The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-25 00:00:00

WELSH ELOPEMNTS,

The principality of late seems to have been labouring
under an epidemic of an amorous nature. Two
magisterial investigations were held, one at
Liverpool, the other at Neath, into circumstances arising
out of two elopements, which are detailed at considerable
length in the local papers. At Liverpool, William
Jones was charged with committing perjury
under the following circumstances. The prisoner
who is described as a young man of respectable and en-
gaging appearance, is the son of a Welsh farmer, and
followed the calling of a currier. He appears to
have made the acquaintance of Miss Annie
Jane Williams, a young lady of his own age,
and daughter of the Rev. Robert Williams, rector of the
parish of Lla,nvaelog, Ai4glesea. The young lady is said to
be highly accomplished, and a general favourite in the
pairish in Which she resided. There being little hope
of obtaining Mr. Williams' consent to his daughter's mar_
rialto with one so Much beneath her, the couple eloped
and went to Liverpool with the intention of getting the
knot tied. Jones went to the office of the registrar and
made a declaration that he had resided five months
in Union-street, Liverpool, and that Miss Williams hacl
been there for ten weeks. The declaration was conse-
quently granted. Unfortunately for the progress of the
match, a telegram was sent off by the lady's
friends to stay the marriage, and the result
was the apprehension of the young man on a charge of
having committed perjury by making a false declaration.
Qn this charge he was remanded, bail being
tendered and accepted for his appearance. The
young lady was stated to be not far away and
the £lB found on Jones when apprehended was ordered to
be given up to him. The second elopement is possessed
of features of a repulsive character. Mr. Poole, a draper,
of Neath, had two daughters, Julia, aged 17, and Emily,
12 months younger. They were married to former assist-
ants in the father's shOp, Julia being Mrs. Bennett,
and Emily Mrs. Davis. On Saturday it was found
that Mrs. Bennett and Mr. Davis had left home together,
and inquiries being set on foot, they were traced to Liver-
pool. As the absconding parties had taken with them
things belonging to Mr. Poole, Davis was apprehended,
their intention to have proceeded to America being frus-
trated. They were taken to Neath, charged before the
magistrates with the larceny, and remanded.

Prince Charles of Roumania, on the occasion of
the anniversary of his succession to the throne, has issued
a proclamation to the people, in which he announces that
there is a chance of an heir being shortly born. The news
has been received with great enthusiasm.

Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens has given notice of his in-
tention to move a resolution with reference to the dis-
tressed condition of the artisan population in the great
tewus. This will raise in a new form the question which
was pot allowed te-jie debated last Tuesday night. A.
Liberal pager says it has reason to know that the Govern-
ment disclaims all respOnsibilitY in conneption with the
Speaker's ruling on that occasion.

The French Emperor's speech on the Plebiscite,
delivered on Saturday at the Louvre, at twenty minutes
past one, was in London and in Brussels at two o'clock.
At four it was at Vienna and Berlin, and during
the night it reached St. Petersburg. The Central
Telegraph Office at St. Germain was at work all
night, fbrwarding to foreign powers the words of the Em-
peror and the diplomatic comments on them. The
Minister of the Interior dispitChed the speech to all the
prefects throughout France in less than an hour and a
quarter. _ _

Two children were suffocated on Monday in a fire
at the wool works of Messrs. T. and J. Shaw, of Aston, in
Birmingham. They were sleeping with two others in
the attic of a house adjoining the works, and as soon as
their danger became apparent every effort was made to
rescue them. Two of the four children were brought out
alive, but a subsequent attempt by a policeman to extri-
cate the remaining children was less fortunate, and
'When access was at length obtained to this room
they were found quite dead, evidently of suffocation.
They are both girls, aged five and seven years re-
spectively.

THE VOLUNTEERS.—The Secretary of State for
War has intimated to the Council of the National Artil-
lery Association that he has decided to grant assistance
in aid of the expenses incurred by artillery volunteer corps
in attending the annual prize-meeting at Shoeburyness. The
grant will be at' the rate of 10s. per roan up to 'pc?, and a
like sumper officer up to provided that every such
officer and man for whom the grant is Claimed shall before
joining tliii4hopbugness 'camp hax.p beeninsipieted in
the duties of sentries, guards aid pickfits. This is just
the kind of help which will be apprepiated by the iTolunr
teens, and the addition of £550 per annum to the avail-
able funds of the association will enable the Council to
make Shoeburyness Camp much more attractive and
much more useful than it has hitherto been. The compe-
tition for admission into the " English eight " is fixed to
take place at York on the 23rd and 24th of June, during
the prize meeting of the Yorkshire Rifle Association.

FAILURES IN PEACH CULTURE.—A. frequent
cause'of failhre in the culture of peaches is the practice of
starting the net' gruivth with a too high temperature,
and maintaining icactoo rapid A; pace when the trees are
in flower, and, further on, 'when the fruit is undergoing
the stoning process. The fact that the fruit does set freely
on the open wall with a temperature a few degrees above tbe
freezing-point is utterly ignored, and the indoor trees are
subjected to a temperaturewhich with the greatest degree
of certainty results in the loss of the crop.
Provided the flowers are not frozen, no injury will result
from a V4' tezappratyre, but much loss may be appre-
hended from ahigh ona: All good cultivators are agreed that
40 deg. Fah. is a safe medium- for Commencing with by
the aid of fire-heat alone, and also that in comparatively
mild weather no harm will result if the thermometer is
allowed to rise to 45 deg. Higher than this it should not
be allowed. to go, unless the sun happens to shine
brightly, AO then 55 deg, or even 60 deg. will do no
harm-41168d, be beneficial, provided a free circula-
tion of air is allowed. Thl'o temperature will be
ample until the fruit attains the size of a mwrow-fat pea,
and then it should rise to 50 deg by night and from 60 deg.
to 70 deg. during the day. At this same range it should
continue until after the stoning is completed, after which
the cultivator may push them on as fast as the circum-
sta:lec3 of the case may require, provided flavour is of
secondary importance.—The GaiTlener's Magazine.