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I WKATHKKFOKKUASf. I7MTXBI>At'» F0HBCA8T. Calms, .ith ?-ld. foggy weather then B' u' h. westerly ti" ,-1,; I wind" .d.1 I TESTKRDAT'B WKATB*R. i YrATitRnAY'8 Ind., Iir. The f.i-t 01 th* weather throughout the W"t .1 Bnclaiiit and *m»rh Wales for t<wlav (Wednesfiav) j<M miiMws ■Southerly id., moderate I" fresh; cloudy or ddl —

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BUM'INU AFl'UiNTMKN'iy. HARIURRS. The Crickhowell.-Friday. November 4, Llwncrwn Farm—n^.m. FOXHOUNDS. TheC??r.henthtre.-F?.)?. November 4, MMt- flwvnneGate, near Llanstephan i0.50. T'h'. Glamorg-ushlr Wednesday. N.?tmber 2, C? ty.l. L (ig.; Friday. November 4, Coedrlg an- 10,45. W lhi L'anharran.—Friday, November 4, C.r A- '° '? f.faogibby.-Filday, N.,6mte, 4, L)Mj;e!)ew OrU—10.30. November 3, Bt The Pembrokeshire.—ThursHy, November 3•* nB,t. C-n?rh?'i Bridge; Friday, November 4, Be?eerth. Common—11. Mr l'<1,lIlce'Thunday, November 3, Llwyiiy- i br.¡"0.3O, 1,1 Tredegar's.-Thursday, November 3, Wpoo'j c overt-I11 The Ti vyside.—Th ureday, November 3, Rbydlewla -10.30. I

S-P:RV-I(;F.S. Wedtx sday, N .vember2,-GarrettlnE fit, anthem, I "If we believe (Goss). Thursday, November 3.—King In F; hymn, 221. Fiidity, November 4.—Russell in A; anthem, "Hearj my pfayer"'(Winter) S.,urday. Novembor5.—Stamford in B flat; anthem, "hemember me, O Lor,I" (Ma-farrei-) 4

Tho municipal elections at Cardiff passed off ery quietly. The results were made knomi About nine o'olock, when it was found that the Conservatives had won two seats-in Canton and Grangetown-wbile not ODe of the Labour candidates was returned. The eleotions at Newport resulted in a loss of three seats to the i,ibersio-one in the Central Ward, where Mr. Mordey and Mr HrndPhilliD* were eieotwi; one in the outh i ( Ward,where Mv. K. Wilkinson and ^w- H iirown wete fleote'l; and one in Maindee, where Mr I apson and ?tr.Wi?'amMn, both Conservatives, were elected, The Bcnsational slander action of Leader v. Smyth, which promises to rival the Osbtirne ease in public interest, came on for hearing in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, London, yesterday. The case arises out of the loss of a brooch by the defendant, tbe wife of Major-general J. G. Smyth, who, it is alleged, saw another brooch in a jeweller's shop, .w-rt-d that, it was hern, and that ptft lit iff, who is the wife of an olhoer 111 the Suffolk l.'eoiment, had stolen It. Refore the hearing of the action the editor 1111(1 publisher of the Mominq were fined £ 100 and costs and A:i')o aiid cost* respectively for contempt of court ;n publishing certain articles concerning the case, Another batoh of shebeen onses came before the Cardiff stipendiary magistrate yesterday, when fines ranging from £1 to jf 100 and ootits were imposed. The totul number of convictions since September, 1*01, now reaches :370. The newreredos at St. John's Church, Car- diff. was foritially tinveilt-d last iiiglit. At the conclusion of evensong the vicar (the Kev. Canon Thompson), who performed the ceremony, delivered a shol t atid. ess descrip- tive of the aliarpiece, which is the work of Mr. Gosootnbe John, of Cardiff. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the men killed by the explosion at the Park Slip Colliery was resumed at the Angel Hotel, Aberkenfig, yester,lay, when further evidence was taken, the most important relating to the discovery of a damaged lump. The body of the ltIall Deinster was recovered on Monday night. Joe Choynski, of San J'ranoisco, defeated George Godfrey, of Roston, at the Coney Island Club-house, New York, in a glove-tight on I onday night. Uptothe fourteenth round the fighting WAS eten, but in tbe following round Godfrey was ktiocked iniietisible, and Choynski was doclared the winner. Arthur Prins. of Reiohenbeim, a sportsman well known on all the racecourses in Kurnpe, tbot himself dead at Potsdam on Monday night. Mr. Morgan R. Williams, late manager of the South Wales Unioll Hank, Cardiff, uaine before the registrar, Mr. F, Langley, for his resumed examination yesterday. The inquiry, of whioh a full report will be found In allother part of to-day's issue, lasted a long time, and was ultimately further adjourned for a fort- night. Our New York correspondent, a long letter from whom will be found in anot her column, takes, as will be seen, a very hopeful fiewof, the future of the Welsh tin-plate industry, and declares that, however the coming Presi- dential eleotion ma.v result, there is no fear of America being able to seriously oompete with Wales for many years to come, unless some disoovery leads to a complete revolution of the whole mode of working. Two donations of £ 1,000 eaoh have been promised to the University College of Wales at bery&twith, one by Mr. D. U. Keeling, of Blundell Sands, Liverpool, and the other by Mr. M. Jones, of Birmingham, late Unionist candidate for Cardiganshire. News reached Naas yesterday of a terrible trsgedv at the police-barracks at Ballina- drimaj co. Kildare, where the sergeant in charge, his wife, and three children were murde ed by a constable stationed in the barracks. The murderer batoned four other children, one of whom is not expected to live, and, after attempting to set fire to the barracks in severaf plaoes, shot himself dead. Two men were killed and one was seriously injured on Tuesday by a boiler explosion at the Ynishir Standard Steam Coal Collieries, near Porth, in the Hhondda Valley. A serious fire broke oat last night on the steam.hip Zarate, lying in the Alexandra Dock, Newport. The damage it expeoted to be aout 93,000. Dr. Sandford, bishop of Gibraltar, has reachedPeniche ith tb- view of identifying, if possible, the bodies of his nephew and nieoe, who perished in the Roumania. The British Consul at Lisbon has also gone to l'enicbe to see that everything is done to protect the remains of the dead and to provide for the security of the property washed ashore. The bodies of all the Europeans are being taken to the English oemetery at Lisbon for burial. An open verdict of Found drowned was returned at the inquest held yesterday at CardIff on the body of Miss liiekeiison, the lady who disappeared from her home a fort- night ago and was found in the oanal on Monday. Jefferson Hayes, one of the candidates for the Mantiingham Ward of Bradford, was yes- terday summarily sentenced to four months' imprisonment for embezzlement. The sixth of the series of articles on the land question in W^les, by a special commis- sioner of the Western Mad, will be found in another part of the present issue. In London the Stock Exchange was olosed yesterday. T here was only a moderate inquiry for money, and short loan, ruled easy at lfc to 1 £ per cent. Looaliy, with the London and provincial Stock Kxohanges olosed and the munioipal elections on, it was not to be expeoted that much business would be done, and, as a matter of faot, not half a dozen parcels of stocks or shares changed hands, those whioh were transferred not being of an important obaraoter.

