10. THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD.-The first meeting of the newly-elected School Board for London was held in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall, Mr. Alderman Cotton presiding. There were only two absentees out of the forty-nine members of whom the Board is composed, one of them being Mr. Arthur Mills, M.P. Miss Chessar and Mrs. Cowell occupied the same places at the chairman's table that were formerly filled by Mrs. Garrett-Anderson and Miss Emily Davies on the former Board. The space appropriated to strangers was very much crowded. On the motion of Mr. Currie, seconded by the Rev. John Rodgers, Mr. Charles Reed, M.P., was unanimously elected chairman of the Board. The hon. gentleman, on taking the chair, stated that he should endeavour to carry out its duties with the same impartiality and vigour as his predecessor. He trusted the Board would remember that the only work they had to do there was to supply a good and sound education to the children of London. Mr. Currie was, with equal unanimity, elected to the vice chairmanship. The following is an alphabetical list of the members of the Board, together with the divisions for which they are returned. An asterisk is prefixed to the names of new members:—

*Bardsley, Rev. J., Tower Hamlets.
Barry, Rev. Canon, Westminster.
*Bevan, Rev. Ll. D., Marylebone.
Buxton, E. N., Tower Hamlets.
*Chessar, Miss J. A., Marylebone.
Clarke, T. C., Finsbury.

Cotton, Ald. W. J., City of London.
*Cowell, Mrs. Alice, Marylebone.
Cromwell, Rev. Canon, Chelsea.
Currie, E. H., Tower Hamlets.
Freeman, Robert, Chelsea.

*Daniel, Rev. Evan, Lambeth.

*Foster, Richard, Hackney.
*Gladstone, John Hall, Chelsea.
Gover, Henry, Greenwich.

*Gregory, Rev. Canon, City of London.
*Heal, John Harris, Marylebone.
*Heller, Thomas E., Lambeth.
*Irons, Rev. Preb., Marylebone.
Lafone, Alfred, Southwark.

Langdale, Arthur, Tower Hamlets.
Legge, Hon. and Rev., Greenwich.
*Lovell, Charles H., Finsbury.
Lucraft, Benjamin, Finsbury.
MacGregor, John, Greenwich.

*Maguire, Rev. R., Finsbury.
*Martin, Rev. R. M., Southwark.
Mills, Arthur, Marylebone.
*Morgan, William F., Lambeth.
Morley, S., M.P., City of London.
*Murphy, Rev. G. M., Lambeth.
*Napier and Ettrick, Lord, Westmr.
*Peek, Francis, City of London,
Picton, James A., Hackney.
*Pilkington, Rev. J. G., Hackney.
*Potter, George, Westminster.
*Reade, Rev. C. D., Chelsea.
Reed, Charles, M.P., Hackney.
Rigg, Dr. J. H., Westminster.
Rogers, Rev. John, Finsbury.
Scrutton, T., Tower Hamlets.
*Sinclair, Rev. J., Southwark.
Smith, W. H., M.P., Westminster.
*Stephenson, Rev. T. B., Hackney.
Stiff, James, Lambeth.
Tabrum, E. J., Finsbury.
Wallace, James, Southwark.

Watson, James, Marylebone.

Waugh, Rev. Benj., Greenwich.

There are thus twenty-five new members out of a total of forty-nine. 13. A THREE-DAYS' FOG, at first of extraordinary density, prevailed in London this week, commencing on Tuesday, the 9th, with brief intervals of daylight. There has been nothing similar to it for years, and the interruption to business caused serious losses in many quarters. There were numerous fatal accidents, and the effect of the continued asphyxiation, for it was no less, was very severe on many sufferers from illness. The death-rate of London, usually compara

tively low, rose higher for the week than that of any other town in England, and as many as 1000 deaths are attributed to the fog. The annual Cattle Show was taking place at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, and the fog caused great distress among the unlucky animals. About one hundred were removed into the country while the Show was going on, but many of them suffered very severely, and several died of disease, while others had to be slaughtered. It is needless to add that the fog found London as utterly unprepared against its effects as if it was the first that had ever visited us.

