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TIDE TABLE. FOR thb Wkbx. endinq Apkil 25, 1834. I t J 5 -I ■p "a «8 § -js Dinormwm, .2^ § O-S la z3 2 I a a I s t f Morning 12 13 — 11 48 :2 1Q 1 Sa.tU1UJY-< Evening 12 53 li 30 — 12 i2 1 o7 1 Height 22 4 1 25 5 23 6 25 9 16 1 I Morniag 1 1 9 12 24 1 18 2 16 Spotjat .•? Evening 2 15 I 1 51 1 3 1 57 2 5? ( Height 21 9 | 26 1 23 11 25 11 15 7^ niorufiTg 2 ^2 2 33 ~1 407 2 34 3T0" Momda.t.-< Evening 3 35 I 3 14 2 15 I 3 9 ^21 1 Height 23 4 26 4 25 7 ) 27 18 17 5 ( Morning V3 3 49 2 47 3 <1 4 56 Tuesday < Evening 4 39 4 22 3 17 4 11 5 29 ( Morning I V3 3 49 2 47 3 <1 4 56 Tuesday < Evening 4 39 4 22 3 17 4 11 5 29 I Height 26 2_28 !0_ 28 0 30 7 20 5 (Morning 5 4 4 50 3 45 4 30 6 57 WlMBT.'l Evening o 30 5 16 4 12 5 6 6 23 ( Height 29 3 31 > 30 3 33 7 23 9 ( Morning 5 51 5 41 4 38 5 32 6 43 Ihubsdt •< Evening 6 17 6 5 5 4 5 58 7 1- | Height 31 11 34 3 32 1 36 5 26 9 (Morning 6 40 6 30 5 29 6 23 7 37 Fhioat. < Evening 7 3 8 54 5 53 6 47 8 1 Height 34 2 35 6 33 6 37 4 23 3

M#IgPail SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1884. NOTES OF THE WEEK. (BY OCR LONDON AND PROVINCIAL OuSKBSI ONDFNTS.) It is a well-worn aphorism that a man's opinions are influenced by climate and the condition of his digestive organs. At present 1 on!y wish to furnish an illustration of the first of these poteut causes. To hold any large quantity of Itnd in the British Isles is denounced by Radicals as a heinous crime; but, of course, this does not apply to the acres which those same Radicals MAY possess in other dominions. The member for Cardiff voted, without the least compunction, for the confiscation of land in Ireland, and in a round- about way expressed his approval of similar robbery (& la Henry George) in England, How would he like this principle to be applied to the fertile acres of Florida ? I observe in the IVME.? of to-day that some little time ago the right to buy 2,000,000 acres was given to the Florida Land and Mortgage Company of England, of which the Earl of Huntingdon is chairman, and Sir Edward Reed and Captain Gambler, R.N., are prominent directors. This COMPANY hasacloseeymparhy with the rail ways, and has also SECURED control of part of their Ittad GRAM-,}. The Land Company now holds about 2,&0*.),0C'0 J»ores, whioh is generally reached by these iailvrays; and has been care- fully selected in various parts of the State, after a close anamination by well-known I'loridiaiis familiar with the agricultural re- sources or every section of Florida. The English and Dutch proprietors of this vast estate have JE7 45,000 paid-up share capital invested in it, besides ±."2*2o,COO debentures. I wcader what terms Sir E. J. Reed woald find strong enough to denounce any Land Leagua that would dare to interfere with his I sweet little perquisite in Yaukee soil ? It may be the perfection of honest enterprise to amass land in one part of the globe and to agitate for its wholesale confiscation from the rightful owners in another. But it is what S^R Edward's Transatlantic friends would call almighty smart work." I daresay the con- sciousness of being part owner of so many millions of acres accounts for the testy knight's iligh-faluting" notions on the sacredness of his seat for Cardiff. V.*e WHO have the misfortune to delve and struggle in this cramped little corner of Walea ought not to expect too inuoh condescension from a real, live K.C B,, who hobnobs with Muscovite autocrats, and id part proprietor of the Great Republic of the WENT. # By the death of Mr. Charles Reade we have lost one of our most brilliant and suc- cessful rioveliet8. Every work from his pen achieved a rapid popularity as socn as pub- lished, whilst some of tlie B3SF of them have been dramatised by their aut'ioi* ami pro- duced upon the STAGE with eminent success. There WAS A vivid, sensational interest in all he wrote which could not fail to catch the MASSES and malte him a general favourite. Moreover, he aimed at SOlUa important moral A^D social reform in nearly all his works, and did this without becoming in the least tediou* or didactic, or in any way losing tp SIJRHT of the true art of the novelist. Perhaps the best illustration of this is to be found m h.'a familiar novel, "IT IS Never Too Late to Mend," and its dramatio version as played at the Adelphi Theatre. # In the drama" Drink," founded on Zola's "L'Assommoir," Air. Reade scored a gieat triumph, and, some people maintain, did good service in the