THE MUNICIPAL JUNCTIONS. The munioipal elections are over, and a getieral idea of the result of the fray is now possible. The roost conspiouous feature of the contests in eveiy ward of Cardiff yester- day was the remarkable quiet that prevailed everywhere—a quiet approaching to duloess- At every one of the polling-booths the same story was told-a story of scaroity of voters --and the eleotions that are just over will long be remembered as the most uneventful on reoord in the history of the town. If any proof of this is needed it can readily be given from the figures sup- plied in the returns. Out of a total of thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty- six voters on the register, only eight thousand and thirty took the trouble to go to the poll. This one fact alone is oonolusive that public interest in munioipal eleotions in Cardiff has, for some reason, fallen off marvellously, for no other theory could possibly aocount for abstentions to the extent of 42 per cent. of the total number of voters. But there is another significant fact about the returns. Labour candidates pore and simple, opposing Liberals and Conservatives alike, were run in five wards in Cardiff, and in these five wards the labour vote repre- sented less than 20 per cent. of the electo- rate. In Canton the highest interest was taken, judged by this standard, for the percentage of the electors who recorded their votes amounted to 69j, while in Adamsdown, at the other end of the soale, only 39 per cent. of the electorate went to the poll, the other wards coming in between the two extremes, and bringing the average for the whole town to 58 per cent. With these figures staring us in the face, it is impos- sible to help ooming to the conclusion that Cardiff electors care very little about the result of the contests, and one naturally looks for the cause of this very evident laok of interest. Probably, the likeliest place to find the reason would be in the history of the governing body of the town during the past few years, whioh is hardly encouraging. As things atand now there is no very great inducement offered to the beat men in the town to devote their time and energy to the thankless task of serving in th oounoil-ohamber, and it is, perhaps, safe to predict that before any very long time has elapsed a change will take plaoe in the.lines I on which oar municipal oontests are fought, sTgn. arc not wa yesterdays polls supply them if they were lacking before-that the publio is growing weary of the existing order of things, and that weariness will surely lt-ad to a change sooner or later. It if too early yet to piopheay definitely, but it may bo taken for granted that future contests will be fought out on other lines than those of strictly politioal partisanship. Public opinion ia sloiv to move, but nioven surely, and the people of the town are beginning to realise that there is still something to be desired in the composition of the governing body. That the lessons of the psst have not been thrown awaj is shown by the results of yesterday's contests, and those results will lead tho electors gradually during the next twelve months to see where they have failed in tho puflt. Conviction will lead to repentance, and from thenoa to amendment is but a step, Another year should suflice for both, and should enable the voters to thoroughly appre- ciate the moral of the muuioipal elections of ltf'JJ.

The foreign cattle trade is proving rather a serious thorn iii the side of Mr. IIFIIBFttT (JARIINKII, and the Hoard of Agriculture just now can hardly be a bed of roses—perhaps a plank-bed would be a happier simile. It was only the other day that the new President of the department won general approval by the blunt way in whioh he refused the request of the Deptford dealers to allow live cattle to be brought there, at the risk of infecting the whole country. But now another difficulty has oropped up. Within the last week or two Canadian cattle suffering from pleuro-pneumouia have aotually been landed at Dundee, and, instead of being promptly slaughtered at the wharf pro- vided for that purpose, have been allowed to be taken into the country. Natu- rally, this faot has alarmed a good many farmers and breeders, who declare that unless the practice is promptly stopped we shall get the whole of the United Kingdom infected with oattle disease. Mr. GARDNKB, of course, can deal with the matter effectively if he chooses by putting Scottish ports as well as Knglish under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Aot, but it is stated that great pressure is being put upon him across the border, by certain selflsb and intere.ted persons, to leave the matter alone. Tbe threat that if be does not the support of these individuals will be transferred to the other side at the next election doubtless count, for something, and it remains to be seen what Mr. GAHDNRR will do. The drastio regula- tions by whioh Mr. CHAPLIN stamped out pleuro-pneumonia would certainly be regarded as an interference with the Scottish cattle trade, and might oost the Gladstonians several Scottish seats hereafter, but the faot that Mr. GAKONKR turned a deaf ear to Dept fOld makes 01 hopeful that he will do his duty at Dundee, though Deptford is hope-j lessly Tory and the interested constituencies in the North are all Gladstonite. Indeed, if he does not, people will suspect that this very faot has somethiug to do i ta b hi1: deoiaion.

