The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

£ iAMPM?ER THE ASSIZE TOWS FOR CARDIGANSHIRE. The petition in favour of removing the assire town of -cardigaDshire from Cardigan to Lampeter hasjjust been granted, anfl the county assize will be held there next month. The matter has been for a considerable time under the consideration of the Lord Chancellor and the Privy Council, and their decision has now been made knows. The proposed change, which was stoutly opposed by residents in and near Aberystwyth and Cardigan* was supported by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, the larajority of the magistrates, and by the entire South Wales Bar, headed by Mr B. -Francis Williaaws, :é¿. c.

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I Jjrnm the papers. Mr Rowland Vaughan Williams has been appointed Queens Council. It is stated that the lease of Drury-lane Theatre ex- pire.* in about seven years and that it is then the intention of the Duke of Bedford to pull the building down. Mr Steward Menzies, who as a Liberal had represented East Perthshire in Parliament from the general election of 1S85, died ill London, on Friday from the effects of a chill caught a week ago. He was thirty-three years of a#e- „r By the accidental burstmg or a water main ^Oirs. in diameter, at Wolverhampton, on Thursday, a respectable residence in the centre of the town was partially wrecked. The water being at full pressure was forced in immense volume through the second-floor windows, car- rying with it heavy stones from the roadway. It was several r&unites before Corporation workmen could stop the flow. ileanwhile, the house was flooded with water. A great sensation was caused in XewYork on Saturday when it was known that two directors, Mr Ives and Mr StayiiOT, had been arrested for misappropriating the funds of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Drayton Railway Company, to the extent, it is alleged, of 2,553,000 dols. They have been remanded, bail being accepted in sureties of 25Q.Q00 dols. each. At an important conference at Bangor, on Friday, be- tween the special committees appointed by the University College of North Wales and the Anglesey and Carnarvon- shire "Agricultural Society to consider the best means of promoting agricultural education in Wales, a sub-com- mittee was appointed to make inquiries on the subject and report to a future conference. 'On Saturday Sir William \1"Cormack, assisted by two other surgeons, successfully extracted the bullet from the chest of Mr Atkins. It was found lying close to the lung, being only separated from it by a space not exceed- ing the thickness of a piece of paper. A portion of the coat was extracted with the bullet. Another bullet lies embedded in the groin, but the wound had healed, and the doctors are not yet decided as to what they will do with it. A girl attending school at Warwick, the daughter of a well-known jeweller at Leamington, has committed suicide by drowning herself in the canal at Warwick. As she did not return from school her father at midnight went in search of her, and met some men wheeling her I dead body in a wheelbarrow. The girl, who was only twelve years of age, left her clothes in a bundle on the towing path. It is supposed she committed the rash act in a fit of temper. Application was made in the London Bankruptcy Court, last week, for an order of discharge in the case of Mr Borlase, ex-M.P., nsd Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board in the late Liberal administra- tion. The accounts stow totalli:lbilities-£42,65; and a6set¡.£G,371. The bankrupt was unable to attend as he is suffering from smallpox. Mr Sydney opposed the application saying that he should allege fraud against the bankrupt. The applrcation was postponed until April 11th. A woman named Girvin, living at Burham. near Rochester, has just had a narrow esca>t>e of being buried alive. She fell into a'-kind of trance which was mistaken for death, and a coSui was ordered, and the usual pre- parations made for a'funeral. But while a number of relatives were gathered at the bedside bewailing their bereavement the supposed corpse startled them by sud- denly rising up in feed and asking what was the matter. The woman is making good progress towards con- valesence. valesence. An inquest has tbeen held by Llanwarne, county coroner for Hertfordshire, on the body of Margaret True- man, n. widow, aged ninety year*. She tied a rope round a bean: and to her neck and jumped from a cider press. No cause for the act is known, but on a Bible was found a letter in her hand-writing as follows :—" Perhaps I un sleeping and snoring, but may the Lord forgive me for what I bavfe dGUf;, fmd ma.y you be happy, but the Lord bless all the rest, for some of them will be heartbroken, and so adiew all my loving children. And so you may scoff and mock where you w]l1. At Blackpool ensFriday evening, a carter named George Pi Jling, aged 44, was found in the front garden of his bouse, in Coronation-street, with his throat cut. On Thursday night the deceased wa3 locked up for drunken- ness, and yesterday m3rliliS" he was fined, but was not liberated until the fine was paid. Then he appeared to be partially daK-d, but went home and remained in- doors until his wife and child had gone out, when. with a carving knife,-he cut his throat in the kitchen. After- wards he crawled upstairs to the attic, and, getting, through the-skylight, rolled off the roof, a drop of over' forty feet, into the garden. Death ensued soon after- wards. The abnorm&I>severity of the season, and the extra- ordinarily fceiv/y snowfalls, have made the wolves exceed- ingly aggressiw* in the Southern Provinces. Issuing from the Podolian, "Volhynian and Lithuanian forests, they have assembled in formidable numbers, compelling the inhabitants in the smaller towns and the steppe hamlets to observe a constant watchfulness. Only forty miles from this city, on the Nicolaietf post road, a pack of some two huudl"3G. wolves appeared some days ago. They werE partially dispersed by an organised raid but such travellers as have the temerity to proceed by that route in sledges are ofiicialiy warned to see to their weapons. Particulars of a romantic marriage have been published in Dublin. TLe-event, it appears, has caused dismay to a family of fortune and position in a southern county in Ireland. The only son a youth of twenty-two, having been in delicate health, was ordered to a warmer climate for change of air. An elderly lady undertook the charge of the interesting invalid, and his father was happy to place h;m in such careful hands. For a little all went well. The aceomats received at home from the travellers were moot cheering. The young man's health was decidedly improved, and his spirits excellent. But more recent intelligence-was not so satisfactory—at least to the father. It was the announcement of the marriage of bis son, heir to gl.