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RECENT LOCAL TESTIMONIALS: SCIATICA. 23, Bertra i -street, Broadway, Cardiff, 9th February, 1883. Dear Sir,-I was suffering from Sciatica, and was in- auced to try one of your Magnetaire Belts. After wearing it a week, am able to inform you that I have receivtTl much benefit; the pains have gone, and bv t'hiuing to wear the Edt have no fear of still Mi i ;• i "g further improvement in my bealth generally. Yours truly. i. l. L"nsd¡¡le. JOHN STOKE. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. PROSTRATION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM. 49, Hewell-street, Lower Grange, Cardiff, 2nd February. 1883. Dear 8ir,-1 met with an accident two years ago Whilst enga¡1;ed on hoard ship as coal trimmer. 1 fell through hatchway, receiving very severe injuries, a',d since then Lu\ • siiffered from a c0mplete prostration of tbe nel vuiia sVdtelll and mental depression, Itc. Thanks to tile Magnetaire Appliance I purchased of you a few weeks since, after wearing it a fortnight it seems wonderful the increased health and vigour it impar ed &0 me. I rww feel in every way better, and shall be ?'l*d to tell anyone the benefit I have received.—Yours aithfuliy, GEORGE CULLEX. Hr. :R.-LomdaJe. BRONCHITIS, fee. 17, Uiifcland-street, Swansea, 22nd .January, 1883. Dear Sir,-I feel great pleasure in adding Ïny tetI- monial to those af mv fellow townsmen a3 to the bene- ficial effects which or have derived by wearing your Magnetaue" Appliances, which I purchasEd about six weeks ago, at that time suffering from a severe attack of bronchitis, accompanied oJ 1\11 acute pain in right lung which had incapacitated me from attending to my juties for about three months. Since wearing the '■* Magnetaire "these symptoms have gradually disap- jeared, so much 80 that I purpose very shortly returning \0 my duties, feeling collfident that with care I need Jot feel any fear of -.i relapse. I may mention, also, that find the Applianee3 stimulate the whole system, pro- ducing an increased circulation. Wishirig your Appli- ances every success, I remain, your3 faithfully, To Mr. Lonsdale. D. T AM LIN", Pilot. RHEUMATISM. Glais, near 8wansea, Jan. 8, 1833. Dear 8ir,-Throl1j{h great exposure about. 28 years ago bad all attack of Rheumatism, wtiÍch settled in my 5gs, especiaJlyin the kne of the right one, the pain emg at time3 unbearable but I am delighted to ten IOu since wearing the R- .J ,,¡1d Boies I purchased from ou in 8wan.1ea a month ago it has entirely lert me. I aay add 1 have been for ars undet. the best advice lith little or no benefit.—1 remain, vours gratefully, Ur. Lonsdale. WlLLtAM DA VIES. WEAKNESS AND SWELLING IN KNEE. 20, Eleanor-stree;, Docks, C rdff. bth January, 1883. Dear Slr.-For upwards of five years I had suffered d'Qm great weakneilS and sweJlillg in knee; sOTnetime lould scarcely w, Ik. I had had medical treat ent, but was u> able to obtain st ength; was unable to do any work for fortnig t previous to coming to ron. It was through tile advice of afriend whu had experienced .i uch benefit from your Appliances that I was induc to try them. »nd am thankful to say after a short trial my lnee g»lne4 strength and the swelling went down. Can AOW walk well and do my work with comfort. It is now over LWO months since. obtained the benefit, can, there- lore, speak positively tõ he value of your" Magnetaire." -YOU" gratefully, WILLIAM VINE WILUAM8, Mr. R. Lonsdale. SCIATICA. 4, Spring Gardens-court, Crock!; erbtoivn, Cardiff, 29th Dec., 1882. Dear Sir, —I have great pleasure in test iug to thl) benefit your Magnetaire" Belt has given me. About three weeks 1'101 was seized wIth a severe attack of iciatica the pains In mv hack and hips were 30 acute at I had to leave my work. From the first day of "rinil the ppliance I began to improve, the pains Jl:etlingless, and the fifth day I was entirely rlieved of pain and able 1,.0 go back to my work. I shall be pleased to recommend your" Magnetaire" from the good it has done _I! Vouirs very faithfully, ',> Mr. it. Loasdals. D. J. G-BEGOBY, Farrier. VIOLENT COUGH. 21, Tin-street, Splotland3, Cardiff, Dec. 15, 1882. Dear Sir.-When I came to you I had been for some time suffering from a violent cough, whieh was very dis- tressing in mornings on getting out of bed. I am pleased to tll you how valuable the Lung Inviorator I purchaed of you ha proved. I fpel a great difference since wearing sam. the cough is rapiuly decreasing, 3an rise early. and It troubles me but little. My voice cias also greatly ivr.proved, which was very weak and aearse. I feel stroi.yiti- i •v,ral. l'uuio f,wilfully, DAVID DAVIT33, Mr. R. Lonsdale. Coa: Trimmer. LIVER COMPLAINT, INDIGESTION, DIZZI- NESS, IMPAIRED VISION. &c. 16, Knole-street, G-rangetown, Cardiff, 1st, Dee., 1882, Dear :Hr,-For fl": years I ave. ben vry ill indeed, .uttering from the liver, causing indigestloi^ dizziness, mpaired vision, and distressing headaches. I had tried ùl means for relief but in vain. Noticing testi- monials testifying to numer01B Cllre etrcterl hy lobe use of your Magnetaire Appliances, I decided Mi try them. I am very thankful [ ùid. I have now worn th belt, a short time, alld have experienced great relief; can eat my foorl WH;lOllt feeling ill, the <luzineS3 hils left me. alii more < lieerful, and my general health is altogether better. I can scarcely I'XpreS3 my thankful- 11es-Jor the benefit received.—Yours very faithfully, \fr. R. I,¡()nsdale. JOIO HILI. (Ooal Trimmer). CIATICA AND RHEUMATISM. ??, Ludlow-street, LowerGrangetown, Cardiff. 1st December, 18o2. Dear Sir.-I wish to express my great, satisfaction, and to testifv to the benefit 1 hav0 derived from the" Mag- netaire Appliances I purchased of you a fortlli,,17t since. After a day's trial I felt a glow throughout ray whole system, allel cOlnlenced to lose the paill III my hip and knee, from Wll.lCh I had suffered acutely for three years, aud had tned all sorts of remedies and spent mallr pounds without receiving the Ipast benefit but I can safply say, afler wearing the" Magnetaire a few days, I haV6 since heen entirely free fmm pain. I shall spare 110 trouble III recommendIng your Appliances w anyone I may know s1:ffcring. I remain, yours very truly, Mr. E. Lonsdale. DAVID WILLIAMS. WEAK LEGS, NUW FEET, SWOLLEN ANCLE, AND WEAKNESS OF VOICE. 1, Maud-street, Broadway, Roath, Cardiff, 26th October, 1882. Dear Slr,-¡;¡ome t,ime ago I had "n attack of cholera, which leli, a thorough weakness in my legs. numbness in feet, and swolien anole, causing pain and greatly 111- conveuienciiifr me In getting about. I arn pleased to tell you that after wearing thlo belt and 80les I purchased af you a few hours I be¡;an to feel an improvement, and afr a week's trial the change is wonderful; my legs are altogether stronger, the swelling of and-; is gone down, feet free from numbness, and the circulation seems restor d tIJrongh my body. I find a great im proveinent II Iso tll my voice, w tt kh MIS vtry Wt':1 k -('n now speak P.1I1Ct. stronger, although it is ten years since my voice broke dowll, I am highly sntisfiell with what your Appliances have done. and shall alwaysre<!ornmcl1d them with confidence in any similar case.—t ours truly, Mr. R. Lonsdale. JOHN TAYLOK. J RUPTURE OF FORTY YEARS' S'rANDlNG. 25, Lower Oxford-street. Swansea, 30th October, 1382. Dear 8ir,-1 feel very pleased in being able to give lliIY .,etil1l(lny to the benefit that can ue obtained from your fit Mstgpetaire." 