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SPRING NOVELTIES. I B. EVANS & COMPANY ARE NOW SHOWING THE LATEST LONDON AND PARISIAN FASHIONS IN COSTUMES, LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S MANTLES AND MILLINERY. ALSO C II A 11 MING NOVELTIES IN DRESS MATERIALS, MADE UP LACE GOODS, LACES, RIBBONS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, TRIMMINGS, &c. 1*, -Z' -A :4 -r LADIES' LEATHER BAG-S, FANCY BASKETS, &C. The FANCY WOOL-WORK DEPARTMENT is well assorted with all the Newest Designs EVERY REQUISITE IV LIMES' AXD CHILDREN'S OUTFITS \\1» BABY LIXEiV. "s S E a. I April 6th. 1883. LATEST FROM ILE FOLLET." Of all annoyances, as connected with La Toilette,' none is greater than the purchase of liorne material apparently the very thing' required, the subsequsnt finding that appearances are deceitful, and money, time, and trouble hive all been wasted in the acquirement of an article whose beauty was transient, and durability nil. Since our first recommendation of the 'LOUIS' VELVETEEN EVERY PURCHASER HAS REITERATED THE PRAISE WE BESTOWED. Manv makers would Vave contented themselves with having thus gained public favour; but the great com- petition in Yeheteem. f.nA the praiseworthy iletei initiation not to be surpassed, have led the manufacturer of the 'LOUIS' VELVETEEN to be constantly seeking improvements, which have resulted in the production of the GENUINE WOVEN FAST PILES, WITH GENOA FACE. THE strictest examiner may try every test of touch and sight without discovering these are other than the Genoa Velvets they so closely resemble, while the peculiar arrangement, resulting in the "fast woven pile" enables them to stand interminable and rough wear that would ruin real velvets at four times the price. £ > Every yard of the genuine bear- the name LOUIS." Ladies who have found other makes of Velveteens to wear badly should be careful to buy only those stamped LOUIS." A lar»e assortment of these Celebrated Velveteens in black and all fashionable colours are now on Sale at the B. EVANS & COMPANY'S, 1 2. 3, & 4, Temple-street, 5, Caer-treet, and Temple Lane, SWANSEA. PATTERNS POST FREE. THE WEAR OF EVERY YARD GUARANTEED. W. WILLIAMS, 2 9, C A S T L E SiT R E E T, [SWANSEA. Chronometer, Watch, Clock, and Nautical Instrument Maker, Engraver, Gilder, Electro Plater, Optician, Compass Adjuster, &c. Your kind Patronage Solicited. SPECTACLES. SPECTACLES. THE CHEAPEST HOUSE IN WALES FOR THE ABOVE, ALSO FOR Watches, Clocks, Silver and Electro-Plateil Goods and Jewellery OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. rr. W G A Y DON 8) CF:r.O:m: iLOisriDOisr), SS-7, ^lO-EE-ST^EET, SWANSEA, (NEXT DOOR TO MR CHAPMAN, PHOTOGRAPHER). DAVIES & LAMB nrr CREASE COLLIERY BRATTICE, DOOR CLOTH:* FLEXIBLE AIR TUBING DOOR CLV m>ANUFACTURERS STRAND SW ANSEA. EXHIBITION OF MEZZOTINT ENGRAVINGS. THE WORKS OF CHARLES A. TOMKINS, ESQ. „oin!ih1p Collection of ARTIST'S PROOFS, HT a^he*Droperty of Miss Zitella E. Tomkins, will 1- AI0VMV I the LESLIE SCHOOL OF ART, No. 1, Brunswick-street, Swansea, from the 16th instant to the ^^ADM^IOS-One Shilling. Art Students FREE. IMPORTANT NOTICE. PORTRAIT OF Sir Henry Hussey Vivian, Bart., M.P., Glamorganshire. WE have the honour to announce that in com- fiance with the wishes o £ many of his fiends dmirers, Sir H. Hussey Vivian, Bart., M.P., has *Tven us special permission to publish a large-size PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF. -tux T The drawing is from a much-prized photograph by • TUnvia of Broadway, New York, and finished from .riven by Sir Hussey to our Artist, Michael Esa. Student and Gold Medallist of the {pYaTAcademy, and a member of the oldest firm of Lithographers polished at various prices T¥ Two Shillings to One Guinea. The Two iruigmg uoin on plate paper, 22 inches Shilling topv Signature, Titles, Crest, Ac., and by 18 inches, beaiin^ faithful likeness. will a^aC^n0^;ji he ready about the middle of April. oSS.^Sw i wm supplied rota- .e TWENF.Y A.CO., V'tle" Prince of ■publishers by Appointment^ H. R H. Wales. TIT T> When. ordering- please jurnish name and add) €i>s, IlM o/ P.rdSr. if'» ,SOTE will be firtnted and forwarded to each OM.. Cambridge University Local Lectures and Classes. POYVL INSTITUTION OF SOUTH WALES ON THURSDAY EVENINGS. Programme of Spring Course of Lectures. =i LAVINGTON HART, Esq., E.A., LECTURER- gc B. Sc. (Paris). "Electricity, with Experiments." Arril and Dynamo Machines. i#i != £ £ £ TkW and Telephones. •n ^nrrmence at 7 p.m., and the The Classes g r., Students, os. each. Tickets 10.i. 6d. ea Shilling each. Admission to Single Lectuie, wu HORT. HUXHAM, Hon. Secretary. Swansea, 18th January, 1883. Great Western Railway. CHELTENHAM RACES. If,*™' anTp»t T.lbS Lvdney O!20, and Newnham 9.40 a.m.; to return 9.3, Lydney {'ar6B and return times, see special bills, same day- J. GRIERSON, General Manager. TO LET. ITTING and BEDROOM TO LET, in Walter-road. Address