South Wales Echo

South Wales Notes. TjtE late fire at Aberystwith College has so deeply moved the inhabitants of the Princi- pality, that there is sure to be a widespread sympathy with the objects of the meeting which was held in Cardiff last night. The manner in which the lives were lost in the tire is known to all, and the bravery and heroism of the victims have been the theme of praise and admiration on all sides. The charge of their widows and children is a national one, and, as was pointed out at last night's meeting, it would amount to a disgrace if they were allowed to come to the poorhouse. There was plenty of determina- tion shewn last night to make it certain that Cardin, at any rate, shall not be backward in doing what may justifiably be expected. The collection in the offices and workshops in the town will, I trust, be well responded to, and the list of subscriptions, none too large as yet, must have the gaps in it filled up generously. MR JUSTICE DISNMAN .was able to congratu- late the people of Carmarthen on their free- dom from crime since the holding of the last assize, and I am happy to echo the con- gratulation. One curious remark his Joivt- ship made to the effect that, seeing how competent the grand jury were he was 01 almost tempted to wish that there were more business." I am afraid it would hardly be a very workable principle to apportion the crime to the ability of grand juries, and I doubt that able men would covet the honour of being on the jury in such an event. His lordship only meant it as one of those little judicial amenities which, in the absence of more important legal business, are wont to Sy about assize courts on such occasions. It was, however, rather a long way to go to find a compliment, and the wish would find no echo, except perhaps among the lawyers and briefless ones. THERE were two cases for hearing—the St. Claar's wife murder and the singular case of shooting a lad at Carmarthen fair. As I had anticipated, the St. Clear's wife murder case ended in the prisoner being judged insane, and ordered to be confined during her Majesty's pleasure. This result was expected, and the medical evidence made the fact patent enough. I am surprised, llowever, that the medical officer of the prison, where Thomas had been confined, was not examined. His opinion was the most important, as he had daily seen the prisoner, and could speak to the mental condition being real, and not assumed. The case of Rheohorn ended in a verdict of not guilty, and I must confess my surprise. .A. case of grosser carelessness I have rarely iteard of. The man was cleaning a gun at a fair where people were standing about, and left an unexDtoded cartridge in the breech. The result wu,s that the cartridge "went off," and a boy waa shoe. The man was acquitted, and thus a kind of tacit encouragement was I given to such conduct. I don't, of course, suggest that there was anything beyond care- Jessness in the matter, but surely this was of such a kind as to call for the infliction of a punishment. It no example is made, this careless handling of firearms will never be checked. Tilt; statements made in your columns in regard to the condition of many of the houses of the poor in Merthyr have pro- duced a considerable effect in that town. h was iiscl tV- l r. interest, and there can be no doubt that there is great need for searching reforms in this matter. The inertness of the authori- ties has been productive of the unhappiest results, and iiiucli, if not all, of the present condition of affairs is attributed to that. I am not using an expression which is a jot too strong when I say that very many of the tenements are a perfect disgrace to the town. The evil of cellar dwellings ilf one which other towns have had to cope with before now, and have managed to reform eifectually. Merthyr must do the same. The work is not nice, nor pleasant, nor easy but it is necessary and to suffer the continuance of the nuisance would be simply abominable. The present state of the law may not be all that could be desired, but it is strong enough to admit of many of the present abuses being prevented if it is put vigorously in force. It is to be hoped indeed now that something will really be done, and done in earnest. IT is no doubt desirable that the members of school boards should acquaint themselves personally with the subjects which have to be taught in the schools which are under their jurisdiction. It is also good that athletics should be taught in the schools, but there are limits to enthusiasm, and, even supposing that the Machen School Board are wishful to teach "the noble art of self-defence to the pupils, I doubt the advisability of the members trying an indi- vidual application of the principles when they go into the larger towns. A member of that board lately went to Weston, and on his return to Newport, he deemed it a capital opportunity for displaying his 11 u,1 pugilistic accompliskments. He selected a cab inspector as the object of his atten- tions-possibly on the same principle as induced a lawyer to order his coachman, when the horses had run away, to run into something cheap "-and taking him un- awares, he laid his cheek open with a dia- mond ring which he was wearing, in a manner less scientific than cowardly. Machen spirit is not appreciated. Its school board member was locked up, and had to inter- view the magistrates yesterday morning. The bench fined him E5. Had he been a poor man he would probably have been sent to gaol without any option of a fine, but the magistrates clearly think that a member of a school board who gets intoxicated, creates a disturbance, and shamefully assaults an official ought not to be too severely punished.

EDITORIAL NOTES. I WE announced on Saturday the liberation on a ticket-of-leave, of CONSTANCE KENT, who was sentenced to penal servitude for life exactly twenty years ago to-day, for the murder of her little half-brother, at Road, in Wiltshire, five years previously. The circumstances of the crime conspired to in- vest it with remarkable interest in the public mind. Mr KENT, the father of the released convict, had been twice married. CON- STANCE, aged sixteen, was one of the four children by the first wife, and FRANCIS SAVILLE, aged four, was one of the three children by the second. One morning in June, 1860, this baby boy was missed, and the body was subsequently dis- covered in a water closet, with the throat fearfully cut. Suspicion fell upon CONSTANCE, but in spite of the most minute investiga- tion, the deed was not traced to her hand, and the murder passed into the catalogue of undiscovered crimes. In the mean- time CONSTANCE had been placed in a religious home—St. Mary's Hospital- at Brighton, and acting under the deep spiritual influence there brought to bear upon her, she startled England in April, 1865, by confessing to the murder. The Rev. A. D. WAGNEK, one of the priests attached to the Home, stated that the prisoner had voluntarily made the confession to him. When before the magis- trates she handed in a written confession. She was then taken to Salisbury and tried, and condemned to death, a sentence which was commuted to penal servitude for life. In accounting for the motive which led to the commission of the crime, it was urged that she was jealous of the attention shown by her step-mother to the younger children, but Miss KENT denied this at the trial. The most plausible theory is that she was not altogether sane in her girlhood. She is now 41 years of age, and there can be little doubt that she is a different moral being altogether from the murderess of 16.

