I am la need of help I shall come to you." Some, electric spark of feeling flew from " You don't know anything abont it ; I reign supreme." said Phil with a dainty little toss of her head. " Shall w* 1*11 Esther our plans, Jsok ? I know that she will nol think that we are foolish and mad, a* Mr. Has lam did when you told him. . . It may even be that she will think we are doing right who knows?" " Who knows, indeed ! The world's opinion matters very little to n*, does it, Phil ! Vtiss Unni.on well, Esther if you are going to allow me a brother'* privilege, as Phillis says you will we are going to leave Scotland altogether, and make our abode in London." "I am sorry for my sake to hear it," laid Either frank y, " but I nuppose that you have found somsthing to do in London ? ' "Of a kind. Vou see, I shall not want to do much newspaper work again " Esther saw Phil'* grasp tighten on her husband's hand : Jack's impaired eyesight wa* a great grief to Phillis, although she seldom men- tioned the fact "and yet I don't mean to be idle, although we have enough to live upon iu a quiet way. During the last few month* I have heard a good deal about Phil's past life. And like herself. I feel lhat if there is anything to be done toward lightening the burden of the multitudes who are sla/ing and sinning and suffering, it must be done through individual effort, and that persons who have thne and money and leisure, as we have, are the very people to make tbal elTorl. We want to go and see whether we can do anything for the poor Phil and I : 1 don't know yet whether we an, but I hear that there are thing* to be done, and we want to find out what they are." Phil began to laugh, bat there wa* moil- ture in her eye*. " It sounds quite grant- as Jack put* it, doean't it ? Bui we are not going to do anything grand at all. And we are not going M be oody either. Bnt there are *ome people that I used to know in Whitechapel who want looking after, and we mean to find them, if we can, and look after them. That's all " " That is a great deal. Yon will do what is worth white living for," *aid Esther, with almost a sigh. " Oh, I don't know !" cried Phil airily. " We are only going to tinner ourselves. We don't mean to distribute tract* or opeu soup-kitchens or preach doctrine, of any kind except the doctrines of *oap and water and fair pay for a fair day's work, perhaps. W* want to make friends with the people. When 1 lived ihere " her voice sank " I had no friends at all, and I wanted them sorely. I think 1 might be a friend to some of the workwomen and girl* in Whitechapel, be cause, you see, I have been one of them myself and I know I know *o well what their life mean*.'' " Ye*," laid Jack, who wa* looking at her intently, and, a* it teemed to Esther, almost with a lort of reverence. " Phillis has come through th* furnace. She knows! difficult to believe tbat they can befall us peraonally, or swallow up all that we bold moat dear. Esther was at firat incredulous. Then the horror of the event took hold of her, and her nerve*) quailed at the vision* that would continue to hover before her eye*, of drowning men and (hrieking wom- en, and little children engulfed beneath the terrible wave*. . . . Never one* did *be think or even feel " Now Sebastian may come back to me :" The thought would have esemed blackest treachery to her white and sensitive soul. She loved Sebastian so perfectly, and yet o little passionately, that she was one witn him in his sorrow ; that she could think of n J thing but hi* grief for the woman that he had loved, for the children who had been to him all that Nina had failed to be. And even though Nina had not satisfied th* re- quirement* of his higher nature, father kuew how he would mourn for her and think of her with tender regard and almo*t re- moneful (teedfastnea*. Her own tear* fell honestly for the loss of her old friend the pretty child, the bright attractive girl, the lovely bride, and later on the fragile but winsome wife and mother, whoee shallow- ness oi nature was half concealed by the glamor of her beauty and her ever-varying charm. And the children I Which has been taken and which left? The baby, no doubt, was dead ; but had gallant Hollo or lovely little Muriel gone too? Alas, for th* sweet child-face* that would be seen no more I And alas for Sebastian in his lone- lin-ss I Esther's trouble of spirit was augmented by the fact that she