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<??"? t? <?-t? ?? M?Mg?d SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1885. NOTES OF THE WEEK. [BY OUR T.ONDON CORRESPONDENTS.] Notwithstanding the uninviting character of the evening, forbidding unnecessary jour- neys abroad. Lord Salisbury's speech at the Victoria Hail has constituted the event of the night in London. His lordship's remarks were read with the greatest interest as they were taped" to the clubs. It is the last really great speech from the Conservative side before the opening of the Midlothian campaign.and.aswillbeseen, it focuses the position and policy of the Conservative party. Mr. Gladstone's revised version will give occasion for still further focussing. To-night's demonstration may be regarded as the answer of the Conservative artisans to their Radical brethren of London. Crowds assembled for the meeting as early as four o'clock on Wednesday. The speech was appointed for eight o'clock. The assembly was very orderly, as became Conservative working men. It was essentially a represen- tative gathering of the artisan classes, and it proved, if there still linger any doubt on the subject, that the Conservative working man is a great fact. The multitude beguiled the time in singing staves from patriotic ballads of the Conservative party. The hall was crammed in a few minutes after the doors were thrown open. Mr. Gladstone has definitely decided to. leave Hawarden for Midlothian on Monday. Mr. Gladstone's declaration against Dises- tablishment has fallen somewhat ilat, and for this reason: 2s o one interested in the pre- servation of the Church is weak enough to believe that the crusade which Mr. ChamhPr- lain has begun, and the Liberation Society OJ", determined to carry on, will be arrested because of the glossy platitudes of the ex-Prime Minister. Churchmen are sensible of the meaning of Mr. Gladstone's letter, of Lord Hartington's cold casuistry, and of Mr. Chamberlain's mock change of front. The whole thing is a purely party manoeuvre, dictated by the conviction that a serious party split is inevitable on the question of Church Disestablishment. Mr. Gladstone's letter may lessen the danger, but it will certainly not avertit. It Give us a majority," is the cry of the Liberal leaders, give us a majority, and never mind the cost." Newa has reached London that a bright and shining light of Plymouth Radicalism has left the Liberal party on account of the Church question. Sir John Shelley, ex- mayor, and a person of local distinction, cannot take a atep like this without seriously affecting the homogeneity of the party to which he belonged. The universal criticism upon Lord l Hartington's latest contribution to the Issues of the hoar is that it justifies the most cynical judgments of hia lordahip's character. Sunday, being the day of reflection and medi- tation, usually passes an abiding opinion upon the passing events of the week, and that is the judgment passed upon the attitude of the noble marquess. He swears he will never con- sent, and then consents. The Sunday Radical journals, with ill-disguised satisfaction, con- tend that he has said nothing that prevents him from ultimately adopting the policy of Mr. Chamberlain should expediency drive him to it Lord Hartington, toe, is held to act with even more than his usmi shilly-shalliness with regard to two burning questions. The only reply he has to Mr. Chamberlain's demand for Free Education is a commission of inquiry, which I need not say is a method of evading responsibility hitherto denounced by good Liberals as a weak device of waver- ing statesmen. To the Radical demand for Disestablisbmentthe only answer of the Whig leader is "Wait.' He, it is assumed, may in the end be converted to it. Our club talk, in short, is all Hartingtonian. Lord Randolph Churchill, in a speech at Worcester, quoting from a speech of Lord Iddesleigh, said the statement that the ques- tion of Disestablishment had been set on foot by the Tories for their own purposes was a good, round, thumping lie." He suggested pinning Mr. Gladstone in Midlothian to say whether be will support a disestablishment motion next session. By the nature of his answer. Churchmen would be governed at the polla. Some amusement has been caused by the -PaX JJfall Gazette analysing the political arrangements of the "Central News for the next few days. From this it appears that Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. Gladstone, and Lord Salisbury are down in Class 1 for verbatim reports of their speeches Sir Charles Dilke, Lord Granville, Lord Har- tington, and Lord Spencer in Class 3, for one column; Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. Mr. Childers, Sir Richard Cross, Sir William Harcourt, and Mr. Trevelyan in Class 3, for half a column report. The editor of the "Central News" informs me, however, that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has got into the wrong class. He is not a half-column speaker, but a one-column speaker; and that Lord Spencer, on the other band, instead of being among the one-column men, should have been with the half-column. I may state in this connection that Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Chamberlain will next week be retegated to the one-column family, in accordance with what seems to be the desire of the newspapers themselves, the only verbatims remaining being Mr. Glad- stone and Lord Salisbury. Some time ago the most profitable speakers to the news agencies were Lord Randolph Churchill, the Prime Minister, and Mr. Chamberlain. Indeed, it is a question whether the noble lord was not even more attractive than his chief. No one ordered a column of Lord Randolph Churchill, while not a few were aatianedwith Mr. Chamberlain at that limit. But it appears that Lord Randolph Churchill has been talking too much of late, a sin of which Mr. Chamberlain also has been guilty, the conse- quence being that these statesmen are now sent to Class 2, in the company of Sir Charles Dilke, Lord Granville, and Lord Hartington. The fact that Sir W illiam Harcourt is per- manently classed amongst the half-column peakers will probably be read with some sur- prise by that right hon. baronet. Mr. Parnell is said to have drafted an Irish Constitution. In this document the Nationalist leader abolishes the House of Lords and deprives the English Parliament of the right to make or alter Irish laws. It is hardly surprising to learn that Mr. Parnell has drafted an Irish Constitution, aa it has been understood for some time that he had provided himself with an ineffective blunder- bus of the kind. The Apostolic Manifesto of the two Arch- bishops, it is given out to-night, was dictated by the complete absence of party zeal. But the friends of Mr. Chamberlain dissent from this representation of the spirit animating the document, professing, as they do, to have dis- covered in it a veiled hostility to Free Educa- tion and the three-acres-and-a-cow panacea for the ills of the rurals. Their lordships speak emphatically a word of warning to those who are inclined to listen to men that keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope. Such a man ia Mr. Chamber- lain." We are constantly being told that the coming election is to yield an overwhelming majority of Radicals. The value of a declara- tion of the kind naturally should consist in the unanimity of those making it. But in this instance there ia no such unanimity. For example, I have to-day heard from three different Liberals of prominence three different versions of this overwhelming majority. Lord Richard Grosvenor says it will be forty-two, which is a decided decrease in the fifty-five which he proclaimed last week. The second esti- mate is thirty, and the third is given at ten less. There are Liberals who put it lower even than this, but the diversity of numbers shows the perplexity which exists on the sub- ject of a victory at all. Whether there be a Radical victory or not, there is no doubt of the energy with which, as the 'S'<. James's Gazette puts it, W hig noblemen and squires are bidden to support Cockney Socialists; how Neo-Jasobins are adjured to bear with skeletons and Rap Van Winkles;" and how Churchmen are exhorted to abandon education and religion to the fostering care of anti-Christian professors. The preparations for the Guild-ball feast have begun. The champagne is being stacked in the cellars the turtles are ready for the sacriScial knife, having come in by the last West India mail the boar's head and the baron of beef have been chosen, and the guests have been bidden to the carnival of gluttons." But I hear that the number of hon. gentlemen who, on account of pressing engagements in the country, have declined the invitations to be present is so large that the givers of the feast have been obliged to look elsewhere for people to nil the empty chairs. Well, the Aldermen and Common Councilmen will not regret this, since it may open the door to some of their friends. It is not every year that a General Election upsets things like this. The City should take advan- tage of the circumstance, and enjoy it. The tendency of Lord Mayors of later years has been to crowd their tables with foreigners from beyond the civic frontier of the grimn. It ia said that the sons of the Claimant have entered the British Army, dividing their patronage equally between the cavalry and the infantry. The lads entered under the name of Tichborne, and believe themselves to be the sons of a baronet. Those who were present at St. George's, Hanover-square, on Wednesday at the marriage of Mr. Capel Cure with Misa Philips, of Heath House, Tean, Stafford- shire, were afforded an opportunity of witnes- sing a new departure in the style of the dresses worn by the bridemaids, which is at once elegant and appropriate to the season. The four young ladiea who attended on the bride wore yellow satin petticoats, which were scarcely visible, tight-fighting long cloaks of brown velvet, with brown velvet bonnets to match trimmed with yellow chrysanthemums, of which their bouquets were composed. The police believe that the Netberby bur- glary was deliberately planned in London by persons who had nothing to do with its execution. If this supposition be well founded, it would point to the existence of a con- siderable gang, with resources at head- quarters. The headquarters, upon the showing of the police, ought to be invaded, but, unfortunately, Scotland Yard has not exhibited much success in this direction. The fear ia that other "expeditions" may I be fitted out. I have seen a document which leaves no room to doubt the truth of the story of the Dublin scandal which has been current for several days. The parties to the elopement moved in the highest circles, the lady, who ia the senior of the gentleman (a barrister), being the daughter of an Irish peer and mother of several children. The fugitives have gone abroad.
