The Cardiff Times

PONTYPRIDD BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The usual fortnightly meeting of. the above Board held on Wednesday, the Rev. D. W. Williams (chairman) presiding. There was a poor attendance of Guardians, a some- what remarkable circumstance when it is remembered that the Nuisance Inspectors were to be appointed for the two districts into which the Union area has been divided for sanitary purposes. The minutes of the last meeting were read and con- firmed. TaE "WESTEEX MAIL" AXD THE ADVERTISEMENTS OF THE BOARD. The CHAIRMAN drew the attention of the Board to a fetter handed to hiiu by the reporter of the Western Mail, 111 whioh complaint was made that the medium of that paper was unrecognised for advertisement purposes. In stating that he would not read ihe letter in the absence of the clerk, the Chairman observed that the reports ia the Western Mail were not always correct. The Board could certainly exercise its own pleasure as to whether U was expedient or not to advertise in the Mail. The subject then dropped. DEATH OF THE HOUSE SURGEOX. The CHAIRMAN said it was his painful duty to an- nounce to the Board the death of a great friend of his, yho was also an officer of the Board. Dr. Morgan dur- ltlg the time he was actively engaged as the surgeon to the inmates of the house, had given uniform and un- qualified satisfaction. For himself, as a family attend- ant, he always had the highest confidence in his skill ability. He felt his loss the more as it was due to him that Dr. Morgan first settled in Pontypridd. He Relieved, from what he heard on the road from his resi- dence to the Board-room, that their late medical officer was not only widely and sincerely respected, but that the poor will lose in his death a most substantial friend. It was necessary, until a formal appointment was made, to elect some one to perform the duties of heuse and parish surgeon. He knew Mr. Dickson, Dr. Morgan's assistant, and had found that during Dr. Morgan's in- ability to attend, his assistant had performed the duties Satisfactoriiv. He moved that Mr. Dickson be appointed pro tem. The Master, on being questioned, reported that Mr. Dickson had been attentive to the patients at the house. Mr. E. WiLLiAMS Is he qualified ? The CHAIRMAN He has one qualification. Mr. T. WILLIAMS, the vice-chairman, seconded the Imposition, and it was carried. After certain letters from the Local Government confirming certain recent appointments, the **oard resolved itself into a RURAL SANITARY BOARD. Before proceeding to the business in connection with this authority, the Chairman read a pamphlet he had teceiyed from Mr. A. Doyle, her Majesty's Poor-law In- spector. This pamphlet embraced a commentary and Several critique ou the reports of Inspectors of Nuisances. Those reports were the result of sanitary surveys made in different Unions, under the provisions ef the Public Health Act, 1872. It also embodied Certain suggestions with a view of securing increased more minute sanitary supervision. Some of the ^scloeuxes made as a result of the recent sanitary BUT- .eys in respect of walit of drainage, of latrines, pro- perly ventilated dwellings, and of pure water, were of a deplorable and shocking character. It was resolved to advertise for a successor to Dr. Morgan. ELECTION OF NUISANCE INSPECTORS. The election of two Nuisance Inspectors was then Proceeded with. There were 17 candidates. Mr. J. Evans was appointed inspector for the No. 2 •^strict, and Mr. Robert Evans was appointed for No. 1 ^strict. A letter from Mr. A. Doyle, her Majesty's Inspector, appointing June 20 for a meeting of Guardians in Car- *^21 to consider the question of combining several s^aitary districts for more effective medical. supervi- alOn, being read, the Board separated.

