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Uerorms rnnown AWAY. There is little or no uniform worn by‘l our soldiery, says the same correspondent. Officers and men, English or native. prefer karki, a dun-colored stufi' of cotton. The cut follows individual taste among ofiicers, some wearing tnnics, some jackets; trousers, breaches er knickerbockers are used indis- criminately. It is always thus an campaign in'Indis,and Government cannot much longer persist in supplying uniform which everybody discards when work is expected. Karki has recommended itself to practical men alike for color and material. " MURDER as A FINE ART.” At least a dozen of our camp followers have been cut up and literally crimped like a ood- fl'sh by their bloodthirsty assailants. The Afghan, whether he be Turi, J aji. \Vaziri. Mongol or Afreedee, appears to have a method in his murder, and to have studied the'art of making abody look as horrible as possible. We have had men slain in the Durwaza Pass, in Thull and along the road from Thull to Khurum, and each body found has been carved almost exactly in the same fashion. CUTTHBOATS AT WORK. On one occasion several of the followers connected with the transport department dawdled behind either to smoke or eat their food. Turis or Jajis, who had been watching them in ambush, rushed down upon them with their knives. Six of the camp followers were killed; the remainder managed to escape. Afterward some men of the Twenty- third pioneers, who are now in the Durwaza Pass trying to make the road better, saw four Afghans skulking behind a rock, intently watching a mule man who was lagging. The Sepoys ‘- went for” the Afghans and captured three. They questioned their prisoners as to whether they had any weapons about them. Every Afghan looked as innocent as he would, and said he had not such a thing as a knife or a pistol in his possession; never had one in fact. They were all searched however, and each was found to have a sword or knife concealed beneath his dress. Two of the knives were covered with blood. There could xmors roe CAMEL nmvnni. Five camel loads belonging to Third Ghoor- has were looted by hillmen within a mile of camp. When the drivers arrived, covered with blood and clamoring. Colonel Patter- son asked why they had not defended them- selves, since Government had furnished each of them with a sword. They frankly ad. mitted that the tulwar in their belts had been forgotten at the crisis ; but this proved to be an unimportant fact, for the hilt was so so- curely tied to the seabbard that the quickest of them could not drew his weapon under seven minutes by the clock. It was stroll to observe the stolid contempt of the little Ghoorkas around for these big nincom- FQP Mr. Macpherson, one of the very ablest In- dian correspondents, and who is with Gen- eral Roberts.writing on New Year‘s Day from the Khost Valley. says 2â€"“ It is not the in- habitants 01 Khost itself that we fear so much as the tribes whose territory surrounds the Khost Valleyâ€"the Mongols and the Waziris,” and Mr. Macpherson’s opinion is shown by later telegraphic news to have been correct. And as it was these tribes which finally obliged General Roberts to return to Khurum, it will be interesting to know more about them. The Mongols. says this corres- pondent. are a set of professed robbers and eutthroats. They live in black tents and in- habitne regular villages, so that when they commit a raid they roll up their habitatious and disappear. As for the Weziris, they are robbers also, but, in addition to their reputa- tion for being clever thieves, they enjoy the name of being one of the bravest sections of the Afghans. They claim to be independent of any ruler whatever, and, as if it were to punctuate this claim, they lose no opportu- nity of murdering and plundering. A favo- rite trick of theirs. when they see an encamp- ment, is to gather a number together, wait till darkness has set in, and then march through among the tents with drawn swords, cutting at everything in their way, and steal- ing all they can lay hands upon in the general confusion. Not pleasant people these to have as one’s neighbors. Interesting Incident: of the English In- vulon.â€"llnppy New Your in the Khan anluy.~'l‘l|e Helenee oflll .rder â€"A Terrible Hanging Scene. LONDON, Feb. 10. 1879. Though the military operations in Afgh- anistan are not of much interest beyond the brief announcements of the telegraph the correspondents in the field have many inci- dents of camp experience to tell which are well worth reading, and they are important, too, as showing the character of the Afghan. with whom England has to deal politically as well as with the breach-loader. Besides the hostility of the Afghans, the difliculty of find- ing rations, water. etc., and the terrible hill climbing, the invading army has a bitter enemy in Jack Frost. While the sun shines the weather is not so cold, but “ as the sun goes down," writes the Standards correspon- dent with General Stewart at Quetts, “ frost grips one’s hands with startling suddenness, and at its first touch our servants collapse. They seem visibly to shrink before the cold. their fingers become useless. their wits par~ alyzed. A tall and well fed Hindoo, who has tramped his score of miles without an effort in the sunshine, can do nothing but crouch above the fire which all his energies are spent in feeding. He squats before it, a lean heap of clothes, and if you speak to him his brain must thaw before he understands. Servants all cluster in a group, speechless and helpless. No warm clothing comforts them though it saves their lives. A sad case is that of Major Bates. who lies in a state of paralysis, unable to move a limb. Going out of his tent at night with insuflici. ent clothing he fell suddenly as if struck by a bullet. Doctors suppose that the sudden shock of cold brought out lurking disease. THE NArivss’ HEROIC DEATH. “ Native followers have died of the fever, but so quietly and uncomplainingly that the numbers are not to be aseertained. Our party discovered two corpses, and rescued perhaps half a dozen on the road. I know of as many more. If a man straggle toward sunset, or if he sit down, as these people will. in the mused and semi-torpid state I have de- ; scribed, he must surely be frozen unless com-i pelled to move, an accident which dependsl upon the passage of some European. Thel conduct of a native when he finds himself un-i able to proceed is characteristic. He makes no reportfnor even moans, but draws apart, wraps himself up, and quietly dies.” Katie, captions little Katie 1 