The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

THE PRINCK OF WALES IN WALES.. CARDIFF is still distressingly afraid that the inhabitants of Aberystwyth and Mach- ynlleth will never be able to realize that the royal visif ig for the installation of the PRINCE OF WALES as CHANCELLOR of the Welsh University. Cardiff is so anxious that it has even gone the length of informing the Senate of the University College of Wales that the PRINCE will be their guest, and not the guest of the Corporation. The Senate of the University College of Wales and the Corporation of Aberystwyth are so much obliged to Cardiff that they have combined to send Cardiff a huge pocket-handkerchief so that it may wipe its weeping eyes. The PRINCK was so touched with Cardiff's grief and disappointment at not being chosen that he has consented to go to Cardiff for a couple of hours and the bargain for Cardiff's bunting is off, and Aberystwyth will have to buy all new stuff. Meetings have been held and, on Wednesday last, at a meeting held at the College we think that even Cardiff would concede that Mr VAUGHAN DAVIES, M.P., took a quite portentous enough view of what should be done, and he does not seem to have the least doubt as to who should do it. There was talk about one ironclad coming into the bay to fire a salute, but we shall want the whole navy. There was also talk about a regiment of soldiers, but the whole army will scarcely be enough. A banquet for thousands is also considered. We are disposed to take the ironclad and the regiment of soldiers with a rather large grain of salt, but we would not like to De charged with throwing cold water on the ironclad, or a wet blanket over the regiment of soldiers. Wednesday's meeting rather fizzled out, but it must be reemembered that the MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, the HIGH SHERIFF, the LORD LIEUTENANT of the county, to say nothing of lesser luminaries, have not yet settled their own respective places. We are resolved to take everything quite seriously, including every important person's estimate of himself, and our disposition is to take Cardiff and its unhappiness even too seriously. We have no doubt that the War Office and the Admiralty will see about the ironclad and the regiment, and lesser details will shake down as time goes on. Our advice all round is to keep cool and not to laugh.

THE AFFAIRS OF BARMOUTH. WHATEVER may be said or thought about local self-government at Barmouth, there can be no question that progress is being made, and it is most heartening to see the interest the ratepayers take in their own affairs. The two retiring candidates, Mr JOHN PARRY and Mr JOHN RICHARDS, made out good cases for themselve3 as tried public servants. Mr R. W. JONES is a new candidate and, it will be seen, was quite healthy on all points. H was asked questions at the meeting, and had been questioned elsewhere. He gave excellent answers. Mr RICHARDS was not submitted to any questions, but he made a statement, as will be seen from th,, report of the proceeding, which shows him to be an earnest-minded man. No town can be lost while men who are willing to admit their errors and who- strongly desire to do what is right and true are willing to serve it. Mr JOHN PARRY was questioned closely and he came out well under the process. He evidently had nothing to conceal, and was frank and perfectly honest m his words from first to last. He gave answers—per- tinent answers—which revealed him to be more far-seeing than his interrogators. In our opinion the two old candidales are fully deserving of the confidence that has been reposed in them, a confidence which we hope will be renewpd in an emphatic and unmistakeable form. The new candidaie is also worthy of election by a large majority if a contest is forced. It must never be forgotten that owing to the work which had to bo done at Barmouth after the present Council came into office it has frequently been neces- sary for members to act together in reference to large and important matters without manifesting those differ- ences of opinion which under less grave circumstances would rightly have been manifested. In these columns we have urged individual members to subordinate themselves and their opinions in ways and to degrees that nothing but serious danger to the public weal would have n justified. We have no doubt the time is close at hand, if i has nor already arrived, vthen the Ratepayers' Union and the District Council will see how great the peril was and how it has been avoided by wise reticenco and by giving way to each other in details. We 1 Z5 do not know any town where as great t, a work has been successfully accomplished in so short a time and at less permanent loss. Therm is still a good deal to do, and, no donbt, as the task is lightened, he difficulty of securing unanimity will be increased. There is one question, the question of the town's water supply, which, as Mr R. W JONES pointed out, is important. Every member of the Council realizes the importance of this question, and we trust that the work will be pushed on with great energy. Whatever can be done to expedite the completion of the works should be done A week saved in July is worth an effort. We trust, that there will be concentra- tion of action upon the completion of I he water works now that the last difficubies in the way of the Council have been removed. As we have said on more than one occasion, the policy to pursue is to get finally rid of one project at a time. The right course was pursued in regard to the confusion which formerly prevailed The right course was pursued in reference to the conduct of the town's affairs. The right course was pursued in regard to the loans. The right course is being pursued in regard to the water works. This is now the thing that nf'eds co be brought to a speedy and final conclusion. For the time being rates will be heavy, but Bar- mouth is so beautifully situated that it is sure to grow, and under wise adminis- tration and steady growth, the financial burdens that now seem gigantic will become relafively less. The watering places on this coast have a prosperous future before them if those who sit on their governing bodies are wise and make good use of their opportunities and ad- .5 vantages. Every year the difficulties of getting to Barreouth and other places are reduced, and if the inhabitants of the whole district will only believe in them- selves and in one another a great deal that now seems to be almost impossible will become easy of accomplishment.

