South Wales Daily News

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A j BETTER CARRIERAT LLANTRISANT- r "a\t n* Llant"saa^ Petty sessions yesterday, (before Mr Williams stipendiary), John Howe (18 a letter EG"DES°SYTEEII £ QTHE ^NTRISANT PO^ OFFICE! WAS SetSrtfinS^ °r about the 30th of June last, Cardiff fnr r? l* a watch, which had been posted at S^DrosecuSd ln Mr Ensor, of Car- prisoner being undefended. There Mr ftK0nd«nCe of tbe Public to hear the case, fehfrb mil the case, the particulars of will be gathered from the following evidence. 1 e?n said i live at No. 4, Bute terrace, 4-v <fnmi_ a Jew«her and furniture broker. On 30th of June. I packed up a watch in a paper parcen 1 he watch was inside a match box, and I made this into a parcel. I addressed it to Mr Evans, New- bndge road, Llantrisant." I posted the parcel myself at srnrii 6Djr^ Office, Cardiff. (Silver hunting watch This is the same watch. 1 did not register arnlJ^T ut paid tte Post»f?e of it. On the 10th of y A Wr"te a letter to Mr Evans. I wrote in conse- or 2QtK °J( T balance being due to me. On the 28th hot irT y i 86ut another letter, asking why he did t> n«wer my three last letters. toaster68 deP°8ed 1 am the Post' lofficM j of the post iWKon i ,,e Cardiff district, which includes Llantrisant. When 1% letter is placed in the receiving box at Cardiff I »<■!»■ -• Llantrisant, it is sorted off first, and it re- 1 I V.lnnr a box till it is placed in the mail basr for i fc" £ "nsant..and is dispatched by the Great Western in Cardiff to Llantrisant on f ,,Ju?e would arrive atLlantrisant for deUvery ■ imnu6 following morning. The prisoner is a person i jr y under the Post Office as a letter carrier at tnwifno" j i1 of June he was so employed, I «p toll the 3rd of January this week. «K«OW11aA Harris 8aid live at 279, Bute street, Car- !« am a Pawnbroker. I was in my Bhop about 0; o clock on the afternoon of last Monday, the 1st of t anuary. The prisoner came there at that time aftd JljUited to sell a watch. He produced it, and I would < know it again. (Watch produced.) That is the watch, g in trade it would be Worth £ 3 10s or £ 3 15s, but a A )eweller might charge six or seven guineas for it. „The Stipendiary: That shows the profits of jewellers. Stfe ILaughter.) Witness, continuing He offered to sell me the watch icr three sovereigns, and then for £ 2. My suspicions were awakened, and I sent for the police. P.C. William King 8Mne. i Prisoner said the witness that he offered the watch 1 Xn pledge. Witness denied this. t [ Police-constable William King, Cardiff borough force ■t i K R IWAS the shop of the last witness about pve o CIOCK last Monday evening. I saw the prisoner 1 tnsre and the last witness. I received this watch, which a 1 now produce, from the last witness. I asked the prisoner if this was his Own watch, and of whom he i' 'bought it. He said, I bought it ot George Thomas a b lniner working at Llantrisant, about five or six months I took him to the police-station at Cardiff, He 1| told me bis uncle was a letter carrier in the Cardiff d Post-office, and that his uncle knew it was his own watch. As he saw it with him about three or four months Ago. I afterwards went to the Post-office and saw his 1< [ xuitle. I retained the watoh, but in consequence of what i j the uncle said the prisoner was liberated. David Evans, living at New Bridge road, Llantris- and a collier, said: At the end of last Juna or the jboginning of July I expected to receive a watch by port nrom Emanuel Goldstein, of Cardiff. I have never 0J: received it. I received; no letter from Mr Goldenson si fcbout the 10th of July. I did not receive one in July. P.C. Anthony Gill, of Llantrisant, deposed: From Information I received, I apprehended the prisoner on I Wednesday morning at the post-office, Llantrisant. I a iocked him up in Llantrisant police station. I went to Cardiff to get more precise information, and when I 3 returned I went to Llantrisant. and charged the prisoner j -with stealing a posted packet addressed to Mr Evans, Pootvpridr; road, Llantrisant,—(Pontypridd is the l< Welsh for Newbridge)-containing a silver double-cased j 'watch, the property of the Postmaster-General. I also charged him with stealing two letters some time after- wards, addressed to the same person. He said I didn't have the letters, but I had the watch. I didnot have t i At the post-office, I had it in the net down at the sta- Bon." By the Stipendiary: I think that he referred to the pi; neti at the station which receives the mail bag from the > £ »ain. 3y Mr Ensor: The prisoner went on to say—" I went •* aown one morning, ana found the bag ripped. I found il the oacket on the net. I did not know who it was for, i; as it was only addressed 'Llantriumt.' I have been very sorry for it ever since.' David XJfewellyn said: I am the postmaster at Llan- A trisant. The prisoner was my town letter carrier, snd attended to the apparatus at the station PA well. There were two engaged at the ap- u) paratus. He attended in the morning, and the ,1' other attended in the evening. He has been at this work eight months, as he came there about April last. < .Me received the LlMtrisaiit letters from the sorting clerk a SU_»*J wa^ P»rtof his duty to deliver letters in the Newbridge road. He received the letters in the s usual way during the month of July last. I visited the ,,t ,prisoner at the police Ration yesterday, in company with is father and mother. I was sent for by his father. He :v made a communication to me, saying. It is no use »ay«>e any more about it, Mr Llewelyn I took the watch; and he told his father and mother so as well. The prisoner cried bitterly. Up to this time I can eive tiim tbe best of characters. ° i [ This was the case. [ The Stipendiary cautioned the prisoner in the usual Ltl irity, asking him if he had anything to say. i [ The prisoner I have nothing to say. The Stipendiary: Then it is my painful duty to com- | mm you for trial at the next assizes to be holden in this icfiU coutfvy. 'I'h#,prison or was then removed in custody.

