The Cambrian

THE SOUTH WALES COAL TRADE. The following manifesto, has been sent for publica- tion :— To the representatives and council of the Mon- mouthshire and South Wales CoalownerB* Association— Gentlemen, We approach you in the name and on behalf of the house-coal miners of Monmouthshire and South Wales, in pursuance with the resolution agreed upon at a general delegate meeting of the said section, held recently at the Angel, Maesycwmmer, when the views of nearly 5,000 miners were represented and, in doing so, we hardly think you will be surprised, for we cannot other than believe that you are aware of the great discontent and dissatisfaction which prevail throughout the entire district, especially that of Monmouthshire—in consequence of the manner in which the new sliding scale has come into operation, and the inadequate justice of its provisions. "In undertaking to lay before you the views and grievances of our constituents, we take courage to do so boldly, knowing that it will be to your advantage a id interest, as well as ourselves, to become acquainted with the views and feeling of the district in general. We wish it to be made known that we have no desire to exercise harsh measures, neither indulge in bitter sayings; on the contrary, we feel anxious to kindle a good feeling, restore peace and bring about a good understanding between us and yourselves. But we oannot disguise the Let that such can only be hroug about by a fair consideration and adjustment o e rights and grievances of both parties tha o e workmen as well as the masters.. .3 It is a considerate fact that no good can be derived from an arrangement which is not the result of a fair, deliberate, and unconstrained negotIatlon, based upon the voluntary support and hearty co-operation of both parties. If from pressure of circumstances-such as is the present ease-we are forced by necessity to submit to terms which we deem unjust and oppressive, and intruding upon our common rights, it will only tend to breed discontent and create hostilities, a fact greatly to be deplored. Hence we approach you, and pray for a reconsideration and modification of certain clauses which at present govern the rate of wages to be made payable to the house coal miners. We have no hesitation in denouncing the present terms as unfair in the extreme, therefore we ask you to rescind a resolution passed by the Sliding Scale Committee on March the 6th, and grant us the privilege of bringing forward our grievances, and vindicating our rights before an impartial tribunal, otherwise we decline to acknowledge ourselves as being governed by conciliatory measures. Now, as we deem it may probably prove advantageous to you to be informed as to where our sources of grievances lay, we have resolved upon submitting to you the following :— "1. Having investigated the power of action given to the house coal miners' representatives to negotiate with you, we beg to state most emphatically that the authority given them was limited and that in attaching their signatures on our behalf to the new Sliding Scale arrangement as agreed upon, that authority has been exceeded we, therefore, feel justified in disputing the legality of the new scale, but in order to maintain the peace of the district, and providing you will concede to our request to reconsider and modify its provisions, we pledge ourselves to deal honourably with you in coming to a mutual understanding. 2. We observe with dissatisfaction that in the new scale there is no minimum rate of wages fixed, and in defence of this we are told that past experience proves the impracticability of such a provision but to us on the other hand it is a perplexing problem, and a much more difficult task to find out the prac- ticability of sustaining life without means, which such a doctrine goes far to suggest there is a possibility. Such reasoning, however, we know to be false, hence we fell grieved at the omission of that principle which gives us the right to determine the lowest wage rate that we are to accept for our labour, as well as the masters, on the other hand, the lowest price which they will take for the produce. "3. We mark that the selling standard price of house coal has only been lowered 3s. per ton, while that of steam coal has been lowered 3?. 6d., which, as compared with the scale of 1875, makes a possible dif- ference in favour of the steam coal wage rate of some- thing equivalent to 3 £ per cent. But although this in one item is an importance, yet it is not all; for while the general steam coal wage rate at present operating is sometning like 18 per cent, less than that of Decem- ber, 1875, the house coal wage rate is less of something like 38 per cent. This makes the difference and the source of our complaint more significant; hence, we assert most positively that our rights have not been properiy vindicated and dealt with. 4. The effect of the above is to be seen again in clause 18 of the new scale, for while it is provided therein that the steam coal miners shall be entitled to an extra advance when the selling price reaches Is. 2d. above the standard of 1875, the house coal miners are debarred of that extra privilege until prices advance Is. 8d. above the old scale—a provision unjust in the extreme. 5. It is a fact well known to you that the Mon- mouthshire house coal miners suffered severely from the adjustment of the wage rate in 1875, which re- sulted in bringing about an almost uniform reduction of 33 per cent.—an amount greatly in excess of the award and in the effort to re-establish a new scale we regret that nothing has been done to replace them on a just footing; hence it is that the section named (late No. 2 Group) abstain entirely from rendering any support of any nature whatever to measures which do not also secure for them a degree of justice. 6. The new scale has not only ignored former grievances, but has further aggravated them, in classi- fying both the No. 2 and 3 Groups together as one; the direct result of which has been to reduce the ave- rage selling prices of the late Mynyddislwyn and Til- lery group (late No. 2) and inasmuch as the average selling prices determine the rate of wages to be payable the new scale is a further direct loss of :?:t per cent. to the Monmouthshire section. Now, having submitted to you the above, we trust that you will admit that we have reasonable grounds for approaching you, and that, consequently, you will entertain our request for a re- consideration of the points at issue, and favour us with a reply as early as possible. (Signed) «■ EDMUND ROGERS, "JNO. DAVIS, "J. H. JONES, c, P S PIAOLL. J- II D. C. WILLIAMS." i".TS. Please direct reply to Daniel Williams George Inn, Bargoed, via Cardiff."