L. D., Cambrian Office. • — TO BE LET. THE GEORGE HOTEL, 49 and 50, Wind Street, Swansea. Immediate possession. For particulars apply to the Proprietor, R. J. MORRIS. TO BE LET, -\ro. 51, MANSEL TERRACE. Apply as above, or XX to J. MARGETTS, Outfitter, 6, Wind-street, Swansea. LANGLAND BAY, NEAR SWANSEA. TO BE LET, Furnished, till middle of September, and after then for a term of three years, ROTHER- SLADE, unfurnished or furnished, containing three sitting rooms, conservatory, kitchen, scullery, dairy, &c., with six bedrooms. Kitchen garden and orchard. Apply to G. M. LEAKER, Rotherslade; TO LET, THE ELMS, SKETTY, late in the occupation of John Jones, Esq., deceased. The HOUSE has a South aspect, and contains on ground floor, three sitting rooms, kitchen, pantry, scullery, &c.; on 1st floor, five bedrooms, bath-room, &c.; also two servants bedreoms, stable, coach-house, &c., and good kitchen garden. Unfailing supply of water. Large tank on the premises. e< Apply to Messrs. GLASCODINK & CARLYLE, Solit-tors, 4, Fisher-street, Swansea. FOR SALE! TO BE SOLD, ~\TO. 27, RUSSELL-STREET, containing front and 1^1 back parlour, kitchen and back kitchen, three bedroms on first ftoor, attic, and cellar garden at back. GROCERY AND DRAPERY BUSINESS TO BE DISPOSED OF, situated in an improving watering place. Gilbey's Agency attached. Present Proprietor, having carried it on for twenty-one years, is now retiring from business. Apply at The Cambrian Office. FOR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY, FIVE well- built HOUSES, situate at St. Helen's Crescent, producing good rents, all let to respectable tenants. Seven rooms and cellar to each house back entrance to same. Also one House situate at Phillip's Parade, Swansea, let to a respectable tenant, and producing a good rent. Apply THOMAS REES, Contractor, 36, Walter-road, Swansea. THE LLEWELYN ARMS — Coffee Tavern & Temperance Hotel, GREEN STREET, NEATH. GOOD feather beds. REFRESHMENTS of the Best Quality, and on Strictly Moderate Terms. JOHN EVANS, Manager. MRS. ROBERT THOMAS BEGS to inform her late Husband's Patients and Friends that the Practice carried on by him for the past Sixteen Years will be continued under the Manage- ment of Mr. ALFRED F. BADDRT, L.D.S., England, and she hopes to receive their kind Patronage and Support. 5, Northampton-place, Swansea. A Fortune for a Trifle— £ 20,000 for j51. FULL PARTICULARS of this most advantageow money speculation, guaranteed by Government, will be sent free on application, enclosing a stamped directed envelope to JOHN FOSTER, Esq., 8, Craig's Court, Charing Cross, London, S.W. Blue Lias Lime, White Lime, Limestone and Silicious Fire Cement. B DANIEL JONES and Co. are prepared to # Supply the above-named articles at all Railway ^Stormy Works, Pyle, near Bridged. t.J BRUSSELS CARPETS. I am Showing some of the Very Best Quality 5 Frame Brussels Carpets at 3s. 6d. per yard. THOMAS HEARD, (LEWIS, late BENNETT), CABINET MANUFACTORY, CARPET WAREHOUSE, 19. HIGH STREET, SWANSEA. SPECIALITIES IN WEDDING PRESENTS. Pac-similes of the Royal Mounted Devon Ware, As Purchased by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. His Royftl Highness the Duke of Albany, are on Sale at z!l DAVIES & SONS, Silversmiths, Neath, Carmarthen, and Briton Ferry. Illustrated List of Prices forwarded Free on application. 18 and 19, Castle Street, Swansea. SPRING, 1_883. SIR,— EVERY Department is now replete with NEW GOODS for the present Season. Great care has been taken in the selection of Materials to ensure their giving satisfaction in wear and Permanency of Colour. OUR MEN'S BLACK WORSTED SUITS COMPLETE, AT 21/6, 29/9, 35/6, 42/ 45/ 49/6, 55/ 59/6, & 69/6, are in great demand, and universally acknowledged to be unsurpassed in trade. In n The Juvenile Department contains mauv registered Styles and Designs, and in it will be found everv requisite in Clothing for little Roys, Boys, and Youths. Having spared no efforts to secure the most complete ranges, we have every confidence in stating that our present Stock I v 0 excels that of any previous Season. Doing one of the largest trades in the country, and buvino- and selling"for cash, we are in a position to give you the best value to be had for money. That this fact is dulv appreciated is proved bv our yearly-increasing trade; and we take this opportunity of again thanking you for your kind and liberal patronage. Assuring you of our best services, Q. ± We are, Sir, your Obedient Servants, MASTERS & COMPANY, The Swansea Clothiers. 