n t Frro.-El-ILMITIC FITS OR FALLIHG SICKNESS.—A jjfll i cenain method of cure has been discovered for this distressing j complaint by a physician who is desirous that all sufferers may lO1 "benefit from thia providential discovery; it is never known to rjl Tail, and wul cure the most hopeless case after aU other means 1 have been tried, t'uu particulars will be pent bv peat to any t person free of <fcarge. Address Ma WILLIAMS, 10, Oxford 1 Terrace, Hyde Park. London. 9694 HOLLOWAT'S OINTMWIT AKD PILLS.—Much watchful- gi must h# exercised aa winter advances, and the earliest -evidences of w-health must be immediately checked and in removed, or a slight illness may result in a serious malady. .i<i and sore throat, diphtheria, quinsey, throat cough, chronic couarh,brortchlWf,«ad most ether pulmonary affections, "WTU be relieved by nibbing this cooling ointment into the skin r to tfre mt of mischief. This treatment [o — b^thi simsfat and effectire-^( admirably adapted for the tl ^nrutv. infancy and youth. Old derive maxveHons relief from the use it *tUch hareNbronsh1 round many such .ass«r--— 1

THE ROATH ELECTION INQUIRY. A SUBSCRIPTION LIST OPENED FOR THE UNSEATED CANDIDATES. Last night a public meeting of the voters of the Koatta Ward was held in the Elm street Schoolroom, Jxoatli, to consider what steps it was advisable to take to reimburse Messrs Blessdey and Lougner for the loss they havehus- tained "in the defence of their seats in the town council. The meeting was advertised for balf-past leven. and at that hour a large number of persons hadI gathoK a in the streets in the neighbourhood ot the wuen j^e It was about half-past eight o dock. ^^ever> door of the uieetinK-room was opened, an room waa diate rush was made f,'r 1 remaireH outside quicklj' filled, and about 1U) j/erhon c:jlor G W during the course of the proceeding,. or W* Armstrong was unanimously voted to the cnair The CHAIRMAN said he haa Just left^^ meeti° wouJd Docks to come there expecting he wo)lld be putin the°honouraWe position of the chairman of that meeting. f%zss. IS]??I/AT for his ownp decree of justice in the decision of ^(i-f'-ind they cotild scarcely have expected any other decision t"h £ had. They had nothing however, to do with the decision now it had been actually given. Th v were now assembled under tne hckle circum- as they found them, to discuss what they should do It would be a deplorable state of affairs if those two candidates, Messrs Blessley and Laugher, who had borne the expenses of a contested election, should be allowed to be saddled with the expenses of a court of inquiry. There was an old proverb, that many hands make light work but they might alter that proverb to, "many pockets make expenses light." (Applause.) At a meeting that they had at the Royal Hotel last night, there were certain gentlemen who had put their names down to subscribe large contributions, in order to defray the expenses of this court of inquiry. (Hear, hear.) They thought at the meeting, if they aopealed to the people of lloath, there was such a strong feeling of sympathy with the candidates in the Koath ward, and that if they took it up as a public question in the ward money would soon be forthcoming to pay the expenses of the trial. He had been much delighted on asking a friend of his learned in the law whether the the two candidates were incapacitated from standing again in the ward at once to find that such was not the case. (Applause.) He might be wrong. In this matter he had a great deal of feeling, and he felt himself to a great extent responsible for this affair. He was the nominator of Dr Lougher, and he was not ashamed of having been so. He believed that Dr I,ougher was a fit and proper person to represent the ward in the council. (Applause, And Blessley too.") Yes and Blessley too. They had not been in the council long, but as long as they had been they had conducted themselves well. (Applause.) He had no programme before him, but he hoped he would have some addresses from gentlemen present. (Applause.) Mr EKSOR reviewed the chief facts which had been brought out at the inquiry. He said he bowed to the decision of the law, but he regretted that a trifling indis- cretion, the payment of a solitary 10s, which the com- missioner could have viewed either one way or the other, had brought Mr J. H. Evans within the meaning of the Act. Although there had been allegations brought against the candidates, and especially allegations of bribery against Mr Blessley, not a single case was main- tained. Mr Blessley had three distinct charges of per- sonal bribery to meet, but not one was sustained, and there were a great many points in the petition on which the commissioner held there was no evidence whatever. He censured the conduct of Mr W. G. Edwards. who in his evidence stated that drunkenness universally pre- vailed. He considered such a statement a gross libel on the burgesses of Roath. He also denied that committee meetings for Messrs Blessley and Lougher were held at public-houses. The petition was pressed forward by Mr Owen Davies to gratify a personal spleen which he had against Mr John Henry Evans. He was not at all opposed to the return of Messrs Blessley and Lougher, but he had a private spleen against Mr Evans, and in order to gratify it he had done him a cruel wrong and a gross injustice. In gratifying his private feelings, he had perpetrated a gross libel upon the burgesses of Roatb. The burgesses of Roath had placed Messrs Blessley and Lougher at the head of the poll, and they had placed Mr Owen Davies at the tail. The election was a fair one. It gave abundant evidence of the views of the ratepayers as to whom they desired to represent them, and Mr Davies should have taken fairly the licking he received. Mr Rees Enoch was one of the defeated candidates, but he had the good sense and the manliness to accept the decision given by the returning officer. and had no part whatever in the petition of Mr Owen Davies. He (the speaker) strongly censured the bringing forward of such petitions, as, if such proceedings were repeated, they would not find any respectable person willing to come forward to represent them. At the same time it had been the metns of making the provisions of the Act of Parliament better known. There had. no doubt, in the past been a certain amount of treating practised which the law did not allow, and in the future they must abstain from any appearance of evil. Mr FHANKLYN asked if Messrs Bleseley and Lougher could again offer themselves as candidates. Mr ENsoR replied that he had looked into the Act and found by the 5th section that they could not. A person convicted of corrupt practices by his agent could not offer himself as a candidate for election during the period he would have held office, had he^been duly elected. Therefore for the next two years and ten months Messrs Blessley and Lougher could not offer themselves as candidates to represent the Roath ward. Mr FRANKLYN stated that he was subpoened by Mr Owen Davies. but he was not called, and he was pre- pared to prove that the evidence of two of the witnesses of Mr Owen Davies was false. He never canvassed for Messrs Blessley and Lougher, but he canvassed for Mr Rees Enoch. Mr PHILLIPS expressed his sympathies with the un- seated candidates, and also hoped that the expenses in- curred by them during the late "inquiry would be borne by the ward generally, and fbft gentlemen would come forward with their 210, and the humbler classes with their shillings, and thus relieve the candidates of the heavy burthen which the inquiry had thrown upon them. He concluded by moving That in the opinion of this meeting Messrs Blessley and Loughor are entitled to the sympathies of the burgesses of Roath on the loss of their seats, and that the expenses they have been put to by the late vexatious petition should be defrayed by volun- tary subscriptions." Mr ROBINS seconded the resolution, which was carried amid loud applause. One of the burgesses asked what amount would be required ? The CHAIRMAN replied that from B400 to 2,500 would be required. No doubt Messrs Blessley and Lougher would do something. He mentioned that at ah informal meeting held at the Royal Hotel,Cardiff,on the previous evening, Mr R. J. Nicholl promised 25, Mr D, I, Lougher 25. Mr W. Phillips j35, Mr Ensor £ 5, himself £5.,Mr Pegg R2, Mr Govier 22. Thfte Rev A. ELIAS spoke in favour of Messrs Blessley and Lougher,and also suggested that a committee should be formed to obtain subscriptions from the great bulk of the inhabitants of the ward, who would, he believed warmly support any effort of the kind to relieve the burden upon the unseated members. The suggestion was adopted. Mr Armstrong was appointed chairman of the com- mittee. Mr Grogan secretary,and the names of a number of burgesses present were given as being these of persons willing to act. Subscription books will be distributed among them, Before the meeting closed about £ 25 was promised, in • addition to the amount promised at the Royal Hotel. A vote of thanks to the chairman of the meeting closed the proceedinge.

