Evening Express

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TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. Date. Max. Min. Mean. RAlHyaii. Tuesday..— 11 5-7 32 445 0*00 Wednesday. 12 55 35 «5"0 0*00 Thursday13 55 34 44 "o 0 C0 Friday 14 55 I 35 45'0 012 Saturday 15 52 32 42-0 0'30 Sunday 16 55 3' 43"0 oloo Monday 17 52 28 4C'0 O'CO "The Tempera tnre represents extreme readings of the thermometer for 24 boun ende^ 9 a.m.. taken In the shade at Tredelerch. near Cardiff. Tbe Rainfall registered at Tredelerch, near Cardiff, or the 24 hours ended 9 a.m.

WLSTEIVN MAIL., Business Addresses. pUBLIO JNTERJGST IS gXOXTED. ALL PARTiES AGREE, EVEN imd Lsrfl SaUsbwy) Along with their papalap aupparteis, a::wee that the best protections far the QfttiQB dafieig the wiater months ore H E P W 0 R^T H'S "J^ENOWNED" 'JIOP QOATS, THEY'RE STYLISH! TBEVRE RELIABLE!! THEY'RE TBE CHEAPEST AND THE BEST Liberals and Conservative?, Home Bulaia and Trades Unionists, all deelaire that Hapworth's Bill tor a good rig-out is the most acceptable ever placed before th;, BBITISX POBMC. NOTE THE ADDRESS:- J^HEPWOiml ANI) S°N' LIMITED, gAlNT MARY-S-PRELPT, (Right Opposite thg ffQwn-ha)l,) CARDIFF. B2508 HAVfa YOU N(yCiCED HOPKINS' pARM JJOUSK 10BEAB THIS LAST WBEXP IT IS SUIPLY PERFECT, WHAT MORE CAN I SAV fw THE MIXTURE OF FLOUR NOW CONTAINS HALF NEW WHEAT SOME FROM UNGARY, SOME FROM 0310, THE REST AUSTRALIAN ARB JBLUE GONE EN O L I S H It is worth 8d. pM 41b. Loaf, AND 18 SOLD FOR Ail'" RETAIL AND DELIVERED. HOW DOES THE MAN DO IT P Echo Answers HOWP I ONE JpACT ^yOKTH A rpHOUSAND OPINIONS. THE ENORMOUS DEMAND FOR L IPTON's FAMOUS TEASI Is exciting the wonder and envy of all Tea Dealers. The POBLIO APPRECIATION and increasing popu- larity of LlPTON'S DELICIOUS TEAS amongst all classes mav be judged by the fact that L IPTON UnqwAUonabiv pays more Duty to Her Majesty's Customs for Tea supplied direct to the Consumers than any other firm in Great Britain or Ireland. This undoubtedly is the STRONGEST POSSIBLE PROOF of the Extraordinary Value and High-cfass Quality of T IPTON'S JJELIOIOUS T EAS. NOTE THE PRICES MAGNIFICENT BLENDED TEA, Stleeted from the best tea-growing countries (PURE AHD FBACffiAXT). PBR IS. LB. Specially selected CBYLON, INDIAN, and CHINA BLEND. PER -|^S. LB. EXTRA CHOICEST cmLON and INDIAN BLEND, PER Is- 7D. LB. THIS 18 THE MOST DBLIOIOUS TEA THB WORLD CAN PRODUCE. NO HLGHEU PRICE. 