øCa. year, to his nurse. An explosksn took place on Friday morning in the Steel Works of the London and North-Westeru Railway at Crewe, resulting in severe injuries to several men. It appears that a cupola, containing about six or seven tons of molten metal, was being lowered into position for discharging the liquid into the mouldR, when the gave way, ca;;p.:ng the metal to run imtothe bottom of the. pit, where it exploded with a loud report, scattering tbe boiling fluid OVtlT the workmen. The clothe* of several men were burDed, on thew. and the me-tal was buriod in their fkia. Thirteen were taken to the Company's hospital, and were attended there by the surgeone. Later in the day my of them were conveyed in cabs to their homes. Some of those remaining in the hoipital are so terribly turned that the doctorll are unable to give much hope of theirrecovery. John Nott is in a critical state the molten metal has burnt itself so deeply into hie neck and else** that it cannot be extracted. Many of tb workaaen, it is s*.id, had marvellous escapes. In the Leeds TowrrHall on Friday in the presence of about fifteen hundred spectators, Colonel North was presented with the freedom of the borough. This step 1 was taken in co«plianoe with a resolution of the Town Council meeting bm a few minutes before the public ceremony, and in recognition of the distinguished liberality of the Colonel in purchasing and presenting to his native town the ancient pile of Kirkstail Abbey and the surrounding grounds comprising eleven acres. All the members of the Corporation attired in their robes entered the Vijt*»ria JlaH, and Colonel North joined Mrs North. Miss North, and Mr Harry North on the platform, cheers rang out, which were repeated as tbe Mayor presented the silver casket containing the j Burgees Ticket" end Corporation address, and as Colonel North signed his name on the honorary burgess rail ns the first honorary freeman of the borough of Leeds.—In "cknowlr,iing-,the distinction thus conferred Colonel North said he :had only done what any true Yorksbireman with hi« opportunities would have done. What was the use of having money unless it was spent properly? Believing tfeat the Abbey grounds should be larger, he had that morning arranged to purchase an adjoining field for fJQQI. :(,GheerB.) He should always value the casket, and ever remember their kind reception. In the evening the Mayor entertained Colonel North. his friends, and the Town Council at a banquet. Mdlle, Louise Michel called the other day on a Royalist Duchess, now a, Boulansrist, who, astonished at the visit, asked to what cattse she owed the honour of receiving it. The other saidI come to obey the last ¡ desire of a relative, who in dying charged me to express her gratitude for the comfort your charity had afforded I her in a long and painful illness. She was relieved by an oiganisation which you created." The Duchess assured I her visitor that ehe was delighted to find that her small efforts had not been lost. MdUe. Michel added .What you do for the poor and outcast is beautiful; for my part I'have no policy except that of loving those who suffer. ¡ I admire you, because yon love as I do. and make a noble use of your fortune therefore I wish to prove my sense of gratitude for what you did for my aufortunate cousin as best I can. I know what your political views are. and will rot- po into them. but their is one point on which we agree. I do not believe that Geaeral Bouianger is conspiring against the_ Republic, and I know that vou take an interest in him. Forty thousand electors "are devoted to me if you wish, every one of th^in on a word I from me, will vote for him next Sunday." The abovo is literally true, and the forty thousand mentioned by Louise Michel might turn the scale. Sir Henry DashwOod, .Bart., died on Friday night, after a. short illness. The deceased Baronet, who was- the eldest son of Sir George Dashwood, fourth Baronet, by Ms wife Marianne Sarah,^ daughter of Sir Wai. Rriwley, Bart., was born in 1816. He married, in 184f», Sophia, enly child of the late Mr John Drinkwater, of Sherborne Houae, county Warwick, by whom he leaves a family. The late Sir Henry succeeded to the Baronetcy I on the death of his father, in 1861. He served the otiice of High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1865, and wmi Lord Lien tenant of the county for some years. He i«* suc- ceeded iu the Baronetcy by hi" only surviving son, Geortre John Egerton, be Captain in the Scots Guarrb. The present Baronet was born in 1851, and married, in 18',T). the Lady Margaret Seymour, youngest daughter of the fifth Marquess of Hertford. He is a Justice of the Peace i and Deputy Lieutenant of Oxford, and was appointed ¡ Captain in the 4th Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in 1880. t, A Bucharest correspondent mentions that a rumour is current in Court circles that an inteiesting family event is looked forv ard to in the Royal house. The pre- sent King and Queen, formerly the Prince and Princess of Roumania, were married in 1869, and had one child, which they lost. The sad event still throws a shadow over the happiness of the Queen, who is also known as Carmen Sylva." Hope of further issue having been abandoned, the King's nephew, Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern, who was born in 1865, was regarded as heir to the Roumanian Throne, and it was reported only a few K ^a(:* bospht a house in Jamay for the future permanent residence of the heir 'apparent. This report readers the newer one somewhat doubtful. I

