South Wales Daily News

END OF THE LIVERPOOL STRIKE. Work proceeded at Ae docks in Liverpool on Friday more briskly than ever, and a number of strike hands have turned in. Messrs Alien wanted thirty men for one of their steamers, and over one hundred presented themselves. A few men engaged by the Cunard Company arrived from South Wale?, but practically the import of labourers has ceased. All men at work arc making excep- tionally high wages.

THE TRADE DISPUTES DYING OUT. THE great Midland coal strike is at an end. This is the best news the press has for some time put into circulation. Theideaofacessa- tion from work throughout the Midland counties, involving possibly the withdrawal of many thousands of workmen from the toil by which they earn their bread and enable others to earn theirs, is too serious for calm contemplation. Fortunately the crisis that was feared has passed away, the employers have yielded, the workmen are to get their demanded nve per cent. at once, &nd another hve per cent. on the hrat of August—not July, as originally insisted upon. What will the next movement be ? How long will the parties be able to get on with- out another strike ? These strikes, it must be noticed, are leading to the formation of large organisations. If they enected nothing else, they teach the labouring classes how to unite—how to make the beat use of all their available forces. This is a kind of training which they will yet require. What the public want is a candid statement of reasons wherever there is a rupture between master and servant, employer and employed. It is much to be deplored that in the postal tele- graph case we never get both sides to tell the same tale. The POSTMASTER-GENERAL denies what the telegraph clerks assert, and Mce ve1'sa. The public are teft to Judge for themselves, but unfortunately omcialdom is not easily forced to speak. Here, for instance, we have on the one side a statement to the eSect that a telegraph-clerk in this district has been suspended, because he did what his superiors ordered him to do, but the POSTMASTER-GENERAL, on the other hand, latly denies it. Is this miserable business to go on for ever ? Can Mr RAiKES not out with it, and let the real facts of the case be made public ? There is an underhandedness &bout the whole business which is unworthy of a great department of State, and it is high time that some clear understanding should be come to on the whole matter. At present public sympathy ia entirely with the clerks, and if Mr RAIKES is not getting justice or is being harshly judged, the fault is entirely his own. The Liverpool dock strike haa not only terminated, but trhat is equally gratifying to report, the men are earning exceptionally high wages. The Cardiff laundry women do not seem to be getting what they want, but we hope '.hey will, at least, get justice. There ia evidently a, movement in favour of better pay passing through the whole labour market, and it would seem that every industry, however obscure, must soon be unected.

"IN PERIL OF HIS SOUL." THE people of CardiS are about to have the opportunity of hearing from a fellow-worker of Dr BARNARDO's some explanation of hia conduct in the famous GossAGE case. The writ of Habeas has certainly been turned to an ingenious use by the doctor's ecclesiastical opponents. Created for the purpose of putting a stop to the arbitrary imprisonment of people's bodies, as its name indicates, it ia now being availed of to rescue souls from the spiritual bondage of a Protestant mstitution. The word altimam should surely be substituted for corpus. In the present case there seems to have been some excuse for Dr. BARNARDo. The father of tbeboyGossAGE was admittedly a Protestant. The mother's mode of life did not stamp her as a devotee of any religious belief. She cannot fairly be claimed as a credit to the church which had the training of her. It would have been dimcult for the pernicious atmosphere of a Protestant home to greatly lower her moral standard. Overwhelming testimony was forthcoming aa to her character. She appears to have alternated between the tramp ward of Southam Workhouse and such lodg- ings as might be provided for her by the series of gentlemen who took the place from time to time of her ueceased husband. To say that she was not a teetotaler is to put the case very mildly indeed. The master of her favourite work- house expressed an extremely unfavourable opinion of her language. The kindest action she ever performed towards her son was probably when she disposed of him to the organ-grinders who deserted him at Folkestone. The boy stated that they starved him, compelled him to sleep in the 3pen air, made him carry a heavy organ, x.nd beat him with the strap. He was found at midnight by a policeman, crying in tihe streets, in scanty clothing, in a weakly condition, and presenting a thin, half- starvedappearance.Underthese circumstances Dr BARNARDO was appealed to. He did not, M, perhaps, he ought to have done, obtain the permission of the nearest Catholic priest, but instantly stepped in and rescued the boy. So far he was &rst in the ne}d, and his conduct is not wholly in- defensible. But there were others about to come forward. Dr BARNARDO had merely saved the lad's body from cruelty and destitution they were more concerned to !ave his soul from heresy. Dr BARNARDO ivas but the jackal who forages for the prey the Rev DouGLAS HopE was the lion who teps in when all the trouble is over, and calces possession of the result. His friend at Leamington approached the mother armed with the inducements of religion, and possibly with others. To quote the affidallit, he was always after her." The CMthor ia tworn to ha.va said, i don't want him out. It's they as wants to get him out for the Pope of Rome. I am no Catholic I only keep in with them for what I can get." What she did get there is no evidence to show, but what they got was her authority to demand the boy. Whether Dr BARNARDo was legally justified in evading or refusing that demand is the question winch the Hou';e of Lords will short!y have to decide, and on which comment would therefore be premature. But which- ever way their decision goes, it iajust pos- sible that a higher Authority than the House of Lords may some day given judgment on the ma).ter which will very much astonish the enemies of Dr BARNARDO.

