The Cardiff Times

SUICIDE OF A RUSSIAN OFFICER. Monday's St. Jamess Gazette, publishes a Communication from S:. Petersburgh which says the Czar has had another very narrow escape from assassination. An officer was brought into \ù" hospital in a dying state, having tbot himself in the regicn of the >:eart. lie declared, before he died, that be bad shot himself to avoid shooting the Emperor, *hich he, as a member of a revolutionary society, had been deputed by lot to do so. The authorities to&k down his statement in writing.

SENSATIONAL DIVORCE CASE. BCDA-PESTH, Saturday.—A great sensation has fceen caused by the news that the Baroness Pffillit-Bornemissa, daughter ot the millionaire, Henry de Schosberger, has instituted proceedings the divorce court here against her husband, Baron Bornemissa. She gives as the sole cause of her action an unconquerable aversion to her husband, who, as is well known, belongs to the oldest Austrian nobility. The latter, it is stated, intends going to America to start farming there.

TERRIBLE FIGHT WITH WOLVES. The Exchange Telegraph Company's Bucharest Correspondent reports the following terrible incident:—Soldiers belonging to the Black Hussars were recently attacked near Braila by a Pack of wolves. A desperate fight ensued, the ?>«»» using their carbines with deadly effect; but in the end both the Hussars and their horses IUccumbed to numbers, were tom to pieces and Partly devoured. This is only one of many Oiany similar incidents during the recent terrible Weather. So severe a winter has not been known in Roumania for over ten years. The snowstorms have been terrible, and the accidents frequent and aerious. At Yames the snow is said to be nine metres deep, and nfter the railway track was cleared the trains bad to pass between high walls of snow.

THE DEATH OF MR McNEIL. BOULOGNE, Tuesday.—A chemical expert from LilIe has declared that Mr McNeill's pocket-book tsihg discoloured, must, with the notes it con- tained, have been a considerable time under water. The French authorities now regard the supposi- tion of foul play as inadmissible, and vermersch Will therefore be set at liberty this afternoon.

News from Ireland, RELEASE OF MR T. D. SULLIVAN, M.P. MrT. D. Sullivan, M.P., was liberated from Tullamore gaol on Wednesday morning. A small Crowd had assembled to welcome him on his release, and when the massive prison doors swung back, a loud cheer was given, which was renewed as the ex-Lord Mayor of Dublin stepped free man. Accompanied by bis wife who met him, he drove off to an hotel. Among those who were awaiting Mr Sulliian was 1\1r Plimsoll, who shook the liberated prisoner Jvarinly by the hand, with the remark, If I know Englishmen, they are heartily ashamed of the treatment you have had to put up with," adding, I may tell you I would rather have *eeu Mr Balfour in there than yon." SENTENCE ON MR COX, M.P. Mr Cox, M.P., was on Wednesday sentenced to One month's imprisonment, without hard labour, for a speech made at Kildysart on 24th October inciting persons to join the Irish National League. In the second charge of taking partin an unlawful Assembly of the Irish National League in a pro- claimed district, the Crown entered a nolle pros qui. The trial took place at Kildysart. ^RIGHTFUL TRAGEDY AT KILLARNEY An extraordinary case of murder has been investigated at Killarney by the local Magistrates. The inquiry was held at the lunatic Asylum. A family of the name of Doyle Jived at near .Killarney. The son, aged lo, was an idiat, and the mother, Mary Doyle, had some nalhjcination that so long as the boy livea, the family would be subject to evil influences. She Confessed to having on this account killed her son With three strokes of a hatchet. She imagined •he had been to heaven, and seen several of its accepted citizens. The father, Michael Doyle, is man of low intelligence, but not insane. The eldest son, aged 22, shared the mother's mono- mania, and a daughter, Julia, also had a super- stition about evil spirits. Since Saturday night the members of the family bad illtreated ench other. The father was remanded for inquiry, and all the others committed to the lunatic asylum. ANOTHER BOGUS OUTRAGE. The Press Association is informed by the district inspector of constabulary at Killorglin, County Kerry, that the report is not true that Patrick Doyle, of Brida, in the Black Valley, at the Gap of Dunloe, was murdered in his house on Sunday night. AN M.P: SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS. The trial of Mr Blane, M.P., for incititing to Conspiracy was continued on Tuesdayand the of police shorthand writers taken, j^eitement in the district has greatly subsided. After hearing the speech of the defendant, the j^Ristrates said they considered the charge Proved, and sentenced Mr Blane to four months' Hnprisonment: An appeal was lodged. MR O'BRIEN'S RE-ARREST. The Freeman's Journa understands that Wrn. O'Brien left Ireland immediately after Ie Mallow banquet for the South of Europe tinder medical advice, but will, if his strength Permits, return in time for the debate on the dress. The Freeman's Journal also learns on fair *nthority that Mr Balfour has decided on the "Dinediate rearrest of Mr O'Brien. Warrants -ere in the hands of the police on Saturday. SHAMEFUL SENTENCE OR FATHER McFADDEN. The hearing of the charge against Father McPadden, of taking part in illegal conspiracy, Namely the plan of carn paign, was resumed at Dun- faughy on Monday, before a special court. The prisoner, who conducted his own defence, called bo witness, but argued at length that the case of the Crown was incomplete. The court, however, held that the charge had been proved, and Sentenced the rev gentleman to three months' mprisoninent. Notice of appeal was given.

CONFLICT WITH POLICE AT > LIMERICK, DEFENDING HOUSE AND HOME. An extraordinary and violent scene took place at Old Town, Limerick, on Tuesday, in connection With the dispossession of John Hayes from the position of caretaker of a property on Lord Castleroe's estate. Hayes was evicted months ago, but was re-arimitted with a view to settlement. On Tuseday Mr Rowland, the sub- agent, accompanied by bailiff* and a strong Party of police, under Inspector Lowndes, pro seeded to put the tenant out in pursuance IDf an ejpctment notice served upon him. They found the house strongly barricaded, the "alls being loopholed on every side. The foment the bailiffs presented themselves stones "ere thrown from the apeitures at them. In ►etnrn they bombarded the walls ^lth similar mis- and for a long time a fierce cross fire !If stones was kept up. The scene became indescribably exciting, the peopie shouting encouragement to the inmates, and the bailiffs crying, "Draw your revolvers, finally Mr Rowland dropped to the ground, having been ••riously beaten by the defenders of "ie bouse. Immediately after this the police forced an entrance and overpowered the occupants of the dwellings,they being immediately pntunderarrest, and the evictions formally effected. The extent and number of the casualties aie Irot known, but it is certain that, besides Mr Rowland, several policemen and bailiffs were Wounded with stones, and Inspector Lowudes was also hurt. The house was defended by Hayes, nis son, and two daughters. ■ 111

MR BALFOUR'S TORTURE SCHEME. 1 It requires some personal acquaintance with prison lite to appreciate the full horrors of Mr Balfour's treatment of his political opponents. we of the duties by which the ordinary criminal » most painfully reminded of his degradation is i!lat of cleaning out the slops in his own cell, ne can fanCy how a man like Wilfrid Blunt or feels wi,o is asked to descend to this loathsome task. Mr T. Harrington, when lie was in the gaol at Mullingar, remained on bread and at*r antiiu strict confinement f<>r a week rather than i!o this filthy thing. Mr Lane is now pro- bably m his ninth or tenth day in his cell, now dangerously fetid from the accumulations there. « almost makes one sick to have to even write of 'hese things. Ke.ita said his name was written in "atp.r. Mr Bailout's name is written in sewage. -Star.

LORD HIPON AND MR MORLEY IN IRELAND. The Marquis of Ripon and Mr John Morley Arrived in Dublin on Wednesday. Replying to an «ddress, Mr Morley said :■—We come with a message of hope, we come to convey to you the assurance of the sympathy and support Doth of important, leaders"and of great multitudes of our Countrymen in your struggle for that wise, just, necessary constitutional change, which we believe to he the indisputable condition of abating those moral and national evils ft'om which Ireland is now, and has too long been suffering. (Pro- longed sheers.)

Hygferlov* Death at Carry.—A man of ui,out, 50 years of age, named Richard Samuel Bas-fett, was discovered, on Wednesday JUoming, lying on the contractor's temporary hue, near the Cornish pump-engine, on the dock, apparently seriously injured. He was immediately conveyed to the hospital at Barry, but expired before medical assistance could be got. At present his death is involved in a mystery. i- •»

