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LICENSING COMMISSION AND CLUBS. THE TWO REPORTS COMPARED. The Press Association states that the following is a summary and comparison of the principal recommendations of the two sections of the Licensing Commission with reference to clubs. These recommendations apply to the whole of the United Kingdom. When the recommendationsoare practically the same in both Reports they are printed across the columns:- LORD PEEL'S THE MAJORITY REPORT. REPORT. ■] All clubs in which intoxicants are sold should be registered. The property must be vested in the members or trustees. No mem- ber must be interested in the sale of drink by the club. It must not be a mere drinking resort. The rules must provide satisfactory regulations for control, election of members,' Ac. No member must be under eighteen. The sale of liquor for "off" consumption should be illegal. The registrar should Registration should be the justices' clerk be granted by the or the town-clerk, stipendiary magis- Twenty one days' trate, where there is notice should be one, and elsewhere given of an applica- by three justices. No tion. If no objec- provision is made for tion were taken it notice or objection, "i should be granted. The only grounds of objection should be thati the necessary conditions had not been complied with, or that the commit- v tee comprised per- sons of known bad I character. An objec- '■ tion should be heard by the recorder or county-court judge. Registration should Nil. be renewed annually and objection might be made that the club is a disorderly house. that it is used merely for drinking purposes, that it causes habitual drunkenness amongst its members, or that its rules are habitu- ally broken. Accounts and rules Nil. should be sent to the registrar for publica- tion. The court should Nil. have power to ap- point a special officer to inspect a sus- pected club. The club should be Nil. under no kind of obli- gation to a wholesale dealer in liquor, and must not be on pre- mises which within five years have been a public-house or a. beer-house. Nil. Clubs should have a tax levied upon them which should go to the fund out of which compensation is to be paid to the owners of houses which have their licences taken away under the spe- cial redaction scheme.

ADULTERATED SUGAR AT BRITH- DIR. At Merthyr Police-court on Monday an adjourned case was heard, in which Messrs. Andrew Buchan and Co. were summoned for selling sugar not of the nature, substance, or quality demanded by the purchaser. Mr. D. W. Jones defended.—Police-sergeant Gammon, an inspector under the Food and Drugs Act. re- peated the evidence given at the first hearing. showing that on the 3rd of May he purchased lib. of Demerara sugar at the company's 'shop at Brithdir, for which he paid lid. and,, sample of which he sent to Mr. Leyler, the county analyst.—Mr. Leyler, who was now "In Fsrsonal attendance, said that the sample analysed by him proved to be composed entirely of crystals dyed with some aniline dye.—The Stipendiary: What were they?—Wit- ness: Sugar crystals.—It was sugar: Oh. yes- Wag it Demerara sugar?—No.—Beet sugar?—I can't say.—In cross-examination by Mr. D. W. Jones, witness said that the dye wasvnot in- jurious to health, but the sugar was efcftveQHRl in quality to Demerara.—Mr. D". W. JoneiSuife- rn it ted that there was no proof of any pr'fe* judice to the purchaser, the'* sugar, although not Demerara. being perfectly pure, and called Mr. David Jones, the company's general manager, who stated that the sugar sbld to the sergeant was sold at less than cost price, and that it would have paid them better to have supplied the ordinary brown sug$r usually described as Demerara.—Mr. Wijltanr Jones. the manager of the Brithdir shop, explained tii4t he received the sugar already put up in packets, and said that he sold the jacket to the officer believing it to contain Demerara.- The Stipendiary said there was no doubt an offence had been committed, for Demerara sugar was superior to dyed crystals, and the Bench imposed a fine of £ 1 and costs, and allowed a fee of one guinea to the analyst.

WILLS O* WELSHMEN., Administration of the estate of Mr. George Salisbury, of Cardiff, who died in or since January, 1888. but the place of whose death ifl unknown, has now been granted to his widow, Mrs. Ida Clara Salisbury, the testator having named no executor of his will. The value of his estate has been sworn under £ 500. Probate of the will. dated November 20, 1894, with a codicil made the 3rd of November, 1898, of Mr. James Johns, of Fawcett Villa- road, Churchtown, Southport, and -formerly of Dairy Park, Haverfordwest, who died on the 16th of January last, aged 71 years, has been granted to his son, David Stuart Johns. of Dairy Park; Arthur Say. of Haverfordwest, bank manager; Edward Eaton Evans, of Haverfordwest, solicitor. and the Rev. William Menders. The testator bequeathed to his nieces. Ada, Minnie, and Lily, JE100 each..and to a servant JE50. The executors aTe to set apart a sum to produce an annual income of £140, and to pay JB40 ft year to the testator's widow and £100 a year to his son. The residue of the estate" of the late Mr. Johns is left unon trusts for his -son and his family, but in the event of failure of, this trust the trustees are to purchase land at Milford, and to build thereon twelve almshouses, at a cost not exceed- ing CI90 each, for aged noor widows of Milford and Hakin. Mr Johns's estate hsts been valued at E7,772 3s. lOd. gross, and his per- sonal estate at £ 6,391 18;. 5d. net.

A DANGEROUS PRACTICE AT DOWLAIS. On Monday at Merthyr Police-court. David William Lewis, a boy, was summoned by the Great Western-Railway Company for leaving a train whilst in motion. Mr. L. N. Hornby appeared in support of the summons.—Police- stable John said that he was at Caeharris Station watching the colliers' train coming in from Beilinog. when he saw the defendant riding on the footboard of on* of the carriages for a considerable distance. Before the train reached the platform, and whilst it wsis going at the rate of from five to seven miles an hour the defendant jumped off on to a siding — Police-sergeant Thorney stated that there were warning notices put up in each carriage. The defendant was fined 5s. and costs, the Stipen- diary intimating that if anybody else were brought up for a similar offence a much heavier penalty would be inflicted.