THE QUEEN'S RETURN FROM SCOTLAND.
THE QUEEN'S RETURN FROM SCOTLAND. According to present arrangements the Queen and Court will arrive at Windsor Castle from Balmoral on Tuesday, the 24th inst.
JUDGE G. B. HUGHES. -I
JUDGE G. B. HUGHES. Judge G. Bilsborrow Hughea has, for family reasons, resigned the Bradford County Court judgoship, to which he waa recently appointed by the Lord Chancellor.
LOCAL JOTTINGS
LOCAL JOTTINGS [BY PENDRAQON.] Dear Sir Edward Reed: Pray recognise my salaam, and pardon me if, pursuing the Eastern custom, I ejaculate: May your shadow never grow less." I have read your manifesto with delight, and am charmed with your almost maiden modesty. I should like one !itt!e explanation if you will deign to give it me. If you do not get run in with a majority of a thousand at your back. do you seriously intend to shake the dust of Cardiff from your feet and accept the Chiltern Hundreds? Don't' Remember what an amount of suffering such a course would involve. You have, you know you have, done so much for Cardiff that, if you decide to withdraw the tight of your countenace from the place, her boun- daries, instead of increasing, will decline, and it is just on the cards that it, may be said of Cardiff that it went up like a rocket and came down like the stick. Pause, oh! worthy knight, before you pronounce such a doom upon a. constituency which has always been tolerant of you for your targe-hearted interest in local concerns. Talk about being returned to Parliament by a majority of a thousand Oh, stars above us, you ought to have a costless walk over and a testimonial and purse besides. If you won't take my word, ask Mr. William Sanders. It appears to me he ia the only individual who has ever received the slightest benefit from your connection with Cardiff Seriously, Sir Edward, if you believe me, brag ia a good dog, but holdfast is a better. Some uncharitably-disposed persons say that the Local Committee have guaranteed to pay the elec- tion expenses of Sir E. J. Reed in the coming con- test at Cardiff, because that was the only alternative open to them if they desired the worthy knight to champion their cause this tio-e. He could not aSord to pay the cost of a doubtful contest; for, the one-thousand-majority bounce notwithstanding, both Sir Edward and his sup- porters are by no means unacquainted with the fact that the organisation of their oppo- nents has been so complete, and the bunglings of the last Liberal GovoLnu-.ent so apparent that whatever chances Sir Edward might have pos- sessed before the skedaddling of the late Ministry from their position they are growing smaii by degrees and beautifully less. I am not saying a word against the worldly wisdom of the present member for Cardiff. He is not, as wo all know, a rich man, and he appreciates the folly of making ducks and drakes of a thousand or two sterling with the prospect of being sent to the right-about after all. While on the subject of the election expenses let me put it in print that I have had letters addressed to me from prominent residents in Cardiff asking me to open a subscription list for the purpose of defraying the election expenses of Mr. Harben, the Conservative candidate, who faces Sir Edward Reed. One promises jC5, the second £3, and the third .El towards this object. Well, why not ? 1 am perfectly aware that Mr. Harben is a wealthy man, but, this circumstance, notwithstanding, 1 take it that a greater compli- ment could not be paid to him than asking him to accept the spontaneous free-will offering of those whom he has come forward so readily to serve. I object to Conservatives taking a back seat, and if the Liberals, for once in their lives, determine to show their liberality by finding the election expenses of the man of their choice, I see no reason why a similar compliment should not be paid to Mr. Harbea. I quite appreciate a. new departure" which has been inaugurated at the Cardiff Conservative Club. It has been decided by a number of the mem- bers to start a weekly social supper. Thi9 may be put to good uses. If carried out it will not only bo the means of bringing together in friendly intercourse — and you know the natives of these isles are never more inclined to be sociable and communicative than when sitting in front of a good spread—those who, although belonging to tha same club, are yet comparative strangers, but it wiil be a powerful means of cementing party bonds and personal friendships. May I be permitted to throw out a hint? Instead of the after proceedings being devoted to what is known as harmony and conviviality, I would sug- gest that "toasts" eliciting an expression of opinion on local and Imperial politics should be introduced into the programme, so that there may be a killing of two birds with one stone fostering an interest in the vita! questions of the hour, and teaching the unaccustomed oracular idea how to shoot. A gentleman who holds a high position in the Cardiff Conservative party writes:—Let me warn certain people that under the Corrupt Practices Acts they render themselves liable to a heavy penalty for not attaching their names and addresses to the printed matter which comes from their hands. I have in my possession a number of these productions which have no imprint upon them, and I am going in for tho penalty. The Act is explicit enough. It says :—" Every bIH, placard, or poster having refe- rence to an election shall bear upon the face thereof the name and address of the printer; and any persons printing, publishing, or posting, or causing to be printed, published, or posted, any such bill, placard, or poster which faila to bear upon the face thereof the name and address of the printer and publisher, shall, if he is the candidate, or the election agent of the candidate, be guilty of an illegal practice, and if ho is not the candidate or the election agent of the candidate shall he liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceed- ing moo." While on the subject of the Cardiff Municipal Elections, let me tell you a little anecdote of Mr. Rees Enoch, who is running himself as a can- didate for the Roath Ward. When he was a. mem- ber of the council a requisition was made by the cattle market keeper for some beef trees"— pieces of wood by which the carcases of defunct oxen are suspended in the slaughter-house by their hind legs. The application was granted. The very next day a seedsman and nurseryman, who was at that time a member of the corporation, received a visit from Mr. Enoch, who was re-planting his garden. I want a few beef trees," quoth Enoch. Beef trees replied the astonished nurseryman. I never heard of such trees, either in English or Latin." The would-be purchaser was sure he was right, and after a lengthened colloquy he left, not at all satisHed that he had been properly treated by his fellow councillor. At a subsequent meeting of the Corporation the bill for the beef trees was passed. The dawn earner to the nurseryman, who was present, and directly afterwards ho was seen making his way to the seat occupied by Mr. Enoch. Mutual, and, I trust, satisfactory, ex- planations followed. Mr. Enoch's grounds are still