cause of pubiie morality as well. CERTAINLY it was a terrible lecture of A certain style, and showed to advantage the adaptor's peculiar powers. It also gave us some examples of really fine acting in that particular liae which has made its home at the Adelphi. <mJ, a week or TWO AGO it was charged against Mr. Reade that his story running in Harper's Weekly WAS a pV-re translation of a J? reach story. One correspondent went so far as to pubiish 'A the Accd*my, side by side, PASSAGES FROM Idr, Reade'b work AND iron*, the w original. The resemblance was so strong that the Saturday Review of the 5th inst. ex- pressed a hope that Mr. Charles Reade would give an early explanation. Alas, poor fellow, he has now passed beyond the reach of ex- planation and criticism alike. Nevertheless, I planation and criticism alike. Nevertheless, it is sad that this cloud should have arisen to jed.ni a fame so well established by years of hard and exceptionally good work. hard and exceptionally good work. Playgoers, wherever the English language 1** is spoke'i, wil1 be pained and chocked to hear of the premature death of Mr. H. J. Byron, which took place on Saturday. The author of "Our Boys" has gi\ren us many a hearty laugh, and taugut us many a sound I asun as we laughed. By his removal, at a comparatively early age, the literary and dramatic circles of London have lost oi>e of the brightest and most genial of our boys," £ man of inimitable social powers, and a veadv friend of the deserving aspirant to histrionic or literary fame. Mr. Byron wa3 more successful as a writer than an actor, although he won for himself no n^ean reputa- tion in the latter capacity. His death has est A deep gloom over a host of aisi^da and admirers. This week yonr readers 'msy expect 1 primrose Number cf the St. Stephen's Reoitw. It will be distinguished by a specially designed cover, ?,nd will contain a cartoon, 1:.y¡ Tom Merry, illnstratire of the endurii<g fame of Lord Beaconsbeld. Special articles by leading Conservatives, inolnoing one by Sir Samuel WHson. written from Hughenden Manor, vriil be published, and many fresh details of Lord Beaoonatieid s career will be given. Five pounds will be given for the best poem, not exceeding 30 liues, touching on Lord Beaconsfield. The melancholy suicide of the Rev. Alex- ander Taylor, preacher of Gray's Inn, has caused a good deal of attention to be turned to ,v hat appears to be a very pievalent disease of the age—sleeplessness. The number of people who suffer from this disorder, even amongst one's personal friends, is very striking. Some eminent medical authorities put it down to the incessant worry and struggle peculiar to the rapid age in which we live. Whether the rush be for fame. or position, or wealth, or bare subsistence, the effect, I take it, is pretty much the same m most cases, i.e., general demoralisation of tiie brain and nerve tissues. If any of your readers are sufferers from this distressing loss of rest I can advise them of a remedy which I have never known to fail in ordinary in- stances, Indeed, it is as efficacious as it is timpie. Here it is. Immediately before retiring to rest take a tumbler full of hot water aud sip it, as hot as it can be swallowed. The effect is almost magical in its certainty. Sleep ensues within a few minutes, and one wakes in the morning free from those terribly depressing influences inseparable from the use of drugs. The prescription is that of a noted physician, and is certainly worth anyone's trial. Mr. E. B. Browning (son of the poet) has completed and brought to London his bronze- statue of Dryope Fascinated by Apollo in ¡ the Form of a Serpent." The statue is on a colossal scale, and the figure is that of a young girl, nude, and of great nobility of bearing and attitude. A python coils round her left leg below the knee and up her back, coming round to the front across the right arm till his head is almost on a level with her mouth. This work is intended for exhibition at the Royal Academy. Mr. Browning has also completed two busts and several pictures. Radicalism has been defined as "keeping pace with the times." Accepting this, for the sake of argument, as a correct exposition of a dangerous creed, I am forced to the conclu- sion that its practical application is, in some cases, anything but complimentary to the idols it has set up. A circular which lies before me at the present moment gives a striking illustration of this point. It is headed in good bold