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SOMETHING OUR READERS WILL BE DELIGHTED WITH. NEW FICTION BY A POPULAR AUTHOR. We have the pleasure of announcing that we xre about to commence the issue, in weekly instalments, of a new Serial Story-or, rather, f a series of short connected Stories-entitled THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A COUNTRY DOCTOR." EDITED BY MRS. J. K. SPENDER. Anther of" Her Own Fault Parted Lives," Godwyn's Ordeal," Mark Eylmer's Revenge," Mr. Nobody," Sfc. EDITOR'S LNTKODCCTIOIF. There were few people in whose society I have had greater pleasure than that of old Dr. Meredith, who was well known at a little place called Halstead-on-Sea," which, with the adjacent town of Black Quay, was much frequented at one time by invalids. He had lived through the greater part of the present century, and I thought it a privilege to be brought often into ciose con- tact with him in his declining years. He was genial and kind hearted, quietly humorous, a little whimsical, and, as some of his enemies said, a trifle superstitious. But, on the other hand, he had a largeness of miud, and a superiority to prejudice, which made him a valuable adviser and friend. He was generally reticent about the people he had known, but one day he spoke to me of the many strange experiences with which he had come in contact, and the secrets wnich had been entrusted to him by men and women who had passed into the Silent Land." 1. No one would be hurt if you told me a few of those stories now. You say that the actors are dead. and the names of some of them cleaii forgotten. Could you not tell them to me if I brought pen and paper and tried to take down your very worus? I asked, one day. I tell you that some of them would not be believed. cannot explain them myself; I wait to kiiow," he inswered, shaking his sno y locks. Nevertheless, the idea had increasing attractions to us ooth. It seemed to distract my dear old friend from the ecent grief caused by separation from a beloved wife, with whom he had lived for mure than forty years and it enabled me to practice the shorthand I had been trying to learn. The difficulty was for the doctor to make a beginning. He had never been used to literature, and was afraid of discrediting his habit of accurate thinking. But when I said to him, Tell it to me just as if no one were listening," he would lose the consciousness of self, and upeak with his usual vivacity. I only hope that, in submitting the stories he told to me to a larger circle of hearers, I may succeed in in- teresting them as be interested me. Some of them are tragic, some a little humorous, some full of quiet observation, and a few-well, I should be inclined to call them "uncanny" had not Dr, Mere- dith quietly put down any such expression of opinion, ou my part, by saying that If they could not be explained by our present stage of knowledge "—and he a unbelt did not attempt to explain them- it did not, therefore, follow that they were non-natural." MRS. SPEXDER AS A-IT AUTHOR. Mrs. Spender has had considerable experience as a writer, having written from her girlhood. 8he com- menced her literary career as an anonymous contributor of essays and poems to the current literature of the day. uf her first novel, Brothers-in-law," which appeared in 1869, one of the Quarterlies said, It has won golden opinions from critics of very opposite schools while her second novel, 11 Her Own Fault," published in lb71, was greeted by one of the leading papers as the work of an author who had already achieved a place in the rank of successful writers of fiction." Of "Parted lives," which appeared in 1873, it was aid that, Middlemarch' excepted, the season had hardly produced abetter novel and that" for powers of description, for analysis of character, for marvellous felicity of expression, the book was one rarely sur- passed." Biuee that time Mrs. Spender has written seven other novels, which have been well received in America and other parts of the world, as well as in England. We cite a few of the opinions of the Press as a testi- mony to her style and power as a novelist:— In the qualities of clearness, elegance, and purity, Mrs. Spender's writing will bear comparison with that of our best novelists."—hxaouner. 6he writes with aVipenass and mat uritv, both of idea and style, which are as pleasaut as they are rare to meet with."—Standard. Mrs. Spender is an artist in the true sense of the word. If she is not recognised as among the foremost if the novel writers of the day it will be because of a lamentable want of appreciation on the part of the reading public."—Scotsman. "There is a force and originality which will arouse the interest of even the inexperienced novel reader, and the writing is very superior indetai to the ordinary run of three-volume novels."—Guardian. Mrs. Spender has very superior tastes and capabili- ties as a writer. Few can paint in words as she paints; few writers are so refined, so cultured without any parade of culture, so pathetic, or so pure."—London Quarterly. Mrs. Spender has won a high plaee among our lady novelists. It is always a real pleasure to read her novds. There is a brilliancy as well as a freshness about them." —English Churchman. Very well written and readable."— Vanity Fair. Above the average novel in point of iuterest, as also m the matter of writing and style. The sad passages manifest a power of intensity on the part of the writer which may possibly surprise some of her admirers. Morning Pott. It will be found that Mrs. Spender thoroughly under- stands the art of engaging the reader's attention. Bright and entertaining.—John Bull. Mrs. Spender maintains the high reputation which she has already most deservedly gained. She has taken several steps higher on the I rungs' of the literary ladder, and given incontestable proofs that she will speedily reach the top."—Messenger. Mrs. Spender can draw the incidents and characters of every-day life with a skilfulness which manifests the surpassing power of that art which makes realities more true than the thing itself, beheld through a common medium. This is, indeed, genius, and no dust will ever settle on such work in circulating libraries."—Court Journal. Out of the common."—St. James's Gazette. '• A pretty story.Timm. We doubt whether many lady writers of the present Jay exceed Mrs. Spender in her power of drawing like- nesses from nature; she has a wonderful facility of bringing before the mind individual character in extreme moments."—St. Jameses Magazine. "The style is all that could be wished. Powerfully impressive, both in the incidents and reflections upon human nature."—Etna. "Sue strikes many deep and passionate chords of numan sympathy—abounds with touches of a penetrat- ing and humane philosophy.Hour. "Style animated thoughts, mauy of them striking and original Weekly Register. Mrs. Spender can write with delicacy and force. Pall Mall Gazette. )(rs. Spender enjoys a solid popularity. There are always plenty of customers for a sound and hand- some artic;le.Academy. Novat readers owe Sirs. Spender a debt of gratitude." -Athen4nm. Mrs. Spender has what is called. in the slang of the art critics,' vision.' She not only sees what she de- scribes, but can make the reader see."—Saturday Review. Marked by many high qualities of thought and feel- ing."—Daily News. Obviously an enthusiastic and conscientious artist." —Spectator. The opening chapters of The Hicollections of a Country Doctor" will appear in the Weekly Mail" of Saturday July 10. 1884. --y
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llail 'r" SATURDAY, JULY 12, 184. NOTES OF THE WEEK. (BY OCR LONDON AND PROVINCIAL CORRESPONDENTS.) The Executive Committee of the Frere Memorial Fund are not acting very judiciously in resolving, after a large amount of money has been collected for a public memorial, to ask for increased subscriptions to be devoted to the benefit of the family. Lady Frere, as I mentioned a fortnight ago, refused any such offer in the first instance; and it is a matter for regret that too zealous friends should have induced her to change her decision The committee propose to set aside £ 3,000 for a public monument, and this is considerably more than half the amount already subscribed. It is not likely that the fund will be increased very materially by the appeal now made; and the failure of such an appeal will have a very bad effect. Very many of your readers will be sorry to hear that unexpected but unavoidable delay has occurred in producing the continuing series of Mr. Francis George Heath's Fern Portfolio." This has arisen in consequence of the elaborated nature of the work, and of the unusual size of the stones employed in the colour-printing, for no similar work has ever before been attempted either in England or abroad. Part 6, therefore, which should have appeared in July, cannot be ready until August. Meanwhile, the publishers, Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., are issuing, bound, the first section of the "Fern Port- folio," including the five numbers already published. Mr. Heath's books are so delight- ful that the public is always impatient to get at them. There is something very pathetic in the incident of the Corporation of London having entrusted Messrs. Cassell and Co. with the preparation of a volume entitled London's Roll of Fame," containing extracts from offioial documents connected with the presen- tation of the honorary freedom of the City or congratulatory addresses to distinguished personages for the past century and a quarter. According to the signs of the times, the pre- sent is a painfully appropriate moment for the issue of such a work, as in all probability that ancient Corporation is in the last throes of official death. The determination of Sir William Harcourt to carry through the London Government Bill is unmistakable and I greatly fear that the opposition is too weak numerically to avert the threatened doom. That being so, the Corporation has pretty well wound up its" Roll of Fame." The work in question will contain portraits and other appropriate illustrations, and will be ready early next month. As I told you some days ago, Mr. Rathbone's H conference" is abandoned; on all hands Welsh educationists have declared that they will have none of it, that it is premature, and that at any time it would be arrogating to itself duties and functions which properly be- louged to others. I hear that as one result of the suggestion Mr. Mundella has been inun- dated with resolutions protesting against Mr. Rathbone's proposition. As is well known, Mr. Mundella imagines himself the natural rebuker of the Welsh people, and at this fresh instance of the division existing in Wales he holds forth in virtuous indignation. Before saying severe things about the impracticability of doing good work in Wales, it would be well if he were to remember that in many instances these misunderstandings arise be- cause opinionated aliens will push their busy- body fingers into Welsh matters of which they are intensely ignorant. To the Litany in Wales there ought to be a clause added praying for salvation from English politicians and Scotch editors. It is well known that Mr. Gee is mainly accountable for the hurly-burly that has been raised about Mr. Rathbone's conference. It is not, however, equally well known that, as a matter of fact, Mr. Gee himself seconded Mr. Rathbone's proposal when it was first made, and that by so doing he disarmed much of the opposition that otherwise might have been offered. It was only when another member of the Council raised his voice against it that Mr. Gee turned to the right about. Now that there is a good service of boats between Cardiff and Weston-super-Mare the inhabitants of the South Wales valleys are not averse to taking a little sea trip." On Saturday there was on the sands of Weston a large sprinkling of Oymraeg, and the pleasant weather, not to mention bathing and donkey riding, was much appreciated by visitors from all parts. Speaking of Weston it ought to be more generally known that the sea promenade and wall have been greatly extended on each side, and a well-formed drive has been added. The total length of these works, which are practically completed, is now two miles. This distance caa be I traversed by the pedestrian without interrup- tion. The danger of the awful Asiatic cholera again visiting Wales is calculated to terrify all classes, especially those dwelling in crowded localities. The prospect makes one tremble as to what would soon be the condi- tion of the greater Rhondda Valley were the foe to gain a footing there, however slight; for there are conditions of things existing in some districts of that teeming valley eminently calculated to foster the germs of that fell enemy. It is pointed out that at Ffrwd Amos is a deep bed gutter- like of a brook, which is one seething mass of putrescent matter from three slaughter-houses and innumerable petty offices, through which accumulated filth a small quan- tity only of water percolates. This brook is, in short, little better than an open sewer, upon which the sun plays without restraint. Along its side runs the highway, and in close proximity are rows of cottages thickly in- habited. People passing along this road are frequently conscious of puffs of noxious smells rising on the breeze from the horrid brook. It is needless to say that the condition of those dwelling in the cottages on its bank is highly dangerous. Another element of danger in the valley is scarcity of water. There are two sources of water supply for the two Rbonddas and Pontypridd. One is at Castell y Nos, in the Rhondda Vach, and the other at the extreme top of the Rhondda Vawr. Now, it seems that at the time water is in greatest demand, namely, summer, those two sources of supply prove wholly inade- quate. A fortnight or three weeks of rainless weather is quite sufficient to stop the tap" of the waterworks companies. And then the inhabitants are to be seen going with their jugs in quest of the old wells of their forefathers. May a time and oft dur- ing summer months those primitive sources of supply have been the only ones the inhabi- tants have had to quenoh their thirst at. Before now, during a drought, and when the new-fangled waterworks schemes have proved to be little better than snares for unwary rate- payers, local bards have been heard chanting the praises of the old wells of Cwm-y-Gloran! Another deadly peril to the health of the inhabitants of the Rhondda arises from the way colliery proprietors and others deal with the carcases of their dead horses. There are thousands of animals in the gKhondda col- lieries stabled underground. Owing to the nature of their work the mortality among them is very great. When they die or are killed the carcases are sold to the knackers, into whose carts they are heaped without any sort of ceremony. Horrible as the fact is to relate, it is a common sight in the Rhondda to witness putrescent matter streaming along the road in the wake of these carts with their sickening loads. How is this tolerated by the local Board of Health P I cannot believe it is, as some allege, because so many interested in collieries are on that board.
QUIt PARIS LETTER.
QUIt PARIS LETTER. PARIS, JULY 9. The opinion in France, and everywhere as well, is that China must be reduced to the impossibility of treachery and disloyalty in her political engage- ments. By-and-bye, when she becomes infiltrated with ideas of Western civilisation, she can tear up an inconvenient treaty, provided she be powerful enough to do so, for strong battalions have much connection with the good faith and public morality of States. As in 1842 with the English, and in 1860 with the allies, China indulged in the repu- Jiation doctrine, and paid dear for her whistles, so she must cave in to France, come down with a handsome indemnity, and submit to Monsieur icting as receiver at some thriving treaty port till the utmost farthing be paid. A supplemental precaution will likely be taken to occupy abortion of China proper, as a pledge for her future good conduct. Such territory could serve as a coaling station," which nowadays is the lever durideauoi a protectorate, as currently interpreted. The French do not like all this, but it will be gone through, as the thing has to be done. It is a iad break in the run of good luck the French have had up to the present. China is now viewed as their Mahdi, their Old Man of the Mountain, plus the entanglements the chastising of John China- man may bring about with German, English, and American traders ere he bleeds for a quarter of a milliard. The cholera is spreading; the wonder would be if it did not. Two facts have been established It is Asiatic cholera of the worst type, imported by the troopship Sarthe, from Tonquin; and those "eminent doctors" who swore by the cock of /Esculapius it was sporadic cholera admit they did so in the Pickwickian sense, not to create alarm. It is at Marseilles the plague is now most severe, but it is certain to creep all over the land, and also over the frontiers. No efforts are being spared to cleanse and flush all foul places, to lessen the hot-beds where the disease germs could take root and flourish. The disuse of all well-water is everywhere urged, and in this olty, where the bakers make their bread solely with it, a decree is daily expected to order them to cease doing so. Scientists all agree, it seems, that it is by the stomach the cholera microbes first act, and polluted water is the primary vehicle for conveying them I into our system. It was difficult for the Government to act other- wise than to not prohibit the celebration of the fete on the 14th; to postpone it would only spread alarm. However, the festival will this year be instinctively a small affair. There is no soul, no animation in the little preparations already made. People are more occupied with sanitary pre- cautions and organising "forlorn-hope nurses" and volunteers for the cholera war. Another credit of 38,000,000f. has