The Merthyr Telegraph and General Advertiser for the Iron Districts of South Wales

TREDEGAIt POLICE COURT. TUESDAY.—(Before lib- Darby and Dr Coates.) A NOISY PAT.—Patrick Hogan was charged with being drunk and refusing to quit the Royal Arms, Rhymney.— Fined 5s. and costs. RHYMNEY "CWRW BACH."—Walter Walters was charged by the police with selling beer illegally.—Mr Plews de- fended.—Sergeant Richards visited tho house of defendant and found nothing in the way of beer in doors, but in the coal cellar he came across 2 kilderkins, one of which was on tap —Mr Plews cross-examined Richards as to whether the casks were 18 or 9 gallons.—Richards was half-inclined to doubt his own idea of the size, but he stuck to it that what he saw were kilderkins.—The bench dismissed the case as there was no proof of sale.—Jane Williams and Mary Moses a brace of old widows, were charged by the same officer with a similar offence. They both pleaded guilty.—Jane sold a drop to make up her rent, and Mary in her anxiety to "do right" sold a drop to keep her off the parish.—The bench ordered them to pay a tine of 10s. each and costs. ASSAULT.—Sarah Hughes v. Henry Patch.- Complain- ant keeps the Railway hotel beer-house, at Ebbw Vale, and was assaulted by defendant who came there to annoy her.—Defendant said Mrs Hughes hit him with the tongs and he shoved her away.—Officer Crowley said the Railway hotel was the worst conducted house in Newtown.—The bench fined defendant ]g. and expenses. THREATS.— William Evans v. John Morgan.—Mr C. R. Harris for complainant, who is a night overman at New Tredegar colliery, where defendant formerly worked as a timberman. Defendant had left and returned one day and challenged Evans with having rebbed him of £2, and used such language that complainant was afraid of him.—The bench bound him over to keep the peace for G months in £10. and ordered him to find one surety.—James Jones, of the Forge Hammer, Abercarn, can.s forward, and after warning the defendant to be a good boy henceforth, entered into the necessary bond to set defendant free. JUVENILE OFFENDERS. — Margaret Bryan and Jessie Swain, two little girls, were charged with pilfering from the shop of Wm. Davies, draper, Castle-street, Tredegar.— The bench sent them te Usk for 10 days and afterwards to a Reformatory, Bryan for 2 and Swain for 3 years. A SERIOUS CASE. — Bartholomew Cosgrove, puddler, Ebbw Vale, was charged with assaulting William Lovell, bailer.—Mr Lane defended. —The complainant had his eye bandaged, and on opening it, it was shocking to look at, the sight being quite gone.—Dr Coates said it was a very serious matter, and the medical attendant ought to be ex- amined, for which purpose a remand would take place for a week.—Bail would be accepted for defendant in j350, and two sureties in JE25 each. STEALING WORKMEN'S FOOD.—John Lloyd, a small boy, for this offence at Ebbw Vale works, was sent to Ullk for a month.—Officer Crowley said prisoner stole the tins, and after taking the food out, threw away the boxes. PROTECTION ORDER.—Mary Welsh, Ten rows, Sirhowy, through Mr C. R. Harris, applied for an order to protect her goods and earnings from her husband who bad deserted her two years ago.—The bench granted the application. VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN.—Mr Harris drew the at- tention of the bench to a case in which a man named Ratican persisted in not believing in the virtue of vacci- nation and refusing to be done himself or allow his children to be done.—The bench said a summons would be issued unless Ratican complied with the requirements of the Vaccination Act. BRYNMAWR. A BRUTE.—At the police-court on Monday (before Mr W. E. Jayne), a collier, named John Everett, was charged with drunken and disorderly conduct at Brynmawr.—Ac- cording to the evidence of the wife and mother-in-law of the defendant, he was a most brutal husband. The wife appeared in court with an infant in her arms, and while relating her troubles she cried vtry much.—Mr Jayne said it was shameful to think that such a specimen of the British workman was in existence.—Fined 5s and costs for the drunkenness, and ordered to find sureties for six months. A CARPENTER LOCKED OUT.—Edward Jones, Beaufort, lived in a house belonging to a Mrs Harris, and being back in his rent he was "axed" to quit; and when he went he took the lock off the door, barred the inside, and made his exit by the window. Timothy Griffiths, son-in-law to Mrs Harris, finding how "locks, bolts, and bars" stood, got a lock and fastened the place up; and when Jores came at night to fix his new lock he found it was a. case of "locked out." A summons was taken out against him for damaging the door, and he bolted."—The Bench fined him 10s and costs in default, one month.—The other cases required a second magistrate, and a telegram was sent to M r Sharp. The court adjourned tilt two o'clock. A HEAVY FINE.—The business was resumed at 2.45, when Thomas Morgan, of the Rose and Crown Inn, Bryn- mawr, was arraigned on a. charge of altering, on two occa- sions, the entry of the brewing. Mr Bolgar, supervisor of Inland Revenue, prosecuted and defendant, by his wife, pleaded guilty to altering the figure 4 to a 2. She said she intended brewing four bushels, but finding she had no place for so much she changed her mind and brewed only two. — Mr Bolgar said he was there to protect the Revenue. The Bench ha.d heard the statement of Mrs Morgan, but the law allowed no such excuse for altering any figures. The pen- alty was £2uO for each offence. The Bench had power to remit it to one-fourth, and to recommend a further mitiga- tion fur the consideration of the Board.—Mr Powell: We remit the fine from £400 to £100, and recommend a further mitigation.—Mr Bolgar I will forward your recommenda- tion to the proper authorities, and will probably let Mrs Morgan know the result in about ten days. STEALING JEAN.—Ann Baker, wife of James Baker, miner, was charged with stealing forty yards of jean from the shop door of William Stephens, draper, Brynmawr, and Eliza Williams, married, was charged with receiving the same knowing it to have been stolen.—Baker pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two months with hard labour in the house of correction. Mrs "Williams elected to be dealt with sum- marily but would not plead guilty to knowing the goods were stolen, and the Bench had only one alternative, which was to send her for trial.