DANGEROUS RAILWAY TRAVELL- ING. George Moore, an American seaman, travelled from Severn Tunnel Junction to Liswerry in an empty ballast "hopper" wagon of the Great Western Railway He intended going to Cardiff to get a ship, and had boarded the train whilst the engine was getting water on Saturday morning, but, being noticed en route, the train was stopped. Moore explained to the New. port magistrates on Monday that be was ex- ceedingly tired and footsore, and without much consideration had got into the wagon. An official of the railway company/stated that the "hopper" wagon was a ballast watoD opening at the bottom, and was succeeded by a sort of nlough-sbara wagon, which would of a certainty have killed Moore had he by any chance undom the bolt.—He was bed 10a., or seven day*.

PITIFUL AFFAIR IN THE BRONDDA. A WIFE'S ATTEMPTED ^UICIDE. At Ystrad Police-court on Monday (before the Stipendiary, Mr. Ignatius Williams, and other magistrates), a most pitiful "ase of attempted suicide was heard. The defendant was a respectably-dressed woman, named Ann Grif- fiths. now residing at Mountain Ash. and wife of Mr. Ivor Griffiths, grocer, of Cymmer. She J is about 38 years of age, and comes of a highly respected family at Mountain Ash. When in court she appeared to feel her posi- tion keenly, and was accommodated with a seat in the dock. Mr. W. P. Nicholas, solicitor, Pontypridd, defeided. Ch ries Humphrey, a collier, residing at 75, Police-row. Norton Bridge, Pontypridd, gave evidence that about twelve o'clock on Saturday night last he was proceeding towards home, and when near the canal bridge he heard some groans coming from the direction of the canal. On proceeding to the spot he found a woman struggling in the water. He caught hold of her. but failed to draw her out. After obtain- ing, the assistance of a man named Edwards she was pulled out. At that spot the water was fivs feet in depth. After coming out she said, "Shut up; don't make a row." Witness asked her what was the matter. Defendant replied that she had had a lot of trouble. She afterwards said her hat and cape were in the hedge, but they could not be found. Police- constable Nicholas, Norton Bridge, arrested her, and, in reply to the charge, she said, I jumped into the water. I have had a iot of troubl-i with my husband about property. I have had a lot of trouble lately. That is why I have done it." She was then taken t.) Pontypridd and given some clothing. This was the case for the prosecu- tion. For the defence, Mr. Nicholas said that after Jisartng the facts of the case the magistrates would come to the conclusion that it was one of the most pitiful cases thnt ever came into a court of justice. Most of the facts were within his (W!1 personal knowledge, and to them he cOl1ld depose if nece3sary. Mrs. Griffiths, in her donmtic relations and in her relations with her husband, had suffered a great am->rnt of trouble. 8he was the daugh- ter of a. highly respectable family living at Mountain Ash. and upon the death of her parents she became possessed of considerable moans. Some time afterwards she married the man who was now her husband. The money was used for ercct-ing ccrtain properties situated at Cymmer arid elsewhere, and the leases in respect of the property were taken in the joint name of the accuscd and her hus- band. The latter, however, did not treat his wife m the way ho should have done. A solicitor was called in and a deed was executed, under which two gentlemen of Mountain Ash were appointed trustees cf the property, and ti whom the property was assigned for the benefit of Mrs. Griffiths. Some time after- wards an action was commenced and pro- ceeded with for some time on behalf of the husband in the Chancery Division for the pur- pose ot setting aside the deed. The trustees were made defendants, but in consequence of Mr. Ivor Griffiths's conduct The Stipendiary here interposed and said it was not desirable to make use of any names, otherwise they would have to call Mr. Griffiths to hear him. Mr. Nicholas said he wished to give the whole history of the case, and to point out the obligation under which the husband was to his wife. The Stipendiary: What we have to decide is whether it is safe to allow her to be at large. It is not desirable to say anything about the husband. Mr. Nicholas said they had to determine whether she was of sound mipd at the time she attempted to commit this act. The Stipendiary said if they heard the bus- Vand they would have all the side issues to be tried. Mr. Nicholas, continuing, said the action was brought in the Chancery Division, and the trustees assigned the property over to Mr. Ivor Griffiths, on the condition that he should pro- vide her with a home or make her a separate allowance. This was done with her full con- currence. and done through her solicitor. The Stipendiary: I suppose it is a. case in which she had lost control over her property and been reduced to a state of destitution. Mr. Nicholas: It is so. sir.. There is another house, known as Brynbedw, in which they formerly lived, and for the purpose of defray- ing the costs of the proceedings in Chancery the house had to be sold, after which event both parties were dissatisfied. He (Mr. Nicholas) had been instructed that Mrs. Griffiths was recom- mended by her husband to remove her effects at the end of last week to Brynbedw, which she did. She went to the house, but was turned out. The Stipendiary: And it was after that she tried to commit suicide? Mr. Nicholas: Yes. Mrs. Griffiths has suf- fered recently from a very serious illness, and at one time her life was despaired ot. During the progress of the case in Chancery her de- ipositions had to be taken, and it was thought she was dying. She has suffered from cancer very much. which, together with the trouble she had been into, made her unaccountable for her actions. Mr. Nicholas further said he was anxious that the court should inquire of Mr. Griffiths what he intended to do. It was his duty to Mrs. Griffiths to do something for her. They (the defendant and her relatives) did not wish to dispute the property; they agreed that she should have it. The Stipendiary said they had no right to question Mr. Griffiths. All they could do was to see that Mrs. Griffiths was properly looked -after She need not go back to her husband if she did not wish to. Mr. Nicholas: The relatives feel they can- not take her back to Mountain Ash, for Mr. Griffiths comes up there and does not leave her alone. The Stipendiary: You don't wish to send her to gaol? Mr. Nicholas: No. but to get Mr. Griffiths to take her to his house at Cymmer. We have surrendered this property conditionally upon the terms that a home should be provided for this poor woman, and those terms have not Deen fulfilled. The case was then adjourned for an hour to see if anv arrangement could be made. Mr. Nicholas ultimately reported to the court that the brother would not corns forward, and the husband had gone. The brother had decided to throw the responsibility upon the husband. The Stipendiary: Where was she living before? Defendant renlied that she lived at Mountain Ash. and left home on Friday evening. Mr. Nicholas: The family have determined that the husband shall be responsible for whatever takes place to day. He (Mr. Nicholas) suggested that she should be re- manded until Wednesday at Pontypridd. and in the meantime he (Mr. Nicholas) would try and make arrangements with the Monntain Ash people. The husband had now arrived in the court. The Stipendiary said he wished to let her out for a time, if somebody would prevent her re- peating the attempt. Have you any suggestion to make? Mr. Griffiths: No. I have not. The Stipendiary: Have you any trustworthy female to take care of her? Mr. Griffiths: Yes, I have a very arocd per-, son. Mr. Griffiths, continuing, said he would allow her 15s. per week, if she r>r»f?rr»»d to live at Mountain Ash, but if that was too little. £1 per week. He was not prepared to be bound over in the sum of JE10 as security for her conduct. It was ultimately decided that she be re- manded until to-morrow (Wednesday) at Pont- ypridd, and in the meantime, if any of her relatives came forward, she could be liberated upon two sureties of jElo each.