been demanded for Tonquin, and more will follow. The Budget Commission are at their wits' end where to take millions from current revenue. It will be a God- send if the 250,000,000f. can be collected at Foo- choo; perhaps if the French dethrone the present dynasty, and make Li Hung Tchang emperor, the taels will be forthcomiag. The special correspon- dent of Le lemps, a Ministerial organ, and on whose staff M. Jules Ferry figured before starting in statesmanship, writes that at Tonquin the French themselves do not regard as serious or definite their occupation of the country. It is impossible to govern Tonquin without the Man- darins, and the writer admits these and the Court are more hostile than ever to the invaders. He is also of opinion that France ought not to annex but only protect" the realm-to simple folks this appears to be a distinction without a diffe- rence. In the meantime any speculative young fellows who like to quit the Boulevards, their dominoes, and their caf6 for the native society of Hanoi and Haiphong, with its vapour-bath climate, will be transported there free by the Govern- ment, less 80 francs for their grub. On the Egyptian question the French are not now a happy family. If the English Government can arrange not to cut down the interest on the bonds, the occupation of Egypt by the English might be swallowed, the more so since it is felt such will in any case be the result. The expected outbreak of hostilities between France and China acts like lead in the wing on France at the Conference, and since England's Egyptian difficulties were seized as the occasion to squeeze concessions out of her, of course the entente cordiale implies now the return of a similar compliment, for there is always some- thing pleasurable in the misfortunes of our best friends. As for the Belgianising of Egypt and the handing over the control of the Suez Canal to the rivals and the to-morrow enemies of England, such Utopias have been sent nem. COli. to join Napoleon III.'s scheme of planting the Latin race in Mexico, and Hugo's federated European Republic, with Paris for sun-capital, and London, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Rome as revolving satellites. The revision of the Constitution Bill has reached the Senate, where it is certain to receive a painless and immediate death. If the deputies and sena- tors were to meet in congress to revise, a hand- some reward might be offered in the course of nine days to discover the present regime. The legislators will not be tied in advance and, once met, only military force could dispel them. Then we have no Abbe Sieyes, who could draw up a brand new Constitution at a moment's notice. Trade has received a terrible knock-down blow by the cholera, and the war with China is not cal- culated to give any backbone to business. If China should issue letters of marque the conse- quences would be terrible. France is plunging more and more into protection; there are demands for draw-backs on her own colonial sugars and for bounties on the native beet sugar exported; and before long the customs tariff of the mother country will be applied to Algeria and the O. Pro- tectorates." Dr. Luys, of the Salpdtriere Hospital, has con- cluded his series of anatomical experiments on the brain. The latter, he shows, rises and falls within the skull, following the position of the body. If vertical, the brain collapses, leaving a space of two»and-a-hall to three inchea»,AlL>Ajw»th,AJiiarii4 substance if we lie on our back, or on our sides, there is a corresponding collapse in the brain-pulp. The latter then can roll in its box. It is the pro- longation of the vertical position which, producing fatigue, necessitates repose or sleep. He attributes sea-sickness to the same cause; the oscillations induce a constriction and pain round the temples, followed by sensations of heat and* cold, which soon act on the stomach. Retching is only a re- laxing for the nerves, and is a characteristic of headaches. When the brain is inflamed the pain attending the oscillations of its pulp can be readily imagined. Coughing forces the tissue of the brain into the liquid space, and' often brings about bleeding. From the foregoing may be explained the fatigue from travelling in vehicles and trains; and what a blessing a sleeping-car must be if the jolting be not excessive. Dr. Luys considers that for paralytic patients exercise over rough roads in a vehicle ought to be avoided. The nervous irrita- tion and exhaustion are augmented. Robinson Crusoe's unknown visitor could at present make a startling impression of his foot in the street bitumen. The sun has so softened it that the pupils of-Kindergarten3 will soon be able to convert it into mud pies. Dr. Pasteur's experiments have told on all curs no mad dogs are wandering about the streets, though the sun be over 90 in the shade. In his laboratory all the dogs he vaccinated, after being bitten by a mad dog, have recovered, while those similarly bitten, but unvaccinated, went mad. It was by a decree of Marc Antony's that changed the month Quintilis, of Romulus, into that of July, in honour of Julius Csesar. The month was placed in the zodiacal sign of the Lion, doubtless in honour of its strong temperature. The Romans observed many customs during the month; bails commenced and finished on the 1st, and on the 28th wine and honey were offered to Ceres. But there was another custom that we modems might be justified in trying; they sacrificed red dogs in order to turn aside the intense heat. Recommended to M. Pasteur's attention. That gentleman can cure hens of cholera, but not the owners of barn-door fowls. Hang up philo- sophy if it can't cure the toothache or make a Juliet. 1 The Statue of Liberte enlightening the world has been handed over to America. I was unable to attend the inauguration of this lady in her entirety; but I assisted at a grog prepared from water from the Hudson, Thames, Seine, Nile, and Amazon, with a little Bourbon," to add to this agreeable meeting of the waters," drank inside the dear lady's head during the 1878 Exhibition later I was at a dejeHner held inside her leg; I witnessed the casting of her arms. These fragmen- tary inaugurations, if added together, ought to equal that of the full figure. Dr. Petit Gaud brings his contribution to the literature of consciousness after decapitation. It is among the most important yet given. The doctor was present at the execution of an Anna- mite pirate at Saigon in 1875. The culprit's head was sliced off at one blow by the peculiar saw-like movement of the weapon in the hands of the native executioner, by which he can instinctively find a jointure in the vertebrse. The doctor stood two yards in front of the condemned. When the head fell there was very little bleeding, as the ver- tebrse had not been hacked, and the head dropping on loose sand stopped the flow of blood. He was surprised to find the eyes of the culprit as steadily gazing at him as before the fatal blow of the sword; he walked partly round the head, and the eyes as steadily followed him; then lie came back, the eyes still turning after him, but more slowly; suddenly they ceased regarding him, and the features took an expression of agony, as if suffer- ing from asphyxia; the mouth opened violently, as if to take a last mouthful, or gasp, of air, and the head, having changed position, rolled again, and all was still. This scene was an affair of fifteen to twenty seconds. Dr. Petit Gaud concludes that the head, after decapitation, does possess all its faculties while the bleeding does not exceed a certain limit, and if the proportion of oxygen in the blood be suffi- cient to nourish the nervous functions-but this consciousness cannot exceed half a minute. The expression of pain set in when the supply of oxygen in the blood was exhausted. He objects that the guillotine, by receiving the separated head in a basket of sawdust or bran, stops the bleeding for half a minute while the head is conscious, thus making the punishment a barbarity. The trunk after decapitation tends to resume its vertical posi- tion, the arterial blood spurts upwards in a column 40 inches high, then ebbs to a few inches; all this within a period of time represented by twelve palpitations of the heart. There are no efforts at respiration, and the heart is the last to die. The death of Victor Masse, the musical composer, at 62 years of age, was really a happy release, after being six years nailed to bed with the tortures of a nervous disease. It may be said he composed his Paul et Virginie on that bed of suffering he certainly did his La Nuit de Cleopatre," now being rehearsed at the Opera Comique. Mass6 was rich, and led a very retired life devoted to horticulture It is a bad wind that blows nobody good ":— Two gendarmes were conveying two prisoners to gaol; they stopped at a tavern for refreshments. The police took cramps after their drink; con- cluded it was cholera. They ran to a chemist's shop, and the prisoners bolted.
ELOPEMENT NEAR CARDIFF.
