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After breakfast the fire recommenced from thu stone breastworks, constructed during the night on the heights on our right and rear. This was only a. faint fire. It was soon suppressed by the Mounted Infantry. By eight o’clock the enemy developed considerable strength on the right front, coming over the black, stony hills in good order in two long lines, with banners flying bravely. At the same time some force of the rebels began creep- ing steadily up the grassy Wady on our left front, the direct road to the Wells. The screw-guns" battery made good practice. Two or three shots checked the advance for some time. Our position in the hollow. with lines extended along the ridge, was strong and well covered. Nevertheless several men were hit. One of the Heavy camel Corps was killed early in the action. Another of the Mounted Infantry was dangerously wounded within a few yards of where I write. A came] close by was hit by the next shot. The rebels evidently made skilful use of their RemingtonsILOnr Martnis’ fire, hitherto restrained, we now beginning to tell effectively. At half-past nine the enemy's scouts were reported trying to creep round the hills on the left flank. Bar- rows Hussar were sent forward to check this. Meanwnile, the fire in the centre of the line was hotter every minute. ADVANCING IN SQUARE. The Morning Post's correspondent says zâ€"Gen. Stewart at ten o'clock left his camels and stores with the baggage and the hospital commissariat in the en. trenchments, under the guard of 150 men and at once marched out with the re-i mainder of his force. The advance was made in square, with the Mounted In- fantry as skirmishers on the front and right, the Hussers being in skirmishing order on the left. The enemy saluted us The Daily News correspondent says :â€" All night long we were harrassed by shots from the heights 8 thousand yards dis- tant. On the opposite flank there was aeontinuoushlssof bullets overhead. Now and then one fell in the square, but only two men and a. camel were hit. Our sleep was not very sound. Thrice the men were called '0 arms before dawn, when a. general attack on our position was expected. All was quiet until after breakfast. A Renter's telegram says :â€"The troops advanced to within three miles of the wells, and, as the rebels showed no signs of moving, a halt was made, and the men were set to felling the trees and clearing away the grass in front of the column. An abattis was then formed round t baggage, and a stone breastwork with frontage of about 150 yards was thrown up as an additional protection some 100 yards further to the front. The enemy's camp was sighted about four miles from our zereba. The camp comprised a large number of tents, and it appeared fairly fortified. Meanwhile two groups of the rebels were wa'ching our movements from the high hills on our left front. To- wards six o’clock the enemy fired 1-. few ltray shots on our right flank, to which Captain Gilbert Norton, R. A., replied with some rounds from three of the screw guns. From the several amounts of the des- perate battle of Abu Klea. published in the London papers, we are able to give herewith a connected and clear descrip- tion of that sanguinary affair. THE BRITISH ADVANCE. Il'he Daily News correspondent says :â€" Up to late on the morning of the 16th of January we had been advancing rapidly With a somewhat straggling Column. but the sight of many places where Arab scouts had evidently encamped the night before led to long halts for a more com- pact formation and regular advance. The general supposition was that the Abu Klee Wells were held by a few rebels. who must be driven out at whatever cost. We had bivoucked and breakfasved at the south east side of the great plain, with distant hills to the right and left, and a black and rugged ridge in front. over the saddle of which the caravan route leads to Abu Klea. The 19th Hussars had gone on to reconnnitre and we heard the sound of distant rifle shots. About noon came news from Barrow that the enemy were holding the wells. Gen- eral Stewart immediately trade his dis- positions for attack, massing the brigade in line of columns, the Guards on the right. the Heavy Camel Corps in rear of the Guards, forming the right face of the square. Lord Charles Beresford's naval brigade was similarly posted behind the mounted infantry. The Sussex Regi- ment on foot closed up the rear, and all the baggage was in the centre. In this compact square of column the brigade moved forward as steadily as if on par- ade. and halted 