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On SATURDAY, JAN. 26th, 1889, CHEAP ONE DAY & THREE DAYS TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED TO LIVERPOOL AS UNDER; THIRD CLASS FARES FROM Startiti, THERE ND BACK. ar mg. Day Trip. Three V_ s. a.m. Barmouth 7 50 5s. 7s. Dolgelley J 25 ) 4s. 6d. 68. 6d. Penmaenpool 30 Arthog 7 45 ) fid Barmouth Junction 8 0 Llwyngwril 8 15^ Towyn S 30 j- 5s. 7s. Aberdovey 8 45 J Aberystwyth 8 15 Bow Street S 27 ( Llanfihangel S 32 > 5s. 8s. Borth 8 37 I Ynyslas 8 43y Glandovey 8 58\ Machynlleth 9 25 I Cemraes Road. 9 35 I Llanbrynmair. 8 58 V 5s. 7s. Carno .„ 9 23 I Pontdolgoch 9 33 I Caersws 9 3S/ First Class Tickets issued at double the Third Class Fares. Children under Three years of age, Free above Three and under Twelve, Half-price. Passengers will be required to change at Oswestry, proceeding then by Special Train at 12.30 p.m. Hot Lunch at a reasonable charge will be provided by Messrs Spiers and Pond at the Refreshment Rooms, Oswestry Station. ARRANGEMENTS FOR RETURN: Passengers holding Day Trip Tickets return from Liverpool (Lime Street) at 11.15 p.m., and Edge Hill at 11.20 p.m., on date of issue of the Tickets. Passengers holding Three Days' Tickets return from Liverpool (Lime Street) at 12.0 noon, on January 28th or 29th. J. CONACHER, Secretary. Passenger Superintendent's Office, Oswestry, Jan., 18S9. [h56 CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS. PANTOMIMES. "THE FORTY THIEVES," at the Royal Theatre. "SINBAD THE SAILOR," at the Prince's Theatre. ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1889. CHEAP ONE DAY & THREE DAYS' TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED TO MANCHESTER AS UNDER T. Third Class Fares for the FR0M Starting. Double journey. Day Trip. Three Days, a.m. Barmouth 7 50 5s. 7s. DPeonlgmealleeny pool 7 7 235 0 J i <1 s. 6 (. 1 7s. Arthog 7 45 Barmouth June. 8 0 I Llwyngwril 8 15 > 5s. 7s. Towyn 8 30 j Llwyngwril 8 15 > 58. 7s. Towyn 8 30 j Aberdovey 8 45 Aberystwyth 8 15 ") Bow Street 8 27 Llanfihangel 8 32 }- 5s. 8s. Borth 8 37 Ynyslas 8 43 J Glandovey 8 58 Machynlleth 9 25 j Cemmes Road 9 35 I Llanbrynmair 8 58 > S' /S" Carno 9 23 j Pontdolgoch 9 33 I Caersws 9 38 First Class Tickets issued at Double the Third Class Fares. Children under Three years of age, Free; above Three and under Twelve, Half-price. ARRANGEMENTS FOR RETURN: Passengers holding Day Trip Tickets return from Manchester (London Road), at 12.0 midnight on date of issue of the Ticket. Passengers holding Three Days' Tickets return from Manchester (London Road), at 11.45 a.m., on January 28th or 29th. Tickets, Bills, and every information to be had at the above-named Stations. J. CONACHER, Secretary. Oswestry, Jan., 1889. CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS. PANT OM I dES. CINDERELLA," at the Rotunda Theatre, Liver- pool. Excursionists on presenting the return half of their tickets will be admitted to this Theatre by an early door without extra charge. "DICK WHITTINGTON," at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool. "JACK AND THE BEANSTALK," Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool. "THE FORTY THIEVES," at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. "SINBAD THE SAILOR," at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. CHEAP HALF DAY TICKETS AND THREE DAYS' TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED TO LIVERPOOL & MANCHESTER SATURDAY, JAN. 26th, 1889. By Special Train as Under Third Class Fares there I and back. FROM Times of 3 Days' 3 Days' Starting Li TicketsTic^to cheste": P°cl" chcster- a.m. Llanidloes .j 10 15 Dolwen • •i 10 20 I Llandinam .