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< £ ompmtUs, &c. TbeLISTS will CLOE on or before THURSDAY, the 23111 February. THE CARDIFF CHANNEL DRY JL DOCKS & PONTOON COMPANY, LIMITED. SHARE CAPITAL £ 150,000. IN 15,000 SHARES OF £1 EACH. DEBKNIURK IN 5 PKR CENT. FIRST .MORTGAGE DEBEN- TURES. The Debenture Bonds are now offered for subscrip- tfon at p.i r, viz. ;— B5 per £100 on Application, £",0 „ „ Allotment, £25 „ „ 1st May, 1895, £25 1st July, 1895, 1st September, 1395, or the instalments may be paid up at any time under discoum at the l'ate Of il jier c-nt. per annum. The lmerest on tho Debentures ill he payable hali. yearly on the 1st February and 1st August in each year. TRUSTEES FOR debenture HOLDERS. LAW G v j A RANT K E AND TRUST SOCIETY, LIMITED. DIRECTORS. JOHN CORY, Esq., of Messrs CORV A SONS, Ship. owners, CanliJi. HENRY RADCLIFFE, of Messrs Evan THOMAS, RADCLIKPK d: CO., Shipowners, Cardiff. BKUI ARl) n. HOLM AN, Khq of Messrs JOHH HOLMA.n & Sows, Shipowners, 50, Lime-street, London, E.C. J. II. CORV, Esq., of Messrs CORY <S Soxs, Ship- owners, Cardiff. The Directors subscribe foi 2,500Shares of .SIC each. BANKRRS. LONDON AND I'ROVKMUA., BANK, LIMITED, 7, Bank-buildings, Lotlibury, London, K.C., and Branches BROKKKS.—Messrs PANMURK GORDON, HILL and CD., Hatton Court, Threadneedle-stntet-, E.C. SOLICITOR.—WAI TI R B. STYIl, Esq., 2, Thread. needle-street, KC. AUDITORS.-Messrs PRICE, WATKRHOUSE and CO., 44, Uresham-street, London, E.C. Oknkua/, MANAOER .SKCUI.TAIIY. \V G. BLOW. Esq OrritTS ~Loudon 105, LICA I.) KN HALL-STREET, KC. CarllHI. 5, MOCNTSTU AftT-S <JUAR E. ABRIDGED PR SPECTUS. This Company is formed for the purpose of taking over as a going concern the Cardiff Pontoon and Engineering Company, Limited, and constructing a laro new Graving Dock in connection therewith. Tit", Pontoon Dock, the construction of which was completed in .Janua.ry, 1893, hag been in active operation -«ince thai, date with succeful results, as indicrttell by the subjoined letter of Messrs Price, WaterhrJUSO and Co, of 1st December, With the view, of enahling further work to be undertaken, it bas been <ieternuned, in connection wiih the present fontoon and E gineering Works, to constr ict a large Graving Dock capable of taking in over twice the amount of shipping: at present accom- moda.teI1. The Directors are Sit; istied that full work will lie found for the new Dock when completed. The nooks and accoun s of the Vendor Company, troUl the date of the opening of the Pontoon aud En. gineering Works, haye been examined by Messr" Price, Waterhouse and Co., of London, and tbe tollowin is a copy of their report — 14, GRtSHAM-STREKT. E C., 1st De ember. 1894. To the Direct rs of THE CARDIFF CHANNEL DRY DOCKS AND PONTOON COMPANY, LIMITED, CARDIFF. GENTLEME- We have examined the books of the Cardiff Pontoon and Kngin eving Company, I,imited, from the commencement of the Company's business on the 24th December, 1892, to the 30th June, 1894, and tind tha.t the profits, after providing for depreciation 011 all the works, with the exception of the Pontoon Dock, but before charging interest on ùorrowed money and discount on biJJs, amounted from th 24th Ðecem"8r. 892, to the 3lst December, 1893, a period of one year and one week, to £11,249 8s lid, a.nd for the six months •ending 30ch June, 189-i, to £5.029 0s 2d. We are, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servants, (Mgued) PRICE, WATERHOUSE & CO. Fall Prospectus may be obtained of the Secretary of the Company also at the Bankers, Brokers, and the Solicitors to the Company. 20th February. ISSo. 1352 ^ustiuss |Mi&r*ss*s. ? NI AltSH and COlVIPY., UNDERTAKERS, ADULTS' FUNERALS 1st Class, with Best Glass-side hearse, or Victoria Car, Two Best Coaches and Pairs to Match, lin. 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Family Notices
BIRTHS, MARK! AGES, DEATHS a e Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, It each, ij not exceeding ?C icordf, and tid for each extra 10 wordi. BIRTH. WOOD.—On Sunday, the 24th inst., at Wycombe, 3, Porthkerry-road, Barry, the wife of J. D. Wood, of a son. 179 MARRIAGE. GRIFFITHS—JONES.—On February 24th, at St. Mary's Church, Cardiff, by the Rev. G. A. Jones, vicar, Edward John, eldest son of Mr J. Griffiths, Albion House, Ithymney, to Jane Ann, eldest daughter of Ir R. Jones, of Rhymney Hotel, CanJiff. DEATHS. RULL.-On the 21.st inst., at Station-terrace, Ystrad- mynach, Richard J. Bull, aged 51. Funeral on Tuesday, at 3 o'clock, for Ystradmynach Church- yard. Friends please accept this intimation. 1822 JENKINS.-On Sunday, the 24th inst., at Eastman's, 30, High-street, Merthvr, W. H. Jenkins, eldest son of Mr W. H. and Mr-, Mary Ann Jenkins. Aged 21 years. Funeral on Thursday, at 3 o'clock, for Cefn. Gentlemen only. 198 JONES.—At 16, Brecon-street, Dowlais, on February 24th, Surah Ellen (Sally), third daughter of Mr and Mrs J. C'1ffit.lt Jones, aged 20 years. Funeral on Tliursilay, at 3.30 p.m. 181 TACON.—On Saturday, 23rd February, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr C. H. Kingdom, Holmesdale, Penarth, Autól:) Tacon, relict of Robert Tacen, of Hill- grove House, Stroud, Gloucestershire, age 86. 1862 TAMBLYN -On i lie 25th il1s at Ty Ceiyn, Newbridge, Mon., James Tamblyu, M.E., late of Maesteg, Aged 49. Funeral on I'riday, leaving Newbridge at 10 a.m., arriving at Maesteg at 1 p.m. 199 THOMAS.—On Sunday, 24th, after a severe illness, Sarah Jane, the beloved daughter of David and Mary Thomas, Pencae-terrace, Treorchy, pupil teacher M Treorchy Schools. Funeral Thursday, at Treorchy Cemetery. 196 MURRELLI—On Sunday evening. at St. Fagan's, Mary, the beloved wife of Williara Murrell, age 66. Deeply regret ted. 86
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1895.…
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1895. TO HIS MEMORY. THE death of Lord ABERDARE, at the ripe age of 80 years, leaves a void in the social, the industrial, and the educational agencies of South Wales which, in all respects, it will be a task of no small difficulty adequately to fill. In reviewing Lord ABERDARE'S many-sided qualifications, and his wide and broad sympathies, which everything that concerned humanity touched and stimulated into active exertion, we question whether that void will ever be adequately filled. Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire will acutely feel his loss, for the people amongst whom his lot was specially cast naturally received more of his attention, and always aroused his warmest solicitude but his sympathies embraced the whole of the Principality, and, in a lesser degree, the whole of mankind. Born in Glamorganshire, and the descendant of an old Welsh ifamily, he ever took a keen and abiding interest in every movement for the well-being and improvement of his Welsh countrymen but a biographical sketch of the deceased nobleman would be out of place in these columns. That will be found in another part of our issue to-day. We can only deal, and that very briefly, with the general outline of his public career, every step of which was intended to promote the welfare and the prosperity of his native land. During the greater part of his public life, up to 1873, in fact, when he was raised I to the peerage, on his acceptance of LORD PRESIDENT of the COMMITTEE of COUNCIL on f EDUCATION, in Mr GLADSTONE'S Ministry, he was well and familiarly known to his countrymen as HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE and all who knew him, and his great worth and unspotted integrity, respected and esteemed him highly. He studied for and was called to the Bar as early as 1837. But not finding I it a congenial pursuit for his wider and cosmopolitan yearnings, he abandoned the gown and wig in 1845 and settled down apparently to a country life on the family estate at Duffryn, near Aberdare, where he was born. The death of Sir JOSIAH J. GUEST, the Liberal member for the Merthyr Boroughs in 1852, was, however, the turning point in Lord ABERDARE'S history. He was always deeply interested in political things, but as his family were Conservative, whilst he, from his broad sympathies and his wider knowledge of men and things, had imbibed the, to them, heretical principles of Liberalism he abstained from active participation in political matters. Nothing occurred strong enough to induce him to cast in his political lot with the Liberals and to publicly oppose the principles of those whom he revered and loved until the death of Sir JOSIAH J. GUEST in the above-mentioned year. The vacancy in a seat which included Boroughs within speaking distance of his own resi- dence, and in which he, by his character and position, possessed considerable influence, decided him to come out prominently as a Liberal and to fight for the seat. But he found no one to fight with. His appearance upon the field as Liberal candidate dis- heartened, or at least disarmed, all opposi- tion, and he was returned unop- posed. Indeed, only once from the time lie first sought to represent the Merthyr Boroughs until the famous General Election of 1868 did Lord ABERDARE encounter an opponent, and that was at the election in 1859, when a Liberal entered the lists- against him. But ho* easily defeated that Liberal by the almost unprecedented 'I majority of nearly seven to one. During the years in which Lord ABERDARE represented the Merthyr Boroughs demo- cratic principles were making rapid head- way in the constituency, and on social questions, and more especially on the question of the Ballot, the member did not keep fully abreast with the electorate. This led to his defeat in 1868, when the Merthyr Boroughs, having been given two members by the Redistribution Bill of the preceding year, two Liberals, Mr HENRY RICHARD and Mr FOTHERGILL, entered the lists as advocates of advanced Liberalism. Mr HENRY RICHARD'S chance of success was certain from the first; and the fight lay between Lord ABERDARE and Mr FOTHERGILL. The latter wassuccessful, but the alleged elec- toral methods of Mr FOTHERGILL'S agents— Mr FOTHERGILL was the proprietor of the Abernant and Plymouth Collieries and Ironworks—convinced Lord ABERDARE, so it was reported at the time, of the absolute necessity of the Ballot for the protection of the voter. This much is certain, that from that time Lord ABERDARE was an earnest advocate of the Ballot. He did not long remain without a seat, however, for within two months from his defeat in the Merthyr Boroughs, he won, in January, 1869, the seat in Renfrewshire rendered vacant by the death of the former member, Mr SPEIRS. But although he was without a seat in Parliament during those two months, so great was his popularity amongst the Liberal leaders that on the formation of Mr GLADSTONE'S Government, in December, 1869, Lord ABERDARE was-appointed Under- Secretary of State for the Home Depart- ment, and subsequently Home Secretary, which office he retained until his acceptance of the Presidency of the Committee of Council, when he, who up to then was HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, went up to the House of Lords as Lord ABERDARE. During I the lengthened period of twenty-one years in which he sat in the House of Commons he took a prominent and, in a great many I instances, a leading part in promoting and furthering all Parliamentary measures for securing the interests and ad- vancing the progress and prosperity of the people. In 1862 he was ap- pointed UNDER-HOME SECRETARY in Lord PALMEKSTON'S Administration, and subse- quently VICE-PRESIDENT of EDUCATION in succession to Mr ROBERT LOWE, and in I Mr GLADSTONE'S Administration he was I UNDER-HOME SECRETARY and afterwards ¡' HOME SECRETARY. During that period he introduced and passed a number of im- portant Acts, some of them most important, and won reputation as a prudent and far- seeing statesman, which will be more endearing than graven tablet or monu- mental brass. Some of these we might enumerate. The Master and Servants' Act, the Factory Act, the Licensing Act, I the Habitual Criminals Act, the Mines Regulation Act, and the Act which gave to Trades Unions a legal status and sanction. I It is impossible for us, in the limited space at our disposal, to show how greatly to the advantage and well-being of working men, and of the industrial community as a whole, most of these Acts were. The Master and Servants Act repealed the oppressive and unjust—we were about to write the infamous —Statutes of 1747 and of 1823, which gave to employers the power to send workmen guilty of misbehaviour to prison for one month, with hard labour, and to send any workman who left his em- ployment without notice to prison for three months with hard labour. Of Lord ABER- DAIIE'S Factory Act, Sir MOUNTSTUART GRANT DUFF, then member of Parliament for the Elgin Burghs, a recognised authority on such matters, said "Amongst the most important measures of the late Session was the extension to all trades of the principle of the Factory Acts. The comparative ease with which ib was passed was creditable to the Government, creditable to the interests affected, and above all creditable to Mr Henry Bnwe, the Vice-President of the Council in the late Administration." But perhaps it is as an Educationist—a true friend and earnest advocate aid supporter of every kind of education, elementary, intermediate, technical, and higher education—that Lord ABERDARE will be best and most enduringly remembered in Wales. From the time that he succeeded Mr ROBERT LOWE in 1864 as Vice- President of the Education Depart- ment, he was ever a most earnest and enlightened educationist, advocating in I season and out of season—if it be possible to be out of season in such advocacy—the rights of the nation's children to be edu- cated, and the necessity, to the full growth and the permanent stability of the Empire, of continuing that education through all its intermediate stages up to the Uni- versity. In 1866 he was President of the Educational Section in the Social Science Congress in the same year he pre- sided over the Education Conference at Manchester and the result of this Confer- ence was th,e Bill on Education, which Lord ABERDARE introduced in 1867, and which shadowed out the lines of Mr FORSTER'S Bill of 1870. Mr FORSTER and the other educationists