South Wales Echo

ANOTHER of those burlesques dignified with the name of sword duels has just taken place in France, the forest of Ville d'Avray being the locality, the combatants a journalist named Chesneau and a M. Herisson, and the cause of the dispute a personal paragraph which Chesneau had penned. Herisson received a cut on the hand, and the dispute at once ended. A DESPATCH from Detroit, Minnesota, states that William Kelaher, alias "Reddy,"the gambler, who killed Officer Convey while the latter was trying to arrest him for shoot- ing at another gambler, was taken from gaol by a large crowd of disguised men, and hanged to a limb of a tree in a neighbour- ing grove, and his body riddled with bullets. Sheriff Pmney attempted to defend his prisoner, but was overpowered. MUCH interest has been excited in the Lake district by Professor Knight's statement at the meAing of th. Wordsworth S'ciety that it is iiopeci to establish a hall or public building in the Lake country in which memorials of Wordsworth and the poets can be preserved for posterity. There svonld ba no lack of co-operation in an effort of this kmd. aud many interesting memorials of the Lake poets exist. .:> iSoitE time since, ia tiie*e columns, we gava the experiences of a lion-tamer who vnii then on a visit to the town, and he scuted, in one portion of his narrative, that, not withstanding years or tamiliarity witit wild bea-ta, he was in momentary danger of being attacked. The conflict between Biclei, the celebrated French wild-beast tamer and his lion. Sultan, at a village fair near Paris the other day gave full illustration or this ever present danger. It also gave proof, if that were necessary, of the man's indomitable courage and coolness. It appears that Bidel, though suffering from rheumatism, entered the cage as usual, and put the beasts' through their performance, and then went on to put the lion Sultan, a black-maned animal of great size and strength, through a special exhibition. This consisted in the animal being made to represent the lion of of heraldry, with one paw raised. The position had been taken when Bidel in moving stumbled and fell on his side. Immediately the animal leaped upon him, grasping his neck with its claws, and seizin g his shoulder with its teeth. Bidel succeeded in turning himself and raising the lion, at the same time seizing its jaw with the hand which was free, and compelled it by sheer strength to relax its hold. One of the attendants at this moment opened a side door, and the brute, hearing the noise, abandoned its prey, as if it were part of the performance, and retreated with an angry roar. Bidel's father-in-law then entered the cage, and though Bidel wished to resume the performance, removed him amidst cries of 4* Enough, enough." It will thus be seen that Captain Cardona, the lion-tamer attached to Womb well's Mena- gerie, did not at all exaggerate the perils of his craft. AMERICAN advices report the death at New Orleans of the Rev. James Koppel Gutheim, President of the Southern Association of Jewish Rabbis, and the most prominent Hebrew clergyman in the Southern States. A scion of a Jewish family, distinguished for its learning in many generations, the deceased was born in Westphalia in 1817. His first ministerial office was at Sendenhorst in 1838. Five years later he proceeded to New York, and in 1846 became pastor of the B'nai Jesliurun Congregation at Cincinnati. He successfully occupied pulpits at Montgomery, Alabama; Columbus, Georgia; New York and New Orleans, officiating in three of the principal synagogues of the last mentioned city. He was the first to transplant to the South the Jewish reform movement which has attained such important dimen3ion3 in the Northern States. As an author the rev. gentleman did much useful work. He founded and, for a time, edited the Jewith Times, translated the fourth volume of Graetz's "Geschichte der Juden"—the most remarkable division of that monumen- tal work-wrote the "Temple Pulpit," and a metrical paraphrase of the Book of Psalms, and compiled the hymns of the Temple Emanuel. The public activity of the deceased was not confined to the Jewish community. He was an influential member of the New Orleans Con- ference of Charities, the Auxiliary Sanitary Association, the Louisiana Education Society, the Louisiana Historical Society, the Society of the Red Cross, and other im- portant pnblic bodies. His funeral is stated to have been the most remarkable ever known in New Orleans, and was fol- lowed by clergymen of all denominations, including Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Jesuits. One of the most touching addresses over the grave was delivered by a Pres- byterian divine. IN the course of an article on the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, a leading German journal remarks that in England, as well as on the Continent, the news of another Ken- sington Exhibition was received with sug- gestive shaking of heads. The present exhi- bition, however, has dispelled the doubts as to the advisability of holding it, for it