1 have been ruptared for over 40 years, and have tried all kinds of remedies fr it\ hut, ° until wearing your ISelt. could obtain no relief. Nuw the rupture is reduced, wmch, from the short, time have had the A|>pli nice, is, indeed, marvellous also, my health in gi neral is very Dluçh improved. I shall always show wy thankfulness tor the benefit I have obtained by recolllmending my teighbours and friend to come to you for relief. I am, dear sir, yours Î<iithfu\ly, Mr. R. Lonsdale. JOHN HUTCHlSaS PK Y. EPILEPTIC FITS. Callands Terrace-street, PIM Marl. near Swans",a, 19th October, 1832. Dear Sir,-From childhood I have suffered from Epilept!c 1"it,I, these having increased to as many as "ille in the day and night, until a month ago, when, by the advice of m., friends (some of whom had ohtdlled so uuch benefit from¡our Appliances;, I purchased one of your Ma£net,¡¡ire &,11,8 and Soles, and I am extremely 4IIelifhted to say that since the day after putting them ■on, I have not had the slightest symptom of a tit, and mv general health has so very greatly improved that I feel altolether like a different person. I shall always "-801 it a great pleasure to recommend your Appliances. I remain, your. very truly, To Mr. Lonsdale. JANE THOMAS. A tbirty-twe pare Pamphlet, containing full particulars may be had on application. •f ONSDALE AND CO., 447, STRAND, LONDON, W.C., IOØ auxurAcr¥aj £ fi0, I j i^EriSlONS AND CANAL WHARF EAST, CARDIFF, AND DOCKS, GLOUCESTER, MANUFACTURERS OF ENAMELLED SL TE AND MARBLE CHIMNEY PIECES, I BATHS, URINALS, HALL TABLES MOULDINGS, &c. 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Mtlt1!t ai1 "c.r- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1883. THE WEEK. MR. CHAMBERLAIN AT SWANSEA. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN'S friends in the press are makipg desperate efforts to reconcile his programme of Irish policy, as explained at Swansea, with that of Lord HARTIXGTON. They quote phrases from Lord 11 ARTINGTON'S speech at Bacup to show that the Whig statesman is thoroughly in accord with his Radical colleague, but they ignore alto- gether the central doctrine of Lord II RTINGTOX'S declaration of faith, that no further concessions should be made to the Irish Home Rulers until they had formally renounced their schemes for the disiategra- tion of the United Kingdom. Mr. CHAMBKR- LAIN makes no such condition. He says boldly that he is not a friend to either coercion or separation, and that he prefers the middle course of remedying admitted grievances. He forgets that, by their own confession, the Home Rulers have now no grievances except those arising out of, and inseparably connected with, the Union, and that it is j therefore, impossible to grant them redress of grievances without becoming a partisan of separation. From this dilemma there is no escape and it is obvious that Mr. CHAMBBH- LAIN'S middle course should, if he perseveres in it, soon effect a wide separation between him &id Lord HARTINGTOV. But he, like his friend, Sir CHARLES DILKE, keenly enjoys the delights and dignity of power, and will sacrifice a good deal rather than go out of office. MESSRS. PEUNKET AND CJBSON AT DUBLIN. Lord CARNARVON the other day gave utterance to a statement with reference to the political side on which learning oftenest leaned which has been made the subject of much dispute. But whatever may be the general fact, there can be no question that in the case of the Dublin University the dictum holds good that the intellect is on the side of Conservatism. The seat of learning at the Irish Metropolis has for many years returned to Parliament two staunch Conservatives. The present representatives of the University, Mr. DAVID PLUNKET and the Right Hon. EDWARD GIBSON, the Attorney-General for Ireland under Lord BEACONSEIELD'S Admi- nistration, have just been addressing a crowded and enthusiastic meeting at the Round Room of the Rotunda. In the course of their speeches these gentlemen denounced the lawlessness and the crime so long rampant in the city with a boldness most refreshing to witness when the time and the place are taken into account. Mr. PLUNKET, who spoke with remarkable force, hesitated not to lay at the doors of the present Government a great many of the evils- notably the terrorism—from which Ire- land, and particularly its capital, have been suffering. They have contrived, said this speaker, by wavering im- pulses of weaknesses and rigour" not vigour, mark—" to turn evil influences into the most dangerous channels, and by alter- nate measures of concession and coercion, equally ill-timed and unfortunate, to work the maximum of evil and the minimum of good to this unhappy country. The power of the Land League was alter- nately stimulated by surrender and IMhed into fury by violent repression. If a state- ment of the case had been left to the mem- bers of the League themselves they would have at once admitted their inability to put it in any better form than this. The very pith of this charge against the Government has, in the hands of some of the Irish leaders, been a potent weapon for harm to Mr. GLADSTONE and his following. Some of the Leaguers have even talked of bringing the PREMIER into court to give evidence of the fact that it was he himself who had encouraged the agitation for which they were threatened with prosecution. Mr. HEALY, by quotations from Mr. GLADSTONE'S speeches, never made a more damaging accu- sation against a statesman, for he clearly succeeded in making out the head of the Government to be a man who, after fanning the fire of agitation into a blaze, went about with a cry that his house was on fire. The true policy of an English ( Government in the case of Ireland was clear] aid down by Mr. GIBSON when he said tha the cause of law, order, and loyalty must first be supported. With these as a basis whence to direct every needed reform, there will be a chance of dealing with Irish affairs in a just and enlightened spirit-one which neither vacil- lates when menaced, nor becomes despotic in its dealings with a disorder which itself has helped to foment. THE ETIQUETTE OF FOOTBALL. The game of Football has of late years attained a most extraordinary popularity. This is principally owing, no doubt, to the fact that of all out-door games it is the one which can be indulged in most frequently during the winter months. Cricket during the off season is impossible, and skating depends for its exercise upon the temperature being below freezing point. But during winter it can be said that Football we have always with us. Without meaning any disrespect to the play, we may also remark that it is the one which requires the least skill in learning. A knowledge of its technique is more easily acquired than would be the case with, say, cricket or lawn tennis. What is wanted in Football is good breathing, coupled with good power of limb; given these, with a mere average of ordinary intelligence superadded, and all the rest will follow easily. The good Football player might be described as a possessor of the robuster virtues physical virtues we mean and one who can bear his rough -and-tumble lot good naturedly. But, much as we would like to have been able to say other- wise, it is, nevertheless, the fact that the game is often fruitful of dispute, and marked more than any other by displays of feeling. Hardly a day passes but we receive letters