Why that quickly tapping shoe. Ready shrug and scornful mou’ ‘2 Can it be you mean to scout me ? Just because I'm grayish, flout me ‘? Are you muttering : “ Kiss him ? never ! No, I can't, and no, I Won’t I" 0, you petulant, changeful Katie ! Katie. don’t ! Katie, sl , decefwtive Km 131201; mg I‘ 1 purslue1 Katie, mute, day-dreaming Katie, If I tell your thoughts to you, Guess your dreams and make them true, Won't you cease your coy defiance, Vanqmshed by such wondrous scienceâ€"â€" Won't you kiss me, Katie, darling ? Katie, do ! Katie, Katie, little Katie ! Mouth or rose and eyes of blueâ€" (Eyes that look one frankly through !) When I’m absent don’t you miss me 1’ Now l’m near you, come and kiss me ! Katie, little Katie, kiss me 1 Katie, do ! Katie, Katie, retty Katie ! Prettier far 1; an Jane or Lu, Madge or Margaret, Maud or Prue Graceful as some spring-born fairy, Tuneful as your at canaryâ€" Katie, pretty atie, kiss me ! Katie, do ! Ratio, 81. (What though coma or gout should me ‘2) Then, if I cannot overmatch you, Running fast can clasp and catch you, Captured Katie, won’t you kiss me ? Katie, do I AFGHAN WARFARE BOBBERS AND CUTTHROA'IS KISS NIE, ICA’I‘IE. decflgtive Katie 1 A Live Asian Mysteryâ€"Earl Beacons- Field’l Fae Slmlle in an Eastern Ser- vanl. LONDON, Feb. 18.â€"An occasional corres- pondent writes to the Daily News :â€"Visitors to the mess tent of the 10th Hussars are apt to get a surprise, not only to their ears but to their eyes. Chancing to be there the other day one of the officers called out in that loud tone of voice in which Indian servants are shouted to “Lord Beaconsfield gurram pam’ las." At once from the outside the voice of a khit-magar replied, “Atcha Sahib gurram pant, lam hat, lam hai." I cannot undertake to explain the whole of this verit- able Asian mystery, but I can translate these words, which will be a contribution towards the solution of the difficulty. The officer first requests my Lord Beaconsfield to bring him some hot water, and the reply announces that the hot Water is in process of being brought by that nobleman. No one but myself seemed to heed the words ; everyone in the tent remained as if nothing strange had been said. indicating that they were all familiar with such a call, so I hesitated to ask what hidden meaning could be concealed in the words I had listened to to. Of course I took care not to 100k astonished, but there was a moment or so of suspense which I so far endured, ended by the entrance of a khitâ€"magar with a kettle containing hot water. A glance at his face, and the as- tonishment already begun was still more increased by seeing a face before me which seemed to be identical with that which we are familiar with in the page: of Punch, and which we recognize as the countenance of the present Prime Minister of England. The tint of the skin is un- doubtedly different, but the form of the fea- tures and even the expression are strikingly alike. the curl hanging over the brow being the only point wanting, but the mind at once suggests that it is there. but concealed by the folds of the white puggree which covers the forehead close down to the eyes. The reâ€" ‘semblance no doubt explains the reason of ithe name. but why Lord Beaconsfield should have such a perfect doppelganger out here in Afghanistan at this moment is a mystery ,which may or may not require an explan- j rtion. The party of Ghoorkas and the ‘mountain battery which left here to avenge the death of the grasscuts (“grasscnt" is a grass-cutter; each horse has such a man, , who goes out to cut grass for it, and the word is always pronounced as here given) l and the sowars, mentioned in a previous letter. were joined at Edakka by a detach- ment of the 17th Regiment, “Queen’s.” The 1whole were put under the command of Gen. ‘Tytler, and were on the march among the hills all Monday, and on Tuesday morning lthey came upon a village which, with the ex- ‘ception of some fowls, two calves. and an old woman was empty. This village was burnt, and two of its towers having been blown up with gunpowder, they returned to Dakka, the Ghoorkas and guns coming back here again on Wednesday morning. â€"Stmsburg is now begirt with revolving ironclad towers. belittle doubt about what the rascals had been at, and they were seized and brought into the camp at Hazarpir. CAPTURED BEDBANDED. General Roberts, with news coming in daily about men being attacked. saw that vigorous steps must be taken to show the inhabitants of these parts that we were determined not to allow open lawlessness and bloodshed to go unpuuished. He therefore passed an order that the Jajis who were captured in the Dur- wsza Pass and the man who was caught red- handed on the opposite side of the Khuram should be hanged, and that the fellow who was captured prowling about with the loaded gun should be publieally whipped. ran GALLOWS IN THE KHOST VALLEY. On Tuesday these sentences were carried out. Information of the forthcoming execu- tion was published as widely as possible, and an efiort was made to get the head men of the surrounding villages to be present. At ten o’clock on the morning of the execution a great crowd of people was gathered in the vicinity of the gallows. At eleven o‘clock a company of the Twenty-first marched down to the gallows with the four doomed prison- ers in their midst. Their dress consisted only of a long. blue cotton shirt and loose pyjamas tied in at the ankles. In two of the instances the shirts were a mass of rags, frayed into ribbons at the edges and holding wonderfully together. None of them were sandals or headdresses. There they stood, staring curiously around them, with their jet hair hanging over their faces and their hands strapped behind their backs, and all looking thoroughly desperate ruflians. . The Provost Marshal, a stout-built sergeant of the Tenth hussars, showed each man his plank and made him stand across it. This all the men did without much compulsion. They did not appear to realize what was about to happen to them, and kept looking over their shoulders to see what was going on. Their legs were strapped together, what appeared to be their old blue puggarees. or turbans, were tied over their faces, and the nooses were fixed round their necks. Then they all appeared to realize what was coming, and all commenced crying out prayers to Allah. sousrnrso LIKE A HANGING. Four European soldiers caught up ropes attached to the planking. A signal was given and they pulled at the same moment, sweep- ing away the scaffold and launching the prisoners into the air. And it was only for a second that the condemned