DIRT, DISEASE, AND DEATH AT CORWEN. IN our issue on the 28th of February we dealt with the lamentable sanitary con- dition of Corwen in plain terms. We had no intention whatever of being mis- understood as regards our main conten- tion, which is, that a death rate in the Rural District including Corwen of 22.35 per 1,000 inhabitants is positively alarm ihg, and is considerably higher than the average death rate of thirty of the larges' towns and cities in the United Kingdom. We knew exactly what would be siid about us, but we are weil able to tak care of ourselves in sanitary battles and have fought too many of them to begin our attack until we have made quite sure of our ground. We are not concerned so much with officials and members of the local governing bodies, as with the main bulk of the people who do not understand death averages, sewerage, water supplies. river pollution, and scavenging, and who sicken and die strong in the belief that they are the objects of Providential dis- pensations while all the time they are the victims of municipal turpidity and greed and ignorance. They are killed by filth and not by PROVIDENCE. In the report pub- lished by us on February 28th a letter was read at the Rural District Council in reference to the polltution of the River Dee and its tributaries by sewage and other impurities. This means that t e people of the district pour excrement into the river and then drink thp dirty water At the same meeting a letter was read from the Local Government Board asking the District Council to reconsider the o I MEDICAL OFFICER s salary with a view to increasing it. In the face of the high death rate something ought certainly to have been done, but the Council merely appointed the MEDICAL OFFICER on the same terms as before! Another letter was. read from the Local Govern- ment Board objecting to the same person holding the combined offices of Sanitary Inspector and Surveyor of Highways. Again the District Council appointed the Sanitary Inspector on the same terms as before. Then Dr WHITE produced his lengthy and carefully-prepared report of the health of the district, and in a sentence unconsciously comdemned the whole policy of the Council by stating that the death rate reached the high average of 22 35 per thousand of the population, and that there had been sixteen cases of infec ious diseases in the district. We know too well how bodies like the Edeyrnion District Council do not believe that water supplies, drainage, scavenging, and house ventilation are worth paying for. These bodies will act in stupid opposition to the ordinary laws of health and life for years and will then talk rubbish about a newspaper's unfairness in calling attention to dirty little villages which have higher death- rate than crowded cities containing millions of inhabitants. There is no efficient sanitary authority or other local governing body in the town of Corwen, and we know how thfe chief end of the rural nietnbers of district councils is to save the local rates at any cost. Agricultural drain pipes, even where they are used, are not the sort of pipes that towns should be drained with, and the watet supply of Corwen is in private hands, leaving many of the people to obtain water from contaminated sources At the next meeting of the Edeyrnion District Council ifc would be wiser, in- stead of abusing this paper, or trying to show that we are ignorant of the sani- tary condition of the district, to deal with the death-rate of 22-35 and wi, h the notorious drainage defects and with other conditions inimical to the public health. Whatever charges we bring we will publicly substantiate, but when members of the District Council proceed to defend themselves they would do well to be sure that they do nob defend themselves from charges which have never been made. In our opinion it is a very serious thing for m n to take positions on public bodies and not to do all that is possible to preserve the health and lives of the people. We believe that where the people pre enervated by physical sickness, healthy moral life is rendered difficult if not impossible. We do not believe, either, in dirty religion. One of the conditions, in our opinion, of right life of all sorts is municipal cleanliness and vigorous public health. In con- clusion, we may state that it is too late in the day for members of local gover- ning bodies to defend insanitation, and if necessary we will deal with this subject in ways that will bring convic- tion home to the dullest-witted inhabit- ant of the district.

