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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1885. NOTES OF THE WEEK. BY OUR. LONDON COUOESPONDENTS.] Sensations come thickly upon sensations. We are now in the midst of what the Americans would call the Burmah boom." The Globe issued a llaming placard this after- noon announcing, in letters of prodigious dimensions, that Theebaw had insulted the British Lion, and that the British Lion's masters were sending au ultimatum to his Burmese Majesty. Tve truth is there is a little matter whicn, for the moment, obtrudes itself between her Majesty's consideration and the iioumelian problem, and which is to be dealt with energetically. Theebaw is a blood-thirsty mercenary, of whom historians cannot have any good to say, and of whom I doubt if even Mr. Henry llichard and the apostles of the Peace Society could be found with imagina- tion enough to utler a word of commenda- tion. Yv e are all terribly in earnest here about doing something big and brave, and as Lord Salisbury has manoeuvred France out of the Burmese lield he is practically master of the situation. The latest information available on the subject is that the Government have ordered the British forces in British Burmah to be strengthened, and that the deposition of King Theebaw is imminent. I have before me a remarkable letter which Mr. Gladstone has addressed to M: de Laveleye, the well-known publicist: The most striking passage of this epistle is that which expresses Mr. Gladstone's appreciation of the essential dangers of ulgarian union. "I see," he says, "that Bulgarian union, excellent in itself, may produce immeasurable evils." lor this important admission Lord Salisbury might almost say HI thank thee, sir." It is an admission that goes some dis- tance in harmony with the Newport pessimism of the noble Marquess. Mr. Gladstone also trusts the movement will not exceed ita.pre- sent limits. But the tone of his letter shows that he fears Servia, distrusts Greece, and dreads what he calls disastrous competitions between the Great Powers themselves. This sentence, when placed side by side with the Midlothian Manifesto, betrays in a striking manner the workings of the ex-Premier's mind. ¡ There is very great energy in our two poli- tical camps here. I allude to the officers and officials of the Conservative Central A ssocia- tion and the Liberal Central Committee. All this energy bodes well for a severe contest in the constituencies. Both camps are equally alive, equally determined, and equally san- guine. I he returns received by the Conser-I vativa agents are described to me as highly encouraging. The Liberals are, of course, equally full of tire and of enthusiasm and con- fidence in victory, and the work of organisa- tion is being personally watched by Lord Richard Grosvenor. As a complement to all this bustle of preparation, the Constitutional and th<> National Liberal Clubs are holding meetings almost daily to further the work of organisation going on at the headquarters of the respective parties. Jt is significant of her Majesty's interest in Ireland that Lord Carnarvon should have received a command to visit the Queen at Balmoral as soon as he can do so without dis- turbance of his Viceregal duties. Some commotion has been caused at Chatham by the receipt of orders for over- time work to cease in the dockyard. I understand the order will be repeated In the cases of Portsmouth and Devonport, but it is not proposed to enforce reductions. The real motive of this order is economy, my lords having found that the Constructive Depart- ments have been over-running the constable. Otherwise, the conditions of the time must give an imprudent character to the step, though optimists will, perhaps, flatter them- selves with the interpretation that Ministers are confident either about the preservation of peace or the capacity of the fleet now to do everything expected of it. Very important results are likely to spring from the visit which our Ambassador-in Paris has just paid to Lord Salisbury: In effect an understanding has been practically arrived at between her Majesty's Government and that of France in view of a possible war in the South-hast. The provisions of this agreement are for joint action between the two Powers in the event of a war involving the military intervention of a Great Power. So long as the quarrel is confined within what may be called a local area England and France are to remain neutral. It need scarcely be said that the intervention apprehended is that of Russia. The alliance recalls with grim force a pre- liminary passage of the Crimean War. But it is natural that Lord Salisbury should look about him for an ally in the event of this country being dragged into an active defence of her interests in the East, and France in such an embroglio would be, I suppose, our natural ally. History appears to have a ten- dency to repeat itself; Much is expected from the conjunction on one platform of Lord Hartington and Mr. Chamberlain; Very appropriately, as some think, this affinity is to take place under the wing of Mr. Heneage at Grimsby. The asso- ciation is to be a work of political unity with an important bearing on the consti- tuencies. Pictures are a great relief to a darksome interior, more especially if they can be in any way seen. At present this is hardly the case in the heavy funereal gloom which envelopes the worshippers at Christ Church, Maryle- tione, which appears to be especially designedfer depressing the spirits by that master of heavy architectural interior, the elder Hardwicke. The Rev. Llewellyn Davies, however, has determined that his shall be no longer a ) house of gloom, and, under the direction of Mr. Arthur Blomtield, alterations avo contemplated which will bring into better view the fine piotures of "'I he Diffusion of Good Gifts" and the recumbent figure of the crucified Saviour painted by Mr. Cave Thomas some years since. The same artist is commissioned and is at work upon, for the further decoration of the to be enlightened," church, a painting of the Ascension," which will consist of a large picture fifteen feet by eight feet six inches, with two side compartments or wings, which are to be ten feet by four feet six inches each. I understand that Mr. Phil May, the caricaturist. has received an appointment from a pictorial journal in Sydney. The salary of £ 30 a week which he will receive is the largest ever paid in Australia for that kind of work, and viewed by English comparisons it represents an exceedingly handsome income to a gentleman who is yet little more than twenty-one years of age. Phil May's work is of a remarkably line and shrewd order of political caricature, and it is a question whether he or Harry Furniss complies the more thoroughly with the canons of satirical limning. He has been in London a com- paratively short time only. He first made his mark, I believe, as one of the artists of the St. Stephen's Review. May is a native of Leeds, belongs to a theatrical family, and for some years, when very young, travelled as artist, first to Mr. Wilson Barrett, and subsequently in the entourage of Mr. Henry Irving. Theatrical circles are ringing with particu- lars of an extraordinary occurrence. It appears that last night, after the performance in one of our leading theatres, a quai-rel broke out on the stage between two gentlemen largely interested in its management. Blow-i were returned, and the partisans of the I respective rivals took sides, with the oon- squenco of a free fight. A well-known I comedian employed at the theatre interposed, with an appeal to the principals to settle their differences in a more suitable place. A challenge was then delivered by one gentle- man to the other to a battle royal on the Thames Embankment. The challenge was accepted, and a movement in that direction was made with all the energy of hot blood. It was midnight. The whole staff of the theatre turned out, forming a goodly com- pany of actors, Moene-shifters, box-openers, tiddlers, property-men, costumiers, call boys, and "dressers," and including a sprinkling of ladies. A ring was formed on our great boulevard in a quiet section not likely to be interrupted by the police. But, though tho gentleman who had uttered the challenge duly reduced his apparel to a pair of dress trousers and a white shirt, and waited to begin hos- tilities, rampant with a noble passion, discreet friends of the challenged, happily, spoiled the affair by carrying their man off to the arms of his wife and the shelter of his home. Finding the fight was not to come off, the assailant, after a vain endeavour to work off his superfluous passion upon someone else, dressed himself, and this unrehearsed scene in a play of real life came impotently to a close. The withdrawal from London of Count Munster, the German Ambassador, will be greatly regretted in society.

