The Western Mail

AN ARISTOCRATIC SEPARATION -1 PETITION. The Press petition for a judicial SEPARATION tiled by Countess Rus<ell again*t the M't win coma oti for hearing during the ewmfJ) J\JldUhlma8 sit ting9. Pl?'ll'?l- ,iiatri?d %t)?ut )?,11 -I- 'fi, Cener?'A'?becoun-6)f?L.yK't!"«))!,?)?)'Mr. Lo<;kwoMi, Q has been retained for tne respou- jent.

HOIXOWAY'S OI.NTMKNT AND PIILS.—These rcme- dim an unequalled throujlwut the WO{W t'?' bad eg', "0\1 'dI. foul 80rf' bad btet "nit "Lers. Use' »«■ JJ'l fiiillre. 'iouH «i»ea wllU thaw, Uiera h no noun bd I, >r SrSoiH \lort howMer obsll.ute or Ion* .unJlns. ton" >r ,'t('H to tJlfJr ht'allul Ãutl O'lf;,tiY. l'rol)'rtJe". t)\tI' 1'001' r i'fierfn'-bo p¡¡tient.8 h!  .h cue ?f e@iiien, lur,:OD anti havtI d.d liltl? or DO f,om lheir trrr4t.meltt-. haye hf't.'u t.horoa¡.¡:hly curelt "J' H-.liow4»«0iutinei»tan<tri>l?. For I!audulr ■went" MSEMilYi aiv! d\øe' oi the kiu ther* nothing :h*t C;iltD 00 U$"rt with 11:0 INII!h kll.tit. In f Ict, In tlif;! ,ILST, 'I\I; o{ .:j: d.p.,u;>:t II ')U 'he ,ol..dt: of \11.111"1, tUew uedlomw. cuuiuiiiti*. *re L-itrsiiiU,, 'LUW

THE DIVIDKI) JIUSH PAKTY. THIS PARIS FUXD, I A Dalziel Pari. Idrllrm of Wednesday says:— It is a weli-kuown fact tiiat tha inouey known ae the Pans fund IS deposited at, M.ssr.. Munro's bank, D':7.;e1's representative ciiilei nn the head of tile firm m-oay, and f\kl" him whut he in- tended doing in the event of the statement of the Lontlon morning papers that the heirs of the late Mr. Parnell, Mrs. Parnell and the elder biothet, Mr John R<>wnrd Parnell, could clnitn one-half ot t he deposit Mr. Munro said lie would not part with the fund until he wa. satisfied by his solici- tors that he wa«* incurring no responsibility by su doing. 441 will wait," said, "Lintd a ju iicial dACiion has been arrived at which will remove ull responsibility from my shoulders. Personally, 1 have no interest in the matter. I am not otHed upon to side either with the P»r- nelhtes cr tho anti-Parntllites. I am siuiply tIn. tninporary custodian, and a custoUi&'i who would b YIn" glad 10 get rid of hit, charge." Sevetal qaesti«»us wero put to Mr. Munro with repaid to r lJd composition and the exact amouut of the Irisu hUIlI. Mr. Munro, however, decliued to answer, for reasons of professional secrecy, but the reporter was able to gather from what be t-aid in the course of converauiiun that the Iviiii fund consisted mainly of Ameiii ftn ti!'C\1r¡lh', interest accruiug on widen lus been duly »irnwnbylhe two dnposiiors. The real value of the deposit has varied Irom time to ti-1, an,1 at the preseut it unay bo taken af. about £ 40,000.

THIS LATE MH. PARNELL. MR. O'CONKOli'S BI0C5IIAPHV OF THE LEADER. Th? Crural Press l?". b,t?. ravourAd by Messrs. W."d, L.?k, ..d C' the publishers, itt..?, advallc proof or Mr. T. r. biuaiaphy of Mr. CuailfS Stewart Parnell. SCUOLASTIC ACHIHTHMBNTS. Mr. O'Connor does not give » very frittering account of his ex l"ader'8 scholastic Achievenwnls —and it is doubsful if he ever red a poem or a novel in the whole course of liia life. He never mentioned SMakspeare -It all my acquaintancewiih IHm. lie probably never read even Sir Thomas Moire, and the one poetical quotAtion that stands to hi crpdit-except, 1 helitvo, n very bad parn- pbr,se of Portia's plea for mercy at un amnesty im-etiug in Dub,in-i. two very hackneyed lines of Mooie. Fteoch he 8th ke n ry slowly and very indifferently. It would be a mI8t,.ke, however, \0 suppose that he had not read a great deal, but his reading was uot literary. Mr. I'arnell learuthistory in gaol. Wheu ho was in Kilmainliaui he read Irish his:ory for the first lime "—rather a tartling st-ne- ruent, 'but Mr. O'Connor says that Mr. rainell tol l him" he never knew the merits or details of the struggle between O'Connell mid the young Ireland pirty until that period." Yet surely such kilo". ledge was indispensable for a just appreciation if the political situation. If Mr. T. P. O'Connor weie still enrolled in the ranks of l'urnelli'es he would scarcely have revealed that confidence. ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFK. Coming to Ins entiance 11\;0 public lite, wnen Mr Gladstone had just sprung the general election of 18/4 upon the count:y, Mr. T. F. O'Connor tens us ilint the impr. ssion which he made was not favourable. His first attempt to enter Parliament was a forlorn Lops to cariy County Dublin. Tile flotue Kule League brought him before a public meeting and I he let, A. M. Sullivan moved a reso- lution in his favour in a glowing speech. To the dismay of his partisans the candidate broke down utterly. U He faltered, he paused, went on, ;ot confused and pa'.e with inteDse but ruhdued nervous (Xcitument, and caused everyone t) feel deep sympathy for Mm/' The audience cheered, but many on the platform shook their heads ami foretold that if ever he got to Westminster he would be.Iic"t member. He failed at Dublin, but pnsi.olly was elected for Meath. A PROUD AND HAUGHTY MAN. ?Ir. O'CO!]L)Ur l,is i?,ro ati?p by atep through the st'lgs of his eventful ParliR.1)¡enu.I'Y I career, and attributes the origm -f l?i? xtra. ordinary influence in Ireland to the prominent part he took in the ob.-tructIOI1 days. What i he Irish saw in Parnell wus a man who was proud, fearless, haughty, indifferent to Parliamentary opinion coldly tcoinful of English indignation. Isaac Butt was quite out of the reckoning. A friend one day saw Mr, P"rudl, and said to Mr. Butt, lhar. young uuin will be the deaih of you." The l,i?i? l?,?d. r l??gl?.d. N n ""F, "I can drive hun.ut of public life with ?ol d." Nee,il,s? to aF, Nlr. B,?tt di??.,e,,d his mistake, and Parnell superseded Butt at the Liverpool C .nvention of 1877. The older man soon after died, .lId Mr. T. P. O'Connor says'that P.r,?, told him the sbry of his death with a frigidity that shocked hilu. PIIŒSIX PAUl: THAOEDY: MR, LKTTEHS. Toe Phceiux rur* tragedy transformed the situation. It was, say. Mr O'Cormoi, as terrible a blow as ever befell a politician. The Govern- ment brought in the stringent Coercion Bill, which (he 1,.M. parly fdsis,ed rrnuou"l.f' but not wIth the help of their IN\der. TIIl was the first nf the U)r'erjo\1s absencos which became habi! ual, and caiuet) be regarded as the price piiid for Parnell's leaoership. It was rumoured that the missing leader was in Paris, aud some of his colleague went to Paris to seek him. lie wag not at his h-tel, but letters awaited him. Haunted by fears of his assassination, his frieuds consulted ond decided trJ the letters in tile hope of finding a clua to their bani.heel chief. One of these lettel's was from u lady, I, was scarcely glanced at, but it told enougo. h It wu the first warning tiie Irish party hit of ti.. opening of the tragedy thai finally enguiled Parnell aiid went near to engulfing Ireland. It speaks volumes for the reticence and the delicacy which, in spi e of all their supposed garrulou-mess and the brutality sometimes ef their political controversy, really dis- tinguished them that this fact was never communi- cated for vears afterwards by the men who knew it, even to their intimatj and clOBfi friends in thes-we party, and thilt the vast majority of the members of the party never heard of it at all. MR PAKNliLL AND MilS. O SHE*. It was iu 1880 that Captain O Shea was first Intro- duced to Mr. Parnell by The O'G-rman Million in Ireland, and when lie came to London the captain invited Mr. Parnell to a dinner to meet Ins wife and some friends, but IIIr. Par- uell did not come. Tirey met at a luncheon later on, and Mr. Justin M'Carlhy, who was present, thought the new acquaintance had matle some impression on Mr. Parnell, though he affected to prefer another lady. Mr. O'Connor boldly asserts that from ihe time when Mr. Parnell went to the house at Eltham he and Mrs. O'Sha. lived ai man and wiie, and stuck to eacti otlifir witt. unbioken fideliiy. All that has been lold can give but a faint idea, he say-s of the disguises, subier!uge<, aud diffi?ulti". winch I?. re]ajons between them i'npo'i'cd on Mr. r?rneU. He knew the terrible risk he was running. Once Mr. O'Oonuor himself saw him on Brighton Pier with a jl\Jy..1 The lader to whom millions of peopielookect up with confidence n"d a) most adoration was creeping along with fuitive look to see if any familiar eye recognised him." HIS MTSTEKIOUSNESS. Mr. O'Connor say s it was Parnell's misfortune that he could not. contide in others. Parnell was one of the furnaces that COUUtI19 their own smoke." Be nevor told his friends his troubles, but Mr. 4.YGlnnOl' draws a graphic picture of the change that ca'ne over his relations with the p irty, he heart-burning complaints and difficulties caused by Ilia mysterious liabiig. It says something lor Mr. Parn-Hs power or controlling his party tlmt for ten years they never knew hi, nddrss.