PIIOPOSKDNEW BISHOPRIC FOR BRISTOL. The Archbishop of Canterbury has arrived at the Palace, Gloucester, on a visit to the Bishop of Glouces- ter and Bristol, and it is supposed that the Primate's object is to confer with Bishop Ellicott respecting the proposed division of the diocese of Gloucester and Bris- tol, and the constitution of Bristol as a separate see. The Government having asked the Archbishops to recom- mend the creation of four new bishoprics, the Bristol churchmen are anxious that their city shall be one of the number.

SAD OCCURRENCE AT MONMOUTH. A strange and sad occurrence, which has just been brought before public notice, created a painful sensatien at May Hill station last Saturday. It appears that on Friday last a woman, named Cox, wife of the bailiff^ at Huntsholm Farm, come into Monmouth seeking medical aid for her little boy, who was two years and seven months old but the medical man said he must have the child brought to him at Monmouth. She brought the child ou Saturday morning. When the medical gentle- man saw it (it raided fearfully the whole Saturday) he told the woman he could do nothing for it, as it was past hope. She at once returned to May Hill station, where the child died in her arms. The body was cared for by some kind people at the station, and the poor woman had to carry the little corpse home.

CAUTION. —Messrs RECKETT and SONS beg to caution the public asra.in.jt imitation square Blue of very inferior j J' r Paris Blue, in squares (used in the Prince of Trade MirkUnary^' 80,(1 in wrraPPer8 hearing their name and LAMPLODGH's PYRETIC SALINE.-Have it in your houses, and use no other; this alone is the true «ntid..io to Fevers, Eruptive Attentions, Sea or Bilious Sickness, having peculiar and exclusive merits. For the protection of tne public ayainst FRAUDULENT imitations, 1 ha ve ivopliod for and again obtained a perpetual injunction, with rl}-yt. nsraingt th* Defend- ant. Observe tt.e GSKOIXK has my NAMK a>I<» 'IV.ADK XARK on a BuFT-cOLOuRxi) W'tAppi&iL. Mav be obtain' of the proprietor, H. LAMPLOUGH. Consulting Chemist, 113, Jio "•■■"TH. £ .C., second door from Hatton Oardcn, London, and of all Chemists.-In imdBis, 2

THE CASE OF W0UNMNU AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT CARDIFF. At the Cardiff borough police cuurt, yesterday, before the Mayor and Mr H. O. Jones, "William Bees, a coal | trimmer, was charged en a remacd with feloniously and maliciously wounding Ailn Rees, his wife, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Mr Bielioch defended the prisoner. The injured woman was still in a weak state. She said the prisoner was her husband, aud she did not wish to press the charge, as they were both in fault. In reply to questions from the Magistrates' Cleric, she. however, stated that oh the night of the 2othof December last they were quarrelling. She aggravated him, and he struck her a blow with the poker on the left side of the hea, 1. Mr Blelloch Did you strike him ?—No, sir. Were you quite sober!—Yes, air. Was he sober—No, quite drunk. Jane Hixon, the landlady nf the house where the prisoner lodged, said that on the night of the 26th she heard a noise in the prisoner's room. When upstairs she heard Mrs Eees say to the prisoner If you say that again to me I will throw this at you." Almost immediately afterwards she heard a loud noise as of something falling on the fioor in the room. She was much alarmed. Soon afterwerds the prisoner ran out of the room, went upstairs to the bedroom, where the sons were sleeping, and called out to them by their names — "Robert, John, I have done it." He then came to her bedroom door, asked her to go down, and again said, I have done it," The younger son got up, and he went downstairs, and found Mrs Rees lying on the floor of the front room. She was lying on the left side, and was bleeding from a wound on the head. She said that the prisoner had struck her on the head with a poker. There was a large cut on the left side of the head, but witness saw no weapor;. The police were sent for, and also Dr Hardymau. When the prisoner told her he bad done it he spoke in a tone of voice as if he was alarmed at what he had done. Mr C. E. Hardeman,surgeon,said he saw Mrs Rees on the night of the 26th ult. She had a wound on the scalp about three inches long, on the left side of the head, above the ear. It must have been inflicted by some blunt instrument. She was then weak from the loss of blood. She was still weak, but quite out of danger. In reply to Mr Blelloch, he said he saw the prisoner the same night. He had a wound in the throat, from which he had lest a considerable quantity of blood. Police-constable Cellins said he was called to the prisoner's house about 11 o'clock on the night of the 26th ult. He found the prisoner lying in a pool of blood in the yard. The woman was lying in the frofit room, bleeding from a wound in the head. The bench committed the prisoner for trial at the assizes.

