South Wales Echo

SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE. I CARDIFF.* SWANSEA.t NEWPORT Dec Mor.1 Evn.j Hgt. Mor. Evn.J Hgt.'Mor.: Evn.iHgt. 12 M 4 19 4 49 33 1 3 23 3 53 U 11 4 32 5 2 33 6 13 T 5 19 5 4734 10 4 23 4 51 30 11 5 32 h 035 3 14 W 6 14 6 42 3b 9 5 19 5 & 31 6 6 27 6 5 36 2 lb T 7 8 7 33 36 0 6 12 6 34 31 8 7 21 7 46 36 5 16 F 7 57 8 19 3o 7 7 0 7 2231 4 8 10 8 3236 0 17 S 8 40 9 1 b4 6 7 43 8 5 30 6 8 53 9 14 34 11 18 S 9 21 9 4133 2 8 23 8 49 ,<9 3 9 34 9 54 33 7 19 M 10 010 2031 4 9 11 9 3028 010 1310 3331 9 I'oath Basin. tPrince of Wales Dk {Alexandra Dk.

The Man About Town. The Cardiff Cattle Show received me, possibly without the knowledge of the authorites, at the earliest possible hour in the morning. Before 10 o'clock I had prowled around the capitally arranged pens, and admired to my heart's content the splendid beasts which had been brought from far and near to delight us in the Christmas Show. The remarkably successful exhibition shows what a little effort will do. This is the second of the series, I believe, and I could truly say that, for an exhibition of fat stock, it throws into the shade the Bridgend and Cowbridge Shows, and the exhibition of prime cattle at Lord Tredegar's Show in the Market-hall of Newport. ♦ My readers will not look to me, I think, for descriptions of billiard-board backs, padded loins, well-trimmed ribs, and meaty haunches, Those are technicalities which I leave to the bucolic reporter, who knows more about the points of an animal than I do. I was, nevertheless, a sufficient lover of the picturesque to mark some of the creatures which were bound to command admiration. There was the splendid Champion, which has been a prize-taker all along, and which Mr Stratton has bred for Mr Poole to purchase. There were also many fine specimens of Hereford cows and steers, and some of the best examples I have seen for a long time df the truly home-grown pigs. The Mayor, I notice, called attention to the fact that the entries numbered 130 as compared with 118 last year and I would supplement his remark by the statement that the exhibits were all round and altogether better in regard to every test of "condition" than they were twelve months ago. You shall not have the boom all to yourself," says Newport, and on behalf of Cardiff I may say that we do not begrudge Newport any benefit it can gain or claim in the increasingly keen competition between the Bristol Channel ports. From Swansea town to Gloucester city the idea runs that everything which brings grist to he mill on our waterway is so much additional profit to all of us who live upon the fruitful shore. While we are going ahead by leaps and bounds, we are in the happy position of being able to congratulate and encourage our neighbours on either side in their attempts, even if they forestall us, to make their towns seats of manufacturing industry. Newport, no doubt, is at a disadvantage as compared with Cardiff. The navigation of our drain" is bad but the navigation of the Usk is worse. Sir George Jilliot and his financial companions have effected a great change within the last eighteen years but the tortuosity of the river, and its silt, and its nasty outlet to the channel, play the deuce with the plans of the best engineer, and would make ducks and drakes of the money of a richer man than Sir George. + But; as I have said, Newport is boom- ing" just now. There are not so md.ny rail- way schemes on hand there as there are here. The new railway schemes, in fact, are regarded in Newport as the reverse of favourable to its own interests. I had to listen yesterday to reproaches, which went far over my head, about the project of the Rhymney to connect with the Barry line, and the proposal of the Monmouthshire Valley line to run into the Roath Dock. "My dear Mr Alderman," I said, "you have four lines converging here, and where- fore should you grumble 1" The reply was significant, and of good cheer to Cardiff shippers. You get the whip hand of us somehow," and the sentence concluded with a phrase which, I thought, sounded like a malediction. ♦ But the boom is on there can be no doubt about that. Some weeks ago a num- ber of agriculturists met together to discuss the ways and means of dispensing with the middleman in the sale of machinery, and cattle cake, and imported manure. Mr Stratton could tell you better than I can what has come of the meeting. I was at one with the promoters; but I thought that they lacked courage. They were entitled to do what they liked about their own pur- chases; but they ought, I thought, to have hit upon some means of carrying their products to the doors of the consumers. This, 1 was told yesterday, by a substantial farmer, is the very objecc he and his friends are seeking. My informant has an idea. that the Monmouthshire breeders can make markets of their own at Cardiff and Glou- cester and Lydney, and send thither their beef and mutton at a profitable price to them, and at a price which shall seem to the purchaser to be remarkably cheap. There is another trade for which, as I understand, the capital is ready, and an