| 10 25 I Moat Lane 10 45 > 3s. 7s. 7s. Newtown 11 0 i Abermule 11 10 I Montgomery 11 35 \J Welshpool 11 50 | 3g> 5g 6d 6a Llanymynech 12 10 ) Oswestry 12 30 j 2g_ 6d 4g 6d g Ellesmere 12 4o Children under Twelve years of age, Half-price. First Class Tickets issued at double the Third Class Fares. ARRANGEMENTS FOR RETURN: Passengers holding Half Day Tickets, will leave Liver- pool (Lime Street Station), at 11-15 p.m., Edge Hill Station at 11-20 p.m., and Manchester (London Road Station), at 11-20 p.m., same day. Holders of Three Days' Tickets return from Liverpool (Lime Street) at 12-0 noon, and Manchester (London Road), at 11-45 a.m., on January 28th or 29th. J. CONACHER Oswestry, Jan. 1888. Secretary. [h54 public 4Jûtite. CAMBRIAN RKILWAYS. P A N T 0 -111 At E S. Grand Theatre, Corporation Street:—" BO-PEEP." Queen's Theatre, Snow Hill. Special Programme. On MONDAY, JANUARY 2Sth, 1S89. CHEAP ONE DAY AND THREE DAYS' TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED TO BIRMINGHAM, AS UNDER Times Third Class There and FROM of fares. Back. start'ng DAY TRIP. 3 DAYS'. a.tn, Barmouth 7501) Towyn 830 Aberdovey 8 45 Aberystwyth 8 15 Bow Street 8 27 Llanfihangel 832 I Borth 8 37 Ynyslas 8 43 I Glandovey 8 5S }- 5s. 7s. 6d. Machynlleth 9 25 Cemmes Road .| 9 35 Llanbrynmair 8 5S Carno 9 23 Pontdolgoch 9 33 Pontdolgoch 9 33 Caersws 9 38 ) Llanidloes 6 55 Dolwen 7 0/ „ „. Llandinam .j 7 7 > 4s. 6d. /s. 6d. Moat Lane 7 16 l Newtown .| 7 25 Abermule .i 7 33 J Montgomery .j 7 42 I 4S. 6s_ 6d< Forden .„ 7 45 I Montgomery .j 7 42 I 4s. 6s. 6d. Forden .„ 7 45 I Llanfyllin 9 45 .g/jj Llanfechain 9 59 >- £ g 7s. Llansantfraid 10 5 ) -2 Llansantfraid 10 5 ) -2 rn Four Crosses 11 2 "J fi "§ Llanymynech 10 58 h s" Llynclys 10 50 J H Oswestry 8 40\ Whittington 8 45 I Frankton 8 53 I Ellesmere 8 58 > 4s. 6s. Welshampton 9 3 1 Bettisfield 9 7 I Fenn's Bank 9 15/ A Through Coach will be run from Aberystwyth, Forden, and Intermediate Stations to Birmingham. First Class Tickets at Double the Third Class Fares. Children under three years of age, free above three and under twelve, half-price. Day Trip Passengers return from Birmingham (New Street) at 12-5 midnight on date of issue of the Ticket. Passengers holding Three Days' Tickets return from Birmingham at 11-40 a.m, on January 29th or 30th. J. CONACHER, Oswestry, Jan., 1889. Secretary. [h55 Lewis Terrace, Aberystwyth, January fSrd, 1889. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE FOUR WARDS. LADIBS AND GENTLEMEN,— I beg most sincerely to thank you for having elected me to a seat in the County Council, and shall do my utmost to merit your confidence by the furtherance of all measures conducive to the welfare of the County and Borough in particular. 1 am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, [h74 GEORGE GREEN. CARDIGANSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. | ABERYSTWYTH DIVISIONS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, For the great honour you have conferred by electing me a member of the County Council, permit me to return you my deepest and most sincere thanks. As one of your representatives one in the County Council you may rely upon me at all times to attend to your best interests and to obtain all possible advantages for our town and county. I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Yours obediently, C. M. WILLIAMS. Aberystwyth, Jan. 24t\ 1889, [h82 CYNGHOR SIROL SIR ABERTEIFJ. AT ETHOLWYR DOSBARTH DEVIL'S BRIDGE. FONEDDIOESAU A BONEDDIOION, Yr wyf yn teimlo pleser o gael dadgan fy niolch- garweh gwresocaf i chwi am eich ffyddlondeb i mi, trwy fy newis i'ch cynnrychioli; ae hefyd i eraill am eu cymmhorth yn ystod yr etholiad. Teimlaf mai y ffordd fwyaf effeithiol i dalu diolchgarwch ydyw eich gwasanaethu yn ffyddlawn ar y Cynghor. Meddaf yr anrhydedd o fod, Eich ufudd was, DAVID JONES. Gyfarllwyd View, Devil's Bridge, Ionawr 24ain, 1889. [h84 MERIONETHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. ABERDOVEY DIVISION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I beg most warmly to thank the 89 electors for the free and independent support given me in the recent election. Aberdovey has never before had an opportunity of showing the position it occupied in relation to the Liberal majority of the county, or of showing who among the electors are free and independent. I again thank all who have in any way assisted me in the contest; and I hope that on a future occasion the priaciples of Liberalism will be more successful in the district. I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Yours obediently, h751 J. HUGHES JONES. LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1888. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DYFFRYN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF MERIONETH. LADIES AND GENTLKMEN,— I beg to thank you for your confidence in electing me to represent you in the new County Council. I value it the more highly because it has been unani- mous, notwithstanding differences of political opinions and even of nationality. I will so far as lies in my power, endeavour faithfully to serve you all. Your obedient Servant, [h79 SAMUEL POPE. COUNTY COUNCIL. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE LLANFOR DIVISION, COUNTY MERIONETH. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I have to tender you my thanks for the kind manner in which you have quite unsolicited returned me to the Council by the largest majority in the County. I shall hope to be regular in attendance at the meetings, and I also hope that it is unnecessary to add that my best endeavours to aid the welfare of the County will be exerted in the interest of my kinsmen of Merioneth. I go to the Council with no political feelings what- ever, entirely as an independent member, but the rate- payers will find me a strong Conservative as regards the keeping down of the rates to as near their present level as possible, but as strong a Radical should any change be purposed which I may consider would benefit the County generally. Yours obediently, h77] R. J. LL, PRICE. Public ^otias. MERIONETHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION 1889. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— You have done me the honour of electing me as your representative on the County Council, and I beg sincerely to thank you for the confidence reposed in me. It will be my constant endeavour to continue to do all in my power for your interests, and the advan- tage of the county, irrespective of party politics. Again thanking you for the honour vor. h.2 done me. I am, ladies and gentlemen, Yours very faithfully, JAMES WEBSTER. Aberdovey, 21 January, 1889, lh69. MERIONETHSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL TO THE LIBERAL ELECTORS OF THE HARLECH ELECTORAL DIVISION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— Vou have answered my appeal for your support by electing me as your representative on the County I Council for Merionethshire, and I desire to thank you most cordially for the honour you have thus conferred upon me. Nearly every elector present in the county, not disabled by injury or sickness, recorded his or her vote. As Liberals we may well feel elated at having defeated the strongest opponent that the Conservatives could possibly bring against us. He is a gentleman farmer brought up amongst you and bearing the highest character among rich and poor alike as a kind neighbour besides being (mirabile dictu) a Noncon- formist Conservative. 1 trjst that my conduct in the future will justify the confidence you have reposed in me. Once more I thank you for having stood loyally by your Liberal principles. I have the honour to remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, RICHARD THOMAS JONES, Penygarth, Harlech. Physician and Surgeon. January 21st, 1SS9. ,[h71 MERIONETH COUNTY COUNCIL. LLANEGRYN AND LLANFIHANGEL-Y- PENNANT DIVISION. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— I offer you my warmest thanks for the honour you have done me by promoting my election with so large a majority; and I also wish most heartily to acknow- ledge your courtesy during the contest, and the kind- ness of your welcome after my return. My endeavour will be to study your interests independently of persons or politics. I beg to remain, Your Faithful and Obliged Servant, V. R. M. WYNNE. Peniarth, 21st January 1889. [h70 MONTGOMERYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL. j TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PENEGOES AND DAROWEN DISTRICT. DT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I beg to return my sincere thanks to the Electors who honoured me with their votes at the recent contest, and especially to those kind friends who so devotedly and faithfully existed themselves on my behalf. Though now unsuccessful I am neither disheartened or discouraged" and trust I may retain in the future the confidence you have reposed in me ie the past. I remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, Yours very faithfully, Fron-y-gog, Machynlleth. JOSEPH EVANS. 23rd January, 1889. [h78
MONTGOMERYSHIRE POLITICS.
