South Wales Daily News

SWANSEA AND THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. SCHEME UNDER CONSIDERATION. It is pleasing to learn that Swansea, which few years ago actually went so far as to invite tenders for the electric lighting of the town, is, I now that the possibility of priyate companies TOtering the field has been discovered, again I takmg active measures to realise so necessary an object for the town. The committee—which consists of Aldermen Martin, Chapman, 'futton, H'chards, and Mason, and Councillors Freeman, Lindley, and Morgan—has recently held several meetings, while interviews with four experts have been had with the object of obtaining the best and most reliable information. Several schemes Slave been suggested, but none have as yet been definitely decided on. Two include the destruc- tion of the town refuse by means of destructors," the dust from the destroyed refuse being spoken of as an auxiliary fuel for working the necessary electrical machinery. The committee have determined to do nothing without the advice of an expert, and accordingly they have engaged Mr Manville, the well- known consulting engineer, of the firm of Kinnaird and Manvills, to whom they will pay 50 guineas for a. compre- hensive report as to the best way of lighting the town by electricity, and of utilising the town refuse. It is intended not to confine the opera- tion of the scheme to street lighting, but also to supply the electric light to private houses. It is expected that the cost of the schema will be $30,000.

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT THE MUMBLES. At the Swansea Police-court on Friday, Sarah Derham, domestic servant, a native of Pembroke, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by talfipg ^quantity of vanilla' and prussic acid, st the Caswell Bay Hotel, on the 29th nit.—Rose Cooke, housemaid at the hotel, said that at 10.15 on the morning in queetion prisoner entered her bedroom .carrying a small bottle, and after twallowing its contents she lay across the bed and said, "I have taken poison." Witness picked up the bottle, and, finding confirmation on the label, called assistance. By this time defen- dant was crying out that her inside was burning and she was beating 4ier chest in her agonies' Asked what she had taken she said, I don't know, only that it was poison.Air Wm Henson spoke to having taken the necessary means to cause defendant to vomit.-P.C. Evans aid when he arrested defendant she said. "I took nothing. Defendant was remanded to the county sessions to-day.

THE CARDIFF ST. GERMAN'S FAIlt. Sir Morgan Morgan^rmed the founh d jnaugural ceremony at the New Year's Fair and Z,F.:RK attendance, notwithstanding the keen north-ea"! winds aud wintry weather which prevailed. Sir Morgan Morgan extolled the devotion to dutv displayed by the clergy of Cardiff, and especially those of Roath. He remembered when there was but one church at Roath and although the °°"ld,only accommodate from 80 to 100 Xoro 9 °*tea been there when there rr,an ^0Zen psople present at the service. Things had vastly changed in Roath church-matters since that- J i_ was a large body of activ« y I "0W t,h?re 2S. £ ft •5? ?5BW5?S! corfi.li; wished tb, b«™" S,r success • and nr. i.i the fullest measure of success and, on the motion of the Rev. Mr to him. a vote of thanks was heartily passed to him. W.. [BY OUR LADY CORRESPONDENT. J We are particularly asked, by the promoters of to-day. Tt™" ™ °p to. Wh,s, th.'sMl holders b" °° last nitrhf • g d oub and retired" beine tenmted u"6' DO one need be afraid of There will be two"* raS^,y and repent at leisure. ISt.TjJO and0,^ «-»»— -*■ mt j nnr r, a concert, at which Madame Williams-Penn has « ji. „ „ lU "*s kindly offered to sing, and amateur theatricals. fair was well-attended yesterdav and Miss Watkms s oancmg again drew a larg-e' and enthusiastic crowd at the 7 p.m. pageant? Two lovely bouquets were presented to her by the received an<^ Payers, &a, which she gracefully

TO-DAY'S WEATHER. 4.30 A.M. vnt> DAY'S FORECAST F0& ENGLAND, S.W., AND SOUTH WALES Easterly winds, force doubtful; unsettleci some snow. GENERA!.—The weather will probable remain in a very unset- tled state, with snow in most dis- tricts. WARNINGS. —The north cone is ap in 0 to 2, 6, 7, 9, and 10.

