South Wales Daily News

BIRTi 1S, MARRIAGES. D.EATH> Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Is tach, if not exceeding SO words, and Hi for each extra 10 words. BIRTHS. PHILLIPS.-On November 13th, at Llwynypia, the wife of T. B. Phillips uf a son. 906 DEAiHS. JOH,-On the 15th instant, at Tyla Celyn, Penygraig, Thomas John (lato Lampinan" of DiuasM Funeral will leave the house at 3 on Saturday for Zoar, Ffr^damos. 905 JONES.—Wednesday, the 15th instant, at Glvnfacn- road. Forth, in her 66th year, Rachel Jones, widow of Edward Jones (and mother of Miss Miriam Jones, Ferndale Girls' School). Funeral leaves for Hengoed at 11 t.in. sharp, < n Tuesday next. Friends please accept this intimation. 92.)

SA TURDA Y, NOVEMBER 18, 1898. END OF THE COAL WAR. THANKS to the intervention of the Govern- ment, the coal war in England has ended, and the men will return to work on Monday at the old rate of wages. This closes one of the greatest industrial struggles of the generation, and closes it with the satisfac- tory feature that precautionary provision is made against recurrence of conflict, for one of the articles of agreement is that a Conciliation Board shall be formed. This feature has been the pre- dominant characteristic of the great labour troubles of this year, and the circumstance calls for observation because it leads to the expectation that given full organisation on both sides, there is greater chance of resort to amicable methods of settling disputes. In the case of the prolonged strike in the cotton trade, in the early part of this year, when for 22 weeks the staple industry of Lancashire was paralysed, the dispute was ended by compromise and by agreement to establish a permanent com- mittee representative of both sides, to whom should be referred the questions arising thereafter between employers and employed. In the case of the Hull Dock strike, that, too, was ended by conciliation. And now we have the miner*' question settled for the time being, again by resort to conciliation. It is no small credit to the South Wales coal trade that it has, and for over eighteen years has bad, a permanent Conciliation Board; that, in the Sliding- scale Committee, the district and the trade have throughout so long a period been favoured by the good results of a joint body such as the cotton trade and the English coal trade have only this year set about establishing. To the continuity of business which this Committee has ensured is due, in no small degree, the progress of this community and the general welfare of the district and from this fact comes the duty of preserving and improving the agency which has been of such great value, Just when the masters and men in other great industries are formally recognising the benefits of conciliation machinery, it would be folly for South Wales to break down the arrangement that has existed here for so many years. Yet, unfortunately, the strike of the past sum- mer provokes uneasy anticipations. The colliers, dissatisfied with an agreement, broke away from their allegiance as well as broke their engagements; and thus local trade was brought to a standstill. But the only way to get a satisfac- tory agreement is to have an organisa- tion strong enough to exact good terms when the time comes for arranging a ne» aUdinc-scale; and it is the common experience that the men most ready to grumble are the least ready to subscribe to the Union, and to strengthen the hands of the leaders for the period of negotiation. Until the miners recognise the absolute duty of joining al Trade-Union, there will be danger of an unsatisfactory agreement. Until the sectional antagonisms and personal discordances which have operated are put aside, no powerful miners' Union is likely to be established. At the end of 1894 we shall probably see further negotiations for a new sliding-scale agreement, and by that time the men re- quire to be so organised that the leaders can speak with authority and effect. How are they responding to the effort to organise 1 The answer is too clear to need statement. Apathy, division, antagonism, yet from another unsatisfactory agreement may cause another futile strike. What is being done to avert a calamity so seriously affecting many thousands besides the miners ?

