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DECLARATION OF WAR. -
DECLARATION OF WAR. [REUTEB'9 TELEGRAM.] AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—Advices received here from Samoa announce that the Germans have declared war against Mataafa, the chief proclaimed king by the partisans of the ex- king Aalietoa, in opposition to Jamasese, the nominee of the Germans. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM,] SYDNEY, Thursday Morning.—Intelligence received here from the Samoan Islands states that the Germans have declared war against King Mataafa and his followers. The forces of the latter have been greatly augmented by deserters from Tamasese's party, which numbers over 5,000, and it is thought probable that all the native tribes will join Mataafa against the Germans,
THE MOULDERS' DISPUTE AT CARDIFF.
THE MOULDERS' DISPUTE AT CARDIFF. The strike of moulders at Cardiff is assuming a somewhat unpleasant form. The men who form the body of non-contents, and have left their employment, have been replaced by others who are willing to be paid at the old rate of 328 a week. This has resulted in ebullitions of feeling between the old and tbe new hands which occasionally threaten to assume a serious character, The "strikers" assemble nightly outside the Globe Foundry and elsewhere on the East Moors, and on tbe appearance of the workmen who have taken their places, hoot and groan in a very demonstrative manner. They are also in the habit of following the new hands a considerable distance, annoying them in every way except by personal violence. With a view to contingencies policemen have been stationed on the scene of these disturbances, and, while not at present interfering, are prepared to prevent violence.
FRESH HONOURS FOR MRJ BOWEN…
FRESH HONOURS FOR MR J BOWEN ROWLANDS, M.P. I Master Boweu Rowlands, Q.C., M.P., was on < Wednesday elected treasurer of the Society of I Gray's Inu for the ensuing year, in succession to < Master Hugh Shields, Q.C., whose term of office 1 will expire on the 17th April prox. 1 —_
THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN…
THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT GATESHEAD. I IOn Wednesdaytheadjoumedinquestonthe body of John Graham, of the Gateshead Constabulary, was held at Wrekenton, Gateshead, before Mr Jobn Graham, coroner for the Chester Ward of Durham.—Tbe evidence of several more witnesses who saw Edward Wilkinson stab Graham and then strike him on the head with his own baton, having been heard, Police-Constable Lambert, of Cox-green, deposed to the arrest of Wilkinson at South Hylton, near Sunderland, on tbe same night, and to Wilkinson saying, in reply to the charge, I know all about that."—Sergeant Johns said he found the large butcher's knife produced down the prisoner's leg secured by his garter.—The jury returned a < verdict .f "Wilful murder" against Edward 1 Wilkinson. ————■——m
THE WEIRD MYSTERY.!
THE WEIRD MYSTERY. The persons, the scenes, and the incidents of' J this weird book, impress tbe reader with a sense of their reality and the plot, though highly sensational, never seems improbable. The interest is sustained from the first line of the introduction (which tells us that the supposed writer is awaiting her trial for murder), to the end of the last chapter and we are not very bold in stating that no reader will lay tbe book aside unfinished. The story is a charming production, Ai- °* TiT'd colouring and tbe life history of Alice Woolner, tbe heroine, will never be forgotten. The pathetic scene, where she is separated by death from her only child, is only lOferlOr to Thackeray's description of the death of Colonel Newcombe; and Mr Phillip May, who, two years ago, wrote the best novel aescription of Russian life, has now written the nest sensational novel that we have ever read. Jinis is the first volume of Lambert's London J and Messrs Lambert and Co. could not I-? ve commenced the series with a story ,l«ely to be appreciated by tbe readers of smiling novels,
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f EARLY ^AMB.—Tbe first lamb of the season, 1 bv Mr Lawrence, Merriston, was slaughtered Market w Mabe, Templeton, and Nc. 1, Royal Gs^ntt6' Te°by» for Miss of tbe j *oyai uate House Hotel, Tenby. I wiSft^not'ln PILLS.—Weak Stomach.—Tha < symptoms arfaw?ierat? one quarter of tbe distressing < tion, all of whic?^ "BPGnect or disordered diges- 1 Pills. They remS relieved by these admirable flatulency, and eapk«ry taste from the mouth, tbe irtomach, liv«? J on* Holloway's Pills rouse brintrin? dipesKn! every other organ, thereby biHto to™ WblclI <»uy nourishment of our bodi^J wJ! n +h« surest strengtheneraluwi' enc?tbese PlUs are fcl? 1 nArvoiisnasa wanting 4 safest restoratives m i Pills a!e infallible remedies for impaired. appetite. eructatlon'Jo DnIltitUde of otber disagreeable 8JD1PtotJIs which render Ule üves of thousandS miser. |
GLAMORGANSHIRE.
GLAMORGANSHIRE. MEETING AT NEATH. The first meeting of the Glamorgan County Council was held on Thursday at the Gwyu Hall, Neath. Owing to the unfavourable weather there was not much popular demonstration visible in the town. One or two tradesmen exhibited flags and mottoes and a small crowd of persons braved the elements and watched the advent of the councillors to the place of meeting. The mayor and local authorities had made admiral provision for the meeting. The room in the Gwyn Hall set apart for the purpose had been arranged very much after the manner of the Cardiff council chamber, with a horseshoe bench on a slightly raised dais for the presidential chair and the aldermauic seats, and a second table of a similar shape but somewhat longer for the councillors who secure seats in the inner circle." Between these two tables is a space where, if Neath is fortunate enough to be selected as the place of assemblage, the reporters table will be placed. The hall has good acoustic qualities, and so far as the attendants are con- cerned, they are numerous and courteous, and, it may be added, that from the high-sheriff and the mayor of Neath downwards all seemed to be anxious to facilitate the work of the representa- tives of the press. PROVISIONAL CHAIRMAN. Sir Huasey Vivian was, on the motion of Mr Thomas Williams, seconded by Mr J. T. D. Llewelyn, appointed to the chair provisionally for the first and second meetings of the councils. THE ADMISSION OF THE PRESS. It was decided to admit the representatives of the Press, and also as many of the general public as could be accommodated in the room, ELECTION OF ALDERMEN. The meeting then proceeded with the election of the 22 aldermen allotted in due proportion to the 66 members of the council. Each member was supplied with a large printed sheet, on which he wrote his name and the names of those gentlemen whom he wished to nominate for the aldermanic bench. Each candidate delivered his list in person to i; the chairman. Some gentlemen had filled in the number of years for which he wished particular aldermen to sit, but the chairman stated that this was superfluous until they knew who were elected. The Chairman read the name of each councillor who voted and the names of those for whom he voted, tberesult being to disclose the fact that a large number of councillors were not swayed by party considerations, but nominated such persons as they deemed best fitted to fill the elevated bench. The duty of counting the votes was commenced at one o'clock, and promised to last for a considerable time. A GRACIOUS ACT. The counting of the votes occupied'nearly three hours-a protracted task which was agreeably interrupted by an invitation from the mayor of Neath (Mr J. Bevan Davies) to the members of the council to lunch with him. THE KKSULT OF THE VOTING. When the votes had been counted it was found that the following gentlemen had been elected aldermen in each case the number of votes allotted is given :— J. T. D. Llawelyn C 58 Thomas Williams h 44. Gwilym James L 45 Walter H. Morgan L 45 William Hunter L 42 John Cory. ^L 41 David Davies ] L 40 David Lewis .L 40 Frederick L. Davis" 1". L 40 John Davies L 39 Kev Aaron Davies L 39 William Morgan L 39 DrH. N. Davies .L 39 W. Jenkins L 38 Thomas Reea L 38 Edward Plummer L 38 J.J. Griffiths L 38 Bees Harries I, 38 Thomas P. White L 37 William Jones I. 37 R, Jenkius 1, 36 Sir W. T. Lewis C 25
MONMOUTHSHIRE.
