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THE CARDIFF TIMES AND SOUTH WALES WEEKLY NEWS. FIBST EDITION 7 a.m. FRIDAY. SECOND EDITION 7 a-in. SATURDAY. The Contents THIS TV EEK include: 1.—THE EXECUTION OF GARCIA, THE- LLANGIBBY MDBDERRR. 2 -THic CASTLE3 AND ABBEYS OF SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE No. L-Cztrckiff Castle. 3.—ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE KING OF ITALY. 4.—THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF ON THE WELSH Cnur.OH AT CARDIFF. 5.—THE MINERS' PERMANENT RELIEF FUND. 6.—THE AFGHAN DIFFICULTY March of the British Troops. Capture of a Fort. Lord Carnbrook's Dispatch to Lord Lytton. 7. -OUT-DOOlt RELIEF IN THE NEATH UNION. 8.—THE ABERCABNE EXPLOSION The adjourned Inquest. 9.—CAEDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS The Re- appointment of School Attendance Officers. 10.—THE MAYQH OF CARDIFF AND CHCBCH P AEADES. 11.—ABES .WON TOWN COUNCIL. 12.—THE ROUSBY ASSAULT CASE. 13.—TEE LADIES' COLUMN By a Lady, 14.-NoTJ:S ON CUEBENT EVENTS. 15.—ALL THE NRWS OF THE WEEK—Local, Dis- trict, General, wid Foreign. 16.-ECIroRS OF THIM WEEK: By Peter Pla,yfair." 17.-0UB LONDON COBBESFONDENCE. 13.—Y GOLOTN GTMIMIG Edited by "IslwyD," 19.—" COWARD CONSCIENCE new Serial Story, ty F. W. Robinson. r ( PRICE ) T Long TVV0 ( <~Long Coi'iumis. l Columns.

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NINTHS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS. Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths are cknrred at the rate of Is for the first Twenty Words, and 6d for every additional Ten Word*, and tIIustüe PREPAID. In all cases the notice must be authenticated by the name and astdi ess V the writer. BIRTH. PUATT.—Nov. 22, at No. 2, Park-place, Cardiff, the wife L'f Bickerton Pratt, ef a daughter. 5655 Cox.—November 21. at the Barrows, Cheddar, the wife of J. StreatHeld Cox, 01 a. daughter. DEATH. JONES.— NOV. 20, an but at Messrs E. and J. Lloyd, Diapers, C. Watkin Jones, aged 28years.

WAR SUMMARY. The news from the seat of war in Afghan relates to-day principally to the column which is advancing up the Khyber Pass. The forces comprising this column, we are informed, have attacked the fortress of Ali Mas j id with success, and it is now in our possession, tho enemy having either aban- doned it or been driven out by the superior excollence of our artillery. They retreated up the Pass, followed by the British and native forces. Our losses are said to be trifling. With respect to the columns operat- ing in the Khurrum Valley, and that one having its base at Quetta, no intelligence had arrived up to the time of going to press. A towns meeting was held in Manchester, yesterday, to consider the Afghan question. The Bishop of Manchester wrote It is not too late for the people of Manchester, and of England, to repudiate the responsi- bility of a war, with neither the principles nor the policy of which, they have bean made acquainted." A motion protesting against the war was carried, and an amend- ment expressing confidence in the Govern- ment was lost by a large majority.

We publish to-day a lengthened report of Mr Henry Richard's important speech at Mountain Ash, on Thursday evening. It is the most elaborate and conclusive assault vet made Oil the Government. Mr Richard showed and conclusively proved that our Afghan policy has been a scries of blunder- ing and wrong, and that our real quarrel at the present moment is not with Sliere Ali but with Russia. To the people of Moun- tain Ash is due the credit of being the first in the Principality to declare in open meet- ing their censure of the BeaconsfLeld Cabinet for drifting into war. The Local Government Board has drawn attention to the continued prevalence of fever in the Ystradyfodwg Urban Sanitary district, and requested information from the Ystradyfodwg local Board as to the number of non-fatal as well as fatal cases, the purity of the drinking water, the system of drain- age, and the remedial measures taken. Last night the members of the Cardiff and Caerphilly district of the Manchester Unity Philanthropic Institution, met at the Moira Hotel, and presented Mr Titus Llewelyn, the former corresponding secretary of the I district, with a testimonial, which took the form of a valuable piano. Yesterday a Board of Trade inquiry was opened into the stranding of the steamship Ely Rise, of Cardiff, several charges being preferred against William Beekerman, the master.