MRS WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN: should always be used when Children are cutting teeth itrelievea the little sufferers at once, it produces natural quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as bright as a button." It is perfectly harmless, and very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by thousands of Medicine dealers in all parts of the world at Is ljd per bottle, and Millions 9f Mothers can testify to its virtue.— Manufactory, 493 Oxford Sireet, London. 4831 NEW METAL POCKET VESTA BOX WITH PATENT SPRING COVER.—Bryant and May have recently intra dticed a very useful little Pecket Vesta Box with a most ingenious and simple spring cover it is a novelty in every way, and will soon come into very general use—being of metal instead of card, and retailed, filled with vestas, at one penn Any Tobacconist, Grocer, Chemist, or Chandler will supply it. 4818 THOSE LADIES who have not yet used the GLENFIELD STARCH, are respectfully solicited to give it a trial, a.nd care, fully follow oat the directions printed on every package, I and if this is done, they will say, like the Queen's Laun. dress, that it is the finest Starch they ever used. What you a.sk for Glenfield Starch, see that you get it, as inferia kindJ are often substituted for the sake of extra profits, CHURCHYARDS AND FUNERALS.—I have often thought, especially in days of youth and sentiment, what should be the last Godspeed of the nearest and dearest to me. 1 think the time was to have been the very early morning, when gaping, indifferent idlers would be asleep; no hand that was not dear to me should have aujbt to do with the price- less burden. Brothers and friends, or faithful dependants, the truest and most tried, should be honoured with it. No vile coffin should angularly slander the graceful form. The sh:.pe of that last couch should have some hiarh meaning, or symbolise SOIIIH hopeful thought. Tts name and 'appear- ance should at once suggest something beyond the mere grave. Obviously the cross would be the most suitable, and quite a possible shape—telling at once of sorrow and of hope, hinting «f suffering and of salvation. Or, again, a boat might be built, suggesting the passage across the dark river, and the bright shore beyond. For trestles there should be, to bear the treasure-laden bark, stays and slips, as for a vessel just to be launched. A sheet of white flowers, or of white linen, edged with violet. and with a violet or blood-red cross in the centre, should drape the little boat and enfold it at anchor. Our garb should be white, because of the angels that bare away the soul; with, perhaps, an edge of violet, because of the mortals that are parting with the body. The bells should never toll, but ring a slow, solemn, sweet welcome. White choristers should take the angels' part in the procession, and precede with singing, while earth folio ved the sleeper with the offering of tears. No dreary duet between priest and clerk should chill the heart and strike it with loneliness and lack of sympathy soft music should hush the necessary move- ment aud noise at the times of these, and the banded voice of young men and maidens should go up to God in sweet Psalms and earnest Aniens. The Holy Communion, most exquisitely suitable at such a time, should remind sorrow- ing saints on earth of their communion with saints in Paradise. And then only the sod should cover the sleeper a white cross at the head and at the feet. No mass of marble should be built over her, as though we had no thought of her ever rising into the sun again. Flowers should spring up there after the winter, with their whisper of the resurrection, and their quiet, tender sympathy. I shoud come in the sunsets often the stars would find me still there quiet lambs, that scarce had been aware of me, would pause from their nibbling when I moved. But, for all the sorrow, horror and despair should cast no gloom on the sacred spot—those Vampire wings sheuld never hover there. The shadow that dwelt there should be soft, and grey, and translucent, cast by the white wing of the Angel of Hope. I am aware that much of this may seem fanciful, sentimental, to some readers. Be it so. I said that there were In it some gleanings from earlier days yet own some- thing in it of graceful and true, some fancy at least better than the grim reality of respectable society's demon orgies. There are, I know, a few practical men who are trying to carry out in fact what, as yet, have been only fancies with me. Let my blue-flowered delicate flax be woven into serviceable linen, useful, but still delicate and fair.— Churchman's Shi!Iing\Majeazine. POMP AND THANKSGIVING. -Everybody is thinking—we cannot say we blame them for it—of the show, not of the spiritual act to be performed at St. Paul's. People are dreaming a great deal more about the ribands than about the rites; about the liveries than about the litany or lessons about the splendour of the spectacle than about the spirit of their prayers. Nor will there be the excuse for all this which there is for gorgeous Church ceremonial generally—that the very object of this gorgeous ceremonial is to express the grandeur of the spiritual power and the comparative nothingness of man, For in these cases the pomp is not ecclesiastical pomp, is not representative of the humility of the worshippers and of the grandeur of the object of worship but, on the contrary, u directly symbo- lical of the earthly majesty of the principal worshippers- consists, in fact, in Carlyle's sense, of "cloth." of the precise kind which hide tho poverty and nakedness of the individual soul from itself, and invest it in a cloud of human pageantry. No doubt the thanksgiving itself is a grand formal acknowledgment of the power and mercy of God but the tendency of the whole ceremonial must be to bring much more emphatically into relief the power and grandeur of the chiefs of the State. The voice of thanks- giving will go up muffled by the heavy atmosphere of the pomp through which it passes. The pageantry of the day will certainly be pageantry declaring the glory of man rather than the glory of God. The Thanksgiving service will be a public memorial of a real thanksgiving of which the ardour is mostly past—a grand monument to a spent wave of religious feeling rather than an expression of one now really passing through the public mind. The atten- tion which many weeks age was really concentrated on the prayer aud the thanks, will not be concentrated on the Royal magnificence and the stateliness of the national array. We confess we see a real incongruity between this con- centration of effect on the Royal procession, and the object of the rite for which it is put in motion. The purpose of the day is a public acknowledgement of the nation's thank- fulness for a granted prayer, and of the Prince of Wales's gratitude for the Divine mercy. In both cases the central point of the intsrest and the central point of its symbolical expression of gratitude ought to be on the religious, and not on the human, side. Can anything hide this better than so careful an accumulation of grand effects upon the regal magnificence of the thanksgiver and his surroundings ? We cannot help thinking that the truer way of expressing such a feeling of national thanksgiving would be to aocumulate all possible splendour and beauty about the churches and the other places of worship of the whole United Kingdom, to have thanksgiving everywhere, while the Prince himself and those personally interested in his restoration to health should have gone in strict privacy, and without any marks of State or splendour, to mingle their thanks with those of the people. If the mercy of God means anything on such an occasion, it means something so great, that the natural mode in which kings should recognise it, would seem to be more by a careful putting off of all worldly grandeur, than by putting it on. These are occasions in which the heart and soul ought to be engaged, if the service is to be a real one. And if they are so engaged, is not the very first thought of the nothingness of th:\t rank of which earth makes so much of the certainty th1\t the soul of a monarch, when it comes to be stripped of all adventitious aids, will be on an exact equality with the soul of the poorest peasant in his dominions—of that effacement of dignity, and wealth, and power, which comes in the presence of death ? How could this be better symbolised amongst us than by the attempt to realise on the day of thanksgiving that spiritual equality which had been more than realised when the Prince seemed to be breathing out his last breath on a bed of fever ? How could it be better symbolised than by re- serving all our poor attempts at glory for the buildings in which God is worshipped amongst us, and as far as pos- sible ignoring the showy external side at least of those petty distinctions of rank which in the presence of God appear so trivial, and are, at all events, so fatal to the influence of true devotion ? It may be said that, after all, it was for the heir to the Throne that the nation prayed, and that, therefore, in any true thanksgiving service, there should be no artificial attempt to conceal his public rank and position, since it is for his preservation as heir to the Throne that the people wish to give God tfeanks. Of course, that is 80 far true, that had he not been heir to the Throne the popu- lar feeling would have been much less marked, much less ardent; but then, if it was for his real happiness and good, for his spirit and not merely for his succession to the Royal inheritance, that the people prayed, what they would need to realise most, and probably what he himself would need to realise most, is the weakness and helplessness of the spiritual part of the man, and not his grand position which they can see illustrated in any State pageant whatever. The opportunities are sufficiently few in which either a prince or a nation strips off the conventional signs of rank which so mislead and distort our imagination here, and the Sovereign, or future Sovereign, appears to himself and to them simply as one of the creatures of God. Surely a national thanksgiving for God's granting of the people's prayers for the Prince-if we believe that God did grant the people's prayers—should be one such occasion—to be distinguished by a marked absence of earthly pernp rather than by its presence and, if by splendour at all, splendour lavished on the symbols of the Divine power and presence, not on the grandeur of the human worshipper. The pomp of the 27th of February wtH certainly not be a pomp of this kind. It will, if it resemble the 23rd of April, 1789, be a day on which the Prince of Wales will realise more vividly than ever before the grandeur of his earthly position, and perhaps feel more difficulty than ever in disrobing himself, even in the very act of Divine worship, of those interior trappings which popularity, rank, and power gradually weave around the heart.—Spectator.