MONMOUTHSHIRE. MEETING AT USK. The Monmouthshire County Council met at Usk on Thursday. Every member was present except Mr Morgan, of the Nantyglo division, who pent a medical certificate. PROVISIONAL CHAIRMAN. Mr Conway (Pontypool) was proposed by Mr E. Grove (Ebbw Vale) and seconded by Mr D. Vaughan (Newport). The Duke of Beaufort proposed Lord Tredegar, and Mr Bosanquet seconded the motion, but his lordshio's nomination was lost by 27 to 17. Mr Conway returned thanks for his election as provisional chairman, and regretted that he bad been placed-in competition to so honourable and esteemed a gentleman as Lord Tredegar, but seeing that the political battle bad been fought on democratic lines, even lords must give way to public opinion. (Hear, tiear.) He hoped that the remembrance of the party tIght would not be allowed to interfere with duty to the constituents. In the choice of officials he thought the best man should be chosen regardless ot politics, out in the matter of the selection of polling and registration districts, which were unfairly and inconveniently arranged, he for one ihould allow himself to be influenced by party :onsiderations. LIST OF ALDERMEN. Mr Edmund Morgan, gentleman, Nantyglo; Mr Daniel A. Vaughan, merchant, Newport; Mr J, Goldsworthy, contractor, Newport; Mr Geo. H. Cilewellyn, solicitor, Newport; Lord Tredegar, it inlellon's; Mr John Allan Rolls, gentleman, Vlonmonth Mr William Cosseus, chemist Mr Edwin Ellis, merchant, Chepstow Mr David IrVilliams, tinplate manufacturer, Pontuewynydd Mr Benjamin Lewis, gentleman, Abergavenny; Mr Henry William Powell, works manager, Ebbw Vale; Mr John Watson Mulligan migeon, Abersycban. Mr Benjamin Shank- and, | Congregational minister, Tredegar VIr George Griffiths, Baptist minister, Rbymney; Mr Edward Jones, colliery proprietor, Aber- lycban; Mr Edward Edwards, provision nerchaut, Risca. It will thus be seen that ten of the aldermen have aeen elected from outside the council the last eight aret elected for three years, ;be first eight for six years. The six names standing at the bead of the .ist are members of the council, and re-elections will be necessary. Four of the Aldermen are Tories and twelve are Liberals, rhis was the result of the arrangement arrived at between the two parties. MEETING OF LIBERALS. At the adjourned meeting of Liberals jn Wednesday in Geilyfaelog Division, Peny- iarren Ward, Mertbyr, the voting for Jobn Thomas, ironmonger, and David Jones, prospective candidates in the event of a vacancy being occasioned, was equal, 110 votes being recorded for each. The chairman, Joseph Harpur, declined to give bis lasting vote, and there is a possibility of both candidates coming out. The names of Mr R. P. Rees, chemist, Conservative, and Dr Cress- well, Independent, are also mentioned, Regard- ing the Lower Division, of the Penydarren Ward Mr J. Yaughan this morning expressed his intention of writing to the two other gentlemen named as candidates, Mr C. H. James, high nonstable, and Mr David Davies, Glebeland, sug- gesting that an agreement be come to whereby the three names shall be submitted to an independent person either in or oatof tbedistrict for selection, so M to avoid a contest between three Liberals and the^ possibility of tbe seat being obtained by a Conservative. PENRHIWCEIBER. It is rumoured that in the event of Mr Gwilym Jones, Ynysybwl, being elected alderman, Dr R. W. Jones will come forward as a Liberal candi- date for the vacated seat.
CARMARTHiNSHIRE COUNCIL.
CARMARTHiNSHIRE COUNCIL. How it is Constituted. Carmarthenshire Liberalism has emerged from the ordeal of the election with the marks of victory and renewed strength on its form. In avery part of the county the democracy have triumphed. The magnificent majority of Liberals on the new council will be a sort of equipoise to the enormous disproportion of Donservatives who crowd the magisterial bench in the county. A glante at the results published in our issue of yesterday and at those given to-day ihews that some remarkable victories have been won. At Whitlaud. the Rev William Thomas, than whom there is no more •ealous, unflinching Liberal, achieved a very gratifying measure of success. Then Mr Gwynne Hughes, the popular young squire of Tregib, carried the good old cause to victory at Llandilo in spite of tremendous odds. Another signal triumph was that won at Caio by Mr Lewis Davies, who had for opponent one of the most popular and highly-honoured gentlemen in the entire neighbourhood. It speaks much for the unswerving Liberalism of the electors of Caio that a gentleman like Sir James Hills-Johnes should have been vanquished under the shadow of his own castle. Mr Thomas Powell, Carreccennen, in the rural division of Llandilo, defeated Mr Herbert Peel, Taliaris, with » handsome majority in hand. Mr Jobn Lewis, at Llangeler, also secured a seat to the Liberals in the face of great obstacles. But what was pre- Bminently the triumph of the campaign was that at Llanelly, where the nine contested seats were all captured by Liberals. The result bere is rendered the more remarkable by reason of the undoubted strength of the Conservative or non-political candidates. It would be impossible to find more powerful opponents than the gentle- men by whom the Liberal Association candidates were confronted. Mr James Buckley is a wealthy brewer; Mr Hugh Novill is the representative of In influential family, and the bearer of an honoured name Mr Ernest Trubsbaw has made 1 reputation for himself in public affairs as a most :apable administrator. Yet with all these recom- mendations not one of the aoi-disant non-political :andidates secured a seat. Mr Gwrlym Evans, the well-known chemist, heads the poll with 1,402 votes, the largest number recorded for a single :andidate in South Wales. Mr Joseph Maybery and Mr Henry Wilkins, two Liberals of lifelong itandiog, and men of tried experience in the public service, come second and third respectively. Mr Owen Bonville, a re- presentative agriculturist, makes a good fourth. In the second ward the pinnacle of iononr is occopied by a stalwart Liberal in tb. 1 person of Mr Thomas Phillips, the indefatigable agent of the tinplate workmen. Of tbe other contests in Carmarthenshire perhaps that at Llandebie calls chiefly for remark. At this place, Mr David Richards, of Ammanford, made a plucky up-hill fight against a live lord. Unfor- tunately, Mr Alderman Warren, who would be an undoubted acquisition to the council, has been defeated at Carmarthen. In their entirety, however, the Liberals have abundant reason to be gratified with the result of the elections. The council will be composed of Liberals 40 Conservatives 8 Unionists 2 Independent 1 Total 51
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SPEECH BY MR GOSCHEN. MrGoschen, speaking at Stratford, London* M Vredaesday ni £ hti questioned the claims of Morley to appear as tbe champion of social reform for the benefit of the masses. The n,nii°n'8t party were better fitted and more 'tely, from the past history of their members and th.e present intentions of the Government, to deal Wlfcb| these auestions than the Separatists, who would not, they themselves declared, touch them until they had broken up the union and recast the parliamentary machine to do their work mora effectually. There was no hope for a decade for social reforms frcm the Gladstonian party, but the Unionist Government would immediately set about giving local government to Scotland, and attend to the further necessities of Imperial aetence, to which his (Mr Goscben's) budget might this year have to be sacrificed. Our international position, and our interests and duties as the first colonial Power, made this incumbent upon us., -these and other pressing tasks were not to be neglected for the vagaries of Irish members. Vvheenng news was now being received from Ireland-news of growing confidence on the part fi "~yaj'st8>. and growing depression on tbat ol the Nationalists. In contemporary Ireland tbe wanderings and the hairbreadth escapes of Irish orators were/taking the place of the violence ot Moonlighters, and comedies of hide and seek wers being substituted for the tragedies of crime.
A REMARKABLE ENGINE-DRIVER.
A REMARKABLE ENGINE- DRIVER. Intelligence was received on Wednesday at tbf unices of the Amalgamated Society of Railway. Servants in London of the retirement, tbrougfc ill-health, of Mr R. Billingbam, engine driver, who has a record which caa scarcely be equalled by any man of bis class, For over 40 years ho has been an engine- driver, and was the oldest driver in the employ oj the Great Northern Railway Company. In thf year 1848 he was engaged as a driver on tlY. railway between Paris and Rouen. When the revolution broke out which caused Louis Philippf to flae Billingham remained at his post, and drov* the last train which went from Rouen to Parit prior to the mob burning the bridge across the beme, and by that means cutting off railway, communication with the northern provinces ot -c ranee. After that be returned to England and entered the service of the Great Northern Rail- way Company. When the Homcastle branclr of that system was opened, more than thirty* three years ago, Mr Billingbam drove in thfc first train to Horncastie, and from that titM up to a few weeks since has remained at work on the line between Horncastle and Kirk. stead. The trains driven by this historical engine1 driver have never met with anything apo proachiug a serious accident, while by goo £ judgment, care, and coolness he has, as acknow- ledged by his superior officers, prevented accident4 which might have proved most disastrous. This old servant of the Great Northern Railway Company has been obliged to send in bis resigna- tion in obedience to medical instructions. Mr Billingbam is a member of the Peterborough branch of the Amalgamated Railway Servants, and it is understood tbat be will recei ve superan- nuation from that body.