energetic attempt is to be made to push it. It is thought that Newport ought no longer to be dependent upon other and further inland towns for its food-stufts-for example, corn, and flour, and bacon, and cheese. These commodities might as well go to Newport as to Bristol or Gloucester, or the Thames or the Mersey. The syndicate I heard of yesterday are prepared to put down a good many thousand pounds to prepare the way for an import trade in the raw material of our food, which will fill the holds of vessels that take out steam coal or steel rails to America, and would otherwise come empty away. # if. There are other signs of the development of Newport, which 1 should have liked to talk of, but they were described sufficiently fully in yesterday's paper. Only a few sentences need to be added to make the tale complete. The friend who showed me over the ground which has been selected by the directors of the Sowerby-Elliston Glass Company tells me that the firm are going to transfer a large part of their business to the banks of the Usk, and that they will create a new industry which will give employment to at least 100 hands. Then there are the Cement Works. I suppose we all know the history of Sir George Elliot's present, or promised present, to the industries of Newport. It is not my disposition, however, to look a gift horso in the mouth. Sir George, no doubt, is serving his own interest but you must let the say that he is also serving the town. A the story of the origin of the work, as I he&fd it, is worth relating. The bluff baronet, so the story goes, was inspecting his works, and came across a lot of barrels, ox it might be heaps, of cement. He found tor his amazement that the importation came from London, and instantly said—I will leave out the adjectives—" We will make thie on our own ground." I am sorry that I am obliged to leave out Sir George's epithets. You may take my word for it that they were racy of the soil the miner delves in. Although the Llanelly murder is still sub judice, and I should be loth to say a word to prejudge the case against the accused man, I cannot refrain from telling the story of the "Executioner on the Job." It is pretty well known that there is an amateur hangman in Carmarthenshire who seeks to make himself famous by his performances on the gallows. He knows something of surgery, I believe, and has a theory with regard to the severing of the thin-spun thread of life which he wants to put into practice. He wished to bo appointed suc- cessor to Calcraft; he distrusted Bartholemew Binns he is jealous of Berry and has, I am told, been known to offer a large sum of money to be permitted the oppor- tunity of exercising his skill in the ghastly business in which he believes himself to be an adept. It costs the Sheriff, I am in- formed, about 220 to conduct an execution, though, I suppose, his outlay is repaid him from the county funds. But £20 is a trifle to the amateur executioner, and he is willing to spend as much to get a chance of putting his theory into practice, and trying his 'prentice hand. "A.J. G., who writes to tell me that I do not know anything about the state of the weather in Cornwall, shall be confounded by the evidence I am able to produce from an independent source. My remarks, it may be remembered, had reference to the attrac- tions, in weather and bloom, in the sight of greenery and the sound of birds, the western county offers to the dwellers in our murky and humid air. I know the land well, or I should not have written of it as I did but I am not sorry that my remarks are challenged since I now have the excuse of publishing a glowing description of Pen- zance in December, which entirely confirms all I said. "It seemed a summer's day," says the writer, when we entered Penzance in the second week of December, and drove past rows of cottages covered with geraniums, fuchsias, and roses, to the home we had taken for the winter. There we found our walls covered with myrtles, magnolias, and roses, which, as well as a hedge of fuchsias, gigantic pampas grasses and ferns, and great trees of hydrangeas, remained in their full beauty until a slight frost damaged them; but so sheltered is the garden that cinerarias, calceolarias, salvias, arums, and camellias flourish outside all the winter." The writer con- tinues her description of herwinter Paradise above Gulval in the Garden of Cornwall but I have only space for one other sugges- tive extract:—"A walk along any of the numerous footpaths is full of interest; acres and acres of broccolies, of fruit trees, and of flowers; dozens of hothouses full of cucum- bers, grapes, and tomatoes; women in large white bonnets busy cutting and packing the broccolies. Stroll on by this noisy brook as its crystal waters rush over rocks and shallows towards the Gul- l' val Iceworks and then ripple across the sunlit shingle to the sea. Here the first primroses, violets, and the lovely little wood- sorrel or wind-flower peep out from sheltered nooks, while all the winter many birds, who like ourselves were wintering south, con- stantly sang to us their approval of the climate."