A horrible discovery was made in Liver- pool yesterday, the dead bodies of a woman and six children being found in the upper room of a house. There was a coke pan in the centre of the room, and the family are supposed to have been suffocated by the I fumes from a charcoal fire, but although there were evidences of poverty, it is not k11o"n whether the shocking occurrence is the result of accident. The failure is announced of Messrs Don- ner and Brehmer, merchants, London. The liabilities are £170,000. A creditors' petition for the winding up of the Chatterley Iron Company (Limited), tho largest coal and iron proprietors in North Staffordshire, has been filed. The strike in the Clyde was brought to a I termination yesterday, and the rivetters are now accepting contracts at a reduction of 74 per cent. In some of the shipbuilding yards a number of engineers have resumed work, and the apprentices, and joiners will again enter on their duties on Monday next. The Cabinet Council, which was held yes- terday, at mid-day, sat for two hours. Yesterday, the Norwich borough magis- trates indicted fines of £50 each with costs I on. five bookmakers, from Nottingham, Bir- mingham, London, and Liverpool, for illegal betting at the Norwich race3, on Tuesday last. All the fines, with one exception, were paid. The churchwardens and overseers of Woolwich have forwarded to the Home Secretary an appeal to have the £1,200 ex- pended over the Princess Alice catastrophe refunded to them out of the public ex- chequer. The memorial is now under the consideration of the Home Secretary and the law officers of the Crown.

1 Thirteen persons have been killed by a colliery explosion at Tullavan, in the Ameri- can state of Indiana. News from Japan is that 53 of the mutin- eers in the Artillery and Imperial Guard have been shot, while 210 others have received minor sentences. The preliminary judicial inquiry preced- ing the trial of the miscreant who attempted the life of the King of Italy is proceeding, and a number of witnesses have already been heard. Persons who are suspected of com- plicity in the crime have also been ex- amined.