-+ I GENERAL NEWS. j I,or¡1 Charles Bcresford's Successor.—Res1. Aunui'.il Jtiothaiii, U.B., took his seat mi Monday for the first time at th* Board of Admiralty, and agSUmE theuusies of Thi 1"1 or Junior Naval fjord of the Admiralty, in the place of Lord Charles Beresford, resigned. Miners' Testimonial to Mr Cnmiinglianic (■raitasu, JfcP.—Tins r>cotti.-di -Ulnar*' Federation hieeung at Glasgow on Tuesday decided to show their sympathy for Mr Cunninsrhame Graham by collecting subscriptions and presenting him with a hanrls<imp gift and address. ciored to ftcatli.—A labourer at Brigbrooke, neuc, Noi-tiiauipiou, has met with a terribiedeith. He had been missing, and on search being made hia; lifeless body was found dreadfully mutilated in a stable occupied by a bull. It is conjectured that while the man was filling the manger, the bull became violent and gored him to death. The Extensive Forgerien by a Valet. — At tile- Old Bail^v, London, on Monday, Louis Ccppisauue, aged 33, pleaded guilty to forging endorsements to bank bills for £2,000. Prisoner was a valet to a gentleman named named Le Mier, in Paris, and he took the bills and forged the endorsements in London, where the fraud was discovered. He was sentenced to setea years penal servitude. Dronk at Eight Tears ot Age. — A girl natnfod Bridget Hester, eight ^ars. _°? residing with her parents at 101, Maitland street, Glasgow, dropped down suddenly and became unconssious as she was about to enter a spirit shop in that street. The casualty-surgeon was sent tor, and on arriving he applied the stomach-pump, as she was suffering from an over- dose of whisky. Under careful treatment the girl soon recovered. Taking the law- into His Own Hands. — Edmund Cariisls, manager of a tea stiop, was summoned at Blackburn on Tuesday by Frank J. Holloway, for assault. Holloway is the pro- prietor of a local satirical journal, known as the Blackburn Spy, and some time ago inserted a paragraph ahout the defendant. Carlisle met Holloway on Saturday morning, and gave him a very severe thrashing. Defendant was "n.e'' 5s without Costs, the decision being received with applause. Alleged False Pretences bysn Auctioneer. —Francis Sallom, an auctioneer, of Wolver- hampton, and well-known throughout e Midland counties, has been arrested on toe eharge of obtaining credit, to the J? over £ 3,000, by false pretences, from the btattora- shire Joint Stock Company. The proceedings are instituted by tbe Public Prosecutor, under _the Debtors Act of 1869. Accused has been liberated on bail. — • Respite of Bowles. We are formed that the prisoner, Henry Bowle^, has been respited w,th a quent commutation of tbQ P nphi<* to one of penal servitude for life. This fact was at once communicated to the convict by the authorities at Wandsworth Prison. Mr Under- sheriff Rose, who, at the instance of the sheriff*, undertook the defence of Bowles, received, on Monday, a letter to the same effect. A Child's Body Fonnd In a Cnpboard.—An inquest was held at Manchester, on Monday, on the body of a female cfnld which was discovered on Saturday in a cupboard of a house in Hulme, a district of Manchester. A young woman named Howarth lodged in the house, and the evidence showed that she was confined three months ago, and the child had been hidden in the cupboard ever since. The child was still-born. The mother s in custody under remand. Colonel Hughes-Hallett and His Iseat. — A correspondent ot the Pall Mall Gazette says the Conservatives of Rochester do not yet know whether it is the intention of Colonel Hughes-Hallett to resign at the opening of Parlia- ment, though conscious that be weakens the position of his party. In the city they hope he will. In order to be prepared, they have waited on Admiral Nicholson, and requested him to stand at the next election. The Liberals have a candi- date in readiness. Nine Months with a Bullet In His Brain. — A .somewhat unusual surgical case lormea the subject of a coroner's enquiry at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, on Saturday. The deceased, William Wain, a boy 11 years old, was accident- ally shot in the head with a revolver by a com- panion last Aprit. He underwent various opera- tions at the hospital, but the bullet could not be found, and he died on the 25th inst., having lived exactly nine months and twelve day?, with, as was now shown, a bullet deeply embedded in the brain. Fish Not a Brain Food. — Fish," says Dr \V. W. Godding, oi Washington, has for years enjoyed the reputation of being rich in phosphorus and hence adapted to the "growth of brains. How such a notion originated I do not know perhaps, because stale fish shines with a phosphorescent light in the dark. As a food, fish is richer in water than in phosphorus, and to feed it to children, expecting thereby to grow them into philosophers, would be on a par with the scholar who boiled his dictionary in milk for supper, hoping thus to acquire the language. As a matter of fact, physiological ex- periments, often repeated on a large scale, rather negative the popular idea of the value of fish as a brain food.' "—The Hospital. Romantic Elopement from France. — The Paris correspondent ot the Daily Telegraph telegraphs: — A very young and beautitul ParisiAine has just eloped with an Italian music rooster. The youiig lady is Barely out of her teens aud, strange to say, the man of her choice is not. as many would imagine, a ninteenth-century troubadour with a languishing air and the handsome features ot an operatic tenor or a theatrical bandit, but an elderly person of hfty-five, witn puckered features, sharp nose, no -hair on his head, and a red beard. Some suspicion was felt by the father of the young lady that the elderly signor had made an impression on his daughter, but his fears were laughed to scorn by the girl s mother. The pair have been tracked to Marseilles, where the trace was lost. Blown into the Air.—At 12 p.m. on Friday, during a severe snowstorm, what is supposed to have been a whirlwind passed along the Grange- road, Jarrow. A trap, in which were George Atkinson, James Teesdale, and the driver, was caught up by the wind, carried a short distance, and then thrown down. Atkinson wis carried about 150 yards before touching the ground, when he was thrown on his back, his leg being badly injured by coming into contact with the wall of a bouse. Teesdale was thrown against some iron railings, to which he clung until the storm had abated, while the driver was carried into Gray- street, and deposited with force against the door of a house. The seat of the trap was found in Perry-street, and the rug in Boddle street, some 250 yards distant. The Eclipse of the Moon.—On Saturday night the weather was extremely favourable, and the total eclipse of the moon was seen to perfection. Punctually at 29 minutes past 9 the edge ot the moon was obscured by the true shadow of the earth, and from that moment tho dark curved shadow rapidly made its way until in the coarse of 62 minutes the whole disc was covered. As the eclipse proceeded, with the aid of a good opera-glass the sightseer could, as the shadow progressed, perceive the full outline of the moon, a thin line of Fght marking its outer edge. At midnight, when in total eclipse, the moon was 233,913 miles from the earth. The astronomers muso have reaped a rich harvest, as the passage of the moon over a large field of stars affords them an excellent basis of measurement. They are to be congratulated on the fortunate state of our capri- cious and cloudy sky. Toung Thieves Disguised as Nans. — An exua.ordinaiy trick is reported to tmve lately been performed at Laval by two youthful thieve", who are well known to the police in the north of France. They first forged letters of recommendation from high personages—ecclesi- astical and lay—and theu attired themselves as Franciscan nuns. Their success in collecting funds was so great that it emboldened them to go to a convent in the town for free lodgings and food. They were received by the mother superior of the establishment, who invited them to return to her convent after they had done their collection for the (by. In the meantime, however, their con- duct in the town, which was altogether unworthy of monk- not to say nuns, excited suspicion, and a wily police official watched them. When the rascals repaired to the convent at nightfall, they were ushered into the refectory, for their dinners as they expected, but were surprised to find them- selves confronted there by two tall gendarmes, who speedily arrested the pseudo-nuns and con- veyed them to gaol. A Hint for Public Meetings. — The London correspondent, of the Western Morning Jtfeios laments that the familiar public meet- ing song, For he's a jolly good fellow," is not always suitable e.g., it does not hit off the most prominent characteristics of Mr Shaw- Lefevre or Mr Dillon. We would suggest the following substitutes as more appropriate greetings for the gentlemen named :—" Wait till the clouds roll by."—W". K. Gladstone Johnny, I hardly knew ye."—J. Bright; Charlie is my darling." —Lord C. Beresford He isn't a marrying man." Lord H 'rtmgton; "It makes a man look such a fool.—H. Matthews The Vicar of Bray."— Sir W. Harc ourt; Has sorrow thy young days shaded."—A. J. Balfour; "John Peel".—The Speaker "Thegirl I left behind me."—J. Biggar "Pj)or o'ld Joe"—J. Chamberlain; "Beautiful Star."—T. P OVonnor I know a bank."— Lord Northbrook "Please give me a penuy."— Duke of Edinburgh Write me a letter from home."—The Postmaster-General j H Meet me by moonlight alone."—O'Donovan Rossa. A Cnnarder Lost. — Over five weeks since the stean.er D^merara, belonging to the Cunard line of Mediterranean steamers, left Liverpool for Genoa and Mediterranean ports, and has not since been heard of. She had on board 41 persons, including two pas- sengers, hailing from Edinburgh. The heavy gales following Christmas Day, when she sailed from Liverpool, have probably resulted In her foundering with all hands between Liverpool and Gibraltar, her first port of call. The Demerara was a. vessel of 1,900 tons burthen, built on the Clyde 16 years ago, and her cargo on the fatal voyage was a general one for the Mediterranean ports, a large proportion consisting of iron. A Dissentient M.P. Censnred. — Mr Cameron Corbett, Lioeral Unionist, addressed his Tradeston constituents on Tuesday night at Glasgow. Admission was by ticket, no elector haviug obtained one nnless his name appeared on the roll. The 3,000 present were largely composed of Liberals, who continually interrupted Mr Cnrbett during his speech, which dealt largely with Irish affairs. After the usual heckling," a motion was proposed expressing confidence in Mr Corbett, but an amendment confidence in Mr Corbett, but an amendment l declaring that Mr Corbett's conduct inside and outside of Parliament had forfeited the confidence of the electors and asking him to reeigD. WAS carried by an overwhwtmmg majority.