18 and 10, Castle-street, Swansea. Also at 29 and 30, St. Mary-street, Cardiff, and 39 and 40, High-street, Newport. PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION EXECUTED WITH NEATNESS AND DESPATCH;, u "The Cambrian" Newspaper Steam Printing Works, WIND STREET, SWANSEA. Posting Bills of all sizes, and in every variety of tint. nTT»niTT at?c; rvv FVERY DESCRIPTION. ADDRESS, BUSINESS, AND OTHER CARDS. CIRCULARS OF E\ DEgIGNS m MEM0RIAL CARDS. BILL-HEADS SHIPPING FORMS, INVOICES, MEMORANDUMS, AND EVERY OTHER KIND OF PRINTING DONE AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. ESTIMATES FOR WARD ED ON APPLIOA T I O N. New Theatre and Opera House, I Wincl-street. Director A MELVILLE, Cornhill Cottage. "IREFUL4 BeYmAiIcXMSINT A £ "GS VAMETY COMBINATION. MONDAY, April 9th and during the Week, Offenbach's Opera Bouffe, MADAME FAVART, Mr. T. D. YOEKI'S OPERA COMPANY. Important and Complete Production. Box Office, Messrs. Brader's Music Warehouse, Wmd-st. Optn at 7. Commence at 7.30. Theatre Royal, Temple-street Director. A. MELVILLE, Cornbill Cottage. This Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7. last two nights of MR. W. DUCK'S COMEDY COMPANY. TO DAY (FRIDAY), April 6, BYRONE S COMPANY, lOUAi MARRiED IN HASTE. SATURDAY, April 7, Piix-rpo's MONEY SPINNER, And TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME. Box Office-Messrs. Brader's Music Warehouse Wind- streeet. Doors open 7.15; commence 7 45 MONDAY, APRIL 9, and during week, SPECIAL DRAMATIC COMPANY. WANTED. A RESPECT ABLE FIRM requires a PRACTICAL ■ROOK-KEEPER; state salafy ,reqnired and produce testimonials of ability and conduct from last employer.—Address by letter (prepaid), G,> care of The Cambrian Newspaper. Swamea. WANTED, a SHARP, RESPECTABLE LAD as an OFFICE BOY. Apply A. B., Office of this Paper. WANTED a YOUTH, as an IMPROVER. Apply to J. Buckley Wilson, Architect, lo, Castle-street, Swansea. _———————————- ANTED, AGENTS, &-C. to SELL -in w p"el(ets or loose also The most profitable Agency in the Trade. Write for parti. culars to AsAii TEA COMPANY, 132, Upper Thames.st,t, London. Established 1844. -—————— A- GENTS WANTEDro-SELL FITCH, suitable A. for Hot Neck". Address, R.B-, care of W. H Smith & SOD, Advertising Agents, 7* Market-street, Manchester. um Hauiage °f Traffic overl^^aj1^^ (high and low level) of the Swansea Harbour Trust. PARTIES desirous of TENDERING for the abore for twelve months, at a uniform r^ e of per ton on all goods and ballast under the control of the Trustees, moved from any one part °^^arJf0Ur^ate to another, to include all shunting, haulage ot empties, and other work incidental to the traffic of the Harbour, may obtxin full information at the General Superintendent's office up to noon on Satur- day, the 14th inst. By order, ROBERT CAPPER, General Superintendent. Harbour Offices, 5th April, 1883. St. Paul's Congregational Church, Swansea. ON MONDAY, APRIL 16th, The Sacred Cantata "JOSEPH WILL be tendered by the 9h,°V"' A8si^ed by Eminent Artistes, accompanied by the Swansea Choral Society's Band, under the leadership of Mr. W. F. HULLEY.. Admission 2s. and Is, For further particulars see large bills and future advertisements. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. Young Men's Christian Association, Dynevor Place, Swansea. A GRAND BAZAAR and INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION will (D.V-) be held in the ALBERT HALL, Cradock-street, JUNE 13, 14, and 15, 1883, in aid of the BUILDING FUND. Donations of Money, Work, or Material will be gratefully acknowledged. \V. NICHOLS, Secretary. TO ADVERTISERS. The following are our London Advertising Agents, through any of whom advertisements may be received on our account:— ALGAR. FREDERICK, 8, Clement's Laue. BAILY & Co., Nicholas Lane; E.C. BARKER & SONS, 8, Birchin Lane. CLARKv, SON, & PLATT, 85. Gracechmch tveet, CoiMAN, T., 161, strand. CROSSLEY, C. R. & Co 38, Poultry, BANK. DA VIES & Co., 1, Finch Lane, Cornnni. DAWSON & SONS, 121, Cannon St eet. DEACON & Co., 150, Leadenhall Street. GITEEN, H., 117, Chancery Lane. HOOPER & BATTY. 1, George Street, Mansion Uous KELLY, GEORGE & Co., 23, Kinx Stree V\ estmmster, S.W. KENSINGTON 4 Co., George Street, MaiiBion House. KINGSBURY & Co., George Yard, Lombard Street. LAUGHTON & Co., 142, Queen Victoria street. MAY, C. H., & Co., 78, Gracechurch Street. MAY, F. & SON, 159, Piccadilly. MITCHELL & Co., 12 and 13, Red Lion Court. MORRIS, H., Printing House Square. „ REID, J. F. & NEPHEW, 14, George Street, Mansion House. REYNELL 4 SON, 41, Chancery Lane. SMITH, W. B. & SON, 186, Strand. STREET BROTHERS, 5, Serle Street, Line Jill's Inn. STREET, G. & Co.. 30. Comhill. VICK "RS, J. W.. 5 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street. Wsat, ft Son,F. I., W, Fleet Street. SALES BY AUCTION. Particulars appear in our First Page. MR- J. M LEEDER. Household Furnitu e. &c., at Sketty April 18 Freehold & Leasehold Property, at Swansea April — MESSRS. E. ROBERTS & SON. Freehold Property, at KenflL; April 13 MESSRS. TRIBE, CLARKE, & Co. Colliery Plant.