South Wales Echo

-I SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE. CARDIFF.* (SWANSEA.t NEWPORT May. Mor.: Kvu.j Hgt. Mor. Evn.| Hgt. Mor. |'Evn.|Hgt. 2 M 1 6 1 44 27 4 0 12 0 49 25 7 1 19' 1 5927 9 3 T 2 31 3 12 23 5 1 33 ;2 14)26 7 2 44! 3 25 28 10 4 W 3 47 4 19 30 7 2 50 3 23|28 3 4 01 4 32 21 0 3 T 2 31 3 12 23 5 1 33 ;2 14126 7 2 441 3 2528 10 4 W 3 47 4 19 30 7 2 50 3 23|28 3 4 01 4 32 21 0 b T 4 48 ii 17 33 2 3 62 4 21129 11 5 1! 5 30 33 7 6 !•' 5 4o 6 1135 4 4 49 5 16 31 4 5 b8i 6 24 35 9 7 S 6 37 7 256 10 5 41 6 632 2 6 5o! 7 15 37 3 8 7 25 7 4937 3 6 27 6 5232 6 7 33; S 237 8 9 M 8 10 8 33 36 10 7 13 7 3532 1 8 23: 8 46 37 3 Jioath Basin, t Prince of Wale.. Dk AlexandraDk.

C.N.FAILLING REMEDY FOR HEADACHES. KERNICK'S VEGETABLE PILLS. fOR JNDIGESTION Sold by all Chemists, &c., in 74d, ISid, and2s9d boxes BEWARE OF IMITATIONQ

