South Wales Daily News

THE CULPRIT EXECUTED. The Press Association tolegraphs :-Patrick Moriey (58), labourer, who was found guilty at the Leeds Assizes of murdering his wife at Bat ley by shooting her with a revolver, was executed on Tuesday at Armiey Gaol. Morley and his wife bad lived apart, and the latter had refused to return to her husband, whereupon he shot her dead and afterwards fired at himself. His injuries, however, did not prove fatal. Since his conviction Morley ex. pressed deep contrition for the crime, and said ho hoped his wife was in heaven. He was visited daily by Father Hassing and Dr. Bolan, the gaol chaplain, to both of whom he confessed his vuilb and expressed himself ready to die. The execution was conducted in private. Billington, the executioner, entered the con- demned cell at 10 minutes to 9, and Morley submitted to the pinioning pro- cess with calmness, at the same time exchanging a few words with Billington. The usual procession to the scaffold then com menced, Morley, who was escorted by the gaol officials, with whom was the Under Sheriff walking with a firm step and evincing no signs of emotion. On reaching the scaffold Billington adjusted the rope, the bolt was drawn, and the body fell into the pit, death to all appearance being instantaneous. Morley took very little food yesterday, and only a very light breakfast at 8 o'clock this morning.

ANOTHER REPORT. Patrick Morley, who was sentenced to death at Leeds for the murder of his wife at Butley, was executed at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning at Armiey Gaol, Leeds. Since his incaraeration Moriey appeared quite oaltn and resigned. He had slept indifferently, but had taken his food with relish. At first he clung to the hope that the death penalty might be commuted and declared he was insane, but the medical examination did not bear out this statement. Later he ceased to trouble his mind at the possibility of a reprieve and only wished his end might come soon.

GREED FOR GOLD. STARVED TO SAVE MONEY. A remarkable case of death from starvation was investigated by the Devonport coroner on Tuesday. For some months an old woman named Mary Ann Curran, aged 65 years, had lived alone in a single room. On Monday, as she had not been seen for several days, the police forced an entrance, and found that she had been dead for three days, the cause of death according to the medio&l evidence having been starvation. On her room being saarched a bank book, showing JS160 to her credit, was discovered.

FATAL RIOTING. POLICE-SERGEANT KILLED. At the West Riding Sessions at Leeds on Tuesday, Benjamin Moorhouse and Ruth Colbeck, married woman, were charged on seven counts with assaulting Sergeant Wimpenny at Liversedge during some street riots on the 23rd November. The injuries Wimpenny received resulted in his death. The accused were committed to prison for one month. Two other prisoners were discharged

A GREAT BATTLE. HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. Telegrams to the Impartial from Havana, dated Monday, state that Lieutenant-Colonel Perera with 850 men attacked a vastly superior force under Gomez at Calimete. The Spanish were speedily in a critical situation, their square being charged by insurgent cavalry, but fortunately at the end of thrae hours the brigades of Generals Navarro and Suarez Valdes came up one after the other, the latter arriving at dusk. The enemy thereupon fell back in confusion. The Spanish losses were very heavy, two officers, two non-commissioned officers, and fifteen soldiers being killed, and one officer, six non-commissioned officers, and 58 soldiers being wounded. The insurgents suffered very heavily, but carried off their wounded. Their total losses were however between 200 and 300. A slight stand was made by Gomez near Marquito, but a one hour's skirmish ended in their complete retreat). The Spanish had eight wounded. The insurgents left eight dead. General Navarro also pursued Gomez, and cap- tured the position at Roque, where they en- deavoured to make a stand, causing them a loss of seven killed.—Central News.

INQUIRY ON THE RUPERT. It is probable that as the result of this week's court of inquiry with reference totheunseaworthy condition of the coast defence vessel Rupert, a further inquiry will be held. As it is stated, that, although the vessel recently had a refit ab Devonport, the turret fittings were insufficient when she left the port after bein." commiaaioned "99r,.4.,c

ARMS FOR THE RAND. Inquiries made at Birmingham show that in the gun trade there is very considerable activity, and that large consignments of military riftes-in many cases obsolete weapons so far as the British I service is concerned—have been sent to the order of South African merchants. One manufacturer received an order for a thousand Martinis and as many Snidera, and another maker disposed in one lot of a stock of 20,000 Eufields which he had had on his hands for years.

FRENCH PRESS OPINIONS. PARIS, Tuesday.—The Eclair, in an article on the disquieting news from Johannesburg, ex- presses its opinion that the agitation among the Uitlanders aims in reality at nothing but the seizure of the Transvaal for the English. If, ib says, the demands of the greater number of the members ot the National Union were conceded they would become masters of the country. The other foreigners understood quite well the motives which impelled the English to action, and that is why they separated from them. The Figaro says :—President Kruger clearly perceives that behind the Uitlanders there are the British and behind the British the seizure of bis country. The agitation has no just cause, for, if the Uitlanders have helped in the develop- ment of the country they also get great profits from it.—Renter. PARIS, Tuesday.—The Temps, in an article on the situation in the Transvaal, says: President Kruger and the burghers would have everything to gain by adopting a conciliatory attitude and offering the basis of a compromise to those among the Uitlanders who do not insolently claim to remain subjects of Queen Victoria while becoming citizens of the Transvaal."—Reuter.