Three of the earliest constructed armour-plated shins viz.. the Pallas the Bnterprise, and the Eesearch-Le ordered to be sold out of the navy, as they are unsuitable for present requirements. The Japanese edition of the Book of Common Prayer is said to be nearly completed. It is being prepared under the supervision of a mixed committee of English and American missionary societies. EMBEZZLEMENT BY AN OFFICIAL.—At Carnarvonshire Quarter Sessions ou Friday, Edward Clement Jones, formerly borough surveyor at Penmaenmawr, was in- dicted for embezzling moneys, the property of the Pen- maenmawr Local Board of Health. Mr. Jones, who pro- secuted, said the prisoner, who entered the Board's service with splended testimonials, appeared to have kept a double set of books and his defalcations extended over a long period. Owing to his respectibility the prosecution at first hesitated to take proceedings, and Wad done so on public grounds. By the advice of Jiar. Allanson, his solicitor, the prisoner pleaded" Guiltv." and was sentenced to six months hard labour. and t9 IT Is'—M°imonism in its distinctive wei it not f(SahUre3 W°.Uid already by ^ell-nigh dead, now likeanv^twe^ea U Salt Lake City stores with all tha Puri FaS^8 tramcars, its theatres, its with the latest novels and the works of jlh^n ?MMI° ,„d B.in »d Hubert 1)^.7-^ 'io^U g'.S visitors kept by Gentiles. In fact, of the population of 80,000 fully 5,000 are" Gentiles," that is,c £ tians of various churches. Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbv- terians, Congregationalists, each sect with its church and school, and all working harmoniously against the common enemyand it is significant that many Mormon parents prefer to send their boys and girls to a Gentile school rather than to their own Mormon schools. There are no Government schools at the Salt Lake, each church providing its own. I visited the Congregational day school in company with the minister, ti e found both master and mistress at work among a hundred scholars, well-to-do children, boys and girls neatly dressed, in rooms that would be a credit to an English school. Thus, in education and by preaching, a good work is going on + £ iTery head-quarters of Mormonism; and though e walls of the huge temple, to cover some acres, are "Si?g> their foundations are as surely being and the system is already tottering to its looks whengemtttabemacle' with its musliroora roof> fi"MunDdT/t),Th; SfK- °< as in the East, only to f -T™8 ,9°peD it, I was told in this way llche3tA' wh° P™ctlf a washerwoman, a housemaid, he *1" j on; and then they cannot give him am 30 Besides the 5,000 Gen tiles,g there ?s ?2,8"otlce; 5,000 who have virtually abjured the system,Pthe present adherents not numbering more than 20,000; and these are held together, now that Bngham Young is dead mainly by the hope of office among: the men. There are twelve apostles, seventy eldeis, besides bishops and deacons, and these all mean places of civil as well as religious power aud emolument, the spiritual rulers being the municipal overseers of the city. It does not need much sagacity to forsee that with the sweeping tide of civilisation which the railway now brings from the east and the west, with the growing commercial inter- course between the inhabitants and the United States, with the righteous rule of American law, over the entire territory, and, above all, with the spread of pure Christianity from the several churches planted in the very heart of the Mormon settlement, that settlement will gradually lose its hideous and revolting features, polygamy will be crushed, and within the next twenty years the morals of social Christian life may be established Hom* M ln 8Dy otller city the States.— Sunday at

~r^Tfishery~commenced in earnest The Cornish mackerel ns in spite of a ]e q{ this week, and on "dghad from 1,000 per boat ind, forty boats fished, t t)le whole fleet of boats downwards. On Tuesday the quantities rang- ^bed, the result being » fish) to 3,000, 2,000, and \ng florn over half a l»s^ ( have ruled from 20s. down downwards per boat. to size. to 14s. per six score accoi n printer, was on Thursdav John McNeil, a litbograpGai]dhall p0iice.c0ur^ Lon charged on remand, at tn hjg wife an(j jnfant don, with brutally »9saU! to the evidence given, the seven months old. Accor ^een one of profligacy and career of the prisoner na" months' hard labour, and crime. He was sentenced £ 20 each to keep the ordered to find two sureti'es Peace for a further six nj0" -Nottingham, on Thursday, An inquest was hel Kirk, 59, milliner, who upoh tbe body of Mr. ln jay( it is supposed from died suddenly on the pre ;teHjent. The deceased had the effects of election iection, and had exerted been much excited over t va8Ser.i On Wednesday he mmself greatly as a the evening from syncope, became very ill, and died in on by electioneering which he himself stated was ° work.. r were indicted at the John Day and Harriet for stealing a watch, Middlesex Sessions, on Thuisdy, Llewellyn Treherne. chain, and locket from the per to penal servitude, Day, who had been once sent punisbed with the twice to terms of imprisonmeu .jt an(j was now 'cat" on two occasions, p eau & d guilty, and a sent for seven years. Gould *d up0n her. sentence of two months was p> raised by poor A return just issued shows 1879, to have been rates during the year closed La y £ 957 321. Of these £ 12.913,797, and the receipts "V. « 0tber'purposes" than sums £ 5,196,998 was expended jncrease per cent, in the relief of the poor. The gr or j3 shown by the expenditure for tbe rehet tegt decrease by Rut- York (North Riding), and the g cage js 13-3 aD(i jn land. The proportion in the toime the latter 61. Margaret Toobey, wife At Hereford, on Thursday, neav Ledbury, was °f a large farmer living »» prints of butter into summoned for bringing half-P wejght. Defendant had Hereford Market deficient which were 8 to 10 twenty-eight half-pounds ol gn'e 0{ 16s., including drachms short weight each. forfeited, it being costs, was inflicted, and tn jjome an(j the In- divided between the Working tf°ys R™AI'Y" BY A TORY PAPER.— EXTRAORDINARY STATEME q{. the Carnarvonshire Commenting upon the £ ,esU1Voice of the Country "), a election, Llais y Wlad ( at Bangor, says that on Conservative paper Pu"'? import was obtained from Tuesday evenmg «432 had voted for Mr. ethesda to the effec^t having been opened on Pennantthat the.ballot h|d the ci;.osses Qnf Wednesday, t^ WiUiams that « these were perjurers for Mr. Watkm. j their trumpets before the peopie who bad been> W had an theil. Iifetime Mi. Pennant, and the p P lie(j for a day's work and and intended continuing so, of Penrhyn." This a day's pay on the noble bou^^ extraordinary statement ha county. Mr< Watkin both Poetical part « and Mr. Qwen 0wen> the Williams, the Libeial officerj have been com- the subject. There is no foundation mumcated with upon the su ]fae of E» £ llwa. Serf «» Wedne,(J»y, a, the counting was honourably gone througn.

