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THE CHURCH CONGRESS.I
THE CHURCH CONGRESS. I The Church Congress opened at Portsmouth on Tuesday, and the various meetings were well attended. Services were held in several churches, but the Bishop of Carlisle, who preached at St. Thomas', drew the largest congregation, he having been president of last year's congress. He referred to the great political change which had been effected, and averred that the new voters would not advocate the disestablishment of the Church of the poor. Some religionists had asked for disestablishment without disendowment, but that would be a poor electioneering cry, and which he did not think would be accepted by anyone. The Bishop of Winchester, aa presi- dent of the congress, delivered an address to a large audience in the Congress Hall. He dwelt on the subject of the revised version, claiming that those who had done the work had sacrificed nothing in their attempts to be accurate, however hard it might be to translate the idiom of the language into that of another. A long discussion followed, in which general approval was given to tfw w..rk of. the revisers. The re-arrangement of the Prayer-book services was discussed at the night piecing.
IThe Eastern Crisis.I •--
The Eastern Crisis. 10,000 VOLUNTEERS FOR MACEDONIA. [RENTER'S TELEGRAM.] PHILIPPOPOLIS, Monday.—It is behaved that the total number of volunteers for Macedonia amounts to more than ten thousand men, all of whom are concentrated in South Bulgaria, and are under the complete control of the Govern- ment. SERVIA PREPARING FOR A BATTLE. {BEUTER'S TKLKGKAM.] I BELGRADE, Tuesday.-A division of troops was despatched to-day to the frontier of Old Servia. The last of the reserves have been called out. All the military surgeons left to-day for the frontier. Two powder vessels have entered the Drina river. MILITARY ACTIVITY IN GREECE. I [RBOTER'S TELEGRAM. J I ATHENS, Tuesday.—It is stated that the re- mainder of the Army Reserve will be called out immediately. Great activity prevails in the navy yard at Salamis. THE PORTE AND THE SITUATION. f [REUTER'S TKLKGKAM.1 I CONSTANTINOPLE, Tuesday.—An official tele. gram which reached the Portato-day declares that complete tranquillity reigns in Albania, and there is no interruption of communication on the road between Orierend and Scutaria. An extra- ordinary Council of Ministers was held here to- day. The Montenegrin diplomatic agent in Constan- tinople has given the Porte assurance of the sincerely friendly sentiments entertained by Mon- tenegro for Turkey. The Porte has called the attention of the Ottoman Ambassadors at foreign courts to the armaments of Greece and Servia, and suggested that the Powers should request those states to disarm in order to calm the minds of the people. ,°- DEPARTURE OF M. DE GIERS FOR BERLIN. [REUTKR'S TKLEGRAM. 1 I I COPENHAGEN, Tuesday.—M. de Giers left here at twenty minutes past seven this evening for j Berlin, in order to confer with Prince Bismarck.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A DIAMOND…
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A DIAMOND MERCHANT. Lewis Harris, a diamond merchant, of Leeds and Scarborough, and his son, Frederick, medical student, were charged at Leeds, on Tuesday afternoon, with conspiring to defraud the creditors of the first named prisoner. The father was also charged with various offences under the Debtors' Act. The elder prisoner was committed for trial, the son being discharged.
RAILWAY EMPLOYEES' CONFER-I…
RAILWAY EMPLOYEES' CONFER- I ENCE. The annual conference of the Atralgamated Society of Railway Servants was opened in Leicester on Tuesday afternoou. Sixty dele- gates, representing ten thousand members, attended. After the transaction of some preliminary business, Mr Stewart Mac- liver, M.P., president, delivered the inaugu- ral address, in which he advocated shorter hours of labour for railway servants, and urged that a bili should be brought into Parliament making it impossible to contract out of the Employers' Liability Act. PROPOSED FUSION OFlTH E RHYM- NEY & TAFF VALE RAILWAYS. Abbott's Monthly Circular" says Some influential shareholders in these companies have very wisely resolved to exercise their own free will in endeavouring to improve their position by consolidation. A scheme has been put forward to unite these undertakings upon such terms as will put an end to competition, and at the same time greatly enhance the value of the stock of both companies. It is proposed that the Taff Vale should lease the Rhymney, guaranteeing a fixed dividend of 8 per cent. in perpetuity. The price of Taff Vale Stock paying 14 per cent. is E265, and Rhymney paying 10 per cent., £185. The advantages of such an agreement are obvious. Taking the aver- age of 4 per cent. guaranteed stocks, an 8 per cent. guarantee of the Taff Vale would surely be worth as iiiuch-;6220-at which price it would yield 3, while the Taff Vale would certainly gain moie than the 2 per cent. extra dividend in working the Rhymney owing to savings and freedom from competition. That both companies must benefit will be clear to the most ordinary intelligence. It is for this reason, probably, that the chairman of the Rhymney has seen tit to issue a most unwise circular in opposition to the scheme. It must be clear that the desire to retain the sweets of power and emoluments of office is at the root of this opposition, but the prospects of a further advance of 35 per cent. in the value of their stocks may prove too strong a stimulant to the most passive and lethargic share- holder to resist.