RHYMNEY LOCAL BOARD. The monthly meeting of this board was held on Wed. nesday night, when there were present Messrs R. La-v. bourne (chairman), J. Matthews, W. Pritchard, F. Dixon, T. Elias, and D. Thomas. The principal matter for consideration wa,s the question of the quality of water. There having been other cases of typhoid fever the medical officer (Dr Redwood) adhered to the state- ment he made at the last meeting—that the cause of the outbreak was the impurity of the water used for domestic purposes. Dr Redwood's fourth quarterly report was read, and it was as follows: G,.R-tle- men, according to my usual practice, I begin this report by inserting a table showing the state of the weather, and its apparent effect on the amount and kind of sickness prevalent during the quarter. From the sickness column you will see there has been rather a serious outbreak of typhoid fever, on which it was my duty to report at your last meet- ing. In reference to that report, and the conclusion arrived at by you upon it I have one or two remarks to make. You considered (1st) that I was entirely wrong in the conclusion I came to as to the cause of the out- break (2nd), that the grounds upon which I founded my opinion, if properly interpreted, led to a totally different conclusion (ord), that the effects of the case in no way justified the conclusion to which I came. The facts of the case having been the ground upon which I formed my opinion,it will be convenient to take the above points in inverse order, and begin with Nos. 3 and 2. The facts of the case were that a number of cases—28— of typhoid fever occurred in Rhymney in the months of October and November—in the latter month chiefly almost entirely; that these cases were scattered through. out the place; that the drainage of the streets and roads in which the majority of them occurred did not appear to be at fault; that no other local cause could be found, as far as your inspector knew that the medical attendants found, on inquiry, that every person attacked drank water; that in many instances the patient was the only person in the house whe did drink water in its prime state and, finally, that the water these persons drank had been found, on analysis by a competent and experienced chemist, to be undoubtedly, al- though slightly, contaminated with organic matter. These beingthe facts, the grounds upon which I founded my opinion were 1st. The probability that the cause, whatever it was, affected all parts of the place alike, and was distributed through the place 2nJ. That the water was the only element so distributed i 3rd, that the said water has been proved to be slightly contaminated with organic matter 4th. that heavy rain had probably increased the amount of contamination 5th, that water contaminated with organic matter is, and always has been, one of the commonest causes of typhoid fever and 6th, that the information I was able to obtain from those who attended two cases, and from your inspector. eliminated all other powers originating usual causes of typhoid fever. Assuming the above facts to have been true, I submit that I was per- fectly jnstified in coming to the conclusion which I did, and trust that you will find that most. if not all, experienced sanitary officers would, on the same evidence and under the same circumstances, have expressed a similar opinion. According to your instructions, Mr Marks obtained a sample of water from the tap of No. 8, Upper Cross row, where the next case occurred, and submitted it to Mr J. W. Thomas, F.C.S.. of Cardiff, for analysis. His report is a very favourable one, and he considers the water a remarkably good one for domestic purposes. In consequence of this I have instructed your inspector to again examine into and re- port upon the drainage, &c.. of the localities in which the cases occurred, and will append the result at the end of this. Five more cases have occur- red during the month of December, two in Upper Cross row and three in Carno street, the last three being still under treatment. The number of births during the quarter was 64-31 males and 33 females, I or at the rate of 31*46 per 1,000 per annum, a slight increase on the corresponding quarter of the year 1875. The total deaths registered during the quarter was 32— 16 males and 16 females, making a rate of 16*70 per 1.000 per annum, and rather higher than last year. I may here mention that the above birth and death rates are calcu- lated on the population of 1871 (8.138), and that next year they will be based upon a population of 9,000, which will be much nearer the true mark. Only two deaths occurred from typhoid fever, and none from any other form of zymotic disease. I stated in my report on the recent outbreak of typhoid fever, that five deaths had taken place out of 28 cases, but I find I was misinformed on that point, two deaths only being in your district, the other three having occurred out of it, namely, at Bute Town, Llechryd, and Granary row. Constitutional diseases—scrofulous—account for six deaths, and diseases of the nervous system for eight, while two were due to disease of the heart, and six to bronchitis, peumonia, &c. Old age and debility carried off five, and a tumour one. This makes a total of 30, leaving two unaccounted for, probably children soon after birth. I have not been able to visit, with your inspector, the localities in which the oases ot fever occuitred, on account of absence from home, but beg to append a copy of his report on the same just received, from which it would appear that about half the cases were due to defective drainage,while the other half have to be accounted for in some other way You will remember that I said in my last report that the only conclusion I could come to without further investi- gation as to the sanitary condition of the neighbourhood in which the majority of the cases occurred, was that the water for drinking purposes—the Rhymnev waterworks water -was the chief, if not the only, cause of the out- break. Further investigation enables me now to say that out of ten streets and rows the sanitary condition of five was sufficiently defective." The report concluded by stating that a letter would be laid before the board from the medical officer's uncle. Professor Redwood, London, in which the board were advised to take some means to prevent the pollution of the stream from certain farms. The letter was read, and so also was the analysis of Mr Thomas, Cardiff, and the report of the inspector. As already intimated, Mr Thomas stated that the water was perfectly wholesome. Considerable dis- cussion followed, in the course of which Dr Redwood, replying to Mr Pritchard, said typhoid fever was not contagious. In answer to a question from Mr Pritchard as to whether he (the medical officer) still in the face of Mr Thomas's analysis attributed the fever cases at No. 8, Upper Cross Row, to the water, The Medical Officer said that he certainlv did, as those cases could not be adfcounted for in any other way. He believed the water varied considerably in purity at' different times, and that while in fine weather it may not be greatly polluted, it did become polluted to a. damaging extent by a heavy shower washing I the refuse of the farmyards in the occupation of Mr Morgan and Mr Moaely Into the stream that conveyed the water from the reservoir to the filter beds. He therefore would recommend thatmeasures be taken to prevent such pol- lution of the stream. ø Mr MATTHEWS suggested that the surveyor should periodically visit the farms, and that he should report to the next meeting. The suggestion was unanimously agreed to and the subject dropped. The surveyor and collector's report showed that the rate collected during the month was £ 2S] ?j¡; JOd, making »total amount collected of the general district rate of ±'493 10s Si*d. b Thi was aU the business of importance* J I

