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publications. A WORK OF EXQUISITE MAGNIFI- CENCE." AN HONOUR TO THE LIBRARIES OF THE COUNTRY." CREDIT ABLE TO AUTHOR, ILLU STRA- TOR, AND PUBLISHER." HANDSOMELY GOT UP PORTFOLI 0 OF PORTRAITS." "TELSH J^EMBERS OF TDARLIAMENT, MR. T. MARCHANT WILLIAMS'S NEW BOOK, ILLUSTRATED BY WILL MORGAN. THE WELL-KNOWN WELS H ARTIST AND C ARLt".1 'l'l.:R.IST. Imperial 4to. Printout on Highly finished tout Friction-glased Paper. Handsomely Hound in Cloth, Gold Embossed. Price lOs, M. carriage, ls. extra. PRESS OPINIONS. he Welsh and English Press is unani- mous in its praise of this remarkable work' The following are excerpts trom some of the criticisms that have already appeared :— • SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS. "As far as the get-up is concerned, it leases nothing to be desired. The portraits by Will Morgan, or "Welsh Review fame, are worthy of the reputation of the arrist. The sketches abound in smart sayings and m barbed witticisms. On the whole, anu. n-raIÜ- ing the standpoint of the writer, the book is fair, and deals out equal treatment. There are any number of good stories in it of Welsh politicians which have never before been published, and the reader will carry away with him a clearer estimate of the eharacters of the Welsh members and a better knowledge of the inner workings of jxiiitics than he had before. We welcome the appearance of the handsome volume, not only as a credit to a Welsh publishing firm, but also as evidence of the hi.rh character of the Welsh representatives of to day." "DAILY TELEGRAPH." "A handsomely got-up portfolio of por- traits. The artist has a bold and, on the whole, successful style, and his aim has evi- dently been to catch, net merely the features, but the manner of the man without accentuat- ing individual peculiarities as a caricaturist would do. As for the letterpress, if there is any serious purpose in it at all, it is concealed by a certain flippancy, which, however, renders the book light and readable." FROM W ALES." „ "Welsh Members of Parliament, 1894,' is sonaethiiig new in It contains full length portraits or the 34- Welsh members, with a short. racv article on each. It is published at th* "Western Mail" Office, and it is impossible to give too much praise to the letterpress or to the way ill which the illustration have been re-produced. The portraits are excellent—the face, the pose, all peculiarities of expression and of dress—and the members of 1894 are brought very vividly before the mind of anyone who has happened to see them. There is an occa- sional dart of the caricaturist—for example, Mr. Herbert Lewis—who is described in the letterpress as a "very, very good young man," and who is really one of the best representatives Wales has ever had—is made to 10..Ù: more like Mephistopheles than Machiavelli. But, undoubtedly, this collection of portraits will be a delight for many a day. and Will Morgan has given himself a. lasting place in Welsh history. Mr. Marchant Williams has a way of saying things. His style is pithy and forcible: if he has to choose between making an enemy and holding his tongue when he has a good thing- to say he generally says the (rood thing. It would be a great mistake if Mr. Marchant Williams claimed accuracy as one of his virtues: but. his. I believe, is not one of his mistakes. He cannot be expected to know everything about the immortalised 34-: but what he says, accurate or inaccurate. is highly entertaining—except, of course. to the 34 themselves. There is too much in the book about the late Montgomeryshire election and one is ma.de to remember quite well the exact number of the 34 who totally abstain from in- toxicating matter and who cannot speak Welsh. I found the descriptions very interesting, but came to the conclusion that rather than have £ atfto is tfcc Temple of Fame I am content ■|| Hke awthor himself, out of FaSament. and out of a certain "set" he denounces so freely. Mv friends when they Me the book sav thev wirl buv it. "THE JOURNAL." "A large and handsome volume. A well zot np book, and will be most interest- ing in the Principality Such a book will always be popular, particularly when ornamental a" well. MERTHYR TIMES." "Rarely, if ever, has a Welsh firm turned out a. work of such exquisite magnificence as this volume. The cover is a work of art. The printer has performed his part of the work m a manner that is beyond all praise. In fact the get- up of the book would be a credit to any print- ing and publishing firm in the country. The artist also has done his work admirably. Mr. Will Morgan's form a. character artist has spread ovr all the land. and praise of him teeips almost superfluous. From a mere literary point of view Mr. Marchant Wil- liams's Tork deserves high commend. 