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HAVERFORDWEST RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. DRILL INSTRUCTOR—SERGEANT-MAJOR REID. Drills for the week commencing June 8, 1868. £ I £ £ ■S ■§ § "S 6 I § | | • | S 3 M !>• *-< c3 H H pM 00 -1- P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P..lIl P.M. Squad Drill 7.30 7.3i 7.30 7.30 7.30 Target Practice Bayonet Exerctse j Position Drill 8 8 Aiming Drill f 9 Battalion Drill General Muster 8 7.4.5 Blank Firing Target Practice .5.50 5.30 Band Practice 8 _i Captain for the week, Captain H. P. Massy. Orderly Non-commissioned Officers, Sergt. Thomas Jameaand Thomas Lloyd. The monthly prze given by Colonel Peel for attendance at drill, will be shot for on Monday, the Bth of June. Distanc", 200 and 300 yards. Firing to commence at five o'clock in tlie aiternoon. Aay. competitor not on the ground by the time the first squad comples its firing at the first range, will have to wait the completion at both ranges. Sergt.-Major Reid will act as umpire during the shooting. (Signed) X. PEEL, Lient..Colonel. Commanding: 1st Administrative Battalion, Pembrokeshire Rifle Volunteers.

THE Council of the Hoyal Medical Benevolent College have voted 100 guineas out of their general funds for a marble bust of our distinguished country- man, the late Dr. Propert. who was the founder of the College, and its Treasurer at the time of his decease, which occurred last year. The annual meeting of the supporters of the College was held at the offices in London on Friday, when the Secretary made the announcement that the Council had set apart a sum of money for a bust in commemoration of the founder of the college which is to be placed in the build- ing at Epsom. The commission for the bust has been given to Mr W. E. Wyon, who was well acquainted with the late Dr. Propert, and had modelled a bust of him during his lifetime which was considered an admirable likeness. The Council have thus resolved to perpetuate, in a worthy manner, the memory of our late countryman, who was unceasing in his exer:ions to extend the usefulness of the College, and was always ready to assist any good object, particularly in connection with his native country, for which he had a strong affection.

A GENTLEMAN, who has ever taken a deep interest in the welfare of Haverfordwest, has favoured us with an extract frora the special report of Mr Alfred Havilsnd, published in the Medical Times and Gazette, on the fearful epidemic now raging in a village in Essex, in which report Mr Haviland narrates some startling facts which may not be without their lesson to those who are answerable for the health of the inhabitants of our town. The extract, which in reality contains a warning to all dwellers in towns, is as follows The Medical Times and Gazette has published a special report, by Mr AlFred Haviland, on the fearful epidemic that is now raging in the little villaee of Terling, Essex, It appears, from this gentleman's inquiry, that 'we,ll'- contamination is really Ihefolis et origo mail. The site of the village is on drfit gravt-1, which immediately overlies the London clay; in this gravel all the wells are sunk, and in their immediate neighbourhood are the drains, cesspools, and pigsties, from which flow through the porous soil all kinds of excrementitious matter; and as many of the Wells are below the level of these reservoirs of filth, they necessarily get polluted whenever there is an excess of rain. or. as in this case, after a sudden thaw i for coincident with the melting of the fall of snow in the beginning of December last, the fever broke out almost simultaneously in every part of the village. the popula- tion of which is barely 900, out of whom 170 have been stricken down by typhoid fever within the last six weeks, fifteen cases of which terminated fatally in the Christmas fortnight; so that in this ill-fated village the passing bell has day after day been heard instead of the merry Christ- inas peal." These facts are of special interest to the inhabitants of Haverfordwest, where, as is well known, there have been several instances of well-contamination, though, providentially, with none of the fatal consequences which have wrought so much misery and woe to the unfortunate villagers of Terling. It is a subject worthy of the consideration of our local authorities whether in the works which are in contemplation for an improved drainage of the town, especial care should not be taken so to construct the drains as to prevent filthy matter percolating into the wells which abound in Haverfordwest, and many of which are in dangerous proximity to the drains already con- structed in the public streets. In St. Martin's, a well of water, which was largely used and highly valued by its owner and his neighbours, became suddenly ijnpure; and an investigation traced its pollution to the percolation of impurities from an adjacent stable drain. In another part of the town, we are informed, two wells, both in the same street, vere destroyed by similar irruptions from neigh- bouring drains. To these accidents the majority of the sunken wells in Haverfordwest are liable when- ever there is an excess ol rain. for the drains are most iciperfectly constructed heir HI most instances, covered channels cuf in tii- Mor">i* soil, through which the Iqnw) matter pprool f. r a considerable dis Cance In previous yea) 'v,r, auribn'ed by medical SHSntothe use of impur a to nas isited us: and with the hot weathei s ■ c se i is of the utmost importance that i i.u> ■ should be imme- diately snppressed. ai. ev » precaution taken to prevent t: econtaminaf n o- It v its, and avert, so far as human effort can, the occurence of so dire a calamity as has befallen the villa'? of Terling

THE SUMMER ASSIZES. The Judges assembled on the 28th nIt, and made the following arrangements for the forthcoming assizes: NORFOLK CIKCUIT. —Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench and Mr Justice Keating. NOKTH W AI.JiS,-Lord Chief Justice Bovill. NORTHERN.—The Lord Chief Baron and Mr Justice hanneti. hosiK -Baron Martin and Mr Justice Willes. MIDLAND -Baron Bramwell and Mr Justice Lush. U KSTKKN.—Baron Ch-mnell a. d Mr Justice Mellor. OxtoHi>. —Baron Pigott and Mr Justice Byles. SOUTH WALES.-Mr Justice Smith. Mi Justice Blackburn wiL remain in town.