THK LATE MR B. T. WILLIAMS, Q.C. IN our obituary this morning we regret to have to enter the well-known name of Mr B. T. WiLLiAMS, Q.C., who died yesterday, at Carmarthen, after an illness of about nve years. Whether as a barrister-at-law, a county court judge, or a member of Parlia- ment, Mr WiLLiAMS won mauy friends and admirers. He had excellent qualities of head and heart which were always at tlie service of his feilowmen, his fellow country- men especially, and it is un!y right to add thati these services were widely and fuliy appreciated. He was a sound and active Educationist, and a true friend and warm sup- porter of the University College of South Wales, at the council table of which he sat for several years. His connection with educational movements in the Principality goes a long way back, and he was always one of the advanced party who declined to compromise. He was a man of great breadth of intellect, and while unflinching in his support of th opinions which he espoused, he was also kind and considerate in all his references to his opponents. In Parliament he was an unswerving supporter of the Liberal cause, in which capacity he proved true to his trust. His acceptance of a County Court judgeship disappointed many of his best friends, because it cut short a promising Parliamentary career, but he became an impartial and a painstaking occupant of the bench, on which he was held in high esteem. The failure in his heatth which necessitated his retirement from the post was deeply regretted by a)l, and now that he has passed away, he leaves many sincere friends behind. His brother, the Rev NESTOR WiLLiAMS, who has for many years occupied the pulpit of the Unitarian Chapel, Merthyr Tydnt, must feel this Mow very keenly, but we are sure that he and the members of the deceased's household have the sympathy of thousands in the sad winding-up of a once promij!lM career.

SOUTH WALES NOTB. [BY COSMOS.) A NEW MALTHUS. MR WiLLlAM OGLE has been calculating that more persons remain permanently celibate in the upper than in the working and artizan classes. It is urged that the popula- tion is increasing in a formidable degree, and that the time must inevitably come, sooner or later, when this growth must in some way be stopped, and the birth rate and death rate equalised. Mr Ogle asserts that emi- gration haa never yet carried oif more than one-twentieth part of our surplus growth while the facilities for emigration are be- coming less and less. The question is, therefore, considered to what extent the marriage rate must be reduced, or to what extent the mean marriage age of women must be advanced, in order to produce such equalisation. He shows that if equali- sation is to be produced by simple reduction of the marriage rate, the death-rate remain- ing as it was in 1888, it would be necessary that 45 per cent. of the persons who now marry should remain permanently celibate, and that if equalisation is to be reduced by retarding the age at marriage, it would not be 'nearly sumcient that the marriage ages of women should be all round fiva years more advanced than a.t present, and that if the equalisation is to be accomplished by a combination of the two methods, it would be requisite that while one quarter of the women who now marry remained perma- nently celibate, the remaining three quarters should retard their marriages by 6ve years. Thia proposition to limit the population is very unhkely to be adopted. THE ADVANTAGE OF THE MARRIE!) STATE. MR EGBERT RKSTARICK WALDRON is, or rather was, a baker at Newport, but he is now more needy than kneady. His bank- ruptcy he attributes to the iltness of his wife, and, considering the circumstances of the case, we must admit that the reason is undoubtediy sumcient. Dr Johnson said that marriage is the best state for a man in general, and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unht for the married state." It must be presumed that matrimony was advantageous to Mr Egbert Restarick Waldron, a.ud that he was a better man for entering into these bonda. was proved in evidence, but what special qualifications E. R. W. possessed for the place there are no means at the disposal of an Omcial Receiver of determining. However, the debtor took to himself a wife and jSlO, and with both set himself up in business as a baker. In two years he seema to have made a Sve-pound note, or lost one, it is not clear which, for he bought another business which cost ;S65, j360 of which was borrowed. For six years Egbert went on without much hitch, when he was obliged to part with his trade for a, iifth of the sum it cost him, and once more take up his bed and walk. A cynic has observed that in the pressure which now weighs upon all persons of limited fortune, sisters, nieces, and daughters are the only commodities that our friends are willing to bestow upon us for nothing, and which we cannot aftord to accept, even gratuitously." But since. the Married Woman's Property Act has corns into vogue all that is changed. Mr Egbert Restariek Waldron appears to owe everything—except the odd j&182 due to creditors—to his wife. She furnished his house and provided capital, and when sickness approached E. R. W. fell into dimculties. WHO SHOT THE DONKEY ? WHO shot the donkey ? There is a Cornish legend attributing the slaughter to a native of that county. Two men were out on a gunning expedition, and they had a wager who would first h!l the bag with rabbits. One being an adept at an aim, speedily out- distanced the other, but the latter seeing Neddy, took it, owing te its long ears, to ba the king of the rabbits, and at a single shot Riled the ba.g. Hia companion, equally ignorant of the science of zoology, admitted the claim and paid the money. When the volunteers were first formed an unfortunate donkey was shot a.b one of the rifle ranges, and for many years a volunteer in uniform was saluted with the query, Who shot the donkey ?" The bear which has been ranging the Aber Mountains, feed- ing. upon Iamb and other delicacies, has been responsible for the end of another Jerusalem steed. A party was organised to go in pursuit of Bruin, and observing a brown animal of considerable aize lying under a tree, one of the sportsmen imme- diately fired, and found that he had shot the donkey. However, on this occasion the united intelligence was sumcient to deter- mine the species, but the incident vividly pourtraya the miserable funk in which each individual was. However, the bear was eventually killed, but—"Who shot the donkey ?'' RECKLESS MINERS BROUGHT TO tOOK. ONE of the consequences of the two gigantic disasters in the South Wales Coalfield, one on the eastern and the other on the western fringe of the outcrop, has been greater strictness in carrying out mining regulations. There ia no doubt that long immunity from serious accident has led to much laxness, and that the rules have been broken without dread of the consequences. The proceedings at Biaekwood police-court yesterday were eloquent of a new and better state of things. The pits of New Tredegar, Risea, and Sirhowy are all on the cool eastern fringe of the vast basin of bituminous mineral which has made South Walea, but there are plenty of dangers even there. Four din'erent classes of oRences were proved. The moat segous appeared t. to be that of two colliers going to sleep with their safety-lamp thrown on their side, and the name, at right angles, cracking the glass not less serious was that of leaving open a ventilating door, which ought, in the interests of safety and air currents, to be closed whilst another onence against the 58th rule was that of passing a nre or danger mark. The fourth onence was that of neglecting to timber a roof in a stall or working place, and thus endangering a "fail." It is gratifying to note that the Bench were fully alive to the dangers of such careiess- nesa, and expressed their resolution to punish with all the severity the law allowed. Men who will not be careful for their own livea and the lives of their fellows must be coerced, and ought to find employment dimcnit to get even in these prosperous times of the coal industry. THE CASE OF THE S.S. Ir is with very great satisfaction that I note that Mr Arthur Williams, M. P., intends to take up the of those eleven seamen who were sent to prison by the Penarth magis- trates for refusing to proceed to sea in the steamship Oadoxton. The facts I have already stated, and I commented upon the injudicial haste with which an adjournment in order to produce an important witness was refused. Jt appears that the disinclination to postpone the decision was the fact that the Cadoxton was incurring heavy liabilities, and under these circumstances it was better to convict the men than to mulct the owners in tha costs of waiting. However we shall hear what the Rome Secretary has to say in reply to Mr A. J. Wiiliams's question, but I for one shall not be satistied unless the men are set at liberty, and something more besides.