} LONDON GOSSIP. I regret to announce the sudden death of Mr Stewart Menzies, M.P. for East Perthshire. The hon. member addressed a meeting of his constituents at Errol last week, and after leaving the meeting he caught a chill. Unfortunately, instead of laying up be travelled next day to London, and arrived in a greatly weakened state. Inflammation of the lungs had set in, and in spite of the best medical aid, he died early yesterday morning. Mr Menzies was only in his thirty-third year, and was a ■ member of considerable promise. He was returned at the last general election by a majority of upwards of fourteen hundred votes over his Liberal Unionist opponent. It is probable that Lord E. Fitzmaurice will be asked to stand as the Liberal candidate. The objection taken in Conservative circles to the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the charges and allegations against Irish members is Dot modified by the course of time. An eminent member of the party in the House of Commons, who usually votes with the Government, referred to the ^"matter with a freedom that testified to bis profound annoyance. He pointed out what, as far as I know, is a novel indication of the dilemma in which the Government had placed themselves. Suppose, he asked that the Commission deliver a judgment which practically convicts Mr Parnell and his friends of complicity in assassination ? What are the Government going to do then ? Only one course ia open to them and that is to move for the expulsion from the House of men whose hands are stained with blood. What will follow in Ireland is plainly seen. The seats heirs' declared vacant, there will he fresh, elections and Mr Parnell and his colleagues will be again returned a process that will be repeated as often as the majority declares the seats vacant. That is a hopeless deadlock to look forward to and as far as the Government are concerned, the only possible alternative is not more encouraging. Should the Commission acquit Mr Parnell and his colleagues, Home Rule is practically an accom- plished fact. The Government must disappear, and the Conservative party will be thurst into the cold for at least six years. It would," Lord Salisbury's angered follower added, have been so easy to avoid all this by leaving matters alone, and letting the Times fight out its private feuds without tha involving the Government. Perthshire is te be fought. Such is the stern decision of the authorities here. To let it pass would be regarded as bad taotics by the Unionists. In their opinion it would be tead a3 a voluntary surrender of Scotland to the Gladutonians. They have no hope of winning the seat. They can hardly expect to reduce the Liberal majority in any degree. But an army that does not fight gets disheartened and tends to dissolution. So a Unionist champion is to be found and despatched to the locality, in order to keep up the fighting spirits of the followers of Lord Salisbury and Lord Hartington. The Liberal candidate has not been chosen; and I don't; think it will be Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, if a local? candidate of sufficient weight and influence can be induced to stand. Lord Edmond is a very able man." and, as the Home Rule brother of the Marquis of Lan-eks-' downe, he would be impressive, especially as he wa? Unionist in 1886 but he has no onnection with Pertk- shire, and he has a fraicking: styk of address which is-rat readily pardoned by an audience which does not knew him well. He win the seat, but reduce 'the majority. The third French Republicllas just passed the terra of life granted to French Governments for the last hundred years. Smce the death of Lrtnis XV., no reign errsgine has lasted no longer than eighteen years. Louis 5LVI. was beheaded in the eighteenth year of his reign. Napoleon was banished to St. Helena just eighteen years after the glorious conclusion of his Italian campaign. Seventeen years after the restoration of the Bourbcn line, its representative, King Charles X., was forced to abdicate. King Louis Fliilippe was overthrown and exiled in the eighteenth year of his reign. Napoleon III. reached Sedan eighteen years after the coup d'etat. Just eighteen years have now elapsed since the^establish- meiat of the third Republic. The result of Sunday's eleotiou will possibly, amongst other things, either dis- turb or confirm the notable and loner-established ordaining of fate. 'General Boulasiger's success is big with fateful possibilities. If I am not mistaken, a very sharp storm will soon rise in the new London County Council. The vast majority of its mere oers are pledged against the continuance of the coal dues. The amor.nt thus lost, which is £320,000, must be replaced by an addition to thejrates, and I believe that a proposal will be made to provide this sum not by a rate on the occupier, but by taxation on gtound reats. The Council have no power to impose such a tax, but they will, no doubt, decide to ask Parliament to give them the power. The earliest motion, and probably the "first division after the debate'on the Address will be on 2frr Bradlaugh's motion relating to perpetual pensions. Mr Bradlaugh informs me that Mr W. H. Smith has specific ally agreed to find an opportunity as early as possible for the dis- cussion of the motion. Mr Kanbury, M.P., for Preston, has consented to second, and a fairly lax-pe number of Conservative members have expressed themselves in fav- our of the resolution.. It is requisite that very strong pressure should be put on all members of the House, with- out distinction of party, to be in their i^taces when the question is debated. This may be done by individual letters and by resolutions from dabs and organised bodies or from public meetings. On the re-ass^mbling of Parliament, Mr Bradlaugh will at once K the leader of the House to fix an early date after the conclusion; of the debate on the Address, so as to give members ample notice, and he will most certainly press the resolution to a vote.

