The South Wales Star

CHURCH DEFENCE MEETING AT SULLY. STRONG RESOLUTION AGAINST DISESTABLISHMENT. A well-attended meeting was held on Tues- day evening last at the National School, Sully, for the purpose of protesting against the Bill for the Diseatablishment. and Disendowment of the Church in Wales. The meeting of parishioners was convened by notice affixed on the church door, and was opened by the Rev E. F. Daniell, the rector, who pro- posed, and Mr F. A. Luen seconded, that Mr D. Rees, Sully House, take the chair, which was carried unanimously. The meeting was then addressefl by the Rector, who stated that the Church did not altogether depend upon endowments1, as her sons and daughters had given an equal amount voluntarily, enabling her to minister to the poor of all creeds, especially in country parishes, where her ministers stood alone in many cases, being the only resident minister toattend to sufferers in need and distress, and it was pointed out that in Sully parish, for instance, no other church or school existed. I Mr F. A. Luen, in proposing the resolution, dwelt upon the benetits the working-classes enjoyed from having a resident minister in their midst, and expressed his opinion that the present Bill was being rushed more by political agitators than from any spontaneous movement on the part of parishioners in Wales, and an appeal should, therefore, be made to the Government to hold the Bill over until a religious census of the population of Wales had been taken, as he did not believe the majority of the people were in favour of the Bill. Further, that the present endowments of the Church would be fruitlessly spent. As far as country parishes were concerned there was not' the slightest chance of parishioners receiving anything like the adequate benefits now derived from present means of grace. Neither did the Bill grant any relief to the ratepayers as the money would not be sufficient to affect them. Neither did it grant any reduc- tion in the amount to be paid by the tithepayers consequently the Bill was most unjust and un- called for, and would not benefit anyone. (Ap- nlause. ) Mr W. Thomas, The Hayes, seconded the re- solution, endorsing the previousepeaker's remarks, and urging the necessity of taking a census of the people. The resolution, which was carried unanimously, was as follows :— That the inhabitants of Sully, in public meeting I assembled, consider the Bill for the Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Church in Wales and Mon- mouthshire is unjust in principle, and altogether un- called for at the present time when the Church is undeniably living and progressive, and a grievous wrong to the poor, to whom she alone ministers and hereby record their emphatic protest against the at- tempt made to pass the Bill; and that copies of this resoldti'in be sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Rosebery, Mr Asquith, Mr Balfour, and Mr A. J. Williams.-(Signed), D. REKS, Chairman. The meeting, which was unanimous and en- thusiastic throughout, terminated with votes of thanks to the chairman and speakers. ¡

Y MEUDWY. Gwr da, myfyrgar duetld.—yw'r Meudwy Crymcdig ei agwedd, Hir ei walit a garw 'i wedd, Pwynha ogof unigedd. TliEFOR.

If you like the Barry Dock Xcws recommend it to your next-door neighbour—on the Snowball" principle.

EXTENSION OF RAILWAY FACILITIES AT BARRY. IMPORTANT SCHEME DETER- MINED UPON. ¡ THE LINE TO BE WIDENED FROM BARRY DOCKS TO DINAS POWIS. With the view of providing additional siding facilities on the Barry Railway in anticipation of the early completion of the first portion of I the new dock, and the continued augmentation of trade at the existing dock, the directors of the Barry Company have decided to widen the passenger line from Barry Dock Station to Dinas Powis. The land intended for widening the line has been staked out, and the work will be undertaken without delay.

BARRY RAILWAY BILL IN PARLIAMENT. READ A THIRD TIME AND PASSED. In the House of Lords on Monday last the Barry Railway Bill and the Barry Dock and Railways Act, 1888 (Amendment Bill) were read a third time and passed.