VICTORY WHICH SPELLS DEFEAT. THERE are nominal defeats which are prac- tical victories. One of the most notable was the defeat of the Romans by the famous King of EPIRUS, which gives birth to the memorable proverb, Such another victory would be a defeat." But before PYRRHUS'S time, and since, there have been defeats on a large and a small scale which really spelt victory. One of these small defeats, a very small one, which was no defeat at all when soberly looked into, but an absolute victory for Liberal principles, befel the Government on Mr MCLAREN'S motion that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Parish Councils Bill to insert in the Bill a clause empowering women, whether married or single, to vote on all questions concern- ing Local Government on which men arc entitled to vote. The PRESIDENT of the LocA L GOVERNMENT BOARD made it dis- tinctly evident that neither he, nvr the Government, were averse to the principle of the proposal, and that their only unwillingness to accept it was that it would weight the Bill with another large item of contentious matter, and thus further im- peril its chances of passing during the Autumn Session. But to imperil its chances of passing, and to prevent its pass- ing if possible, are the earnest aim and hope of the Tory Opposition. Ignoring their avowed principles, however, and recanting every opinion which they have uttered in the House against Female Suffrage when Bills for the enfranchisement of women have been brought in by Liberal members, they seized the opportunity afforded them by Mr proposal, so as to embarrass the Government and obstruct still further the progress of the Bill. There was, moreover, the chance of putting the Government in a minority on a motion made by a Liberal member. And this was a tempting bait, to which Tories would be certain to rise, no matter whether they sank every distinctive principle of Toryism in the attempt or not. They knew that the Welsh members to a man, or nearly so, intended to vote for Mr MCLAREN'S motion they knew that a large majority of the Irish Nationalists intended to vote for it and they calculated that, by joining their forces for the occasion with their most pronounced political foes, they could put the Government in a minority. And they did it, tossing their principles to the winds and succeeded in carrying the instruction against the Govern- ment by a majority of 21. But now let us take stock of the whole matter so as to discover what this really means. Mr MCLAREN'S resolution was a proposal to enfranchise women. Now this enfranchisement of women is a primary article of the Liberal faith. Almost every member of the Government and of the whole Liberal party have voted in favour of such a motion, again and again, when Bills to secure women's en- franchisement have been brought into the House of Csramons and almost every Tory leader, and the vast majority of the Tory rank and file in the House have voted against it. Mr FOWLER made it clear that it was not hostility to Female Suffrage that decided the Government not to accept the resolution, but a very definite and reasonable fear that the instruction if accepted would so overweight the Bill with such additional contentious questions as to endanger the chances of its passing before Christmas. He said that he had been already and frequently told by the Tory Opposition, that the Bill was too large and complicatod to be passed during the time at their disposal; and he was now asked to take an additional quantity of cargo on board on an overladen ship. There were now 67 pages of amendments on the Notice Paper. If they were to add the burning question of Female Suffrage to those embraced in the Bill there would be a danger of imperilling the measure, and for that reason he must ask the House to reject the instruction." But the danger of im- perilling the measure was joy and delight to the Tory hosts, and the very men who only five minutes before were appealing to some of their own party not to add to the labours of a tired and over-wearied House by attempts to press further instructions upon the committee, seized with avidity this instruction of Mr McLAREN when they saw a chance with Liberal help of putting the Government in a minority, and delaying the progress of the Bill. That wonderful and omniscient Tory, Mr T. G. BOWLES, known in the Lobbies and throughout the House as "Tommy," moved a resolution immediately preceding that of Mr MCLAREN which, if carried, would add but little, if any, to the labours of the House but his own party entreated him to withdraw it, and not to put an additional burden, however light, upon ex- I hausted members. Mr EDWARD STANHOPE earnestly entreated his honourable friend not to press the matter to a division," and Mr JESSE COLLINGS—Mr JESSE COLLINGS-" feared that the Local Government provisions of the Bill might be endangered through their being mixed up with contentious provisions. He, there- fore, wanted to cut the Bill into two, and try to pass half of it, "because there was not now time for the consideration of all the provisions of this Bill by a wearied House during the part of the Session that remained." Nevertheless within five minutes after these appeals, these wearied Tories joyfully added to the exhausting labours of a wearied House, when they and their brother Tories saw a chance of delaying the Bill and placing the Government in a minority. But the Govern- ment will heartily accept the further enfranchisement of women in Local Government affairs should the committee accept the instruction in Mr resolution, because it will go in the direction of the views of the majority, if not of the whole, of the Ministry. What, however, will the Tories do ? It will be edifying, on the contrary—most likely ihe contrary—to watch their action should the instruction be carried out by the Committee. We might venture to affirm that many of them will place amendments against that very extension of women's suffrage for which, in a spirit of reckless faction and in violation of the foundation principles of Toryism, they have just voted. But NEMESIS will follow them later. Next Session a Bill will be introduced, as it has been in- troduced in many previous Sessions, to place women on an equality with men on all questions of Suffrage. Some Tories who can aljmnsih b« reckon on the fingers of the ) two hands will probably vote for such a measure, as they have voted for a similar measure heretofore. But the bulk of the Tory party will unquestionably pursue their old track, and vote dead against it. Their political honesty and consistency will then be fully tested by a scrutinising public opinion.