COUNTY COUNCIL NEWS. A letter from the Local Government Board was read at the first meeting of the Surrey County Council. It jointed out 1:hat within twenty-eight days after the election of a county councillor each candidate must send to the clerk of the Council a return of hia election expenses, vouched for Sunless urder before a justice. Failure to do this would make him liable to forfeit, to any person who might sue him, jE50 every day on which he sat or voted in the Council. As, however, the clerk of the peace would not become clerk to the County Council until April list, a question arose as to whom the candidates' returns and declara- tions were to be sent. The Local Government Board were empowered to make such orders as appeared necessary to bring the Local Government Act into full eperation with reference to any Council applying for assistance and >ch^nld the Surrey Council think it desirable to apply for an order to remove any doubt on the question to whom candidates' returns of expendi- ture should be made the Board would be prepared to issue it.

A CAREER OF CRIME. A well-dressed woman, who gave her name as Madame De 'Varney, was arrested last July on the charge of pocket picking in the Champs Elyseea. She protested against the imputation, but was, nevertheless incarcer- ated at St. Lazare. M. Merle, the Examining Magis- trate, who instituted an inquiry into her case, learned from the prisoner that she was living as a boarder at Neoiilly with the family of M. Fabre, a former police commkssary. All those who bad made Madame De Varney's acquaintance at that boarding house, and M. lafere himself, said it was impossible she codld have been guilty of the act imputed to her. Moreover, she was a woman who had plenty of money, and whose delicate sense of honour was vouched for by twenty people. Madame De Varney stated that she was aai American, and accordingly the American Legation interceded for her, obtained her release and she left France, where she declared, it was impossible for an honest woman to get in- to a tram-car without running the risk of being mistaken and arrested as a thief. M. Goron, the Chief of the Detective Force, believed his men had not been mistaken, and sent a photograph of the woman to Mr Bryne, 'Chief of the New Turk police. M. Goroa has jnst received from the American official the report of the result of his long and searching inquiry. It turns out that Madame De Varney, WnO) is about thirty yeara of age, ia one of the most celebrated crimi- nals of America. Her parents, her sisters, and her t.vo husbands, vrere all professional thieves, and she herself has always lived by robbery. Her father, who was an adroit shoplifter, trained her to that speciality of crime. At the age of twelve she ra an adept at it. When sixteen years old, she married a thief named Harris, who was arrested during his honevmoon, and what has become of him is unknown. She got away, and continued her nefarious operations elsewhere. In her wanderings she met a clever robber named Ned Lyons, whom she mar- ried, and in a few years they made a fortune by their robberies. Ned Lyons then thought the time bad come to live like people so the couple settled down, and for a time lived on their illsrotsen weaith. Mrs Lyons, however, could not resist the temptation to steal, and one day stole something in a shop, whell she was caught and sent to gaol for five years. Ned Lyons, being rich, bribed the prison warders, and soon enabled j his wife to regain her liberty. They iled together to Can- ada where they purchased a country house, and lived so as to win the esteem of all who knew thorn. They had four children—one boy and- three girls. But this' quiet life was not to the taste of Mrs Lyons. One day she arrived in a carriage at the door of a New York bank, at an hour when she knew there was only two clerks in the establishment. She sent ia word that being lame, and unable to leave her carriage, she would be preatly obliged it a clerk would come out and speak with hot. She kept him talking a long time, during which her accomplices pillaged the bank. At another time she was in a bank where a gentleman was counting a large sum of money. She dropped her handkerchief close to him, and asked him to pick it up. He politely did so. and raoar while, Mrs Lyons' accomplices had made off with several hundred dollars. At length it became perilous for her to remain longer in America) and she abandoned her husband and children. He died shortly after, and her son, who had become a thief also, died in prison. Her daughters were taken care of bv some charitable people, who placed them in a con- I vent at Montreal, where they are still. As for Mrs Lyons I she has been travelling about Europe, never leaving a i country till she found it too hot to hold her. It was after £ visiting, with proht, England, Germany, Austria, and Russia, that Mrs Lyons, under the name of Madame De Varney, came to Paris but it was not long after her arrival that her career here was cut short by the Champs I Elvsees incident. The police of a large number of countries of Europe and America would like to know her present address. <