SURE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. Mr. Robert Jenkins of 8, William-street, Cil. fynydd, near Pontypridd. is a great sufferer from rheumatism. On May 23 last he. in com- pany with a clergyman, called at the estab- lishment of Mr. Phil Phillips, St. Mary-street, Cardiff, and purchased a pair of rheumatic socks. Mr. Jenkins was recommended by the clergyman to call upon Mr. Phillips because the latter had had experience of the curative powers of Mr. Phillips's discovery, he having recommended a friend to use the socks, with the result that in a short time the malady left him. On Saturday last Mr. Jenkins again called upon Mr. Phillips to report the result1 of his application of the invention. JJ A said: "I am pleased to tell you. Mr. Phillips, that I am cured. I can now sleep well; in fact, li feel a new man. To relate to you my expe- rience. I may say that after wearing the socks for a week. I felt much better; but now I am cured, and it is only three weeks- since I first saw you. Before wearing your socks I had tried many remedies, but did not receive any benefit." This is one of the many cures brought about by Mr. Phillips's invention, and should any sufferers wish further particulars Mr. Jenkins, on receiving a stamped addressed ervelope, will be pleased to oblige them Socks 10s. 6d., belts 10s. 6d., wristlets 5s. Send size of boots, waist, and wrist in each case Sole manufacturer, Phil Phillips, 24, St. Mary- street, Cardiff.

ANOTHER CHOIR ON STBHJ AT CARDIFF. The Rev. Dr. Nicholson, vicar of St Andrew's, Cardiff, is unfortunate in his rela- tions with the choirs and organists of the churches in his parish. At St. Teilo's on Easter Sunday the choir struck a couple of months back. and the organist (Mr. J. Deacon) re- signed. Three weeks ago the vicar insisted upon the singing at St. Andrew's being of a more congregational character, and also upon the introduction of boys into the choir, which was, undoubtedly, one of the best in the town Last Sunday the boys had the stall3 to them- selves, the usual choir not putting in an appearance. We bear now that the organist (Mr. Aylwarrl) has followed the example of Mr. Deacon, and resigned his position in the chttrch.

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CARMARTHENSHIRE CHARITIES, In the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. LLOYD MORGAN (R Carmarthenshire. W.) asked the. hon. member representing the Charity Commissioners whether he could state the reason for the delay in the publication of the reports of the Assistant Charity Commis- sioner concerning the charities of the borough of Carmarthen and of the parish of Trelech- ar-Bcttws, in the county of Carmarthen. Mr. GRANT LAWSON: The reason for the delay in the publication of the report on the charities in the borough of Carmarthen is that the application made for the production of certain documents in the case of a particular charity has not yet been complied with. In all other respects the report is ready to be laid on the table of the House. With regard to the charities of the parish of Tretech-ar- Bettws. the report has been delayed by the difficulty experienced in obtaining full infor- mation respecting the administration of the charities. The report as to this parish was laid on the table of the House on June 8.

At the meeting of the Newport Board of Guardians on Saturday the Chairman (Colonel Lyne) referred to the new assess- ments of property throughout the union, concerning which there had beeu a good deal of comment of late. The matter, he said, had been pushed on by the county rates basis committee, and the assessment committee were obliged to order the overseers to make the new assessment. The overseers had found a great many people who ought to have been ratepayers, but v.-crc not on the valuation lists. Why suffer f"o-111 Indtpsstion. SlcernvssRness, I and othor Nervous Disorders when such a "pec-i- fic for these ailments as Gwilrm Evans' Cuuilpe BitterB may be so readily obtained? Bottles 2s. 9d. and 4s. Gd. 41617