-Â. -+- DEATH OF MR B. T. WILLIAMS, Q.C. We deeply recret to annoutrep the deatbj which took place on Friday in h's 58th yoar, of Mr Benjamin Thomas Williams, Q C., formerly county-court judge, and for several years member of Parliament in tba Liberal interest for the Carmarthen boroughs. Mr B. T. Williams, of Merry vale, Pembroke shire, was a ripe scholar, an eminent lawyer, a. whole-hearted Liberal, and a true friend to Wales and the Welsh. He was the sou of a Congrega- tional minister, tba late Rev T. R. Williams, aud was born at Merry va)e, Nov. 19th, 1852. He received his early education at Carmarthen Presbyterian Cohere, under its then prin- cipal, the erudite Dr Lloyd. He next matri- culated at; London, the only university a.t that time open to Nonconformists. Gaimng the Dr Williams'Scholarship, the subject of this notice distinguished himself at Glasgow University,' where be took his degreo as Master of Arts, and was besides senior logic prizeman and silver medallist in metaphysics. He waa cauod to the bar in 1858, takmg his place on the South Wales Circuit. Mr Williams speedily distinguished himself in his profession, and for somo time edited the Law Magazine and The Commercial Compendium." He was at one time desirous of obtaining a colonial judgeship.and wrote amongst; other things a very ab!e pamphlet on the Jamaica Riots. His life, however, was to be spent in his native country, and wo next find him leader of the circuit, becoming a Q.C. in 1875. A year earlier he had been appomted Recoraer of Car- marthen. Mr Wiliiama had long takon a deep interest in matters political and educational, with special reference to the principality. At the time that the question whether Aberyst- wyth College was to have a grant or not was hanging ia the balance, be worked energetically in conjunction with Mr Lewis Morris, and to- gether they drew up a memorial to present to Mr Gladstone. Mr MundeUa was understood to be averse to Riving Aberyst- wytb a grant, favouring tha establishment of colleges at CardiK and at Bangor only. Mr B. T. Williams and Mr Lewis Morris persevered, however, and, with the friendly aid of Mr Stuart Rendel, secured the consent: of Mr Gladstone to bear them on the subject. The result of it all was that tha Goveru- ment gave a temporary grant of £2,000. This was the turning point in the history of the coHege. la 1878, in the retirament of Sir Arthur Stppuey, Mr was e!<'otad without oppo- sition M.P. for th<t united boroughs of Cm-mar- tbon and Lluelly. On the dissolution of Parlia- ment in 1830 Mr seat :was con- tested by another Liberal candidate, Mr, now Sir, John Jones JeMkios. After a bitter struggle, tha lattar wa. defeated by 110 vote! Mr Williams retained his seat tili 1382, when he was appointed jucgo of the Glamorgan county- courts, from wbic!) position he retired three years later on account of failing health. Judge Wil- liams was a most eloquent speaksr, and used hie gifts umpanngty in the cause of Liberahsm and of Wales. The deceased entlemu wag a mem- bef of the council of Glasgow University vice- president and secretary of the Univetsity College, Aberystwyth; member of the governing body of the University College of North Wales chair- man of the Narbertb South U.D. School Board; and J.P. for the counties of Pembroke Brecon, and Glamorgan. We have spokeu of Judge WiUiama'a aSection and loyalty to the principality. His pen was over ready in its service, and we note especially his mmtcrty memoir of Thomas Stepbel1, of Morthyr, prefixed to the latest edition of "The Litera- ture of the Kymry." The deceased gentleman leaves a widow, a daughter, and two sons, Mr Oliver J. Williams. LL.B and Mr Thomas J. W'illiamR, B.A., both of whom are solicitors in practice at Hanelly and Swansea.