16. SERIOUS GALE IN THE NORTH.-A violent gale, which has caused the death of about ten persons and serious injury to a number of others, besides doing considerable damage to property, broke over the midland and northern part of the country. Amongst the places where its destructive effects were most visible was Sheffield, where many lives were lost. The damage done to property in Leeds is estimated at 20,000l. It is reported that there is hardly a street in Sheffield which is not strewn with rubbish. In Trippet-lane an engine chimney, 120 feet high, fell across eight cutlers' workshops, owned by Messrs. Reynolds and Son, contractors, and buried the occupants in the rooms, which had been sublet to working cutlers, and which contained between twenty and thirty persons at the time of the accident. Of these six were killed and fourteen injured. The chimney, which was broken at the base by the force of the gale, fell with a tremendous crash, dragging the shops, which were raised on iron pillars, along with it. It had been erected about seventeen years ago, at a cost of 3007., and had been considered unsafe for some time past. The damage to property alone is estimated at 40007. At the Norfolk Works, belonging to Messrs. Thomas Firth and Sons, a chimney, 120 feet in height, was blown across a hammershop and other buildings, reducing portions of them to mere heaps of rubbish. There were between thirty and forty men in the works; but, fortunately, most of them saw the chimney rocking, and rushed out before it fell. Three men were injured, one of them, it is feared, fatally. A large foundry which has only recently been erected at Attercliffe suffered very severely. The roof of an immense shop was carried almost bodily away, and immediately afterwards the side walls fell in. All the workmen contrived to make their escape, with the exception of two, who were buried beneath the ruins. When recovered, one was dead and the other so severely injured that his recovery is despaired of. Accounts have also been received from all parts of Yorkshire, Durham, Shields, Newcastle, Glasgow, the west of Scotland, and other districts in the north, which tell of an amount of damage to property and loss of life probably unequalled of late years in any gale, however severe.

- COMMITTAL OF THE TICHBORNE WITNESS LUIE.-Jean Luie, or Lungren, after having been twice brought up before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow-street, was to-day committed to the convict prison at Pentonville, to complete the remainder of the sentence passed on him at Cardiff, in 1867, and which expires in September, 1874.

At the first examination Mr. Pollard, who attended to prosecute on behalf of the Treasury, said, "I attend here to charge this man with being at large against the conditions of a licence which he received in March this year. You may know, Sir Thomas, that this man gave evidence upon the trial of the case, the Queen v. Castro, now being tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, at Westminster. He then stated- as he has here before you to-day-that his name was Jean Luie. He was asked the history of his life, partly in examination in chief, and partly in cross-examination." Mr. Pollard having stated at length the various allegations made by Luie in the Court of Queen's Bench, said, " The circumstances which led to his being brought here happened in this way: Luie having, in common with the other witnesses in the Tichborne case, been photographed, the photograph appeared in all the shops, and two young men passing through Moorgate-street saw the photograph, and recognized Luie as a man who, on March 29th of the present year-four days after the prisoner had been released on a ticket-of-leave-had called at the office of a shipbroker and endeavoured to obtain a sum of 207. to buy a chronometer. He represented himself as the captain of a ship lying at Hale, in Cornwall, and he very nearly succeeded in getting the money. They telegraphed to Hale, and found that no such person as Captain Grundben was known. On Friday night the two young men who had identified the photograph attended at Westminster just as the Court was rising, and had an opportunity of recognizing the prisoner. On the following Monday he was committed for contempt of Court in the evidence he had given as to his antecedents. From that time up to the present we have received day by day further information about him, and various witnesses were called during the present week to show that from the year 1852 the man who is now before you was a clerk in a shipbroker's office in the town of Hull. From that time to 1861 he was employed in the neighbourhood of Bristol as a water-clerk and shipping clerk by the name of Charles Lungren. In 1862 he was entrusted with a bank post-bill, which he appropriated. He was given into custody and tried at the Bristol assizes, and being convicted was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. He was liberated in April, 1865, on a licence, part of his sentence having been remitted. In October following he was at Newcastle-on-Tyne, under the names of Grindland and Paterson, where also he committed fraud, and was again in custody. He was tried, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment from the adjourned sessions of 1866. He was afterwards at Cardiff, and was again convicted of fraud, and, his former conviction being proved against him, he was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, which would expire in 1874. However, his conduct was so good that eighteen months of the sentence were remitted, and in March of this year he was set at liberty on a licence. The terms of the licence were that he should report himself within forty-eight hours of his arrival in any town, but at Folkestone, which he went to on his way to Belgium, he certainly did not do so. Within four

