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another collision , off Holyhead , is reported , by which two lives were lost . It seems the Edith , one of the London and North Western Railway Company ' s boats , left the Company ' s wharf at 1 . 25 a . m . on Wednesday morning for Greenore , when an in-coming steamer , the Dnehess of

Sutherland , belonging to the same company , came into collision with it , the result being that , in three quarters of an hour , the former sank with two men , a fireman named Jones and his brother , on board . What makes the occurrence of the accident still more singular is that the weather

was calm and clear at the time . There were from sixty to eighty passengers aboard the Edith when the two vessels collided , but these and the crew , with the exceptions named , were fortunately rescued , owing to the valuable assistance rendered by Captain Kendall , of the Royal Mail

Steamer Connaught , and the boats of the R . M . S . Ulster , though . Captain Owen of the Edith , and . others , had a narrow escape . Three accidents at sea in about as many weeks hardly looks well for a maritime people . We shall soon be asking of each other—Does Britannia rule the waves , or is this only a myth ?

It is not often our lot to record so well-merited a rebuke as that administered by Lady Strangford to Mr . J . Lewis Earley . It is a disgrace to Englishmen that whenever a petty internal outbreak against recognised authority occurs in any foreign country , there is always to be fouud almost

ready to hand a committee of Englishmen who take upon themselves to foment these disturbances , and the matter on which we are about to comment is a case in point . A few weeks since a number of marauding blackguards took upon themselves to pillage , burn , destroy a number of

villages in the Herzegovina , one of the provinces of European Turkey , just as Cumberland and Devonshire are among the provinces of England . No sooner does intelligence of the so-called outbreak against a so-called despotism reach this country than forthwith a committee of

wiseacres—we might also describe them m stronger terms —is established , and the sympathies of a narrow-minded section of the British public with the insurrectionists is expressed formally . Reputable people are invited to lend their sanction to the action of this committee , and

unfortunately for his reputation , one of our statesmen , no less a man than the Earl Russell , twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , and an ex-Foreign Secretary , has taken part and subscribed £ 50 towards the maintenance of a revolt against tho just authority of a foreign sovereigr

friendly with Great Britain . Happily , however , a lady , the Lady Strangford , lias hud the courage to administer a veritable coup de grace to the English advocate of foreign ruffianism . Mr . Farley , once a consul in the service of the Porte , appears to have invited Lady Strangford to allow

her name to be placed on the committee for an object which Ave suppose we must describe as , at the very least , the destruction of Turkish property , and the slaughter of innocent Turkish families . Lady Strangford first reminds Mr . Farley of the labours of her late husband , Lord Strangford ,

m upholding the authority of the Turks in the late insurrection in Crete , and gives this as a first reason why she should hesitate before acceding to his request . She then suggests that Mr . Farley ' s views appear to justify every insurrection , " whether provoked or unprovoked , "

" whether likel y to succeed or certain to involve unnecessary and unprofitable bloodshed , " and , " whether , if unsuccessful , conducive to the peace of Europe , or only to the aggrandisement of those who disturb that peace . " She then points out that no trustworthy accounts have yet

been received of the disturbances ; that no explanation has been made public of the objects of the insurgents ; that no grievance has yet been suggested as the forts etvlgo mull . She then , with all the skill of a practised logician , directs Mr . Farley ' s attention to a work of his , published iu 1872 ,

dedicated to the Turkish Ambassador , and entitled , " Modem Turkey , " and she calls upon him to justify , or , ab all events , to account for the marvellous change of opinion which he has undergone in less than three years . She remarks : " Englishmen who have not the advantage

yon have enjoyed of serving as Consul in the service of the Porte , and thus becoming acquainted with the various races it includes , are sometimes misled by the arrogant and unfounded dogma , that in any and every difference between

Mahommedans and non-Mahommedans , the latter must necessaril y be the oppressed and the former the oppressors . This untenable and bigoted assumption has been , or ought to have been , long ago disposed of by those who read and those who travel . " She then crushes Mr . Farley , with an