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THE WELSH COUNCILS. RELATIVE STRENGTH OF PARTIES. The South Wales Daily News says Now that the whole of the Welsh County Council elections are over, it is possible to ascertain the relative positions of the political parties in the Principality as reflected in the new councils. In all 530 councillors are returnable in Wales, 330 in theou thern half of the Prinoipality, and 260 in the northern. Three hundred and ninety seats are held by Liberals, which practi- cally means two-thirds of the entire representation. There is but little difference ia the relative positions of parties in north and south, but the former has just a slightly better proportion of Liberals, though the fraction is very trifling. From the point of view of Liberalism, Carmarthenshire has come out best, 40 of her 51 seats being in the possession of Liberals. In Noith Wales the premier position is occupied by Merioneth, which returns 33 Liberals out of a possible 42. Appended is an interesting comparative table SOUTH WALES, Libs. Cons. Una & In, Total. Glamorganshire 45 15 6 66 Carmarthenshire 40 S 3 51 Monmouthshire 29 16 3 43 Cardiganshire 38 9 1 48 Pembrokeshire 31 15 2 48 Breconshire 20 21 4 45 Radnorshire. 12 10 2 24 215 94 330 NORTll WALES. Denbigh 32 15 1 48 Carnarvon.30 14 0 44 Flint.26 14 2 42 Anglesea 32 7 3 42 Merioneth 33 9 0 42 Montgomery 22 18 2 24 175 77 8 260 COMBINED TOTALS. Liberals 390 Conservatives. 171 Independents and Unionists 29 Totals 590

SECESSION OF ODDFELLOWS. A movement of importance which is on foot amongst 'Scottish Oddfellows, has just become known to the central executive, and has caused considerable com- riotion amongst members of the order in England. A umber of Scottish lodges have passed resolutions in favour of a general secession from the parent body, and of the formation of a new order to embrace the whole of Scotland. For some time past considerable discontent haa existed attiongst Scottish Oddfellows because of the manner in which, so it is alleged, privileges winch should accrue to them from their membership are neutralised owing to their amalgama- tion with an order whsae head-quarters are so far distant.

The Exchequer returns from April 1st to January 29th show—Receipts, £ 68,020,417 expenditure, L69,051,915 and brlances, 92,045,954. For the corresponding period of last year the receipts were £ 6S,875,134; expenditure, £71,371,070; and,balanoes, 1£2,590,533. SuperintendentFd informed the Bencb at Cole- ford Petty Sessions, near Monmouth, on Wednesday, that after full investigation be was unable to find any truth in the statement of the sub-postmistresa at Lyd- brook, that on Wednesday week a strango man entered the office, and, presenting a revolver, compelled her to give ap £27 from the office till. Mr John Wilson, the newly elected member for Govan, was on Wednesday at the Glasgow Sheriff Court, fined £ 2 7s., including costs, for contravening the Factory Act by employing lads in his tube works after hours. Mr Wilson explained that the foreman of the works was responsible. The accident at the Abergwynfi tunnel, on the Rhondda and lgwansea Bay Railway, is not so serious as was at flrat feared. Only four men were at work when the roof fell and buried two of them under several tons of debris. The others had a marvellous escape. In the Queen's Bench on Tuesday Messrs Mee, Billings, and Go., sued the Standard newspaper for an alleged libel for having published a letter stating that they were raising a loan of £ 75,000 for the Otago Dock Trust on falee pretenceeand worthless socuritiea.-The jury returned a verdict for the Standard with costs, the judge remarking that if the verdict had been for the plaintiff there would be an end to all fair criticism on similar undertakings.