SUPPOSED MURDER AT SWINDON. I On Tuesday tho body of a womnn was found in a brook at Swindon. There were two terrible wounds on the forehead from which blood was flowiug, and it was evident they were infticied before the body WM thrown in the water. Ihe po ice mnk.? i..quuie. ? the ?umpuoo that the wllman Wn murdered.

VV'WISHV.— A PKBFKCOft" I

THIS LKADUKSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. I A Central News telegram on Wednesday says:- Lord fc'a.isbury will not come to town to-day. Mr. Akeis Douglas went to Downin!{-street this morn- iny, and, after selecting a number of documents and letters, proceeded with them to Hatfield, where lie arrived about one o'clock. A number of prominent Conservatives gathered at the C&rl;on Club tliii aftertimn, attracted chiefly bv the possibility of an appointment being shortly made to the leadership of the House ot Common., 1\ quasi ion which is keenly discussed. Mr. Frederick Smith, the late leader's ,on, Mr. Middleton, of the Conservative Central Office, and Mr. J. L. Pattisson met in conference at the Treasury this morning. Mr. T. Lennox Irwin, local Conservative agent for the Strand Division, is very busy with a large st'iff of aisisiatit4 Fit Westminster, preparing cir- culars to be sent to the electors in ti 9 interest of Mr. Frederick Smith. SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH AND THE I POSITION. Sir Michaelllicks.13each, speaking at Stockton on Tuesday night, roferred to the leadership cf the House of t ommens. The President of the HOArd of Trade sii-1"I hlJv to thank the chairman .nd Sir Matthew White Ridley and Mr. Wiightson f, speaking in Sl1ch flattening terms of me. Sir Matthew White Ridley referred to a subject upon which I should nut OllJtrwise havö touched. The leadership of the House of Commons is vacant, and mv name, among other:" li;ts been mentioned. Iam sure I UlhY say, on Di'lnlf of all those whose nanus are mentioned, that we do not understand what selfishness is in the public seivice. Every one of us would prof' r that BOlli" one. else should hold the office. Hilt I know that I accepted it most reluctantly in 1885, that I insisted upon resigning it in 1886,1 alii afuid against the wishes of Lord Salisbury, and certainly against the strong remonstrances of Lord Ritndolpli Clitircl i!], who succeeded me, because in my judgment another person was qua ified to fill that post than myself. And, liS 1 hold timt opinion still, I neither expert nor desire that that office should be conferred upon me."

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. THE KEPRliSENTATION OF THE STRAND. The ProsB Association savs the leaders of the Conservative orgnuisotion in the Strand Division havill conveyed to Mr. Frederick nlith tlie fact hat the party would v- te unanimously for hiui if he stood for the constituency, Nir. Stuith on Wednesday consented to go to the t oil. There is no lunger any doubt tlmt the return of Àlr. Frederck Smith will be lioily contested. The LIberal and Ridical committee mot enrly on Wednesday evening, and, in concert with Mr. J. Kenwick Seager and Mr. C. J. Munich, made ti e preliminary arrangements for tho con'est. A iar^e number of gentlemen who had volunteered their services for canvassing purposes were in attendance, and confeired us to roule,. &c. Dr. Gutteridge's candidature* is undertaken with the lull approval of the par,y mauugers at head- q,lrlEJIS.

MR. BALPOUIt ON SCOTCH DISESTABLISHMENT. Speaking on night at Whittingham, Mr. Balfour, M.P., Chief Secretary for Inland, made rrfercllce to the bS9 which the HOU0I.8 of Comn-ona had sustained in the death of Mr. W. H. Smith. Hø paid the British Empire had not been unfertile in political lealler, and he did not believe that in all the irilliant list one could be found of whom it could b, said with such assurance that every action of his life was directed to the public onll. In an after speech the right, hon. gpntleman n.ade >ome remarks a. to disestablishment in Scot- ;,t,i(i, regarding which he ?aid the Scotch Church was singly being t""8d to the Nonconformists in Kngland as Rn instnlment or htep in the direction uf the disestablishment 01 tha Church. The ques- tion of disestablishment wa commonly confused with statements about liberty of wor;hip, but such a doctrine had never heen held by any large section of the Church ha lers, and the great men who founded the Frae Church in Scotinnd would have absolutely repudiated any such doctrine. Mr. Halfour, in referiing to the approaching general election, siiid it could not now be long delayed.

