The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-09-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LORDS AND GENTLL:=N— The revenue has thus far not fallen short of its anticipated amount. The condition of the classes suffering from the depression of agiiculture has, in most disti jets of the country, shown some degree of improvement, and the general state of trade and industry is sound. I can refer, with greater satisfaction than on some former occa.ions, to the condition of Ireland, except in regard to the disposal of appeals, where there is still much to be desired. The action of the appointed tribunals has brought into wide opertitim, the provisions of the Land Act. The late combination against ;he fulfilment of contracts, especially for rent, has been, in a great degree, broken up. There is a mat: diminution of agrarian crime; and associations, having murder for their object, have been checked by the detection and punishment of offend..rs.  Irked  The expectations of more successsul progress in the work of legislation, which I expressed to you at the close of the last session of Parliament, have not bi en wholly disappointed, and I have cordially given my assent to many measures of public usefulness. The Acts uhich secure duo compensation to improving ocenpieni of and in England and Scotland respectively, and comprise other valuable provisions, will, I trust, lead to the promotion of confidence between classes, and to the more advantageous prosecution of the fr, eat business of agriculture. The new law relating to Corrupt Practices at Elections will not only tend towards extinguishing the grosser forms of mischief at which it is particularly aimed, but will, by reducing the expenses of Parliamentary Elections, give increased freedom of choice to the constituencies, and thus promote the more efficient representation of all classes in the great Ccuncil of the nation. The Act for the Improvement of the Law of Bankruptcy appears well adapted to fulfil the favourable anticipations with which it has lx en received by the commercial and trading community; and the Act concerning PateLts will be found greatly to improve the position of inventors, in whose ingenuity and resource the public has a substantial interest. The provision which you have made for further securing a continuous redemption of the National Debt will materially aid the maintenance of the public credit. The Act for the encouragement of Irish is duntry and enterprise by improvement of communications, and for the further rilief of particular districts by emigration and migration, supplies new proof of your anxiety to pranote their prosperity; 'and the remission of Parliamentary labour, which you have so amply earned, will bring with it the d:.:eharge of important duties, both personal and puhlie, in your respective districts. Alil:e in these, and in the arduous exertions which may be demanded from you in the minim. sessions, I trust that the favour of Providence may uniformly guide you to promote the object of my constant solicitude—the a elf arc and happiness of my people.  At the lie nsing idoting for the borough of Kidderminster, on Friday, the Mayor announced that in future where holders of "oft" lie nceg were convicted of offences against tha Licensing At their licenses would cot be endorsed but withdrawn.  A girl named Mary Ilebeeea Bostoek, ycars (t age, living at Mr. John Crew's farm, Wist tot' a, near Nantivich, met with her death in a frightful manner, on Friday. It appears that tie- deceased was standing near one of the old. f.e.hioned milk churns, driven by a horse. when her clothes became entangled in the machinery, and her head was drawn in between the cogs of the wheels and completely smashed. At Coventry. on Thut sday, a girl nann d Jane Eliza Wilkinson, of Variation, was charged with concealing the birth of her illegitimate child Prisoner was arrestrd on suspicion on the 16th instant, when she told the police officers the! the child's body was upstairs, and she subsequently stated that in the absence of her parents she cut the body up. On the premises ball( searchul fragments ot the remains were discovered in cesspool; but the head, feet, and hands, were mining. The trunk was found in the attic, and was cut in feta pieces. The medical evidence showed that the child had bu malted ; but that it wee imposaitle to say whether it had had a separate exiatente. The gill now reserved hot detcnce, Mid MP coinstated for trill.