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LOCAL AND GENERAL NOTES. The agricultural papers are full of instances to show that the new railway rates will hit farmers "very hard. We hope this may be the fact. If, for instance, pigs that can now be sent for 2s. 2d. per head will in future cost 133. 4d. per head, farmers may be induced to take an interest in this subject. Highef rates is the only policy railways seem to understand, and yet they make all their money out of concessions wrung from them by the Post Office and third-class passengers. At the Liverpool Bankruptcy Court last week a wan named BROWN, hay and straw dealer, came up for his public examination in bankruptcy. BROWN had liabilities amounting to £500, and X165 5s. 8d. assets. He had been in business for twelve years. He had no money when he started, and he had never been solvent. He had not lost any money, he said, because he had none to lose, but had lived at the rate of about two pounds a week. This gentleman—this really ingenious gentleman- has been in more senses than one, a man of straw, and he illustrates once more the truism that people are mostly fools. There are 2,725 ordained Congregational ministers in England and Wales and it is said that 2,034 are total abstainers. The former figures are probably correct, but how about the latter ? Is not great pressure brought to bear upon ministers to say that they are total abstainers ? We do not believe in the 2,034 abstaining Congregational ministers, and from what we have heard from time to time the test for a total abstaining ministers is not total abstinence. This is a matter respecting which some- thing more might be said. The desire to repre- sent ministers as abstainers is liable to tempt com- pilers of statistics to overstate facts. Complaints are made that inadequate publicity is -given as to th¡ nature and scope of the inquiry now being held at different places in Wales by Mr L. THOMAS. We had some gratuitous advertise- ments sent to us some months ago, but we did not insert them. The Government seem to think that it is the duty of newspapers to advertise for nothing, but if newspapers ask for any sort of concession they are treated with all the redtapeism for which Government officials are remarkable. The POSTMASTER GENERAL and other officials send out advertisements which would cost thousand of pounds, and expect them to be published for nothing. Newspapers, like Governments, require revenue. -:r- A week or two ago we pointed out how the owners of insanitary hovels defeat the local govern- ing authorities by simply refusing to obey orders. Last week in London a man named ABRAHAMS was fined twenty shillings and costs for failing to comply with the orders of the Beimondeey Vestry. ABRAHAMS had get a man or two to open drains and said that he only wanted time. That is the excuse. The time has come when County Councils should attack the hovel dwellings of the rural districts. In towns there in need for now houses, but people who possess money would rather hold doubtful shares than build houses, and the people who require houses do not seem to be able to make themselves heard. The MARQUESS of LONDONDERRY, although not pre- pared now to advocate Protection, yet in the future he thinks we may have Protection in a certain form. It has been proved over and over again that while Protection increases the price of commodities it does not raise wages. Wages depend, not on the number or amouot of commodities made, but on the scarcity of people to make or produce them. Protection for a, time would give the MARQUESS of LONDONDERRY higher rents because a duty was put on bread stuffs. The temnt might benefit slightly for a shorter time, but the labourer would be in competition with his fellow laboirer for dear food and his lot would be what it was m the old days of Protection, desperate. There will never be Protection in this country, and the MARQUESS d LONDONDERRY knows this as well as we do. When Protection is adoptei it must go all through every iadiiitry, and when everything has been made artificially dear, who will be benefited ? It is just a hundred years since the French re- volution. Only a hundred years, and how many governments have there beep in the time ? Last week a manifesto was issued by the Anarchists of Paris and this is what it siid Up Take to the streets Forward Do not any longer trust "to voting. Grapple bodily with the capitalists Annihilate the exploiters of the people t Seize on "the bourrroisie; twist their necks; and march onward to your definitive liberation. Everything is rottsn, all about you. You, the people, have a little health left in you. Set to work before the contagion spreads to your- selves. One s.rong push will suffice 2,11 the system that has oppressed you for centuries will crumble to the grouud, and you will be your own "masters." They took to the streets in 170,3. They grappled bodily with the capitalists. They twisted plenty of neck i. The rotten systems that had oppressed the people for centuries were crumbled to the ground, and what were the results. There was 1S15, 1848, 1870. And one strong push in 1893 will suffice Will it ? When the people revolt against one tyrart it is only to make way for another. The first NAPOLEON was not much worse than the third NAPOLEON, and the present -Rediiblic is- not less rotten than the Republic that x,-ceoed it. I J LADY ALEXANDER GORDON LENNOX died at her town residence, Pont-street, Belgravia, at h-.If-past four on Saturday, from typhoid fever. Typhoid fever is the aristocratic filth disease. Country houses are "most delightfully" situated, but the cellars are cesspools. The wells for the local water supply are impregnated with filth, and death is dealt out with the drinking water. The poor do not know how amply they are avenged for the neglect of ages by this deaths of the aristocracy from one of the foulest filth diseases. No east- end hovel is as deadly as the stately mansion standing in its own wooded grounds, where the inhabitants are literally imbedded in their own filch. We arc told that klld is going out of cultivation unless protection is adopted. Protection will not he adopted, and the quescion arises what we shall do with all the land—all the land miud you. A few acres will be required to grow hay, which fetches a good price in the markets, and straw is not exactly given away. Then a few acres will be required for grazing, for gardens, for potatoes, fruits, barley, roots, oats, hops. Wheat seems to be almost the only crop that cannot be grown at a profit, so even without protection a very consider- able breadth of land will still remain under cultiva- tion. The