could obtain *o few de- tail* of th* calamity. She did not know where the La Touches were now living. Cecily, long her correspondent, had ceased to write to her; the Maleu of Kersham Manor were not likely to know much about tho matter. Be*ide*,th*y were al*o in trou- ble, for their little buy had recently died of croup, and Esther 'lid not like to write to M r*. Malet for news of Sebastian and hi* wife. MUs Meredith sen' her a newspiptr con- taining au account of the shipwreck, and a few words about the way in which the sad new* had been re *ived at Kersham and Kennet's Cireen, where the La Touches were so well known. But this wu not much. Her face grew pale, her eye* hollow and heavy with deeples* watching in theee day*. When the postman'* knock wa* heard, her heart bxat so violently that she felt as if she were suflocating, her limb* trembled beneath her, strange lights pass- ed before her eye*, strange noiees sounded in her ears. And when, day after day, she was doomed to bitter disappointment, she would turn cold and sick with reaction, and sitting down on the chair from which be had risen in the fever-heat of her ex- citement, would feel her pulses drop M deathlike famines*, and her heart (ink lo it* usual level of silence and despair. And in this way. little by little, she learned to understand, as she had never understood before, the depth and reality of her love. Sir Roland used to lay with a she understand*. And .he will teach me [smile that love and hate both shorten to understand. I never thought how dark, I life, Bnt who, thought Either, would bow cheerless, how bitter, the life of some of those work-girl* must be, till Phillis ttughi me." " If life ii an education, as many people think," laid father slowly, " it seem* a* though your troubles and sorrows, Phil, hvi all tended toward this one thing this love of the poor and this desire to help them." Phillis said nothing for a minute or two. choose to live long at the price of experi encing neither ? " Calm's not life's crown, though calm i* well." And the love that had been for so many years a torment, a well spring of sorrow, had al*o become to her a precious poeseeeion and even an abiding peace. She sat alone one evening, feeling more keenly than usual the cheerleeeness of th* ipring twilight, th* touch of chill which his eye* to hers as he spoke. For a mo- ment it was olear to him clear as it had never been before that this was the woman whom he might have loved, had his sense* | face, which turned a little pale acd aasum ed the rigid look that Either knew too well Her eyes glittered ; her lips took on a curve of indignant scorn. not been beguiled by the merely physical , " ' llonlt "I'*; '' '" exclaimed, charms of a lovely girl ; that with Esther " Mv own troubles taught me nothing, for his wife, he would not have missed bis Do " l y u k " ow vhat J cou1 ,' 1 '?*! *~* mark.squanderedhischances.faltered inthe P* m belter than other people? Hut I can t high a.p. ration, with which he had entered | lt , r * tl '. l ." ld " OJoy my "" whl ' 8 tber P "' p ' 6 ""And "He-Tit was over. The (hip wa* That was the keynote of Phil's life. And although she resented, as some ptople do the notion lhat she had been named The hall -assumed gayety fell away from her I oamo with sundown in her easterly-facial hip wa* almost out of sight when Esther turned round and walked steadily back to the hotel where she and her friends had spent the previous night. Hhe went straight back to Uunrou, r*- fining a preumg invitation from Mia* Meredith to slay with her for a week or two. Hhe had been away from her *>ork for *om Urn*, and felt mitinctively that it would be good for her to return to it. Al the office her fdlow-workers gave her a w irrn welcome, after their own fashion. Har 1 as *he tried to live in the present ami dissociate herself from her past. nt, by means of pain and sorrow to reach after higher ideals, it was certain that, the in- tensity of hi r sympathy for others could never have been gained without some of the sad experisnoes which she had undergone. The happiest livee are tboee, thought Esther, in which all previous experience proves at last to hare been training for special work. With Phillis and Jack this seemed to have been the case. Phil's life among the poor, Jack's career a* a journalist, had fitted each for the years .he wa. muoh troubled by a sensation' of which , . many per pie are