The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-03-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OUR COLONIES.  On Monday night, at the all of the Westminster Democratic Club, Stanley Nouse, Chapter Street, Westminster, an address was delivered before a crowded audience by Mr. C. Pfoundes, on the subject of "Our Colonies: their Value with Hints on Emigration." Mr. Pfoundes referred, at the commencement of his address, to the rise and development of our maritime power, and the growth of our colonial possessions. The progress of our colonial empire, he argued, was not attributable to the policy or statesmanship of any English Government— Liberal, Tory, or Radical—but to the pluck and indomitable energy of our own people. In this sense the progress of that vast empire had been in no way a national development. Australia had developed through the discovery of her goldfields in 1854; but this development had nothing whatsoever to do with the progress of other colonies within recent years. It might seem strange to some to be told it, yet our colonial power and maritime supremacy, though we were now in the zenith of both, were coinAt Leicester, on Tuesday, William Baldwin, aged paratively of modern growth. Coming to the six years, and John Baldwin, aged 12, were charged labour question, the speaker observed that, to a with attempting to pick pockets in the Leicester certain extent, the Canadians had copied the Market Place. Detective-inspector Mardlin stated Americans in employing a large amount of Chinese that he and other detectives saw both lads, who labour. He thought this very wrong towards the were brothers, attempting to pick pockets. The mother country. There was nothing, he held, in boy six years of age "worked" liked a pro- the climate of our territories in North America to fessional pickpocket, and he saw hint with his hand preclude Englishmen working there, and when our in three ladies' pockets. The eldest boy also own people were willing and able to work, they showed great skill, and tried a great many pockets should have the preference to the Chinese. before he was taken into custody. it was , John Chinaman was by no means a blessthen ascertained that the lads came with their I lug wherever he went, and he had kept father Irons Birmingham on Good Friday. The many a good, honest Englishman out of a job on father was seized with illncs, and was now in the I the Canadian Pacific Railway, as elsewhere in the workhouse infirmary seriously ill, and the boys had New World. There was this objection to the teen running about the town making shift for Chinese: though he might deprive the Englishman themselves. In answer to questions the elder lad of the chance of supporting himself and his wife said his father was a brasscaster. Inspector Mardlin and family, he would not settle on the ground; said there was no doubt the prisoners were trained whereas it was the natural wish of the Englishman pickpockets. They came from Birmingham, and to do 80 and thus aid in populating the new gave an address in John Street, where they had colony. 'The introduction of Chinese labour, such lodged. The magistrates said the case was a most as his, into our colonies, tended of itself to debase distressing one, and sent William to the workhouse, labour; and it would be far from proper policy on and John to an industrial school till he attained the part of our statesmen to allow an alien race to sixteen years of age. come into conflict in our dominions with the skilled hand labour of our own people.  Her Majesty was so far recovered on Tuesday as to be able to take a drive in a pony carriage. Damage to the extent of three million dollars has been done by a fuv at Buenos Ayres, caused by an explosion of a kerosene lamp. A. man named Cleve, who had attempted to commit suicide, and had been pronounced insane by the doctors, on Tuesday murdered his child, aged five years, by cutting its throat, at Washfield, near Tiverton.  The Prince of Wales visited Toole's Theatro on Saturday evening. Mr. S. Morley, M.P., has consented to preside at the sixth assembly of the North Wales Congregational Union, at Chester, on the 17th prox. The Romford Congregational Church was corn• pletely destroyed by fire on Saturday night, caused, it is supposed, by overheating. It was only opened in 1877, and cost £5,000 in erection, being insured for only about half the amount.  There ii nothing more nourishing and warming in cold weather than a cup of really good Cocoa, but the difficulty has been to obtain it pure. This may be secured at a cost of one half-penny for a large breakfast cup by using Cadbury's Cocoa, which goes three times as far as the adulterated and starchy compounds ordinarily sold, the smallest packet making fourteen breakfast cups of strong Cocoa.  jr.ivtitutz!—!oa 'run TEDTEt