The Merthyr Telegraph and General Advertiser for the Iron Districts of South Wales

MERTHYR POLICE COURT. Thursdat.—(Before A. De Rutzcn, Esq.) CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—James Treherne, puddler, was brought up on remand charged with feloniously wounding Henry Leyshon, a haulier, residing at Yms- gau. It was intended that this case should have been held on the previous day, Thursday not being a regular court day, but in consequence of the inability of Mr. Plews, who had been retained on the prisoner's behalf, to attend, the Stipendiary consented to hear the case at a special sitting. A summary of the evidence adduced on the prosecutor's behalf appeared in the columns of the Merthyr Telegraph of last. week. It may be in the recollection of some of our readers that a singular cir- cumstance in connection with the case was the fact that the prosecutor was not the only one who bad been stabbed, for the prisoner also had been cut, and of the two his injury was the worst. The depositions of each of the witnesses were now read over, and after the examination in chief had been completed Mr. Plews cross-examined each witness in seriatim. Leyshon, in answer to the learned gentleman, said that hei first saw the nrisnner in the Lamb. He understood that some Quarrel had taken place between the accused and the man Miles, who had subsequently knocked him down on the street, but witness not having been present, he was not, of course, certain as to that fact He denied living at China and getting a livelihood by loafing about that locality. He lived at Ynisfach, and worked for his living six days a week as a haulier. All he had done to the prisoner previous to his being stabbed by the latter was to try and prevent him (prisoner) beating Miles, with his brother. He denied knocking the pri- soner down. He had no time to do anything of the kind before he was stabbed. He had not fought with any one near the Castle. Did not htar the accused cry out while on the ground that he had been stuck. He had gone in search of the prisoner into the gully op- posite Zoar Chapel with a policeman, but he denied following prisoner in order to thrash him. —Geo. Da vies, smith, living at Crumlin, admitted in cross-examination that he had been tossing with a man for a pint of beer, and that they had some words in consequence of the man having no money to pay. Witness came to Merthyr on the night previous to the row to attend the funeral of his sister's child. Prisoner did not complain on the street of having been stabbed. He (prisoner) appeared right enough when chasing Leyshon. Witness denied following the accused for the purpose of thrash. ing him.—Thomas Pugh, haulier, r?;ynrodyn, who was in the prosecutor's company when the stab was inflicted, was also cross-examined, and in some minor particulars his evidence was slightly contradictory of that of the previous witness.—David Miles, another haulier, who resides at Clynmil, who had not been called at the pre. Vious hearing, stated that on the Sunday night referred io he went to the Lamb Inn, where he saw Leyshon, Davies, and Pugh. In consequence of some dispute the landlord turned them all out. Witness remained on the street for some time listening to a quarrel between the prisoner and some others who bad been in the house. Shortly afterwards went up High-street in search of a friend. Near the Castle Hotel he crossed the road and struck a match to light his pipe. Prisoner ran on to him and asked him for a light, but witness having thrown the pipe down was not able to accommo- date him. Prisoner then hit the pipe from his niouth, whereupon he (witness) knocked him down. Prisoner s brother coming up in a threatening attitude witness knocked him down also. Both were about to set upon witness when Leyshon interfered to prevent them, and was stabbed in the manner already described.—Mr. J. L. Ward, surgeon, who was then re-called with a view of defining more particuiarly the exact situation of the wounds upon both prosecutor and prisoner. In the former instance it appeared that the wound was on the outside of the left arm—the arm of defence-its direc- tion being inward. The prisoner's wound was on the same arm, but on the inside on the fleshy part, running in a direction from wrist to elbow. Both wounds were direct stabs, and in witness's opinion each had been in* flicted by a knife of the same size.—Some slight- ad i- tions having been made to the depositions of P-B- Jennings, Mr. Plews addressed the court for the defence. He thought, after hearing the medical evidence, that a mistake must have been made in the identity of tne man who had inflicted the injuries. Both cuts seemed to have been made with the same knife, and no sugges- tion was made that the prisoner had stabbed himseit. He (Mr. Plews) would ask the Bench to say whether the case was not so full of doubt and difficulty as to render it useless to send it for trial.—The Stipendiary ■ There is a case for a jury most certainly, and J shall send the prisoner for trial to the assizes upon the charge of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Mr. Plews applied that the accused be admitted to bail. Rutzen Well, considering that he has s tamed a somewhat severe injury, I will take bail, the security must be of a substantial character, required bail not being forthcoming, prisoner was moved in custody. 9o A Spiteful Trick —Elizabeth Ann Thomas, single woman, was placed in the docK charged wIth maliciously breaking a square of plate glass, £ 5, the property of Mr. Thomas Jones, George Bre wery, Aberdare. Miss Beatrice Thomas, barmaid at Georsre Vaults, Dean-street, stated that on the previous (Wednesday) evening prisoner came drunk to the b.ar and requested to be served with a glass of J111'11' i ness, on account of her condition, declined t0 ,leT; have anything to drink, and ordered her out. went. In about half an hour afterwards witness heard the window of the bar break, and upon going; outsiae saw the prisoner and brought her in.—Ann .Jam married woman, residing in the same street, statedi tnai she saw the prisoner raise a stone and throw It dehbe- rately at the bar window. By the prisoner: It was who broke the glass. There were a lot of children Playing about there, but I didn't see any of them throwing stones at you. By his Worship There was no one between the prisoner and the window w threw the stone. Mr. T. Jones having given evidence as to the amount of damage committed, P. • called to prove the arrest. Prisoner, wh y drunk, had denied breaking 'he window. In detenc,, the accused, who is a young woman of y proportions, her head scarcely appearing over tne top of the dock, stated that she was always followed about by a number of children, some of whom threw stones at her. On this occasion she was pelted with stones, and that was how the window was broken.—His Wor- ship, in addressing her, said that her statement could not possibly be true, for the witness James was positive that the stone had been thrown by the prisoner, and by her alone. There could be no doubt whatever upon that point, and prisoner had only made matters worse by setting up an untruthful defence. Her conduct had been about as spiteful and determined as it could pos- sibly have been, and it was in his (Mr. De Rutzen s) power to order her to pay £ 5, the amount of damage which she had committed, and ±.5 in addition, but inasmuch as the infliction of any pecuniary penalty would be quite useless in the case of a person circum- stanced as she was, he would avail himself of another power conferred upon him by the Act of Parliament, namely to sentence her to a term of imprisonment in the first instance. She would have to undergo the full period of two calendar months' imprisonment with hard labour at Cardiff House of Correction. Monday.—{Before Edward Davies and Thomas Williams, Esq.) DISORDERLIES. \V m. Owens, collier, his first appear- ance, charged by P.S. Jennings with drunken and dis- orderly conduct at High-street, on the 26th inst., was dismissed with a caution.