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PRINCE BISMAKCK. HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION BY WORKMEN. L WHOM OCR CORRESPONDENT.] BERLIN, JUNE 4 (EVENING).—An immense sensa- tion has been caused here by the publication of reports of serious disturbances at Fr idrichsruhe of which hasonly just reached here. As far as is at present known with any Cftainty it appears that o& Whit-Monday last a large crowd, consisting of between 200and 300 workmen from a nail manufactory in the neighbour- hood, gathered outside Prince B'smar^k's chateau and commenced to hi-vs vigorously. Whether tney intended to proceed former in their hostile ujmon- slrations against the Chancellor is unknown; but in any case chey did not get the opport: nity, for a number of gendarmes quickly arrived on the spot, and called upon them to disperse. They mused to do so, whereupon the gendarmes drew their swords, and with the assistance of a number of Prince Bismarck's domestics dispersed the mob after a lively scuffle, in the course of which several of the malcontents were wounded. Seven arrests were made.

AFFAIRS IN ZULULAND. CAPE TOWN (via PLYMOUTH), M.u14.-IntelJigence from Zululand states that in the attack by Dabula- manzi on Mr. Osborn he latter lost four men and the Usutus twenty men. The latest news states that Mr. Osborn has since sustained defeat at the hands of Uniiabuko and Dabuiamanzi.

BRIGANDAGE IN CENTRAL ASIA. [" CEYrR.\L NEWS" TF.LEGRAX.1 ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 2 (MORNING).—The semi- official Journal liarinskye Izvestia states that many persons living at Merv and Askhabad have latterly been carried off by brigands with a view to obtaining large ransoms. Several persons were recently attacked near Askhabad, and a clerk belonging to one of the Russian commerchl hOU:)8 in the city was killed. Two of the brigands, how- ever, were captured on that occasion, and were tried by court-martial. They were found guilty, and sentenced to be hung; the execution being duly carried out.

SECTARIAN DJSTURBANCES AT EKATERINOSLAV. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] ST. PETERSBURG, vid INSTERBURG, JUNE 1.—In- telligence reaches me from Ekaterinoslav of a sanguinary conflict arising out of the religious animosities which took place there on Thursday last. A new sect, called the Schalopontz, has recently arisen in the district, and has greatly excited the anger of the peasants who cling to the orthodox faith. On Thursday a number of the latter encountered a body of sectaries and attacked them with perfervid zeal. One hunlredand eighty combatants on both sides were wounded in the conflict, and order was only restored by a charge of the troops, who had been sent for to repress the disturbance.

FRANCE AND TONQUIN. TELEGRAM.] PARIS, JT-SE 3.—At a meeting of the Cabinet to- day M. Ferry communicated a dispatch received from M. Patenotre, stating that the Emperor of Annam had accepted in nrinciple the treaty with France.

NARROW ESCAPE OF LORD DUFFERLY. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 3 (EVENING).—Lord Dufferin has to-day had a very narrow escape from a disastrous accident. He was driving in a hired carriage, when the horses took flight and bolted. galloping off at a tremendous pace, finally dashing the carriage against a wall. Lord Dufferin, upon seeing that a collision was inevitable, jumped out of the carriage, while the maddened horses rushed headlong through the Talik Bazaar, which was crowded with loiterers and purchasers, knocking down several persons, who were more or less injured, finally smashing the carriage.

THE MORGANATIC MARRIAGE OF THE GRAND DUKE OF HESSE. [FHQM OUR CORRESPONDENT. I BERLIN, JUNE 3 (AFTERNOON).—I am in a posi- tion to state on most trustworthy authority that the morganatic marriage contracted by the Grand Duke of Hesse with Madame de Kaleminehas been annulled. The negotiations, which have through- out been carried or. in this city between the Lady herself and an accredited agent of the Grand Duke, have been somewhat prolonged, but they have re- sulted in a compl. te and friendly agreement most satisfactory to both sides. Upon the completion of the necessarv legal formalities, the Grand Duke will consequently be once more a free man. This arrangement has caused much gratification in Court circles here.

DYNAMITE PRECAUTIONS IN SYDNEY. C" REUTER'S" TELEGRAM.] SYDNEY, JUNE 3.—In consequence of trustworthy inforlation from San Francisco precautionary measures have been taken in this city for the pro- tection of public buildings.

DISASTROUS ACCIDENT TO A PASSENGER TRAIN. SIXTEEN PERSONS INJURED. An accident of a disastrous character occurred on the railway at Darlington on Sunday morning. A heavily-freighted passenger train, in charge of George Thompson, one of the oldest guards on the North Eastern Railway, was entering Bank Top Station, when it was found that the engine brake would not act. The guard, observing that some- thins wa amiss, applied all the brake power possible, but the train dashed into the buffers at the end of the siding, smashing them to splinters. A scene of great alarm and excitement ensued. Mr. Layfield, passenger superintendent, was soon on the spot, and had the train cleared and the injured removed to the waiting-rooms. It was found that sixteen persons had sustained injuries, some of them serious. One gentleman, believed to have come from Sunderland, received injuries to the spine, and was removed to the hotel near the station. Three doctors were soon in attendance, and dreeaed the wounds, some of the injured being afterwards able to continue the journey whilst others were removed home in cabs. The guard of the train is very seriously hurt, having been thrown with great violence on to the floor of the van and rendered unconcious from the effects of the concussion.

A PASSENGER .TRAIN THROWN INTO A RIVER. The Press Association Salisbury correspon- dent, telegraphing on Tuesday night, says :—Infor- mation has just reached here that at Downton, about twelve miles from Salisbury, an engine attached to & passenger train fell over on its side, through the axle breaking, and into the river- Arrangemonts for receiving many wounded are J beinp m.tde. A hœr telegram from Salisbury says:—The train was the 4.23 from Salisbury to Wimborne, and, market day at the former place, was very heavily laden. A pilot engine was attached to bring the passengers from Bournemouth. News of the accident reached Salisbury about six p.m. The earlier telegrams stated that the guard of the train was killed, and that prepara- tions must be made for the reception of the wounded. Salisbury Station was speedily filled with an expectant throng, many of whom were interested in the occupants of the train. But before the return of the special train—which had been despatched to the scene of the accident with four local medical men—the platform was cleared and stretchers brought in for conveying the wounded to the infirmary, where preparations had in the meantime been made for their reception. On the arrival of the special it was ascertained that so far as was known six persons had been killed, and between 30 and 40 injured. The scene was distressing when from the carriages were carried forth poor fellows with blood-stained bandages around their heads, arms, or legs. Among the comparatively uninjured was Miss Fawcett, niece of the Postmaster-General. The guard had sustained severe injuries, but not of a fatal character. The in- jured were at once conveyed to the in- firmary, where medical men were in attendance. The name of the guard is Waters, and he had been confounded with a young man, the son of a well- known farmer, who has been killed. Among the other killed is stated to be a daughter of General Custance. The cause of the accident is as yet unexplained. It is known that the engine ran off the line, all the carriages except three falling into the stream which runs aJongsi ie. The daughter of the station master at Fordingbridge was drowned. On inquiry on Tuesday night at the Waterloo Station the Press Association" ascertained that information had been received there that six coaches and the last van of the 4.23 train from Salisbury to Wimborne left the rails about mid- way between Downton and Braemore, and ran down the embankment into a meadow, killing four passengers, and injuring 25 to 30 others—six or eight seriously. All the injured had been attended to, some having been I emoved to Salisbury Infirmary, and others to the Agricultural College, at Downton.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. The Centra! News Salisbury correspondent telegraphs:—On visiting the scene of Tuesday's disaster at seven o'clock on Wednesday morning I found there was even at that early hour a throng of sightseers gathered on the embankment. The wrecked train lies about 150 yards from the bridge over which it had pas-^d. Faur of the carriages are completely splintered, presenting one mass of wreckage, and scarcely recognisable as railway carriages. The debris from the embankment, the broken gate, and the wooden rails all add to the ruin. The metals have been torn up for fully a quarter of a mile, and during the night an army of gangers have commenced the work of restora- tion, which is still being carried on. The ill-fated train consisted of two engines, two guards' vans, cne in the front and one in the rear of the train, and six carriages, two being first class. It is still believed that the breaking of a coupling caused the train to leave the line. The inquiry which is to be opened to-day (Wednesday) will probably be directed to the alleged defective coupling. One of the first-class carriages appears to have been swpt away, and almost completely annihilated. Very great praise is bestowed upon the medical gentlemen present, as well as upon the students of Lhe CoIlege of Agriculture at Downton, who ren- dered every available aid, under the direction of Professor Frean. It is asserted that the young lady supposed to be Miss Custance, daughter of General Custance, and who w as killed, was not Miss Custance, but Mrs. Lush, of Godsall. Miss Custance, fortunately, was not in the train at all, though her father, the neraJ, was making careful inquities respecting her. There is a reverend gentleman from Bourne- mouth missing, and a diligent search has been made for him, but without result so far. He may be lying under the wrecked carriages, or in the pond which forms part of the bog. The number of dead so far as known is four, viz.:— Mr. George Waters, jun., of Toyd Farm. Mrs. Lush, of Godsall. Mrs. Corbin. daughter of Mr. Lucas, of Salisbury. Miss Chandler, daughter of the station master. These are lying in the coach-house of the College of Agriculture at Downton. Two of the four killed were quite dead when extricated from beneath one of the carriages. Miss Chandler was drowned in the pond. Her father, who had come from Fording-bridge on a special engine, was fore- most in assisting to recover the bodies from the water. On inquiry at Salisbury Infirmary on Wednes- day morning I learn that all the sufferers are pro- gressing. Mr. Allen, a commercial traveller, of Poole, is still in a precarious state. The four wounded ladies who are lying at the Downton College of Agriculture have passed a tolerably good night. An inquest on the four persons killed by the accident near Downton on Tuesday was opened at the Agricultural College on Wednesday after- noon by Mr. Hannen, of Fordingbridge. The coroner intimated that he only proposed taking sufficient evidence to admit of the bodies being interred. Mr. M. Hall attended for the railway company. The bodies having been identified, the coroner gave an order for interment. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE. Mr. Thomas Hromby, living at the Parade, Poole, made the following statement to a representative of the" Central News":—" I was a passenger by the ill-fated train, which consisted of about seven carriages, drawn by two engines, and left Salis- bury seven minutes late. I was in a second-class smoking compartment in the middle of the train, sitting in the left-hand corner facing the engine. I regularly attend Salisbury market, and often travel with the same companions. George Waters, of Goyd, was next to me, and R. C. Allen in the further corner; Fred Easly, of Wareham, sat oppo- site me; John Good, of Bradford Farm, next to him, and William Stamford, of Cranbourne, in the fourth corner; six of us altogether. All went well until we had got near the scene of the accident. We then felt a violent jerking, and we were hurled from side to side of the carriage, which ultimately fell over on its right side. I remember no more until I found myself half un- consciousiy trying to extricate myself from the wreck. I found that my travelling companion Waters had been killed Stamford and Allen, an elderly gentleman, seriously injured, and the badly cut about the head and face. The carriage in which I rode was smashed to splinters, and it is simply marvellous how any of us es- caped."