A strike is proceeding at Hull among the marine en- gineers. The men desire a return to the rates and nnffi- ber of staff which existed previous to the bad state of trade A temporary arrangement has been effected in several instances but some of the steamers have been strike 0116 iD conse<luence of the A REMARKABLE CASE.—At the Assizes held at Lewes on Saturday, before Mr. Baron Pollock, John Verrall aged 15, a genteel, good-looking lad, the son of an auctioneer carrying on an extensive business at Tunbridge Wells, pleaded guilty to three charges of forging cheques upon the London and County Bank at Newhaven and Tunbridge Wells, in in the name of his father.—Mr. Willoughby prosecuted—The learned judge put some questions to the prisoner's father and elicted from him a rather extraordinary statement with regard to the cir- cumstances under which the offences had been committed. a ,tbe p"soner had been employed in his well The la/1 k bad always conducted himself Tonev to eiabl«atf°rged these deques in order to raise "hot c to Eu"ia r r! The young lady and the vo^th1? acclua11,"ted at, re- attached to each other ?PPcared to have become they had corresponded cla'n^lt- ,ter she went away received a number of The Prisoner had had made up his mind to to Russ1*' &t length he got possessed of the cheque boot ^DiSee Newhaven, where he obtained J5" set off to cheques. He intended to go to ?r *5"° or three obtained the necessary funds, but was* aTm l,^ ^U8 board the steamer about to start for Dienne Th^6^011 added he was quite sure the Prisoner haf acted from thoughtlessness, and that he had no idea serious nature of the act he was committing Th witness added that he should reinstate the lad in his previous position in the office at once if a lenient sentence were passed upon him.—Mr. Baron Pollock said that he was at all times unwilling to destroy the prospects in life of a young man by sending him to prison if such a course could be avoided consistently with public duty, and under the peculiar circumstances of this case he ahould merely sentence the Prisoner to be imprisoned for one week.—(A burst of applause followed the observations of the learned Judge, but it was, of course, at once suppressed by the officers.) I

THE GENERAL ELECTION. (Continued from our last.) FRIDAY. The polls were taken or declared on Friday in the undermentioned constituencies, with the results stated BUCKINGHAMSIRE (3). Harvey, Sir R. B. (C.) 2.956 Fremantle, Hon. T. F. (C.) 2.790 Carington, Hon. Rupert (L.) 2,790 Charsley, F. (C.) ••• ••• 796 Representation unchanged* CARDIGANSHIRE (1). Pugh, L. P. (C.) 2.406 Lloyd, T. E. (O.) 1,605 The Liberals gain the seat. CORNWALL (EAST) (2). Robartes, Hon. T. C. Agar (L.) 4,018 Borlase, W. C. (L) 3,883 Collins, Mr. (C.) 2,483 Tremayne, L. (C.) 2,033 Liberal gain of one seat. CHESHIRE (EAST), 2. Leigh, W. J. (C.) 3,310 Brooks, W. C. (C.) 3,424 Worthington, Mr. (L.) 2,032 Bazley, Mr. (L.) 1,947 Representation unchanged. DURHAM (NORTa), 2. Joicey, J. (L.) •• 6,233 Palmer, C. M. (L ) 5-90l Elliot, Sir G. (C.) 5,092 The Liberals gain one seat. GLOC ESTERS HIRE WEST, 2. Kingscote, Colonel (L) ••• 5', Moreton, Lord (L ) ••• Plunkett, Hon. R. E. S. (C.) 4,640 The Liberals gain one seat. ISLE OF WIGHT (1). Ashley, Hon. A. Evelyn (L.) 1,986 Cotton, B. T. (C.) 1,973 The Liberals gain the seat. KENT (EAST), 2. Akers-Douglas, A. (C.) 5,541 Pemberton, E. L (C.) 5,473 Davis, E. F. (L.). 4,952 Representation unchinged. LANCASAIRE (NORTLI-EAST), 2. Hartington, Marquis of (L.) 6,682 Grafton, R. W. (L.) 6,513 Ecroyd, W. F. (C.) 5,231 Starkie, J. P. C. (C.) ••• >183 The Liberals win 1both seats. STAFFORDSHIRE (WEST), 2. Hill, A. Staveley (C.) ••• o Monckton, F. (C.) ••• „> £ Anson, Sir W. (L.) ^564 Renton, H. J.(L.) 3,344 Representation unchanged. LONDONDERRY COUNTY, 2. Law, Right Hon Hugh (L.) £ 012 M'Clure, Sir T. (L.) £ »12 Alexander, S. M. (C.) "• > 7 Representation unchanged. MONAGHAN, 2. Girvan, J. (L.) ••• 2 ftft9 Findlator, W. (L.) f'^8 Leslie, Sir J. (C ). }'^4 Shirley, S. E. (C.). ••• "■ 1'6W The Liberals gain both seats. The Liberals gain both seats. TYRONE, 2. Macartney, J. E. (C) ••• Litton, E. F. (L.) ••• Hamilton, Lord Claud (C.) ••• >2 The Liberals gain one seat. WES rMEATH, 2. Sullivan, T. D. (H.R.) {'"J Gill, Mr. (H.R.) Gowing, Mr. (C.) Representation unchanged. AYRSHIRE, NORTH, 1. Patrick, Cochrane (C.) ••• -iVo, Balfour, J. B. (L.) ••• No change in representation. ELGIN BURGHS, 1. Duff, M. E. Grant (L.) 2,082 M'Lean, J. M. (C.) 764 No change in the representation. LANARKSHIRE, SOUTH, 1. Hamilton, Major (L.) 1,808 Anstrutbe,r, Sir W. (C.) 1,430 The Liberals gain the seat. MONTGOMERYSHIRE, 1. RendeI,Stuart(L.). 2,232 Wynn, C. W. W. (C.). 2,041 The Liberals gain the seat. ROXBUKGHSIRE, 1. Elliot, Hon. A. R. D. (L.) ••• Scott-Douglas, Sir G. H. S. (C.) ••• The Liberals gain the seat. The polls were taken or declared on Saturday in the following constituencies ARMAGH COUNTY, 2. Richardson, J. N. (L) o'cio Close, M. C. (C) "• Blacker, St. J. (C) One Liberal gain. BERKSHIRE, 3. 