Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

The world either breaks or hardens the heart. J CHAMFORT. Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. GEORGE SAND. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it 120ei in the face. MONTAIGNE. The thought of eternity consoles us for the tortness of life. MALESHERBES. # We sho uld not pass from the earth without leav- ing traces to carry our memory to posterity. NAPOLEON I. « Hope is a lure. There is no band that can retain Wave or a shadow. VICTOR HUGO. Great men are like meteors; they glitter and are I Consumed to enlighten the world. g NAPOLEON I. A philosopher is a fool who torments himself dur- life, to be spoken of when dead. | D' ALEMBERT. r A Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end ? MME DE MAIKTENON. to eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated ) bY new desires: we look forward to living, and yet i Iftever live. J FONTENELLE. I t Life often seems but a long shipwreck, of which I rre debris are friendship, glory, and love: the ( ""Ores of our existence are strewn with them. ¡ MME DE STAEL. | # is the author, men are only the players. *hese grand pieces which are played upon earth been composed in Heaven. BALZAC. • The sovereign Author of the universe has made I all wallet-bearers in the same way, as well "hose of time past as those of to-day. He put the j ^*Uet behind for our own failings, and the one for the failings of others. LA FONTAINE. t LA FONTAINE. v There are sorrows mingled with the pleasures of Everything does not go, sir, as we would it. Heaven wills that here below each should bis crosses, and, without these, men would be *°° full of happiness. MOLIERE. m There are two worlds one where we live for a I I tK°rt t'me' ar,d which xe leave never to return; °^er which we soon must enter, never to i W Ve" *nfluence» power, friends, high fame, great are of use in the first world; the contempt j* all these things is for the latter. We must «o°se between the two. LA BRUYERE. In ^Py are 'bose who have lost their relish for pleasure, and are content with the "^thing quiet of innocence and retirement I Happy they whose amusement is knowledge, and supreme delight the cultivation of the mind 1 _» »rever they shall be driven by the persecution j? Fortune, the means of enjoyment are still with "» and that weary littleness which renders life wj^pportable to the voluptuous and the lazy, is ^known to those who can employ themselves by "Wing. FENELON. »

Myself and You. fh *J«re are only myself and you in the world, £ here only myself and you; « clear, then, that I unto you should be kind, j And you unto me should be true. d if I unto you could be always kind, lid you unto me could be true, en the criminal courts could all be adjour nd the sword would have nothing to do. Jh "weet air of heaven is free to us all; »^Pon all fall the rain and the dew; j^Jfche glorious sun in bis cycle of light chines alike on myself and on you. Ue infinite Love is as broad as the sky, And as deep as the oceans blue i may breathe it, bathe in it, live in it, aye It in Life for myself and for you. M the Christ who came when the angels sang Will come if the song we review, And reign in his Kingdom, the Prince of Peace- Reigning over myself and you. Oh, then, may I be unto you always kind, So Be you unto me always true; Anil tv,„ may rest from its turmoil and strife, sword may have nothing to do. H. LAVINIA BAILET. ■

