The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

I MOM CITY COR RESPONDENTS. I HAVE £ ood re:iS!Oii to believe tliafc llio repot■( <J the early retirement of Sir Kicliaid Webster from the Parliamentary u: e:ia are well founded, and llmt j by the end of the.st:—;<;» a new Attorney-General I will have to be appointed. IN reply to a que^t ion in t he ITo'S^E of Common*, Mr. Sl.'inh;>;>t; in! iina i ed lint, lit.' :o exempting volnnloers troni the {,,¡ s»;r\ «:<>;> juries. The (iovcrtmn-nt oiiglil in i -e no timi; in bri(i<^in<? irl a short Hill to I'"eel, t his U'¡,c;t,. i t- i, only jii-t that the t Reives ti'.e ij.i! lien <>l II.-II l.m.ii 11. ■! c, will' !i tetioally upon every ;• »>!<S>• i- i<*<i :an, ciiouid be teleifod frotn sotno oil IN1 I.( M IMHTMU-' diitius (Jf • e\«k;iP> i.o vuii jury j<e:'V!<*ot or.l i. </i-, « tiu-n: i':c tiisl time) some 'r.ipet! .II. il, as U sut oti" atrainst the n'w "1, • «»ir hi- voiutiiarily expend for tho L vi I'm; ILI1. Tn ptiblic, it is plain. ha< si ill to be watclifuS iii oak-: !} j I'sa'.nt ii.«» ;1;lrl"¡;H of land by influei'1 ial pfi ii.o 11:1}:-oI ,-u perhaps gone by —let us hope ior cvt-r-—when t Ue lords oi the soil could fent -imi:in.>ns n(, lii.-if own swett pleasure, and ar!-t-iat s. ne.'ioi-iplay havoc wi: II a iK-.iioo's wo.nl.-and :• Siill, the appo- t.ile for a job is as Ui;oii in s .me ipiarlt ;•> as it was formerly, it is scuich" i. nut. Uv anv tr.eaos killed. We are. I U"p-i. i <•. ^-iad lo -oe from Mr. Flunkelb's reply to Mr.. i'.adUur. thai he has come to Ue coin.la.-i./n t !-al. lie wi.id-1 not hr- 'nst.i- tied in advising t h(- grant «.! a [ >o: I u .n of V- r^iiam Park for a church vicarage. Ille L"I:11.!¡"IIJellt has lands and 1'1 (I lid d w I i ■ i;u ;1; i ".{,¡:iOIl, and (.he State e:\noi.t a!oi 1 lo (>crn.ii in da%'s I lie repetition ot ii»e ftory of Naboih at its <?-.iten*e. \'i e need all the parks we can haw for the /'oin- inurdiy i" gcnetal. Too many of lliein alreadv are hedged about with an ungenerojis soeiu.-ion. As betw een the vicar and I U<>, pulilie, our verdict is decidedly in favour of the hitter. IT would be impossible not lo feel some asloni>h- m^nbat the memorial presented by an iniluent ial reputation on belialf of the Governors of tlnj Knjal Lo file 'ottt.t, of were it not that the rich at-c oftoll mendicants than the poor. Here is an institution \dlicll call a!rul'tl fo pay ,1[, Ilultdre,¡ plilllld'll year to its gardener, which ha? n .stii!! of oiiiciais salaried in proportion, and vet t.wo influential peers, with a considerable following, ac! uaiiy find it in t,liciii to journey to the tiuil lhall and ask for the lavishly endowed foundation money out of the pockets of the metropolitan taxpayer. Oliver Twists petition for mote seemed ridiculous to Bumble, but we may be sure the audacious de- mand of an establishment wealthy enough to pay its gardener t.4 if he were the head of a Govern- ment. department, will be received with every mark of consideration and respect. The matter is re- ferred for consideration to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Commit tee. Its members should bethink them well whether there are not any poor aL their gates. OrR official system of dealing with the o) I and infirm poor would admit. of modification with ad- vantage to our national self-respect. The aged man who complained to the magistrate at the Westminster Police Court of his treatment at the Fulham Road Workhouse may be unduly querulous. His main grievance was tltat "for the last three months he had been miserably cold, not having seen a bit of fire all the time." Fulham Road Workhouse, it would appear, is he.ited with hot- water pipes. The pathos and t he reproach of the incident does not consist in this, however. kill ninety next birthday," <»aid the complainant, and when asked if he had wife or friend ho answered again, bursting into teais, No, tiiey are dead — all doarl." Surely for its infirm poor, wh..st; head* are white with the snows alld ,Ol"! <> of ninety years, a country abounding in wealth and luxury like Kngland might provide a .