&c.,atCHynneath. April 17 MESSRS. BEY.NON AND LEWIS, 3 Household Furniture, &c.. at Swansea April 11 MK. CHARLES HUGHES. Pony, at 9 Household Furniture, at Swansea April 12 Horses, Carriages, Harness, < £ c., at Swansea April 24 MESSRS. H. HILL & Co. Lace Curtains. &c.. at Swansea April 9 & 10 MESSRS. J. F. IJARVEY & Co. Wines and Spirits, at Swansea April 7 MESSKS. E. & H. LUMLEV. Landed Estates, at London Feb. 6 and following dates. TO ADVERTISERS. The Cambrian being now published at 8.30 a.m. on Friday mornings, it is necessary that, as far as possible, all advertisements and other communications should be sent in not later than Thursday night. The publishers cannot ensure the insertion of any advertisement received later than 7.30 on Friday morning. Iff1 Pu'dieitv is money. This is a recognised fact in business. It is not sufficient for a tradesman to place a sign over his door for people to look at, he must send out his sign far and wide, so that it may be remembered by the many, not only by the few who saw his name over the door.
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%\u Cambrian. SWANSEA, APRIL 6, lSfS. LORD RANDOLPH OR SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE- WHICH? IT appears that the leadership of her Majesty's present Opposition is an honour, the detxr digniori of which is disputed. For some time it has been held by Sir Stafford Northcote, a gentleman whose moderation and fairness in debate have probably caused the revolt against his guidance of the stupid party by one of its most fiery par- tisans. It is useless to conceal the fact that this trouble of the Tory Israel is Lord Randolph Churchill, whose impetuosity is more conspicuous than his prudence. It is not of much interest to us to behold antagonism in the ranks of politi- cians whose resistance to popular rights has been a maxim rather than a principle. The old motto of Divide and conquer is not now applicable to them, for they are divided and have been con- quered but their divisions will make them less dangerous to popular progress, and, therefore, we are not anxious to see their repellant sections restored to the cohesiveness of a Macedonian phalanx. Lord Randolph, a young nobleman of conspicuous oratorical talent, is impatient, because Sir Stafford lacks the fiery impetuosity which he feels and wishes to see in others, Like a high- mettled courser champing on the bit, he frets under the restraint which Sir Stafford's sluggish action imposes on him. He therefore ventilates his grievance in a morning newspaper, and in- sinuates that if another fiery spirit-a predecessor in the Tory camp—has been called the Rupert of Debate, his impetuosity might point him out as the Rupert of Politics. But experience has shown that leaders of this sort are neithtr the safest nor most successful guides. Pluck and oratorical power must be ballasted by prudence, else they are nothing better than a ship that refuses to obey her helm. The soldier whose name we have mentioned was gallant enough, but imprudent. Ney was brave, but unprincipled. Rupert was fearless, but rash. His uncle, Charles I. placed in him unbounded confidence, which the result did not justify. His brilliant exploits were all counterbalanced by the disaster at Marston Moor, where his indiscretion in giving battle to the enemy, and his utter mismanagement of the fight inflicted a terrible blow on the cause which he had espoused. His head ling course made the world no better, for he left nothing behind him 9 more important than the invention of the glass bubble called Rupert's Drops Of course, it is not our business to advise our friend, the enemy. But Lord Randolph and even the Marquis of Salisbury may find that, however brilliant they are in intellectual power, vitupera- tion, and recklessness in the field of politics will, unless dominated and guided by prudence, land them in nothing better for posterity than a bauble like Rupert's Drop People expect some- thing better from Parliament than fancy toys of this sort. Oratorical fireworks in St. Stephen's do not lighten the burdens of trade, nor assist in filling the mouths of the hungry; and while these things are urgently required at home, there is little good to be realised from an attempt to ridicule the foreign policy of Her Majesty's Government, or taunt its members with tardiness in home legislation, for the Opposition, in per- fect accordance with their instincts and tradi- tions, are the chief obstacles to progress. Both of Lord Salisbury and that" wild colt of a comet," who is now and long has been impatient of control in the tactics of party warfare, it may be said as was said of a prophet, Lo thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instru- ment; for they hear thy words, but they do them not." Against one of the most important measures passed last session, Lord Salisbury was a leader without a man to follow him. His re- sistance to the inevitable, was quite as ridiculous as Don Quixote's pugilistic encounter with wind- mills. The mutations" of the arms, as he called it, did not prevent him from deeming them giants that would soon be cut down by a knight-errant's sword, but he was speedily