South Wales Daily News

I SOUTH WALES TiDtJ TABLE. UARDli-'F. SWANMEA] NEWPuRT. AUGUST Mora Even HghtiMom; E ven |light| Morn Even, Hght 20 Friday 9 0 9 17 30 10 8 8 8 27,23 4 9 8 9 25 30 6 21 Saturday.. 0 33 0 50 30 2 8 4 4 9 3 22 10 J) 411 9 5S 29 9 22 Sunday It 7 If) 24'2jj 11 9 22, II 42 21 910 1510 3228 a 23 Monday 10 12 11 2 26 9 10 2 10 24 2 > 110 60 11 10 25 10 24 Tuesday 11 26 11 55 24 5 10 4911 15 18 811 24 :23 25 Wednesday 0 2122 lit 451 16 4' 0 3! 01.720 1 2'! Thursday. 1 1 2 6 21 5 0 ii 1 1916 0 1 19 2 1413 1" 27 Friday 25 9 3 4" "23 S ? 16 3 0 17 s 3 7 3 M -'i fl ■- A

v ifrtlts, j^axriit^.5, and Heaths. "ó. t DEATH. — At Foxbarg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, U.S., Beatrice Sarah, infant daughter of Junes and Emma taney, aged seven mouths and twentv days.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. The report of the Brecon and Merthyr Railway Com- pany's directors shows that the working expenditure was less by t4,440 than that of the corresponding period of the previous year. In consequence of the strike and lock-out, however, the effect of such economy was more than neutralised, the revenue being less than usual. The thirty-ninth half-yearly report of the directors of the Penarth Harbour Dock and Railway will be pre- sented to the proprietors shortly. A dividend of fonr per cent per annum is recommended. The directors will submit to the special general meeting of the pro- prietors a resolution ad to the disposal of the £ 75,000 shares shown in account No. 2 to be uncalled. At the half-yearly meeting of the Sirhowy Railway Company, on Saturday, under the presidency of Mr Joseph Whitworth, M.P., a resolution was passed agreeing that the London and North-Western Company should work, use, and maintain the undertaking of the Company, for which they are to pay 10 per cenf. on the ordinary stock, and 5 per eeut. on the preference stock, and interest on the debentures. They are also to work the railway efficiently. On Saturday, John E. Phillips, till recently em- ployed as an estate agent for Mr Morgan Williams, of Aberpergwm, was charged with embezzlihg various sums of money, eaid in court to amount to about JE800. It appeared that the alleged defalcations were disclosed on an examination of some colliery pay-sheets. The prisoner was remanded till the 27th inst., bail being accepted for his appearance. Complaint was made on Saturday, at the half-yearly meeting of the London and North-Western Railway Company, that in regard to the passenger duty the Chancellor of the Exchequer had turned the screw on and levied income-tax upon a property specially legis- lated for. The Chairman remarked tha.t they had nearly 1,000 miles worked on the block system, and the enpense was an increase of 25 per cent ou the working expenses of the line. In several of the ehief towns and cities of Germany, preparations are now being made for a solemn celebra- tion of the anniversary of the battle of Sedan. A telegram from Rome states that Cardinal M'Closky is the bearer of half a million of francs from America for the Pope. From the official returns it seems that the French export trade is not in a depressed condition. Daring the first seven months of the present year the total value of the exports was X2,243,000,000 or X260,000,000 more than in the corresponding period of 1874. The imports, however, showed a comparative decrease of 244,000,000. The Freneh Minister of War, in the course of a speech made at Contrexeville. while mentioning that a certain class of the army would shortly be called out, stated that France confines herself to carrying out a military law suitable to 'a time of peace, and is pursu- ing the plan of military re-organisation with a purely defensive object. It is announced that a diplomatic note will shortly be issued by Russia mth respect to the state of affairs in Herzegovina, and that the policy of the Ottoman Government is not to engage the insurgents with small forces, but to send a large force to quell them. With this object in view it is believed that about twenty-five battalions, consisting of 18,000 men, will shortly be thrown into the Herzegovina by the Government. Orders also have been sent to Dervish Pasha to assume the offensive.. Some advices received from Barcelona, state that a Carlist band has tapped a railway train in the neighbourhood of Moristol de Montserat, and robbed it of 25,000 francs in specie. A combined sortie, made by the garrisons of Hernain, San Sebastian and Eenferia, on Friday, resulted in the defeat of the Carlists, who were driven from all their positions. The sallying force now occupies the important height of Lontevideo.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT. LIMERICK, Saturday.—As the early train from Eunie was about to cross the railway bridge spanning the Shannon this morning the tire on one of the engine wheels suddenly broke, throwing the entire trail off the line of rails and placing it in imminent danger of being hurled into the water below. This was, however, averted by the coupling connecting the engine with the cattle truck which followed being torn from its socket, so that the engine only was precipitated down the steep embankment from the inarijinof the water, the car- riages and waggons pursuing their course until the foremost one having been smashed acted as a break and stopped the velocity of the train. Had not this happened the whole would have been precipitated into the torrent below. The engine driver and stoker leaped off when the engine wheel broke, and this saved their lives, both escaping with severe fractures. Fortunately the passengers, about forty in number, only sustained some contusions. A number of P'gs in front of the train were cut to pieces, and others thpi-ri S° sf1rioUtl.v injured that their owners had to kill iniurftd11 The permanent way is considerably the moLa a. Sreat many of the carriages broken, while «K> engine and tender lies in a heap of rubbish.

