Weekly Mail

AN ABSCONDING RAILWAY SECRETARY. rTbfr "Central News" eays:—Mr. Tremaine, secretary of the Charnwood Forest Railway Com- pany, has disappeared. It ia now placed beyond idoubt that Mr. Maddison issued upwards of -430,000 of false debentures of the above railway.

ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CONNAUGHT IN INDIA. The Peninsular and Oriental steamship Cathay, with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught on board, arrived at Bombay at one p.m. on Tuesday. On landing their Royal Highnesses met with a tcordiai reception from an immense gathering. Crreat festivities are preparing, and to-day (Thursday) will be observed as a holiday.

ACTORS' MATINEE BY MR. IRVING IN AMERICA. At the request of the New York members of the dramatic profession, Mr. Irving gave an actors' matinie on Tuesday at the Star Theatre, which was crowded with an altogether exceptional audience, nearly 2,000 actors being present. The play per- formed was "Louis XI. and Mr. Irving's render- ing of the title-role was received with extraordi- nary enthusiasm.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the Executive Committee for pro- moting thtt holding of the Royal Show at Chester in 1885 was held at Chester on Saturday. wlkn Mr. Dickson, hon. sec., announced that the suoscrip- .ions already promised amounted to JM. 140. It was stated that the claims of Chester were most tnfluentially backed throughout North Wales and the Vale of Clwyd.

THE VACANT MON MOUTHS Him: CORONERSHIP. It is stated that several influential gentlemen in the county of Monmouth have expressed their desire to have Mr. Edgar Brewer elected to the vacant coronership. Mr. Edgar Brewer is a younger brother of Mr. W. H. Brewer, the lite coroner, and is thoroughly conversant with the duties of the office, having in the lifetime of his father, who was coroner for some thirty years, frequently acted as deputy.

EXAMINATION BOARD FOR THE MINING DISTRICT OF SOUTH WALES. At a meetirg of this board, held at the Town- hall, Cardiff, on Monday, when there were present Mr. G. T. Clark, Dowlais, in the chair, and Messrs. T. Forster Brown, C.E., Cardiff G. Tasker, Merthyr Tydfil; T. Phillips, Aberdare; K. Evans, Swansea Valley; and the secretary, Mr. C. Henry James, Merthyr Tydfil, it was resolved that the next examination for the granting of certificates of competency under the Mines Act, 1872, should be held at Cardiff on January 8, 9, and 10,1884.

A TOWN FLOODED UN MARKET NIGHT. A singular scene was witnessed at Nuneaton on Saturday night, the result of the sudden tlooding of the town. The brooks had been largely swollen by heavy rains, when suddenly large volumes of water from the direction of a place of local cele- brity, known as Wagh-lane, poured into the Market-place. Numbers of stalls were practically converted into islands, and there was considerable excitement and inconvenience, not only among stall-keepers, but amongst all who were attending the market. The flood subsided in the course of a obort time.

THE YORK ELECTION. Mr. Frank Lockwood, Q.C., Liberal, and Sir Frederick George Milner, Conservative, were duly Dominated on Tuesday for the representation of York. The Press Association states that the repre- sentatives of the Irish National League at York, with Mr. Brady, secretary from London, had an interview on Wednesday afternoon with Mr. Lock- wood, the Liberal candidate—a staunch supporter of the Government—and have decided to issue a placard calling upon the Irish voters, numbering, it is said, 500, to support him. They admit that he made them no promises.

THE MARQUESS OF BUTE'S VISIT TO ATHENS. The Marquess and Marchioness of Bute nrrived at Rothesay on Monday afternoon. A carriage was in waiting at Craigmore, the nearest landing-place X) Balmory House but the weather was so stormy ;hat the steamer did not call. On arrival at Rothesay Lord and Lady Bute immediately drove ,0 Balmory, where they will remain till Friday, when Lord Bute leaves for Dumfries House. In jonnection with his lordship's proposed visit to Athens he has chartered Colonel White's 410 (team yacht Speraniza, which will probably leave Jowes this week for a six mouths' cruise in the Mediterranean.

SHIPPING DISASTERS AND LOSS OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE LIVES. Lloyd's agent at Fayal reports that on the 3th of .November the American ship Thomas Dana, from Liverpool for New York, landed there 21 men, ieing the boatswain and part of the crew and passengers of the Rocaberg, a French brig, bound TO in St. Pierre, Miquelon, for St. Malo, which was IUnk by collision at 5 a.m. on the 30th of October. I'he Rocaberg foundered immediately after the collision. The remainder of the crew and pas- sengers, numbering 88 men. perished. A Reuter's telegram from New York states that 55 persons perished in the shipping disasters during the gales on the Western Lakes between ;he 11th and 17th inst.

AIR. GLADSTONE AT WINCHESTER. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone paid a visit to Winchester Allege on Monday, where the Premier was enthu- jiastically received by the boys, and welcomed in i Latin address by Senior Prefect Leather. In re- sponding to the address, Mr. Gladstone congratu- lated the students on having the honour and delight of belonging to the oldest and most distin- guished of all the great schools of England. Their schools were amongst the great institutions of this country, and were totally inseparable from the life of the nation. They had made England what she is, and promised by their increasing importance to make her what she will be.

MR. W. H. SMITH, M.P., ON IRISH LEGISLATION. Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., spoke on Monday night in connection with a lecture at the Westminster Working Men's Conservative Association by Mr. W. H. C. Richards, Conservative candidate for N oth!)mpton. on a recent visit to disaffected Ireland. Mt-. Smith complained that Ireland had been made the shuttlecock of parties. What it required were peace and security, and complete relief from legislation. He would not even dis- turb it by a repeal of thnt Act which had trans- ferred so much valuable property from one class to another. But this legislation had created expectations which could never be realised. Mr. Healy had said Irishmen would never be satisfied so long as a single penny of rent was paid for a single sod of land in the country. He (the speaker) characterised this as language likely to produce outrages and murder amongst an excitable people, and demanded that the Govern- ment should not permit it. What Ireland wanted were rest and effective action of the Government to prevent open flaunting of doctrines that must '.ead to crime.

fIIE RESTORATION OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, ABERTILLERY. RE-OPENING SERVICES. Through the exertions of the Rev. Henry Walters, vicar, the interior of St. Michael's Church, Aber- tillery, has been lately renovated, and now has a very neat and tasteful appearance. Amongst the articles presented for the use of the church are:—■ A brass cross for the altar, presented by Dr. W. E. Williams, J.P.. Abertillery Prayer-book and com- munion service, by the congregation and offertory bags and alms dish by Mrs. Hall. The re-opening services were held on Monday. The Lord Bishop of the Diocese preached at the morning service, and took for his text Ephesians iv., 12. His lord- ship warmly advocated the necessity of Christians jxhorting one another towards the perfecting of the saints. At the afternoon service the Her. Canon Evans, of Rhymney, was the preacher and the preacher for the evening service was the Rev. — Howella, incumbent of Holy Trinity, Aberga- venny. The following clergy took part also in the services-The Revs. Henry Walters, vicar E. Davies, home missionary, Cwmtillery; and — Lewis, vicar of Brynmawr. There were also pre- sent the Revs. H. Howell, rector, Blaina, and John Morgan, Nantyglo. The bishop and clergy were entertained by Dr. W. E. Williams, J.P. Collec- tions were made in aid of the Restoration Fund.

ENORMOUS MEDICAL FEES. On Wednesday, in the Court of Common Pleas, before Mr. Justice Harrison and a special jury, an action was commenced in which Mr. Wm. Ireland Wheeler, president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, petitioned to recover tl,147 18s., medical fees, for attending, at the request of the Government, Mr. Thomas Shean Carter, who was shot and desperately wounded on the 15th of March, 1882, near Belmullet, County Mayo. The particulars of the bill were :-Five professional visitA to Belmullet, in March and April, £656 5s. operation, £52 10s.; detained five days in March, £ 105; three days in April, and moving from Jtelmullet to Ballina, JESIO; attendance in Dublin, £ 31 10a.; paid railway fare for two assistants, jM 4s.; paid conveyance from Ballina to Bel- mullet, and Belmullet to Ballina, jM 4s. The Attorney-General, on the part of the Queen, traversed the petition, and further stated in his answer that the late Thomas Henry Burke, under- secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant, did not enter into the agreement with the petitioner, and that if ne did enter into any agreement the same was an agreement to pay him in the event only of Mr. Tarter being himself unable to pay the supplicant for his attendance. At the close of tiia plaintiff's case the court adjourned.

THE LIVERPOOL MURDER. SENTENCE OF DEATH. After two days' trial at Liverpool (before Justice Denman) Lewis Parry, a married man, was sentenced to death on Wednesday for murdering Susannah Hutton, under circumstances of great brutality, on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A YOUTH. A shocking accident occurred at Sheffield on Wednesday. A young man named Whitworth, employed in a brickyard, was at work near the clavmill when his clothes were caught by a cog- wheel, and he was drawn into the mill. Hd died soon after the mill was stopped.

LOSS OF A BRITISH STEAMER AND EIGHTEEN LIVES. A Reuter's" telegram from Minden on Sunday says :-The British Steamer Condor, from Liver- pool, was wrecked and went down this morning during a violent storm. The captain and eight men were saved with difficulty, but eighteen men were lost, including the engineers and stokers, who were killed by the bursting of the boilers.

DESTRUCTION OF A THEATRE BY FIRE. The Theatre Royal, Darlington, was discovered to be on fire shortly after one o'clock on Saturday morning, and, in spite of the efforts of the fire brigade, it was burned to the ground. A perfor- mance of The Ticket of Leave Man" was given on Friday night, which concluded with a display of fireworks. The damage is estimated at £ 6,000. The company and the lessee have lost all their effects.

THE LIVERPOOL POISONING CASE. An inquest was opened on Saturday at Liverpool upon a young woman named Sarah Jennings, whose body had been exhumed on suspicion that the deceased had been poisoned. Mr. Flannigan, father of the deceased, said she had been ill twelve or thirteen days, and was insured for jE50 in a club by Mrs. Flannigan. The inquiry was adjourned in order that the remains might be analysed.

