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TBMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. TBMPKKATUKK. Date. Max. Min. Mean. Sunday 14 60 48 c4*0 012 Monday 15 71 47 590 O'OJ Tuesday 16 68 40 540 009 Wednesday. 17 66 16 t6 0 0 03 Sbnrsday 18 71 46 6"-5 000 Friday 19 cg 10 53-0 '.09 20 70 36 53"° Q-CO The Temperature represents eatreme rea .iugsuf the thermometer for 24 hours ended 9 a.m.. taken In the fhade at Tredelerch. near Cardiff. The Rainfall registered at Tredelerch, near Cardiff jfrr r* —ended 9 aj*b

Business Addresses. ONE F ACT TTTORTH A T HOUSAND OPINIONS. THE ENORMOUS DEMAND FOR L IPTOiN's JjlAMOUS T EA S! Is excitkig the wonder and envy of all Tea Dealers. The PUBLlv) APPRECIATION and increasing popu- larity of LIFTON'S DELICIOUS TEAS amongst, all classes may be judged by the fact that £ 15,359 T)A. was paid in ODe sum in one transaction to Her Majesty's Customs by LIPTON as duty on Tea, being the largest amount ever paid bv any Tea Dealer at one time. This is a CONVINCING PROOF Of any were needed) of the magnitude and extent of LIPTON'S TEA DEAL1N&S. which can only be attributed to the fact that LIPTON A FAMOUS TEAS excel all others. NOTE THE PRICES- MAGNIFICENT BLENDED TEA, Selected from the best tea-growing countries (FuBE AJTD FRAGRAXT). FEU-tS.LB. Specially selected CEYLON, INDIAN, and CHINA BLENDS. PER 18. 4D. LB. EXTRA CHOICEST CEYLON and INDIAN BLENL), PBB IS. LYD. LB. THIS IS THE MOST DELICIOUS TEA IN THE WORLD. NO HIGHER PKIOE. 5, 7. 10, and 201bs., Packed in Patent Fancy Air-tight Canisters, withoui, extra charge. Being Sole Proprietor of several of the most famous Tea and Coffee Estates in Ceylon, including the cele- brated Estates of Dam BA ten lie, Laymastotte, Moitora- kn.de Mahaoambatenne. Mousakelie, Pooprassie, Hanaialla, aud Gigranella, which cover thousands of acres of the best. Tea land iu Ceylon. I am In a position to supply customers ilireat at Planter s Prices, thus saving to consumers of the fragrant beverage all inter- mediate profits. J P T 0 N TEA AND COJ?FKE PLANTER, OEYLON. THE LAROEST TEA. COFFEE, AND fHOVISlON DEALEU IN THE WuRLD. Tea and Coffee Shipping Warehouses Maddenaa Mills, Cinnamon Gardens, COLOMBO. Ceylon Office: Uppar Chatham-street, COLOMBO. Indian Office and Shipping Warehouses: 5, Lyou's Range, CALCUTTA. Te" and Coffee Sale rooms: MINCING-LANK, LONDON, E.C. Wholesale Tea Blending and Duty Paid Stores Bath-street and Cavton-street, LONDON, E.C. Coffee Roasting. Blending Stores, and Essence Manufactory OLD STREET, LONDON, E.C. General Offices: BATH-STREET, CITY-ROAD, LONDON, E.C. Local Branches: 7. JHGH-ST AND s'r. MARY-ST. SWANSEA Arcade Buildings, High-street LLANELLY 9, Stepney-street. BRISTOL 22, Wine-street. BRANCHES EVERYWHERE. Purchasers at Lipton's are Supplied First Hand. No Middlemen's Profits to Pay. Over ONE MILLION PACKETS SOLD WEEKLY. K EATING'S PO VVDE li." Kills Fleas. BUGS. Moths, Beetles "I7EATING'S POWDER." K Kills Fleas. Bog". Moths, Beetles ~VZ EATING'S POW DER." K Kills Fleas, Bugs, Moths, Beetles. "KEATIKG'S POWDER." L\ Kills Fleas. Bugs, Moths, Beetles. "KEATING'S POWDER." K Kills Fleas, Bugs, Moths, Beetles This Powder, so celebrat d, is perfectly nnrivalled in destroying BUGS. FLEAS. MOTHS, BEETLES, and all Insects (whilst perfectly harmless to all animal life). All woollens and furs should be well sprinkled with the Powder before placing away. It. is invaluable to take to the Seaside. To avoid disappointment insist upon having 1* Powder." No other Powder is effec- tual. Sold only in tins. 6TL., Is., and 2s. 6d. Beware of imitation. Don't to; deceived. WORMS IN CHILDREN, WOIUIS IN CHILDREN, are easily, surely, and with perfect safety g "t rid of by using KEATISG'S WORM TABLETS. Nearly all chil- dren suffer from Worms. If suspected, do not wait, you can with ease cure the child (has no effect except on worms). Sold by all Chemists, in Tins, Is. 1 Jd. each. Hotels. CARDIFF. WASHINGTON TTOTEL, (TEMPERANCE) XX CARDIFF, 50 BEDS. BILLIARD ROOM, (Largest in Waiea). Six Tables. E. EASTABROOK, PBOPHIKTOK. 2386 llOU E US ALES & rOMTKMS IN 4$-GALLON CASKS ANI> UPWARDS Fom lOd. per gallon, BREWERY, BRISTOL. CARDIFF STORES: 9, WORKING STREET