9q, Lindsay, Colonel Lloyd (C) ••• ••• .979 Wroughton, P. (C) V'TQI Walter, John (L) ••• ••• Rogers, T. (L) Representation unchanged. CARLOW COUNTY, 2. Gray, E. D. (HR) 1,218 McFarlane, D. H. (HR) 1,133 Kavanagh, Mr. (C) 710 Bruen, Mr. (C) GoO Two Home Rule gaius CAVAN, 2. Fay, C. J. (HR) 3,097 Biggar, J. G. (HR) 3,061 Maxwell, Mr. (C) 2,233 Representation unchanged. DERBYSHIRE (NORTH), 2 Cavendish, Lord E. (L) — Cheetham, J. F. (L) ••• 9'qofi Arkwright, A. P. (C) ••• oVio Sidebottom, Captain (C) ••• •*• One Liberal gain. DEVON (EAST), 2. Kennaway, Sir John (C) a'ak7 Walrond, Colonel (C) q'^07 Stirling, Colonel (L) Representation unchanged. FERMANAGH, 2. Archdale, W. (C) Crichton, Viscount (C) ••• ••• -I'OOC Porter, J. G. V. (L) ••• Representation unchanged. FIFESHIRE, 1. „ Bruce, Hon. R. P. (L) ••• f'070 Oswald, Captain (C) L'6i6 Representation unchanged. INVERNESS-SHIRE, 1. Cameron, D. (C) ••• £ 7Q Mackenzie, Sir K. (L) j Representation unchanged- KING'S COUNTY, 2. O'Brien, Sir P. (HR) 1>893 Molloy, Mr. (HR) 1,712 Jackson, H. V. (C) 801 Representation unchanged. LOUTH, 2. Callan, P. (HR) 902 Sullivan, A. M. (HR) 830 Kirk, G. H. (HR) 688 Represeutation unchanged. NORFOLK (WEST), 2. Amherst, W. A. Tyssen (C) 2,671 Bentinck, G. W. (C) 2,433 Hamond, A. (L) 2,304 Representation unchanged. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (NORTH), 2. Spencer, Hon. H. (L) 2,42.5 Burghley, Lord (C) 2.405 Sackville, S. G. S. (C) 2,310 One Liberal gain. NORTHUMBERLAND (SOUTH), 2. Grey, A. (L) <*>896 Beaumont, W. B. (L) ^-696 Ridley, E. (C) 3>653 One Liberal gain. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (SOUTH), 2. Storer, G. (C) 2,491 Hildyard, J. B. (C) ?,227 Bristowe, S. B. (L) x>445 Representation unchanged. SHROPSHIRE (SOUTH), 2. Leighton, Sir B. (C) 2,491 Severne, J. E. (C) 2,216 More, Jasper (L) ^>1^9 Davenport, Mr. (L) 1,634 Representation unchanged. SUSSEX (EAST), 2. Gregory, G. B. (C) 4,526 Scott, M. D. (C) 4>426 Donovan, Mr. (L) 2,982 Pearson, Mr. (L) ••• 2,863 Representation unchanged. WILTSHIRE (NORTH), 2. Long, W. (C) 3,087 Estcourt, G. S. (C) 2,833 Fuller, G. R. (L); 2,783 ■,T^T,T™TT?epresentati°n unchanged. YORKSHIRE (SOUTH-WEST RIDING), 2. Fitzwilliam, H. W. (L) 11,385 Leatham, W. H. (L) 11,181 Stanhope, W. S. (C) 10,391 Starkey, L. R. (C) 10,020 Two Liberal gains. The polls were taken or declared on Monday in the nndprmentioned constituencies, with the results stated:— LANCASHIRE, NORTH, 2. Stanley, Right Hon. Col. (C.) 1,172 Feilden, Major-General (C.) 7,505 Storey, T (L.) 6,300 Representation unchanged. KILKENNY COUNTY, 2. Marum, M. (H.R) 2,707 Martin. P. L. (H.R.) 2,674 Butler, Lord A. (C.) 913 Representation unchanged. MEATH, 2. OQO Parnell, C. S. (H.R.) 2,283 Metge, R. H. (H.R.) 2,253 Bourke, Hon. H. (L.) 514 Representation unchanged. WEXFORD COUNTY, 2, Barry, J. (H.R.) 3,075 Bryne, Mr. (H.R ) 2,879 Gibbon, Mr. (C.) 846 O'Clery, Keyes (H.R). 457 Representation unchanged. HAWICK BURGHS. Trevelyn, G. O. (L.) 3,518 Elliot, J. (C.) '553 The polls were taken or declared on Tuesday in the undermentioned constituencies with the results stated :— I CHESHIRE, MID, 2. I Egerton, Hon, W. (C.) 3,868 Warburton, P. E. (C.) 3,700 Latham, G. W. (L.) 3 374 Armitage, V. (L.) 3,247 Representation unchanged. LEICESTERSHIRE, NORTH, 2. Manners, Right Hon. Lord J. (C.) 3,213 Burnaby, Colonel (C.) 2,991 Packe, Hussey (L.) 2,651 Representation unchanged. LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH, 2. Laycock, Mr. (L.) 4.159 Winn, Rowland (C.) 3,949 Astley, Sir J. D. (C) 3,165 Liberal gain of one seat. WORCESTERSHIRE, EAST 2. Gladstone, W. H. (L.) 4,879 Hastings, G- W. (L.) 4,833 Temple, Sir R-(C.) 4,345 Alhopp, H. (C.) 4,257 Liberal gain of two seats. MAYO. 2. Power, J. O'Connor (H.R.) 1.645 Parnell, C. S. (H.R ) 1,565 Browne, G. E. (H.R._) ••• 628 Representation unchanged. EDINBURGH & ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITIES. At the close of the third day's polling for Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities, the figures stood thus Playfair (L), Edinburgh 1742 St. Andrew's 512 225i Bickersteth (C), Edinburgh 1526 St. Andrew s 60S -2224 GLASGOW AND ABERDEEN UNIVERSITIES. The close of the second days polling showed the fol- lowing results:— Asher (L.) Glasgow 519 Aberdeen 514 -1033 Campbell (C.) Glasgow 519 Aberdeen. 514 .d 11' 1 -1033 The agents of each side are polling alternate votes. Up to the present time there have been returned 645 members, who may he classified as follows Liberal members 411 Conservative members 234 Actual Liberal majority. 