m — — ? AN EVENING BEVERAGE.—CACA'OINE.—The Food Journal says :—" A new process to which the nibs are subjected, the principal part of the oil is effectually removed, a thin beverage, well adapted for afternoon or evening use, as a substitute for tea, being the result. The flavour of Caca'oine will, in addition, be a great attraction to all."—Each packet or tin is labelled, "JAMES EPPS & Co., Homoeo- pathic Chemists, London." Also, makers of Epps's Milky Caca'oine (Caca'oine *nd Condensed Milk). 4715 BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, or any irritation er soreness of the throat, are now imported and said in this country at Is lid per box, put up in the form of a "lozenge." It is the most convenient, pleasant, safe and sure remedy for clearing and strengthening the voice in the world. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says I have often recommended them to friends who were public speakers, and m many cases they have proved extremely serviceable." The genuine have the words "Brown's Bronchial Troches on the Government Stamp around each box. Sold by all medicine vendors.—London Depot 493 Oxford Street. 4531 "THE LION, THE NET, AND THE MOUSE.TO prevent Pirates, and unprincipled Traders from deceiving the public, the proprietor of POWELL'S BALMX or ANISEED has been compelled to adopt the above Trade Mark (Lion, Net, and Mouse), and this design will in future continue to appear upon the wrapper of each genuine bottle, and any one imi. tatiug it will render themselves liable to fine or imprison- ment. The following letter will boar testimony to the wonderful curative properties of this old Cough Medicine. —" Her Majesty's Gun Boat, Netley,' Wick, North-East Coast ef Scotland, 7th September, lS68.-Deax:Sir,-Huing had a most distressing and Severe Cough, which caused me many sleepless nights and restless days, I was recommended by His Lordship the Earl of Caithness, to try your most invaluable Balsam of Aniseed, and I can assure you with the first do so I foand immediate relief, even without having to suspend my various duties and the first small bottle com- pletely cured me, therefore I have the greatest confidence in fully recommending it to the million. Most respectfully yours, W. Linzell, H.M.G.B. 'Nefcley.To Mr Pewell." Prepared and sold by Thomas Powell, 16, Blackfriars Road, London and sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors tlrrought the World. In bottles only, at Is. l^d. aud 2s. 8d. each. Ask for POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANI8EED." [4339 FLORILINE !—For the TEETH and BREATH.—A few drops of the Fragrant Floriline on a wet tooth brush produces a delightful foam, which cleanses the Teeth from all impu. rities, strengthens and hardens the gums, prevents tartar, arrests the progress of decay. It gives to the Teeth a peculiar and beautiful whiteness, and imparts a delightful fragrance to the breath. It removes all unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth, a disordered stomach, or tobacco smoke. The Fragrant Floriline is purely vegetable, and equally adapted to old and young. It is the greatest Toilet discovery of the age. Sold at 2s 6d by all Chemists and Perfumers. Prepared only by H. C. GALLUP, 493 Oxford Street, London. The word "Floriline" is a Trade Mark." 4831 VALUABLE DISCOVERY FOR THE HAIR !!—A very nicely perfumed hair dressing called The Mexican Hair Renewer," now being sold by most Chemists and Per. fumers at 3s 6d per bottle, is fast superseding all Hair Restorers "—for it will positively restore in every case Grey or White hair to its original colour, by a few applications, without dyeing it, or leaving the disagreeable smell wf most Restorers." It makes the hair charmingly beauti- ful, as well as promoting the growth on bald spots, where the hair glands are not decayed. Certificate from Dr. Yere- mann on every bottle, with full particulars. Ask for "THE MEXICAN ILua RENEWER," prepared by H. C. GALLUP, 493 Oxford Stteet, London. 4831

SPIRmOF THE PRESS. » TltB COLLmit I>BBATE IN THE COMMONS. Times observes that a majority of 27 against the resolution proposed by Mr. Cross, censuring the conduct of the Government in appointing Sir Robert Collier as paid member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, sufficiently indicates the judgment of the House of Com- monr on the transaction. The ordinary Ministerial majority is something very different from 27. It was more than a hundred, and even now it would not fall belowaixty upon any issue approved by the bulk of the Liberal party. The olrcumstances of the debate of Monday night wera all in favour of an unequivocal triumph if the nbjeøt matter of disoussion had admitted of it. The Lords had refused to condemn the conduct of the Ministry. f Our relations with America ajro such as to beget a strong feeling that nothing should be done to lessen the authority of the Governfeent which, speaks in the name of the coun- try. Sir Ronndell Palmer led for the defence, and dis- played even more than his wonted ingenuity while speak- ling on behalf of ft personal friend. He was supported by the Lord Advocate in a speech whioh deserved a better reception. than it obtained, and Mr. Gladstone himself entered the lists at the close, and spoke with much warmth and feeling on his own behalf. Yet all was insufficient to produce a telling" division. The House refused, as every one knew it would, to support Mr. Cross, but the adverse majority was no more than 27 e cannot regret the debate. Many things will be said of it, but no one will venture to describe it as a waste of time. It was a noble vindication of the authority of law. As member after member rose from the Ministerial benches to declare that they could not resist expressing disapproval of the conduct pursued by the Ministry—and more were ready to rise had time allowed—it was seen that the old belief had not died out which made our fathers think that the Crown could mot be allowed to set at naught statutes imposed by the authority of Parliament without exposing to peril every safeguard of liberty and order. This was made so manifest that we may bo certain the experi- ment tried in the appointment of Sir Robert Collier will not be repeated. Mr. Gladstone, indeed, says the Govern- ment never anticipated the feeling it has excited. The Act itself expires within eighteen months. The opinion of Parliament has, however, been clearly pronounced. No balance arrived at by counting Ayes and Noes can leave it uncertain which way the judgment of the House of Com- mons on Monday night inclined, and we have a double satis- faction in thinking that the inviolability of our laws has I been substantially asserted without necessitating a recon- struction ef the Ministry. Per the purposes of the argument before the House of Commons, remarks the Standard, it was the spirit and not the letter of the a:t which was the substance of contention. Mr. Cross proved most clearly, by referring to the history of the act, thfct, It iraa the intention of Parlia- ment and the intention of the Government also, thai the new members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Ceuneil should be men of judicial experience. There has been a good deal of quibbling over these words, but it is sufficient for the purpose to shew, as Mr. Cross aid, from the language and the acta of the Ministers them- selves, that ordinary practising barristers were to be excluded from the appointment to the Judicial Committee of the Privy OouneiL In the original bill of 1870 the clause whim permitted of. the selection of ordinary banisters net with; great opposition on both sides ef the HeaM, and it was tnainly in consequenee of it that the bill had to' be withdrawn. In introducing the bill of J871 the Government distinctly led the House to believe that only persons of judicial experience were qualified for the new appointments. What was meant at tne time by judicial experience was never a question of dimculty. It meant that the Judges of Appeal should be of a grade higher than the [ordinary judges—that it should bo leas easr for a man to reach the former than the latter poIte-that a judge should have ascertain prac- tical experience in the'ordinary function of administering