—The judge refused to stay execution. Sir Richard Moon, chairman of the London and North- Western Railway Company, on Tuesday narrowly escaped being run down by a light engine in Walsall Station, He had been inspecting some new works, and was crossing the line at the level crossing from one platform to another, with Mr Sutton, district manager. and other officials, when the engine came upon them swiftly, and Sir Richard was saved only by the promptitude of one of the party, who palled him aside. France having got a surplus, the Government will shortly Jay upon the table of the Chamber a Bill dealing with it. This surplus, which is quite accidental, and not due in any way to the healthy state of the Budget, amounts to £280.000. It is the money fetched by the Crown diamonds, and interest on it for two years. M. Lockroy proposes to distri- bute this rem as follows £ 80,000 for a Museum Fund, £ 80,000 for the rebuilding of the National School of Decorative Art, £ 80,000 for Technical Education, and £ 40,000 in subventions to Working Men's Friendly Societies. Great Northern express train was running between Peterborough and Grantham, and bad reached Bssendine shortly before four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, when a well-droseed lad fell from a carriage and sustained-a fracture of the skull and other terrible injuries He was taken in a dying condition to the hospital, where it was ascertained that he was A. H. Pashley, a school boy, about elefen years of age. He was travelling to Beckenham, Kent, to rejoin his school after the; Christmas vacation. At the Tynycoed Graveyard, on Monday, was buried William Jones, the oldeat inhabitant of the Swansea Valley. Deceased is said to have attained the ripe old age of 112, but as there were some doubt of this, 110 was placed on the coffin. Deceased was born at Aber- ayron, in Cardiganshire, and joined the army when very young. He was in the army for many years, and was one of the heroes who assisted to win the Battle of Waterloo. After serving his country for some years, he returned to Wales to settle down in Aber- crave, where be lived until the day of his death. There was no one in the valley more interested in old Jones's welfare than Madame Patti, for she has paid great attention to him ever since she came into the district. The Lord Chief Justice and Justice Hawkins, in the Queen's Bench Division, London, on Wedndsday, held that a conviction under the Excise Act for selling beer without a license could not entitle justices to convict for a subsequent offence under the Licensing Act of 1872 as for a second offenm, and so inflict an increased penalty. To entitle them to the conviction as a aecond offence, both offences must be against the same Act. In the case in question the defendant was convicted of selling beer without a license in a proprietary club at Cardiff, and sent to prison In default of paying a fine of £100. Their lordships held the conviction to be wrong,, and granted a habeas corpus for the discharge of the defend- ant. Tee body of a young, well-dressed man, with the head completely severed, was found on Wednesday morning on the down line of the Great Western Railway, near the company's station at Acock's Green, six miles difcant from Birmingham. Inquiries revealed that the deceased was Henry Lowe, 20 years of age, an assistant master in one of the Birmingham hoard schools, and who resided with his parents in Church- road, Yardley. On the body wa3 found a slip of naper with the v/ords on it, This is the body of Henry Lowe, of Church-road Yardley." Later it transpired that though deceased was present at his school on Tuesday morning he absented himeolf in the afternoon, and in the evening a friend of his, living at Hands- worth, received from him a letter in which he said that he had discovered that the young lady to whom he had been engaged for three years had not been true to him, and that he intended to make an end of him- self. The friend, alarmed at the letter, communicated with deceased's friends, and found that he had not retruned home on Tuesday night. Nothing was heard of him until his body was found with the neck on the line of rails, where he had evidently deliberately laid himself.

Having for more than two years suffered the most ascrQCiating agony from Neuralgia, and Faceach*. with scarcely a moment's ease, though I tried every raedicme and remedy recommended by my doctors tnd friends, even to being galvanised daily for six iveoka, but was unable to obtain any relief or have a jifcgfe night's sleep for twelve months there aeemed ( io hope of my recovery. My friends expected that ny mind must give way and I should die. As a last resource I was recommended to apply to Mr Daven- jort, Chemist, Queen-square, Wolverhaoipfcoa, who mmedtately eased my pain, and in a short time qutte :ured me. I never afterwards lost my rest, and I seartiiy recommend every poor sufferer to try this •eaMy marvellous remedy. KATE CROSSE, NewtoH J Pierage, Burt-on-Trent. Mr Davenport can be con-5 iulted alt the Apothecarie* Hall, Criecietb, j (Ebueatum THE COLLEGE