NOT E'S. -0 (By "OBSERVER") CARDIFF, SATURDAY MORNING. The Sabbath draws on apace, and it is meet that we should get into a serious frame of mind. I therefore insert the following, which has just reached me:— Sir,—There is much to admira and respect in the way in which the poor deny tiiemselves that they may show the last tribute of- ruspect to those who l ave been called awny. At the same time, it w a matter of notoriety th;it ttie very rich and the ▼ery poor often incur an altogether unnecessary expenditure. Drastic reform *L« necessary in burial and funeral customs. It is no honour to the dead, and a real danger to the living, to im- mure corpses in strong, solid c 'ffifls, or to shut them up in vaults. There mus-t be a return to the principle which actuated the mode of burial practiBed before the adoption of the coffin in the days of Charles II., when the dead body was placed in the parish coffin, brought to the church- yard, taken out of the coffin at the graveside, and laid into the earth wrapped in a linen or woollen shroud. If the dead were buried In perishable coffins in suitable and sufficient earth there would be much diminution of expense without dis- honouring the dead, and the public health winl < not be endangered. I shall be glad to send leaflets to any of your readers who may desire to have them. I am, &c., F. LAWRBNCE, Hon. Secretary Burial Reform Association, Westow Vicarage, York, August 19. rc EXCELSIOR UP TO DATE." An engineer's apprentice who persisted in singing Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay" in Belfast streets on Thursday was stabbed. His assail- ant esoaped.- Western Mail. 'Twas through the streets of old Belfast A vouthtain warbled as he passed That wildly aggravating air Ioflicted on us everywhere. Ta-ra-yi, &e." An engineer's apprentice he, His soul o'erflowed with melody- That tune bad got into his brain, And loud he chanted the refrain, Ta-ra-ra, &c." Oh. shut your moutb I" the old man yelled, Beyond endurance' bounds impelled Oh. CF-ase from that demoniac lay, It haunts my thoughts by night and day." Ta-ra-ra, &c." Sweet stranger, give the thing a rest," I The maiden sidled with heaving breaafc- To each and 1111 the youthtain chanced No sign, but sang with 7t-ai enhanced, Ta-ra-m, &c." In time a crowd of tortured folk. Who felt the thing was past a. joke, Essayed to reason with the man, But still the mystic ballad ran, 11 Ta-ra-ra, kc." Next morn a wondering bobby found The psalmist swooning on the ground: Cold steel had cimched the thing; for aye, No mora ba'H chant that fearful lay, **Ta-ra-ra, &c." « The case of the wretched cab horse, whose driver yesterday was let off so lightly by the Newport magistrates, is, unfortunately, very far from being an exceptional one. Were I a revengeful being, with the power of working my will on my worst enemy, I would change him into a cab, or preferably a tram, horse. This done, the punishment would follow in due course, and it would be a severe one. I trust the day is not far distant when elec- tricity will take the place of the horse as the propelling power of our streetcars. As for the cabs and 'busses, I fear an improvement in this direction is hopeless; but the police and the inspectors of the R.S.P.C.A. might keep a much more vigilant eye than at present upon callous and inhuman drivers. V The Cardiff stipendiary hit the right nail on the head yesterday by visiting the sins of some poor little waifs of urchins upon their parents. If the latter always did their part to the best of their ability, our streets would not be infested with arabs, and some sort of period would be put to the manufacture of criminals. "Prevention better than cure" applies to vice as to everything else, and the man who will devise a scheme for setting the rising generation on the right road, and keeping it there, will deserve well of his country. Thanks largely to the G.O.nl. ana his grocers' lioenoes, drunkenness amongst women is steadily, and in some parts of Wales alarm- ingly, on the increase. Towns could be men- tioned in which whole streetfuls of women are slaves to the bottle. The wretched death of a woman at Cardiff on Wednesday should prove a warning-passing away, as she did, half naked, with her little children round her filthy and squalid, and a couple of female friends in a maudlin condition. The husband of such a wife demands, and reoeives, the sympathy of the public: men in his position are too often driven to drink and sometimes to suicide. Now that Providenoe has given Mr. Gladstone another chance in bis ex- treme old age, would it be too much to ask him to make an effort to rectify his early blunder by abolishing one of the most fatal temptations to women that has ever been sanctified by law P A Llanelly paper weighs in heavily this week against certain doings at the boards of that place, which, it contends, smaok auspi- ciously of jobbery. Considering how the Radicals howl against anything approaching corruption in the other party, it is more than ever essential that they should be above suspicion themselves. Alas, however, even your Hadical is human-sometimes very much so. I hope the charges made by the Llanelly journalist can be proved to be groundless. It would be a serious thing if we in Wales allowed our standard of publio morality to sink merely because a certain faction is in the ascendant. # Llandrindod is pretty full—2,000 last Saturday. I recollect the time when people had sometimes to sleep in railway coaches at the station because there was not an inch of accommodation in the little town. Positively romantic, wasn't it P • » • Some ass, I see, has been insisting on the universal introduction of spectaoles. I need scarcely add that he has some connection with opticians, or, perhaps, to put it more oor- rectly, shopticians. Now, on people who are getting up in years, and in certain other special oases, glasses have a pleasing effect, and in time they become, as it were, a part of one's individuality; But their universal introduction, faugh I They'll be putting them next on cats and puppies-indeed, the latter is already frequently the case. Some of our artist's cartoons are nighly and justly spoken of by the local publio. I don't wonder at it in the least; he has a most happy knack of hitting off idiosyncrasies, and not a few London cartoonists could take a lesson from him with considerable benefit. Good < the Radicals are girding up their lions" to make it moe and hot for the Govern- ment under the experienced and eager guidance of Labby. Between them and the other factions the Opposition will have nothing to do but to look on and watch the Gladstonians picking one another to pieces. The Kilkenny cats won't be in it! Baron Llangattock, of the Hendre, has a nice homely roll about it. • » • For the credit of Aberdare people let us hope the horrible story told by that girl on Thursday was-alike the German's camel- evolved from the depths of her moral con- sciousness. » « Sir Oracle, otherwise Mr. Ben Tillett, is very angry. When he opes his lips no dog must bark. Don't forget, Ben, that the man who loses his temper usually has the worst of the argument.

