South Wales Daily News

Prom our londox CORRESPONDENT LONDON, Wednesday Etsxiko. It is a cheering fact that, taking the whole counti:y, pauperism is still on the decline. There ^ras a decrease in the mouth of Novemoer last of taore than 3^ per cent, over the same month in last year. The figures vary for different districts, but pearly everywhere th,e tendency is towards decrease. the eastern counties the difference is more than ? percent,, while in the northern counties it is hardly .1 per cent. Unfortunately, the one which stands out with an increas- es load upon the poor rate is York- shire, where the increase is 1| per cent. I should ^efy mucli like to have a reasonable explanation of "Us singular phenomenon. It cannot be due to "eprtssion of trade, for that touches the Northern G'stricts as deeply as Yorkshire. There are no ecial .causes of which I am aware operating in ^ork shire to bring about popular poverty. lean 'lr?\^uess ^le Y orkshire guardians are moz"« 0 '"Carted than those of the rest of the kingdom^ are exercising their functions with mistaken e*n -eSS' out-door relief more freely than IfH?'v110e -S s^lewn be either desirable or just. ^orkshire,men desire to perpetuate pauperism their midst, and to increase the number of those }i^,° ;iAie no Persoua' feeling of responsibility, they e only to bestow their relief'*Ifch a lavish hand. in,LPA0r7jU ^hen re§arcl the parish as the first nst&«d of tne last resctlree, and will be so much 6 IrAOrQ demoralised in consequence. ..•^ew *hm,gs more surprising.have come to light »r>o^ln- sfc i6w months than the ft«ttouncei»e the ^11\t(^ay's PaP^s that there is a member the Stock Exchange, a sworn broker, whose name oK? thQ °ther morning in ^Th^i tively Sered Th a brother 2fre not that it has come before the Stock Lx- Committee. The story rs that » stodtbroj^ had 100 Roumanian Bank share to Mentioned his desire to aaother broker,and thatt <f¡{"" er broker offered to buy at 2t.Before Sam was concluded, however, the purcha m&ke inquiries as to the price o mentioned turning, declared that the figure he 2t br him at Ilis stered tl- P-rjeo Ike saw ,t before be bad real marked upon the tooar4, and l«ar eyed brother had «rfd the stools ™ 110 bought, Pr^!t £ t UM discovered Inquire the .t.toof ™± i".nd m effect 4- &?■ TK5- mS opabl» '"ST" C&nel-court ajad that if did not; he must take the consequences. Bat there seems etill to be a standard of morality on hange; and what with the censures on shsurp brokers and Mr. Spurgeon's sermons, there is a chance that the Augean stables will at last be There are a thousand ways in which America, caa spend her £ 2,000,000 surplus after paying the Alabama claims. English claimants are now turn- ing up who say that tiiey lost property during the war, and ought to be compensated. They may as well cry for the moon. Whatever else America toes with Vne money, she will not send it back to ingland in driblets. If the Government intends to be just it will return the sum whole to our treasury if it takes a legal view of the position it will keep the money fox Americans. Sir George N&res seems to need a word of warn* in«*. It is announced that he is to be presented with the freedom of their company•by the Most, Worshii'fnl Company of Shipwrights. Nobody in the world will object to that. Sir George may become fc ehinwri^ht and a carpenter and any other tiade he-oleases But he has had a trjck on similar ooeLionsof justifying himself and antijpating the verdict of a Court of lnquiry which is investigating his conduct. I wih that some kind friend cf his would point out to him that he is guilty of a breach of manners when he behaves like that. Of course, he ho c s verdict upon him will te not guil y » should keep his belief to hitoself tUJ.#1 JUflS has' been delivered. The whole truth about the Contemporary Review has at last come out. That philosophical monthly had previously more than one proprie • §trahau has sold his m to Messrs. Morley, Peek, and othera, ™>! have formed themselves into a limbed P' and are to have the entire control of Mr. Strahun, however, denieslt8,. „ ifc ig narrowed and his continued connec „ K.««.ort of guarantee for if "j ^tralian never gave currency to nnex 0 It is understood that Sir Alex«nder C°°^urn been persuaded by his brother j 0 take any Lice of the ?ttack oj4«^ Mr. Labouchere's new journal ,g an Was severe, and the Lord Chief Just c exceedingly, almost morbidlv, si»3.U« ordered proceedings to be taken > j have heads of Stber person, have convinced hijn that it would not be wise to enter Into a controversy witn a u&wOPst- T+ s 4-V.Q+ Mr Tooth will, after he has fo": <^ai»' length k-0m. Prisonmlnt, be set free by an acto nitTicy. Tiie Queen has the power c,mtempt' even if he should not "luave purged hw conteinp and it i, +1kiiieht that prudence will induce ner Majesty's to counsel her to exercise her P()w er. YY "1'- Just as were congratulating ourselves at the success of lac volunteer movement an^ Proved condition of the force, comes the news uuj fewer than 30 combatant °/5cer_ X:'Q force have resigned thair com ^ons in one week. The number includes one. ^eutenant-colonel, one major, 12 captains, ana suhiiitern officers. Twenty of those who resigned 'cx:.e in possession of the proficienoy certificate. 