THE CHARGE OF INDECKNT ASSAULT AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. At Hammersmith Police Court on Saturday the Rev. William Handcock, vicar of St. Matthew's and Christ Church, Hammersmith, was remanded, the magistrate intimating that he must commit him for trial. He is charged with indecently assaulting Ellen Rosaline Thomas, wife of an accountant at Brook Green. Bail was allowed.

VIOLENT SPEECH BY MR. BEGGAR. Speaking at Oldham, on Sunday, Mr. Biggar, M.P., said the Lord-Lieutenant had hanged inno- cent people on evidence which was notoriously false. The Orang-amen, he said, were unimportant in numbers, and composed of knaves and dupes. He characterised Mr. Stanley, member for Oldham, as a wretch, and said Mr. Stanley and Mr. Hop- wood were most obnoxious members in the House of Commons.

A GHASTLY DISCOVERY. At a coroner's inquest at Sanghall, near Chester, on the body of Robert Jackson, aged 67, it appeared that Mr. Trelawny and a party of gentlemen were shooting over Sanghall coverts, when they saw a curious object between the trees, and on going up found the body of a man in a shocking state of de- composition suspended by the neck to a tree. Sub- sequent investigation revealed the deceased to be Robert Jackson, of Chester, who had been missing for three weeks. A verdict of Suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned.

ALLEGED ASSAULT BY A MAGISTRATE. At the Marylebone Police Court a case has been heard in which Mr. Charles Mortimer, a magistrate, residing at Woodfield, Streatham, was charged with having assaulted Florence Jenner, a married woman, on the Metropolitan Railway. The defen- dant totally denied the truth of the statement made'by the prosecutrix, and the hearing was adjourned, his own recognisances being taken for his appearance, the magistrate at the same time expressing his opinion that the story of the prose- cutrix was most unsatisfactory.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDKNT ON THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY. On Monday morninga platelayer,named Richard Francis, who had been 30 years employed on the Taft Vale Railway, was so terribly injured near the Walnut Tree Bridge Station that he died shortly after the accident. He was employed on the line when a train approached. He moved out of the way of the advancing engine to the other line. At the same moment another train approached along that line, and he was struck down by it. The wheels passed over one of his legs, cutting it off, and he sustained also shocking injuries about the head. He leaves a widow and children.

A CIIAPEL ON FIRE AT PORTH. Considerable excitement was caused at Porth, Rhondda Valley, on Tuesday afternoon, by the news that the English Wesleyan Chapel was on lire. Crowds soon gathered; willing hands at once brought out the hose from Messrs. Jenkins and Son's timber yard, and a constant stream of water from the mains was brought to play upon the dames, which were soon subdued. The damage done, however, was by no means trifling, some of the seats and the organ being burned. It is stated that the fire originated through a piece of dry timber in the tlue of the heating apparatus igniting.

THE COLLISION WITH A CARDIFF STEAMER. As reported in Tuesday's Western Mail, the steamer Blaenavon, of Cardiff, Captain Cantell, with a cargo of iron ore from Huelva for Glasgow, while proceeding up the Clyde on Monday after- noon, was, about five o'clock, run into by another steamer. The Blaenavon was struck in the engine room, and was run ashore on the river's bank, where she filled. On Tuesday the steamer was being discharged, and when this is completed she will be taken up to Glasgow for repairs. None of the crew were hurt. The colliding steamer is believed to have sustained no damage.

EXECUTION AT DURHAM. At eight o'clock on Monday morning Peter Bray, 32, pitman, was executed in Durham Gaol for the murder of a man named Thomas Pyle. Binns was the executioner, and performed his work in a cool and expeditious manner. The culprit shook hands with all present, and walked firmly to the scaffold. On the drop he twice desired to speak to the reporters, but was not allowed. The executioner drew the bolt, and death was instantaneous. The drop was 7ft. 6in. The slack of the rope was tied up with thin cord, and a warder was stationed on planks on either side of the drop. The culprit is reported to have written out a confession.

MURDER TRIAL AT LIVERPOOL. At Liverpool Assizes on Monday John Gibbons, farm labourer, was charged with the murder of his uncle, Joshua Rigby, aged 70. a farmer, of Lowton, near Manchester. The evidence was that deceased, having quarrelled with his other rela- tives, made a will in favour of Gibbons, who lived with him. On the 18th September Rigby was found dead in bed with his skull fractured. His throat had been cut after death, with the evident inten- tion of leading people to believe he had committed suicide. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner, against whom the evidence was purely circumstantial. Owing to the sudden indisposition of a juryman the case was adjourned.

THE TRIAL OF THE FENIAN CENTRE POOLE. SENTENCE OF DEATH. The trial of Jos. Poole for the murder of John Kenny, in Saville-place, was resumed on Tuesday in the Dublin Commission Court. Lamie, the approver, repeated his former evidence respecting the division in the Fenian party, and said lie believed at the time of the murder Kenny was an informer. At their meetings the removal of Detective Walton and Judge Lawson was decided on. Francis Geoghagan heard Poole say on the night of the murder that Kenny would tell no more. Dr. Webb, for the defence, urged insufficiency of evidence against the accused. The )ury, after ft deliberation of about 40 minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. Prisoner was sentenced to death.

A "BOOKMAKER" SENT TO PRISON. Timothy John Smith, alias Justice, was charged at the Epsom Petty Sessions on Monday with keep- ing a betting house, known as Truth's Epsom Express Office," at Ely Villa, Epsom.—The prisoner pleaded guilty. -Mr. Mead, who prosecuted on behalf of the Public Prosecutor, stated there were several summonses against the prisoner, but as he had pleaded guilty, if the bench would inflict the full penalty, viz., six months' imprisonment, on the first summons, he would withdraw the others. Smith had been carrying on a most extensive busi- ness; and on searching his house no less than 1,260 letters and telegrams were found, most of them relating to betting. It was also evident from some of the letters that he had been carrying on a dishonest as well as an illegal business, several of the letters containing complaints of money which had been won not being received. The prisoner had been convicted on two previous occasions of a similar offence.-For the defence, Mr. Hodson urged that as the prisoner was an old man a fine only should be inflicted; but the magistrates thought otherwise, and sentenced him to six months' im- prisonment.—On the application of Mr. Hodson, they ordered that some deeds which had been found in the prisoner's possession ahmuUi he de- livered uo to his solicitor.

SINKING OF A CARDIFF STEAMSHIP. A telegram despatched from Bowling, on Mon- day, to Mrs. Hewitson, 37, Penarth-road, Cardiff, wife of Mr. J. Hewitson, chief engineer on board the steamship Blaenavon, announces the fact that this vessel collided with another, a steamer, in the Clyde that day. The crew of the Blaenavon, which belongs to Messrs. Morel Bros., of Cardiff, were all saved.

SHOCKING DEATH AT A COLLIERY. A horsekeeper named Edwin Daws, employed at the Nunnery Colliery, Sheffield, met with his death in a frightful manner on Monday. Having finished his work he was in the act of getting into the cage, when, from some unexplained cause, the engine- man set the ropes in motion, and Daws was cut to pieces between the cage and the conductors. Death must have been instantaneous. The deceased leaves a widow and seven children.

ABSCONDING OF ANOTHER BANK SECRETARY FROM LONDON. The Press Association has received a copy of the following circular, which was issued on Wed- nesday evening to shareholders of the London and San Francisco Bank:—"Sir,—The directors regret to have to inform you that James Davis, who had been secretary of this bank for many years, has absconded, and it appears from investigations which have been made that he has defrauded the bank of money and securities to the value of £ 50,000."

THE ROBBERY FROM MR. SEXTON, M.P. At the Middlesex Sessions on Monday Jeremiah Carrol, 23, was indicted for stealing a watch worth nearly JE50 from Mr. Sexton, M.P., on the morning of November 10. Mr. Sexton stated that between two and three a.m. he was about entering a cab near Drury-lane Theatre, when he was seized by six or seven men, and robbed of his watch. Two cabmen gave corroborative evidence, and one of them identified prisoner, whom he followed. He saw him examining prosecutor's watch under a street lamp. Previous convictions were proved, and the prisoner was sentenced to fifteen months' hard labour.

FACTION FIGHTS IN IRELAND. Three men, said to be Orangemen, have been arrested and remanded at Derry on the charge of firing revolvers at a Catholic named M'Laughlin, near Amagh, County Tyrone. Bail was refused. The injured man, who was shot through the hand, is in the hospital. AtStrathbane, County Tyrone, some Nationalist bands were parading in honour of the Limerick election, when, it is alleged, an Orange party stoned them and used revolvers. Two arrests have been madi

FOUNDERING OF A BARGE IN THE SEVERN. On Saturday morning,as theFanny, of Gloucester, was running up the Severn, with a cargo of stona for Chepstow, she ran into one of the piers of Severn Bridge, and immediately afterwards went down. Captain Wayman, who was in charge, and his crew effected their escape by means of the boat, and were landed a short distance from the scene of the accident. The owner is Mr. Longney, of Longney, near Gloucester. The vessel has since the accident become a total wreck. There was no wind at the time of the collision with the pier, and the Ciiptain had, therefore, but little control over his vessel, which was early upon the tide.

A ROMANTIC POTMAN. At the Thames Police Court, William Billings, potman at the Commercial Tavern, West India Dockyard, has been charged with attempting to commit suicide by strangling himself. A constable named Henry Beard was called in, and found the prisoner with a rope round his neck. He was insensible and much discoloured in the face. When he was brought round, he asked for a knife. A letter to the following effect was found upon him —" This death was caused by Mrs. Hutchins, and all that can be found is by my word left to her as a wife or loving friend. In my pocket is £ 1 9s. 9d. From your ever loving W. Billings, 46, Northumber- hnd-mad, Clerken welL" Mr.Lushington remanded the prisoner for a. week.

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT LEEDS. At the Leeds Police Court on Monday the four vouths-Hart, Lyons, Allen, and Grogan-railway station loiterers, were charged on remand with the wilful murder of John Bottomley, who was found dead with his skull fractured on the canal bank at Leeds last month. The prosecution failed to substantiate the capital charge, but it was proved that the prisoners robbed deceased of his watch in the railway station on the night of his death, and the capital charge was, therefore, with- drawn, and the prisoners pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny. Hart and Lyons, being under 16 years of age, were ordered to be imprisoned for ten days, and then sent to a reformatory school for five years; Allen and Grogan were each sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment wtth hard labour.

