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OUR LONDON LETTER. 1 ^ALF^RIVAL °F THE ^CEEN IN LONDON. Jen eo^n.u 9^°PPy under foot, sodden and r*iu betw e a^» w'th a steady, saturating leather tiT* ^'8 was unusual Queen's London ^'tnessed her Majesty's arrival 4 sunn promise iBUtten* horning, there would have been the pe sel crowds to welcome her Majesty. But ahine did who had come out in early sun- w n.°^ necessary to face (he rain, greet h ar^?me» consequently the crowd to tired thM ies^y was n°t niore than a hon- oi ljjfg p any Part. There was an escort ^^ssa •] arc^3' but the Royal carriages were •ubiflp/1 c^°sed, and as the loyal but damp §overe^v could not see the faces of their oheei' an<^ ker two daughters, they did not jj. MR. BALFOUR'S ILLNESS. ^ait°Ur was 9en^ *'° ^orwo°d because ^0r th been originally selected tbe bi6 ? oe of. h'.s convalescence, is in one of 'Prino6 an^ fitter moods that make its early ^°Wev° to invalids. Mr. Balfour, rOller)as made so quick and sound a '8 hard]y an invalid. He is for a lmself, and will only stay at Norwood after h-1,Ry8»tH1 there is no danger from the iufu ckiU whioh is the worst risk an zae patient has to undergo. Tag Q0 "*ERNMENT AND THE EVICTION COMMISSION l>Wnifiterialists were in a brutal, blatant, and 0ut rno°^ on Monday. They broke Gov a w^en questions were put to the l?v- "y^ent respecting the Commission on ■^ath ^enants presided over by Mr. Justice f0r ew>. The object of the Opposition is to dleadill, lseuss on on this subject. Ministers, jnji lI1S daylight on their proceedings, are hav °fS over the unhappy job. They gra tried to burke the debate by hiding the tind ^°l exPenses of the Commission jw. ,r a heap of other expenses. Questions jaili y Sir John Gorst, Mr. Hanbuvy, and Mr. Jj: .ea Lowther were designed to drag from sjjo l?ters an acknowledgment that the subject g„ 1-:ie debated. Ministers cut a sorry Sir T6 Utl<^er this telling fire of cross-questions. Hibbert, Sir William Harcourt, and aDd" Ja^8tone all fiddled and quibbled on it, g.i. ey all looked ruflled and sad when they :o ?Wt1- l^e final shot fired by Sir John i,„t Was whether the Government really did (^1 Jllt«nd to allow discussion. To this Mr. f€s st°ne had to make the humiliating con- Thig011 that he bad not considered the subject. ,p exhibiti°n of profound ignorance tre SrS ^ave been too strong for the qn ^ry Bench, for Mr. Gladstone suhse- dj#0 'y answered it to the effect that a Ossion would be allowed on the Estimates. ^AA1RMAN OF COMMITTEES IN EVENING DRESS ^itf ^el'or, the new Chairman of Com- •itti 8' ^as ,,evel*ted to the old practice of 4DB aS Chairman in evening dress. He on Monday on the Treasury the • In war-paint of a gentleman of till llleteenth century, and waited patiently JV8 turn should come to sit in the Chair, tb. tl. e way, it is somewhat of an accident ajj- "as secured Mr. Mellor the Chairman- |v I hear this afternoon that the post was 81 offered to Mr. Haldane, a junior Q.C., was by him declined. A CREMATION ROMANCE. «>bse^a^e T10t seen yet an account of the arid C1U'eS of a wealthy gentleman well known jpjj Senerally esteemed in the West End dj. 18 sa'd to have left somewhat peculiar motions as to the disposition of his remains. v i ^acy £ o,00U was bequeathed to his tjj and £ 10,000 to his nephew, on condition I he was cremated and his ashes cast to the 0r quarters of heaven. Cremation is easy f nouh, but the casting of the ashes to the quarters of heaven could only be ^perly fulfilled. in some retired place, jPart from the madding crowd. V »j0u^ say a moderately high hill do I a suitable site for the function. No 0 "t, the request will be faithfully carried (i > but the world is not likely to be invited, r; 18 the apt'cial reporter of any one of the S/H. Gazettes likely to be there. The romance im v ':e(lUest and the cynical suggestion it iss e8' that the testator wanted to dis- jei?°'ate himself as much as possible from his },• °w-Oien, who fawned on him and flattered do 1 Wk° ate his dinners and aped his style, to 1°^ aPPear to have commended themselves v ^doners, who merely remark, How liry queer," when this quaint inoident in the i» i nd death) of a famous man about town told them. THE EILT.IACD STRTJGGLB. ,0 no exaggeration to say that, among tien pf the world at any rate, atten- jj is ooncentrated on the great bil- tan strnSgle g°in^ on at tbe J'-gyptian- p between Champion lioberts and do k Pa9t ^orm matc^ i3 un" QbtedJy a good one, seeing that Peall now ^lveg 9,000 start out of 24,000, whereas r Ue?» in 1891, he beat Roberts by 2,000 he jjOeived 12,000 start. This great match b Ustrates the enormous progress that has en made in the science of billiards. j,*enty.gve years ago 1,1)00 points, with e. 8Pot stroke allowed, was the outside gea,(^ of a big; match. To-day we sJ^~f>000, and the spot barred. With the *»id n Wou^d he odds that players like Peall Co Roberts would run up a 1,500 game in a g gP,e of breaks. Peall himself has made tjj off the spot in a single break, and with tin sP°t-stroke barred lioberts has several h made over 500 in a break, and once he i'it m-a^e over '8 verita^ya j an'c struggle that is being waged over the °f tlle Kr6611 clotl1 at the J' tfyptian- t MONSTER ANTI HOME RULE MEETING. A A Peat national meeting to protest against ''ome llule Bill is to be held in the rftD ert'hall. It will be a joint gathering, h 8entative of the four nations now united gfti,aPPy bond. There will have been no such inJ-'ng in the realms since the famous meet- thf 1° ^er Majesty's Theatre. Now, as then, le*ders of the Unionist party will appear a common platform. It is not possible to ^jj.