Weekly Mail

THE HEREFORDSHIRE MURDER CASE. PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH. At Gloucester Assizes on Wednesday (before Mr. Justice Field) John Hill, 34, sailor, and John Williams, 26, painter, were charged with the murder of Ann Dickson, at Weobley, near Hereford, on September 30.—Mr. Darling and the Hon. A. Lyttelton prosecuted; Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Cranstoun defended Williams, and Mr. Ram, by the order of the judge, defended Hill. Mr. Darling, in opening the case for the prosecu- tion, said the facts of the case were so horrible and repulsive that he feared that unless the jury, from the outset, made up their minds to be influenced only by the evidence adduced, their judgment might be warped against the prisoners. The facts of the c se were that Ann Dickson, the deceased, w is a hop-picker, and, with a woman named Farrell, was engaged in September to pick hops, at Homme Farm, belonging to Mr. Rogers. The Homme Farm is situate about a mile from the village of Weobleyand about twelve miles from Hereford. OnSeptember 30 Dickson and Farrell went to Weobley, Dickson expecting to see a man named Cox, with whom she formerly cohabited. On their way back they went into the Lion Inn, and the prisoners were there. About twenty minutes to ten Williams left the house, and the other three followed almost imme- diately afterwards, and saw Williams out- side. Farrell appeared to be afraid of Williams, and said she should go to the police- station for protection, but as Hill offered to escort them they went on their way home without Williams. When they reached a gate leading into a pea-field Farrell went ahead to open the gate and was instantly struck a blow on the face with a stick by someone in front of her. She was un- conscious for a short time, and then saw the prisoner Williams throw her baby on to the ground. Williams then seized her and attempted to criminally assault her. She resisted, and a struggle ensued. Williams said, I will kill you if you don't let me do it quiet." Mrs. Farrell, finding herself in the hands of a desperate and determined man, said, If you will come up to the barn where I sleep you shall stay with me all night." They then went on together, and on reaching the house of Whitefoot, a shep- herd, she rushed to it, screaming Murder." Whitefoot came to the door, but Williams de- camped, and Whitefoot then went with Farrell. who was bleeding from the wound on her face, to the barn. The next day she went to Weobley and gave information to the police, but, in the mean- time, two men coming along the field had found the dead body of Ann Dickson lying in the pea- field, a short distance from the place where Mrs. Farrell was assaulted. There were marks on the groundas though a seriesof struggles had takenplace. A piece of flesh had been torn from her face, one of her eyes was knocked into the brain, and her skull was most severely fractured. She had received the grossest and most brutal treatment, and had no doubt been murdered. The prisoner Hill could not be found next morning, but on October 2 he turned up at Newport, and went to the Seamen's Institute managed by Mrs. Pitman. That lady noticed that Hill's face was covered with scratches. He said he had been in trouble the previous week, and asked for writing materials. He then wrote a letter to his brother, saying he was in trouble and asking him to send him f2, and also imposing secrecy as to his whereabouts. He afterwards went to the police-station for a relief- ticket, and the officer, thinking he answered the description given, detained him and searched him. He found there was blood on his coat and waistcoat, and mud and blood were on all his garments, in- cluding the shirt. Williams was apprehended on October 1 at his house, and the trousers, shirt, and apron which he said he wore the previous evening were saturated with blood and covered with mud. Witnesses were called bearing out the opening statement of Mr. Darling. The defence of Williams was that the blood on his clothes came from the wound on Farrell's face, and was obtained during his struggle with Farrell. His Lordship having addressed the jury, both prisoners were found guilty, and sentences of death were passed.

MONMOUTHSHIRE CASES AT GLOUCESTER ASSIZES. HEAVY SENTENCES. At the Gloucester Assizes on Tuesday (before Mr. Justice Field) the following Monmouthshire cases were tried:— CRIMINAL ASSAULT NEAR NEWPORT. John Church, 23, labourer, and David Jones, 19, puddler, were charged with ravishing Annie Irwin, at Cwmbran, near Newport, on September 1. Jones pleaded guilty, but Church denied the offence. Mr. Daniel prosecuted, and called the prosecutrix, who stated that while on a walk she met the prisoners, who threw her down and assaulted her in turn, the one holding her while the other effected his purpose. When they let her go she went to a woman, made a complaint, and then fainted, having been severely hurt. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and both prisoners were sentenced to ten penal servitude. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A POST-OFFICE OFFICIAL NEAR NEWPORT. William Jones, 47, grocer, of Cwmbran, near Newport, was charged with that he, being in the public service of her Majesty, did embezzle sums amounting to £47 13s. 6d., received by him on account of Mrs. Mary Jane Ovpns, and with embezzling £20, received on account of Mr. David Walters; and he was further charged with forging and uttering a certain request to the Postmaster- General for the payment of the aforesaid £20. The prisoner pleaded guilty to embezzlement, but! denied the charge of forgery.—Mr. Hill, Q.C., who prosecuted, said that the various amounts mention ed in the charge were paid to prisoner, who was then postmaster at t heC wmbran office,which was a branch of the Newport Post-office, and it was his duty to have paid the money over to the head office on the day of its receipt. This he did not do, and the embezzlement was only ascertained when the inspector went to Cwmbran to inquire into the matter.—Mr. Darling, who appeared for the pri- soner, said that his client carried on the business of grocer, as well as being postmaster. Through the depression in trade his grocery business had failed, and he was unable to make up the pay- ments.—His Lordship, in passing sentence, said he could not pass over such serious cases lightly, and the prisoner would be sentenced to five years' penal servitude. ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL ASSAULT. John Jones, 16, labourer, was charged with attempting to criminally assault a girl named Harriet Elizabeth Stewart, aged 12 years, at Llan- gattock, near Caerleon, on September the 2nd. He pleaded guilty.—His Lordship observed that the prisoner had a previous good character, but he must mark his sense of such cases by sentencing the prisoner to twelve months with hard labour. He (the judge) was determined to do his utmost to suppress assaults on women and girls, of which so many had been recently committed in Mon-, mouthshire. BURGLARY AT COEDKERNEW. Thomas Jones, 20, labourer, was charged with burglariously breaking and entering into the dwelling-house of Henry John Parsons, and steal- ing therefrom a desk. a cashbox, a cigar box and cigars, and £5 Is. 6d., in the parish of Coed- kernew, on August 8. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months' hard labour. ASSAULTING A YOUG WOMAN AT NEWPORT. Francis Adamson, 28, sailor, was charged with criminally assaulting Susan Urch, a young woman, aged 18, at Newport, on the 17th of August. Mr. David prosecuted. It was stated that some time previous to August the prisoner and the prosecutrix, a modest-looking young woman, went out court- ing, and the prisoner made a proposal of marriage, which was accepted. He then went away on a voyage, and several letters passed between the pair. On August 17 the prisoner came back to Newport, and went out for a walk that evening with the prosecutrix near an embankment by the Alexandra Dock. He there threw her down, and partly accomplished the offence, when the prose- cutrix struggled from him, and ran away. He followed her, overtook her, threw her down, and effected his purpose. She screamed, and he said if she did so any more he would run a knife through her. He at length let her go, and walked with her in the direction of her home. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the Judge said the prisoner had practised long deception to satisfy his lust. He had ruined the poor girl, and he would be sentenced to ten years' penal ser- vitude. FORGERY BY BOYS AT CHEPSTOW. Charles Hoskins and Richard Swaine, boys, were charged with forging a certain endorsement upon a banker's cheque for the payment of the sum of £14, with intent to defraud, at Chepstow, on the 6th of October.—Hoskins admitted the offence, but Swaine pleady not guilty.—The jury found the prisoners guilty, and they were both sentenced to three months'hard labour. CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. Sarah Ann George, a servant, aged 20, sur- rendered to her bail charged with concealing the birth of her illegitimate child by placing its body in the Monmouthshire Canal at Mynyddysllwyn on September 17.—She pleaded guilty. Mr. Daniel, who appeared for her, said that a Mrs. Davis had offered to take the girl into a penitentiary, where she would be looked after for two years.—Mr. Davis appeared, and made the promise on behalf of his wife, and, acting on that promise, the Judge discharged the prisoner, who was handed over to the care of Mr. Davis.

SUDDEN DEATH ON GILFACH GOCH MOUNTAIN. Mary Sopkins. widow, 56 years of age, of 2, Prichard's-row, Gilfach Goch, was found dead on the mountain, about half-way between Gilfach and Penygraig, on Friday morning. It appears that about half an hour previously she had left her home to proceed to Merthyr to see some friends. Thomas Hughes, collier, of Penygraig, saw her coming in an opposite direction to that in which his footsteps were directed, and when he got within about 100 yards of her she fell upon her face. He ran towards her and picked her up, but found that she was quite dead. She was after- wards removed to her borne.

