Weekly Mail

LOVE AND SUICIDE. On Friday Mr. George Collier held an inquest at the Eagle Tavern, East India-road, Poplar, on the body of Henry Thomas Hall, aged 20, an artificial flower-maker.—Mary Jane Curling, 8, Woodland- street, East Greenwich, said she last saw deceased alive on Saturday morning, when he said to witness I don't care whether I am banged or drowned." Deceased was keeping company with a young woman named Esther Griggs, who wrote the letter produced on the previous Thursday, and in conse- quence of that letter he had seemed very much de- pressed. He had been engaged to the young woman in question for nine months, and her husband told her that deceased had said he shouid make away with himself after he had received the letter. The letter was as follows:— Harry,—I write these few lines to tell you that 1 don't wish to keep company with vou only to treat me as a friend. I have wrote, so you know what to do. and you can have the box, or the money, and the money I owe yon I wiH pay next month. —Prom your affectionate friend, E. GKIGGS. William Atkins said he saw the deceased on Saturday, when he was on Appleby's jetty by the river side, and he saw him jump off the wall into the jetty. Deceased put up his hands once, and witness could see no more of him. Witness ran round, but could see nothing of him. His hat and coat were on the jetty, but witness did not see him take them off. Deceased did not attempt to save himself, and no one was near him at the time. There was a letter in his coat pocket, and it was as follows:— Harry Hall, 8, Woodland-street, Greenwich,—I write these few lines to let you know the reason for it. I have got no work, and BOW I have lost olle who is my aU, so uow I do not Care what becomes of me; so I have done this. TeU Esther I wish her well. and I forgive her as I expect to be forgiven. Good-bye, and God bless you all. Joseph Liddle said on Tuesday he was rowing on the Thames, when he saw the body in the water. Esther Griggs, living at the Allen Arms, Allen- road, Stoke Newington, said the letter produced was in her handwriting, and as deceased had been out of work for two months she thought it best to break off the engagement. It was not through any fault of the young man that he had been out of work, but through slackness in business. De- ceased was of sober habits, and she owed him 3s.— The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity"

EXTRAORDINARY LOVE AFFAIR AT NEATH. THE VENGEANCE OF A DISAPPROVING FATHER. At the Neath Borough Police Court on Monday (before Messrs. D. Davies, mayor, and H. Ley'son) Edward Hobbs Smith, of Orange-street, Swansea, auctioneer and victualler, was charged by Edward Roe, of Bridge-street, Neath, with threatening to shoot him. Mr. T. Williams, solicitor, appeared for the complainant, and the defendant conducted his own case. The threat was contained in the following letter.-— 5, Orange-street, Swansea, August 5, 1883. To Edward Koe,—1 find that you have been clandes- tinely meeting my daughter on Sunday and other evenings. I intend if this is continued to shoot you, as I prefer the consequence rather than my family should be dishonoured and disgraced by a villain like you. (Signed) E. H. SMITH. After the magistrates' clerk had read the charge in the summons, the defendant said: To save a lot of time I will admit the statement in the sum- mons. The Bench, however, determined to hear the case. Mr. Williams, in opening the case, called the attention of the magistrates to the fact that as the threat was made deliberately in a letter it was, of course, a more serious matter than if he had made it in the heat of temper. Mr. Williams further stated that defendant had made himself liable to a more serious offence of felony; but his client simply came to that court to ask their worships to compel the defendant to find sureties to keep the peace and be of good behaviour towards his client. Complainant said: I am a saddler working at Neath. I know the handwriting of Mr. Smith. I received this letter from defendant. (Th^ letter was here put in and read.) Defendant: Before we proceed any further I object to the jurisdiction of the court. Mr. Williams: Mr. Smith's objection is too late. Complainant (continuing) The letter Was handed into my employer's shop at Neath. I have no malice towards Mr. Smith. I have a family of five children. The Magistrates' Clerk: Do you want to ask the witness any questions ? Defendant: I don't want to ask any questions unless 1 am permitted. I admit writing the letter. You can see by the letter what it refers to. Samuel Jones Elias said: I live at 28, Oxford- street, Swansea. I know the defendant, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Roe. I remember seeing Mr. Smith on the 7Lh inst. He wrote a copy of a letter, and handed it to me. I read it. It was to Roe, and something similar to the one just read. I said, Surely you don't mean this?" Defendant said, I do and, by G-, I will do it." Defendant: You have had many conversations with me V— Yes. Were you sent to me ?—No. Albert Edward Roe was then sworn, but not exa- mined as the bench thought the evidence suffi- cient. Defendant: Well, gentlemen, I should like you to look over these letters. I should like the corre- spondence between Mr. Williams and my solicitor read. [The correspondence was put in, from which it seemed that Mr. Williams had written to the defendant to know whether he intended car- rying out the threat, but did not receive a satis- factory reply until after the summons had been issued.] The Defendant: The summons was issued for no reason whatever. I gave all the guarantees asked for by Mr. Williams's letters. I gave everything they asked for. The summons was issued before I could reply. Under these circumstances I do not think I should be bound over. Mr. Williams: The defendant says he did nothing to justify my issuing the summons. I say he did. The defendant says he has no objection to be bound over. The Defendant: I leave it to the court. The Bench decided to bind the defendant over to keep the peace for six months—himself in £20 and one surety in £20, and to pay the costs.

ALLEGED INDfSCKNT ASSAULT NEAR PENARTH. At Penarth Petty Sessions on Monday (before Mr. J. S. Corbett, Dr. Lewis, and Mr. J. Ware) Charles Jeens was charged with indecently assault- ing Mary Jane Jeens, at Cogan, on the 12th inst. Prisoner, who is a second cousin to the husband of the complainant, was defended by Mr. Belcher.— Mary Jane Jeens said that about 11.30 a.m. on the date named she went to a garden which her hus- band, in company with another man, rented, on the slope of the hill, to gather some beans. While she was so doing prisoner, accompanied by two men, came by. They separated at the gate, pri- soner coming into the garden and the men going on. Prisoner said, You've a nice lot of beans," and after a few words asked her to give him a kiss. She said she would not. He then took hold of her, and throwing her down behaved improperly to her. She attempted to scream, but he laid his hand over her mouth. She struggled with him, and prevented him from effecting his purpose, and eventually frightened him away by saying that her husband was coming.—Mr. Belcher: I think there is a foot- path near the garden in question? Complainant: No.—How near, then, does a footpath come? About 200 or 300 yards.—When did you first see him? Not till he came to the garden.— Was anyone with him? Yes, two men.— And they left him ? They looked over the other side. Did they leave before he got in ? Yes.— Are there any other gardens adjoining?—One man has a part of this one that is all.—Did you scream ? I tried to.—-More than once ? I would not like to say.—Did he fall with you ? Yes.—What did you do when he got up ? I stayed still until he was gone. —Was he the worse for drink? I would not swear. —In answer to Dr. Lewis, complainant said that prisoner had only been once at her house. Police- Constable Bowen said that about two o'clock p.m. on the 12th inst. he apprehended prisoner at the Station Hotel. Cogan, and charged him with the assault. He denied"it There were scratches on his left temple and cheek and under lip. Inspector King stated that Mrs. Jeens came to him to complain he told her to go to the police at Cogan. Shortly afterwards prisoner was brought to the station by Police-Constable Bowen. On the day following witness was conveying him to Cardiff, when he (prisoner) met u. relative, and asked to be allowed to speak to him. He heard prisoner ask this man to beg of Mrs. Jeens not to appear against him as he had been in drink.—Mr. Belcher spoke of the good character which the young man had borne, mentioning that he had been discharged from the army on account of ill-health, with a pension of £9 5s. per annum. He pointed out the harm it would do the prisoner if lie were committed, and asked the bench to deal with it as a case of common assault only.—Prisoner was committed for trial at the quarter sessions. Bail for JE20 was accepted in sureties of m0 each.

MUKDEKOUS ASSAULT AT PORTH. At Ystrad Police Court on Monday (before Mr., Ignatius Williams) Thomas Phillips, Porth, was committed for trial to the Quarter Sessions charged with wounding John Davies, collier, and T. Waldron, all of the same place. The evidence showed that the complainant and a man named Waldron lodged at the prisoner's mother's house. On Saturday the three proceeded to Dinas, where they drank together at the Red Lion Inn, Store- house. A dispute arose, resulting in a fight between complainant and prisoner. The com- plainant and Waldron returned home to Porth, and went to bed together. About twelve o'clock in the night complainant received a terrible blow on the top of the head while fast asleep. Waldron also was struck. Both sprang out of bed and seized a man in the dark, and got him to the floor. Hearing the noise of the struggle, the mother of the prisoner came on the scene with a light, when it was found that it was the prisoner whom they had on the floor. He had the poker (produced) still in his hand. Waldron now said the prisoner first commenced the row in the Red Lion by seizing the complainant by the throat and dealing him a blow. Prisoner, on being arrested by Police-Constable Williams, said, 1 did give him a blow, but not a very hard one. I did not think Waldron was in bed with him, as he generally slept with me." On the way to the court that morning prisoner said," I will do for John Davies if I have to walk the country for him."—Dr. F. N. Pearce stated that the cut on Davies's head was about two inches long, and down to the bone. Waldron had a wound behind the ear extending from the skull to the cheek bone. Had the blow been dealt a very slight dis- tance higher it would have proved fatal.—Prisoner was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions.