CARDIFF TRIES TO BOUNCE WALES. THE hysterical condition of Cardiff has been pitiful since the decision was reached that the PRINCE OF WALES should be installed at Aberystwyth as Chancellor of the Welsh University. It is now perfectly clear t-hat Cardiff had confidently reckoned on the event, and had purchased its bunting, secured a per for its Mayor, and in other ways sad y befooled itself in anticipation of the Royal visit. The disappointment of Cardiff has been so utter that the PRINCE has been implored to lift the sink of Wales out of its despair. The PRINCE OF WALES, whose good nature is well known, has consented to virit Cardiff on his return from Aber- ystwyth, and Cardiff is now smiling through its tears and is once more happy to be a little way after Aber- ystwyth. It is impossible to congratulate Cardiff either on the manliness or generosity manifested in reference to the visit of the PRINCE OF WALES to Aber- ystwyth, but we are glad that Cardiff is lifted out of its dejection by the ex- tension of royal favour, and hope it will now see the pettiness of its spite and the meanness of its jealousy. The ignorance, jealousy, and shabbines-s mani- fested by Cardiff towards Aberystwyth are well illustrated by the course taken in referrence to the University College of Wales. The success of the University College of Wales at London University examinations has been so great and uniform that Cardiff has not been able to hide its chagrin, and is eager that Aberystwyth should follow Cardiff's silly and shortsighted example, and refuse to prepare students for anything but the still unknown and unvalued Welsh University degrees. The object of an University degree is to give the student who gets t, 9 it a sort of hall-mark which is of value in the educational world. For some years to come the degrees of the Welsh University Can have no value whatever, and any student who wished to obtain positions in which University degrees would count, might as well have no degree at all as the degree of the Welsh University. When the Welsh University has proved itself worthy, and its degrees rank with the degrees of other universities, then Welsh students who aspire to honourable place, in arts, sciences, and professions may rest content with the Welsh University degree, but in the meantime every Welsh student who wishes in any faculty to make his way in the world by means of University uegrees Would be wise to 'ake some other degree in addition to the Welsh degree. The great object of the University Colleges of Wales is to give to their s udents aIr education equal to that which can be obtained at much greater cost in England. The Welsh University IS intended to complete that educition by conferring degrees which shall mean as much as English, Scotch, or Irish degrees mean. Now Cardiff, irritated by its inability to take the lead of the Welsh [Colleges, pretends that loyalty to Wales demands there should be in those Colleges preparation of s udents f r Welsh degrees only. This contention is so ridiculous hat it creates derisive laughter, and causes wide-awake people to ask what object Cardiff can have in urging a course that smacks more of an idiot asylum than of an institution for the higher education of men and women. We have no doubt that a larger number of students from the University College of Wales will take the Welsh degree than will take it from Cardiff or Bangor, but they will wisely also take London or other degrees which are recognized all over the world. Cardiff so often presumes that its folly is wisdom that it is more likely to become the Gotham of Wales than the capital. The University College of Wales in times past foughr a gallant battle for bare existence against forces which were believed to be over- whelming. That battle was won. We are familiar with every stage of that conflict, and even now we see it continued in sentences 'like the following from Cardiff: "Whatever may have been tht .9 pohcy hitherto observed at Aberystwyth, "in futlre, as the Senate of that institu- tion will sooper or later discover, it "will be to its advantage and to the advantage of the Welsh people to "confine its energies and privileges as much as possible to the area which from its establishment it was intended to cover." When the University College of Wales was established it was intended to cover all Wales, and it was only because of jealousy that Colleges were- established at Cardiff and Bangor, and the doors of the University College of Wales were once virtually closed by its foes,, but they were speedily re-opened and the College has more than justified all that was ever claimed on is behalf. We do not think that the policy pursued by Cardiff towards Aberystwyth and Bangor is wise, or manly, or honest. It is absurd that the success of Aber- ystwyth in preparing students for London University, and in attracting students from all over Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom, should be urg"d against the College. Lt Cardiff College by. all means play the pait of Inter- mediate School for that town. It knows best what it is fit for, but we assure Cardiff that Aberystwyth College exists for the benefit of the Welsh people and of anybody else who comes to it, and not for the bolstering up 0f even a brand new Welsh University. Cardiff may take our word for it that Aberystwyth College is not going to be damned by the endless i, ention of baseless inuendoes. It may suit Cardiff College and its PRINCIPAL that the Welsh University Court shall act as the Central Board for Intermediate Education in Wales, but the University College of Wales 9t Aberystwy h will go on its way doing good work for Welsh Higher Education, and the system of Cardiff misrepresentation shall be doggedly pursued until it is eiiher abandoned, or by exposure loses its power for harm. Wales generally looks upon Cardiff as the sink of Wales, and in that capacity no doubt Cardiff serves useful purposes, but to talk of Cardiff being the capital of Wales is as absurd as for Cardiff to try and drag down the Aberystwyth College from the highly cieditable posi- tion which it has won during its quarter of a century's life and work. We think it is to be regretted th-it Cardiff should descend to shabby misrepresentation of the University College of Wales, but in 'he long run Aberystwyth will win in this conflict as it has won in many previous conflicts. Cardiff may be big and dirty, but it is not very smart, and some of its people are not by any means as clever as ihey think they are. They are most impressive when they are being counted. It is when they are being measured that they ache smallness. Cardiff cannot bounce Wales.