MURDEROUS OUTRAGE. At Birmingham on Monday the coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against per- sons unknown in the case of Alfred Hartley, fur- naceman, who was found in a dying condition at Soho, near Birmingham, on the 9th ult. Accord- ing to deceased's statement, he was going home with his wages, which were paid him in a public- house, when five men set on him, robbed him, and kicked him. He had a broken ribb which penetra- ted the lung, causing death.

SHOCKING CONDUCT OF A SON AT CARDIFF. INQUEST ON THE BODY. Mr. E. B. Reece, coroner for the district, held an inquiry at the Town-hall, Cardiff, on Tuesday touching the death of an elderly man, named Ephraim Laney, who died at 40, Millicent-street, on Sunday last under suspicious circumstances.— Catherine Laney deposed that deceased was her husband, and that he was 50 years of age. between nine and ten o'clock on the night of the 10th of October she heard a row in the lodgers' bedroom. On proceeding to see what was the matter she met on the staircase one of the men in his shirt. He complained that her son, Albert Laney, had been searching his pockets, and that he had afterwards assaulted him. Her son thereupon rushed at the lodger, and because she interfered he beat her severely. The deceased, who was lying on the sofa, jumped up and in- quired what was the matter. Albert Laney then turned upon his father, knocked him down, and kicked him in the ribs. Deceased complained of the injuries he had received, and was subsequently carried to bed. Dr. Herbert Vachell was sent for on the following day, but her husband gradually grew worse, and died on the 1st inst. —George Morris, a. labourer, and William Lewis, lodgers at the house, corroborated the evidence given by the first witness.— Mr.Herbert Vachell, M.D., deposed that on examin- ing the deceased's chest he found it contused in places. He appeared to be in pain when taking a deep breath. Witness detected the fracture of one rib, and applied the usual treatment. Deceased con- tinued in this condition until the 16th of October. On the 19th of October symptoms of catarrhal pneumonia set it. This continued until he died. He made a post-mortem examination of the body on the 1st of November, and found a simple frac- ture of the fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs, in the central portion of the rib. The sixth rib was also partially fractured. He found both lungs highly congested and characteristic of catarrhal pneumonia.. He attributed the cause of death to inflammation of the lungs. He. however, believed that death was accelerated by the injuries.-Tiie Coroner having briefly summed up, the jury retired to consider their verdict. After being locked up for a couple of hours thev returned into court. The Foreman informed the coroner that they were unable to agree, and at his request the evidence was read over to them. The jury a second time retired, and in about three-quarters of an hour the foreman again reported to the coroner that there was no pro- bability of their agreement. They were, there- fore, discharged. At the Town-hall, Cardiff, on Wednesday (before Mr. E. B, Reece, district coroner) a second inquiry was held into the cause of the death of Ephraim Laney, of 40, Millicent-street. An inquest was held on Monday, but owing to the jury then being unable to agree they were discharged, and a fresh jury was empanelled. It will he remembered that some time ago the son of the deceased, a blind youth, nineteen years of age, who was said to possess great strength, assaulted his father, from the effects of which the old man has since died. The lad was said by his mother to be of a very vicious temper, and was sentenced at the time of the assault to a term of imprisonment.— Dr. Vachell proved the severity of the kicks the deceased had received, and said, though tlnse might not have been the cause of death, yet it was accelerated by them.—The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the son, Albert Laney.— The Coroner expressed his regret that he had not such an interiigent body of men to form the jury on the previous day.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF THREATEN- ING TO MURDER. ALLEGED INFIDELITY OF A WIFE. At Westminster Police Court on Tuesday Mr. Romeo Drysdale, 47, gentleman, of 145, Church- street, Chelsea, was charged on a warrant (before Mr. Partridge) with threatening to murder Mr. George Charles Jackson, a surveyor, residing at 8, Oakley-crescent, Chelsea. The prosecutor stated that at eight o'clock on the previous Tuesday morning he was awoke by a noise in his room. He started up in bed and found the defendant, buttoned up in a large overcoat, standing over him with a huge cudgel, upraised in a threatening way. Defendant said be would murder him, and, believing firmly that he was in the hands of a madman, he made a rush to the window and lifted the sash. Defendant ordered him back, and said that he would not injure him if he laid down. (Laughter.) Although very frightened, for he believed defendant had an attack of delirium tremens, he got into bed again. No sooner had he done so than defendant locked the door, put the key in his pocket, and said, Now I've got you. I'll settle you. I'll murder you! Feeling his defenceless position, and being terrified by the defendant's manner, he vaulted out of bed for the second time, jumped on to the dressing-table, and out into the back yard—a drop of 15 feet. He then called out to the landlady for assistance. He had given Mr. Drysdale no provocation. He had. however, no vindictive feeling against him, and only desired protection. Defendant asked him whether during his absence at Brighton last week he had not slept in his house —in fact, in his wife's bedroom. Prosecutor said he certainly remained one night in Mr. Drysdale's house, but he slept in the morning room. He remained talking to Mrs. Drysdale and her sister until two o'clock respecting tho defen- dant coming home from Brighton. Defendant: Nothing of the sort. You knew well enough I could not get from Brighton at that hour. The last train arrives at midnight. You took ad- vantage of my absence and slept in my wife's bedroom. In answer to Mr. Partridge, wlio asked what right ha had at. the house at all in the absence of Mr. Drysdale, Mr. Jackson said he had been on very friendly terms with the prosecutor for sixteen years, and had stayed at his house on many occasions-he might say for months at a time. The defendRit said he went to the prosecutor's rooms to demand an explanation of his conduct, but he was not suffering from delirium, or in any way excited by drink. Prosecutor was evidently alarmed, and to calm his fears, for the sake of a little conversation, he swore he would not hurt him, and threw his stick on the bed. Prosecutor: No; I remember it well. (Laughter.) You held it by the middle, clenched in your fist. Vince, the warrant officer, proved that he arrested the defendant, who said that he went to have an interview with Jackson, man to man." Prosecutor, however, was frightened, and would not put his hands up." He then directed him to lie down on the bed, so that he could listen to what he (defendant) said. Mr. Partridge remanded the defendant, who was bailed later in the day, a solicitor who appeared for him stating that a very different complexion would be put on the case when it came before the court again.

CARDIFF BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. F. LANGLEY, Jun., Registrar.) JOHN JOSEPH NEWMAN, plumber, Custom House- street, Cardiff.—This debtor came up for his first examination. In reply to the Official Receiver, the debtor said that he had compounded with his creditors on a former occasion at Reading. That was about twelve years ago. The amount he now owed was L950. It was principally business debts. He was paying L150 a year for his premises. He could not pay 5s. in the X. He had lost about X140 in litigation. There was S115 8s. 9d. due to him from John Lewis, the son of the man from whom he took the house. This closed the inquiry. WILLIAM FLEMING, OUTFITTER, PENARTH.-This debtor came up for his first examination. Mr. John Jones appeared on behalf of the debtor. In reply to the Official Receiver, the debtor stated that he had been in business at Penarth since April, 1881. He had never keptany books. He estimated his loss at £ 400. In reply to Mr. Jones, he said his business was a ready-money business. He did not understand keeping books. He was ordered to file a deficiency account and a cash account forjthe past six months. The examination was adjourned till December 9.

THE SOUTH WALES CHORAL UNION. A meeting of the musical friends interested in the re-establishment of the South Wales Choral Union was held on Thursday afternoon at the Butchers' Arms Hotel, Poniypridd, when repre- sentatives attended from Pontypridd, Rhondda, Dowlais, Merthyr, Troedyrhiw, Mountain Ash, Penrhiwceiber, Aberdare, Cwmbargoed, Maesteg, and various parts of Monmouthshire. The following were appointed an Executive Committee:—Messrs. Jenkin Howell, Aberdare D. Gibbon, Treherbert; D. Davies, Ferndale; T. Evans, Dowlais; W. Y. Davies, Maesteg D. E. Coleman, Mountain Ash and T. John, Llwvnpia. It was decided to ask Lord Aberdare to become president. With regard to the choir, it was resolved that it should consist. of from 300 to 500 voices and that it be divided into fifteen sections. The works to be performed were left to the executive. Several letters express- ing sympathy with the movement were received from Judge Gwilym Williams, the leading ministers of the Principality, and the organists of Llandaff and other cathedrals.

THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. The result of the election for the new London School Board has proved a remarkable success for the economy and religious education parties. There are on the new board fifteen clergymen mostly of the Church of England, and of the old board only 24 have secured re-election on a board of 55 members.

DEATH OF THE PRINCIPAL OF ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY. Doctor Pirie, principal of Aberdeen University, and one of the leaders of the Church of Scotland, died on Tuesday, aged 84.

LOCAL COMMISSIONS. The London Gazette of Tuesday night contains the fol- lowing :— War Office, Pall Mall, JTovember 3. LINE BATTALION, THE ROYAL WKLSH FCSILlKRS. Gentleman-Cadet William Charles Hall, from the Royal Military je(illege, to be Lieutenant, vice R. H. W. Dunn, appointed adju- tant.

WEEKLY RETURN OF BILLS OF SALE AND FAILURES. —In the week ending Oct. 31, 1885, there were 222 bills of sale in England and Wales, a decrease of 19 over those of the corresponding period last year; and the failures gazetted numbered 72, an increase of 7. Totals for the portion of year to Oct. 31, 1885, are bills of sale registered for William Charles Hall, from the Royal Military ^College, to be Lieutenant, vice R. H. W. Dunn, appointed adju- tant. WEEKLY RETURN OF BILLS OF SALE AND FAILURES. —In the week ending Oct. 31, 1885, there were 222 bills of sale in England and Wales, a decrease of 19 over those of the corresponding period last year; and the failures gazetted numbered 72, an increase of 7. Totals for the portion of year to Oct. 31, 1885, are bills of sale registered for England and Wales, 9,894, an increase of 413; the failures gazetted number 3,682, an increase of 590. —Extract from Stubbs' Weekly Gazette. failures gazetted number 3,682, an increase of 590. —Extract from Stubbs' Weekly Gazette.

EXPLOSION AT A COLLIERY NEAR LLANELLY. Four men were injured by an explosion which took place on Tuesday morning at the Maesardd Afen Colliery, Bryn, near Llanelly.

ALLEGED WIFE MURDER. At Woodchurch, near Birkenhead, on Monday, Owen M'GUI, an Irish farm labourer, was arrested on a charge of murdering his wife by brutally beating and kicking her on Saturday night in the course of a quarrel.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT DOWLAIS. Whilst John Williams. a carpenter, was crossing the line between the Bessemer and the Cogging Mills at the Dowlais Works on Saturday afternoon he was knocked down by an engine and at once deprived of life.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT TIRPHIL. On Saturday morning a man named Michael Bryant, whilst trespassing on the Brecon and Mer- thyr Railway, was run over by a goods train and killed.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT ABERDARE. On Friday evening the dead body of Philip Morgan, labourer, aged 56, of Henry-street, Aber- dare, was found by Inspector Thorney and others in a pond at Abernant. Deceased was last seen alive walking along the side of the pond on the previous day.

DEATH ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Early on Monday morning the body of a man unknown was found on the rails of the Great Western Railway on the west side of Clynderwen Station. The body was fearfully mutilated, and is supposed to have been run over by the down special goods train leaving Whitland about 6.20.

METHODICAL. A notice to the following effect is posted up outside the office of a laqe works in the Man- chester district:—"Notice! The hours of atten- dance in this office are-To canvassers for Church subscriptions, 10 to 2; book and insurance agents, 2 to 4 commercial travellers, beggars, and adver- tising men, all day. We attend to our own business at night."

A GIRL KILLED BY HER STEP- FATHER. A labourer named William Kirchen was arrested at Spalding on Monday on a charge of causing tho death of his wife's daughter, a girl named Gray, Kirchen and his wife quarrelled on Saturday even- ing, and deceated interfered, when, it is alleged, Kirchen threw a paraffin lamp at her. The flame ignited her nightdress, and caused such injuries that she died on Monday inominsr.

BOILER EXPLOSION AT STOCKPORT. On Monday afternoon a boiler explodod at Messrs. Deaviile Brothers' provision and general stores; Stockport. The premises were completely wrecked, and the three members of the firm- George, Joshua, and IStac DeaviIle-were buried in the ruins. They were rescued with great difficulty and conveyed to the hospital, where it was found that they were severely injured. The ruins caught fire, but the flames were soon subdued.

THE CONSTABLE AND THE « CORPSE." A STRANGE CASE. A retired captain named Clarke, living at Bilk* dfdJ, near Southport, was recently seijjad with a, fit, and the doctor pronounced life extinct, Poubt arising in the mind of a constable at the inquest oil' Alonday ho endeavoured to restore animation, and ultimately succeeded. The man is little tho worse for his experience.

ATTEMPTED MURDER. A shocking outrage was committed in Notting- ham late on Saturday night. Frank Rowley, a young fruiterer, waited the passing by of Annie Rose, with whom he had been on intimate terms, and, spring-ing- upon her from an enti-y, cut her throat severely, A soldier went to the woman's assistance, and Rowley made off but was captured. Rose lies in a dangerous state. Rowley was taken before the magistrate on Monday and remanded.

ATTEMPT TO POISON A RIVAL PRACTITIONER. Dr. Estachy, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and an important political wire-puller in the Department of the Vaucluso, has been found guilty, with extenuating circumstances, of having tried to poison a rival practitioner, by sending him a present of six edible blackbirds containing atrophine. The dose in each bird would have sufficed to poison several persona "The accused was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR LLANELLY: On Monday evening a woman, whose panje we have not ascertained, was on the line of the Great Western Railway between Bynea and Llanelly; She got bewildered at the appearance of two trains, one on a branch a.nd the other on the main line, and was overtaken by the latter, the express train from London, which was running at full speed. The poor woman was dashed to pieces. She was the mother of a large family of young children, and resided in the locality.

NATIONALISTS AND FENIANS AT LOGGERHEADS. It has transpired that on Simday- night, after a National League demonstration in the County Ros- common, as Messrs. O'Kelly, M.P., and Kenny, M.P., were passing the village of Dysart on their way to Athlone, escorted by a band and other per- sons, a furious attack was made on the party by about 40 men, who shouted execrations on the National League and cheers for the Fenians. Seve- ral of the National party were severely injured. A protection party was stationed around the house where the two members of Parliament stayed for the night; On Monday morning they went on to Athlone unmolested.

LADY HOUSE SURGEONS The first appointment in London of a lady to a hospital post was made on Friday, when Miss Prideaux was elected by the General Committee of the Paddington Green Children's Hospital to the office of house surgeon. There were nineteen male candidates for the post, of whom half were Univer- sity graduates. Miss Prideaux is a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of London Uni- versity; and she took first-class honours in medi- cine and in obstetric medicine. Although, says the St. James's Gazette, this is the first instance of a lady receiving a hospital appointment in London, similar appointments have been made in the pro- vinces. A lady, too, has filled in Paris the office of house-surgeon or interne.

MRS. LANGTRY IN THE COUNTY- COURT. JUDGMENT AGAINST THE DEFENDANT. At Brompton County Court on Tuesday Mrs. Langtry was summoned for an account of £ 14 for goods supplied by Mr. Day on the order of Mrs. Langtry and her servants six years ago.—Mrs. Langtry did not attend, but was represented by a solicitor. Evidence showed that a previous account had been paid by Mrs. Langtry, with a cheque for a considerable amount drawn in her favour by Captain Allen Young. On that occasion the change from the cheque was handed over to Mrs. Langtry.—Plaintiff stated he had called for his account, but Mrs. Langtry had sent him a message that she was sorry she could not pay then but would pay when she could.—No evidence was called for the defence, and judgment was giveu for plaintiff.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT SWANSEA. At Swansea Police Court on Saturday William Harris, an ex-police-constable, residing at Landore, was charged with attempting to shoot Annie Harris, a domestic servant in the employ of Mr. White, of Cleveland-terrace. From the evidence of the prosecutrix it appeared that prisoner had been keeping company with her, but in con- sequence of his drunken habits she had given him up. He came to her master's house on the 16th inst. and pointed a pistol at her She struggled with him for some time to keep the muzzle away from her. and afterwards escaped to another room.—Mr. William White, the master of the prosecutrix, gave evidence to the effect that he and his son, hearing screams, went out and seized the prisoner, who had a pistol in his hantf. They held him down, took the pislol away, and threw it into a tub of water. They afterwards found the weapon to be loaded. Prisoner bad threatened prosecutrix that if she ever walked with another man he would do for both of them.—The Bench committed prisoner for trial at the assizes.