400 yards from the foot of the ridge, while General Stewart and his staff went forward across it to recon- noltre. As I followed them and looked back at the serried mass of our men it seemed but a mere speck on the vast plain. From the hill where General Stewart stood one could see forward over the extensive stretch of level country, comparatively fertile, bounded miles away by a silver strip that was either a mirage or the Nile. At the neck of this valley, where it narrows into the hills on which we stood, and among the mass of mimosas one could discern the enemy's force, with at least twenty banners wav- ing in the sunlight. NIGHT BEFORE THE BATILE. Thinking it too late then to advance and attack without knowing the actual strength of our foes. General Stewart wisely resolved to form a zereba for the night, with flanking squares strongly oc- cupied, and pickets holding posts on the lofty_hills on our left. 9-. Stewnrl's PPM. Gallant Fight wllh filo Arahsâ€" Eye-Witness Accnunu o! the Allaek and Hunt oflhe Rebels. THE DAY OF RECKONI ABU K LEA. The Daily News says :â€"For a moment there was much confusion. Then the men fell back, re-formed in good order, and poured volleys into the rebels, every one in the leading division falling dead in our midst. When we had time to look we saw that line after line of the enemy had fallen under the Martini fire as they ad- vanced. In the temporary confusion the Gardner gun could not be got into action at the most etfective moment. When it opened fire the rebels were close on it. The N aval Brigade thert fore lost very heavily. Norton’s little ;battery did im- mense service, especially when the rebel cavalry formed for the charge, three Shrapnels going in their midst ; and again when a. renewed attack was threatened from the enemy’s left. The shells caused utter demoralizatim. Altcgether the A RAPID BRITISH RALEY. The Morning Post sayszâ€"It was not long before every Arab in the square was killed and the rest beaten off. Three hearty cheers were given as the square was reformed on fresh ground. The enemy then retreated snllenly, numbers of them rising from among the dead, and rushing past the square, not withoutmany bejgg shot. The Daily News correspondent gives the following explanation of the cause of the breaking of the square :-The rear face, composed of the heavy cavalry, broke forward in the endeavor to fire on the rebels, who swept round the flank and broke into us. square presented a. mass of falling camels, 0t struggling Arabs and soldiers, the whole being filled also with a. dense smoke and, while shots and sword-strokes were the replies to the Arab spear thrusts. The Morning Post correspondent gives the best account of the breaking of the square. He says :â€"“'At eleven o’clock the square was moving on a right incline, in order to enfilade the enemy, who were distant a quarter of a mile, and had brought its left face towards the Arab force. when suddenly they leaped in dense masses and rushed fiercely at great speed against the square, The onset was such I that the skirmishers had scarcely time to reach the square before the enemy, fol~ lowing close upon their retreat, came up- on the heavy dragoons, who formed the rear half of the left face, and the whole of the rear face of the formation. So fierce and rapid was the rush at this moment that the heavy cavalry were borne back by the masses of the Arbs, and in a moment the square was forced. The Gardner gun was jammed, and for ten minutesa desperate struggle raged from the left rear to the centre. Here Colonel Burnaby fell dead, a spear having severed his jugular vein. General S;ew- art's horse was shot under him, and the l general fell for a moment to the ground. At the same moment his orderly was kill- ed beside him. Many can e's WI r3 speared by Arbs, and the interior of the 'The Daily News correspondent des< cribes the attack as follows :â€"The rebels fought with the most reckless and admir‘ able courage. and displayed great tactical skill. They harassed the zereba althe previous night, and endeavored to lead us into a skillfully-laid trap. We ad- vanced two miles exposed to a heavy fire on all sides. We halted and closed square, while skirmishers went forward to force the concealed enemy into an ab- tsck. They sprang up, twenty banners waving, and came on in splendid line. The traces on the right were led by Ahu Salel, Emir of Metemma. On the lefn they were under Mahommed Knair, Emir of Berber. The latter was wounded. and retired early ; but Saleh came desperately on at; the head of a hundred fanatics, escaping