MR. CUMBERLAND AND THOUGHT- READING. Mr. Stuart Cumberland on Wednesday after- noon successfully essayed the self-imposed task of finding a pin hidden within a radius of a mile from Trafalgar-square. Dr. Holden was chosen as the "subject," and Dr. Rae and Professor' Romanes were selected to see that the conditions were duly observed. Dr. Holden placed the pin in a window sash at the top of Northumberland-avenue, and Mr. Cumberland, starting from Charing-cross Hotel blindfolded, and attached to his subject by a silken cord, went direct to the spot with only one or two slight pauses. Prior to the experi- ment, Mr. Cumberland disclaimed any power of reading another person's thoughts, stating that he relied entirely upon the physical indications on the part of his subjects. Attempts to discover objects thought of, but not mentioned to anyone, failed in cases in which the Rev. Dr. Adler and Captain Hamber were subjects, but succeeded with the Dr. Holden, while small articles hidden by Professor Church and Sir Charles Tupper were pointed out with ease. The demonstration closed with experiments in reading numbers all bank-notes, &C. Mr. Cumberland gave the correct number of a note belonging to Mr. Wilson, which had only been seen by the owner and Mr. Watson, but failed to discover figures inscribed on a watch belonging to Mr. E. Robbins. Instead of writing the numbers on a board, as done by Mr. Bishop, Mr. Cumberland ascertained the result by holJing the hand of the subject successively before eachof the ten numerals.

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I LORD SALISBURY ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT DEVONPORT. Lord Salisbury commenced his campaign in the West of England on Wednesday afternoon, when he was entertained at dinner by the Conservatives of the three towns at the Devonport New Public- hall. Mr. Puleston, M.P., presided. Mr. EDWARD CLARKE, M.P., proposed "Church and State," as that connection in the work of government was what the Tory party had always recognised as indispensable. At the time when other bodies were either indifferent or too weak to cope with the task, the Church worked for education in a way no other State machinery could excel. The disestablishment of the Church was like local option and retrenchment, and reform, as far off as ever. Lord SIDMOUTH proposed The Army, Navy, and Volunteers," and in the latter category in- cluded those gallant men who had offered to take upon themselves the task that ought to be under- taken by a not, too patriotic Government—the task of rescuing General Gordon. Captain PRICE. M.P., responded. He appealed to Lord Salisbury to look closely into the question of our naval supremacy, and contended that the British fleet was barely equal to that of France, whilst its duties were infinitely greater. The Earl of MOUNT-EDGCUSIBE responded on behalf of the House of Lords, and described it as the only protection against a dictatorial Minister after his power had passed away. Sir HARDINGE GIFFARD, M.P., responded for the House of Commons, and described it as an Assembly of Betrayed Cames. He expressed his opinion that if the people were doing what was a wrong they ought to be obstructed, and that the House of Lords should say they would not permit a bad, mischievous measure to pass, and would insist that the nation should be kept in its senses. Mr. PULKSTON, M.P., gave the toast of the after- noon, "The Marquess of Salisbury." The Marquess of SALISBURY, on rising to respond, was received with great cheering. He expressed the great pleasure it had afforded him on many grounds in going to the West of England, and thanked them for the extreme cordiality with which they had welcomed him. They were surprised some three days ago by the announce- ment that the Prime Minister had descended into the arena of periodical literature, and had written an article in one of the monthly reviews. It was an announcement enough to take their breath away, for the imprudence which, on that hypothesis, the article contained would have been enough to con- demn any Prime Minister to a lunatic asylum. (Laughter.) He was glad to learn from the best possible source that the information was not correct, but still it must leave a dis- agreeable feeling in their mind that those who were very good and adequate judges, and were in no way prejudiced in favour of the Conservative party, discerned in that article such a faithful picture of the Prime Minister's opinions as to induce them to mistake the author- ship. But if it was not written by the Prime Minister, as they now knew it was not, it was written by a disciple who stood very close to the feet of his -great master. (Cheers.) And what was the drift of that extraordinary produc- tion ? The message it contained was that the power of England was not what it had been that the traditions of past glory and past activity were no longer suited to the present st¡.>te of things, or our present state of affairs that we had now to contend with vast military Powers, which was not the case before; and that we must, therefore, abandon interference as u. first rate Power with the affairs of the world. It was further said that we must, recognise that our strength in our Colonial and Indian Empires depended on the pleasure of our neighbours, and France particularly; that we might treat Germany and Austria with very little regard, but that our functions in the future would be guided by such blandishments as our degraded condition permitted to ingratiate ourselves with France and Russia. He did not say they were the exact words, but that was the im- pression which was left on the mind of the reader. Now, such an estimate of our con- dition he believed to be utterly false, but it was unfortunately too common among the party who were guarding the destinies of the country at this time. (Hear, hear.) It was false in this—that our greatness never had been fixed on the fact. of our being able to match the great Continental Powers in the numbers of our army. It had depended on our matchless navy. (Hear, h« ar.) If we had not a great army, it was be- cause we in these islands did not need it; but it was with great apprehension that he had listened to the reference that had been made by Captain Price and others in that room to the navy. (Hear, hear.) He feared the statements mado were in no way exaggerations, because they had been made by gentlemen who had a practical know- ledge of the subject. (Hear, hear.) In ordinary cases one would be disposed to say that the duty of the Government of the day was to provide a navy so overwhelmingly powerful that it could compete with any naval force, and that if the officials of the Admiralty were satisfied with its con- dition they might abandon any apprehensions to the contrary, and rely upon them. (Hear, hear.) But under the existing circumstances that confidence was not always given to them. (Cheers.) They had a Ministry who would not open their eyes to plain truths and difficulties close upon them. They would shut their eyes to the last moment to any- thing which might disturb their political slumbers. (A laugh.) They would not take any effective step until threatened with censure by the House of Commons. They knew what the effect of this had been in distant Egypt, but what would it be if applied to their defences near at home, and if no movement was made until the risk of damage was really before them ? (Hear, hear.) It would be too late to move votes of censure when they found the navies of other Powers greater than their own, and they heard with some apprehension tales of strained relations with great naval Powers at no great distance from their shores. God forbid there should-be war with any great European Power. He could imagine no calamity mure terrible. But dealing with the vast interest of this great country, with the tremendous responsibilities which the preser- vation of the country involved, they were bound not to wait until disaster was actually before them. (Cheers.) He hoped those who understood the question would press the matter in both Houses, for in a. country like this, where their existence depended upon the maintenance of the navy, no real doubt should exist in the mind of anyone that they were capable to resist any enemy chance might bring against them. (Cheers.), The noble marquess concluded by pro- posing the health of the chairman, and that toast having been acknowledged the company broke up. GREAT MEETING AT PLYMOUTH. In the evening a public meeting was held in the Guild-hall, Plymouth, the tine building being crowded to excess by an audience numbering between 3,000 and 4,000. The chair was taken by Sir Massev Lopes. MP., and upon the platform were Mr. Edward Clarke, M.P., Mr. Puleston, M.P., Cap- tain Price, M.P., Viscount Sidmouth, the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, Sir H. Giffard, M.P., Sir E. Bates, &c. The cheering was most enthusiastic when the Marquess of Salisbury appeared upon the platform. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, con- demned the Caucus system as degrading, but said that in future Conservative organisation must be more representative, more energetic and watchful, ind it must embrace the whole of the working men of the country. (Cheers.) Mr. E. CLARKE, M.P., moved a resolution of welcome to Lord Salisbury. In the course of his remarks he said that the London Government Bill would not pass this session, and it was not wanted. rhe Merchant Shipping Bill, when it again came oefore them, would be the same as the Bill of the Conservative Government in 1876, which was de- feated by the Liberal party, whilst the other jovernment Bill, viz., the Franchise Bill, was a and an imposture, and was being pushed through the House by a corrupt bargain with the irreconcilable party in Ireland. (Cheers.) He oelieved the House of Lords would know what to io with it, and that all the country now wanted was a general election to place the Conservatives in power. (Cheers.) The motion was seconded by Mr. PULESTON and carried unanimously. The Marquess of SALISBURY, on rising to reply, was received with repeated cheers. He thanked the meeting for the reception given him, and said lie had come to express sympathy and concurrence in the tide of Conservatism which wus rising in all parts of England, and more particularly in that. (Cheers.) He had to propose also a resolution of success to Conservative organisations, particularly the Conservative Club and Associations of Ply- mouth, Devonj ort, and Stonehouse. (Cheers.) He impressed upon them the necessity and importance of these local associations, for it was upon them that the future destinies of the Empire hanged. (Cheers.) Reference had been made to the House of Lords, and his only fear was that they might subordinate their own sense of what was right to an imagined public opinion, and he earnestly hoped, therefore, that they should have a speedy general election. (Loud cheers.) He be- lieved that such an election would be in favour of the principles those present held, but, even if it were not, he had no doubt whatever it would return a vety much better House of Commons to Westminster than that which now lat there. (Cheers and laughter.) Take the case of Ireland. They were told that the Conserva- tive party had governed it on a very antiquated principle, and the first thing they did was to drop the very mild measure which had been passed by the late Government for carrying out certain pro- visions with respect to arms and levying fines-on districts where murder had been committed. An election would bring into issue all that the Government had done and all that they hotd left undone. It might be said that they had heard all this before. No doubt they had, and they would hear it again very often before a new House of Commons was elected. (Hear, hear.) Their acts had reversed their policy, and the result had been that instead of peace there had been in- creased disturbances. (Hear, bear.) And he would say further that the Government had been obliged to even eat their own acts, and anarchy still ruled under these philanthropic statesmen. Again, take Afghanistan. They reversed the policy of Lord Lytton when they came into office, and now they were picking up the fragments of Lord Lytton's policy which they had shattered into bits. They were con- structing a railway to Quettah, and were adopting other parts of Lord Lytton's policy in order to de- fend their own. Then there was Egypt. When they came in they were a Government of peace, and would only assist those people who were struggling for their liberties. They had illustrated this by constant expeditions to Egypt, and we were to have an expedition in the autumn, at least they were told so. (A laugh.) He did not feel any absolute confidence in the ex- pedition, and he did not blame them for the raevioua expedition; but what he said was,that I they were undertaken too late, and that they illus- trated also the hypocrisy of the claims made by the Government, that they were a peaceful party., (Cheers.) They said that they should assist those who were struggling for their liberties, and we knew from Mr. Gladstone that this was what the Soudanese were doing. For his own part he always thought that the Soudanese were endeavouring to abridge the liberties of other people by carrying on the slave trade. (Hear, hear.) But taking Mr. Gladstone's new view of the case, if they were endeavouring to obtain their liberty they would naturally desire to occupy their own port upon their own coast, but when they advanced there Mr. Gladstone took measures to drive them away, which ended in the slaughter of 6,000 native soldiers. (Hear, hear.) He desired them to separate entirely the soldiers from the Adminis- tration of the Government in these operations; they acted entirely on orders, and it was the policy of the Government that had led to all the misery. The Ministry had been sinning and were guilty of the grossest hypocrisy in the denunciations they levelled at Lord Beaconsfield; and it was not so much their impolicy as their imbecility which he condemned. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) They had been asked to state what would have been their policy, but it was idle to put such a question. What the Conservative party accused the Liberals of was that they had either no policy themselves or that they had blundered in car- rying it out. There were many clever men in the Government, but they had no united convictions on foreign affairs which enabled them to follow a steady and consistent policy. (Cheers.) They were a double-minded Ministry. (A laugh.) Whether it. was owing to his own peculiarities he knew not, but Mr. Gladstone had never been able to take up the sceptre of English power. He had always held it in such a way as to burn his fingers. It was a disgrace that General Gordon should be in Khartoum taunting us with indelible dis- grace for abandoning the garrison which he was sent to save, and his present position would have been entirely averted had General Graham's expedition been started earlier, and thus been able to get to Berber instead of having to wait till the autumn. (Hear, hear.) We had now a mission of Admiral Hewitt on hand, and who knew but what he might be hemmed in, and that we might now be in the position of having two officers in that position in Africa. (Hear, hear.) They were told that the Government had two diplomatic plans of escape; the first being a Multiple Control. But they sa.w by the working of the Government what that was likely to lead to. (A laugh.) They had, for instance, in the Government Mr. Chamber- lain as the despotic Russia, and Lord Hartington as England, who spoke, and did not act. (Laughter.) The other idea was that of fixing the time at which they would evacuate Egypt. They would under- staud that the object of our policy in Egypt was to attract to us the goodwill of the various tribes and peoples of whom that country consisted. In all countries, and especially in Oriental countries, love, allegiance, and affection were attributes that were given to the powerful, and were refused to the weak. People would follow the man whom they thought was about to win they worship the rising sun, but could desert the man who was sinking, and this would be what our policy in would lead us to. What likelihood was there that we could solve the difficult question of Egyptian government if we added as a condition that we should warn everybody whom it may con- cern that we were people whose assistance and favour was not worth having, and that we should be utterly unable to protect our friends from any harm that our enemies wreak upon them ? And remember that in politics, there was no vacuum. (A laugh.) If we went away from Egypt it would not remain, as the Ministry appeared to think, a sort of exhausted receiver in which nothing else would take our place. In proportion as we went out somebody else would come in, It was not necessary for him to specify who that somebody was likely to be. (Laughter.) As to the internal policy of Egypt, he steadily maintained that, being out of office, the Conservatives could announce no policy because the precise set of measures which at any given time it might be expedient to adopt must depend on the information which is in the pigeon-holes of the Foreign Office alone. (Hear, hear.) But there were, no doubt, large principles of policy which they freely proclaimed, and to which they would steadily adhere. (Cheers.) It was only, as it were, by an accident that we were concerned in the internal government of Egypt. He thought it was an unfortunate accident that the Government had been so foolish as to send a fleet into the port of Alexandria without sending at the same time a sufficient military force to back up that fleet. (Hear, hear.) If they had not committed that. astounding blunder we should not have been now charged with the responsibility of the government of Egypt. Hut, beillg there, we had clearly no right to leave until we had endowed it with a Government which to some extent at least was likely to supply the place of tliat which in our. wantonness we had destroyed. (Cheers.) With regard to the external affairs of Egypt, a far wider question arose in connection with British interests because it was most importa.nt that we should be the paramount Powerthere.That was a requirementwhich depended upon no accident, and was, indeed, necessary for the maintenance our Indian Empire. We held that Empire because our greatness was acknowledged and ourprowelSs was dreaded. But what would beour power if they saw other nations advancing on two sides, Russia from the north and France from the west, both holding their position in spite of the policy of England? Did they imagine that our reputation w ould not pass away ? We might have a bitter and bloody struggle to still maintain, as we have maintained in time past, the superiority of our rae e, to uphold the Empire we had won, but it would only be at the cost of an appulling sacrifice and appalling misery to the race they had subjugated. (Cheers.) It was the truest policy, the highest heroism, the most gentiine philanthropy to maintain our mili- tary credit in the world such that no one shall be entitled t/o dispute it, and so to prevent the terrible arbitrament of the field of battle, which could only issue in ,0 much carnage and so much misery to all who 1.lad to take a part in it. (Cheers.) He stood in a town which had seen the greatness of England built up, as it were, brick by brick. It had coat many sacrifices and much precious blood, but undoubtedly we should avoid anything like unnecessary intermeddling or adventurous policy. Our Empire, if we mean it to live, must grow, must steadily grow if it ceased to grow it would begin t/o decay. (Cheers.) The Empire rested not mecely upon any vain-glorious spirit, or upon any empty and hollow imagination, It rested upon a sound basis, aind the extension of material intercourse between the civilised and uncivilised portions of the world was the foundation and a necessary condition of the commercial prosperity and the industrial activity, which was bread and life of millions of our people. (Great cheering.) Other speeches followed.