MR. MACLEAN'S ATTACK ON THE SUGAR DUTIES. PRESS OPINIONS OF HIS SPEECH. EXCITING TIME IN THE HOUSE < OF COMMONS. Viewed as an effort of oratory, there can be no doubt that Mr. Maclean's speech on Thursday week was powerful a.nd effective. It is warmly praised by journals as opposite as the "Chroni.ue' and the "Telegraph." The latter says it was "admirable in arrangement," and "answered all the expectations that had been formed of it." The former calls it a "trenchant speech," declaring that "never since Mr. Gladstone's days has Mr. Chamberlain received deadlier thrusts." The "Daily Chronicle's" description of the scene in the House will bear re-production. It ran thusly:—" But when Mr. Maclean leapt to his feet from below the Tory gangway, imme- diately the whole scene changed. For over three months Mr. Maclean has been muzzled by every gag known to experienced Parliamen- tarians. But now, at last. he had found his I voice The pent-up wrath of months found a vent. With flushed face, and a steady, deli- berate utterance, he began an attack on the Government more violent than anything uttered from the Opposition side during this session. He spared no one. Lord George Hamilton, Mr. Chamberlain, and Lord Curzon —all in turn came under the lash of his un- tiring invective. Pitilessly he unfolded the whole story of the plot, hatched in the Colonial Office, and perpetrated by Lord George Hamilton, against the people of India. Of Lord George he could not speak too contemp- tuously. He was 'the boy at the telephone'— acting under instruction from Mr. Chamberlain. Galled beyond endurance by this attack, Lord George roused himself from that posture of aristocratic boredom which he loves to adopt towards the Hou?e of Common,-the bowed head, the curled-up form, sitting sideways— and made a desperate, angry counter-thrust. 'There is not a word of truth in that'—he almost screamed it out, and the Tories yelled applause. But Mr. Maclean passed it by with a gentle protest, and then, relying on the damning evidence of the Blue Book. pressed on for a more serious quarry. Why had Mr. Chamberlain interfered with India? Was he sighing for new vorlds to conquer? Was he not content with Africa —surely big enough for him? He might come to India when he had finished with Mr. Kruger, whom he had not disposed of yet. The Radicals roared with delight; while the Tories behind Mr. Maclean seethed with discontent and trouble. Some openly laughed—notably Mr. Bartley; the others moved restlessly, and shouted 'Question, question!' and'Oh, oh!' Mr. Chamberlain was sitting to the left of Lord George. He shut his eyes. and turned very pale; while a mocking, cynical smile curled his lip. But Mr. Maclean went steadily on. 'He takes his foreign politics from Sir Ashmead- Bartlett. and his economics from Sir Howard Vincent •—a sentiment which that naive gentle- man delightedly cheered. 'Those doctrines may be taught in the new Birmingham Univer- sity. but do not affect this Home: Never, since Mr. Gladstone's days, has Mr. Chamber- lain received deadlier thrusts—been exposed to a fiercer outburst of concentrated venom. From Mr. Chamberlain Mr. Maclean passed to Lord Curzon's action in 'rushing' the Act. He had n?ver heard of such indecent haste since Richard III. asked for the head of Lord Hast- ings before he breakfasted. The Council round Lord Curzon were like the Vicar of Bray—cor- rupted by honours—while in the centre sat Lord Curzon, 'attentive to his own applause.' At last. Mr. Maclean's anger exhausted itself. and he ended with a really effective appeal to the Conservatives behind him—could they go to their constituents as opponents of Free Trade 'with Protection engraven on their banners'? The irrepressible Sir Howard Vincent shouted 'Yes! yes!' but that was only embarrassing to the others, who remained silent." The "Daily News":—"In a most effective appeal to the good sense of his own party, Mr. Maclean reminded them that it was Sir Stafford Northcote who repealed the sugar duties, and that when he did so he said, 'Next to cheap corn there is no greater boon I can confer on the great body of the people.' The Standard" When Mr. Maclean rose from the Conservative benches to second the motion he was received with loud Opposi- tion cheets, but not a voice was raised from the Ministerial side of the House. Absent members immediately returned to their places and the House was again filled. His speech at once dispelled the apathy of members." The "Daily Telegraph," having remarked that Mr. Maclean is always sure to be interesting: — "The speech and the speaker who followed were of a very different type. Mr. Maclean is one of the free lances of the House. A grim, solitary, independent personality he is. The speech wh'ch Mr. Maclean delivered answered all the expecta- tions that had been formed of it. It not only attacked Mr. Chamberlain, but it did so in terms more unsparing than are often heard in the House of Commons. The attack on Lord George Hamilton was quite as bitter, but w^3 more dexterous. Complaining of the ¡H !u.e of the replies which the Secretary for India had given to him, Mr. Maclean said this Kind of answer did not cause much irritation to am one below the gangway accustomed to the 'insolence of office: The "Western Daily Mercury":—"Powerful, however, as was Sir Henry Fowler's critic'sm, the event of the evening was the encoiufcer between Mr. Maclean and the Secretary for India. The hostile comments that he had been obliged so long to restrain had crystallised into epigrams sharp as diamonds. His arrows had evidently been most carefully prepared, and they went home stingingly." The Parliamentary representative cf the "Birmingham Post":—"Mr. Maclean seconded the motion in a speech so bitter and so provo- cative as to be explicable only on the supposi- tion that his recent trip to India has not bene- fited his health to the extent his friends had hoped. It was clever in a way, but so pur. poselessly savage that even the Opposition did not cheer much. while his own side listened in pained silence. The Government, and especially Mr. Chamberlain, were ferociously attacked. These were some of his diatribes, and finally ha turned on the Legislative Council at Calcutta, whose members, he said, would do anything for honours. In them the Govern- ment had found an instrument of social and political corruption more potent than Walpdle ever dreamed of." The "Yorkshire Post" drew a picture of Mr. Maclean:—"The interest of the House was really focussed in the speaker who followed, seconding Sir Henry Fowler's motion, the rebel- lious Mr. Maclean. Mr. Maclean is the Conser- vative member for Cardiff, a big man with a round red face. and in speaking he shows clearly the feelings that lie behind the words. The Radicals cheered him; they wanted him to grasp the Ministry by the ears. Mr. Maclean fell in with the idea. He spurned the Govern- 1T,( nt, He provoked retorts. Mr. Balfour was plainly irritated. Lord George Hamiitrn jumped up and flatly contradicted him. Mr. Cham- berlain lay back n a twisted attitude, with nipped featuies. his eyes half closed. quite obviously smouldering with anger. At last, af'er ere of Mr. Maclean's onslaughts, he rose from his seat and walked out of the House. presumably to mark his disgust.In this style the indignant Mr. Maclean kept up a rampant tirade. Ministers now and then inter- rupted him sharply, the Conservatives sitting about him frequently gave vent to shouts of dis- sent. the Radicals 'egged' him on with blasts of applause. At times it was quite exciting," (