-heller more comfort- able than the Fulham [load Workhouse It is nob a question of the irreclaimable lazy and dissolute, for whose comfort, w hen thrown upon its hands the State cannot be expected to trouble itself much. But there are numbers of labourers, whose wages never rise above A bare subsistence, who outlive their working power and their friends. No dis- honour at helle" t" their misfortune, yet they are condemned to herd with ordinary paupers, par- tially tantalised by our Philistine contempt for poverty, however caused. A killder care of indi- gent old age would bring no loss to the nation's reputation. LONG ACRE was the other day the scene of an interesting ceremony. A new gymna-iutn, in con- nection with the Young Men s C'hri.-tian Associa- tion, was opened by the Prince of Wales the King of Sweden being also present on the ooca-ioij. It) is not often that Long Acre is honoured hyti.e pre- ?ence of such illustrious visitors, it. is the home of the coach-making indusLry, and has been *o almosb from time immemorial. So long ago as in the year lt>95, according to the St. Mart in's parish accounts, John Sanders, of Long Acre, coach- maker,' was fined in the sum of C12 for not serv- ing as overseer. Why Mr Sanders shrank from the performance of a public duty and failed to appreciate at its proper worth the position of a local authority is one of those mysteries that will probably now remain unrav elled to the end of time. There have been other inhabitants of Long Acre who, more w ise or more ambitious than Mr. San- ders, took advantage of their opportunities and rose from obscurity to fame. Among these may be mentioned no less a personage than Oliver Cromwell, who from 1037 to 1H4:> lived in Long Acre having for his neighbour Nicholas Stone, the sculptor, whose house was ten doors distant from that of the future Protector. He was then known as Captain Cromwell, and was rated to the poor of St. Martin's at 10s. Ind, In Long Acre al-o. from 10S2 to 1080, lived John Dryden, designated in the rate-book as "John Dreyden, Esquire.' Hi- poor rate varied from ISs. to JLi. These rates were then Considered high: but what would Captain Crom- well and John Dreyden, Esquire, have thought if they had been subjected to the demands nuidu on the pockets of the ratepayers of the present day? Two charges preferred at the Hammersmith Police Court, on both of which the prisone<- ->i.;>nds remanded, again illustrate, if further il!.(-> at.ion be necessary, the unwisdom and peril of )■ .vinir residences for the day unprotected. P>i}. < S(. robbcries with which the -_<II was charged were perpetrated by hiin on pn .^i^.js at the time of his iiij%velcoiiie viz?it, l(ift, t The day chosen by him for the prosecution of lm operations was Whit Monday, whon, as lie not without) reason calculated, the usual occupiers were absent taking the benefit of the public holidav. His first performance tvas effected in the A Road at Lewisham, wheto, finding the houses pule tenantless, he was able to prosecute hi? t j-eareiif-s unobserved and und'st urbed. Having deemed booty in the form of jewellery to the n.odoii. e.t(?u6 of ton pounds, lie departed in seat eh of a new field of adventure. Like a wise man, he did not jinger on the scene of his first exploit, but broke new ground in the neighbourhood of Sotphcrd s hu-h. Here, too, lie succeeded in tind ing a house atM) devoid of occupation. The servant presumably left in charge had gone out. About seven o'clock, I ki" however, after an absence of two hours, eb ¡) c turned, and having forgotten the front-door kev, which she had teft on the kitchen tabic, aht~- had to effect a surreptitious entrant through a hack window. Hearing the sound of footsteps upstairs, she courageously proceeded thilher and" found Montagu under the bad in a room on the second floor. When discovered the prisoner sought to effect his escape, which the girl enucrwomed to prevent. Ultimately he DID c-cape, IT, owing so tile I-esistitlice leave behind the piundei ho intended to-lake and his housebreaking implements. By singular good fortune he was mpt-nred by a p¡)iic,j eOIl";laH, :lilt! the stolen property he threw away has been identi- fied. The mora! to be drawn from his proceedings is that it if neither safe to leave a house unoccu- pied nor fair Lo "leave one in the sole charge of a single girl, and especially or. the day of a pub! holiday.