more or less conscious at '" " h,t-hapel. " making friends with some time in their live*--e haunting *ens* the tollers and worker, of IheKast End. of iuoompletenees, known meetly lo young Bllt ^' "' "" loose. To what had people or to unsuccessful elder folk. ", It ten led hitherto? And wa the purpow, A little break in the darknes. cam. with ' the meaning of it all, still to be unfolded ? t vl.it from I'hilln and Jack. Mr. Wyalt hail been placed in a quiet, respectable horns, under reasonable restraint, since Philhs's marriage Ss far Sir Kolaml'* money had made life easy to them all. Hut Hsnry Wyatt was not to be controlled. In spite of careful attendance he got away fnim his keepers now and thsn and drank himsnlf into insen.ibility. A violent fit of 1/r/irntm frvni'in finally brought his nareer to an end. Phillis cam* back to Dunroa* to *ee him laid In the grave, and with her oame her husband, who had given up his that they were, as it turned out, to spend the romance, the battle, and the victory still to comet She did not think so. But how little do we giiee* what a lingl* hour may bring fonh ! CHAI'TKU XXXVI. wi r I1BU lealtWII i I post upon the staff of the Chronicle,, and lu ,|,|eii fear. FROM TIIK fttA, " English Steamer Wrecked : Great Loss of Life. It was en this heading that Esther'* eye* had fallen ; and her heart contracted with as for th* tim* being an Idle man. Hut he did not intend to be Idle long, a* he as- sured Esther very seriously. "No," said Phillii, "he i* going to lie huy ; he I* going to take nervioe under me, and fulfill all my beheit*." They were all three In Esther'* ilttrng- room, where the evening light wa* stream- Uml . yry few'of the pauenger* had been ing in through the wmdox* with a golden , mV6 il. The ve.sol wa* nol a Urge one. and |lory whloh reminded K.ther of a certain ,| hl not | w | ong lo an important line of vsniiig not many month* ago,wh*n Phillis, I ,u,amers ; there had been few pa*srngr.r* In a willful mood, h.j danued a measure on on board, and these, for the most part (he house-tops. Could she be mistaken ? Wa* it not in- deed the Alliinia in which Sebastian and Nina had left England ? \Vre there two Albinia* bound for Valparaiso in the world? For it was th* steamship Albinia which had hem wrecked In a furious hurricane . wrecked, as it appeared, almost in sii<ht of sitting-room. It was seven o'clock, and the sky was goKlen with reflections of the setting sun. Esther *at by a window, her eye* fixed on the broad river and distant hill* which she cnuld see from her windows : her head was leaning upon her hand, her hack turned to the dour. She heard a knock, but did not look round ; it must be < 'at hern. i- with the lamp no caller would intrude upon her at that hour. But it wa* not Catherine. "father father " .She knew the voioa. She roee from her eat trembling, putting out her hand as though to protect nersvlf, to thrust away from her the *emblanoe of one who wa* far <li*tant, whose image was just the offspring of a disordered brain, or itrange lingering of superstitious fancy the phantasm of a dying man, the doppelganger lent to an- nounce his own immediate death. She did nol believe for the moment she could net believe that Sebastian Malet wa* standing at her door. His gesture*, his feature* even, seemed strange to her. He wa* ghastly pale, and hi* face wa* worn and lined so muoh the twilight revealed and the hand which he stretched out to her wa* bony and shaking a* though from long protracted illness. H* stood silent for a moment, and "he saw that his figure swayed sliirbtly a* if he were dissy. This *ign of physical weaknese re- called her to herself ; she touched him with one hand as U to support him, and contact with commonplace broadcloth sent idle fancy to the winds. It wu Sebaitian indeed ill, worn, haggard, unlike himself ; but why had he come to her t " I have brought you my children," he eaid hoarsely, a* if feeling the need of an mutant explanation of hi* appearance. "Nina is dead ; and I lam afraid I am going to be ill again : take care of the chil- dren for me." And then, to Esther's infinite alarm, he fell down insensible at her feet, (TO BK CONTINVID.) POETRY. rhe Silent On*j- Under the gr**-j nod. Under the xwaying willow*. I>')wn 'neath the bmli and dower* Kloepiniraway the hours, Far from the path* the? trod. Tu-jy lie on their clajrvy pillow*. There at the dawn flnt peeping. Thurc