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GENERAL. [CONDUCTED BY THE EDITOR. ] Correspondents asking questions upen subjects of general interest will le answered under this head out no answer will le given to questions whioh the Editor considers of a frivelcus nature. Letters must be endorsed" GENERAL." "3. N." (Swan-sea) -The phrase, Our severed Navy, too, have knit again," occurs in Act 111. oi "Antony and Cleopatra." "STRAIT" (Cardil't),-(l) Tee he is a Protestant bishop. f2) Catholic, according to Craig, means uni, ersal or general, not illiberal or restricted. This term was originally assumed by the Christian Church to distinguish it from the various sects which dis- sented from it, and who were considered either as heretics or schismatics. 8. A. BATES (Bristol).-IVrite to Mr. Storrie, curator, Cardiff Museum. He is interested in the person men- tioned by you. HENRY JAMBS (CIA rli ff). -Messrs. Morgan and Seott, High-street, Cardiff, are the solicitors of the com- pany. c' B.'i B,"«" <P6'larth),—^The great strike of colliers in South Y< ales took place in 1874.

MEDICAL. [CONDUCTED BY A PHYSICIAN AND ST7BGIOM.] Correspondents are requested to state their questtent as concisely as possible consistent with intelligibility. adding (1) sex, (2) age, (3) if married, (4) duration of illness. All tetters should be addressed, MEDICAL," per Editor, WEEKLY MAIL, Cardiff. "SWKKZKB."—1. It depends greatlv on the form the influenza takes, as in this epidemic three or four kinds have been noticed, which require different treatment. (2). The apomorphine tabloids are very good for the cough which sometimes follows-aile to be slowly dissolved in the mouth three or four times a day They can be had from any respectable chemist, or from Burroughs, Welcome, and Co., Snowhill-build- ings, London. W.B." (8t. Fagan's).—After such a long time nothing can be done to restore the hearing. Take a teaspoonful of Fellow's syrup of the hvpopliosphites three times a day after food, for a month. F. B. 0." (Llandaff Yard),-(I) Take plenty of outdoor exercise, avoid all fat forming foods, eat le m meat and green vegetables drink no beer nor stout. (2) Your occupation does not suit you. Rzx (Whitchnrch).-In your ease it is caused by irritation. Use the foflowing :-Zinc and lead oint- ment, of each one ounce, well mixed together, to be applied three times a day. (2) Cocoa and milk diet, with fish. Do not eat bacon or salt meat at present. (3) No. "JOHH" (Newport).-(I) Bathe them with fiazeline night and morning, and keep the bowels regular. (2) Not so long; generally about a fortnight. (3) Yes. O. A." (Aborsychalm).-(I) Take the following:- Citrate of iron aad ammonia, two drachms; tincture of mux vomica, two draebws; syrup of orawge, three drachms; water to six cuncet; one tablespoonful three times a day. (2) There is nothing to cause you alarm at present. TxAcwm (Aberdare).—I. Bathe the legs and feet in tepid salt and water every night before going to bed tap #ne month. Wear soft socks. 2. Yea, more liable to take cold. 3. Egg and milk diet is the best for TOW. B. W." (Roath, Cardiff).-l. Wear a broad fiaianel belt which :Jou OR bay* made at Item*, 2. Not at all 3. You do sat require any medicine. j

LEGAL. [CONDUCTED BY A EAHEISTEE-AF-IIAW.'j Legal questions must be stated fully and clearly, and a full copy must be sent of any document on ich.ich novice is sought. All communications must le e7idoi-sed 1. LEGAR." DISPUTED ACCOUNT,—" A. S." (Pembrey) might bring an p.ction in the county-court of the district, in which the goods were delivered 'by leave of the registrar) to recover the two sums mentioned in his letter. He would have to go to the registrar s office, fill up a form which WOJlJ be given to him, and satisfy the registrar that the cause of action arose witbin the district. If he will send us an addressed stamped envelope lor the circular, which he will nave to pro- duce in court on the hearing of the action, we will return it to h:m, but he had tetter attend tc this without delay. NOTICE TO QUIT.—The notice of which Legality" (Tydee) has sent cs a copy is all right if it is in accor- dance with the terms of the tenancy, and the land- lord might bring an action in the county-court to recover possession of the property in question, when the tenant or defendant would be liable tc pay all the costs of the action and to be forcibly turned out by the bailifls of the court if he should persist in holding possession. The memorandum written under the notice is all nonsense, but that does not affect the validity of the notice itself. EXPLCYXJIS LIABILITY ACT.