I THE WdATHER. BUliRif PORT. Very heavy rains have fallen here for the last f(-fv days, causing several ot the rivers to overflow. The docks are also full of ships, which are unable to proceed to sea, as the weather is so boisterous- The bad weather throws trade back a good deal ill this place. MONMOUTH. Matters are in a worse condition in this district than when we last reported worse than they have been known to be forthe last fifteen years. The valleys of the Wye and Monnow are like huge lakes, scarcely anything is to be seen but water. The Ross and Monmouth line of railway is under watei; at Hadnock, two miles above Monmouth. The streets of Ross were flooded yesterday by surface water from the land, but this has to some extent abated. At Monmouth the inhabitants of of several houses in different parts of the town were suffering frightfully. Dixton Church is Hooded, and boats are sailing over the public highways. It is only by means of special-horsed conveyances that the rural post can be dispatched. The route to the town of Gros- mont is flooded, and the whole of the Trothy district presents one dreary waste of water from Monmouth past Raglan, where the mails have to be doubly horsed. All mills are stopped. The approach to Mayhill Station is flooded, the entire yard being under water. This entire district has been flooded now for no less than ten days, and the Wye is rising still higher, completely banking up the water in the Monnow. It is seriously affecting the industry and the health of the neighbourhood. The scene from the town is really awful. Late last night our correspondent telegraphedThe flood her,- has assumed a most alarming aspect. The line at Mayhill is flooded, and the whole of the station is under water. At Had no ale the Wve has risen two feet above the rails, which causes the greatest difficulty in getting the locomotive along, as if the train moved fast the fire of the engine would be put out. The houses in some parts of the town aud the country for miles around are flooded, so that the inhabitants are driven to the upper rooms, where their food and other necessaries are passed up to the windows by means of cords and pol*, boats, and coracles. The Monnow, being banked up by the Wye, is rising fast, and causing considerable consternation among the people. A tree, torn up by the roots, has been washed against the Wye Bridge, where it is still lodged, impeding the flow of the torrent. The vicars of Monmouth and Dixton, assisted by others, advise the immediate forma- tion of a relief committee. KIDWELLY. The Penlan Brook here has been swollen with water, and rushed with tremendous force towards the Inde- pendent Chapel, tumbling before'it heavy stones and rubbish, filling the mouths of culverts and the church- yard and chapel partly with water. The rush of water down the road scored deep gutters in its way, and filled some houses in New street, doing considerable damage. STOPPAGE OF A PAPER MILL. Heavy rain continues to fall at Peterborough. The floods are still rising, and have reached an almost un- precedented height. A large paper mill in the neighbour- hood has stopped work, and 300 hands have been thrown out of employment. DESTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE. A stream crossed by the railway near Newport, Isle of Wight, ha* been so swollen that the foundations of a crossing bridge were undermined, and it gave way yesterday. There has also been a landslip on the Ryde, Newport, and Cowes line, caused by the heavy rains, but the traffic has been kept roiing. THE FLOODING OF THE RAILWAY NEAR LINCOLN. Traffic on the Great Northern Railway, between Pad- dingtonand Lincoln, is ereatly interrupted near Lincoln, where the water is highest. Passengers by train have to change, and get into the first two carriages, and are drawn over this part by horses, the line being unfit to bear the weight of the engine and carriages. Hundreds of people residing in the lower parts of the town of Lin- coln have been driven from their homes, and obliged to go into lodgings, leaving their goods behind them. The water is, however, gradually subsiding. SUBSIDENCE OF WHARVES AND FALL OF A BRIDGE, Yesterday at the Dunball wharves abutting on the river Parrett, and belonging to the Great Western rail- way, a large portion of a recently constructed quay with the railway metals upon it, having been undermined by the action of the tide and the large quantity of fresh water coming from the inundated district behind, it fell with a crash. About the same time a stone bridge forming the outlet of the Kingsedgemoor main was also carried away. During the past 24 hours, up to seven last evening, the depth of water on North Moor, through which the Great Western railway runs, has increased by about 16 inches. The line between Goole and Doncaster is flooded; The breaches in the banks of the Aire, the Derwent, and the Ouse continue to widen. The water is increasing in the neighbourhood of Howden and Snaith, Yorkshire. Great numbers of potatoe pits have been destroyed, and the fodder stored for the cattle is seriously injured. Communication with many parishes in the neighbour- hood of Hereford has been entirely suspended, roads being impassable, but yesterday the floods in the vicinity of Hereford and Leominster showed signs of subsiding. The floods around Gloucester continue to rise. One of the main streets in the city is under water, and railway communication with the docks is threatened. The town of Tewkesbury has become an island, being completely surrounded. In three of the principal streets of Spalding the traffic has been stopped. At Pinchbeck, a village about two miles distant from Spalding, the bank of the river Glen gave way and flooded thousands of acres, and a culvert which blew up placed most of the village under water.

BROTHERLY LOVE. A church Mission is about to be held in Bristol, and there has been a great deal of discussion among the Evangelical party as to the propriety of uniting with the Ritualists on the occasion. The result is that seven of the Low Church clergy have announced their inten- tion not to co-operate, and to organize a mission of their own,

THE INIFALLIBILTY OF JURIES. At the Preston quarter sessions, this week, John Durbar was tried for injuring a machine at a paper mill. The jury acquitted him. As, however, he had injured two machines, but had been tried for injuring one only, he was again put on his trial, on the following day, and on the same evidence as was given in the first case, was con- victed ,and sentenced to five years' penal servitude.