railways of the country think that pro- duce will bear higher rates for carriage, and are acting on the thought. If the people who demand protection got it, the landowners and the railway companies would divide the spoil between them and everybody else would be worse off than before. Last year it is stated that the amount of new capital of all kinds offered for subscription barely reached £80,000,000, and of this not more than £ 60,000,000 in hard cash was found by the public. In 1889, the high-fever year, the total offered in London was about 9190,000,000, of which probably E150,000,000 was found. The frauds of company- promoters have at last made investors cautious. Further legislation is demanded to protect the ignorant and foolish but no legislation can prevent the fool and his money being quickly parted. What is wanted is that every prospectus should bear on its face the promoters of the company, and every promoter and director should be really re- sponsible for the statements made. Still, if the public are willing to give a hundred thousand pounds for a thing that is not worth five thousand, who is to prevent them ? Dr NORMAN KERR, president of the Society for the Study of Inebriety, gave evidence last week in the case of a woman who was found dead after a spell of drunkenness. This poor woman's case was made the occasion by the CORONER, Dr G. DANFORD THOMAS, of some very sensible remarks. He said that as a matter of public economy, as well as of humanity, surely, instead of committing inebriates to prison a hundred or even two hundred times, it would be far betfer to eompulsorily detain them in suitable retreats for one long period with a view of I effecting a permanent reformation. This is a free country, and we question whether Mr AUBERON HERBERT and other extreme Individualists would not consider the detention of a drunkard for his own good an outrage on the Sacred liberty of the subject. There is a limit, easily reached, where people should not be imprisoned for their own good even when those people are drunkards. ♦ Alderman HOLDEN says he will never again offer himself again for election at Walsall. He said he would work zealously for any one else, and he was satisfied that a stranger would be able to do what he could not do—namely, do away with the caves which had been formed in the party in the borough. It is a melancholy fact that the man who is least known, and who remains least known, has the best chance of being elected as a member of Parliament. How frequently it happens that a man who is only known by name will be unanimously chosen to re- present a constituency over the heads of hundreds of able men who have lived with the people all their lives. Why did you elect Mr NULLUS to represent you. The reply is "0, we did net know anything about him and therefore he had no enemies." How much Alderman HOLDEN'S deter- mination says for the crass stupidity of the average eiector. Foreign newspapers are discussing the probable theatre of the next war." A few men-under a dozen in number-kp.ep millions of their fellows armed to the teeth and ready to spring at each other's throats. We look forward to the time when the masses of the people of England, France, Ger- many, Russia, Italy; Austria, Spain, and other countries will forbid war as an outrage on humanity. Take the German EMPEROR. Why should he be able to plunge Europe into war ? There is no reason. Who is he ? The Emperor of RUSSIA, again what is he better than the meanest of his wretched subjects ? He is no better. The people arc slaves. They are willing to murder each other for a pittance a day. Good God. the folly is simply indescribable. The war of 1870 un- seated an emperor. The next war may unseat several more. The people of France have no quarrel with the people of Germany. The day is coming when the people of Germany will ask the people of France why they should slay each other. kVe should be glad to hear the answer to this most reasonable question. A large Royal Commission has been appointed to consider the position of old people in receipt of parish relief. Lord ABERdare is president. The PRINCE of WALES is a member. Mr ALFRED THOMAS is not a member, but Mr A. C. HUMPHREYS- OWEN is. The subject is a big one. and it is a shame that no woman has been put on the Com- mission. Nothing effective can be done in the pauper question until labour colonies have been es- tablished and until tho relations of trade societies, friendly societies, and other organizations towards the poor have been revised. At present the rich are pensioned, but the poor are sent to the workhouse- The ejuntty is drained of wealth to maintain armies and to pay for old wars. We have never under- stood why a man who has served faithfully in the industrial ranks is not as much entitled to a pen- sion as a man who has served in the army. Every working man, whether his life long or short, spends his capital and interest in maintaining him- self and he cannot help himself. We have discussed this subject scores of times. All that is required is to enable working men to secure their capital as the rich are enabled to secure their capital, in order to get rid of nine-tenths of poverty. An Austrian professor has writ ten an article on Pulitical Insanity. According to this autnority your political lunatic is a person who. dissatisfied with the condition of human society, believes him- self culled upon to better mankind by putting some- thing new that will work, in place of the old that has shown it will not work. A political lunatic of this kind, we are told, lacks the reason to under- stand that the removal of the representative of a certain system does not destroy the system itself, that rebellion of any sort calls forth reaction, and that social progress demands a gradual evolution. As far as we can see political lunatics" is only another name for reformers. The reformer sees the evil and hopes that change will mean improve- ment. Change does not always mean improvement, and the removal of one tyrant does not ensure that there shill not be a succession of tyrants, but as revolution is the only possible remedy against cer- tain forms of tyranny we do not see what the political lunatic is to do if he does not revolt. Perhaps the Austrian professor thinks there should not be any political lunatics, but lunacy is not a matter of choice and so we are not able to say that nol.o'y will try to better the world by substituting the evil they have not tried for the evil they lnve tried and suffered from. Pr PARKER ha3 sent a new year message to the archbishops and bishops of the Church of England. He says he claims to be as much a biehop as any