The law relating to the offence known as contempt of court is in a most unsatisfactory condition..No one really knows, probably, where to find a definition of the offence that is in any degree olear, and every judge has the right of defining it fur himself. Nor is that the only unsatisfactory point con- nected with contempt of court, for, not only has the court-the offended party-the right of deoiding hat con stilutes a breach of the law, but it has also the right of deciding the punishment. A man accused of contempt of court is not, according to the otherwise universal maxim of English law, tried by his peers, bat by a tribunal which unites in itself the oflic" of plaintiff, jury, and judge. The heaviest sufferers from the law as it now standa are generally newspaper proprietors and editors, and these, too, are very often absolutely unoonscious of having offended. Comments of the most risky nature are frequently made on oases that are sub judict and allowed to pass, either became the cases are not important or because nobody happens to draw the attention of tbe coutt to them; sometimes, too, became the paper committing the offence is, in popular phrase, not worth powder and shot. Yet in another osse, especially if it be a came celebre, the publication of a sketch or an outline of the factll may b pounced upon as calculated to prejudice some- body, and editor, proprietor, IlId publisher may find themselves heavily fined, or landed in prison-not for a few days, or for any definite period, but until tbe court chooses to regard the contempt as purged. The littterpenalty was not inflicted on the editor and publisher of the Morning yester- day, but fines of one hundred pounds and oosts in the one case and lift; pounds and costs in the other are surely rather severe punishments for the publication of the outline, of the story whioh tbe editor believed would be unfolded, coupled with a portrait of one of the parties and a picture of a brooch which figured in the case.

It is rather remarkable that, whilst the leaders of the different religious communities, are in absolute a reement as to tbe prime im- portance of inoludmg a faoulty of theology j in the Welsh university soheme, the college authorities are strangely indisposed to regard the inclusion of such a faculty as practicable at the present time. According to our report of the meeting of the berystwith Court of Governors, Principal IIOBKBTS supported the resolution in favour of a theological degree- granting university only on the under- standing that the inclusion of theology might not be allowed to retard the founding of a university, Ilrinoipal REICHKL even more emphatically expresses his fears on the theo- logical question. At the meeting of the Court of Governors of his college, Principal KKICHKL spoke of the Welsh university question as » thorny subject, and went on to say that the prospeot of iuoluding theology in the draft charter was not a very promising one. Why not, when representative men like the Principal of Lampeter, on the one hand, and Professor KLLIS KDWABDS, of Bala, on the other, are in entire agreement on the subjeot P

I THK INVA LIDKD WELSH DIVINES. One of our representatives paid a visit, to the Revs. Evan Williams, Pyle, and Edward Mathews, and learnt that the former. although confined to flis bedroom, is able to get up every day, and is free from pain and very cheerful, but bis memory ftils him very much. Mr. Mathews is unable to move unaided, and, although net suffering much pain, is very wenk.

MINISTKHS AND THE LORD MAYOK'S DINNER. I IMPORTANT ABSENTEES. Several of the leading members of the Obinet have decline.) to attend the Lord Mayor's banquet on November 9, and the representation of the Government at the Guild-hall will be much weaker than uauik]. I.ord Hosebery, Sir William Harcourt, Mr. John Morlev, and Sir George Trevelyan have all declined, and on Tuesday night Mr. Gladstone wrote declining. Those who have intimated their intention of being present are the Lord Chancellor, Earl Spencer, the Marquese of Riprm, Mr. Asqntth, Mr. Mundt Ila, Mr. Bryce, Mr. U. H. Fowler, Mr. Arnold Morley, and Mr. Aclaod.

POPULARITY OF THE WELSH LADY MAYORESS. The World of this week says i—Lady Evan,, the Lady Mayoress, holds her final reception at the Mansion House tiiis (Tuesdny) afternoon, and will be the recipient this week of a number of mark, of the esteen in which she is held in the City, for she is to bs presented with gifts from the Aldermen and Common Council of Londoa, the Ward of Cnstle Baynarrt, the Welsh Principality, aDd the officials of the Mansion House. In no recent year", excoot. pet haps, when LAdy Whitehead ooeupied the position, lias a Lady Mayoress been roon mt. vemur popular ibsa Lady Bvana-

LONDON LKTTER. FKOM OUR LONDON COBBKSPONDKNTS.] LONDON, TUKSDAT, FORTHCOMING ATTACK ON THE CITY. To-night 1 rocoivud the true explanation of the squirming that has been going on anAllt thIS t'abinet and the Lord Major's banquet,. Mr. Gladstone is still un- decided, and, probably, will not go. But the refusals by Lord Rosebery, Sir William Harcourt, Mr. Morloy, and Sir George | Trevelyan are said to be signals of a coming attaok on the City. It is Raid that theMe Ministers cannot bring themselves to aretipt the hospitality of a Mansion House whioh they purpose later on to burgle. But how is it that Karl Spenoer, Mr. Secretary Asquith, and others have accepted ? Are we to take it that they are not so particular as Sir Williittii I farcourt, or that they do not fall in with a policy of burgle ? A (IRKAT DAT AT THK CARLTON. I There was a great gathering of the clans at the Carlton to-day, Never since the election has the club been so orowded with well-known fnoea. Had there been an ex- Cabinet Counoil and a meeting of the party afterwards there would not have been a greater show of Toryism in town. Accident had brought up nearly all these men. >>ome were concerned in the meeting of the Cham- ber of Agrionlture; some had come up to attend the committee meeting of the Carlton. Mr. Balfour, who had been staying with Lord Salisbury at Hatlield. came to town yester- day, and to-niglit left for Wynyard Park, the seat of the Marquess of Londonderry, where he will be one of the house party to meet the Prince of Wales. Lord Salisbury was also in town