THE FRACAS AT THE GADLYS THE…
THE FRACAS AT THE GADLYS THE FRACAS AT THE GADLYS TIN WORKS. John Morgan, Henry Phillips, Ebenezer John Howells, and Thomas Roberts appeared to answer a summons at the Aberdare Police-court on Tuesday charging them with committing wilful damage to the Gadlys Tin-plate Works on Satur- day, the 26th September. The four defendants and two other men, named John Walters and John Evans, both of whom turned informers, were drinking at the Welsh Harp publichouse on the date in question. They all left about eleven o'clock and proceeded into the tin works, carry. iug with them several bottles of porter. Thev had to break open the gate in order to have access to the works. They went into the mill and drank several bottles of the porter. About this time they began to feel jolly and threw the plates of tin about. After destroying about 100 plates by throwing them into the furnlce" and into the machinery, they began amusing themselves by breaking the windows of the office. The watch- man kept on the premises heard the noise of breaking glass, but when he saw th,) inad way in which the men acted he withdrew for assistance, and on his return found that the men had de- camped. The premises were then examined, and it was found that the windows were completely destroyed. There were several heavy' bars of iron in the office. The door was broken in, and the panel broken. The de^ks were broken to pieces, and the office books were covered with oil and unfit for further use. The walls were, also smeared with oil. The damage to the office was estimated at Llg, and the damage to the roiH. including the Joss of time and the destroyed tin plates, was estimated at £11. Mr Phillips prosecuted for the company,, and Mr Kenshole appeared for two of the men. This being a case which the magistrates could not deal with summarily, the four defendants were committed to take their trial at the next quarter sessions at Swansea.
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ISIR CHARLES DILKE AT CHELSEA.
I SIR CHARLES DILKE AT CHELSEA. A Definite Programme. On Tuesday a vast number of the electors of Chelsea assembled at Preece's Riding School, in the Fulham-road, to hear an address from Sir Charles Dilke, M.P. The building-capable of accommodating about 3,000 persons-was densely crowded half-an-hour before the commencement of the proceedings, and the interval was enhanced by the singing of Songs for Liberals," to the airs of "The Man of Harlech and "Hearts of Oak," in which almost the entire audience heartily joined.—The meeting was presided over by Mr Osborn, the chairman of the borough of Chelsea Liberal Association. The appearance of Sir Charles Bilke on the platform, accompanied by Lady Dilke, was the signal for loud and pro- longed cheering, followed by the singing of lie is a jolly good fellow," after which three cheers were given for Lady Dilke. The chairman having briefly opened the proceedings, the Rev. L. Forster moved a resolution congratulating the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone on the recovery of his health, and expressing the trnst that the Liberal party might have the inestimable advan- tage of his leadership in accomplishing the reforms indicated in his manifesto, and especially thanked him for the ptomise given therein to the long- delayed reform of London municipal government. The resolution was seconded by the Hon. Conrad Dillon, and carried unanimously. Sir C. DILKE then'rose, and was greeted with enthusiastic cheers. His first pleasant duty, he said, was to thank his friend3 for their recent kindness to him, and his political opponents for the courteous and generous treatment which he had met with at the hands of the Conservative party in the borough. He hailed with satisfac- tion the result of the registration in the borough, the Liberal party having added to its former list of triumphs considerably over 2,000 claims. He should speak that night mainly on home affairs, but if it were his wish to speak at length upon things abroad, his task would be aim ply confined to pointing out, as he had pointed out before, that the Conservative party were engyged in carrying out the Liberal prthcy—(cheers)—though the Liberals naturally thought that they could have done it better. The mission of Sir H. D. Wolff to Constantinople, which was trumpeted about at the moment it was undertaken as con- stituting a sort of half step towards a new depar- ture, had produced no more result than might have been produced in London by a continuance of the conference between the Foreign Office and Hassein Felim Pasha. He regretted the failure both upon public and upon personal grounds, but it had formed no new departure to the Conserva- tives. They had carried out the agreement to which the Liberal Government had come in regard to Egyptian finance they had evacuated all the places in Egypt which the late Government intended to