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FROM OUB^ LONDON CORRESPONDENT. A LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. Mr. Charles Turner, who is Mr. Cross's colleague in the representation of South Lancashire, is getting on in years, having been born in Hull in 1803. So there is some talk about what would happen if he should from any cause vacate the seat. Mr. Forwood, a prominent Liverpool Tory, is mentioned as a likely candidate in the Govern- ment interest. I presume he would not be op- posed. The Conservatives are very strong in that division. Barnum has outdone himself. He has a tight- rope performance, and by way of increasing the sensational element he announces that he keeps a priest on the establishment for the purpose of administering the last offices of the Church in case of an accident. At least, so says the Paris Figaro, which is quite 33 much given to romancing as Barnum is. The same veracious paper has been giving its readers some account of the Prince of Wales. No Royal person in Europe,except the Orleans princes, we are told, is so fond of the theatre as the Prince and the Princess. Every night they go to some theatre, sometimes together, sometimes separately. The Princess has an autograph album of distin- guished actors and actresses. "Thiscolleetion.which increases every day, and mixes ancient with contemporary artists, is one of the most interest- ing volumes which can be seen. It forms a veritable monument raised to dramatic art." The Prince's favourite theatre, it seerfts, is in the Strand, which is rather vague, seeing there are eight or ten there He there passes a great part of his time in the green-room, smoking cigars with the Duke of Cambridge or his brother Alfred, and distributing baskets of grapes and other fruits. The day after the Prince has been present at a repre- sentation, there usually arrives for the actors a hamper of food addressed to them by the Prince. All this is infinitely amusing. It is a fact, how- ever, that the Prince was a very few nights ago at the Alhambra. He might have been better occu- pied elsewhere. The Fujaro is greatly exercised with the diffi- culty which English parents have in finding decent fictions for their children to read. One writer in that journal mentioned Scott's novels, but could think of 110 others. But a correspondent mentions the Vicar of Wakefield," Robinson Crusoe," the greater part of Fenimore Cooper's novels; also those of Charles Dickens and the list winds up with" David Ooppc-rlield," Cardinal Wiseman's Fabiola," and Buhver Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii." The Prince of Wales is going to take fireworks with him to India. A military journal says that a large number of sky-rockets are being manufac- tured in the Royal Laboratory Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to be used on the occasion of the approaching visit of the Prince of Wales to India and for several evenings during the past fortnight a number of them have been discharged in the Government Marshes adjoining the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, in order to test their quality. That same journal tells a rather alarming story of the 21st Fusiliers. It says that for some time they have had no boots, and when there was fear of a war in Burmah the regiment was not equipped for service. Fane, the risk we ran of losing a campaign by the bootless exertions of bootless men. A chiel's amang us takin' notes." The chief naval constructor of the United States is over here, and he is looking pretty smart, I guess. The Admiralty is particularly obliging to him. Mr. Hunt has given him a special" permit" to see all that belongs to the Government at Chatham. It is worth while noting that Roman Catholic critics speak well of Tennyson's Queen Mary." They do not like his Cranmer" and the attempt to whitewash the martyr is not particularly successful, but of the whole play they express enthusiastic admiration. This says something for the skill of the artist; Protestant critics looked upon the book as an ap- peal to our history on behalf of Protestantism. It looks almost partisan. Some high-minded critics sneered at the Laureate for trying to gain applause by appealing to religious passions. But lo those against whom the book seemed to be directed re- ceive it thankfully for its general historical truth- fulness. Tennyson has a triumph here. The accident to the Mistletoe is likely to reform the speed of the Royal yachts in crowded channels. Some of the London papers, being courtly, do not refer to this matter but most of them admit that the accident was the result of the speed at which the Alberta was going in a dangerous place. It is impossible but that there should be accidents if Royal yachts go at racing speed from Osborne to Gosport when so many smaller craft are on the sea. So we shall look to Prinee Leiningen before he becomes Admiral to give directions for a safer speed than this. The misdeeds of the Welsh clergy have been a good deal before the public lately. It is, therefore, only fair to mention the generous deed just done by Canon Cynliffe. He has resigned the living of Wrexham, worth JE700 a year, and in so doing, has not only declined to take any portion of the in- come to which he is entitled, but has made over his own mansion of Llwynisa as a parsonage for the parish. Mr. Laing-Meason, who was a special correspon- dent of the Daily Telegraph during the Franco- German War, is going to India to do tho Prince's visit for the Echo. The weather prophets have not done badly after all. It appears, from a return recently presented to Parliament, that of the storm warnings issued by the Meteorological Department during 1874, 78-2 were justified by the subsequent weather, and 16'4 were not justified. Strictly speaking, the pro- phecies are not prophecies they are merely deduc- tions drawn from certain known facts, and are given only a few hours beforehand. Who will venture to prophesy the weather of next winter ? If I were to venture, I should say that we shall have a very severe winter. We have had a cold, wet summer, the earth has re- ceived little heat and it is probable that we shall have a dry, and if dry then cold, winter, such as followed the wet summer of 1860. The Great Northern Railway employes have been asking for better wages. The goods guards claim that ten hours are long enough for a work, and that all hours beyond this should count as overtime. They do not, however, ask for a higher rate of pay for overtime than is usually demanded. These terms seem moderate enough, but the Great Northern authorities have taken time to consider them. Aldeburgh, in spite of its dullness, gets visitors to stay there. At present the Earl of Cork, Master 0 the Isuckhounds in the last Administration, is on a visit with his family, and was just in time for the regatta. I am sorry to learn that a good, energetic old man is ill. Sir Moses Montefiore is severely indis- posed at Jerusalem. Considering his advanced aCTe and that he has travelled from England to the Holy City, one is not surprised at it. While he was staying in London he had to be careful of himself. I remember that on the night one of the City Com- panies had got a dinner in his honour he was ob- liged to disappoint his hosts because of the weather. Yet, directly afterwards he goes off to Jerusalem. He seems to be trying to shew that vigour apper- tains to old age instead of to youth.

