The Cambrian

CONTENT. I see yon smiling as of old, And in your eyes bright love untold, I henr vour voice of long ago. I hear my name breathed low. Your harsh farewell is all forgot; Your angry fllce-I see it not; And though you joy in being free, Sweet, what is that to me ? You cannot rob me of the grace Of hours when we were face to face By winter fires or summer streams You cannot steal my dreams. I see you smiling as of old, And in your eyes bright love untold, I hear your voice of long ago, I hear my name breathed low. WELDO LOW. r

FAREWELL. Farewell Thou canst not know How I have lingered o'er this parting word Nor how the fountain of my heart is stirred To feel that I must go. But oh when far away I oft sh^ll think of the dear love that hath Shone like a blessed light upon my path, Changing my night to day. Farewell Will nature don Her cheerful face ? Will the glad sun beam bright ? Will sweet stars shine more tenderly by night For thee, when I am gone ? Oh can it—will it be That as I helpless drift upon the tide That bears me far, and farther from your side— You will lose sight of me ? Ah, well it were not strange If you should lose, amid your daily cares, The picture from your heart that now It wears, Men are so apt to change. But oh as time shall swell The days to weeks—the weeks to months and years— I shall look backward through my blinding tears To this our last farewell.

IBavicttes, &c. Drawing from nature—Pulling a tooth. Preventives of consumption—High prices. Cigar ashes are like facts—They are stub-born things. An old salt christened his anchor Sigh because it was heaved so often. Some people are so nervous that they cannot even rest assured. There is solemn music in a broken garden vase. It is a real knockeri nrn. People living near mountain streams know how freshet is when it rains for a week. No man is wholly bad. There is the forger, for instance. He is ever ready to write a wrong. The follow who picked up the hot penny originated the re- mark, All that glitters is not cold." A reason given why a piano was not saved at a Are was be- cause none of the firemen could play on it. An Irishman, giving directions for casting a cannon, said, "Take a long hole and pour brass round it." Speaking of a returning fashion, the Troy Times says hoop skirts are coming. Yes, sir, they11 soon be round. A little scholar, when asked to define chaos, answered that it wns a Ilreat pile of nothing and nowhere to put it." Is your wife II Democrat or II Republican ?" asked one citizen of another. She's neither. She's a Home Ruler." What's the man yelling at ?" asked a farmer of his boy. Why," chuckled the boy, He's yelling at the top of his voice." The Boston T., anscript says editors in that city do good by stealth—meaning, no doubt, that they do evil that good may come. Put pebbles of different sizes into a box, shake them up, and the larjlest will be found at the bottom. It is different with strawberries. I am now," said a Turkish spy, writing to his government. in an apartment so small that the least bit of suspicion cannot enter it." Flowers and Millionaires.—Flowers waste their wealth upon the vacant air, and rich men generally fling theirs upon the vacant heir. The butchers of Brooklyn have just started, for sociability, "The Leg of Mutton Club." A leg of mutton, well handled, ought to make a very good club. The following is the way an editor would put it: Men may come and men may go," but goodness defend us from the man who comes but never goes. Notice at the door of a ready-made clothing establishment in one of the poorer quarters of Paris: Do not go some- where else to be robbed walk in here." A contpmparary says: An article in a contemporary is en- titled Old Lady Teas.' But it has been our experience that they don't tease as much as young ladies." There is a Quaker in Philadelphia so upright that he won't sit down to his meals; and so downright in all his acts, that he never goes upstairs, but lodges on the basement. A Bath man suffering from rheumatism was advised by his physician to try the hot springs. What is the use he re- turned, I've been in hot water ever since I was married." You don't know how it pains me to punish you." said the teacher. I guess there's the most pain at my end of the stick," replied the boy, feelingly. 'T any rate, I'd be willing to swap." A hardy seaman, who had escaped one of the recent ship- wrecks on our coast. was asked by a good lady how he felt when the waves broke over him. He replied, Wet, ma'am. very wet." ft is a very easy matter for a person to be in two places at a time, even though these places be thousands of miles apart. One frequently hears of a man being in a strange country and home sick. "Sam you are not honest. Why do yon put all the good niches on the top of the measure and the little ones below ?" "Sime reason, sah, dat makes de front of your house stone and de back stucco," I'neqnal Matches.—At a wedding the other day one of the jrnosts, who was often a little absent-mi- ded, observed, gravely, I have remarked that there have been more women than m"'1 married this year." Intimate Acquaintance.-A witness being interrogated us n his knowledge of the defendant in the case, said he knDw him intimately—he had supped with him, sailed with him. and horse-whipped him. diaries Matthews, the elder, being asked what he was going t" do with his son (the young man's profession was to be that of an architect). Why," answered the comedian," he is going to tiraw houses, Hkp. his father." "Where is the island of Java situated?" asked a school teacher of a small and rather forlorn-looking boy. "I dunno sir." Don't you know where coffee comes from ?" Yes, sir we borrows it from the next-door neighbour." Henry," aaid his wife. with chilling severity, I saw you coming out of a saloon this afternoon." Well, my darling," ieplied the artless man. "yon would'nt have your husband staying in a saloon from morning to night, would you?" Emersm says a man ought to carry a pencil and note down the th ughts of the moment. Yes, one short pencil, devoted exclusively to that use, would last some men we know about two thousand years, and then have the original point on. She asked the clerk if he was positive-thoroughly con- vinced—the eggs were fresh. Ott, yes," said the young philosopher. I know they are why. the farmers said none of his hens were more than a year old." She bought a basketful on the spot. A young gentleman the other day asked a young lady what she thought of the marriage state in general. Not knowing I can't tell." was the reply, but if you and I were to put our heads together, I should very soon be able to give you a definite answer." Two sisters conversing about a concert that had taken place, the younger of the two, who had been present, was asked if a certain singer had been encored. Her youthful fancy must have wand ere 1 in another direction, for she replied: "Oh, no she was in velvet." I stand." said a stump orator, on the broad platform of the principles of '96, and palsied be my arm if I desert 'em." Yon stand on nothing of the kind," interrupted a little shoe- maker in the crowd; "you stand in my boots, that you never paid me for, and I want the money." Thackery was once heard to apologise for his early with- drawal from the table upon the plea of an engagement else- where. But will you not have a cigar first ?" inquired his host. A cigar? Oh that is my engagement," was the frank reply; and he remained until a late hour J Policeman (to old gentleman, who is a total abstainer, but slightly exc ted from having been robbed of his watch) Come I sav, you must nt create a disturbance here. Move on or I will have you run in for being drunk and disorderly Now there's a good man. go off home quietly." A mercenary little boy overheard a conversation between his pnrerts concerning a wedding that was soon to come off and recalled the subject at the breakfast table the next morn- ing by asking the following question Papa, what do they want to <rjve the bride away for ? Can t they sell her ?" Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was a far better poet than horseman, was riding one day in the county of Durham, when a would-he who met him asked him if he had seen a tailor ontheroa'l. "Yes I did," replied Coleridge; and he told me that if I went a little further 1 should meet a goose." Mothei to her daughter just seven years old What makes you look so sad, Carrie ?" Carrie, looking at her baby brother three months old: "1 was just thinking that in about ten year; from now, when I shall be entering company and havinga beaux, that brother of mine will be just old enough to bother the life out of me." Charles Fox and his friend, Mr. Hare, both much incom. moded by duns, were together in a house, when, seeing some shabby men about the door, they were afraid they were bailiffs in search of them. Not knowing which was in danger, Fox opened the window, and, calling to them said, "Pray gentle- men, are you fox-hunting or hare-hunting?" A tramp was looking wistfully into a coffee saloon in Gal- veston. He smacked his lips and said, if f wish I had some coffee A kind-hearted gentleman put his hand into his pocket, and taking out ten cents, handed it to the unfortunate man, saying, Go and get some coffee, if you need it so b d The tramp took the money, but instead of going into the coffee saloon he made a bee-line for a bar-room. Hello Come back, there's no coffee over there," called out his benefactor That's all you know about it. There's coffee and cloves on a saucer in the bar. rye been there before." I am a peaceable man," said the intruder, graspin"- his club with both his hands, but if you don't come down "with seventeen dollars fifty cents. damagoes for my lacerated feelings the bombardment will bugin at once." The owner of the dog paid the money, as he was afraid the other fellow might exas- p rate him if he hit him with a club of that size. The owner of the dop also said that he was sorry that the dog ha1 bitten the intruder's son. "Why, he ain't my son," said the in- truder. Whose son is he, than'" asked the astonished owner of the dog. He is the son of a friend of mine who owed me seventeen dollars fifty cents. but he is poor, and the only available assets he had was these dog bites on his body which he turned over to me for collection." "Well. I'll be shot'" ,I Olt, you need'nt complain you are getting off dog cheap. I ought to make you pay in advance for the next time the boy going to be bit."

gortfolicr. "0. '°" "0- °.0"0° -eO. There are those for whom money does everything, except to make honourable men of them. Would you retain the love of a friend, do not be selfishly exacting. The mere lapse of years is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence. It is not necessary to threaten a bad man, for his own deeds threaten him with a worse punishment than you can inflict. He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He whe acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad. — Marcus Aurelius. Every man who enjoys property has some share in the public; and therefore the care of the public is in some degree every such man's concern.—Swift. The season went on, and the world, like a great flower afloat in space, kept opening its thousand-fold blossoms. Hail and sleet were things lost in the distance of the year —storming away in some far off region of the north, unknown to the summer generation.—Georqe Macdonald. People are more prone to err in fancying themselves righteous than the reverse; nevertheless, the course and limits of self deception are indefinite. It is within possi- bility of man to believe himself wicked, while his actual conduct is ridiculously blameless, even praiseworthy.— Julian Hawthorne. In giving reasons men commonly do with us as the woman does with her child when she goes to market about her business, she tells it she goes to buy it a fine thing, to buy it a cake or some plums. They give us such reasons as they think we will be catched withal, but never let us know the truth.—Selden. We are bad judges, bad physicians, and bad divines in our own case; but above all we are seldom able, when injured or insulted, to judge of the degree of sympathy which the world will bear in our resentment and our retaliation. The instant, however, that such degree of sympathy is exceeded, we hurt ourselves and not our adversary. Sir Walter Scott. Letters such as are written from wise men are of all the words of man in my judgment the best; for they are more natural than orations and public speeches, and more advised than conference or present speeches. So again letters of affairs from such as manage them, or are privy to them, are of all others the best instructions for history, and to a diligent reader the best histories in themselves.—Bacon. What petty things thev are we wonder at; like child- ren that esteem every trifle, and prefer a fairing before their fathers. What difference is between us and them. but that we are dearer fools —coxcombs at a higher rate ? They are pleased with cockle-shells, whistles, hobby horses and such like; we with statutes, marble pillars, pictures, gilded roofs, where underneath is lath and lime, perhaps loam. Yet we take pleasure in the lie, and are glad we can cozen ourselves. Nor is it only in our walls and ceilings, but all that we call happiness is mere painting and gilt.—Ben Jonson. Are you ever in sorrow ? Does your heart ever bleed? Is there some burden weighing you down too heavy to bear ? Think of Jesus at the gate of the City of Nain. Picture to yourself His tender loving look and hearken to His words of mercy—"Weep not." He seemed to tell that mourner to dry up her tears and be happy again, And so does He love to comfort UF. He speaks peace to I our souls. He gives us "the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the heavenly spirit of heaviness. We need Bone of us be unhappy. He can give us peace, a better peace than the world can ever bestow, a peace that passeth all understanding. Those who witnessed the miracle at Nain wondered; they were awe-struck' they glorified God. But I am afraid that only here and there one became a follower of the Saviour. Let nothing short of this satisfy you. To know Christ, to love Him. and to follow Him, let that be yonr determination, and the longing desire of your heart,— Bp. Oxenden,

