The Herald of Wales. — 1886-10-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LONDON VINDICATED.  Presiding at the opening. meeting of the session of Ike Working hien s College, Ormondetreet, Lou. don, Sir john Lubbock defended the metropolis from the recent criticisms at Lord Rthebeg. He said he had always thought that the interest of London was fairly well supreme. It possessed the most venerable cathedral, the most historic castle, and the most famous ball which still remain on earth, fulfilling, as they always had done, the very purpose for which they were originally in. tended. No 'single building in the country coal thew so long and as eventful a history se the Tower of litindom and it stood as a memorial of the advance of their municipal life. If they came to speak of beauty, he would like to oak what British, or even European, city could shew more lovely parks, or an assemblage of public buildings which o compare for a moment with that great central group at Westminster. If anyone stood on the bridge which span. the Serpentine, and looked over towards West mineter and the upper part of St. James's Park, he must adniit that Londonrn bad great reason to be proud of their citw.—The Marquis of Ripon, in his inaugural address, complimented Sir John Lubbock on his ardent patriotism as a Londoner. It was not his intention to enter into any defence of Lord Rosebery, because his lordship was well able to take cars of himself; but he must confess he did somewhat share the feelings of Sir John, and was not without a faint suspicion that there was in the noble lord's remarks some element of that self-satisfaction which was not entirely absent from pavans connected with the Scottish nation. (Laugh:sr) His lordship then spoke of the admirable work done by the college since its foundation, and believed that not only was it a great boon to working men from an educational point of view, but it was also doing much to bring about that union of claim which they all so much desired.  The Queen and Crown Princess of Holland have had a norrow eecape. One of the chandeliers in the entrance hall of the ChMean of Loesdyk, where the Royal Family is staying, fell from the ceiling, and was broken into fragments close to them. An amicable settlement was on &turd:. arranged between the North Wares coalowners anti their em- , p'oyes. Notices for a reduction of 5 per centin wages terminated an the previous day at some of the out. hence, but the miners continued work at their old terms.  The passengers who "diaembarked from the White Star steamer Republic, at Queenstown on Saturday, s,ate that on the third day after leaving New York a steerage passenger named Williams,a Welshman, was misasd. It ix feared that be committed suicide by miming overboard during the night, as he wan noticed to be unsettled in mind.  A Parliamentary return issued on Saturday, shews that in the financial year 1883-84 the total amount of taxes borne by real property was £3,441,452 and by realised personal property £3,716,191. The estimated gross value of real property is 0,778,437,000, and of realised personal property 815,632,821,000. At t"roydon on Saturday morning, John Hartney was charged with feloniously cuttmg and wounoing Joseph Baker. An altercation took place between the parties in a lodging-house, and If srtney, rushing at Baker, who is over 60 years of age, si alleged to have stabbed him three times in the head. The occurrence is stated to have arisen out of a practical joke played on the prisoner by some other persons. The prisoner was remanded.  Two Arabs who had been • convicted of murder lave been guillotined by the French authorities at Oran. The execution created a great sensation among the native population, the act of decapitation being an outrage on the Mussulman religion. The natives who witnessed the execution were in a state of great excitement, and shrieked with horror when the sentence was carried into ffect.  An exttaordinnry accident wae on Saturday re. ported from the Vale of Llangollen. The fixing of some telegraph poles between Llangollen and Berwyn necessitated the blasting of the limestone rock. At one of the blasts a stone weighing 10Ib was hurled a distance of 400 yards, and fell upon the roof of the entrance-lodge to Sir Theodore Martin's residence, breaking through the ceiling. The lodgekeeper ,wly escaped death.  Arer Das-rid McKenzie, No. 4 Battery,lst Brigade Scottish r: vision Royal Artillery, has shot himself dead at abode, while on sentry duty. Shotley is at the mouths of the Rivers Stour and Orwell, which meet in Harwich Harbour, and is a very dull plan. McKenzie had lately been pronounced medically unfit for service in India.  An awful accident is reported y the captain of the ship Camara of St. John, New Brunswick, which =int Act into Dartmouth. At Lobes, the second Lloyd, was suparindending the securing of the It wan just being hed on board wbsea,by some means, the tackle give way and fell across d's neck as he wee leaning over the side of the deck, the cope striking him .12 such force that his head was takes dean off and f COIF board.  I Go to the "Cambria ally Leader " Odes for Rows, Haadbilla. and Okaalars.