ROOSE PETTY SESSIONS. These sessions were held at the Shire Hall, on Satur- day, before A. B. Starbuck, E<q, and T. Roberts, Esq. NON PAYMENT OF RATES. John Penry Jones, of Sutt, n Lodge, was summoned by the Overseers, of the parish of Lambaton, for non. payment. of rates. Mr J. Crymes James appeared fur the defendant, who was not present during the time the case was before the Court. Mr James I have to ask your Worships for an ad- journment fur this reason :—I am instructed that the rates have been altered, and that leaves have been torn out of the book, and Mr Jones refuses to pay the rate until a proper one is made out. Mr Jones does not re- fuse to pay his rates, but be does not wish to pay until they are made out in a proper form. I ask your Wor- ships to allow the case to stand over that he might be able to aho if what kind of rates these are. Information will be laid this next week against the party for altering 'he rate and tearing out leaves. The Overseer, here at the request of the Clerk, pro- luced the rate book. The Clerk, in answer to the Bench, said that there was nothing defective about the rate. In reply to a question, The Overseer said the rate amounted to £3 3s 7-id, Mr James I have the money in my pocket to pay the rate, but I ask for an adjournment to enable Mr Jones to show what has been done with the rates. The Clerk If the rate is good on its face, Mr Jones must pay it. Will Mr Jones pay the costs of the day ? Mr James: Yes. The case was then adjourned for a week, the defen- dant paying the costs of the day. DRUNKENNESS AND RIOTVUS CONDUCT. Mary Cltampion was ebarged with being drunk and riotous at Neyland. Police Constable Beynon proved the case, and the de- fendant was ordered to pay a fine of 5a and costs. STRAYS. Mr J. P. Jones (who bad entered the Court during the hearing of the last case), addressing Sergeant Clarke, said Is Camrose policeman here ? There were pigs out in the road, and I took the trouble to inquire about it. Mr Price, the policeman, saw them, and the part) has not been summoned. Sergeant Clarke I have enquired into this matter, and the police constable informs me that the pigs were not on the road, but on a common. That being the case I submit, sir, we had no power to lay an information. Mr Jones: They were not on the common. You know where Lambston Churoh is, and they were forty yards from the Church. There is no common there. Clerk You may call attention to it, sir, but it has nothing to do with the Bench. It is a question for the chief constable as regards the discipline of the force. If you have any complaint to make, I would suggest that you make it to the Chief Constable. Mr Jonea I v.-ill lay the information myself. Clerk: That looks more like business. Mr Jones: If Captain Stokes does n It do so, I will do so myself. I have a witness to prove the case.