MANUFACTURE OF STEEL DIRECT FROM THE ORE. A New Industry for South Wales. This morning a party of gentlemen, interested in the manufacture of steel and iron, intend to pay a visit to the nevyly erected works at Trimsaran, near Kidwelly. They will be accompanied by Mr Bull, the inventor and patentee of the process, which is to produce steel direct from the ore. The Trimsaran works are the first to develope the new process, which, it is anticipated, will cause a great stir in the metal trade,

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY llll In theHunse of Lords on Monday this bill which has passed the House of Commons, came before the Earl of Redesdale s committee on unopposed measures. The bill authorises the construction of several short lines at differentparts of the system and enables the company to acquire additional lands and to extend the time for the purchase of othsr property. The proposed new share capita amounts to £ 300,000 iu round figures with 2100,000 borrowing powers. The committee passed the bill, and ordered it to be reported for third reading1.

NEWPORT AND THE ALEXANDRA DOCK BILL. The Press Association learns that a deputation from Newport, including the mayor of the borough and Sir Geo. Elliot, M.P., had a private interview with the Duke of Richmond, at the Board of Trade, on Monday, to urge reasons in favour of the running powers granted by a com- mittee of the Housa of Lords over certain por- tions of the Great Western Railway, to which the latter company objected in a recent interview with the President of the Board of Trade.

THE PROPOSED EXTENSION OF SWANSEA BOUNDARIES. The members of the corporation met privatelv Oil Monday morning, to re-consider the question of extending the borough boundary, the former scheme not havingtieen sanctioned at the monthly meeting. The chlof put of the proposed altera- tion was that ] iardig to the inclusion of the Mumble* It w^ now i'< solved to, if possible, include the district and the road leading thereto, together with Singleton, and to arrang-e with the :> ,'f! :If' "if s.) a to "I'It. '1"1 ir:1"n \\¡. IJ • > •:

I THE REBELLION IN CANADA. I Return of the Troops. I IREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] TORONTO, Monday.—The volunteers return- ing here from the scene of the recent rebel- lion in the North West have met with an enthusi astic reception, thousands pouring into the city to welcome the troops home. A banquet has also been arranged in their honour. The trial of Louis Riel, the leader of the rebellion, commenced here to-day. General Middleton was summoned as a witness. The funeral of two privates who were killed in the fighting with the rebels took place to-day. An immense concourse attended, and the funeral was the largest ever known in the city. OTTAWA, Moaday.-Tite Dominion Parliament was prorogued to-day by the Marquis of Lans- downe. In his speech on the occasion, his Excel leney congratulated the members on the suppres sian of the recent rebellion in the North West.

I THE TRAFFIC IN ENGLISH CIRLS I I [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BRUSSELS, Monday Niglit.-A great sensation has been caused here by the publication in several of the Brussels newspapers of the Pail Mall Gazette's recent revelations. A movement is now being set on foot to prosecute the several printers and publishers of these papers should it be found that the law will allow of it. At the meeting of the town council, to-day, the Burgomaster hotly denied the presence of English girls in this city for immoral purposes, and declared that the Pall illall has been misinformed.

ALLEGED OUTRAGE AT TANGIER I [EXCHANGE COMPANY'S TELEGRAM.] x ANGIER, ivionaay.—extraordinary proceed- ings took place at Rabat in connection with the Sultan's visit there. A numerous suite accom- pany him, and the Sultanic residence there was not large enough to accommodate all. The house of an employe of the British Consul was therefore fixed upon, but the occupier declined to withdraw. Moorish soldiers were ordered to take possession of it, which they did forcibly, ejecting the inmates and carrying its owner to prison.

CUSTOMS DUTIES AT ALEXANDRIA. [Rr,UrER's TELEGRAM. I I I ALEXANDRIA, Monday.—In consequence of the removal of the custom house to the quay to-day, all imported merchandise will from to-morrow be liable to a quay duty of one half per cent. Many of the British and foreign shipping companies and leading merchants have made an energetic pro- test against the imposition of this duty on the ground that the insecurity in the landing of goods does not justify the increase.

RUSSIAN HARVEST PROSPECTS. (.REUTER'S TELEGRAM. J ST. PETERSBURG, Monday.—All accounts from the grain cultivating districts continue to report unfavourably of harvest prospects. The reaping of the winter wheat, which has commenced in the southern provinces of the empire, gives barely a middling return, while the summer wheat crop appears likely to be bad everywhere. Rainy weather is reported from Charkoff.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ROUEN. h [REDTER'S TICLKGBAM.J I JTTOUEN, Monday.—A servious tire broKe out here this morning in the Rue D'Amiens. Si houses, some of which are very old, and of con- siderable interest, have been completely destroyed and thfire is still raging. No one has been injured up to the present.

LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN FLUSHING & QUEENSBOROUGH. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM. I I THE HAGUE, Monday.—The First Chamber of the States General has adopted the convention recently concluded with the Zeeland Company, for the establishment of a daily steamer service between Flushing and Queensborough.

VOTE OF CENSURE PROPOSED ON THE CAPE GOVERNMENT. [RKXJTER'S TELEGRAM.] CAPE Towx, Sunday.—A vote of censure upon the Government, moved by Sir Thomas Scanlan, has been negatived in the House of Assembly by a majority of 31.

THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION. The report of the Committee of Council on Education (England and Wales) for 1884-5 has been issued. It states that in the year ended 31st August, 1884, the inspectors visited 18,761 day schools in England and Wales, to which annual grants were made, containing 27,958 departments under separate head teachers, and furnishing accommodation for 4,826,738 scholars. There were on the registers of these schools the names of 4,337,321 children, of whom 1,351,057 were under 7 years of age 2,798,945 between 7 and 13 147,296 between 13 and 14 and 40,023 above 14. The arage at- tendance was 3,273,124. The number of older scholars presented for examination in standards I.—VII. was 2,342,521; and white of these 1,534,629 passed the prescribed test without failure in any one of the three subjects. 90"78 scholars out of every 100 examined passed in reading, 82*42 in writing, and 77'53 in arithmetic. While the increase of the population during the year is estimated at 1'35 per oent., the accommoda- tion has increased by 156,295 school places (or 3*35 per cent.); the scholars on the registers by 64,017 (1.5 per cent.); the average attendanct3 by 145,910 (4.67 per cent.). The local effort which has resulted in this improvement may be measured by the continued sup- port derived from voluntary contributions ( £ 734,128), and by an advance in the contributions from rates to the maintenance of board schools from £840,9H to £ 915,474. The school pence have risen from £ 1,659,743 to £ 1,734,115. The annual Government grants to elementary day schools rose in the year from £ 2,522,541 to :£2,722,351, or from 16s lid to 16s Hd per scholar in average attendance. The night schools during the year were 847 in number 24,434 scholars above 12 years of age were, on an average, in attendance each night; 28,588 scholars were qualified by attendance for examina- tion. Of these, 21,444 were actually examined, and out of every 100 scholars so examined, 93'35 passed in reading, 73 72 in writing, and 45'37 in arithmetic. The additional subjects of examination were taken in 198 schools by 4,619 scholars, of whom 2,470 passed, 554 of them in two subjects. In the training colleges the inspec- tors found 38,999 certified teachers at work in the aiaed schools which they visited, while the 41 training colleges from which the supply of the teachers is mainly recruited were attended in lo84, by 3,214 students. These students 'and 3,180 acting teachers were examined for certificates in December last. At Midsum- mer, 1884, 4,822 candidates for admission to 1,700 vacancies in the training colleges, of whom 3.127 passed creditably. The school boards have availed themselves freely of the powers of borrowing on the security of the rates given by the acts of 1870 and 1873. Up to the 1st of April, 1885 we had sanctioned 6,160 loans, amounting to £\7,355,954- 19s 3d, to 1,740 school boards, by means of which naw accommodation will be furnished for some 1,416,409 scholars. The estimated ecst per child is thus about £ 12 5s. With regard to attendance for every 100 children of school age, for whom some 89 school seats have been provided, there are only 30 scholars on the

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THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS BEATRICE. Arrival of the Bridegroom, Prince Henry of Battenberg reached Osborne at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon, having travelled from Germany by way of Flushing, whence he came on board the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert. Accompanying him were his parents, the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Prince and Princess Alexander of Bulgaria, and other Royal guests. The Admiralty yacht Enchantress accompanied the Victoria and Albert from Flushing, having the Duke of Edinburgh on board. The Royal yacht had a somewhat stormy passage, being delayed a eouple of hours beyond the anticipated time. A steam launch from the Hector uardship in Southampton water, with Captain Goldsmith, commander of the Alberta, on board, steamed out to meet the royal yacht. The Duke of Connaught, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lome, the Duchess of Edinburgh, and Major- General Sir John McNeil also met Prince Henry and party, who were received by the firing of a royal salute from the Hector. The yacht anchored in the roadstead, and Prince Henry and the royal and distinguished guests were landed by Captain Goldsmith's steam launch at Trinity wharf, where a guard of honour of coastguards- men was drawn up, and received them :iL 1 __i Vr-> witn a royai saiute. un arriving ao wauuiue in the Royal carriages, a guard of honour of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, under the command of Captain Sim and Lieutenant Walker, received Prince Henry and party with a royal salute, while a second detachment of the same regiment, under Major Roberts and Lieutenants Worrall and Goodson, received them within the royal demesne, the band of the regi- ment playing the National Anthem. The streets of East Cowes and Osborne were lined with spectators during the Prince's arrival, and the yachts in the roadstead were decorated with bunting in honour of the event.

MR MUNDELLA ON THE EDUCA- TION ACTS. The new Wolverhampton School Board offices were formally opened on Monday, the inaugural ceremony being performed by Mr Mundella, M.P. The hon. gentleman, in the course of his remarks, said from official returns he found that the number of children on the school registers of Great Britain last month was about one-sixth of the population. The average attendance had increased during the past five years 730,000, while the children in higher standards had just doubled. There had been concurrently a>great decrease in criminal sentences, especially in the case of juvenile criminals. Referring to intermediate education, he sympathised with poor ministers, clerks, and others paying rates without receiving benefit from the Education Acts, but he saw there was no remedy except by the readjustment of local taxation.

ANNOYING LADY CONYERS. 3 At the Westminster police-court on Monday, Edward Rowland, described as a gentleman, of 92, Jermyn-street, Piccadilly, was charged with annoying Mary, Lady Conyers, wife of Baron Conyers, by obstructing her in certain public places. Lady Conyers stated that defendant was a stranger to herself and her daughter, the Hon. Ida Evelyn Lane Fox, but that he had persecuted them for a considerable time, speaking to them against their will, following them in the streets, and writing letters. He had followed her and her daughter no less than three times in one day. The Hon. Violet Lane Fox said that for two years defendant had made her life unpleasant. He had followed her in the streets, in the park, and to receptions. He had also written her letters. Mr George Lewis, who appeared for Lady Conyers, said he would be content if defendant were called on to find substantial bail for twelve months. Mr Partridge, however, remanded him in custody for a week.