DISTRICT NEWS. CARDIFF. OPEBATIC ARTI9TH9 AT THE CHARLKS-STRBBT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHunCH.-A number of the inditia,ind gentlemen of Mr. Haydn Parry' Opera Company (including Mr. O'Mataj will sing Haydn's No. 2 Mass at the Catholic Church, Charles-street, to-movrow (Sunday), under the direction of Mr. Neill O'Donovan, who will preside Fit the organ. PENARTH. PKNABTH CHICK KT CLUB SPORTS on Saturday August 27th (under A.A.A. and N.C.U. rules;. Prizes value £ 50. Entry Forms from F. W. Morgan. PenarUi. 4281 SWANSKA. A CLEAN SHEET.—There was a clean sheet at the boruugh police-court on Friday.

On Friday the Royal Commission appointed for tho purple of reporting upon the question ot o>;>st communication paid a visit to the Bristol Channel. The commissioners went on board the Admiralty yacht Enchantress at Milford Haven, and, after visiting Caldv and tiie Helwick lights, went on to the Skerweather, near Porthcawl, where they arrived about noon. They afterwards visited the Nash, Flat Holm, and Cardiff. My dear," remarked Sydney Smith to a little girl who was stroking a tofSoise, you might just ;ts well think you were "asine: the dean and chapter by stroking the dctfle of St. Paul's!"

Stamford-street Mystery. NEILL AGAIN REMANDED. Thomas Neill was again arraigned before Sir John Bridge, at*Bow-street, this morning, charged with the murder of Matilda Clover at Lambeth in October last. Pending the arrival of witnesses from America and Canada, the prisoner was further remanded until Saturday next.—Mr. Waters, Neill's solicitor, announced bis intention of objec- ting to any further remand, Neill having been in custody since June last.-The Magistrate said it wus ofenormous importance to Neill to have the case fully inquired into before he was committed.

THE EARTHQUAKE SHOOKS IN SOUTH WALES. Reports have reached us froro Pontypridd, Ihymney Valley, Caerphilly, and other parts of he districts, describing the earthquake shock on rhursdav morning. A correspondent writing from Will Moor, Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, says:- At 12.26 on Thursday morning a violent shock if earthquake took place here. I was lying in bed iwake and distinctly heard the first rumbling is it approached from the east or north ;ast; then the violent wave-like motion and ;he rattling of the crockery, ware, &c., in the )edroom, and the roar its of heavy thunder as it massed on its course and died away in the distance, ravelling south-westward or westward. The violent shock lasted, as far as I could at the time iudge, about three or four seconds, and the ap- proach and departure must each have occupied tbout the same time—say fifteen or sixteen seconds altogether. I recollect four shocks of sarthquake in England, but none of them ipproached this one in violence and noise. About ;hree weeks ago an extensive land- slip occurred between Broadhaven and Druid- stone Chins (or Chines), and a quantity, estimated Lt from 15,000 to 20,000 tons of the cliff parted ind moved several yards outwards, leaving behind t a deep fissure. I hastened in the morning after he earthquake to see the effect of it, if any, iipon the position of the mass of earth which had been disturbed, and I found that ;he slip had moved considerably, and the fosure left was at least double the width it was when I had only three or four days before!. jxamined it. A second, but slight, shock took' place at about 2.15 a.m. on the same day, and, ;hough it was vety distinctly heard throughout ;he district, it was unaccompanied by the motion which distinguished its more violent predecessor.

A WOMAN'S IDEAL LIFE. A few months ago Woman asked its readers for ;heir views upon an ideal life. Some, it appears wanted husbands, and some did not. One competitor declared that such an appendage would *poil everything. It would, she says, p)it the harmony of my ideal life by the sea. Its fever and unrest would be out of place. We will leave love out. Another lady would prefer the husband satisfactorily disposed of, md would like to be a nice young widow with ibout ;E600 a year; and a fourth declares that to ao the editress of a woman's paper is the summit )f her earthly ambition. A literary life had attrac- tions for many, whilst a ho-pital nurse's life has won the votes of several competitors. An exis- tence passed in purely philanthropic labour has charms for many. Life in a flat" seems to meet with the approbation of many writers-It wouldn't (remarks Woman) if, as in a case we know of, the next-door neighbours had herrings for five o'clock tea! Husbands are occasionally essential to our contributors' absolute contentment; they vary from barristers to bishops, while one damsel would b-9 quite content with a If good-looking Irishman." The following quota- tion is from an essay representative of several i>titers:—I would love intensely, and be loved; no duman woe should in vain be told me. Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardanner, and I would become a joy and help to ill. No outward circum- stances can greatly mar this ideal, for its basis is within itself. The companionship of choice book* and golden thoughts makes narrowness impossible. One must be happy, aye, and humble too.