ASSAULT ON THE CHIEF-CONSTABLE OF CARMARTHENSHIRE. At a special sitting of the Carmarthen Borough Magistrates on Saturday (before Mr. John Hughes and Mr. W. de G. Warren) Martha Thomas (alias Curly), the wife of a fisherman living on Carmarthen Quay, appeared to a summons charging her with assaulting Mr. William Philipps, the chief-constable of the county of Carmarthen, on Saturday, Aug. 9. Mr. Philipps deposed that on the previous Saturday, about 4,30 p.m„ whilst on his way to the railway station, he saw the defendant in a crowd near the prison. She went up to him and said, What did you give me twelve months for ?" She then struck him a violent blow with her fist. He caught hold of her, and carried her up the street, intending to convey her to the police-station, but, finding that he would be too late for the trair. he proposed going by, he put her down, and told her to go home. She, however, followed him, and when near the steps leading down the bank kicked him. Proceeding further she went on to the station, and again assaulted Mr. Philipps. He then caught her up again, carried her off the railway premises, and the porters prevented her returning. She was drunk, and used very foul language. When he was about to take her up at the station she fell down at his feet. Defendant, who behaved in a disorderly manner in court, was convicted at the Carmarthenshire Quarter Sessions at Llandilo in January, 1883, of cheating persons at a fair by using counterfeit coin. After the jury found her guilty the court inquired what her pre- vious character had been, whereupon the Chief- Constable stated he had known her for years, and she was not an honest woman. She was then sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and the attack upon Mr. Philipps was stated to be the sequel of his testimony to her ill-behaviour. The Bench in the present instance imposed a fine of £21 and costs, or a month's imprisonment in default of payment. After a good deal of disorder on the woman's part her husband agreed to pay the money.

PRESENTATION OF COLOURS BY THE QUEEN. At Osborne on Saturday the Queen presented new colours to the 1st Battalion of Seaforth High- landers. The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, Prince George of Wales, and other members of the Royal Family were present, and the colours were conse- crated by the Dean of Windsor. Lieut.-Colonel Melsey presented the colours to her Majesty, who presented them to Lieutenant Monro, who com- manded the party of Seaforth Highlanders at Windsor which bore the Duke of Albany's remains. Her Majesty then addressed the troops as follows:—"It is with feelings of deep emotion I present you to-day with these new colours, as I cannot forget that, had it not been for the great loss which we have all sus- tained, my dear son, or else his wife, the Duchess of Albany, would have performed this duty. From the day when your regiment first assembled on the hill sides of Ross-shire till now, when I see in the ranks before me the men who upheld the honour of their country in Afghanistan and in Egypt, the Seaforth Highlanders have ever justified their motto, Cuidick N'Righ,' and, convinced of your devotion to your Queen and country, I confidently entrust these colours to your charge. I cannot conclude without alluding to the mournful, but honourable, duty you performed a few months ago when you bore my beloved son's earthly remains to their last resting-place—a service which will ever be gratefully remembered by me."—Lieut.- Colonel Stockwell replied, and having expressed the thanks of the officers and men of the Seaforth Highlanders for the honour done them by their Sovereign, asked to be allowed to place the old colours on the tomb of Prince Leopold at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The regiment then re- formed into line, and the colour party resumed its place in the battalion. Having marched past, the regiment advanced in review order, and after a Royal salute gave three cheers for her Majesty, who then left the ground. Forty-two years ago the battalion-then the 72nd Regiment-received new colours in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle from the hands of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington. The ceremony took place on the 26th of January, 1842, the day following the christening of the Prince of Wales, when the King of Prussia, his brother, the present Emperor of Germany, and the Prince Consort were on the ground. Dr. Vornon Harcourt, Archbishop of York, consecrated the colours on that occasion.

THE BROTHERS NEWMAN. Few people, perhaps, know (says the London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury) that there were three Newmans, and that the third, in a sense, was literary. The great Cardinal we know. The Theistic vegetarian we know. But there was also a brother of strange, uncertain, and suspicious temperament, who lived much in retirement, made Tenby his home, and thought himself a philosopher. He left behind some MSS. dealing with abstract speculations, which at one time it was proposed to publish. They have lately fallen into the hands of his greater brothers. The Cardinal has been asked whether he would like to publish any records of his brother. His reply is decidediy in the negative. Those who have seen the 11 letters and remains declare the Cardinal to have made a just decision. The unknown brother shared the restless, inquir- ing, rationalistic temper of the Cardinal and the Theistic philosopher, but none of their genius. Towards both of them, I believe, he held anything but a kindly attitude. He was accustomed to look down upon one as a priest and the other as a doctrinaire. Yet he was occupied greatly upon the subjects which interested the one or the other —the limits of human inquiry and the limits of State interference with individual liberty.

A STORY OF THE RING. HOW THE BLACK COOK LOST AND WON HIS MONEY. The following capital story of the ring is bor- rowed from the Spirit of the Times:—" Whack is the coloured cook in Mr. P. Lorillard's stable, and while a sober, industrious fellow, who is above gambling as a habit, he is not averse to betting on a suah ting.' The other day Whack, having put the final polish on his pots and kettles, came upon the track with his month's wages in his pocket, and a knowing look in his eye, that meant terrible things to the ring. He said little, but insinuated that he had 'sumthin' good,' and that he would I paralyse the bookmakers.' And he did for Whack hit them right and left, and as the shades of night were falling he hied him to his kitchen, where, unobserved, be began counting his spoils. I Si)eclt I'll be wearin' diatnon's yet, soliloquised Whack, as he finished, and sat regarding the huge roll of dollar bills before him. Hardly had he uttered the words when lie was aroused by footsteps, and, looking up, he beheld a big, black fellow, a sort of lounger,or hanger-on of the stable. 'Lord, sakes! Whack, whar did ye catch-on ?' exclaimed the latter,' you must clean done gone an' smash the pool-box.' Taint my money,' replied Whack, at loss what else to say, and he hurried it into his pocket, as he had good reason to distrust the other party. Well he might, for the fellow's cupidity was aroused, and, when the moon on the tower was as white as snow in the witching hour, when graveyards gape and the festive torn cat woos his purring mate, he scaled the walls and climbed into the window of Whack's room. The latter was sleeping peacefully, but had taken the precaution to put his breeches, containing the money, under his pillow. Here was a dilemma. But Whack's visitor was not to be baffled; descending from the window, he returned with a rope. One leg of the pantaloons was ex- posed, and to this he tied the rope and descended to the ground. A moment later there was a commotion in the room. Polo Jim was rushing about in his shift amid cries of Thief!' 'Murder!' 'Robbers!' and Whack was awakened by something very like a land-slide under his head, and just in time to see his breeches disappearing through the window, and to clutch upon the last leg. There was a noise, a scuffle, a loud cry, then all was still,' as they say in the novels. The thief had been captured, and taken 10 Eatontown, but Whack, in the goodness of his heart, rejoicing in the recovery of his treasure, de- clined to press the charge, and the fellow was allowed to depart in peace."

REMARKABLE MATRIMONIAL ARRANGEMENT. A DECOY BRIDE, At the Bradford (Wilts) Police Court (before Mr. T. B. Saunders and Colonel Magrath) a woman giving the name of Elizabeth Rawlings, aged 37, who said she was a native of Bristol, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in the village of Holt. From the evidence it would seem that a week or two ago Trowbridge Fair brought three tramps with it, two men and a woman, the prisoner being the latter. They went to the Three Lions Inn, Holt, to refresh themselves, and in the general company was a widower of seventy summers, who bemoaned his forlorn state. The travellers deeply sympathised with him, and one of them, the ostensible husband of this woman, taking pity on the old gentleman-who said he was in a good situation and had a comfortable home-said his wife was tired of a tramp's life, and as he was desirous for her welfate, generously offered her to the old man for a pot of beer. The old gentleman, fully apprecia- ting the noble self-sacrifice of the husband," accepted his offer, the bargain was struck, and he took his bride-elect to his "cottage with roses by the door." Soon afterwards the askings were put in at church, and all preparations made for the wedding. The village was all on tiptoe at the unexpected event that was to break the monotony of its rural life. Meantime the bridegroom-elect began to find that the lady was not a moderate drinker, but that she had a weak- ness for whisky before breakfast and at other unreasonable hours, and that she now and then asserted her supremacy by having a smash up;" but he was lenient to a fault, forgave her, and instructed her to go to Trowbridge to buy the wedding ring. She went, but spent the change in liquor, returned to Holt in anything but a lady-like fashion, set up" before an inn where her betrothed was awaiting her, used such disgusting language that Police-Constable Pindell was obliged to be sent for, and he apprehended her, and took her from the arms of her betrothed to the cells at Bradford-on-Avon. The distance from the village of Holt is two and a half miles, and for a good part of the way the police- man and his fair prisoner had an escort of about 200 rustics, who enlivened the passage with fire- irons and frying-pans and other kinds of loud- souding cymbals. On the road her intended up- braided her for her breach of promise, and a battle ensued between them, the policeman acting as judge in that supreme court, and pronouncing a decree nisi by divorcing the happy pair, and hastening the bride-elect to the lock-up. Of course the affair has caused an immense sensation in this otherwise peaceful and pastoral region, and furnished the villagers with an entertainment they never anticipated. The disconsolate bride- groom, whose name is James Silk, is continually interrogated with the question, When are you going to find your bride in silks?" He, however, appeared before the bench to find her in the dock, a position by no means new to her, for she con- fessed afterwards to having seen the inside of a gaol, when at Bristol, more than eight times. The Bench sent her to gaol for seven days, Colonel Magrath saying the intended bridegroom deserved a month for his part in this disgraceful transac- tion. It is said that the tramps have lived by this line of conduct, and that the woman is the decoy- bird who goes through the farce of matrimony," only to turn up in another place along the line of route pursued by her partners.

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THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. I HANLAN DEFEATED. A Reuter's" telegram, dated Sydney, Saturday, states:—The sculling match between Beach and Hanlan for the championship of the world was rowed on the Paramatta River to-day. Beach was the winner by seven lengths. There was an im- mense concourse of spectators, who displayed extraordinary enthusiasm at the result. Hanlan has held the championship since 1879, when he defeated W. Elliott on the Tyne. He has subsequently beaten Trickett (twice), E. C. Laycock, and R. W. Boyd.

