South Wales Daily News

irth, .Utatriagts, and ftaths. BIPTH. Noft-rov.-On the -tth April, at Welllic d House. New-road, Ltanell) Viie wife of Howard -lohn Norton, vi a daughter. MARRIAGE. Dunn—MAiismtAv. -On tae 21st April. -,it Sc. Judc a, South Ken- sington, by the Re\. C. J. Vaughan, D.D., Master of the Temple, and the fts v. R. W. Forrest, M.A., Vicar, Edward Juiyan liunn. of the. Middle Temple, and of the South Wales Circuit, tiarrister-at'law, to Edith, daughter of John Clark Marsfnman, Esq., C.S..I. of Palace Gardens, Kenwnsjton. DEATHS. BROOM.—On the 17th April, at Bcwdley, Mr. Samuel Broom, s'x'h an of the Uta 31r. Bro.ni, of Llaneliy, a:;ed M Years. LEWI-.—(;n Saturday, the loth of April, llrs. Lewis, wife of Mr. W. R. Lewis, grocer and diapor, Pont-y-Gof, Ebhw Vale, aged 26 years. THOMAB.—On the 21st April, at Mountain Ash, Ilohart D. Thomas, second ioll,cf th,3 tale David Thomas (I)e i g), srooer and tallow chandler, Bridjfand, aged 56 year."

SUMMARY OF NEWS. The iLilieii of the political atmosphere in South Wales will Oiulieved after to-day by the contest for the "va^iat at in Breconsbire, which gives promise of being fougllt out with energy and spirit- Mr Maitland, the Liberal candidate, has i^sue 1 bin addresn. He raaintains that the Tory Government have disappointed the expectations of the country, and in proof of the assertion points to the Agricultural Holdings Bill, tife Endowed Seliool5 Bill, and the tinsncial statement recently made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He says, further, I am still anxious to see the intro- duction of measares to amend the laws relating to the transfer and descent, of land, I am still in favour of unsectarian education, and I .shall give my unhesita- ting support to a Bill securing compensation to tenants for unexhaustive and durable improvements, and for damage done by game." The address makes a grace- ful reference to the late Lord Tredegar as a trne and f- long-tried friend to the electors, and to many of them a kind and generous landlord. Mr Howell Gwyn, in his address, say" that he will support the pre^snt Go- vernment, but is, at the same time, an advocate of steady, progressive reform, and will devote attention to the relief of local taxpayers. Yesterday, at the quarterly meeting cf the Xorthern Association of the Congregational Churches of Glamor- ganshire, the Ifr v Joshua Thomas was presented with XI,10, in recognition of lutuiy valuable and faithful services rendered. The remains of the late Lord Tredegar were interred yesterday in -the mausoleum at B&ssalleg C'tiurch. A largo number of persons assembled, notwithstanding the showers of rain, which fell constantly. The choir sang a hymn, and as the coffin was conveyed from the Chnrch ont of sight into the tomb-house, the organ pealing the sublime music of the Dead March, the scene amongst the congregation was very nuecting. Several important local Bilii> were before Parlia- mentary committees yesterday. The Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway Bill passed through committee. The Great Western. Eill was under consideration in the House of Commons committee room. Mr Brog- den„Mr J. Nixon, Mr G. T. Clarke, Mr. Fotbergill, Sir Daniel Gourley, and Sir George Elliott were exam- ined as to the opposition of the Monmouthshire Company, and the committee adjourned. A Local Government Inspeotor attended at the Board Boom of the Cardiff Workhouse yesterday, to bold a final enquiry with respect to the formation of a Local Board of Health for Penarth, Cogan, and Llandongb. Everyone who was present expressed himself in favour of the formation of a Board, and it was deemed desir- able that the district should be divided into wards. In making these divisions the Local Government Board will give due consideration to the wishes of the rate. payers in public meeting assembled. An enquiry was also held on the scheme promoted by the Cardiff Rural Sanitary Authority to supply the village of Cadoxton with water. XVat1 Directors of the Bank of England met yes- fcwday, but decided to make lit) alteration in the rate of ciisccunt. M. Chevalier has aecepted an iuviration from the Bradford Chamber of Commerce to visit that town on an cary day, bai no date is yet fixed. In tho Konae of Lords last night, the Agricultural Holdings Bill was considered ill Committee, and several amendments were sabt-listed. In the House cf Commons,Mr Bourke stated that the. Go^ rernment did not intend to make 8n7 representation to the Sprtnijsh Government on the Carlista, respecting the crutiii^s practised on prisoners of war. Mr jDis- w,li liav"ng stated thet he did not intend to propose ) any lofcrma as regarded the reporting of the debates in rlic,ment, and the proceedings before Committees, Mr ♦inllivan intimated that he should next evening, and very evening, eall attention to the presence of strangers." This means in effect that reporters will be forced to retire. Oa the Inown to go into Com. *nittee onjthe Peace JU2. jBi^ar mowed an amendment-, upon v.hicii he at i-y.'reme length. The Conference of ministers nnd clergy on intemper- ance reassembled yesterday morning at the Friends' Meeting House, under the presidency of Mr Samuel Bowley, when further papers were read in support of the objects of the Conference. On Wednesday night a successful public meeting was held, and it was stated that temperance principles were spreading in the Army. Upwards of 23,000 children have entered themselves as competitors for Mr Francis Peek's prizes, to be given through the London School Board for examination in Scripture subjects. The prizes are open to all children of the elementary schools of London, and amount to £ 500. The late Sir Joseph Hawley won four Derbies, the St. Leger, the Two Thousand, and the Oaks, two Middle Parlx Plates, the Ascot, Goodwood, Chester, aad Liverpool Cups, the City and Suburban, the Metro- politan, and ether valuable pri7.cs, with horses for the most part of his own breeding. His winnings on the turf amounted to a very large sum. Mr Doyle, the Poor Law Inspector, has fallen^ueder the ire of Miss Eye, who has been instrumental in taking oat repeated bands of poor children to Canada, and placing them in homes thete. Mr Doyle was sent to Canada to enquire into the condition of those children, and does not seem to have given a very flatter- ing report, whereupon Miss Rye writes to the Times stating that Mr Doyle visited only four out of ten centres where she carries on her work, that he did not avail himself of the letters in her offices at Niagara, and that on one occasion when the good old Bishop of Toronto travelled one hundred and sxty miles to be present at the gathering of three hundred children and their foster parents, Mr Doyle, who was expected to be present, never came, though he hud a few days before been within ten miles of the place. The Ecclesiastical fever is spreading to Belgium. In the "Chamber of Representatives on Tuesday, an earnest protest was made against the military honours to the new Cardinal, the Archbishop of Mechlin, and it was argued that such. homage should not be paid to the chief of a class which endangered the relations of Belgium with a neighbouring Power, and had no regard to patriotism. A scene of uproar such as is rarely witnessed ensued. Another instance shows the popu- lar feeling out of doors. At Liege a procession of pilgrims have been hooted and mobbed on their exit from a church. The police were powerless, and the air was rent with cries against the Syllabus and in favour of the King and Constitution. The Pope has protested to Victor Emmanuel against Jhe clause in the Italian MilittryBill abolishing the exemption of the priesthood from serving in the army.