the law before he should be qualified for taking his place among those who have to decide what are presumed to be the more difficult and onerous oases which come from all Krts of the empire before the Judicial Committee of the ivy Council. It is hard to understand how any man of oommon sense can pretend to doubt what was the inten- tion of Parliament, and scarcely less that he should pro- fess to believe that Sir Robert Collier was of the class of men whom Parliament meant to make eligible for the offices which were created by the bill of 1871. The Daily AVtci thinks that the question nominally before the House 'was, Shall we censure the manner in which this appointment was made V The true and real question, that whioh had genuine interest for members on both sides, was, Shall we because of this pass a vote of censure, wliich may end in the subversion of the Govern- ment 7" Party fervour itself could hardly have found any occasion for display when tho argument dwindled down, as at one period of the debate it actually did, into the ques- tion whether the evasion of a statute was as great an offence as the violation of it. An eminent legal func- tionary once spoke of some such controversial suggestion as a delightful point ef law." Part of the debate positively bristled with delightful points of law with casuistries which might have been enshrined in the sarcasms 01 Pascal and quiddities over which one of Mr. Robert Browning's lawyers might have delighted to exercise his Intellect. All this vas probably inevitable where a legal question was involved. It was doubtless a natural and appropriate part of the formality, and, if we may apply so glowing a word to 110 colourles8 a performance, the pageantry of the occasion. But the reality of the debate was in the political bearing, and the possible political results of the motion proposed by Mr. Cross. Everybody hnew that if speeches could influence that result, they must be the speeches of leading politicians on either side, and that the result would be determined by a political vote. On the abstract question of the propriety of the appointment debate would have been superfluous; OD the propriety of passing then and there the vote of censure debate WM thrown away. In one sense, declares the Advertiser, Mr. Gladstone dif- fered from the Prussians. He raised a Collier to. the skies, They sunk our colliers down. If IpMCh, which is given us to conceal our thoughts, could also conoeal our acts, Mr. Gladstone would be permanently triumphant. It must be owned that he went artistically to work. He made out the charge against himself to be much greater than ever was intended, in order to escape the real and lesser accusation. Yet his speech was per- haps the lamest he ever made. He compared Sir Roundell Palmer with Sir Isaac Newton, who wrote a pamphlet to prove the alleged base copper currency which Swift denounced to be more valuable than that which had gone before. The publie would not believe a Newton; and so they would not credit a Palmer. And then—worst sign of all—after a passing sigh and pious groan bestowed upon the Lord Chief Justice, who had "created fury throughout the country," Mr. Gladstone became frank, and said that if he had known the consciences, he would not have done what he had done. Had he been so wicked as was declared, he would have been almost guilty of treason —and therefore, we suppose, have almost lost his head. And thn* lamenting, his utterances became nearly tearful, and he hoped nobody would or could believe that he had wilfully done anything so naughty and wrong. It waa altogether a melancholy exhibition, and the smallness of the biajority in such a doll-drilled House of Commons afforded a far better commentary upon the way he got out ef it than can be offered by any words of our own. If say the Telegraph, we are told that this is not a party onset, we may ask, how it happened that the combat bore all the outward signs and brought to light all the inward grace of a regular Opposition assault ? We do not care to go below the surface, and point to the manifest activity of oertain energetic gentlemen whose sole business it is to provide the largest possible muster of the faithful. On the face of the proceeding its character is inscribed, and the defection of a few steady Liberals, like Mr. Denman, does not alter that fact. It crops up in the terms of the motion and the speech of the mover. A formal eeMure was proposed, and the arguments to justify it were marshalled by a supporter of Mr. Disraeli, who, after convicting the Government, to his own satisfaction, of grievous offences against the law, calmly admitted that what he asked the House to stigmatise so emphatically was an "act of indiscretion," an error of judgment," for which a verbal^ apology would have furnished ample exone- ration Nothing, indeed, was more rejnarkable than the weight of argument on the Ministerial side. The high position taken up br Sir Roundell Palmer was maintained by succeeding speakers as the debate went on somewhat languidly to its cloae. Mr. Hardy's vigorous effort to re- cover lost ground met with but qualified success nor did the few deserters from the Government ranks add any- thing to the reasons advanced of sufficient moment to pro- duce the slightest appreciable effect on the opinions of the House and the eountry.

ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL FOUR-OARED RACE.. Since the four-oared race between the Universities of Oxford and Harvard, in 1869, several attempts have been made to bring about another Anglo-American contest, but the negotiations were broken off for various reasons, and it was not until the third week in January last that there seemed any prospect of our having to announce a new match. The New York Atalanta Boat Club, who occupy a position in the United States corresponding to that of the London Rowing Club in this country, having during the put year defeated the University of Harvard in a six- oared race, determined to try conclusions with an amateur English Club, and on the 25th ult., convened a special general meeting to consider the question of sending a chal- lenge to the London Rowing Club. In the result it was unanimously resolved to invite the London Rowing Club to a four-oared race, to be rowed inJEngland, upon the River Thames, from Putney to Mortlake, during the ensuing sea- son the Americans to row without a coxswain, and the English crew to carry one or not as they think fit; but, as the absence of the weight of the coxswain in a crew gives it ft Yery great advantage over another carrying one, we may take it for granted that both crews will row in boats steered with an apparatus worked by the feet of one of the oarsmen. The Atalanta Club state that they are actuated solely by the desire of advancing the interests of amateur oarsmanship in America and Europe, and that, as their club is confined strictly to amateurs they have no hesita- tion in wishing to try their strength with the Londoners. They suggest that the race should take place either in June or earlY in July, as they have made other engage- menta for the coming season. Thus the race will in all probability be rowed during the London season, and shortly before Henley Regatta, which will be held most likely dur- ing the last week in the month of June. It is not improb- able that the Atalanta Club might be induced to compete at Henley, and, if so, they would not only have tried the metal of the London Rowing Club, but also that of the Universities, before their return home. There might be some little difficulty about their not rowing with a cox- swain, but the Henley authorities would, no doubt,. insti- tute, or rather re-establish, a prize for four-oars without coxswains, for whioh the Atalanta Club could contend, the American challenge was submitted to the annual gen- eral meeting of the London Rowing Club, held on Thurs- day last, and it was unanimously resolved to accept it, and & telegram to that effect was at once forwarded to America. L7{

The Premier and Mrs. Gladstone entertained Ms Excellency the United States Minister and Miss Schenek, the Marchioness of Ripon, Lady Herbert of Lea, and a select; party at dinner on Saturday at thek .oa CWawrhswatteHftw.?