177 These results are arrived at by counting the Home Rulers among the Liberals. A more exact statement shows: „ Liberals. ^1 Conservatives The relative position of parties is now as follows Total Liberal gains — 134 Total Conservativa gains 23 Net Liberal gains III Among these Liberal gains are reckoned seven seats wrested from Conservatives by Home Rulers Exclusive of these, the net Liberal gain is 104 seats and the ajtual Liberal majority over Conservatives and Home Rulers combined is 57. „ T.TO PARTY GAINS. The effect on the balance of parties, so far as the elec- TLOM JELMR*" D Boroughs. Total published on Total published on Tuesday 82 Tuesday 20 iy Counties. Total published on Total published on Tuesday 47 Tuesday 3 Worcestershire (East) 2 Lincolnshire (North) 1 50 Liberal gain-Boroughs 82 1, Counties. 50 Total Liberal gain 132 Conservative gain-Boroughs. 20 Counties. 3 Total Conservative gain 23 NET LIBERAL GAIN 109 The total number of members returned to the New Parliament is now 643. This total is composed as follows Liberals. 349 Conservatives 234 Home Rulers 50 Parnellites 8 Tenant Right Candidates. 2 Total New Members returned 643 MEMBERS OF THE OLD PARLIAMENT DEFEATED. The following members of the late Parliament have been thrown out by the contests Colonel Wellesley, Andover • Capt. Polhill Turner, Bedford borough Mr. D. Thwaites,Blackburn;Mr. Egerton Hubbard Bucking- ham Mr A. Marten and Mr. P. B. Smollett, Cambridge borough;V1"- J- T. Agg-Gardner, Cheltenham; Mr. E. Asaheton'jRitheroe; Colonel A. Leavmoutb, Colchester; &Ir. W. H Eaton, Coventry; Mr. Henry T. C. Cust, Granthat*; Mr. W. K, Wait, Gloucester; Mr. J. C. Brown, Horsham; Mr. T. Blake, Leominster; Colonel E. Chaplin, Lincoln; Sergeant Spinks, Oldham; Mr. T. Hankey, Peterborough Mr. Sampson Lloyd, Plymouth Sir Julian Goldsmid, Rochester; Mr. C. E. Wells, Wallingfovd Mr. A. Laverton, Westbury Mr. Simonds, Winchester; Mr. A. Mills, Exeter; Sir John Lubbock and Sir. S H. Waterlow, Maidstone; Mr. Ripley, Bradford • Mr G. Holford, Brecon Mr. RaIl, Bridport; Lord Hai'vev Burv St. Edmunds; Colonel Artbbuthnot Hereford; Mr. Bulwer, Ipswich; Mr. B. T. Woodd, Kareaborough Mr. Bristowe, Newark Mr. Edge New- Sanderson, Wakefield; Mr. W. B Hastings; Mr. Retford Sir. C.J. ?ey„S 'Le^ard. Scarborough; Sir. Clarke, South wark; S11. galt Stafford Mr> G. Greenall, Warrington Mr. 1 Duadee. Ml. Drax> Smith, Aylesbury; Mr. Oallan, Dundee Warebam, Mr. Lowther.. Mr Heath and Dr. Colonel Tottenham, New^ phipps and Mere_ Kenealy, Stoke-upon Tven pajw Carrickfergus Mr. weather, Northampton Mr. V ghield> Athlone Mr. Stanford, Shaftesbury; J»r- Coleraine; Mr. I. L. £ ™7'^ig^0IU My- young, Helston Major Peploe, ell Hartlepool; Mr. A- lond, Newcastle; Colonel Herefordshire Mr. C. F. ^.jeS( Southampton Mr. S. Moray, Perthshire Mr- A. Mi. si,iebottom) Sta]y_ C. Allsopp, East St%^or,indgtone, Stirlingshire; Lord bridge; Sir. W. Edmunds ard>East Cumberland C B. Deaison, West York, East divis'0"-

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Alnwick Castle, Capt. Fox, bound for China, took fire and has been scuttled. The cargo, about half of which was on board, is stated to be insured in England for £95,000. „ MURDEROUS ATTACK ON SHIPBOARD.—A painful inci- dent occurred on board a Rye fishing smack, named the Frolic, when a few miles off Beechy Head, at midnight on Saturday. The master, John Peters, a powerful man. while in a state of temporary insanity, caused, it is said by pecuniary losses through the failure of the owner, attacked one of the crew, named Cuff, who was keeping watch on deck, and, after rendering himinsansi- ble proceeded to the cabin, where another of the crew, named small, and a son of Peters where sleeping, and attacted the former with a knife. A deperate stauggle ensued, during which the light was extinguished, aud in the darkness he inflicted several dangerous wounds on the man, and having rendered him unconscious, en- deavoured to strangle him by tying his scarf round his neck. Peters then Wtnt on deck, and it is supposed jumped overboard, as on the two men regaining con- sciousness and making a search, nothing was to be seen of him, and they managed to bring the vessel into Rye harbour, where the news of the tragedy was soon made known. Small lies in a dangerous condition. DISASTERS AT SKA.—According to a Reuter's telegram, tbe Leviathan has landed at New York eight survivors of the Snaresbrook, which foundered at sea. Farrea and Matthews ordinary seamen, and Francis, cook, belonging to the Snaresbrook, were drowned. In re- ference to the wreck of the Amelia steamer, a letter from the India Office received at Lloyd's on Saturday morning states that there are native agents on the Laccadive Islands for the administration of justice, but no European officer resides on the Islands. In these circumstances the Secretary of State for India had been pleased to send a telegram to the Government of Bombay asking if they can despatch a steamer to the wreck. A later telegram from the Admiralty states that Her Majesty's ship Dryad wouldj leave B mbay at daylight on Sunday morning for the wreck. Lloyd's agent at Galatz telegraphs Barita total loss; sunk in deep water, about 16 fathoms. Five of the