—There ic nothing In the letter of T. G." to show that the employers were at all to blame in the matter, and, therefore, we do not see how the Act can apply to his case. However, as notice must be given under the Act within six weeks after the date of the accident, if the case is provided for by the Act there will be no time for him tc write us again with an explanation, and he had better have the ease investigated by a local solicitor. NOTICS TO QUIT.-If there is a vulid agreement for a lease in the case submitted by An Inquirer" (Cow- bridge), no notice to quit would be necessary if not, the tenancy is from year tc year, and the full year's notice would be necessary. As the validity of the agreement isiirmewitat uncertain, the safer plan would be to serve tile preper notice to quit as in 110 caEe of yearly tenancy. RIEC PAYMENT WITHOUT KKCHIPT.—" A Sufferer" (Swansea) appears to have a good defence on the grounds stated in his letter, and we hope that he will be a victor instead of a autterer, as he appears to fear. He must have his witness or witnesses in court on the hearing day. SUPPOSED RIGHT OF WAY.—We do not undertake to investigate lacts. Twyn (Llangadock) must have this done by a local solicitor, who will conduct any proceedings which may appear to be advisable. Our correspondent does Dot appear to know whether the path in question is a public way or a private occupa- tion read, and these two kinds of rights would have to be enforced very differentlv. NEGLICT BY TRUSTEE.—" A DrHisber" (Devizee) is advised to stand no more nonsense, but to place the matter in the hands of bis solicitor without further delay, and instruct him to get the money. The matter has already been delayed too long. NOTICE TO QUIT.—" Porth cannot claim any compen- sation in respect of the determination of his tenancy, as he has had the notice to which he was entitled by the terms of his tenancy. If he did not. wish to be liable to be disturbed in his occupation, he ought to havetakep the premises upon lease for a term of years. I5TE8TACY OF B. CHCLOR.—" Cymro (Newport) is advised that the mother of the intestate is entitled to letters of administration of the personal estate and effects which he was possessed of or entitled to at the time of his decease. After payment of funeral expenses, costs of administration, and debts, she must divide the residue equally among herself and the brothers an,] sisters of the intestate, first paying legacy duty (if any payable) upon the shares of the brothers and sisters, her own share being exempt fiom such duty. IKSANB PUBLICAN.—" A. B. C." (Penrhiwceiber) might report this case to the police, oppose the renewal of the licence on the next annual licensing day, or take proceedings in the meantime, with the assistance of a solicitor, against the man for not conducting his business according to the tenour of his licence. Those licences are granted for the accommodation of the public, and no person would be long allowed to act in the silly manner described. We assume that he is a man of property, or he could scarcely afford the out- lay which must be :!eces?ary to enable him to prac- tise such pranks. "ELECTRICITY" (Cardiff).—You »sk (!)—«• If a person cut one of the telegraph wirts, stood oil the ground, holding one of the ends in his hand, and the clerk at the station put the machine in action, wouid the former be injured ? And (2) "What would be the result if he held both ends of the wire, one in each hand." (1) If it were a metallic circuit, and the insulation good, the person would not be hurt. But if the earth formed a part of the circuit he would receive a shock, the vigour of which would depend on the electro- motive force of the ciirient-tliat is. assuming the person uid not wear the specially-made boots with which railway men are sometimes piovided. (2) Be would receive a full shock, the force depending on the factor already mentioned. Death might result under certain conditions. sure3 sent b Ire-lttliv Ti list- a -good notice of special defeiier; it ought to have stated the ground on which the action WM to be defended. If it simply means that there is a mistake in the name the judge will have power to amend that at the trial, if the summons has been served jpon the proper person. NOTICE TO QUIT. H, R.' (Newport) is advised that as the tenancy is a quarterly one notice can be given from any one quarter day to the next, but noi at any intermediate time or to expire on any other day. If the rent was paid up to one of the usual quarter days, and has thenceforth t-cen paid quarterly, the notice must be so given as to exp're upon one of such days. INJURY TO COAT.