UNWELCOME VISITORS AT YSTRAD. NOVEL APPLICATION BY A DOCTOR'S ASSISTANT. At Ystrad Police Court on Monday (before Mr. Ignatius Williams, stipendiary magistrate) Mr. M'Caner, a coloured gentleman, who has been assistant to Dr. Idris Davies, of Ystrad, applied for a summons against the doctor for having entered his bedroom with his servant and ordered him off the premises.—The Magistrate said it was not a case in which he could interfere.—Applicant said: "I wish you torememberthat lam a gentleman,and it was a gross indignity to come into a gentleman's bedroom in such a way."—His Worship: If all you say about dismissal is true, you may have a remedy in the County Court. If he denied your professional capacity an action for libel might lie but as you say he did not touch you I can do nothing in the matter."—The applicant then left the court.

MRS. WELDON AND THE LUNACY LAWS. At Lambeth Police Court on Monday Mrs. Weldon attended before Mr. Biron, Q C., the presiding magistrate, to ask for process to issue against cer- tain parties, whose names she mentioned, for assault upon a. female, who accompanied her, and who had, Mrs. Weldon alleged, been unjustly re- moved and detained in a lunatic asylum. Mrs. Weldon stated that there was considerable pro- perty, to be divided into three shares, the female in question being entitled to a share. According to what she (Mrs. Weldon) had heard it appeared quite evident that the woman had been removed to a lunatic asylum in order to deprive her of her share. Mrs. Weldon said she now applied on behalf of the female for a summons against the brother for assault and libel.—Mr. Biron said he was afraid that a clause in Jarvis's Act would prevent such a step with regard to the Central Criminal Court, but she might, doubtless, have her remedy in the High Court of Justice, of which Mrs. Weldon had great experience.—Mis. Weldon said she had also consi- derable experience in police-courts, and had tried hard for six years to obtain that in which she was now succeeding.—Mr. Biron said he was quite willing to assist Mrs. Weldon and the person in whom she was interested; but it must be done by a written information.—Mrs. Weldon thanked his Worship for the kindness he had shown, and said she would follow the advice he had given, and re- IUtW the aoulicatioa oa A ittlUitu day.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. On Moaday morning Messrs. Hartley's glass- works at Sunderland, the largest of their kind in ,he North of England, were closed. The men refuse j3 submit to a further reduction of wages and eight hundred struck. Prohibition is more stringent in Kansas than in any other anti-liquor State. Under these circum- stances it is interesting to read that during the year ending June 30 the barrels of beer brewed m the State were 3,299 more in number than those of the previous year. Over 100 delegates, representing 50,000 work- men of various trades, met on Monday night in Liverpool to discuss foreign sugar and shipping bounties. A resolution, calling upon the British Government to adopt counter-vailing duties, was carried with enthusiasm. On Monday evening James Ridgway, 42, of Booth-town, Halifax, was apprehended for causing the death of Mary Gouley, 26. with whom he cohabited. During a quarrel, she being it is stated in drink, he struck her with his fist on the head and breast and she fell down and expired. It is stated on the authority of a magistrate for the county of Pembroke that a week or two ago, on the occasion of the visit of the Hon. Major Hill's famous pack of otter hounds to Pembroke- shire and Carmarthenshire, one of the dogs was poisoned in Treffgarn Wood, Pembrokeshire, exactly where the same thing oecurred previously. An old man named William Burdett, aged 70 fears, died on Monday afternoon at Stoney Stanton, near Hinckley, Leicestershire, from the effects of injuries received from being gored by a bull. On Sunday Burdett went out to bring in cattle, when a young bull attacked him from behind, knocking him into a ditch. It then gored him in a frightful manner. Thomas Tanner, a respectable-looking man, was at King's Heath (Warwickshire) Police Station charged on Tuesday, remanded, and refused an en- treaty for bail for burning his wife about the neck and arms because he found her drinking in a tavern with two men. He was also remanded for a similar attack on the two men, one of whom he injured seriously. Mr. Richard Johnson, a London merchant, lately residing at 58, Redcross-street, London, fell from the upper bridge of an American steamer in the Langton Dock, Liverpool, on Sunday night, and sustained such injuries that he died in the hospital on Monday morning. He had booked as a first elass passenger, and had a large sum of money on him. In the Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday a receiving order was made against the estate of Sir Wm. Russen, Bart., 33. Belgrave-road, Pimlico, the petitioning creditors being Messrs. Wrightson and Richards, of Great St. Helens, solicitors, and the act of bankruptcy being non-compliance with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice. The liabili- ties are at present unknown. At Hull Police Court on Tuesday a fireman named William Louis was charged with smuggling 3361bs. of tobacco. A policeman saw a cab near the docks, and, being suspicious, he stopped it. Prisoner jumped out. and the cab was found to contain tobacco. Prisoner said he was engaged by i man to convey the tobacco, which he was told was clothing. Louis was fined £294 with costs. General Brine, R.E., and Mr. Dale, who left Hythe it 11.50 a.m. on Friday in a balloon, crossed the Dhaonel in four hours, md descended at Herve- linghen, ten miles south-east of Calais. The descent was effected in the middle of a field, but not without S0me rik, a.9 the car of the balloon bounded and rebounded several times before the occupants could alight. Fortunately, neither of them was hurt, and they were able to proceed to Boulogne. The betrothal of Miss Eva Mackay, step-daughter of the Bonanza Silver King, to Prince Colon n a, has been, it is announced, celebrated with great pomp it the villa of her aunt, near Rome. The bride- designate became acquainted with her future hus- band last winter. She is of small stature, with anassuming, nice, quiet manners, is good-looking, md has artistic tastes. Her engagement to Prince Colonna will be a source of disappointment to divers Faubourg St. Germain families. An alarming accident occurred on Monday on the Midland Railway,three miles aout h of Sheffield. The train running from Derby to Leeds, and due n Sheffield shortly before eleven o'clock, was going past Eeclesall Station, when the engine's side rod snapped, but the train was brought up without uishap. There was, nevertheless, much conster- nation amongst the passengers. Another engine was brought from Sheffield, and the train pro- ceded after a delay of an honr. At Chichester, on Monday, Robert E. Eastwick, ne of < he Government inspectors of schools, who 3n Saturday was committed for trial on a charge of ndecent exposure, was charged with a similar offence, alleged to have been committed about an hour previous to the one investigated on Saturday, the complainants being several of the pupils at- tending school at Bishop Otter's Memorial College. The Bench committed the prisoner for trial on this charge abo,and refused to entertain an application for bail. 1 'n Saturday night the houses of three men named John Leader, David Leader, and Jeremiah Howard, at Kilcomey, near Mill-street, County Cork, were simultaneously attacked by Moon- lighters," and arms demanded. At John Leader's, on being refused, the party entered and utterly destroyed the furniture. Jeremiah Howard's house was fired into, but Howard replied, and dispersed the marauders. The outrage is ascribed to the fact that a labourer was recently evicted by one of the Leaders. A suicide of an extraordinary character oc- curred at Sheffield on Tuesday. A boy ten years of age named Henry Mappin, son of i grinder, was told by his mother to go to 3cheol. He objected to do so, saying it was late. His mother persisted, and he left the house, went to a. dam close by belonging to the water company, and, after laying his cap, dinner, school pence, and slate down on the bank, deli- berately jumped in and drowned himself. His body was recovered soon after. At Newcastle County Court on Monday Sir Henry CUivering, Baronet, was fined 50s. for assaulting Matthew Houston, sculptor, in the refreshment, room at Newcastle Railway Station. The assault was committed in consequence of the latter complaining to the barmaid at the station of the qwality of his coffee. Sir Henrv, who was talk- ing to the girl at the time, rebuked Houston, and eventually took him by the throat and shook him, declaring- that although sixty years old he would teach him manners. The Home Secretary has written to the Duke of Westminster to say that, after giving the facts laid before him by a deputation from Cheshire the best consideration, he has come to the conclusion to adhere to his original resolution to close Chester Castle Prison. The castle will now be exclusively used for military prisoners, and for short-time and remand prisoners. The Home Secretary says that tM closing of Chester Castle will effect a consider- able annual sI1vin2". The court of inquiry into the loss of the barque VieksbuVg and ot nine "f the crew on the Pent- land Skerries, on the 17th of July, gave their decision on Saturday at. Leith. The Court found that the vessel was not navigated with proper and seaman like care. The loss of life was caused bv want of order and discipline, whereby boats left the vessel without orders or an officer. The master and both mates were held in default. The master's certificate was suspended for six months, and those of the two mates for three months. At Ashburton, Devonshire, John Bray, the con- vict whose extraordinary escapades afrer getting away from Dartmoor Prison during a fog caused great excitement in the neighbourhood a few weeks since, was charged on Saturday with break- ing into a farmhouse and stealing 30s. worth of eatables, and also with stealing an agricultural implement from a man in the district. The prisoner, who is undergoing a sentence of penal servitude, and who pleaded that he was not re- sponsible for liis actions at the time of the offences, was committed to take his trial at the assizes. A human relic of Pompeii has been discovered imong the ruins in an exceptionally well-preserved tate. It is the full length fossil of a man who was probably struck while in flight at the time of the destruction of the city upwards of eighteen centuries since. The features are well defined, the mouth being slightly open, showing the teeth in either jaw the hands are perfect, and one is sup- posed to have held two keys, which were found close to it, white the legs are spread out and slightly raised the left member had, however, been broken, ag the bone protruded. Thomas Baker, a well-to-do butcher, carrying on business in Coventry-road, Birmingham, was at that Town-hall on Tuesday sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, without the option of anne, for violently assaulting his wife by striking her with his clenched fist across the face, knocking her down and causing serious injuries. The magistrates also granted the wife a separation, and ordered the husband to pay 15s. weekfy for the support of his wife. The husband staggered upon hearing the sentence, and the wife, ..&8 fainted, had to be carried out of court.