LANDING OF TROOPS AT MASSOWAH. ITALIANS PREPARED FUn, CONQUEST. ROME, Tuesday.—A telegram has been received from Massowah of yesterday's date stating that further troops have been landed. General Baratieri has received a letter from the officer commanding at Makaleh, dated noon, 28th insb., and giving the following newsParties of the enemy have been observed in the distance foraging, but everything is quiet in the immediate vicinity of the fort. The camp of Dolo, containing many tents, is visible from Makaleh. A column was observed leaving it and proceeding in a westerly direction, and this may have been the force ofiBOO Shoans reported by our scouts as having been despatched in the direction of Antalo and Socota. The statements of a scout who returned to the fort to-day tend to confirm the report that provisions are scarce among the Shoans, and that their horses and other beasts of burden are dying in large numbers. Another scout states that several cases of dysentery have occurred in the enemy's camp. Has Michael has forbidden his followers to make raiding expeditions pending the negotiations with General Baratiere, but his orders are disregarded. The question was con- sidered in the Shoan camp of passing Christmas at Dolo or of moving on to Azula, as the camp was infected. In the war counoils the voice; of Ras Michael prevails, little heed being paid to the views of Ras Mangascia,—Renter.

COULD SUBDUE ALL ETHIOPIA. ROME, Tuesday.—Including the troops to be despatched to Africa in the next few days, the Italian force at the disposal of General Baratieri will be 60,000 strong, and capable, it is believed, of successfully invading the Abyssinian territory. Italian generals, with Colonial experience, assert that this force could subdue the whole Ethiopian I Kingdom in two months' time, since the Abyssinians, once defeated, conld not reconstitute a serviceable army. General Baratieri, will pro- bably commenoe active operations about the 15th of January, the date provisionally fixed for the proclamation in Erybholo of martial law.— Central News.

REPORTED RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday.—The Milan journal It Secolo recently published a report that Prince Lobanoff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had lodged a protest with the Italian Ambassador here against the fresh conquest of Italy in Abyssinia, which was declared to be under the Russian pro- tectorate. Count Maffei, in his turn, was said to have protested against this view of the matter, citing the Uccially Treaty. These statements are to-day declared to be purely fictitious, and it is affirmed that Prince Lobanoff has made no repre- sentations to the Italian Ambassador in the sense indicated above.—Renter.

THE MISSING PRINCES. BEBNK, Tuesday.—A telegram from Rome announces that the two Abyssinian Princes wbo have been missing for some days past have arrived in the Italian capital.—Matter.

x COLLIERY DISASTER. MANY KILLED. BRBSLAU, Tuesday.—A telegram from Walden- burg reports, that a serious colliery disaster occurred in the Wrangel Coal Pit this morning, and that 21 bodies have already been recovered, while 12 injured miners have been brought to bank.—Renter. A later telegram says :—Fifty miners were killed or injured, and several others were missing. -Central News. (

THE MISSING AMERICAN "MESSIAH" FOUND. The Chronicle New York correspondent fends word that Schlatter, the missing Messiah," has been discovered by a party of Americans in an obscure Mexican village. He was resting, it seems, on the way to Central America, whither he declared the Father had called him. After curing Mr Houston, a prominent railway director, who beaded the search party, of paralysis, • Schlatter mounted a wljtibe bcwe ao$rode off

ZEITUNLI FLY TO THE MOUNTAINS. GLEAM OF HOPE FOR THEM, POWERS MOVING. ANOTHER LETTER FROM LORD ROSEBERY. AGITATION IN ENGLAND A SAFETY VALVE, Little by little the truth is leaking out about the state of Z?itun, and the welcome news arrives that the brave garrison is not yet exter- minated. When the latest news received left, says the Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Neics. the troops had surrounded Zeitun, had bombarded and burned the barracks, had taken and destroyed a village, and captured guns, but the Zeitunli survivors had retired into the almost inacces. sible mountains, where they still maintain them- selves. They are closely invested, and the execution of the order for toeir extermination, which was issued by the Palace, seemed to be a matter only of days. The bitter cold on the hills, which are covered with deep snow, was surely sparing much work to the Sultan's troops. Now, however, there is a glimmer of hope for the mountaineers, if, indeed, it be not come too late. After four weeks, in which they have done nothing, the six great Powers have now, at the very last moment, made strenuous representations to the Sultan to beware how. be treats the Zeitunlis, and have offered to acb as mediators. The Sultan will probably accepb this offer. The Turks themselves admit that the soldiers round Zeitun are suffering frightfully from cold 50 or 60 deaths occur daily in camp from this cause.

TURKISH SOLDIERS BECOME BRIGANDS. The condition of the Turkish Army everywhere outside the capital is described as deplorable. The soldiers have received no pay for many months. Their clothing is in rags. Their food is poor and inadequate. In Syria, where there is an army of 60,000 men, the ranks are being decimated by disease. In Asia Minor, when recently 120,000 Reservists were called out very many refused to join the colours. Reports now reach the Government that Reser- vists are daily deserting in large numbers, taking their arms and ammunition with them. This, of course, means brigandage on an extraordinary scale in the near future. The authorities, in fact, have for a long time pestered the oentral Govern- ment for money with which to carry on the administration. The reply is, We have none for you." As a result, the Christian gendarmerie has now resigned en masse, refusing to serve any longer without pay."

ANOTHER LETTER FROM LORD ROSEBERY. AN EXHORTATION TO MASS MEETINGS. Lord Rosebery has addressed the following letter to Mr Wm. Denton, of the Liverpool Junior Reform Club, who wrote his Lordship on the subject of the Armenian massacres, and more particularly asked for advice as to the desirability of organising mass meetings My Dear Sir,—I can see no objection to a mass meeting or many mass meetings on the Armenian question, for they can only strengthen the hands of Ministers in achieving the object which they say they have at heart. Indeed, some safety-valve must be found for the pent-up and irrepressible indignation of our people. To build up the mightiest navy in the world and to give absolute power to a Ministry in order to see our every effort baffled and ridiculed by a Sultan-and such a Sultan—is enough to make every gorge rise in the country, but I personally must remain silent. I cannot by a word relieve the Government of an iota of its responsibility. I recognise that the constituencies, knowing that Ministers already possessed the almost unanimous support of the House of Lords, have given them an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons. This con- stitutes a dictatorship before which I am bound to bow, and, which they fmust justify without interference from me. When Parliament meats it will be for them to give an account of their stewardship, and for us who they displaced to criticise. When Parliament meets they must furnish some information as to their diplomatic proceedings. At present welhave none, and without these data it isinob: possible for one who has had so responsible a position as I have to offer observations at random on the course of events.— Believe me, yours very truly, ROSSBEEY."