of them. More, far more, Dr PARKER. No ordinary archbishop asks to be made the direct mouthpiece of God for political and social messages to the people We hope Dr PARKER will be saved from a fit of modesty. Pope, nothing less than Pope, with en- larged powers, would suit Dr PARKER. ■* «- One of the bicycle fiends has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The victim was an old woman named FIELD who was run down at Dover by a young named MOAT. We have seen scores of bicyclists riding reckleisly down Great Carkgate-street and past the police office. If a few of these terrors of the road are sent for trial the pace will soon be moderated. Not only has the danger of being run down to be encountered, but the lisk of exasperating impertinence has to be faced if remonstrance is ventured upon. Miss CLARA BRETT MARTIN has been admitted to the Law Socitty of Ontario, and is now a fully qualified lawyer. In Eogland there will be a severe struggle before women are admitted to be members of the Law Society. But the severest struggle will be in resisting the admission of women to the privileges of the clergy. The Church is the last citadel women will have to take. Doctors gave way first. Law gave way next, and the Church will be last. Women have far more to gain by change of public opinion in their favour than by legislation. If women did all they now have power to do, there would be great changes during the year on which v.e have just entered. There was a considerable decrease last yeir in the amount of money invested in limited liability companies, but still the sum invested and lost was enormous. Any sort of rotten business is formed into a limited liability company, and the public are easily induced to buy shares. What is to be said about people who will invest their last penny in companies, societies, and banks of which tlify know absolutely nothing. There are banks which hold millions of deposits from people who know nothing whatever of the way the banks are managed. The best place for ignorant people to invest money is with the Government. The Government is to in not making deposits in State banks easier. The desire to speculate and gamble is deep and wide- spread. There is nothing people are more carele-s about than their money. There is at last a procpect of activity a.-nD!,gst landlords and tenants. The new railway rates aie putting up the charges for the carriage of farm produce to an extent that will finish the farmer's career, or else he has been doing a great deal better even in these bad times than he admits. In future, the carriage of carrots or parsnips, will be £ 3 18s an acre more than formerly, onions will cost an additional JEG 16s cabbage, £ S 10s broccoli, £ S 15s and beetroot, £ 14 lis Sd. If this does not Uke more than all the profits then farmers have been doing very well in past times. What is the use of talking about a protective duty equal to a pound an acre when railways come in and by the stroke of a pen demand from JE5 to JE14 per acre. Luckily railway rates cannot injure Aberystwyth, where there is cheap water carriage. Aberystwyth is beginning to have cause to bless the harbour. The Paper Unionists are disappearing gradually. Alderman WRIGHT, ex-mayor of Leicester, who was invited to contest the borough in the Dissentient Liberal interest at the last election, has seceded from the Dissentient Liberal party and this example has been followed by another leading member. There will soon be nobody left of the rebels except Mr JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, who is more discredited every year. His misfortune has been the continued vigour of Mr GLADSTONE. Poor, unhappy, Mr CHAMBERLAIN. If he can get a peerage he would be wise to take it. He stands no chance whatever of coming to the front in the House of Commons. Nobody could have made a greater mess of a promising political career than Mr CHAMBERLAIN has made. That he might have succeeded Mr GLADSTONE is generally admitted. Now he will succeed nobody. A big ambition, a bad temper, and a torpid imagination are bad stock for a pushing politician. ♦ The Roman Catholic Bishop of North Dakota says the prohibition of. drink policy in that State is a complete failure. He says While carefully re- training from approving or disapproving of prohibition as a theory, I assert that prohibition is a fht failure in North Dakota. If the people want prohibition, let them insist upon its enforcement if they do not want it, let them have the courage to say so, and do away with it, and in its place give us some means of regulating the traffic." This is the case of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act repeated. The temperance advocate will not face the fact of that measure He clings to his prohibition policy and refuses to see that he has created numberless shebeens and brothels. We do not know what to say to him. The public houses are closed and he is happy That the evil is greater than before does not trouble him. We dare not accuse a person of keeping a barrel of beer and a prostitute for Sunday use, but there is no doubt about the fact, and this state of things is the direct result of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act The Board of Directors of the ManchesterJChamber of Commerce rebuke the agitators for a changejjm the currency hws of India by the following rcSõT- tion In the opinion of this Board an alteration in the existing currency laws of India, eithsr in the direction of closing the Mints to the free coinage of silver, or attempting to establish a gold standard, is to be deprecated as certain to disappoint the expiations of those who advocate the change, as being fraught with possibilities of serious economic loss and political danger, and as uncalled-for, looking either to the recent financial history of the Government of India and to the steady improving conditon of the people, or to its commercial relation with Europe, the ?traits Settlements, China, and the Far East." It is the official who has to send a portion of his salary to England who wants the trade of three hundred millions of people to be upset so that he may be saved from a little loss. The rupee buys its worth of goods in India and it is only when silver is sent over to this country that there is loss. A merchant who sells a cargo of cotton goods for rupees can purchase an equivalent value of goods in India with the rupees. If he is stupid enough to bring the rupees over here he \fill lose by the transaction, but there are no idiots of that kind in commerce. •» Attention has been called in the London papers to the fact that in the United States, although the foreign-born element