MURDER OF A DOCTOR. A ferocious murder, .which is typical on account of the circumstances in which it was perpetrated of the character of the murderer, has just taken place in Rome. Dr. Enrico Bondi. one of the principal surgeons at the large hospital of Santo Spirito, was crossing the bridge over the Tiber on tha way to the hospital when he was assailed and stabbed in the throat with a pointed nail by a consumptive patient who had been treated by Dr. Bondi in the hospital for several years. Death ensued almost immediately. The murderer is a peasant of violent disposition. He was discharged from the hospital for insubordination some time since, but a few days ago presented himself again. Dr. Bondi, on examining him, discovered that he had no fever a.nd that he was without the necessary certificates, and refused to admit mm. He then went out muttering, bought a large pointed nail. waited for the doctor on the bridge, and there committed th<f crime. This is the second crime of the kind committed by a tnbcrculous patient at the Santo Spirito Hospital. Three years ago a sister of mercy named Suora. Agostina. was killed for having addressed a reproach to a patient whom she had attended with the utmost care. The present assassin declares that he had made up his mind to kill the doctor, and was careful to choose a rusty nail for the purpose in order that the wound might not heal. His bloodthirsty fury was not directed against Dr Bond: alone, but aTsoapinst Sister Valentina, the chief nurse, and against the head of the hospital staff. When arrested he expressed his intention of killing them also.

MARCHAND AND LONDON. Will Marchand come to London? A report has got abroad that the gallant major is to be invited to lecture on his travels before the British Geographical Society. But after inquiries in the most competent quarters, a "Morning Leader" representative is able to say, on the best authority, that the question has not even Deen mooted before the council of the society. In any case, before any such invitation could be issyed the coqncil would want to be assured that the famous acroM-Africa. journey had been fruitful geographically sis well as poli- tically. At the same time political consideratdont would certainly not stand in the way of an invitatjon. As a matter cf faet. the reference of Sir Donald St-wart tq Mprchand at th* society's dinner some few nights baek produced a storm of cheers, which were renewed when medals were presented to two French explorer*.

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Gr.W,R, TUAIN OUTRAGES j QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT. In the House of Commons on Friday, Mr. SCHWANN (R., Manchester, N.) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention had been drawn to the outrage committed by a sailor of her Majesty's snip Terrible on a fellow-passenger tra- velling on the Great Western Railway 9.30 express from Swansea to Paddington a few days ago, when. it is said, the com- munication cord was not in order, and it was, therefore, impossible to call the attention of the guard; whether he would communicate with the authorities of the Great Western Rail- way with a view to a more carefnl scrutiny of communication cords on making up their trains at their respective starting places; and was he aware that a man named Anderson was killed in the same train two days before the assault referred to above. Mr. RITCHIE: I have communicated with the company, and have received a reply, in which they state that there is no such train as the 9.30 express from Swansea to Paddington; that on the arrival at Swindon at 3.5 a.m. on May 27 of the seven p.m. excursion train from New Milford to London a passenger complained, to the inspector on duty that he had been assaulted by a fellow-passenger, and that on the police being sent for each passenger pre- ferred a charge of assault against the other. The police, therefore, declined to act, and the two men remained at Swindon, ultimately coming to London by the next train at 6.40 a.m., and no representation was made to the com- pany that the communication cord failed to act. In fact, it was tested at London and Car- diff during the journey, and found to be in good working order. One of the men who com- plained had a few scratches on his face, and from the statement made by a passenger in the same compartment the affair was of a trivial character, one man being as much to blame as the other. With regard to the death of the man Anderson. it appeared that he and too companions, all being discharged sailors, were passengers from Cardiff to London by the 6.30 p.m. express from New Milford on May 23, that, when Üe tickets were examined at Chepstow nothing was amiss beyond the fact that one of the men could not find his ticket, but that on arrival at Gloucester Anderson was found to be dead from a wound in the neck; that the men were apparently under the influence of liquor, and that there was no evidence of any disturbance or fight having taken place.

AN INEXPENSIVE BLUNDER. Several months ago a Kansas City smelting company bought a truck-load of crushed gold ore in Mexico. Advices were "øceivcd in dae course that the stuff-twenty tons of it—had been "loaded up" and despatched. Weeks vassed away, but thé) ore did not come to hand. Then the smelting company politely asked the local agent of the railway company when the ore might be expected to arrive. The local agent replied that he had never heard of it, whercupon the smelting company appealed to the general agent of the railway. This official considered the inquiry attentively for a few weeks, and finally gave it up. but passed it along the line until it reached a station- master animated by the true spirit of investi- gation, who started out a "tracer" in quest of the car-load of ore. The "tracer" is a docu- irent on which every agent, train-conductor, and other employe who has had anything to do with the shipment must record whence he took jt, and where he laid it down. So the load of ore was traced from its parent mine in Mexico and from junction-point to junction- point until it was well within the railway com- pany's goods yard at Kansas City. where it had been shunted to a siding near the round- house, and consigned to the keeping of the master mechanic. Now, a car-load of crushed gold-ore looks like a lot of coarse yellow sand, and this particular car-load had been knocked about and disrespected as recklessly as a truckful of common sand should be. As soon as the railway officials had ascertained that the "tracer" had chased the ore into the mas- ter mechanic's possession, they sent a note to him, asking about the disposition of the car, and giving its number. Having read the note, he turned it over and endorsed it as follows:— "The car contained sand of a bad quality. Some of it I used in the sand-boxes of the engine; but, it was not serviceable, so I had i*. scattered along the permanent way." Shortly after this eclaircissement had tran- spired, the railway authorities found them- selves constrained to indemnify the smelting company for the "bad sand" at the rate of dE36 per ton. Even a railway official doesn't know everything.