CHABACTEB.—There is nothing which adds so much to the beauty and power of man as good moral character. It is his health, his influence, his life. It dignifies him in every station, exalts him in every position, and glorifies him at every period of life. Such a character is more to be desired than anything else on earth. It makes a man free and independent. No servile tool, no croaking sycophant, no treacherous honour-seeker, ever bore such a character. The pure joys of truth and righteousness ever spring in such a person. If young men but knew how much a good character would dignify and exalt them, how glorious it would make their prospects; never should we find them yielding to the grovelling purposes of human nature. ENGLISHMEN.—English people impress you, first of all by a sense of the genuineness of their actions and of their speech. Warm or cold, they may be, gracious or ungracious, arrogant or considerate, but you see that they are sincere. Englishmen adulterate their goods, but not their conduct. If any Englishman makes you welcome, you feel at homo and you know that without reason, and often out of reason, he will look after your comfort—that for your well-being while you are under his roof, he considers himself responsible. Yet he does not thrust himself upon you, and you may do almost what you choose, and go whither you will. If he meets you and gives you only two fingures, it means only two fingers; if his whole hand grasps yours, you have his whole hand, and you have it most warmly at your parting. His speech is like his action. His social word is his social bond; you may trust him for all that it promises, and commonly for more. If you do not understand him well. you may suppose that he is indifferent and careless, until something is done for you, or suggested to you, that shows you that his friend and his friend's welfare have been upon his mind.—Grant White. OLD FAMILIAR LETTERS.—How few people read letters They seem to think because they are not a trial but a pleasure of the author that they are of little value, and served their purpose in the reading of the recipient: and yet they are often the very best of an author's productions, let you into his life better than a biography, and are the nearest approach to his delightful conversation. There we find him at his freest, often at his happiest. Who would prefer Gray's lifeless poems, rich as they are in tasteful ornament, to those glowing, exquisite pictures, his letter*, so full of life, so natural, so full of the fine spirit and scholarly taste and poetry and subdued humour, with a spice of the genial gossip of the retiring poet and scholar of the last century ? There are not better to be found in the length and breadth of the language. Then those choice, juicy morsels of poor, brave, affectionate, demented Cowper, they are not a Task, but as good as one—with their currents of humour and love of (all humble and homely things, and their genuine idiomatic Mother English! How good and sweet and sunshiny he is when the clouds and terrible fever-dreams are not weighing upon his soul! Walpole, the dilettante friend of Gray-I don't see how he stomached this cold, narrow, unenthusiastic personality -but Walpole was brilliant and witty, and his corres- pondence fills many volumes, extends over a long life and deals with every conceivable topic and event of the time in the Walpolean day —that is, everybody and everything is seen through the saltpetre flash of his own malevolent wit. However. little we may admire his character, the variety of topic, the fund of anecdote, the whim, the sparkle, and the epigrammatic style, make his letters certainly very entertaining. His effeminancy and weakness for curiosities might commend him, if still living, to some of our bric-a-brac collectors and lovers of "old blue." Swift's—bad-hearted as he was—show hie manly sense and clear, perfect English, and, with all hia misanthrophy, more of the dean, allowing for the fact that there is more to show than the correspondence of Pope does of that little crooked thing that asks questions," Pope's letters are well writen, but are not good as letters; they express too much care and elabora. tion; he did not open his heart—they have no freedom— are artificial. That he could write a real letter when not in company with that false friend of his, ambition, is seen in a few instances, notably in the letter to the Earl of Burlington, describing a journey to Oxford with Lintot, the publisher, which is choicely good. His letters should be prized, however, for the company they introduce us to —the leaders and lights of literature in the Queen Anne period. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, masculine and cold, is credited with having loosened the heart-strings of little Pope, effeminate and sensitive, and on his declaring his passion and she her laughter, an estrangement sprang up between them, the sorry little man retiring to quietly polish the life out of couplets at Twickenham, and the lady of fashion to travel and enjoy society and retail scandal, and show her want of delicacy, and display all her gifts and more, too, in her airy, gossip letters. Lamb's letters give us sprinklings of his time, and let us into the coterie of genius that adorned the first quarter of this century. They are quaint and original, as everything that comes from that kindly, humourous soul. Sterne's, free and easy, and odd, as the careless, happy, fellow always was. How delightful to have a word from the noble Sydneys, or talk with Cicero of old Roman days. There we see Cowper at Olney, as he bends and writes to the Rev. John Newton or Lady Eesketh, or in a much deeper solitude Lord William Russell, with trustful face, penning a few words before his execution to the Christian wife and mother. The charming Anne Boleyn in sad plight to her offended lord and king, or Walter Raleigh, ever chivalrous and stout-hearted, proposing an expedition for the discovery of El Dorado. We see poor Goldy, in distress, writing to brave Samuel for help, and there is transfigured the stout doctor of common sense solemnly reading the manuscript of "The Vicar; he finally pockets it aad is off to the publisher, returning after an interval, with sixty pounds as the price thereof, to the great relief of Goldsmith. The troublesome landlady's rent is paid, and a reproof thrown in for good measure, we picture round-faced, good-natured Dick Steele, appy 10 the thought of an evening at the Kit Cat. probably away from the side of his fretful, scolding wife, sending her a message that he will not be at home till eleven oclock and addressing her as "Dearest Being on he.get home by eleven, or twelve, or one, °l nlZZlrl? «Ecb0 from Past indistinctly utters something like morning." But we would not be positive. We read and dream. What a world of history in lettters- of character and life t TOW a wpalth of humanity they disclose, joys and sorrows now S gone for ever, but still living, throbbing here as of the present moment. We read on, and what the words do not divulge to us we see between the lines. There is some- thing about letters that evade the deftest in their more pretentious works—subtle and delicate as the bloom of violets; it is to literature what incommunicable voice and eye and expression are to conversation. It is of the native man, and potent almost as Prospero's wand in bringing back the past; for there the writer lives and breathes again. Now we are at a solemn supper, given by Ben Jonson away back in 1636. Thomas Carew is buzzing in the ear of Howell that Ben had barrelled up a deal of knowledge." Yet it seemed to the sagacious H. that "he had not read the ethics, which, among other precepts of morality, forbid self-commendations," We go further back into that dim past, and Shakespere sits down to his supper of the gods with Beaumont and Fletcher and Sir Walter and Camden and Selden and burly Jonson, self-willed and hectoring, but generous withal, who can't help feeling a little bit jealous, and attempts to lord it over benign Prospero himself.