men hung. The crossbcam creaked and broke with a. startling crash, and the four men fell to the ground. half hanging, half resting their feet on the earth. Scarcely had any person time to feel ,horrified at this unfortunate accident before ‘ the Provost Marshal drew his revolver and sent a bullet through each man’s brain. A NIGHT ALARM. At the dead of last night, when no sound i could be heard but the occasional “All’s well” of the pickets, there suddenly was set up a most alarming howling and shrieking, ming- led with the sounds of a drum and another shrill musical instrument like' an Afghan pipe. Awakened from our first sleep by this unearthly noise we groped for our revolvers and prepared for the worst. It seemed per- fectly clear that the J ajis and Yuris had swarmed out of the Durwaza Pass and all the other places which they infest. and were now attempting to destroy the camp in some- thing after the manner of the dare-devil Waziris. When we were more fully awake~ when, in fact, we were prepared to sell our livesrdearly to the rash invaders of our camp â€"-strangely enough we heard amid the thun- dering din, sounds of laughter and merriment similar to that which follows a students’ tea party. Again the fiendish instrnment. whose shrill blasts were making night hideous, sounded uncommonly like the Scotch bagpipe while the drum must be a British drum, for no Afghan could beat it so fast and keep such good time to the more piercing musical in- strument. As the storm of music and laugh- ter grew nearer we stepped out of our tents, our revolvers in our hands, ready to solve the mystery. What was it? Had the enemy been bold enough to attack us on our own ground? No; it was simply the officers and men of the Seventy-second regiment serenading the General. and, in accordance with a time hon- ored Scotch practice playing the old year out and the new year in. VOL. XXI, THE AFGHAN CAJIPAIGN As We have been toldin the interesting and instructive paper we have heard to-night, the information about Canada disseminated in this countryâ€"and I speak in this connection from my own experience before I.visited the countryâ€" is poor and inadequate. Most Eug- lishmen are of opinion that Canada is an inâ€" significant strip of soil (“ No ! 110 l”) I am speaking of the average English intelligence on the subject, and I venture to affirm that not one Englishman in a hundred has an idea. that this sin-fancied strip of soil is four- and-thirty thousand square miles larger in area than the United States. Their impres- sion is, that it is a tract sempiternally clad in hyperborean snows. that the shaving-water freezes as the timid man hesitates before getting out of bed, that a grisly bear sucks his paws from every second snake-fence, and that the landscape is a mere wilderness chequered by torrents, and sparsely dotted with log huts. (Laughton) The Englishman, boldly daring, goes there to try his fortune ; and what does he find 7 A language that makes him feel curiously at home after his three thousand miles’ bufloting w1th ocean ;a climate exhila- rating, and never more so than in winter; healthful amusements, diversifying with the seasonâ€"canoeing and la cross»,skating, sleigh- ing, and, taboganning, the Old-World love of sport, and the Old-World sociability; a popu- tion manful, thrifty, happy, and hospitable. (Hear, hear.) Canada only asks the plain, . unvarnished truth to be told about it ; the ‘ territory can stand or fall on its own merits, there is no need for the extravagant eulogy of such “ active and spry " folk as Mr. Zephaniah Scadder of the Eden settlement. In the vast districts of the Saskatchewan and Assiniboine valleys, in that virgin promised land of Manitoba, there is I. rich field. under the provisions of a sensible homestead law, for the farmer or stock-raiser with a little capital, some knowledge of the calling, adaptability of character to surroundings, and that cheerful pluck which is inherent in the race, and which has made of its children the pioneers of civilization in every quarter of the globe. It would be un- fair to hide from the proposing emigrant that there are such drawbacks to be encountered as prairie fires and an occasional plague of grasshoppers. However, these are visitations which afflict the United States’ territory south of the line a well; indeed, it is only two months since the Dirt Lodge Indians caused a scare in Dakotah by a fire arising from their carelessness ; but the Canadian territory has the advantage ot’ a milder clinic, a more prolific soil, more stable administra- tion, and a more orderly class of settlers. That, in my opinion, is the Canaan to which the index-finger of the future points. There the unemployed mechanic should be helped to go, instead of being left to loaf at the street corners of our great cities ; there work invites the willing hand, and there the laborer is certain to reap the legitimate profit of his toil. (Hear, hear.) Mr. H. C. Beeton said : ‘ ” I heard while out there, on the best au- thority, that one of our naval officers, who visited that coast in order to report to her Majesty’s Government on the capabilities of that country, sent word home, ‘ The country was good for nothing, as the salmon would not rise to the fly.’ (Langhter.) We might have owned Oregon, Washington Territory, and, I believe, California to-day, but for this circumstanceâ€"that the salmon of the Col- umbia River would not rise to the fly. (Great laughter.) ‘ * * ‘ Therefore I say the new Pacific Province of the Dominion of Canada promises to be one of the fairest, when we consider its geographi- cal position, holding, as it does, the gates of the Pacific, and as it must be ere long the western terminus of the Canadian Pa- cific Railway. The railway will cer- tainly be built, because it is in Canada’s interest to build it. There will be railway communication between Ontario and Mani- toba ; the Northwest Territory, purchased from the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the fertile belt must be utilized ; the railway can- not stop east of the Rocky Mountains. I have spoken to Canadians who have gone through, and all speak of it as a country well watered and wooded. This railway, it is well known, will give Canada the high road and the near~ eat to China and Japan. I am exceedingly sanguine as regards this Province of ours on the ncrth-west coast. We have, as I have said before, a fine climate and great resources, and a people who are determined on their part ; Government to do its part. Then indeed it will become a most important Dominion. and they only look