5'here were, however, 36 new appointments. ing of volunteering, I may mention that a volun- teer Servioe^ Fund Society has bee|i est ablished, and -that a sltillinga-year entitles to coumensati«>n for accident or injury austainea i, whi|e on duty in case of death the heirs of the deceased are entitled to £ 100. Sheffield is going to follow the example of Plymouth by going in for church extension. But Sheffielders know how to give, which i« more than c«n be said for many Plymothians. Thehst .Wd^d with a donation of £ 5,000 by Mr. Map- Pin, then oome nine sums of £ 1,000 each, several of them from noted cutlers- There are thirteen ^cr,ption8 £ 500, ^loZyBmX c and one fr°m mO and the Arch- fa:h:oP of York .£100.. Th.e (i.J).W.1,1l1tpl'omlsed thus lai- IS about £ 24,000.. raU^m6^3 to havt tlieif Unfo London' tG VVtt^' ^he engineers who came over ijnrr to ?e °U? have deposited their P^ns. Accordin feetf?^6 Principal station will be about twenty, "will \U J ? 2arden of the Palais Royal. stati0,s near the principal. Ld th" Vay Nations, tii2 Bourse, Batignol'es, hut I, ce 0(11 Carrouael. It will cross the Seine, river. <p,13 no^ ^ated—I presume, beneath the metres Je e!^H)3aied lengtli is twenty-^even kilo- is sis i',ip;°^ s^xteeiil nailes, and the estimated cost than the wh:cU is 2.5 per cent, less I'epkoned iW°r3°l^onate of our line. It is Tweed ], receipts vill be £ 5,600 a-day. }us offered handsome terms for it, but •toa4i'c^«-i8not^ed actually to write tneiid., who -will i events of his career to a m ttw OTUto. MMMiCOftl writer of Xew York. The friend is to have £ 2,000, the writer £ 200, and the Boss himself one-fuurt of the entirereceipts from the saleof the book,abo Itriple the usual author's copyright. S9UlUiJ)g, a issuppoBed, that the book would sell at least 1 Copies at two dollars a copy, Tweed wou about £ 10,000. But it is by no means c,er^rr^ewer he will assent to the proposal. An in tQ g0$ 'waited upon him a little while ago, was some disclosures out of him. Bu jjeplied asked for the startling revelations jn the I can open my mouth for a nice power to morning but my enemies b,-Ye n, compel me to open my mouth with a croi%,bor t( Per- say anything to the injury ° offered the Boss haps the interviewer shouUi,n» d to t ia. around sum down, and not e*P formation for

SPIRIT OF TllU DATLY PPXSQ- SPIRIT OF .0 tjtB PBEEOGATIVE OF TEE PRIVATE COtTIJSE^ 0SOWK. .X critical time, says the Tvrnt:, The 6^? ?^"Lda*d dissolve the Hou»e of Common, clmttge „btain the consent of a new set of provided only i* ffi d await the decision of the Ministers to assume.0^^ tb?t private c^nseUi a„d it is unnecessary to add any could mischief may lurk in an apparently I-words The reviewer in the Cnurch Quarterly (harmless.co,I f liberty of consultation asserted in is jt was as a direct con- Bar0nn0f of pvivate counsel that the -femorandutfi SeqUefl?awn bp tt) Which the reviewer thinks Loid wronely consented, requiring the de- nf tVi*. Foreicn Minister to be submitted to WM be difiberated upon ths ccrArol of the sovereign exercised through t!ie premier. It was as a secondary con- sequenttB, if not a direct consequenoe, of P"vate counsels 6hlf. Lord Palmerston was subsequently dismissed, and the dismissal that then applied to one Secret ftr? oj»ly might £ made to extend to a C^inet Anything m the nature of a systematic, continuous, and consistent instruction of the Royal even by a "Private Secretary^ must lv deprecated as haviftg a daDgerous tenoencv to bias rtjei de- cision of the Grown for or against particular policies which are the subject of national discussions.and may become the progr n=*"Df battle in the cons ti tuen cien.Oti the othei hand there is a danger, aud with the development of la.ge popular constituencies -in increasing danger, that the direc- tion of the government of the country may be controlled by a House -)f Commons hastily tailed together at an un- foreseen moment and possessing a majority reflecting a fit of temper in the country that soon passed away. In such circtttttst&pces, the use of the prerogative of the Crown is the only safeguard against the chance of an opposition between Parliament and the nation for four years or more, and it is plain that recourse to this prerogative could never be suggested by the Ministry against Thorn it would in truth have to be employed. It is then, if ever, that re- course to private counsel becomes useful and, perhaps, necessary. THS LIBERAL PARTY AND THE GOVERNMENT. If anything is certain, says the Daily News, it is that the Liberal party have exercised a very powerful influence on the action of the Government during the last few months. Since the day on which Lord Beaconsfield im- plied that the Cabinet and the nation were not agreed upon the Eastern Question, a very great change has come over the Ministerial counsels. The meeting of a Con- ference at Constantinople with the object of compelling the Turks to treat their subjects better had no: place in Lord Beaconsfield a or Lord Derby's conceptions, until after those conceptions had been largely qualified by the admission of'more Liberal idaas. The whole attitude of England in the business is the re- sult of Ministerial initiative acting under the stress of Opposition critifism. But for this Lord Salisbury might never have gone to Constantinople, the desire of RiiKsia j to avoid any isolated or extravagant action might not have been discovered, and the country would have b.