in the House supported Lord ABERDARE'S Bill, but the time of tl e House was mortgaged to other business, and the Bill was, as a consequence, withdrawn. Mainly through the persistent efforts of -Lord ABERDARE, aided by a few ardent friends of education for Wales, the lloyal Commission to inquire into the condition of Higher and Inter- mediate Education in the Principality was appointed in August, 1880, which reported in August, 1881; and to Lord ABERDARE the letter of Earl SPENCER, then President I of the Committee of Council, an- nouncing the appointment of the Royal Commission, was addressed. To write I the doings of Lord ABERDARE after that I time in connection with Welsh Education I would be to re-write the history of Welsh j intermediate and technical education since I that time. It is engraven as in enduring marble in the establishment and success of I the University Colleges at Cardiff and Bangor, and in the increased prosperity of the College of Aberystwyth. It is written in the passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, and in the ] establishment of the numerous Intermediate j Schools throughout the Principality. It is j written in the Charter granted by the 1 QUEEN for the founding of a Welsh degree- ] granting University in Wales of which i Lord ABERDARE was unanimously elected the first Chancellor. The honour and J dignity of the election were his, but Death 1 has cut short its full fruition. He was to have been inaugurated into office in April i next, but he who delights to wither I hope's white blossoms has cut down the i noble victim—noble in every true sense of the word—before the fulness of the honours I which Wales would bestow upon him could I burst into blossom. May he rest in peace, I His loss to Wales is almost incalculable, and he will have a nation to mourn his death. I
jTHE DISESTABLISHMENT BILL.
j THE DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. t THE tactics of delay are subtle and varied. As any stick is fit to beat a dog, so in the estimation of certain Tory members of Parliament any subject, even the details of a private Bill, is suitable matter to wrangle over if it will only prevent, and if possible postpone the introduction of important Government measures,> A u the questions were not numerous yesterday it was con- fidently anticipated, by old Parliamentary I hands, that Mr ASQUITH would be on his feet to move for leave to bring in the Welsh Disestablishment Bill by, at the latest, half-past four o'clock. It was long after that hour before he found I his opportunity, the patience of the House having been literally exhausted by pre- 'I liminary twaddle, and by two hours' waste of time in squabbling over the details of a private Bill relating to Glasgow. After this fashion the time of Parlia- ment is frittered away, and im- portant public measures delayed. When at length Mr ASQUITH did obtain the chance to rise, he condensed into a speech of remark- able vigour and brevity as much matter as would have taken sotno of the long-drawn- out talkers in the Houseanhour ortwotode- liver. Mr ASQuITHstandsin the foremost rank of Parliamentary debaters, but he is also in the very front rank of Parliamentary expositors. He apprehends thoroughly whatever subject he undertakes to advocate, and then lucidly interprets it. His speech last night was a most masterly analysis and exposition of the Disestablishment Bill, which he purposes to introduce, and as we foreshadowed in our yesterday's article, it will vary in no material particular from the Bill of last year. The provisions of that Bill are well known to all the country. There is not an intelligent man or woman within the four seas of Britain who is not familiar with those pro- visions and the structure of the Bill of this year is laid upon exactly the same lines. The sanguine expectations of certain State Church defenders that this year's Bill would be found more favourable to the State Church functionaries will be dashed to earth unrealised. The Bill is, in all its provisions, the Bill of lasb year or, if there be any alterations, they are so minute that they can hardly be discovered until the Bill is printed and compared line by line with the former measure. Indeed, Mr ASQUITH said that it is, to all intents and purposes, I identically the same measure as last year." It is not necessary to review it, therefore, because that measure has been discussed innumerable times in these columns. Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, who followed Mr ASQUITS, complained of the brevity of the Home Secretary's speech. But brevity is surely praiseworthy in a speaker who introduces a Bill which he had introduced previously in a lengthened speech, and with most lucid exposition. Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH then dawdled into history, and I there we leave him. The proposal of the new Bill is, its provisions being the same as the former Bill, that "on the first of January, 1897, the Church of England, so far as it is established in Wales and Monmouthshire, shall cease to be an Established Church, and from and after that date both the privileges and the duties incident to the status of Establishment shall come to an end." Mr ASQUITH estimated that the gross parochial revenue of the Church in Wales, which he calls the local revenue, derivable from tithes and ancient endowments, amounts to £233,000 a year and the capitular and episcopal revenues to £4.6,000 a year. The nett revenue of the latter, he proposes, should be applied to the advancement of higher education in Wales and the nett revenue of the former for the benefit of the counties out of which the revenues arise. As the method of appropriating this local revenue is considered by many politicians, earnestly desirous to see it applied in the best manner possible for the advantage of the Principality, to be not the most expedient method, we will state what Mr ASQUITH said. The local fund, including the tithe-rent charge, will be applied in accordance with schemes framed by the County Councils with the consent of the Commissioners. The Government did not think it would be de- sirable to throw the property of the Church into one central Fund, and then distribute it according to population. But that would not prevent two or three parishes, or the whole of the Welsh counties, from making a. common con- tribution to some central purpose. A close examination has shown that if the endowments of each Parish were confined to the Parish, a rather absurd state of things might arise. The County Councils and the Commissioners would now have 1\ free hand in their distribution, having regard to the wants, the present circumstances, the income, and so forth of each Parish." It might be as well to state that in Mr ASQUITH'S estimate of the gross income of the State Church in Wales, all private benefactions to the Church from the date of the Act of Toleration are excluded. The Bill being the same as last year there can be no rational ground for debating it on its first reading But we suppose it is the duty of Obstructionists to obstruct, as it is the duty of an Opposition to oppose.
