The Cardiff Times

KILLED BY A MOTOR-CAR. Jury's Verdict jibe Berkshire Coroner held an inquest on }h°Dvay on tlle body of Thomas Edwin Overall, 9 little boy who was knocked down and killed I the Henley road at Hurley OD Friday even- •N*k a ,riotor-car driven by Stanley Monro fta* "le ao" °' a Bayswater publican. A man at»ed Ridgley Baid that after the accident he J** the car wobbling about the road, the driver JjP&rently having no proper control over it. halfan-hour's deliberation the jury re- jjled a verdict of Manslaughter against the 'Ver of the car, and he was liberated on bail.

OLD SHOT EXPLODES. Four Men Badly Hurt. ,Q alarming accident took place on Saturday I rv 'he Marquis of Londonderry's new colliery at J;*Wdon, near Seabam Harbour. Operations being carried out by 16 men to overcome a *D'ck8and, a rock drill being used,when there was Horrific explosion, caused by the firing of an old men were severely injured and several were cat and braised.

LLANELLY URBAN COUNCIL. Non-Provided School Materials. 4 meeting of the Llanelly Urban Council was on Monday. The recommendation of the Sds Committee to substitute ama)l lamps for **Ke ones in front of chapels and churches, Acting a saving of £ 168 per annum, was •Hinted A general district rate of 3h in the £ water rental of Is in the were sealed. \it'D James Davies was appointed representa- tive on tbe CourS of Governors of the University Vjlageof Wales and Monmouthshire. A letter reud from Mi J. W Nicholas. CCUDU l^incil clerk, agreeing to increaso the rent paid j^jLthe Town Hall for magisterial purposes from to JE125 per annum on a lease of 21 years, NsSjJ&niodation to bo provided for meetings of tb manager8- Mr D. R. Edmunds thought lett Itll. now provision, and proposed that the J'h; 1)0 ieferred to the Estates Committee. CLZ°«ereed >0. A precept of £ 4,750 was s*Densea erHeera for elementary education schooI man application of the non-provided livplv t for school materials occasioned lhe Prin c !3.CQ3aion. At the previ-ins meeting of 'esninfi11 Waa decided to regcind the no rate Jlrin/ •0U' instructions be given to the cha; a Committee on the matter. The moved that the application be dealt 'ecft j j''10 Education Committee, and ibis vras Uliti Treganing said tbe com- ee was making itself a laughing stock. The •j,«Jrtnaa of tho Education Committee had ruled «va • lhe^ con]d notbin £ because they were aHmg instruct.ions from the Council, and the ]na'ter was to be referred back again without j.ctiong. Mr David held that the chairman 'or ^acati011 Committee was correct in his "og. The proposition waa ultimately carried.

A LLANELLY FURNITURE CASE. t the Llanelly County Court on Monday, ,yCre Judge Bishop, H. Ellis Poole, auctioneer, p'Btielly, sued Mra Jonea. Hendy, Pontardulaia, 01 £ 21 for storage of furniture. Mr Rudford PDearing for the plaintiff, said the furniture waB '°ted from November to September. 1904, at ]0s tb l Week. Mr Poole said he was instructed to sell t?6 furniture in the first instance by Mo63ra Ir.l,ck!ey, with whom defendant's husbaud was in 'Acuities, and the gooda were consequently t?l2«d. JaBt before the Bale Mra JoneB claimed fift6Kooda,which claim Messrs Buckley's admitted the sale was stopped. Subsequently Mr D. U. ^Qaunds who was acting for Mrs Jonea, Jr^ed bim to retain tbe furniture rjt'l he received instruction from him—His j,°Oour This lady ia not responsible any more a.n I am.—Mr Ludford I have not proved my yet. I have to call Mr Edmunds.—iiis b °nour Call him then.—Mr Lndford He ia not yet, but he ia on his way.—Mr J. L. ?'chards (barrister) I think it ia a contempt of ?°Qr court.—Hia Honour severely reprimanded Ludford for not having hia witnesses ready, the latter contended that he waa not to and a heated altercation ensued.—Ulti- telv Mr Edmunds appeared and gave evidence. JM* Honour non-suited the plaintiff.—MrR'chaids P tnado a counterclaim for tbe return of tbe ^^8, the value of which was estimaated at £ 56. s His Honour granted the application, but i;&led that that court could only allow for a sum Jj Vond £ 50. If tbe goods were returned un- Ataaged of course she would only get £ 6 6s °*^age.