ELOPEMENT NEAR CARDIFF. THE LADY AND HER LODGER. The Cardiff police authorities have just been placed in possession of particulars respecting a rather matter-of-fact elopement which took place the other evening from the usually serene village of Rumney. The victim is a labourer of about 60 years of age, named John Powell, whose looks sup- ply sufficient confirmation of the statement he made to Detective Smith that he has alus ee-urned his wage by the sweat of his brow." Mr. Powell had the misfortune, some six years ago, to marry a i uxom rustic beauty of about half his age, and two years or so ago he committed what he will now doubtless consider a rash act, in placing-for a slight consideration per week-the shelter of his cottage at the service of a young gentleman who had found his way to the district in the discharge of his professional duties as a stonemason's cad." This gentleman has reached the interesting age of one-and-twenty, and even by the victimised labourer is not denied the advantage of a goodly exterior. It is fair also to assume, from a trans- action to which he was the other day a prominent party, that he is further possessed of a tongue such as that of the arch-fiend whom Milton credited with being able to make the worse appear the better reason. Mr. Powell appears to have been entirely innocent of any sympathy existing between the lodger and his wife, and does not seem to have realised the fact that there was any until on returning home the other evening he found himself alone amidst the ruins of a dis- ordered house. Unlike the philosopher who found happiness in contemplating the ruins of ancient Rome, this deserted villager found nothing but misery. His spouse had yielded with coy submission, modest pride, and sweet reluctant amorous delay (or she ought to have done to justify the use of the poet's elegant couplet), and, in com- moner parlance, bolted with the youth of one-and- twenty. A fact which seemed to trouble the victi- mised husband as much as anything else was that Mrs. Powell and her new love had taken with them on their travels no inconsiderable portion of the household furniture. The police have been placed in possession of a photograph of the missing wife, and full particulars of the elopement, and Mr. Powell lives in hopes of seeing, if not the object of his misplaced affections, at least some portion of the other goods he proudly calls his own.
MADAME PATTI AT COVENT GARDEN.
MADAME PATTI AT COVENT GARDEN. A London correspondent of a contemporary says that Madame Patti's second appearance at Covent- garden has evoked quite as much enthusiasm as her first. Those who listened to her on Tuesday night came away from Covent-garden with all the rapture in which they would have indulged twenty years ago. It is unpleasant to think bow long it is since the opera-goer was first fascinated with her marvellous powers; but when one has the courage to indulge in the thought one is bound to confess that there is no perceptible difference. The incom- parable voice is, perhaps, a shade less powerful; but, then, the other features of the diva's art have been so cultivated as to more than make up for this. In the face of the increased number of theatres, opera does not take the position it once did; but I verily believe that if Madame Patti's name were in the bill every night at Covent- garden the house would be full. We can only wish that we saw more of her; but, beyond doubt, she is the acknowledged queen still. The circum- stances attendant on her domestic sorrows have rather increased than diminished her popularity- certainly as it is displayed by the gallery, if not, indeed, also by the stalls.
ANOTHER DISCOVERY OF EXPLOSIVES.
ANOTHER DISCOVERY OF EXPLOSIVES. The Hanley correspondent of the Chronicle, tele- graphing on Tuesday night, ssys:-Nothing further has transpired in connection with the seizure of dynamite at Norton-green, but the Hanley police have made another discovery of explosives, the facts of which have been communicated to the Home Office. Information having reached Inspec- tors Walls and Vickers that some explosives were concealed at Bucknall, a village near here, these officers made a search last evening, which resulted in the seizure of a quantitv of gelatine, an explosive used in the manufacture'of nitro-glycerine. The man on whose premises it was found has absconded, and a warrant has been issued for his apprehension. It is believed that he has not any connection with the man Gratton who is in custody on the charge of having dynamite in his possession, but it is a singular fact that the gelatine was found at a spot not more than two miles from the place where the A ita diaoovwed on Saturday night.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ! ♦ j
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ♦ MONDAY. Interest swung once more from the House of Commons to the House of Lords. At its assembling this afternoon the Lower House was very thinly attended. Indeed, so small was the attendance at prayers that Mr. Biggar, who was present, took counsel with one of the doorkeepers in view of a count. The janitor, encouraging the enterprise of the member for Cavan, took a survey of the situation, and reported accordingly. But at this moment Mr. Biggar's attention had been drawn to an Irish outrage, committed by a bear belonging to Lord Dufferin upon a keeper, whom it had attempted to devour. In another five minutes there was an accession of hon. members, and the sitting was saved. Business proceeded quietly for some time, its monotony being broken only by the arrival of Lord Randolph Churchill. It was with an air of conscious triumph that Mr. Ashley announced that the Australian Colonies had undertaken to defray the cost of placing the shores of New Guinea under a British Com- missionership, and that Commissioners would be appointed at once. It was reserved to Mr. Gray and the Parnellites to catechise the Government as to the adoption of mea- sures to prevent the importation of cholera into this country. A mighty sensa- tion was created amongst the National- ists by Mr. Trevelyan's carefully-pointed assurance that there was nothing to prevent Mr. Clifford Lloyd from resuming his useful career in Ireland as a resident magistrate. The agony of mind and disgust suffered and exhi- bited by Mr. Healy and Mr. Sexton in parti- cular at this announcement it would be diffi- cult to describe. Mr. D. M'lver got Mr. Chamberlain's blood up by his multiplication of questions respecting the abandonment of the Shipping Bill and the mildness of his re- marks on the right hon. gentleman's attacks upon the shipowners. It was very amusing this part of the stance. The angrier grew Mr. Chamberlain the broader became Mr. M'lver's smiles. A good deal of general curiosity awaited Mr. Gladstone's reply to Mr. Labouchere re- specting the appointment of life peers to avert the rejection of the Reform Bill by the present Opposition. The right hon. gentle- man, who re-entered the House at five o'clock looking very pale, replied to Mr. Labouchere's question with the remark that nothing had occurred to call for the appointment of a large number of Liberal peers. He, however, added, amid loud Ministerial cheers and some laughter, that should the necessity arise the Government would take the crisis into their consideration. The House shortly after this went into Committee of Supply, and a great rush of members into the Upper Chamber followed. Here Earl Kimberley, in the presence of a very full and attentive House, moved the second reading of the Reform Bill, and criti- cised Lord Cairns' amendment. The noble earl reminded their lordships that on no previous occasion had a Redistribution of Seats Bill accompanied a Franchise Bill. He pointed out the difficulties that stood in the way of such a duality, and, criticising the amendment, he declared that this practically involved the rejection of the measure, which, he argued, would be an impolitic proceeding, and could not possibly improve the position of the Opposition in the country. He reminded their lordships that in the other House the Government had already given a pledge to introduce a Redistribution Bill immediately. Lord Kimberley spoke with more than his usual animation, and was frequently cheered by the supporters of the Government. During his speech the House became increasingly crowded, whilst upstairs in the Peeresses' Balconies there was not a vacant seat. Round the Throne were assembled Sir Stafford Northcote and many conspicuous members of the Opposition in the Lower House, and at the bar stood a large number of private members of both parties. The scene altogether became extremely brilliant, and re- minded those who witnessed it of some of the great debates on foreign policy which signalised the effulgence of Lord Beacons- field's career. Earl Cairns now moved his amendment rejecting the second reading unless the Bill were accompanied by a redistribution scheme, crediting the Government with sincerity when promising to introduce a Bill of the kind next session. The noble lord, however, pointed out that it might not be in the power of Ministers to redeem their promise. He scornfully rejected all the charges that had been made against the want of patriotism on the part of their lordships' House, contending, amid loud Opposition cheers and great animation amongst the band of gentlemen in the