from its professors complaining of unfair treatment, and sometimes indulging in mutual recriminations of the most painful kind, considered as coming from people supposed to have been engaged in purely friendly rivalry. This possibly may be no more than natural after all, for it is hardly to be conceived that you can bold in very affec- tionate esteem the man who uses endless forms of physical violence towards you in a scramble for the leather. Those who know nothing of the practical nature of the play will be able to make shrewd guesses thereat by a perusal of the terms used in the public reports. Take our own accounts of the matches played on Saturday last, where will be seen the words "struggle" and maul and bully, puntiiig in," driving back," scrimmage," touch-down," and the like; all of them subsidiary expressions to the favourite one of "kicking," without which the game would, of course, be no game at all. It may, however, be argued by those who play football that the terms of the game are merely accidents which do not determine its general character or justify harsh inferences with respect thereto. Our preference for the game as the manly, British one it is, will enable us all the more readily to admit this; but the conduct of the Cardiff Wanderers on Saturday tempts us to utter just one friendly word of advice to players generally If you do not wish to lower yourselves in the esteem of those whose liking sqtiares with our own, pay the most scru- pulous deference to the decisions of your umpires. It is better to acknowledge defeat than to try and reverse an unfavourable deci- sion by tumultuous wrangling. U TOLERATION AT BRIDGEND. Mr. P. JOHN may possibly object to the description of his 11 toleration" as given by Mr. J. C. NICHOLL at the meeting of the Bridgen-i Board of Guardians on Saturday last; hut we doubt very much whether any less- interested person will. If the prin- ciple which Alr. JOHN would apply to the voting of public money were to be ad- mitted, there would be no more parish relief for anyone whose religious views were not in accord with Mr. JOHN'S own, or with those of Mr. E. LEWIS, whose notice of motion appears to be an endorsement of his brother guar- dian's action. Really, we bad thought that this narrow sectarian spirit was dying out amongst us. MR. DILLWVN'S PLATITUDES. Why will Mr. DILLWYN persist in platitu- dinising when a reliance upon the facts and figures he takes the trouble of working up would send his speeches off so much more easily ? At the laying of the Caanan Chapel Schoolroom on Monday he must needs go out of his way to accuse the State Church of a desire to control the national education. But is this correct? Has the State Church ever done more than evince itself anxious that the education provided by the State should not be an utterly godless one ? And then the hon. gentleman's denial of the right of the. National Church to its present position was it called for, or was it in good taste ? It was about as badly wedged into the other portion of the address as was the unfortunate quotation from Chevy Chase," which the speaker to hopelessly floundered over at Thursday night week's banquet. THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB. The proposed formation of a Constitutional Club has given rise to no small discussion, and a certain amount of acrimony, among Conserva- tives of limited mean3. They feel that they have been, in a sense, cold-shouldered by the amount fixed for the entrance fee and annual subscription, as well as by the undue favour shown to the members of the principal party clubs now existent. We think their complaint is not without ground on the latter score, but as to the former, there are many strong objections against a nominal entrance fee and too small a sub- scription. To meet the requirements of Conservatives in humble circumstances, an extension of local working men's clubs is desirable, but a central institution for 5,000 members which was scrubby in its arrange- ments, and wholly devoid of comfort and architectural dignity, would become a by-word and laughing-stock among the Liberals—and deservedly eo. Much of the feeling that has been aroused in this matter is traceable, probably, to a foolish ambition among the gentlemen who are responsible for the agitation—if we may so term it-to rub shoulders with the chiefs of the party. Personal vanity is a human quality, common alike to Conservatives and Liberals, but the discontented ones, who find that an effective barrier, on the ground of expense, is interposed between them and the secret longing of their hearts, should recollect that the primary objects of the club are, not to foster snobbish familiarity, but to aid in the serious and important work of a political party. THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. The report of the National Eisteddfod Committee, which we publish in another column, as the record of a genuine attempt made to elicit whatever of literary and artistic and musical there may be latent in the Cymric nature, is a most important and interesting docu- ment. The Committee have gone about their work in a thoroughly business-like manner, and with no other object in view than that of finding and rewarding real talent in no matter what useful direction it may discover itself. There need be little doubt as to the success, even in a pecuniary sense, of such well meant, well directed efforts, but if we were permitted to speculate upon an abstract possibility in con- ection with such a subject we would at thi ,age fearlessly say that if the movemet: result in failure Welshmen will have only themselves to thank. The event will deter- mine, not only the extent to which Gwalia's sons are exceptionally gifted, but the usefulness of eisteddfodau in probing those gifts. Moreover, if the Cardiff Eisteddfod be a failure, we shall at once know why so many of its predecessors have been successful; and, after that, farewell to all intelligent, earnest interest in such move- ments outside the cirole of the petty bards, literati, and other eisteddfod mongers generally. THE EAST LOTHIAN ELECTION. The Conservative victory in East Lothian almost consoles one for the loss of a seat at Liverpool. Young Lord ELCHO has fought h;s battle most skilfully and gallantly, and the unusually large number of votes he polled would seem to show that popular sympathy was on his side. It is not likely that any of the sour Liberationists who refused to vote for Mr. FINLAY because he would not pledge himself to support the demand for the im- i mediate disestablishment of the Scotch Church voted for the Conservative candidate, who owes his success, therefore, entirely to his own friends. The Scotch Liberals are so annoyed at the result of the election that it is probable the party will henceforth refuse to accept any candidate who does not go in for disestablishment. A IbLIC OF OLD NEWPORT. THE following interesting note on the sub- ject of an extraordinary clock is supplied by Mr. OCTAVIUS MORGAN the Friars, Newport. The writer -.ays:-In the Gentleman's Maga- zine for 1817 we are told that a clock on an entirely new system had then lately been made by JOHN THOMAS, a native of Caerleon? who resided at Newport, Monmouthshire, and was a working smith and farrier. Ihis piece of mechanism continued going, after once winding up, for a space of 384 days. It had a pendulum vibrating seconds, and a dial plate showing