Where can I bay a good Boot cheip We w Ul recom me a HUNTLBra, 14, Oxford-street, Swaansea.

TORY AMENITIES IN CARMARTHEN- SHIRE. The following deliciously chaste and savoury article is copied from the recognised organ of Church and Political Toryism in Carmarthenshire ;-as we think its style, spirit, and performance deserve a much wider circulation than they can obtain in the paper in which the article has just appeared. We have witnessed in a Church and Tory paper nearer home exceptionally choice specimens of journalistic abuse and vulgarity, and we verily thought that in companionship with our local Tory paper we had sounded the very nethernmost depths of Tory brimstone. But this Carmarthenshire journal bas convinced us that, to use a Miltonism, in the lowest deq) of Tory platitude and vulgarity, there is a lower deep of journalistic degradation which we had not hefoie gauged. The article bears unmistakeable marks of hybridism. It is evidently the production of Carmarthen- shire Tory impotency and Carmarthenshire ecclesiastical rancour, and the forcible feebleness of its style and tone is due solely to the poverty of its resources and not to the absence of a will to wound. Let our readers read and learn what Toryism is really alike, and after what fashion it disports itself in its own chosen home, where the Earls of Cawdor and Dynevor sway a joint iron sceptre over Vale of Tory farmers It may not have wholly escaped the attention of our readers that for some time past a disreputable little print has issued daily from Cardiff. Extending commerce and galloping prosperity, wherever they take up their abode, generally attract the evil as well as the good of the extraneous world, and it is not a state of things without precedent that the rapidly rising Welsh port of Cardiff should have accumulated and generated a considerable spawn of wickedness in late veai's. Every distinct form of moral, aa of physical, life will insist on having the peculiar food necessary to its existence, and in harmony with the general law we find the new element of Cardiff society already furnished with an organ which ia well adapted to minister to their morbid depravity, and through which they hope, it would seem, to spew a modicum of their filth and spleen upon the respectable and inoffensive por- tion of the community. The little newspaper which de- votes itself to this worthy office (if we do not disgrace the name of newspaper by applying it to a thing eo vile) calls itself by no less a name than South Wales Daily News, and with unparalleled effrontery sets itself up aa the mouthpiece of Nonconformists and Liberals of all shades of opinion over South Wales. Now, if it confined itself to its natural sphere few per. sons possessing feelings of common decency would trouble themselves about it, but as it persists in outraging every good feeling of humanity and in playing the role of Dr. Kenealy and the Englishman, we cannot but rejoice at the impending fate which, partly owing to its own suicidal tendencies, inevitably awaits it. The men whom it claims as supporters will soon find it necessary to dis- avow all connection with it, to strip it of its borrowed plumes, and leave it to be viewed in its natural deformity. We have sometimes remonstrated, perhaps quarrelled with even the more respectable Liberals and Nonconfor- mists in South Wales on certain principles of theirs but we have never dared by word or thought to identify their vagaties with the teachings of the South Wales Daily News. No; it is a nasty, revolutionary, unholy little rag, corrupt and disgusting in every sense, a Bort of hybrid made up of the maudlin sentiment of a French Atheist and the intolerable bosh of a Western Yankee. Of course, it takes care not to exhibit all these qualities m the same day's it skilfully serves its parasites with large or small doses of varied pabulum according to their changing fancies and predispositions. Seldom as we open it, we are often struck with its weathercock tendencies. At one time it preaches some agreeable sort ot Christianity, a consider able "improvement" on that of the founder; another time it is deploring the fact that, it some pet object of its own is not fulfilled, people will be forced to the conclu- sion that Christianity has totally failed as a religion. We certainly owe an apology to readers of the class which we have the honour to address for dwelling on this unsavoury subject; but an article which appeared last Mondav in the wretched sheet to which have been referring, makes it our imperative duty to warn clergy, Sen^ry> farmers, and every lover of good will and order that it JS time they should exercise all their vigilance and influence to