the withering fire nf the Man'- tinis marvelously, until shot idown in the square. The whole force was on foot, all the camels havlng been left behind in the en trenched post, save those which were slotted for hospital purposes and to con- vey water and ammunition, which were stationed inside the iquare. There were frequent stoppages for these purpowes. They made progress slow. It was nearly an hour before we sighted the enemy's main body and realized that at least 7,000 or 8,000 men were against us. General Stewart took up a good position ona slope where the rebels must advance up- hill across open ground. Skirmishers of Mounted Infantry were sent forward to force on the attack, while Captain Nor- ton's battery of screw guns planted sev- eral shells among the densest mass. THE ATTACK. The authorities differ somewhat as to the precise tactics of the enemy. Lord Wolseley says they wheeled to the left and delivered a well organized charge. Renter gives a much more elaborate ac- count of the affair. He says the enemy began advancing towards us in two divis- ions iu echelon, each numbering some 5,000 men. with drums beating and flags waving. Many of them were armed with rifles. They ocaasionally halted as they approached, as if to discover our form- ation. By a cleverly executed movement the rebels almost disappeared from view. leaving their standards only visible, and then on a sudden alarge body reappeared, and wildly charged the front of our square. Unable to stand the deadly fire poured on them, the rebels turned and furloust attacked the left rear of the square. with a hot fire fr m the hills, by which several were wounded, among whom were the following officers 1â€"Major Gough (Mounted Infantry), Major Dicknon, Lord St. Vincent, Lieutenant Beach (Life Guards), and surgeon Magill. By the continued and determined bold skir~ mlshing of the Rifle: and Mounted In- fantry the enemy were graduain driven back, the artillery at: the same time keep- ing up a. brilliant fire on the position across this valley where the hostile flags floated in a long line, stretching out at right anglesfio {he line of our_adva.nee. A BREACH IN THE SQUARE was threateâ€"ned The shells caused Altogether the A Promising Youth. The Vienna. police have arrested a very naughty boy named N avrstil, who is only 18 years of age, but has a record entitling him fully to rank with patroits such as Mr. O'Donovan Rossa. and seviors of so- ciety such as Mme. Clovis Hughus. He was brought up as a. tinker; but he had a. soul above tinkering. and he took to murder as a profession. He hiredlodgings in one of the suburbs of Vienna, and on the second day after he had taken them he assassinated Frau Schinke, a. pawn broker’s wife. A few days later he killed Herr Kostler, an old gentleman of inde- pendent means. By these two murders, as it now appears, he secured 7 florins. As he has been living in comparative com- fort, it is supposed that he has committed a good many other murders, to say nothing of more aggravated crime, such as theft and burglary. If he were tried by a French jury and acquitted, he would probably degenerate into a. pickpocket, then perhaps take to betting, and ulti- mately sink to telling falsehoods, and talking about his honor and reputation. As it ls,his down ward career will probably be out very short, for the Vienna. police be- lieve they have evidence upon which they can convict him twice over, if not, indeed, oftcner.â€"â€"[St. James’s Gazette. It is intimated that the widow of the late Tom Thumb intends to be married again soon, and that the wedding cards will soon be issued. The name of the lucky man has not been published. “I was travelling on a. southern railwa at night. Gradually the passengers in the car I was in dwindled to threeâ€"two men besides myself. I discovered that these men were attracted by my scarf pin, and l was convinced that they were deter- mined to get it. I was glad, for 1 had more than $3,000 in money and checks in my pocket. When I left the eat one man was in front of me, and one was ‘be- hind, and as 8. passed out the door. the jolting of the car gave both an opportunity to fall against me. At that moment one of them snatched the pin, and thinking it was a great prize, had no thought of tak- ing anything else. It is a safeguard, and I would not travel with valuables in a strange country wlthout one.” They were playing whist; in the smoker. One of the players were on his collar- scarf a diamond pin. It was very large and very brilliant. The inference was that the wearer was a showy nabob. or a. blacklzg. As