AUSTRIAN "VAR PREPAHATIONS. The Cologne Gazette learns from Southern Austria that the Government has ordered all railway waggons which can be spared to be kept in readiness for military pur- poses. All officers and soldiers on leave are also ordered to be in readiness to join their regiments. The export of horses is strictly prohibited, and no horse is allowed to be carried to Italy, which is a heavy loss to the Italian traders who had purchased large transports in Hungary and Bohemia. The regiments which are to form the three corps in Transylvania, Croatia, and Dal- matia are designated and prepared to march. The transport of provisions and munitions is also prepared.

SPREAD OF CANINE MADNESS IN GLAMORGANSllIRE. The justly-dreaded complaint of canine madness seems to be spreading throughout Glamorganshire. On Tues- day night last, a little black and tan dog belonging to a man named Millar, at the Grig-, Pontypridd, and which was suddenly seized with rabies, lan about the town and bit about 30 other dogs. The police at once issued instructions for the destruction of the bitten dogs, and their owners with praise- worthy promptitude drowned them, or otherwise despatched them. At the Llantrisant petty sessions yesterday, Superintendent Matthews applied to the Sti- pendiary, Mr G. Williams, for authority to issue instruc- tions to the inhabitants of the district regarding the statute, with reference to dogs suffering from madness The Stipendiary at once granted it, expressing a hope that it would receive more attention than these notices sometimes did. Superintendent Matthews stated that two mad dogs had been shot in Llantrisant that morning Yesterday, in consequence of its being stated that large numbers of dogs were still running about the streets of Roath, Cardiff, and Canton, and as it was suspected that a dog in a state of rabies is still at large, the police received orders to secure all, dogs found in the streets, and rope was delivered out to them tor the purpose. All dogs thus taken will be destroyed.

Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Conncil, to be held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing street on Monday. At Chatham dockyard, yesterday, while the convicts were at work, Dickens, a desperate character, sentenced to penal servitude for 20 years, escaped and tried to swim the river. The wardens fired, wounding him slightly. He then surrendered and returned to shore. IHPOBTANT Diwovxiay. -Sandell's Hair Restorer is the only reliable preparatieu for restoring irrav or faded h ir to its original colour, for strengthening the hair, preventing baldness and dandritt, it is unequalled. These qualities render it au essential toilet, requisite- for all who vaiue a good held of hair. Bolli by all Chemisis. in bottles, 2a and 88 6d. 791 & CODGHS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS,Medical Testimony states that no ether medicine is so effectifrtl in thcctereo tbose dangerous maladies as KsaiiK.e't- <;yi on Loroms. o,.e Lozenge alone gives relief, one or two at V <1 timV' ensures 1| Sold by all chemists, in boxes, at Is and 2e o >u tain no«ioKun or preparation thereof. Wtvi i

i THE Ei STERN CRISIS. ARMING OF THE CHRISTIANS IN j POS N IA THE AGITATION AMONGST THE GREEKS. JEALOUSY OF RUSSIA. [CENTRAL EWö TELJBOKAM.L The firm attitude of the Porte has strongly im- pressed the European diplomatists at Constantinople, and at the present moment it is not so much a ques- tion of securing reforms in Turkey as of providing a bridge over which Russia may retreat. With this view large concessions have been made, but the Porte will certainly accept no proposals which either in form or substance infringe the independence of the Sultan. The breakdown in the transport and commissariat of the Russian army causes great depression in Russian military circles. It is feared that the Russian Govern. ment will be driven to a warlike policy, but apart from this, the condition of the army is thought favourable to peace. [KKUTER'S TELEGRAMS. 1 CONSTANTINOPLE, THURSDAY, 4.25 p.m. At to-day's meeting of the Conference Savfet Pasha read a statement in support of the Turkish counter propositions, and explaining in detail the opposition formulated at the last sitting of the Conference against certain portions of the proposals of the Powers. The European Plenipotentiaries, nevertheless, endeavoured to induce the Turkish representatives to agree to a debate upon the point rejected by the Porte, and they themselves entered upon a discussion of some of these points. Ultimately the Conference adjourned, and the next sitting was fixed for nday. In the meantime the Plenipotentiaries will continue to use their influ- ence with the Porte, with the object of making it understood that modifications of the proposals of the Powers can only be brought about by further discus- sion. CONSTANTINOPLE, FRIDAY. The Conference passed off quietly and without any auimated discussion. The Slavs residing here are becoming daily more and more incensed against the Russians on account of General Ignatieff's project o annexing Servia to one of the provinces into which, according to the Russian propositions Bulgaria, is to be divided. News has been received here from Athens, confirming the deep indignation of the Greeks at the proposals of the Conference to subordinate the Greeks to the Bulgarians and to sacrifice to the Greek and Turkish populations the unanimous hope of the Greeks that Midhat Pasha will be able, single handed, to carry out the Turkish reforms, and to prepare the way for a peaceful future, and for the proper development of the resources of the East. In Greek political circles the most violent op- position is manifested to the proposals of the Powers. RAGUSA, FRIDAY. The- Turkish Government has distributed arms among the Christians of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many refused to accept them, and fled to Austria. Mukhtar Pacha has been appointed Governor of Cgrofia, and will be replaced in his present command by Suleiman Pacha. ["PALL MALL GAZETTE" TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, FRIDAY. The Emperor William has by a special order for- bidden German officers on the active list to take service in the Russian army.

