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I BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATH- Sotices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths are char;> at the rate of Is jor the first Twenty Words, and 6tt Jo t ery additional Ten Words, and must be I'UEI'AID. i al Uses the notice must be authenticated vy the 110m I and uid1"1!1I8 ot the writer BIRTHS. MORGAN.—On Sunday, Movember 17th, at 5, St. Andrew's-crescent, the wife of Edward Morgan, haulier, of sandon.,itteet. of a son. 2U6 SlifOEK.—November 29th, at 24. Gordon-road, Cardiff, the wife of W. E. Singer, of a son. DEATHS. DANIELS.—On the 27th Nov., at Brynhyfryd, Ponty- pTidd, Mary, beloved wife of Iago Daniels, M.E., aged 55 years. DAVIES.-On the 29th inst., at 10, Victoria-placo, Haverfordwest, l.ewis Davies, late of Letterstono, a!red bO. Deeply regretted. 16b EDWARDS. -N.veimber 18th, Katie, youngest chilu of Rev T. P. Edwards, Baptist minister, Pwllheli, aged 3 yeari and 7 months. HODGSON.—On November 30th, at Plymouth, Captain W. W. Hodgson, of Sucderland, aged 11 years, for many years master of •• 0 N. Wilkinson" s.s. 319 JAMES. -Norem ber &), at bJ. Talbot-street, Cardiff, the Rev David James formerly of St. Mellon's, aged 53 years. NEKDS.— At his residence, the Old Arcade Hotel, on December 2nd. George Needs, senior, aged 57. Deeply regretted by a large circle of relatives and friends. Funeral 3 p.m. Friday. 9429 PopKiN.-Dec,mber 1st, at Fern Bank, Penarth, Mary Popkin, widow of the late Thomas Popkin, Esq., Solicitor, Bridgend. JU ICHARDS. -November 29th, at Church-street, Trede- gar, relict of Edward Richards, tailor and draper, in her 73rd year RICHARDS.—On December 1st. at Pentwyn Farm, St. George's, Margaret, the beloved wife of Richard Ricbaras, aged 48 years. Deeply regretted. 298 SINGER.—On December 2nd. at 24, Gordon-road Cardiff, Sidney Everett, infant son of Walter E. and Rosa Ellen Singer. 326 TAYLOR.-Dec. 1st. at the Baths, Swansea, Ellen Barrett, wife of Thomas H. Taylor, late of Grove House, Caradon, Liskeard, Cornwall, aged 35 years. TRATBRS -On the 30th November, at Cardiff, Ann, relict of the late George Travers, age 65 years. VACHE,LL, -December 3zd, at 6, Ma'thorough Build- iiigs, Batb. Hester, widow of the late Charles Red. wood Vacbell, M.D., F.R.C.S., of Cardiff, aged 67 years. 467 WA-rEm.-On the 28th November, at Caerphilly, Thomas Waters, aged 75 year*

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FORWARD! THE great festival of British Liberals for the present year is over. The annual meetings of the Liberal Federation are always regarded with interest, inasmuch as they afford the occasion on which the banner under which the party intends fighting is unfolded. To this year's meetings more than usual interest and importance were attached. We are living at a critical period when the march of events is rapid, when the changes in social landmarks are almost panoramic. What was the goal of Liberal ambition a few years ago is to-day only a post which has already been passed in the I onward march. The meetings at Manches- ter mark an epoch in the history of social and political reform. The Radicalism of to-day has broken more thoroughly with the stereotyped Liberalism of ten years ago than that Liberalism had with the Whiggism which preceded it. The policy of the party for the future is not a new one in the sense that old objects and aims have been dis- carded, but it is a new one in as far as these aims have been extended, and that what was formerly only barely outlined as a pos- sible suggestion to be mentioned with bated breath is now emphasized and clearly defined as an indispensable part of the pro- gramme for which the party is prepared to do battle. Not the least remarkable feature of the meetings are Mr GLADSTONE'S speeches. In these not only does he continue pledged more thoroughly than ever to the cause of Home Rule for Ireland, but he has publicly expressed his adhesion to the principles involved in the most advanced planks of the recently enlarged Radical platform. Home Rule for Ireland must, he says, be followed by Home Rule for Scotland and for Wales. As an instalment of this Home Rule, the County Councils must be entrusted with very much enlarged powers. Among the first of these is the control of the police. As the great statesman aptly put it, if the people cannot be entrusted with the arrange- ments necessary for the defence of their persons and property, they are not fit to be entrusted with any powers at all. The friction which has arisen, especially in Wales, between the representatives of the classes in the shape of the magistrate members and the representatives of the masses in the persons of the County Council members on the Joint Police Committees shows the absurdity of the present arrange- ment which, while giving satisfaction to neither party, unnecessarily embitters their mutual relations. The taxation of ground rents and royalties, to which the party stands pledged, is only another small in- stalment in payment of a large claim made by the people, the whole balance of which the Radical Democracy of the future will in due course give orders to collect. The principle of local option, free education, a re-adjustment of rates, the better housing of the poor, the extension of the Factory Acts, and the reform, if not the abolition of the House of Lords, too, are formally added to the list to carry which the great Liberal party now stands definitely pledged. Wales has especial cause for self-congratu- lation. At no meeting of the Liberals of the kingdom have the special claims of Wales to separate consideration, separate treatment, and separate legislation been more strongly emphasized or more readily acknowledged. The utterances of Mr GLAD- STONE are more definite than they have ever been. In every speech he delivered in which reference was made to the various parts of the kingdom, Wales always figured as prominently as did either of the others. Where it used to be England, Scotland, "and Ireland," it is now always England, "Scotland, Wales, and Ireland." Wo have at last a distinct declaration even from the great diplomat himself that the question of the disestablishment of the Church in Wales is ripe for parliamentary legislation. Though Mr GLADSTONE, in referring to this question, named Scotland first and Wales second, the Federation gave the first place to the claims of Wales, We cannot but regard with regret the apparent lack of courage on the part of the members of the Welsh National Council at their special meeting on Tuesday night. The fault of Wales and of her representatives has always been an oVer-supply of modesty, and a decided lack of that bold insistence in demanding which frequently commands success. It appears to us that the warm welcome accorded to Mr ELLI3 GRIFFITH'S admirable speech the next day, in the course of which he pressed the demand which the Council had the previous night hesitated to make, conveys a lesson which Welshmen should not forget. The fate of i the Church of England as a -State -FAtab- I — lishment in Wales is now practically sealed. The Tithe War, too, has increased import- ance attached to it by the distinct declara- tion of the great Liberal Party that tithes must henceforth be applied to purely national purposes.