THE TRAMPS' SIGNAL CODE. (
THE TRAMPS' SIGNAL CODE. ( —mm*— y Tramps are much more familiar pests in the United States than in this country. The country is larger, the summer is alluring for rural rambles, and even long journeys, and systematic tramp need never show his faca that the distric?* Ifc be sai<5 betrcar ^"can tramp is a much mora audaciout nnff« L relative in Great Britain. He ia resentpH Wlth the sP»n»sh mendicant who been inlw8 'mP8rti«ence of one who bad of «IIM j tbat 110 was aBt°nisbed a person a living B°°SirPhTSiqUt Hh°Uldf DOt, W0rk f0* fn* „ bl.r' I asked you for alms, not the tramn Sai<? *he Proud ra8Cal- Ia America and inS are always sure of a meal at mid-day at tKa eTening. It is generally eat»n roughly when fho°r' tbere ia 110 lack of *ood food. a>*d Irnta sore*footed stranger has had enough, h« bmnv ground tor a barn within which he may b» pSbSSfcsJ S *° A 0hicag° p"p", THE CHALK HABit IGNS by which the professional tramp gives information maw Sor' treatment his wayfaring class in » exPect. This pictorial language is rich it '^bondish practicality. The symbol for for ir» r wor^ *s two spades crossed and that -L'anger, steer clear!" is a segment of a composed of bullets with a crose eneath. A welcome is expected when an open a f WK- a t,au(^ pointing to it is eeen; and tract ^ding reception is indicated by a face evH T Up anc* two hands converging on tba fnn °f?3 are symbolised by Noah's Ark nventionalities into good and bad; a widow IS represented stiffly like a child; a group inr|WOnrien in a similar manner with strokes te 1c.a^° the number and men are counted by variation of the design. There are 8'Knsfor "All safe," "Be bold here," "Hay "ke burnt, "Rich but charitable, <c p lQdow open," Will make yon work here,*1 °. to back door," and "This house to be burglarised." The autobiography of an ancient ™ nt recently published in Scotland leaves n« •doubt that tramps in this country art muarly attentive to one another in their shiftiest roammgs.
A FORTUNE FOR FOUR POOR BOYS.,
A FORTUNE FOR FOUR POOR BOYS., n?0Ur brothers named Falquet, resident ia icago, have just come into £ 60,000, the price some property in a London suburb. Tha property Was converted into money by the the then owner, Caroline Grove, leaving tha>n anc? no kuown heirs. It warf discovered M wnf0''118 Grove was a grand-daughter of one MarkiThormaquayaDd the daughter of one of ^a|quet family. The discovery interested ■fuS?b, of Cincinnati, who had learned omethiug of the American family of tbat name^ na after a short time he was able to show that the members of it were in reality tbe rightful heirs of the Urove estate. In tbe meantime two brothers claiming to be the descendants of one of the daughters of Thormaquay, nearly established 3 claim to the property. On the trial, however, the against them. They took an appeal, and the higher court has just sustained a decision of the lower. As the estate is in cash, there can be but a short delay before the beirs get theiv share.
MINERS' CONFERENCE. ?
MINERS' CONFERENCE. ? Under the presidency of Mr Burt, M.P. the Miners' Conference at Leeds on Wednesday discussed the Employers Liability Bill, and adopted the followmg resolution"That this conference hereby declares its unabated confidence in the labour members with regard to the action they took on the Employers' Liability Bill during the last session of Parliament, and trusts, should feiooQme CO? of things arise in the session of 1889, similar action will be taken." A, conference also expressed the opinion tiftit a bUtot such importance should not be referred ?ra«d committee. Tbe sweating system a<»rooH I011?y condemned, and the conference agreed to do its utmost to seek either mitigation ?t, vite abolition of the system. Mr Thomas ii- P., was elected president; Mr B. £ ickard, M.P., vice-president; Mr William t/rawford, M.P secretary; and Mr Nixon. treasurer.
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Trtnity College, Lendon.—With regard to tbe pupiig of the Souch Wales School for Girls, Summerfield Hall, the result of the examination of this college, held December 14th, is aa loliotvg.—Pollie Price, Newport, 86 marks; Ethel James, Fleur-de-Lis, and Lucy Lever, Salisbury, marks each Alice Waiers, Nasb, 90 marks Hilda Nance, Bristol, 94 marks E. y. Powell, Newport, 100 mark?. E. Mathias, London, and barah Thomas, Cadoxton, have received honour certificates from the London College of Music for meritorious musical qualifications. With the 10 diplomas and bronze medal already received, this brings tbe number to 12 from this college. For the College of Preceptors two pupiis entered and passed—M. B. Price, Llanbetbery, in six subjects, and Annie Morgan, Resolven, in five subjects. About 100 certificates, with distinctions, etc., have been gained at the recent examinations by pupils of this school—silver and bronze marina and prize from Science and Art, London, and College of Music.. Each subject learnt by the pupils has been tested by public examination, and but few failures are recorded, and proves tbe school to be one of the best in the country, and reflects great credit on Mrs Nicholls, the esteemed lady principal, and ber teachers,
SERIOUS FIRE AT PONTYPRIDD
SERIOUS FIRE AT PONTYPRIDD Marvellous Escapes. About two a.m. on Thursday Mrs Brooks, greengrocer, High-street, Pontypridd, awolte and was startled to find her bedroom full of dense smoke. She at once awoke her husband, who, on searching the premises, found that the smoke issued from the house next door, where a pawnbroker's shop is kept by Mr Abrahamson. Mr Brooks informed the police, and soon afterwards Sergeant MacDonald, with a force of constables, arrived with the hose and reel. Failing to awake the inmates, they burst the front door open and then found that the fire was located in a beam which supported the upper floor. The inmates were got out, and eventually, after two hours' hard work, the fire was effectually got under. Much damage has been done to the pre- mises, while a large quantity of clothing and other valuables in the shop were destroyed. Mr Abrahamson was from home at the time, attending a Jewish wedding and ball at Cardiff. Additional particulars show that a watchmaker, named Morris, who slept on the premises, had a narrow escape. He was literally dragged from bed in a dazed condition by Mr Brooks, but for whose presence of mind he would doubtless have been suffocated. The premises and goods are partly insured.
\ MOUNTAIN ASH READING-ROOMS,
MOUNTAIN ASH READING- ROOMS, The annual meeting of the general committee of the reading-rooms of the collieries was held at the Assembly-room of the Navigation Hotelf on Wednesday. Mr F. Smith, secretary, read tbe annual report, which was favourable. Mr J. W. Jones was re-elected treasurer; Mr F. Smith, secretary Rev J. Howell, chairman Messrs W. P. Bowden (Newtown), J. Morris (Miskin), and D. Jones (Mountain Ash), vice-chairmen. Mr David Edwards was appointed trustee in lieu of Mr J. Davies, deceased. Messrs W. P. Bowden, Evan Jones, and T. Davies were appointed auditors.
HAVERFORDWEST BOARD OF GUARDIANS.
HAVERFORDWEST BOARD OF GUARDIANS. At the ordinary meeting of the above board, on Wednesday, the guardians proceeded to elect a porter and nurse. For the office of porter there were four applicants, viz. :—John Jacks, N. Carter, David James, and — Morris. The first-named person was elected by a large majority. Miss Jenkins, Dale, was appointed nurse in the room of Mrs Charles, resigned.-—The Clerk (Mr John James) announced to the board the death of the matron, Miss Thomson, which occurred on the 26th inst. Miss Thomson bad been 2S years in tbe service of the union, and had held the office of matron for 25 years. The clerk was instructed to advertise for a successor to Miss Thomson, 1 1
BARRY DOCK AND RAILWAYS.|
BARRY DOCK AND RAILWAYS. | Colonel Rich, Government Inspector, on Wed- | nesday afternoon officially inspected the double f line from Cadoxton to the dock ( station and the passenger line thence to Barry, and has passed the same. All that requires to be done is to connect the signals with the switches. He was accompanied by Mr Richard j Evans, general manager; Mr John Robinson, resident engineer and Mr Fothergill, repre- { sentmg Messrs Saxby and Farmer, who have t erected tbe signals. The connections will be com- pleted by about Saturday, but Barry station will in all probability not be opened until the end of next week. This matter, of course, rests witbithe general manager, j
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT CARDIFFI
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT CARDIFF I Early on Thursday John MacCarthy, aged 45 ] years, of No. 5, John-street, met with a severe accident as he was proceeding under the arch from the West Dock to the East Dock, 1 Cardiff. Engine No. 17 was coming aloncf. 1 MacCartby was caught, and jammed between the trucks and the wall. He was at once taken to the Moors on the engine, and afterwards conveyed to the infirmary on a stretcher. It is said that had MacCarthy gone along the footpath be would have escaped unhurt.