SOMER8BY RECTORY. The Birthplaoe of Lord Tennyson. Somersby Rectory, the birthplace of Lord Ten- nyson, is a quaint, rambling building, dating from the last century, on one side of which the poet's father ticked n medieeval room with stained glass windows, which look" Irotn the outside like a pri- vate chapel, but which is in reality a modern dining-hall. Though the front of the rectory is only separated from the road by a narrow drive, the lawn at the rear has the seclusion of a wood- land dell, and was the scene of one of the most familiar pictures in "In Memoriam":— o bliss, when all in circle drawn Around him. heart and ear were fed To hear him as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn. Or in the all golden afternoon A guest, or happy sister, sung. Or here she brought the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon. The country round Somersby is not flat and mono- tonous as in Lincolnshire generally, but marked by hill and dale, and, sang one writer, Long ago they called the hamlet Somersby or Summertown, because birds and flowers seemed to tell how the sun lovingly lingered over it." The Rev. George Clayton Tennyson, LL.D., the father of the poet, was, by the way, a pluralist, for be was vicar of Grimsby as well as incumbent of Bag Enderby and Somersby. Both physically and mentally lie was a man of note, and in his range of accomplishments was a latter-day Crichton His degree speaks to his scholarship, but he was more than a scholar, for be was both poet and painter, architect and musician, linguist and mathematician—in fact, a sort of all-round man whose energy was too little concentrated to achieve any great distinction, but who was admi- rably fitted to be the guide,;Philosopher, and friend of clever children. Of children, indeed, he had a quiverful-seven sons and five daughters, not counting the first that ever I bare was dead before he was born. Shadow and shine is life, little Annie, flower and thorn

SUPPOSED CHOLERA IN SCOTLAND. Considerable alarm was caused in the port of Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, yesterday over an alleged case of Asiatic cholera. On Thursday night the steamer Ellen Dunbar arrived from Hamburg, the crew being then in excellont health. About three o'clock yesterday morning a fireman, named Wilhelm Ferdinand, a German, became seriously ill, and a doctor and sanitary inspector were called in. The man was conveyed to the fever hospital, and Dr. Fraser, of Falkirkocori. firmed the opinion that he was suffering from Asiatic cholera. Ferdinand died in the afternoon, and a postmortem examination indicated that death resulted from cholera or choleraic diarrhoea,

A GENUINE SLEEPING GIRL. There is now a full-grown and thoroughly genuine sleeping girl at Orchies, near Lille. She is a Mademoiselle Sebille, aged 25. She was putting on her boots last Sunday evening, when she sud- denly fell down, and her friends gave her up as dead. A doctor was calied in. and he soon reas- sured the family by declaring that the damsel was not dead but sleeping, as was proved by placing a small mirror before her mouth. The breath drawn by the trance-girl is so slight as to be barely per- ceptible.

CHURCH ROBBERY. The Barnslny police authorities are investigat- i inor a robbery which occurred at St. Thomas s Church, Worsbrodale, near Barnsley, on Thursday. The sexton found that the church had been ran- sacked, and that an entrance had been evidently made by slipping the vestry door lock. Articles to the value of j615 were stolen, including velvet, altar, pulpit, and reading-desk cloths, Oxford silk hood, towels, surplices, a valuable piece of lace, lilk embroidered stoles, &e.

THE FLOWER OF THE YEAR. Tho flower of the year is the begonia, and it is shortly to have, at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, Chiswick, a show almost all to itself. Most per- sons are acquainted with the large clusters of beautiful rose pink, white, and Silmon blooms borne by these plants—during the summer months by some and in the winter by others; but few, possibly, are aware that the present perfection in siza and colour has only been attained after a quarter of a century's careful hyhridising among the best varieties. Such is the fact, and the exhi. bition on August 23 and 24 will prove what remarkable results have been obtained.

THE SOCIAL EVIL. This morning at Cardiff Police-court (before Alder- man Jacobs and Mr. Goocb) Mary Cousins, 27, was charged with keeping a disorderly house at, No. 31, Oavis-street,—The evidence of Police-constable Davies having been heard, and this being pri- soner's first offence, the Bench imposed a fine of B5 and costs, or one month's bard laboAu

DISAPPOINTED. SIR E. J. REED (pointing to folio): That; yes, if you like; but THAT—never no more.