^o will be there, but the meeting itself show who is not there, andabsentees will be Y0^Ullted for by uncontrollable circumstances. Lo'^y, for instance, take it as oertain that Sjr J^^isbury and the Dnke of Devonshire, ^a]four and Mr. Chamberlain, Lord llan- i ^wchill and Mr. Goschen will be on v^J-^tfornj Quiegg they are unavoidably pre- jf' &lso will the other TJ nionist leaders, it not fixed, but, as at present advised, 1[ be a day in the week before Easter. THK COUNTRY ROUSING. ^tifi H* °f tbe Un'onisi Party are highly tiiovj the way in which the country is frofjj0^" Already petitions are ooming up quarters, and the response to the T?n that meetings should be held is jsfaotory. The plans of our leaders ? a more complete and far-reach- ^or<l si a*i011 than haa ever been attempted. ^ooQl.aIlsbu,y's visitrto Ulster is to rally and in Ireland. The great national meet- 'T^don is to rouse England. Then will mass meetings in all the great -^t these meetings Irish Loyalist Peoni*'11 tbe me88a £ e of Ulster to of Eugland. The arrangements X°lone] o ^eans complete, but I know that bboniTi411^61'8011 '8 to go to Sheffield, Lord **Ht>ton ? ^ardiff, Mr. Carson to Wolver- I ana Mr. Dunbar Barton t<J WO'VPP- ton. A third category of meetings will carry the truth about Home Rule into the most dis- tant parts. This third category will com- I prise meetings in every town and village ¡ throughout the country. That is the plan, and I think the men at the head of affairs will see it carried out. Bi MFTALLISBF MADE INTERSTING. Sir Henry Meysev Thompson, who had gained the right of moving the resolution in favour of bi-metallism on Tuesday, is a hand- some, soldierly man, who looks as if he bad had more effective training than his service with the Yorkshire Hussars. Sir Henry, with his good looks, his wealth, his influence in the world of trade and industry, and his tremen- dous majority in Staffordshire, is certainly one of the most interesting figures in the House. Moreover, he has a clear, pleasant voice, a good Parliamentary style, and a gift of stating the somewhat complicated [case for bimetallism with lucidity, The subject being deplorably dry, Sir Henry appropriately wetted it by frequent draughts of water. Sir Henry's speech, deli- vered from Mr. Chamberlain's corner seat, was a great sucoess. and raised both the speaker's reputation and the tone of the debate. The possessor of the finest beard in Parliament—a thick, soft, silken Jacobean beard, white, streaked with black, and fitly appended to a fine face of the true Jewish type—seconded >ir Henry's resolution. This was Mr. Samuel Montagu, who is a financial authority from Whitechapel. He knows all about it, and made the subject interesting by his pawkie humour, as when he described mono-meta lists as worshippers of the golden calf, and when he adduced as one of the advantages in tl e transit of silver that it makes very good ballast. THE PREMIER IN GREAT FORM. Animated by the spirit of mono-meiallism, Mr. Gladstone arose in his wrath and pro- ceeded to the demolition of the bi-metallists with fiercely playful energy. He was in mar- vellous form. He chaffed remorselessly everyone laughed, and none more heartily than Sir Henry Meysey Thompson and Mr. Montagu. Mr. Gladstone twitted them with having said everything about the idol of their affections in their speeches, while they bad forgotten to put it in their motions. He revelled among money, and when he decided that the quality of a standard of value must be steadiness he proudly thumped his box, and repeated it over again, as if he had just, discovered the way to an inexhaus- tible gold reserve that would render silver unnecessary. He went into the queerest quarters for his similes-from proverbs and pills he went on, until inebriated with the triumph of his verbosity, be made a final plunge, and declared that we would sink lower and lower until we reached some other region, which it would not be prudent for him to name. It was certainly a clever speech, and the most interesting that has been delivered on the subject. THE LOCH OPTION PANTOMIME. There is a touching unanimity of opinion that the Harcourtian Local Option