South Wales Daily News

THE simplest and best known remedy for bilious and liver complaints, headaches, indigestion, and tic. is Kernicks Vegetable Pills. They strengthen the stomach, brace the nerves, and expel all gross humour* In boxes at nd and Is ljd_ each, of all chemists, or direct of Kernick it Son. Cardiff, for 8 and 12 stainos To ENSURE A CLKAR SKIN.-Snlpboline Lotion clears off all imperfections in a few days. Spots, blemishes, redness, roughness, tan, &c.. however obstinuce, entirely fade away, leaving the skin smooth, transparent, supple, natural, and healthy. Perfectly harmless. Sulpholine is delightfully fragrant. Bottles, 2s 6d. Sold ereiywnere. 1061 Frrs, EPILKPSY, OR FALLING SICKNMS.-Giddi- ness, Sensations, and Faints.—I will demonstrate to the whole würl.t how the most dreadful of all com- plaint. I Epileps.!I,' which has been hitherto considered incurable, can be permanently cured (without the chance of failure. All afflicted may write with full hope and confidence to Mr Williams, 10, Oxford. terrace, Hyde Park, London, who will send full para- culars to any person, free of all charge. 6240 DR. DE JONGH'S LIGHT-BROWN COD Ltvwt OIL* -IN CONSUMPTION ITS EFFICACY IS UNEQUALLED.— Dr Nedley, physician to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, writes "Of all the preparations of that valuable remedial agent, Cod Liver Oil, the most uniformly pure, the most palatable, and the most easily retained by the stomach, is Dr. de Jongh's Light-Brown Oil. I have habitually prescribed Dr. de Jongh s Oil in cases of Pulmonary Consumption, with very beneficial results, and I can confidently recommend it as the most effica, cious kind." Sold only in capsuled Imperial Half-pints- 28 6d Pints, 4s 9d; Quarts, 9s, by all chemists. Sole consignees, Ansar, Harford, and Co., 210, High Holborn, London. 1021

SWANSEA. THB ANNUAL TRIP OF STKELWOBKS MEN.—For the enjoyment of the men employed at the Landore Steelworks and others, a very cheap excursion has been arranged to London and back. The train leaves the Victoria (London and North- Western) station at 12.5 a.m. on Saturday next and returns at 11.45 ou Monday night. The fare for the return journey is only 7s, while the pay- ment of an extra shilling will enable such as join the excursion to return on any morning at 10 from Eustou within eight days. The run will take 85 hours. Mr J. Gordon, the manager, has consented to stop the steelworks from Friday till Tuesday, and to render the men other assist- ance. A CHILD RUN OVER.—Ou Monday evening a child named William Jones, while crossing Nichol-street, was knocked down by a cab and run over. The boy was at once taken to the hospital, where it was found that he suffered from a severe concussion. ACCIDENT ON THE MCMBLES-ROAD.—On Monday night, a young man named William Thomas, while driving along the Mumbles-road, saw an elderly man lying on the giound. He stopped, and ascertained that a labourer named Thomas Warren, of Sketty, had failen off the shafts of a cart he was driving, and the wheels passing over his legs, he sustained severe injuries. He was at once taken to the hospital where his wounds were dressed. THREATENING A POLICEMAN.—At the borough police court on Tuesday—before Messrs T. Phil- lips, senr., and J. G.;Hall—a man, named Michael O'Hare, was charged with being drunk and dis- orderly, and with threatening to stab P.C. Davis (41). It Appears that at 9.30 the previous evening defendant was drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner in Orange-street. He had a wooden lpg, with which he kicked right and left. The con- stable arrested him, whereupon he threatened to run a knife into him and rip him open. On the policeman looking round he saw a knife in defen- dant's hand, which was outstretched, apparently with the object of striking. A man, named Thomas Mabe, took the knife away. When charged, defendant told Inspector D. Jones he had intended to stab the constable. Defendant was sent to gaol for a month. AT MR CHAPMAN'S STUDIO, the best Photo graphs are taken on the most moderate terms. 1032

GOWJFR ROAD. STEEL SMELTERS are requested t,) meet Mr John Hodge, the General Secretary of the British Steel Smelters' Amalgamated Association, at tbe Commer- cial Inn Field, Gowerton, on Thursday, ht. Night turn men at 4 p.m., day turn men at 5.15 p.m. 89

MORRIS TON. THE FUNERAL OF MRS EMLYN JONES.-In consequence of the pressing request of the church and congregation, it has been decided to make the funeral of this lamented lady public. The pro- cession will start punctually at three o'clock from the house to Mynyddfach.

SKEWEN. ANNUAL MEETINGS.—The annual meetings of Zion Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel were held on Sunday and Monday last. Two of the most eloquent and well-known preachers of the principality, Revs. J. Pritcbard (Amlwch) and J. Wyndham Lewis (Caimarthen), delivered power- ful sermons to large congregations.

YSTRADGYNLAIS. LICENSING DAY. Before the Rev, Cotton Walters, D.D., and Messrs H. Lloyd and J. E. Moore-Supermtendent Flyr presented his annual record of convictions against all house-keepers. The convictions were six in number. All the licenses in the division were renewed, viz., 27 alehouse licenses. 2 beerhouses licenses, aud 1 wine license. The license of the Red Lion, Aberrane, was transferred from Ann Watkins to her husband, Daniel Davies.

ABE \l DARE. THE GREAT WESTEKN KBILWAY STATION MASTKR.—Mr Stounili, the Great Western Rail- way station-master, has been promoted to a similar position at Yeovil. COAL STEALING.—Joseph Kent and Evan Rees, colliers, were charged at the poitce-court on Tuesday with stealing 501bs of coal from Scubor- wen colliery, and were each ordered to pay a fine of 10s and costs. A CURIOUS CASE.—Margaret James summoned W. Rosser for bastardy. It appeared, however, that she had paid another person 25 to keep the child, and bad ceased to look after it herself. The Magistrates's Clerk said she appeared to have made a good deal out of the defendant, but according to the agreement now produced she had entered into a contract whereby she transferred the responsibility of keeping the child to someone else. She could not recover against defendant for her own support, as the order referred to the support of the child. The case was dismissed.

PONTYPRIDD. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-Tuesday before Mr Registrar Spickett—Mr W, L. Daniell, official receiver, conducted the public examination of Gwenllian Farr, Porth, grocer, and J. Farr, shoe- maker, of the same place. Mr W. R. Davies appeared for the debtor. Mrs Farr had been in business a while since at Walnut Tree, and had got on all right there, even after her husband's death, till the ironworks collapsed. Afterwards she gave credit, which eventually led her into difficulties, and she bad not been solvent since she had been in the valley. The son had col- lapsed owing to the sudden trade depression. Mrs Farr's examination was adjourned. Mr Fart's examination was closed. EVERY description of English and Foreign Watches and Clocks carefully examined and repaired at Tainsh Bros.. 5, Hish-street, Cardiff. 1097

TREDEGAR. THE ASSAULT ON MR ISAAC MASON.—At the police court on Tuesday, Wm. Smitheram and George Dix pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Isaac Mason, Ponyvedw Farm, Tredegar, on the 13th of August.—Mr R. H. Spencer asked for a fur- ther adjournment, but the bench disposed of the case by sending the prisoners to gaol with hard labour for two months, and in default of payine the costs, 14 days in addition. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—George Jones, who was remanded at the last court, was charged with assaulting his paramour, Bridget Daly, at Trede- gar, on the 18th of August. He was found guilty, and was sent to gaol for 14 days with hard labour. STEALING GABDKN PRODUCE.—John Lloyd and Peter Evans, old offenders, and Francis Padfield were charged with stealing a quantity of garden produce, the property of Mr John Evans, stable agent, at Tredegar, on the 28th of August. They were found guilty. Lloyd and Evans were fined 30s., or 14 days in default, and Padfield 20s., or 14 days.

CHEPSTOW. A CAUTION TO BATHERS. At Chepstow petty-sessions, on Tuesday, William Edward Harris, a youth, aged 17 years, of Tintern, was charged with stealing a pocket knife, the property of Frank Garrett, on the 7th inst. Prisoner and complainant were bathing together at Fair Oak, and subsequently the latter missed his knife, which was this week found in the possession of prisoner by P.C. Williams. The prisoner only came out of eroal on the 1st of August after com- pleting a term of 14 days, and be was now sent back tc goal for 21 days.

ABERCARN. A PUBLIC-HOUSE Row AND ITS RnuLis.-At Blackwood police-court, on Tuesday, a man named Kendrick was charged with wounding another named Stoddart, at the Crown Hotel, Abercarn, on the previous night. The men, it appears, quar- relled, and prisoner hurled seven pint pots at Stoddart's head, severely injuring him.—Prisoner was remanded.

CAERPHILLY. TRAVELLING WITHOUT A Tioxcr.-At Caer- philly petty-sessions, on Tuesday-before Messrs H. T. Wiiliams, Dr Llewelyu, W. W. Leigh, W. Jones, H. Lewis, and H. Anthouy—John Buck, of 6-elligaer, was charged with travelling without a ticket, on the 7th of July last, on tbe Brecon and Merthyr Railway. Fined SiI. SUNDAY DRINKING. -William Evans, Travel- lers' Rest, Thornhill, near Caerphilly, was charged with keeping his house open for the sale of beer on Sunday, August 21et, and was fined 40s and costs.—William Jackson, Caerphilly, and David Edmunds, Caerphilly Mountain, were respec- tive ly fined 5s each for being on the said pre- mises on the day in question. BOGUS TRAVELLERS.—John Davies and Henry Newell, both of Tongwynlais, for falsely repre- senting themselves as bonfi fide travellers, on August 21st, at the Black Cock, Caerphilly, were fined 10s each and costs. ANOTHEK LICENSING OFFENCE—Gwenllian Francis, Panteg Inn, Aber Valley, near Caer- philly, for selling beer during prohibited hoars, on August 7th, was 40s and coste, and his IiQtaH 1 to be endorsed.

CADOXTON. CHARGES OF THitFT. -AL the magistrates' clerk's office, Cardiff, on Tuesday. William Sheen, minor, charged with stealing a watch, the property of George Hicks, at Cadoxton, and Thomas Humphries, alias Mills, charged with stealing a piut of beer from William Baldwin last. night, were each remanded till Monday next atPenarth.