THE FATAL QUARREL AT TREDEGAR. The adjourned inquiry into the death of William Miller, who died at Plumber's-row, from the effects of a blow given by Philli[) Williams en the night of the 20th March, was resumed at the Greyhound Inn, Tredegar, on Thursday. Mr Horace Shepard. solicitor, watched the case on behalf of the relatives of deceased and Mr C. Harris was present on behalf of the prisoner. The pri- soner, Phillip Williams, was not in court.. Ann Miller, the wife of the deceased, said On four weeks last Saturday my husband (deceased) came home at half-past nine at night. I went out, and as I passed I saw Phillip Williams in the house of Llewellyn Lle- wellyn, next door he was smoking, opposite the door. Phillip Williams came to the house see my husband a week after the quarrel, but we declined because my hus- and said, I don't want to see him, as he may strike me again, and cause my death." It was when my hus- band went out to look after the child that the blow was struck. My husband distinctly said it was Phiilip Wil- liams who struck him. He did not see auyone, but beard the child say, Phil is hiding behind the wall with a hammer in bis hand. The child says so now, and that it was a, stCtne-breaking hammer. I have seen the hammer several times with the children about the place. When I ca.me in on the night of the occurrence, I asked Who did talsV" and my husband said it was Phidip Williams. My husband went on the Monday morning tP the surgery, and he was not long away, a.nd on coming home went to bed, and was not a day after that out of his bed. I am sure he did not go out drinking. The house of Phillip Williams is at one end of the row and mine at the other. There are four houses itt the rank. Phillip Williams has no father living the father of deceased is alive. My husband was perfectly sober when he came home on the Saturday night. He told me he left the Bltltevue before Phillip. He and my husband have always been good partners j since we lived near each other. I never heard of any quarrel between them. By the Coroner It is a falsehood that xny husband went out drinking after ].;■ received the injury the doctor attended every day, and did not miss one day The child who slept at home with my husband was three yeq-rs old last February my husband did not say he had struck Philip Will', uas at the Belle Vue. By Mr Shepard Wedo Hot kep beer or liquor in our' house. Any one coming fvra the Belle Vue to our ho lIRe must paas Phillip William, house. When Phillip was sitting in Llewellyn's hou.-e there was a candle on the table Phillip could hear v.;ry well what Mrs. Williams said to me when Phillip came to the house to see my husband on the Saturday after the affair he said to me I am sorry I struck him." inly mother-in-law and sister-in-law came there on the night of the row. Mrs Williams, wife of Philip, told me what was going to happen. She met me as I came from Coach-row, and said Philip had gone out to tight my husband. Nothing was 'said about striking. By Mr Harris: I do not know that my husband was fighting at the Belle Vue. I only know what has been told me by other people. Llewellyn Llewellyn deposed I am a collier and worked at the Drift, Tredegar. I knew nothing of the quarrel till after eleven o'clock on the night it happened. Deceased told me on the Saturday night that Philip WiM-m-hjd struck him. He did not mention his head or the striking when I saw him on the Monday. When I Wprlnesdav"11 Am** be<1 That was the following Wednesday Am sure no stick was mentioned. It, might have been oa Tuesday I saw him in bed, but I did not go into the room further than the door. I did npt see him out on Mondav As I *ent towards Coach-row I met the wife ofPhillfp AVilliams comin, from tawn. I told her that her husband was in Lie well} n s, house. When I came back I saw her run away from her hoiiie, and she told me Phillip had gone out to tight William Morgan. Mrs Williams told me she had not heard any row. I went to my house, and saw Williams going mto his house. I w £ Qt ■ t' house, and my husoand Was sitting on a chair, and Mary Roberts and barah Llewellyn were trying to stop the blood. He was calling for his mother, and^ I 8ent after her. My husband told me my httle girl had been cry in or after me and had gone out, and he went out to fetch the child in. He told me he went out after the child. He told me this a week after the occurrence, and he waa.perfectly sensible at the time he said it. He said it was Phillip Williams who struck ^him, but he did not say what he struck him with. I saw Philip Williams on the Tuesday after the 28th, and he said he was sorry he had struck Miller, and that there was nothing between them before. He did not say anything about a stick. I inn er saw the hammer at all. I was at the Belle Vue. I first met Philip on the stone- oreaking. Pailip ig not a drunken man. By a Juror All he said was Phillip have struck c me^°n.T 'lhat was on the Saturday night. E'y Mr Shepard On the Tuesday after the Saturday Phillip was working with me on the stones near Saron ,n" w Wa.» vexing because he had struck Bsi(I "There was nothing between me and John Miller. Plullip told me he had been qnar- relling with the father of Willie Miller at the C'oach er and Horses and at the BeUe Vue. He held his head down as if he was in trouble. By Mr Harris Miller did not mention any particular Piige where the blow was given. By Mr Shepard We deliver our hammers up to the boss. I was filling stones with Phillip on the Satur- day, and we did not use any hammers. By Mr Brewer Sarah, my wife, told me first about William Miller being struck, and I went in at once to see him. His head was cut, and a handkerchief was over it. I did not see a doctor come there that night. I don't know that they sent for one. I heard some of the people saying Miller was not drjhking on the Monday. A Juror (a stone-breaker) They can gi\e up their hammers if they choose or take them away. Mr Harris Then the gangers do not do their duty. Am I to understa.nd it ;;0 ? Coroner: I don't take that down. Mr Harris No, but I must ?jotice it. Mr Fowler I am glad to hear the question asked. The Juror did not reply to the question. The Court then adjourned till Tuesday next.