I CAPTURE OF NOTORIOUS COINERS. THliEE ARRESTS. On Tuesday night Detective-inspector Leach, who was accompanied by IlIret sMgeanlt arrested two men in King'n Cross-Io;\d, London, on sus- picion that tti, y were concerned in bni-glu-ies and counterfeit coixiny, and on brting searched at the police-station 60 counterfeit j!e,lÏn5itud half-crowns were found upon tnem. One prisoner, who gave the name of Geurge Cook, has alieady served nftppn veins' penal servitude for coining. The other gave tho namH of Frederick Davies, but he refused t v where he live", The police, nowever, who could find nothing of an incrimi- natory cimncter at Cook's lodgiugs, nsceitained that Davies had been living at a he ,liS- in Berkelfcy- sirett, Brftt-rsea. They found wife at home, and in one of I hA rooms discovered till the implements necessary for making spurious money, including moulds, bars of solder, melted metul, and bottles of acid. There were a'so u quantity of unfinished half- crowns and florins in the room. The woman was tiken ¡ute custody null all the hnplemffit* wtT6 brought to t J!e poJJce-ta.1 ion. It was found that Cook was in the habit of visa- ing house fiS 8 lich old uncle from Americi, and it is believed Cook and Davies are connected with two men who were arrested for parsing counterfeit coin on Sunday. Th" prisoners were brought before the Clerken- well magistrates on Wednesday nod wer re- manded, together wi,li a labourer named Day, found in possession of countei feil coins.

QUEEN CHRISTINA AT I BURGOS. VISIT TO THE WOUNDED I ENGLISHMEN. The Daily New Madrid correspondent tele- graphsQueen Christina visited Mr. Seymour Lucas and Mr. l'letcher on Tue-day evening at the Hotel de Paris ai llltl'J:09. It was an int-rest- illg sCelle as the young Queen etoodby the beds of the wounded Englt>hmen in the dingy, old- fashioned ale?v". Mr?. Lucas was ?i yh her I bad -nd Mr. Fletcher had hi. father with him, The 4 ?,?n Recent seemod .ory to .,e the sad plight of both young men, and tr dt, cheer them up, expressing In good Engligl) her sympathy and her hopas for their spfeedy recovery. She 111,0 told them that everything that they desired would be granted immediately. Hei Mnjes'y took an interest even in the details of their nursing, aud asked whether the rooms wcw not t00 tol l, Burgo. being olle of the coldest pieces in Spuin. She also requested that they would let her know often if they WI r improving. Both Mr. Seymour Lucas and Mr. Fletcher were much movell by the Queen's simple kindness, and expressed their thanks both to her and to all who had shown attention to them. Crowds "waIted the Queen outside the hotel and loudly chered her when she re-appeared.

FHAUDS BY BIRMINGHAM OFFICIALS. At Birmingham Quart er Sossions on Wednesday HTFNIY JOlill, secretary to the Patent Axle-box and Foundry Company, itnd Harry Kenneih Austin, work*' manager, were put on lueir trid on the CHARGES of embezzlement, falsification OL accounts, & in connection with which it was ALLEGED that the COMPANY had been defrauded of as much as £ 30,000.-Jonas pleaded guilty to several counts and tho misdemeanour aud charges of Mmiy were not proceeded wilh.- Austin was found gui ty nf three cases of theft. Jonas wfis sentenced to three y ra' and Austin to five ye.s, penal servitude. I

CITIHUHY s COCOA.—" A perfect Food.Heall L8m FI.OBILINK !—FOB TBII TURTH AND IIHRATK.—I fc\» drop' of the Hqutd "FlorlHne" "1rfukled on a wet tooth ?ushi?i-odu?al?le@?tl??ther which thoroughlf claatJMH the teeth from all jtarsulfceB or hnpurltiea, harden« the gums, prevents tartar, stops decay, gives to the ?.th peculiar pearly-whlUneas, atid a delightful fragrance to the hreabh. It removes all uupleanant odour ar1linr from dce.yeÜ teetb S tobacco ra>oke. "The f?Jr?t" ?or?.?'tXnt corn ooieA i- -f Honey Bud B"M' h.,b.. I deltoioua to tac lasts aud the greatwt toilet discovery of the age. Petro 11:.1:,1, of a.n ())jf!U1htl'l awl P"rrnn¡t'l' Whulfllllltlf'l n1'O 3. '1"f'" I, '7"I(o 3 VVT*- TYLEH'S PRIZR MEOAL SERGES" 3ta8j