crew—viz., first, second, and third engineer, one fireman, one seaman—- and one passenger were lost in the wreck. The accident was caused by fog." The Maggie Miller, arrived at Liverpool, reports having picked up the master and six of the crew of the Robert Wendt (of Straslund), from New York for Strettin, on the 24th ult., in the Atlantic. Four of the crew were lost on the 19:h and 20th during heavy gales. The Maggie Miller also fell in with the Maria, abandoned in lat. 47 18, long. 27, and tried to board her, but failed. Shortly before midnight ou Thursday, intelligence was brought to the Hasborough station of the National Lifeboat Institution that a ves-el had struck on the wreck of the Thomas Tarnbull at Ostend, about 1J mile to the northward. The rocket apparatus was used in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the wreck and the lifboat was then despatched to the rescue. 'The crew quickly mustered, launched the Huddersfield lifeboat, and made for the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Rival, of London, John Hoyle, master, bound thence for Newcastle with a cargo of firebricks. She had been driven ashore in a thick fog while the wind was blowing hard from the E.N.E. The lifeboat proceeded alongside the wreck, and succeeded in bringing off the four persons on board -the master, bis wife, and crew of two men, all of whom were safely lanned at Hasborough between 3 alid 4 o'clock in the morning. There were 34 British and foreign wrecks during the past week, making a total for the year of 440. or a decrease of 133 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The approximafe value of property lost was £ 620,000, including British £ 450 000. A TERRIBLE TALE OF THE PEA.—An official inquiry into the loss of the barque Ulster, of St. John's, New Brunswick, was concluded at Liverpool on Saturday, before the Stipendiary Magistrate, assisted by nauticil assessors. The inquiry revealed a terrible storv of hard- ship and privation. The Ulster sailed from St. John's on the 29th of January last, with a ear^o of timber for Liverpool, and up to the 8th of February had fine weather and favourrble winds. At midnightou the 8th, however, the wind backed, and a heavy gule commenced to blow. At daybreak the weather continued unabated, and the heavy seas shipped fron time to time caused the de*k load to break adrift. Captain Evans, the master of the vessel, thereupon got his crew to work at throwing the deck load overboard, which was don" until dark, the pumps, meantime, being kept goíng at every l'pportunity. The night having come on again, and the gale being unabated, the boat skids were bruken by the seas, and two of the boats—the piunance and the. —as well as all the loose things about :.he deck, were washed away. On the 10 h the weather moderated but the following day another gale came on, and about two p.m. the binnacle and the wheel were carried away by a tremend- ous sea, which threatened to eugulph the ship entirely. At four p m., during a lull in the storm, the crew were able to go below to get some dinner but while they were so engaged the ship Was struck by a hurricane from the north-wett, which caused the maifiyad to break awav, and threw she vessel on her bean ends, the port rail being under water. At six p.m. the cabin door was burst in, and some ef the men took to the rigging. At dayligh) on the 12th it was discovered that the steward was missing, having probably beeu swept away from the rigging by the waves, Later on the swelling of the timber in the hold caused the hatches to burst open from below, and the vessel became water-logaed, upon which the crew took refuge in the upper Jazuette, were they remained helpless for six days, subsisting on preserved provisions, which they obtained by breaking through the bulkhead into the cabin. All that could he found to drink was a jar of fresh water. Ou the IS'h the crew left the lazarette and took to tae rising and the raging sea. sweptawav one mau, an A. B. belonging to London, named James Lindsay, and the intense cold and exposure caused another man, named Anderson, a Norweigian, to die in she rigging. The cook became delirious from the privations to which he and all the others were subjected, and jumped into the sea in a fit of frenzy. For three davs the unhappy men remained clinging to the rigging of the waterlogged ship, having neither food nor water to sustain them. aud their suffer- ing being increased by the fact that two steamers were sighted which, in spite of the signals made by the men, passed on without noticing them. Or1 the 22d February they were seen by the steamer Hip- parchus, which took them otf in her lifeboat, and brought them to L')ndon. -The above facts having been shown by the evidence, the Board of Trade Court, in giving judgment on Saturday, exonerated the master from all blame, attributing the loss of the ship to the terrific weather which prevailed in the Atlantic at the time.