constitutes less than one- seventh the population, it furnishes more than one-third of the paupers and live-eighths of the suicides. The man who cannot live at home may sometimes manage to live in another country, but as a rule the incapable person here is incapable there. Emigrants pay a heavy toll in suffering and death, but if they remained at home they would suffer and die. Let anyone who thinks of emigrating go and look at the slopes of Plynlimon mountain, or the watery levels of Tregaron bog, and ask himself what he would do with a hundred or a hundred and fifty acres of land far from roads, railways, markets, and population. Life in an American city is very like life in cities e!sewhere. It sometimes happens that a man do work as an emigrant which he would not do at home. They are wise who do not emigrate. There is another point. The difference between the inhabitants of one country and another are differences which the emigrant has to face often at cost of health and life. People who ate making both ends meet at home would do well to stop tntre. Work on a farm in the United States is not less j hard than on a farm in this co^n'ry. 9- ROSECGER, the Styrian poet, 1.3 dying. He has recently published a book entitled, "All Sorts cf Human Things," and in it he gives his views oil marriage. He says, If you think of marrying a woman remember you marry three creatures, a "young one, a middle-aged, and an old one. Unless "one or two die before their time, you marry a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. In her you marry a lot of people you do not know. You don't marry for to-day, or for to-morrow, but for life, and for all "sorts of situations. If she is gentle, and wise, and true, you have a bride, not only for the wedding-day. but for sickness and poverty and old age. If she is only handsome, she will some day grow ugly but if "she is good and true, she will stand wear. Try to know her before you take her." ROSEGGER ia not in it. In marriage, women marry men, as well as men marry women, and a large measure of the misery of married life arises from the changes in the men, who also grow middle-aged and old. At twenty, men and women may be equals, at fifty they may be opposites. The real evil of marriage is that it is indissoluble. There is another fatal defect in marriage, namely, the legal subjection of women. This legal subjection makes women iota suspicious tyrants. After all, women risk more and lose more, than men risk and lose by marriage.
ABERYSTWYTH.
ABERYSTWYTH. EMBEZZLEMENT.—At the Shrewsbury Police Court on Saturday last, Robert Strain, a commercial traveller, well known in this town, and in the employ of Messrs Dunville and Co, distillers, was charged with embez. zling two sums of f51 10s and f33 19s, the money of his employers, early in 1892. It was stated that the large sum of £22,000 yearly parsed through his hands and that he received a salary of X530 yearly. Prisoner had absconded to America but returned and surrendered at Shrewsbury. He did not deny his guilt, The magistrates took a lenient view of the case and sentenced prisoner to three months bard labour. PETTY SESSIONS.—The usual ordinary wfekly sessions were held at the Tovn Hall on Wednesday, before Mr William Thomas, mayor, Evan Morris, Peuparke, was charged by P.O. James Morgan, with having been drunk in the borough on the 27th December; defendant -int was also charged by P.C. David Edwards, with having been drunk on the 2Sth December.—Defendant pleaded guilty to both charges, and was fined 2s. 6d. including costs tor the first offeuce and 2s. 61. and costs for the second. THE WEATHER.—The weather during thp past fnrt- I night nas neen seasonable. Several degree* of frost have been registered e->ch dav which resulted in putting a thick coatmg of ice over the pcols and slow running streams of the district, and giving skaters an opportunity of indidging in skating such as they have not enjoyed for the past twentv ysri Even the Ystwyth was frozen over sufficiently think tn carry a large iiiiml,er nf people. On Tuesday a few flakes of snow fell and a change in the weather appeared imminent but towards evening the sky aga;n cleared and thpre was a return to frosty weather. As the roads and fields wen dry before the frost set in, there is no difficulty in locomotion, and n" the wind is quiet and there is nn absence of fop with a dry climate and bright sunshine during the day, the weather is most enjoyable for people in fairly good health. CONCERT.—The -nniial concert in onnpct,on with the Aherystwvth United Choir and Male Voice Party .nl.' held on Friday evening at the Assembly Roons m,lie,q the ch-ir was occupied by the Mayor (Mr Wm. Thomas ) Miss %TaLgc Morgan was the accompanist. There was a large attendance. The following was the programme — Address by the Chairman selecdon, "Joan of Am," Town Band song. Peidiwch Q'')fy'l i mi gtnu," Miss Davies dnett, Lie treigla'r Caveri," Messrs 'Griffiths and Joneq song. Love's old sweet song," Mi's 'R,,qns anthen. T)vl(lia,i dvn./ he Chnir song. "The holv oitv." Mr David M is: song. -aiva nos Domioe jvir Hilgnes song and chorus. "Call John," Mr Cowlev and party: chorus, "Martvrs of the arena." Mr J. Beniamin and party; solo, "Sound the AlArm" Mr J. R. Jones; duett, "Gwys i'r gad," Messrs Griffiths and Cowlev song. "The two spoons." Simon song, Ornest." Mr J. Beniamin song, Fe now Llewellyn pto'n ol." song. "Mvnvdd i mi." Mr Ball chorus, For unto us a Child is born." the Choir. DRAMATIO.—On Wednesday evening a. drimat'c entertainment of an inter*»tir>g character and got up by Mrs Hayes in aid of Holy Trinitv Par chial Society, was given at the Biin Theatre. There was a large and respectable attendance. The fir;tt part of the evening was occupied bv the performance of a nipe- entitled Bluebeard nn to Dafe in wlrch Haves as Fatima WAR capital and Miss Harries and Miss 1 Daisv Haves did their parts to general satisfaction. A "Mr Maurice acted Bluebeard down to the ground. In the second piece, Ponping the Ouestion." the male P"r*s were taken bv Mr Ellison." Mr Foster" and "Mr Brown" who are not known in Aberystvrvth by those names. Thev performed their pirts w;th applause and were only sunported by Mrs Hayes. f¡sQ Hayps, and Mi«s Earl. Mr W. H. Wemyss placed the room at the disposal of the company free of charge, and the performance realised a considerable sum for the Parochial Society. RATEPAYERS' UNION".