ABERDARE BANKRUPTCY COURT. Small Earnings. j Aberdars Bankruptcy Court on Monday i°hn Chas. Olden, a collier, who was represented v? Mr W. Daviea for Mr Gwilym Jones, Ash. attended for public examination. owed £ 65, and his assets weie £ 10, paid J* bis solicitor to file bis petition. He said ho jjQld not pay his debts otVn. to the amallaess his earnings. Too examination waa elosed, r Travelling Draper's Failure. ,i John Davies, Aberdare, who waa represented Mr Fred C. Caldrcott, was also examined. creditors were represented by Mr W. w^otEas and Mr W. Kenabole (Messrs C. and W. Debtor bought a busineaa from Mra v*^liauis, but could not aay what he paid for it, j?* the exact amount he^promised to pay. The thereupon threatened to adjourn the Ruination, but debtor explained that the books Q|5'fcining the receipts were in tbe hands of the j^cial Receiver, and this part of tbe 6xamina- waa therefore adjourned. Debtor said he owed about £ 697. He had kept no proper of account. He knew he was insolvent in W0 bat be did not file becaaae he hoped he a'3'e t0 over trade improving, had been much illness in his family. The IklJnation was adjonrned. Ironmonger and Cycle Agent. C^^lel Jerman, cycle agent an.l ironmonger. l^jS-road, Aberaman. who was represented by U W. Thomas, solicitor, shewed liabilities £ 165 to rank for dividend £ 156 assets £ 17 10a. d8tarted bnsintiKB in March, 1903, and had been bi^ for the past 12 montha. tie attri- by his iuaolvency to bad trade and pressure crditorB. The examination was closed,

MERTHYR PIT BOY'S DEATH. 3>. M Coroner (Mr R. J. Rhys) held an inquest iHth M«thyr Hospital on Monday as to the of Samnel Rees, lb yeais of age, of ^jj^^ah-place. Treharria, who met with a fatal ,11)8t ent on Saturday morning. Mr F. P. Charles Nch tecl by Mr Morrell, the miner*' agent) b() ed the proceedings for Mr Nicholas. ^'V15n "lid deceaaed waa working at [ ^1# p1^6 ^&rting in No. 2 pit of ttie Merthvr r0,liery' when a fall egnalling aboat half a B occurred, under which deceased was n It place had been examined that morn- Ve0 i eve'ytbing was safe. Evidence was How bY Davies Edwarda, a Sremnn John H a, a fellow workmac and Thomas Wil- H tl:1e mana-jer. The nurae stated that M 't"c:d d.ied ehortly after being brought out. thi R° 01 clea!'b i compound fracture of and concession of the fipine. The juiy H a verdicl of Accidental death, nod ■ *ted evejyoue [to^blame.

Crime and Criminals." LECTURE BY SIR ROBERT ANDERSON. Story of a "Marvellous Criminal-" Full of haman interest, intense sympathy, deep conviction, and practical knowledge was the lesture delivered by Sir Robert Anderson, late chief' of Scotland Yard, at Cardiff Cory Hall on Monday night, under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. Crime, like disease, said Sir Robert,was pre- vehtible. Indeed, the problem of come was much more easily dealt with than tbe problem of disease. If you have a miserable population herded together in poverty and dirt and ignorance, it is only natural you should have crime." But drink was the worst of all the causes of crime, and gambling and betting were responsible foe much. When ne first went to Scotland Yard he was amazed to find babies gambling with half- penny dips at smill shops. He set himself to stop them, but not by prosecuting the poor little shopkeepers. He stalked and stalked, and stalked, and found the mannfactera of the half- penny dips. Prosecutions followed, apd the evil ended. What was the first thing a sensible person would do to stop recruiting for the armv of ciime ? Ue would get bold of and save the young, who shonJd not be subjected to the pre- sent system of prison punishment.. Then Sir Robert declared bis partiality for flogging. To be sent to prison for 14 days' bard labour was often a sort of university degree to the budding hooligan. He returned to bis parents and companions with all the swagger of a soldier who returned from the front without having heard the whizz of a bullet. But take him to the police yard and there give him what he deserved, and ho would slink homa deter- mined that the police should not have him any more. His experience was that every child by nature was something of a sheep or a wolf. All his boys were wolves. (Laughter.) They knew what a good child wa3—a mutton-headed creatuie. (Laugh- ter.) If I had been brought up in a slum," went on the speakor. my only playground the streeta, my playmates hooligans, I rather suspcct I should have been a criminal, too. But here I am, neither a hooligan nor a criminal. What happy circumstances have done for me I propose that society should make a like effort to provide for those poor lads." (Applause.) A Marvellous Criminal, Sir Robert ridiculed the theory of Lombroso, the Italian criminologist, that criminals certain fixed types of heads, and then he told the story of Raymond, the greatest criminal he had officially|known—the man who stole Gains- borough's "JJucbess of Devonshire." Ray- mond was a charming man. with a most benevo- lent, Kindly, intellectual Yet he was a marvellous criminal. He escaped from a life sentence in America, and cdme to England, the common sewer of the criminals of the world." Then he went to South Africa, made himself agreeable, returned again to England. Again he went to South Africa, with plans well laid, stole £90:000 worth of diamonds, and sold them to the owners in London. The late Sir John Bridge once said to him, I have nothing to do with punishing crime. That belongs to a Higher Tribunal. My duty is to protect the community." That was the great principle which was now neglected and which ought "to have full play and govern their whole system of sentences. Referring to the I aliens problem Sir Robert declared that nothing said in Parliament or in the Press came up to the horrible reality which the police were conscious of every day. It was a monstrous scandal that foreign criminala were allowed to mako an asylum of Eng-Iand. Men who were criminals by instinct, like Raymond, he would put aside as moral lunatica and compel them to work. They would be mor. useful and happy in that position. It was a monstrous thing that tbey stjould pay for prisona. He would make criminals work, pay for their keep, com- pensate those they had outraged, al1 allow him out cf his earnings to support hio wife and chil- dren. The law now put the criminal in prison and shut the door against the influences most likely to reform him. Food for the aoul was needed as much as food for the body. Sir Robert Interviewed. Seen after the lecture by one'of our representa- tives, Sir Robert Anderson said that the mistake made nowadays was in deali n wi th crime instead of with the criminal. The greatest loss to an Engliahman was the loss of his liberty. He advocated asylum prisons, where men should be set apart from their fellows in tbe same way that tbe insane were isolated. They should not be punished, but made to work, and after their day's work should be allowed to aee the papers, enjoy a smoke, and write to their wives and relatives. With reference to the Heck case, Sir Robert aaid that if the method of finger prints had been adopted when Smith waa first sentenced there could have been no mistake. lIe believed the finger print system to be infallible. A man should be dealt with accsrding to what he was and not merely for tbe crime he was con- victed of. In the case of short sentences of penal servi- tude the conditions of prison life should be such as to prove a deterrent rather than an incentive to crime.