when the nigh I comet weeping. The ilenl one* ore *leeplng. Under the drifting mw. Down 'neath the naked tranche** Under the nun and nleet, Hwiri are the hour* and fleet. Kar from the care* we know, Safe from grief* avalanchw. There at the dawn Or*C peeplnf. There when the niitnl coioen weeping. The silent one* ore ulceping. Hiagan Falls- 1, * POLLOCK. B.A. Stupendoui Tide of never-ceasing wonder! Almighty Ko intaan framed by Ood's own hand! Ke*l*lle** Torrent lolling tone* of thunder! Type of Kublimlty -uprcmely grand. That mock* all work* of man ronown'd In atorr : That thrills with awe the bravest of the brave; That fl N the aonl with thy unrivall'd glety. And makes man feel God'* presence I* tby wave! Terreotrial Temole of r-elextial token ! Similitude thou'.t none on land or *ea ! Ko metaphor by human laofruage spoken Can htlf the vlorr tell that dwells inTnee: No artlnt'a hand tho trained to Nature'* U>ry. On canvas t'nted with a Titian'* skill. Can ever make*o rral thy wpudrou- (lory Or with so deep an awe our spirit* fill! Like voice of thunder from the heavens toll- in*;: Like trumpet sounding at the Judgment So speaks thy voice of thunder-water*, rolling In grand nuurnidcenoe and wild dimay : And yet, could we but read creation's story: Could we God's wondrous works but under- stand. We'd *e how dimly ohine* Niagara'* glory Be-idc the world* brought forth oy God's command. -lKe*wick. Jan. 17th. 1KM. No 8ons Like the Old Soon- Why don't they xlng the old songi the dear old song* of yore. The song* we sunir in happier day*, now gone forevermore t Give n* a 'train of " Bonny Doon," with a' it* bank* and brae*. And tell n* of " Highland Mary.* whom w* dearly loved to pral-*. Let uprinirtlin* come and flower* bloom the bird" ring out their lay. So we may meet, down by the brook, our own " Sweet Maggie May.* - The little wiu-blog Maggie. rail the day. Oh. how I loved her none can tell. Mr little Maggie May." Tune up the old banjo just onoe and let your The Old Ken- andlettr note* in melody to tucky Home:" All band* join in the o be free, Oh. weep no more my lady- weep mo more for me." There'* aomething rympathetlc In tk* noes *f day* gone by A tendrrnees th.it *ort o bring* the teardrops lo the eye. Tho' ynar* hire fled and I ao old. my heart with r*Dtare well* When mem ry. In it- backward flight, return* to " Kitty Well." " You vk whit make* thl drky weep Why he. Ilk* o'JiT. am ol gay : \VhMmake-itheteararolldown hi* cheek From early m-rn till cloae of dajr. My *iorjr. darsto*. you hall hear. K.ir in my mem'ry f reh U dwell* : Twill cauM yon nil to drop a taar On the grave of my sweet Kitty Well*." ' Ti* Year* Since I.\*l We Me'.' alas. lng comrade* with a will. The old familiar nweot refrain. " Her Hrisrht Smile lUiinU Ma Still :" And " Nelly Wan a L*dy " l a *ong I'd like to h*ar Every day and every moment of all the live- " I I)r.''ami lf f*l>wcll in Marble Halls." "Then \ ',.! II Koniernb rMe." And "To night I Am a Widow In the fotteff* by the Sea." Are the rong that cften solace me when I am ad and lone : They rr old -oiun. but I love them a 1 lore "Sweet Hollo Mahone." " Soon berond t ho harbor bar Shall my burk be Calling far. O'er the world I'll wander kine, Sweet n*lle Mahone. Sweet Belle Mahone. Hweot liolle Mahonr. Wmt for lot at he.tven'4 gito, Sweet Ilellc Mahune " Li?hU." Th creal gray noa and the headland* bold. The tall gitunt tower of the hrfhthoum old. The rhttnml" 1 boat of tho ware* below. Gleaming white a* the wintry MOW. Tli" minset flame* and mol<len away. Kirlni; the Mil* In the Inwrrbay. And too beacon nwintc* it" burning light To muty *ca and coiuinu night. And niKweritg light* are kindled afar. Kroni nx-kj- nhoro and from *andy bar. That fl.txh re<poulTB and Krveting urnd. Ijkr the loving vuioe of an absent friend. Hum on. burn on. O *l|rnal light ! Klmif out thy mrevage to I he night : In dark now drn'r and ditngt>r hour Thou art a mighty aaTing power. I.Ike loyal heart* that lore andclUkl 1'hriiith al the ill that fate r*n bring; That ihine forth with a boauty r*>r Through nlorm and ahipwrm-k and detpair It wu ponible that 1'hlllit thau|(ht of it loo lo hr own whimiloal way, for the in<1- dcnly jumped up, and Iwgtn to ilanco a (ew tr|x and mini a tune. "I've not forgotten how to ilanc-e, you '.' (ho laid mliohievouily, oomlng to a hall in front of father ami looking at her with (loeful, irarklliiK ryei. " Marriage aai not tamed m* yet." ' No, ihe n a ihrew that might defy r.