The Tithe War in Wales. THE SALES NEAR WHITLAND. [BY OUT? SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.] Thursday wet; u'i 1 on the l>ord« rs* of Pembrokeshire Jintl Carmarthenshire. The mrHi "f LianfalUe#, where the sale S,k pkee lies partly, W both counties. The district is purely, agricultural, the holdings being for Ibe ^t p^Umdl ni si situated at the top of half a mile from by ovtnet-, Mr Thornai J.mw. a and Ifft TITOMAS .TONES.: 1 a deacon in one of the dissenting chapels in the I neighbourhood. He has not paid any tithes for the past two years, and so far from being intimidated or discouraged by the result of his firm stand, he appears to be more determined than ever to carry on the fight. THE DISTRAINTS. Mr Lascelles, solicitor, of Narberth, acting on behalf of the Rev E. Felix Lewis, vicar of Llanfallfceg, and accompanied by his clerk, Mr J. W. Thomas, who acted as bailiff, visited YVernllygos, and seized a rick of bay and three stacks of corn, valued at JB50, for tithes to the amount of £14. On itll hands I heard expressions of surprise that Mr Lascelles, who is known as a reputable solicitor, and who enjoys a fair share of popularity, in addition to being clerk to several school boards in the district, holding, I believe, the position of magistrates' clerk, should have undertaken a duty which is, perhaps, one of the most unpopular, and the most likely of any to arouse the antipathy of the country people. The auctioneer, Mr W. M. Collins, also of Nar- berth, must have felt his position anything but pleasant or gratifying. THSC SCENE AT THE STATION. When I descended from the train at Llanfallteg I found a strong body of police, officered by Major Bates and Captain Scott, and under the supreme command of Captain Phillipa (the chief constable for Carmarthenshire), drawn up on the platform. Only a guard of honour for the deputation from the Liberal Federation," said the Rev Aaron Davies, laughing and pointing to the police. Outside the station was a crowd of women a.nd children with tin pan. cracked kettles, cow-horns, and other necessary instru- ments in the orthodox tithe distraint bands. Beyond the line, and filling the road we should have to take, was a crowd of from 200 to 300 men, the great majority of them in the prime of life, say from 25 to 45 years of age. Strong, broad shouldered, brawny armed fellows they were; men who, for the greater part, THE SCENE OF THE SALS, <:| compared favourably physically with the police who were now preparing to march. I could not help being struck with the thonght that if, by any mischance, we must come to blows that day, these Carmarthenshire peasants would give a good account of more than twice the number of police who had been brought to overawe them. I do not know whether any such feeling ran in the mind of tbe chief constable. It would be no rh-me to him if it had. It is no reflection upon either his common sense or his courage to say that he acted throughout the whole of the somewhat trying proceedings in the most thoroughly good-tempered manner. AN ANXIOUS MOMENT. It was only when the auctioneer and bailiff appeared that the passion of the people first showed itself. When these were discovered in the midst of the police, a fierce shout rent the air, mingled with groans of disgust, and the crowd closed in around the police, hemming them in and almost blocking the way. It appeared that a collision was imminent. The officers in charge could scarcely conceal their anxiety, and the persons whose presence had aroused these feelings either flushed or paled according to their nature. x Owing, however, to the earnest appeal of Mr A. J. Williams. M.P., Rev W. Thomas, Whitland, Rw Aaron Davies, Mr Thomas Williams, J.P., and others, the men fell back, the crisis was passed in safety, and the rioters subsided into an orderly crowd, following the police in their march up the hill, and only giving vent to their feelings in shouts and groans, or jests and laughter. From every bye-lane on the way up to WernllygoSj fresh oetachments swelled the number of the crowd, which must have numbered between 400 and 500 when the destination was finally reached. On the roadside was put up like a prominent notice board, Poor Felix." As the police marched into the yard, the crowd struck up Mae hen wlad fy Nhadau yn anwyl i rri. And the good old national song was sung with enthusiasm. A CLERICAL KFFIGY. The property distrained upon was ornamented with rustic taste. One of the stacks of corn was crowned with a startling effigy of a clergyman of the Church of England. The head, which had been cut out of a large turnip, had, by the skilful use of knife, paint, and horsehair, been made into a figure, which the crowd loudly declared to be a striking likeness of some person whose name I did I not catch. The surplice was made of white tissue paper handsomely bordered by a black ribbon. Another of the stacks bore the legend— My pound of flesh while a third had written in chalk on a large slate The South Wales Mwi og is but the name which followed had been obliterated by some friendly or at leitt. charitable hand. The female element was strong in the crowd, the rosy-cheeked, buxom Carmarthenshire lasses, dressed in their homespun gowns and small woollen squares, and the motherly dames with their old-fashioned white muslin Italian-ironed WffRJCLLTGOS. enpc;? 'al)d -a number of grey-headed grandsires leaning on their staffs, afforded a pleasant mixture with the sturdy crowd of men who had escorted us from the station. I was assured that there were many present from the whole country side within a radius of 15 miles of the place and this fact alone affords a striking proof of the in- tensity of the feeling aroused in the country. When the sale was about to commence, the crowd loudly demanded that the proceedings should be conducted in Welsh. They would not listen to a word of English from the auctioneer. Cytnraeg! Cymraeg J" was the universal cry, and as it was impossible for the auctioneer to bear his own voice when he attempted English, the crowd at length bad its will, and the sale was conducted partly in Welsh and partly .in English. The bayrick WM knocked down for J618 to a neighbour of the owner, and as this amount more than covered the whole demand, the three stacks of corn were not put up at, all, the auctioneer evidently elad to have his unpleasant task over An enthusiastic public meeting which lasted over two homv, brought the pro^i'cinutie for the day to a close. At this meeting the following re-solution ".as adopted :— That we desire to express our convictions that nothing will sati.-fy the Welsh nation in future but pert'ecc religious equality lo all without distinction. We have put up Ions; enough, yea, too long, with tl.e iuequaiiy which has caused such sufferings for more than two hundred years to our fellow countrymen. That we desire to express our coavirtions that it is full time to utilise Welsh tithes for the benefit of he whole nation. They have been too long monopolised by one denomination- viz., the Church of Bnalaiid. THai. we deMire to congratulate the Wernllygos fami y and others on their heroism in accelerating the downfall of the tithe compulsory system in the principality, without being uuilty of tti-honesty on the one hand, or breaking the law on the other. That we desire to urge all our fellow-country- men to avoid everv -einblance of violence in agitating for our just rights, knowing that that is the only way to triumph with honour. Our sketches, are from photographs by Mr J. Griffith Rees, of Whitland. On Saturday evening, the Rev. D. Thomas, of Llanboidy, received a subscription of £ 5 from Mrs and Miss Powell, of Maesgwynne, towards meeting the heavy fines infl cted on the persons summoned for assault at the last petty-sessions in Llanboidy in connection with the tithe sales at Llwyndewy and Penycoed. Such a Rubstantial manifestation of sympathy cannot but add materially to the p )putarity and este m in which Mr Powell and his family are held tlirought the division. Trial of the Llangwm Defendants. The trial of Welsh farmers for participating in the tithe riots at Llangwm, North Wales, will take place at Denbighshire Assizes on February the 27th. Mr McIntyre and Mr Wright, the Attorney General's junior, will prosecute Mr Clement Higgins, Mr Marshall, Mr Lloyd, and Mr Douglas defending. Sales af Whitland and Aberayron. On Wednesday the minions of those who claim to be the modern successors of the Apostles paid another visit to the parish of Llanfalteg, near Whitland, to levy a distraint for the maintenance of the Anglican Church in Wales. The proceedings were taken at the instance of* the same clerisyman, Rev. E. P. Lewis, as those for whom last week's sales were carried out, and the same solicitor (Mr A. H. Lascelle-) and auctioneer (Mr W. M. Collins) were engaged. The distraint was made upon the farm of Llwytherllwyn (occupied by Mrs Mary Jones), which is just within the boundary of Pembroke- shire, and consequently the police arrangements were made by the chief constable (Mr T. Ince Webb-Bowen) of that county. For the purposes of this sale the county of Pembroke was to-day denuded of more than half its police force, there being no fewer than 44 men under the command of the chief constable, brought up at large cost to the ratepayers, to go through the farce of looking on while a rick of hay was being sold. The police had absolutely nothing to do except— like the army of that noble King of France who had ten thousand men—to march up the hill and then march down again; and it must be recorded to their credit that they succeeded in acheiving this remarkable duty in perfect order, and with the utmost good humour. They were met on their way from the station by a procession of lads and lasses who, with tin pans and horns and a vigorous use of their vocal powers, made things tolerably lively. When the police and the procession met, the latter opened out, allowed the police to pass on, and then fell in behina, and cheerily followed the representa- tives of law and order. The auctioneer and a brace of clerks walked in a row about the centre of the body of police. Arrived at the farmyard, the party went at once to the hay-guard, which adjoins the church- yard, and there tound various devices and designs. Aga nst one rick wss placed an effigy, which was an exceedingly well-executed representation in face and figure of the Rev Thomas Evans, the retired vicar of the parish, who takes one-third of the tithes, and near his head was the legend, Third part for me, wyddoch." What aggra- vates the feeling in this case against the insistance by the clergy on obtaining the pound of flesh is that Mr Eva.ns is very wealthy, with no near relatives to succeed him, while the present holder of the living is understood to be favourable towards a redaction of 10 per cent. if the whole of the income belonged to him. Near at hand to this effigy was another fully surpliced, also a good portrait, even to cer- tain facial peculiarities of the present holder of the living, who was suspended by a cord from a ladder placed across between the two ricks, and above him was stuck a card bearing "Worse trouble than ever." At the end of the rick which had been seized, and near the place where, as it happened, the auctioneer took up his place in order to sell was placed a card bearing the words South Wales Murog;" and on another rick was the figure head ot a man and the words The hungry lawyer." There was a good deal of hooting when the auctioneer's clerk commenced to read the conditions of sale, but Mr E. H. James, J.P., Pontygavel, appealed for silence, and this being readily granted, the sale was concluded in a few minutes, the rick of bay fetching 214 10% in discharge of acclaim of j314 3. made uu as follows £ s. d. Tithe 11 010 Notice of distress ° Levy 0 3 0 Sevn days' possession, at 2s ad. 0 17 6 Two do. 0 5 0 Appraisement JJ B'lls and advertisements J™ 5 Sale 0 16 0 Stamps lor appraisement — — 1 ° 914 6 0 After the sale, the police remained in the yard for some time, till the Rev W. Thomas, of Whit- land, asked Chief-Constable Bowen to withdraw his men, and pledged himself that there should be no breach of the peace. To this course Mr Bowen readily assented, and the men seemed glad to go, departing amid a fire of good-humoured chaff from the crowd. One individual, the lawyer's clerk, seemed to think this proceeding infra dig, and objected that the police had a right to stay there all day if they liked, but the indi- vidual was quite alone in bis desire for a prolonged demonstration of force. > Indignation Meeting. After the withdrawal of the police a meeting was held in the farmyard. The Rev W. Thomas presided, and there were about 400 persons present. The CHAIRMAN said they were there to protest against the payment of tithes and the favour shown to one communion above other! Mr W. GIBBS, of Hodgeston, near -Pembroke, said that agitation showed that something was radically wrong. The Church of England had failed to meet the requirements of the people— the Nonconformists had done all:the work and the Church had got all the glory and the money. The act under which tithes were commoted was veiy unfair to Welsh farmers, for the averages were taken on the prices of the best samples of corn and thf leading markets of England, whereas Welsh corn WitS very inferior, and never fetched the prices of English corn. They had a grievance in the way the clergy trrtated them. In South Pembrokeshire the farmers had asked their landlords for a reduction ot rents, and the landlords had met them handsomely, but the clergy bad treated them with scoot and contumely, and taunted them with being robbers ana things of that kind. The supply of clergy was much in excess of the demand. Hn knew of one church where there was but one communicant, and that was the sexton. There were churches in the neighbourhood of Maenclochog and Llandilo where they paid £80 for.each communicant. The clergyman received £ 140 or J6150 a year, and there were two e"n.HiuuicantN. They objected to the use to which tithes were devoted. The country was burdened with heavy poor rates, when the tithes ought to go for the support of the poor. The fact was that the bishops and the clergy bad kicked the other two objects for which tithes were intended (the churches and the poor) out of the partnership, and had collared the lot. Some of the clergy of Pembrokeshire had been telling the/people that if disestablishment came about those wicked Non- conformists would be building pigstyes on the tombstones in the graveyards. (Laughter.) Many of the farmers of Pembrokeshire sympathised with the anti-tithe movement, but, for obvious reasons, could not declare themselves. Many of them had the outward and Conservative sign, but the inward and Liberal grace. (Cheers and laughter.) He moved the following resolution r— We desire to express our conviction as clearly as possible that it is our duty to agitate in a. fair way for our rights, justice, and equality as Dissenters. This cannot become a fact as long as one denomination, namely, the Established Church, is specially favoured by the State, whilst all others are treated as sci^matics, and tolerated as if they are not to be trusted lite our episcopal brethren. We desire to thank the family of U i.n- for making a bold stand against the tithe com- faliteg for making a bold stand against the tithe com- pulsory system, by refusing to pay tithes except under distraint, and trust we are on the eve of a be, ter state of things, when the Toleration Act will be abolished, and a Religious Equality Act will take its place hence- forth and for ever. Mr E. H. JAKES, J.P., of Pontygavel, amonded the resolution, and expressed his sympathy with those who objected to pay tithes. It they bad balf-a-dozen sales in Pembrokeshire, he should move at the quarter sessions that the special expenses of police for such sales be not paid out of the rates. (Cheers.) The CRAIUMAJJ said that, the county was ID:1.rh to pay for the police for such sale, but if police were wanted for Mich a in eisteddfod the committee had to psy.liijiiume.) Mr G. PHILLIPS, a member of the Narberth Board »f Guardians, saidall agitation and reform had a rugged edge That ngitation was no exception. He urg^d^tbg farmers to unity in the matter. ,f Rev J. THOMAS (LlaR<$ssillo) and others addressed the meeting, resolution was carried with applause. puix A collection fortheexpansesof the sale amounted to F,2 ll. 421 *t"v;■■ The Aberay^ijf, Sale. The third of the series of i it-fie-sales which have taken place in the parish ofaLJ-nnddewi- \berarth came off on Wednesday morning. Two hayricks had been seized at Y"V-hir^]tenant, Daniel Jones, for the recovery of B7 titlies^or one year, due in August last, and one iarge-i^yrick at Corswen, tpnant, 1\frs Davies, a widQwitor the recovery of £7 194 51. The bill previously delivered was 97 3i 9J. At the formes:place painted, on a board across the distrainediirick, was the motto selected by the tenant, I Away Satan," and on the barn door of the latter place were the words, "Eating up tlia- bouses of widows." Both farms are the properfy of Lord Lisburne. The bailiffs, Owen and Hushes, are Aberystwith men, and they, with Mr Hugh Hughes, Aberyst- with, the acting solicitor, and his clerk. were escorted by Mi>jor C. ift^sett Lewis (chief- constable), SuperlOtenrlents JVdliams and Lloyd, and 24 constables at Y8iys, The first rick was knocked down to Mr J. T. EVans, Aberavroo, for S8, and the second for J52, toKthe same person. In .;oing to Gorawen the police were obliged to make .11. circuitous route of three, unites, although the distance across the fields isT only a few hundred yards. In going along a oofwas caught throwing stones and was immediately collared by the police. Here a rick was knocked down for 222 to the same buyer. After this an indignation meeting was held, the Rev E van E vans. Pennant, presiding. The tithe war in North Wales was resumed on Tuesday, after being in abevance since Thursday. The representatives of the Ecclesiastical Commis- sioners visited the parishes of Llanasa and Whit- ford, Flintshire, in bitterly cold weather. Messrs Paterson and Stevens were accompanied by armed emergency men and constables. The tithes and costs were paid in five cases. Only in one case did a sale take place. One tenant paid some money on account, and in another instance the solicitor representing the Anti-Tithe LeaRue raiseda protost, and no sale took place. The Anti-Tithe League threaten proceedings for entering stackyards where gates were locked.