space round the Throne, together with something that closely resembled applause from the peeresses upstairs, that their lordships desired to be judged by the country. It was a calumny to say that they were arrayed against the wishes of the people. The Prime Minister had menaced them in unconstitu- tional language, but the noble lord, with great force of declamation, expressed his belief that the House would vote indepen- dently and quite without regard to intimida- tion or cajolery, come whence it might. The Duke of Argyll strongly supported the second reading, which, however was opposed by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon on the ground that the measure was of an incom- plete character. The debate after this was continued during the dinner hour by the Earl of Jersey and the Earl of Fife, who supported the second reading, and by Lord Balfour, who opposed it. But after' the speeches of Lord Cairns and the Duke of Richmond the House thinned considerably, the departing peers taking their peeresses with them. The debate after the dinner hour was continued by Earl Cowper, who supported the Bill, by Lord Waterford, who thought the Bill would enfranchise rebellion in Ireland; by Lord Fitzgerald, who regarded the Bill as an act of justice; by the Duke of Marlborough, who defended the Bill because Lord Salisbury con- demned it; and by Lord Cadogan, who opposed the Bill because it was incomplete. The debate was ultimately adjourned. About seventy peers returned after dinner, but, with six or seven exceptions, the peeresses remained away. TUESDAY. Members of the House of Commons as- sembled in considerable force this afternoon, and were promptly beguiled into an energetic discussion, with speeches from Mr. Charles Wilson, Mr. Norwood, Colonel Gerard Smith, Mr. James Lowther, and other members, upon a private Bill relating to the River Ouse and the interests of Hull. The House was hot, and the talk about the river craft on the Ouse set the imagination careering upon rippling waters and under the keen blue skies of the North. The desire to be afloat was intensified by the massive white waist- coat of Mr. Norwood and the sunny raiment of Col. Gerard Smith. But these were only the pomps and vanities of the world, and eventually we left the Ouse behind and got to the commonplace duties of the Empire. Mr. Bourke gave notice of his intention to invite the Prime Minister to appoint a Com- mittee of inquiry into administrative mal- practices in jgypt. A large number of questions upon the paper concerned the supercession of Mr. Clifford Lloyd, and the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to whom the catechism was addressed, found consider- able difficulty in returning satisfactory replies, or replies that would satisfy his interrogators. Flushed with Mr. O'Brien's victory in Dublin yesterday, the Parnellites came down re- solved to wash their spears in the blood of the ill-starred plaintiff. The Postmaster- General was harried into admitting that the charge of the Post-offioe in Dublin had been placed in the hands of a senior officer, but he declined to satisfy Mr. Healy upon a number of points relative to Mr. Cornwall's pension. A laugh was raised by Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, who wished to know if it was the intention of the present incumbents of Downing-street to leave the rescue of General Gordon to a Conservative Ministry in the autumn." But the question met with no response. At half-past five o'clock a dull question time came to a close, and the Lord Mayor re- sumed the debate on the London Government Bill. The House at once retreated to the Upper Chamber, leaving a few hon. gentle- men stranded upon the rocks of ennui. Amongst these was Sir Robert Peel, with his left arm in a sling. The Distinguished Strangers' Gallery was crowded with a num- ber of distressingly seedy-looking Irish priests, who had been wormed into this exalted place by the brothers Redmond. Mr. Gladstone was early in his seat, but, for the first time in his responsible existence, questions passed without the right hon. gentleman opening his lips in speech. The proceedings in the Com mons for some hours were extremely dull, and two unsuccessful attempts at a count were made. Mr. Gladstone at midnight delivered an animated speech, and then an effort was made to adjourn the debate, which was ultimately successful. There was again a large and brilliant gathering of peers and peeresses and Privy Councillors in the Upper House in view of the resumption and conclusion of the reform do- i bate. The adjourned discussion was resumed by the Earl of (Carnarvon, The noble earl opposed the Bill because it was not accompanied by a Redistribution Bill. He also complained that no provision was made for the representation of minorities. He would not, he said, vote to reject, or shelve, or delay the Bill, but for a full, fair, compre- hensive measure, needed for the prosperity and security of the Empire. The speech of the noble earl made a considerable sensation in the House, and Lord Derby promptly rose to answer it. The noble earl spoke with more than his usual animation. He drew distinctions be- tween the real objects of the Opposition and their professed aims. He declared that the country had been waiting for this Bill, and would not be satisfied to have it delayed. There was nothing in the case of the Oppo- sition. The Government had promised to deal with redistribution, and it was factious opposition on the part of the Conservative peers to divide the House against the second reading in the face of those pledges. Before the close of the noble earl's speech the House had evidently begun to turn its attention to the dinner-hour, and, on his con- clusion there was a general stampede of patrician feet from the House. The debate was continued by Lord Brabourne, who placed himself on the side of the Opposition peers in their demand for a Franchise Bill coupled to a measure of redistribution. The Earl of Rosebery denounced the defection of the noble lord who had just spoken, and, with a view of minimising his influence, said he did not think that the Bill would be retarded because of Lord Brabourne's opposi- tion, The amendment was supported by the Duke of Rutland, who pointed out that if her Majesty's Ministers were really sincere in their desire to pass the measure they would have brought in a Redistribution Bill. Lord Dalhousie asked their lordships to reflect before rejecting a measure which would raise an angry feeling in the country against their lordships' House. The debate was continued by the Earls of Ravensworth, Camperdown, and Wemyss. In this way the Peers and Peeresses were, so to speak, played in again. When the Lord Chancellor rose to reply upon the amendment there was once more a brilliant assemblage, who waited with ill-feigned patience for Lord Salisbury and the division. Lord Gran- ville wound up the the debate, and the House divided at half-past one, the Bill being re- jected by 205 against 146. The result was received with loud Opposition cheers. WEDNESDAY. It was one o'clock to-day before a quorum could be collected to enable the House of Commons to commence business. For some hours, and, indeed, during the greater part of the sitting, the House was engaged upon a proposal to carry a new Standing Order, by which the Committees upstairs should have power to revise the railway rates under any Railway Bill which might come before them. Mr. Chamberlain opposed the new Standing Order, partly because he objected to piece- meal legislation and partly because he had a Bill on the table for effecting a general reform of our railways. On a division the proposal was carried by 94 to 84, and the figures were received with Opposition cheers, as signifying a Government defeat. Notices of motion were not reached until nearly five o'clock. Mr. Lowther then called the attention of the Speaker to the atmos- pheric conditions under which the House laboured last night. The Speaker,'in explana- tion, stated that an offensive odour had been traced to a defective sewer, and the attention of the authorities had been called to what was a very serious and a very dangerous im- pediment to legislation. Mr. Harrington moved the second reading of a Bill to plant Ireland with trees. A count was moved shortly after five o'clock. The members who were near the door walked out, but others walked in; and so the sitting was saved and the discussion continued. The Bill, having been supported by Mr. Trevelyan, was read a second time. Dr. Lyons then moved the second reading of the Waste Land Affores- tation Bill, and he had the pleasure of talking out his own measure, which he did unavoidably, yet amid loud Parnellite laughter and cheering. The House adjourned at six o'clock.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AND…
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AND THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. The "Central News" Sheffield correspondent telegraphsThe breach in the Conservative camp with respect to the arrangements for the approach- ing conference at Sheffield appears to be widening. It is understood that Lord R. Churchill has refused to take part in any public meeting that might be arranged, and there is some doubt whether he will even attend the conference. His lordship's speech was anticipated as the feature of the conference.