PAUPERISM IN WALES. From a Parliamentary return just issued in ¡.n- rence to poor-rates and pauperism it appears •it on the last day of the first week of June, 1884. the number of paupers relieved in the Welsh Division wag as follows In-door, 5.900 out-door, 53.620 total, 59,520. Oa the same day in 1883 the hijui-es were:—In-door, 5,999; out-door, 55.266; 61,265; or a decrease on the whole of 2*8 per rtf. For the whole of England the decrease was 13

BOGUS MEDICAL DIPLOMAS The defunct Medical University of Philadelphia, which has caused great annoyance and trouble selling bogus diplomas, has re-appeared. The English consul at Philadelphia, Mr. Clipperton, states that he is in receipt of letters from various of Great Britain asking for information about the standing of the college and to what ex- tent its diplomas are accepted. The United States government has done all in its power to stop the llegal trafhc in diplomas by cancelling the char- ter of the college and closing it.

THE FAILURE OF LIVERPOOL SHIPOWNERS. The examination in bankruptcy of Messrs. Hat- field and Co., whose losses at sea provoked an acrimonious correspondence with Mr. Chamber- lain, took place at Liverpool on Monday. They acknowledged in the course of the proceedings that out of nine vessels they were interested in they had lost eight at sea.

THE BOOTLE MURDER. EXECUTION OF PETER CASSIDY. Peter Cassidy, tinsmith, who was condemned to death at the late Liverpool Assizes for the murder of his wife at Bootle, was executed at Kirkdale Gaol on Tuesday morning. The culprit was per- fectly resigned to his fate, and walked with steady steps from the condemned cell to the scaffold. The drop was 9ft., and unconsciousness was instan- taneous. The heart's action ceased in live minutes after the fall. Berry, of Bradford, was the executioner.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HULL. On Saturday night a fire, which raged with great fury for many hours, broke out on the extensive premises of Mr. Gray, seed crusher and oil refiner, Sculwates, Hull. The premises were almost entirely destroyed, and the loss involved is variously esti- mated at £80,000 to £100,000. When the roof of the mill fell several persons who were engaged in saving the stock were injured, but not fatally. At a later period, when part of wall the of the building fell, several persons just escaped being crushed The mill was destroyed three years ago by lire.

STRANGE OCCURRENCE AT PONTLOTTYN. A fearfully sudden death occurred at No. 6, Stewards-street, Pontlottyn, on Monday morning. It appears that a young man named John Morgan, aged 29, a strong, healthy-looking person, got up at about half-past five on Sunday morning. A little boy aged one year was lying dead in the house at the time. Morgan walked to the front door, returned, and said in Welsh, Little David is dead." He sat down in a chair, placed his head between his hands, and exclaimed, I am going to die now," and immediately expired. It is sup- posed that the cause of death was heart disease. An inquest will be held.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A RAILWAY CONTRACTOR. Mr. William B. Budden, railway contractor, of 67, Maida-vale, was charged atMarlborougti-street, Londun, on Saturday (before Mr. Newton), on a warrant, by Detective-Sergeant Church, with unlawfully, by means of a certain false pretence, obtaining from Mr Graham Gordon, solicitor, of 7, Vigo-street, Regent-street, the sum of JE700. Mr. Forrest Fulton, barrister, appeared for the prosecu- tion.—Mr. Gordon was called, and his sworn in- formation was to the effect that in June and July the prisoner called upon the prose- cutor, and had an advance made to him on the faith that he was concerned in a rail- way being constructed from Melton Constable to Halton, which representation turned out to be untrue.—At the request of Mr. Forrest Fulton, the prisoner was remanded for a week, that the neces- sary witnesses might be in attendance.—Mr. Newton consented to take the prisoner's bail in £400, and two sureties in £200 each.—Bail was tendered and accepted.

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A CAPTAIN. HIS CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED. The Bristol Local Marine Board on Tuesday held an inquiry into charges of drunkenness and mis- conduct preferred against Mr. Henry Gay, master of the British ship Elvira Camino, of Bristol, whilst the vessel was on a voyage from Bristol to the West Coast of Africa, and thence to Marseilles. The evidence went to show that the voyage com- menced on the 6th of June, 1883, and on that day, whilst the vessel was off Lundy Island, the captain was so drunk that the mate had to take charge. She was then near the shore. More or less during the voyage the captain was drunk, and on one occasion was seen by the chief mate and one of the able seamen lying upon the floor of his cabin drunk. On the 16th of March last, when the vessel was leaving Half Jack, two captains came on board and got the ship under way. After hearing the evidence, the Court found the accused guilty, and ordered his certificate to be suspended for twelve months.

FALL OF A HOUSE IN LIVERPO A WOMAN BURIED IN THE RUINS. On Monday evening an old building in Christian- street, Liverpool, collapsed, and its fall was un- fortunately attended with loss of life. The first floor was occupied by James Bent, his wife Mar- garet, and five children the second floor was oc- cupied by Mark Furlong, his wife, Mary Connor, and Ellen Stevens; while the third floor was rented by Margaret O'Neill, aged 76 years, and her son. Of the fourteen people who under ordinary cir- cumstances would have been in the house, there were. happily, thirteen absent at the time of the catastrophe, which occurred about six o'clock, the Circus-street side of the building falling first, and bringing with it the whole of the different floors. In a few minutes a strong force of police, under the command of Superintendent Wood and Inspec- tors Hannah, M'Donald, Simpson, and Hook, ar- rived on the spot to carry out the double duty of keeping back the crowd and effecting the extrica- tion of the dead. A staff of volunteer labourers was soon found, and in about three-quarters of an hour the body of the unfortunate woman O'Neill was discovered.

THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. THE QUEEN CONSENTS TO BE PATRONESS. A Central News telegram says:—Her Majesty the Queen has graciously consented to be the patroness of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, to be held at Liverpool this autumn.

THE RECTORY OF DOLGELLY. A London correspondent telegraphs that the Rev. William Williams, rector of Llanfairtalhaiarn, has accepted the Lord Chancellor's offer of the rectory of Dolgelly, which was rendered vacant by the appointment of Canon Evans to the Deanery of Bangor.

BRECON AND MERTHYR RAILWAY* The accounts of this company show a balance for the half-year ending 30th of June sufficient, after paying all charges and interest on the A Debenture Stock, to pay interest in cash at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum on the "B" Stock, as against 2 per cent. in the corresponding half-year of 1883.

THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC. On Saturday Alderman Whitcombe, of Ports- mouth, presented H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, at Cowes, with a cheque value £3,000 to found a Ports- mouth Scholarship in the Royal College of Music. Two thousand of this is Mr. Whitcombe's own money the rest has been subscribed. The Prince in reply said that he trusted other towns would follow Portsmouth's example.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN OTWAY. Captain Cecil Otway, who contested Radnor at the last election, died at Brighton on Monday night. Captain Cecil Otway contested the Radnor Boroughs in the Conservative interest in May, 1380, upon the Marquess of Hartington electing to sit for N. E. Lancashire. The polling took place on Saturday, May 15, and resulted as follows:— Williams (L,458; Otway (C), 390.

THE ANARCHIST CLUB AT HULL. An ex-member of the alleged Anarchist Club at Huil, named Ernest Busch, writing to the Eastern Morring News on Monday night, says that the club is not Socialistic, but Anarchist, and that he ceased to be a member because the club honoured Stellmacher, whom he regarded as a thief and mur- derer. Busch says that he has been accused of giving information to the Germau Government, but this he denies having done.

THE PRIZES AT THE CONSERVATIVE FETE. A special meeting of the committee of the recent Conservative Fete at Cardiff was held on Tuesday evening to take into consideration the refusal of Mr. F. E. Rickard, of Newport, to take the prizes won by him at the sports, owing to their being, as he alleged, under value. After some conversation, the following resolution was agreed to:—"That the chairman (Mr. Blake], Mr. Perry, and Mr. Blosse submit the prizes won by Mr. Rickard to a compe- tent jeweller in Cardiff, and, if found deficient in value, to make such amends as in their opinion shill be right."

PROJECTED DEMONSTRATION OF NATIONALISTS AT ARMAGH. A great demonstration is being arranged by the Nationalistsand Land Leaguersof County Armagh, to come off immediately in Armagh city, on the platform of the recent demonstration in Mona- ghan. It is stated that the Roman Catholic Pri- mate and priests are opposed to the demonstration, but the promoters appear determined to hold it, notwithstanding the Constitutional party have a local branch in Armagh, and the advanced mem- bers and Orangemen are prepared to prevent the National meeting if possible.

THE WELSH SUNDAY CLOSING ACT. SYSTEMATIC EVASION IN NORTH WALES. The flagrant way in which the Sunday Closing Act is evaded has been forcibly illustrated at Chester, where, on Saturday, the landlord of a public-house at Shatwick was charged with permitting drunken- ness on Sunday week. The police found twenty men drunk in the house and outeide. The police- sergeant said there were 50 or 60 more, mostly Welshmen, all lying under the church walls far gone in drunkenness. These men came across the border, and were a great nuisance. The magis- trates commented severely on these disgraceful revelations, and fined the publican, and also two men.

THE RATES OF MORTALITY. The Registrar-General reports that the annual rate of mortality last week in 28 great towns of the United Kingdom averaged 24-1 per 1,000 of the aggregate population. The rate in Birkenhead 'was 20; Birmingham, 27 BlRckburn, 28 Bolton, 31; Bradford, 25 Brighton, 21; Bristol, 17 Car- diff, 24 Derby, 18; Halifax, 28; Huddersfield, 18; Hull, 24 Leeds, 29 Leicester, 23 Liverpool, 26 London, 21; Manchester, 25; Newcastle, 22; Norwich, Nottingham, Oldham, 30; Plymouth, 25; Portsmouth, Preston, 30; Salford, 28; Sheffield, 27; Sunderland, 24; Wolverhampton, 43; Edinburgh, 16 Glasgow, 26 Dublin, 24.