UNNATURAL PARENTS. At Hampton (Middlesex) Petty Sessions on Tuesday Edward Beenham and Maria Beenham, his wife, of Green Man-yard, Hatton, Bedfont, were charged with neglecting to provide sufficient food and nourishment for two of their children, aged respectively eighteen and eight months. The proceedings were instituted by the police, who, in consequence of a communication made to them, went to Beenham's house, accompanied by Dr. Lundy, divisional surgeon, where they found five of the prisoners' children, including the two specified in the charge, who were in a most piti- able state. The child aged eighteen months was sitting on the floor in a most filthy and attenuated condition. The younger child was lying on the bottom of an old perambulator in the same room, and the whole time Dr. Lundy and the police were there it moaned in a most pitiful way. Four of the children were at once removed to the Staines Workhouse, where, upon being weighed, the younger child was found to weigli only 7glb., the average weight of a child of that 2 age being about 201b. The magistrates sent the husband to prison for three months, and his wife for two months, with hard labour.

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT. Four men of the Middlesex Regiment stationed at Hythe put off in an unseaworthy pleasure boat I on Sunday afternoon. The boat sank half a mIle, from shore. Two were drowned, the other two swimming to the beach in an exhausted condition.

MEMORIAL TO THE LATE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER. An influential meeting was held at Manchester on Monday, attended by a large number of Church- men and Nonconformists. It was unanimously resolved to erect a statue in some conspicuous position in the city to the memory of the late Bishop of Manchester.

DEFRAUDING A BUILDING SOCIETY- Sentence of five years' penal servitude was on Monday passed on an Exeter accountant named Harris for embezzling between £4,000 and £5,000 belonging to a building society of which he was a member. He had been a large speculator in a. mining business, and the money appropriated had been applied to keep oe mine going.

BIRTH IN A RAILWAY TRAIN NEAR HIRWAIN. Whilst a woman named Caroline Targett, living in Plymouth-road, Merthyr, was returning from Swansea to Merthyr by train on Tuesday evening she gave birth to a female child, the unexpected event occurring just as the train was approaching Hirwain. There was a midwife in the same com partment, who assisted in the confinement.

NOVEL MODE OF COMMITTING SUICIDE. A man ,nam(>d Draper, now lying in the Northampton Workhouse Infirmary, attempted to commit suicide by putting gunpowder in his mouth and then igniting it. His throat and mouth were severely burned, and for a time his condition was considered precarious.

A FATAL LEAP. A woman named Ann Roberts, 65 years of age, has met with a terrible death in Edinburgh. Going to a window in the roof of her house, she divested herself of most of her clothing, and then leaped headlong into the street. She sustained fearful injuries, and died almost instantaneously. She had a long time been in a low frame of mind.

EVENING HOMES FOR GIRLS. Lady Ridding, daughter of Lord Selborne and wife of the Bishop of Southwell, has put her- self at the head of a movement for instituting at Nottingham a number of Evening Homes" for girls. A few such homes already exist in the town but Lady Laura Ridding has discovered that in a large manufacturing centre such agencies for girl- rescue must be numerous indeed if any headway is to be made against the flood of immorality.

FLIGHT OF AN IRISH BARRISTER. On Monday a rumour, said to be well founded, was prevalent in the Dublin law courts to the effect that a well-known barrister, who is a descendant of a famous Irish orator, had disap- peared from Dublin to avoid legal proceedings instituted against him by the injured husband of a lady with whom he had been carrying on an intrigue. The case is said to contain some elements of romance.

THE BURGLARY AT MR. ARCHIBALD HOOD'S, CARDIFF. At G'ardilf Police Court on Monday James Mason, 34, and George alggs, 33, were charged with breaking antl entering Sherwood House, and steal- ing therefrom a quantity of silver, the property of Mr: Archibald lioud, on the night of the 8tH of optoberr Mr: Belehti1 appeared on behalf of the prisoner Uiggy, The prisoners were remanded for II, week.

A NEWPORT LAW CASE. In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice on Monday the case of Lord Tredegar v. the Alexandra, Newport, and South Wales Docks and Railway Company and the Newport (Alexandra) Dock Company (Limited) was down for hearing before Mr. Justice Day, without a jury. On tho case being .called on, however, it was adjourned, with tho view of a settlement being arrived at.

PETROLEUM AS FUEL FOR STEAMSHIPS. Experiments have been made on a steamer on the Thames for the purpose of demonstrating the suitability of petroleum as fuel. The coal-carrying capacity of the vessel is 240 tons, but henceforth she will carry only 90 tons of petroleum, thus ob- taining a great increase of cargo capacity. The experiments are said to have been perfectly suc- cessful, and a revolution appears to be imminent in the steam coal trade,

THE RIOTS AT ILKESTON, At the Leicester and Derby Assizes at Leicester on Tuesday (before Justice Den man) between 20 and 30 men and one woman were indicted for being concerned in the recent unionist riots at Ilkestonr A dispute occurred at a colliery, and the defendants tried to prevent noo.unionists from working, destroying much property; The Judge spoke of their cowardly conduct, and they were bound over to come up for judgment when called upon.

RAILWAY COLLISION AT CAER- PHILLY; On Wednesday evening a collision between a London and North-Western Railway and a Taff Vale Railway train occurred at Caerphilly, The latter, a goods train, was travelling along the Newport and Caerphilly branch, when the former, the driver of which was unable to pull up in time, ran into it. Two trucks and the vån were thrown off the line, and the Taff Vale breaksman was injured, though not seriously. A breakdown gang was at once sent up from Cardiff. The damage to the rolling stock and permanent way was not great. The line, however, was blocked for some time, and in consequence the Rhymney train due at Cardiff at 7.30 p.m. did not arrive till 8.40 p.m.

PROFESSIONAL PILGRIMS. The Gazette asks: — Were the pil. grims who recently went in procession to West- minster Abbey paid so much apiece ? The case of the pilgrim at present in a Brussels hospital suffering from a disease of the foot brought on by much tramping is sufficiently startling to make any one sceptical. Being asked by the doctor in at- tendance what his profession was ho explained that he was a pilgrim. Yes, the physician knew that, but what was his profession—how did he make a living? Well, that was his profession, that was how he made a living. So that it came out that for a long time he had been a paid pilgrim." He had earned an honest livelihood by making pilgrimages on hire for people who wanted to propitiate this or that particular saint, and who could not go to the shrine themselves. Charges, of course, according to distance.

MURDER IN A COURT OF JUSTICE. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. The revenge of a brother of an outraged sister caused an unusual scene to be enacted in the Indianopolis criminal court on the 20th ult. On the morning of the 20th ult. a negro named Harrison Taskell was arraigned before the judge at the above court on a charge of outraging a young German girl named Helen Huendling. Taskell pleaded not guilty, and it was arranged that his formal trial should take place on the following Wednesday. The gaolers were conducting the prisoner out of the court when Meinhardt Huendling, brother to the injured girl. went in front of them and fired a shot from a revolver at Taskell. The bullet struck the negro on the left side, and lodged near the heart. He attempted to run aWIlY but had only got a few yards when he was dead. Young Huendling was arrested. He offered no opposition. The scene in court was an extraor- dinary one, the shrieks of the women present adding to the general confusion. Helen Huend- ling was lying at home in a precarious state through the assault, and when asked his reason for the terrible deed Huendling, who is only niusteen years of age, said his mother was broken-hearted through the crime, and his sister is suffering greatly. The opinion in the place was that Taskell had got what he deserved.

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE LATE CARDIFF LIBRARIAN. Great surprise has been occasioned in Derby by the issue of a warrant for the arrest of Mr. Henry Allpass, chief librarian of the Free Library in that town and curator of the Public Museum. Mr. Allpass went to Derby a little more than a year ago, and for that purpose resigned a similar appoint- ment in Cardiff. He was selected from a. large number of candidates, and every confidence was felt in his integrity. On the whole, the way in which he discharged his duties gave satisfaction to the Free Library Committee, and it was not until quite recently" that suspicions were entertained concerning his honesty. The Finance Committee of the corporation discovered some discrepancies in the accounts relating to the Free Library and Art Gallery, and it is said that Mr. Allpass received more for articles supplied to those institutions than he actually paid. It is also alleged that he received money from the Derby Corporation and applied it in payment of the book account of a London firm contracted while he was in his Cardiff situation Another charge is that he sold a picture which was exhibited in the Art Gallery and did not account for the money. Mr. Allpass was called before the Free Library Committee to give explanations, and, these not being satisfactory, he wa.s suspended. He was to have again appeared before the committee, but failed to do so, and it was then discovered that he had absconded. Last Friday a warrant was issued by the borough bench, but has not been executed, the accused, it is believed, having left, the country. The appointment has been filled up by the election of Mr. William Crowther, of Derby, who received the next largest number of votes when Mr. Allpass I was elected. The defalcations are not believed to be of larue amount.