CORN CROPS IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA. THE corn crops in Southern Russia are a matter of much importance to South Wales. The price of our steam coal in a manner depends upon them. When there is plenty of grain and freights are high in the Black Sea, freights to the Mediterranean ports are lowered, for the homeward cargo more than counterbalances the outward load. The Cpnsular reports for 1889 show a gret falling off in the various yields from those of 1888, and give besides much information generally as to the state of agriculture in this important I corn-producing region from which such large supplies of wheat, oats, and barley come into Great Britain. A comparison is made by Consul SANPWITH, at Odessa, of the harvest of 1389 with that of 1888, which latter year will long be remembered as having produced the most exuberant crop of cereals yet recorded in this part of the "world." The crop of 1889 is about one.third less than that of 1888, which was as much beyond the average in all the leading cereals. A few statements from private individuals are cited as illustra- tions of this fact. One Russian landlord threshed out 1,010 quarters of grain in 1888, and only 216 quarters from the same breadth of land in 1889. Moreover, the quality this year does not compare favour- ably with that of last. The average weight has decreased from 631bs per bushel to 601bs. Prices of corn have, however, not materi- ally advanced. The large surplus remaining from 1888 will tend to keep the prices pretty nearly stationary, and millers will be de- lighted to hear that measures have at last been taken to facilitate the cleaning and storing of grain by the erection of elevators. Asa rule, the corn comes in a very dirty condition from Russia, and consequently its value is largely deteriorated. As there is quite 30 per cent. of last year's crop remaining, there should be plenty for our ships to do during the present winter. But Russia is very badly off for storage facilities. Few farmers have the requisite premises, and as for the railways, they are very little better provided. Thus quantities of corn are ruined by the weather simply for lack of cover. But the producers have been able to solve the difficulty for themselves. They have clay pits. After removing the top soil a tenacious clay is arrived at, a few feet of which are excavated, and the hole then filled up with straw, to which fire is applied. This suffices to drive out the moisture, and the cavity is then filled with grain and covered over.'

A DIVIDED HOUSE. WE are told on indisputable authority that a house divided against itself must inevit- ably fall. This appears to be the unhappy condition of Toryism and Ecclesiasticism in Wales. If the Tory landlords and the lory clergy cannot be exactly said to form one house, or one body, the relationship between them in the past has been almost as close as that of the Siamese Twins, and has been of such a nature that it appeared as if the severing of the connection between them would inevitably result in the death of one, if not both. Uudismayed by this evident risk, the rupture appears to have taken place. The two bodies which have always worked in such beautiful harmony are now in a state of almost deadly hostility. Metaphorically they have their hands at each other's throats. Many hard things have been said from time to time by Churchmen and Tories of the accursed Nonconformist Radicals, but seldom have these suffered such hard hits as are now being heartily exchanged between the landlords and the parsons. It is, however, only another exemplification of the great law of self-preservation. The Welsh clergy, seeing that unchecked the Tithe agitation must ruin the establishment, have urged the Government to press on the Tithes Bill, and to pass it at all hazards. This seemed to the Bishop of ST. ASAPH and his followers an absolutely necessaary course for their preservation. The Tory landlords, however, have been equally wise in their generation. They have seen that if this bill is passed the land- lords will be made the bulwark for the clergy, and the attack upon the Church will be turned with increased severity against the land. Naturally enough, they decline to imperil their own safety and to hasten their own downfall by taking the place of the clergy in this fight. As will be seen from another column, the clergy are attacking the gentry tooth and nail. The gentry are no less ready to retaliate. Indeed, they have anticipated the attack. At the great Unionist meeting held at Rhyl, some terrible home-thrusts were given to the Church. Landlord after land- lord in effect told the Bishop of ST. ASA-PH and his clergy that the danger in which they now find themselves was a natural result of their own behaviour. "Served you "right," was the only comfort which the landlords had to give the clergy when they complained of the refusal to pay tithes. When such a man as Sir RICHARD BULKELT instances cases of parish churches where no services have been held for a twelvemonth, and yet where the clergy complain because the tithes are not paid all the same, matters must have como to a sad pass for the clergy and the Established Church A prominent layman, a Churchman and a Conservative, actually moved a resolution in the following terms :—"That in view of "the considerable number of unfit and dis- creditable clergy occupying positions in the Church, it is desirable that a cheap 1' and summary method of getting rid of them by a mixed tribunal of clergy and laity be established by Parliament." What must have been the feeling of the Bishop of ST. ASAPH when he heard this resolution for- mally moved and hotly pressed He may laugh at Mr GEE'S bitter attacks. He may ignore Mr EMLYN JONES'S probing ques- tions. He may affect in public to profess faith in the decline of Nonconformity and the remarkable revival of the Church, but when he finds that those on whom he and the Church have, been wont to depend almost entirely are now in open revolt, and arc prepared to sacrifice the clergy to save them- selves, his reflections must indeed be bitter and his prospects gloomy. Mr ELLIS GRIFFITH, at the meeting at Manchester on Wednesday, epigramatically said that the fictitious revival ,of the Church in Wales was due to "broth, blankets, and bribery rather "than to conviction, catechism, and creed." Were any corroborative proof required, it is afforded by the plain speaking at Rhyl, and the bitter replies it has elicited from the clergy.