MERTHYR BOARD OF HEALTH. The ordinary bi-monthly meeting of this Board was on Wednesday. Present, Mr. Wm. Harris (in the ^air), Messrs. Simons, Geo. Martin, J. Hosgood, Ed. ^°wells, Jas. Harrison, Jas. James, J. W. James, W. •k* Daniel, W. Gould, and J. Gabe. The minutes of the last meeting were read and con- «rxaed. The Surveyor's report was read, but contained nothing Of public interest, and the recommendations made generally ordered to be carried out. It was agreed hat a Committee of the whole Board should meet on flonday, for the purpose of considering the application Or the situation of Clerk in the Surveyor's office. The report of the Finance Committee was read, and Cheques were ordered in payment for bills to the amount -El,906 17s. lid. A letter from the Urban Sanitary authority of Brecon, faking that Mr. Harpur, the Surveyor, should be allowed to visit the town for the purpose of recommending the method of draining it and utilising the sewage, was *he subject of considerable discussion. 1\ Mr. J. w. JAMES thought that this Board had gone to great deal of expense over this matter, and it was JJ^fair to ask the Surveyor to go to other towns and <&ve the result of his experience. The Brecon people v^ght go to Mr. Bailey, Denton, as this Board had forced to do. d Mr. SIMON s concurred to a certain extent with Mr. a*Qes, but did not wish to appear discourteous. The *ct was, however, that the Board really had need of all ~lr: Harpur's services, and could ill spare him even for 4 s^gle day. b Mr. W. L. DANIEL combatted this view. He would 6 sorry to see the Board in a position which might be *ed upon as narrow and selfish, and pointed to the that Merthyr was to a great extent looked upon as ^e pioneer in the subject of drainage. Mr. W. HARRIS pointed out that men who understood 6 drainage of towns like Mr. Harpur did were few and j"1 between, and the advantage which might be derived .,0th Mr. Harpur's advice was inestimable. How would Board look on a curt refusal, supposing they were the position of Brecon ? jjMr. GABE suggested that if the Board allowed Mr. arpur to be of service to the people of Brecon, they ■"OQltj have money for it. It was ultimately agreed that a courteous refusal be on the ground that it was impossible to consent consequence of the demand on the surveyor's time. .A letter from Mr. J. B. Evans, draper, Dowlais, occu- £ le<i the attention of the Board for some time. It eetned that Mr. Evans had been summoned for leaving Packages in front of his shop, for what was considered _o be PJI unreasonable time, and he explained that he had beared them away as soon as possible, and asked permis- of the Board to be allowed sufficient time in future, G that he should not be again subjected to the annoy- n°e of another summons. It was agreed that inasmuch 8 the bye-laws of the Board were shortly to be revised, hniit should be laid down as to the time allowed for ^ese purposes. Mr. SIMONS, in accordance with notice given, moved hat the Board take steps to obtain Parliamentary P°Wers to acquire possession of certain land other works required for the purposes of .he town. In the first place he pointed out pe necessity for increased reservoir accommodation, view of the fact that the present was barely euffi- lent to supply the present wants of the population, and this would be shortly very much increased by the Pening of new collieries and works at the lower end the town, besides the fact that there was now an ex- Pend^Qre ^-x,B00 a year for pumping water up for hei use of Dowlais. Then he would like to see all gas ha water works the property of the public Boards of he various places. To this end he suggested that both he, Dowlais and Merthyr Gas Companies should he ciuced in the Bill. When they applied to Parliament j might as well apply for everything they wanted, though he of course did not suppose they were going o do all these things at once, still it would be well to "&m the necessary powers. The speaker went on to j h*t out several extremely necessary reforms required the town, for which compulsory powers for purchas- 8 land would be required, among them being a new 0ftd to Nelson, place for a slaughter-house, an improved htrance to Cyfarthfa, by way of the iron bridge which as now notoriously insufficient for the traffic. This contended, a large contributor to the public rates Mr. Craw shay, had a right to demand. Then the c°r»er to Dowlais" at the top of Pontmorlais, was ex- dangerous and should be assisted by space for j}°t-passengerti, and last of all he urged upon the j °ard the duty of supplying some place of recreation OF ghape of a public park for the inhabitants the town. Complaints were made of the habits People; they were called intemperate, disorderly, 3?h *kat, htit what had been done to improve them ? ^here was no common or any open space where the °ple had any right to congregate, and he would sug- that Penydarran park should be obtained for the j^]-Pose. He would move that a committee be ap- tQh?ted to consider these matters, and report on them he Board. W. L. DANIEL seconded the motion, >vhich was identical with one he had himself brought for- Y* as far back as 1870. • COULD objected, and urged that before taking fcw such steps they should endeavour to have the j^cipai of |0,,a^ taxation altered. isu,/1- J. W. JAMES was half inclined to support Mr. ^0,&hs, had that gentleman contented himself with a in small scheme, but there was enough work lje 4at had been suggested fairly to stagger any one. 140 "ould not like to venture upon borrowing any more 1Jltyll? present, particularly at the rate they had to aU(^ c'i'I u°t believe the Board would !i Profit out of the gas any more than they were 0tit of the se wage. *HOV e0111-0 of some further remarks, Mr. GOULD iof s as an amendment that the question be deferred Souths. This was seconder by Mr. GABE, but lost h beIng put to the meeting tha amendment was Ya Majority of eight to three. SERIOUS CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST A SWANSEA TRADESMAN. The Bristol Bankruptcy Court was engaged on Friday aud Saturday in investigating an alleged fraudulent sale in connection with the bankruptcy of Thomas Lana- gan, a draper of Swansea. The case was heard before Mr. E. J. Lloyd, judge, and a special jury, and the alle- gation of fraud was brought against Mr. Goldstein, a pawnbroker, of Swansea. Mr. Norris (instructed by Messrs. M. Bnttan and Sons) appeared for the trustee iu bankruptcy, and Mr. Clifton appeared on behalf of Mr. Goldstein. The learned counsel said that Lanagan carried on business at Swansea from the beginning of 1872 down to the 22nd of November of the same year. Upon the 22nd of November he made himselt scarce, migrated to Liverpool, where he went on board a steamer, was transported across the Atlantic, and he took up his quarters on the more hospitable shores of America. He left his creditors very considerably m debt, and they had not received one penny from his estate, the whole of which he had sold to Mr. Morris Goldstein, a pawnbroker, of the Jewish persuasion, also carrying on business in Swansea. Mr. Goldstein had been examined before the Registrar, and he stated that he had had only one transaction with the bankrupt—namely, on the day betore he left; that he happened to pass his shop, and that Lanagan said to him I am going to move to Liverpool I cannot take an these goods with me will you buy them ? He (Mr. Goldstein) said he would so loug as he did not charge too much for them. The price he named was JE500 but Goldstein offered £350. Lanagan said that he had some goods at the railway station of the value of £60; that he should have them aud the whole of the stock in his business, and the furniture and fix-, tures on the premises, for £400. This was agreed f upon, and Goldstein gave the debtor a cheque for j £ 400. Lanagan left Swansea on the same morning for Liverpool, and was followed in the afternoon by his wife, after she had cashed the cheque given by Goldstein to her husband; and though Gold- stein had sworn in his examination that he had not seen Lanagan after the transaction, it would be deposed to by a railway porter, who would be called, that he had gone to the railway station to see both Mr. and Mrs. Lanagan off by tram. The learned counsel said that the trustee estimated the vallie of the property which had been sold to Goldstein for £ 400 at £ 1,018 17s. 2d., »nd the question for the consideiation of the jury was, whether at the time Goldstein made the purchase he was cognisant of, or might have been reasonably cognisant of, the intention ot Lanagan to leave Swansea, and thereby defeat and delay his cre- ditors. He asked them to say that the alleged sale was fraudulent and void. Their duty further would be to assess the value of the goods taken possession of by Mr. Goldstein, and though the value which had been put upon them might be excessive, that they were worth upwards of £800 he thought they would have no d°Mr.'B. J. Letcher, cashier of the Glamorgan Banking Company at Swansea, said he cashed Mr. Goldsteins's cheque for JE400. He paid the sum in gold to a female. Miss Thomas, assistant to the bankrupt, proved that she informed Mr. Goldstein that Mr. and Mrs. Lanagan were going to America. After Mr. Goldstein took pos- session of the goods he told her to keep the matter quiet. An inventory was taken, but several kinds ol goods had been previously removed. Evan Lloyd, Evan Jones, also assistants to Lanagan, and William Pickwick, a railway porter, were also examined. Mr. Clifton, for Mr. Goldstein, urged that the jury could not be satisfied upon the slender testimony which they had heard that Mr. Goldstein was privy to the fraud. He had been in the habit of making large pur- chases, and there was nothing remarkable in this tran- saction so far as he was concerned but witnesses would inform them that Mr. Goldstein was taken m by Mr. Lanagan, the property which he purchased not being worth £ 400. Mr. Goldstein was not cognisant of any fraud on the part of Lanagan, and he had no object in assisting Lanagan to leave this country. It being five o'clock, and there being three or four witnesses to be examined for Mr. Goldstein, the case was adjourned until Saturday. On Saturday Mr. Morris Goldstein entered into an exhaustive explanation of what had transpired betwixt himself and Lanagan. It was, he said, the purest acci- dent in the world that he went to Lanagan's house. Mr. Bowcn, 69, Wind-street, Swansea, who had had considerable experience in the drapery line, and had also engaged in business as auctieneer, commission a^ent, &c., confirmed Goldstein's statement as to the terms' and particulars of his purchase from Lanagan. Mr. Clifton addressed the jury for the defence, and again contended that no fraud had been brought home to Goldstein in this case. As to what took place be- tween him and Lanagan in the latter's shop, and the imputed secrecy with which matters were carried on, it was very unlikely that negotiations of this kind would anywhere be carried on in the hearing of the assistants, and no suspicion could be attached to Goldstein upon that ground. If an inadequate price had been paid for the goods then it might have been attempted to show that something like a fraud had taken place. But, he argued, the price paid by Goldstein was the reverse of inadequate. Lanagan's object, it was clear, had been to deceive not only his creditors but Gold- stein, and in this he had succeeded. He had hatched up a plausible story about a business at Liverpool, and had made Goldstein his dupe. The cruicial point in the case, the allegstion that Goldsten had accompanied Lanagan to the station had been amply explained by Goldstein himself. Goldstein had had to pay dear for the goods, for after having had to pay a high price for them they were still undispos^ d of. He could not get a price commensurate to what he paid for them. He had acted neither covertly nor clandestinely. Every- thing took place in the broad light of day. Mr. Norris, in replying, laid stress on the fact that Mr. Clifton had not put one single question to Gold- stein as to what he had told Miss Thomas—to keep things quiet." He also emphasized the manner in which this" high-minded, intelligent, and honest in- habitant of Poland, who had favoured the inhabitants of South Wales with the light of his countenance, had given £50 for goods invoiced at over £60 to Lanagan from Messrs. Berry." Reviewingthe defence, he appealed to the jury if they had a doubt upon their minds to give Goldstein the benefit of it. If not-if they believed him privy to the fraud by Lanagan, then they must insist that the creditors should be dealt justly with, even to the last penny that Goldstein had. His Honour summed up, and enunciated the legal bearing of the case. The jury, after retiring for about twenty minutes, returned into court, and gave a verdict for the plaintiffs. They were all agreed as to Goldstein s cognizance, in the fraud, jand assessed the damages to be (indepen- dent of the £400 paid to Lanagan) £610. His Honour allowed costs.

THE O'KEEFFE CASE. A condition order was on Wednesday granted, on the motion for a new trial, in the case of O'Keeffe v. Cullen, on the ground that the Judge hearing the case had no right to set aside the defence which the full court of Queen's Bench had held to be good.

A WOMAN KILLED ON A RAILWAY On Monday night a woman was found on the rails at the Farrington-street Railway Station frightfully muti- lated by a passing train, and in a dying state. She was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she died in a few minutes. At present it is not known who she via?, The following description is given Height 5ft., complexion and hair dark, dressed in mourning, dark waterproof cloak, white stockings, side-spring boots, and she had with her a brown silk umbrella, two keys, and some silver and copper.

THE INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE ATLANTIC. The Atlantic Inquiry was resumed at Liverpool, Wed- nesday, and again adjourned. Evidence was given that the coals had not been tampered with before being put on board. The third engineer reported to the chief that there were 1GO tons in the bunkers the day before the ship struck.

TRAFFIC RETURNS. North British, increase, f 5,253 Bristol and Exeter, increase, £1,18U Caledonian, increase, £3,707; Lan- cashire and Yorkshire, increase, JE5,022 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, increase, £5,5G8; Midland, in- crease, £4,388; Great Northern, increase, £6,233; Great Western, increase, £17.052 London and North Western, increase, £24.111; Chatham and Dover, in- crease, £4,043; Metropolitan District, increase, £211 South Western, increase, £8,2S9; Great Eastern, in- crease, £12,047; Scotland, increase, £351.