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r LONDON LETTER. » —— [FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] [SPECIALLY WIRED.] LONDON, Friday Night. AN EIGHT HOURS' DAY." Opportunity was afforded, this afternoon, to Mr Campbell-Bannerman, through the medium of a question by Mr John Burns, to make an announcement of far-reaching interest with reference to the adoption of an eight hours' day in the factories con- trolled by the War Department. For some time experiment has been made at the cartridge factory, at Woolwich, as to the I practical working of an Eight Hours' Day, and it is understood that Mr Mather, and other large employers with experience in I this matter have given to the department their expert help in the direction of con- ducting calculations to show the effect the adoption of the system would be likely to have on the public service. These came out all in favour of the change. When, therefore, Mr Burns asked to-day whether the experiment at the cartridge factory had been successful enough to war- rant the extension of the system to all departments under the War Office, Mr Campbell-Bannerman was ready to say that the result of careful consideration and in- quiry had been to satisfy himself and his colleagues that the condition and circum- stances of these factories and the nature of the work in them are such 3.< to admit of a reduction of hours to 48 per week, an average of eight per day, with advantage both to the public service and men employed. He proposed to direct that this change shall be brought into opera- tion as soon as the changes incident thereto can be made. Mr Bannerman added the expression of a hope that he must look for the loyal co-operation of the work- men in a change which it is trusted will prove beneficial both to them and to the public. WITH NO REDUCTION OF WAGES. The "Woolwich Infant" had endeavoured to interpose a question whether this re- duction of hours will involve any decrease in wages, but, ignoring him, Mr Bannerman answered a similay question by Mr Burns to the effect that he had no expectation there will be any necessity for such reduction. ITS EFFECT. I understand that this decision will affect some 20,000 men in the arsenal and small arms factories, but its importance is held to be less in its immediate bearing on these artisans than in the moral effect it will have in the world of labour, both in this country and on the Continent. Mr John Burns makes no secret of his belief that the fruit borne by the action of England in thus officially leading a movement for the emanci- pation of adult workers will show it to be "the biggest thing" that has happened since this country made herself the pioneer of the great departure involved in the Factory Acts for the protection of young persons and children. The House received Mr Bannerman's statements with expres- sions of warm satisfaction. THE BANK OF ENGLAND SCARE. The questions handed in by Dr. Hunter as to the Bank of England, of which I gave the text yesterday, not only were absent from the paper to-day, but they were not asked. This is understood to be the result of representations made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the undesirability of publicly propounding inquiries of this kind respecting an institution like the Bank, The bulk of them involving points con- nected with the Barings and other specified transactions therefore disappear. but Mr Hunter will probably put down for a future day that part of his question which relates to the discontinuance of the publi- cation of balance-sheets since 1878, and to the possibility of their resumption. For it it felt that a document of this kind would do much to lessen the facilities for any tendency to injurious rumour that exists when everything is kept dark. APPOINTMENT OF MAGISTRATES. In the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835, as introduced into the Commons, it was proposed that the appointment ef justices should be vested in the corporations; This was struck out by the Lords. Mr Morton (Devonport) had a notice on the paper to-day of a Bill intended to re- introduce this proposal both as to municipal boroughs and county councils. As, however, he was not in his place when the thirteen questions on the paper had been disposed of in 18 minutes, there was nothing to pre- vent the House from at once going into committee on the Local Government Bill when it was yet tbarely half-past three. THE COMING PARISH ELECTIONS. Harking back to the postponed clauses, the first of importance was 62, and on this Mr Fowler gave an important explanation on the Government's proposed solution of the difficulties that cropped up a few nights ago respecting the time when the elections shall be held and the new authorities come into operation. Recognising that any at- tempt to hold elections on the existing register would be impossible and most un- satisfactory, Mr Fowler proposed to ask Parliament to pass a short Registration Act accelerating this year's registrations and appointing additional revising barristers. In this way it is hoped that the revision may be completed by October next, the elections being fixed for the 8th of November, up to which date the present authorities will continue to act. It is proposed that the councils thus elected shall continue in office until April, 1896, the second elections not taking place until then. This, being generally regarded as satisfactory, was accepted with but little controversy. THE LIBERATIONISTS AND HORN CASTLE. The story told in one of the evening news- papers that Mr CarveJl Williams had an interview yesterday with Mr Gladstone is quite true, but it would not be safe to adopt the assumption that it related to Mr Torr's views on Disestablishment. THE BAPTISTS. The Baptists in London will shortly have an important addition to their ministerial power by the acquisition of the Rev. J. F. Shearer, who has accepted the charge of one of the leading West End churches. This is at Notting-hill Gate, where Mr Shearer succeeds Principal Roberts. The decision has given lively satisfaction to the members of the congregation. Mr Shearer began his ministerial career at Middlesbrough. He is now at Bromley, where he has made a very decided mark. Those who are familiar with his teaching predict a striking success for him in London. Mr Shearer is quite a young man, and his theological views are Liberal. THE BABEL OF MANY TONGUES. In the absence of a universal language, the ill-fated Volaput having come to a timely end, a question pnt down by Mr Luttrell opens rather a wide problem to the Board of Trade. One of the most thrilling incidents of the late gales took place at Boscastle, on the north coast of Cornwall, where the crew of an Italian ship, the Iona, were rescued from a position of great peril with addi- tional diiffculty, because of their inability to read the directions printed on the label attached to the rocket life saving apparatus. These are now printed in English and French. Mr Luttrell proposes to ask whether they cannot also be repeated m Italian, German, and Spanish 1 But supposing this is done ? Will not the Russians and Greeks, and other nations with diverse languages, also have a grievance ? And what if the imperilled mariners are illiterate ? A NICE LAND QUESTION. Mr Sexton has discovered a case in Ireland in which an occupying purchaser of a farm was refused permission by the Land Commission to sell an acre for use as a parish graveyard unless that acre should continue, as well as the farm, to be liable for repayment of the full annuity in respect of the purchase money of the entire holding. Mr Sexton proposes to ask Mr Morley the law that constrained the commission to make this a condition of the transfer. THE SNOW, THE SNOW. In some provincial towns I know, every snowstorm is the sure precursor of indig- nant remonstrances, addressed to the news- papers by householders, protesting against the obligation placed upon each resident to have the snow cleared from the foot- path of his frontage. The occur- rence of empty houses and of dilatory householders makes this a very piebald arrangement, for while the work is perhaps thoroughly done opposite some houses it is not attempted opposite others. In London we are just now treated to protests against 51Ae official arrang^wuaat so warmly ad-1 vocated in the provinces, for here, during the last few years, the vestries have undertaken to do the duty. I am bound to say that so far as my experi- ence goes, they have done it well, and with excellently uniform results. But this is not the universal opinion, as appears from various noisy protests in the newspapers from people whose streets have been over- looked. But even that is hardly worse than a partial clearing, where for every stretch of clean walking you encounter oases of snow broth.

REVOLUTION IN HONDURAS. 150 KILLED OR WOUNDED. NEW YORK, Friday.—The following despatch from Moinagua, the Nicaraguan capital, is pub- lished by the World-.— GeneralBonilla, the leader of the Honduras insurgents, stormed and took Choluteea. 150 men being killed or wounded. General Villela commanded the Government troops, and then retreated on Rancherias. General Oritz, commanding the Nicaraguan forces, has I been ordered to await the attack of ths Honduras troops, and then immediately to invade the country. The Government has levied a forced loan of 350,000 dollars on the merchants. The Herald confirms the report that Choluteea has been taken by General Bonilla, and says that General Williams and several officers were cap- tured. The despatch continues as follows :— President Vasquez is held in check by Nicara- guan troops near Guscaran. The invading allies will march immediately upon Tegucigalpa. General Bonilla has chosen the following Cabinet, of which he himself has assumed the presidency Senor Caesar Bonilla, Minis- ter for Foreign Affairs; Senor Angel Arias, Minister of the Interior Senor Miguel Bavela, Minister of Finance General Manuel Bonilla, Minister of War. A decree has been issued by President Delaya, of Nicaragua, recognising General Bonilla. It recites Nicaragua's rievances against General Vasquez, the Honduras Presi. dent, and proclaims formal allianoe with General Bonilla in the war against General Vasquez.— Meuter.