THE REVELATIONS INHxLOUCE STERi SHIRE. VERDICTVAGAINST MR. EDMONDS. The inquiry before the coroner at Newent, Gloucester- shire, into the alleged suspicions death, in 1867, of Mrs. E lmonds, the wife of a solicitor, resulted in a verdict of manslaughter being returned against Mr. Edmonds. On a previous occasion the jury viewed the body, which had been exhumed after which Miss Jeanette Edmonds, now an inmate of a Magdalen Home, and niece of the deceased lady, gave evidence to the effect that her uncle and aunt, with whom she resided for some years, lived very unhappily together. On the night of Sunday, February 24, 1857, two friends had dined at the house, and she and her aunt's sister went to bed about half- past ten. About eleven her aunt screamed, and ran down stairs in her night-dress, and Miss Edmonds afterwards saw her go out of the dining-room npstairs, into her sister's room. She followed her, tmd then her uncle went into the room, and swore in a great passion at his wife, as she was crouching on the other side of the bed, that he would sell up his house, and go away. Deceased cried, "Jeanette, I am dying;" and Mr. Edmonds cursed her, and struck her violently with his clenched fist. She raised herself, and cried for water, and after she had had some she sank upon the floor, swooning, put her hand to her head, and did not speak again. Her husband laid her flat on the floor, went for Dr. Smith, and she died about one o'clock. The witness spoke of a clothesbrush which her uncle was in the babit of using. and which afterwards appeared with- out its handle. Mrs. Edmonds was dulv laid out and buried. The witness then confessed that she said nothing of this matter until more than a year after its occur- rence, when she related it to Dr. Bass Smith, who was a frequent visitor at her uncle's, and with whom sbe had an improper intimacy from a time soon after her aunt's death till her removal to St. James's Home by the vicar of the parish. She said she ran away from Newent because of a quarrel with her uncle, and afterwards was with Dr. Smith in Cheltenham and Kenilworth. In cross-exami- nation she admitted having said many times that her uncle was miserable because he had killed his wife, and that yet she had rcTininM with him on good terms. Dr. Smith, she said, Lai carried on his intrigue with her for four years and a half, and she admitted the authorship of one or two letters to him after he had left Newent. Dr. Smith had told her he suspected something wrong about her aunt's death, although he had given a certificate that she died of apoplexy. A servant named Ann Bradd, who was in Mr. Edmonds's house at the time of the death of deceased, related that she saw Mr. Edmonds strike his wife the first year she was with them. On the Sunday night of Mrs. Edmonds's death she seemed cheerful, and witness heard her and her niece in the dining room singing Too Late," from the Ten Virgins," and one of them playing. Ann Bradd went to bed soon after eleven, and after that heard Mr. Edmonds come out of his office, and speak in high words with his wife. She was calling him a brute and a wretch, and accusing him of having gone to see a certain young lady in Gloucester, and he was cursing her, and bidding her go to bed. The woman leant over the banisters, and heard Mr. Edmonds throw something at his wife, who then ran, screaming three times There's a dear man, don't Afterwards there was missed a plated bedroom candle- stick. This witness saw Mrs. Edmonds go to her sister's room, and her husband follew her, and throw the door ajar. She heard the wife say, "I am dying, water, Jeanette!" The servant begged the niece to get water, and afterwards went into the kitchen to make gruel. Dr. Bass Smith, now a medical practitioner at Notting- hill, was then called, and stated that at the time of Mrs Edmonds's death he was residing at Newent. Mr. Edmonds fetched him out of bed on the Sunday night,, about half-past eleven, and was so anxious that he had to go only partly dressed. He found Mrs. Edmonds in the room, supported by her sister and her niece, sinking and insensible. Mr. Edmonds had told bim she was in a fit, and that if he did not go directly she would be dead. He helped to get her into bed, and tried to bleed her in the arm and in the temple. He also put croton oil on the tongue, and mustard plaster at the back of the neck, and administered an injection, but all with- ont effect; and he told Mr. Erlmonùs that nothing could be done. He had attended her for several years, and said the suffered from congestion of the liver and bleeding of the nose. and had a weak heart; but for some time before her death she had boen better. He said he asked qnes. tions of Miss Mathews and Bliss Edmonds, and that the answers he received, and the appearances, justified him, he thought, in giving a certificate that death arose from apo- plexy. He declared that he had had no quarrel with Mr. Edmonds, or feeling of malice or revenge against him. He said that he did not reveal what Jeanette had told him before, for the reason that she was under her uncle's power, and that he (lid not know how far he should lay himself open to attack. Had she been free he should have made the charge sooner. He admitted having heard of an endeavour macle bv 1'11'. Ellmonds to remove his name from the register õf practitioners, because of his conduct in relation to tho niece, but declined to admit that any improper intimacy had existed between himself and her. The bill for professional attend- ance he sent in to Mr. Edmonds was to the amount of JE346. He said he gave information in this case five or six weeks ago, and that in January he filed a peti- tion in bankruptcy. In December, Mr. Edmonds, acting for Mr. Peterson, brought an action against him to recover £120, and that, therefore, Mr. Edmonds opposed him in bankruptcy. He had told Mr. Edmonds that he believed his wife would die a sudden death, and he knewthat she was a subject for apoplexy. He knew within two years of Mrs. Edmonds's death that it was said she had died of foul play, yet continued to visit Mr. Edmonds's house. He repeated again several times that be had no revenge against Mr. Edmonds; and in reply to pressing questions, stated that he had only said he could expose Mr. Edmonds, for that he was a worse man than himself. Mr. Edmonds had often said to him, since his wife's death, that he was exceedingly miserable, and that if he could live his life over again he would behave differently. John Pleydell Wilton, a registered medical practitioner, at Gloucester, and senior surgeon of the Gloucester In-, firmary, examined, said he assisted in making the examination of the body by direction of the jus-, tices of the Newent petty sessional division. The result of the examination would not enable him to state the cause of deatb. Assuming the evidence given to be true, he should say Mrs. Edmonds had a de- cided tendency to apoplexy. Assuming the fact of a blow having been given, he should have no hesitation in asserting that an attack of apoplexy was precipitated by It, and that the blow was the immediate cause of the fit of which it .vas clearly proved deceased died. George V*- ^hboum Charlton, a physician of St. t Andrews, 1 '1c.. of the Royal College of Surgeons, and consulting surgeon to the Gloucester Innrmary, was called, and corroborated the evidence of the last witness. Mr. Edmonds himself was then examined, and stated that his wife had been delicate for years. On the 24th of February, 1867, he was about to start for London, and his wife wished him not to go. The witness proceeded as follows :—I urged her to accompany me to Cambridge to see my son, as I thought the change would do her good. Sho refused, through being unwell. I carried my' portmanteau to my dressing-room, and went into Miss- Mathews s bedroom and sat down near the window. My wife was talking to her sister on the opposite side of the bed. My boy Oscar, who is nine years old, was in bed: Both he and his aunt were awake. We talkod some time,' and my wife again urged me not to go to London. She was ill, and said, I shall never live till you come back." I put her off. She again said, I am ill." Shortly after she" slipped back, and fell on the box and shewed signs of fainting. Her sister jumped out of bed. Jeanette was not in the room when I went in. Miss Mathews took hold of her sis- ter's arm, and sairl, Ann, Ann, no nonsense!" I went towards her. On falling she breathed thickly. I went to Dr. Smith twice, and asked him to come. On the last oc- casion I said, Oh, Smith, come, or my wife will be dead." I lifted her into bed. He bled her, and the temple artery bled slowly. I went down stairs, and remained until I was told my wife was dead. I did not swear at her, and threaten to sell up everything. I did not say, "You be d or threaten her. On my solemn oath I never struck her since I have lived in my present house. I did not use the brush spoken of to strike my wife. I have four sons living. Smith owes me £;)86, subject to a set-off of about £ 200."