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extract from his own work , which we cannot do better than give as quoted , premising , of course , that as we have not read Mr . Farley ' s work , we are dependent on Lady Strangford for the accuracy of her quotation . The passage reads as follows : "' I wish some learned theologians would tell

me , why it is that men are so much better , in all the social relations of life , under Mahomraedan laws than under those of Christianity . It is unheard of for a Turk to strike a woman . He is always tender to women , children , and dumb animals ; and if a dog howls with pain in the streets

of Pera , you may be quite certain that it is not a Turk that has struck the blow . A Turk is truthful , and scorns a lie ; he is sober , temperate , and never a drunkard or a

gambler ; he is honourable in his dealings , kind to hia neighbour , and charitable to the poor . In Turkey no man , woman , or child can really want bread , much less die of starvation . Can as much be said for Christian countries ?'"

( p . 122 . ) We are very much grieved to find that it has been reserved for a lady to come forward manfully to do battle against the gross impertinences of self constituted British Committees who busy themselves in fostering domestic turmoils , the causes of

which they are profoundl y ignorant of , in foreign countries . We Englishmen know well enough how annoyed we were at the sympathy of the dregs of the American public with Fenianism , whose principal exploits were the murder of a harmless policeman , who was faithfuly discharging his

duty , and the destruction of sundry property in Ireland . What should we say if Turkey merchants in Constants nople , took to supporting Fenianism , or agricultural ot

trade differences . We think Lady Strangford is entitled to the thanks of all England for the vigour and point of the refusal to join in resistance to the legal authority of the Sultan .

The British Association has been continuing its labours , about the most agreeable of which must undoubtedly have been the trip by a hundred of the members to Salisbury , and thence to Stonehenge . The excursionists were met on the platform at Salisbury by the Mayor and othei

leading citizens , and were by them conducted in the first instance over the Blackmore Museum , the American collection of Indian war weapons , which was highly eulogised by one of the party , General Carrington , of the U . S . army . Then they visited other places of interest in the town ,

and lastly the cathedral , over which they were conducted by Archdeacon Hare ; and after paying a visit of respect to tho venerable Bishop of the diocese , the party made for the Town Hall , where , at the invitation of the Mayor , the labours of the party wore for a time suspended , in order

that refreshment might bo taken . After a few toasts , the party were called from refreshment to labour , and being placed in a number of carriages specially provided for them , drove to Stonehenge , a distance of about nine miles . Having examined this marvellous

structure sufficiently , and having heard the learned remarks of the Rev . E . Duke , and Sir Walter Elliott , the excursionists drove back to Salisbury , and returned thence by train to Bristol , thoir hosts , the mayor and citizens , bidding them " God Speed " on their way home .

A great discovery has been made of certain most interesting relics of Peter the Great , who , it may be remembered , visited this country towards the end of tho seventeenth century , and was for a long time successful in maintaining his incognito . It might have been imagined

that after the lapse of nearly two centuries there would remain no further vestige of his presence among us , but a polish gentleman , M . Stanislaus , recently came across , in Great Tower Street , a sideboard , a bookcase , and an iron chest , all tho work of His Imperial Majesty , and most

minutely corresponding with the description given of them in the " London Gazette . Published by authority . Supliment from Monday , 6 th February , to Thursday , l ) lh February 1698 . " They are in splendid preservation , and

have now become the property of a Roman nobleman , who intends , it is said , presenting them to the Empcrer Alexander II ., so that they may be placed at Moscow among other mementoes of the Czar Peter .

Barnet Fair was held on Saturday , Monday and Tuesday , and , the weather being magnificent , drew a large concourse of visitors from all parts , especially men of horsey md agricultural tastes . Why it is that one of tho noblest animals should ; ihvavs find itself associated with the

greatest blackguards , the most degraded brutes and rulhans , is just one of those paradoxes which a , " follow " may bo pardoned for not understanding . Nevertheless it is so , aud