of Ferrol by the steamer "Fitzmaurice," and was towed into Ferrol, whence, we suppose, it will shortly be brought over to London.

-THE COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.-A telegram from Weymouth informs us that the "Loch Fyne," which was in collision with the "Knapton Hall," was brought into Portland Roads, by a pilot boat last night. Nine persons have been drowned and twelve saved.

18. THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. -Thomas Castro, alias Orton, the claimant of the Tichborne estates, has just been removed from Dartmoor to the Portsmouth convict prison, and not to Portland, as stated. The removal was kept as secret as possible, but at the Bishopstoke Junction it had become known, and on the platform there was a concourse of persons desirous of obtaining a glimpse of the convict. His arrival at Portsmouth was comparatively unknown. On alighting on the high-level platform he was detained for a few moments while one of the two warders by whom he was accompanied hurried below for a cab, which was drawn up at the foot of the stairs, and the handcuffed convict, who was looking well, though much thinner, was placed inside. The party were speedily on their way to the prison at Portsea, having excited little or no attention. The "Claimant" will, as at Dartmoor, be employed in the tailors' shop. He was convicted on February 28, 1874, after a trial in the Court of Queen's Bench which had commenced on April 23, 1873, and was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. He has, therefore, about ten years and a quarter still to serve, subject, however, to any remission on good behaviour, &c., which may be granted him.

22. RATTENING AT SHEFFIELD.—It is said that not since the Trades Outrage Commission sat at Sheffield have cases of rattening been so frequent as they are now, and, with scarcely an exception, the perpetrators escape. There has been a wages dispute among the men employed at the wire mill in Wicker Lane in that town, and all of them struck except one named Proctor. He was told he would be "done for unless he gave up, but he refused. This morning he found that the mill had been entered since Saturday, and all his tools rattened.

23. BRISTOL CATHEDRAL.--To celebrate the completion of the new nave of Bristol Cathedral, which has been erected at a cost of 45,000l., the first of a series of services was held this morning. The sum of 13,000l. has also been spent in restoring the choir and other parts of the interior. The mayor, high sheriff, and members of the corporation were present in their robes of office, and the bishop of the diocese preached the sermon. The deans of Westminster and Canterbury, Mr. Morley, M.P., and Mr. Monk, M.P., were among the very large congregation.

-THE MASONS' STRIKE. The foreign workmen, about 60 in number, Germans and Italians, employed by Messrs. Joseph Bull and Sons, at the new Law Courts, were busily at work all day

yesterday, as well as a part of Saturday. A canteen has been fitted up on the premises, where dinner is served to them, and there is accommodation within the enclosure to lodge many more than the 30 Italian masons who were made the subject of a recent outrage. The canteen is in high vaulted rooms, where there is room to seat 500 men at dinner. Arrangements are in progress to serve meals here to all the men employed at the works, Englishmen as well as foreigners, and to supply it in the evening with newspapers and the other apparatus of a workman's club. Some of the unfinished rooms are to be used as barracks for the further contingents of workmen expected from abroad.

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19. FARRELL, THE IRISH MISER.-An old man named Thomas Farrell died to-day at Braithwaite Street, Dublin. He had been missed for some days, and on the door being forced open he was found in an insensible state, and he died the same evening. the room being searched by the police 83l. in coin, and railway and other securities to the value of 17,733l., were discovered. The room was totally destitute of furniture. Farrell slept on a few rags, and never allowed himself the luxury of a fire.