CHESS. To oua CORRESPONDENTS.—The Editor will be '■ c pleased to receive original problems, accompanied with their solutions, for publication, and wouli be glad if correspondents would place the same on diagrams. All communications to be addressed "Chess Editor, Weekly Mail, Cardiff," and must be duly authenticated by the name and address of the sender, otherwise they will not be noticed. PROBLEM No. 77. BLACK.-3 PIECES. WHITE.—7 PIECES. White to play and mate in five moves. The following is another match game between two members of the Cardiff and County Chess Club. In playing this game over, remove Black's K B P :— White. Black. MR. R. W. Ducr, MR. G. W. LENNOX. 1 P to K 4 2 P to Q 4 P to K 3 3 B to Q 3 r to Q B 4 4 P to K 5 P to K Kt3 5 P to K R 4 P takes P 6 P to K B 4 Kt to Q 15 3 (a) 7 P to R 5 B to Kt 2 8 P takes P P to 1C It 3 9 P to K Kt 4 P to Q 3 10 P to Kt 5 P takes K's P 11 P takes R'* 0 Kt takes P 12 Q to R 5 (b) Kt to Kt sq 13 Q to B 3 It takes R (e) 14 Q takes R Q to B 3 15 Kt to Q R a B to Q 2 16 Q to R 7 (fI) Castles 17 QtoR2 K Kt to K 2 18 Q to Kt 3 Kt to B 4tK 19 B takes Kt P takes B \{ 20 Kt to K 2 P to K 5 21 Kt to B 4 B to K sq 22 B to Q 2 P to K 6 (e) 23 B to R 5 Kt takos B 24 Kt takes Kt Q to Ii 3 25 Kt tc Kt 3 Q to 11 5 (f) 26 R to B sq K to Kt sq 27 Q to Kt 5 Q to Q 4 28 Kt to K Kt 3 R to Q 3 29 Q to K 7 (if) And Black soon after resigned. NOTES. (a) 6-K Kt to K 2, followed, if 7, P to R 5, by R to Kt sq, is considered the best. There is, however, no objection to the text move, which is perfectly sound. (b) Weak, on account of Black's reply. (c) Black has already recovered the Pawn, and has a much superior game. (cl) Bad. If 16-Kt to K R 3, Black would win off hand. Black overlooked this. (e) Again Black misses his way. 22-P to Q 6 must have won. (/) P to Q 6 would still be stronger. (g) Turning the tables with a vengeance. Black loses a valuable piece and, consequently, the game.

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE. OAKPIFF IUF&E CI-UB, Oil Saturday tiie final stage for prizes presented by the captain pf the club, witli oilier prizes given by Mr Yhoinas, flonst, Croekherbtown, and members of the plub, was cumpleted, the ranges being 200 yards, 500 yards, »ind 600 yards, Tiie first two ranges was shot on Oetober 17, The weather was stormy, with a strong and gusty wind from the ri^Ut, Tim yiunii aggregate was iakeu by Mr, F, (Jotterell, The range prize winners are as at foot, The first six aggregate scores take prizes. The next long range (900 yards) will take place November 7. 200 500 600 yards, yards, yards. Total lkfr. Gotterell 29 33 26 88 Lieut, Hell 31 30 25 86 Corporal Oomieilan 30 29 26 85 Hergt. Thomas 31 27 26 84 Private Lattey 29 31 23 83 Colour-Sergeant Perkins.. 28 31 23 82 Sergeant Davies 31 32 19 82 Captain Rigg 31 31 18 SO Priva.te Botterill. 31 29 19 79 Corporal Garrett 32 30 17 79 RANGE PRIZE WINNERS. 200 yards. Corporal Garrett 32 500 yards. Mr. Gotterell 53 600 yards. Sergeant Thomas 26

— SUICIDE OF A SERVANT GIRL AT CARDIFF. t A MYSTERIOUS CASE. On Monday afternoon an attempt at suicide which ultimately proved only too successful, was made by Eliza James, a servant in tho employ of Mr, Pengelly, Dumfries-place, Cardiff. The poor girl, who was 21 years of age, came from the Forest of Dean, and had been in Mr, Pengelly's service for the past eleven months. After she had been there a short time, and as she felt so comfortable in her situation, Mr. Pengelly requiring an addi- tional servant, her sister was induced to accept service in the same family, where both have been ever since; On Monday afternoon the deceased was left alone in the house, and upon the family return- ing in the evening the girl's appearance caused Mrs. Pengelly to make inquiries as the state of her health. She declined to give any satisfactory reply, and proceeded with her work in the usual manner; At about three o'clock, how- ever, on Tuesday morning her agonies became so great that she awakened her sister, who was sleeping in the same room. She told her that she had taken a teaspoonful of poison with a biscuit at four o'clock in the after- noon. At the same time she pointed to a spot in the room underneath the carpet, on which was a small quantity of arsenic. The household were at once aroused, and Dr. Wallace sent for, and was quickly in attendance. The suffering girl was immediately conveyed to the Infirmary, where she died in about two hours after her admission. No direct cause can bo assigned for the rash deed, but she was considered at times to suffer from mental affliction. The mother of the deceased was tele- graphed for on Tuesday morning, and arrived in the afternoon At the Cardiff Infirmary on Wednesday an in- quest was held, before Mr. E. B. Reece, district coroner. The sister of the deceased, Mrs. Pengelly, and Dr. Wallace gave evidence, the latter of whom thought it probable something was preying upon the girl's mind. She had given notice to leave her place on the morning on which she committed the rash act. The arsenic which she had taken she had found in a drawer belonging to her master. The jury re- turned a verdict that deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.

ALARMING ACCIDENT AT DOWLAIS WORKS. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Late on Sunday night an alarming accident occurred in the Lower Works at Dowlais. Beneath the engine-houses are a number of culverts filled with the water used in the working of the blast engines. The No. 9 blast furnace, which is situated close to the engine-house referred to, was working as usual on Sunday. Shortly before midnight flames were seen issuing through the windows of No. 4 engine-house. The engine not being kept going at this time the house was deserted, and hence the tire was not discovered until it had made considerable havoc. About midnight a great crash was heard in the building, and it was surmised that the lower ceiling had fallen in. The fire continued to burn with re- newed force after this, and the men employed about the blast furnaces found themselves utterly unable to cope with it. By Monday morning the whole of the engine-house had been gutted, the engine was altogether ruined, and much of the machinery had been melted. Nothing whatever but the great cylinder remained. On Monday it was found that on Sunday night one of the tuyers in the No. 9 blast furnace had burst and in consequence of this a large quantity of the molten iron had forced itself I through the bottom of the furnace and into the culvert beneath the engine-house. Here it came into contact with the water and. a great ex- plosion, which was heard throughout this part of the works, followed. By its force the floor of the engine-house was blown up and the woodwork set on fire. The loss to the Dowlais Iron Company is estimated at some thousands of pounds.

GALLANT RESCUE AT BILBAO. While the screw steamer Countess Evelyne, of Cardiff, was lying at San Nicholas, Bilbao, on the 31st ult., an act of gallantry was performed by one of the officers of the ship which deserves to be recorded. It appears that the captain was taken across the river in the morning in one of the ship's boats by his son and one of the officers, Mr. T. G. Joy (late of Duke-street, Cardiff). The captain's son sculled the boat back, but before she got well over the oar came but of the notch, and he fell overboard. As the lad could not swim Mr. Joy, without even taking off his boots or cap,plunged in after him and, with great difficulty, succeeded in getting him safely ashore. He then swam after the boat, got in, and returned to the steamer. This is the second time this year that Mr. Joy has jumped overboard and saved life.

FATAL FIRES. A fire was discovered on Monday morning at a house, No. 26, Habank-road, Southport, in the occupation of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Hutchinson, aged about 52. The men who saw the flames knocked at the door, but, receiving no answer, entered by the front bedroom window. They found the bed on fire, and on it lay the dead body of Mrs. Hutchinson fully dressed. The bed is sup- posed to have been ignited by a reading lamp. Early on Monday morning a fire occurred in an outbuilding on a farm occupied by Mr. Hodson at Banstead, Surrey, in which from twenty to thirty potato pickers were sleeping. An old man named Clifford was burnt to a cinder, and two women were seriously injured. The fire WM caused by the falling of a lighted candle.