exceeds the former exhibitions in every respect, and often a great deal of What is new and beauti- ful to the visitor. Germans who are still in doubt whether they shall go and have a look at it may do so without misgivings, for their expectations will be greatly exceeded. Unfortunately Germans have an incompre- hensible aversion to a visit to London, and vast numbers of our compatriots go twenty or thirty times to Paris on a holiday trip or in search of artistic treasures, without ever dreaming of steering their boat towards London. The fact is that the honest Ger- man is imbued with the idea that London is a place to which people only go when they have something to do-that is to say, either to make money or scientific studies. To Paris they still look as the Eldorado of pleasures And yet what a differenoe there ia between London and .Patia I la landan- aU that glitter4 is -aglid gold; Paris is more than ever the gilded duugheap. The opinion expressed in the second extract, humiliating though it is, will be shared by all lovers and admirers of true art. The Indian of to-day is just as able as his ancestors were before him to make excellent articles of all kinds, pro- vided they are paid for as they used to be in former day. But, instead of encouraging native art, European taste (?) compels the Indian to furnish modern articles de luxe in the Indian style thus the vessel which was filled in the temple with sacred flowers or holy water is mounted on a Renaissance foot, receives a Persian lid, Grecian handles, an engraved monogram, and the hideous structure is ready to become a lovely wedding or Christmas present. At the Ken sington Exhibition the public may any day be seen thronging around some glass ,ca> expressing admiration by oft-repeated .vua- mations or "How nice! isn't it and if anybody should look at tiic d admiration he is sure to find objects which look very English, but about which very little is left of the original Indian ware.

— — Further Revelations. Further Revelations. r t. \.t to tv í! ( iii J -& Tiu: moot convmciuK and circumstantial reports to the brutal outrage* perpetrated by the *oi-di$ant preservers of the publis peace at Carditi durine ihe.eurly hours of iaat Thursday morning. With remarkable unanhmty t'tf sfaitnneiic-; from eveiy soiree point to the fact that a number of cirunken policemen net U;MD wii brutal,y assaulted hundreds of inoffensive persons, The (;,Irå¡¡¡" Tory paper h:13 endeavoured to bolster up the case for the uoiice by unbiti.shiDg disregard for the plain evidence of facta. Every tittle of defence put forward iu its columns, and every falsehood bet up to exonerate the action of the guardians of the peace, have been disproved by incontrovertible testimony. Whilst the columns of the South, Vlales Daily News have been daily filled with personal narratives concerning the affray, each one duly attested by the name aud address of the narrator, the tales 111 the Conserva- ti ve sheet bear none of these evidences of truth. Apropos of the mysterious bullet which is said to have been fired it the editor of that print, it may be mentioned that Mr Perkins, ironmonger, St Mary-street, Cardiff, experimented ,e on Saturday with a pistol on a sheet of plate glass. Ho iired a nuinbet- of shots at the glass, and in every instance the bullet passed through without causing the least cracking or splintering of the glass. This fact compares somewhut curiously with the allegation made by the editor of the Cardiff Conservative paper to the effect that a bullet whizzed over his head, having been fired from the street. The boie through which the missile is stated to have passed into the apartment is visible in the window. It is not a clean aperture, the glass being split in all direc- tions, just as though a small pebble bad caused the breakage. With respact to Mr Vye-Parminter's letter which appears in Saturday's Times, and in which he endeavours to describe the scene at the bottom of St. Mury-stteet, it must be borne in mind that Mr Parminter's means of observation were very limited. The Tory journal states that he was in that office throughout the occurrence, and there. fore he cannot possibly be any authority as to the conduct of the police outside the Liberal Club. In Saturday's issue of the local Conservative paper the following sentence appears:—"In proof of the inspector's statement that many stones were thrown from the direction or the Liberal Club, we have it on undoubted authority, and Inspector Tamblin corroborates the state- ment that Mr John Duncan himself retreated behind the monument to escape from the volley of stones coming from that direction." Mr Uuncan gives the most unqualified denial to this statement. He did not take shelter behind the Monument, nor did he see a, single stone thrown. But this wilfal perversion ot facts is only on a par with everything else which the conductors of the Tory paper have said with regard to these outrages, and fortunately will not for a moment suffice to prevent a full and searching inquiry being made into the conduct of thp, policf.