A cargo of 1,000 tons of iron rails for the Houston and Central Texas Railroad has arrived at Galveston from Wales. The rails were taken across the Atlantic by the British steamer Morglay. A stable-keeper named Morton was, at Brighton, on Thursday, fined £5, and costs for having had in his pos- session a glandered horse and neglecting to give informa- tion of the same to the local authorities. At the Bristol Quarter Sessions, on Thursday, the Recorder sentenced an old woman of seventy, named Martha Jones, to.seven years' penal servitude for stea'. ing three pounds of mutton, after several previous con- victions. The Liverpool Mercury says that Lord Beaconsfield has nominated the first Bishop of Liverpool, and the name has been forwarded to the Queen at Baden-Baden for her Majesty's approval. Until this has been obtained no public notification of the appointment can be made, but the office will be conferred on no local clergyman or one within the diocese of Chester. An appeal by the Great Northern Railway Company agaiftst convictions of carmen in their employ for unneces- sarily delaying their vans in Thames street London, when delivering fish to the salesmen at Billingsgate market, was heard at the City Quarter Sessions on Saturday. The convictions were quashed, chiefly on the ground that no unnecessary delay had taken place, considering the difficulties which had to be contended with. An appli- cation for a case to take to the Court of Queen's Bench was granted. THE CIVIL SERVICE AND CO-OPERATIVE STORES AND THE INCOME TAX.—The eighth section of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1880, may safely be said to be one of the most important pieces of domestic legislation whiohthe Conservatives have passed during their Ion* tenure of office, since it strikes at the root of the co- operative system—and especially of the Civil Service Storts-by placing those trade-destroying establishments on the same footing as ordinary tradesmen. If the in- coming Government carry out this provision to the letter it will result in an immediate revival of the retail trade nroiferU y- is as imPort«nt to the general laroi??acHvlty of the wholesale trade to the enacts tlmt lint ,ta |he w,orkinS men. The clause *withstanding the provision contained in dent section 11, of the Industrial and Provi- Act sliavfl v 1876, a society registered under that 1 <e c^,argeable to the duties of income tax under ciule C and schedule D in case the society sells to persons who are not members, and the number of the snares of the society is limited either by its rules or practice. The thoughtful and effective character of this c ause cannot be too much praised, as it does not touch ne great and useful co-operative stores established by aUe thorkmg Ulen 10 the manufacturing districts, since a, *ke customers of these are members, and receive a snare of the profit, so that, although their original pur- chase may leave a profit to the store as a corporation, the surplus comes back to the purchaser at the end of the year. But in the case of the Civil Service, the Noncon- conformists', and similar schemes, the corporation is nothing more than a shopkeeping company trading like an ordinary tradesman upon the system of ready money, small profits, and quick returns, but with the important dIfference-altogether prejudicial to the bona fide trades- man, especially in the case of the Civil Service Stores— that they have hitherto been exempt from income tax, and that they have carried on the business of their store in time for the employment of which they are already paid—and paid far too highly considering the amount of work they do—by the country, The incoming Govern- ment cannot do anything which will more quickly in- crease the financial balance than by at once diminishing the number of idlers called Government clerks, and requiring the remainder to do an amount of work equal to at least half the quantity that would be performed by a merchant's or manufacturer's clerk for the same wages. And as to Clause 8, just referred to, the Government should see that the same scrupulous care is taken to secure a. full retnrn for the income tax duty as is now taken with private traders. The reason this will have such a beneficial effect is because the profits of these Civil Service, Nonconformist, and similar stores, has been derived not so much from the business done amongst tbe members, but f^o'n that done with the ticket holders or outsiders. The Government servants could not of themselves support their stores so as tn yield large profit, although under the ce-operath^ system they have bad to pay for what they purchase instead of obtaining credit, and then settling accounts with the tradesmen by becoming hintmnt acc°unts formerly were accustomed to. 8 .bankluPt. as I

(General UuteUiflMw. The governing body of the Exeter Endowed Schools, presided over by the Bishop, have just accepted plans for a high-class school for girls in Barnfield. The establish- ment will be proceeded with at once. The Indian trade and navigation accounts for the first eleven months of the last financial year show a consider- able increase both of exports and imports, on the corres- ponding period of the previous year. Daniel Dyson Noble was remanded at the Mansion House, London, a few days ago on the charge of forging a cheque for jE500 on the bank of England. It was stated that he was one of a gang of forgers who altered cheques by chemicals. Three of the gang had already been sentenced to long terms of penal servitude for complicity in this particular forgery. At tbe Worship Street Police Court, London, on Thurs- day, Jacob Barnett was conlD1Ítted for trial on the charge of having made a false declaration in order to procure his marriage with one Kate Rosenblatt. who also was committed for trial for having knowingly made a false declaration as to her age for tbe purpose of procuring her marriage with Barnett. Bail for tbe husband was put in and justified, but the wife was locked up in de- fault. Messrs. Skinner, military tailors, of Jermyn-street, on Tuesday brought an action against Mr. T. A. Williams, brother-in-law of Lord Charles Ker, son of the Duke of Roxburgbe. Lord Charles Ker obtained from the plain- tiffs a loan of £.1..°00. and afterwards became bankrupt. Mr. illiams joined Lord Charles 10 signing the pro- missory note, and this action was brought to recover the amount. A verdict was given for £1,2,6, which includes interest. Continent il opinion in regard to the English election is veering rounJ. The French papers have mostly come to the conclusion no.v that there is, after all, nOI hio¡.:ç so very dreadful in a Liberal Government. Berlin even is get- ting over its fright and not much alarm is now expressed in Vienna as to the possible advent of Mr. Gladstone to power. Admiral Maxse has addressed a letter to the Bappel. pointing w, that whatever sympathy was ex- pressed in England for the French nation after Sedan came from the Liberals and Radicals. Not a single Con- servative uttered a word of this nature. In Constanti- nople the result of the elections h<iS produced a profound sensation; and great delight is said to be expressed be- cause the doom of Lord Beaconsfield's Ministry was sealed. This delight, however, is probad1y not felt in official circles The Greeks, the Dailll Ntv^ correspon- den tells m, are wild with excitement. The Russian papers express pleasure at the result of the elections- not because the Liberal Ministers are likely to be more friendly to Russia, but because the advent of a Liberal Government would be a pledge for The peace of Europe. THE NEW LIBERAL GOVERNMENT.