TRADE REPORTS. THE CRISIS IN THE SOUTH WALES IRON TRADE. UNCERTAINTY AT DOWLAIS. [BY A TRADE CORRESPONDENT.1 DOWLAIS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. At last the long-pending crisis has come, and the blow has fallen. Every ironworker in the great iron trade district of Glamorganshire and Mon- mouthshire is now working at a reduced wage rate, and hundreds of the men who through the last two or three years have just managed to eke out a miserable existence are to-day hourly expecting to be at last dismissed from the works. Concerning the amount of the reduction to be imposed upon the men nothing can be stated with certainty. The men themselves, although they are now actually working at the reduced rate of wages, do not know for what sum they are working. From, informa- tion which I have received, and which bears indi- rectly upon the subject, I think it may be accepted as true that in the majority of cases 5 per cent. will be the amount, whilst in some instances it is probable that a reduction of 10 per cent. will be enforced. From Saturday last the men have been working dn the day-to-day system, and, therefore, the employers may at any moment dismiss them from the service of the Dowlais Iron Company. Sooner or later the dismissals will come: of that there can be no doubt. On Saturday, and again yesterday, some hundreds of men—principally young, un- married iron and steel workers-" got their time," and left the service of the company rather than work at a reduced wage rate. I have been given to understand that a number of representatives appointed by the men have waited upon the managers with a view to ascertain their intentions, but nothing of a definite character was elicited. One thing, however, is very certain, and that is, if the men are permitted to work throughout the winter as they have done this week, even at the reduced rate of wages, they will be infinitely better off than they have been during the last two or three years. Let me give your readers an example of what I mean. Last week only two mills-the Nos. 3 and 5-were started in the Lower Works on the Sunday night. Conse- quently, more than half of the men were idle on Monday. The Goat Mill" and the other mills started on the Monday night, and on Wednesday night or Thursday morning, there being a hitch in the manufacture of steel sleepers, the" Goat Mill" was stopped—and stopped it remained for the rest of the week. Thus the men worked only two days out of a possible six. It will be admitted that such a state of things is worse than a re- duction of 50 per cent., if that were possible. It must bd borne in mind that the iron and steel market is in a state of utter stagnation, and, speak- ing to a high authority in the works (I do not say the Dowlais Works) last week on the subject of the day-to-day notices, lie said," We have posted up these notices because we have no work to give them." This statement is equally applicable to most of the works in the district. In Dowlais the only hope of better times is centred in the steel sleeper industry. Of the other works in the district, Cyfarthfa is far and away the best so far as employment goes. In the other works nothing but the severest depression prevails. The Blaenavon Works, which somehow have managed to struggle on in the face of adversity for many years, was yesterday closed for a. time, and between 2,000 and 3,000 men had thus been thrown out of employment, and are likely to remain so until a revival in trade takes place. Gloomy though things may look at Dowlais, they have not yet become so desperate as at Blaenavon. Ebbw Vale, Blaina, and other places. THE FOREST OF DEAN COAL TRADE. AN ADVANCE IN PRICE DECIDED ON. The Associated Coal-masters of the Dean Forest coalfields have determined to advance the price of coal 6d. per ton fromthe 1st inst. This will give 2$per cent. advance to about 5,000 men. DELEGATE MEETING OF ENGINEMEN AT ABERDARE. DETERMINATION TO RESIST THE PROPOSED REDUCTION. A general delegate meeting of the enginemen, stokers, and outside fitters of South Wales and Monmouthshire was held, under the presidency of Mr. Isaac Evans, of Neath, at the Fothergill Arms Inn, Aberdare, on Wednesday, for the purpose of taking into consideration the proposal of the em- ployers to make a reduction of 2! per cent. in the rate of wages at present paid. There was a large attendance, every district being represented. The views of the delegates were freely ventilated, and eventually it was decided unanimously to offer an uncompromising resistance to the suggested abate- ment, inasmuch as it was considered that no sum- cient reason existed for such a proceeding. BLAENAVON WORKS. The men employed at the coal pita and slopes commenced work on Wednesday morning. Several other departments also began work at the 5 per cent. reduction. The founders at the new blast furnaces still hold out, as they allege, against a reduction which means 6s. in the JE. These men by standing out cause others connected with the furnaces to be idle. THE COAL AND IRON TRADES OF SOUTH WALES. There is as yet no change for the better to record in our steam coal market, a quiet tone continuing to pre- vail. A fair amount of shipping has been done, although the returns are not se satisfaetorr as for the preceding week. We understand that the Union Company's con- tracts, of which we made mention in our daily issue, have been secured by Messrs. Nixon, Taylor, and Cory and Messrs. Cory Bros. and Co whilst that for theWatei-J ford and Limerick Railway has been placed with a New- port firm. The house coal market is somewhat quieter than we have recently had occasion to record; prices are, however, unaltered. The tone of the fuel market is a little better. The pitwood trade is also more satisfac- tory, prices being firmer, as arrivals of this article have been more limited. The iron trade still continues in a depressed condition. The clearances were as follow Foreign, from Cardiff, 131,811 tons, and from Newport, 30,187 tons. MASS MEETING AT EBBW VALE. On Saturday a mass meeting was held near the Blast Engine, Victoria, to consider the Doctor's Dispute Question." A great number of workmen were present; also the following rev. gentlemen Mr. Jones, Nebo; J. Morris, Ebbw Vale; B. T. Davies, Victoria; T. D. Evans, Cross Keys and 8. R. Jones, Waunlwyd. The following resolution was passed [" That this meeting begs respectfully to ask the Doctor's Committee to re-consider the question of the dismissal of Dr. Sheehe, and that a deputation be appointed to wait upon the said committee with a view to secure his re-engagement." "That the following workmen should form a deputation ;—Messrs. E. Ball, J. Harris, J. Marks. D. Davies, and D. Davies." RHONDDA STEAM COAL MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Hhondda Steam Coal Delegates was held at the Windsor Castle Hotel. Ton, on Monday, when the following collieries were represented: —Great Western, Hafod, Ooedcae, Ynyshir, National, Tylorstown, Mardy, Dinas Pit, Clydach Vale, Llwynpia. Gelli. Pentre, Abergorky Pit, Lady Margaret, Blaencwm, Blaenrhondda, Fernhill, Deep Duffryn, Navigation, Penrhiwceiber, and Penygraig. The following resolution was passed That this meeting agree to receive back into the association the workmen of Penygraig, seeing that they regret, the necessity of having, under depressed circumstances, to break the resolution of the district on their former case and work irregularly, and that upon these conditions they be allowed to take their former place.A Delegate from Forest Level, Mountain Ash, attended, and asked that that colliery be allowed to join the association. They had formerly belonged to the Aberdare District, but, having had cause to differ from that body, left it about two years ago, since which time they had belonged to no organisation. They had now decided to ask the lJhondda District to receive them.-A resoltitioti was unanimously passed to receive the Forest Level workmen into the I1.ssociation.-lt was decided to send delegates to the Miners' Conference to be held at Birmingham in January. and that the number of delegates be fixed and nominations received at the next meeting. THE SOUTH WALES TIN-PLATE TRADE. FBY OUR TIN-PLATZ REPORTElt.) This week again the tin-plate works are very busy, the dispute mentioned last week between the masters and the men having been settled to the satisfaction of both emplovers and employed. Coke sheets are sold at 15s., 15s. Id., to 15s. 6d. IC, but there appears no genuine desire by makers to book large quantities at these figures. It is said a few parcels are sold under the figures mentioned, but they must be a very few, and sold just to clear out. The shipments from Swansea this week (only about 800 tons) are very small as com- pared with previous weeks, but they will make up for it next week, when some big shipments are expected. The prices of Bessemer steel sheets are from 15s. to 15s. 6d. Siemens steel sheets are ut 6d. to 9d. a box advance on Bessemer. The demand for charcoal plates and terns sheets is rather quiet, with a slight advance on last week's quotations. Wasters are not much wanted, but are taken by buyers in certain percentages to that of primes. Tin is at 1;90 10s. to JB91 5s. for foreign. Australian and English still maintain their advance in prices as compared with foreign tin. SWANSEA, Saturday.—The shipping trade of the past week, compared with the preceding week, has been quiet. The falling off has been more particularly in the import trade, owing in a measure to the unsettled state of the weather. In the export trade there is a falling off in the sundries. but an increase of 2.000 tons in coal shipments. which amount to 25,552 tons, and patent fuel 3,315 tons. The total exports for the week amount to 23,503 tons. The imports reach only 8,719 tons, consisting principally of iron ore from Bilbao and copper ore from Tueacas. The tin-plate export trade has again been inactive, 600 tons only having been loaded for New York. Stocks in consequence show an increase. Tonnage fixed to be on berth not having come to hand, 39,544 boxes were brought down from works during the week. and stocks in the dock warehouses to-day amount to 86,435 boxes, an increase during the week of 15.769 boxes. There has been a slight lull in the tin-plate market. In the early part of the week there was a falling off in the demand towards the end, however, inquiries again became more numerous. The large lots of coke- tins offering have had a weakening effect on prices, and sales have been made in some instances at 6d. per box less. Bessemer steel orders have been booked at 15s. 3d. IC, though the tendency for these is towards 15s. IC. Orders for Siemens steels have been taken at 15s. 6d. and 15s. 7td. IC. With the numerous inquiries floating at the moment it is to be hoped makers may be able to come to terms with merchants and prevent prices dropping further. The further extension of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway to Cymmer, which will be opened for traffic on Monday, shows that Swansea is surely, if slowly, approaching the completion of an undertaking which may be considered the most impor- tant in its history. SWANSEA EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.—Exports ■. Coal- France 9,924 tons, Denmark 2,215, Spain 1,960, Italy 1,630, Algeria 450, South America 2,219, North America 1,120, Jamaica 740 tons, Home 5.294 tons. Fuel—France 1.515 tons, Italy 400, Algeria 1,400. Imports Pig iron 733 tons. steel bars 333, steel slabs 101. blende ore 53, potsherds 114, block tin 38, iron ore 2,780, silver ore 14, lead ore 20, copper ore 2,342, flour 633, saltpetre 113, phosphate 850, potatoes 70, onions 16. slates 173, and stones 420. BLASXAYON WORKS.—In consequence of the reduction of wages, on Saturday and Monday nearly all work was suspended, and groups of men collected discussing the wages question. The company have damped down the furnaces, three in number. THE AMERICAN MARKETS.—The Ironmonger publishes the following cable dispatch, dated New York, October 29:—Dealings in pig iron are smaller than usual at this season of the year, and prices are weak. Steel-rail trans- actions are aleo less numerous. No improvement in quotations is expected till the spring. Tin-Plates are un- changed, and metals are steady, with the exception of tin, which has declined 4-10ths of a cent.

