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NOTES. By "OBSERVER." CARDIFF. SATURDAY MORNING. SumMer has eet—of that there is no doubt- With all its pageantry of dust and drought Yet earnest workers find, both far and near, Their summer rise when Somerset is here. Poor Mabon" is now paying the penalty of a demijug," as the schoolboy called a demagogue. He has had his run of power and applause, and now to all appearance the kicking season has set in, and that totf with unusual severity. When there is such a row in a meeting that "Mabon" cannot make his voice hear d then the case may well be regarded a hopeless, for I would back that tremendous lung power of Mr. Abraham's against any foghorn in the Channel. That strident shout of Mabon's and his dramatic rendering of Hen Wlad fy Nhadau" have carried more than one elec- tion for the Radicals in Wales. Ca,n it be that that day is over, and that so powerful a political factor is to be gagged for good ? If Mr. Ballinger is anything in his attitude towards Ouida and Zola he is at any rate 1 logical. He will not advise his committee to recognise either for the library further than to buy an isolated work of theirs which is admittedly above suspicion. I expect it was this the interviewer had in I his eye yesterday, and that he wanted to corner our librarian, for if Ouida be officially recognised there can be no logical objection to Zola. Both have written marvellous beoks, but both have said what would be vastly better left out, and have suggested what ought for decency's sake to be omitted. There is no reason, though, why a whole- some book like Zola's marvellous "Down- fall" or Ouida's Rainy June should not be available, and it would be well if the library committee went further and made a judicious selection from the wer13 of authors notoriously fishy-they could move with care a good way in this direction (as, indeed, they have begun with Zola) and yet be per- fectly safe. With regard to Zola there is much truth- in what the Pall Mall said yesterday:— M. Zola struck the right keynote at the dinner given to him by the Authors' Club last night when he said, In the midst of all these plaudits, these ovations, I well under- stand that the opinion of your critics has not changed in regard to my works. Only you have now seen their author, and have found him less black than report made him out to be." That is as it should be. In literature and in art, as in everything else' we may hate the sin and love the sinner. If there is much in M. Zola's works (con tinues the paper) that we deplore, there is no reason to believe that a line or a word was ever written by him with a view to de- moralise, or with an idea of making profit of what is loathsome. His views of the true function of art are not our views. But con- scientious work—even if the work be not of a kind to be imitated-claims admiration for the worker. That put in a few words con- stitutes the justification of the reception accorded to M. Zola. And yet in our atti- tude towards him the Anglophobe French journalist sees another illustration of English pharisaism. I would direct the attention of students and others to the excellent and growing col- lection of foreign authors in the original to be found at the free library. This is a most important department, deserving of every encouragement, and I am glad to know that it is largely taken advantage of by foreign residents in Cardiff and others. If I understand her aright Lady Henry Somerset had in her mind when talking with "Gwen" the Chinaman's distinction between drinky for drinky" and drinky for drunky." Foreign drinking is such a very different thing from the same custom amongst ourselves. This brings us back to what I have so often insisted upon in this column that the German, or for that matter the French, system should, for the sake of temperance, be introduced into this country. The pro- vision of pleasant gardens for customers and of food with the drink, and of light, whole- some drink itself, renders intoxication almost unknown the other side of the Channel. Why the same cannot be done over here is a mystery to me. I feel convinced, though, it will have to come sooner or later. Drunkenness and its attendant evils must on the one hand be grappled with, and on the other -hand the Englishman will have his beer, no matter who says nay. The remedy, then, is the introduction of the Continental system, and I venture to think if this were done there would be a tremendous rise in the national sobriety with a minimum interference with the licensed victualler. Is not the experi- ment worth trying ? This is the day when the Sporting Man goes about like a roaring lion, and the Hoffis Pote makes the welkin ring with his metrical tips. I see he has a whole bucket- ful of 'em elsewhere. Queer old man, what a labyrinth of eccentricity is his terrestrial pilgrimage I note that Gwen" this morning has a kindly word for the young lady attendants at the Theatre Royal, and all who know this popular place of amusement will admit that what she says is well deserved. The teetotalers are going to take a long pull and a strong pull and a pull altogether to-morrow. Not the kind of pull so dear to the toper, but a series of some fifteen evening services throughout the town. The weak point about these meetings is that in the majority of cases the eloquence is simply wasted on those who have no need for it. The best way of reaching a sinful world is to go out to it, and not wait indoors till it comes. This is getting to be more and more recoge- nised by philanthropic workers everywhere. I trust the clever lines on the bath pro- blem elsewhere will be duly digested by our council and taken as a warning. Though the ratepayers may not make a sanguinary onslaught on their rulers, they can do it as effectively, though more slowly, at the polls, and it m",y be done yet if there is not a shaking amongst the dry bones presided over by Councillor Vaughan. Everybody interested in the welfare of Cardiff should read the corresrondence be- tween the local political leaders. It contains a pitiful admission that, so far as the Radicals go, the tail wags the head. But the general public knew this long ago it is the usual way with the Radicals. An honest effort has been made by the Conservatives to raise the tone of local municipal affairs. But the Radicals will have none of it. Some of the more serious spirits amongst them have yearnings in that direction; but what's the use ? The tail won't have it!