unadorned by beef trees. What a pity. I suppose it ia my first duty as a citizen to "greet the coming, speed the parting guest." With a.n instinct so loyal, allow me, Mr. Mayor Fulton, to congratulate you upon the very satisfactory way in which you have discharged your duties aa Chief Magistrate of Cardiff during the past twelve months. You have been most agreeable and most hospitable, and I am just a little surprised that your fellow-burgesses did not retain you in your high position for another year. I can bear personal testimony to your kindness and your courtesy, and I speak what I do know when I anirm that no one who haa consulted you upon subjects which come within your ken as Mayor has gone empty away." I am aware that, after the manner of corporations, a vote of thanks wil! be unanimously passed to you for the emcient and temperate way in which you have discharged your duties, and I hope you will not deem it impertinent in me if I, in the name of every man, woman, and child with whom I am acquainted, anticipate this merited recognition of services accomplished to tender you a word of recognition for the dignity, urbanity, and gene- rosity you have displayed in fulfilling your high position. For he's a jolly good fellow," &c. The mantle of Mr. Fulton has fallen upon Mr. D E. Jones, who. at a meeting of his confreres was chosen to nil the omce of Mayor for the ensuing year. Three cheers for the doctor I have every conndence that the mayor-elect will add grace and dignity to his omce. I have known Mr. Jones for years—I daresay he will be surprised to hear it— and if he will permit me to offer him a testimonial I will give my bond that he will not be behind his illustrious predecessors in discharging an omce which it is pardonable ambition in any citizen to aspire to. Some momentous events will happen during his term of omce, but I make bold to assert that Mr. Jonea will be equal to any task that may devolve upon him. There ia a. strong belief that next year, being the jubilee of our gracious Sovereign—fifty years of popularity in the fierce light which beats upon a throne is a splendid record!—the chief magistrates of the larger towns of the kingdom will receive the honour of knighthood. I should act be at all surprised. If we should be so honoured I am sure we should be duty grateful. Sir David Jones sounds we! now doesn't it ? Dropping into the police-court at Cardiff the other day I saw in the dock a lusty'young fellow, who wae charged with stealing a quantity "f beef from a shop in Cowbridge-road. He pleaded guilty. The Stipendiary was on the bench, and he passed a sentence of seven days with hard labour. I could cot help contrasting the case with that of the man Fry, who, with a sick wife and a destitute home, stole a couple of planks of timber, and got a menth for it. Veriiy one man may stea! a horse while another cannot so much as look over the hedge. While on this subject !et me tell you that I have received a number of subscriptions for the invalid wife of themanFry. I cMnot, however, refrain from publishing the two following letters, because they have been a source of gratification to me as tha spontaneous expressions of working men :— Cardie Docks, Nov. 2,1885. Dear Pendragon,'— Enclosed I beg to hand you 16s. for the benefit of the wife of John Fry, being the amount subscribed by the members of the Bute Dock Club." The employes of the Vuican Foundry sympathise with the man Fry for the very heavy sentence passed upon him for stealing planks under such dis- tressing circumstances, and hereby forward 5s. to assist his poor wife." My friends, I thank you one and a! You never did a greater deed of charity. I cannot help contrasting this action of men to whom a penny la a. penny—I know the hardness of the times, and I know, too, how dimcult it is to make ends meet—with the doings of a certain gentleman in the town who is a prominent member of the Board of Guardians. He was heard to dee]?ire, in the presence of a score of people who are wilting to become my witnesses, that the guar- dians had paid Fry's wife 5s. a week ever since the husband had been in prison. If he had not repeated the assertion to others I shou!d have left him to his own conscience—if he has one. He persists in teDing the same story, and I here charge him with saying what he knows to be untrue. Bless my soul, man, what can be your object! You have, I suppose, been a guardian so long that you have become quite against sympathetic appeals. I have the written evidence of the parish doctor that he had not seen the sick woman until after I had called attention to her case in these columns. I don't want any iictitious sympathy, and I don't want any lies. And now I want to have a word to say to one of the magistrates who sent Fry to prison. There were two on the bench at the time (the Mftyor and Alderman Jones), but I am not referring to the mayor. The other justice told a gentleman who had sent me 2s. for Mrs. Fry that I was making much ado about nothing that the prisoner was in work at the time he committed the theft, and that outside folks did not know so much as he did. What do you know? Where did you get your informa- tion, Alderman ? Nothing of the kind was stated in court. You know very weil the contrary was amrmed. The man, according to Superintendent Price, has a record of thirty years' sober and industrious honesty. How dare you say that Fry was in work, when it was stated, without contradiction—and I can prove the fact—that he had been discharged six weeks previously, in consequence of piackness of work in the yard, and that when he took the couple of pianks he and his wife were on the borders of starvation ? Go and look at the rooms now, and teil me your candid opinion I will make no reference to the man; he is, I'll be bound, more comfortable in the Queen's gaol than he would be in his wretched home; but I do think it mean of you to try to close the bowels of charity upon a poor creature whose life no amount of generosity, I verily believe, wi)I be potent to save. A correspondent asks me whether it is a plank in the Liberal platform for a magistrate who is a builder to send a man of 30 years' good character to prison for a month for stealing two bits of board. Couldn't the Conservative Home Secretary cross his path for him ? I have heard much comment upon the strange action of the coroner's jury who had oti Tuesday to inquire how and by what means one Ephraim Laney, of MiHicent-street, Cardiff, came to Ins death." The evidence showed in the most unmis. takable manner that the deceased was savagely attacked by a son who was a terror to the house- hold with which he was associated, and that his end was accelerated by the shocking brutality of this terrible specimen of nlial depravity. The jury were five hours in and in tha end were discharged without able to agree upoc a verdict. I wish some ui those who composed the panel would te!! us the history of this want of unanimity. Were there iicquaintancea of the young ruman among them who were determined, come what might, to stand by their friend ? If there had been any causa for doubt- ing I should have been dumb but the