RISCA SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION, The following is the list of candidates 'for the above election, which took place on Friday, the 6th inst. Saveu members constitute the board. The asterisk denotes old members *G. J. Broacks, Macban Lower, colliery manager. Rev William H. Majof, Risca, Wesleyan minister. Edwin Allen Taylor, Risca, proTision merchant. Rev Evan Thomas, near station, Pontymister. Baptist minister. *Kev Abraham WiUittns,41Y Graig," Risca, Calvinistic Methodist minister. "Rev Basil WilliaM*, Tyau, clerk in holy orders. Rev Edward WUas. Presbytery, Pontymister, Roman Catholic priest. John Woodward, Poncywain, check weigher.

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The Stanley Expedition. ARRIVAL OF SUPPLIES. Health of the Explorer. MSUA, November 30th. The Herald's expedition to meet Stanley under my charge came up with the great explorer at this point at five o'clock last evening. He and Emin Pasha were delighted to see us, and greated us enthusiastically. With Stanley and Emin are Captain Casati, Mr Mountenay Jephson, Captain Nelson, Surgeon Parke, Lieutenant Stairs, Signor Marco, William Bonney, apothecary, Vitu Hassan, Emin's daughter, and upwards of five hundred and sixty others, men, women, and children. Stanley himself, not- withstanding the terrible hardships and privations he has undergone, is looking hearty and well. His hair is quite white, and his moustache iron grey. The change in his appearance is very marked. He was roughly, but comfortably dressed, his Prussian cap and canvas shoes being notable. The American flag which I was entrusted to carry to Stanley is now flying from his tent. The tea, coffee, tobacco, quinine wine, and other supplies which the Herald sentjhim by me were most welcome, and S tanley for himself and those with him has ex- pressed great appreciation and gratitude. Emin Pasha has also borne well the long, arduous journey to the coast. He is slight and wiry, and quite dark. He wears spectacles, and has the general appearance of a learned professor. I have delivered to Captain Casati the letters and clothes entrusted to me for him by the Italian Consul at Zanzibar, and he was very glad to receive them. He is looking only fairly well. The hardships of the expedition seemed to have undermined his constitution. All the other Europeans are well. Emin and his people have received with intense gratitude the abundant supplies brought them by Baron von Gravenreuth, who, with his large relief expedition, has travelled here irom the coast in conjunction with that of the Herald. Baron Graveneeuth entertained Stanley, Emin, Captain Casati, and one or two others at dinner last night in this camp. Speeches were made by Baron Gravenreuth and Stanley. The former complimented Stanley, Emin, and their companions on their successful march from Central Africa, and said that their work could not fail to hasten the day when civilization would possess the dark region.—Stanley, in responding, expressed his pleasure, and that of all with him, in once more reaching the confines of civilisation, and in receiving such a hearty welcome at the hands of Baron Gravenreuth and the Herald. He praised German enter- prise, and the progressive spirit which caused that nation to be a power in spreading civilisation. We all expect to start towards the coast to-morrow.