THE COAL TRADE DISPUTE. At many collieries in th& West Riding, not- withstanding the advance conceded, work cannot he resumed owiD to men engaged on the surface having claimed an increase in wages. It is evident that some concession will have to ba made to these men. At one largo colliery, where about 1,000 men arc employed, the top men held two meetings yesterday on the subject. An arrange- ,ment, it ia expectad, wUI bo come to to-day. The surface men at the other collieries -in the West Riding will probably adopt a similar course. The North Wales coaiowaers mat yesterday at Chester, and agreed to give the terms settled by the London committaa. The decision was re- ported to the North Wales Miners'Fodaration, and the terms were &t once accepted. Work wii! recommence to-day.

DEVELOPMENT OF BARRY. A NEW DRY DOCK. At their meeting yesterday the directors of the Barry Dock and Railways Company came to a resolution to proceed at once with tha construc- tion of a commercial graving dock, which will be capable of accommodating vessels of the largest siz'. It is intended to proceed with the work forthwith. The dock will be situated near the present entrance to the dock, between the basin and the din. No more conclusive evidence of the success achieved by the now enterprise, and the cocndence which the directors have in the future of their undertaking, coutd bo givon than is sup- plied by their resolution of yesterday.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. WINDSOR. Mr R. Richardson-Gardner, who hM repre- sented Windsor in the Conservative interest for twenty-hve years, has issued, a circular to bis constituenta expressing regret at beiag corn- peiied by continued iH-bealtb to resign his seat. Mr Francis T. Barry, J.P., is the Conservahve candidate for the vacancy. Mr Wtliiam Henry GrenfeU, of Tap!ow Court, near Windsor, formerly member of Parliament for Salisbury, wilt contest the seat in the Liberal interest. The writ will be moved in the House of Commons by the Government whip on Monday afternoon. PREVIOUS ET ECTIONS. 1H8&. MrB.Richardaon-Gardner(C). 1,431 lIon. H. E. Butler (L) 9&6 Majority. 46t) In 183t) Mt Gardner was returned unopposed.

WEATHER FORECAST. The following forecasts were prepared last aight I at tha Meteorological Omce at eight o'clock :— DisfMora— ? <-?nH.? N t L?'' breezes, cbieHy aouth- 0. beotland, ?. ? eMteriy f?t getM?Uy. 1. Seotland, E. ) Southerly or ?southwesterly 2. Enp;)aod)N.E. t wiods, li?ttt; f?irgeaer&ny. ? ???' ?') Westerly winds, light or ? ?-, ???? mod?e; fair gener?Uy ??S.(Loa.? ??? and Channel. 7 6. Seott&ad, W.—Same as Nos. 1 end 2. 7.En<?).< N.W.,? Westerly to soutb-wester!y & North Wa!eM t winds, lipht or moderate 8. Ec(!S.W.,&r fair at Srst, but donbtfut South Watec. later. 9 Ireland N ) Westerley & south-weater!y 10? Iretaad' S. ? ?'?'' "'?"?? change. ?tc?Hu, ?.? able; aomeehowere.