New Year's Eve. least, in e^g11 ^ath two birthdays: two days, at f the lapse 0f ^ear> which set him upon revolving j The one is tv.1036' as affects his mortal duration. | terineth Ai. which, in an especial manner, he ^bservaaces" t, the gradual desuetude of old "Jrfchday hn\v Custom of solemnizing our proper Children near^y passed away, or is left to ^^ter, nor ,re^ect nothing at all about the oranrre u^derstand anything in it beyond cake ^^rest too •6 t*ie birth of a New Year is of an eObbler 00 wIde to be pretermitted by king or tk indifflr °ne ever regarded the first of January tT6^ kittle Het\Ce" is that from which all date of count upon what is leit. It is the l*. all so;in^r ^oramon Adam. jj'^ering bells—(bells, the music nighest fche rf?? ^eaven)—most solemn and touch- to Ver heard > which rings out the Old Year. I without a gathering-up of my mind ova Vi°n ^e images that have been r.°i Suffr past twelvemonth; all I have ^8fette(J titrjre Performed or neglected—in that (]{„ e' begin to know its worth, as when a Persona^ colour; nor was aioied-, S^t in a contemporary, when be i saw fL It is le skirts of the departing Year. of „?10re than what in sober sadness every v«-takir> t° be conscious of, in that awful me f' am sure I and felt it Prions aff&St n'?ht; though some of my com- tL011 at the tCted rather to manifest an exhilara- ^nder reor«lrt^ of the coming year, than any very I at^ s *or the decease ef its predecessor. f Welcome°the ° £ tb°Se Wh°~ J e coming, speed the parting guest. i nf eelders f a charaofo wbom I was brought up, were I vDservanCe nfF n°^ ^ely to let slip the sacred | Out of any old institution and the ringing truces of v>» ^ar was kept by thsm with eircum- #°Utid of Cu"ar ceremony.—In those days the *o raise m^n^ght chimef, though it seemed vring a trai /n around me, never failed to I then n ° Pens've imagery into rny fancy, i >j0,z6ht 0f conceived what it meant, or I ^°t childu^1, a.s a reckoning that concerned me. ?ever fepi0 alone, but the young man till thirty, 5^°Ws it ;n •. Poetically that he is mortal. He t. ^°liilv r, tt. an< 'if need were, he could preach '5L0tWe J°Se fragxHty of life; but he brings it an ° aQy more than in a hot June .1tigearl Ippropriate to our imagination the freez- ecember. But now, shall I confess a to f1 au('its but too powerfully. J to ?rnri'Jn l Pr°fc>a-'bilities of my duration, .fjh,D to grudge at the expenditure of moments and 5?^ion as th° ? miser's farthings. In pro- f10'6 count years both lessen and shorten, I set y Qiy inpff0^Pn Periods, and would fain Ste»t ^j)ee. ctual finger upon the spoke of the leaver's oVi,fiIn,,not content to pass away "like J Those metaphors solace me ^?Uty. j J1} unpalatable draught of mor- ^OOTHLY bearo V. to be.carrieil with the tide, that the inevkaw uman life to eternity; and reluct the inevkaw uman to eternity; and reluct Wuh this ^Ze courfe of destiny. I am in love I Country; the nn ear.t the face of town and securitv rural solitudes, and the fiweet security Of streets. I would set up my taber- Jacle here. I am would set up my taber- i w which I am arrfOI^tent to stand sfcill at the age 1 110 younger, no rich!? and my fiends to be j J'ant to be weaned bv handsomer- 1 do nofc ^Ult- as they say, into nP or rop' llke mellow this earth of mine ■ j grave.—Any alteration ^scom^sl »e °r in lo^g, puzzles *errible fixed foot and household gods plant a bloo,l. Sdon^vre1notrooted «P without .2Wb5?g,S3a^ -««-■ CHARLES LAMB.