A SALOP SOLDIER BAYONETTED An accident happened at the Riddlesdown Rifle Range, midway between South Croyaon and Caterham Valley, on Saturday- -Taines Carswell, a young private in the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, and a native of Shrewsbury, was one of a squad who left Caterham Barracks at five o' clock in the morning for the purpose of going through a recruit's course 0 -Y ,,a^ the range. They were ordered to double at the charge," and were about to drop, when the man on the left of Carswell stumb:ed, with his rifle- butt on the ground and bayonet upwards, and the deceased falling on the top of him, the bayonet entered the left side of his mouth and passed up into his brain. The deceased withdrew the weapon and expired within a quarter of an hour.

SHOCKING SCENE AT A FRENCH EXECUTION. A shocking incident occurred on Saturday at Caen at the ex,!cutionof.- man named Heurtevent, who was found guilty of having murdered an elderlv widow under atrocious circumstances at St. Aubin. He had previously been beside him- self with gri^f on hearing that there was no hop9 of reprieve, but as his hour drew mi?1 calmer. When put intothe tmnb"1 « £ :jas 1»talIce him to the guillotine he renewed his p otestationsj of innocence, and on arriving J* a £ ° execution he made desperate e away from the grasp of the executioner and his assistants. Finally, he had to be thrown down on the block by sheer force. His head warthen seized, and pushed under too withm'f instantly descended, and did ut a hitch.

_-=- THE SIXPENNY TELEGRAMS BILL. Lord "John Manners amendments which he will asl m i Commons to adopt when She Bill of the late GovernmentZ They are as follows (1) The ch irges for the transmission of written telegrams o'n,f\v;4.i .1 United Kingdom shall uniformly, ami without regard to distances beat a rate not exceeding six pence for the first three words 0!Cp *e^r^ni' or for each telegram of less than n nP not exceeding one halfpenny f°r 1jressea of word. (2) The names and »dd £ *es of 'the senders and receivers of written K which not be counted as part of the words for which payment shall be required.'

DISCOVERY OF A LOST TOURIST Richard B"M- Last year a medical student, nuvq.j. berger, son of the distinguished Au ctan, Professor Henry Bamberger, mysteriously disappeared, and the event caused a nine days' wonder in Vienna The body of. the young man was accidentally discovered on Friday in a crevice at the foot of the Schneeberg, the mountain which marks the boundary between Lower Austria and Styria.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT oAT LEICESTER. 1,. At the Criterion Hotel, Leicester, the cook (Frederick Smith) and housemaid (Louisa Dur- ham) on Monday Rvening balcony. While they ivere listening to a barm pUy?n^ the balustrade gave way, aud they Ml a distance of 80 feet. Both were killed on the spot.

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. It is expected that Parliameut will be enabled to rise at the l"est on Thurs-lay, the 6th of August. The promoters of temperance legisla- tion in the House of Commons hope by keeping their proposals upon the journals to have all opportunity of snatching a bill.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. I SHEFtfiKM). — AL all enthusiastic pubik; meeting held on Monday night, in the Eccleshail division of Sheffield, Mr Cyril Dodd, barrister, London, was adopted as till, Liberal candidate for that ;n opposition to Mr Ashmeau-Uartiftt, :,1.1' G" (J.«auidUlaiA.

[ A COW KILLED BY AN ADDER. A day or two ago a cow belonging to a farmer named Parry, of Penyvau, Monmouthshire, was bitten on the udder by an adder, and before veterinary aid could be obtained the poor beast died.

THE ROYAL SHOW AT PRESTON The Royal Agricultural Show at Preston closed on Monday. The number of visitors was 14,908, against 17,690 on the last day of the show in Shrewsbury last year.

AN ARTILLERYMAN KILLED. I At Aldershot, on Saturday night, two gunners of the Royal Artillery, named Harding and Coghlan, after passing the evening together at the canteen, commenced quarrelling on the verandah of the artillery barracks. After a desperate struggle one threw the other over, a distance of 25 ft., into the yard below, where a sentry found them grasping each other by the shoulder. Coghlan was killed on the spot, and Harding lies in a precarious state.

RAILWAY COMPETITION IN YORKSHIRE. Reduction in Mineral Rates. I A Bariisley telegram states that consequent upon the opening of the Hull and Barnsley Railway, the North-Eastern and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln companies reduced their rates for coal from the South Vorkshire district to Hull from 3s Id to 2" lOd.

SUICIDE OF A MILITARY I PRISONER. A private of the Royal Marines, named Wm. Hare, who was sentenced by court-martial at Chatham, on Monday, to undergo five days in « ? u-' breach of discipline, managed to e ec his escape, but after an exciting chase was re-captured. Later in the day he was found in the cells with his throat so severely cut that he died shortly afterwards. Deceased used a broken earthenware plate to inflict the wound.

GREAT FAILURE IN AMERICA. • Mr John Roach, the famous Delaware River iron shipbuilder, suspended payment on Saturday, and made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Mr Roach besides owning large ship- yards in Chester below Philadelphia, was also proprietor of the Morgan Ironworks, in New York city, with several extensive foundries, engine worts, and ship yards. He had been generally supposed to be worth several millions; but the depressed condition of the shipbuilding industry bad gradually sapped his fortune. His suspension will deprive about 3,000 men of work. Mr Roach is a native of Ireland, and is aged about 70 years.