SWANSEA. HARBOUR TRUdT. The monthly meeting of the Trustees of the Swansea Harbour (was held on Monday, Mr. F. A. Yeo, the Chairman, presiding. There were also present: Messrs. H. H. Vivian, M.P., L. L. Dillwyn, M P., J. Crow Richardson, C. Bath, Edward Bub, E. H. Bath, Wm. Thomas, Thomas Davie?, E. R. Daniel, Robert D. Burnie, Thomas Ford, George B. Strick, Thomas Cory, and J. Cady. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, The Clerk read the report of the Finance Committee, of which the following is an abstract:— General Harbour Estate. REVENUE. £ s. d. d. Shipping Rates 2006 6 7 Rates on Goods. 1171 9 8 •, Bridge Tolls 365 19 3 Ballast Rates 45 17 6 Rent of Harbour Railway. 250 00 Low Level Railway 100 7 11 Canal Lock Tolls 63 13 0 Wharfage and Craneage. 90411, Sundry Rents 379 5 0 4473 3 10 EXPENDITURE. Interest. 1899 6 10 Wages 1056 1 6 Ballast. 91 2 0 Salaries 163 16 1 Stores. 144 15 5 Monthly Bills 195 19 8 Rents, Rates, &c. 197 19 2 -———— 3749 0 8 Surplus Income—724 3 2 South Docks Estate.- REVENUE. Rates on Goods 209 0 4 Ballast Rates 121 13 6 Rent of Wharves & Coal Drops 558 14 5 Extra Layerage Dues. 2 11 5 Wharfage, Craneage, & Railway 403 11 3 Sundry Rents 101 17 2 1397 8 1 EXPENDITURE. Interest. 500 0 0 Wages 204 6 9 Salaries ora 1 e Monthly Bills 213 4 6 Rents, Rates, &c. 0 0 1041 0 0 Dencit-JS356 8 1 Comparative Revenue and Expenditure for the years 1881 and 1880 General Harbour Estate. 1881. 1880. Revenue of Three £ s. d. B s. a. months 13726 0 10 13844 110 Expenditure do. 10990 11 9 1C917 17 4 Surplus-B27.591 £2926 13 8 -Surplus. South Docks Estate. Revenue of Three £ s. d. » s. d. months. 3335 1 1- 3317 6 9 Expenditure do. 3132 17 7 3872 0 11 Dencit-JB202 3 6 B55414 2-Deficit. Surplus-£2937 12 7 £2371 19 6—Surplus. Credit balance on Revenue Account as at 30th June, 1881 £ 25177 17 1 Add Surplus to date, as above 2937 12 7 „ £28115 9 8 Accruing Interest on Mortgages Account. Balance in hands of Treasurers on the 30th September, 1881 JE10408 6 3 Mr. C. Bath, as Chairman ot tne finance Committee, moved the adoption of the report. He said that he found, on looking over the receipts and expenditure, that there had been a falling off in respect of shipping rates, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, of X408, and of X122 as compared with the preceding month of the present year. The revenue of the harbour had, however, considerably improved in other respects, and there had been a surplus revenue over expenditure during ''he past month of £ 1,080, as compared with a surplus revenue over expenditure for the corresponding month of the previous year of £ 9,090. There have also been a decrease in the ship- ping rates for the past six months as compared with the corresponding month of last year of £1,387 2s. 8d., but he was glad to say that there was an improvement in this respect during the first three months of the pre sent half-year, and he hoped this would continue. Mr. Bath then moved the adoption of the report of the c immittee. Captain Thomas Davies seconded the resolution. THE EAST DOCKS. The following report was read Your committee report that the following are the arrangements of the proceedings that are to take place on the 18th inst. The road for the general public will be by Quay Parade, over the Harbour Trust bridges, and under the new railway bridge adjoining Bridge Inn. Guests holding invitation tickets will be ferried across in a steamboat between Pockett's Wharf, South Dock entrance, and the new embankment, and admitted within a reserved enclosure. The party comprising the Prince and Princess will drive through Wind-street, Prospect-place, and Somerset-place to the entranoe of the North Dock basin, by the Beaufort Arms, where they will be met by the Chairman of the Trust, and embark on board of the Lord Lieutenant's yacht, which will convey them down the entrance channel and, if weather permit, out between the piers. Returning, they will disembark at the East Dock. The ceremony will consist of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales letting in sea water by opening a sluice, and Her Royal Highness the Princess will then name the dock. The committee proposed that the name given to the dock shall be the Prince of Wales Dock. Your committee have issued invitations to upwardslof 1,300 guests, of whom about 300 are ladies." Mr. Yeo, the Chairman, moved the adoption of the report; and, in so doing, said that as regards the cere- mony to be observed on the occasion of the opening by their Ri)yal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Trust could easily understand that the com- mittee had been very busy in maturing the multiplicity of details. The ceremony would correspond with what had been stated at the last meeting of the Trust—His Royal Highness sailing into the harbour in the yacht of the Lord Lieutenant, disembarking at a temporary landing stage, and then descending into the dock for the purpose of examining the masonry and machinery. After that the Prince would open the sluice and let the water in. After that would be a luncheon in a large shed which was being constructed on the east side of the dock. Up war s o 1,300 people had been invited to that luncheon, including about 200 ladies. A large number of invitations were to those residing at con- siderable distances, and the committee scarcelv expected them to co™7°. f Jhe system adopted in selecting the names had been that the members and officials of the Trust and Corporation, the other officials of the town, the wives of the county and borough magistrates, and a few of the leading shippers who were not mem- bers of the Trust or Corporation had been invited. The committee proposed that the name of the dock should be the Prince of Wales Dock. He did not know that the question whether that was the most suitable name should be discussed, but inasmuch as Her Royal High- ness the Princess of Wales was to name the dock, he thought it might be more appropriately named the Princess of Wales Dock The Mayor seconded the motion, and remarked that it would be well if ,j *ere to act upon the sug- gestion that the dock shoo d be called the Princess of Wales Dock. He did not know of any Princess of Wales Dock in the United Kingdom. Alderman Ford observed that whatever they called the dock it would gradually merge into Prince's Dock. Mr. Vivian said it occurred to him that the Prince of Wales Dock was the most proper name, because they had invited him to come down and open it, and he had been kind enough to bring the Princess with him. As a good wife he (Mr. Vivian) thought the Princess would almost prefer to name the dock after her husband rather than after herself. At any rate, they had asked the Princo to come down to Wales to open this particular dock, and it would be a proper compliment to pay him to name it after him. Mr. Charles Bath said he was in favour of naming the dock the Prince of Wales Dock. Mr. L L. Dillwyn said that the principal part of the report which they had just heard read had reference to the ceremony which would take place in connection with the new docks; but he wished to make a little correction as to what he had said at the last meeting of the Trust. He had then stated that he was not altogether satisfied with the report of Mr. Aber- nethy as to what had been done at these docks, but he was satisfied after what Mr. Abernethy had stated that the whole of the masonry was being carried out by night and not by day. At that meeting he had distinctly asked Mr. Abernethy twice upon this point and Mr. Abernethy bad most distinctly assured him thit only a very small portion of the machinery was being carried on by night; in fact that practically none of the masonry was being executed by night and that all the work which was being done was excavations. He (Mr. Dillwyn) had deemed it due to himself to mnke the explanation which he had at the last meeting but eince that meeting he (Mr. Dillwyn) had received several communications to the effect that there must be some mistake somewhere as there was a great deal of heavy masonry work being still carried on in the night. Ha felt this was a very serious matter for the trustees were respon.,tibile to the public for the stability of the works, although Mr. Ab?rnethy was primarily responsible. He (Mr. Dillwyn) felt that it was a very serious thing if they could not