—Thomas Morgan, haulier, arrested by the same officer at Victoria-street on Christmas night, upon a nearly similar charge, was similarly dealt with. — David Lewis and Thomas Stephens, found by P.C. James drunk and engaged in a fight in High-street on the same day, were fined 5s. each, costs included.—Wm. Davies, collier, Hirwain, arrested by the same officer in Wheat Sheaf-lane on the same night, upon a nearly similar charge, was dismissed with a caution.—Thomas Manning, collier, charged by the same officer with drunkenness and rioting at the same place on the same night was fined 10s. and the costs.—The same officer gave evidence against the fol- lowing — Jonathan Davies, collier, charged with drunken and riotous behaviour at Ynisgau-street, on the 24th inst., and Ann Price, an unfortunate, charged with drunken and disorderly conduct at Wheat Sheaf- lane on Christmas night, both of whom were cautioned and dismissed. RESCUING A Prisoner.—Matthew Ed wards, a respec- table looking young man, was charged with resisting P.C. James in the execution of his duty. The constable stated that on the previous (Sunday) evening as he was conveying a man in custody through Glebeland-sireet, defendant came up to him and asked to be allowed to take the man home. Upon being replied to in the nega- tive, defendant took hold of the man and pulled him away. Witness, however, re-captured him, and after locking him up, returned and arrested the defendant. The Bench considered this a case which they could not possibly overlook. They would fine defendant Bl and the costs.-In default of payment a committal to gaot for fourteen days with hard labour ensued. No Prosecutor.—Wm. James Smith, 11, was called upon in discharge of his bail to answer a charge of stealing a currant cake, the property of Thomas Robson, a confectioner, having a stall in the Merthyr Market-house. Prosecutor did not put in an appearance afid the prisoner's mother having been advised to take better care of the lad in future, the Bench ordered the boy to be discharged. ROBBERY AT CHIN A.-Sarah Thomas, Ann WILLIAMS and Margaret Evans, unfortunates, were brought up charged, the first-named with stealing, and the other two with receiving, with a felonious knowledge, a gold watch-key, plated locket, and 92 Ss., the property of George Price, a signal-man on the Great Western Rail- way, residing at Tredegar Junction. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor on Christmas night went to, of all places in the world, China, to the house of the prisoner Williams, where he fell in with the woman Thomas, who, while he was fumbling in his waistcoat pocket for sixpence to pay for a quart of beer, thrust her hand into his trousers pocket and abstracted his purse, in which was the whole of the property named in'the charge. The woman handed the swag" over to Williams in another room. Williams, in Zt. tempting to cram it into her stocking let fall the greater part of it, and in picking it up again she was assisted very promptly by the prisoner Evans, who appropriated every cent." of that which she could lay her fingers on. This proceeding was carefully noted by a man named Pearce, who resides at Aberaman, and who de- scribed it in the witness-box to-day in a very intelligent and straightforward manner. P.C. James, to whom the prosecutor had complained proceeded to the house and arrested the prisoner Thomas, who as soon as he had spoken to her drew from her pocket a purse which she threw from her in such a fashion as to cause its con- tents to scatter themselves ovei the floor. The prosecu- tor's watch-key was, however, found in it when the officer took it up, and a sum of 1:1 43, ld. was found about the ground. Subsequently the other prisoners were arrested by P.C. Parsons, who desired Williams to take off her boot. Williams not only complied but took off her stockings as well, and out of this latter receptacle Parsons saw half a sovereign drop which the woman acknowledged having received from Thomas. The Bench thought that the evidence bad made out a pnllUt lac". case against each of the three prisoners, who were then committed for trial at the sessions. Wednesday.—(Before Thomas Williams, Esq.) POEXOMENAL-TB, police charge sheet of this morn- ing was an absolute blank. The petty sessions" sheet showed that nine summonses for non-payment of general district and water rates, and two summonses for wilful damage were returnable. When these cajie to be called on, however, six of the nine rate summonses, and both the summonses for damage, were found to have been settled. The remaining three rate summonses were, upon the application of Mr. Collector Goodfellow, who thought that the notice to the parties charge a been very short, adjourned until Monday nex ■ business of the day. The Court rose shortly before twelve o'clock,

DEATH. On the 23rd inst., at Abercanaid, Helen Maria, wife of Dr. Peter Walsh, aged 29. The deceased was buried at Cefn Cemetery on Wednesday, the solemn service of the Catholic Church being performed by the Rev. Mr. Carr. The arrangements of the funeral were under the management of Mr. Evan Davies, undertaker, Merthyr. =-=- KEKNICK'S DANDELION COFFEE, refreshing, healthy, and much approved, is a most valuable beverage for preserving a healthy condition of the liver and stomach and as an aid to more potent medicines. In canisters at 6d., 10d., and s. 6d. each Shopkeepers may be supplied by the proprietor, or the following wholesale agents :-Leonard and Robinson Bristol. CluUerbuck and Griffin Bristol .Hugh |Bevan, whoWe Grocer, Bridgend. 7230

v abekdare POLICE COURT. Tuesday—(Before R.H. Rhys, James Leiou, and IUESdai v JD E Williams, Esqs.) i Andrew Renfree, collier, found by P p Parker lying in a helpless state of drunkenness at I&25; onDthe previous (Monday) night, was ordered to pay a fine of 5s. and the costs. AN INCORRIGIBLE.-Margaret James, a pauper, was brought up charged as a rogue and vagabond,_ with bavincr no visible means of subsistence, and sleeping in the o^n air It appeared from the evidence of P.8. Olding that the woman had slept in the streets ever since her return from gaol about a fortnight ago. She had left a son in the Merthyr Workhouse, who, during her absence, had been removed to a Union in North Wales, and thither she had been advised to go but without effect. Bench Do you want to say anything ? Defendant: I can say a good deal gentlemen if I am asked. Bench: It all rests with you. You can say anything you like. We think you are an incorrigible woman. You were sent to gaol from this court for 10 days before, now you will be committed to Swansea House of Correction for one month with hard labour. Unneighbourly Tricks.—James Williams, collier, • ;as brought up under warrant, having disobeyed the summons, charged with wilfully damaging a door, to the amount of one shilling. A. Mrs, Catherine Wil- liams, residing at Kingsbury-place, Cwmauian, < gr that on the 11th inst., the prisoner cam husband's house with his wife, and kicked iprgached Witness ordered him out, but immediately fpjlere the road he returned and kicked in the d°or- being no defence to the case, the Bench 0Ij to do dam to pa,y a fine of £ 1 and the costs, J.al' hard which, he was committed to gaol for a month labour. t at a Tavern.—David ^Ahfrdare! Llanddewibrevi, and David Ed wards, jsmith, surrendered to their bail charged with refusing to qu the Pehcan Inn, Commercial-street, when reJL :ns^ to do by John Evans the landlord, on the 2^ It appeared that the defendant Lewis had end«avouiri to dispose of a load of geese at the Pubhc'b0"fiirv,t quf,st^n, and that shortly afterwards he got upi a IW" with Edward* The landlord, who found it impossible to part the combatants, sent for the police, ana Mapps arriving shortly afterwards took the pair intc custody. In answer to the Bench, the lanalord s a c,! that he did not consider Lewis to have been drunk Inspector Rees, who gave evidence, was, however or quite a different opinion. The landlord having stated that Lewis had been back and fore at his house for the greater part of the day, their Worships said they thought he had got drunk there. A penalty of tl and the costs was imposed upon each of the defendants, and at once paid.