—A meeting of the Ratepiyers' Union was held on Friday evening when only about thirty members attended including Councillors Green, Harries, Hopkins, and Edwards. The meeting was called for eight o'clock but it was half past before Mr George Wilkinson, the president, took the clmr, though he himsdf was punctual. Mr Rowland Morgan had given notice of motion on the subject of a pavilion for Aberystwyth, but he was not present and no one was authorised to take up the subject for him. Nothing was therefore said about it. In considering the agenda of the forthcoming Council meeting, Mr Green, as member of the Finance Committee, was asked what a certain payment was for under the name of Messrs Gordon and Co. Mr Green replied that through a misundsrstanding as to fixtures of meetings, he was not present at the Finance Committee, but he supposed the charge was for kerb stones. As in every other case it was stated what the items w^re for, it was suggestod that as there was some feeling in the town because the Cm-icil had grille to Ireland for kerb stonrs, the explanation was purposely omitted from the agenda. Councillors present were requested to enquire into the matter at the Council meeting. The leases question cropped up on the recommendation of the Finance Committee to treat the renewal of a lease of a house in North pirade on the bisis of a site and not on that of th° ratable value of the premisc and it was resolved to discuss the general question of renewal of lease4 specially at the next meeting of the Union. Something like a row occurred ou the matter of carting sand and gravel from the beach, that subject also appearing on the agenda. Mr W. R. RaJl opened the discussion by saving that it was a matter of much importance. If the quantity of gravel on the beach was a constant quantity which was merely shifted backwards and forwards by the tides, not a single loid should be taken away, as removal would weaken the natural barrier of the sea and rrake it a serious matter for people living on the Terrace. If, on the other hand, the sand and gravel on the beach was a moving quantity from the south northward and what was taken away to-day was replaced to-morrow then there could be no objection to removal. As it was an important matter he suggested that the discuss on should be adjourned si that the members of the Union might obtain informa' ion as to whether the quantity of sand and gravel nn the beach was a constant quantity or not. Mr Evan Davies, Cambrian-place, jumped to the conclusion that the previous speaner was opposed to the removal of sand and gravel, and pointedly s'dd that nobody asked people to live on the Terrace and that if it did not buit them they had better go and Jive elsewhere. That reniaik being met by loud cheers, Mr Hall said he had merely stated the question, expressing no opinion on it, bni, there appeared to be people present in the meeting who ha 1 not sufficient intelligence to comprehend what was PPid. The Chairman asked for a withdrawal of that expression, hut Mr Hall refused to do so, on the ground that when he had merely stated a question he was assumed to have taken a side upon it. Dr Harries said that very often when a person accused others of want of intelligence it arose from the want of intelligence in the accuser. Professor Rudler had told him that the gravel on the beach was a thing which by its constant trituration wore away rocks and walls, that it wis more of a danger than a means of safety, that if it were removed sand would come in its plaee, and that therefore the sooner every bit of gravel -as removed from the beach the better. Moreover, if the Council refused the lo,al gentry to take gravel, they would not grantconeess'or.s of water rights for electric lighting purposes or grant land for the making of a railway to the Devil's Bri ige. Others spoke on the question and ultimately it was agreed by all with one exception to approve the removal of gravel from the beach. Complaint haviry been made of the Council pottering over the question of electric fighting of the to" n in lwt calling in a competent engineer to advise the best method, Dr. Harriet was asked to give an addre-s before a specially convened mating of the Union on electiic lighting and he consented to do so, but said there were ivrtain negoeiations now pending which would make it in- advisable to go iato the snbjfcc at an earlv date. Notice of mo.ion to adopt standing orders foe the legulation of debate was given aud the me ting separat' d.| STPPER.—Tne stokers and cleaners of the local railways had their annual supper, on Saturday eveuing, at the Victoria Hotel. = DEPTTY CORONERSIIIP.—Mr John Evans, solicitor, coroner for North Cardigan district, has appointed Dr (Basset: Jones, Chn rch-etreet, as deputy coroner. which appointment has been ratified by the Chairman of the County Council. SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.—Mr and Alrx Yaughan Davies. of Tanybwlch, have this year again given a cheque for f50 to be distributed amongst the poor of Llanfarian, Moriah, Penparkau. and Trefechan. SOCIAL GATHERING AND PRESENTATION, The seventh annual social gathering in connection with Holy Trinity Cnurch was held en Tuesday at the Boys National Schoolroom, and was made more than usually interesting by a presentation to the Rev. William Thomas, late curate of the parish, but now vicar of Llanbadarn Fvoydd, Radnorshire. At five o eiock several hundred people partook of an excellent tea, provided and presided over by Mrs.^Williams Ek'e'yu Hone, Miss Brine, Caradoc-road. Mrs Colby, Carregwen. Mrs Hayes, :38, Marine-terrace, Mrs J. M. Jones, Dolau Park, Mrs MacLean, Glan Sannox, the M sses Y\ illiams. Evelyn House, Mrs John Watkins, North Parade, Mrs W. J. Waikins. North Parade. Mrs Williams, 54,Marine-terrace, the Misses Williams, 54, The Ten ace, 1rs Griffiths, Salop House, Mus James, 53, Marine-terrace. Miss James, 59, The Terrace, Mrs Jones. Tioedybryn House, Mrs Longcroft, Penglaise-road, Miss Jones, 39. Portland-street, Mrs Stephenson, Bridge-street, and Mrs Young, North Parade. These ladies were assisted by several young ladies, including the Misses MacLean, Griffiths, Salop House, Collins, Great Darkgate-strtet, and Biddulph, Marine-terrace. After justice had been done the room was cleared for the concert. The vicar (the Rev Prebendary Williams) took the chair and there was a large audience. The Chairman, in opening the pro- ceedings, expressed his obligations to the ladies who took such a keen interest in the church, and who so kindly provided tables year after year. The programme was opened with a song Don't be foolish," by Mascr Gussie Sheraton (accompanied by his brother), and he was followed by the children's party under the direc- tion of Miss Dora Williams, Evelyn House, who accompanied them, singing Gatty's part song Christ- mas." A pianoforte solo, "Swiss Herdsman, was given by Miss Ada Biddulph, Marine-terrace a vocal duet, Heartsease." by Messrs A. and H. MacLean (accompanied by Miss MacLean) Stephen Adam's song, By the Fountain, by Edith Williams, Evelyn House (accompanied by her sister, Miss J. WiHiitrsi pianoforte trio, larch," by Mi"s Cohjuhoun, Miss Price and Master W. M. Price, Crystal Palace and a song by Mr H. MacLean (accom- panied by Mr A. MacLean). Then followed the pre- sentation and distribution of rrizes for regular attend- ance and good conduct at Sunday School.