to the Canadian} b Rev. A. S. Herring, vicar of St. Paul’s, Clerkenwell, concluded his remarks with these words : “ I cannot help thinking that in a short time a large number of farmers will emigrate from England. This class of emigrants are increasing. The small farms in England do not seem to make good progress, and it is only large farms which now succeed. I regret much indeed that in North Lincolnshire there are more farmers gone to the had during this year than have ever been known before. I think. too, judging from the small capital that is required for hiring land in the Dominion, and also the easy way in which they can buy the land out there, I believe that a vast number of English farmers will emigrate there. I have no doubt whatever that a large number of our laborers will also go. The Agricultural Laborers’ Union. which at first set its face altogether against emi- gratlon. is now doing all it can to encourage it. I think, too, judging from the 8.000 farm laborers who have already gone to our Colonies. that others will follow. Wealth alâ€" ways follows population ; and I think it was the fault of the late Canadian Government (Mackenzie’s) that they did not encourage emigration. I have great hope! from the present Government (Sir John A. Macdon- ald'a), and, judging from what I saw in 1870, I think we shall have this year great en- couragement given to‘personi about to emiâ€" We may be told that the climate of Canada is worse than England, but I doubt it. I must Hey that the six Winters I spent in the Dominion I greatly enjoyed. I cannot say the same for the six springs I spent there, for when the winter breaks up at the approach of spring the conditions are almost unbeara- ble. I merely suggest to the meeting not to dwell more upon the past than the present and future of the country. I believe Canada is undergoing a great change ; nature has done much for it, and'were it not for the redun- dancy of its politics, it has everything in it as a country that man can dealre. (Hear, hear.) If we could improve its political system, which is so subdivided at present in the dif- ferent parts of the Dominion, and solidify and combine the municipal and political ma- chinery of the country, we should within the next ten years make Canada. a power in the eyes of even the great European family of nations. (CheersJ Mr. J. A. O‘Shea, who was in Canada to report the reception of the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise for the newspaper with which he is connected, said: At one of the recent meetingl of the Royal Colonial Institute Mr. Caldwell Ashworth read a paper on “Canada, its Progres: and Development.” Adiscuasion followed, from the report of which we extract a few pira- graphs. Major F. Duncan, R. A., said : ENGLISHMEN TALKING ABOUT CANADA. RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1879. Among the many curious forms of fish life abounding in the water of British North America perhaps none passes a property which is more striking than that of smelt (Thaleichthys. or Osmcms, pacificui, 0r Rich- ardsouii), which may be literally used in the same way as a candle, by simply setting a light to the tail, when it will burn with slight as steady as that of the “ dips " which our grandfathers and even people of the last gen- eration used to have to put up with before gas was invented. It is a small silvery fish. averaging about fourteen inches long, and in general appearance resembles a smelt. It is the fattest of all known fishes, and affords an excellent and valuable oil,which makes the fish so inflammable that, when dried. they will serve as torches. If a light is required, it is only necessary to touch the tail with fire,when the fish will burn with a bright light for some time. Among the natives the fish is known as the oolahan, and by them. as well as by others who have tasted it, it is considered one of the most delicious products of the sea. being far more delicate in flavour than the herring. No description can give an adequate idea of their numbers when ascending the rivers from the sea. The water is literally alive with them, and. appears to be boiling. These fisheries have not been utilized except by the natives. The fish are caught in wicker baskets, and are dried or smoked as much as their oily nature will allow. The fishing lasts a fortnight or three weeks, and supplies many hundred aborigines with food ior a considerable period. They are eaten fresh, and large quantities are dried, besides which the natives also take large numbers for the sake of the fine delicate oil, which is so highly prized as a luxury, and forms a staple article of barter with the interior tribes. This oil, of a whitish color. and approaching to the consistence of thin lard, is regarded by those who are acquainted with its properties as equally efficacious with rhe cod-liver oil so commonly prescribed ; and it is said to have the great advantage of being far more pala- table. With the exception of a few scores of casks salted annually for local sale, and a quantity prepared like the red herring, this fish has not yet been systematically cured or become an article of exportation. There can be no question. however, that if more widely known and properly prepared it would be an object of much extraneous demandâ€"The Colonies. â€"There are now 1,500 whites in Fiji, and the colony is flourishing. The paper and debate were published in “ The Colonies and India.” Had the daily papers printed the discussion in full, the in- formation possessed by the speakers might have reached the people who would be bene« fitted by it, namely the class in search of an eligible place to emigrate to. Our sympathies go out to the gentleman who needed a map to locate the unpronounceabla names which confused his ideas. Till! CANDLE FISII 01" BRITISH COLUMBIA. Mr. Godson said : There is a great deal said about the want of knowledge of Englishmen shown about the Colonies, but this crass ignorance is universal. I met a Yankee on Lake Superior a short time since, who told me that the British Islands were but equal to the whole C Lake Superior, and I could not convince him that Ireland alone ought moro than to satisfy him as a comparison of size. Then we hear a good deal about free trade, more especially from those who are failing in their markets ; but it is all very fine on paper only as regards ourselves even, for we have. for instance, one of the highest duties on tobacco, and one next door to it on brandy. The only country I know of where they really carried out free trade was in Jersey. where you could smoke and drink as much