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THE WAGES QUESTION IN THE WELSH COAL-FIELD. AWARD OF THE SLIDING SCALE COM- MITTEE, AND ITS ACCEPTANCE. An important meeting of the Council of this Asso- ciation was held on Tuesday, at the Royal Hotel Cardiff; Mr. D. Davis, of Blaengwawr, presided.' Afterwards a meeting of the Association was held the objects of both meetings being to receive the report of the Sliding Scale Committee, which concludpd it* labours on the 11th of December. The meeting wis of course, a private one and the Allowing communications have been sent for publication The Monmouthshire and South Wales Colliers' Association. c. Cardiff Dec. 28th, 187o. S'B.-At a very full meeting of the Counc 1 of the Monmouthshire and South \Vale8 Collieries Associa- voTn ln, a"d 1 been instructed to forward vour'nhp 1" ? same for publication.—I am, s' » your obedient servant, w. Dalziel, Secretary. The award is as follows these presents shall come. fio-bti, /FeaS; an agreement entered into the tw J ° of May, one thousand eight hundre 1 between the Council of the ^°nll'nri a shire and South Wales Collieries Association and deputation of the workmen at the collieries J association, and modified by another agrceme eiaht the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousan hundred and seventy-five, it was agreeu that y ira. in the wage rates at the said collieries 0f May ion of three months from the thirty-firs w,,ges to then next should depend on a sliding sea scheine deregulated by the selling price of of for such scale to be agreed upon by a ] prn„]overs, and ten persons, five to be nominated by in before any five by the workmen, such committee given, and notice of advance or reduction of waS^ 1 cj^e upon the should the joint committee be un»b' wages or any basis of a scheme for such sliding s < jons was to be detail thereof, the solution of sue q sjj0Uj(i be final, referred to an umpire, whose dec' gue^ scheme that and it was to be a condition in ment under it on either party might terminate the we> tjje under- giving six months' noticje- j{enelai.s, William signed David Davis,"Thomas Lewis, Thomas Sherward Cartwright, Willi Henry Mitchard, Chaloner Smith, W'illuim A^ra^'T"omaS Halliday, JohnProsser, David Morga'«. members of the said were duly appointed to be the te gaic| joint coin- joint committee and ^whereas w » jnvestigated, and mittee, having fully inquire > stances relating to considered all the facts and .1 US) 0n or upon the matters so confided or re pursuance of such which we were to decide, n ug unanimously agreements and the .au^°rVJp or scale, and the details agreed upon the basis, sche > hereby make and thereof, hereinafter au(i gnal determina- publish this our award, decisio tion in the premises wat»ea to be paid at the 1st. That the minimum g pgr cenf above the several collieries shall 1j-erjeg in the year 1869, ad- prices paid at the sain determined as follow — justed to the Imperw the cutting price of the For the steam coa Aberdare Valley shall be the upper 4ft. sean?hinj;,itaininous collieries of Monmouth- standard. ■^orrJ;Q„rnViilly district the cutting price of shire and the 1^ geam, and the Tillery seam, shall be the Mynyddsy > bituminous cou;eries 0f Glamor- the standard, includes all the collieries in the Neath ganshire, w ^gtrict, with the exception of the Cross and nia, Cawdor, and Hendreforgan collieries, Hands, ya 0f 3 Rhyndda seam shall be the the cutting 1 standard^ mjnjmum standard of wages payabable in „Pral seams, that is, the upper 4 feet seam in the Ah S<lare Valley, the Mynyddyslwyn, and Tillery ms and number three Rhondda seam, as fixed Padding 5 Per cent, to the several cutting prices paid fr them in the year 1869, shall be the equivalent wages for the following net minimum selling prices for the „veral descriptions of colliery-screened large coal, de- livered free on board in the ports of Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea-that is to say Steam coal 12s. per ton. Mvnvddyslwyn and Tillery coal lis. „ Number three Rhondda lis. „ d The foregoing minimum selling prices and mini- cutting prices and wages are to include all claims ^"fhe workmen in respect to the extra cost of living, ? ntc as well as the owners' claim in respect to The ^xtra cost of getting coal, due to the Mines R4t.h'aThe wages payable as and from the 1st day of T rv 1876° being determined as hereinafter pro- vided for shall be regulated according to the following scale that is to say As soon as the average net prices obtained for large colliery-screened coal free on board at the norts of Cardiff, Swansea, and Newport advance one shilling per ton above the respective minimum nrioes • in clause No. 2 the wages payable to the work- men for the succeeding six months shall be advanced 7.1 per cent upon the minimum wages, and so on, 7k per cent for every shilling- advance on such selling prices up to a maximum of 21s net, free on board, for colliery- screened large steam coal, and 20s, free on board, for colliery-screened large bituminous coal at ports of Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. It being understood that the wages shall also be reduced according to the same scale down to the before-mentioned minimum of 12s net for colliery-screened large steam coal. 118 net for large bituminous coal from the several seams mentioned in clause 2. 5th. The average selling price of the several descrip- tions of colliery-screened large coal, free on board in Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea, during the months of November and December, 1875, shall determine the wages payable according to the foregoing scale for the six months, commencing January 1st, 1876, and termin- ating June 30th, 1876. At the end of that period and of each succeeding half-yearly period of six months, ending the 31st day of December and the 30th day of June, the books of the owners shall be examined by accountants appointed by the owners and workmen, and the average net prices realized free on board for colliery-screened large coal of the several descriptions of steam coal, Mynyddyslwyn and Tillery coal, and No. 3 Rhondda coal, at the ports of Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea, for the preceding six months, shall deter- mine the wages for the ensuing ensuing six mouths, it being understood that for such coal worked of the several descriptions and sold in waggons at the collieries that the equivalent prices at the ordinary port of ship- ment shall be taken into account to make up the averages. 6th. It is understood that whatever reduction or advances in wages are established at the collieries working the above-mentioned seams by the several standards indicated, that is to say, the Upper 4 feet seam, the Mynyddyslwyn and Tillery seam, and the No. 3 Rhondda seam, the same per-centage of reduction or advance in wages will be applied to all other collieries in the association, according to the groups to which they severally belong, so that the same relative rate of wages as exists at present in the several seams shall be maintained. And we have hereunto set cur hands this eleventh day of December, 1875. D. DAVIS. W. ABRAHAM. W. Menelaus, JOHN PROSSER. W. S. Cartwright. DAVID MORGAN. W. Thomas LEWIS. HENRY Mitchard, T. CHALONER Smith. Thomas Halliday. Witness to the signatures of the parties hereto, ALEXANDER Dalziel. The award which was accepted by the Council of the Masters' Association on Tuesday and afterwards con- firmed by a meeting of the association and the men's delegates, fixes the basis for the future rate of wages, or the basis for the rate of wages that will come into operation on the 1st of January next. What the pre- sent effect of the basis will be cannot be known until the accountants have ascertained the selling price of coal in the standard collieries mentioned in the agreement during November and December. When that has been ascertained the sliding scale will apply, If the selling price 0f coa] j8 the same as in 1869 the rate of wages will be by the agreement, 5 per cent, higher than it was then if Is. Per ton hlgher, tli.11 7* per cent, in addition to the 5 per cent., and so on for every shilling per ton. If the selling price is reduced Is. per ton, a reduction of wages in the same ratio as the advance takes place Certain standard collieries are taken as a means of saving the accountants the troulle of examining the books of all the collieries, and certain seams of coal as a standard of all seams. The basis has been arrived at after very oareful investiga- tions and examination of two table\ <»f statistics, furnished to the cotnmltt<:e by the masters and the men. IMPORTANT DELEGATE MEETING AT A MERTHYR. ■R important meeting of ^^f^Jtreet, Merthvr* ntish Workman Public-house, = d with d n Tuc.day. The meeting being admitted! W S'" representative of the room understand, however, tna works in South with -Mr nJ m £ Monmouthshire The mcetintr hi 1V1| °f Tredegar, j 0f having the recent had been convened for the purl ■- Conciliation ex- agreement arrived at by the B t^e j3t)arcj 'I ,J>' tbe men's repress" been transacted, I after some preliminary husine^ j (^i.scusset|_ t!le document as printed. a^°,e onducted with the A long discussion, which w!* resolution approv- utmost good feeling, followed, V(|^e 0f Confi- mg of the new basis was was also unani- dence in the Board of ^oT>c! then dispersed. We mously carried, and the delega njinity pervaded the understand that the frreates grefore naturally con- whole proceedings. ^) e to by the Board will be elude that the new basis £ 2ree an('l that the new year universally accepted by the m ■ y ce ant] harmony will usher in a long ,^erlnloved in South Wales and between employers and ewp Monmouthshire.