STATUE TO THE LATE JOHN VAUGHAN. A bronze statue of the late John Vaughan, wh<?< in conjunction with the late Mr. Bolckow, such an important part in founding the ClevelaD" irojk, trade, was unveiled at Middiesborough 011 Mofirday. In October, 1881, the jubilee of the iro" town was celebrated, and on that occasion t08 first statue erected in the place—that of the Mr. H. W. F. Bolckow—was unveiled by L°rj Frederick Cavendish. Mr. John Vauhan, who, as the practical partner in the firBl of Bolckow and Vauglian, will long be revoeto" bered for his discoveries of the best ironstone 111 Cleveland and his superior knowledge in manufaC. turing it into finished iron in all its various forrn 1 was born in Worcester on St. Thomas's Day, 179, and was the son of a Welshman. His father an ironworker, and was employed at Sir Jooø Guest's works, Dowlais. At an early age Mr. Vaughan waS sent to work in a scrap mill, and few years he became a puddler and then a mill !D!; naceman. With practical experience he acquire^ useful information, and being shrewd and clever a his business, he was speedily appointed Leaving Dowlais, he was employed for some tlØ1 in large works in Staffordshire, after he Carlisle, where he was entrusted with the ment of a small factory. Meeting with a bettØd, appointment, he left the cathedral border city, undertook the entire control of the extensi* works of Messrs. Losh, Wilson, and Bell,at Wa'^e Jj near Newcastle-on-Tyne. In the course his business transactions on the Newcast Quay he became acquainted with Bolckow, who at that time was a partner W1 Mr. Allhusen, then a corn merchant. Mr. Bolcko di had accumulated a fair amount of capital, ldr) wished to invest his money in ironworks. tJ: Vaughan and he had frequent conversations the subject, and ultimately it was arranged tb* they should enter into partnership and begin anions, and in 1840 Messrs. Bolckow and Vaugh1 built their mills and puddling furnaces Middiesborough. Both gentlemen realised fortunes, and in 1864 they turned over their undertakings to a limited liability companv, capital of £ 2,500,000. Since Mr. Vaughan's covery the Cleveland Hills have yielded j1 tons of ironstone scores of blast furnaces BceS dozens of rolling mills and puddling have been built on Teeside, and several lltor¡ towns have sprung into existence. So import* has the iron trade of Cleveland become tlJa ,y forms about one-third of the total iron prlJ, duetion of the United Kingdom. Middlesboroug • being the centre of this industrial district, has "J its development profited more than any other to'" 11 and has grown prodigiously. In 1853 the taW was incorporated, and the late Mr. BolckoW w elected its first mayor. The same gentleman w j afterwards, when the town was enfranchIse s- elected its first member to the House of Comtf1<>n Mr. Vaughan was the third mayor of borough, and for many years took an active part 'j, all the public movements connected with the ^e. fare of the borough. He died at his Loudon dence on the 16th of September. 1868.

CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The usual weekly meeting of the Cardiff ^ofl,rr< of Guardians was held at the W'orkhouse on day. Dr. Paine, the chairman, presided.-$ Master of the house reported that there had ber15 51 admissions, 46 discharges, and four w during the week, leaving 487—an increase of ° the corresponding week of last year.—The Ma-S gg of the Ely Schools reported that there were children in that institution—an increase of 22^ j the corresponding week of 1883 The mi persons who received out-door relict during week was reported to have been 2.610, as CO s pared with 2,620 in the corre.spondiny; week of year—a decrease of ten and the amount e ø.S pendeid to have been £270 17s. against £26& 18s. 6d.—an increase of £2 Is. 3d. fot board resolved to take the necessary step9 Ie 81i borrowing £300 to construct a soft water tan the Workhouse.—The Medical Committee reC° mended that Dr. Edwards should be requester continue to act as medical officer for the Penty -q district, his salary being increased from £ 40 t" per annum; and that D:S. Treharno and LoUg od should be allowed to exchange the Roath Splotlands district. The board postponed r consideration of the first recommendation week, and with regard to the other the Ch"ir'. j, stated that the guardians had no power tosanc' an exchange of districts. The two officers^" c have to resign and be appointed again to d^ Vijpi districts. There was no other business porta nee.

BOARD OF TRADK INQUIRY AT SWANSEA. THE STRANDING OF THE HARRY BLACKWOOD. # On Wednesday the Board of Trade inquiry the cause of the Harry Blackwood's stranding 0' the Kentish Knock on the 22nd of April was er. tinued at the Town-hall, Swansea (before g J. C. Fowler, stipendiary magistrate, and jy Davies and Hyde as nautical assessors). The witnesis called was a foreign seaman, na. jjC Schwaidtz, who was on watch up till before the vessel stranded, and deposed as to ail1 lights he observed. When the ship struck he £$ came on deck. The mate Mio the captain had 0^9 on dec'k the whole time, and that they were °n Goodwin Sands. It was snowing at hiitf'Py, eleven that night, and afterwards it was b" it The captain was re-called, and said he did Ftet think it necessary to use the lead until he saw the third light he had mentlO pd because he thought he saw the Galloper Kentish Knock Lights. The estimated loss bY Càf" s/up was about £1.600 or £ 1,700, and he > the tain) was part owner. t t}18 After an adjournment, the Court found tb8 f cause of the stranding was the omission ? „ master to verify his position, the lights the time plainly visible. The vessel was not gated with proper and se-imanlike care- S jl1 Court found, with regret, that the master «;CoP' default, he having gone on ahend in blind dence that, not-withstanding the flashes dId t pØ correspond with the supposed light, he rolIsiotO right, and so ran upon destruction. Taking ctet consideration the master's previous good and the fact that the light on the Long only placed there last year, and that the ø fl1:f" was ignorant of its existence, the Court onlld im- pended his certificate for three months, aid commended that a mate's certificate sbol.1 granted the master in the meantime.

Srflitb THE sentence of death passed on at the last Durham Assizes for wife mur<* been commuted to penal servitude for life- GENERAL BAKER PASHA has been £ last ten days at Tintern, and has benefit from the fine air and the beautiful Wye Valley. He is going to visit Sir Samuel and Lady Baker at Orleigh, their place in Devonshire, near £20 to Pamphlet, How to Open respectably from £Z t.¡,Uøe J. Myers and Co., 10 £ uston-road, Loadon. II 1e" f 26years. Wholesale only. STAMMERERS STAMMERERS ■— ^T'pa^pi*i t>»* (wbose system for the cure of this extremely tion is the most successful of any method yet m,once written a book «hich all stammerers should 3# j Mr. Beasley cnroi 1 himself after sutteritie more J aud is daily treating with marvellous aticceas f rently beyond all cure. For book ayi>ly, enclosw* to Messrs. Fisher, 37. Walbrook. London.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN. [FKOJF OUR COB" :SPON"DEN"T. J CAIHO, JUNE 3—HAS been received from •Major Kitchener bt oci Korosko, who mentions a report that the enemy are investing Berber, and that Khartoum is not likely to hold out much longer. He appears to find the rebels very active. rnd anticipated that somo of the tribes wiU idvaacs iior^bware's shore'y. l YROM OCR CORRESPONDENT. j Cnn, •'rN"E 3. The rebels again attacked duakim last; 'gut, but, owin; to the steadiness of the -r^ypcici-n troops and their prompt re; lv to the enflmy's fire, the latter took to flight. They were pursued by the cavalry, and several of their lumber were k>J'ed. Re: orts continue to reach here of the growing Mahdi. It is said that the umber of his adherents greatly increased. L" DAILY TELEGRAPK" TELEGRAM.] C .inc. JCNE 2 (1.55 P.M.).—The Governor of iongo"a telegra; hs o:.a1 in consequence of ener- getic measures "ll the heads cf the robelSchaikiyeh ir.ibe, excepting one chief of no great influence, made subr. ^'ss'on. The sifge of Berber has fcee-s ilsec, and aJl the rebels sn-roundingit have ilisappware-1 in consequence of the growing feeling of discoi vageinent id internal dissensions. The Toad is new open to the t. "• the Governor of Dongoh is repairing th" cut telegrr _)h wires. Khartoum is still sur oundsd by the enemy, but General Gordon holds his own and makes suc- cessful sortus. Telegrams from Suakim announce Va siurultaneous attack on ".lithe outworks of the town last oiglit, but the assailants were easily ;epulsed.

EXPECTED SURRENDER OF KHARTOUM. [" KEUTER S TELWlhiM.] C.\JRO, JU?>iR 3.—Sir "Evelyn Wood has received a telegram from Captain. Eager at Korosko, ataung that the following dispatch had reached that place (rom Major Kitchener, who left Korosko or the 1st )n31:. an a reconua..=o ince in the di-ection of Murad: "swruay I met he Sheikh Sala at six jcfdoc'i in the morning, midwa-" between Murad and ibu H:ircad. I had sent Sala. on May 25 to • form posts along the road. He reached Murad. ?Iha vete's had been there two days before, ana Wet left, 4fter ordering the guard, under threats, to SSestr^y tee wells. The guard and Sala went on to distance of three mrs this side of Abu Hamad. baia reports that the rebels are in force near Hamad. The er of Shamut is 'sending emissaries all over the country of Bichareen to win over the inhabitants. He iieports that Berber is closely invested, and that ;no communication with the town is possible. 'Kadendowa is moving no■ thwards, and will march iafter Rarr azan on Assouan. A force from Kabbabish lis reported to have gone towards Berber, intending ito mov3 on Dongoia. It is rumoured that the iMahdi has gone to Khartoum, the surrender of '.which p'aceis shortly expected." Captain Eager adds that Zehebr's messengers to General Gordon have just arrived at Korosko, and that h: is keep- ing them to sea Major Kitchener.

OS-MAN DIGNAS PRISONERS. f" STANDARD TKIEGPAMS. I SUAKIM, MAY 30 (NIGHT> .—Two men of the friendly tribes, who had been made prisoners by Osman Pigna, have arrived h ,L-j with their right hands cut off. It is reported that Osman is at Salahat, with an army of 2,000 men all told. Osman ha3 raprisoned 40 of his own men who were scared at the electric light and ran away. CAISO. MAY 30 (NIGHT).—Major Kitchener has not left Assouan, owing to the prevalence of disquieting rumours regarding the stace of the South country. The 4th Battalion of the Egyptian II Army will probably start on Wednesday, and will •shortly be followed by another battalion. General JGreiue1! goes on a visit of inspection to Suakim on Friday, after which he will take command at Wady Haifa.

REPORTED ARRANGEMENT WITH ZEBEHR PA»SHA. [" DAILY NEWS" TELEGRAM.] EDFOU, NEAR ASSOUAN, May 29.—The 3th Batta- lion of Sir E. Wood's army arrived to-day to rein- force the garrison. The remaining company of the 3rd Battalion has started for Korosko, where reinforcement is badly needed. A rumour is cir- culating that the Government have entered into some arrangement with Zebehr Pasha to proceed to the Soudan. Several of Zebehr's men have I arrived here on their way to the Soudan. They have passes from General Wood, but maintain stric. silence on the object of their journey.

A LIBERAL PROTEST AGAINST THE SURRENDER OF EGYPT. A Liberal Round Robin protesting against sur- render in Egypt was announced on Wednesday morning in the Daily Telegraph. It probably did not. (says the Pall Mall Gazette) need this ultima ratio of alarmed members to convince the Government that the Multiple Control was impossible. Nego- tiations with France are, it seems, at a standstill, and at last there is reason to hope that we shall hear no more of the contem- plated capitulation. That danger, therefore, may be rearded as being as good ;).s disposed of. There remains the threatened despatch of a Turkish army to the Hcudan. That also must De preventen. Apart altogether from the momhty of launching a Turkish army of conquest to crush peoples struggling to be ;ree." whom General Gordon was sent to liberate, ,t wou1d be grossly improper to take such a step without General Gordon's as^enr. It is true that he for a handful of Turks to be placed under iis orders; but that is an altogether different thing irom starting an Ottoman re-conquest of the country fron: Suakim. when General Gordon is en- gaged in lib rating it h..m Khartoum. If it were no1- that our party refuses to believe Lord Gran- yille can rea'lv have made such a proposal, the protest would be overwhelming and immediate. 3ut whv wait until the protest is raised ?

ARABI PASHA ON THE SOUDAN. Mr. William Stredwick. of brighton, who, has Just returned from Australia, broke he journe: bv ";alliug at Ceylon, where he obtained an interview with Arabi Pasha. In c e course of conversation Ar' 1::Ii said he exceedingly regretted the recent events in and the Soudan, but they were the inevitab10 c ate. me or an unwise I policy. The grievance in the Sondau was more of a religious than of a pob :cal ature. Feeling ran very hijh among the •ewer classes -it Whft they an unÝ1stifi. fcole ir: rierence wi:11 their civil and religious fcigMc. He added that as one man he would be powerless to av-r the angry feelings of these Jpeopie, and nothing could be done to restr re order xcept, clemer to the leaders ard an impartial investigation into thair grievances. The lahdi had the fa' hfcl allegiance of Egyptian Mussulmans, but he v Arabi/ f'^clined to say it he believed the Mahdi Was a tru prophet. He was sure no overtllres for peace w-uid cjme from Ute Mahdi, who w .uld ifigut Hil 1 he v.. s wither captured or killed. He knew of DO English dealer in slaves b. the Soudan, an^ was c' opinion that Britifh interference by wax" w..s 1, great mistake. The Soudan W1S fairlv winning with supporte- of the Mahdi, and fr, crhdnl bloodshed most ensue before the end was rrought ibout. Pe entertained t'ie highest regard for British, and ho¡. to see the day when Egyptians would be placed on the same footing in t.ieir land sis the English were in England.