SKELETON SENTENCES. At North London on Friday George Gabriel Wolff and his sons, Sigmund and Adolph, were charged on remand before Mr. Fordham with conspiring together to obtain money from diffe- rent persons all over the kingdom by false pretences. Mr. Muir again appeared for the Treasury, and Mr. George Elliott with him; Mr. Cecil Fitch was for the defence.—Mr. Thomas Stanley Rogers, a member of the Chan- cery Bar, said that he saw the marking ink competition advertised in a journal; he could not remember which. The prize offered was a diamond ring, or EM. He sent in a solution, adopting the words which were printed beneath the skeleton sentences. Having sent in his solution, he wrote to the defendants, pointing out that if 1,000 persons sent in correct solu- tions they were making themselves liable for £ 35,000. He received a reply stating that Messrs. Wolff were prepared to spend £35,000 if they got 1,000 correct answers. On that he wrote to the defendants asking them if they sent a cheque t<o him to make it payable to order.—Mr. Muir remarked that this showed the witness's faith in the genuineness of the competition. (Laughter.) — In cross-examina- tion, the witness said that it did not strike him that the words beneath the skeleton words were put there as a catch.—Mr. Elliott: As a member of the Chancery Bar, you say that you think it was probable that the advertisers would give the correct solution in the adver- tisement?—The Witness: I know that the public do very stupid things sometimes. (Laughter.)— Other evidence having been given. William Hardy King, accountant, of Bannghall-street, said that he had examined a larga number of books handed to him by Detective-sergeant Hailstone. The expenditure amounted to between £7,000 and £8,000, and the profits were nearly £4,000 on fifteen months' trading.-The prisoners were further remanded, Sigmund and Adolph being again allowed out on bail.

MARK TWAIN IN LONDON.. Mark Twain (Mr. S. L. Clemens) was the guest of the Whitefriars Club at a dinner at the Hotel Cecil on Friday. A distinguished company of ladies and gentlemen was present, under the presidency of Mr. Poultney Bigelcw. In responding to the toast of his health, J Mark Twain said he did not know what the vow of the Friars was. He did not care what it was. He had made thousands of vows. There was no pleasure comparable to making a vow in the presence of men who appreciated it and admired one for making it. There was only one pleasure higher than thatr and that was to get outside and break that vow. (Laughter.) He did not know anything so sad as having to make an after-dinner speech. If the proposer said something severe, if he would deride one or traduce one, he would furnish a text, because anyone could get up and talk against that; anybody could get up and straighten out his own character—(laughter)-—but when the gentle men got up and merely told the truth, what could be said? He saw present his master in the art of oration of 25 years ago, Mr. Depew; and there was also Mr. Choate. They would notice that while the three were absent there was a pleasing tranquility in America—a building-up of public confidence. (Laughter.) They were doing the best for their country. He thought they had spent the'r lives in serving their country, and they never served it to so good advantage as when they were out of it. (Laughter.) He did not want to sit down without saying something serious. He had said nothing that would make them better than when they came there. He would, therefore, like to say one serious word which they could carry home to their children and the old people who were not able to come. Let them take this as a legacy from him—"When in doubt tell the truth." (Cheers.)

ARTIFICIAL COAL. A Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says:— A workman named Montag, living at Mann- heim. in Baden, has succeeded in manufacturing artificial coal, earth and several mineral re- sidual substances being the components. Trials with small and large quantities of the new fuel made under expert supervision have succeeded admirably. The heat produced was very great, while the ashes remaining per kilo- gramme (2.2051b.) of burned fuel weighed only 9dwt. A company has been formed for the exploita- tion of this ftriking discovery, and is at pre- sent negotiating for the purchase of an exten- sive tract of land in the suburbs of Mannheim for the erection of manufacturing works.

MYSTERY OF P AUERE""S. j ———— 1 HIS AGENT AND THE RB^° j MARRIAGE. nt I Mr. Hugo Gorlitz, for years a?e^ay, I Paderewski, was in London on Thur t a "Daily Mail" representative w~°,-tails0 j tered him thought to learn the full ^aS t } the great pianist's marriage. which daY 1" f ported to have taken placs the other j Warsaw. | Mr. Gorlitz is much too discreet a j i talk about other people's business, i pressman thought it best to take hica 0 al vroll on the subject. So he said in a cas gt- "How curious some of these superstitio "What superstitions?" asked Mr. Gor-itz, Co. "Superstitions about weddings, f°r w it-?' Why is it, I wonder, that people unlucky for a man to be married ^jlJP having his hair cut." Mr. smoothly. "I haven't heard cf that » tion," he said.$0^ "But it exists—in fact, it is the m0SL.titi°^ sally accepted of all marriage sUPf^, tbe^ Brides implicitly believe in it." really?" Mr. Gorlitz blandly asked. of them, I think." "Oh. yes. All of them without fact, I assure you. No prudent m"1 Lpt' dream of allowing her daughter to te: by marrying a man who did not have cut the day before. For instance D are a man of wide experience of Pe°^0/ I challenge you to name any man 0* acquaintance who did not have his ha» the day before he got married. ot» rewski, for example, he was married V* a he day"—and having circuitously reacf t#8 point the inquirer waited expectantly revelation. ,<jt "Look here," said the entrepreneur, jjd? announced that M. Paderewski was m3$ Warsaw on May 31. Now, I can tell y -g & I was with him on that date and^ he in Warsaw, and was not married." ji "But isn't he married?"—"I can on^.j in what I know. He went away, as he s^ofW; telegram, on important business to °n estates. What that was you had better t> when he returns. He will be in week after next." 1fcllj "If he isn't married, I suppose there be no harm in saying so."—"Not the j he isn't married. This was all Mr. Gorlitz would say- desperate shot, the "Daily Mail" represe aster asked, "Until you came away had the | appearance changed at all? Did f ranee suggest that he had been conspirl a barber?" j.e> r Mr. Gorlitz smiled a sphinx-like answered nothing.