keep such inflammable material out of the hands of the simple and ignorant. The article is deprived of Its dangerous venom to some extent by two circumstances. In the first place, seeing that it extends oyer two columns, we have little cause to feel that many people will find it« style so attract- ive as to induce tbem to read it through. Again, its nrst column is perfectly harmless, being occupied by a dreamy comment on things in general and on nothing in particular. The only definite purpose for which that newspaper columnwas wn en seems to be one almost peculiar to South Wales Daily News audacity. In a word it attributes to theConaervati ves all that political chicanery, clever knavery and want of principle which independent papers havelongbeen telling us are the characteristics of the whole, or at least a section of the Liberals. If such utterances deserved notice, we might mention that the fiercest opponents of Conservatism, among intelligent men, take up their position on grounds very different from these. But, aa we have said, all this is compara- tively harmless; and it is perfectly legitimate for any man who has a fancy for making a laughing-stock of him- self to write in the same strain. When we had wound our tedious way for some distance down the second column, however, we began to see the virulent and "Liberal" object of the article. It appeared that the Lord Chancellor bad made an implacable enemy of this little newspaper by appointing four or five additional magistrates for Carmarthen, all of whom were supposed to be more or less Con- servative. And though the Conservatism of some was doubtful, these new magistrates were all Chnrchmen some of them had obliged the congrega- tion of the church where they worshipped by acting a8 chiirchwardens The awful fact of their religion Ítt reiterated, and is made the prominent defect for the magisterial office. But all this accords well with the Christianity of the Cardiff Radical print. No notice is, of course, taken of the fact that the other magistrates of Carmarthen are all or nearly all Liberals; it is intolerable that the Conservatives of the borough should be repre- sented on the Bench. Nothing in the article, however, would have appeared so paradoxical to as, if it had been published in a paper in which one would expect truth, as the implied assertion that the indignant groans of the Carmarthen people under this injustice bad reached Cardiff, although we have met no one in this town to whom they were audible. Then our respected Mem- ber, Mr Nevill, comes in for a lot of hard names, as if he was the agent who had corrupted the whole Mimstry and brought woe upon South Wales. In one sense this is complimentary to Mr Nevill; we were not aware that nis influence was so great. Certainly the several hundred private Members who support the present Government can hardly have the privilege of appointing halt-a-dozen of magistrates where they choose and in places where new magistrates are not wanted, as we are told was the case here.. All this is bad enough, but worse remains behmd. lhe South Wales Daiy News does not stop with the public phase of the question, or with the political and Polemical bitterness it endeavours to throw into it. I rasack the hitherto sacred records of the private family le of the newly appointed magistrates notes what it considers their physical afflictions, and, in fine, so degrades t e pro ession of journalism that the meanest penny-a-liner would blush on reading its remarks. Perhaps there are England, such as Dr. Kenealy,. who could read with complacency this effusion, to which we shall spare our readers by referring no further; but assuredly Mr Brad. laugh or Mr Odger would recoil from such shocking "ssstisa »po.a«^j £ gsrsr. shire Toryism, what might we expect th P It might be worth while to notice that xu* column? and side by side with this weak and vulgar truculence In the Carm treatnSnTof there is another article com^aimng o brian ArcW the.Pre*, at the recent meetmgsof tn logical Association. Our reporter s marks that treatmert in some very out-spoken r^™^h appeared in the South Walxs rpn Writing on the subject, this Carmarthenshire Tory paper ^Ve have observed that this is not journal which has been treated wit fPar* marthen during the past few days, *h?8e whom it thought fit to send to J"ePr jtj.. daily papers (the South Wales Daily Lave written stjronprl7 on the subject. It is gratifying to a Por- tion of the South Wales press gentle- manly feeling and perception of w i« « So the South Wales Daily SV aresPect" able journal," with some pentiemanly Ujeling and a perception of wbat is due to it. j e are thankful for small mercies from such a quarter. u