MONTGOMERYSHIRE POLITICS. THE Montgomery County Council elections have given a majority of only two to the Liberals. Locally there have been startling Liberal victories and defeats, but the total result is a nominal majority of two, which practically means that the Conservatives will rule. There is no county in Wales where the official Liberals are more powerful, or where they are more out of touch with the rank and file of the party, than in Montgomeryshire. They profess a knowledge they do not. possess, and pretend to an influence they do not wield. Their counsel has to be accepted and their advice has to be acted upon, with results such as the recent elections reveal. The Radicals of Montgomeryshire have no real voice in the policy of the party, but have to win what victories they can at the polls by sheer force of numbers. Montgomeryshire Liberalism is very respectable and well-to-do. When it is in its best clothes it can scarcely be distinguished from Toryism, and has quice a Conservative dread of Radicalism, except when the official Liberals have secured safe candidates and laid down a moderate, drawing-room sort of policy. Montgomeryshire has fallen far short of what might reasonably have been expected, and it is the Liberal leaders—the official Liberals-who are to blame. They are eminently respectable, but they create no enthusiasm. They have rendered services to Liberalism, but they will not set Liberalism free. They condemn the principles of Conservatism and yet do not trust their own. They talk loudly about the People, but cling tenaciously and servilely to the skirts of the Nobility. Montgomeryshire official Liberalism is a weak and feeble thing, strong only in its fears. The poor result of the County Council elections is not indicative of the actual political condition of the county. The people want leaders who can lead, and who will not political condition of the county. The people want leaders who can lead, and who will not ask whether Liberal policy will meet with Conservative approval. Welshpool should be lifted out of the shadow of Powis Castle, and compromise in all its forms should be abandoned. Traditional aristocratic Liberals are very little if any better than traditional aristocratic Conservatives. We would as lief be domineered over by the WYNNS as the TRACEYS if it is to be domineering. The time has come when the Radicals of Montgomery- shire should take their case into their own hands and emancipate themselves from a thrall that prevents their doing justice to their principles.