j ONWARD I | BY « PHILIP SIDNEY." For the third time in succession it is my privi- lege to greet our readers, far and near, at the be- g nning of yet another year; and from my native town, away in the west country, remote in sunny Devon, I send to one and all a message of good will. This, my 192nd weekly article, like those which have gone before it at this particular season, varies somewhat from the usual themes; for rightly or wrongly, I imagine there are few persons, wbose minds are at all disposed to reflection, but what feel peculiarly disposed to the exercise of that re- flection ,at the beginning of a New Year. Even the usual forms of society seem to be somewhat more than lifeless forms at t his interesting season. They seem, do they not, to acquire activity and energy, from the common consciousness that all have common feelings. It is rightly made the season of gaiety; and, where gaiety is tempered with thought and the social board, or the festive hall, is not made the scene of riotous mirth, or of unsocial passion, or dissipated folly, the laws of Christian morality forbid it not. But the feelings of gaiety should be tempered with thought for one year has been passed; and of the longest life one year forms too important a portion to be passed without both a backward and an onward look. To many of us, reader and writer alike the year we have just buried in eternity's vault, has been tinged with deep affliction. There is the vacant chair on the hearth; links of affection and of friendship, which attached us closely to others, have been snapped; no more to be renewed till time to us shall be no more. Some of us can call to mind duties half per- formed, or altogether neglected ;—duties performed with motives that should not have prompted our actions; or duties prevented by an excess of atten- tion to our own ease or emolument, or mere worldly reputation. Perchance we can call to mind and recollect the holy resolution of the hour of solitary reflection, entirely forgotten in the busy walks of life; the determination to spend our lives as having a con- stant reference to futurity, unheeded, when the determination should have been called into action, and been made the regulator of our conduct. It may be,—who can tell ?—that our hearts have in secret to mourn direct departures from the simple rules and teachings of Jesus,-direct instances of unholy desires indulged,—unholy gratifications allowed,-the promptings of selfishness listened to in opposition to the claims of justice or bene- volence,—yes, the duties of piety carelessly per- formed, or criminally neglected. As one who deeply feels what he is deliberately and prayerfully writing,—knowing not who shall read, or whither the seed may be wafted—I would earnestly entreat us all to let the beginning of a new period of time strongly bring to recollection the period which to every one of us approaches, when the opportsnity of effectual repentance will, for ever be gone, when our little day of probation will be over. May the thought rouse us to peni- tence, and to humiliation, to steady exertion, to determination to make the inexorable laws of a loving God our guide; to retrieve as far as lies in our power every instance in which we have injured others, to check for future, every tendency to what we feel and know to be wrong in our temper and in our practice. "Onward then and fear not, Children of the day I For His word shall never, Never pass away. And what of the New Year now dawning? Do you ask me, as rightly you may, what message I have to give you 1 I would say with my brother John Page Hopps, let the coming chapter be brighter and worthier still. Why, ob I tell me why, should not every one of us begin the year, with the deep conviction that it may be as a cleansed way ? Hear some homely but much needed truths There need be no trick, no pretence, no living for appearance sake, no trail of the serpent over the conscience, the intellect, the soul." Reader and friend, don't believe it that you must cheat your conscience in order to stand well with the world; don't believe it that you can be righteous overmuch don't believe it that the chief end of man is to make a fortune and enjoy (?) it for ever; if necessary, dare to be poor, and hold as the first article of your creed that it is only necessary you should in purity possess your soul. Listen yet further to brother Hopps :—" Even in business, and especially in all handicraft, love is the most precious asset available." As I have been writing (and you perchance have been reading,) the sound of Curfew has once again fallen upon my ear, and a deep peace possesses me as I hear its strokes—" Ringjout the old, ring in the new-for certain I am that the days which are to come in the New Year shall Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good, if only we,—common place, ordinary men and women-will but nobly do our share to bring about so great a consummation. Remember friends mine, in many a home and many a clime that there is something in this world to live for that is not riches; something that no flood-tide of prosperity can ever bring, or ebb-tide of adversity take away; something we carry with us wherever we go. It is what we are, our BEST. May God make that a light to our lives, for he that doeth truth cometh to the light."

Cymru Fu. Cymru Fu. LIV. 178. ABERYSTWYTH BURGESSES, 18TH OCTOBE*, 1760. David Evans, Cynffirch. Thos Evans, Tynshir. Humphrey John, Doleygarnedd. Harry Rowland. Llyfnant Mill. William Hary, Cwmrhaidr. Lewis Edward, Blaencoro. Mr Jenkin Griffith, Cevncoch. Cadwalder Evans, Brwyno. Edwd Mason, Wainbwll. I (To be continued/, I

SEA CASUALTIES. According to a Parliamentary Return issuect on Saturday the total number of sea casualties recorded in 1900-01 was 5,421, or 42 less than in 1899-1900. The total number of losses and serious casualties, together, was 1,693, which was 92 more than in 1E99-1900. The number of total losses was 341 (tonnage 152,996), the figures being lower by 79 as regards number and by 26,680 as regards tonnage than for 1899-1900. The number of vessels lost was lower than in any of the previous twenty-four years, while the tonnage lost was lower in any of t hose years except 1897-98. The total number of seamen and passengers saved from wrecks of British vessels everywhere, and of foreign vessels on or Iwar the coasts of British territory during the year 1900-91 was 7,394. Of the 2,268 lives saved on the coasts of the United Kingdom 282 were saved by the rocket apl)aratus and assistance from the shore, 347 were by lifeboats, 257 by Coastguard boats and other craft, 575 by passing ships, and 727 by the ship's own boat.