# The Man About Town. I Place mix Dames They compelled attention yesterday afternoon in the neighbourhood of Cardiff Town-hall. Seldom have I seen such a congregation of pretty faces and smart dresses in the hum- drum precinct usually haunted by the patrons of the petty sessions or the loafers about the county court. Was there a bazaar,|or a flower show, or a Dorcas meeting ? Was it perchance a meeting of the Dames of the Primrose League 1 The cause of the gathering was nothing of the kind. These were the enthusiastic ladies who have been assisting the Mayoress to raise a Women's Fund to commemorate the Queen's Jubilee. Tho town, as is perhaps known, was divided into wards, and these were the matrons and maidens who had undertaken what must have been, I am sure, an arduous task. They all wore smiling faces, as they always do when they meet together, and I inferred that the radiance of countenance in this case implied groat satisfaction with the work which had been accomplished. Was that so ? If there was nothing insincere in their mutual congratulations, I am afraid the Jubilee ladies must be said to be thankful for small mercies. The total amount raised in Cardiff for the Women's Tribute to the Queen amounts to JS150, towards which the "thousand a year," suburb contri- butes the munificent sum of £ 28 9s 3d. The Mayor remarked that he had from the first predicted that the ladies of Cardiff would come to the front.. So they have as can- vassers. But where are the subscribers ? The sum raised does not represent a sovereign per head of the ladies engaged in the work of collecting. I wish they would have made it an "experience meeting." What piquant stories and odd adventures some of them could tell. It is amazing to me, considering how the country side is dotted with police-stations, and the means of communication by the means of telephone or telegraph are so complete, that the Monmouthshire police should have permitted themselves to be hoodwinked by the principals and their abettors in the two hours' prize fight near Tredegar. A correspondent, who premises that his name must not be mentioned, writes me that the contest, which he describes as of a rough and tumble character, was openly discussed in a sporting inn at Ebbw Vale on Saturday night, and was known to have been arranged at an earlier hour at Sirhowy. There were a good many spectators, he says, and they were not of the sort who keep their tongues still. The scene of the fight, moreover, was within a mile or two of both Ebbw Vale and Tredegar police stations. Nuw, there are fights and fights. The police are not supposed to be ubiquitous, and dancing at the heels of every drunken fellow who picks a quarrel and fights a round or two with the first equally bellicose roysterer who comes in his way. They are not to be held respon- sible for every trumpery broil which a penny-a-liner is unscrupulous enough to describe as a sensational riot. But there is a difference between the affray of a word and a blow and a deliberately pre-arranged meeting in the ring, to which a crowd is bidden to come, and on which heavy bets arc made. The prize fight is not a matter of five minutes' talk, and it is 'pretty well known which are the houses at which the preliminaries for these brutal affairs are settled. It seems to me to be a grave reproach to the detective department of the police force that it should almost invariably be said the police appear to have been quite igliorant of the affair." I am far from being disposed to complain of the action of the Penarth Bench, under the special circumstances, in declining to convict Captain Peters, of the Earl of Jersey, who was charged with a breach of the Merchant Shipping Act. Captain Peters seems to have cruised about for three days to try to recover the boat which was alleged to have been launched from the ship im- properly equipped, and to have done all in his power to rectify whatever blunders which is said to have been com- mitted by his officers. But the case is typical in more respects than one; and has a sadly sensational interest besides. Everyone lias read the story of how, while the Earl of Jersey was in the South Atlantic, an appren- tice fell from the rigging into the sea; how a boat was lowered, which was manned, in addition to some of the crew, with two passenger volunteers, the sons of Colonel Marray; how the boat and the young men were never afterwards heard of and the assiduous efforts of the distracted father, and his offered reward of 91,000, have to this day brought him no news. It is on the general, rather than the per. sonal, aspect of the case that my remarks will be addressed, and they are made from a personal experience gathered in many waters. Here it was charged that the boat was sent out without sufficient oars, without a tiller, and without provisions, whereas the Act requires "that every decked ship proceeding to sea from any place in the United Kingdom shall be provided with cer- tain boats, and that they shall be provided with all the requisites, so as to make them at all times ready for use." The theory of the Act is that the boats shall not be merely ornaments but always ready for use, and I will undertake to say that not, in a third of the vessels of the Mercantile Marine sailing out of the British ports is the provision of the statute literally or effectually complied with, Even in the case of the Atlantic liners, where boat drill is one of the institu- tions of the voyage, it is little better than a delusion. The men are summoned to quarters in a methodical way, at hours which old hands can always anticipate and the drill, as at present practised, does not prepare them, as a dozen instances might be cited, to act I in an emergency or a condition of panic, just the very things in regard to which discipline and regularity are most required. On the smaller boats how often is it not found that the tackle is clogged and the boats fastened to the davits, and without all essential equipment. For my part I am glad to see the Board of Trade is waking up to the question, and am only sorry that they did not select a stronger case in order to have a severe lesson taught to careless skippers. This is a note of a conversation heard at a well-known dining room at the Docks, at about two o'clock yesterday. I am glad they've got hold of that Brenon." Who's Brenon ?" Why the man that's mixed up with the Parnellite lot, and who's been libelling a London publisher." Oh I remember but you've got it mixed; he says he's been libelled by. the London pub- lisher." "Is that .lit? But it does not matter they've exposed him any way lC Didn't notice that. How?" "Why they show him to have been the go-between of Parnell and the Fenians. Daresay he's the man Farnell wrote the letter to." Thought the letter was written to Gladstone. That's what the Times said." t: No; though he's bad enough. The letter was written to an accomplice of the Invincibles." "But they say the letter was forged." "Not a bit of it; didn't they show the man's handwriting." "But was it his hand- writing? Parnell says it is a forgery." Parnell he'd say anything didn't they print his own signature?" "Don't know, indeed but about Brenon ?" Well, wasn't he going backwards and for- wards to Paris, and would'nt he be the very man to carry it?" "And does that come out in the evidence?" Can't say that it exactly comes out but you must read between tha lines, sir." With this the two well-dressed men, having finished their dinner, went away, leaving me to reflect upon the extraordinary jumble of falsities these persons had got into their heads, and to marvel that they should be regarded anywhere outside a lunatic asylum as in- telligent representatives of English opinion on any Irish question. Men of this kind seem to read the newspapers, even those of their own side, with their toe-nails, or their back hair, or their coat lappels—with any- thing but their eyes and brains. This occurred before the result of the trial was known, and when I was in doubt, in no degree as to the merits of the case, but whether a verdict for the plaintiff could possibly be obtained from a London jury. I apologise to the British institution. I crave pardon of London jurors. It had been supposed that in the metropolis anti-Irish prejudice approached something of the heat of fever and permeated every class. It is evident that it has not entered the jury box and excluded justice. I never heard of this Mr Brenon before; but a fouler libel I never came across, unless it is that which the Times makes against Mr Parnell and. Mr Dillon, and in regard to which the Govern- ment last night so miserably shirked inquiry. It would be well if one of the Welsh members would draw tiie attention u: the Committee of Privileges by a question in the House, or otherwise, to the 63,376 signatures on the 283 petitions in favour of the Establishment of the Church in Wales, with a view, of course, of causing inquiry to be made into the genuineness of the documents as expressions of qualified Welsh opinions. I have been able from time to time to point to cases in which school children of tender years have been induced to affix their signatures to these misleading memorials and letters in some of my con- temporaries have given a very much larger number of instances. It would be interest- ing to see what the result would be of such a scrutiny as that to which the committee on petitions has subjected certain bogus ad- dresses from London in favour of a continuance of the coal and wine dues. Frauds of the most barefaced character," said Sir Charles Forster, "have been perpetrated against the authority of Parliament," and an inquiry is to be made as to the circumstances under which the names were obtained. On this point there was something particularly suggestive in Mr Bradlaugh's remarks-which apply to all attempts to deceive Parliament by fictitious agitations —that he hoped the committee would be able to identify not only the man who forged the signatures to these petitions, but the man who employed him, and if he was right in his conjecture that gentleman—if that was the proper designation to give him-was the same whose name would appear on the accounts of the Corporation of the city of London as being employed by a special Committee now taking action to obtain petitions in favour of the renewal of the coal and wine dues. The Committee would be able to ascertain that there were several aldermen of the city of London who had expressed the opinion that to obtain signa- tures to a petition by payment of money was a praiseworthy course, and that in three months one gentleman received £400, moneys of the Corporation of the city of London, for receiving such petitions. In addition to the petition reported upon last week, there were others bearing the names of "Sir Michael Hicks-Beach," "Joseph Biggar," and" W. H. Smith," and another signed with the names of 13 racehorses. It is clear, in fact, that the whole subject of petitioning the House requires to be examined with exceeding gravity. o