THE LUST FOR LUXURY. The Bishop of Durham was the principal speaker on the occasion of the festivities asso- ciated with the foundation of the North.Eastern County School at Barnard Castle on Monday. The institution waa opened in 1885. Dr. Maule said the personal and international competition in the world to-day was stloner it was 21 years ago, not because kings wanted another province, but because the nations wanted another market. This idealistic and materialistic view of existence gave a miserable conception of life. There was an ever increasing race for gain and a fearful lust for luxnry and pleasure. The English home waa losing strength by restlesa- ness and a breaking np of home hfe. There was a shrinking sense of responsibility, and tbe Sabbath was worn down and broken up. There was diaaipateS idleness on the Thames, and while the mother taught not her sons religion at her knee the father was either on the golf course or in a motor car. Nor was the Bible what it was, for boys now sent to public schools knew nothing of the four Gospels.

FASTIDIOUS VAGRANT. Swansea Workhouse Fare. Samnel Liebert, summoned at Swansea on Monday for refusing to perform his allotted task at the Snansea Workbouse, unrolled a bundle of bread, and complaiued, I had an apology for supper; they gave me that." Tbe Chairman said be thought the bread very nice whereupon defendant hastened to add that a shirt which was given him was swarming with vermin. Union Officer Davies denied this, and the Chair- man added that that had nothing to do with refusal to work. A man can starve any time, but I don't see why I should be asked to work and atarve," said defendant. He was sent to prison for a month, and on leaving the dock dia- charged as a last shot the retort, I'll be better treated there than at the Workhouse."

G.W.R. MOTOR SERVICES. The Great Western Railway Company bad proposed if possible opening their motor ser- vices on tho Garw and Tondu and Porthcawl and Tondu branches in December. Owing to the demand for motdr carriages, however, tbe works- at Swindon cannot turn them out with sufficient rapidity to meet the requirements. It ia prob- able, therefore, that the uew services on the branches mentioned will be opened on January 1st. Should the number of cars available bo sufficient by January 1st. it is likely that other local branches will be similarly converted on the same date as the Tonda, Garw. and Porthcawl branches.

EXTRAORDINARY MIDNIGHT ATTACK. Four gipsies, named John Lee, George Stapley, Amos Blunt, and Thomas Boggle, were sum- moned before the Rocheater City magistrates on Saturday for assaulting John Burton, a game- keeper. Only the defendant Lee appeared, and he was legally represented. Tbe ipsieB.with their families, were encamped near to some woods on the outskirts of the city. They were suspected of poaching, and at in the morning Barton and three other keepers, a soldier, and a lad, visited the encampment with a view to ascertaining the whereabouts of the men. Immediately, it was alleged, the whole en- campment, consisting of men, women, and chil- dren, in all about 30. rushed out with staves. Tha women filled their aprons with large flints, und for a time these missiles were showered upon the keepers. Lee, it was asserted, made a deter- mined attack upon Barton with a. long stave, bnt the keeper drew a swingle round his lege bringing him to the ground, where he was seized and held by the keeper's dog until such time as the keepers could beat a retreat. A good deal of strong language was used, in the course of which threats were made to kill both Barton and bis ao. On behalf of Lee it was submitted that the gamekeepers bad no light to interfere with the encampment, and in ^fcoas-examination a keeper I named Rapson admitted that be carried a loaded revolver, which he fired three times. The gipsies further alleged that the keepers brought poisoned meat with them, as two of their dogs were found dead several hours later. A piece of meat was also discovered which, on analysu, waa- found to have been covered with strychnine. Tne Bench did not consider that the keepersex- ceeded their duty, and fined Lee £ ) 16a, includ* ing costs. Warrants were iaaued for thp other; three men.