SHEBEENING IN GUERET- STREET, BARRY DOCKS. A WOMAN FINED THE FULL PENALTY OF J3100 AND COSTS. Norah Collins, a woman of untidy appearance, was charged at Barry Dock Police-court on Thursday (before Mr O. H. Jones and Major- General Lee) with selling beer without a license at No. 31, Gueret-street, Barry Dock, on the 10th ult. Defendant was brought up under a warrant. Police-constables W. Smith and W. Parker deposed to entering the house with a warrant. There were two men and two women besides defendant inside, with beer before them, and there was a 42-gallon cask on tap. Defendant said at the time "Forgive me this time don't report me." She now pleaded innocence. Four previous convictions were read, with fines ranging upwards to JB50, and the Bench now imposed the full penalty, £100, in default three months' hard labour. The mention of this fine created some sensation in court, this being the first time the full penalty has been imposed in the district. ANOTHER FINE OF £100. At the same court, Charles Hardy, of 23, Gueret- street, Barry Dock, was charged with retailing beer without A licence on the 27th ult.—Police- constable William Smith said he watched the house in question from six until 7.30 a.m. During that time two men and one woman entered, and the latter left carrying a jug. Defendant at the time said the woman came for nrewood a coloured man came to have a "wash," and the other man fetched a bottle of ginger-beer. (Laughter.) There were several drinking vessels about, and a 4^-gallon cask of beer on tap.- Police-constable John Stephens corroborated.-A lad named George Porter gave evidence for the defence, stating defendant gave coffee and food to his shipmates when they were "bard up."— Four previous convictions were presented, and defendant, who pleaded not guilty, was fined £100, in default three months' hard labour.

BARRY NEW MAIN SEWERAGE WORKS. Major-General H. H. Lee, R.E., J.P., Alderman J. C. Meggitt, Mr J. Jewel Williams, and other members and officials of the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board, accompanied by Mr C. R. Walker, M.Inst.C.E., the consulting engineer of the board, paid a visit of inspection to the new main sewerage works from Barry to Cold Knap on Thursday afternoon last, expressing their satisfaction at the general character and progress of the work. The contract, which is being carried out by Mr George Rutter, of Barry, will probably be com- pleted by the end of July.

THE TAFF VALE AND EAST GLAMORGAN RAILWAY BILLS. The Taff Vale and East Glamorgan Railway Bills will come before the Committee of the House of Commons on Tuesday next. The principal clauses in the Taff Vale Bill relate to the construction of a short branch of railway at Ynysybwl. The East Glamorgan Company oppose the Bill because they are endtavouring to tap the same district for the benefit; of Barry. The Taff, of course, as well as the Rhymney and Bute Companies, oppose the same scheme of the Barry Company.

A BARRY DOCK TRADESMAN AND HIS DOG. Joshua Jones, who did not appear at Barry Dock Police Court yesterday (Thursday), was charged by Police-sergeant Brown with keeping a dog without a license in Thompson-street, Barry Dock, and was fined 7s 6d and costs.

ACCIDENT TO A SEAMAN AT BARRY DOCKS. On Wednesday last, as the steamer St. Oswald was entering Barry Docks, one of the crew, named William Gears, caught his hand in the cog wheel of a deck engine, two of the fingers of the left hand being badly mangled. Dr. Livingstone, Holton-road, is attending the injured man, and hopes to avoid amputation.

THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN RAILWAY. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE PROPOSED UNDER- TAKING. THE BARRY COMPANY GUARANTEE A DIVIDEND AND COLONEL NORTH GUARANTEES TRAFFIC. It is satisfactory to know thero is now no doubt that the contract for the construction of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway will be let, as reported in our columns last week, within the next two or three months. One of the difficul- ties in the way of an earlier decision in the matter was, we understand, the question of guaranteed dividend. The Barry Railway Company have consented to take over and work the line as soon as it has been completed, b"t they felt they were not justified in guaranteeing to the promoters a "permanent dividend of six per cent. on the undertaking. Satisfactory terms have, however, now been arrived at be- tween the two companies, and, we are pleased to add, that Colonel North, one of the principal shareholders of North's Navigation Company, has given the Barry Company aw assurance of a large amount of coal being sent from the collieries in which he is interested over the new line every year for shipment at Barry Dock. This fact revives a prediction made by the Barry Dock News a year or two ago, that when the Vale of Glamorgan Railway becomes an established fact Colonel North, the great Nitrate King, will find a seat on the directorate of the Barry Docks and Railways Company.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE RISING GENERATION. MM nW THE RECTOR OF CADOXTON AND RE- LIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN DAY SCHOOLS. On Sunday last, during evening service at Sti. Mary's Church, Barry Dock, the Rev E. Morris, rector of Cadoxton, in referring to the urgent need of additional Sunday school teachers owing to the increase in the number of children at the school connected with that place of wot ship, stated it was the manifest duty of the Church of England to raise the standard of religious teach- ing of children in view of the indifferent and altogether insufficient religious instruction at the board schools.

PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE BARRY LOCAL BOARD AREA. Mr Charles R. Walker, M.Inst.C.E., the consult- ing engineer of the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board, having just submitted a. report upon the proposal to that authority, the Local Board have determined to consider a scheme at their next meeting, to-day (Friday), for the annexation of Dinas Powis to the municipal area of Barry. Im- portant additions have already been made to the parishes of Barry and Cadoxton under the new Local Government Act from the parishes of Sully and St. Andrew's.

BARRY LOCAL BOARD AND I THE BARRY BILL. WITHDRAWAL OF OPPOSITION. The Barry and Cadoxton Local Board have I withdrawn their intended opposition to the Barry 1 Company's Bill in Parliament, and the agreement embodying the Company's concessions to the I public will be completed at meetings of the respective bodies to be held to-day (Friday). j i

MUNIFICENCE OF A BARRY I DIRECTOR. HANDSOME DONATION TOWARDS A BARRY DOCKS CHAPEL. We are pleased to announce that Mr Edward Davies, J.P., Llandinam, the managing director of the Barry Railway Company, has generously forwarded a cheque for the sum of £ 20 towards the building fund of the new Tabernacle Welsh Congregational Chapel, Barry Docks.

MISTS AND SHADOWS. I Why lov'st thou me sweet sighing maid What hopes dwell in thine heart ?. And when my step in on the sward Why do thy pulses start ? Fond, foolish maid, go hide thy blush, And hold that flutt'ring breast Thou dreamest of a morning Bust, I did but love in jest. I I love thee not I love not thee Another heart is mine, More glorious than the brightest gem I Transcendent and divine. Whose eye than moonbeams is more soft, ( Cheeks as the damask rose, And with her lips none can compare They as a bud unclose. j But, as with thee, my love is in vain, Another claims that breast, And all my hopes in idle hours Are shadows at the best. j Yet must I pass through life alone And keep my love apart, To gather all those shadows up And hide them in mv heart. J. M.

PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION;, executed with neatness and dispatch, at the Barry Dock News office, Vero Street, Cadoxton.