Bill is unwork- able, impossible, and not seriousiy intended. It is one of those show Bills which, if the Government can get a second reading for it, will be heard no more of this session. It is open to attack at every point. The most serious flaw, perhaps, is that discovered by Mr. George Wyndham. The Bill applies to England and Scotland, but not to Ireland. Sir William Ilarcourt intimated that Ireland would be left to legislate, for itself under Home Rule. Here, then, is the difficulty. If the Government are so sure of passing Home Kule that they leave Ireland out of legislation that is being effected for the rest of the country, they must not allow the Irish members to vote for the Local Option Bill now before the House. If we dock off 23 Loyalists and SO Nationalists, we find Ministers in a distinct minority. That is one of the absurdities of the Home Rule Bill and of the Local Option Bill also. If Ministers anticipate Home liule by leaving liish Local Option TO an Irish Parliament, they must also anticipate Home Kule by forbidding Irish members to vote on a purely British measure. THK OPIOSITION RO'JSI.D. As usual when the Unionist party is reproached for apathy, the criticism on the reoent defeats of the Opposition have been delivered with more zeal than discretion. The attack on the party for letting the Government have a majority of 56 on the Welsh Suspensory Bill was wholly unjustified. As I pointed out at the time, the largeness of the majority was due to the abstention of Liberal Unionists. Only two Tories were absent unaccounted for, and two were absent ill and unpaired. Of the Liberal Unionists twenty voted against the Bill and 24 were absent unpaired. Had the missing two dozen came up to the scratch and voted with the Opposition, the Govern- ment majority would have been down to 32. That is the simple fart; I make no comment on it, but simply leave it to the Liberal Unionist conscience. Now that the Opposi- tion is thoroughly roused and is showing splendid fighting power, as it did last night, we must have no more of this balf-hearted- ness. Liberal Unionists must not sidle off ov Local Option as they have done on Church Disestablishment. Mr. KKIR HARDIE GROWS DRESST. Mr. Keir Hardie's dress has during the last week or so in the House of Commons unde,. gone a marked change. I should not be in the least surprised to ultimately see the in domitable labour leader sport a tall silk and a frock coat, and from that stage to even- ing dress and opera hat is no great step. He has been going in for a dark and comparatively stylish-looking blue serge suit of late, and has followed the example v Lord Randolph Churchill and ventured on yachting I oots- some call them sand shoes. The tweed cap seems to have gone, at least for a while. This morning I met him with a soft black felt. It will probably be some time before Mr. Keir Hardie comes out so spick and span as Mr. Broadhurst used to do at the House of Com- mons. But I do really believe that he is developing style.
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THE RATING OF MACHINERY. The President of the Local Government Board on Wednesday received a deputation, including several M.P.'s, and representing the North of England District Chambers of Agriculture and the Seamen's Union, who aked for the Government's resistance to the Bill exempting certain manufac- turing machinery from taxation.—Mr. Fowler re- plied thnt the Bill wns not a Government Bill. The House of Commons was singularly fitted to deal with this question, and would do so entirely un- influenced by the Government either way, but uniformity of law was wanted.
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Wedded at Thirteen. Gossips at IIlinoiB are much concerned respect- ing a marriage celebrated in that Stato a few day ago. The nges of the bride and bridegroom I Mf.ttie Edniond and William Glarndon-are re- corded at Bellevillp, where the wedding took place, as respectively thirteen and sixteen. They are the youngest married couple in the United States.
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Public interest in the spot-barred mtitch rof 24,000 UP, at the Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly, between John Roberts and W. J. Peall, in which Roberts is attempting to give Peall a start of 9,000 points, was increased on Tuesday. Excellent play by both men was witnessed, the score at tho close I reading :-Peali, 10,949 Roberts, 4,002. IF you want to save LABOUR, TIME, nnd MONET, ask your Grocer fur CBOSFIELD'S PfiRFlCXIQK" S°AP- it l>a» no equal.