a, partner was shufiimg for a ne 7 deal, another remarked : “That is a fine pin YR] wear 1" “Yes,” replied the man, “that is a. good pinâ€"for the money. It cuab $3 50. It; is paste. You may wonder why I wear such a worthless bau ble. I wear it for protection. This is the third one I have worn. the other two were stolen. Let me explain : battery fired 38 Shrapnels, 19 common shell. and 6 case, the latter when the rebels rushed to close quarters. The naval Gardner also produced great moral efl‘act on the retreating hands. Of the ground selected by Gen. Stewart for the final stand, and the way he handled the men at the most crirical moment, too much cannot be said in praise. He and the staff were in imminent danger re peatedly. The Earl of Airlie was wounded at the beginning of the fight, but never gave up. Rhodes was always cheery in the right place. Wardrop in cessantly active. Piggott and Walsh, of the Mounted Infantry, did immense ser- vice. keeping the companies well in hand, pouring volleys into our resolute foes The Guards moved not an inch, even when the rear was threatened simul'sne- Oualy with the front. The Morning Post correspondent says zâ€"Gunner Smith be- haved most gallsntly, and saved Lient. Guthrie at the moment when all the other gunners had been borne back. He teak up a handspike. and kept back his assail- ants with the utmost vigor. AFTER TH E BATTLE. The Daily News says :â€"The steadiness of the Guards, Marines, and Mounted qusntry prevailed. and the fierce foes retired beaten, leaving the ground strewn with dead and wounded, with arms and banners. Bsrrow's Hussars came up soon after, but were too late to striking at the retreating foes, many of whom, however, were shot down while retiring. After the fight had terminated the Hussars were sent loward to the wells of Abu Klea, which were then just two miles in advance, and took possession of them‘ after a few shots. The heat has been ex- treme, and the men, who were withnutl water or food, bore up admirably. Their behaviour was simply splendid during the march, and worthy of the highest praise when they were in the face of the enemy The wrlls of Abu Klea were reached by the troops at 4 o'clock, p. m. The water is plentiful and is eXCallont for drinking. At 8 o'clock at night General Stewart sent back a portion of the Guards, with some of the heavy Cavrlry Camel Corps and of the Mounted Infantry. to fetch everything from the entrenched post in the rear. They all arrived safely at 8 a. m , and on their arrival «he troops here had the first food they had partaken of for 24 hours. General Stewart was to advance on Metemma on the 18511 inst.. leaving the p s. here under the charge of a strong detachment. with the wounded. The prisoners. in giving an account of the number of their force, reckon up ten tribes h.ving on an average 800 men each in the firlll. which would make the tita18,000 men. Another report says : The number of the enemy was 14.000 They are said to.have consisted of fol- l0wers of the Mahdi from Khartoum, Kor- dofan, Berber. the latter having especially sent great chiefs. Among the killed are the Emir of Metemma and the chief of Hamara Arabs One of these penetrated into the square on horseback. The numâ€" ber of the enemy killed is supposed to to have been 2000. The Use of a Scarf Pin. 00"». The extent of the London smoke nuis- ance is very well measured by the statis- tics lately published of last year’s sun- shine in London and the provinces. In the city the sun shone for 974 out of a. possible 4,455, or an average of two hours forty minutes per day. At Kew, in the same time, there were 1,484 hours’ sun- shine, or a daily average of four hours threee minutes. while at Hastings the total was day. From the record of inundations which have for ages been the scourge of Holland, it would appear that during the last thir- teen centurles one of the larger floods has occurred on an average once in seven The Maison Doree. the well-known Paris restaurant, was the scene the other day of a. very exciting arrest. A well- known count, belonging to one of the best families in the gay capital, and Very popular in the American colony. was given in charge by the proprietor for making it hi: practice to orders good dinner and then leave without paying. Only two years ago this nobleman was a. shining member of the bean-monde. The banners and other insignia of the Knights of the Garter are kept) above the choir stalls in Sb. George’s chapel, Wind- sor. Recently they have been rearrang- ed, owing to the deaths of the Duke of Albany, the Duke of Buccieucfl'. Earl