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FAIRS FOR MAY. Llangyfelaeh 1 Narberth 13 Caerleon 1 Ty'ny waun. 13 & 25 Llandelav 1 Penybont 13<SC 14 Ammanford 2 Talybont 14 Ammanford 2 Talybont 14 Abergwilly 4 ¡ Llandilo 14 Cowbridge 4 St. Clears 14 Troedyrhlw 4 Three Crosses 14 Whitland 4* Abergavenny 14 Brecon 5 Carew 14 Blackwood 5 Llandovery 15 Blackwood 5 Llandovery 15 St,. Clear's 5# j Llanarthney 16 Cayo 6 I Hav 17 & 18 Laugharne 6 I Reynoldstone 17 Kittle 6 I Knighton 17 Castieton 6 Newbridge-on-Wye 17 Little Newcastle 6 Brynmawr 18 Aberystwith 7& 18 | Llandaff 18 Little Newcastle 6 Brynmawr 18 Aberystwith 7& 18 | Llandaff 18 Lltulelly. 7 J Letterston 18 Bridgend 7 Brechfa 19 Lampeter 8& 20 Quaker's Yard 19 Swansea 9 Carmarthen 19" Glyn Neath 9 St Nicholas 19 Pontypridd 9 I Mshguard 19 Presteign 9 Llandebie 20 Bailth 11 Newport. 20 Newciistle-Bmlyn 11 Kbayader .?& 27 Monmouth 11 & 19 Llanboidy 21 Pembroke 11 & 25* Trecastle. 21 Crickhowell 12 Eglwyswrw 21 Llantrisant 12 Maenclechog 22 Blakeney 12 Usk 26 Haverfordwest 12 Crymroych Arms .26* Llansawel 13 I Llangaddock 28 Danton (Cardiff) 13 Talgartb 31 .ffeath 13 4 28 I those marked thus are monthly markets.

PERSONS who desire to send a newspaper to their friends abroad cannot do better tnen Mud the NBWS OF THE WEBK." j NEW STORIES FOR H WEEKLY MAIL STORY READERS, V ON MAY 30TH WILL BE COMMENCED IN THE "WEEKLY MAIL" A BRILLIANT STORY OF LOVE AND WAR, ENTITLED BEATRICE AND BENEDICK: A ROMANCE OF THE CRIMEA. BY THE SOLDIER NOVELIST, CAPTAIN HAWLEY SMART. The NEW STORY is in its Author's hap- piest vein and most characteristic style. It is full of movement; the narrative proceeds in a lively, sparkling fashion, and there are numerous scenes of highly-wrosght sensation. The action takes plnce in England and the Crimea, the story opening just prior to the outbreak of the war with Russia. From start to finish this new Novel of CAPTAsIN SMART'S will be found brimful of interest, exciting without being unduly sensational, full of variety, and with a romantic termination. BEATRICE AND BENEDICK: A ROMANCE OF THE CRIMEA. ty HAWLEY SMART. COMMENCES IN THE WEEKLY MAIL ON MAY 30TH. I gTORY BY A j^J"EW! WELSH AUTHOR. Saa ANOTHER STERLING gENSATIONAL gTORY Will Commence in the WEEKLY MAIL ON JUNE 13TH. It Is entitled, "F A THE R OR g O N P" And is from the pen of JgRNEST BOWEN ROWLANDS, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. SON of Mr. BOWEN ROWLANDS, Q.C., M.P. for Cardiganshire. PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTION OF THE STORY. The Father and Son referred to in the title are Montague and Tudor Raymond, the former being a middle-aged, handsome landed proprietor, and the latter a young fellow just completing his education. The agent of the estate is a man named Lazell, who is never so happy as when evicting tenants, robbing his master, anl speculating with the money thus stolen. Tudor Raymond falls in love with the new house- keeper-a young lady whose bearing and education show a superior position in life. Father and Son differ on almost every conceivable topic, and when the latter informs his sire of his intention to propose marriage to pretty Butb Mil- rain the father confronts him with a marriage certi- ficate purporting to be the record of his own mar- riage with Ruth. In disgust,Tudor leaves for London,and thence for the Continent. The next day Ruth is found dead In a wood, killed by a pistol shot. Who committed the murder ? The inquest on the body brings little to light. A detective (the comic character of the story) enters Montague Baymond's employ. In his searchiriga he finds a silver-mounted pistol in a drain pipe. While lurking near the spot" in the wood, he en- counters Ruth Milrain in the flesh, but before he can speak he is stunned by a heavy blow. Lazeil's character begins to be discovered. He threatens Montague Raymond with a revelation. Meanwhile Tudor Raymond has been induced to return to England. The detectives are in no hurry to arrest him, much to his surprise. Again the question is raised Who committed the murder ? Montague points to his son, Tudor Tudor points to Lazell; and Lazell points to Montague as the culprit. The unravelment of this extraordinary situation is ably effected, as a perusal of the story will testify, I "JpATHER OR GONP" BY jgJRNEST JgOWEN ROWLANDS, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, COMMENCES PUBLICATION IN THE Ty/JAIL* ON JWE 1STH. JL a? I Business Addresses WARMER'S "SAFE" CUBE FOK ALL K IDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES. w ARNEWS ,SAFE" CURB FOR GENERAL DEBILITY AND BRIGHT'S \m DISEASE. THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONIALS proclaiming its merits are on file, and may be examined. Its claims are unimpeachable. Sold by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors. Pamphlet mailed xreeon application to H. H. WARNKR and Co. (Limited), 86, Clerkenwell-road, London, E.C. L5901 HAMS! HAMSr: HAMS 1 LIPTO-IV. S FAMOUS HAMS! FINEST IN THE WORLD ONLY 61d. PER LB. ALL OWN KILLING AND CHKING. GUARANTIED PJSHFEOTION. No Matter though yon Pay Double the Money, FINER CANNOT BE GOT. OTHER QUALITIES FROM aid. PER LB. Fin 0 IN LIPTON, THE LARGEST TEA AND PROVISION DEALER IN TH!■: WOULD. LOCAL BKANCHKS:— CARDIFF-ST. MARY-STREET. S WANiSE A —A KG AD E BUILDINGS, HIGH-8TRI5ET, And in all the Principal Towns of the Kingdom.

SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE. I I J I H I Q I ie M S « "« S o o o s 5 & S g ■? Jj £ 3 o O s* Thurt- (Morning. 6 10 5 5 5 53 5 18 5 20 day, ■< Evening 6 ^3 I 5 29 6 25 5 42 5 37 May 7 (Height 35 11 132 11 36 6 35 0 25 0 n ( Morning. c f.6 5 52 6 45 | 6 4 6 8 Fnday, Evening <t> 7 18 6 1ft 7 9 6 26 6 23 May 8 } Height 37 1 33 3jJ7 7 J5 4 __25 9 Satur- i Morning. 7 40 6 37 7 31 6 47 I 6 53 day, •< Evening. 8 1 I B t>9 7 53 7 7 7 7 May 9 ( Height 37 4133 4 137 10 35 4 25 9 ( Mornin?. 8 22 7 20 8 14 7 27 7 35 TUT in I Evening 8 42 7 40 8 34 7 47 7 49 May 10 (Height 35 7 32 7 137 1)34 8 25 Q a i Morning. 9 I 1 53 2 53 8 7 8 14 iW Evening. 9 20 | 8 18 9 12 | 8 28 | 8 28 Mfty 11 ( Height 34 10 31 1 35 4 33 7 23 £ T i « ( Morning. 9 39 8 38 9 32 8 49 8 52 Tuesdar J Eveni g 5? g &3 9 52 9 10 93 May (Height 32 6 29 3 33 0132 4 21 6 Wedhes ( Morning. | 10 15 9 18 10 12 9 31 9 31 day, < Evening j 10 34 9 38 10 32 9 52 9 49 May 13 ( Height | 30 0 27 6 30 6 30 6 19 0 —*Koath Basin tElist Dock Sill. JAlexandra Dock. 6Dock Sill.

BAROMETRICAL INDICATIONS. Appended is a chart of the barometrical readings for the 48 hours ende l Wednesday midnight, as registered at the Western Mail Office, Cardiff, The instrutneut is 33ft. above lea. level.

THE RAINFALL. The rainfall, as registered at Tredelercli, Kompney- hill. near CardilT, for the 12 hours ended 9.0 p.m. last night, and for each 12 hours of the past week, was as follows:- 9 p.m. 9 a.m. Total. Wednesday. 29 1.15 "37 '42 Thursday 30 '05 "00 '05 Friday 1 '36 06 '42 Satuniny 2 '00 -00 '00 Sunday 3 *00 *00 '00 Monday 4 '00 -00 '00 Tuesday 5.00 .00 '00 Wednesday 6 '00 — Total for the week '89

THE TEMPERATURE. Extreme readings of the thermometer for 24 hours endtd 9.0 p.m., taken in the shade at Tredelereb, near Cardiff. Minimum. Maximum. Mean. Thursday 53'0 57'0 &5-0 IVidav 50'0 63*0 61'5 Saturday. 45-0 -8-0 51*5 Sunday 33*0 59*0 58*5 Mondav 46*0 59*0 52-5 Tuesday 42-0 53*0 60*0 Wednesday 45-0 58*0 51*5

MOSLEM X CIGARETTES, CLUB KHEDIVIALS, ZAKAS, MOSLEM BEAUTIES. Also P.J.S. CIGARETTES IN ALL BRANDS. All at Manufiicturer'a Prices. THE BURMAH, INDIA, and HAVANNAH CIGAR COMPANY, 31, HIGH-STREET, CARDIFF. [Epl2 Billiardsl BiiliardsU Billiards 111 6 TABLES WASHINGTON HOTEL, CARDIFF. E. EASTAHROOK, Proprietor ROGERS -0 AIJES & POUTERS IN 4^-GALLON CASKS AND UPWARDS BREWERY, BRISTOL. To be obtained of the following Agents in Cardiff, Pale and Mild Ales from lOd. per Gallon. Stout and Porter from Is. per gallon. WHO SELL NO OTHER BEERS IN CASKS :— ABRAHAM, L., 123, Clifton-street, Roath. COSUI.ICH, S., 114, Miskic-street, Cathavs. CROUCH, J. F., 34, Eldon-street, Riverside. DAVIES, T., Grocer, Cvfartiifa-street Roatli. FRAMCIS, S.. Grocer, 1: Donald-street, Roath. JAMKS, W. A., Grocer, 37, James-street. MORRIS. 8., Grocer, Bridge-street. PARSONS, U. C., 20, Haberslion-st., South Splotlunds. PARSONS, T. Grocer, 205, Severa-road, Canton. RICHARDS, WM., Grocer, Thomas-st., Grange-town; THORNS, G. F., Grocer, Clifton-street. WALTERS and DAWKINS, Grocers, Cowbridge-road. AND AT THE CARDIFF STORES, 9, WOIIKING-STIIEET FOR LIST OF PRICES AND SOUTH WALES .11. AGENTS SEE WESTERN MAIL." j