as you liked without such large tariffs to pay. grate from England. I cannot help think. ing, therefore, that there is a great future for the Dominion ; and if they will only en- courage the increase of population, capital will go over there as well. Mr. Philip Capel Hanbury said : “ Another point is the development of the trade of Canada“ lam sure that all thinking people must have read the speech of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach at Stroud the other day, and I think he most openly points out there that, with regard to tradeâ€"and I speak as a commercial manâ€"that, as we have been un- dersold in the markets of Europe and Ameri- ca, we must now turn our attention to Africa ; and I think also, although he does not say it, he very clearly denotes the Colonial trade. I now ask this one question â€"Have we, with regard to free trade, got reciprocal advantages? I think with the Colonial trade we shall eventually. (Hear, hear.) 3 I believe firmly, with regard to trade with r Colonies, that throughout them all there should be free trade with regard to them and the Mother Country; and I am sure that eventually ar- rangements and treaties will be concluded, and that by-and-by we shall come to terms. I would like to see throughout England and her great Empire frbe trade ; and I believe this firmly that, if Englandjnd her Colonies are welded together in one bond of commerce, that she will have quite enough trade. (Hash) I therefore must cordially agree with what the lecturer says in the way that he speaks of the future trade of Canada. Mr. Dennistoun Wood said : I rise to utter one little growl of complaint. I believe that one of the products of Canada is maps of the Dominion, and I think we should all have been the better if we had one specimen of that product of the Colony. We have heard various places referred to, with names more or less unprozounceable, and I should like to have seen a map showing those places. I believe the Government has an agent in this city, and I think if our indefati- gable Secretary had applied at his office he would have lent us a map, for this occasion which would have illustrated the paper and our discussion upon it this evening. Mr. Beaumont said : But still I cannot help thinking that our friends in Canada do want some stimulus to induce them; for instance, to take in hand that grand scheme, so much talked of, and i which would seem as well assured in the fu- ture as anything can be, of the railway to run through Manitoba and across the Rocky Mountains. Enormous as~ the undertaking is, and I should be sorry if I should be thought not to appreciate its difficulties. it yet seems to me to have such an assured basis and such an enormous scope, with those vast provinces all around, ready to be settled, and certain to be settled as fast as communication withtliem is availableâ€"that I can‘t~ help it might well be handled somewhat more boldly. «Of course th ~ work must take time, and as it extends the means and power to proceed with it will exteifi. There is the certainty of a grand ultimate success, it is a i great national undertaking, and so the diffi- - culty becomes merely that of raising the funds required to carry it out. For my part, I can hardly think that thefllngllsh people at home are likely to be backward in support- thinking . ' and I did very well there. A leE'ER CRIMINAL. [low we Blackheads Burglar and Ba.- ler (fro-s lVlurgercr Baffled the De- lecflves. It is understood that Peace has made little secret of his career after the Banner Cross murder. To some friends he said: “Do you want to know how I dodged the hobbies ?" and on receiving a reply in the affirmative he said : “\Vell, I will tell you.” Then he asked them to turn their backs to him a bit. They did so. and were astounded to find that Peace completely altered. the expression of his face, and so protuded his chin and curled his lips that, under ordinary circumstances, it would have been impossible to recognize him, especially as he had, by the peculiar contortion of the features, forced the blood into his face until he looked like a mulatto. One of the spectators said : “No wonder you could get clear from Sheffield when you can change your face like that." Whereupon Peace laughed and said : “I can do some dodges. I can dodge any detective in exist- once. I did not change my face much when I left Sheffield, but I will tell you about it. After what took place at Banner Cross ter- race, I went across the fields in the direction of the Endclifi‘c Hall to Crookes and Sand- gate, and then back down to Broomhill, where I took a cab and drove down to the church gates, there got out and went to the house of a relaâ€" tive in Spring street and changed clothes. I afterward went to Botherham. and walking to Masbro’ station took a ticket for Beverly. I left the train at Normantown, and, still re- * taining the ticket, took another one for York. I staid n York anight or two, and, missing ‘ the ticket, went on to Beverly and thence to Hull." There he committed several robber- ies, and afterward visited Leeds, Bradford and Manchester. From the last-named place he journeyed to Nottingham, where he picked up with Mrs. Thompson. He had not long been in Nottingham before he com- mitted a silk robbery, taking goods to the value of about £300. He was stopping at a lodginghouse with Mrs. Thompson, and after they had gone to bed one evening a policeman went into their room. Peace af- fected to be exceedingly indignant at the man’s intrusion, and asked him what he wanted. Continuing his narrative Peace said the officer “ wanted to know who I was and where I came from. and I at once replied that I was a'hawker. The officer asked for my license and what I was carrying. I told him that my license and the goods I was carrying were down stairs, and if he would go down and wait till my wife and I got up I would show them to him. The officer walked out of the room, and no sooner had he gone than I got out of the window and escaped. I took shelter in a house close by and sent the land- lady of that house back to the lodging-house from which I escaped to fetch my boots. When I found that Nottingham was getting too hot for me I came to Sheffield and did a good bit of 'work.’ One of the places I robbed was a house at the corner of Havelock Square, I saw the bobby coming, though, and I left. At the time the inquest was being held upon Mr. Dyson I was ing the undertaking, either in the usual way , in Sheffield. and on several occasions I went of supplying funds, or. shoud that come to be to Hull to see my wife and give her money. necessary, though I don’t 'suppose that theq‘ Afterward I went to London, taking Mrs. Canadians are of a spirit to look to us for that Thompson with me. On two occasions while help, with the aid of our national credit. It I was in London I met Bill Fisher, a man seems to me that these considerations ought i with whom I had worked. The first time I to be an incentive to Cam‘ say “We are 5 met him I was on the Holborn Viaduct, and A an ofl-shoot of a green/‘1‘. :t itable future before us, and we will take cour- age and go on.” Mr. Godson said : , ' tu'eTn'illim- u 1 passed him I heard him say, ‘Why. that's Peace.’ I lost myself immediately; but not long after that I met him on the steps leading into Farrington street. On that oc- There is a great deal said about the want of ‘ casion our eyes met again, and I was off knowledge of Englishmen shown about the Colonies, but this crass ignorance is universal. I met a Yankee on Lake Superior a short time since, who told me that the British Islands were but equal to the whole C Lake Superior, and I could not convince him that Ireland alone ought more than to satisfy him as a comparison of size. Then we hear a good deal about free trade, more especially from those who are failing in their markets ;‘ but it is all very fine on paper only as regards directly. I have often met the best London detectives and stared at them right in the face but they can’t recognize me.” Peace’s statement with respect to his meeting with Fisher is confirmed by the fact that Mr. Fisher, on his return to Sheffield, communi- cated with the police and told them that he had seen Peace in London, and the London police were apprised of the fact that the now celebrated oonvrct was among them.-â€"London N ews. (From the New York Times.) The Chinese areas is well known,in the habit of selling their women in their own country, and they continue the pleasant custom, though not openly, after immigration to our shores. Women are so plentiful in the Celestial Empire as to be constantly in excess of the demand ; the market is, there- fore, regularly glutted, and the ordinary article brings nothing ; indeed, cannot in many instances be given away. The con- trary is true here, because John, on quitting his native land, leaves his saffron sister be- hind as a needless incumberance : but he of- ten regrets it after arrival, owing to the femi- nine scarcity. and the consequent demand at very fair prices. Ah Chew, a commercial Mongolian in San Francisco, is anxious to get rid of his wifeâ€"the reason he assigns is his inability to keep an unproductive luxury on hand and declares that he will sell her for 8350 to anybody, unless some of her relatives promptly furnish that amount. A Chinese woman will not command such a figure for any honest purpose, and the unfortunate creature, fearing the fate she is threatened with, has appealed to an American family to buy her. promising to render domestic ser- vice for the advance. It is said the Chinese sell their wives in every town and city on the Pacific slope (their own race being the pur- chasers) where they have gained a foothold as soon as they get tired of them or want to raise money. In some cases, it is reported that they hypothecate their women. paying a certain ratea day for the accommodation. and the lender keeping the petticoated collateral until redeemed. Only the young and comâ€" paratively goodlooking can be pawned, as the capitalists know that no other kind will be ransomed. Many of the California news- papers are justly clamoring for the abolition of this Chinese slave trade. At Belfast on Monday week Lord Dufferin, who is a patron of the Literary and Scientific Society there, was presented with an address from that body. The Rev. D. Henry intro- duced the President of the Society. Lord Dufi’erin was enthusiastically received. His speech, as might have been expected under the circumstances, referred principally to matters of interest connected with education, and in the course of it he made some very excellent remarks, especially to the art of impromptu speaking. He saidâ€"“ It may be some comfort to know that I believe no great speaker ever addressed a public assembly without feeling the greatest possible terpids- tioh. and undergoing nervous tremonrs of which the uninitiated can have no idea. I myself have seen the legs of one of the most famous orators of the House of Lords, to whom that audience ever listened with continâ€" uous delight, tremble like an aspen leaf dur- ing the first moments of the delivery of his speech. I have seen a Lord Chancellor ab- solutely break down, and 9. Prime Minister lose the thread of his discourse. I will also let you into another secret. I believe that no â€"â€"no really good and excellent speechâ€"«has ever been made without a considerable amount of preparation. I don’t mean to say that a speech should be learned by heart, but unless a person who is called upon for LORI) DUFFERIN ON 'PUBLIC SPEAKING. SELLING CHINEIE WOMEN “ If you start to walk home from a down- town oflice," he said. “and carry your over- coat on your arm because the walking makes you feel warm, you are liable to take cold. Therefore don’t do it. If you should take the same walk after eating a hearty dinner your full stomach would be a protection to you, but even then my advice would he, don’t take the risk. A person perfectly clothed may walk in a strong wind for a long time without taking cold; but if he sits in a. room where there is a slight draught he may take a severe cold in a very few minutes. Therefore don’t sit in a room where there is a draught. Unless you are affected by peculiar nervous conditions you should take a cold sponge bath in the morning and not wash yourself in warm water. Plunge baths in cold water are not recommended, neither is it necessary to apply the sponge bath all over the body. Occasional Turkish baths are good, but those who have not taken them should be advised by a physician before trying them, Warm mufflers worn about the neck do not protect you against taking cold, but on the contrary render you exteemely liable to take cold as soon as you take them off. They make the throat tender. Ladies ought to wear warmer flannel underclothinxz than they now do if one may judge from the articles one sees hanging in the show windows of the shops. People take cold from inhaling cold air through their mouth. oftoner, perhaps, than by any other way. Ladies dress themselves up in heavy furs, go riding in their carriages and when they get home wonder how they An laterally; and lnuruclive lliule Medical Talk by Dr. Beverly