MR IlERY RICHARD, M.P.,ON THE AFGHAN WAR. THE member for Merthyr has fought many battles—always on the side of peace, hu- manity, and jiwtice. Often he has not been on the popular side, but that nover lessened the fire of his invective, nor 'nar- rowed the expression of his personal con- victions. On the Afghan question his note is trumpet-tongued and he attacks the Jericho of Toryism with a force which leaves prejudice no hiding-place, and conscience no alternative but to pro- nounce a. verdict of guilty against the party in power. The history of India, so far as our conquest is concerned, is one long line of wrong, only to be justified by the exceptional circumstances in which the re- presentatives of England were placed, aud by the honest use we shall hereafter make of our position in what concerns the en- lightenment, the social progress, and Chris- tianisation of the immense Indian Empire. CLIVE committed faults, but, as MAOATJLAY points out, till he appeared in India, his countrymen were despised as mere pedlara, while the French were revered as a people formed for victory and command. If CLIVE had. not struck boldly and successfully^ India to-day would be under the power of France. Candid Anglo-Indian historians admit it to be impossible to deny that WARREN HASTINGS' rule was blurred by great crimes, yet both CLIVE and HASTINGS effected much good in the better government of India, side by side with indefensible wrong-doing. But the history of our relations with Afghanistan is ono herculean chapter of wrong, stupidity, blundering irresolution, and cross purposes. Mr RICHARD told the sad story to the peoplo of Mountain Ash on Thursday evening— giving chapter and verse for every fact, aud specific authorship for every opinion— a.nd the net result is to bring the blushr of sbame to every honest Englishman's cheek. Two facts are indisputably clear, as Mr RICHARD pointed out, that both in the case of DOST MAHOMED, and that of his I son, the present AMBER of Afghan- istan, the one wish of the head of the Afghan State was to bo sincerely friendly with the English rulo and that ia .the lifetime of Dosx MAHOMED and of his son SHERE Au, we have refused to conclude an exclusive alliance, and afterwards made war on both because the head of a neigh- bouring state, with whom i are, at least, nominally friendly, agreed to avail himself of what we had thoughtlessly thrown aside —the friendly feeling of the AMEER of Afghan, Mr RICHARD told, amid indignant cries of shame, the story of Sir ALEXANDER BURNES'S dispatches. We have seen the facsimiles of these dispatches, with the omitted passages partially erased in red ink, and a greater scandal never rested on the administrators of a civilised state, for not only was ÐOST MAHOMED'S character and acts deliberately misrepresented, but Sir ALEXANDER BURNES —a most honest diplomatist—was made to say the very reverse of what he had com- mitted to paper in his official dispatches. In the light of Mr RICHARD'S criticism on this part of the Afghan question, and the fact of war having broken out, it may be well to re- call Sir ALEXANDER BURNES' words, which we partially quoted recently. In a letter dated Cabul, of date the 5th Feb- ruary, 1841, Sir ALEXANDER said :— We had a hard struggle for our existence here, but all went well, and DOST MAHOMED surrendered and I had the singular honour of being the man mainly influenced' it, as the public dispatch say3. We followed the poor man everywhere, and there was no rest for the sole of his foot. His interview with me was very affecting. He said that Russia had misled him that his ignorance never laid bare to him what we meant (a delicate way saying we meant nothing) that the Persians of Herat elated the Kuzzel- baches at Cabool, &c., &c.: but neither to me personally, nor in my absence, did he use a disparaging word. And on our de- parture ho gave me his sword—his all, indeed, that was left, and bade me keep it as the remembrance of a man who regarded me. I hardly know how we shall ultimately end here. Many of them begin to say that we must take the country, and set the king on one side to me this seems folly, but clever fellows think otherwise. Of our coming here at all I say nothing now our connection shouid have been political, not military, but the more I said the less the great men believed; they thought I was favouring DOST MOHAMED, forgetting that it was the good of my masters I sought. For two or three lacs I could have put all square, and now, after spending five or six millions, we are nearer tho beginning than the end. Truly,common sense is veryuncommon sense." It is now, as in the days of Sir ALEXANDER BURNEs-common sense is a rare commodity in statesmen, and the Conservative party- leaders not only lack it, bat they have blundered egregiously. They had the ball at their feet during the governor-general- ship of Lord MAYO, but they declined to accept SHERE oiler to make himself practically a vassal of England, which meant a direct block to Russian intrigue on the Indian side of tho Oxus River— now, they commit the shameful pretence of making war upon the AMEER when their real quarrel is with Russia. Hence, concludes Mr RICHARD, they arc the immoral party. While we think Mr RICHARD'S narrative and the conclusions ho draws therefrom are sound, we regret that he did not deal at Mountain Ash with the Russian mission at Cabul, and the undertaking given by Russia in 1873, to observe the line of the Oxus River as a permanent frontier. Whilo the Tory party are entitled to the greatest blame for want of foresight and consistency, Russia. is equally to blame for having violated her prescribed arrangement as to her Central Asian frontier line. The BEACONSFIELD Cabinet", perhaps, now feel that it is better to finish off SHERE ALl than to make a friendly arrangement with the Russian Foreign 0Trice, for that might involve certain concessions. But such a course means to do a great wrong rather than submit to a little humiliation. According .to the latest rumours, Parliament is to be summoned in about a month, in connection with the Afghan war. We are glad that such a course ia to be pursued, for while the country must make the best of a despicable muddle, the general desire ia that hereafter a just, a stable, and a humane policy shall be adopted and adhered to in connection with Afghanistan. Thus far, the action of our troops would seem to have been successful, but we must remember that" it is a far cry to Loch Awe," and every mile we get nearer to Cabul takes our soldiers further from their base. What are the precise dimensions of SUEUE An's army—what state the defences of Cabul and Candahar are in—seem unknown to the Anglo-Indian leaders. Let us hope, for the sake of the people of Afghan, and the good name of civilised England, that the struggle may be short and bloodless, and that, keeping our pas.t blundering in view— as shadowed forth by the member for Merthyr—we may make all possible amends in the future by a merciful, a just, and a stable policy, so far as Afghan is concerned.

DEATH OF rillE BARD ISLWYN. On Tuesday, we notified in these columns that the Rev. W. Thomas, better known in the Prin- cipality as "Islwyn," was seriously ill, "f i'V becomes our painful duty to report his death, which took place on Wednesday nighs_ at the Glyn, his- residence, near Yuysduu, woere he passed away quietly to his rest, after a lingering iline.HS which increased considerably towards the end of last weeic. The rev. gentleman WaS a son. of Sir Morgan Thomas, of Ynysddu. At an early age. he displayed his genius as a Welsh poet, and as a. "elsh bard he Foon became known throughout tho Principality, having taken the chHr prizg for his bardic effusions ill North and South Wales, on different occasions. His collection of Welsh poems has obtained a wide circulation, and is highly prized byaH Welshmen, who have regarded "Islwyu" as the greatest oi modern Welsh poets. He has been regarded tor many years as one ot the .ost Domilur of preachers connected with the Welsh C'alviuistic Methodists. He has preached several times at the Welsh Calviaistic Chapel, Loudoun- square, Cardiff; at the Zion Chapel, Trinity- street, Cardiff, and at the Weish Calviuistic Methodist Chapel, Canton. He has been con- nected with the Calviuistic Methodist body for about 20 years, and on many occasions has officiated in connection with the anni- versary services. As a preacher, there are fe Welsh ministers who could equal him in the (low of language, and his command of choice sentences, which rendered hioi not only a highly-gitted preacher, but one who could rouse the sympathies of all who listened to him. He was the editor of the Welsh bardic column that appears weekly in the Cardiff l'imes and South Wales Weekly News and the Gwladgarwr —a column that was eagerly sought for by the young and rising bards. A short time ago he went to London on a preaching tour, but was compelled to return inneh .earlier than he had in- tended, in consequence of his health failing rapidly, caused by general debility. As the montiily nieetiug of the Carmarthenshire Calvi- ninistic Methodist Association his presence was missed and when it became known that his absence arose from a serious illness, a resolution was passed that every church should express their sympathy with him in his illness, and that there should be collections made at all the Welsh Cal- viuiatic Chapels to raise a fund to enable the deceased to pay a visit to the Continent, as tbla course appeared the only one that was likely to restore him to health. Deceased was a. man whom to know was to respect, as he was of a kindly and genial disposition, while he always seemed to tliink more of others than himself. His funeral will, it is believed, take on Wednesday next, at Baiiell Chapel, over which he has presided as minister for about 20 years.