5, 7. 10, and 201bs., Packed in Patent Fancy .^ir-tiglit Canisters, without extra charge. SPECIAL NOTICE.—Delivered carriage paid for an extra Id. per lb. to any address In Great Britain, on orders of 61bs and upwards. Bamples sent free on application. A GUAJLANTBE.—Money returned in full if Tea does not give perfect satisfaction in eyery way. Being Sole Proprietor of several of the most famous Tea and Coffee Estates in Ceylon, including the cele- brated Estates of Dambatemie, Larmastotte, Monora- kande, Mahadambatenne, Moosakelle, Pooprassle, HanagalJa, and Gigranella, which cover thousands of acres of the beet Tea land in Ceylon, I am in a position to supply customers direct at Planter's Prices, thus saving to consumers of the fragrant beverage all ittter- mediate profits. T IPTON, TEA AND COFFEE PLANTER, CEYLON. TUB LARGEBT TElA. OOFFEE, AND PROVISION DEALER IN THE WORLD. Tea and Coffee Shipping Warehouses: Maddetna Mills, Cinuamon Gardens, COLOMBO. Ceylon Office: Upper Cliatbam-street, COLOMBO. Indian Office and Shipping Warehouses: 5, Lyon's Range, CALCUTTA. Tea and Coffee Sale rooms: MINCING-LANE, LONDON, E.C. Wholesale Tea Blending and Duty Paid Stores Bath-street and Cay ton-street, LONDON* R.C. Coffee Roasting, Blinding Stores, and BMeece Manufactory OLD STREET, LONDON, E.C. General Offices: BATH-STREET, CITY-ROAD, LONDON, FX. Local Brnnchee: 7. HIGH-Sfl1 AND srr. MARY-ST. SWANSEA Arcade Buildings, trigh-street LLANELLY 9, Stepney-street. BRISTOL 22, Wine-ffcrect. BRANCHES EVERYWHERE. Purchasers at Lipton's ure Supplied First Hand. No Middlemeu's Profits to Pay. Over ONE MILLION PACKETS SOLD WEEKLY Business Addresess. ASK FOR gOUTH ALES QELEBRATED JAMS AND jy^ARMALADE. SOUTH WALKS JAM AND MARMALADE CO (LIMITED). CANTON, CARDIFF. 1714 Hotels. CARDIFF. WASHINGTON TTOTEL (MMPEHANOB) AJL QARDIFF, 50 B181,8 • BJLLJARD HOO, (LiUgsst in Wales), Six Tables, E. EASTAfiROOK, F«OP«IETOJi. 2383 iiOOERS ALKS & I'OIMiSlW IN 4H3ALLON CASKS AND UfWAHUS Fom lOa, per gallon, lIHICVVIJUy, BRISTOL. CAHIHFF STORES c 9 vyORKING gTREET v v 2583