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I RIVAL SWEEPS. At tbe Hatamersmith Polioe-eourt, London, on Saturday, James Lloyd, was summoned for abuaiug Naomi Franois. —Mr. Klsch, for the complainant, said the parties were neighbours and sweeps,—Mr, Bridge! Not the complainant? (Laughter,) Mr, Kisch j Yes, sir. Of cettTM site did net do the work herself. (Renewed laughter.)— The complainant said she oarried on the business of a sweep, The defendant was a sweep. —Mr, Bridge here interposed, and suggested that the defendant should makeitupandbe friends.—The defendant staid he rooke to the complainant about sweeping a cus- tamer's chimney. She abused him. He told her to go away, as she could drink more brandy than he could ale. (Laughter,) He had his book to shew that he had swept the diijnaey before.—The complainant said he called her a drunken, lying -TI)a defendant said he told the com- !»1alnank that her fancy journeyman said so,—-Complainant indignantly) j I hare no faney journeyman pr fancy man. I etpploy two raen to work for me, and this is done out of slite,-Xr. Kiach Yeu don't go up the ehimneys yourself ? —jFhis question enured considerable laughter, as the eem- pt-Inw is a woman of some dimensions, having a portly and aa^tronly appearance.—Mr. Bridge fined the defendant 40s. and 2s. costs.