—The Chair- man, after regretting the absence of the Rev D. W. Jenkins, who v\as the first curate of the parish, said that lr. Thomas having left ac the Bishop's request at so short a notice, they were unable to make a testi- monial before he left to take charge of the important living to which he had been preferred. He (the Chair- man) was sure they would all agree with him that Mr Thomas was, without exception, one of the best, most active, and most energetic curates they had in the towu of Aberystwyth. (Cheers.) His zeal and his industry were beyond all praise, and he had been a great com- fort to him (the Chairman) in the work of the parish. Whenever he had occasion to visit the sick and infirm members of the flock he invariably found that Mr Thomas had been there before him. (Applause.) And that was great praise. He found out the sick-and the telling work of a parish was a visit from house to house. He (the Chairman) was therefore very glad to find that the congregation appreciated Mr Thomas's di.igence, his ability, and his zeal when amongst them. It was a matter of regret that he Jeft tl1'111 so soon, but, in the case of curates, if they were good ones, they were sure to lose them, because there were many livings for active curates to take charge of. They congratulated Mr Thomas most heartily on his promotion and expressed their pleasure at hearing of the good work (lone in his new spheie of labour. They wished him every prosperity and blessing.—Mr W. J. Watkins. senior churchwarden, said he could not give expression to his feelings more than was embodied in the address. When Mr Tnomas was appointed to the living, the congregation considered that it was not right he should leave them without any mark of their regard. He assured Mr Thomas it was to the lady who collected the testimonial a labour of love, and everyone contributed, notwithstanding they had had to previously put their hands in their pockets, with an open and spontaneous heart. (Applause). There was no begging, and everyone rejognbed the faithful and diiigent duties discharged by Mr Thomas. (Cheers). It was to no abode of ease that Mr Thomas had been appointed, and the Lord Chancellor, who had appointed Mr Thomas, had appointed the riyht man in the right place. He trusted Mr Thomas would be long spared for the blessing and salvation of souls. (Applause).-Dr T. D. Beddoes, churchwarden, endorsed the sentiments which had been expressed.—Mr Thomas then ascended the platform and was greeted with loud applause.— Mrs W. J. Watkins made the presentation, asking Mr Thomas to accept the polished ebony timepiece (Queen Anne's style) with brass mountings, and bear- ing a silver plate, upon which was inscribed, Presented to the Rev William Thomas, M.A., by the parishioners of Holy Trinity, Aberystwyth, 1S92," a Communion service, and an address, as a slight token of their esteem.-The address, which was beautifully illuminated by Mr Clarke, Mornington House, with representations of Tnni'y Church, th3 Castle, Pen Dinas, and the South Coa"t, North Shore and Parsons Mill, was as follows Holy Trinity Church, Aberystwyth, Octuber 1892. To the Rev William Thomas. Reverend and Dear Sir,—We. the Yicar and churchwardens, on behalf of the congrega- tion, beg to congratulate you on your promotion to the vicarage of Llanbadarn Fynydd, with Llanano, Radnorshire, and as a token of oar e-teem and regard for the diligent and conscientious manner in which you have discharged the duties of your office as curate of this parish for nearly three years, we offer for your acceptance the accompanying gifts of a pocket com- munion service and the timepiece. We pray you may long be spared to labour in the Master's vineyard, and that God's blessing may attend you in all your ministrations." The address was signed by the Yicar and chti'chwardens.—Mr Thomas's rising to acknow- ledge the presentation was again the signal for an outburst of applause. Speaking under great emotion he asied them all to accept his thanks in very few words. He failed to find words to adequately express his thanks, and he never expected ta receive such valuable and magnificent presents. He thanked them from the bottom of his heart, and when he looked at the presents, it would be with recollections of the feeling re left behind him. He assured them he WilS unel, s -rying IIf all the encomiums showered upon him, and if he nad gained any amount of success in his new sphere, it wis entirely due to the excellent way in which he u as. instructed in his duties while at Aber- ystwyth. He thanked them mf s sincerely for the presents and f r invit.g associated his name with the work done at Aberystwyth. (Applause.)—Prizes of church teni.-es, bibles and story books were sub- sequently handed by the Chairman to the following :— First Class (52 attendances) Ed'th Mas^ey, William- street Alexander Clrk, Mornington House, and Hugh and Hilda Stevenson, Bridge street second class (51 attendances). Ciara Massey, William-street, Emily Watkins, Albert Lea, Kitty Gogerd^an Cottages, Polly Lewis, North Road. Gertrude Dnnn, Railway-terrace, George Stevenson, Bridge-street, May Clark, Mornington House, Katie Giitfiths, Salop House, and Thomas Young. Trinity Row third class (50 attendances, good conduct. &c.), Ethel Watkins, Kor Watkins, Aunie Watkins and Cnoice Jones, Penglais-road, Blauche Dunn, Railway-terrace, May Clark, Mornington house, William Meredith Price, Crystal Palace, James Lewis, North-road, W llliam Gurney, Edith Gurney and Charlotte Long, The Bariacks, Thomas Mills, Llangaweai, Walter and Clara Clark. Custom House-street. Susannah, Jessie and Maggie Renderson,and Je-nniE Howe Is, Gogerddan Cottages.