characters" Memoir of the liight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. and refers to the probable decease of that lofty personage in the coolest manner. The author of the circular informs me that he is pre- pared to offer, for a reasonable consideration, a memoir of the Premier, which" has been specially written by an able hand, recording all the leading events of the life of the right hon. gentleman dowu to the present time. So far there is nothing to complain of, nor much to be thankful for, as the records of such a prominent career are not veiled in any gteat mystery, The delicate enterprise of the compiler appears a little farther on, when he assures me that the Memoir—which you may think it prudent to have in hand ready for use in the case of emergency—extends to about ten oolumns of the Times" What a pleasant suggestion to meet the eye of the Grand Old Man! Was ever a reminder of mortality couched in words of greater tact than these ? In case of emergencyI wonder does the Prime Minister contemplate suicide; or has the author of this" complete" Memoir had the straight tip from a dynamite society, by which he hopes to turn an honest penny ? An order and remittance at once are asked for, with the intimation that (; of course it is especially stipulated that no use will be" made of the Memoir until after the right hon. gentleman's decease." It is not stated that the last dying speech aad confession" are included in this prophetic arrangement, and that is the one omission which makes it valueless. Mr. Gladstone may be a very grateful man, and susceptible to a good deal of flattery, but I scarcely think he will appreciate these enterprising efforts to set his house in order for him. An ordinary meeting of the council of the Cymmrodorion Society was held at Lonsdale Chambers, Chancery-lane, London, on Thurs- day last, under the presidency of Dr. I«tambard Oven, M.A. I understand that several new members were elected, and that a cominuni- [ cation from Swansea was read, in which the council were asked to establish a branch at | that town. It was resolved that the whole question of Branch Societies should be re- ferred to a committee. Much can be said in favour of the idea, but there are also sources of danger connected with it, and the council 1 do well to deliberate before committing them- selves. The conversazione will be held in the gret.t saloon of the Freemasons'Tavern on the I 22nd of May. w.* Now that the time is approaching whjn in- tending emigrants look about them for a suitable destination, I am inclined to think that some information upon the point would be of service to many of your readers through- out South Walts. I have before me an in- teresting circular issued by the Rev. A. Styleman Herring, vicar of St. Paul's, Clerkenwell, who has done immense service to the poor in the cause of emigration. I may 1 mention, en passant, that this gentleman has helped to aid out some 4,755 persons during the last fifteen years without fee or reward. He expresses himself as willing to furnish any further information upon receipt of a stamped and directed envelope. It will, perhaps, be remembered that on the 28i,h of March there was a spirited debate upon the emigration question in the House of Lords by Lords Carnarvon, Derby, Norton, and Denman, who concluded by affirming, "The prospects for the pocr men in the Colonies was far better than at home. There sailed from our shores last year nearly 400,000 emigrants. More English and Irish than usual. 77,000 located in Austral- asia the rest in Canada and the States. All our Colonies offer generous land grants, and most ae&rti'y welcome single women. I may add that there i3 plenty of elbow-room out there, a!ld that the chances of saving and pro- I gressing are greater than here. To extend the great North-West (Manitoba), where a large emigration is expected after the 24th of April, the Canadian Government (office at 9, Violoria-Btreet, W es^minster Abbey,S.W.; and all needing assisted passages must apply direct to each Co'onial Office) now charge but direct to each Colonial Office) now charge but 1£2 JOt. per adult from Quebec to Winnipeg. Liverpool to Quebec £3 agriculturists, £4 mechanics, £2 101. single women. 