THE TERKIFIC GALE. GREAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. MANY PEOPLE INJURED. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICA- TION BROKEN. SHIPPING DISASTERS. The gale which raged with such fury on Tues- day afternoon continued on Wednesday with murd or lean violence during the whole of the day. Telegraphic communication between Cardiff and the outside wortd- which was pirtiailr restored late on Tues- day niglit-wa ngain broken, and the supply of new. from this source was again cut off. Nautical men at the Docki were of opinion that at night another fearful hurricanewould beiexpei ienced. The greatest anxiety was aianifesied for the safety of the large fleet of light steamers which left the port towards the close of the past week for the United States, as tliey must have experienced the full force of Tuesdriy's gale. During the gale on Tuesday night the schooner Lecrel, of and for Penzance, from Newport, dragged her anchor on the Cardiff Flat-, and ran ashore to the eastward of the Low Water Pier,where she now lies- Her crew stood by lier, and as soon as the weather moderates it is expected that she will be got off without much damage. The skiff Beatiioe, owned by Mr. Harris, of the Flat Holmes, which parted her anchors in the Roads on Tuesday afternoon, and ran ashore off Fenaith, has become a total wieck. NEWPORT. RUMOURED LOSS OF A STEAM-TUG. The storm raed on TueadRY night with great violence at Newport. The roofs of a Inrge number of houses weie damaged. At the Alexundra Docks the top of a shed was blown off, and the trees at St. W?,,I?. were co.?ide,ably damaged. At Caer- leon R galvanised 100fNI shed. belonging to Ilk T. Herbert, of ihe brickwoiks, was Iown down, doing considerable damage. It was rumoured In Newport on Wednesday evening ihat tlie steam- ing Stormcock, belonging to Messrs. Williams and Son, had foundei ed in the .torm. No intelligence was received of her or of the crew of five hands. RHYMNEY VALLEY. The storm of ritin and wind that raged on Tues- day continued on Wednesday. At times there were heav y showers of hailstones, accompanied with loud p"al. of thunder -.d i?ii flishes -f lIht- ning. The Rumney river is greatly fluoded. Roofs of ileuses have been damaged severely. FEARFUL WEAl'HER IN THE CHANNEL. A Holvhead telegram states that the gale had somewhat abated un Wednesday morning. During the night the Swe. sea t i tner King Ja J" tiroke nUrilt, but was a, cured. Tim Irisli mail and express steamers encountered fearful "eather in crossing t ,is Cliannel, and were much delayed. IMMENSE DAMAGE TO ORCHARDS. A severe gale passed over North Notts on wed- nesilny morning, and did great damage. At Peter- borough tile gale was renewed with increased severity, and in some instances roofs were stripped from the houses. Orciiards have suffered im- mense damage. NO TIDINGS OF THE OSTEND BOAT. ?- The Press As-nclatiou Dover correspondentreie- giapiiing at 11.35 a.m. on Wednesday, t!ays:-o tidings have been obtained of the Ostend boat, winch left here last night. The vessel was unable to get alongside the Admiralty Pier last night and drove away to the east ward before the storm. She had no passengeis on board. A telegram Irolll Dover on Wednesday states that the Ostend boat was r. ported to have reached Ostend in snfetv at eleven o'clock. She was fourteen hours in rrling, and encountered four- ful seas, the vessel at times being unalde to make any headway at all. Notwithstanding the excep- tional violence of the wea'lier, the Channel steamers havu escaped casualties, and no shipping ca8n8ll;.9 have been rep'r ed. At Dover on Wednesday night the gale had considerably abated, but it was still blowing heavily. A TRICE BLOWN ON TO A FARMHOUSE. At Fosoott, Buckinghamshire, a tree fell upon the roof of a farmhouse, awakening and grially Ur.itying the ininntss, who, fortu tit, tely, eecaped injury. Telegraph and telephone wires are broken down in many places. PASSENGER TRAINS STOPPED. At Helensburgh boats were lifted from the beach and dashed upon the front street. Many hou-es were filoded. Two passenger trains, bttween Glasgow and Helensburgh, were brought to 0 standstill, owing to the line being flooded aud the engine fires extinguished. A BODY FOUND IN A CREEK. AtF?Tershiunon Wednesday mornmgt?a noay o[ m m, ""p,)sed to be named EdwRrd S,71, -? found 1, creek, but i, is ot known :;ti:l\t: ":8 :;) ade' ir itci:8OW" A TEA PARTY DISTURBED. During the t?r,,ifiv g,?l- on Tuesday night a ;are chimney stack Wl\ b!ov n down at Sunder- land aud f.; thrnugh the roof of the kitchen of a public-hou,e in Dunning-streot. The 1,,di,rl', wife, Mr.. d p,?rty f f, inds w?re having tea at the time and were partly bur,, d,,r the fnlle rubbi.h. Amongst t; em Mi,s Kiuiien alld 1\ Miss Herbert were severely hurt I.bout. the limbs, II Miss Howe sustained injury to the hea,1 and Mr. Roper to LIe spine. TELKGKAPHIC COMMUNICATION BROKEN. The Press Association h.J received the lollow- ing communication froir. the Secrotary of the General Post Office:—"There is a very heavy delay (about fourteen hours now—Wednesday morning) on press tetegrams to Scotland, New. castle, aud South Walos, and there is a delay (two l ours) on press telegfanis to Ireland, and also to Northampton and Ljicester. There Is no delay at present, on telegrat'jB for other lingiisli pruviuoial towns." SENTINELS f,LON FROM THEIR POSTS. At, Aldeishot »n Tueadav tngni tne gaie oiew with hurricanf, f(orce. 1,? exposed places sentinels were bl??w- from their posts and their b"xes levelled to t,?e ground. THE GALE INCREASING IN THE CHANNEL. The P?e?s As,oci"tion Folkestone correspon- a,ni, teiexrnphing ut o'clock on W?d,?d., Kftern'j<jn,s?-9:—Theg?eiaincr<!?ioj; in the Ch,nnel, a ?d; consequently, the Soulh Eastern Hailway Company's .tp.mbuat did not leave for Boui.g.?. A steamboat 6yiu¡ sigllal. of distress hMbet'n8if;?'ed. Tli?lif?b.atatWptedto,cl. her, but failed. GLASGOW. I Tuesday night's storm in Glasgow and West Scotland waa as severe as that which wrecked the. Tay Bridge. Glasgow streets are strewn with tiles, &c. "One dwelling was unroofed, and serious injuries were caused by the falling dtMi, WOLVERHAMPTON. A hih gl. of wind, with the accompaniments of thumter ?nd)i!t't!?"? F'?'"? fitful gleams of sunshine were all experienced in n %yednei%(iRy morning, all within the limited p(?tiod of 40 minutes. The anow flakes .Pre unusually large. A THEATRE DESTROYED. J Allen's Theatre, Wellinsborough, was blown down oo Tuesday night. No one was injured. A MAN BURNED TO DEATH. _L. _.1 John M'JUery waa hHtng a lamp wuunapnuia AE thO1:;e6n1 1,r:IrlIaPrIt:; I night, during the height of the gale, he. t& lamp .pi.d,,d, nd l?? w?a b.?-?,d to death, tha body being I': a}o:.o "i:'£e: death, tits A HOUSE UNROOFED AT SEAHAM HARBOUR. A house lit Seaham Harbour was unroolea DY the gale on Tuesday night, and the leDaut. and his wife, who were in bed, were covered by falling rubbish und timber. They were not hurt. A cradle containing their infant was broken, but the child escaped injury. COTTAGES BLOWN DOWN. At Sliornclifte Camp tha new drill-shea was wrecked. At Harston, Cambridge, ho cot.tageo W.,? blown down. DAMAGE IN DORSETSHIRE. In Dorsetshire the gale was severely, felt. Im- mense numbers of trees were uprooted, buildings blown down, and telegraph wires destroyed. At the Great Western Railway Station at Dorchester the signals were demolished. FIRE AT A TELEPHONE EXCHANGE. About nine o'clock on Tue@day night a fire sud- denly broke out in the swiich-room at the Bourne- .h Cennal Exchange of the We.tern Counties and South Wales TelephonA Company. The whole apparatus became suddenly alight, and the night ope?toc states that he had a narrow escape. He attributes the fire to contact of overhead electric lighting wires caused by the boisterous wind that was prevailing. The fire was soon extinguished. NARROW ESCAPE OF AN EXPRESS. An express had narrow esc"pH from Deing wrecked on the South Western Rii..F at Ax- ,int,!er. A large tree was uprooted by tbg storm Mdfe)t!g''tMMMM)6)tne9]ust. after the after- noon exprM. had dashed past the epot. A large crane of men -? Mt to work to remo?theo? struction. but it ws some time before the line had been cleared and traffic resumed. ACCIDENTS AT A RACE MEETING. In Tamworth and the neigbbourtiooa tne storm was the worst experienced for rt considerable period. Some tents were blown down at Fazelfy Races, slightly injuring several persons. The rough atate of the ground caused a horse in a steeplechase to fall, and the lIuin".1 sustained hlall injuries. Telegraph wires in the district were I broken, and serious floods are feared. "SERIOUS DAMAGE AT GLOUCESTER. The full force of the gale was experienced in Gloucester between one and two o'clock, and between those hours it was positively dangerous to be abroad. Trees were dismembered, snapped off like pipe stems, or torn up bodily from the roots; slates and chimney pots were hurled to the ground; boardings and fences were laid low; glass and lamps were smashed; fires were blown out of their grates; and more than oue persou was blown clean off his legs. Telegiaphic communication with the outer world, except Newport, was suspended, either through wires being down or having trees blown against them. The one o'clock train from Sharpness to Gloucester was some hours on the road by reason of A tree being blown across the line, and having to pull up till the obstruction was removed. In various parts of the city uprooted elm and lime trees, some of noble propoi tions, fell across road- ways, blocking them effectually, smashing walls, ft.l tanringup fences and gronolithic pavement at their bases. In one case a man was seriously in- jured hy a falling branch, which struck him in the back; in another a tree fell across a house in Ciifton-road, smashed the windows, dislodged corner 8tones,cal tered the brickwork of A chimney, aud wrecked an outhouse. PANIC IN A CIRCUS. I On Tuesday afternoon, just alter Batty's circus troupe had commenced their performance at Birr, before a crowded audience of school children, a perfect cyclono of wind struck the tent, which Knaunlly, as the piles became loosened under the strain, heeled over. A scene of panic ensued, and a mad ru-h was made for the various exits. S 'veral adults amongst the audience cut their wny out through the canvas. As the storm increased in fury 1 he whole marquee collapsed, and the seats, poles, kc, were scattered over the ground. Several children were injured more or less seriously, but so far as can be ascertained at present no lives were lo-T A VESSEL BURNT TO THE WATER'S EDGE. 1 In Belfast Lough the coal-laden schooner Fly, of Dundrum, broke from her moorings at Holywood at an early hour, and was driveu ashore. The cargo taking fire,the vessel was burnt to the water's edge. About the 8em. time the well-known racing yacht Clarissa, belonging to Mr. Gildowney, J.P., parted her cable in Ballycastle Harbour and was smashed to pieces on the new pier, which also sustained considerable damage. In Carrickfergus Harbour the new barquentme South Africa broke from her moorings. SCENE AT A 8TATION. During the storai on Wednesday afternoon a large number of passengers standing on the up platform of the South Western Railway Station at Farnham were greatly alarmed by a greit flash of lightning, followed by a loud report. It was found that the telegiaph instruments hid been damaged SO badly by lightning that traffic was for some time con- duced with great difficulty. A. instrument con- S?r W'itiam ttose'a ptiv?te w)M destroyed at the same time. HOUSE ROOF CARRIED ACROSS THE -1 STREET. I In London heavy weai her prevailed throughout Tuesday. Rain fell continuously, and a high wind wrought, much havoc in the suburbs. A gust of wind lifted the whole of the zinc roof of a house I mCompton.atreet, Clerkenwell, carrying it across the street, where It smashed a lamp in its fall. The weather was violently squally on Wednesday, heavy rainstorms alternatiug with biigllt sun- shine. CLEVEDON. Several boats were on Wednesday dashed to pieces at Clevedon, Somerset. ISLE OF MAN. I The R')e was felt with great force In the Isle of I Man, and sever.' small 'llit?pjg c"u4i,i" are ? er Paveril of the eak WM wrecked on Lax?y Be ?h. The crew we?e Mved by the id of life-buoys. THE PASSAGE TO JERSKY. I A telegram from Jersey on Wednesday night slates that, a terrible gole waiexperienced through- out Tuesday night and Wednesday. The Wer- mouth mail Bteaimr due Fit, Jersey at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning arrived nearlr three hours late, and her master reported the weather as Ihe heaviest he had ever experienced in the Channel. The Soutliainpion steamer which left for the Channel Islands at 5.50 on Wednesday morning, did not reach Jersey till seven o'clock at night much anxiety being thereby caused. THE STORM IN IRELAND. Reports of the severity of the tjale continue to arrive. There was a tremendously high sea in Queenstown Harbour on Tuesday, and the White Star liner Majestic, from New York, was uuable to communicate with the port In any way. She, therefore, proceeded to Livcrp >ol without landing the mails. [_ SHIPPING DISASTERS. I The full effects of the gate were tea at tne e-tuary of the Ribble, and much apprehension pre- vailed as to the safety of the fleetot cockling boats, which left Lytliam in the morning, when tlie weather was comparOltively fine. Kishing boats fioiu Suuthport, which are in the habit of ap- proaching Lytham for the fishery, were caught in the storm, and had to run in for shelter. Two of the hopper barges belonging lo the Pres- ton Corporatinn drifted towards the pier, and one 01 them collided with tbe structure and carried several pillars away. The hopper's mast and funnel were smashed. Several smacks were swamped, and one was broken to pieces by the force of the storm. Up to a late hour it was still blowing a hurricane, and lifeboat men were hold- ing themselves in readiness. At Brwick Ihe rocket apparFItus and lifeboM were .ne 11 to the .? id of two filling ves3vl?, the Janie, of Peterhead, and the May Murray, of Coldinghain Wick, which were caught in the gale on their way home from Scarborough. Aiter all exciting scene, both vessels made harbour in safety. The Press A-sociation Plymouth correspondent telegraphs that the steamer Sam Lancaster, from Rotterdam for Cardiff, had a narrow escape of being driven ashore, the engines being powerless ■against the lury of tli. gale. The roll of tile steamer threw the captain's wife out of her bunk, and she was discovered unconscious with frac- tured skull. A large two-masted steamer wns driven in d,?0.r.us proximity to the ehore at Ha.tinll" and ti,. lifeboat crew assembled in readiness to go off if r?q,?ir?d. if incoming steamers and sailing VMaeI'' at Jersey report having encountered a heavy storm in the Channel. Sevsral small craft, have sunk in St. Helier's Harbour, and some damage b88 been done ashore. I Tne storm broke with terrific violence over the ble of Wight, The pier and landing stage at Ventnor were frequently swept by heavy seas. At Scarborough several fishing smacks running for the harbour for shelter grounded at the entrance. The fishing luggers Faith, Hope, and Charity and Little Berths, both of Slioreharo, frotu Plymculh, were driven iishore at West Bay; all hands were saved. A large amount of wreckage has been washed up along the const. A vessel moored off Siiewell to mark a wreck was driven ashore uear Southwold Harboiir. Her crew were saved by ihe lifeboat. A Lloyd's telegram states that the schooner Nins, of Chester, is reported ashore at Ballantrae. The Belfast schooner Ocean Star went ashore on Tuesday night at Duhoniil. Both the crews were ave,1. The Grimsby smack Peter was wrecked near Spurn Point during the galo. The crew of six were anvoil by the lifeboat. The stealDship Shasi dragged her anchors at Holyhead, fouling the steamship Stella and the schooners Margaret and Jane. The latter lost her jibboom. The Shasi is now in the Railway Har- bour. The Norwegian vessel Grid, from Liverpool for Buenos Ayres, was totally wrecked on Cannon Rock, Kearney. The crew were saved. The ship Beethoven broke adrift from her anchorage at Thames Haven, and went astiore. She has since been towed off. An unknown schooner is ashore on the Black Middens, Tynemoutli. The brig Vera, from Glasgow to Port Natal, is ashore nt Rothesay, Bute. The crew are safe. The Clyde ferry-boat at Lintnojse, while .no. fast t?th? pier to prevent driftiug, sank 88 the tide rose, but no lives were lost. The schooncr South American broke from her moorins At Carrickfergns during Tuesday night's sale, dragging with her the schooner Jane, of BELFAST, lftdeti with salt. The South American I. slightly injured. The Jane shnk in the harbour. No lives were lost. The brig Ellida, of Cronstndt, for Grangemouth with a cargo of battens, has gorif ashore near Burntisland, and is totaily dismasted, but the hull is, apparently, uninjured. A telegram frolD Bridgwater stales that the Robin Hood, from Cardiff wii LI coal, sank on the Penartii mud. The steamer Virginian, from Bo.-ton, which has arrived ut Liverpool, had 10\1362 cattle out of 76J shipped during tne heavy weather. I VESSELS IN DIFFICULTIES. -1 The Press Association says:—Some time must elapse before the actual damage caused by Tues- dav night's terrific gale is known, owing to the Injury done to the telegraph wires and the doubt which exists concerning the wherellbout8 of A large number of vessels which were observed in difficulties along H e seacoast. One wire only was npen on Wudnes^lay morning bat wean London and Dublin, and many other imporiant centres appear to be more unfortunate even than the Irish Metropolis. WRECKS IN THE CLYDE-SIX MEN DROWNED. A Grecnock tetegMm st?tra that the gale IS still blowing over the Clyde and Ute North Channel. Over a dozen yacht. and 8W"n coasters have been driven ashore between Greenock and Dunman, and four have sunk. The crew of the jiggers Petrel, of Rothesay, and Elizabeth, of Cove, numbering six, have been drowned. The Elizabeth is sup- posed to have foundered off Duntnan. Cliannel steamers report fearful eth., til wild seas, causing a delay of several hours on the passage. Another telegram attttsTha gale continues over the Clyde and surrounding dislrlct-, THE Norwegian tibip Uratfla broke from her tnooriugs and collided with the Italian schooner Girolmina, seriously injuring the latter. Both VESSELS drifted down the river, the GiroLmns suffering further damage. Two yifhta have sunk at Gourock, and three coasting vessels have been wrecked at the entrance to Loch Long. Two other small vessels foundered in the Clyde, three men being drowned. Several piers have been greatly damaged. REPORTED LOSS OF THE CITY OF HOME. FEARED GREAT 1.033 OF LIFE. NEW YORK, Wednesday, Four p.m. (Rntfer).—A telegram received here front Sr. John's, Newfound- land, reports that the homeward-bound Anchor Liner City of Rome has been lost off St. Shotts. She left New York on October 10. No further details have been received up to the present. NKw You. Wednesday (Central IVEIM).—Con- siderable sensation has been caused hele by the publication of a special edition of the Evening Post announcing the total wreck, off the Newfoundland COHBT, of the fine steamer City of Rome. No details are yet to hand, but telegrams have been received from various sources, and there appears to be little, If any, room for doubt as to the disaster having overtaken the vessel. The City of Rome which bad a gross tonnage of 8,144 was built in 1881 for the Inman Company by the Borrow Shipbuilding Couip MY, but subsequently became the property of her constructors, aud was then chartered byttie Anchor Line Company. The New York Evening Sun has now appeared with a specinl dispatch confirming the reported loss of the City of Rome, but adding the gratifying fact that the passengers and crew escaped in the ship's boats. On the other Iland, neither the repre- sentative ot the Anchor Line nor the Maritime Exchange has received any tidings of >T disaster having befallen the City of Rome. Fuller particulars are awaited with profound anxiety. N,tw YoRx, Later.-Telegraphi.- dispatches which have come tohandsince tipepubliction of the evening papers tend to discount the rumours as to the lost vessel being the Anchor Line Company's City of ROUle. It is now bolleved that the steamer is one bearing a similar name which left Montreal on the 7th inst. NEW YOBK, Wednesday Night {Central News).— News has at last been received here showiug the nature of the shipping disaster which earlier in the evening caused so much anxiety. The con- firmatory telegrams come from Montreal, and state that the vessel lost off the Newfoundland coast is a cattle steamer which sailed from that port. Even in these dispatches, however, the name of the ill-fated fteamer is not given, but the regrettable fact is mentioned that 42 lives have been lost, including several members of the crew and a number of drovers. NKW YOBK, Wednesday (RENTER).—K telegram received here from St. John's (Newfoundland) reports the total lo.s of the steamer which left Montreal on the 7th inst., bound for Dundee with a cargo of 575 head of catlle and a quantity of flour and Indian corn. A man named John linnnsn, of Sligo, who arrived at New York from Peter's River this morning, brought the first news of the disaster. Be stited that the vessel was totally wrecked on Monday night at Marine Cove, :-t. Mary's Bay, and that he was the only survivor out of a crew of 43 hands. Brennan declares that the captain, the officers, and the rest of the crew were all more or less under the influence of drink, and, consequently, unable to save themselves. He himself was thrown by the waves on to the cliffs, avidwasrescued. Brennan gives a pitiful descrip- tion of the struggles of the crew in the water, amongst the tertifled cattle. The name of the wrecked steamer was stated to be the City of Rom, but a telegram received in New York thio eveningfrom Montreal et&tes that no steamer of that name left Montreal on the 7th inst. or since.