LONDON LETTER. [SPECIALLY WIRED.] (BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] VR CHAMBERLAIN'S APPOINTMENT—A GOOD STROKE OF BUSINESS—THE L-ISCUSSION ON THE HUSH VOTES—A DULL DEBATE—ANIMATION IN THE 1LOBBY—ARRIVALS FROM NORTH HUNTS—TH K LIBERALS HOPEFUL-THE OSTEND FISHERIES DISPUTE TROUBLE COMING AHEAD MK MORLKY IN SWIIZERLA-XD-A CUBIONS PRESENT FOR MR HALLEY STEWART—THE COMING STRUGGLE IX IRELAND—MR LABOUCHERE LIKELY TO FIGURE PROMINENTLY. LONDON, Tuesday Night. Alittle unexpected interest was.imported into the proceedings of tne House to-day by the announce- ment that Mr Chamberlain has been appointed bead of the commission for settling the fishery iisputes between this country and America. A good many people will be pleased at this announce- ment, most of all, I should say, Mr Chamberlain. it must be a great relief to the member for West Birmingham to be practically released from all touch with active politics for some time to come. Moreover, the appointment will naturally gratify the tastes of a stirring, ambitious politician, whose worst enemies acknowledge him to be an Excellent man of business, and who, if he can keep in check the deplorable want of tact which has lost him so many friendships and 10 many opportunities, ought to do vety good work mdeed on the commission. His nomination t by Lord Salisbury is no doubt due to that states- man's anxiety both to get Mr Chamberlain out cf the way and to retain his support, and as such it is an excellent stroke of business. Moreover, most people are agreed that it will do Mr Cham- beriain a great dfll of orJd. It will give him time for reflection, it will give time to recover some of the flotsam and jetsam of his old principles. So far as it is a non-party appointment it is excellent, and follows the precedent of Mt Glad- stone's nomination ot Lord Iddesleigh to the Madership of the Alabama Commission. At present no other appointment is announced, but is hoped that Sir Lyon Pl:>yfair will find a place at Mr Chamberlain's side. The discussion of the Irish votes will, I believe, conclude on Thursday. The Irishmen are anxious to getaway, and the session has ceased to offer any advantages worthy to be set against the irk- some monotony of work in town at this time of the year. Should the League be suppressed, there will be a motion of adjournment and a formal protest, but that is all. To-night's discussion of the salaries of the Lord Lieutenant's household was relieved here and there by a gleam of humour, as when Mr Swift M'Neill discussing the stipend of Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster Kiiig at-Arins, de- clared that if Mrs Stowe's Topsy had gone to him for a pedigree, he would have furnished her with a title showing all the blood of all the Howards, Dr. Tanner, too, was well to the front vrith a speech in which he described Mr De Lide in a court suit, and candidly confessed that he thought him wonder- ful hacdsome in the attire. These ebullitions of Irish humour were, however, received with utterly, stolid faces by Ministers, and, as there was nobody else present to speak of, I am afraid they were lost on the House as a whole. The votes went on smoothly enough, and there was no attempt at obstruction. In the lobby, indeed, there was for an hour or so an approach to something like animation. Members had come back from North Hunts with their tales of weal or woe, anc everywhere found circles of eager listeners. Generally speaking, the Liberal tone was exceedingly hopeful. Mr Marjoribauks had received encouraging telegrams from various sources. Without doubt, the waking of the constituency has been enormous, said one Liberal member, who has travelled the con- stituency from end to end, If we have per- suaded the labourers that the baliot is secret, we shall win." This is the first crux. St. Ives is Radical to the backbone, and so is the Peterborough district. llonisey on the other hand, is the Tory stronghold. At the last contest the Liberals did not claim to have received more than 50 votes there out of 1,200. This time they reckon they may, by great good fortune, poll 200, in which case the election is won. An encouraging feature has been that the Ram- sey meetings have been very good and undisturbed. A very large body of the constituents consists of Methodists and Calvinistic Baptists, who are nearly all Liberals, but who did not find in Lord Esme Gordon, the Liberal candidate in 1885, a man to their minds. Mr Harris Sanders has fought a very plucky tight, and has thoroughly canvassed the constituency. He is a good speaker, ,n(with plenty of pelf-confidence and no little hilumour. As for the effect of a Liberal victory it I could bardly be exaggerated. It would simply break the back of the Government. I hear on very good authority that there is danger of further trouble with Ostend. The Ostend fishermen have sent out further relays of boats, bent on mischief, and well provided with arms and missiles of all sorts. It is possible that these men may attack English fishing boats at once, or they may cruise about for a week or so until the nights get longer, and the chances of escape are greater. However, the Belgian Govern- ment have been seriously alarmed, and they may be relied on to do their best to put down the pre- sent movement. The whole difficulty is the out- come of a Protectionist agitation at Ostend. The population were incited by fair trade orators, who are doubtless taking a leaf out of the book of Mr Chaplin and bis friends. I hear from a friend who has just come from the Riffel Alp Oberzermett, where Mr John tMorely is staying, that Mr Morley laughs at the stories of his differences with Mr Gladstone, which have found currency here. He has been simply very much overworked, and he is leading the calmest and least exciting existence compatible with residence in a busy mountain resort. He is very much better, and is perfectly willing to come back and take his share in any work which may be on hand. He has for his companion Mr t Frederick Harrison, whose mode of life is the antithesis of his, for Mr Harrison is an inde- ) fatigable climber, and is always escorting parties of young ladies and others over the neighbouring peaks. Mr Hally Stewart has been the recipient of a curious present which is now lying at the post- effice. The other day Mr Stewart, in asking a gentleman about the wretched waifs who now lie huddled together every mgtit and morning on the stones in Trafalgar square, declared that many of these poor wretches bad not even a sack to cover their nakedness, to- night some unknown friend has sent him a whole bundle of sacks. It is not yet settled whether Mr Stewart will superintend the distribution of his strange present. It is characteristic of the strong feeling among Englishmen as to the state of affairs in Ireland that there are all kinds of projects for coming to the rescue of the National League. A deputation of the Home Rule Union will go over there about the 13th of next month, and some of its members, who are ardent, enthusiastic, and brave, will, I am afraid, be disappointed if they do not make acquaintance with the inside of Kilmainham. There are even more serious resolves on the part of more prominent men, and Mr Labouchere, who lon ago made a delightful little tout- in imagin- ation to Kissingen, Prince Bismarck's favourite resort, to be followed up by a period of repose at Lake Como, has knocked his project on the bead, and may be present at Mitchel's town on September 9th, when the trial of William O'Brien will come on. I should not be surprised if, should the trial end in Mr O'Brien's condemnation, Mr Labouchere should go on the hillside and reitera'e the very language which two resident magistrates have declared to be illegal. There is more seriousness than people think, and more grim determination in this Kay- beaited and light tongued jrondeur.

PROPOSED VISIT OF MR GLADSTONE TO IRELAND. The London correspondent of the Northern Echo isayfi I give with caution a rumour which reached me that Mr Gladstone is likely to accept Mr Sexton's invitation to visit Ireland. Proba- bly I shall be able to say more about the matter in a lew days."

DACOITY IN BURMAH. L" llMKS" TELEGRAM.] RANGOON, Monday.—A very successful affair has taken place in Upper Burmati. On the 25th inst. Brigadier-General Wolseley, with some troopers, rushed the Dacoity village of Kalawch during a heavy rainstorm. Four dacoits were I killed and 30 prisoners taken.

GREAT FIRE AT DETROIT. [UEUTER'S TELEGRAM.] NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The Anchor Barrel Factory, near Detroit, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 250,000 dollars. Four hundred hands are thrown out of employment.

A SHAM NOBLEMAN. ["MORNING POST" TELEGRAM.] VIENNA, August 27.—Francis Raminingen, an accomplished pickpocket, who has been twelve times imprisoned for this offence, on leaving Landesgericht the other day, got into a tnimcar, where he stole a lady's purse. A detective, who had watched, took him to the police-station, where he declared in broken Ger man that he was Lord Davies of Beasfield, that he had just arrived from England, and owing to his being afflicted with kleptomania his valet was entrusted to pay for all he stole. No valet, how- ever, appeared, and he was soon recognised at the police station.

THE SUPPOSED MUHDER OF A POLICEMAN. On Tuesday the coroner's enquiry was concluded into the death of Police- constable Brown, who was found in the canal near Wolverhampton, on the 7th instant, having apparently been murdered by poachers. Fourteen witnesses were called, but none of them threw any light upon the affair. The coroner summed up in favour of a verdict of murder, and after three hours' deliberation, a verdict of Murder against some person or persons unknown was returned. The jury re- commended the offer of a Government reward. The police have been utterly baffled in obtaining any clue.

A QUEER DISCOVERY IN PICCADILLY. While workmen were engaged in digging the foundations for the new Junior Travellers' Club, on the site of the old building at the corner of White Horse-street, Piccadilly, London, a beauti- ful granite sarcophagus was discovered embedded in a thick brick vault. The vault runs in the direction of the Badmintoll Club adjoining. On the tomb is the simple inscription, "Marie. iEtat xix. Sep. x., i\I.V.I.X."

HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY. PEERS AT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. The Earl of MILLTOWN gave notice that he proposed early next session to call attention to the report of the select committee of the House of Commons, communicated to their lordships' House, on the subject of the interference of peers at parliamentary elections, and to move a resolu- tion. BILLS FORWARDED. The Metropolitan Police Bill was read a second time. The Conveyancing (Scotland) Act Amendment Bill, the Friendly Societies' Act (1875) Amend- ment (No. 3) Bill, the Savings iiank and Govern ment Annuities Bill, and the Sheriff of Lanark- shire Bill passed through committee. The Stannaries Act (1869) Amendment Bill, the Trustees Savings Banks Bill, and the Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts Amendment Bill were read a third time and passed. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. Lord DENMAN moved the second reading of the Women's Suffrage Bill. The Marquis of LOTHIAN moved the previous question on the ground that the occasion was not opportune for considering a measure of that im- portance. The bill was brought forward for second reading at the end of January, when it was resolved to postpone the stage for six months, and it was a question whether a bill so dealt with could be proceeded with at the expiration of that time. Their lordships decided, without further discus- sion, and without a division, that the question should not then be put. Tiie DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM pointed out that the decision would still leave the bill against those which were still in progress. It appeared to him that they should go a step further, and he begged to move that the bill be removed from the list of bills in progress. LORD DENMAN considered that that would be a very harsh proceeding, but he was satisfied that every time the question was raised the cause was advanced. His cnly object was to save the time of the country, and to do justice to another class of petitioners who wished to have the right to vote on account of their paying rates and taxes. The LORII CHANCELLOR entertained consider- able doubt whether the noble duke was in order in making tli-it motion without notice. He, how- ever, entire JT 8/mpathised with the object in view, and he suew of no other way of rejecting a bill than by proposing that the stage under dis- cussion should be deferred for six months. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM gave notice that he should submit the motion the next time the House sat. RKFORMA^ORT AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. Earl BROWNLOW, in answer to Lord Barrington, announced that the Government hoped to intro- duce early next session a bill founded on the report of the Reformatory of Industrial Schools' Commission of 1882-83, and that it would pro- ceed upon the principles both of consolidation and amendment. Lord CROSS moved the adjournment of the House till Tuesday next. The motion was agreed to, and the House rose at five o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. -TUESDAY. WHERE IS MR BRIDGE'S REPORT? Mr BYRON liNED asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether be bad yet received the report of the commissioner's appoint- ment to inquire into the riots in North Wales, and when it would be laid upon the table of the House. Mr MATTHEWS said the report had been already laid on the table of the House. It was now in the bands of the printer, who had been instructed to issue it with the least possible delay. Mr T. ELLIS inquired if the evidence would be published. Mr MATTHEWS said he had not yet received the evidence, but as soon as it was received it would be handed to tho printer. OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS IN WELSH. Mr T. ELLIS asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Local Govern- ment Board, the Registrar-General's Office, the Board of Inland Revenue, and the Privy Council had from time to time issued publications in the Welsh language, and whether, on reconsideration, he would direct the publication of a Welsh trans- lation of Mr Bridge's tithe inquiry report. Mr MATTHEWS said he had made enquires at the offices named, and it appeared that occasion- ally short circulars and formal notices were issued by them in Welsh. This did not seem to him to constitute a precedent for publishing lengthy reports of Government commissions iu Welsh. He was still of opinion that a demand for a Welsh translation would be best met by private effort. THE BODFARI OUTRAGE. Mr T. ELLIS asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there was any reason for connecting the perpetration of the outrages upon Canon Browne's residence at Bodfari with the fact that he gave evidence before Mr Bridge's tithe enquiry. Mr MATTHEWS said the information he had re- ceived did not connect this outrage with the fact that the rev gentleman gave evidence before Mr Bridge. He had asked the chief constable certain questions, but bad not yet received a reply. FISCAL REFORM. Mr JENNINGS gave notice of his intention to move, next session, That in the opinion of this House unfair and unequal foreign competition, and the pressure of hostile tariffs, have become so injurious to the interests of British workmen and labourers, and the condition of our revenue is so unsatisfactory, that there is an urgent necessity for reforms in our fiscal system." FORTIFICATION DRILL FOR VOLUN. TEERS. Mr STANHOPE, in answer to Mr Webster, said that it was intended to allocate the regular militia. and volunteer garrison artillery to the various fortified works in the country. Some- thing had already been done, and he hoped to do more in occasionally exercising these troops in the forts or other works it would be their duty to defend. THE IRISH LAND COMMISSION. The ATTORNEY-GKNKRAL for IRELAND, in answer to Mr. T. Healy, said that the Irish Land Commission had already framed two rules under clauses 1 and 2 of the Land Act, and would consider what, if any, further rules were necessary. MR NEWTON. The HOME SECRETARY, in reply to Mr Cony- beare, said that he had already informed the House that the decision of the Lord Chancellor in respect of Mr Newton, the police magistrate, could not be communicated to the House while criminal proceedings were still pending. THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC AND THE CATTLE TRADE. Baron DE WORMS, in reply to Mr 'Stephens, said that the Board of Trade had no official in- formation to the effect that the Government of the Argentine Republic contemplate giving a bounty upon the export of live cattle, and also of beef and mutton. The board would communicate with the Foreign Office on the matter. THE OSTEND FISHERY DISPUTE. Sir JAMES FERGUSSON, in reply to Sir E. Birkbeck, said her Majesty's Government were aware that several English vessels have been unable to land their fish at Ostend. The attention of the Belgian Government has been called to these occurrences, and they have given the most positive assurance that every measure would be taken to protect British fishermen in what the Belgian Government admit to be an undoubted right to sell their fish in Belgian ports, and the authorities appear to have acted with energy and firmness but the Belerian Government state that they are unable to protect our fishermen from boycotting, and since the attack on the British boats no one could be found to discharge or buy the fish. THE MASTER OF HAWKS SCANDAL. Mr JACKSON, m answer to a question from Mr Hanbury, said the Treasury were responsible for the due payment of pensions and other expenses charged upon the consolidated fund, and among such payments that in respect of the Master of the Hawks was included. He had endeavoured to ascertain when the reduction in the amount was made, and he found that a committee on the Civil List ot King William IV., in 1831, stated the charge to be £ 1,372 10s. Shortly afterwards a Treasury warrant, dated 1833, directed that a sum of £ 965 should be paid in respect to this charge from the land revenue of the Crown until further direction. The payments in respect of that charge had been made regularly since the appointment was made in the reign of James II. Opinions of the law officers have been taken on three separate occasions, the last so recently as 1875, and the opinion on each occasion was that the Treasury are legally bound to pay this sum. The Treasury had, therefore, merely discharged a legal obligation, Mr HANBURY subsequently gave notice for next se^sioii t.o call attention to the inconvenience caused in the public accounts, by charging certain items on the consolidated fund while they are entered on the annual estimates,and to move that, with the exception of the funded debt charges and annuities payable by the Crown, all public charges should be entered on the annual esti- mates. (Hear, hear.) LOCAL SANITARY INQUIRIES. Mr RITCHIE, in reply to Mr Bonsor, said it was the intention of the Government to proceed with the Local Authorities (Expenses) Bill, and in committee he would be quite willing to insert words making it quite clear that sanitary inquiries by medical officers of the Local Govern- ment Board should not come within the operation of the bill. TAXATION AND THE WORKING CLASSES. Mr W. H. SMITH, in answer to Mr Watt, bad no hesitation in saying it was the duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and of the Govern- ment to review the system of taxation before presenting the budget next year, but he was not able to accept the statement of the hon. member that the incidence of taxation subjected the working classes to an undue percentage of taxa tion, and he was not aware that such a suggestion was supported by any positive evidence. TAXATION IN EGYPT. Sir JAMES FKRGUSSON, in answer to Mr Isaac- son, said the policy ot her Majesty's Government had been to procure the extension to foreigners in Egypt of taxation equal with that of natives, but this has been attended with delay. The house tax, however, now applies to all foreigners with retrospective effect, and her Majesty's Govern- ment will do all in their power to procure the acceptance of the rest. FISHERY PROTECTION. Lord G. HAMILTON, in answer to Sir E. Birk- beck. confirmed the statement of the Secretary to the Board of Trade that .the Admiralty were about to increase the paid force for the protection of our North Sea fisheries to nine vessels, five of which would be steamers. The Admiral Superintendent of Reserve would inspect the steam vessels on Wednesday. It would not be possible to keep nine vessels always on the fishing ground. They must periodically return for fresh water and coal. The Admiralty were anxious to do all in their power to protect the legitimate rights of English fishermen, and if they found that the force mentioned was not sufficient for the purpose, her Majesty's Govern- ment would have to consider what other means could be adopted. THE O'GRADY EVICTION CAMPAIGN. Mr DILLON asked had the Chief Secretary knowledge of the fact that a large force of police were about to assist at an eviction campaign on the O'Grady estate, Herbertstown, and how he reconciled that with his statement that there would be no evictions for months. Mr BALFOUR had no information, but there was no doubt about bis interpretation of the Land Act, that there would be no evictions' of tenants under 2100, except on question of title. THE NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES. Sir JAMES FERGUSSON, in view of the interest in the subject, announced that the United States Government had agreed to a new commission in reference to North American Fisheries, to con- sist of three members on either side. Mr Cham- berlain had accepted the office of principal com- missioner. (Hear, hear, and'laughter from the Irish members.) The commission had reference solely to disputed points in respect to North American Fisheries. HORSE BREEDING IN GREAT BRITAIN. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr Mark Stewart, said the allocation of the LS,000 to be devoted to the encouragement of the breed of horses in Great Britain had not yet reached a stage when he could give particulars, but on the board it was proposed to appoint a representative of the Royal Agricultural- Society and of the Highland Society, so that the Scotch interests would be cared for, SUPPLY. THE IRISH VOTES. The House went into committee on the Civil Service Estimates, and on the vote to complete the sum of e7,473 for the Household of "the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, Mr S. MCNEILL opposed the vote as one that was recklessly extravagant, and which included itein< it was a public scandal to maintain. Why, he asked, should the public pay a salary to Sir Bernard Burke, the Ulster king-at-arms, for providing pedigrees and blue blood for those who desired to figure among the aristocracy ? Why should a chaplain be provided and Church func- tionaries kept up at the cost of the state when the Lord-Lieutenant went to St. Patrick's Cathedral? Why should a kettle drummer be provided with accoutrements at a cost of J615, and what was the utility of paymg L800 a year to the secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant, when the functionary to whom he was secretary had nothing to do himself Mr DILLON objected to the payment given to the Lord Lieutenant's secretary, and asked what were the duties of that gentleman? Mr MOLLOY also put a question on the same subject. Mr A. J. BALFOUR dissented from the view that had been taken of the fuuctions of the Lord Lieutenant. Although the duties performed by different Lord Lieutenants might vary in their relative importance, there was never a case in which a Lord Lieutenant had not to discharge duties of a very delicate and difficult, and some- times arduous, character. He was convinced from his own knowledge, since he came into personal contact with the machinery of the Irish Govern- ment, that to describe the office filled by the Lord-Lieutenant as a sinecure was to give a false idea of the duties performed by that functionary, and inasmuch as he had important and delicate duties to discharge, it would be very undesirable to deprive him of that secretarial assistance which was always allowed in the case of othor officers of state similarly circumstanced. With regard to the Ulster King at Arms, the fact was that the salary of that officer was more than paid by the fees he received while the kettle drummer was the last remnant of the time, when the Lord- lieutenant had a band which was paid out of the public exchequer, and on his death the item would no longer appear on the estimates. After some comments from Mr T. M. HEALY, who regarded the appointment of a secretary to the present Lord-Lieutenant as being unnecessary. Mr DILLON moved the reduction of the vote by J6829, the amount of the Lord-Lieutenant's secre- tary. Mr A. J. BALFOUR defended the appointment, and, after some further discussion, the committee divided, and the amendment was negatived by 115 against 60. Mr COSSHAM then moved the reduction of the vote by 2789, the charge for the salaries and allowances in connection with the Chapel Royal, but the amendment was negatived without a division. Mr BIGGAR objected to the Queen's plates, and moved the reduction of the vote by the amount given for that purpose. Mr PBOVAND supported the amendment. On a division the amendment was negatived by 116 against 23. The vote was then agreed to. On the vote to complete the sum of £ 40,967 for the office of the Chief Secretary, MR HEALY AND COL. KING-HARMAN. A SCENE. SOME LIVELY ACCUSATIONS. Mr T. M. HEALY itook exception to the action of the Chief Secretary in the appointment of Col. King-Harman as assistant secretary. He said that although during the last six or seven years there had been as many chief secretaries as years, the present holder of the office was the first who had ever conducted business in the way adopted by the right hon. gentleman, who, having no previous ex- perienceof Irish affairs,and being,a Scotch landlord and Chief Secretary for Scotland, bad, in spite of his ignorance a? to Ireland, been made Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, mainly becausa he was nephew to the Prime Minister. But the right hon. gentleman having been ap- pointej Chief Secretary, disdained to discharge the duties of his office. The first thing he did was to appoint an Under-Secretary, and there were several candidates for the position. The first was Mr T. W. Russell, who had also the qualifications, being a Scotchman. (Laughter.) Then they had Colonel Saunderson also in the running, but that hon. and gallant gentleman had to give way to Colonel King-Harman—a man who bad been sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment for assaulting the police in Cremorne Gardens. (Loud cries of Order.") The hon. and gallant gentle- man, to use a legal expression, was a convict. (Renewed cries of "Order.") If that was not a parliamentary expres- sion, he (Mr Healy) would have no objection to use a parliamentary locution. (Laughtsr.) Last evening the right hon. gentleman, in answer to a question on the subject, admitted that he btd told the late Mr Forster that if a man sained Weldon was not removed from the country, h. would snoot Weldon on the spot. He (Mr Healy) was curious to know whether the reply of the right hon. gentleman would appear in the Times, but on looking at the journal he found that it bad been suppressed, and he could only suppose that the right hon. gentleman must have communicated with the Times, reporters with the view of pre- venting the publication of so damaging an answer. That was the kind of gentleman whom the Government appointed to administer Irish affairs. (Hear, hear.) Mr COURTNEY I would point out that the right hon, gentleman is not present to hear the charge that is now brought against him. (Hear, hear.) What the hon. gentleman now asserts does not correspond to my recollection of the transaction. (Hear, hear.) Mr HEALY The right hon. gentleman is within call. This isia serious matter, which will be dis- cussed in season and out o! season in Ireland during the coming winter. (Irish cheers.) When the Irish members were about to get three, four, or six months' imprisonment, or whatever it was to be, for holding public meetings, they would point at the spirit of the observations, as he (Mr Healy) had heard it, which had been made by the Under Secretary for Ireland. He (Mr Healy) also supposed this reply would not appear in Hansard. They wculj, however, be able to get at the actual words of the right hon. gentleman by comparing what was understood by various bon. members who were present. So far as the Chief Secretary was concerned, he was a mere shadow, but not so the Under Secretary, who was at one time band and glove with Jail the Feniaus of Roscommon. LEFT 8ITHNG.