-en many steps nearer to an unjust war. All these consequences have been avoided in part probably by the prevalence of wiser counsels within the Cabinet, but these wiser counselii i owe their inspiration and efficacy to the evidences of national feeling which were continually pouring in upon the Government, and of which the Press and the leaders of the Opposition have been tha organs. To leave the Cabinet unwatched, at those still more critical moments that may be in store for us after the Conference has broken up, would be to risk the loss of these advantages for no purpose whatever. The duty of every English- I man at a crisis such as this is not to follow blindly where-: ever the Government chooses to lead him, but to use his bess endeavours to ensure that the direction in which he is led shall be that which he honestly believes to be the, right one.. THE TURKISH CHARTER AND PEACH. We have often said, and we emphatically reiterate, says' the Daily Telegraph, that no fllct of modern times deserves more regard from the thoughtful than this Charter. It, will be the fault of Europe, we believe, rather than of Turkey should so large and liberal an initiative sirk into the limbo of '"waste-paper prom i Fes." It has appeared not' as the old Hatis and Irarles did, but in entirely new times, under wholly new conditions, from the hands of wise and determined Ministers and of an intelligent Sultan, while its solemn pledges under such hopeful circumstances ought to extort the admiration and support of every enlightened politician. G-anted the two con- ditions of peace and of frank assistance on the part of urope, and the Ottoman Charter needs but fair lapse of tims to effect happy changes in the relations of the races and religions which must meet somewhere, and at present tovch each other chiefly upon Turkish soil. In :propor. tion as the Continent does justice to this notable act of abdication on the part of Muslim exclusiveness. the Otto. man Government would in return owe to Christendom a real and grateful-homage, and would probably concede to the friendship of civilisation what its threats, as we see have failed to exact. The responsibility or Turkey on accoust of recent events is, indeed,. grave and great. In whatever manner the Conference may terminate the promise of the Porte to establish civil and religious equality is a serious and willing compact, from which nothing could hereafter absolve it but a cruel external attack, or commotions internally excited while, for the sake of the Christians most of all, Europe should hence- forward desire to aid and maintain the Mahometan Prince in entering the list of constitutional sovereigns. If, with peace to give him fair pi ay and the manifest sympathy of Europe to assist him, the Turk should fail in his pledges, the day of reckoning mast and would arrive, and on that day nothing more could be said or done to avert the im-: placable decree of doom. TURKEY'S TRIUMPH, RUSSIA'S DEFEAT. j We are inclined to hope, says the Standard, that the prospeot of a final agreement is by no means so remote as it appeared until lately, though it is quite possible that many bitches may yet occur before it is finally attained. All, no doubt, depends upon the real intentions of Prince Bismarck. If he has given the Porte reason to expect the protection of Germany and Austro-Hungary should it not prove a match for Russia alone, no concessions will be made, and Russia will be defied and provoked until it can scaroely refrain from war. But the Porte should take care, if it is directing its course by a hope of this kind, that it has good grounds for the expectation it entertains. SeoMt -treaties and private understandings have before. now been disavowed, much more mere officious encourage- ment. If then, the Porte is not courting war, it would do well to consider thatall the honours of the diplomatic cam- paign remain with it if it accepts the proposals now sub- mitted to it. It hAs compelled Riy-sia 1,0 eat the words of the Moscow speech to renounce tile pretension to occupy! Bulgaria to give up the depend fcr exceptional privileges; for the Sclares, and, above all, cynically to abandon un- happy Servia to its fate. This latter alone is a matter of considerable importance to Turkey. Russia stirred up the Servian Government to make war on its suzerain, supplied it with money to do so, and sent a large force under the name of volunteers to co operate in the attack. Morally it was as deeply committed to Servia as ever great Power was to a small one. But Russia now, to escape from a position she finds more perilous than sht had anticipated, gives up every demand she had put for- ward in Servian behalf. Such conduct cannot fail to lower Russian prestige in South Sclavonic eyes. And the, Turkish Government would do well to reflect whether it is wise to drive Russia to rehabilitate her reputation. FAILURE OF THE CONFERENCE. Whatever the announeemert which Safvet Pasha may be commissioned to make to the Powers on Saturday, BIioY" the Morning Post, the opinion which is held concerning the Conference can no longer be a subject bf doubt to any-! body. The Conference has failed. It has done, and it j now can do, practically nothing. It leaves the Porte and the subjects of the Porte in all substantial particulars precisely where it found them, save and except iso Sar as the Turkish Empire and its inhabitants