FUNERAL OF MATHETES. The funeral of this distinguished Welsh scholar took place on Friday, the interment being at Pant cemetery. The body was conveyed from Briton I Ferry to Merthyr by the train which arrives at the latter place a few minutes after one, where it was met by & large concourse of persons. The Corlc;;c having been formed, wended its way to Dowlais. There were scoros of ministers, princi- pally of the Uaptiat denomination, present to pay their last repects to one whose name will be missed from the list" of the leading Welsh writers of the Jay.

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I BOARD OF TKADE INQUIRY AT CARDIFF. Y.r, An inquiry Was opened by direction of the Board of Trade, at the Town Hall, Cardiff-before Mr R. O. Jones, assisted by Jiear-Admiral Aplin, and Captain Castle, as nautical assessors—into the stranding of the steamship Ely Rise, of Cardiff, belonging to Messrs Hurley, Matthews and Co., Mount Stuart-square. Mr Waldroii^appeared for the Board of Trade, Mr Vachell appeared for the owners, and Mr T. H. Stephens for the captain. It appeared, from the opening statement of Mr Waldron, that the Ely Rise was an iron steamer, built at Sunderland in 1878. She was 225 feet long, 31 broad, was schooner rigged, and was 783 tons register. She was well found in every re- spect, and left Cardiff on the 21st of October in ballast, with a quantity of patent fuel for the ship's use in coming home, but it was used as ballast in going out. She encountered very heavy weather going down the Channel, but she proceeded all well until between 10 and 11 o'clock on the morning of tho 23rd of October, when the vessel was off the Scilly Islands, and when, owing to the state of the weather, the master resolved to put into Scilly for the night. The vessel's head was turned for that purpose, and a signal was hoisted for a pilot, bnt no one came, and then the master determined to run into the "Crows' Sound" himself. Soundings were taken from time to time. The first heaving of the lead grave four fathomfl, these altered until no bottom was reported at 10 fathoms, then the fathoms became lapidly less. Four fathoms were reported, and the vessel almost immediately struck on some sunken rocks called the Hatch Rocks, the engines at the time going dead slow." Efforts were then made to get the vessel off, but without success, and she remained on the rocks till the next morning, when, with the rising of the tide and by the assisfcanee of a steamer, sho was got off, towed on to the beach by Crows' Sound, where she sank. She was subsequently temporarily repaired and brought round to Cardiff, where she was at present undergoing repairs. Mr Waldron called the attention of the court to the points which the inquiry was more particularly intended to ascer- tain. First, whether the captain was justified, under the circumstances, in taking the vessel into the Crows' Sound without a pilot, Whether during the time a proper look-out was kept, and whether the captain was justified in proceeding at the speed he did when the sounding suddenly changed from 8 to 5 and then to 4 fathoms, and generally as to his management of the vessel in a proper and seamanliko manner.' The first witness called was William Becker- man, the master. He aaid that he had been the master of the vessel from the time she was built. She left Cardiff on the 21st of October, for Tydee, in America, a port near the river Havannah. She bad water ballast, and 400 tons of patent fuel, which was partly stowed in the bunkers and partly in the after hold. They encountered very boister- ous weather in going down the Channel. She arrived off the Longships early on the morning of the 23rd. The weather during the whole of Tues- day was very rough. They were off Scillyabout 11 o'clock, and remained under the lee of St Mary's Island until four o'clock. At that time a heavy bank of clouds arose, and there appeared every indication of a storm. They were then about five miles off the Sound, and as bad weather was coming on the captain determined to run into the Sound. No pilot appeared near, and a jack was hoisted for one. No pilot answered, and at five o'clock the vessel's head was turned and he .resolved to enter the Sound by himself. A part of the patent fuel had got loose on the night previous, and was not righted at the time she struck. He was on the deck, the chief officer was bridge, and the second mate was on the forecastle. The Hatch rocks, on which they struck, wcro never seen above water. As soon as she struck he gave orders to go full speed ahead, and then as she did not move, full speed astern, but she was not got off till the following morning. As it was gettinc: dark he burned a blue light for a pilot, and subsequently a pilot came to their assistance. About ten o'clock at night the engineer reported that the WJ ter was coining in, and in a short time the water put the fives out in the engine room. No attempt was made to stop the leak as the hole in the bottom had been made by a piece of the rock passing through it. She was got off, and towe l on to the beach, where she sunk in 17 feet water. The vessel struck so gently that he did not apprehend any danger would arise. He had never been iu the Sound before by himself, and the engines were ordered to go dead slow, or only to go ahead sometimes, to allow steerage way to be got on her. In reply to Rear-Admiral Aplin, he admitted that he did not take any bearing- as he had the land in right, and no marks but what he remem- bered. He knew that there special sailing rules, that a stranger should not enter the passages without a "pilotl John Henry Meek, the mate, and Frederick Atkins, the second mate, gave evidence, the latter stating that he thought no one on board wa-s ac- quainted with the entrance to the Sound. While 'I under the lee of St Mary's Island they were in smooth v, ater, and there would not have been any difficulty in anchoring there until a pilot came on I board. John Alfred Larsen, the seaman at the helm, gave evidence, and he thought that there would not have been any difficulty in anchoring outide the Sounù. and he, in reply tQ the assessors, said that when the vessel struck it v. as too dark to see the course on the compass card. This was all the evidence. Waldron, on the part of th" Board of Trade, preferred the charges against the captain—whether He was justified in taking the vessel iuto Scilly without the assistance of a pilot; whether ha was justified iu proceeding when the water shallowed from 8 to 5 and to 4 fathoms and whether the Ely Rise was navigated in a proper and seaman- like manner. The court then adjourned till to-day.