to-day, and he has returned to llattield. Among other leaders of our party I have seen Air. Stanhope, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Uosohen, and Mr. Ake< g Doug,as, Famig TOADS IN UISKASK. I Mr. Chaplin will naturally be interested in the struggle that was going on at the Board of A grioulture to-day. Mr. [I orbmrt Gardner, true to the policy of the party in favour of free trade in disease, as well as in orime, strenuously sets his face against the issuing of a pleuro pneumonia order against Canada. Seeing that a large number of Canadian eaitle brought over here as store oattle have bad to be slaughtered compulsorily, it is diffi- cult to see how be can resist the enormous pressure that is being brought to bear on him ia enforce the law. I MR. NIORLPTS HitSPITIC. We thought that Mr. John Jlorlev s hour bad come when the news reached town this afternoon that an Irish police-station bad been attacked and four persons murdered. The news was credited because we all dread something of the sort as the tragio sequel to the fantastio capers our amateur statesman is performing. Luokily for Mr. Morley, the murders were committed by an insane oon- stable. That is the latest version, and may be the true one. LocAL FLBANTS AND PAUPERISM. The immense addition the late Government made to the local grants from Imperial revenue is shown in the twenty-first annual report of the Local Government Hoard, which has i u-,t been issued. In round sum, £ 6,000,1:00 sterling was given to local authorities out of Imperial revenue during the financial year to the end of March. This is more than twice as much as the grants amounted to when Mr. Gosohen began to increase them in 1888. he report is made up to April 1, and it, there- fore, affords a favourable opportunity of learning the prosperous condition in whiob the ."ories left the country as compared with the deplorable condition now prevailing under a Uladstonian rtgtTM, In January this year the total number of paupers was only one in 38 of the population. Moreover, the total of 760,000 paupers was only two- fifths of what the number would have been had pauperism in 1892 kept pace in propor- tion to population with the pauperism of 1849. These figures are, howevei, deceptive, there are fewer paupers, but probably as muoh proportionate poverty, only it is relieved by private oharity and philanthropic agencies to an extent whioh did not exist 40 years ago. As for London, while the population has in- creased by 1,000,000 during the last twenty years, pauperism has decreased by one-third. TSII CHILDREN'S SOCIETT. Your r aders will regret to hear that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is £ 4,000 in debt. I presume this has arisen from the desire of the society's friends not to all rush in together. If that be so, it is time to make known the fact that there should be no restraint on generosity to the children's sooiety. It wants money badly. Certainly it gives ample value for the money received. During the last quarter it inves- tigated complaints affecting 6.387 children, of whom 1,303 were known to be insured for a total of £ 6,543. During the eight years' record of the sooiety it has dealt with 25,349 oomplaints, of which 20,443 were found to be true, although it was only neoessary to prose- cute in 3,389. The oases dealt with affected 66,615 children. FBNIAS RKMWISCKNCES. t.. L I 1. 1 I,- 1 Major L" uilron states in nn reraarHaute revelations that amongst the various people with whom he oame in contact was John O'Leary. He appears to have formed a high opinion of the old Fenian leader and revolu- tioni.t, who, on the suppression of his paper, the Irish People, by the Government in I860, was awarded twenty years' penal servitude. Although when Le Caron first met him in Paris, in 1881, he was regarded as the official means of communication between the in- famous Clan-na (iael and the Irish Itepub- lioan Brotherhood in Ireland, he declared himself entirely opposed to the active, or dynamite, polioy, and for this reason Alexander Sullivan wiahed to get rid of him. This really honest patriot," as Le Caron describes him, had, however, very little sympathy with the Parnell movement, end his outspoken con- tempt for Mr. William O'Brien's Tipperary fusoo is well known. As he possesses a little property in the town, the conspiracy affected him somewhat olosely. He is now actively engaged upon his reminiscences, whioh, if they oontain a faithful record of bis life, should form a strong chapter in the history of Irish revolutionary m,thol,, As the an ocia of James Stephens, O'Donovan ilosoo, and T. C. Kelly in the Fenian rising of '66, his memoirs will, no doabt, be antici- pated with muoh interest. TKNNTSON'S 4 PILOT." I There is scope for the satirist in the ohildish squabble whioh has broken out in the Times again anent Tennyson's "Pilot" in Crossing the Bar." There were persons weak enough to suggest that Tennyson's Pilot was intended for his dead son Lionel and even for other persons. It became neoes- sary for the present Lord Tennyson to explain tbat his father wrote" Pilot" with a oapital P. It has now been discovered by another sapient oritio that Tennyson was quite at sea in his nautical knowledge when he wrote those noble lines, 1 hope to see my Pilot faoe to face, When I have crost the bar." This gentleman has been at the trouble to explain that the services of a pilot are required to take the vessel across the bar, and that it is super- fluous to hope to see the pilot after crossing tbe bar. Persons who oriticise poetry in this wilyabould not read poetry. They do not understand it. I question whether those who have rushed to defend the passage are more worthy than the critics, for they have invented the most extraordinary excuses for a slip which is no slip at all, but an exquisite rendering of a Divinely beautiful thought, Tennyson's dignity is beyond defenoe. Anyone who runs may read what is the meaning of his Pilot" simile. It is one of tbe loveliest acts of faith outside the Sacred Book. Only a faithless age could criticise it. I Tits M'CARTHTITES PLFASKD. I The M'Carthyite faction rejoice on the appointment of Mr. Morrogh O'Brian, who is already an eviction commissioner, to the Land Commission. Mr, Morrogh O'Brian is put in as a tenants' man.