FARMERS AND THEIR RENTS. SOME advocates of Welsh landlords are striving zealously to show that Welsh farmers cannot be so badly off, as they allege, because in the majority of cases they have had abatements of rent," during the years of falling prices, "almost equal to the fall in the value of produce. Almost is a very elastic word, and might mean anything, or nothing, according to the taste and fancy of the user whilst the asser- tion that the farmers have had abatements of rent "in the majority of cases "is not evidence, and we very much fear that it cannot be proved. We nevertheless watch with pitying interest the laborious efforts of these advocates and retainers of Welsh landlords, to rehabilitate, if possible, Welsh landlord- ism, after the stripping it has undergone before the Welsh Land Commission. Good men struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods to admire and we admire the reckless darini; of those apologists of Welsh landlordism who under- take a task as unending and as fruitless as that of SISYPHUS when they seek to prove that Welsh landlords—of course we mean the class and not individuals —are the friends and benefactors of their tenants. One landlord's apologist alleges that Mr So-and-so gave fifteen per cent. back to his tenants at the last rent audit, in addition to a fifteen per cent. in the pre- ceding year, which makes thirty per cent, in two years. It makes nothing of the kind. It only makes fifteen per cent. according to COCKER" and the elementary teachings of arithmetic. Giving back means an abatement and not a reduction in rent and even had it been a reduction, fifteen per cent, reduction upon rent reduced by fifteen per cent, would not make thirty per cent, reduction upon the original rent. These fallacies are played off as truths by landlords' agents upon a large class of farmers who have not learned to think and to reason. An abatement is but an abate- ment, for the rent remains the same and an abatement this year of fifteen per cent, following an abatement of fifteen per cent, last year, is only fifteen per cent. off the original annual rent. But what is fifteen, or twenty, or thirty per cent, rent abatement, or even permanent rent reduc- tion, compared with the ruinous percentage losses which the farmers have sustained in the falling price of produce ? Stock and crops have been reduced in value thirty, forty, and in some cases fifty per cent. That is, all the farmers' incomings have been heavily reduced, whilst the rent, which is only one of their outgoings, has been abated only some fifteen or twenty per cent. But labourers' wages are as high as ever manures are as dear rates and taxes tre as high and so are clothing, and household furniture, and utensils, and farm implements, and all other articles that farmers have to purchase for personal and domestic use and for their farms. And yet with all their produce— from the sale of which they are expected to meet all their expenditure—reduced from forty to fifty per cent., whilst all their outlay is equally heavy (save some fifteen or twenty per cent. abatement upon rent, which ought to be one of the smaller items of expenditure), we are asked to believe that farmers are, or ought to be, as well off to-day as they were when the price of farm produce was twice as high, or at a fair average figure. Fudge I" to use honest Mr BURCHELL'S favourite words. The only hope for the farmers now is a very considerable reduction in rents.

PONTYPRIDD AND ITS MORALS. A SUGGESTION TO THE LOCAL MINISTERS. rBY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] The further details which I have gathered with reference to the scandalous immorality that pre- vails in public places in Pontypridd are positively nauseous. Superintendent Jones, whom I inter- viewed on Friday, failed to see that even if the police force In the town were doubled in number, the evil could be coped with any more effectively than at present, unless, he cautiously added, the laws ngainst indecency are rendered much moro rigorous and stringent than they now happen to be. It would appear that the difficulties in the way of dealing with the offenders are welllligh insurmountable, for, as thi Act stands at presont, a conviction cannot be obtained unless the offence j is committed within public view," and this has been interpreted to mean "within view from a public highway or some place of public resort." As these offences, as a rule, are committed after dark, it can easily be understood how difficult it is to meet the requirements of the Act by declaring them to bo committed within public view and the^result has been that even public streets and pathways are, under cover of dark. ness, utilised for disgraceful purposes. During the last six months, however, there have been convictions against no fewer than 50 men and women, the men being proceeded against) as aiders and abettors. His worship the stipendiary declared on Wednesday that the. punishment generally meted out by the local bench to this class of offenders was six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, but it has been repeatedly pointed out to me to-day that in the majority of cases fines of insignificant sums, varying from 2* 6d to £1 only, are inflicted. It would be interesting to scrutinise the records of the court so as to get at the actual facts in this matter. It is certainly a sore complaint among the leading inhabitants that the magistrates are far too lenient in these cases, and in support of this a case is cited in which a local magistrate, who was only recently promoted to the bench, let off a woman with a paltry fine of 2s 6d, although two previous con- victions for similar offences were recorded against her. It has been suggested to me, and I gladly give it publicity, that the time has arrived when all who have regard for social purity and the social reputation of the town should be summoned to a conference to discuss the adoption of some repressive measures. The local Union of Non- conformist ministers might with advantage take the initiative step in this direction.

LORD AND LADY BATTERSEA. Lord and Lady Battersea will, on the 29th inst., open a grand bazaar at Brecon in con- nection with the Wesleyan Church, and on Friday night, December 1st, Lord Battersea and Mr Charles Morley (the Liberal candidate for Breconshire) will address a public meeting at the Guildhall, Brecon.

MR EGERTON ALLEN AND THE RUMOURED JUDGESHIP, LETT KR FROM THE HON. GENTLEMAN. Mr Isaac Smedley, J.P., Pembroke Dock, chairman of the Pembroke and Haverfordwest Liberal Association, has sent us the following letter for publication :— 16th November, 1893. Dear Mr Smedley,—I have not seen the re- ports myself, but I understand that reports have been published relating to a supposed offer made to me of a judicial appointment in India. There is not the slightest foundation for any such report. "If you think it calculated to injure me in the estimation of my political supporters, and think it worth while to contradict it by publication of this note, or in any other fashion, I hope you will do what seems best to you in the matter. I hope my Qupporters would not easily believe that I would use the position into which they have put me in order to secure benefits for my. self, forgetting my duty towards them.—Yours truly. C. F. EGERTON ALLEN." J. Smedley, Esq., .T.P."