VICTIMS TO INFLUENZA.
VICTIMS TO INFLUENZA. EPIDEMIC ATTACKS CHURCH AND STATE. On Monday night Lord Rosebury remained much about the same. He had obtained a, good rest during the day. Lord Rosbery's sharp attack of influenza has evoked the greatest sympathy from all quarters. The German Ambassador has been a constant inquirer, while Lord Salisbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and many others have made most sympathetic inquiries. "His lordship is enabled to keep himself in touch with official matters. Though Mr Balfour's progress is now con- sidered satisfactory, the hope that he would be able to get up has not been realised. He passes good nights, and no relapse has been recorded, but alateinquiryat 4, Carlton-gardens, on Monday evening showed that the right hon. gentleman was still confined to bed, but was otherwise getting on favourably, and was likely to be up in a day or two. Miss Balfour is in constant attendance upon her brother. The Chief Secretary for Ireland expected to attend in the Irish Office on Monday, but that morning the right hon. gentleman found himself attacked by influenza, and, by medical advice, he at once went to bed. Questions addressed to Mr Morley were, in his absence, answered by Mr G. W. E. Russell, Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. Mr D. Brynmor Jones, M.P., is confined to his I room by a sharp attack of influenza, and will not be able to resume his Parliamentary duties for some days. Mr H. H. Fowler, who is a.t Wolverhampton, is suffering from a slight chill, which has every appearance of developing into influenza. The Rev. Flood Jones, Precentor of Westmin- ster Abbey and Chaplain to the Queen, is very dangerously ill of bronchitis supervening upon influenza. The Dean of Westminster is laid up with what is believed to be influenza.
MR CAMPBBLL-BANNBRMAN I ON…
MR CAMPBBLL-BANNBRMAN I ON ELECTION PROSPECTS, COUNTY COUNCIL CONTESTS A GUIDE TO THE GENERAL ELECTION. Mr Citmpbyll-Bannerman, speaking at a Liberal demonstration in London on Monday evening, said the Government looked upon the approach- ing county council elections as thrt most important that had yet taken plnoe. They would un- doubtedly be the forerunner of the result of the general election, and he was present that evening to show the sympathy the Government had for the Progressives in the gallant fight. They were making for progress and reform.
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M. de Grandma ison, the travelling Companion of Prince Henri d'Orleans, has met with a tragio death, due to an overdose of morphia, adminis- tered by subcutaneous injection. A Chicago butcher keeps a tame fox. It keeps his place clear of rats. The experiment was tried after cats and traps had failed. The first night the fox. spent, io the- sbop, he slaughtered
LONDON LETTER. ..
LONDON LETTER. [FR8M WUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT, j [SPECIALLY WIRED.] LONDON, Monday Night. MICROSCOPIC LEGISLATION WASTES TIME. Public business was hindered fully two hours this afternoon by opposition to a Glasgow Corporation and Police Bill. Con- siderable ingenuity seemed to have been dis- played in drawing up long lists of some- what trivial offences, and much care had been expended in devising punishments for culprits. It was not until a quarter to six that the objections to this microscopic legislation were disposed of by a division which went in favour of the Bill..Happily the questions on the paper were fewer than usual, and there was also less tendency to expand them. This was partly owing to the fact that Mr John Morley being absent pre- pared answers to Irish questions were readout by Mr George Russell. Clearly it was useless further to catechise him, and the patience of not a few members had been exhausted before they got an opportunity to put their questions. Thus the process occupied only half an hour, and, at a quarter- past six, Mr Asquith found himself in posses- sion of the House. The Bishop of St. Asaph was a watchful listener but members showed a well-restrained interest in the introduction of a Welsh Disestablishment Bill known to be almost a replica of the measure of last year. THE REVISED DISESTABLISHMENT BILL REACHED. Mr Asquith exercised the mercifulness foretold of him in advance by compressing his remarks into twenty minutes. He declined in the name of the Government to be a contributor to the growing abuse of basing second-reading debates on first-read- ing motions, and for a vindication of the principles on which the measure is founded, as well as for detailed explanation of its proposals, he referred the curious to his speech of last Session. To all intents and purposes, he said, the present Bill is identical with the former excepting that the day when it comes into force is necessarily postponed to a year later. The date on which the Church in Wales shall cease to be established is now the 1st January, j 1897, not the 1st day of 1896. But the Bill follows the lines of last year as to the setting up of Welsh Church Commissioners, settling the status of the Church, and so forth. The revenues of the Church, which Mr Asquith places at £279,000, are dealt with in the same manner, 1703 being again fixed as the line which is to be drawn between private benefactions and national revenues. The main principle is still to preserve the corpus of the national property and to apply it to local, not general, purposes. Thus, sub- ject to certain elasticity, LOCALITIES ARE TO ENJOY THE MONEY at present derived from them. Mr Asquith's dealing with this point was perhaps the most carefully listened to, since, as is well known, the criticism of friends was, last year, chiefly directed to the parochial retention of funds. He quoted figures to show how unjust to the more sparsely populated counties would be a system of throwing all the revenues into a common fund and distributing it according to popula- tion. Under such a system rich counties like Glamorgan and Monmouth would benefit out of all proportion to their contributions. Asked by Mr David Thomas whether the same principle is to apply to parishes as to counties, the Minister explained that no cast-iron rule will be laid down. County councils, in conjunction with the Church Commissioners, will be allowed a free hand. A laugh raised on the Conservative side when he named the application of funds to the establishment and main- tenance of libraries, museums, or the Welsh Academy of Art gave an opening for Mr Asquith to remark that he would have been better prepared for indignation at this as sacrilegious misappropriation, than to have it received with hilarity and as a laughing matter. He maintained, amid cries of Tory dissent, that in the largest sense of the terms religious purposes or pious uses include the relief of the sick and suffering and bringing home to the common people