CASHED ANOTHER MAN'S ORDER. Mean Offence at Merthyr. At Mertbyr Police Court on Monday John Lewis was charged with stealing 2s 6d.the moneys of David Thomas Daniels, labourer, Merthyr. Last week prosecutor waa in Merthyr Infirmary, and he expected some money from hia sister. Prisoner was in the eame ward. and cjischarged himself on toe 3rd November. A clerk at Merthyr Post Office said prisoner came there with a written authority for a letter addressed, to Danibls. Latei a posta! orier was cashed, but he could not identify the prisoner as the man who caahed it. When prisoner waa arrested tbe letter was found in bis ponsession, and he admitted having taken the OiQer. lie Wfts. sent to prison lot 14 days.

l[ DOGGED! Mr Lyttelton Ob, do go a-way 5 I wish you wouldn't follow me about everywhere! (According to the Central News, Mr Lyttelton was walking over from the Colonial Office to attend the Cabinet Council on Wednesday, when he discovered that his French poodle was following him. As he seemed to doubt whether the dog could be trusted with State secrets, Mr Lyttelton walked back with it, and several minutes elapsed before he reappeared. The incident caused amusemeat among the spectators.) Cartoon by F. C. Gould. Published by arrafigement with the Westminster Gazette."

BANK NOTES BURNT. Thought They Were Only Receipts Caroline Libon (30), a. eervant, of Belgian nationality, was charged at Lambeth on Satur- day with stealing money, bank notes, and plate, to the total value of LIOD, belonging to her em- ployer, Emile Vernon, a French artist, residing at Upstall-atreet, Brixton. Neither the prisoner nor the prosecutor were able to speak English, I and the evidence had to be given through th« medium of an interpreter. Prosecutor said the accused entered his service on March 20th last. On July 29th he found that a safe in his dresaing-room had been opened, and missed two £5 Bank of England notes, a cheque for S15, about S,70 in English gold, French money and bank notes to the value of about 600f., and a quantity of plate. A the time the robbery was discovered prisoner was serving dlll- ner. and when spoken to on the subject she said ahe heard a noiae, and saw a man going away from the house. Tnere were two keys to the safe- one he carried himself and the other was kept on a bunch of keys belonging to his wife. Detective-Sergeant Cury said on Friday nigbt he went to the prosecutor's house, and there saw the prisoner, who was still in service. Address- ing her in French, be told her it had been ascsr tamed that, although she was in poor circum- stances when she entered the prosecutor's ser- vice, she had Bines boupbt jewellerv and clothea to the value of £40. he afterwards said, "I foond the keys hanging in the wardrobe. I opened the safe and took the things. The plate is downstairs in the kitchen. The bank notes and cheque I threw in the fire. I thought they were only receipts. I bavo spent all the money I have bad." Detective-Sergeant Ebbage said in a hole under the bottom of one of the dresser drawers in the kitchen he found some silver plate. He also found a six-chambered revolver, 50 cart- ridges, and a packet of poison. Mr Hopkina sentenced the prisoner to six months' hard labour.

--r- FAMILY SLEEPING OUT. I I Misfortunes of a Baker. I At 1 o'clock on a cold damp morning a passing policeman heard a child crying and coughing in the rear of an unoccupied house in Rosendele. road, West Dulwich. Going into the garden he found i man sitting at a fire with a watchman. In a corner of the garden, lying on an old mat- tress on the ground, was a woman and three cbildren-a girl of 11, another of nine, and a boy of seven years. The man, William Stevens, a baker, said he and his wife and the three children had been evicted from the house a few days before His wife and children, he added, slept at a friend's hou3e on the previous night. As Stevens rofnsed to go into the Workhouse the policeman tooir all five off to the police station. On behalf of the husband and wife, each charged with exposing the children, a solicitor stated at Lambeth Police Court on Saturday that they took the house two years ago. At that time the man had saved about X65, which sum he expended in purchasing the goodwill of a baker's business attached to the premises, It was then understood that the house was to be converted into a shop, but that was not done, and the little money he had the male prisoner lost. For some weeks the Stevens were dependent upon remit- tances from their friends, and finally they were ejected from the house. The magistrate sen- tenced Mr and Mra Stevens to one month's hard labour each.

11 COPPERS, INDEED I" Mr Paul Taylor, the magistrate at Southward, ia for upholding the dignity of the policctr.an'a profession. A prisoner charged befoie ham with disorderly conduct referred to the constables in ¡ the case as coppers." This provoked Mr I Taylor to say, What do you mean by talking about' coppers before me ? It is a grosa im- pertinence to refer to the police as I coppers in a court of justice. If you cannot speak properly you will find that the Jaw has resources for en- abling you to appreciate the importance of doing bo."