CARDIGANSHIRE POLICE I COMMITTEE. THE CHARGES AGAINST THE CHIEF I CONSTABLE. Mr. Willis Band, at the L<st meeting of the Car- ditauslnre Police C immitiee, said he had received a letter saying thut Poiice-constable Thomas Jones (18) had been ordeied to attend at Aberyetwith Police-station, examined and cross-examined fit great length and badgered to quilify his evidence, and that, when lie stuck to it in the witness-hox in a case of pound-hrench at Lampeter County-court, he received notice on the same DAY of removal fioin Llanilar to Llechryd. A committee appointed In inquire into the matter sat at Aberysl- witli on Wednesday, under the presidency of Mr. John James, chairman (If the standing committee. Police-constables Thomas Jones and Griffiths, Mr. Superintendent Lloyd. Mr. Davies, jun., Cwrt- irawr; Mr. D. C. Robeati, and Mr. Arthur Hughes, solicitor, were called. The evidence was clear to the effect tll;.t the notices were issued and posted before the rase was cnlled on at Lampeter. DURING the inquiiy, which lasted several houre, several pas88" of arms occurred between Mr. Willis Bund and the Rev. J. M. Griffiths on the one hand, and Messrs. Peter Jones and C. M. Williams nil the other, the latter contending that Mr. Picton Evans's letter to Mr. Willis Bund did not bear out his statement to the police committee.