NOTES. (By "OBSERVER") CARDIFF, MONDAY MORNING. Mr. Keir Hardie has been flattering the Nonconformist doveootes to some tune. It was high time he or some other blunt indi- vidual spoke out. What do we see in Wales to-day? Whilst the Church clergy are busy from week end to week end going in and out amongst the people and seeing to their wants, seven- tenths of the Dissenting parsons are in their studies, dawdling over their pipes and their vernacular organs. The charge that the churches neglect the poor has a real sting in it when applied to the Nonconformist minis- ters of Wales. With the Welsh Dissenter the Berm-n is everything given a great hwyl and pastoral work may go to the vail, Welsh Athlete" was again pretty near the mark in his metrical foreoast of Satur- day's four principal matches. The following are his figures, with the actual results in parentheses:—Newort, a goal (1 goal, 3 iries, 2 minors), Cardiff, a try (a try); Swansea, a goal and a try (1 goal, 1 penalty goal, 2 tries, 2 minors), Llaoelly, a goal (1 goal, 1 minor) Leeds, a goal and a try (1 penalty goal, 3 tries), Harlequins, one stry (one try). In the matter of Neath v, Coventry the Welshmen agreeably disappointed the forecast. Every day brings its gloomy news of finan- cial disaster from various parts of the country, and the latest blow has fallen upon Swansea, which to wnis already hard bit by de- pression in the tin-plate trade. The closing of extensive works with a history which goes back into the last century is a serious thing, and all must sympathise alike with the old and honourable firm of Grenfell -a name untarnished in any sphere—and with the large body of workmen whose position is trembling in the balance. It is earnestly to be hoped that the works may 18 again re-started; and this is the very narrow silver linifig to the new clondVhioh has arise. to lower over Swansea. Still this commercial stagnation must have the effect of causing men to cast their eyes around and discover the reasons. Three, at any rate, exist-Want of confidence between master and man; oven production; the M'Kinley Bill. The last is, to my mind, by no means the most formidable of the three, and I have placed it last in the list. But still it has bit the United Kingdom hard, and many people are asking to-day whether Free Trade is the great boon it was once believed to be, and whether the cautious application of tariffs on foreign products would not restore the equilibrium by encouraging British growers and manufac- turers, and thereby benefiting the masses without imposing a burden on anyone save the foreigner. If this could be done in such a way as to disarm opposition we should hear the last of Free trade. Free trade, like disarmament, is a blessed thing when made universal; but if others do not adopt it why should we P People, as I said before, are beginning to look to pro- tection as a means of recovering that com- mercial ascendancy which England slowly, but surely, seems to be letting slip from her grasp. „ < A friend has handed me a copy of the Heme Market Bulletin, a United States organ_ from which I extract the following para- graphs, which may be of interest to those who believe in the principle of audi alteram partem Under protection, and mainly in consequence of it, the price of steel rails in this country has been reduced from 166 to 30 dollars a ton. A few year? ago, when it wag proposed by Democratic politi- cians to remove the doty, tito largest consumers remonstrated to Congress against it. They had suffered too much from foreign monopoly and preferred domestic competition, Henry Lister and Sons, of HudderafieW, England, manufacturers of astrachans, plushes, shawls, &c.. sold in this country a million dollar's worth of goods a year, but lost the marhet nfter I he M*Kinley tariff was enacted. To regain It tliey Are buildiOI a large manufactory at Jamestown, N.Y., which will employ 2,000 hande. Is there a 18IUI of sense in the United Stedes who dots not think it bett". for this country to have those £ 2,000 hands employed here than, in England ? [Our readers will note that some large Welsh tin-plate makers are following suit; this brings the above argument still nearer horao.] Since all other countries ha.ve been makirg themselves independent of British manufacturer, and all the self-governing British Colonies have enacted protective tariffs against the mother country and other countries, the United Kingdom is beginning to experience the disadvantages of one-sided free trade. Meanwhile Britain has suffered from increasing imports of articles that compete with her own products, and are admitted frae. The increase in food imports alone amoufc-d to nearly fourteen million dollars in seven months, thus impoverishing the British fanners. We do not rejoice over this adversity -far from it. We point it out only as a warning to <;ur own people, who are asked by the National Democracy tu adopt the British policy. Our own country is prospering as nevet before—not, at the expense of Britain, but because we are doiny our sivn icork. The United Slates have grown richer by aboui 2,000,000 dollars for every working day in the pa-1 ten years. About 1,000,000 dollars a week for the past two years has been coming to this country from England for investment. The accumulated wealth of this country is said to be I about 64,000,000,000 dollars to-day, about four time? WUoit it was before the wllr. Thf farmers produce every year about, 4,000,000,000 dollars. The manufacturers produce every year about 8,000,000,000 dols; anil that is one thousand million more than the manufactured products of Groat Britain. Moiw tonnage lnndled by the rail- loadsof the United States in 1890 than on all tin: lailrotfds of Great Britain, Cat many, France, and Russia. More tonnage through the De- troit river in 1889 than the entire ton- nage clearing at London and Liverpool in foreign and coastwise trade. More tonnage by the Pennsylvania It. R. system than by all mer- chant ships of Great Bri'ain. Our home market is worth 30 times as inu, li a, our foreign market. In 1890 it wns 50,000,000,000 dols, uccoriing to Brndstreet. Does protection as a national policy moan much, or does it moan littlu ? These are a few nuts to crack from an American trade Protectionist journal. They have come under my eye, and I think in fair- uess the readers of the Express, without dis- tinction of party, should have art opportunity of studying them. If Free Traders can answer each point straightforwardly and without shuffling, let them do it. It is no answer to say that the question of Free Trade versus Protection was settled half a century ago. Commercial depression will pretty soon knock the bottom out of that.