SUICIDE OF A OAPCOCH RESIDENT. Samuel Williams, a married man, of 23, John- street, Capcoch. near Mountain Ash, committed suicide on Monday. He was found dead suspended from a beam in no outhouse at the back of hiu premises. 1iMaa wuMMWjMJiji_yjjail_ulllljiiJliiL in -mrfnif

J.P.'S VIOLENCE. Strange Motor Incident. Since motoring became fashionable there baa been no such remarkable case as that heard at Guildford on Saturday, when Captain John Mon- tagu Benett-Stanford, J.P,, of NVilts and Dorset, and Charles-street, London, was fined 408 for assaulting a carter named James Hunt. Hunt had also to Day JOs for obstructing the highway. The patties came into conflict on the road from Godalming to Muustead Rough. Hunt was driv- ing a horae and trolley, when he heard the cap- tain's motor-caj: coming behind him. He told the magistrate that be pulled to the near side of the road to let it pass. After the car passed it pulled up in front of the trolley, and Captain Bonett-Stanford demanded his addreas. He refused it becaue he had not caused an obstruction. The captain and the chauffer dragged him off his trolley, and put the reins twice round his neck, and tried to tie him up and lash him to the car, He struggled, and the captain aaid he was going to take him to the police station. EventuaUy the captain left to fetch a constable. His (Hunt'a) face and neck were smothered in blood, and he bore the maiks for a fortnight. He was sober • he had had one pint of beer. Captain Benett-Stanford's case was that Hunt was on the wrong side of the road and the motor- car had to be driven on the grasg to get past the trolley. When Hunt refnspdhis address they took the reins off the horse with a view to securing him, when he became very violent and struck him (the captain) with his whip stock, breaking the skin of his nose. He placed the rope over Hunt's left wrist, and taklD bold of bis ahculder said, Nov;, then, I have got you." The man twisted about in bis struggles and got the rope round his flcck. Bpoaking as a soldier, lie should say the man was inr.apflb10 for duty, and he was not sober. Cross-examined, the captain said he was quite sober. He had only had two whiskies and aoda with hia lunch. Hunt asked for time to payi"3 fine, whereupon Captain Benett-Stanford paid 'be money for him "and left the court in bigb good humour.

SNAKES IN PARLIAMENT. Nest of Cobras Discovered. Lisbon, Sunday.—Great alarm was caused in the Upper House of Parliament yesterday by the discoyeiv of a nest of cobras. They were dis- turbed by a secretary, who vas removing some books, and scurried It way in all directicna. The secretary fled from the room, closing the door after him with a banc, and excitedly shouted to the attendants for help. It was some time before a man could be found bold enough to enter the place. Finally a gen- darme armed himself with a club, and cantIOusly, opening the door stepped inside. He despatched four of the 3nakes, which bad made themselves comfortable in various parts of the room, and a cBreful search failed to discover more. Owing to the quantity of books and papers lying about the staff are not very confident that all were caught, and are in a state bordering on terror lest they should be bitten by one of the veno- mous reptiles.

SWANSEA NON-PROVIDED SCHOOLS. Teachers and Their Salaries. With reference to a complaint thatjsalauos of teachers at non-provided schools at Swausea. are six weaka in arrears owing to a demand on the part of the education authority that the clerk shall first be in a position to certify as to the correctness of the salary list, Mr Halden, the clerk, says there is now a probability of the stipends being paid on Friday, the authority having decided for the present to pay the same salaries and wages as last year. The delay has been due to no desire to inflict hardship or in- ciignity on the teachers, but with the object of making the Council's position thoroughly legal by paying direct to the teachers instead of through the school managers, and thus in furtherance of the principle that public money should be under public control.

APPEALS FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS. A Swansea Ex-Mayor's Experience. An ex-Mayor of Swansea kept a memorandum of every application for subscription received by him during hia yoar of office, aDd found that the total amounted to no less tbun -EII,GOO. His actual expenditure. iuclndiDC the £ 500 voted as salary, waaJLSCO.

RUNAWAY TRAMCAR AT NEWPORT. Alarming lrcident on Stow Hill. A startling incident occurred on the new sec- tion of the electric tramways at Newport on Stow Hill on Saturday afternoon. The section was inspected and passed by a Board of Trade in- spector only on Friday evening, and was opened to the public on Saturday morning. The gradient on Stow Hill bap been greatly reduced by excava- tion from Victoria-place to Clifton-road., which runs alongside the east end of St. Woolos Church, but it is still 1 in 12 between the two points ) named, consequently care is needed in driving the tramcars. A drizzling rain on Saturday I afternoon apparently rendered the rails greasy," and as cur No. 40 was descending the hill after roonding the Clifton-road curve, it got beyond the control of the driver. Although special brakes have been fitted to the cars run. ning on this section, they failed to stop the car, which came down the hill at a terrific pace, and was not pulled up until it reached the Old Ship Inn, more than half-way up High-street. The car vias filled with passengers at the time, and great excitement prevailed, but fortunately it I kept the rails, and no damage was done beyond slightly bonding the trolley pole. The driver, I, William Payne, pluckily stuck to hiR post, and as the cat descended the hill shouted his loudest to give warning to people in front. When the car pulled up, Payne nearly fainted from shock, and brandy bad to be administered him. It is stated that Payne's supply of sand had run out, thus causing the failure of the brakes to act. Had the car left the rails, or encountered any traffic at the foot of tbe hill, the consequences would ptobabiy have been extremely serious.