LETTER FROM THESEXPLORER. A Thrilling Record of Hardship: Writing from Msua on November 30tb, Stanley says :—" I am in perfect health, and feel like a labourer of a Saturday evening returning home with bis week's work done, his week's wages in bis pocket, and glad that to-morrow is the Sabbath. Jast abouc three years ago, while lecturing in New England, the message came from under the sea bidding me hasten and take the commission to relieve Emin Pasha at Wadelai. But, as people generally do with faithful pack-horses, numbers of little trifles, odds and ends, are piled on over and above the proper burden. Twenty various little commissions were added to the prin- ciple, each one requiring due care aud thought. Well, lookiug hack over what has beeu ac- complished, I see no reason for any heart's dis- content. We can say we shirked no task, and that good will, aided by steady effort, enabled us to complete every little job as well as circum- stances permitted. Over and above the happy ending of the appointed duties we have not been unfortunate in geographical discoveries. 1 alwaya suspected that in the central region, between the Equatorial lakes, something worth seeing would be found but I was not prepared for such a harvest of new facts. It has beeu the most extraordinary expedition that I have ever led into Africa. A veritable divinity seems to have hedged us while we journeyed. I say it with all reverence. It has impelled us whither it would effect its own will, but, nevertheless, has guided and protected us. What can you inakti of this for instance ? On August 17 th, 1887, all the officers of the rear column are united at Yambuya. They have my letter of instructions before them. But, instead of preparing for the morrow's march to follow our track, they decide to wait at Yambuya, which decision initiates the most awful seasou any community of men ever endured in Atricaor else- where. The results are three-quafters of their force die of slow poison. The commander is murdered, and the second officer dies soon after of sickness and <;riet. Another officer is wasted to a skeleton and obliged to return horn?. A fourth is sent to wander aimlessly up and down the Congo, and the survivor is found in such a fear- fal pest that we dare not describe its horrors. Oa the same date, 150 miles away, the ofSo^rs of the day laads 333 men of theadvanced columninto the bush,loses the path and all consciousness of his whereabouts, and every step he takes only leads him farther astray. His people becomes frantic. His white companions, vexed and irritated by a sense of the evil around them, cannot advise any expedient to relieve him. They are surrouuded by cannibals, and the poisoa-tipped arrows thin their numbers. Meantime, I, in command of the river column, am anxiously searching up and down the river in four different directions through the forest. My scouts are seeking for them, but not until the sixtb day was I successful in finding them. "Taking the same march and the same date in 1888, a year later, August 17, I listen horror- struck to the tale of the last surviving officer of the rear column at Banalga, and am told of nothing but disaster and death, death and disaster. I see nothing but horrible forms of men smitten with disease, bloated, dis- figured, and scarred, wlJile tbe scene in tbu camp, ufamous for the murder of poor Barttelot barely four weeks before, is simply sickening. On the same day, 600 milos west of this camp, Jameson, worn out with fatigue, sickness, and sorrow, breathes his last. On the next day, August 18i.h, 600 miles east, Emin Pasha and Mr Jephson are suddenly surrounded by infuriated rebels, whtf menace them with loaded and instant death, but fortunately relent, and only make them prisoners, to be delivered to the Mahdists. Having saved Mr Bonny out of the Jaws of oeath, we arrive a second time at the Albert Nyanza, to find Emin Pasba and Mr Jephson prisoners, in daily expectation of their doom. Mr Jephson's own letters will describe his anxiety. Not until both were in my camp and the Eayptiau fugitives under our protection, did I begin to see that I was only carrying out a higher plan than mins. My own designs were constantly frustrated by unhappy circumstances. I endeavoured to steer my course as direct as possible, but there was au unaccountable influence at the helm. I gave as much good-will to my duties as the strictest honour would compel. My faith that the purity of my motives deserved suc- cess was firm, but I have been conscious that the issue of every efiort was in other hands. "Not one officer who was with me will forget the miseries he has endured. Yet everyone that started from his home destined to march with the advance column and share its wonderful adven- tures is here to-day safe and sound and well, and the Herald correspondent may interview them to his heart's content. This is not due to me. Lieutenant Stairs was pierced with a poisoned arrow like the others, but the others died and he lives. The poisoned tip came out from under his heart 18 months after he was pierced. Mr Jephson was four months a prisoner with guards with loaded rifles around him. That they did not murder him is due to me. These officers have bad to wade through as many as 17 streams and broad expanses of mud and swamp in a day. They have endured a sun which scorched whatever it touched. A multitude of impedi- ments bave ruffled their tempers and harassed their souls. They have been maddened with the agonies of fierce fevers. They have lived for months in an atmosphere that medical authority declared to be deadly. They have faced dangers every day, and their diet has been all through what the legal serfs would have declared to be infamous and abominable. And yet they live. This is not due to me any more than the courage with which they have borne all that was imposed upon them by their surroundings, or the cheery energy which thuy devoted to their work, or the hopeful voices which rang in the ears of the deafening multitude of blacks, and urged the poor souls to the quest. The vulgar call it luck unbelievers call it chance; but deep down in each heart remains a. feeling that of a verity there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in common philosophy. I must be brief. Numbers of scenes crowd the memory. Could one but sum them into a picture it would have a grand interest. The uncomplaining heroism of our dark folIowers;, .the brave manhood latent in such uncouth, disguise; the tenderness we have eeen issuing from nameless entities the great love animating the ignoble the sacrifices made by Sasmire for one more un- fortunate; the reverence we have noted in the barbarians, who, even as ourselves, were inspired with nobleness and incentives to duty—of all these we could speak if we would. But I leave that to the Herald correspondent, who, if he has eyes to see, will see much for himself, and with bis gifts of composition may present a very taking outline of what has been done and is now near ending, thanks be to God for ever and ever."

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THE SOUTH WALES PRINIINGI WORKS & TRADES' UNIONISM, I Fran articles which have appeared from time to time in our editorial columns, many of our readers have probably anticipated the announce- ment made elsewhere with reference to the Typographical Society. The proprietors of this journal having consented tu bring their printing establishment into formal connection with the Typographical Society, have given insertion among their advertisements to the following official announcement:— The Cardiff Branch of the Typographical Association, in conjunction with the Cardiff Trades' Council, having approached the pro- prietors of the South Wales Daily New, with a view to re-opening than- u.it»ulisinuont to Traces Unionist workmen, fin interview took place on J.VIonday, November 25b, 1889, when an agree- ment was arrived at, the Messrs Duncan accept- ing the branch rules, and the branch undertaking to admit all the employéi of the South Wales Printing Works at nominal entrance fees, as well as allowing them to participate in the manage- ment of the branch business without undergoing the usual twelve month*' probation. The brai.ch also agreed to elect a South, Wales Daily News workman as one of its representatives on the Trades' Council at the next annual meeting, when ona of the seats now held will be vacant. The Cardiff Trades' Council representatives present at the interview expressed their approba- tion of the settlement arrived at;, und guaranteed that the proprietors of the South Wales Daily News should be dealt with in the same honour- able manner as other employers connected with the society. It cannot be any secret to readers of the South Wales Daily News that in taking this step the proprietors have not made any change whatever in their opinion as to the propriety and the neces- sity of combinations among all classes of working men, with a view to the protection of their inte- rests and the maintenance of their rights. The printing-offices of this paper have never been closed to what are called union men since the close of a sharp, but comparatively brief struggle, about 15 years ago, when an attempt was made to ruin the paper, and inflict thereby a damaging blow upon the Liberal caUe. In consequence of that dastardly manoeuvre, the proprietors found that there was no alternative left them but to close their doors against society men, and engage compositors who were indepen- dent of all control outside their own office. This was a step taken with much reluctance, and in no spirit of hostility to trades unionism generally. It was their only alternative. Our readers will therefore understand that no blame whatever attaches to the proprietors of the South Wales Daily News for assuming an attitude towards tru-ies uuionism which some of their rivals have converted into political capital, and taken an unfair advantage of for their own pur- poses. But as a matter of fact, the South Wales Printing Works were closed for a few weeks only against union men. For the last 14 years no man has been admitted to employment on the staff on condition of his being or not being connected with tho Typographical Society. The workmen have had perfect freedom in this respect, aud not only have they bad this freedom, but they have not been allowed to suffer financially 011 account of the office not being formally connected with a society. The proprietors had no selfish end in view beyond their protection from malignant attempts from without. They were always careful to give their workmen as good wages as they would have obtained had there been no severance from society influence. As a matter of fact, the men employed on the staff of the South Wales Printing Works are receiving higher wages than the printers in any other establishment in Cardiff at present obtain. We mention this to show that the proprietors have not been influenced by any desire to make profits by cheapening labour. It is also but fair to state that the workmen themselves have not expressed any desire to have the office connected with the Typographical Society. Their relationship with their employers and the relationship of their employers to them have been of the most friendly character possible, so that the proprietors are free to state that the step which they have now deliberately taken has not been forced upon them by any movement from within, and their workmen will still be free to act as they think best. The public oucrht to know that but for the action of a Tory rival, the office of the South Wales Daily New, would never, even for a single hour, have been closed to union men. The rules and regulations of the Typographical Society have been in opera- tion in our offices during the past fourteen years, so that the changes which will have to be made in consequence of the agreement mentioned in the foregoing advertisement wiH bo inappre- ciable. If it is asked why such an agreement has now been made, the reply is simple enough. As a journal io full sympathy with the most advanced .Radicalism of the present day, and in full sympathy with every movement connected with the well-being and progress, and the social, mental, and moral advancement of the working classes,it is of the utmost importance that these offices should be openly and formally allied with tuo advocates of trades unionism. The pro- prietors have determined that the cause of Welsh Liberalism shall not suffer even by an appearance on their part of hostility to trades unionism. On this account they have resolved to ba trade unionists not merely in principle, as they have always been, but also openly and by written contract. They have no longer any reason to be apprehensive of anything like a conspiracy which would necessitate the closing of their doors to union men, and therefore they see no reason for rejecting the friendly advances of the Typo- graphical Society and the Trades' Council. They grasp the band held out to them with the cordial spirit in which it has been offered, and they have no doubt that in doing so they will have the good wishes and congratulations of their readers and of all who are interested in the progress of Liberal principles.