minutes and seconds. The plates and wheels were of brass, and the pinion of the best cast steel. It was in action at the maker's house." I remember in my younger days to have been taken by my father to see that clock somewhere about the time mentioned, and it was going at the maker's house, a little way over the bridge on the Chepstow-road. I knew nothing about clocks at that time, but I heard the story of its going over a twelvemonth when wound up, and I was much struck by the enormous size of the weights. He asked a very large sum of money for it. There must, I think, be among the older inhabitants of Newport some persons besides myself who recollect the clock or have heard of it, and I should be glad to know if anyone can say where it is or what has become of it, and hope someone will be able to reply to my inquiry. THE PROSPECTS OF THE SESSION. As we draw nearer the opening of the session significant hints are thrown out by the Ministerial papers that, after all, the list of measures urgently required to be passed this year need not be a very long one. We already knew that the Government proposed to put off dealing with the county franchise question till 1884, and now it is reported that Mr. CHAMBERLAIN'S advice is to be acted upon, and the County Government Bill post- poned till electoral power in the counties has been placed in the hands of the agricul- tural labourers. These constructive states- men, as they love to call themselves, are evidently no better than mere political tricksters. The more closely they look at the county franchise question the less they like it; and, as regards county government, what they fear is that, if they grant the right of electing local boards to the inhabitants of English counties, they may be called upon to enact a similar measure forthwith for the self- government of Irish counties. The Whigs are, up to the present moment, (irmly resolved not to extend the Irish fran- chises, whether Parliamentary or municipal, and it would, therefore, be highly inconvenient to the Ministry to have the matter discussed this session. A postponement is, in that cir- cumstance, considered the beat step that could be taken in the interest of the party. Perhaps a year or two hence the educa- tion of Lord IIARTTNGTON and Lord DERBY may have made such progress that these noblemen will no longer be unwilling to transfer the Government of Ireland to the classes who idolise Mr. HEALY for calling the English rulers of the country "a gang of brigands," and who even show sympathy with the vilest assassins. THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN SOUTH WALES. We elsewhere publish some figures which have a really important bearing upon the public health of the country at large, and more particularly upon that of the southern portion of the Principality. The return is made up for the three months ending the 31st of December, during which period the birth-rate for England and Wales amounted to ;)2'7 per 1,000 of the inhabitants, as against 34'4, the mean of the same quarter of the ten previous years. The very fact that there has been a decrease at all will suffice to alarm a great many of the economists. France, it has been ob- served, is steadily going down hill princi- pally from this one particular cause, the favourable operation of which has enabled England to more than hold her own among the countries of the world; for while most of her competitors have been stationary or retro- gressive, she, the fruitful mother, has well maintained her old reputation as a coloniser. To determine with anything approach- ing finality this particular decrease, the price of labour and of food should be ascertained together with a number of other well-known though minor considerations, which combined have a most material effect upon the question generally. With the decrease in the births there has been an increase in the deaths, a fact which will serve to add still further to the prevailing sense of uneasiness. Of these deaths the somewhat large number of thirteen thousand seven hundred and nine took place in workhouses, hospitals, and other public institutions, a macter of special interest to Mdlle. LOUISE MICHEL and her socialistic following, who will thereby perceive that, whatever may be the case under other systems of government, the prevailing English one makes large provision for the pobr, the help- less, and the suffering. The deoline in the deaths from small-pox noted in the return may be taken to indicate increased sanitation, to the beneficial results of which the practice of vaccination, as a preventive, has of necessity contributed. On the subject of mar- riages the return is brimful of interest and' importance. The mean of the preceding ten years has not been reached, but the figures show an improvement upon the last five years. And then we learn that, for some reason or other, the September quarter is not so propitious to Hymen as the June. Why should this be so P Have the economists a law for this also, and can they tell us how it is that the proper time to marry should by general consent immediately precede rather than immediately follow the balmy month of roses ? If the death-rate for England and Wales was above it is some satisfaction to know that as far as South Wales is concerned it was slightly below the average of the season. Of the counties Glamorgan, on account of its greater population, would naturally run up the highest total of mortality. Of the unions to. that of Merthyr Tydfil belongs the un- I .1 ivied honour of heading the list as far as tb, tiven chief zymotic diseases are concerned. Merthyr Tydfil has fared badly in other respects also,, for, with the exception of Cardiff, no district in the whole of the six counties of South Wales can show such a large number of deaths from all causes. Cardiff is a trifle higher in comparison, but, then, Cardiff is more than compensated in the way of births, for while Merthyr, which is only five thou- sand below that town in the number of its in- habitants, can only show a birth total of seven hundred and forty-three, Cardiff shows one of one thousand and fifty-nine. As com- pared with either of these towns Ponty- pridd shows a remarkably clean bill; for with a population less than Merthyr by, in round numbers, eight thousand, its births are more by nearly two hundred and eighty while its total dea-ths are only ninety-five, as against six hundred and thirty-eight in Cardiff, and six hundred and one in Merthyr. Swansea, with a death total of four hundred and twenty-six, and a birth total of eight hundred and seventy-five, in a population of ninety-five thousand and sixty-eight does not show very well by comparison. It is not our intention to refer in detail to the smaller towns, but some estimate of the progress of a few of them may be made when we point out that in Llandovery the births for the quarter exceeded the deaths only by three. In Knighton the birthg were just nine over the deaths, and in Rhayader twelve. It should, however, be mentioned in favour of these places that their percentages of deaths were extremely small, in Llandovery particularly. At Cardiff the deaths from all causes were greatly in excess of the average of the last three years, but the return attributes the fact to other causes than the prevalence of diseases of the zymotic kind, although these latter were unpleasantly con- spicuous during the period in question.
OUR LONDON LETTER.