LOCAL JOTTINGS. [BY PUNDKAGON.] The Cardiff Parliamentary Debating Society commenced itssession on Tuesday, and I wish it every success. I am quite aware there are many who look upon its action as a sort of playing at Parliament; but I take broader views, and con- tend that by its means great political problems are elucidated by discussion which is as caustic as it is exhaustive. There has always, to my mind, been much ignorance extant upon the various social and political questions of the day, and I look to these debating societies to bring light and intelligcnco to quarters which have hitherto been clouded with igno- rance and misapprehension. We cannot discuss tno frequently, and, may I add, too earnestly, any- thing and everything which has a tendency to con- serve, or, on the contrary, to despoil, the Constitu- tion under which our great Empire has attained the foremost position among the rations of tli6 earth. This may sound like Jingoism. Let it; it is true. The Radical laugli at what their opponents call Imperialism, but without Imperialism I want to know where we should find ourselves in a quarter of a century hence. I am digressing, for it is not my province to discourse politics in tiiis journal; the duty is in able hand", The ii.eiiitierg of the Cardiff School Board have taken a ir w departure. They tr,3 advertising for tendrs for plans and specifications for a new school in Radnor-street, Canton, tho competition b"ing restricted to those architects of the town who have not designed more than two of the existing scholastic establishments. Better late than never, say r. It would, per- haps, have been better if the competi- tion had boon restricted to those who have never been successful in securing the bestowed— none of your competition, you know—patronage of the board, who have spent and are spending the public money to a pretty lively tune. I should like, if it be not impertinence on my part, to be informed who are to be the adjudicators on this competition ? Are those who compose the board going to set themselves up as the judges, or will they leave it to their officials? I would suggest, in order to allay any heartburnings, that some independent expert in these matters becallod in. This would do away with any suspicion of partiality. I congratuLite Mr. I-Iead-Constable Hemingway, who so ably commands the Cardiff police, on the fact that the Watch Committee have strengthened his hands by appointing twelve additional con- stables to the force. For years the constabulary has been short-handed, with a result not altogether ,;ati satisfactory to those who pay the watch rates. A dozen men, in a comparatively small force, is a substantial addition, but there is plenty of scope in a town which can boast of a population of one hundred and ten thousand for one hundred and twenty-five policeman. Owing to the length of the beats, there have been a number of offences against tho laws of meum and tuum, to say nothing of the breaches* of the peace which have occurred before the officer of justice arrives on the scene to awe the disturbers with his presence or his truncheon. I have been a helpless looker-on at many a piece of street rowdyism during the last few months which would have been nipped in the bud if a bluecoat with silver buttons had been knocking about; and my personal friends have been con- stant in calling my attention to house robberies in which they have been the sufferers. It was only to-day that information reached me of a burglary at one of the largest houses in Newport-road. A sweliishly-attired burglar was discovered in one of the apartments, and he was unable to plead that his appearance was a mistake for the reason that his burglarious inten- tions were made manifest by the absence of boots, which had, for professional reasons, no doubt, been left in the passage. The family were away at the time, and the elderly couple in charge of the house who made the acquaintance of the uninvited visitor received rough usage at his hands and were unable to prevent his escape. Long beats and a small force have for a consider- able time been urged as reasons for the non-detec- tion of crime, but I hope that, with the increase of the number of policemen which the Watch Com- mittee conceded on Wednesday, we shall be spared in the future the repetition of any such uncom- fortable and depressing arguments. I beg leave to propose a vote of thanks to the Watch Com- mittee, and as I am sure the proposition will be seconded by the public I take the liberty of declaring it carried unanimously. I wish I could pay a similar compliment to some of the other corporation committees. Who can tell, however, what I may be able to say as time goes forward, and no thirty-shilling-a-week" aldermen stop the way ? I suppose those who conduct the business of the Swansea Harbour Trust are betftat iirqiniated with their duties and responsibilities than myself. I cannot, however, help repeating my protest against tolls on public thorough- fares. The corporation made a proposition to indemnify the trust in a course of years if they took off the price or admission to the halfpenny bridge, but according to Mr. Yeo and Sir Hussey Vivian, whose opinions I reapect, this scheme is impracticable. Let me formulate another. I do not know whether I am first in the field with the suggestion, but here it is, whether or no:—Let the toll be redeemed by public donations, in which the pounds of the wealthy may be augmented by the pennies of the working classes. Is there, I pray, any insupe- rable objection to the proposition ? There were only three matters of general impor- tance before the Swansea Corporation on Wednes- day. The first was with reference to the works which are being carried out in connection with the Lliw Valley source of water supply. The question involved was as simple as the one raised in "another place" two days before as to the weiring of the Taff, viz., whether the ser- vices of an euiinent engineer should be called in to report upon the subject of erecting an em- bankment to resist the water. The Swimsea Cor- poration, unlike the sister body at Cardiff, wisely decided to have the best scientific help and to seek it outside their own town. The next question was as to the St. Helen's Field and its reservation as a public playground. As to the sufficiency of the pre- sent open spaces at the West End of Swansea I hold a very decided opinion, but when I see a body of men like the Swansea Corporation polling pretty solid in Alderman Thomas's favour and, forgetful of self-interest or pecuniary profit, going in for the public health, I am not the man to declare them, point blank, to bo misguided or radi- cally wrong. The third matter to which I would here direct attention is the "dead-lock'' which exists between the corporation and the Har- bour Trust on the question of the half- penny bridge. The corporation have passed a reso- lution which means fighting. Not being inclined to buy the tolls at the price the trust put upon them, they are now determined to raise the whole issue in Parliament. Sir Hussey Vivian thinks that Parliament will not entertain the demand of the corporation for a moment, but Mr. Hurnie has great confidence in the M new and reformed Parliaments" we are to have in the future. We shall set> who is right. On Wednesday Colonel Lyne, the mayor of Newport, had a fling at an ancient enemy of the British public, the money lender. He did not enter, any more than I ùn, into the merits of the proceedings upon which he was called to adjudicate, but he could not let his tongue rest until he remarked that the "magistrates would require a gt)od deal of evidence in a case in which money lenders were concerned." Hurrah! Colonel may your shadow never grow less. Shylock, in his modern garb, is as well-dressed and as ordorly a citizen as you shall find in a day's march but he has not forgotten his pound of ftesh, and I am -greatly afraid he never will. What! Is it insinuated that I have a personal grudge against the tribe ? Not 1. 1 have, in my public career, seen too much of the genus to ever confide my pocket and my reputation to its tender mercies. I write for the public, and am regardless of insinuations as to motives. Writing of the Newport Police Court, I should like to tell Police-Constable Thomas, whose ac- quaintance—it was cot a formal introduction, you kuow, and the active and intelligent officer if he ever sees theso lines will, I daresay, wonder who the deuce tho writer iB-1 made for the fit-st time to-day, that he exceeded his duty in following a drunken fellow into his house and apprehending him on a charge of disorderly behaviour. There was some excuse for the inebriate. He had been participating in a nuptial feast, and had had the distinguished honour of having half-a-dozon rounds with the bridegroom. When, there- fore, he returned to his domicile it was not, in my opinion, the duty of the police- man to follow him there, violate the sanctity of the Englishman's castle, and take his man into custody. He had no right to enter the house without a warrant, and if he wanted a drunkard badly he would have had little difficulty in finding him in the streets. The magistrates did not tell the officer this, so I thought there would be no harm if I acted as their spokesman on this occa- sion only. It seems strange that in a large town like New- port the duties of the fire brigade should remain in the hands of a number of volunteers, to whom the police only act the part of an auxiliary force. At the meeting of the town council of the Monmouthshire borough to-day a letter was read from the captain of the amateurs in which li-i declared that the reports that the police and the brigade did not work well together were exaggerated. I am glad to hear It but still I maintain that the police should constitute the fire brigade, as in most other places, and that they should not be asked to take a back seat as they were to-day by being directed by the corporation to confine their attention in the future to keeping back the crowd! I like responsibility in these matters. The disastrous fire at Abcrdare on Wednesday discloses a marked want of attention to their work on the part of some of the public officials. I am not in a position to affirm that the firo might have been effectually got under if a second hose had been put in requisition earlier, but a delay of half an hour at tho commencement of the outbreak causes a serious loss of time. It is surely the duty of the Board of Health to see that water hydrants are kept clear and ready for use, and that occasional tests should be made to prove whether there is any obstruction; but long immunity from lire has probably caused a false sense of security. I see that the local Chamber of Trade is again waking up, and questions of this sort, together with the agitation for better post-office accommo- dation and a removal of the wretched obstruction known as the "Commercial-street Crossing,' appear to come within the scope of their operations. See to it, my friends, and keep pegging away until an improvement is effected. There is considerable disti-eas in the Rhondda Valley, and I have an urgent appeal to make the fact public. At a meeting of colliers held at Old Shiloh, Pentre, last week it was stated that at the Ton Board Schools the master (Mr. Reea Jones) asked all those children who had not had breakfast that morning to sit down, and thirteen children did so. It is said that there are many families in want of food, and others have only to expect two days' wage at the next draw, the pits only having worked two turns for the last fortnight. Is it possible that those capitalists who add to their exchequer from our valley can, whilst giving liberally to the Salvation Army and other good causes, forget the pocr collier of the Rhondda ? I should think not.