'ion. Inane platitudes and fulsome adulation are avoided: < he style is piquant and racy, and the peculiarities of our M.P.'s are handled in a sprightly, genial manner. There is not a dull or unreadable paragraph from start to finish." "GWALIA." "A new book, which is really worth bnj • ing and reading. As to the pictures, which are Mr. Will Morgan's work. t.he artist has been so successful that he has conveyed not onlv the faces of the hon. members, but also t.he particular bodily ex- pression of each. The pictures themselves are well worth the price. The writer of the sketches is a master of his task. It would be difficult to have written them better, Onee vou commence reading it is difficult to lay the book aside. Deals impartially with Radical and Tory. pointing out the virtues and blemishes of the one and the other We advise our readers, especially the younger portion of them, to buy and read the hook." "WREXHAM ADVERTISER." "The work is admirably printed, and. al- though the political bias is strong, is credit- abie to the author, illustrator, and publishers." "Y LT.AN A'R DYWYSOGAETH." "The volume is an honour to the author and the publishers The first time in the history of the country that a similar undertaking has been taken in hand. The ability and aptitude of Mr Marchant Williams are well known, and ho has shown considerable skill and wisdom in this work of his The pictures also are good and striking Messrs- Daniel Owen and Co. have done their pars of rhe work, as usual, admirably It is fullv ir"rth the price: indeed, one wonders that the work, so ivell bound and so well got up. could have been published at such a low price. "Y CYMRO." "A book which we have been expecting for a lcog time, and have read with avidity.. It is easy to perceive that the author's favourites are those members who are in full sympathy with the Welsh people for there is no more faithful Nationalist than Mr. Marchant Williams.. We do not agree with all that is said in the book: indeed, we think it would take 50 men to agree with all the statements, many of which are exceedingly original.. The volume is of historical value and interest, which will make it readable in years to come. The publishers' work has been onost artistically done, and is worthy of the great and famous firm of Messrs. Daniel Owen and Co. A volume of such beauty fVeshnet-is, and absorbing interest to every Welshman, and withal so cheap. ought to sell by thousands." "SEREN CYMRU." "This is a particularly nice volume to look at; and will be a valuable addition to every Welsh family. The portraits, on the whole, are good. The descriptions bv Marchant Williams are neat and compreh.-n Mve. No doubt most of the honourable members will feel that the light thrown upon them is verv strong. The work nf the publishers m all that could he desired. ihe volume is a credit to them and an honour to the libraries of the country. The W",7Qh section of the present Parliament- is too im- portant to t¡.. indifferent tn this h^nd^o-m^ and popular illustration of it.' This great Welsh National Work, on which Author, Artist, Engravers, and Printers have been engaged for upwards of seven months, is Now Ready, and can be obtained through all booksellers, and from the publishers. DANIEl. OWEN and CO. (Limited), St. Mary-street. Cardiff. The Book is undoubtedly the most elabo- rate work of the kind ever attempted, and contains a FULL PAGE PORTRAIT, etched in half-tone, and Biographical Sketch of every Member of Parliament for Wales and Monmouthshire. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY D. OWEN AND CO. (LIMITED CARDIFF. 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NOTES.