—————.————— ) ON POPULAR VERDICTS.I
—————.————— ON POPULAR VERDICTS. The Mayor of Denbigh having been defeated j in his candidature for a seat in the County j Council has taken the adverse decision as a vote of want of confidence and has resigned his position as Town Councillor and Mayor. Some members of the Metropolitan Board of Works have re- signed their seats on that body because they have failed to secure seats on the London County Council. Vote by ballot keeps every elector ignorant of the final result, and that result is often just the reverse of what is desired by the electors gonerally. At Aberystwyth, for instance, there was a general expectation and, we might almost say, desire, that Mr B. E. MORGAN should be elected, but he was defeated by a considerable majority. We are certain that the vote recorded on Tuesday at Aberyst- wyth was not by any means a vote of want of confidence in Mr B. E. MORGAN, and if Mr B. E. MORGAN held public positions which he proposed to resign in con-! sequence of his defeat on Tuesday he would be wrongly interpreting that vote. The MAYOR of DENBIGH was defeated by six votes and has I resigned his office as Mayor. If he had been elected by six votes we suppose he would have retained the office. A candidate may receive votes because his opponent is objec-! tionable, or he may lose votes because he Has given temporary offence to a section of the community. A poor canvasser may fail while the good canvasser succeeds, but surely it is folly for the Mayor of a town to resign his position because he is not a good canvasser There are scores of electors who vote for the first man who asks them for their support, and it is only roughly, and with many limita- tions and reservations, that the results of a poll record the actual wishes and desires of the voters. We question, for instance, whether., the result would be the same if owing to some informality it were necessary far the six Aber- ystwyth candidates to go to the poil on the same issue next Tuesday. A large number of elec- tions are decided by very narrow majorities. For the purposes of election majorities, however narrow, are sufficient, but as indications of opinion as to character and ntnesss very narrow majorities are not to be taken seriously. A majority of one is as effective as a majority of thousands in returning members to the County Councils, but it is absurd to treat a majority of one as proof of loss of public confidence. Success and failure count, but they should not count for more than they are worth. Many a man by the way he has accepted defeat has secured future victory. To understand popular verdicts it is necessary to understand what is the issue raised in each voter's mind. A candidate may lose votes for other things besides his unfitness for the office he seeks, and it often happens that he is most popular who has given least offence, and so it often comes to pass that the stranger wins where the native loses. We think the Mayor of Denbigh has taken his defeat too much to heart and his example is not one that should be generally followed.
- THE PAPER UN-IOTISTS.
THE PAPER UN-IOTISTS. Govan election has carried consternation into the almost deserted camp of the Paper Unionists. The victory of Mr JOHN WILSON by 1071 has more than local significance. Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S pilgrimage to Scotland has ended in the dissipation of any political mist that might at one time have hung about that nation. -:SIr GLADSTONE reigns supreme, and his would-be rival is nowhere. The insignificance into which Mr CHAMBERLAIN has fallen must be apparent. to even the most infatuated of his believers. What has become of those still-born political associations which, under the protection of Mr I CHAMBERLAIN, were going to smash GLAD- STONIAN Liberalism ? They have been buried out of sight, and few remember their existence, for they had no history. In Paper Unionism never had any large number of adherents, and those were, as a rule, good Liberals who had faith in Mr I CHAMBERLAIN as a Radical leader. Little by little they have seen the Birmingham autocrat in his true colours. They have watched him in his defence of coercion, and in his support of BALFOURISM they have marked his easy repudiation of Liberal principles, and have noted his desertion of everything he once professed to admire in the Liberal creed they have seen how he hob-nobs with the nobility, and have read his attacks upon his former leader. The Liberal party still stands in its own place. It would not follow at the beck of Messrs CHAMBERLAIN and HARTINGTON. A few went a little wpy down the wrong road, but they discovered their mistake and returned, so that now there are several prominent Paper Unionist leaders without followers in the country. In the House of Commons there are the miserable dissentient who will be condemned as soon as evi-r they can be brought to the bar of public opinion. They know their doom, and shrink from it They are the foes of Ireland—the friends of oppression. The Paper Unionists in Cardigan- shire had an early opportunity of measuring their strength combined with the Conservatives and the result is matter of history. Since then the breach between the two sections of Liberals has been narrowed and in many eases made up; so that the men who fought against each other in 1886 can now talk and laugh over the con- flict and explain to each other how they came to fall into different camps. It is reasonable that Mr DAVID DAVIES should have had numerous supporters, and it was not surprising that many of them were sore and held aloof when he was opposed and defeated. The occasion was unexampled, and its effects will outlast the generation. Still a process of heal- ing has been going on. Bitterness is dying. Both sides are now willing to admit that they made mistake, and Govan comes with its de- cisive majority to show the friendly foes that they have one cause, one aim, one hope—the advancement. of freedom and the removal of I oppression. In the Cardigan County Council elections there have lwen successful Conser- vatives, successful Liberals, and successful In- dependents, but where are the successful Paper Unionists 1 We may be told that some of the successful Liberal candidates were strong Unionists at the last election. Very true, but much has happened since then. The hope of Mr JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN is the eighty zD years of Mr GLADSTONE. To what a miserable plight Mr CHAMBERLAIN has been reduced when he has to wait for Death to help him, and Death will not help him. Strong as the Liberal party is in its veteran chief it is stronger still in its vigorous manhood and in its ripe middle age. The weakness of Mr J OSEPH CHAMBER- LAIN is that he has no imagination. He is as metallic as one of Birmingham's own brass jewels and almost as pretentious. Govan has been explained, but it still needs explanation. Unhappy JOE Miserable Paper Unionists
COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.
COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS. THE Welsh County Council elections have gone Liberal. The returns show more 'than the usual number of surprizes. In Cardiganshire, with a few notable exceptions, the majorities are small, and in some divisions the contests have been fought with a keenness that will leave a good deal of ill-feeling behind. The LORD LIEUTENANT of Cardiganshire has been elected. In Cardiganshire the electors have voted in as many divisions as they were qualified, and some of the electors managed to record our votes during the day. If it should be decided that only one vote is legal, then some of the Cardiganshire results may be reversed, and those who have voted more than once will be put to a good deal of trouble and expense. There will be about a dozen Conservative members in the Cardiganshire Council, and it will be interesting to see whether they will act on non-political lines, or whether they will do all that lies in their power from time to time to serve their own side. Politics will find no place in the County Council Chamber, but politics had no place in Quarter Sessions, and yet there was a very distinct Conservative bias in all formations of committees, and in all official appointments. There can be little doubt that County Councils will make themselves felt in Quarter Sessions, and favouritism in magisterial appointments will bring about retaliation whenever County Council elections come round. It is fondly hoped by the county gentry that farmers, shopkeepers, and professional men will soon grow tired of the monotony and expense of -in county business. A considerable number of the new members will almost certainly drop out, but it will always be deemed to be an honour to be a member of a public body that counts in its numbers members of the aristocracy and nobility. The second election will probably bring more candidates into the field than the first brought, and, while there will probably be a falling off in the number of farmers who will seek election, it is almost certain that business men will come forward to till their places. At present very little is known as to the scope of the Act, but the face is fully appreciated that County Councils are empowered to transact all the administrative and tinancial business formerly transacted by Courts of Quarter Sessions, and that they have been endowed with additional responsibilities and privileges. The next point of interest is the selection of aldermen. We sincerely hope the elected members will realize that in their manner of electing alder- men they will establish an important precedent. We have urged and still urge that the aldermen should be selected from the elected members and not from Gle outside. Good men may have been defeated, but an aldermanic chair should not be a consolation stakes. When the Councils are complete then the interesting point will be the election of chairman. Until then it is im- possible to say what material will be available for that important position. We are quite satisfied with the results of the polls in Cardigan- shire. The uncontested seats were few, and the Liberal victories are complete, not only in number but in character.
I -—~—■—— LOCAL AND GENERAL…
I —~—■—— LOCAL AND GENERAL NOTES- It is announced that the analysis by London I assayers of the quartz now being stacked at the Ogofan gold mine, Llandovery, shows satisfactory results, a considerable quantity yielding six ounces of gold per ton of quartz. Upwards of 300 tons of quartz are stacked at the mine awaiting stamping operations. A new company has been formed and land is leased from Sir JAMES HILLS-JOHS. K. C. B. There is great need of caution in taking shares in Welsh gold mine companies wherever they are situated and however rich they may appear to be. As a rule warnings are thrown away upon the very people who have most to say if they are not warned. •» Last week at Moorgate station, London, a London, Chatham, and Dover train was entering the station when, owing to the greasy state of the rails, the brakes failed to act as effectively as usual, with the result that the heavy engine dashed with tremendous force into the stopper-buffers, and the buffers, together with the enormous baulks of timber supporting it, were hurled bodily from their place against the bookstall adjoining. The bookstall was entirely demolished, and the clerk inside at the time was buried beneath the debris. He was, however, quickly extricated, and, although somewhat badly bruised, declined to act upon a suggestion that he should go to hospital. Nothing remained of the bookstall save a heap of splintered wood, torn newspapers and books--even the solid platform upon which the structure was built having been hurled a distance of several feet. A failure of the brakes when entering the station at Aberystwyth would causa a tremendous crash, and who shall say that the brakes shall always act ? „ -r.