EXCITEMENT UNABATED. MORE ABOUT TUB INVESTIGATION OF WARNER'S "SAFE" UCUE—THE NEWSPAPERS "ONTHE JOB." Cleveland, 0., Herald, Yestorday and the (j "y before we copied into our columns from the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and Chronicle a remarkable statement made by J. B. HenIon. M.D., a gentleman who is Well known in this city. In that article Dr Henion recounted a wonuerful experience that befel him, and the next day wo published from ths same paper a second article, giving an accouut of ,'1 "Exotemeot in Rochester" caused by Dr Henion's statement. It is doubtful if any two articles were ever published which caused greater commotion both among professional people and laymen. Smce the publication of those two articles, having been besieged with letters of inquiry, we sent a communication to Dr HenIon and also one to H. H. Warner ani Co., asking if any addi- tional proof could be given to us as to the validity of the statements published. In answer thereto we have received the following letters, which add interest to the entire subject, and verify every statement hitherto made. ROCHESTER, N.Y. Gentlemen,—Your favour is received. The published statement, over my signature, to which you refer is true in every respect, and I owe my life and present health wholly to the power of Warner's Safe Cure, which snatched me from the very brink of the grave. It is not surprising that people should question the statement I made, for my recovery was as great a marvel to myself as to my physicians and friends. J. B. HENION, M.D. ROCHESTER, N.Y.. Jan. 21. Sirs,—Acknowledging your favour duly re- ceived, we weuld say:—The best proof we can give you that the statements made by Dr Henion are entirely true, and would not have been pub- lished unless strictly so, is the following testi- monial from the best citizans of Rochester, and a card published by tho Rev Dr Foote, which you are at liberty to use if you wish. H. H. WARNER 4 Co. To -whom it may concern: In the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle of December 31 there appeared a statement in the form of a card from Dr J. B. Henion, of this city, recounting his remarkable recovery from Bright's disease of the kidneys, after several doctors of prominence bad given him up, by the use ot Warner's "Safe Oure. We are personally or by reputation acquainted with Dr Henion, and we believe be would publish no statement not liter- ally true. We are also personally or by reputa- tion well acquainted with H. H. Warner and Co., proprietors of that remedy, whose commercial and personal standing in this community are of the highest order, and we believe that they would not publish any statements which wore not literally and strictly true in every particular. C. R. Parsons (Mayor of Rochester). Wm. Purcell (Editor Union and Advertiser). W. D. Shuirt (Surrogate Monroe County). Edward A. Frost (Clerk Monroe County). K B. Fenner (District Attorney Monroe County). J. M. Davy (Supreme Court Judge, Rochester). J obn S. Morgan (County Judge, Monroe County). Hiram Sibley (Capitalist and Seedsman). W. C. Rowley (ex-County Judge, Monroe. County). John Van Voorhis (Member of Congress), To the Editor of Ike LIVING CHURCH," Chicago, Ill. There was published in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle of the 31st December a statement made by J. B, Henion, M.D., narrating how ho had been cured of Bright's disease of the kidneys, almost iu its last stages, by the use of Warner's j "Safe" Cure. I was referred to in that state- ment as having recommended and urged Dr Henion to try the remedy, which he did, and was cured. The statement of Dr Henion is true so far asit concerns myself, and I believe it to be true in all other respects. He was a parishioner of mine, and I visited bim in bis sickness. 1 urged him to take the medicine, and would do the same again to anyone who was troubled with a disease of the kidneys and liver. ISRAEL FOOTE (D.D.), Rector of St, Paul's Episcopal Church, ■JtochetterrN-*?*