CORN AVERAGES. The following is a comparison between the quantities of wheat, barley, and oats sold, and the price obtained, for the week ended October 31, 1885, and the corre- sponding week last, year:— I OWBaahrtDls eeaey t s.c..r.i.p..t.i.o..n. —Q1541— u6°9r,>,t963e453r9 6 9 1s8. 85. P331901r/i2 4 2 ce. Q1651u015r,t237e754r3 15 4 s8. 84| I I .P—133r92i2c/20e3. < CORN. CARDIFF, Saturday.—(From Mr. W. Coleman's Corn Report.)—There was a good attendance on 'Change to- day, but business was remarkably quiet, and there was no change to report in values sil.ce this day sennight in wheat or corn of any other kind; the same remarks apply to both English and foreign flour. In malting barley there was more inquiry at improved rates, accor- ding to the condition of samples. GLOUCESTER. Saturday.—(From Messrs. W. C. Lucy and Co.'s Report.)-There was a large supply of English wheat offering at to-day's market. Low-priced samples were out outof condition, and trade in many instances was slow at about last week's rates; foreign sorts quiet, bnt not quotably lower. Grinding barley without alteration in prices. Maize (American) rather dearer. Oats. new white. 6d to Is. and black 3d cheaper. LUDLOW, Monday.—There was a small attendance on 'Change to-day, and only a quiet business done. The following are the ruling quotations: English wheat, per bushel of 751bs, white, 5s 3d to 59 6d; red, 4s 8d to 5s. Barley, 28s to 34s per qr. Beans, 30s to 31s per qr. Oats, 24s to 26s per qr. Flour, per sack of five bushels of 280 lbs., best, 31s 8d seconds, 28s 4d. COWBRIDGE, Tuesday.—There were only a few samples of wheat on offer to-day, best dry sorts selling at 4s per bushel,and inferior qualities at less money. Barley: 4s per bushel was the average price for good samples, and other kinds sold at from 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Oats, 2s 2d to 2s 7d per bushel. NEWPORT, Wednesday.—There was a large attendance of traders and producers at the Exchange to-day. English wheat was freely offered at late rates, as also was malting barley. Beans were Is dearer. Maize 6d dearer. There was no alteration in the value of grinding barley. CATTLE. OSK, Monday.—The usual monthly market was held to-day. There were not a great many animals in the market, and trade was slack. The quotations were:- Beef, 7d to 7!d per lb. Mutton, bid to 72Ld per lb. KOATH (CARDIFF), Tuesday. A much better show of stock to-day than at the past few markets, and there was also an improvement in the quality. Among the cattle offered for sale there were about 50 very prime steers from the Magor Moors, which were sold at about, 6d per lb. Annexed are the arrivals:—Cattle, 115; sheep and lambs, 780; including 83 American. Prices :-Cattle Steers and heifers, 6|tl to 6id per lb. cows, 4d to 5!d per lb. Sheep and lambs, 5d to 6td per lb. Pigs, 9s to 10s per score. The number of pigs sold and slaughtered during the past week was 303. COWBRIDOK, Tuesday.—The monthly market was held to-day, and was an unusually small one. A very limited supply of fat stock on offer. and last week's rates were fully maintained, prices being from 6d to 6$d per lb. The few store stock on offer remained unsold. Sheep were in small supply, and there was very little business done. Prices were again very low, at 6d to 7td per lb.. accor- ding to weight and quality. In store sheep last week's quotations were maintained. Fat pigs sold at from 8s to 9s per fcore, and porkers from 8s 6d to 9s 6d per score. Dunuff, Thursday.Tliere was an improved demand for beef at somewhat better and more regular figures. Choice qualities fetched 60s per cwt. freely. Mutton was again dull at 4kd to 7d per lb. Pigs a very bad trade. MEAT. LONDON, Thursday.—The supply on offer to-day was fair, and trade dull. Quotations :-Beef, 2s 4d to 4s 4d mutton. 2s 8d to 4s 8d veal, 4s to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s to 4s per 81bs. by the carcase. PROVISIONS. MONMOUTH, Saturday.—There was a small attendance on the market to-day." Prices were as follow :—Fresh butter from Is 3d to Is 4d per lb., and, in some in- stances, Is 5d per lb. Hen eggs, Itd each. Cream cheese, Is each. Dressed poultry Geese, 5s 6d to 95 each, or about lOd per lb.; giblets, Is to Is 2d per set; fowls, 4s to 6s per couple: ducks, 5s 6d to 7s 6d per couple. Live poultry Fowls from 3s 6d to 4s 6d per couple geese, 5s to 7s each. Dead rabbits, 10s per doz. Fruit: English grapes, Is 6d per lb.; foreign ditto, 6d to lOd per lb. pears. Is 6d per dozen apples, Is per gallon cooking ditto, 4d to 6d per qr. prunes, 6d per lb. dates, 6d per lb.; damsons. Is 4d per gallori Burgamy pears, Is per qr.; walnuts, 6d per 100; filberts, 6d per lb.; cob nuts, 6d per lb. Vegetables English tomatoes, lOd per lb. foreign, 6d to 8d per lb. broc- coli, 2d to 6d per head; savoys, Is per dozen turnips, 4d per gallon pickling cabbages, 2d to 4d each car- rots, Id per bundle lettuces. Id per head endive, I'd each celery, 2d to 3d per stick cabbage plants, Is per 100. Butcher's meat (prime joints only quoted):— Beef, 7d to 9.1 per lb.; mutton, 5d to 8d per lb.; veal, 5d to 8d per lb,; pork, 6d to 8d per lb.; and pig- meat, 6d to 7d per lb. BRISTOL. Wednesday.—(From Mr. Francis Barnard s Circular).-Bacou Values for shipment have receded on some cuts during the past week, but on the spot they remain about as last quoted. Cheese has not shown much improvement, the concessions offered by shippers being insufficient to attract buyers, and at present a lower range of prices does not seem possible. Butter: A fair business is passing in the first qualities, but the lower descriptions continue slow. Lard has been easier, but to-day's market Is firm, and prices apparently hardening. Beef and pork dull, without alteration in values. Flour: American quotations unchanged, and markets very firm. On this side trade dull, and prices slightly in favour of buyers. BUTTER. CARMARTHEN, Saturday.—There was a large supply of butter in the market to-day, which sold at from lljd tolled per lb. Cheese 18s to 20s per cwt. CORK, Thursday.—Ordinary Firsts, 95s; seconds, 73-i; thirds. 55s; fourths, 49s; ditto kegs, seconds, 76s; thirds, 57s. Mild cured firkins Superfine, 132s; tine mild, 94s; mild, 70s; ditto kegs, fine mild 94; mild 66s. Firkins in market, 1,522; mild, 226 kegs, 8. SUGAR. GREENOCK, Thursday.—The Clyde crushed sugar mar- ket report: Active market; good business was done at prices unobtainable yesterday. The official report states Improved demand; good business done at very firm ■riees. HAY. LONDON, Thursday.—There were rather short supplies on offer to-day. Trade was slow; prices unaltered. The following are the quotations --Prime clover. 95, to 105s; inferior, 60s to 95s. Prime meadow hay, 60s to 90s; inferior ditto, 40s to 60s. Straw, 29s to 38s per load. HOPS. WORCESTER, Saturday.—(From Messrs. Piercy, Long- bottom, and Faram's report.)—There was not much passing at our market to-day. The scarcity of good qualities becomes more apparent, and medium samples have to supply the place. The attendance was small, no doubt owing to the fact that the bulk of the planters have cleared out their growth. 107 pockets passed the public scales to-day, which, with 728 pockets previously weighed during the week, make the total np to now 10,514 pockets. HIDES AND SKINS. BRISTOL, Saturday.—Hides 931bs and upwards, 41d to Od per lb 831bs to 921bs, 4Jd to Od per lb 731bs to 82lbs, 3jd to Od per lb; 631bs to 721bs, 3|d to Od per lb 54lbs to 621bs, 3id to Od per lb; 53lbs and under, 4td to Od per lb; cows, 63lbs and above, 3td to Od per lb; light, 3-td to Od per Ib bulls, 2{d to Od per lb heavy cuts, 3 £ d to Od per lb light and irregular, 3jd to Od per lb. Calf skins: 17lbs and upwards, 5|d to Od per lb; 121bs to 161bs, 6 £ d to Od per lb 91bs to lllbs, 6ld to Od per lb under 9lbs, 5td to Od per lb cut and irregular, 4M to Od per lb; chance, Od per lb. Horse hides, 9s OJ to 18s 9d 1st kips, 3J(1 to Od per lb; 2nd ditto, 3d to Odperlb. Fat: Mutton, 2fd; beef, 2|il rough, lid. Wools, D. 9d C, Is lid B. 3s Od A. 4s 4d X. 5s 5d. Forward price to Thursday:—Wools, D. Is; C. 2s Od B. 3s A. 4s 4d X. 5s 6d. Fat, lid, 2jd, to 2Jd best beef, 3 £ d. METALS. LONDON, Thursday. — Copper, £ 39 5s to £ 39 12s. 6d. Tin, £ 91 10s to £92. Pig iron, 41s 9d. Lead, English, iCIl 10s; Spanish. Ell 5s. Spelter, 214 2s 6d. GLASGOW, Thursday. — The market for pig iron was steady to-day. A fair business was done at 41s 8id, 41s 9d, and 41s 8d cash also at 41s 10d, and 41s 9d one month closing, buyers. 41s 8d castii; and 418 9.j-d one month sellers f¡d more,