"Sp-innaker Boom." A man who lives in the Rhondda asks me to tell him in confidence what Morien's age is. He wants to know becaase it will settle a I bet between my correspondent and the village shoemaker. The latter, who knows the arch- druid intimately, says he is thirty-five, while my correspondent insists he is at least sixty. It is probable that the shoemaker is judging from appearances, which are occasionally deceptive, while it may be my correspondent makes his estimate from Morien's writings, which are as truthful as his personal appear- ance. I have no precise information about Morien's age, because it has always been kept such a dark secret, not even" Morien's most intimate friends being allowed to know; but I am glad to say I [have at last found a clue which enables me to unravel the mys- tery. In his sympathetic biography of the late Rev. David Williams, of Fairfield, Morien makes the remark, f knew him all his life." Now, as Mr. Williams was born in 1816, and was, therefore, seveaty-five years of age, and as Morien knew him all his life, Morien must be at least a little over seventy-five. The probability is that he is somewhere about eighty-two or eighty-three. Long life to him. Surely it is time the people of Barry should see to building for themselves a hospital. The place is large enough to support such an institution, and the number of accidents would justify the expenditure., I believe I am right in saying that since the new railway has been laid the number of accidents at Barry has been phenomenally large; but this is not all. Sometimes it is almost manslaughter to bring an injured man all ¡he way to Cardiff, where the neai est hospital is situated. There were two accidents yesterday, and in one case the man bled so much as he was being carried from one place to another that he died by the time he reached Cardiff. Then there is an injustice done to Cardiff. If a Barry man dies in the Cardiff Infirmary Cardiff has to bear all the cost of the subsequent inquiry, and if the deceased is not a ratepayer in the Barry district Cardiff will have to bear the cost of burying him. This doesn't add to the dignity of Barry, and if the people of that place care for position they had better see to the matters of which I have been speaking. it. In view of the sentence yesterday passed on Captain Verney, member of Parliament for North Bucks, deputy-lieutenant for Anglesea, and member of the London County Council, it may not be entirely uninteresting to quote a paragraph from a speech delivered by this gentleman at a meeting of the London County Council some time ago. Here it is:— If them was one thing more than another thnt the people of London were looking to them for, it was some improvement in the purity of public morality. He hoped the council would not grnnt a licence to any music-hull unless satisfied that it was a useful centre of amusement, and unless they had taken means to ascertain that it was not being used to degrade public morality, to bring contempt upon uprightness in the country, and to degrade and lower the name of Englishmen among foreignjrs who come to our shores. Whatever might be the private conduct of members of the council or the view they took of the conduct of their friends, they did not wi.h to see public vice rampant in London. And in the interests of public morality Captain Verney has left us. w • There are times when it is a pity some men are not sent to prison without the option of a fine. One of such cases cropped up at Newport yesterday, wh§n a boarding-house Newport yesterday, when a boarding-house keeper and a shipping master were charged: with ill-treating a young Norwegian sailor. The defendants appear to have beaten the young fellow in an unmerciful fashion. They broke the knobs off their sticks with the thrashing they gave him, the captain beating him about the back and the boarding-master on the head. An eye-witness said the Nor- wegian was beaten worse than anyone would beat a dog, and when he had been rendered almost prostrate he was thrown over a rail on to the deck of the ship and beaten again. A fine of a few pounds was allowed to cover the offence, but it is a pity the savages were not sent to hard labour for a while. There is not much improvement in the football split," but it is significant that the ranks of the "reformers" have been strengthened by the support of some good men who were looked upon as certain to swear by all that the Cardiff committee did or said. in another column will be found two letters and a report of an interview with Mr. A. J. Davies. This gentleman speaks up for him- self, but the letters have a peculiar interest of their own. Mr. J. S. Dewar, the present secretary of the Penarth Club, jealous of the fair fame pf his committee, and anxious that no one should think they had been plottingto weaken the position of the Cardiff Club, writes to say that the matter of ejecting or electing in connexion with the match com- mittee has never been discussed by the Penarth committee. Perhaps not, but it is, to put it as mildly as it can be put, rather curious that Mr. Dewar's letter should be followed by a letter from Mr. R A. Lewis, the late secretary of the Penarth Club, who says he has been asked to stand for a seat on the match committee Evidently there is some- thing amiss down Penarth way; Poor Mr. Wheatley People want him to bear all the obloquy of the misdeeds of every one of the corporation committees, and this morning one enraged gentleman is heaping abuse and sarcasm on the unfortunate town- clerk, as if this poor man had been guilty of the most unheard-of crimes. Claims for torn coats in consequence of the barbed wire which a beneficent corporation has laid down all over the town in order that the course of true love may never ran smoothly, and that man might be taught to walk in the middle of the road, have been coming in at such a furious rate of late that the com- mittee has set its back against the wall and decided to fight them all. Therefore, when Mr. Charles Balmont asked for ten shillings for damage done to his coat, he was told he could take any proceedings he liked to enforce his claim. This filled Mr. Balmont with nery wrath, and he has been writing to the papers to suggest that Mr. Wbeatley likes to parade his wig and gown in the county court It has rather surprised me that Mr. Wheatley has not been blamed for delaying the com- pletion of the waterworks scheme, and he certainly ought not to be let off for letting so much dust fly about the streets. Monmouthshire doesn't ache to see work- men fairly treated. It is pretty generally agreed now that the most effective way of dealing with sweaters is for all public bodies I to take a stand against the rule of always accepting the lowest tender. A system which depends for its success on the cutting down of prices to the minimum is bound to prejudi- cially affect the workman. This has been recognised by the Government and a large I number of publio bodies, and in many parts of the country it has been decided to deal only with those employers who treat their servants properly. In Monmouthshire, however, the county council prefers to go on in th<w>ld sweet way of sweating and downright crftltv. Perhaps this is not very surprising when we consider that the Monmouthshire County Council is composed of a large heap of teetotal fanatics—the ateelest-hearted people in the world. r: There is singular appropriateness in build- ing the new fish market on the H ayes. There is an old saying—I hope Dr. Rhys Griffiths won't start another controversy on this innocent and well-intentioned remark—that fish is good brain food. It is evident, there- fore, that our local governors want to focus all the educative forces in the town to the Hayes. The fish market and the library naturally go together; indeed,"they are fin- separable, for without the bram produced by one the other is useless. The sooner the better this new fish market is completed, for the present place for selling fish is neither an ornament to the town nor very comfortable to the fishmongers and their customers when the rain comes down. It is a very long time since I was round that way, but I am in- formed that the Batchelor statue is develop- ing scales. w • In the matter of health Cardiff shows up very well this week. Taking the twenty- eight large towns, the average death rate was a little over twenty-six per thousand of the inhabitants, and as the rate at Cardiff was only twenty-two, no one has much cause for grumbling. Bristol, however, is by far the healthier of the two towns, the death rate last week being only seventeen per thousand. The worst of the twenty-eight towns last week was Sheffield, with its enormous death rate of seventy per thousand. This is very unusual, and is, I suppose, to be ascribed to influenza, which has broken out in a very virulent 1 manner ia Sisofiield. j