evacu- ate and they had carried through the Afgiian frontier negotiations upon the basis their prede- cessors had laid down. The only difference he recognised was that they took very quietiy the flogging of a British consul's clerk assistant, with regard to which probably a Liberal Government would possibly have shown a little more spirit. As regarded German annexation, it was difficult to reconcile the howl against the late Govern- ment with reference to British interests in Angra Pequena and the North New Guinea ques- tion with* the Toiy acquiesence in the disregard of British interests in Zanzibar. As regards Burmah, some years ago French consul at Rangoon showed, in an article, that we in Burmah had a splendid opening for the future trade of China which mig-ht be expected to now that way but he urged his Government to secure Tonquin for a better trade, which they had since done, and he doubted whether it was possible for us to put up with the exertion of a dominant French interest in Burmah—a point very vital to our interests in India. The tearing up of Lord Salisbury's treaty of Berlin bad been taken very quietly by the Conservative party. Lord Beaconsfield in 1878 said that by the creation of Eastern Rouuielia Turkey in Europe once more existed. Lord Salisbury at the same time said he should decline to argue with anyone who contended that the rearrangement of Bul. garia. would not be permanent. The chances of the arrangement being permanent were as great as the chances were of any other arrangement that existed in Europe. (Lr&ughter.) They had all seen how great Lord Salisbury's gift of pro- phecy was in connection with that matter. The gravest difficulties might arise for the Powers that were interested in the future of the Balkan Peninsula. Those powers were Russia, Austria, Hungary, audGermany, he did not name England for the interest of England was of the faintest and most indirect kind. While criticising the Conservative foreign policy, he claimed for the Liberal that they refrained from throw- ing in the way of their successors those difficulties in the conduct of foreign affairs which they threw in the way of the Liberals. (Cheers.) False statements had appeared in the papers by which much harm was done, although they were immediately contradicted. In Dome affairs, secrecy was generally only the convenience of an individual or a party, but in foreign affairs and in military matters secrecy was very often the safety of the empire. There was no fear that the Conservative party would return to the policy of unrest which led to the Zulu and Afghan wars and the annexa- tion of the Transvaal. Radicals would be in favour of a policy of peace. (Hear, hear.) But it was not always the best course in the cause of peace to avoid standing upon their rights, and be thought it was necessary to speak up a little more plainly than the present Government had lately done. All men of all parties were agreed that the navy should be strong but with regard to the army there was a doubt whether money was not wasted, and lie should take an early opportunity of plac- ing before the constituencies his views on what the future army of this country should be. He could not but believe that any serious danger would see the whole country united, full of patriotic ardour, and ready to meei the danger by any measure that might be necessary. (Cheers.) If they turned to home affairs,they found that the Conservative party were asking for support on two widely different grounds. Some of them were going about and saying that Mr Goschen, Lord Hartington, and other mode- rate men should come over to them as the only party who could save them from the Radicals, and at the same time they were declaring them- selves to be the real Radicals, and announcing that whatever the Radicals were prepared to offer they were ready to give. He hoped the Liberals were not of those who thought an Oppo- sition should have no programme, and that no programme should be put forth tiil a party came into power. He agreed with Bolingbroke that an Opposition did not act like good citizens or honest men, unless they proposed true. as well as opposed false, notions of government. Criticism and opposition might be left if they liked to the Whigs, but let theirs be the task of paving the Way for Reform. (Cheers.) He hoped to put before the deetors a definite programme. (Loud cheers.) What was the prog imme of their oppo- nents? Sir Michael Beach said he was in no hurry to issue an address, because the programme of the Cos:servr.tive party could be sum- ciently c,.]1t)eLl from their speeches. He had recei'-Hd'the speech oi the leader of the House of Commons, but could make neither head nor tail of his policy. It appeared l" be a policy of mere 1Ji:[j,t"m. Turn ing to the real leader of th j'n.y, Lord Uandolph Churchii'(gro:J.ns and -iie found that the noble lord Put forwaut a more definite policy