THE FROZEN MUTTON TRADE. Arrangements have been made by Messrs James Nelson and Sons, cattle salesmen, of Liverpool, for a continuous import of frozen mutton direct from the River Plate to Liverpool. Hitherto the only frozen mutton to this country has come to London from New Zealand, 12,000 miles away but the new supply from only a distance ot 6,000 miles, from the River Plate to Liverpool, will give a great impetus to the trade, and must, from the curtailment of the sea journey, and that to the northern counties, who will be supplied from Liverpool direct, tend to a marked reduction in the price of mutton generally

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS [FROM MONDAY'S MARK-LANE EXPRESS. _J Broken weather since St. Swithin's day has improved the outlook for roots, and the rainfall, when it has occurred, has doubtless helped spring sown grains. It would seem that sniall ears are becoming more distinctive features of the season's wheat crop, aud it is also now becoming apparent that the wheat plant is full, and that the crops in many cases are lighter than might have been expected from earlier promise. In fact, the change in conditions favourable to wheat, which occurred early in May, have never been adequately sustained, and that intermittent spells of highly favourable weather which have since characterised the season, have failed entirely ThIJ1 e &°°d the loss which then occurred, lhere is also an appearance of rust about some of the stoutest wheats, which is beginning to attract attention, and altogether the outlook for harvest does not improve. As July wears away the trade is quite devoid of any fresh feature. The trade for foreign wheats off stands in London has been without any appreciable alteration. Sellers may be firmer, but buyers are not in the smallest degree more responsive. There is no change in other articles excepting Russian. Oats advanced 3d to 6d.

NEW LOCAL COMPANIES. fFROM THE INVESTORS" GUARDIAN. "1 PENARTH (CARDIFF) PIER COMPANY (LIMITED).On the 10th Illst. this company was registered with a capital of £ 3U,000, in 2b shares, to acquire the under- taking of certain persons named in an order of the Board of Trade ratified by the 44th and 45th Vic., cap. xiv., known as the Penarth Promenade and Landing Pier Order, 1881. and to carry out the works authorised by such order and Act of Parliament. The subscribers are :—W. B. Grovei-, 37, Clifton-terrace, South Norwood, agent, 1 share H. P. Bernard, 107, Cannon street, merchant, 1 R. 1'. Linford, IA, Adelphi-terrace, secretary to a company, 1: G. Hurton. 23, Camden Park-road, clerk, 1 H. Wilkins, 12A, York G cove, Peckham, surveyor, 1; E. B. Ijlielps, 28, Bishop-gate-street, merchant, 1 and Paul Lowery, d, Ilackford-road, Brixton, accountant, 1. The number of directors is not to be lese; than three nor more than cevcn the subscribers are to appoint the first qualification for directors, other than the first, 100 shares remuneration, JE250 per annum. The directors may appoint a managing director trom amongst thems Ives and determin his remuneration. PONTYPNIDD AND RHOXDIM VALLEY TRAMWAY COM- PANY (LIMITED).—This company was registered on the loth inst., with a capitai of £ 160.000, in £10 shares, to construct and by down tramways or railways in the county of Glamorgan. The subscribers are *H. T. M'Neale, 8, Elm Park Gardens, S.W., contractor, 25 shares; T. Winder, Wo/;d Green, N., accountant. 1; *F. It. Craws hay, J.P., Brid- gend, Glamorgan, 25; J Charles Harding, 10, St. Swithin's-lane, manager of the A'jJ(lent Insurance Company, 25 *P. A. Vyvyan Itobinson, 10, Bute- crescent, merchant, 25 J. NI-Keiizie, C.K, 191, Cam- benvell New-road, 1; and F. Goodrich, 4. Bishopsjjate- street Within, secretary to a company, 1. The number of directors is not to be less than three, nor more than seven qualification, YS ordinary shares the tirst are th" subscribers denoted by an asterisk remuneration, B350 per annum, and also one-tenth of the residue of the net profits beyond the amount required for pay- ment of £6 per cent. per annum dividend.

VIRTPINK" is a I cure for Corns beware of imitations. Mdlle..Matie 31 uller, Amster dam, writes-—"J bought a bottle ot your gout/nr Vividin ■' some six lÜOHtllS ago in Paris, whicu enred me, and as I am a principal d-Micer, yo know n y feet are my living. The bottle I bought did the service you recommended it, but I bought another one after- wanls which was Jorfled, and no good. As I want a bottle of genuine for a friend of mine, who is nearlv mad with pain, will yo;i plea r /.end iusj one direct? •ioaly.jsi bovies i. is, m.- ijo l, lit, ;vui t dav, ( Cu^qJtand Olumuiia.

MICHAEL DAVITT ON THE IRISH LAND BILL. Mr Michael Davitt addressed a large National League meeting on Sunday at Lidmire, near Kanturk, and his visit was made the occasion of a popular demonstration. Referring to the Land Purchase (Ireland) Bill, brought into the Housa of Lords on Friday, he declared that it was a sham and a swindle, and that its real title, if honestly expressed, would be a Landlord Relief Bill. The farmers would have to pay their money, not to the landlord, who could be brought to his senses in Ireland, but to the English Government, which would give no abatement whatever or listen to the popular voice ot tha country. But long before those forty-nine year* had come and goiie-loiig before a fourth of that I time had pa-sed-there would be no vestige of landlordism left in Ireland.

PEDESTRIANISM. On Monday, a Hereford pedestrian named Wm. Tranter, commenced his proposed walk of 3Ul miles in six day between Merthyr and Tredegar. In this feat, unsuccessfully atttempted by Craze, his endeavour is to beat the recently recorded mileage of Buckler on the same ground. Tranter, however, does not premise seriously to out-do Buckler, as he found one walk to and from Merthyr sufficient. His return to Merthyr from Tredegar was awaited 'in vain by larg-e crowds, and the conclusion was that lie, like Craze, had collapsed. Wm. Buckler, the Newport pedestrian, on Monday morning commenced a feat of walking 506 miles in six days and night-. The track is laid beneath a large tent, erected on the Risca Fair Ground, and there are 27 laps to the mile. At ten o'clock in the morning Buckler, having covered 40 miles, retired for a bath. After an interval of an hour and a quarter, he re-appeared, and at once resumed in good style. At mid.day he covered 44- miles. The stakes are L40.