Disaster at Detriot. COLLAPSE OF THE CRYSTAL SPRING MINE. Forty Men Entombed of Whom Thirty- Seven are Dead, Subsidences Prevent Work of Rescue. A Dalziel's cablegram from Detroit (Michigan) on Friday says that a mining disaster has occurred at the Mansfield mine, near Crystal Falls. There h&o been a collapse at the mine, and there is little hope that forty men who are entombed in the workings will be saved. The water in the mire is rising fast, and the ore being soft the work of the rescue party is ex- ceedingly difficult. The rescue party are doing all in their power, but the subsidence is so great that very little progress can be made with the removal of the fallen earth. A Renter's telegram received at midnight on Friday says :—Thu-ty-seven men are known to have perished, nearly all of whom were Italians and Swedes. Of all those who were at work in the mine at the time, only three escaped.

AMERICAN TRAIN ROBBERY. Sensational Experience of a Bristolian. j Mr. Councillor Henry Wooding, of North- ampton, has written home an account of an extraordinary experience which has befallen himself and other English visitors to Chicago. They left that city by express train at 11.45 on Monday night, and all went well until 12.50, when the passengers were awakened by the firing of pistols and what they thought to be small cannon. One of the guards, entering the car, said to Mr. Ashman, of Bristol, "Have you a revolver, sir?" Mr. Ashman replied that he had not, and asked what was the matter. The guard explained that the train was being attacked by a band of 20 robbers, and advised them to get dressed, but to be quite still. They did so, and remained in the greatest suspense for some time, when the train began to move slowly on and stopped at the next station. They then learned that as the train had ap- proached Kessler, Indiana, the engine-driver discovered that a switch had been placed open. He immediately applied the brakes to save the train from being wrecked. Scarcely had the train come to a standstill when a band of twenty masked men suddenly appeared and made a rush for the express car. The engine-driver seized a coal pick and offered a desperate resistance, but he was felled to the ground and then shot, being seriously wounded. In the meantime the rest of the gang succeeded in blowing open the door of the express car with dynamite. The messen- ger who was in charge of the car, which con- tained the safe of the United States Express Company, fired several shots, but he was quickly knocked down, disarmed, and renan-ed insensi- ble. The robbers then blew open the safe, and seized its contents. After having secured this booty, they fired a few parting shots as a warning that pursuit meant death, and disappeared into some neighbouring woods.

NOT WHAT WAS WANTED. "n The Board of Trade Prosecute a Car- diff Boarding-housekeeper. At Cardiff Police-court on Friday afternoon (before Dr. Paine and Mr. Spencer) lianry Smith, 34, boarding-housekeeper, was charged on remand, and under a warrant, with unlawfully supplying one Daniel Condon, a landsman, to be entered as a seaman on board the British ship Lowlands, at Cardiff, on the 16th of May last. Mr. Ivor Vachell appeared for the Board of Trade and Mr. Payne defended.-A seaman named Wm. Corrigan was called, and deposed that on the 16th of May he was on board the Lowlands, and saw prisoner enter the captain's cabin with Condon.—Mr. Payne called Arthur Stockwell, also a seaman, who said that on the 16th of May he lodged at Smith's boarding- house. On that day witness was on the Low- lands. Condon was also on toa-rd and signed articles, but he was introduced to the captain by some other man than the prisoner.—Mr. Payne submitted that there was no case against his client.—The Bench, on the other hand, con- sidered the case proved, and imposed a fine of 93 and costs or one month.