CHURCH ARMY NOTES. The old Tyburn gallows stood near the site of the Church Army's new headquarters and training- homes in Edgware-road. From the verandah of one of the old houses, demolished to clear a space for rebuilding, the London Sheriffs used to sit to watch the execution of highwaymen and others. During the past week a special officer has inter- viewed over one hundred reservists who have applied to the Church Army for assistance. Every one of these men has been helped, with food, lodging, or temporary employment. Situations have also been obtained for numbers of them, and it is to be hoped that employers of labour will give a chance to the many deserving men on the Church Army's books. To deal with the large numbers of homeless men in the Embankment district, the Church Army has still further increased its local accommodation. In addition to the Embankment Home in Millbank- street, and the tent shelter in Westminster Bridge- road, which between them have lodged two hundred men nightly, a soup kitchen and shelter for another two hundred men has now been opened in Romney-street. The premises consist of a disused public-house, shortly to be demolished for the new Embankment scheme, and kindly let to the society by the London County Council at a nominal rental.

Intelligence has been received in Dublin that the ketch Haswell, bound from Bridgewater for Dublin, laden with a cargo of bricks, foundered off the Welsh coast in the disastrous gale of Monday last week. The crew, consisting of five bands, "el9 drowned.

CHIPS OF NETO. Gorleston is to be provided with a isttm lifebotfc. Mont Pelée, Martinique, was in violet eruptiow on Boxing Day. Twenty thousand illustrated postcards pass through the Brussels post-office daily. Seven torpedo-boats will leave the Mditerranean shortly to strengthen the Russian Bet in the Far East. H.M.S. Leander will be commissiond next year as a sea-going base for torpedo-boat dstroyers on the Mediterranean station. In Paris the banns of marriage lIav, just been published of Dr. Marcile and Mile. It Play, who eloped together recently in a motor-car. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow jf the late General Fremont, the" Pathfinder," hasdied at Los Angeles, California, aged seventy-eight The cares and responsibilities of a argc family have been given by a Parisian Socialit municipal councillor as his reasons for resigning <s seat. If dog-lovers pay full fare for thir pets the animals are allowed to ride with tem in the electric tramway-cars in the borough o Richmond, New York. Pretending that he had to repair the :elephone a man mounted the roof of the Nations Theatre at Buda-Pesth and stole the lightning-rodixed on the building. Since his appointment as gaoler of he Thames Police-court thirteen years ago, neaiy 120,000 prisoners have passed through the handaof Sergeant John Baker, who has retired after somttwenty-six years' police service. Dornoch Cathedral spire has been lent by the force of the recent gale. Military officers are in future to receiv free copies of each of the Army regulations. Manchester Royal Infirmary clock dot; not strike the hours between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. There are thirty-three Roman Ca^olic boys' brigades with 2,000 members in Londoc At New Romney, Kent, a set of anient stocks has been discovered in a cellar of the (Durt House. Twenty-four thousand pennies have blen collected within the last few weeks for Cardiff lrkrrnary. Coronation mugs were presented last week to the children attending the endowed schools t Boughton, Norfolk. Inquests have been held in Dublin o, the bodies of three men, all of whom were killed in the same day by falling downstairs while intoxicted. By purchasing foreign instead of Englsh beef for their workhouse, it is estimated that he Halifax Guardians could effect an annual savingof £240. By the votes of her fellow pupils, aworkhouse girl attending the Oulton Board School, luffolk, has been declared the best all-round schjar in the school. Dr. Karkeek, who had been medica officer of health for Torquay for twenty-four Jears, died from paralysis on Saturday. He had been loconscious for Dearly a month. Lying whimpering on the breast of a\ unknown man whose body was found in a Swansea park was a little dog, which could scarcely be Sauced to leave its dead master. On January 13th the obsolete battleship Agamemnon, together with her equipmett, includ- ing four 38-ton guns, will be sold in )oe lot by auction at Portsmouth Dockyard. Ony British subjects will be allowed to attend the 8a. Colonel McNamara, R.A.M.C., has beenappointed principal medical officer at Gibraltar. The bulletins concerning the Princesiof Wales report her continued progress towards rep>tery. Colonel RaWson, R.E., at present rving in South Africa, has been appointed