12s. 6d. London to Liverpool, 3a. 6d. ship's kit. It takes ten dkys^rda hall crossing the Atlantic, I and eighteen from London to Winnipeg. Australia, New Zealand, and the Cape are gradually aiding only those who have rela- tives or friends there, since most of the emigration is now done by nominatiou orders. The colonists can get out their friends very cheaply and quickly by thus nominating them. This ticket is sent to England, and ships provided, &c, I have taken the greatest pains to get the latest particulars respecting emigration. New South Wales—capital, Sydney (5, Westmin- ster Chambers, Wesminster Abbey, S.W.)— is very prosperous. A couple under 40, £6 the paii; young men, £4; young women, £2 i children (three to fourteen) but JE1. Queensland (1, Westminster Chambers) -£8 each; young women, jei. Victoria, South and Western Australia, and Cape of Good Hope are just at present not assisting [direct Irom England, KEW Zealand .17^ Westminster Chambers). Suitable single male adults, £.1; single women, free. Tas- mania (79^, Gracechureh-street, City, KO.), mnch the same prices as Netv South Wales. Natal (21, Finsburv Cireua, City, E.C.). Farm labourers, £5; single women, free, and sent by steamers and under superintendents. The North-West, Canada-Winnipeg the capital—is an excellent place for those with small capital. 160 acres of virgin soil free, which requires JMO to £200 to start with, and before paying crops can be relied upon. I hope that, for the good of our country, one day our Home, with the Colonial Governments will, by State-aided or some other emigration, institute Parliamentary ships across the oceans. This would assuredly be a step iu the right direction. e # With regard to the statement made by Caradog in the "Cambrian National" anthem controversy aa to Handel's habitual use of other music than his own, it may be in- teresting to quote an opinion given in a Musical Supplement to the Illustrated London News of Saturday, March 27, 1852. This supplement consisted of a number of interesting English songs and melodies, of which the poetry was con- tributed by Dr. Charles Mackay and the accompaniments by Sir Henry Bishop, then professor of music at the University of Oxtord. What gives the opmicnaapecial value is that it is Sir Henry Bishop's own, It occurs as a note on the song" Our Swor-ts are ;Shed.T,11f;c! which is set to the music of Let's Drink and Sing," a remarkably energetic and spirited production, which appeared in The Carnival Songster of 1782. Concerning this air and its composer, Sir Henry Bishop remarks:—"That it was partly founded upon a composition of which Hanael claimed the authorship cannot be dis- puted. Handul, however, Was notorious: for taking advantage of every musicalsubjent that he admired, and openly confessed that he considered it quite fair to do so. The mere fact of the excellence of a melody seemed to him amply sufficient to warrant his appropriating it to his own use; and when he first came to England, perceiving that Purcell's works, as well as those ef the more ancient English com- posers, were still in high estimation, he did not scruple to copy as largely from them in his secular productions as he afterwards borrowed in his oratorios from the subjects of some of the most eminent of foreign masters. The beautiful pastoral symphony in the 'Messiah so closely resembles the old English melody of Parthenia, popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,as to render it impossible to believe that the resemblance was accidental. Many other instances, quite as palpable, could also be brought forward of Handel's numerous a.nd skilful appropriations of what are distinctively called English national tunes and those parts of the present air which may appear to belong to him afford such unquestionable proofs of their English origin as to justify its being in- cluded in this series of English melodies." A correspondent writes from one of the Glamorganshire valleys to inquire who and what Mr. A. Leaman, of Cardiff, is, that he should sit in judgment upon all the great musical composers, and by his unaided testi- mony convict them, one and all, of plagiarism. Such smug self-conceit Is infinitely amusing, and fully prepares one for Mr. Leainan's modest criticism of "Hen WIad fy Nhaaau." This latter task is irresistibly comic, and must surely have been intended to make your readers laugh. As a healthy antidote to the indigestible properties of hot-cross buns it is timely, and for that I thank the con- ductor of the Cardiff Orchestral Society, Mr. Leaman takes us into his sweetest confidence when he says that the Welsh National Anthem is such musical stuff as ninety- nine out of a hundred men could write in any quantity without it