CONTINENTAL ANARCHISTS. THE PARIS OUTRAGE. VAILLANT'S TRIAL POSTPONED. PARIS, Friday.—The trial of the Anarchist Vaillant, the avowed perpetrator of the recent bomb outrage in the Chamber of Depuries, has after all been psstponed. The jury assembled this morning in the council chamber of the court,and there were informed by the president of the adjournment. Maitre Labori has consented to appear as counsel for the prisoner and will confer to-day with his client and the president of the assizes. He is doubtful, however, whether he will be prepared to begin the defence to-morrow. Under these circumstances the trial will probably be set down for the early part of next week, as the authorities wish to dispose of it as quickly as possible.—Renter. PARIS, Friday.—Orders have been given to the chief police commissaries in the provinces to seize the latest number of the Anarchist journal, Pere Peinard, and the almanac issued by that journal. Contrary to the statements of the home journals, it is declared that searches at the lodgings of Anarchists have led to several discoveries. At the residence of M. Elisee Reclus 60 interesting letters are said to have been found, mostly written by Germans, but some by Swiss and French Anarch ists. —Reutev. CARMACX, Friday.—An Anarchist was arrested here in the act of purchasing a Pere Pienard and the Revolte. When taken into custody he cried, "Vive Ravachol." He admitted having served a term of imprisonment for robbery.—Renter. TOULON, Thursday.—The police yesterday searched rooms occupied by two Anarchists here and seized a number of papers. The examining magistrate has opened an inquiry regarding the recent Anarchist meeting here at which violent speeches were delivered. Several journalists have been summoned to give information, and it is believed that proceedings will be taken against the promoters of the meeting.— Renter.

LIBELLING THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR. A BOOKSELLER FINED 100 MARKS. BERLIN, Friday. — Herr Gloess, a Dresden bookseller, was to-day fined 100 marks for a libel alleged to be directed against Count von Caprivj, the German Imperial Chancellor. The libel was contained in an illustrated pamphlet, entitled Bismarck in Berlin." Prince Bismarck was called as a witness but the president of the court rebeived a letter from Dr Sch wellInger, Prince Bismarck's physician, which stated that the Prince was ill, and was un- able to attend the court.—Renter.

ATROCIOUS MURDER IN AUSTRIA. A JEWISH FAMILY BUTCHERED. VIENNA, Friday Afternoon.—A terrible crime is reported from Groes Kalitz, a village near Koniggratz. Last night several men, broke into the house of a Jewish merchant named Loewy, attacked the inmates, and brutally killed Loewy, his wife, and two of his daughters. A third daughter was knocked on the head and left for dead, and the murderers thenilooted the house and fled. The last-named girl was fortunately found alive, and she was able to give a description of the criminals, with the result that one of them was arrested this morning.—Central News,

THE DUBLIN MURDER. PRISONERS AGAIN REMANDED. John Nolan and John Merna were again charged on remand yesterday—before Mr Svvifte in the Dublin Police-court-with having mur- dered Patrick Reid, at Cardiff-lane, Dublin, on the night of November 27th last. For the conveni- ence of Serjeant Dodd and Mr MacDermott, who represented the Crown, the case was not taken up till after two o'clock when the court was crowded. Mr O'Shaughnessy, Q.C., and Mr Macinerdey conducted the defence. At the opening of the proceedings, and before any witnesses were called, Mr Serjeant Dodd applied for a further remand, on the ground that the case is still under investigation, aud it would be prejudicial to the ends of justice to proceed further at present. Mr O'Shaughnessy resisted the motion, but Mr Swifte granted a fnrther remand for a week, stating that he would expect evidence when the case came next before him, or precedents showing that the prosecutoion was entitled to a remand without limit.

NEW VICEROY OF INDIA. DEPARTURE OF THE EARL AND COUNTESS ELGIN. Earl and Countess Elgin left Victoria yesterday morning for Brindisi, where they will join the steamship Rome for India. A great number of friends assembled to wish the new Viceroy good- bye.

NORTHUMBERLAND MINERS' WAGES, AN ADVANCE SOUGHT. A communication has been received at the Coal Trade Offices, Newcastle, from the officials of the Northumberland Miners' Association, with respect to an advance of wages sought by the miners of the county. A meeting between the representa- tives of the employers and the men has been arranged for Saturday, 13th inst. The men are at present receiving 5 per cent. advance on the wages received some time ago— an advance that was given provisionally for six fortnightly pays.

DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK & THIiJ AUSTRALIANS The Marquis of Ripon has sent the following telegram to the Governors of the Australian Colonies, Tasmania, and New Zealand :— January 4th, 1894.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York have received with great pleasure the hearty and gratifying invitation to pay a visit to the Australasian Colonies. Such a visit would be most agreeable to them. But with deep regret, and after full consideration, they feel obliged to reply that circumstances prevent the possibility of their now accepting a proposal which would have givon them the greatest possible pleasure. His Royal Highness desires me to add that he has the most pleasant recollections of his former visit, and he hopes it may not be his last."

DR DE JONGH'S LIGHT-BROWN COD LIVES OIL.-IN THE WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN ITS EFFICACY IS UNEQUALLED.—Dr R. C. Croft, author of Handbook for the Nursery," writes I have tried Dr de Jongh's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil, and find that it contains all the properties which render the Oil so efficacious. Dr de Jongh's Oil is almost a specific in many of the Diseases peculiar to Infancy and Child hood, and I have seen marked benefit produced by its use. Patients prefer it to the Pale Oils, and are able to retain it more comfortably." Sold only in capsuled Imperial Half-pints, 2s 6d Pints, 4s 9d Quarts, 9s by all chemists. Sole Consignees. Ansar, Harford, and G., umi- 210, Hifth ,HoiS«i3j» Loudosu i4r..