OUIl PARIS LETTEIl PARIS, Ocrc=s» 14. The result of the second ballot is' looked forward to with an interest no less keen than the first; The Republicans have to take their revenge for a check and the Monarchists to consolidate a success. The schisms in both camps have been closed up till the decisive battle be fought. Repub- licans of all colours, Radicals of all dyes, Anar- chists and Communists, black and red, will, for the occasion, go to the poll shoulder to shoulder. That union and co-ordinated action must produce an important moral effect no matter what way the victory turns. It remains to be seen if the voters still remember the escapades of the Opportunists in Tonquin and with the finances. The Monarchal phalanx is also a medley, com- posed of Orleanists and Bonapartists, the Cocks and Eagles, the French and Spanish Bourbons, of white flags and fleur de lis; tricolours and Imperial bees, separated by so many souvenirs of hate and reciprocal proscriptions, and only momen- tarily united to overthrow the Republic. This salmagundi of parties has for union only the fragile bond of demolition work, whereas that of the Republicans is to uphold a reginn they accept in common, and where the chief differences consist in the rate or velocity at which certain ideas ought to be applied or special reforms effected. But both antagonists forget that the nation is not perhaps enamoured of a particular con- stitution so much as the securing of peace, low taxation, and prosperity. It cut off the head of Louis XVI. to effect such then tried ideal Repub- licanism and its terrors: Csesariam and its steel grip; Orleanism and its material egoism; rawisb Republicanism again; then a Second Empire where all was Brummagem save its despotism and corruption; and now IL riper Republic, not a little damaged by the incapacity, intolerance, and blind belief of a coterie, which flattered itself Franco would permit all liberties with her blood and treasure because covered by a Republican regime. To be startled out of that day-dream will be one of the sweet uses of adversity to the fresh- blooded administrators of the government. The new, or re-constituted, Cabinet will be the outcome of Radicalism, but not of the extreme type. Its rock ahead is the separation of Church from State; this question is not ripe, and to force it forward will produce a crisis. Besides, there are plenty of other subjects demanding attention, as the squaring of the Budgets and the revision of the entire system of taxation. It seems to be accepted as settled that M. Grevy will be re-electod for the figurehead of the Republic. He has admirably filled his apparently simple but very difficult role of doing nothing. In the presence of so many temptations to fiddle and interfere, a St. Anthony could hardly resist. Compare his constitutional quietism with the political tidgetlvene of Tillers and the bubbling puppetism of MacMahon. The grand lines of the Eastern imbroglio are now taken in. The little States have lost caste by theirrivalhates and eagerness to be big. Still, they are only viewed as pawns, moved more or less by Austria-Germany on the one hand, Russia on the other. These two big pieces must soon be brought to the front. Certainly, no one can blame the Turks for disliking to be improved out of Europe after nearly four centuries and a half occupation, and preferring to die game rather than to move on. The opinion is spreading that Bismarck will not be able to" keep the bridge," and that we are in presence of the final solllt ion of the Eastern Question. A few mora moves and the veils shall be torn off all the hypo- crisies. The hate against the Orleanist princes seems to be augmenting. They will require Aladdiu's ring if they can continuo much longer sailing between wind and water. The marriage of Louis Philippe's grand-daughter with Prince Waldemar of Denmark at the Castle of Eu, the headquarters of the Pretender, the Comte de Paris, and surrounded with a galaxy of international Royalties-a church-full, not a pit-full as at Erfurth-acts like a red rag on the Republicans. Hence the demand "totoarout the inside of the cock"—this bird being the symbol of Orlcanisna, as the eagle is of Imperialism. It is impossible to know how that pugnacious bird came to be identified with Orleanism. The Orleanists are the least fighting of all politicians; they are certainly domestic. Louis Philippe and his wife were a veritable Darby and Joan, He would himself bring from his cellar a bottle of bia favourite claret for a guest, and decant into its jug his queen daily controlled the housekeeper's accounts and mended her own stockings their boys were never spoiled by a plethora. of pocket, money, as the two wildest, the Dukes de Montponsior and d'Aumale, placed their watches continually up all the spouts of Paris, and did the s:une with their sisters' borrowing them under the pretext to have them repaired. „ At the epoch of the French Revolution the cock was placed on the flags and banners, and the first medal struck in honour of the Revolution was dedicated to Louis XVI., with the motto: "Ever live the best of kings." And he did so-till guil- lotined. On the other side of the medal was Louis XVI., the restorer of French liberty aud veritable friend of the people." There was also the design of an obelisk, with a fleur de lis, a cock above it, and a sun smiling down on all. In 1214- an Order of Knights of the Cock" was created in honour of Claude Potier, aLanguedoc gentleman, who, in a battle against the English, rescued the Dauphin, son of Philippe the Bold, from almost certain death. In 1601 Popo Clement VIII. struck a medal in honour of the birth of the French King Louis XIII. an infant held in one hand ascoptre, in the other a lily, while at its feet was a crowing cock, its claws resting upon a globe; Motto "Born for a kingdom and for the universe." There are engravings representing the Gallic cock driving away the lion of Ckstilla and the eagle of Austria. Be this as it may, the cock was intended to represent neither Royalists nor Re. publicans, but France. It was in this senRe it figured on coins and assijnats, as also on the State seal, till Napoleon substituted the eagle in his aping Csesarisui, and adopted the same bird for the standards. Louis Philippe re-placed the fleur de lis by the cock in 1830, as the emblem of vigilance and liberty. Napoleon III. substituted he eagle of mon oncit for the barn-yard bird o' freedom. However, it was a symbol before the birth of Bourbon-Orleanism in 1604. Mars had the cock for companion on account of its ardour for combat; it was also consecrated to Minerva and Mercury, and its crowing was deemed a presage of victory. Convalescents immolated a cock to .fisculapius as a thank offuring for their recovery. The bird was also sacrificed to the Goddess of Night because it troubled repose. The inhabitants of Sybaris were not exactly such effeminates when they banished cocks from their city, as their crowing, like Macbeth, murdered sleep. Of the thousand cures sent in to gain the prize of 300,000f for a remedy to destroy the vino bug, phylloxeral no one ever suggested tho sacrificing of a drum- major of the poultry yard, for in the time of Bacchus the cock had tho virtue of preserving the vine. St. Bernard likened those who preached the Word to cocks, who, during tho darkness of life, announce tho future light. The cock on the church spire symbolises the clergyman ever ready to instruct his people, as well as a warning to him to have the bell rung to call the sleepy and idle to morning prayers. This means why the cock in Mahomet's paradise crows every morning an "Allah," which is taken up by the gallinacaa on earth, and will be continued till the last day, or, at least, till the Eastern Question be solved. The cock symbolises the Resurrection, hence why it figures on Italian tombs. The early Christians placed it on the most conspi- cuous part of their temples, as indicating vigilance. Heforo the Church of St. John da Latran there was a cock in bronze on a porphyry pillar to warn the Popes not to fail like St. Peter. In the Bayeux Tapestry, dating from the twelfth century, there is worked a cock on the Church of Westminster, with outstretched wings, chanting victory. The Gallic is superior to the Anglo-Saxon bird, as it crows both in victory and defeat. Professor Germain See is one of the burning and shining lights in the firmament of French medical science. He has devoted much talent to the sub- ject of contagious phthisis. Of the three stages of consumption he lays down that the first can be cured; the second also, if not too far advanced; but the third stage is mortal. He has just treated the subject of obesity and if he turns out to be right, there is not a fat man but will subscribe to his statue. All remedies up to the present, though diametrically opposed, have been attended with more or less of success. Physical oxercise, early rising, spare diet, and as little as possible of fluids were the bases of the perfect cures: if some Diiniel Lamberts grew small by degrees, others became stouter. On the principle of like cures like, Ebstein prescribed doses of fat; the system has many ad- mirers in Germany, and Bismarck's first reduction who is due to the process. It was Dr. Schweninger cured him of sleeplessness. Others swear that the Chancellor became himself again owing to his having set all the nations of Furope by the ears, and, by his flirtation with Jules Ferry, landed France in the mud of Tonquin to the chin. Pliny recommended fat men to abstain from all liquids, even to a degree of personal suffering; while Dr. Oetel, of Munich, laid down that fat men could only be happy when shrivelled up like a mummy or becoming as dry as a chip. Sydney Smith alleged that his return to leanness was due to two curates having been extracted from him. Professor Sée's advice to sixteen and twenty stone men is: eat moderately, drink abundantly, especially wurni liquids, such as tea and weak solutions of rum and brandy, when Richard shail become himself again. The warm solutions cause the fatty elements of the food to "move on" from the stomach. The laugh- ing of the little dog at the sight of the cow jumping over the moon will be notliing compared to the joy of fat men at the discovery of this philosopher's stone. A scientist of another order draws attention to the circumstance that since dogs have ceased to be employed for turning roasting-jacka hydro- phobia has largely increased. He ought to call in Pasteur. Only they conquer love who run away. So can say Miss Susan Barlow. This young lady was engaged to an engineer who had received an appointment in Manilla; the marriage was not to take place till his return, three years hence. Miss Bsrlow did not consent to this etornity, so one morning she put £ 500 in her pocket, embarked at Calais, and arrived at Marseilles, intending to take the French packet to Manilla. An hotel interpre- ter, a Belgian named Stephens, seeing a young and pretty miss embarrassed, volunteered to be her guide, philosopher, and friend. Stephens acted on the role," Every eye negotiate for itself." He made himself so agreeable that the engineer wu apparently forgotten. They passed; their time in walks and drives and good cheer; one j little bill alone for champagne amounted to 112f. Miss Barlow's friends arrived and had Stephens arrested, but he was acquitted of all charges pre- ferrred. One thousand families have emigrated from Paris to the suburbs during the last three months to escape the city taxation. By the influx the envi- rons of the capital may be freed from the thiaves and murderers who there pursue so well their ordinary calling. Another man has been found stabbed on the highway near Soissy this week. Happily, Paris is surrounded with fortifications and the gates locked at night. And, just think, there are people who twitted old Thiers for sur. rounding the city with such defences. M. Perrin, the manager of the Theatre Franqais, has had a splendid funeral. It was curious by its reflections. Only think that two centuries ago Moliere had to be interred surreptitiously, and in 1730 the remains of the tragedienne, Adrienne Lecouvreur, were shot down on the high road as rubbish, that which made Voltaire shiver in advance at his destiny. To-day the first church in Paris celebrates the obsequies of the head of the theatrical profession. Temvora mutantur. A warning for Mr. Gladstone: The old Comte de inlili-ne, near Calais, while exercising himself cut- ting down a tree, was crushed to death beneath the felled tree. TaUyrand, on being presented with the new fashion of helping yourself to sugar out of the basin with a tongs, was taken aback. He quietly remarked, In my time we never failed to wash our hands."—Little girl at commencement of dinner, eyeing the cakes: "Ma, can I have soiiie? I Not now, my dear." Maybi^they will not keep, mamma!"