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-rr^TTssAULT ON THE MUEPOLICE AT PONXYPOOL. 1 Cf. a 0«eer n°tion of Peace and k°od- Some folks tide, and three young Irishmen will" at Chns'cm to Ugk gao^ jn consequence were on Wednesiay^ j;spiay 0f their loving-kind- «,f too deinonstra gince Christmas there have ness." se!Lus battles on the Sow Hill, there being been some fet?ucl between the Irish and English inhabi- apparentlylocality- On Sunday night the fight tants of on Monday night it was renewed at the raged l°ud'p0iice.constable Haw'r ins, a young of^cer Bell Inn- was sent for to quell the disturbance, of the fia'me time a party of Irish entered the house. About the quart of beer. Mrs. Williams, the and dem cejvjng that they had been drinking, landla y^ (jr;vW anything for them, and ordered them refuse pjftW)jins begged them to go away quietly, t0 fellow (not yet in custody) smashed a ginger- u bottle on Hawkins's forehead, cutting him shock- alv and another, named Michael Driscoll, picked up 'kitchen tongs, swung it ipund with all his force, and h ought it down on Hawkins's head, knocking him down, and rendering him insensible. He was carried away by some women, but not before he had received a third cut on the head. On Tuesday afternoon, the olicemen became aware that some of the assailants ^,ere making merry in a house at the back of the Masons' Arms, on the Sow Hill, and Police-sergeant oung and Police-sergeant Basham v.-ent in quest of them, and found the house full of men and women, drinking, with a plentiful supply of beer before them. Basham entered, and was about to handcuff Driscoll and Thomas Welsh (who had made himself prominent in encouraging others to attack Hawkins) when up jumped Dennis Donovan, and calling to the others, Don't be taken like this; don't be taken like bloody sheep," and fiercely attacked Basham. The sergeant managed to get outside the house, and held the door fast, making prisoners of all within, until assistance arrived, when, after a free fight through the passage, Driscoll, Welsh, and Donovan were conveyed to the lock-up. On Wednesday they were taken before the Rev. J. C. Llewellin and Mr. Parkes, charged with the assaults. Driscoll was sentenced to four months' hard labour, Welsh to one month's hard labour, and Donovan to six weeks' hard labour. Donovan shouted defiantly, 4 Thank you I can do that proper."

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REVISION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. In a lecture delivered at Accrington by the Rev. Dr Angus, the eminent Baptist, scholar, and who is one of the committee appointed for the revision of the Bib e, some curious incidents were the difficulties which the revisors found in hxin0 upon a suitable English word or expression to literally interpret the Hebrew"and Greek. What, asked Dr. Angus, was tne lieor Scripture, and what were the views the original textof jacripwi? mjgl)t they con. fi 1 "in them and how far might they trust them ? It MUnstrate the importance of those questions if he might illustiate ine 1 ]msage ju +V," which said "Without controversy great is Timothy whi > j wag uianifest jn the the mystery of g«Jlmess „ flesh.» ^Sw^n[,jesr w7it) was manifest in the flesh." mystery of o na'ssage in John, No man hath seen There was anothe passag g wfao =s jn th Goda'any tme the If Umt bosom of the needed to be it would read, ^rtWere °ha'th sten G0d at any time God only be- No man ha ,,mof the Father he hath revealed „t,e„ one ca« the „ort Him. In tn 1Tiarcrin, and in the other came into God went into the a texfc they as Baptists the text. In jt was tjie question of the were justly PI "Diy What doth hinder me from eunuch and Phdlips rtpy> beUeve?„ bemg baptised. believe." Now, as a matter of and he replie single ancient manuscript that fact there was not a si^ a bad thing for tfae contained that ve se. (Laughter.) He did not Baptists some (jareti &ay they would find the know abou • their purpose was to ascertain ofJh" inspired miters »ere, »„d to what the wor There was no necessity to keep them ro mjsrepre3entatioD. Those three pas- advance tru y Unitarian controtersy and the sages touched upon tne important that they SS^'uX'XTwh.f.he Script, wa, Whe.he^ cieariy uu s t^ey were or were altered into gr-ru.h3 they ta«gbt were practicalfy untouched. If they took the passage in praciicaiiy mystery of godliness, even lie IirS'^aXte" i« «he fli-fll «h.t did that mean Af our Lord were man only, what mystery was it that he was born, and what could be the meaning «f tho nhrase manifested in the flesh, an expression only applicable to one who had existence before? Strike out the word God," and it ceased to be a proof passage of the word "God read He and it became now the statement of this fact, that the incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ was a great mystery, and he ventured to think they had proof in support of the superhuman nature of the Lord as visible in one case as the other, though the argument was slightly changed. In the other case, God only begotten," while God was lost in the former case it was substituted in the latter. He believed that Christian truth would stand as it stood before, only with clearer light and stronger foundation, (Hear. hear.) With respect to the verses about Phillip and the eunuch, the explanation of how they came there was because it was the question put to the con. verts when they came to be baptized, and some copyist probably inserted a marginal reading into the text. They had lost a text but gained a confirmation of a piece of history. In illustration of the difficulties of finding suitable English words to represent the Greek and Hebrew, Dr. Angus said he believed that no trans- lation could do perfect justice to the Greek or Hebrew. For instance, there was the word publican." The New Testament Revision Company spent more than two hours over it. It was said on one side it was dis- honouring a respectable class of people to class them with sinners, and that it was extremely desirous to strike that out. (Laughter.) What should they put in its place? "A farmer of taxes," said one, there- upon a bishop arose and said, I must implore my brethren not to insert that, or we country clergymen shall never hear the last of it." (Laughter.) But it is farmer of revenues," said the suggestor. Ah, but the farmer is there," said the bishop, he will never mind the revenues—(laughter)—but will say you have put us among the sinners," (Lau diter.) The fact was that they had not a word in English that would represent it. The Romans used to let out their taxes to be gathered the same as we did at our toll-bars, and they had tc get what they could. These revenue "•atherp.rs were like our toll-bar keepers would be without a table of tolls, and many would not pay what was legal, and these tax gatherers became very unpopu- lar. He thought publican was the nearest word. Then the word" bishop" created a difficulty. The word meant one who took an oversight. No doubt oversight and overseer would be a good word if they could venture to use it. The Bishop of Gloucester said that whatever satisfied his Dissenting brethren would satisfy him. He said, If Dr. Angus likes to be called Overseer Angus I have no objection." (Laughter.) Now, in hi& district an overseer" meant one who looked after the poor, and collected the poor rate, and they rather objected. (Laughter.) The difficulty was to get a word that would do justice to it. It was a difficult thing to put into English words to represent ideas and customs of a people] different from our own. They had never been able to translate the word penny. The Roman word was denarius. When we read Agreed with them for a penny a day," we were apt to think it waarery little, whereas it represented.some 8s, or 10s. of our money. Twopence was as much as a good man could earn by two days' work. It was said they should put half-a-crown, but that would be inaccu- rate, as they were no half-crowns in those days. It was suggested that they should do, as their Anglo-American brethren had done, translate it, Agreed with them for a denarius a day," and the Dean of Westminster said, after talking it over for a week, it might be read "Agreed with them for a deanery a day, and they would think that was not very bad pay." (Laughter.) Another source of difficulty was that when the former translators did their wcrk they thought it juster to Scripture to represent the same Greek word by the same number of different English words, so as to bring out more fully the serse. The effect of that rule had been most disastrous. Take th" single word ordained." It had this meaning, theologically defined, predestination. God ordained so and so, destining and determining what should be. Ecclesiastically it was an important word, because the Church of England spoke of ordina- tion and ordained ministers, and Nonconformist ministers sometimes spoke of the same thing. If he wanted to know what the scripture taught upon that Point he would look in Cruden's Concordance," and "J out; the passages where it was mentioned; but when he found out that it meant different places, the concordance was of no help. As a matter of fact, that word ordained" represented ten entirely different words 111 the Greek, and in three-fourths of the passages where le word was used it did not represent ordained in either 0 ne senses, qrt f>n entirely different'Greek word. In assages referring to future punishment they had the ame thing occuring. The word "hell" was used to present two entirely different things. In one place it i>n «a- «.1>ce torment, in another it meant the unseen ° U?V P^sed — a place that included Para- YViiJr,nti°nei ? place of suffering on the other. l,1^' ed into a concordance to such passages where hell was used lt was simply misleading.