MATABELE CAMPAIGN. THRILLING STORIES OF THE FIGHTS. TOLD BY TWO OF THE OFFICERS. DRIVING THE MATABELE OUT. HOW LOBENGULA WAS DEFEATED. The story of how Lobengula was defeated by the Chartered Company's troops m Matabeleland M, has been told by Captains the Hon. C. J. White and C. H. W. Donovan Both have been through the campaign, the first-named being in command of the scoutmg parties of the combined Salisbury and Victoria columns, and the latter attached to the artillery of the Victoria column. WHERE CAPTAIN CAMPBELL WAS KILLED. After recounting how the initial brush with the Matabele occurred, Captain White goes on to trace the progress of the fighting. He says About the 16th or 17th October we got in touch with the Salisbury column, at Thaba Inzimba (Iron Mine Hill), and the scouts then had their first brush with the Matabele, near Indaima's Mountain. The Salisbury column also came in contact with the natives, and it was at this time that Captain Campbell was killed, while chasing two or three natives round some rocks. There were two impis of the Matabele who kept going along the border and driving away the cattle with them as they went. Two or three days after this the two columns started together for Buluwayo, headed by their united scouts. Captain Gwynydd WiUiams was sent forward, and came back with the information that the natives were at the Insukamim Kraal, about 20 miles to the north- west. Captain Williams, in performing this duty, rode 60 odd miles out and back, starting from camp at about noon and returning at 10 p.m., taking about 10 men with him, a very smart bit of riding." THE BURNING OF BULUWAYO. Captain Donovan then takes up the story. We started from Buluwayo," he says, about eleven o'clock, the distance before us being, as we were told, about 15 or 20 miles. We came up to the kraal about half an hour after sun- rise, and saw that there was a river running on each side of it. Major Wilson, who was in charge of the whole column, divided it into two parties. One under Captain Heany was to attack the enemy on the left, and the other, of which he was in charge, was to attack them in the front. The party on the left had orders not to fire until Major Wilson fired one shot as a signal. We advanced, keeping well under cover on the other side of the river, and Captain Lendy put the Maxim gun on an ant-hill com- manding the kraal. Several rounds being fired by the Salisbury Maxim, and there being no response from the kraal, the Cease fire' was sounded. Advancing into the kraal, we found that it was deserted, nothing being left in it but one or two old, sick cows. We went all round the place, and observed that there was splendid formation for gold-in fact, a reef ran right through the kraal, which was on the borders of the Samabula. Forest. Prior to our return we fired the military portion of the kraal." DESPERATE VALOUR OF THE NATIVES. Speaking of the attack of the 25th, Captain White says:—"In this first attack the Mata- bele came up to within 60 or 70 yards of the laagers. Several of the men were wounded, and also the horses. The Maxim guns played a very prominent part during this engagement. There was not a single instance of jamming, nor was there any hitch. The first attack lasted until daybreak, when the Matabele retired a few hundred yards, and the firing almost ceased on our side. Major Forbes ordered out a troop, under Captain Heany, from the laager to 16lear the bush. On going out this troop was attacked ty the enemy, who were in hiding, and eventually the party had to return to the laager, whea fire was re-opened. The Matabele once more advanced from all sides, and closed in, but they were driven back both by the deadly fire of the Maxims and by the double line of fire delivered from the men both on the waggons and under them. This constituted the second attack. Upon the enemy again retiring to a certain distance, Major Forbes sent out mounted men from both laagers to engage the enemy. These men held their ground for some time, but were ultimately driven back, the Matabele pursuing them, but they were not forced to retire into the laager. This constituted the third attack of the Matabele." MORE ABOUT CAPTAIN WILLIAMS. Unfortunately, as has before been related, Captain Williams was unable to get away and was killed. The rest of the party had a very narrow escape, having to ride along the whole front of the enemy, who were firing at them. Mr Swinburne had a hairbreadth escape, the Matebele being so close to him that he heard them say «• Now we've got him." Just at that moment he Cleared the end of the line, and, turn- ing round in the saddle, shouted, "No, you beggars, you have not got me yet." During the firing a bullet passed through his handkerchief and through the back of his shirt. All the scouts and flanking parties got back to the column after dark. It was then impossible to send out at once to search for Captain Williams, but rockets from the column were sent up in order to show him its position. Next morning a party went out to try and discover his whereabouts. They reporte'd that they had followed up his spoor, but on going past a kraal they were fired upon and had to retire. We remained in laager all the next day in a very good po-si tion close by the river, hoping all the while that Captain Williams might turn up. MATABELE AND THEIR WOMEN- KIND. The King was supposed to be in the little valley just across the small line of kopjes north of the mission-station. Commandant Raaf and the Bechuanaland Border Police went to the left, the Salisbury and Victoria contingent to the right the Maxims were in the middle. The bush on the kopjes was very thick and stonv. We ad- vanced quietly through the bush, 'and beard shouting to our left front, and saw a lot of natives running across our front from the mission- houses. We were within an ace of opening fire, when suddenly a cry arose of Women, women." All rifles were immediately lowered, and a good deal ot chaff was freely flung about for going to shoot women." They were brought in, and we advanced to the kopje, where we found several hundred head of cattle about to be driven away, but not many Matabele, for they had fled in their usual gallant manner, leaving their women to fall into the enemy's hands, preferring to try and save their cattle. We found several shields and assegais thrown away. Mr Colenbrander had a narrow escape m the bush owing to a Matabele waiting for him and suddenly rushing on him with his assegai, but Mr Colenbrander was luckily able to guard it, and settle accounts with his assailant. As the king was not there, and there was no s)gn either of him or of his waggon, we collected as many of the cattle as we could and retired to Inyati Mission Station. The women who had been brought m were interrogated by Mnjor Forbes to ascertain the whereabouts of Lobengula and his army, and we were all struck by the charming, frank, and open manner in which one of them spoke. She was sitting on the ground, partaking of snuff at frequent intervals, with her small baby in her arms, surrounded by a crowd of white men, and yet, do you thinkshe wasdisconcerted or flurried? Not at all Far from it. Many ladies in Eng- land might learn a lesson from her, she was so composed. ATROCITIES BY THE NATIVES. The doctors were employed the whole day in tending our wounded men, the friendly natives, and several of the Matabele who were picked up on the field wounded and unable to be carried away by their own people. There was one little Mashona girl brought in, about ten or twelve years old, assegaied through the back. We kept her alive for about a week. It was pitiable to hear her crying and moaning with pain, and then she died. We also brought in several Mashona children, many of them so badly wounded by these savages that they only lived for a few hours." A DENIAL FROM CAPTAIN WHITE. In conclusion, Captain White denies that he stated the Maxim mowed" down the Matabele. What I did say," he remarks, was that in one or two instances, where the Maxims were turned on to the Matabele to prevent them completing their formation round the laagers, they lay pretty thick in these spots. I have always put down the number of casualties, that is, killed and wounded, as between 1,500 and 2,000. The suggestion of 3,000 is incorrect."

EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON AMERICAN CITIZENS. SENTENCE ON THE "REVJOHN HOWARD." NEW YORK, Friday. —Sentence was yesterday pronounced on the Rev. John Howard, alias John Lord Moore, at Jackson City, Tennessee. He had been found guilty of defrauding American citizens by means of a fictitious next of kin agency in London, by which he had extorted considerable sums of money for fees from alleged heirs to property. Howard was sentenced to ten years and nine months' imprisonment and fined 1,800 dols.-Central News.

FATAL COLLIIERY DISASTER. THREE LIVES LOST. GRLSENKIRCHEN (GERMANY), Friday.—An ex- plosion of fire damp occurred at the Hibernia Shaft here to-day. Three miners were killed ont- right and four sustained serious injuries.-Beuter.

SHOCKING FIRE IN LINCOLN- SHIRE, A FAMILY BURNT TO DEATH. An aged couple named Collins, living at Wrangle, near Boston, Lincolnshire, with an imbecile son, were burnt to death on Thursday night. Their cottage caught fire, and as a great snowstorm was raging at the time, the con- flagration was not noticed until too late to render assistance.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A SERVANT GIRL, CONFESSION BY A FARM LABOURER. A Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, yesterday, John Morris Jones, farm servant, aged 18, was again remanded for the attempted murder of a servant girl named Mary Ann Price. The prisoner, who baa confessed the crime, had, in the absence of his master, Mr John Jones, attempted to murder the girl by striking her a violent blow on the back ot her head with an axe, after stealing some of his master's money from a chest of drawers. The unfortunate girl is not cut of danger.

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT A Glasgow correspondent says:—A rail- way accident occurred on Thursday night on the City Union Railway of the North- British Co. A well-filled passenger train ran 'nto a slag-box, weighing thirty-three t., which had fallen over the retaining wall James Aitken the driver, was violently knocked against his engine and badly hurt. The locomotive and first carriage were derailed, but no passengers were injured.

A KITCHEN BOILER EXPLODES. ONE PERSON KILLED TWO INJURED. A kitchen boiler exploded yesterday afternoon at the residence of Lady Mary Scott, Grafton- street, Piccadilly. A child, aged 12, was killed, and the caretaker an i a friend badly injured.

THE HENLEY TRAGEDY. MURDER OF A HOUSEKEEPER. Walter Rathall was remanded by the Henley county magistrates yesterday on a chargre of murdering Miss Dungey, housekeeper at Ham- bridge House, near Henley. Merely formal evidence was given of the arrest of the prisoner at Daventry, where he was found at a lodging-house with his wife and child.

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ALARMING NEWS FROM WEST AFRICA. — O DISASTER TO A BRITISH FORCE. IN COLLISION WITH FRENCH TROOPS. THREE OFFICERS AND 26 MEN KILLED. THE BRITISH LEADER AMONG THE SLAIN. A FRENCH OFFICER CAPTURED. SIERRA LEONE, Friday. — Serious news has been received of the British expedition despatched from here against the Safas, a tribe which has given great trouble to the British traders. There has been sharp fighting, but no particulars are to hand beyond the fact that Captain Lendy, Inspector-General of the Frontier Police, and 26 of his men were killed, and that some officers and men of the 1st Battalion West India Regiment also fell fighting. It is reported that the expedition came into collision with a body of French troops owing to a misapprehension on the part of the French Commander, and that a French officer was captured. The officers killed, beside Captain Lendy, were named Roughton and Liston, a sergeant, and 26 men of the West India Regiment. AN INEXPLICABLE MISTAKE. The Central News says :—Despatches respecting the deplorable misadventure in Sierra Leone reached the Foreign Office and the War Office this afternoon, but their contents were not allowed to transpire. It is understood, however, that the disaster was entirely due to the action of the French, who, mistaking the British force, opened fire upon our men without provocation or warning. A later Central News telegram says that the first news of the Sierra Leone affair was received by Messrs Elder, Dempster, and Company, of Liverpool, the managers of the line of steamers to West Africa. The ill-fated Captain Lendy was some time since supposed to be hemmed in by the natives of a place called Koranko, and an expeditionary force of the West India Regiment was sent up the country with instructions to report immediately as to the actual situation. A large force of the same regiment shortly afterwards followed from Sierra Leone, but it would appear that the men attacked by the French were not under Captain Lendy, unless by some unexpected means the expeditionary force had joined them. Captain Lendy, who was really in charge of the recently organised frontier police, left Liverpool in November, 1892, and has been in Africa since. At the time the French took the Hera Makonah, a town which is said to be English, Captain Lendy was sent up with a small force of fourteen police, and stayed at the English town of Taluta, relieving a small British garrison. Since then very conflicting re- ports have been received of Capt. Lendy's whereabouts.

DISTURBED SICILY. THE RIOTING RENEWED. DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH THE MILITARY. THIRTY PERSONS KILLED AND FIFTY WOUNDED. ROME, Friday.—According to a despatch from the Palermo correspondent of the Corriere Di Napoli, a serious affray has taken place at Matineo, a town ot 10,000 inhabitants, south of Palermo. A bcdy of rioters demanding abolition of the Octroi, were about to attack the town-hall, when troops confronted them. In the fight that ensued, 30 persons are said to have been killed and 50 wounded. Details are not yet forthcoming. Other despatches from Palermo to the Corriere state that a. central committee of the Fasce dei Lavoratori has addressed a manifesto to the workmen of Sicily, declaring the present disturb- ances to be the painful but necessary consequence, of the present order of things, which is inexorably condemned. The manifesto demands concessions from the Government, stating that the working classes will thus test the genuineness cf the humanitsrian declamation of the bourgeoisie. The workmen are called upon to organise, but to return quietly to their houses, inasmuch as no durable advantages can accrue from isolated and convulsive action. It was in conse- quence of this manifesto that Deputy De Felice Guiffreda and the Presidents of the Fasce dei Lavoratori at Trapanto, Messina, and Girgenti were arrested with three other members of the association. At Palermo the local branch of the Fasce has been dissolved. The police made a search at the offices and seized several documents ROME, Friday. Further rioting is re- ported to day from Sicily, this time at Calatafima, ll1 the proviuce of Trapani. Incited by local agitators a band af peasants, several hundred strong, assembled in the out- skirts of the town, and made a. furious attack on Octroi officers, shouting Down with the Octroi; we want a free Commune." Members of the municipal council have abandoned their post in fear. A telegram from Palermo to Folchetto announced that besides Signor de Felice Guiffride several other leaders of the Fasce del Lavoratori have been arrested.—Renter.