THE ENGLISH CALVINISTIC METHODISTS. ANNUAL MEETINGS AT PONTYPRIDD. (BY Mottitv.-I On Thursday, October 9. a series of meetings, designated the Annual Conference, connected with the English Calvinistic Methodists of Glamorgan- shire was held at St. Daivid's Chapel, Pontypridd. The said chapel is one of the most flourishing of those belonging to the Anglicised Welsh in Glamor- ganshire, if not, indeed, in the Principality. Humanly speaking, there is no doubt the success of the English-Welsh cause here is largely due to the very active minister, the Hev, John Pugh. Hitherto the English-Welsh chapels in Wales of the Calvinistic Methodists have not flourished III tile sense that is understood by the Welsh Nonconformists of the Principality. There has always seemed to be an element at the root of each English-Welsh religious "cause" in Wales fatal to its growth. Tho probable cause of non- success is a subject upon which one could write an interesting article. I shall only point out one or two things that seem to militate against their success. Until recent years the vast majority of the Welsh people knew but little about English theological terms. Like Ni-try Reynolds, they understood the words "Cyhawnhad" ac Iletlioledigaetlill much better than they did "Justilication and Election," and "Gor- phenwyd" than "It is finished!" Such Cam- brian theological expressions, when uttered by a master of Cymric eloquence, are to a genuine Welsh congregation like notes of heavenly music. And to the vast majority of Welsh religionists it is perfectly inexplicable how some of theirnationality can prefer a religious service conducted in English to one carried on in the Welsh language, the com- ponent parts of whose words describing pro- foundnst theological ideas are easily understood. Cambro-British patriotism, too, viewed, and does so still, with a darkening brow the creepings of the English tongue in the direction ot tha Welsh pulpit, where it is feared it will by-and-bye hurl Cymraeg downstairs, te bo trampled under foot. Until our own times the English language in Wales was almost entirely associated in the minds of the Welsh masses with commerce and politics. It had reigned hitherto in the shop and in the office of the works. The Welsh Bible, the Sunday Schools, and the chapels alone had preserved hitherto—and doso still, thank God !-tlw language of the Welsh mothers. There "the old, old story" was still trans- mitted to the miuds of the Welsh people in tho language they had acquired when they were smiling infants at their mothers' breasts. The Welsh people viewed with something like consternation the recognition by the Welsh Nonconformists of the unpalatable truth that many Cymric children in their midst were growing up with such a slight, knowledge of the language of their parents as to be unable to understand religious services when carried on in Cymraeg. The fact had to be met and provided for. otherwise it was felt the Anglicised Welsh youth would be lost to the ancient folds and would go elsewhere. It was long before the Welsh fathers would consent to start English causes," and even when the consent of the majority of the leaders was finally secured a minority of the old school held back and the bulk of the people viewed the movement with a large amount of prejudice. One of the most powerful elements favourable to the spread of tho English language in Wales has been its scholastic associations. In the eyes of the Welsh masses it is as closely associated with learning as Latin was in the eyes of the English in the time of Ben Jonson and Shakspeare. The consequence is that a Welshman who is such master of English as to be able to preach it with fluency is naturally ever ready to exhibit his accomplish- ment. Besides this, Erigli-ii) is tho highest, marketable commodity occurring in the ranks of Welsh Nonconformity. The Welsh congregations, under tiie guidance of the authority of the "Monthly Meetings, consisting of ministers and deacons, contribute the result of Welsh congre- gational collections to "assist" the English "causes." Now mark, while the Welsh chapels pay their own Welsh-i{>eaking ministers on an average £ 78 each per annum, thoy assist t he English-Welsh congregations to pay each of their ministers on an average £ 150 per annum. No wonder young Welsh ministers, fresh from the Divinity Colleges, do all they can to foster it lilcitip, for Anglo-Welsh chapels. Each of such chapels that is built means what i-R. front the ordinary point of view of the class, a lucrative berth. The thing is perfectly natural. I would not lower tho English-Welsh stipend, but "levd" the Welsh one up to it. The wonder is that the Welsh pulpit is what it is—rare for its eloquence—when one considers the stipend it affords those who devote their talents to its service. In addition to the English tongue being in the eyes of many of the Cymry a schoiastic one and the language of the accomplishments, it is eminently "genteel." The squire and his wife and daughters speak it it is, therefore, the apex of respectability. Many a shallow-pated Mari Shon''thinks if she can only place a big protuberance on the reverse of her figure and English words on her tongui — oh, Lor'!—she has gone "up" in "respecta- bility." The country swains, of oourse, speak to these "Maries" in English, and tho "courting" is done in Saesonaeg—I have done it myself— until the time comes when tho warmth otr Welsh affection grows too strong for the thin tongue of the followers of the Saxon White Horse then the language of the Titans asserts its powers and reigns supreme under the rosea. It is feared many of this class of Welsh Itids and lasses favour the Anglo- Welsh causes. All these things being well-known to the masses in Wales, they are strongly inclined to regard Anglo-Welsh chapels as refuges for silly people in quest of pinchbeck respectability." Still, there is no question there are many Anglicised Welsh people in the country to whom these chapels are absolutely necessary. It is a curious fact that the Welsh people view without the slightest prejudice a bona fide English "cause," while, at the same time, they regard with something like repugnance and disdain such a "cause" upheld by Welsh people themselves. This is the secret why, while an English cause may be seen flourishing, an Anglo-Welsh one in the same locality may be seen as mouldy as the hay with which a deacon fed the intre ot "Siu-ncyn Penhydd," the whimsical old itinerant preacher of Dutfryn, Taibach, in the early years of the present century. The Annual Conference of the English-Welsh Methodists of South Wales and Monmouthshire held at Pontypridd on Wednesday and Thursday must be regarded almost as the beginning of the undertaking. At, six o'clock on Wednesday evening the Executive Committee met, consisting of seven ministers and eleven laymen. The work of the committee was over in haif-an-hour, when a tempe- rance meeting took place under the presidency of Mr. Edward Davies, Llandinam. At a meeting on Thursday morning, commencing at eleven o'clock, a paper on Our Church Polity was read by the Rev. Wm. James, Aberdare, and one by the Rev. J. H. Parry, Builth, on How to Reach those who Habitually Absent themselves from the House of God." At 2.30 p.m. a paper was read by the Rev. D. Saunders. D.D., on" The Church Meetings." A discussion followed the reading of each paper. At 6.30 on Thursday evening a public mis- sionary meeting took place. This meeting was of exceptional interest, owing to the presence there of the Rev. J. Roberts and Mrs. Roberts (daughter of "Glan Alun "), who are home on a visit from the Khasian Hills, India, where, with others, they are engaged as missionaries for the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists; also Mr. Davies, son of the Lord-Lieutenant of Angle- sea, and Mr. J. Herbert Lewis, M.A., Mostyn Quay, who have recently paid a visit to the Khasian Hills, and witnessed there the vast benefits the mission has conferred upon the Khasian wor- shippers of Siva. All three related their expe- riences, and when they were describing the encounters of Christianity with Hindooism on the hills 11 one seemed to be hearing of things taking place in our own day similar to the earliest encounters between Christianity and the paganism of the Roman Empire, when the cry, The Chris- tians to the lions," was so frequently heard. Mr. Davies is the grandson of the seraphic Henry Rees, brother of Is Himethog.11 Mr. Ed war J Davies also presided over this meeting. I ought to state there were two delegates from each of the English-Welsh Churches.

