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MILFORD.
i"IIII' MILFORD. TU^SD?SP^'RA'T?0N T0 TIIE REV. MARK SYMONS.—On Weal 3y even'ng last a tea meeting was held in the >en chapel, Milford, for the purpose of taking fare- Milf i Mark Symons, who has laboured chiefly Terv or<j and Hakin for the last three years. After a CfbntlX • ? *ea ^eea'Parta^ea of by the members kavifta so^el;ies, Mr Perkins, who occupied the chair, Wif^6 tre^ °''joet the gathering,^ called on to M o > resident circuit steward, whohore testimony sterl"1" ^Mon8's faithful and indefatigable labours, and sent'111! worth, and concluded a feeling speech by pre- ^p aierev. gentleman in the name of the Milford ttafcin Bocietiea with a purse and fifteen guineas. who'was much overcome, replied in suitable %hf ?tU'^8': general Weeping. Several gentlemen spoke ?-om: 88 0 Symons'a pulpit labours, and special 'cflnsi't6DCe was given by all who spoke to his christian out of the pulpit. The meeting concluded *0 p. m. with devotional exercises. THEAT.—On Wednesday the 21st W „ children attending the Sunday School, at Hebo- id aPeh Haking, were treated with a trip to Tenby. giv orning was dull and cloudy and some slight mis- ^6"»8 Were aS t0 w'ia^ was likely state of f0ra eiJ(her these were| however, speedily dissipated, Sulj morning wore on the sky cleared and the re- el,^ as a very beautiful, if not a cloudless day. The aj.i re?< accompanied by numerous friends, embarked 8 Vf> ^ord pier» between nine and ten a.m., and after tail^ P^easant cruize to Hobbs Point, proceeded by to_Tenby. Soon after their arrival the several {!a 8 interest were sought out, the Castle Hill, the appealQent. &j the chief place of attraction, however, Vjjj4 red to be .the South Sands, where the numerous c];(f°r8'the fine refreshing breeze on the water, the W i Island, the noble expanse of Carmarthen *ater: c°mbined to make the old Queen of "Welsh tej 'n§ places look as lovely a3 ever. In the afternoon dii[ £ Provided in a field on the South cli'ff, which the e5ji>Jetlfas we^ as their friends appeared heartily to '^th 1 retum the evening was very pleasant *'1G railway anc^ steamer, and the whole party at the Milford pier, after a day of real en- any incident to mar, in the ^eSrfie> the pleasure. The trip to and fro was and ene by several pieces sang in Welsh by the children { pattt-eir friends. We should state that before the i ^'ven » t,rie steamer a vote thanks was unanimously j *ery Captain J ackson for his great liberality in the I Patty j rate charge made by him for the steamer the 0aBt ^8° expressed their obligations to Mr Kelway and !&ad 'p^low, for their kind attention to the convenience ^^•sure of the whole party.
CARDIGAN.
CARDIGAN. f Valp SALMON FISHERY.—Mr Buckland, at the SUtion e the Home Office, visited, last week, the fishing ^thjjtj8 along the river, with a view of ascertaining the ^ee°n lbe fish before sanctioning the understanding toQ'theti.sh ermen and the Board of Conservators as l'h»r ,IC roonth of September free. He paid a visit jPaa, Suay> accompanied by Mr Brigstockc, Mr Asa J. i 'den a,T^ Bartlett, Superintendent of the Zoological S' London, to the Bar, (Cardigan Bay) to witness H of the St. Dogmells notters there, when a >veQit,le Salmou were secured. Subsequently, in the ^apt- George Bo wen, Capt. Davies, and Mr Asa !°n *7'8 an audience with Mr Buckland at the Black In th.t ote]! on. the subject. The same gentlemen, late v's'tec* Oiigerran for the same purpose.