THE ARDLAMONT MYSTERY. MONSON TELLS WHO SCOTT IS. PROBABLE SURRENDER OF THE MISSING MAN. In an interview with a solicitor which Alfred Monson had yesterday in Birmingham in con- nection with his protest against the exhibition of his effigy at Xussaud's Waxworks, he explained the antecedents of Scott, or Sweeney. He said his real name is Sweeney, that he is a bookmaker, and that he came to Ardlamont to see Lieutenant Hambrough, who had been betting with him at Hull races and had not settled up. To induce Sweeney to wait for his money, Hambrough invited him to remain as his guest and introduced him to his fellow-officers who were shooting with him as a gentleman of means named Scott. After Hambrough's death, Sweeney resolved to clear out in order that he might not have to expose his real position. Monson says Sweeney has been in London all the time, and he knows his address, but will not call upon him for fear it might lead to his arrest. He considers that in all probability, however, Sweeney will very shortly surrender himself to thepohoe, in order to have the pro- ceedings against him disposed of.

iAi 1 THE MONSONS AND LIEUTENANT HAMBROUGH'S PROPERTY. The Central News learns that Messrs Brown and Company, solicitors, of 28, Charing Cross. Whitehall, yesterday lodged a caveat on behalf of Mrs Agnes Maud Monson, at the principal registry of the P;e'oate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice against a grant of letters of administration to the estate of the late Windsor Dudley Cecil Hambrough. There have been, adds the Central News, two previous caveats lodged, one by Messrs Gordon and Son, on behalf of Mr Tottenham, and one by Messrs Prince and Plummer, of Fleet-street.

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE IN THE BOROUGH. THREE PERSONS SHOT BY A BEGGAR. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MISCREANT. The Press Association says an attempted murder, resulting in four persons being shot, occurred yesterday afternoon in South London. About four o'clock a man entered a jeweller's shop owned by Mrs Myers, in Newington Cause- way, and, it is stated, asked for help. This being refused, the man puiled out a revolver and shot Mrs Myers, her grandson, and her shopman. Police-constable 63 M rushed to the spot and at- tempted to arrest the would-be murderer, who ran away. After going a short distance he perceived that the constable was fol. lowing him, and thereupon put the revolver to his head and shot himself in tha right temple. Ambulances were procured and the injured persons were conveyed with all haste to Guy's Hospital. The injuries to Mrs Myers, her grandson, and shopman were all inflicted in the head, and in the case of Mrs Myers the injuries are considered by the resident surgeon at Guy's Hospital to be more serious than those of either her grandson or shopman. They are all detained in the hospital. The author of the outrage, whose name is at present unknown, is also lying in the hospital unconscious. At present little hopes are entertained of his recovery.

Seven deaths from the worst form of yellow fever occurred in Rio de Janeiro on the 2nd inst.

ARCTIC WEATHER. SEVERE FROST AND HEAVY SNOWFALLS. DEATHS FROM EXPOSURE. MAIL-CARTS SNOWED UP. THE THAMES FROZEN OVER. The' Press Association says wintry weather of extreme severity prevails in the Metropolis and throughout the United Kingdom. In the out- lying districts of London snow lies to a consider- able depth, but traffic has not been Aeriously impeded. The frost is increasing m intensity, and skating prospects are favourable. A further fall of snow has been threatened during the day. Press Association correspondents in various parts of the kingdom record the prevalence of very exceptional weather, with gales and blizzards in some places. VICTIMS TO THE COLD. At Bombay, yesterday, a man named Marlow was drowned through an ice accident on the canal. At Swafihatn, Norfolk, a platelayer name Stevens fell dead while on duty. The intense cold had affected his heart. At Holbeach, Lincolnshire, yesterday, an old man named Smith was found frozen. He appeared while walking on the road, to have died from exposure. MAIL COACHES SNpWED UP. Between 12 and 2 a.m. yesterday the two Royal parcel mail coaches running between London and Tunbridge Wells were snowed up within 50 yards of each other, near the Pothill Arms. The coaches, which got into five feet of snow, were dug out with the assistance of about 30 men. The down coach, due at Sevenoaks at 3 a.m., arrived at 2 p.m. i The driver of the Sleaford mail cart arrived at Peterborough yesterday and reported that the cart became embedded in asnowdnftat Aslackby, Lines., on Thursday night. Every effort to extri- cate it was fruitless, and the vehicle had to be abandoned. The mail bags, however, were secured. THE THAMES FROZEN OVER. Telegrams from Windsor and Marlow state the Thames is frozen over, and skating on the river is likely to become general. At Frogmore Gardens last year 18 degrees of frost were regis- tered 24 degrees were registered at Marlow. BLIZZARD IN NORTH WALES. A fearful bhzzard was blowing all Thursday night from the east in North Wales. Small icy particles were driven before the blast in dense storms, and, when fallen, were swept up bythegale. Yesterday morning the wind moderated, and snow fell more thickly. All the lakes and ponds are frozen over. At Scarborough the weather has been excep- tionally severe on the coast. The wind has been blowing a gale, accompanied by a heavy snowfall. In South Scotland it is feared that the railways will be blocked by a severe snowstorm which prevails. A Kirkby Stephen telegram states that yester- day afternoon a passenger train was embedded for several hours in the snow between Kirkby Stephen and Barnard Castle. The main road to Tebay is also blocked. THREE MEN DROWNED NEAR BRISTOL. The Press Association's Bristol correspondent telegraphs :—About nine o'clock this evening. while several persons were skating at Duchesses Pond, Stapleton, a large sheet of water about two miles from Bristol, the ice in one part suddenly gave way, and four men were immersed. A scene of great excite- ment followed, and efforts were made by others on the pond to effect a rescue, but they were only successful in one case, and the three other poor fellows were drowned. COLDEST WEATHER IN CARDIFF FOR 20 YEARS. Though at the time of writing the piercing blast, which made the intense cold of Thursday more severely felt, had lost its strength, the thermometer was registeriug several degrees of frost, and there seemed to be no likelihood of an immediate break up of the hard weather. Ponds and ornamental waters in the district wer frozen hard yesterday, and hundreds of skaters disported themselves at Ely, in the Sophia Gardens, and the timber pond below Wood-street Bridge. The Taff was also ice-bound, and there was sufficient thickness of ice on the river at Canton Bridge to support a few venturesome spirits on Friday morning. In Roath Park it is expected that there will be skating to-day, but yesterday it was deemed advisable to restrain over-anxious skaters till the ice had attained greater thickness. During the day sleet fell, and there was a rather sharp fall in the evening. The heavy grey clouds overhead continue to threaten snow. As to Thursday night, the temperature recorded-17"2-1s said to be the lowest in Cardiff for at least 20 years. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN CARDIFF STREETS. During the early hours of yesterday morning P.C. Bridle, while patrolling Llandaff-road, Car- diff, came across a man (whose name and address are unknown) lying unconscious on the road near Penhill. The officer took the man to Canton Police-station and summoned Dr. Evans, of Cowbridge-road, who stated that the man was probably suffering from exposure to the severe weather. Dr. Evans ordered the man's remova to the Union Workhouse, whither he was con- veyed and detained. SWANSEA. The weather continues very cold at Swansea, 10 below freezing point being registered on Friday morning. Early in the morning there was a fall of snow, which had the effect of greatly impeding traffic, and of preventing the running of the Morriston tramcars. There are several sheets of fine ice at Porth- cawl for skating, which game was in full swing on Thursday and Friday. A number of YOUDg men fell through some thin ice on Thursday. Snow has fallen to the thickness of two inches or so at Porthcawl,