BITTER CRY FROM MACEDONIA. SOFIA, December 28th.-A letter has been received here from a Bulgarian residing at Egri Palanka, in Macedonia, describing the oppression suffered by his countrymen at the hands of the Turkish authorities, and giving a list of the murders and cruelties perpetrated by the Turkish soldiery. The list includes the following cases On October 28th Theodori Phillipoff was mur- dered by Turkish soldiers at Kopatchki. Although there were eye-witnesses of the deed, murderers have gone unpunished. On November 24th George Davitchin.of Tirnova, waslkilled by guards near Pissasikamik, the body after being thrown into the river. On December 8th. a miller named Stanciko Yakinaoff, residing at Deivebabir, was put to death, after being cruelly tortured, his assailants first cutting off his ears and then tear- ingout his eyes. The murderers, who in this case also were Turkish soldiers, were seen by shepherds entering and leaving the mill. On December 10th twelve Turkish soldiers proceeded from Palanka to Duratchka Reka, and these enteredtthe house of one Stojan. Not finding the latter at home they seized his daughter, who they treated very brutally, leaving her more dead than alive. The latter asserts that in districts chiefly peopled by Servians the latter have bribed the Turkish zaptick to oppose the Bulgarian inhabitants in every manner possible, in the event of their refusing to declare themselves as Servians. In conclusion the writer says There can be no more wretched slaves than ourselves. It is impossible to describe what we suffer. To be all killed would be a better fate than to live in this misery. "-Bcute-r.

REDUCTION OF IRISH MEMBERS' SALARIES. The Freeman's Journal reports a meeting of the National Federation Convention at Wexford on Tuesday, which passed a resolution in support of Mr T. M. Healy, and condemning his and Mr Arthur O'Conner's expulsion from the executive. A resolution was also passed reducing by £100 the yearly stipends of the county members owing to want of funds.

AMERICAN LOAN. BERLIN, Tuesday.—The detailed conditions of the proposed new United States Loan have not yet been finally determined. They are, however, expected to differ but slightly from those under which the last issue was effected. The loan will amount to about 100,000,000 dollars. All the American banks and Trust Companies ace inter- ested in the operation.—Reuter.

BOND CONTRACT SIGNED. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—It is stated the New Bond Syndicate has signed the contract which has yet to bo approved by the Government. It agrees to furnish gold sufficient to produce two hundred million dollars in exchange for coin bonds, leaving four per cent. interest for 30 years. Half those bonds will be issued at once at about the samo price as tbe lasb loan.—Central News.

A YAKKEE DISCOVERY. WASHINGTON, Tuesday,—The State Depart- ment has discovered a letter, dated March, 1840, ¡ from the then British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the then British Under-Secre- tary for the Colonies, which shows it is asserted that Great Britain had no idea of claiming the territory now in dispute on the Venezuelan frontier until Sir R. Schomburgk disclosed the wealth of the country. This letter is here officially regarded as largely nullifying Lord Salisbury's recent reply.—Central News.

BRITISH MINISTERS BUSY. It is understood thab the urgent business which I necessitated the hurried return of Mr Chamberlain to town on Tuesday, related to the Venezuelan question as well as to the state of affairs in the Transvaal. During the whole of the day and evening, constant communications passed between the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, and the War Office. The Government messengers to Hatfield were also much more numerous than usual, and it is understood Lord Salisbury will come to town to-day.

JEALOUSY "THE CAUSE. ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER OF A LODGER. An inquest was held at Standish on Tuesday, on the body of Michael Burke, otherwise McDonough, who was found do&ad in the house in which he was lodging, at Standish, near Wigan, on Sunday morning. Joseph Ellis Jones, the occupier of the house, who is in custody charged with causing bis lodger's death, was present. Evidence showed that quarrels bad taken place between deceased and prisoner, jealousy being the supposed cause. Medical evidence showed that death was due to strangulation. The jury, after a prolonged deliberation, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the prisoner, who was committed on the coroner's warrant.