THE FRE., LH PENAL SETTLEMENT. FROM OUR CORUKSPONDENT.] PARIS, MAY 31 (AFTERNOON).—The French inha- bitants of Cayenne (French Guiana) have for- warded to President- C-revy r petition praying that .0 more Recidivists or habitual criminals shall be iransported to the coiony.

THE CONGO TREATY. I FROM OCR CORRESPONDENT.] ROMK, MAY 31 i AFIKRNOON).—At the request of the Portuguese Government, Italy has agreed to use her good offices to induce the Powers to accept the Anglo-Portuguese Congo Treaty.

RUSSIA AND THE PAXSLAVISTS. I.T'ROM OIK CORRESPONDENT.] ST. PHTERSBURG, MAY 30 (via GUMBINNEN, MAY learn that in an interview with Privy Councillor Pobiedonosstyf the Emperor expressed a desire that the Panslavisc party should make it their first business to support the existing Govern- ment, and to avoid conduct calculated to provoke dissensions amongst the people and in political I parties. In compliance with his Marty's com mands M. Pobiedonosstyf, although a prominent Member of the party, absented himself from the st Slav Congress.

ATTACK ON ISMAIL PASHA. t" CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] PAIHS, JUNE 4 (MORNING).—As the ex-Khedive, ismail Pasha, was walking yesterday afternoon in lhe gardens of the Palais Royal a man suddenly lell upon him and beat him severely. The aatbor of the dastardly outrage is at present unidentified) |but is believed by the police to have been an /Italian formerly in the employ of his Highness. The iman had Joeen discUarged for some £ault.and.tbœ I might, it is thought, supply a motive for the attack.

JEWISH OUTRAGES IN HUNGARY. L" DAILY NEWS" TELEGRAM.] VIENNA, JUNE 1.—Twenty-six persons accused of having committed anti-Jewish outrages in two Hungarian villagea some months ago have been tried in Pesth. Twenty-two were sentenced to im" prisonment varying from six years to six months.

THE GOVERNORSHIP OF NATAL. TELEGRAM.] DURBAN, JUNE 3.—Rumours are current that Sir Henry Bulwer has resigned the Governorship of Natal.

GERMANY IN SOUTH AFRICA. ['* MORNING POST TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, JUNE 1.—It is stated in official quarters that the North, German Gazette will shortly publish of Prince Bismarck as to the necessity of Germany an important communication setting forth the views preventing the growth of English influence in South-Western Africa, and the vital necessity of Germany affirming her rights as a colonising Power.

EARTHQUAKE IN PERSIA. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. [" STANDARD" TELEGRAM.] TEHERAN, JUNE 2 (NIGHT).—A violent shock occurred on the night of the 19th May at the Inland 3f Kishm, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. No less than twelve villages were destroyed. Two hundred people were killed, and many others injured. [Kishm is the largest island in the Persian Gulf, ind is surrounded by many smaller islands. It is 70 miles long, and averages tweive miles broad. The population, chiefly Arabs, number about 5,000, and they have hitherto carried on a brisk coasting trade. The principal town is situated on the eastern side of the island, which belongs to Persia.]

AN ENGLISH OFFICER MURDERED BY PATHANS. F" TELEGRAM.] SIMLA, JUNE 2.—Lieutenant Dupuis, of the 2nd North Staffordshire Regiment, recently left Quetta on a shooting excursion, and had not since been heard of. His body has now been found, and there is no doubt that he was murdered by Pathans.

THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS. The police authorities have issued strict in- structions for the observance of complete secrecy as to the investigations that are being carried on but it is admitted that as yet no arrest has been made. nor does there appear to be any sanguine expectation of successfully following up the sup- posed clues. It is believed that the authors of these outrages were members of the same gang who successfully plotted the destruction of part of Victoria Station. The two men who it is supposed were concerned in that crime, and who were staying for some days at an hotel in Great Portland-street, were eventually traced to the Continent, and there all clue to them was lost. Probably these men alsi) had a hand in the present outrage. The precautions taken at the time were so extensive that the detective authorities now confidently assert that no dynamite can have been landed reeentlr from the Continent, and that that used on Friday must have been some of the old stock which has been known to exist in England ever since Whitehead's arrest, but has not been traced. It will be remembered that several hundredweight of the material known to have been manufactured bv Ilim was never accounted for. After the explosion at the Local Government Board offices a special constable was posted outside the urinal at Scotland-yard, and the whole building has never been left unguarded night or day during the last two months. Moreover, owing to information received of the doings of the Irish-American dyna- mitards, further precautions were taken, not only at Scotland-yard, but at other public offices. A police-constable, who was patrolling in front of the Criterion Restaurant on Friday evening, states that the shock of the St. James's-square ex- plosion was so violent that it seemed as if a bomb had been discharged close by. The ground shook violently under his feet, and he fairly jumped from the pavement. The same results were experienced by other persons at the same spot- in Waterloo- place, which is separated from the square by two large rows of houses. The sound resembled the discharge of a broadside from a man-of-war. The Duke of Edinburgh visited both scenes on Saturday evening, and the Duke of Cambridge visited Scotland-yard, and made a close inspection of the wreckage. It is stated that the Government is being pressed to offer a reward of not less than £5,000 for the discovery of the perpetrator. A man who drove off in a cab from near St. James's- square is being sought after by the police. He is described as short, slight, and not unlike a French- man. He drove in a north-westerly direction, towards Euston. THE DAMAGE TO SIR WATKIN WYNN'S HOUSE. The Morning Post says:—What, however, ap- pears to be the more serious and grievous outrage of the three in St. James's-square is that perpe- trated upon the residence of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. From an exumination of the front of Sir Watkin's house it would seem as if two bombs had been directed against it, one on the right and the other on the left of the entrance. On the righthand side the windows are shattered from bottom to top, scarcely a whole pane being left. The force of this explosion must have been something terrific, but it was not less than that which occurred on the left-hand side of the doorway. Here the dynamite apparently was placed upon the window ledge in front of the principal sitting-room. A large portion of the stonework is blown away, and the heavy glass of the window is carried bodily inwards. The most distressing part of the aggravating occurrence is that, according to well-founded report, Sir Watkin Wynn and a large party of friends were seated in the room after dinner. The hon. baronet, not having recovered ftom his recent indisposition, suffered a severe shock to the nerves from the effects of the explosion, but, his medical attendant happening to be among the company, Sir Watkin was promptly attended to, and removed to another part of the house. Our Ruabon correspondent telegraphs: — A watchman was on duty at Wynnstay Mansion throughout Saturday nigh', and the late trains were watched by the police, but there was nothing to lead to the apprehension of danger to the hon. gentleman's seat, and no special instructions have been received to guard the establishment. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. Bart., M P., and family were at St. James's-square when the explosion hap- pened, and grave concern was felt at Wynnstay lest the hon. gentleman, who has been an invalid six months, was injured, as telegrams were re- ceived during the day stating that some of the in- mates were wounded. A telegram from Lady Wil- liams Wynn to Mr. Lloyd, the Ruabon postmaster, at eight a.m. on Sunday, however, announced that eilch member of the family was safe and un- hurt. The telegram was afterwards exhibited in the post-office window. THE IRISH PRESS ON THE OUTRAGE. The Freeman's Journal refers to the explosions in London as fiendish work, and says tho most. strik- ing feature in the outrage is the consummate daring with which it was perpetrated. The Irish Times says it would be impossible to carry daring in crime to a higher pitch, or or- ganisation of crime to a subtler ingenuity. But the determination of the country to reach the head of the conspiracy will only be as vastly deepened. The Dublin Ex-press says the outrages were evi- dently intended, not only to strike terror into the Government and people of England, but to show the audacity of the miscreants, who in this way make war upon the nation. The possibility of carrying out such a design in the heart of the city, and in a place watched with strict attention, may well excite astonishment and apprehension. 1L seems difficult to account for it, unless upon the improbable suspicion of foul play on the part of tome person connected with the poli«e. MILITARY PRECAUTIONS. With a view to prevent any Fenian outrage* on Wellington Barracks, St. James's Park, all the entrances to the building are strictly guarded by armed sentries night and day, and the non-com- missioned officers on duty have been instructed to exercise extra vigilance as to the movements of suspicious-looking persons. No one is allowed within the precincts of the barnlcks without the authorities are satisfied with the answers to their inquiries. In the event of the assembly being sounded the whole of the men stationed at the barracks could be paraded within a very short space of time, and the barrack guard could turn out immediately. Several plain-clothes police- men are alwrys on duty at the back of the barracks in York-street, Westminster. PRECAUTIONS IN LIVERPOOL. The elaborate precautions instituted by the Liverpool police after the early outrages by dynamitards are maintained with great vigilance, and that no special measures have been taken in consequence of the explosions of Saturday merely arises from the fact that the system in vogue at present is so complete as to render further steps unnecessary. At the present time, as for months past, constables are placed on "special duty" for the protection of public buildings, and how far that vigilance extends may be judged from the fact that for a long time past constables have nightly patrolled St. John's Church, at the rear of St. George's-hall. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE OUTRAGES. Our correspondent in Paris, telegraphing on Sunday, says:—I learn that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had yesterday a long interview with M. Jules Ferry, in the course of which the conversation turned on the recent dynamite out- rages in London, and their probable connection with Fenians residing on French soil. M. Ferry, I am informed, treated the subject in such a manner IlS to give great satisfaction to tile Prince, who ex- pressed his pleasure at finding the views of the French Premier to so far coincide with his own. THREAT TO DESTROY AN IRISH POLICE STATION It is stated that the authorities have received information that an attempt will be made to blow up one of the principal police-stations in Dublin. No information on the subject is given, but it is understood that the report is correct, and that all necessary precautions have been taken. A NOVEL EXPERIMENT. Mr. Irving Bishop, who is leaving England for t.he benefit of his health, wishes first to establish the use of thought-reading as applied to diagnosis of disease or detection of criminals. A committee of gentlemen will meet Mr. Bishop at the West- minster Palace Hotel on Thursday, the 5th of June, to test the experiment. One of them is to place a sealed envelope in the chairman's hands contain- ing a full description of the person or object and place where it shall be found. The object is supposed to represent dynamite or stolen goods, and the person a confederate in the crime the only conditions Mr. Bishop makes are that the person or articles shall be in an accessible place within the radius of one mile from the houges of Parliament, and that the person experimented with should keep it definitely in mind, as the real criminal might be supposed to do. Mr. Hishop being blindfolded with his head in a sack and his ears stopped, will be attached to the supposed criminal by wire, leave the hotel in search, and expects to return within an hour with the person or article referred to. MYSTERIOUS FIRE AT THE WAR OFFICE. The Central News telegraphs that no arrests have been made in connection with the dynamite explosions of last week but the police continue their inquiries in every suspected quarter. A remarkable fact has just come to light which has created some uneasiness in official circles. It appears that only a very few minutes before the dynamite explosions at Scotland-yard and St. James's-square on Friday last a fire broke out in the waste paper room at the Home Office, and, although it was extinguished before any serious harm was done, at one time it threatened to spread throughout the building. A strict inquiry is being made into the cause of the fire, but without result so far, and the whole affair is shrouded in mystery. An uncomfortable suspi- cion has arisen among some of the officials that the fire may have been purposely caused by some confederate to distract general attention while the dvnamitards carried out their nefarious projects elsewhere. This idea has gained ground so strongly that no stone is being left unturned to get at the real facts of the case. The injured persons in Charing Cross and West- minster Hospitals are reported to be doing well.