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I A LONDON 80CI NT Y SCANDAL. I ACTION FOR SLANDICK. CONTEMPT OF COURT B* THE MORNING. EDITOR FINED 2100, PUBLTSHEK £50. In tin- Q.ieei.'s H.'iioh Division of the High Coor of JuMiee mi Tuesday (before Mr. Josiice Ihy ami n apeeial jurv) tin) case of Leader u Hlllytll W". rlown for hairing, bein^ on uction fo: libel at i¡.lfnl-: out of the 10<0 of a brooch by Mrø. Smyth, wife ol Major-general J. 0, Smyth. I CONTEMPT OF COURT. fl)ro the cuse »ns gone into, and while I AU.:e C¡'t': :a;ltf!?:Ir'i:'k)(),: M.P, leading c<lun",1 lor the plaintiff, alluded to the alleged contempt of court by the newspaper Mommy In puhlishine an &rllcle in reference t. t,?, cme befaru it --s h/ard. Mr. Wince, QC., who appeared for ilieedilor of the p.per. a,1 Mr Boyle, the publisher, saitt the latter could not. attend the court, in consequence of illness. The publisher (lersotially knew nothing ot the publication of the article, and the r. al person resp,?noible was Mr. Howe Bennett, th* Io,iI,1 to .t"lf(;:p;ii\tý tl,,? ,t tl,e lie (Sl,. Wi,?cl,) did not, iirieuipL to jutify what had been done, and on behalf of Nl,, Bennett lie tendered an ample apology for ""Y contempt "f court. The p"per wm? not an ,,I.i tl, prese,,t i, a 141-t ?u b. r, Mr. U-nnett had nly been di,r for ten d,,vs He ,th't?h;[,or:tJf'I:t d:' :8 I further contempt nf court. Mr. Justice Day accepted the exp!an«tion that the publisher bad nothing to do with the ap- p arnnce of tiie article. The editor bad, however, sought to prejudice a fair trial of a cise by pub. li.hiii)! the article he bait while the case wis standing for hearing in his curt. Such conduct was not to he toleiated. Not content with the first, publication, the editor had aggravated hi. offence by the vulgar representations liii had j-iven of one of the paities and of the article, the identit) of which was In dispute. He would not send him to prieon-Althoulfh he richly deserved that punisi,- inent-but lie directed him to proy" fine of £100 and tbe cost* of the application. The publisher being legally responsible, must pay a fine of ICSO and be jointly responsible for the co,ts. THE SLANDER ACTION. The case of Leader tt. Smyth was not cnmmencpd unl il "bout" quarter past twelve o'cloek. Mr. Lockwood, Q.C, M.P.. Mr. Huxtall, Mr. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Mai yon Wilson were cuuimel forth" plill- tiff; Sir Kdwnrd Cl.rk-, Q.C., MP., and Mr. C. E. Jones represented the def„o taut. CASE FOR THK "LAisriFF. Mr. Lockwood, in opening the case, said the plaintiff WM Mrs. Olivia Claudine Le.der, wife of Lieutenant H. P. Leader, of Ihe Suffolk Regiment, and the defendants wfle Maj"r-J(8neral J. (i, Smyt" and Mrs. KleanorSmyih, his wife. The action wa. for slander,and the nefen. lants had made i hat slander toe, more serious because the defendants had said it was nue. The slander was that a brooch which Mrs. Smyth saw in a jeweller's shop wa- her,, and that it had been st,,1, n by Mrs. Le nder. The plaintiff, who was 24 years of age, was the duunhier of a retired colonel in the Army named Tnomps&n, residing in Atgyd-road, Kensington, and she bad known the defendant since, she was a girl. She was ninrri'M to Mr. Leader, the son of .n American gentleman, on tlie 3rd of December, 1889, Mr. Smyth being one of the guests of the wedding. Soon alter ilie marriage Lieu'enant Leader went to join hi. regiment at, Cairo, and Mrs, Leader followed him later (in. Aimng M, o. Leader's friends wasaCaptain Cheuevix Trench, of the Indian Army, and he, on hearing cf the marriage, sent her a brooch, which was worn by her and shown to her husband. In June, 1890, Mrs. Leader came hoone, and her husband followed her. They, Jaler 011, r.. turned to Ciiro, but in January, 1891, the Suffolk Regiment being ordered to India, Mr-. Leader Cline home 10 reside with h"pleol. at 34. Argyll- road. In September, 1891, Mrs. Leader was about to go to India to j"in Iter husband, and on the 21st of September ehe had in her possession the brooch given her by Captain Treoch. It con- .i.ted of a small bar, upfin which were placed two crescents formed of brilliants or diamond., and at the ends of the bar aud between the crescents were placed small stars, which consisted of briiliunts. On the 21st of September Mrs. Leader look the brooch, which was an in. significant article of fewellery, to the siiop of a Mr. St 'kes, where she was perfectly well known, 10 exchange it for some silver articles which she wanted, or to sell it. Stokes off.