OUR LONDON LETTER. The Moniteur de Rome is a good deal more hopeful than I am when it expresses confi- dence that the Pope's letter to Cardinal M'Cabe will produce a truly beneficial effect" on Ireland. In the old days of HiL- bonism the priesthood exercised vast influence over the masses of their countrymen, and were often able, by timely words of counsel, to dissuade them from deeds of violence. But this is all changed now and unless a Catholic clergyman himself becomes a spouter of sedi- tion his power of commanding respect in temporal matters is absolutely nil. The reason is not far to seek. At the back of the agitation is a strong Irish-American force, and although the ruffians and bullies who wield it are, many of them, ostensibly members of the Catholic Church, to describe them as having any religion at all is an insult 9 to every pious Romanist. English Protestants have too much sense and too much confidence in their Catholic fellow-subjects to believe that religion has anything to do with the miserable state of Ireland. Vile greed, fomented by Communistic propagandists and encouraged by the ill-timed concessions of the Ministry of the day, is the real root of the evil. # Sit, Harry Verney, the member for Buck- ingham, is to be congratulated upon the attain- ment of his Parliamentary jubilee, but it has been reserved for one of his own party—Mr. George Russell, M.P. for Aylegbury-to describe him as the Buckinghamshire Grand Old Man." There is nothing particularly offensive in the expression, standing alone, but as the Liberals always take umbrage at it when it is applied to Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Russell's application of it to Sir Harry was not particularly happy. Mr. O'Donnell's violent speech at the meet- ing in London for the purpose of arousing English sympathy in Irish distress is resented by all sensible Irishmen, who consider that he went out of his way to damage the cause which they are interested in furthering. Ilis maladroit advocacy, I fear,represents damage to the amountof hundreds-perhaps thousands —of pounds to the subscription list. Even Mr. CaHan, who does not, as a rule, mince his words, either in or out of Parliament, felt called upon to administer a gentle rebuke to Mr O'Donnell for his wild comments upon Mansion House Relief funds. Such a general impression seems to prevail that any rubbish is good enough for a charity entertainment that I cannot but make a passing reference to a recent matinee at the Gaiety for the benefit of Lady Strangford's Hospital Fund. Instead of those dismal amateurs," who too often on such occasions pay the par of malevolent highwaymen, and rob us, if not of our money and our life, at least of our money and our patience, we had a star company stronger than any one theatre in London can boast in the ordmary run of things. The Ken dais, Mr. Hermann Vezin, Miss Nelly Farren, Mr. Edward Terry, Mr. David James, Miss Eivell, Mr. W. II. Vernon, and other well-known artistes appeared, and the result was a really delightful afternoon. The education of medical women has been a matter in which the authorities of the Royal Free Hospital have always taken a warm interest, and their annual report shows that their views in regard to the vexed ques- tion of lady doctors" have undergone no alteration. Indeed, time seems to have con- firmed them in the view that the action which they took in 1877, when they entered into a five years' agreement with the London School of Medicine for Women, was wise, for the period having expired another agreement for a like period has been entered into, by virtue of which the ladies of the school will be enabled to carry on their clinical studies at the hospital. Since the two insti- tutions were first brought into association 50 ladies have entered as medical students, a large proportion of whom have since qualified and are now in practice in Great Britain, India, and the Colonies and there is every reason to anticipate that in future years the number of students will be largely increased owing to the urgent demand for properly qualified medical women amongst the millions of the female native population of our Indian Empire." While so many hospitals are in "Queer Street," owing to a falling-off in funds, the governors of the Royal Free Hospital find themselves in the position of being able to submit a flourishing balance-sheet. Their total expenditure for the year has been hard upon £ 11,000, but this has been pretty nearly met by legacies alone, amounting to more than k9,000, and exclusive, of course, of other sources of revenue, such as donations, sub- scriptions, a proportion of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Funds, and dividends. Besides having a reserve of between £ 16,000 and £ 17,000 in Government Stock, they were able to carry forward a balance of £ 2,600 after a thoroughly efficient working of their insti- tution during last year. At a moment when the people of Cardiff are showing such a warm interest in the success of their new Infirmary, it has occurred to me that these few facts which I have summarised respecting the only General Hospital in London, which is really free for general cases as well as accidents, may be read with interest. On Monday a bicycle and tricycle exhi- bition opened at the Albert-hall, and to-day a Sportsman's Exhibition" commenced at the Agricultural-hall. Both of these shows are now annual affairs, and their yearly increasing popularity is an excellent proof that the love of healthy physical exercise of every sort ia as strong among Englishmen as in the bygone days of the quarterstaff, the cross- bow, and the tournament. With regard to the former exhibition, its most striking feature is the large number of tricycle entries, the total being considerably in excess of the bicy- cles, which but a few years ago had the field pretty well to themselves. At the Sports- man's Exhibition may be seen specimens of every conceivable description of invention, apparatus, and implement used in our national pastimes. T, Reference to'the latter display reminds m« that the Sportsman newspaper has just com- pleted its new offices in Fleet-street—a thoroughfare which, in time, promises to he as full of imposing buildings as any in the Metropolis. The connection between horse- racing and sestheticism is not very clear, but, no doubt, the proprietors of the Sportsman have settled the point to their satis- faction, for their fine structure is of a 'ight chocolate colour, and its front is cram ned with quaint little windows full of tim panes of coloured glas<i, useful for any pur- pose but that of giving light to the various rooms, including the one in which my friend Vigilant concocts his prophetic article. When Mr. John Morlev gave up the editor- ship of that review which until lately he con- trolled, it was understood that he had taken the step because he wanted to devote the whole of his time to the Pall Mall; but that was evidently a mistake. There must have been another reason also which influenced him, for he is now about to start a magazine under the title of the English Critic. It will be illustrated in the Scribner style, which English readers seem to appreciate highly, judging from the ready sale which it has this side of the Atlantic. Macnr'Hans will be the publishers. What a thing it is to be a cognate per- sonage." The new edition of Men of the Time''—that invaluable handbook, without which editors and London correspondents would often be driven to the verge of despai; —will contain a biographical notice of Cete- wayo, who, I see, has just been formerly re- instated as King of Zululand. I regret to add that the author, Mr. Thompson Cooper, who gives me this information, irreverently speaks of the sable monarch as "Old Ketch." Such, my friends, is fame. -x.<. -it- It is impossible to read Mr. Courtney's speech at Liskeard without feeling some com- passion for a clever man struggling despe- rately to explain away an unfortunate speech which he knows has seriously injured his prospects. But for his declaration, made some months ago, that we ought to let the Egyptians stew in their own juice," it is quite possible that Mr. Courtney might have been by this time a. Cabinet Minister but he him- self made his promotion impossible by a brutal candour which placed him at a disadvantage in comparison with such pliable Radicals as Mr. Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dilke. I have never seen it mentioned in print that Mr. Gladstone has exhibited his usual tactical skill in relegating the two "dangerous" members of his Ministry to positions where their opportunities to do mischief are of the slightest. He could not sufficiently resist the wave of Radical feeling to exclude Mr. Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dilke from his Cabinet, but he took care to relegate them to offices which gave an opportunity for plenty of hard work, but afforded little or none for the assertion of advanced opinions on general political questions. While the two gentlemen I have named are respectively President of the Board of Trade and President of the Local Government Board, the trusty Whigs of the Hartington, Derby, Childtrs, Granville, Northbrook, and Kimherley type have been planted in the various offices whence the real "policy" of a Government einaiiatei an arrangement which speaks volumes for the Prime Minister's prescience. X. -X- I Sir Charles Dilke, it is true, began his official career in the Foreign Ofiice, but then he was only Under Secretary, and Lord I Granville himself took particularly good care 9 to pull the strings. Time, perhaps, and the course of events may oblige the Premier of give his Hadical wing a better opportunity to I distinguishing itself in the regular political arena, but meanwhile it is rather amusing to see the burning reformers who would cheer- fully sign a contract to turn out a spick-and-span British Constitution with all the latest mechanical improvements at a couple of months' notice'busying themselves with such small deer as the affairs of insolvent debtors and a sufficient supply of calf lymph. But, no doubt, the discipline thus gained will be of use later on. x Though Colonel Taylor at the time of hia death not the chief "whip" of the Con- servative party in the House of Commons, his influence, as one who bad held that responsible position, was very great, and his decease will cause widespread regret in the Tory party as well as among Liberal members of standing who recollect his genial courtesy, pleasant manners, and commanding presence. He had a worthy opponent in Mr. Brand—now Mr. Speaker "—who performed similar functions for the Liberals. Both found successors, of whom they had no reason to be ashamed, in Sir VV. Hart-Dyke and Lord Richard Gros- venor. Mr. Errington is about to leave Rome, in order to be present at the opening of Parlia- ment. Unless some ingenuous honourable or right hon. member finds means to let the cat out of the bag, as Mr. Forster did in re Captain O'Shea and the Kilmainham Treaty, the country is not likely to know how far he has proceeded with the congenial work of his Mission" to the Vatican. A few evenings ago the Vail Mall Gazette came out with a notification that Mr. Lawes, notwithstanding his having received a rule nlsifor a new trial in the libel action brought against him by Mr. Belt, did not intend to proceed further in the matter; in other words, that he mean t to bow his neck to the yoke and tamely pay the R;5,000 damages and taxed costs. Such a proceeding struck me as strange, so I held my tongue and "awaited developments." They have come, almost sooner than I expected, in the form of an authoritative denial of the statement. Mr. Lawes is resolved to fight out the matter to the bitter end, a determination which, in view of the magnitude of the stakes, profes- sional as well aa financial, involved, can hardly afford cause for much surprise. The Tones of Wednesday caps all the stories yet told of the pervading spirit of malignant antipathy to the present order of things in Ireland by making itself responsible for the startling statement that the lower ranks of the Homan Catholic clergy have broken loose from the influence of their superiors in age and dignity, and it is even believed with sorrow and shame that some of them have abused their sacred office to concoct false declarations of innocence by dying criminals with the design of casting discredit on the law." No more terrible instance than this could be given of the utter demoralisation of those classes of Irishmen to whom we are asked to confide the control of their country's destinies. 7\" it' The Fa:-mera' Alliance has seized the chance afforded by the cutting down of the original list of measures for the session of 1883 in order to urge upon the Government that a Tenant Right Bill should be promised in the Queen's Speech. As the Radicals are firmly persuaded that they can bind the tenant farmers for ever to the Liberal party by bring- ing in such a 13111, legislation in this direction will probably be attempted. Conservatives are quite ready to concede to farmers com- pensation for unexhausted improvements. Mr. Chaplin took the lead some sessions ago in trying to satisfy this demand of the farmers; and his party are quite willing now to vote for making compensation compulsory instead of leaving the landlord at liberty to contract himself out of any obligation to pay for improvements. In this, as in all matters of controversy, the main difficulty is to get a satisfactory definition of improvements. The Farmers' Alliance programme seems to be simple enough. Its object is to enable a tenant to keep a farm as long as he likes, do with the land what he likes, take out when he goes every penny of capital he has spent during his lease even, it may be, on reckless experiments, and to have his lease renewed whenever it suits his convenience, without being exposed to the i isk of having his rent raised. In short, the Alliance aims at converting the tenant into a landlord, without putting him to the incon- venience of having to pay any purchase money for his land. Mr. Howard and his friends are quite right in thinking that the selfish landlord interest will oppose the fulfil- ment of this programme.
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THE PROPOSED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOR NORTH WALES. A committee of gentlemen representing Wrex- ham has guaranteed a. site of about five acres, picturesquely situated within half a mile of the centre of the town, as a site for the proposed College for North Walés.
TELEGHAra^COMMraiCATION WITH…
TELEGHAra^COMMraiCATION WITH LUNDY ISLAND. A STATION TO BE ESTABLISHED The committee of Lloyd's has determined to establish the long wished for ship telegraph station on Lundy Island if they can obtain subscriptions amounting to J6600 per annum towards the cost of maintaining it. Messrs. James Strick and Sons, Lloyd's agents at Swansea, have been instructed to convey this intimation to those interasted in the shipping trade in the Bristol Channel, and if the required amount is promptly guaranteed the cable will be ordered at once, and the station opened within six months.
lOliR PARIS LETTER.
l OliR PARIS LETTER. PARIS. FEBRUARY 7. The expulsion of the princes seems to partake of the character of a Much Ado about Nothing and a storm in a tea-cup. It has now been dis- covered that the Government has ever the right to expel a disagreeable citizen under the Vagabond Act, and that any officer aiming to be a marshal or a generalissimo can be made to walk the plank. The result of the agitation in the press and the Chamber for the banishment of hereditary pre- tenders—for the country to its credit t,-ok no part in the row-has been to unite the divided Bona- partists, to extol the Orleanists as martyrs and the elect, and to induce sundry Legitimists in the depths of their chateaux to conclude the hour of the Comte de Chambord's coming is at last fixed by not only Providence, but the astrological, I mean to say astronomical, clock. The Anarchists, at their recent meeting, voted nem. COil. tiidt tlH) solution about what, to do with Royal Princes, with great expectations on the brain, was to shoot them to this a rider was added, that the deputies be similarly disposed of. M. Andrieux, the leader of the most whirligig of all the weathercock coteries in the country, pro- poses the formula of J. J. Rousseau, that as all men are born equal, they ought to be treated equally. It is only in France that the Irishman's Contrat Social is acted upon, namely, that one man i. as good as another, and a great deal better. Another deputy proposes to exile all who are not Republicans, while a third would declare every member of the Sovereign people eligible for the Crown of France. The senators are now dealing with the Expul- sion Bill, and are inclined to reject it. -But it does not at all foftow they will do so; tinkering on the most scientific principles will be applied to amend the measure—a masterpiece of expediency. Floquet's whole hog or none was the cruel, i/Ut true. solution he resembled the cook who asked the chickens, With what sauce would vou like to be eaten ?" Please, sir, we would not like to be eaten at all." That's a matter that does not regard you," retorted the cook. If the Senate throw out the Bill, the extreme Republicans will be delighted all the same; they will renew the question for the revision of the Constitution, which has for its chief end improving the Senate out of existence. But the Orleanists will not be allowed to slip out of the noose; if the Senate reject the