ALLEGED PERJURY. At the Mansion House, on Friday, Mr Charles Fitch Kemp, a public accountant, appeared before the Lord Mayor on a summons imputing to him the commission of perjury. Mr F. H. LewiQ, barrister, appeared to prefer the com- plaint and Mr Sergeant Ballantine for the defence. On The complainant was John Maule Sutton, M.D., and a deputy-lieutenant of the county of Pembroke, and it ap- peared, as the case was put on his part, that towards the end of 1865 a suit of Stanley and others against Coult- hurst and others, was pending in the Court of Chancery and that the defendant, Mr Kemp, acted as receiver in the suit. Dr Sutton, the complainant, according to his own account, in Michaelmas of that year took the Land Shipping Coiliery from Mrs Mary Ann Stanley, one of the parties to the suit, upon an agreement for four years, at a rent of £200, stipulating with her at the same time to pay, in the event of his procuring a lease for forty years, X400 a year, payable half-yearly on the 30th of January and the 30th of July. He was at the same time lessee of the other property upon the same estate. He entered upon the colliery and proved it at considerable expense, forming in October, 1866, a company to work it. In point of fact, however, he never obtained a lease of the mine, though he had reason to expect that one would have been granted to him, and he incurred ex- penses in anticipation of it. The accusation of perjury was assigned upon an affidavit which the defendant, Mr Kemp, made in the Chancery suit on the 19th July. 1¡¡67. and in which he deposed in effect that there was then due from the complainant, Dr Sutton, £457 odd for rent and arrears of rent of the premises occupied by him, in- cluding the colliery, to Midsummer, 1867. The com- plainant, on the other hand, contended that on the day on which the affidavit was made Mr Kemp had in his hands, to the complainant's credit, a sum of £4,1 odd, instead of the complainant being indebted in respect of the rent of the premises. He also attributed to that part of the affidavit ou which the alleged perjury was assigned the refusal of the chief clerk in Chancery to sanction the grant of a lease, and a loss of a considerable sum of money which he had expended upon the colliery in anticipation of a lease. For the defence it was elicited in evidence, that the affidavit in question was originally prepared with a blank as to the amount of the rent due at the time it was made, and that the sum was inserted before it was sworn, hut by mistake as to the amount; that the attention of the Master in Chancery was afterwards called to that mistake, which the defendant admitted to have been made; and that admission having been made on one of the d 'ys on which the.affidavit was used, the decision of the Master in refusing the lease was arrived at after the admission. On the part of the defendant it was also elicited from the complainant himself that the latter had, in April, 1866, paid £ 400, the receipt which he took, and which was produced in court, describing it as one year's rent of the colliery. Eventually, without calling upon the defendant, Mr Kemp, to produce witnesses, the Lord Mayor decided the I case in his favour, and dismissed the summons, believing that a mistake had been made by him in the affidavit in assuming the rent was £ 4C0, instead of X200 a year, pnd that in making that affidavit he had no intention what ever to injury or prejudice the complainant.

SEIZURE OF MEAT UNFIT FOR HUMAN FOOD At the Police OlHceon Saturday afternoon, John Lewis, a butcher, residing at Ltangotman, was charged before J. VV. Phillips, Esq, Mayor, wi'b exposing for sale that. day in the Have) ford west Meat Market, the carcase of a calf unfit for human food. The defendant said the calf waR a small one, and if it was not a month old he would give it for nothing. He could get the man of whom he bought it to prove its ago- Mr Cecil, Inspector of Nuisances, said: About half- past nine this morning my attention was called to the defendant's stall. I saw a carease of a calf cut in two, hanging up in the stall apparently for sale. I considered it was not a week old. ( searched for the skin, and found what he admitted to be the skin concealed under- neath some others in the same stall. Attached to the skin was the head of the calf. From its general appear- ance, I have no hesitation in sayina that in my opinion it was not a week old, and quite unfit to he eaten by man. I seized the meat, nnd brought it away, and it was con- demned. It was ordered to be destroyed, but I have not had time to do so. Mayor: It was condemned by me, but I did not rely upon my own judgment alone. I asked my brother, who from his note to me appears to be an occasional customer of the defendant. My brother came here, inspected the meat, and had not the s'ightest hesitation in saying that it was unfit for human food. William Howell, called by the defendant, deposed: I sold the dl fenbnt it calf which would he a month old next Tuesday morning. It was a black calf. In cross examination, the witness