Facts Aboutthe Hambrough Family. Originally the Hambroufh family, brought into prominence through the Ardlamont case, came from Northamptonshire. But the Northampton estates are now held by a junior branch, represented by Mr. HoldenHambrough, who resides at Pipewell Hall, a large stone mansion near Kettering, and is a widower. His late wife was the only sister of Viscount Hood. The main line of the family dwelt for years at Steephill Castle, Ventnor, an oblong, squire- towered building on the road to St. Lawrence. This castle was completed in 1835, when Major Hambreugh's father had reached fifteen years of age. At present its occupier is Mr. Henry Sewell. The Hambrough shield of arms con- sists of a black tower surrounded by small blue crosses and drops of blood the crest being a white horse at full speed, also spattered with blood and minute crosses. Major Hambrough has instructed a firm of solicitors to take proceedings to recover from the Monsons the personal effects of the late Lieutenant Hambrough. The trial of Monson will take place in Edinburgh, and will last over a week. It is expected that Mr. Asher will be senior counsel for the Crown, and Mr. C. Scott Dickson for the defence.

Archaeological Discovery at Tamworth. A find of interest to antiquaries was made on Thursday at Tamworth during some excava- tions in the roadway near the historic castle. At a depth of about 8ft. was discovered the base of what was apparently at one time either a large urn or a font. The substance appears to be half-baked clay, of a fluted design, sparingly ornamented with oak leaves, and probably of Saxon or Roman workmanship. The piece is about 1ft. long, 8in. or lOin. wide, and 2in. in thickness.

At Pontardawe on Friday Joseph Martin was fined X2 for stealing 19s. 6d. from the Railway Inn, Ystalyfera. Defendant picked up the change of another man who left the house for- getting to pick it up,-Thomas Wiiliams and Philip Francis, for stealing four sacks of chaff, value 16s., the property of the Graigola Com- pany (Limited), Clydach, on Sept. 13, were fined 1£5 each, or, in default, one month.—Gwilym Haydn Griffiths, charged with stealing a quan- tity of wearing apparel from the Mountain Hare Inn, Cwmllynfeli, was committed to the quarter sessions.

Caution to Hardie. WEST HAM'S MEMBER SNUBS SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. But they Read Him a Smart Leoture Upon his Duties and his Position. The Central News says :—Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., having declined an invitation to speak at the forthcoming demonstration (Sunday, October 22) in Trafalgar-square in favour of universal suffrage, the general council of the Social Democratic Federation have addressed a letter to the member for South West Ham, in which they say You say that you very much regret to find the Social Democratic Federation thus placing itself in line with mere Radicalism P This answer seems to the general council ui quite unworthy of you. There are but two ways in which the people can obtain control over the means of production and distribution of the wealth which they create. The one is by organised political action, the other by organised violence. For the latter you know as well as we do that tho workers are not at present pre- pared. Consequently, it is of the utmost importance to obtain at as early a date as possible those democratic re- forms which the Social Democratic Federa- tion has championed since the beginning of 1881. If, however, you are for social work alone, how comes it that you sit in the House of Commons, having got there by the political voting of the workers of Soath West Ham ? If they had not had the political vote you would not be an M.P. Why should you refuse to help to gain for some 3,000,000 of men and all the women of Great Britain the same rights as your own electors of South West Ham already possess merely because Radicals happen on this point to be of the same way of thinking as the Social Democrats ?"

