Weekly Mail

BRUTAL MURDEN AT ABERDEEN. TRAGIC END OF A DRUNKEN QUARREL. Six men were examined in private before Sheriff Brown it Aberdeen on Monday in connecttonwith a brutal murder committed between Saturday night and Sunday morning. The victim is a farm labourer named George Stewart. The fatality la supposed to be the result of a drunken quarrel. Stewart was found on the roadside, about four ftiles from Aberdeen, unconscious and with a three- inch bladed knife sticking in his temple. He died in Monday morning, never having recovered j

THE CREW OF THE NISERO. I A letter has been received by Mr. Ridd, second engineer of the Nisero, who was released with Capt. Wilson, from the chief engineer, in captivity. He says;—«• We are at present living on a small island ten miles trom Tenom, and are well supplied with provisions. We receive various versions from the Rajah as to why we are not released, but put no confidence in what he says; he is a great scoundrel."

LORD CAHIR IN THE POLICE-COURT. At Greenwich Police Court, on Monday morning, Lord Cahir was brought up on a warrant for having failed to appear to a summons and for threatening a man named Potter, manager of the Grand Coffee Tavern, Deptford. His Lordship said the reMan he could not "ttend the court was be- cause it was too early in the morning. He was very excitable in court and was bound over to keep the peace. The bail fee was paid by the prosecutor.

FRIGHTFl-L OUTRAGE AT WEDNESBURY. Two ironworkers, named John Laller and Peter Ball, were on Monday remanded for committing a shocking outrage on John M'Evoy. On Saturday night a disturbance took place in the Irish part of the town. The prisoners attacked the prosecutor, and poured a kettle of boiling water on to his face and into his ears. For several hours M'Evoy was in great agony, and was nearly mad. The injuries are of a shocking character.

FEARFUL MATRIMONIAL QUARREL NEAR MERTHYR. SUICIDE OF THE HUSBAND. Early on Tuesday morning a labourer named William Perrin committed suicide at Abercanaid. The deceased, who was 65 years of age, resided at 8, Catherine-square, and about five o'clock got up. He quarrelled with and beat his wife rather badly, then took up a razor and cut his own throat.

THE PERSECUTION OF POOLE PUBLICANS. The hearing of the summonses taken out against the Ponle publicans began on Tuesday morning at Poole, and is expected to last several days. There are 41 cases for heaving. Mr. Bullen again prose- cuted. and Mr. Montagu Williams defended. The first case was against the landlord of the Victoria for harbouring disreputable persons. Intense ex- citement prevailed, and further rioting was feared. Mr. Norton was hissed on entering the witness box. The magistrates, after hearing part of the cases, reserved their decision for a fortnight, when the remainder of the cases will be heard.

CAPSIZING OF A YACHT ON THE DEE. THREE LIVES LOST. On Monday afternoon five young gentlemen were yachting on the Dee, near Parkgate, when their craft capsized. Two, named Parry, of Chester, and Walk, of Liverpool, were rescued in an ex- hausted state after swimming a mile. The others were never seen again. Their names are Arthur Gammon, Parkgate William Green, Chester and Walk, of Liverpool, brother of one of the saved. The occurrence was witnessed from the shore by the friends of the deceased.

ATTEMPTED CR'MF;'A!, ASSAULT AT CYMMEK. At Ystrad Police Court on Monday (before Mr. Ebenezer Lewis and Mr. Evan John) William Edwards, Cymmer, was charged w:th attempting to criminally assault Catherine Kees, fourteen years of age. The complainant s'ated that the defendant and his wife lodged at her mother's. She (complainant ) was in the act of taking her mother's haby to bed when defendant caught hold of her and threw her down on the bed, and took indecent liberties with her. Defendant's wife now appeared in court, and seemed very indignant with the com- plainant, and also with her mother. Her husband, she stated, was a perfect lamb, he was." The Bench fined defendant 20s. and costs for common assault.

SALVATION ARMY DISTURBANCES AT BRIGHTON. At Brighton on Monday three men named Betts, Collins, and Savage, and four lads were charged with offences arising cut of the disturbances at the Salvation Army Congress-hall. The four lads, as well as Betts, were fined 5s. each and costs, or Seven days, for annoying the Salvationists, sureties being taken in the cas-3 of the lads to keep the peace. Collins, for trying to incite the mob to assault the police, was sentenced to fourteen days, and Savage, for being drunk and inciting the mob to break the windows of the Salvation-hall, to one month's hard labour. The Stipendiary impressed upon the prisoners that they had no right to dis- turb the Salvation Army. They might depend upon it, the law would put them down with a strong hand.

A POLICEMAN BAYOSETTED BY A VOLUNTEER. At Marylebone Police Court on Monday Walter Samuel Bangs, aged twenty, a paperhanger, and member of a volunteer corps, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Inkerman-road; also with stabbing a policeman with a bayonet. The constable said that about midnight on Satur- day he and a brother officer were called to interfere in a fight between the prisoner and anothor mRn, As the prisonnr refused to desist he was taken into custody, when lie used a foul expression, drew his bayonet, and thrust it into witness's body and ra.n away. He was, how- ever. pursued and captured. The prisoner said that the bayonet dropped from its sheath when he was thrown on his head, and while he was picking it up the policeman interfered, and the bayonet might have accidentally scratchod him. Mr Mansfield committed the prisoner to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court.

EXECUTIONS. Joseph Laycock, who murdered his wife and four children at Sheffield in July last, was hung on Tuesday morning at. Armby Gaol, Leeds. A man named Billington, of Bolton, Lancashire, was the executioner. Representatives of the press were not admitted. James Tobin was executed on Tuesday morning at Wexford for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, on May 19, near Hathdrum, Wicklow. When convicted at Wicklow Assizes he said, "My lord, you, and everyone of you, will have my blood on your head." On his arrival at Wexford Prison he was morose, and did not feel the terrible position he stood in. Since then he changed, and died truly penitent. He was attended by the Catholic chap- lain and a Sister of Mercy. Berry was the execu- tioner. This was the first execution at Wexford under the new rules, and the third for 50 years.

ELOPEMENT WITH A FARM SERVANT. A young married woman, about 25 years of ago, the wife of a colliery owner and a farmer, and daughter of a well-known publican at Eckington, has caused quite a sensation in the district by eloping with a young man who has been in the employ of the runaway's husband as farm servant. The man has been working for the married couple during the greater portion of their wedded life, and the husbana had noiiced between his wife and servant marked attentions paid towards Meh other. A few days since the man was paid off by his master, and left for a village in Nottingham- shire, and his late mistress left home in pursuit of the servant. She succeeded in finding him. and the man went home for his money, and afterwards the pair went to the railway station and took the train for some distant place. The runaway mother left her two young children behind her in charge of the father.

ASSAULTS ON THE POLICE AT CARDIFF. At the Cardiff Police Court on Monday Police- Constable John Baker charged J. Clifford with assaulting him in Bute-street On Saturday morn- ing. The constable stated in his evidence that he found the prisoner sleeping in a doorway in Bute- street, and requested him to go away. Instead of going away he took off his boot and struck him so heavy a blow that he was knocked down. The prisoner, in s«lf-defence, stated that he was in drink at the time, and had not tasted anything before Friday for five years. The Stipendiary sentenced him to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. Police-Constable George Durstan gave evidence charging a youth named John Phillips with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting him on Saturday last. Sergeant Lewis gave corroborative evidence, and the prisoner was sent to hard labour for two months.

THE BURGLARY AT ROMPNEY CASTLE INN. At the County Petty Sessions, held at Newport on Saturday (before Messrs. L. A. Homfray, R. F. WoOllatt, and E. Lewis), James Ryland, John Thomas, Patrick Leary, and John Woods, young men, were charged with burglariously entering the Rompney Castle Inn, at the village of Rumney, and stealing various articles, the property of Colonel Harry Daviee. Mr. F. Gardner prosecuted. Colonel Daviessaid atfour a.m. on the 11th inst. he was awoke by his wife, who heard noises in the drawing-room. He got up and went downstairs, when he saw Ryland, Thomas, and Woods run away. He gave chase, but they got away. On re- turning home with a neighbour named Richards they found Leary concealed under a hedge, with a gun near him, which had been stolen from the Castle. Prosecutor examined the house,and found the passage window had been forced open, and the catch broken so as to permit a hasty retreat. He missed a gun, a bottle of champagne perry, and other articles. Footprints were found which corresponded with I Leary's boota. Colonel Davies identified the articles produced. The county police gave evi- dence in corroboration, and a Cardiff policeman named Holman said at one a.m. on the 11th the prisoners, whom he well knew, passed him on the road. Thev were walking in the direction of Rumney. He watched them as far as Rumney Bridge, which was the end of his beat. Other evidence having been given, the prisoners were committed for trial at the assizes.

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THE ARCHDEACONRY OF LONDON. The Bishop of London has offered the ca.nonry in St. Paul's Cathedral, vacant by the death of Bishop Claughron, to Bishop Kelly, of Newfound- land. The canonry is accompanied with the Arch- deaconry of London.

GLAMORGANSHIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. A meeting of this association was held at Bridg- end on Monday, under the presidency of Mr. Howel Gwyn, Neath. Rules were adopted, and an executive committee was appointed. Several other matters of importance were discussed.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOR NORTH WALES. The opening of the University College for North Wales is fixed for the third week in October. Lord Derby has been invited to deliver the inaugural address. There are already a large number of ap- plications for admission. Scholarships have been given hy Lord Penrhyn, Messrs. W. Rathbone, M.P., R. Davies, M.P., John Roberts, M.P., H. J. Ellis Nanney, and other gentlemen, and one is in course of foundation as a national memorial to the late Dean of Bangor.

A MERTIIYR MAN'S SUCCESS AT THE CAPE. AWARD OF £250. Our readers will be pleased to learn of the honour recently won by Mr. Isaac Harpur, son of Mr. S. Harpur, and brother of the Cardiff borough sur- veyor. Mr. Harpur was one of nineteen competi- tors for a premium of JE250 for the best sewage scheme for Cape Town, which place Mr. Harpur went to some time since for the benetlt of his health, and Mr. Harpur's scheme was considered the best, and was awarded the prize of £250.

MR. WARTON AND HIS CON- STITUENTS. PETITION FOR AN INQUIRY INTO HIS STATE OF MIND. A public meeting held at Bridport. on Monday night unanimously passed the following resolu- tion :— That this public meeting of inhabitants feels that the obstructive course pursued in the House of Commons hy the borough member, Mr. Warton, is so extraordinary and erratic as to make it desirable to move the Government to institute such an inquiry as may assure his constituency whether he is in a fit and proper frame of mind to represent them in Parliament."

THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. We have just received an advance copy of the Transactions of the National Eisteddfod held last year at Cardiff, issued under the editorship of Mr. D. Tudor Evans, the secretary. The history of the Eisteddfod, the principal adjudications and compo- sitions, presidents' addresses, press opinions, sub- scribers' names, &c., make up a goodly amount of matter, to which Mr. Evans has contributed a highly-interesting vi^ce. In this there are several points sure of being hotly controverted but inasmuch as it is our intention to refer to the volume more in detail another time, we shall not enter into any of them now.

THE VISIT OF LLOYD'S COMMITTEE TO CARDIFF. On Tuesday a letter was received by Alderman M'Connochie, Cardiff, from the Chairman of Lloyd's Committee to the following effect"The Chairman of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping presents his compliments to Mr. M'Connochie, C.E., and thanks him very cordially, on his own behalf and on behalf of his colleagues of the Visitation Committee, for his great kindness in taking that party round the docks, and thus affording an excellent opportunity of forming an idpa, of "dock accommodllthm now provided and that which is in contemplation at the important port of Cardiff.—Tenby, 23rd August, 1884-

A DAY AT THE DUFFRYN. Under this heading the Field recently gave a lengthy article descriptive of a visit to The Duffryn. The writer notes that:—Mr. Strutton occupies about 1,4-00 acres, in two distinct holdings. One of these is The Duffryn, 770 acres, under Lord Tredegar, itself divisible into the home farm. about 400 acres; grassland adjoining the Bristol Channel, a mile or two distant; about. 120 acres all grans, of which 40 acres remain open salt marsh, useful as a sanitarium, and the rest valuable grazing bnd; and 250 acres at Newpark, bout two miles from The Duffryn, a hilly fav:n suitable for sheep, all upon new red sandstone, of which nearly two- thirds are in grass. The other consists of 630 acres at Portskewett, named Ifton Hill, two-thirds arable, and principally upon limestone and gravel.

THE PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT OF PORTSKEWET CHCRCH. II Archaeologists," says the A thenepvm, "will be sorrv to hear that it is proposed to enlarge or re- cnnstrud tho ancitmt church of Portskewet, Mon- ) mouthshire. The building is in sound condition, and with its remarkable old churchyard cross is a most venerable and picturesque object. Harold the king had at Portskewet a palace, and Mr. Free- man is inclined to believe that he wna not only the founder of a church there, but that the existing structure is sub?lantially of his erection (see 'Journal' of Briti?h Archaeological Association, vol, x.), As we understand that the architect's plana for operations on the building are being already discussed, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings will do well to watch the proceedings."

THE SPARROW rEST IN CHESHIRE. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF CROPS. The Chester Farmers' Club met on Saturday to discuss the sparrow pest and its remedies. The subject was opened by a paper hy Mr. R. Charmley, a large tenant farmer of Utacan Point, near Chester, He said from observations he had made he thought ho should be quite within bounr' n déclaring tllltt funyone bushel per ncre of grain had been destroyed by small birds alone in the country. He called upon farmers to amalgamate, and, by all legitimate means, keep sparrows down to a proper level. He ridiculed the value of the good sparrows were supposed to do to tho cropB, He found trom practical experience that it was very small, and what was said of sparrows might, with equal truth, be said of rats, mice, beetles, and other pests. (Applause.) A discussion followed.

BRITISH ARCfVEOLOGIUAL ASSO- CIATION. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TENRY MEETING. A meeting of the Local Committee has been held, under the chairmanship of the mayor. Mr. W. H Richards, when it was decided to ask the Corpora- tions of Pembroke and Haverfordwest for the loan of their ancient charters to be placed in the museum at Tenby for inspection by the members of the association during the congress at Tenby. In order to facilitate tho inspection of the celebrated five- arches tower, the borough surveyor was instructed to erect a temporary staircase from St. George- stfeet to the top of the tower, and thus enable visitors to explore this almost unique structure. Permission was also asked from the occupants of several ancient premises for inspection of the same. The town council will meet on Wednesday for the purpose of considering an address of wel- come to the association and for other business. A strong local committee has been formed, and every- thing is being done to make the event a success. <

PRESENTATION TO A COLLIERY MANAGER AT MOUNTAIN ASH. On Friday evening, at the Jeffrey's Arms Assembly-room, a public meeting was held for the purpose of making a presentation to Mr. Daniel Williams, who, for the past five years, had been manager of the Lower Duffryn Colliery, on his leaving to undertake similar, but more important, duties at Dowtais. As soon as it transpired that Mr. Williams had decided to leave the neighbour- hood 1\ committee was formed nnd a subscription inaugurated. A purse containing 50 guineas was presented to Mr. Williams by Mrs. Morgans, of the Jeffrey's Arms, and the address by Mr. Joseph Davies, the oldest workman connected with the Lower Duffryn Colliery. The presentation being over, Mr. John Griffiths, Capcoch, was voted to the chair, and in the course of the evening several speeches were dellveied. The address, which was a lengthy one, contained very appreciatory refe- rences to the character and past career of Mr. Williams. The fact that he was the president of the local branch of the Miners' Provident Society- was regarded as a proof of the heartfelt interest which he took in the miner and his family.

FREEMASONRY AT BRIDGEND. INSTALLATION OF MR. J. BLANDY JENKINS. The annual meeting of the Ogmore Lodge of Freemasons was held at the Wyndham Hotel, Bridgend, on Monday. The lodge was opened by the Worshipful Master, Bro. William Jenkins, after which the Deputy Provincial Grand Master, Bro. M. Tennant, and officers of the Provincial Grand Lodge, were duly admitted. The ceremony of installing Bro. J. Blandy Jenkins was then pro- ceeded with, and was ably performed by Bro. Wm. Jenkins, the Immediate Master. The Worshipful Master then appointed his officers, of which the following are the principal:—Senior Warden, Bro. C. E. Perry; Junior Warden, Bro. L. Beha; Chaplain, the Rev. James Jones. The com- pany numbered about 50, and among the visitors were Bro. M. Tennant, Deputy Prov. G.M.; Dr. Davies, W.M., Merlin Lodge, Pontypridd; Bro. Richard Male, P.M., Merlin Lodge; Bro. Dixon, P.M., Merlin Lodge; Bro. Jenkins, W.M., St. Quintin's; Bro. W. V. Huntley, St. Quintin's; Bro. Parin, P.M., Olradog; Bro. J. R. Davies, W.M., Caradog; Bro. H. Simmons, W.M., Indefatigable Bro. Harris, P.M., Bute, &C. After the installation the company proceeded to Southerndown in breaks, and a couple of hours having been pleasantly spent they returned to the lodge-room, and sa.t down to a banquet which did credit to the hoet and hostess, Mr. and Mre. Hlslop, and gave unqualified satisfaction.