dis- enchanted when he and Rozinante came into collision with them. No sane person could believe a knight-errant of this kind a proper leader of men. At all events, if he will insist on leading he will soon discover that his followers, like angels' visits, are few and far between. It wass not by captains of this sort that Crecy and Waterloo were wan and the people of this country have grown too anxious about home affairs to admit at present Don Quixotism into politics. When the hero of Cervantes rushed sword in hand at a flock of sheep, as if they were foemen worthy of his steel, he was doing nothing more absurd than resurrecting for debate in the House of Commons the Kilmainham transac- tion," with what Lord Randulph Churchill has called its measureless infamy." It is now evi- dent that the description given of it by the Prime Minister was perfectly correct, and that the first wtep in the negotiations for the liberation of the prisoners was taken, and naturally taken, by themselves. But if this had not been so, what matters it ? The man would be unworthy to hold the position of Prime Minister in this coun- try who disdained to employ all legitimate means within his reach to pour oil on the troubled waters of popular disoontent and reduce to peace and order a nation distracted by anarchy and crime. Yet, while the country is earnestly longing for a Land Bill, an improved Bankruptcy Bill, a Bill for making electoral corruption more dangerous, a Bill to extend the Franchise in counties and distribute electoral power more justly, Lord John Manners is eager to waste the time of Parliament and insult the common sense of the kingdom by a debate, to discover whether Parnell spoke to O'Shea first, or rice rcrvt, about the liberation of the arch Land-leaguer and his compatriots in prison from their bonds. That they should have been liberated is not denied, and the question as to the person with whom the proposal to liberate them originated is a batelle which might entertain lunatics, but is wholly out of place in the halls of legis- lation. We can hardly believe that to such leaders the population of the United Kmgdom are likely to entrust their interests. We speak thus plainly though we know that hints are in circulation to the effect that the member for Woodstock, tired of the immobility of his party, is not unlikely to become a democratic Tory, or an auxiliary of the Radical Section of Liberals. In that event he would be more nearly approach- ing the political creed of his brother, though even then he might be as dangerous to his adoped as sociates as the elephants of Pyrrhus to the army they intended to assist. Two paragraphs in an evening contemporary bearing on this point we quote :—" Is it disloyal for a sound Conserva- tive to speak to a sound Liberal ? Yesterday a Tory organ printed in large type a statement that Lord Randolpoh Churchill was on good terms with Mr. Labouchere, and to-day the Birmingham Daily Gazette asks :—' What is the meaning of that ostentatious conversation which Lord Randolph had in he smoking-room of the House of Commons on Thursday night with Mr. Chamber- bin r" "Lord Randolph Churchill's recent criticisms on the extravagant expenditure on Royal palaces has not been without its effect. The Plymouth Radical Association have resolved to request his lordihip to address that body, with a view to in titing him to stand as a candidate for that borough. Lord Randolph may, perphaps, hesitate to accept this flattering offer, when he learns that, with Plymouth Radicals, support of Mr. Bradlaugh's eLum is a nine qua non." We know that under better political tutelage he might become not merely a valuable auxiliary, but rise to the proud position of a benefactor of his country but at present we have no inclina- tion to predict the future. Sir Stafford North- cote still retains the confidence of his party in the House of Commons, and at present it is impossi- ble for them to have a safer guide. As to the Marquis of Salisbury, there is nothing to be feared from his itinerary objurgations, for the simple reason that they are destitute of any substratum of facts. His lead, therefore, among the Peers must be comparatively impotent. In his Birmingham orations, his customary exagge- rations and mis-statements were so conspicuous that a writer in the Echo has taken the trouble to formulate them. In one of these the noble Mar- ^UIB is reported to have said, "It is humiliating to think that" (regarding the Border war going on in the Transvaal) "hundreds of thousands of men were slaughtered, starved, or driven out of their homes, because they trusted to the English nation." Regarding Ireland, he asserted that though the doctors, that is, the present Govern- ment, had had this patient in hand for fourteen years, after a time of average prosperity, we see Famine stalking through the land, because the employment of Capital has been driven from the country through measures