'ADDITIONAL PERSONAL I NARRATIVfcS. A nu.xber of persons called at the office ol this paper on Saturday, offering to vouch for various acts of brutality on the part of the police. It is impossible to find room for all the complaints made, but the following may serve as a sample of them;— John Ings, 15, John-street, says:—On Wednes- day night I went down St. Mary-street, after Sir Edward had been speaking at the Royal Hotel. There was a crowd at the bottom of St. Mary-street, and while I stood there for a few minutes I heard a stone goo through a window. I heard someone shout "No stone- throwing, now." I heard a policeman say, "Look here, lads, don't let us be served in this manner," and in another minute or so the policemen chatged upon the crowe. After that the police and the people faced eaco other for a short time and then the police cashed in amongst tho people again, and began to mse their clubs. The blows were something frightful. I bot away as quickly as I could, and wen: round to tiia Liberal Ciub, where there was some speech-making from the balcony. I stood there for a few minutes, when tho police rnshed upon us and again 1 heard the truncheons tailing upon the people's heads. I then made off as quickly as possible to get home. I had not been in the house two minutes before my son came in holding his head with his hand, and he ¡ said, I am killed for God's sake look sharp, and do something." The blood was running all down his clothes, right to his boots. I got some water and bathed his head, and we also put some sticking plaster upon hina. My son said that he was struck by a policeman under the balcony of the Liberal Club, and that he there lost his hat. The blow stunned him, and he was made quite weak with the loss of blood. I saw no provoca- cation wnacever, excepting that one stone was thrown at the bottom of .st Mary-street. The people were good humoured I never saw a more orderly crowd. It occurred to me that if Mr Hemingway had gone to Bridgend, and had put sticks into tne bauds of the lunatics, afterwards letting them loose amongst the crowd, they could not have behaved in a more brutal fashion. ALter my son came home I went out agaiu, and saw men being led home and women being carried home after they bad been iil-treated by the police. An old gentleman of 90, who for the present prefers his name not to be published, but whose full name and address are lying at this office, says: I was in St Mary-street on Wednesday night, when I saw the police behaving like wild Indians. The county police were very drunk. They hurled me into the middle of the road, and I was knocked down and trampled upon. My knee cap is all knocked on one side, I am a ratepayer of Cardiff.and have been for over 20 years. I have been to Madagascar, where you meet with wild Indians I have been amongst the Boers at the Cape I have been in Western Australia and Tasmania, where men sometimes behave like fiends, but I never before saw such brutality as that of these county police. I should think there must have been a hundred of them, and I am certain that many of them were drunk. I have been largely connected with the public line, and therefore know when a man is drunk or sober. John Barry, 5, Bute-street: I was standing at the bottom of Mill-lane about half-past one on Thursday morning, quietly smoking my pipe. At this time everything was quiet; there was no one, about. Suddenly a policeman appeared and hit me with his truncheon under the eye, knocking me down, and inflicting the wound which you see. (The man's eye was bloodshot, and he had a terrible wound over the cheek bone.) The constable after- wards hit me upon the arm as I was about to rise. I could not say whether it was a borough or county policeman who struck me. for I was knocked senseless. Mr G. Masson writes to say, with respect to the statement of Mr J. R. Davies, published on Saturday, that although he (Mr Masson) was I struck by someone on Wednesday night, he cannot say whether or not it was by a policeman. Riotac*! itoucU &utc-atirota was m eye-witness of the brutal conduct of the police in their charge upon the people. While liwas stand- ing in front of the Cardiff Liberal Club (not defy- ing the police, but listening to a speaker on the balcony), the police ran upon the people without a moment's warning, using their truncheons, striking down. both men and women, and they seemed tc take a delight in their cowardly acts. Mr Supt. Hemingway was near the police when they charged, and must have seen all that was done. I hope that there will be an inquiry into all the circumstances of the case. I did not see anything thrcwn from the Liberal Club. Mr J. D. Owen writes:—My name having appeared in your issue of yesterday as having conveyed the statement of William Hayes relating to the assault of the police upon him at the so- called riots on Wednesday night, and as part of his statement has been impugned by the police authorities through your contemporary of