TEMPERANCE MEN OPPOSE But Newport Licensing Magistrates are not Convinced. The adjourned licensing sessions for the borough of Newport were held at the Town-hall on Friday morning, tho magistrates present being the imayor (Mr. T. Jones), Colonel Lyne, and Messrs. H. J. Davis, D. A. Vaughan, M. Mordey, J. K. Stone, C. D. Phillips, J. W. Price, E. Grove, T. Goldsworthy, A. J. Sanders, J. Moses, H. Phillips, H. A. Huzzey, G. Hoskins, W. Graham, A. J. Stevens, T. Canning, and H. J. Parnall. Mr. James Paterson, M.A., the well-known authority on licensing matters, was present. The magistrates decided to renew the licences of the Royal Arms Inn, Maindee Hotel, Prince of Wales beerhouse, King's-parade Car- penter's Arms, Church-street, and the Cambrian Arms, Canal-parade, where the landlords had been convicted of certain offences under the Licensing Acts.—Mr. Bailhache made an appli- cation for the transfer of the licence of the Hereford Arms, Hereford-street, Maindee, from Mr. Cross to Mr. Robert Gelightly. A renewal of the licence was granted by the magistrates at the annual brewster sessions a short time ago. In reply to Mr. Bailhache, Chief-constable Sin- clair said there was no objection to Mr. Golightly. He was a very respectable man, and had held licences in Tredegar, where he had given satisfaction to the police. The Revs. A. J. Underwood and J. Westbury Jones intimated that they wished to give evi- dence against the granting of the transfer. Mr. Bailhache said if the magistrates were going into the case he would like to refer to a very im- portant decision, which had been arrived at in a case known as the Ipswich case, the title of which was The Queen v. Frazer." The text of the decision was that magistrates who were con- nected with a temperance association which had decided to oppose licences ought not "to sit upon a bench which dealt with the renewals and transfers. He was unable to say whether the objection applied to any of the magistrates on the bench, but he called their attention to the decision, &nd also to the fact that if a decision was arrived at by gentlemen not qualified to sit it would, upon appeal, be declared void. The Mayor pointed out that any gentleman who was interested in the sale of intoxicating liquor was also disqualified. Mr. Bailhache: That is so. The Mayor: We had better retire and examine ourselves. Mr. Moses (to Mr. Bailhache): The fact is, you warn us ?—Mr. Bailhache: I do. sir. Colonel Lyne A friendly warning for the moment. After consideration, the magistrates decided to hear the objections before retiring. The Rev. J. Underwood went into the witness-box, and said that, as Mr. Cross had broken his contract, the magistrates had no right to fulfil theirs. (Laughter.) He stated that when the licence was granted Cross solemnly promised to reside on the premises, but he had now sold and left the house. The Rev. J. Westbury Jones also gave evidence. In reply, Mr. Bailhache said Cross was a man nearly 80 years of age, and he found that he could not live upon the premises. Mr. Golightly was called, and said it was his intention to reside upon the premises, which he had purchased for £ 5,000. He had also resolved that the house should be a perfectly free one. The Magistrates granted the transfer.—Mr. James Pattison made an application for a re- newal of the licence of the Horse and Jockey beerhouse, Mill-street, to Mr. William Morrish. At the above licensing sessions on September 8 a renewal of this licence was refused to Thomas John Thomas on the ground that he was not a real resident occupier. In the course of a long opening statement Mr. Pattison said he did not quarrel with the decision of the justices on September 8. but the new tenant was not identified in any way with the old one. He stated that Morrish i;ad entered into posses- sion of the house, and he put in a number of testimonials as to his character. Morrish said he was not going to give up his employment as a haulier, but he would be in the house at meal- times and during the evening. A number of gentlemen were called to speak as to the character of the house. Mr. A. A. Newman (town-clerk), who opposed on behalf of the police, said the objections were that the house was of a disorderly character, frequented by women of loose character, and that the appli- cant was not a real resident occupier of the house; and, also, that the licence had lapsed consequent upon it being refused to Thomas. He called evidence to bear out this statement. The magistrates consulted in private, and after an absence of twenty minutes returned into court. The Mayor, in announcing the decision, said that two or three years ago an application was made for a transfer of the licence to a man named Richards, who was held to be unsuitable, and the application was refused. The transfer, however, was granted to a man named Thomas. It was clearly proved at the licensing sessions that this man had been non-resident during the period in which he had nominally held the licence, and that the house had practically been managed by Richards. They also considered that the house was not required in the neighbourhood, but they had decided by a majority that the licence should be renewed to Morrish. They wished, to point out to Morrish that the house was not an easy one to manage, and they also desired that the police should keep a very careful watch upon the house. The mayor added that the court was decidedly of opinion that there were too many houses in the neighbourhood, and they would have been very glad if they had seen their way to successfully refuse that application. The question of renewal would also settle the ques- tion of transfer.