rely upon what their engineer stated. He might say that be had informed Mr. Abernethy that he intended to bring the matter forward, because it was important, and affected him seriously. He did not say whether the information upon which he was speaking at the last meeting was right or wrong; but he had since made inquiries into the matter to know what was going on, and he found, on authority he could not doubt for a moment that there was, and had been for a long time, a great deal of most important masonry work going on at nights. He asked Mr. Abernethy the question with a view to additional people being employed to look after the men doing the masonry. He did not say whether or not masonry could be properly carried on at night under certain circum- stances, but he now wished to call the attention of the members to this matter, with a view to having an inquiry into it. And if it was found that there was then, and had been, masonry carried on at night, it would show that Mr. Abernethy had not sufficiently acquainted himself with the facts of the case, or that he bad deceived them, which he (Mr. Dillwyn) did not for a moment think he had done. He did not charge Mr. Abernethy with wilful deception. He would men- tion the names of two or three of the persons who had given him information on the question. Mr. Travers Wood had seen a large number of men employed at night. He (Mr. Dillwyn) employed one of his own men, a mason named John Davies, and on the night of October 6 he went down there and saw at eleven o'clock nineteen masons working in the lock on the cill. The Rev. Mr. Bolney, of Sketty, was down there, and saw a good many masons employed in other parts of the dock. He had said his say, and he felt that he was bound to do so. He now left the matter in the hands of the Trust. There was a large amount of important work still to be done. with which they had trusted Mr. Abernetby. It would be a very serious thing for the Trustees if they were not able to place the utmost reliance upon the reports which Mr. Abernethy made. He thought he bad a right to ask that this matter should be cleared up in one way or another. The Chairman said that Mr. Dillwyn had brought forward what he was pleased to regard as a very im- portant statement. He said that, at the last meeting, he publicly stated his satisfaction at learning that no masonry work was done at night; that he made that statement on the faith of a statement made by Mr. Abernethy at the East Dock Committee. He (the chairman) thought the statement Mr. Dillwyn had made that morning wuuld convey an erroneous impres- sion with regard to Mr. Abernethy's report to the East Dock Committee, although he was sure that Mr. Dillwyn bad no intention of conveying such an impres- sion. He would grant that Mr. Abernethy said that, practically, at that time, little or no masonry was being done at night, but he at the same time expressed his regret that it was so. He stated that the reason was because he could not get the masons to work. His opinion was that by the electric light, and by the ap- pliances there, masonry work could be carried on by night as well as by day, and it was his intention that at Hull, where the works were much greater, the masonry work should be carried on by day and night. No doubt, as Mr. Dillwyn had said, a great deal of masonry work had been doneatnight,but he believed that at the time Mr. Abernethy made the assertion little or no masonry work was being done at night, because they found it extremely difficult to get the masons to do it. Since then, no doubt, great efforts had been made on the part of the contractor, by paying extra wages, to induce them to do what Mr. Abernethy had always averred could be safely done, viz., carrying on large masonry work at night. Unless Mr. Dillwyn had any motion he would put the report. Mr. Dillwyn said he would not make a motion. He called attention to a discrepancy in a matter of fact which he still maintained there bad been. If the Trust was satisfied, he was, but be thought it ought to be carried further. The Chairman then put the motion, and it was carried. Mr. H. H. Vivian, M.P., then rose for the purpose of bringing forward the resolution which stood on the agenda in bis name, and which was to the following effect:— That the East Dock Committee be authorised to con- sider the desirability of purchasing a large self-propelling double dredger, similar to that now on hire from the River Tyne Commissioners, and to rep >rt thereon to the Trustees." Mr. Vivian said he could not but regard this as a matter of very great importance. If any reproach could be placed upon this harbour, or will be able to be cast upon It after the completion of the magnificent works which they had in band, it would be in respect to its roadstead. They had now in their possession—no, unfortunately not in taeir possession— they had now in their port a dredger hired from the Tyne Harbour Commissioners of such vast capabilities as to be able. in a comparatively short space of time by proper use, to construct at the Mumbles as fine a road- stead as to be found in any port of the world, and to convert the whole of their port into a deep water port. He did not know whether the Trustees had at all con- sidered the enormous capabilities of this dredger, which they bad hired; for his own part he had only recently been aware of its immense capacities, and it appeared to him to be one of the marvels of the age. He found from figures kindly furnished him by Mr. Capper that a dredge of the character which they had hired was capable of excavating upwards of 4,000 tons per day, though its extreme capacity was something like 7,000 tons per day. He found that on the Tyne, a No. 6 dredge, which is similar to No. 5, he believed, in the year 1866 excavated 1,461,641 tons, being an average of 4,870 tons per day, that the dredge No. o which they were now using, in twelve years excavated 11,000,000 tons of stuff. If they looked at the results obtained by the Tyne Commissioners, they appeared to to him, at any rate, to be something marvellous. During the last 20 years there bad been excavated from the Tyne Com- missioners' harbour no less than 58,000,000 tons of stuff, they having six of these dredgers at work. And what was the effect of this on the deepening of the harbours. In the year I860 there were only six feet six inches of water on the bar of the harbour at low water, whilst in 1579 there were 21 feet of water on the bar at low water. Again in the year 1860, the depth of water in the harbour was only 22 feet whereas in 1870 there was 37 feet of water. But the Tyue Harbour Commissioners had not only excavated the entrance of their harbour, but also their river to a re- markable extent. From the Newcastle Harbour ûuse. burn to Tyne Bridge the depth was 3! to 8! feet at low water in 1860; in 1879 it was 20 to 25 feet. Above Tyne Bridge in I860 the depth was from two to seven feet; in 1879 it was 13 to 20 feet. That shows what could be done, and what had actually been done in the Tyne Harbour during the last 20 years, by means of dredging; and it appeared to him that the purchase os such a machine would open up a magnificient future for this port. Not only could they use this powerful machine for deepening their roadstead but they could utilise the refuse that would be excavated in making a breakwater an idea which many of them bad cherished for years. They could also deepen their river, and, in point of fact, make it a deap water harbour, and get deep water at any rate up to the Forest Weir. As he had said before, if any reproach could be cast upon the harbour it was on account of the open character of their roadstead. There was a magnificent holding ground, no doubt and it was rarely that ships received any damage, but they were compelled to lie out a long distance in the Channel, and no doubt the captains did not feel so comfortab'.e as if they were within a break- water in deep water. This was a subject which had occupied those who had the interests of Swansea at heart for a good many years. His earliest recollections carried him back to a time when his father was interesting himself in a scheme for carrying oat a breakwater and harbour of refuge at the Mumbles. Now, by the aid of this extraordinarily powerful machine and the appliances of science they could, in an exceedingly