occurring to one of them that the product was good enough for publi- cation. Now I know what manuer ox critic I have to deal with. I, therefore, venture so far to overcome my awe of Mr. A. Leaman as to ask him a simple question. Can he write anything a hundredth part as good, melodic, and original as Mr, James James's immortal composition ? If so, I can promise him a fame beyond the select limits of the Cardiff Orchestral Society. But perhaps Mr, Leaman is the" odd man in the hundred he speaks of. I cannot attach any importance to this flippant critic's confession that until a week ago he had never seen or heard "HenWIad fy Nhadau." That does not affect the immense popularity of the air in the least. I knew a blind man once who had no idea what the sun was like, and yet I did not pity the sun. In short, Mr. Leaman has made a striking addition to the contro versy but the striking part of it is neither its modesty, good taste, nor musical skill. Luckily for Welsh music, Mr. A. Leaman's opinion is of incalculable value to—the con- ductor of the Cardiff Orchestral Society only. I am not a little surprised at the tone of the discussion upon Suuday Closing at Thurs- day's meeting of the Calvinistic Methodist Association. It is impossible to agree with the opinions expressed that the Act had been a success in Wales. Cir- cumstances all point to an opposite conclusion. 'J he bona fide traveller clause is not the mischief, nor must all the blame be laid upon bogus clubs, reprehensible as they are. To my mind, the cause of failure is in the Act ltaolf. A tyrannical infringe- ment of potsonfJ liberty must by its ver) nature breed evil results. I regret that so intelligent and influential a body as the Cal- vinistic Methodists cannot oee this to be the ca.3e. I turned into the Cardiff Fine Art Exhibi- tion on Good Fridaf to hear the Messiah concert. The singing on the whole was very good, and 'he orchestration excellent. Bu! the conduct of the audience, in one or two particulars, was simply astounding. Let ij be remembered that the music and words deal with the incidents relating to the Founder oi Christianity, and the occasion was Good Friday. Yet (incredible as it may appear) nearly every man in the large assemblage l.:ept his hat .-)?! In addition to this execra- ble transgression of the usual custom at oratovio concerts, the audience actually ap- plauded th0 various solos and choruses as vociferously as though they had !> >en comic E'.ngs or negro melodies! i. noticed that some good folks here and there looked horrified, as well they might, at these remarkable innova- tions. Possibly they, like myself, wondered at the con trait to the respectful silence which invariably prevails at renderings of the Messiah and, indeed, other oratorios. On Thursday I paid a visit to the building of the Swansea Baths and Laundry Company whi' h is fast approaching completion, and having with me an excellent guide, philoso- pher, and friend I muat say I was pleased with everything pointed out to me. By these baths there is no doubt that, as directors are wont to say, a long felt public want" in Swansea will be handsomely provided for. Let the Swansea people now resolve to accept religiously the truth that "Cleanliness is next to godliness," and, however strange it seems, be equally resolute in discarding the other proverb, Wash your dirty linen at home," and I predict for the Swansea Baths and Laundries a decided and deserved success. It will be a pleasant reflection to bathers to know that they will have here the genuine article-the pure briny, hall-marked," from Swansea Bay, and not as in many baths I wot of, dirty fresh water from a river. About 500 yards of pipes are being laid out to the clear water of the bay. It was interesting to me to notice the utilisation of the heating and steam power which k purposed at this estab- lishment. The same apparatus serves nearly all the departments—warms the water, dries the clothes, provides the steam, and seems to do everything else. On the premises, which are situate upon an acre of ground in St. Helen's-road, areiooms for Turkish, sea water, swimming, hot, cold, douche, vapour, and other baths. The two swimming baths, which are faced with enamelled bricks, are each 70ft. long by about 30ft. broad. Excellent accom- modation ia provided for the officials. A refreshment-room, gymnasium, shampooing- rooin, and hairdressing-room are also in this part of the building. The laundry department is really worth