FROM OTP, LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. Í1h; i-LIE RECESS. Irish members have been very quiet. They have iaken little interest in the Keiioaly ijiiestioii. (:aptai» Nolan, the Rollie Rule tvhip, did r¡iJ to beseech the Govern- niciif: not TO ju*,iieeute the member for •STOLE. I'.NS himself been prosecuted, and a ft-Uow-fosIing twabesus wondrous kind." BUT Captain Nokn stood alone. Sullivan has looked EN the whole thing with very manifest superiority. and with quiet, rssiraiiied amusement. The O'Gor- man has matched it without an extra twitcli. No other Irishman HAS taken any part in it. If you* do not TKUH-R.STAND why, I may inform 0 you that NEXT week the Peace PRESERVATION Act is COMING 0n, raid the Home Rulers are reserving themselves. WE expect a grana outburst. Every- thing that can delay the bill is to be done. It. is to be fought clause by clause. Mr. Disraeli will need all his powers of management to keep the House in order, and prevent the Home Rulers from obstructing other measures. On the other hand, he has mad some progress with several bills this week. The Artisans' Dwellings Bill is through committee, and the Sale of Food and Drugs Bill is nearly finished. In fact, there is just the ghost of a chance for the Tenant Right. Bill. Sir Alexander Cockburn does not lack popular applause, notwithstanding the member for Stoke and his agitation. His reception at the Drapers' C, law c Company last night was one of those things which indelibly impress the memory of witnesses. It will be an occasion to be specially noted in his history and in the history of the Judicial Bench. His reply to the toast of his health shews how keenly he is feeling the aspersions cast upon him. Hitherto, through a long life, he has received nothing but approval. He is respected, even loved, beyond any other judge on the bench. As a strong Liberal he values highly popular appreciation. The idea that the people are against him cuts him cruelly. He welcomed last night's cheers, therefore, with fervency and emotion, and he manifested his feelings so felicitously—not this time referring per- sonally to Dr. Kenealv—that the audience was at once touched and overcome. An impression seems to be abroad that Ilr. Disraeli will support Irish members in the measure for closing public-houses on Sundays. lie has con- sented to receive a deputation on the subject. I fear that my friends are too sanguine. They for- get that deputations rarely convince statesmen. Lord Selborne has been called to account. He said that the Judicature Act was overturned "by the action of cliques and intrigues." ir I George Bowyer at once took tire. He was one of the cliques which overturned the Act, He. was an intruiuant. So he demands from the late Lord Chancellor an explanation. Lord Selborne sticks to his words. The bill was overturned by cliques and intrigues. But if to be an intriguant is to do anything inconsistent with personal honour, then he withdraws the word. He did not mean so to use it. I hope Sir George is satisfied. He has made Lord Selborne to repeat his original charge. x Sandwich appears to be so far related to the island of the same name that savages may be found in both places. It was a bold stroke for two north- country M.P.'s to visit this town for the purpose of advocating the Permissive Bill. There is a large section of persons in Sandwich who are interested either directly or indirectly in the forty public-houses and numerous breweries and un- limited hop poles planted amongst a population of 3,000 persons. The Mayor, four magistrates and one policeman attended at the Town Hall to keep order but what were they amongst the many publicans and chimney-sweeps who felt that their craft was in danger ? The temperance party? leaving the savages to shout themselves hoarse 111 the Town Hall, slipped off to an adjoining school- room, where a crowded assembly listened in peace to Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Mr. W. H. James, Raper, and other supporters of the Permissive Bill. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen had better look to it. In spite of all the efforts of his friends, sonie of his constituents have heard arguments which may affect their views as to the value of the liquor traffic to the commonwealth and representation. The Loudon Committee for placing a memorial, slab on Lord Byron's grave is a thoroughly repre- sentative one, being under the presidency of ::r. Disraeli, and the first name on the committos being that of Alfred Tennyson. Lord Houghton and Mr. Wilkie Collins are amongst the prominent literary names mentioned, and there are four clergymen, including the Archdeacon of Stow, while a comprehensive &c." closes the list as at present announced. Such names form a better tri- bute to Byron's memory and a more delicate index ¡If the opinion of his posterity than any criticism fixing on unhappy details which charity is on^ anxious to forget. Surmounting a public-house in Chapel-street, Edgware-road, is a banner with a strange device relating to the Affair Tichborne. The place IS rendezvous of the Magna Charta Association, do not know whether the decoration is a perma- nent one or only a relic of the adornments which marked Dr. Kenealy's triumphant progress to Kilburn on Saturday evening. The Claimant and the Doctor are represented floating in deep water- without a Bpyton costume, by the way—-and kept np by some mysterious process which dees not appear on the face of the picture. With hnllds clenched, they are gazing up at a bright light over- head, on which appears the motto" Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, saith the Lord," while below the graphic tableau runs the legend, Persecuted but not forsaken." If I may venture to express an opinion, the Affair Tichborne ia less successful m, pictorial art than in the sister spheres of literature and oratory, where it is unquestionably sugges- tive. The Boys' Beadle, according to Lord Shaftes- bury, has had more than usual to do this year in looking up little waifs and strays in the London streets and, in union with the School Board, HAS placed many destitute children under Christian training. He informed the patrons of the Refuge and Industrial School TTnion that no less than 38,400 children are at present the inmates of such establishments, 3,540 of whom are boys on board training ships stationed at different points on tha •st. So (.'reat ha<: been ilio success of We -ChicTienter AND Arethusa, ffTat we are TO have two more of these excellent ships on the Thames. I have myself more than once traced the Metamorphosis produced in a street Arab by a few taontha' training on board the Chichester, and seen W»e fine sailor-like fellows they turn out after their *?NEF COURSE there. Tho Boys' Beadle will do a doubly USEFUL work if besides clearing the streets of Arabs he gives us sucb material for our navy and mercantile marine as is to be found in these lads. In R^PLY to the address of the Roman Catholic laity, WHEREIN they greeted him as a Prince of the Church, Cardinal Manning saicl that, since falling away from faith and Christian law, the world had Cried, first of aU diplomacy, AND then rifled cannon. Such was the offspring of progress and civilisation. He wanted to go back to Christian civilisation. He meant that he wanted to go back to the supremacy of the Pope. Let the Pope settle the' dispute between his two faithful sons in that. civilised Christian land, Spain, and we will THIIPI about it. It is fair to Mr. Irving tliafc bis roply io the aspersions that arc cast upon him should have the widest circulation. H<! w,r.; not jealous of Bignor Salvini. luunectijttcly a.'tor the first appearance of Sigi-ici-tied on Messrs. Lucon and requested them to secure, me a box for the first morning representation Signoi" Salvini might give. This was some days before any morning performance had been to my knowledge suggested. At this time I was invited to meet Salviiii by a fr eud, who conveyed to IÜ0 ^i'avious expressions Signor Salvini had used concerning my representation of Hamlet. I was, unfortunately, prevented from accepting this invitation, and, hearing from our friend (hat Signor Sa'Tviiii might be gratified at receiving direct expression of mv great desire to see him act, I subsequently wrote and received from him a most courteous reply and 1 am sure Signer Saivtui (whom, it alone eouccnri) would, be the last to umpire any paltry motive to the absence of my n.inio to the biii circular." There was another ronson, I believe, why jjfr. Irving did not sic?n the "round robin." It was drawn by an obnoidovts per-.on whom 3Ir. Irving did not like. I thought the Post Ofiiee was opposed to the con- nection between the Civil ^rvants and the Press. It is certain that Lord John Manners doss^uot favour the alliance. But ths- members of "the staft evidently do. They have for a long time r 11 had a manuscript magazine it is now to appear as a printed one. That Mr. Scudamore can write well is no secret, it was he who did the chatty papers from Boulogne in the Stanc'ard recently. He has several subordinates whoso pens are not less ready. So the woild is to be enlightened on philology, ethics, and poetry, and to be muustd by novels from the pens of the gentlemen who mauage the transmission of our correspondence. The new venture is to be called The St. Martins Magazine."