PROSECUTION UNDER THE CRIMES ACT. At Mohill petty-sessions, on Tuesday, three r. omen were each sentenced to seven days' im- prisonment, nnder the Crimes Act, for obstructing the sheriff's officers in issuing decrees.

CASUALTIES AT SEA. ACCIDENT AT THE TORPEDO REGATTA. During the proceedings of the torpedo regatta on Tuesday, the well-known racing cutter, Queen Mab, was struck by a, squall, and her mast, bow- sprit, and all the rigging.went by the board. The mast,in falling, struck one of the crew of the Mer- genser cutter, severely injuring his head and chest, and also broke an arm of Mr Harris, her skipper. GALLANT RESCUE BY THE THISTLE. Advicea received at Queenstowu on Tuesday report that the Scotch cutter Thistle, on the 20th inst,, rescued four gentlemen from drowning off Tonkinsville, New York. THE ILFRACOMBE DISASTER. Diving operations at Yacht Monarch. off Ilfra- combe, were suspended on Tuesday owing to the inclemency of the weather. No more bodies have been recovered. A SHIP'S CAPTAIN WASHED OVERBOARD. The Guion Liner Alaska, arrived from New York on Tuesday, and brought intelligence of the loss of Captain Nicholls, of the Sunderland steam- ship Propitious, on the 20th instant. He was washed overboard during a cyclone and drowned, whilst chief officer James Boulby was badly injured. The vessel shipped volumes of water, hec deck plates were started, and boats stove in, and her cargo shifted. She was steamed into Baltimore with difficulty. A CARDIFF PILOT BOAT WRECKED. The Lily, Cardiff pilot boat, No. 74, on Tues- day became a total wreck on Summer House Point. The crew have been sent home.

THE IRISH EVICTIONS. EXCITING SCENES AT THE O'GRADY CAMPAIGN. The evictions on the O'Grady estate at Herbertstown commenced on Tuesday, a force of 130 police and 50 men of the Leinster Kegiment being present in charge of Captain Plunkett, divisional resident. John Carroll was evicted without opposition, but considerable resistance was offered when it was attempted to evict Widow Cremms at Kilballyowen. Stones were flying directly the bailiffs approached, and when the officers of the law attempted to effect an entrance by a gable window they were repulsed with boiling water. Three bailiffs then mounted the roof, and worked with hatchets and crowbars until a hole was made, but then they were attacked by the inmates with iron bars, and were compelled to retreat. A hole was then made in the back of the house, but boiling water again forced the bailiffs back. The police then rushed forward to the aperture, but again a volume of scalding water was thrown, and they fell back. In another moment, however, they had fixed bayonets, and the bailiffs then entered with a rush, the police following directly afterwards. The inmates consisting of five men and four women, were arrested and conveyed to gaol singing God save Ireland." The greatest excitement prevailed out- side during the eviction, and the police dispersed the people with their batons several times. When the police were returning from Herberts- town evictions they found a deep trench dug across the road, and an hour elapsed before the ambulance car could pass over. Further on the police came in conflict with a group of persons, including a priest, some members of Parliament, and English visitors. Father Ryan narrowly escaped being batoned, and an Englishman was actually struck. An indignation meeting was addressed by Father Ryan, Mr Coudan, M.P., Dr Goold (of London), and Mr Adam Lee (of Oldham). It was announced that Mr Wm. O'Brien would be present to-day.

MEETING OF THE CABINET. THE POSITION OF THE UNIONISTS. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Tuesday. Mr W. H. Smith and Lord John Manners arrived first. All the Ministers were present except Lord Ashbourne (who is now in Ireland), Lord Cranbrook, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. Lord Salisbury arrived from Hat, field. The Cabinet Ministers separated at 2.40 p.m., their deliberations having occupied two hours and ten minutes. Mr Goschen, Mr Smith, and Mr Balfour remained somewhat later in consultation with the Prime Minister. The Central News says the meeting was hastily summoned owing to a communication that the proclamation of the National League was disapproved by several leading Liberal Unionists. It is stated that the Government will not suppress the whole league, but only in districts where considered necessary.

MEETING OF THE LEAGUE. The first meeting of the Central Branch of the National League since its proclamation was held on Tuesday in Dublin. The attendacce was un- usually large. A large number of English gentle- men were proposed for membership, amongst them being Messrs Conybeare and Schwaun, M.P.'s. A telegram was read from Mr Davitt asking to be excused for non-attendance. Mr W. O'Brien. who presided, observed that the Tory Ministry had tried to suppress the league, but very likely the league would suppress the Tory Ministry. The Government, he added, must not be allowed to suppress the right of free speech the Govern- ment must not be allowed to interfere with the tenants' combination and they must not be allowed to victimise the tenants who have adopted the plan of campaign. The people have a perfect right to combine against rackrenters and land grabbers. His advice to the first branch, against which an order of suppression was issued, was at its next meeting to barricade its doors and refuse admis- sion to the police. They would then be obliged to break their way in with crowbars and sledge hammers. They of the central branch might be driven to ask the Lord Mayor for the City-hall, and perhaps they might also have to ask the Lord Mayor to exercise his right to swear in special constables to defend it. After this was done by the branch, they should call a great mass meeting upon the spot for the following Sunday, and get the whole country side round to assemble. Then, if they were dispersed by brute force—and he did not think they should allow themselves to be otherwise dispersed—the members of the suppressed branch should hold their next meeting in the rooms of the nearest branch, and as soon as all the neighbour- ing branches were suppressed then should they hold their meetings and transact their business in piivate. The Land Act, he averred, would turn out a miserable failure or a. terrible curse. If it was not worked fairly. The people would adopt a universal and more sweeping Plan of Campaign next winter.

MR O'DONNELL'S ACTION AGAINST THE TIMES. Mr Hugh O'Donnell, who has been residing at Aix-la-Chapelle, has just returned to London to prepare his case against the Times. It can hardly come on before December, and efforts will be made to postpone it till February in order to meet the convenience of many members of Parliament who will be subpesnaed. Amongst the number are Mr Parnell, Mr Justin M'Cartby (ex- president of the National League in Great Britain), Mr John Dillon, Mr A. O'Connor, and Mr T. P. O'Connor, who, as president of the League in Great Britain, will be required to pro- duce all its books and minutes. It is also said that Mr Gladstone will be called in connection with the death of Lord Frederick Cavendish.

THE DUKE OF ARGYLE AND THE IRISH LAND LEAUGUE. The Duke of Argyll writes to the Glasgow Herald "expressing the astonishment and pain with which be read Mr Gladstone's last speech on the Irish question in the House of Commons." He says he applied to men of known character and position, in some cases members of the Roman Catholic Church, with the result that he now possesses facts concerning the typical cases which have not appeared in print at all, showing the tyranny exercised by the National League in Ireland over poor men in the ordinary business of life. This is going on all over Ireland. He adds that, even in districts where we hear nothing of it in the papers, secret tyrannies are worked by the worst men in a community, and the scope given for envy, malice, and covetousness, and all the vices, is only too apparent."

DEATH OF MRS WALSHAM HOW AT BARMOUTH. The Bishop of Bedford, who has been staying at Barmouth, had arranged to preach on Sunday at Wbittington, Salop, of which parish he was formerly rector, but a telegram was received at the rectory announcing the sadden death of his wife at Barmouth, whither the Bishop at once returned. Mrs Walaham How was the daughter of a former Dean of Durham, Dean Douglas. She was sixty-three years of age. The funeral will take place at Whittington, on Thursday.

A SCOTTISH NATIONAL LEAGUE. A deputation of Irish members of Parliament, including either Mr John Dillon or Mr Sextou, will attend the conference at Oban on the 15th September, when the desirabily of forming a Scottish National Loague for promoting home rule, land law, and other reforms for Scotland will be discussed. It is understood that the move- ment has the approval of the majority of the Scottish Gladstoniau members.

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j ALARMING ACCIDENT AT i TENBY REGATTA. I FOUNDERING OF A SAILING BOAT. NARROW ESCAPE OF A CARDIFF GENTLEMAN. EXCITING SCENE. ■ The annual regatta at Tenby,which took place on Tuesday, was marred by an accident of a pain- ful and exciting character. The weather was un- usually stormy, a strong gale blowing from the west-north-west, and the competing boats and yachts, as a consequence, experienced the utmost difficulty in making their way. The weather in the morning, at which time a race for Tenby dredge boats started, was especially dirty," the wind blowing in fitful gusts, accompanied by blinding showers of rain. Six boats took part in the race, which for a time proceeded without any untoward incident arising. On reaching and endeavouring to roand a mark boat off the Woodhouse Beacon, bow- ever, two of the boats, the Joseph and Mary, belonging to Joseph Davies, and the Misletoe, belonging to Thomas Noot, came into collision with each other, with the result that the latter immediately filled and sunk. The ill-fated craft had on board at the time two boatmen named Fred Howells and John Brooking, together with Mr W. J. Vachell, a well-known Cardiff gentle- man, who is at present on a visit to Tenby. All three were left struggling in the water. and were in an exhausted condition ere their rescue could be effected, help at length coming from the colliding boat. The accident was viewed by some thousands of spectators who bad assembled on the hill to view the regatta, and among these the wildest excitement prevailed until the arrival of the Joseph and Mary with the rescued crew. Notwithstanding the accident, the regatta was proceeded with ,the results in the different events being as follows FIRST CLASS HANDICAP YACHT R^CE — For yachts of any tonnage. Distance a.bout 25 miles. I-OsDrey 43 Penry Lloyd 2 -Venessa 1823 E. H. Bath O-Brenda 8 E. A. Young 0—Condor 18 Richa.rdson Q-Hinda 18 T. W. Berchall 'f The Kate carried only her bowsprit and topsail, and did not start, and all the others gave up before the completion of the race. SECOND CLASS YACHT RACE. — For cruising and pleasure yacbts for hire or otherwise. 1—Bessie 9 Captain Devereux. O-Dauntless 9 Thomas Thomas. O-Atalanta 5 R. Williams. O-Wild Wave 7 Samuel Darby. All retired before the termination of the race except the Bessie. During the day several tub and swimming races were brought off. The band of the Worcester- shire Regiment, stationed on Castle Hill, played a capital programme of music in the course of the proceedings.