THE ILLNESS OF MR W. R. H.…
THE ILLNESS OF MR W. R. H. POWELL, M.P. ( The report as to the illness of Mr W. R, H. Powell, M.P. for West Carmarthen- « shire, is considerably exaggerated. Mr Powell, who has always been delicate, is very unwell, and is confined to bed, but his condition is now no worse than it has been for 1 some weeks past. He is not in a critical condi. tion, nor is such a contingency anticipated.
THE BRECONSHIRE COUNCIL.
THE BRECONSHIRE COUNCIL. Full List of Councillors. Breconshire enjoys the unenviable distinction of being the only county in South Wales in which the Liberals do not possess a majority. All the influeuce of the many territorial magnates in which Brecon rejoices was exerted on behalf of the Conservative candidates, and the clergy were also indefatigable in their exertions to bring about the defeat of the Liberals. Moreover, defective organisation told powerfully against the popular party. Still, the now council will be emphatically more representative of the people than the court of quarter sessions has ever been aud herein there is cause for congratulation. It will have been noticed that nearly all the Tory candidates elected, including the great Sir Joseph Bailey himself, were returned by perilously-narrow majorities. In fact, tbe majority scarcely ever reached double figures. The relative strength of parties on the council is indicated by the following :— Conservatives <il Liberals 20 Unionists 3 Independent 1 Total.* 45 Subjoined is a complete list of the new councillors, with the divisions that they repre- sent Bailey. Sir Joseph Russell, Bart., M,P., Llangattock (C.) Clcasby, Mr R. D. gentleman, Battle (C.) Crawshay, Mr W. T., gentleman, Cefncoed (U.) Davies, Mr John, wiue merchant, Builth (C.) Davies, Mr Greatorex, solicitor. Crickhowell (C.) De Winton, Mr W., gentleman, Llanfrynach (C.) Evans, Mr Samuel, farmer, Erwood (L.) Evans, Mr John, brewer, Brecon, Sc. John's Ward (C.) Games, Mr W., solicitor, Brecon, Struet Ward (L.) Griffiths, Mr R. T,, solicitor. Hay (L.) Griffiths. ltev D. A., Congregational minister, Llan. afan (L.) Hicks, Mr Geo., wholesale boot manufacturer, Bryn- mawr South (L.) Holford, Mr J. \V. Gwynne. gentleman, Talybont (C.) Hodgson, Mr R. S., estate agent, YsDradgynlais (C.) James, Mr R. G., manufacturer, Vale of Groyney (L.) Jones, Mr Thomas, Hafod, Gelly, and Duffryn (L.) Jones, Mr John, farmer, Merthyr Cynog (C.) Jayne, Mr Basil, gentleman, Brynmawr Central (L.' Jones, Mr Morgan Powell, timber merchant, Llan- gynider (J..) Lloyd, Mr Penry, gentleman, Llanwrtyd (U.) Lloyd, Mr Lewis, gentleman, Llanwrthwl (C.) Lyddon, Mr John J., master plumber, Brynmawr West (L.) Moore, Mr J. E., gentleman, Ystradgunlais Higher (C.) Morgan, Colonel John. banker, &c., Brecon (St. Mary's division), (C.) Morgan, Colonel J. Williams, Llanspyddid (C.) Powell, Mr Howell, farmer, Llandilo'rfan (L.) Powell, Mr Howell, farmer, Llamgon (C.) Perrott, Mr William, farmer, Llansors (C.) Price, Kev Rees, vicar, Brecon (St David's), (C.) Price, Mr Owen, farmer, Cray (C.) Pritchard. Mr Lewis, Llanelly (L.) Protheroe, Mr J., timber merchant, Brecon (Watton Ward), (L.) Raikes, Mr Robert, gentleman, Cwmdu (C.) Kees, Mr Levi, colliery proprietor, Palleg (L.) Roche, Mr F. W. A., gentleman, Talgarth (I.) Thomas, Mr John, solicitor, Brynmawr East (L.) Turberville, Mr William, gentleman, Llanelly (L.) Thomas, Mr C. Evan, gentleman, Llangammarch (U.) Williams, Rev Prebendary. Maescar (C.) Williams, Mr David, farmer, lthosferig (C.) Vanghan, Mr David, farmer, Ystradfellta (L.) Vaughan, Mr J. Williams, jun., gentleman, Llande- falle (L ) Watkins, Mr Morgan, farmer, Trecasle (L.) Williams, Mr W., farmer, Penderyn (L.) Wood, Major, Llyswen (C.)
THE WELSH COUNCILS.
THE WELSH COUNCILS. Relative Strength of Parties. Now that the whole of the Welsh county council elections are over, it is possible to ascertain the relative positions of the political parties in the principality a or. reflected in the new councils. In all 590 councillors are returnable in Wales, 330 in the southern half of the principality, ana 260 in the northern. Three hundred and ninety seats are held by Liberals, which practically means two-thirds of the entire representation. There is but little difference in the relative positions of parties in north and foutb, but the former has a. slightly better proportion of Liheials, though the fraction is very trifling. From the point of view of Liberalism, Carmarthenshire has come out best, 40 of her 51 seats being in the possession of Liberals. In North Wales the premier position is occupied by Merioneth, which returns 33 Liberals out of a possible 42. Appended is an interesting comparative table:- SOUTH WALES. Libs. Cons. Uns. & In. Total. Glamorganshire. 4b 15 6 66 Carmarthenshire ..40 8 3 51 Monmouthshire 23 16 3 48 Cardiganshire .28 9 1 48 Pembrokeshire 31 15 2 48 Breconshire 20 21 4 45 Radnorshire. 32 10 2 24 215 94 21 330 NORTH WALES. Denbigh 32 1^ 1 43 Carnarvon 30 14. O 44 Flint 26 14 2 42 Ansrlesea .32 £ 3 42 Merioneth 33 9 0 42 Montgomery 22 18 2 42 ~175 77 8 260 COMBINED TOTALS. Liberals 390 Conservati ves. 171 Independents and Unionists. 29 Irf..l 590 It will be noticed tbat there is a clear majority of Liberals over all others in every county in North Wales, and that the total result gives a majority, similarly reckoned, of more than two to one.
CELEBRATING THE VICTORY.
CELEBRATING THE VICTORY. Ammanford. There was a large gathering of ladiss and gentle- men at the Ivorites' Hall on Friday to celebrate the victory of Mr W. N. Jones. The chair was occupied by the Rev Landeg Powell, and con- gratulatory addresses were given by Messrs D. Arthur, Watcyn Wyn, T. J. Thomas, and b. Callard, and bardic addresses by Messrs G. Ehas and J. T. Job. The newly elected councillor delivered an able speech, speaking first in English and afterwards in Welsh.
OFFENCES BY CANDIDATES.