A NEW LINCOLNSHIRE HARBOUR. A new harbour is about to be erected on the Lincolnshire coast, which will not add considerably to the trade of that part of the kingdom, but will be of much value as a port of shelter on a long and exposed coast. The locality is at Sutton-le- Marsh, a few miles to the south of the watering place IIf Mablethorpe, and opposite the Inner Dowsing Bank, which runs parallel with the coast, at a distance of some nine miles from shore. The works, which will be under the superintendence of Sir John Coode, will consist of an outer harbour of 14 acres, leading by a lock of 50ft. in width to an inner dock of nearly ten acres in extent. The outer harbour will be protected by a north and south pier, respectively 517 and 418 yards in length, with a lighthouse on the former, and an entrance in the latter one, which is the most sheltered.

MADAME PATTI AND THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. The Electrician says that the electric light has been introduced into Craig-y-Nos Castle, the resi- dence of Mdme. Adelina Patti. The installation con- sists of seventy twentj-candle power incandescent lamps, distributed in the winter garden, conserva- toiy, dining-hall, drawing-room, boudoir, &c. In the winter garden and conservatory the lamps hang by twisted silk cord from the roof, and have tinted green lilies over them. The effect amongst the various climbing and other plants which are festooned above the roof is charming. In the dining, drawing, and billiard rooms and the boudoir the lamps are partly attached to the existing gas- fittings and partly hung by silk cords from the ceilings. The lamps are all covered by tinted opalescent ruby and other shades. The lamps are worked by one of Paterson and Cooper's Phoenix compound shuntwound dynamos, driven by one of Crossley Brothers' Otto gas engines.

TRADE ON THE TYNE. A DREARY OUTLOOK. The Prince of Wales is to be taken down the Tyne in a steamer in order that he may see one of the enormous cement blocks used in building the piers lowered into the water. The sight (says the Pall Mall Gazette) may be interesting enough; but it is almost a pity that the Prince should pass along such a desolate waterway even to gain a now and startling mechanical experience. The pier is a majestic work, which has occupied an army of labourers for the last twenty years, and which will not be completed before the end of the century. The uncomfortable thing to know is that all the labour may turn out to have been thrown away. As the Prince passes down the river he will see (nothing but silent factories, ruinous building- yards, smokeless chimneys, and idle steamers. He may be pardoned if he wonders whether there is any particular good in planning heroic improve- ments for a river from whence trade is departing. It is to be hoped that the mobs of starving seamen will not appear very prominently during the Royal visit.

PREVENTION OF COLLISIONS AT SEA. THE NEW REGULATIONS. The Loudon Gazette of Tuesday contains the new regulations fur preventing collisions at sea. Tin-se regulations will be substituted for those contained in the first schedule attached to the Order in Council of 1879, and will come into force on Sep- tember the 1st next. They prescribe the lights to be carried by the various descriptions of vessels, and the sound signals to be made during fog; and it is also enjoined that every vessel when in a fog, mist, or falling snow shall go at moderate speed. The regulations further contain steering and sail- ing rules, and prescribe the signals to be used by vessels in distress. By Article 10 it is provid-d that fishmg boats under twenty tons, wheu 1; < way, and not having their nets, trawls, &cc., j. water, shall not be obliged to carry the col ■ side lights, but that they shall have ready a hi: having red and green glasses for exhibition •• .< a another vessel approaches.

NAVAL MANCEUVRES IN HUS • AMUSING CONDUCT OF A GALLANT CAl'1 The Standard correspondent at St. Petersburg states that the naval manoeuvres which are to end ten days hence in a grand attack upon Cronstadt in the presence of the Emperor have begun some- what disastrously for the defending force. The enemy's fleet being concentrated at Biarkesund, on the Finnish coast, between Cronstadt and Transund, where the Russian bquadron had assembled, the Vladimir Monomakh, the new armoured ship of the Alexandra type.and the pride of Russian Navy, left Cronstadt on Friday to join her consorts down the Gulf. On her way, however, she was inter- cepted by the enemy in overwhelming strength, and, according to the Admiral's decision, wa.s con- sidered to be placed IUJrI. de combat, and WHS ordered to take no further part in the manoeuvres. But this not suiting the temper of her gallant captain, he took an opportunity, when part of the hostile force went out to reconnoitre, slipped his cable, and, although repeatedly blown up by torpedo boats, and again sunk by the returning enenly, 1 fell ,¡¡o.d aht&d. and got clean awv. I

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN IRISH MAGISTRATE. A summons has been taken out against a well- known magistrate of County Wicklow by a young woman. The case was mentioned in Parliament last week, it then being stated that the gentleman in question had only recently been appointed to the county magistracy, and that the alleged assault was committed on the first occasion he was called upon to exercise his magisterial functions. The complainant alleges that she went to the magistrate to apply for a summons, that the interview took place in a private room, where he attempted to out- rage her. After the assault she went to a firm of solicitors, who, in the absence of corroborative testimony, forwarded her information to the Government authorities, who instituted inquiries, and came to the conclusion that the evidence was not sufficient to call for the removal of the magis- trate from the commission of the peace. In con- sequence of this decision the young woman has taken out a summons against the magistrate and the matter will be shortly investigated.

SINGULAR ASSAULT CASE AT COGAN. At the office of the clerk to the Penarth magis- trates, High-street, Cardiff (before Mr. J. S. Corbett), Edward O'Connell was charged on Tuesday with violently assaulting a cab proprietor named Masters, on the previous day. Defendant was also charged with assaulting Police-Constable Brown whilst in the execution of his duty. Wm. Masters said he was a cab proprietor, and that the prisoner instructed him to drive him to Penarth. The prisoner was drunk, and when they reached Cogan he got out of the cab and refused to re-enter it. Prisoner then struck him a violent blow in the face and knocked him down.—Police-Constable Brown said that about twelve o'clock on Monday night he was on duty at Cogan, when he heard someone near to the Post-office crying out for the police. He went to the spot, and the complainant informed him that the defendant had assaulted him. While expostulating with the prisoner he struck witness a severe blow in the mouth, and afterwards kicked him several times. H was compelled to procure assistance to take him into custody. The prisoner was remanded until Monday.

COLLISION WITH A S IVANSEA STEAMER. The steamer Roma, from Swansea to New York, was in collision with a pilot boat near Sandy Hook, when the latter sank, and one of the crew was lost. The circumstances of the disaster, as brought to England by the last arriving mail steamer, show that on the 31st ult. the Roma was nearing Sandy Hook, when she suddenly came into collision with the pilot boat Washington, No. 22. The steamer was in charge of a pilot at the time. The pilot boat was struck about two feet abaft the fore- rigging. She reeled over against the steamer, clung for about a minute and a half, and then sank. In the meantime several of the pilots clambered into the rigging and reached the steamer's deck. Others were either knocked or fell overboard, but were quickly picked up by a boat from the steamer, which was launched with great promptness after the collision occurred. James Freeman, the steward of the pilot boat, went down with his vessel. It was supposed that he was below at the time of the collision and had not time to get on dfck before the boat sank. The Roma landed the men at New York. One of the men from the pilot boat had his hand badly crushed between the steamer and the pilot boat. An investigation was to beheld by the Pilot Commissioners.

A HARDSHIP ON CARDIFF FISH- HAWKKRS. A deputation of fish-hawkers waited on the Cardiff magistrates on Saturday, and asked that they should be allowed to stand in some unoccu- pied place for the day, in order to dispose of their perishable goods. It appeared that they had been in the habit of standing on a piece of unoccupied ground in the Hayes, and that they had been driven from there by an order of the Town Council. They. also stated that they could not go about the streets, nor obtain stands in the market. They paid tolls as hawkers, and obtained a large quantity of fish on credit in the hope of being able to dispose of it. If they were not allowed to stand somewhere the fish would perish, they would not be able to pay for it, and their credit and occupa- tion would be gone.—The Head-Constable (Mr. W. Hemingway) expressed the opinion that the men were treated rather harshly. He had instructions to summons them for obstruction if they did one thing, and the corporation would not let them do the other. He suggested that they should be allowed to stand in Trinity-street at the back of the market.—Mr. Rees (the magistrates' clerk) said the magistrates had no power to give any permis- sion.—Mr. Hemingway thereupon told the men to go to Trinity-street, adding that be would take the responsibility upon himself.

A CHI PSTOW PAUPER IN ABERGA- VENNY ASYLUM. ALLEGED FORCIBLE DETENTION. At the meeting of the Chepstow Board of Guar. dians on Saturday, Mr. J. J. Taylor, vice-chairman, presiding, the Clerk reported that he had caused a prosecution to be instituted against Mrs. Harris, Llangwm, near Chepstow, to compel her to pay towards the support of her husband, who is con- fined as a pauper lunatic in the County Asylum, Abergavenny. The case came on for hearing on Monday last, when the Rev. W. Price, vicar, with whom Mrs. Harris is housekeeper, attended and produced a certificate, stating that Mrs. Harris was too ill to attend, and the case was adjourned for a fortnight. Mr. J. Powell, guardian tor the parish, produced a letter from the patient, which at his request was read by the clerk. In this letter Harris stated, among other things, that he was quite well, and able to work for his living, and that it was a shame that he should thus be confined for the purposes of a certain party, whilst the ratepayers had to pay for his maintenance. He hoped that Mr. Powell would try to have him released.—A Guardian suggested writing to the Commissioners in Lunacy, as it was hard to keep the man a prisoner if he was well.— The matter was deferred until after the next justices' meeting.