CEITRCH REFORM LEA^' ANNUAL MEETING. ——— The annual meeting of the Church League was held on Friday afternoon minster, the Bishop of Newcastle PreSt,0iflti<||, The council of the league passed a of thanks to Mr. Balfour for his declar the House of Commons in favour Of 1- spiritual autonomy. This declarati described in the reform league report ^glJW^ making. Spiritual autonomy was the jj.r of the speeches generally.—Mr. Talo° » 4 said the question of ecclesiastical c°u not of paramount importance. The J no more depended upon these courts c life than the body politic depended minal courts for its life. Because the. jC league undertook the promotion of gjK living work of the Church it deserved theoi0i pathy of all.—The Rev. Canon Scott said Erastianism was dead and jjti^ ment impossible, for there was no V° force at the present time prepared Disestablishment, which would mean IT of intense strife and religious bitterness- English Church must be prepared for crisis. It must know with what voice J speak, what machinery it could use, 0( its mind could be found. The question tP representation of the laity was bound up question of spiritual autonomy. ————■

GLADSTONE MEMORIALS IN I' WALES. PROPOSAL TO ERECT A STATUE AT CARDIFF. A special meeting of the Gladstone Memorial Committee was held in the Council-chamber, Town-hall, Cardiff, on Monday evening to con- sider the draft, circular proposed to be issued appealing for subscriptions towards the sug- gested scheme for erecting a Gladstone statue n Cardiff. The deputy-mayor presided, and the Rev. Canon Thompson was present, together with the town-clerk's representative and two reporters. It was reported that the amount of subscriptions received towards the national memorial central fund was JE67 17s. That amount would be duly forwarded, but with regard to the proposal for a Welsh memorial in Cardiff it was recommended that 2,000 ccpies of an explanatory circular be sent out. The following letter had been received from Mr. D. A Thomas. M.P.: — "1 have already subscribed towards the national memorial to Mr. Gladstone, but I entirely approve of your proposal that a memorial should be placed at Cardiff, and if you finally determine upon this I shall be happy to subscribe £ 100.—Yours faithfully, "D A. THOMAS. "Sir Thomas Morel." I Mr. Robert Bird. Mr. John Duncan, and others had also written warmly commending the scheme. Canon Thompson proposed that the circular be adopted, with the addition cf a reference to Mr. D. A. Thomas's promise, and in doing this the rev. gentleman said he felt Cardiff ought to have a statue quite as much as any part of the Empire. Wales owed as much to Mr. Gladstone as it did to any statesman of former or contemporary time, and he thought Wales should have a memorial to Mr. Glad- stone. But he felt that if there was to be a worthy memorial it ought to be something like a spontaneous desire on the part of the people of Cardiff and the neighbourhood to get it. If they were to go cn striving to drag guineas and half-guineas from un- willing friends, he thought it should be abandoned. The time would come when Wales would be ashamed if she had been left behind as compared with other parts of the oountry in regard to a memorial and he thought they should wait to see the result of the circular before taking any formal steps. They could not get It statue of Mr. Gladstone under about £2,000, and it was for the leading people—the moneyed people—of Cardiff to lead the way and make it a possibility, and then others might come in. In view of the future architectural adornment of their rising town, and especially the erection of the university college and other buildings in Cathays Park, it would be impossible to And any individual deserving a statue so well as Mr. Gladstone. The motion was agreed to.

NEW SEAMANS HOSPITAL FROM CARDIFF. GENEROUS SUBSCRIPTION FROM NORWAY. A meeting of the Docks committee of the Cardiff Seamen's Hospital Fund was held at the Exchange on Monday morning, the mayor (Alderman Sir T. Morel) presiding. His Wor- ship reported that he and the president of the chamber of commerce (Mr. John Andrews) had oalled upon several colliery agents, and they had promised to present the claims of the hospital to the directors of their companies for their consideration. As a result of one of these calls, a promise of £100 had been received from Messrs. Worms and Co.-Mr. J. H. Hallett re- ported that he had received £21 from Messrs. R. and J. H. Rea, £20 from Mr. Thomas Ritson, £lv from Messrs. Bremner and Co., Manchester, and £5 5s. from Messrs. William Gray and Co., Limited. Hartlepool. Messrs. Bremner had inti- mated that they would be pleased to subscribe annually.—Colonel Guthrie reported that Mr. Robert Hooper (Lewis' Merthyr Collieries Com- pany) had written stating that his company were prepared to double their subscription of £100. Messrs. W. H. and C. T. Jones would also increase their promise of £100 to £200. Mr. J. T. Dunn would double his subscription of JB26 5s., Messrs. Osborne and Wallis theirs of £25, and Count Lucovich his of £25. Mr. George Hallet had subscribed £30 and Dr. Hughes JE5. Messrs. C. Schroeter and R. L. Downing had col- lected .Ell 9s., of which JE50 was subscribed by Messrs. Frazer and Co., and £10 by Messrs. Trechmann, Carrick, and Co., the remainder being in amounts of from five guineas down to one guinea.—Captain Hansen reported that JE200 had been collected in Norway, and that most of the shipowners there had undertaken to pay ten kroners (about lis.) per vessel visiting the port towards the fund.—A suggestion that a ward^ should be named the "Scandinavian Ward" or the "King Oscar Ward" was referred to the hospital committee. FIRM ACTION BY THE RESIDENTS. In reference to the proposed railway in- front of the Buteand Windsor esplanades, Bute Docks, Cardiff, a meeting of the committee of owners and residents was held at No. 1. Windsor-esplanade, on Monday afternoon, Mr. J. J. Ame3 in the chair. The Chairman reported an interview with Sir Thomas Morel, and called attention to several paragraphs in the daily papers. A discussion ensued, and the following resolution was proposed by Mr. Thomas Catterson, seconded by Mr. E. Earl, supported by Mr. J. Ford, and carried unani- mously:—"That we are determined to offer the railway scheme proposed to run in front of our residences the most uncompromising opposition, and protest against the threat of making land and utilising it on the mud in front of the sea wall."