SEVERN NAVIGATION I SCHEMIO. A meeting of the Worcester City Council was held on uesday evening, the mayor (Alderman W. R. Higgs) presiding.—A letter was read from the .lirectors of the Gnat Western Railway Company stating that since the interview with the tnavor nnd other members of the corporation of Worcester, cllreful inquiry lied been made into tiie proposals then suggested for pro- viding railway comlDunic".jou between the docks which the Severn Commissioners pro- pose to construct at Dijlia and the Great Western Railway. The company's ensineer had been on the ground, and from a rough estimate he had made it would nppear that the cost of a line runninc from the West Midland section at a point about It miles south or Slirub-hill Station to the side ot the docks would be at least £28,000. As in the opinion of the company's officers such a line, if made, would be THE means of strengthening the competition to which the company are at present exposed from the carri ige of merchandise by water from the South Wales p rts to, amongst other places, the Staffordshire district, where the company hnve large interests, the directors H ive, nf er careful consideration of the whole OR the circumstances, come to tlie conclusion that tliey would not be jus ifted in incurring sucli an outlay as tiie construction of the line would entail. In reply to Mr. Hughes, Aideraan T. Rowley Hill said that so fur the pnspects of c.rtying out the improvement scheme had not been shaken one jot by any informal ion that the Severn Commis- sioners liad liid, and the dredging was costing less than was estimated.