==< THE SPRING ASSIZES. A DATE FIXED. In the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice, on Friday morning, Lord Coleridge, at the Lord-Ghancellor'ij request, an- nounced that the Regular Asnixes would begin all over the country about January 11th. In fact all tho Spring Circuits would commence at tha.t date. ——.———————

THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT THE JBWLLFA. On Thursday Mr Thomas Williams, the Deputy Coroner, held Lia adjourned inquiry at the Blue Bell, Mill-street, Aberdare, on the bodies of three men, named Tnorxas Rees, Morgan liees, and Edward Daviea, who were killed, dashed to pieces iu fact, by tho upsetting of the carriage which they were descending. Mr T. E. Wale.i. Her Majesty's Inspector of Mines, attaiiood the inquiry. The accident happened 011 the Sfch iusi. Several witnesses were examined, and the enquiry occupied several hours, a verdict of "Accidental death being eventually returned.

A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH AT 4 ME RTHY H. The adjourned inquest on the body of Mary Ann Thomas" niue months old, daughter of Wrr. Thomas, a ra;hnau, residing at Plymouth-street-, was held at the Bell Inn, Friday, by the Deputy Coroner. The poor child was burnt to death early on Sunday morning last. The mother was sitting before the fire with the child on its lap, and fall- ing asleep, as she states, the little one fell close to the fire, and was so severely burnt that it died almost directly it was discovered. The jury thought there was some neglect on the part of the parents, who were admonished by the Coroner, and advised to be more careful in fnture.

NARROW ES^lFWHILST PLAY- ING FOOTBALLAT MERTHYR. On Thursday the Merthyr and Pontypridd Football Cluba had a match ou the grounds of the former. During the play an unfortunate I acci lent occured to one of the Pontypridd players, which suddenly stopped the game. The young gentleman in ouesuoo, Mr Jenkiiis, West of England Bank. Pontypridd, ran against one of the Merthyr players, and rather seriously injured his neck. It was thought at first, and was currently reported during the evening, that he had disloca- ted his neck. This, we are pleased in being able to state, is au exaggeration, though the injury he sustained is of a serious character, the sinews of the neck having been strained, and it is saul that tho spiual cord has also being strained. -vir Jenkins was conveyad to a friend's house, wapi.e he is iut>gres3ing.