I Her Broken Heart. JUDGE LAWRENCE THINKS X25 SUF- FICIENT TO HEAL tT.—AMUSES B. OF P. CASE. With All His Faults She Loved Him Still, In the Queen's Bench (before Mr. luetics ^aw, rence) the cape of Harper v. Henderson was DI;I;,n on Wednesday. This was an action for breafOW promise of marriag J, the plaintiff being AnniaEifiai beth Harper, residing with her father at Surrey square, Old Kent-road, and the defendant Jamld Henderson, foreman to a firm of manufacturers and patentees at High Holborn. The defendant ado itted the promise, but alleged subsequent can- cellation by mutual consent. Mr. Le Breton was counsel for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed in person.—-Mr. Le Breton submitted on the pleadings that it was for the defendant to prove his case.—Mr. Justice Lawrence assented, and the defendant opened his case accordingly.—. He admitted the promise as holding good up to the end of 1883, but said that then the plaintiff, on the ground that he had not sufficient income and had no money saved, told him she was TIBKD OF HIM AND HIS WAYS, and would in future meet hiua only as a friend. She alleged that he renewed the promise after- wards, but this he denied. It, was also alleged She alleged that he renewed the promise after- wards, but this he denied. It, was also alleged that he introduced her to hia friends as his in- tended wife, and that also he denied. Having sworn to his'statement, the defendant was cross- examined by the plaintiff's counsel. He first became acquainted with the plaintiff in 1874, and they were formally engaged in 1876. He gave her an engaged ring, but never a wedding ling. He was referred by counsel to letters in which he addressed the plaintiff in very endear- ing terms, such as My dearest dear Aunie," and was asked if he would like to see any more ot then). He replied that he did not care to s«e them at all. In 1881 he gave the plaintiff money to get the banns of marriage published, and they actually were published at Walworth. She had worried him very much to put the banns up. She did not. to his it collection, become ill from disappoint- ment at his conduct. He ADMITTED HE HAD TREATED HER BADLY, not-as he ought to have done. In June last year be married somebody else. His salary was 30s. a week, and lie had a commission of from 7:3. to 10s. a week. He admitted having walked with the plaintiff, and frequently kissed her since 1883—so lately as 1889, but said it was clearly understood between them that they asso- ciated only as friends. A grown-up daughter of the defendant's wife was called by him in support ot his case, and swore the plaintiff had tola her she had finally broken ofE the engagement. She thought nothing of defendant kissing the plaintiff afterwarjs, as she used to kiss her (the witness's) brothers. Mr. Le Breton: They were little boys? -One was 22 and the other nineteen. (Laughter.) -The plaintiff was then cailed and said her father was a carpenter. She denied that the engagement was permanently broken off, and said that after the quarrel he IMPLOBED HER FORGIVENESS ON HIS KNEES in the presence of her whole family. (Laughter.) She gave up employment worth 14s. to 18s. a week io view of marnage with the defendant. She told him in reference to the quarrel that with all his f.iults she loved him sliii." (daughter.) The plaintiff was cross-examined by the defendant in reference to the amount of the earnings she gave up in view of marriage, which he dis- puted.—Mr. [Justice Lawrence said he was at a loss to know how this case had ever come to be tried before him without a jury. Deciding it as best he could, he came to the conclusion that there was a promise of marriage, and that it was continued to the eud. He thought JE25 would be sufficient to heal the plaintiff's broken heart, which had been breaking ever since 1882—(laughter)— and he gave judgment for the plaintiff accor- dingly, with costs.