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LONDON LETTER. 4 (FROM OCR LONDON CORRESPONDEXT.J y¡. SPECIALLY WIREP. p: LoNBON, Friday Niht. ¡f:o A)"RESH IRISH SCANDAL, Mr John Morley got in a very neat point in the course of questions in the House of Commons, Mr Labouchere, the custodian of public morals, brought up the case of the Irish magistrate who. in open court, has admitted practices of gross immorality. Mr Labouchere wanted to know whether the attention Lord Chancellor had been called to this case, and how Ions; this gentleman was to remain 'on her Majesty's Commission of the Peace. The Irish Attorney-General fenced with the question, and when the Irish members, coming in, succeeded in calling up Mr Balfour, they were no more successful in obtaining a satisfactory reply. Mr Balfour protested that it was no business of his, that he had no knowledge of the cirpumstances, and that his noble friend the Lord Chancellor was sole!y responsible. He had resumed his seat after making one of these pro- testations, when Mr John Morley. interposing', observed that as this was reaily a question connected with the maintenance of la and order in Ireland, he would ask if the Chief Secretary would go the length of addressing a question to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Members be!ow the gangway might have put this question equally effectively without response. But. commg from the front Opposition Bench, Mr Balfour was, for decency's sake, compelled to take some notice of it, and he promised that, in a. private and unomcia! way, he would caU the attention of the Lord Chancellor to this fresh scandal among the agents of the Executive Government of Ireland. COERCING THE COMMONER?. According to Mr Smith, the Government are resolved to stand by the Tithes BiU as it has been introduced, to pass the btl), the whole bill, and nothing but the biJl, a va!iant determination which will probably fade away before the threatened opposition converging upon it from all quarters. He also sticks to the determination to pass the second reading before the Easter Recess, hamging oyer the heads of the mem- bers the threat that unless they prove docile, and trot the Bill through thia critical stase, they will be kept at work antil the very day before Good Fnday. In spite of these brave words, there is a pretty general opinion that the House will rise for the holidays after a morning sitting on Tuesday week. THE PEERS IN PERIL. The Lords, of course undesignedly, had their revenge on Mr Labouchere, attracting to their House a considerable number of the Commons, who would otherwise have gathered around Mr Labouchere to hear his speech in moving his resolution for the Abolition of the Hereditary Chamber. Rising at a comparatively early hour, Mr Labou- chere's audience was very limited, though it included Mr Gladstone tor some portion of the time. Possibly owing to the condition of the House, Mr Labouchere was some- whatless successful than hehasbeenon former occasions, whether in treating this theme or others that he has made hia own. MR CURZON CREATES AN IMPRESSION. The speech of the debate was delivered by Mr George Curzon. The young member for Southport, who has just returned from pursuit of investigation of the an'airs of Persia, will some day, if he lives, sit in the Peers himself as Lord Scarsdalc. This per- sonal connection with the question lent an added interest to a speech, the sterling qualities of which needed no adventitious advantages. Mr Curzon is gradually losing the Oxford Union style which hampered his earlier essays in parliamentary debate. His speech to-night marked a considerable advance in his parliamentary reputation. He was very smart in his rejoinder to Mr Labouchere. Probably the portion of his speech which attracted the most attention was the concluding passages in which, with earnest manner and with eloquent words, he admitted the failings of the Upper House, and btoa.d!y outiined a scheme for its reform. VOTING ON MR LABOUCHERE'S MOTION. Mr Gladstone, who had returned to the House after a pi'ief absence, waa a close and appreciative listener to this speech. He always delights in any sigus of promise by young members, and several times his deep was heard approving Mr Curzon's speech. When the division was called, Mr Gladstone walked out without voting, but a considerable number of his colleagues, in- cluding Sir William Harcourt, remained to vote with Mr Labouchere. The name of Gladstone will not be tacking from the division list, since the member for Leeds went with the Ministry. By an odd co- incidence, the numbers voting against Mr Labouchere are precisely the same as last year, but the number of his supporters has fallen on. The consequence is that whilst last year the majority against the motion was 41, it has this year run up to 6S*. EXCITEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. There was a full House in the Lords to hear the debate on the Marquis of Salis- bury's motion approving the report of the Pamell Commission. It was one of the occasions when the inequality of party division in the House is manifested, the Ministerial benches being thronged, whilst, even with exceptional muster- ing, the seats behind Lord Granville were only half fuU. The Commons showed a remarkable avidity to hear more on a subject, outpourings of which have not been lacking in their own House. After awhile the number began to thin out, members finding the debate on the Parnell Commis- sion in the Lords was very much what it is in the Commons. Sir Chas. Russell, snuff- box in hand, sat close by the partition winch divides the Commons' gallery from the Peeress's. A ONCE FAMILIAR FACE. There were some dozen or so of ladies present. Amongst them sat an elderly gentleman, in whom those familiar with his later appearance would not easily recognise the famdcs free-lance of the House of Commons, known there twenty years ago as Bobby Lowe." In these days when a great debate is in progress LordSher- brooke always takes his seat in the side gallery, under the guidance and protection of his wife. Crowning dimnesa of sight forbids him to wander by himself in search of a seat on the noor of the House. After the division bull rings Lady Sherbrooke takes his arm and leads him to the door, where some friendly peer conducts him through the lobby. LORD SALISBURY AT HIS BEST. Lord Salisbury spoke at considerable length, and with something more than usual of acerbity. He did not bear any visible trace of Ina illness, nor did he show any lack of vigour in Ins declamation. It was, as might have been expected, a very skilful speech, by a, long way the most able that haa yet been heard in either House of Parliament in defence of the line adopted by the Government. In view of the judges' report, skimming lightly over the episode of the forged letters and the grosser allegations based upon them, Lord Salisbury insisted upon the heinous- ness of the crimes which, he said, the judges had brought home to Mr Parnell and his colleagues. It was, he remarked, quite true that the Irish members had not been convicted of having individually taken part in crimes, but he obscurely hinted that this failure was solely the re- sult of the disappearance of the Land League records- It would have been interesting to have heard Sir Charlea Russel on thia monstrous assumption of guilt, based upon evidence, the nature of which Lord Salisbury himself admittedly imagined.

THE SEE OF BANGOR. The Central News has reason to believe that an appointment to the vacant see of Baogor wilt be announced ju tbe course of a few days. The new bishop wil! be a Welsh resident divine.