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Smith Subs Coming. THE VETERAN WILL BE SUB- STANTALLY HELPED. An Old Comrade" Sends Money and a Touching Reminiscences. In accordance with the promise made when the case of Nicholas Smith was first brought before us we have thoroughly investigated his bona fides, and ■ satisfied of their genuineness. The invest tion has occupied some time, owing to the that Smith's discharge paper had been mislai-l We now hold that bit of parchment, which, though torn and faded, amply corroborates the story told by Smith. We, therefore, with confi- dence appeal to the generous-minded amongst our readers that they aid in saving this old veteran and his wife from the bitter experience of hav- ing to take refuge in the workhouse. Smith asks for work, not charity, and, while there may be some who could provide the former, there are, doubtless, many who would be glad to help Smith out of his financial straits and set him on his feet again. SUBSCRIPTION LIST. We shall be glad to assist in the promotion oi a fund for Smith's aid and to receive contribu- tions in his behalf. £ s. d. Proprietors of the Western Mail 1 0 0 An Englshman" (Cardiff) 0 5 0 Sir Morgan Morgan 1 0 0 Mr. Daniel Owen, J.P., Ash Hall 1 0 0 Mr. W. John, Pontypridd 1 0 0 Eev. H. K. Boderick", 8, Upi>er George-street, Cathays, Cardiff 0 5 0 Bupert," Newport, Mon 0 5 0 Dr. Doug-las A. Reid, Tenby 1 0 0 Mr. L. Williams, Charles-street, Cardiff 0 2 6 Mr. D. E. Jones, Llancaiach 0 10 6 Messrs. Samuel Bros., Hayes buildings Cardiff 1 0 0 Letter from Mr. Daniel Owen. TO THE EDITOii SIR,-I have read in the Western Mail of yesterday an account of the veteran soldier Nicholas Smith, who fought our battles in 1854. He was a man who did his duty, and did it well. So I deeply sympathise with him that in his 66th year of his age he should be compelled to apply to his fellow countrymen for assistance. I think it is a shame to the Government that suoh should be the case. This man has fought the battles for us let us appreciate his merits. As an admirer of the veteran I contribute £1 for his benefit, with the hope that others will follow suit.-I am, &c., DANIEL OWEN. Ash Hall, Sept. 29. Dr. Reid Does a Good Turn for "A Gallant Comrade.'1 TO THE EDITOR. Sis,—I enclose a xmau contribution for Nicholas Smith. He appears to have been one of the crew of H.M.S. Queen, whichbroughthome from the Crimea some 2,000 officers and men. As I was one of those fortunate individuals, being at that time assistant-surgeon of the 90th Regiment, I am very glad to have the oppor- tunity of doing a good turn for a gallant com- rade. I may mention that H.M.S. Queen, a fine old three-decker, was towed as far as Gibraltar by H.M.S. Terrible. Outside the Straits bad weather came on, and the Terrible was obliged to cast us off. We sailed home, and were short of provisions before we reached Portsmouth. I have no doubt the crew had a hard time of it. I hope Nicholas Smith may be kept out of the workhouse.—I am, Ac., DOUGLAS A. REID, M.D. 14, The Norton, Tenby.

ANARCHISTS WILL HANG. A Daring Revolutionist Sentenced to I Death. A Dalziel's telegram from Barcelona on Friday says :-The Anarchist Pallis, who wounded Mar- shal Martinez Campos, and killed a. Civil Guard last Sunday by the explosion of a. bomb, was to- day tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. In answer to the charge, prisoner replier1 that he would commit the same deed a hundred times over if possible. He declared he had no accomplices. It was pleaded for the defence that the prisoner's mind was unhinged.