AN ERRATIC ORATOR. The London correspondent of the Birmingham Morning News (a Liberal paper) thus describes Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., the aged and erratic member for Devon- port :-Looking round the Benches of the House of Commons, we can sec many hon. members on either side of the House whom We shall not see in the next Parlia- ment. Some we shall sadly miss from their accustomed places but if it pleases Devonport.to take Mr. Montagu Chambers to itself, none will view his departure with un- appeasable regret. When he appeared only .occasionally in the debates—once a month, for example—he was bearable, and even welcome. But since his own party in Devonport have intimated to him that they do not mean to support him at the forthcoming election, he, after nobly defying tliam to do their worst, has displayed such an alarming amount of energy in the House that he is getting unendurable. Last Monday we had a fearful evening with the old gentleman. He has arrived at the conclusion that Devonport won't have him again because he has not shewn himself sufficiently alive to the interests of the nation in general, and of Devonport in particular, when those interests have been made the subject of debate. Accordingly, he now speaks on nearly every topic that crops up; and on Monday, the Navy Estimates being under discussion, and Devonport having something to do with the Navy, Mr. Montague Chambers made about six several speeches, to the profound disgust of Mr. Goschen, who was, by the time thus occupied, prevented from making the progress he. had reasonably hoped to do with the votes. In personal appearance, Mr. Montague Chambers ^is strongly like the idea one forms of Mr. Micawber after studying Charles Dickens s description of him. A special peculiarity of his oratorical manner is the ground he covers whilst addressing the Speaker. Hia seat is on the third bench behind the Treasury Bench, and he generally rises from the corner near the gangway. Leaving his hat there as a sort of landmark, he executes a series of eccentric marching and countermarching up and down the passage before the bench, and is frequently discovered fifteen or sixteen feet away from his hat, to- wards which, jMwevef, he invariably returns witfi the last sentence of his oration. This peculiarity is an awkward one for hon. members seated on the bench below, for when Mr. Chambers is saying anything particularly incoherent or inconsequential he has a habit of leaning forward and bringing down his clenched fist with a great thump. He once so brought it down on Mr. Samuda's hat, and since that period it is, as Mr. Pepys says, "pretty to see" how hon. members on the bench below get out of range when the learned Queen's Counsel rises to speak. But when he is liable to turn up at any moment at any given spot along the full range of the bench, what are hon. members who value their hats to do? Sometimes Mr. Chambers, turning his back upon the House and the Speaker, addresses himself personally and exclu- sively to some one he finds on the bench behind. But as this is a flagrant breach of the rules oi the House, and as members sitting out of range take a mischievous delight in bringing him back by cries- of "Order!" the respite enjoyed is but brief. No words can describe the unction with which he enjoys his own eloquence, repeating over and over again a phrase which strikes his fancy. But ordinary mortals, of which class the bulk of the House is composed, can make neither head nor tail of his ramblings; thus the enjoyment is hardly fairly equalised.

The boldest project in bicycling yet attempted was commenced on Monday, by some members of the Middlesex Bicycle Club. They started from London for John O'Groats. The route will be through Stam- ford, Doncaster, Borough Bridge, Durham, Newcastle, Berwick, Edinburgh, Perth, Blair Athol, Inverness, Dunrobin, &c. On Saturday morning an explosion occurred at Bryan Hall Colliery, Ashton, near Wigan, from some cause not yet ascertained. Six firemen and a shot lighter were killed, and great damage was done. The origia of the accident has not yet been ascertained. A boy in an upper seam of the pit was brought out alive, and is recovering. On Saturday afternoon a.nd night several descents were made. Four small fires were discovered, and extinguished. The chokedamp vas gradually con- quered, and early in the aftereoon it was announced that all the bodies had been found. The stories which have been iu circulation for some days about the arrest of Mr. Charlas Bradlaugh by the Carlists were ended by his arrival in London on Satur- day. It is stated that orders had been given by one of the Carlist leaders for his arrest, as the object of his mission to Madrid as a Republican envoy had become known but the Government of Madrid furnished him with an escort, and sent him in company with one of their own agents. The escort, fnding a considerable body of Carlists .vere waiting for them, declined to pro- ceed further than Vittoria, and Ilr. Bradlaugh, after a very narrow escape in attempting to reach Vittoria, went to Santander, and proceeded thence to Bordeaux by steamer. TIIE TEAS SUPPLIED at 10 and 11, Queen-street, Cardiff, are giving universal satisfaction, proof of which is, a con- stantly increasing sale. Those who have not tried them are confidently recommended to do St. Coffees will be found of very best value, as also all articles pertaining to the grocery and Italian trade. Proprietors, E. Singer and Co. 5117 LIFE PRESERVERS.—DEAR SIR.—As for your Europa Infants' Life Preservers, their effects are wonderful. I always keep them by me, and whenever there's any dis- turbance of whatever kind in the health of any of my younger children it dose or tw,) of your invaluablp Powders brings them round quickly. I recommend them all I possibly can. Yours, &c., Thos. Thomas, Manager, Ton Foundry, ithondda Valley.—Tbe Europa Life Preservers being the ONLY SAFE MEDICINE to ,?ire infants, mothers are invited to give them a trial. They have wonderful power in rE- lieving, and as if by magic curing the Irritation of TeeUing Convulsions, Inflamation of the Lungs, Fits, Cosfiveness Sour Breath, Looseness of the Bowels, Constant Yomiring, Wheezing in the net of breathing, Bronchitis, Small-pox, Scarlatina, Measles, and Fevers of all sorts. Soli in packets at Is.. 1M. and 2s. 9d, each, by all Medicine Vendors everywhere, or free by post from the Inventerand Sole Proprietor B. A. GEORGE, Pentre, Pontypridd, foj 10 or 34: stamps.—London Agents: Barclay and Sons, and Mother. 40(4.

THE CHIPPING, NORTON CASE. 1 Mr. William Mackenzie writes to the Times under date 34, Trevor-square, Knightsbridge, June 2:— The following are statements made by the two women Elizabeth and Mary Pratley, who were imprisoned at Ox- ford, in pursuance of the sentence of the Chipping Norton justices. I think you will agree with me that it is incum- bent upon the Home Secretary to institute an inquiry into the truth of this charge of gross inhumanity perjio- trated by the authorities of the prison upon those two mothers and their • infants, one ten weeks and the other seven months old. I shall only add that I took down the statements of the two women from their own lips in their own cottages yesterday morning. The women, though very poor, and living in miserable habitations, had every appearance of being respectable and trustwortliy persons :— "Statement.of Mary Pratley. I was nursing my baby from the breast, the child was only ten weeks old; I had as good a breast of milk as any woman in England when I went into prison, but wliile there had scarcely any, owing to my not having proper food. I had nothing but bread and skilly; I felt the want of a little Itea very much. I got rheumatism in my shoulders and limbs very bad, chiefly, I think, owing .to the night drive, which was both cold and wet. The doctor came each morn- ing; he looked at my hands the first day. He made no inquiry either about my state or that of the baby. My baby was taken away undressed from the Chipping Norton police station in the middle of the night. I beg- ged Superintendent Lakin to give me time to put the child's clothes on, but he refused, saying you must come at once, there is no time to mess about. We were placed in the open van. I wrapped up the child the best way I could in its clothes. The child took a very bad cough, and coughed till it was black in the face on the Sunday when we were in the prison, and the matron saw it. My baby was accustomed to have a little sop, with sugar. I told the matron the child would not take the sop without sugar. She said no sugar was allowed. I was allowed only half a pint of milk morning and evening for the child. Neither the governor, nor the chaplain, nor the doctor, nor the visiting magistrates ever asked whether I had food enough for the child or myself, or whether I was suckling the baby. „ 'MARY PRATLET. + Her mark. Jun^ L" Statement of Elizabeth Pratley. MI hadtwhile in prison nothing but bread and skilly, no milk, beer, or meat, or broth. My baby, seven months old, was with me, I received for it what they called a pint, but it was not more than three-quarters of a pint of milk, twice a day, not near enough for the child. No milk was allowed for the child during the night-time only a very little sugar once a day for the child's sop at dinner time. At home it always had plenty of sugar both with its milk and its sop, and always some milk in the night. The child suffered very much from want of proper nourishment and from there being no fire in the cell. I also suffered from want of better food and from cold. I could hardly sleep at nights. I hardly got an hour's sleep any night. The child could not sleep at night, it was so hungry. The doctor saw me twice, but made no inquiry about the baby, nor ever looked at it. The child caught cold and coughed so much the night before last (Friday night) I thought it would have died. The child was not unhealthy, but was never strong, and has been a great deal worse since. I got a very bad cold from travelling by night, and, from the dampness of the prison cell, I could hardly speak the day after I came home, my throat and chest were so bad and my limbs ached so. I am still not well by a long way. ELIZABETH PRATLEY. X Her mark. "•June 1:"