Family Notices
xJ&THS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS. BIRTHS. the 26_h inst., at Church-street, Narberth, the Joseph Muthiaa, of a daughter. ^cif'fr 2th !i" St. James'a-streot, Narberth, the 0a maltster, of a daughter. 3 6 Jbsl., at Caatle-street, KarherthJ the wife ù k. 1. k ^th R3' baker, of a son. Of Mr lnst., at Castle-street, Narberth, the wife the ^ones> a daughter. ^ife n/'r'1 ^nst-> at Meadow Croft, Lower Sydenham, J. Howard Gwyther, Esq., of a daughter. 1 On tb" MARRIAGES.. ^"lst Ult, at St. Margn'ret'e, Westminster, by the ls Cr»°nwa^' rec':or' Owen Wili'am George, Esq, of Pembrokeshire, to Catherine Mariana, eldest 0f J* T. Beynon, Esq, of Trewem, in the same 0 UEAlflS. ^ool ^n8t' at Calf-field, Mr William Griffiths, 0q ^aster, of Wiston. ^nK, »awfully sudden, at Newton, in this Oiw'i i'iice, aged 80 years. i i»8t., at Chester, deeply regretted, Mary, 'M&H; clfughter of the late Mr Joseph Jenkins, th&a<v? :i,u.rvu3;or, of this town. v^'ha'fi at Dew-street, in this town, Mrs, °V«r Hil'M widow, formerly of the Black Bear Inn, n a8°d 72 years. 5c!!?.r,Tj OWAV'B N lCa. stiff in- VmMKT AND PIMS.-Marvellous cures of HN s°s of thP L PARAL5'SIS °f tbe limbs, and other crippling Kj bv Frnii 0iles) sinews, and muscles, have been accom- VrCe8* anv • Way's Ointment. It,is the only unguent which V "^ondpi-a lrnrnu'osslon 011 these complaints. The Pills also ttw SiUiie tim o °intnlent and pills should be both used at .°*the ot>i t01"the action of the one is greatly assisted by aHueaientiniT71" should any human being suffer from the kf8 be fi,7,?c, Paladies, when Holloway's Ointment and Pills bSllfe 'nedicqi X? every city ancl town in the world? These ^andstf are comP°sed of rare balsams, and are as axe as they are po werful and efficacious. 'Wori^'0 T0 ^AD1K8-—At this season of the year, ^'len Proc"ess of bleaeliing and dressing Laces fv fr°tilt! *j,l0r anti Summer wear commences, j lilt rea 1 d therefore particularly call thc attention of our fi(lP0rtar«8 Olenfield Starch, an article of primary Ha^^ld el in t.be getting up .of these articles. The iti s"ch>jh^rCk 'S sPecla^y manufactured for family use, l .'he x?r.S lt3 exce)lence that it is now exclusively used Laundry, and Her Majesty's Laundress k?r AjaiA1? to tl3e ^nest Starch she ever used. s *e<i, a'p J8Y 3 Lace Dre sser says, it is the best she has et, U- Was awai"ded two Prize Medals for its thi't Jbe manufaci'urer8 have much pleasure in is H y have l)ecn appointed Starch Purveyors i °ld'Vr, Princess of Wales. The Glenfield Starch c'^c. Packets only, by all Grocers, Chandlers, WSS^AKING rendered east, fashion-: >tri'm^D INEXPENSIVE, -by obtaining life- Jl' sii e<T- PaPer patterns of the London and Paris SOU^K pos1, lree ^r3 ^row'n' 16' Christie Hackney, London, as follows -The new Si)' ^ri!W (plain in front), 2s; Crinoline for do., 0 jft gored Petticoat to correspond, 2s. The new Co'hef* ^ewingthe petticoat) 2s; the Petticoat, 2s; ^Ur saiB.e) 2s. The new short walking costume, \^ltlCeSSe(:),.t)etticoat;, skirt, bodice, and paletot 5s 6d. in^Per Oro8s'cut in one, 3s Gd, Morning Peplum Dressing Gowns, 2s Gd. Dress w °pea 'i1 £ 'euve3, la 8d very elegant do., with thq| gj2s 6d. Low do., 2s. Peplum from aHdi8°lefc i' „^eeVes> 10d. Zouaves, Garibaldis and ^ov> ^)ut-^oor Peplum and other Jackets °Ut t!r J Little girl's Princesae Dress, 2s 6d. Peplum do, 2s 6d. Knickerbocker Jackets, ] s 6d; and every ^a-tem' h • Pr^ces c^ar?e £ i elsewhere. N.D. N^Sily CO'D" given to cut from, the above may Pied. Stamps received in payment.