ANOTHER DARING ROBBERY AT CARDIFF. On Saturday another during robbery was com- mitted at Cardiff. On Saturday afternoon Mra. Phillips, the wife of a seagoing engineer, resid- ing at Southey-street, Roath, went into town to make some purchases, leaving in the house a nurse girl and an infant child. The girl was told to take the child out for a while, and did so. walking slowly up and down the street- and, it is stated, never having been more than 100 yards from tiio bouse. On returning it was found that the house had been entered, and two valuable gold watches abstracted. Information was given to the police, who are actively engaged in making inquiries into what appears to be a robbery of a more than usually daring description.

REPRESENTATION OF MERTHYR The Constituency Mortgaged to Mr. Allen Upward. The South Wales Radical, a. paper which enjoys the confidence of Mr. Allen Upward, says:—" The papers are beginning to discuss openly the reports which have long been current under the surface as to a vacancy in the representation of Merthyr. By writing to the Western Mail to contradict the reports which have been currant, Mr. Pritclwrd Morgan, to rotno exteut, gives solidity to the breath of rumour. Meanwhile, our ably-conducted con- temporary, the Merthyr and Dowlais Times, states that a solicitor in the borough is openly hawking the scat as if it were his private property among half a dozen would be candidates. This sort of tiling is rather con- temptible. There is no association in Merthyr- but its absence was not much felt at the last elee tion. The working men of the district lnve the sole right and power, after all, to decide who shall represent them. By the unanimous voice of three mass meetings in various partsof the constituency they have pledged the seat to Mr. Allen Upward in the event of the retirement of either of the sitting members, and there is not the least reason to supposa that they will allow the man of their choice to be ousted by some stranger imported at the last moment by an election ngent hungry for a big fee."

THE "EDWARDS' MILLIONS. Monmouthshire Claimants. Several persons in Newport and the neighbour hood are still convinced that they arc direct heirs to that immense fortune of R,25,000,000 or £ 27,000,000 left by Edwards, a North Walian, who emigrated to America in the distant paszt. Three or four generations are concerned, and thiir progeny, what with marrying and interirarryii g, has immensely increaeed the number who are struggling to obtain this wealth. A Caerlecn gardener and nurseryman, wlio considers himself and family heirs in a direct line, has alread y spent JE300 or £ 400 in instituting inquiries. Mr. W. Clifford Phillips, solicitor, Newport, still acts for local claimants, and is callcrl upon almost daily to gi7e friendly" advice. On Friday evening he saw to the railway station in High-street Mr. E. Moss, Newport; Mr. F. Taylor, Cominorcial-road, Newport; and Mr. W. Morgan, Monmouth. These proceeded direct to Liverpool, and will sail in the Servia for New York on Monday. They hope to return, after making personal inquiries upon the spot, with favourable reports as to the solidity of the claims of Monmouthshire people.

THE DISMISSAL OF A BARRY RAILWAY OFFICIAL. At a gaiieral meeting of the members of the Barry Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, held privately at the Barry Hotel Assembly-room, East Barry, on Saturday evening, Mr. Morgan Nicholas, president, in the chair, the matter of the alleged wrongful dismissal of Mr. Harry Davies, train foreman at Barry Dock, from the employ of the ISarry Company was ngain discussed at length, and the refusal of the general manager, Mr. Richard Evans, to receive a deputa- tion of the men on the matter was strongly depre- cated. The meeting expressed complete sympathy with Mr. Diviv, being unanimously of upinion that the grounds of his dismissal, as admitted by Mr. Evanshimeelf, were utterly unwarranted, and it was reported that the matter will be considered at a special meeting of the executive council of the society, to be held in London this week, when the compensation grant of S50 will, in all probabi- lit;" be made to Mr. Davies.—It was also reported that Mr. E. Harford, the general secretary of the society, was unavoidably prevented from attending the meeting that evening.

MINING DISASTER |IN DEAN FOREST. Thomas Evans was instantly killed and Joseph Taylor was seriously injured whilst working to- gether on Friday evening in the Brickshaft Iron Mine at Ruspidge, near Cinderford, the property of Messrs. Henry Cra^rshay and Co. Deceased is a married man, 56 years of age, with a grown-up family, and his comrade is a young married man. They were working together getting mine when. without any warning, an immense stone slipped from a joint and fell upon the back of Evans's neck, doubling him up, and killing him instantly. The earth following the atone covered Taylor up to his neck almost, but, when extricated, ho was still alive. The case of Taylor is painful, inasmuch as only a few months previously he was working with his father, who was killed in his presence on almost the same spot, whilst another brother was injured.

DESPERATE ASSAULT AT LIMERICK. A serious assault was committed in Limerick late on Saturday night, arising out of the strike amongst the bakers in the city against the use of Eractunory by thp Croom Mills company. Two men who were supposed to be blacklegs arrived in tile city 011 Saturday morning, and at night they were attacked by some men armed with sticks. One of tho so-cnlled blacklegs, named Geoffrey Burke, of Clonmel, was kicked until he wts rendered scnsoless. His skull was fractured and he was taken to the hospital, and his deposi- tions were taken. Five bakers have been arrcstod, and were on Saturday remanded by the magis- trates.