to the command of the R.E. in Dublin. Some eight hundred poor children of Woolwich were given a substantial dinner, folloved by all entertainment, at the local Polytechnic ot Saturday night. Joseph Jones, a boy living in Lowtr Gomal, Hedgley, fell into a pot containing boilinf water on Christmas Day and died on Saturday. The Marquess of Ormonde, Mr. Rudyaq Kipling, and his wife and daughter were ftong the passengers who left Southampton on Saturday for the Cape. Huntsman Cubberley, of the North Cheshire Hounds, broke three ribs in a fall on Satyday. It was a racing hunt, and in falling the htrse rolled over the huntsman. The Halesowen District Council has obtained Parliamentary sanction to borrow iE95,W for the construction of a light railway between Stourbridge and Birmingham. The Admiralty has accepted a tend4r for the erection of auxiliary buildings in connection with the extensive new powder magazines at C'-rtenden Chatham, the cost of which will amount to about £ 12,000. Forty-seven summonses were Issued It Swansea on Saturday on behalf of workmen afainst the Morriston Tinplate Company for breach o contract, the damages claimed totalling £ 350. Sir William Coddington, M.P. for Blacfcurn, who had announced his intention of retring, has intimated that he will stand for the eat at the next election. A well-dressed man was found on fte Roman road between Dover and Guston on Sunday night with a bullet wound in the head. A five-thambered revolver, with one barrel discharged, >as found beside him. In the extension at Portsmouth Dockyard a steam factory is to be one of the principal features. The building" will cost nearly 4200 000, lud all the engineering work of the yard will be centred in it. Thanks to the intelligence of A dog, Elizabeth Yates, an elderly married woman, of Coventry, was saved from a watery grave on Saturday. She was charged with attempting suicide and remanded. David Owen, a painter, of Swansea, was endeavour- ing to open a stoppered bottle with a table-knife, when the knife slipped and severed an utery just above the left knee. He bled to death. Mr. P. A. McHugh, M.P., was released from Sligo Gaol on Sunday, and avoided a demonstration by driving to his home sooner than I. was expected. During the past two years he has speat eleven months in prison. John Miller, labourer, twenty-six, lifts in the Glasgow Infirmary in a dangerous condition with a wound in the chest, which, it is alleged" was inflicted with a table-knife during a qwrel with his brother William. Alfred Swailes, twenty-nine, a county-court bailiff, of Sunderland, turned his wife kod sister out of doors late on Saturday night. 7liO women went i'or a constable, and together they returned and found Swailes' dead- body hanging to a bed- stead. Joshua Jackson, a boat-builder, of lVorgleY, was taken from the Bridgwater Canal on Saturday. On Christmas Eve he had some drinks with friends, and returned home across the fields. It is surnused that he fell into the canal. Harry Thompson, a young man, visited friends at Word-ley, near Brierley-hill, on Chrises -nigilt. He refreshed himself and left for horPe, Nothing was seen of him until his body was taljcn from a lock in the Birmingham Canal at hUcfcP°ol on Saturday. The Durbar camp at Delhi covers fifty square miles, and there are 250,000 dwellers tinder canvas. In a railway collision in Canada between an express and a Ireight train, twenty-five people were killed and thirty injured. The Archduke Leopold Ferdinand is stated to have denied that he has renounced his rights. It is also said that the Pope has not been aak<d to dissolve the marriage of the Crown Princess of Saxony, and would refuse to do so if asked. The Bishop of St. Albans (the Right Rev. J. W. Fest ing) died on Sunday evening, at lis residence in London aiter a long illness. Dr. r(:stmg, who has held the see since 18B0, was in his sixty-sixth year. Mr. S. W. Higginbottom, who has. represented the West Derby Division of Liverpool ir, the House of Conmons since 1900, died on Saturday from pneumonia, at his residence at Birkeiiiiead. He was in his fiftieth year. Mr. George Cornwallis West had an unfortunate experience whilst hunting with Sir Watkin Wynn s hounds from Whitchurch, on Saturday. At the very first fence in the first run he so badly sprained the muscles of his spine and thigh as to make further hunting impossible. While Mr. John Hayward, a Liverpool contractor, was going to business on a bicycle the machine skidded and he was thrown underneath a passing electric car. He died before reaching bospital. Mr. Chamberlain, whose visit to liatal has provoked unprecedented enthusiasm, said in a speech on Saturday night that up to the present the Mother Country had taken almost the whole burden of Empire, but now she expected from her Colonies « sense of their obligations.