MR. BROADHURST'S LEASEHOLD…
MR. BROADHURST'S LEASEHOLD BILL. A crowded meeting was held in the Temperance- hall, Sheffield, on Wednesday evening in support of Mr. Broadhurst's Leasehold Bill. A great amount of property in the town is held on the short-lease system, and the rents of some about to expire have been enormously increased. A very strong feeling has thereby been creatbd, and Mr. Broadhurst was invited to attend the meeting. Mr. Mappin, M.P., presided. A resolution con- demning the terminable leasehold system, and urging a speedy reformation of the law, was adopted. A branch of the Leaseholders' Enfran- chisement Association was established.
THE DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER…
THE DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER BILL. In the House of Lords on Tuesday night peti- tions against the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill were presented by Lord Windsor from the parishes of Richards Castle, Mansell Lacy, and Yazor; also from the county of Somerset, Steeple with Tyne- ham, Llandebi, county of Glamorgan, St. Pagan's, Oxbridge, Brancepeth, Daventry, Radnorshire, and from London and other places; by Earl Nelson from the Synod of the Diocese of Salisbury, Rural Deanery of Enfield, Chalk, Salisbury, Warminster, Sturminster, and Newton by Lord Jersey, from the churchwardens and other inhabitants of Nettlebed; by the Karl of Roden, from the parish of Rayne; by Earl Beauchamp, from the inhabi- tants of Batcombe, from women of the parish of Weston-under-Lyziard, from the congregation of St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, the inhabitants of Burnham, the parishioners of Shipton-under- Wychwood, Furbrook, Wilton, Brentford, and Blockley; by Viscount Midleton, from West Horsley and Albury; and by the Earl of Aberdeen, from the inhabitants of Acton, London (4), and Free West Congregation, Perth.
THE HIGH SHERIFF ELECT OF…
THE HIGH SHERIFF ELECT OF BRECONSHIRE. We are requested to state that the High Sheriff's luncheon and ordinary will take place on Tuesday, the 22nd of July, and not on Monday, as at first arranged.
THE DUBLIN SCANDAL.
THE DUBLIN SCANDAL. The Irish National League passed a resolution congratulating Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., editor of United Ireland, for his triumphant vindication of the cause of morality and the freedom of the Press in the case of tho weakness and supineness of a Government intent, from the very necessities of its position, in the endeavour to maintain its posi- tion of foreign mastery, regardless of the wishes, welfare, and dignity of the Irish people.
AN IRISH SECRET SOCIETY.
AN IRISH SECRET SOCIETY. Frederick M'Loughlin was at Chester on Tues- day committed to take his trial at quarter sessions for unlawfully wounding Richard Clancky. The prosecutor was standing on Chester Racecourse, when the prisoner came up and flung a stone at him with great violence, which struck him in the eye and knocked him insensible. In falling he broke his leg in two places. It was said that the assault occurred in consequence of a row in an Irish secret society.
SCENE AT A SWANSEA TOBACCO…
SCENE AT A SWANSEA TOBACCO SHOP. At Swansea Police Court on Thursday John Roberts, a clerk under the London and North Western Railway, and living in Argyle-street, charged Georgina Pearson, an assistant at a to- bacconist's shop in Wind-street, with assaulting him. Mr. Woodward appeared for complainant, and Mr. Robinson Smith for the defendant. From the evidence of complainant, it seems he went to the shop at which defendant was and asked her about certain defamatory remarks she had made as to his character. The young lady, how- ever, treated the aggrieved Masher in a most contemptuous way, throwing a match-box with unerring aim at his head, and following it up with other articles, such as an inkstand and a walking-stick. The complainant was so discom- fitted at this unexpected reply to his queries and unsatisfactory way of righting his reputation that he was forced to precipitately leave. He after- wards sent a solicitor's letter, demanding an apologv; but, as this was treated with similar levity by the dispenser of smokes, he now took out a summons against her. In cross-examination, he denied having been asked to take his arm off the counter. Defendant did not strike him over the head nor call him a sneak and a hypocrite. He denied any familiarity with certain young persons- who were named.—Mr. Smith described the com- plainant as a Masher, who was trying to mash" the defendant when he was so suddenly forced to leave off.—The Bench considered there was not sufficient proof of assault, and dismissed the summons.
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TaB Government have determined to withdraw the Railways Regulation Acts Amendment Bill promoted by the BosrA of Trade.
CARDIFF CORPORATION BILL.
CARDIFF CORPORATION BILL. On Wednesday the merits of this Bill were in- quired into by a Select Committee, consisting of the Earl of Donoughmore (chairman), the Earl of Mar and Kellie, Lord Forbes, Lord Ribblesdale, and Lord Trevor. Mr. Littler, Q.C., Mr. Pembroke Stephens, Q.C., Mr. Balfour Brown, and Mr. Sullivan were counsel for the promoters; Mr. Bidder, Q.C., Mr. Michael, Q C., and Mr. Lewis appeared for the Marquess of Bute, the Glamorganshire Canal Company, and Messrs, Crawshay; and Mr. Coltman represented Nixon's Navigation Company. Mr. Littler, in opening the case for the pro- moters, said that the Bill was divided into several heads, but the only matter they would be seriously troubled with was that which related to the water supply of the town and district. The Bill came before the Committee after very careful considera- tion in the other House, where it occupied a Special Committee eight or nine days. Cardiff, he should say, was one of the most growing places in the whole kingdom. At the present moment the water was supplied from the Lisvane Reservoir and a pumping station on the River Ely, which pumped water into the Penhill Reservoir. At Lisvane there was a second reservoir in course of construction, which would give them a considerably extra sup- ply, but that by no means enabled them to keep pace with the large demand of a large and increas- ing population. He proposed by this Bill to go 22 miles from Cardiff for it, and here they at first pro- posed to take a gathering ground of 4,000 acres, upon which they would place two reservoirs-the first to supply entirely compensation water to the manufacturers, &c., along the stream, and the second to be the supply re'ervoir for the town. After these reservoirs had been completed, if they wanted more water, they would construct another reservoir on a gathering ground of 6,400 acres, and the cost of all the works would be S340,000, the storage capacity being 319,000,000 gallons of good and pure water of a soft quality. It was said that when Glasgow went to Loch Katrine for its water supply it was of so soft a quality that it saved the inhabitants £ 35,000 a year in soap. (A laugh.) He hoped by this Bill the inhabitants of Cardiff would find a saving which would assist them to pay for the pro- posed works. (Laughter.) The serious opposition came from several petitioners who owned very im- portant works, and who complained that the Bill would interfere with the flow of water which they now had; and the Marquess of Bute also said that the water through the Glamorganshire Canal, which supplied the Cardiff Docks, would also be interfered with. He was surprised that this opposition should be again brought forward, be- cause in the other House Mr. Michael said that the only question was as to the amount of compensa- tion water to be given under the Bill. Mr. Michael: And I repeat those words now; that is the only question so far as we are concerned. We do not want to put any obstacle in the way of your getting a supply, but we want you to give us the ordinary compensation. We ask for nothing really exceptional. Mr. Littler: We have given you more than the ordinary compensation. Mr. Michael: That is your contention. Mr. Littler said he should show that that was so, and as to the petitioners for whom Mr. Coltman appeared, he should be able to show that no danger could arise from the proposed reservoirs, as alleged, because they were well situated. They had, under the Bill, to be