THE COAST LINE FROM PENARTH TO BARRY. The public will be pleased to know that active operations have just been commenced in connec- tion with the new line from Ponarth to Barry. The pegging commenced last week, and con- siderable progress in that direction has already been made.

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PROPOSED FUSION OF THE RHYMNEY AND TAFF VALE RAILWAYS. There is every prospect that. despite the opposi- tion of the chairman and some of the other directors of the former of these companies, the scheme for fusing the management of the two railways, or, at least, settling some work- ing agreement by which the present ruinous competition may be avoided, will shortly be carried into effect. It will be in the recollection of our readers that about a month ago Mr. George Cross Sayce issued a circular to the shareholders of the two companies pointing out the ad- vantages of his proposal, and asking them to express their concurrence therewith. This circular was promptly followed by a polemical and somewhat personal counterblast on the part of the chairman of the Rhymney Railway Com- pany. Notwithstanding that fact, however, Mr. Sayce has already received favourable expressions of his scheme of fusion from upwards of 600 shareholders of the Taff Vale and Rhymney Rail- way Companies holding amongst them upwards of £ 2,000,000 in value of the respective stocks. By the Act of Parliament governing the Rhymney Railway it is only necessary to secure the assent of shareholders holding three-fifths of the stock in order to carry out any scheme of fusion or working arrangement which may approve itself to the majority. We believe we are right in saying that the concurrence of shareholders to this extent has already been secured, and it is pretty safe to pre- dict that the very sensible scheme which Mr. Sayce has been at considerable trouble and expenso to advocate and promote will come into effect within a very short period. We may say that the directors of the Taff Vale, without com- mitting themselves to the details of any proposal, are understood generally to approve of the prin- ciples underlying Mr. Sayce's suggested scheme.