POET LAUREATESHIP. SIR WILLIAM THOMAS LEWIS AMONGST THE BARONETS. PRESIDENT OF THE R.A. MADE A PEER. The following list of New Year's honours was issued on Tuesday night by the Foreign Office :— PEERAGES. The Queen has been pleased to confer the dignity of a Peerage of the United Kingdom upon Sir Frederick Leighton, Bart., President of the Royal Academy, and upon Mr Henry Hucks Gibbs. OOUNCILLORS. Her Majesty has also been pleased to approve that the following gentlemen be sworn of H.M. Most Hon. Privy Council :—Sir Richard Temple, Bart., G.C.S.I., and. Mr C. B. Stuart Wortley, G.C.M.G. BARONETCIES. Her Majesty has also been pleased to confer the dignity of a baronetcy upon Sir John Amott, Surgeon-General Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., Sir William Thomas Lewis, Mr William Cod- dington, M.P., Colonel Charles Seely, and Mr Thomas Boord. KNIGHTHOODS. Her Majesty has been pleased to approve that the honour of knighthood be conferred upon Colonel Howard Vincent, C.B., MP., Mr Robert Martin Craven, F.R.C.S., Mr Charles Hamond, M.P., Professor Prestwich, Mr Willoughby Wade, M.D., Mr John S. Goldie FaubmAn, Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man Chief Justice Frederick Charles Farran, of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay Mr Lyttelton Holyoake Bayley, on his retirement from Puisne Judgeship of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay Mr Henry Pellew Crease, Senior Puisne Judge of British Columbia Mr Samuel Lewis, C.M.G. Chief Justice William James Smith, of Cyprus and Mr John Smalman Smith, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Lagos. KNIGHTS COMMANDER OF THE BATH. The Queen has been pleased to approve the following promotions in appointments to the Most Hon. Order of the Bath (Civil Division) :—To be K.C.B., Mr Henry Hamilton Johnston, C.B., Imperial Commissioner and Consul-General for British Central Africa. To be C.B., Mr Robert Anderson, LL.D., Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE. Her Majesty has also been pleased to approve the following appointment to the Most Distin- guished Order of St. Michael and St. George, viz. :—To be C.1G., Mr Henry Charles Fischer, Controller of tbe Central Telegraph Department of the General Post Office. POET LAUREATE. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Mr Alfred Austin to be Poet Laureate to her Majesty. MISCELLANEOUS. To be chaplains in ordinary to her Majesty Rev. Canon Thomas B. Hollingshead Bliindel], rector of Halsall, Ormakirk, and the Right Rev. Bishop Selwyn. To be honorary chaplains to her Majesty Rev. Charles Henry Turner, rector of St. George's-in- the-East, and the Venerable the Archdeacon Lawrance, rector of St. Albans. It is notified in the Gazette that the Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Lady Ponsonby to be an extra woman of the bedchamber to her Majesty. Miss Rose Elizabeth Squire is gazetted to be an inspector of factories and workshops.

INDIAN AND COLONIAL HONOURS. The supplement to the London Gazette on Tues- day night sbates that the Queen has conferred the honour of Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India on Lord Wenlock, Governor of Madras, aud Knight Commander of Madras, and that of Knight Commander of the same order on" Lieu- tenant-General Sir Henry Brackenbury. Sir Alfred Lyall, member of the Council of India, is promoted to be a Knight Grand Com- mander of the Indian Empire. The Gazette also contains a list of honours con- ferred on Indian notabilities and Indian military and Civil servants, and also a few appointments in the Order of St. Michael and St. George, in connection with the Colonies and Colonial Service.

AMERICA CUP MUDDLE. STATEMENT BY MR JARVIS LORD DUNRAVEN'S POSITION. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The World publishes a lengthy statement regarding the America Cup dispute, signed by Mr Stenson Jarvis, who says that he wishes to correct the impression pre- vailing to a large extent regarding the motives by which Lord Dunraven was actuated in coming to America. He complains of an effort made in the Press to create an idea that Lord Dunraven sought to secure a conviction, and proceeds as follows;—"Ib is pretty safe to expect thatthesame newspapers which have tried to present Lord Dunraven in a most unenviable light will con- sider all restraints removed if the judgment of the committee holds the club and Defender's committee blameless in every way. It is almost beyond doubt that the decision of the committee will be of this nature, and before any torrent of abuse is set free I think it only fair that the general public — both Ameri- can and English should be better advised of the actual facts. I happen to know that Lord Dunraven for that investigation declined the best legal assistance which he could have retained, and did so because he was not eager in the matter, and bad no wish to appear sc." Mr Jarvis adds that he talked for two hours with Lord Dunraven alone on Friday. On the question of pressing the other charges in Lord Dunraven's pamphlet, apart from the allegation of overballasting, Lord Dunraven said The investigation is not in my hands. The whole of the procedure is in the hands of the committee, and I have no doubt that they will do everything that is proper it is not for me to sug- gest what they shall do or refrain from doing. I charged that a ceibain rule, to the best of my belief, had been broken, and I offered to assist at an inquiry by giving my reasons for thinking so." —Reuter. NO REPORT YET. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The Defender inquiry was resumed and concluded to-day, the principal witnesses called being a number of riggers, upon whose evidence it was understood Lord Dunraven largely relied. Nothing of an official character has been allowed to transpire, and it is stated this evening that the committee's report is not likely to be issued for several days.—Central News. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Mr Hamilton, Lord Dunraven's secretary, has sailed for England on board the North German Lloyd steamer Havel, in consequence of the illness of his father.—Reuter. DISSATISFACTION OF A TORY JOURNAL. Lord Dunraven, says the St. James's Gazette (Tory), has disappointed us. Whatever might be the judgment of the New York Yacht Club Committee upon his charges against the Defender, Lord Dunraven should have faced it in New York like an English gentleman. Private reasons are alleged as his excuse for taking the steamer back to England directly his own examination was over. But a British peer of mature years, an experienced sportsman, former Under-Secretary for the Colonies, and present member of the London County Council, shodld surely have known that public reasons ought to have kept him in loco injuries, where alone nn amende Jumorable from either party could be adequately made.

LOSS OF THE MORESBY. A LIFEBOAT CREW DENOUNCED. INQUIRY DEMANDED. An indignation meeting has been held at Dungarvan in connection with the failure of the Ballynasourty lifeboat crew to render assistance to the ill-fated ship Moresby, Resolutions were passed condemning the inhuman conduct of the crew, and calling upon the Lifeboat Institution and the Board of Trade to hold an inquiry. The conduct of the Dungarvan volunteer crew, through whose exertions five lives were saved, was highly commended. Thousands of persons visibed the Parochial School, Dungarvan, on Monday, where lies the body of Ivy Coomber, the little daughter of the captain of the ill-fated ship Moresby. The survivors state that that the cook, Hunter, a coloured man, put on bis best clothes, and, shoubing, Boys, I am going home," jumped into the sea.