MR BRIGHT ON TORY RULE IN IRELAND. Mr Bright, replying to an Irish voter in his constituency, who referred to his recent speeches 011 Ireland, and enclosed an extract from a speech he delivered in 1870, writes as follows:—"One Ash, Rochdale, Dec. 9ih. Dear sir,—Surely the extract you send me answers your question. What has Parliament been doing since 1870-and more, since 1881—but making concessions and granting reforms for Ireland ? When reforms were not made, I did not oppose the acts gi ving strength to the executive Government, and now, when the great object of Parliament is to do all justice to Ireland, I am the less likely to see a system of terror in operation over a large portion of the country, and to refuse the legislation which the Government beheve., and which I believe, to be necessary to repress it. You speak of the drastic policy of the Government It is much less drastic than the policy of Mr Gladstone's Government in 1881 and 1882, and if anyone denies that, he is either ignorant of the Acts of those years or he is guilty of falsehood. In 1881 many hundreds of men were put in prison for months without trial, without evidence against them, without defence of counsel, and without any proof of having broken the law. Now no man is punished or imprisoned except after trial by two magistrates in an open court, when witnesses may be heard in his behalf, and when counsel may be heard in his defence. The ruffians who are exciting your sympathy are supporters of the terror which prevails, and their punishment, so far as I have seen any description of it, is much more mild than their offences warrant. I have written other letters in which I have explained the course I have taken. It would seem that you have not seen or read them. This short reply to your note may give the information you seek.-I am, very truly yours, JOHN BRIGHT."

BANQUET TO Mil BLUNT. Nearly 200 ladies and gentlemen were present 011 Monday night at the Holborn Restaurant, London, at a complimentary banquet to Mr Wilfrid Blunt; given by the Metropolitan branch of the Irish National League of Great Britain. Amongst those present were Mr Dillon, M.P., Mr Michael Davitt, Mr Jacob Bright, M.P., Professor Hunter, M.P., and Lady Anne Blunt. A letter was read from Mr Gladstone expressing regret at his inability to attend, as he was under medical orders to avoid all banquets unless under most special circum- stances. The letter added :With regard to Mr Blunt's treatment in Ireland, Mr Gladstone is awaiting fuller knowledge of the particulars connected therewith. He highly praises Mr Blunt's public spirit, and has yet to learn in what manner it can be shown that he has placed himself in conflict with the law." Mr John Dillon, in proposing the toast of "Our Guest," described Mr Blunt as a man of action. Hence, when his sympathies for Ireland were aroused, he soon struck a blow, as a result of which, following his arrest, he had raised in Ireland a consti- tutional question of the utmost magnitude and gravity, which it would tax all the in- genuity of Dublin Castle to grapple with. The time would yet come when English statesmen would be compelled to recognise the great service Mr Blunt, by his action in Ireland, bad rendered to this country. Out of this struggle, which would inevitably be crowned with victory, he believed there would grow up between the people of England and Ireland a feeling of friendship unknown to their forefathers. The chairman, having read a letter announcing that Mr Blunt had been selected Liberal candidate for Dept- ford, that gentleman proceeded to reply, and predicted that, unless the British empire gave freedom to the Nationalities under its sway, it would meet the fate of the Roman empire.

ANOTHER TRAFALGAR-SQUARE VICTIM. At the Middlesex sessions, on Monday, Joseph Ellis (26) surrendered to his bail, charged with wounding Police-inspector Livingstone and assault- ing him while in the execution of his duty on November 13th. Inspector Livingstone and his men stopped a procession going towards Trafalgar. square on that day, when the accused, it was alleged, struck the inspector a violent blow with a stone wrapped in a handkerchief, and broke his nose. The accused struggled violently wheu arrested immediately afterwards. The defence was that the accused was not the person who committed the assault. The jury, however, tound him guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm, and the assistant judge sentenced him to 8 months' hard labour.