PRINCE BISMARCK. -_u- A DUKEDOM FOR THE EX-CHANCELLOR. THE EMPEROR'S LETTER. L" STANDARD TELESRAtt.] BERLIN, Thursday Night. An extraordinary edition 4If the onicial &ichsanzeigu was published atmne o'clock this eveoiug, clIutaillÍng the following documents:— My Dear Prince,—With deep emotion, I have seen from your request of the 18th inst. that you are resolved to retire from the omces which you have held with incomparabls:success for so many years p'Mt. I had hoped not to bo forced, ro meet the idea of our separation during oar life- time. If, however, I, fully conscious of the immense purport of your resignation, am now obliged to accept this idea, I do so with a sad heart, but with the Srm hope that the granting of your request will contribute to save and to pre- serve, for the longest possible time, your life and your strength, so invaluable to the Fatheriand. The reasons adduced by you for your decision have convinced me that further attempts to induce you to withdraw your request are hopeless. I therefore concede your request by graciously ac- cept)ng*berewitb your resignation of your oSces as Imperial Chancellor, President of my Ministry of State, and Mmister of Foreign ASairs, with the hope that your advice and energy, your fidelity and loyaly, wilt not be lacking to me and the Fatherland in future. I have considered it one of the most. favour- able dispensations of my life that, on ascending the Throne, I bad you as my tirst adviser by my side. "What you have done and attained for Prussia and Germany, what you have been to my Rouse, my ancestors, and myself, wilt remain in my grateful and imperishable memory, and in that of the German nation, whilst our wise and energetic peace policy, which I am resolved, in accordance with my (urn conviction to maintain in the future also, will permanently and gloriously be remembered abroad. It is not in my power to reward your services according to their full value. I must, therefore, ba satisfied ,at assuring you of my never-ending thanks and of those of the Fatherland. I bastow on you the dignity of a Duke of Lauenburg; as a sign of these thanks, and I shall send you my life- siz3 portrait. May God bleaa you, my dear Prince, and give you still many years of a cloudless life, en- lightened by the conviction of loyalty-fulfilled duty. In this sense, I remain your thankful Emperor and King, faithfully connected with yoa also in the future. WiLHEm I.R. Berlin, March 20th, 1890." [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BERUN, Friday Afternoon.—It has beea finally settled that the new Reichstag shall meet on the 14th Apri). General C¡\privi, the newly appointed Imperial Chancellor, called upon Prinoa Bismarck at two o'clock this afternoon, and conferred Wtth his predecessor for a con- siderable time.

SOCIAL PROGRESS IN FRANCE. REMARKABLE STATISTICS. lCENTRAL NEWS TELKGRAM.J PABis. Ffiday.—The sensation caused by the publication of Lhe Lenten pastoral instructions by the Cardinal Archbishop of Rbeims has not yet abated. The pastoral )s eonaidered by Catholics to be a scathing exposure of the social effects of the oScial atheism which prevails in France, and certaiaiy the figures culled from official documents cited by his Eminence, aSord food for thought for thinking citizens. It seems that the annual averace of criminality has increased threefold since 1870, and of juvenile crionnality fourfold. In 1886, of 187,720 accused brought before the police tribunals, more tbau 25,000 were minors m 1887 there were 191,108 accused, of whom nearly 50,000 wore minors. In 1886 the criminal courts eouvicted 580 persons below 21 years of.' age and 17 betow 16 years; in 1887, 649 below 2J1 and 42 beiow 16. This year 1890 already, three murderers, all minors, have been executed in Paris, of whom the youngest was 16 years old. The number of suicides have risen from 4,890 to 8,202. During 1887, 225 minors, between 16 and 21 years, and t8 children below 16 committed suicide.

EXECUTION BY ELECTRICITY fROUTER'S TELEGRAM.) NEW YORK, Fnday.—Too Court of :Appeal of New York State, to which the case r/i Kemmler, who was condemned to death by electricity waa referred, baa confirmed the constitutionality of execution by electricity. The sentence will there- fore be carried ont nntasa. commuted by the Governor. DARING ROBBERY IN SILESIA. j {CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BEMJN, Friday Evening.—A gang of thieves have abstracted 58,000 marks from the coffers of the railway calces of Kattawitz, Sileaia. One box they were unable to force open, and they threw it into the river, where it was found with ita contents—8,000 marka.

A LOVE TRAGEDY. JMUTEB'a Nzw YORK, Friday.—A desperate aSray occurred yesterday at tbe.Standicg Rock Agency. Two Indians ,who were rival suitors of an Indtao girl quarrelled, and ona of them, aftershooting and wounding the girl, kiiled bis rival and then shot himself while standing uear the camp 6 re, into tvhich be felt and was burned to a cinder.

THE PRINCE OF WALES. [RECTER'S TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, Friday.—The Prince of Wales, in the course of thia morning, called upon the Emperor and Empress and several of the Royal princes, who, later in the day, returned his Royal. Highneas'e visit.

:SUEZ CANAL. l' (BECTER'S .TELEGRAM J PARTS, Friday.—The SuezCanaltra.fne receipts were 210,000 francs yesterday, against 200,000 francs on the corresponding day last year.

A A Canterbury par-' tieulars of an extraordinary discovery at Saad-t gate. A number of packages were received at the railway station from a Regent-ttteet parcel ofnce in London consigned to an onieeat SborncliSe Camp. One wae unaddroMed, and there was no reference to it in the way-bill, and it waa conjectured it bad been put with others after the way-btllbad been made up. It was opened).and in it was found a stone jar cOl\tainlDg the body of a male. infant preserved m liquor. The body bore marks cf violence. There was a iarge hole in the chest, and the top part of the skull was missing. It is believed it was medically attended at birtb, and foul play suspected.