-'nirlu.i," eaiil Jack "I aur* you that I in miller her thumb completely." " H lia* on will of In* own now," Mid t'hil wiokedly. "He ha* abdlnated ; and 1 am i|i<rn." K*thnr ahook nrlnce-ooniort," .ai.l, King, not at foreigner*. The wreck mltflit pom My have ttraoteil leu attenlioii liut for the fact that Mr. Hebattlan Malet ("nrpliew," a* the people *aul, " of Ihe late dUtlnguUhed liiplniiiatKl, Sir Knlaml Malet") >>*.) lieen on board with In* wife anil family, on In* way to Valparaiso. Mr*. Malet, the paper* went on to lay, nnd two of th* ohllilren had been Inet, and Mr. ,V.l.-t. althoui(h MVIM! from the wreck, wan Mrlou*ly III and icarcely eipooted to rroovor. TheM wr* all the deUlll that Killier heard for many a lonj| J*y. At flnt lie found the n>w* Impo* ili!* to believe. There was lomething tn her whloh rebelled agalnit thli entenoe of fatn. It li eaiiy to read of I terrible JiMiUri by fiir, Mid ', and IK Henry In On*, i. Martini The Ramsuatv C.um'y Court Judge, *ay tho Iximlxii Time*, wa* the other day en- gaged several hour* in hearing a dispute be- tween Italian organ grinder* for their share of earnings during a term of come month*. In th* course of the caee it was slated that the plaintiff earnel ofttn VI per day, and never IMS than 7*., a sum of 114 being rariinl by two men in thirty eight weeks. It also tisnipired that the defendant was able to put J.MO in the Post Office Saving. Hank for himself and a similar sum for a daughter; that he could afford an occasional trip to Naples; and that once, when he was arrested by the Kamsgate police, a sum of I'M) was secreted in his belt. The Judge eventually gave judgment for the plaintiff for i'J. a seventh share of the earnings, snd for the defendant for 48 4*. 6d. on the counter claim for money advanced and food supplied. THE WEEK'S NEWS CAXADIaJf. It will be necmary before the next Do- minion general election* to *upp!y a de- ficiency in the number of ballot boxee to the extent of about fifteen handred. John Wright, a porter at the Cantor t>oue, Wuodftock, ha* been mixing for over a week. It i* thought he ha* been the victim of foal play. The poet-office at Kinmount, On*., WM entered by burglar* either on Saturday light or Sunday, and fourteen regutered tten, forty dollar* in c**h, and *ome xxtage *tamp* were taken. It i* understood in Montreal that the ne- gotiation* for the tranifer of the Richelieu uid Ontario Navigation Company have More people hav died from cold* than were ever killed In battle. During the *iege of Sebaatopol the bat- terie* of the allied army threw into the be- ivged oity over vIO.OUO ton* of (hot ami .hell. The coat of th* artillery firing a the value of the gun* ruined and condemn*! i* eetimated at P*XM*\M*V Napoleon Bonaparte WM crowned emper or ol the French t>ec. -, 1S*M, and won the battle ot Au.trli:, hi* greatest victory, Deo. U, !>". Loui* NapoTeoa Rooapexte, Preeident of the Mcond French Republic, wa* crowned a. Napoleon 111. Dec, 2, Is The meet curiou* city in the world 11 *ittimt*d on Sagmaw Hay, an arm of Lake Huron. It i* without a name, ha* a jpu- lation of about MX), and coniiite of modern hut* on heel*, to the number of I M, which, when th* tlihing iea*on arrive*, are rolled on the ice in the bay. During the Franco-I*ru**lan war the German* fired 30,000,000 rifle cartridge* and 363,000 charge* of artillery, killing or mortally wounding 77,000 Frenchmen, bowing that 400 (hot* are required to kill or mortally wound one man. During tb* rooet peaceful year* the world ha* ft. 700,000 toldirra, who are withdrawn fi<-m productive occupation* to < a* toldiere. The jy, equipment*, 'nod and clothing of the** men oo*t the '.il'i taipayer* nearly V'.UOO.OOO a day. Hooper, who is now in the 1 hree Riven gaol, i* itill very hopeful of hi* ultimate) acquittal, but i* very bitter at being sab- lected to a second trial. Mr. A. E. Preacott, a market gardener, >f Chatham, Ont., while driving into tows Saturday night, wei struck by a train at a railway crossing. His skull wa* fractured, ind be also sustained severe injuries to bio xxiy. He i* not expected to recover. At the We*tern Oairy men's convention at Ingeraoll, a resolution favouring the dis- continuance of making grants to th* In* dnitrial Ezhibiiion al Toronto, and the Western Fair at London, for the purpoee of award* on cbeeae, and giving them