ENGLISHMEN ARRESTED IN FRANCE. [EXCHANGE COMPANY'S TELEGRAM.] I PARIS, Tuesday.—Two Englishmen are re., ported to have been arrested near Remiremont, on the Eastern frontier, on suspicion of being German 1 spies.

STORM WARNING. I The New York Herald says that a depression is now east of Cape .act', and will probably move E.N.E., and disturb the woatlier on the westeru I Uritisfi coasts between the nights of the 4th and 6th inst. 6th in st. I

PLATING AT BALL IN THE STREET. — At tha Aberdare police-court on Tuesday—before Mr North, Mr R.hyf>, and Mr D. P. DA vies—Morgan Williams, Howel! I.ewip, AND Rees Price, BOYA, were summoned by P.C, Heed for persistently playing at ball in Jeffrey-street, on the 23rd April,—They were each fined 5s and coats.

The Ameer's Defeat. THE NEWS CONFIRMED. [REUTEU'S TELEGRAM. 1 CALCUTTA, Wednesday.—The Calcutta English- man confirms the report of the defeat of the Ameer's troops by the Shinvvaries, who now hold the Khyber Pass and the neighbouring hills. The journal adds that the Indian papers have exagger- ated the losses sustained by the insurgents, and that the attack of the Ghilzais was more or less successful. Cabul is declared to be in need of troops.

The Political Trials in Russia. -1- SEVEN PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH. I TIMES TELTtfrRAHT.1 ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday Nignt.-The political trial came to a close yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, and the court, after ft short delibera- tion, delivered sentence- of Qcath by hanging against seven of the accused, and condemned the other eight to various terms of imprisonment with hard labour from twenty years downwards. Those condemned to death are ail men. Possibly the punishment will be mitigated in several cases by the clemency oi the Czar, who, it is said, has ordered a full stenograph report of the proceed- ings to be laid before him.