ACTION TO RECOVER £ 20,000. In the Chancery Division on Wednesday Mr. Justice Romer was engaged in hearing an action brought by a Miss Margaret Smith against the estfita of Mr. John Cornelius Parke to recover jE20,000, which I,e said was due to her on a deed executed by the testator.— Mr. Oswald, who ap- peared for Miss Smith, said the claim againit the estate btsed on a covenant bearing date Murch 28, 1886. The lady was of good birth, was possessed of considerable attainments, and was well educated. In 1881 her widowed mother and her family left Ireland, and removed to Gordon Lodge, Teddington, which belonged to the testator. The taking of this house was the origin of the acquaintance hetween the claimant and Mr. Parke. Botween 1882 and 1887, when he died, the testator was on very friendly terms with the claimant, and paid her particular attention. The testator's son at this time was a widower, and the testator was very anxious that Miss Smith should marry his son, and in March, 1886, a deed was executed be- tween the testator and Miss Srritti to the effect that. thinking the claimant would make his son a very suitable wife, lie agreed to give her JE30,000 on her marriage, but should the son refuse to marry her during the testator's lifetime the latter agreed to pay through his executors £ 20,000 to Miss Smith six months after his death. Mr. Oswald went on to explain that Miss Smith was always ready to marry the son, but the latter refused to carry out the contract. Hence the action.-TIIe hearing was adjourned until to-day (Thursday).

It Never Can be Replaced. A window has been broken in Hamburg that can never be replaced. Upon the glass was scrawled a confession of love, written in French by the poet Heinrich Heine. At that time he was in love with the daughter of a French emigrant, and probably never thought of the Mathilde of the days to come.

Joseph Cravan Improving, Mr. Joseph Craven, M.P., who has been suffer- ing from a severe attack of bronchitis and conges- tion of the lunys, has now passed the critical irtace of hia illness, and is able to take nourishment

SLANDERING A DRESSMAKER. A Hafod Woman Ge s £ 5 Damages at Cardiff. At Cardiff Town-iall to-dny Mr. W. H. Dmd, deputy under-sheriff, Neath, sat with a spec'H; jury tn ps:ess darnaops in an action for 81"111'1-. brought by Mary Williams, dressmaker. H;,fo;i, against Williams Collins, timberinan, Haf >d, and his wife, Sarah O'Neil Collins. Mr. W.C. Matthews, Pontypridd, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. J. Phillips, Pontypridd, for the stated that on the 12th of February last she was at the defendant's house and saw in the front room two photographs on the mantelpiece. A few days afterwards she heard that, Mrs. Collins had been telling peoplp that she (plaintiff) had stolen them, and on the 21st of February she again called on hlU defendant, and demanded an explanation. Mrs. Collins made use of bad language, and accused the piaimiff of stealing the photo- graphs. She said 'this in a manner loud enough to be heard by other people outside. In consequence of this accusation people would not employ her, and she considered that she had lost 6s. a week since. She had always been on good terms with the defendant before this, and she only wanted to clear her character.—Corrobora- tive evidence having been given, Mr. David summed up the evidence to the jury. After several minutes' deliberation they found a verdict for the plaintiff for £ 5 and costs.

ALL GREAT SPEAKERS NERVOUS. "Nobody," writes a London correspondent, who heard the late Archbishop Magee preach or spt-ak would have for a moment imagined that he was a nervous man. Yet such was the case. Before he delivered that magnificent oration on the Irish Church Disestablishment Bill he paced up and down the corridors of the House of Lords before he robed, painfully fearful lest he should prove a failure in his maiden effort before his peers. But is it not the same with all great, preachers as it is with all great actors and speakers ? Henry Irving is always intensely nervous, so was Barry Suilivan. John Bright was invariably the same—I have seen him come down to the House of Commons with a speech prepared, and leave without delivering it. In point of fact, po one who is not nervous appeals to the heart, of his audience, for he fails to eniist their sympathy and carry them with him. Ellen Terry pleads guilty to the same soft impeachment, and yet she enrap- tures the house she plays before. Call it what you may, nervousness of a certain kind is necessary in a public preacher, actor, or spaaker, and this Dr. Magee possessed to a considerable degree."