A Lloyd's telegram from Staithes, Yorkshire! states that the steamer Beaver, of London, bound from Newcastle for Exmouth, with coal, stranded on Monday evenipg and will beoome

— CARDIFF SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. NOTES ON THE CONTEST. HOW TO VOTE FOR THE UN SECT ARIAN S. ) LETTER FROM MR GEORGE j DIXON. M.P. Dr. Treharne, one of the Sectarian candidates for election on tbe Cardiff School Board, whose personal character we respect, and whose social worth we fully recognise, bat whose controversial methods—especially when he brands the state- I ments of 54 Nonconformist ministers of Cardiff by the phrase that is a he "—we strongly condemn aud repudiate, was pleased to assert at the Church and Conserva- tive meeting on Monday night that Volun- tary schools represent this fact — a zeal I for education lone before the Board school system I was formed." Dr. Treharne must, of course, mean Sectarian Church of England schools. He could not mean to include within the very elastic phrase Voluntary schools the schools of the British and Foreign School Society, which are undenominational and unsectariau, and to sup- plant which, or to compete with which, the Church School Society, the National Society, was founded. For that would be to raise a false and confusing issue for purposes of deception, and that would be a trick of dialectical dishonesty of which we could never suspeofc Dr. Treharne. The doctor should make sure of the accuracy of his statements before committing himself to unhistoric and unverified assertions. Here are a few plain facts which Dr. Treharne should know. In 1796 tbe Lancasberiao School system was established by Joseph Lancaster, a Quaker, to I give to the children of the poor a sound, usefnl, national education, apart from dogma and creed. The system grew in public favour, and in 1805 it had extended and developed into the British and Foreign School Society, the teaching in whose schools was, and is, unsectarian tbe teaching of the Bible being the only religious instruction given. We ask Dr. Treharne, in all seriousness, to tell the Cardiff public whether the clergy of the Church of England supported, or did they oppose, that system of undenominational and unsectarian school teaching, which was education pure and simple, without sectarian tinge Dr bias. The true answer to this question will show whether it was educational zeal or zeal for sectarian Church dogma and formulas which founded the Church system of schools. If the Church party had been inflamed with a zeal for education, as Dr. Treharne represents, without having carefully studied the facts, they would have striven with all their energies to help Lancaster in his noble and self-denying labours for the education of the people. But they did not. They held severely aloof; and when, in 1805, the Lancasterian system was made more effective under its changed name of the British and Foreign School Society, they still presented to it a front of indifference and coldness, if uot of antagonism. At length, in 1811, fifteen years after Lancaster's educational system was founded, the Church party started a system of their own, but evidently from no consuming zeal for the education, pure and simple, of the people. The very name and constitution of this Church Society proves that it was Sectarianism and not educational zeal that inspired them. Its name was, and is "The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the principles of the Church of England." Not much educational zeal shown here, Dr. Treharne. Abundance of zeal for the principles of ths Church of England, we willingly admit, but zeal for education, as education, and not as Sectarianism, was unhappily too conspicuous by its absence. Some of the other Church speakers at ths Sectarian meeting in the Cardiff Park Hall on Monday night, and notably Canon Thompson and the Rev. F. J. Beck, eulogised the Church as the great educationalist of the nation prior to the establishment of the School Board system in 1870. This is somewhat slippery and hazardous ground for a Churchman to tread. For what did the great educationalist do in the way of educating the people prior to 1870 ? Lst the Education Department itself answer. In the annual report of tbe Department at the time of the passing of the Education Aot in 1870, this is the testimonial given to the educational work of the great educa- tionalist :—" Of four-fifths of the scholars about to leave school, either no account, or an unsatis- factory one is given, by an examination of the most strictly elementary kind." So that after having bad the educational field almost exclusively to itself for 60 years after having received millions of the nation's money in grants for aiding education, and more than a million to help it to build its school houses, the Church of England at the end of that long psriod of 60 years, during which it reigned almost without a rival, could receive no better educa- tional certificate from the Education Department than tbis-Lbat 80 per cent. of the children taught in its schools received no education worthy of the name received no education that could be discovered by an examination even of the most strictly elementary kind. What was the good of such education as this to the people of England and Wales we should like to ask Canon Thompson and the Reverend Mr Beck. The Church taught the children, and taught them plentifully, her catechisms and her creeds her ologies and her isms but did not educate them. That would be the case again should the Clericals unhappily once more gain the ascendency in national educa- tion. One fact it is expedient to make clearer than Canon Thompson left it ou Monday night. He said thab the Voluntary schools-whieh niue- tenths of his hearers, if not a large percentage of the other tenth, would understand to mean Church schools — received in subscriptions last year upwards of £800,000. Canon Thompson has included in his total, however. :;82,440, the annual subscriptions to the British and Foreign School Society; £84,729, the Roman Catholic subscriptions; and £17,51J.4, the Wesleyan subscriptions. The Church subscriptions were only £622.034, in which are included all the sums received from the Science and Art Department, which are reckoned as subscriptions, but which come out of the National Exchequer. Against the subscriptions the Chcrch schools received last year from the State, £1,630,441 in school grants and £930,436 for free grants, all paid out of the taxes. Where is the Voluntaryism ? We have seen, since Monday night's meeting, on one of the hoardings of Cardiff, the notable placard so denounced and anathematised by all the speakers at the meeting, and to which the Reverend Mr Beck affirmed that Mr Lewis Williams appended his name." We were satisfied, when listening to Mr Beck's statement, that if his version of the contents of the placard was accurate—which we did nob for an instant doubt —that Mr Lewis Williams had not appended hi name to it. We are now certain that be did not, because there is no name appended to it in the legitimate active meaning of the word append." This is ehe fact. Some persoa, name unknown. has published a placard, and had it posted on the Cardiff hoardings, in which are found the state- rnents which aroused the ire of Canon Thompson and the other speakers at the Sectarian meeting and at the bottom of the placard tbe author of it urges the ratepayers to vote for the eight Unseo- tarian candidates, repeating their names, and as Mr Lewis Williams is one of the candidates his name, of coarse, appears amongst the eight. To assert, as Mr Beck did, that because. writer, of whose identity Mr Lewis Williams has in all probability not an inkling of knowledge, has written a placard, which Mr Williams probably never saw until he saw it on the hoardings, even if he has seen it yet, urging the ratepayers to vote for the eight Unsectarian candidates, Mr Lewis Williams's name being found amongst the list of the eight, that thereby Mr Lewis Williams appended his name to that statement," is an outrage upon ordinary intelli- ence, and a gross prostitution of language from a vehicleof thought into a vehicle of slander. Even Canon Thompson's so far forgot logical method and the proprieties as to assert that because ccrtain leaflets which he stigmatised in mal- odorous terms, hai been published in opposition to the Sectarian party, they must therefore have been adopted by the Unsectarian eight, who in adopting the leaflets had adopted their sentiments. Criticism is degraded from an art into a cant- when it discourses after this fashion. Does Sectarianism, when the fever is very acute, create I mental befogment ? We will give the Reverend Mr Beck a bit of sage oounsel which iiiigh- prevent him from falling into the logical pitfalls into which he has an unfortunate tendency to tumble. The counsel is not ours SI. first hand we have borrowed it from Mr Beck's tutelar political leader and chief, the present Prime Minuter. Lord Salisbury, speaking in the Hoius cf Lords in 1879, said, with reference to so ire statement of the Right Hnaoontbl* Montaguo £ «wrd, that In wbo m/ton* km worn*

MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP. SUPPOSED LOSS OF AN ENGLISH I VESSEL. The Press Association's Skibbereen corres. II' pondent states :-A large log of timber has been washed ashore bearing the words Certified accommodation six seamen." The coastguards think that the vessel which has foundered must, according to her topsail yard, have been a large schooner, and unquestionably English.

KING HUMBERT AND MR JOHN MORLEY. King Humbert on Tuesday received in audience Mr John Morley, who is now stopping in Rome. Reuter.

TO-DAY'S WEATHER 4.30 A,M. TO-DARS FORECAST. FeR BNGLABD, S.W., AND SOUTH WALES. Southerly and south-westerly winds, moderate or light; cloudyor dull; some r>in locally. GENERAL FORECASTS. GENERAL FORECASTS. The following forecasts wereprepared iasb night ab the Meteorological Office at eight o'clock DISTRICTS— A -NT Southerly winds, moderate !»»»» '"J rain, 2. England, N.E. 3. England, E. South-westerly winds, light 2. England, N.E. 3. England,E. South-westerly winds, light 4. Mid.Counties. or moderate; fair as a 5 Eng. S. (Lon. whole; some mist in places. acd Channel),J t\cd Channel). 6. Scotland, W.l Southerly and south-westerly 7. Engl. N.W., winds, moderate j cloudy &North Wales. some rain. Southerly and south-westerly "j Southerly and south-westerly ?^and,S.W. winds, moderate or light; & South Wales cloudy or dull; some rain « T locally. 9. Ireland, N.Q «T 30, Ireland, 8, m Nos, 6 and 7.

GREATER BRITAIN, NOBLE SPEECH BY THE NEW SOUTH WALES PREMIER, COMPACT WITH THE OLD COUNTRY URGED. NECESSITY FOR DRAWING CLOSER. SYDNEY, Tuesday.-The Hon. G, H. Reid. Premier of New South Wales, speaking at the annual banquet of the Commercial Travellers, said that, troubled as the Australian commercial community had been by the prolonged and disastrous uncertainty of the past 18 months, it was a matter of thankfulness to most people that the un- certainty had come to an end. He had the utmost confidence in the future of the people under the policy of free industries and free commerce. He rejoiced that the flag of New South Wales would fly beside the grand old flag of the motherland to-morrow with equal glory-a. new signal of fearless trust in liberty, peace, a goodwill towards men. Looking outwards upon foreign affairs, other countries, continued the Premier, the past year had set loose vast forces in the East, pregnant with grave, and perhaps astounding, problems. The Empire of the Turks, which had blighted for so long some of the fairest of earth's provinces, seemed to be at last tottering to its long-expected fall, and a great partition, or great war, would change the political condition of three Continents. The whole fabric of the empire was under a terrible strain, partly from collapse and partly from eruption. Even our generally sensible and level-headed cousins across the sea had caught the contagion of universal unrest. Mr Reid went on to say that he feared there were thousands of Americans who would plunge the whole of the Anglo Saxon race into the most wanton and disastrous war of the century "vpr a few square miles of fever-breeding jungle that not one sane man in tbe 44 States of the Union would send his pet dog to. So stupendous a crime as this war would be surely could not be possible. The hearts of the Anglo-Saxon race were too full of kindred blood. There was a United Britain and a United Canada. He trusted that they would soon add to that imperial group a United Australia. The Australian nation might soon have to stand shoulder to shoulder, if it was to stand at all. He had never liked the military argument for federation. It was far nobler and infinitely better that they should come together calmly and deliberately, and from free choice. He hoped that an enduring compact of union wouid be achieved under those auspices, but he could not shut his eyes to the fact that if they did not come together they might soon be driven together by the sheer force of events.—Beuitr.

ENVOYS FROM KUMASI. QUESTION OF BONA FIDES. SAMORY'S NEUTRALITY. Mr W. F. Regan, of Threadneedle-street, states that be has received another cablegram from one of his agents which confirms his previous statement that it is not the intention of Chief Samory to join forces with Prembi, neither will he assist the British commander, his policy being a waiting one. Mr Regan denies that he is the holder of concessions from the King of Ashanti. He has not, he say, parted with a shilling, though he has secured several options which he may exercise in time. He has also secured large properties within the British sphere of influence. In Mr Regan's opinion it is absurd to suppose that the Ashanti envoys would have returned to Kumasi had they, as suggested, forged the King's signature.