RUBBING EASES PAIN. By instinct the hand flies to the part hurt, but to eliminate Ache-s and Pains a safe stimulating medium or lubricant is necessary, and its pbysical condition should facilitate the process of rubbing. Suchls ELLIMAN'S EMBPOCAIRION. Eliiman's For Rheumatism, LUtllbago.l Elliman's „ Sprahis, Bruises, Elliman's „ Fresh Cuts, Eliiman's „ .Sore Throat from CoId« Eliiman's Cold at the Chest, Eliiman's Neuralgia from CoIdL Eliiman's „ Chilblains before Broken; Eliiman's „ Corns when Painful, Elliman's Cramp, Stiffness, Elliman's Soreness of the Limbs EUiman's after Cycling, Football, Eliiman's Rowing, &c. Bottles, 8id., is. ltd., 2s. 9d., 4s. Ellimao. Sons & Co., Slough, England, 'I.- ..L For Artistic and Commercial Printing go to the Welsh Gazette," Bridge Street Aberybtwph.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Commander Douglas R. L. N¡ëolBon (n Saturday vacated the command of the 30-kht torpedo-boat destroyer Success, attached to the PortsmouLh Destroyer Instructional Flotilla, and succeeded Captain Erasmus D. St. A. Omma' ney in the command of the third-class cruiser Calliope, wmji is employed as sea-going tender to the Northamp- ton, training ship for boys. Commander the Hon. Il. G. Brand succeeded Commander Nicholson in the command of the Success. The second-class cruiser Dido was placed in the dockyard hands at Chatham, on Saturday, to be completed for entering upon her new duties all coastguard ship for the Humber district, in place of the armoured cruiser Galatea, Captain Robert S. D. Gumming. The Dido will hoist the pennant for service with the Home Fleet early in January. The Galatea will leave Hull for the Medway upon the expiration of Christmas leave to her crew. The torpedo-boat destroyer Salmon rejoined the Medway Fleet Reserve on Saturday upon the comple- tion of extensive repairs at Sheerness Dockyard. The Salmon has been in the dockyard hands at Sh; erness for nearly twelve months. She was towed to the dockyard at the end of December last year in a battered condition, having rf-ceived consider- able damage off Harwich in a collision with one of the Great Eastern Company's mail steamers. To effect her repairs the destroyer had to be cut in two, and the damaged sections amidships removed and entirely rebuilt. The petty officers and men of the Royal Naval School of Gunnery, Sheerness, want on leave at noon on Saturday until January 5th. The crews of the Wildfire, Edinburgh, Havock, Hornet, Hyena, Bouncer, and Bustard went on similar leave, only eufficient officers, petty officers, and men remaining to perform routine duties. They will be granted their leave after the return of those who participate in the first leave.

CHEMICAL FIRM'S PHILANTHROPY A Northwich correspondent states that thousands of men employed by the chemical firm, Messrs. Brunner, Mond, and Co., at Winnington, Lostock, Silvcrtown, Sandbach, &c., will again benefit at the hands of their employers. For a quarter of a century a sick club has been in existence towards which the men have weekly contributed. Instead of amending the rules to meet the Act of Parlia- ment coming into operation in Jannuary the employers have provided an elaborate scheme for medical attendance, sick allowances, and death payments at their own cost.