OVERDUE CARDIFF-LADEN "y-, SHIP. The large iron sailing ship, Port Yarrock, a regular trader from Cardiff for many years past, is considered very much overdue. She is now 183 days on passage from Santa Rosalia to the United Kingdom and re-insurances have been effected at high rates. A fair average passage is I only 100 to 110 days.

AN ORIGINAL NOVEL—"HIGHLAND COUSTXS"- by Mr William Black, commences in this week's CardiffTimesand South Wales Weekly News. NEW SHORT STORY EVERY WEEK.—On Satur- day next will be published in the Cardiff Times and Smith Wales Weekly News a new short story .complete) entitled, la this World One can Never Tell,"by F. tXPhilioa.

NEWS IN BRIEF. In Germany the makers of artificial eyes eara about 9s 6d per week. A young seal was captured in Aberdeen Harbour on Thursday. We understand that the Dean of Bangor is now recovering from his recent illness. Mr and Mrs Gladstone will leave London to- day for Brighton, returning on Monday. A committee to deal with clergy pensions has been formed in the diocese of Bath and Wells. A private telegram from Lord Brassey states that he met with no accident at Calcutta, as re- ported last week. Mr Manfield, M.P.. the junior member for Northampton, has decided not to seek re-election. A granddaughter of Lord Nelson, in the person of Miss Tredway, has become a member of Edward Compton's company. In the centre of the arched roof of Ail Saints' Church, Sedlec. in Bohemia, a chandelier constructed entirely of human bones. Sir Benjamin Richardson says he knows two famous seaside towns where re&1 injury to health is the result of the hardness of the water. Over 1,000 British branches of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour had been registered at the close of last month. Schoolmaster' wishes to exchange his little daughter, aged eleven, for a boy of similar age." This advertisement appears in the Kentish Meroury. It is alleged that since primroses became a, part of the ritual of Conservative worship, there is a danger near London of the flower being exterminated. The Tobermory registrar reports that in the parish of Kilniman and Kilmore during the past year there were 34 deaths, 29 births, and only one marriage. A marriage has been declared void by an Aus- trahan court because the wife had deceived her husband by stating that she was 15 years younget than she really was. A contemporary comments on the increasing frequency with which, in small bankruptcies, the bankrupt's wife finds the money for the purchase of the husband's estate. A correspondent of the Globe reiterates the statement that as a nation we are far more bitterly hated by the French than are the porarily victorious Germans. Growing blackberries and mushrooms, by law. are not private property. You may be prose. cuted for trespass on land where they grow, but not for theft in taking them. The Rev. Dr. Mackennal, Mr C. R. Burgis^ and other Congregational leaders advocate the immediate raising of £2,000 for the Church Aid Society by £10 from 200 donors. A fisherman at Los Angeles, California, claims to have recently landed the largest sunfish ever caught. According to him the fish measured 8ft. 2in., and weighed about 1,80OJbs. The following notice was posted np on a French pleasure boat The chairs in the cabin are for the ladies. Gentlemen are requested not to make use of them till the ladies are seated." Donald Mackay, the Prince of Wales's piperf who has just died, was probably the best piper in the world, even the Queen's minstrel giving way to him when they met. He was only 49 years old. The Earl of Ripon has been slightly indisposed owing to the inclemency of the weather. He has not been allowed to leave his house to go to the Colonial Office, but transacts all business at home. The late Rev. R. Lister Venables married. sister of Mrs Charles Evan Thomas, of the Gnoll, Neath. The mortal remains of the deceased gentleman will be interred to-day (Saturday) at 1.30. A new biography of Mr H. M. Stjanley of a rather interesting character will shortly be pub* lishrd. It deals chiefly with the boyhood of th. explorer, and is the workof one of his early school fellows. A London journal which frequently publishes advance" notices of Welsh affairs, stated in its issue of Thursday that the Welsh Laad Com- mission will resume its sittings early in the spring." There has been considerable activity on the Manchester Ship Canal since the opening day. A new line of steamers is about to be established, running between Manchester, Llandudno, and Douglas (I.M.). The annual return of the Bankers' Clearing House has just been published. The total of paid clearing for 1810 was £880,000,000, while for 1893 it reached the enormous total of £6,470,000.000. It is said that Edison, who is not a man to be influenced by any sentimental considerations, has the highest opinion of women workers, and em- ploys them in his laboratories and workshops whenever possible. t.. In one large post-office lately as many as 600 letters and other despatches have daily been re- turned to the dead letter office. Among the way- ward packages are turkeys, ducks, joints of meat, and hampers of wine. One of the best cartoons of the day is given in the Westminster Budget. It represents Mr Glad* stone, bearing the motto Excel&ior, climbing the snow-clad hills of age, and just passing the almost snow-buried milestone "84." The great American journalist refers to Paderewski as The peerless pole-star of the pianistic firmament," The tawny tyrant of the keyboard," The champion ivory-speaker," and "fTbe human chrysanthemum." Several of the supporters of the Government resent the action of the Liberation Society ia passing a resolution which, in effect, calls upor the Nonconformist voters in Horncastle nut tc support the Gladstonian candidate. Virgin snow is proverbial for its purity, but among the foreign substances science has dis- covered in it are living infusoria and algae, bacilli, spores of fungi, skin of larvas of insects, grains ot quartz, and bits of iron and coal. Are the Kaiser and Bismarck still estranged f A Berlin telegram says that it is a subject of remark in that city that the Emperor did not address any letter of congratulation to PrinCf Bismarck on the occasion of the New Year. Mr Pitman, whose name is well knowl: in connection with the system of shorthand whicfc, bears his name, attained his Slst. birthday "or Thursday, having been born in 1813. For many year she basbeenateetotalerand a Yeget^rian. The Watkin Railway will pass ovt»r fte site of the Red Hand Farm, or Barn, at St. John's Wood. Landseer ultimately settled in a small house which was part of the Red Hand Farm, and passed there the latter 45 years of his life. Excepting the Death VaUey of California, the hottest region on the globe is between the first and second cataracts of the Nile. It never rains there, and many natives do not believe foreigners who tell them that water descends from'the sky. The authorities at St. Paul's Cathedral have definitely decided to introduce the electric light,, and a meeting of experts and others has been held in reference to the matter. In Easter week ar; appeal will be made to the citizens to defray tht expense. The Figaro asserts that the young Kinjf Alexander of Servia will visit France aftei Easter, and will pay a visit to his mother, Queen Natalie. The King will then go to Paris and spend a few days with bis father, the ex-Kin& Milan. The Queen usually signs rabout fifty thousand documents a year. For her age the Queen lives < very busy hfe. She rises at half-past seven, hat prayers at eight, after which she walks for an hour, and then works with her secretary until two o'clock. Six heifers, belonging to Mr Richardson, of th. Castleside Farm, on the Cheshire estate of Lord lollemache, have been poisoned by eating yew from trees growing on the hills behind PeckfortoE Castle. Lord Tollr-macbe has also lost two cowa from the same cau?e. The Rev. Keimon Thomas, Llanfairfechan, hat resigned his post as editor of i7 Celt, which hehnJ edited for nine years. The Rev. D. S. Davies, Carmarthen, will act as editor until the end oi February, when the directors will meet ano appoint a successor to Mr K. Thomas. One of our leading novelists intends, if pos. sible, to rouse the country on the subject of the administration of the Patriotic Fund. He says that this money ought to have been distributed tc those on whose behalf it was collected, and that to collect it and then not to distribute it is a dis- honest transaction. In London during last year the births cam- bered 132.965, and the deaths 91,554, the formaij being 6,633 short of, and the latter 4,313 more than the respective corrected averages, so that the ^natural increase of population due to excess of births over deaths-41,431-was 10,946 less than would have been expected under normal condi- tions. Tha number of collisions on the Thames re- ported to the Board of Trade in the five years ending June 30th last was 2.377. In 1888-9 the number was 499; in the following year, 510; in 1890-1, 518; m 1891-2, 368; and in the year, ending June last, 485. In the five years number of vessels lost was 43, and the number of lives lost 44. The three Welsh contributors to the latest volume, just published, of the Dictionary ot National Biography," are MrD. Lleufer Thomas. secretary of the Welsh Land Commission Pro- fessor J. E. Lloyd, of Bangor College; and our fellow-townsman, Rev. J. A. Jenkins, of the Richmond-road Congregational Church. The volume is deeply interesting, and can Pe gun it haire* Jjbracr,