THE POLARIS EXPEDITION. ^The New York Herald publishrs some details of Captain Hall's death which its correspondent at St. John's, New- foundland, heard from one of the survivors, an Esqui- maux. It says :—At the best, under the most heroic or the most beneficent circumstances, the chill arms of death must come in that desolate Ultima Thule with no inviting clasp. The conditions of Hall's death show how terribly even that bleak prospect can be darkened. He drank some coffee and wa taken violently sick, vomiting, and lay suffering for four days. The stories of the Esquimaux have a significance here which cannot be overlooked. Suspicious of those who should be the mainstay of his hopes, he asks the Esqui- maux if the coffee had sickened them. It had not. Through the broken exclamations of the two men to our correspondent we catch glimpses as of things "seen through a glass darkly." Captain Hall says the^e was something bad in his coffee. The word poison comes out like a spectre from the scarcely coherent phrases of the Esquimaux. One of them tells how the man arose and pored in painful persistency over four medical books, and at last found the word he wanted. He pointed it out and pronounced it; but the strange •word has escaped the Esquimaux's memory. Captain Hall grows better and stronger, but relapses soon into what is described as paralysis, suffers exceedingly, becomes delirious, insensible, and at last rues-" went out like the snuff of a candle," says Heron the steward. Bessel, the doctor, ascribed the death to apoplexy. The absorbing question will be how this can tally with symptoms of the disease. Suspicions, quarrels, open-worded or ominously silent, distrust and dislike among those left aftei Hall's death, flit in ugly ghoul-like forms across the

A horrible discovery was made on Friday in a wood on the Sundown estate, a few miles from Shrews- bury. Two men, alleged to be poachers, were in the wood at four o'clock in the morning, when they came across several dogs devouring some substance, which on examin- ation proved to be the body of a newly-born child, nothing but the head and chest being left. A gratifying announcement was made on Friday at the May general meeting of the Cheshire Chamber of ( Agriculture, held at Northwich. Lord Egerton of Tatton, who occupied the chair, stated that he had received a letter from the chief constable of the county of Chester, stating that, for the first time during four years, last week no fresh case of cattle plague occurred at all, although there were still 27 beasts under treatment. It is satisfactory to learn that a considerable diminution in the pauperism of the country has recently occurred. From a return just issued by the Local Gov- ernment Board we learn that at the close of the last parochial year there were 852.9.15 paupers in receipt of relief in the several unions of England, and at the corre- sponding period of the previous year there were 907,047, shewing a decrease in 1873 of 54,132, or 6 per cent; but compared with the last week of March, 1871, there was a. decrease of 146,170, or 14'6 per cent. The decrease of pauperism in England is confined to the outdoor paupers. The Derby week and the Derby over mark a. distinct point reached and passed in the course of the London season. From this the pace of fashion will be for a few weeks still more fast and furious than it has been. The Row will be more crowded, both morning and after- noon Bond-street will be haunted by additional troops of loungers and Regent street, at certam hours, will be a sight for the ubiquitous intelligent foreigner to stare at. The Derby is thus recognised as a festival from which a fresh impulse is imparted to the business of those who have nothing to do, and of others who are gravely enough concerned in the fact of the" season" being brilliant or, not.—Fidd. DREADFUL ASSAULT BY A SOLDIER.—James Hob- bins, a private in the 21st Regiment, and a patient at the Royal Victoria Military Hospital, has been charged' before the county magistrates at Southampton with at- tempting to murder Surgeon Sydney Keyworth Ray, one of the medical staff, on Friday, the 16th iust. Mr. Ray was able for the first time to appear and give evidence.: He said he had charge of the ward occupied by the prisoner, who had been invalided from India. About a quarter to ten on the morning in question, he entered the ward. Several of the patients brought j their diet-sheets to him to sign. He suddenly j felt himself attacked from behind, and his throat was cut. In trying to protect himself, he received cuts in the hands. Hp had not noticed the prisoner, who must have been behind him for five minutes prior to the assault. Mr. W. A. Mackinnon, a surgeon-major, said the wound in Mr. Ray's throat was of a serious nature. The fingers on the left hand were also much cut. Further evidence went to prove that the prisoner was seen to steal behind Mr. Ray, throw his left arm over his eyes, draw his head back, and then cut his throat with a razor. The surgeon-major having charge of the lunatics gave it as his opinion that the prisoner's mind was affected. The; prisoner was committed for trial at the next Assizer On Saturday, at Dublin, Master Burke certified costs of Galwny Election Petition at £ 0,789 17s. 2J. They were originally furnished a,t £ 8.144 lCs. 3d. It is stated further appeal will be lodged against the taxing by Captain Isolau, who was unseated by Judge Kegh. AGREEABLE COUGH MEBICIXE. — Pepper's White C",ugh Mix- ture is tiie most reliable and agreeable cure for Coutrhs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, and all Lung, Dlse3:ses, pleasant to the taste, and immediate in effect, this unique remedy is attracting attention everywhere. Bottles Is. lA<i. and 2s. Pd: each, sold by all respectable Chemists. Agents in Cardiff, Williams, Chemist, 11, Bute-street. 8155

THE IN TE R N ATI ON ALISTS. At the Congress of Internationalists in Manches- ter, it was resolved that the possession of the land is the inalienable right of the people that the people having been deprived of the land through the fraudu- lent devices and tyrannical usurpation of the governing classes, are justified in enforcing the restitution of the same by any means that circumstances may place within their power, that the association shall use every means in its power to propagate the idea of the na'ion- alization of the land, and endeavour by every possible means to bring about its speedy realization. The con- gress also pronounced in favour of the total and imme- diate abolition of the law of inheritence proclaimed the necessity for the appropriation by the State of all instruments of production, and declared the right of the working class to the use of the national credit for the purposes of co-operation and industry.

EXTENSIVE COALFIELDS, The screw steamer Diana, which is employed to run the mails between Copenhagen and Iceland, by way of Lerwick and Grantown, arrived in the latter port on Saturday evening on her first outward passage for the season. Seven of her cabin passengers are the pro- prietors of extensive coalfields, which were discovered on the Faroe Islands last year and they are on their way to begin working the mine. One of the proprietors is a German, three are English, and three Danish. One of the Danes is the owner of an island where the coal has been found. The party has ou board all necessary appliances for beginning operations. The coal in Faroe runs in the seams through the mountainous portion of the islands, 2,200 feet above the sea level. The area of the coalfield is thirty-two square miles, and the thick- est nearns are six feet, the average being from three to four feet. The company have a capital of £ 25,000. The point at which it is intended to commence is close to a good harbour, and coals will probably be out in three months.