evidence disclosed no shadow of doubt; and I am not surprised that tho second jury which had to deal with the case on Wednesday at once returned a.verdict of "Manslaughter." While on the subject of persona! violence let me here give it as my deliberate opinion that John Reardon, a cattle salesman at Newport, who is said to be well-to-do, is nothing more nor less than a coward. It was proved in tha local police- court on Wednesday that he held his wife down on the ground by the hair of her head, and pounded her with his big, ug!y fists for more than iive minutea. The magistrates thought this conjugal demonstra- tion a piece of sheer brutality, and so they lined the fellow a couple of pounds. For my part I think a couple of months would have been nearel the mark. But I am afraid I have very radical notions about justices' justice. A correspondent a.t HandafF writes:—" I should }ike Pendragon to pay LIandaff Freehold a visit on a wet day to make a little note of the state of the roads, and also the want of proper sewers." I am much obliged, my friend, but there are plenty of wet days elsewhere which I am obliged to put up with whether I like them or not. Don't tell me I must take the rough with the smooth, and that if I accept an invitation to dine off a juicy sirloin I ought with as much alacrity accept another to see a bad thoroughfare on a wet day. Bad thoroughfares, my boy! I wish you would swim home with me cue of these nne nights and give me your candid opinion of the bathing accommo- dation which the Cardiff Corporation provide for the ratepayers. Mr. William Simons, of Merthyr, attorney, fusses a great deal over the fact that there are arch- bishops who get .610,000 a year and curates who get only .E200. But are there not lawyers who get JE20,000 a. year and lawyers' clerks who get only JE100? While I would not class Mr. Simons among the former, I certainly would class some of his clerks among the latter. One of them I knew once, a most estimable young fellow, persevering and clever, the head of Mr. Simons' staff, who used frequently to conduct cases for him in court, who got from his employer at that time the handsome salary of JE2 a week. It is astonishing how virtuous we can be talking over other people's affairs than our own. The report of Messrs. Bateman and Hill with respect to the condition of the Neuadd Reservoir was again considered in committee by the Mer- thyr Local Board on Wednesday, and after some dis- cussion it was arranged that it shou!d be dealt with completely at the next meeting. The by-wash will have to be extended an additional 50 feet, and altogether an outlay of something Hke .610,000 will have to be incurred in order to carry out the works which the engineers advise to be necessary to put the reservoir in a condition thoroughly safe and sound. The public are naturally very anxious to learn the full text of the report, and I am somewhat at a loss to under- stand why it should be withheld. Whenever anv matter of public interest comes up for discussion the Local Board have an objectionable habit of requesting the representatives of the press to withdraw, thus depriving the ratepayers of the means of acquiring, through the ordinary channel, information which they are eager to have, and which it is important they should possess. I have received the following letter from Lam- peter: — Dear Pendragon,' — Pardon the familiar way in which I address you. The daily perusal of your interesting jottings must be my excuse for so doing. May I beg of you to con- tradict an assertion made by your il-liberal con- temporary bearing on the conduct of the College students at a Liberal meeting outside town, addressed by Mr. Powell, M.P., and Alderman Jones, of Felinfoel, on Thursday evening last? They are accused of having pro- ceeded thither with the so)e purpose of creating' a disturbance, and are held extireiy responsibte for the row tttt took plaoc. The <a<tt are these:— As soon a.s the first body of students entered the room a cry was raised, Out with the students.' However, being reinforced by another party, the undergraduates numbered over nfty strong, and they nrmly stood their ground. Alderman Jones said these young fellows would soon have to feed on gruel, for Disestablishment would soon be upon them, and their spirits would not be so elated. This created an uproar, and above the din might bo heard shouta of What about the duck-pond, Jones ?' and How are the apples eating?'—having reference to an escapade of his in Pembrokeshire some years ago. Mr. Powell said where would they like him to go with them—to the Soudan, Khartoum, or where? and someone amongst the crowd shouted out, To Croydon Races,' which created great laughter and amusement. One of Mr. PoweII'a respectable supporters advised the roughs, who composed the majority of the audience, to turn the undergrads out; but they were una,ble to dislodge them. A show of hands, exceeding all expectation, went up against a vote of confidence in Mr. PoweIL This so enraged the roughs that they made another charge at the students, the force resorted to being kicking, sticks being freely used. Though the undergrads were outnumbered, several of the attacking party will have a sad and painful recol- lection of the onslaught, for many a long day. The students, thinking discretion the better part of valour, as things were assuming a serious aspect withdrew. The Liberals, and no one else, are responsible for the row. Fearing less some J questions would be asked on the subject of disestabiishment, they wanted to drive them off, with the above unpleasant result. Your contemporary has no sense of fair play, and I, therefore, beg of you to a. few contra- dictory remarks in your Jottings' in your next issue, and we shall be for ever obliged to you." I am giad to hear that the list of subscribers for the History of Newport, of the Tredegar Family, of the Welsh ancestry of the Marquess of Salis- bury, and the whole of the proceedings attendant upon hia visit to Newport, ia nlling t'ast. As a memento of his visit it wilt be enduring and hand- some, and few Conservative houses in Monmouth- shire, I expect, will be without it. The pub- lishers are Messrs. D. Owen and Co., Cardiff. Twenty nve life-like portraits are already secured, I hear. In order to allow residents in South Wales a final opportunity to visit the Inventions Exhibi- tion, which closes its doors on Monday night, the Great Western Railway Company have arranged a cheap trip leaving Cardiff on Monday mornIng next a.t 3.50, Newport 4.10, Chepstow 4.40, Lydney 4.55, and Newnham 5.10. returning from Padding- ton at 11.20 p.m. the same day. Visitors to London by this excursion wi)l have a whole day there. In addition to the attraction of the Inventions Exhibition, Monday is also Lord Mayor's Day, and, as the new Lord Mayor has announced his intention of adhering to the old custom of It pageant, visitors will be afforded an opportunity by this cheap excursion of seeing that which they had often read about, but had seldom or never seen, a Lord Mayor's Show. To crown al), the coat of the excursion is 5s. 6d., third class return.
OUR PARIS LETTER.