than that enuneid^I by plr Michael Beach. Lord Randolph Churchill s proposals wore classed under three heads, of which tho first was good i.iministration. With regard to that h6 had only to ask whether, iu the matter of good administration, the noble lord would bo prepared to bring forward any one of his own side as against, for example, Mr Chamberlain. (Loud cheers.) The second point was reform of local Government, which the nohle lord supported in general terms, and which the L;Ni;\»l party had set out in detail. And he should like to ask whether tho Loeal Government Bib of the Conser- vative party woul<i in.dude any provision for the compulsory taking of land for public purposes i The point in the r;titiiiie wastbe revival of trade by t'le Royal Commission —(Oh, oh, as it was of- (A Voice Old women)—he was going to say of faddists and fnir traders, presided over by an admirable cl-.a'uraa, aud as sisfced by an able secretary. The local Government or the Libera' party included Metropolitan lv' orm trd City Guilds Reform. (Chaers.) They knew that land reform in all its branches must shortly lw braught before the House of Commons, but tI. regarded that question the dropping of tin; Crofters' Bill an amount of timidity which did not pro- mise wed f. r Conservative legislation. The Liberals included also in their programme a supplementary parliamentary reform and a further veio-.ia qf parliamentary procedure. The four }-oiofs of the Liberal programme put forward in the Midlothian addrcS3- .(load cheers)— were local government reform in ail it' (jpfuvshp*! lafiit refer:n, suppi«i}}9utary par- liamentary reform, and a further reform of I parliamentary procedure. (A voice: "Local option.") Local option was, he said, included in the reform of local government, and he had always been opposed to licencing by nominated magistrates. (Cheers.) Besides those points, ha would include in his programme several others. One point to which he attached great importance was the delegation by Parlia- ment to elective authorities for each of the three principle parts of the United Kingdom and foe the principality of Wales of many matters which Parliament was not competent to" deal with, and of many duties which Parliament was unable for want of time to perform—(cheers)—such as the subject of free schools; and he thought it would be admitted that that programme was not at all one for one Parliament, especially when it was remembered that local government reform included not only licence reform, but rating reform, valuation reform, and many other ques- tions too long to particularise. (Cheers.) He hoped the London municipal government reform would includs the handing over of the City Guilds to the new municipality, but he was doubtful if the Conservatives would be prepared to go so far aa that. What was to be the future organisation ? What power should be left to the district councils ? He believed that large powers ought to be given to the district councils, and that there would be contained in them nurseries for the common coun- cil in which minor men would be bronght out. and their future services would be secured. The scheme was not a centralising, but a de- centralising matter. No one was more opposed to centralising than he was. It was the reverse of centralisiug to transfer duties from the Home Office to the elected council of the people. Surely it was not centralisation to take the gas and water supply of London from the hands of a Parliament who had been very negligent of their interests in the past, and to band them over to the elected representatives. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the reform of the City Guilds, the com- panies were given a chance of accepting the very moderate report of the Royal Commission, and they did not take advantage of the offer. He did not think that that offer should be renewed. It was far better that the control of the disposable portion of those funds should be vested in the future municipal council of the town. (Hear, hear.) The various bills for the re- form of local government, both in the metropolis, and still more throughout the country, would give to English constructive Radicalism a great chance to secure the affection of the people of this country. The right hon. gentleman compared the local government of England with the self-govern- ment of the colonies and European countries, and showed that we were somewhat behind them in that respect. Radical spbakers had been very bitterly attacked by Conservative speaker8 during the last few weeks by pointing out to the rural labourers of England that they were likely to be in some way gainers by the reform of local government. Surely it was true, and if it was true, he could not see that it was very wicked to point it out upon public platforms. (Hear, hear.) In speaking on the land question, no one had proposed that property should be taken without paying