THE BRECONSliIRE ELECTION. [FBOM OUR BRECON CORRESPONDENT. ] The address of Mr Maitland, the Liberal candidate, appears in our adverting columns, and speaks for itself in a frank, practical manner. The Liberals are unques- tionably as well prepared on this occasion as the Conser- vatives everything is "cut and dried," and to.day (Fri- day) operations will commence in earnest. The addresses of both parties are posted up. Apart from party feelings and vague conjectures, there is a general well-founded im-" pression that the odds are against Mr Howel Gwyn. The Liberals intend holding public meetings, but the times or places are not yet fixed. Amongst the speakers who are going to he invited is the eloquent Rev. J. R. Kilsby Jones, of Llanwrtyd, who is an excellent speaker in Welsh and English, while his wit, if anything, supersedes his eloquence. The majority in favour of the Hon. Godfrey Morgan at the last county election was only about 5G0, and if this was all with the direct aid of the Tredegar interest, surely Mr Maitiana stands a chance on 1 this occasion. [FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT. ] Kie funeral oi Lord Tredegar having taken place yes- terday, t,lle contest for the county of Brecon will have commenced in grim ewnest by tho time this paper reaches our readers. The Liberals, taking time by the fore lock, were however as folly prepared for the impend- ing struggle as ever Prinee Bismarck was for the Franco, Grmall-war, Past defeats have taught them lessons of wisdom which they have not been slo w to learn, and the i3.sue of the present contest will show what apt scholars they have been. Possessing an organization as nigh per- fection as possible, with many of the shrewdest and most determined > in the county upon their side, and with the great mass of those who have to determine tue struggle by their votes unmistakeably Liberals, it will indeed be strange if the causa which Mr Maitland so ably represents does not Drove gloriously victorious. It will be seen from the address of the Liberal candidate, that Mr Maitland speaks with no uncertain sound as to the course he intends to pursue should he be elected as a fit and proper person to represent the county in Parliament. His manly expression of disapproval at the marked inert- e wh'ch has characterised the present Parliament will find an echo in every Liberal breast throughout Breconsbire. The farmers of the county, too, need not 'or a moment hesitate to entrust their interests to one whose address plainly evinces to what an extent he has their welfare at heart. Mr Mai-land s viejvs °u the Agricultural Holdings Bill, the Land Laws, and the Tenant Compensation Bill are such aa to him a ^ell-deserved claim to be considered a true friend of the farmer. This claim the shrewd, practical agricul- culturists of Breconshire will not be slow either to acknowledge or appreciate, and, if untrammelled by land- lord trrorism. there cannot be the slightest- doubt but that Mr Maitland would be returned by a large inajority. We commend to the notice of our Brccon- shire readers thj opinions of the Liberal candidate upon various other prominent political. questions of the day, feeling sure that his views will elicit ™le cordial approval of those in whose interest Mr Maitland has come forward. A few days ago, °^r lory coiiterapoiary, with that politeness which forms its aisjcguishing characteristic, took occasion to allude to the present Liberal candidate as only celebrated for In" last year s defo&t." The very suggestive homily naturally aroused a not very pleasing recollectiou of the time when Mr Howell Gwyn's name was prominently beiore t'ie 13recon public in connection with election matters. was uncharitable on the part of our contemporaryto revive old memories which had better dumber, but a comparison Dfctween the electioneering experience of Mr Maitland ano Mr irvyn would prove far more favourable to the for- mer than to the latter. Mr Gwyn's chief claim to the sup port ot county voters (the majority of whom are Non- contornnsts) would appear to be in the fact that he is a staunch Chtli-eliman. Had he been returned a week ago noctoub. he Vould have been one of the bigoted fourteen who 11 cons-lentlously!, voted on Wednesday last against T f'7LC°vd reading of Mr Osborne Morgan's Burial Dill. ? }Pe Nonconformists of Breconshire ask themselves w^etner' they will support in any wav a political party W 1(n' •,JD ^le interests of the Established Church, would either exclude Dissenters when dead from church- yards or bury them with the burial of a dog. Mr. Howel \fWJn%i!?Wever< has very little chance of ever seeing i .1. at the end of his name. Mr Maitland has every- t mg,in his favour; he has been over the ground before, is well-known and respected, and the Broeonshire etee- lvr^ vr right man in the right place by sending r -Maitland to represent them in Parliament.