WILL BE A GREAT BOON. Proposed Competitive Line from South Wales to London. In connection with the agitation commenced some time ago with the object of improving the railway facilities in South Wales, it will be remembered that last week, at a meeting of the general promotion committee, a sub-committee was appointed to consider ways and means and to thoroughly investigate and inquire into the whole subject, with instructions to report to the general committee at an early date. A meeting of this sub-committee was held in the grand jury- room at the Town-hall, Cardiff, on Friday after- noon, when the business transacted was of such a nature that it was considered that in the in- terettts of the scheme, and for the present, the press would assist the project by refraining from publishing any details as to what tran- spired. It was further mentioned that the ques- tioners being organised on a solid basis, and up to the present the action gives prospect of a successful issue.

HOW PATTI SAVED A LIFE. The Diva's Voice Prevents thu Murder of a Bride. A strange illustration of the power of Patti's voice over a man who was tempo- rarily insane is given in the Woman at Home." In San Francisco, in the year 1889, a young man of excellent name and position, whose mind had been affected oy a dangerous illness, ca.me to hear the famous songstress. He concealed a small revolver about his person, and was heard to say. half jestingly, "I feel that I should like to shoot someone to-night." After taking his seat, he observed that a very beautiful and interesting-looking young lady was in a box close by. She was a bride, and had been married that very morning, and had come to hear the diva in her great part of "Violetta" in "La. Traviata." The bride looked so radiant in her pure white gown that the madman could not keep his eyes from her face, and almost unconsciously his hand sought the revolver which he had secreted in the breast pocket of his coat. Just at that terrible moment Patti appeared on the stage. The matchless voice instantly arrested the attention of the would be murderer, And he forgot his horrible pur- pose. After the performance he told the story to his doctor, by whom it was repeated to Madame Patti.

Principal Viriamu Jones gave an interesting lecture on Friday evening at ikfc Splott-road Board School, Cardiff, the subject beiag Electricity $icàel t}),a.