LORD CLAUD HAMILTON, brother of the Duke of Abercom, and formerly M.P. for the County of Tyrone, died on Tuesday at his residence in Port- and-place in his 71st year. IN the week ending May 31. 1884, it appears from Weekly Gazette that there were 229 bills of sale in England and Wales,a decrease of 54 over those of the corresponding period last year and the failures gazetted numbered 49, a decrease of 160. Totals for the portion of year to May 31, 1884, are bills of sale regis- tered for England and Wales, 4,885, a decrease of 1,377; the failures gazetted number 1,707, a de- j crease of 2LS33.

THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF CY MMRODORION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "WEEKLY MAIL. SIR,—Some time ago I became a member of the above-mentioned society. I did so because its announced object was "The encouragement of .iterature, scienoe and art in Wales." I after- wards discovered that the members of its council" interfered with matters other than literature, science, and art, and that they continue to do so without consulting the members of the "society." I shall feel obliged if you will insert in your valu- able paper the following correspondence that took place between the secretary of The Honourable Society of Cymmrotlorion" and myself. I make this request as I am desirous that the public should become acquainted with the aspiring proclivities and the ambitious and self-assertive interference of the council.-I am, T. MORGAN OWEN. Bronwylfa, Rhyl, May 31. 12th March, 1884. Dear Sir,—Kindly inform me if the papers are correct in stating that Mr. Lewis Morris and others are about to interview or try to influence the Education Department (in the name of the Cymmrodorion Society), thiough its Vice-President, on the subjoct of education in Wales. If the papers are correct, I must request the favour of your informing the so-called deputation that, in my opinioa, it is highly unbecoming on their part to presutv*) to speak in the name of the Cymmro- dorion Society without the consent of every mem- ber of 'chat society. If this matter is actually realised. I shall have no alternative but to cease to be a member of that society.—Yours sincerely, C., W. Jones, Esq." MORGAN OWEN. The Ferns, Balham, London, S.W., March 15, 1884. Sir,—I beg to apologise for not earlier replying to your letter of the 12th inst. In reply to your inquiry, I have to say that the deputation which attended on the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education was from the council of the Cymmrodorion Society.— Permit me to remain, dear sir, yours very faith- fully, "C. W. JONES. To T. Morgan Owen, Esq., M.A." De&r Sir,—The council of the Cymmrodorion Society represents its members, the deputation (you my) represented the council, therefore the deputation (apparently) represented the members. As I have not the remotest desire to grace the chari/ot wheels of a self-elected and non-representa- tivft deputation, I must decline to continue to be a member of the Cymmrodorion Society.—Yours s voce rely, "T. MORGAN OWEN. C. W. Jones, Esq." Dear Sir,—Your resignation shall be duly placed before the council at their meeting on the 8th instant.—Yours faithfully, "C.W.JONES. To T. Morgan Owen, Esq." 31st May, 1884. Dear Sir,—Permit me to remind you that you have not favoured me with the result of your kind- ness in placing my resignation before the council on the 8th inst. As the members of the council continue to act upon their oion responsibility in matters other than the encouragement of litera- ture, science, and art in Wales,' I have sent a copy of this correspondence to certaIn papers that have the welfare ot these most valued subjects at heart. —Yours sincerely, T. MORGAN OWBN. C: W. Jones, Esq."

ANOTHER PASSENGER TRAIN IN COLLISION. The ten o'clock train from Glasgow to Manches- ter, due at Tyldesley shortly after four o'clock on Wednesday morning, came into collision at the last-named place with a goods train. Hulf-a-dozen passengers complained of injury, but all were able to proceed to their destinations. The brake van of the luggage train was shattered, and the line was blocked. The signals were, it is said, against the driver of the Scotch train, but lie states that he was unable tov pull up in time to prevent the col- | lision*