inexpensive manner, slowly and gradually carry out the great work. Since the period to which he bad alluded the matter had occupied the attention of the Chamber of Commerce, and he held in his band a plan made by Mr. H. B. Davies, and he knew that Captain Davies, who was very well acquainted with the practical requirements of the port, had the matter at heart, and he believed it to be one of the most important that could engage the attention of the trust. When the Royal Commission on Harbours of Refuge went into this question a very expensive plan Was proposed—a plan which would cost nearly a million of money. Such expensive plans as that should be discarded, and he hoped the trust would never undertake such a scheme. Schemes of such magnitude swamped themselves by their very greatness. They should go slowly and gradually, keeping in view the point and working towards it by degrees. In the first instance they should purchase a dredger such as the one he now suggested. He thought they might obtain the sanction of the Admiralty to laying down great blocks of concrete in two walls, between which the dredger should deposit stuff which she took not only out of the harbour but out of the roadstead, provided, of course, that that stuff was not of such a nature as to float away and silt up the harbour. He had seen enormous results obtained by concrete blocks running out from a shallow shore. Port Said was entirely constructed by concrete blocks dropped into the sea, the blocks being made in France and brought across the Mediterranean. They had at their back large heaps of most excellent material for the construction of three blocks, and be thought it very probable that the outcome of the small beginning which he was now proposing might be the construction at the Mumbles of a double length ofsucb blocks within which anything of a suitable character which the dredger took np should be deposited. The amount which she could do was very striking. If employed upon the roadstead he found that in 150 working days she won1'! rx^avate 100 acres 3ft. deep, and, of course, half that amount 6ft. deep. He took 150 days, because that would be the portion of the year during which she could wo^ outside. In the course of a few years she would excavate for them a fine and deep roadstead, and also make a breakwater against the sea. The expen8 working her would be £ 112 per month, so that it was not an extravagant proposal which he was n g. If she were employed during the other penod of the year—176 days—in deepening the river, assuming it to be 50 yards wide and 5,280 yards long, he found she would take out 6ft. in depth dunng that time. He was told Mr. Abernethy was of opinion that deep water, by the hydraulic pressure it exerted, would always keep the bottom clear, and a dredger of this kind lnughed to scorn all the old notions of silt. She would probably take out in half a day all the silt which the river would bring down in a year. Their immediate operations, probably, would be at the mouth of the harbour. They wanted the entrances deepened, and a deep entrance carried out to low-water mark and beyond. The expense which his resolution would involve was not a large one. He understood thac a dredyer of that kind could be built for something under £27,000. That, he believed, was the cost of this dreiger in dearer times than the present. He believed that by-and-by, as their prosperity increased, so would their dredgers increase, because he believed the great future of the port lay in deepening the harbour and roadstead. (Hear, hear.) So it was quite possible that from this small beginning they might have, as the Tyne Commissioners had, six dredgers at work in their harbour. At any rate, they would not be running into too much expense if they resolved to spend £26,000 or £27,000 in the acquisition of such a dredger. They had already accumulated a surplus more than sufficient to purchase such a dredger, and if it were applied to that purpose the future benefit to the port was almost inestimable. Mr. Dillwyn seconded the motion, and said he most cordially agreed with the whole of Mr. Vivian's scheme, except perhaps some matters of detail with regard to the formation of a breakwater. The whole character of the port might be raised by such a scheme. He had never heard it doubted that by deepening the harbour and making a breakwater at the Mumbles they might convert the port into one of the first-class ports of the kingdom. He was satisfied that whatever money they might spend in carrying out this fcheme it would be remunerative almost at once. It would at once bring larger Tessels and a new class of trade into the port. Alderman Ford said he cordially approved of the purchase of this dredger. The great difficulties which up to now had stood in the way of making a harbour of refuge had been solved by this dredger. The difficulty had always been the enormous cost. The Bay was shallow in some places, but there were rocks existing which would necessitate any breakwater being carried out a great distance into the sea. By utilising this dredger they would be able to make the breakwater a much smaller one, and make their harbour inside it into which ships at the entrance of the Channel could run as a port of safety. This scheme, if carried out, would make Swansea, not only the principal port in the Hristol Channel, but the principal port at the entrance to the Atlantic. Alderman Davies said the great drawbacks'to the har- bour had been defective entrances, not sufficient depth of water, and, more than all, the dangerous position of the Mumbles roadstead. He trusted that if any diffi- culty arose in the way of obtaining money to make this breakwater, Mr. Vivian and Mr. Dillwyn would take the question before the present Government and get Parliament to more or less subsidise the scheme, because it would not only benefit Swansea, but the whole of the Channel. The Green Grounds could be removed, and, if they were removed, one of the finest harbours of refuge in the kingdom would be formed at the Mumbles. The Mayor said he cordially agreed with the propo- sals made by Mr. Vivian, and hoped that he, Mr. Dill- wyn, and Mr. Talbot, who had also been alive to the importance of a breakwater at the Mumbles, would, if necessary, solicit the aid of the Government. It did not concern the port alone but the whole of the ship- ping community. They were opening up a large trade with the United States, and if they only made the Channel deep enough for large American steamers they might make Swansea second only in importance to Liverpool, because the Bristol Channel was very much better than Liverpool, and they had a large manufac- turing district. Supposing the dredger cost £ 27,000— he did not think it would cost so much—the interest on that sum at 4§ per cent. would be £1,21.); allow 2i per cent. for depreciation, £600; working and repairs, £1,350. That would come to a little over £3,000 per year. In view of the immense advantages they were likely to gain by deepening the entrance into the Chan- nel that was a very small expenditure indeed. Mr. J. Crow Richardson said that only a few days a large vessel could not get into her berth for shortness of water. She was a large vessel for the present day, but only a small one in comparison with those which would ba built. He quite approved of the scheme now proposed, which was simple and inexpensive. They had plenty of copper slag, and there was plenty of limestone at the Mumbles for forming a breakwater. Mr. Burnie said he should be sorry to see the accu- mulated surplus touched for any purpose of this sort until the bridge tolls question bad bren settled. There was no reason why the money should not be borrowed, as it was a capital expenditure. The cost, according to bis reckoning, would be abont £4,000 a year, and, no doubt, the money would be well spent. Mr. Edward Bath thought that with efficient dredg- ing a breakwater would not be needed. The necessity for a breakwater was caused by the shallowness of the bay. Vessels bad to lie so far out that they were be- yond the shelter of the Mumbles Head. If the dredger removed the Green Grounds, vessels would be able to come in so far that the necessity for a break- water would be avoided. The dredger they had hired from the Tyne Commissioners was not a sea-going but a river dredger, and the Trust wanted