—"Tory" (Cardiff) ought to have his action conducted by a local solicitor. PERSONAL INSINUATIONS.— Hirwain" is informed that the House of Commons h generally very indulgent to any member who may be thus attacked, and allows him every facility for explanation. The Speaker might rule out of order anything i) relevant. LESACY DIYTY. A.B. (Llanfihangel) ought to have stated his case correctly. The deduction would, doubtless, be for legacy duty, not part of the costs of prob.te. He omitted to inform as what relative he is to the testator, upon which the rate of duty would depend. If he wiii write us fully Llld correctjy. we will advise him. RATES AND TAXHS.—" An Itjquirer" (Newport) it liable to pay all local rates lar/d tax (if any), and inhabited house duty. What has he been called upon to pay? NOTICE TO QUIT.-Tliere was no need to register the letter containing the notice sent by Post to H.T.J." (Raglan). If it was delivered on or before the relit day, that would be sufficient. GUARANTEE FORM.—There is one great objection to the form of which "Guarantee" (Cardiff) has sent UEÂ copy, that is to say. the part which purports to give power to seize the goods of the person on whose behalf the guarantee is intended to be given is alto- gether void because of its non-compliance with the Bills of Sale Act, which requires the goods so charged to be scheduled, and the document to be duly regis- tered within eeven clear days after the date of its being signed or executed by the parties thereto. In other respects the form is reasonable enough. [ AIOAN AND ACTREKMRNT.—We cannot advise" V, C." (Cardiff) until he sends as the copies for which we asked him on the 8th Inst. LANDLORD AND TENANT. E. F." (Cardiff) will be responsible for all the damage which may te done in consequence of his neglecting to have the water apparatus in good working order, and he is also liable tc be summoned before the magistrates on the com- plaint of the waterworks company and fined for the same negligence causing waste of the water which is supplied to him by the company. He ought to have the matter attended to without further delay. INFANT HUSBAND.—" A Constant Reader" (Merthyr) could not successfully plead the defence of Infancy to an action for the price of necelJsarieø supplied either to himself or to hit wife as his duly authorised agent. The authority may be either expressed or implied. Bach an- implied authority would exist if he were to allow his wife to contract debts by purchasing goods in his name without paying for them; or (which is pretty much the same thing) it he does not provide her with sufficient money regularly to pay at the time when the several purchases are made. But if he sup- plies her with sufficient momey for all reasonable expenses according to his position and income, and prohibits her incurring debts in his name, he is not responsible. Perhaps our correspondent will inform us the exact facts, and then we will re-consider his case and advise him defjiiitely ttiereoi). CHOICE OF SECURITIES.—" S. T. (Cardiff) must use his own discretion. We never undertake tu advise upon such questions, MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT.—This Act will not assist "A.B." Ifshe had any money of her own invested in her own name it would be protected. LIBEL.-Ti,e sentence quoted by "Anxious" (Llandyssil) is libellous but is it worth the expense, trouble, and risk of an action ? The publication was verv limited. and our correspondent may afford to despise such 9 an insinuation. We do not believe that it will do him any harm whatever but, even if it does, the action would be likely to do him far more substantial harm. DISTRESS FOR RENT.—" T. M." (Cardiff) is advised that a landlord may within thirty days after the date of removal follow and distrain upon any goods which his tenant may have removed fraudulently or clandes- tinely for thepurpose of avoiding the levying of a dis- tress for rent then in arrear. unless the goods should in the meantime have been actually sold to some person who was at the time of purchase ignorant of the fraud. The remedy would depend upon the facts. DISTRESS FOR RENT.—If "Groesffordd (Swansea) had paid the rent when it was doe, she would have escaped the unpleasantness of having her house visited by the bailiff; if she bad paid the money to the bailiff before the distress was levied, she would not have had to pay any expenses. The trick of sendi ng the money to her landlord while the bailiff was in the house was quite futile, as she might have expected if she had given the matter a moment's consideration. The bailiff ought to have asked for the rent before he distrained, and it is very unlikely that he would omit to do so. The payment of costs to the landlord was quite right; he would settle with the bailiff. PART PAYMENT OF MORTGAGE.