THE VACANCY IN BRECONSHIRE. THE VACANCY IN BRECONSHIRE. To the Liberal Churchmcn and the Liberal Nonconformist Electors of the County of Brecon. Gbntlemen,—By the lamented death of Lord Trede- gar, and the consequent elevation of his stn-your present mem her —10 the House of Lords, a vacancy has occurred m tne representation of your county. Your late member, as you are well aware, was a Tory in politics. He be- longed to that political party who have never had nor have any sympathy with progress, with beneficial legisla- •('i c. ?8e, with political and commercial freedom, and witn civil and religious liberty. Almost every measure designed to promote the well-being of the people, to ad- vance the development and expansion of our trade and e?mmelce' enact greater harmony between all c asses of the community by the removal of class and oppressive laws, has been strenuously resisted_and resolutely opposed by Tory administrations n.iid Political allies. They resitted the passing of the nrst great measure of Reform, that measure which did away with rotten boroughs and a still more rotten franC'Use. They fought hard to prevent the repeal of the Lest and Corporation Acts because the repeal of those A cts removed from Nonconformists a ban and 4 restraint which they desired should be continued. For years they resisted the abolition of Church rates, rates which were levied on Dissenters towards the support of 11 chni' chin which neither they nor their forefathers wor- shipped. Even now'they are offering the strongest oppo- sition to a Bill designed to give Nonconformist clergy- men tlw right to officiate at, the grave of their deceased friends in parochial churchyards, notwithstanding that those churchyards are nationid property, and belong as much to the people as do our dockyards and government offices. The rector or the vicar of a parish is simply in the position of a trustee he cannot bequeath his living to a successor. When men were starving for the want of bread, the Tories did their best to prevent the repeal of the Corn Laws-laws which were originally enacted for the purpose of keeping up and increasing the rent roll of the landed proprietor of the kingdom. But this by no means exhouts the catalogue of their sins of commission. In every department of Government-civil, political, educational, financial, and religions or ecclesiastical, the Tories as a party have done their best to keep back the tide of wise and beneficial change. Hitherto you have permitted yourselves to be represented—rather misrepresented, by a member of this party. You have felt deep sorrow and pain at being so represented. Aa the tie between you and Mr Morgan is now severed, Resolve to be true to yourselves and your prim-iph's, and eluef. a iu;ui who,ie political opinion i.-< in harmony with your own. The Tories, gentlemen, have been in office since March, 1874, and they have a large majority at their back. Dur- ing that time what have they done for the people of the nation Why, virtually nothing. Why is this Their advocates in the press and their supporters in the Commons tell u,, tbat^the country needs legislative re- pose, and that therefore it is desirable to re: and be thankful. But is that the true reason ? that the rtal cause ? Certainly not. 1 he reason of their policy is to be found in the fact that tuey are timid politician^, and pre-eminently lack constructive statesmanship. The few measures they have introduced bear on their face not only dread bm the absence of an inti- mate acquaintance with the^ subjects to which those bills relate. They have spoiled the great measure of law re- ) form which the Liberal party promoted and passed. Their Landlord and Tenants' Bill is a, huugliug, blunder- ing, and floundering measure. A farmer investing his money in the land ie cultivates has a ngh" to have his investment guarded and protected by "he law of the laud, instead ot being ieft at the mercy oi hm landlord. It is the interest of the tenant no ]es:; than tue interest of the landlord that there shonid exist fixity of tenure, but this measure of the Government does not only cot secure this, but leaves it to the option of owners of the soil to come under the Bill or not. In the case ot good landlords the measure will remain inopera- tire; bad landlords wili naturally ref'i.e to adopt the covenants set fortii in this pretentious, but ua- statesrnau-iike measure. Mr Gladstone's cabinet gave Ireland a magnificent Land Act, but «-he Tory party will never give you so liberal and so beneficial a measure. Hence one of the reasons why you should unanimuusly refuse to give a single vote to any Tory candidate. The party now in power have not been your friends in the past: you cannot hope that they will be your friends in the future. Moreover, they are more indebted to you than yon are to them. You pay your rent 4o the owner of the Roil you cultivate, which ends your obligation. Your vote is your own, and you should use your fran- chise and give your vote according to, your conscience. Under the Ballot, you can happily vote in secret. No man can know tj which of the caudidates you give your vote. Doubtless it is within your recollection, gentlemen that the late Liberal Government introduced in 1873 a series of measures designed to remove the gross defects in our local, municipal, parochial, and county affairs, but the Tories even strained the rules of the House in order to prevent the progress of those Bills, a; nd in consequence iiiid to ue withdrawn. You a e aware that the present system of rating and the local administration of local taxes is a disgrace to the country. There is neither uniformity nor equity in the present assessments, from which large and valuable properties are either wholly omitted, or are charged at a tithe of their value. Then, as regards the county rate, you have no voice in the expenditure of the money, though you have to raise it. Is this right ? Is it just ? Taxa- tion and representation should go together, but this principle is ignored in county expenditure. Mr. Gladstone intended to secure the equality of assessments, to remove all exemptions, to establish county financial boards, and to place ail ratepayers on terms of perfect equality. The Tory party will never do this hence one of the reasons why you should return as your represen- tative a thorough Liberal. It is announced that Mr Iiowel Gwyn is to be the Tory candidate. He is a Tory ot the deepest die. He has always been anti-Liberal and ai with Nonconformity he has no sympathy. He has never shown favour to Nonconformists when in the House of Com- mons, for he has already spent several years there. His votes were always given ag ainst Dissenters, lie believed be was light in thus but as three-fourths of the electors of your county are Dissenters Methodists, Inde- pendents, Baptists, or Wesleyans—you ought not to be asked to give your vote to a lury Churchman. The Nonconformists of Wales expect you to do your duty by being true to your political convictions, and they hope that you will to a man give your support to the Liberal candidate. At the last general election Mr Maitland fought a noble battle, buc there were then special reasons why he failed to Rucceed. You respected, as we all respect, the Tredegar family: hence why you gave your votes to a son of that house. The tie between you, however, is now broken. You are now freemen. Mr Gwyn has no claim to your suffrages. Between him and you there exists no political or social bond. The opiuions he holds are the very opposite of those you cherish and sustain. But Mr Maitland is a true Liberal. He believes that there yet remains a great work for the Liberal party. Abuses still exist. Why, look at our financial system. Ours is the most unjust system of taxation in Europe. Three fourths of the imperial burden is contributed by those who have no property but their labour. If we send Tory members to the Commons we shall never get our system of taxation reformed. You should, therefore, elect Mr Maitland, who would, I am sure, cordially work with the financial leiormers of the country until we secure a sys- tem which shall be so far perfect that every man should pay to the requirements of the State according to his ability. iMOne word more. I impress upon you the importance of union, of sturdy independence, of fidelity to your Liberal opinions and principlea; if you act as true men you will gain a glorious Liberal victory.—I am, &c., 20th April, 1875. A CAMBRIAN LIBERAL.