ALLEGED CHILD MURDER. AN EX-POLICEMAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Mary Jane Lunt, widow, and Thomas Muat, lately a police-constable, were committed for trial at Liverpool yesterday charged with being concerned in murdering the newly-born child of the female prisoner with whom Muat lodged. Medical evidence showed that the child was strangled.

DR. PAINE'S ILLNESS. Inquiry last night into the condition of Dr. Paine elicited the information that he had passed a quiet day, and that there were evidences of improvement.

BREAKDOWN OF THE CAMBRIAN. The new cruiser Cambrian arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday from Pembroke in charge of a navi- gating party. On the voyage she encountered very heavy weather. Within three hours of starting the eccentric of the starboard high pressure cylinder gave out, and, consequently the star- board engines were disabled, but she was able to continue working the port engines only, and I before Plymouth was reached the engine-room staff succeeded in putting the disabled engines in order. Our Pembroke Dock correspondent telegraphs The Cambrian, which left Pembroke Dock at ¡ eight o'clock on Wednesday morning for Ply- mouth, and was expected to reach there about nine the same evening, did not arrive until ten o'clock the following morning. On the passage round OIe of her propelling engines broke down, and Commander Startin, of the Devonport Steam Reserve, who was in command, was obhged to take her westward of the Scilly Isles in consequence, thus considerably lengthening the voyage. The pre- cise nature of the breakdown has not transpired, but it proved so serious that it was found im- possible to repair it at sea, and the ship had accordingly to proceed with one engine only, in which condition she arrived safely at Plymouth Sound, as stated. The engines of the Cambrian were built and fitted on board by Messrs Hawthorn, Leslie, and Company, Newcastle-on Tyne, ard have only been taken over by the Admiralty within the last fortnight. During the final official trials while they were in the contractors' hands they worked splendidly, and gave every satisfaction. The capstan engine of the Cambrian also broke down before she left her moorings at Pembroke Dock.

that V.. W sa*d that Its not the 'untin' itkin' nl !u '0rses' 'oofs, hit's the 'ard, 'ard llltpr n" 1 6 atC^ r°at^ > aDC^' a^ter a"' the road," deligh[/^egent'S Park is bnt an '*rd' 'gh *t l, 6"»lul to cyclists who scorch round aarro r'^ers" inner circle has a ,oarrow-load of sand put down in the spring time, r 18 Cftlled a ride, tut that is a joke. Mr Shaw- svm^- Wb° rePlied to Sir Blundell Maple, —h se(^ Wh the request—that cost nothing ut could not see his way to make a ride ecause of the expense, and in consideration of e present state of the Exchequer. Clearly then 1 is Chancellor, Sir William Harcourt, who ia the equestrians' enemy. I would advise him not to k r°und Regent's Park when concocting his udget, or t e may suffer by the riders' revenge.