NOTES. BY "OBSERVER." CARDIFF, Wednesday Morning. We pay dearly for our local government, such as it is. We have a.u elaborate system, which ircludes mayor, aldermen, councillors, town- clfTk, medical officers, engineer, and inspectors and assistants without number, without reckon- ing the police force, and we pay pretty smartly for our whistle. Yet-, notivith-itandii-ig ail, Car- diff is a most insanitary town—badly built, badly drained, open at any time to the dire embra-'es of epidemic. That we ha.ve a low death-rate at all is merely due to the newness of much of the property. One of our leadinar architects has publicly said that Cardiff is architecturally one of the worst- off towns in the kingdom, and, not only is it jet rt-built, but jerry-drained as well, so that in the natural course of things we must expect our surrounding to grow more and more unde- sirable and insanitary as the years go by. Scarcely a day passes that some more or less distrusting revelation is not made, but, as a rule, the last people to hear of it a.re the corporation and their officials. Thanks to Councillor Rams- dale, a little bombshell was yesterday let off right in the faces of our sleepy rulers. Mr. RamsdaJe had quite accidentally penetrated into Norah and Helen-streets, Broadway, and was horrified at their condition. He described the stench from the houses as something abominable, and could not under- stand why the neighbourhood was not visited by epidemic. If it were his property, he should set fire to it. Now, in view of the army of officials whom the burgesses maintain and pay, there ought to be no such nuisances as these, and the question instantly arises. Why were they r-ot long ago reported upon? Why was it left to one who is not an official to reveal their scandalous condition? These are grave quest ions. The whole matter is of vital importance, especially in view of the fact that there are probably many other streets whoh the officials will not condescend to trouble themselves about, until Mr. Ramsdale or some other councillor a little more wide-awake than his neighbours happens to enter them and dis- cover their horrible condition. All publio nuisances .)f this class lie more or less at the door Of the health department of the corpora- ticrn, and ihn sooner this is thoroughly under- stood all round the better. In the court, of the Emperor of China they pursue an original plan. His medical advisers a.ro paid high salaries, but when his celestial sereritv falls sick the salaries oease. It need scarcely be added that illness in the Imperial household is seldom of long duration. I com- mand the idea to our council. Let them pay their officials by results, and we shall then, and not till then, f ee a. little sanitary improvement withill the borough. It is an ill wind that blows no one good. Mr. Ramsdale confessed tliat but for t'he relief work in progress he would not have emtered Norah and Helen-streote. I could wish our public men did a little more philanthropic visiting: they might then have their eyes opened to the grossly insanitary state of many parts of the borough, and be roused from the smuij satisfaction which is ait present their j Tiormad condition. A wng on our staff observes that he only opened v* for a oouule of minutes when influenza, and it has not since flown ou'fe. Seriously speaking, we are in tÆ1e midst of a small epidemic again, and the death-rate is rising in consequence. Are we to have this miserable illness at the beginning of every year? If so, it will cause a great many more people to ask if life is worth living. I hope the grievance mentioned elsewhere about the conveyance of prisoners from Llan- daff to Cardiff will soon be reme- died. These people should at least be driven between the police court- and their gloomy destination. I am not prepared to go so far as to advocate the estab- lishme«t of a special Blaok Maria for the bene- fit of our cathedral oity, but something can surety he done. and ought to be done, if only to shield from disgrace those who, after all, may not be guilty. The children of the Sunday CloMng Act—I mean the shebeeners—were unusually noisy ait the polioe-eourt yesterday. They shouted and struck out indiscriminately, and one woman all but planted her bunch of fives in the face of a. limb of the law. Radicals ought really to thank their stars for the depreciation of silver. In the debate last night Mr. Everett declared the question "'lay at the root of the extraordinary fall in all prices which had inflicted so much suffering and en- tailed so much evil upon the world. It had led to the financial embarrassments in India and the financial crisis in Australia.. It was fiRADUALL Y DISESTABLISHING- THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, had led to a great fall in the value of land, and had caused the greatest, depression in the agricultural interest, while it was at the root of the ext.raordina.ry accumulation of unemployed capital at the Bank of England." "Gradually disestablishing the Church of England?" Why, no Radical worth his salt will ever have a single word to say in favour of bi-metallism after this! A contemporary states that the 1st Battalion of the Welsh Regiment will march through South Wales, from Pembroke Dock to Cardiff, during the month of July next, thus emulating the example set by their brothers the Fusiliers, who, some three yeMS a^o, upon landing at Carnarvon from the Curagh, marched through- out North Wales to their depot a.t Wrexha.m. An eminent pliysioian gives the following aw his view of the influenza epidemic:—'My idea of the cause is that there are certain changes going on in the atmosphere, changes which, in the present state of chemistry, we cai-not discover. I found, by experiments during the last attack, that I oould produce the same symptoms r>* were then seen by the ir halation of ozone. We may be .going through a portion of space where minute particles from other planets have come in our atmosphere and affected it, or recent volcanic eruptions may have brought particles from the centre of the earth into the atmosphere." Some time ago a. vankee attempt was made to bogus tho Edwards family. This time the attack is levelled at the equally important family of Griffiths. Parties bearing that name will do well to pause ere they indulge in golden dreams. These stories of vast for- tur es are usually trumped up for the benefit of their originators—and Nobody else. The Salvation Army is winning its way to fa.vour. The latest testimonial to its efficacy is from Sir John Llewelyn, who declares candidly that the followers of "blood and fire" reach people whom the seots, as a whole, fail to in- fluence, and nJ doubt this is perfectly true. Christians at lurye might take a good many leaves from the book of tine Salvation Army; but let them not, for pity's sake, adopt the brass band.