—" A.B." (Hereford) is advised that the beat course would be for him to see a receipt endorsed upon the mortgage deed and signed by the mortgagee,as this would prevent that security • from being fraudulently used as representing a larger sum than may for the time being aotually be due thereon. The reeeipt would not need a stamp, it being specially exempt from stamp duty where the mortgage is impressed with the proper stamp. Jf he should prefer having a receipt in his own possession, that would have tobe stamped. MORTGAGE OF LAND.—"GlaspanV may redeem his land at any time before it is actually sold by the mort- gagee on payment of principal money, interest tbere- on, and all costs oonnected with the affair. MASTER AND 6EBVANT, — "Perplexed" would have a right of action for breach of contract against bis servant if she were to leave his house without giving the usual notice, but as she is a married woman the remedy might be worse than the disease, as she prob- ably has no separate goods upon which execution could be levied in default of payment of damages and costs according to the order of the court.

MOTHER AND SON. The Baby King and His Devoted Parent. [By CLUIBBITE.l I I think everyone with any kind of feeling of sympathy for bravery and goodness in women sympathy for bravery and goodness in women must feel sad and anxious at the news we have recently had from Spain of (the serious illness of the poor little King. It seems to me so very sad that after withstanding the loss of her husband, after pluckily taking the reins of government, and pulling the kingdom literally out of the mud of ignorance and insignificance, into which years and years of blindness, conceit, and self-aggrandisement 1 had thrown it; after carefully rearing and educating her baby son until the world was beginning to look forward to a wise, good King for Spain, Queen Regent Christina should see all her hopes and aspirations, the result of so much patience and care, dashed at one fell swoop of disease to the ground for ever. How- ever, latest telegrams bring in the news that the little King is on the way to recovery, and the unremitting care of his mother, who has never once left his bedside during his ill- ness, is likely to be rewarded by his complete convalescence. I suppose had he died Spain would have been the next lJepublic. The Radicals were standing by to seize the vacated Government, and the Cabinet had already re- signed their offices. However, when the ill- ness of the boy king was announced, the Cabinet Ministers, with the truest instinct of patriotism, at once postponed their resigna- tions and determined to do their duty, at all events until the Queen Regent could once more attend to the pressing business of the nation. So all may end well yet. For Queen Christina's sake I hope it may.

PLAYING AT SOLDIERS. French Army Boys Who Ought to I be at School. TBY FLANEUR."] Parisians have become tired of their Infant Militia." The schoolboy soldiers will hardly survive, as an institution, another year. The "Young Guard," composed of recruits on the threshold of their teens, as a novelty, is worn out, and as an utility what they were from the commencement-an inutility, Sugar sticks in one hand and a nursery rifle in the other, the force was neither imposing nor military. Every 14th of July the battalions defiled in front of the Hotel de Ville, where, from the heights of the balconies, not 40 centuries, ,but 80 town councillors, looked down on them. The War Office representative has reported that gym- nastics, leap-frog, &c., would be more useful than "attention" and "standing at ease." The drill did not aid the lad; he left school at fourteen* to learn a trade, and when he joined the regular" army as a conscript at twenty he found himself in the presence of new systems of drill, due to changed strategy, magazine rifles, and smoke- less powder. And the drill sergeant com- plained that breaking down the school drill habits was up-hill work. 1 he masters of the primary schools murmured that the playing at soldiers seriously interfered with studies and undermined discipline. At first, parents were proud of their soger boys," and cheerfully paid the 30 francs a year for the uniform. Then they compelled the Municipality to supply the uniform gratis, which became the only respectable suit for hundreds of children, who, like the real soldiers, are always in regi- mentals for the best of reasons.