WAITER'S DANGEROUS FIND. The proprietor of a small hotel at Marseilles ziauch frequented by foreigners of the poorer class took possession the other day of an iron box left behind some time ago by two Italians, and caused it to be opened. According to a correspondent it contained, among other articles, two bottles filled with a colourless liquid. One of the waiters tasted the liquid, and finding it insipid threw both bottles out of the window into the street. A terrific explosion followed, smashing the windows of a passing tramcar and severely injuring several passers-by and the waiter. The police are con- vinced that the bottles contained nitro-glycerine, and it is supposed that the two Italians were Anarchists, and had adopted this means of getting rid of their dangerous baggage.

LADY ASHMEAD-BARTLETT SUED. In the King's Bench Division an action brought by Mr. Easton, an Eastbourne butcher, to recover iCI19 19s. 7d. from Lady Ashmead-Bartlett for meat supplied, has been heard before Mr. Justice Ridley. For the defendant it was contended that the credit was really given to her late husband, but his lordship gave judgment for the plaintiff, with costs.

MURDER IN A WINESHOP. A horrible discovery has been made by a wine- shop-keeper at Fierming. Observing a light in a shed near his house, says a Paris correspondent, he opened the door and discovered a human body lying on a large coke fire. The arms and legs had been nearly severed from the body, and the head was terribly burnt. The remains were identified as those of a mason name Meallier, who, although a married man and the father of five children, had been living at the wineshop with a woman named Sauzoau. On their room being searched traces of blood were found, and some of Meallier's clothing was picked up in a field near the shed. Sauzeau has been arrested.

AMNESTY TO RUSSIAN STUDENTS. The St. Petersburg Official Musenger publishes the ollowing telegram sent by the Czar on his name- day to the Minister of the Interior: "Let the students who were banished for creating disturb- ances return from Siberia. Although they should not for the present be allowed to live in towns where there are high schools, care must neverthe- less be taken that the young men on their return be entrusted to the keeping of their families, as such surroundings will familiarise them with order." Appended to the telegram is an Imperial decree granting the Czar's pardon to fifty-eight persons at present exiled in Eastern Siberia. An Imperial decree of September 26th last extended his Majesty's clemency to sixty-two persons who had been similarly banished.

DOG STEALING NOT A FELONY. A curious flaw in criminal law has been pointed out by Mr. Rose, the West London magistrate. A man, who had been several times convicted of dog- stealing, was arrested while suspiciously patting several stray dogs. In his pocket was a piece of y liver and an adjustable dog's collar. The magis- trate pointed out that, curiously enough, dog stealing was not a felony, and therefore the accused could not be Baid to be in the street" for the purpose of committing a felony." The prisoner was entitled to escape, by a technicality, through the meshes of the law.

SHOT DEAD IN COURT. A dramatic scene was witnessed in Havana recently in open court, writes a correspondent from that place. The father of a young girl who had been enticed from home by a local gambler-who, though twice married under different names, had passed as single-gliot the man when lie was brought up for trial, putting five bullets into his body, two of which pierced the heart. The police who had brought the man from the gaol narrowly escaped being wounded. The father was cheered by onlookers in the court-room, who hissed the judge when he reprimanded them for approving the "cowardly act of shooting a helpless prisoner." Friends of the father promptly appeared, demand- ing his release and offering iCI0,000 in gold as bail. Bail in the sum of Li,ooo was accepted.

ITALIAN LOVE TRAGEDY. A. terrible tragedy has occurred at Genoa, writes a Rome correspondent. A lady and gentleman went to one of the principal hotels, and having taken a room retired to it and locked themselves in. When, at midday next day, nothing had yet been hpsra of them, and no answer had been given to the hotel manager's repeated knocking, the police were sent for and the door was burst open. The pair were found locked in each other's arms, quite dead, the gentleman having shot the lady in the temple before blowing out his own brains with a revolver, which was still tightly gripped in his hand. A sate on the table declared that the lovers welcomed a union in death, since they could never be united in life. Their love intrigue had endured for two years. The gentleman was the Marquess Francesco Beggio, administrator of the royal demesne at Bari, and the lady was Maria Dei Capei, wife of a captain in the 15th Regiment of the Line, and sister o £ one of the King's aides-de-camp. The lady leaves three little children.

