The London Welshman

Y DYFODOL [Dymunir ar i ysgrifenyddion a threfnwyr y gwahanot, Gyfarfodydd anfon gwybodaeth yn brydlon am unrhyw gynulliad a fwriedir gynnal, er mwyn rhoddi hysbys- rwydd amserol yn y golofn hon.] 1905. Hyd. 8 a 9. Cyfarfod Pregethu Blynyddol City Road. 14. Tabernacle Temperance Society, King's Cross. Address by Surgeon McAdam Eccles on "Alcohol." „ 15, Cyfarfod Pregethu Blynyddol Clapham Junction. 25. Cyngherdd Blynyddol Clapham Junction. Tach. 12 a 13. Cyfarfod Iregethu y Gothic Hall, Parch. D. Tecwyn Evans, B A., Llanddulas. 16. Cyngherdd Blynyddol y Gothic Hall. 23, 24, a 25. Eglwys y Bedyddwyr, Little Alie Street, Sale of Work yn Castle Street. 30. Eisteddfod Flynyddol Hammersmith, Town Hall, Hammersmith

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the Tariff Reform League, has declared posi- tively that there is to be an autumn dissolution, and being in the confidence of Mr. Chamberlain he has special opportunities to know what the leaders of the Unionist Party have decided upon. Ministerialists, who usually winter in distant parts of the Empire, are, acccording to the Standard',J this year making arrangements to enjoy the recess nearer home. The information comes from Glasgow that Scotch Conservative candidates have received an official hint from headquarters to be prepared for a General Elec- tion not later than the end of October. The Morning Post says that Mr. Balfour has been convinced that he could not, in the present state of parties, pass a thorough and satisfactory scheme of Redistribution through the House of Commons next year, and that within the next three months he will appeal to the country, making Traiff Reform the chief plank in his plat- form. These statements are definite enough, nothing more definite is to be expected until the holidays are over. But we may take it for granted that this Parliament will rise in about a fortnight hence to meet no more. The End of a Fiend.- The Devereux trial has come to the only conclusion possible in face of the evidence, a verdict of guilty and a sentence of death. And if any murderer ever fully deserved the full penalty of the law, this fiend in human form did. We do not intend to dwell upon ghastly detail of the crime,; they have been told too often already. But a more cruel, cold-blooded murder was never committed. Devereux takes rank with the most callous of men, fortunately not a numerous class. He seems to be entirely devoid of conscience. He set up the ingenious defence that his poor wife had first poisoned her two children, and then poisoned herself. But there was documentary evidence to prove that a fortnight before the death of Mrs.. Devereux her husband had described himself as a widower with one child. The whole history of the crime and the behaviour of the criminal all through is too horrible to think about. The crime of Macbeth is not to be mentioned along with it. And it is very strange that the murderer took no advantage of the long time which passed between the com- mitting of the murder and the detection of it to go out of the country. He had a splendid chance. But great criminals somehow or other, however ingenious in their method of acting, are not, as a rule, ingenious enough to adopt the means that are often close at hand to escape the consequences. And for this we ought to be thankful. Made in Germany.—We candidly confess that modern things made in Germany, from Ger- man barm upwards, are not very much to our taste. But of all the things made in the land of the Kaiser of the Iron Fist, the attempt to turn the Baltic Sea into a German, or rather a Russo- pernianico lake is the maddest of all their lrttperialistic cries. According to official organs, Which are daily inspired from the Court, one of the chief objects of the Kaiser's visit to the Czar was to form an alliance to keep the fleets all other countries, except Germany, Russia, ■Denmark, and Sweden, out of the Baltic. It may have been so. The Kaiser has shown on Several occasions that he is not particularly strong in common sense. But, unless he deli- berately intends to plunge Europe into a deadly war, it is impossible to believe this story. For anYone Power, or any number of Powers jointly, to map off a portion of the high seas unto them- Selves, is an act which is tantamount to a decla- ration of war upon the remaining Powers of the world. Our own opinion is that the whole s^0ry is merely a silly canard, imagined by some cieverj but unscrupulous German journalist, esiring to create a panic in England because of ^nglish opposition to the Germans entering the J^elsh coalfield. But the subjects of the Kaiser better take care, for England, peaceful as is, will not stand too many pin-pricks.