LORD ABERDARE ON DISES- TABLISHMENT. • WAe^nesday was at? eventful day for Liberalism in Aberdare, as it« marked an auspicious departure in the political organization of the ^liberal party, for in the evening Lord Aberdare formally opened a most serviceable institu- tion in the shape of a new Liberal Club, thus providing a means of social and useful intercourse "Svhich was previously wanting. Lord ABERDARE. who was warmly applauded as he advanced to a table at the further end of the room, said that in the present state of his health he could not be expected to speak much, as ever since his accident he found that his voice soon failed him. Whatever little he had to say he would, therefore, reserve for the public meeting to follow, and would simply content himself with formally declaring the club open. (Loud applause.) He need hardly add that they had his best wishes for their < prosperity, that they might be a united and vigorous party, and that they might coutribute to i the general good of the country by advocating truly Liberal measures. (Cheers.) Having thus expressed himself, his lordship examined the club premises, with which he stated he was very much pleased. On returning to the reading-room he was accorded a very hearty vote of thanks, proposed by Mr Charles, Reed and seconded bv the Rev J. loqlkes. Lord ABERDABE subsequently addressed a meet- 'rnR the Temperance-hall, After referring to Ireland, he said :—Many of you probably OBJECT ALTOGETHER TO THE IDEA OF AN ESTABUSHMKNT to any connection between the Church of Christ and the State. (Cheers.) All of you will probably be of opinion that the Church, has failed to fulfil the duties of a national church, and having been for that reason deserted by the large major- Ityof the inhabitants of Wales, the continuance of the establishment, even if origtnally right, has ceased to be defensible. (Renevrsd cheers.) My position is not the same as yours. I am not, as yon will presently find, insensible to the short- comings of the Church in Wales, nor to the claims of justice and equality. But I have no objections to the principle of an establishment. I believe a cordial connection between Church and State, when real and effectual,to be an instrument capable of working great good. But I have no belief in the divine institution of Church establish- ments, whether they be the Charch of Rome, the Greek Church, the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, which claim to be divine insti- tutions, the whole question beiof too high and too deep for me to pronounce upon. But on the question of establishments I have no doubt. To me they seem matters of utility and good govern- ment, to Be decided by the wisdom and the wishes of every people. Nor can I adopt the reasoning of my friend, Mr Henry Richard, and others, who have found that THE CHURCH IS WALES 13 AN ALIEN INSTITUTION. If the appointment to Welsh sees of Norman bishops in the old Catholic times, or of English bishops since the Retormation, for political pur- poses, with the permission and perpetration of many abuses, are sufficient to denationalise the Church in Wales, then, indeed, the epithet of alien might be properly applied. (Hear.) But before the Reformation the people in Wales were of one religion with those in England the only religion, in fact, known in Western Europe. And the substitution of the Anglican Episcopal Church for the Roman Catholic seems to have been f effected in Wales as quietly, and to have been adopted as generally, as in England. It was the folly and the wickedness of the policy adopted by the English Government towards the Welsh Church which alienated the people, and made them at last consider the Church as English,alien, and anti-national. (Hear.) But compare the manner in which the English Church was forced upon Ireland with that of its origin and existence in Wales, and you will see that if the epithet "alien may be properly applied to the English Church in Ireland, some very different epithet must be found for the English Church in Wales. In that church I have, since my earliest youth, taken a warm interest, and done my best to ad- vance its interests. For many years I took an active part in its affairs. HEALTHY VITALITY OF THE CHURCH AT THIS MOMENT. But I must come to the resolution to be sub- mitted to you, and I have to ask myself what is the course which I, a member of the British Parliament, supposed to represent the interests of all, should pursue on this i occasion. For the disestablishment of the Irish Church, I voted without the slightest hesitation. (Hear, hear.) It had been forced upon an unwilling people, and had been made the instrument of oppress on, often cruel, always irritating, not only as against the Roman Catholics, but as against the Presby- terians. It numbered hardly more than one- eighth of the population at that time. That measure was supported by the whole Liberal party, with the single exception, I believe, of Lord Selbcrne, who refused on that account an eminent position in Mr Gladstone's Government of 1868. When, a year or two after- wards, Mr Miail, seconded by Mr H. Richard, brought forward a motion for the disestablish- ment of the English Church, I, as Home Secie- tary, was ask-d by Mr Gladstoue to oppose the motion. I did so, not relying mainly on the principle of an establishment, but because I believed the Church of England was supported by a considerable majority of the people of England and Wales. So far as I can recollect between the years 1852 and 1868, when I REPRESENTED A wELSH: CONSTITUENCY, there was njt a single Nonconformist representa- tive for Wales. (Shame.) All this was altered by the enlarged constituencies; many eminent Nonconformists were returned and made them- selves heard. (Hear.) Wales began to assert her national existence, and to protest against the neglect with which she had been treated. (I Jheers.) She did so firmly, lesolntely, and in a manner which secured the respect of all parties; and if there is one member more;than another to whom this change was due it is beyond question to four friend and representative, Mr H. Richard- (loud cheers)—whose unavoidable absence this evening we all lament, and none more than myself. (Cheers.) When We come to the question of the Church in Wakil, we are irresisti- bly led to the conclusion that Wales is entitled to have this question considered and decided with reference to the wants and fishes of her popula- tion. (Cheers.) If this and the fortunes of the Church in Wales are no longer indissolubly linked with those of the Church of England, I am afraid, and I say it with' deep regret that, attached as I am to my o< church, I OUGHT NOT TO OPPOSE JT*, J^KSONAT, WISHES and feelings with the conviction and the desires of the great majority of the population. (Cheers.) Personally, I would bave desired this subject not to have been brought for*(»xd<; but it has come to the point and it is my duty to consider it, not with reference to my owu wishes, but to those of the great majority who Dafytett her because she had deserted them, and who have sought and found elsewhere satisfactio^iior their religious wants. in Loud cheers, amidst "bifb his lordship re- sumed his seat. ,!(.( Lord ABERDARE was ihvtly afterwards com- pelled to leave the hall, and ife invited Mr D. P. Davies, chairman of tlie Liberal Association, Aberdare, to take the chai«ss:; c; Mr FRANK EDWARDS, barrister-at-Iaw, Dol- gelly, moved the next res«k»ti<>q, which read That this meeting, profoS^WKiJeonvin^ed that the social a d religious life of Wtiies grievously i-uffers from the continuance of relijji0^ inequality, and that a just and peaceful settthe tithe question can only be secured by the nqtiiDWliz-ition upon equit- able terms of the tithe rent* Bftkr^e and other public property now employed for denominational purposes, expresses its cordial patisfactipij at the declaration made by the Liberal party of lire&t Britain and Ireland, made by the Liberal party of lire&t Britain and Ireland, that the disestabiishm nt of the Kn«lish Church in Wales should have an immediate place amongst its active objects. (Cheers). Mr DD. THOMAS seconded the resolution, and said that in his opinion this question would not be settled until Mr Gladstone returned to power. (Cheers.) The Church people in Wales had got bold of Lord Selborne as their leading counsel, but at Lampeter he had little to say regarding religious equality. (Hear.) The resolution WM carried noasimoosly. y. j equality. (Hear.) The resolution was carried noasimoosly. y. j ¡t"