A RAID ON BRECONSHIRE PUBLICANS. At the Brynmawr Police Court on Monday (be- fore Dr. J. W. Clapp) the following cases under the Food Adulteration Acts were preferred at the instance of Mr. Superintendent Joseph, of the Breconshire Constabulary — Alfred Griffiths, Traveller's Rest, Tafarnaubach, was charged with selling brandy 31. degrees under proof. Superin- tendent Joseph handed in the results of the analysis of Mr. William Morgan, public analyst, Swansea. Mrs. Griffiths pleaded guilty for her husband. The Bench said that brandy, of all liquors, should be sold the purest, inasmuch as it was so much used for invalids. Defendant was fined 20s. and costs together.£2 4s. lid.—Henry Jones, Plymouth Arms, Nantybwch, was charged with selling whisky 46! degs. under proof. Defendant's wife appeared, and, pleading guilty, defendant was fined 20s. and costs, together, £2 4s. 7d.—James Meredith, Picton Arms, Dukestown, was charged with selling whisky 54 degrees under proof. Defendant's wife ap- peared, and, pleading guilty, defendant was fined 40s. and costs, jE3 4s. 7d. in alL-James Phillpotts, Bush Inn, Scurrae, Dukestown, was charged with selling whisky 33 degrees under proof. Mr. Superintendent Joseph put in a conviction in 1881 for a similar offence, and the defendant was fined 40s. and costs; together, j63 4s. 7d.—Jephthah James, of the Rising Sun, Dukestown, was charged with selling rum 48| degrees under proof. Defen- dant's wife appeared,andpleaded guilty. Defendant was fined 40s. and costs; together, JE3 4s. 7d.

THE OPEN-AIR CONCERTS AND FIRE- WOKKS DISPLAY AT MERTHYR. Such a display of fireworks as was witnessed in ►he Penvdarren Park, Merthyr, on Monday evening w« never before seen in the iron metwpolw or in any town in the Principality. rhousands entered the Park, and altogether the affan was a Th.SUA Watch playing will be remembered for ^•^Hon and as fireworks were, however, the attractio before indicated, were of such a character as to give universal satisfaction. To the energy and business ability shown by Mr. J- Blair, the manager of Mr. James Pain, not a little of the success of the alLui ututy be fairly attributed.

DEATHS FROM SUNSTROKE. Two deaths from sunstroke occurred in Bolton on Monday. In one case a young man who was carting for the corporation was suddenly taken ill and died, and in the other an old man dropped dead after drinking a glass of gingerbeer. As a platelayer named Adams, who lives on the Cinderhill, Monmouth, was at work at Coleford on Monday, he was taken with sunstroke, and became insensible. Mr. Pratt, telegraph inspector of Mon- mouth, conveyed him home. and administered cold water to the head with good results. Dr. George Mayou was soon in attendance, but the poor man was lying in a somewhat critical state when our parcel leit.

THE FRAUDS ON THE GnOSVEOR BANK. At Westminster Police Court on Monday Caleb Titcombe, late manager of the Grosvenor Bank, London, was further charged with embezzling two cheques for over £200, and James Pryor and Mary his wife were charged with obtaining £300 from the bank by means of falsa pretences. It was stated that Titcombe resigned in March, previous to which he obtained two cheques from the directors and passed into his private account. After evidence had been given by the bank officials the Magistrate, Mr. d'Eyncourt. expressed his opinion that if there was any fraud it was with the cognisance of the directors. The case was ultimately adjourned.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A POLICE- CONSTABLE. TWO CABMEN COMMITTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER. After an inquiry lasting the whole of Monday a verdiet of Manslaughter" was returned by a coroner's jury at Accrington against Jame9 Myers and William Sefton, both drivers, and the sons of cab proprietors, for causing the death of Police- Constable Brown. Both men were driving from Whalley at an early hour on Sunday morning, Myers having an empty wagonette, and Sefton a party of cricketters returning from Stonyhurst College. They were driving furiously as they entered the town, and the police-officer was knocked down and dreadfully mutilated by Myers' wagonette, which he was attempting to stop.

STRANGE BURGLARY AT PANDY. The shop of Mr. Alfred Freedman, Pandy, was broken into on Friday, and the iron safe opened. Only a watch, however, was deposited therein, and that was carried away. Mr. Freedman states that on the night before he locked the premises and took the keys, including that of the safe, in his pocket. On the followingmorninghe found the back door open. He then missed the key of the safe and found the safe open. He says somebody must have passed in through the window, walked up- stairs and taken the key out of his trousers pocket, and then opened the safe with it. But the strange part. of the business is that the thief left 200 other watches behind in the safe. The key of the safe was left in the lock.

HEARTLESS ROBBERY BY A SON. Thomas Dansha.m was re-examined at Wands- worth, on Saturday, on the charge of stealing £200 in gold belonging to his mother, who resides in Evelyn-terrace, Wandsworth-bridge. This was the case h which the prisoner absconded, taking the money which his mother had placed between her bed and mattress. He was traced to Brighton, where he was apprehended, but only £86 10s. of the gold was found in his possession. On the way to London with Inspector Shaw he said he wished he had spent the whole of the money before he was apprehended. George Jones, warder at Wandsworth prison, proved that the prisoner in that court was sentenced to three months' im- prisonment for felony after a previous conviction. He had previously been sent to Redhill Reformatory for three years. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial.

HORRIBLE MURDER OF A SEDUCER. It was reported from Waterford on Saturday that at Moncoin, about four miles from that city, a farmer, named Richard Dowley, was alleged to have murdered a man named Edward Harper. A later message states that Harper, the murdered man, was by occupation a farm labourer. About twelve months ago he entered the employment of Richard Dowley, and was at that time a married man separated from his wife. While in Dowley's employment he is said to have seduced his daughter, a girl of 17 years of age. After the seduction hd left Dowley's employment. On Friday he returned and asked for money, and offered to take the girl away. Dowley is alleged to have then seized a hatchet and exclaimed, "You villain, you have destroyed her life; I'll take yours," at the same time splitting his head open, whereupon Harper fell dead.

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THE COUNTESS AND HER CATS. A special court of the Kensington Bench of magistrates was held at the Vestry-hall on Satur- day to hear a summons against the Countess de la Torre, of 38, Pembroke-square, for disobeying a prohibitory order of the justices to do away with her numerous cats and dogs which she kept in her dwelling-house.—Mr. Harding, clerk to the Ken- sington Vestry, supported the summons, and said that the bench granted a prohibitory order in June last against the keeping of cats and dogs. The countess appealed against their decision, which was, however, confirmed by the court of quarter sessions at Westminster. Under the provisions of the Nuisaace Removal Act, orders were made to get rid of the animals, and prohibiting the keeping of the same in the future. Those orders had not been complied with. He now asked the bench to enforce obedience, and inflict a fine of 20s. a day from the date of the service of the order. .Mr. Nettleton, who defended, said it was for Mr. Harding to prove that the nuisance bad not been discontinued. He was prepared to show how many cats the Countess had. The Countess was prepared to send the dogs away. The Chairman: The cats made the nuisance. James William Whitman, one of the inspectors of nuisances, proved having visited the house of the Countess on the 6th inst., who refused him admittance. He said the smell from the area was most offensive. The Countess, who carried a number of papers in her hand, was then sworn. She said seven of her cats bad been destroyed, and she had given seven away. The Chairman How many cats have you now ? The Countess said she had three. Stray ones, how- ever, came to the house. By direction of the chairman two officers of the vestry proceeded to the house of the countess to ascertain the true number of the cats and dogs. The Countess said there was a great feeling against her, and it was most unfair.—The Chair- man said if her statement was true he would dis- miss the case.—Subsequently the officers returned. Mr. Whitman was recalled, and said he had made an examination of the premises. He found eight cats and one kitten in the passage and on the stairs, one cat on the first floor, three cats in the front kitchen, and a dead cat in the back. (Laughter.) He also saw seven dogs—four in the garden and three in the house. (Renewed laughter). There were altogether 21 animals, and the smell was most offensive. Frederick Moore, a solicitor's clerk, who had also visited the house, was called on behalf of the countess, and corroborated the evidence of the inspector. He said, however, all the windows were open. Mr. Harding said he was informed that the Countess opened the windows when the officers entered. The Countess: That is not so. It is no use tel- ling such an abundance of falsehoods. The Chairman said it did not matter one bit if the windows were open. The animals and the smell were there. The Countess had sworn delibe- rately that she on]y had three cats. That was not the fact, as three witnesses had proved beyond doubt that there were 21 animals in the house. He was of opinion that the Countess was obsti- nately bent not to obey the order of the court. He made an order for the Countess to pay 10s. a day from the 2nd of August, on which day the decision of the justices was confirmed, up to the present time. Mr. Harding then applied for an order to enter the house and abolish the nuisance. The Countess: I object to this. The Bench, however, granted an order, and the Countess left the court.

EXTRAORDIMARY VISIT TO A WIDOW'S HOUSE. A QUEER CASE AT CARMARTHEN. At the Carmarthen County Petty Sessions on Saturday (before Commander G. G. Philipps and Mr. Lewis Morris) James Curnick and William Dent, cattle dealers, of Carmarthen, were jointly charged with doing wilful and malicious damage to an album, a petticoat, and a mackintosh, the property of a widow named Sarah Davies, who lives next the Toll-house at the end of Carmarthen Bridge. Mr. H. Brunei White appeared for the complainant. The defendant Dent was not present in answer to the summons. Considerable interest was manifested in the case, the complainant being well known. She deposed that on Sunday, July 27, at 12.30 p.m., whilst she was at the back of her house, the two defendants, accompanied by three other young men, entered at the front door, and went into the parlour, which opens by a door from the passage. She went into the house, and, on going to the parlour, found the door there locked. On knocking, the defendant Curnick partly opened it, and she asked them what they wanted. He replied that he had come to know what she would charge to let him put three horses in the field adjoining her house for three nights. There was a dispute as to the price, and he shut the parlour door in her face. She soon after heard a row inside, and peeped in through the keyhole. The defendant Dent had taken one of her petti- coats and put it on himself. Curnick gave it a tug and ripped it, and Dent put it under his feet and did further damage to it. An album lying on the table which contained photographs of her deseased husband and relatives was broken by the defen- dants, and the likenesses stolen, besides which a large hole was made in a mackintosh left behind the door. Cross-examined by defendant Curnick: You sold a pig to Jeremy (one of the party) in the morning? Witness: I did not.—Curnick: You i took a two-shilling piece ? Witness: For beer.— Curnick: Did you run upstairs, and Dent after you ? Witness: I did not. John Williams, a youth, who formed one of the party, was called in corroboration, but he stated that all the damage was done by Dent, and that Curnick did nothing. Dent threw the photographs into the river. Curnick, in defence, said lie did nothing of the damage, and was sorry he went into the house at all. The fact was that Dent and he had been sum- moned because they were worth powder and shot, the other fellows having no money. He called John Mayers, another dealer, who was present at the time. Mayers deposed that nothing was said about putting horses on grass, but they went into the house on the invitation of Mrs. Davies, who was standing at the front door, and said she had a fat pig for sale. She sold the pig for 35s., and asked Dent if he was going to give something to bind the bargain or mark the pig. Dent gave her 2s. They went in the parlour, but he did not see either of the defendants touch the things they were charged with damaging. Mr. White asked witness what he was doing in the parlour?—Witness I was reading the Bible. Mr. White: What chapter ?—Witness: Oh! I don't know I am no scholar, and can't read. The Chief-Constable asked that this man's evi- dence should be taken and be read over to him, as there might be further proceedings. The Bench thought the case ought to be ad- journed for the attendance of the other defendant Dent, and a thorough sifting given to it. Mr. Lewis Morris: It seems to me that it will be a. very disgraceful case when all the facts are known. The further hearing was then adjourned for a week that Dent might attend