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WELSH PICKINGS. I A earo ina window atltllrv baars the announce I ment, Manglen dun hear." Sunday's Llandaff ordination list contains the nainps ot three Nonconformist ministers. Complainant. defendant, and witness in one police case at Btidgsnd were each named Thomas. It was confuting, but the right one got fined. The hen is being gradually superseded. In the hst list of local patents we find that a Gloucester man has invented an improved chicken-rearer. Mr. Pritchard Morgan will help Mr. D. A. Thomas to oppose the Miners' Eight Hours Bill. It is said that the mnj >rity of the Welsh members are in favour of the measure. We might have guessed it. Lord and Lidy Wimborne have left town for OanforJ Manor for a few days. tier ladyship will hold receptions at, Wimborne House on the third and fourth Wednesdays in March. The three most-whiskered men of Cardiff were seen walking arm-in-arm down tiie Strand one day this week. We asked who they were, and the answer was ilie mayor, Mderman Jacobs, and the borough engineer. It is stated that the father of John llees, the old quay warden of Carmarthen, who.e death we announced a week ago, was one of the crew of the Shannon at the time of its historic encounter with the Chesapeake during the second American War. Englishmen cannot believe that w can follow V in I%Ielsli word-. They persist in sayíll that, the Welsh equivalent for "Hear, hear," is Clwych, clwych." It is" Clywclt," gentlemen, Cly wch, clywch, clywch." Cynonfardd preached his last sermon, prior to returning to America, ut Ebenezer, Cardiff, on Sunday night. The Rev. Elvet Lewis, who is mentioned as a probable successor, will occupy the Ebenezer pulpit next Sunday week. It is said that one result of M. De Lesseps' visit to Swansea some years ago was that a good many allures in the Panama business were taken up in Swansea. The Leader says it knows of or.e man who invested a thousand pounds and lost. it all. The secretary of tho Caerphilly Eisteddfod was somewhat taken aback Inst week on tho receipt of a letter from an intending competitor in the pianoforte competition. His correspondent wanted to know if the selection could be played in English or Welsh. Hen Wlad y Monyg Gwynior, I" Again a Welsh county has failed to produce nny prisoners for an assise court. At the Pembrokeshire Assizes on Saturday the only business done ai to present, two pairs of white gloves ic Mr. Justice C-ive. Lord Bute took a run through St. Andrews on a recent afternoon to attend a meeting in connection with the university. His lordship is spending a week or so at, Falkland, and L'uly Bute left Mouut- stuart on Siturday for the Fifeshire residence. A Lampe'er man was again the gospeller at the Llandaff ordination on Sunday. It, is tlie rule thnt the who passes best through the bishop' examination has the honour of reading the got-pei at the ordina: ion. So far as Llandaff is concerned, Lampetcr men mostly gain the privilege. It is stated that Mr. E. R. Mox>y, J.P., treasurer of the C irdiff Liberal Association, who had pre- viously signified his intention of resigning the position, li IP, in re.-ponse to the representations of t.he deputation appointed to wail upon him in reference to the question, p: Otmsed to continue to hold the office ,,3 heretofore. Thieves have been making quite a run on watches lately. Jewell, rs at Meithyr, Neath, and C irdiff are among the losers. If the depredators want to know the time, they on get all the "timi!: they war.t by calling at the respective police- courts and interviewing the magistrates. We wonder how many of those Ihrry peopJc I who were not willing to give the assistant-overseer an increase of salary because the times were bad would be willing to have their own salaries re- duced for the same reason'{ Tiie religion of treat- cluce.d i(,r ilie s;tlilo i-eason-e 'J'iit3 1-1, ing others as you would be treated has but few betievfrs. Mr. Justice Cave has a higher opini; n of tL. great unpaid than is held by Mr. W O. Brigstocke, tlie ex-chairman of the C:i rtii-,vrilietlsiiire Council, and a good many others. His said at Haverfordwest on Saturday that the m" f. trates thoroughly understood and thoroughly jr c r funned their duty. Perhaps Mr. Lab'Jtichere wi;i drop his pillory iiii-. There is a row now on between the Tenby ('orpoiation and the Pembrokeshire County Council. The county body is charged with having put up a lock-up in the borough without having lirst. shown the plans to the corporation. Both authorities have their backs fairly up in a hump, and the dispute will come before the locai justices next week. It amounts to a religious belief with many people that tailors arc like orchards and railway com- to t)e robbed. A ?1*> thjr tailor whose case wi s before the official receiver ycster day at tribul ed his failure to a loss of about iwo hundred pounds through people to whom he had given credit having gone away from the disti ict An nuiiab'o r-. sideut of the mushroom town of without paying. I Cirdifli is s >re perplexed. He wears a bowler at home, but, having to run up to London, he bought a top hat, so as not to be singular in the Metropolis In the Strand he met a Cardiff gentleman who