1".E BURY MURDER. I Trial of the Accused. The trial of William Dukes for the murder of George Gordon, at Bury, on the 25th September, beganon Wednesday at the Manchester Assizes before Mr Justice Charles. The Court was densely or- ded. The prisoner seemed utterly unconcerned, and made no reply when formally charged and asked to plead. Mr Blair opened the case for the prosecution, and began by a chronological statement of the facts of the case. The piosecuting counsel described the business at Bury of Gordon, and the weekly visits of the murdered man every Tuesday, the methods by which Dukes had avoided the interview, and quoted a letter written at Dukes's dictation by a woman named Hawkins making a bogus appointment for him to prevent Gordon calling on him. He then went on to describe Gordon's visit to the Bury shop on the day of the murder. At the conclusion of a long opening speech all witnesses were ordered out of court. The first witness was a surveyor, who produced a plan of and described Gordon's premises at Bury. The next witness was William Toothill, a youth in the employ of the firm at Bury. He described the meeting of Dukes and Gordon, and also spoke of the burning of papers aud books by Dukes some days before. The witness Toothill went on to describe Dukes proceedings after the murder, telling how he helped to carry the wardrobe into the kitchen and put a lock on it, and then went on to describe the arrival of deceased's brother, and his search for George Gordon and the discoveiy of the body of the murdoreJ. man in a wardrobe which was lying all the floor. The hammer, with blood on the haft and woodwork, was also in the wardrobe. George Fowler, the man who drove the furni- ture to Prestwil Brook, and a Bury telegraph clerk, were called during the afternoon, the evi- dence tendered bearing on the opening statement of cousel. Scene in Court. The interest in the trial at Manchester assizes of William Dukes, charged with the murder of George Gordon at Bury, was intensified on Thursday. After some evidence had been given, the pri- soner expressed a wish to make a statement, Dukes then rose and came to the front of the dock, placing bis hands through the rails and clasping them together. He was perfectly cool and self-possessed, and speaking in a clear, firm voice, after a short pause for consideration, said May it please your lordship and gentle- men of the jury. On the day in question Mr Gordon, the deceased, came to the shop in the morning, and I having seen him, and knowing that I was in drink, did not wish to see him, and tried to avoid seeing him. In the afternoon I saw him, and he was very angry at not seeing me in the morning. (Dukes paused here for some little time considering, and then proceeded.) So I told him I was sorry for having done 110. and with that he said, "Well, the Jewish New Year commences at six o'clock, and I have five weeks' business to go through to-day, having not been here tor five weeks, and I will take the books with me." Having got them for him he went out, apparently for the station, but returned again in a short space of time, and said he would see the order to go to Prestwich. He asked me what had to go, so I told him, and amongst the articles was a mirror—a large mirror with a gilt frame—and he assisted me to take this off the wall in the shop. I took it into the house, placed it, and in putting it on the table it accidentally slipped out of my hand, land the glass came out of the frame. Well, of course, on the top of what 1 bad done he was very angry and violent, and he said— be asked me if I had any tools to repair it with, and I saw I had got him some wood to make wedges and an old knife—a table-knife and the hammer produced—and be was just in the act of chopping a piece of wood for a wedge when he said, I have a good mind to throw you out of the shop." I said, Well, you can discharge me if you like, but you must not hit me," and he said, Who the devil are you talking to ?" With that he rushed at me with the hammer. I met bim no, I didn't meet him. The first time I avoided him, but after he rushed at me again with the hammer I met him, put my heels behind him, and threw him, and he fell on to the fender with his bead—the back of his lead-and in my passion, and having drink in me, I really don't know what took place. I believe I did strike him on the forehead with the hammer, but it might easily have been my life that was taken as his if I bad not defended myself. Dukes stopped here, but remained standing hesitating whether to continue or not. He found nothing else to say, however, and resumed his seat. His statement was listened to in breathless silence, and created a great sensation in court. Mr Cottiugham made a long speech for the defence, in which he argued that the deceased Gordon was a passionate man and Dukes' busi- ness affairs were all wiong, and that there was a distinct probability that the prisoner's story was true, and that Gordon bad in his rage firs; at- tacked him. During the speech the prisoner wept freely and seemed quite broken down. Sentence ot Death. After careful summing up by the Judge, who said mere provocation must not be accepted as a reduction of the capital charge, the jury at once returned a verdict of guilty, and Dukes was SENTENCED TO DEATH.

THE RATING OF A SALVATION ARMY HALL. Captain Gauntlett, of the Salvation Army, attended before the Swansea magistrates on Monday with reference to a recent oeci- sion of the stipendiary that the 0' barracks" were liable to pay rates because a caretaker lived on the premises and the War Cry was sold there. He said the care-taker had baen given notice to leave, and therefore he asked for a re- versal of the decision. The "Army" wished to be treated as other organisations exclusively for religious worship were, and he added that nearly all these held teas and concerts in their places f worship, while some sold periodicals in them. He moreover wished to mention one case where a religious body had a caretaker living on the premises, and yet it was not rated. The Deputy Town Clerk suggested that no action should be taken for a fortnight, in orier that he might have an opportunity of bringing the matter before the corporation finance committee to soe whether they would make an abatement. This was agreed 'to, and the Stipendiary told Captain Gauntlett the case of other chapels was not now bet ore him. There was nothing to prevent him selling tho War Cry at the door of the hall, and then the Jaw would be complied with.

DEATH OF MRS DYKE, OF MERTYHR. It is with very deep regret that we announce the death of Mrs Dyke, wife of Dr T. J. Dyke, J.P., the well-known medical officer of health for Mertbyr, towards whom in his sad hour of bereavement the most widespread sympathy is felt by his fellow-townsmen. The distressing event took place at the residence of the deceased lady on Monday midnight. The immediate cause of death was cardiac disease and syncope. Mrs Dyke bad been in a very low state of health for twelve months past, and on several occasions her condition had been critical. Latterly Dr Dyke bad called in his friend, Dr Ward, to see Mrs Dyke, and they were bot.h present when the end came. Mrs Dyke was 57 years of age. She was a daughter of the late Mr Evans, predecessor of the late Mr Menelaus in the management of the Dowlais Works. Three of her surviving sisters are Mrs Simons, wife of Mr W. Simons, solicitor; Mrs Norton, Langharne; and Mrs Deakin, Lydney. She was a Churcbwomau, and was for many years identified in a quiet but most useful manner with the Mertbyr Children's Hospital attd other works of benevolence. She will be generally missed in Mertbyr and its neighbourhood, where she was one of the truest friends of the poor The funeral will take place at Cefn, probably on Monday next.