THE CONSERVATIVE CAND [DAT 3. Mr Howell Gwyn, the Conservative cannidate, will issue his address to the electors of Breconshire to-d^y. He says he wiil give an independent support to the pre- Governia&nt, though he itnot opposed to well-considered pro:resgWe improvement. He avows his attachment to the -English Church and religious education. He is in favour of the of the Licencing Act and the reduction of Local Taxation. fie would also aajutt the burdens to at press ovi the agricultural interest, and main- tain the efficiency of our forces.

RHYMNEY RAILWAY SIGNALMEN.' To tllcP-ditOr of tilc South Wales DAILY NEWS." SIR,-Will you kindly allow me a short space through v!8 mK m y°ur columns to ask those in authority on th3, above railway why they have been pleased to pay their bignalmen this last six weeks at the rate of three- quarter time, at the same time allowing station masters, clerks, and porters to remain at full time. When we received the notice for working three- quarter time we were informed that the small quantity of traffic in conse- quence of the lock-out in the iron and coal works would not permit the company's paying us in fuil time. Now, those persons that are studying the company's interest must nave done so to a great extent, as your readers will see' ,7*- 'i;|g °ne class of their servants to remain at lull time, at a_ salary varying from 30s. to 50s. per week tor liall their usual duties, at the same time putting signa.meri, that were in receipt of £ 1 per week, on short time, which will bring them in the handsome sum of 15s. per week. This is anything but a satisfactory state of things for us as signalmen, as well as for the company, I should suppose. --Yours, obediently, .YMNEY RAILWAY SIGNALMAN. April ilst, 1875.