SEVERN NAVIGATION SCHEME. The further bearing of the Severn Commisaioa B)!I was yesterday adjourned until after Easter, to permit of the carrying out of the arrangement with the Great Western Railway Company for the withdrawal of their opposition.

DEATH OF LIEUT. EDWARD SOMERSET. News was received at Monmouth on Friday of the death of Lieut. Edward Somerset, C.B., of Troy House. He has been serving in Upper Burmab. The cause of death is not etatect.

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I CREWE TRAGEDY TRIAL OF PRISONERS. BOTH FOUND GUILTY. SENTENCED TO DEAT PAINFUL SCENE IN COURT. [BYTt.LNGEAPH.J CEt:STtK, Friday. At ten o'clock this morniog Mr JustteoWilit took his seat in the Crown Court for the resume<f trial ol Richard a.ud George Davies, indicated for the murder of their father at Hough, near Crewe, on he night of the 25t,h of January last, The assize hati was again crowded with ticket- holders. Several members of the family of the late Mr Davies were conducted to teats imme- mediatety bayocd the bar, and were objects of painful interest to the large number of onlookers who filled the gall-ries, baxes, and approaches to the well of the court Mr A. P. Roberts and Mr Colt Williams again prosecuted. Mr GIascodine defended Richard and Mr Malcolm Douglas re- presented the younger prisoner Geoige. ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE. James Brooksh&w, wagonner to Mrs Pardon. of Leigh Hal!, Laigh, called and ex- amined by Mr Roberts, said be passed along Crewe-lane, Hough, on the mormng of Sunday, the 26th January, and picked up a bat which he believed to be the one now produced. Ha placed it in his milk wagon and took it into Crewe, where he handed it to a police-sergeant. On his retara journey .be saw in the road a quantity of bleed some dis- ?taoce from the spot where be had picked up the bat. f'. Cross-examined by Mr Glascodine, witness said it was boisterous weather on the night of the 25d:. Sergeant Walley next deposed to bavtng re- ceived the hat from Brooksbaw. Miss Emiiy Davies, re-called, recognised the bat as one her father was wearing when be lefc Crewe for Hough on the night of the 25th January. The Foreman said the jury would hke to know, having regard to Moseley's evidence yesterday, whether Miss Davies noticed that her father wont into the backyard during the afternoon of Saturday. His Lordship put the question, &nd witness replied that b<r father was several times in the yard during the afternoon. A Juryman Were he and the prieoaere there together ?—They were out somewhere. Cross-examined by Mr Douglas She did not observe tbat her father appeared Burned, or that his appaaranee denoted that he bad been engaged in a struggle with anybody. ADDRESS FOR THE CROWN. Mr Roberts addressed the jury on behalf of the Crown, calling attention to certain points in the evidence. He said stress bad been laid on the circumstances of famity life, and he was ready to &dmit that the deceased, Richard Da vies, was not the man be should have been as a husband and father. This might be r< motive for tba crime, but excuse it could not be. The jury would have carefully to consider whether, having regard to the evidence, would find one or both guilty. The movements of both the accused on ttus particular Saturday bad been traced, as well as the departure from Crewe and the murder oftbp father later the same night. The jury must take into con- sideration theiiuding of Richard's blood-stained overcoat at, the bousa at Hough. Toe great mllof!s of the evidence could be condensed as evidence against both the accused, aod this brought him to their written statements, in which there were confessions absolutely consistent with the testimony adduced in the course of the case. Mr Gla.scodiue objected to his learned friend'e comIrnts on the statements of George being con- sidered as evidence against Richard, Mr Roberts disclaimed any sueb intention. His Lordship The value of a confession is to ba tested on its accordance with facts which rest 'apon independent evidence, and Mr Robert* was commenting on statements made by George against Richard as confirmatory of evidence given by witnesses. Mr Roberts: That is so, my lord. The learned counsel proceeded to comment on the statements of Richard as practically a confes- sion of the crime. The two statements taken together under the diccotton of ho tordsbip enabled him to submit that if these two young men were acting with a common intent, no matter which of them struck the blows, they were both equally guilty. In the dispute which the prisoners had as to the commission of the deed Richard said to Gaorge. 'You know yoa said tbat if you did not finish him with the axe yoa would with the pistol, and in this connec- tion it was clear that the accused had pistols, and< that oa tha Saturday they purchased caps and gunpowder. The Crown bad produced the fullest details at their disposal. If there was a doubt, prisoners ought to have the benent; but it must be a reasonable doubt, and the prosecution would accept tne verdict which taw fllry would give, satisaed that they would fnlty discharge a solemn duty. SPEECHES FOR THE DEFENCE.. Mr Malcolm Douglas then began bis address on behalf of the younger prisoner, George. The responsibility which he felt had not, be said, been lessened by the conduct of the prisoners since their Arrest. The present was a day of journalism and having regard to the enterprise with which it was conducted, it was too much to hopa that in cases creating a large amount of public interest there should not be an eSort on the pajt of each particular paper to outdo its rivalsjjy producing sensational public news. tn this, as in every similar case, an effort was made .to gi?e the latest details and surmises. If ever it coul.d be said tbat newspapers bad gone beyond tbf/bounds of decency it was herp, for they- bad pandered to the tastes of their readers by serving 'cp-details, and even endeavoured to discriminate tetween the prisoners, and to indicate the generat feeling of the family with respect to then- guilt. Asking the jury to discard the theory of <tho i quarrel in tba backyard in Crewe taa not proveo, the learned counsel wonid tcot, after the evidence, dispute the crime. -was committed with the axe by one or other of. the prisoners. The jury must say which of them.; He appealed for sympathy to be ex.tended to George on account of his extreme youtl). It was a saying, in this t<:ase he was bound to lay before tfje jury the 'circumstances attending this unhappy tamily in -order that they might deal fairly with the case. A sad family history it wa% They had a man in a good position 'aUowing those ':dependln upon him the merable pittance _<of ISs a week, attending race meetings, losing his 'money, coming home and brutally ititreating every "member of bis family, and at/solutely preventing, ).anyof bis children receiving t'tle benefit of religions 'instruction. If it were opc,n for him to urge in this case tbat there was provocation, he would aay* :th&t provocation brought its own reward, and that as the twig was so the tree inclined. Never had there be..en a. a&dder confession' than tbat of M.fs Da vies, who had. Jbeen not only subjected to violence but had been confess tbat her husband ? ¿.actually endeavoured to burn her bed from under; 'her. He (Mr DOI.rglas) had carefully read the f confession of George as to the events of the 25t.b, and the fearlessly, asserted that there was no.; admission in it r/t having oSered violence to hia, father. The p'/esence of blood stains on hisi clothing was amounted for by bis having for.-& moment held the father's head upon bis knee- 1 before the removal of the body. He did not tbat the statements proved there was seme wilcl, talk, though without an intention of the fatal act. Here came in the assertion of. George: 'Did not think ha would do it. Where, t'jen, was the agreement? There could be no agreement without commou intention. It was wt competent for the jury to accept ons; part of. a prisoner's statement and to reject the other. The jury must discriminate, and it was for them to determine whether one of the prisonera t' aboard lose his life or both. The written state-" meo.ts were aatagonistic to the suggestion of col- lusMm. The jury bad seen the dogcart. Was it likely that this lad would be deputed to begm the j attack on auch a heavy, burly man as Mr Daviea J wras? And the evidence of the doctor in the wounds could not assist them as to the 4 direction from which the blows were struck. Did George strike a single blow was a question for tbo 1 jury to seriously consider. There was no proofs tbat he; struck i there were no stains on his clothing which could not be satisfactorily aceounted. for, and the false statements which he afterwards made did not constitute the oSenca witb; which be was charged. There had been numerous! miscarriages of justice in adjudicating on cases of circumstantial evidence, and unless the jury found, the facts made so strongiy against George as to show tbat there could be no doubt they would nnct bimnotguilty. Mr GIascodmo began his address fc-r Richard by, commenting on the dtSicutt natura of the casa. The statements of one prisoner might bo evidence againat himself, bnt could' not be evidence against the other. The evidence of the sister Emily was inconsistent with the statement that a murderous attack was contemplated on the previous Monday. He asked the jury to contemplate the immaturity ? of the minds of these boys shown in planning,' as alleged by the prosecution, a crime the enor- mity of which had horrified the whole Enlish- spe¡tkin raCe. It must be regarded as corroborated that Richard did not strike the Srst blow, and he pointed to the conversation m the presence of the pQliqo o\lçbíu¡ thio.