SWANSEA PARISH CHURCH.
SWANSEA PARISH CHURCH. THE OPPOSITION TO THE RE- BUILDING. It is stated in Swansea that the opposition to the Swansea Parish Charok re-bnilding scheme has not been withdrawn, and that Colonel Morgan, as representing the opposition, is a.bout to apply t* the Hitfh Court for an injunction against the scheme. It should be stated, how- erer, that up to Tuesday no definite action had been taken, and it is expected that in a day or two further informa.tion may be gleaned.
GAZETTE NEWS.
GAZETTE NEWS. BANKRUPTCY ACTS, 1883 AND 1890— RECEIVING ORDERS. John Lewis Bowen, Granville House, Morris- ton. Swansea, grocer, tea dealer, and provision merchant. ltees Davies, New House, Norton. Bromyard, Herefordshire, lately Oxford-street, Swansea, grocer. Henry Drury. Mount-street, Abergavenny, fruit and general dealer. William Bryant, Graving Dock-street. Barry Dock, wine merchant. John Pre-ocott, of Broadway, Roath, Cardiff, butcher. FIRST MEETING AND DATE OF PUBLIC EXAMINATION. Thomas Mordecai, of Coedpenmaen-road, Pontypridd, quarryMmn first meeting March 5, at noon, at the Oficial Reoeiver's, Mertliyr; public examination March 26, at two p.m., at the Court House, Pontypridd. NOTICES OF INTENDED DIVIDENDS AND LAST DAYS FOR RECEIVING PROOFS. Wm. R. Morgan, late of Saunders foot, Pem- brokeshire, now Angel Hotel. Cardigan, hotel keeiier and auctioneer March 12. John Howells, of Ynyshir-road, Ynyshir, draper and grocer March 14. Wm. Williams and Jas. G. Williams, trading as Wm. Williams and Son, Pier-head, Old Dock, Newport, ship carpenter and boat bi-ilder; March 13. NOTICE OF DIVIDENDS. John P. Look (separate estate), of Strath- nairn-street, Cardiff, painter: first. and final dividend 20s. in the J6. payable February 28, at the Official Receiver's, Cardiff. John Tarr (separate estate), of ibtrathnairn- street, Cardiff, painter; first and final dividend 9s. 6id. in the B, payable February 28, 3Jt the Official Receiver's. Cardiff. ADJUDICATIONS. John Prescott, of Broadway, Roath, Cardiff, butcher. Robert Burden, Liverpool-road, Chester, and Timber Yard, Gwereyllt, near Wrexham, tim- ber merchant. John Lewis Bowen.. of Granville House, Morns-ton, Swansea, grocer, tea dealer, and provision merchant. Siogmund Lippman, Windst-reet. and of Glantawe, Heathfio!d. both Swansea, commis- sion agent and tin plate merchant. Henry Drury. Mount-street, Abergavenny, fruit and general dealer.