I THE MARQUESS OF BUTE'S PICTURES. EXHIBITION IN GLASGOW. THE OPENING CEREMONY. DESCRIPTION OF THE PICTURES. The Bute collection of pictures lent to the Cor- poration of Glasgow for public exhibition was for- mally opened on Tuesday. Two hundred and sixty- four of the Marquess of Bute's pictures are placed on view, but owing to the accommodation in the Glasgow Corporation Galleries being insufficient for the entire number 57 could not be hung. An excellent catalogue of the pictures has been prepared by Dr. Richter, and contains critical notices of the works, as aiso biographical sketches of the artists whose productions are exhibited. At the opening ceremony there was a large attendance of the leading citizens, and the collec- tion was greatly admired, the works of Cuyp receiving particular attention. A picture repre- senting the late Lady Bute and the present Mar- quess as a boy also attracted special notice. Lord Provost M'Cone, who presided, explained that about the time the Bute collection was being prepared for removal from the house at Eeriest on- square, London, to Bethnal Green, for public ex- hibition, under the auspices of the Science and Art Department, the Corporation of Glasgow had their attention directed to the fact that it was the inten- tion of Lord Bute to remove most of the collection to the magnificent mansion in course of erection at Mount Stuart, Bute. The corporation had previously received valuable loans for the Italian Art Exhibition from his lordship, and it was thought that while the pictures were in t.ransit from London to the Isle of Bute permission might be given for their exhibition in Glasgow, so as to afford the inhabitants of the West of Scot- land an opportunity of viewing them. On the suggestion being made to the noble lord he cordially assented. The Lord Provost expressed the indebted- ness of the citizens of Glasgow to the marquess for his great kindness, and remarked that it was another proof of his warm attachment to the Clyde Valley*, the hereditary home of the Bute race. He also referred to the obligation they were under to Mr. Goodwin, Lord Bute's librarian, for the assistance that gentleman had rendered in the selection and arrangement of the pictures. A vote of thanks was passed to Lord Bute for the interesting and valuable art loan. The Bute collection was mainly formed by John (Lord Mountstuart), afterwards fourth Earl and first Marquess of Bute, under the advice of Captain Baillie, whose portrait graces the walls of the exhi- bition. For a long time the pictures were kept at Luton House in comparative obscurity, and on that mansion being destroyed by fire the collection was removed to Pimlico. Last year they were ex- hibited on loan by the Science and Art Department at Bethnal Green Museum, where they attracted great attention, and when they have b-en shown for a season in Glasgow they will find a per- manent residence in the new family mansion at Mountstuart. Most of the pictures of the Bute collection are by masters of the best time of the Dutch school. Others belong to the contemporary Flemish school and to the English school; com- paratively few are Italian. Some idea of the im- portance of the pictures may be gathered from the fact that Dr. Waagen, in his account of this collec- tion, observes :—" Of all the collections formed in England before the first French Revolution, it is the most important in works of this class (the Dutch and Flemish schools), so that for productions of many of the first masters it may vie even with the finest collections formed since the Revolution, such as those of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Ashburton, and the Marquess of Westminster nay, it contains very fine works of several good masters of whom there are no specimens at all in those collections." Notwithstanding the great age of the works, they are in an excellent state of preservation, and in several instances the colours are as fresh as the day on which they left the artists' palettes. Some of them have become more mellow in tone; but this, instead of being a defect, has only served to enhance the quality of the pictures. The Bute collection is peculiarly rich in examples of the Dutch school at its best period they are so numerous, indeed, that it would be altogether impossible in a short notice to attempt anything like a detailed description. It may be stated, however, that there are three pictures by David Teniers the younger. In the first, "Robbers Plundering a Farm-house," there is an interior with a group of armed plun- derers attacking a peasant. Dr. Richter is of opinion that it is rather an early work, the colour of which points to the influence of Adrian Brouwer. The composition, he thinks, is scarcely successful, the artist having failed in the represen- tation of dramatic action. II Card Players" has been rendered familiar by engravings, but the sight of the original should prove a rare treat to connoisseurs. "Landscape, with Peasants Carousing," is a much larger work than either of the others, but it is not by any means so good a picture. Apart from the merit of Jan Steen's pictures, they should have a local interest to the Glasgow public, as the celebrated "painting medium" of that city professes to be inftuenced by the spirit of the gifted Dutchman. Without questioning the genuineness of the medium's inspiration, or hazarding even an opinion on the subject, it may safely be said that the works of the latter suffer greatly by com- parison with the direct examples of Steen in the Bute collection. The most important is a spirited painting of A Cock Fight," the scene of which is laid under a tree in front of a house. To the right a boy kneeling on the ground holds a bleeding bird in his hand, while the victor is crowing in triumph in front of him. The picture is crowded with figures all more or less interested in the result of the recent battle. The Love Letter" and A Cavalier Playing a Lute to a Lady are companion pictures so extremely cha- racteristic that the signature of the artist is hardly necessary to guarantee their authenticity. Among the other interior subjects are A Flemish Boer Drinking," by Begu Dutch Boers Drinking," by Brouwer; a rare work of Don; a drinking scene 1 by Dusart, of striking brightness of colouring Card Players," by Dominicus van Tol, &c. Now- a-days, landscape painters endeavour to hold the mirror up to nature, but in the earlier schools the artists drew largely on imagination, and in the present collection there are numerous exam- ples of the conventional and classical." Land- scape, with River, Figures, and Cattle," is a master- piece of Aalbert Cuyp, who has never been surpassed in the treatment of sunny air enveloping landscapes. The strong light pervading this scene is counterbalanced by deep shadows, which are, however, luminous throughout. Orpheus Char- ming the Beasts" is an early and not very suc- cessful work of this artist. "Landscape, with Cattle," is a splendid work of Cuyp's best time. "A Winter Scene" is one of Beichem's rare works, displaying a true Dutch character of scenery. "An Italian Landscape" is one of Both's most effective works. The bluish tone of the atmosphere and the melting light enveloping this scenery of southern climate are rendered in a most masterly manner. The collection also includes landscapes by Jacob van Ruisdael, Roelant Savery Venne, Breughel, Claude, Griffier, De Hensch, Van der Hyde, Willem van de Velde, Hobbema, Ihettson, Locatelli, Aart van der Neer, Gaspard Poussin. &c. The most important marine subject is The Battle of Sole Bay," by Willem van de Velde the younger. The English and Dutch fleets are engaged in combat, and in the foreground there is the wreckage of a large Dutch ship with numerous sailors in the water. Over- head there is a dark, cloudy sky, while the air is murky with the smoke from the cannon. On the English side, the ship in the foreground having on its stern the Royal Arms is said to be the Royal James (also called the Prince), which was, Evelyn says, one of the best men-of-war that ever spread canvas on the sea," and on b ard which was the Earl of Sandwich, Admiral of the Blue. The ship seen to the left of it, further back, is supposed to be the Charles, the flagship of the Duke of York—afterwards King James II.—for whom, it is said, the picture was painted. Wal- pole relates that, by order of the Duke of York, Willem van de Velde attended the engagement in a small vessel. The Duke, so the story goes, re- pudiated the work because the ship of the Earl of Sandwich was placed (in accordance with the facts of the case) prominently in the foreground, bear- ing the brunt of the battle, while his own, which he bad wished to be the principal feature of the picture, was placed in the rear. The sacred sub- jects include a half-length portrait of" Pope Inno- cent. X. by Valfsquez; "The Marriage of St. Catherine," by Paolo Vermese; "The Marriage of the Virgin," after Zucchero The Virgin and Child with Angels," attributed to Raphael; "The Adoration of the Kings," after Rubens; Adoration of the Shepherds," by Parmegianino The Holy Family and St. Elizabeth," by Carlo Maratti; "The Virgin and Child," by Cesare d Sesto. This carefully executed picture is a genuine work of Cesare da Sesto. The drawing of the hands and the delicate treatment of the landscape in the background are especially characteristic of the master. Besides, the model- ling of the infant Christ shows a close similarity to authenticated drawings of the master. Cesare da Sesto executed the same picture once more, with but slight variation. The replica, which is in the Brera Gallery at Milan, has no curtain in the background, and in the immediate foreground one perceives the edge of the marble bench. The small landscape in the background shows considerable variations. But these are the onlv differences between the two, and, as the size is the same, it may be assumed that the artist used one cartoon for both pictures. Portraiture is exceedingly well represented, and in this branch it may not be out of place to call attention to a picture of the late Marchioness of Bute and the present Marquess, by James R. Swinton. Lady Bute is clad in a grey dress, and has her hands on the shoulders of her youthful son. Lord Bute, aged about five years, is in Highland costume, with the Stuart plaid across his shoulders. There are also portraits ot John, third Earl o" Bute, and his secretary, afterwards Earl of Liverpool, by Reynolds. This picture was originally executed for Alexander, Earl of Eglintan, and was after- wards taken by George Ill., who, in 1783. gave it to Lord Bute. It was exhibited in Burlington House in 1871. The portrait of John, fourth Earl and first Marquess of Bute, is by Gainsborough, and treated in the same key of colour as the cele- brated Duchess of Devonshire. Lady MS,I1f Wortley Montague's portrait by Kneller is a charming and historic work of art. This portrait was painted in 1720 by Sir Godfrey Kneller, it is said for Pope, who addressed to it the verses com- mencing— The playful smiles around the dimpled mouth, That ha.ppy air of majesty and truth. There are also portraits of Queen Mary after Sir Antonis Mor, Magister Conrudus Victor by HaIg, Mra. Martha Blount by Jenaa. the Duke of Moo, I mouth by Netscher and Wyck, Dr. Johnson and Olivei- Goldsmith after Sir Joshua Reynolds, Ben Jonson, Richard, Earl of Portland, the Duke of York. William Howard, Viscount Stafford by Van Dyck, Lord Mountstuart by Lawrence, the Duke of Wellington by Lawrence, &c.