may be affected by the promul- gation erf the Midhat Constitution, with which the Powers have almost ostentatiously professed they had no- thing to do, and which all the enemies of Turkey received with unbounded ridicule. Except for this one great reo form,a reform entirely of Tnrkej's own conception and making—the Ottoman Empire will remain what it was when the Conference a&sembled. It is proverbially easy to be wise after the event. We can, therefore, take no dit to ourselves for asserting that it is perfectly plain, Zwfrnm the very first the Conference was a predes- ? inevitable failure We had not then the mate-: lB whWi we now possess u,*m which to form a judg- „t 'With the knowledge which we now possess it is m' thai the first and most essential element of manifest tna entirely wanting. The pleni-1 success was who y .anfcinople to ask the Turk to potentiate t' wa/k;10wn to be naturally agvee to condlU ;th R0 threa,0 to hold over him m unwilling to -cep^ a5tempt t0 coerce case of vefiisa ° j '^ttejapt-s must necessarily S55|Sl!ifitoS « V up0n -Russia, wlio, Tiavtng blustered about air j ^e'^ulddo, has found herself able to d» nothing. THB ATTITUDE CF TURKEY. Tt will be seen on reflection, says the Morning Advertiser, ♦W even should Turkey act as public opinion agrees in t-ting she will, she would be in by no means that des- perate fix which some would suggest. She has dsliber- £ tejy chosen her course of late, and it would be far from i.afe to say that course Is not from her stand-point the best. We must not forget that were she to accept the conditions of the Conference and carry them out, Russian intrigue nod enmity would be merely checked and masked for a time, and ere long a fresh difficulty would be created, and then, as Turkey urges with reason, she may be less able to resist a outrance in case of war than she is at pre- sent. If we must fight Russia, say the Turkish Ministers—and there is no doubt that the outbreak must come—let us fight her now! Row long we could afford to stand aside and let the affairs we have, as it would appear, vainly attempted to set straight arrange themselves, it is impossible to sav. Though we may resolve to leave Russia and Turkey face to face, it does not follow that our neutral and pas- ferye attitude''could be maintained long fter the situation of siisp<;i>e had been changed into one of actual warfare. But the very idea of hostilities opens such a wide vista of terrible possibilities that, whilst regretting our efforts to maintain peace do not seem likely to succeed at the pre- sent stage, we would still urgfe our Government, whatever other Powers may do, to repew those efforts in every feasible way with all the energy they possess.

jLUA UUiX 'co IP. (From Truth.) The Honourable Mrs. Ashley Eden, whose death is an- nounced, was formerly the wife of the Rev. J. M. Bellew, )f pulpit and histrionic fame. A marriage will be solemnised in the course of the next month between Lady Cosmo Russell and General Clifton, A..D.C. to H.R.tl. the Duke of Cambridge. The other day, at a meeting of the Stafford House Com- nitt.ee for the Relief of the Turk?, a gentlemanly man cook his seat at the table. It was generally felt that he was a thane from some distant county, so imposing was his taien. He was silent, but looked, like Lord Burleigh,lt wondrous wise." At length the chairman of the Committee asked him to favour him with his views. They are these," replied the noblemad. I am a traveller for the House of samples of our goods are and ..I shall,be glad if we can do business together." Everyene is now insisting upon their households being vaccinated. Lady Frances Goldsmith followed this good example, and requested a surgeon to come to bar villa in RegeptVpark with vaccine on a certain day. On the morning of the day appointed her nephew arrived from India. On entering the houg€, he was shewn into a room by Jeames, who at once took off his coat and bared his manly arm, When you've done with me," he observed, I will send you the two housemaids and the cook." The nephew thought that he had mistaken the 4Iildress of his aunt's house, and that be had inadver- tently found his way into a private lunatic asylum. In vain he protested. "Be quick and have it over," sternly observed Jeames, with the air of a patriot about to place his head on the blook. Luckily, Lady Frances at length Appeared upon the scene and the quid pro quo was ex- plained. (From the Hornet.) Mr, W: H. Foster, who has for many years been asso- ciated with the Socty of British Artists as manager and curator, has resigned the post. If rumour speaks correctly, two cases of considerable interest will shortly be brought before the public through the medium of the Divorce Court. In the one instance a naval man is the hero, and in the other a senior office* of a distinguished regiment is the victim of misplaced confidence. Mr. E. J. Godwin, the architect (who recently married the daughter of the late Mr. Phillip, the famous sculptor), has designed a model theatre. The scheme seems a really excellent one, and it can be carried out for £ 26,000. It contemplates many most desirable reforms and some artistic novelties. Here is a chance for some of the so-calledpatrons of the drama to spend thetr money worthily. One model theatre bnilt and we shall soon have houses worthy of the stage aud the age in which we live.