THE LLANGIBBY MURDERS. A correspondent sends us the following extract from tho Manchester Evening News :—" When Garcia was released from gaol a warder was sent with him for the purpose of seeing him into a train for Newport, where he might readily have obtained employment on board one of the many ships which trade between that place aud Spain. Had he failed there, he would have had a second and even better chance at Cardiff, some 10 miles further off. But this man allowed Garcia to escape from him, or otherwise the five murders would not have been committed. We do not know whether this act of negligence has been made the subject of official investigation. If it has not it ought to hem* been, in the interests of the public. It is shocking' to think that a whole family should have fallen victims to the fiendish cruelty of a wretched seaman, scarcely bigger than an ordinary English lad of 15. And yet, so it,was,and mainly because the officer in charge to see the debased and brutal coward into a railway carriage per- mitted his charge to wriggle out of his hands, and take whatever course he chose." Our corre- spondent doubts the assertion that if the warder had not allowed Garoia to escape, the murders would not have beeu committed. The warder was not sent to sse Garcia into a train. He was simply told to give the man money to pay his fare I to Newport. While, however, the warder went to I fetch the money Garcia went away.

Errs's COCOA.— All the Year _VO?tndgayg-" Let I us stroll to the Kuston Road, hard ty the ?i.ir.< to Epps's C >co:i Manufactory, where f ? makin*' of cocoa on a stupendous EC^ rV,f•V'™ > idea of the v^lue of those articles, i>ot 33 Xuue-J on; as actual food." „ ,< A.. Frrs's COCOA.—John Bull says An u.ea of the vast extent of the industryjnoy gained from the fact that one firm al,,ae-tl ,at ot AUbars. Epiw & Co.— t now sell sorno -1,000,000 pOUlldlt annuny. Ei'L-s's COCOA.—Christian 1- orul s.iys If 1 [ am to take cocoa," saicl I, "I must see and juilgefor mysc-lf what arc the iujfrcdiciits of wim-li it is composed with this view I made my way to the cocoa manufactory of James Epps ami Co., 111 the Euston Uoad." ERRS'S COCOA.—" Cassell's Household Guide savs—" We will now giwran account of the process adop- ted by Mb Sara .lames Eppsand Co, chemists a:ul manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their wculis iu the East-ou-road, London Ei'is's COCOA. — Mornin# Advertiser says— Nearly two centuries after, in iliUi!, the <lut:on, which had hitherto been almost prohibitive, were greatly ro- iluced, aod one of the first to take advaatage oi ro- establishing the popularity 01 euaoa was IDwsr* Epps ana Co., the Uomceopathk Cheuusta," MOT—7022-3