THE STORM ON THE SCOTCH COAST. Additional casualties from the frightful storm of Friday continue to be reported from the more distant Shetland Islands. A fishing boat from Northroe is reported to be hopelessly missing, wblle there is no news cf the two boats missing from Brae. Two women perished on the roads in the North- marine district, where there are heavy snow wreaths. There is no doubt that at least twenty- eight persons perished in the storm.

THE VACANT DEANERY AT ROCHESTER. The Premier has appointed Canon Hole to the vacant deanery of Rochester. Canon Hole is one of the chaplains to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and rector of Caunton, Notts.

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I A SMUGGLER'S RETREAT. The revenue officers have, the Scotsman says, discovered another ingeniously concealed smugglers' "bothy" in Strathcarron, Ross- shire. In their search the officers followed the gorge of a stream which flows in a series of cascades through a rocky chasm of great depth. Here, 20ft. from the bottom of the rocks, they found one of the most artfully constructed bothies ever seen. At first it appeared to be a cave, but, on entering, it was seen that it had been scooped out of the rock and roofed with strong planks, over which boulders and shingle were thrown in a haphazard way, as if the whole were a mass of debris from the rocks overhead. The water-channel to and from the bothy was also covered with boulders-in fact, there was nothing to indicate that such a place existed except that the rocks above were blackened with smoke. In the bothy were found a mash tun of 250 gallons capacity, a receiver of 20 gallons capacity, a thermometer, several minor utensils, and, most important of all, the poit-dubh (or black pot), as the natives call the still. How the smugglers managed to get their goods in or out of such a dangerous place was a puzzle to the officers until, after some risky scrambling, the gorge was further explored, resulting in the discovery of a cleft in the rock, down which a rope-ladder was suspended from a tree at the top. Others of the officers had in the meantime dis- covered another bothy, near which was concealed a mash tun of 350 gallons capacity. All these utensils were destroyed on the spot, except the still, which was borne away :.>s a trophy.

NEWPORT DIP IS DISCUSSED I ONCE MORE. On the report of the Parliamentary and Improvement Committee at the meeting of the Newport Town Council to-day, the question of the repair of Newport Bridge and the abrogation of the famous dip was again discussed. The committee sugge&ted that the highways committee of the court of quarter sessions for Monmouthshire should be invited to discuss the question and Mr H. J. Parnall, in explanation of the proposal, pointed out that neither of these propositions for dealing with the bridge was definitely advanced when the proposal was made to t he county authorities that they should pay -010,000 as their proportion. The offer of L2,500 made by them was really no offer at aii, as it merely represented the capitalised cost of the annual repair of the bridge and its approaches. The dip would have to be dealt with sooner or later—the sooner the better. Accidents frequently happened at it, and on one day, when he placed a man there to take count, no fewer than eight spills" occurred, with the inevitable block to traffic. -Alderman Lyne thought the renewed conference with the county should take the form of getting the bridge into the hands of the town) for he was confident nothing would be done with satisfaction whilst the present dual control existed. —The report of the committee was agreed to.

THE NEWPORT BOROUGH POLICE FORCE. At the monthly meatine, of the Newport Town Council to-day, the watch committee reported in favour of the reception of tenders for police uniform from Messrs Smith, of Derby, for great coats, tunics, and trousers: from Messrs Pearse and Co., London, for lieimets and from Messrs Auderson and Co., of Cardiff, for capes, the latter at 6; 9d eacb, -Alderman Jones asked whether these were the lowest tenders.—Alder man Lyne Yes, with regard to quality. They are not altogether the lowest; but there is one. satisfactory thing about it, and this is that the contractors are not the same as in preceding years. So there is no monopoly.—The Mayor: Besides, the lowest tenders have not been found to be the best. Some few years ago we were not satisfied with the clothing accepted.—The same committee also reported the advancement of P.C's. Foster and Kear to a higher class, an increase of pay to Inspector Winmill, the eleva- tion of P.S. Brooks to an inspectorship, and of P.C. Rawlings to i e sergeant-all subject to the sanction of the Home Office. The committee, acting on the suggestion of the head-constable, did not propose to fill up the vacant inspector- detectiveship, caused by the resignation of Mr Curtis, but in lieu thereof to appoint a detective- constable.—The report was adopted.