—Afterwards the second part of the pro- gramme was gone through, as follows :—Pianoforte solo, "Sehnsucht," Miss M M. Bridgewater song, The Better Land," Miss Pryce (accompanied by Mr Sarjeant.) Dialogue, "Aherystwyth L'nirerbitv in 1999:" Dr Brimful i ritwipal of the College), Miss Frances Long Prrf. Starlight (Lecturer on Astronomy) Miss May Clarke Prof. Cook'em (Lecturer on Domestic Eco iomy), Miss Pollie LeAis Under- graduat s, Misses Jessie Price, Nora Felix, Louisa Felix Katie Griffiths, Annie Long, and Annie Lewis. Pianoforte solo, Miss Ada Green Fong, The Ship and the Lighthouse, Mr William M. James (accom- panied. by Mr Sargeant); pianoforte duer, Duet in O," Miss J. M. and Mr A. Maclean; song, "Tar's Farewell," Miss Griffiths' School Class; pianoft rte j overture, Master Reginald Sheraton part «ong. A Sv>ng of Tnankfulness," Chddre I'S Patty finale, God Save the Queen." Mis Pryce and Mr W. M. James were loudly applauded for their singnz, and the rendering of the duett by Messrs MacLean was exceedingly good. The chief item of the programme, however, was the dialogue. The caste acquitted themselves in such a manner that redounded with credit upon their instructor, Miss Williams, Rvelyn Houss, and ihey fully deserved the applause which tiiey received. It created much merriment through- out.—At the c'oic, Mr W. J. Watkins propose a a vote cf tlialiks to the Vicar and his family tor the part they took in the citei-tainrient.-TVie Chairman acknowledged the vote (which v, a3 received with acc'amatK'ii), remarking thi't I vas pro "d of hi-, Sunday I.:o'l. -_J f — £ m '"it >ly meeiia^j of tne Board^of Management of the Infirmary >^as held ou Ihursday mora'ng. January 5:h, pres«u; Mr J. G. W. Bon«nll, president, in the chair, Captain Co:.ens. Messrs William Thomas, mayor. R°v T. Lf,i. Peter J,) n e s, C. M. Williams, D. C. Roberts," (^ntfith j Williams, Mrs "James, Dr Bassett^ Jones and the Secretary. It was decided to increase the salary of the dispenser to twenty gnioras. During the past, month 204 out-patients were treited of 115- were new c ¡ses. 'Iwelve in-patients were admitted, and tn discharged and nine remain in th" irits i:ution During the past year 129 ill-pitieut were treated and 1.280 out-patients, total. 1,409. BAPTIST TEA MEETING.—The annual tea meeting ixi connection with the English Baptist Chape!, Alfrea Place, was held on Tuesday, when about 200 eat down at the tables. Tne schoolroom was prettily d> corated for the occassion. Tables wtre kiudiy p'ovb'ed by Mrs .John Morgan. Laura place, (as-is ed bv Miss Aoa Davies and Miss Lily Morgan^ Mrs Ellis L *• ]>; .:arn roal, and Miss Sally Ellis. Rhvdyfiria Miss Queen's road. (assisted by Miss brris, Pcrrlat.d street) the Misses Owen. North parade Mrs Davies, Pier street, (presided ever by Miss Ellis tai Miss U alters) Bachelor's tahle presided over by Mr D. F. E11i.. and Mr Richard Ellis, Llanbadarn roid, (m-sisted by Miss Ellis and Miss Rowlands.) In the evening an entertainment was held, under the presi b ncv of Mr John Morgan, J.P., Laura Place, when the following prog-amme was gone through Pianoforte Mi- Lily Morgan recitations by the Mioses Ada Dunbar Marian Morris. Gladys Ellis, Flossie Edwards, Iv-tri^ Morns, Eleanor Ellis. Harry Morris and Anwvl Ellie, songs by Miss Gwen Morgan and Miss Ada Du bar recitation, Mist Lizzie Garner song Re 1 Ridm"; Hood," Miss Annie Purton reading, Mr T. H. Edwards song. Mr J. D. Stephens -oz. Miss Eunice Williams reading, Mr Robert Ellis got, Miss Nellie Owen pianoforte solo, Mr W. H' Mor- gan pianotorte duett, the Misses Mary and Eunice Morris recitation Mrs John Morgan. (encored) recitation, Maud and the Cricket," MIss L'dan Mor- gan song, Miss Nellie Owen readmz, Mr T. H. Edwards song. Mr Stephens pianoforte so'o. Miss Phillips, song, Mr John Morgan (eucored) rec'tation Mrs Morgan, &c., &c. Votes of thanks having been proposed by the Rev J. A. Morris to th- Chairman, to Mrs Morgan, and all who had taken part in 'he day's proceedings, and. acknowledged, the meeting was brought to a close with the s-inging of the Nanioaal Anthem. MARRIAGE.—The marriage was solemnised on Wed- nesday. December 2Sth, at Llanbadarn Church be- tween Mr R. A. James, youngest son of Mr R. Jam^s. Bridge-street. Aberystwyth, aud master of Lady Ormthwaite's School. Llandwywe. Peny-bont, Radnor- shire, to Miss A. J. Felix, eldest dauc- or ,f Mr P .J, .L"o Felix, Yict <ria-terrace, Aberystwyth, "by the Rev .J.' Pugh. R.D.. vicar. The bride, who was giver, away by her father, was attired in a heliotrop- coloured dresa The bridesmaids were Miss M Lloyd Felix and Miss Lizzie Felix, sis'ers of the bride, and Mr D. James, brother of the bridegroom, acted as betst man. The happy pair left by the 12 30 o'clock train for Liverpool to spend their honeymoon. The folb wloo- ia a list of presents Gold watch and chain Briie'- groom to bride silver cruet stand, Mr E. Felix tapestry quilt. Mr R. J. Felix, London one dozen dinner forks and desert spoons, Mr D. L. Felix one dozen tea spoons, Miss Lizzie Felix set of jugR. Masters J. LI., W. H., and Edwin Jones Fcbx famdv hible. Mr R. James, Bridge-street church service. Mrs James, Bridge-street; half-dozen laigp and small knives, carve's and timepiece, Mr D. James, Tre- herbert walnut ever mantle, Mr W. M. James, Bridge-street; dinner service, Mr and Misi Felix, Talie«in tea service, Mr and Mrs W J,,n-s. London set of afternoon sdver teaspoons incase. Miss Riëhrd8, Balmoral House silver teapot. Mrs and Miss Owen, Birmingham biscuit casket, Professor Marshall, U.C.W. silver breakfast cruet, a Friend; drawing room fire screen, Misses James, Penrhyncoch drawing room lamp. Miss Lewis, Mary-street; album, Mr J. Lloyd Williams, Liverpool set of fish carvprs in c»se' A Friend pair of ornaments, Mrs Morris. 51, Marine- terraci, hot water jug, Miss G. Richards, 51, Marine- terrace claret decanter, Counciller J Jenkins breakfast cruet. Miss Hall, Mary-street; cheque. Mr and Mrs E Felix, Liverpool eider down qnilt, a Friend pair of Indiau antimacassa-s, Miss Evans, Liverpool leather pillow. a Friend white counterpane, Mrs S. Owen. Queen's-street cheese stand, Miss NJ. T. Jones, Camhrian-plac" • two fancy bread and butter plates, M^ EVilDS. Thespian s'reet: timepiece, Mr Probdi and Miss Brunt. Pi-r-street; hot water tei kettle, Mrs Park- s Da-ies,' North Parade; album, Mr J D. Jones, London- tapestry quilt, Mr and Mrs D. Thomas iraper • amethyst brooch. Mrs Davies. Pembroke house; cake stand, Mrs Jenkins, Commins Coch bread plate and butter cooler, Miss Evans, North Parade; cheque Miss Felix, Mold cheese stand. Mrs Ports, Trinity- place muffineer Miss Catherine A. Morris tapestry table cover, Mrs Jones. Workhouse -11 (I-ze-i bedroom towels, Mrs Hushes, Smithfield-road glove- box, Mrs Clarke, Snowdon House; work basket. Mrs P, rce, Plynlimon HoLise antimacassir, Miss Watkins, Cam- briin-plaee toast rack. Mrs Jones. Llanffa>vgai ruby sugar basin and cream jug, Misses Gr tilths. Portland-* street; handkerchief case. Mrs Owen, Bright n House-' drawing room fancy table, Miss Davies, Ter'-a<-e-road* pair of straps, Miss Thomas; fancy handkerChier Mies ^Iaggie Thomas teapot, hot water jug, and teapot stand, Mr Mcllquham pair of ornaments. Mi-s Jones. Llanon bracket, Mrs Warrington, M iry-street toilet cover, Mrs Davje3, Porth fancy tilde cover' Miss Jones, Liverpool shawl. Miss Fel x. London • pair of slippers. Mr Biekerstaff but'er ccol M s- M' Morgan travelling rug, Mr Richards, Market-street • hot water jug, Mr H. Jenkins Commins Coch; toilet set, Miss M. Ll. Felix, and others. DINNER.