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MADAME ADELINA PATTI AND THE I SWANSEA CONCERT. SOUVENIR OF HER VISIT. INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. The Mayor of Swansea has received the follow- ing letter from Madame Adelina Patti, acknow- ledging the receipt of some volumes, having reterence to Wales, presented to her by his wor- ship, "as a very small but sincere token of re- spectful appreciation of her second generous effort on behalf of the Swansea Hospital :— Madame Patti presents her compliments to the Mayor of Swansea, and desires to thank him for the volumes he has sent for her acceptance. It is gratifying to Madame Patti to receive this mark of attention on the part of the mayor, and she accepts it with great pleasure as an offering from the chief citizen of Swansea. Madame Patti will cherish the gift as an agreeable souvenir of her efforts to alleviate the suffering's of the poor, and as a token that these efforts have been duly ape preciated. Craig-y-Nos Castle, August 20,1884,"

THE PRINCE OF WALES IN SCOTLAND. The Prince and Princess of Wales on Saturday visited Forth Bridge Works, under the guidance of Sir James Fulshaw, chairman of the Forth Bridge Railway. The Royal visitors went on board the company's steamer Ruby, and proceeded to North Queenferry ,and saw the works tbere. Her Majesty's ship Warden manned her yards and fired a Royal salute. On returning to Newhall Pier, their Royal Highnesses drove to Hopetown House. In the evening they returned to Dalmeny. The Prince and Princess of Wales left Dalmeny Station on Monday morning about eleven o'clock by special train for Aberdeen. The Earl and Countess of Rosebery and others accompanied their Royal Highnesses to the station. rhey were enthusiastically cheered ns they drove to the station, and there were loud cheers as the train went off. At the entrance to the station was a triumphal arch, and the village of Dalmeny was decorated with flngs.

MR. GLADSTONE'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. AN ENTHUSIASTIC OFFICIAL. At a meeting of the Edinburgh Town Council on Tuesday the Lord Provost moved an address of welcome to Mr. Gladstone on the occasion of his visit to Midlothian. He said that Mr. Gladstone was the oldest honorary burgess of Edinburgh, and asked them to honour one who was an orator, scholar, author, financier, and statesman, and who had given the labours of a long life to the service of the Queen. The motion was adopted. Our Chester correspondent telegraphs:—On Tuesday morning the Premier, who will pro- bably be accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone and Mr. Herbert Gla istone, M.P., will drive from Hawarden Castle to Broughton Hall Station on the Chester, Mold, and Denbigh Railway, where a special train will bo drawn up in waiting at 8.30. The party will enter the saloon and bo taken on to Chestpr General Station, where the carriage will be attached to tho 8.55 express to Man- chester. At Warrington the saloon will bo detached and coupled to the Scotch express, due there at 9.57. There will be a delay of quite 30 minutes at Warrington before the arrival of the express. It is understood that the Warrington Liberals are desirous of showing their respect to the Premier during his brief stay there. The journey will then be resumed North, Wigan being reached at 10 35, Preston 11.2, Carlisle 12.0, and Edinburgh at 4.10.

THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF WELSH AND OTHER COALFIELDS. In the course of a leading article the Colliery Guai-Jiansnys:—The coal is no exception to the other British industries which, if they are to be in the full vigour of complete prosperity, must pos- sess a foreign as well as a home trade. And the character ot' their deposits, scarcely less than the advantages of their position,point out the Northern and the Welsh coalfields as especially attractive to foreign customers. That attractiveness increases year hy year. The facilities which are afforded to shippers to unload and to load, whether upon the Tyneor in the Bristol Channe),are in the highest de- greo creditable to the colliery proprietors there and to the local authorities -vho are the exponents of their will. The dock accommodation of Cardiff, of Newport, and of Swansea, of Newcastle, of Tynemouth, and of JartOw, is worthy of a people who are at once the first maritime Power and the possessors of the mo»t valuable of the coal seams of the world. However great may be the natural or geographical advantages possessed by any people or district or craft, business must in the present day be coaxed. Time was an important enough factor with shippers even in the days of the sailing collier. Is is much more so now, when steam, rather than wind, has bee )uie the propelling power, Given equal or tolerably equal claims in respect of quality of product, the readiness with which it can be put upon shipboard will mostly determine the choice of the point of purchase.

SIR CHARLES DILKE AND A VIRAGO, Charles Kibblewhite. greengrocer, of 7, Langton- street, Chelsea, appeared at a London Police Court on Saturday to a summons at the instance of Louisa Hacker, cf 58, Lamont-road, for using threatening language. There was a cross sum- mons charging Mrs. Hacker with assault. Mr. W. Doveton Smyth appeared fur Kibblewhite, and in stating his case reminded the court that the par- ties had figured as complainant and defendant on many occasions. The last time their feud was the subject of magisterial inquiry Mrs. Hacker alleged that she was pelted with all sorts of refuse, and hooted by boys led on hy Kibblewhite. She now alleged that she went in fear because of threats, but the fact was "he was at war with all hrr neighbours. She had complained to the pilice, and pestered Sir Charles Dilke with her corre- spondence and applications. Sir Charles, with his usual courtesy, had actually investigated her complaints, one of which was that her neigh- bours threw dead cats into her cistern. (Laughter.) Sir Charles actually sent one of his clerks to see Mrs. Hacker, and this gentleman's visit happened to be contemporaneous with a scene, which he would describe in evidence.—Mr. William Ireland, Parliamentary clerk to Sir Charles Dilke, bore out the opening statement of Mr. Smyth relative to Mrs. Hacker's complaints, and d posed that he was present on the afternoon of the 6 h inst., when she spat in Kibblewhite's face. Kibblewhite admitted threatening her after this filthy conduct.—Mr. d'Eyncourt told tho woman that he was satisfied oil the evidence that she committed a very nasty assault, and that she contrived to irritate her neighbours.—Mr. Sm) th observed that she had been known to the magistrates for 20 years. She com- menced her litigation before the late Mr. Painter. —Mr. d'Eyncourt dismissed the summons against Kibblewhite, and fined the woman £1 for assault. — Mrs. Hacker protested against the decision. and occasioned much laughter by indignantly assert- ing that she was going to summon Sir Chas. Dilke for keeping her papers.

THE LAST OF THE BIRMINGHAM MIDGET. STRANGE SCENES AT THE FUNERAL. i30me extraordinary Scenes were witnessed at Birmingham on Sunday in connection with the funeral of the Midget. After the death the mother was arixiousto dispose of the body to a showman but in order to defeat this Object the deputy coroner, Mr. Weekps, ordered the corpse to be under police surveillance until after the burial. The coffin of the mite was 13jin. long. 6in. wide, and 4lin. deep, and bore the following inscription:— "Lily Evans, the Midget, died Aug. 18, 1884, aged six weeks nnd four days." Crowds "f persons Imire visited the house since the inquest on Thurs- day to get a sight of the curiosity which has, or the coffin of which has, been on exhibition the time, and which drew far greater audiences than when the Midget was in the hands of the showman. Early in the afternoon on Sunday a mourning coach was drawn up to the house to convey the remains to the Birmingham Cemetery, distantabout two miles. For nearly half-an-hour the funeral corthje could not be got away owing to the pressure of the enormous crowd which tilled the street and adjoin- ing thoroughfares. Tho desire to see the coffin was intense, and it was even thought that there would he some Serious disturbances. The mother of the Lilliputian, who was censured by the deputy- coroner for performing to death her child, was hissed and yelled at, and would probably have been lynched but for the efficient staff of police who kept guard and prevented any serious disturbance. During the march to the ceme- tery, a distance of nearly three miles, the mother was hissed by hundreds of persons who followed the funeml procession and but for the presence of the police there is no doubt some nct of violence would have been committed. Upon the arrival at the cemetery the undertaker, Mr. Edwards, took the Lilliputian coffin in his hands to the church, to the irresistible laughter of the assembled crowds,not even excepting the number who were present In the sad position of mourners or relatives of persons being buried. Throughout the day the house of the Midget was sur- rounded with persons, and, notwithstanding the assertion that the corpse had been abstracted for embalming and exhibition purposes, it Is a fact that the body was actually buried, the coroner's chief officer being present, and the undertaker opening the lid of the coffin Just before the funeral took place to see that there had been no kid- napping."

THE STRANGE VISIT TO A WIDOW'S HOUSE AT CARMARTHEN. THE COMPLAINANT RETIRES FROM THE CASE. At the Carmarthen County Petty Sessions on Saturday the adjourned casein which Sarah Davies, a widow, living at the end of Carmarthen Bridge, charged James Curnick and William Dent, cattle dealers, of Carmarthen, with wilfully damaging a petticoat, an album, and a mackintosh at her house on Sunday, July 27, came on for further hearing. Mr. H. B. White, solicitor, who appeared for the complainant, said that a settlement had been arrived at. Mr. Lewis Morris, one of the magistrates, said he was present at the hearing of the case on the pre. vious Saturday, in the absence of Captain Gvismond Philippe, and he wae bound to say that he thought there had been gross perjury on both sides. However, as they had nothing further to do with the matter at present, he thought the at- tention of the police should be called to the character of the house, so that they could ascertain what the proceedings were which were carried on there. The Chief-Constable said this woman's house was well-known to the police. Mr. R. Jennings said he should be glad if some- thin# could be donfc to put a stop to this gittsi perjury. i

THE PENISTONE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. OFFICIAL REPORT. The official report on what is known as the Penistone accident on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, on July 16, was issued on Monday night. Major Marindin arrives at the conclusion that the primary cause of this terrible disaster was the breaking of the outside inch of the right hand crank on the driving axles. The frac- ture of axles is not uncommon, but, as a rule, no serious consequences have followed, but in this case the train was running at high speed on a falling gradient on a curve, and was just about leaving a cutting to enter an embankment, so that when the road was broken up behind the engine it was almost inevitable the carriages should fall over. The accident, to the crank could not have been foreseen or prevented, nor does the inspector believe any brake in exis- tence could have stopped the train on the falling gradient in the distance available. Yet a quickly- acting and powerful continuous brake ought to have so far reduced the «peed as to render the accident less fatal. Also an automatic brake might have saved the rear carriages. No fault is found with the company's servants, and no blame is attached to the signalman at Bullhouse.