seeing, for here are spacious apartments, extraordinary and newest machinery for cleansing, drying, and so on, and every provision for doing things quickly and well. The premises throughout are well ventilated, and the facade and general ap- pearance of the building are effective. When, as ia proposed, the gymnasium and tennis ground are in fuil awing, and aquatio contests and other summer pleasures are introduced, this institution will undoubtedly be one of the most famous pleasure resorts in Swansea. If only for the purposes of comparison and reflection, it is well, when we have become accustomed to a change in our customs and habits, to turn back awhile to our former modes of LIFE, and see that our last state is not worse than our first. Good Friday gave an opportunity to my friends the Swansea Dublio to see their nublic-houses opened as they were wont to be on Sunday, and the review has, I think, shown them that their condition which was to be so vastly improved by the Act in question is precisely that of the man in the parable. Although the houses were opened for a number of hours on Good Friday, and although it might be supposed from the heat of the day and the general holiday that advantage would be largely taken ef the entertainment these houses made and provided, yet what was the result? Not a single case of drunkenness on that day had to be investigated by the magistrates. This cannot be said to be the case in Swansea on many Sundays. None of your readers will be surprised to hear that the first annual banquet of the Press Benefit and Superannuation Society for South Wales and Monmouthshire, held at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, on Saturday evening, was a great success. As chairman, Mr. Daniel Owen, J.P., of Ash Hall, Cowbridge, was emphatically "the right man in the right place." Ilis speeches were marked by that shrewdness and sound common sense so characteristic of him, whilst his suave manage- ment of the evening's proceedings contributed in no small degree to their success. The pre- sence of Sir H. Hussey Vivian, M.P., and Sir John Jones Jenkins, M.P., was a pleasing feature, and their speeches paid graceful tribute to the healthy and far-reaching in- fluence of the local daily Press. A happy passage in Mr. Lasceilea Can's racy and pointed speech in proposing The Houses of Parliamentdrew from those gentlemen strong expressions of disapproval of the Radical craze far the abolition of the House of Lords. I was much struck with Sir Hussey Vivian's interesting sketch of the rise and progress of Parliamentary reporting, as well as his acknowledgment of the mutual benefits conferred and enjoyed by Parliament and the Pre.33 in their important relations with each other. Amongst the other speeches made during the evening, I must claim to make special mention of the one to which Mr. James Harris, the deputy editor of the Western Mail and sub-editor of the Red Dragon, treated us. It was singularly happy, both in conception and delivery, containing a store of valuable hints upon literary and journalistic matters, interspersed with piquant criticisms, witty! allusions, and apt illustrations, all well- warmed with that inspiriting verve and fire peculiar to the utterances of a genuine Welsh- man. But, perhaps, after all, the applause it evoked is its best criticism. The occasion of the first banquet of the society was an eminen tly fitting one for the presentation which the chairman, on behalf of the members, made to Mr. E. H. Grafter, of the Western Mail, as a slight acknowledgment of his invaluable services in founding and promoting the Press Benefit and Superannuation Society for South Wales and Monmouthshire. The handsome drawing-room timepiece, pair of vases, and album were but the practical endorsement of that well- merited eulogium whioh Mr. Daniel Owen passed upon Mr. Crafter, to whose voluntary exertions this excellent society owes its exis- tence. Altogether the meeting was about the most harmonious and enjoyable of the kind that I have ever had the privilege of attend- ing, and I think it may be taken as a pleasant augury of the future in store for the Press Benefit Society. I have never yet been taken captive by the good taste of your Sootch contemporary, but I should certainly have thought them in- capable of ostentatiously cutting off their nose to spite their face," as they have done over the Press Benefit and Superannuation Society's banquet, which was held at Cardiff on