CARDIFF CABS COMMITTEE AND THE TRAMWAY COMPANY. A meeting of the cabs committee of the Cardiff Corporation was held at the Town-hall this morn- ing, when Alderman T. V. Yorath presided. There were also present—Messrs. E. Beavau, S. A. Brain, D. Hicharus, F. H. Jotham, T. Andrews, N. Rues, E. Thomas, and W. McKenzie (head-constable).—A letter was read from Mr. Goodyer, the manager of the tramway company, asking permission to run 'busses from Castle-street to the Sopuia Gardens on Whit Monday.—After some discussion it was resolved that the matter be left in the hands of the chairman, deputy-chairman, and the head-constable.—A turtlier letter was read from Mr. Goodyer asking permission to stop the whole of the routes at eight o'clock one night next week, in order that the employes might attend a dinner to be given to them by several gentlemen in the town.—Mr. Richards said he thought the gentlemen, whoever they were, were very unwise in adopting such a course, because it rrigiit create a bad lealing between the men who Went on strike and the new employes.—Mr. Jotham agreed that the proposal would cause a bad feeling.—The Chairman said that if the men could not have the dinner on a weok- day they would have it on a Sunday. —Mr. Andrews asked whether the dinner cnuid not, be given on two evenings, so that the traffic woul-i not be so much interfered with. They could not neglect the public convenience. It was an absurd proposal to stop the whole traffic of the town at that time.—Mr. Brain thought the matter might be arranged on two evenings.—Mr. Jotham did not think they should recognise the dinner at all. —Mr. Richards said it looked very much like a demonstration in opposition to the strikers.—Mr. Jotham said that was what it was, and a bad feeling would be caused by it. He proposed that the request be not acceded to.—Mr. Andrews seconded the proposition, and it was carried with- out dissent.—Another letter was read from Mr. Goodyer stating that he was obliged to take off the 'busses from the new route to the Docks from Cantot', because it did not pay. He, however, asked permission to run Can on lbuisses via the Clarence Bridge at 8.40 and 9.20 a.m., and back again at one and five o'clock.—This was felt to be objectionable, inasmuch as the Canton service would be interfered with. Permission was there- fore withheld, but it was suggested that the present 'busses might b,J run at the times sug- gested.—This was aii the business of importance.

He Spat Blood Twice. In the Divorce Division on Wednesday, prior to the rising of the court for luncheon, Mr. Tarden, addressing Mr. Justice Henn Collins, said: May I ask your lordship to assist me to get a hearing for my defence. I was very bad on Tuesday, and spat blood twice.-His Lordship said he had better not stop too long in the neighbourhood of the court.- Mr. Taplen: Will your lordship heip mo to get a hearing.—His Lordship: I shall give no assist tnce, and if you are a wise man you will not stop long in the neighbourhood of this court.

I Best for the Wife and Children, Just as he was being shown upstairs on calling upon Dr. Longstaff, of Wandsworth, Hugh Fisher, formerly an East India merchant, but latterly of no occupation, residing at Bridgwater, shot him- self dead. At the inquest on Wednesday it was stated that deceased managed his wife's busi- ness at Bridgwater, and as it did not progress favourably he reproached himself for allowing his wife to take it over. He left a letter addressed to his wife, stating that he intended committing suicide, as he thought it would bs most profitable to her and the children, as by his act they would not be turned out of doors. His body would be found with the police at the mortuary at Wands- worth.—1Tenonorary insanity was the verdict.

IS IT WRONG TO WtAif DIAMONDS P "To buy diamonds is sin against the creecTof humani'y." So Mr. Grant Allen lays down the ^aw in an article entitled, "Democracy and Dii- monds," which he contributes to the May Contem- porary. A diamond (says Mr. Allen)viewed as an aesthetic object alone, is DISTINCTLY VULGAR. It belongs to the same category as cut glast', lustre chandeliers, the ormolu drawing-room mirror, Louis Quinze furniture, tinsel, and spangl es, and I gaudy gewgaws in general. This is not a mere matter of opinion; if people will look it straight in the face, they will see at once it is a. matter of fact. Nobody would endure diamonds if they were not so costly. Nobody does endure them when they are paste and pinchbeck. It is the knowledge that they mean so much money expended which renders them fnsllionn bie and endurable at all. Precisely similar bits of shining glass, with facets just as clear cut and lustre just as brillimt, when made of good honest paste, are universaily scouted as in the most atrocious style possible. 8 But the diamond,' everybody says, is so much purer, so much brighter, so much clearer, so much more luminous. Its sheen is finer than any imitation, its lucidity deeper, more transparent, more scintillating!' You think so? Well, as matter of fact, that is simply not true; and every expert will tell you so. The truth is, only such experts can discern by mere inspection the difference between a getn of the first water and a good paste facsimile. As a mere aesthetic question the one is worth, to 99 Out of 100 of us, everv bit as much as the other and neither, to a man of real taste, is worth a crooked sixpence. Diamonds are VALUED BECAUSE OF TKBIR RAHXTY, and the consequent difficulty and expense of pro- curing them. A man has, let us say, ;£200 to spend, which gives him practically the command of just so much labour. Now, if he were to decide with himself—'I will spend this sum in equipping and sending out a digger to South Africa to hunt for a diamond for me; I will pay his passage to Kimberlev, and buy him a small claim, and set him up in tools, and keen him there for three months, on the hunt for a pebble-and then, when he has found one, I will wear it in my ring, just to show the world I can afford to use so much wealth to so little purpose'—if he were to do all this, I say, why, even the diamond-weavers themselves, I think, would be staggered by the disproportion of effort and product. They would ser; at once for themselves how cruel and how vulgar was the expenditure.