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AMKlilCA. AS IT IS.-Bt Julius. Philadelphia, December 13th, 1875. AMERICAN CHEESE FACTORIES. -THEIR ORIGIN AND PRESENT PRODUCTS. The factory system of making butter and cheese an industry of great and growing commercial importance and the history of which is full of interesting and use- ful lessons, has grown up in thi.i country withtn the last quarter of a century from very small beginnings. Prior to 1*51 Herkimer and Oneida coun'ies, in central New York, had become somewhat famous for thair cheese products, their dairies being then managed by individual owners with varying and somewhat uncertain success. Jesse Williams (an emigrant Welshman) a dairyman, living near Home, in Oneida County, State of New York, had achieved a reputation for making cheese of the best quality, and when in 1^51 one of his sons was married and went to live on another dairy farm in the neighbourhood, Mr. Williams endeavoured to contract for the sale of cheese made by his son at the enhanced price paid for his own products. He recognized the fact that to secure this the cheese must be as good as his own, and he determined, after some consideration, to have the milk from his son's dairy brought to his own place, there to be manufactured into cheese. This was the origin of associated dairying, and for three years Williams, and those who took their milk to him, were the only ones who profited by a system that secured uniformity in the product, the concentration of skill, and a great reduction in the cost of labour. The suc- cess of the system once assured, the grow thwas quite rapid, and in 1866 there were more than oOU cheese factories in operation in the State of P*ew ork alone. Cheese making, once monopolised by the rich counties of Central New York, has since then spread to other parts of the State, and the factory system is now adopted in some degree in many W estern States and Canada, and has even spread to England and Russia. In 1873 Canada manufactured 20,000,000 pounds of cheese by the American method. The scheme of the Welsh farmer in 1851 to secure uniformity in the pro- ducts of two dairies has re-produced itself in several thousand establishments, employing an estimated capi- tal of 25,100,000 dollars, and producing each year one hundred and fifty million dollars' worth of the manu- factured article. The receipts at New York from the interior amounted in 1863 to 281,318 boxes of cheese, and in 1874 to 2,204,493 boxes. The exports from New York in 1863 were 3S,577,3571bs.; in 1874 they were 96,834,6911bs. This return will give some idea of the rapid growth of the industry, and of its great impor- tance to the commerce of the country. A committee of the New York Butter and Cheese Exchange esti- mates the annual product of the country at 1,440,000,00 >lbs.. of which 53,333,3331bs. are exported. These statistics of the trade derive their chief interest from the fact that the enormous business they repre- sent has grown up from the earnest efforts of a single man to make in large quantities a good article which he was previously making in small quantities. If he had resorted to trickery and deception he might have achieved a temporary success, but he never could have laid the foundations of such a great industry with any #ther corner-stone than that of honesty, A very full and readable description of the processes of making butter and cheese is published in the Novem- ber number of Harper's Monthly Magazine. Of these we cam only say that they have been the subject of study by chemists and practical dairymen of the highest culture, and that. although the latter know how to make good cheese, neither they nor the chemists understand precisely how it is done. One hundred parts of milk are made up of about eighty-seven and one-half parts of water, three and one-half parts of butter, three and one-eighth parts of caseine or pure curd, five and one- eighth parts of sugar, and less than one part of mineral matter. In cheese-making the design is to harden the caseine or curd, and to do it in such a way as to imprison globules of butter oil in the curd. To coagulate the milk the cheese-maker pours a solution of rennet into the milk, and then begins the operation he does not understand-the" digestion of the milk. The cunng of the cheese is regarded as a further process of digestion. Cheese factories, as they are now built, are great build- ings supplied with steam power and steam heating apparatus, and are altogether unlike the dairies of a quarter of a century ago. The cheese-maker is an educated workman his associates, the dairymen, are scarcely inferior in knowledge, and it is said that the treasurer of a factory association." himself a dairy- man, must attain such mathematical accuracy as to he able to demonstrate that it took 9,746-1000 pound of milk to make a pound of cheese, and that he who de- livered a pound of milk to the factory is entitled there- fore to 1274-1000 cents, at the then ruling price of cheese, MOODY AND SAN KEY. The great Revivalists commenced operations against the Devil in this city about three weeks ago, and the immense structure, with accommodation for 13000 People seated, continues literally crammed. J.ne iwo apostles came here from New ork, where been holding meetings for the previous month, wnen over 300,000 people attended their meetipgs. upon hearing the great men, I made, as I thougfiV early pilgrimage to the immense building where iney hold services. But alas in vain, for although at tn. door half an hour previous to the time announce^, 1 was forced to be content with some 15,000 more j th having made "an attempt," Upon the best authority I have it that about 40,000 assembled about and ins the building this afternoon. _,VICE DEATH OF A KEG HO CHAMPION.—VICE-PRESIDENT WILSON DEAD, The Vice-president died very suddenly at 7 30 o'clock on the 23rd ult. Thus the M Negroes mourn their hero dead and gone." Thinking it may prove interesting to the readers of the Telegraph, I 8end the following sketch of the life ot one of the best, noblest and greatest of statesmen that A merlca has produced. The sketch will be a synopsis of what I have read in the daily papers, and in it wi be found one of the grandest illustrations of a man rising, as it were, from the mire, to the next highest position that his country could offer him.. Henry W ilson was born in JFarmington, New Hampshire, Feb- ruary 16, 1812. His parent? were extremely poor, and this son they were driven by their poverty to bind out ars to a farmer as an apprentice when he was but ten years of age. Though faring much as other bound boys do in regard to the labour of the farm, he had his fair share of schooling, and by some appropiiation of the hours usually devoted to sleep, and a careful husband- Ln j those which he could rightfully call his own, he had managed in those eleven years to read eagerly, and treasure more than a thousand volumes of history, biography, travel, discovery, &c. When 21 be left New Hampshire for Nat.ick, Mass., to learn the art of shoemaking. Having saved a little money he entered forMlle '^C comp''e,e his preparation A few weeks previous to this, however, be bad visited the National Capital, and listened to the exci- ting debates in the Senate Chamber and the Hall ot Representatives. There he had seen Pinckney's resolu- tions against the reception of anti-slavery petitions re- ceive a majority vote in the House and Calhoun's Incendiary Publication bill pass the Senate by the casting vote of Vice-President Van Buren. He had visited, too, lliams slave pen had seen men and women, iu .ains, put upon the auction block, and sold to hopeless slavery in the far South-west. H« thought deeply of the horrors and aggressions of slavery, and from that day forth the settled purpose 01 his life was to make war upon the peculiar institu- tion." IN BUSINESS AS A SHOEJIAKEB. His opportunity for obtaining a higher education in academies and colleges was destined to be short. man to whom he had instrusted the earnings which were to pay his way through college became insolvent, and the money was wholly lost. "He retraced his steps r to Natick, and, after teaching school tor a time, engaged in the shoe manufacturing business ana pros- pered He continued in this pursuit for several years, still employing all his leisure in mental cultivation. In the fall of 1840 he was elected to the House 01 Representatives of the State Legislature, In 1844 an y 11845 he was chosen as State Senator k°m district, g In May. 1854. Edward Everett had resigned his seat in the United States Senate, on account of failing health, and the next year the Legislature elected Mr. Wilsofi to fill the unexpired term. He took his seat in that bodv mi the 10th of February, 1855, and re. maiueu a member through successive elections until bis elevation to the Vice-Presidency on March 4th, 1873- a period of more than eighteen years. Wilson's whole career as to his views and noble principles can be better imagined by reading the folio- wing letter of his addressed to the committee on the organisation of the Labour Reform Movement in the year 1871:- r >. 1 f with mv 'views of propriety join in this '•1 cannot, with my can 'by lconvi'ctJion as well mrue.nuit. j extreme poverty, bound as as by association. j learned by bitter an apprentice hardships the poor are doomed cxpenenccthe tria^and of my heart to suffer from J gong an(j daughters of has been in sj 11 ar]y experiences made me abhor tod of all race y eafjy became an enemy of wrong and opp > 0{ the slave-masters. I saw and 5 uVe+T influences of a system that held feit the decrad toil, that allowed capital to working-men ^n'twenty years I strove to 3,p "mic.1 powr to emancipate th, ,toe and end p'nuliic'm party came into being to break the The Repubh&in parij deliver the power of the o o{ working.men the labourer, to lift ma|je our country dishonour of enfor 1 canlook up and be proud a glorious land where what j couI(1 to bnn? it in he midst of 1 hag done grand work for the as a party \n ° bthegt'0ning men of the country, and d country and fo records no nobler achieve- the world, too. secure, nor is it completed, ments. Its o en{jarger that work nor can I do I can do notbi g econipletion of the work imposed anything to rty l,y the needs of the country upon the RepnbhcanP^^ciples, that require it .0 he and the logic; o gtg ()f white working-men as it has as true to the black working-men. I am con- been to the in tive gense of duty to stand by the strained 1} t;n its great work is secured and Republican p y j can do shall ever be done to finished. "irT elevating> rewarding labour." a Th" late'Vice-President was buried at Natick, where he li/ed up to the time of his death.