NO More Pills OR ANY Other Medicine. —Do BARRYS <Ielic;ou3 health-restoi ing Kevaleiita Arabica Food, which contains three times the nourishment of the bust meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthv liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity and energy to the most refreshing sleep, functional regularity and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually indi- gestion ^•jsp^ysia),^ hahitual constipation, diarrhoos., hmmorr- boids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumat.sm, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irrarabihty sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heart- purn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea, and gicknCiiS, sin a injsUts, coughs, a'jtnma, bronchitis, incipient con- gumption, scTolula tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the Stomach, between the shoulders, etc. w £ e a few out of 7ij,U00 cures Cure too. 49,832: « 0i fifty years* indescribable agony from nenousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, hptoU'3, siJniass at the stomach, and vomiting." Maria Jo y. ^ul"? "iss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousn,ss, Ratheringa low spirits, and nervous fancier.—Sold in Oanisters, Jib., 2s. lib., Ss. 6d. 2]b., Gs. 121b SiSs. 2-i;b.0s. AJs° OU Barry's Revalknta Biscuits, lib., 3s. 2ibs., j I'hcy may be eaten at anytime, either dry w in chocolate, coffee, water, mille, tea wine, etc- &>otne the most irritaola stcmaeh and norves, renioving nau,-e.a and sickness even in pregnnuey j or at ->ca. beattourn, aial the feverish or aeid bitter taste on wakinsr up, oi c:iused by Onions, garlic, aad even the smpl' put by tobacco or unakiug. They improve the appetite, assist digestion, sceure sound refreshing sleep, and are themselves more hig'n.V nourwliirigr than extract of meat. They are invaW" able to persons m the ottiuo, on the road, rail, or at sea. or any one who has not the means of cooking the Revalenta Food'j" Also 1W IjARRY S LVKVALR.XTA Arabica Cuocolatb f1>r packed m canisters: For 12 cups at 2s', for 24 cups at Ss 48 cups at 6s, for 5;88 cups at SOs, for 676 cups at 55s, costu^ about one penny per cup. The 28s, 30s, 60s, ar.d 55s t", sent free ol carriage in England on receipt of pc?t-ol!ice o • pu Barry and Co., 77, Reirent-street, Londo i also vcspecoiinle grocers and chomists. NolicerJto Hiircd. oomiu Car<iiIf liy Maiui and Adams •' Holloway's Ointmknt asd Pills.—Sore Throats^ -*J 'a our Variable clime n0 complaint more common than evv more annoying or more troublesome to cure when ■ ue moment th^re is any hoarseness or drv oough, i > after fomentation with salt water, should be briskly ruDDeaw !th a piece of new"flannel, to open the pores for absorbu:0 trie o nt- ment, which should be instantly applied twice a day. The most obstinate sore throat or cough will disappear oeiore thia treat- ment. It would always he as well white treating the disease ex- ternally with the Ointment to take a course of the Pills, which v give tone to the system, and expedite ftud confirm the cure.

THE PLOT TO ASSASS'XATE PRINCE 81 KM Ai: UK. BggLl X, Thursday.—Advices receive(I here from Belgium state that Til(t ln.si!o, who is accused of having premeditated t^as-'nation of Prince Bismarck, haa been thrice examined by the Belgian authorities, and has refused time to name his alleged accomplices. =-

THE VACANCY AT BEDFORD. The Bedford Conservatives doci-h*! on Thursday to offer no opposition to the return of the Mirquis of lavLitock.

--=- A WOPJAN KICKED TO DEATH AT „ MANCHESTER. John lsielf,on was convicted for trl .i at Manchester yes- i ay, tor the murder of his wife by kicking her'till'she dte-i.

T-I5 C<?KTEST AT KoLKENNY. Mr D. Lear don, Gf London, has issued his address to the Kilkenny eectors, and Mr Kavanaagh has retired it favour of Mr Giay.

THE ATTEMPTED ^nTciDE IN PENARTH HOADs. On enquiry at the Hamadryad Hospital Ship yester- day, we were informed by Dr. HUlh<:16 that the man tevens- had swallowed a little ..nourishment, and, pro- vided no relapse took place, was in a fair way of re- covery.

A REDUCTION OF WAGES IN THE NORTH STAFFORDSHI P„E COAL-FIELD. The North Staffordshire coal and ironstone masters have resolved to give notice to all 11113 workmen in the coal and ironstone mines of a reduction of tn per cent. in wages, the reduction to come into effect on the 15th of May.

PRESENTATION TO A MINISTER AT aberdake. At the quarterly meeting of the Northern Association of the Congregational Churches of Glamorganshire, just held in this town, a very graceful and substantial recog- nition was made of the valuable services of the Rev. Joshua Thomas as a minister of the gospel. He has been in the ministry forty-two years, more than twenty of whicll have been passed in connection with his present charge at Salem Chapel in this town. The testimonial consisted of a purse containing one hundred and forty pounds, towards which ma-ny members of other churches subscribed. The presentation was ma.de by Mr John Harrison, the oldest member of the church. Addresses appropriate to the occa.sion were de'iv jred by the Ihvds, Dr. Rees, Swansea J. Farr, Aberdare,; E. Hughes, Penmain Professor M. Jones, B.da D. Jones, B.A. Merthyr, and by the chairman, Mr T. Williams, J. P. Goitre, Merthyr. The meeting was a very enthusiastic one. It may be mentioned that the luv. Joshua. Thomas is much respected by all classes in Aberdare. -om.

TWENTY-FOUR PERSONS DROWNED. A rnelrmcllOJy boat accident has ju"t occurred not far from Parma. A number of workmen returning from their occupations, had to cross tho I-i%-er while in the middle of the stream, a sudden squall overset the boat, and twenty-four persons were drowned. Only a child was saved he was washed to the shore by the waves, and managed to crawl on the bank. Several boatmen imme- diately put off to render what assistance was possible, but o ving to the darkness and the strength of the wind their aid wns of no avail. None of the bodies have as yet beett recovered.