ALLEGED FORGED CREDENTIALS OF THE ENVOYS. The Central News is informed by Mr Jonathan E. Harris, the solicitor representing the Ashanti envoys, that the true facts regarding the alleged forged credentials held by the envoys from the King of Ashanti are as follows The King authenticated the original credentials, and it was thought necessary that triplicate copies thereof should be made on parchment on arrival at Cape Coast Castle. Parchments were purchased and these copies were duly made by order of the King. A seal was made in London and affixed thereto during the envoys' stay in London. It was always represented that these triplicates were the copies, but that the envoys bad possession of the original for production. Mr Harris maintained, therefore, that the allegation that Prince John forged the credentials is wholly unfounded, and furthermore that tho ambassadors were the accredited representatives of the King, that their insigna of office were sent to London with them, and that these were accepted by Governor Griffiths'as suffioient evidence of their position. Before Prince John can be accused of forgery, Mr Harris submits that the Government should ascertain from the King himself the correctness or otherwise of his statements.

SIXTEEN HUNDRED REBELS SLAIN. MADRID, Tuesday.—The following official telegram has been received from Cuba The columns under Generals Valdes and Navarro are still pursuing the insurgent bands, whose retreat from the province of Matanzas is now confirmed. Some encounters, resulting in favour of the Spanish arms, have taken place. The losses of the rebels during the last few days are estimated at 1,600.-Reuter.

CAMPOS' DEFEAT DENIED. The Spanish Ambassador in London haa received a telegram from Madrid denying the truth of the defeat of Marshal Campos, reported trom New York on Saturday. The telegram includes a despatch from the Spanish Commander- in-Chief announcing the complete defeat of the insurgents under Gomez and Maceo at Cabinete. The two rebel leaders are stated to have Bed into the province of Sierra Signanea, where they have taken refuge in the thick forests. After denying that the town of Havanna has ever been threatened, the message concludes by saying that the position of the Spanish forces was never more favourable than now. The insurgent army has become disintegrated, and would be unable to join up without risking a pitched battle.—Central News.

A RELIC OF LADY HAMILTON. An interesting relic, familiar to most visitors to Hawarden, is at present being demolished. It is the old thatched cottage, covered with moss and lichens, which, according to local tradition, was for a time the residence of Emma Lyon, who afterwards became Lady Hamilton, wife of Sir Wm. Hamilton, English Ambassador at the Court of Naples, and the friend of the Neapolitan Queen and Lord Nelson. Lady Hamilton was not a native of Hawarden, her birrhplace being Neston.

ALARMING NEWS. LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF ARMS FOR THE RAND. MR CHAMBERLAIN CALLED TO THE COLONIAL OFFICE, The Press Association states that Mr Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, who has been staying at Highbury, Birmingham, and was not expected in London for some days, returned to the Colonial Office on Tuesday morn- ing, and was busily engaged, presumably on matters conneoted with the present unsettled state of the Transvaal. The Acting Agent- General for the Cape has been in communication with the Colonial Office, and on Monday afternoon a special messenger was sent to Birmingham with despatches for Mr Chamberlain. The right bou. gentleman on receipt of those did nob wait until on Tuesday, but started by the midnight train from the Midlands and reached London in the early hours of the morning, and did -not leave the Colonial Office until nearly 7.30 in the evening, when be drove to Prince's-gardens. Sir Robert Meade, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office, and the staff generally were also engaged until late in tbe evening, and during the day Sir Robert was seen by Sir T. Sanderson, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office.

REPORTED INVASION. BKBLIN, Tuesday.—An alarming telegram has been received here from, Pretoria, stating that an armed force of the British South African Com- pany, numbering 800 men, with six Maxim and other guns, is reported to have entered Transvaal territory, and intend marching upon Johannes- burg. President Kruger, immediately on receiving the news, ordered that tha further advance of the invaders should be forcibly prevented, and issued a proclamation calling all burghers to defend the country.

FALL IN AFRICAN SHARES. On the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday South AfricanMiningSbares were again flat owing to the continued Rei ions outlook in the Transvaal. CharteredR lower at 4% Consolidated Goldfields lower at 9% East Rands at 4 while okher mining lssuea were also weak. Other departments were dull and inactive.

SEVERAL LIVES LOST IN AN EARTHQUAKE. Rous, Tuesday.—Intelligence has been reo ceived here that a strong shock of earthquake occurred at the village of Cicciano, near Nola, on the 28th iDst. Several of tbe inhabitants were killed and a number injured.

TABULAR VIEW OF THE MASSACRES. A correspondent gives this tabular statement of the massacres, dating from September 30th, and ending ou November 30th:— Number Town. Killed. By whom done. Constantinople. 172.Police and Soft as Alt Hissar 45.Moslem villagers Trebizond 800.Soldiers,Lazes,andTurks Baiburt 1,000.Lazes and Turks Gumushane No details Erzingjan 1,000.Soldiers and Turks Bitlis 900.Soldiers. Kurds, & Turks Harpoot 1,000 Soldiers, Kurds, & Turks. Sivas 1,200.Soldiers and Turks. Palu 450.Soldiers, Kurds, & Turks. Diarbekr 2,500.Soldiers, Kurds, & Turks. Albistan 300. Erzeruom 800.Soldiers and Turks. Ourfa 300. Kara Hissar 500.Circassians and Turks. Malatia 250. Marash 1,000 Soldiers and Turks. Aintab .No details. Gurun 3,000.Kurds and Turks Arabkir .2,000.Kurds and Turks Argantt. .No detatls Severek .No details Mush 6.Kurds Tokab. .No details Amasia .No details Marsovan 125.Turks Ceserea 1,000.Circassians and Turks Gemerek — ..No details Egin .No details Zileh .No details Se'erb .No details TURKISH STATISTTQS FOR SEVEN VILAYETS, WITH -SATED LOSSES. Armenian population in larger towns 177,700 Amenian population in villages 538.500 Number killed in towns (estimated). 20.000 Number of Armenian villages (about) 3,300 Number of villages destroyed (estimated) 2.500 Number killed in villages No data Number reduced to starvation in towns (estimated) 75,000 Number reduced to starvation in villages (estimated) 350,000 All the numbers given above, including the ¡ Turkish statistics, are more or less inaccurate but the estimates are based upon a careful study of all the information which has reached Con. stantinople from many independent sources.