THE STRIKE ON THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY- Mr Daniel Gee writes that the scale of pay to tbe men who wtre formerly employed by the Taff Vale Railway, but who are now on strike, is as follows:—Men who earn. when at work, above 30s per week, 23s. Men who earn from 25s to 30s, if married, 18s if single, 15s. Men who earn above 18s. when at work, 15s, if married; and 13s if single. All who earn less than that sum, 14s if married, and 118 if single. Children are allowed Is. A balance of about E100 remains to be carried forward to next week's Account. A sum of 2100 has been received from the executive council of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, £ 50 from the executive council of the Boiler Makers'and Iron Shipbuilders' Society, and £ 20 from the executive council of the Steam Engine Makers' Society.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE COW- BRIDGE DISTRICT. Our Cowbridge correspondent writes :—Although the sanitary state of this town itself appears to be satisfac- tory at present, there is evident room for improvement in some of the surrounding villages. The following report of the medical officer was made at the meeting of 'the Rural Sanitary Authority of the Bridgend and Cowbridge district, on Wednesday: Gentlemen,— Since my last report 1 am sorry to inform you that fevers have broken out in two parishes in the Cowbridge district. Two cases of scarlatina and one of gastro- enteric fever at Lisworney, six cases of typhoid fever in Langan, and one at Treos. With regard to the-history of the Langan cases I found that the first person attacked had been at Gilvach-goch, that hot-bed of infectious diseases, and that typhoid fever became developed in three days after his return home, and subse- quently laid prostrate five. of his neighbours—one a respectable farmer, whom I found to have suffered very severely indeed. The Treos case was traced to Langan, where the patient had Leen a servant in one of the in- fected houses. The two cases of scarlatina at Lisworney eark be readily accounted for, as I reported some weeks ago, upon the appearance of that disease in that villag«. Having received a letter from the sanitary inspector, I made a special visit to Langan, and examined thelocality where the six casus bad broken out. I found sufficient causes to account for their developement. There are some closets in a very foul condition, and from which the excreta flowed into an uncovered cesspool, and close to each cesspool a pigstye. One pigstye drains into the road, and the liquid contents of the stye pass in front of the entrance of the house. This was the house first infected by the Gilvach-goch visitor. The water used by the infected houses I have carefully examined, though under unfavourable circumstances, in consequence of the late heavy rains, and I very much doubt its purity. I have, therefore, recommended the inhabitants in the meantime to have recourse to the water supply at the upper por- tion of the village. The well in the infected portion of the village I will test again when the weather has become settled, so as to be able to give you a more decided opihion. It would be well in the meantime if measures were taken as soon as possible to remove or abate the other nuisances reported.-(Signeti) EDWARD BATES, medical oflicer of health, Cowbridge district.

BLAINA. C"L -STE-LLV(,At the police court, on Friday (before Messrs L. Heyworth and E. Thomas), Ann Harold, of Abertillery., was charged with stealing coal from the tinworks. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 18 and coste.—Mary Ellen Lawrence, at the same cc. place, was charged with a similar offence, and was niulcted in a similar penalty; in default 10 days'hard labour. ASSAULT —Edward Kelly, a stoker at the gas works, Blaina, was charged with assauting Mr William Evans, the manager. Defendant was fined 10s and costs, in default 21 days at Usk. Ofi'BNCB AGAINST THE LICENSING AcT.-John Davies, of the Forge Haaimer Inn, Blaina, was charged by Suj>erinteDdent Fowler with keeping his house open during prohibited hours, on the 17th December last. Defendant was fined 5s and costs.

Francis Hurt, of 10. Whitelmli-phice, Tottenham, com- mercial traveller, was charged on remand at the Guildhall Po!iee;court, London, yesterday, before Alderman Knight, with embezzling £;;0 belonging to his employers, and J with forging the endorsement of the firm to several cheques. He was also charged with stealing some parcels of goods. The prisoner was in the service of Messrs. Hart, Gibbip, and Co., of Ditaingball-atr".t, and 4t was his duty to obtain orders and receive money for his employers. The evidence shewed that he received a cheque for £31 10s., endoised Messrs. Hart and Gibbin's name on it, and then cashed it, but he had not ac- counted for it to his employers. He also sent goods to d'-tomerR on approbation, which were never ordered, n nd t hoi I'xik them away, and sold them to customers of his OV-t much bdowthcir value, and never ounted for j t!\t> rrr,. peris. He had, however, since his arreet, given inl'oi'iii.'itioi! which h»d led to neafly all the goods being recovered. Alderman Knisrht committed him for trial. 1 <

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS, REUTER'S AGENCY TRESS ASSOCIATION, AND CENTRAL NEWS.) THE PROCLAMATION OF THE EMPIRE IN INDIA. j DELHI, Friday.—Last night there was a brilliant display of fireworks witnessed by an immense con- course of people on the plain between the fort and the Jumna Musjid. It is understood to have been the largest and grandest spectacle of the kind ever seen in India. The chief feature of the display was a set piece having reference to the proclamation of the Queen as Empress of India. Delhi was brilliantly illuminated.

UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, Friday.—The Republican party in the Maine Legislation have unanimously nominated Mr Blaine as United States Senator.

THE GERMAN EMPIRE AND THE ANNEXED PROVINCES. BERLIN, Friday.—The Federal Council of Germany has made an important constutional concession to Alsace-Lorraine. It has agreed to the proposal that measures passed by the provincial board of representa- tives, if approved by the Federal Council, shall become law without the previous approval or cogni- zance of the German Parhament.-Pall Mall Gazette.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPAIN AND CHINA. BOMBAY, Friday.—The Shanghai Courier states that the Spanish Minister at Pekin has broken off diplo- matic relations with the Chinese Government. In consequence the Spanish fleet has been ordered to proceed to China. Some unsettled claims and the Coolie difficulty are mentioned as the probable reason for the disagreement.

SPAIN AND AMERICA. MADRID, Thursday.—A treaty of extradition between Spain and the United States has been concluded, and will be signed to-morrow. It is the most complete of the kind yet entered into by the United States.

AN UNFOUNDED CHARGE, AGAINST A SOLICITOR- At the Manchester police court, yesterday,Mr Shippey, solicitor, surrendered on a charge of attempting to murder Josephine Morris, by administering a drug. A similar charge was preferred against Father JacKson, Roman Catholic priest, on Monday, and dismissed. No evidence was offered against Mr Shippey, and on his application a warrant for perjury was granted against the woman.

CONVICTION ON AN OVERHEARD CONFESSION. At the Gloucestershire quarter sessions, Noah Keat waa indicted for stealing two lambs in the Forest of Dean. The prisoner was convicted on a confession which he was heard to make to a friend who visited him while in the police cell. He was sentenced to seven years: penal servitude, and five years' police supervision.