OFFENCES BY CANDIDATES. In the Queen's Bench Division on Friday- before Mr Baron Huddleston and Mr Justice Wills—Mr Benson applied that Mr Thomas Penrice might be relieved from certain penalties which he bad inadvertently incurred in prosecuting his candidature for the Oystermouth division of the Glamorgan County Council. Before issuing his address Mr Penrice requested Mr John Beynon to call a meeting of his supporters, and the meeting was held on the 191;h December in the only room which was available for the purpose at the Mumbles. The room unfortunately happened to be at a coffee tavern. The meeting was a preliminary one, and was attended by only fifteen electors. At it Mr Penrice was adopted as a candidate, and a committee was appointed to promote his candidature. It was merely on the day of the election that he discovered that the Act of Parliament bad been infringed At the same time he ascertained that two cards had been issued on his bebalf-one containing instructions how to vote, and the other a request to vote-wbich did not have the name and address of the printer at the bottom, as required by the statute. Everything else had been done in due form and proper order. The matter arose entirely from inadvertence, and instant steps were taken with a view to the present application, which was unopposed. Mr Baron Huddleston said the court had already held that cards of this description came within the designation of bills, placards, or posters. He supposed that the offence which had been committed on this head must be excused in the present instance, although the same leniency would not be extended to candidates as the requirements of the law became further promulgated. As to the holding of the meeting on licensed premises, that was an offence of a more serious character, but there seemed to be circumstances of mitigation connected with it, as the candidate did not appear to have been present,and no intoxicating liquors were consumed on the occasion. The relief asked for would therefore be granted. Mr Benson applied that Mr Beynon should also be excused for having convened the meeting. Mr Beynon was unaware at the time that it was illegal to bold a meeting in a coffee-tavern. Application granted. Mr Bray made an application on the part of Lord Dynevor, candidate for the Llandovery Division of Carmarthen, and also on behalf of Mr Lewis Bishop, who voluntarily acted for Lord Dynevor. The delinquency was in using a public- house called the Red Lion Inn tor promoting his lordship's candidature. The meeting was con- veued by Mr Bishop, and at it the noble lord was adopted as a candidate; but Lord Dynevor did not request Mr Bishop to call the meeting, either directly or indirectly. There was no amdavit from his lordship, but there was a medical certificate stating that in consequenoe ot serious nlness he was quite unable to see anyone or to attend to any kind of business.. Mr Baron Huddleston Is that certificate on affidavit ? Mr Bray: No; but the facts are covered by affidavit of Mr Bishop, who states that he first became aware that he bad committeed an illegality on the 12th of January. Lord Dynevor had also made a mistake by issuing placards containing his address, which gave the name of the printer, but did not state that the printer was also the publisher. Their Lordships granted relief to Mr Bishop, but adjourned the case of Lord Dynevor for a week in order that further affidavits might be filed. Mr Brickwood asked that relief might be granted to Mr Charles Rankin Vickerman, who the 16th inst. was elected for the; St. Issells Division of Pembrokeshire, polling 236 votes against Major Birtwistle, for whom only 27 votes were recorded. The applicant omitted the words "and published" from the posters which con- taiaedhisfirst address to tbe electors,and the words "printed and published" from some voøt. cards which were sent to voters. Mr Marshall objected to the application on ths part of the opposing candidate on the ground that Mr Vickerman did not take any steps whatever to procure relief until after the election. Their lordships considered that this was a caM in which relief might very properly be granted. The application was therefore acceded to.
LORD ABERDARE AND COUNTY ALDERMEN.
LORD ABERDARE AND COUNTY ALDERMEN. Lord Aberdare has sent the following answer to the Carnarvon Herald in reply to soma j questions as to how aldermen should be elected I In the selection of aldermen much will depend upon the subject in view. If that object be to strengthen the political party of the majority of the council, the obvious course would be to make aldermen of those councillors whose vacated seats are believed to be safe ;[or to select outsiders with a primary regard to their political opinions, and so reinforce^ the existing majority. If the object ba to have a council efficient fo# the purposes intended by the Legislature, the selection should, it appears to me, be made from among those outsiders who have— (1.) Already given proof ot practical ability, devotion to public business, and high publio spirit, or, (2.) From man who give fair promise of ex* hibiting those qualifications when tried. With reference to this second category, I may be permitted to add that the various important administrative duties committed to the council, e.g., finance, lunatic asylums, roads, police (io part), reformatories, industrial schools, ftc., &c., will afford an invaluable training to young men of honourable ambition who look to serve their country. ABERDAKB, January 25th, 1889.
Family Notices
BIRTHSj MARRIAGES, DEATHS Notices of Birth*, Marriages, and Deaths, are ekxTgtx mtihernte of Is for thej.ru Twenty Woras. ana 6a, jor gBery additional Ten Words, and must be PREPAID, i gif ctwriffh'- £ fice must be authenticated by tne nam 31%d address 0; the writer BIRTH. JJEWIS.—On 28th Jan., at 169, Newport-road, the wife of T. S. Lewis, of a son. 52/1 MARRIAGE. SARKBPE—SMATTDRIDGE.—January 28th, at the Re- gistry Office, Cardiff, James Barrett to Eliza Smalldridge. 603 DEATHS. TENKINGS.—January 28th, at Nolton-street, Bridgend, Edgar Jenkings, Surveyor to the Ogmore ana Garw Local Board, in his 28th year. WHTTB.—-on January 22, at Muirhead, near Perth, Mr John Whyte, aged 78 years.
MODERN REVIVALS.
MODERN REVIVALS. WALES has long been noted for her religious enthusiasm. Zeal in the cause of sect may have now and again overclouded the fervour of their Christianity, but, on the whole, whenever a question of the common duties of Christianity crops up, denominationalism retires to the background, and the various sects unite in true Christian fellowship, working together in amity for the furtherance of their common cause. But religious fervour in Wales, as elsewhere, has its tides, its periods of ebb and now. For years past the reli- gious tide of Wales has been at the ebb. Jt was a common complaint among the churches of all denominations that the zeal which had been wont to mark their devotional exercises in years gone by had departed, and with it, to a certain extent, the glory of the religious life of Wales. For some time past, however, signs have not been wanting to indicate that the point of lowest ebb has been reached, and that the flow has already commenced. Twelve months or more ago it was reported that certain meetings of the Baptist connexion in South Wales had been marked by a fervour and a warmth to which the present generation had been strangers. Later on in the summer the whole country was roused from its apathy by reports of a remarkable outbreak which had been expe- rienced by the Congregationalists in their annual meetings at Aberavon. Though the effect of these isolated instances gradually wore away from the public mind, there were still many who firmly believod them to have been indications of the approach of a revival in religious life in Wales, which it was expected would rival, if not eclipse, the mysterious influences of 30 and 35 years ago, to which the elders of the churches were so wont to refer. Whether these expectations will be realised remains to be seen, but certainly what has recently taken place in Cardiff can hardly fail to bring renewed hope to the hearts of those who have fostered these expectations. To start with, came the Episcopal Mission in the parish of St Andrew's some months ago, when the Church of England took what was for her, so far as Wales is concerned, a new departure. That that mission was accompanied by a material measure of success is generally admitted, but its having been limited to one denomination, and evidently intended to strengthen that sect as a denomination, led it to be regarded as a denominational rather than a religious effort, and detracted, to some extent at least, from its value as a purely religious revival. The movement which has for some time been progressing in Roath appears to be essentially different There all denominations—with one single exception—Ijave heartily joined in what practically amounts to a religions crusade. The Evangelistic services initiated and « maintained by the Nonconformist churches there have been attended by an unusual measure of success. The aim has been not to increase the number of adherents of any individual church or sect, but to bring religious truths home to the masses, and to rekindle the smouldering embers of that religious zeal which in past generations focussed the attention of the Christian world on the Principality. That the meetings, held at seven o'clock in the morning as well as in the evening of each week day, for weeks in succession, have been so numerously attended that the largest chapel, accommo- dating 2,000 people, has been overcrowded, is a convincing evidence of the popularity of the movement, while the amount of religious fervour evoked goes far to indicate that the beneficial results will be lasting. We are not surprised to learn that there is now a desire to extend the field of opera- tions, and that other parts of the town are taking steps to hold similar meetings. Even before the phenomenal success of the Roath Mission had been experienced, the Welsh churches in another part of the town, Cathays, had made arrangements for a series of united "Cyfarfodydd Diwygiadol," or Revival Services, and a number of popular ministers in and around Cardiff have been secured to conduct a series of such meetings, commencing on Monday next. That meetings of this kind are capable of doing much good all will readily admit. That they are also attended with a certain amount of danger few unprejudiced minds will deny. Permanent religious impres- sions cannot be forced. Where religious zeal, instead of springing spontaneously from an over-charged heart, is the forced outcome of a mechanical effort, religion deteriorates into cant. Let the conductors of these meetings by all means employ every rhetorical power which can touch the heart of a callous audience, but let them carefully guard against anything approaching to fictitious zeal, to artificial enthusiasm, or to religious tyranny. Religion is not a thing to be forced down the people's throats whether they will or no. While religious zeal is capable of doing infinite good, that zeal, when it oversteps the bounds of reason and becomes religious fanaticism, is capable of doing enormous harm. The zeal of ROWLANDS, Llangeitho, caused a revolution in the religious world of Wales which will be ever blessed; the fanaticism of the followers of MAHOMET led them to force the acceptance of his tenets at the sword's point. While we, in common with the whole Christian world, can only wish the highest success of spontaneous efforts for a true revival of religion in our country, we shall ever deplore any mistaken zeal which will give an air of artificiality to a move- ment so deserving of success.