always weirs a top hat at home, but was then striding along the city of b lt-toppers wearing a jaunty little bowler. Cardiff opinion on the proposed harbour trust is crystallising. The chief point of disagreement will be the inclusion or the exclusion of Barty. Is it better to have Barry in the trust and stave off opposition and stand in for all chances of the management becoming lifeless and stagnant or would it be better to keep Bairy out for tins sake of the opposition which would give a fillip to i tiadci1 That is the point. Newport is still leading Wales in ali round athletics. A gallant fight has been made for the f,200 shield this year nnd in the third round the Newportoninns on Saturday won a really capital victorv (,ver Liverpool. The high jumping of the Newport men was remarkable, Lamey clear- ing 5ft. 5in,( and the two Huxtables 5ft. 3in. and 5ft. lin. It would be interesting to know the height of these jumpers. Three Cai-aillizins, representing the law, th'J press, and the nldortoanic bench, were at the new Oxford Music-hall, in London, the other night. On the stage the wrestling lion was engaged with its negro combatant. All humbug," said the alder- manic bench, looking over the law towards the press, You mean the lion is not dangerous," observed the Itw. Yes," replied the alderman; ii's like the Athanasian Creed: it's got no damna- tion claws." While listening to the uninteresting voice of Sir George Osborne Morgan in a debate the other night, I was reminded (writes our London corre- spondent) of a cruelly clever hit Mr. Labouchere once made at his expense. It was in the days when the name of Osman Digna, the Arab leader in the Soudan, was an omen of war and bloodshed. Ridiculing the fuss that was made over this terri- fying chief. Mr. Labouchere exclaimed, What Alarmed at Osman Digna? I should as soon think of being alarmed at Osborne Morgan as dot Osman Digna," and everyone laughed. It seems to be in the Bute family to step into help banks which have failed. Says a Scotch paper History repeats itself. Now we have the present Marquess of Bute offering to make up the deficiency to the Cardiff Savings Binb. In 1842 the Renfrewshire Bank failed, and the Savings Bank of Bute depositors' money was invested there. After realising the estates of the share- holders there was a very considerable deficiency and the late marquess came nobly forward and replenished the treasury of the savings bank, so that every depositor received his full invest- ment. A charming witness was giving evidence for the defence in an innkeeper's case at Cardiff last week I What were you doing in a dark cellar ( he was nsked. I had finished my work." was the reply "How long were you in the dark jI" asked the magistrate. About two minutes," said witness, and, answering a look of astonishment, he added that "Two minutes is only about two seconds, your | worship." "But what were you doing without a light?" persisted the magistrate. 11 Well, your worship," said witness, when you puts out a light it's dark, isn't it jI" and so on, till all the court was puzzled. Early closing is a miserable failure. Shops at Cardiff close earlier than they used to do, but the extra hour gained only means an extra hour at the public-house and for the exercise by the shop assistants of their frivolous and shallow enjoy- ments. These ore not our sentiments, but the sentiments of Mr. T. Spencer Jones, a shop nssis- tant who is president of the Shop Assistants' Union, Mr. JonfS started a debating class for the benefit of his kind, but of the 2,000 shop assistants in Cardiff or the 600 in the union only twenty attended the class meetings. Dock labourers, said Mr. Jones, are more fully alive to their social and moral welfnre than tho shop assistants were, and he, for one, was well-nigh disgusted with the whole propaganda of wly closing. Three old people who are neighbours at Potth- < awl are all in their ninetieth year. Two enjoy excellent health. Cardiff will have its fill of tragedies just now. It has a represent afire in two crimes which are receiving a deal of attention. Mr. Gladstone had a long interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday. What have the Welsh members to say to this? Welsh wells and superstitions connecttd with them was the subject of a lecture which Professor Rhys gave at Oxlord on Saturday night. Monte Carlo Wells was not included. Miss Hannah Caine, daughter of the arch- teetotaler, Mr. W. S. C tine, will shorily be married to Mr. J. H. Roberts, M.P., author of the amend- ment Bill to the Act of which Mr. R,)berts's father was the sole creator and patentee. Hypnotism furnishes the fun of Mr. Haydn Parry's new opera, "Marigold Firm, or the Simple Squire and the Evil Eye," of which a very early morning performance was given the other day for the purpo-e of complying with the vexatious law of copyright. Holyhead is in Wales, so the foliowing is