SINGULAR CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. A LADY POISONED BY TINNED TOMATOES. A suit for$50,000 damages has been brought against Messrs. Thurber, Whyland, and Com- pany, grocers, of New York City, by a Miss Kolyer, as compensation for alleged injury done to her health through eating tomatoes put up in cans by that firm. In her bill of complaint Miss Kolyer states that the tomatoes in question Were labelled as of superior quality, and that her father was thereby induced, on March 5 last, to purchase a number of cans fiom a Brooklyn grocer. They were cooked and she ate them, hut they proved poisonous, and she became so ill that her life for a time was despaired of, and her health permanently injured, all of which entailed heavy doctors' bills. She adds that the cans were soldered with poisonous substances, which, falling into the cans, poisoned their contents. The suit is based on an examina- tion of the plaintiff's case, made by Dr. Bartley, of the Health Department, who reported that the symptoms were those which would be caused by poisoning from muriate of zinc, such as is used in soldering the cans. Eight similar cases are await- ing the result of Miss Kolyer's action.

DISEASED MEAT AT CARDIFF. HEAVY PENALTY. At the Cardiff Police Court on Monday (before the Stipendiary, Mr. R. 0. Jones) Thomas David, butcher, was charged on remand with being in cossession, on the 9th inst., of a carcase of beef, in preparation for sale, which was unfit for human food. The carcase was found quartered in one of the slaughter-houses at the market, and was pro- nounced by Mr. Moir, veterinary surgeon, as being unfit for human food. The defendant, for whom Mr. Morgan Rees appeared, called witnesses to prove that the beast was sound when killed.— Albert Green, a slaughterman, deposed to slaughter- ing a beast for Mr. David on the 8th inst., and as far as he could say the bea.->t appeared sound.— Charles Hunter, a drover, deposed to driving a bullock and some sheep to the slaughter-house, and the bullock appeared in good condition.—Wm. Morgan, a porter at the Rhymney Railway Station, deposed to seeing the beast at the railway station, and as far as he could judge there was not any- thing the matter with it. This concluded the evi- dence for the defence, and the superintendent proved previous convictions for a similar offence. The defendant was fined £20, or two months' im- prisonment, the Stipendiary characterising the case as a most serious one.

AN OBSTINATE JURYMAN. An inquest was held on Tuesday night at Wilnecote, near Tamworth, on Arthur Bassett, who was found drowned in a. clay pit. Several wit- nesses spoke to the deceased having reen in a despondent state of mind, one witness stating that lie had endeavoured to put himself into a well, and his brother testified that the deceased had left his watch and other articles for him at a neighbour's house. The Coroner, Dr, Hino, in Humming up, said the evidence puinted strongly to the belief that deceased committed suicide while iu an un- sound state of mind, Eleven jurors were for re-! turning u. verdict to this effect, but one, a shoemaker, was obstinate, and insisted that there was no evidence to show that the case was one of suicide, The Coroner pointed out that unless the jury were unanimous they must be locked up without meat or drink, food or firing, for twelve hours, The twelfth man still adhered to his deter- mination, and the jury were accordingly locked up. One of the jurors was the vicar of the parish, and no little inconvenience was caused by his inability to atteud the evening service at his church,

THE COUNTESS AND HER CATS. On Saturday the inspector of puisanees for the Kensington Vestry again visited the house of the Countess de la Torre, in Pembroke-square, Ken- sington, for the purpose of ascertaining if Anything had been done in order to comply with the deci- sion of the magistrates prohibiting the keeping of the animals. Contrary tc expectations, the in- spector was admitted by her ladyship. He made an examination, and found that the number of cats and dogs had been reduced from 21 to seven, the others having been destroyed. The CounteSs said her animals were poisoned without her con- sent, or previous knowledge, by persons unknown. Her ladyship was given to understand that the vestry have no desire to enforce the order of the justices relative to the abolition ot the nuisance, if she showed an inclination to discontinue per- manently the keeping of cats and dogs in her dwelling-house.

THE SCRAMBLE FOR THE WORLD. Under the above very suggestive heading the rail Mall Gazette says" Wiiat a Scramble it is getting! England and Russia, began the game, France struck in, and now Germany is in full cry. The contagion of annexatiwn b spreading every- where. Europe is partitioning the world. Every Power is grasping with both hands after fresh territory, The area unappropriated is diminishing daily, and if the pace is not slackened there will soon not be a single black or brown man in the whole wide world who will not be the subject of one or olher of the European Powers, All coloured men seeui to be regarded ItS fair game. The white man is dividing up tho planet. It is a strange and stariling process, but it has become so familiar as to attract not ice. All round the continents of the dark skins Europeans are hoisting flags and pro- claiming annexations with the teverish haste of gddininers who have suddenly struck a vein of the precious metal, and who establish claims'by the simple process of sticking in posts bearing their names. It is a. wholesale sequestration of the world, based upon the principle that no one has a right to any rule or sovereignty in either hemisphere but men of European birth or origin. The Chosen People did not appropriate the Pro- mised Land with more perfect assurance of a right to dispossess the Canaanites than that shown by the White men in the plunder raid round the world.

ANOTHER MONMOUTH PAUPER LUNATIC. At the Monmouth Board of Guardians on Satur- day a letter was read from a Mrs. Wright, a pauper lunatic in Gloucester Asylum, asking to be allowed to return to the workhouse. She complained of her son's treatment of her, and said she had written 57 letters to him, and had only received two cruel ones from him. Mr. Hawkins, relieving officer of the district, said he had removed Mrs. Wright from the house of her son, Frederick Fennell, of Yorkley. She was then in a very ex- cited state. Her son had treated her very well, but she had behaved very badly towards him, and she had been in lunatic asylums several times. She was a woman of loose character, and her hus- band (a second) had berT. sent with others to penal servitude for housebreaking.—The Chairman said letter-writing appeared to be a part of her malady. —The letter was laid on the table.

THE UTILITY OF THE FIRE-ESCAPE, i CURIOUS SCENE IN LIVERPOOL. A very extraordinary sceno was witnessed in Lord-street, Liverpool, on Saturday afternoon. It appears that nn old woman, who was engaged as officc-cleaner, was performing her duties in a por- tion of the building above the shop of Mr. Bell, tailor, and in the meantime a number of tailors' workmen in one of the adjoining offices went away, locking up the front shop and also the gateway to the entry. When the old woman had finished her work and attempted to leave she lound she had been made an unwilling prisoner on the top floor of the building. Once before she had been similarly locked in, and was obliged to remain until the next morning. But this being Saturday, she failed^ to see how she could exist without food until Monday. Accor- dingly she went to the window, and succeeded in attracting the attention of the passers-by. The police-constables in Lord-street were communi- cated with, and on arriving at the shop they were for some time puzzled how to rescue the old woman. The fire-escape was at length brought from the top of the street, and placed against the window from which the woman was looking. When the ladder was settled, and before the police could ascend, the old woman began to descend amid great applause. A constable met. her half way, and the remainder of the downward journey was safely performed, the woman being very thankful indeed at having made such an escape.

A QUESTION FOR WELSH BICYCLISTS. Mr. Pryce Jones, of the Cheltenham Training Colli ge, writes to the press complaining of the in- civility of a tollgate man near Penybont, Radnor- shire, who only allowed him to pass through the gate at 10.30 p m. after a great deal of remon- strating. He asks whether a man, because he rides a bicycle, is to be prevented from using the roads like the remainder of the public at such a. time as suits his business or convenience ? A Cardiff bicyclist also informs us tha.t he has met with a similar difficulty in his peregrinations in South Wales.

The Medical Profession are now ordering Odbury's Cocoa Essence in thousands of cases, be- cause it contains more nutritious and flesh-forming elements than any other beverage, and is preferable to the thick, starchy cocoa ordinarily sold. When you ask for Cadbury's Cocoa Essence be sure that you get it, as shopkeepers often push imitations for the sake of extra pre tits. Makers to the Queen. Paris Dtpit, fIj. ffeukourg ifoaore.

ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER AT PEMBROKE. STRUGGLE FOR LIFE WITH A MANIAC. A DIFFICULT ARREST. For some time past a man named John Francis, said to be a native of Swansea, and his wife, have been lodging in an upper room at Banker's-row, a rather poor district at Pembroke. For a good while signs of insanity have been exhibited by the man, and measures were in progress last week for his removal to the Carmarthen County Asylum. On Sunday morning he was with his wife in their room about eleven o'clock, when he suddenly took up a hammer, and told her to say her prayers. She replied that she had said her prayers in the morning. He, however, told her to go on her knees, and he would give her time to count three. He then began slowly to count "One, two," but, before he could say three," she threw her arms about him. A dreadful struggle then took place between them, in which the woman received a blow from the hammer on the back of her head. They tumbled headlong down the stairs, in which the man sustained some nasty cuts On the forehead, from which he bled a great deal. The woman had raised the cry of Murder," which was repeated by the neighbours, who now hurried out, and this brought numbers of people outof theCalvinistic Methodist Chapel close by, and some of them ran and gave the alarm to the police. Sergeant David Evans, on hearing the alarm, hurried down and found Francis in the middleof the road with only his shirt on, and covered with blood. He took him into the house and got his clothes on, when the mad fit again returned, and the sergeant had to throw him down. At this juncture four or five men came in and assisted Sergeant Evans to secure the maniac, but it was not done without a dreadful strug- gle. At one time Francis, who is a very powerful man, nearly threw them all down the stairs. Sergeant Evans with great difficulty at last got the handcuff's on him, and he was then conveyed to the police-station, where two con- stables had to guard him constantly, as the fits of madness were frequent. On Monday he was con- veyed on a justice's order to the county asvlum at Carmarthen. There is no doubt that if the woman had not closed with him he would have killed her.

THE BATHING SEASON. GALLANT RESCUES FROM DROWNING. A correspondent writes:—Whilst a number of persons were bathing in the River Teify, near Alltycavan-btidge, one young man named John Evans, an apprentice with Mr. David Jones, weaver, Genlanfelen, lost his footing, and was immediately carried out into a considerable depth of water. As he could not swim Mr. David Jones, his master, jumped in to rescue him. The drown- ing lad was so excited that he caught hold of Mr Jones, grappled him round the waist with the eneigy of despair, and pulled him under. After a hard struggle Mr. Jones managed to extricate him- self, but the lad took a firm hold of his feet Having again succeeded in extricating one of his legs he managed to swim ashore, Evans holdiug fast by one of his feet. Both were in a very ex- hausted 8tate, and it was some time before Evans regained consciousness. On his recovery he was utterly oblivious of what had taken place in the water. A youth named ThomnS Davies, of Llanfyrnach, and several others were bathing at the Bettios, Newport, Pembrokeshire, on Friday afternoon, when they crossed the river to the sands, and remained there about ten minutes. They again entered the water for the purpose of returning, but without considering the increased depth consequent upon the rise in the advancing tide. Davies, not being able to swim, got out of his depth, and was apparently drowning, when his critical position was observed by some people on the beach, who shouted for assistance. Captain Ellis was passing along the cliff at the time, and at once rushed down over the rocks, and plunged into the water. He was dragged under by the youth, but after a severe struggle succeeded in bringing him ashore in an insensible state. Restoratives were applied, and Davies was after some considerable time restored to consciousness. Captain Ellis was himself in a very exhausted condition when he reached tho shore. The gallant captain has been instrumental in saving drowning persons On other occasions, and no doubt his humane action will be recognised in the proper quarter. Mr. James Field, a young gentleman 23 years of age, of Brookfields, Birmingham, who was to have been married in a few days, was drowned whilst bathing at the Ed^-baston Reservoir on Sunday morning. Two young men, who had joined a pic-nic party to Carmyle, about four miles from Glasgow, on Saturday evening went for a bathe in the River Clyde, at that place. One got out of his depth, and the other tried to save him, but failed, and they were both drowned. Miss Constance Colvin, daughter of the Rev. R. Colvin, of Edinburgh, was drowned On Monday while bathing with her two sisters at Ardrossan.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT LIVER- POOL. CENSURE OF WORKHOUSE OFFICIALS. An inquest was held at Liverpool on Tuesday on the body of Hermann Plagenes, 35, a native of Zingst, Prussia, and captain of the Gentian ship Peter Suppicich, lying at Mostyn. The deceased was sent to Liverpool suffering from mental derangement, having attempted suicide by cutting his arms. He was lodged in the workhouse asylum, and was there visited by the German consul, to whom he stated that everyone was kind to him. He afterwards committed suicide by tear- ing off his bandages and hanging himself over the corner of his door. The jury, in returning a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity," expiessed their conviction that there had been gross neglect on the part of the workhouse officials and physicians. The Coroner concurred.

PAINFUL CUN ACCIDENT AT BERMONDSEY. A YOUNG LADY SHOT BY HER COUSIN. An inquest was held at Guy's Hospital on Friday relative to the death of Emma Leach, aged 18, who was accidentally shot. The father of the deceasen, Geo. Leach, a rag merchant, of 15, Upper Grange- road, Bermondsey, stated that on Tuesday last he was In his garden with two of his sons and their cousin, a young man named Henry Newman, who was shooting at some wine tiottles, in competition with his son George. Tile deceased, who had been looking on, went to get them some tea from the kitchen, and on returning spoke to Newman, and called him a" duffer," He turned round towards her, and the noxt instant the witness heard the gun go off. The deceased at the same time fell to the ground.—Henry Newman,having been sworn at the request of the jury, said he was in the act of firing when he turned round to his cousin, who was standing beside him. He had his coat off, and thought the trigger must have touched his waistcoat pocket.—A juryman, who examined the gun, said the slightest touch would be sufficient to fire it off. —The jury returned a verdict of "Acci- dental death."

BRUTAL CONDUCT OF A FATHER. On Saturday morning at Birmingham Police Court (before Messrs. Manton and Couchman) George Henry Oakes, well sinker, back of 47. Heath-street, was charged with ill-treating his son, Samuel Oakes, aged 12 years, by throwing him in the canal. The lad appeared in court in a dis- graceful condition. He was dirty and emaciated, wearing onh a thin coat and pair of trousers. A woman named Atkinson said that on Friday afternoon she saw the prisoner kicking the boy on his legs and ill-treating him.—The Clerk: What next? He took him up and threw him in the canal.—What was the depth of the water? Six or eight feet.—Did he get out? Two boys pulled him out. — Mr. Manton (to prisoner): The sight of that lad is a disgrace to you.—Prisoner: I plead guilty to throwing the boy tn, but I did it to frighten liim,and I helped to get him out. Is it likely a father would try to drown him in open daylight?—Mr. MantOn said the Crisoner's conduct had been brutal, and was now acked by falsehoods. He would be sent to the House of Correction for two months with hard labour, and the boy would be sent to the work- house for a week. The female witness was com- mended for the steps she had taken, and the lads who rescued the boy were awarded five shillings each.

DANGER' US PROCEEDING OF A I SWANSEA ENGINE-DRIVER. POLICE-COURT PROSECUTION. At Swansea Police Court, on Saturday, Thomas John, an engine-driver in the employ of the Swan- sea and Mumbles Railway Company, was charged by the proprietors of the Swansea Tramways Com- pany with negligently reversing his engine, whereby the lives and limbs of persons passing over the tramway were endangered. Mr. V. Simons appeared for complainants, and Mr. Wyndham Lawrence for defendant.—The first witness for the prosecution was Thomas Phillips, who was driving a tramcar belonging to complainants along the same tramway behind the steam train driven by defendant on Saturday last. When at the Mumbles- road Station the guard signalled the train to move ahead, but the driver, instead of doing so, reversed the engine, and it went backwards for 25 YArds, Witness pulled his horse off the rails, but the last carriage ran into the car, smashed the front part of it, and seriously injured the horse. Witness had received no instructions as to how far he was to keep behind the steam trains. He had never known them to back before except at Gorse-lane Station the sama day. — Mr. Gwynne Brader, Mr. Edward Brader, and other wit- nesses bore out this evidence.—For the defence, Mr. Lawrence did not deny that the engine was reversed but. alleged that this was necessary in order to start the train. He called Mr. Wright, Great Western locomotive superintendent, who said it was generally necessary to reverse an engine when the train stopped in a dead centre. A train would start by itself on a gradient of one in 60.— William Bateson, who was on the car next the engine, said he saw the driver put the engine into back gear when he found it would not start for- ward. The train moved back a distance of about eight yards, and he would swear it did not go back 20 yards.—John Lewis Cotton, another passenger, said the train went back about the length of a carriage.—Alexander M'Pherson, guard of the train, said it receded about six or eight yards. The tram must have been close to the train. It was usual to reverse the engine, and there was a gradient against the engine at this spot.-The Bench thought defendant had been guilty of a certain amount of negligence but they did not believe he had done it wilfully. They inflicted a fine of £ 5, including costs.