DISINTERRING A CORPSE NEAR BRISTOL. Much excitement was occasioned in Brislington, near Bristol, on Saturday, by the fact becoming known that the coroner, Mr R. Biggs, had ordered the disinterment of the body of a man, named Robert Hopkins, who had been buried in the churchyard nearly a fortnight ago. It appears that the deceased, on the 12th instant, was hurt on the Great Western Railway, near Brislington, and died. He was attended by Mr J. Lodge, surgeon of Kaynsham, who gave a certificate respecting the death, and the deceased was buried, the Rev G. L. Cartwright, curate in charge, officiating. The police made no repre- sentation of the case to the coroner, but it coming to his knowledge he communicated with Mr Craddock, coroner of Somerset, and Mr English, coroner for Batb, who both said there was no possibility of evading an inquest, as though a coroner might have latitude allowed him in respect to a simple sudden death, yet there must be an inquest when any one died from accident. Accord- ingly a warrant for disinterment was issued. On Satur- day evening the inquest was held at the White Hart Inn, Brislington. The Coroner said that the inquiry was painful and almost repulsive, and it was the first time during the long period in which he bad acted that he had to order the disinterment of a body that had already been buried. The jury viewed the body, which had not been removed from the church-yard, but was too far decomposed to admit of an identification. Evidence of the accident to the deceased was then taken, and Mr Lodge, surgeon, said he certified the death was occasioned by injury to the abdomen. The Coroner Is it a fact that you would give a certi- ficate in a case which is obviously one requiring an inquest? Mr Lodge I have done so frequently. The Coroner Are you aware that it is to say the least of it exceedingly irregular ? Mr Lodge I don't know I have known nearly a score of accidents as severe as this in Gloucestershire where no inquests have been held. '1 he Coroner commented severely on such a practice. He said, to use the mildest term possible, it was very imprudent. A case of murder or manslaughter might be hushed up if medical certificates were given in this irregular manner. He hoped such an instance would ne.ver occur again. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from an accident received from a passing train, and an order for immediate interment was then issued. The Coroner said the expenses must be borne by the over- seers of the parish.

UNION CONTRACTS. To the Editor of the SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS. SIR,-Most gratifying is it to find the guardians of the poor so particular as. the carrying out of the union con- tracts. Coal, however, appears not to have come under their notice, or they have not a competent judge of quali- ties amongst them. It is strange that in a place so con- tiguous to collieries, the contracts should always be for large coal, and the deliveries be of through and through and that nothing be said aVoub it, excepting when the contracts are closed. Thentheguardiaus wonder why they cannot get such cheap coal .delivered at th-ir houses though the distance to haul be not so great and no turn- pike to pay. What is the use to advertise for large coal and take an inferior description ? It is only a deception, and ought to be unmasked, and if through and through is good enough why riot buy it at its value. Please insert this in your next issue, and oblige yours, &c., VERITAS. Cardiff, 19th August, 1875.

A BRIDGE OVER THE TAFF. To the Editor of the SOUTH WALES DAILY NWES. SIR,rbe old adage that one of the first laws of nature is self-preservation" will not hold good in every case, and were it not for a more philanthropic development 'our country, as well as the world at large, would be far more behind than at present. And were it necessary, we could name persons who have thoroughly held at bay such an old, destructive adage, having de- P"ved themselves of all luxury when at their command, who have even suffered want, deprivation, and death, for the general welfare of their neighbours and mankind. It happens that my lot has fallen to labour in a dis- trict in which the above old adage is daily veri- fied to its • greatest extent, and that, of course, to the sad dismay of hundreds of her Majesty's loyal sub- Jects. Gwaelod-y-Garth is a district which is so fast Do^a?Cf t^lat within a few years it has trebled itself in P pulation and dwellings, and what could, in population, hwfv.^ears a&° counted by scores can now be counted boi h 3and8, inconvenience that the neigh- HioV. i suffers from is very discouraging, and, more swf 8t^> fchat in upwards of two years not a voif *Fm been held up in its defence, or a single it 111 Public manner, heard on its side. Although f^ant is apparent, and on everyone's tongue, namely, nun across the river Taff, the want of which adds o ^bour to hundreds in the year, as well as an na ,a^ ft continual drain upon the pockets of most °. 6 working classes of the district, and if no Penny is forthcoming the only alternative left the onfor- tunate one is to cast a glance upon the boatman, and n iinj himself up an Alpine steep, being com- • nearly two miles before you reach the opposite shore. When we view it commercially we find that the greatest part of the weekly provisions are bought at N ewbridge and Cardiff. We can see that Hiany a working-man in the course of a year is deprived of a very good pair of boots for one of his children by this Ferry charge, and if the value of 6d is required, this obnoxious poll tax would enhance the article above 33 per cent. And on the other hand, when a purchase is made on Taff's Well side, the tradesman will not enter into a bargain without taking into consideration the car- riage, being, as we said before, almost two miles around So it is easily perceivable that the Gwaelod v-garth" side has not alone to suffer inconvenience which more labour, but has to pay so much dearer for everv article of consumption or use required from side. And further, when we look at thSJ °A of passage transit, even to the sacrificing of human life6 which makes it unnavigable for ae™ Wi^P *° +u18 nver and that for far superiof crafts days in the year, riven Doll-tftv onS crm& than those now plying at a ticket Tn j without the offer of an insurance surest at- ™ 7 8UcJ1.an inconvenience we would wlvinii « ?? 'ka,t a public meeting be convened, from n application would be forwarded to the owner of where consent would no doubt be given. A fter- aras that a strong working committee be appointed or arranged, partly from each side of the river, and if a liberal spirit be evinced by such committee we are certain that the necessary funds would be forthcoming in a fort- ni6nt, and before six months have passed a sub- stantial and durable footpath will be erected. Men of Garth and Taffs Well, be up and at work In so doing you will have been instruments in bestowing a great boon upon the district by sparing to the working man an unnecessary outlay, and perhaps in some forthcoming stormy days of winter you may have spared many a widow's tear and orphan's cry. SCOPEO. Gwealod-y-Garth, near Cardiff. I