said that he was unable to say whether the calf seized was the one he had sold the defendant The one he sold him was a small black calf: he could not tell whether the defendant bought other calves the same week: he lived a long way from him. The Mayor: What is the particular objection to meat ? Mr Cecil: It was so yourg: it had not reached raatu ritv, and was generally bad. I washed the feet, and I found they had been blackened, and had not lost \VI,fI' called the yellow stockingspretty goud evidt n<-<- o its youth. Mayor: What price do they get for such meat in tfr market? Mr Cecil: I have seen joints bought, for 8d. They -e l fhem for 8d in a lump, and for 9d or l.s,—for what ihcj they can get rather than take the meat away. I seen four joints much better than th,se sold for 4s (id. Upon one occasion I saw five joints so'd for 4s Gel. Defendant: I had a call more than two mouths old, and-it weighed only lilts a quarter. In answer to the Mayor, Mr Cecil said I have had occasion to caution the de- fendant twice before, but I have never previously sum moned bim. Mayor: It so happens that upon this occasion the medical gentleman to whom I spoke, as soon as he saw the meat said it was quite nntit for human food. The act of parliament, gives the Inspector power to seize meat if it appears unwholesome or unfit for the food of man It does not depend upon the age of the animal, so that it would be no use for you to prove that it was a month old. if it appears on inspection that th» nooonoOA .#1. ■or human food. The carcase has been inspected, ani declared to be unfit for human food; and upon ground I have condemned it. In my opinion the de. 'endant is guilty of the offence with which he is chargeoj but as this is the first information that has been against bim, i shall not deal with him very severely, j cannot pass a thing of this sort o\ er because it is the po"' who suffer by the exposure for sale of unwholesome meat' and these proceedings are really proceedings for the Pr0' tection of the poor, who cannot afford to buy the cboica and these proceedings arc really proceedings for the Pr0' tection of the poor, who cannot afford to buy the cboica joints and more expensive articles of the market. sentence is that you pay a fine of jgl and the costs o« these proceedings. I hope this will bo a warning you. I may tell you that I have the power to inflio'4 fine of £ 20, or to send you to prison, without a fine a'' for a term not exceeding three calendar months. 1trU this will be a caution to you and other butchers that y0" must bring sound wholesome meat to market, and t>0' things which are not fit for human food. () The defendant paid the fine and costs, amounting t £ 112s 6d.

HAVERFORDWEST PETTY SESSIONS. These sessions were held at the Shire Hall on before J. W. Phillips, Esq, (Mayor); T. Rule OweØ, Esq, and S. Harford, Esq. ASSAULT. Cornelius JVarlow, Thomas Jenkins, and Thomas farm servants, were charged with assaulting and beati°i> Alfred Rees, at Portfield, on the 12th of May. < Mr Price appeared for Jenkins and Lloyd, and Mr" Crymes James for Warlow. Alfred Rees, (the prosecutor) deposed I am a and live at Keeston. I was at May fair held in Ha^f' fordwest on the 12th instant. I met Ann Absalom «DS another girl in the fair some time in the afternoon, and Ann Absalom were old acquaintances, and walked about the Fair, and went to a dance held James Thomas's house at the top of Shut-3treef. a dance, and met Jenkins there. I can't tell he was there when I went in. He came to m<\ and s8'r,. should not have the girl, Ann Absalom. We wont out»»"' the door, and Ann said "Come from here: don't g»j, quarrel." I put up my hand to strike Jenkins, but W not do so. The girls, a boy named James Lewis, 9 ,hfl went up towards Portfield. I was going home wi^ tD. gids. When I was by Pugh's house, I saw Jenkins a" YVarlow and other chaps corning after me: I don't whether Lloyd was with them. There were a good besides Jenkins and Warlow. YVe turned into the V*. Road, and 1 saw that they were still following o8*. ], turned back towards the town, and left the tv going on the Dale Road. When I met the prfsOlle I'd Jenkins spoke to me, and I answend him. I had WTt>t back for the town because I was afraid of the prisoner • I don't remember what Jenkins said to me, or *i. said to him. Warlow struck me with his fist abo«'' head. I remember nothing more until 10 o'clo^Lj next day, when I found myself in the Infirmary. daylight when the affair took place. I produce clothes: they are torn and hloody. cu- In cross-examination by Mr J. C. James, the tor said: I first met Jenkins at the dance. I had "?' little beer, but not a great, deal. I and Ann Absftl j are old acquaintances. She lived at Pelcomblast y?ar,cfj walked about the fair with her. One of the Pr's°j8a lives at Mullock and another at Pearson. They h9<> fl equal fancy to walk with Ann Absalom, and I didn't that. I put up my fist to Jenkins by the dance-M' We went off for home with the girls, but I did not tn I was cock of the walk. I had the girls, but not to them It was about five o'clock when we started the town. I did not speak to Warlow at all. I oaDr how much 1 had drnnk—I am no great drinker. (j,8 marked about the head and neck. I was in be^/j0o't Infirmary three days; 1 got up on the third day. }.