TIRED OF POLICE COURT. A somewhat remarkable and amusing case was heard at Newport County Police Court on Satur- day. John Huggett, a mason, summoned by the landlady for having been in a drunksn state in the Waterloo Inn, Nash, and refusing to quit, pleaded guilty, After Mrs Sarah Jones, the landlady, had given her evidence, Superintendent Porter intimated that there was a constable in conrt who could i"e a different version of the affair. The Chief Constable had ordered the land- lady to be summoned for permitting drunkenness. Subsequently Huggett denied that he was drunk, but admitted refusing to leave. Quite a long dis- cussion onsued between him and the chairman j and one or two magistrates, and at length the Chairman exclaimed Do you admit you were in a drunken state or not ?" Defendant Well, I'd rather do that than stay here-all day. (Loud laughter.) In the result the case was dismissed, defendant being ordered to pay the costs.

===-=-- PURSUED BY TWO SERVANT GIRLS. Saturday Night Scene at Aberystwyth. At Aberystwyth Police Court on Monday Morgan Hopton, labourer, was charged with stealing 3s 4d from a slot gas-meter at Caerleon House, Victoria-ierrace. On Saturday nigbt a man, who was afterwards recognised as the pri- soner. was seen running down the terrace, fol- lowed by two servant girls who had seen him bolt up the area steps. An bout later prisoner was arrested at the Coopers' Arms, and a quantity of coppers was found on him In reply to the Bench be aid he was in drink, and admitted having taken tho money. The prisoner had formerly been in the employ of tha Gas Company, and the officials did not press the charge. Prisoner pleaded for leniency for the sake of bis wife and children. The Bonch bound him over in the sum of £5 to be of good behaviour for six months.

PENARTH TRAMWAY SCHEME. At a meeting of the Penarth Urban District Council on Monday evening;, Mr K. Hancock in the chair, the chief item of interest was a motion to rescind a resolution by the Council negativing the proposal of the Penarth Tramways Syndi- cate ,s laid before them by Messrs Herbert Lewis and Fletcher, engineers of the scheme. Ul: Guy, who had given notice of the motion, rose to speak, when tb9 Chairman pointed out that it was necessary there should be as many members present ns when the resolution was passed. This was confirmed by the clerk, and after some little d i scussion- there being one mamber leaa present I —the matter ended by a notice of motion given by Mr F, J. Purneli, that the standing orders be I suspended, so that at the next monthfy meeting the difficulty experienced should not obtain. "'II!

PLANKS ON THE LINE. Boy's Strange Narrative. On Satarday,before the jostices at tha Manches- ter County Police Court, a boy named Fiank Aldcroft, of Linwood-street, Hulme, was charged on suspicion with attempting to wreck railwav trains by placing four pieces of telegraph poles on the metals of the Midland Railway near Twenty Steps Bridge, Chorlton-cum-Hardy. It was stated by Superintendent Keys that the pieces of wood ranged from five to eight feet in length and six inchea in diameter. It appears that a little before 8 o'clock last evening the boy went to the signalman at Chorl- ton Junction, and said he had seen two men plac- ing planks on the line. The signalman detained bim, and sent for the Withington stationmaster, who took the boy to the spot where the poles ware laid They had apparently been knocked off the line by a passing train. The station- master became suspicious and sent for a police- man, who found that the boy's hands had tar on them. He took him into custody, and the toy stated that one of tha men who placed the wood on the line a,-ked the other if he thought the wood would be heavy enough, and the other man replied Yea." Then the first man said, The Sheffield won't be long." Mr Keys asked why should the boy be on the line two miles from his home at dark. He must have handled some timber because of the tar on his bands. The boy now accounted for the tar on his hands through having assisted to lift.some sleepers. He was remanded until Friday next, bail being allowed.

RESCUED BY THE ESCAPE. Exciting London Fire. A fire, attended with some exciting scenes and gallant rescue work, occurred in %be early hours yesterday morning, at 192, North End-road, Ful- ham, on the premises of a fried fish shop pro- prietor named Morris. Three members of the Morris family and the iervant retired soon after midnight. At a Quarter to three the police found a fierce fire raging in the shop and ground floor. When the people upstairs were aroused they found their escape by the ordinary means entirely cut off. Thev rushed to the front windows of the second floor, and screaming for help seemed about to precipitate themselves out of the building. People gathered in the street shouted" Don't jump the firemen are comiug," and just then members of the Fulbam Brigade dashed up with :be Bayloy horse-escape. Without the loss of a second the firemen got "he machine into position, and. admidst the loud cheers of tho crowd brought the four people safely to the ground. The shop was blazing fiercely at the time, and the rescue work was ac compliahed under hazardous circumatances. The fire was not extinguished until the pre- mises had been practically destroyed.

SERIOUS ASSAULT AT NEATH. Struck with a Railway Lamp. At Neath Borough Police Court on Saturday William Bigg (45), a Great Western Railway goods guard, living at No. 1, KiDg-stzeet, was brought up in custody and charged with assault- ing Thomas Flynn, labourer, King-street, by striking him on the head with a railway lamp on the previous night. For the prosecution it was aiieged that the assault, which occurred in King- street, was entirely unprovoked. Dr. Morris said the wound on the injured man'? head was 3* inches long and very deep. Prisoner said that Flynn struck him first. The Bench imposed a fine of 20s and costs.