one capable of taking the ground. The Chairman said he approved of the motion, and no great loss of time need take place before they set about the purchase of the dredger. He considered that the formation of a harbour of refuge was a question of national interest, and the work should be aided by national funds, supplemented by local effort. The motion was then carried, and at the suggestion of Mr. Dillwyn the matter was referred to the execu- tive committee instead of to the East Dock Committee. THE ROYAL VISIT. Mr. Dillwyn then rose and said: I rise to propose according to precedent in other places, "That at a suitable period in the day's, proceed- ings on the 18th inst., the Trustees do present an address to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales." An address has been prepared by our Clerk, and which when presented will, I feel sure, meet with the approval of the Trust. Gentlemen, we as Trustees of the Harbour and in concert with our sister Trustees of the public, I mean the Corporation, together with our allies the Friendly Societies, the Volunteers, and, indeed all connected with the districts are anxious that their Royal Highnesset should receive a loyal and cordial welcome upon coming for the first time into the Southern part of the Principality from whence they derive their titles. I think they are entitled to receive at our hands the most cordial and most loyal reception we can give them, for if we trace back the annals of our country, we cannot find" Prince of Wales who had more thoroughly endeared himself in the hearts of the people than the present Heir Apparent to the throne. He has given us abundant proofs of his earnest desire to fulfil the onerous duties that attach to his royal rank by being ever ready to promote to the utmost of his power the well being of all classes of Her Majesty's subjects, and we know full well how nobly he has been seconded in his efforts by the Princess of Wales, who on her arrival in this country, won the. hearts and affections of the entire nation and has retained them in willing bondage ever since. On these grounds I ask you to give an unani- mous aye to the resolution I have the honour to pro- pose. Before I.81t down I should, however, like to say a few words, with the chairman's permission, on the inaugaration ceremony of next week. We all know how difficult it is for public bodies to please the whole public for whom they act, and as we are well aware, some little disappointment has existed among some persons by reason of the altered ceremony to be observed. Now, I am here to-day to say, and to say with all sincerity, that, I believe the ceremony to take place next week will be found to be far more interesting, and I ana sure more instructive, than the one usually followed. The Prince has hitherto, as far as I am aware, sailed into the dock when be views a large extent of water and sees the surface fittings that sur- round the dock. Here, he and the Princess will be taken by an easy descent into our noble lock of 500 feet in length and second to none in the United Kingdom. He will have thus an opportunity afforded him of inspecting the grand masonry with which the lock has been constructed, for grand it is in every sense of the ward; he will have pointed out to him tbelsplendic1 workmanship in connection with the sluices and other parts of the lock, he will be able to fully inspect the ponderous gates that are in future to shut in and shut out the sea, and he will also be shown with what ease these gates are opened and shut by hydraulic machinery. He will return to the point where the inauguration ceremony will be performed. The Prince will turn a lever, using merely the strength of a child in <1'in^ S(^' and will thus admit into the lock and mto th0 dock for the first time the water fr«m our noble bay. And what follows: in a comparatively short distance of time we shall see sailing into our new docks vessels of a class that have never visited our u filing a great impetus to the staple industries of our di.tr,ct, thereby ad ling to the wealth and prosperity of our merchants and to the happiness and contentment of our industrial olasscs.. This concluded the meeting, snd the members separated.

An enquiry respecting the death of Sarah Jackson said to have caused by the want of the necessaries of life and medusa1 attendance, was conducted before the Coroner of Southwark, on Monday. The allegation was that Mr: Woolt, the relieving officer, had refused an order for medical attendance. He on the other hand, said he received much impertinence from the person who came to him, and when he went to see the sick girl the door was slammed in his face. The jury found that death came from tetanus, and censured the relieving officer. A Comfortable Night's Refreshing sleep is insured by Dr. Dr. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFEKS.—Mr. John Pearson, 67, York-street, Wolverhamptan writes,—"I had no sleep for five weeks till I tried Dr. Locock's Wafers, and I have had such relief to the cough that I could not have believed." Asthma, Consumption, Colds, Gout, Bronchitis, Rheumatism, and all nervous complaints, are instantly relieved and rapidly cured by Dr. Locock's Wafers, which taste pleasantly. Of all Druggists at Is. lAd. and 2s, 9d. per box.

THE SWANSEA BUILDING SOCIETY FRAUDS. EXAMINATION OF MR. HERBERT JONES. T County Court, on Friday, before His Honour Mt-w-Eobins< o.'+v.t™.was a fuli Court and much interest was excited The Wni'T invo,lved very important issues The learned Counsel (Mr. Benson) in an address of Wilh?ams° 23OUBel?eUvrati0fn' °n behaIf of Thonrs ff' j Llseet, public accountant, trust- o of the estate and effects of the bankrupt, that two in- dentures, dated the 6th day of April, 1880, made by the bankrupt on the one part and Allan Paton, draper! Oxford-street, and Thomas Powell, bookbinder,' Oxford street, on the other part, be declared void on the fol- lowing grounds :-lst, under the statute 13 Elizabeth, c. 5 2nd, under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, 32 and 33 Vict., c. 71, sees. 91 and 92; 3rd, as being opposed to public policy; and also for an order declaring the property passing under such deeds the property of Thomas Wil- liams, as trustee and also that an account of all rents and moneys received by Allan Paton and Thomas Powell should be rendered to the said Thomas Williams. Mr. Smith opposed the application on behalf of Mr. Paton Mr. Benson said that Herbert Jones, the bankrupt, was for a long time treasurer of two building societies—the First and Second Swansea Equitable Benefit Building Societies, of both of which societies Mr. Paton was chairman, and William Henry Jones secretary. From 1870 to 1880 these three persons and the directors ma. naged the affairs of both societies. They acted upon the power given to the society to borrow money by Mr. Paton giving his name to promissory notes purporting to be in the name of the society in blank. He placed a confidence in the treasurer which circumstances did not justify, and he simply signed his name to the notes leaving the amount and date to be filled in. In 1880 there were rumours of irregularities and defalcations in the accounts of the society, and in March of that yea" Mr. Paton and Mr. Glascodine, the solicitor of the so- ciety, called upon Herbert Jones. It was then known that Jones was hopelessly insolvent, and there was not the slightest chance of his being able to meet these pro- missory notes himself, and it was known that he had received these moneys and not accounted for them and that, therefore, he had been guilty of crime.' No doubt Mr. Paton, at the interview, felt that he had to protect himself, and perhaps he also felt that he had to protect the interests of the societies of which he was the chairman. However, on the 24th day of March, an agreement was drawn up by which Jones conveyed, assigned and transferred to Powell (his assistant) and to Mr Paton, by way of mort- gage, several freehold and leasehold properties, to secure moneys for which Mr. Paton was respon- sible on promissory notes given for moneys de- posited, or supposed to be deposited, with the two societies and for moneys which he would have to pay, or be at the loss of, by reason of any deficit in Jones's account, as treasurer. After stating the various points of law upon which he relied to show