Under this head questions on legal subjects are answered by an experienced, professional gentleman Corespondents wishing for information or advice are reavested to observe the following rules 1. The facts must be stated fully and clearly; and the questions, if more than, one, should be num- bered consecutively. 2. A full copy must be sent of any document on which advice is wished for. 3. The real name and address of the writer must accompany the questions, but will jwt be pub- lished if a pseudonym" or initials be also sent for reference. All communications must be addressed to The Editor, Leyal Department, Weekly Mail Office Cardijf." ♦ — LANDLORD AD TENANT.-We have returned the agree- ment sent by H. H. C." (Cardiff). We do not under- stand his second letter, in which he says that our iidviee does not, touch the point which be rabed, and that any schoolboy knows what we told him. In his 1irst letter he asked two questiuns- (1) \Vasany notice requÏ1'ed? (2) What notice w Juld be required, if any ? Having answered his first question ill nega- tive, it became unnecessary to reply 1.,0 the second, for any schoolboy might. know that nothing could not bf. measu ed. We volunteered the Information that the agreement was not correctly stamped, bat we are left in the dark as to wheth -r this information is within the knowledge of the schoolboy referred t.o. If our correspolldent wishes for any further informa- tion we shall be glad to give it, on being informed whitt he desires to know. STATUTE OF LIlIIITA1'lONS. A Lenient Creditor" may commence actions at any time within six years after the date of the last item in each account. In the th rd case, as no appearance has been entered, he should enter up judgment, which would cost very little, and would sland good for twenty years. LANDLORD AND Ti:NANT.-On the expiration of the noí.Íee Perplexed" (Llandaff) may commence an action in the county court to recover possession. The defendant will have io pay the costs. V ALUAT[QN.Did the vahmtio/l made hy "Querist" require a stamp? If not. he would not require a licence, and may sue for the balance without fear RA'1'E IN ARRKAB.—Has Ratepayer" (Llandovery) paid tlW"(,"5 in question? If so he cannot be compelled to pay again. DEATH OF ANXU1TANT. Leo" (Llandebie) is advied that a proportionate part of the annuity is payable to the executors or administrators of the annuitant from the last payment to the (lay of her decease. This will be seven days short of half a year. NON-PAYMENT OF ANNUITY.• Leo (Llandebie) may either pay the all/luity or give up the estate to the annuitant during his life. The devise is conditional and he must either perform the condition or lose his bold upon the land for the prent. The case is not very unusual the testator appears to have valued his property more highly than other people value It. LOAN ON LIFE POLICY. Insurance" (Dowlais) ought to have an assignment prepared by his solicitor, and notice thereof served upon the insurance company. The costs would have to be paid by the borrower. DOG AND SHEEP.-We advise" Tudor" to place this matter in the hands of a solicitor. DUTY OF EXKCUTRIX. Cymro (Fishguard) ought to have proved the will long ago, and we advise her to delay no longer. She is now entitled to the whole of the residue, as the only other persons who had an in- terest therein have died. Any creditor of the testator may commence an action against her as soon I1S he likes. and we are surprised that they have left her alone so long. Rhe cannot refuse to pay a just debt teuause the money is liue to a minor. FISHING LICENCE.—"Cymro" (Lisvane) does not say what fish he wishes to angle for. If for salmon, trout, or char he must have a licence from the Hoard of Con- servators. PROPOSED BILL OF SALE. X.Y. Z." (Gower) is advised that the proposed bill of sate would be useless for the purpose intended. It is not permitted to defeat an existing debt by'a pretended security. The law does not favour fmudulent transactions. HUSBAND AND WIFE. Thomas Brown" (Newport) should endeavour to ascertain whether his wife is living. He cannot have two wives at one time; there- fore, he cannot marry aaill. in his wife's lifetime unless he first get a diVoree. ANGLO-CELT (Cardiff).-It would hurt a great many, friends as well as foes. The earth has scarcely closed over the dead man yet. Let us be silent. CYCLIST" (Cardiff).-Hot.h meu won the race at diffe- rent thnes, but not, having won three years in succes- sion neither is entitled to the amateur championship. BLUK" (Neath).-Mr. Curtis will have to pay his own costs and the taxed costs of the proprietors of the Western Mail in his recent unsuccessful action against them in the London Law Courts. MARRIAGE L1CENCE. Twenty-one can get a marriage licence without going so far from home as he proposes. Surrogates are appointed all over the kingdom for this purpose, and his rectur or vicar will tell him where to tind one, even if he should not be one himself. AGENCY.-If .1 Agent" (Cardiff) has not entered into any special agreement as 10 notice he must give such notice as is customary in the trade; there is no legal rule as to this. COUNTY COURT ACTION. A. B. C." (Fish guard) is in- formed that the judge hat very extensive powers of amendment both before and at the ¡ rial, but those powers do not extend to making an order against a per on in his ahsence and without notice. When a defendant is added, and is not in court at the time. a copy of the order adding him as a defendant in the action, a copy of the original summons, and a notice of the day upon which he is to attend the court have to be served upon him according to the rules as to ser- vice of ordinary summonses. If he be present when the case is called on and consent to the trial proceed- ing with the addition of his name as a def ndant, it will not be necessary to adjourn the case to a future day. HA. WKKR'S LWENCE.-If E. C. 8." (Rhondda) intends to use a horse and cart, he should apply at the Inland Revenue Office for a licence; but if not, he will only require a pedlar's certificate, which he can obtain at the police-office. We have not seen a copy of the book which he mentions for several years; but perhaps a copy might be obtained through some second-hand bookseller, if it were worth the trouble. It is quite out of date, and wouid be more likely to mislead him than to do him any good. We cannot answer bi8 other in- quiry. PARTNERSHIP.—" Pascal" (Llantrisant) 18 advised that both the partners wilt be responsle for the whole of the partnership debts. The proposed agreement would be useless. In case either of the partners should ge into outside difficulties his share of the partnership assets could be taken in execution, and this would lead either to the dissolution of the partnership or to the breaking up of the business, or both. AN EMBARRASSED DEBTOR.—"Darllenydd" (Penarth) might instruct a solicitor to try to carry through a private arrangement for him. We have not very much faith in such endeavours. But we understand that they are growing in favour since the new Bank- ruptcy Act came into operation, the amount of officialism havin frightened people. He could do no ood without a solicitor. WORKING MAN" (Cathays).- Bring the doctor's conduct to the notice of the club at once. "A. L." (Cardiff).-We do not publish poetry. "TRUE BLUE" (Swansea).-TennvsoIl has no poem of the kind. Try and remember a line or two c01Tect.ly, and we will help you. Send on your name and address, too, while you are about it. LEAVING WITHOUT NOTICE.H.M. V." (Cardiff) may bring an action in the county court against his late assistanr, for compensation in respect of the inJury which he sustained in COllsequence of the abrupt de- parture. TR1£SPA.SS BY POULTRY.—"Clydach Vale" must not shoot his neihbour's fowls, but he may catch and impound them until and expenses are paid. If he should do so, he may write us again. and we will in- struct hinl as to mode of sale if they should not be redeemed. Or he may sue the owner in the county court for the amount of damage which the trespassers have done. LANDLORD AND LoDGER.J. B. D." could not distrain for his rent until the day after it becomes due, and by that time the goods of his lodgers will have been rè- moved from the apartments now occupied by them. Practically, if they do not pay, he wi1l have no remedy except an action in the county court. He ays this is har but he can only blame his own negligence for any loss which he may oustain when he takes in such migratory persons he should insist 011 being paid in advance. BASTARDY.—If flH. S." (Maesteg) should decide npon entering into the proposed agreement, be must have it prepared by a So\JClt{)r. But we do not advise him to take this course; there is one insurmountable objection to all such agreements, that they do not make I he reputed father afe from the dangerof 1 he orderbeing enforced against h1ln at some future time. It is not, unusual for a mother to get the money and afterwards leave the child chargeable to the parish, when the order can be enforced by the poor law authorities, acting 111 the place of the mother. RIGHT TO LIGHT. A I aily Reader" (Swansea) is in- formed that the uninterrupted enjoyment of light for twenty years after the window is opened would give a right to keep it open thenceforth. This result might be avoided by an ngreement by hi neighbour to pay a nominal sum yearly for the privilege of having the window fr from obstruction, until notice should be given by either party to the other to put an end thereto. It would be well to have the agreement pre- pared hya solicitor. CHARGE FOR W ATKR. B. C. W." (Briton Ferry) ought to have se II 1., us the scale of charges authorised to be taken. We keep the public general Acts of Parliament, but we do not profess to keep local Acts, bye-laws, &c. If he will send ns the necessary information, we will advise him. HAHKING SMALL ARTICLES.—?" Blackwood" will not require a hawker's licence, bút a pedlar's certificate, which can he obtained of the chief of police for 5s. per annum. It will not have to be endorsed 01\ going into another police district, as was the case formerly. LANDLORD AND TENANT. "-Merthyr" having jiiven notice of his intention to give up possession of the house in his occupation he ought to have done so it was not necessary for his landlord to do anything he had a right to assume that possession would be given at the appointed time. We think onr correspondent m ght fairly have considered himself insulted if the landlord had expressed any doubt as tu his being a mall 0; his word. Wilen notice is given by OHe party the other party hasonly to wait ulltil the notice expires. The consequences to the landlord In the present ease may be serious, and all that he can do is to double the rent; summon the recalcitrant tenant before the magistrates; or bring an action agaiu3t hm in the county court. to recover possession of the house with costs of action. On the other hand, the landlord (without any fault of his own) is liable to an acti, >n at th suit of the person to whom he had agreed to let the house for damages Ul respect of the breach of his con- tract to give him possession 011 quarter-dav. The con- duct of our correspondent in holding over afr the expiraLion of his own notice is not only the cause of inconvenience, but may also Cause pecuniary loss to his landlord. MARRIAGE SKTfLE){ENT.-Assumina that" Ignorant" (Cardiff) is able to pay all his debt without he aid of tile property proposed to be settled, and to retain sufficient WO-k,i IIg capital to carryon his business to advantage, thef settlement would stand good, even if IIp- wereat som future time to become b!1l1krupt; but if he should be adjudicated bankrupt, and it should appear to the court that the 2et,tlelllellt was made in order to defeat or delay creditors, or was. unjustifiable having regard to the state of his af1\urs at the present time, the court might refuse or suspend tus order of discharge, 01' grant an order subject 1.0 conditions 01' refuse to ap- prove a composition or arrangement of his affairs. The goods ought to be all purchased and described in a schedule to the settlement aud the deed must be executed before the marriage is celebra ted, or it would be a voluntary deed liable to be dealt with under a different set of rilles of illw; and capable IIf being upset m case of bankruptcy at any time within ten years after its oate. It ought not to be executed long before the marriage, lest. they should change their minds the day before would be soon enough but in- structions should be given to a solicitor to prepare It a week or so before the appointed daY. BRISTOL (Tylorstown).—Bristol legally is a county as well as a city, and is styled in official documents "the city and county of Bristol ALLEGED LIBEL.—Has "Anon" (Treotky) endeavoured to get a correction inserted? This would be the first step, in order to negative the possibility of a mistake. But is it worth the trouble? Is it not rather a case for silent contempt? As he does not say what his profession is, we are not in a position to advise as to whether the misdescription is libellous or not, if wil- ful. If we are to advise him, he ought to tell us all the facts. DETENTION OF CLOCK. G. H. W. (Cathays) 8houl,1 bring an action ill the county court to recover the clock Or its value. MISTAKK.—If "Lynx" (Newport) will apply in the proper quarter the mistake will doubtless be rectified, Or an explanation will be given. OVER ASSES"MENT. Enquirer" (Glamorgan) should appeal against thie.

AGRICULTURAL SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE SOUTH WALES UNIVERSITY. TO THE EDITOB OF THE "WEEKLY MAIL." SIR,-At a meeting of the Cowbridge Farmers' club, held on Tuesday, tbe 27th ult., the Rev. Morris Price Williams said: He had not heard of the want of agricultural training in schools before. He thought the masten of schools should be put in possession of the facts," &c. Permit me, sir, t" refer the rev. gentleman (and others who mav be aware of the fact) to Schedule 4, New Educs* I tion Act, where the "principled of agriculture constitute one of the" specific subjects of secular instructionin public elementary schools, for which a grant of 4-s. is paid by the department fO every child who successfully passes an examiBa" tion in the subject referred to. The teachers &re' consequently, i.ware that the principles of lI.ic ture may be taught in every public elementary school.—I am, &c., LLAWHADEN. Gower.

WELSH SCULPTURE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE wgEKLY MArL." SIR,—The Red Dragon for this month contain* seveial articles of unusual interest, and of these not the least remarkable for interest a well as opportuneness is the one on Welsh sculpture W Miss Jeannie J ones. Seldom do we find so thought and taste compressed into four or page- of a magazine Miss Jones evidently is fu" of sympathy with her subj. ct, and earnest in }Je1' desire to see something done to encourage sculpture. It seems hard that, especially in Wale* it has become necessary to make an appeal 011 behalf of struggling Welsh sculptors. Money thef do not ask for, but they do ask for sympathy and appreciation of their work. Miss Jones sar1 that Italians, Frenchmen, any" are preferred- to Welshmen. And that, too, in Wales, whic" always boasts of her patriotism and care for h«r A children. Were there superior merit in the foreigners chosen we would not say anything, but, the reverse is the case. If a man says he is an Italian and presents a name ending with ni or we poor Welsh people, in our-simplicity of heat^»: atonce conclude that he is an immediate descendanli of the great Italian masters," and that sculpture runs in some families, like, I suppose, wooden legs in others. It is high time that this national neglect and apathy should be removed, and that our: country should educate itself so as to take all, intelligent interest in this divine work of hersonS» I heartily thank Miss Jones, as well as the ductors of the Red Dragon, for drawing attention t4 the matter.—I am, &c., A. B.. Cowbridge.

THE CHi RCH WELSH PRESS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY MAIL." SIR.—As there seems to be some little mieappf&< hension in regard to the publication shortly to b* started, will you kindly allow me to inform coy good old friend Mr. Jenkin Jenkins Ayronian and others that the committee, so far as I never seriously contemplated the re-christenig of Y Llan nor the issuing of another paper 111 opposition to it? What they intend doing is, I belief to support the Llan in every possible way, and to start a monthly magazine worthy of the Church* The Haul, published by Mr. Spurrell, Carmarthen^, will be re-fashioned and re-modelled, and issuer at threepence per montii, which will be the reach of all classes, except dreadful misers- Our pretty names, Awel y Dydd, YrEghcys G-ymrtiif &c., are thrown on one side, and Yr Haul will adopted as heretofore. Let us all support it hearti11 and well.—I am, &c., NATHANIEL THOMAS. Llanddarog.

THE POTAfO BLIGHT IN WALES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY MAIL." SIR,—Could you or any of your readers kindly inform me in what year the potato disease ot blight appeared first in Wales? I find from Eng" lish history that the famine in Ireland caused 1 the failure of the potato crop there happened 184-6-4-7, but I have no means of knowing whØ the disease first showed itself on the potatoes Jø Wales. A reply would, therefore, oblige.—I artlf itc., INQUIRES. Llandyssul.