Satur- day's issue, in order not to be a party to any mis- statement I have taken the trouble to see Hayes again. He adheres to the satempnt as it appeared ■ li your is.. ue of Friday, saying he is prepared to 'vear to it. He aiso iurther stated that after he maltreated he was recommended to go co tit" p.iiicc-stat.on to have his wounds c, i. He then proceeded there. after losing inujh olood, and becoming very weak. On arn Viug at the ireueral office of the station he •■iw Inspector James, who instructed an officer to provide water m an adjoinging room to wash the Olood off. On his return to tha general office, Inspector James told him to go home. He said he was too weak, and asked for medical aid, to which the inspector replied I suppose you can afford to jNay lor a doctor yourself." Hayes i •;plied he was thankful to say he could, but as ins wounds wero serious he thought he would have b?en attended to tnere. Then the inspector :'nid w(*et out, get out," and an officer near the door jailed his hand to Hayes's- shoulder ro give effect to the order to get out, but Hayss was about lea v- the pmffered assistance was ir T- necessary. The police have admitted, through your oontem- pcraiy, that- they ordered another wounded person to w clear out- but lie could not iiave. been tho *amo person *een by Hayes, as he was described as a respectable, qi-iet young; man. James Cliff, whoever he may lie, according to your, contemporary would not answer this description. Further, if the officer in charge, who received .Ta-nies Cliff's report, will only think a iit Lie,tie certainly wilt not assert that an assault Inane 14 days since would :e reported at so unil-,uai an hour—the two circumstances must have taken place at different times that night. In order to nsc-rr.'dn Hayes's Sfeneral demeanour and conduct, I have in. quired of his employers, Messrs Heitzmuu, jewellers, St. Mary street, and they state that Hayes has been in their employ for nearly ten years, during wh!ch time he has conducted himself with great propriety, and never gave reason for complaint. They believed he was a total abstainer,and he was of an exceedingly quiet, inoffensive disposition, truthful, and trustworthy. In face of these recommendations, corning as they do from a h-gniy-respected and one of the oldest tradesmen Ili tne town, I must accept Hayes's statement as correct. Hayes stated to-day (Saturday) tiiat his medical man, after dressing the wounds this morning, said he feared they were tak ng a bad turn. Richard Allen, of 38, Planet-street, Splotlands, writes Just a line to let you know how I was treated on Wednesday night. I heard two cracks of glass while I was standing near tha Blue Anchor Hotel, and then I saw the p- --ol),e run up St. Mary-street. All at once the police larged us and beat us round Mill-lane corner. I received three blows on the back. The police then charged the people by the Monument, and I never before saw such butchery. I was struck two blows by P.C. < Warren, and my arms were beaten down whilst I also received upon my leg a blow which was intended by a tall policeman for another man, and which caused me to fall. When I got up I endeavoured to assist a woman who had been knocked down at the corner of Mill-lane. Blood was running from her right into the gutter. I had no sooner got the woman on to her feet when I was again struck rinht and left, and had to let herfall to the ground again. She lay there for some time, and was then taken to the police-station. The conduct of the town police was as bad as that of those of the county. I have lost three days' work through the injuries which I received on Wednesday night. A tradesman living at 62, Arcot-street, Pen- arth, writes:—I, with three other tradesmen of Penarth, drove to Cardiff to hear the declaration of the poll. We started from Penarth at 11.33, arriving at the Great Western Hotel at 12.5. The first thin;, that presented itself to me was a poor fellow in the arms of several persons, who were carrying him towards the canal. He nad re- ceived a tremendous blow from a policeman, it was said, with an iron wrench which the police carry in case of fire. A chemist of Penarth felt the man's head, and stated that his skull was fractured, and advised his removal to the hospital at once. The back of the head was soft and pulpy, and the man was unconscious. I went over to the Liberal Club to hear what was being said by a gentJeman from the balcony. I heard a little, but on looking round to see the time by the Great Western Hotel clock, I saw the police, about 40 in number, rushing on the backs of the people. This was at 24 minutes past 12. I heard the screaming of women and the cracking of heads from the butchering policemen's bludgeons If anyone says there was a stick or stone or any- thing of the kind thrown at toe police between the times I have mentioned, he is telling a. deliberate and downright falseaood. Several Penarth tradesmen are prepared to verify my statement.