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an wi BUIIHFI KILLED.—The famous lieb ailgers I?f. Lagartijo, has fallen a victim to -Puent r 0ccupatiorj. At a display recently fiifV^o!e- e"Geiij]3 he had skilfully gone through arid the -mance g°a(iing the animal to f° i8l?e thru.f hnishing him, as Lagartijo thought, t}j6S the sword. The tornador turned ■y a finaia^^aase spectators, when the lIJto effort, suddenly rose and drove his man's shoulder, killing him on the s "11'- .-I,.a.1 4- WINNING JOCKEYS.—The following particulars of the founts of the leading jockeys during the present season will no doubt be interesting Not Total Wins. 2nd, 3rd. placed, mounts Fordham.. 116 65 33 73 292 Kenyon 62 55 27 109 253 Cameron 51 40 46 123 260 Butler. 43 37 45 108 233 In addition to the above, Fordham has had one French win (Grand Prize of Paris), and Cameron six winning mounts in that country. A STUHDY HIGHLANDER.—At the Perth Highland Games on Saturday, Donald Dinnie, Aboyne, gained the champion medal for putting the stone (distance thrown, 37 feet 4 inches-6 feet 4 inches farther than any other competitor), and the medal for throwing the hammer (IGlbs). Dinnie threw it 88 feet 7 inches—being 16 feet three inches farther than any of the others. He was also first at tossing the caber, and at high leap was only one inch below the first prizeman, who leaped a height of 5 feet 5 inches. At the Glenisla Highland Gathering, Donald Dinnie was almost equally successful—putting the heavv stone of 281ba a distance of 29 feet 3& inches -4 feet beyond any other, and throwing the 161b hammer 96 feet 3 inches. He was also first at tossing the caber, high leap, and long leap. Two MEN KILLBD.-On Wednesday night, an accident occurred in one of the Monkland Iron and Steel Company's new pits on the estate of Jannock- side, in the parish of Bothwell, whereby two men were deprived of life, and another injured severely. It appears that three sinkers, named respectively Daniel Orracher, Peter Colvin, and David Egalton, had descended the pit, which is in course of sinking, and only about sixteen fathoms deep, and prepared three shots for blasting a large mass of stone. All being apparently in readiness, the unfortunate men took their places on the edge of the 'kettle,' or iron bucket, and firing the match, gave the usual signal to the engineman to he hoisted to the surface but just as the kettle had left the bottom of the pit, one of the shots went off with a terriffic explosion, scatter- ing the debris in every direction. Orracher and Colvin, losing hold of the chains of the kettle, were precipitated to the bottom of the workings, while Egalton fell into the kettle,, aiatl escaped with a few slight bruises on the head and legs. The kettle con- tinued to ascend to the pit's mouth with its stunned and almost unconcious occupant, when another terriffic report was heard, the remaining fusees having ignited the powder. Orracher and Colvin were both killed by the explosion. AN EMPKROH'S OumT.—A curious letter of Napoleon I. has been brought to light in the last volume of his Correspondence, just published, which shows how precise his ideas welie on the subject of clothing, in a rather unexpected way. It is addressed under date August, 1811, to General Duroc, Grand Marshall of his Palace, and instructs him to act for the time as keeper of the imperial wardrobe, and to order a fresh supply of the articles required by the Emperor. A list in full, in the Emperor's own hand is annexed. The Emperor orders his outfit in full detail—the number of articles, the price, and the date of delivery being stated with astonishing minute- ness. Imprimis: two grenadier's and two chasseur's coats with epaulettes; each is to cost £ 14 8s, but each must last three years; two hunting coats, one for coursing, and one for shooting, each £ 17 two frock coats, price £3 each four dozen pairs of breeches, and the same number of white waistcoats, to cost £ 143, all likewise to last three years. Then we have the underclothing. The Emperor orders, among other things, four dozen flannel vests, four dozen shirts, and the same number of handkerchiefs to be worn at the rate of one a week, hut to last th]ee years; two dozen cravats, one a fortnight, to last six years; and ,a dozen black stocks, one a month. Then he orders boots and shoes, and four hats per annum, the total of the little bill being £565.GaZ,ignani's Messenger. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FREEDOM OF WORSHIP, --A meeting of the Council was held on Friday, the 23rd ult., at the Central Offices, St John's-street, Manchester, Mr Herford in the chair. The arrange- ments for the Society's Decennary Meeting, at Wol- verhampton, on Monday, in the Congress week, were reported. Viscount Temple'own, the Venerable Archdeacons Lord A. Hervey, Hamilton, Otter, and Bouverie, were added to the list. of vice-presi- dents. Letters were read from Earl de Grey, Lords Spencer, Camperdown, and Cranworth, the Bishops of Ontario and Guiana, and the Deans of Cork and Cashel, and the Archdeacon of Wells, expressing sympathy with the objects of the association. Cor- respondence was read between the Chairman of the Council and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners upon the alleged refusal of the Commissioners to allow the insertion in the conveyance of sites of new churches the words declaring the intention of the parties that the churches should be free. The Chairman reported that he had accepted an invitation to deliver au ad- dress on Free Church parish Churches, atKirkheaton, near Hexham, and that meetings were arranged in support of the Association at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Carlisle, and York, early in the easuiiig week. An arrangement was authorised to be made with a bene- ficed or other clergyman in each diccese for the par- tial occupation of his time as organising secretary, on the plan adopted by the S.P.G. and other societies. The appropriation or intended appropria- tion of several churches, for which funds have been collected on the promise of their being free, was reported to the Council, and resolutions adopted thereupon. After transacting other business the meeting separated. MORMONISM AND THE AMERICAN CHURCH.—From intelligence just received it appears that an Asso- ciate Mission from the American Episcopal Church has been planted in the very stronghold of Brigham Young. Two years ago a clergyman from England, who joined the Columbian mission, preached in the Monnan tabernacle on the invitation of Brigham Young, and since then a Romanist missionary and a congregationalist have been at work in the city, but their labours to have been so far unfruitful that they have been discontinued. The population of Salt Lake City is 25,000 and it contains 2,OOJ called 'gentiles or non-Mormons, and these 2,000 have agreed to support an episcopal clergyman, although they individually belong to half-a-dozen different deno- minations, The work at present comprises a Sunday school and a day school. In addition to the great central city it would appear that a station of soldiers, numbering about 300 at a place called Camp Douglas, is also under the care of the clergy. It appears that no direct attempts at proselytising have been made, but there is no doubt that many internal dissensions have occurred in the community. Orsson Pratt, who was president of the twelve apostles, has been ex-communicated by Brigham Young, and Morris and Smith, have started secessions condemning polygamy as sin. There appears no doubt that much work remains to be done in the way oi education, and there are many who, having been brought up in the Church of England, have not entirely lost their regard for the church of their early days. What- ever takes place in this respect in reference to the extraordinary community which has grown in thirty years from six persons to 200,000 cannot foil to be of deep interest to the world at large. A FEROCIOUS BULL.-On Thursday Thomas Thompson, farm servant of Mrs Warwick, of Aid- borough, was passing through a fold-yard in which a bull is usually kept, when he was suddenly at- tacked by the animal, and immediately, without any previous warning, tossed into the air. Fortu- nately for the poor fellow he fell under a rack in such a position as the bult could not reach him with his horns. In this dangerous position he lustily called for help, and the savage bellst was driven from his attack, and the poor fellow enabled to escape from his perilous position. The man was much bruised and shaken by the tossing that he had received. :J FRUIT STEALING AND ITS -FATAL CONSEQUENCES. On Wednesday an inquest was held at Kingsvrin- ford, on the body of Ephraim Vaughan, a collier who was found dead on Monday morning under an apple-tree on the Elm Tree Colliery Company's estate, and it was quite clear upon examination that death had ensued many hours before the dis- covery of the body. The deceased had his tcoat- pockets weil filled with apples, and a boogh of the tree under which he was found was broken. l The opinion is that the unfortunate man was steal- ing the fruit when the bough broke and he, pro- bably falling on his head and becoming insensible, died either from suffocation or concussion of the brain. The inquiry was adjourned. THE STABSTNG OF A GIRL BY HER SWEETHEART.