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LOW LIFE IN LONDON. MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A WOMAN* PITIABLE CONDITION OF TBR: VICTIM. At the Worship-street Police Court, London, on Monday, William Davis, 22, and Caroline Douglas, young people of the street hawking class, were brought up on a warrant charged with having violently assaulted Mary Ann Little. The prose- cutrix was represented by Mr. Abbot, solicitor. The statement for thr. prosecution, and the evidence given by the prosecutrix and one witness, a Mrs. Rich, showed that on August 6 the prosecutrix was accosted by the female prisoner in the street at night, and taken by her to her home at the model lodging-houses, Wilmer Gardens, Shoreditch. The prosecutrix admitted that she had known the woman some time, but had quarrelled with her some months before, and the prisoner, on accosting her, asked her to forget and forgive. In proof that she did so the prosecutrix had some drink with Douglas, and afterwards accompanied her home. Douglas was cohabiting with Davis, and he was in the room they occupied when the prosecutrix was led there. Whether she was sober or the worse for drink was not clear, she asserting she was sober, but the evidence of the witness Rich showed that the woman resisted being led upstairs, and asked where she was being taken to.—The prosecutrix said that while conversing in the room the prisoner Douglas took up a teapot and struck her on the side of the head, without any provocation Or previous show of anger. Her head was cut, and she fell bleed- ing. She remembered the man Davis kicking her on the head and face, and remembered being thrown out into the passage, where she lay bleeding all night.—The witness Rich stated that when the prosecutrix had been got into the prisoners' rooms, she, from her bedroom beneath, heard the attack commenced on the woman—a sound as of beating was followed by a heavy fall. Then there were cries of "Oh, you're murdering me,"and: hard blows. Asked why she or her husband did not interfere, the witness Rich said that such sounds were not uncommon between the prisoners, and, knowing their character, neither herself net- her husband liked to go near them. Later on she heard the prisoners going downstairs, dragging or helping the woman, telling her there was a cab waiting to take her home. They left her in the passage of the place, however, and the woman kept moaning, and once said, I'm bleeding to death," the female prisonerreplying to t hat with foul language. At five o'clock in the moming witness, from her window, called the attention of a con- stable, who entered the passage and found the woman. He, it appeared, jumped to the conclu- sion that the woman had been assaulted by her husband, and she, partially insensible, answered his question by saying Yes." The officer appeared then to have advised her to get upstairs, and assisted her to some extent to mount the steps, but did not accompany her. The witness Rich said that the prosecutrix fell down at her door, and then the went out to her. She found her saturated with blood, her lips cut and hanging by the skin merely, one side of her head kicked out of shape, her face gashed in three or four places as if with broken china, and bleedi ng also from wounds under the hair. She bathed the woman's face with warm water, made her tea, and otherwise attended to her, but yet, it appeared, still left her lying on the landing. At seven o'clock the prisoners again appeared on the scer.e, took up the woman, and carried her into a kitchen, where they endeavoured to revive her, but, becoming at last frightened at her condition, they got a cab and took her to the hospital, where she had remained an in-patient till Saturday last, when a warrant was applied for. It was said that the prosecutrix had to have her lips sewn on at the hospital, and she appeared in the witness-box with her head covered by bandages, one side of her face hidden by wadding, and the marks of three Or four long wounds sewn up on her face. The medical gentle- men who had attended her not being present to give evidence, a remand was ordered, Mr. Busby saying that he should send the case for trial under the Aggravated Assaults Act.

STRANGE SUICIDE OF A WELSH WOMAN. HER CHILDREN RESCUED FROM A WATERY GRAVE. An inquest was held at Welshpool on Friday on the body of Elizabeth Adams, wife of Thomas Adams, a joiner.^—1Thomas Lewis said the deceased was his daughter, 30 years of age. She had seven children, and the eldest was turned seven years old and the youngest only five months. About five o'clock on Wednesday she wan sitting by the fire with the child in her arms. The previous day she did not seem so well as usual, and was rather low-spirited, com- plaining of something in her head.—Richard Jones, labourer, in the service of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, said he Was work- ing on Wednesday at Brithdir, and about six o'clock p.m. saw two girls and a boy just above the bridge. They were in the middle of the canut, and on their backs. George Lloyd, in the employ- ment, of the same company, was with the witness. The witness jumped into the canal and got two children out, and his compan1onjumped in and got-a third out, who was a little distance off. The children were not dead, and had since recovered. He was afterwards told that the deceased, Elizabeth Adams, was missing. He then went in search of her in the canal, and found her body at the bottom, in about five feet of water.—Elizabeth Collins, wife of John Collins, of Sarnybrj ncaled, said she had known the deceased for about twenty years inti- mately. She had been complaining of Something in her hrad since the hst child was born, and seemed very low. On Tuesday deceased called a'; the witness's house, and told her that it nearly drove her "off her head," and that she had tried almost everything to ease it" hut without success.— Dr. Jones, Welshpool, said he was called on Wednesday, about seven o'clock, to the deceased and her children. He found the children recover- ing, but the deceased was quite dead. He should judge from the evidence that the deceased had suffered from puerperal fever, under the influence of which she destroyed herself —The jury returned a verdict of Temporary in!<anity.The foreman ot the jury suggested that some remuneration should be presented to the two men who had saved the lives of the children, and it is understood that the suggestion will be acted upon.

SENSATIONAL QUARREL BETWEEN OFFICERS. At Hammersmith Police Court, on Friday, Mr. Pdget was for some time engaged in hearing cross charges of assault committed at the house of Lieutenant-Colonel Borrodale, in Victoria-road, Kensington, on Thursday evening.—Thefirst. charge heard was against Major Ashburne for assaulting Colonel Borrodale, who had a mark over his fove- liead.—Before it was gone into Mr. Paget sug- gested under the circumstances that the cases should be withdrawn, as both parties appeared to have scars. However, the intervention 01' the magistrate failed and the evidence was taken. It appeared that on Thursday evening the prisoner went to the house and sent in his card, requesting to see the complainant, who came out in the hall, and declined to do so. The prisoner then struck him over the head with a stick, inflict- ing a severe bruise. The complainant closed with him, and it was alleged by the prisoner, in his case, that he took the stick from him and jabbed the point at him, inflicting a deep wound undirthe eye. It also appeared that there had been a previous dispute between the parties.— Police-Constable Clark said he was called to the house, and found a crowd outside and a number of persons inside. The prisoner was lying on the hall floor, held down by several men, his legs being tied by a rope. He was bleeding profusely from the eye—The prisoner said that while he was being held down Colonel Borrodale sent for a rope and tied his legs with it.—Mr. Paget said that, what- ever the provocation had been, the prisoner had no right to strike the first blow. On the other hand. the blow did not justify the outrageous attack committed upon him by Colonel Borrodale. He required each party to find surety to appear to receive sentence when called upon and to keep the peace in the meantime.

STRANGE ALTERCATION BETWEEN A MARRIED WOMAN AND A GUARDSMAN. Charles Goodchild, a private in the 1st Battalion oftheCoidstream Guards, was charged at WeM- minster* on Saturday, with being- drunk and with assaulting Emily M'Enie, wife of a chemist residing at 32, Cologne-road, Claphatn. The prosecutrix de- posed that she was residing with her husband, but was not in his compHny on Friday night, when she visited a. friend residing in Lillington-slreet, rim- lico. She left the house with her hostess and her servant between eleven and twelve, and had occa- sion to wait for a cab at the corner of Rochester- row, Westminster. While waiting the prisoner came by; and made use of a very offensive expres- sion, and put his hand under her chin. When his conduct was resented, he called her a prosti- tute, and pushed a baked potato into her face. Afterwards he knocked her into the roadway, and went into the Coldstream Guards' Hospital, a few yards distant. She rang the bell with the object of obtaining his name, and, re-appearing at the gate, he seized her by the throat, dragged her inside, and very roughly handled her. When a policeman came she was assaulted in his presence by being pitched out with great violence.-— Emily Crane, who had been visited by the prose- cutrix, and who was In her company at the time of the alleged assault, gave corroborative evi- dence, but there were discrepancies which were made the subject of remark by the ma gist rate.— Pocock, 482 B, stated that he proceeded to the Guards' Hospital shortly after midnight in conse- quence of hearing screams and cries for help. He arrived in time to see the prisoner pitch the pro- secutrix into the street; she would have fallen but for contact with people around. The soldier, who was certainly drunk, seized the woman by the throat.—In defence, the prisoner said the conduct of the prosecutrix was not that of a respectable married woman. She pushed against him, and when he brushed her aside she became very ex- cited, and tore his tunic. He was the gate porter at tho hospital, and as she followed him there he ejected her.—An officer of the Coldstream Guards said the prisoner was a man of good character.— Mr. d'Eyncourt said there must be a remand, as it was a case for further inquiry.—Bail was taken for the prisoner.