DISTRICT NEWS. The Rliymney Kailway pays F.iaht per Cent. — We un«ierstan i that SI1' to mi-ut. rue direc- tors of the Riiymney Railway C'»m;>njiy reco?n- j tiieiid that s dividend at the rate of 3 ;>er cant, per annum be piid on tiie Ordinary S ,ock and Shares for the naif-venr eiviuig 31>t December last, leaving a balance of £ 49 Ii- 3,1 to be carried tlJ iiPXt, account. The Health of Mr Yeo. )1. P.-The recent col.i weather iias be»n t-lt on uie shores of the Mediterranean with even more severity than in the mild and misty climate of the British Isles. Mr Y M.P., who is staying in the Riviera, has not bAen improved by it, as it has prevented his taking the out door exercise so necessary for his return to vigorous health. A report, however, has just been received stating Lbat be is decidedly bett.er. Petition against the Cardiff Savings Bank Trustees. Petition in Uie of tlie O.ir.l.tf S.iviugs Bank and Companies Act. was men- tioned in Mr Justice Stirling's court in the Chancery Division of the High Cnurt of Justice on Saturday morning. It was a petition by the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, and it appeared that Sir Henry James, Q C., who was retained by the petitioners, was unable to be present. The petition was adj turned for a week, with the consent of Mr Buckley, Q.C., represent- ing the company. Church Foundation Stone Laying at Cardiff. —Lord laid the foundation .'(,HUC Ili Su. Saviour's Church, East Moors, Card-ff, on Satur- day afternoon. This ceremony was preceded by a short service in St. S ivieur's Iron Church, Carlisle-street. Amongst those who assembled on the site of the new building to witness and take part in the ceremony were the Bishop of Llan- dhff, Lord Tredegar, Archôøacon Bruce, and, besides a large number of clergymen, Dr. Sheen, Dr. Keys, Sic., Mr Fawckuer (architect to Lord Tredegar), and Mr and Mrs E. B. Reece, The church, of which Messrs Bodley and Garner, 1, Gray's Inn-square, London, are the architects, and Messrs Stevens and Bastow, of Bristol, the builders, is to cost about £ 6,000. It will be of the mixed style of architecture, the interior somewhat resembling St. German's, Roath, Gothic predom- inating.. Accommodation will be provided for about 700 worshippers. Accident to an Hotel Proprietor. — On Situmay night, as Mc John Langàon, of the Caswell Bay Hotel, was driving home from Porteynon, his horse shied, and he was thrown with considerable violence on the ground. The horse went on, and Mr Langdon lay insensible for sometime. The horse was seen walking along without a driver, and, a search being instituted, Mr Langdon was discovered and taken home. He liaa received a severe cut on the eye, bat, with this exception, is now ail right. Admiralty lighters to be Built at Chepstow. —Messrs Edwatd Finch, and Co., Luniteo, ainp- builders and engineers, Chepstow, have, after competition with the principal shipbuilding firms in the country, obtained a lsrge Admiralty con- tract, consisting of twenty 150-ton steel coaling lighters. The completion of this contract wiil afford employment to a large number of men. Fatal Accident to a Child at Merthjr.— Late on Friday night, Thomas Jones, :<ged eight years, son of Drivid Jones, collier, 125, Heolererrig, died from the effects of an accident on the Blaen- ant incline. It appears that the child went there to pick up some coal, and was crushed under the hope to which the trams are attached. Welsh Girls in a Trance. — At Cernev, North Wnles, two sisters, atred 17 and 19 respectively, are reported to fall into a condition of trance at stated intervals. They relate wondetful tales of their heavenly visions and messages in the regions beyond the grave to their many visitors. Tne sisters have been visited by several medical men who are divided in opinion respecting the phenomena. Swing Accident at Cardia.—A boy named Abrahuui Cooper, six yews of age, and who resided at the East Moors, was admitted to the Infirmary on Saturday night and detained, suffer- ing from a fractured skull, caused by his having been knocked down by a swing-boat. A Police-court for Cadoxton. — A special meeting of the magistrate* lor the Dynas Powis Hundred was held on Saturday at Cardiff, at the offices of Mr John Morris, High-street, to take into consideration the advisability of holding a branch police-court at Cadoxton-juxta-Barry. It was unanimously decided to hold a petty-sessions on the second and last Thursdays ip each month, at the Picnic-hall, adjoining the Wenvoe Arms Hotel, the first court to be held on Thursday, February 23rd. Mandovery Water Supply. — On Saturday, at the Towii-ball, Llandovery, Mr T. Cod- rington, C.E., held, by ord r of the Local Government Board, an enquiry respecting an application by the town council for leave to borrow j34,500 to defray the costs of proposed waterworks for the town. Mr David Isaac, of Brecon, surveyor, who was examined by Mr Thomas Jones, solicitor, put in plans and sections of the proposed water suppy from Cynnant, a distance of about 8 miles, with tiis estimate of the cost of construction at £ 4,600.—Mr C. B shop, solicitor, cross-ex tminedtt/e witness, criticising the estimate.—Mr George Barratt addressed the inspector at some length.—Mr Bishop again, before the close of the enquiry; also addressed the inspector, and urged him to be cautious in recom- mending the adoption of the scheme upon the figures put forward, which he stigmatized as un- reliable. He also pointed out that drainage must necessarily follow, the cost of which had been ..mitted in the estimate.—The Mayor (Mr John James, Penygawse House), the ex-Mayor (Mr John Lewis, Roys ton House), and Colonel Janes, Velindre, also made some observations to the inspector.—The Inspector intimated that he would report in due course to the Local Government Board the result of his enquiry. Trade Dispute at Treharris. — On Monday the miners employed at Treharris Colliery went out on strike. The point in dispute is a novel one. Some few weeks ago the lamp- < room of the works went on fire, with the result that all the lamps therein were destroyed. The lamps were replaced by the company, but when the last pay day came they deducted 4-s from the wages of each of the men to defray the cost of renewal. To this the men demurred, and a strike appeared imminent. In fact, work on Monday was wholly suspended. Mr Abraham (Mabon), miners' agent, was sent for. He arrived at Treharris on Monday afternoon, and conferred with the manager. The arrangement come to was that a deputation of the men, accompanied by Mabon, should wait upon the general manager, with the view of bringing about an amicable settlement. The men persist in demanding a return of the money deducted, and if this is not granted, then it is probable that the Rhondda district will take proceedings to test the h gality of the course adopted by the company. The men having arrived at this decision referred to resumed work on Monday night. Many Applicants for a Good Bertit. A number of the executive committee of the harbour trust met at their offices on Monday, with the object of opening applications for the post of general superintendent. Pieviousiy copies of the testimonials of candidates had been sent to indi- vidual members of the trust, and it was thought that the duty of making a final, or at least a provisional, selection of some half dozen for further consideration would not take very long. Monday morning was the last day for the receipt of applications, but by that post came from 70 to 80 additional claimants for the coveted position. This accession brought up the total number to something between three and four hundred. The trustees sat from noon, and con- tinued throughout the day opening and examining letters without intermission. They theu ad- journed. Suicide of a Soldier at Swansea. — On Monday evening a di>oh-trtred soiun-r, named Thomas Williams, committed suicide by hanging himself to a beam in the attic of the Nag's Head public house. His body was found and cut down by Police-constables Tucker and Crocker. Dr. Greatrex was sent for. Life, however, was ex- tinct. The cause of the suicide has not transpired. The Proposed New Schools at Maindee.— At the lui tnightly meeting ot th" (Jnrist- church Schcol Board, Mr E. Hill pre- siding, the clerk reported the result of the arbitrator's award to be that the proposed site for the new schools on the Eveswell Estate was worth £ 1,230.—A letter was read from the Education Department stating that next year the annual grant will be withheld unless better accommodation was provided at Maindce, and recommending that the new schools should be erected for 600 children. Tne school expenditure for the year, the clerk reported, was £ 2,102 Its 8d, of which jSSOO. or Ski in the f,, had oeeu raised by rate. Toe PuUic Works Loan Com- missioners had been asked for the first instalment of the loan of £ 2,000. and notice had been giveu that a further sum oi:63,000 would be required. Scene in Swansea Police-court.—On Monday morning, wiiyii tne ordinary uusiness of the petty sessions had commenced, in the Crown Court of the Town-hall, Swansea, a peculiar hissing noise was heard, which was soon found to be a cloud of tteam, which increased rapidly, until some persons in court were apprehensive that a fire had broken out. Several women acreamed, and there was a rather rapid move- ment on the part of the more timorous towards the door. Though some of the magistrates, in the first instance, retreated in the direction of the door, they promptly returned to allay the alarm and demand silence. The people then quickly resumed their seats. As the steam pervaded the court, it was considered desirable to adjourn to the Nisi Prius Court. It was discovered that the steam issued from a joint in the hot water pipes, just inside one of the entrances. The Suicide of a Woman at Rbymney.- On Mommy Mr Muruu E iwatds held an inquest at the Royal Hotel, Rhymney, on the body of the woman Ellen Stephens, which was found in the Brynmelyn Pond. From the evidence of her husband, Stephen Stephens, of Dr. Hughes, and other witnesses, it oppeared that deceased had been for some time much depressed in spiritB. On Thursday she left the hou-e at five o'clock and was found drowned at half-past seven in about two feet of water. A verdict of Suicide in a fit of temporary in- j sanity" was returned. Remission of Rent In Carmarthenshire.— The Michaelmas rent audit of the Liwyi.yworm- wood estate, the property of the executors of the late Hon. and Rev. Sir Erasmus H. G. Williams, Bart, was held at the offices of Messrs Evans and Sinnett, solicitors, Llandovery, on Friday, when, as usual, a remission of 10 per cqut. was granted to the tenants. At the Michaelmas rent audit of the ¡ Castlegorfod Estate, held a tMaenllwyd Arms, St. Clears, the Messrs Buckley (through their agent, Mr W. Buckley Roderick, Llan-liv) allowed their tenants i0 per cent, off the buif-yearly payments. Cardiff Mnnicipal Bye F.iection. — The South W anI Liberal Association has unanimously adopted Dr. Alfred Rees, of Loudoun-sqaar; as the Liberal candidate to fill the vacancy caused by the elevation of Dr. Edjjar Jones to the aldernianic chair. Dr. Rees, who is vsvll known and esteemed in the w rd and at the Dock- hns con«ented to com?' forward. A Reputation iroin Camlignn^ltire to Ireland. -A, a meeting of {,;¡e A xjrayroa .-Woc.a- tion, held cn Wednesday nighty-Mr John Hugh Jones in the chair, it was unanimously that Mr John M. Howell'fend- Mr John Evans, merchant, be authorised ti) represent the Aber- ayron District Liberal Corraiintfee -at the for' coining demonstration at £ »Wbtm, and during their tour in Ireland. ■ CbaaSy Discovery near W^rthyr—A melan- chciy "If, r ii I-ep ~trom Pontsticil!, a small village a few miles "frotft Menhyr Tydvii. It seems on Tuesday moro rtg some workmen, surprised to find that the hems* occupied by a young married man nafiteif' Richard Davies remained closed with no aignyofiifp, broke open the door, and to their horir-or found Davies lying dead upon the stairs, he-hating been suffocated by the fumes from aojaoeht InnVkilns, the house being filled with noia.)me odours. Dz,,vieg' wife and two children were found in bed unconscious, but being immediately carried out they rec >v-red. Serious Equestrian Accident at IJsk.- All accident of a serious nature happened to an assistant named Mr Edmund Phillips, in the employ of Mr Wiiiiam Ereins, grocer, Twyn- square, TJsk, on Monday evening-lust. It appears that Mr Phiiiips was out Tn the country on horse. back, taking orders. When near Llansoy, the i road behig slippery, the horse stumbled, and Mr Phillips was thrown violently to tho ground, landing on his head. He recaised severe cuts, and when picked up was unconscious. On his being conveyed home medical assistance was sent for, and it was found that Mr Phillips was suffering from concussion of the braiu.. He still lies in a critical condition. Much sympathy is felt for him. The Extension ot Leases at Tredecar.- Our Tredegar correspondent Writes :—There appears to be every likelihood that in a short tima the extension of leases in Tredegar will be an ac- complished fact. The leases have a little more than ten years to run, and arrangements have been come to whereby Lord Tredegar will grant an extension of about 50 years. The applicant, to be in a position to secure this extension, must have purchased the reversion of the unexpired term of the lease held from the Tredegar Iron Company. Mr Henry John Davies (solicitor) and Mr Rees, the land agent, will attend on February ftth and 10th, at the ofiices of Mr J. A. Shepard, solicitor, to receive and consider applications, and all persons intending to apply must acquaint Mr Shepard on or before the 6th of February. It is to be hoped that the negotiations will proceed favourably, The Tories Won't Come Fp to Scrat.eh.- A very successful meeting of Liberals was I held at the Town-hall, Pontypool, -on Monday evening, a farewell banquet was given by the night, when Mr P. Eckersley presided. Mr Eckersley, referring to the failui e of the Conserva- tive lecturer to fulfil his engagement to debate with Mr Jos. Howes, said no doubt those present like himelf were disappointed because the Con- servatives have failed to produce their man, Mr Waddington, in order to debate the disestablish- ment question as had been arranged. Some nine days ago their opponents informed them that Mr Waddington could not keep the engagement, he having accepted an appoint- ment in the Spalding1 Division of Lincolnshire. On finding this,the Liberals of the town decided to have Mr Howes to address the meetings on the dates fixed for the debate, so that their share of the pledge to the public should be fulfilled. Mr Joseph Howes then delivered a vigorous address on the subject of tithea. He went exhaustively into the question, and main- tained that tithes should be applied to national purposes. -At the close of the lecture Mr Howes was catechised by a Tory gentleman present, but all the latter's questions were satisfactorily answered. Retirement of the Rev- R. D. Roberts.—On Tuesdiiy ingot, the Bnptist~church aud congrega- tion cf Z jar, Llwynhendy, near Llanelly, met to make a presentation to their pastor, Rev R. D. Roberts, who, after 25 years' faithful and honoura- ble service, is retiring from the ministry. The presentation consisted of an address, a portrait of Mr Roberts, and a comfortable arm-chair. Mr D. Jenkins made the presentation. Addresses were delivered by several gentlemen, all making eulogistic reference to Mr Roberts. An Early Ewe.—A ewev the property of Mr Henry Young, butcher. Clarence-street, Swansea, has just given birth to a- healthy, well-developed lamb. Death of the Xewport Police Superintendent. i-he death of SiipeiiiKeiideut Hasted, chief of the Newport division of the Monmouthshire county constabulary, took place at his residence, Pentonvi.'le, on Tuesday afternoon. Deceased w&s thrown from his horse on Sunday week whilst riding along the Cardiff-rond, but this accident, it has since been explained by his medical man, had no connection with his subsequent illness, which followed a day or two afterwards. It was hoped up to nearly the last hours that the vigorous con- stitution and youth of Mr Hasted (he was only 25 years of age) would have enabled him to overcome the malady, which took the formofinl fimmation of the bowels. Deceased was the son Oi the Rev Hy. Hasted, rector of Petsea, Essex, and a magistrate for the county. Prior to cotfiiag to Newport he served three years as lieutenant in the Royal Suffolk Militia. Subsequently he joined the Suffolk police. He was chosen to succeed Capt. Gurney about fifteen months since, on the promo- tion of that officer to the chief constableship of Hull. Abcraron and BisestaMiohmcnt.—A largely attended uiectin^; in supp -it oi tue disestablish- ment and disendowmeutof the Church of England in Wales was held at the Public Hall on Monday evening last, when addresses were delivered by Mr J. Carvell Williams, London, and the Rev John Matthews, Swansea. Mr Alderman John David, J.P., presided, and among those present were Councillors H. Walsh, E. Phillips, Rev R. Phillips, Thos. Richards, J. Foulkes, D. Gr.ffiths, Mr J. E. Tuck, &e., See. The proceedings were very enthusiastic.—Ou the proposition of Coun- cillor H. J. Stokes, seconded by Mr John David (Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway), a resolu- tion was carried rejoicing at the determination of the Liberal party to press forward the disestablish- ment and disendowment ot the church. SAMUEL BROTHERS' Grand Display of Autumn and Winter C.oth ng now-on. The largest and best selected Stock of Overt-oasis in the Kingdom.—Market Buiidings, Cardiff. 13200 777?