HOB ART PASHA. ON THE SITUATION Hobart Pasha, writing from Constantinople to the Times, says :-L(Jrd Salisbury's arrival was looked'forward to by the Turks with the greatest possible anxiety. Shortly after his arrival he was received by the Sultan ard the high Turkish Ministers, who, considering him,as I may say, their only friend, conveyed their ideas of the situation to him in words to the following effect. They said :—" We have for many years done wrong and lost caste in the eyes of Europe by the bad administration of our subjects of all religious denominations, by making promises that we have not performwd, -but now we are going honestly to commence a new line of conduct, and what greater guaran- tee can we givo of our intention to do so than that we hav-e-contrary to our religion, contrary to our pre- judices, and contrary "to our antecedents—deposed two sovereigns because they were unfit to govern and unwilling to reform our bad system of administration ? ,We have dismissed and disgraced several of our highest functionaries for corruption and maladministration we have promulgated liberal reforms, which we intend honestly to carry out; and now we ask England, as our oldest friend, to help us with advice and men, even though the modus Operandi r-rposed by her should be distaste- jful. But, on the other hand, we are prepared to shed the last drop of our blood in opposing any interference in our aftairs on the part .of a nation whom we feel to be our bitter enemy, whose humanitarian pro- fessions we hold as absurd, ana whose only object we be- lieve to ne aggression and spoliation and we implore you not. by even apparently acting in accord with Russia, to fan the flame of itnti-Russian enthusiasm, which we even naw find it so difficult to check among our people." Now, what happened a few days after the arrival of the tielegates ? A Conference from which the Turks were excluded, was formed of all foreign ambassadors, the object, I believe, being that Russia was to be conci- liated, and the demands to be made on Turkey decided upon. At this Conference Russia seems to have been most conciliatory and yielding. Every one was conciliatory all delighted with the bon accord existing a protocol of the demands to be made to Turkey was drawn up, and all seemed coukur de rose. Of course the Turks will accept," said every one. But, alas! the poor Turk, while waiting anxiously to hear his fate, became impressed with the idea (an idea carefully encouraged in csrtain quarters) that it was Russia that was dictating terms for his acceptance, that Russia was leading by the nose all the others, and that the demands t() be mace were not those of friendly England, but ^Russian dictations. Thii idea spread like wildfire |among the already excited Mussulman population, R-nd thus a great evil was done. When, at last, the full Conference met (including the Turkish delegates), the demands, having lost their amicable colouring and being considered as coming from persons who wished for the decadence of Turkey, were at once objected to in the moat important points; and it is to be leared that those points will ultimately be entirely rejected. Turkey feels that the fact of a preliminary Conference having been held in her capital at which she was excluded from taking part was a grievous insult. She feels that some of the demands—such as isolation in regard to the administration of the three provinces from the rest of the empire—are quite unacceptable, as being a premium for revolt, whereas she offers general reforrps and changer. throughout the empire. She begins to realise the fact that she is isolated, and that she must be prepared to fight her gigantic foe alone, and to the death, All I will, in conclusion, ask of my countrymen is that they will act in the spirit Englishmen used to be, and, I trust, still are, so proud <ff ^-namely, that of fair play 'et them remember that the much-abused people in ;his country never open their mouths in self-defence; that the Turk has no newspaper reporters, no consuls, no public opinion to speak for him; and let me tell them that no one suffers more from bad administration than the Turk him- self, for he Las no redress. All the Turkish Government asks for is this. It argues thus We have never had a fair chance of doing right. Corruption, from the sove- ;eign downwards, has been our ruin for many years. New we are determined, under the auspices of our young, intel- ligent, and progressive Sovereign, and such men as Midhat Pasha, to start on a right course. Give us a year to shew what we can do (removing from our path foreign intrigue); and if, at the end of the year, we have not im- proved, wipe us out of the map of nations; but if our fresh start is to be hampered bv fresh humiliations at the outset we can do nothing." Alas! 1 fear I know the answer t >o well. ""10" have sinned too often to be be- lieved." But is such answer "fair play," which it:, as I said above, all I urge for my friends the Turks?

It is stated that the Secretary will reooise a deputation of the Society for the Increase of the "Home Episcopate on Monday next, when the E.rl of Devon will urge on Mr. Cross to allow the creation of six instead of five new dioceses. The endowment for the new sees is to be f 4.000, and not,as in the case of St..Alban's and Truro, £ 3.000. intelligence respecting the ill treatment of the Jews in Roumania states that several atrocious acts of oruelty were committed after the Minister of the Interior had taken action in the matter, it being understood that he did so merely because of the pressuie put upon him by the Austrian Government. More than 200 families are re- ported to have been turned (jut of house and home in the district of Vaslui alone. I hear, eays the Londqn correspondent of the Scotsman, that Mr. Houghton, the Abyssinian traveller, who was intending to revisit the Court of King John, has not bn allowed to proceed farther than Cairo, where at present he remaius. This act of interference on the part of the Khedive is very unfortunate, because I understand that I one of Mr. Houghton's principal objects was to endeavour to establish direst political relations between the present ^kiYCMment of Abyssinia and.Great Britain.

"A PLAGUE 0' BOTH YOUR HOUSES." I Says Turcophobe to Turcophile, The Ottoman is full of guile." Says Turcophile to Turcophobe, Muscovite treachery who can probe?** Says Russophobe, The Turk's a Saint; The Russ a devil, minus paint." Says Russophile, "The Russ means right; The Turk is anti human quito." Says Mr. Punch, Twin cackling geese, ".rill time your rival row should cease. Reason, not rabies, Sense, not spite, 'Midst slushing wrongs must 'stablish right. Shut up, and leave the two to work In strong, skilled hands, 'twixt Russ and Turk." -Punch

REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. LONDON, Wednesday.—As the depression which lay off the north-west coast of Scotland yesterday morning moved away a recovery set in it did not, however, last long, and this morning the mercury is fallina over the whole of these Islands, France, and the eastern shores of the North Sea while in the Gulf of Bothnia the barometer is rising slowly. A small subsidiary disturbance has advanced during the night over the south-west of England, and now lies near Bristol, where the greatest decrease of advanced during the night over the south-west of England, and now lies near Bristol, where the greatest decrease of pressure has taken place. The wind is westerly in the south of Ireland, but is generally southerly elsewhere. At all the more southern stations, and also in the west of Norway,it blows freshly, but on all other coasts it is moderate or light in force. Temperature has risen at most of our eastern stations and on the Conti- nent, but has fallen in the west and north. Rain has occurred, except over Central England, and in several places the fall still continues. The sky is overcast, except in Scotland. The sea is moderate to slight on most coasts, but is rough at Stornoway and Biarritz.