EDITORIAL NOTES. A Feench newspaper states that the new photo- graphy has been applied to den'al surgery, and that tootliac-e is now a thing of the past. Last week, in a court of justice, a case of damages was settled by showing a dislocated bone in the foot of a person who had slipped on some stairs. The death-rate of Flint is 27'6 per 1,000 in- habitants and the average length of life in that d srase-iofested place is less than thirty-seven y. ars We qaehtion whether there is a crowded city in the United Kingdom where the penple are killed off as rapidly as they are killed off in Flint with a population of only 5,244. We have no doubt that Flint is a very religious town. Poor JANE CAKEBREAD. She is now going to be the 'cause of a law suit. Lady HENRY SOMERSET, who took charge of her, has been said to be enough to drive anybody mad. Now, whatever miy be said, Lady HENRY SOMERSET unquestionably put a stop to the frequent appear- ances of JANE CAKEBREAD in the London police courts and did real good. She earns the reward of abuse The PRINCE of WALES is going to visit Cardiff on his way back from Aberystwyth, and the people of Cardiff have become quite delirious with patriotic joy. Of course, ic is great condescen- sion of the PRINCE to go to such a place. We are glad this sop has been given to Cardiff for it was becoming doubtful whether the town would bear up under the PRINCE'S instillation at Aberystwyth. The shareholders of the Aberystwyth Public Baths are public benefactors who receive no interest for their money. The balance sheet has just been issued, and it shows that after paying for maintenance and repairs the rest of the revenue went to pay off an adverse bank balance. The penple in the town who are loudest in their talk about what should be done for its pros- perity never took any shares and a large portion of the capital had to be borrowed. Nothing better was to be expected. On Tuesday, Congregation of Oxford University met to consider a number of Resolutions relating to the admission of women to the benefits of the University. Four Resolutions were moved by the supporters of the womeu's movement. The first three were negatived by large majorities; the last, which proposed to give to a woman a diploma stating the College to which she had belonged and the examinations she had passed, was rejected by a majority of four. This ought to teach women something. ♦ We do not blame landowners for getting what they can out of the idiotic taxpayer. It is said the present government intend to give relief in local rates to agriculture to the amount of about £ 18,000,000. This immense sum will go every year into the pockets, not of tenants, but of landowners, as it is rent, DO rates, that fixts the letting value of land. If it were proposed to give the poorest section of the community eighteen millions a year the dukes and other aristocrats would talk loudly about degrading the masses of the people by doles. It is only landowners who are realfy able to accept. doles without humbleness or sense of indebtedness Some- day the people will awake, but there is nn sign of the awakening yet: » While the last Liberal Government was cling- ing to office instead of fighting manfully for principles, Irish Home Rule receded. Since the Conservatives came to power the liberals have begun to talk about their disinterested desire to see right national action. There is to be a meeting of Radicals to consider Heme Rule All Round. We have never believed that any other Home Rule was feasible in the long run. If there is to be an Imperial Parliament there must be Local Parliaments. How and under what cir- cumstances Wales, Scotland, and England are to demand Home Rule Rule are questions that are not ready for answers. But Welsh Dis- es tablishment is ripe. Irish Home Rule is ripe Colonial Federation is ripe. What Liberalism wants most of all is earnestness. The Liberals have so many place-hunters to satisfy that office has to he retained for their sakes long after poli'ical honour demands an appeal to the electorate. This is the truth that needs to be recognised. The Liberal rank and tile are con- tinually sold for the sake of the official gang. Italy, in whose unity the civilized world rejoiced a generation ago, has become oae of the great European land robbers. We make no pretence of not rejoicing that Italy has sustained a crushing defeat in her policy of plunder and murder. It is high time for the nations of Europe to be taught that might is not right, notwith- standing what Conservative daily newspapers like the Standard may say. A group of the Right in the Italian Chamber of Deputies has submitted the following resolution Whereas the Chamber is convinced that the present political "and economic condition of the country absolutely necessitates the complete abandon- ment of Erythrea, that the national honour if "not affected by the successive reverses, and "that the country cannot endure the eventuals "sacrifice of men and money for such an enter prise, it urges the Government to recall the troops from Africa and to abandon the Colony "absolutely." It is not only in Italy that the resources of the people are being devoured in wars and armaments. It often happens that the greatest foes of the common people are their own chosen advocates In the House of Commons, last week, Mr JOHN BURNS opposed the Working Men's Dwellings Bill ''stock, lock, and barrel, because it helped "the wrong people and in the wrong way. It "helped only those who were able to help them- -1 selves." Will our readers tell us if families were dying of hunger