RECREATIVE EVENING CLASSES ADDRESS BY THE PRINCESS LOUISE. The frincess Liouise this morning opened an exhibition of work done at the recreative even- ing classes throughout England, at the Social Guild, Nottingham, accompanied by the Bishops of Ripon and Southwell, Messrs Cyril Flower, Samuel Smith, and H. S. Wright, M.P.'s. The Princess, in replying to an address, said: I thank the members of the several institutes, homss, and classes of instruction for their kind address. If I can do anything to assist in the work which endeavours to aid people in making brighter their homes and lives, and help in prepar- ing the young for their future callings, my fondest wishes will have been met. Let me say with what pleasure I am looking forward to seeing the results of your endeavours in the exhibition which, from all I hear, will more than realise my expecta- tions. The Princess afterwards visited several public institutions, and will return to London this evening.

I ONE DAY FOR BIGAMY. At the Central Criminal Court, London, yester- day, Laura Stourfield surrendered to take her trial for marrying a person named Charles Smith, she at the time having a husband alive. The prisoner was married to her first husband in the year 1880, and in the following year he was sentenced to penal servitude. After he came out of prison he appeared to have resumed his connection with the prisoner, but they had separated. In October, 1886, the prisoner contracted the second marriage, and when she was taken into custody she said she thought her husband was dead.-Alr Hntton on behalf of the prisoner, urged that no injury had been done to anyone, and that the prosecution had only been instituted out of spite.—The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the recorder sentenced her to one day's ynprisonment, the (fleet of which was that she was immediately discharged.

I TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER WITH A FEROCIOUS DOG. I A barber from St Germain, near Paris, has just arrived at M. Pasteur's laboratory in a hor- rible condition. He was returning to his house the other evening, when an enormous sheep-dog flew at bim, knocked bim dovdt, and tors nearly half of his face away. The barber made desperate efforts to keep the animal at arm's longthfrom him, but he had no purchase," and fell back again on the road. A man came up to help, and succeeded, after a few moments, in beating the dog off. Portions of the victim's nether lip and jaw were found near the seene of the ghastly struggle, and the man had also lost an eye. Although taken to M. Pasteur's to bAf4 his wounds dressed and, if deemed advisable, to be inoculated with the virus, be is not expected to recover. ————————.