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS- Captain F. W. Sullivan, C.B., beoomes a naval aide-de- camp to tho Queen on the promotion of Lord Gilfprd to flag rank. The Gold Cross of the Order of the Takova has been conferred on Miss Pearson and Miss M'Laughlin, in recog- nition of their services with the sick and wounded during the late campaign in Servia. Harrovians will hear with regret of the deau. of the Rev. R. Middlemist, who has been since 1845 the senior mathmatical master.' He died on January 11, in the 69th year of his age. His funeral will be at Harrow to d*y, at two o'clock. It is an interesting circumstance that of their own spon- taneous action the masters and scholars of Winchester College are maintaining a curate at theeatit-end of London in one of the poorest parishes, an-example well woi thy of imitation. Lady Diana Chambers, wife of Sir Thomas Chambers, MP the Common Serjeant, died at their seat, Q.C., M.P, the Common Serjeant, died at their seat, AshgT0ve. Knockholt. Kent, o» Sunday, aged 47. Her ladyship, neC Diana White, was the niece and adopted daughter of u £ r, John Green, of Hertford, and was married in 1852. The Rev. Dr. Camming, lecturing at Leamington, said the Turks are now about to be swept out of Europe, and the Jews are preparing to take possession of their own land of Jerusalem. Soon the latter would cross the Euphrates, which, according to the Apocalypse, would be one of the last things of the times. As the London and North Western express steamship Shamrock, Captain Beaumont, was on her voyage from Holyhead with passengers for Dublin, she came into col- lision with the jjphooner John Bright, of Swansea, laden with pitwood, from Waterford for Liverpool. The schooner was considerably damaged, and the crew were taken off by the Shamrock. Another new weekly paper is announced, to bear the title of London. It is to appear before the close of the present month, and, according to the prospectus, is to re- present the Conservative party, an announcement which need not be too implicitly credited. Lord Beaconsfield is promised, rather awkwardly, H the intelligent support he has needed so long." The German barque Aalea, Captain Toegel,of Elsflith, has been wrecked at Kearney Point, near Portaferry, co. Down coast. The captain and crew of fourteen have arrived in Belfast, and are located in the Sailor's Home. The Adlea was bound from Swatow, China, vid Queenstown, for Greenock, with sugar, for Messrs. Gillespie, London. Skip and cargo are a total loss. An explosion of a dreadful nature has occurred at the Coppet Colliery, Lower Gornal, whereby five persons were shoekingly injured. When the company of men were about to leave work a heavy fall of coal took place, which was followed by a dense volu-ne of sulphur, which immediately exploded, scattering all the men that were in the vioinity. Five pe. *ons were found dreadfully injured, two of whom are in a dying state. Mr. Justice Hawkins his been entertained at the Albion Tavern, by the members of the South-Eastern Circuit, at a congratulatory banquet to celebrate his elevation to the benoh. ITr. Serjeant Ballantine presided, and a distin- guished company from the bench and bar were present. Mr. Justice Lopes will be entertained at dinner by the wast and present members of the Western Circuit Bar Mess on Saturday, February 3, at the Albion, Aldersgate, in honour of his elevation to the bench. In accordance with what he believes to be tie general wish of the clerical and lay representatives of his diocese, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says the Maidstone Journal, proposes that the forthcoming conference shall occupy two days. The conference is to be held at Canter- bury on Wednesday, the 31st of January, and on Thursday, the 1st of February. It will assemble in the library of the dean and chapter, under the presidency of the Arch- bishop. The subjects for discussion are—The Working of the Education Act, 1876 the Supply of Candidates for Holy Orders; Missu is to'Fluctuating Populations, such as seamen, hop-picke.die.; and the Church of England Temperance Society. The" irrepressible negro" is causing a serious division in the ranks of the "Good Templars." A lodge in Liverpool has been compelled to appeal to the County Court te recover compensation for damage done to its charter by a member who scratched his name out of the document by way of protest against a body which denied the rights, equality and privileges of the negro," 04 Chief Templar," Constituency Deputy Grand Worthy Chief Templar," secretaries and other officers with shorter titles gave evidence, and it appeared that the sum paid to "Grand Lodge" on the grant of the original charter was 25.. This sum the judge ordered the defendant to pay. The sentence of court-martial upon Musician Crake, of the Royal Artillery band, for deserting about five years ago, has been promulgated. The prisoner was a sergeant in the band, and a clever performer on the piccolo. A short time previous to his disappearance the leading cornet player of the band absconded, being tempted by a lucrative offer from America, and he is still a deserter. Crake and he have been fulfilling engagements together in the United States, but wishing to see his friends, Crake returned home a few weeks since, and was appre- hended. The court-martial sentenced him to imprison- ment for twelve months, but one-half of the punishment has been remitted by the garrison commandant. In anticipation of the carrying out of the army mobili- sation scheme at this garrison, during tne approaching summer, the authorities are busily engaged in ascertaining the number of additional troops, for whom accommodation cun be provided at Chatham. The large military gymna- siam and the military theatre will both be fitted ub for the zeqeption of troops and, in addition, the vacant rooms iiid other portions of Foft Pitt and Fort Clarence will be utilised, should accommodation for troops at Qach of these places be requittjd. The -uj)dergrquixd barracks beneath t|ae fortiifcations .at Chathaoa, which have not bien uaeci for great fiumber of years, oan also be lIlae available for the accommodation of several hundred men and horses. A meeting of the council of -thp I«?MQe in Aid of the Christiana of Tjinfcey has been-held ^t No. U, Cocjk- spur-street, Pall-mall, S.W., the Rav. A- lIe Wratislaw in the chair. Resolutions were adopted to.the «ffecf> that the council having heard a report of Mr., j.Xtewis Farley y of the transactions of the league trqmits foapdatloq,.And 'I an account of the subscriptions to its :fnq.. up to date, together with a statement of the expenditure in the various departments of its work, express their -satisfaction with the exhibit, adopt the report,- and order it to be .re- corded on the minutes"; and that "v .listened to a statement of the Rev. W. A. TAMBON, of the nilmon in Servia with which he was charged by the council in November last, the counoil recorded its entire satisfaction with the results of his mission, and tendered him its warmest thanks for the manner in whioh ho had lepte- seated the lowue. in Servia."