SUIgipEOF'ATADY.
SUIgipEOF'ATADY. A shocking cage of suicide occurred at the Grand Pump Room Htftal, Bath, early on Wednesday morning- A married lady, named otanhope, a^ed 45 years. shot herself in her bedroom daring the temporary absence of her nurse. Mrs Stanhope had been suffering from an internal complalDt and was on a visit to Bath for the benefit of her health, She. however grew worse, and was in a despondent state,
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&pirs of ilie mittlt SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1889. A disagreement which once threatened to develope into a strike of the first magnitude has just been amicably settled at the Ocean Collieries. The Aberdare miners have formally ap- proved the course adopted by the labour representatives in the House of Commons on the Employers' Liability Bill. This is an additional proof of the close touch the labour members hold with their constituents. Bangor University College continues to maintain the lead it has taken on the ques- tion of agricultural education. There is now every probability of a Dairy School being established at Bangor. The Glamorgan Agricultural Society is bent upon continuing its good work. If the proposal submitted to the annual meeting at Cowbridge on Tuesday be energetically acted upon,.e society will be placed upon a firm footing, and its field of usefulness materially enlarged. The next show is to be held at Treorky. The prospects of Swansea are improving. Recent returns show that the gross trade of the port, exceeding 2g million tons, is the highest total yet recorded. The commercial travellers of South Wales have resolved upon forming a "South Wales and Monmouthshire Commercial Travellers' Association." It has been decided to make Lampeter the assize town of Cardiganshire instead of Cardigan. The proposal was strenuously but vainly opposed by the inhabitants of Cardigan and Aberystwyth. Madame Patti has been playing the part of the good fairy queen to the poor around Craig-y-Nos. Her fame as our Queen of Song, though it cannot be eclipsed, is in danger of being. rivalled in her capacity as the Lady Bountiful of Swansea Valley. The Rev J. Williamson, M.A., of Cardiff, has commenced delivering a series of five lectures on The History of Noncon- formity in England, its Heroes, Sufferings, and Triumphs." The present generation need to be reminded of the trials of their forefathers, and to be more systematically instructed in the principles they too often profess without understanding. It is satisfactory to find that one of the participators in the Muswell Hill burglary has made a full confession. The movement against compulsory vacci- nation is rapidly gaining power. The Kettering Board of Guardians have just resolved to give their official support to the movement by refusing to appoint a vaccina- tion officer for their district. Mr Aneurin Williams, a descendant of Iolo Morganwg, has written to the Secretary of the Merthyr Library offering, in case the town establishes a free library, to place a house suitable for the purposes of a public library at the disposal of the committee. The effort to found recreative evening classes at Cardiff is likely to prove a success. The association for promoting this object has been inaugurated. Chamberlain is not inclined to grant any special favours to Wales. The fact that the Principality has given him the cold shoulder induces him to retaliate, and he nowsees no reason "why special concessions should be made to Welsh farmers rather than to English and Scotch." If Lord Wolseley had his way, the United Kingdom would soon be placed under a system of universal conscription such as prevails in some continental countries. Poor Mr Chamberlain, blinded though he be, was wide enough awake to see that such a project "is not within the region of practical politics." Boulanger is once more to the front. The victory he gained in Paris on Sunday last, and the enormous majority by which he has been returned, go a long way to prove that he is a factor with whom the French Government may yet have to count. The readiness of the ministry to resign as a result of the election is not without its lesson.
DEFYING COERCION.
DEFYING COERCION. THERE is never smoke without fire they say, and the rumour which was spread abroad on Monday that Mr O'BRIEN was in Cardiff only just missed the truth. The local papers, while giving tne story treated it as a canard, and altogether incredible. But it was not so devoid of veracity, after all. May be that he never put foot in Cardiff, but he certainly passed through it may be that he did not row across the channel, but, nevertheless, he came in a small craft, and, moreover, landed on the Welsh coast. But Mr O'BRIEN'S adventures read like a tale of history re-told. His escape from the court, his seeking shelter in a house, his disguise, the assis- tance rendered to him by a single lady, his slipping away in a small coasting vessel—all seem to be but repetitions of what happened to CHARLES after the battle of Worcester, or later on to the young Pretender. The similarity can almost be traced to the language used. There is a passage in Lord CLARENDON'S history which relates to the alarm of CHARLES II. upon learning that FRANCES YATES, the sister to the wife of RICHARD PUNDERELL, had recognised him. "Good womau," he said, "can you be faithful to a distressed cavalier?" Yes, "sir," she replied, "I will rather "die than discover you." Com- pare these words with those spoken on Saturday last. Are you game enough, Miss O'JNEILL, to take Mr O'BRIEN'S arm "as he goes through the streets?" "I would sacrifice my life to save you, Mr 0 BRIEN," was the reply. But the episodes of Mr O'BRIEN'S flight are full of the dra- matic. His appearance at the meeting at the Hulme Town-hall where he had promised to speak was a histrionic triumph. We may pass by the enormous difficulties which he had to encounter to reach this splendid scene. The task in the days of telegraph i and policemen is vastly different to that of two centuries and a half ago, when a man on horseback travelled as quickly as the news. Every policeman in the kingdom knew on Monday that Mr O'BRIEN was at large, that there was a warrant for his apprehen- sion, and most of them would be acquainted with his features by the numerous portraits which have appeared in the papers. But to Manchester Mr O'BRIEN had determined upon going, and though all the QUEEN'S horses and all the QUEEN'S men were arrayed against him, he managed to evade them, and make his appearance on the plat- form, and deliver his speech much to the astonishment, and it may be added, the un- bounded delight of the audience. Moreover, the spot was happily chosen it was bearding the lion in his own den. Mr BALFOUR is one of the members for Manchester, and at the last election was returned unopposed. But the sight of a patriot hunted down and run into a corner in the city, which is built on the site of the field of Peterloo, must have been pitiful. That Manchester who gave her blood willingly for liberty should have sunk so low as to be represented by coercion, and to see one of its victims carried off to prison because he merely insists upon the right of free speech, is indeed humiliating. Freedom might well shriek in viewing this spectacle even as CAMPBELL assertedshe did when" KOSCIUSKO "fell." As Mr O'BRIEN said, if he had been a refugee from any other country except Ireland, England would have thrown her mantle of protection over him. It has always been the boast of this country that political offenders find an asylum on these shores—an asylum which shall not be violated but that proud boast can scarcely now be flaunted. We give to foreigners what we deny to our own subjects. Surely this infamous abrogation of duty cannot last for ever. Wrong may flourish for a time, but right will sooner or later assert itself. There may have been a little cause for despair when the elections at the close of the year went slightly against the cause of liberty, but the magnificent majority at Govan proved that the tide is still flowing. Perhaps the slack- ness was due to Mr BALFOUR himself; he had not been so aggressive, and the people, growing a little weary of perpertual indigna- tion, had welcomed the rest. But the action of Wednesday will arouse everyone again. To seize a man for a political offence com- mitted in another part of the country, and to seize him in the very centre of what was once the home (cf reform, freedom, and progression, should create a blaze, if a spark of the old llatne beamouldering, which would burn out from our midst such iniquity and injustice as was dealt out to Mr O'BRIEN:
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Letters from India, .,