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To-day's London Papers. I SIR G. TREVELYAN AT SUNDERLAND. ice limrs, Ciscussmg Sir George Trevelyan's speech at Sunderland yesterday, says:—So little is Sir George Trevelyan entitled, in our opinion, to speak with the authority, to which we know not on what grounds he pretends, in the name of Liberalism, that be seems to us to be pursuing a false ideal and preaching a pestilent doctrine. In this view the I' essence of the Liberal faith is persistent hos- tility to privilege." But are there no other ele- ments worthy of the attention of Liberal states- manship? Privilege, so far as it stili exists in this country, is preserved, not for its own sake, but in the public interest; first of all, and most conspicuously, in the Monarchy, which as yet Sir George Trevelyan does not denounce; secondly, in the Church; and, lastly, in the peerage. Disestablishment and the overthrow of the House of Lords are placed by Sir George Trevelyan in the forefront of the new Liberal"'policy. He has nothing to say for the game of law and order which he threw up when he found that be did not himself hold winning cards. The equality of all before the law, and under the law, the protection of all by the law, minorities as well as majorities, the pre- servation of the property, and the liberties of all from tyranny, whether exercised by despots, oligarchies, raging mobs, or secret societies, are objects at least as worthy of the efforts in these days of Liberal statesmen as the despoiling of the Church or the degradation of the Upper House. The Daily News, in a leader upon the speech, remarks It is impossible to forget the patriotic deeds of the now Dissentient Liberals, when in 1880 they assisted in depriving Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury of the power which bad been so shamefully misused. But in office the Whigs have been less valuable than in Opposition, and it is time that Liberal Governments should aim at acquiring the confidence of the people rather than the approval of fashionable society. The Irish question is neither the only cause of the split nor the only subject on which its influence will operate. The next Liberal or Radical Ministry will have to cease considering the prejudices of the classes, and to realise that members of the executive are the servants of the people as a whole. The consequences may be, as Mr Gladstone predicted the other day, disastrous to the Whigs. That is their afEair, They should have thought of that before. I ENGLAND AND THE VATICAN. The Standard comments on the Duke of Norfolk's visit to the Pope on behalf of the Queen It says :-The incident will be generally regarded in this country, save by an uncharitable few, not only as very graceful, but as most proper and natural. When the Queen's, jubilee was being celebrated, Leo XIII. did not omit to send a gift to her Majesty, and along with it a distinguished messenger to convey to her his best wishes and con- gratulations. Thus the mission of the Duke of Norfolk and his companions is only a suitable return for an act of friendliness and sympathy on the part of the present occupant of the Papal Chair. Advocating the desirability of England establishing regular and formal relations with the Papacy, the Standard remarks that for years the practical inconvenience of holding no direct commu- nication with the Papacy has been experienced by English statesmen, and indirect methods have been resorted to, in order to obviate its worst evils. The most recent attempt to supply what was felt to be a real necessity was not particularly happy; but the ambiguous character and abortive results of Sir George Errington's position at Rome, so con- tinually and conclusively indicated by our correspondent in the Eternal City at the time, have only served to convince impartial minds that the relations of England and the Vatican ought to be straightforward and aboveboard. It is a reproach, as well as all inconvenience, that England alone, of all the great Christian Powers, accredits no agent to the Pope and receives noue from bim. SMUGGLING- The Daily Telegraph, referring to the discovery of a smuggler's retreat, says ;—All the lecturing and moralising in the world will not persuade people that it is really wrong-ttiat is, absolutely sinful and wicked- to smuggle. Persons of unimpeach- able integrity, who would not defraud their neighbour of a single sixpence, and whose deal- ings in every relation of life have always been straight, fair, and aboveboard, have been known in past time, when there were heavy duties on lace and jewellery, to convey such articles from the Continent to their native shores secreted among their boxes or beneath their outer garments, and to do all this without a pang of conscience. Some of the wisest and best men amongst us have bought the most execrable and villanous cigars from the mysterious marine monsters who haunt sea-side resorts and proffer their wicked wares on the strength of their having paid no duty to her Majesty's revenue. There are no tales of humour so keenly relished as those which tell of some particularly ingenious stroke of fraud on the Customs Department.

The Gold Finds in North Wales. ANOTHER ENCOURAGING REPORT. The following letter appears in the l'ilMI3 to-day 31, Lombard-street, Dec. 8th. Sirt,-A short time ago I made a visit to the beautiful valley of the Mawddach, in North Wales, with the object of investigating the sub- ject of gold in that district, and, in order to obtain as comprehensive a view of the question as possible, I did not confine myself to any particu- lar mine or deposit, but extended my operations over an area of 25 to 30 square miles, which may be said to abound in gold-bearing rock, and whence I procured my samples, which I had assayed in my laboratory, with results, in most cases, of gold far exceeding the yield of some of the best paying mines of Australia and America. No doubt, if these deposits are worked systematically and scientifically, there is a great future for Welsh gold mining and as Mr Pritchard-Morgan appears to be working in this direction, the great practical test will be in the actual returns of bar gold on a large scale, which will doubtless be forthcoming before long. America and Australia, the great gold-pro- ducing countries, have often declared that tLey had nothing to fear from the discovery of gold in other parts of the world and the former par- ticularly defied coit,petitil)n m the case of its oil productions. But what is the result to-day? Bilku produce more oil than the whole of America- over 200,000,000 gallons per annum—and from a popu- lation of only a few thousand has increased to more than 60,000. As soon as scientitic means were adopted for going right to the heart of the deposit, instead of grubbing on the surface, results began to flow in. And now that the subject of the gold district of Wales, for tbe first time, is being dealt with in this spirit, there is no reason to doubt that that district may become one of the most important of its kind in the world, and give employment to great numbers of people who are sorely in want of it at the present time. Since my return I have had an opportunity of discussing this subject with Mr William Croskes, who has visited the district, and whose metal. lurgical reputation stands second to hone, and also with Mr lieadwin, who has a thorough knowledge of the geological formation; and the conclusions which these gentlemen have arrived at will, I think, fully corroborate what I nave stated. —Your obedient servant, J. BERGER SPENCE, F.G.S., F.R G.S."