for it, and surely that declaration ought to put an end to the talk about public plunder. It was not suggested to the labourer that they f should take example by those who may have, for instance, stolen strips of common, Ac. (Laughter, and cheerq.) The right hon. gentle- man twitted Sir M. Hicks-Beach in speaking of Lord Salisbury as chairman of the iJoyal Com- mission on Workmen's Dwellings. With regard to Ireland no one could agree with the system of governing the country by nominated boards. They were told that the Irish people would not accept the proposed changes, but surely they ought not to continue nominated boards merely because the change did not go far enough for the Irish people. At all events by offerirg the change they would cease to be obliged to defend an utterly indefensible system, which had been continued so long that any possible remedies seemed to come too late. But try them at this moment and see whether trying them could not produce some good. (Cheers.) He did not agree with Mr Gladstone on two subjects in his manifesto, namely, the subjects of free schools and the reform of the House of Lords. He was very glad Mr Glad. stone had reserved his opinion upon free schools, because he (the speaker) was not convinced by the arguments which he had brought forward. Payment by fees was not the ordinary mode of paying for public services in the country, and it must be remembered that the choice was not as between the general payment of fees and free schools, but as between free schools and a system under which there were large and increasing remissions of fees by guardians. If those who supported denominational schools wished to make terms in view of the adoption of the free schools system, they had better make them known aft once, for he was satisfied that the country would folloiv the example, in that matter, of the Jcou tinent and of the United States. (Cheers.) He, however, frankly admitted that until there was a readjustment of imperial and local taxation, which must come in connection with the Local Government Bill, they could not hope to provide the additional cost of the complete freeing of the schoois out of the pockets of the ratepayers. It could be dona by the utilisation of endowments by using publio funds at present not applied to the highest or best advantage, or by the transfer of some tax at present imperial, but capable in its nature of being locally connected. The necessity for the measure, however, was above these points of P detail. He did not quite understand what Mr Gladstone meant by the reconstitution of the House and Lords, and if wealth was to be con- sidered in it he should like to know whether poverty bad not an even greater claim to con- sideration. (Cheers.) He should oppose to the utmost any reconstitution of the House of Lords as had yet been put forward, and that opinion was shared by Mr Chamberlain and Mr Morley. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He did not know whether the majority of the Liberal party was, as he was, in favour of a single chamber, but he was certain they would not agree to any of the proposals that had been hitherto suggested. Any such reconstitution would leave the chamber so constituted as likely to be opposed to the majority of the House of Commons on the new questions to come forward at the present time, and as likely to share the views of the present House of Lords in regard to the land question, and the question of the freeing of the Church from State control. But with prudence, on the part of the House of Lords, the question of the reform of that body would very likely not be raised in the next Parliament. He was convinced that the majority of Liberals would be found to favour the principle of free schools. The allotment question staod on a very different footing, and was one that called for immediate settlement. He had no doubt of the acceptance of the principle by the party, and those who had long struggled for the more rapid progress of opinion within the party were about, he believed, to receive a satisfaction which had too long and too often been denied. (Loud cheers.) A vote of confidence in Sir Charles Dilke closed the meeting.
-MR. H. GLADSTONE AND IRELAND.
MR. H. GLADSTONE AND IRE- LAND. Mr Herbert Gladstone addressed a great meeting of Liberals at the Town-hall, Kidder- minster, 011 Tuesday night. He maintained that the Midlothian manifesto supplied Liberals with work of firat-ciass importance, which would occupy them for several years, and upon which they were completely united. He distrusted modern Toryism with regard to Ireland, and de- clared that if full justice was to be done to that country a strong Liberal Government was india pensabje. There were dangers threatening them in the future; but he for one took a cheerful view of that future, believing "that Liberalism would administer the law in the three countries fairly and firmly.