DEATH OF AN EBBW VALE WOMAN UNDER CHLOROFORM. On Wednesday Dr Danford Thomas, coroner for the central division of London, held an inquest at the Marylebone Coroner's Court, touching the death of Mary Trembath, aged 41, wife of James Trembatb, a miner, living at 5, Haterfull-street, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire. It appeared that the deceased suffered from an internal complaint. On tbe 27ch ult. she was sent to London to the Samaritan Hospital for Women, 234, Marylebone-road, to undergo an operation. On Monday last it was decided to operate, and she was placed under an anaesthetic. Dr Ruther- ford administered chloroform under tbe dtrection of Dr Armmond Roath, of Man- chester-square. When balf-way through the operation, the latter requested Dr Rutherford to stop, as the pupils dilated rapidly. Artificial respi- ration was resorted to, but she ceased to breathe. Dr Roath stated that death was due to syncope while under the in- fluence of chloroform. In answer to the coroner, he stated that the latter was administered in the usual form. Out of 4,000 cases of persons placed under anaesthetics in that hospital, no death had before occurred.—-The jury returned a verdict of death from misadventure.

+- A conference was held at Mertbyr on Thursday, .ofrepresentatives of Merthyr, Vaynor. Aberdare, Llanwonno, Ystradyfodwg, Eglwysilan, Galli- gaer, Bedwellty, Aberystwyth, and Llanelly (Breconshire) School Boards. It was resolved unanimously, upon the proposition of Mr Mark Lewis, seconded by Mr Davies, Merthyr, that a joint truant school be recommended to tbe several Boards of the district. Alderman Thomas Wil- liams presided, BATTLE OF LIFE. To come out of the struggle with clean hands. use daily" SUlfLIGJlT SOAP." 13901 A WORD TO MOTHERS.—Kernick's Mothers Favourite Teething Powders prevent convulsions.—Is and 213 6d boxes 13583 SPECTACLES TO SUIT ALL SIGHTS, as recom- mended by the medical profession.—Xainsh, 5. High- street, Cardiff. 13354 THE SEASON.—If you suffer from Headaches Biliousness, or Indíj1(estion. try Kernick's VI/get able Pills. They purify and strengthen the system. In ,!1'cS, d, and 2s 9d boxes, with fall-directions. 13844

The Tithe Agitation. FARMERS' DEFENCE FUND-, I The total cf this fund now amonnW Tue quarterly meetings of the çongreg r- Association for Breconshire were held north on Tuesday, under the presidency o # Rev W. Thomas. At the afternoon meeti is^ resolution was passed protesting agatD th* transference of the payment of tithes tenant to tbelaudlord, and declaring without applyiug the tithes to national also expressing extreme sympathy with persons subjected to inconvenience and :ded by the illegal exaction of tithes. It was to hold the next meeting at Trecastle. The Tories and the Tithe. The Church in Wales is evidently in a cr,j'Tjj- position. Internal dissension and mutua ded criminations between its clergy and {r0jo gentry occur at a time when the attacgf- without are uuusualJy severe. A Welsh Oi i man writes as follows to a contemporary "1 "The Meeting of Tory Landlords at Rhyl: "7 0\ believe there never was a greater 'o8tflO»tj0g« disloyalty and desertion than was shown t'f so-called Churchmen and Conservatives. dOW' question of the disestablishment and disco ment of the Church is not to be settled In ..er1 off-hand manner. Before that takes place » pertinent question will have to be thorouS discussed, and that is, what have the landlor Wales done to help the Church to keep Pac0, ^1 the increase of the population ? I observed several of the gantlemen who were tb8 the afternoon meeting were present t J magnificent demonstration in tbe e..enlg;iØg wonder how they felt when these thund0 fo cheers were given for • brave Mr Balfour. jg tbe student of history there is nothing that star ¡ø out clearer than this—that one important iø those invisible m-jvements which have en ditl internal national troubles has been the shown by the guardians of privilege." rjDfl Another Welsh clergyman, and a "8 i» one," writes:—"The object of these speec3 perfectly clear. It was not to improve tb8 position of the Church, but to impress uf{i?orl;b Government that the Tory landlords ot "barf Wales do not want the Tithe Bill passed..r toll are landlords in North Wales whom the Cb j^ can depend upon, and who have proved jy they are Churchmen indeed. I need cb, mention the names of Powis, Penrhyn, lIarb1 and Westminster to prove this. But at J* Tory Conference not one person present c° j„ say a single word for the clergy who our churches, except that, in addition to b robbed of their legal due, they require discipline. There is much instruction in speeches. The Liberationists will learn they have unexpected allies in their attack the Church. The Government will learrtiu0gt they need not go on with the Tithe Bill. J who decline to pay the clergy their legal due be much encouraged and will learn to proceed tbeir nefarious work." ø, Under the circumstance.?, asks the Carn<tigi and Denbigh Herald, had not Churchmen „ accept Mr Gladstone's recent hint ia a letter Blackburn correspondent ? The Grand Old ™ said :—" I think it part or the duty of a (Jour eSt man in Wales, under the present circumstai,c to resolve and provide, so far as in him lies, tu if the day of disestablishment shall arrive, change shall not be attended with any either to the efficiency or to the dignity ot Church." j* Tiio Welsh correspondent of the MancntS Guardian thus deals with the incident :i v Welsh clergy consider themselves to have j outraged by the proceedings of the Conser"atlell Confereuce at Rhyl. A large number have bend relieving their minds by writing to the papers, 8 their letters afford some very instructive re.a< and to Welsh Radicals a melaucboly kind 00' satisfaction. When the landlords and tbe par; tb. begin to quarrel, it marks the beginning 0 df end of the establishment in Wales. ThelantH0 have hitherto been the right-hand men of rica Church but when Church defence lcok* ( asumingtle grimly practical shape of j. responsibility tor the payment of tithes, the 1* lords are beginuing to bang back. It is !rntb4 amusing to read the ill-natured things which If wrathful clergy say of their refractory paLroPø: Mr Priestley said at Rliyl that religious j4 daucy is an anachronism in these days." .thg gently reminded by a clergyman that "iu j4 opinion of a very large number of Pe°g(ji ascendancy of any kind is an anachroD' m these days—large landed proPer *( for instance, ground rents, royaltieS, icb all kinds, and the enormous amount of land w of is kept out of cultivation for the amusement tbS one class. The Government should have le' it tithes question alone. Its efforts to cope w have made the Welsh landlords and the Welsh clergy disciples of Henry Ge"rLl Mr Priestley, who gave utterance to BUCU B#LD' .& sentiments at Rbyl, is not so much of a ¡apolotis as the clergymen who assail him believe. a farmer—one of the largest in North certainly the largest in Anglesey, where he 1^ long been known as a prominent and active servative. He is a most popular man 'a t0 county, and has been known more than oocodeØ turn the tables on his party in the most sU. -n(rf and unexpected manner. Bsiug above all t I øí a farmer, and holding one or two of his fa. 0 a tenant, Mr Priestley has as good a righ speak for the agricultural class as any • Wal es and the fact that he gave vent to flUCtj,g sentiment as the one already quoted, and to # opiniou that no peace would ba known "mong jj; farmers until the tithes were nationalised, sbobeít lead the Church party to a true sense of t position.