OUR PARIS LETTER. PARIS, NOVEMBER 4. It ia a singular fact that although this capital awarcas with artists, to tho manner born as well as foreign, not one has yet painted the scene at a city cemetery during the fete of the Jbttr des Mm"ts-the 2nd of November. It should be dashed off with tha boldness of a Frith pencil, and would prove a.s impressive, mundane, and popular, say, as a Railway Station." The painter would not lack colour: there are the yellow- sanded alleys; cypresses, as numerous as in a Turkish graveyard; bronzed autumn leaves; a eaden, or a blue frosty sky white tombs, broken pillars, btack wooden crosses, yellow crowns the crowd of visitors—the majority in mourning—the workman in his blouse, his wife in a dark costume arranging mortuary trinkets around a tiny grave; the !Ji'and dme, in velvet and satin, praying in a chair inside a chalet vault, the fashionable monsieur, gloved and pomaded, bored at having to make the annual pilgrimage of a few hours' duration to the nnal home of a relative, or chum; then the curious, the cynica), the beggars. In the absence of thia picture, the idea. once propounded by a French- man ought to be revived, that of a panorama, of the tombs of the de Ja créme of the world's celebrities, with passing necrologica.1 notices, and funeral anthems and mumod drums for accom- paniment. It would not be a. bad note to sound once in a twelvemonth in the giddy round of pleasure. At their gala banquets tha ancient Egyptians had mural decorations of humac, skeletons to intensify the brevity of human joy. It struck ma that the cemeteries were this season attended more largely by the poor than the rich, and by women—" last at His croas and earliest at His grave"—than men. Is tha scientific scepticism that ia abroad killing the cnlte which the French havo had ever for the dead ? Those intellectual Pagans of Greece and Rome honoured the memory of their dea.d. The Egyptians held a. lugubrious festival in November in memory of tha sorrow of Issis for tha loss of Osiris. In Rome the month of November was placed under the protection of Diana a priest of lais was represen- ted leaning against an altar, c)a.d in white linen, and with shaven head on the altar lay the head of a. stag. It is to Æneas that the foundation of the festival of the dead is attributed, when offerings were made to the dead, candles lit on the tombs, and the gods invoked to be considerate towards the defunct. Tha Druids had a fete for the dead, between the 1st and 2nd of November; the Gauls inherited tha custom and stiti observe some of its rites, notably that of putting out the nre on the night of the 1st—symbol of death—and re-kindling it on the evening of the 2nd—typical of the resurrection. It is in the latter sense that the farmers in the South of France make presents of wheat to the Church, such being, according to St. Paul, emblematical of now life. Many confound All Saints' Day, the 1st of November, with the JoUI' des Mo¡'ts, which is on the 2nd. The former festival wa.a instituted by Boniface IV. when he obtained possession of the Pantheon, built by Agrippn, 25 years B.C. He puriiied the structure, and dedicated it to al! ths martyrs. It was St. Odiion, Abbot of Cluny, who founded the festival of the dead, in 988, in memory of a.U the faithful departed thia life. Masses were celebrated for the dead, and those who were to be prayed for ha.d their names attached to a scroll, or roll of the dead. carefully preserved in the vestries. These scrolls are now highly prized by the genea- logical Dry-as-dusts. Q Many tombs in the cemeteries appear so comfort- able side by side as to suggest that the occupants indulge in some "dialogues of the dead." The posthumous vanity of several of the tombs speak by their suggestivenes more eloquently than the epitaphs. Some are luxurious and theatrical; others simple and bare, thus interpreting faithfully the silence of true affliction; a few parody grief. There are tombs veritable little ruins, whose inscriptions are obliterated. It ia anonymity in death. Beside them are fresh, pompoua tombs and graves, headed by black wooden crosses and white paint inscriptions, with inverted notes of interrogation to symbolise tears. It is the most perfect equality, for Death is a greater revolutionist—and more sure—than Theroigne de Mericourt or Louise Miehel. We go to cemetries as much out of friendship for the dead as for our duty to friends. It is true that the departed receive only once a. year, like Asiatic despots. And it is to be hoped that thia religion of the souvenir will not be crushed by the advance of our unsentimental civilisation. This ia more likely, as fashion ia mixing itself up with the annual pilgrimage. Thus, electric lamps sup- planted wax tapers in the case of a few tombs, and immortelles and violets are cutting out panaies. One of the tombs most markedly decorated was that of Madame Cornet, the East India lady murdered in the early part of the year by her valet, Marchandon, who was duly guillotined. The guild of butlers, valets, house stewards, &e., covered the grave with quite a sympathetic plebiscite of bouquets, crowns, &c. Opinion patiently waita the unfolding of the tragedy in the Balkan Peninsula, only the verdant greens expect the Conference to prepare a heal-all plaister. Greece a.nd Servia are resolved to try the quarrel hilt to hilt with Turkey, and the latter, to do it credit, makes no mistake as to the nature of the intrigues. It is a strange shume of the cards, which makes England, and not Holy Russia, to be the champion of the Bulgarians. There ia impa* tience in the air to have the interested Great Powers throw off the mask. One fact appears evident—Servia and Greece will bo nnanciaHy ruined. The genera! elections are but terminated when the agitation has commenced to organise local committees, to be prepared for a premature dis' solution of the Legislature. The two burning questions are: the impeachment of Jules Ferry, and the separation of Church from State. This implies an immediate and irreconcilable division in the Republican ranks. France ia not in the best of tempera just now, and to distract her with political divisions, when she expects unity for the discharge of business, might induce unpiea.aa.nt consequences. The responsibility of the Brisson Cabinet is very serious in this stage of the Third Republic's history. The stock pieces of politics are all played out. No soft speeches, no thin milk-and-water programmes wit! any longer sumee. Any shilly-shalliness wiU but prove a new seed-bed of troubles. M. Brisson promises to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the nnan- cial situation. What the nation is anxious to know is, not exactly the depth of the chasm in the Budget, which is shrewdly gauged, but where the money is to come from: under what heads are the estimates to bo cut down. The beginning of wisdom has set in by the resolution to occupy only a few spots of Madagascar." It is but the nrst step which costs. The accounts from Tonquin and Annam are heartrending. The average death- rate during the months of August and September among the troops from sickness was 600; the French only rule over the territory their guns can cover. Opinion here is vexed that Tonquin has turned out a blank, and that the ghost of trading done is already between the hands of the English and Germans—as at Saigon—and this after all the expenditure of blood and money. The equanimity of the French is not augmented by the successful negotiation between the Sultan and England of a modus 'Vivendi for the administra.- tion of Egypt, independent of the international" panacea—which, in a word, signifies France. England will quit Egypt, and till then—the Greek Calends—the French must remain out in the cold. The resolution of England to occupy Upper Burmah, one of the latest waste places of the earth, the French view as the natural consequence of their breakdown in Tonquin. They admit that the take is a splendid one and opens up the route into Chin.),. They are also not niggardly in their admiration at the complete manner that England sets about "protecting" a barbarous or ugly sovereign. She sends out a little army, in comparison with which the expeditionary force to Tonquia was but a corporal's guard. However' when France prospected Tunisia for the historical Kroumir she ha.d a pretty respectable army and still unreduced. The attack on M. de Freycinet turns out to be the work of a man of deranged mind. The insanity was caused by an empty stomach, non-employ- ment, and the belief that his only child, a pretty young woman, wa.a outraged at Panama by some of M. de Lesseps' employes; that his demands for justice at the Isthmus, as well as at the French Foreiga Omce, received no attention, so he decided to call attention to his case" by blazing away at the most harmless of men and Ministers. De Lesseps has handed in a report on the matter. The accused, Mariotti, is a Corsican, he went to Panama, accompanied by hia daughter, and was employed by some of the sub-contractors for the canal. The girl was of very light manners, dressed herself frequently in men's clothes, and went out for larks" She stayed away for two days with some navvies in the forest, which resulted in a nine months'indisposition; to conceal her misconduct she applied to a Chinese doctor to produce