— On Friday, at Stoke-upon-Trent, a young man, named Samuel Lea, was charged with having at- tempted to murder Emma Ackley, a young woman at an earthenware manufactory at Longton. Mr. Garnham, superintendent of police, stated that the prosecutrix was stabbed in the street on Thursday, and was in such a dangerous state that her deposi- tion had been taken before the Mayor and Town Clerk of Longton, who had visied her for that pur- pose. In the presence of the prisoner she said that the prisoner came from Coventry, and had been working for Mr Sharp, dogger, Longton. He had been keeping company with her. On Thursday afternoon the couple stood together in Stafford- street. Prisoner made a charge against her which she indignantly denied. She then turned her head on one side, and the prisoner stabbed her in the breast with a sharp-pointed dogger's knife. The young woman felt blood running down her arm, and she at once started to run down the street, but after getting a short distance she became exhausted and fell. There was soon a great deal of excite- ment in the street, and the young woman was car- ried to her home in New-street. When the prisoner had used the knife be threw it on the road. He was afterwards apprehended. Dr. Allen, who had been called in, said that the prosecutrix had received a heavy thrust with the knife. She was very ill du- ring the night, and death was fully expected to result fram the stab. On Friday moaning she was a little better. Prisoner was remanded. THE SEWAGE OF TOWNS.—A mass of valuable information on this subject has just been issued from the press. The papers by various authors read at the congress on the sewage of towns held at Leamington, Warwickshire, last year have been gathered into a volume. It is stated in the introduction to the papers that one chief object of the congress has been attained in making plain the nature and causes of the failures in our sani- tary arrangements, and the many evils which have arisen out of them, owing to the unnatural admix- ture of excreta with large quantities of water, and to the prevailing custom of employing water as the vehicle for their removal out of our houses. It is argued that vast benefits will accrue to the community at h"gc irom ceasing to use water, and, in place of Writer, resorting to the natural agency of earth, which is as okl as the creation itself. Experience has taught that, after the ad- mixture of "yater with excreta, a putrid fermenta- tion and decomposition result. The noxious gases generated while this decomposition is in progress fill our habitations with'impure air, and become the frequent cause of epidemics, while the decomposing sewage water, escaping from the imperfectly constructed sewers percolates into the wells of drinking water. Mr Hitchman goes on to state that the result of irrigation with sewage water is unsatisfactory in a commercial point of view, and of doubtful value agriculturally; while, in a sanitary #)oiiit of view, the effects of satura- ting a large surface of land with decomposed sewage water become a still further source of evil. Both the liquid and solid excreta may be made portable and inoffensive, and removed from houses with regularity by a staff of ofScers duly appointed. By the exclusion of water, and the mixtures of earth with excreta, which is in accordance with the laws of nature, all the evils of a putrefactive decomposition are avoided. The working of the earth-closet system at Baron Rothschild's estate is described by Mr James to be perfectly success- ful. The cottagers express themselves grateful for this addition to their health and comfort. The village has now no foul smells, nor are the ditches any longer filled with liquid filth.' This is the re- sult of a simple mixture of dry earth with the sod and is in accordance with the Disine com- mand, received through the great lawgiver Moses, in his well-known rule for the sanitary arrange- ment of the Jewish camp. Mr Garnett, of Quern- more-park, describes the result of the same sys- tem in the neighbourhood of Lancaster thus :— l'hc dry earth system now in operation affords accommodation to about 290 families, besides 170 hands employed in a cotton mil!, 180 in an iron- foundry, 350 in a large waggon works, 180 boys in the Royal Grammar School, 340 children in the National Schools, and to 12 cells in the Castle of Lancaster, occupied by male prisoners, and in no case has any complaint been made on the con- trary, the system, after having had a fair trial, is pronounced to be successful. Mr Craig, treating the subject as one of national as well as sanitary