days of his release he was suspected of various other frauds. In July of the present year he called on Messrs. Winslow, Son, and Co., and, under the name of Captain Strong, endeavoured to obtain money. On July 4th he, in another name, endeavoured to obtain money from Messrs. Cordy, of Crosby-square. He said at the trial that he only arrived at Ostend in July. He truly did arrive at Ostend, but on July 4th he was within the jurisdiction of this Court. The facts of his life having become known, the Court ordered that Luie should be committed to Holloway Prison on a charge of contempt of Court in having committed perjury, and his own counsel admitted that he could not rely upon his evidence." Mr. Pollard then said that he would to-day simply call sufficient evidence to ask for a remand, and for that purpose would call the inspector who was present during Luie's examination. He would state that Luie had declared he had never gone by any other name than Jean Luie. One of the warders of the Chatham convict prison would prove that he was there in 1868 till March of the present year, and was then discharged on a licence.

The evidence of several warders who identified Luie was then taken, and the prisoner remanded.

On being brought up the second time, Luie was asked by Sir Thomas Henry if he had any statement to make, before being sent to prison under the revocation of his licence, to which he replied that he had.

Luie: "All I have to say is that I am sorry for what has happened. It would not have happened if I had not been encouraged, and 'made up' to do what I have done."

Sir Thomas Henry: "You wish to say no more than that you have been encouraged and made up' to do what you have done ?" Luie: "That is all I wish to say for the present."

Sir Thomas Henry: "Very well. Then it is now my duty to commit you to the convict prison at Pentonville, to undergo the remainder of your sentence, but you must understand that you may be brought here, according to the statement of Mr. Pollard, of the Treasury Solicitor's office, to answer the charge of perjury."

The prisoner, who preserved a quiet demeanour in the box, was then removed in custody.

20. A FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT Occurred on the Thames, by which eight men lost their lives. In constructing new reservoirs for the Lambeth Water Company on the banks of the Thames at West Moulsey, 200 or 300 men are employed. After leaving work, twelve of these men had entered a boat to cross the river to their homes. On leaving the shore four or five more men rushed on board over the stern, and when about fifteen feet away the punt sank stern first, and all were immersed and struggling together in the water. The punt came up and floated bottom upwards some distance with two men on it, one of whom was saved. The boatman saved himself by swimming, and others by clinging to pieces of wood which were thrown from the bank. Of the fifteen men who were in the boat eight were drowned.

26. WRECK OF A TYNE STEAM-TUG.-A terrible accident occurred on the Tyne early this morning, by which eighteen lives were lost. The morning was pitch dark when the steamship "Gipsy Queen" left North Shields with a number of seamen and watermen, whom she had to place on the hoppers and dredgers in various parts of the Tyne. Calling at the Tyne Dock she took more men on board, making the total number on the boat thirty-six. On the north side of the river a wreck was sunk near a dredger, and, notwithstanding the fact that a brilliant light was seen burning over the wreck, the master of the steam-tug steered right into it. The boat struck the wreck with a fearful crash, and made a large hole in her starboard bow, and in a minute and a half sank head foremost. The bulk of the men who were thrown into the water clung together in a mass, and they seem to have drowned each other by clinging to each other's legs and arms. The scene was a terrible one, and the cries of the drowning men could be heard for a great distance. A man who was going up in a small boat picked up six men, and the dredger's boat put off and saved ten. Four of the men who are saved, though they burnt their hands very much by doing so, held by the boat's funnel until they were taken off, and another man, John Dunn, was rescued by the master's retriever dog. In all eighteen persons were drowned and twenty-eight were saved. Most of the drowned men whose bodies have been recovered had gone down in a cluster. The entire steamer's crew were lost in the small boat, which they launched, and which swamped with them.

31. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS of the month much as before.