will scout it as a mean trick.' It is only in keeping with this line of con- auet that the PREMIER began to moralize upon justifying an action by the eircum- stances under which it is committed. Without provocation to kick a man down a stair would be, in the opinion of most men, a criminal proceediog, but to kick down stairs a man who is attempting to take your hfe would be a justiciable and even a manly deed. Are soldiers killing the enemies of their country, even in an unjust war, murderers 1 Are all men who have fought for freedom deemed criminals.1 Not even Lord SALISBURY would venture to reply in the aitirmative. What, then, does his lordship mean by refusing to make any allowance for any of the excesses com- mitted by Irishmen in their zeal to rid their country of an intolerable yoke? In dilating upon the Report of the Parnell Commission, he went rather out of his way to moralise. He pretended to be shocked at the idea that crime was not to be accounted crime if desired to pro- mote a revolutionary movement. Has Lord SALISBURY not read any history ? Has he not even read those portions of his- tory which he himself has helped to make ? Who is responsible for the recent revolu- tionary movements in Upper Burmah ? Lord SALISBURY. If any man be respon- sible, he is. But have no crimes been wrought there by British arms in order to subjugate that territory to Queen VICTORIA ? Have not most revolutions been attended by what would ordinarily be called murders ?" Is not violent death at the point of the bayonet, by the edge of the sword, or before the cannon s mouth, aaid to be justicable, even when it all comes about in supporting or in putting down a political move- ment ? We do not propose the whitewash- ing of amy people who draw the sword, but we challenge LORD SALISBURY or anyone elae who tries to make political capital out of mere cant, to apply to ordinary history the arguments by which they expect to heap execration upon the heads of patriots.