SUICIDE OF A SOLDIER AT SWANSEA. An inquest was held OH Wednesday afternoon, by Mr Talfourd Strick, on the body of Thomas Williams (30), an ex-soldfar, who hanged himself in the Nag's Head public-house, Goat-street, Swansea, on Tuesday afternoon.-P.C. Piercy deposed that deceased had been a private in the Royal Marines, and had come home for seven weeks on furlough. He then went back to Portsmouth, but returned at Christ- mas discharged from the service as incurable.— Thomas Creswick deposed that the deceased came to his bouse for board and lodgiDgs. He said he was looking for work, that he th, Ug'it he Would get a situation as boots at the Cameron Hotel, and that he had formerly been in the army, where he served 12 years. He also said that he had been up the Ndein the Egyptian War. Last Fiiday deceased left the hou-p, <Inri they did not see him again until between 8 and 10 on Sunday night. When he returned witness said to de- ceased, "Where have ycu been, Tom, for the last few days ?" and he replied, In Haverfordwest." He added, "I hope I have done you no harm." Witness then observed that he was very much depressed. He then took a good hearty meal for supper, drank two glasses of beer, and appeared to be in better spirits. As they had to wait up for another lodger they remained up until a quarter past one, part of the time singing Welsh tiymns. About ten minutes or a quarter to five in the afternoon of Monday h", was first apprised of Williams's death by hearing- the barmaid scream. Annie Lewis, barmaid in the Nitg's Head, spoke of the generally depressed manner of the de- ceased, and her missing the cord of the Venetian blinds. They also missed Williams. They searched all the rooms in vain. At last they went up to the attic, and found him hanging to a beam.—P.C. Thomas Tucker described the position in which he found the de- ceased suspended from a cross-benm. He found on his person the m?d:J "f the Khedive of Egypt, a farthing, and two watch chains of little value, bet no watch. It appeared that the watch had been pawned. It transpired that tlie deceased was a native of L'angathen, near Llandilo.—Mr Clement Hope Geteroux, surgeon,, -said the deceased died from asphyxia.—The Depulyjcoroner said it was an unusually sad came. Tbo deceased seemed to have been a brave fellow, who had served his country well.—A verdict a. "Death while suf- fering from temporary insanity" was returned.