new law, it is contemplated to repeal the grant voted by the iiepublic, restitu- ting forty millions of francs of their pro- perty to the Orleanists, confiscated, by Napoleon I If. to make g )od the deficit in the Budget, and endow more national schools. The popular belief associates an inordinate love of money as the weak point in the Orleanist armour. This is not generous, as it was Louis Philippe gave an impor- tant stimulus to the science of money-grubbing to his more or less loving subjects, and that is still tjAieusiveiy cultivated. Prince Napoleon has been removed to a private hospital, tho prison cell having really affected his health. As he personally pays for this special doctoring, and as he is only under preventive arrest, the equality boys ought not to trump up a charge of tavour against the authorities. Crowds of visitors call to leave their cards on the Prince, and the same political sympathy is extended by the orleanist sympathisers to the head of the house, the Due de Nemours. Prince Roland Bonaparte, the son of the snubbed Prince Pierre, who shot Victor Noir, and so precipitated the fall of the toppling second Empire, called on his cousin: Until his rich marriage with Mdlle. Blanc, daughter of the ex-farmer of gambling tables, Roland was as poor as a church mouse it was the incarcerated relative who supplied him from time to time with pocket-money. The interregnum Ministry will last till the Senate disposes of the Expulsion Bill, then Jules Ferry will come on the scene as successor to Gam- betta. How long he may hold on is uncertain. Any incident may unship Jim, as the Parliament has the unconstitutional habit of passing over the head of the Executive, and the latter must follow suit, or throw up the sponge like Duclerc, a man more forgotten now than King Dagobert. Ranc, Gambetta's bosom friend, states that had Prince Napoleon played his fantastic trick during Gambetta's lifetime he would have been instantly expelled. But the trick would never have taken place had Garnbetta been alive it was bis death induced the Prince to blunder. Nor would exile have benefitted the Republic. Ostracism, whether by shells or olive leaves, brought no security to Athens or Syracuse. Since 1789 proscriptions have obtained no salutary results for France; violence creates no permanent good; the massacres of Sep- tember, the scaffolds of the Terror, the wars of the Vendee, the cut-throating in Southern France, the -1 da s" of July, February, June, and December the Commune; what have they founded? Holy- rood Castle and Charles X., Clermont and Louis Philippe, Chiselhurst and Napoleon III., Arenberg and Queen Hortense, Coppet and Madame de Stael, Hugo and Hautevilie House, attest the inutility of banishment. But the political doctors of France seem to select their perfect cures from Moliere; some for the invalid prescribe crutches, like Behis others purgatives, as Purgon and not a few, bleeding, as Tomes. And whether under king, emperor, convention, or republic, it is all the same. The wonder is that the patient survives. Lent has opened with fine weather of course, we have had no Carnival, save the usaal cruelty of dressing up little children in fancy costumes and promenading them through the streets, ex- posed to easterly winds, with an undertaker's bill in each gust. Big persons sport false noses, which is a change, rather than a novelty. The adver- tising vans were less numerous than formerly-. There are no formal Comniinatory Services on Ash-Wednesday here, perhaps owing to the cir- cumstance that it is a kind of devotion practised daily, in private as well aein public. Now that the latest political incident has cooled down somewhat, the rogues conclude they demand attention. A band of some twenty thieves was captured in a chapel on the Boulevard St. Germain. They entered the building, made themselves at home with the good things of life they had stolen some were arrested in the confessionals eating and drinking, others in the stalls were smoking after their square meal, and a few were in the organ loft fast asleep. A lady of uncertain age at Mont- inattre, having come in for a windfall of railway scrip, was deemed at once to be insane by covetous relatives. In full noon-day four men entered her room, put a strait-jacket on her, pushed her into a cab, and conveyed her to some asylum. The neighbours attest she was perfectly sane. The money-changers in this city, as a class are not like Caesar's wife, they have an ugly habit of making excursion trips outside France, and, what their clients feel most acutely, forgetting to come back. At present quite an epidemic has set in for breaking open the safes in such offices. The front door is entered by a false key, the safe burst, the loot bagged, and the office door as closely shut as ever. Two more robbeiies have just been com- mitted. The well-known organiser of tours, Gaze, lins had to apply to the courts for a personal grievance. St. Cloud is a garrison town, and the chief cat6 is the club for the officers. The bar- maid had'^Ti English chum, Mdlle, Tinnev, who came to see her occasionally, when. she made the acquaintance of a handsome captain of dragoons. Gaze gtti6 his wife to understand one morning that he was about executing a personally con- ducted tour of some duration. The same night he returned, and, with a police inspector, found the captain in flagrante delicto with Mdlle. Tinney, who was his wife. The captain, unaware she was married, was only fined 16fr., while she was con- demned to three months' imprisonment* which involves the cutting off her splendid hair. It came out on tho trial that Mrs. Gaze had been formerly a Mrs. Chittler, and had been divorced for playing the Mdlle. Tinney game. Formerly, a Frenchman in his cups was the merriest of creatures; ho sang like the Jolly Miller of the Dee; he clung to a lamp-post with the sincerest feelings of fraternity, and addressed a railway as if fellow-citizens. This is now changed. The phylloxera and Cosmopolitan Re- publicanism are the cause of all; monsieur drinks no more national wine, but drugged beer, ver- mouth, sherry, and Marsala that never witnessed the outskirts of the city; he is hence muddled and melancholy. Bars and beer saloons are usurping the convenient caftSs. Similarly ItS in the restau- rants, foreign are expelling home dishes; the win- dows arefull of roast beef, for soup there is the Russian muschy, Italy, monopolises lazagnes and tagliarini, Hungary gullash, Spain olla podrida, and Syria chebs-kibba In the shops pdtedefoie gras has become a vulgar aliment; it is re-placed by reindeer tongues and caviare from Astrakan, preserved feras from the Lake of Geneva, and sausages from Estramadura. The beer shops are more dirty than those of Vaterland we have the kneips but not the Hotbraenhaus. King Gam- brinus has dethroned Bacchus, beer has cut out Burgundy and Bordeaux.
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GENERAL. | Consols were l-16th better yesterday. The despatch vessel Lively sailed from Ports- mouth yesterday with Admiral Lord John Ray., who relieves Lord A!cester in the Mediterranean, r Thirty thousand tons of new shipping have been ordered on the Clyde during the past fortnight., including two steamers for the North German Lloyd's. The Lina, Norwegian schooner, lias been wrecked near Kirkwall. All the crew were lost. The Ann, schooner, has been totally wrecked neat Campbeltown. Three of the crew were drowned. The Malagasy Envoys have written to Lord Granville pointing out certain inaccuracies in the I French Yellow Book and the omission of a ptra- graph in M. Duclerc's dispatch claiming rights over Madagascar. > During a Blue Ribbon meeting at Warwick on j Wednesday night an orga.nised mob, who occupied | the rear of the hall, hooted, groaned, and even- » tually caused the meeting to break up in confu* sion. One of the principal local Ribbonites w,14 I mobbed and pelted with flour and turnips. f j
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FOREIGN. I SPAIN. MADRID, FEll, 7.-Some persons have been J arrested at Malaro, Barcelona, charged with forging Four per Cent. Internal Bonds. [ GREECE. | ATHENS, FEB. 7.—During the debate in the ? Chamber to-day news was received that M. Coumoundouros' condition was hopeless. The f House immediately adjourned as a mark of respect to the ex-Premier. RUSSIA. WARSAW, FEB. 8.—Serious disturbances have occurred in consequence of the vehement protest! of students against tho course of lectures or. Pol ish litcmture being delivered in the Russian language. The lecturer, Professor Vorsbousky, ha just left Warsaw amidst popular manifestations ot displeasure. AMERICA. NEW YORl", FKB. 8.—Further disastrous floods have occurred in West Virginia, Illinois, and Penn- sylvania. Steps are being taken for the relief of the sufferers.