-# .y .<' .r'¡' -r-,ji1it BANQUET TO EX-OOUNCILLO* BUSE AT SWANSEA. One of the MOST influentially-atfcepded and WAFT got-up banquets that has taken place in the toWl of Swans«a for some years—and they have bM NUMEROUS—'was held at the Mackworth Ann Hotel, Wind-street, on Thursday evening, WHM a company, numbering between 80 and 90, met do honour to' MR John Bute, an old toWl councillor, who, BY the fleeting breath of populM opinion, was OtUted from the representation, an4 consequently, from FIJE coveted post of Mayor W Swansea, to which he'Jiad aspired, the result be that Mr James Rogen, a^gentleman by no meaq popular, managed to sequre for himself the grew municipal prize. A capital dinner was served u by Host Stone. 1 Alderman Thomas Powell presided, and will supported by the guest of the EVENING, Mr .TJ1 Buse, Messrs H, P. Charles (Mayor of Neatbl W. Williams (Worcester Tin Works), G. Sibbefl ing, Bainbridge, W. H. Prust, T. Saunders, C. It Andrews, H. Bowen, D. H. Thomas, Georgl Davies, J. Andrews, E. Thomas, E. Daniel Rees Davies, J. Thomas (Town-clerk), Andrews, H. D. Woodward, T. J. Buse, Daib Davies, T. White, Turpin, H. A. Chapman, 5 Thomas, E. B. Evans, J. G. Hall, J. Holme* W. Thomas, D. Richards, G. B. Haynes, J* Lewis, J. Lewis (St Thomas). T. Freeman D. C. Jones, J. I. Evans, Rosier Rosser, Aaron Thomas, P. Jenkins, J. Jones-Hewson, B. Harvey, W. Pond, W. Thomas, D. Thomaa J. B. Richards, Lee worthy, J. C. Manning, F. Watkins, W. Thomas (ironmonger), J. S. Thomasfc T. Harry, T. Jones (contractor), J. W. Buøe. Jeffreys Lewis, Lewis Lewis, J. Jones, W. Saunders, &c. The CHAIHMAN then proposed the toast of tbf evening, our honoured guest, Mr Buse." 3d wished the toast had been placed in more capably hands—(no)—but no one esteemed their guest morf highly than he did. He should state in addition tt the large number of gentlemen present this evening, the committee had 1"& ceived letters expressing regret and inar bility to attend the meeting from 30 or 4t gentlemen, including the High Sheriff of tht eounty (Mr J, T. D. Llewelyn), Mr H. I). Sk Dillwyn, Mr Trev. Jenkin, Mr B. Williams, M* li. H. Daniel, MRIR. D. Burnie, Rev. Dr. Walters, etc. The letter from M< Llewelyn was to the following effect,— that he regretted he could not be pre* The loyal and patriotic toasts having been duly proposed, Captaie LEWIS, Lieut. THOMAS aad Lieut. H. P. CHAHLES responded on behalf of the Volunteers. Mr JOHN I. EVANS submitted the toast of the "County and Borough Members" in a moat perti- nent speech, and the toast was very heartily received. M, H. B. HARVEY proposed the County and Borough Magistrates," and said he should have liked to see Mr John Buse hold the high and res- ponsible office of Mayor. (Cheers.) Mr J. G. HALL acknowledged the toast, and expressed his belief that, as in the past, the jus- tices would' do their duty in the future, to the general satisfaction of the county. (Cheers.) sent to-night, to show his respect for Mr Buset and the sympathy he felt on account of his dis- appointment. and the mortifying and undeserved treatment he had received—(loud cheers)—at uo. grateful hands. But, alas lie-feared that grati- tude had no very great place in modern mor-dity. By the rejection of Mr Buse, the town waa tht loser ot an honest and painstaking member of th Council; and from the expcrieuce he had had 01 Mr Buse at another beard, he had not the slightest hesitation in expressing this opinion which he had formed of him. (Cheers.) The other letters were II ritten in the same stmin-n. strain which he (tld chairman) was glad to see harmonised exactly with the sentiments of those who were now present, aud who expressed tlJeir fcelinsrs in such n warm and unmistakeable manner towards their honoured guest Mr Buse. (Three cheers for Mr Elise.) There was no man who could arpraei ito Mr Base's worth more than he, who had known him for the last thirty or five aud tliirty years. During tha whole of that time he oad known ]Y £ i- Buse's con* duct to be honourable and straightforward. He was born in Swansea, had lived the of his life here, and had made a handsome competency by honest industry and integrity. (Cheers.) Hø now rested upon the fruits of his labours and there was no blot or speck upon his character. (Cheers.) This was a proud position to occupy, a position he owed to his personal merits and not tc auy adventitious circumstances at) I the estee:n he was held in by his fellow-townsmen was suffici- ently testified by the gathering to-night. That he wa-i not still a member of theC'orporatiou was (lue. at Mr Llewelyn had said, to the ungratefulness of tht town. As a public man he had known Mr Buss ever since he went into the Council, aud, without dilating upon his excellencies, he would simply say—aud defy contradiction—there had not been at that Council Board a gentleman who had de- voted, more time to study every question that cam< before them, to master the details, and to act conscientiously thereupon than Mr .John No one had done it better or with greater satis- faction to the burgesses.. He had done his duty honestly and fairly. They had already drunk hit health. ("We will drink it again !") They had already done it imperfectly; he now called upon them to do it perfectly and heartily. The to was drunk with cheers, and three times three," and one for Mrs Buse," and "another for tu< little- Hnsea." Mr Best: in responding, was received with the most enthusiastic chcering. He said he rose with pleasure to thank them for ihis public expression of their kind appreciation, but he did so undei unfavourable circumstances, inasmuch as he was very unwell. He therefore could not speak to this (to him) very important question, or returs them thanks in a way adequate to the great kind- ness they had shown him. The public duties he had to perform he had always fulfilled to the best of his ability, and had found great pleasure is doing so at all ti:nes. He had endeavoured to bring to bear upon all questions hefo tta Council tho common sense ha possessed, and tt master tlie subjects tinder discussion iu everj possible way, in oruer to give effect to the bea and most enlightened views of those subjects. If is true, as the chairman had said, they had knowi each other for many years, and it was veiy pleas ing to hear himself gpoken of in the way thej had just heard (Cheers.) It wa; at all times pleasant for a Inan to have the g )d opinion OF his fellow-townsmen; he did not think it was possible for a man to attain to higher honour. It would be unbecoming in him to say anything more about himself, but he felt very grateful to those who had shewn him this mark of respect to-night—a mark of respect any man might feel proud of—(cheers)—a mark of respect which be should never forget as long as he lived in this world..Ite. sincerely hoped his family would maintain ia the future this warm respect and esteem which was to night shown him by their native town. (Hear.) The very many exju-ession of sympathy ho had received since his defeat in the attempt to retain tc Council, had cheered him considerably, and made him feel grateful to the highly intelli- gent portion of the ratepayers of the town. These expressions had been immerons aud encouraging in their character. In the event of his ever going into the Council again, it would be his earnest eilort to do his work for the best in tt rests of the town at large. It might. perhaps, never fall ta his lot to return to the Conned, but shodd that state of thing-s ever recur, they might depend upon this—that their presence here this evening would prove a great stimulus, if that were wanting, to aid him in his endeavours to discharge his public duty for the good of the town. He was not abie to-night to make a long speech, but lie assured them that the words he spoke came. rom the bottom of his heart. (Cheers.) He thanked them most sincerely for their kinduess, and he could do no more. (Loud applause.) Mr D. C. JONES, of Castle-street, proposed The Mayor and Corporation of Swansea." Mr Evans, Mr 11. L'a vies, and Mr John Lewis responded. Tlie last-named gentleman said he had alwayt given his vote in favour of jirogre33. He advocated the removal of the Island House, and the widening of Castle-street, in preference to the carrying out what was known as Mr dwellings) scheme. He considered that the scheme for the I" movalof tlie halfpenny bridge ouchtto be included in the powers obtained for the widening of Castle- street, and the removal of the Island House. Tht abolition of tha toll bridge would be an ad vantagot to the artisans of Swansea. as well as to the peo pie on the east side of tha town. He went on ta say that he had actually known people leave theil knives in pledge for payment of the toll, and con* eluded by expressing the hope that this anomols would sooli become a thmg of tlie past. (Applause^ Air John Thomas (town clerk) proposed "TM Town-and Corporation of Neath." Mr H. P. CfiARr,fi3 (who was loudly cheered^ thanked the meeting for the honour they did him and the town lie represented. Mr J. G. HAI.L then proposed "The Town aai Trade of Swansea. Mr W. WILLIAMS, of Upper Forest responded. He thought that Swansea was keep* ing ahead of any town in the Principality. Swansea was the seat of the copper, spelter, aud tin-plate trades; indeed, he believed that th* production of the tin-plate works in the St mum v alloy was moro than all the rest of th» world produced. (Cheers.) The trade had increased rapidly within the last 10 years. There was at tlie present moment a glimpse of better times, and he hoped that the improvement wouid generaL (Cheers.) ct The remaining toasts W«« • T he bwanaea Harbour Trustees, "The Ch:nn of the Evea- ing," The Vice-Chairman. ine Press," umi The Ladies.mmm