DISESTABLISHMENT. MR. GLADSTO E EXPLAINS HIS POLICY. A BIT-BY-BIT PROGRAMME. Mr. Gladstone has sent the following letter in answer to explanations asked on the subject of Disestablishment in consequence of what was said by Mr. Goschen with reference to the question on Wednesday night Hawarden Castle, Chester, October 9. "Rev. and Dear Sir,—I am at present rather pressed by applications from various quarters and in different senses for further declarations on the subject of the Established Church. I am fearful lest, if I I should bring about confu- sion and ambiguity, which lias thus far been ,ivoide(l. At the same time I fully admit the right of my constituents to put me their own questions at their own time, but I would ask them to reserve details until I come among them. I may observe, however, that since I came to Midlothian in 1879 I have endeavoured constantly to leave the question of Disestablish- ment in Scotland to be dealt with as a Scottish question by the Scottish public, and it is not for me, without presumption, either to force it for- ward or to hold it back. It will have been observed that the particular observations in my address relate to the Church of England. I have, in fact, rigidly adhered to the mode of action indi- cated by Lord Hartington some years ago, and in offering advice to the party at large as to what, may be called a local disestablishment I have not anywhere attempted either to fix a time or to recommend a course for the action of bodies or of persons.—1 remain, most faithfully yours, W. E. GLADSTONE. To the Rev. R. Rainy, D.D."

DEAN VAUGHAN'S LETTER. A FREE CRITICISM. Mr. R. S. Turner, writing to the Morning Post points out what he describes as a somewhat strange confusion and contradiction of thought in Dean Vauglmn's recent letter." He says:—"The substance of tho learned dean's advice is to the effect that if Liberal Churchmen go over to Con- servatism the only check upon what he acknow- ledges to be a great calamity—viz., disestablish- ment—will be removed; and that check is to be exercised against a certain contingency—the chance that the party of progress may ultimately take up the cry. Hero Dr. Vaughan decidediy deprecates a course of action because its accom- plishment would be of benefit to what he describes as the party of progress. In the latter part of his letter, however, he entirely changes his ground and advises Liberal Churchmen to act upon the advice which ho has already given, but for this contradictory reason, that as the party of progress is sure to be the party of tho future they should make it plain that disestablishment would be a retrogressive and not a progressive movement. The plain inference from this statement is that there aro two progressive parties, only we are not informed as to the precise grounds why Liberal Churchmen should eschew the one and favour the other. Perhaps next, timo Dr. Vaughan is pleased to express his opinion on the subject, of disestab- lishment ho will enlighten us on this point. Mean- time it will not be amiss to remind Churchmen, whatever their political bias, that the very fac that there are now over 400 Liberal candidates pledged to disestablishment is quite sufficient evi- dence as to how far Dr. progressive party is entitled to the continued support of even Liberal Churchmen."

