three years of age at his death. He was married on December 4, at St. Mary's Church, Newington, to a young lady of twenty-four, Miss Frederica Markham. Great sympathy is felt for the young widow. 25. FUNERAL OF LORD LYTTON.-The remains of Lord Lytton were to-day interred in Westminster Abbey. The funeral procession left the town residence of the deceased nobleman, 12, Grosvenorsquare, shortly before twelve o'clock, in the following order : The Tenants and Labourers on the Knebworth Estate. The chief mourners as follows:-Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Lytton, Mr. William Bulwer, Colonel Bulwer, Mr. Ernest Villiers, Mr. Henry Loch, C.B., Rev. Charles Pearson (Rector of Knebworth), Mr. John Forster, Mr. Gedge and Mr. Lambert (solicitors of the family). The number of mourners in the procession was confined to the above, but the political and other friends of Lord Lytton received tickets of admission to the Jerusalem Chamber and other parts of the Abbey. The procession arrived punctually at half-past twelve o'clock, and the coffin was borne into the Abbey by the cloister door and placed on the bier in front of the chancel. Among those who joined the procession within the Abbey were the Lord Chancellor and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, the Right Hon. J. Stansfeld, the Right Hon. H. Childers, and Lord Chelmsford. Among those in the immediate vicinity of the coffin were Mr. V. Harcourt, M.P., Mr. W. H. Lecky, Lord Arthur Russell, Mr. Blackwood, of Edinburgh, Mr. R. N. Phillipps, LL.D., F.S.A., Recorder of Pontefract (as representative of the Council of the British Archæological Association), Mr. Hepworth Dixon, &c. The whole floor of the chapel was covered with black cloth. A raised platform was built over the graves of Robert de Waldeby, Alsanor Bohun, and Mary Villiers, and this structure, as well as the edge of the grave itself, and the outlines of the tomb of Humphrey Bourchier, were bordered with a ribbon of white. Candles were set in the alcove containing the tomb of Sir Bernard Brocas, on the piers of the monument to John, Lord Russell, and elsewhere in the little chapel, on account of the fog which pervaded the Abbey during the greater part of the morning. Lord Lytton's grave is in the enclosed chapel of St. Edmund, south-east of the chancel, and near Poets' Corner. It is close by the tomb of Humphrey Bourchier, who fell at the battle of Barnet, so picturesquely described by Lord Lytton in the "Last of the Barons." Among the surrounding tombs is that of Archbishop Waldeby, the accomplished companion of the Black Prince, and the earliest representative of literature in the Abbey. Not far off lie Robert Ayton, the Scottish poet, ancestor of his better known namesake of modern times, and Sir Henry Spelman, the antiquary. 30. THE GREAT CORAM-STREET MURDER.-ARREST OF DR. HESSEL. For the murder of Harriet Buswell in Great Coramstreet, on Christmas morning, the police have arrested a German clergyman of the name of Hessel. The manner of his arrest was somewhat peculiar. Since the murder close watch has been kept on the numerous foreign vessels arriving at and leaving Ramsgate, and on January 18 Superintendent Buss arrested Carl Whollebe, the surgeon's assistant of the brig "Wangerland," which put into that port with 163 emigrants on board about a fortnight before Christmas for repairs, and was lying there waiting a favourable wind. The police had learned that Mr. Whollebe left Ramsgate for London by the last up-train on December 22 with the chaplain of the "Wangerland," whose name is Hessel, the chaplain's wife, and a Mr. Hermes, a shipowner. On January 4 he returned to Ramsgate and went to Hiscock's Royal Hotel, where he had been staying before, and requested that his luggage might be sent on board the vessel, but expressed his intention to sleep there that night. After his return from London he went to the hotel, and about two a.m. he suddenly left the house and returned to his ship. Superintendent Buss having telegraphed to Bow-street that his suspicions had been aroused, Inspector Harnett went to Ramsgate in company with the two witnesses, William Stalker, the waiter at the Alhambra, and George Fleck, the greengrocer. The witnesses, however, failed to identify the prisoner, and declared he was not the man whom they had seen. Being shown the chaplain, Dr. Hessel, they declared he was the man whom they had seen in company with the murdered woman. The chaplain was thereupon placed under arrest, and Mr. Whollebe released. Dr. Hessel was brought up before the magistrates at Bow-street on January 20, and remanded for a week. Superintendent Thompson, in explaining to the magistrate why the prisoner had been arrested, stated that he would be able to show that Hessel was in London on the day in question. One of the