kt>v PURE or a COUGH.—"Her Ma- EXTRAOBDIISAB Wick North East Coast of jefty s Gim Boa _HavU; ha most distressing Cough, Scotland.—Bear • sieepiess nights and restless days, I which H's Lcrdship the Earl of Caithness, to was recommended b^H« of Aniseed, and I can try your most first doge l found immediate relief even as-sure you, w_ d my various duties and the first without me, therefore I have the small Bon!^pncePin fully recoir.mending it to the million, greatest confidence, 1D muy H M G B. ■ Netley.To Most respectfully y { Anisced can be had of all Mr Powell.' Powelj» «als £ m ° and 2s 3d. Warehouse, Cheirists In Bot \sk for "Powell's Balsam of Black friars Boad, Lonaon. 7287 Aniseed."

VosmcT Obton.— A few dm abut C. Kenealy, secretary to the Hibernian Hfcll Brace! M the Magna Charta Association for the Boroofh « Westminster, sent the Home Secretary a copy at a resolution passed by the association relative W a nf* c«instance connected with the prosecution of *■ Claimant," deferred to below, and askinf attttti^fc to it. To that letter Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbeteoa re- plied: "I am diree'ed by tho Secretary of State tie acknowledge the receipt of your letter forwsrdbuft resolution adopted "t a meeting upon the MMef Thomas Castro. alias Arthur Orton.—lam, Sir, you obedient servant, H. Sklwin'-Ibbbtsox." Mr. Q. Kenealy has just forwarded the following stronger retolil* tion tot.he Home Secretary, passed at a meeting of the association referred to: ''Tiia' this meeting request* the Home Secretary as a public servant to inform them whether it is true that, during the trial of HegitmT. Castro, thee) Australian detectives c-me to this coun- try for the purpose of seeing whether they could rooop nise in the person of the claimant to the Tichborne estates a man well known to them as Arthur Orton; and whether it is true that they failed to recognise the claimant as the said Arthur Orton who Was wanted on a charge of murder in Australia." The writer of the letter adds Ti,,s i*e,-ol,,iti,)Il so fully explains itself that I need not make any remark on it, and, awaiting your answer, I am, kc., C. Kknialt, Secretary." The Teply of the Home Olfi ^e with respect to the inquiriee •ontained in tho resolution is awaited with some inte- rest by those who still believe in the Claimant." Pkevextiost OF Foot-and-Mouth Diska.81 nf Dexmauk.—A Copenhagen correspondent writes to a contemporary In the present agitation in your eountry as to the best mea ;s of preventing the spread of contagious diseases in animals, and as showing the care exercised by some foreign Governments whose countries have not yet bseii afflicted with the ravages of foot and mouth disease, I strnd you the following extract which appeared in a receat issue of tho Ber- linske TiJende Eilbierg, November 25.—The steamer Rosebud, which runs weekly between this port and Nawcastle-on-Tyne, arrived here in the beginning of this week, having on board two bulls and four sheep (consigned from England). Ou arrival, the stock was at once inspected by the veteri- nary surgeon of the district, and found to be labouring under foot-and-mouth disease. The whole was immediately slaughtered, and the ship, its crew, and everyone who had been in the vicinity of the animals, underwent the process of disinfection.' It will thus be seen that the Danish Government is alive to the danger of indiscriminate importation, though the measures above referred to are rather more severe than the authorities in your country are accustomed to en- foroe. Considering, however, how much Denmark is dependent upon the healthiness of its live stock, and Its proverbially high character as the healthiest country in Europe, the steps taken are not more aevere than is absolutely necessary, the slaughter of a few animals referred to being a simple way of avoidioj a national calamity, such as th& appearance of foot ana mouth disease would have been to Denmark." Pox Vines fob Ornament and Profit Xt is generally conceded that for the production of first-class crops from pot vines it is needful to hav canes that are thoroughly firm, short jointed, and fur* nished with plump buds and an abundance of fihr roots but opiuions differ as to the best system of OU* ducing canes possessing these qualities. "We ,r ▼ery frequently that to secure strong eanen „ ™ commence in January, and to ensure Us of the canes by the autumn they mns* k« 1?en'n8 on early in the season with the aid t bottom-heat. I know, too, that this adviceU^#k acted upon, and stout canes obtained whil e* produce splendid crops. That they do nd oi promue to the anticipations of cultivators is a matt* Sometimes these fat oanes refuse to history, in other cases they have shoots of ancl produce but few buaches worth havin» but their failing is not difficult of exDlaw- CaUie of few words will sufflee to show Wh«n +°u M & veiT pushed on by having the pots pluneedi^.k v1lnf ,ar* mentmg materials, the canes increase in • °f fer" ftnd produce thick fleshy roots which "Z° Very faBt» round the outside of the ball at v. -j ruu roTmd a°d .ndbj, .ben th. vin^ *„ 'S."10' »«« >>, times perish, the decay ooinmim.i 'hesc roots often- points and then spreading along th^oots^'lW the vines are grown entirely without k grown they certainly may be without it 6at~*nd a more fibrous character and tlt—the root* assume perhaps so fat and .biA T* .althou*h ehorter jointed; and as t £ 'fibril, do^o^ Tv* same manner as the fleshy root. ♦>, refuse to break most m vines seldom -Th, r W 8004 "iU »' Mr- Mullens, solicitor 6S PhLn 1 ^es,rfl- R- *nd S. terrace Isl n^ 'wK C,Wslde' late of 2J,0ompton- last at'Folkestone w dl#d the 7th of September Samuel Mullens the^broth on the 16th inst. by Mr. the acting^executor ^t r' *nd,Mr- W- G- Pl under £ 3,000. The W*?6™0!? estate being sworn Mrs. Rebekah Mullen. JlS bveqaeatJh« hi' Tif#1 being already provided u *nd hor children to his son Kichard he leav*. m#Jria?e 8ettlem^ent; Norwood, and his ,{re«hold house at and studs, and to W dia™ond rest of his jewellery- th« is *'1?8,Edw&rd he gives to his five °hiWre^by his'flrTit will of Mr. Thomas Spraeue L f8* etreet, Cheapside, stXn'eJ 'TrS V^°,61AQTn" road Hollo WAV j? °* Oamden- last,'at Farnham Vickrage 28tk°f f! !5th nit. by Mr. Thomas Bond C Pr°It °^! executor, the personal estate bnf^^116' £ 25,000. The testator leaves t Ms wifrM^ Helen Spragu. his fnrniture and a pecuniary lega^y of £ 100 to his daughter, Mrs. Frances Viotoria Sprague, £ 260; and there are a specific legacies. The residue of hi, >tw-n hi. son. and daughters and the four children of his deceased daughter, Mrs. Dukes. The will and codicil of Mr. JBenjamin Morton, late of Wellesley Court, Croydon, who died on the 20th ult., ware proved on the 16tl» Inst., by Mrs. Ann Murton, the widow, Mr. W. »• Wood, and Mr. J. Blackett Gill, the executor*, personal estate being sworn und.r 435,000. The testator bequeaths to his wife his household furnitnr. and effects and £ 200; to his executors £100 each to 1 his cook £100 to hie housemaid £50. upon truat for hi. daughter Ellen Sarah, her husband and children, £ 5,000) the residue of his estate he leave to his wife for life, but in the event of her marrying again she 11 cSnly to have the income of one-half, and subject to thit disposition in favour of his wife, such residue is to be beld upon the llUAt touiti M the Mid (vua of ^000.— CityPrw

amps Vi the liquid "Floruine stmnkled on a tooih-lyrush pr'uln^s a pleasant Iatner, which .■•ro'ighly cleansos the teeth from all parasites or •purliivs, baideus the gums, prevents tartar, stopa .ri'Rv, gives to the t"th a peculiar y ii i t e ii e E- g, ,i.d a delightful fragrance to the breath. It removes ,il nnpV»isant odour arising from decavod teeth or y„aceo smoke. The Fragrant Flonliue, being omposed in part of noncv and sweet her a, is deii- io, to the taste, and the greatest toilet discovery of ngo. Trice 2s Gd, ot au Chemists and Ferfumers. ,'repared by Heary O. Q lllvf, 493 Ox-ford-street, y Liondon.

SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE ON MIDDLE CLASS EDUCATION. On Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer w.is present at the formal opening cf a middle class school for boys in this town, recently reconstructed under a. scheme having the approval of the Charity Commis- sioners. The Marquis of Exeter, Mr. Ward Hunt, M.P., Sir John Hay, M.P., and a large number of ladies and gentlemen from various parts of the country wera present at a formal ceremony, and shortly afterwarr; a public meeting was held in the Corn Exchange undei the presidency of the Marquis of Exeter. The CRANCELLOB of the Exchequer said that he was very much gratified when the Marquis of Exeter was kind enough to send him notice of this interesting ceremony, and he was exceedingly pleased when Le received a formal invitation to be present at the opening of this school. It was rather more than ten years ago since he stood in that hall and offered himself as their Parliamentary represen- tative and they were kind enough then to return him as such. That particular connection between him and the borough of Stamford had now ceased, but so long as he was spared, it would alwaYI be a pride and pleasure to him to come amongst them (Hear, hear.) He could not help feeling that the local ties which connect members with their constituencies were of great importance in Eng- land, and it would be a sad time, if we were ever to arrive at such a time, when interettt of particular towns and localities should be merged in some great equal division of the country. (Hear, hear.) there was something of a feeling of a personal charac ter that quickened within one en one was connected with a place which had such an ° history, and such traditions and associations, as were possessed by the ancient borough of Stamford; and coming down on an occasion like the present, he found wrtU *be midst of old associations, and "*PPy to be able to congratulate them on in f °f.a Dew Middle-class School, which waj, anH*+K ln t^e^r Cise» the continuation of an old work t-i. commencement of a new one. For eenturies the if had been honourably engaged in carrying on work of education He was not aware, when he 1 himself as a candidate for their Par- .rj?ntary suffrages, that he was, in fact, com- of1 great offence against the statutes 8 University — Oxford; for it appeared ^consequence of the rivalry between Stamford or^<in ancient times, there was inserted in the ,utes of the University of Oxford a prohibition sr»aiany member of the University, lecturing, in 1?^ or kdring any part in any of the proceedings l T^^rd. (Laughter.) Msny present had doubt- aro* the story that some 500 years ago there Oxf6 Sreat dissentions amongst the students at large number of them left the Universitjr, betook themselves, of all places in the world, to the °f Stamford. They would thus see that th'a education was not a new thing in Stamford, ttow justified in sapng that the work they had entered on was not a new work, but was a work th • 1Q .rtoony witk the traditions and genius of 01 r a^cient town. (Hear, hear.) Since these Oxford ti;^«i°ns there had been a great many changes, and 4)je ~'f'iversity of Stamford had ceased to exist—totbe thJng but a name—but now they were taking ast^p nch he hoped would revive all their native ardour fbr ^earning aad enable them to carry on that spirit of *aruing for ancient timei they were so t,18tinfcuished. They had now, under the approval of nj16.kaiity Commissioners, undertaken a good, har- j?:nou«, aud comprehensive scheme of educ,\tion for J classes. The school which had been formally opeaed o-cUy forme(j on|y p0rtion of tne scheme on Which • 'Ware entering, and he was told that it was ^nded to eombine elementary schools of a sn- Pe.ri°'' class with the higher class .chools. A J^^dle-class school for girls, and a high class school 01 b°ys, were also to be established, and this *ould complete the pyramid of education. He had heajft of at.o :er excellent feature—namely, the estab^ iiihinent of exhibitions tenable from one schooltothfc th V' so that th'ise who distinguished themselves & lower school would obtain anexhibition and receive i^rther education in the middle school, and those wlo «ined distinctions in the middle school would ob- exhibition which would be tenable in thfe higher school; thus the deserving would be enabled to on their education, and perhaps proceed to that «Jd riral, but now friendly, University-Oxford, or perhaps Cambridge. He hoped that it would frequently ie ca^e that young men would rise from amonggt force their way upward by dint of their oi^ ,nergy, assisted bv the goud teaching which they woalj receive, come to the front and make themselit« ^ful to their country. (Cheers.) After all, therfc ,ls rj° mystery in this matter of education, all that Ie,ltiirei was that students shouM apply them* t e=> !nd make use of advantages which weie now so "'erjclly offered to them, that they would endeavour no their part and assist their teachers in the forma- «on of iheir minds, and the imparting of instruction to them, for it wa.s no use for teachers to themselves, however able and conscien- "ous they might be, however determined they might be to do their duty. unless those under them Wore willing telp them, and take purt in promot- es their own education. (Applause.) It was often •wd that there whs, after all, nothing like "eelf- •aucation;" persons were sometimes pointed °ut who got on very well without schooling it should be remembered that illiterate mefi »ho had got on bv sheer dint of energy and perseverance would ha've got on much better and been, successful had they have had the education This subject of education was so well known, so many bad travelled over the ground, that felt altogether shy of attempting to say anything *itn regard to it. He would not now ask what ware the benefits which education conferred on those who received it he would ask them to take another view see how much the public and the county game! by the education of its jouth and met. Education, though it began in youth, ought never to «eas* during a man's life.. "VN hat was important in youth was to lay a foundation, and when he came to acquire knowledge in after life he would know what to do with it; whereas, when an ignorant man acquired knowledge which ought to be useful to him it was use- less to him. for be did not know what to do with it or where to place it ^e a J°D m, •* good education to beg!a ^tt and then he will m after-life know bow to assimilate it and turn it to account Education interested us as a nation It w« of the highest importance to the countrj that her sons of the highest importance to the country that her sons should be educated as highly ati wm■possible consis- tently with the after employments of life. A\ e had to run as one of a string in the race of nations, and it gave us an advantage when competing with our contem- poraries to have an educated population, for educated people hold their own much better than un- educated people iu their conUsts wnh the world. Af the world grew older, and education and civilisation spread, the importance of education became greater and greater to nations. «e can no longer do those things by mere brnte force, or by the development <2 material resources even, whi we used to do, and which enabled us to take the proud place which we have taken among the nations cf the world. Other# were pressing upon"8' °,tbers ™re continually at thF work, and we should find ourselves left behind if w& did not make exertions t(> keep up in the race. To-day the sciences were taking the place of labour, and mere unintelligent labour is of much les» to-day in comparison to what it was a century ago, and unless we had a people who were able to understand and appreciate mechanical appliances and scientific inventions, England, it would be found, would have hard work to maintain her position among the nations. It would be impossible for Parliament to attempt to educate tbe whole nation. Some people thought there might be a system of complete national education, dnected and managed by the Go- vernment and by the Parliament of the day, but he believed that to be absc- lutely impossible unless some assistance could be got, and that assistance must be of a local £ SMto?Ttr have said that he it on, so as to be able at aDY moment of the day to B'av w> t > b0y wa. doing throughout £ ° > BCh 3 they attempted to deal cour'try 7A spirit in this country, then h<Tf ^r educaA10f ™ would be too great for our it that the task task contrary to the g,ni^ U W°^d matter it was necessary tw EtJ^i«hmen, and in this out England all the locJl^ t sh°uld evoke through- genial to our institutes w^ich .jt education brought forwlJ u u* ford, and he hoped that v 'SU f a,b°r°Ugh ae S brought forward elsevAV !mes,of eduoatlon would be could be considered in a mark^ 8 chara=ter.th,l1t They were doing a great wort ^fnu^' &sloCal SC a»>innk o^ri woik m found'ne these middle