SCHOOL, LAMPETER. HEAD HA STEP, AND TEACHER I ENGLISH SUIJECTS T. M. EYANS, ESQ., B.A., Lato Senior Scholar of St. David's College, and Prize- man and Exhibitioner of King's College, Cambridge. CLASSICS E. J. DAVIES, ESQ., B.A., Late Scholar of St. David's College. MATHEMATICS AXD MODBHN LAXGCAGB A. FIELD, EsQ., B.A., Late Scholar of St. David's College, SCIENCE I. A. THOMAS, ESQ., B.A., Lato Scholar of St. David's College EXCELLENT Intermediate Education JLL< Direct preparation for the learned professions under peculiarly advantageous conditions. Thorough preparation for St. David's College and other pbces of Higher Education. For Prospectus, &c., apply to Head Master. [909 DOLGELLKY GKAilMAfi SCHOOL. IIUD MASTEB J. H. MARSHALL, M.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Pupils are prepared for the Universities, Civil Service, Oxford and Cambridge Local, and the various Professional Preliminary Examinations. Boarders received by the Head Master on strictly moderate terms. RESULTS OF EXAMINATIONS. COLLEGE 0PRECEPTORS, CHRISTMAS 1887.Nineteen Candidates presented foi Certificates, Eighteen Successful. Science and Art (South Kensington), May, 18S8, MATHEMATICS Fourteen Candidates presented lor Certificates, ALL passed Five in the first class. Prospectus &c. forwarded on application. [ eSô3 ABERYSTWYTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL. [Founded in 1812.] Trustees—The Rev J. Pugh, B.D., R.D., ricar of Llanbadarn Fawr, The Rev J. Protheroe, Sir Pryse Pryse, Colonel Williams, T. Bonsall, Esq., and Vaughan Davies, Esq. Headmastar Mr EDWARD JONES. Second Master Mr E. J. LLOYD, B.A., Lampeter, in first class Mathematical Honours, and 2nd Mods., Oxford. French and German Lecturer Dr. SCHOLLE, assisted by resident and other Masters. Mr Jonas receives at 7, Laura Place, a few sous of gentlemen te join boarders at work from 6 to S, every evening. Terms 12 guineas per annum. Evening Helena Classes in connection with S. Kensington will be opened at the Grammar School. under the superintendence of the HEADMASTER, who has been appointed Honorary Scienco Teacher by the Loads of the Committee of Council on Education. ARDWYN SCHOOL, ABERYSTWYTH." LONDON UNIYERSITY MATRICULATION EXAMINATION. SUCCESS, JUNE 1888. OSB HONOURS, FIVE FIRST DIVISION, ONE SECOND DIVISION. Over 25 Boys have passed the Matriculation from, this School.| < For Partisnlaja and Terms, apply to RBT. LLEWELYN EDWARDS, M.A. [g556 THE OLD BANK SCHOOL, ABERYSTWYTH. MASTBK MR. D. SAMUEL. M.A., Lata Scholar and Priwm of Viace College, Cam- bridge, and 20th Wrangler, 1879, RECEIVES BOARDERS. I Terms on application. THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, ASHLANDS, OSWESTRY. MIJSS J. E. JONES New conducts the School at the suburban residence, known as The Ashlands." The house stands in its own groniklab consisting of exoellent gardens and lawns, and 18 aifewated on a slight eminence commanding a fine view of the Shropshire Plain. The Premises are in every way admirably adapted for a First-Class School. Exoelleat Class Room Accommodation* for Sixty Pupils has been recently added. MISS JONEfi is assisted by two Resident English Governesses, both of when hold Certificates from the Cambridge Higher Examination for Women, and also by a Resident Foreign Governess. The course provides thorough preparation for the various Pnblio Examinations and four scholarships of the value of £80, £21, £15, and JE12 respectively, are annually offered'for competition in September. Pupils have been very successful in the various ex- aminations for which they have been entered. Prospectus with a view of the Premises may oe had on application. The Next Term will commence on the 17th of Janu- ary. 1889. ABERAYRON GRAMMAR SCHOOL. For Prospectus, &c., apply to Head Master, W. B. HUGHES (Int.), B.A., London. THE ABERYSTW YTH COMMERCIAL AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HEAD MAwrER THOMAS OWENS, C.M. (In Honours of the London University, and late Senior Scholar of the University College of Wales). Pupils are prepared for Commercial pursuits, civil Servioe, the Looal and Preliminary Examinations, I the University Colleges, and the various Training and Theologioal Colleges. Special attention paid to Eng- J lish and Commercial Training at moderate charges. An EXHIBITION OF £10, tenable at the University I College of Wales, is open for competition by boyt from the School in September each year. I There are a few vaaemcies for BOARDERS, to whom I special attention is paid, as the Master's whole time is i given to teaching and superintending the studies of the I pupils. Terms (which are Moderate), Reports, and References 5n application.