Social and Personal. It COLLEGES." A distinguished Japanese traveller in England writing home gaysThe chief branch of educa- tion of young men here is rowing. The people have numerous and large boat-houses called 4 colleges,' and the principal of these are Oxford and Cambridge." AN IMPEDIMENT OVERCOME. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher says that her hus- band, the great American preacher, spoke thickly when a boy on account of an enlargement of the tonsils. Through the efforts of one of his teachers this impediment was finally overcome. The lad was drilled daily, sometimes practising an hour on one word, until his utterance became clear. But for this discipline he might never haire been quali- fied to enter the ministry. A BEAUTY SHOW. M. Florian, who claims to have been the direc- tor of like exhibitions at Vienna, Budapest, and Spa, says he is engaged in organising a "Beauty Show," to be held in the town of Boulogne on the 4th of next month. It is to be of an international charaoter-though a special series of prizes is re- served for the fisher lasses of that port and its neighbourhood. M. Florian announces in his circular that prizes will be awarded in accordance with the suffrages of the visitors. it.* "POSTCARDS FOB TOURISTS." The latest seasonable novelty in the stationers' shops abroad is "postcards for tourists." which, pre-eupposing that the latter-day tourist has not much time for writing letters, require only the insertion of a few words here and there in the printed text and the address. The printed text on these cards runs as followsDear Only a line or two. I am glad to say I am well, and hope you are the same. The weather is ——. Write before Love to ali. In great haste." # THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. Dona Christina, the Queen of Spain, can hardly be called a beautiful woman, but her face is one of great charm. She is a blonde among blondes, her hair just tinged with gold, her eyes greyish blue, and her complexion pale. She is rather above the medium height for women and boasts a sin- gularly t slim figure. Although only 34 she looks some years older. Cares of State have left their mark upon her and she wears the troubled, anxious expression of one upon whose shoulders rests a weight of responsibility. Dona Christina is a cultivated and intellectual woman. She is a very considerable linguist and speaks English. French, German, and Spanish with admirable facility. Music is her dominant passion and favourite recreation. She herself plays the piano and the violin exquisitely. THE LION OF THE SHIPEA. A telegeam recently received from Bagdad, in Mesopotamia, announced the death of Suleiman Pasha, who, during toe last Russo-Turkish War, ranked only second to Osman of Plevna in the gallantry with which lie withstood the Russian advance. The "Lion of the Shipka," as he was called, was born in Con- stantinople in 1838, and was trained in the Imperial Military Aca- demy. In 1854 he re- ceived bis commission in the Ottoman Army, and during the next few years distinguished him- self in the military operations against Mon- tenegro and in Crete. I He was then appointed SULEIMAN PASHA. to a professorship at the Military Academy, and eventually became director. He entirely re-organised the Academy on a European model. Having taken part in the conspiracy which de- throned the Sultun Abdul Aziz, he was made a general of division in 1875, and was appointed to the command of the troops in the war against Servia, which he carried to a triumphant conclu- sion. His capture of Kujaxevac and his storming of the heights of Djunis and Alexinac were the military feats of the year. 1877 Suleiman Pasha was appointed commander-in-chief of the Army in Roumelia, and at once attracted the attention of Europe by the boldness with which he marched through Montenegro into Albania, and transported his army thence by water into the Balkans. Here, at the Shipka Pass, he awaited the Russians, and his defence of the mountains was one of the most brilliant achieve- ments of the campaign. When at. length he was forced to retreat, he took command of the reserve intended for the defence of Constantinople, and made ready for another obstinate struggle. This, however, was rendered unnecessary by the Treaty of San Stefano. At a later date Suleiman fell a victim to a palace intrigue, and was tried by court-martial for alleged malpractices during the war. He was sentenced to fifteen years' imprison- ment in a fortress, which was commuted by the Sultan to banishment to Bagdad. Here he has now died after three years of acute suffering. He spent the larger portion of time during his exile in scientific and mechanical studies, especially astronomy and electricity.—The accompanying, portrait is re-produced from the Daily Graphic.

A STORY OF LORD R08EBERY. Mr. A. Knowles, in chatting about Lord Rose- bery, asks: I wonder if the terms of a bet that be made when a hoy are generally known ? It was told to me by a contemporary of his at Eton, and I have no reason to doubt the genuineness of the story. Mr. Primrose, who must have been very cocky, even for an Eton boy, backed hitnself-for an even sovereign, I believe-to win the following three events: To marry the richest heiress in I England, to win the Deiby, to become Premier of England. The first we know he succeeded in doing, the second he has so far missed, and it looks far more likely that he will become Prime Minister than win a Derby.