admissible here :-A correspondent sends the Globe a good variant on Sir Boyle Roche's bird. Two Irish priests were on dcck during a foggy passage from Kingstown to Holyhead. Said the one padre to the other, "Were ye ever in two ships that met ?" to which his comrade replied. "I did." When a couple of silly students at Cardiff University College hissed at "God Save the Queen" II few veal's ago the other students met and passed a vote of severo censure on their dis- loyal colleagues. In a siuiilar way tiin Abarystwith students may wipe out the slain placed on their fair fame the other day by a few of their shallow- pated companions. A feeling of alarm must have run through Car- diff on Monday when it became known that two men were up in the poln e-c >urt on a charge of stealing two ship's anchors, 45 fathoms of chains, and a couple of buoys. If thieving coulJ be done on this scale we might wake up some morning and find a footpath or a garden gone, and even a dock would roi lie safe. Fortunately, the two men were dismissed, and we may believe such colossal "hfting"impos-.ibe. Professor Pilul Ha, bier is ngain writing to the papers about Shakespeare as a text book. Mr. Barbier admits that when ho wrote before he got more kicks than iitlfiit nev-we didn't know the good gentleman wanted any halfpence—and he comes to the surface again only to point that latterly" one of the four most succesflll held. masters of our generation," has been saying tilings which back up M. lJarbier's contention as to Shakespeare's fitness t.o bo read by boys, The M one of the four is Mr. Eve. An English opinion of Bishop Edwards :—" The Bishop of St. Aseph is Ihe btau ideal of a fighting prelate, and must often yearn to have lived in days when lie would have dealt with the Church's foes not with a pen but with a mace. Nobody can li-teii to him f■ T ten minutis without realising that lie delights in a conflict, and enjoys himself equally whether his opponent he the fritne Mini ter or Mr.Ge ■, of the L'ener. Nobody dreams of disputing his leadership of tt.e Cnurch party in Wales, and he is pr -bably the lJeHt, loved and the best hated 'nan in the whole Principality." The highert summit in the Long-mynd range of hills that runs throu«h the centre of Glamorgan is PwlI-y-Iwrch, a hill ],000ft. above the sea level, and overlooking Maesteg. Some learned men de- rive the nanio of Pwll-y-Iwreh from pidl and Ttvrcian. How in the world came pwll (pool) to be applied to a mountain? There is a basin-shaped depression on tlie veiy summit—the work ot denudation—and a great tisuire caused by coal- mining at No. 9 and the Slip. Tilere is no bvidence that "lwran" Jie8 buried her.j. We have wriiten thus much because we have just received a letter from a professional gentleman from Birmingham stating that he would like to go tip Ptill-v-witeit otice iiiore. Thanks for tho It kept tlie word Welsh, or Puliwitch would be set down for Dutch. There has been some discussion in the 11arers as to tho identity of the gentleman who first nurue'ed the attention of the Liberal leaders to Croatia as a case in point for Home Pule. A study tite b telt iititiibiis rf the magazines suggests that tiie ei-ejit to Lord Edmotid Fnztn inriee. In lo78 there was an at ttele from his pell in 7dacmillan's called Hungary and Croat;a." i'his was followed in 1835 by another.in the Nineteenth Century, on "Home Rule in Austria- IIungltry," while in i887 thesnmn writer referred again to Croatia in an article in the Contemporary. A rechauffe of tnagiz ne articles seldom makes a go,,(t t)o(lic. But, in view of the political interest of the Croatian parallel, it, seems almost a pity that Lord Edmond does not dish up hi-Croatian studies with some latter-day snuce. People will wonder what the blazes this par (lifted from the green Ga--eltell has to do with Wales. Let them bide a wee, and they will twig it. We are waiting for Morien's book to clear up the mystery that surrounds an honoured ancient game. Tilere is l'eawn to believe that the early bards played nap, for, according to a paragraph at present going the rounds of the press, a pathetic incident in connection wi' -li the death of King Arthur has not been recorded by the chroniclers. It is not generally known that Sir Bedivere, of the Round Table, was a great nap player. "Thou hast had a sweet nap, Sir King," said Bedivere. as Arthur opened his eyes by the margin of the mere. "Nay, good knight, but where are my three queens P" said the King wearily, gazing across the iiiere. "I am passing, Sir Bedivere, I am parsing." rt!zsitia, art thou Sir King ?" said Bedivere briskly, glancing at his hand fiom force of habit. "Then by my knight- hood I will go too." "Thou wilt, go too, wilt thou?" cried the King in anger. "So thou shalt varlet, so thou shalt And he arose and slew him with Excalibur. The hek was waving valiantly in St. David's Church, Manchester, on Sunday