THEFT OF WATCHES AT PON IYPKILM). At Pontypridd police-court on Tuesday—before the stipendiary (Mr Ignatius Williams), Dr Jones, Mr E. John, and Mr W. Junes—a lad, 14 years of agp, named Edwin Page, .hailing from Amble- ston, Pembrokeshire, was' chafed with stealing n<ne watcties and one chain, the property of Mr Charles Goodman, pawnbroker, Pontypridd.— Accused had been in prosecutor's employ, and after he left some few weeks ago several watches were missed. A constable was despatched to Pembrokeshire in search of the lad, and arrested him but subsequently be ran away from the officer who, however, succeeded in re-<rapturinghim. When brought to Pontypridd, the lad admitted having stolen fi Vp watches and a cham, which, he said, be had hidden in a certain- "hedge in Pembroke- shire. Four of the watches had been recovered, being found hidden in hedgestn-tbe neighbour- hood of Briton Ferry and Neath. A constable had been sent to search the sipot described by the prisoner, and a remand WM asked for. The accused, it w.is said, was ;of- very respectable parentage, and at the time of his arrest was being taught at a private school by Pembrokeshire clergyman, who took much interest in him.—The case was adjourned.

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LOCAL POLICE NEWS. Theft of an rmbrelln. — At Pontypool on Saturday — before Colonel Byrde, Mr E. J. Phillips, and Dr Davies-Charles Herbert, a young man respectably dressed, was charged with stealing ah umbrella, the property or William Harris, commercial traveller, from the Sir Gurnet Hotel. Prosecutor entered the hotel and saw the defendant in the bar. He left his umbrella there and went out. When he returned in a few minutes he missed the umbrella, and the defen- dant had also gone. Defendant said he was sorry he committed the offence, but he did it for a lark while he was under tiie influence of drink. The bench remarked that they were sorry to see him there, as he was well-known in the town. The excuse that he was under the influence of drink was really no excuse at all. As the prosecutor did not v.wh to press the charge defendant would be fined 20.. Thebench advised him to give up the drink. The defendant tha.nke i the bench, and said he should take care not to do such a thing j again. An ITngrateful Thief.—At the Newport police- court till Svtu.dny, Annie Thomas, of Cruinlin. was charged with stealing a woollen scarf, valued I- 8 J, at North Risca, the property of Alice Perkins. Prisoner dsnied the charge and cried bitterly. Prosecutrix stated that prisoner came to her house on the night of the 27th ult, and asked her mother if she should stay there that night. This favour was granted. Witness next morning missed the scarf. The bench fined prisoner 20s, or 14 days. Stealing an M.P.'s Pump. — George Mor- gan, a yuut.u in UtLLers, was charged before the Newport county police-court on Satur- day with stealing a lead pump, value 30s, the property of Mr Thomas Phillip Price, M.P. The pieces of lead produced in court, and weigh- ing three-quarters of a hundred-weight, formed portion of a pump erected over a well in an enclosed yard at the Great Western wharf, on the east side of the river. The pump was only occasionally resorted to, and was last seen safe about two weeks since. On Wednesday morning, Detective Inspector Jones, of the borough force, saw the prisoner in company with another man carrying a bag in Canal Parade. He watched prisoner go into a marine-store dealer's shop, and followed him, to find that he was about to offer the pump. He was sen- tenced to one month's imprisonment. Alleged Indecent Exposure.—At the Penarth police-court on Mouday, James Johnston, a thick-witted navvy, hailing from Cadoxton, was charged with indecently exposing himself before several little girls on various occasions whilst they were passing him on the road. Mary Jane McCarthy and Annie Price, two nice-looking children, proved the case, but Johnston. who did not seem to thoroughly understand what was being said to him, stated that be had witnesses to prove that he was not in the locality named on a particular date, concerning which the evidence was especially strong. The case was therefore adjourned for a week. Three Weeks Befere the Weddiac.-At the Peuarth police-court un Monday—uerore MrJ. S. Corbett, General Lee, Mr James Ware, Mr V. Trayes, and Dr Lewis—Sarah Williams, a young girl of respectable appear- ance, was brought before the court to receive sentence for having been drunk and refusing to quit a public-house. The case had previously been heard, and Sa-rah now stated, when asked if she would go to a refuge, that she had a home to go to, as her father, who was an engine-driver, would take her back. She further vouchsafed the interesting information that a young man bad promised to marry her in three weeks, and would pay any fine the bench chose to impose.—Both Sarah and her young man were, however, destined to be disappointed to some extent. The bench considered that the young woman had commenced very badly in life, and if she did not improve she would come to grief. Anyhow, she would be removed trom temptation for 14 days. Belpine Herself at a Shop.-At the Cardiff police court, on Monday—beiore Mr T. W. Lewis, Dr Paine, and Mr R. Bird—a woman named Mary Impey, 38 years of age, was brought up in custody on a charge of stealing a parcel of groceries trom the Westminster Stores, Wharton-street. She was further charged with stealing a clock, the property of Messrs Jones and Company, and, further, with having in her possession a quantity of tea lead and a piece of ham, supposed to have been stolen. Henry Ball, the manager for the prosecutors, said he saw the prisoner in the shop shortly before 11 o'clock on Saturday night. She had a basket with her, and be saw her deposit it upon some parcels, after which she went up- stairs to another compartment. By-and-by she came down and took her basket away, as also a parcel of groceries not belonging to her. He sent a man after her, and as she refused to give up the parcel, which she alleged was her own, the man brought her back to the shop. The parcel was found to be addressed to No. 38, Brook-street, Canton. Soon after she was brought back she dropped a bag containing a clock (produced) and two artificial birds. He (witness) ascertained that she had not bought the clock; she had only purchased the birds. The prisoner, who said the whole thing was a mis- take, was sent to^gaol for 14days with hard labour. Cowardly As«taltM WtHMklM the Rhendda. At the strad police-Court on Monday—ber ore the stipendiary and Dr. C. T.Jones-a black- smith, named Jrrfm King, employed at the Gla- morgan Collieries, Llwyupia, was charged with having, on Sunday last, assaulted two married women, named Daniel and Dunstan, sisters, at Pandy. Complainants were going to chapel on Sunday evening, and, when in a lonely spot, they passed three men, one of whom pushed against Mrs Dunstan, and then begged her pardon. Thereupon defendant took violent hold of her arm, and asked which was the better woman of the two. Mrs Daniel asked him to desist, trying that her sister (Mrs Dunstan) was old enough to be his mother. King then struck her violently on the chin, the mark of which was still visible. The defendant, who, it was said, was in drink at the time, was fined 10s and costs for the first assault, and AOs and costs for the second. The money was paid. Cnifl iuanlt at Newport.—At the New- port police-court, on Monday, Michael McCar- thy, a sailor, was charged with violently assaulting bis father, Daniel McCarthy, 16, Castle-street. The prisoner went home ttrunk on Monday morning last, and lay down cn the bed occupied by the father. On the latter arousing him and wishing him to retire to his own room, prisoner kicked the father in the ribs. The old man grew worse during the week, and on Sunday Mr R. Cooke, surgeon, was called in. The mother admitted that the son had also assaulted her that afternoon. Both father and mother now endeavoured to palliate the brutal behaviour of their son, and would not take an oath against him. The bench sentenced the prisoner to one month's hard labour. Girls en the Dewn Grade. — At the Swausea police-court on Mouthy, Elizabeth O'Brien, Margaret Jane Parry, and Catherine Connolly, three little girls about 15 years of age, were summoned for stealing about £2 in silver from the Boar's Head in Gower-street, the property of Mrs Dunstan.—From the evidence of Mary Dowdall, b irmaid in the Boar's Head, it appears that on Tuesday evening last, between six and seven o'clock, O'Brien and Parry came in. The former asked for two halfpennies for a penny. Witness turned to comply with her request, and, while looking for the bowl which contained coppers, a bowl containing silver was taken away. and the defendants dlsappeareri.-Ellen O'Brien, aged 13, said she was a companion ot the three prisoners, one of whom was her sister. On Tuesday evening last she was in Gower-street with the three defendants. Connolly said to the others, Go you on, and I will go in here for two halfpennies for a peuny, to give a halfpenny to 'I your sister." Witness went on up Bellevue-street, and was soon followed by her sister. Parry came running up the street with a wooden bowl con- taining silver. She exclaimed I have 6s 6d" and gave witness and Catherine Connolly Is Ed each. She threw the wooden bowl over a wall near the free library. -Connolly was discharged, there being no evidence against. The two other ¡ prisoners were sent to prison for 21 days each. I Serious C harges against Colliery fhnlen.- At YVoiveruauipfcou, on Weuuesilay, some seri- ous charges were made against the South Stafford- shire colliery owners by the chairman of the Mines Drainage Commissioners, who levy rates under the Act of Parliament for pumping water from the mines to allow of coal-raising. He declared that many owners made utterly fallle returns of the amount of minerals raised by them, and upon those returns rates are levied. In many instances they did not represent by six or seven times the actual amounts. The law clerks were instructed to make enquiries with a view to legal proceedings against the offending owners. The Xewport Cab Trade.— James Oliver, hausom call unver, was summoned at Newport for carrying three persons contrary to the bye-laws.-An officer proved that on Saturday night he saw the defendant driviug alone Watch- house-parade with three women in his hansom — The Magistrates' Clerk Were they big, stout women.-Tbe Officer They were bir, massive women. — Head Constable Sinclair: Ouher cabmen complain of this sort of thing.— L R i w: Q 518 defendant been seen doing this before. Mr Sinclair: Yes, be has been before the mag-strates and cautioned for this sort of i-Dft' f two married ladies and a little girl. That's the three big ladies! (Laughter.) It s a frequent occurrence every day.—Mr v; t- u '^tlen very wrong.—Defendant: cut the cab trade is so bad now that we are obliged to. Five or six cabs have come from the top end of the town to our stand, and we must do something to live.—Mr Cullum: You will be fined 5<.—Defendant: Thank you, sir. A Pair of Impadent Tramps. — At the Swansea ponce court on Tuesday, James Henry, a tramp, was charged with obtaining from Maria King, grocer, Catherine-street, 2s and two ounces of tobacco by false pretences. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs King, a young widow, that the prisoner came into her shop and represented that be had been sent from the Town-hall with the other man who accompanied him to regulate her scales. She protested that they were all right, and did not need any repair. He persisted, saying the charge at the office" would bt 7s 6d, but as she was a widow, he would do it for 4-s. Finally, he agreed to accept 2s. He then coolly divided a package of tobacco injtwo equal portions, and, with an ap- tobacco injtwo equal portions, and, with an ap- pearance of great equity, gave bis companion one half-keeping the other himself. One of them said that the teeth of the coffee mill required grinding, and knocked it about so as to injure it consider- ably. As the old man who was with the prisoner iooked more like an umbrella man than an inspector of weights and measures, her suspicions were at length aroused. — Superintendent Holland gave formal evidence that the prisoner was unknown to him, and had not been deputed by him to examine weights Mid mejtrar9S,~»fie fm Coatouited for trial, I The Door was Open so he Stole the Few1.- At the Cardiff police-court on Monday Patrick Donovan (20) was charged with stealing a fowl, valued at 3s 61, from No. 84-, Adam-street, the property of William Thomas. About, midnight on Saturday, the prosecutor, in consequence of something he heard in the back yard, where be kept fowls, went out to discover the cause, and he found the prisoner in the fowl pen with a fowl between his legs. The bird had been decapitated. The prisoner in stammer- ing tc-nes told the magistrates that on Saturday when he had a Jot of liquor in him, he saw Ihe prosecutor's door wide open, and, walking in, "took a bird. He was, however, quite willing to '"pay-for the chicken." The prisoner, who had begfi-t-wice previously convicted, was sentenced to three months' hard labour. A Young Han Gone Wrong.—A young man, nauttsi.1 Francis, about 18 years of age, was charged at Swansea on Tuesday with stealing C."PPO-rand brass ingots trom Messrs. Davies, ironfounders, in the Strand.—Richard Davids e 'id he carried on the business of ironfouuder in- Strand-street, Swansea, in conjunction with his brother, George Davies. On Fridav, 27th Jauuai-y, he left his business premises at 5.15 in the evening, locking them np as usual. On tbe following morning P.C. Gardner came to the foundry, ana brought some of the meta! (pro- duced). He then examined the premises, and found that some ingots of copper and brass had beea removed. They were worth lis. He found, on examining the door of the cupboard of the office, that several screws had been tnken out.- Prisoner was committed for trial, Mr Fowler ob- servine that he would accept bail. Stmrls whilst Looking at the EeMpM.— At the Chtpstow petty-sessions, on Tues- day, Mary Murphy was charged on a warrant with assaulting Elizabeth lrite on the 28th ult. Complainant (who appeared in court with her head and eyes swathed in bandages) de* posed to the effect that on Saturday night she was looking at the eclipse of the moon, when defen- dant came up to her and said, 1* Take that, you b- old tiling," and struck her with some instru- ment between the eyes, inflicting a great wound, and causing her to fall down. For the defence iz was stated that the affair was the outcome of a dispute in which complainant, her daughter, and defendant were engaged. A fine of 10s and costs was imposed. Both parties were bound over to keep the peace.