-red her £4 for it. but she did not take the money. She bought a silver pin box, and left the next day. Mrs. L-nder was driving ill. hansom with a gentleman named Captain H II, and she drove to the shop of a Mr. Dibdin, a jeweller in Sioant-street, where she had previously deslt. She nave her name, which was entered in Dtl.din's bo ks, and she showed the brooch. Mr. Dtb.iin gave her £1 10-. for the t.roocli and clock, on tit" (ace 01 which was de- picted the gate of St. J imen's l'alacc. She gave the clock to Captain Bill, and told liiin be mijlit keep it. On the 23rd of September ivirp. Leader called on Mrs. Smyth, two days afier she first off red the brooch for sale. She would swear she did not go to see M re. Smyth on the 21it lost. He gathered it would be contended for the defendant hat she did clill on her that day. Mrs. Leader fltid site went ti) see Mrs. Smyth at Montpellier- quare on the 29rd of September, and the next day Nirm. Smytii called oil Mrs. Leader and siid she had missed a brooch. Air,. Leader said site had pre- viously lost an article of j-wellery, and mentioned that sh* ha,1 sold a br. ocii two days b-fore. On September 28 Mrs. Sinvth drove with Mrs. Leader to her bank, and drew froin it £150 for her journey to India onu another £100. On September 30 she nailed for India and joined her husband. Shortly after &ptember 22 Mrs. Smyth tound she had lost a brooch which was very similar to the one Mrs. Lelld, r hud given her by Ciptain Trench. But it was not untilth. 31st tOc. tobe,, that Mrs. Smyth was at the shop 01 Mr. Dibdin, and wh'.le th-r« 81.e saw the brooch wi.ich Mrs. Leader had exchanged. She asked how Dibdin had come by the brooch, and lie without difficulty was able to reply from Mrs. Leader. Mra. Smyth, on hairing this, said. Why, she was with me all the time. I mi,581 a bmoch, and she ha. stolen it." H" would show that the value of the brooch was £9 or £10, and many of the same pattern were to b,4 hail in the market. Tnat. being so, it would nave been ibought, that Mrs. Sm>th would have paused before making such a charge against her friend. But she chose to make the charge of theft against. Mrs. Leader. Site went to Mr. Dibdin's shop again on Novemi er 8, and produced a photograph of Mrs. Leader, saying. Thh is rlpikolograpi, of Mrs. Leader, who h s "olen my brooch. If sloe had been here I would have had her taken into custody, and I will do so." This was all said without in any way communicating with Mro. Leader, Mrs. Smyth had given notice to the policu of the loss of her brooch, and a description wasgiven of it in a paper pubiisoed for police Information. In some par- iculars the brooch de-cr,bùd by Mrs. Smyth wa- not, identical with the brooch sold by Mrs. Leader, '11 he attached muoh importance to this, it w". clear I hat Mre. Smyth did not examine lloe de,il- of the design of the brooch when slo. claimed it at Dibdin's as being hers, and he 1\1.0 a»k*d the jury to say if Mrs. Smyth's last description given of the brooch wits the correct one, Mr. Dih<lin was threatened with proceedings by Mre, Smyth's advisers, and he, having regard to the small val1l8 of the brooch, would not embark in liiigini >o 011 the suhj.-ct, gave back the brooch. He refused to pay tbe ci»sts of Mrs. Smyth's solicitors. NOlllin had up to this time been written to Alra. Leader, but oil the 2nd of January of thi. year Jr". Leader received a letter from Mrs. Smyth, dated Dec-uiber 11, nearly six weeks after Mr., Smyth had mAde the first charge. The letter, which was nnt addressed 13 anyone, Blthouh the envdnpe was addressed to Mr. Leader, wai as fallows:— On the morning of September >2 you wr in my bedroom for a shoit time. Dibilitt. tile j"'e11t"r Sioane- street, that morning purchased from vou a diamond brooch oololllillK to mf", which has since, through InV lawyer, bfjn retuflle¡ t me. The matter Is now nut of nIV hand., and rest! with Dihdin to prf)9ln. lo avoid publicity #end by return five guineas either to me or M9U. Piel point, and Co., CntVcII-9lreet. tStrl\IJd, which are coaLl in this matter, Rud for which yon will receive ft proper receipt. Unless these oost# ar? paid I must ,Vt, rr,l?., p B ? TH, In view of that letter he could not ask the jury to come to any other opinion tnan that it WII. be- cause she couldn't get her beggaily costs paid by Dibdin that Mrs. Smyth was induced to make this dreadful ciisrgo against her friend, Of course, no answer was returned to Mrs. Smyth, but Lieutenant Leader directed proceedings to be taken to clear his wife's chai'ucter. Liter Oil in the case, although Mrs. Smyth had said Hie robbory took plac,t on the 22ml uf September, she altered the date an a aid it was the 21st, and ho Slid implicit confidence could not be put in lite Word of a person who had aller,d so material a date, especially when plaint iff would swear that she did not see Mrs. Smyth until September 23. He suggested that Mrs. Smyth had altered the date of the alleged tobnery lotoe 21,t of September because she found that Mrs, Leader had been offering the brooch to Stokes on the day before the dale Oil whioil aile originally said the robbery took place. A not un. important point in the case was that at the time when Mrs. Loader was said to have sioleu a brooch value £9 she had in the bank in in r husband's name, in which she could draw, the sum of £52, He hoped after the plaintiff had given her evidence Mrs. Strnth miglit be advised that ii was not necessary to pursue the cruel charge she had made against a woman who wft4 once her friend. But if the justification of this slander was peisisteii in, and was not proved, ha did not know what damages would be enough to compensate Mrs. Leader and ber husband for the Injury done them. A SLOANE-STRRET IKWRLTKR. I Mr. G. M. Dibdin, jeweller, ot blonne-stieet, was the first witness. lie mid on the 22nd of September Mrs. Leader called at his shop about eleven o'clock. He had seeu her befoie. She offered him "diamond crescent brooch, which lie I bought for £ 4. In the rssule the took away a 1(J('k IUIII £l-l- Iltijl- vi.).ifh-(:ht.