AMUSEMENTS IN CARDIFF. To the Editor of the SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS. SIR,-I perceive that a correspondent in your issue of yesterday desires to call the attention of clerks in par- ticular to the desirability of them uniting together for the purpose of forming a middle-class club, to quaff their nut-brown ale, and amuse themselves with whist, chess, draughts, &c. In reply to this invitation, I, as repre- sentative of a large and increasing class of quill drivers, beg to inform him that we have not sank into such a low mental or moral condition as to desire such places of re- sort as he refers to, in order to waste the little spare I time we can afford. Our intelligent young men prefer paying a little extra for. the use of rooms to study the immortal works of the illustrious dead, rather than muddle their intellects with bitter beer, or engage in games that are questionable in their tendency of minister- ing to any passion or power of the mind, save those of a degrading nature.—I am, &c., IRON PEN. Cardiff, August 20th, 1875.

FOREIGN TELEGRAMS. J.' 4) -1' X..L' -1 ,I í. l'J:l. La 4 REUTER's AND CENTRAL NEWS 4 F ENCH TRADE. PARIS, Saturday.—The official trade returns for the first seven months of the present vervr sliow the total value of French exoorts to have been 2,243,000,000f., or 260,000 OOOf. more than iu the corresponding period of 1874. The i ns ports amounted to 2.036,000, OOOf., showing a decrease of compared with the first seven months of 1874. The increase in the exports is principally in manufactured goods, which exceed the last re- turn by 87,000, OOOf.

THE MILITARY POLICY OF FRANCE. PAKIS, Saturday.—The Minister of War has made a speech at Contrexeville, in which while mentioning that a certain class of the army'would shortly be called out, he said France confines her- self to carrying out a military law suitable to a time of peace, and is pursuing the plan of military reorganisation with a purely defensive object.

THE WAR IN SPAIN. MADRID, Saturday.—The Official Gazette of to- day announces that some of the Carlist artillery- men have deserted from the Citadel of Seo d Urgel. They state that the Carlist garrison have lost a tenth of their numbers, and are greatly dis- couraged. The energy and determination of LJzrraga and the Bishop of Seo d'Urgel alone prevent open manifestation of this feeiing. According to several Madrid newspapers, Don Carlos has caused Mogrovejo, Mendiri, aud other leaders to be incarcerated at Estella. General Jovellar, with 6,000 men, has arrived at Seo d Urgel, to assume the command of the fcejiieg- ing force, and it is announced that he intends giving a greater impetus to the siege operations. SAN SEBASTIAN, Saturday. A. combined sortie was made by the garrison of Hernaci, Sau Sebas- tian, and Renteria yesterday. They succeeded in driving the Carlists from all their positions and in occupying the important heights of Lontevideo.

THE ANNIVERSARY OF SEDAN IN GERMANY. BERLIN, Saturday.—Preparations are being made in many towns and cities throughout Germany for a solemn celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Scdau.