PRINCE'S ADVICE TO BOYS. Smoke a Pipe, Not Fags." Prince Alexander of Teck opened a new drill hall and gymnasium in connection with All Sainta, Buxton-street, E., on Saturday afternoon. After declaring the ball open and expressing re- gret at the absence of H.R.H.Princess Alexander of Teck, bis Seiene Highnesa said be wished to impre3e upon the boya present what a chaqce tbey had of improving theai8elvea both mentally and physically. He wishej to warn them against the habit of cigarette smohing, which was very prevalent among young men. Boys should at least wait until their bodies had fully developed, I and e" en then they should think twice about it. His advice waa, if they wanted to smoke at all, to smoke a pips and leave 11 fags alone. 1niw-r'n-'iPOTiiaa—M—i»—r«—g-eat—■I

I 0VERNURSED Nurse Chaplin: Isn't he a little duck—which his nursey won't let 'im slip. Nurse Chaniberiain Let me squeege the little clierub--It-t me squeege 'im 'ard! Nurse Howard Vincent: Let me whisper to 'im which he'll think it's the Hansels I (" It was to be hoped that Mr Balfour's virtue would withstand the temptations to which it was exposed bat when Mr Chamberlain embraced him at Luton, and Mr Chaplin offered him his capacious knee to sit upon at Southampton., and when Sir Howard Vincent whispered in his ear in sweet and seductive tones, Mr Balfour might be in danger."—Lord Jac "If Hereford, at the Chelsea Free Trade League, November 3,1904.) Carioon by F, C. Gould. Published by arraugemeat with the Westminster Gazette."

WARNING BY MR LLOYD GEORGE. Surveying the Damage." Mr Lloyd George, after his triumphant meet. inga a" Manchester and at Bacup, with Mr L. V. llarcoutt, and a restful Sunday with Mr Kmmott Barloiv in Cheshire, is back in London again, and in a position to devote a little time to the consideration of the second communicatipn which I he Bishop of St. David's has contributed to a Welsh Tory contemporary. Interviewed on the subject, Mr Lioyd George consented to deal with the Bishop's letter, and the following con- versation took place :— The bishop writes you to answer some of b:s qtlestions," If the bishop really thinlca it of any import- ance that I should answer his questions, why on earth does he not avail himself of the opportu- nities I have tendered to him more than once to put those questions to me face to face ? At a conference he could ask ma anything in reason which would be relevant to the settlement of the poiuta in dispute. It is idle to pretend that he is not going to sit in the same room, not even on the opposite side of the room, as the men who framed the Cardiff resolutions. If that is his view, why does he enter into this long debate wita theui ia the Press ? A meeting to thresh out these thiugq that seem to worry him would be much more satisfactoiy thau a lopsided news- paper discussion, which the Bisbop declines to perform except in what he evidently regards a* the cousecrELted Press. I also have a few questions which I should like to ask the bishop, but I know I cannot get an answer by this method of firing at long range. He is mnch too elusive a person. I should like, for instance, to know how he justifies the passing of a highly controversial measure like the Educa- tion Act against tbe evident will of the nation as manifested at the bye-elections, when the pro- posals contained in it were never even hinted at during the progress of the General Election, and the responsible Unionist leaders had gone the length of saying that such questions were not in issue at the election. Would he mind answering that? 'It might throw some light upon his anxiety to make the most of his inheritance before the electors have the chance of expresaipgaa opinion uponthe means by which it was obtained. Is there any particular point in his Lord- ship's letter that you woald care to deal with now ?" There are only two points of any interest in the course of his long and somewhat incoherent letter. One is bis*glowiog panegyric upon Sir Edward Reed, Mr Bryn Roberts. and Mr Lloyd Morgan. He seems to commend the kind and the amount of opposition that they offered to the Education Act both in and oat of the House of Commons. As their action, or rather inaction, has won the bishop's gratitnde, he does well to express it in his letter and address." And the other point ?" The other interesting feature of his letter is the revelation it gives as to the source of his con- fidence in the future existence of the dual pyetem of education in this country. He admits by im- plication that the English and Welsh electorates whom it most concerns may condemn the system at the next election, but he relies upon the sup. port of the Catholic vote from Ireland to force upon England and Wales a system they will have both repudiated. He crows over the prospect of Irish Catholics being used to deny to England and Wales that complete control over the State education of their own children which even the present Government were, prepared last Session to concede to Scotland. Now I know why he is prepared recklessly to goad Wales into adminis- trative anarchy; why he iefusea even to meet the education authorities to discuss the possi- bility of arriving at a good understanding for the preservation of peace or to meet the teachers if the County Councils are present as the interview. It is not that the clergy may enjoy for a few months only the ill-gotten gains of the Education Act not at all. He, like Archbishop Laud, is looking out for a Catholic army to arrive from Ireland to coerce England and Wales, and the coercion is to last beyond the next General Election. It is to be a perpetual submission to the injustice and injury inflicted. That project, I may remark, failed when a trial was given it before. It will fail as ignominionsly when tried by feebler spirits now. There aro hundreds of thousands of Englishmen and Welsh- men who are prepared, I believe, to concede to Ireland the right to direct their own special concerns in Ireland, but the reasons which pompt them to seek to do justice to Ireland are also those which will impel them to resist to the utmost any attempt on the part of a seitari&n minority in this country, with the aid of the votes of the Catholic representatives of Ireland, to oppress the convictions of the majority of their fellow countrymen in matters affecting their own freedom and faith. Englishmen and Welshmen will no more tolerate it to-day than they did 350 years ago. Cardiff is a different matter. There, it is true, wo were beaten by an alliance between Welsh Anglicans and Irish Catholics, but in this case the latter dwell amongst us, are Cardiff citizens, and have aa good a right to express an opinion as to the principle upon which their local business should ro, be managed a.s anv Welshman bred and born in the town, bnt if the Bishop of St. David's means to carry his alliance fnrthr.r- and he seema to me to contemplate the prospect of it with glee and to invite Catholics residing in Ireland to come out and help him to garrison the sectarian citadel in this land and to overawe and keep down British Protestants-be has but to live a few more years, nay, possibly months only, to regret that ere be launched his misbegotten plan of campaign he bad not studied more closely the story of a greater man than himself, who entertained the same delusion in the reign of Charles I., and paid a heavy penalty for his blunder." The Bishop asks you to consider the devasta- tion and hardship that will Le caused by a con- tinuation of the opposition.' 11 Yes, and, judging by his constant referenceto the devastation which he is now to produce in Wales, he seems to dwell upon it with some satisfaction. I trust he knows what he is bring- ing, not on his country alone. but more especially upon the friends and followers who trnst him. Does be really imagine that the passions he would so lightly ronse would end in the present con- troversy ? If he does he must have strangely forgotten the history of great popular upheavals against injustice. Once started they have marched on until they have covered the whole ground of wrong and iniquity that the people suffered from. Sectarian domination of schools main- tained by the State does not constitute our sole, nor, I may say, our worst, grievance. The mass of the people are long-enduring, bat if the bishop forces them to resort to those measures which are their only refuge from the unfairness of these Education Acts the anger which his wanton provocation will excite will not rest there. It will certainly sweep on to the injustice of diverting national endowments to the support of an anti-national Church to the still greater injustice involved in the land system, not alone in the agricultural districts, but in the urban and mining areas. Were I, what the bishop prob ibly deems me to be, a mere agitator, I should welcome the outlook he thus ooens up of another, a more general, and a better organised anti-tithe move: ment, another and a more sustained land agitation. But how will the victims of his rash zeal enjoy it ? I have not hitherto referred to these things, although I foresaw that they were the inevitable outcome of his policy of coercion if foolishly pressed. I refrained from doing so bacause I did not wish anyone to imagine that I indulged in this prediction either as an incentive to my friends who were deeply interested in these other questions to assist us in settling this, nor as threats to the bishop's friends, who ara equally interested in these questions from another point of view, to desist from opposing us in the just settlement of this. I. would not have alluded to it now were it not that the bishop seems to me to surrey the damage he premeditates with so ligbt a heart. An agitation of this widespread character initiated by the bishop now would not this time appeal for redress to a piere precarious and divided majority of 14 such as that which dealt with the problem of dieestablishment and the Welsh land question in the Parliament of lb92. England is with us to-day. The bishop may begin the struggle, but he will not have any voice in the ending of it. The men who now applaud his headstrong intolerance towards the Nonconformity to which he owes his best will then wonder whether they would not have done better to have listened to the older and wiser beads of the Church in Wales who were not driven to persecuting their Dissenting neighbours from any necessity they were in of dispelling suspicion aa to their possessing any lingering ,eympathy with Dissent."