<?'t"<'t<?.?r<.f?.i.. 10 .n<89t,wh(.n'.)M???'?.hf.r,? Ita" visits >.f Mrs. Smyth wero tlien d. tailed, as ,,? hy tho counsel in opening rfmmrk*. Cro".x"mif,d :SIr K CI,rke: Hn c.n- su)t.?hi.t!t.ici<orKit:rM??..)???t..? tinl pvmiiuaily he Rf" up th« broach H-for« doniK s > h« went t> H .ods, in the Kinlim,. 'nnAr.'?i.w))et<'Mr.S..?(h?)?.buti? U", brooch, 11" xhowetl the br-,??ii 11 it l(eroll,mó4" III the ..I lOp, W'IO mafia a t(I hln1, The hroocti whs InI,du by a M- JICOh8, .f¡()r'HI"d 10 He lfor<l-nqu»tref in tito heitflitx.urh<.o<i. Witn^s not in hi* /jll)ek a, »uy ti 1,?, In Jvpt'-rutar 91, 't b,"?()CII (?f tl,ii i," ir mi. eil/il'u say that he 1,.d evr a >11 a brccfi (If UIIK pattern. Ho ¡li,1 not ask f<»r Mix l^aitor'g M when ahe ,old 11m) the hIO"c. H. put ilift brooch in hii wiml'<w, alllj while it was tht;re Mr-4, Smyth s-iw il And ciaimcO it. J< x Imined Tho t r<><»ch wa« not rlr.flnP,il RHr,r' h" bought it and b- foi# ho put it in the wn d.A 11, saw a Metropolian police notice to p'ldm)kpli thn 1'»BM ot Ntro. fiinytii's biooch. 'fliere hm a picture of the b cit. Mr. Justice D>y stid this picture made thf, bio' ch 11)st have eight point* tel th* !"t:us. W)I&olhi IhA one .aid 10 be the defendtni'B had *ix points, Mr. Lockwood aid that wad hi-* point With reo gar.1 I" ttio discrepancy between the brooch Mi&. Hmyth said she t,.d lost and the one sloe claimed at htr8. I as assistant'S JWfDKKCK. Mr. RaggalU, lormuriy aHMinunn to the l,st witne* proved phowi/jy tlprenf\(J1:, the brooch from [tile window. Defendant paid the brooch w.t« Iller. that a friend had been to sce her and must, huve taken it from her dressing-table. Two days later detendant called again witl, pooto* xmpii With the words Claudine Leader on j4 Siie said Hint ""s 'he hdy who called on h«*r, arid I phe had stolen her brooch. Witness rem.rked, *• Surely yoti don't think the lady «tole your brooch ?" She <wid# "I h.,? nor the taw doubt I about it that she *tole the brooch." Defend"n" Added that she would pr(?s@cuw "er, and if tli." then the would 44 run her in." (Laughter.) EVIDENCE Of TUR PLAINTIFF. Mr. Lead<r# the plaintiff, then went into the box, and was examined by Mr. Lockwood. Site satd he was 24 year" of age, and was married t» Lwn. tenant Leader on December 3, 1889. She Io-d be¡¡n fjn¡¡"ed to 111/11 for nearly a rear, fthe had known M". Smyth about eight years, and fre- quently met her before her inartiitgt and occa- sonalty since. She kn. w Captain Cnev -nix Trench, ami tnade his acquaintar c.. early in 1889. Captain Trench w,, in (inoorka egi.,nt, hA w, bark to IHdh goon aft*r 8h met him. Her IIIJ band h"vin" g""e to Egypt on December 17, 1888 .h. followed in a P. and O. b)tt on January 10 f(J lowing. H,r t?.b,?.d ba,k,d at Child* and Co. and they ware to i41 to honour any c heque signec by Iwr. While in Cairo with i,er husband Captain Trench sent Iter a bio ch. The one she ,old roMr Dibdin w?s the one he e.t hor. She had tlw c??jid it came in (produced). H,r husband w. in (he roulll when the brooch a» rived, hhe Ilad tad a 1-tter saying the brooch was coming. The letter was destroyed. C>t^a»n Trench explained hH h"d seen th Announcement of her marriage th it he had been away on the Black Mountain Expedition, and he sent her a present better lole than never," Lalllr in the yeai hit., and her husband cams to England and went back igwn ti C'\iro. Later on her husband went to Indu, aud she came home. Oil September 21 she went to tiie shop of Mr. Stoke", Jeweder, S"tnerget*tetrace, High-*tree!, Kensington. Sh took Ihe brooch ai,d offered it for sale. Mr. Stokes said he would giva h>-r 44 for it. She did not sell it; she bought a silver haii pin b-z. ISil:t;e:e defendant that day—the 21«Uf Sept^mb'T?