abor- tion—result, death. A respectable lady ha9 committed suicido just like a Masher: she took a cab, pulled up the windows, and nred two bullets into her head. —At the Government Polytechnic School a collegian was suspected of robbing the poors' box of 3,000f. The gold was found under the leather of his chair the bank notes were.. stitched inside Ins trousers, and the discovery was due to a. tailor observing that the basting threads were forgotten to be taken out of his uniform. Near Toulouse Dr. Estachy found that a'confrere. Dr. Tournatoire, professionally blocked his way. He sent a package of larks and thrushes, as if from a. friend or grateful patient, to his rival. The nrst were excellent, but the second were poisoned, as Tournatoire's wife, child, and servant learned to their cost. Dr. Estachy has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, and has also been struck off tha rolls of the Legion of Honour and the College of Physicians. The chronic crisis in the silk trade of Lyons still continues, and, if anything, promises to be more acute. The fact is, Lyons can no longer compete with Germany and England in cheap mixed silk-cotton goods; not that wages are higher—artisans do not earn 2f. a day—but the raw material is so handicapped that France herself has effectually closed the foreign market to her own productions. In Paris the hard times are being keenly felt: the retail shops are closing, and those open must be largely living on their capital. Old bands are paid off and their places supplied by boys, while the proprietors who dis. dained working have again to don the harness. The excessive rents contribute not a. little to make and maintain the crisis. It is not the enlarge- ment" of premises, but their diminution," which is taking place. Wherever a shop can be divided the one half is taken and the other left. The 'bus omees have cut down their waiting rooms so that soon the public must wait on the naga. To cure the distress in the trades of the city it is proposed to organise a series of historical processions. Raree shows cannot counteract the evolution the industries of this country are undergoing the fault of neglecting to move in the wake of the new con- ditions of production—improved processes of manu- facture, smaller pronts, and lower wages. The lady doctors may be said to have won all along the line. The set" made against them by the Bob Sawyers at the Academy of Medicine and the ridiculing them on the stage have dona good, not harm, to the Petticoat Party. Eight ladies at present practice in this city. and are succeeding rapidly. An hospital for women and children is to be founded in Paris, to be wholly under the pro- fessional management of doctoresses. M. Lockroy, the coming Minister for Public Instruction, is resolved to execute the project, the more so as it was the darling wish of his father-in-law, Victor Hugo. It was the ex-Empress Eugenic who may be said gave the nrst omeial help to the lady students, and a subscription is being raised to pre- sent a souvenir to her ex-Majesty by the female sawbones. Woman now rules by intellect; she can nght he critters with their own weapons: the time is quite past when woman— Ruled by Boft persuasion's charms, And wit and weakness were her arms. Cannes, Nice, and Grasse fabricate annually 465,000 quarts of orange newer water, yet double that quantity is exported yearly. It is the case Of Hamburg, which alone exports more French champagne than is made in France. Further, only 25 pounds of rose leaves are obtained from 5,000 rose bushes; and 30,000 jasmine shrubs are required to produce 2,000 pounds of Bowers. Between Nice and Cannes 25 tons of violets are produced, yielding 12,000 pounds of essence adulteration doubles this amount. The Government intends putting its foot down on the new mania for opening taverns, or Paphian saloons, where all the waiters of both sexes will be dressed in character. One tavern was to dress up its staff as priests and nuns, another to represent &I1 the kings of France. Objections were duly lodged against such intentions. Now the waiters are to be uniformed as lawyers, others as doctors and as dairymaids, while a more enter- prising venture is to adopt the costume of under- takers' men. Why not try for a change of uniform the sans-culotte? Never were so many books being written as at present on the life of Moliere: this may bo owing to the fact that he wrote nothing about himself. He was a shrewd observer: when broken down in body and mind, he said of doctors, They are men whom we pay to relate old women's tales til! nature has cured the patient, or the prescription—killed him. A modest Bower, culled in & leading French review:—" To speak worthily of Shakspeare it is necessary to first call him Victor Hugo."
MR. GLADSTONE UN DISESTABLISHMENT.
MR. GLADSTONE UN DISESTABLISH- MENT. Mr. Gladstone has written a long letter to a. correspondent who asked him for a. dennito declaration of hia views upon disestabliahment. In his reply Mr. Gladstone says the matter is not one that is likely to employ the ensuing Parliament; and continues: I have never been in the habit of blowing the trumpet of battles in which I could take no part, and I cannot now agree to darken the controversy in which we are engaged and hazard its issue by perplexing the public mind with topics which are perfectly unreal with respect to the political and social crisis of this election, and with which 1 have an entire assurance that if hereafter they become practical it will be for othera ilnd not for me to deal."
MR. GLADSTONE JOSfD REVEALED…
MR. GLADSTONE JOSfD REVEALED RELIGION. A DEFENCE OF THE SCRIPTURES. Under the title of The Dawn of Creation and of Worship," Mr. Gladstone contributes to the November number of the Nineteenth C<!K<M)-y & deeply-interesting and critical examination of the arguments against primitive revelation and other truths contained in Dr. Revelle's Prolegomena to the History of Religions." Mr. Gladstone dis- courses learnedly, and demohshes triumphantly Dr. ReveHe's Homeric heresies. He attaches great importance to the Homeric poems, because, he contends, many important pictures and indications contained in them supply evidence that cannot be confuted, not of an idea!, but of an historical relationship to the Hebrew traditions, first, and mainiy, as they are recorded in the Book of Genesis second, at leas authentically to bo gathered from the later Hebrew learned writings; and third, as illustrated from extraneous sources. Furthermore, Mr. Gladstone hotds that any attempt to expound the 0]ympinn mythology of Homer by simple reference to a solar theory, or even to nature worship in a larger sense, is simp)y a p)ea for a. verdict against the evidence. But to the large mass of the people the chief interest in M; Gladstone's paper will be found in its eloquent vindication of the Biblical cosmogony and of revealed religion in general. He owns his sur- prise, not only at the fact, but at the manner in which, in this day, writers, whose name is legion, unimpeached in character and abounding in talent, not only put away from them, but cast into the shadow or into the very gulf of negation itself, the conception of a Deity, an acting and a ruting Deity. Of this belief, which has satisfied the doubts and wiped away the tears and formed guidance for the footsteps of so many a weary wanderer on earth which among the best and greatest of our race has been so cherished by those who had it, and so longed and sought for by those who had it not, we might suppose that, if at length we had discovered that it waa in the light of truth untenable, that the accumulated testimony of man was worth- less, and that his wisdom was but folly, yet ac least the decencies of mourning would be vouchsafed to this irreparable loss. Instead of this, it is with a joy and exultation that might almost re-call the frantic orgies of the Communs that this, at least at first sight, terrific and over- whelming calamity is accepted and regarded as a gain. For those who believe that the old founda- tions are unshaken still, and that the fabric bui!t upon them will took down for ages upon the Boating wreck of many a modern and boastfu! theory, it is dimcult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the notion that to sub- stitute a blind mechanism for the hand of God in the affairs of life is to enlarge the scope of remedial agency, that to dismiss the highest of all inspirations is to elevate the strain of human thought and life, and that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be disintegrated at death into countless millions of organisms, for such it seems is the latest revelation" delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi. Assuredly on the minds of those who believe, or else on the minds of those who after this fashion disbelieve, there lies some deep judiciat darkness—a. darkness that may be felt. While disbelief in the eyes of faith is a sore calamity, this kind of disbelief, which renounces and repudiates with more than satisfaction what is brightest and beat in the inheritance of man is astounding, and might be deemed incredible, some will say rather than accept the flimsy and hollow consolations which it IDikes bold to offer might we not, go back to sotar adoration, or, with Goethe, to the hollows of Olympus!
LORD TENNYSON'S NEW POEM.