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I EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPTED ARSON AT CARDIFF. DASTARDLY CONDUCT OF A DISCHARGED HAULIER. THE PRISONER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Mr. R. 0, Jones, the Cardiff Stipendiary, had be- fore him on Monday William Russ, a haulier, who was charged on remand with a very deliberate attempt to set on fire a stable, situated In the North-road, in the occupation of Mr. Arthur Joseph Walker, a corn and hay merchant. From the evi- d nee of one of tlm witnesses, John Huntly, who is in the employ of Mr. Kyte, butcher, Queen- street, it would appear that on Friday night, about a quarter past ten o'clock, he was standing by the stable door, when he saw the prisoner, whom he had known previously in consequence of his having been employed by Mr. Walker, cross the yard and get on the top of a heap of dung piled by the side of Mr. Walker's stable window. He immediately heard the smashing of glai's. This attracted his attention more particularly, and he continued to watch the prisoner. In a mmute prisoner took from his pocket a box of matches. He lighted a match, then with that lighted a piece of paper, and threw it, as it was lighted, through the broken panes of glass into the stable. The flame soon went out, and prisoner then took another pieco of paper from his pocket, lighted a second match, and after lighting the paper he threw that also into the stable in tho same manner. This also went out, and then, descending from the heap of dung, prisoner left the yard, followed by witness into Duke-street. When near the Rummer Tavern he saw the prisoner stop two gentlemen, who directly afterwards gave him some matches. He then picked up a piece of paper from the gutter, and returned to the yard, followed by witness, who called the attention of a companion named William Lewis towards the prisoner. He mounted the dung lieip as befo'-p, lighted the paper, and threw that inside, and also several matches. There was a bright flame for a time, and prisoner hurried out ot the yard. The prisoner was ultimately taken into custody, and denied all knowledge of the affair, and persisted that he was in bed at 9.30 on the night in question. Evidence was also given as followsJames Rogers, a cab owner, of 25. Oxford-street, Roath, deposed that on Friday night last, about half-past ten, he was in the Nort h-road, nnd saw the prisoner in the custody of Huntly and Lewis. He passed on, thinking it only an assault case, and at the bottom of the road spoke to a constable, and while engaged in conversation Russ passed by.—John Williams, a haulier in the employ of Mr. Singer, Queen-street, corroborated.—Jesse Young, a haulier in the employ of Mr. Walker, stated that about 8.30 on Friday night he had locked up the stable in the Nantgarw Coal Yard, North-road. There were two horses in the stable, and there was one pane of glass broken in the window, and that was only cracked across. He had been to the manger just before leaving, and there was no burned paper there. The manger is just under the window. Neither were there any burnt matches. He went to the stable at seven on Saturday morning, and noticed the windows broken and burnt paper and matches lying about.— Arthur Joseph Walker, corn and hay merchant, living at 5, North Edward-street, stated that he was the occupier of a stable in the Nantgarw Coal- yard, North-road. The prisoner had been in his service as haulier, and he was discharged on January 5 for drunkenness. He had seen the pri- soner since, and on Thursday last he was working for witness's brother in North-street.—For his defence the prisoner called Amelia Reed, who stated that she lived in the same house as the pri- soner. She recollected Friday last, and stated that he came in two or three times in the course of the evening, and at eight p.m. was in their room. After that he fetched in the children from the street and put them to bed. He wished them good night about 9.30, after which time they heard no more of him. His sitting-room was in the front of the house and theirs at the back.-The prisoner was then committed to the next assizes, bail being refused.

A FRISKY FRENCHMAN AT CARMARTHEN. MIDNIGHT ORGIES AND ALLEGED ROBBERY. At a special sitting of the Carmarthen Borough Police Court on Saturday (before Mr. John Hughes) John Tucker, a discharged soldier, aged 35, of Jolly T-ir-lane; John Mayers, horse jobber, aged 22, living on the Hank, at the bottom of Quay- street; William Shaw, aged 35, wool stapler, Jackson's-lane; .David Edwards, sailor, Quay- street; Esther Jane. Hopkins, aged 21, living with Mayers at the bottom of Quay-street; and Ann Hopkins, widow, aged 41, living with Esther Jane Hopkins, her daughter, were charged in custody with stealing a Sum of between £5 and £6 from the person of Edmund Arnaud, a French seaman, between midnight on Friday and early On Saturday morning.—Edmund Arnaud, the prose- cutor, deposed that on Friday about noon he was discharged from the vessel David Rees, lying in the River Towy, at Carmarthen, and received £5 5s. wages due. He had before that about jEl 5s. in his pocket. He went to his boarding-house, and after tea made his way to a publiC-house, where he remained till closing time, eleven o'clock, having spent about 4s. there. Whilst strolling Up towards the town about 12 30 he met the prisoner Tucker, and told him he was going to the raiiWay station to take ticket for Cardiff. Tucker told him there was no need to go to the Station at that time As there were no trains till about four or five in the morning. They went together to the house No. 2, the Bank, at the bottom of Quay-street, and found there Mayers, Shaw, and the two female prisoners. Tucker danced with Esther Jane Hopkins, and then witness also danced with her. After that the prisoner Edwards came in, and witness gave him half a sovereign to get two gallons of beer. He returned with the beer, and gave witness 6s. change. The beer was drunk, and Arnaud soon fell asleep in the room, where he remained. When he woke at about four o'clock his money was gone. Tucker and Mayers were there, and he (Arnaud) complained of his loss to the former, and a fight ensued about the monev. He was positive he had it in his possession when he went to tile house. Information was given to the police, and all the prisoners were arrested about six a.m.—Superintendent James now asked for a remand, in order that further inquiry might be made.—The prisoners were re- manded till Monday.

ATTEMPT TO RUUN A WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN ALIVE. EXTRAORDINARY CHA RGE OF INCENDIARISM. At the County Police Court, Shrewsbury, on Friday, Jane Jones, a married woman, was charged with wilfully and maliciously setting fire to a cottage in whieh were a woman and two young children. Only sufficient evidence was given to justify a remand, but the Liverpool Pott under- stands that the facts of the case are as follow;— A widow woman, named Mary Morgan, 65 years of age, has for some time been the tenant of a small thatched Cottage belonging to the prisoner's husband, and she had recently got behind with her rent. She left the cottacre" to visit some friends in Stafford- shire, and on her return a few days ago she found a padlock upon the door. As the prisoner refused to let her in, she broke the padlock, and thus obtained admission. On Thursday the prisoner went to the cottage and demanded 2s. 6d. rent. Mrs. Morgan said she would not pay. She then ordered her out, but. she refused to go. The pri- soner became very violent, and, fetching a padlock, she locked Mrs. Morgan and her two children in the house. She then obtained a newspaper and a match, and deliberately set, fire to the thatch of the cottage, which, owing to its dryness, burst into one mass of flame. Mrs. Morgan and her children commenced to scream when they saw their danger, and at last succeeded in attracting the attention of some men, who released them, half suffocated, from the burning building. The cottage was destroyed, as was an adjoining one belonging to a Mrs. Speake, who was from home. A crowd having collected, they proceeded to the prisoner's house, and would have lynched her hut for the arrival of the police. On being taken into custody she said she was sorry she had not roasted the old —and that it was all her own fault. The prisoner was remanded for a week.

ASSAULT ON THE POLICE NEAR ST. CLEAR'S. A NICE POINT OF LAW. At. St. Clear's Petty Sessions, on Tuesday (before Captain R. P. Beynon, Commander G. G. Pliilipps, Mr. H. S. Morgan, and Mr. W. Lewis Pliilipps), the adjourned summons charging Evan Howells, of West pool, in the Parish of Eglwy Cummin, and Hannah Howells, hi;; wiie, with separate assaults on Police-Constable John Bevan and Police-Con- stable George Mitchelmore whilst in the execution of their duty came on for hearing. Mr. H- B. White prosecuted for the police; Mr. Arthur Lowis, barrister, instructed by Mr. A. H. Lascelle?, soli- citor, Narberth, defended. Tlie main facts of the case were, after some evidence had been taken, admitted by the learned counsel for the defen- dants. It appeared that on June the 18th last some persons went to the farm Of the defendant Howells for the purpose of re- moving a connie of colts which they claimed as their property. T' e police heard of it, and fear- ing that a breach of the peace would take place the two constables already named, acting under instructions from a superior officer, attended to keep order. On that occasion, whilst the colts were being removed, b jth Howells and liiii wife assaulted the policemen in a violent manner, beat- ing them about the head with sticks, &c. The defence was that the constables were not present in the exercise of their du:y, as they had no right to assist a person in an illegal act. The proper remedy for a person who wished to remove colts against the will of the person in whose possession they were was a civil action, and Mr. Arthur Lewis contended tint it was not right for policemen to be employed to assist in doing by force what should have been done by a process of law. Ho, therefore, contended that there had been no assault upon police officers in the execution of their duty.—The Bench retired for a short time, and, on returning into court, the Chairman said the magistrates found that the officers were present in the execution of their duty and had not exceeded the same and that whilst so in the discharge of their duty the assaults were committed. Fines amounting to £6 29" including costs, were imposed.—Mr. Arthur Lewis asked the bench to state a case for the opinion of the High Court of Justice, on the point as to whether the policemen were in the discharge of their duty under the circumstances. Mr. W. Morgan Griffiths, clerk to the justices, said the bench themselves were the judges of facts, and they had found, as a matter of fact, that the policemen were in the exercise of their duty. Mr. Lewis, however, pressed that as the facts had been admitted, there was only & point of law left to decide. Just before the rising of the court Mr. Lascelles renewed the application, and asked that a special case should be stated, on the ground that the decisions Were erroneous on a point of law.-—The application was eventually granted, sub- ject to the announcement of the bench that they found, as a matter of fact, that the policemen were present in the execution of their duty being put tOSWM-d.