waiters at the Hotel Cavour, in Leicester-square, was called as a witness, and said that, having attended to the deceased and a companion late on Christmaseve, to the best of his belief she was accompanied by the prisoner at the bar. If it was not him it was his twin brother, or witness was never more mistaken. On being asked by Mr. Vaughan, the witness said he was fully aware of the importance of his evidence. It was stated by Superintendent Thompson that this waiter had been taken to see several persons, and on no occasion had he identified any one until he saw Dr. Hessel. Yesterday (29th) the proceedings were commenced by Mr. Poland, who examined several witnesses. The waiter at the Solferino restaurant, the greengrocer who sold fruit to the deceased and her male companion early on Christmas morning, and the servant girl who saw a man leave the house later in the day, all adhered to their recognition of the prisoner as the person whom they had seen, while other witnesses were not nearly so strong on the score of identification. A housemaid at the Royal Hotel, Ramsgate, testified to the request of the prisoner, after his return from London, three or four days after Christmas, for some turpentine and a clothes-brush, and to the fact that a great deal of turpentine was used; while a laundress deposed that, out of a number of handkerchiefs given to her to wash for Dr. Hessel, six or seven were stained, and one was completely saturated with blood. For the defence an alibi was set up and established to the satisfaction of the magistrate, Mr. Vaughan; Whollebe, Hessel's companion, being the principal witness to prove that he had never left his hotel on the night of the murder. After he and others had been examined, Mr. Vaughan said, "To my mind it has been conclusively shown that Dr. Hessel was not the companion of the murdered woman on that evening. The evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution examined at the court at first undoubtedly pointed to Dr. Hessel as having been in the company of that unfortunate woman, and therefore the police were perfectly justified in taking the course they did. This case has been most fully investigated here, and the witnesses on both sides have been subjected to a close and searching cross-examination, and I am satisfied that the witnesses who have spoken to the identity of Dr. Hessel are entirely in But, even supposing that their evidence had been stronger and free from discrepancies, I should have considered that the case on the part of the prosecution had been entirely destroyed by the evidence of the witnesses for the defence. It is therefore my duty, and a duty which I discharge with great satisfaction to myself, to state that the prisoner is released, and, as far as I can see, I can say that he leaves this court without suspicion." Dr. Hessel was indemnified for his sufferings by a very large subscription. 31. THE STRIKE IN SOUTH WALES continues. An attempt made, by a proposal of Mr. Brogden, M.P., to bring about a settlement of this dispute, which has stopped the work and wages of 70,000 persons in the collieries and iron furnaces of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, meets with greater opposition than was foreseen, as the plan of "the double shift," which would admit of an economy in management that might allow the masters to continue the late scale of wages, is disliked by a large part of the colliers, and more especially by those employed in the steam-coal district, who, though not yet on strike, are the main support of the union. An opinion seems to prevail among these men that it is for their interest, as a class, to limit the amount of coal produced from the collieries by a given number of hands, and this notion has prejudiced them against the system of the double shift, which proves satisfactory where tried in the north of England. The men in the iron-works, far more numerous than the colliers, are unable to get to work again while B the latter refuse to supply coal for the blasting of the iron ore. Severe distress begins first to be felt among those classes of labourers who are least responsible for the strike, and who are connected with no trade union. One of their miseries is the want of fuel for household use, as their wives and children can no longer get their baskets filled at the pit's mouth for a few pence; but there is also much want of food, and a free soup-kitchen has now been established at Merthyr Tydvil by a charitable committee, with the Marquis of Bute at its head. The clothes and furniture of many poor families, whose cottages were respectable and comfortable a few weeks ago, must soon be carried to the pawn-shop. The money of those who had deposits in the savings' banks is already gone. It is said by those best acquainted with the district that the vice of drunkenness was terribly common, as shown by the statistics of convictions in the local magistrates' courts. FEBRUARY. 