importance, shows that Austria is almost bank- rupt in her exchequer, mainly through the exhaus- tion of the soil. Until recently she exported her bone manure, and threw away her sewage into the Danube; while China and Japan have turned both to profitable use on the*land. Belgium, with the poorest of soils, maintains the greatest amount of population in proportion to the extent of its sur- face of any nation in Europe, and sustains at the same time the productive powers of the soil by a liberal and judicious application of manure to the land. If England had adopted, long ago, the dry earth system which has been found to work so successfully on Baron Rothschild's estate, at Lancaster and at other places, and had been more practical and prudent in returning the guano to the soil, instead of throwing this vast source cf national wealth into her rivers, to poison fish, pollute the water, and disseminate disease and death, thousands of lives destroyed thrpugh drinking impure water in times when cholera was epidemic might possibly have been saved. But, on the other hand, the danger to be avoided by the advocates of the earth closet is its near ap- proach to the ab( minable cesspool. In the event of the dry earth system becoming general, would there not be a tendency to allow the refuse to remain or, by removing it in large quantities, would it not be like doing away with a nuisance in one place to create another at a dis- tance? — r-' —— CURIOUS TYPOGRAPHICAL BLUNDER.—The C'amar- then Jmrnal,^in recording the incidents of a choral festival held in St. David's Church in that town, says :—' There was a large attendance of the clergy, who, attired in their surplices, sat on the right- hand side of the common realms, which had been most tastefully decorated.' To save ritualistic curates from the trouble of searching through the directorium for this new clerigical position, we suggest that common realms' is a misprint for communion rails.' Dp LIVINGSTON E.-The following, just received in a private letter from Bombay, will be read with hopefulness by all who are interested in the fate of Dr Livingstone :—We feel great anxiety here about the fate of the doctor, from whom nothing has beea heard for upwards of a year. We do not, however, t credit the accounts given of his murder Mas a and his Hinzoani companions. Not a single one of the eleven Christian' Africans wrho Accompanied Dr Livingstone from Bombay has returned to us and we conclude that he has most likely gone with them. into the unexplored lake country. Two of them who were educated to a certain extent in the Mission. Institution under myself were young Ajawas whom he had brought to Indid. and they were wall ac- quainted with the language of the country too which he was going. Had their master fallen as described by Musa, both they and their companions (who were all from the Church Mission at Naski) would, we are confident, have sought to return to India, where they have many warm friends willing ;to assist them in a settlement in Africa were it accessary.—-Athencsum. DEFEAT AND DEATH OI? AN AFRICAN !\ING.—From advices by the French mail from the West Coast of Africa we learn of the death of the warrior dhief Mabba, who has for the last six years been a fesrful scourge among the native tribes inhabiting the countries bordering on the English and French territories in the Sene Gambia. Mabba, in 18-81, was a chief of but little importance ,in the kingdom of Baddiboo. He was. however,, a stanch Mahommedan, and, watching his opportunity, in that year be' rebelled against his pagan king, put him to death, and assumed the supreme rula of the country. Yfitb fire and 8-word he established the religion of Islam, killing all those who would not shave their heads and swear on the Koran their ad- herence to his faith. This fanatical warrior, elated by the success he bad obtained over his negro brethren, in June,. 1866, sent an invading army into British terri- tory on the Gambia, but he was repulsed and sustained great losses from the able strategy of the gallant governor, Culoncd D'Arcy. Mabba, however, then. thought he would attack the French, and in December of the same year, with 4,000 warriors, surrounded a party of &00 European French troops, and massacred. them ali with the exception of nine, who alone escapedr to tell the sad tale. The sacrifices and customs of the King of Dahomey are but a trifle compared to the. slaughter and misery this fanatic IvIabba has by hi3 ruthless policy inflicted on the unoffending negro races. This mail, however, brings th& news that hs has been captured in battle by the Jolliffe King of Sein, and his head and han(iq sent exultingly by that king, as a trophy of successful war, to the governor of the French settlements on the Senegal. It has beea computed that no less than 20,000 human beiags havs been killed, or have died through stjuration, or have been abducted and sold into slavery, bj this monster Mabba, under the cloak of religion, so that now his career is ended it is hoped that peace and prosperity may be restored to these unhappy countries. FIve PERSONS SUFFOCATED AT FnXT.