20. DOUBLE MURDER IN NORFOLK.--On Saturday a terrible crime was committed at Wymondham, a market town within a few miles of Norwich, and but a short distance of the scene of the Stanfield-hall murders, committed by the notorious Rush. By this crime two persons have been most foully murdered. The criminal --for there can be no doubt about his guilt, indeed he fully admits it was a working blacksmith named Henry March, and his victims were a fellow-workman named Henry Bidewell and their employer, Thomas Mayes, a veterinary surgeon, who was well known and highly respected in the town and neighbourhood. March was in the morning sent a short distance into the country to shoe some horses, and it is believed he got more drink than was good for him, though he was perfectly sober when seen directly after he had committed the murders. About noon he had returned, and was at work at the forge with Bidewell, who was blowing the bellows, while March was at the fire. Some wrangling arose between the men, and something which Bidewell said so annoyed March that he immediately turned round, and with his fist knocked him down. He then seized a bar of iron about 2 feet 6 inches long, and inch square, and with this weapon struck Bidewell several heavy blows about the head whilst he lay on the ground. Mr. Mayes, who was upwards of 70 years of age, ran out and remonstrated with March, who, without saying a word, knocked him down also, and with the same weapon battered his head in a frightful manner. March, leaving his victims lying in the ashpit, quitted the workshop, and proceeded down the lane to his home, which was only about 100 yards distant. Assistance was speedily procured, and both men, who were breathing heavily, were removed to their homes and put to bed. Surgical aid was promptly given, but nothing could be done, Mr. Mayes's skull was badly fractured, and the brain protruded.

Bidewell's jaw was also broken, and his head terribly battered. Mayes lingered for about two hours and Bidewell about four hours.

THE SPINNERS' STRIKE at Bolton, which has lasted eight weeks, was brought to a formal close yesterday afternoon, having entailed a loss to the men and other hands in wages of 80,000l. and 20,000l. in strike pay, and a loss of three times that amount, to the masters. The men met the masters' committee yesterday, and subsequently decided to resume work on Monday on the terms of the masters' resolution-5 per cent. reduction and a revision of the standard lists.

22. BLANTYRE EXPLOSION.-A frightful accident occurred to-day at the Blantyre coalpits, near Glasgow, belonging to Messrs. William Dixon and Co. (Limited). There are three pits, in connection with each other, so free from fire-damp that at 6 A.M. on Monday an overseer went over the whole workings with a naked light. It is believed that the excellence of the ventilation encouraged some miners to disuse the safety-lamp, and at 9 A.M & tremendous explosion rushed up one shaft, blowing off one poor lad's leg, and it was seen that the whole of the men in the pitsfrom 220 to 230 in number, there being some doubt as to who were down-must have been killed. So certain were the authorities of this, and so dangerous did they consider the condition of the mine, that they checked efforts to descend until the miners grew furious, and declared that the mines were sufficiently clear. A special inspector has been sent down by the Home Office, but up to Friday few bodies have been recovered, and only one man is reported saved. A horse, however, has been found alive. The excitement is the greater because accidents are very rare in Scotland.

23. BLACKHEATH HIGHWAYMEN.-The case of the "Blackheath highwaymen" came before the Common Serjeant at the Central Criminal Court to-day. Two youths named Dinham and Hyslop, described as journeymen bakers, were tried on a charge of robbing Mr. Hodgson, assistant solicitor to the Treasury, on Blackheath, in May last. It was proved that the two prisoners, who lived at Portsmouth, came up to London last May, and were lodging at Greenwich about the time the robbery was committed, and that they had been found dealing with two bank-notes which were stolen from Mr. Hodgson. They were arrested at Portsmouth in July, and in the possession of Dinham there was found a revolver and a book called "Claude Duval, or the Dashing Highwayman." The jury found both prisoners guilty, but strongly recommended them to mercy on account of their youth. The Common Serjeant said they had been convicted of a serious case of highway robbery, threatening to use pistols, and through their proceedings the whole of that part of the metropolis was for a considerable period kept in alarm. He felt it his duty, therefore, to sentence each of them to seven years' penal servitude.

26. THE ARTISANS' DWELLINGS CASE.-The trial known as the Artisans' Dwellings Case terminated to-day. Dr. Baxter Langley and William Swindlehurst, directors of the Artisans' Dwellings Company, were accused of conspiring with Edward Saffery to defraud the Company, which has founded, among other undertakings, the Shaftesbury Park village, opened some time since for workingmen, with great éclat. The fraud was of the old kind-Saffery buying estates in collusion with the accused directors for, say, 10,000l., selling them to the Company for 12,000l., and sharing the difference with his confederates. The jury considered the conspiracy proved, and the Judge, Mr. Commissioner Kerr, sentenced the defendants, who had in all made 23,000l., Baxter Langley and Swindlehurst to eighteen months' imprisonment, and Saffery to twelve months. The defence of the accused is practically that though they took the money, they did not know they were committing a criminal offence; and the trial will startle a good many directors of companies, in spite of the lightness of the sentence.