STATEMENTS AT THE BLUE RIBBON MEETING. Mr F. J. Beavan & Councillor Beavan on Drunken Policemen. At the weekly Blue lubbon meeting held on Saturday evening, Mr F. J. BEAVAN (chairman), in his opening address, spoke of the conduct and condition of the police, as far as lie knew. He told the large audience that he fully believed that the mischief done to thequiet,orderly crowd on Wednesdaynight 111t touud its explanation in the one word Drink. He further distinctly stated that on following cown Sir Edward Iteed to the Royal Hotel, after the declaration of the poll, he (Mr F. J. Beavan), when ascending the steps of the Royal,was rudely pushed by the police, and prevented from going m with Sir Edward's supporters. Not content with hustling him about, three constables began to jeer at him, and one (a county constable) suggested running him in," the others declaring that he was one of the persons so prominent in creating the disturbance outside the Drill-hall a iew nights ago. Con- tinuing,Mr Beavan said that the worst had yet to be told of the three constables referred to. Two of them belonged to the town force, and they were drunk. He had their numbers, and could swear to them and to their being intoxicated. The third (a coumy constable) was also, he said, far gone in liquor. He then spoke of the person who bad his eye knocked out in the brutal proceed- ings of last Wednesday, and said he had known him for 25 years, and always knew him to be a most respectable ratepayer of Cardiff. During the review of the conduct of the police the large audience was moved with indignation, and upon suggesting that a full and exhaustive inquiry into such unwarrantable proceedings should take place, the chairman met with a storm of applause. Mr Councillor E. BEAVAN also addressed the meeting upon the same painful subject, and sincerely hoped that all the policemen who were proved to be in the condition alleged by so many eye-witnesses would be severely Gealt with. He wanted that meeting to be more than ever a representative meeting, for surely if drunken policemen were allowed to do such mischief once, sober people, the hard-working, respectable, and innocent ratepayers of Cardiff,must tind out some efficient means and effective way of preventing the recurrence of such brutality. Things had come to a pretty pass, he thought, if the rate- payers of Cardiff were to pay policemen to crack their skulls, break their heads, and injure persons perhaps for life.

