Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-10-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MOSCOW. As Servis has no trade at Moscow the post can only be political. The Daily Telegraph Paris correspondent telegraphing on Wednesday stated: In reply to the invitation scut him by the London Fire Brigade ,it has been decided by the Federation Des Sapeurs Pompiers, of France and Algeria, to send delegates to attend officially the Lord Mayor's show. The Daily Sews Calcutta correspondent says: The Indian Government are taking steps to stop the slavetraffic in the North-west Province. A native woman, who volunteered for the purpose, has been sent with a police official to Semde to point out and discover the victims and dears. The chief dealer is said to be a Sikh.  An inquest hn.s been held at Kidderminstm upon the body of Floreuce Maud Former, aged fifteen months. The deceased's clothes became ignited while she wee in a chair, near the kitchen fireplace, and she was so badly burnt that she succumbed to the injuries she had received.—A;verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.  Considerable excitement and much commotion were caused inWhitechapel last evening in consequence of a woman being found in a dark corner of Duncan-street with a stab wound in her face. On being questioned she said that " Jack the Ripper " had attacked her and stabbed her with a knife. The woman was taken to Leman-street police-station, and thence to the London Hospital. Her name is not known. .  The 1, omnoroger publishes the following cable dispatch, dated New York, October 17:—More animation characterises the tinplate trade than for a long time past, and, following upon the advances advised frem Liverpool„ prices have gone up about 25c. all round. The metal market has been steady, with values unchanged, except as regards antimony, which is 2-10 c. , dearer.  The Times Vienna correspondent, writing on Tuesday, said: The Na Fri l'etwe calls attention to continued concentrations of Russian troops on the Austrian frontier, and says that detachments of Cossacks have been contmg up so fast that 130 men may be reckoned for every tract of five versts. The same journal hears  that the Czar has ordered the creation of two new military regiments with four horse batteries each. . . _  —The Daily Telegraph says :—We are authorised to state that there is no truth whatever in the reports which have been circulated to the offeet that the Prime Minister is in bad health, and that his condition has been the cause of anxiety to his relations and friends. As a matter of faot Lord Salisbury is wonderfully well, and to judge by appearances, is not likely to trouble his medical advisers for many a long day to  The Standard Shanghai correspondent wrote on Wednesday :—I have reason to believe that the abandonment for the time being of the pro, ject for laying down a trunk line of the railway from Pekin through the interior was due to the insistence of the French Government upon the fulfilment of article seven of the last Tinthin Treaty. According to this agreement France was to supply both the personel and material for any railway laid down in this country. An inqueet was held at Manchester on Thursday on the body of Louisa Bates, aged 17, who committed suicide by shooting herself with a pistol. For six months decased, who assisted her sister in keeping a tobacco shop, had been low spirited, and she confessed to her sister that she had been seduced. She shot herself in bed on Tuesday. A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane was returned. On Wednesday the strike of Bristol dockers extended to the corn porters, who also demand increased wages. The deal runners who obtained an advance on Tuesday turned out in sympathy with their comrades. At a big inerttog it was reported that the stevedores agreed to 6d. per hour, and Rd. overtime, the terms asked. The dispute continues, however, on the question of meal times. The corn porters have as yet come to no agreement. So far as the Bristol Docks are concerned, the strike is in a fair way towards settlement. Terms have practically been arranged with deal runners and dock labourers about 800 of whom returned to work on Thursday, on the understanding that they will come out again if the dispute with the corn porters is not settled. Meanwhile, strikes are threatened at the wagon works, cotton works, and other madufactories in Bristol. A big demonstration, to be addressed by John Burns, has been arranged for  Saturday. On Wednesday morning a man was found dead in his bed in one of the rooms of a Paris hotel. He was a Frenchman, aged nineteen, and had entered the hotel on Tuesday night, in , company with a woman, who left the establishmerit surreptitiously during the night. The body was taken to the Morgue for examination, ' but the doctorslound no traces of violence upon it, therefore it is conjectured that the deceased died suddenly shoitly after he had gone to bed, and that his companion, fearing arrest on suspicion, escaped as speedily as she could from the  place. Larks do not usually fall roasted already to be eaten, but such a remarkable phenomenon may be said to have happened in a relative manner. It appears that a Hock of these birds were attracted to the Eiffel Lighthouse, like moths to a candle. They dashed their inoffensive little heads and wings against the glass surrounding the lofty and luminous beacon, and fell dazed on the roof of M. Eiffel's rooms. The keeper of the Lighthouse found a lot of dead larks all round his premises, and some of the birds were even picked out of the ornamental water at the foot of the Tower. In connection with the strike of miners at Courriers, in France, it has transpired that at one of the meetings the editor of a Revolutionary paper published in Paris was introduced, who said that at the close of the exhibition the great general strike which Socialists had been looking forward to as the means of delivering the working classes from the opr cession of capitalists would begin throughout the length and breath of France. On this side of the English Channel . . .  we do not, of course, know whid is Frenchyfying in the minds of the Socialist leaders, but the statement quoted is sufficient to take away one's breath. Great excitement prevails in the village of Llandderfel (adjoining Pale Mansion and Park, where the Queen resided during her recent visit to North Wales), in consequence of an important arrest by the Merionethshire and Leominster police. It appears that for some weeks a welldressed gentleman of fine appearance has resided in the district, having taken a large house,with extensive shooting and fishing rights. He has lived in princely style, and has been I entertained by several of the county families, having represented himself as a near relative of General Gordon. Suddenly, however, warrants were sent down from Leominster and other laces, where the gentleman is wanted, and on turday he was removed by the police tc Leominster.