in- stead at the annual convention, was refer- red to the Executive Committee. Mr. J. B. Snowball. Senator, of Cb.t- lam, N. H., who wa* in Ottawa Ust week, say* bnsinee* in New Brunswick is in an unsatisfactory condition, owing to th* pre- vailing low price* for fish and lumber. Mr. Snowball think* th* passage of the Wilson Tariff bill would greatly improve trade in 11* province. If r. Win. Dcnbar, proprietor of the Dna- T home, Kinmount, Ont., and Mr. Ro- aert Co'.Ungham, a blacksmith of the same >laee, were drowned in Pigeon lake on Friday night. A March party discovered the team and cutter frozen slid" in the ice but the bodies of the unfortunate have not yet been found. BRITISH. Imperial aid to the Canadian- Australia steamship service i* strongly recommende 3j the London Time*. An extraordinarily high tide on Thursday night demolished sixly yard* of the sen wall al Sandgate, Kent. Mr. Robert Reid, Minuter of Defence for Victoria, who i* at present in London, will eave for Canada in March to endeavour to establish reciprocal trade arrangement* be- tween hi* col any and Canada. Michael Walsh, twenty-eight yean of age, who in 1 >*_' was sentenced to life im- Kisonmenl for shooting a constable in Ual- way, ha* been released from prison in very >or health. On Sunday the British barque Port Tar- rock, lying in Brandon bay. County Kerry, dragged her anchors during a storm, and wa* driven on the coa*t, where she .truck >road*id* on. Saw wa* battered to piece*, and all on board, numbering twenty six >ersone, were drowned. fMTED STATE*. Th* International Mid-winter Exhibition as opened in San Francisco on Saturday. There are one hundred building*, which contain the exhibit, of thirty-eight nation*. A man named Elias (iraff, living near Reading, Pa., claim* to have invented a telephone based open an entirely new prin- ciple in acoustic*, which girts wonderful result*. Under the Wilson Tariff bill a dvty of naif a cent a pound i* placed upon freak ith packed in ice. Representative Look- wood succeeded in having his resolution passed admitting fresh fish free. At the execution in Chicago of George H. Painter for th* murder of his mistreat, Alice McLean, the rope broke and the man fell eight feat to the stone tl x>r. Hs wao picked up bleeding and unconscious, and hanged the second time. Painter protected in the most vehement language that he wa* innocent. In the debate on the duty of barl-y in the United State* Hone* of Representative* on Saturday. Mr. Lookwood, Democrat, from New York, said he lived wilhin two miles of the Canadian border, and he knew that the duty on barley or any other agri- cultural product did not help the American farmer on* cent. A band of striking miner*, compote 1 of Hungarians, Slavs, Poles, and other for- eigner*, did an immense amount of dam- age to mining and private property in the neighborhood of Hridi|eville, Pa., on Satur- day. A band of armed citizen* wa* organ- ised and the miner* were punned, and after a conflict sixteen of them were captured. OIXIKVL. It i* elated in Pan. that th* Government intend* making (weeping arrests of An- archist* and to detain thtm in prison until after Vaillant i* executed. The Czar i* suffering from a severe attack of iniluenia, accompanied by bronchitis and inflammation of th* right lung. An insurrection i* expected to break oak in Oporto, and a fleet of warship* ha. bead sent from Liibon to preaerve order. Yellow fever i* increasing in Rio. There were twenty-five death* from the disease on Sunday. The consensus of opinion in Berlin papen is that the reconciliation of th* Emperor and Prince Hi*raarck is a personal affair, having only indirect political significance). There wa* a turbulent scene in th* French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday. Mr. Thieveyer, a represents! ivs of the Socialist party, in*i*tcd on interrupting the proceed- ing* of th* House by snouting "Vive la Commune," and he bad ultimately to be re- moved from (he Chamber by force, The appointment ol Count Herbert Bis marck a* Herman Ambassador to Austria, a* th* fint r* It of th* reconciliation be- tween hi* father and Emperor William is regarded in Vienna a* a very possible event. The United Statee Lei;* t ion in Rome wa* broken into on Sunday night, and large qnantitiee of papen and archive* were burn- ed. Nothing wa* stolen, and the police are at a lee* to account for th* itrang* boe*v diarism