TYNDALL'S DIAGNOSIS, No More Bul.etins, Please. Professor Tyndall writes to the Times :_U Gout is a "demon mull ifaced,l and it may be that I am suffering from gout. The accurate description of the matter is this. Thejpulse.of the right foot beats normally, which indicates a free passage through the arteries; but the right limb is swollen through- out, indicating that its deeper veins are blocked in a manner well known to ptivsicians. With regard to the restoration of the return curront, all is un- certain, but under the most favourable circum- stances it will require six weeks of absolute quiet to restore the normal condition of things. My warmest gratitude ie due to the press for the friendly and sympathetic manner in which they have so frequently reft-rred to my case. Might I request an additional favour ? My condition I have laid before you, and the alterations of that condition fiom day to day must be almost inap- preciable. May I ask a suspension for the future of bulletins, which I feel can only worry and weary the public and my triends ?"

TO FACILITATE M.Pe's RESIGNA- TIONS. A Bill to enable members of the House of Com- mons to resign their seats, brought on by Sir Henry James, Sir John Mowbray, Mr. Dillwyn, and Mr. Asquith, is printed to-day. It enables any member, by letter to the Speaker in the pre- scribed form, to apply for leave to resign his seat, and after fourteen days from the communication of such letter the House may refuse or grant the application as it thinks fit.

Kissing and Moustaches. In this month's Temple Bar Mr. W. H. Wilkinson has an article on England as it appears to a Chinaman. Yuan is much puzzled by our cus- tom of kissing. This is one of his attempts at describing the operation Young people when visiting their seniors must apply their mouths to the left and right lips of the elder with a smacking sound. Even a Chinese mother does not kiss her baby, though she will press it to her cheek; there is no term in Chinese for the con- ventional or affectionate kiss. Men from twenty years of age onwards let the moustache and beard gradually grow, it being the rule not to shave, but to allow the hair to grow long. After the age of fifty or sixty they shave off the hair from the upper lip, remarking that their life's strength is approaching decay, and they may now cease to grow the moustache, which is the outward sigo of vigour."

Ferdinand in a Love Scandal. The incident reported from Sofia regarding the attempt on the part of a prominent officer to shoot his wife is likely to have consequences of some importance, Prince:Ferdinand (says the DailyNetos) being personally implicated. The lady has long been currently spoken of in Sofia in connection with the Prince, and everybody in the city seems to have been better infoimed than the husband, who has now sworn to have revenge.

Dr. Magee and the Reporters. An authentic story is tcld of Dr. Magee, which shows his unassuming courtesy. He had been dis- tributing the prizes at a large school, and a num- ber of reporters had been present, but, owing to a singular cadence in his voice, a quotation from Milton, which he used in his address, was lost. While the reporters were waiting at the crowded railway station, "I wish," said one of them. "I could see the bishop, and ask him for the quota- tion." No sooner hid he wade the remark than j he was tapped on the shoulder by the ri<lit rev. prelate, who there and then recited the passage.