the means of access to refining and humanising influences. He maintained that the Bill was calculated to satisfy the genuine demands of the vast majority of the Welsh people, while treat- ing fairly the spiritual interests of which the Church is the guardian. REFUSED TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach made large com- plaint of the shocking innovation of intro- ducing a Bill of first-class magnitude in a speech of twenty minutes' duration. By delivering an assault on Disestablishment in general, and of this measure in particular, during a space of seventy minutes, he showed his practical refusal to imitate any such injurious example. While the Bill proposed to perpetrate a great moral wrong, nothing in history, he declared, afforded a precedent for such a manner of carrying it out. Your readers will easily imagine the clothing with which this defender of the Church dressed this skeleton. The process is familiar to all who have paid the least attention to th9 question of the Welsh Church. AN AMENDMENT BY MR BROADHURST. It is, I believe, the intention of Mr Broadhurst to endeavour to divert the sums applicable by the Welsh Bill to the mainten- ance of village reading-rooms and institutes to the provision of parochial old-age pen- sions. The hon. member for Leicester has been a little surprised and much gratified by finding himself in receipt of resolutions from lodges of Good Templars in support of his Bill for the abolition of the tied-house system. WELSH MEMBERS AND THE BILL. Although the feeling among Welsh Liberal members is one of general satisfaction with the statement made by the Home Secre- tary in introducing the Disestablish- ment Bill, they will still, I believe, endeavour to obtain modifications in directions previously indicated as, for instance, on the parochial distribution, the maintenance of the fabrics of cathedrals, and so forth. It is not improbable also that the Government may be urged to adhere to the date named last year for the Act to come into force—that is, the 1st January next, instead of the beginning of 1897. SATISFACTOUY LENIENCY. Mr Asquith gave great satisfaction by announcing that he has decided to recom- mend the remission of the remainder of the sentence of imprisonment upon the Rev. S. Harry, of Guernsey, for making himself an innocent party to a breach of the marriage laws. REQUIRED CONSIDERATION. Sir Wm. Harcourt's answer to Mr Howard Vincent's demand for immediate legisla- tion for the exclusion of goods made in foreign prisons was much too delibe- rate to suit the taste of the im- pulsive member for Central Sheffield. Did he propose," Mr Vincent angrily asked, to disregard the unanimous resolu- tion of that House 1" "I do not propose anything of the kind, but the contrary," replied the Chancellor. "At the same time the Government cannot now undertake the consideration of a matter which, in their opinion, requires consideration." DEATH OF LORD ABERDARE. The death of Lord Aberdare, whose critical condition was indicated in this letter several days ago, directs men's minds mere pointedly than ever to the penalties we are paying for the late severe weather. Influenza is, indeed, largely taking the place in con- versation recently occupied by the frost. Lord Aberdare's death creates a further difficulty in the way of the Aged Poor Commission. Lord^Playfair, who has occupied the chair in his absence, will now have to take the report in hand. No less than three members of the Cabinet are now invalided, Mr John Morley and Mr Fowler having followed the example of their chief. It is said thut no 1-ss than forty members on each side are now in the toils of "la grippe," and the list of invalids is increas- ing hourly. STRENGTHENING THE NAVY. It is, I hear, probable that Mr William Allen may accept assurances given to him of opportunity hereafter to ventilate his dis- satisfaction with the boilers of the Powerful and the Terrible, and so refrain from interpolating the matter on a motion for adjournment to-morrow on going into com- mittee on the Navy estimates. Mr Arnold Foster will ask for assurance that these are based upon a consideration of the needs of possible war by sea and land and upon con- sideration of advice tendered by the naval officer selected for the conduct of operations 'in the case of war,
: WALES IN PARLIAMENT ,I —ojfr.…
WALES IN PARLIAMENT ,I —ojfr. — [FROM CUR LONDON WELSH CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, Monday Night. News of the death of Lord Aberdare— one of the best friends Wales ever had— cast an obvious gloom on the little circle of Welsh members seated on the benches below the gangway, in expectation of the Home Secretary's introduction of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. His lordship's strong and constant support of all that tended to the promotion of the highest interests of Welsh Nationalism was nowhere more appreciated than amongst the representa- tives of Wales in Parliament. But personal loss cannot stay the tide of battle, and the solid phalanx of Welsh Liberals were in their places almost to a man. Welsh Toryism was not represented on the floor of the House, but above the clock sat the ever vigilant Bishop of St. Asaph and his most valiant supporter Canon Owen, of Lampeter. A bench's length from his brother of St. Asaph sattheBishop ofBangor. The Home Secretary rose at a quarter- past six to move the first reading of his Bill. Quietly and unostentatiously he laid down the lines of his Bill, and never once did he think it necessary to move from the even tenour of his argument, except when, with obvious reference to the position taken up by the member for Merthyr, he pointedly dwelt on the mode of tithe allocation con- templated in the provisions of the Bill. Twenty-five minutes sufficed for Mr Asquith to open the debate. It would have been well if Sir Michael Hicks-Beach had followed his example. For an hour and a quarter the honourablebaronet retailed the common- places of long years of Disestablishment debates. To Mr Frank Edwards fell the honour of striking the first Welsh blow afc the alien Establishment. A few nervous words at the commencement, and the member for Radnorshire was master of all Jjis resources. Closely argued, well pointed, and strongly supported by facts, Mr Edwards' speech made an excellent im- pression on the House. It stayed for a moment the retreating footsteps of the Bishop of St. Asaph, who was anxious to dine. An effective quotation from the Bangor manifesto was, however, more than his lordship could bear, and he fled, thereby losing an eloquent tribute by a sincere Churchman- as Mr Edwards undoubtedly is—to the success of the voluntary system when applied to episcopal teaching in towns, whilst such teaching, although supported by compulsory tithing in the rural parishes, shows no signs of progress. Colonel Hill got the