Cowley. and the Duke of Wellington, and the beatnwal of new insignia upon the Princes Edward and George, sons of the prince of Wales, for which a. place had to be found. Charles \Vestwood, of Shoreditch, be- ing an antl-vaccinationiat, evaded the English health law, and permitted three of his children to remain unvaccinated. They have recently died of small-pox. The Lancet says that Mr. Weatwood will have to look far back into history for any accident from vaccination to be compared with the disaster that has accrued to his home from small pox. Some of the English bishops work hard. Thus. for instance, during 1884 Dr. Thorold, the bishop of Rochester. re‘ received 0 074 letters, preached 107 Bar- mons, delivered 199 addresses. confirmed 11,087 catechumens. attended 79 com- mittee meetings and 27 public meetings, consecrated 8 churches. opened 4 mission buildings, ordained 44 deacons and 44 priests, and presided at Gruraldeconal cm- ferencea. Rheniah railway companies are liable to the government: for military fees and censoriptione, to partly relieve which one company built last year two monitors, which it stationed at Cologne, but in their construction the water level and the cur- rents and eddies of ihe river were not taken into account, and they had to be abandoned. The boats, which cast $225,- 000, have just been sold for $1,700. ears. Many passenger coaches on the West France railway are two stories in height, and heretofore numerous accidents have occurred from people standing up while the trains enter Paris on the Celnture line, which passes under innumerable bridges. To avoid this the bed of the railway is now being dug lower, it being impracticable to raise the street bridges. Considering the number of children who are thrashed within an inch of their lives, generstion after generation, in consequence of the “ rod " dictum of the “ wisest of men," Mr. Labouchere won- ders that no one has pointed out how sadly the system of that “ wise ” parent failed in the case of his own son neho- boam. In J apan, where a. ridiculous and in- jurious custom prevails of having the eye- Iids daily turned inside out, and then rubbed over, titilliated and polished with a smooth patula, the ratio of the blind to the whole population in one to to four hundred. In the city of Yeddo. it is said, there are no fewer than 36,000 persons without sight. An extraordinary case of longevity is that of Pietro d’Andrea, who is 120 years old. He lives at Raccaberardi. a village of the cnmmon of Peacorecchianno, near Citta Ducale. Italy. He is still in the full possession of his mental faculties, and is able to walk long distances. Although rlceis the chief article of con- sumption in Sivrra Leone, not one pint is 21- ‘wn on the peninsula, and the price of this food staple is regulated by the facil‘ ities of \ransit and the number of inter- necine conflicts of the adjacent tribes of savages. Billingngahe, the great market through which London buy: her principal fish supply, delivers monthly an average of 11,000 tons. During December there was brought into the market 9,600 pounds of fish that was seized as unfic {or food. French pennants in Ecouen receive sixty cents a. day for work in the fields They rise at three or four o'clock in the morning and end theirlabor sometimes not. till nine in the evening. with a short in'ermission for an eleven o‘clock diu- ner. In Morocco schools the Koran in only taught, and the pedagogue receives fifteen cents a mnnth for teaching it. In the French military hospitals chap- laincies have been abnljshod. The neces- sifv of reducing the army estimates is the vfl‘icial explanation. Owing to co‘onial annexation: durirg the put. year, Germans, like Britons, are '4 now abie to say that the sun never sets 1 on the German empire. | The flornhill Magazine was so named from a street in London, not far from the exchange. Achild recently died in Rye, Eng- land, of fright caused by a boy wearing a. mat-k. About six hmfdred years ago the FORE IGN ECHOES. 