Principality Pars. More Interesting Notes from the Mail." The new vicar of Aberdare has started off with the erection of a parochial club. Colonel T. B. Tyler, R.A., of Llantrithyd, embarked yesterday for India for another term of service. How would the coster language spoken with a Welsh accent sound? We have been filled with curiosity through reading of the doingi of "George Jones, a costermonger." One of the maddest men in Glamorganshire a day or two ago was Gwilym Lon." A & Radical paper at Cardiff had printed hia name Gwilym Shon. Mr. W. Howell, who has had a finger in nearly every big ease tried in the western counties, is now exterding operations to Swansea, where he becomes a fixture. People who find it difficult to pronounce Welsh names should adopt the plan used for sounding Indian names. A familiar rendering of Mr. D:.dabhai Naoroji's name is Mr. Dab- in-the-eye Noji. Your sister was not at home last evening, Johnnie?" said a Cardiff young man. Yoa just bet she was!" "I didn't see any light in the parlour." "Oh, yes, there was, •cuse I heard pap say there was a spark there." Miss Flora Davis, the daughter of Mr. John H. Davis, the well-known Welsh- American banker, of New York, will be "i married to Lord Terence Blackwood, youngest son of the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, ia Paris, October 19. A nice "plant" was worked off on the Welsh Land Commission last week. Amongst the witnesses was a man who has lived ia England ror years, but who insisted on giving Ms evidence in Welsh, justS'ying this after- :mls by saying that he "Always talked n'elsh in Wales." The leaders of the Tinplate Union cant forget our portraits of them. The president says that the following morning he received a challenge from Morgan Crowther. Another official says that when he got home two days after he found his wife had packed up and gone away. The Dean of St. David's (the Very Rev. James Allen) is 91. and the parish clerk 87. Both are in full possession of their faculties, sight and hearing being singularly acute. But the Dean is somewhat infirm, and twice a day regularly is wheeled to his Cathedral in bafket> chair. An American paper which refers to Mr. Ben Davies as the Queen's tenor says that the title was conferred upon him by her Majesty after she had heard him sing at a State con- cert in place of M. Van Dyck. It would perhaps be cruel to point out, says the Lon- don "Daily News," that the Queen has not been present at State concert for upwards of 30 years. Why doesn't the chief go to Albania for his shooting? The foreign office has issued this notice: — Persons going to Albania for shooting, Ac., should bear in mind that, under a quarantine notice recently issued by the Greek Government, they will, on returning from the Turkish Adriatic coast to Corfu, or any other Greek port, have to perform five t days' quarantine." Amongst the tales of hard living related to the Welsh Land Commission, perhaps the most striking is that of a witness at Llanrwst, who said he had worked on his father's farm till he was 40 years of age, receiving only his board. To provide himself with clothes, he hired himself to other farmers m harvest time, or engaged in a small deal in cattle or pigs. A leading New York daily has broken out like this: — No Emperor of Germany Shall mar the noble sport. Dunraven shall have every chance To tow us into port. Theji hey for topsails bulging, For spinnakers and spankers. And let the cheers rise loud and long Wlu-,1 upward go the anchors. If ever there was a man deep down in the political dumps, that man is Mr. Tom Ellis, Junior Lord of the Treasury. In making an alleged important speech to"his Merionethshire constituents Mr. Ellis boasted that the Government had done a good deal for Wales during the past session. They had removed Judge Beresford from a Welsh county-court district, and appointed a Welsh- man in his stead. And this from the Welsh Parnell! Mr. Charles Wilkins's noteworthy man fir this week's "Weekly Mail" is Mr. G. T. Clark, of Dowlais and Talygarn, notable for his "Genealogies of Glamorgan" and his "Castles of Wales." These biographies of the eminent men of Wales (by birth or residence) have now been running for the last six months. They include "all sorts and conditions of men," and will be pub- lished in a separate volume by-and-bye. Somebody connected with this office is great on shooting, and the staff was talking about it last night. Did you hear about Blank's shooting excursion ?" said one. You don't mean to say an amateur marksman like Blank had the nerve to go hunting!" "Yes." "Hit anything?" Yes. He got seven birds." Well, there's only one way to explain it." "How is thatP" "He didn't know the gun was loaded." This paragraph is from the London Daily News," so the Welsh names will have to be carefully thought out: "Sir Edward Watkin, Bart., M.P., has purchased the Ffid Issa. estate of about 500 acres, extending nearly to the top of Scowdon, and comprising the land around the station and village of Rhyddu on the North Wales narrow gauge railway. This is an important addition to Sir Edward's already large estate, and he now owns nearly all the Beddgelert slope of the famous mountain." Lord Swansea is regarded (says "Cassell's Saturday Journal") as the greatest living authority on the subject of copper-smelting. He is said to have inspected every copper mine and smelting works throughout Europe. At the age of twenty-one he was appointed one of the managers of his father's firm at Swansea, and in the course of a few month. his knowledge of metallurgy, which he had studied with great energy at Eton and Cam- bridge, enabled him to make important im- provements in the treatment of copper ore. Mr. Samuel Whitbread's son, Frederick Pelham, has wooed and won (says the "Morn- ing Leader") a charming girl in the Hon. Ida Hanbury-Tracy. The young lady, who is the third daughter of Lord and Lady Sudeley, is only just eighteen. She has a fresh manner, and has been absolutely un- spoiled by Society. Pleasantly accomplished —though her father has taken care that her education has not been pedantic—she unites to her attainments a grace of feature and bearing that will make her one of the pret- tiest brides of the season. This is by no means the first visit to America. of the owner of the Valkyrie. Lord Dun- raven first visited the New World in 1869, after his marriage with Lord Charles Lennox Kerr's daughter. In journalistic circles he was well received, and particularly so by the late Mr. Louis Jennings, then editor of the "New York Times,Mr. Hurlbert, who at that time had charge of the "New York World," and the late "Sam" Ward. For twelve vea.8 or more he crossed the Atlantic annually, and travelled in the States, Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Mr. Arthur Jones's latest play is said to be a suggestion of the Faust of Goethe. This may be, but a simile of his is- certainly suggested by Lewis Morris in his Epio of Hades." Lewis Morris has a beautiful sketch of a damsel straying in the wood- lands with a pet lamb and flowers. Sud- denly she became a.ware of a, gallant youth near her, whom she feared was a god. Her lamb wandered, her flowers fell from her hands: "Time fulfilled my being With passion like a cup And with one kiss Left me a woman." This is how Mr. Arthur Jones has it: — "Dead wrus I till her kindly lips Drew me from senseless clay IfT'