THE WELSH IN LONDON. I I [FROM OUII OWN CORRESPONDENT. J I As announced in your columns on Wednesday last, the Lord Mayor, at the request of Mr J. H. Puleston, M.P., has kindly granted the use of the Mansion House for a. public meeting to be held to-day (Tuesday), at 2 p.m., to consider the best means of raising funds for the reator»ti<»»« or the building destroyed by the late calamitous fira at Aberystwith. The Lord Mayor has also con- sented to preside on She occasion. He will ba supported by Lord Aberdare, G.C.B., Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., Messrs Henr* Richard, M.P D. Da vies, M.P., J. H. Puleston, M.P^, H. G. Alien, M.i\, Morgan Lloyd, M.P., ,'r ^unliffe, M.P., Love Jones Parry, M.IAlderman David Evans, Lewis Morns, Stephen Evans, Alderman J. F. Roberts, Man- chester the Mayor of Aberystwith, and others. The sympathy evoked by the calamity ia very intense amongst London Welshmen. Ample temporary arrangements will, I am crlad ta say, at once bs made for continuing the education work of the college as before in all the depart- ments. Progress is being made with the arrangements of the Cymmrodorion section of the Aberdars Eisteddfod. The inaugural meeting- will be held on Monday e.vening, the 24th August. On the following Wednesday papers will be read on various phases of the education question in Wales. An important place will be found for the discus- sion of The place of the Welsh language in the system of Welsh national education. rlio leading educationists of Wales are expected to take part therein. „

ODDFELLOWS' SPORTS AT MERTHYR. A fete and gala was held, under the auspices of the Merthyr District of Oddfellows (M.CJ.), at Penydarran Park, Merthyr, on Monday, in aid of tne Distressed Brothers' Fund. The district, it may be mentioned, comprises 19 lodges, and 1,400 members. About £ 20 is distributed auiuialiy to distressed members, and there is a balance of £ 100 standing to credit. The arrange- ments for the fêe were carried out by the follow- ing sub-committee :—G.M. Joseph Saunders, J. Davies, P.P.G.M. (treasurer) Thos. Davies, C.S. (secretary); J. Davie", P.G. (assistant sec- retary) Bros. J. Williams (Globe Inn), LI. Williams, T. Lockyer, and Joseph Pointz. A procession of Oddfeilows, headed by the band of the Merthyr detachment, 2nd Glam. R.V., marched through the town to open the gala. Diversified amusements were provided, but the attendance, probably affected by the threatening state of the weather in the morning, was com- paratively small. The sports in the tield resulted as follows 100 YARDS BOYS' RACE HANDICAP BSDKR 11 YEARS. -1st prize. Sl; 2nd, 10s; ird, 5s. First heat—(). Motherway, Merthyr, 1 J. Jones, Troedyrhhv, 2; I.. James, 3. Second heat—J. Davies, Merthyr 1 Fitzpatrick, 2; A. Llewellyn, Aberdare, 3. Viu'al- Davies, 1; ifitzpatrick, 2 Motherwnv 3 ■M2°M AI"IR °FFN HANDICAP.-LST PRIZE," £ 2 2nd, £ 1; o i heat~A- Stuart, Cardiff, 1; I>. Price, i ii r i kecoml heat—<j..Richards, TroedyrUiw, ). Jetcoo, Aberdare, ¿; G. Pnvell, (Jriokhowell. 3. i lieat—D. Williams, Merthyr, 1 B. Joseph, Tro- rtegar, 2 J. Williams, Merthyr, o. Final—Williams, 1 Stuart, 2; ihcliard,, 3. I VG OF WAR (Open to Oddfellows only;.—1st prize, £ 2; 2nd, lOs. Br ■. Lockyer's team competed with Bro. Hu;ihes' team, the forme:-being victorious. 4lJ YAIWS ÜPEN HANDICAP.—1st prize, 2,i,i, ~1; 3rd, 10s. 1st heat—U. l'owell, Cncxhnwell. 1; ]>. Thomas, Pe :yd:;rren, 2; O Itichaids, lioedyrhiw, 3. 2nd heat-A. Stuart, Cardiff, 1; J. •lones, Dowbis. 2 J. Williams, Merthyr. o. FintL!-]). in, I D. 2, Thomas G. Richards, o. Tuu OF WAit (Open to volunteers).—1st prize, J;2 2nd 10s. Three teams competed. Divided between Servant Weeks's band teatn.Sergoanc Milward's team, amfsnr«eant 1>. J■ Lewis's team. BAYONur squad (open to squads of eight from any detachment.)—1st, 4 2nd, Bl. Serjeant D. J. Lewis, H Coinoauy, Merthyr, Lit; Colour-Sergeant \V H. Jones, I Company, 2::d. ONE MILE OPKN HANDtCAP—lst. £3; 2nd, £ 1; Sr;, 10s. C. Powell, Crickhowell, 1st O. Powell (brother of the 1st), 2nd T. Hunkin, A'oeraman, 3rd, tlw secund man caini- in with tolerable case, and douboi«#s might have taken the lead if he had spurte i. Tii&e, 5min. 55secs. The starter in the races was Mr Isaac Whitd- liouse handicapper, Mr J. Powell judges, Mr LI. Williams and J. Pointz. Captain Matthews (Cefu Corps) was the adjudicator in the bayonet; squad contest.