HAY, BRlSCONSHIRE. GRAMMAR SOBOCH. CONDUCTED BY MR. W. JONES. Pupils efficiently prepared for Professional and Com- mercial life. The town of Hay, situate in an English- speaking district, affords Welsh boys special advan- i fcagea acquiring practical knowledge of English. I -1 Prospects*, tec., neat on application. School re-orens tewv *369. j

(gbtrcatixm. "NID EYD, BY]) HEE WYEODAEi'H." LADIES' COLLEGIATE teOHOOL, ABERYy CWYTH. PRINCIPAL runs. RUSH. DIEHCTOK OF ST C DISS &K. RCSH, D.A. HEAD MISTBESS RUSH, Holder of 1st Class Uni versity Certificates* THIS School offers the best kind of Inter- jL mediate and High-School Education and pupils can be prepared for the University Local Examinations, for the University Cc-llegsa of Wales, for Locston Matriculation, &c. In tho tCttChing there is thorough explanation and illustration of PRINCIPLES. ar.d care is taken that every pupil UNDERSTANDS what she is taught, and can APPLY the knowledge she possesses. Terms. very moderate. YSTWYTH HOUSE, STREET, AiiEKYSTWYTH MISS~EV*ANS. 1.' -Å.fj l¿. .£:Ll' i- IpvA Y School for Pnpils prepared for Local Examinations. MISS EV AXS (who has studied Art at Soutn Kensington), also gives advanced lessons in Drawing and Painting. Terms on Application. Scliool i\3-opens January '2-lth. £ fl82 BALA GRAMMAR SCHOOL Head .faster— J. C. EYANS, M.A., Formerly Powis Exhibitioner and Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford, and lata Assistant Master at Christ College, Brecon). Nest Term begins JANUARY 22nd, 1S89 "T^TEW BUILDINGS, admirably fitted with _i_T every convenience for boarders. Preparation for the Universities, Civil Services, Pre liisinaries cf the Law and Medicine, &ud the Oxford and Cambridge LccaJ Examinations. South Kensington Science and Art Classes, and a goodComnierciid Course. Board and Tuition (inclusive charge) jESG per annum. ABER YSTWYTH HIGH SO HO Oil CAERLEQN HOUSE. Next Term begins January 17th, 1SS8. PRINCIPAL l I S S TRUBSHAW Assisted by Masters, and Resident, Foreign, and English Governesses. Pupils prepared for the Oxford and Cambridge local exaniinatious. The School Year consists of throe terms, beginning respectively January 20th, Aprii and September 20th, but pupils can be received at any time during the terms. For Terms, &e.v apply to the Principal. 51 KTs llanybYY^IFGRAMMJFR: SCHOOL. HEAD MASTER:—ME. J. J. JONES, B.A. (LOB4), (U.C.W., scholar cf Lady Ifuntintrton's College, Chestnut, late Tutor at the College, Bala). RKIAKVA, TOWYN, NORTH WALES. SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. Pnyycip THE MISSES COOK (LATE MRS JOHK PHTER), Assisted by qualified Governesses. Pupils successfully prepared for the Local Examina tions. YSTEAD MEUKIG SCHOOL. Headmaster The R-v. JOHN JONES, M.A. Assistant MASTERCHARLES HARRIS, Esq., B.A., Christ Church, Oxford. The School will re-cpen ou Tuesday, the 29th of January, at 9 a.m. One Daniel Williams's Scholarship ( £ 15 per annum). is to be elected to before Easter. There are some vacancies on the Foundation ofi Edward Richard. Apply to the HEADMASTER. LADIES COLLEGE, GOAT STREET, E AVE RFC K D WEST. (Established 90 years.) "LABOR OMNIA VINCIT.' PRINCIPALS: The MISSES LLEWEBMN, VfTMO aro assisted by Highly Certificated VT English and Foreign Governesses, including. Higher Cambridge Local with Honours, Exhibitioner and Gold Medalist, Intermediate Examinations ire land, Resident Gorman Governess (Diple MWrfc, Litereria), Visiting French Master, Music Governess Royal Academy of Musk-, Luentiate of Trinity College Visiting Masters for Music and Painting; Singing, Miss- Llewellin (pupil of Madmne Sainton-Dolby) The pupils of this College have been most successful in the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations, senior and junior, 1st Class College of Preceptors, Trinity College, senior and junior, Kensington School of Art, Prize Essays, &c., &c. 75 Certificates gamed in last three years. The health and comfort of the pupils receive, the- constant personal supervision of the Principals. ftros eotuses on application. p ATRO) Lady PHILLIPS, Picton Castle, Pem- brokeshire Sir FREDERICK KILINER, Bart. W. BOWEN ROWLANDS, Esq., Q.C., M.P. oft EVENING CLASSES FOR GERMAN. | 12s. 6d. per term, 7' A LSO Junior Classes for French. Particulars: MRS HUMPIDGE, 12, Laura-place. ^ttswesjy JUiibrcsses "SALT & COT s BREWERS, BURTO.M-ON-TRENT. 'US Awarded the only GOLD MEDALS for the aceDIJIat and parity of their Burton Ales, At International Health Exhibition, London, 1834 Liverpool Exhibition, 1838. Edinburgh Exhibition, 1888. AGEN T:- B. J. ALLSOP, MARINE HOTEL, laai BARMOUTH. -it"4' -M J:3£';