CARDIFF DAY BY DAY. ♦ Both the muster prizes at the Cardiff May Day Show on Wednesday were taken by Newport cycling clubs. I [Two years ago to-day the first trades unionist, in the person of Councillor Lascelles Carr, was elected to the Cardiff County Council. About 300 invitations have been accepted for the Press Banquet on Saturday, and the gathering will be one of the most brilliant of the season. It is rumoured that the Cardiff Football Club are looking out for a new ground which they can call their own and do with it as they think proper. The local appeal case of Loueher w. Hern and Others is down for hearing to-day in the London Law Courts. This appeal has reference to a colliery estate close to Cardiff. Over 400 tickets have been sold for the dinner in connection with the Cardiff Conservative Work- ing Men's Club on Monday next. Tickets are consequently at a premium now.. When is that relic of old Cardiff—the bridge over the Rutnney River—going to be demolished? Surely the cost of erecting a substantial bridge would not involve a very heavy expense when divided between the county councils of Monmouth and Cardiff! Cardiff Churchmen will be interested in know- ing that the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is now second in seniority amongst the bishops of the Church of England. The only bishop whose appointment is of older date is the Bishop of Norwich, appointed in 1857. Some of the councillors who were judging at the May show made desperate at tempts to look horsey. Councillor Drain succeeded best, but Aldermao Jacobs tried hard by placing his silk hat sideways on the back and keeping his two hands in hif pocket. The effect was immense. One of the improvements that Head-conslabl McKenzie has introduced into one of the deport ments for which he is responsible is the substitu tion of light fire-escapes for the tremendously heavy things hitherto in use—or rather not in use, for they were too cumbersome for anything. It took at least four men to move them, and many more to work them. The lighter escapes can be easily handled by a couple of constables. The corporation would do well to abolish the heavy escapes altogether. The first case of an application for an adminis tration order for many months in the Cardiff Coun'.y-court—the sum being under £ 50—cime on yesterday. The debtor was described by Mr. J. H. Jones, who appeared for him, as having got into the hands of the Jews, who did not treat him as a gentleman. The debtor was still more explicit, Md added that he had borrowed from one Jew to pay the other. The lack of accommodation at the Cardiff Town than is again keenly felt to-day. Judge Owen if sitting in the Crown Court. Registrar Langley is trying small cases in the Nisi Prius Court, the cabs committee occupy the Mayor's Court, and Mr. David, of Neath, has had to sit in the Council- chamber for the purpose of holding a sheriff's inquiry. Everybody's elbows are constantly get* ting into the ribs of someone else at the Town. hall. Lord Bute is showing in "prncticill manner the interest he takes in public affairs, and is justify- ing to the full the action of the town's representa- tives when they induced him to become mayor. Away from town on Tuesday, and having business keeping him out of the town on Thursday, he found time to make a special journey to see the May show on Wednesday. He will be back again late on Friday night in order to be chairman at the press benefit banquet on Saturday night. In the Small Debtors'-court, Cardiff, to-da before Mr. Registrar Langley, a singular cas arose, a plaintiff declaring that he had seen the man he was suing coming out of his house within the last fortnight. He was quite positive about it. The wife of the person summoned was equally positive that he was dead, and cliuched the argu- ment by going home and fetching the "defen- dant's certificate of death and burial, both dated more than a year ago. Somebody was mixed. It is a great drawback that the Cardiff police recruits have to be drilled in public. The opera- tions of Sergeant Damm's i-quad and the practice of the fire brigade always brings together a gaping crowd. This can- not but have a bad effect upon the men. They wouldn't mind blundering a bit in private But it scarcely adds to the dignity of the reprosen- tntives of the law that their first mistakes should lay them open to the jeering of a mob. The force, from Head-constable McKenzie downwards, don't like it. Look out for lithe Middlemani: at the Theatre Royal next week. Written by Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, and produced at the Shaftesbury Theatre, it immediately caught on with the public, and has run for nearly 200 nights. The central figure in the play—the action of which is laid in the Potteries—is an old worker of porcelain, Cyrus Blenkarn, whose dominant purpose in life is the discovery of a long-lost secret in the manufacture of the old Tatlow ware. He has already devoted twenty years to this end, during which time he has, by the fruits of his numerous inventions, filled the coffers of his mercenary em- ployer, Joseph Chandler, The Middleman of the play. Starting with this leading idei, the piece soon develops a plot of strong and absorbing interest. The trials and privations of the struggling inventor, the blight that falls on his home, his subsequent triumph, and the uplifting of the one cloud that marred his happiness-all these are blended together in a story that seems destined to become a greater success even than the Silver King," by the same author. The plav will be acted by the original company from the Shaftesbury, under the management of Mr. G. S. Willard and Mr. H. A. Jones,

PHILOSOPHER'S STONE CASE. Some Interesting Particulars Concerning Edward Pinter. Inspector Byrnes, of New York, has received a cablegram from Scotland Yard asking lor a record of Edward Pinter, the mar. charged with having attempted to obtain money by false pretences from Mr. Streeter, the London jeweller, by means of the philosopher's stone." Inspector Byrne says that he has had him in custody three or four times for one offence or another. He is well-known as Sheeney, and is a ve, y smart fellow. He worked the same scheme in New York which he had arranged for London. He is a first-claes sleight-of-hand conjurer. He left New York four years ago, and was next heard of in. Australia. Subsequently he made bis appearance in France, where he victimised many people. He bought a maibie quarry there, and, breaking a piece of marble in halves, he showed gold in it. He uid Vi>ry well, and fooled two learned professors, who associated themselves with him. When he disappeared aftei swindling a number of people the two iavnnts were arrested, and had a very narrow escape from condemnation as swindlers and thieves. After this escapade Pinter was not again heard of until he turned up in the philosopher's stone case in London,

WANTED TO POISON MAMMA. A boy nine years of age entered a chemist?* shop here (says a Berliu correspondent), and presented a slip of paper, asking the chemist to send by sh" bearer a quantity of arsenic. The chemist, of course, sefused to send it, and told the boy the person who wanted it must come himself. Shortly alterwnrds a second boy appeared with another piece of paper, containing these words :—" My mother is very ill, and the doctor says she aiu?: have some arsenic. Please send mp some arsenic but it must be the real s'uff." The chemist 111 had the boy arrested, when hep-nfesaed that I wanted to have the arsenic to put in his mot)" < coffee. He hated her because she had of' thrashed him for stealing. ?ne mother has .-sk■ the police to take her boy froou her and put iiitti into a penitentiary, as she is io fear of h&u