"LCST AND FOD.NI;. Huring the present war in the Soudan, it is continually reported that some of our brave stoMiers are missins, many of them, 110 doubt, lost through some little oareies.-ness on their p.u-t. It is also of frequent occurrence that on account oi the groat scarcity of water, our mell are compelled to drinkti om stagnant pools, and the consequence often is blood poisoning, resulting in sickness and death. Impurity of the blood is nu universal complaint in thi« country in every scatioii of lite, caused by li.ipure l'oo l, lirinK, cold, wet, chills, etc., and it requires a special remedy to purify this vital fluid, thereby eleausing tne system of every disease. It is now an acknowledged fact that HJu.,1 Pills i.; a ^>1 p >weniil medioinefor puriiyma; the blood and strenRtne ing the system, curin? Scurvy, Skin Diseases, Liver Complaints, Indigestion, Dyspepsi i, Headache, Old Sores, Boils, Kheumutism and Ntjrve Affections, llestorijig to the >y>t'00 the pei'iect H!ri• v/ljjQii whs los- Tiiotisii.jnXr •>'<•• ;ir.y irttetify of ijil, &> C«\, **4 4* od Kifc

GREAT STRIKE IN LANCASHIRE. I A great strike of Oldham factory operatives, against the reduction of 10 per cent. 1Tl wages, took place on Monday. About 25,000 people have come out. Each spinner receives 12s a week, and Is additional for each child. The strike is expected to last at least a month. r*

THE BANQUET TO EARL SPENCER, The arrangements are now nearly completed for the banquet to which Earl Spencer is to be entertained on Friday evening. Lord Hartington will preside. Earl Granville, Sir W. V. Har- court, Lord Northbrook, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Lord Rosebery will be present, ns well as nearly 50 members of the House of Lords, and about 150 members of the House of Commons.

THE REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH. A Novel Proposal. Baron de Worms has written to Mr. Akers Douglas, M.P., the Government whip, requesting him to make the following proposal to Mr. Boord with regard to the representation of Green- wich: I am prepared, unreservedly, to place the question at issue between Mr. Boord and myself as to who shall be the candidate for the new borough of Greenwich at the general election before any three members of the present cabinet, and I am further willing that the three names shall be selected by Mr. Boord. I pledge myself to abide by his choice of the three names, and by the decision of the three gentlemen so chosen. I make this offer solely in the interests of the party. You are at liberty to give publicity to it, and I reserve to myself the same right. Very truly yours, H. de Worms." It is understood that Mr. Boord has declined this proposal.