THE OUTRAGE ON THE RAILWAY. PRISONER SUPPOSED TO BE INSANE. Since the publication of the report that the man George Grice, who violently assaulted a young lady in a railway carriage between Wellington and Shrewsbury, ou Saturday night, has for some years been known in his native town of Tipton as Mad Grice," the opinion is gaining ground in Shrewsbury that be is of weak intellect,and that be- ing drunk on the night of the outrage,he was pro- bably partially insane at the time. This conclu- sion is to some extent borne out by the fact that since he has been working at the Castle Iron Works, Wellington, his ways at times have been eccentric, and complaints have frequently been made to the police to the effect that he had been in the habit of intercepting children and taking from them food they were carrying to work for their parents' meals. He still lies in Shrewsbury Infirmary, but has quite regained consciousness. He is constantly guarded by policemen, and is very reserved in his references to the affair. He has, however, stated that he was drunk at the time, and does not attempt to deny the charge. Dr. Rope, of Shrewsbury, has pronounced Miss Scragg to be out of danger, and her complete recovery is only a matter of time.

WHAT THE "WORLD" SAYS. Lord Penrbyn starts immediately on a yachting expedition to St. Petersburg. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is staying at Coin St. Alwyn's Vicarage, Gloucestershire, on a. visit to the Rev. A. Kent. Sir Michael's first public ap- pearance will be at the Dolphin dinner at Bristol, on Colston's Day, in November. Sir Theodore and Lady Martin are at Bryn- tisilio, their place in the Vale of Llangollen, where they intend to remain till the beginning of October, when they will probably go to Brighton for a few weeks. Strange In one of the delightful Thackeray letters published in the August number of Scribner, and dated 1850, there is a reference to something just said or done by the O'Gorman Mahon. And in this same month of August, the same O'Gor- man.Mabon takes his seat for the fourth time in the House of Commons, and Thackeray has been dead for nearly a quarter of a century. I sincerely congratulate Sir John Henry Pules- ton on his new rank and dignity, which was duly gazetted on Saturday. Many of us have experi- enced "Sir John's hospitalities in Dean's Yard and Sussex-square; but henceforth it seems he is to be known officially as of Fyfnogion, in the parish of Llanfair, Dyffryn Clwyd. What a terrible name for a toastmaster From Homburg: "Dear Atlas,—You said a little time ago that any alteration in the fashion of men's attire to become popular must have the sanction of the Prince of Wales. I have just seen H.R.H. in a most unbecoming and common- looking snuff-coloured suit, with a red comforter round his throat. I hope this is not intended as the future country costume for English gentle- men.-Amy." Mr and Mrs Ernest Gye (Madame Albani) have been staying during the last three weeks at Old Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire, which has been placed at their disposal by Lord Fife. They come muth at the end of this week, as Madame Albani aings at Worcester on Tuesday; but they will return to Sootland after the Three Choirs Festival. Mr Wilfrid Blunt is organising an active campaign for the return to Egypt of Arabi and his fellow-exiles. Mr Blunt states his case very fairly, and after the release of Zebehr, who was really a close prisoner at Gibraltar, it certainly seems illogical to detain Arabi, who from the first has only been on parole in Ceylon. I bear that Mr Cotsford Dick is very busy putting the finishing touches to a new comic opera, of which he is writing both the music and libretto. Ilfracombe (which has perceptibly increased in size of late) has been enjoying a season of unpre- cedented prosperity, though a gloom has been cast over this favoured watering-place by the terrible yacht accident of Friday last. The improve- ment in railway communication has given the Queen of the West," as she proudly styles herself, a new impetus, and the multiplicity of excursions by land and sea perpetually fills the town with cheerful if not particularly aristocratic company. Mr Frederick Young contemplates the future of Imperial Federation by the sad sea-waves, making sccasional colonial notes in the intervals of healthy exercise Mr Bowen May has not yet tned his band on the wild deer of Exmoor, while laying in a store of strength to follow Lord Coventry at Sal thill; Drs. Musgrave, Cook, and Wilkinson never miss the excellent table d'Mte at the Ilfraconje Hotel; and amongst other visitors are Colonel and Mrs Temple West, General and Mrs Emerson, Mr and Mrs de Keyser, General Sir Edward Hodge, Countess de la More, and Lady Agnes Frank.

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THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE. MR GLADSTONE ENTERTAINS HIS AGED NEIGHBOURS. THE EX-PREMIER ON HER MAJESTY'S REIGN. A RETROSPECT. Mr Gladstone on Tuesday gave a Jubilee treat to all the parishioners of Hawarden of the same age as her Majesty, 68 and upwards, in the form of a dinner and tea in a large tent erected below the terrace in front of the castle. There were no less than some 250 or 260 of these aged people present, and they were served with an excellent repast by members of the Gladstone family, assisted by the servants at the castle. some of the villagers, and the members of the Hawarden Parish Ladies' Visiting Society. Amongst these were Mr Gladstone,Mrs Gladstone, Mr W. H. Gladstone, the Hon. Mrs Gladstone, Mrs Henry Gladstone, Mr Herbert Gladstone, M.P., Miss Gladstone, the Rev. Harry and Mrs Drew, Drs Evans and Burlingham, the Revs. H. E. Trotter, H. Kerry, Davenport Jones, and J. Hutchins; Mr Henry Hurlbutt, J.P., Mr E. Hall (of Covent Garden Theatre), and other ladies and gentlemen. Aftar the dinner Mr Gladstone entered the tent, and was accorded a hearty reception. In proposing the principal toast of the day, The Health of the Queen," Mr GLADSTONE said Ladies and gentlemen, n.y friends and neighbours,—You are all well acquainted with the occasion that has brought us together. It is the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee; and perhaps this is one of the closing operations connected with it. The whole country has long been full of the idea and busy with the different efforts of the loyal people of Great Britain to commemorate the occasion as it de- served, so we can consider a little not only what the thing is in itself, but bow it has been re- ceived. (Hear, hear.) Now this is not the first jubilee in our history. I wont go further back than the one immediately before it. Some of us whojare here present, and I among the number, had come into the world before the last jubilee- the jubilee of George the Third, but were hardly of years sufficient to enable us to take any part in it personally ourselves but, however, I hava endeavoured to ascertain what kind of a jubilee it was, and it is pretty plain to me that it was only in a very narrow and qualified sense that it could be called a jubilee of the nation. It was a jubilee of the great folks it was a jubilee of corporations and of authorities; it was a jubilee of the upper classes, and there was a certain but a very limited amount of popular manifestation. The truth ig, my friends, that it was hardly a time for a jubilee. (Hear, hear.) It was a time when, owing to a long war, the people were reduced to a condition in which it was much harder than it now is to keep body and soul together. I once heard, within only a few yards of the place where I now address you, a most impressive discourse delivered by one of your old neigh- bours, who might almost have been aIlve to-day —one of the old Mancott miners, who bad worked in the pits seventy or eighty years ago, and who lived until the time when efforts were made to open the pits again. His name was Edwards, I think, Joseph Edwards. He came to a dinner, given by Sir Stephen Glyane to those miners, and, to the surprise of everybody, after dinner he got up and delivered a speech. It was admirably delivered it was short, it was one of the most impressive speeches I ever heard. He described the condition of the labouring population at the time when he was young and began to work. He told us what was then the price of corn, what was then the price of potatoes, and what was then the rate of wages, the rate of wages for miners who generally have a range of wages somewhat higher than that of the agricultural population among whom they live. I assure you that it was nothiner less than shocking and frightful to hear the account he gave of the condition of the people of England at the time when, forsooth, there was a jubilee of the reign of George III., and if you go further back than that, there is in this park a very curious stone that some of you may have seen, though it is in an out-of-the-way spot, engraved in;thetiine of Sir John Glynne,describing the condition of the people at that time, stating the price of grain, stating the activity of many charitable persons, but ending with some such painful words as these, "The poor starved and hanged." Well, now, my friends, the condition of men, and especially the condition of the mass of mankind, has always been, and may long continue to be, in all parts of the world, certainly in this part of the world, a condition of care and difficulty, and, to some extent, of want; but at the same time the jubilee for which we have met is not like the i (ibilee of George the Third. The recollections that it calls up are not like those recollections it is not a period in which the means of the people hav e been stinted, in which industry has been re- strained-restrained and cramped, and fettered by bad legislation in which the distance- always apt to widen too much-between rich and poor had been sadly and wofully increased. The period of the last fifty years, particularly since her Majesty—God bless her,!—(cheers)—came to the throne, has been a period marked by changes, the very reverse of all those to which I have referred. Why, my friends, in those days even the representation of the people of Parliament, which was their security for good government— even the representation of the people in Parlia- ment was, when compared with what it now is, little better than a name. I don't say it was of no value; it was of very great value, but it was marred and cramped in a hundred ways, so as to fall far short of what it was originally designed to be, and one of the great operations-one of the great series of operations which have marked the 1 £ t 50 or 60 years has been the most thorough, the most profound and searching change in the whole system of representation, so that now, with few exceptions, every man in the country who has a house over his head, and who has a family around him, takes his share and gives his vote for the choice of those who are to make the laws by which he is to be governed. (Cheers.) And, moreover, he gives that vote in a manner which defends him from the intimidation of those who might try to influence his choice unduly. This is one important change upon which you have reason to congratulate yourselves, for from henceforward it must be said that, if bad laws are made, if foolish things are done, as they may be done sometimes, and will be done-nay. I am sorry to say, in my opinion in this very year have been done-yet they are not incurable, and being done, it is the nation itself that muct lay to heart the responsibility of their being done, for they are done by the men whom the nation chose (hear, hear)— and if they ? have not fulfilled the trust that they received in a wise and just manner,it will be for the nation on the very next occasion to show its sense of the failure of their duty, and to take care to repose that trust in worthier and better hands--(cl)eeri;)-but I now pass to the next subject. We are now upon the brighter aspect of public affairs. I will tell you another great change. Another great change is this, that at the time when I was born, and the time when some of you were born, why, the list of offences for which men and women, aye, and children, were liable to be hanged, was an awful list, and I am not sure that there were not between 200 and 300 offences of that kind, and this is most certainly the fact—that there were some of them which were offences the people would now, in the case of a boy or girl, hardly think of punishing with a smart corporal chastise- ment. Well, all those laws have been abrogated and repealed, and you may say that there is nothing, or next to nothing, besides treason and deliberate murder, for which any man can now lose his life, and there is not one man hanged now for twenty that used to be hanged, and the hang- ing of children, which occasionally happened, and which then did not shock the public conscience, is a thing that under no circumstances and conditions would now be possible, because people know that the responsibility of a child is not the responsibilty that ought to be enforced by that terrible and awful infliction. Well, they have taken away the great bulk of the laws against crime, that is to say, the seveit and crushing penalties, substituted milder and more limited; and more hopeful penalties, and instead of putting men in prisou, where they could learn nothing, but become hardened in vice and more disposed to crime, they endeavour now to regulate their prisons JBO as to give to anyone who may be so disposed a chance of improvement and reformation—(cheers)—but when these laws began to be abolished and mitigated there were a parcel of people who were afraid of useful and beneficial changes, and who set before you all manner of bugbears, and conjured before you all kinds of horrors, which many honestly but foolishly thought would happen. It was very plausible to say. If you take away all these laws against sheepstealing, against cutting young trees in plantations if you make it no longer a capital offence to steal the value of five shillings in a dwelling house, all people will become thieves, and the respectable people will find the country intolerable to live in." Those were the notions that prevailed, and correspond- ing follies were always in the course of being committed. What has been the result? TLe result has been this: that while you have altered your laws, softened your penalties, told the criminal that be is not to despair, but to hope, helped him to become a reformed and altered character, you have done all that aud, instead of producing increased crime, you have an enormous diminution of terime. I wont enter into figures. Happily, it is one of the notorious facts of the day that the proportion of criminals in this population of England, Scotland, and Ireland has enormously diminished in con- nection with, and undoubtedly, in part, in conse- quence of, that mitigation of the criminal law, which isoneof the great blessings, that decorate with a golden, and better than golden, splendour the memory of the reign of Queen Victoria. (Cheers.) I will mention one more thing. As I told you, old Joseph Edwards described to us the price of wheat—and I should be afraid almost from memory to mention what it was. I am quite sure of this, it represented something like 120s to 140s for a a r. of wheat-and the price of a qr. of wheat, and mostly better wheat, now is very little over 30s. (Cheers.) Well, that price was not a price due to the inflictions of Divine Pro- vidence. It %vas t price diie in t'ie m,-ii?i, a,i,i in theprincipal degree, to the follies of men. It was due to bad legislation it was due to dictating from whence corn might come into the country, and to treating the coming of corn into the countryasifitwas a thing that might pro- duce ths most awful and inconvenient consequen- ces. And so in the same way everything that the people wanted, everything that could be considered a comfort of lite, was without exception subjected to a heavy taxation. What was the case with tea ? Within my recollection, 60 or 70 years ago, you could get no decent tea under 8s per pound. What was the case with sugar ? Why, sugar was, I would venture to say, certainly not less than four times the price that it now is. However, I am thankful to say that while the law has been at work and given the follest and freest access to every useful commo- dity, I am thankful to say that if our old triend Joseph EMWMKU could åIM M oadyou could compare the rate of wages which the miner got in his time with that be gets now or, again, if you took the rate of wages of the agricultural labourer in this district, you would find it very little short of 100 per cent. better than it was when I became acquainted with this district by marrying my wife. These are great and blessed changes. Difficulties will remain there will always be people poor, and I am afraid always people very poor there will always be pressure on a considerable portion of the population there will always be a great call for prudence, and a great call for effort, and in many cases, perhaps, great difficulty, even with prudence and effort, in keeping the bead well above water. I am not saying that there is nothing to do. There is, I believe, a great deal yet to do. The legislature has an enormous work before it. and I feel a full per- suasion that before long the legislature will set about the work in good earnest, but it is a duty to be thankful for those mercies which God has been pleased to bestow upon us it is a mercy, it is an advantage that the population are better represented, are more free, have fewer criminals, are better fed, better clothed, and better housed, and that by a great deal than they were fity years ago, and that the great masses of these happy and blessed changes are associated with the name and the action of the Queen. (Cheers, and a Voice And Gladstone.") It is little to say of such a sovereign, but it is an important thing to say that all the principles of the constitution have been observed by the Queen through the long years of her reign in a manner more perfect than has ever been known in the time of any other sovereign. In poiuts of fact it is not too much to say that the historian in future days, when he comes to write an account of this period in which we have lived, will point to the reign of Queen Victoria as the time in which the Sovereign of this country came finally to understand the constitutional position, and the great and noble conditions on which a free people can be governed, and not only to understand but to accept them and to extol them. It is no slight matter that we refer to when we mention the example of life and manners that has been set by the Queen from first to last. (Cheers.) This jubilee invites us, and compels us. to cast our thoughts backwards over the long series of years with which we are almost all of us familiar, and it imposes upon us the duty ot deep thankfulness to the Almighty who has in these late days. when our history is so long, and when some might have thought that our nation and onr constitutionhas grown old, who has given us as a people renovated youth, who has inspirited us with renewed activity and with buoyant hope, who has conducted us thus far upon the road to improvement and advancement in the pursuit, not of false, but of true human happi- ness who has made the laws of this country no longer odious, no longer suspected, but dear to the people at large. During the latter portion of Mr Gladstone's speech rain fell heavily, and at length penetrated the tent. Mr Gladstone was in splendid voice, and was evidently deeDlv moved in one or two of his eloquent references to her Majesty. The speech made a profound impression, and, at its conclusion, Mr White, one of the parishioners of Hawarden, rose and proposed a cordial vote of thanks to Mr Gladstone, which was put, and carried with much cheering for both Mr and Mrs Gladstone. After the rain had partially cleared off, the party were permitted to inspect the old castle and ali objects of interest in its vicinity, and were then entertained to tea in the same tent.