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I HARRY FURNISS'S LONDON LETTER. I spent last Satmday afternoon iu watching the football players in Regent's Park. Several matches were being played, but ib was only round one of them that the spectators were con- gregated. I understood that it was the first contest in the competition for the Regent's Park Cup, but judging from the rough play indulged in by the teams 1 think a coffin would be a more suitable trophy. In the course of a good deal of football watching I have seen the best league teams compete in the Midlands and the North, but I have never witnessed such fierce tact;cs, combined with an utter absence of science, as I saw displayed by these Londoners. Had the animals been let out of the Zoological Gardens close by they could not have been more savage. I saw one player get a massive square-toed boot planted in his chest with such velocity that he collapsed on the ground senseless, but lie came to and resumed the game with that pluck I PUZZLE—I'IND TIIF GOAL-KEEPER. ] so characteristic of the Cockney. Shortly after- wards a player on the other side was placed'tors dt combat, and really it seemed as if "winders," instead of goals, scored in the opinion of the j crowd. It would have amused a professional team to see the spectators encroach on the ground 15 feet beyond the touchline, and the linesmen waving their flags behind a score or two of spectators. As for the goal-keeper, the puzzle was where to find him, for the goals were as crowded as the grand stand at a race meeting. Whpn the rivals had each scored a goal and knocked each other about for 60 minutes, the park-keeper walked on to the ground and, amidst groans and execrations, topped the game before anyone was killed outright, for it. was time to close the park. I brought down upon my head a storm of abuse from footballers by writing, in a description of the Jackson-Slavin fight at the National Sporting Club last year, that it was a drawing-room entertainment compared with a professional football match. I made a mistake I ought to have substituted the word amateur." On Monday Sir Wm. Harcourt looked gorgeous when he appeared in the Law Courts in his official robes of black and gold as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and presided at the ceremony of nominating the sheriffs. Ho would gladly have waxed facetious over the affair had not the weight of his magnificent apparel and the presence of the SIR WILLIAM IN HIS ROBES. i judges who supported him rather awed the hilarious Historicus. If the courts are dull, surely the House is duller. There has not been a laugh this Session, and it is therefore to be regretted that Sir Wilham did not relieve the monotony of Parliamentary life by appearing on the Government Bench arrayed as he was in the Lord Chief Justice's court. The theatrical event of the week has been the beautiful production of the School for Scandal at Mr Daly's charming theatre. That energetic gentleman is to be congratulated upon another triumph of stage management and thoroughness, and Miss Rehan upon a fresh, interesting, and delightful performance. But it was a mistake to introduce any English actors at all into the cast; it should have been wholly American, and then we could have accepted the play as an in- teresting experiment. Comparisons, we know, aro proverbially odioug, but I must say that the Daly company suffers in comparison with any first-class company that has played tho comedy before in London. The fact is the American and the English publics are totally unlike. Thera is a strong feeling of Puritanism or cant growing in America, and we have had evidence lately that our American cousins cannot stomach the modern play, The Second 3frs lanqueray (which, by the way, began its second season in London last Saturday with tremendous success), and this may account for the fact that the greater part of tho scandal is cut out of Sheridan's play as produced at Mr Daly's theatre. But the London theatre- goer is very conservative, and treasures up the great big "D's in the old English comedy as he does the polished, gentlemanly sneak Joseph, the last century spendthrift beau Charles, the good old English Sir Oliver, the crusty old Jew Moses, the humour of Lady Sneerwell, the spiciness of Mrs Candour, and dear old Sir Peter Teazle. With the exception of the last-named character, which is perfect in the hands of Mr William Farren, neither the spice of Sheridan nor the old school of scandalmongers are there. Sir Oliver is a rich American from the Far West; Joseph is a middle- aged New York dry-goods man Moses, a. very mild Wall-street usurer; Lady Sneerwell, a charming English girl, who seemed as if she had never even read a; Societyl paper ;:}'ll's Candour might be a district visitor and Lady Teazle is a THE AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL." delightful romp from the country. Had the piece been dressed as it was altered, and accord- ing to the way the personality of the characters was assumed, the dramatis personce would have presented the appearance I show in my sketch. Of course Mr Daly courts criticism in giving us his peculiar version of a standard English comedy, and we all wish him every success in his venture, but with the superb mounting, lavish dressing, and charming acting, it is a pity that the grit of Sheridan should have been extracted, and The j School jor Scandal transformed into a Sunday- school for very modern Society. ¡ Although not advertised as such, golfing" train3 leave London for the links as regularly as do hunting" trams for the various "countries, and there can be put forward no more conclusive argument for the tremendous popularity of the royal and ancient game than the fact that nowadays many of the hunting men can be seen, clubs in hand, waiting for the golfing trains. Ciubs are springing up all round the Metropolis, and suburban trains, particularly on Saturdays, might well be taken for those which leave Edinburgh for Musselburgh and other links near the Scottish capital instead of those whirling Londoners off to Wimbledon, Richmond, and Chorleywood. Yet, notwithstanding, non- players look upon devotees of the game as nothing short of lunatics indeed, I had an instance of it myself this week. I had been for a round at Chorleywood, and returning by an early train I got into a compartment with two other passengers, evidently scoffing unbelievers, for one of them, as they were looking at the links out of the window, remarked Ah, they play that stupid game of golf doneterknow; wretched farce-ah-loúk at those idiots To which his friend replied" Y e, bai Jove Ought to have their keepers with them You can always judge a game by those who play it, doncherknow Just so. The "idiots" happened to be the Right Honourable A. J. Balfour and the editor of the Times, who were waiting for the ex-First Lord of the Admiralty to play off. I was rather IDIOTS amused to see that one of these supercilious critics was hugging a copy of the I huizderer, while the other had the Standard These overpoweringly brainy gentlemen got out at Harrow, in all pro- bability to attend the opening of the Constitu- tional Club there a few hours afterwards, and to cheer to the echo the stirring speech of Lord George Hamilton—one of the idiots Take away that, Bumble is at present the Cromwellian cry of the county councillor, and what is more he is acting up to it, for during the last week or two old Bumble and his gates and barriers have been disappearing rapidly. Our country cousins and commercials need no longer swear at being taken a mile or two out of their way when in a hurry to catch a train. It does not seem a very long time since the London bridges were cleared and tolls done away with. I recollect being present when Waterloo Bridge was declared open, and I shall never forget the race that took place between the cabbies to sea who would be first across. Waterloo Bridge, however, certainly differed from the others, popularised as it was by the dramas at the Adelphi and .Surrey, the two theatres on either side of the bridge- the bridge of tragedy. By the way, I wonder what became of the collection of miscellaneous "BUMBLE." I articles left in lieu of toll by those who did not possess the necessary half-penny ? Knives there were in plenty, notebooks and such things, and perchance amongst them a wedding ring or two, or an engagement token, One can understand the first-named articles being reclaimed, but the last mentioned may furnish the keys to some of the many tragedies with which Old Waterloo Bridge must be for ever associated. The British matron is furious, and has once more seized her potent quill and written to the papers, her object this time being to protest against her athletically-inclined sisters donning THE LATEST ON WHEELS. male attire when riding bicycles, uno Jaay, in fact, goes so far as to ask whether this latest fashion cannot be nipped in the bud on the ground of illegality What bosh Anyone who saw Mr Pinero's play, The Amazons, at the Court Theatre will recollect how charming the young I ladies looked in their masculine attire. True, in the first act one's unaccustomed eyes were just a trifle shocked by the sudden innovation, but in I the second one grew quite accustomed to it, and in the third, in which they assume the orthodox costume of ladies, one felt quite sorry that they I did not remain in their charming "rational" dress. And so it will be with their bicycling raiment, and that of any other form of exercise in I which free use of the limbs is required. -c