—A most distressing accident, by which five persens lost their lives happened on Thursday evening at Flint. At the inquest upon the bodies, which was held on: Friday afternoon, before Mr Peter Parry, the fol- lowing particulars of the melancholy catastropha were adduced:—On the chemical works of Mus- pratt and Co. there was a drain used for the pur* pose of running off waste matter from the works. A boy named Michael Greeney was playing at the top of a shaft 15 feet deep, which had been sunk for the purpose of ventilating the drain, and amused himself with hoisting and lowering a. bucket attached to a rope which depended from a windlass above the shaft. By some means the bucket caught fast in the side of the shaft, and the boy descended the shaft for the purpose of loosen- ing it, when, overcome by the poisonous vapour which ascended, he fell into the drain, which con. tained a quantity of water that had lodged there from the influx of the tide (the works being close by the River Dee). A carpenter, named Eiiocli Roberts, immediately descended to extricate the boy, but was himself overpowered in like manner, and likewise/ell. A smith, named Thomas Ames, also endeavoured to save the others, but fell a victim to the gases as did also two other men, named Owens and Joynson. sixth was lowered by a rope, but had to be hoisted up again without being able to give any help. The whole of the bodies were afterwards raised by means of boat- hooks and grapnels, but life was extinct in each. zll case. The medical evidence was to the purport that death was caused by drowning, doubtless owing to the men being first suffocated by foul air, z, z: most probably chlorine gas A verdict of Aceideri- tal Death was returned. Roberts and Joynsoa were both married men, and both leave large fami- lies. The occurrence has cast quite a gloom over the neighbourhood of the accident. A STARTLING SUllPRrSE FOR A BURGLAR.- The Bucks constabulary have entrapped a burglar under rather singular circumstances. 'In the regulations of the county police forces there are certain rueetigg. points, where, at a specified houi", the constables oil the adjacent beats have to assemble and report themselves and their doings to the superintendent or to the inspector or serjeant who may meet them. At two o'clock on Friday morning one of these meeting points of the Bucks constabulary was at the house of Mr Thomas Goddard, farmer, at Hedgerley Dean. Police-constable Chambers was the first to arrive at the rendezvous, and he was surprised to see a light burning in a room on the ground floor of Mr Goddard's house. Looking through a window tha policeman saw a stranger ransacking the place, very coolly sorting a number of articles, and packing them. in the most convenient form for removal. The next to arrive was Police-constable Manealy, and he posted himself in the rear of the premises, while Chambers continued his observations in front. It was fuHy an hour before the man inside had got the things packed to his satisfaction, and then he gently dropped a large bundle out of the window. The man pro- ceeded to make his exit in the same manner, and when he reached the ground he found himself in the powerful grasp of Chambers. So astonished was the burglar at his unexpected position that he bawled Murder over and over again, and appeared terri- fied out of his wits. The noise brought the other policeman to Chambers's assistance, and the burglar was conveyed to the Slough Police-station, and handed over to the care of Mr Superintendent Dun- ham. He gave his uatrie -as George Taylor, and described himself as a shoemaker from Leamington. The bundle which he-had packed was found to con- tain C2 14s 9d in money, a pair of boots, a pair of stockings, two pairs of gloves, a hat, a silk handker- chief, a book, an ornamental flower, stand, a knife- box, two loaves of bread, a piece of bacon, a piece of cheese, some tobacco, and a variety of other small articles. An entrance to the premises had beea effected by taking out two squares of glass from the window. The burglar was taken before the Bucks magistrates, at Beaconsfield, on Saturday, and com- mitted for trial;it the Rext Aylesbury assizes,