constructed under the inspection of the Board of Trade, and there was a clause giving damages for any injuries or damage which might arise from the bursting of the banks. He contended that they had done all they could to meet their opponents. The following witnesses were then called:- Mr. Robert Bird, mayor of Cardiff, said he was chairman of the Health Committee, and agreed with the opening statement as to the growing importance of the town. It was the chief port of Wales, and was not only conveniently situated, but was regarded as the chief outlet for the coal trade. All trade matters and disputes were generally settled there. The population was now estimated at something like 90,000, and for the last twenty years there had grown at the rate of 4 per cent. They were building some 2,000 houses a year, and their rateable value was now £ 410,000. There was a growing necessity for water in the town. Some £3000,000 had been spent on docks at Cardiff, and other docks were in course of being constructed. There were also large dock works at Penarth, which was within their limit of supply. Of late years they had taken in several districts, and it was a very serious thing to them to be short of water. That was the present conditions, and they had had to suspend for a time the watering of the streets. They had not sufficient water to flush their sewers with. They had acquired the water- works, and had developed them as far as they could up to the present time. They had now two sources of supply, one by pumping from the river, and the other from Lisvane. Neither source, however, was satisfactory, and, consequently, the council dis- cussed the matter, and after consulting engineers proposed this scheme in the interest of the town. The corporation were supported by the unanimous feeling of the town and district in this scheme, and the only opponents were those who were interested in getting as much as possible out of the corpora- tion. Mr. Alfred Thomas, J.P. for Cardiff, said he was mayor in 1882-3, and was now chairman of the Water Committee. Their present supply was de- rived from the Lisvane Reservoir and Ely Pumping Station, and at times they could only get fourteen gallons per head per day, instead of 30, which the medical officer considered to be necessary. The storage capacity at Lisvane was about 80 million gallons, and they were increasing their storage capacity there. The supply was. however, becom- ing altogether insufficient. They had suffered incon- veniences this year, and had given notices to the Penarth and other local bodies that water for street watering must not be taken from the mains. He estimated that in five years' time they would require four million gallons of water a day. He considered that 30 gallons per head per day was a very fair supply; and if this schemo passed they would have an ample supply of good water. Mr. Bidder said ho had no doubt that in a few years Cardiff would require more water; but what he said was that there was plenty of time to bring in a more perfect scheme. Mr. Alderman Jones said he had taken a very active part in municipal affairs, and had twice been mayor. Since the corporation acquired the works they had endeavoured to suit them to the necessities of the town, and they were now obliged to face the question of obtaining a further supply, of water. They had practically a stationary water supply and a rapidly increasing district. The case was then adjourned until Thursday.
TENBY CORPORATION AND THE…
TENBY CORPORATION AND THE CASTLE HILL. THE PUBLIC ASSERTING THEIR RIGHTS. A considerable disturbance occurred at Tenby on Tuesday evening, consequent upon the Pro- menade Band Committee acting upon a resolution passed by the council giving them the right to close the Castle Hill when the band played thereon and making a charge for admission. The com- mittee have just engaged the services of a first- class band and a vocalist, and their opening per- formance on the Castle Hill was on Tuesday night. The engagement of the band and the action of the Band Committee have not been with the object of making money, but for the comfort of visitors. Precautions had been taken in the way of erecting barriers at all the entrances except by St. Catherine's-terrace, and the assistance of the borough police force was asked for, and obtained in the usual way, as on regatta days. About 7.30 p.m. a crowd of men and boys assembled in Castle- square, and, headed by a man named John Thomas, a blacksmith in the employ of the railway com- pany, rushed at the gate and attempted to pass the constables. A fight ensued, during which the superintendent was seized by the throat, his coat torn, and he was otherwise assaulted. Theringleader was captured, but on his way to the police-station asked to be allowed to go quietly. On reaching Tudor-square he broke away, and succeeded in eluding the police for the night. On Wednes- day morning he surrendered himself, and at noon was brought up at the police-court, charged with an assault upon the police, when the magistrates on the bench were:—The Mayor, Dr. Dyster, Mr. N. A. Roch, Mr. D. I. Ackland, Mr. C. Allen, and Captain Owen George. Mr. M. Mathias Thomas appeared for the prisoner, and Mr. A. Scott Lewis, from the office of the town-clerk (Mr. C. W. R. Stokes), prosecuted. The court was crowded. After the case had proceeded, Mr. M. Thomas raised the question of the public right of user to the Castle Hill and the non-jurisdiction of the court in the case. The magistrates retired for a short time to discuss the point, and, on their return into court, the Mayor said they would proceed with the case with the view of sending prisoner for trial. They thought it was a fit subject for proceeding by indictment.—Further evidence was then adduced, and the prisoner was committed for trial to the assizes, bail being accepted for his ap- pearance in jE50 and two sureties in £ 5 each. In the meantime the Band Committee have with- drawn the band from the Castle Hill, and they will play, pending the decision of the judge, in the Royal Lion Lawn Tennis Grounds.
ALARMING GUN ACCIDENT AT jCWMTAF.
ALARMING GUN ACCIDENT AT CWMTAF. NARROW ESCAPE OF A BRECONSHIRE FARMER. On Tuesday evening an unfortunate and very serious gun accident occurred in the Red Lion Inn, Cwmtaf. Whilst two young men named Jenkins, the one Thomas, occupying Abernant farm, Cwmtaf, with his widowed mother and a distant relation named William Jenkins, son of Mr. Meredith Jenkins, assistant overseer for Penderyn, were examining a gun, it went off, and the con- tents blew Thomas Jenkins' upper lip clean away, and dislodged several teeth. The gun had been used, it appeared, that day by one of the servants of the landlord of the inn named in shooting rooks, and upon returning home he incautiously hung the gun in its usual place, close to the ceiling. At the time it was, unfortunately, loaded, a circumstance entirely unknown, so it is reported, to both the injured man and William Jenkins. It was whilst the latter had the weapon in his hands that it suddenly fired, with the shocking conse- quences indicated. It is now stated that the gun was not loaded with shot, but from the extent of the injuries it is conjected that it must have been so. The accident caused much consternation, especially when it was seen that Jenkins had been so severely injured. He was conveyed home without delay and a mounted messenger despatched to Merthyr for surgical assistance. Dr. C. Biddle hastened to Cwmtaf and dressed the wounds of the sufferer, whose con- dition is still such as to cause much anxiety. The sad mishap has caused not a little excitement throughout the district, for various reports are afloat as to the circumstances attending the dis- charge of the rifle. Inquiries on the spot reveal the fact that the affair was a pure accident, and both the injured man and his companion who held the gun declared that they neither knew it was loaded or how it went off. Both men were sober at the time, and there is not the slightest truth in the suggestion of any qjjarrel having taken place.
THE SOUDAN.
THE SOUDAN. l" REUTER'S" TBLEGBAM.] CAIRO, JULY 10.—Captain Bedford and Colonel I Taylor proceeded yesterday from Assouan tp Darawi with a view to placing a detachment at Omrmokba, situated at the junction of the roadq from Assouan, Korosko, and Keneb.
GREAT FIRE AT MADRID.