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Footlight Flashes. The Play's the Thing.—HAMLET. Mr. Henry Irving is spending his summer holi- day in Cornwall, the county of his birth. The cast of King Lear," which is now authoritatively announced, will include Mr. Irving, who, of course, sustains the title rdle Miss Ellen Terry, Cordelia; Miss Genevibve Ward (a special engage- ment), Gonreil Miss Maud Milton (of "Gold Fish celebrity), Regan Mr. Terriss will be Edgar, and Mr. F. Cooper Edmund Mr. Haviland, the Fool; Mr. Holloway, the Earl of Kent; Mr. Tyars, the Duke of Albany, and Mr. Clarence Hague, the Duke of Cornwall. Mr. Beerbobm Tree, who is erroneously credited with the intention to appear as Macbeth at the Haymarket, commenced his tour yesterday, at the Grand Theatre, with a. revival of the Dancing Girl," the title part being entrusted to the beauti- ful Miss Lily Hanbury. Mr. Tree assures us that neither Macbeth" nor Othello" will be his next Shaksperean production, aud, further, that there is no truth in the widely circulated statement that the Lord Chamberlain objected to a performance of The Cenci" at the H^ymarket on the occasion of the Shelley centenary. The musical knighthoods (says the Figaro) do not appear to have given unlimited satisfaction. Mr. Hainish M'Cunn has echoed an opinion very generally held, both in London and in Scotland, that the claims of Mr. August Manns should not be permanently overlooked. Others have pointed out that Dr. Hubert Parry is by far the greatest of living English composers, while it is currently reported that the Queen is about to show the Royal opinion of musical knighthoods in general by pro- moting the composer of H.M.S. Pinafore to a baronetcy. The full list of musical knights, although it contains a few great names, is, in- deed. by no means fairly representative of the music and musicians of this country. "The Mountebanks" has been withdrawn from the Lyric Theatre, and comic opera, temporarily at any rate, disappears from the London stage. Con- sidering how freely certain writers have prognos- ticated that Londoners would ever prefer opera bouffe to more serious music, the actual result is not a little peculiar. Serious opera has rarely been more successful than during the present season, when comic opera seems to have utterly collapsed. Even so humorous a work as Mr. Gilbert's 11 Mountebanks did not attain a run of more than seven months. Managers now seem inclined to revert to French opera bouffe, and, at any rate, two out of the four light operas announced for the coming autumn are made in France." The Carl Rosa Company commenced their pro- vincial tour at Cork, where they produced Mr. Weatherlv's English version of '• L'Amico Fritz." This week they started a month's visit to Dublin, and before they leave they will produce Mr. Joseph Bennett's English version of Bizet's Diamilet)." Afterwards they will go for one week to Belfast, and then spend three weeks m Manchester, proceeding thence to Bristol, Brad- ford, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, New- castle, and Sheffield. After the new year they will have their usual prolonged season at Liverpool, where Goring Thomas's "Golden Web," and an English version of Adams's "Postillion," will be produced, and Mr. J. P. Jackson's English version of Tannhauser will be revived. The drama in Australia is well supported by our Antipodean cousins, and, although theatrical business of late has not been good in the colony, owing to general depression of trade, it is already beginning to look up again. Public taste down under just now is in favour of Shaksperean revivals. The best theatres of Australia are the Royal, iu Sydney, which is about twice the size of our Adelphi, and the Princess's, in Melbourne. Electric light is everywhere the rult., and the houses are mosttyverycommodiously arranged. Australia possesses excellent scenic artists, who are better paid out there than they are in England. Mecha- nicians, too. have a high old time; they are very expensive to managers. Actors and musicians can be had for very little money. It is only the first-rate London stars who are highly paid. Five shillings is the price of a stall at an Australian theatre, and the gallery it; never under a shilling. All classes patronise the theatre. Long runs are unknown in Australia. It is very seldom that a piece can be played at a profit for more than six weeks at a time. A play is occasionally kept on for nine weeks, but for the last three of them managers make no profit, and a play is never pro- longed beyond six weeks unless to gain time for preparing the next production. Burlesque is not so popular now as it was a short while back.

THE FEMININE GENDER. A writer divides the feminine gender into thirds. Woman, Women, and the Fair Sex. Woman is characterised as of high and heroic fibre, taking itself seriously and writing itself down with a capital W." Women are more humble con- tenting themselves with an unimiginativelv style of existence. They are satisfied with themselves and the world. The Fair Sex this astute writer (I wonder to which of the three divisions she belongs?) describes rather epigramatioally as what men like to believe the other sex Is." She herself says that the fnir sex" collectively is sentimental, unsubstantial, and nonsensical."

TEETOTAL ASCENT OF SNOWDON. A correspondent writes:-A teetotal ascent of Snowdon from Pen-y-gwyrd was made on the 16th inst. by Walter Saunders, accompanied by a medical friend. The four and a half mile climb to the summit of the mountain occupied one hour and threequartors, and the decent one hour and a quarter. The day's walking record was thirty- two and a half miles without guides, although the route taken was somewhat unsafe. The average of the tourists was a mile in sixteen minutes. The result is a satisfactory refutation of the common contention that a wee drop in a flask or other. wise is an essential itern in a climber's para. phernalia.

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Mr. Osborne Morgan's Baronelcy. LSPBCIAL TKLEGHAM TO THE EVENING EXPRESS." We have the highest authority for stating that, while Mr. Osborne Morgan has finally declined the office of Judge-Advocate-General, which has largely been shorn of its dignity and emoluments since he held it. the Right Hon. gentleman has accepted a baronetcy of the United Kingdom which Mr. Gladstone has offered him in the kindest terms and with the warmest recognition of his lengthened period of service to the Liberal cause in and out of Parliament.

THE PENARTH DROWNING CASE Inquest To-day. This morning, at Penarth Police-station, an inquest was held (before Mr. Grover, deputy- coroner) touching the death of Thomas Royle, a rigger, aged 45 years, belonging to Barry, who was drowned between Cardiff and Barry on the 6th inst. Police-constable Eghen deposed to having taken charge of the body at about seven p.m. on Thurs- day last on the Promenade at Penarth. Witness saw a boat towing something, which proved to be the body of a drowned man, found by two young men from Aberdare, who were visiting Penarth. They had that evening hired a boat, and when cruising towards Laver- nook found the body floating in the water, and brought it to the Penarth Beach. In searching the body at the mortuary a purse, containing 12s. 6:1., with three keys, a whistle, handkerchief, and pencilcase were found in his pockets. George David, of 33, Richards-street, Barry Dock, employed as a fireman by the Barry Dock Company, identified the body, He had lodged with the deceased, and had last seen him alive on the morning of the 6th inst., between six and seven o'clock,and subsequently,when accompanied by his sister-in-law, Emlna Davies, he left Cardiff in a boat the same evening. Superintendent O'Gorman, of the Cardiff Docks Police, stated that a little after seven p.m. on the sixth inst. he saw a man in company with a young woman leave the pontoon bridge, Cardiff, in a boat, which had a mainsail set and was reefed, appearing to be properly handled. Witness watched it pass through the gut. He had seen the body, and was perfectly satisfied that deceased was the man who left the docks. The jury returned a verdict of Found drowned," and consider that the woman Emma. Davies has not yet been found.