call after dinner. Mr Lloyd Morgan followed with a strongly- marked Nonconformist speech, to be fol- lowed in his .turn by Mr Rentoul, who, like all his Conservative colleagues who spoke, appeared to think that strength of argument was to be weighed by length of speech. Sir George Osborne Morgan made a forcible appeal to the Opposition not to fight the inevitable, but Mr Griffith Bos- cawen, reeling off glibly the statements supplied to him by the Church Defence Association—hugely enjoyed by his lordship of SD. Asaph—proceeded to show that appeals of the kind are absolutely futile when addressed to prejudiced and interested parties. Mr Abel Thomas finished with a brilliant speech in favour of the Bill. I understand that a meeting of the executive committee of the South Wales Liberal Federation has been called for next Saturday to consider the appointment of a successor to the late secretary, Mr R. N. Hall, and to receive the report of the dele- gates appointed by the Federation to the joint conference at Shrewsbury. Some exception, I am informed, is taken to the course adopted by the promoters of the proposed new organisation in inviting dele- gates direct from the various Liberal associations in South Wales to the proposed convention at Aberystwyth before the Federation as a whole has had an oppor- tunity of considering the question. Mr D. A. Thomas (president of the South Wales Liberal federation), when spoken to on this point desired to defer any public expression of Ins opinion until the execu- fcive had an opportunity of expressing their views, but, of course, it is well known that, in common with leading members of the Federation, he considers that that body has done excellent work in the past, particularly in the last six months, and that in view of the approaching general election, and now that Welsh Disestablishment is before the country, it would not bo wise to swop horses when crossing a stream, or to change a practical working organisation for an organisation in nubibus. Another im- portant point that is pressed in this con- nection is that the fund collected through the instrumentality of the South Wales Daily News, of which there is a considerable balance available for the purposes of the Disestablishment campaign in England, was subscribed to the existing organisation, and it is stated on high authority that in the event of this body being dissolved, some of the subscribers will call for a return of their contributions, but this, of course, is a matter that should be settled before the convention comes to a decision. L.
I COLLISION IN THE BRISTOL…
COLLISION IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL. NARROW ESCAPE OF A PORTH- CAWL-BOUND SCHOONER. Captain Mityne, of the schooner Cornish Lass, arrived at Portheawl on Monday, and reported having been in collision with the steamship Charles, of Whitby, half-way between the Fore- laud and tho Breaksea Lightship. The damage done is on the starboard side, and amounts to the carrying away of the stanchions and portions of the bulwarks. Tho schooner makes but little water, the blow having been above the water-line ..tL ""A
SUDDEN SEIZURE OF JUSTICE…
SUDDEN SEIZURE OF JUSTICE MONROE. CONDITION CRITICAL. Mr Justice Monroe, while speaking on Saturday night at a Bar dinner at the King's Inn, Dublin, became suddenly and seriously ill. Medical aid was at once summoned, but the patient remained unconscious during tho night. His medical attendant expressed confidence in his speedy recovery. He lies at the King's Inn in a very critical condition. t
SUICIDE OF AN UNDER-SHERIFF.
SUICIDE OF AN UNDER- SHERIFF. TOOK POISON IN A CHEMIST'S SHOP The Press Association's Berwictc correspondent states that Mr Blake Johnstone, Patherhead Junction, solicitor, deputy-coroner, and under- sheriff, has killed himself by drinking poison In a local chemist's shop while the chemist's back was turned. The affair has caused a painful sensation in the district.
LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT
LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Rail- way Bill (Llandilo Loop Railway and Narberth and Carmarthen Extension Railways) was on Monday under the consideration of tihe4,examiner. The piomoters proved compliance with the further standing orders requiring the consent of the shareholders to the Bill, and the examiner ordered it to be reported to the House of Lords for secondfreading. 'tI..4"
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!INVASION OFI CHINA. I I
INVASION OF I CHINA. I I FURTHER FIGHTING IN I MANCHURIA. I, DESPERATE ONSLAUGHT OF THE CELESTIALS. REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS HAICHKNG, Saturday.—The Chinese forces from the Neuchwang and Ying Chow districts made another concerted attack upon the Japanese positions on Thursday, and were repulsed with considerable loss. General Nodzu received timely and ample information of the enemy's ad- vance from his cavalry scouts, and was able to take complete measures for meeting it. The Chinese were better supplied with artillery than upon previous occasions, and their advance was on both sides of the Haichon river. Thoy numbered about 12,000 of all arms, and the strongest division came from Antsun, bringing 10 guns. A second division, with four guns, came from the direction of Tonginashan, and a third, with six guns, from Laoyang. The last-named force comprised some of the troops who were defeated a. week pre- viously. The fight was commenced by the Chinese, who opened fire from the Laoyang- road, and the Japanese were soon engaged on three feides. The enemy repeatedly attacked the Japanese positions, but were never able to reach them, owing to the steady and well- directed fire of General Nodzu's artillery. The most determined attacks were made from the Tangwashan road, where over 100 Chinese were killed by the Japanese shells. The battle lasted until nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Chinese began to retreat on an sides. The Japanese artillery continued to bombard the retreating enemyas long as they were wi thin range. A general pursuit was not attempted, but the cavalry pressed the enemy for some distance and took a number of prisoners. Only six Japanese were killed. The Chinese must have lost at least 200 killed and a large number wounded. Valuable information lias been obtained without difficulty from the prisoners. They state that Viceroy Liu did not accompany the advance, but remained it. Neuchwang.—Central News. LI HUNG CHANG'S DEVOTrON. PKKIN, Monday.—Li Hung Chang returned here yesterday, and in the afternoon was received in speoial audience by the Emperor. It is stated that his Majesty received the Viceroy very graciousiy, and that the latter, when retiring from the Imperial presence, declared that his life as well as his best services were always at his master's disposal.—Central ffczvs.