CALLOUS YOUTHS WHO DESERVE THEIR FATE. [By FLANEUB."] A bad boy is Bernard, aged 17, who attempted to murder his old godmother in order to obtain her purse. A Paris jury found him guilty with extenuating circum- stances, and he was sentenced to transporta- tion for life. In return for such mercy he was revoltingly cynical. He appealed against the sentence, an irregularity having taken place during the trial. The Appeal Court quashed the finding, and ordered a new trial to take place, this time at Versailles, famous for its severe jurymen. Bernard, it is next to a moral certainty, will be condemned to death this time. An" appeal" has occasionally its drawbacks. Three gamins, the eldest of whom is but '21 and the youngest 17, arrived in Paris in want of pocket money on the 16th of July last. As it was quarter-day they attacked a house porteress, aged 74, expecting that she had received the rents of the tenants as usual. At eight in the evening one of the pals did scout duty, while the others entered the lodge, seized the old woman, pulled back her head' and immediately drew a knife across her throat. They ransacked the drawers and bedding, piling all over the corpse. They found no money, only a little jewellery. The two prisoners who committed the deed were sentenced to death, and quitted the court dancing a jig.

MAGNIFICENT BEQUESTS. Mr. John Farnwortii, Liverpool, timber merchant, has bequeathed to charities in Liverpool and else- where £ 22,000. The Wesleran Metho'dist Ministers and Ministers Widows Auxiliary Fund receives £ 5,000; Wesleyan schools at Woodhouse-grove and Kingswood, £ 1,000; Wesleyan Theological Institu- tion, £ 2,000, and Wesleyan Missionary Society, :ci,ooo.

A Titled Authoress, It is rumoured (says the Scottish Leader) that the Marchioness of Carmarthen has almost com- pleted a sensational novel, which may be expected to create something of a flatter in society circles. The Marquess of Carmarthen is the youthful and blushing menabot for the Brixton DiTisioa of Lambeth.'

THE WEEK'S NEWS. ♦ (From Thursday, January 9th, to Tuesdajti January 1¥1¡, 1890, inclusive.) The death is announced of Dr. Dollingerf the well-known Old Catholic theologian. The influenza epidemic still shows signs of abatement in the United Kingdom. Gigantic frauds have been discovered in the Cuban Treasury, and several high officials have been arrested. An unusual number of British ships of war have arrived off Zanzibar, and the cir- cumstance has created much excitement. The number of bankruptcy petitions in the Cardiff court last year was 52, as confi pared with 61 in 1888. It is reported that the head of the Mosoow Secret Polioe has been assassinated by a young female Nihilist. < The infant King of Spain was on Monday declared by the physicians to be out Jof danger. It is reported from St. Petersburg that on* of the Czar's brothers is to be banished from Russia with his family for ever, The Cardiff tramway employes and the local directors of the company have' agreed to submit their differences to arbitration. Through an accident on Tuesday at 11 Festiniog Gasworks, the manager, Mr. David Morgan, was killed, and a number of other men were injured. The steamship Llandaff City collided on Thursday in the River Avon with the steamer Virent, bound for Newport, and sank in a few minutes. No lives were lost. --i'l The reply by Portugal to Lord Salisbury's note is said to be couched in pacifio terms, and practically yields to his lordship's demands. i. The letter which it is purported he sent to the Ennis Board of Guardians re the CShea- Parnell scandal Mr. Parnell declares to be a forgery. We are able to announce that Mr. Enoch James, deputy manager of the Blaenavon Ironworks, has been appointed manager of the Dowlais Works at Cardiff. On Monday a rumour was current that the Government intended to immediately dis- solve Parliament, but a semi-official denial wu published later in the day. It is feared that the schooner Claudia, which left Newport on September 28 with a cargo of coal for Galway, has foundered with the whole of her crew, some five or six in number. The crew of the Cardiff steamer Excelsior, which foundered off Brest on the 4th inst.i arrived at Cardiff on Thursday. They had a very trying time,pending nearly a whole night in