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THE TXCHBOBNE PROSECUTION. THIRTIETH DAY-WEDNESDAY. Mr. Robert Humphrey, examined by Mr. Serjeant Parry, said: I am a gardener at Stonyhurst College, having become so in September 1846. At first I had charge of the philosophers' rooms. The largest number of;philosophers I.' ever knew to be there at one time v.'a3 sixteen. I was at the seminary, which was then called St. Mary's Hall. I remember Mr. Roger Tichborne. When I came he was away on his vacation, but he re- turned in September 184(3. I was subsequently in the habit of attending on him every day. The philosophers were never in the habit of dining at one or two o'cloc-k, as the defendant has asserted. Mr., now Lord, Bellew was a philosopher at the college at thd same time, as was also Mr. Waterton, who was known by the nickname of "Lon"- Tom." There were never so many as 80 or 90 philosophers at the college at one time, and ten or a dozen of them never slept together in a dormitory. They occu- pied separate apartments, and Roger had No. 3 room. in the gallery. The only cottage I knew was the gardener's cottage near the mill. Roger, nor any of the philoso- phers, never occupied any cottage. Mr. Beresford, the music' master, resided at a place a short distance from the college, Father Walmsley was rector, or superior, of the college while Roger Tichborne was there. Father Morris Mann was the professor of Latin, and not the superior of Stonyhurst. A All the persons I have spoken of were in constant intercourse with licger Tichborne. Father Etheridge was a master of the divines, who were a different class to the philosophers, and were preparing for the Church. There was no body of students known as the "laity." The "lay brothers" were the servants. I never remember Roger Tichborne being at the infirmary, nor that he had any serious illness. Roger smoked a great deal. I was always called Arundel by the philosophers, but I do not know why. Roger spoke very bad English when he came to the college, and he altered very little afterwards. By bad English I mean broken English. Have you a clear recollection of Roger Tichborne ? I have. Is the defendant Roger Tichborne ?—I do not see the slightest resemblance to Roger Tichborne in the defen- dant. Is he tliejRoger Tichborne youliave been speaking of?— Certainly not. Roger was slight and narrow chested. I first saw the defendant when he was under cross-examina- tion at the last trial. I distinctly say that his voice is not that of Roger Tichborne. In my own mind I am perfectly satisfied that the defendant is not Roger Tich- borne. By Dr. Kenealy From 1846 to 1848 I was a servant to the philosophers. In the latter year the philosophers removed from the seminary to the college, and I then became a gardener. From that time to the present I have not spoken to anybody about this trial. None of the Jesuit fathers communicated with me upon the sub- ject. I should think there are books in which the resi- dences of the various students are entered at Stonyhurst. They are kept by the procurator, but I do not regularly go into his office. Did Lord Tattoo live in the seminary ? (Laughter). The Lord Chief Justice: I suppose you mean Lord Bellew, Dr. Kenealy. Dr. Kenealy I beg his lordship's pardon. It was a slip, my lord. (Laughter). Witness Mr. Bellew lived in the seminary, and occu- pied No. 8 room. Mr. Beresford, the music master, taught Roger the French horn. Roger left either in July or August 1848, and I do not recollect that he came back afterwards. I do not remember that he returned for a. few days at the end of the vacation in November. I have not read Lady Doughty's evidence on that point. Has Mr. M'Cann been applied to to give evidence? Mr. Hawkins objected to that as an irregular question. Mr. Justice Mellor thought it a most irregular ques- tion. Dr. Kenealy was afraid that he did a good many irre- gular things, in his lordship's judgment. Mr. Justice Mellor .1 have not frequently given my judgment, but when I have, the irregularity has been obvious. The Lord Chief Justice: I am certain Dr. Kenealy doss not intend to commit any irregularity. Dr. Kenealy: I am sure that I am not wanting in respect to the court; and when an irregular question is brought to my notice, I have no desire to persist in it. Witness: I have not a very distinct recollection of the tone of Roger's voice. When he left the college he was about 5ft. 7in. in height, and had dark brown hair. He was thin and narrow chested. Mr. Edmund Waterton I am now resident in Brussels. I am a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire. I was educated at Stonyhurst. I went there in 1841, and finished the school class in 1848, when I joined the philosophers. I got the nickname of Long Tom eight days after I went there, and it stuck to me until I left. I knew Roger Tichborne perfectly well. I saw him on the day of his arrival. I did not speak to Roger frequently, but I saw him at least once a week, when he came to see John and Everard Arundel. He was middle sized, feet and hands medium, hair long and straight, and hanging over his forehead. Have you seen the defendant ?—-I have. Is he in your judgment Roger Tichborne ?—He Is not the Roger Tichborne that I knew. I do not remember what room Roger occupied in the seminary. The two Berkeleys, John Barclay, Lord Bellew, the two Deases, Plunket, O'Doherty. William Seatter. andWalter Maonock were his intimate friends. The rectors, or superiors, are usually named for three years. When I went to Stoney- hurst Father Daniel was rector. Father Norris was there in 1844. He was succeeded by Father Walmsley, AUIO was succeeded by Father Sumner, Father Clough coming afterwards. The classes for students, as distinguished from the philosophers, were— Dr. Kenealy objected to evidence being given on this point. Roger Tichborne entered Stoneyhurst as a philo- sopher, and was never an ordinary student. He could have no knowledge of the students' classes, and evidences respecting them must consequently be irrelevant. The Lord Chief Justice said the defendant had answered questions as to those classes and the evidence was, there- fore, in his opinion, admissable, although it was open to observation. The court required evidence as to what the studies of the philosophers were, so as to ascertain if the defendant's testimony on that subject was correct. Witness There was no fixed course of study for philo- sophers it defended entirely upon what the ultimate object of the student was. I was in philosophy for two years, and did precious little (laughter). I went through the whole course as an ordinary student. Lectures were given in everything for those who chose to attend. There were certain lectures for which compul- sory attendance was enforced. The recreation days for the philosophers were Tuesday and Thursday. Bandy was played at Stonyhurst, and a precious stupid game it was. Roger had the reputation of a good player. Before I became a philosopher smoking was prohibited, and of course everybody smoked. Father Clough removed the prohibition, and then the practice decreased. We had theatrical entertainments from time to time. The masters of rhetoric, poetry, organised the plays, and the philoso- phers had a separate night. Every part was always ex- purgated before it was produced, and was sometimes so altered as to be almost unrecognisable by an outsider. I remember the "Castle of the Andalusia" being produced, but I have no distinct idea of Roger Tichborne's partici- pation in it. All the female parts used to be omitted. I am certain that I saw the Castle of Andalusia" played, because Walter Mannock, who was a Spanish nobleman, put on his pumps" fore aft (laughter). On the re-assembling of the Court after luncheon, the examination of the witness was resumed. Mr. Waterton said :—I remember Father Seed and when he first came to Stonyhurst. He was master of Rhetorie in 1843 and Perfect of Ardies in 1847. It was at Christmas, 1846 that John Barclay died. Every philosopher had a sepa- rate room and slept by himself. Then Owen Hudda is a mile off the college, and cannot be seen from thence. By Dr. Kenealy Until 18611 continually kept up my connection with Stonyhurst. I have not been there since 1866. My father was a benefactor of Stoneyhurst. I have heard that the philosophers amused themselves by stuffing birds. A philosopher told me that that was one of the amusements of Roger Tichborne. I have an in- distinct recollection of Roger Tichborne, and could now describe his person. I have been in Roger's company. I saw him after he left Stoneyhurst at the Caledonian ball in 1852. I will not pledge my recollection that I was even five minutes in conversation with him at the college. At the ball he danced with the present Lady Radcliffe, and mine was merely a passing recognition of him then. There is no truth in the suggestion that I took Roger Tichborne round the college as a walking companion. I must have been mistaken for my uncle. He remained a philosopher, and I remained a student in 1847 we should not meet except at games. The philosophers were prohibited from entering the cot- tages which adjoined the grounds. When I saw Mr. Bowker for the purpose of giving my deposition I at once asked for a plan of Stonyhurst in 1845, knowing that a good deal depended upon that. The plan of 1845 is wholly different from the plan of 1S71. It was five minutes' walk from the college buildings to the seminary. There was no direct road to "the cottages which adjoined the college. Roger lived in the philosophers' quarters at the seminary, but in which room I cannot say. I never saw him enter his room. Where he lived ought to appear from the books of the college. The Lord Chief Justice hoped the books would be pro- duced. Dr. Kenealy hoped so too. If they were produced, all trouble as to this mode of cross-examination would be saved. He was in momentary fear of being told by the jury that he was wasting their "time (laughter). Mr. Hawkins would produce all the books that were available, but he believed as a matter of fact that books indicating the particular rooms the students occupied had never existed. Witness The court at Stoneyhurst was nearly a quad- rangle. When Roger was there it was never called the "quadrangle," always j" court." Father Clough was a master before I went to Stonyhurst. He paid occasional visits to the College in 1848, because he was secretary of the Provincial, whose duty it was to visit the College. Father Clough was too much beloved—esteemed to have a nickname. He was never known as Old Clo that I swear. I have never matriculated. I have attended lectures on Roman History by Father Porter. I was not a diligent attendant at those lectures. I was not much given to a severe study of mathematics.. Do you know what a scaline triangle is. I must de cline to answer. Do you mean that you do not know ? I daresay I knew when I studied mathematics, but that was 25 years ago. I attended three or four lectures as a philosopher on chemistry. Can you tell the difference between an alkali and an acid ? 1 did not go deeply into chemistry. Did you learn anything at Stoneyhurst except bandy ? I never learnt bandy.

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THE ROYAL YISIT TO WIGAX. Wednesday the Prince of Wales opened the Wigan In- firmary and the exhibition and bazaar connected there- with. There was an immense crowd, and the decora- tions were brilliant. The weather was splendid, and the greatest enthusiasm prevails in the town.

THE ODDFELLOWS. At the Oddiellows meeting at Dewsbury on Wednesday Mr. Palmer, of Manchester, was appointed Grand Master, and Accritigton decided upon for the next an- nual Moveable Committee. At the Oddfellows Conference at Weymouth on Wednes- day, the means by which the Manchester Unity could be brought into solvent condition was discussed, and it was resolved that the experiment might at seme future time be tried of ordering a levy of Is per member, but it was hoped the lodges might shortly so improve their position that the levy would not be required.

GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF TRADE UNIONISTS IN LONDON. The demonstration ol Trade Unionists held on Monday in London, was one of the most successful ever held. The procession assembled on the Thames Embank- ment, and walked, via Pall-Mall and Piccadilly, to Hyde-park, for the purpose, as set forth in the mani- festo, of denouncing as unjust and cruel, the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the criminal clauses in the Master and Servants' Act, and the application of the law of conspiracy to breaches of contract. The num- bers present far exceeded those who assembled during the Reform agitation of 1867. The immense crowd was most orderly in its behaviour, and the various trades had with them their various banners but in some instances new ones were used, with words inscribed on them commenting on the sentences passed by Mr. Justice Brett on the gas-stokers, and by the Chipping Norton magistrates on the 16 women accused of inti- midation. Several platforms were erected, from which various speakers addressed the crowd on the Acts in question.

BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND EXHIBI- TION. The Bath and West of England Exhibition opened at Plymouth, on Monday The weather was very fine The attendance was about 700 in excess of last year showing this to be the largest show the society hasever, had, and it is also one of the best Devons short horns, and Channel Islands were the best represented breeds. In Herefords, Mr. Spencer (Cowbridge), took 1st prize for old bulls, and Mr. Baily (Tenbuay), for young bulls. Mr. Edwards (Leominster), showed 1st prize bull calf, and Mr. Evans had the best cow. Mr. Turner took both prizes for young heifers, and Mr. Ed- wards 1st prize for heifer calves. The Channel Islands breed was splendidly represented. Among the Jerseys Mr. Simpson (Reigate), had the best bull and heifer, and Mr. Ramsden (Godalming), best cow. In the Guernseys, Mr. Compton was first for heifers and Mr. Rendle for cows. Out of a capital show of sheep the Leicesters were awarded the palm. Mr. Patten, Mr. Tremaine, Mr. Gould, and Mr. Turner took the chief prizes. Mr. Russell Swannick took all first prizes for Cotswolds, and Mr. R. Corner all the awards for Devon long wools. Mr. Rigden took all the prizes but one for Southdowns. Both prizes for yearling rams of the Hampshiredown were taken by Mr. Morrison. Mr. Moore and Mr. Fitt were first in the other classes. Mr. Foster took the chief prizes among Shropshires, Mr. Wallis won Oxfordshire downs, Mr. Farthing, Mr. Legg, and Mr. James divided honours among the Somerset and Devon horns, and Lord Poltimore all the prizes for ex-Moors. The agricultural horses were both numerous and good, and the pigs made a fair good show.

We understand that a marriage will shortly to solemnized between Mr. Robert Crawfurd Antrobus, Esq., third son of the late and brother of the present Sir Edmund Antrobus. of Antrobus Hall, Cheshire, and Emily, second daughter of Colonel John Ireland-Black- burae, J.P., of Hale Hall, near Warrington, widow of the late Mr. W. J. Hope-Edwards, Liverpool.—Mercury. ACCIDENT TO THE SIAMESE TWINS.—The Suiry Visitor, America, says:-OnSaturday,ApriI12,the Siamese Twins (Eng andChangBunker), who reside three miles from this town, started to town in a buggy, with little Lizzie daughter of Chang, driving. Before they had proceeded far the horse ran away, and Lizzie, becoming frightened, jumped from the vehicle, breaking her left hand in two places, while the horse sped on and overturned the buggy, throwing the twins out and injuring them severeiy: Dr. Joseph Hollinsworth, of this place, was promptly summoned, and did all in his power to alleviate their sufferings. HIGH PRICE OF LAND IN THE COUNTY OF CORK.—On Saturday Mr. Michael Nunan set up for public aution, at his sale-rooms in the town of Mallow, the tenant's interest in a farm situate at Raheen ana Charleville, county Cork, containing 51 acres Irish mea- sure, held for an unexpired term of 19 years at the yearly rent of £55 15s. There was a very large attendance of buyers all most anxious to get the land. The bidding commenced at £200, next bid JE400, then J3420, Mr. Wil- liam Croke bid up to JS460, William Marran JE560, Mr. Simon Barry £585, and Mr. William Barry £600. It was considered that the sum for which it was bought was a very high price. THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGES OF BIGAMY AND PERJURY.—With reference to the case of Dr. Allunder Berson, the editor of the Matrimonial News writes :—" It is not true that Dr. Allunder Berson ever advertised for wives in the Matrimonial News; and it is also utterly un- true that he married or seduced ladies through the aid of my journal. With regard to Miss Boulton she has herself alone to blame. At the very earliest stage of her acquaint- ance with Allunder Berson, and one month before her marriage with him, I wrote and told her that I had dis- covered that he was an impostor, and I warned her to have nothing to do with him, notwithstanding which she married him. Miss Boulton received and acknow- ledged my letter, and her father has it in his possession and completely and frankly exonerates me from all blame."—Times. D.EATH OF THE GOVERNOR OF NOVA SCOTIA.— Intelligence has been received of the death of the Hon. Joseph Howe, on Saturday morning, at 5 a.m. Mr. Howe had only just assumed the government of Nova Scotia, in succession to General Sir Hastings Doyle, who arrived in this country the week before last. Though comparatively sudden, Mr. Howe's death was not altogether unloolced for. It will be remembered that Mr. Howe came to this country to protest against what he said was the unconstitutional means used to confederate Nova Scotia with the Dominion of Canada. He, however, subsequently accepted office under the Dominion Government, and accepted the Governorship of his native Province, an honour he has survived only a few days. Mr. Howe began life in a printer's office in Halifax, conducted a newspaper for some time with much ability, and rose to great distinction as a local politician. MR. DODSON ON THE SESSION.—At the usual Whit Monday municipal luncheon at Lewes, the Right Hon. F. G. Dodson, in response to the toast of "The House of Commons," said he felt especial zest in respond- ing, as of late the press and the public had shewn them- selves somewhat eager to kill and bury him. He meant, of course, politically. The details had been given so positively in various forms, and so circumstan- tialiy in detail, as to utterly stagger him, and to make him almost disbelieve his own iden- tity. It was, therefore, highly gratifying to have such a reception from his personal friends and to be con- vinced again of his personal existence, and to have it con- firmed by their public recognition of him as one of their representatives in Parliament. Referring to the work of the present Parliament, he said that none could deny that it had scored its mark on the history of the coun- try, and it was a rare thing to find one in which a greater number of really good measures had become law. Before concluding, he paid a high tribute of re- spect to the memory of the late Sir James Duke, a worthy magistrate for Sussex, which was endorsed by several speakers. PARENTAGE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON.—He has not a drop of Dutch blood. In the beginning' of July, 1807, Napoleon effected a reconciliation between Hortense and Louis. They met at Montpelier, and spent three or four days, as was usually the case, in quarrelling. She went off in a pet to Bordeaux, where the Emperor was on his way to begin the seizure of Spain. She passed a few days with him, and then returned at the end of July to her husband at Montpelier. He lia,s many little bodily tricks resembling those of Louis. Louis never looked you in the face when he bowed it was not like anybody else, it was an inclination of the body on one side. He kept his hands rclose to his sides. Louis Napoleon has all these peculiarities. In the April of the following year Hortense was frightened and taken ill suddenly, and Louis Napo- leon was born on the 20th of April, twelve days before he was expected. On this pretext Louis, in 1St: tried to get a divorce, but of course failed. He was jealous of Hortense, bribed all her servants to watch her, and often said of Louis Napoleon Ce n'est pas mon enfant; but he was half mad, and, I believe, said so only to tease his wife. At one time he took possession of Louis Napoleon, and became exceec1Ïm:-]v fond of him, whiGh "'O1'1.¡ scarcely have been the case if he had really doubted 1,i£1 legitimacy.—Comhill Magazine for May.