MR ALFRED THOMAS, M.P., AND THE POOR LAWS. Strangely enough, the steps being taken hy Alfred Thomas, the popular member for Glamorgan, to secure some very necessary r.e'otrt-p in the existing Posr-laws have not received much attention in the Welsh press. t Tyst (t'r Dydd of last week gives an notice, and says :—" The Poor-laws as they are defective enough, and are made much j0 so by many of the officials who administer tb# 4 Mr Alfred Thomas, M.P., is determined r1 reform them if ho can secure the necefS support. To this end he has issued a lIerleStb' questions to boards of guardians throughout country, and these have caused no little e*c ment at several boards. When tho replies b been received, Mr Thomas proposes to introd erf a Poor-law Reform Bill. We wish him e* success in his praiseworthy effort, inasmuch we have faith in him as one who desires welfare of the poor."

-4_ NEATH TOWN COUNCIL. The monthly meeting of the Neatb Council was held at the Gwvn-hall on Monday* SACRED CONCERTS ON SUNDAY. „ ef An influential deputation, headed by the g8 A. F. Mills, waited upon the council to U of upon them the advisability of refusing Jhe uS *«• the Gwyn-hall for concerts on The Mayor (Mr Johu Arnold) thought concerts should not be held during the hours j Divine Serrice, but was strongly of opinion1 1 g classical sacred music instead of detrimental to the due observance of the Sflb røl bad an elevating and moral tendency.— other members spoke in a similar strain. eventually decided that the mayor should oj permit the use of the hall during tho Divine Service, but that the council decline" interfere witb the holding of sacred concerts a such services. -uri < The Council then sat as the UrbaD Sftn,t Authority.

COLLIERY ENTERPRISE IN SOUTH WALES. r It is stated that a large area of miners.' petty, close upon 2,000 acres in extent, neighbourhood of Pontypridd, has been up tor working, and that smkiug operation9 shortly be commenced, We reported a few. ago the operations contemplated in tbe vicit" 7.^ Pontypridd, and all the indications arc that a .jj extension of the business in the locality shortly be witnessed.

GREAT TEA TRADE DEVELOPl,njN1, The well-known firm of W. H. and Horniman and Co., of tea fame, held a ra 0ti unusual celebration at the Crystal P»19C0 je- Saturday last in commemoration of organisation of the firm. Until Saturday Ai f0.. J. Horniman, of Forest-hilJ, was the 80 ii prietor of the business, but from that date to be carried on by an extended proprIetary. pit F. J. Horniman having taken in as partner son, Mr Emslie John Horniman, Mr \\e* Brewerton, and other gentlemen, with tbe abl6 of such an extension of operations as may er tb( them to meet the evor-growing demands ? part- business. Some hundreds of the heads ments in the home and export trade were 101l0l1S4 and, after a rest by the way at the Surrey. ol\ø" Museum, where they inspected Mr IIcrnltJreg, splendid collection of curiosities and treabstao- they proceeded to the Palace, where a. sU oaoal tial luncheon was provided. After the ^pli- loyal toasts, and the delivery of several1 Hres80^ meutary speeches, Mr F. J. Horniman |a8ti<> ( the assembly, meeting wnu a very tX0rOK reception. Alluding to the settling of the gf man family in North Devon, at the begin ,aajlf the 15th century, from Germany, hfl yai to traced their career to the time of their rern London, and the establishing of their grea r.jaoe» taa trade. They first set up 10 POI P aod ø then their trade was continued at Dalston, jn 1854 they opened their present prelDI0 coD" Wormwood-street, Old Broad-street. bo11** sequence of these buildings being pro- ever, for street improvements, still 1»:rK0Xisti«1?* mises have been acquired adjoining »nd house, giving double the accommodalras.injif enabling them to develop their largely m 0 oew trade. He made special reference to ciflted partners who would henceforth bs with bim iu extending their trade to «i of the earth.

Sir E. Watkin intends to bring in h's uigiM Tunnel Bill again next session, aud j notices have been given. WHEN STABCHING, your linen will WJU NOT and more lustrous, and you will find your SOAP stick, if you put a small pi?ce of feUNMP the starch.