1. TERRIBLE GALES.-A storm which recent observations at the Meteorological Office showed was coming, reached the southern part of this country this (Saturday) evening. The wind then began to rise, and during the night it blew a hurricane. This moderated towards daylight on Sunday morning, and then came a heavy fall of snow, which by night covered the streets of London to the depth of several inches. In some places where the snow was drifted by the wind it was more than a foot deep. The wind blew keenly during the day from the north-east, and the thermometer standing from four to six degrees below freezing-point, the snow remained firmly on the ground. From all parts of the country reports are sent as to the gale and snowstorm. On some of our coasts great damage has been done to the shipping. Mount's Bay, Cornwall, presented a dreadful scene on Sunday, and there was a tremendous sea. A French vessel, "La Marie Emilie," of Lorient, went ashore, and the sea rolled over her. The "Richard Lewis" lifeboat proceeded to the wreck, but was twice driven back by the heavy rollers, and had seven of her oars broken. Still her crew persevered, notwithstanding that the boat was actually hurled by the rollers twice on the wreck itself. On the third attempt she succeeded in saving the whole of the shipwrecked Frenchmen. Mr. Blackmore, the chief officer of the coastguard, particularly distinguished himself on board the lifeboat. From Falmouth we learn that during a gale on Saturday night a steamer, "Clan Alpine," belonging to the River Baramo Steamship Company, went ashore at the Blackhead. There was a tre mendous sea running at the time, and she went to pieces almost immediately. The rain fell in torrents at the time, and the force of the wind is described as fearful. Eighteen of the crew were saved, but Captain Nelson, Captain Burnett, the company's overlooker, as well as the first officer, chief steward, cook, and others, amounting in all to thirteen, perished. During the early part of Saturday night a portion of the sea-wall near Penzance was blown down, and about eighty yards of the road between Penzance and Newlyn were washed away. Late on Saturday night the schooner "Sarah," of Runcorn, was sighted in distress off Balbriggan. The Skerries lifeboat proceeded to her assistance with a crew of coastguards and fishermen, numbering eleven hands. The lifeboat, however, capsized, and seven out of the eleven men were drowned. The lifeboat was lost, and the schooner was dashed almost to pieces on the Carrabates rocks. The crew, numbering seven hands, were lost. sea. On Sunday morning the schooners" Rambler " and " Mary Ann," and the brig" Francis," all of which had brought up in St. Ives Bay on Saturday night, drove ashore near the harbour. A strong gale from the E.N.E. was blowing at the time, accompanied by a heavy After great trouble, on account of its being dead low water, the lifeboat "Covent Garden," belonging to the Lifeboat Society, was launched, and proceeded to the wreck. The first time the boat was driven ashore at Porthminster Beach. At once another volunteer crew mustered, and the boat was again launched. That time she was successful in saving the crew of five men of the schooner " Mary Ann," together with another man who had been washed from the other schooner. Two of the crew of the "Rambler" were washed. overboard and drowned before the boat could reach the vessel. The lifeboat, however, succeeded in rescuing the remaining man. It then returned to the shore, where a third crew was organized, and they made a gallant but unsuccessful attempt to rescue the brig's crew. The boat was driven ashore by the force of the wind and sea. The men in her were quite exhausted, and a fourth crew was obtained, there being fortunately a sufficient number of men at hand. The lifeboat, though with great difficulty, being once more launched, was then enabled to save the six men on board the brig, making altogether thirteen lives she had saved in these most gallant services. Murphy, the coxswain, deserves great praise, for he was in the boat on all the four occasions. When the lifeboat failed, in the first instance, a message was despatched to Hayle, the adjoining station, for the institution's lifeboat " Isis," and in three quarters of an hour from the receipt of the message that boat was got to St. Ives, by which time, however, she was not needed, the other lifeboat there having rendered the required service. FREE OPENING OF KEW BRIDGE. The well-known stone bridge of seven arches over the Thames at Kew, which was built above eighty years ago, is now open to all passengers free of toll. The opening ceremony took place to-day. It was attended by the |