THE LIVING OF LLANGATTOCK. IMPORTANT ECCLKSIASTICAL INQUIRY. IS A KNOWLEDGE OF WELSH NECESSARY i RUMOURED PRESENTATION OF AN IRISH CLERGYMAN. [Br MORTEN.] The Jiving of Hangattuck. near CrickhoweH worth £920 per annum, is vacant. The presenta' tion is in the gift of the Duke of Beaufort, and it i* rumoured in the parish that his Grace intends to appoint an Irish clergyman, totally ignorant of the language of the Cymry, to the cure of souls in the old parish of Catwg Ddoeth, or the Wise. It is alleged that a knowledge of the Welsh language is not necessary there to enable the clergyman to discharge officially the duties of his high calling to the parishioners. The Lord Bishop of St. David's seems to entertain serious doubt about this, and to have determined, be- fore he sanctions the appointment of a clergyman who does not understand the Welsh tongue, to ascertain through his most trusted diocesan officials the real condition of the parish as regards its relation to the Welsh language. His Lordship caused the following notice to be posted upon the door of the Parish Church of Llangattoek Notice Is hereby given, that acommiseion of Inquiry will be h -ld by order of the Lord Bishop Qf the Diocese i II the vestry of Llangattoek Church on TuelÙa v, August 26. 1884, at eleven 0 clock in the forenoon, to receive evidence as to whether it Is necessary t hat the rector of. the parish should be competent to oerfortn DtViii# ser- vl<:el\ud prea4;.h In the Welsh language. All pRtistiloaef3 who are disposed to give evidence to attend.—Signed on behalf of the Commissioners, Davis U ILLIAMS, Canon of St. David's and Welsh Examining Chaplain of the; Lord Bishop of St. Davtd's. The Rev. Canon Bevan, Hav, and tt)6 ReVr Joseph Hughes, rector of Cwmdfl, were appoint^ to assist Conon Williams in the inquiry. The fact that Catwg Ddoeth, or the Wise, selected this charming locality for his earthly habitation is a perpetual proof that he was wise enough not to forget the enjoyments of this life while preparing for a still better world. But what was to me still more interesting was that here Carnhuanawc, rector of Cwmdû, lived and died. It was from Cwmdti, or Dark Valley, he flashed over the land the light of his History of Wales." At the same time that he held the above-named living he acted as curate for Lord William Somerset, the brother of the father of the present Duke of Beaufort. Lord William Somerset, who was in holy orders, held half a dozen livings in this neighbourhood, and employed Welsh curates to do the work for him Carnhuanawc was on exceptionally friendly terms with the late lord, and the present Lady Llanofer. Who knows ? The then abuses of the Welsh Church in this locality, opera- ting on the sensitive mind of the Welsh clerical historian, may have been the source of the impulse operating On that of Lord Hanofer, then Sir ben" jamin Hall, Bart., and resulting in the Act of Par- liament which enables the .Lord Bishop of St. David's to hold the present inquiry at Llangat- tock. The last-named church is situate a short distance from Crickhowell. It is approached by a short cut through the fields, 8S well as round the road. It has a low, souare bell tower of great size. The interior. of the church bears an appearance of great antiquity. On each side of the altar is a fine window of coloured glass, containing Scriptural Bcenes and characters. I found the inquiry being held In the vestry, which Is a room at the basement of the above-mentioned tower. There were present the Rev. Canon Williams, who pre- sided. and the other rev. gentlemen above mentioned. There were also present the curates of Llangenny and Llangattoek, Hnd a number of the parishioners. An old man, who, I afterwards ascertained, was a genuine son of St. Crispin, was giving his evidence in English. He spoke it with considerable Volubility, and made remarks which greatly amused all present. He Was decidedly of opinion that any clergyman appointed to Llnngat-" tock ought to understand Welsh as well as English. He and his fellow-parishioners might be able tc. transact well enough their business affairs in English, but they nil preferred the Gospel Drenched in the Welsh language. There was Wm. Edwards, he was a Churchman, and attended church every Sunday morning. But he always at tended the Welsh Weslfe/fin Chapel on Sunday afternoons because he could there hear the Gospel preached in hie native tongue. The other Sunday when leaving Llangattoek Church he asked a friend how he liked the sermon they had just heard. h Wèl1, indeed," was the reply, it. was too grammatical for me. Had it been in Welsh I might have understood it" you see," St. Crispin's son, continuing, saifl it was no good preaching grammatical English to the people of Llangattoek. One ol the clergymen smilingly asked the witness whetbei he thought it would be better to appoint to the parish a clergyman who knew nothing about grammar, *'No, no," was the reply. u A clergy* man must be a scholar." The old man seemed to dread what he called dictionary Engtish. He objected, he said, to boing obligød after returning homo from the Church service to look into the English dictionary to discover what the clergyman had been saving in his sermon, as he was occasion-illy obliged to do. The Rev. Canon Williams here asked him whether he took his English and Welsh Dictionary to church with him. He answered that he often felt he ought to have done so, but had not vet don< this. At this point Caftan Williams asked if there WAS a representative of thn press present. He wished to state that they did not desire the proceedings re- ported verbatim. 1 said I did not intend doing but merely to give ft general outline of them- While not objecting to this being done, I was given to understand that just before my arrival two re- presentatives of the press had been refused admis- sion to the inquiry. No objection, however, WAS made to my giving publicity to what' I had heard. 1 then retired, but I saw the rev. gentlemen afterwards, and they promised to make known through the fVesttrn Alail the result of the inquiry as soon as possible after tht Hishftp's decision thereon had been made known.' -1 found that at both Llangattoek and C'-ickhOwell the Welsh language is preached in the chapels OF the Cftlvinistic Methodists, WeslevanS, HaptistS, and Independents but, that during in-my yet&rs not 1\ single Welsh 841I.vicl! hAg been held in thE churches of Dangattock, Dangcnnv, and Crick- howell. Tliia applies also to all the chapels of the Welsh Nonconformists in the adjacent neighbour' hoods. But in 11:11 of them an j1;nglisil service 19 held Once on Sunday. I did not meet with a singJe adult in the locality Unable to converse in both languages. I WAS told, however, that the English language Is gaining ground rapidly in the whole district, and that, out few of the children there understood Welsh. I ought to add that the reason given by the rev. gentlemen for excluding the press from the inquiry Was that they felt that the Lord Bishop, upon whom rested the response bility of sanctioning the appointment, ought to be the first to receive the report as to the pre- valence or otherwise of the Welsh language in the parish.

ALLEGED DEFALCATIONS BY MESSRS. VIVIAN'S CASHIER AT SWANSEA- THE PRISONER REMANDED IN CUSTODY- Considerable interest was excited at Swansea on Tuesday by the statement that Mr. Edward Played who is very well known at-Swansea, and has Occu* pied positions of trust in connection with Messrs. Vivian, at their extensive works, and with Mr, Graham Vivian as regards his estates, had been apprehended by the police on a charge preferred against him by Messrs. Vivian. The rumour turned out to be quite true, and the prisoner was brought up at the police-court in the morning and was tor- mally charged with having made fraudulent entxie9 in his books, as chief cashier to Messrs. Vivian. Mr. Abel Thomas (instructed by Messrs. StrickS and Bellingham) appeared to prosecute, and Mr, Evans, of Neath, for the defence. Mr. Abel Thomas informed the court that he had agreed with Mr. Evans, prisoner's solicitor, upon a remand, and asked the b nch to carry it out. Mr. Evans said he had thought it better to AGRFIFL to the retnand, but he asked their worships to alloW" the prisoner the benefit of bail for the week. Mr. Abel Thomas said it was really a very pain- ful case, but he was sorry he was unable to to this. The defalcations had, it seemed, EXTENDED ovel. A period of five years,and were at pI esentl"UV¿ posed to amount to £1,500. Hej therefore, must ask that prisoner should be detained in custody- > Mr. Evans requested the Bench to consider during the period of remand they could allow prisoner bail. Mr. Player was perfectly- known in Swansea, having resided in the town fOJ the past 32 years, and he hud a family. If a were granted it was obvious that the would be better able to cope with the case at»l.rtS him, and instruct his solicitor. r. Player D«'n» no longer young, and having a family, he was nO likely to defeat the end" of justice. Mr. Abel Thomas said he was instructed G oppose this SUGGESTION to the utmost, as he ,ø.b sorry to say THE prosecution had grounds were only too strong to go upon. The frauds extended over five years, and at least £ 1,500 been obtained from Messrs. Vivian ahd Son# a. by fraud, and to that it was to be feared t'' »m would have to add charges of larceny and embeW" ment. Everything that could be dor.e b>'rt"°7tb0 the solicitor tor the defence a full inspection of hooks and so on would be done, and, consider! t the grave nature of the charge, he felt it his du Y to oppose the bailing of prisoner. uatich Mr. Alderman Phillips, who was on the be with Mr. D. Jones, said the bench sorrowfully i dined the responsibility of accepting .jiiJ hoped the stipendiary would be in his place wi a week to hear the evidence in the case. lot The prisoner was then remanded in custody one week. is. Mr. Player was until lately the treasurer, even now a leader, in the Blue Ribbon move i hti frequently taking the chair at the Saturday meetings, and it is stated often anathematising^^ inveighing against the sellers of drink. » 2»ve also churchwarden at the parish church, largely to the funds. His position with 1*1 Vivian was chiefly connected with agTicultu

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