- Mr A. H NORWOOD, lvI. P., in a recent speech said !hsws« not surprised at the result of the Govan elei-ti-zc, and he did not mean to exaggerate the victory ga:rC;i by ir opponents; but he thought it wa.: n fc rig nr. is sht.uld he minimised. It should prove an iiuentive to UimgiiLM to main* tain their principles, or ws should be having a claim for Home Rale for Scot-land as well as Ireland, and perhapa, as well as Wales," The demand for Homs Ruls far Wales is certain whatever may happen in Scotland and England. The only way out of the present legislative deadlock is the adoption of Home Rule. Govan election is a sign that need not be repeat- ed three times in order to be understood. We cannot understand what Conservatives are, afraid of in Home Rule. The more power is given to local Parliaments the more honour will accrue to landowners who make a study of public business. THOMAS FOSTER, a London cab owner, sent out a horse unfit to work, and has been sent to prison for a mouth's hard labour for that offence. Mr Alderman PHILLIPS who tried the case said that, in his opinion, there could not be a worse case of cruelty. He did not think he would be doiua: his duty if he was to allow defendant the option of a fine. He would have to go to prison for one month with hard labour. Addressing LOWMAN* the driv-er of the horse who had been sum- moned and dismissed, Mr Alderman PHILLIPS told him not to think that he had exonerated him from all blame in discharging him. He merely discharged him because no cue coulu have been proved against FOSTER without his evidence. His conduct had been rnosc dis- graceful. The cruelty suffered by animals at the hands of tiJOS6 who have power over them is almost incredible and makes a sad memory for those who think of it, That one brute gone to prison for a month for cruelty to a horse is a hopeful circumstance in a dreary record of a a lie ring. An annual Mothers' Dinner was held at Dorking on Monday night. An interesting incident was the presentation by Mrs CUBITT, wife of Mr CCBITT, M.P., to MINNIE MATILDA MURRELL, aged fifteen. of an illuminated address and S5, awarded to her by the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire. She was a servant at the house of Mr NIGH'S in High-street, which a short time ago was burnt out. There were three children in the bedroom. She first rescued one from the first floor, then, rushing up again, took the others one under each arm, brought them down through the blinding smoke and heat, dropping one on the stairs-but afterwards going up and recovering it. Finally, she lowered the two children from the front window to the people in the street. The heroic girl had an enthusiastic reception. What a dreadful thing it would be if this brave girl, when she becomes a woman, were entrusted with a vote Votes are safe in the hands of drunken, degraded men, but to trust a brave, sober, intelligent woman with a vote, especially if she were married, would ruin the Constitution' Ensilage seems to hold its own and even to grow in favour. The MANAGING DIRECTOR of the Leicester- shire Dairy Company says:—"Milk from twelve "difrerent farms came under my notice; among the lot was one which ahowed on analysis a much higher percentage of butter fats than any of the others on "inquiring from the farmer who sent the milk, as to the feeding of the cows, his reply was ensilage, and nothing else; he also added the cows were milking well, and were improving in condition. I am now "selling two tons of silage per week in Leicester for horses. I found the prejudice against it at first very strodg this is gradnally being overcome, as it is seen how well the horses do upon it, and the demand is steadily increasing. Silage for sale in the towns must be the sweet sort, and for horses should be brown in colour, and not contain too much moisture. "The making of the different kinds of silage-viz., the "gour green, the sweet green, and the sweet brown— merely requires a little practical knowledge as to th« condition of the crop when stacked and the weighing of the ensilage. I have just cui: into a large round "stack twenty feet in diameter it consists cf spring i "vetches, sown in June after trifolium and cut in October, and aftermath meadow-grass. The whole of the ensilage in this stack is sweet and fit for horses. What we have to learn now is the most economical way of making ensilage," When ensil- age can be easily made in stacks one objection to i& will hare been removed.