The London Welshman

Home News. BRECON. Archdeacon Bevan, of Brecon, is one of the seven friends" who contribute to the memoir of Archbishop Temple, which Messrs. Macmillan are about to publish.' CARDIGAN. Mr. R. O. Bishop, M.A. (Cantab), a native of Bow Street, Cardiganshire, has been appointed head- master of Andover Grammar School. CARMARTHEN. A woman named Elizabeth Arnallt (Arnold) has just died at Kidwelly at the age of 74 years, having spent over 50 years in bed. When a young woman she was of a bright and pleasing dispositon, and fell in love with a man who met with her parents' stern disapproval, her mother saying that sooner than allow her daughter to go with this man she would keep her in bed all her life. The girl at once took to her bed and never rose from it again. As the time rolled on she lost all interest in outside life, and was for years past practically an idiot. At the invitation of the Labour Council of Car- marthen, Mr. Llewellyn Williams met the members at the Assembly Rooms last Monday with the object of being adopted as their candidate, as well as the official Liberal candidate of the united boroughs. Mr. Llewellyn Williams declared that the aim of Liberal legislation should be the removal of a pre- ventible poverty. Poverty was not a standing order of the Almighty, as one speaker had lately said, but to a large extent it could be removed in a rich country like ours. The yearly income of this country was enormous, but it was divided into two almost equal halves-one half being enjoyed by five millions, and the other half by 38 millions of the people. The efforts of social reformers in the future should be directed to the readjustment of the national finances in such a way as to lighten the burdens of the poor. Mr. Williams then dealt with the machinery of reform by the removal of the House of Lords, and making the House of Com- mons efficient by a process of evolution, by pay- ment of members and the cheapening of elections, and by the grant of the suffrage to every adult in the country. The reforms which he advocated were the amendment of the law relating to Trade Unions, the bettering of our educational system, the removal of indirect taxation on articles of food, the grant of old age pensions, and a drastic dealing with the unemployed question. In order to obtain the money that would be required he advocated a retrenchment of our national expenditure on the Army and Navy, the readjustment of the income tax and of the death duties, and the taxation of ground values and royalties. 0) CARNARVON. Superintendent Harris on Monday afternoon raided a cottage at Talybont, near Bangor, in the occupation of John Griffith, the sexton, and found therein 254 bottles of stout and beer and 140 empty stout and beer bottles. Later in the day Superin- tendent Harris applied to the magistrates for an order to detain the bottles pending proceedings by the Excise or the police. The Eivion Liberal Association met last Monday and spent some time in vigorously discussing the attitude of the Liberal member for the constituency towards the Welsh revolt. The net result was the adoption of a resolution expressing complete con- fidence in Mr. Bryn Roberts, except on the educa- tion question. The discussion was marked by courtesy and frankness on both sides. Mr. Bryn Roberts not only restated and adhered to his former view that the plans adopted at the Cardiff Convention are impracticable, but explained the plan which he himself thinks ought to have been followed. Notwithstanding Mr. Roberts's forcible arguments, the delegates were not convinced, and their qualified vote of confidence states in effect that on this question they follow Mr. Lloyd- George. DENBIGH. Considerable interest was taken in the proceed- ings of the Denbigh County Magistrates' Court on Monday, when two young men, Herbert Hay, groom, of Hayes, Middlesex, and Charles Coghlan, clerk, of Southville, Bristol, were charged in custody with having broken into Clogwyn, Mr. Frederick Burton's shooting-box near Bryntrillyn, on the Pentrefoelas road. The evidence went to show that the house was closed on the 30th September, and was found on the morning of the 5th instant to have been broken into. The prisoners had been seen loitering near the house on the night of the 4th instant. The prisoners denied all knowledge of the affair, and were discharged amidst loud cheers in Court. On appearing in the street the men were met by a large crowd, who greeted them most heartily. GLAMORGAN. Amongst recent additions to the portraits of Welsh celebrities placed up on the walls of the entrance hall of Cardiff Reference Library are those of lolo Morganwg, Islwyn, Ceiriog, and Thomas Stephens. Mr. Joseph Jones, B.A., B.D., of Cwmaman, Aberdare, a student of Mansfield College, Oxford, and a late student of Cardiff and Brecon Colleges, has been awarded the Dr. Williams' theological scholarship, of the value of £ 100, and open to all the colleges of the kingdom. The Mayor of Swansea at St. Thomas on Saturday was accosted by a little girl who asked him to put a penny on her card "for the lepers." The mayor, who was "incog." to the child, had no coppers, and expressed his regrets, and an alderman who was with him took out some coppers and said, I will give these for the mayor." But, sir," objected the little thing, I am not collecting for the mayor-it is for the lepers." There are now some hopes that the long-standing difficulty regarding the right-of-way to Barry Island may be satisfactorily overcome. The Barry Railway Company, it is understood, have agreed to carry out improvements to the road from the Ship Hotel to the Island, and make over the road to the town as a public road on condition that the road leading across the dock to the island be conceded to the Company as a private road. The offer is regarded as equitable, and it is probable that the council will accept it. MERIONETH. An illustration of the difficulty under which Welshmen labour frequently was noticed at the Merionethshire Quarter Sessions at Bala on Tues- day. Twelve Welshmen, chiefly of the agricultural class, had been sworn to hear a complicated charge of sheep stealing. At the outset Mr. Ellis Griffith, M.P., counsel for the defence, addressing the Bench, questioned whether the jurymen all under- stood English. Three thereupon indicated that they did, but when they were interrogated by the Lord Lieutenant (Mr. W. R. M. Wynne), the number was doubled. Mr. Ellis Grimth One of the jurymen now holds up his hand as under- standing English, but did not do so a moment ago. I have heard of instant conversion before. The Chairman intimated that if the jury deemed it desirable the evidence could be translated into Welsh, but none of the jurymen expressed a desire for this. At the conclusion of the case the jury remained in consultation forty minutes. The fore- man returned to court, and it was stated that the jury could not agree. The Chairman Cannot you agree ? The question was repeated, but the fore- man could not understand, and the services of Inspector D. T. Morgan were requisitioned as interpreter. In Welsh the foreman replied, and this created the impression that some of the jury could not have understood all the evidence. PEMBROKE. Sir Marteine Lloyd, Bronwydd, Lord of the Barony of Kemes, Pem., has approved the selection of Captain David Mathias, retired marine super- intendent, formerly of Cardiff, as Mayor of New- port, for the ensuing year. A memorial tablet, erected by the children of the late Dean Howell in memory of their father, was unveiled in St. David's Cathedral this week. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of St. David's, who delivered an address on the occasion. The designer and artist of the tablet is Mr. Goscombe John. The deputation of Welsh members and others which Lord Cawdor, First Lord of the Admiralty, has consented to receive some time in November, on the subject of the reduction at Pembroke Dock- yard and the future of that establishment, will, it is understood, include amongst others the Bishop of St. David's, Messrs. Lloyd-George and J. Wynford Philipps, M.P.'s, Sir Owen Scourfield, Bart., Sir Charles Philipps, Bart., and Mr. Owen Philipps, Liberal candidate for the Pembroke and Haver- fordwest Boroughs.