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T> EMOVED FROM No: 56, TO 63, CROCK- IIERBTO VVN. i EXTENSION OF VISIT. I ,r|HHE it MAGNETAIRE AN]) HEALTH. 1Ir. RICHARD LONSDALE, M.E., LN VEIx ion AND PATENTEE OF TJfJl: iii 1\1 A 0 N E '1' A J R E," ItR HIS QUALIFIED R E PRE S E N TAT I V E S, Mat still fc* eensnlted rhdlV:lot his Private Consulting Rooms, MR. JOHN PHOTOGRAPHER, 63, CARDIFF, • <I No. 56) HALL, ST, HBLEX'.3-RO.\D SWANSEA, i N'D AT ALBERT HALL, STOW-HILL, YE\VPORT, MON. UNTIL S.i1TRDA Y, FEBRUARY 10TH, 1883, CONSULTATION FREE, Horns 0'" ATTTTDANCK TE,N TO 0.\K AFTKKXCWX, T.vo TO FIVK .EV"NIXG, SIX TO EIGHT h The M-ifflCRTArm is th" mast powerful Appliance Invented, combining the greatest curative properties with durability 'f-. is algo the cheapest, most con- i ven>nt, and agreeabl form in whinh magnetism can he applied. The ap, \>,]¡ '5 need 110 attention whatever, .•ccasiftn no shocks or unpleasant phenomena. RECENT LOCAL TESTIMONIALS: "¡' SERIOUS ACCIDENT. PROSTRATION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM. 49, Hewell-street, Lower Grange, Cardiff. 2nd February. 1S33. V Dear ST,—I met with an accident two years :1. whilst. engagM on hoard 3bio 13 CO; trimmer. T f 1! through hatchway, r-ceiving very severe injuries, and since then ha\« suffered fr"m i complete pmstration of the nervous system aiui mental depression, Ac. Thanks f') the Magnet.air? tppliauce I purchased of you a :"v: ,).-< since, aHer ivtaring it a fortnight it seems \¡prí'111 the increased health and vigour it Imparted t,) me. I now feel in even- way better, and shall be glad to tell auvone the benefit I hare received.—Yours faithfully, GEORGE CCLLEV. Mr. It. Lonsdale. RROX(;HTTIS, kc. 17. TCuti.ind-street., Swansea, 22nù J'H1uary, 1883. Dear :1'1 fetl great. plt';>3t11'e In adding my test!- ?monial tr. those of my fellow townsmen as tù the bene- i ficiil ffpets which'1 have. derived bv wearing vonr • Jf asm eta ire" Appliances, which I pnrèhased ahOl1t six weeks ago. at that, time suffering from a severeaH.¡a:k of bronchitis, accompanied hy all acute pain in right lung w;1kh bal incapacitated m > from attending to my duties for about three months. Since wearing the II Magnetpire these symptoms have gradually disap- peared, so i. icli 50 that I purpose very shortly retnming to mv duties, feeling etmfic1enr, ti1at with care I need <not feel any fear if a relapse. I may mention, alw, that j: I find the Appliances itimulare the wli'lc system, pro- ducing an increased circulation. your Appli- ances every success, I remain, yours faithf illv. To Mr. Lonsdale. D, TAMLIN, Pilot. RHEUMATISM. Glaig. near Swan!Wll, Jan. 8, 1883, Dear Sir,-ThroI1v.h great exposure ahout. 28 years ago I had an attack oî Rheumatism, which settled in mv legs, especially in the knee of the rl<!ht one. the pain being at timf's unbearable but I am- delighted to tell you since wearing the Belt and Boles I purchased from W you in 8wan-ea a month ago it has entirely left me. I may add I have beer. for years under the best advice with little or no benefit.—1 remain, vnurs I!,Tatefllllv. Mr. Lonsdale. WILLIAM DAVIES. WEAKNESS AND SWELLING IN KNEE. 20, Docks, C rd ff. 5th January, 1883. Dear 8£r,-11'ol' npwards of five years I had suffered from great weakness and swelling in knee; sometimes •could scarcely w lk. I had had medical treat ent, hut. was Il able to obtain st ength; was unable to do any work for II. fortni$,.t previous to coming to you. It was through tfce advice r¡fa friend who had experienced it, uch v benefit 1rr>m your Appliances that I was induced tQ try -them, and am thankful to aaj- after II. short trial my knee gained strength and the swelling went down. Can now walk well and do 111Y work with comfort. It Is now over tWG months sincp T obtained the benefit, can, th-2r«- fore, speak positively to Lhe valne of your" Magnetaire." —Yours gratefully, WILLIAM YINIS WILLIAMS. Xr. R. Lonsdale. SCIATICA. 4, ?pring Gardens-court, Crockherbtown, Cardiff. 29th Dec., 1832. Dear 81r,-1 have S!:reat pleasure in testif i :g to the beneftt your" Magnetaire" Belt has given -lie. About three weeks "101 waa seized with II. severe attack of sciatica the pains in mv -back and hips were so acute that I had to leave my work. From the first day of wearing the Appliance I "regan to improve, the pains ;'v getting Ieee, and the fifth day I was entirely relieved of "1' ?ain and able to go back to mv work. I shall be pleased So reciimmend your Magnetaire" from the good it has lone Me. — Yours very faithfully, Mr. R. Lo as dale. D. J. GREGORr, Farrier. :;1 — *.» VIOLENT COUGH. 21, Tin-street, Splotlant1s. i Cardiff, Dec. 15,1882. Dear Sir,—When I came f o you I had been for soma "'H time suffering from a violent cough. which was very dis- jf. stressing in morning* on getting out of bed. Iam plenaedto tell you how valuable the Lung Invigorator I «," £ purchased of you has proved. I feel 1\ )4rel\t difference .iRCA wearing same, the cough is raplÖly decreasing, ■ can rise early, and it troubles me but little. My voice has al80 greatly improved, which was very weak and bGUae. I feel stronger in general. jWik* Yours faithfully, DAVID DAVIE8, ?'■ 's'^4 Mr. K. Lonsdale. Coal Trimmer. LIVER COMPLAINT, INDIGESTION, DIZZI- NESS, IMPAIRED VISION. &c. 16, Knole-street, Grangetown, Cardiff, hr Dec., 1882, Deal" Sir,-For five ,ro T hf.ve 1)1"8n very ill indeed, suffering from the liVt", i indigestion, dizziness, impaired vision, and distressing lie;;(laches. I had tried all means for relief but in vain. Noticing tpsti- monials testifying to numerous cures effected hy the use of your "Magnetaire" Appliances, I deeMed tü try them. I am very thankful I did. I have now worn the belt a short time, alld have pxperienced weat, relief can eat my food without feeling m, the dizziness h¡f.9 left me, am more cheerful, and my general health is f altogether better. 1 C4in scarcely exprebi my thankful- ness for the enefit received. Yours very faithfully, Mr. R. Lonsdale. JOHN HILL (Ooal Trimmer). SCIATICA AND RHEUMATISM. 22, Ludlow-ftreet, Lower Grangetown, Cardiff. 1st December, 18i2. l>ear .;ir,-I ",ish t,) ,-xpre.ss my ¡¡,re>t satisfaction, and to testify to the benefit I have derived from the" Mag- netaire Appliances I purchased of you a fortnight since. After II. day's trial I felt a glow throughout my whole system, and commenced to lose the pain in my hip and knee, from which I had suffered cutely for three years, and had tried a1l sorts of remedies, and 'A spent, many poundd without receiving the least benefit •_?i. but I can safely 3ay, afler wearin the" Magnetaire a few days, I tiave since bee,n entirely free from pain. I shall spare no t, OUU:" ill recommending your Appliances tu anyone I may know suffering. I remain, yours verv truly. Mr. R, Lonsdale. lJA V ID WILLIAMS. RHEUMATISM. 26, Bradford-street, Grangptowl1. Cardiff, I November 30, 1æ2, l)e*r Sir, You will be glad to hear that T hnve frotly improved from the use of your "'Magnetaire" e't, as I have suffered for some time :rom rheumatic pains in my back; hut since wearing the Tlelt the pains have ceased. I feel certain that your "Magnetaire" nas proved very valuable to me. and I luwe recom- nended several friends to give it a Irial. Yours faithfully, Mr. R. Lonsdale. GEORGE BENDING. WEAK LEGS. NUMB FEET, SWOLLEN ANCLE, AND WEAKNESS OF VOICE. 1, Maud-street, Br<mdw..y. Roath, Cardiff 26th Oct,olltJr. 1382. Dear Sir,-R()me time ago 1 had an attack or cholera, which left a thorough weakneas In my legs, numbness in feet, and swollen ancle, causing pain and greatly in- conveniencing me in getting about. I am 1!1"a,ed to tell yon that atter wearing the helt and soles I purchased.¡ vou a few hours I began to feel an improvement, and after a week's trial Ihe change h wonderful-, I"í legs are altogeLher stronger, the swelling of ancla is gone down, feet free from numbness, and the circulation seems restor d through my body, I find a great 1m provement also in my voice, which was vny weuk-call now speak mnct. stronger, although It is ten years since my voice broke dOWll, I am highiy satisfied with what yóur Appliances have done, an J shall always recommend tbem with contJdpltce in any 3imila. c:tse.-Yours tmly, Mr. R. Lonsdale. JOHN TAYLOR. RUPTURE OF rORTY YEARS' S'fANDING. 25, Lower Oxford-street, Swan;¡ea, 30th October, 13112. Dear Sir,-I fed very pleased ill heing able to give my testimony to the benefit that can be obtained froln your Magnetaire." I have been nipt urcd for oveT 40 year?, aad have tried all kinds of reuiedi's for It., hut, until wearing your Belt, could obtain no relief. Now the ruptu'e is reduced, which, from the short time 1 have had the Appliance, is, indeed, marvellous abo), my}¡paitb in general ia very much improved. J ohall always show my thankfulness for tiiebenefit I hdve obtained by recommending iny Jleighboul's and frlewiK to come to y.)\} for relief. L am, dear sir, yours faithfully, Mr. IL Lonsdale. JOHN' H.C'l:CllU,&8 FRY, EPILEPTIC FITS. Callands Terrace-st reet, Plas Marl. near Swansea, 19th October. 