open boats on a very rough sea. The Board of Trade inquiry held at Cardiff into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Benjamin Whitworth on Thursday re- sulted in the suspension of the master's certi- ficate for three months. The steamship Provincia, a Glasgow vessel, which left that port about a week ago for the West Indies, put into Swansea on Saturday, having lost her master, mate, and a seaman in a terrifio gale shortly after leaving port. Early on Tuesday a workmen's traip oontainipg colliers whilst proceeding from Chesterfield to Glapwell Colliery ran into a number of empty trucks. Twenty-six of the men were injured, but none seriously. In London on Monday night a needle- woman in charge of her niece's household, whilst the father and mother were at the theatre, cut the baby's throat and then set fire to the house. The little one died and four other children were almost suffocated before being rescued. A grain elevator at Baltimore has been destroyed by fire, and half a million bushels of wheat were sacrificed. The conflagration destroyed a steamer lying at an adjoining wharf, and three lives were lost. In connection with Mr. Parnell's action against the Times the defendants were on Saturday ordered to produce an account of the circulation of the pamphlet and also of the Times upon the days on which Pigott's letters appeared. At the monthly meeting of the Swansea Harbour Trust held on Monday it was reported that the revenue of the past year was more by about 92,000 than that of any previous year in the history of the trust, and that notwith- standing reductions in shipping rates, &c. At the meeting of the Cardiff Board of Guardians on Saturday it was announced that Mr. John Cory intended to establish a oottage home for orphan and friendless children, which he would maintain at his own expense. A disastrous fire broke out at Cardiff early on Sunday completely destroying premises situate in Adam-street used as < lozenge manufactory, in the occupation of Messrs. Grace and Ohave, and adjoining premises belonging to Mr. Charles Howell, grocer and provision merohant. A terrible occurrence is reported from America, where eighteen men were in a caisson in a river bed when the water sud- denly rushed in from beneath. The only means of exit was by a small valve door, to get through which the men fought with awful desperation. Four men only succeeded in escaping. The greater part of Thursday's investiga- tion at Bow-street into the charges against Mr. Newton, solicitor, and others, of con- spiracy in connection with the Cleveland- street scandals, was taken up in the cross- examination of Wright and Swinscoe, two of the telegraph boys who, as the prosecution alleged, Mr. Newton and Do Galla, acting on his behalf, endeavoured to send out of the country. An adjourned meeting of the delegates representing the steam and house coal miners of South Wales and Monmouthshire was held at the Carmel-hall, Aberdare, on Saturday, to receivo the decision of the colliers as to whether the recent concessions" of the employers in regard to the sliding-scale should be accepted or rejected. On the roll being called there were :—For accepting the em- ployers' proposals, 48,228; against, 20,289— majority for, 27,939. Startling frauds upon a Cardiff building society have just been discovered. The society is named the Cardiff Building Society, having an annual turnover of between £ 70,000 and £ 80,000, and the clerk who has been guilty of the theft is named Robbins. He had for about three months left the employ of Mr. Peter Price, who is the secretary of the society, and it was whilst auditing the accounts that the embezzlement was dis- covered. At the Cardiff County Council meeting on Monday questions were asked as to the intention of the watch committee in the matter of the frauds and whether it was intended to take steps to bring the delinquent to justice. The town-olerk did not wish to be pressed upon the question, and the matter dropped. Further defalcations by Robbins are said to have been discovered. The accounts of the oompany by whom he had been employed during the laat three months have just been audited, and sliov discrepancies which lead to the belief that Robbimi continued his malpraotiees after leaving the building society office