FRANCE AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. ANOTHER "UITLANDER" QUESTION. At the annual dinner of the Jersey Society in London at the Holborn Restaurant on Saturday night, Sir George C. Bertram, for many years Bailiff of Jersey, said during the whole of his official career he had been averse to any change being made in the official lan- guage of the island, but reluctantly a convic- tion had been forced upon Him that in the interests of the English-speaking portion of the community some modification was new undoubtedly necessary. Fifty years ago the danger was lest Jersey should become Angli- cised. That peril had passed away, but they were now face to face with a far more subt e danger. At the present time there were in Jersey between nine and ten thousand French residents, and although by the Imperial law children born in Jersey of French parents be- came British subjects, the blood which ran in their veins was French, and racial charac- teristics were slow to disappear. He did not suggest that the French residents would ever try to change the flag, but if in Jersey they continued to gag and handicap those who could only speak English, those who oould only speak French would introduce into the island their French habits of thought, their French modes of living and their French re- ligion or irreligion, and the procedure of the Courts of Justice would become coloured with French characteristics. For these reasons he was forced to modify his opinion as to the policy of a strict maintenance of French as the official language of Jersey. The time had come when they must elect whether they wished their institutions to take an English or a French colour. His own suggestion was that the official records of the island should continue to be kept in the language of their fore- fathers, but that the use of French or English should be optional in all courts of law and in the State. Let them no longer handicap the English tongue. (Cheers.) Mr. Atherley-Jones, Q.C., M.P., responding for "The Mother Country," said evidently South Africa, was not the only place where there was a Uitlander question—(laughter)— but he was glad to recognise in Sir George Bertram a happy combination of Sir Alfred Milner and President Kruger. (Laughter and cheers.)

A KENTUCKY VENDETT^'JJI 00"- An unprecedented sta.te of anarchy pre1 ti Clay County, Kentucky, where entire community are taking part in i bloodshed arising out of a family vende started with a dispute over the wagon between members of the Howard families, both of whom are *e 0ft> i in the county. A feud soon involved their relatives and friends, who took ,s regarded their adversaries as inJp enemi33. Four men were killed in ambushes in the early stage of the ,g p*. Finally Tom Baker, leader of his tisans, was arrested and placed on murder last Saturday, when he was nated in the yard of the Court-house » Chester, the capital of Clay County, gbe<t the guard of militia round the building- White and his friends openly sympathy the Howards. All the officials in the chosen sides, and refused to interfere$>> slaughter. Some of them boasted tha^d would see that the shootings were proceed to the end. The two sides teT^[g 1'L Judge Eversile, and threatened to take & tr He had to adjourn the court, which sign for non-combatants to flee out .^0 country, where lawlessness is now ra 0f & The other evening Jim Howard, lea^rjtf side, was mysteriously shot and killefj i courtyard at Manchester. The Pk joi" numerous family in the district, the Bakers, and they vowed together to of tr minate the Howards. The Governor 00 State has been reluctant to interfere foril to cal reasons, but he has now been comPe J vi order the militia to be mobilised aro e scene of the vendetta. It is feared, j that he is really impotent, owing to ordinary clannishness which has &e\ throughout the population. Moreo mountainous character of Clay County guerilla methods of warfare. The & g[ tPJ bloodshed and the unheard-of bitterness t feud attract excited attention, through0 country. ———■—i^ 01,

MR. BALFOUR ON EDUCAT Mr. Balfour on Friday attended spe^il'^ at Leys School, Cambridge, and dis^' cf. the prizes. The right hon. gentlem»". of' gratulated the governors on the r debt of £ 30,000, and described it as anl tion of the public spirit of the great 0$L denomination. Alluding to educa^^jffl" i some of its controversial aspects.^Mr• t&jje while holding that it was not desiraP' f Greek and Latin should be excluded f places they had occupied, though tionalists ought not to give themseKest}1jJ& by claiming for the classical syste10 which the classical system could not & t held with almost everybody who had the question that an education which in considerable part a literary ednca11^ necessarily maimed and one-sided, bttt 6b°\e credible that in these days any undervalue science or that insight gfp^i physical world which was constantly goo ing? Man should drink deeply of both of inspiration.

is, AUTOMATIC COUPLINGS Colg SION.. The Royal Commission appointed io-0 into the question of railway lings sat on Friday at Westminster > under the presidency of Lord James fcrd. Evidence was given by Mr. 11 of secretary of the railway departnien Board of Trade, who said that in years ended 1893 the number of ra» vants killed in shunting operation' j 1, United Kingdom was 362 and inJu tjjis8 He had made inquiries in America 00 Ltltot0" ject, and had learned that the a c coupling system there had resulted 1 siderable saving of life. His view WOLS )1JIet\JJ class of automatic coupling used 11'1 could be adapted to English rolling 8 some slight modifications.

LITTLE HEROINES • „ ha3 ao<\ A plucky rescue from drowning ^9" 0\ effected by two little girls in 80in€l2jiterltfl' near Bungay. Suffolk. The two daUSpjttf*1 f ,j n Mr. Williamson, of the Fa'con 100, ham. aged ten and eight, were j> home from school in the aftern^^e- panied by another scholar named J* passing over the foot-bridge (a which crosses the river, Helen slipped into the water, which at tfl' about 6ft. deep. Moore held on ^jjjrd with one hand, and grasped the 1 with the other, whilst the latter S° water and clutched her elder ceeded in rescuing her. When got out of the River aVe unconscious condition, and the arri«" gj' rescuers, to complete their work, home between them. After three recovered. ——— ———————————

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