BRITISH TiKDICAI ASSOCIATION. The quarterly meeting of the South Wales and Monmouthshire branch of the British Medical Association was iisld at tlie Diinrwon Hotel, Xreherbert, on imuay. The council mot at halfr past 12 luncheon took place at one. The dinner WAA at FOUR\ AUD^THE catering did infinite credit to NJIN* host, MR Thomas. The following is a list O £ the gentlemen present:—Mr J. llussell, President; Dr, Sheen, Cardiff Dr Edwards, Cardiff Dr Griffiths. Swansea; Dr Davie. Sivansea; AIr CR^ .SV. C: Dowlais Dr Evans, Cardiff MEUR? Hopkins, Pontypridd; Bates, Cow bridge; Hunter, Pontypridd; Leckio, Pontypridd .Tolles. Toaypamly; Probert, Merthyr; D. Dvios. Aoerdare Webster, Merthjr; W. RIJYa, Tree herbert; E. Jones, Aberdare; P. J unes, Tony- pandy; Richards, Cardiff; H. G. Price, Treorky H. N. Davies, PM-th; Parry, Femd&lc T'ritch^rd. Bridgend; J. Leigh, Llanfabon H. F. Parni; K S. Warburton, Treherbert E. VI. S. Davie*, Mountain Ash.

A large and respectable farmer, named Mauriet .Tones, d Maerdy, Corweri, h.is committed suicide bv throat with a razor. *T.*XAXACU» ANI) PODOPHYLLUM—A fluht com bimtiaa for dtsi-ar^om-iit of the liver, particularly vrhes arliiim; from alight co:ij;e;tiou. liv tCLtiy stic.niia.tius t-io action of b liver and slightly tnoviuK Uu bowels, tha heavy, drowsy ledlig, with sensations ot fiiint-sv, olteii head-acho, pain bene-th the shoulders, at the chest oaunur, unpleasant t-3te m tha mouth, aud other indications of dyapupsia, arc removed. Tar?.xaeuui ud lVIophviihi is irsa~i ea?lcr than caiotnel or blue pill for ro;-ulathig the ?ccr9Uon cf bile.—Prepared, hi tha Lalxif- 287 Coo^t-road. Louth* w!t.}j!!j DaCia unlit be on tha label. Bottles is Cd aa U 3d tweU. In all Chcmisto-