A CARDIFF JEWELLER'S MIS- TAKE. Patrick Sanders was placed in the dock at Cardiff Police-court yesterday chargcd with stealing a watch in Bute-street, the property of Otto Windi, on the 15th inst.—The evidt-nco of prosecutor, a German apprentice on board the Charlotte and Ann, showed that he went into a jeweller's shop in Bute-street with the object of disposing of the watch, but the jeweller would not buy it, and handed it to prisoner, who was in tho shop at the time, thinking that prisoner was one of prosecutor's mates. Sanders,however, decamped, but P.C. Samuel Smith, who had received in- formation of the theft, followed in hot pursuit, and apprehended him in Bute-terrace.—Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sent to prison for 14 days, with hard labour. .-v-

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INCREASED DOCK ACCOMMO- DATION FOR CARDIFF. PROPOSED BUTE EXTENSIONS. Among- the new schemes to be notified next week, when the preliminary announcements have to be made concerning Parliamentary Bills for promotion next session, is, so it is stated, a pro- posal by the Bute Docks Company to construct a large new dock with O-ep-water entrance to the eastward of the low-water pier. This undertak- ing is estimated to cost at least three-quarters of a djillion sterling, and will afford Cardiff Docks the great advantage of communication with the channel at any state of the tide. It will be remembered that a similar scheme, was suggested by a Bill which the company gave notice of previously, but which was afterwards withdrawn.

WANTED, Frumpy Old Ma.ids, Cross-grained OM Men, Disappointed Lowvs, Misers, Undertakers, Mutes, Hangmen, Policemen out of Work, Cadgers, County Court Judges, Dum Bailiffs, Members of Parliament, and all other Miserable Wrenches who never smile from the first of January to the tbirty first of December, to come and roar their ribs out at the mad, merry, and rollicking fun of that Wonderful farcical. MusieaLaind Dancicai Diece. The