IMPORTANT CONFERENCE IN LIVERPOOL At the conference of Welsh representatives, attended by Mr. Osborne Morgan, Major Corn- wallis West, and Mr. E. Robortson, M.P.'s, in Liver- pool on Tuesday, resolutions were passed expres- sing a. hope that at the general election no candi- date would be supported by Welshmen unless pledged to disestablishment in Wales. Resoiu tions in favour of Intermediate Education, as pro posed by Mr. Gladstone's Ministry, were also passed. Mr. OSNOTTNE MORGAN, replying to the remarks of the want of legislative energy of Welsh mem- bers compared with Irish Nationalists, said anyone who knew what Messrs. Biggar, Healy, and the rest of the Irish crew were would not desire any honest Welshman to tread in their shoes. In the evening a meeting was held in Hope Hall, Liverpool, for the purpose of furthering the disestablishment movement in Wales. The Rev. Dr. John Thomas occupied the chair, and amongst others on the platform were Sir Robert Cunliffo, Bart., M.P., Mr. John Roberts, M P., and Colonel Cornwallis West. Amongst the letters received by the secretary apologising for non-attendance were the following Mr. John Bright, M.P., wrote expressing a hope th,i t ti ie neeting would be as successful as that in 1868, and that the report of the proceedings would have a great, effect amongst the constituencies of Wales the Welsh people had a peculiar interest in the Disestablishment of the Church. To them the Established Church was an alien Church, and the time could not be distant when the episcopal sect in Wales would be as free as other Churches and sects now were. Tho land question, too, was of the greatest importance throughout the Welsh counties, and real reform in this would be of the utmost advantage to the occupiers and cultivators of the soil. To this re- form, and to a degree thorough and complete, he held the next Liberal Government to be com- mitted. (Applause.) That Wales would do her duty in the coming conflict none of lierreal friends could doubt. (Applause.) Mr. J. Chamberlain, M P., wrote to s&y that he would follow the proceedings of the conference with much interest. In his opinion, the question of disestablishment in Wales had long been ripe for settlement, and he trusted that in the next Parliament the wishes of the Welsh people might be unmistakably expressed. Mr. W. Rathbone, M.P., wrote that he had been in favour of disestablishment since he visited America 44 years ago, and he had voted for Mr. Miall's first motion. Letters were also read from Mr. R. Davies and Mr. Stuart Rendol. The CHAIRMAN said he was in favour of having the best men they could got to represent Welsh constituencies, and if they were Welshmen so much the better. The Welsh representatives in the future would be expected to work more together and take more interest in Welsh questions. The great work before them was the Disestablishment and the Disendowment of the Church, and if the Church in Wales was not disestablished in the next session of Parliament it would be the fault of the Welsh people and their representatives. The Rev. E. ELLIS moved a resolution expressing gratitude to Mr. Gladstone and his colleaguos for securing the great measures of Parliamentary reform, and trusting that the forthcoming election would result in a great Liberal majority to carry to completion the long-demanded changes in the laws, including the suppression of the liquor traffic and the disestablishment and disendowment of the State Church. The motion was seconded by Mr. JOHN DAVIS. Colonel CORNWALLIS WEST, who supported, said they would see what one million Welshmen would be ablo to do. There never was a time when there was more unanimity among Welshmen than there was now at this moment on the question of disestablishment. The motion was also supported bv the Rev. D. H. JENKINS, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. GEE moved a resolution to the effect that as the Church of England in Wales had failed in its mission as a means of promoting the religious interests of the Welsh people, and; that as an Established Church in the Principality was an injustice, it ought no longer to exist, and the Welsh constituents were strongly urged to return members to Parliament who were pledged to sup- port a measure for its discontinuance. The motion was seconded by Sir R. CUNLIFFB, who maintained that the time had come when it was expedient to separate the' State and Church in the Principality. The motion was supported by Mr. JOlIN ROBERTS and Mr. FISHEB, and carried with acclamation.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AT CARMARTHEN. THE QUESTION OF CHURCH ENDOWMENTS. THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Snnday morning. The church was crowded, the other churches being closed in the town. He took for his text the words, "The Apostles of the Churches, the Glory of Christ shew ye, therefore, unto them in the face of the Churches the proof of your love."—II. Corinthians viii., 23. In the course of his address he said missionaries were benefactors of tribes and islands. Language and science owed them a great debt. They were ex- ponents and administrators of a policy more free and more effective than States are able to use. But at the same time divisions of religious opinion have been so sadly jealous and so hinderingly active here at home among ourselves that none of our recent Governments have ventured to show any countenance to religious missionaries. The protection due to citizens was all that could be officially given them. But this position had not hitherto been a disadvantage to them. If we com- pare them with those vast missions which rose and worked their work long before modern mis- sions took their new course, we should find little to desire for our own case except greater zeal at home. We might find also that the prospect of the future contains some promise of unity through the truth. From the fourth to the seventh century, when Christianity had settled down as the religion of the Empire, there was still no central mission system. Missionaries of extraordinary vigour went forth, and amazing changes were produced in the world by the almost independent action of great men filled with the Spirit of God. The effects of the preaching of Gregory the Enlightened in Armenia,of Framentius and his brother in Ethiopia, of Alphilas, with his translation of the Bible, in the North of Europe, of St. Patrick in Ireland, above all, St. Martin in Gaul, amounted to a new creation of those vast countries. At home Walos and Cornwall and Brittany were ceaselessly traversed by preachers. All turned on the moral and spiritual energies of the leaders and of their companions, few at first, and then steadily increasing. Some of them were devoted in heart to great centres of Church life, but even when that was the case it in no way limited their indepen- dence. This was the personal epoch of missions. Behind Augustine towered the impressive spec- tacle of a great Power well able to sup- port him. But that Power was even then still mainly a moral and spiritual Power, and Gregory and Augustine were earnest in using only the simplest outward influences, and converted the world by the power of the Cross. But next, from the eighth to the fifteenth century, wo have before us a scene of constant vigorous missions. Governments promoted them even by force. Go- vernments were not content with their plain duty of assuring security to the foundations and the endowments of private bounty. They would not restrict themselves to legislation in support of one discipline they were not. satisfied with establish- ing the Church of Christ in their midst. In the Reformation we saw a kind of mission preached arid directed by socioties. They merely addressed themselves to the Church instead of to unbelievers, otherwise their means were tiie same— preaching, apologies, travelling, discussion (public and private), diffusion of Scripture. The times of the primitive missionaries seemed to return. They were exiled, imprisoned, executed for their work and for their very opinions. The crisis through which all Governments then passed, and the divided religious interests which remained, left Governments powerless for any further conduct of missions, and as they observed that just when the great companies were formed which took the coinmorco of the world in hand, just then other societies arose in long succession .tid dealt with one portion after another of the un- erangelised nations. The Society of Jesus and the Church Missionary Society really belong to the same era uiul the same impulse. Our venerable society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Wcsleyan Missionary Society are really one in principle, and they diffei- utterly from either the personal or the governmental ideas of the duty and of the method of missions. All the work that has been done since they began is the work of societies, and it advances with constant acceleration. The society for which ho appealed to their interest and their generosity that day had done wonderful work under the direct, visible blessing of God until they had planted the Cross where it was not so much as named. Among their bishops, clergy, and catechists there have been heroes the very models of manliness—leaders of men whose whole life had been sacrificed, yet whose whofo life had been brightness. But the numbers of its workers ought to be maniroldly multiplied, and for this there were wanted without stint their alms, their gifts and their con- stant prayers. The Archdeacon then said: What- your enterprising Welsh Mission is doiny so happily for your own Welsh settlers in Pata- gonia this grand old society is doing in evpry region and language. Its work is from the highest point of view as necessary for the world as for the Church. It brings light and order and lays a sure foundation tor the world's work more swiftly and surely than the world can do anything for itself. In 50 years there will be many nations which are now no nations, and each nation must have its native Church. Now, the question is this, are we intending simply to transfer our own, purely and simply, as an exotic to those shores, or shall we have the ability and love to engraft on the native heart and native gonius a true, perfect branch of the real (fcitholic and Apostolic Church of Scrip- ture ? To take an outward example of what I mean: if white is the colour of mourning throughout the Chinese Empire, or if kneeling be the attitude of easy resting among the Fijians, it is doubtful whether we are as wise in insisting that the minis- tering garment must be white for China as the Wesleyims are in allowing prostration in Fiji as I their natural posture of devotion. Now, that is only a parable of deeper things. Lot us not trans- plant rudely one national Church to a foreign soil to wither. Let us gain such a grasp of the differing types of nations and of universal Church principles that, we may rear Churches truly native. Such wisdom will also give us an answer to those who would rend into two or throe fragments our own one Church. For centuries (twice as many before the Reformation as since) our Church has been one, in joy, in sorrows, in oppression, in revival. You must go back long before to find any idea that England had one Church and Wales another. But would it not be wonderful, and yet is it not quite conceivable, that when our peculiarities and our differences find themselves unable to be mnin- tained in the new lands the same will be found in other Christian bodies, too ? May they find them- selves then growing towards each other, growing together, uniting at last as thev were united before differences began. Will not their union read at liot-ne ? Will the last and greatest of blessings upon missions be this—the re-union of all Churches? There are things more impossible. May God bring it on in His time. And is there not one lesson more for these times to learn from the way in which the great mission work of old was made permanent ? For the Church's work must bo permanent, though it must be mission work, too, so long as there are souls to convert. We may not speak as though wo were some lofty mission-power, able to flash on other lands light and power of our own. What have we that we did not receive similarly? Was it not once with us as it is now with them ? Our hills and valleys have seen spare, worn forms pass from ono British village to another preaching the Word, even as that apostle to the Indians. To and from Wales to Cornwall, Cornwall to Brittany, backward and forward to Ireland, to the Isles of Scotland, in frail barques over rough seas they sailed, toiled ashore, and along tho thnn forest tracks have left their names on church and hamlet. We are entered into their labours. Every step of mission was a step in civilisation. But think further how there was then laid the foundation of the whole system which attached duty to property. Before that men owned all property for their own pleasures and aggrandise- ment. Then first our fathers gave to the missionaries and their successors plots and glebes and tithes that religious men and houses might cultivate and civilise and worship; that cathedrals might centralise and organise all holy works and for parish churches, chapels, places of prayer, that not a mile of land might luck its witness and its teachers, and for colleges to teach teachers did our sires give those lands to the State of England or the State of Wales. Exactly as in new lands now merchants and settlers are to-day giving land or rent charges or stock, or as natives offer their tenths of produce that the man of God may come and live among them; or a rich man marks out an en- closure in the middle of his estate, or poor converts build churches with their own hands, or societies or individuals make purchases and make them over to the mission or to the settled clergy to have the knowledge of Christ permanent among them and sure to their children or as persecuted converts muster round them and raise new Christian villages and clear new ground and worship God and Christ in daily gather- ings. And all this goes on being done more and more thoroughly as life grows more settled and lands more secure, until all comes to be transacted with the same mutual confidence as among ourselves who have known God so long. Exactly such has been from the beginning to this hour the history of the settling and endowing the Church of Christ everywhere. There has been no break from the beginning in what individual Christians have done. Well, then, what would be the wisdom and the duty and the actual practice of the State towards such givers and receivers as these owners and these missionaries? Protection, security, certainty of tenure, the self-same duty as towards all other citizens and their prosperity. No more, no less. If anyone could have prophesied to them at any time the day will come when some will urge the State to declare that your goods are its own, and to take them from the work of Christ for other things," would he not have been looked upon as an inno- cent, impossible prophet ? Would it not have been answered, The State is the protector of what is ours as of all. Stimulate us, encourage us, goad us. if you will, to realise the responsi- bility of our title. But weaken our title, and you weaken all titles, all securities V" He who should so advise might be an honest man, but he would be an ignorant one in history. He might be pious, but he would be unwise. He would not be so much an anti-Churchman as an anti-statesman that should so propose. I Have you heard of such a proposal ? They who love the State will consider it and all it means; and are Churchmen to be the only citizens who are to look on with indifference, to accept, and even to choose their own undoing without consi- dering it and all it means ? What do we gather from all that has happened in the past but that God has been, God is, God will be our God for ever and ever. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptise them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."