—It is idle to specu- late upon the composition of the new Cabinet, but it may safely be said that the incoming men will be generally superior to those they succeed, both in poli- tical capacity and in debating power. If we put aside the two chiefs, and allow Lord Salisbury and Lord Granville to be well matched, we exhaust admitted claims to equality. Sir Stafford Northcote has led the House for four years, but has failed to establish his right to other thin second-rate. rank. Placed beside Lord Hartington his claims are njt significant. Mr. Cross established upon slender foundations a repuLltion for business-like capacity but directly he ventured be- yond the routine work of his department his inability became apparent. His Artiz ins'Duelling Act is prac- tically a failure, and bis attempt to grapple with the Water Q lestion has demonstrated his administrative in- capacity. Should Sir Willinm Harcourt be his successor, respectable mediocrity will be replaced by brilliant ability. Colonel Stanley owes his position to a political necessity, nor can it be said that in his citse opportunity has developed gifts which in a private station were un- noticed. His successor, whether he he Lord Cardwell or another, will be to him as a Triton to a minnow. Lord Cranbrook's reign at the India Office will be principally remembered by his vehement, and not over scrupulous, defence of a policy which has resulted in widespread disaster and confusion. Should Lord Northbrook con- sent to succetd him, Indian affairs will be again in the hands of a statesman who has served his country in many capacities, and greatly added to an already established reputation by his career as Viceroy. Sir Michael Hicks- Beach must be judged by his South African policy, in which he has displayed a want of" grip" which is largely answerable for the Zulu War. A strong and sagacious Minister would have detected and ciu-hed in the bud the manoeuvres which led up to;1 generally regretted struggle, but the Secretary for the Colonies was content to leave to chance the issue he should have controlled. Mr. Forster has been named as his successor, and, should this appointment fall to him, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach will be succeeded by one whose Parlia- mentary reputation is second only to the highest. Going beyond the Cabinet, Sir Henry James is at least the equal of Sir Johu Holker as a lawyer, and in debate is acknowle tged superior; while, should Mr. Herschell become Solicitor-General, Sir Htrdinge Giff ml will be succeeded by one of the most eminent counsel at the bar. When to these we have named we add Mr. Gos- chen, Mr. Lowe, Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Grant-Duff, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, not to speak of the Great Tribune and many Peers, the number of men of light and leading" among the Liberals grows clear. THE REFORM: OF CONVOCATION.—The Bishop of Exeter held a visitation court at Plymouth on Tuesday and de- voted his charge to the question of the Reform of Con- vocation. He urged that if the decisions of Convocation were to be of any real weight they must speak the voice of the clergy as a whole. The demand for reform was made year after year with increasing unanimity. At present the opinion of the Lower House was mainly the opinion of the dean and archdeacons, the parochial clergy of the province—at least 10,000 in number—being repre- sented by only 46 members of the congregation. Origi- nally the non-elected members of Convocation were held to be representatives of the clergy at large as truly as the elected members but the great body of the clergy no longer acquiesced in this view, and his lordship did not see how it was possible any longer to defend tbe preSl>nt arrangement. There were other anomalies, such, for example, as tbe requirement of personal attendance in order to vote at the election of proctors but this was of small importance compared with the insufficient repre- sentation of the parochial clergy. This evil had been re- cognized by the highest authority of the Church, and even by the Convocation itself. The question to be solved was, what authority had power to apply the remedy. Parliament had never yet interfered with the constitution of Convocation. Not a few of the clergy would feel that to base the constitution of Convocation on an Act of Parliament would be to apply a remedy worse than the disease. His lordship thought that ad- ditional represeutation of the parochial clergy might be secured by some such method as the following:—There was nothing, so fir as he could see, to prevent tbe Lower House Irom admitting to its debates a body of proctors representing the archdeaconries, say, one for each of the 60 archdeaconries in the province. Not being summoned by writ of the Archbishop, those proctors would not vote On any act which required legal as distinguished from moral validity, such as the enactment of canons they would vote only on such matters as would be treated as resolutions of the Lower House. They would be asseSSOIS rather than proctors, but he was conficlent that after a while an understanding would grow up that tbe formal body—the strictly legal House—should always ratify the votes of the whole House. The objection to the reform of Cjnvocation were purely technical, and he thought t1H3Y would be best met by such an arrangement as he had sketched, which would be substantially sufficient for the purpose, but would leave untouched the technical question. As to the representation of the laity, his lord- ship remarked that there was a growing feeling that Par- liament was not the body in which the laity could best handle Church matters. Parliament, of course, would al- ways retain its supreme veto; but it would probably be disinclined to interfere further, provided that the laity could fina voice in some other way. How that voice was to find utterance must be settled in due course. It was not yet an urgent matter, though it soon would be. ROYAL VISIT TO TRURO.—A meeting of the Truro City Council was held on Friday, with the view of deciding upon the arrangements to be made for the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the 30th of May, when the Prince has promised to lay the foundation stone of the new cathedral. It has been arranged that the Royal party shall be entertained at Tregothnan, the seat of Viscount Falmouth, whence they will drive to Truro, where they will be received in state at the City end of Boscawen-bridge by the Mayor and Corporation of the city, and by the county dignitaries. The Prince and Princess will next be received by the Freemasons, and the Prince will proceed through the main streets to the western end of the city, where he will open the Grand Lodge. It is calculated that the Freemasons will be sufficiently numerous to line Lemon-street—which is about a quarter of a mile long-on each side in single rank, so as to form an avenue through which the Prince shall pass on his return from the performance of the Masonic ceremony, the masons falling into procession behind his Royal Highness as he proceeds towards the site of the new Cathedral. Here in an enclosure the corner stone of the new building will be laid with full Masonic rites. But the Prince will first lay a stone at the western end of the present church upon a site selected in the centre of the churchyard, where the public will be admitted to witness the ceremony. Stands will be erected here to accommodate 4,500 people. This, how- ever, will not be a corner stone, but it is expected that one of the columns of the building will stand upon it. After the Masonic ceremony the Royal party will be en- tertained at luncheon in the Market-hall, and they will next attend a review of Regulars, Militia, and Volun- teers, to be held at Trehske, the seat of Mr. W. Teague, whence the Prince and Frmcess wnl return to Tregoth- nan. The details of these proceedings 1 ave, 0' course, still to be arranged, but the above are the main features of the wu| ^so include the entertain- ujent of the^ordMajoi of Lorukn (wbo ha, offeied to come to Tiurc.m' State), to whom a grand banquet will be give ening. cjty a|so be illumi- ainnint? fhpir a ^1 the Pointers and deco.a-o.sare be- TT? i A county meeting, convened by the Hi h Sheriff 0f Cornwall (Mr. Charles G. Prideaux ijiune), was held at St. Austell on Friday, for the pur- pose ot making arrangements for the fitting reception of the Pnnce and Princess of Wales upon their visit to Cornwall, in May, when his Royal Highness will lay the foundation stone of Truro Cathedral. The High Sheriff presided, and was supported by the Bishop of Truro, Colonel the Hon. Charles Edgcumbe, Sir Colman Rash- leigh, Sir Charles Sawle, Colonel Tremayne, Hon. and Rev. J. Townshend Boscawen, and » h-rge number of county gentlemen. It was resolved that an address of welcome, drawn up by a committee, and signed by the High Sheriff on behalf of the county, should be presented to their Royal Highnesses, and a committee was ap- pointed to act with the Cathedral committee and the corporation of Truro in any arrangement that might be made for the ceremony of the HOth of May.