A GERMAN OFFICER THIED I FOR TREASON. J fRKOTER'S TELEGRAM,J iuxirsl(;, ivioncay.utie trial tor treason com- menced to-day, before the Imperial Tribunal, of Herr Cabanues, a subaltern officer, lately em- ployed by the authorities at Strasburg. The specific charges against the prisoner are treason, bribery, theft, and abstract of official documents, and their communication to the French Minister of War. The accused pleaded guilty, although declaring that in committing the offence laid to bis charge he was unaware of the grave nature of his actions.

ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY. A couple who had eloped from Derbyshire have II been arrested on a charge of felony at Warring- ton, where they were living together. The woman, who has a family of six, is named Han- nah Maria Wainwright, and is the wife of Wil- liam Wainwright, Newbold Moor, and her lover is Samuel Birks, a puddler, who lodged with them. The couple, not having left empty-handed, placed themselves within reach of the law, and they have "I UVw "'n b. fcho RriliCR,

I The Cardiff Ciub Raids. I POLICE-COURT PROCEEDINGS. I i KAVANAGH BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES At the Cardiff polbe-c )urt, to day-beforeyr I Paine, Alderman McConnoclve, Mr G. Bird, and Mr Peter Price—Thomas Kavanatrh (36) was charged with assaulting and beating Police- constables Samuel Thomas and George Roddy and Inspector John Tamblyn, while in the execution of their duty, on the 11th instant,-m The deputy town clerk (Mr Collingwood) prose- cuted, and prisoner was defended by Mr David. Mr Collingwood said he appeared to prosecute on behalf of the police, and without going into details he wished to ask for a remand, Mr David I ask for bail. Mr Collingwood I oppose the application. Dr Paine: The case is so serious we cannot grant bail. Mr David If the charge is a serious one it is a serious position for the marl to be in, and it will be perfectly impossible fo^ac'jn to arrange for his defence if he is in custody. The Clerk: You will have access to him. Mr David: Yes, but I am not going to rush about to get up his witnesses. Dr Paine It is case in which we have no hesitation in declining bail. Superintendent Price: There are three warrants against him, and one man whom be is alleged to have assaulted is unable to perform duty. Mr David: I object to that observation, because it fixes the offence on this man before his trial. Dr Paine Before Mr Price spoke we decided not to allow bail. Prisoner was then removed to the cells, under remand till Friday.

A MOCK MARRIAGE AT I GLASGOW. I EXTRAORDINARY CASE. f At the Uentral police-court, Glasgow, George Hall Thompson, 31 years of ago, has been remanded in order that an inquiry may be made into a charge brought against him of having on the 26th ult., in his house, at 298, Castle-street, adhibited the name of Sheriff Balfour to a document purporting to be a certi- ficate of proclamation of banns of mar- riage between accused and a woman who resides in Mathieson-street, and with having uttered the same. It is stated that on the faith of the docu ment the woman lived during the past fortnight with Thomson, believing that she was hie wife. It appears that on the day in question the company had assembled in the house to await the marriage ceremony, the accused producing the written document purporting to be the marriage certificate. The company, it is said, were given to understand that the Sheriff personally was to arrive to perform the ceremony. His Lordship, of course did not appear, and soon a man, who was to have acted as best man," entered the house with a telegram which stated that the Sheriff had been detained in Greenock. The accused, however, said it did not matter, as the document was signed by the sheriff and the registrar ofJ the district. The mother objected to the ceremony going 011, stating that she would keep her daughter for a week, and get a minister to unite the couple. The mother, however, was ultimately persuaded to let the ceremony go on. It may be stated that the telegram which was produced was not stanipe with the post office stamp.

AN IfHSH POST-OFFICE BOYCOTTED. An extraordinary case of boycotting is reported from county Kprry. Three months ago a inau named Connor was postmaster for the Knockna- goshel district, and be was dismissed, as he refused to relinquish the chairmanship of the local National League. A Mr Conuell was then appointed in Connor's stead. Cunnell was denounced by the National League for accepting the position but lie lield oii, and became rather popular by giving liberal subscriptions to the various funds started for Government victims. A few days ago Courkell was requested by the Postmaster-General to surrender the various documents connected with the post-office to Mr Sullivan, national school teacher, who had been appointed postmaster illl his stead. The latter has been rigidly boycotted fof some time for taking and holding an evicted farm. Since his appointment no letter. have passed through the post-office save those for the police and his friends. The boycotters have had their letters addressed to the neighbouring town of Abbeyfeale, and a postman has been elected, and is paid by the National League to go there every day and distribute them. The school of which Mr Sullivan is teacher has been boycotted, and the parents of the few children who attend have also been boycotted.