LORD DUNRAVEN AND HIS TENANTRY. H our daily contemporary of Saturday appeared a flaring contradiction of a statement cited from the Central Glamorgan Gazette (Bridgend) in our column", to the i ffoct that Lord Dunraven had for six years and balf granted his tenantry an aba em-nt of 15 per c< nt. It may interest, the corrector to learn that the statement in thn Gazette was not an unofficial one, and thatacaitatth" office of Mr. H. J. Randall, Bridgend (Lord Dun- ( ivt n's agent), on Saturday resulted in reaffirma- tion of the fact published.

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. I i r. > MR. IVOR JAMES, REGISTRAR OF THE SOUTH WALES UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Cuttings and Comments. If you use the electric light you must expect an increase in your current expenses. The Archbishop of Canterbury is an excellent raetnan, and rides in his canonicals. Though the Inhabitants of Spokane, Wafthing- .'). are mostly poor people, every residence in ii^ ted by electricity. Sir H. W. Beecher has made liberal concessions to his Irish tenants, from one of whom :£44 was accepted in place of B290. A.benevolent Cirencestrian implores the Globe not to exasperate Mr. Gladstone by asking him how he likes his new Master. While Dansih railways 25 years ago only carried some 660,000 passengers annually, the number of travellers last year was 8,750,000. Mr. Gladstone's article in the horth American Review contained 4,583 words, the whole of which was cabled to the Tunes at the latter's expense. Papermakers in Japan are being severely handi- capped in their trade by foreign countries, which send about 5,000,0001b. into the country annually. The gentlemen cricketers of Ireland who visited America played seven matches in different parts of the States. They won four, lost two, and drew one. Seventeen of the horses ridden by Austrian Tricers in the recent military ride are in so pre- carious a condition that the animals cannot be rnt back to Vienna. Exceptionally severe weather has set in through- out Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah, where there has been a fall of five feet of snow. Railway lines a» « blocked, and there has been serious loss of human life. Mr. Stead's latest idiosyncracy is a composite photograph of the members of the Glodstonian Cabinet. It appears in the Review of Revieics, and is (says the Evening News and Post) a harmless- looking old dotard, half-whiskered and wholly imbecile. Mr. Davitt recently seat a letter to one of his clerical supporters in Meath, which began "Dear Father The Manchester Evening News dis- tinguished itself in a recunt issue by interpreting the opening words in the light of a communica- tion addressed by Mr. Davitt to his own father. An event in horse-breeding circles has been the death of Bar None, the Hermit of Shire-horse breeding. He set the type for heavy horses in England and America, and it is notable that at auction sales during his show-yard career quite £40,000 has been realised for his sons and daughters. Recently, in the early morning (says a French journal), a woman, attired in the latest of fashion, was seen in the cemetery at Ixelles kneeling before the tomb of General Boulanger. One who approached her recognised—Sarah Bernhardt. By daughters. Recently, in the early morning (says a French journal), a woman, attired in the latest of fashion, was seen in the cemetery at Ixelles kneeling before the tomb of General Boulanger. One who approached her recognised—Sarah Bernhardt. Hy •her side was kneeling one of the younger members her company. of her company. There is a singular circumstance attaching to the political contests in which Mr. Harry Lawson has taken part. The fateful figures in his case have never reached what cricket writers call" the cen- tury." In 1836, at North-West St. Pancras, he was victorious by 60. At the general election this year he was rejected by 42 and at Cirencester he missed the seat by only four votes, Dr. Douglas, whoso death is announced from New York, was a victim to duty. He was so unremitting in his attention to the late General Grant-giving up his private practice to attend his illustrious patient—that his constitution broke down under the strain. He received 12,000 dols. for his services, but it was all subsequently "pent in search for the health be had lost. The Mayor of Birmingham has ha.d a terrible shock, from which he has evidently hardly re- covered yet. Dining at a table d'hote in London, he was horrified to find that his vis-a-vis wore as a decoration a live lizard. The lady explained that the ornamental reptile had been with her for some months, and, as it never wanted anything to eat might be trusted not to bite the mayor. OUR SHOLID VOKTY. Ve had a sholid vorty. Vhore ith dat vorty now ? Vbere iah der lufly look so broud Dat shtood on Sir Villiam's prow P Vhere ish der shwiftly flowing tide To pear us to fictoree ? All gon'd avay in der mishty Politi- cal Meteorologee.