CURIOUS SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENT. Action to Establish a Child's Legitimacy. In the Probate Court yesterday, before the Lord Chief Justice and Mr Justice Butt, the arguments in the case of Bosvile v. Attorney- General (Bosvile and others cited) were concluded. It will be recollected that the application was one for a new trial, in order that the legitimacy of Arthur Bolle Bosvile might be pronounced under the provisions of the Legitimacy Declaration Act. The case was originally heard before Sir J. Hannen and a jury, the verdict being against the legitimacy of the infant. Mrs Bosvile eJoped from her husband's roof with a Mr Craven on he 30th of June, 1834, and the infant, whose legitimacy was questioned, was born 276 days after Mrs Bosvile left her husband's roof.—Mr Gully having concluded his argument for the new trial, Mr Ram followed on the same side. He contended there had been misdirection to the jury by the learned judge, and that given the access between husband and wife, there was a presump- tion in law that Mr Bosvile should be the father of the child in regard to the period at which it was born.—The Lord Chief Justice pointed out the improbability of this apart from the moral con- sideration?, which could not be overlooked.—In answer to that Mr Ram said Mrs Bosvile and Mr Uraven remained together for about six weeks, and that, in all the circumstances, there was nothing to show it to be impossible that Mr Bos- vile was the father of the child, because he lived with Mrs Bosvile down to the period of her elope- ment.—Sir C. Russell, on tha part of Mr Thomas Bosvile, one of the parties cited, opposed the application for a re-hearing of the case. He contended that the added forces of a number of improbabilities added together one on the top of the other were strongly against the presumption that Mr Bosvile was the father of the child. According to the law as it stood, neither Mr nor Mrs Bosvile could be called to give evidence, but they had it already in evid- ence that on the 30th of June, 1684, she eloped in the middle of the day with Mr Craven, who had for some time been a visitor to the house. A woman did not suddenly elope with a man with whom she had not had a pre- vious intrigue, and in the first letter that Mrs Bosvile wrote she said that she was de- termined never to leave the man, "who I really find that I am devoted to, and always have been." This pointed to an affection, and probably an inti- macy, existing between them for a considerable time. During the hearing of the divorce case the question arose as to the alimony, and at that time Mrs Bosvile was some six months towards her confinement, and yet not one syllable was uttered or written that her claim to alimony would be strengthened if the husband was really the father of the child. In addition to this the very month before her confinement she wrote to her husband, and referrred to the girl of the mar- riage as the only link of the past, and all that was left of their short married life."—Mr Justice Butt: But we cannot take it as a declaration of her own that the child was not her husband's. It is only admissible as evidence of con- duct.—Sir C. Russell, in conclusion, insisted that there had been no misdirection on the part of the learned judge, and that there was ample evidence to support the finding of the jury. If there were prejudices, they were prejudices on both sides, and under all the circumstances of the case there was no reason to disturb the verdict at which twelve sensible men had arrived.—Mr Inderwick, Q.C., briefly supplemented Sir C. Russell's arguments, and Mr Ram replied on the whole case.—The Lord Chief Justice said it was a case that raised some important and minute points, and they would, therefore, take time to consider their judgment.

_n_ ARTFUL FRAUDS BY A GIRL. A remarkable case of swindling has just been tried at Lyons. The accused was a young woman of respectable appearance, who was in the habit of going to confession to the priests attached to the different churches in the city, and, after she had received the customary absolution at their hands, of making an appeal for pecuniary assistance on the ground that she was destitute and wanted to get back to her family at l,ons le Saulnier, whence she had been enticed away by a man who had seducedber. The appeal wasinevery case successful, and the artful damsel sometimes suc- ceeded in obtaining sums of 20 francs from philan- thropic father confessors, who took for granted that their fair and fervent penitent was telling the truth. One of the ecclesiastics, however, con- ceived the notion of writing to the person at Lons le Saulnier who had been represented by the repentant Magdalen as her father. The reply came, of course, that the woman was totally unknown to the person in question. The accused was then arrested, and in the course of her trial made charges of a certain nature against the priests; but these were proved to be unfounded. She was condemned to a short period of imprison- ment.

THE RUSSIAN FLEET IN THE PACIFIC. The decision of the Russian Admiralty to in- crease their fleet in the Pacific during this month is somewhat remarkable. One armoured frigate, two clippers, and two gunboats are to sail from the Baltic for Vladivostock in the course of the present month. Russia will then have a fleet of 12 men-of-war in the North Pacific, consisting of three ironclad frigates, Duke of Edinburgh Dmitri Donskoi, and Vladimir Monomachus, the corvette Vitiaz, the clippers Naiezdnik, Razboinik, Opritchnik, and Djigit, and the gunboats Sivoutch, Bobr, Corean, and Mandjour. I

The recent experiments with tricycles and the "twelve men machine" at Aldershot have been more successful even than was anticipated, and a number of fresh machines have beeu ordeted.