GREAT FIRE AT MADRID. r" RENTER'S TKLEGRAM. I MADRID, JULY 10 (2.15 A.M.).—A fire broke out at midnight in the Royal Armoury, situated in a wing of the old alcazar which adjoins the Royal Palace. The roof is entirely burnt off, and the fire is still raging. THE MORGANATIC MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF HESSE. l" REUTER'S" TELEGRAM.] DARMSTADT, JULY 10.-The Supreme Tribunal has decreed the annulment of the Grand Duke's morganatic marriage. MR. STANLEY ON THE CONGO. CONFLICT WITH THE FRENCH. [" REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] MADEIRA, JULY 10.-Intelligence from St. Paul de Loando reports a conflict between the French and a party of Mr. Stanley's men, under Mr. Pollock. FRANCE AND CHINA. (" CENTRAL NEWS" TELEGRAM.] PIRIS, JULY 10.—It is stated that Admiral Cour- bet has telegraphed announcing his occupation of a town on the Chinese littoral. THE RUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA, ["STANDARD TELEGRAM.J CALCUTTA, JULY 9 (NIGHT).-If Afghan rumour be correct, certain officers or subjects of the Czar are already well on their way to Herat-for exploring" purposes, of course. It is reported from Cabul that a party of Russians lately crossed the Oxus at Kirkee, and applied to the Mir of Maimena for permission to travel to Herat. They were detained by the Mir twelve days, and then, on receipt of orders from the Ameer, allowed to proceed. CHICAGO CONVENTION. I" CENTRAL NEWS" TELEGRAM.] CHICAGO, JULY 9 (NIGHT).-The Democratic Convention, at the close of its sitting this evenidgi adjourned till noon to-morrow. PRINCE VICTOR. l" CENTRAL NEWS" TELEGRAM. I PARIS, JULY 10 (MORNINO).-M, Levert, the Bonapartist Deputy, gave a grand political ban- quet last night. Prince Victor was among the guests.
THE CHOLERA.
THE CHOLERA. | CENTRAL NEWS" TELEGRAM. PARIS, JULY 10 (AFTERNOON).—The Government has decided that the reviews which were to havi been held in connection with the national festival shall not take place. The responsibility of carry- ing on the preparations will now rest entirely with the Municipal Council. U" REUTER'S" TELEGRAMS.] TOULON, JULY 10.—There were ten deaths from cholera here last night. MARSEILLES, JULY LO.-Twenty-five deaths from cholera were registered here last night. THE IMPORTATION OF RAGS. The Hull Sanitary Authorities on Thursday, in view of the steamer Baron Hambro with a cargo of rags from Marseilles being expected to arrive in the course of a few days, adopted a memorial to be sent to the Local Government Board pro- hibiting the importation of rags from countries T where cholera is prevalent. k AN OFFICIAL CIRCULAR. A circular bearing date the 8th of July has been issued by the Local Government Board to sanitary authorities throughout the country urging them to take such precautions as the condition of their districts may demand to prevent the introduction of cholera from France. In a memorandum which accompanies the circular the board points out that their order of July 12, 1883, gives certain spetial powers to the sanitary authorities of the sea coast, enabling them to deal with any cases of cholera brought into port, so as to prevent, &S far as possible, the spread of the disease into the country, but they state that, as cases of choleraic infection have widely different degrees of severity, it is possible that some such rasest slighly affected, will, noth withstanding the vigi4 lance of local authorities, be landed without par* ticular notice in English seaboard towns, whence they may advance to other, and perhaps inlandt places. The board proceed to say that former experience of cholera in England justifies a belief that the presence of imported cases of the disease at various spots in the country will not be capable of causing much injury to the population if the places receiving the infection have had the advan- tage of proper sanitary administration. It may fairly be believed that in consider- able parta of the country conditions favour- able to the spread of cholera are now lesS abundant than at any former time; and the gratifying fact deserves to be recorded that during recent years enteric fever, the disease which in its methods of extension bears the nearest reseM-1 blance to cholera, has continuously and notably declined in England. But it is certain that in many places such conditions are present as would. if cholera were introduced, assist in the spread of that disease. It is to be hoped that in all cases the local sanitary authorities will at once do every- thing that can be done to put their districts into a wholesome state. Measures of cleanliness taken beforehand are of far more importance for the protection of the district against cholera than re-* moval or disinfection of filth after the disease has actually made its appearance. In other respects the memorandum reproduces the contents of a document that was issued to the local authorities last year. A DRASTIC REMEDY. A Glasgow correspondent in the Times of Thurs- day's date writes:—"I have been thinking it would be a noble and wise thing for France to burn Toulon and Marseilles before the cholera findS another seat, and confide in Christianity for the cost."
THE PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS,
THE PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS, The Morning Post of Thursday's date contains It leader on the swarm of caterpillars which during the past few weeks have infested the Rhondda mountains. After referring to the statement made in the Western Mail that these new arrivals in Wales subsist almost entirely on grass, the writer, on the authority of Count Dandolo, says that the caterpillar, during its 30 days of growth* increases to 40 times its original length and to 9.500 times its original weight. This remarkable feat it accomplishes by eating 50,000 times its own weight in vegetable substances, or, in other words, that it consumes every 24 hours twice its weight.
THE RECTORY OF DOLGELLY.
THE RECTORY OF DOLGELLY. A petition is being largely signed in North Wales asking the Lord Chancellor to appoint the Rev* John Hughes, of Dolgelly, to the rectorship of Dolgelly, made vacant by the appointment of tho Rev. Canon Lewis, M.A., to the deanery of Bangor.
THE BISHOPRIC OF SALISBURY.
THE BISHOPRIC OF SALISBURY. Our Salisbury correspondent telegraphed art Thursday night :—The Bishop of Salisbury half been prevailed upon at last to relinquish his see and it was stated definitely on Wednesday that hf would resign immediately after some ecclesiastic" inquiry at Portland, in his diocese, has concluded*
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE. The marriage of Mr. H. F. Waring, C.E., secone son of Mr. T. Waring, Glanavon, Peterston, to M' Kate Wilcox, eldest daughter of Mr. Wile?* Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, was solemnised at BeX"1 on-Sea on Wednesday. The honeymoon will f spent at the Isle of Wight. In celebratlÏd of the marriage, Mr. Waring, senior, gave a CO collation on Wednesday to the workmen employe at the Adamsdown Brickworks.
THE BLENHEIM PICTURES.
THE BLENHEIM PICTURES. The Standard says the Government have ^pc}^d to purchase the Raffaelle Madonna dei Ansid«> the Vandyck equestrian portrait of Charles *rj. the price placed upon them by the Duke of jj* borough— £ 160,000. They have, hi >wever, n>aa offer for three of the works in the Blenheitn cos. no, tion, the two above named and one of the Rube the This offer, in its turn, has been refused by Duke, and there the matter now rests.
EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY IN ø…
EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY IN ø OPEN BOAT. .fA There is now lying in the Southampton W:tet,. a berth near the Town Quay, a small flying the Norwegian ensign, and Neptune, a little craft only about a ton in j,0ld- 22ft. in length, 5ft. in beam, and 2ft. depth Her crew wholly consists of the captain, ^6 Johnson, and a cat, and the two have toge1 jjtt]a made the perilous voyage from Drontheio5' town in one of the fjords of Norway, °ve.uuy af country, the journey having been success reJtlait" complished in 22 days. The Neptune t at Southampton until the end of the in order that a few repairs may be -Tjoho^ fresh provisions taken on board. Capta* io^ tn» then intend^ to embark for America* cr Atlantic with IRs cat as hia sole comp