REMARKABLE CHARGE OF THREATENING TO MURDER. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM.1 At the Bristol police court, yesterday, a young mil named Wm. Bridgman was charged with sending let and post-cards to Isabella Laura Hall, of Whitehouse street. threatening to murder her. One of the letters stated that the writer was not jesting, and, as she well knew, he was Grand Master of the Black Band of Bedminster. The complainant told the magistrates she believed he would put his threats into execution. It appeared that at one time the parties bad been engaged to be married, but the engagement was broken off, and since then frequent annoyances have arisen between their families. A remand was asked for, as the accused had only surren. dered to a warrant that morning. He was now under recognizances to keep the peace towards Miss Hall. Mi Clifton, who appeared for the accused, said he intended to apply for a warrant against the complainant on a somewhat similar charge. Bridgman was then remanded for a week en bail,

PROVINCIAL MUSEUMS- An important conference of representatives of corpora. tions and towns possessing art galleries and museums, was held at Birmingham, yesterday, under the presidency of the Mayor (Alderman Baker), for the purpose of con- sidering measures for bringing before the commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 the claims of provincial towns to participate in the funds at their disposal, and also of granting loans from the British Museum and other national collections. Representatives were present from Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Salford, Bradford, Swansea, Newcastle-on. Tyne, and other large towns.. Mr Chamberlain, M.P., and Mr Muntz also attended. A resolution was carried affirmiag that arrangements should be made for the loan of examples from the national galleries and museums for exhibitions established by municipal corporations, and that it was desirable to urge upon the Royal Commis- sioners of the exhibition of 1851 the propriety of realis. ing the property under their control, and applying it in part in aid of building museums in connection with, municipal corporations, and in providing for the purchase of objects suitable for exhibition. It was also decided to hold an adjourned meeting in London after the assembling of Parliament, for the purpose of taking means, by deputation or other- wise of giving effect to the resolution. A further resolu- tion was submitted to the effect that provincial towns are entitled to a direct share in the national grants for the promotion of science and art, and that such grants should be made in aid of the provision of buildings, and for the acquisition of collections of objects suitable for exhibition. The consideration of this was deferred to the London meeting.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE,ll BANKKtTPTS. Edward Bean, of New North Read, St John's. Hoxton, trading as Charles Bean, and C. Bean and Son, stationer and publisher. Abraham M, Simmons, of Bury street, St Mary Axe, London, looking glass manufacturer. Goodman Brown, of Kensington Park road, Notting hill Middlesex, builder and zinc worker. T. G. B. Lennard, Half Moon street, Piccadilly. Middle. sex, and Cromwell road, South Kensington, of no occupation. Alfred W. rfmith, Stansteadj lane, Forest Hill, Kent, crrocer and cheesemonger. Alfred Williams, of Brnnston street, Birmingham, manufacturing jeweller, trading as A. Williams and Co. Philip Bell, trading as Smith, Bell and Co., Southsea, Wickham, and Petersfield, Hants, miller, corn factor and baker. Charles Armstrong, of West Tower street and Rosemary lane, Carlisle, grocer. Benjamin Fothergill, of Rose Cottage, Clips tone, Northamptonshire, consulting engineer, out of busi. ness. John B. Roper, of Islington and Soho street, Liverpool. pawnbroker, and general outfitter. William Melville, of High Bridge street, and' Sander- land street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, ale and porter mer- chant, and dealer in aerated waters. ANNULMENT. Hezokiah Choverst, ■ of Borough Market, Southward. Kent, fruit salesman date oi adiudication, Oct. 8th( 1875 LIQUIDATIONS. Lewis P. Evans, Lifeboat Shop, Cwmbacb, Aberdard, Glamorganshire, grocer. -1 • J. Meads, Mountain Ash, Llanwonno, Glamorganshire, grocer. t T. Morris. late of Llwydcoed, near Aberdare, innkeeper, now of Llwydcoed. coal miner. J- ^eatli, Glamorganshire, builder. grroer rC> ^^new^Ogmore Valley, Glamorganshire, D. Griffiths, Bute street, CAidiff. grocer. S. Priest. Davies street, Cardiff, baker and grocer. r J. E. Snell.Crookherbtown, Cardiff, grocer • J. M, Jones, Wind street, Swansea, hGirler and glover., Evan Evans, Ferndale, near Pontypridd, GUnioiws*, shire, grocer and greengrocer. A. Bridges, Hay, Breconshire, draper, ^clothier,, aifei marine store dealer, r » e »

A Municipal election pe^on^as^beenlodged at Nor- 1 18,bafd P™P*Uy npon wholesale treating before thr elect'on. The. petitioner claims the seat, Wthoueh be^as etyj^m and sits far another ward .1

LOSS OF'THE BARQUE NAOMI. The barque Naomi, belonging to Thomas Metcalfe,, South Shields, and which left the Tyne last week, with coals, for Brest, has bean totally Wrecked. The vessel, which had met with very stormy weather, on Thursday morning went on shore at Winterton bridge, and soon broke UP. The crew saved themselves by taking to the boats. One beat, containing Captain Mitchell and eight seamen, was picked up by the steamer Admiralf and lannded in the Tyne yesterday. Other boats containing t'vo men and a boy were also picked up and landed At Yarmouth.

iimes when the men were off work. They Consequently resolved to supply the waut py providing for their workmen suitable rooms for booking, dining, and reading. The results have been most gratifying. The habits of the work- Y 11 men have greatly improved there is. more self- Restraint amongst them; they have become as a ) rule aober and temperate, and during the whole of the past year, as M«ssrs WILLIAMS and Co. I not a sin8le instance of excess or even of indiscretion as to drink in any one of their work men has come to their knowledge. "Not a boy or man has been absent without leave, and every one has been in his place punctually on the morning following the statutory holidays." But this is not all. I he workmen, as a rulp harr* u » *uie, nave become more observant and intelligent, and a taste for study and lelf-improvement has been created amongst T upon this there has eome the habit ot aavln Th h„e | formed .m„Dg5t theni5elTes a depos'it I «^n 4 + wki°h the men pay from » rwr!!»enCe ° per week, and the boys aix- t ?L PeJ W6?k- during the last year £ 85 was I ance on loan, and the whole of it has been I repai with interest at five per cent. The experi- | men ln this, as in other instances, has been a 8llcceas> and it shows the moral reformer the direction in whicli to go to improve the habits and tastes of the people,