—Globe. Yet another Crimean hero has passed away. Major Richard Dukinfield Astley, late of the 49th Regiment, is reported dead. The gallant major was present at Alma; served in the trenches before Sebastopol throughout that terrible winter, the first winter of the war; while at Inkerman he commanded the outpost which discovered the Russians advancing to attack, Honourably men- tioned in the dispatches, he received medal and clasps and the Turkish medal. A very interesting spectacle was witnessed in Vienna on Friday evening, namely, the first light- ing of St. Stephen's Cathedral by electricity Thirty years ago, when gas was to be introduced, there was a great outcry, and it was regarded as a profanation of the sacred edifice, but the late Herr Schmidt, the architect, who repaired and renovated tho cathedral, managed to convince Cardinal Rauscher that the church needed gas. Now it is the archbishop himself who has had eloctrinity introduced- Lee Jardine, honorary medical officer to the Capel village hospital, has been giving his opinion of the superstitions of country folk on matters lb- lating to health. He says that they have a way of taking one another's medicine, regardless of the complaint for which it was ordered. This is not perhaps, so absurd as the practice of the apothe- cary's boy, who drained all the patients' empty bottles into a jar, hoping by that means tosecure the right physic" for a complication of dis- orders." The break-up of Buffalo Bill's Show was bound to exhibit something quite out of the common in th<; shape of farewells between the colonel himself and his motley crew of Indians, cowboys, and buck-jumpers. But the most affecting scene of parting seems to have been botween Colonel Cody and the squnws. One old lady, we are told, gave a touch of pathos to the scene by rushing up and throwing herself into the colonel's arms, saying I Good-bye.' He was visibly affected, and, despite her want of good looks, all but embraced her." It appears that several Princes of Aonam have ncurred the very serious displeasure of the head of their house. A few months ago two were banished, and thirteen deprived of their pensions and dignities, because they had embraced Catholi- cism. Mgr. Caspar, Vicar Apostolic of Cochin China, and M. Allys, a missionary under him, now report that seventeen other members of the Royal Family for the same offence have been also deprived of their pensions and placed at the bottom of the list of Royal personages. According to the Times, the Princes had conscientiously refused to attend the perio,iical sacrifices to the manes of their Royal ancestors, and they claimed the benefit of the toleration clause of the French treaty, but this plea was ineffectual. Abnut 50 dancing-mnsters met in New York about a fortnight ago to discuss and select some new dances for the approaching winter season. The discussion lasted three days, over 40 compo- sitions receiving attention and being put to prac- tical test. It was noticed that some of the white-haired professors danced and executed intricate figures as nimbly as any of the younger men. The meeting resulted in the re-establish- ment of the deux-temps, which has always been a favourite with the young people of New York- One of the new dances considered is a quadrille in which four gentlemen and eight ladies take part. It was specially designed for parties where the male SfoX is in a minority. Each man has two partners in this National Park quadrille. The RaT. Thomas Davies, the parish priest of Baltimore, who has just died, was one of the greatest practical philanthropists of this genera- linu. Lady Burdett-Coutts was so touched by his benevolence and so impressed by the wisdom of his suggestions that she entrusted him with the administration of a large fund for the purpose of providing fishing boats and gpnr, and thus developing (he fisheries on the south-west coost of Ireland. To the exertions of Father Davies the fishing school at Baltimore owes its foundation. Only last year his appointment as a member of the Congested Districts Board was hailed with pleasure by all parties. Father Davies, who was a little over sixty years of age, was a gentleman of refined manners and kindly disposition. He took no active part in politics.

THE TIN-PLATE CRISIS. T1N-PLATEKS' UNION AT MAE8TEG. At the King's Head, Maesteg, on Saturday after- noon the quarterly meeting of the Aberavon district of the above Union was held. In the absence of Mr. John Gwynn, president of the district, Mr. William Isaac, Aberavon, presided. The discussions were lengthy, and a resolution to the following purport was passed:— That the Aberavon District of Tin-platers urge upon their fellow-workmen the necessity of rigidly adhering to the make of 36 boxes per turn, and do all in their power to prevent an excessive make.