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South Wales Notes. THE opposition among the Roath residents to the obnoxious monstrosity with which it is proposed to spoil one of the best road spaces in Cardiff, and to damage materially the surrounding property, continues to grow. I have spoken to several well-known resi- dents to-day, and they are unanimous in their outcry against the project. Why on earth," said one of the moat energetic to me, "have they fixed on that spot of all others ? What is their principle of selection 'I Do they think their mission is to do a maximum of harm with it minimum of labour I Do they really understand the full and deep stupidity of such a proceeding ? If they do, then by all means let them recant if they don't, then for goodness' sake let the electors get rid of them without delay." I tried to calm the speaker, and pointed out the advantages of a soothing and dove-like demeanour. But lie grew worse and stormed violently, refusing to be comforted. I don't see the value of quite so much feeling, and regard it perhaps rather in the light of wasted energy but I J can fully understand why the action of the authorities should give rise to much aritago, nism, and that that may lead to g aeter. mined and well-organised opposition. zn I REFERRED recently to the proceedings which a Cardiff correspondent described as having taken place in May-street. I have had an intimation from a resident that the attention drawn to the subject had the effect of keeping matters a little quieter fur a time, and thut there was a strong hope that at least one of the black spots would be removed. I do not kfiow whether that most desirable end has been gained, but at any, rate the question should not be allowed to rest until the matter is brought to a satisfactory conclusion. I see that the secretary of the central vigilance committee has written suggesting to your correspondent that a local committee should be formed to take the affair in hand. There can be no doubt that it would-be a good thing, providing the members of it will take up the work in earnest. The great enemy of such move- ments is apathy there is all the show of something being done, and none of the reality." Then the result is more mis- chievous than anything else. But such a body can do good work by waking up the authorities, and keeping their eyes open when once they are awake. I DOUBT whether the condition of the low ciass property in Merthyr will be much benefited by the proceedings wliiehfti' i re being taken in the poiice-court. Ultra seems a want of energy in the affair a kind of half-heartedness which is sure to bring its own reward of poor results. All kinds of little difficulties seem to be raised, and it is almost as if there were a disposi- tion to let the owners of unhealthy 1 ng dwellings down easily. For instance, Mr Bishop did not allow costs in a case, because, as the proceedings had only been taken after a neglect of years, the parish ought to bear some of the qpat. This means that because the owners have not done their duty for a long term of years, now the ratepayers are to be called upon to pay the cost of bringing them to a sense of z, z;1 their duty. They have profited wrongfully for a number of years, and therefore are partly in the right in doing wrong. If this is not ridiculous, I should like to know what is. The proceedings were not taken without notices having been served and because the owners refused to obey them, the rate- payers have to bear the cost of their conturaaciousnesa If FROM Rhondda Valley comes an earnest cry for more light." The most intelligent of the workmen there are anxious for advanced facilities for scientific acquirement, and one of them has put the case with much force of fact, and appealed to the local school board to take the matter into earnest con- sideration. Why, they ask, should not the collier youths be enabled to compete for the South Kensington examinations, or be stimu- lated by salutary help and encouragement to qualify for those scholarships which founders have instituted, in many instances, on their behalf ? Why should they not be given aids to attain the position of inspectors and managers at ironworks and collieries ? The knowledge of these officials is at present limited enough. "Why is it," inquired a Government inspector of a sub- oliicial on a certain occasion, "that a colliery gives out more gas now and again than at other times?'' "Because some door or other is left open," was the sapient reply. Why is it," was inquired on another occasion of an overman, that carbonic acid gas remains so close to the ground t' "I don't know," answered the nonplussed; but this I do know, that you shall not have 'too much' for your work." With him the science of wage superseded the science of "gases." I trust that those in authority will accord generous response to the demand from the Rhondda people for liberal assist- ance in the promotion of intellectual en- lightenment. Ouit Liverpool fellow countrymen are practical in their patriotism. Cannot we in South Wales, with our healthy sentiment, take a leaf our of their books ? There, on the borders of the Mersey, a national Welsh organisation has been established, not for the purpose of rescuing nonentities out of oblivion, but to mutually subserve objects of culture. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Lord Aberdare, Mr Matthew Arnold. Mr Lev/is Morris, Professor Rhys, Mr Mackenna Hughes, and other men who are of, and who "love, our nation," are amongst the vice-presidents, and these are under the presidential leader- ship of Lord Mostyn. Mr Lewis Morris is to deliver the inaugural address next Thursday night, and Professor Meyer and several eminent men will give the society the beneiiu of their services. I commend the precedent to the notice of the gentlemen who choose to pose nearer home in the garb of patriots, but who appear to concentrate their energies mainly upon either matters which affect the solvency of the exchequer, or some magulloq ueut cesthetic crotchet. THE necessity for the, constant use of discretion and obedience to rules in mines is so urgent, that every offence against the rules deserves to be adequately punished. So slight an act may cost a human life or many lives, that wilful negligence or wrong-doing ought to be viewed with great seriousness. In a case heard at Merthyr a man was proved to have endangered the life of a fellow-workman by giving a. signal for the cnge to be drawn up at a moment, when one of the men was in actual danger of being dashed to pieces in consequence. This was caused by his giving a signal on the "knocker," an act which he had no right to do. The bench fined the defendant forty shillings. It was an aggravated case inasmuch as the man was actually thrown to the ground, and had the cage gune a foot higher he would have been dashed to pieces against the tim- bers. Such an offence is a very grave one, and it must be confessed that a slight fine seems hardly likely to engender that respect for the regulations of tho mine which is necessary, if any check upon this description of accidents is to be maintained. I think this is the view which the majority of my collier friends would take. I
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EDITORIAL NOTES. I Now that the elections are within measur- able .distance, political activity is beginning to assume some very curious phases. The ordinary methods of argument and persua- sion as the heat of controversy intensifies are in danger of being usurped by procedures the morality of which is questionable. The magnitude of the coming struggle has aroused the spirit of party jealousy to an extint taafc was perhaps never before ex- ceeded in this country, and multiplied the weapons and wiles of those who are seeking the votes of the people. We have heard of the episcopal rebuke administered to a clergyman who recently advised his flock to promise what they liked to inquisitive and tyrannous squires and employers, but all the same to recon their votes according to their political leanings. The instinct of fear is making many parties querulous and over cautious. A mvoiriw piece of :»VJwT. >. a- t f"w.; ;1". rhetoric Just now with the Conservatives in addressing the new county voters is the assumption of a ludicrous air of solemnity in speaking of the pitfalls which surround them, the object being to inspire terror and increase doubt, much in the same way as the solicitor in a country police-court terrifies and confuses the rustic witness by solemnly warning him to be careful" and osten- tatiously writing down the evidence thus conjuring up in the mind of the witness visions of pains and penalties for an un- guarded statement, in the midst of which disorder the crafty advocate gets an answer not exactly in accordance with fact, but sufficient for his purposes. These, how- ever, are procedures which may be regarded as the amenities of party warfare when com- pared with the reprehensible practices which are attributed to some of the petty authori- ties of a local railway company. It would hardly be believed that, in these days of enlightenment, men could be found who would resort to secret intimidation of workpeople. We have been informed by a correspondent that the men in the employ of the company in question, knowing the political predilections of some of their officials, hesitate to have anything to do with the Liberal Ward Associations, but that they join the Conservative Associations without the slightest fear or misgiving. One man who had the courage of his opinions, and not only attended the meetings of the Liberal Associations in his ward, but was nominated and chosen as a member of the Liberal Three Hundred, was told by his foreman that it was foolish to take such an interest in politics, and as the result of a strong hint given him through a fellow- workman, he absented himself from the Liberal meetings afterwards, fearing that some other excuse would be found for his dismissal from his employment. Our cor- respondent says :—"Dismissal from that company means absolute ruin, we have to think of our wives and children before party activity. I shall go to the poll with clenched teeth, and record my secret vote dead against ter- rorism. I shall strike for my party and for my liberty—political liberty-and large numbers of my fellow workmen are steadily and firmly determined to do the same."
FATAL TRAP ACCIDEN1 AT , „…
FATAL TRAP ACCIDEN1 AT „ LLANEGWAD. y I.) On Monday evening, about 6.30, a shocking accident occurred on Mynyddbach, in the parish of Llanegwad. Mr John Jones, farmer, of Pantyfen, and Mrs Jones were returning home in a trap, after a day's visit to a relation, and when in a lane within a hundred yards of their home the hoiiie took fright at the sight of a white- headed calf at a gate which they passed. The spot is an extraordinarily rough place, being strewn with large stones, over which the runaway horse bolted furiously away. Jones managed to throw himself off, Luc his wife, who is a hea\y woman, was afterwards thrown violently upon the stones. One of the wheels of the vehicle came off, and the runaway hcrse did not pause until it found itself in a field, with only a portion of tho harness about him, having dashed through two gates and over a cart. Mr and Mrs Jones were conveyed home, and Dr. Jones, of Glynsothy, immediately sent for, but despite all efforts Mrs Jones succumbed to her injuries at 10.30 p.m. The husband is in a critical condition. Both parties are middle-aged people, having no children living.
CURIOUS WILL CASE AT MONMOUTH.