TERRIBLE DOUBLE TRAGEDY 7 IN THE EAST END. i A terrible murder, followed by the suicide of' the murderer, was committed at about half-past* one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, at 147. Back Church-lane, Whitechapel, a poor thoroughfare running out of the Commercial- road, London, and inhabited mostly by a low type of foreigners and small shopkeepers. The house before mentioned had among its occupants a boot finisher, named Louis Cohen, and living with him as his wife was a young Russian Jewess, whose name, as far as can be ascertained, was Postami. It is stated that the woman came to England from Russiaabout five months ago, in company with her husband, who, it was alleged, had married her from a house of ill- fame. Two months s nee she left her husband and went to live with Coben, and the husband, then much depressed, kept himself at a distance, not even disclosing his address. On Wednesday morning, however, a man on calling at Cohen's remarked that he had seen the woman's husband in the street. No particular notice was taken of this, and about one o'clock the woman went out to buy some provisions. Soon afterwards Cohen heard the woman cry out, and on rushing down the stairs was just in time to see her fall in the middle of the road, with her throat cut from ear to ear. She was just able, to point in the direction of the Com- mercial-road, and then became unconscious. Meanwhile some neighbours saw her husband running away, and pursued him, but in passing along Greenfield-street,after crossing Commercial- road, he uoticed Constable 6 H.R. coming towards him, and, turning his back upon the policeman, be immediately cut his own throat with a shoe- maker's knife. The constable at once procured a cab and took the man to the London Hospital, but he died on the way. Whilst this was taking place the woman had been removed to the same hospital in a barrow, but she also died before. arrival at the hospital gates.

LORD SALISBURY AND THE i UNEMPLOYED. 1 A deputation from Earl Compton's com- mittee for dealing with the distress of London, waited on Lord Salisbury at the Foreign Office on Wednesday for the purpose of asking the Government to institute an inquiry and examine into the nature and causes of thao distress. The deputation, which was introduced by Lord Herschell, included Cardinal Manning, the Bishop of Bedford, Lord Compton, and several representatives of the working classess. The views of the committee were explained at some length by its members, special reference being made to the distress caused by the influx of foreign paupers, and State-aided emigration being also recommended by some ot the speakers. Cardinal Manning specially con- demned the existing poor law, and suggested that there should 1M ff vea under it wage work, test work, and penal work, according to the deserts of applicants. In reply, Lord Salis- bury promised to lay the representation of the de- putation before his colleagues, but said thequestioa was one of the most d ffljult with which statesmen had to deal, and pointed out that a large govem- ment inquiry would have the tendency to increase the magnetic influence which even now attracted all the misery and idleness of the country to London.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY AT i PONTYPKiDD. 1 On Wednesday, at the Pontypridd police-court —-before Mr E. John and Dr Jones—a weli dressed youth named Joseph Brooks was chareed with baving, on Thursday last, stolen j324 from William Williams, formerly of Pontvpriud, uut now landlord of the Apple Tree Inn, Swansea.— Mr Mathews prosecuted, and Mr D. Rosser de- fended.-It was alleged that prisoner relieved prosecutor of his money while the latter was in the Red Lion Inn.—Theophilus Vaughan, Pont Shon Norton, Pontypridd, baulier.aeposed that on Monday evening last, at the TaffVale Ion, be saw- prosecutor standing by the corner of a table. Tliere was no one else in the room at the time, bat shortly afterwards Brooks (the prisoner) came in. Witness noticed the prisoner putting bis left arm around the" old man" (prosecutor), and under his coat. Prisoner took the purse and went out, saying to witness in passing, Come on." They went together to Custom House-street, where prisoner tore up the note and emptied the contents of the purse into his pocket-handkerchief. He then threw the purse into an ash-bucket before one of the houses. Prisoner was arrested in CllrditI.-He was com- mitted for trial to the quarter sea»ions, but was liberated on bail, himself in £ 100, and two sureties in £ 50 each.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER. At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, a prisoner of gentlemanly appearance, nauied Edward James Den. (35), auo described as a tutor, pleaded guilty to several ciiarges of obtaining money by false pretences. It appeared that prisoner had led au extraorainary career. Originally well brought up and educated for the Church, he appeared to have enlisted into the army, and then to have I committed himself, and was sentenced to im- prisonment. He subsequently appeared to have done some duty for a sergytaan, frr>m whose house he contrived to purloin a cheque book. By the means of this book the prisouer appeared to have drawn fictitious cheques for various amounts, and in a great many ¡ instances he succeeded in obtaining various sums of I money in exchange for cheques which were, of course, utterly worthless. For several months fi the prisoner appeared to have got his living by swindling.—The Recorder said it was a very painful thing to see a man like the prisoner stand- ing in such a positiou, and be sentenced him tp |§ months' bard labour.

A WOMAN TARRED AND FEATHERED. The house of a woman living in Pennsylvania was surrounded the other night by about a dotten men, who were provided with a tar-pole and sack of feathers. When the woman responded to their summons she was stripped and then covered from head to foot with those materials. The men gave her 24 hours to leave the county. If she did not leave in that time they threatened to ride her out on a rail. The woman bean a bad reputation.

Boy'" Head Cat OR.-A shocking acoi- deut, occurred ou Wednesday at the Midland Wagon Works, Shrewsbury, by which a youth named Herbert Warburton met a terrible death. The unfortunate lad was reaching for something under the planing machine, whidk was in motion, and when getting up was straek by ~the huge blade in the back of the neck. Tha blow almost severed the head from the body, and death, of course, was instantaneous. The greater portion of the men engaged in the works were so nomfied at the sickening sight that they were suable to continue work. A FALSE SWAIN AND A DELUDED Spr mwlL- Some two years ago a small manufacturer of Leeds wooed and won a spinster reputed to be quite wealthy inquiry, he discovered ber reputed wealtb to be rather tuveiiieal. and so generously eave her badk her promise. But the abandoned one refused 00 accept the situation, and commenced suit for hereupon her dereiicc fiance left fo- He returned a year afterward, int nding to go hack to America almost immediately. When he ftad pud his court to the trusting spin ter his hair had begun to turn gray. and commenced to fall out. Wheu he returned to England his bead was adorned with a wealth of dark brown, wavy locks an Adonis might have envied, and which so far altered his appearance that but a few of his friends recognized hiin. The fact of his return came to the ears of the fa.r spinster and her attorney sent an officer to serre him with a summons at his lodgines, where he was fuuD,i. but denied his identity, and to prove that a mistake had be n made, offered to appear before the ladv. Tho cffer was accepted; the lady deciarea that he was not dest-oyer of her peace, the summons was not i j !?e ^a!- d./or America by ttie next steamer. 1 he deluded plaintiB did not know that her faithi^s* swainhadchai'g'ed his appearance by the usg of Mrs. tn tv, vi S which n^fer fails to restore the hair to all its pristine strength and beauty, restores its color, aud renders it as tine rlootv sad lnxuriant as in youth. It may fc Cd ot chemist or perfumer anywhere in the It is a most delicate »ud acreeuble hair dressing and u.n le^al'jabte addition to the teiiet t>hln, ^21 7i81?