THE CRISIS IN THE COTTON TRADE. Representative meetings of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners were held in Manchester on Saturday. There were pre- sent 126 delegates representing the cotton tmdein Lancashire and the adjoining counties. It was unanimously resolved that the proposed reduction of 5 per cent, should be resisted, and, unless some settlement be effiectcd, all the operatives connected with the association will cense work on the 5th of November. _————

Political Demonstration in a Theatre. SOME SIGNIFICANT OUTBURSTS. On Saturday night at the Cork Opera House, during the performance of "Fiust Up to Date," in the last act, when Valentine distributes medals to the soldiers, who are called to the footlights under tho names of politicnl personages, the progress of the piece was interrupted for soma moments while an unusually large audience roared and hissed at the mention of Mr. Gladstone. The name of Mr. William O'Brien provoked an extraordinary out- burst of opposition, while the mention of Lord Salisbury was greeted with cheering and little token of dissent.

The New Knight of the Garter. The Press Association learns that her Majesty has been pleased to confer on the Earl of Rosebery tlim Garter rendered vacant by the death of the late Duke of Sutherland.

DAY BY DAY. 410 "If you want gaQ, pure and cheap, go to the local Joard," said a Barry orator the other night. Lord Windsor has returned to Hewell Grangi irom Vienna. Lady Windsor and her children re- nain with Lady Paget. Shebeening is hydra-headed; the more the tee- ;otalers smash it the w,r-e it becomes. The evil las now broken out at Taibach. Colonel Chester-Master, the Cirencester hero, is i brother-in-law to Lord Llangattock-we b^g pardon, "Johnnie Hans "-of The Hendre. Dean Vaughan preached at the Templo yesterday morning, and Father Ignatius was at the We3t" annster Town-hall morning, afternoon, and evening. Fortunate for Cirencester that the Town-clerk if Aberavon possesses a vote in that constituency, sind that the gentleman was patriotic enough to journey there on Thursday, otherwise the Con- servative majority would have been reduced by nearly 34 per cent. Names nre a bother at Briugend Police-court. Five times on Saturday did a consumptive-looking individual promptly step into the dock in answer to a. call for David Jones-only to find that he was the wrong man. The sixth time his perseverance was rewarded—with seven days' hard. In connection with the tin-plate crisis, the Aberavon District Union of Tin-platers on Satur. day passed a resolution urging upon their fellow- workmen the necessity of rigidly adhering to the make of 36 boxes per turn, and doing all in their power to prevent an excessive make. A rural policeman in Glamorganshire was giving evidence, and said that he preseryed' the prisoner walking near the house." The stipen- diary asked, Did you preserve him in a pickling- j jar or a glass ca.se ?" The constable assured his worship with great solemnity that it was on the 'ighway." John Jones has been doiug something again. The Gravesend magistrates have now sent billl to gaol for twelve months tof stealing £74 from the pocket of a gentleman. John Jones crops up rather often. Fortunately, there is far more of him home doing good than there is "going round the country stealing ducks." Major Jones read a paper at Cardiff the other night, and wound up with some original verses of his own. Whereupon, Professor Powel, who hath a ready and a wicked wit, remarked that the major, having licked Lewis Morris once, seemed keen on licking him aga.in "-this time, we sup- pose, in the race for the Laureateship. Sir Edwin Arnold and Mr. Lewis Morris, two poets mentioned for the Laureateship, were yn- temporarios at Oxford, though the former was senior to Mr. Morris. It is curious to note that.. while Sir Edwin Arnold obtained the Newdigate Prize for English verse, Mr. Lewis Morvs won the Chancellor's Prize for an English essay. We are gradually unearthing Welsh translations of Tennyson. Mr. J. T. Job, writmg from Trevecca College, refers us to the Tra/.thodydd for 1881, where he say3 we will find a splendid transla- tion of as many as 106 verses of the *In Memoriam' from the pen of the Rev. Griffith Parry, D.D., cf Aberystwi/Ji (now of Carno)." Two more cases of aiinere having matches in their pockets while in the pit. One of the men was in Llanerch Colliery, the scene of a terrible explosion that ought to carry its own lesson. By the way, is it not time that Mr. David Morgan issued a revised edition of his statement that the negligence of employers causes explosions in collieries ? A singular case of horse hunger has occurred at Cardiff. A horse and two colts were impounded and the eolts became so hungry that they ate the hair off each