CATHOLICISM OR ROMAN CATHOLICISM. THE ANGLICAN PRIEST RETURNS TO THE ATTACK. HIS FURTHER REPLY TO 44 A. E. P. noss:" To the Editor of the "BARRY DOCK NETV8." DEAR A. E. P. Ross locut-w, causa ji:iita> eft" is evidently that gentleman's view of religion? controversy. I fear that if the head of his church should hear of this he may enter an objection to this invasion of the papal prerogative. Your correspondent accuses me of employing violent language. I do not see my way to plead guilty of this, yet, having regard to the wriggling policy of my opponent time after time, who as soon a* one false statement has been met by me takes no notice of my reply, but proceeds to make another as bad as or worse than the former, it is scarcely remarkable that I exhibit some slight signs of indignation. If he regrets the extent to which- the discussion has come let him biar in minfi merely that it takes two to carry on a quarrel, and he should have refused to go on with it at the beginning, which no doubt would have been mnctt wiser on his part. His last statement about the B.V.M. is merely for the sake of saying it, as it is no answer to my point, nor in any degree at vari- ance with my own opinion. A. E. P. Ross" has already shown himself too prone to gratuity, and again does so in assigning to me the impression that the Huguenots were Saints (except, of course, in the sense that all Christians are). I Relieve that they were for the most part good God-fearing men, fighting for religious liberty against the worst form of tyranny that has ever cursed humanity. He further says, 44 they were like other sectaries of their time, causers of rebellions and wars." What, pray, will the Nonconformists, for whose welfare he is so anxious, .say to this little outburst of feeling ? Is it not the old story of the" wolf aRd the Iamb ?'' All who dared to oppose Rome in the day of her strength were sectaries, and, there- fore, fit only for persecution and slaughter. No, wonder if a medal were struck. Truth is truth. That is what the Huguenots really were," say* 11 y your correspondent. Of course, they were sectaries that was quite sufficient, and having done his best- to defend it himself, A. E. P. Ro-s coolly remarks No Catholic defends the massacre." I thank him for the word, which is true, and for the inference, which is plain, and with it, I agree, ¡""9 44 A. E. P. Ross is no Catholic." His history, like the names of his authorities, is wonderfully rare. He tells us too, without a blush, that 44 he dealt with the inquisition in an earlier letter. Surely this is the height of flippancy. That I eontmujiJly shift the question is on a level with other asser- tions. Most of my letters have been taken up with criticizing and answering his statements, sis anyone may see who reads them. He has jumped abcut from ancient holy water stoups to Clifton pro- Cathedral" and its functions, but he would tie me down In a little narrow dungeon. 1 shan't agree to the arrangement, however, and it » not yet in his power to coerce me. Let me now give a few particulars about the Council of Trent, at which, in the sixteenth century, 41 the Church of Rome. in defiance of th..> prohibition of the Third General Council (that of Ephesus) imposed Ttrrlvr new ArtiHe* </ > Faith- (which she does not pretend to rtst on Holy Scripture) to be believed on pain of damnation, on the authority-of this Council, which was uncanon- ical in its convocation, illegal in its convention, and uncatholic in its constitution." It was. more- over, partial in its constitution, there being more Italian bishops than of all Christendom besides and in some sessions there were hardly forty or fifty bishops present. The following are the I twelve novelties and heterodoxies :—1, SeTen I Sacraments. 2, Trent Doctrine of Justification and Original Sin. 3, Propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass. 4,Transnbstantiation. 5, Communicating under one kind. 6, Purgatory. 7, Invocation of Saints. 8. Veneration of Relics. 9, Worship of Images. 10, The Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches. 31, Swearing obedience to the Pope. 12, Receiving the decreta | of all Synods and of Trent. The Popes of Rome, Paul the Fourth, axxl Piag the Fourth, offered to confirm the Book of Common Prayer if Qnecn Elizabeth would acknowledge the Pope's supremacy and the Roman Cathoi;cs in these realms habitually conformed to the worship of the Church of England for the first ten vears of Elizabeth's reign, after which they were prevented from doing so by the bull of Pius V. (dated Feb, 23. 1569). which excommunicated that sovereign. Your correspondent's remarkable deficiency in that power of reasoning which is the property of t most human beings of average sanity and full ag<y is again shown in his remark about Fisher and More men—even good ones—have been often deceived into dvinsr for a bad cause. Does Mr Ross think it is an argument to sav that 44 because More and richer died for the PI: pal cause in England, therefore that cause is right l" There is nothing more certain than th« fact that the Roman Church is not a "4 glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any Mtch titiing." Again, your correspondent shows his lack of logic by asserting that "a Chu.reh cannot he Catholic and Protestant at the same time." The Catholic Church protcsti'd at Nicaea against the heresy of Arius, and at Constantinople agains-t. Macedonius, at Ephesus against Nestorius, at Chelcedon against Kutyches. When, Home becomes truly Catholic, then the Chiicch of England wilt cease to be Protestant so far as she is concerned.- I remain. Dear Sir, Yours in. the One Faith. A PRIEST OF THE UNDIVIDED CHURCH.

VISIT OF SANGER'S WORLD- FAMED EXHIBITION TO PENARTH AND BARRY. It will be seen by an advertisement in our advertising columns that on Thursday, May Slilt, Lord George Sanger's great hippodramatie and spectacular exhibition will pay its first visit to Penarth-, and will be shown on Morgan's Field. On Friday, Jane 1st, this grand exhibition will visit Barry Dock also for the first time, when tho Gasworks Field in Holton-road will be occupied. The visits will include the combined companies, embracing all the horses, fee.. the menagerie, ami the whole of the circus artistes. A greii feature, and one which is calculated to fully interest and astonish all, is the realistic performanee of tba great war in the Soudan, which has bes-n given in London for 280 consecutive performances. The magnitude of this military spectacle is stated to baffle all description, and in which 250 horses, 500 people, the batteries of elephants and camels, the field artillery, etc., will appear in the tent at one time. The finest circus company that has ever appeared unde.t one management has been specially engaged, and for the first time in Great. Britain the wonderful Clairvoyant, educated and talking horse, will be included. These visits of Lord George Sanger will afford the general public of Barry and Penarth a splendid opportunity of witnessing this Vast production, and the priers being low, we have no doubt the affair will prove a great attraction.

APPOINTMENT OF LODGING- HOUSE INSPECTOR. The Health Committee of the Barry :1.0.1 Cadoxton Local Board have appointed Mr A. E. Leysbon, sanitary inspector to the Board, an inspector of common lodging-houses in the district in succession to Police-inspector Edward Rcea [ ■earned,$t a salary Qf £ 5 rer olnnum.