LORD TENNYSON'S NEW POEM. The new number of Magazine con- tains some verses by Lord Tennyson, entitled "Vastness," which are interesting as illustrating the political and theological views of the illustrious writer as much as from their poetic vaiue. We extract some of the opening and concluding couplets :— Many a hearth upon our dark globe sighs after many a. vani!h'd face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll with the dust of a vanish'!l race. Rtving politics, never at rest—aa this poor earth's pale history run! What is it all but a trouble of anta in the gleam of a nlillion million of sum? Lies upon this side, lies upon that side, truthless violence mourn'd by the 'Vise, Thousands of voices drowning hia own ia a popular torrent of lies upon lies; Stately purposes, valour in battle, g!orious annals of army and fleet, Death for the right cause, death for the wrong cause, trumpets of victory, groans of defeat; Innocence seethed in her mother's milk, and Charity settiug the martyr aflame; Thraldom who walks with the banner of Freedom, and reeks not to ruin a realm in her name. Spring and Summer and Autumn and Winter, and alt these oid revolutions of earth All new-old revolutions of Empire-change of the tide- what is Il of it wort,h i What the philosophies, aU the sciences, poesy, varying voices of prayer? All that is noblest. all that i9 basest, all that is filthy with all that is fair? Wh"t is it all, if we all of us end but in being our own deeps of a meaningless Fast ? What but a murmur of gnats in the gloom, or a moment's anger of beea in their hive ?— if <It Peace, let it be! for I loved him, and love him for ever; the dead are not dead but alive.
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT AND HIS…
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT AND HIS WORKPEOPLE. The WorM says:—"In these days, when what Mr. Eccles calls the 'o!y war of class against class is unpleasantly to the front, it is refreshing to look at a little pamphlet which, during the absence of Sir George Ethot in America, has been compiled from his speeches by his friends, and which cleariy sats forth his relations with, and his feelings for, the working classes. 'No man knows more about the pitmen of this country, their wants, trials, temptations, and sufferings than I do,' says Sir George, 7/MtM tasted of <AeM His personal experiences, narrated in a speech delivered in 1382, are particularly interesting, wnd are told with a genuine simplicity wholly devoid of the swagger of self-made Boun- derbyism by which such declarations are occa- sionally tainted. Sir George Elliot said :— He had represented the industrial interests of the County of Durham fourteen years now, and he W:1S born and brought up there. From being a sma.1l boy going down a coal pit at nine years of age he became the member for that county. (Applause.) Now, they would understand he had nothin to gain by telling them this, and he mentioned it merely for their encouraement. (Applause..) He saw an old man since he came into t.hat place, called 110bert Patterson-he might be known to some of them. (Applause.) That old man was what Was termed b¡akesman, and used to lower him (Sir George) down the pit ca¡led Whitefield Pit. in the county of Durham, when nine years of age. (Applause.) This was in 1825 or 1826, and the boys then-he was one of them-for TTlany years worked fourteen hours a day down the pit. For many a year he never saw the light of the sun from the Sunday until the Saturday, and in the winter months they never saw the light of the sun on a week day. Of this very pit, into which Patterson used to lower him, he in a few years became manager, and finally owner, When he went back to the pit as responsible manager under the Marquess of LOlldonderry, who gave him the appointment after an absence of fourteen years, pulse when he got to the bottom of the pit? He had his underviewer and the different members of the staff with him, but his first impulse was 10 get away from them, and see if he could find the little trap door he, used to keep when he was II. boy. He left them, and found that little trap door which he kept when only nine years of age; and he did there and then take on; himself to humbly thank God for His mercies. (Appiause.) And Sir George wound up his speech thus:— From his experience of various grades he ventured to say this. that from the lowest step-from the first rung, of the ladder to the topmost—there was more genuine sincel'ity, and charity, and assistance amongst the poorer peop)e in this country than there was in any other grade of society. however high it might be. (Loud applause.)
CARDIFF PROPRIETARY SCHOOL.
CARDIFF PROPRIETARY SCHOOL. The twelfth annual genera! meeting of the Cardiff Proprietary School Company was held at the offices, Dumfries-place, Cardiff, on Wednesday. Dr. Taylor presided, and there were a!ao pre- sent :—Principal Jones, Mr. Evan Lewis, Mr. Waito, Mr. Daniel Jones, Mr. Sankey, and Mr. Watson.—The Secretary read the minutes of the last meeting, and they were con- firmed. The counci), in presenting to the shareholders their twelfth annual report and state- ment of accounts, regretted that the past year had not been a successful one from a. financial point of view. Among the causes which, in the opinion of the councU, had contributed to the result were (1) increased competition, (2; general depression of trade. In order to enable a larger number of persons to avail themselves of the education,lI ad- vantages offered by the school, the council have resolved to reduce the tuition fees to an uniform charge of ten guineas per annum for boys of nine years of ago and upwards. The charge for boys under nine years of age is fixed at six guineas. Educationally, the school still maintains its high reputation, as witnessed by the successes gained by its pupils in the South Wales University College Schotarship, Cambridge Locat, and London Matriculation Examinations. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he was sorry that during the past year they had not succeeded financially. The school had certainly increased in numbers, and ho hoped that now the council had determined to re- duce the fees they would witness a marked increase to the number at present attending the school. Mr. ViRtAMu JoNEs seconded, and said ho could only express his surprise at the very small num- ber of boys attending the school. Instead of the 100 boys or so who at present attended there should he 300 or 400, and he hoped that now the fees had been reduced a different state of things would be witnessed. Messrs. Evan Lewis, W. Ronnfeldt, and Dr. Sheen were re-e)ected directors. Mr. Robert Bird was elected a member of the council, in the place of Lieut.-Colonel J. F. D. C. Stuart. Mr. Harris was re-etected auditor. After passing a vote of thanks to Mr. Terry and his assistants, and to the chairman for presiding, the meeting closed.
MR. J. T. D. LLEWELYN AND…
MR. J. T. D. LLEWELYN AND THE PILOTS, Replying to a tetter addressed to him containing an interrogatory which the Pilots' Association are sending round to aU candidates for Parliamentary honours, Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn has written to say that he has great sympathy with the pilots of the Bristol Channel, and that he wi)l most certainly support their petition for an Inquiry into theif grievances as a body,
THE ADMINISTRATION OF BEOHUANALAND.
THE ADMINISTRATION OF BEOHUANALAND. APPOINTMENT OF THE STAFF. ["REUTEB'S" TELEGRAM. 1 CAPE TOWN, Ocr. 1<- An extraordinary edition of the Cap<- Gazette øJ published last Wednesday, notifying the eoBStit"' tion of an Executive Staff of Administration for British Bechuanalan" His Excellency the Governor of the Cape of CrOC" Hope is appointed Governor of British land, the appointment of all ofEcera being vested in him. Mr. Justice Shippardis appointed Administrate and Chief Magistrate, also Deputy.Commissioner for the parts of Bechuanaland and Kilahara under her Majesty's protection. The Land Commission appointed to bear and determine the claims to land and to make arrant ments in regard to the land settlement of land is composed as follows:—Mr. Justice Sbippafd president; Captain Leverson, R.E., and Duncan, R.N., Commissioners; and LieutenaC' Haynes, R.E., secretary. Laws and regulations for the government of tb' territory similar to those in force in otherterritori adjacent to Cape Colony are promulgated.
SPAIN AND GERMANY.
SPAIN AND GERMANY. THREATENED DIPLOMATIC RUPTURE. j/* CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, THURSDAY. In an article to-day on the Caroline Islands que9' tion, the National Zeitung .ays:—"The patience of Germany is almost, exhausted. Diplomatic tions are now severely strained, and Spain ? warned that unless the tension is speedily put sf end to a diplomatic rupture must ensue."
THE CUMBERLAND OUTRAGE.