I FEARFUL THUNDERSTORM IN I NORFOLK. A HOUSEWIFE KILLED IN HER COTTAGE. The Rev. T. W. Morean, vicar of Bacton, North Walsham, Norfolk, writing to the Standard re- cently, gave a brief description of a thrilling and fatal incident of a thunderstorm which took place in the locality. He said :— During the thunderstorm of Tuesday last the lightning struck a cottage in my parish, killing one of its occupants, and leaving a scene of misery and desolation almost without parallel. The cot- tage was occupied by a man named Little, a coast- guard, his wife, and two children, a girl aged three and a half years, and a little boy of eleven months. Little had been compelled to retire from the ser- vice at an early age, owing to almost total blind- ness. Mrs. Little had risen early to attend to her household duties, when, hearing a cry of distress from her boy, she ran to his relief, and had no sooner taken him into her arms than she was in- stantaneously killed by the lightning. Happily, her infant escaped with only slight in- jury. The poor husband, on recovering from the shock, sought his wife, but only to find her lifeless body at the foot of the stairs. She was buried yesterday in her native village of Trunch. Apart from this lamentable occurrence, Little's case had always excited the sympathy and commiseration of his neighbours, as that of a re- spectable young man, deprived of sight and occu- pation, with a pension of less than seven shillings a week for maintenance, aided only by the occa- sional earnings of a frugal and industrious wife. The poor man's present condition is truly pitiable. A few of the residents and visitors, out of grati- tude for merciful preservation, have raised a sub- scription to meet present emergencies, and I ask leave to appeal through your columns for addi- tional charitable aid. I shall be pleased to take charge of any contributions, and to see that the fund shall be judiciously administered.

ELOPEMENT AND ALLEGED THEFT. At Southwark Police Court on Saturday James John Kelsey, thirty, and Rebecca Sarah Robinson, sixteen, were charged on remand, before Mr. Bridge, with stealing a sum of 36s., the property of Thomas Spillar, uncle of the female prisoner. According to the evidence for the prosecution the female prisoner was a domestic servant in her uncle's house in Queen Eiizabeth-iow, Horsely- down, and the male prisoner lived next door. On Sunday the prosecutor left home, and on returning on Monday the girl had dis- appeared, and on the following Thursday he missed the money, which he had left in a bag in the cupboard.—Robert Sanderson, the girl's father, said he found the male prisoner in his daughter's bedroom, and his mother and sister flew at him, and witness called him a scoundrel."—Mr. Bridge: What did you do?—Witness: Nothing; the women went at him. (Laughter.) — Mr. Bridgo: I should hold you blameless if you had given him a good hiding.—Witness said the girl ran away next day, and was brought back in three days by the male prisoner, who said: Here is your daughter." The girl had confessed that she had taken her uncle's money and given it to the male prisoner, who was a married man with a family, and said they had spent the money to- gether.—Mr. Bridge again remanded the prisoners.

A BATCH OF BIGAMISTS. At Wandsworth Police Court Charles Henry Hoare, a solicitor's clerk, residing in Trevillian- road, Lower Tooting, was on Monday charged with bigamy. It appeared that on June 2, 1874, the prisoner was married to Henrietta Darner, at the Parish Church of Camberwell. He was again married on May 18 last to Emma Rose Currie, the daughter of an engineer, of Manor-street, Clapham, at the Parish Church of Clapham.—Mr. Terrell, who appeared for the prisoner, applied for bail. He said the second wife was aware of the circum- stances of the first marriage at the time she was married.—Mr. Sheil said he could not take bail, and committed the prisoner for trial. At the Clerkenwell Police Court on Monday David Geo. Brooks, aged 46,apainter, 0f 2, Barrett's-grove, Stoke Newington, was charged with feloniously intermarrying with Esther Betts, his wife, Ellen Brooks, being alive.—Esther Betts said the prisoner married her at the Church of St. John the Baptist, Islington, on May 16,1881, and she had lived with him since that time, believing his representation that his first wife was dead.—The prisoner said he had had a wife who was unworthy of the name. She left him and went to live with a publican, and he had no communication with her for years.—Mr. Hosack committed the prisoner for trial. At the Southwark Police Court on Monday Henry Clifford, 35, chemist, was charged with felonioufly intermarrying with Eliza- beth Ann Hutton, his wife, Emily, being alive.—Elizabeth Ann Hutton, prisoner's second wife, said she was married to the prisoner at the registry office, Blackfriars-road, on January 27,1883. She had known the prisoner about three months before as a lodger at her mother's house, in St. George's-road, Southwark. He had told her I' he was a married man, but was separated from his wife.—The Magistrate: Why did you marry him, then?—Witness: I married him because I J loved him, and to save .my name with my friends. I did not want to live with him without, being married.— Mr. Slade ordered the prisoner to be remanded for a week.-PrillOner asked to be admitted to bail, but the magistrate refused his application.

AMUSING BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. CURIOUS SCENE IN COURT. At the Winchester Assizes an action for breach of promise to marry was brought by Mrs. Mary Jane Humphreys, a widow, against Richard James Gain. Plaintiff was a widow, 54 years of age Defendant was a widower, 70 years of age. Plaintiff was examined by Mr. Coleridge, and said: He asked me to be his partner. I said, What do you mean ?" He replied," A wife."— Mr. Coleridge: Did he kiss you? (Laughter.)— Plaintiff: I can't say he did not. (Renewed laughter.) He called on me three or four rimes a day, and introduced me to his brother-in-law as his future wife. He offered me £20 when I said I should bring an action against hltn. I have now no home.—Cross-examined He talked to me over the palings. The first thing he said, "I want a partner." I did not say, "Have me, then." (Laughter.) In the marriage settlement he offered me 5s. a week. I told him it was not enough to live upon, and he said, Very well; we will jack it up." He called afterwards, and I asked him if he had reconsidered it. He said, No, he had not," and I told him I would bring an action against him.—Mr. Stares said Plaintiff asked me if I could recommend him a wife. At the same time he was keeping company with another lady close by. (Laughter.) I said, Are you going to marry Mrs. Campbell ?" He replied. I don't in- tend to have two—(laughter)—I shall look for someone else," implying that Mrs. Campbell had her mother living with her. (Laughter.) Subse- quently J told defendant a widow had come to reside in the neighbourhood, and she might make him a suitable partner. They became acquainted —they met in the lane—and he had spoken of her frequently as his future wife, and said she would soon be over there," meaning his house.—For the defence Mr. Wills said the defendant was a poor, decrepit old man, and the reserva- tion was made that the marriage should only be by the advice of his doctor.—Mr. Gain, the defendant, was placed in the box, and convulsed the court with laughter. As he entered the court he accompanied each step by a most extraordinary ejaculation, Hee-ho in sound somewhat resem- bling a loud hiccup. He uttered thit inarticulate cry during the whole time he was under examina- tion, and kept the court in roars of laughter.—Mr. Wills: What is your name?—Defendant: "Hee-ho!" (Loud laughter.)—Mr. Wills: He is rather deaf. my lord.—Mr. Wills repeated the ques- tion, and the reply was he could not hear a word. —Mr. Wills (shouting): When did you first see her? — Defendant: Can't tell—hee-ho! (Roars of laughter.)—Mr. Wills: How much are you worth ?—Defendant: I can't tell.—Mr. Wills: £ 1,000?—Defendant: Oh, no.—Mr. Wills, address- ing the jury, said he was taking the case for a friend, and, unfortunately, had not seen his client before, or probably he should not be pleading for him now. (Laughter.) He asked them if marry- ing with such a man was a thing for any woman to be proud of. (Renewed laughter.)—The jury found for the plaintiff £1a5 damages.

A SOUTHPORT CABMAN AND HIS FARE. At Southport Borough Police Court on Saturday (before Dr. Blumberg and other magis- trates) a married man, named James Smith, described as a cabman, was charged with indecently assaulting Bertha Jonas, and with robbing her of a purae containing half-a-sovereign, and a packet of needles, a pocket handkerchief, and ten shillings in Silver. It appeared from the evidence of the pro- secutrix that the prisoner had offered to lend her ten shillings. He had not, he said, the money upon him, bofl if prosecutrix would go with him he wouldget,it for her. She agreed to this course, and got into his cab- He then drove her to several public-houses, where both had drink, and eventually she again entered the cab, the prisoner promising faithfully to drive het, home. Before starting he was joined on the box by another man, and instead of keeping his promise prisoner drove to the Shakspeare Hotel, and afterwards to the Richmond Hotel, at neither of which places, however, did prosecutrix have anything to drink. On leaving the last-named hotel, prisoner got inside the cab, which be had closed some time previous, and on the way back to Southport he, prosecutrix alleges, assaulted her. She struggled with him, and suc- ceeded in opening one of the doors and attempted to leap from the cab, but was dragged along the road until she was rescued by some women, who took her into a house. Prosecutrix became in- sensible, and a doctor was sent for. On recovering consciousness she discovered that her purse was missing. Smith was arrested shortly afterwards, and on being searched the missing property was found in his possession. On the application of Mr. Kershaw, the head-constable, prisoner was re- manded.