I The Cardiff Dog Fight. I I SULLIVAN BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. At the Cardiff police-court this morn- ing before Dr H. J. Paine James Sullivan, a thick-set young fellow of 24, was charged on a warrant with cruelly ill- treating and torturing a DO? on the 24th of April. --Air Hemingway, the chief constable, stated that the prisoner was the owner of the winning dog Spring, and resided ,it 7, Bedford -place, Cardiff. When he found the police were making inquiries for him he absconded—in the first case, to Bridg- end, and then to Ogmore, where be was appre- hended last night by Inspector Cox.—P.C. H. Nipper gave evidence that on Sunday morning, April 24th, be saw the prisoner in company with others concerned in the dog fight in Wood- viile-road.—Sullivan was remanded until Friday, and Mr Hemingway opposed bail unless upon substantial security. -The bench decided to allow prisoner out on bail on his recognizances of £ 25 and two others of £ 12 10s each.

| Buying a Stolen Horse. Curious- Dilemma in Merthyr. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE "ECHO."1 At Merthyr police-court this morning, a resident in the locality applied to the stipendia.ry for advice. He had bought a stolen horse. What was he to do? He had been ill; he could not afford to keep it, and the man of whom he bought it-a re- spectable tradesman—would not take it back. The Magistrates' Clerk said if the owner would not take it back be had better sell it. The applicant said he did not know when he bought it that it was stolen, and even now he did not know whose property it was.—The Stipendiary But you have worked the horse, I suppose ?—Applicant replied that he had not, as the police told him not to do so—Superintendent Thomas He was told not to overwork the horse.—Applicant wanted to know who ought to pay for the horse's keep.-The Stipendiary said that as be had bought the horso it was his business to feed it. His best course was to sell the horse, keep the assets in hand for the real owner, and then take pro- ceedings in the county court against the last ven- dor. If he met with loss, that was his penalty for having been unfortunate enough to buy a stolen steed.

Disturbances at Levino'sl New Hall. I • magisterial Comments on the Building. An Official Survey Ordered, At the Cardiff Police-court, to-day, before Dr H. J. Paine, a young man named John Winstone, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Queen-street, on the 3rd inst. Mr Hemingway said that the prisoner had been causing a disturbance at Levino's New Hall, and that Mr Levino bad frequently com- plained about these occurrences. He stated that men were sent to create a row by Mr Rodney, the manager of the music-hall, and he desired police protection. On this occasion, howiver, when the man was apprehended, Mr Levino de- clined to formulate a charge against him, and would not appear in court as a witness. He (Mr Hemingway) told Mr Levino that, as his place of amusement was not licensed, if be opened it and charged for admission he did so at hir own risk. Another hall had been opened in the town, namely, the Colonial Hall, on the same conditions, and he had also written to the proprietor in similar terms. As it happened Mr Levino had great difficulty in keeping order in his hall. Dr Paine said that he took it, if Mr Levino's Hall could not be conducted without disorder, then it would be necessary that no perform- ance should take place there until a proper .licence had been obtained. This would ensure the hall being properly con- ducted. Another thing; be was told that the building as a structure was unsafe, and this was an additional reason why, for the safety of the public, no disorder should tike place in a hall calculated to hold 1,500 persons. Should a dis- turbance occur when the place was crowded, it might lead to very serious consequences. He thought, therefore, that a proper report should be made to the magistrates, and when a licence was asked for, if he were on the committee, he would refuse to grant any licence until perfectly satisfied that the building was a safe one. Mr Hemingway: I have myself heard some re- marks passed about the building, and I have written two letters to Mr Harper, the borough engineer, upon it, asking him to make an exami- nation of the premises before a licence is applied engineer, upon it, asking him to make an exami- nation of the premises before a licence is applied for. Dr Paine: The sooner it is done the better. There might be a serious loss of life in the building were it to collapse. The magistrates should be informed whether the structure is safe or not. Mr Hemingway: Your orders shall be carried out, sir. At this stage the case was adjourned until the arrival of another magistrate, and Dr INiiie requested Mr H. Morgan Rees (the deputy-magis- trates' clerk) to look up the Local Act upon the question. Later on Mr Griffith Phillips came on the bench, and the hearing of the case was resumed. Dr Paine said it appeared to him that Mr Levino acted in a curious manner. He made application to the police for the assistance of the police in maintaining order in his hall, the police constables were sent, a man who was creating a disturbance was apprehended, and then Mr Levino refused to cor <e forward and prefer the charge. He would remand the case until Friday, so that Mr Levino may attend and explain his extraordinary conduct. The Chief Constable: Mr Levino says these men are sent by Mr Rodney to annoy him. Dr Paine •. We are not inquiring into who sent the prisoner. If order is to be preserved steps should be taken for the purpose by those concerned. Prisoner: I only came on shore at six o'clock last night. Supt. Price gave evidence that shortly before 10 last evening the prisoner was brought into the police-station.—He was drunk, and was charged with being disorderly at Levino's Hall. A later entry in the charge book showed that Mr Levino refused to sign the charge. After some further consultation, the bench decided to dismiss the case against Winstone, who was accordingly liberated.