—So. I' w«s f"" ?et that -he w»-nt to i 'bi,NN' '2':h' i in Dibdiu'* shop with Captain Hill, and sold the brooch and bought tiie clock. s". ,1I"ve her name, but did n t remembe.r being abkII her address. On September 23, in the morning, between eteveu and twdve o'clock, she went to see Mr-. Srayii. She wan dressing 10 go out, and witness remained in her bedroom fur tea minutes, and they wetit out together. The next day defendant called on her at her mothei's tir)iiie. and said .Its had lost "broch. Witness .aid sha had lost one the week before at the Savoy Thea re, and she also had sold the one Captain Trench g-va her as a wedding present. She next saw Mrs. Smyth on September 28, when she called fnr her, and they drove together 10 Childs' liank, where she (pi tint iff) drew out £250. Site had a bulanca of t542 al the bank at the time, Ciptain Tiench died in August, 1891. On Septem* ber 30 she oailfld for India, On J-nuary 2 of this year site first heard of any accusation against her. She at once showed the U tter to her hus- band. He communicated with his solicitors, ant I heV csrne to England in March, Uerhusbmd having effected an exchange. On thtir airival proceedings were taken. U there any truth in the accusition mad" against you ih vi you stole Mrs. Smyttila brouch P -N"ue whatever. Or that you sold or dealt with it in any wayP- None whatever. Cro8.-e:.c"ined: Fhe had not got Captain Trench's letter in which lie told her he was sending the brooch. She htd frequent letters from Capuin Trench, Out she had kPPt none. Captain Irene*, wan not a friend d her husband' but tie had seen him. Captain Trench hud not viMted at her father's house, but he had visited at Mrs. Smyth's once. She was not there. She had met Captain ir- nc)i at the Lyric Club. Did you write on Mr.. Smyth's letter-paper ask- ing Captain Trench to call "t that houset'—. think not. Think again.—I forger, I mlY have done sr.. Did Mr*. Smyih complain of your wrttiog tS.&c letter ?—Never. Did you write thii letter on Mrs. Smyth's piper \nc1 aign no name to it l-I do not remember. I wroteCiptain Trench a letter. She had n r-, collection of Mrs. Smyth having t ill hei t i^ Captain Trench came to the house to 0i1 a.l1" lady whose naine he lid not know. Mrs. Smytu old her that Cap>a>n Tiench had called io >•« tier, and waited an hour, but She did no' c;me back. She had known M". Smyth very well, an) in 1890 she stayed in the hou*e *i;l» I..r <hi gant-rti, but couid not eav how l--«g. Shi ,lid not keep a di»«ry, but kn-w tsa: *ht went to Mr*. Smyth's on Sepiemb r 23. 1891, because she was accompanied by a Ii-s s: who had come to stay with lier 11¡lt I..y. in "ccurõanca with an invitttion sent her in m tmj. Miss Scott did not go into M imp* liei.^quara wilh hr. Wilness went to tn, bed,o m. wii tc Mrs. Smyth urging to go ■ ur. Stie knt* ,he saw Mrs. Smyth ,111 Scpten.b-r 23 bec:uJ.se drew out money from ttie bank. She :0'. ,pot 1,1 Mrs. Smyth's bedroom ten minute. and "I ,> i Mrs. Smyth left the rMIIl ind t',e house t-ot-ti.vi". She had stayed at Mr*. some ti tu—.a one occa-ion f, r ten days but she coul l n ms* if site ttiid evrst..)ej there for three weeks, In I., she first wen? to ieypt a Mis* Wheeler w i,* "itl1 her and *>tiye > some ulue WIlli her. I;-I were n, other I Illy friends *t lying. ll-s Willie left her Unuse in February 3 and went to C' ,\I She used to come to te her sometimes. !o hj-l the brooch from Captain Irfonch shortly a,tr L. arriVttl in E,'ypt. M--s Wheeler \t Wit It her wheu she had seVt-rd !e"».« fro:1I Captain Trench. She did not show Wheeler C-piaiti Trench's letter about the hr < anil she had no rejOUedioo ot showing h-; a brooch. Miss Whener came home with lu-r tr -» Cain III Juiif, 1S90. hl "rid no rceoh^cti "• •> ever having shown Miss Wheeler the br>crh. > <* rt-ad parts of Captain Trench's letter to I er to Wheeler. And yo?? SlY th.t although yru read prs 'f Captain Trench's letter to Ii.s Wh-eler y W- recoli?ctioti of sh.ming her the bra cit li? you Y—Yes, 1 do say S0. Do you say Captain Trench sent you this hr d' flolll thp Punjaub Jiu, I don't say -0. I ?ay ho wrote me from the Punj Hlb. saying he W AS -eM > ing me a ditioond brooch, alld some days after :11\ blo >ch came. Did the brooch c^nie from Imkir—I » notice whether it came from lndi». liierd ,4 nothing in the c¡tse to show wh»Te it oime tr fti Did vou think it was like your friend's. M J. Smyth's, brooch V —I know nothing oi Mrs. Siuyt: A jewellery. Did n It Mrs. Smyth lend you this voiy bro,lcil:- w«ar ? -iever. You swear to it ?-I do. n,r "llSh:I",1 '» description and sketch of her buoch to L ■ when the ch;uge W;lo¡ 111.\¡t against htr, H- band drew tiie sketch from his f'f)t.(1h'rt;'HI. m. she knew part of it was R little wrong. *Vh-M she to k the brooch to Dindrn's t 1 sell s was living with h. r mother. Sue oid re- think it necessary to I a.e the hr> ,1. ti a case. Slw was wearing lhl) hr.u rh .he went to Stokes' on September 21. Cap' on in »« who was with her on Sptmher 22, was a tii"n • of her liUfbind. had s> en a I;h )1,1rlptl Mrs. Smyth, which represented her its 1\ brooch l'ko thi* cm*. Witness htd on* 1 photographs witil her when sh wellt "ut t" I:¡,J. but it was accidentally destioyed. Something j-pilt, over What was it ?-I was sea-sick over it. (I. \lI1 ter. ) te'I answer to the judge, witness wl I' ;,1 idea. who s'nt. her tll, hr. 0..11 when If ('a'IIt".1 ,I. Captain Trench—whether he :kllt it nr 'r anyone sent il for htm. She chdnt remen t'l' handwriting, nor WhNller ihe eiami» v?ereUMi»-* or E"elish. The court adjourned until to- lay nuvji.t* ,7

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