other's tails, and then both served the horse in the same shameless manner. The owner was struck all of a heap by tbe circumstances, all fhe more,.perhaps, because be had to-pay 2s. ahead or "food supplied." Professor Powel told the Cardiff Cymmrodorion the other night that if all the membora did what lie had done-induced a new member to join—the membership of the society would soon be doubled. There were cheers at this, and there probably would have been laughter had the audience known that the new member meant by the professor was his newly-acquired wife. The leader of the Welsh party in the future, says the Genedl, must be a Welsh Welshman, a con- eistent Nonconformist, and one who has sacrificed or endangered something for Welsh Noncon- formity. With regard to the last condition there ought to be no difficulty. There is scarcely a man in the whole crowd of plundering Liberationists who has not sacrificed common honesty and endangered his name and reputation- It is an iuterasting fact, which is not generally known, that the mayor's presiding chair in the council-chamber of the Town-hall, Liverpool, is a fac-simile of the carved oak bardic chair awarded to the chaired bard at the Liverpool National Eisteddfod of 1S84. This was presented to the Liverpool Corporation by the Eisteddfod Com- mittee as a mark of their appreciation of the valuable assistance received by them from the mayor and municipal authorities. The Cardiff waiter who was one of the victims of the literary frauds is attracting a great deal of attention of a kind which must, embarrass him. He paid jE15 for a publication which never took place. This is what Mr. James Fayri says He was;: waiter, and, therefore, presumably, used to delay, but this passed all bounds. In some cases it appearB everything does not come to him who waits. So far as I know, though we find waiters have been .members of Parliament and even Governors of Madras, tbty have not distinguished themselves in literature." Mr. Kinloch Cooke, who starts to-day as editor of the pell Mill Gazette, was once private secre- tary to Lord Dunraven. The lat,e editor, Mr. E. T, Cook, had a brilliant career at Oxfords where ho graduated in the same year as Principal Viriamu Jones and Principal Rfiche), of Bangor. By the way, it is remarkable that the principals of the North Wales College and of the South Wales College were fellow-under- graduates at Balliol College, passing their modera- tions and their finals in the same years, the one in history, the other in mathematics. A great friend and admirer of Mr. Allen Upwardt declares, in tho South WaZei bdictJl, that by "i unanimous vote of three mass meetings in varioul parts of the constituency" tbft working men o. Merthyr have plodged the seat to Mr. Allea Upward in the event of the retirement of either of the sitting members." We will anticipate the feverish queries of Mr. Alfred Davies, of Hamp- stead and Carmarthenshire, when be reads this, and ask when were these mass meetings held, and where, and by whom called, and by whom and by how many attended ? If Mr. Upward is so very anxious to make speeches and to lead a new party in Parliament why doesn't be try Ireland? They will be glad over there to get a member who can support himself. Mr. Stephen P. Wills is very angry—not a VUIY rare occurrence. He writes Sir,—I realh think that you should look after your would-be smart young man who writes the Swansea notes in Wales Day by Day,' as he evidently thinks that his vulgarity is mistaken for wit by others than himself. I certainly do not care to explain my position to such an one, as, with his mind (or what passes muster for it) in such a state, it would be useless. What I think- you should see to is that he speaks the truth and writes Queen's English, neither of which he is evidently able to do. Be says, Mr Wills is not a Nonconformist or any other fonnist.' This is an untruth, and also not English, the rest being very similar. I suppose what he means, and what a real jouroalist would write, is I Mr. Wills is not a Nonconformist or a formalist,' an tlu-re is no such a word as • forroist. I think I should see to this for the credit of youf paper.—Your obedient servant, Stephen P. W«xs.: Mr. Wills evidently wrote and sent off this letter within five minutes after he read the offending paragraph, and we publish it as a solemn warning to Mr. Wills, who is really an agreeable and good- hearted young giant, against doing things iu hot- headed-hurry. In the first place, if Mr. Wills had not been in a hurry he would not have writte" Mr. Wills is not a Nonconformist or a formist." He would have written Nora formalist "th..t'" English. The original use of the "or wa may Charitably attribute to the P.D., but we caumt do MT. vVills'S case as we have setD the writing-