ILLNESS OF THE CZAR. ) STANDARD TELEGRAM.] COPENHAGEN, August; 29.—The Czar had an- nounced his intention to attend Divine service in he Greek Church yesterday forenoon, and after- wards to breakfast on board the Imperial yacht Derjava, lying in the inner roads of Copenhagen Harbour. A special train arrived in the morning from Fredensborg, conveying the Queen of the Hellenes, with her children, the Cz irevvitch, and the Grand Duke George, but not the Emperor, who was unwell. The Czar's illness is said to be a cold he caugiit on the passage from Cronstadt to Copenhagen, and he is suffering from rheumatic pains in the left shoulder. He slept better last night, and his Majesty feels better to-day, but he will have to carry his arm in a sling for some days. The Prince of Wales is expected here at the beginning of next week.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. The following proceedings took place in the House of Commons after yesterday morning's papers had gone to press:— The second reading of the Local Government Boundaries Bill was opposed by Mr ANDERSON, on the ground that there was no necessity for it, and that the bill did not extend to Scotland. After a discussion the amendment was with- drawn, and the bill was read a second time. The Bankruptcy (Discharge and Closure) Bill was read a second time. The House went into committee on the Techni- cal Schools (Scotland) Bill, and the first five clauses having been agreed to, progress was reported. Ou the motion for going in committee on the Tramways (War Department) Bill, Mr M. KKNNY, on account of the lateness of the hour. (20 minutes to four o'clock), moved the adjourn- ment of the debate. The House divided, and the motion for adjourn- ment was negatived by 63 to 20. Mr DILLWYN did noc think the House should proceed with legislation at that hour, and moved the adjournment of the House. Mr JACKSON consented to the postponement of the order, and Mr DlLLYfiS withdrew his motion. The Lords' amendments to the Licensed Premises Earlier Closing (Scotland) Bill were con- sidered. The amendment exempting towns of over 50,000 inhabitants from the operation of the bill, was opposed by Mr S. MASON, but was con- firmed on a division by 43 to 27. The other amendments were agreed to. The House adjourned at five minutes tc four o'clock.

_n_ THE FEVER EPIDEMIC IN LONDON. The returns of the fever epidemic in London, issued on Tuesday, give the highest figures yet recorded, 919 cases remaining under treatment.

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR ON THE RAILWAY. CONDITION OF THE MAN EVANS. The man John Evans, of Ebbw Vale, who went to Manchester on Saturday night by an excursion train, and who was found in an unconscious condition on the line at Shrewsbury at midnight on Sunday, still lies in a critical condition in Shrewsbury Infirmary. He is quite delirious at times, and frequently calls for drink and food for the pigs. How he came in the extraordinary position in which be was found remains a mystery. He can give no explanation, and the police are still busily prosecuting their inquiries.

SWANSEA LIBERAL ASSOCIA- TION. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The first meeting of the newly-elected executive committee of the Swansea Liberal Association was held at the Albert Minor Hall. under the presidency of Mr C. H. Perkins. The attendance wa-s small.-The secretary (Mr A. W. Halden) reported that the members of the association had elected Mr F. A. Yeo, M.P., presi- dent of the association, Mr E. Roberts treasurer, and Mr Halden secretary. The different district meetings had been held, and the following had been selected by the voters in the various districts vice-presidents, who, by virtue of this position, are also members of the executive:—W. Bevan (trades council), R. D. Burnie, L. L. Dillwyn, M.P. A. Francis, J. Holmes, W. Howell, J. H. James, Daniel Jones, David Jones, J.P., G. Jones, Rev. J. Matthews, T. Phillips, sen., J.P., T. Phillips, jun., J.P., T. R. Pichards, W. F. Richards, J.P., J. Roberts, M. J. Roche, F. Rocke, T. Sandbrook, M. Tutton, S;" H. Hussey Vivian, Bart., M.P., J. Williams (Waunwen), J. Williams (Dauygraig-road), M. B. Williams, J.P., and T. Yorath. The chairman and secretaries of the district committees, who are ex-officio members of the council, are:-Guildhall polling station district— C. H. Perkins and Thomas Gutteridge, chairman and secretary respectively. Madoc-street polling station district-R. G. Davies and J. Conibear. Beach-street polling station district-W. V. Blewett and G. W. Davie. Walter-road polling station district—James Livingston and Joseph Thomas. High-street polting station district—W. A. Johnson and Evan J. Thomas. Carmarthen- road-David Griffiths and Lewis Harries. Swan- sea Higher p fling station district- Matthew Hussey and Frederick J. Davies. St. Thomas polling station disiri t-G. T. Heald and George Williams. The representatives on the executive elected by the Five Hundred are :lLladoc-street polling district, Thomas Tristran and John Manley Beach-street, Elijah Williams and John Oldham; Walter-road, S. P. Will, W. Morgan, and P. Murray; High-street. Evan Harris and William Richards Carmarthen-road, Ratekin and R. Robinson Swansea Higher, Thomas Jones, M. Banfield, and David Thomas Guildhall, W. G. Foy. The only other business of general interest was the election of vice-chairman and secretary of the executive. Mr R. D. Burnie was elected chair- man, and Mr T. Phillips, jun., ;vice.chairman. Neither of these gentlemen was present.