UNEMPLOYED IN CARDIFF. SUGGESTED ACTION BY THE MAYOR. MEETING OF UNEMPLOYED TO-DAY. The" unemployed" question is rapidly assum- ing an acute stage in Cardiff as in other parts of the country, and the following letter.from Mr C. H. Chappell will be read with interest:— I wish to thank your correspondent Texo for his noble sentiments as expressed in to-day's South Wales Daily News. Will you kindly permit mo to supplement them by a tew further remarks ? As the question of unemployed is ono of cause and cffuct, and while I readily agree that many of the churches are awakening to the true position of things, are not their efforts directed mainly to dfcts, with the hope of minimising • what would never have occurred had the churches been true to the teachings of the founder of Christianity ? Again, have not the churches for ages past put to a bad use the biassed doctrine of immortality by persuading the people to endure injustice and wrong in this life in hopes of a reward in another? "Texo" has hold of the right end of the stick when he touches upon the land question, for the earth is not the landlords and the fulness thereof by any conceivable principle of justice. And now let me come to the practical purpose of this letter. I have been in communication with our respected mayor, and have also seen him per- sonally. Ho assured me of his deep and profound sympathy for and with the large number of out of employ, and promised to do everything in his power, not by way of demoralising charity, but to set afloat useful enterprises. In the meantime, with the double object of ascertaining the approximate number of unemployed in the town, and by publicity to check, for the pre- sent, the further influx of strangers, with his worship's permission, I inv'te all who are out of employ to meet in the yard at the back of the Town-hall this (Saturday) morning, at 11 o'clock, not for the purpose of demonstrating or threatening, but to prove the reality of our out-of-workedness. And new let me appeal once more to the man of thought for his assistance. To the religious man I would say, throw aside your prejudice and predilections, and in the name of our common humanity, do what you can on the side of right. Would that I bad the eloquence and ability of some men to plead the cause of justice, but without education, with- out influence, and without means, like th9"bird in i u-s prison cage you may beat your poor fluttering heart out, and die a prisoner. Let me, in con- clusion, say, I am not seeking for notoriety or personal gain, but, as Texo remarked, some- thing must be done, and someone must begin to do it ? Who will that someone be ? Where is the Cardiff Dr. Clifford ?

THE ALLEGED TRESPASS BY THE REV. SETH JOSHUA. EXPLANATION BY HIS HOST. THE EVIL OF GAME PRESERVING. The imposing of a fine up-m tho Rev. Seth Joshua at Cowbridge under the Poaching Pre- vention Act, and the peculiar circumstances of the alleged offence, have caused a great dealt of com- ment in South Wales. An explanatory state- ment by the Rev. W. Davies, Tresilian, to whom Mr Seth Joshua was on a visit, will therefore prove interesting :— TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—I should like to state a few facts in connection with the charge of trespass in pursuit of game at Tresilian brought against the Rev. Seth Joshua, and tried at the Cowbridge Police- court on Tuesday last. My object is to expose the iniquitous practice of preserving Fame, and the injustice of the law protecting the squires of our country in the same, and abetting them in their tyranny over their tenants, and aiding them in the persecution of others who may in any way come within their reach as the objects of their hatred. Mr Carne, Nash Manor, rents a portion of the laud belonging to Tresilian, as well as the game, from the owner—the land in question being utilised by him for preserving the game. Whereas I rent the house, gardens, and,about two acres of l £ .nd, and have a claim to the ground game as tenant's right, besides having full consent from my landlady to the same. (I mean this as a contradiction to the statement made by the boy keeper before the magistrates, that I have no right to the ground game.) When I became the occupier of Tresilian, some two years ago, Mr Carne sent by a keeper then in his empioy asking mo if his keeper should kill the rabbits on my ground, and supply me with as many as I wanted, rather than that I should employ a man for the purpose. I willingly and gladly consented, as I wished to have nothing to do with game. Thus your readers can see that, according to this, all the rabbits killed on my ground ought to be handed over to me. For a fw months the supply was fairly well, but gradually diminished until it entirely ceased. The place at the same time was swarming with game, so much so that I have had no garden produce except potatoes since I occupied the place, though having repeatedly sot, and tried my best to pro- tect, the green produce; in spite of all the rabbits havj devoured everything, even nibbling the potatoes away. And as for the two acres of laud, it is completely destroyed by the rabbits, so that it is quite worthless and I am obliged to get fodder elsewhere for my pony. Some months ago, when I sent to the present keeper and asked for rabbits, at tho same time complaining of the damage done, ho promised to ssnd a couple, but I found it was an empty promise. The request was repeated two or three times with the same result. I then sent by the keepor to inform Mr Carne that he had failed in his contract, and I would henceforth get someone else to destroy the rabbits. The upshot of this was a letter of complaint to my landlady, stating that I annoyed the keepers, etc., as well as a bombastic visit from Mr Carne's agent, who had the audacity to tell me that the game belonged to Mr Carne (I suppose he thought because I was a Nonconformist minister he could frighten me out of my rights), but I simply told him the ground game was my possession. However, after this storm I received a couple of rabbits for two or three weeks. Then some wire was put protecting one garden the other—which is the one in question in this particular case of trespass-was left as before. Now, under the wall there were three rabblthols leading from Mr Carne's preserve into my garden, which I had repeatedly tried to fill up, but no sooner were they filled than others were burrowed. Bofore the magistrates on Tuesday last the keeper swore that there were no rabbit holes under the wall in question for the last three months, which statement, Mr Editor, I beg to contradict, as up to Tuesday, the 7th instant, they were there, and the garden overrun with rabbits. Thus your readers can see that the holes were there the day on which Mr Joshua. was charged, viz., the 31st October. But aftr Tuesday, the 7th, they have been filled up by the keeper without my knowledge or permission, and the rabbits caught and taken away without one being sent to mti. The object of stopping the said holes on that particular day was un- doubtedly to strengthen their case, as the day after a shooting party was here. And 92 rabbits were killed the sa.me day. The above facts I simply state, and allow your readers to draw their own conclusions. Does not this, as well as other cases without number, cry aloud for a radical change in our magisterial couits as well as for the abolition of the unjust game laws 1 Is it fair that rabbits feeding on my garden produce, then bolting under the wall, immediately become theexclusive property of auother, so that hecan pro- secute me for killing them? The grievances stated in my letter, Mr Editor, are not only my own, but those of the tenant farmers of the neighbour- hood. They can hardly dj anything without being molested by the keepers, who shoot dogs and cats indiscriminately, and as having my mouth free, not boing gagged by a tyrannous landlord, I felt it my duty as one labouring among them to give wind to their grievanceo. Thanking you in anticipation,—I am, &c., W. DAVIES, Tresilian.