—Mr. Edmonds was then questioned in reference to the well-known case of Legge and Edmonds, and denied that he had been guilty of adultery with his wife before 1 her marriage with him. Mrs. Amy Symonds, now living in Essex, said that before her marriage, five years ago, she lived as governess in Mr. Edmonds's house during eighteen months. Mr. Edmonds's treatment of his wife at all times in her pre- sence, during the eighteen months, and two years in which she was a visitor, was that of extreme kindness. She spent the Sunday of Mrs. Edmonds's death at her house, and saw her body next day, and saw nothing upon it denoting violence. Mr. H. Symonds, husband of the last witness, said he had known Mr. Edmonds from a boy, that he had been a frequent visitor in his house, and that he had always seen him treat his wife with the greatest kindness and sympathy. » Ralph, the second son of Mr. Edmonds, said he had been in his father's office about twelve months, and that he remembered the death of his mother, and that he never saw his father act in any way but kindly towards her.' One Sunday morning last October, Dr. Bass Smith went to their house, and, in conversation, the latter made a threat about giving up certain boxes, saying that the dead should be dragged from their graves. i Mr. Wilton, surgeon, recalled, said he found all the soft tissues of Mrs. Edmonds's skull perfectly decomposed, and all the long bones perfect. He examined them particularly, because there had been a report that an arm was broken.' Miss Mary Coburn Edmonds, sister of Jeanette, and niece of Mr. Edmonds, and now living with him, said that last Saturday she was staying at Brixton, Surrey, and Miss Mathews went there to see her. Witness wa's about to enter into business. She had known her uncle and aunt twelve years, and backwards and forwards had lived with them during that period, and knew that they had lived together very happily indeed. She remembered romping with Mr. Edmonds s eldest son in a verandah, and in the romp the brush referred to had its handle broken off. Miss Mary Mathews next deposed that, having lived many years with Mr. and Mrs. Edmonds. she' knew they were always on good terms, and declared that no violence was used on the night in question. Her sister was tempe- rate. She confirmed Mr. Edmonds as to other points, as did also the boy Oscar. The Coroner then summed up, stating that the serious aature of the case caused him when he heard of it, weeks ago, to go to London and see Jeanette Edmonds, and ihen to ask the Secretary of State for an order for exhuma- tion. The jury having deliberated about half an hour, re- turned a verdict, as we have said, of manslaughter against Mr. Edmonds,

The Sporting Gazette states that upwards of £iOO has already been subscribed for the testimonial to Lord Portsmouth, which will take the form of a service of plate. It is stated that the Lords of the Treasury, acting under the authority of the Clerks of Assize Act, 1869, have reduced the salary of the Clerk of Assize of the Northern Circuit from £ 2,550, a.t which it stood at tha time of the late Sir John Bayley, to the sum of £WO,><ê.; va!oeU'1

THE AMERICAN PRESS AND THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The Now York papers of the 5th and. 6th insts., jusi received, are full of comments and discussions on tht Alabama question, owing to the news of the excitement produced. in England by the American Case. It is notice- able that in the papers of the 4th ncthii.g is said about the matter, while on the 5th there is a sudden change. The Herald is extremely bellicose, and gives a quarter of a column w sensational headings such as Shall it 'be War ?' A Full Settlement or None," "Grant putting his foot down," kc. According to a favourite sensational method, the Herald intersperseE the whole of its leader page with short paragraphs like the following:—" Canada will get into the American Union if the United States goes to war with England. Good for the Canadians. A happ) chance." We shall not want for volunteers in a war with England. There are two million f.ble-bodied Irishmen here longing for a chanced The rotten fabric of the Monarchy would tumble in a way with England. We should plant republican institutions a< the gate of Europe." In its leader, the Herald, though a degree more reason- able. still rides the high horse. It says it is really a mattei with which England has nothing to do." We tell our storj in our own way, and not in the way pleasing to Mr. Glad- stone. If the tribunal decides against us we shall be cora. tent. If in our favour, then England must be content If President Grant withdraws this case to save the Ministry of Gladstone he will ruin his own administrr.- tion as surely as Tyler and Johnson ruined their admini* trations." The X'. w York Times, as might be expected, takes an altogether different tone. It says :—" Here the subject had quite dropped out of sight. We were satisfied to waif for the decision of the Arbitrators. And even in England it is only within the past few days that the discussion has indicated any such feeling as is embodied in the extreme measure of the English Government. it bas been objected that the American counsel presented claims which, if granted, would be very onerous to Great Britain to discharge and that some of these were such as our Government had no moral right to advance but it has not been denied that the Board of Arbitration was established to decide on the claims generally known as the Alabama claims,' or that under this head it would be for the Board, acting according to its own interpretation of the treaty, to determine what claims it would consider. Nothing could be fairer than such a method of settling all points in dispute- If our case was unjust, the arbitrators would 10 decide, and there would be an end of it. But it is perfectly certain that the action of the English Government, as announced by the Observer, will be a mattet of complete surprise to the American people. On the 6th the Times says :—" The fragments of comment brought to us by the cable are simply incomprehensible, The feeling here was that the arbitrators would do jUttieo; that whether our demands were unreasonable or reason; able, the arbitrators would decide fairly and equitably upon them, and that would be an end of the matter. But there are hot-headed writers all over the world, and some of them in London have been trying to get up a breeze on this question, and their efforts have been responded to in some quarters here-one journal talking of collecting" the Alabama and other claims at the point of the bayonet." &c., &c. Luckily, foohr do not always order the affairs of this world. We may expect to heal something like common sense from the House of Commons, and the people who have been trying to run up the price of gold, and disturb all the markets, by loud threats of war, will have to withdraw into their boots." The Trilmne, in articles headed, Why do the Heathea Rage ?" and the Treaty Flurry in London," di-scusses the Alabama difficulty with some warmth. It sa18 :U March hares could be found in February, it would "m so if a crowd of the maddest of them had taken possession of the London newspaper offices. When we recall the oahn tone of sarcastic superiority with which the British preaa habitually regard the occasional lapse into passionate rhetoric of their neigbbours across the Channel, it seemr hardly possible that the causeless shrieking which In transmitted to us by mail and cable can proceed from that reserved and decorous person who delights in calling himself the average Englishman. We cannot but appre- ciate highly the reserve and tact which these long-suffering organs shew towards us. But it is gravely to be fesred that we will not profit by it, and that we will stand by out case as it is, and let the arbitrators say whether it is ex- travagant or not. In fact, the Times confesses there is little hope of our withdrawing our case, "as it has been translated into Continental languages." Of course, it would be as impossible for us to change our minds after that as fot a yoiuig lady to reflect after her wedding cards are printed. There seems no lucid interval anywhere. The Pall MaU Gazette publishes a burlesque account of what the Queen will say to-day in her Speech from the Throne, in which she gives expression to the hope that we will not ask mocf than Biiinarck asked of France. Such is the general macio ness that rules the honr that this broad hoax seems to bt taken seriously in London, and the agent of thf Associated Press sencts- ais the silly nonsensp with all gravity, and only at the last hour Tentarel to state his newly-awakened doubt as to its authenticity. There is one significant incident of this flurry which throwp a good deal of light upon the tall talk of the excitable preM on both sides of the oceali. In London, where none of tbf organs of public opinion seem to have preserved their eomi* mon sense, all the clamour has produced no appreciable eliect in the financial world. It is probable that the stonn or indignant comment, which has risen as suddenly as thin which followed Mr. Sumner's speech, will subside vitk equal facility. But if popular clamour should defeat thf Ministry on this question, and compel their sucoesson to denounce and withdraw from the Treaty of Washington, it is not the United States who would be the honiest losers by such a course." The "W ashington correspondent of the Trilmne writes word that the great excitement into which the English press seems to have worked itself over the American case, as shown by the despatches received here is looked upon with very little concern in Washington. The claims which the Americans make for constructive damages are sus- tained by evidence so strong that the