CURIOUS WILL CASE AT MON- MOUTH. At the Monmouth county-court on Tuesday— b 'foie his Honour Judge Owen—the action of William (otherwise Eli) V, ollett v. Job Watkins iind Annie his wife was heard. Plaintiff sought to recover possession of a cottage, garden, and otchard at Whitebrook. Mr James T. Hoggins appeared for plaintiff, and Mr B. II. Deakin, of for The case for the plaintiff was that his father, William Follett, who was the owner of the property, and who was of unsound mind, died intestate, and lie claimed as heir at Jaw. The femalo defendant was his sister. His father had been out of his mind for about 16 years. One Sunday he had dragged the officiating minister out of the pulpit three times at St. Mary's, Mon- mouth.—Mr Deakin produced a will executed by plaintiff's father, but it was not proved.—Mr Crames said the deceased was not in a state of miud to make a will.-His Honour suggested that tho case, being ono of a family dispute, should stand over for a few months in order for the will to be proved, an.d to give the plaintiff and his sister an opportunity of settling the case amicably.—Mr Deakin insisted on going on with the case, and called Joseph Pontefraefc, clerk to Mr Carter, solicitor, of Newnhain, who deposed that lIe saw the piaintilf's father sign the will in Mitcheldean poiicc-court on the 16tii of May last, and that he then appeared to be capable of doing so.—Mr Games said this bad sprung upon hifli with surprise.—Mr Deakin denied that, in- asmuch as Mr Games had been supplied with a copy of the will four months ago. Ultimately the case was adjourned, on tho plaintiff's agree- ing to pay the costs of the day.
WHAT CONSTITUTES A LODGING…
WHAT CONSTITUTES A LODGING HOUSE? At the Aberdare police-court on Tuesday, Jaboz Da vies was summoned under the 86th section of the Public Health Act, 1875, for keep- ing a lodging-house without being registered. Mr Gery prosecuted for the Aberdare Local Board of Health, and Mr Plews defended.— Inspector Thorney, inspector of lodging-houses at Aberdare, said that on the 24tii September he visited the defendant's house at 20, Dare-court, about eleven o'clock at night. He went upstairs, and in the first bedroom saw three beds with two men in two of them the other was empty. In the second room were two beds. There was a man and wire in one the other was empty. In another room ho saw five beds. In one bed there was a man and wife and two other beds had a man in each. The other two were empty. In the kitchen he saw ten men. All the men were strangers to him, and two of tnem told him they came there that night, and were on the road.-A long discussion took place as to what constituted a common lodging-house, and Mr Plews called three men and a woman lodging in the house, who said tliey had lodged there some time, and who worked in the town. They all denied that lodgers were taken in nightly, and also swore that men had been refused lodgings for a single nigvllt. -The bench considered that there was not sufficient evidence to prove that this was a common lodging-house, and dis- missed the summons. t
ICONGREGATIONAL UNION.I
CONGREGATIONAL UNION. At the first session of the Congregational Union at Hanley, on Tuesday, the Rev. John Thomas, of Liverpool, delivered the inaugural address. At night a public meeting was held. Mr W. Woodall, M.P., presided, and said there was no fear that the congregationalism of the future would be unworthy of the past. Dr. Dale and others spoke. T
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OFI SOUTH…
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF I SOUTH WALES. A public meeting, at which Lord Aberclare will preside, is intended to be held at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, on the 21st inst. Mr Henry Kicbard, M.P., has intimated his determination to be present, and it is expected that a number of other prominent gentlemen, interested in the welfare of the institution, will also attend. _n_.
THE GREAT STRIKE IN LANOA-SHIRE.
THE GREAT STRIKE IN LANOA- SHIRE. At a meeting of the Oldham Cotton Trade, on Tuesday night, the employers decided not to agree to the proposal of the operatives to accepfca 5 per cent, reduction. If the operatives wools accept a 10 per cent. reduction, and ti-ade lgit. proved within three months, the employers wouiti then reconsider the proposal for a S per cent. re- duction only. The strike which affects 20,000 ol.)eratives has continued 11 weeks. i ———-————————- J-
AMERICAN IRISHMEN AND THEij…
AMERICAN IRISHMEN AND THEij GENERAL ELECTION. At a meeting of the National League at Dublin on Tuesday, it was stated that the following telegram had been received by MrParnell from Cnicago ;—"Ten thousand Chicago Iri-hmeiij in mass meeting assembled, send 10,000 dollars for election fund, and pledge their share of fund to sustain members after election, or to aid Iriall liberty iu any way determined upon by ttM of Irelivud," 1 J