THE WATER SUPPLY OF LLANELLY. An extraordinary meeting of the Llanelly Local Board of Health was held on Tuesday—Mr John Bourne in the chair—to consider the water supply.—The Surveyor reported that the con- sumption was now 30 gallons per day per head, and that there remained 14 million gallons in the reservoir, whilst the quantity flowing into the same bad increased from 180,000 gallons to 310,000 per day. It had been intended to cut off the water for a portion of each day, but, in view of the recent heavy rain, it was decided not to adopt this course as yet, but to impress on every householder by circular the necessity of great c..re in using the water.—A letter was read from Lord Cawdor's agent on the feasibility of supply- ing .he town from a large and perennial spring on that tuobieman's estate, above Llandebie. A conversation took place on this letter, and also on a suggestion of Mr Maybery to increase the storage of the, waterworks at Cwmlledi by forming one or more subsidiary reservoirs to the north of the present one. It was decided that the surveyor report on various sources of available supply in the neighbourhood, also that Lord Cawdor's agent be thanked for bis communication.

DEATH OF DR W. T. PRICE, OF PONTYPRIDD. On Tuesday morning, Dr W. T. Price, of Pontypridd, died in the 30th year of his age. The deceased gentleman hailed from Breconshire, was connected in Pontypridd with the medical arm in which Dr Ivor Lewis, Cymmer, was cu-partner. Although he had only resided in the district three years, his sterling professional skill and touching devotion to the laborious duties of his practice—when his own health was in a hopelessly incurable state—elicited for him deep and general regard. The proximate cause of death was pneumonia,but a chill caught during the last week hastened the lamentable gentle- man's death, after an illness of only a few days. Dr. Price will be buried at Defynnock, Brecon- shire, next Saturday. The funeral will leave Pontypridd at 8.35, via Mertbyr.

NEATH. NEATH HARBOUR DEBENTURES.—Holders of the. above Debenture Bonds issued in response to prospec- tuses dated 27th October, 1882, 23rd February, 1883, or 20th April, 1883, are requested to communicate their names and addresses to Daniel Jones and Linnett, solicitors, i, Quality-court, Chancery-lane, Iyondon.6367

LLANELLY. OPENING OF A NEW CHAPEL.—The opening services were held this week of Lloyd-street Welsh Independent Chapel. The edifice is hand- some, and a decided addition to the architecture of the town.

BRIDGEND. PARTRIDGE SHOOTING. Sportsmen wantiniz truns, cartridges, or shooting tackle, will find T. Page Wood and Co.. xun makers, Castle-street, Cardiff, the best..Specialite, our cartridges. 5936

PORTHOA WL. VISITORS TO PORTHCAWL who appreciate cleanli- ness, good cooking, and moderate charges should patronise Comley's Hestaurant and Temperance Hotel close to station and beach; fresh bread, buns, and pastry made daily on the premise-- meat and fruit: pies for families, Ac., &c. Special terms to schools and pic-nic parties. 60fc3

CARDIGAN. "CHARLES o'ft BALA.On Monday evening, at Bethania Baptist Chapel in this town. the Blaenanerch choir performed the popular cantata, "Charles ,r Bala," to a very appreciative audience. The parts were very well sustained, and the choruses good. The chair was taken by Alderman Levi James (mayor).

MACIIEN. w DEATH OF MR JOHN ROBERTS.—We regret to announce the death of Mr John Roberts, of Tycenol, Machen, which took place at his resi- dence on Monday afternoon, at the age of 76. Mr Roberts was well-known as a farmer of 'large and varied experiencef and his familiar form will be missed at many a local market and fair. As a generous and respected deacon of Siloam Chapel, the village of Machen, in its presant depressed state, can ill afford to lose him.

CARDIFF. CARDIFF RieATTA.—A meeting of the Cardiff Regatta Committee was held at the Pilotag* otbeeson Tuesday, Mr J. W. Trounce In th" chair, when collecting books were issued to the Rentlemen present. It was stated tbat subscrip- tions had already been promised, and it was decided to hold another meeting next week to arrange the necessary details and draw up the prize list. WORKMEN'S OUTING -00 Monday the employes of Mr T. Davies, 7, Queen-street, held their annual outing at the Leys, whither the party was conveyed by break, supplied by Mr Griffiths, Cathays. Dinner was partaken of at the Limpet, and among the after-diuner toasts the health of the firm was most cordially received. A start was made for home about seven o'clock. THE HAVANNAH SCHOOL.SHIP.-The superin- tendent of the Havannah Certified Industrial School-ship begs to acknowledge with best thanks a quantity of apples from Colonel Page as a pre sent to the boys. THR: POLICE BAND AT THK GARDENS —At the Sophia Gardens this (Wednesday) evening the police band will give all open-air concert, lasting from 6 p.m. until 7.30 p.m. The proramme for the occasion is as foll(,,A,.s :-Q,,iiek march, The Soldier's Tear," Jacob; selection, "Norma," Bellini valse, Les Sourires," Wal iteufel grand selection, "Popuhr Ballads," K tppy march, "The Warner," Ci). Le Thiere "God save the Queen." The head constable takes this opportunity of intimating to the patrons of the band that he will be pleased to receive their annual subsci, THE DOG SHow.-At the police-court, on Tues- day— before Dr Paine, Aldermen Jones and Waring—a license was granted to Mr E. J. Smith, of tbe Pavilion, in the Hayes, to sell refreshments in the Market-liall from 9 to 10 during the dog show to-morrow and Thursday. XASSAULTING A WlFx. -George Green (32) was charged with violently assaulting his wife, Maria Green, in St. John's-square on the 29ob inst.—It appeared that they had some quarrel, owing to the prisoner not returning home at a proper time, upon which the man knocked the woman down. He then ran away, and his wife was found in a fit on the grouvi,i.-Prisorier said he was verv sorry and alleged that his wife first struck him.— 11 The woman admitted this saying that her hus- band had provoked her.—The prisoner was bouud over to keep the peace for twelve months. ALLEGED THEFT BY A LODGER. Richard Triener (44), was cliai,g-,ii with stealing a silver watch of the value of JE6 10s, from the person of John Harris, at No. 5, Corporation Buildings, Bute-street, on the 29,11 iust.-Prosecutor missed his watch, and suspecting the prisoner, who was a lodger, gave him into custody. A quarter of an hour afterwards, however, he fcund the watch behind the door.—The bench said there was no casa, and discharged the accuiied. NOTICE.—A great number of people are under the impression that Kyte, Butcher. bag two shops in Queen-street; his ONLY shop is 118, Queen-street, near the T.V.Ry. station. 6253 HARRIS, SON, & Co., of Merthyr, have u..wa Fine Art Studio, Royal Arcade, Cardiff 1043 GREAT CLEARANCE SALE. Perambulators AND Bassinettes, Bedsteads and Bedding at Lowest Prices. -Perkins Bros. & Co., Ironmongers, St. Mary-st..5143 PARTRIDGE SHOOTING. Sportsmen wanting guns, cartridges, or shooting tackle, will find T. Page Wood nnd Co., gun makers. Castle-street, Cardiff tri best Specialite, uur cartridges. 6933 RAGLAN CASTLE. — WARDEN'S LAST GREAT FETE, Thursday evening, September 1st. Castle beau- tifully illuminated. Splendid band, hp ecial late traiu to Cardiff, Ac. See railway bills. 6103

LL AND AFP. THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT of the Hereford General Infirmary have determined to erect a new ward for children. The work will be commenced immediately, and will be carried out by contract from designs prepared by Mr F. R. Kempson, diocesan surveyor, Llandaff.

COWBRIDGE. LICENSING SESSIONS. The annual licensing meeting was held on Tuesday there were no new applications, and the old licenses were re- newed. EVERY description of English and Foreign Watches and Clocks oarefully examined and repaired ai Tainsh Bros., 5, High-street, Cardiff. iOJ8

THE HEALTH OF CARDIFF. The return of the Registrar-General for the week ending Saturday last, Aug. 27, shows that in the borough of Cardiff the number of births registered in the last week was 80, as compue i with 83 and 93 in the two preceding. Thl"') 80 births comprised 51 boys and oniv 29 girls, and CM- rMponded to an annual rate of 40'0 per 1,000 of the population, estimated to have been in the m ddte of this year 104,580. There was a decrease in the mortality in the last week, for the deaths were 44,agaiiist 52 in the one preceding. These 44 realised arate of 22,0 per 1.000. That rate was, however, a hjtdlone, for It was 1 2 above that of the 28 great towns in England and Wale*. There were, how- ever, 13 of them with a larger rate. Bristol w\s not one of these, for there the death-rate was onlv 18*9, which was3'l under ihat of Cardiff. The 44 deaths in the latter included 20 -males and 24 females, and of the total as many as 20 of them were those of infants under one year, whi)st there were only 7 of persons who had attained 60 years and upwards. Theprincipal zymoticli were repre- sented by only one of them, and that was diarrhtft. which was fatal in 9 case: but in each of the two preceding week the numbers were 9 and 13. The r¡,tes of mortality in the several towns, arrauged in order from the lowest, were as follows ;— Sunderland 17'T Cardif f" 22"# Lonnon 18 5 Portsmouth 2i'l Brighton 1R f> Birmingham 22"4 Bristol 18*9 l.iverpool 22# Leicester 19'0 Newcastle-on-Tyne Leeds 19-2 Wolverhampton Nottingham 19-6 Oldham 2i'4 Plymouth 19'6 Sheffield 247 Bradford 20 0 Halifax 260 Bradford 20 0 Halifax 260 Derby 20'0 Saiford 260 Norwich 20-2 Bolton 27 4 Birkenhead 20 8 Manchester 29*2 Hull 21 "2 Blackburn 29'6 Birkenhead 20 8 Manchester 29*2 Hull 21 "2 Blackburn 29'6 Huddersfield 21-4 1 Pre%Loii 38"

VV. G. Grace has an aggregate for his county of §1,405 runs, average 63 19, F SILVER ON THE BRAIN.—Senator Fair, one of thi richest men in the Senate of the United States, being worth over one hundred millions of dollars, in a miui of marked peculiarities. He is largely interested in silver mining. and in more senses than one nv-iy he said to have "silver oil the brain, for about the "om. mencement of his successful career, he received a blow, which fractured his -kull and was only saved from death by the operation of trepanning—that is to say, a plat<i oi silver was inserted in the top of his head. He is still a young man, and though hishair is not "silvered," his skull is thus differing from many men and •women, who have no silver on their brain, but a large snpply of it iu their hair. People turn gray much eai iier in life than formerly. Such being the case, it Ls surprising that they do not take better care of it. The hair is a vegetable, and may he cultivated, its growth strengthened, and its texture improved by oare, attention, and the application of the proper fertilising pt-clerties. That this is the case has been Mnp'y demonstrated, and, therefore, no one need W thin or gray hair, or a coarse and wiry *ti<lil>!e, provided theywill use the proper care. The Preparation most in voRue for this purpose, its un 1if)4hfilr Mrs S. A. Allen's World's Hair Restorer, hlC! never fails of arresting the falling out of the or restoring gray hair to its original color, "tij and ulossy luxuriance. It is besides the most 5;?.; and delightful hair dressing in the world. It ii.tsed of any chemist or perfumer, in any i«v.n o.- city bl22 12987

THE BULGARIAN CRISIS. [RECTKR'S TELEGRAM. I ST. PETERSBURG, August 29. Despite the alarming reports circulating here, according to which Russia is about to act at once against Bulgaria, it is still asserted in well- nformed circles that at present no action what- ever is likely to take place. The reason alleged is that most of the powers are opposed to active measures. It is generally considered that France has placed herself in a somewhat disagreeable dilemma between Russia and Turkey, owing to the position she took up towards the latter just before the failure of the Egyptian Convention. ST. PETERSBURG, August 30. The Novosty to-day anuouaces, on what it describes as good authority, that the Porte has accepted Russia's proposal for sending General Ernroth to Bul- garia in the quality of Provisional Governor of the Principality and Governor-General of Eastern Roumelia, precluded from candidacy for the Bulgarian throne until the new Sobranje to be summoned shall have legally elected a new prince. The Novosti further states that the Porte is now endeavouring to obtain the assent of tTie Powers to this proposal, that Artin Effendi is to introduce General Ernroth on taking office, and that the Sultan has pledged himself, in case of necessity, to assist Artin Effendi by a Turkish army.