ATTITUDE OF THE WEL8;f BISHOPS. The Schoolmastei,s Comments. The" Schoolmaster." in its current issue, remarks -The Bishop of St. David's, finding that the Campaign Committee of the Welsh National Liberal Connpil had definitely resolved —before Mr John's fetter had been received either by the Bishop or Mr Lloyd George-that any suggested conference with the clerical party would be "vervinopportnne," had no alternative but reluctantly" to come to the conclusion that at the present moment the conference could do DO good. This is straightforward enough, and a very good reason on paper. But sureiy the good Bishop took the Campaign Committee far too much a pied de la lettre I The Campaign Committee of the Welsh National Council met some time before Saturday. 22nd October. Their resolution deprecating a conference was pub. lisbed in do number of papers on Saturday, 22nd -October, and on Monday, 24th October. On Tuesday, 25tb October, Mr Lloyd George replies to Mr Tom John cordially approving of the idea of the proposed conference I Surely if Mr Lloyd George is prepared thus to throw his Campaign Committee clean overboard, the Welsh Bishops "need not, as it seems to us, have taken tha ioso- lution of that committee quite so seriously.

MOUNTAIN FATALITY. Vienna, Sunda.y.- Herr Rudolf Spannagl, » Viennese advocate and preside t ot the Austrian Tourist Club, was killed while ascending Rax Alps in the Semmering llange this morning. The accident occurred at a spot called the Gem-> secksteip.oneof the most dangerous places on the worst side of the mountain. Herr Spannagl was following a party of friends when he slipped and fell a considerable distance, fracturing his skull. Renter.

A stoneman, named Charles J. Dowse;, of Builth Wells, fell off a scaffold whilst at work building r new house at Elan Valley on Satur- day and as idled.