LATE ST NEWS THE EASTERN CRISli SERVIAN PREPARATIONS. l" TIMES" TELEGRAM.] VIENNA, WEDNEsDj. I am informed that the strategical disposition of the Servian troops will bo completed on So day. King Milan will then take the supreme mand of the three army corps and establish n headquarters. Assuming that the King were determined upon war, the frontier would n crossed about the middle of next week. It is yet known whether Bulgaria or Old Servia be the point of attack, but all probabilities p0^ to Bulgaria. J I have authority for saying that last week Milan was explicitly informed by the Aus Government that whatever military action t might take would be at his own risk, and that Austrian Government would in no wise under to see him indemnified for the consequences of acts. The reasons which King Milan may find for regarding this caution have often been sta'^ But it remains evident that tho attitude wb^ Russia has assumed on the Bulgarian questio suggests that the gravest dangers may arise frol a Servian attack on Bulgarian territory. obstacle to au agreement of tha Powers on t" Roumelian crisis have come all alcng from & obdurate stand which Russian statesmen h3 I made on the Treaty of Berlin. It is not f England, but from Russia, that the demand & come for an absolute restoration of the status F "nte in Koumslia. So far as the British Govef ment was concerned, the nearest practical a sensible restoration to the old order of thiJl would have been acceptable; but from tl Russian side there has been no concession, an the necessity of maintaining the Kremsier COO pact has reluctantly drawn Germany and A,3tril into standing by Russia in pressing a denia"' which neither Power would have put forward its own accord. LORD SALISBURY'S NEWPORT SPEECH. [" REUTKE'S TI'LEGRAM.'l RUTSCHUK, WEDNESDAY. Lord Salisbury's remarks at Newport on tlle Eastern crisis have causod considerable excitement here. Surprise h expressed that the Powers should hesitate to recognise the union. The people of Bill gana consider that, they have merited the indl1 gence of the Powers by the perfect way in whiC tile movement was conducted.

AFGHANISTAN. THE RAILWAY TO CANDAHAK- [" REUTER'S TfXEGRAM.j ST. PETERSBURG, THCHSDA". The Vremyt publishes an Askabad td4* gram stating that some English engineers ha*' arrived at Herat, after making a survey of 04 proposed railway between that place and Carid* har. The English are buying largo suppliesliI Khorassau.

SEIilOUS LOSS OF LIFE AT HAMBURG, RkUTliii'S TfcLliliUAM. j HAMBURU, \VKDNfcSt,AV« A four-storey house in course of erection at tho corner of it street, leading out of tho Specks flt) iell in at five o'clock ihis afternoon, LurYiPO several persona in the ruins. Up tu seven ú'cI,)C. tiiis evening two dead bodies had been recovdrej, and two men severely injured had been extricated, It is believed that about six others ate still ulidot the debt is. The firo brigade are eugugdd in till work of rescue. SOOIALISTSTN RUSSIA, l." CENTRAL NLIWS" TELEGRAM.) ST. PETERSBURG, TifuLESnAY, Sara Becker, the Socialist, charged with 6 t atrocious murder, has been acquittod by the jucy after a trial lasting ten days. THE CHOLERA IN SICILY. [_" CENTRAL NEWS" TELEGRAM.1, ROME, THORSDA*. Ninty-one fresh cases of cholera and 42 dentf11 have taken place in Palermo during the last 24 hours. Forty-two fresh cases are reported the provinces. THE CASE OF BIBL. [" CENTRAL NEWS T ELKO RAM.1 ,I NEW YORK, Thursday- The attorney of tho French Canadian Societ: has obtained from the United States Court in Motl tana a copy of the certificate of Riel's admission as an American citizen. The document is daret 1880. The society will urge the United Ststel Government to interfere on Itiel's behalf. TIIOI allege that General Middleton found this certi^' cate of American citizenship upon Riel when ca¡1 tured, but concealed it.

EARTHQUAKE AT PALERMO# 1 SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. A telegram from Palermo states that a Ian!' house there was thrown down on Thursday morl" ing by earthquake shocks. A number of pereoal were buried in the dtbris. Eight bodies hl\ already been recovered.

TRAGIC DUEL IN SPAIN. A tragic duel has taken place between two oitce" of the Spanish Army. It was fought near tt!4 Municipal Churchyard, Madrid, pistols being th: weapons, and the distance arranged being 2- p^ces. Both should advance fivo paces at e» £ shot, until one of the two combatants fell deit"' Captain Jaquetot fired first, and his adversary responded, without any result. Captain JaqutO A then advanced five steps, but his pistol went before the signal was given., His adversatj insisted on his having another chance. Capta' Jaquetot then fired a second time, and wounde" hia adversary in the e(,. The latter then ad; vanced tive paces and shot the captain, the bul ontot-ing the eye. Two letters vei-e found in CRV" Jaquetot's pocket. In the first he informed 'l! wife that he was fighting a duel to save the honoU of his family. In the second he requested t'" authorities to accuse nobody of his death.

INDIAN DEPUTATION TO LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. The "Central News', says:-On Thursditytl" three Indian delegates from Calcutta, Madras, »n,. Bombay were presented to Lord Randolp Churchill at the India Office. They were iottO" duced by Mr. Wilfred Blunt, and enjoyed lengthened interview with his lordship. rhef express themselves as highly satisfied with hi, lordship's assurance that an inquiry will be J1)1IV during the forthcoming session, and that it W1, embrace the whole judicial and administratis system of India. The delegat es were, moreoVc' invited in the meantime to address his any matter specially interesting to their respecti*' presidencies.

THE BOYCOTTING OF THE IRISH CATTLE TRADE. The action of the Boycotters with regard to the cattle trade had a leg serious effect upon t, J Bristol market on Thursday than was anticip*te j Some hundreds of the Boycotted animals driven Into one of the lower pens, and they described as being very rough and of poor quaH1*^ coming chiefly from tha Kerry Mountains. was stated that the dealers in charge were asiltlti, considerably above the market value, and tl,il^ consequently, the business transacted was of limited character.

DANGEROUS POSITION OF A VESSlJ IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL. GALLANT RESCUE BY A CARDIFF TUGBO*^ With reference to the narrow escape of Fanny, of Barnstaple, off Morte, on Saturday 1 r' the following particulars are to hand It app#oo that the dangerous position of the vessel OLG observed by Captain West, of the steam tug IVO and Jeffery, of Cardiff. He immediately ran to attempt a rescue. A strong north-wester blowing at the time, accompanied with bliD< » spray. On nearing the Fanny, which was aboll fathom from the rocks, a heavy sea broke A Ste the Elliott and Jeffery, nearly washing the "J gc overboard. At considerable risk lines were at A. got on board the Fanny, and she was towed ir1 Too much praise can scarcely be given to CaPjCfi West and tlie crew for the skilful way in ces- the vessel was handled under tho eircunistso itis tv The disabled vessel, with her deck strewD torn sails, ropes, and broken mast, and flooded, was, after a long tow, taken into combe harbour in the evening.

ACTION FOR WRONGFUL DETEN1'10 AT NEWPORT. /bef°r< At Newport County Court on Thursday Judge Owen) tho action, Rummins v. Wa1' ^0*^ was an action to recover £ 50 for false lUJPjj £ g0 £ ment, was heard. The case arose out of an theft of a coat and rug from a cab in His Honour, in giving judgment for the P said Wall had not exercised that amount or 0f( o1 sense that he ought to have been possesses he would not have given the plaintiff into He awarded £ 21 damages, and costs.