Letters from India, BY W. S. OAINE, M.P. No lVI-Indian Bazaars and Opium Dens I have just returned from a four hours' visit to the bazaars of Lucknow. The bazaar of any Indian town is full of interest, but specially in towns where native manufactures have been stimulated in the past by the presence of a Court. Lucknow is a city of native palaces, and although the old royal family of Oude is fast vanishing into obscurity, the wealthy princes and nobles of Oude still live in Lucknow, ia diminished glory, it is true, but rich enough to give a tone of unusual prosperity to the shops and art workmen of the bazaars. Different trades occupy various quarters of the great bazaar, which is a narrow winding street, running from one end of the city to the other the leading men of each crafo occupying the front places, the small fry crowding into narrow alleys behind. The roadway is filled with a busy, clamorous throng of natives, in gay dresses and bright turbans so dense, indeed, is the crowd that for many hours in the day all vehicular traffic is forbidden by the authorities, as well as elephants, camels, &c. Space will fail me if I try to tell your readers of the picturesque jumble of trades which follow one another in quick succession as we stroll through the mile and a-half of the great bazaar of Lucknow. In one shop, larger than the others, are seen a group of men and boys, with potter's wheels, making bowls and furnishings for the universal hookah, the smoking of which is an essential part of every Indian bargain. The walls and front of the shop are hung with hookahs of every shape, colour, and device, intermingled with the brightly coloured clay figures for which Lucknow is famous. Now we come upon a group of small buildings in which weavers are busy making the pretty muslin sarais, which add so much to the picturesque grace of Indian women; while further on others are printing them with bright designs laid on with unerring accuracy by small wooden blocks. coloured with the palm of the hand. We stroll into the Fruit Bazaai, and past stalls piled with oranges, pomeloes, tamarinds, limes, guavas, grapes, pears, and apples brought by Afghan merchants from Cabul. The savoury smell which now fills the air announces tho Food Bazaar. Stalls of hot frizzling kabobs, piles of sweetmeats made of flour, boney, and ghee, bakers making cbappaties —the flat cakes which are the universal bread of the couutry-and which are baked brown in two minutes on flat sheets of iron over little charcoal fires. Yellow turmeric and scarlet chillies for curry, with women grinding corn, dhal, and other cereals in hand-mills, are its maio features. The clattering of pots and pans prepares us for the brass-workers and tin-smiths. The work of the former is as good as the latter is bad. Every one is now familiar with the beautiful brass work of India, and its makers will use only the best materials for their artistic labours. The tin- smiths, however, are content to cut up old petroleum tins, and their work is on a par with their mateiial. Nothing is more curious in India than to pass from a workshop where the moat perfect and artistic results are being produced, to another whose jerrymen and inefficiency has no rival in the world. The carpentry of India is beneath con- tempt, and so is the cabinet work. If mission- aries, instead of providing costly high school teaching fur young Hindoos, turning out ten candidates for every position in life for which their education fits them, would add to their staff a few Christian joiners from England, or better still, from Japau, and start technical schools for carpentry, they would confer a real benefit on India, and do much more real and lasting good to the missionary cause. I did not leave the bazaar without noticing what a considerable portion of the trade of the pbce fell to the British Government, which is the principal retail dealer in every bazaar in India. A whole quarter is devoted to the sale of rough pink lumps of mineral, which look like inferior gypsum. This is native salt, which, with impor- tations, brings in a total revenue. of nearly £7,000,000 to tho Indian Government, whose monopoly it is. Here and there, all through the bazaar, are little shops whose entire stock con- sists of a small jump of greenish pudding, which is being weighed out in little squares. This is majoon, a preparation of the deadly bhang," or Indian hemp, known in Turkey and Egypt as Hasheesh," the most horrible intoxicant the world has yet produced. In Egypt its sale is forbidden, and special gunboats employed to suppress its smuggling by Greek and Turkish adventurers, but in India it is a "Government monopoly,* and when a Hindoo wants to commit some terrible crime, such as wife murder or mutilation, he prepares himself for it with two penny-worth of bhang, purchased from a myjoon shop, of which three halfpence goes into the State Exchequer, and a halfpenny to the shop- keeper. Here, again, is a little room, open to the street, of which the sole furniture is some, matting and half-a-dozen hookahs. This is i. Churrus shop, or Chandu." Here the paternal Government of India provides another variety of Indian hemp intoxication, which is smoked instead of eaten. A little further on is a wide and spacious shop, the front of which is strewn with little broken earthenware puts, Iuside are a number of men, seated in groups or singly, each drinking ardent spirits, manufactured by the Government and supplied retail at three farthings a gill, ot which two farthings go to the Exchequer. No Hindoo will drink after anyone else, which accounts for the broken sherds and the pile of little pots under the barrel stands. My guides, a Mussulman barrister and a Cash- mere Brahmin, then led me down a narrow side street, and stop in front of a large native house, into whicn there is quite a stream of visitors. We enter with the rest, and find ourselves in a dirty courtyard, round which are ranged fifteen small rooms. The stench is sickening, the swarms of flies intolerable, ani there is something strange and weird about the faces of those who are coming in from the street. It dawus upon me that I am in yet another and different Government" bazaar, and that, for the first time in my life, I am within the walls of an "opium den." At the entrance sits a comely Chinese woman, whose husband is busy showing the arriving customers into the least crowded of the side rooms. Before her is a table, covered with copper coins. She is veritably sittiug at the receipt of custom." About half these copper coins go to the Govern- mentHreasnry at Calcutta, the other half going to the Government tax collector, the opium farmer. I obtain permission to go over the whole premises, and enter the first of the small rooms. In the centre of the room, which has no window, and is very dark, is a small charcoal fire, whose glow casts a lurid fight on the faces of nine human beings, men and women. lying in a circle like pigs in a sty. A younggiri about fifteen years of age has charge of each room, fans the fire, lights the opium pipe, and holds it in the mouth of the smoker who has last come m, till his head falls heavily on the body of bis predecessor. Two or three are in various stages of preliminary drunkenness. I have been in East-end gin palaces on Saturday nights—I have seen men in various stages of delirium tremens, I have visited many idiot and lunatic asylums, but I have never seen such horrible destruction of God's image in the face of man as I saw in the Government opium dens of Lucknow. To my dying day I shall carry the recollection of the face of a handsome young woman of eighteen or nineteen years, sprawling on the senseless bodies of men, her fine brown eye? flattened and dulled with coming stupor, and her lips drawn back from her glittering white teetb. Another girl of the same ago was sitting in a group of newly-arrived smokers, singing some lewd romance as they handed round the pipe. I went from room to room and counted ninety seven persons of both sexes in various stages of opium stupor. Green hands could get drunk for a penny or less, but by degrees more and more opium is needed, and the callous keeper of this hideous den showed us men whom 180 drops of thick opium, mixed with tobacco, hardly sufficed to intoxicate. I came out staggering and faint with the poison-laden atmosphere. Atter a few minutes' walk my guide said, Here is another opium shop, will you go in?" I could not believa there were more than one such abomination in Lucknow, and, mastering my disgust, I entered a second. It was even worse, and more squalidly beastly than the first. Again I went from room to room, and counted on the ground floor alone 117 hnman swine of both sexes, noticing among them a bonny little lad of six or seven watching his father's changing face with a dreadful indifference. Having counted 117, I was asked to go upstairs, where" there were many more customers; I bad had more than even my strong stomach could atand, but I was told that there would be probably 50 more. It was three in the afternoon when I visited those places, and I am told that after dark the attend* ance is doubled. I have felt the effects of the fumes ever since, and the slight headache produced will probably last for two or three days. In the city of Lucknow there are 30 distilleries of native spirits, 201 liquor shops, 24 opium shops, and 92 for Bhang and other intoxicating drugs. An opium sot is the most hopeless of all drunkards—once he is well into the qlutcbes of this fiend, everything gives way to his fierce promptings. He only works to get more money for opium. Wife, children, and home are all sacrificed to this horrible lust. The receipts of the Governmeut of the north-west Province and Oude from opium, Bhane, and oeller intoxicating drugs is no less thnn JB67,000, and is steadily in the increase. It will give your readers some idea of the way in which this horrible traffic in intoxicants is being stimulated, if I give the average revenue for the N. W. Province and Oude from all intoxicants for the three years 1878-9,80, as compared with 1885 6-7. In the former case, its yearly average was jB284,000, in the latter it bad run np to JB546,000, showinv a doubled consumption within seven years. Every day I spend in India brings fresh proof that the Government are stimulating the sale of intoxicants to the very verge of decency, for the sake of the cheaply collected and rapidly increasing revenue which it furnishes. With these facts in mind, I feel no surprise at the enthusiasm with which thoughtful and patriotic native gentlemen are flocking to the temperance standard now being raised in India. In Lucknow, at the summons of a few handbills issued by the Rifa-Aum Club, 1,600 of the best citizens of the town came to meet me to discuss what measures should be taken to roll back this rising tide of drunkenness. The result of the meeting was to pass a unanimous resolution inviting the Rifa-Aum Club to appoint a standing committee to watch the excise administration of the Government in Oude. My next letter will probably be written in the National Congress Hall, at Allahabad, whither I depart to-night, spending a day or two at Benares on the way. Lucknow, Dec. 23rd, 1888.