LOCAL PATENTS-
LOCAL PATENTS- The Rubjoined information is furnished from the Patent Agency Offices. 31, Queen-street, Cardiff (Mr. C. E. Dovey, representative); 15. Ruperra-street. Newport; and 58. Wind- street. Swansesi, where all information can lie obtained respecting patents, designs, and trade marks registration. Applications were made for patents by: — Arthur Atkinson and Robert Bray, Ebbw Vale: Improved device to prevent slipping when walking on ice: No. 3.034. February 12. Hugh Owen, Cardiff: A puzzle; No 3,218, February 14 ABSTRACTS OF SPECIFICATIONS PUBLISHED. 18,634. October 5, 1893; Conveying and cleaning band.—Mr. W. E. Kochs, Cardiff: A series of arched plates corresponding in cur- vature to the supporting pulleys is mounted upon a pair of chains; the plates are equal in length to the pitch of the chain links, so that their ends butt against each other when the chain is horizontal, as do the ends of the flanges secured to the edges of the plates. ¡ Short- plates curved to fit over the ends of the chain links are secured to or formed on the ends of the nla-tes, a.nd work under the edges of the adjoining Hates as the belt passes around the tmlleys. The chain is provided with supporting rollers, which run upon guide rails. The discharge-shoot fits over the arched platas. Its upper edge is inclined. 18.708. October 6. 1893. Butter-making apparatus.—H. S. Wright. Monmouthshire: Relates to an apparatus for making butter by passing a. current of air through the milk or cream to lie churned. Three forms of apparatus are de-soriljed. In one farm the a.ir is passed through the cream ly exhausting- the vessel above the cream 1-evei and arranging suitable air inlets in tile bottom; in another form the air is forced through the cream from below, and in the third Ijotli the above operations are combined. 18,982 October 10, 1893. Suspending olothes, curtains, &o.—H. Pearoe. Cardiff: The articles are suspended f'vart the links of a chain, each of which is f'vmed with a spring arm. which, when the loop if passed beneath the link, grips the artioV. WtlOO not in use the chain may be folded up.
Disestablishment Bill.
Disestablishment Bill. MONDAY NIGHT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. An jEye-Witness of the Scene Des- cribes his Impressions of the Debate. The unreality of the attack on the Welsh Church was exhibited by the lifeless condition of the House of Commons when Mr. Asquith re-introduoed his Spoliation Bill. The Home Secretary spoke for 25 minutes, during which period, as Mr. Rentoul subsequently remarked, he advanced not a shred or vestige of argu- ment. It was the merest auctioneer's state- ment, lfionotonous, and uninspiring, never once rising into dignity or bursting into flame. The Bill is almost identical with that of last year, quite as sweeping, quite as ruthless, quite a,s regaxdlesc; of the rights of the curates, and quite as undisguisedly secular in the applica- tion of Cliurcli funds. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, on behalf of the Opposition, declared war upon it without moment's hesitation. He denounced the Bill root and branch. Sir Michael spoke at some length. The fatail period, the dinner hour, when debate always enters the doldrums, was occupied by Mr. Frank Edwards. The member for Radnor spoke with some success in the face of discouraging conditions. His argu- ments were of the flimsiest, but his pleasant fluency was clearly agreeable to his slender audience. Mr. Edwards claimed to speak as a Churchman anxious by Disestablishment to promote the welfare of the Church. This preposterous argument was later in the evening torn to pieces by Mr. Rentoul, who, amid approving cheers from the Conservative benches, asked if any Welsh member would go before his Nonoonformist constituents and tell them that he was in favour of Disestab- lishment because it would help the Church. For the rest Mr. jldwards endeavoured, with small success, to poke fun at "pious ancestors," and wandered off into some curiously irrelevant talg about the origin of tithes. His novel views on this impost-the hon. member spoke of tithe having often originated since Henry VIlI.