—-On Monday evening the employees of the Cambrian A fir* held their annual dinner "at Smith's Restaurant, Great Dark Gate-street, Wr.en Mr J. Gibson, the junior member of the firm, occ rjded he chair, and Mr J. C. Diggory, foreman, the vice-chair. The dinner was an excellent one and, as usual, well served bv Mrs Smith, the menu being :—Soups kidney and ox-tail Fish Colfish (oyster sllce); Joiuts roast beef, boiled leg of mutton, roast tu-kev (sausages), aad roast gojse Sweets: plum pu Ming mince pies, orange jellies, and French pastry Dessert! Subsequently a convivial evening was 6p?nt. when songs were given by Mr Gibson, Mr Diggory, M ssrs F. Robinson, J. D. Francis. J. Phillips, D. L. Felix, D. J. Lewis, D. M. Jones. T. J. James. James Morgan, and J. O'Ryan. Some concertina selections were given by Nir J. E. Edwards, and a ventriloquial entertain- ment by Mr Robinson. Before the termination of the evtning 8 enjoyment, Mr Robinson, of the bookbinding department, proposed the health of the Firm, coupling with the toast the names of the Chairman and Vice- Chairman, and, on behalf of the employees, thanked them for their prescence and kindness that evening. Mr D. M. Jones seconded, and the toast was received with acclamation The Chairman and Yice-Chairman acknowledged, and the Vice-Cli.Lii-iiiin proposed the health of the Hostess for the excellent di-.uer. The Chairman secon bet the proposition, which was received with loud applause, and the c-mpany bepar.iteu after the singing ot Hen Wlad fy Nhadau." Mr Robir.son and Mr O'Ryan accompanied the singers en the piano. Mr Robinson acted as secretary oc The movement and carried out everything successfully. CHOIR SrJ'I'ER.-On W ednesday7 evening, at the kind iuvitation of Mr Bevan, the clergy, churchwar- ,y den, orgairst, members of the choir, and Of St. Michael s Church., with a few guests, assembled at a sumptuous supper at 48 Marine Terrace. After hav- ing partaken ot the repast, the viands of which were of the best and excelleutly served by Mr and Mrs Be van, the Rev J. Ha\ ard Pro*.heroe, vicar, who occup ed the chair, expressed his sense of the deep obligation they were all under to Mr and Mrs Bevan, for the tpltndid supper, they had had, and thanked Mr Br van for the keen interest he took in church affairs, and t-uating he would continue to do so. He proposed the health of Mr and Mrs PeNa -The toast was drank with musical honours. {Afterwards, carols w' rc remiere by the choir, Mr A. \Y. Parsons, Mus Bac., (organist), presiding at the piano. The remainder of the evening was enlivened by a pianoforte solo by Mr Persons, comic and sentimental songs by the Rev William Evans, curate, Messrs Jenkins, (Mr J. P. Thomas, chemist,) Pewell, confectioner. John Purtou. Terrace road, and John Davies. M & M Railway, a mouth horn solo by Master R. T. Cowley, and the indulgence in various games. Mr Persons and Mr R. E. Owen, Ox- ford, accompanied the singers on the piano. A most enjoyable evening was spent and brought to a termin- ation by the (h L aud guests (numbering in all about forty) tendering thtir best thanks to"Mr aud Mrs. Bevan for their kindness.
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BORTM: AN!> ITS GPJEYAX<:ES. SIR. -Can any d, your numerous renders tell me the reason why the water which surrounds Dortli is allowed to stand there year after.-year'? Siavly the Sanitary .A vt'.iority for the district caanot cooider it boBe:u.iul to the health of the inhabitant nor can they o,insider it damaging to health or thev wouV, take ste^v to remove it. ] have heard ikietors remark that it was nl-.Mit, the Isest iuvitation that conM he {,'iven to disease and ie\cis, but if the Sanitary Authuiity considers uUerwi>.e we must abide 1».v their decision. Wl. t I want 1; shew t1ic 1.ui.lic i that this .1":ltk.:trap exists against 'he wishes of tit", inhabitants. If "Ilyevelitiou is better than eure" why does the Sanitary Authority delay refor»« until disease broakes out, and lays low half the inhabitants. The roads and ioncos are also iu a disgraceful .'onli1 i<ln, nii'1 110 notice is taken of comvlaints IJlltle with 1\ re(ipf.rhm t .,it to n moi f -eliiii: body than the Sanitary i Amiwiry av.ihi a-cei i-u redress h"1' ■•igo. i A ftOHT.iJMV
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Why does he want a large body of more than a hundred members to form the Uni- versity body ? Dr. ROBEKTS will not con- test the detail of the composition of the University body. He will simply point out that the body is too large, and is made large in order to give the Colleges con- trolling power, but he will fix attention where attention ought to be fixed, on the great principles embodied in the power to give degrees in Theology; in preventing the establishment of three Universities; and in securing for the Colleges power to give teaching that will count for degrees outside the walls of the three University Colleges. We make no attempt to disguise the issue before Wales. Cardiff' College is trying to exploit the other two Colleges. That is our opinion, and we state it plainly. Wales is not considered at all in the University scheme which, if passed in its present shape, would destroy the work of twenty years at Aberystwyth, and make Wales a laughing stock throughout the educational world. Dr. ISAMBARD OWEN is one of the London Welshmen who has not yet learnt that Wales know her own needs, and is not without knowledge of how those needs ought to be satisfied. Dr. R. D. ROBERTS will not be lured from discussion of principles to wrangles about details, and his questions are, first, whether a faculty of Theology is 'to be recognized second, whether there is to be one University or three Universities established in Wales and, third, whether teaching given by the three University Col- leges outside the College walls is to count 1-1 ID for degrees. These are simple points, and they will be fought at every stage until their importance is realized. Wales, and not a few hide-bound academics, is to be benefited by the Welsh University if one is founded. Whatever is ultimately done shall at any rate be done in the open, and Wales shall not be able to say that her attention was not called to the subject in the fullest possible way.