A SALVATIONIST COMMANDER IN TROUBLE AT CHEPSTOW. Some twelve months since Chepstow was placarded with huge bills announcing that the place was to be stormed, and the evil therein driven out. Satan was to have been completely routed, and all this was to be accomplished by the Bath Salvation Army, under the command of W.J. Powell. The Hotel de Chili was taken on lease for seven years, and extensive alterations made there, the place being fitted up throughout with gas fitting; &e. After a few months of apparent success, nasty rumours as to the morals of the gallant commander were afloat. These ended in an affiliation case at Bath, and the landlord of the hotel was minus his rent. On Monday the Chep- stow Gas Comparu -.ued Powell forj612 17s. 7d. for gas, kc. The commander did not put in an ap- pearance, and an order for a distress warrant was issued, with one month's imprisonment in case there were no effects.

DEATH THROUGH OVER-EATING. An inquiry has been held by the City coroner, at the Old Market, Bermondsey, London, into the cir- cumstances attending the death of Mrs. Ellen Horder, aged 24 years, of 26, George-row, Ber- mondsey. It appeared from the evidence of Wm. Horder, the husband, and other witnesses that on Thursday evening the deceased went to a chemist's shop in the neighbourhood and purchased some fluid for the cure of toothache. Immediately after- wards she complained of a burning sensation in her throat; but before retiring to rest she partook of a hearty supper, consisting of fried fish and potatoes. At half-past one o'clock on Friday morning Horder was awakened by his wife, who said, Oil, I am so ill; I have a burning in my throat." She then sank into her husband's arms and expired. Mr. John Dixon, surgeon, of 133, Jamaica-road, Bermondsey, said he had made a post-mortem examination. Witness found the stomach gorged with fish and potatoes. Death resulted from over-eating. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

SENTENCE OF DEATH. Henry Dutton, iron moulder, 22, was tried at the Liverpool Assizes ou Saturday on a charge of murdering his mother-in-law, Hannah Hampshaw, by kicking her to death in a quarrel. When the trial was about to begin, one of the jurymen said that he had conscientious objections to" finding a man guilty of murder when the penalty involved was death. Mr. Justice Denman thereupon ordered .him to leave the box, and, another juryman having been sworn in, the trial proceeded. The circum- stances of the case disclosed shocking brutality on the part of the prisoner. He was jealous of his wife, who was only seventeen years of age, and on the night of the 16th of October he went to her grandmother's house, and, charging the old woman with encouraging his wife to keep out of his way, he beat her about the bead so much that her scalp, according to the medical evidence, was reduced to pulp. He ran away from the house after the murder, but was arrested. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the judge, who characterised the crime as one of fiendish ferocity, sentenced him to be hanged.

ALLEGED THEFT OF £ 37 AT SWANSEA. John Allen, 14, Jones-terrace, Swansea, and George Mills were charged with stealing a cash box containing J37 from the bar of the Brewers' Arms, Orange-street, Swansea, on the 20th of January last. Mary Ann Williams said she was a single woman, now living at the Greyhound Inn, Llanelly. In January last she kept the Brewers' Arms. On the day mentioned the prisoners and another man were in the kitchen of her house drinking. She gave them some change out of the cash box, and then put the box back under the counter in the bar, which adjoined the kitchen. She then went into another room. Mills followed her in, shut the door, and placed his back against it. She pulled it open, returned to the bar, and found that Allen and the other man and the cash box had disappeared. Other witnesses deposed to seeing Allen with a considerable sum of gold in his possession shortly after the time the cash box was stolen. Allen was remanded until Thursday, and Mills was dismissed.

TERRIBLE WHIRLWIND IN ENGLAND. An extraordinary whirlwind which accom- panied the severe hail and enow storm at Ports- mouth on Saturday took an area of only about 20 yards, but was so violent that it brought to the ground a monument in the park erected to the memory of the crew of her Majesty's ship Shah who fell in Zululand. The band stand and several trees also fell. A commercial traveller was unable to retain hold of his samples, which were blown across the road. Many persons were blown about the roads and into doorways, being quite unable for some seconds to get a footing. The Admiralty were prepared for the squall, and had signalled to vessels to lower topyards. The whirlwind was in a west- south-westerly direction.—Yeovil waa on Saturday visited with a whirlwind, which blew heavy wagons half loaded with hay some sixty feet. It damaged the roofs of grain stores, and at Messrs. Bradford's yard drove a truck against two shunting horses, knocking them over. At Alden it threw down the chimney stack of a house occupied by a Mr. Batten, some of the masonry falling into a bedroom. Many buildings were partially wrecked, and huaiteds of tr-w desired.

I THE ALLEGED LIBEL UN THE "CENTRAL NEWS." At the Old Bailey on Wednesday Mr. Grain on behalf of the Central News renewed his appli- cation to be permitted to add another count to the indictment against the Sportsman for a libel, alleging that the libel complained of had been wil- fully republished. The Recorder said he never assisted prosecutions of this description, and e refused the application. The grand jury returned a true bill for libel against the conductors of Judy for an alleged libel upon the Central News," but as regards the indictment of the same description against the Sportsman they ignored the bill.

A MAN SHOT BY A MONK. A Rome correspondent, writing on the 20th, says:—A peasant has been shot in the Convent of Casimari, near Veroli, by a. monk, under the fol- lowing circumstances. The monks of that convent, having perceived that the grain in the granary was fast disappearing, one of the monks, of the name of Fra Michele. ported one night in a corner of the granary ■ u a loaded musket. Late at night a peitbiirl uppiuuched the convent wall with a ladder. No sooner had the unfortu- nate man entered the granary than he fell dead, shot by the monk.

ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM. A man named Clarke, residing in Garrison-lane, Birmingham, on Sunday night made a determined attempt to murder his wife, to whom he had only been married a week. They appeared to live on affectionate terms together, but Clarke had been drinking, and during the last few days had acted strangely. On Sunday, without any provocation or warning, he seized a large chopper, and with it beat his wife about the head in such a shocking manner that no hope is given of her recovery. Clarke afterwards walked towards the police station, and, meeting some constables, gave him- self up.

ALLEGED DIGAMY AT YNYSHIR. A man named Evan Wm. Morgan, alias Ianto Clatshan Vach," has been apprehended at Ynyshir by Acting-Sergeant Row on the charge of com- mitting bigamy by marrying Elizabeth Williams, until last week a domestic servant at the Colliers, Arms, Hafod. It is alleged that she is the fourth of the prisoner's wives, two of whom are, however, dead. His legal wife is named Dorothey, and resides in Monmouthshire. It appears that the prisoner and Elizabeth Williams lived together as man and wife two days and nights when Eliza- beth by some means found that he had another wife living. She immediately gave him into custody.

THE MISSING OLD MAN AT TREFOREST. Watkin Rees, the old man who was missed from his home at Treforest, has been found near Troedyrhiw, Merthyr. The pooroid man wandered on foot in the direction of his once happy home at Merthyr, oblivious apparently of the fact that time had removed most of his near and dear friends. He was found lying in the cold and rain by the side of the highway near Troedyrhiw. When asked what he was doing there, he replied, Only resting a little." He added that "he was going home to the Long-row." He was conveyed thither, very cold and wet, and was taken in at No. 3, where every care was shown to him. The fol- lowing day he was taken back by train to Tre- forest.

THE SWANSEA SHOOTING CASE. John Hamilton, fireman, was charged on remand at Swansea Borough Police Court on Monday with unlawfully shooting and maiming George Daniel, by shooting him with a revolver in the Brecon Arms, Strand. The facts of the case have been already reported.—The Stipendiary, addressing the prisoner, now said: Having examined the evi- dence in your case since the remand, I have come to the opinion that in handling and displaying your cartridges and revolver on two separate occa- sions you were acting unlawfully, because it looks to me as if your purpose was to alarm and in- fluence the guests or landlord to give you liquor without payment. You had repeatedly asked them to give it; you had no money, and drink was re- fused. At last you fired and shot Mr. Daniel in the foot. What your intention was in firing, or whether you had any intention, is a question for a jury, and you will be committed to take your trial at the next assizes for the misdemeanour of unlaw- fully wounding Mr. Daniel.

THE ALLEGED MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT MAERDY. At Pontypridd Police Court on Wednesday Elias Williams, Maerdy, who had been in custody since October 16 and from time to time remanded, was again placed at the bar, charged with wounding John Williams, his father-in-law. The affair has been already reported at length. The prisoner had taken the complainant's Bible out of the house, and on his asking why he had done this he (prisoner) knocked him down and kicked him until he became insensible. His life was for some time deemed to be in danger. He had sustained a serious accident in the works just before, and the assault had appa- rently aggravated the effects of the accident. Dr. Roberts said that the complainant had sustained a cut one and a half inches in length, the skull being fractured. He had also several fractured ribs and was suffering from emphysema. These injuries were in addition to those he liid sus- tained at the works. Hia life was in such danger that he advised the authorities to have his deposi- tions taken. This was done by Mr. Gordon Lenox, J.P., and Mr. Porcher (Mr. Stockwood's clerk), to- gether with Superintendent Mathews, they attend- ing his bedside for that purpose.—The prisoner was committed for trial at the quarter sessions.

MALTING BARLEY FOR CATTLE. A Swansea correspondent, over the signature "Young Farmer," has written us, asking, "Since the repeal of the Malt Tax, how much barley is malted for cattle, and whether it is best to make into malt as if for brewing, or whether it is more beneficial to give it not kiln dried; if so, at how many days' growth ?" Our correspondent, having sueaested Mr. Daniel Owen, J.P., Ash Hall, as one who would probably "know all about" a question of this sort, we forwarded that gentleman his letter. Mr. Owen's inquiries have elicited the following, which may be taken as a repre- sentative letter, the writer being engaged in extensive brewing and farming operations in the Vale of Glamorgan. He says: "I do not believe that the repeal of the Malt Tax has been of any advantage to the farmers of the Vale of Glamorgan. I am quite certain that barley is not malted in this part of the county to any great extent (if any at all) for the purpose of feeding stock. My experience is this:—Occasion- ally when I have been short of feeding stuff I have served out malt for the purpose, and had it ground small the same as barley or maize meal. I find the cattle prefer, and do better on, the barley or maize than they do on the malt. And the pigs do better and have a preference for the barley meal. Please understand, my experience is only limited to my own observations."