ii ii MR CHAMBERLAIN RETURNS SOUTH. A large crowd in the Glasgow Caledonian station witnessed the departure of Mr Chamberlain for Birmingham this morning. In response to cries for a speech, he merely shook his head saying, conversationally, that the people had followed their old and trusted leader, but they were beginning now to realise their position and judge for themselves. H^ believed the people of Scot- land were rapidly adopting the Unionist view. Mr Jesse Collings accompanied Mr Chamberlain. Cheers and some booting greeted their departure. Proposed Visit to Ireland, I The Daily News says —The dissentient Liberals of Ulster are making arrangements for holding in Belfast, during the Whitsuntide recess, a great demonstration, in which Mr Chamberlain will be invited to take the principal part.

——— A MELANCHOLY CONCIDENCE. I Sir Robert Vivian, G.C.B., died yesterday at Brighton at the age of 85. The body of Lady Vivian, who died a few days previously, was lying in the same house awaiting interment. Both Sir Robert and Lady Vivian will now be buried together in a few days at Torquay Cemetery,

Alleged Outrage on Board a Barque. "BUCKING" DRUNKEN MEN. The Crew Paraded in Court. t At Newport borough police-court, to-d,,Yl Daniel Jenkins, second mate on the barqUe I Bhotan, belonging to Messrs Bates and Liverpool, was charged under a warrant io assaulting and wounding Henry Schiffendecker^ and also with assaulting Nicholas Simmons:111 Win. Daley.—Mr Lyndon Moore, whu for the complainants, said that the men wiloin represented were shipped at Antwerp on the 25 ult., and went on board more or less drunk. As the vessel was going down the river the and the first mate pulled the men and A ^°UR^,G man, a sailmaker, out of their BUU^ and treated them most UNMERCIFUL' first with their fists and afterwards with belay' pins. Simmons, who was helplessly drunk, \filS afterwards "bucked;a i)r(,eertg which wa described as consisting of being handcuffed an b then held down by a capstan bar being run THROW the cutfs and under the thighs. Schiffendeck'^ a German, who was not so drunk, was ordered draw water with a drop bucket. Because HE not very spry at the work, he also was stru down by the prisoner with a belaying pin; afterwards kicked on the legs, which rendei him lame. Two days afterwards, the prison again kicked the German on the legs. D,JeY, A coloured man, against whomnocharge of insobrie J was made, seeing the sailmaker and Siniraovo lying ou the deck bleeding and insensible, WELV twice aft to the captain, but the first mate STRU.CH him with a club. Daley seized a belaying-pin which to defend himself, whereupon the prisoner got hold of it, the captain held revolver at the man's head, and was belaboured with the weapon by two mates until his clothing became sa Lurst" with blood. The first mate had absconded, the sailmaker was so seriously hurt that he now in Newport Infirmary. Mr C. R. Lyne, who appeared for the said the captain would have been present at court but that he was summoned to Liverpool- The bench, considering the condition of » sailmztker in the Infirmary, and the absence Qd the captain, who, it was asserted, bad coui,itenallco the brutality, decided to adjourn the case UN*1 Monday. The injured men and tbeir six witnesses werE! afterwards paraded in court. Daley had six cl;1ts in his head, and Simmons produced a s!1ir saturated with blood. All of them had cuts and scars on their faces. The Mayor directed that suitable provision should be made for them, 1\5 they were stated to be destitute. Mr Moon asked that the Public PROSECUTE might be communicated with in regard to case, which was a flagrant one..T EA captains, a9 Mr Justice Wills lately said, seemed to THIFL £ that the law was not strong enough or loug enoug to reach them. The Magistrates' Clerk said there was flOG enough at present before the court for him to' communicate with the Pub ic Prosecutor.