which Mr. Parnell adopted." With respect to the Irish Church, he laid, I remember that in Mid-Iothian Mr. Gladstone made that well-known speech which was supposed to have brought the question of the Irish Church out of the region of dark politics. The late Government was then in power and there was then no appearance of the disorders which have since arisen." From this, the infer- ence is plain that the present Prime Minister suggested the power of dynamite to work out a great political problem, and from this suggestion the dynamite outrages have resulted Then, so far as concerns the Artizans Dwellings Act, whereof the merits or demerits are not unknown in Swansea, his Lordship asserted that the only serious attempt at legislation on this subject was the Bill of Sir Richard Cross, passed in the year 1875. We have no objection to give him and his party all the credit they deserve for this measure, and that is little, were it not for the terribly infirm memory which it evinces on the part of the Marquis, who is evidently a great economist of truth. We forbear to go farther. Leaders of this sort will not damage the cause which they reprobate. We have just been reading of the sudden demise of a person who was his own hangman.
. NOTES AND COMMENTS.
NOTES AND COMMENTS. THE Returns of Swansea Harbour for the past week are as follows:—Entered,—24 steam ships, with a registered tonnage of 9290 and 42 sailing vessels with a tonnage of 5,132; or a total of 66 ships and 14,422 tons as compared with 88 vessels, with 15,219 tons in the corresponding week of last year. The clearances are 32 steam ships, with 11,350 tons, and 59 sailing vessels wit 7,389 tons, or a total of 91 vessels with 18 739 tons showing a total decrease of two vessels but an increase of 738 tons. THE bravery of Police Constable Dee at Swansea has been emulated by oupeiintendent Kemp at Worcester and both have been similarly rewarded for their gallantry in the face of the peril of fire. On Monday we find that the Earl oi Coventry presented at the orcester^ Police Superintendent Kemp with the Albert medal of the Second Class, which had been awarded to him by Her Majesty in consideration of -i3 £ at a fire at Halesowen, when at the peril ot his life he removed from a burning house 501b. of gunpowder, which was contained in a canister already scorched and blistered. It is satisfactory to find that the Albert Medal is being properly used, and that it bids fair to become more and more valued and coveted the better its significance becomes known. THERE has been another "Conservative Victory" in Swansea, which will no doubt be made quite as much of as it merits. At the last meeting of the Session of the Swansea Mock Parliament, on Tuesday evening, the question of the Disestablishment of the English Church was brought" up for final discussion and division. Whips'? of the most urgent kind had been sent out to members of both sides of the house, and there was a tolerably good attendance. After a warm debate, the result of the division was declared to be for the motion, 57: against, 75: majority opposed to dises- tablishment, 18. Thereupon, the Liberals, under the Premiership of Mr. Abel Thomas, barrister, fell; and the Conservative Ministry, under Mr. C. H. Glascodine as Prime Minister, came into power. The Conserva- tives will thus again enjoy the honour and irresponsi- bility of office during the summer prorogation. THB present rate of school board extension and the even more inordinate increase of school board expendi- ture, bid fair to bring us to the principle of wholly free education. It i3 stated that Sir Tollemache Sinclair, M.P., is about to give practical proof of hie adherence to free education principles. He has an- nounced his intention of paying for one year the school fee? of all the children on his estates at Thurso and Halkirk. He has pronounced himself confident that the difference in more regular attendance and the con- sequently larger Government grant will show that the loss to the School Boards from a policy of free educa- tion would be comparatively trifling. This may be th. next vagary of the Swansea School Board, unless the burgesses take more interest in their work, and express their sense that some limitation must be recognised and adhered to. ° LOVERS of natural phenomena, collectors of the com- mon objects of the sea-shore, and searchers after the rarer specimens of animal and vegetal life which may lometimes be found between high and low water mark at exceptional tides. had better hold themselves ready for the 9th mst. From the 7th to the 11th inst. th. oiallTwh1,necessarj to produce espe- oxally high tides will take place, nota."blyon the after- noon of the 9th when the height (at 3h. 11m.) at London Bridge is calculated to be 22ft. lin., i.e., only one inch lower than the highest tide of the current yJar, which Zt l;laCVr^Iar^ 1Ln At Swansea the same date the 9th, the tide will