Welsh Elections. CARDIGANSHIRE. Defeat of the Unionist Candidate. The result of the poll for Cardiganshire was declared on Saturday afternoon as follows Mr Bowen Rowlands, Q.C.G L 4252 Mr D. Davies U L 4243 Ministerial majority 9 In 1885 the numbers were :-D Davies (1.), 5,967 L. V. Davies (C), 3,644 majority, 2,323. There are on the register 12,508 voters, 8,633 of which were pulled. Last year 9,655 polled, but it should be borne in mind that about 800 or 900 voters came to the county on the mornine of the poll from Glamorganshira»to vote for Mr Davies. These did not come this year, hence the reduction of 1,000 in the number polled. Mr D. Davies ,uc1.bis tuppoctws folly expected a majority*

THE POLICE OUTRAGES IN CARDIFF. MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL PROPOSED SUSPENSION OF THE HEAD CONSTABLE AND INSPECTOR TAMBLYN. At a meeting of the Cardiff Corporation, to- day, The TOWN CLERK, upon being called upon by the mayor, read the following communication u Whitehall, Sth July, 1886. rSESSI.N'G. Sir,—I am directed by Mr Secretary Childers to acquaint you that his attention has been called to certain statements made in the Times news paper to day as to the con:'uct of the police on the occasion of the riots in connection with the recent election at Cardiff, ami I am to express to you his desire that the watch eommiti-ee and police authorities of Cardiff should in- stitute an immediate and strict inquiry into the whole matter. Mr Secretary Cbilders would be glad to be informed of the result of such inquiry, and of any proceedings which the watch committee may determine to take in consequence. I am, sir, your obedient servant, GODFREY LCSHINGTON." The following letter was sent in reply to the uummunication from the Home Office :— I' Town Clerk's Office, Cardiff, 10th July, 1886. "Sir,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th inst, calling my attention to certain statements made in the Times newspaper of the 8th inst. as to the conduct of the police after the declaration of the poll at the parliamen- tary election beid in Cardiff on the 7th inst. "I havegiven instructions to our head-constable to at once prepare and submit to me reports from himself and his own officers, and also from those in charge of the county police, and these reports will be laid before a meeting of the watch committee, which I have convened for the 14th inst. "There is no doubt that the watch committee will cause a searching and strict inquiry to be made into the whole matter. I am, sir, your obedient servant, D. EDGAR JONES, mayor. To the Secretary of State, Home Department, Whitehall, S.W." The MATOH: That is an official communication received irom the Secretary ot State. Prior to that I had instructed Mr Hemingway to prepare these reports but inasmuch as the county police have been very much engaged at parliamentary elections throughout the county lately, there has been a little delay in getting their reports. That is the reason why we have not got them in hand already. I hope they will be ready by Wednesday. It has occurred to me that it would be desirable to consult the council this morning as to the best steps to take with a view to getting a satisfactory settlement of this matter. There is no doubt that a very grave charge has been made against the police. I don't know I am not in a position to say whether it can be sustained or not. We must acknowledge the fact that the police have a very onerous and very responsible duty to perform, and it is of the greatest importance that an impartial inquiry should be held—(hear, hear) —into the conduct of the police on a recent occa- sion. In order that that may be done, and so that the inquiry may be thoroughly free from any suspicion oi party bias, I think that the best plan will be to ask the Government to appoint an official to make an inquiry. I am strongly of that opinion. I think the ends of justice can only be met by taking those steps, and I am prepared to propose a resolution which I will ask Mr Wheatley to read to you respecting this matter. The Town Clerk read the following resolu- tion That his worship be requested to communicate with the Government in order to obtain the appointment of a Commissioner lo hold a full and searching inquiry as early as possible into the causes of the distui bailees alleged to have taken place on the night of tha 7th instant after the declaration of the poll, and the morninz of the 8th instant, and the conduct of all parties concerned and in the event of the Government declining to appoint a Commissioner, that the watch committee be empowered to appoint an independent gentleman lo hold an inquiry, and take snch other measures as they may deem advisable with respect thereto. The MAVOR I beg to propose that resolution. Alderman TAYLOR: I second it. I think this is one of those subjects which ought to be taken up, and some impartial gentleman appointed by the Government to inquire into it. There have been so many opinions expressed and so much bias shown that there should be a competent and impartial inquiry. As a reason why the inquiry should be made by an independent official it should be remembered that not only the Cardiff police, but the police of the county, over whom the watch committee v/culd have no control, were engaged at this election. I