I CARDIFF MUNICIPAL I ELECTIONS- Though there are many talks of compromises in regard to tt'cjpal eedi..s at Cardiff, there is fee every .ign of <t O?ht all round. At Canton Mr. U. Worthy Blake hag received a deputation from the Canion Conservative Club, and has consented to contest the ward under the auspices of that institution, which is strong in membership and stronger in enthusiasm.

THE POWEK OF TH1 PUBLIC J'LTESS The lundsome sum of £ 3.S10 12S. 7d. has just been received by the secretary of the Royal NaliOlIl\1 Lifeboat Institution from the editor of the Yorkshirt Post, as the result of an earnest appeal made bv him in the columns of his jnurn.il on the 9th ult. on behalf of the institution, which at the present time Is much in need of help. wt year the committee were compelled to draw on year the committee were ?1 3S,00d0o, nations, and r,;tr ti:n:i:ses orns: tte u: receiv. in annual subscriptions, "onatiDI, and dividends being n)t.?<ther IDsufbcI.nt to main- tain the lifeboat service in a thorough state of efficiency.

A TUGBOAT ON FIRK AT PENARTH. About 9.20 on Wednesday night Information was received at. Cardiff to the effect that the tug- boat John Bull was on Are in the Ely Harbour. Head-constable MeKensie at once despatched a manual engine, with hose, under the charge of Chief Engineer Geen. As the boat wns in Ihe middle of the Ely River, some difficul'y was expe- rienced in getting at It, and the firemen had to wade through a lot of soft mud befoti they could effectually play the hose upon the tug. By deven o'clock the fire was practically ex- tinguished, but at this time the whole of the tug in front of the paddle-boxes had been destroyed.

THE MANAGEMENT OF DARLINGTON WORKS. Mr. Alfred Bowen, mill manager at the Dowlais Works, has been offered, and lias accepted, 'he post of genet AL manager of the Darlington iron and Steel Works. He will enter upon his new duties almost immediately.

It is said that the "star-spangled banner WILL be unfurled in America shortly, and that Colonel North has alrendr cabled the entries of fire year- ling* tor the American Derby at Chicago. EVERYWDY COUGHS, excpt th?6 who take Da. L??'S PULKOMW WA?. Wh" BWP A ?gh AS tbe bl..tbie. I- b. phl_. ""d p,.d?.. aud comfort; tm?y T. t!*G-d= §Sd by tU Dnm? 1. b?.4 ? li&. M.. 