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I A DEPREDATIONS Arl NEATH. About a fortnight ago a gay young spark hailing from the City" arrived at the quiet town ot Neath. He put up at the Llewelyn Arms Coffee Tavern, and in an incredibly short time managed to make himself very familiar with a large num' her of persons. He was frequently seen about the town dressed in a Masher suit. In a surprisingly cool manner he would buttonhole a stranger in the street and invite him to take a glass of "bittah beer." Many persons yielded to his persuasions, thinking he had more money than he honestly knew how to dispose of. When he again met » person who had availed himself of Ins liberality he would address him more as a friend of many years' standing than a casual acquaintance :—" I say, old boy, deuced hard lines you know; my fundi are exhausted, and a cheque I am expecting from my da,d for £20 has not yet arrived." In this manner he succeeded in obtaining numerous small loans. On one occasion he went into the market- place, and asked some of the butchers whether they liked" ginger wine." Upon receiving a reply in the affirmative, he coolly walked I:> up to Mr. Bartlett's shop, and taking up a bottle of the drink referred to, said, Just put it down to my account. I am staying with Dr. who has received a cheque from my father, and pays it out as required." He then marched off with the bottle, and distri* buted its contents amongst his butcher friends, some of whom afterwards advanced him small amounts, under the impression that he was only temporarily in want of money—that his daddy's'- cheque would shortly arrive. Another method employed by him to extract money from people was to produce a notice of withdrawal, and ex- claim, It's awfully annoying, you know, that I can't get this money until the expiration of three days." Some of his unsuspecting acquaintances would thereupon relieve him to a strati extent. It is alleged that he obtained a another sum of £2 from two gentlemen of position in the town by representing, himself to be; a rela- tive of the Hon. H. C. Bruce. One fine morning last week he disappeared rather mysteriously, for- getting to repay his friends and acquaintances the money he had extracted from them, and who now bitterly regret the confidence they reposed in the Masher stranger. He is also indebted to Mr. Evans, of the Llewelyn Arms, in the sum of about 30s. for board and lodging, and to the worthy doctor (who was referred to as a temporary guardian ") in the sum of £1 7s. for money lent and profes- sional charges. The police have been communicated with, and it was rumoured at Neath on Saturday that the Masher had been apprehended at Aber- dare, at which place he probably expected to meet his distinguished relative, Lord Aberdare. It is to be hoped that this will have a salutary effect upon his numerous victims in the town of Neath. On Wednesday the Newport borough magis- trates had before them Bob Arthur Bruce, aged 22. described as an engineer, and a native of West- minster, charged with obtaining goods by fraud at Neath. He was handed over to the care of Sergeant Evans, of Neath, to be dealt with in that borough. It appears that this young fellow has been disporting himself at Newport for a few days, and attracted the attention of Sergeant Williams, who kept his eye on him: and on Tuesday he was apprehended by Inspector Jones. The Masher favoured the Tre- degar Arms with his patronage, and there actually pajd his bill of 8s. He also went to the Ship and Pilot, and succeeded in borrowing a bicycle from the landlord's son. When riding he came to grief, and injured his hand. Then he took the bicycle to the stable attached to the Prince of Wales, Car- diff-road, and tried to effect a sale. From prisoner's account of himselt he appears to have led a roving life for some time. Being out of work he got a berth' as a snipe on board one of Sir Donald Currie's steamers, and was out at the Cape when Carey was shot. When asked as to what he meant by snipe," he replied that it was a position in the stokehole, and he was induced to stay for some time in the hope of becoming acquainted with the machinery. In the 8pring of this year he went to New York,and worked for about three months in an implement shop, after which he returned to England. For about three months he has evidently lived on his wits, and it is the impression of the police that he is wanted in Kent. A number of pawn-tickets have been found upon him, and one relates to a watch. He declares that a woman is at the bottom of the mischief he has got himself into. HIS RECEPTION AT NEATH. Our Neath correspondent writes:—When it be- came known that the young man from the City," referred to in the Western Mail a few days ago as the Neath Masher, had been apprehended at Newport, and would be brought to Neath by the 4,30 pm. train, many persons attended at the Great Western Station, to have, if possible, a glimpse of the Masher who had made so many friends in such a short time. Amongst the crowd could be seen many persons who had been duped by the prisoner, and as he marched from the train to the police-station, in the custody of Sergeant Evans, he smiled and winked at those who were once his old pals in a very friendly way, and, notwithstanding the fact that the com- plitnent was returned with &. frown, he continued his numerous manoeuvres until he arrived at the Town-hall. The effect of being reduced from the Masher to the prisoner at the bar had not the sli2htest effect on the prisoner, and when he stood charged before his worship the mayor, Mr D. Davies, he seemed quite at home, and still smiled at his old comrades. Mr. Curtis (the magistrates' clerk) read the charge against the prisoner of ob- taining money and medicines to the value of 27s, under false pretences, from John Stephens, of Neath,surgeon. It transpired during the hearing t,hat the prisoner's name is Bob Arthur Bruce. John Stephens said I am a surgeon practising at Neath. The prisoner represented himself to be the son of Colonel Bruce, of No. 8, Finsbury-square, London. I gave him medicine and lotion. < n tne same day I called at the coffee-house to see him. He was in bed. He told me he had received a draft for a certain sum-I. do not remember the amount—from his father. There was a letter lying on the dressing table. lIe could not get it cashed until the following Monday- He asked me for the loan of 5s. He asked if I could not give him 5s. to lend him 2s. Then, on the Monday morning, he came to me and said there was some informality about the draft, and Iii had to be sent to London. I saw him very shortly after that statement speaking to Mr. Jenkins, the bank manager, and he then asked me for the loan of 5s., on the faith of this statement, which IleDt him. Subsequently, on the Wednesday or Thurs- day, he said that the bank draft had not arrived, and that his portmanteaus had been detained at the station because he had not sufficient money to pay for the carriage. lIe wanted to change h's clothes very badly, so I then gave him 10s. to get them, still on the faith of his statement. He subsequently got me to give him money to purchase a ticket to take him to Ilfra- combe, on the ground that he had relatives there. There was an excursion to Ilfracombe on that day- I went with the excursion, but not with the prisoner. At Ilfracombe he found me out at the Western Hotel. He obtained 2s. there on the pre- tence to go to bathe. I gave him the money on the faith that he was Colonel Bruce's son and possessed of means. I bring this charge because the prisoner said I was his uncle, and that he was stopping with me. Mr. Curtis (to the prisoner) Have you any- thing to say why you should not be remanded until Monday next ? Prisoner Oh, no oh, no nothing in the least. The prisoner was then remanded to Monday- When leaving the court he looked at the public and said, Safe in the arms of the policeman," and as the police were escorting him to the police-station someone shouted, No, not that way." The pri- soner responded, No, no, Whitechapel way."

THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH AT MERTHYR. ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. Our Mountain Ash correspondent writes on Monday night as follows :— I have this day instituted inquiries into the truth of the allegations that a man named Richard Morris, who died on Tuesday last in the Merthyr Workhouse, had met with foul play at the hans of two men at Mountain Ash. But the case I shrouded in considerable mystery. It is true that a middle-aged man, corresponding with the des" cription of the deceased, was seen drinking in some of the public-houses at Mountain Ash on Monday last, and was also seen about four o'clock the next morning near Abercwmboy. Further,11 showman named North, exhibiting now in this town, states that he saw Morris, who bore marks of violence on his body, at Aberaman, had cOlllpar sion on him, gave him three-penny-worth of brandy, and drove him in his trap to tM Aberdare Police Station. Moreover, North avers that the deceased told him that he had been kicked by two men at the Mountain Ash Mountain Ash. Mr. Charles Rowlands, the la" lord of the public-house referred to above, WRite upon me to-day, and desired me to give a flat co tradiction to this statement. He says he waS In the house during the wholeof Monday, and no r was abused in his house, as was alleged; Deltt does he remember seeing a man corresponding Wi ti the description of the deceased in his house day. And, as if to corroborate Mr. Row/an S d statement, it has transpired that Morris iuforme^ a police-officer at Aberdare, before he was to Merthyr, that he had been beaten neiu'' t upper public-houSe—meaning, it is surmised, th' he was abused near the Mountain Ash Inn, Welsh preposition wi th" bein used. No is to be attached to the police, ns they have be and after the inquest been instituting Our Mountain Ash correspondent, writing to Tuesday night, says :—The police here conunuece9 prosecute their inquiries into the circumst»D t surrounding the death of Richard Morris, fRCt. hitherto without any favourable result. One pas however, in connection with the sad affair tM been established without a doubt, viz., tha 0f deceased, whether he died from the e"ej drink or otherwise, had been badly abuse"' ,I\Y' where and by whom it is impossible to a.tter Perhaps some light will be thrown on the J33 at the adjourned inquest. defd*1 The statements of the man Morris, whose ^oCet in the workhouse was reported some dBYs- of tije have been entirely negatived by the resu^It sOOIl post-mortem examination of the body 111 on after death by Dr. Ward. Beyond ø. cU )CternaJ forehead and a black eye there was n? ee(j th"1 marks of violence, and though the man m»r'i he had been brutally kicked there was not to be seen and not a single rib broken. De occasioned by heart disease. Deceased on the spree, and having had a quarrel n gave an exaggerated account of iU-treatooo to obtain the sympathy of the public. — _on

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