ILIVERPOOL MURDER.I I--.;:,.._---
I LIVERPOOL MURDER. I PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. A FALSE STATEMENT. CRITICAL CONDITION OF NEEDHAM. The Press Association's Liverpool correspondent says :—W. Miller was placed before the Stipend- iary on Monday charged with the murder of the old man Edward Moyes and with the at- tempted murder of the boy Needham in Red Cross-street, Liverpool, on Tuesday morning last. When placed in tho dock the prisoner presented a very fresh and unconcerned appearance. The court was packed, and there was so much commotion on the prisoner's appear- ance than the Stipendiary threatened to have it cleared if the noise continued. Detective Strettle deposed to the arrest of the prisoner, and to his identification at the hospital by the boy Needham. When witness taxed the prisoner with the bloodstains on his clothes, he said he got them while assisting some butcher" at the abattoir. On Saturday morning witness took the prisoner to the abattoir, bub he could not point out the men he said he assisted, and the butchers stated that no bullocks were killed on Saturday as stated by the prisoner. Dtective Fisher gave eviùence as to prisoner's movement. a few days before the murder, and in reply to the Stipendiary the prisoner, who was undefended, said he had no questions to ask. In view of the critical condition of the lad Needham and the probability of his depositions having to b3 taken at any moment, it is decided not to remove the prisoner to gaol, and he was therefore remanded till to-day.
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AMERICA CUP. LETTER FROM LORD DUNRAVEN. NKW YauK, Monday. —At a meeting of the America. Cup committee held hero to-day, a letter received from Lord Duuraven, dated January 31st, was read, saying he considered the firsb race for the cup to be provisionally fixed for September 7th, and ho would use his best endeavour to get across in time. A letter was also received from Mr Gould stating he intended going abroad in the spring, but would bring the Vigilant back in time for the contest to select the cup defender with the boat which Mr Herreshoff is now building,— Renter.
WRECKED IN CALAIS HARBOUR,
WRECKED IN CALAIS HARBOUR, /NINE LIVES LOST. The Calaisiboat Petrel, whish arrived at Dover on Monday afternoon, reports that a French fishing boat went ashore at nine a.m. to-day when trying to enter Calais Horbour and broke up. Seven men and two boys were drowned.
FISHING IN THE TOWY.
FISHING IN THE TOWY. DECREASE OF SALMON. GOVERNMENT INQUIRY. Mr Berrington, Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trade, held an inquiry at the Guild. hall, Carmarthen, relative to the following bye- law made by tho board of conservators of the Towy, Loughor, and Tuff fishery district, viz. :— No seine net shall be used in the river Towy above an imaginary line drawn from the north side of Pitroath Brook to the barrel post on the opposite or south side of the said river." Any person acting in contravention of the bye-law would be liable to a penalty of JB5. Mr Thomas Jenkins, J.P., the Friary, the chairman, and Mr W, Morgan ¡ Griffiths, solicitor (the clerk), appeared on behalf of the board and Mr D. E. Stephens, solicitor, Trawsmaur, represented the Ferryside fishermen. —Mr Del. Lewis, Brigstocke-gardens, gave evid- I ence in support of the bye-law against the Ferry- side fishermen, and the latter submitted testimony through Messrs John Williams and Wm. Davies, seine net-men.—Mr Vincent St. Peel, J.P., Danyrallt, and Mr Hubert Peel, J.P.. Taliaris, spoke for the upper proprietors.—Mr Bei ring ton was obliged for the evidence, and stated that he would submit a report to the Board of Trade, and that it would be known in due course.
KILLED AT A LEVEL-CROSSING.
KILLED AT A LEVEL-CROSS- ING. NEW YORK, Monday.—A party of settlers whilst driving into Linden, in Ohio, to attend church yesterday, were struck by a freight train at a level crossing. The vehicle was wrecked and two of the occupants were killed. Two young ladies were fatally injured, but the driver escaped with a few brui--es.- Ceittral News,
CHINESE BRIGANDS IN SIBERIA.
CHINESE BRIGANDS IN SIBERIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Sunday. The Chine3i brigands in Eastern Siberia, who, in September last, murdered several workmen on the Ussuri Railway, have been tried by court-martial. The two chiefs of the band wero sentenced to ba banged, and the others wilVbe handed over to th? Chinese authorities.—Reuter.
INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACING.
INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACING. CANNES, Monday.—The first heat in the Inter' national race for the Mediterranean Cup, offered by the Yacht Ciub of France, was sailed in Cannes Regatta. to-day. Result First, Like second, Cristoforo Colombo third, Gareth fourth, R*- belle. The Prince of Wales' yucht Britannia did not start. The two remaining heats will be sailed at Nice and Mentone respectively.—Reuter. -IY.IUID"I
LEFT HIS WIFE FOR HER LADYSHIP.
LEFT HIS WIFE FOR HER LADYSHIP. A decree nisi was on Monday granted to Mrs Jessie Withers on the ground of the adultery ot her husband, Captain J. E. Withers, who bad, been employed by the British India Steam Navigation Company, with Lady Eugenia Gore The case was undefended. Counsel stated the parties were married at Bebington, Cheshire, and respondent appeared to have met Lady Gore on some of his passages to Australia. Subsequently they disappeared, and were found living at Geneva as husband and wife.
ELECTROCUTION AT BRISTOL
ELECTROCUTION AT BRISTOL CORPORATION OFFICIAL KILLED. An official of the Bristol Corporation electrical department was killed on Monday by a shock 01 electricity. The electricity is distributed to the, various districts and supplied at high tension, the dangerous character being removed by trans- former", which render it safe for the householders1 use. Whilst attending to one of these trans- formers, fixed in a cellar of a house, Robert Coiman, a young married man, sustained the full force of the current, and was kilted instantly.
TO-DAY'S WEATHER, 4.30 A,M
TO-DAY'S WEATHER, 4.30 A,M TO-DAY'S FORECAST. FOR KNdfjAN!>. S.I. AND SOUTH WALES. North-easterly winds, mode. rate; fin o very cnId. GENERAL. Increased north- westerly winds over northerly dis- tricts, in the south north-easterly breezes sharp frost .it first rather milder and less fair later.
GENERAL FORECASTS.