night. In a St. David's Day sermon, tho Rev. James Price said: St. David mw that if Wales was to take its place amongst the nations of Europe it must be through education and religion. In his day there was a university or monastery at Llaniilfyu Fawr, in South Wales, with 2,000 students from the different nations of Europe, one at B.ingor-is-y-coed with the same number of students, and a third at Bangor- fawr, in Carnarvonshire. In those days the name of Welshman suggested at once a happy combina- tion of military valour and of scholastic accom- plishments. Wales lost its universities and its churches at the time of its conquest, but, in consequence of the educational movement which begun about 40 years ago, Welshmen now held honourable positions in various parts of the world. One was Prime Minister in one of our colonies, another was one of the Lordi Justice of the Realm, a third last, year held the highest position in the greatest city in the world-London. The cap of one of the gods a< the C irdiff Grand Theatre on Saturday night fell to the dress circle. A gentleman who was sitting in a front seat very good-naturedly to^k it upon himself to return the cap, which he threw towards the outstretched hands of the god above- The cap came down again, and a second attempt was made. This time the perpendicular was lost, and the cap descended to the pit. Of course the audience laughed hyste- rically. That reminds me," said one of the dress- circlers, after he had got back his breath, of an I incident at Aberdare. Two boys were wheeling n hand truck, and a wheel stuck in the rails. They: couldn't move it. I tried to help, and after some hard tugging I broke one of the shafts. The boy iu charge surveyed the wreck, and his gratitude for my assistance was summed up in the words, You clotted fool.' That is how the boy above feels." Our readers already know that Mr. Allan, the new Radical member for Gateshead, was once partner with Sir George Elliot. In a sketch of Mr. Allan the Westminster Gazette gives the fol- lowing story connected with the turning point in the career of this remarkable man He was working as a foreman in the Nortii Eastern Marine Engineering Works in Sunderland, where things were going so badly that the directors had resolved to wind up the concern. But Allan foresaw the denlopment of the marine engine in the immediate future, nnd his practical eye had already been opened to defects in the management which had been involving loss instead of gain to the company. When the direc- tors met, under the chairmanship of Sir George Elliot, to formally wind up, Allan, laying down his hammer and chisel in the shop, walked up, griiry and unkempt, to the board-room, and asked an interview. It. was, after some demur, granted. Wei), my man, what do you think you can do ?' asked Sir George, giving the big workman a look of keen scrutiny. The answer was characteristic: I Well, Sir George, I came in through the hawse-holes, and not through the cabin windows-' He could design and make nn engine from the least part to the greatest, and he could effect improvements on the best types he knew, and there was money in the bminesø-and money in plenty! This was his argument, backed by may reasons and facts. Fortunately for him and for those who listened, his reasoning carried weight; the resolution to wind up was postponed, and that postponement was the turning point of the Gateshead candidate's career. The management of the whole bQllluesa was next day in his hands" Mr. Haydn Party will be the president a^htf club dinner of the "Savages" next SataiOciy Canon Wilson states that he is not aware of a single South Walian who has joined the C itholiC pilgr-image to Rome in connection with the Pope Jubilee. Carnarvon is coaxing Madame Patti with a ffifl of £ 500 to stiif at one of the concerts of next year's ejs'e Jdfod. Snowdon is the subject of the chair prize at that same eisteddfod. Mr. Tudor Crawshay has been confined to his Lfld at Chelthenham for the last fortnight, owm? to injuries received out hunting. The muscles of the arm are broken, and perfect rest is required. Mr. Allen Upward must feel miserable all through. Mr. Pritchard Morgan won't resign his Merthyr seat and now when an election at Cardiff seems near the Democrats of that town declare they wouldn't have Mr. Upward in a pr:zn-packet. Describing an assault, a complainant. at Aberdara Police-court this week said that he was kicked until he was sensible." Tiie magistrate's clerk seemed to think that if ldck. have tuch a bene- ficial effect it would be a good thing if they were more frequently administered. Dr. Isambird Owen is a man of mny parts. One evening last week he was at a smoking concert of the London Welsh Football Club, the next lie was haranguing Welsh educationalists at Shrewsbury, and it was difficult to decide in which funciion lie was most at home. The Book of L!an Dåv," which, it appears, i. the coirect way of designating the venerable memorial ot this diecfS<\ now the property of Mr. Davies-ooke, ol Gwysaney, near Mold, is stated to be the fourth of the series of Welsh texts. The first was issued on St. David's Day, 1887. Professor Rhys is busily engaged upon a work on the "Language of the Northern picts." Scotch Ogams are even more difficult, than Welsh ones, and have created as much discord amongst scholars as did the apple on Mount Ida when the world w.is much younger than it is to-day. Addresstng a collier who was biought before the Aberdare b.