THE CARDIFF TIMES SOUTH WALES WEEKLY NEWS ENLARGED TO 64 COLUMNS, HINDERING IT TUB LARGEST NEWS-SHEET IN THE KINGDOM. FIRST EDITION .7.0 A.M., FFADAT. SXCOSTD EDITION .7.0 A.M., Saiubdat. CONTENTS FOR THIS WEEK CONFERENCE OF C NGHEGATlONALISTSAT CARDIFF. Cardiff Caledonian Society—Annual Banquet—The Good Templars and the Negro Question-Conference at Mer- tlyr. Horrible Murder in Birmingham. Alleged Bigamy at Newport. -Insubordination at Haverford- west Gaol.-Smuggling by a Carditf Captain.—Cwmdu Local Board of -lioalth. -Parochial Meeting at Burry Port. MR GLADSTONE ON CHRISTIAN TURKEY. Cardiff Savings" Bank, Annual Meeting.—Abersychan Local Board. Pembroke Petty Sessions. Alleged Perjury at Carmarthen.—Poaching in the Forest of Dean.—Opening of a new Ch'pel at PeDarth.—The Masons'Strike in Swansea.-Great Landslip at Tenby,- The Pro-pects of the Iron Trade.—Mr Crawshay on the Situation. THE GLAMORGAN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Disturbing a Minister and Conaregation at Aberdare.— Neglect of Work by a Gas Stoker at Tredegar.—A Caer- philly Aiffliation Cass.—Aberdare and Merthyr Police Courts.-Serious Competition with English Manu- facturers. -Cardiff Naturalists' Seciety. N ewpClrt Police Court.—Monmouth County Court. CARDIFF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Sir Joseph Bailey, M.P., on the Cause of Crime.—Claim of iC5D for Injuries to a Child.—South Wales Mining Distr<ct.—Newport Sunday School Union.-Alleaed Criminal Assault near Ferndale.-Haverfordweat School Boa:a.—Exciting Foot Racekat.Oryumawr.Little Dean Petty Sessions. THE EASTERN QUESTION:— Important Statement by Lord Salisbury; Further Con- cessions by the Powers; The Demand of the Powers A Final vAnsw.er required from the Porte;, Differences among the Plenipotentiaries- THE ABERTILLERY EXPLOSION INQUIRY. Cardiff, Swansea, Merthyr, Newport, Neath. Boards of Guardians.—The Liberal Party and the Eastern Question Proposed Musical-Festival for South Wales. -.Preentatlon at JUanelly.—Carmarthen School.JJoa.rd. —Local Law Cases. LIBERATION MEETINGS IN SOUTH WALES. Mountain Ash Local Board of Health. -Pentre Petty Sessions. -Swanna Bank-rJS»lf-yearly Meeting-The Cwmpark Stabbing Case. A Pontypool Signalman asleep at bis post-Sottlement of the Colliers'Strike at L'snelly.—Mechanics' Institute at Pembroke Dock. j —Tredegar Petty Sessions. OIJR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Suspected Outrage and Murder at Liverpool.-Sms from Dahomey.—The Presidential E-lectiori.-Acei- dent at a Ro)al MoeL-Preparing for Disestablishment In Corn"IL-Foo"ud.-Mouth Disease in Newcastle.— Gallant Rescue at Sea. -1 be Poaching Affray in Staffordshire.—Sad Boating AecWnt.-FeArful Suffer- ings et a Skip's Crew. LITERARY MH^fELLAVY.— Bits-From Books; Wit and Humour, and the Comic Papers; continuation of the New Story, entitlol! "Footprints in the Snow," by Miss Dora Russell. OPENING OF NEW BOARD SCHOOLS AT CWMT!Lr-ERY. MR. TOOTH AND THE COURT OF ARCHES. TRIAL OF A SPIRITUALIST ,&LLTUELOCAL* REWSOFTHEWEM- ALL THE OJ TRICT NPWL OF THE WEEK. ALL Tfl"; GENERAL NEWS OF THE WEEK. ALL THE FOREIGN NEWS O? THE WEEK. The LARGEST, MOST COMPLETE and BEST WTEEKLY NEWSPAPER in Wales or the West of England. The Purest Reports. I The most-talented Novelists. Leading Articles on the Chief The best Informed London Local and General Topics Correspondent. of the Week. The greatest number ft (fee Greatest Variety of New* Advertisements. IT H 03 CARDIFF TIMES AND SOUTH WALES WEEKLY "NEWS fold by all Newsagents throi, ghout South Wales, liommouthshire, and the-West of England. PRICE TWOPENCE. Sent, post free, to anv Address in the United Kingdom for ta d. per quarter, prepaid, and to the Colonies, the Us»ite4 ttates and all Deris of fcurope for 3s. ad. per quarter prepaid. The Largest We-kly Paper. 