A-furthcr dividend of 7 per cent, has been dc. dared by the Alexandria W&terCoropany, Limited, making 91 per co»b. hr the "I! "njed March 1M.. '>r.i::t,. I Buffalo Bill's show at New York has been com- pletely wrecked by a tremendous storm which swept over that city the other night. It. is understood that Madame l'at Li has finished her "Souvenirs," and that the book will be pub- lished simultaneously in London and Paris. President and Madame t ain. ( have, it is Said, quite made up their minds to spend their summer holiday at Foutainebieau. A telegram from Madrid stales that the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh 111111 Prince George of Wales has left there for alencia. The shipyard men at .Middiesborough held a meeting anil resolved to ret urn to work ab an ad- vance of per coot, in I.h.,ir wages. Mr. H. Woodburn Kiiby. iiuuidator of the Triton Life Asaocia;ion, Limited, has declared a i.ivi,leiiil )f in the pound to the creditors of the company, payable f\Lllwil!1. The (iei man societies in New York, and also in Chicago, have passed resolutions of sympathy u ith the (German Imperial Family in the loss they have sustained by the death of the thnperor Frederick. Dr. Alexander Hill, M.A., Demonstrator of Ana- tomy, has been elected Master of Dowlling- College, Cambridge, in place of the late William Lioyd Birkheck, M.A. The newspapers stal e that shocks of eart h- quake have been felt in Swansea and district. Manyofthehouseswere shaken, and furnitiue and crockery were moved. At a meeting of Northumberland coalov. ners, Mr. Burt, M.P., atid the miners' delegates applied for an advance of wages of io per cent. Tllc applica- tion was adjourned for con",id era f iCII. The Lincolnshire Agricultural .Society's Show will be held at Lincoln on Augu-t I'rd. Over £ 100 is offered as premiums to servants and labourers, length of service and skill being recognised. A fine specimen of the octopus has been landed at Whitby, having been caught by some local fishermen. A teleg:a.Li from Madrid, snvs :-It is rumoured that the < 'overnment are negot iat ing a loan with some Certnan firms to provide for the expenditure required for naval con.-trucfiou. At the Limerick Quarter Sessions Judge Purcell ordered the dismissal of two civil bill officers who refused to serve writs in consequence of the recent murder of the bailitf, William Leahy, Lord Lurgan has issued a circular offering his tenants, numbering 1,000, the option of purchasing their holdings under Lord Ashbourne's Act, shovild the Land Commission possess sudicient funds. Affairs in Zululand wear a very gerionsai-pecb. An extensive concentration of native forces is going on again-f, Dinizulu. among those who menace hitn being Fsibebu's people and the Basutos. A susp-nded priest, known as Father Patrick O'Brien, belonging to Aughnacloy, county Tyrone, has J>-V(i arrested at Xewry, charged with having set tire j.. i Ue house of a farmer in Aughnacloy. A l.loyi's telegram from St. Yineent states thab the 1U is i.-h barque Norseman, from Liverpool for Callao. has been burnt at, sea in 21) N., 21 W. The cre"- were picked up and landed at St. Yineent. More theatrical literature "The Annals of the Edinburgh Stage," by Mr. James C. Dibdin, which has been for some time in preparation, will be published at an early date. It will contain nine full-page illustrations. ÀI r. E. if. Southern, whose American success in The Highest Bidder not. only continues bub increases, will pay a visit to England next year., appearing in London and two or three of the principal provin- cial towns. An important Papal encyclical will shortly ap- pear, dealing with the true and false in liberty. It will -erve as a complement to the encyclical known as the Iinniortale Dei," and will be written in a wide and liberal vein. A telegram from Constantinople says: All officir" dc-Ilial is given to the statement that Russia has demanded the right, to occupy Erzc-roum until the question of the war indemnity has been settled. The death is announced from Constantinople of Lord Robert Crosvenor, son of the Duke of West- minster, hum typhoid fever. Deceased was only sixteen years of age, and was travelling in the East with a t u i or. According to information which has reached Brussels, .dr. Stanley and his expedition have en- countered great diteicuUit-s. Tllc inf(,rmation half been