GENERAL FORECASTS. The following forecasts wereprepared last nigh' tha Meteorological Office at eight o'clock DISTRICTS— Westerly and north-wester'? Scotland, TV— winds, increasing conside 1. Scotland, E, i aij!y ;n force; squf'O 1 J cold showers. ,v i North-westerly and wester y 2. England,N.E, i winds, fair very cold J unsettled; showery. North-easterly winds, 3. England F v e r y f,'osty » P!^rlV< a o, 1/ foggy; then north-wester J t J less cold. Mid.Counties.Same as No. 2. ;}S:uneasNo. 5. 6. Scotland, W Same as Nos. 0 and X. 1). Treland, N. Nortli-we,-terlyancld 19. ds very COrO- sotntl or sleet
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A. remarkable result of the general c' in Russia has been the increase in the 11U1?V marriages. This is accounted for by jbei' that young people are forced to spen evenings in domestic circles. -r_aeph It ia stated that, at the instance of Arch, the Home Secretary has promise" j,fja sider the justice of ordering the release ioaprisoned Nonconformist minister at w v'Ji
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT PONTYPRIDD.
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT PONTYPRIDD. An art and industrial exhibition, in aid of the building fund of tho new Wesieyan Chapel in the town will be opened this (Tues- day) afternoon at the New Town- hail, Pontypridd. As will be seen from our advertising columns, the programme 1. a compre- hensive one, for in addition to the exhibition itself, concerts, at which well-known artistes will appear, have been arranged for each evening up to and including Friday. The exhibition itself promises to be an attractive one, the exhibits including pictures and curios of the value of £ 20,000, lent by ladies and gentlemen in the neighbourhood..
DEAD BODY OF A CHILD FOUND.
DEAD BODY OF A CHILD FOUND. IN A FIELD NEAR NARBERTH. On Sunday afternoon, whilst Mr Alfred Mabe, of Templeton, was walking through a field near Narberth Union Workhouse, in the parish of Narberth South, he found the dead body of a chtld in thn snow, Ib is supposed to have been there for 14 days or more. The rain and thaw on Sunday morning brought it into sight, as it was nob to be seen a few days before. The body is now m the care of P.S. Phillips, at the police-station, awaiting an inquest.
IIINTERNATIONAL SKATING.
II INTERNATIONAL SKATING. ENGLAND v. SCOTLAND. Much gratification was caused in Cambridge University circles on Monday evening by tha receipt of news of the victory of Mr A. E. Tebbit, English amateur champion, as represent- ing England against Scotland in the international j skating race that day :>t Glasgow.
ITHE FATALITY ON THE IMUMBLKS…
THE FATALITY ON THE I MUMBLKS RAILWAY. The man who was kiiled on the Mumbles Railway on Sunday morning, under circumstanoes already reported, turns out to be John William?, an engine driver, of 8, Oyfarthfa-row, Merthyr, who came to Swansea on Saturday nig.it with the intention of remaining with his sister till, in 10 days' time, he departed for America.
! GLAMORGANSHIRE GOLF CLUB.
GLAMORGANSHIRE GOLF CLUB. The ladies' medal competition, postponed from January on account of the snow, was heJrllast week, and resulted in a win for Miss E. Young by the creditable not score of 70 (15 holes). Tho monthly medal competition (gentlemen) was held on Saturday with the following result:—J. Hunter, 91 less 4—87; F. Milburn, 98 less 11— 87; C. B. Stoddart, 93 less 5—88; A. M. | Ingledew, 107 less 15—94, Several others retired Jr or were over 100 net.
FIGHTING IN WEST AFRICA,
FIGHTING IN WEST AFRICA, KING KOKO'S STRONGHOLD DEMOLISHED. SEVERE ENGAGEMENT. LIST OF BRITISH KILLED AND WOUNDED. The Press Association states with reference tc the reported service fighting in West Africa tha! the Admiralty has just received a cipher cable- gram from Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford, the officer in command of the British fleet on the West Coast Station, confirming the report thai) an engagement has taken place at Brass, and stating that Lieutenant Taylor and two men were killed, while five other men wore wounded. The cipher has not yet been completely transcribed, and the date of the engagement cannot be stated at present. Neither can it be stated who are the killed, with the exception of Lieutenant Taylor. Further official news will probably, however, be communicated to the Press later in the day. The Central News is officially informed that the following telegram has been received at the Admiralty from Rear-Admiral F. G. D. Bedford, commander-in-chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa station, dated from Brass, February 23rd Left Brass on the 20th February with H.M.S Widgeon, H.M.S. Th rush, two steamers of the Niger Company, and tho boats of H.M.S. St. George, with marines and Protectorate troops J anchored off Nimby Creek and seized Sacrifice Island the same afternoon. The approach wa: obstructed by stockades, which are also undet construction on the island. Twenty-five wat canoes came out and opened an ineffectual fire. Three were sunk and the rest retired. On the 21st February the intricate channels wera buoyed and the creek reconnoitred. At daybreak on the 22nd February we attacked, and after an obstinate defence of a position naturally difficult, a landing was gallantly effected and Nimbi com- pletely burned. In the evening the force was withdrawn, after King Ivoko's and other chiefs' houses were destroyed. The following is a list of the casuilties Killed: Lieutenant George J, Taylor Charles Chambers, leading seaman and William F. Sutton, commander's servant -all of hee Majesty's ship St. George. Wounded Thomas Ayres, ordinary seaman, of her Majesty's ship Thrush (seriously); Henry Bartlett, second. class petty officer, and Philip Sisk, first-class petty officer of the St. George George Tray. harn, first-class petty officer, and William H. White, A.B., of her Majesty's ship Widgeon (slightly). The following further telegram has been reo ceived at the Admiralty from Rear-Admiral Bedford, K.C.B., dated B rass, 25 th February Fishtown destroyed to-day. Brass chiefs and people implicated in attack on Akassa. Fifty, four have now been punished. No more casual- ties. Wounded progressing favourably. Further operations contemplated. Consul-general concurs. I am leaving for Loanda to-morrow evening. Two ships remain in vicinity for the present."
FRENCH BLACKMAILING SCANDALS.
FRENCH BLACKMAILING SCANDALS. STARTLING EXPOSURE TI-IREATE LN leD. PARIS, Monday.—It is again reported that M. For-alig, formerly the director of the Six Neuviems Siccle, who fled when the inquiry into the blackmailing scandals was opened, is about to surrender himself. His object, it is said, is to make some grave revelations, the fear of which is already causing uneasiness in certain quarters.- Reuter.