British Ministry, tt is believed, found it necessary to do something to counwr- act an indignation, similar to that which followed fh* publication of Mr. Sumner's great speech, and which they knew would be aroused among their people as soon as the character of our case became known. But, though the Ministry is believed to be responsible for the beginnintfof the excitement, and may have intended. to use it tola* fluence the Geneva Conference, it is believed that ftt matter has gone further than they intended it should-q other words, that it has got beyond their control." The Washington correspondent of the Vetc-York Heralif writing on the oth. says :—" The President adheres to his origin.al determination. He said that he saw no occasion for anxiety. He had been thinking very seriously upon the subject, and was desirous of an accommodation. But his mind was clear upon the subject. We had made up our case, and it was for the tribunal at Geneva to decide upon its merits. He called attention to the singular fnct first published in yesterday's Herald, that the English had asked our representatives to consider the Confederate loan as a proper claim; yet, said the President, here were claims which were in direct violation of an especial amendment to the constitution, and which could not be paid without violation of our funda- mental law. We had shewn no excitement when a claim was made which was in many respects an indignity, an outrage upon our national honour, and why should England shew temper when we presented a case which was really only the case of one side, and did not im- pose upon England the change of law. As for war the President had no concern. He did not think there was the least danger of war. He had not read the despatches of Schenck, but there certainly would be a ground of compromise when the matter was talked over. As to war, he shrank from it. He had never seen any war which was in any way agreeable—which was not unspeakable pain. He had been through the Mexican war and did his duty as well as he knew how. He had Men as much of war as any man in America perhaps, and he knew what it meant, and had no fear of being whirled into it. As to our defeneett, there was no ground for anxiety. To be sore we had no such navy as England, but there was not a port on the Atlantic, and perhaps on the Pacific, that oould not be made inaccessible to a hostile fleet in three weeks. By our torpedo system alone we could protect them. As to any naval engagements, while admitting that in a pitched naval battle like those seen in Nelson's days we could not expect to be anything like a match for the English navy, we had England's commerce before us, and no commerce of our own to low So that, in a naval point of view alone—the strongest part of the English strength—there was no reason for uneasiness, while as to a land attack we were in no danger. Even if we were whipped in a contest, which could not occur, England would lose more in whipping us we would in being defeated. As to the suggestion to-with- draw our case for consequential damages, and mention a gross sum which would be accepted in Jieu of åU other claims, a suggestion that he had heard as being acceptable to the English authorities, it should be remembered that we did make such a proposition in the discussions of the Commission, but it was rejected; so that the present situation is wholly the fault of England. At the same time the President said that, while standing, directly where the honour and dignity of the Republic compelled him, and having no anxiety whatever, no one was more anxious to do all that could be done to satisfy the English -o^av <jXC'TerQeTlt- ^~hen the case was known to the English people, he felt sure this excitement would die away that it would not last more than a few days. To this end, as one that would be in the interest of peace and cmlisatien and-the happiness of two great nations, he would do everything that could be done with honour. and that the best means of doing- so were the subject of his constant thoughts. The Times and Trilmne give the followinrA--O It is stated that several days ago Sir John Rose telegraphed to a banking house in New York, with which he has business relations, briefly alluding to the Treaty of Washington in the tone of the London press, and urging a modification of the American statement of the case as being absolutely necessary to a pacification of the British people sad the' support of the Ministry and it is further said that the substance of this telegram has been communicated to certain parties in this city with a view to effect the desired object." The papers of the 6tli quote the following portion of the Treaty as being that which relates to points in dispute :— Now, in order to remove and adjust *U complaints and claims on the part of the United States, and to provide for the speedy settlement of such claims which an not ad- mitted by Her Britannic Majesty's Government, the high contracting parties agree that all the said claims growing nut af arts commuted hp the aforesaid vessels, and generally known as shall be referred to a Tri- bunal of Arbitration, to be composed of five arbitrators, i. shall proceed impartially and carefully to examine, and decide all questions that shall be laid before them on the part of the respective Governments,

Thp Gei-.rttr notifies that the two thousand pounds given by the Government for the gold crown and chalice taken at Magdala will be distributed among the troops. An alarming accident has occu rred at the j unction of thfe Caledonian and North British Railways. The$.45 Caledonian train, on nearing the junction) was mistaken by the. pointsman for a North British train, and ■tfas accordingly turned, by him on to that com-* pany's ^line. After the engine, tender, and some of;. the "carriages had passed on to the North British rails,' the man discovered his mistake, and tttrn^S the remaining carriages on to the Caledonian line. "Thfcwrench threwi

ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—Elijah Hilton and WiUiam Jones were charged with assaulting P.C. Pawney and George Roberts was charged with citing a crowd to prevent Hilton from being taken into custody.—P.C. Pawney said that on Monday night, about 10.30, he saw Hilton in Commercial-street making a disturbance. He sent him away, but he became more noisy, and he (witness) took him into custody. Prisoner said he would not go. and threw himself on the ground. P.C. Hob then came up and assisted to take Hilton into custody. Witness received a severe blow on the chest. Prisoner also kicked Hub several times. PC. Davies and Inspector Rees then came up. Prisoner Jones ran towards Pawney and Hilton, who were then struggling on the ground, and gave him (witness) a severe and dangerous kick. Roberts said the policemen should not take them if the crowd were of the siimp mind as himself.—P.C. Rob said he saw Hilton and Pawney on the ground, and also saw Jones kick Pawney.Inspector Rees corroborated the constable's statement.—Hilton and Jones were each sent to prison for one calendar month's hard labour and Roberts, who was not so bad as the other two, was fined 40s and costs, or 21 days' in#>risonment.— Prisoner Hilton I'll stand six months for him (Pawney) again.—Mr Fowler: Bring him back. (To prisoner) At the expiration of the month you will have to find sureties to keep the peace for 12 calendar month?. ALLEGED POACHING.—Joseph Parfitt, George Bull, and Penry Probert, were summoned for poaching on lands be- longing to Mr G. Elliott, Aberaman. Mr Linton (Linton and Lewis) prosecuted, and Mr Simons (Simons and Plews) defended.—Policc-constable Childs stated that he saw defendants in a tield near the parish road leading tp Llanwonno.—A plan was put in by Mr Morgan, which showed the position of the field and the road. It was urged for the defence that the men went on a path from the road into the fiteld as a shorter way. After evidence was given on both sides, the case was adjourned for the appearance of the farmer's son. ASSAULTING A LANDLOED.—Richard Thomas was charged with assaulting and threatening Meyrick Jones, and also with damaging glass to the value of Is 2d. Com- plainant keeps the Lifeboat Inn, Cwmbach, and stated that some time ago prisoner, in company with some others, wanted beer, and, on being refused, broke two pint cups and went outside and smashed the bar window. He also struck Meyrick Jones, and said when he could catch him by himself he would keep him under water." He was ordered to pay Is 2d damage, 20s costs and fine, and to find a surety of £5 to keep the peace for 12 months. LOOK TO YOUR GUN LICENCES.—John Jones was sum- moned for carrying and using a gun without hsving ob- tained a licence for the same. Mr Hugo, the supervisor of Inland Revenue, in stating the case, said the penalty was £10, but they had the power to mitigate it to one-fourth. Police-constable Evans said that on December the 7th he saw defendant on Tonllwyd Farm in a wood. He was carrying a double-barrelled gun, and using it. He said it did not belong to him, but the person to whom it belonged had a licence. The owner of the gun was called, and proved the ownership. He was fined 50s. and costs, with the prospect of a further mitigation. THANKSGIVING DAY.