AN EXTRAORDINARY KIDNAPPING STORY. An extraordinary kidnapping story is being in- vestigated by the Metropolitan police. The victim is a man named Joseph Meiar, a Swiss, employed at the Midland Hotel, St. Pancras. He says he had arranged to be married, had taken a residence in Argyle-square, Euston-road, had purchased furni- ture, and went to the house last Wednesday night and met his intended wife. The furniture not having como, he left the house to go to the shop where lie had bought it. He continued:—" I then had JE85, a watch, chain, and other things in my possession. I was walking through Ai gyle-court to get to Tunbridge-street, when suddenly a sack was thrown ever my head, and I was hustled into a house. I remember going down three steps, and that is all I know about the pla< e into which I was taken. The next thing I remember is that in the night I was spoken to by a man who offered me some- thing to drink, which I refused to take. It was quite dark, and I could not see the features of the person. I felt that my hands and feet were tied, and I could not release them. The next thing I remember is being spoken to by a man. I was then in the open air, and found that I was a long way from home. All my money and watch and chain were gone." It further appears that Meiar was on Thursday night found on Hartford Common, near Broxbourne. and that he could not at all account for being discovered there but he complained of having been kicked and otherwise ill-treated, and his nose and mouth were bleeding. He was at once removed by train to Tottenham Hospital. The young woman to whom he was about to be married has corroborated his statement with regard to the money.

THE POACHING AtFRAY AT YSTALYFERA. DEFENDANTS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. At the Pontardawe Petty Sessions on Friday (before Messrs. A. Gilbertson, J. Moore, G. H. Strick, and J. Trevilian Jenkin) Price Morgan, Henry Williams, William Jones, and William Williams, were charged, on remand, with having, on the night of the 14th of July, entered upon lands the property of Mr. R. D. Gough, at Gelly Fowey Fawr, Ystajyfera, armed with offensive weapons, for the purpose of destroying game. Mr. Wyndham Lawrence prosecuted on behalf of Mr. Gough and Mr. Plews (instructed by Mr. Thomas Williams, Neath) appeared for the defence. The main facts of the case, which were reported in the Western Mail same time ago, are these:— On the night in question two gamekeepers in the employ of Mr. Gough and Police-Constables Lewis, Williams, and Phillips concealed themselves behind a hedge to watch for poachers. About one o'clock in the morning they saw several men come into the field carrying neta and accompanied by dogs. Springing out of their hiding-place, they advanced towards the poachers, when one of the fatter called out "Stand back you s or we'll kill you." They continued to advance, and the poachers threw stones at them, one of which struck Police-Con- stable Phillips on the right leg and broke it. Several witnesses were called for the prosecution. —Mr. Plews, addressing the bench for the defence, said no evidence had been adduced to show that the defendants were armed. He also stated that he had fourteen witnesses who would prove an alibi with regard to Morgan and Henry Williams; and if the bench decided to commit the defendants for trial he should call those witnesses at the assizes.—The Magistrates then committed the defendants for trial at the assizes.—The bearing of the case occupied mam ohm six hOIK.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. VIOLENCE. The Crimina Investigation Department is at present engaged in investigating an extraordinary case of robbery with violence. It seems that last Thursday morning a man was found lying in the road at Broxbourne, Herts, helpless and bleeding. He was removed to Tottenham Training Hospital, where his injuries were attended to, and, from a. statement afterwards made by him, the police authorities were communicated with. He said his name was Joseph Meier, that he was a porter at the Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras, and that on Wednesday evening he was proceeding to a house in Argyle-square, Euston-road, when he was set upon by two men. A sack was thrown over his head, his hands and feet were bound, and he was carried into a house in Liverpool-street, King's Cross. There he was robbed of a gold watch and chain and a sum of about £85, He was detained in the house all night, and on the following morning was placed in a cart and driven to Broxbourne, where he was thrown into the road, receiving rather severe injury through the fall. He was detained in the hospital until Friday morning, when he was removed to his home.

HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A SISTER. The Paris correspondent of the Chronicle tele- graphs :—A trial has just taken place at the Court of Assizes of Loir-et-Cher which reveals an amount of inhumanity almost incredible, even among the most debased and brutal portion of the French peasantry. A sordid and avaricious peasant, Cochereau, and his wife, received into their home a sister of the former, Madeleine Cochereau, who possessed the modest fortune of a few thousand francs, a temptation in their eyes. She was an indefatigable worker, and all went well until she was attacked by epileptic fits. Then began a course of barbarous treatment, which was added to in proportion as she became increasingly helpless. Efforts were made by the neighbours, and there was some slight interference by the authorities, to procure better treatment for the wretched creature, but it was of no avail. Finally she was immured in a garret, a couple of tiles being removed to give the only light. After being four months immured there in indescribable filth, death put an end to her sufferings. She was found utterlv emaciated, with a fractured knee, broken by a. blow with a stick from her inhuman brother two months before. The sentence passed was six years' imprisonment for the man and five for his wife, wholly inadequate in public estimate for the horrors of their conduct.

TIH: SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A POLICEMAN AT SWANSEA. At the Swansea Police Court on Tuesdav (before the Stipendiary) Joseph Howard was charged on remand with being drunk and disorderly, and Police-Constable Thomas Tanner was charged on an adjourned summons with assaulting Howard, and breaking his arm. The Stipendiary said: This is the case in which the complainant Howard is summoned by the police for being drunk and disorderly, and, on the other hand, the police-constable, Tanner, is summoned for unlaw- fully causing the fracture of one of the bones of Howard's arm. As to the first, there is no question that he was very drunk and his conduct disorderly, but, in consideration of the injury he has sus- tained, I shall only impose the nominal penalty of Is. As to the second information by him against Police-Constable Tanner, I have given the matter much consideration. It appears to me that the evidence raises a strong presumption that the serious injury complained of was done in the course of a forcible search of his person before he was locked up in a cell. 4If that is the case it is evident that the charge is one of a very peculiar character. In fact, I am unable to find a similar one in the law books. If I could see my way clearly to justify the use of so much force as seems to have been applied it would be my duty, and pleasure, to dismiss this summons at once. But I regret that I cannot do so, and I have, therefore, to consider whether I should decide the case sum- marily and convict the defendant. Here again there are reasons against taking this course. It is conceivable that a drunken man may have been so violent in opposing a search as to break his own arm. On the other hand, the prosecutor swore that it was broken by a wrench given by Tanner's hand, and if that was so it may be open to argument whether the police were acting within their legal powers in going the length of overcoming all oppo- sition to a personal search in such a case as the present. Therefore, I think it best not to dispose of it summarily, but to send it for investigation before a jury. I intend to commit the defendant, Constable Tanner (who alone is charged by Howard with breaking his arm), for trial for assault at the next Quarter Sessions.

HOUSEBREAKING BY BOYS AT CARDIFF. At the Cardiff Police Court on Tuesday (before his Worship the Mayor, Alderman Taylor, Mr. Archibald Hood, and Mr. Griffith) six lads, named Palding, Hasset, Myers, Griffiths, Adams, and Lynch, were charged with breaking and entering the residence of Mr Ingledew, Springfield House, Crockherbtown, some time between the 12ch and the 16th instant, and stealing a quantity of wear- ing apparel and other articles, the property of Mr. Ingledew.—Detective Crocker said he apprehended the three prisoners Palding, Hasset, and Myers on Monday, and charged them with the offence. In answer to the charge they said they knew nothing about it. Witness afterwards searched the pri- soners, and found Palding wearing a pair of pants marked "Ingledew." On Hasset he found a pair of pants, a singlet, and a white silk handerchief on Myers a pair of pants, a singlet, and a silk stocking. Hasset said that there were others there besides them, and afterwards said he had sold some things in Tredegar-street to Mrs. Brian. Witness apprehended the prisoner Adams about two o'clock on Monday in Roath. On the way to the station he said he should say all ho knew about it. He was not in the house, but Hasset gave him a pair of trousers to pawn, which he did at Mr. Fligglestone's, in Castle-road, for 5s., and he re- ceived 3d. for pawning them. Myers gave him a pair of trousers to pawn, which he did in Cathayj, and Myers gave him a I d. for pawning them. Witness afterwards apprehended Griffitlig. On searching him he found him wearing a pair of pants and a singlet, both marked" Ingledew. Detective Smith said at half-past ten on Monday night he apprehended tho prisoner Lynch in Cathays, and charged him with entering Mr. Ingledew's house and stealing various articles. He admitted the charge, saying that he had four white shirts, a small set of china, and other arti- cles.—Mr. Hemingway asked for a remand until this day (Wednesday) week, the 28th, which was granted. Katherine Brian was then charged with receiv- ing goods, knowing them to be stolen. This case was also remanded for a week. Bail was accepted.

CONTEMPLATED FORMATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CLUtl AT NEATH. Since the formation of the Neath Parliamentary Debating Society the Conservatives of Neath have manifested a warm and growing interest in their cause. This may be judged by the fact that in a strongLiberal borough ii ke Neath of the 230 members who now form the society upwards of 90 are Con- servatives. Their ranks are being continually augmented. At a meeting of the Conservative party held at the Town-hall on Monday evening there was a large attendance. Among those present were Major Young, Messrs. Herbert Moore and J. E. Moore, Dyffryn; Dr. Ryding, Messrs. D. Rees, Cadoxton T. S. Sutton, Glynbeiros L. J. Kempthorne, E. Gwyn Jones, C. W. Campion, Walker, E.Roberts, Revs. P.Williamsand —Clougher. After consideration of the business relating to the society an offer from Mr. Howel Gwyn, J.P., Dyffryn, was considered. Mr. Gwyn proposed that the party should consider what property suit- able for a Constitutional Club he was possessed of in the town, and he would then make arrange- ments for vesting the same for the purposes of a club.—After some discussion a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Gwyn for his liberal and generous offer was passed, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. J. E. and H. Moore, T. S. Sutton, L. J. Kempthorne, and Dr. Ryding, was appointed to visit Swansea and report as soon as practicable to the meeting the best way of forming a club upon a firm basis.