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Colts tt**wne waa undoubtedly the in vejuor of Q^lei?ody»e,-t|iak |>er^hoiastar> ef the defendant FraoMn was deliberately untrue, and he regretted to say it had Jbe&nriwont -to.—tjae The Junes," July ISW. I^R. J. Colli* Browne's CULOSODYNE. The Right Hon 1.1 ,Kaii-ttwse&communteaveti to the College of Physicians ■auu i. Jf. fiaTOopert, th*t be had received information to the -efEeotithattbo only rwedyof aay-aervioe in oholert was Chloro- ,dyne^r-t £ ee 'La.t," D.ec.81, i»6s. • -Extract from ihe I I '^Medical Times," Jan, >2, 1866 "Is prescribed by jeTores ,of orthodox practitioners. Of course it would not be ihus.smgulirly popular-did it not supply a want and fill a iplace." ITkRT/. Collis JBrQKTie'9 ~CHLOfi55YNE is the best aud most J. certain remedy inpoughs, oolds, asthma, consumption, Walgla, rbwnatism, Sc. Dr. J. ColUaBKownefs CHliORODYNEis a certain cune in eheleia. dysentery, diarrhoea, &c. TVR. J. Cotlis Browne's CHLORODYNTS. CAIJ.TTSn.one Ivy genuine without the words Dr. J. 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Established 1839. £ JO0D F. jyj-ODERATE IN JjEWIS (late BENNETT), C A B.I N-E T M AN U FA O TO B Y, L9, HIGH-STREET, fiWAlSfSEAe CARPETS, BEDDING, CURTAINS, IRON BRASS BEDSTEADS. agog THOMAS HEARD, Mtiqan, "A OARDj. { W CARLTON TtlCfflES, AMERICAN DENTIST, CAN BE CONSULTED AT COLUMBIA HOUSE, No. 23, DCMFfilES-PLACE^ CARDIFF (The nearest house to the Drill Hill). P. R. has Just left the Sursrery of Dr J. H. Douglass, D.D.S.. Corry, Penn. (late -of Cardiff), after a residence there of 2f years, durinir which period be acquired a most and extensive knowledge of American Dentistry. 11548 CJY RECKITTS PARIS BLUE, Sanwa J) And beware of interior imilatio" I have been JLAUN<> TtRRSS to the PRINCE OF WALES lor several years, and I oow gider RtiCKITTS PARIS BLUE iB the BEST ever used, and undoubtedly greatly mperior to tb* Oldltmhioasd Thumb qr Dut: JTiA KLPKR, Aprillgth. 1S».- 8U4 THE D U-KE STREET- DRAPERY, CARPET, A VT"> MOURNING WAREHOUSE* A FULL NOTICE or THB OPENING OF am ABOVE PREMISES WILL APPEAR IN -A FEW DAYS. 135^ W.. R. SMITH and COMPANY, 23, DUKE STREET. T> C. LEECH, BILL XL* AND ADVERTISING CONTRACTOR, 17 WOOD-STR"T, CARDIFF, AND 3 CARDIFF STREET, ABERDARE, Rents all the Principal and most Prominent POSTING S'IA. Ia1\l¡;D ruwKff *a»tAn ggd Town Ciiof for AbfiTuArt WHAT CAN BE MORlTSUITABLE FOR for the present RAINY SEASON than A GOOD UMBRELLA? And would. anything be more sutable for A NEW YEAR'S PRESENT! pEDLER SAYS: NO» fie is a^piractical man, and onght to Igaoir. W. PEDLER Is the LARGEST UMBRELLA MANUFACTURER II* SOUTH WALES. Established Eight Yean. A GOOD OTOCK to eeleet from, and afull choice of Handles, so that any lady or gentleman may have any Pattern made up to order, suitable fpt NE*V Y £ AR S PRESENTS or BJttTHDAY GUTS. SU6-11022 COKE FIRES.- The Gaa Company DELIVER vy the Best Screened GAS CORE at fig per Load (10 cwt.), or 9s 6d per Ton, within the area of the Toll Gates (Ifount Ptoa« santexoepted). Swansea,12th Dec., 1816.. 1361 DENTAL SURGEON. MR. GRAHAM YOUNG, No. 7, Park, street, Br stol. Attendance profess onally, CARUIFF-EVFIty WEDNES- DAY, at <&. CROCSHERB'WWN, from 12 to 6. NEWPORT— SECOND »nd FOURTH THURSDAY in every month, at Burn an Jones, chemist, 64, HIGH STREET, from In to 6; next visits THURSDAY. Jan. 26th and Feb. 8th. BRIDGKUD— FlttSI and THIRD TIIURSDAYin every month at W.Powell,chemist 22. 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