—His Worship drew attention to the fact that Tuesday next would be thanksgiving day on the part of the people to the Almighty for having spared the life of His Royal Highness the Prince of ^al<«. His Wership expressed an anxious hope that nothing in con- nection with the business of this court would prevent any porson, who was so disposed, from joining in the universal prayer of gratitude. It was explained that, from present prospects, there was no reason why the court should not be adjourned for a fortnight. This was at once determined on, inasmuch as there were no cases sufficiently urgent to hold a court. — MOUNTAIN ASH. LOCAL BOARD ELECTION.—This hotly contested election came off on Saturday. The following list shows the result of the polling David Morgan, 935 Daniel Williams, 629 Evan Evans, 610; Daniel James, 557; John Griffiths, 526 Thomas Williams, 517 Thomas Jones, 466 J. W. Jones, 460 Rev D. Jones, 314 Thomas Charles, 35 Geo. Haggar, 15 John Davies, 12 Philip Tenchan, 5 Robert Thomas, 4 William Davies, 1. We have heard that up- wards of a hundred voters were imllified, owing to the voters having wrongly filled them up. The first five gen- tlemen named above were the successful candidates. EISTEDDFOD AND CONCERT. — One of these pleasant meetings was held at the Workmen's Hall, on Monday. The prize for competition in singing, which was open only to Bands of Hope, was divided between Saron (Aber- aman), and Bethania (Mountain Ash). Mr M. Lewis, of Ebbw Vale, officiated as adjudicator. The concert took place in the same building in the evening. Mr and Mrs Frost, of Cardiff, were the chief attractions of the entertainment. Miss E. Magor,"Mrs Parker (Mountain Ash), Mr M. Lewis, (Ebbw Vale), Mr T. Howet s (Aber- aman), Mr D. E. Coleman, Mr J..Tones, and Mr J. Hopkins, of Mountain Ash, assisted as soloists. All Passed off very well, but the brilliant playing of Mr and Mrs Frost excited enthusiastic admiration. We regret to state that so few were present at both the eisteddfod and the concert that the proprietor of the hall, for whose benefit the performances were given, will incur a considerable loss. SMALL-POX.—We regret to record that Mr J. Morgan, the landlord of the Jeffreys Arms, succumbed to this dreadful malady on Tuesday evening. fie had only been ill for a week, and he is the first adult who has given way to the disease since it has made its appearance in the town. As the disease is spreading, it behoves the Board of Health to be alive to the necessity of taking prompt measures to avert its course. IMPORTANT MEETING OF COLLIERS.—On Monday night an important meeting of the Navigation and DeepDufFryn colliers was held at the Allen's Arms, to take into considera- tion the best method of putting before the company certain grievances which they suffer from in consequence of not being remunerated for the trams of coal which, after being filled, do not reach the bottom of the pit; but owing to the speed at which they are drawn by the engine, are thrown eff the rails, or otherwise emptied of their contents. A .deputation was appointed to wait on Mr Drown to discuss the question. ,T A COLLIERS' MEETING.—A meeting of colliers and "hauliers engaged in the Navigation, Deep Duffryn, and Lower and Upper Cwmpenoar collieries was held in the Allen's Arms' long room on Tuesday evening, to take into consideration the mode the masters have adopted to pay the men, which they complain is rot according to the award of the arbitrators. The hauliers, unfortunately, refused to resume work on Wednesday, hence the colliers ot the pits are at a stand. PONTYPRIDD INTELLIGENCE. THE NINE HOURS' MOVEMENT.—A public meeting was convened at the Union Bridge, Trailwn, on Monda>" evening, to consider the best means of obtaining the pr vilege for the workmen of this town and neighbourhood. The various trades were well represented, and resolutions in support of the movement were unanimously passed. NATIONAL EDUCATION LEAGUE. A meeting of the Blaenycwm branch of the League was held at the Blaeny- cwm Chapel, Treherbert, on Tuesday evening the chair being occupied by the Rev J. W. Maurice in the absence of the chairman of the branch. The subject under dis- cussion was Mr Dixon's motion, which the meeting was unanimous in supporting. AN EISTEDDFOD AT TREOBKT. At the rc cent meetings at the Tabernaclo, the chair was occupIed ty the Rev E. Gurnos Jones, and the adjudicator was Mr D. Brython- fryn Griffiths, Aberdare. The principal prizes in poetry and prose were almost entirely swept away by Bryn- fab" and Dewi Araul." The Tabernacle Choir was successful in the principal choral competition, and the same ehoir with that of Siloh, Pentre, carried the others. Ireorky is soon to have an eisteddfod on a very large scale, in con- nection with the British School. THE NINE HOURS' SYSTEM.—The men wonting in the Chemical Works of Messrs Chivers, Todd, and Chivers, Pontypridd, presented a request to their employere, in favour of adopting the week of 54 hours, an advance of 10 per cent, and an alteration of the pay .Jay from Tuesday to Saturday. Mr J. Chivers and his manager, Mr Williams met his hands on Tuesday, to discuss the matter. He at once granted the first and last requests, but as to the ad- vance? pointed out that under existing circumstances such a proposition was inexpedient, as several contracts now maturing were based upon the present rate of wages. He, however, was anxious to meet the men as far as possi > and would confer with them at a subsequent meeting. ie nine hours system will come into operation at the establisn- ment on the 1st of March. THE SMALL-POX.—There are signs of the number of small-pox cases diminishing in this town and neighbourhood. The guardians have at last contracted to build a hospital for the purpose of isolating the pauper patients from the healthy. But why have not the vestry done anything to isolate the non-paupers is a question generally asked. It is to be hoped that the disease will entirely vanish before the hospital is ready, and before the vestry meeting is held, but the apathy of the proper authorities in the face of the epidemic is something remarkable. Papers are about to be circulated throughont the district to inform the public of the penalty those will incur who may be guilty of removing a patient before he or she is perfectly cured. It appears that a little time back a patient half-cured wayen^ed fiu*a this town to Miskm Lodge, which caused no little alarm in the neighbourhood.. • i • „ RHONNDDA VALLEY .The small-pox is not diminishing in the lower parts of the valley. There arc many cases ot great virulence in the neighbourhood of Cymmer and Dinas. The medical men grumble that the proposed house- to-house visit has not been made, and that things are allowed to remain as they were. As an inustration of the sanitary condition of Dinas, it is stated that to 16!) houses there are only ten privies. The great drain to n lower part of Dinas was-the old feeder, but from the time that was stopped matters have been in a shocking condition and as if inviting disease, The Local Board have given notice to the authorities of the parish of Llantnssant to call a vestry meeting without delay. EDUCATION. — MEETING IN SUPPORT OF MR DIX'ON S MOTION.—On Friday evening a meeting was held in the Sunday School-room under Penuel Chapel, for the purpose of endorsing the action of the Education League in sup- porting Mr Dixon's motion to expunge the 25th clause of the recently passed Elementary Education Act. Mr Chivers occupied the chair.—After a few remarks in favour of the excision of the offending clause the Rev W. Thomas (Tre- hafod), moved —" That it is the opinion of this meeting, that nothing short of the unconditional repeal of the 25th clause of the Elementary Education Act of W0, and the omission of the following from clause 74, providing for the payment of the whole or any part of the fees of any child where the parent satisfies the School Board that he M un- able from poverty to pay the same,'—will give satisfaction, and meet the just demands of the country."—This was seconded by Rev E. Koberts, and carried.-—The Rev E. Pavies proposed That this meeting regards the payment of public money to denominational schools, as detrimental to the national system of education, and in violation of the rights of conscience and liberty, and is of opinion that such money should be paid to schools -under popular control and for secular education only, and that the religious education of each district should be thrown upon voluntary effort."— This was seconded by the Chairman, and carried.—The Rev W. L. Harris proposed the following resolution — That this meeting approves of the motion which is about to be made in Parliament by Mr Dixon, M.P., for amending the Elementary Education Act of 1870, and also resolves to present the following petition in its favour. Also that the members for the county be requested to support the motion." The. speaker maintained that every child should be com- pelled to attend school, and instanced Prussia, where com- pulsory education obtains, as suffering from very little pauperism He further maintained that where Government grant is given to schools in which the Bible is read, that grants only should be given where the authorised version vas used.—This was seconded by the Rev W. Thomas in Welsh.—A vote of thanks to the chairman, which was suit- Ably acknowledged, brought the proceedings to a close.-A -*>etition was signed by the Chairman on behalf of the meet- Vg) setting forth the objects sought to be accomplished,