SUDDEN DEATH From Reading About an Execution. An Oldham shoemaker, named John Reece, 57, living at Horsedge Mount, fell dead on Wednes- day when reading an account of Gibbons's execu- tion at Liverpool. Two years ago Reece was imprisoned for twelve months for the man- slaughter of his lodger by stabbing at Oldham, He was an eager reader of all the details of the recent Oldham murder and became greatly ex- cited and more so as Gibbons's end approached.

AN ESCAPE OF GAS. The Old Story. About ten o'clock on Thursday night a serious explosion was caused in a bouse at Heywood by a young woman named Wolstenholme searching for an escape of gas with a light. The windows of the house were blown out and other serious damage done. The woman was injured, and the other occupants of the house, who were in bed. had to make their escape in their nightclothes,

ALLEGED THEFT FROM THE SERVANT'S HOME. Emily Saunders, a respectable looking girl of 16, and who appeared to feel her position acutely, was charged at Cardiff Police-court this morning (before Alderman Jacobs and Mr. Gooch) with >tttaling a serge dress, brooch, and a quantity of underlinen, valued in all at about JE1. from the Servant's Home, situated at No. 12, The Parade, on the 14th inst. Prisoner was admitted into the Home on Sunday evening last, and left on the the following day, taking with her the articles mentioned. She was afterwards arrested by Detective Stephens.—Inspector Heywood in- formed the bench that prisoner was a stranger to Cardiff, and had come from Bristol, where she re- sided with an aunt. The Bristol police had been communicated with, but so far no reply had been received.—The Bench decided to remand prisoner to tfie union for a week to enable the police to make Inquiries as to her past life.

I ON THE BOX At Marlborough-street Police-court; yesterday Pins Soile, a foreigner, of Berwick-street, was summoned by an omnibus driver, named Charles Davis, for assaulting him. As the complainant's omnibus was proceeding along Oxford-street towards Band-etreet a lady who was with the defendant tilted the driver's hat over his eyee, and the defendant struck him on the head with an umbrella. The driver told him not to interfere with him in his business, and was abused in return. Owing to the disturbance created an omnibus inspector intervened, when the" lady" seized him by the throat, nearly throwing him off the vehicle. She subsequently lodged a complaint against the driver, who was in consequence sus- pended from his employment.—Mr. Newton ex- pressed surprise that the omnibus company should suspend a servant on the mere complaint of a person wlvo was unknown to them. It turned out that the driver had been grossly assauliad, and the behaviour and language of the defendant and his wife were altogether most disgraceful. The defendant would have to pay a fine of X3 and give the complainant B2 to compensate him for his loss of time.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS AT CARDIFF. At Cardiff Police-court this morning (before Dr. H. J. Paine and Mr. Gooch) Robert Hayman, a greengrocer, was charged with working a mare on the Hares while in an unfit state on Friday last.- Inspector Lockwood, of the Koval Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals gave evi- dence in support of the charge, stating that the animal was lame and had a large suppurating wound on its back. Defen- dant told witness that he had purchased the animal from some gipsies on Thursday last, and he bad not then noticed its condition.-At the request of the inspector, the magistrates personally examined the animal, which bad been brought into the Town-ball yard,-On their return into court, the Chairman announced that they had decided to inflict a penalty of 40s. and costs, or one month's imprisonment. If, however, defendant would have the animal destroyed the penalty would be reduced to 5s.—Defendant promised to do this:

THE DUKE OF RUTLAND. The Press Association learns that the Duke of Rutland is much better to-day.

A SPITEFUL YOUNG WOMAN. At Cardiff Police-court this morning (before Alderman Gooch and Mr. Jacobs) Pclly Luny, 23, was charged on a warrant with damaging a picture, hat, and ware, to the amount of 40s., on the 27th ult. The articles were the property of Bridget Dacey, residing at 12. Mary Ann-street, against whom prisoner appeared to have a grudge. She now admitted having committed the offence, and was ordered to pay 20s. for the damage done, and 40s. and costs, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment with bard labour.

SHOT BY ALARM GUN. A boy named Hensbaw, son of a gamekeeper on thePoddington Hall estate, Cheshire, has sustained serious injuries from the explosion of an alarm gun. The gun was kept in an outhouse loaded, and the boy, taking a hammer, struck it, causing an explosion. The thumb of one hand was terribly smashed, while the palm of the hand was also much injured.

HER 82nd APPEARANCE. Florence Jones made her 82nd appearance at Cardiff Police-court this morning, the magistrates present being Alderman Jacobs and Mr. Gooch,— The charge against her on this occasion was that she was drunk in St. Mary-street on Friday tast, and evidence having been given by Police-con- stable Wootton, prisoner was fined 10s. and coats, or fourteen dajre' imDrisonmen*.