THE RISING IN AFGHANISTAN. PRETENDERS INVITED TO CABUL. [RKUTKR'S TELEGRAM.] BOMBAY, Tuesday.—Intelligence has been re- ceived from Cabul that a fresh force, composed entirely of Uzbeks, has left that place in order to attack the insurgents near Abistada Lake. The commander of the Ameer's forces at Dehbala is preparing to attack the Shinwaris. It is added that since the Ameor's illness two parties have arisen at Cabul, one favouring Ayoob Khan and the other Ishak K ian. Messages have been sent to these pretenders by their partisans urging them to come to Cabul.

THE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN MEXICO. [KKL'TKK'S TELEGRAM.] NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The direction of the earthquake shock which visited the city of Mexico yesterday morning was from north to south. The shock was also felt at Chilpancingo, where two arches of an arcade in the main square were de- molished, at Orizaba, Tlalpan, and Otumba.

NEW YORK PRICES. NEW YORK, Tuesday.— Stocks opened a fraction lower. The market was weak throughout, closing very weak at the lowest figures of the day. Money easy. Cotton quiet. Petroleum steady. Lard opened weaker, but closed strong. Wheat easier. Flour steady. Corn easier. Sugar firm. Coffee firm. Iron quiet. GOVERNMENT BUNDS AND RAILWAY SHARES. QuotationsAug. 3a Aug. 29. Call Money, Int. U.S. Gov. Bonds 4 p c 2 p c Ditto, other Securities 1 pc 2pc Exchange on London, 60 days' sight 1.80^ 4.d0i Cable Transfers 4.84 4.84 Exchange on Paris 5.251 5.25S Kxchangtf on Berlin, 60 days' sight 9qt 941 Four per Cent. U.S. Funded Loan 125 ubi Western Union Telegraph Shares 70i 7l Missouri, Kansas 241 251 Erie Railroad Shares 28* 294 Erie Second Mortgage Bonds 96 981 Ohio and Mississippi, Ord. Shares 24i 241 Wabash, St. Louis, &c." Pref. Sis. 23i 30 Philadelphia and Heading Shares 484 51i Union Pacific Shares M 534 Central Pacific Kailroad Shares 3b 364 New York Central Hail way Shares 10Sb 107 Illinois Railway Shares 117 118, Delaware, Laiawalia 127 1294 Lake Shore Shares :•••••••:• 92* Pennsylvania Shares, Philadelphia 54^ 54| Chicago & North-Western, Ord.. U1J ll3g Chicago & North-Western, Ord.. ]111 113 Canada Southern shares 514 52 Louisville & Nashville Shares 59 61J Chicago, Milwaukie, and St. Paul 80t 81. Chicago & N. Western Pref. Stock 142 142 Wabash Common 161 17. New York, Ontario dr. Western,Ord 1S! 35 Denver Shares 25 26k Northern Pacific, Common 24 24i Northern Pacific, Preferred 481 49! Michigan Central Shares 81 82 Central of New Jersey 70: 73 st Loilis &- San Fraiici-,co First Pre no 111 Ditto San Francisco Preference 70 Ditto San Francisco Common.. 32 Oregon & Transcon. Common Sh. 214 Norfolk ifc Western Pref. Shares.. 40 424 COTTON AND PRODUCE MARKETS Cotton, day's receipts atU.S.ports 8,000 7,000 Cotton, (lay's receipts to CJt. Brit'n — 5,000 Cotton, day's expt. to Continent. — 1,000 Cotton futures, Sept. delivery 9.20 9.35 Cotton futures, Nov. delivery 3.18 9.18 Cotton, middling upland 93 9t Cotton futures (December) 9.20 9.18 Cotton futures (March) 9.38 9.36 Petroleum, crtide at New York t) 5J Petroleum,U.Pipel.ineCertificates 62 62 Petroleum, sta'dard white,N. York bi < £ Lard, Wilcox's 7.01 7.05 Lard futures, Oct delivery. 7.10 7.1b Lard. Fairbank' 7.00 7.00 Flour, ex. State Shipping brands 3-30—5-50 3.30-3,50 Corn, new 80) 0.50j Wheat, red winter, ou the spot., 8e 80 Wheat, delivery current month 784 79 Wheat, delivery Sept 79" 0.794 Wheat, Oct. delivery 80jj o.80g Wheat, red winter, Dec. delivery 834 0.83i Spring Wheat, No. 2, spot (new).. 77, 0.77J Coffee, fair Hio 20 20 Coffee, good Rio 204 20i Coffee, fait- Rio, "ep,. delivery 1816 17.90 Coffee, fair Rio, Nov, do-livery. 18.60 18.25 Sugar, fair refining Muscovados.. q Cij f Tallow 4 4 Saltings Tl,Ill. nom. Tin,straits. 22.95 23.00 Freight Grain Liverpool steamer-. 111 lid Freight Grain L,,Ildozl st pt:ri)usb'l lid lj i Freight Cotton to Liverpool. 9-64 9-64 Iron, No. 1 Coltness 22.50 22.51 Spirits of Turpentine 324 324 Wheat, Chicago, SepL delivery 68k b82

NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. Messrs Jones, McCormick, and Kenneth, of Leaden- hall-buildings, London, have received the following cablegram from New York Tuesday, August 3C.— Unaffected by adverse advices from the United King- dom, particularly Liverpool wheat opened with prices unchanged, fear, however, being entertained of wheat in Chicago being declared out of condition ("posted"). Weakened market, and, after declining 4 of a cent, closes quiet. A moderate increase in the receipts at seaboard is expected. Purchases for export Wheat, 17,000 qrs corn, 9,000 qrs. Clearances (as posted to-day) from four Atlantic portsWheat, 38,000 qrs corn, 2,000 qrs hour, 66,000 barrels. j

SPORTING ITEMS. Simon Pure is to be kept for the Dewhurst Plate. Watson and Briggs have taken 80 and 81 wickets respectively for Lancashire. Gaudaur is about to issue a challenge to Teemer to row for the championship of America. The two year old filly by Hagioscope out of Conceit has been named Mother Church. At the early resorts yesterday Kilwarlin was rather unsteady for the St Leger, but later II) the day 1600 to 200 was accepted about the colt. Ayrshire, Crowberry, and Caerlaverock are stated to be in reserve for the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster. Ulyett has sc"red considerably over 1,000 runs this year in inter-county matches, but Hall misses that distinction by only three runs. Merry Hampton was in fair request yesterday for the St Leizer, the chief wssrer booked to the Derby winner beiniz 1000 to 400, while 50 to 40 was betted on the colt for a place. The two year old sister to Corrie Roy, who has been christened Estatette, has recently been blistered on both knees, and it is doubtful whether she will be fit to appear in public this season. Next Saturday the football season commences in orthodox fashion, and by that time we shall have entirely lost all that keen interest which has been felt in cricket during the season. Phil yesterday declined to 10 to 1 for the St. Leger. The only reason assigned for the market change was the report that the Stanton colt, owing to the bard ground, had been eased in bill work. A fight took place in the home district recently between E. Briant, of Ftilliam. and Harry Riches, of Chelsea. Nine rounds were fought in twenty- nine minutes, when Briant was declared the wmner. Exning had a slight attack of gripes on Satur- day, but be was at exercise again yesterday, appa- rently none the worse. He is a strong "tip" for the Peveril of the Peak Plate at Derby on Thurs- day. The veteran Pizarro has once more come to grief and it is improbable that he will stand another patching up. He has in his tima been a hard- working slave to his various owners, and certainly deserves to end his days in peace. This season he has won no fewer than half a dozen races. Since his location at Ilsley Blanchland is stated to have made miraculous improvement, and his attention has been turned to long distance work. It will be strange, indeed, if under the tuition 01 William Stevens he should not develop stamina. It is jest or the cards that he will run for the St Leger. In all probability we shall make the acquaint- ance of the mysterious Manton three year old- Whistle Jacket—during the present week, for it is stated that the Duchess intends to run him for the Peveril of the Peak Plate on Thursday. It is worthy of note that the Leger outsider is the only one of five entries with which Mr Manton has accepted, although other patrons of Taylor's stable are represented in the race. Crafton still refuses to be comforted, and con- tinues to show his sorrow for the departnre of Edwards, bis late attendant, by the peculiar dis- play of a temper the likes of winch a score of Peters ioould not equal. Captain Machell, in- deed, is as much amused as astonished, but James Jewitt declares that the horse must be turned out of training forthwith, for he is a source >f hreat danger to the lads and the horses with whom be comes in contact. Mr Abington divided bis time last week between Newmarket and Ilsley. Tiny White accompanied him in his visit to the Stevens'* quarters, where they were met by Mr Gilbert, the owner of Despair, who was ridden by the professional in a gallop with Martley, Ironclad, Stereoscope, and Darnley, the lot guing five furlongs. Adelina, who is full sister to Despair, was tried satisfac- torily, but she is said to be a thorough roarer, Mr Abington rode in a trial on Country Boy, who beat CliogAlie and Nunwick, and also three other horses in their gallops when he visited Chilton. "The Squire" is "top weight" as an exercise rider. It is said that Mr Benzon had £6,000 on Prince Rudolph for the Ebor Handicap. He is also re- ported to have lost £ 5,000 over Hark. The plunger opposed Reve d'Or for the Queen's Plate after she bad pitched Wood out of the saddle, and be lost a pile of money on Gautby when the latter was beaten by Derwentwater. In the attempt to recover best part of his losses, it is stated that he invested with tbe aid of several Cùtntnl!;J()lIer, one of whom he rewarded with f", about PjS,000 on Everitt, at prices ranging between 5 it 2 and 3 to 1, but the horse retreated in the quota- tions when it was known that the plunger In i piled his money on Lord Ailesbury's represents taya