THE CUMBERLAND OUTRAGE. A most material piece of evidence has beeo added to the case against the three prisoners CarHsIe charged with robbery and the murder 0' Constable Byrne in Cumberland. Inspector Rocbl!t one of the omcers shot at Kingstown, was able to attend the police-omce, and he identified the Illeo as those who attacked him and Johnstone on t!" road from Netherby to Carlisle.
ANOTHER NORTH COUNTRY BURGLARY.
ANOTHER NORTH COUNTRY BURGLARY. Another case of housebrea.king has occurred ill Westmorland. A farmhouse at Kirkby StepM" has been ransacked in the absence of the owne: The Ill'Juey. l¡rnvever, was overlooked. MUW' anxiety is felt in the neighbourhood, as one of tJIf NetheLby desperadoes is still at large.
A BOOKMAKER HEAVILY FINED.
A BOOKMAKER HEAVILY FINED. A wen-known bookmaker, named WilliaøJ Wheeldon, was at Manchester on Thursday mor"* ing nned jElOO and costs, or three sonment, for using a public-house for the purpo of betting. He was arrested on Wednesday, 311 his books sozed. Evidence was given that I was an old offender in this way, as he had been nned £50 whilst keeping a beerhouse, aO JE75 during the late betting raids.
HORRIBLE MUKDER AT HAMPTON.
HORRIBLE MUKDER AT HAMPTON. A shocking murder was committed in Wolve!; hampton on Thursday morning. A man narIJe" John Davies, 5?, pattern-maker by trade, went io? St. Luke's Schooi. BlakenaII, where his wife ?'? employed cleaning the rooms, and commenced sO attack upon the poor woman with a poker. beat her about the head in a frightful manner, a left her on the noor in a pool of blood. Assistant was obtained, but the poor womnn died in a fe,s minutes. The man is of drunken habits, and hI conduct lately has been of a most violent chartJC ter. He has not worked for several weeks pt\S 6 and it is supposed that when ho commenced tll attack on his wife he was was suffering ffO' delirium tremens. Prisoner was at once take into custody.
THE COUNTRY AND THE ELECTIONS.
THE COUNTRY AND THE ELECTIONS. '0' In a leader dealing with the municipal electlO í the Times says :—Where political contests did ta' p)ace it would seem that the Conservatives had t' advantage. Gains in Liverpool, Manchester, S*. ford, Chester, Burniey, Stockton, Nottingham Portsmouth, Plymouth, Exeter, more than com- pensate for losses in Leeds, Sheffield, Uristo!. Maidatone, and elsewhere. It would ,,0, bo prudent to infer positively from this tl? Conservatism has taken a stride forward in boroughs, and th&t this wilt be apparent in t" coming Parliamentary struggle; but there at ieast a probability of it. One considerate should always be borne in mind in reckoning ? political value of municipal voting, and th?., that for Town Councils, as for School Bo? female ratepayers have votes. This complied"" the problem, imd it probably increases the COj sfrvativa strength not a litt)e. But, making "[ allowances for this and for local consideratioO S is probable that we may really reckon upon SO11 Conservative increase in the boroughs, which ? make itself felt in the coming Parliamentary c!?* tions. The Liberals are inclined to admit it. afj as is well known, base their hopes mainly uP? the agricultural labourer, with whose aid t? ? protest they will sweep the counties." In It than four weeks the prophecy will be fulfilled proved untrue.
CANON HAWKINS'S GOLDEN WEDDING.
CANON HAWKINS'S GOLDEN WEDDING. rI The Rev. Canon Hawkins, who for forty ye& was vicar of the parish of St. Woolios, ewpotd on Thursday celebrated his golden wedding, ?' the occasion was marked by the presentation ?' silver salver and a purse of a hundred gui"?; which had been subscribed for by about ? friends of the hale and happy couple. The ceedings, which were of a private character, we carried out at the rev. canon's residence, Park. Accompanying the salver and purse wa.s illuminated address, bearing the following scription:— j To the Kev. Edward Hawkins, Canon of for 40 yeura vicar of the Parish of St. WooHos, and l\Í t" Hawkins.Ve. whose names are appended, desire", present tD you our hearty conratulations upoIJ. t happy occasion of your golden wedding day, and 0$ expres om' e!Lrnest wish that you both m!l.Y be 10'01 spared. dwelling amongst your old parishioners, to eJcj¡ ha.ve won for you from us &nd your friends in gene'" --5th NovemJ.¡(,r, 1885.. The inscription on the salvor was as follows Presented, with ? purse of gotd, to Canon and ?'0 Hawkins, on the happy occasion of their ??()) a large numuer of sincere and devoted friends. November, J.h8b.
LLANDAFF YARD DRAINAGE.
LLANDAFF YARD DRAINAGE. Ji A well-attended public meeting was on Wednesday in the National Schoolroo, Llandaff Yard, Mr. Dagg in the chair. The folio ing resolution was unanimously carried :— This meeting iearns, with the deepest regret, scheme has not been provided for the drainage of district. The sanitary arran¡¡;ements being in such. t,,1 plornbte state, the greatest apprehension is feit as to ? immediate future, and the Rural Sanitary Authority ,<' urged to use their best endeavours to prevent IV' outbreak of disease, which at any moment we Habte to. t)Ø The meeting felt that strong action shOUldtø taken to bring public opinion to bear upoo matter, and the press were respectfully reque¡¡.f to assist by giving publicity. A deputation qI appointed to upon the Rural Sanitary Autll rity at their next meeting.
CARDIFF CHORAL SOCIETY.
CARDIFF CHORAL SOCIETY. The nrst of the serifs of concerts proposed to e' given by the above society was held on \'Vedtl day evening last, when selections were given the "Redemption." "Elijah," and" Rose tilt Sharon." together with a performance of tIP' Stabat Mater (Rossini). The artistes, with ",ø exception of the bass and tenor, were well ko" tJ to the Cardiff public. The first part was of a. selection from the oratorios above mentlO;eít and we must congratulate the society on (<? good performances of the choruses alJotte ICe<! them. Miss Larkcom was received with UlBt$tOJ approbation in her rendering of "I wiIl e e ill Thee," and the same may be said of Mr. Ls.c lIí Deeper and deeper stiU." and Mr. Wing 1°00.' rendering of Honour and Arms," from "SarIJSí# We should like to draw attention to fot Marian Ellis, who appeared in Card'P ?ifj the nrst time. Her rendering of the ? 0 rest in the Lord," was both effecti?? ?i? artistic, as was also her singing of the cav?''?' the "Stabat Mater," "I will sing of Thy 8? mercy." Miss EUia showed careful training'? o' she will be a welcome addition to our st°'?' contraltos. Mr. Risely, who presided at ths? ? was encored in hia organ solo OrEertoiro ? tf in D, by Baptiste. His accompaniment ?.(;<? society showed great skill and judgment. ? ?,' elusion, the society deserve a word of their admirable rendering of the Stabat ? tllel" choruses, and we congratulate them 0'* ?? success, the best numbers being the Inna? ?f? and Amen," the latter especially being wel We regret that the attendance wa.s small,aO 1'l1el that this will not discourage the society' btlJt next performance will bo on the l7th of Fe ",iJ1 w))en the "Spectre Bride," by Dvoraks, performed.
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