MESSRS. MOODY AND SANKEY IN CHANCERY. Yesterday morning Mr. Chitty, Q.C., appeared for the- plaintiff in the suit of Leader v. Moody and Sankey, and brought forward his motion for an interlocutnEji-itijuaetiou ft (ainst the defendants before the Master of Is. The IL, i i-n cd counsel said the bill in this ease was tiled by a. gentleman named Leader, a stall-holder 111 Her Majesty s opera,, iiay-xriteb, in order to asrertaill his right and tc. o ill a perpetual injunction against Messrs. Moody and I" '(pv, who were bidding religions services there. 1 re motion stood over oil Thursday last in order t .iiit n.udavits might be filed. Affidavits had been filed, and as he now found that there, were no facta in dispute, and that the issue must turn entirely upon documents, lie thought it would be a pity that there should b-3 a double hearing of the case. He therefore proposed that the motion should he turned into a motion for decree, the bearing of the cause to be advanced. Fry, Q.C., (wit:. whom appeared Mr. Locock Webl,) thit this woidd be a reasonable course to adopc, "ud after a short; discussion it was arrange.1 thnt the motion should pass, und the cause come on for hearing on Friday week.

11 SIX MURDERS BY A LUNATIC. A dreadful tragedy has just occurred at Saint-Maurice- sur-Averon (Loiret ) an insane man has 'c. 'e!l no less than six persons. He first attacked tho euro of the parish, who was returning from visiting some sick_, a'J(* °Iove his skull with an axe. The maniac then obtained Possession of a reaping book, and, flying at all he met, struck down fivei persons. A seventh! who attempted to assist them, had his wrist cut off. The lunatic was witn great difficulty' arrested, and has been sent to the asylum for the insane at Orleans.

SYSTEMATIC EMBEZZLEMENT. At the Guildhall, London, yesterday..before Mr. Alder- man Knight, Henry Sartor, a yni the employ of Messrs. Butt and Co., was charged with embezzling \lJms of money, the property of his m^stc • r. Sfc. John Wontner conducted the prosecaw 1, the prisoner was not legally represented.—The V r, it appeared, obtained cheques belonging to v "LiV11;, a»d by giving orders to different tradesmen tl the cheque* for Ihe goods, and asked that cheque*1 might be given for the change. To one trade«r»an JIr j H WalUert tailor, Legent-street, he te<l himself as a member of the fiim of Butt a •> stated that he kept no banking account, and. w d that if he carried the cheque about +," „ he would in all probability have spent rp.)1"1* ia ^rink. Mr. Walker on Several oecasi0 aved cheques fx-om the piisoner, which l'e ? Tn °v ^a,1k, and which were duly exchange for these Mr. Walker gave his own cbeq^ '1.aUl(hpou8h it wa» rather strange that such a. inrmirio. no banking account he did not j?e s{ to the truth ot the prisoner^ rePres<L. £ ^g j +n It. no^

.t: Where can I^^xforf^treef, Swansea.^6 HSforTvo'npurcia9wa Sewm8 Machine you in- Before yon(faea the Howe Sewing Machines. To had on vited to call yinest. ttt the Depot, 8. Stuart Hall. Cardiff. 66a eaT>vTOB'3 PATfNT Jewing Machines, have new d i t imProV'm S' w^'ch render them superior to a.I other -P^TfmnssMAKtvo and ;rAMRiY us! They are, simple to makM < paS!j to uork," ». A-ot liabie to get '"i1,0/ are ^%roru}," S«l-> durable," make very noise» and be bad on -r,CaSy fenns" purchase at a • moderate price. NIAYT,oa's Patent M vghinei and many others not kept bv dealers generally maybeh,ld 0n easy ^nns or 6 per cent. fLunt f ca?b. at HEXRY THOMAS'S SkwinoMachink Dbpo T, St. Ws-square> Cardiff, d it 19 necessary l0 caut-onthe pubHe a^t'ft cbeapin-made, any conSe-.]«ently woitbh-ss machines which 'g otten recommedned b, V^ory> "li! cc^ntof the en«m» pvei'.r«>M-.e iu niachincd at a fwr pnco. Intending pm- w;ai5crs, it Uii ible to'ohtain Tav'or'S Patent Sewing Machines fiom ,owl dealers, are respectfully 'eau^ted send^for a^ to 97, CHeai'^dp London K.O. «r<-at' "'UtteL'l, Yorkhh-rc, or the branch establishments, 22, Silver-street, Hull, and 1^-K «k- gate, Walt'.tisld „ j At the onBTp.-rrTmAr, Show, lately held at Rochdale ^e^Mmt oflered «Th4 IlesiVvlng Machjnefo clresacnalrinh-and Family Use" was awarded to Taylor j, .ia machine °ff haa a new Patent Shuttle, having only one h K to tlS und a XVTci recent improvements, ^ie,, VK'.ntinV Sewing Machine Bhouhl, it unaWe P^p^nt SewiiS orallv->ie/s vnd tor a prospectus to Baylors af Ma'ehh e Com^iy.Ovcat D,i,lield or 97, Ttfo or three doses daily oi Qjora™ Iron -Tcnxo causes a woi.drrjul frwta prostration ot disordered state of health am. Buffer K ections, aches and Strength, nervous de^ngement m^ 'intS pains of every kind, sluggish eir«-uiw.ton, ° >' olr, t d perfect dSgastiou, &c. new Health] fiv'riying eflest 011 tlie m 1.0 c, appetiio is a!way» Strength, and Energy qu^<ly. j Tonic. Tuiity-two dosea ax, effect lis.; Stone are contamed 'r*^ Tonic the ingredients are 228 1 nh^olut^Vv ohenticallv Wi c. Sold by most Chemlsta guaranteed absolutely, Chemistv will rno. EreTor aandJtampS ^.jrottenhapoour^ Londot,