We can never speak too well of the inventor of WnxiASts8 (PO>:TAIIDAWEi WUr.1 LOZSXGES, for he re';<t iLs books of tLe most eminent medical anthers, bnt he could fiw, there nothmg GO answer his purpose; he studired when others slept, aud searched mid analysed th2 extricts fwd other nroouetions of the vegetable killg<lom. eSiwcially tho", c i i> i, d with the diseases of Chilldren. "hen others spent their Lme in idle talk, and at last ho diseovsred hiscovet..d prize, a remedy purely vegetable and innocent to the child, that v.^u:d destroy the greatest cause of the diseases of Children but, alas, it cost him his life, be did not live long to eijnj- tiie I'c pat.atioJ1 of his great retssdf, bnt died ard left his dlrcwniv tJ [he benefit of succeeding gsnuilions. Bid. lJlil. and •&. '9\i. psr box bv ad Chemists. 999

MKST APPOINTMENTS IX THE CAVALRY r ,Y. AND INFANTRY. j The following are declared by the Civil Service Com- j missioners the successful candidates in the recent open competition for First Appointments in the Cavalry and Infantry 1 V. C. Tonnochy 41 Arthur John Watson C. L. Clou.irh 42 E I-I. Clementson o W. H. Miduleinass 43 E. E. Melville Lawford f <\D. M. Call 44 Robert W. P. Lodwicli ?■ Kt-nneth R. Mackenzie o L. O. H. Yv ilkinson -id Frederick G-. Pollock < C. Cox 47 Edward Stanley o John Skelton 48 Charles Parker Ridley P- H- Lake 49 Solomon C. F. Peile 10 Hon. P. G. Bellew 50 John S. T. Farquliar If l1. A. Montressor 51 Henry T. G. Burne Hutton 52 James A. Murphy T" V1' 1fio:mas 53 Langley F. V. Tudor 14 M. J. Meade 54 Joseph Paure I;) J. A. Campbell 55 G. M. Prichard 11; Y A. 1. Anderton 56 Hon. F. W. Lambton I, Montgomery P. Coode 57 Francis E. Grainger lo John Tinkler 5S Charles E. Heath l'1 J. Melville Babington 59 J. P. W. Spankie 20 J. de'C. E. Meade GO E. R. Courtenay 21 Hon. Philip Sydney 61 Charles T. Becker 22 E. Owen Hamilton 62 Cecil C. Williams 23 J. Fitzroy Bagot Co F. H. Westlioe 24 Gregory Haines I 64 Henry R. L. Holmes 2o Gilbert M. Yaldwyn 65 Henry J. Oddie James Davy r,. f Francis W. Egerton 27 Charles F. Magrath H. B. Headley 25 •[ G?or?e Murray Hicks 6S F. S. Lanyon Penno { Richard Phayre 61) W. A. Campbell 30 Harry E. Passy 70 E. M. Needham 31 Mayow Short 71 Charles Grant 32 JohnF. Wegg-Prosser 72 Albert W. Hay 33 11. S. H. Moody 73 John C. Doyle 34 i Edward S. Masters 74 C.H.Morris I Philip A. Morshead 75 S. B. Beatson 06 Charles J. M. Weale 7G W. Pochin AVarner ?/ enry • N. Guinness 77 H. R. Lovett Eustace G. Mansel 73 G. H. T. Swinton 39 Sydney Francis Foster 79 Edward C. Morris 40 Hon. A. H. F. Greville SO C. Begbie Lyster. The following Indian cadets have passed a qualifying examination :— N. F. F. Chamberlain A. W. T. Radcliffe E. D. H. Daley H. S. Lye. e understand tnat this is the first examination which am 11' has been held under the new regulations. The next competition is to take place in August.

The French Figaro says that Mr. Simons, of the special detective agency, Ijl, Broadway, New York, ar- rived a day or two ago at Havre, bound for Paris, in search of the author of the mysterious murders in Kansas. THE DEMAND FOR FREXCH HOR.SES. -Letters from various parts of Brittany and Normandy say that there have been large purchases of horses and live stock during the past month by the English and by Germans. The population do not complain of these purchases, which keep up prices, but they are perplexed to know the reason for them. In regard to the cattle, it is probably specula- tion, btit the purchases of horses, chiefly for Germany, excites surprise. The French papers are sounding a note of alarm. They say the means of remounting their own artillery and cavalry will be wanting if this commercial campaign by English and Germans, which for the present is confined to the east and west of France, should extend to the central provinces of the country. FLOWERS IN LONDON.—There are not many luxuries of the rich which can be cordially commended to the imitation of the less wealthy members of the cofhmu- nity; but if there be one at all it is the decoration of houses, both within and without, with flowers. Of late years this fashion has been largely on the increase in the western districts of London; and the outward and visible signs which attract the eye of the passer-by form about the only feature of our thoroughfares which can be contemplated with satisfaction. In these western districts gardens are almost an impossibility. The subur- ban house of fifty poundsannual rent has a bit of ground, if not a garden, which a little care and expense can make a green and pleasant resort; but the house in Belgravia or Mayfair of ten times the rent has commonly nothing in its rear but a line of mews. The gardens of such houses are the conservatories which project from the drawing-room, and the small glass cases, filled with choice exotics, which fill up the dining-room windows —JDaUv News. THE NAMING OF FLO WEES.-—A plan is much re- quired, and would be appreciated by raisers of seedling, who usually find it a difficult task to provide names for their novelties. We would suggest that names might be taken in groups from great books, from historical periods, from national songs, and from the most euphonious and expressive of household words. Lempriere is perhaps used up and stale as respects the use of the book as a mine from which names for flowers may be extracted. But Homer, Virgil, and Shakespeare are as yet un- touched, or, at all events, have been but rarely resorted to. A raiser of pelargoniums might derive from Homer names for his selected seedlings, and secure for them dis- tinction as the Homer series, provided, of course, they were in the first place worthy of distinction for their floral qualities. Our own great poet would supply names for any reasonable raiser's lifetime, and they would be the more useful as indicators if appropriated in some proper relationship of the names to the flowers.-The Gardeners' Magazine. ULTILISATION OF INDIAX PRINCES.—Mr. James Routledge, in an interesting article in the current number of Macm-Man's Magazine, on Our present position and probable future in India," says:—"Some persons say that to give magisterial powers generally, however judici- ously, to chiefs and others, would be dangerous. I ques- tion the view. I think that such a course would also add to, rather than impair, the dignity of the office. It is pitiable to see a man like, for instance, the Maharajah of Vizianagram—a man of talent, English education, muni- ficent character, and an affable and genial disposition— left without any higher ambition than to increase the number of guns fired in salutes to his honour. Besides, the chiefs are our best protection against fanatics. Nana Sahib (chief by adoption) was less the leader of the mutiny at Cawnpore than was the low-born Azim Oola Khan. Ihe Moulvie Liakut Ali, recently condemned at Allahabad for participation in the Mutiny, had been pre- viously a self-devoted mendicant, and never had -xiy rank. The Attaligh Ghazee of Yarkund is a man of very humble origin. The fact is, that in educating the chiefs, we ought, when they are worthy of the trust, to give them the power to utilise that education for the repres- sion of those fanatical outbreaks which are a terror to, at all events, the chiefs themselves, and to hosts of well-to- do persons. I venture also to suggest to young English- men about to begin Indian careers that they are going among real living human beings, that though India was won by individual character, there is at least as much to be said for Burke's impeachment of Hastings as there is for the vigour and strength of the impeached Governor and that, in the future, England can no more stand with Hastings against Burke than she could with the Ptolemic against the Copernican system, while at the same time it is not necessary to join Burke in all his condemnation of Hastings. The poor people of India, in their utter helplessness, seize upon every friendly Eno;lishman^ about to return to England, and say, Now, wron't you help us by correcting misstatements with respect to us." THE EARL OF ROSSE ON LUNAR RADIATION.— At the last meeting of the Royal Institution, Sir Henry Holland, President, in the chair, Lord Rosse delivered a lecture on The Radiations of Heat from the Moon." Chymical and calorific effects, he said, had not been studied to any extent until the time of Melloni. He was probably the first who,by,means of the thennapile, opened the way to advance on the subject. Beyond getting merely the certainty of heating effect from the moon, he did not pursue the subject. In 1856 Professor Piazzi Smyth, with an unproved apparatus, obtained a de- flection of three degrees. Professor Tyndall subsequently experimented in the same direction. In 1863 Professor Joule succeeded in affecting a magnetic needle by heat derived from the moon. The lecturer, in reference to his own experiments, read the effect on the piles, which he employed by means of a Thomson's galvanometer. He found that the heat increased as the moon aged towards full. There was a decrease of the moon's heat as she ap- proached the horizon. In attempting to ascertain the exact amount of heat emitted from the surface of the moon, Lord Rosse bad recourse to comparative effects on spherical surfaces of lampblack, and, although he ascertained what the difference of hát emitted was in the case of the phases of his artificial spheres, he could not make exact state- ments as regards the moon's heat itself. Whatever amount of heat fell on the moon, [ it must leave it again almost instantly, there being no atmosphere. It might be supposed to be absorbed, but that was probably not the case. During an feclipse this point would be easiest to- settle. In November last he had such an opportunity. After the maximum of the eclipse the heat at once in- creased with the light, and although the opportunity was not the most favourable, yet Lord Rosse believed the examination proved favourable to the hypothesis. The lecture was illustrated by some simple'and pleasing ex- periments. It lasted a little over one hour. ° LAWYERS IN INDIA.-The higher education in Bengal is producing very remarkable results in law and medicine. Every year the University turns out a large number of Licentiates and Bachelors in Law. trained to plead in the courts, and, except on the original side of the High Court, to discharge all the duties of barristers. Besides these graduates, among whom there is some pro- fessional honour, there is a far larger class of inferior natives who pass the purely technical ex- aminations which entitle them to plead in the lower courts. These men and the law agents who instruct them do far more harm than good. even in the old Provinces, where they encourage litigation, degrade our Courts, and are only too often a curse to the people. But in less advanced provinces like the Punjab they con- 0 stitute so serious a political evil that it may be necessary to exclude them from all the rural Courts, or to put them under such regulations as will make them virtual officers of the Courts. They traffic in suits and decrees, and are guilty of practices at which the lowest attorney in Eng- land would blush. The educated licentiates and graduates of the Universities are a different class. They form the rudiments of a really promising native Bar, which may prove to be a training school for upright as well as able native Judges. Already, if we except the leaders of the crowded English Bar, they almost monopolise the work in the Appellate Courts. They make such large in- comes that the law is now the favourite career of educated Bengalees. One of their number holds the Tagore Law Professorship of the University, a lucrative appointment, which is tilled for two years at a time by the votes of all the Fellows, English and native, of the Senate. What is still wanted for this class, however, is the application to f it of the rules which guide English barristers, in taking briefs only from attorney's, and in receiving fees accord- ing to a recognised scale. The High Court at Allahabad lias lately found it necessary to reiterate its orders against the class of law-brokers and touters for Court business.—Times Correspondent.