1>182. T ear 8ir,- From childhood I luwe suffered from Epileptic Kits, these having Increased to as mallY as nine in the day aroci night, until Ii month ago, wtien, hy the advice uf my friends ( :ne of whom had obtllilledio mClch oeuefit tVom your Appliances;, I purchased one of your "Magnetaire' Belts "lid Soles, and ram extremely delighted to say that. since the day after putting them 011 j have not had th:, slightest svmptoin of a tit, and S m v general health has so very greatly iinpro»ed t hat I • fef-I altogether like a different person. 1 shall always feel it a Iveat. piuaeiirc to recommend your J.pplia,nees. 1 remain, yours very trul ■ •To Mr. Lon -'ale. JANE THOMAS. A t.hirly-tw8 p*%c Pamphlet, containing full particulars IIcay be had 011 application. LON S D ALE AND CO., -r, 447, STIU,riD, LONDON, W.C., <30 LB ¥4NUF.A.O'fWlUiUUJ. T ^SSIUNS AND gON^. 1 CANAL WHARF EAST, CARDIFF. AND DOCKS, GLOUCESTER, MANUFACTURERS OF ENAMELLED SLATE AND MARBLE CIHMNEY PIECES, BATHS, URINALS, HALL TABLES MOULDINGS, &c. IVUZE MEDAL SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1879, AND FIRST ORDER OF MERIT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1881. DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIALS. ILLUSTRATED PRICES ON APPLICATION. 4172S REMOVED TO BEDWELLTY HOGSE. Nn.bt), CROCK.- H K R8TOWNT (Corner of Charles-street). MESSRS. YOUNG and PERRY, IT !L DENTAL SURGEONS. 7, PARK-ST., BRISTOL, Professional Âttendltnce :-CARDIFF lst and 3rd WEDNESDAY in every month, from 11 30 to 7 p.m. Next Visits, WEDNESDAY, Feb. 7th and 2ist. BRIDGEND—1st and 3rd THURSDAY in every month at 22, Caroline-street, from .30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Next Visits, THURSDAY, Feb. 15th and March 1st. CHEPSTOW-2nd and 4th WEDNESDAY in every month at 1, BEAUFOilT-SQUAKE, from 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. Next Visits, Wednesday,-Feb. 14th and 28th. ^¥ fL "y M V~A~N~3 S QUININE J_J E T T E R S SPECIMEN OF TESTIMONIALS. From Mr. Owen Jones, A.P.t^ L.D.A.S., Surgeon De iti t, Bangor, North Wales. Your Quinine Biters have done an immense good in this neighbourhood. Patients who hnd been hvyears in a low and desponding state, whose tales of woe were loni; and numerous, a-re now bright and cheerful, and 3d,lom lose an opportunity of reminding me of the immense benefit they derive from your preparation, and of inducing me to introduce it to all who suffer in a similar manner. There is no doubt in my mind as to its efficacy. From Messrs. Rowlands and Jones, Lampeter and Tre- garon, Agricultural and Dispensing Chemists. TExtract of Letter.] Dear Sir,—Several of our customers declare that the good results produced in them by taking your Quiitine brftii ,nar., The sale is large and still inereasi! We find the better class of people fcjuy them chiefly. .Frum Mr. W. S. Penney. LExtra<t.]. The DLpens-ny Lhn,judno, Ang. 31st, 1330. S-nd another s ii>y ¡L" of jour "Quinine Bitters." It is :15hillg what an •xtraorditiioy quantity we sell la-re. It Seems to me to be the only medicine U'(:.I has been tried. The sale at, my branch at Biaenau, Fi'estiuiog, is greater than anything I have yet known. From Mr. W. IT. Rees, Chemist, 14, Eigh-street, Haverfordwest. I have kept "Gwilym Evans's Quinine Bitters" for years, and find that the sale is continually on the in- crease, and that the preparation gives very great satis- faction in the neighbourhood. Iconfidently and strongly recommend it a3 a first-class remedy, and consider the manner it has been prepared a scientific success. Sold in ?9.9J. and 4s.6d. bottles, of all Chemise, or from the Proprietor, MR. trWiLYM EVANS, LLANETXY. 2 SCHWEITZER'S COCOATINA Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chovulate Pav.dsr. GUARANTEE* PURE SOLUBLE COCOA, Of the finest quality, with the excess of fat extracted. ITie facultypronaunceit "the most nutritious, perfectly digestible beverage for Breakfast, Luncheon, or Supper, and invaluable for Invalids and Children." HIGHLY COMMENDIt. BY THE KXTIRE MEDICAL PRIMS. Being without sugar, spice, or other admixture, it sultis all palates, keeps better in all climates, and is four times the strength of COCOAS TXIICKKXJES yet WJSAKE-VEJ> with Starch, &c., and IN KKALITY CHEAPER than such Mixtures. Made imtantaneously with bailing water, a teaspeonful to a Breakfast Cup, costing less than a halfpenny. COCOATINA A LA A-IILLIC is the mest delicate,diges- tible, cheapest Vanilla Chocslate, and may be take'.i when richer Chacolate is prohibited. In Tina at Is. 6d., 3s., 5s. 6d., he., by Chemists and Grocers. 37224 !l EYNOLDS' GOUT SPECIFIC. I "Yi NOLI)S' GOUT SPECIF, IC X I REYNOLDS' Go UT SPECIFIC. 1-1 (1 k, T I-)ECIFIC, 'REYNOLDS' ^PECI.Fia THIS WONDERFUL MEDICINE Is known throughout the World as THE OLDEST, SAFEST, AND MOST EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOR GOUT, RHEUMATISM, SCIATICA, LUMBAGO, AXi) ALL NEURALGIC COMPLAINTS. ESTABLISHKl) 70 rEARS. Sold in Bottles, 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d., by Messrs. Barclay Sons, 96, Parringdon-street, and by most respectable Chemists throughout the United Kingdom. Dr. BREWSTER, (for many years one of the leading Physicians in Paris) writes:—"I have prescribed •REYNOLDS' &OUT SPECIF,'C' in ALL cases of Rheumatic Affections, and lind it an INFALLIBLE REMEDY. I have always had ^ivat, pleasure in recom- mendi g itt aii-d consider it a safe and INVALUABLE Medicine." BRISTOL gTEAM 0ABINET WORKS, ESTABLISHED NEARLY 50 YEARS AS EXTENSIVE MANUFACTURERS OF gUPERIOR JpURNITURE, ARTISTIC, USEFUL AND INEXPENSIVE, UNPRE- CEDBNXEDLY LOW IN PiiiCE. L AVERTON AND £ )°-'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, CONTAINING OVER 1,000 ENGRAVINGS, Gratis and Post Free. COMPLETE BEDROOM gUlTES, BEST MANUFACTURE, From Solid Ash or Pitch Pine, at 11 Guineas. HUNDREDS OF BEDROOM, DINING AND DRAWING ROOM SUITES, Unparalleled in Price and Quality, for Selection from. ADDRESS:— L AVERTON AND CO., U P H O L S T E R E R S, MAR Y-LE PORT-STREET AND BRIDGE-STREET, DRISTOL. Carriage Paid to any Railway itation in South Wales. D E A F N E S S Il°\Y To CUllE. REV. E J. SILVERTON'S Consulting Rooms open daily for the benefit of persons suffering from Deafness, Noises in the Head and Ears,* Offensive Discharge from the Ears, Affections of the Eyes, (Spectacles to tint alt sights when required), Delicate Lungs, and General Weakness. Any afflicted person may be seen free of charge. Mr. Silverton and his Physician, after carefid examination, advise the Patient what medicine, and give all necessary instruc- tions as to diet. 80 much good is being done that no person should despair. One visit is sufficient. The Roonw are open each day from Eleven to Two (Saturdays excepted). Mr. Jesse J. Silverton will answer any in- quiries at other hours, and on Saturdays till One o'clock. if distance renders an interview impossible, write for Rev. E. J. Silvcrtori's Treatise on Diseases of the Ears and Eyes, which contains a list, of questions for the guidance of the patient and numerous testimonials from persons cured, pri -e Is., but to the readers of this paper wo penny stamps. Note the address-17, St. Bvide- tree L idgate CitelLE, london. CO N S u M P T ION. DECLINE HOv\ TO LURE CONSUMPTION, Asthma, Bronchitis. Difficult Breathing, Night Sweats, Spitting of Blood, Winter Coughs, and failing health generally. If an interview is impossible write for Rev. E. J. Silverton'# New Bo k of Health (27bth thousand)- Valuable to all. Post free, three penny .t,amps,-17, St. Bride-street, Ludgate Circus, London. "J" EA In consequence of Imitations _Li j, of Lea A Perrins' Sauce, which are c dculated tadeoeivc the Public, PERKINS' LEA and PERRINS beg te drawaUention to the fact tha O A UCE. e,tch bottle of t,he original and Genuine Worcestershire Sauce hears their Signature on the label. LEA WORCESTERSHIRE & SAUCE. PERRINS' Sold Wholesale by the Proprietors, Worcester; Crosse and Blaokwell, S London; and Export Oilmen gene- AUL Ci. rally. Retail by Dealers throughout the World, ROWLANDS' ODONTO is the best, purest, j and most fragrant preparation for the teeth. | Health depends in a great measure upon the soundness of the teeth and their freedom from decay, and all dentists allow that neither washes nor pastes can possibly be as efficacious for polishing the tee h anù keeping them sound and white as a pure and non-gritty tooth powder; such Rowlands' Odonto has always proved itself to be. D OWLANDS'MACASSAROILpreaerves, .JL S; strengthens, and beautifies the hair; it contains no lead or mineral ingredients, and can now be also had in a golden colour, which is especially suited for fair or golden-haired children and per- sons. Sizes, 3s. 6d., 7s.; 10s. 6d.. equal to four small. ROWLANDS' KALYDOR is a most cool- ing, healing, and refreshing wash for the face, hands, and anns, and is perfectly free from any mineral or metallic admixtures; it disperses freckles, tan, redness. pimples, &c. ID OWLANDS' EUPLYSIA is a botanical JL j) wash for cle.