MR. HENRY RICHARD'S DISESTAB- LISHMENT MOTION. The Rev. J. Powell Jones, vicar of Llantrisant. writes:—Mr. Henry Richard, the senior member for the Merthyr Boroughs, has given notice of his intention to move in the next session of Parlia- ment a resolution as follows:- That the establishment of the Church of England by law (1) imposes upon Partiament duties which it cannot conscientiously discharge; (2) deprives the Church of the power of managing her own affairs (3) inflicts injus- tice on a large number of the community; and (4) is injurious to the political and religious interest of the nation and, therefore, it ought no longer to ba main- tained. I shall be obliged if you will allow me, in reply to the principles here laid down, and for the purpose of elucidating the subject, to sub- mit to your readers the following counter- propositions which explain the ground on which we maintain the conclusion that the Establish- ment of the Church of England by law" ought to be maintained. 1. By it Parliament acknow- ledges and performs duties which it owes to God and to the nation. 2. The relations between the Church and the State which it creates can be so adjusted as to give to the Church the power of managing her own affairs in a manner consistent with the supremacy of the Crown in things eccle- siastical as well as civiL" 3. While liberty of con- science is universally secured in the State, "the establishment of the Church inflicts no injustice on any portion of the community," but confers on the Church increased capacity for good to the advan- tage of the nation. 4. The establishment of the Church is so far from being injuriqus that it has been advantageous to the political and religious interest of the nation."

WE are authorised to announce that a marriage is arranged between the Marquess of Carmarthen, eldest sin of the Duke of Leeds, and the Lady Katharine Lambton, second daughter of the Earl of Durham and sister of the present peer. IN Cheshire landlords have been much affected in their shooting by the operation of the Ground Game Act. Lord Tollemache and the Marquess of Cholmondeley have both appealed to the Committee of the Nantwich Union for a reduction in their assessments for game. SPEAKING on Wednesday in Dublin, at the fortnightly meeting of the National League, Mr. Healy, M.P., said peace and rest would never pre- vail in Ireland until landlordism was rooted out of the country. The Government might send him and others to gaol, but there would be always some left to carry on the war agoinst oppression and wiort)'Q.

CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST A WOMAN AT PENYGRAIG. At Ystrad Police Court on Monday (before Mr. Gwilym Williams) Mary Davies, Penygraig, was charged with committing perjury at that court on the 22nd of October, in the case of Mr. Superin- tendent Mathews v. Norman. The charge was that she, on the said date, falsely, wickedly, wilfully, and corruptly did commit perjury in her evidence as a witness at a petty sessions of her Majesty's justices of the peace, acting in and for the Division of Pontypridd, in the said counsy of Glamorgan, wherein the said Jabez Mathews was the informant, and one Margaret Norman the defen- dant, against the peace of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Crown and dignity." Mr. William Williams, solicitor, appeared tor the prosecution, instructed by the Treasury, and Mr. David Rosser for the defendant.—Margaret Norman keeps a so- called Workmen's Drinking Club at Penygraig. Close by are beer and porter stores, kept by Mr. Hugh Davies. A little after one o'clock on Sunday morning, the 22nd of September, Police-Constable Smith, stationed at Penygraig, heard conversation in Mrs. Norman's back premises. He proceeded to the back of the premises, and on look- ing through the window saw two men, named Gubbins and Morris respectively, there with beer in glasses before them. In the same room were Mrs. Norman and Mary Davie. the defendant. lie looked also into the pantry, and saw there a c'lsk with a tap in it. It seemed to be a nine-gallon cask. The two men shortly afterwards left. The matter was reported to the superintendent of police, who instituted proceed- ings against Mrs. Norman for violation of the licensing laws, and she was fined Y,5 and costs. The two men, Gubbins and Morris, gave evidence corroborating Police-Constable Smith's statement, at the same time admitting they were not mem- bers of the club kept by Mrs. Norman, and that they' had paid her as they would have done in a licensed public-house for the beer they had obtained. For the defence Mary Davies, who acted as charwoman for Mrs. Norman, was called, and she swore that the beer with which Morris and Gubbins were supplied was. fetched by her in a quart measure from Mr. Hugh Davies's stores. The last- named and his wife were called, and swore most positively that Mary Davies had not been supplied by them as she alleged. A man named William Davies, collter, Penygraig, who attended in obedience to a summons, deposed that on the night in question he and his wife entered Mrs. Norman's club-house a little before twelve o'clock for the purpose of buying apples. He saw Morris and Gubbins there, but neither he nor his wife saw the two men supplied with any drink. The important portion of William Davies's evidence was that in which he deposed that Mrs. Norman asked him on that occasion to go there on the following morning to tap a cask of beer for her that at ten o'clock on Sunday morn- ing he entered Mrs. Norman's premises, and was shown by the landlady a cask in a back room. It had been tapped, and there was a tap in it at the time. But the vent hole had a wire in it, and he proceeded to enlarge the said vent hole. The tap then became effective, and he (witness) was given a pint of beer for his trouble. The hearing of the case lasted four hours.—In answer to the charge the defendant pleaded not guilty. She was committed for trial at the assizes, but was admitted to bail, herself in LIOO and two suretie* of X50 each.

A WELSH GENTLEMAN FARMER AND HIS HOUSEKEEPER. At the Pontypridd Police Court on Wednesday (before Mr. Gwilym Williams) Mr. William Thomas, Rhiwgarn Fawr, near Porth, landed proprietor, was summoned to show cause why lie should not be compelled to contribute towards the child of Matilda Bryant, married woman, but living apart from her husband, who had been the defendant's housekeeper. Mr. David Rosser appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. B. T. Williams, barrister (in- structed by Mr. Walter Morgan), for the defence. The case had been heard before, but was dismissed owing to the lack of sufficient evidence to prove the non-access of the plaintiff's husband. Now the father and mother of the husband, living at Cardiff, swore that their son, the plaintiff's husband, had not slept from home a single night during the last two years. The plaintiff gave her evidence very clearly, and it was not shaken by the search- ing questions of the learned counsel for the defence. The case, the hearing of which lasted from half- past eleven a.m. to four p.m., excited much amuse- ment in court, which was crowded with farmers and others. The Bench came to the conclusion that the paternity had been proved, and the defen- dant was ordered to pay 4s. per week, with costs. Notice of appeal was given.

THE WAIFS OF CARDIFF. At the Cardiff Police Court on Saturday (before his Worship the Mayor, and Aldermen Cory and Lewis) Councillor Vaughan made an application to the bench, asking them to give an order to let a child that had been begging, Sarah Magnas by name, be sent to some school. He had several chats with the child, who came to his house some- times half naked, and found her to be very intelli- gent. Besides himself, Mrs. Lynch Blosse had written to Inspector Lewis asking him about the child. She was often to be seen about the streets as late as twelve o'clock at night, and sup- ported her mother—whether in drink or not could not be ascertained.—The mother, when called, stated that she had been in very bad health, and was forced to send the child to beg. Her father held a good position in Abergavenny, and her husband was a railway porter at the same place. She had quarrelled with her father on account of her marriage, but she thought that if her father could but know the state of poverty they were in at present he would relieve them.- Inspector Lewis said he had received a letter from Mrs. Lynch Blosse, of Cathedral-road,asking if any- thing could be done for the child. The place where they lived was a. very bad part of Canton, but nothing was known of the mother.—The Bench ordered that the child be placed in the union, and that the police should communicate with the father and grandfather of the child.

BANKRUPTCY APPEAL FROM THE CARDIFF COUNTY COURT. RE THOMAS WILLIAMS EX PARTE PEARCE. This case, which came before Sir James Bacon, chief judge, was an appeal by Mr. Frederick Henry Pearce, of Cardiff, from a decision of Judge Se!fe at Cardiff, sitting in bankruptcy. The appeal arose out of the liquidation of Thomas Williams, against whom, it will be remembered, there was a Treasury prosecution at the recent Swansea Quarter Sessions oy tne justice, resuicing in a sen- tence of four months'hard labour, for a. number of offences under the Debtors' Act, 1869. On the 27th of June last the debtor gave Pearce a bill of sale in consideration of a sum of money lent and a bonus charged for interest. In the bill of sale the debtor covenanted to re-pay the money forthwith, and very large powers of seizure were given to Pearce, whereby the debtor agreed that the goods should be liable to seizure in many events and under many circumstances which were not sanctioned by the Bills of Sale Act, 1882. And the bill of sale at the same time stipulated that the goods should not be taken pos- session of for other causes than those mentioned in section 7 of the Act of 1882. The county court judge, on the 10th of August last, on motion made by Mr. H. Cousins on behalf of Mr. Lovett, the trustee, set the bill of sale aside as void against the trustee, and Pearce appealed to the chief judge in bankruptcy against that decision. The appeal was heard in the London Bankruptcy Court on the 12th inst., when Mr. Winslow, Q.C., and Mr. Charles Scott (instructed by Mr. H. Cousins) ap- peared for the trustee, and Mr. A. T. Lawrence (instructed by Mr. Belcher) appeared for Pearce. The Chief Judge reserved his decision, which he delivered on Monday in favour of the trustee, dis- missing the appeal, with costs, thereby affirming the decision of the county court judge.