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THE STATE OF IRELAND. o THE PIKENIX PARK MURDERS. IMPORTANT ARREST IN LONDON. ARREST OF MESSRS. DAVITT, HEALY, AND QUINN. The Press Association" special correspon- dent in Dublin telegraphs :-Mr. Davitt was arrested at. a quarter to ten on Thursday morning at the Imperial Hotel. In expectation of the arrest, Mr. Davitt, before the officer called for him, bade good-bye to his sister, who recently came over from America to reside in Dublin. Several gentlemen assembled ia the hall of the hotel to see him off, but otherwise the arrest attracted no attention whatever. About the same time Mr. Healy was arrested at his home just as he had finished breakfast. He waa quite prepared to immediately put on his coat and a company the officer in a cab to Kilmainharn Prison. Mrs. Healy will reside with her frther, Mr. T. D. Sullivan,M.P., during her husband's imprison* ment. Mr. Quinn was apprehended at his loagingi in Vincent-street, and the prisoners arrived at Kilmainham within a short time of each other. The Central News" is informed that lute on Tuesday evening Inspectors Cully and Ronan. of the Dublin detective force, assisted by Inspectol Littlechild, of Scotland Yard, who will be remembered as the officer who has for many years past been intimately connected with the detection of Irish criminals in England, arrested a young man named Fitz- patrick at his lodgings in Whitechapel. The war* rant on which the prisoner was arrested charges him generally with conspiring to murder certain Government officials in Ireland, but it is understood that the authorities attach conside- rable importance to his arrest in connection with the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in the Phoenix Park. The warrant bØl¡l.}'Ø the same date as those which were e:te.cø Dublin about three weeks ago, and lias been in the hands of the Dublin detectives in London evel since. Fitzpatrick is a young man of about 26k years of age, quiet looking and under the medium height. He has only been in London a little ovef eight, months, or since about the time of the Phoenix Park murders. He was originally a lawyer's clerk in Dublin, but afterwards acted as a secretary to James Mullett, who is one of the men already in custody, and stands charged with the Phcenix Park murders. There is nothing known as to the mode in which Fitzpatrick haS obtained a livelihood while in London, but the fact is known that he is not charged with having been in any way interested in the working of the Fenian organisation which undoubtedly exists on this side of the Channel. Fitzpatrick did not express the slightest surprise when arrested. He was conveyed to Dublin by detectives on Thursday morning. At Dublin Commission on Thursday Christophet Dowling was indicted for shooting at Constable Cox in Abbey-street, with intent to murder him; and Devine and Poole were charged with aiding and abetting. The prisoners pleaded not guilty- Mr. Murphy, for the Crown, detailed tho facts of the case, and said the jury could have no doubt. He called Constable Eastwood, who was with Coic on the night of the murder. Witness described the occurrence, and said Dowling was one of the fouf men Cox had the encounter with. Prisoner had » revolver in.his hand pointed downwards. One of the four fired the fatal shot. Similar evidence waS given, and the Crown case closed. The defence alleged that Cox was shot by Constable East- wood. Robert Sargent, clerk of the peace for fcounty Tipperary, was fired at near Glenbrooke on Wed- nesday night. No arrests have been yet made. The Lord Mayor, in receiving a deputation at the Mansion House on Thursday in connection with opening a fund for relieving Irish distress, said he could not disassociate the present deputation fron* the recent meeting in the MemoriHl-hall, when violent language was used. He would, however# act as almoner of any money the public sent.
THE DANUBIAN CONFERENCE.
THE DANUBIAN CONFERENCE. The Danubian Conference opened in London oil Thursday afternoon at the Foreign Office. German, French, Russian, Italian, and Austrian Ambassa- dors, Roumanian and Servian Ministers, and special delegates assembled shortly before three o'clock in Lord Granville's room, and directly afterwards adjourned to the Conference-room, with the exception of the Servian and Roumanian Ministers. Lord Granville presided, and Mr. Crowe was appointed secretary. After a brief deliberation the Conference adjourned till Satur- day, when it is expected tha Turkish Ambassadoi will have received instructions.
RESIGNATION OF MR. ASHTON…
RESIGNATION OF MR. ASHTON DILKK, 11.1>. Mr. Ashton Dilke, M.P., the junior member for Newcastle, who is now in Algiers, has telegraphed to his constituents that he cannot hope to work during the coming session, and feels that he has already trespassed too far on their indulgence. He now, therefore, resigns his seat. He has given loyal support to the most Liberal Government England has seen, but has also endt ivoured to advocate those more advanced ideas in which the North had always led.
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A TERRIBLE FATE. On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Lon- don Portland Cement Company's Works respecting the death of John Church, an employe. On Mon- day, Jan. 29, at six o'clock in the morning, the de- ceased gave in his name to the timekeeper. Nothing more was seen of him until Monday, Feb. 5. wileco on opening one of the chambers of a kiln, his cal- cined remains were discovered. The boots found were known to have been worn by the deceased* and it was this which established the identification. There is no doubt, that the deceased, being cold and wet, crept into the chamber to warm himself. H< must, however, have been almost immediately suffocated, as the kiln was full of sulphuric fume9t the fire having been lit the previous morning- Shortly afterwards, too, liquid material was poured into it in the ordinary process of manufacture of cement, and the chamber was sealed tip. the body was buried beneath the liquid, and literally underwent a process of cremation. The bones were completely white, and all the ftegb consumed. It seems it is occasionally the practice of men to get into the chambers of the kiln and lig down but the manager of the works stated tba* this was entirely against the rules. The jury rei turned a verdict of Death by misadventure."
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES. The following students have passed tho MatH" dilation Examination of the University of LolidoO recently held:—In the First Division: E. Davies, J. B. Davies, Llewelyn Roberts, and Abrv ham Thomas. In the Second Division: Aliel C. Davies, W- Morris, and G. D. Parker.
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A lady named Chapman has just died at Rauisgate, at the age of 100 years.