received from deserters from Mr. Stanley's party. A contradiction is given at the Ministry of War to the statement recently published by the Tritmna, that the attacks of sunstroke among the troops in Africa had been of a more serious nature thau was made known. Mr. T. Pridgin Teale, M.B., F.R.C.S., of Leeds, and Dr. Henry Trimen, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, are the only members of the merlieal profession who have been elected Fel- lows of the Royal Society this year. The number of failures in England and Wales gazetted during the week ending Saturday, June 16th was 122. The number in the corresponding week of last year was lItI, showing an increase of 12, being a net increase in 1*88 to date of 2U. A serious outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia has oc- curred on a farm near Perry's Lake, Rowley. Eighc valuable cows and one calf have been condemned, and, in accordance with an order of the Executive Council of Staffordshire, will be slaughtered. Mr. Archibald Forbes is very ill in America. A year or two ago he married a second wife. and took a house near Hanover Gate, Regent's Park, where he hoped to settle down for a quiet life, but he wab induced to go on a lecturing tour to the United States, and he has broken down. The Princess Frederica of Hanover laid the foundation-stone of a new chapel in connection with the Orphanage of Mercy, Kilburn, in the presence of a large and fashionable company. A sermon was subsequently preached at St. Augus- tine's Church by the Bishop of Grahams-town. The memorial to war correspondents who loeb their lives in the Soudan campaign was unveiled in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral the other after- noon, in the presence of Lord Wolseley, Lord Charles Beresford, and a large number of jour- nalists. A party of eight fishermen belonging to Lydney, Gloucestershire, were fishing on the Severn foe salmon when the tide caused the sand to slip. Two men named Chapman and Partridge were drowned, and a third named Hyetb had a narrow escape. The Bishop of Durham has laid the foundation- Btone of the new church of St. Columba, Sunder* land. The cost will be -Ea.oOO, £4,300 of which has been raised by grants from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Bishop of Durham's diocesan building funds and private subscriptions. The architect is Mr. Hodgson Fowler, of Durham. Whilst a police patrol was making an arreab in Kilrush the other nighb a crowd attempted to rescue the prisoner, and stoned the police. Four constables presented revolvers at the mob, others charging with batons. Reinforcements of police iirrivcd, and order was restored. There were slight injuries on both sides. While a number of privates belonging to the lsb Bedfordshire Regiment, stationed at Camden, were returning to Queenstown from Camden fort, in tow (Ii a pleasure yacht, two men, But ten and Farnhara, endeavoured to got into the yacht punt, which overturned, throwing them into the water. Both were drowned. Whilst, a new steamer, the Princess of Wales, if.i ended for the Isle of Wight, and Southampton t-ct. ice. was making her trial trip On the Firth of clyde the other day, she was run down by the et t uner Balmoral Castle and sank. The crew were i." rued, but, three workmen employed by the con. tors were drowned. Mr. F. Bull, secretary to the Bury Recreation Croiind Committee, has received a letter from Ifis Roval Highness Prince Albert Victor, fixing the date of the Royal visit to Bury as the 21st July. The commit tec have decided that only the Roch- J;c-road ground is to be opened, the other two nut being completed. It is st ated that the Rev. G. J. Douglas Simpson. M.A., f-enior curate of Whitby, has been offered the li\;iig of Carlton Minniot, situate near Thirsk. The living is a vicarage, and the yearly value esLi. mated at, £ 220, with good residence. The Church was erected in 1871, and the living is in the patron. age of the Archbishop of York. The C-wt Circular, in announcing the death of the Emperor, says It is a source of deep grief to Her Majesty and the Royal Familv, who lose in him a noble and beloved relative, tor whom the Queon had the greatest affection and respect. Ber Majesty mourns especially for the desolation of her dearly loved and sorely stricken daughter. Who is bereft of the beet »nct noblest of husbands.