and perishing with cold how these people could be fed or sheltered the wrong way? What the working people in the country require is a large addition to the number of heuses. If a man who can help himself is helped to build a house for himself he will leave ano'her house vacant. If a house worth ff0 a year is built, in the end it will be a hovel that is left vacant. What is wanted is an increase 1 number of houses so that the very worst dwellings may be ultimately left empty by a process of moving upward. It seems to us that Mr JOHN BURNS and other people are always re- fusing to help the people because somebody else is going to exploit them. At the present time houses are being built at Aberystwyth, but they tre not labourers' dwellings. Still, we believe that when once there aie vacant houses to be had the people will move nnd move until the blind courts and alleys will be emptied. We have no < sympathy with reformers VI ho starve people to death -or allow them to perish of cold while perftct methods of feeding and housing them are devised. We would accept a defective Working M n's Dwellings Bill rather than keep families houseless until a perfect meaeure had been devised. The world is cursed in all diretions because imperfect men will not be satisfied with anything less than perfect schemes of improve- ment to which, of course, they never attain. One of the old political battle cries used to b Peace, retrenchment, and reform." In these days we have peace as costly as war, and re- forms that make retrenchment impossible. What do the rank and lile of the people care about national extravagance ? They do not find th money, and they do not care how it is spent. Even teetotalers will take drink money for edu- cational purposes. They will take it to build cnurches and chapels with next The Rev MORGAN JONES, a Shropshire clergy- man, who was found guilty last week at Shrews: bury of pej;jviry, was sentenced by Mr Justice GRANTHAM to six days' imprisonment. The sentence, dating from the opening of the assizes, terminated immediately, and the prisoner was released. His lordship observed that there wa- evidently great ill-will in the parish against the prisoner, and no do.ubt his position was due to his excessive love of sporting and to his making himself a sort of gamekeeper. If a well-edu cated man can be sentenced to what amounts to a nominal sentence for perjury, surely an ordi- nary, ignorant labourer ought to be rewarded for the offence. Let everybody never forget that in this country justice is equally administered. There are newspapers which live upon the filthy details recounted in courts of justice. The Lord CHANCELLOR has introduced a Bill to check this foul literary feeding. Here is the principle clause :—" Where a judge of the High Court (i. England or Scotland) is of opinion that any evidence given at any trial be- fore that judge is of sueh a character that the publication thereof is likely to be prejudicial to pub ic morality, the judge may order that such of the evidence as is specified in the order shall not be published, aud any "person who publishes or is a party to the publishing of such evidence in any newspaper, periodical, book, or any other public manner, in contravention of such order, snaIr be g lil ty of contempt of ciurt and punishable accord- ingly." A Bill of this sort may create im- proved public opinion, but no law can present certain newspapers from raking literary gutters. The discovery is being gradually made that no child or young person should be an inmate of a workhouse. The only way to prevent children growing up into hopeless pauperism is to keep them out of workhouses where their human nature is rapidly destroyed. It has been too long the national habit to treat the poor in a lump as bad. Children, we say, should never be sent to workhouses. The aged or sick poor, again, should never be SQnt to workhouses. THe feeble minded should be sent there and malin- gerers. The lazy and drunken should also be sent there, and should be forced to be sober and to wotk. The hardest ,problems in civilization await solution at boards of guardians, but nobody seems to be aware of the fact. Sometimes it is realized that the problems are hard, but it is always, or almost always, taken for granted tha they can either be settled by rule of thumb or that they cannot be settled at all. There is hope now that women are being elected on boards of guardians. Workhouses, as at present conducted, are nurseries of pauperism. • The English Liberal Federation seems to be in' no better way than the Welsh Federations, Associations, Leagues, and Associations and for the same reason, namely, that they are worked by a few wire pullers who seek to use the rank and file as tools. Anybody who has attended meetings and conferences of national federations know what farces and deceptions they are. Di SPENCE WATSON has recently said that certain persons were dissatisfied with ceitain things in the Liberal pirty, but. there were men, he con tends, who would not be satisfied with any rganisation, even if created by themselves. DI WATSON may try to defend Lord kOSbBERY, but without saying anything against Lord ROHE- BESY, personally it ought to be obvious that the Liberals do not feel strongly about him, or perhaps, about anybody else. Government is a rotten business, aud even the Welsh Nleniber, cannot agree to work together. To be a Member of Parliament is a costly affair and the Mtmber has to make his position pay. He does it, and there is an end cf the whole maiter until the people arise from their apathy and