-ncii this week, Mr. Riiys, one of th* magistrates,wisely remarked that now 1 he coal trade was so slack that many colliers were working only two or three days a week, miners had much better spend '.heir money on their families than waste it in getting drunk and paying fines and costs. Luck go with the Suspensory Bill for Wales, exclaims Moonshine, which reasons thus :-Tlif one consolation hat, the Church got rid of, the sects will have nothing to keep them united Their little jealousies of finance, social standingf doctrine, and vriiat riot will come to the fore in the absence of the common enemy. They will quarrel like brieli;-per;i;ips with bi-icks-anioiig them- selves, and there will be a fine chance in gallant little Waies f'r a curner in court-plaster. Mr. Justice Cave is as jealous as his learned brother Judge Lawranee of tile saeledness of the jmy box. This week at Lampeter several gentle- men (including the Lord lieutenant "f the county) unwittingly stepped into the seats occupied by Ilia good and true. whereupon nis lordship, somewhat severely, re- minded them of their mistake, and squiredom generally seemed much abashed- His Lordship also seemed determined to Bhow that special jurors can't do as they like, and ordered some four gentlemen t,) pay S-10 each for the privilege of staying at home when the court is sitting. Although generally consistent, Nature occa- sionally indulges in a frpak. A Carmarthen young man named Bitsket-ville happens to be the owner ot some pigeons of the homing kind, and the other morning he was conj lerably surpiised to see in iiis ccop a very extraordinary young pigeon. It had four eyes, two being placed in their ordinary positions, while the other two were in one socket. as it were. It had also an extra bill, and its head altogether was of verv extraordinary description. It dTd net live long. The freak is locally supposed to be duo to the disturbed state of the political atmosphere. We kra afraid Mr. Alfred ThonTf has left out of his Welsh Home Rule Bill the most important ol all the mat era that would make Wales a nation" We see no clause making it necessary for foreigners to take out letters of naturalisation before they can b3 alli)wed to accept public appointments in Wales. The necessity for such a clause was driven home t,) our mind last night when we heard an affrighted crowd of two Irishmen, three Eng- lishmen, and a Scotchman iii,pl --iiig "Idriswyn" to tell them how they could btcome naturalised Welshmen wiit-n IVales had Homo Rule and Cvmru Fydd was rampant. The three most whiskered men inCivdiffare extremely modest. They deprecate the notion that they attiacted any attention whatever in London the other clay. "You must tliii,k "Itriind is very empty." said one of the trio to in the presence of the other two yesterday. :;¡-t"r in Bournemouth the fun occurred. We were about there nnd went into a pub- "A ptib we remarked. Well, an hotel of some sort." You did not have a I blue' did you ?" •• No a drop of claret, or something. The woman when she saw us almost went in'o hysterics, and .'eclared the had never seen such a tr:o before." We forgot tc nsk his worsh we beg pardon, tho member ol the trio who related the incidenr, whether tho landlady recovered sufficiently to charge for ttio claret." A number of skaters who had betaken them. selves to the pond at the beginning of B)itd-streel -we beg pardon, Duke-street, Cardiff—yesterday morning with the anticipation of a delightful skate were grievously disappointe-* vlien they found the ice ha i bien broken up. It is a nasty reflection upon the town authorities that the few places of public recreation the inhabitants of C irdiff have are not more rigorously protected. Formerly a night's frost was sufficie..t to produce a good sheet of ice on the stretch of v.-iter by the C istio. Gates, but the process of denudation has iion-. been going on some time, and the pond is get'ing deeper thus a longer frost is needed. But of what avail are the efforts of the weather if the big'busses and small boys are allowed to destroy its work. Notices should be put up. and with ordinary development we may in the summer time see a gondola or two floating about, and in other years we shall witness there a fine regatta on the town waters.
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