Robin- In the course of “Medical Talks" at New York Association Hall, Dr. Beverly Robinson discoursed to the young men on the subject of “ Colds and Their Consequences." His lecture was practical and highly instructive to a. perverse generation, his greatest remedy for “colds and their consequences” being, “Don’t allow yourself to take cold.” A peel of applause greeted the White Quee when she made a sally to her fifth squaremng gave check (quite harmless it proved) to the adversary. The game would have been more animated as a spectacle if the two Queens had made longer sailies into the ranks of the enemy. The stately Red Queen moved but two steps away from home, where she held a strong position, but was not permitted to charge upon the foe. At 9:40 the Reds an- nounced the check-mate in two moves. “Do you admit it 7” asked the Red Herald. “No,” wu the sturdy response from the players of the White in the proscenium box. Still, the announcement was correct, and the checkâ€" mste in two moves was consummated on the board amid the cordisl applause of the audi- ence. ~ The game was but little over an hour in length, and the interest of the audience was well maintained. in consequence of the rapid succession of moves. The center Pawns and Knights came rapidly to the front, and when a white Bishop took a long diagonal march down the board, the audience had to laugh at the odd-looking promenade. The Grand Marshal summoned forth a red and white Pawn, commanded the Heralds to furnish them with bows and arrows to decide which side should move first end so led the uttfik. The White side won, and the three players in each of the proscenium boxes turned their attention to their boards and men. The attack was conducted by Mr. Charles Miller, Mr. S. A. Charles and Mr. H. Loewe for the White,the defense by Dr. L. I’. Meredith, D. F. M. Sterbuck and H. H. Mulâ€" ler for the Reds. The time limited at first was two minutes, but it was rapidly decrees- ed until it was about half a minute. When the time was up, a trumpeter broke in upon the “meditations” of the players. This was chess at lightening express speed. The “ White Queen" was arrayed in an ermine robe, trimmed with silver fringe, with diamond ornaments that sparkled like stars in a.Soutnern sky. The “ Red Queen" was dressad in white satin, golden fringe, and a talms of crimson velvet, bordered with gold. It must be remarked of the maneuvering that followed that while the movements of the elegantly costumed figures on the stage were picturesque in the extreme, the eye, even of the most experienced chess player, was unable to grasp the position of the game, owing to the novelty of human figures on the board. One chess veteran in the audience followed the game with a set of railroad chessmen. Probably not one in ten of the audience understood the game, but the constant changing and shifting of position produced akaleidoscopic effect that was intensely nt- tracting. The Representatives of the House of York were dressed in white, slashed with red. while the Lancasters were arrayed in red, slashed with white. The Knights were habited in suits of armor ; the Bishops pro- perly mitred and accoutred; the Castles bearing staffs with castles on top. The Pawns were represented by young ladies. each of whom bore a. spear and shieldI and stood calmly as if she had been made of cast metal, never moving until ordered so to do by the heralds. After the first tableau the curtain rose on the pieces and Pawns arrayed diagonally across the board in double rank. The board was of muslin, 30 feet square, painted in black end white squares, and inclined toward the audience by an elevation of two feet at the rear of the stage. The gorgeous Grand Mer- shal came forward, gave the signal. and the opposing force: oountermarched to their places on the board, at right angles to the audience, with the King’s Brooke nearest the footlights. The Grand Merelnl then delivered the proclamation. Shortly after 8 o’clock the curtain rose on the opening feature. “The Allegoricel Tableau of Chess,” illustrating the antiquity of the game. The Goddess of Chess, Caissa, occu- pied a. pedestal in the center at the back of the stage, with a Grecian statesmen and Roman general at the right and left. A Per- sian King playing chess with his old Prime Minister, attended by two black sleves,formed a seated group fn front of the Goddess. Other seated groups at chess near at hand were two Turks and a British General and lady in full evening dress. An Arab studying a. chesa problem was stretched on the ground in front. 0n the right of the stage the two Kings were exchanging defiences. surrounded by their Knight, Bishops and Books. On the left the Pawns clustered around the two Queens, to whom the kneeling eroheresses proffered bes- kets of flowers. . “ Living chess tournaments” are the latest novelty. The Cincinnati Commercial has the following account of such a game played in that eity : ' one of those important efiorts should conde- scend to staturate himself with his speech, carefully to think out at all events. the skele- ton of his discourse. and even in the solitude of his chamber, or, perhaps, which is better still, among the din and bustle of a crowded street, should well resolve in his mind the words with which his ideas are intented to be clothed, in all probability his effort will not be worth a very great amount of atten- tion." How it wan Plan!!! at Cincinn-Ii. 110w NOT TO TAKE COLD- A LIVING GAME 0F “HESS. WHOLE NO. 1,079â€"N0, 39. RACINE, Wis., Feb. 14.â€"â€"A young man named John Gillis died here Saturday and was buried yesterday: The disease of which he died was oslco cephaloma (cancer of the bone), and the case was of considerable in- terest to the medical profession. The forma- tion was on the right leg, extending from be hip to the knee joint. It measured 58 inches in circumference, and weighed 125 pounds, being much heavier than all the rest of the body. The growth of the cancer had been going on for two years. It was lanced about a week ago and discharged a. considerable amount of cancerous fluid, but no relief, the most temporary, resulted. The Time: correspondent was informed by an able phy- sician to-day that no other case of the kind in on record where the cancer had attained any- where so great a size. â€"Dean Stanley recently entertained a large number of Westminster workingmen in the old abbot dining hall of the Abbey. It wan; in that hall, the Dean told them, that the widow of Edward IV. took refuge, with her two children, against the plots of the Duke of Gloucester. The tables at which they dined were of Spanish chesnut, from the wreck of the Armada, and were given by Queen Elizabeth. “ Another turning-point is founding n. home,” Talmage went on to say. " When you build a home you build for eternity. When a. man marries he marries for heaven or hell. When trouble comes you want in your home neither a. doll nor a. toy. but a. heroine, and will find life is not a. romance, but a terrible reality. Returning from your studio or your workshop you need a sym- sthetic face to greet you. You can some time say she helped you through your dark days of trial. When the piano went she could sing as well Without an accompaniment, ‘Jesus Lover of My Soul.’ When trouble comes Christian women can get more music out of a. sewing mlchine than they ever got out of a grand piano. Your companion in life may be too fond of worldly pleasures, but trouble will transform her into a Miriam shouting on the banks of the Red Sea. I like those lines of Walter Scott, although I do not indorse their sarcasm : “ Und I shall haf more as forty! Vhait tills I runs mit der grocery for a slate, und den you athand on der corner und gif all der poys some winks to come in. I don't let dot man get aheadt of me if I hat to puy ten sehlates l” Night closed in on the old man top of tho heap.â€"â€"Detrait Fr“ Press. “ Yes, andl‘l'l bet he’ll have $20 charged to cggtqmierg befqre night.” V “ Ish dot some facts ‘2” exclaimed the old manl»t110roug1}1y Varoused in a. moment. “ Ah ! you’ll have to hang up your fiddle now. The man above you was just showng me his slate. He has over twenty names on it since morning, and four men have just gone in there after ten-cent drinks." In spite of this violence I continued to ‘ struggle in the conjugal traces and supported as best I could my large and bellicose family by peripetentially vending teas, coflees and spices. Twenty-six years of married life had taught me great meckness and forbearance. I suffered in silence until June 12. 1878, when upon returning home. I found that my wife had deserted my hearthstone and de- parted to parts unknown, and with her were gone the children and the only tenant in my house. I was all alone, master of myselfâ€" that heritage of bliss. I became aware in a. few days that plaintifl intended to indulge in the luxury of a lawsuit, and that I was to pay a. large amount to put the wheels of the law in motion. I am a broken down man, poor in spirit and bankrupt in happiness, and financially a skeleton. I have no income except that derived from selling teas, coffees and spices, which I carry around in my hand. This income is founded upon the quicksands of public favor and poor femilien’ pennies, and amounts to from five to eight dollars a, week. My wife can have my house and everything that I possess. All I wish is peace, which I have not experienced in so long as it pesseth my understanding." An oldish citizen who had scraped a few hundred dollars together started in the saloon business on Hastings street a few days ago. and a man whom he knew and did not par- ticularly admire started in the same business at the same time a few doors above. There was something of a rivalry between the two places about fixing up, and the old man was constantly the watch to see that the other did not get end of him. He had just set tled down to the belief that lie was a long ways ahead, when in came a customer who slid : Tue plaintiff is fill?! mother of twélve chil- dren. She was allowed two dollars a week alimony. “ Since 1852, in the month of December, when I was married to the plaintifl‘, my only study has been to support her and my rapidly increasing family. I have never lost a. day ‘ by sickness except when my finger was cut off From the year 1858 until 1876 I worked for one firm, that of E. H. Garbutt & 00., whole- sale grocers, doing business at No. 49 Park Place, New York. In 1858 I took out a. life insurance policy for $1,000, for the benefit of my wife, in the North America. Life Insurance Company. In 1877 this company failed and I lost my policy. Having saved $500, I bought, in 1869, a house and lot at No. 57 Kosciusko street, and paid that sum down. At different times thereafterI paid $500 more. My oldest child is a male and 21 years old. His hand is against me and his chief study is to encourage his mother in crossing ms and making my life unbearable. On the morning of April 12, 1878, my wife, moved by some evil household spirit, fell upon me because I could not pay the interest on the mortgage, fastened her hands in my beard and clawed my face to disfignrstion. So vio- lently did the plaintiff act that the furrows made in my countenance on that occasion mark the places Where the plaintifl sowed the seed of discord and reaped the harvest of marital misery. Tho Father of Twelve Children Willing to Give all he has to Gain Peace. In the limited divorce suit of Anna Maria Smith against John W. Smith, which is pend~ ing in the Brooklyn City Court, the following affidavit was offered by the defendant in re- sistance of a demand for $25 a, week alimony and $250 counsel fee : got that cold. It was by talking in the cold open air and thus exposing the mucus mem- branes of the throat. The best protection under such circumstances was to keep the mouth shut. If people must keep their mouths open in a chilly atmosphere, they ought to wear a filter. Above all be careful of your feet in cold, damp weather. Have thick soles on your shoes, and if caught out in the rain which lasts so long as to wet through your shoes despite the thick soles put on dry stockings as soon as you get home. But in cold, wet, slushy weather don’t be caught out without overshoes. Rubbers an unhealthy, unless care is taken to remow them as soon as you get under shelter. The) arrest all evaporation through the pores of the leather. Cork solos are a good invention. When you go into the house or your oflice after being out 111 the cold. don’t go at once and stick yourself by the register, but take off your coat, walk up and down the room a little, and get warm gradually. Warming yourself up over a register just before going out in the cold is one of the worst things you can do. Never take a hot toddy to warm yourself up unless you are at home and don’t expect to go out of the house again till the following morning. In short make some use of your common sense, and thus emulate the lower animals. “ Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain", cov and hard to please 1 But when affliction wrings the brow‘ A ministering angel, thou l" HUIIBLED BY lVlATRlJIONY. 'I‘A LIIAGE 0N “ HOME.” A CURIOUS CANCER “ CHARGE IT.”