«nsii.G the hair and skin of the head from an impurities, scqrt. or dandruff: the ap- plication of the Euplysia (which is perfectly in- nocent in its nature) should be made on retiring to rest at night, a practice that will render the morning use of Rowlands' Macassar Oil increa- singiy effective both as to health and beauty of the hair. 2S. 6d. per bottle. ROWLANDS' EUKONIA is a beautifully I-V pure, delicate, and fragrant toilet powder, and has lately been much improved. Each box has inside the lid a certificate of purity from Dr. Rcdwoo I, Ph. D.; F.C.S., &c. Sold in three tints; white, rose, and cream, 29. 6d. per box double that size with puff, 4s. Ask any Chemist or Hairdresser for Rowlands' articles, of 20, Hatton Garden, London,AND avoid spurious worth- less imitations under the same or similar names. 49462 JJINNEFORD'S MAGNESIA. JJINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. DTXNEFORD'S rUHE FLUID MAG^ JU" NESIA. DINNEFORD'S xUAGNESIA^ For aci.lity of the Stomach. For Heartburn and Headache. For Gout and LNNEFORD'S MAGNESIA. Safest and most gentle aperient for delicate constitutions, Ladies, Children, and Infants. OF ALL CHEMISTS. £ 987<: MANITOBA AND THE CANADIAN l't NORTH-WEST, THKOUFILT "ilICH RVNS THE CANADIAN PAC.FIC RAILWAY. Farming all,1 Grazing Lands tor S«|<?. T; ,AV Terms to actual Se'tlers.—If you des're {.> IT charge, the Railway Comnany's New .U<-gniitious ior the Sale of Lands in the Canadian N- rth-Wtst, and ab) the iat-est Maps, P.iinphiets, ^CONTAINING the latest information ab-WIF. l he country- address ALEXANDER HEGG, CaiiadUii Pacific Railway Offices, 6949c 101, Cannon-street, Loud n.
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Zi -7d SA T URDA Y. FEBR VA RY 3, 1SSS. TIIE WEEK. THE NEW DOCK AT CAHDIFF. A practical beginning was made on Wednes- day in the great under tal; i ng for wh ich the Mar- quess of BUTE obtained Parliamentary powers a few months ago. The event was right royally celebrated by the inhabitants, and for good and sufficient reason. It meant for them the inauguration of an era of enor- 11Ilously increased prosperity, a larger circula- tion of money, and a vast increment of trade. There could be no doubt, therefore, of the heartiness of the enthusiasm. Sir GEORGE ELLIOT on Tuesday, at the turning of the firõt sod of the Alexandra Dock extension at Newport, paid Cardiff an unequivocal com- pliment when he said that, as a port, it stood head and shoulders above all the others in the Channel. The present undertaking will help it to maintain that proud position,notwithstand- ing the strides lately made in Swansea and the town with which the hon. baronet himself is immediately associated. This, however, is not the only point in Sir GEORGE :EI,LlOT'S speech of special interest to Cardiff, although, in order to explain, we must go back a little in the history of the port. In 1875, after the Roath Basin had been com- pleted and got into full working order, the shipments from Cardiff amounted to 2/774,958 tons. Since then, in consequence of increased facilities for despatch and so forth, this amount has been doubled, the actual figures for 1882 being 6,109,000. Nov. the water area was precisely the same in the latter year as in the former—that is to say, seventy-eight acres. To this the New Dock begun yesterday will add thirty-five acres, an increase of nearly a half. Assuming the increase in the accommodation to be fol- lowed by a corresponding increase of trade, three years hence, when the New Dock is in operation, Cardiff will be 50 per cent. better off, perhaps more, than at the present moment. This brings us immediately to the point from which we just now diverged for purposes of ex- planation. Sir GEORGE ET.LIOT, than whom it would be difficult to find any more competent an authority, distinctly stated that with the extensions now in progress, or already completed, at Swansea, Newport, and Cardiff, the dock accommodation at the existing ports would be equal to anything that could possibly arise for the next quarter of a century, even although an increase were to take place as large as that of the last six or seven years. In the face of hard facts like these, what possible doubt can there be with regard to the issue of the Barry scheme if the intention of its promoters be carried into effect ? Put into plain terms the language held by Sir GF.ORGKE ELT.IOT— and indeed, indirectly, by Sir E. J. REED as well, in his letter of the 13th of January to Mr. W. THOMAS LEWIs-amounts to this: that the Welsh ports of the Bristol Channel have, or shortly will have, sufficient dock accommodation for all time. The Freighters cannot add to the aggregate of Welsh trade present or prospective; all that is left them, therefore, to do is to divert a portion of the traffic from one point of outlet to another. In other words, to make Barry fat they most make Cardiff bleed. What remains to be seen is whether that town will stand still while the leech is being applied. Or stay; we forgot. It is yet far from being impossible that Sir E. J. BF.ED'sl offer of mediation will be accepted. If the reply of the Freighters and the Railway Companies be equally conciliatory with that of the Marquess of BUTE'S agent the task of bringing all three parties together may be looked upon as neither hopeless nor difficult. We are quite sure that those who do not wish to see the splendid growth of the port receive a disastrous check will heartily wish that an arrangement may be speedily brought about, and that they will do all within their power fOr its furtherance. THE AEERYSTWITH COLLEGE. It is time some one lifted up his voice or, to be literally correct, wielded the pen in behalf of poor Aberystwith. The letters of the Vicar of Wrexham and Judge D. T. WILLIAMS on the subject have not, therefore, come a bit too soon. Since North Wales is to have a College, the inveterate prejudice & existing against the pretty little watering I place on the shores of Cardigan Bay is not' easily explicable unless it has been foreseen that the existence of the present magnificent r&nge of buildings there makes it such a formidable competitor that nothing short of united and determined opposition on the part; of all the other towns of the northern portion of the Principality can drive it from the field. Aberystwith, said all these towns, or as many of them as were represented at the Chester Conference, is not in North Wales; we will, therefore, have nothing to do with it, and we will shut it out altogether from the delibera- tions that are to take place in reference to the settlement of the College site. This decision was very high-handed, and had about it jnst a smack of Tooley-street besides. Geographical position, as we have over and over again pointed out, although it may have a great deal, has not everything to do with the question of site, and it would be no more absurd to object to Aherystwith on this ground alone than it would be to deny that the Chester Conference had any jurisdic- tion over the affairs of Wales because it was held in a town outside the Welsh border. Yvre quite admit that if North Wales were mapped out and a pair of compasses used to it Aberystwith would not be found in the centre. But questions like the present do not, happily, require to be determined with mathematical nicety and the fact that a town is ten miles more or less out of line is by no means an aU-sutficient reason for entirely ignoring its claims. If North Wales argues that it is, let it fix upon th" exact geo- graphical centre of the six counties, and then see whether the spot in which the College should be built will be any more accessible to the great body of those who are likely to use it than Aberystwith is at present. Tested in this way, the utter absurdity of the Chester decision becomes at once apparent. The Cou- ference is reckoning without its host if it thinks that Aberystwith and those who have worked so hard on behalf of the existing College are going to submit without a struggle to be shelved in this otf-hand fashion. They have borne the heat and the burden of the light when North Wales stood by, so to speak, with its hands in its pockets, and now that all they have striven for has been obtained they will be more than human (or less) if they stand by while others reap the benefit. As the Rev. DAVID HOWELT. points out, the re- commendation of the Vtpartmelltal Com- mittee is noc. for a College lU, but for, North Wales, and the fact that the Government has already made the institution a temporary grant is a strong indication that there is a good deal more in this view of the caM than the people of North Wales have given credit for. Then, again, the amount expended upon the College build- ings is a by no means irrelevant or unimpor- tant factor when we come to consider the matter as one between Aberystwith on one side and the town most favoured of North Wales on tha other. After making an ample deduction from the data furnished by the Vicar, the present value of the College buildings cannot be much less than seventy thousand pounds. North Wales will have to find some such sum as this for building pur- poses, and also to supplement the Government grant by an annual endowment which, if capitalised, will amount to, say, fifty thousand pounds in addition. Or let us, as Beau BEIUMMEL once did, knock off the twenties," and call it a hundred thousand pounds—BIIUMMEL, by the way, would have called it a plum—when, we ask, will North Wales raise the money ? Judging by the snail's pace i L has been making hitherto we may at once answer ourselves and say, Never. THE CARDIFF INFIRMARY. 4) Cardiff seldom does things by halves, the rule beiug for one public event to tread close upon the heels of another, as if it were in- tended beforehand that the times at which they occur should thereby be marked with an unusually broad and white stone. We sup- pose we may fairly allude to the ceremonial which took place on Tuesday in connection with the New Infirmary Buildings as an auspicious one—auspicious for the sick and the suffering portion of the local population. Lord ÐUTF; truly observed that every event of this kind has always its melancholy associations. But, then, every mental picture of them would be incomplete did it not tako in the efforts con- stantly put forth by the strong and the fortunate in behalf of their striken, helpless brethren. In this fact we see the light of which the other portion of the picture is the shadow. It needs no word from us of comment upon the useful- ness of an institution like the Infirmary; for, if we put aside the question of adminis- tration as one of pure detail, the public have long satisfied themselves that such places fulfil a mission of the highest and noblest kind. In a town of the size and importance of Cardiff, where there are large numbers of people who them- selves either go down to the sea in ships or are brought into direct contact with the opera- tions of shipping, there must unfortunately always be ample work for an Infirmary upon an extended scale. To keep such a place in a state of efficiency equal to every need and every emergency involves not only continued exertion but, as a matter of consequence almost, continued pecuniary outlay. It was, therefore, not merely a graceful but a most appropriate act in itself that one of the most munificent patrons of the institution should have been asked to lay the memorial stone. How well the Lord of Cardiff acquitted ) himself of what must have been a labour of love to him those who read the published accounts of the proceedings will, doubtless, be quite as ready to bear testimony as those whose better fortune it was to have been present on the occasion. THE EDUCATION QUESTION AT NEWPORT. Much surprise is affected by certain classes in Newport at the audacity, as they call it, of the friends of religious education. This comes of allowing a certain class of men to imagine that they enjoy prescriptive rights in the management of public affairs. No better idea can be formed of the defunct School Board than that it was a nice little coterie of gentlemen who had persuaded them- selves they were the men, and that wisdom would die with them. The ratepayers were not of the same opinion. Without claiming for each and all of the three thousand who voted on Thursday week the possession of the highest ideal as to what a School Board should be, we haveno hesitation in looking at the result of the election as a rough-and-ready way of telling the late Board that it had not entitled itself to everlasting regard for its policy of non possumus. Their cry has hitherto been, We could not do any other than we have done. This was specially the case with regard to the religious question. Affecting a tender solici- tude for the schools supported by voluntary subscriptions, and knowing full well that the managers of those schools were doing their very best to influence the children by direot rel igious teaohing, the Board always plumed itself on providing accommodation for those children whose parents abhorred sectarian teaching. It might be imagined that this gracious act was really meeting a pressing necessity. But what are the facts ? Why, in 1882 there were three thousand seven hundred and seventeen on the books of the Voluntary Schools, and two thousand three hundred and seventy-three on the books of the Board Schools. This shows that the public sentiment is sufficiently alive to the advantages of elementary education to seek it at the handa of those who have a due regard to [ •pligious instruction, even if it be denomina I tional. All those who study this question with an unbiassed mind know very well that the average working man is not carried away by the political sentiment which is un- fortunately associated with religious educa- tion. There never would have arisen all this hubbub about education had the leaders of the Nonconformist party allowed the question to take a natural course. Which is the most important to working men, that they should be tied down to a hard and fast line made by sentimental grievance-mongers, or that their children should be instructed on that broad basis of religious teaching which would lay a good foundation for a useful and moral life? Are working men so demented that they cannot see the value of restraining influences such as may be brought to bear upon them in a day school, without conjuring up the ghost of sectarian bias ? The working men of Newport are clearly not so blind to their own interests, for they have taken upon themselves to afford a different set of men the opportunity of following an opposite course of policy. The new blood "enters upon the work of revivification with a con- sciousness that the public eye will be kept I steadily upon them. Conscious of this fact, the newly-elected will, doubtless, address themselves to their task in a spirit of earnest- ness and moderation which will bring about the happiest results. Mn. CHAMBERLAIN ON TTIE UNPAID MAGISTRACY. The Thne.-t justly praises Mr. C HAMRERLAIN for the genial Conservatism of the speech be made at Birmingham the other da.v in proposing the toast of "The Bench and the Bar." It throws a new and pleasant hght on Mr. CHAMBERLAIN'S character to find him capable, not only of making a remarkably graceful and happy after-dinner speech, free from any touch of acrimony and animated by a tone of refined and delicate persiflage, but also of seeking an opportunity to speak in the highest terms of those much- abused gentlemen, the unpaid magistracy of England, who, as he says, in reality perforin difficult duties with general impartiality and good sense." The only suggestion of political controversy in the speech was where he qualified his appreciation of the indepen- dence and integrity of the judicial bench by the limitation, "in this country at least," as if he thought that the complaints often heard of the political bias of judges in the sister kingdom were not alto- gether unfounded. But this may not have been his real meaning. Another proof of Mr, CHAMBERLAIN'S good sense is furnished by his letter about woman suffrage, in which he argues that the franchise is a privilege and not an inherent right," and asks for proofs of the practical advantage to be gained" by the extension of the fran- chise to women. THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. The Empress EUGENIE evidently had no intention in going to Paris to make Lerself a candidate for martyrdom, and, having accom- plished the duty of showing her friends in an unmistakable manner that she no longer feelsaIlj emnity to Prince NAPOLEON, she has returned to England. It is worthy of note that the Parisian crowd gathered at the door of her hotel to see her take her depar- ture from the French capital greeted her with marks of sympathy. The situation in France is now distinctly favourable to the Bonapar- tists, who are once more united and militant, while the Royalists seem afraid to make any move, and the Republicans are divided and perplexed what to do. M. DUCLKRC'S impo- tent Ministry has falling to pieces, and the PRESIDENT has been compelled to accept the one patched up by M. FALLIERES, which can never hope to inspire Frenchmen with confi- dence. MR. LOWTITER ON THE GOVERNMENT. The pungent speeches of Mr. JAMES Low- THER are always worth reading, though they are bett^ to listen to, owing to the right hon. gentleman's dry, incisive style. In his Richmond speech he was pointed and vigorous, and he managed, as usual, to hit the nail on the head. Our friends, the Radicals, profesv to despise him; but why, then, does he always manage to make them so angry ? That was a capital point of his about our moral Government aud their Corrupt Practices Bill, over which they cackle like a hen that has hatched a duckling. The particular kind of bribery which they object to, as Mr. LOWTHER showed, is to be very seriously dealt with, but the person who proposes to confer upon the elector .„ large proportion of the property of his fellow-men would be committing, not a crime, but an act which deserved the recog- nition of his countrymen." Clearly he has not forgotten a certain measure of legislation, the official title of which is The Arrears of Rent (Ireland) Act." The people, regarded as amass, possess short memories, but a gentle- man who has been Chief Secretary for Ireland may be excused if the recollection of a law which was an open piece of spoliation lingers in his mind, after it has drifted, to all ap- pearances, out of the memory of the country.
OUR LONDON LETTER. ---
OUR LONDON LETTER. The Government, I hear, are very conside- rably perplexed about a seat for Mr. Naish, the new Solicitor-General for Ireland, whom Mr. O'Brien defeated at Mallow. For a Law Officer of the Crown to be excluded from Parliament is exceedingly inconvenient, and particularly at a time when Irish affairs occupy such a laroe amount of public atten- tion. If Mr. Porter, the Attorney-General, Hnda the whole Parliamentary duty of the Irish Office, coupled with the task of coaching" Mr. Trevelyan on the various legal points that crop up from day to day, thrown upon his shoulders, bra task will be a stupendous one, which he may well wish him- self outof. Butlam told that matters are being represented in a certain light to one of the Ulster Liberal M.P.'s, and that he may be induced to make way for Mr. Naish. Even in the North, however, public feeling with re- gard to the Government is so uncertain that the Solicitor-General's return by any Irish constituency is a mere It toss up." Special interest will now attach to the question whether the Government intends to make India pay the cost of the Indian Con- tingent to Egypt, amounting to Ii million. There is no reason why India should not pay a share of the cost of imperial wars waged for the protection of her trade; and, if her finances happen to be in a bad way, so are ours. Hut Mr. Fawcett's philanthropic whim about exempting India from any such payment cannot be treated with contempt by the Government, unless Mr. Gladstone is pre- pared to lose the services of his Postmaster- General. Mr. Fawcett is one of the ablest— and probably he is the most popular—member of the Government; but the taxpayers of the (country may perhaps think l £ million too high a price to pay for the privilege of keep- ing him in office. In the ordinary course of things when we are within little over a fortnight of the meeting of Parliament great excitement is wont to prevail in both camps, and is thence communicated to the country at large; but this year matters are very quiet indeed. The reason I take to be twofold. In the first place, the leaders of both parties are out of the country, and in but an indifferent state of health; and in the next, every one knows what the Ministerial programme is to be, and there is consequently no pleasurable feature of expectation regarding the contents of the forthcoming Queen's Speech, which at this period of the year i8 usually canvassed with the utmost eagerness. Futhermore, notwithstanding the magni- ficent Rules of Procedure, there is a con- currence of opinion that the session now at hand will be muddled away over Irish grievances and the case of the Northampton Pet; and even if that view prove incorrect, the matters which will form subjects of debate :uring the coming six months are not of thp burning" order. The Corrupt Practices Pin, a fresh attempt to tinker the Bankruptcy Acts, and an amendment of the law of patents will, under the most flattering con- ditions, turn out to be the bag" of the Ministry when August is reached, though I daresay the County Government Bill, and even the Metropolitan Reform Bill, are items which the Premier will jauntily include in his menu the week after next. As to the County Franchise and a measure for the Redistribution of Seats, Mr. Ulad- stone, audacious though he is, will not dare to make them subjects for discussion by the present Parliament, which was not elected for the purpose of legislating upon them. If he does he will find himself checked, firmly and peremptorily, by the House of Lords, and the country will then have an opportunity of declaring, in the legitimate and constitutional way, how far it is prepared to go with the Government in these weighty matters. It is a bad sign when we find journals of influence seriously discussing the necessity of wholesale structural alterations in the new Law Courts, in order to make them, not com- fortable, but merely benrable. To re- commence now the vexed "battle of the styles" would be manifestly absurd, as well as useless. The wise men of the land, after deliberations as solemn as they were pro- tracted, decided to adopt Mr. Street's plans, and the GothicTemple of Justice in theStrand is the result. Now that we have it we must make the best of it, albeit the ecclesiastical gloom, caused by the heavy shadows which Gothic architecture creates almost as a matter of course might easily have been predicted before a stone was laid. If, however, it is too late to amend the general design, it is possible even now to alter the actual courts themselves, so that they may serve the purpose of chambers where judges, counsel, and jurymen may sit without danger of being either stitiptl with heat, fro/en with cold, blo'.vn away by wind, or asphyxiated with foul air. .0. As time rolls on, and items are submitted to Parliament in the Civil Service Estimates under the head of "Courts of Justices," for effecting these alterations which are abso- lutely essential, the British taxpayer, of an inquiring turn of mind, will slowly learn how much the splendid pile of buildings is really likely to cost the nation. However, as the charges will be spread over a number of years, he will have to keep a record of the separate items and total them together at the finish with a blacklead pencil if he wants to arrive at an idea of the real expense. *# It is stated at the military clubs that General J. Goodwyn, C.B., at present colonel of the Gloucestershire regiment (tile old 28th) will succeed the late Sir Richard England in the colonelcy of the Welsh Regiment. The second battalion of this gallant corps, 1 may state as an item of news, is about to leave Sheffield for Irish service, and the second battalion of the Wre!sh Fusiliers, also, will shortly be despatched to the Green Isle from Pembroke Dock. The serious increase in convictions for drunkennesson Sunday in Scotland shows that the Sunday Closing Act in that country is a failure; and evidence has now been laid be- fore Mr. Trevelyan to prove that the Closing Act in Ireland has been equally inefficacious. Anyone who has been in Edinburgh on a Sunday evening and observed the thousands upon thousands of men and women walking about the streets with nothing to do must smile at the simplicity of legislators who imagine that such people will rest satisfied till they have found the means of evading the law which forbids them to get a glass of beer or spirits to drink on Sunday. In his paper just read before the United Service Institution, Sir Samuel Baker speaks in very plain language about the inconve- nience of the present arrangement by which Cyprus is English, and yet not English. There i3 plenty of material for reflection in what he says about the impossibility of our spending large sums on fortifications and armaments while the island remains a part of the Ottoman Empire, but, at the same time, we are in the position of not being able to abandon Cyprus without doing ourselves an injury, and, while the present equivocal state of affairB continues we cannot get anything like the benefit that we ought to out of what, for want of a better word, I must call our pos- session." Sir Samuel can hardly find words rosy enough to describe Cyprus as it would be if it were a portion of the British Empire, and he is firmly of opinion that as a coaling station, a place cCamies, and a sanatarium, it would tie equally valuable to us, besides forming the needful link in the chain made up of Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Suez, and Aden to connect us with India. There are others, though, who hold that any money we may be disposed to layout in the costly game of being at peace by preparing for war would be better ex- pended upon our fleet, so th.it by sweeping the seas we could render invasion anywhere, and under any circumstance*,an impossibility. Whether their views would be at all modified if Cyprus were actually ours I cannot of course say. No doubt it is reprehensible in Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowles, the Conservative candidate for Salford, to have so far forgotten his Scrip- ture as to talk about" the woman of Samaria who had seven husbands," but the Echo is hardly the authority best qualified to bring him to book for such a slip, seeing that it is so fond of blundering on its own account, as I had occasion to point out the other day. Besides, Mr. Bowles is, or was, editor of Vanity Fair, and the pundits of Society jour- nalism are not expected to be profoundly versed in Biblical lore. I make no question that Mr. J. L Toole was animated by the best intentions "—as our friend Eccles in "Caste" would say—in presenting a photograph of the Grand Old Man to the Hanley Liberal Club, but I fancy itisjusta little mistake for "Johnny" to mix himself up, however remotely, with politics. That is a business which is beat, left to the" topical" gentry of the music-halls It he had contented himself with singin** "The Speaker's Eye" and giving the cl5b a copy of his own genial countenance he would have done quite enough in return for their evening's hospitality. i' By the bye, where has that extraordinary rumour fled to that Mr. Barry Sullivan, the world-renowned tragedian," &c., cherished an ambition to enter the House of Commons as the Home Rule representative of any Irish constituency that would have him? Has he abandoned the idea, or is he merely waiting for a suitable opening? Of course, there is no reason in the world why an actor should not make a model legislator; but the artificial little world in which the fraternity of the sock and buskin live can scarcely be said to afford the best training for the I Senate. Furthermore, the working hoars of the theatre and of Parliament would clash; and I am fain to add that although the debates, as at present conducted, are dreary affairs enough, they would not be improved by stagey declamation and the professional business of the playhouse. # M.P.'s are queer folk, and if there is one thing more than another that arouses their derision and evokes deafening cries of Oh, oh it is anything like an attempt at pos- turing or mouthing. That distinguished divine, the Rev. Isaac Nelson, did not require to be long in the House to become acquainted with this truth by painful personal ex- perience. it The English people are very tolerant of wrong-headedness when they think it arises from goodness of heart, but I do not fancy they will have much sympathy with Mr. Joseph Cowen in his offer to become surety for either Michael Davitt or Mr. Healy in the event of their deciding to find bail, which there is very little likelihood of their doing. The member for Newcastle's motives are known only to himself, but they bear a sus- picious appearance of approval of the language which has brought the two t. patriots" referred to into their present posi- tion. This was language—or at all events the part of it contributed by Davitt—which Mr. Justice Lawson said he would not sully his lips by reading, and he theu added that more blasphemous or abominable language never proceeded from the mouth of man." Of course it is possible that Mr. Cowen's abhorrence of Davitt's words may be quite as strong as Mr. Justice Lawson'a. Ml he may want to do may be to mark his disapproval of T L ^.overnmen^'8 coercive legislation to Ireland; but he is too sensible a man not to know that his action in offering bail is morally certain to be misconstrued. Art in the House is a taking title for a lecture, but it is one which, unless the lecturer is very careful indeed, is apt to carry him to I absurd lengths. I heard Mr. Edis — ar accepted authority, I believe—discourse on this topic before the Society for the Encouragement of the tine Arts, and though he enunciated some true, if not specially novel, principles, a good deal of what he said will not bear the test of close examination. Can anything be more preposterous, for example, than the assertion that our houses and sur- roundings need cost no more if graceful in form, colour, and design P In the case of rich people, it may be that they could build a house and furnish it as cheaply in an artistic as in an inartistic way, but this will not hold water when we have to deal with persons of limited income. To have one's tastes and whims practically applied means that you must have your house built and your furniture made from plant; of your own; but the very off-band lecturer, who ridiculed every objection to his wonderful theories, and demolished (to his own satis- faction) fifty abuses in as many minutes, omitted to say how the clerk or small shop- keeper with an income of thirty shillings or two pounds a week wag going to carry his artiscio tastes into effect. Truth, Pi/nr-h. and the Sporting Times are trying hard to introduce a new word into our language—the word Masher." This is a noun, intended to describe a male person— generally a youth with a faint moustache, a vacuous simper, an eye-glass, a button-hole, a clawhammer coat, and irreproachable cuffs, shirc-front, and collar --who hangs about the stage doors of theatres with the view of taking one or another of "the girls" out to supper. Mash in its verb form has had a place in the slang of the greenroom for I don't know how many yea.'s, but the word Masher "—it ought to be mashee," for the masher really is of the other sex—is only just being forced into use among the fast set of young men about town who worship "the Pink 'Un," and think the works of 31r. Robert R 'ece infinitely superior to those of Shakes- peare. I fail to see the sense of sneering at Sir Edward J. Reed as an alarmist," as the Tiuus does, because in a letter to that journal your member performs the patriotic duty of calling public attention to the unsatisfactory state of the British Navy. Sir Edward asserts that, not only is our navy not now a match, as it once was, for the combined navies of all other maritime powers, but in its strength of ironclad ships—the only fighting force that can henceforth be used in battles at sea—it barely out- strips the na\y of France alone. A few years hence, if the same relative rate of increase in the navies of the two countries be main- tained, Francs will actually be superior to us on that element on which it has been our proudest boast that we are supreme. • Sir E. J. Reedascribesthis decay of our naval strength tothetiiiudity of successive Adminis- trations in dealing with the Navy Estimates, which have he says, been limited to between ten and eleven millions for many years past, though the con- stant increase of the annual charges for half-pay, pensions, and non-effective purposes steadily reduces the balance available for ex- penditure in the construction of new men-of- war. That this charge is well-founded any- one can satisfy himself by a reference to the Statistical Abstract. In 1867 the Navy cost the country £1O,ü7G,OOO, and in 1882 almost precisely the same sum, namely, £ 10,750,000. During "the same period the expenditure on the Civil Service and Civil charges of all kinds increased from Of to 18| millions, and on the Army from 14ft to 16-} millions. The Navy, then; is the only one of the great spending departments the charge for which has remained stationary in spite of the extra- ordinary changes, involving vast expenditure, which have taken place of late years in the construction and armament of vessels of war. We hare here, therefore, prima facie evidence to support Sir E. J. Heed's complaint that the navy has not made the progress it ought to havedoue; and Lord Henry Lennox, himself no mean authority, shares Sir Edward's opinion on this subject. "Ao.
ObB PARIS LETTER.
ObB PARIS LETTER. PARIS, FEBRCAHT 1. About a fortnight ago the French ignored there were princes living in their midst; since, they have discovered the fact, and concluded they are lying in ambush to slay the Republic hence the agitation to banish the descendants of the reigning families,$nd so finish with Royal conspirators and pretenders more or less pretending. It is curious to trace the origin of the present, not only politi- c-it, but, perhaps, historical crisis in France. The director of Monteeau-les-Mines employs several hundred hands. His wife, who is very re- ligious, induced her husband last summer to refuse work to all who would not attend church. Some miners objecting, they were dismissed their com- rades sided with them. Mysterious raids were made against the local chapols and religious emblems. Arrests were effected; the Government prose- cuted; but during the trial, anticipating an acquittal of the accused, the unheard-of course was adopted of stopping the trial, and carrying the issue later elsewhere. Then the Socialists entered on the scene, headed by Prince Krapotkine a score of accused were tried, found guilty, and the heaviest penalty of the Code applied. The extreme Hauicals felt very sore at all this. Rut a windfall arrived in the manifesto of Prince Na.poloon; the Radical deputies under Floquet seized the ball at the bound, magaitied the ludi- crous incident, accused the Duclerc Cabinet of ability to be Draconian towards ignorant miners and Socialists without a following, but afraid of a Napoleonic squib. The Cabinet fell into the trap, and accepted the Floquet Bill of Proscription against all princes with certain modifications—the holding the sword over the heads of the suspected so as to permit them to prefer self-expatriation, or persuHsive guillotining. As the Orleanistsof late years have drifted into the position of universe) legatees of the Republic, the Republicans have turned the Prince Napoleon incident against them. No serious attention is given to the latter eccentric individual; he will remain in prison till a presidential decree orders his expulsion. There are as many ways for con- spiring as for cooking eggs, and though no direct proofs have been furnished that the Orleanist Princes have dipped into criminal conspiracy, yet the impression is wide-spread, and since the hare was started a fortnight ago, has become an article of belief with no-surrender-Republicans, that the said princes are insidiously at work, per- sonaily by their hospitality—Prince Louis Napoleon operated in that fashion at Satory—and more ac- tively by the social- and financial influences of their sympathisers to trip up the ConRtitution, Dinners are said to govern men. Thus the Due d'Auiiiaie is set down as a conspirator, because he invites friends and the local military officers to his chateau, at Chantilly. The Comte de Paris acts similarly at Eu, and the Due de Chartres at Rouen. The princes, too, send presents of game to officers' messes, and when a noted Royalist's daughter marries quite a number of military guests always happen to bo invited. Many distinguished enemies of the Republic are fast friends of the Orleanist Princes, and several legislators passing for model Republicans, have also a foot in their camp. Louis- Philippe, when he cut out his relative, Charles X., in 1830, was presented to the nation by Lafayette as "the best of Republicans "—the prelude to being king. The Due de Broglie and his party are Orleanists, and their role against the Republic is too recent to be forgotten. They arranged the fusion of the Comte de Paris with the Comte de Chambord. then they conspired against the latter when the fusion proved a failure; they conspired against Mac- mahon in 1877, and their efforts up to the present are directed to run the Due d Aumale as successor to M. Grevy, who would only be too happy to escape from the cares of the presidency. Such is the Republicans' Bill of Indictment. They do not accuse the princes of buying roses to conceal their poignarda, as did Harmodius a.nd Aristogiton when they aimed at Pisistratus they do not believe that the secret is so organised that a Laena would bite off her tongue and throw it at the judges, rather than make a. revelation. There is no conspiracy in the sense of a Titus Oates, of a Cina-Mara, or a Cadoudal, or a Mazzini. But the Orleanists embody all the enemies of the Republic which is seated on the ruins of preceding Govern- ments, who desire its fall and gloat over all that can achieve such a consummation. The Princes thus create a special atmosphere; a milieu at once feverish, uneasy, and nervous, agitated by the slightest trepidation, where the news the most extravagant, the recitals the most false, and the plots the most extravagant, find a ready and wel- come ear. To end this condition Floquet has proposed his Bill, to finish once and for all with the profession in France of pretenders; to enable the Govern- ment to defend itself like every other Government, and compel Republicans to prove they are so. I have studied the deputies during the stormy debates on the Expulsion Bill, and I believe that, while the Princes will not be banished en bloc, they Iv ill be declared ineligible to hold any public ) .ffice, and to be shown the frontier, with the world all before them whe re to choose, if they make fools of themselves like Prince Napoleon. The Due d'Aumale will thus become disqualified as Candi- date-President of France-the grand object in view. The dukes in the army and navy will be superannuated-pour encourayer les autres. Will the army kick at this ? Not in the least; it will obey, as it ever has done, the decision of the Legislature. Besides, the army as the reflex of the nation is Republican, and will not forget discipline because a few princes, raised by favour to a high grade, are placed on the retired list and made French citizens conditionally. The nation display s no emotion on the subject one way or the other. But the exceptional legislation will not the less reflect on the Republic, it being a confession that it cannot exist without the old weapons of defence employed by kings and emperors, which it was its boast up to the present to discard. The most polished, a veritable academic speech, wa,sby C'ljinu; du Man, Royalist and Ultramontane. He delivered some hard knocks to the Republic. He is about 31 years of age, slender, has very black hair, and since his marriage looks prematurely old and care-worn; he has lost all the dash which made him so distinguished when he lectured on religious subjects in his uniform of a cavalry officer. He speaks like all deputies, with his coat closely buttoned up, and walks the tribune. A Frenchman could never speak from his place." Fabre is the deputy who has modified FJoquet's raw head and bloody bones resolutions; he is a professor of philosophy, an avocation justified by his unkempt appearance. He has a squeaking, whistling voice that empties the House as it might form. Ribot is an Oileano-Reptiblican | he is 45 years of age, tall, bony, and hatchet features. He is a clever j man his speech was special pleading, neither fish, nor fie^h, nor good red-herring. "Fioquet him- f-elf arrived in the tribune like a game-cock, and ft once pitched into the Monarchists, much to the duligiit of the ultra-Royalist Bishop Freppel, who indulged immoderately in snuff, offering his box ten times vvitliln five minutes to his neighbour, Paul do Cassagnac, who replied by holding out permanently his cigarette case as "No, th:, tI ks." The bishop's violet skull cap became often as cpcked on one side, as if worn by a Tommy Atkins, so amused was he at Floquet's solemn and heavy periods, suited more for tho hustings than the Legislature. He mixed up names, confused dates, and ever maintained a monotonous roll of bii; phrases and few hits. What dwarfs au these speakers—the best save Clemenceau in the Chamber-after Gambetta! President Brisson endeavours to quiet twenty members speaking at once by a hush!" or a paternal uplifting of the hands like the chef of an orchestra. In such a situation Gambetta would ring the silver Big Ben at his side as if the build- ing were on ;,re, strike the rostrum with his paper knife, shake his head at ten disturbers of the peace, and threaten a half-dozen more with a fine and call to order. As to change of Ministers, the more they change the more they remain the same. We are so accus- tomed to new Ministers that they cease to be a novelty, and, as Goethe says, to pleasures oft- repeated we become indifferent. Pity is rather felt tor M. Grevy, who is prevented from going to his bed as usual at ten o'clock by having to sit up to receive combinations that topple over like Aunt Sallies-a political game likely to become chronic, and in which resides, and not in the conspiration of princes, the real danger and the beginning of the end of the Republic. Taking advantage of his gout or Parliamentary fluxion, his subordinates in the Ministry voted their chef Duclerc out of the Cabinet. A militaire, it is said, will not be found to act as War Minister to sign the superannuation of the princes, In 1848, when a holocaust was made of 33 Royalist generals and colonels, &c., it was Arago, the astronomer, who acted as Minister of War. The Anarchists' Sunday meetings are not at all lively in the sense of revealing any new proposi- tion for destroying society; ever the old means, dynamite, petroleum, gunpowder, poignards, and firearms. The Red Virgin, Louise Michel, has not brought a single new idea with her from London. Jules Simon's new volume, Dieu, Patrie, Liberte," attracts even less attention than Kenan's lecture on "Judaism," proving that such is a reli- gious, and not at all an ethnographical expression. Simon is an able political rat, and his work is an apology for his tergiversations. Apart from this the French are indifferent to the subjects. We will have no Bceuf Gras procession thia year either instead an exhibition of historical portraits is talked of, and also one devoted to potatoes and canaries. M. Richepin's drama, in five acts, c, La Glu," is a success It is a little naughty, but not corrupt and obscene in the sense of Nana."
THE "RED DRAGON.".
THE "RED DRAGON. The February number of the National Magazine o Wales is now ready. The leadingposition is, as usual, assigned to a notable Welshman and the worthy this month commemorated is James Howell, the author of the Familiar Letters," whose portrait, from a painting bv Holiar, forms the frontispiece. Howell was truly. a fine fellow; and this unpre- tentious sketch of him is will woniiy of perusal. We have been informed that the biographer is a lineal descendant of his subject. A Barry Islander, who gives his name as Tylke, comes next, wirh some unusually excellent verses, entitled Beside the Sea." Ap Adda, with characteristic toucli, hits off "The Village Grocer," an article which has been very well illustrated. A short anonymous tale succeeds, called Out in the Snow," in which probably the best managed incident is the amusing one whereby a. couple of affrighted female travellers mistake a horse's nose for a murderer's hand. "Ploughing with Oxen in Glamorgan" is one of those articles we would like to see more of. The author has very happily caught somo lights and shadows of a fleeting past and preserved them for us in permanent colours. Specimens of the old Tribatiau sung by the Glamorgan plough boys to their oxer, are given, music and words both. Rhianon" follows with a very fair translation of Tegid's Bard's Appeal," and after this comes a brief but pithy article de- tailing the manner in which the cholera found its way into Wales. Than the paper entitled Welsh Origins of Latin Place-Names the magazine has never published anything more valuable and mas- terly of the kind. From "The Last Battle in Glamorgan" we will quote as a mnemonic the ( couplet:— Do! Do t; gest dy glwyfo, ar fore teg o Pin. Ath waed yn llifo oyipmaint nes oochi dwr y LiM. The lines occur in the love lament of Sian Roberts, < of Llandaff, over the bodv of her Royalist lover slain at the battle of St. Fagan's. We fancy hearing in them even now the sad low wail of that simple Welsh girl borne down by the wind across the centuries. "Epigrams and Epitaphs" is a bright paper even in the mournful half of it. After "Hyfr Coch," of Jesus Col- lege, Oxford, has described the famous Red Book of Hergest" for us, Mr. Rogers R fs runs through and out of Pembrokeshire with a Sketch- book," which he this month illustrates with a I couple of his own penciilings. "Shakespeare in c Wales," by the Editor, is, as it should be, short and j sweet and not too abstruse. "University Life at Oxford is a capital paper, and so is that on Mary I Russell Mitford in Marginal Notes." The I Literary and Art Notes of the Month are, as S usual, well selected. We were glad, recently, to see our own opinion of their value endorsed by other Welsh newspapers. The Red Dragon, the National Magazine of Wales r Edited by Charles Wilkins. London: Kent and Company, Paternoster-row. Cardiff: Daniel Owen and Company.
GUILD'S SIGNAL
GUILD'S SIGNAL Two low whistles, quaint and clear, Th;it wis the signal the englneer- That was tlw signal thit, Guild, 'tis said- Clave to his wife at Providence, t As through the sleeping town, and thence. Out; in the night, On to the light, Down past the farms, lying white, he sped As a husband's greeting, scant, no doubt, Yet to the woma.n looking out, Watching and waiting, no serenade, 1 Lovesorig, or midnight roundelay, c Said what that, whistle seemed to say s "To my trust true So love to you ) Working or waiting, Good night!" it iald. Brisk young bagmen, tourists line, Old commuters along the line, Brakfsmen and porters glauced ahead, j Smiledag the signal, sharp, intense, Pierced through the shadows of Providence— S Nothing awisli- Nothing! it is Only Guild calling his wife," they said. Summer and winter, the old refrain Rang o'er the billows of ripening grain, Pierced through the budding bough's o'erhead, Flew down the track when the red leaves burned Like living coals from the engine spurned. Sang as it flew 1 To our trust true, i First of all duty—Good night," it said. And then, one night, it was heard no more, 1 Prom Stonnijigton over Rhode Island shore, ] And the folk in Providence smiled, and said, As they turned in their beds, "The engineer BUS ence forgotten his midnight cheer." One only knew To his trust true, Guild lay under his engine, dead. BRET HARTS.
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— — The order prohibiting the importation of animals into Ireland from England and Wales has been extended to the 31st of March. Among the divorce cases down for hearing is that of the Marchioness of Blandford against, her husband. These parties have been married four- teen years, and there are four children. At Worcester on Wednesday Mr. John Webster, a member of a stay-making firm, poisoned himself in his own house with Battle's vermin powder. He was found lying in his room in a dying state, and medical help was at once called in, but it was too late. Verdict," Temporary insanity."
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I LATEST GENEHAI, NEWS. «- Bank rate unaltered. Consols unaltered. The Russian, Italian, Austrian, find Fr°noh meJJ1' bers of tiie Danubian International Comiaissio" have reached London. The ironclad, Penelope, arrived at Chatham ye?* terday to have made good damages sustained during the bombardment of Alexandria. Mr. W. H. Cobb, of Gallvcullain, ex-suspect, bt\3 been invited to contest Portarlington by t!18 Nationalists. He will address the electors in a fe^ days. Mr. Thomas Baxter, solicitor, of Lutterworth, has mysteriously disappeared, causing much anxiety to his frionds. Ho was last seen in London on January 12. A Times Phikdelphia telogrnm snys fenrs art expressed in Baltimore for the safety of the British steamer Lord Collingwuod overdue from Ne^" castle. The remains of Charles Green, a Bristol trades- man, have been exhumed, poisoning being sua* pected. An inquiry was opened yesterday and adjourned pending the analysis. Yesterday two women named O'Neill and Doherty were committed for trial at Greenock fof the murder of the illegitimate child of the former- While drunk they tossed the child up and lot it fall to the ground. The Freeman's Jn'crnal of yesterday says th9 Land Corporation of Ireland has been re-organisedf and will, it is understood, commence proceeding9 on the evicted farms of Cloncurry by tilling all the lands lying idle. Yesterday, in the Royal Courts of Justice, the Attorney-General applied for a rule ni$i for criminal information against the proprietor of the Worlth he having published a paragraph of an elopement in high life, which, it was alleged, poi.ited to Lord Lonsdale. The rule was granted. The steamship Sheffield, plying between Grimsby and Hamburg, arrived at the former port yester- day, and the chief officer reports that on Wednes- day night he ran down a fishing smack which irn" mediately foundered. Boats were at once lowered, but no trace of the vessel or crew could be found. It is stated the smack carried no lights, but it is believed she belongs to Yarmouth. At the Liverpool Police Court vesterdav John Rafferty, tobacco manufacturer, of lUjnagham Ireland, was charged on remand with being con' cerned in smuggling a large quantity of tobacco concealed in flaxseed. Mr. Paxton, who appeared for the Board ot Trade, intimated that he had not yet received complete instructions from the Cus- toms Commissioners, and he, therefore, asked for a remand for another day. This was Agreed to. Wo are officially informed that the directors of the Midland Railway Company will recommend* dividend on Ordinary Stock for the past half-year at the rate of 6.} per cent, per annum, carrying forward a balance of £39,000, The accounts of the Great Western Railway Company Rhowa balance sufficient to admit of a dividend for the past half- year on Consolidated Ordinary Stock at the rate oi T$per cent., currying forward about £38,000, Botb the above dividends are at the same rate as for the corresponding period of last year. A determined attempt was made early yesterday morning to enter Lilac Cottage, Caterham Valley- The occupier was from home, but his daughter. Miss Maggie Page, from the bedroom window fired a revolver at the would-be burghr. The man raØ round to the back of the house, but his moretnenW in every direction were covered by Miss Page, who made her appearance at the various window* revolver in hand. Two ladies who were in the house sounded & rattle and blew a. whistle, but tbl house was in such a lonely spot that the man wal able to make his escape. James Flynn, labourer, was charged at Clerken* well Police Court yesterday with maliciously wounding William Heywood on Sunday outsida the old Grecian Theatre, City-road. Service being held by the Salvation Army in the theatre and about a thousand persons, chiefly members of the Skeleton Army, were waiting outside. TbI complainant came out from the theatre with two girls when he was followed by a mob, and prisonet stabbed him in the arm. Tho magistrates com- mitted prisoner for trial.
TIIE LATE STORMS. «»-
TIIE LATE STORMS. «»- THREE VESSELS WRECKED ON LUNDY ISLANXT." LOSS OF ALL HANDS. Mr. Thomas Rosser, Cardiff pilot, reported 01 Thursday night that, when in Lundy Roads oj Tuesday, Captain Kemp, of the screw steamet William Connoll, stated that one of the officials, of the Lighthouse on Lundv Island informed him that three vessels had hoeo driven ashore on the west sido of th' island during the late gale; and, as no help could possibly be given them, the whole of the ere* perished. One of the vessels, which it has beeO ascertained is a steamer, has broken in two on the rocks. The William Connell waS at the time one of 33 vessels lying iØ Lundy Roads, and was bound from Swansea with a cargo of coal for Havre. Of the 33 vessels outward bound some of them have been detained since 25th ult. The following are the names of some of these vessels: — Steamers Rapid, HiberniaO» Mm-thyr (Morel), Merthyr (Harrison, Dixon, and Co.), Gustav Bitter, Wm. Connell, Fanny Hertha, York, Pernambuco, Vulture. Envoy, Orlando, Pelaw, Truelan Castle, G. N. Wilkinson, Victoria* *nd schooners Lizzie, of Padstow, and Wave, o' Jersey. By ten o'clock on Tuesday" night, the R3I' having moderated, all the above were able to put to sea.
ALARMING EIRE IN NEW YORK.
ALARMING EIRE IN NEW YORK. ["REUTER's" TKLKOSAil.J NEW YORK, FEB. 1,—The Inman Line landing pier has been destroyed by fire. The National Line steamer Egypt sustained some damage. The 3-uion steamers Alaska and Nevada narrowly fscaped. The cargo of the City of Brussels. Drought out by the Egypt and unloaded, waS Jestroyed.
THE TAFE VALE RAILWAY COMPANY.
THE TAFE VALE RAILWAY COMPANY. THE NEXT DIVIDEND. We are informed that at their next half-yearly neeting, which is to be held on the 20th inst., the iirectors of the Taff Vale Railway Company will 'ecommeud a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. 3er annum, and a bonus at the rate of 7 per cent. )er annum on the Ordinary Stock and Preference stock No. 1. This will leave a balance of £5,631, which it will be proposed shall be carried forward o the current half-year
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--= FHE UNIVERSrfY COLLEGE FOR SOUTH WALES. THE REFEREES. The Mayor of Cardiff (Mr. G. A. Stone) has re- vived a letter from the Town-Clerk of Swansea to he following effect:— January 30. 1883.-College for South Wales.— ">ear Sir,—In further reply to your letter of the !4th inst., I am glad to be able to inform vou that he Executive at their meeting this morning ac- :epted the substitution of Lord Carlingtord for Lord Spencer as one of the referees, and at the reo juest of the mayor I have asked Mr. Mundella to iee his lordship and obtain his consent to act. I presume you will adopt a similar course.—I al11, lear sir, yours faithfully, JOHN THOMAS, Town- Dlerk.—To the Worshipful the Mayor of Cardiff." We understand that the Town-Clerk of Cardiff las forwarded a similar request, to Mr. Mundellac ;0 that concerted action is again secured.
THE CRISIS IN FRANCE.
THE CRISIS IN FRANCE. [FROM QUIt CORRESPONDENT.] TARIS, FEB. 1 (6 P.M.).—Two Cabinet Councils mve been held to-day, one in the morning and one late this afternoon. The result of their delibera- tions has not yet transpired, but it is not very likely that any definite step has been taken. The illness of M. Fallieres, and the difficulty in nliing the Ministries of War and Marine, seem to have paralysed public affairs. In the lobbies the general feeling is one of weariness at the prolonged crisis; Find among the public at large there is much the same lassitude and absence of excitement. Along with this manifestation of indifference, however, the hope is secretly cherished that a strong Government may spring suddenly, as it wore. from the present state of chaos. Should such art one arise, and declare its intention of dealing ener- getically with any pretenders who might shoW themselves dangerous to the stability of the Re- public, without having recourse to any special law, there is little doubt that all shades of Repub- licans, tired of uncertainty, would unite in support. There would also be the additional incentive of avoiding a struggle with the Senate and eventual dissolution.