A Terrible Vendetta. FATHER AND SONS FOUND DEAD. Extraordinary Incident. THE GRAVES OF THE VICTIMS BLOWN UP. BRISTOL (TENNESSEE), Saturday (Dalziel). -One of the most terrible of the many ven- dettas which have caused bloodshed in some of the best known families in Ten- nessee has just come to an end. Mr. Ira Mullms, the head of a well-to-do family living about three miles from this city, together with his two grown sons, was found dead at their farm by the neighbours last week, having been repeatedly shot by some parties unknown. Though the Mullins family and the Clayton family had been at feud for twenty years, and though many members of both families had been killed, there seems to be no evidence that any member of the Clayton family was in the vioinity at the time of the murder, and it was consequently attributed to negroes who had been resisted in an attempt to rob. The murder caused a great sensation in the neighbourhood and the funeral of the three victims was attended by nearly all the people of the country round about. The strangest incident in connection with it, however, has now developed. The bodies were buried in the Bristol Cemetery, which lies about half a mile from the town, in an un- frequented, locality. The night before last, as a man named Matthews was walking along the cemetery road about ten o'clock at night, he heard a noise in the oemetery which mduoed him to investigate it, and, carefully advancing under cover of the gravestones, he discovered what he at first supposed to be a party of grave robbers. There were several men dimly discernible in the darkness moving about a grave. What they were doing he could not make out, but, after walking about five minutes, they went away, and he could hear several voices joking and laughing as they went. He then rose, and went forward toward the scene of their work, but had taken only a few steps when a tremendous explosion occurred, throwing him to the ground and stunning him. When he recovered he found that a burial plothad been blown up,apparent); with dynamite, which had scooped out a large hole in the soft earth and torn three coffins to fragments, mutilating and dismembering the bodies. Yesterday morning it was learned that the bodies were those of the three Mul- lins's victims.

The Arab Rising. SEVERE FIGHTING. BRUSSELS, Saturday Morning (Reuter).— Among the official reports just received from the Congo State is one from M. Dhanis, District Commissioner, dated Lusambo, June 3. Regarding the fighting with the Arabs M. Dhanis says, "Having ascertained that the chief Gongo Lutele was making his way towards Kicbembi Lonaluba, and in- tended crossing the Sunkouri river, I attacked the massed forces of that chief on May 6 at Neatu-dengul, with the result that 80 of the enemy were killed and four flags,1with a num- ber of guns, and 600 prisoners were captured, On the 9th of May Gongo's forces attacked us. the chiefs Lapoka and Kotoko being at their head. At the first sight of the Manyema bands my native auxiliaries from Pania and Batu Bengue, comprising 600 guns, fled. Nevertheless, we succeeded in killing ten of Gongo's important chiefs, who headed the attacking column, which thereupon beat a retreat. We captured many rifles and cart- ridges. On May 19 I attacked the By Lumpi. The ohief Kilila Laba, who killed John Bey, was shot, and we made 100 prisoners.

A SERIOUS DISTURBANCE. PARIS, Saturday (Dalziel).—A telegram to the Petit Journal from Auch states that dis- orders of a very serious nature have occurred at Nogovo. The municipal authorities or- ganised some bull fights, which the prefect of the district forbade. The mayor having de- clared that the bull fight would take place notwithstanding the disapproval of the pre- fect, several brigades of gendarmes on horse- baok were sent to the arena, headed by the mayor. The inhabitants attacked the gen- darmes, but, after fierce struggles, the latter had the upper hand. The inoidents will be referred to the Criminal Court.

OUTRAGES ON MISSIONARIES. WASHINGTON, Friday (Reuter). — Mr. Foster, the Seoretary of State, received to- day a cablegram from the United States Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople, inform- ing him that the house of Dr. Bartlett, the American missionary at Bourdour, in Asia Minor, has been burned, and that the missionaries are in danger. Mr. Foster has, in reply, urgently demanded effective protec- tion for the missionaries, and the United States cruisers Newark and Bennington will be ordered to proceed to the vicinity of the outrage to support the demand for reparation. WASHINGTON, Saturday (Dalziel).—The Secretary of State has received a cablegram from the American Consul at Constantinople to the effect that the house of an American missionarv at Bourdour, Dr. Bartlett, has been fired- by an incendiary and burned to the ground. The cablegram further states that, if the lawless proceedings now in progress are not checked, the lives of all the missionaries in Turkey will be in danger. The Secretary of State has cabled the Turkish Government a demand for an indemnity, and will order the cruisers New York and Bennington, now on their way to Genoa, to proceed to the scene of the outrage, and protect any Ameri- cans who may be in danger there.

END OF THE PARIS CAB STRIKE. PARIS, Friday (Renter).—Five hundred of the Paris cabdrivers held a meeting yesterday afternoon, and decided by a large majority to resume work to-day. The drivers at the same time, however, adopted a resolution declaring that they did not withdraw their claims, and threatening that unless they obtain satisfac- tion they will re-commenoe the struggle.

A BREWERY BOYCOTTED. HAMBURG, Friday (Renter).—A keer struggle has been commenced here betweep the brewers and the Socialists. It appearf that the Socialists had Boycotted the Warm- berker Brewery. The masters have conse- quently combined, and have dismissed all th Union workmen, to the number of 1,200, unti the Boycott is removed. The struggle is being watched with great interest throughout Germany.

GUN EXPLOSION. A young coachman, named Brooker, a native of Sheffield, met with his death yesterday while with a shooting party near Ayr. One of the party placed a loaded gun against a fence, and when he raised it again it unexpectedly exploded, and the charge lodged in Brooker's body.

BLACK GAME SEASON. The black game season opened in Scotland this morning in spleudid weather. Birds are plentiful and in good condition.

Lord Rosebery has intimated his willingness to the town council of Queensferry, close tr Dalmeny, to provide a new Town-hall for the burg as a memorial of the late countess. It is now stated that Mr. Samuel Plimsoll has finally resigned the office of Dresident of the l Sailors and Firemen's Unio*.