r THE WELSH PRESS. [BY CUNEGLAS.] WALES AND THE CALAMITY TO ITS NATIONAL COLLEGE. Aberystwith College is the first embodiment of a great national movement fcr higher education in Wales, and the mass of the nation has since its foundation nobly supported it by its sympathy with its difficulties. by its increasing interest in its progress and success, and by generous contri- butions. The sympathy and devotion of the Welsh people have even increased since the establishment of the daughter colleges at Cardiff and Bangor, and their admiration has been called forth by its pluck and undaunted spirit in face of anxious difficulties, of Government neglect, and fierce, though friendly, rivalry. Hence it is that the terrible calamity has been universally and painfully felt as a national loss. There is a per- ceptible, though we trust only temporary void, in the national life. With the unaccountable excep- tion of the Celt, all the Welsh papers had made it a leading feature in their intelligence and editorial columns, all expressing the deepest sympathy, and all unhesitatingly advising the authorities of the college to throw themselves on the generosity of the Welsh people. The Herald says that the destruction of the college is a heavy blow to the heart of Wales. This is the chief event of the week to the feeling of the nation which has devotedly fostered and nursed the college before the Government gave it its smiles, and which loved it more passionately when it was seep that some attempted to depre- ciate and destroy it. The sight of the destruc- tion is heart-breaking, for the finest public building in Wales is in ruins. The country confidently looks to the supporters of the college to act with prudence, wisdom, and courage. The Liverpool correspondent of the Genedl tes- tifies that every Welshman he has met joins in lamenting the terrible calamity. The sym- pathisers are very numerous among all classes, merchants, brokers, accountants, builders, engineers, firemen, sailors, dock labourers, and all classes of workmen. All anxiously enquire what will be done, most of them answer that it must be restored to its former condi- tion at all costs and hazards. Before this manifestation of feeling I would not have believed that the first fruit of the Wesh education move- ment held such a high position in the estimation of the nation. I believe that more readiness will be shown in helping to restoring the college than in any matter which the nation has ever taken in hand. Llan censures the authorities for under- insuring the college buildings, but feels confident that Welshmen will show the deep sympathy which they now feel by responding generously to the appeal which will be made to restore the buildings. Seren (Bala) says that the Welsh nation will not turn its back, in the hour of calamity, upon the college which has done so much to force the Government to pay attention to our educa- tional wants. Tyst expresses the universal sympathy of the nation with the families of the warm-hearted and brave men who fell a sacrifice to the destruction in their noble efforts to save the library and museum. Rich and poor are sending them their help. There is everywhere the deepest sympathy with the professors and the council, and they will receive ready and willing help. Under the exceptional circumstances it is not too much to expect some help from Government. In any case, Lladmenydd affirms that the college will not be allowed to suffer owing to this unto- ward and pitiful accident. Seven Cymru says that this loss cannot for a moment be allowed to damage the institution. It will rather draw the sympathies of the nation more closely around it. Already a stream of generosity flows to the families of the brave men who lost their lives in trying to save the valuable contents of the college, and there is no doubt but that the nation will do everything in its power to counteract the effects of the calamity. Tarian y Gweithiwr trusts that the brave men who have devoted their energies to ensure the success ot the college in face of difficulties which would have daunted and crushed ordinary men will not be discouraged by this calamity. The country, if properly appealed to, will not allow the University College of Aberystwith, which continues to score such successes, to be crippled. The college is increasing. in favour, and the nation showed an amount of sympathy with and enthusiasm in the cause of the college which fairly astounded those who, a couple of years ago, were inclined to destroy it. We trust that an appeal will forthwith be made to a warm- hearted people in behalf of the college and of the families of the brave men who lost their lives in noble efforts to save its most precious contents. if there is any energy and backbone in our Parliamentary representatives, they will take advantage of this opportunity to press the Government to place this national college on a footing of equality, in the matter of State help, with the university colleges of Cardiff and Bangor. The Goleuad devotes a long leading article to the calamity, and remarks upon the depth of the sympathy with the college, which is itself the fruit of the nation's generosity, which has in an especial manner attracted the affections of the Welsh people, and which has succeeded so remarkably in the face of unusual difficulties. Who knows but that good may come of it ? As the saint issues from the fiery furnace purified as the Phoenix rises from the ashes, as the earth will emerge from the fires of "that dreadful day," who knows but that Aberystwith Collerre will rise from its ruins to live a still brighter and more puissant life ? ° Y Bedyddiwr Gymreig confidently affirms that an appeal to the people will bo generously responded to. Let the start be made at Aberyst- with. There are there many keen and prudent men. -Let an appeal be printed, signed by the council, containing a detailed account of the cir- cumstances, and their own subscription list, and let it be sent to the Welsh nation in England and Wales let it be sent to every church and chapel, of all denominations and parties, and we are confident that the response will be worthy of the Welsh heart. Before 1885 is buried £ 40,000 will be obtained and our hope is strong that in the new Parliament, and with a new Ministry, full justice will be done to this college. The heroic work already done at Aberystwith ought to be acknowledged by the nation and the Government. The thanks of the whole nation is due to Mr Puleston for his exertions to secure a meeting in the Mansion House to elicit support from °the great mercantile community of London towards the college. LONDON AND ITS INIQUITIES. Several of the Welsh papers comment upon the terrible revelations of the Pall Mall Gazette, notably the Baner which has an article burning with indignation at the ruin of the daughters ot the people by the vicious rich. It comments upon the frantic efforts made to suppress the Pall Mall and to imprison its editor. Hut what prison in Great Britain would not be pulled down to release a man who fearlessly and honestly exposed the monstrous infamies of the aristocrats and pluto- crats of Modern Babylon? Years ago the Welsh nation was, with foul injustice, charged with gross immorality. The charges were repelled, and the face of the nation was most sternly turned against the immorality which really existed. But what is to be said to this terrible revelation ? Let the mothers of Wales beware lest their daughters should fall victims by being sent to situations without sufficient enquiry as to the character of the family and their moral surroundings. Let all who are anxious for the fair name of the daughters of Wales keep these monsters in human shape well beyond Offa's Dyke. Llan, which remarks upon the difficulty of securing copies of the revelations, says there is a vast amount of mock modesty in deal ill" with this terrible social evil. The Church and the pulpit ought to take the subject in hand more plainly and courageously. Acts of Parliament must be passed to stop monsters from continuing their ravages, but the task of bringing society to a sense 0: its duties in social matters is pre- eminentlir a part of the work of the churches. the a.It praises the Pall Mall for its courage in exposing; these infernal practices. Crowds of filthy Dien strove to crush the paper and its fearless editor, but the forces of good have rallied to its side. Seven (Bala) points out that the Pall ifall Gazette scored a great victory when the Govern- ment were influenced not to prosecute them. It is satisfactory that the revelations should be sub- mitted for examination to a dependable commis- sion, and if a tithe is true, public opinion will, with sweeping and irresistible force, demand immediate legislation to check and stop these monstrous wrongs. JOTTINGS. Toe. lianer very roughly bandies youug Watltin for his protectionist leanings and general political balderdash, and a correspondent singly advocates a fair valuation of rents, 'ljie ilcrivd inveighs against the shameful annual expendi- ture upon the royal yuchts. The Dyad loudly demands disestablishment, find exposes con- tortions of justices' justice. Seven Cymru, Tyst, Gwladwr, Givcithiwv, 'd _several otuer paper.; taunt tiie Tories with their miserable manage- ment of the budget. Tavian Gwdthiwv has a long article on the liberality of two We Ish clergy- men ill inviting two I*Jonconfoiniist ministers to •onduct part of the burial service. The Goicuad has a very able article on the Welsh language, which wilt obtain further attention in connection with Mr ]V«u l-i-' i; ivi =s,i "T v's u: betters m I ¡.4iJ JSmer. Uw¡;lit,;d4ldlt ia Kuiei&e, ii4 usual ill 1 its news and opinion, but it is not yet worthy • the Wesleyans. Ma.ny of the papers cogigratultits the university colleges on their successei at tb" London matriculation. Llanuwchllyn, a stronK'-V" Welsh parish, bordering Bala Lake, had two 0 its sons in honours, and another in the first-cla8. What Anglicised parish can claim such a score •

UNIVERSITY COLLEGEOF SOUTH WALES AMD MONMOUTHSHIRE. An adjourned meeting of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire was held a' the college on Monday afternoon, the Rev. Alfred Tilly in the chair. The, other members present were the Revs. W. Bruce (Bryuderweri), Vv, Conybeare Bruce and J. D. Waiters, Messrs Joli^j Duncan, Lascelles Carr, G. C. Thompson, ail" Lewis Williams. The Registrar was directed t'1 communicate with Mr Mundella, through Lord Aberdare, with a view to the distribution of prizes in October by Mr Mundella. The busines3 Wétg of a formal character.

THE WEST MIDLAND SHOW AT I KNIGHTON. Every preparation is now completed for the ,n.°f stock and implements on the occasion of the visit of the Shropshire and West Midland Agricultura. Society on Wednesday next and the .ollowing days. Phe machinery is hourly arriving, and the extensive shedding will soon be filled with some of the choicest stock in the country. In the dog show ovor 300 entries are registered, and many prize takers of the finest breeds will be on view. The railway companies have been very liberal in their fares, and an immense influx of visitors to this charming town may be expected during the three days the show is open. Residents of Swansea and the district around will be afforded ample opportunity of being present, the London and North-Western Company having arranged to convey passengers to and from Knighton on both days at moderate fares.