THE HERZEGOVINA INSURRECTION. VIENNA, Saturday Evening.—The Presse of this evening publishes the following intelligence from Ilagusa "Besides the fighting near Bicero, an engagement was also fought yesterdo.y near Valniak, ofter the Zubci insurgent force had left the battlefield to guard some herds of cattle which had been captured from the Turks. One hundred and fifty insurgents from the Duzi Mohaatery defended themselves at Valniak for six hours against a considerably larger number of Turks, hnd ulti mately compelled theoi to retreat. The insurgents lost three killed, and the Turks fifteen. Forty Zubcians and fifty Bochece joined the insuvsents to day. According to accounts furnished by the insurgents, the Turkish troops exhibited great pusillanimity. RAGUSA, Aug. 21.—The Turkish battalions dis embarked a,t Kleck have succeeded in turning tho mountain defile, and effecting [t junction with the troops sent from Mosta to meut them. Their losses are stated to be twenty dead and many wounded.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN RUSSIA. NIJNI-NOVGOROD, An 20.- The bread aijd salt offered to his Royal Highiia-is on his arrival here by the mercantile community was presented on a silver dish worth 2,000 roubles. To-day the Duke visited the chief bazaar, and made several pur- t'h SI BOB

"IriI. NEW ECCLESIASTICAL DISTRICTS. The following new ecclesiastical districts have been formed :-In the diocese of St. David's, the vicarage of Llandar and the rectory of Rhosdie have been united the vicarage of Llanerchaeron and the vicarage of Dihewid' have also been united.

ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM CLERKENWELL. A prisoner escaped from the Clerkenweil House of Detention yesterday. He managed, by the aid of a water-pipe, to climb the outer wall, and dropped from a height of 30ft. to the ground. He is still at large.

A GAS COMPANY FINED. The Southampton borough magistrates, on Saturday, fined the local Gas Company, £ 12 for cutting off the gas of a tallyman named Ireland, with whom they had a dis- pute as to the payment of a quarter's gas. The fine was assessed at 5s a day.

THE LABOUR LEAGUE AND THE ALLOT- MENT SYSTEM. The Labour League has made application to Lords Stradbrooke, Waveney and Walsingham for land to be sub-let in small lots to labourers. Owing to the increase of the funds of the league, land is to bought where it can- lished 1 stores are also to be estab-

AN INCIDENT AT THE NORWICH ELECTION ENQUIRY. At the Norwich election enquiry on Saturday morning, Mr Warner Wright, who gave evidence on the day ore vious, complained that Mr Wornereley, the manager at Mr Coleman's works, had threatened to do for him. Mr Wornersley apologised, and the Commissioners ordere d him not to appear again in Court until requested.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES The Alexandra Granary, at Gloucester Docks, was des- troyed by fire on Saturday morning, together with a large quantity of barley. The shipping is safe. The cotton manufactory of Messrs Simpson and Jack- son, at the Higher Walton, near Preston, has been burned down. The weaving shed was saved. The damage amounts to L25,000 and two hundred will be thrown idle.

LABOUR CONFERENCE AT PARIS. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) At a meeting of the Workmen's Peace Association in London on Saturday night, the final arrangements were made for the proposed Conference of working men at Paris on the 6th and 7th of next month. Delegates will attend from Aberdeen, Birmingham, Liverpool, Man- chester, Sheffield, Bristol, and other provincial towns. Mr Burt, M.P., will represent the miners.

THE COLLISION WITH THE ROYAL YACHT. The foremast, bowsprit, sails, and rigging of the sunken yacht Mistletoe were brought to the surface yes terday, but the body of the mate has nut been recovered. It is said that a new y^ht will bn presented to Mr Hey wood. The body of Miss Peel has been removed to Pendlebury, Manchester,. for interment. The Queen sent several telegrams inquiring after the condition of the sufferers, especially the man Hiscock, whose arm was broken while holding the lady who was drowned. Her Majesty SAYE; Let my distress and sympathy, in which my children join, be expressed also to the widow." The Prince of Wales has also sent a letter of condolence to the sufferers and the bereaved.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.-Indigestion, dis- order of the liver.—No fact in medical knowledge is bet- ter established than the fact that the chief sour -e of all morbid states, whether of body or mind, is a deranged state of digestion, usually ot initiating in the live. Holloway's Pilla speedily regulate this function. Incases where delicacy of constitution render it unadvisaMe to take many pills, tli3 saa e healthful effects may he ca rial out, without de- bilitating, by Tuhbing Hollnway's Oiutu;ent thoroughly over the pit of the. stomach and right side at least twice a day no pain or inconvenieno atcends this treutment. Its merits in vanquishing pain at the stomach, flatulency, and imperfect di^esnoa have m been fully appreciated by the public in all parts of the globe for the last thirty-five years.