corruption. Last week some very strong remarks of great interest to auctioneers and others were made by Mr Justice DAY. In an action against a firm ot land agents and auctioneers, with respect to a sale of the plaintiff s goods, one cf the allegations was that the defendants had sold a portion < f the goods to themselves, without the plaintiff's knowledge and consent, at a price much below the fair value. Witnesses upon.both sides s'ii it was a common practice for auctioneers to buy for themsflves at sales which they were them- selves conducting. This drew from Mr Justice DAY the observation that for any auctioneer to do such a thing, unless he had the express cousent of his principal, was a grievous and scandalous fraud. The business is not mended if the auctioneer selis to a confederate and afterwards they share the profits. In a very old case it wa- IlJiti down that in order that an agent employed to sell may purchase him- self he must disclose to his principal not only the fact that he is selling to himself but also. all the knowledge with respect to tho matter which he himself possesses. And an agent is not merely debarred from purchasing the property on his own account secretly, but h. cannot repurchase it from the purchaser, excep where the circumstances are undoubtedly bona fide. I should suppose," said Lord Justice MELISH some years ago, that the Court would look with considerable suspicion on a repurchase by such an agent as an auctioneer from the person to whom he sold the estate, because it would always be extremely difficult to find out whether there had not been some previous concert and understanding between them." In cases where auctioneers and others in concert with them have bought land these utterances must be disquieting in the extreme.

THE PRINCE OF WALES IN WALES. At the meeting of the Cardiff Town Council on Monday the Mayor (Lord Windsor) stated that the Prince of Waleq would, on the occasion cf his in- f-tall-itiop. at Aberystwyth as Chancellor of the Welsh Univereiiy, break his return journey to London at Cardiff, and spend two or three hours it, the town.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES. FARMERS' CLASSES. The seven-weeks' course of instruction in agri- culture and allied subjects for farmers was brought to a conclusion on Wednesday last. The student-, who numbered twenty five altogether, were all directly engaged in agricultural pursuits and cam' from the counties of Carmarthen, Cardigan, Mont- gomery. and Pembroke, the county councils of tho firt-t three having given special scholarships for the purpose. On Tuesday evening the students wero entertained to tea in the College byPrincipal Roberts there being also present Mrs Roberts, who presided at the table, Prof. Lewis. MrMurray.. < ■, Mr J Owen, M.A. and Mr D. p. Williams, M.R A. S E. When the repast was over Principal Roberts briefly addressed the students. He said It gw. him great pleasure to mbet that section of th- s udents that evening the course was the first lif the kind held in the College and was therefore somewhat of the nature of an experiment, and h, was glad to say it had Pjoved an unqualified auccefs, the students had behaved themselves in a most exemplary manner and had devoted them sel.es to their studies with great earnestness a he hoped that when they returned to their homes in the country they would continue the pursuit of knowledge, that they would endeavour t h, lp their neighbours and become cultured and useful members of society. Mr Jrhn Owen. Professor Lewis, Mr Murray, and Mr D. D. Willi--m- also spoke. Three of the students, Mr Morgan. Mr Williams, and Mr Morris then replied. Tney assured Principal Roberts that they had all derive great benefit from the course, that they had bee" very happy in their work, and that the most amicable relations had existed among themselves. On Wednesday afternoon the whole party of Students, accomnanicd by Mr Murray, Mr Oweu, and Mr D. D. Williams visited Mr Howell's farm, Nantcellanfawr. After tramping all over the farm. and inspecting the stock, tl e fields, and farm buildings, they were hospitably entertained to te- bv Mr Howell. The visit: was greatly enjove by all, and the party returned to Aberystwyih bot six o'clock in the evening. BARMOUTH DISTRICT COUNCIL. We understand that one of the certificates referred to in the discussion on the notification of Disease at the last meeting of the Council has been found.

THE P RTJD ENTIA LJSOCIETY. The annual balance sheet of the Prudential Assur- ance Company in which a large number of people are interested in this district as insurers and of which Mr V J 5 ^yards, Milton House, is the district super- intendent for Aberystwyth, appears in our advertis- ing columns and shows a remarkable increase of business and of prosperity. The increase in income for the year amounted to the enormous sum of ^334,4o8 and for the same period the funds which stood at £ £ J,J15,byo, was increased by £ 2 702 08.~> The claims of the year amounted to £ 2,369.977, or to make that enormous sum more comprehensible to the popular mind, the company paid to the relatives of policy holders more than R7,603 every working day during the year 1895. As an industrial branch office thf income and funds of the Society exceed those of all British offices put together. The ordinary branch in- come is larger than that of any other British office and the ordinary branch funds are only exceeded by that of one office. Putting both branches together, however, the funds are more by nine million sterling than those of any other insurance company.