WELSHING DECIDED TO BE FfcLONY. | In the Court for the "consideration of Crowi. cases reserved a case of considerable importance to the racing community has just been decided. It was that of the Queen L Walter Backmaster, and came up from the Berk, Qaarter Sessions the point for decision being in substance" Can a welsher bo convicted for larceny?" At the trial in Berkshire it appealed that detendant had laid against Bird of Freedoniforcfhe principal race, one of the backers being a man named Rymer. When the race was being run defendant decamped, and refused, when applied to, to give up the money ha had received. The jury convicted the defendant, but sentence was held over pending an appeal. The Lord Chief Justice, in confirming the convic- tion, wished it to be conveyed that welshing is felony, and that five years'penal servitude is the maximum peualty, or two years with or without hard labour. Mr Baron Pollock and the other judges expressed their perfect agreement with the Lord Chief Justice. ——-——————————

A MARVEL IN NEWSPAPERS. The Sunday edition, October 2, of the New York World was a marvel in newspaper enterpri.-e. Oa thqt day there were 1,253,469 eight-page papers printed, making 270,080 perfect copies. The total weight was 157.8811 i)., or exceeding 68 tons. The edition contained 10,027,752 pages, 70,194 269 columns, and 19,794,782,448 lines, of an average, in the aggregate, of nine words each. An ordinary page of a book contains from 300 to 500 words if put up in book form "f 200 pages of 500 words to a page, or 10,000 bnes of 10 words, this would be equivalent to 1,890,000 volumes, or mere than are contained in any library in the world, the British Museum excepted. There were 1871 columns of advertisements, numbering 4,955 by actual count. Tha work began on Saturday afternoon, and before daylight of Sunday morning the office was deserted by all isave the watchman the papers had been mailed or delivered to expressmen.— Printers Register. r

Terrible-Panic on a Pas- senger Steamer. r: FORTY-SEVEN PERSONS DliOWNEO. I OTHERS CRUSHED TO DEATH. DAILY CHRONICLE'' TELEGRAM.] tr-l- -*«• A rs.. V IILINNA, ivionaay.—A Smyrna telegram reports a terrible accident on board the Asia Minor Company's steamer Bellona. The vessel, which bad four hundred passengers, mostly Greeks, on board, was not long out of Salonica when an unfounded alarm of fire arose, and the terrified passengers made a rush for the boats. In lowering one of them it overturned, precipitating 47 occupants into tha sea, all of whom were drowned, while several persons were crushed to death, in the struggle for the boats. A strong gale was blowing so that no assistance could be rendered. It would seem that the alarm must have been caused intentionally, as a number of thieves burst open the door of the captain's cabin and stole upwards of £ 2,000.

AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE. I Lord Frazer has just heard evidence in the I Court of Session, Edinburgh, in an action for separation brought by Esther Sangster or Smith, 104, Albert-street, Giasgow, against her husband, who resides at 108, Kidston-street, South Side, Glasgow. Pursuer stated that she was 34 years of age, and that she was married to the defender at Newcastle, on 10th May, 1874. After they came to Glasgow defender treated pursuer very badly. He left her in July, 1883, and "\ved with a young woman since. He visited pi^rsDer occa- sionally, and in the course of the visits he "smashed the house," broke the dishes, and smashed her too. Witness had three children living, and the young woman mentioned had four children to the defender, and she said she was his wife.—His Lordship granted decree of separation, and aliment at the rate of 5s per week for the wife and 4s each for two of the children. (

I A WOMAN CHOKED BY A BONE. I Mr Minter, the Folkestone coroner, hold an I Mr Minter, the Folkestone coroner, hold an I inquest yesterday on the body of a woman named I Davison, a widow, who died after ten days' acute suffering, from swallowing a whiting bone. The bone stuck in her throat, and caused the passage to be stopped. A post mortem examination showed that an abscess had formed in the throat A verdict of accidental death was returned to be stopped. A post mortem examination showed that an abscess had formed in the throat A verdict of accidental death was returned

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