30. WILLIAM LAMBOURNE, a child whose age was stated on the charge-sheet as 11, but who scarcely was seen above the solicitor's table, was charged by the superintendent of the St. Pancras Churchyard with pulling a house leek out of a flower-bed there. The churchyard has been recently converted into an ornamental garden. It was said that there were many complaints of flowerpulling. The mother of the child said he was only 10 years old. The child certainly did not appear to understand the charge. The value of the house leek was put at 4d. Mr. Barstow sentenced the child to 21 days' hard labour in the House of Correction. A fortnight of this sentence was afterwards remitted by the Home Secretary.

— HIGH-PRICED DONKEYS.-The price of male donkeys in Poitou ranges from 200l. to 400l. The one belonging to Mr. Sutherland Coombe, Croydon, first prize at the Dairy Show, cost 300l. This animal at 30 months old stands 14 hands 3 inches high, and has strong bone and great substance. It is intended for breeding draught mules from cart mares.

THE MASONS' STRIKE.-The Strike Committee agents were busy all to-day, as it became known that a number of workmen from Canada were on the way to London. A "look-out" for them was accordingly arranged among the pickets. The men were engaged by the agent acting for Mr. J. S. Bird, of the Masters' Association, at Montreal, and left Quebec on the 20th inst. in the "Moravian" steamer, of the Allan line. The party numbered 38, one of whom brought his wife with him. When they signed the contract as masons and stone-cutters, to serve in this country for at least six months, they were informed that a dispute existed in the building trade, but no mention was made of a strike, and the men readily consented to the proposed terms. On reaching Londonderry, however, a pilot came alongside the "Moravian," and shouted "a strike in London." This was the first intimation they

had of what was going on, but after some warm discussion they agreed almost to a man to go to work. They were landed at Liverpool on Monday night, and left by the 10.40 p.m. train, viâ the Midland line, alighting at Kentish Town yesterday morning. Omnibuses were there in waiting for them, and they were taken to the White Horse, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, where breakfast and dinner were provided for them. The men were to have transferred their services to Messrs. Dove Brothers, of Islington, who have several new churches in course of construction, and with the proposals made by that firm the Canadian masons expressed themselves perfectly satisfied. As the day advanced the men with their tools disappeared gradually, until last evening a representative of the firm mentioned was conversing with the sole man remaining at the White Horse out of the thirty-eight fresh arrivals. Where the remainder had gone could not be ascertained. Messrs. Dove Brothers paid the passage money in each case. There are, it is understood, large numbers of unemployed masons in Canada, and another contingent of them is expected to arrive here soon.

NOVEMBER.

2. DEATHS FROM HYDROPHOBIA.-An inquest was held at the Pickering Arms, Thelwall, yesterday, upon the body of John Rigby, forty years of age, of Warrington, who died to-day from hydrophobia. It seems deceased was working at Heatly about a month ago, and whilst at breakfast on the 12th ult., a dog sprang at him and bit him on the nose, he having been playing with it a short time previously. Rigby continued at his work up to about the 29th ult., when alarming symptoms set in. He died soon after. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from hydrophobia caused through the bite of a dog."-A sad case of hydrophobia has just occurred at Gosport. James Hickey, 18, bandsman in the 55th Regiment, was playing with his cat, when it scratched the back of his hand. He was shortly afterwards taken ill and was removed to Haslar Hospital. Symptoms of hydrophobia presented themselves, and he died yesterday in great agony, sensible of his approaching end to the last. The cat, which was supposed to have been bitten by a mad dog, was killed. Deceased was a young soldier respectably connected, and was much esteemed by his comrades.-Rabies has broken out at a village in Somerset called Norton-sub-Hamdon, and it is feared it is spreading rapidly, a number of dogs having been bitten by the animal which first exhibited symptoms of disease. One of the first victims is a man named Lugg, living in the adjoining village of Stoke-sub-Hamdon, a widower with eight