-amused and perturbed that loyal son of a loyal Churchman, Viscount Wolmer. "Give an instance," called out Lord Wolmer, with the result tha.t Mr. Edwards was bathed in confusion. A breezy and vigorous speech by Sir Edward Hill won applause from the Tory benches. Sir Edward waxed very indignant at the picture of Llandaff Cathedral—which he had seen restored, stone upon stone, through the zeal of Churchmen—being taken away from those to whom it belonged, and Churchmen being only allowed. to worship within its walls on sufferance. To Sir E. S. Hill succeeded a lugubrious oration by Mr. Lloyd Morgan. The member for West Carmarthen made use of the phrase, "This is a political question," which a.roused ironical cheering from the Opposition. Mr. Lloyd Morgan pretended to be amazed at the moderation of the Spoliation Bill. It leaves. he said, to the Church "its doctrines and its formularies." "Thank you for nothing," retorted Mr. Rentoul, with withering scorn; "you could not take these away." Mr. Rentoul's speech was the speech of the debate. Full of fire and bright with wit, it produced an exoellent impression. This clever Irishman has oratorical gifts of a very high order. The effect of his delivery was heightened by a rich brogue and a winning manner. More than this, he was well primed with his facts, and, as a result presented the ease for the Church with singular force. The Welsh members moved uneasily on their benches as point after point was driven home. "You say it is all alien Church. Why? In Wales it is Dissent which is the alien." ("No, no," from the Welsh Radicals.) In au instant Mr. Rentoul rejoined, "But I make that statement on the authority of the right hon. member for East Denbighshire, who, speaking in this House, said that Noncon- formity in Wales \w a 'foreign plant. Cried out Sir G. Osborne Morgan, "That was 25 years ago," while the Opposition shook with laughter. After quoting Mr. Gladstone's recent eulogy of the Ohuroh in Wales, viz., "It is a growing I Ohuroh-a living Church. I have ;een it grow under my own eyes. It is rising from elevation to elevation," Mr. Rentoul turned the deadly fire of his criticism upon poor Lord Rosebery. Afterwards came an eloquent description of the activities of the Ohuroh in Wales to-day. Two facts mentioned by Mr. Rentoul in this con- nection produced a marked impression. The first was the fact that the clergy in Wales had doubled in number in little more than a gene- ration the second that church marriages in Wales vastly outnumbered marriages in chapels. From this lie deduced that Nonconformists either did not believe in marriage a.Jlij J}«(E. (laughter)—or else 'that, for once in their lives, they wanted to be respectable. (Loud laughter.) "You are trying to knock down the oldest and mOst venerable monument of Welsh rationality, and what is the price you get- in exchange ? A mere bagatelle; the spoil will come to Is. Sid. per head. Magnificent! The noblest institution in Wales, the inheritance of the poor for Is. 8id. Gallant little Wales said Air. Rentoul, with ineffable contempt. It is siginificent that Mr. Rentoul, amid n arked applause from Sir Richard Webster and other Opposition leaders, dismissed the talk of compromise incontinently. After this invigorating oration. Sir George Osborne Morgan's platitudes were as heavy as 1md, and the House took on a jaded look. The debate will be resumed on Thursday. THE DATE OF THE DIVISION. The division on the first reading of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill will be taken on Thursday. which will be better for the Conservatives, as several of their men are abeent unpaired through illness.
PEMBROKE DOCKYARD.
PEMBROKE DOCKYARD. ALLEGED DEFECTIVE WATER- TIGHT DOORS IN H.M.S. RENOWN. In the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. BROADHURST (L., Leicester) had notice of the following question Whether the watertight doors of her Majesty's ship Renown, now being built at Pembroke Dock- yard, which were supplied by outside contrac- tors and then placed in position by shipwrights, have been found to be defective; whether fitters were then put to work to rectify the defects, and then taken from the work and re- placed by shipwrights; and whether he will appoint a committee of experts with a. view to the prevention of these disputes in future?" Mr. Broadhurst said that since giving notioe he was given to understand that a reply to the first part of the question had !){>úIl given. Mr. ROBERTSON (Lord of the Admiralty): As regards the first part of the question, I would refer my lion. friend to the reply I gave on the 11th inst. to a similar question pit by the hon. member for Stockton-on-Tees. In r(ply to the latter part of the question, I have to fay the Admiralty had hopes that the arrange- ments made last, year would have satisfied all parties. A deputation representing the engineering trade in th? country generally was received by the First Lord of the Admiralty seine weeks ago. The shipwright trade have asked for a similar opportunity of stating their side of the ease, and tha.t will be accorded to them. It is undesirable, therefore, that I should say anything further in the meantime.
LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT. In the House of Lords on Tuesday the Brecon and Merthyr Railway Bill was read a second time. RHONDDA AND SWANSEA BAY RAILWAY BILL. The Neath Harbour Commissioners have deposited a petition in the House of Lords praying to be heard against this Bill before the Select Committee.
THE EX-KHEDIVE DYING.
THE EX-KHEDIVE DYING. A Renter's telegram from Paris on Tuesday says :—A telegram from Constantinople states that the ex-Khedive Ismail is dying.. He has expressed a last wish to have his body aimed and taken to Cairo.
Gathered from Gwalia.
Gathered from Gwalia. NOTES AND NEWS OF THE PRINCIPALITY. A Column of Pars. of Persons and Placet of Interest and Instruction to Old and Young- Bishop Lloyd is the preacher at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, on the first Sunday in Lent. Lord Windsor will preside over the annual meeting of the governors of the Cardiff Infirmary at the Town-hall to-morrow. Lord mid Lady Wimborne, who have arrived in town from Can ford Manor, will probably go abroad next month until after Easter. Seven women were fined for shebeening or fre- quenting shebeens at Cardiff yesterday. The fines were so heavy that six of them vent- to gaol. Cardiff is getting up a testimonial to Sir Edward Reed, M.P.. for announcing tha.t he intends to resign, so "Moonshine" unfeelingly puts it. Lord Dmra.veu has a premising two-year-old at Newmarket. It is Festa, by St.. Simon out of L'Abbesse de Jouarre. and is not likely to be seen out before Ascot at the earliest. A Penartb intui has written to the assessment committee asking for a reduction on account of the depreciation of the villue of a house which he could not let owing to its reputation of being haunted. Lord Aberdare was tt one time a student of Welsh, and could make excellent translations from that language into English. A transla- tion of his which was made as far back as 1832, when he was only seventeen years old, won the prize at a local eisteddfod. Carmarthen has been quarrelling for weekg over the name that should be given to a new street. "The Avenue" was at last decided upon, and a substantial resident congratulated the council t.ha't the "street will now avenue name." He will lose his seat in November. Welsh Radicals will rrobably search long for the fun in this joke from a comio paper: — the Radical Parish Councils in Wales have already attracted attention by their liberal indulgence in strong liquors. This is to be regretted much -except for one thing, that to make a Welsh Radical tipsy is the best way—sometimes the only way—to get him to out with the truth. A Gelligaer man wa.nts to beat the early butterfly par. we gave 'ast week. last January he was walking through Bedwelltv, and saw small snake of the species known in some parts of the country as blindworm lying on the side of the road. It was alive and lively, although there was a thick ridge of snow within a couple of feet from where it lay. This is the first early snake story to hand. "The same old dog," is the view the Pall Mall Gazette" artist has taken of the Dis- establishment debate. Mr. Asquitii is shown with a little dog on wheels at his side, and under the drawing these lines are given :— There was a little man. And he had a little dog, That died of a knock on the head, head, head; So he stuffed its little, hide With his little father's pride, And totally forgot that it wat; dead, dead, dead. Lord Aberdare used to refer to the Welsh puriets as an effervescent party who complained that he spelt Dyffryn with a "u," and he wa-s quite amused to have a fellow-sufferer at whom they waxed wroth for using the "K" instead of "C" in such words as Cymry. Mr. Thomas Stephens was credited with this innovation upon old usage, and he would always defend it. In fact, he remarked upon one occasion that it should properly be "Kicero," only for the sound of the thing. One of the candidates for a seat on one of the Welsh county councils had some disheartening experiences when canvassing the other night. Candidate Will you vote for me ?" Elector "I don't know you." "Oh, I am Mr. Blank, the great manufacturer, and I intend to go in for looking after the wor-ing men." Oh. you are the chap tliat I've heard so much of, who has made a. fortune by screwing down your own workmen. No, sir; I shall not vote for you. but for the Conservative candidate. We. wan* men of deeds, not words. Capital punishment for the minor offences of cattle stealing, arson, &o., is withm the memory of some people still living. When