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We are pleased t) understand that Lord Dynevor, who has been confined to his residence at Llandilo for some days, has now recovered sufficiently to be able to leave bis room.
A MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.
A MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE. Rumoured Assassination. VIENNA, Wednesday Afternoon.—An in. describable sensation has been caused here by the announcement of the sudden death of the Crown s Prince Rudolph. The terrible news reached the Emperor and the Prime Minister about 10 o'clock this morning, and the other ministers were at once informed by special messages. A cypher, tolegram was also despatched without delay to Herr Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister at Pesth, but nothing was allowed to transpire in public uritil the afternoon, when a com- munication was made to the official press bureau whence the bare fact was sent round to some newspapers, and to the telegraphic agency which acts as the Govern- ment mouthpiece to the outside world. Meanwhile, however, private despatches had reached this city from Baden giving some particulars of the dire calamity; but all attempts, my own among; the number, to telegraph ■} news abroad were prevented by the Ct I until the official telegrams had pas through. These stated that the Crown Prince, who has been staying for some time past at his shooting box at Meier- ling, near Baden, had a fit of apoplexy during the night, and died shortly afterwards, never having recovered con- sciousness. Some of the private despatches referred to were of a more sensational character, but no Viennese newspaper has yet dared to refer to them. One telegram stated that his Imperial Highness met with a fatal accident whilst engaged with a small party shooting game. In another it was asserted that the Crown Prince was assassinated in the woods by aa aggrieved peasant, who shot him from behind a tree. My information is that the Prince died of heart disease. He retired to bed at a comparatively early hour last night, and, as usual, left word at what hour he was to be called. This morning his "body servant" or valet went to the bed- chamber to call Jhim, and was horrified to find his Royal master lying dead in his bed. The whole household were speedily alarmed, and telegrams and mounted couriers were sent in hot haste to the capital. The Crown Prince was known personally to every man and woman in this city, and, judging from outward appearance, he was destined to live a life longer than the Hapsburg average. When last seen in Vienna he seemed to be in robust health, and the last man in the world to be subjected to fits. The late Crown Prince had no male issue. His only child is a daughter, the little Archduchess Elizabeth, who was born in September, 1883. | BKUTKR'S TELEGRAMS.] VIENNA, Wednesday, 2.50 p.m. — Intelligence has just been received here from Meirling, near Baden, a small place in the vicinity of this city, announcing the sudden death of tha Crown Prince Rudolph, it is supposed from a stroke of apoplexy. VfENNA, Wednesday, 5.30 p.m. — A special edition of the official Gazette has just been published announcing the death of tha Crown Prince Rudolph. According to this account of the melancholy occurrence, the Crown Prince, with several guests, including Prince Philip of Coburg and Cownt floyas, went on Monday to Meieriing, near Baden, for some shooting. On Tuesday he became indisposed, and was excused from the family dinner party at Hofburg. The shooting guests appeared as usual this morning, but the Crown Prince was abseat. Immediate enquiries were made, when it was ascertained that tho Crown Prince had died from a stroke of apoplexy. VIENNA, 5.45 p.m.—The sad news at first produced a paralysing effect. The utmost ex- citement prevails. The telegraph offices are besieged by excited crowds, all business having been brought to a close. The sitting of the Lower House of the Reichsrath closed amidst great excitement, as was also the Bourse. All the theatres are closed. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAMS.] PARIS, Wednesday Afternoon.—The news of the death of the Crown Prince of Austria reached this city about half-past three, and caused a decided sensation. Taken in conjunction with the rioting in Pestb, it caused some weakness on the Bourse, especially in Hangarian securities. VIENNA, Wednesday Night.—The Emprsss was one of the first of the distinguished personages in Vienna to hear of the sad event. Her Majesty, trembling with agitation and bowed dowu with grief, informfid the Emperor of the death of their first-born. The Emperor's grief is said to have been of the acutest kind. BERLIN, Wednesday Evening.—The death of the Crown Prince of Austria has caused a tre- mendous sensation bere, but in certain circles it has not created any feeling of sorrow, as it has long been understood that the deceased prince was not particularly enamoured of the Triple Alliance. As soon as the Emperor William received the sad uews he despatched a telegram of condolence to the Emperor Francis Joseph, and about five o'clock be drove to the Austrian Embassy.
RECEPTION OF THE N~WS IN.…
RECEPTION OF THE N~WS IN. LONDON. LONDU; 7ednesday Night. The news received in A.jndon this afternoon through Reuter's Agency that the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria had expired suddenly, at Meierling, near Vienna, from apoplexy, excited deep and widespread regret in the metropolis. The late heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne had not completed his thirty-first year, having been born on August 21st, 1858. In 1881 be married the Princess Stephanie, second daughter of the King of the Belgians, and the only child of the marriage is Princess Elizabeth, now not quite six years of age. Archduke Rudolph was the only lion of the Emperor Francis Joseph, whose other children are the Archduchess Gisela and Archduchess Maria Valeria, the next male representative of the Hapsburgs being the Archduke Karl Ludwig, Field-Marshal Lieutenant in the Austro Hungarian Army, who has six children. The late Crown Prince was well-known in London society, and being a friend of the Prince of Wales, was occasionally a visitor;to thia country, thejast occasion being at the celebra- tion of the Queen's Jubilee in 1837,where his was a conspicuous figure in the escort of princes which accompanied her Majesty through the streets of London. The news of the sad event was im- mediately telegraphed to the Queen and the Prince of Wales, and communicated to the Austrian Embassy in Belgrave-square. The customary tokens of mourning were hoisted during the afternoon at the Embassies and public offices at Whitehall and Westminster. Meieriing, where the death of the Crown Prince occurred, is a small shooting box not far from the capital. city, and there are only a few houses scattered about the neighbourhood. On inquiry this afternoon, it was ascertained that both at the Foreign Office and German Embassy telegrams had been received confirming the announcement of the death of Crown Prince Rudolf. Lord Salisbury not having come to town to-day, the news was immediately telegraphed to him at Hatfield, a opecial message being also despatched to her Majesty at Osborne. When the intelligence was conveyed to the Austrian Embassy, Count Kinsky, who was in charge, could not believe it, tor it was only a few days ago that the count, being on leave of absence, was in Vienna, and accompanied the Crown Prince to the opera. His Royal Highness was then in the best of health and spirits, and full of his forthcoming visit to the shooting-box where his death has taken place. As recently as Sunday last Prince Rudolf was present at the State reception given by the Emperor of Austria in Vienna in honour of the Emperor of Germany's birthday. Count Kinsky took leave of the Prince last Wednesday on his return to England. He brought with him Prince Rudolf s last Djeggage to the Prince of Wales, expressing the hope that on his Royal Highness's next visit to Austria on a shooting expedition they would have better sport than when the Prince of Wales was his guest last year. Now that next visit of the Prince of Wales will be to represent the Queen at the funeral. Mr Hop- wood, of the Foreign Office, Lord Salisbury's private secretary, proceeded to Sandringbam immediately the news was known, and communi- cated it to the Prince, who will come to London to-morrow, and on arriving at St Pancras will drive direct to the Austrian Embassy to express bis condolence. Count Deym, the Austrian ambassador, who is now at Bourne- mouth, will probably have arrived in London by that time. The deceased Prince was much liked by the Queen, who, on the occasion of his last visit to England, invested him with the Order of the Garter. Ha was the only Prince not a reigning sovereign, or related to her Majesty, upon whom that honour has been conferred. The usual Couit mourning for a direct heir to a throne will be ordered by theC ,laeen, namely, full mourn. ing for a fortnight and half-mourning for the week following. ) The deceased Prince was of a high order of intelligence, and devoted himself with knowledge and ardour to natural history pursuits. On his favourite Subject, together with the record of his travels, Prince Rudolf had produced a com- pendious work, which was spoken of in terms of hearty commendation by German savants and litterateurs, His scientific inclinations are said by rep»rt; to have been stronger than his military disposition. By virtue of his rank. however, be held a distinguished place in the army rile. He wag Vice-Admiral of the Fleet,. Major-General oi. infantry, Hon. Colonel of another regini^ntv,f infantry and one of Artillery, Hon. Colonel 0f the Brandenburg Uhlans, in the Prussian Army chief of the Svesk (Russian) Regiment and or the Bavarian Cuirassiers, and M.a] or-General of ^he Prussian Guards.