WALE^ DAY BY DAY. Mr. Lewis Williams snys that he always calls prisons « Her Majesty's Temperai ce Hotels." Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., writes our London correspondent, is spending the autumn at his resi. dence. Bryntirion, near Dolgelly. A Conservative candidate to content the Cathaye Ward, C irdifT, will be selected at a meeting at the National Schoolroom, Woodvilie-road, to-night. The work of doubling the Rhymoey liailway and joining the line in the upper iiiirc of the Rhynmey Valley is being pushed on with vigour. On Tuesday no fewer than eight large steamers weie fixed to load at Cardiff for Port Said, with an aggregate carrying capacity of close upon 24,000 tons. Captain M. Lindsay, R.E.. J.P., of Yslrad Myoach, will be asked to contest tho Llantwit Vardre and Llanfabon seat at the next election of the Glamorganshire County Council. The Ebbw Vale Chamber of Trade is about to discuss the advisability of organising a series of Sunday evening sacred concerts, with the object of attracting and entertainiug the young people of both sexes who now crowd the streets. It is a singular fact that the post-effice of AN important town like Cardiff has not a properly printed table of mail despatches and arrivals; and, what is worse still, the written table, which is beginning to look weather-beaten, gives no information whatever about Sunday times. A Welshman-the Rev. J. L. B. Jenkyn, senior curate of Naotwlcb-has been offered, and has accepted, the precentorship of Liverpool Cathedral. with charge of the Church of St. Nicholas. Mr. Jenkvn, who is a graduate and late exhibitioner and prizemnn of St. David's College, Lampeter, was ordained deacon in 1889 and priest in 1890. Newport Police-court has not improved yet. Yesterday, at five miuutes after eleven, tbe first magistrate put in an appearance, but, after sitting four minutes, found that be could serve tbe ends of justice efficiently DO longer. At balf-past eleven a second was forthcoming, and things went on so well that a third actually patronised the bench for an hour later on. The new Penal Servitude Act is being applied already in Monmouthshire. At the quarter sessions on Wednesday two prisoners who had been several times previously convicted (one of them had undergone penal servitude before) were sentenced to three years' Incarceration, a term un- known to the criminal courts before. There is a better chance for the good ones among us now. South Wales and Monmouthshire colliery managers will be concerned to learn that the Home Office has decided that the responsibility for the supply of timber to miners rests solely with the management of a colliery, and that this responsibility is not eschewed when men are per- mitted to select and convey the timber for them- selves. At a football match the other day a player had one ot his teeth broken, and after the match was over he went to the dentist to bave tbe remains of the broken molar extracted. On returning, after the operation had been performed, the player stated that the match between him and the dentist ended in a draw. It is not often that we bear of stumps being drawn after a football match. Miss Jones's contribution to tbe political meet- ing at Llanybytlier on Tuesday suggests to the Globe the following perversion of Thackeray. We assume Miss Jones's Christian name to be Gladys ( metri gratia Gladys, having tied the audience With a melody befitting. XJka a WELL-conduci ed Tally Went oil with her homely knitting." A correspondent writes expressing the opinion that there is plenty of room for a good non- political club ill Pontypridd. The townspeople, he say. have allowed a bitter partisan and sectarian feeling to undermine all their social affairs, and he feela confident that a club such as he suggests would have the effect of removing, to a great extent, this bitterness, which can do no good 10 any town. There were several noticeable absentees from the meeting of the South Wales and Monmouth- shire University College governors on Wednesday. Lord Aberdare was away at Abeiystwitl>,hut both Dr. Edwards and Principal Jones were absent through indisposition. Ttie former is gradually getting better, while Principal Jones has caught a feverish chill, which is keeping him in the house. Dean Vaughan, too, was not able to bJ preaent, recent illness being the cause. The avidity with which the Technical Instruc- tion Act passed by the present Government has been seized upon by the Welsh people is most marked everywhere. Nowhere, however, is this more apparent than in Cardiff, where already nearly 1,200 students have entered themselves for a course of study. Mr. Lewis Williams, Mr. John Gunn, and others were right when they suggested that the present Government was the proper one to approach. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain reached Carmarthen from Llanybyther at twelve o'clock on Wednesday morning, and travelled thence for Birmingham via SUrewnbuiy. The right hon. gentleman appeals to have made himsolf very affable on Carmarthen platform. He was engaged f ir some minutes in an ardent conversation with a Llandito Noncon- formist divine, and remarked to a railway official that lie was really surprised, considering the tempestuous weather, to ICe such a large gathering at Highmead. News takes a long time to travel In certain directions. The news respi-ctiog the probable candidature of Mr. David Davies, Velindre, IN Cardiganshire, set forth with all pomp and cir- cumstance in our Radical contemporary yesterday, was published in the Western Mail—every detail- last spring, and, of course, was contradicted. Precisely tlie same fate overtook our informatlon- "Iso given in the spring-respecti.g the retire- ment of Sir Arthur Stepney, the member for the Carmarthen Boroughs. Other examples may occur to our reader^, among them that concerned with the political aspirations of Mr. Lewis Morris, Despite the fact that on all hands tfionew county-court judge in Mid-Wales is being warmly welcomed by the people of the district, Truth of this week save:—"The greatest indignation has been excited in Mid.Walee by the appointment of Mr. Cecil Beresford, 100 of the late Judge Her- ford, to the county-court judgeship of this dis- trict. A more flagrant job has not disgraced Lord Halsburj's career. Mr. Beresford understands little or no Welah, is quite unknown in the legal profession, and is not even a member of the Welsh circuits. He has been serving, with anything but distinction, an a di puty-judge. The appointment ought not to be allowed to pass unchallenged In the House of Commons." A wedding which has just taken place in prosaic Dowlais will take a lot ot beating, even fr>m the romantic Yankeeland. One day this week a man named David Powell, who can boast of having weathered the storms of 73 years, led to the sitar a blushing young thing of 71 years. Powell is employed at one of the pits owned by the Dowlais Iron Company, and his blooming ycurg bride was, until this week, in receipt of parish relief, although she at one time worked at the mine levels. After the cereinouy tbe happy pair repaired to the delightful apot known as Twyny waun. The youne couple are not novlcea in the mysterious art of honeymooning, for, between them, they have already outlived four partners of their joys and sorrows. It is understood that Powell's fellow- workmen are preparing" grand reception for the gay young tiling when he returns to work. The storm of the last two days throughout the country will bring to the memory of many the revere gale which prevailed in Sulitli Wales just ten lea-s ago. when their Royal HI';hness>s the Prince and Princess of Wales vinited the Princi- pality, au the occlion of tll" op'-mngof the Prince of Wal.. Dock at tha metallurgical metropolis, which took place October 18, 1881. It will be remembered that Sir John Jones Jenkins, who was that year mayor of Swansea for the third time, and ttie hte Mr. Frank Ash Yea, chairman of the Swansea Harbour Trust, had, at their joint expense, erected a handsome pavilion at The Grange, the residence of Sir John and Lady Jenkins, near th Mumbles, in which was to be held a grand reception and bill, to which the Royal visitors had accepted an i"vil.tion. Much to the disappoint- ment of the raities mostly interested in the affair, a fearful galo b:oke over the neighbourhood a coup e of nights before the event, and the force of the storm carried away the pavilion buildings, end made it imperative to hold the reception an" ball in the Albert Muaic-ball at Swausea.

THE PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR DISCOVERY OF A RUSSIAN llEVOLU- TIONARY SOCIETY. NUMEROUS ARRESTS. The Daily Tel-•graph St-. Petersburg correspon- dent wires :-A nvolutitJnarf society has be"" discovered in the city of Kieff by the police, the obi ct of which was to emplny the present fallline as a pretext to rouse ti e people to levolt. and to havo lecourse to political ossassinatiou The association is alleged to be directed by Kussiau emigrants living in Sni_ lsafiand and France. Numerous arrests of real and Eupcled membeis have been effected, among whom figure Several etudeuts of the University of Kieff. This circumstance determined the authorities to make domiciliary visils to the lodgings of certain young men WhOHI pohtical leanings seemed ùoubtful. which ieJto?hed?cnvery of 8i'cret)item!y clubs, tho members of which met privately to read the writings of Count Tolstoi aud S iltikoff, prohibited by ti,. ('?.,or a,i ..bi,shad in G meva. 'n,es students, whose objects are ".t Joht?M',h)?-eaUbeentrrested,andareb"inK treated cx.K?ly in the stuMwa.yMtharMtcrm- spirators, and the bonk.) f?undtn their pWMinn have b.en sent to St. Petersburg to he repotted upon officially. The students of the university are indignant at this iiijustice, and called a meeting to P'Mition the Minister to release the members of die literary clubs. The rector dissolved tliegather- ing, and those piesent at it prolested, up w which the Governor-General thrtnioned ti sur- round the university with Cossacks. For the moment a lull has laken place in the agitation, but if (lie students be not released speedily the distur- bance will reCilUltnenCe awl may spread t, other universities. None of the young men who pro- lesiod havo been arrested as yet.

BALL BY THE LORD MAYOU OF LONDON. TlieLord Mayor of London 'Sir Joseph Savory, Hart,) gave a bill ut the Jlinsum House on Wednesday evening to the piovincial mayors of England, WHIOS, and Iroland and the provosts of &011"11<1. The band of the Royal Engineers was in attendance. Amongst the puests Wfra the Mayor of Cardiff (tlie Marquess of Bute), who was aciMinpnuied ur the Marrlnone-s of Bute, thø Lord Mayor of DubJin, d ,b. L??rd Provost of GI.?- gow. The marors of the following Welnh lowns accepted invitations t) he present:—Aberavon, iiiecon, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Cow bridge, Llan- dovery, Neath, Newport, and Wrexhain. The town-clerks of Cardiff and Swansea also aoceDled invitations. Tne company included 157 English and Welsh mayois, sii? coth provosts, aDa 38 town.dcrk..