THE ARMAMENT OF ARTIL- LERY VOLUNTEERS. The War Office has decided to re-arm all the Artillery Volunteer Corps, numbering about 4-1,000 men, with the Martini-Henry carbine, mark No. II., replacing the Snider carbine, which the men have retained so many years after the Infantry Volunteers have been provided with the better weapon. Commanding officers have been instructed to demand the new carbines to the extent of thÚr enrolled strength, and the cllanga is to b^ entirely completed, if possible, by tho 31st of March. 1894,

AN ELDERLY HOBBLEHEHOY. At the Cardiff Police-court yesterday, Henry Whitehead, a middlo-aged man, was tilled 10s and costs for letting off fireworks in St. Mary- street on the 6th of November, the Stipendiary said there could be no excuse for a man of defen- ant's age indulging in such a childish play, especially in such a busy thorougnfaro. — Wm. Goldberg and Wm. Burton for similar offences* were let off with a caution.

ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. At a special service held in the Palace Chapel yesterday, the Lord Bishop of Llandaff collated the Roy, Owen Bowen Price, B.D., to tho vicarage of Llanddewi Rhyddercb, and instituted ;the Rev. David Thomas Davies, B.A., to the rectory of Goytrey, and tho Rev. Frederick William Clarke, M.A., to tho vicarago of Cal- dicot. j