PRISON PREFERRED TO BAIL. Messrs. John Roche, M.P., Charles O'Keefo, Michael Garrick, A. J. Monaghan, and Denis John- stone were charged, before a Special CrimeS Court at Roscommon, with unlawful assembly at Knockroghery on November 9th. Johnstone did not appear. After a hearing which lasted all day the charge against O'Keefe was dismissed. Messrs. Roche, Garrick, and Monaghan were orderfd to be detained until the rising of the Court, and after- wards to enter into bail to be of good behaviour, or in default to go to prison for a month. The defendants accepted the alternative, Mr. Roche stating he would go to gaol before he would give bail for no offence.

AN ANALYSIS AT FAULT. An interesting adjourned case came beiore the Stourbridge magistrates the other day, in fvhich it was alleged that there was arsenic in some beer purchased for analysis. The charge rested on the certificate of the Worcestershire county analyst, but counter-evidence came from the Staffordshire county analyst that he found no arsenic in a correjponding sample of beer, llndor the clrcumstaeces the remaining part, of the beer was seat to the Govern- nHMit, laboratory for analysis. The certificate now (ii-clared the beer free from arsenic. The case was dismissed, aUt: the prosecution ordered to pay twenty-five guineas costs.

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MORGAN, PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST, ABERYSTWYTH. Sold in Is. & 2s. bottles WONDERFUL RESULTS. BLACK LION HOTEL, STRATA FLORIDA. FIRST-CLASS Family & Commercial Hotel (Private Houseadjoining for Visitors). HEARSE AND FUNERAL CARRIAGES KEPT ON THE PREMISES. TERMS MODERATE. RED LION HOTEL PONTRHYDFENDIGAID. PROPRIETOR EDWARD JENKINS. THIS old established and well known Hotel has -t- been recently renovated. Parties, Cyclists, Commercial Gentlemen and Visitors to the noted Teify Lakes and Strata Florida Abbey, will find every accommodation and comfort on very moderate charges. Best Ales, Wines, Spirits, Cigars, &c. Posting in all its branches. Good Stabling. onveyances meet all trains at Strata Florida Station. EdWin Peters CASTLE BOOT & SHOE WAREHOUSE, 51, Great Darkgate Street, ABERYSTWYTH. Three doors above the Town Clock. GENTS' LADIES' AND CHILDRENS' BOOTS IN GREAT VARIFTIES. ALADDIN'S MAGIC TEA s. "ALAD D I N*S IV.AGrc. j THE BEST. 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Scholarships and Bursaries to the'amount of £120 annually are tenable at the School. For particulars apply to the Headmaster or the Clerk. JAMES STEPHENS. Clerk HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS VI C TOR I A (MARINE) T ERR ACE A BERYSTWYTHl SEPARATE KINDERGARTEN. PRINCIPAL Miss KATE B. LLOYD. Certificated Mistress, Assisted by a Staff of highly qualified Resident Governesses. REFERENCES- Thomas Jones, Esq., B.A., H.M. Inspector of School Llanelly; The Rev. O. Evans, D.D., King's Cross, London. E. H. Short, Esq., H.M. Inspector, Aberystwyth. Principal Roberts, M.A., U.C.W. Principal Prys, M.A., Trevecca College. Dr Scholle Aberdeen University. Rev T. A Penry, Aberystwyth. Pupils prepared for the London and Welsh Matries ations Oxford and Cambridge Examinations, &c. For Terms &c,, apply PRINCIPAL LLANDYSSUL COUNTY SCHOOL. HEADMASTER: WILLIAM LEWIS, M.A. CANTAB., WRANGLER 1890. Assisted by a highly-qualified Staff of'4 Residen and 2 Visiting Teachers. 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FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT. Four Austrian youths, two of them belonging to the Hansa Rowing Club, left Trieste harbour on Sunday in a pleasure sailing boat. A wind sprang up, and all trace of the boys was lost until Friday afternoon, when some fishermen discovered the boat submerged on the Venetian coast off Piave Point. The body of one of the youths was in the boat.