FOOTBALL. NEWPORT V. SWANSEA.—A fast, well-contested match between fifteens representing Newport and Swansea was played on the ground of the Newport Club on Saturday. The weather was most wretched, the heavy rain which preceded the match and that which fell during the game causing the ground to assume the appearance of a perfect quagmire. Notwithstanding, however, these unpropitious features a large concourse of spectators assembled to see the contest. Newport won the toss. and Swansea kicked off at 3.20, against a strong wind. A spirited struggle soon ensued between the forwards, and it was evident that a fast game would be played. In a short time Dowdall. for Newport, obtained the ball from a bit of loose forward play, and, passing it to A. Gould, that player ran up, and in turn passed to George Thomas, who, with a good sprint, made further gjround for the home team. On being thrown be managed to kick, and the ball, which went over the line. was followed up by Dowdall. and a try was secured. R. Gould kicked the place, but no goal resulted. After the kick off from the 25 Swansea paid a visit to a point immediately in front of the Newport goal, but the home players sent the ball back from a scrimmage which ensued, and a loose game was played for a few minutes in the centre. By a series of lucky moves Newport gradually worked down again in Swansea ground. A. Gould sent it over the line and the visitors had to touch down. When the ball was kicked off from the 25 Gould again returned, and a touch in goal resulted for Newport. Swansea had in the subsequent play to touch down for the third time, and half time was then called. After the change of ends the whole game, with one single exception, was kept in Swansea ground. Vickery, Harding. A. Gould, and G. Thomas played up strongly for the home team,and Golds- worthy was conspicuous for Swansea. Soon after the second half was entered upon Clapp, the Newport captain, received the ball from a pass and obtained a try, which, owing to the unfavourable wind, was not izoaled. Swansea had several times to touch down, and Newport had to adopt that course once. At the call of no-side the game ended in a win for the home team by two tries and several touchee-down to one touch-down. Players :-Newport: F. W. Fothergill, back; A. Gould, G. Thomas, and J. E. Webb, three- quarter backs T. Vickery, T. Harding, and F. Dowdall. half-backs; T. J. S. Clapp (captain), R. Gould, H. Briggs. T. Lewis, C. Jordan, R. M'Daniel, L. Williams, and W. Young, forwards. Swansea: W. Firth, back; E. Bishop, D. Gwyn, and W. Doggett. three-quarter backs; W. Gwyn and J. Luly, half-backs W. Lewis, G. H. Bowen, G. H. Trew, I. Evans, S. Goldsworthy, W. Williams, W. Bowen, J. Lewis, and T. Evans, forwards

GAZETTE NEWS. PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. John Thomas Evans and William Evans, trading AI Evans Bros., at 22, Commercial-street, Newport, Mon., Krocersand provision merchants W. Evans retires. FIRST MEETINGS AND DATES OF PUBLIC EXAMINATION. John Henton. 19. Whitcombe-street, Aberdare, Gla- morganshire, tailor and draper first meeting Nov. 11, at noon, at the Official Receiver's, Merthyr Tydfil. ADJUDICATIONS. George Holway, Brunswick-street, Swansea, baker and beer retailer. David Jenkins, New-road, Waunarllwydd, Swansea, quarryman and collier.

36irtl)S> iflamages, mtatb. BIRTHS. the 3rd inst., at Mandevitle-terrace. Canton, Cardiff, the wife of Samuel R. Baker (late of Caerphilly), of a daughter. DUNCAN.—On the 31st ult., at Maywood, Gordon-road, the wife of Mr. J. T. Duncan, of a son. HANCOCK.-On the ird inst., at 20, Oakfield-street, Cardiff, the wife of John Hancock. of a son, stillborn. Joi;Es.-On the 31st ult., at Neath-road, Briton Ferry, the wife of Mr. Benjamin Jones of twin daughters. MARRIAGES. DUUSTAN—ACE.—On the 2nd last., at St. Mary s Church. Swansea, by the Rev. Baina Williams. Captain John Dunstan. Swaus.a. to Miss Jessie Ace. Mumbles, daughter of tne late Mr. Abraham Ace. lighthouse ueeper. ROSE—THOMAS.—On the 31st ult., at Diamond-street vhapel, William G. Rose, to Elizabeth Ann. youngest daughter of the late Evan Thomas, farmer, St. Clears, Carmarthenshire. DEATHS. EVANS —On the 28th "It., Mrs. Evans, the beloved wife of Mr. David Evans, Cefn Colston Farm, Pentyrch. GILBBBTSON.—On All Saints Day, at Glanrhyd, near Swansea, Lettiee Mary Gilbertson. the beloved daughter of Arthur and Ellen Gilbertsou. LANKY.—On the 1st InBt., at 60, Millicent-street. Cardiff, E. Laney, aged 55 years. RICHAP.DS.-On the 31st ult., at Palmyra-place, Newport, Priscilla, wife of R. H. Richanls, aged 69 years.

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