j[Dcal an district. Mr A. M. Dunlop, who is still far from well, is stay- inc at Madeira. There is stated to be a very general impression in the Diocese of St. David's that the bishop is on the point of resigning. There is no truth in the rumour. AJDDICATION IN BANKRUPTCY.—David Edwards, of Penlancoed, Llanddewi Aberarth, Cardiganshire, cattle dealer. THE QUEEN'S LEVF.F.By command of the Qu, en, a leve" was held on Thursday afternoon at St James's Palace by His Royal H>glmess the Pr nee of Wales, on behalf her Majesty :-The following gentlemen attended the I. vee:-The Right Hon. Sir G. O;ihorne Morgan, M. P Mr M. Viiughati-Davi, a, M.P. DIOCBSK OF ST. DAVID'S.—On Saturday the new Archdeacon of Carmarthen (the Ven. S. Pryce. M A.) was inducted and placed in the stall attached to the Archdeaconry by the very rev. the dean and presenter. On the following Sunday the ven. archdeacon made the declaration of assent," &c', publicly before the congregation assembled for the midd:,y service, and nfterwards preached an impressive sermon appropriate to the occ sion. MB PRITCHARD MORGAN, M.P.—Mr John Vaujrban, solicitor. Merthyr. the political agent of the junior member for the Merthyr Boroughs, received on Tuesday morning the following cablegram "Pritchard Morgan and daughter sailed from Albany, Western Australia, for home on Saturday. All well. Will arrive home shortly after Easter." ST. DAVID'S COLLEGE.—The London Gazettt; ofTues- d <y contains the following: rrivy Council Office, Mirch 6th. Notice in hereby given that a petition has been uresented by her Majesty in Council by the Bishop of St David's, as visitor, and the principal, tutors, and professors of the College of St David's, in the county of Cardigan, praymg for th grant of a supplementary charter, and that her Majesty, having referred the said petitior to a committee of the Lords of the Council, the same will be taken into considera- tion by their lordships on tne wlst day of April, 1891;. The Maiq»essana m ircnioness of L. n i( nderry en'ertamed at dinner, at Londonderry Hou8e, on Wednesday last week Lord atid La y George Hamilton, Lord and Lady Arthur Hill. Sir Horace and L»dy Farquhar, Mr and Mrs J. Diggle, Mr and Mrs F Davies and the Moderate memb-rs of the London School Board After dinner. Lady L. ndonderry held a re. eption, at which there was n* ^pdance The Progressiv- members of nhe Board dined at Lnrdonderry House on Wednes- day ast, when another evening par y was held to me-t th'm. S«MBRIa.n -Approximate r< *urn of traffic receipts, for ti e week ending March 8th, ^8A6 M'lco open, 250 Passengers, parcel &c., t'1,6'20 merchandise, mii erals. and live stock. £ 2,327 total for the week. £ 3 947: aggregate from Illllwncpm"lIt of half-year, £ 36,385. Actual traffic receipts for the corresponding week last v,,t, Miles open 237 passengers, parcels. &c., €1.572; merchandise, minerals, aid live stock, £ 2 254 to'al f< r the week. £ 3,826 »trcregate fro n commencement of half year, £ 33,072. In- crease for th weel,, :-Paqsetg,,ro, parcels, &c., f48 merchandise, minerals, and live st"ck, £ 73 tot >1 'or the weefc. £121. Aggregate increase: Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 1.795; merchandise, minerals, and live stoek, f 1.518 aggregate from commencement of half-year, £ 3,313. Note —Wrex- ham and Ellesmere Lioe opened Nov. 2nd, 1895.