am of opinion that the evidence should be taken on oath. Mr WAKING Assuming that the Government decline to appoint a commissioner, would it not be better to have the appoint- ment in the hands of the council rather than put the onus of it on the watch committee ? One is quite as easily done as the other, and I think it would be better for the appointment to be in the hands of the council if the Government decline to send down a commissioner. The MAYOR: I have no objection, with the seconder's consent, to amend the proposition which has been hurriedly prepared. Aid. JONES: I support the resolution for the reason that we have no control over the county police, but I don't see why the adoption of this resolution should prevent the watch committee going into preliminary matters. The commis- sioner coming down might receive the report of the watch committee, and begin where they bad left off. Mr WAKING That is not the mayor's resolution at all. Mr MORGAN MORGAN: Had we not better wait until we get an answer from the Govern- ment ? We are now assuming almost that the Government will not send down a special man. The MAYOR: Under any circumstances the head constable will have to report to the watch committee, but whatever the watch committee may inquire into and do will be simply for the watch committee themselves. They may, if they think proper, adjourn the consideration of the head constable's report till after the Government inquiry. I think, with Mr Waring, it would be better to leave the appointment of a gentleman to investigate (assuming the Government send no one down) to the general purposes committee, and not to the watch committee, because the former includes the whole of the members of the corporation. Alderman JONES: I think we should not altogether delegate our powers to anyone outside of the corporation. Alderman DUNCAN: The Secretary of State may say I think it is the duty of the watch committee to make the inquiry." Mr Wheatley might give us some information as to what was done in the case of Nottingham. If I recollect aright the Government did not send a special commissioner there but the inquiry was held by some one appointed by the local authorities. The TOWN OliBBK: I believe that last November seriovs riots took place at Nottingham. I don't know whether the corporation invited the Government to send down a commissioner, but I know that the Government did not appoint one. The corporation simply appointed a gentleman who well versed is taking evidence—'the Recorder, I believe. He held aD inquiry wbicb was conducted almost like a criminal tribunal Counsel were engaged on both sides-on behalf of the police and on behalf of the inhabitants. Mr LOOGHER Would it not be desirable to appoint a gentleman to-day ? The TOWN CLKKK No, we will communicate with the Home Office to-day, and ask them to reply by return of post. Then, in case the Government will not appoint a commissioner, I shall know what to do—that is convene a meeting of tW what to do-that is convene a meeting of the general purposes committee. Mr D. JONES: Can you tell us what was the f result of the inquiry at Nottingham The TOWN CLEKK I believe the result was that certain criminal proceedings were taken against a number of gentlemen, including the police. j Mr RAMSDALB: The passing of this resolutions ¡ I take it, will not interfere with our duty to inves tigatc the charges of drunkenness against our own officers. The MATOR: Oh, dear, no. The resolution- altered in accordance with the suggestion of Mr Waring-was then put Apd carried. Mr YAUGHASJ Can the town clork tell us, whether pending the investigation at Nottingham, the head constable was allowed to retain his position there? I am of opinion, seeing that a serious charge is made against the head constable and Inspector Tam- I blyn, they ought to be suspended. (Hear, ¡ hear.) If any member of the force misconducts himself, and inquiry has to be made by the watch committee into the evidence, he is suspended till after the inquiry is held. Fitlier the head-cunbtable is guilty of the charges or he ia not. I think myself—the feeling is so strong iu the town—the head constable ought to be suspemled pending an inquiry Mr BKAVAN: I fully believe that too. On Saturday night after the meeting in Wood-street Chapel there wera about 500 people congregated around the Bute monument, and Inspector Harris told me that they had met together to hoot the police. While I was talking to Harris twelve or thirteen night duty uieu came along with a sergeant, and they were hooted in an unmistakable manner by the peop.e around the monument. I feel very strongly upon thi* matter after what has been recorded in the public press. If we have a charge against a constable the head constable himself suspends him and surely, under the pre- sent very serious circumstances,the bead constable f and Inspector Tamblyn, and any who may be known to have been under the influence of liquor, ought to be suspended pending inquiry. The TOWN CHERK I don't think the Notting- ham watch committee suspended the head con- stable. Mr VAUGHAN Ours ought to be, at any rate. Mr WARING: That would be prejudging the whole case. Mr MORGAN MORGAN I think it would b6 monstrously unfair to suspend the head constable. After some other remarks the conversation dropped.