POST-OFFICE ROBBERY IN FRANCE. A Woman Vioiated and Murdered- The trial of three men, named Gillard, Dunioin* and Lemoine, accused of having murdered young woman who had charge of the post-office at Beauval, has been adjourned until the neJCt assizes, so as to give the lunacy doctors an OPPO'J tunity of further examining Giilard, the prsncp* criminal. Gillard states that he is a native of Quebec, in Canada, and has had, according to hig own account, an eventful career. He lived 19 Japan, and married a Japanese woman, who died; he joined the African Legion, and afterward3 became a sea cook, serving in .that capacity ill the flagship of the late Admiral Courbet. THE murder which has been attributed to him W1'3 committed in a most revolting mauner. Th8 young woman who had charge of the Beauval post-office was going to bed, when the murderer came in through a hole which he had made in the wall of the little building, situated in a lovely pAR" of the town. She was first half killed by a blow from a hatchet, and then violated. AFTEF that the murderer inflicted further injuries 011 her, and while she was dying in the greatest agony, during which she tore handfuls of H»LF from her head he plundered the drawers of the post-office. Gillard had been eean by somebody in the locality previously to the murder, and on the morrow he and his two companions, DUMONT and Lemoine, were arrested while endeavouring to sell postage stamps in a public-house. Gillard refused to speak a word during his trial but although he has been handed over to the doctors for further examination, he is believed to b9 shamming.

-+- POISONING BY A WIFE. A very dramatic case has just been tried at tll" Orne Assizes. On New Year's Day a farmet' named Fourcauit, only twenty-eight years of age, died at St Leonard after a few days' illness. l was ascertained that in November the farmer had summarily dismissed a young servant named Aileron, a boy only fifteen and a half years oldo and that the woman had from that hour deter. mined on getting rid of her husband. In the middle of December Madame Fourcauit bought sorne arsenic at a chemist's in Argentan for the purpose of killing rate, as she said, but on December 20th she put half the poison she had bought in her HOS* band's soup. He ate the soup without noticing anything wrong about it, but soon afterwards WAf taken very ill, and died some days later in great suffering. During her husband's short illness the woman displayed the most revolting cynicism. She had sent for voung Aileron, with whom, as the farmer lay dying, she renewed her intrigue. Aftet she was arrested Madame Foureault made a full confession, but without the slightest emotion OF remorse. The murderess has been sentenced to hard labour for life.

AN INCIDENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. The LONDON correspondent of the LIVERPOOL Daily Post writes:—Stranger than fiction. friend of mine, a lady, and her daughter were IN Westminster Abbey recently, towards the close 0* a dusky day. They were gazing on one of the broad flat tombstones of which the pavement of tbe nave is composed, when suddenly it began gently to heave upwards like a heavy and UNWIELDY trap door. They shrunk back, as a last century writer would have said, in some disorder," and at first were rather more than less frighteneo when a very grimy man emerged from the depths. It was a gruesome sight in the evening gloom of sC ancient fane. But a moment's reflection suffiCEA to convince mamma and daughter that the JDonu- mental flagstone had been utilised as a practical manhole, and that the apparition was that of labourer who had been exploring a flue OR a vault.

AN ECCENTRIC VISITOR. The Nottingham magistrates yesterday ra manded a man named Thomas Ball, WHO HA during the night entered the bouse of A nJan named Law by removing the cellar grate. lIe went upstairs into the bedroom, and, having UN pressed, got into the bed in which Law and • wife were sleeping. Mrs Law was awakened. aroused her husband, and Ball, who was a COrn" plete stranger, then ran downstairs and left te house by the way he had entered it, leaving his clothes in the bedroom. He was afterwards appre- hended in an outhouse.