%ot think the prisoners touched me with a stick. I to strike one of them. I did not use any bad lang"8^^ them that I can mind I did not say anything t0 \etf about the girls. The prisoners did not sefctn to be drunk when I saw them. ( tbat Cross-examined by Mr Price: I don't Temei"bef A,t Ann Absalom asked Jenkins to come to the dance'tbat the dance I met Jenkins. I don't remern^ ot Absalom went out with Jenkins- land AbS&IOcn;CO- out together. We went towards home from the d*" house. That was the first time that day 1 met I am sure I did not meet him in the Fair, and fight him. I met Jenkins outside the door, and we\.aflIJd few words. 1 held up my fist to strike bim, and nD? jnu't touched his mouth, but I did not strike him. *■ g&a believe Ann Absalom had run away at this time- came to me and told ine not to quarrel. YVe went ? fea then. I was sober at the time. I went to Fair at e o'olock- I can't tell how much I had drunk durillg { day. I don't know where Jenkins and WajloW 1'? am a stranger to the road at Portfield, but I know11' j the proper way home for the prisoners. YVhen Itl' I back I spoke to Jenkins when he spoke to vae, don't remember what was said. YVhile we were t»' Warlow struck me. r By MrJ. C.James: My hands were open when 1 towards the prisoners. lit James Lewis deposed: I am a servant, and h ,aud Cuckoo. I was in May Fair, and rret Ann Absalo°j another girl from Pearson. Rees was with them. before: them at the dance house. I had known Absalom g|jd Rees was Ann Absalom's sweeiheart. I saw Jenkins talking they were quarrelling, but I ca" about what. Ann Absalom did not want to go w,tb fljfl> or Jenkins, and she went into a corner shop. 1-11el,IId came out of the shop, and went towards home- Rees went to send them, but they d.d not ask us to c We went as far as the Race Course, when we ,.|c back and the girls went towards home. We turned because we did not intend to go further. Jenkins, YVarlow, and others cominir, and we oOj0< between the Race Course and Mrs Pugh's Rees was a little in advance of me, and spoke to YYrar!ow struck Rees with his fi-t about the head he was talking to Jenkins until he staggered agal" t jjjttt hedge. VVarlow followed him np to the hedge, down against the hedge, while Jenkins kicked bij° jiifl' where about the body. Warlow kept poundin^jt. about the bead with his fist, and kicked himin tb0 etef The last words I heard Rees say were "Lord,hav6 upon me." lie said that about five or six de0 Rees became quite still-so still that I thought hl":oa^' —Jenkins and Warlow kept kicking him on the »8|O00i Some of the prisoners' partners said, '■ Leave bim don't kill him." Jenlunssaid, "YVhatdidtbe 'j jtiH to pick upon me?" and swore, and said be wo" j to him. He continued to kick Rees after he was 9 t te'l stop. All gathered round Rees, and I could n what they did to him at last. Jenkins, *Varl j{neW their partners ran off from him, and no one w" a\\tW hitn, except myself, was left with him. 1 c^ was dead. I called the two girls back, and th Assistance came, and Rees was carried to bouse. 1 did not see anybody besides *,vTlt Warlow do anything to Rees. The doctor ,"n V *b6tl Cross-examined bv Mr James: Rees was tip 7 we were going on the Dale Road. i By Mr Harford; He could walk very well, an what he was about as far as I can tell. 're 111\10 Cross-examined by Mr Price It did not rt^01 g force to knock Rees down. I did not see Jenkins when they were quarrelling near t'e house. Ann Absalom went into the corner #ejjt when she came out, Rees went afror her, and towards home together. The girl did not wa jje <vith either of them. Rees turned back before jjjS did not appear anxious to meet the men. hands was in his trousers pocket and the other I don't know what he said to Jenkir.s. > tj«verf°pI Dr. J. B M. Evans deposed: I reside in west. I have had Alfred Rees under mV Fair riijht. I was called to Mrs Pugh's a*;d six o'clock that evening, and iound A ng, outside the door, Md up in a chair by s°roe "i .xamined him: he seemed more dead than "V^n y, d b,,e k vas in a perfect sta'e of e<.llapse, and if he ha j thin tons in the position in which I found hi«J^.b,e< danger might hav- arisen. He was brui"2' found three marks und^r the right ear they B (l0 to The left eye was black. There was a bru' right knee. He hud a mark under the jaw, 8Ubs{a0<La have been caused by a kick or by some ar er He was conveyed to the Infirmary, an n<> 0 „A until ten o'clock the next morning. 1 J0" contusions. The black eye might have l)} jis ats„A by a blow with a fist. I can't tell how o Pr°^UhiUi the ear were caused they might have foUnd & by kicks. I attribute the coma th9 to a severe shock to the system. He jje and threw up about four ounces ot wou • fortnight under my care t up J Cross-examined by Mr James: Ke day*|^ third day. lie kept bis bed for ..I-L .Lt.