BOARD OF TRADE PROSECUTIONS AT NEWPORT. HEAVY PENALTIES. On Monday, at Newport (before Mr. L. A. Homfray, Mr. T. P. Wansbrough, and Mr. A. J. Stevens), the following cases were heard. Paul Faust, commission agent, was summoned for that he, not being a duly licensed person, did unlaw- fully supply Thomas Hayes and Carl Andersen as seamen on board the Kate Burrell. Mr. R. P. Williams appeared for the prosecution. Defendant admitted he had no licence, and he got nothing for sending these men to the office. If he had done anything wrong, he got nothing by it. The Bench took that view of the case, and fined defendant 20s. und costs. M. H. Quinn, captain of the Lindsay, was sum- moned for neglecting to report certain change.* which took place in the crew.—Defendant said he had neglected owing to an affliction to which he is subject, and on account of which he is bound to go to beet-He was also summoned for engaging a seaman, named George Schlenk, without taking him to the shipping-office. He said his ship was going out at the time the man was got on board. -Ole Halversen, boarding master, and Captain Quinn were summoned for harbouring George Schlenk, a deserter from the ship Cuerero. Ole Halversen was charged with unlawfully supplying George Schlenk on board the Lindsay. Mr. Hand- cock appeared for Halversen. These cases were all mixed up together, and heard together. The Bench, after a long hearing, gave judgment as follows:—Halversen, for harbouring, dismissed, as the charge was not proved; Halversen, for sup- plying men to the Lindsay, £10, including costs, or two months. (He had been several times con- victed for harbouring, &c., and in two cases fined £ 20 and £ 10.) Captain Quinn, for harbouring and secreting Schlenk (a bad case), fined £ 5, including costs, or a month; for receiving men contrary to the Act, 40s., including costs, or a month, and for failing to report change of crew, 20s., including costs, or fourteen days.

I CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. RETREATS FOR HABITUAL DRUNKARDS. T On Saturday the usual weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Cardiff Union was held at the Workhouse, Cardiff, under the presidency of Dr. Paine.—The master of the house reported that during the week there had been 26 admissions and 24 discharges, leaving 303 in the institution, which was an increase of 46 on the corresponding week of last year. The number of vagrants relieved was 40, as against 84 in the same week of last year. The master of the schools reported that there were 208 inmates in that institution, which is a decrease of five on the same week of the pre- ceding year.—The Rev. J. R. Buckley moved that the sanction of the board be given to the election by the School Attendance Committee of Mr. E. Griffiths as school attendance officer, at a salary of £ 60 per annum.-A discussion arose on this subject, and it transpired that Mr. Griffiths was elected by the casting vote of the chairman, as against Mr. Lucas, who, it was contended, was educationally better qualified for the post.—Mr. J. A. le Boulanger moved, as an amendment, that the appointment be not sanctioned.—This was seconded by Mr. T. Reynolds, but was eventually withdrawn, and the original motion carried.-A report of the General Purposes Committee contain- ;g a recommendation that a statement of ino circumstances under which the duties of Dr. Lougher, the medical officer of the Splotlands district, had been wholly discharged by his partner and substitute, Mr. J. L. Traherne— who was himself medical officer for Rnath—since the 15th of December last, be laid before the Local Government Board with a request that they will advise the Board of Guardians as to the proper course to be adopted.—Mr. Stephenson (the clerk) said that since the meeting of the General Purposes Committee he had received a letter from Mr. D. Lloyd Lougher stating that when his brother left for Sydney he did so with the full impression that the board consented to his partner, Mr Traherne, acting as his deputy until his return, which would be early next January. He had, by power of attorney, on Dr. Lougher's behalf, made arrangements with Dr. Samuel Wallace whereby he would, with the con- sent of the guardians, act as his deputy during his further absence.—The Chairman explained that the board gave Dr. Lougher permission to go abroad for a holiday but it was not understood that he was going so far as Australia, and that he would be away so long.—Some discussion followed, and the recommendation of the General Purposes Com- mittee was confirmed.—Mr. Stephenson then read the following circular which had been sent to the members of the board, viz. I beg to inform you that on Saturday next the Board of Guardians will take into consideration a circular from the I\ewcastle-upon-Xyne Union, forwarding a copy of the following resolution, unanimously adopted by that board, wli h a view to similar action being adopted by the Cardiff Board :—•* That this board, being deeply Im- pressed with the necessity of provision being made for the more stringent dealing with habitual drunkards, do memorialise the Local Government Board to take such steps as will lead to the law being so amended as to give power to local authorities or Boards of Guardians to establish and maintain Inebriate Hetreats, either in con- nection with existing workhouses or asylums, or in separate establishments, as may be thought most de- sirable; and, iurther, that power be given to magistrates to commit, habitual drunkards to such Ke treats, with or without their consent, provision being made for the recovery of the cost of their maintenance, when it is ascertained that persons restrained have means for their own support, or that tlure are relatives or guardians who, under existing laws, are liable and able wholly or partially to maintain them." And it should also he pointed out to the Local Government, Board that, to prevent the Habitual Drunkards Act becoming inopera- tive, the restriction as to its time of duration should be removed." Mr. J. A. le Baular.ger said he would very much like to see the board take some steps to express their approval of this resolution.—Mr. Plain said he believed that retreats for habitual drunkards would be a great blessing but he thought they ought to have some further information before they adopted the resolution which had been sub- mitted to them.—Mr. J. Ramsdale observed that this was certainly a very important question. While, however, he wished to see retreats for habitual drunkards established, he did not think it was the duty of the Board of Guardians to incur the expense of making such a provision. If anything weir done, it ought to be done by way of a Government measure. And he thought, their temperance friends would be better employed in moving in that direction than they were in attempting to deal with some of the matters which now occupied tijeir attention. lie was doubtful whether, it they established those institutions, the ratepayers would consent to maintain them. At Cardiff they had not a place suitable for the pur- pose and to provide a special building would necessitate a heavy expenditure. The temperance people and the publicans might he thought join together in an endeavour to promote that particular object. It offered them a common platform, and excellent results might thus be achieved.—The Rev. J. R. Buckley said he was obliged to Mr. Ramsdale for the few kind hints he had thrown out. They were willing to act with the publicans in promoting temperance in every possible way. He did not know what the provisions of the Habitual Drunkards Act were; but he fancied there were restrictions in it as to time which ren- dered it inoperative. He thought this restriction should be removed,and that beforeadrunkard could be committed he should be brought before the magistrates and required to make a declaration. He could quite understand that there was a diffi- culty to be faced in regard to expense; but, gene- rally, he approved of the resolution that was before them. Three-fourths of the pauperism of the jountry could be traced to excessive drinking; tnd if drunkards could be subjected to control, and placed under proper treatment, the expenditure under this head might be so reduced as to make the proposed retreats a source of economy to the ratepayers. He had no resolution to propose on the subject; but he thought it would bo of gi-pat benefit to the country if such institutions were founded.—The Itev. V. Saulez said that the matter was one of importance to them all, and he trusted that it would not be thrown aside, but that jhe consideration of it would be adjourned until they had obtained further information.-After ?ome further discussion, it was resolved, on the motion of Dr. Jenkins (Cowbridge), that the com- munication from the Newcastle-on-Tyne Board of Gruardians be allowed to lie on the table.—There was no other business of public interest.

MERTHYR LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. On Wednesday the ordinary meeting of this ooard was held, Mr. George Martin presiding. In iccordance with notice, Mr. William Jones called ittention to the necessity of some change in the node of carrying out the sanitary inspection of he district. It was evident to those members who recently visited Dowlais that the present system was very unsatisfactory, and it would be culpable for the board to allow such a state of things to continue. He thought a committee should be appointed to consider the matter. What they saw at Dowlais was a disgrace to civilisation. He admitted that it was utterly impossible for one inspector to inspect the district from Dowlais to Treharris and to do his duty as it should be done.— Mr. John Jenkins seconded the proposition, which was agreed to unanimously.—Mr. W. Smyth, president of the Merthyr Chamber of Trade, and other members of that body, waited upon the board to express approval with the course taken by the board in reference to the attempt made to obtain the consent of the Local Govern- ment Board to the consolidation of the loans re- inaining unpaid, with the view of re-borrowing at a lower rate of interest, the amount to extend over 50 years. The deputation urged the board to con- tinue its negotiations with the board in London. After the deputation left the room the board dis- cussed the matter, and eventually it was agreed that the Loans Consolidation Committee should seek an interview with the board in London, and endeavour to obtain a reversal of their former de- cision refusing to permit a consolidation of the loans.—The Surveyor submitted an estimate of the probable expenditure for the months of December, January, February, and March, which amounted to £8,597 2s. lid., the principal items being £2,565 8s. 1.-d. re-payment of loans, and £ 1,498 5s. 7d. de- ficiency in respect of the waterworks. A rate of Is. 3d. in the £ would realise £7,341 17s., and other sources of revenue would make the receipts JE8,915 13a. Id., a surplus of £31810s. 2d.—Mr. W. Jones proposed and Mr. Bell seconded the adoption of the estimate, and it was agreed that a rate of Is. 3d, in the £ be made. The other business was not of general interest.

LOCAL ECCLESIASTICAL INTEL- LIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS IN THE DIOCESE OF ST. DAVID'S. The Rev. John Alexander Williams, rector of Llysvfran, to the perpetual curacy of Walton East, Pembrokeshire. Patron, Mr. F. L. Lloyd Philipps (on dispensation). The Rev. Morgan Lewis Jones, B.A., curate of Pembrey, to the vicarage of Rhosmarket, Pembroke- shire. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. Alexander Williams, curate of Bangor, to the perpetual curacy of St. Peter's, Elerch, Cardi- ganshire. Patron, the Rev. Lewis Gilbertson, r<c or of Braunston, Rugby. fhe Rev. John Thomas Hughes, licensed to the curacy of Llandingat, Carmarthenshire. The Rev. William Williams, B.A., to the curacy of Cefnllys and Llandrindod, Radnorshire.