Satur- day night. I looked in the local Kadical print this morning for a report of the proceedings on that occasion, but to my surprise found none. Now, had the banquet been in any sense a political one, some light would have fallen upon the extraordinary conduct of your contemporary. If the speakers present to respond for the Houses of Parliament had been Lord Emlyn and Sir Watkin W. Wynn I could have understood the omission. But when two such prominent and popular Liberals as Sir Hussey Vivian aud Sir John Jones Jenkins were the honoured guests I am amazed at the short-sighted- ness of some people whose national characte- ristic is supposed to be "canniness." Of course, the reason is obvious enough, but I cannot enter upon it h £ re without showing almost as bad taste as those to whom I refer. May the fates preserve me from that,

V Q n PARIS LETTER. PARIS, April 16. In the craze which now afflicts France for statue-erecting it is the pace which kills. Fortu- nately the boom" has set in when the Govern- ment has a superfluity of old cannon on its hands That can be melted down, thanks to the Chinese soldiers in Tonquin abandoning their guns, and with greater rapidity than Egyptian warriors. The Municipal Council has decided to set up a statue to Dolet on the Place Maiibert, Boulevard St. Germain, where he was burned, in August, 1546 —after bein £ hanged. If Paris were to honour all the victims of parties and sects, the capital would surpass Munich in statues. Why do not the free •ind accepted Masons run up a monument say to their G.W.M, a noted Black Prince, With as many skulls and cross-boues on his apron M on the uniforms of a. regiment of Black Brunswickers, who was burned on the site where at present stands, on the Pout-Neuf, the monument to thai amusing jid sinner and King of Opportunists, Henri IV ? That unfortunate was burned before being hanged!'—a preliminary drop of eight feet has thus an advantage. Dolet is to be honoured it seems as an apostle of "free 'bought." The fact is. be was an advanced Ca.tho- lic, and had for a best friend all his life. Cardinal de Touruoi:. He was so little a CaWinist that he wrote *gain3t Erasmus. In one respect he resembled Voltaire a little, he attacked the abuses of his age, and that was an age when strong blows were ex- changed, and striking below the belt ranked as fair play. Dolet was a. printer, and was victimized by a trade conspiracy. He was born on August 3, 1509, at Orleans, and was executed on the anniver- sary of his birth 37 years later at Paris, with the consent of that strange" Father of Letters," Francois I. Dolet contributed largely to the in- tellectual renaissance of the sixteenth century. Dolet's parentage was poor; some said ho was the natural aon of Francois I.: the King protected" him at all events-8ave from the gallows. By the King's bounty he was able to travel in Italy and study law at Toulouse. But he was of a passion- ate temperament; he quarrelled with his fellow students, and they accused him of heresy, because ho knew Greek and Hebrew. Rabelais we know suffered for having Greek authors in bis select convent library. Having attacked the Parlia- ment of Toulouse, that city became too hot for Dolet; he fled to Lyons, where he killed a school- man and artist in a street fight; he escaped to Paris and through influence was pardoned by the King. He returned to Lyons and set up as a. printer his presses turned out beautiful classical volumes; he published his own translations from the Greek, also a Latin dictionary, with satirical commen- taries on current events. Be commenced writing this work when a lad of sixteen it is a monument of learning and of Benedictine patience. Having secured a monopoly by superior skill of all the printing in Lyons, his fellow craftsmen con- spired to ruin him. They did not break his machines, nor attempt to blow up his office, or waylay him, and whack him to death, They sent elegant extracts of his printed transla- tions of Plato, discussing the immortality of the soul, to the Inquisition. That body found him guilty of heresy, but after fifteen months' im- prisonment he was handed over to the secular a.rm, and by influence he was again pardoned. The Cardinal stood to him. Resuming printing a fvesh conspiracy was hatched by his co-tradesmen. They made up two large bundles of his works, one of volumes thoroughly orthodox; the second, in closed envelopes, of the book3 condemned by the lnquisi- tion. The parcels were sent to Paris; