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1i' SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1S83. THE WEEK. SIR E. J. REIW, M.P., AND THE BAIIBY DOCK SCHEME. The prospect which Sir E. J. llEED con- jures up, in the very admirable letter addressed by him to Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS LEWIS which we publish in another column to-day, of the future of Cardiff in case the Barry Dock scheme is carried out, is not a pleasant one for the ratepayers of that town to contemplate. It seems to me," says the writer, in emphatic but nob a whit too forcible terms, "to need nothing but free- "dom from strong local bias to enable one- nay, to compel one—to see that this move- "ment is likely, if carried out, to I)ut I a chscJc, and possibly a permanent and "final cheek, upon the progress of "Cardiff." Now this is the language of a man whose opinion upon such a subject is entitled to the very greatest respect. Sir E. J. HEED'S acquaintance with maritime affairs, his wide experience of commercial undertak- ings on tho largest scale, and his knowledge of the causes which influence the disposition and course of traffic enable him to speak autho- ritatively upon a question affecting a diversion of trade from one channel to another. And not only is he qualified thus to speak, but be recognises the duty which his position as the ia representative in Parliament of Cardiff Im- poses upon him faithfully to deliver his soul. For the time being Sir EDWARD is the repre- sentative of every elector in the borough and, politics apart, it is his bounden duty to use whatever influence he possesses to protect the interests of his constituents as a body. It must have needed no little moral courage on the part of the member for Cardiff to have induced him to make the outspoken declara- tion contained in his letter to Mr. W. T. LEWIA. Because we have dared from time to time to proclaim the same gospel we have been denounced in opprobrious terms, which have culminated in the charge of our being a "Bute organ." Sir EDWARD will be a lucky man if he escape a similar accusa- tion. It will, doubtless, be suggested, if not actually asserted, that the member for Cardiff has been U got at" by the Castle party. For, how otherwise," the FreighterWhistle will sternly demand, can his present conduct be explained ?" There is a section of the Cardiff constituency that considers the chief duty of a local Liberal member of Parliament to be fidelity to the local Liberal wire-pullers and obsequiousness to the local Liberal press. Yet here, in his letter to Lord BUTE'S manager, is Sir E.J. ltbrf, D, M.P., kicking over the traces. He not only disorganises the schemes of Mr. WILLIAM SANDERS, the Liberal agent, but he expresses opinions dia- metrically opposed to those enunciated by the South Wales Daily News. No later than Tuesday last that eminent authority declared, with all the importance of its largest type and its strongest editorial emphasis, that ice think that any person not directly "dependent upon and blinded by the "Profits accruing from the Bute Docks "must see that a Dock at Barry is likely to do good to Cardiff." Whether Sir E. J. REED is influenced by the considerations thus delicately alluded to or not we will not take upon ourselves to say. But there can be no shadow of a doubt that lie does not think that a dock at Barry is likely to do good to Cardiff." On the contrary, he says it would mark an abrupt and very serious de- parture from that career of continned "prosperity which the town has hitherto "undergone." We must leave the people of Cardiff to deoide whether, in this matter of such vital importance to everyone who has a stake in the town, they will accept the opinion of a paper whose hostility to the owner of the Bute Docks has been matter of notoriety for years past or that of their local member of Parliament who, whatever his political leanings may be, is too mag- nanimous to indulge a private grudge, tnd too honest to promote his party interests at the expense of the electors whom he represents in Parliament. We commend Sir EDWARD'S letter to those mem- bers of the Cardiff Corporation who at the present time are halting between two opinions as to the attitude they shall assume in their corporate capacity towards the Barry Dock Bill. If in the face of this document they still think fit follow the dictates of that member of their body whose one object in life appears to be to foment ill-will between Lord BUTE and the town they will, we have no hesitation in saying it, be recreant to their trust, the enemies and not the friends of Cardiff. It is Sir E. J. REED, and not a BUTE nominee, who declares his con- viction "that the best interests of Cardiff and its reputation in the world would be more or less jeopardised by the establish- ment of a separate dock system several ) miles away from the town." It is the Liberal member for Cardiff and not the Con- servative press who describes the Barry Docks as "a threatened dismemberment" of the I town; and predicts that their construction would result in a diversion from Cardiff proper of a large part of its trade, and of the energies and enterprise c: of some of its foremost Our space will not permit of our dealing at any length with the reply of Mr. W. T. LEWIS to Sir E. J. communication. The spirit of conciliation which it breathes is in marked contrast to the ominous silence of Sir EDWARD'S other corres- pondent, Mr. J. OSBORNE RICHES. Until, however, an oflicial reply is received from that gentleman it would be premature to discuss the prospect of an I amicable arrangement being effected with the Barry Dock promoters. Unfortunately Sir EDWARD has been misinformed as to the I' motives which influence Mr. RICHES and his colleagues in respectoi their rival dock project. Ihey are influenced a great deal more Ly their I desire to reduce the Taff Vale Railway rates than they are by their hostility to the pros- pective increase in the Bute Dock charges, With the best disposition in the world to conciliate the freighters, Lord BUTE will be powerless to satisfy the Barry Dock pro- moters unless the concurrence of the Taff Vale liailway in the proposed scheme of arrange- ment can be secured. What there is or this consummation „o devoutly to be wished being achieved we leave our readers to imagine. To the people of Cardiff it is of little moment whether Lord BUTE'S Docks return him three or fiva per cent. upon the outlay. Nor does it concern them whether the Taff Yale Stock pays eight or eighteen per cent.>dividend. What does vitally concern them is the threatened di- version of a large portion of their trade over a new railway to a new dock situated miles away down the Bristol Channel. And they will be insensible to their own best interests if they do not oppose such a project tooth nail, by every legitimate means in their power. THE NORTH WALES COLLEGE. The letter of Principal JAYNE, of Aberyst- with, to the Times of Tuesday, and the verdict of the Conference held at Chester on the same day, are both decisive on one point, namely, that no College is wanted at Aberystwith. Both go a good deal further, we admit, but as regards thj existence or non-existence of Aberystwith as an educational centre they are unanimous. Aberystwith is now practi- cally declared a No-man's Land. North Wales will not have it at any price; while as to South Wales, it would be quite out of the question to set up any pretensions in that direction. This ia certainly unfortu- nate for Aberystwith, and particularly for the College situate there. Nothing better could have happened to that not over-flourishing institution than a grant of four thousand a year from the Government. It would have galvanised it into life, or very possibly have given it an altogether different and more vigorous life than it had ever known before. But according to present signs the last blow has been given to its hopes, and its place will shortly know it no more. To those who have worked so strenuously in first founding, and afterwards keeping the College a-going, the decision of the Conference will be a most disheartening one—so very disheartening, in fact, that we prefer veiling the picture and reverting for a brief space to the letter of Principal JAYNE, of which we made mention at the outset. In this we find a strong agreement with the views we have always held and expressed. The establishment of Colleges away from thecentre.3 of population ia a proceeding we have invariably deprecated. Principal JAYNE appears to doubt whether the Welsh cherry is large enough for two bites, and if his fruit be taken to mean the amount of the grant proposed by Govern- ment in aid of the eduoational scheme, we would be rather disposed to agree with him. Eight thousand pounds a year for one college would not be too liberal an allowance in the case of Wales when we remember what has been done for Scotland. But since that is the full extent of a Liberal Government s con- science, and since there ought to be and must be two Colleges, we have always thought and still think that those two Colleges should be placed where they are wanted and nowhere else. We believe Swansea could support one and Cardiff the other, an arrangement which would ensure the prosperity of both; whereas, under the present scheme, the in- stitution which is to be founded in North Wales has for various reasons hardly any other prospect before it than that of com- parative failure. ANOTHER FLAW IN THE WELSII SUNDAY CLOSING ACT. That dismal measure for the Sanuay Closing of public-houses in Wales has gaps in it wide enough to admit, not merely the proverbial t coach and four, but a whole circus procession or a Lord Mayor's show. A new difficulty con- nected with this precious statute has just been pointed out by the Stipendiary Magistrate I for Swansea in a case affecting the holder of a six-day licence, who was summoned for keeping his house open for the sale of liquor last Christmas Day. It should be explained that at the bottom of every innkeeper's licence, just above the signatures or the official seal of the justices, whichever is used, official seal of the justices, whichever is used, there is a line to the effect that the licence shall be in force from the 10th day of October next until the 10th day of October then next ensuing." This being a six-day licence a further line would be added stipulating that the house in respect of which the licence was granted should be closed during the whole of Sunday, With these facts in his mind the defendant would naturally argue, first, that having paid for a six-days' licence he was entitled to keep open for more than five; and next, that, having closed on the whole of Sunday, he was entitled to open on the whole of Monday. It is admitted that the Welsh Sunday Closing Act has not a word in it as to Christmas Day or Good Friday. This very fact, one would think, ought to have materially strengthened the case for the defendant. According to Mr. FOWLER it does nothing of the kind. But it is not at all impossible that Mr. FowLrm may be wrong in his law. The Welsh Sunday Closing Act, although it prays in aid the other Acts, can only do so to the! extent to which those Acts themselves are operative. The Acts of 1872-74 do not con- tain any provision for closing during the whole of Sunday, and go no further with j regard to Christmas Day and Good Friday than to say that houses shall be closed on I hose days for certain hours as on Sundays I I Bow, then, does the Welsh Sunday Closing Act, which is perfectly silent as re- gards such days, apply ? This is a refinement of law with respect to which there is abundant room for argument. An eminent legal luminary ha" expressed an opinion adverse to that of Mr. FOWLER, and this, coupled with the fact that the holders of seven-day licences are affected just as much jas the others, ought to stir the trade to aglbte fur an authoritative settlement of the question by appeal to a higher court. THE BONA FIDE TRAVELLER QUESTION. It is highly probable that the opinion'' which we publish elsewhere as having been delivered by Mr. POLAND in the t. o'1se" sub- mitted to him by the solicitor acting for Mr. RICHARD WILLIAMS, the landloid of the Bed Lion Hotel, Llandaff, is baaed upon perfectly sound law. But whether it has an equally good foundation of comnion-sonse and equity is another matter altogether. M WILLIAMS. it may be remembered, was proceeded against for a breach of the Act in opening his pre- mises for the sale of drink on Sunday, the 10th ult. There was not much contro- versy as to the facts. The men found' on the premises had slept on the previous night at Cardiff at a greater distance than three miles by road from the house at which they called for refreshment. Now, here comes in one of those niceties of law which may be said to show all the beauty of that great science. Although the house is more than three miles by ioad—or, to be more precise, let us say carriage-road—from the respective starting points of the various travellers, there is a nearer way to it—a foot- path through some fields, a short cut which brings the distance some yards within the three-mile limit. The magistrates held this fact to be sufficient to bring the landlord nd his customer* within the purview of the statute, and consequently recorded a con-' viction. "UnlesÐ the justices are right," says j Mr. POLAND, it would follow that if a party started together from the house where they all slept, some of whom j went in carriages, the landlord could: by law serve some of them and not the others." And why should he not ? Where is the wrong of it, or the hardship, or the anomaly of it? If" law is law," as someone has profoundly laid down with regard to it, why is a man who rides in a carriage to be; debarred of his right to obtain reasonable refreshment after a journey of more than three miles from hom? A vehicle cannot be taken as the crow flies; it cannot use i footoaths or cross stiles or jump a five-barred gate, as it would be perfectly competent for an ordinary pedestrian to do. A C'JRE FOR THE POTATO DISEASE. The fact having long been demonstrated that potatoes, like grapes, suffer from a vegetable parasite peculiar to themselves, it is some- what extraordinary to be told that even up to the present time no means of escape have been found for tho potato-tuber from the fungus which ruthlessly eats out its life. Whence these fungal-forms come and how spread there is at present no means of knowing. But although the intermediate stage between the first appearance of the spores upon the tuber and their final action has not been traced, as the result of actual experiments made by Mr. JE:<SEN, the director of the School of Agriculture at Copenhagen, a most impor- tant discovery has been made with regard to the conditions under which the fungi will or will not thrive. It was found that the amount of disease varied with the depth at which the tubers experimented upon were planted, and, moreover, that the disease was communicated through the medium of the soil. It was ascertained beyond doubt that the deeper the tubers were planted the less liable they were to disease, and that deep planting, coupled with a system of protective earthing, with a view of rendering the ground spore-proof, had a remarkable effect in limiting the amount and re- ducing the virulence of the disease. For the benefit of those desirous of trying the experiment it might be mentioned that the earthing should be carried out before the, disease makes its appearance on the leaf, or as early after its discovery as possible. Sup- posing the potatoes are planted in drills, these latter should be made about thirty inches apart, and the plants placed in them each about eighteen inches from the other. The earth should be carefully made up on each side ot the drill, at an angle of inclination of about 45 degrees. The earth should fit in closely around the stems, the great ooject being that the rain water, with the spores, should be carried, not into the neighbourhood of the new tubers, but away from them as far as possible." Mr. JEVSEN has published a pamphlet, La Maladie des Pommea de Terre vaincue au moyen d'un procede de culture simple et facile," in which he describes the special form of earthing adopted, and gives the results of his various experiments. TEE FATE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. No well-constituted Government in France need fear the efforts of Prince Napoleon or the Orleans Princes to disturb it. The former has, partly by his own fault, but chiefly through the malice of his enemies, long borne the character of being the most unpopular man in France: while the latter, with all thoir good qualities, have shown a greediness for money at the public expense which has ruined them in public estimation. The scare, therefore, j created by Prince Napoleon's manifesto, and the simultaneous rumours of a Koyalist. conspiracy,) is a striking proof of the extreme frailty of the existing political fabric in France. The Re-I publicans evidently believe, and the Govern- ment has been weak enough to pander to this belief, chat the safety of the Republic can only bedssured by theinstitutionof aReignof Terror.) Much curiosity is felt as to the purpose of the Empress Kug<$nie's visit to Paris at the present critical moment. It may be con- jectured that her main object is to help in rallying and uniting tho Imperialist party. Although M. Paul de Cassagnac still raves against Prince Napoleon, the more prudent Bonapartists of the Empress's faction have already admitted that the Prince has, by the passages in his manifesto relating to the Church, made important overtures to them, and that it would be folly to go on ostracising him when a propitious season seems to have come for maintaining the cause of Im- perialism. DRESS AT THE MERTHYR COUNTY COURT. To the eye of vulgar logic, what is man? An omniverous biped that wears breeches. \1 To the eye of the initiated what is a lawyer ? A forked radish, with a fantastically carved head, encased in a wig, and with a goose-quill between ita teeth. We are afraid that there may be a good deal of "unconscious pla- giarism in the foregoing. But if there be, it is the judge of the Merthyr County Court who is the person most to blame. It was he who set us on to it, or, to use a more dignified form of expression, he was an accessory before the fact. Mr. B. T. Willies, Q.C., appears to have got tired of the plainness of the cere- monial, or rather the absence of all ceremonial, attendant upon the proceedings of his court at Merthyr, so he wants the clerk and the solicitors practising there to wear goat's hair and stuff." They do it in other plaoes, and why not at Merthyr ? Why, indeed, unless in that eminently Puritanical town they should object to the movement as a revival of Ritualism ? LORD HARTINGTOK AS A REFORMER. If the Liberals have not exactly asked for tread and been given a stone, at any rate th vater biscuits of Lord Hartington are but poor substitute for the strong meat which they expected the Premier to serve up to them in Midlothian. Lord ITartingcon suffers in all his platform addresses to the party of which he is nominally second in command from the consciousness that he is only tole- rated because he is one of Mr. Gladstone's colleagues. Radicalism is the main plank in the constitution of the existing Government, and, ponderous though he is, the noble Mar- quees is shrewd enough to know perfectly that his unadulterated Whiggery, standing alone, would not be tolerated at any price. When, in the ordinary course of events, Mr. Gladstone gives place to his suc- cessors, Lord Hartington will have to do one of two things, either to become more Radical than the Radicals themselves, or to make way for the trusted leaders of that faction of Liberalism. Even if he finds it possible to stomach the former alternative, it is highly questionable whether he wouid be in a much better position, for if there is one thing more than another that your thorough paced patriot hates—and it is part of his creed to bate all round—it is to see the scion of a great House playing the role of the advanced reformer.

0U11 LONDON LETTEK, The verdict of the coroner's jury in the Hounslow poisoning case was hardly required to settle Dr. Whitmarsh's hash, so far as that locality was concerned for public opinion in j the town and neighbourhood had already pro- nounced it-self emphatically against him. j However, he can ex-isi without his pra^ii.-e, as he has a private income of or £ '900 a year of his own, and his wife is said to be blessed with a round "11m of about £40,000., I am told by one who knows that quite a number of young medical men have been prowling about Hounslow to see what their chances would be ot starting in practice there. Mr. Needs, the medical agent, will have to use all his blandishments to procure a purchaser for Dr. Whitmarsh'fi. I fear it must be confessed that the pjc- turesque reporters have failed in their oliClcm- vours to make Mrs. Bignell" interesting- The talk about the slender, girlish figure," the fair fringe of golden hair," It the SJUl- pathetic blue eyes," and the mobile mouth,' is, to put the matter bluntly but truthfully, all moonshine. She ia not a bad-looking little woman in her way, but it happens to be a peculiarly every-day type of good looks, in which a clear complexion; plays the principal part. Some men of a rather low type might consider her attrac- tive "—the word may be understood in more than one don't fancy any woman would acknowledge her to be even good- j looking. Her eyes, which very steady and searching, are, as a matter of fact, not biue eot all, but of a steel-grey. She has a hard- indeed, I may say, a vixenish mouth—and j that she possesses "a temper of her own was pretty clearly indicated while she was brou^nt within the dangerous focus of Mr. George i Lewis's eve-glass. He conducted his case with great tact, and some of his theatrical business was "im- mense." His entrances into court wer, I beautifully managed, and at the termination of the case half the adult population of Hounslow turned out to gaze open-mouthed at the smart Hebrew solicitor of Ely-place whose generalship had been employed upon the side on which all their sympathies lav. One of the jurymen of the Belt case wa" in court all through the inquiry. I should have thought he would have had quite enough law to have lasted him for a lifetime without troubling to t:iù to Hounslow for anv more. Next week the materials of the Old Courts at Westminster will be soid by auction. It has now, I believe, been definitely decided by Air. Shaw Lefevre to utilise the site for orna- mental gardens. Among the "lots" sub- mitted will be the valuable panelling of the Oid Courts, but I am pleased to learn that the tiuely-executed wood carviu-s of the Royal Arms, 3uppoited by lions and unicorns, that used to adorn theeanopy above the judgment- seat in the various courts are to be transferred to the new Palace of Justice in the Strand. Anything that seems to give to these tare and inhospitable-looking apartments a familiar appearance will be welcome. The scandalous condition of that dilapidated piece of sculpture, Queen Anne's statue, in front of St. Paul's, has been before the Court of Common Council, and there seems to be some doubt whether the responsibility of keeping it in order rests with the Govern- ment, the City, or the Dean and Chapter, i he only sensible way of dealing with it is to remove it altogether. It ia an eyesore, and cannot possibly be made anything else, be- cause the stonework is rotten, and such trifles as missing fingers, ears and nose are incapable of being replaced. W e are slowly learning the lesson that the surface of stone cannot withstand the action of London atmosphere, and all our important public statues are now being cast in bronze. It is a pity that the statues of Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales, and the head of Prince Albert Victor, which are carved in high relief on the Griffin memorial at Temple Bar, are of stone. In a few years they will not be fit to be seen. Harking back for a moment to the St. Paul's statue, I am con- fident that no one who sees it could douhl chat Queen Anne's dead," for if she were alive she would be ashamed to let such a monstrosity disfigure an open space. Mr. Henry Lucy will hardly thank the Graphic for its criticism of his first effort in fiction, which is a political story called Gideon Fieyce." The reviewer says of the author that the latter does not content him- self with satire, but employs his heroine a young lady whose surname is made'Tandy,' in order that he may nickname her I Napp-ir/ to _emphasise the difference between what, political life too often is and its rose-coloured ideal," This is a decidedly nasty hit, but worse fol- lows:—"To say that the clever sketches which compose the earlier (docs the critic mean us to infer that there are no clever sketches in the later?) portion of 'Gideon Kleyee' approach either in humour or in insight to the masterpieces of political fiction would be extravagant praise." Now, contrasted with the usually lenient treatment accorded to fledgling authors in the Graphic reviews, this is positively cruel. But the agony is piled up directly afterwards, when we read that" the very genius of perversity has impelled Mr. Lucy to turn his sketch-book into a romance of sensation and mystery." j I Mr. Lucy's hero is described as a vulgar" and stupid," although," on the whole, well-j meaning person." Of the author—or, indeed, | it may be of the hero, for I am not quite clear which—the critic says :—" Readers look to him for the results of his own unsurpassed powers of minute and personal observation— not for the decomposed corpses of murdered murderers and tbeaecompanYlngdetectlve bu- siness such as anybody can give them." The result of the expectations raised in regard to Mr. Lucy's appearance as a novelist is de- clared to be as disappointing as if Miss Braddou or Mr. Wilkie Collins were in like manner to turn their backs upon themselves. In short, he writes throughout the first portion of his novel with a contempt for the morals of his characters which he appears, throughout the second, to extend to the intellects of his readers." Phew Mr. James Mortimer, for so many years connected with the London Figaro, of which 1 believe he was the founder, has started a new satirical journal, with the title of the Magpie. It is well named, for it is a witty and pleasant chatterbox. Some eight or ten years ago, I recollect, a little paper under the same name was started in Cardiff, but it died on the day of its birth. I had a hand in it, but I feel that 1 was among those who helped to kill it, because the printer took fright at the last moment, and refused to set up the type on account of some paragraphs which he considered libellous. One of the critics shrewdly observes that the whole of the company engaged to play The Comedy of Errors," just produced at the Strand Theatre—with the single excep- tion of Mr. John S. Clarke, who impersonates Dromio of Syracuse with almost inimitable unction-seem to labour under the weighty consciousness that they are playing Shake speare. Unless they can shake off that unde sirabie feeling they will never, 1 need scarcely remark, succeed in presenting the blindly bewildering whimsicality so as to impart ita! [full flavour of humour, Let them try t«l J incv that fl. J. Byron wrote it—if they j ail. # How much of the popularity of Shakespeare among playgoers is due to Mr. Irving's exer- tions I need not say. The Strand, I take it, is sharing now in his tact, taste, and enter- prise. But he, too, is reaping the benefit. Last night "Much Ado About Nothing" was given for the hundredth consecutive time at the Lyceum, an event unprecedented in the stage history of that cor-adv. » The Chateau Scot', where Mr. Glr.rIr.tone has taken up his residence at Cannes, derives .name from a Bombay merchant, Mr. Michael Scott, who built it at a fabulous expense seventeen or eighteen years ago, in- tending to use it as a winter residence for his family on his retirement from India. Mr. Scott had amassed immense wealth by specu- lations in cotton during the American War. When he came home from Bombay in 1804 he was said to be worth two millions sterling, and he had helped to enrich so many friends, European and native, in Bom- bay that on his departure they grate- fully presented him with a complete service of gold plate. Within a year, in consequence of the sudden co"apse of the | American War and the accompany ing fall in the price or cotton, the whole of this wealth had vanished, and Mr. Scott died in 1807 a poor man. The chateau at Cannes has since j gone by the name of Scott's Folly." That is an interesting question which the Standard is allowing some of its correspon- dents to discuss, as to the extreme discomfort of the bedroom accommodation still provided on board the most magnificent of our ,ocean-going steamers. With all the sump- tuousness of the dining saloon, it is unfortunately the caie that the sleeping berths are not much better than they used to be 30 years ago; and a first-class passenger in a crowded steamer may still have to undergo the misery of being crowded into a cabin with three others. A lady in Tuesday's Standard] gives a graphic but nauseous description of what she has endured in such circumstances when she herself and her companions were all ill. But no steamers have yet been built in which sea-sickness is unknown and to provide separate cabin accommoda- tion for each one of a crowd of several hundred passengers would require the building of ships much larger than the Great Eastern. It is too often forgotten that rates of passage money have been much cut down of late years, and the correspondents of the Standard who complain that, for half the price they used to pay a few ago, they do not get three or four times as good aecom- modation should remember that they can always engage cabins exclusively for them-' selves by paying for them. 1 iappily, pas-! sengers are not always sea-sick, and Ida re say the lady who gives such a vivid account of the wretched hours she spent in her berth may have passed most of her time pleasantly enough in dancing or talking on deck. As a ruie, too, first-class cabins have not all their: berths filled any more than first-class compart j ments in railway carriages have all their seats occupied. If the Prince of Wales carries out the idea with which he is credited, of visiting America in March, he will be reviving a very pleasant impression of his early manhood. This was among his first experiences of foreign travel, and though since then the Prince has seen a great deal or the world, the probability is that! no recollection is more vivid than that which is wrapped up with his visit to Canada and the United States. Princes have not the same opportunities as ordinary tourists of examining the ever;-day aspoefc of the places j1 they visit, but the rapid strides made by the" New World Hince his Royal High-1 ness was there are such that he will not fail to perceive them at a glance, j The report, I notice, is contradicted by "Beuler"—an excellent authority--but lt comes, on the other hand, from such a careful and trustworthy source that I am rather inclined to give it credence. What is the betting that Mr. Gladstone does not make a speech of some sort to the i ngHsh colony at Cannes during his stay there ? i Another series of those prosecutions which are from time to time instituted against music-hall proprietors and managers for per- J mit-ting stage plays is now in progress. It always has been and always will be a vexed question what really constitutes a "stage play;" but, perhaps when our legislators grow a little wiser, the difficulty will cease to arise. Logic and common sense are dead against a divided authority for the licensing of places of amusement, and 1 defy anyone to give even a sophistical reason why the licensing of theatres should be in the hands of the Lord Chamberlain, and that of music- halls in the hands of the justices. Reason insists with a loud voice that sanction for all descriptions of entertainment ought to emanate from a single source. The existing rule undoubtedly presses with great harshness upon those who have to do with music-halls. While they are pounced upon if they dare to produce what by any stretch of ingenuity can be twisted into a "stage play," they see the cream of the per- formances which ibey provide utilised at the theatres for pantomimes and extravaganzas. The security, too, of the theatrical licence is much greater than t hut of the permit granted annually to keepers ot music-halls. Anyone who provides a suitable building and finds the usual sureties can obtain the Lord Chamber- lain s licence, hut the very existence of the lI1.u"II-hédl proprietor depends upon the good- will of non-legal magistrates, some of whom are fools, others bigots, and buo a few men of the world.

OLE PAIUS LETTER. PARIS, JANUARY 24. The Princes' scare continues, and is as virulent as the 1870 Prussian spy malady. The Republic cannot support the descendants of once reigning families, even when such are ridiculous, as Prince Napoleon correct, like the Orleanists, or fossilised as the permanently aosent, but ever threatening Paul Pry visit of the Comte de Chambord. Gam- betta having disappeared, the extreme Repub- licans have no longer a Turk's head on which to operate, hence the craze to ostracise princes for the present, and later their partisans. Having, according to the opinion of the best jurists, vioiated no article of the Code, explains the mess and muddle in which Ministers find them- selves by arresting Piince Napoleon. Neither the Senate nor a court would convict hi in to liberate him, acquit him, or expel him will in any case be damaging for the Cabinet, and in a lesser degree for the Republic. Since years Prince Napoleon has been killed by ridicule, he himself profu.-soiy affording the pretexts, and the satirical journals in furbishing up the old arms to attack him only slay the slain. The gravamen of the Napoleon incident con- sists in its serving as a pretext for the expulsion of the Orleanist Princes. They are viewed as a possible danger for the Republic, and such is the reason why Fioquet desires to proscribe all Royal scions at once, and Lockroy to expel them from the army and navy. This summary process would be more merciful than the Ministerial cure of holding the sword of DJmodes over their heads, by investing M. Grtivy with tiie power to order anyone playing at Pretender to quit France. Helieville would have voted the application of the measure with both hands to Gambetta. Ministers propose to limit the liberty of tho Press ns to the display of seditious emblems and the printing and placarding of attacks against the Constitution. Having conceded the liberty to be ¡ attacked, the Republic, hitherto viewed as invul- nerable, must be allowed to defend its heel. The white flag, the red banner, the Phrygian cap, the Carmagnole, and the Henri IV. March, all these fetiches, which were believed to be relegated to the Cluny Museum, will henceforth become Star Chamber matters. Thus our boasted liberty, equality, and frater- nity comes back to the old decrees of proscription and the law of suspects—one a measure of supreme injustice, and the other a proposition of extreme imprudence. So long as their partisans are free to indulge in propagandism, the banishing of princes can only serve their cause. At L'hantilly and Eu tho Orleanists will be less dangerous for France than at Twickenham, or even at the fusion residence of Frohsdorf. The Republic is on toe eve to quit the road of sagacity and liberalism, to practice intolerance, and to snap the uniformity of the law by acknowledging categories of citizens. The era of Press prosecutions is to return with its agitations and injustices. And the country never was more tranquil; the electors plump still for the Republic; they are not terrified by the Anarchists and their Prince, no more than by the Monarch- es and their reversionary Pretenders. By the ex- cision of Princes, simply because they are princes, v bo banishment of citizens, simply because they up suspected, uot ouly wiil the prestige of the I Republic be diminished, but a blow will be struck at the honour and probity of the nation. Gambetta would long ago have laid the scare by one of his proverbial guffaws; in the absence of the voice that is still, M. Fioquet, seeking Elijah's mantle, proposes the opening act of the Reign of Terror. Fioquet is a good third-rate tribune, cap- able of rising to honours he is on the shadv side of 50, somewhat of a dandy, and, :;ke Robespierre, whom he is said to model in foppishness and cool- ness—and may he rest at these traits-goes in tre- mendously for showy waistcoats. His wife is very pretty, and might, if she pleased, supersede Mesdames Adam and Arnaud in having the repre- sentative Republican salon; but she is only fashionable, pleasing and unpolitical. Ciemen- ceau's ladv, an American, is only all politics, and practises in the shade, like Ægeria. Having once cried "Vivo la Pologne!" under the nose of the late Lmperor of Russia during his visit here—who tetorted that in St. Petersburg visitors were wel- comed more politely, Floquet may be considered as equal lo an "A has les Princes In politics iie is more advanced than Gambetta, for whom he was a. small edition of Brutus, and Clemenceau is more advanced than Fioquet. For the moment, then, the fortune of the Republic is between the hands of these two deputies. In the imbiogiio the Duclerc Ministry has all the chances to disappear-a result that will neither surprise them nor the public. M. Gr6vyt whom the Anarchists assert to be the arch-con- spirator and worse than all the princes rolled into one, desires to have de Freyeinet back, the man after his heart, and who is nOL less mediocre than the others. The cancer of the Republic is the absence of united Republicans, the procrastination to vote legitimate reforms, and a timidity to recuG- nise the Republic as a government like any other constituted power. The pilgrimage this year to the Chapelle Expia- toire, built on tho site where the remains of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette were interred in a shroud of quicklime after execution, was looked forward to with interest. The 21st of January had been fixed, according to rumour, for the Royalist rising 45,0t/0 trained men wc/e ready to take the held, and 1,500 Pontifical Zouaves, a mere mouth- ful for the Faubourgian Republicans, to seize Paris. Prince Napoleon's escapade spoiled the little game. The pilgrimage was as modest and select as other years; no6 a member of tho Orleanist famiiy was present, but the Orleanist chiefs, de iU-oglie, Buffet, &.c" were numerous. Marshal MacMahon's daughter put in an appearance, but, during the Empire the Km press Eugenie always attended this in vieitioriutii mass. However, the Due de Morny maintained the Empress was a Royalist, and passed her time buying up souvenirs of Marie Antoinette—the last being ihe slipper the unfortunate Queen dropped when ascending the scaffold. The observed of all observers was General dc ciiarette he is the presumed leader of the suspended insurrection: he looked quite happy, and so did his daughter, who had his arm. Two detectives followed the general like his shadow. If we are to have a revolution, all poli- tical parties will be fighting for their own account, plus the Anarchists, whose speciality is limited to spe killing everybody who has property. Happy those who would be banished France at such a moment. The Anarchists of this city, at their last Sunday's windbagism, ordered the green baize covering an improvised table to be replaced by a red railway rug. A momber-out for the dav from an asylum-proposed a march there and then to deliver the dynamite-Nihilist Prince iuapotkine and his co-mates from the Philistines at Lyons. Not a single Bob Acres volunteered. Excepting very unseemly carping at England continuing to prosecute her reformatory pro- gramme in Egypt unaided by France, French writers devote no other attention to the Nile. The French Joint-Comptroller's shaking off the dust of his feet at the Khedive's decree abolishing Othello's occupation has caused not a particle of sensation. The financial world knows very well that creditors will come to no grief when England looks after their interests. If England courteously propounds her views through the Viceroy, France continues tho same at Tunis through the bey. In both cases the Box and Cox arrangement is not bad. England, however' arrived at Cairo by Tel-el-Ivebir, while France reached Tunis by the Kroumir Pass—which, in point of political morality, are not like routes. Old John may afford to smile at Monsieur giving him lessons in colonisation and the reorganisation of peoples he might include in the same grin the claim of France for a share in the winnings of a game out of which she backed, firmly believing it would prove the ruin of her once ally. Gambetta s notary has received 137 applications from persons to purchase the property of Villa d'Avray, where his illustrious client died. M, SpuiIer.Gambetta's/t/tis Achates, will likely become the buyer. Dr. Wecker, the Vienna occulist, settled here, sets at rest the legends as to how Gambetta lost his right eye; it was while looking at a turner's lathe when a child that a tool flow off and entered the eyeball. Year by year the latter augmented, till the eyelids could no longer meet. In the spring of i 8G7, Dr. Wee fear extracted the abnormal eye; he preserved it in a petrifying solution, and it is now in the possession of the King of Bavaria's brother, who is an M.D. The Princess Clotilde, wife of Prince Napoleon, has no intention of coming to Paris, which she quitted on the4th of September, 1870, not under the protection of a dentist like the Empress, but in full livery, as became the daughter of a king. She was sacrificed like M'1rie Louise for reasons of State and thrown in as it were with Savoy and Nice to recompense France for that war of idea which freed Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic." She was married at 16, and is now, at 37, quite white-haired, living with her daughter at the Castle of Moncuiieri, the eagle's nest of the house of Savoy. She is a real sister of clrarity. After the wedding ceremony in Paris she lost her slipper entering tho carriage that was conveying her to Mondon to pass the honeymoon. When she arrived Cinderella found her nlipper on her dressing table forwarded by express by another prince. Super- stitious like til she considered the event an ill-omen, and which has been justified. A highly respectable young gentleman has been collared for obtaining money under false pretences. He asked the magistrate to be alio.-odchampagne, game, truffles, &c., while ia prison, to bo paid fcr out of the funds found on him. lie was imme. diately put on Spartan fare. Tenant to landlord You promised in my leaso to have no hammering industries in the house. Now overhead the piano hammering is incessant, so I leave." Notice on a bath house Closed owing to want of water, caused by the inundations."

TIIE OEPIIAX GIRL 0E LANNION. In tl new Welsh Quarterlv, The Ld., appears the followirg translation of "the Breton Ballad, which Mr. Lewi" Morris, the author of the Epic, of Hades," Englished for the editor of Lonymana Maj<azine. Wriring its Welsh translator, Mr. Morris says that the English translation was done through a French version from the original Breton. You would be surprised," Mr. Morris adds—and the remark is philologically interesting —" to find how strong the resemblance is to the Weish." Yvi y fhvydd cliwe' chant wyth deg si tiiri I Lannion fe ddaetli dolef a cliri. Mignon amddlfad, mor deg ac iaeh, Wasanaethai yiio mewn gwestty bach. Ar hwyrcil awr, un noson ddu, Dan deii hi-n a gurent wrth ddor y ty. Westtyes de'wch,—swper, gwin eoch, bwrdd llawn.— gsiiyui ni arian, boed pobpeth yn uivvu*" •Vt?' yfed digonedd a mwy, >V ele arian i dalu'r ysgor," ebent liv,*y. •Vt?' fed digonedd a mwy, IVele arian i dalu'r ysgor," ebcnt, hwy. 3-wr> c.iiff eich morwyn fechan chwi, liyda i llusern oleu, ein lietirwng ni?" Fonedd! caiff: dt'wy Lydaw ein gwlad Does neb a niweidiai ( neth mor fad." Ymaith &Y fun, dditiiwaid ei bron,- Yn rliydda diofn yr anturiai hon. » # # » Pan oeddynt yn mhell yn unigedd y glyn, Deehieusaiit a :i)r\Vd a cliyfareii fel byn Y fechan eich gwyneb sydd lin a theg, Pel ewyn y d6n yn yr hafddydd cliweg." Poriedd ni hoffaf eich gweniaith ddiles,— Py ngwyneb, fel mae, gan Oduw a ge's. A phe byddai decach, y gwir dd'wedaf fi, le'n ganwaith tecach, ni f' ai'n ddim i chwi." Pe barnem, enetliig, eich aobr laith, Chwi wyddoeh am ddysg yr offeiriaid a'u rliaitli. A barnu oddiwrth eich ace P. ion mwyn, o leiandy, fy ngenetli, y cawsoch eich dwyu," At.hraw, offeiriad, mynache3 chwaith, Ni fu yn fy nysgu ar hyd y daith. Ond, tra ar aclwyd fy ti^hai tref gwiw, Ee'm llenwid gan sanctaidd feddyliau am Dduw." Diffoddweh y golcn, rho'vvch y llusern i lawr Dyma aur, pwy a'ch gwared, mae'r t'wTlwch mor fawr." Er mwyn fy mrawd ieuanc, ymatcliwch mwy! Er mwyn fv mrawd ieuanc, ymatcliwch mwy! Pe clywsai'r fath eiriau ci galon ai 'n ddwy. **»#»» O suddweh fl'n ddwfn yn yr eigion gwyn,— Trugaredd a fyddaiyn yinyl hyn Yn hytraeh na hyn-nl f'ai'n dynged mor far- Mewn beddrod yn fyw, O! cleddwcli Í1li awrl" #* # Y feistres garedig, mewn ofn a chur, Am y forwyn fach a ddysgwyiia'n hir. Ger gwan oleu'r aelwyd dysgwyliai hi, Nes canai'r gloch dd'vywaith drwy'r liirnos ddu. Yna llefai,—" De'wch, weision, nahunwchddimhwy,— Cynorthwy ein Mignon orwedda n ei chlwy' Yn ei gwaedy gorweddai yu farw a mud, Oml y lamp ar ei phwys oe4.Q. yn oleu o byd:

1 ¡ LATEST GENKHAL NEWS? Conqol, better. Bank rate reduced to 4 per cent. yesterday. Lord Greville died yesterday morning at Clonytt Castle, Ireland, after an hour's illness. Mi-. Divitt has received a telegram from Mr. Joseph Cowen, M.P., offering to become bail for him or for Mr. Healy if desired. I At Manchester yesterday Luke and James Wood were sentenced to seven and five years' imprison- ment respectively, ind 25 lashes each, for highway robbery. The Freeman's Journal understands that Mr. Mayne, Q.C., Dublin, will be invited to become the Nationalist candidate for Tipperary at the next election. On the news of Mr. O'Brien's return for Mallow reaching Kilrush last night the town was illumi- nated, tar barrels lighted, and a procession with a brass band paraded the streets. A Glasgow telegram sitys Colonel Majendie haa not yet disclosed his opinion as to the cause of tho gasometer explosion, but the other experts confirm the dynamite theory. Tho belief gains ground that the outrage was committed by Fenians. The new steamer Tartar, built for the Union Company's Cnpo mail service, was successfully launched at Glasgow yesterday. The vessel is con- structed with all the Litest improvements, and is on the list for Admiralty use in time of war. At the Manchester Assizes yesterday Abraham Thomas, butler, formerly in the service of Captain Ausdell, of Kefale", Bolton, was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Christina Lee, housekeeper, by shooting her. Sentence of death was passed. the adjourned inquest on the victims of the Bradford chimney disaster was re-opened yester- day. James Nichol!, manager to Messrs. Green- wood, said large portions of the chimney fell twice on the day before the accident, and the workpeople left the mill, but afterwards returned to work. A meeting of the Glasgow Gas Committee was held yesterday, when Mr. Hawksley's report was submitted and considered. It was resolved that if Colonel Majenuie's report agreed with itthev would offer a large reward for information leading to the apprehension of the perpetrators of the explosion, In the Lord Chief Justice's Court yesterday (be- j fore Baron Pollock and Mr. Justice ti many as four separate applications were made for rules nisi to show cause why, in each case, soli- citurs should not be struck off the rolls on charges of fraud, forgery, and misapplication of money. Rules were-granted.

THE PHIXCESS LOUISE. F" BEUTER'S TELLGRAM.] CHARLESTON, JAN. 21,-Tlie Princess Louise em- barked to-day for Bermuda, being loudly cheered on her way to the vesseL

THE EMPRESS EUG-KNIE'S VISIT TO FRANCE. MYSTERIOUS INCIDENT. The Paris correspondent- of the SianJuM relates tho following incident in connection with the de- parture of tho Empress Eugunie from Paris on Wednesday night:—About five minutes before the departure of the train a young priest pushed his way through the crowd of friends who surrounded Ihe Empress's carriage, and, after kissing hor hand re»pectfully, whispered to her for a few moments. Ho then •vithdrew, and joined another priest, with whom ho left tho station. This incident caused sensation, as no one seemed to know who the young priest was. .Il:IIoO.

SILVER WEDDING- EESTMTiES. 1 "LLEUTER's" TELEGRAM.! BERLIN, JAN. 25.—This being the day of the silver wedding of the Crown Prince and Princess the officials were early received, and at ten o'clock the Emperor and Empress offered their congratu- lations. A quarter of an hour later were received the ladies and gentlemen of the Court present at the marri'ige and still attached to the persons of their Imperial Highnesses. Subsequently Lord arid Lady Ampthiil were received, and afterwards the members of the ltoyal Family offered their congratulations, and a reception was hold.

COLLIERY ACCIDENT NEAR I CIIIiSTER. TWO LIVES LOST. Our Chester correspondent telegraphs that two men were killed at the Bettisfield Colliery, Flint- shh'o, on Wednesday ni-jht through the euddeD t'aliing in of the roof. r

THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND. Her Majesty's gunboat Redwing has put into Sligo, on her way to the island of Innismurry. Tha Inhabitants of the island arc suffering great pri- vations, many being on the verge of starvation. Bishop Iledley has forwarded JE17 12s. 10d., col- lected in the Catholic Churches of Cardiff, to the Rev. F. W. Galiagher, P.P., of Glencolumbkille, towards tho relief of the distress in his district. In acknowledging the remittance, the rev. gentleman says:—" You will be pleased to know that your timely aid enabled me to give partial relief to some families who would other- wise have been in absolute wa-tit. The condition of our poor people here is most pitiable. They are without food, clothes, and, I may say, without any hope save tiie charity of the public. It is very inexplicable that the Irish Government is making no more uffort to assist the dying creatures. Mr. Trevelyan himseif saw them obliged to use food which pigs would not eat. And yet no effort is made to relieve them."

TRIPLE MUEDERJjY A MOTHER. f" REUTEU'S" TJ':LEGaAr.! NEW YORK, JAN. 24.—A triple murder has been committed by the wife of a labourer at Milwaukee, who, while suffering from an attack of religious mania, cut her three children to pieccs, declaring that she offered them up as a sacrifice. The eldest child was seven years old,andtlnyoungi59t eighteen months. Do.

ALLEGED MURDER BY A AVIRE. Samuel H&dtiold, coil hawker, Stockport, who was, it is alleged, struck on the head on Sunday afternoon by a poker thrown at him by bis wife during a quarrel, died on Wednesday. The wijet who is in custody, will now be charged with causing his death.

THE HOUNSLOW CASE. At a meeting of the Brentford Board of Guar- dians on Wednesday a letter was lead from Dr. Whitmarsh statling that he had resumed duty as one of the medical officers of the board. Several of the guardinns, while making no complaint against Dr. Whitmarsh personally, said they thought it would be better under exititing circuifl* stan;es if he leaignecl his appointment.

SUPERSTITION IN SOMERSET- SHIRE. A remarkable case of western superstition hat just been heard by the magistrates sitting in petty sessions at the town of Ciewkerne, in Somerset. Nine villagers of West Chinnock, of both sexes, Appeared to a summons for assaulting James Stacey, a herbalist, of South Petherton. The com- plainitiit, who had been engaged in fortune-telling, was known as tho wizard of South Petherton," and his story wits that a crowd of about 140 I persons assembled in West Chinnock. Ilnd the de- fendants beat him with pocket-handkerchiefs and stones. He was chased through the village and kicked, besides being beaten about the head. The defence was that he was a moonlighter, a vagrant necromancer aad fortune-teller. He gave them medicine, and told them to bury the bottle in the churchyard till they got better. The Bench beiieved the statement for the defence, and dismissed the case preferred by tho wizard. The matter has excited great interest. ——

AN OLD CARDIFF TRADESMAN IN TROUBLE. Austin Phipps, formerly in business in Cardiff as a tailor and draper, was charged on remand, at the Southampton Police Court on Monday, with embezzling £3 3s„ the moneys of his e.oployer, Mr. H. H. Emmanuel, outfitter," Southampton. After evidence had been given in support of the charge, the prosecutor's solicitor applied for a remand on the ground that since the proceedings were insti- tuted other defalciltions had been discovered. The prisoner was then further remanded until Monday next.

The old journal of Ferdinand Sassalle, the lIam- bury Altona I'dkuzeitunr/, has ceased to exist. An increasing number of steamboats are being worked by petroleum on the Black Sea. The petroleum industry of the Caspian Sea has been greatly developed during the last year, more than 5,000 vessels having entered and left the little, harbour of Baku employed in the petroleum trade- The officers of Engineers in Berlin are making interesting experiments in war-balloons, and in photographing from a height sufficient to be out of range, and command a view of the surrounding. country, in spite of a rapid rise. By means of aLl. electric apparatus a ulatu has bscn secured in les* [ than a second.