LORD TREDEGAR'S SHOW, Tuesday and Wed- nesday next. Trial of hunters at Coedkernew on Tuesday. Gentlemen on horseback are not allowed on the uround.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Mdme. Sarah Bernhardt.is one of a family of 18, An armless boy of Middleton, Conn., named William Mylehreefc, has completed the painting of a waggon. His feet did the work. The Pope is now in the enjoyment of his usual good health, and the other day received a large number of pilgrims from Northern Italy. Lord Rosebery is much liked by the Queen, who takes great pleasure in the wit and bright- ness of her present Foreign Minister's conversa- tion. Mr G. W. Child." of Philadelphia, who is now in Chicago, predicts for that city the greatest era of prosperity and growth in 1894 that it-has known. Dr. Antonin Dvorak has completed his fifth symphony—in E minor—and it will be played at one of the winter concerts at tha New York Philharmonic Society. Author William D. Howells is about to come out as an advocate of radical changes in the social system. Bk is even accused of decided leanings towards anarchy. An Italian physician in a recent report says that 4 per cent, of the population of Naples die annually from impoverishment of blood, caused by lack of meat as food. An American clergyman of Brookline, Mas- sachusetts, has come into the possession of the straight-backed, leather-covered chair in which Richard Baxter wrote "The Saints' Everlasting Rest." John Hooker, husband of Isabella Beechsc Hooker (sister of the late Henry Ward Beecher), has just resigned the position of reporter of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, which he had held for 36 years. Lord Brackley, eldest son of the Earl of Elles- mere, and heir to the Ellesmere estates, has justi attained his majority. Owing to the coal strike the coming of age festivities are deferred until the spring of next year. Louis M. Habbins, of Maddison, Wis., is the possessor of the watch that was worn by Alexander Hamilton when the Declaration of Independence was signed, and also during the duel with Aaron Burr. The Employers' Liability Bill has to be reprinted, and cannot therefore be considered on the third reading stage until next Thursday but the division may be confidently expected on Friday, November 24th. Rosa Bonheur, who is still wielding her brush indefatigably, is described as "now an old woman, small, sunburnt, and wrinkled as a peasant." She still wears her hair short, but it is a grey frame about her face now. Though the Princess of Wales is a. Dane by birth, and her father is King of Denmark, s'no spent the whole of her early life in Germany, her father only 'taking his place as heir to the Danish throne a few years before her marriage. Bishop Potter, of New York, is one of the most earnest supporters of tho Burial Reform Association (for securing modest and inexpen- sive funerals), and has already directed that his own funeral shall be m accord with its tenets. The name of Shakespeare is still associated with the drama in the Midlands. Mr William Shakspere, jun., the other day applied to the magistrates at West Bromwich for power to make certain structural alterations in the theatre there. The Countesse de Nurasol, Miss Etta Hughes, and Fraulein Paula, who are respectively the Spanish, English, and Austrian governesses of the Infantas of Spain, receive salaries equal to £1,:J0\) a year apiece, and a home in the Royal Household. Edison, although a millionaire, still works as hard as of yore. His laboratory (which costs £40,000 per year to maintain) still frequently hold him within its walls for 48 hours at a stretch, during which his food is of the simplest, chiefly consisting of bread and cheese. Business men (and business women, too) show but little care for their eyesight when they wantonly give themselves up to the pernicious habit of reading their fifth editions on their return journey home after a long day's work, by the varied means of conveyance offered them in train, cab, or omnibus.—The Hospital. The Empress Eugenie seems to enjoy the keen Deeside air, and walks about a great deal attended by her faithful French maid. She often stands on the bridge, watching the efforts of the fishermen playing their fish in the Telegraph pool below. The pool receives its name from the wire being so near the stream that inexperienced casters cannot refrain from getting their hook caught. Sir John Macdonald's eldest son does not share his late father's predilection for public life, and after sitting in the Dominion Parliament foi three Sessions he has decided to quit the uncon- genial sphere. Any devotion which he has to spare from his legal practice, he devotes to volun. teering but, unlike the majority of Volunteers, ho has really seen service, having participated in suppressing both the Ricl risings. There was a conference at the Speaker's house on Thursday afternoon on the proposal to com- memorate the late Master of Balliol by some form of memorial. The conference was attended by a large number of old Balliol men, including several judges and Ministers, and formed, indeed, by its representative character, a very excellent witness of the wide sphere of influence covered by tho late master. No final conclusion was arrived at as to the form of the memorial, but it it expected that it will take some scholastic form. If marriages were delayed by statute among the working class until the ages of 27 for melt and 25 for women, an astonishing result would 1>6 apparent even inasingledecade. The effects would be a marked diminution in the rate of increase among the population, and a correspondingly marked improvement of general physique. As things are at present the population increases ir numbers with extraordinary rapidity, and at rapidly goes down hill in physique and morale. This means certain ruin to the whole commudUy if it be not checked.—The Hospital. A curious bond of sympathy has recently been established between the Fishmongers' Company and the Fourth Estate. The feeling showed itself during the recent glorification of M. Zola, and has apparently outlived that brief period of enthusiasm. Invitations have been issued to a dinner on Saturday week at the hospitable hall on the north-western side of London Bridge to meet the leading lights of the Institute of Journalists. The members of the Press will have no reason to regret the friendly overtures of thif ancient guild, which enjoys a reputation for good fare unrivalled save by two other City companies. On Thursday afternoon a meeting, called together by placards varying in length from < few inches to five feet, was held to consider tbe advisability of forming a Welsh society in con- nection with the University College, Cardiff, After opening the proceedings by singing Hen Wlad fy Nhadau," it was decided amidst great enthusiasm to take a step in this direction. The committee elected to arrange all details wore Miss Griffiths, B.A., Miss Edwards, Messrs R. Humphrey Richards, D. J. Griffiths, and J. Morgan Jones. From the spirit shown at th meeting, there is every probability that thi: movement will be eminently successful. The name of Mr Hall Caine has not been publicly associated with the vacant Governorship of the Isle of Man, though it is understood in well-informed circles that he is "in the running." The proposal to follow the example of America in selecting in this way men eminent in literature is not regarded with much favour by the regular candidates for Government appointments, and the very fact that Hawthorne, Lowell, and Bret Harte—to name only a few of the more prominent instances—should have proved so successful does not remove the objections which they see to such a nomination. Mr Hall Caine knows the country and tho people as few others do, and were he chosen he would bo the first Manx Governor 01 Manxland. The Duke of Rutland, presiding at a luncheon connected with the opening of a new church af Ilkeston, proposed Church and Queen as tht first toast, adding, in the words of the old song; Here's a health to old England, ihe Queen and the Church, May all plotting contrivers Be left in the lurch. Later in the afternoon, when expressing his OO viction that the parochial system of the Church oil England was the one which best conduced to tbe spiritual and moral welfare of the population, hf quoted from a similar sourse :— For to my mind you cannot find, Though hunting near and far. sirl, A better than our parish plans, To make us what we are. sirs. A certain grim kind of perversity is one of Mr Justice Hawkins's characteristics. Not long ago (says the London correspondent of the Wettem Morning News) a barrister went to him and begged that his case might be taken as early as possible, pointing out what he regarded as cogent reasons for this course. When he had put his case, Justice Hawkins, with a twinkle in his eye, said, Now, Mr I suppose you would like to know what is passin in my mind 1" The barrister replied hastily, "No, sir; I would not." The judge, surprised, asked, "Why nott" Because," replied the young man, I know you are thinking to j'ourself, I will put him at the extreme end of the list. Justice Hawkins was so delighted at this frank declaration that he once fell in with the request made to him, »od allowad. the caaa to come on early.