1,82 ,825, or exactly five Hours a. She Locked Her Children in the House. Mrs. John Ailing of Bristol, Conn., locked her three small children up in the house on a recent ELtBI‘DOOD and went away. The oldest child was a boy of five and the youngest a babe. When Mrs. Alling returned at four o’clock she saw smoke pouring from the windows and doors of the house. Hastening in she stumbled over something on the floor, which she found to be her baby with its clothing consumed and its body badly burned. She ran to the chamber where she had left the three children in bed, and there, hidden under the bed clothes, she found the two older ones al- most paralyzed with fright. After their motherr left them in the afternoon they got up and amused themselves by striking matches and throwing them about the room. When the baby’s clothes took fire thetwo older ones hurried back to bed and left the infant to its fate. The babe soon expired. It is a miracle that the house, with all the children, was not con- sumed. The attainment by Prince Albert of Wales of the age of 21 has legally even less significance than in the case of an or- dinary subject. Although he i-, like others, no longer under pupilage, he. un- like them, is still not master of himself in regard to marriage. The modern practice has been to make 18 the full age of a. sovereign.asevidenced by the statute in regard to the children of F raderick, Prince of \Vales, in regard to the children of George 111., and in regard to the children of her presant Majesty and the late Prince Consort, in the event of that P.iuce survivmg her Majesty, and the heir to the throne being under that age. No age, however, is now fixed by law.before attaining which the sovereign cannot reign without a regent. The fac; is that the heir to the throne is always capable of reigning, as the sov- ereign is never a minor. 1n the case of sovereigns of tender years regents have been appointed; but the age at which sovereigns who were minors began to act for themselves has varied from time to time. Henry III. and Edward III. were cansidered of full age to act; as kings at 18 ; Richard II. and Henry VI. not till 23 ; and by a statute of Henry VII. his successor, if a male, was to be under guardianship until 18, and if afemale un- til 16. It has never been doubted that, at com- mon law, the approval of ‘he marriage of the sovereign's grandchildren belongs to the sovereign, and now, by statute, con- trol is given to the Crown over the marriage of all the English descendants of George 11. It; is a. popular error that a prince in the direct line of the throne comes of age, in the sense of capacity of reigning, before he attains 21. Even the position during minority of a son of the Prince of Wales is rather vaguely defined by the law. In 1718 It was decided by a. majority of ten Judges to two that the education and the care of the eovereign's grandchildren belong to the sovereign during the lifetime of their father; but: the decision of the majority has had doubts thrown upon it. His place in point of precedence is after his uncles, as was settled in 1760, when the Duke of York, in the lifetime of George II . took his seat in the House of Lords. Nothing remains except the comparatively modern t. Isle of Prince, to which must be added the first Chrisfian name, as in point of law thefirst Christian name is the only Christian name, no one being enticled to more than one. The Legal Status of Prince Al- bert Victor. The law is singularly bare in its recog- nition of the second generation of the royal family, even in the case of its senior mule representative, when the first. gen- eration includes his father. He is not even entitled in strictnese to be called heir presumptive to the Crown, because there can be no heir presumptive when there is an heir apparent. and his father‘s titles admit of no courtesy title borne by the heir apparent to them. of the pnrfact wood. the top of the young wood, with narrow rings, the bottom of old wond, with ring;- wider apart. When '11:» volume is opened it is found to be a little box, cnntaining the flower, seed. fruit. and leaves of the tree, either dried or imitated in wax. In the Camel. Germany, natural hia- tnry museum are npucimena of the wood of five hundred diff-«rent European trees, made up in the form of a library. Each specimen is in the shape of a. volume. Thu bad: i« formed of the bark, the sides In England there are 114.000 school teachers, .05 per cent. of whom are spins- ters, In Athens, Greece. the proportion is quite as great. while the entrance by young women into that occupation there means almost as certainly a life nf single blassedness as though they had taken the veil Occasionally it happens that one martian. but she is evor after regarded by her late spinsfer associates as having had a. weakness in her composition that rendered her unworthy of the pro- fession. sea broke through its restraining dikes and eighty thousand persons are said to have perished. In a single night, in 1421. seventy-fw0 villages and one hun- drwd thousand human beings we swept away. A The my”: that Marge sum of money witsth to coéer his sum 1