be at its highest at nine IT' S°T-n m moruing and31 minutes past to be 35ft 2menrfno^en t0talhei°ht is Predicted c ffu A Collectors 0f sea anemones, &c., will w °PP°rturuties about half-past one o'clock on the Monday afternoon. d°mewC 5iervant is a treasure, which is admittedly much too rare. But if a cleverly-worded advertisement could find one out, the following ought to be effective" Required, for a family a coachman and cook (man and wife, without encum- brance). Wages £50 per year, and all found. Coach- e J;e drive a pair and look after two or three horses. Cook must be able to make entrees sweets, and furnish a good table without aid of a pro- fessed cook; must not grumble at the mistress being her own housekeeper, nor expect fat joints to be ordered to swell her perquisites with dripping, bones, &c.; and she mibt not be imbued with the idea most cooks have that because plenty may be around she is bound to swell the tradesmen s bills by as much waste as pos- iiible. No couple need apply who expect the work to be put out, who are fond of change, or who dictate to their employers how much company may be kept; bi* „0a^g(onof' h°nest English conple, such as old servants 0 "e' a thoroughly good kome would be found." ALL the marvellous stories that claim to "lick crea- tion come from across the "Atlantic Ferry" But Americans seem to be diminishing in the girth of their imaginative quality Here is one about an apple. An apple 10 perfect preservation, although ninety- six years old, is m possession of a gentleman in Ulster county, Pennsylvania. As it rounded up from the blossom of the parent stem in the early summer of 1787, a bottle was drawn over it and attached to the branch, and after the apple had ripened the stem wa* severed and the bottle sealed tightly. It looks as fresh as when first plucked." The identification of Hampden's sword appears to have failed. Perhaps this may be proved, however, to be the very apple which William Tell split with an arrow on his boy's bead! More unlikely things than that have been proved" in America. Meanwhile the Americans have only one degree lower to fall. They may be con- fidently expected to produce, in a preserved state, the giant gooseberry of history, the hero of a hundred paragraphs, the culminating wonder of the Western MForld —————. IN these days of terror and alarm caused by the far too frequent use of dynamite, it is excusable if the inhabitants of the Mumbles and Swansea should feel somewhat uneasy upon its becoming known that a fishing skiff, carrying over three tons of "forcite," was anchored m the Swansea bay, some few hundred yards from the shore. But such has been the case for the past two or three weeks, and notwithstanding re- peated applications to the several authorities supposed to have jurisdiction over such dangerous explosives. nobody seemed to be armed with sufficient official authority to order its instant removal or destruction It appeared that on the 7th day of March a fishing skiff, owned by Thomas Brace, a dredger, arrived in the Mumbles Roadstead from Liverpool, having over three tons of "forcite," which we are credibly informed has an explosive force equal to thirty tons of dyna- mite Had any accident caused the explosion of such a quality of dangerous material, probably several housel 10 the adjacent village would have been wrecked, and sad havoc caused in Swansea itself. We understand the "forcite" was first attempted to be landed in Liverpool, but the authorities were prompt and determined in resisting itt landing, and the captain or agent was fined £300 for attempting to do so. Whether such was the case or not we cannot positively assert; we simply give the rumour; but we know that the owner, agent, captain, and all concerned with the landing of such dangerous materials are liable to very heavy penalties unless the handling is carried out under exceptionally stringent conditions. We are glad to be able to add that the skiff was to leave the Mumbles yesterday (Thnrsdav) for Carthagena Spain, without fail, and we trust it will be a long time before another vessel will visit the port carrying so highly dangerous an explosive. Wli: had hoped that the senseless and reprehensible pastime of knooker- wrenching, bell-pulling, and other gentlemanly freaks, had been abolished, and that the young folks, who roam about in the" wee sma." hours of morning, would not descend to anything 80 mean and contemptible as to destroy other persons' property, even as a mere joke. We have, however, been deceived. During the past week, nocturnal visite have been paid to the shops of several tradesmen in Oxford-street, and the private residences of gentlemen in Northampton-terrace and other parts of the town. and their knockers either broken or entirely wrenched off, and other acts of destruction committed. We very much regret to state that the perpetrators of these foolish jokes have not been brought to