boy Thomas Knight, living in Victoria-avenue. Maindee, Newport, witnessed the execution of three men for setting fire to corn ricks a.t the village of Ken, near Ya.tton. Somerset. A tree was chosen for the gallows, the ropes dangling from the branches. A wagon drawn up under the tree contained the three men, who had b rope each put round their necks. The wagon was drawn away, and the culprite were left to swing to death. Lord Aberdare was not always immersed in Commis.sions or educational work. Up to the time when he was injured by a gun accident near Brecon he was a keen sportsman, and 1)0 one enjoyed open-air amusements more than he. He was generally to be seen at the Llanwonno and Llanvabon sheep dog trials, noting with lively interest the behaviour of intelligent collies. On one occasion, when he was shooting with the well-known Evan Evans, of 'Berdar. lanto called out, "Now, Bruce, my boy; bad Bruce." His lordship resented the familiarity with an indig-nant "Mr. Evans" but was mollified onl learning that one of the dogs was named Bruce. Mr. Tom John, with the accent on the Tom, writes "Eiddo Caesar i Caesar, a Goreu awea Gwirionedd. In your note on my visit to the pupil teachers of the country you make it understood 'that I was asked by the Ystradv- fodwg School Board' to take the tour of inspec- tion. I should grieve to charge my board with such extravagance. I accompanied the clerk (Mr. W. G. Howells) and Mr. W. W. Hood (the chairman of the board) at the invitation and fm- pense of the latter gentleman, under whose family I had served in the capacity of a teacher for nearly twenty years." Twenty years it not time the juvenile Tom developed into the staider Thomas? One of the biggest hauls ever made on Aber- dare Mountain was in the time of Mr. Gaceon. cashier at Abernant, who was met by two Irishmen as he was taking the pay from the Merthyr Bank to Aberdare. Gaccon was robbed, and he made his way to Aberdare, and gave the alarm, and the whole distriot swarmed- with workmen. A fox hunt was nothing to it. The robbers divided the spoil, and separated. One was caught near Neath, and the other is the Merilhyr Valley. He had crept into » hollow, but a farmer noticed that he had not oome out, and eventually his boot was seen. and he was dragged forth, pummelled, and given in charge. Both had penal servitude for life. Every penny of the money was recovered. "It lias been remarked," writes a correspoW' dent, "concerning Lord Aberdare that several important dates in his career correspond to those of great issues in his country's history. He was born in the year of the Battle of Water- loo. In 1821, the year which saw the death of Napoleon, young Bruce went to France, re- turning in 1827, the veair of Greek Indepen dence. In 1832 he Wan studying tor the Bar—it wa.s the year of the great Reiovm Bill- In 1837, the commencement of the Victorian era, he was called to the Bar. Ten years later he was appointed stipendiary for Merthyr. the first in the Principality. The Chartist RlOtg were the:, (1847) at their height, and the Corn Laws had just been repealed. In five years (1852) he resigned, when the country mourned the death of Wellington." Here is a whiff from last century. It is » par. from the "London Chronicle" of February 20--22. 1794. and is entitled "Extract of a letter from Cardiff, February Of':—"The canal in this neighbourhood is oompleated; and last Fridav a. fleet of canal boats, from Merthvr Tidvil, laden with the nroduoe of the ironworks there, arrived at this place, to the great exulta- tion, as you may imagine, of the town. With the iron treasures of our hills, we hope to grow daily more truly rich than the Spaniards are with their mines in Mexico and Peru: as ourS occasion industry and popula.tion, whilst their's purchase slothful dependence, and are destruc- tive of both. The rude tracts through which the ca-nal in some places passes are constantly improving from, the happy and healthful toil of the husbandman, and m a few years will be forgotten in a garden of verdure and fertility- The canal from Merthyr to Cardiff is 25 miles in extent. It passes a.long the sides of stu- pendous mountains. Nothing can be more extraordinary tha.n for a boat navigating this oanal to look down on the River Taaff, dashing amonc the rocks 100 yards below. The fall from Merthyr to Cardiff is little less than 600 feet. The first barge that arrived at L.tr<t.ft was finely decorated with colours, and waa na.viga.ted from Melingriffid Works by Mr. Bird, sen., the water-bailiff of the port."