STEALING GAS. Henry Harris, for 18 years a well-known trades* man at Bristol, was on Tuesday sentenced to three months' imprisonment for stealing gas belonging to the Gas Company by using pipes connected with the meter, The ftocawd pleaded guilty to i the offew*

RUMOURED ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN REPUBLICS. VENEZUELANS ARMING. MORE JINGOISM IN THE STATES. LETTER FROM SENATOR SHERMAN. The Times correspondent, telegraphing from New York on Monday, says A melancholy letter from Senator Sherman is published this morning, which only too well deserves English attention. Senator Sherman is not only one of the moat experienced and trusted Repub. licans, but he is expected to succeed Senator Morgan as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. His opinion is therefore doubly important, and his opinion is of a nature which augurs ill for the cessation of the present controversy. His great influence is thrown in favour of the President's assertion and defini- tion of the Monroe doctrine, which he declares to be "correct." Senator Sherman sides with President Cleveland against all the great lawyers and all the best authorities on this question, both American and European, and against President Monroe himself. There is, in fact, no way in which the Cleveland doctrine and the Monroe doctrine can be reconciled. They are inconsistent, if not contradictory, and no application of the true doctrine to Venezuela can be made without stretching it far beyond President Monroe's plain intention. President Cleveland's errors and Mr I Olney's errors have been exposed in plain terms by the lawyers, and in terms not less plain by the Press. Senator Sherman's reaffirmation of them shows how much work has yet to be done before ¡' public opinion resumes its normal sanity and sound- ness. Ib shows also what trouble may yet be. Senator Sherman's present declaration signifies, among other things, that the Republicans have not yet found their way out of the wood. It remains to be seen what effect Senator Sherman's letter will have on public opinion and on party politics. It may be passed over as an indis- cretion it may mark a new political departure it may draw his party him, or leave him stranded by himself; or oblige him to issue a neR and wiser declaration. All that need be said to- day is that, wittingly or unwittingly, this Republican Senator has strengthened the hands ot a Democratic President and has weakened those who, in the interests of the country, have resisted tbe President.

A SINGULAR REPORT FROM BOGOTA. NEW YORK:, Tuesday.—The line of conduct adopted by Venezuela in tbe present inter- national situation continues to attract the preponderating weight of public opinion, although the progress of the Bond Bill is closely watched in financial circles. It is generally held that the merest events which would have ordinarily passed almost unnoticed may precipitate matters and induce a crisis in some South American Republic. In this connection it is pointed out that the new Spanish Minister has just received a remarkably warm welcome in Caracas, but that this has no bearing on the Venezuelan boundary dispute with Great Britain indeed, a despatch from Caracas to the Herald asserts that the utmost excitement prevails in that city in consequence of a report that the Spanish Minister at Bogota has been escorted out of the city in consequence of his denouncing exactly similar treatment which had, it is alleged, been meted out to the British Minister to Colombia. No official verification of this rumour has been received here, but it is held to be indicative that little is wanting to induce Colombia and Vene- zuela to make common cause m their action against external interference, if, indeed, they have nob already done so-Central Nswi.

NEGOTIATIONS FOR WAR MATERIAL. Nsw YORI, Tuesday.—The World publishes the following telegram from Caracas :—" The Venezuelan Government is negotiating in the United States for supplies of war material. Guns are being sent from Caracas to fortify the harbour of Maracaibo. The Special Commissioners appointed to arrange for an alliance of the South American Republics against Great Britain are ready to start on their mission. It is reported that the Spanish Minister to Colombia, has been escorted out of Bogota for denouncing the treatment accorded to the British Minister.

FAILURES AT LIVERPOOL. Two firms were declared defaulters on the Liverpool Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Both firms were involved in American securities, in which the decline has recently been so severe.

STATES 15,000,000 DOLLARS IN DEBT. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—According to a return issued from the Washington Treasury Depart- ment this afternoon the revenue receipts for the past six months show a deficit of 15,000,000 dollars, as compared with the corresponding period of 1894. The return was not out in time to affect Wall-street operations, but it is feared that the recent financial scare may in some measure be revived. The determination of tbe Government to possess a Navy at all hazards is being demonstrated almost daily, even though the organisation be on the patchwork principle. The Navy Department has now given orders for the new battleship Texas to be returned to tbe dockyard so as to allow of a large number of structural alterations being effected. It is stated that when the plan of revision" has been fully carried out the Texas will be entitled to rank as a first class battleship, and that succeed- ing vessels are to be constructed on the new lines. Meanwhile it has become known that the pro- jected crnise of Rear-Admiral Bunce's North American squadron has been again postponed, the latest arrangement being that a start is not to be made for at least two weeks.—Central News.

WRECKAGE OFF THE TYNE. A Shields telegram says:—It is feared that another serious shipwreck has occurred off the Tyne during the late gales involving the loss of all hands. A pilot returning from sea on Tuesday observed a ship's mast with wreckage attached projecting above the water within a mils l of the shore. The wreckage is in the^ totals of ,roa«elsAa>ji>liijpg tyr Shields Harbour* v