justice, although the police have their suspicions as to the guilty parties. Should a few of these young sparks find themselves before the magistrates some fine morning, they will find but very little sympathy indeed evinced for them; and should the magistrates be called upon to adjudicate upon any such cases, we hope no mere sentimentality will induce them to deal with the offenders in the lenient manner of former days. A poor widow who picks up two pennyworth of coal from under a coal- truck and takes it home during the severe winter weather is sentenced to imprisonment; the fop who destroys five shillings' worth of property, and runs off with the knocker is fined a shilling and costs. But then, you see, such is justice THE question whether the street traction engine Jumbo, which is used by Mr. Greening, of Gower, for the purpose of agricultural and other haulage from the Killay Station of the London and North Western Railway to various parts of Gower, shall be duly licensed is not yet decided. The grantors of such licences as this case requires for the use of locomotives on the county roads are the magistrate in Quarter Sessions assembled, but as the Court meets only once every three months there is of necessity considerable delay in the transaction of public business. In this case it unfortunately happens that matters have be- come embroiled. The application having been ad- journed from time to time, the applicant, acting under the advice of his solicitor, has issued a writ of manda- mus to compel the Quarter Sessions either to grant or refuse the application. The worst of this is that it will prove expensive both to the applicant and to the public, and meanwhile the whole question of the legal use of the locomotive remains undecided. IT will be remembered that Mr. Thomas Penrice, the Squire of Kilvrough, made strong representations to the Court against the granting of such a license, because of the narrowness of the Gower roads and the inconvenience and danger which results to the people who ride and drive through Gower. Had Mr. Penrice not been unfortunately too ill to attend the Sessions on Monday, he would no doubt have continued his opposi- tion, but in his absence Mr. Richard Richards, of Bellevue, took up the matter and opposed the grant. Now, the whole question stands adjourned until the rule ni?i has been decided in the Queen's Bench one way or the other. MR. R RICHABDS also called attention to another matter of considerable local importance. The County Roads Board applied for a grant of £1,200 to make up the deficiency in their accounts for the past year. Mr. Nichol explained that the deficiency was due to two extraordinary causes namely, the severity of the weather, which greatly deteriorates the roads, and the costly legal proceedings against the use 01 steam trac- tion on the Oystermouth Tramway. Mr. Richards thereupon said that Swansea district ought in justice to be exempted from this exaction, because there is at present a surplus of County Roads Board income levied in this western district and unfairly applied to the repair of roads in the eastern district in and around Cardiff. If the statement made by Mr. Richards is correct, and it has been uncontradictedly stated many times, the County Magistrates for this western part of the county ought really to see that such an inequality is not perpetuated. It is quite enough for Swansea to maintain its own and neighbouring roads without being made to contribute towards those of Cardiff. WE publish a letter this week from "A Pilot," who deals with the present unsettled state of the pilotage question in Swansea waters. He assert that the average earnings of a Swansea pilot are not more than £150 a year, whereas some of the Cardiff pilote last year earned as much as £800. By the way, it would be interesting to know whether the in- come tax returns for the Cardiff district show any payments made by the pilots of that port! As for the Swansea pilotage question, all that is needfx to say now is that the sooner it is settled, one way or t :e other, the better it will be for the whole port, for ti e shipping interest, for the Harbour Trust, and tà; pilots themselves. In the present state of uncertainty, as one of the pilots said, we don't feel safe in investing in a new coil of rope What are the Pilotage Com- mittee doing to hasten the desired settlement ? PBOFESSOR JATNE, the able Principal of S*1. David's College, Lampeter, has issued a "friendly protest" against the unfairness of the assumption by the pro- posed Cardiff College of the title of "the University College for South Wales and Monmouthshire." We refer our readers to that valuable manifesto, which we give in another column of to-day's issue. In reference to the prospects of Intermediate Education in Swansea, we are sorry to hear of the action taken at last Monday's meeting of the local eommittee. The few members present wen quite etarrtlw by the