THE NEW HIGH SHERIFFS. The following is the official list of the high sheriffs for Wales and Monmouthshire, as decided on at the Privy Council held by her Majesty the Queen at Windsor on Friday:— Anglesey.—Mr Rupert Mason, of Tan-y-Coed, Llandegfan. Breconshire.—Mr Howell Richard Jones- Williams, of Cui Park, Talybont, Breconshire. Cardiganshire.—Mr William Jones, of Ffos- heulog' Tregaron. Carmarthenshire.—Mr David Evans, of Llan- gennech Park, near Llanelly. Jarnarvonshire. -M r Richard Methuen Greaves, of Wero, Portmadoc. Denbighshire.—Mr Edward Owen Vanghan Lloyd of Rhagalt, Corwen. Flintshire.-N,lr Harry William Buddicom, of Penbedw. Glanmorganshire. Colonel John Picton Turber- vill, of Ewenny Priory, Bridgend. Merionethshire Mr Charles Williams, of Hen- gwm, Dyffryn, Merioneth. Monmouthshire.— Colonel Robert Henry Manselj of Broad Towers, Caerleon. Montgomeryshire.—Mr John Marshall Dugdale, of Llwyn. Pembrokeshire.—Mr James Charles Yorke of Tree w m. Radnorshire.—Mr Thomas Thomas Moore, of Old Hall, Dolaw.

NEUADDFAWR FOXHOUNDS. On Monday, February 10th, a meet of the Neuaddfawr foxhounds took place at Llanarth, where a large number on horseback and otherwise had congregated. A start was made for the Wern thickets where a fox was almost immediately scented. He soon broke away and made for the sea coast, going towards Aberayron, with the pack in hot put suit. He first attempted to take refuge in the Cilforch reeks, but htre he was checked by a paity of sportsmen who, judging from p.evious experiences, had thought it advisable to watch the place, which has proved a city ot refuge to many a fox in times past. Passing along the be.1ch and haoring skirted the town of Aberayron he crossed the river and proceeded over the hills towards Llanddewi, once mfire visited the sea coast, but finding the hounds still on his track re-crossed the maiu road to Aberystwyth. Pas-ing to the right of Llanon and Llanrhystyd, Reynard again made for the rocks on the seaside, 4t at Llandeinol the pack, which had been gradually gaining ground,. ran into their quarry on the opedt not far fiom the church, having travelled over twenty miles. Of a large field at the start very few were present at the finish, and amcng those who had managed to keep up were the Huntsman, Whip, Mr Munro Hughes (Aberayron), and Mr Th, inas, Noyadd. On the following Thursday the meet was at Llan- fihangel-ar Arth where, after a diligent search of a couple of hours' duration, patience was well re- warded by a merry spin and a glorious finish in the verdant meadow near Llanfair, the seat of Captain Newland. Oil the Monday following, February 17th, the rendezvous was at Hafud cross-roads, among those prtsmt at the, commencement bt-iog The Master K Huntsman w hip, Master Stuart, All yrodyn Messrs D. Junes, Rosemount J Jones, Trefran W. J. Llov(l, Blue Brll, and J Daviea, Rhiwonen. F..r the fourtMime this season the houuds found at Taincocd plantation, where Master Reynard, suspecting what was up, quickly t >ok to hit heels md ran in the diree in of Cap-I Bettw. Passing through Carcoed, Dohu. and Penbwlch Wood. he took to the righ t and sailed for Llangybi. Bending o the right of Lluast, Berthlwyd, and Trefynor he -hot through Alltycigfran with the gallant pack close behind. Striking hard until he reached Cwm- rOdyn, and thence over Penbryn to Gelligwenin, he tur rd round and went ior All cycijifi an ou e more. Thence, without pausing, the red rover pro- ceeded through Abermenrig, and made tracks for. home. The hounds being still at his h. els he took t e same line as before uutil he reached Capel; Rettws where he swui g to the left, sailed across the v .tley of the Aerou and, having crossed the river first and afterwards the main road leading to Tregaron, entered Bwich Dingle, a favourite haunt. T¡,i, dingle is three milvis loig, and bianchmg off n both i-ides, is almost, inaccessible to the rider and there is hardly a run during which the fox. d es not pass through it. Having pass. d through this dingle, Reynard again turned to the left. making for N-ititewnlle, sank into the vale, re- crossed the tiver, and once mure reached the or g uat starting pUce. Forced to leave it for the hi d and last time, he retraced his farmer footsteps in the opposite direction and, having crossed the Aberm urig covers and Alltycigfran, he attempted o get shel er in Felindre Farm, but was (lri, en out by the workmen engag-d in the yard. From there he went hack to Alltycigfran again. The leading h -urn's, having him in view now for the first time. quickly br,ught. him to grouud, thus ending one of he les. runs experienced for several years in the n 'gh'ourhood.

punting ^pimntmettts. THE NEUADDFAWR FOXHOUNDS MEET Tuesday, March 17th Esgerdawe 10.30 a.m. Friday, March 20th Alltrodyn 10 30 a m. I THE PLAS MACHYNLLETH HOUNDS MEET (Foxhounds.) Tuesday, March 17th Cemmaes Road Saturday, March 21st Caerhedyu 10.20 a.m.