Cardiff Town Council. A meeting of the Cardiff Town Council wa* held at the Tl.wn.ball this morning, the mayof (Mr Jones) presidinc, and there being also present: Aldermen Daniel Jones, Lewis, Duncan, and Taylor; Councillors Alfred Thomat, M.P., Gunn, Jacobs, Ilamsdale, Morgan Morgan, T. Rees, D. Jones, Vaughan. Beavan, Steven-, Brain, Trounce, Loughert Proger, and Carey. In addition to the discussion which took place on the subject of the recent riots, the following business was ako disposed oc. The Weiring of tha Taff. This sub-committee reported that the deputa- tion appointed by the comm ttee diseus-e i the question of the weiring of the river T"tJ at the southern end of the Cardiff Jkinc Park, and afterwards bad an interview wb Sir William Thomas Lewis thereon, when that gtmtleniao promised to confer with Lord Bute upon the subject. The TOWN CLEBK stated that BiT W. T. Lewis haa not made any communication as yet upon the matter, and the report was adopted. a Alderman Jones and the Finance Committee. Une oi the questions on the agenda papei waf to appuiiit a uipuiber uf the finance committee in the place o Mr Alderman Jones, resigned." Alderman TAYLOR said he was orry to find that Alderman Jones had resigned his position as chairman of the finance conunittee. He hoped the council would not accept it—(hear)—and moved that his resignation be no. accepted. (Hear.) Councillor MORGAN seconded. Alderman JONES said that there was so much responsibility in connection with the work which he had undertaken for so many years that he was getting tired of it. Ho would, however, if it was so desired, continue in his office, until November, (Hear.) The matter thon dropped. Railway Facilitiss, The TOWN CLERK stated that., according to instructions, he had commuuicated with the corporations of Swansea, Newport, and Neatho relative to the improvement of passenger seyvics on the Great Western Railway. All the replies were not to hand, and the following gentlemen, namely -Jie Mayor, Alder- Taylor and Duncan, Councillors Thomas, M.P., Bird, Jacobs, Trounce, Morgan, Waring, Gunn, and Lougher, were appointed a committee to receive and consider them. The Slaughtering of Cattle. The MAYOR brought forward the following notice of motion :— That the following resolution, passed by the JII8: perty. markets, Ac committee, on the 2iet day of October, 1885, and confirmed hy rile council Oil the 5id day of N oveniber, 1885. bo rescinded, viz -I* That the hour for slaughtering cattle be extended to 10 p.m." After some discussion, this was carriel1.

MOBBING A CONDEMNED MURDERER. A strange and exciting scene took piaca at the Railway Station, Shrewsbury, and in front of the prison which is near it, and is uøed jointly by the counties of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire, upon the arrival of the mail train from Welsbpool. That day a man named William Samuels, a tradesman, of Welshpool, bad been convicted and sentenced to death for tha poisoning at Welshpool of a grocer's assistant, named William Mabbotts, whose wife and family reside in Shrewsbury. Samuels, witfc four or tive officers, arrived at the station about teu p.m., and was met by a large and very excited crowd, who groaned, bissed, and threatened to mob bim. The prisoner, who grew alarmed, was led across the station and let out by a back way almost in front of the prison. He was followed by those who bad gained access to the platforms, whoso numbers were largely augmented by another crowd in the street. The excitement here in- creased tenfold, and the few yards to the prison entrance were traversed with the greatest possible difficulty and danger. The hooting and hissing increased, stones were thrown, noisy demands made that the officers Fibou,d let the crowd have their own way with him, and oue police officer bad his uniform torn in his efforts to protect the prisoner, who however was eventually safely lodged within the prison walls.

õ-, r- bERIOUS FIRE IN BRISTOL On Sunday morning a serious fire broke out ett the extensive premises of Messrs Golthurst and Harding, the Phoenix Oil and Colour Works* Temple Gate, Bristol. It is impossible as yet to state the precise loss, but it must amount, to several thousand4 of pounds. Tile chief demtf0 was to the offices end the inMliinerjs 1$0 premi-i and stock wera inaviroo.