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WATEBPROOF CLOTHING.—No one has greater re- apect for india-rubber than I have. It is one of the most useful discoveries of the age in a thousand ways. But I must raise my voice against the habit of wearing india-rubber garments. The only healthy -vater proofs are those of cloth treated in a way which, while rendering them almost impervious to rain, still admits of the escape of the insensible perspiration. The only situation in which india-rubber coats or cloaks can be tolerated is in riding or driving in the rain. Or they may be taken over the arm on a summer's ramble in the country, and worn only during a shower, and taken off again at once. As dust-coats they are worse than useless. I wonder how many deaths a year in these islands might be attributed to the wearing of these nasty india-rubber coats and cloaks? One wears an india-rubber garment to keep out the rain, and in this he succeeds, but he also succeeds in thoroughly damping his clothes with perspiration. Better for him if he had got wet to the skin with rain, because he would then have felt bound to change his dress. As it is, he merely takes off the mackintosh and sits down, perhaps in a warm room, or draughty railway carriage. And his damp clothes act in precisely the same way that a wet rag round a jar of water on a sutnruer day does—they cool the contents. And as in this case the contents happen to be a human form divine, subject to a thousand and odd ills, what marvel that evil should result ?-Cassell's Family Magazine. THE NEW WAGE BASIS IN THE IRON AND COAL TRADE.- Tbe new scale for the regulation of wages according to market rates, which is the outcome of the first work of the South Wales Conciliation Board, com- prises, as an antidote for trade disputes, a remedy for several difficulties hitherto held to be insurmountable. One of the most prominent troubles in the mind of the would-be peace preserver was the impossibility of esta- blishing a system, such as has been adopted, for a dis- trict which included collieries and drifts where coal was won under circumstances varying most extensively in character. Now, in the very manner in which the new basis has been made up does away this difficulty, and the lately puzzled can only be surprised at their own short sightedness. Nay, more, it has been frequently said by the bitterest contemners of the men s behaviour when they struck work that this very obstacle to a general rate of wages would defeat any system of con- ciliation, and among the gossip which has circulated during the sittings of the joint committee, I have often heard this urged with actually an air of triumphant expectation, just as though the old wretched state of things were longed for. The joint committee laboured on and did the work, and now we have an arrangement so made that the rise and fall of wages becomes a mere mechanical operation. In Clause 1 of the agreement published in your columns on Wednesday it will be seen that all the associated collieries in Monmouthshire and South Wales are grouped under three headings. Thus the peculiarities of any pit which I have rejel"r. Y* considered under its geological heading, and still at the same time the system of paying wages is the same in all collieries comprehended under the whole three. The difficulty is here met in a perfect manner, and the only perhaps unexpected result will be that there may be two or three rates of wages being paid in the district at one time. For instance, Clause 1 does not give one general figure as a preliminary basis, but says that five per cent, added to the wages paid in the four separate districts in 1869 shall individually be the minimum wages to be paid in those districts for the future. 1 is brings no disadvantage with it; it rather gives us more than we might have hoped for, because we here have a three-fold sliding scale managed by the one com mi ee, besides clearing up a difhculty hitherto believed to be too vast for any such an organization. —Mail. GUNPOWDER IN MINES.—A public meeting convened by the Wigan Miners' Association, was held at igan on Thursday night to hear an address from Mr.. Pickard, miners' agent, on the use of gunp'>w«ncoa mines where it is known gas is given off. Mr. Pic a in the course of his address, said no greater question ceuld occupy the attention of practical miners through. out the whole of the kingdom than the use,0^ f{*ni powder in mines, and io behoved them in regard to tnat subject to use all constitutional means in their power to rectify what they considered wrong. From 1710 to the present time, over 5,000 colliers had been killed by ex- plosions more or less connected with the use of gun- powder. Science and philosophy had d'me a great deal to prevent such terrible catastrophes, but much remained to be done to protect the miner from danger and from death. Scientific men said that 75 per cent. of the acci- dents that oceurred were preventible, and if that was actually true, it was the duty of the masters, as well as the men, to combine to see if something could not be done to improve matters. Life was not so valuaioie the eyes of many colliers as it ought to be, and there was urgent necessity for increased knowledge on the part of the workmen. In the Wigan district they had bad 13 or 14 explosions, taking away, since lobe, thing like 500 men. The practice of firing shots when the mine was full of colliers was an insult to science as Well as to humanity. By organization they su ceeded in obtaining from Government the Mines ve8u~ lation Act. Against the provisions of that Act he had nothing to say, but he lamented they were not carried out as they should be. Sometimes colliers were accused of causing accidents through carelessness in taping tobacco and matches into the mine, but from his own knowledge he could assert that not one of the accidents which had occurred in recent years in the Wigan coal- field had been traced to that cause. Gunpowder was at the root of the evil, and until something was done to restrict its use, the lives of thoueands of miners in the country would be in daily danger. He did not advocate the tot*l abolition of gunpowder in mines, for some mines were totally different from others, and different modes of working them were required; but, at all events, he thought it was right that Government should forbid the firing of shots while the colliers were in the nine. A number of persons, including Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Burt, and himself, held a meeting in London in July last, and drew a series of resolutions bearing on the question, which they submitted to the Home Secretary, who said he would take no reference to the matter until he had consulted the Mines' Inspectors. That had been done, but Mr. Cross had promised that he would not amend the Act of 1872 until the represen- tatives of the men communicated with him again. Circulars had been drawn up and circulated throughout the district inviting the opinions of miners on the ques- tion, and when those were received Mr. Macdonald Would know what views to lay before Mr. Cross and the House of Commons. He advised the men to meet at their respective pits and fill up the forms supplied. A resolution was carried to the effect that the present state of affairs should be discontinued, but a motion that gunpowder should be prohibited in all mines where safety-lamps are used was negatived, Mr. Pickard ad- vising the meeting to wait until the whole of the men in the district had expressed their views before coming to such a conclusion.