that the deeds con- stituted a fraudulent preference of Mr. Paton over the body of creditors, Mr. Benson went on to state that Mr. Paton had all the property of the bankrupt worth any- thing, and the mother-in-law had the rest. The societies were creditors for j67,000, and other people had promis- sory notes for £10,000, but they had got nothing. The bankrupt's estate had been appropriated simply for the protection of Mr. Paton. Knowing that Herbert Jones was insolvent, and had committed a crime for which he was liable to be prosecuted, Mr. Paton got the property, which amounted in value to about jB5,000, assigned to him for the benefit of the creditors, and retained it for the payment of his own debts. Coming to the third ground for his motion, Mr. Benson said Herbert Jones's signature was procured to this deed with the expressed purpose of condoning the offence he had committed. The directors were turned out in August, and a new board was elected, which immediately ordered a prosecu- tion of Herbert Jones and William Henry Jones, who were convicted. The public policy of this country would not allow a deed to stand which had been procured on the basis of criminal proceedings not beiug proceeded with. Herbert Jones, the bankrupt, was the first witness called, and was brought up in custody of one of the war- ders from the Swansea Gaol. In his examination by Mr. Benson, he said that he did not remember receiving a letter (a copy of which was produced) from Mr. Glasco- dine in March, 1879. He had some papers which he had left at Oxford-street. Several letters of that tendency passed at the time, and they were all left with his papers He did not destroy them. In February last he was pro- secuted at Cardiff assizes, and convicted, and was now undergoing a. term of imprisonment. In cross-examination by Mr, Smith, he said the late Mr. J. W. Pockett owed him about JE14,000 if he had been paid that debt he would have been able to meet all his engagements. The equity of redemption of the Oxford- street property, which had been previously mortgaged for £1,400, was sold on March 23 to Mr. Roberts, of Liver- pool, a relation of Mrs. Tuckfield for £700, Part of the printing plant and machinery was included in the £700. He did not know that the Oxford-street property had been valued at between £3,000 and £4,000. His book debts were assigned to Mrs. Tuckfield. who undertook to pay his trade debts. He did not know that Mr. Paton had paid £2,000 on notes for which they were jointly liable. Mr. Paton got no money out of the notes. He was not aware that Mrs. Tuckfield denied him to people. Mr. Glascodine declined to act for him in bankruptcy, because he knew the bankrupt eould not pay him. Mr. Thomas Williams, the trustee, produced the minute book of the Building Societies, and explained the authority under which he acted. He had never received any assets since he had been appointed trustee. He had received no rents or profits from the property assigned by the bankrupt to Mr. Paton. There was still a consider- able SDm unacounted for. By Mr. Smith: There are no trade creditors There are persons from whom the bankrupt borrowed money for the societies. I am now secretary of the societes. These proceedings are taken by their authority, and owing to investigations into their affairs made by me. I have had some negotiations with Mr Paton with reapect to the pro- perty now claimed. It is true that the societies claim to be entitled to this property, and they have called on Mr. Paton to account for what has been received from the said property. I believe the amount signed by Mr. Paton amounted to about £5,000; and that he has arranged with all the holders of the notes for the sums due. I have heard that some payments have been made. Have heard no objection made by creditors. Mr. John Griffiths proved lending the bankrupt JE150. Not paying it at the end of a fortnight, he (the bankrupt) gave him a bill for three months. This not being met, Mrs. Tuckfield called on witness, and having informed him of the bankrupt's positson, told him to go down and take away goods to the amount due. He did so to the value of about £100. By Mr. Smith He considered the value of the fixtures and stock-in-trade about £600 or jE800 A discussion then took place as the propriety of adjournment, Mr. Smith stating that he should, in reply, have to occupy the time of court for some hours by way of reply, besides examining at length Mr. Paton and Mr. Glascodine. The proceedings were adjourned for a month.

The Standard understands that it is the wish of the Government that Sir Garnet Wolseley should be appointed Adjutant.General of the Forces when Sir Charles Ellice retires, but that there may be some difficulty in providing for him on account of his junior position on the list of lieutenant-generals. Charles Pierce, a prisoner in the Bloomington (Illinois^ Gaol murdered the gaolor on Saturday night while the gaolerNas taking him from one cell to another. The news spreading, a crowd of 5,000 besieged the gaol, overpowered the officials after two hours' seige, took Pierce out, and lynched him. The officials endeavoured to get the Fire Department and the militia to aid them, but all in vain. The most important discussion at th3 concluding meeting of the Church Congress, at Newcastle, on Tuesday, was that on the claims of the revised version of the New Testament to general acceptance. The Arch- deacon of Oxford said the need of a revision 1<.y in the fact that the authorized version was based on an imperfect Greek text, and that the translation of the text was> occasionally erroneous. Canon Evans, of Durham, objectad to many of the alterations of the revision, and said that further revision was necessary. The Bishop of Durham, one of the revisers, reminded the audience of the real evils that had been altered by the revision of the the authorised version. In the evening a conversazione was held in the TownHaU- CALAMITIES AND CHARITY.—Eighteen years ago, at the village of Hartley, between Newcastle and Tynemoutb, there occuned a colliery disaster, which occasioned a loss ,'e 8° appalling as to send a thrill of horror through the whole nation. The widespread sympathy for the widows and orphans took the practical English form. and a munificent subscription was raised for their benefit. The half-yearly report of the Trustees of the fund has just been issued, from which it appears that while the payments for the last six months have been £ 7<4, the receipts from interest of the money in- Xort OQ«?S amounted to £ 574, and the balance in hand is £ 30,285. At present, therefore, the capital is diminish- ing at the rate of £400 per annum, but every year that rate will decrease from deaths and other causes, and a few years hence the receipts will begin to exceed the ex penditure. It seems to us that unless more elasticity is introduced into the management of such funds their very success is calculated to paralyse the action of public chsrity in future. Benevolenoe is very capricious. Four or five years ago a great colliery explosion occurred in South Wales, just at the time when the Princess Alice went down off Woolwich. There was a danger that the Metropolitan calamity would almost entirely absorb Me- tropolitan subscriptions, and we may fairly take some credit in averting that danger, inasmuch as we sent down a special correspondent to the scene of the mining calamity, whose reports were extensively quoted in other journals. Since that time other and less extensive calamities have occurred, and, perhaps because they were less extensive, have met with much less sympathy. But we are confident that the existence of large balances in older relief funds has also been a prime cause ia the ex- haustion of public benevolence. The newly-bereaved gain nothing from these large balances; but they lose much by them. In the South Wales district abortive attempts have been made to draw the mass of the mining population into a Mutual Relief Fund. A Lancashire gentleman, interested in mining, some time ago endea- voured unsuccessfully to start a similar movement. Par- liament has of late devoted much attention to ancient charities; has not the time arrived when it should bestow a thought upon those which, though of modern origin, may ere long do mischief, yet might, if dealt with quickly, be fruitful for good ?—Echo, ( i