■ Although only one body has been discovered from the Brvn HP.11 Colliery, there is DO doabt that the six persons are dead. It has, rp to the present, been im- possible to explore the vrorking"?. INDIGESTION.—The Medical Profession adoyit MORKON'S PREPARATION of PKPSTN'F. as the true remedy. Sold in bottles and boxes, from 2s. 6d., by all Pharmaceutical Chemists, and the manufacturers, Thomas Morson and o, Son, 121, Southampton-row; Euss/d-square, London. 104 )

FOREIGN NOTES." FRENCH POLITICS.—Great importance is attached to the speech of the Due D'Audriffet Pasquier, who has been elected as President of the Right Centre. In the course his remarks he said, "Never has the part which the ° ft3 to phy been more important than it is at the present time, when it has just accomPlished a great feat. Our Conservative convictions have obtained a complete satiation We were told that we were divided we ae- pned by exhib'tmg the most perfect union. We wereagam to-d that holding to our dynastic preferences we were sacri- iting the public interests to them, and were thus leaving the country in distress. We have suppressed tnose predilections with which we are reproached a»d have considered only the public danger. My friends have consented under difficult circumstances to take upon them selves the burden of power. They ought to know that whenever they may be attacked we shall be found be- hind: them to defend them. The Ministry, therefore will find in the Right Centre the most sincere and most ener- getic and most disinterested support. The spectacle of our union will enable the country to resume entire con- fidence, and we may be able to enter upon what our eminent President, M. Buffet, has called the second por- tion of our task, the reorganisation of our country under tne sole inspiration of our Conservative sentiments." itii^reverence to the policy of the majority, M. Thiers is saiu to have expressed himself to the following effect • ihe majority did not wish to understand me. I am more Conservative than all those who compose it. If they have ousted me, they will find at one of the approaching elections that it is not they who will profit by my fall. The reconstruction of the Vendome Column has been voted by the Assembly. It is expected that the Journal Officiel will shortly publish some im- portant changes in the upper ranks of the magistracy. A decided contradiction has been given to the statement of several Republican journals, that Marshal MacMahon will be appointed President for a period of five years. FRENCH FINANCES.—U Uuiccrs asserts that M. Magne intends very shortly to introduce a new Budget, or, at all events, a rectified Budget for 1874. Before being ap- pointed Minister he intended to demonstrate in the Tri- bune that it was possible to economise 175 millions on the estimates of M. Loon Say. The new financier does not approve the additional 30 centimes imposed by his prede- cessor on the land tax, the tax on moveable property, and the tax on doors and windows. The same authority further adds, that the last hundred millions for the con- cluding payment of the war debt are not forthcoming as M. Say had said in one of the bureaux of the Assembly, but M. Magne will be able to meet the last payments at the time specified. GERMAN POLITICS.—It is said that in official quarters in Berlin great irritation is felt at MM. Batbie andBonil- lerie being appointed Ministers. The cause of offence is their connection with the AssembUe Nationale, which paper M. Thiers suppressed for highly offensive articles against Prince Bismarck. The telegram of the Cross Zciti nj', to the effect that the Imperial Government has recognised the French Government is regarded as prema- ture.

THE WAR ON THE WEST COAST *«P' AFRICA. The Government are very energetic at present in sending out supplies to the West Coast of Africa. On Friday theW est African Company's royal mail steamship ± lgretia, Commander Croft, sailed from Liverpool for the <\ est Coast of Africa, and amongst her passengers were the following army officers Captains Holden, Marsh, and Young, who are going out to Cape Coast Castle to take active measures in the Ashantee affair. A large quantity of munitions of war also went out in the Ni- gretia, from the Government stores.

HORRIBLE DISCOVERIES. The Kansas City Missiouri Times gives an account of a series of crimes, the perpetration of which has just come to light m Kansas. On the night of the 9th March last it appears Dr. William H. York left Fort Scott on horse- back for his home in Independance, Kansas. "He did not come home. His friends watched and waited for him. Expectation at last deepened into downright earn- estness about him, until, on the 2Sth of March the Lawrence Tribune gave a brief account of the mysterious disappearance. All at once there- after all the papers in the State took up the tale of his journey, of his non-arrival, of the fears of foul play, and of all the little details and circum- stances that might go to shew that he had been murdered. ine most thorough search known fo finite skill was at once commenced. His neighbours turned out en masse. To the south of Cherryvale, some two miles or less, stands a iarm house, having in front a large room, where the meals were served, and in rear a sleeping-room, furnished with two beds and some scant addi- tional furniture besides. William and Thomas Bender lived in this house with their wives. Tu the right of the dwelling-house was an out-house, and in the rear was an enclosed garden of possibly two acres. Ihe search seemed to end suddenly at Cherrvvale. One day, early in April, some men from Cherryvale rode over to the Bender House- a tavern, too, it was, where entertainment was furnished to travellers, to inquire concerning Dr. York, and to learn) if possible, some tidings of his fate. They learnt nothing, however. None of the Benders had seen him, nor heard of him, nor his mysterious disappearance, nor anything that pertained to him. Very well,'the men said, and they rode back again as fully informed as before. Time went slowly by, and a man riding in one day from the prairie saw no smoke arising from Bender's chimney. The windows were down, the doors were closed, there was no sign of life anywhere. All the family had fled. A diligent search of the premises was made,and in a deep well beneath the house was found, not only the body of Dr. York, but those of seven others. One of these was that of a little girl. It is thought that more graves will yet be discovered. All the skulls were crushed in, and all at nearly the same place. One of the corpses was so horribly mutilated as to ma-lra. the sex even a matter of doubt. Plunder is the accepted cause. Dr. York, it is said, had a large sum of money on his person, and that he stopped at the house either to feed his horse or to get a drink of water. The Bender family consisted of four persons—father, mother, son, and daughter. The age of the father was 63 years, the mother 60, son 27, and daughter 24. The son is described as a strong, muscular man. The family are professed Spiritualists, and the daughter claims super- natural powers, in that she can heal the sick, restore sight to the blind, and also that she could give definite informa- tion of robberies, murders, &c. The following is a copy of Miss Bender's advertisement:— #' Professor Miss Katie Bender can heal all sorts of diseases; can cure"blindness, fits, deafness, and all such diseases; also deafness and dumbness. Residence 14 miles east of Independence, on the road from Independence to Osage Mission, one and a half miles south-east of the Morehead Station. 'KATIE BENDEK. 1 June, 18, 1872.' On the house wras posted the sign Groceries,' but they kept nothing but some wines." t