THE WELSH DISESTABLISH- MENT CAMPAIGN. OPPOSITION MEETING AT SWANSEA. OBSTRUCTION AND RIOTING. SPEECHES BY VISCOUNT EMLYN, M.P., MR. J. T. D. LLEWELYN, REV. A. G. EDWARDS, AND OTHERS. A public meeting, organised as a reply to the Disestablishment meeting held at thA Albert-hall, Swansea, on Tuesday last, was held in the same building on Wednesday evening. The crowd on this occasion was even greater than at the first meeting. Long before the time fixed for the com- mencement of the proceedings every nook and corner of the hall was filled, although an attempt had been made to prevent overcrowding by issuing tickets of admission. Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn presided, and there were several clergymen and Churchmen on the platform, among them being Lord Emlyn, M.P., Mr. Charles Bath, the Rev. Dr. Walters, Rev. Eli Clarke, Rev. A. G. Edwards, Rev. Canon Williams, Rev. T. J. Bowen, Dr. Paddon, Dr. Latimer, and Messrs. H. N. Miers, J. E. Moore, R. Richards, and J. C. Vye Parminter. It soon became evident that a large section of the audience had come to the meeting for the purpose of making a noise, and when the chairman came to the front he was greeted with several rounds of cheers, both real and ironical, and some hisses. Speaking amidst the greatest uproar, he said the Church party were not the attacking party, and the meeting had only been called to reply to the statements made use of at the meeting in that hall on the previous Tuesday. (Here "Three cheers for DiUwyn" were called for at the back of the hall.) Their opponents, continued the speaker, said what they desired was for the benefit of the Church but if any man wanted to take away his purse for his benefit he would have a right to doubt his good intention. What he said was this: There were many men who had aided in the endowment of the Church now living, and it was not the wishes of the people to take them away. If they took away the endowments, they would take away one of the safeguards of the people. They were trustees for their children, and if they took this step the next! generation would have fewer safeguards than they had now. (Part of the audi- ence, at this juncture, struck up the" March of the Men of Harlech." The Chairman had to stop for full five minutes. He then attempted to continue his address, but was again interrupted by the Salvation Army song We'll all fire a volley," which was followed by loud cheering.) The Chairman went on to say that the clergy were exercising a great influence for good in the land, and the bishop at their head was setting a noble example. (Fighting and uproar.) The Liberals had been strongly against disestablishment. That was ten years ago, and the Church had grown during that time. He should be very glad to give a copy of Mr. Gladstone's speech to anyone who would read it. Mr. Gladstone knew Wales, and so did Lord Aberdare, and they both spoke in the same strain as he was then speaking. Sir William Harcourt made a speech on the other side. A man had said in Swansea that lie paid rates for the Church, but was that so t No, he had never paid a pennv- those rates had been abolished. (Uproar of con- siderable duration then ensued,and people mounted their seats, and shouted and whistled lustily.) The effort of the Church Defence Association was to help the rising generation, and to stop the pulling down of their old Church. He then called upon Lord Emlyn, and asked for a quiet hearing for the noble and honourable member. Viscount EMLYN rose and went to the front, but the choir at th3 back again struck up a ribald tune. His Lordship said he would stop till the music had finished. Commencing to speak, his lordship said he was at one with those who had spoken in that hall last week on onequestion alone— namely, that he was anxious that there should be full and free discussion. For the greater the discussion the stronger would be the case for the Church, and the weaker would be the case for their opponents. (Here there was quite a riot at the back and in the body of the hall.) His Lordship said a great amount of mis- statement had been made, and it was marvellous how much those statements were believed. In the first place, there were many people who believed that the clergy of the Established Church were paid from the money of the State voted by Parlia- ment. It seemed to him almost unnecessary to say that such a state of things did not exist. There was no money voted in any shape or form by the State for the maintenance of the Church. Every farthing voted by Parliament was laid before Parliament in a printed form. (Great uproar the fighting party certainly had the monopoly of attention for five minutes.) They had lately been favoured with a visit from the Liberation Society, and they had certainly gained something from the visit. Until recently the society found it convenient to keep a certain point in the background, but now they were obliged to put it in the forefront of their programme. His friend Mr. Llewelyn extracted from one of the Liberation agents the information that they did not intend to separate the questions of Disestab- lishment and Disendowment. (Whistling, stamp- ing, and shouting.) That information was given rather unwillingly. (The lower part of the floor of the ball here became the scene of quite a lively scrimmage, which lasted for some time.) At that meeting a gentleman who said he had given property to the Church was told by Mr. Uling- worth that whatever he had given to the State was accepted by the State on its own terms. That argument applied equally to every kind of trust property in the country. The endowments were not given to the State at all nor to the Church at large. They were given to certain parishes. Assuming for the moment that the argument of the Liberationiata was fair-but which, of course, he denied in toto-what was the difference between the trustees of the Church and the trustees of the Nonconformists? The latter complained and groaned that they were tied hand and foot to the State. They knew it themselves. The strength and power which these Nonconfor- mist trustees possessed was that which the State put at their back. Where did they settle their disputes? They settled them at home as much as they could, and he was glad to know that it was so. But when they could not settle them at home they had to go into a court of law. He would like to refer them to a speech made by a great man in the country—no other than Mr. Gladstone himself. That speech, which was an eloquent and powerful one, was made as late as 1873—years after the Disestablishment of the Irish Church had taken place. He (Mr. Gladstone) would not declare that the Irish Church was as free now as it was before it was disestablished. He was too honest for that. He (toe speaker) said that it was not so free now as it was before Disestablishment. He challenged the Liberationists to answer that, and to prove that what he said was not the fact. (There was now great uproar, in which there were two or three hot fights.) The great grievance of the Nonconformists was that they did not get a proper share of the religious endowments given to the Church. But how did they set about getting their half of the endowments? By taking them away from the Church and devoting them to secular purposes. (There was at this juncture further great uproar.) Lord Emlyn, continuing, said instead of desiring to devote any of the endowments to religiouspurposes ,s the opposing party sought to lay violent hands on them and devote them to secular objects. (The up- roar again broke out at this point in its worst form.) The Chairman came to the front of the platform and called for ol der, but his voice could net be heard for five minutes). Continuing, Lord Emlyn said Mr. Illingworth had referred to the American and Colonial Churches, and pointed out how free and independent they were. He (Lord Emlyn) should have thought that a man who knew as much as Mr. Illingworth did would not have thought it worth while to try and draw comparisons between the Colonial Churches, the American Churches, and the Church of England. (Another riot at the back part of the hall, which two or three policemen vainly endeavoured to quell. The Chairman also made a futile appeal tor order, and the speaker wa^ compelled to address himself to those imme- diately around him, while the greatest noise was being created by the rowdy youths who had come to the hall solely for amusement). Was Mr. Illing- worth not aware, his lordship went on, that the Church of England existed long before the State existed ? The Church was older than Parliamentary institutions. Thousands, he might say, millions, of the endowments were given to her before the time of the Norman Conquest. Mr. Illingworth might have known that the Church of England, which had grown up step by step with their institution, could not by any possible force of imagination be properly compared with the Colonial or the American Churches. What did the establishment of the Church at present mean? It simply meant the recognition of Protestantism by the country. They wanted to sweep Protestantism away. If they swept it away he believed they would leave nothing behind but two alternatives-one was Roman Catholicism, and the other Atheism. (No, no.) Then what would they put in its place? Did they want to force Churchmen into the Non- conformist fold? (No, no.) Then where were they to go? Their endowments were to be taken away, and if they did not become Roman Catholics or Atheists, where were they to go? There were many non-political Noncon- formists, he was happy to say, who did not hold the same views as the leaders of the Liberation Society. They disagreed—and he understood per- fectly their argument—with the State recognition of any religious body. But they were not in favour of Disendowment. Disendowment of the Church meant the confiscation of property-the taking away of endowments left by those who were earnest in religious matters to the Protestant Church of this country. (Great uproar.) If these endowments were swept away there would be little or nothing but Atheism behind. Mr. Fisher, one of the agents of the Liberation Society, speaking at Cardiff, said the Church in Wales had failed—that it had no claim upon their gratitude; no claim upon their regard. If that was an example of moderation he (the speaker) did not wish him joy of it. He could recognise and honour Christian work wherever, and by whomsever, it was don". (The disturbance here became greater than ever. and an appeal for order by Mr. Abel Thornse, barrister, who announced himself as a partisan of Disestablishment, was not heard, much less heeded.) Lord Emlyn continued to speak. He said Mr. Fisher quietly swept away the disestablishment argument, which was based on the large number of Nonconformists in Wales as compared with England. He said they did not ask Parliament to disestablish the Church, because the majority of the people in Wales were Nonconformists. They would ask it just the same if the Nonconformists were in the minority. After that, he (the speaker) thought he might as well let the question of the proportion of Nonconformists to Churchmen rest. where it was. Sometimes it was said that these endowments were selfish things; that they pro- vided for the rich, and did not provide for the poor. He should like to know whether those who put forward that argument, were aware of ———— — I the fact that every endowment was handed over to the parish, and that every man in the parish had an equal right to its use and en- joyment ? This was a question which touched the poor man. If these endowments were taken away what would they give the poor man ? Nothing. They said he must pay his minister himself. But how could he pay him ? The Liberationists said they wished to strengthen the Church. It was a curious way of strengthening a Christian body to take away the whole of its endowments and apply them to secular purposes. (Great rioting.) The Rev. E. EDMUNDS, Nonconformist minister,- mounted the platform from the body of the hall, and called for order both in English and Welsh, i There was not the slightest abatement in the noise. Lord EMLTN again attempted to speak. Before he could utter a word another fight broke out in the body of the hall, and chairs and benches were smashed. When a word could be heard his lordship said there was one class which would benefit by the change, and that was the class which was pushing Atheism to the front. Having delivered £ this sentence his lordship retired amidst tha{ greatest uproar. Mr. BYRON REED was next called upon. Speak- ing, in spite of the noise, he congratulated the Liberation Society on their allies at that meet- ing. lie had eo-r.e there prepared with a complete answer to the caso of the Liberationists. At Car- narvon, on the previous night, one of the speakers said he could not understand why their action roused the anger of the Church people. He would tell them why. Because they wanted to plunder the Church ot God. (" Hear, hear," and uproar.) He wished to have a free discussion on a public platform, and he would meet the best champion that the Liberatioaist Society would put forward. (Great uproar.) He contended that the Church was not established by Parliament, and it did not exist by the influence of the State, but by the education and growth in spirit of her own children. All that the State had done was to recognise the Church, and not to establish it. He could also show that the bishops and the clergy were not paid by the State, and that no part of the rates and taxes of the people went to the maintenance of the Church. Disendowment would be the very worst thing which could happen to the poor of the country. In the words of a great bishop, disestablishment would mean pauperising the clergy and paganising the people. He counselled all friends of the Church to read up the history of their Church, and all persons to study the Scriptures, beginning at the Commandments, taking particular notice of the tenth, and learn not to covot their neighbours' goods. The Liberationists had done their best to close the mouth of the friends of the Church, but they would take steps to optsn them. They in- tended to have another meeting at Swansea., when.: intelligent people would be prepared to listens (The speaker, raising his voice to the; greatest pitch throughout, could only be heard by those occupying the front benches, so great was the uproar during the whole time.) The Rev. A. G. EDWARDS, warden of Llandovery- College, next addressed the meeting. He did not endeavour to make himself heard by any but the reporters. The meeting, he said, was a reply meet- ing, and they would take up the attacks made seriatim. The statistical attack led by Mr. Dillwyn should come up first. Mr. Dillwyn gave the Church population in Wales as 1^2,638, or a ninth of the whole. Mr. Dillwyn confessed that hist of the whole. Mr. Dillwyn confessed that his calculation was his own, and, therefore, uuautho- ■, ratative. They could not appeal in Wales to any thoroughly trustworthy religious statistics. He knew North and South Wales fairly well, and he did not hesitate to say that Mr. Dillwyn had grievously understated the number of Church- men in Wales. He started his calculation evidently with the fixed principle that the Church could not be more than one-ninth of the population, and he finished it with a palpable favouritism to infants and nothingarians. Mr. Dillwyn says he should have been glad to have had a census of the Church I in Wales; but he (Mr. Edwards) asked, Who opposed >' a religious census in the House of Commons ? Mr., Henry Richard—Mr. Ditlwyn's party. Mr. Glad- stone, in the speech lie delivered in the House of Commons in May, 1873, on Mr. Miall a motion, said, If, on the one hand, it be more than the truth that 78 per cent. of the population are members of the Established Church, it is probably far less than the truth to say that one half is the true proportion." The speaker commended this speech to Mr. Dillwyn and his friends. The historical assault was en-f." trusted to the Rev. Dr. Rees, and the point and: weight of it was that his ancestors, the Welsh, 300 years ago, kept concubines and were altogether' bad people, and that the Church iailed to make them better. Were they to think less of Dr. Rees in the present day because of the infirmities of his ancestors 300 years ago, or less of the Church of the, present day because 300 years ago the Church was beset and tainted by the corruptions of a society! which it did not cause and could not cure ? But! he came to a more serious flaw in Dr. Rees's* address. He tried to make out that Welsh Non-i conformity had a corporate and organised existence outside ot the Church from 1742, and that Welsh Nonconformists had been persistently prosecuted, by the Church since 1639. Dr. Rees omitted to state that the Welsh Methodist Society was not, formally separated from the Church until 1811.; He omitted to state that the itinerant preachers; whom he described as persecuted Nonconformistsi were itinerant preachers and members of thai Church, and that all the revivals were within tha< Church itself. The very men whom he deified asthe^ founders of Nonconformity never wished, and^ utterly repudiated, the idea of separation from the Church. The speaker quoted Howell Harries in 1764, showing that the wriler exhorted the people to attend the parish church, as the revival of religion began in the Established Church. Wil- liams of Pantycelyn, one yoar before hi<s Hoat.b- wrote to Charles of Bain, aJking h^f™ young preachers to study, next to the Scriptures, the Articles of their celebrated old reformers, as set forth in the Articles of the Church of England and the three creeds. Rowlands of Llangeitho, on his death-bed, said to his son he had been persecuted until lie had got quite tired, but he asked him to stand by the Church. There would be a great revival in the Church, and that was an encouragement to him to stand by it. John Elias in his diary wrote there was no Methodist in the country opposed to paying tithes or any such impost; and no true, sincere. Methodist could be opposed to the Established Church, or to tribute and tithes to support it.. Lastly, but not least, he would add the uame of the Rev. Griffith Jones, of Llanddowror, who was undoubtedly the greatest figure in the history of rel;gion in the eighteenth century. All these facts Dr. Rees omitted to mention., Disestablish the Church, and they would do all they could to aid the spread of Agnosticism and Romanism, for they would deal a blow at the Church whose mission it had been to reconcile the claims of reason and faith. Thev would rob society and religion of that sober, that moderating influence which was alone exercised by our national Church. The spoliation of the Church would alienate the wealthy and educated classes, whese wealth and intelligence were now the prop and guide of every national movement in our country. It would de- prive the poor of their truest, their firmest, and their most generous friend, and it would infuse the veriest poison into society. And who asked them to do all this? The men who claimed to be the descendants of Howetl Harries and Rowlands, of Llangeitho. They asked them to rob their Church and let its spoils be an offering to the straDgs god of religious equality. He counselled them to have nothing to do with this offering, for like the wooden horse of the Greeks it carried hidden in its breast the bitterest foes. Churchmen now wanted peace. This agitation, unwholesome and unedify- ing, was forced upon them. All they wanted was that the truth about the Church should be known, and this they were determined on. He for one did not believe that the people of this land Wtuld ever lay the rude and impious hand of the spoiler upon the Church, which had "town with the growth of our country, which had fostered in the hearts of Englishmen that spirit which had made the name of England great and honoured. In conclusion, Mr. Edwards moved— That a branch of the Church Defence Association ba established in Swansea. The motion was seconded in a wcrd by Mr. CHARLES BATH, and was declared to be carried amidst the wildest confusion. The CHAIKMAN then stated that the meeting was at an end. The rioting which prevailed from the beginning to the end of the meeting cannot possibly be described. Not even for the brief space of five minutes did anything like order prevail. The uproar, it should be stated, was for the most part confined to the back part of the hall. Those who sat in the front would have listened quietly and attentively to the speakers had it been possible to do so.

DISESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH IN WALKS. LIBERATION MEETINGS AT CARNARVON. SPEECH BY MR. DILLWYN, M.P. A conference representative of North Wales, AND convened by the Liberation Society, was held on Tuesday at Carnarvon. Mr. Hugh Pugh presided. The meeting was noticeable for the absence of the North Wales members of Parliament, Mr. Stuart Rendel, member for Montgomeryshire, being their sole representative. Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Henry Richard were present.—Mr. Dillwyn, M.P., in sup- porting a resolution in favour of the disestablish- ment and disendowment of the Church in Wales, said that the time had come to ascertain the feeling of the people of Wales with respect to his motion. He had never had any doubt that Wales was ready for disestablishment, and, Although only ona member for Worth Wales was present, there was no reason to suppose there was any indifference on tha part of Welsh members with regard to bisestab- iishment. They would, however, see how matters lay when they came to vote upon the question. He did not anticipate there would be any diffr< culty in getting them to vote with him when they knew that such vote would be in accordance with the national wish. Hitherto they had shown great forbearance, and given way much to English Liberalism. They had now a right to ask the Liberals to support them, and to see that his motion, for disestablishing and disendowing the Church in' Wales was passed in the coming session. f At night there was a public meeting, over' which Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., presided. A letter was read from Mr. John Bright, who, after apologising for non-attendance, said, I have great sympathy with your countrymen, and recognisar their great services to the Liberal cause. I can only express the hope that their efforts will be sup- ported by the Liberal party in England and Scot* land, and that success may crown their efforts to obtain a perfect religious freedom in the Princi- pality."—Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Stuart Rendel were amongst the speakers. l

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THE TRIAL OF O'DONNELL. At the Old Bailey, on Wednesday, Justice Stephen remarked that Friday would be an incon- venient day for O'Donnell's trial, Justice Denman being still at Liverpool. Mr. Poland said he would communicate with the Attorney-General on the subject.

LOCAL LAW CASE. SIMMONDS V. SAURIN. This action was tried on Monday before Mr. Justice Mathew and a common jury. The plain- tiff, Mr. Lewis Simmonds, a money lender, brought this action against the defendant, Mr. Morgan James Saurin, the owner of farming land situate at Lower Castleton, Monkton, Pembrokeshire, for damages sustained through alleged excessive and unreasonable distress. In May, 1881, Mr. William George was the tenant of the defendant's farm at Monkton as yearly tenant, and on the 4th of May of that year he assigned to the plaintiff all his horses, cattle, carts, farming implements, &c., to secure an advance of £200. In June, 1881, Mr. George being In arrears, the defendant distrained, and the plaintiff's case was that the defendant made an excessive and unreasonable distraint, and sold goods and chattels included in his bill of sale. The defendant denied that any of the goods seized and sold were so included, or that he had been un- reasonable, and paid £2 into court in satisfaction. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £50 in addition to the sum paid into court, and his Lordship entered judgment. for the plaintiff accordingly with costs.

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE BRANCH. I. The autumn meeting of this branch was held at the King's Head Hotel, Newport on Thursday last. There were present:—Mr. Eben. Navies (Swansea), president, in the chair; and Messrs. O. E. B Marsh, G. A. Davies, R. Cooke, Jennings, and A. G. Thomas, M.D., Newport; A. Davies, M.U, C. T. Vachell, M.D., W. Taylor, M.D., J. Milward, M D., and W. Price, M.B., Cardiff J. G. Hall and H. A. D. Davies, Swansea; Evan Jones, Aberdare; T. J. Webster and J. L. W. Ward, Merthyr Talfourd Jones, M B., Brecon P. R. Cresswell, Dowlais; G. A. Brown, Tredegar; S. H. Steel, M.B., Abergavenny; E. P. King, Chepstow; J. Llewellyn, Caerphilly; J. Hancocke Wathen, Clifton J. A. Morris, Caerleon J. W. Mulligan, M.D., Abersychan and Dr. Sheen, Cardiff, and D. Arthur Davies, M.B., Swansea, hon. sees. Messrs. Wathen, Milward, Marsh, Vachell, Steel, G. A. Davies, and Thomas read Dapers or brought forward cases of professional interest. Messrs. Roger Williams, Morriston, and Dr. Reid, Tenby, were elected members of the association and branch. The following resolution was passed unanimously:— That Dr. Edwards (Cardiff) and Dr. Talfourd Jones r (Brecon) be requested to bring before the Council of the South Waies and Monmouthshire University at Cardiff the desirability of securing the representation of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Branch of the British Medical Association 011 the governing body of that insti- tution. After the transaction of other necessary business the members partook of an excellent dinner at the King's Head Hotel.

THE QUEEN and Princesses Beatrice and Irene arrived at Windsor on Wednesday morning from Balmoral. Her Majesty looked remarkably well. LADBERS.—Ladders for Builders, Painters, Plas- terers, Farmers, private use, tc., all sizes, at Cattrell's OU-eeUbUshod Manufactory, Sarr's-street, Brist«1.7221a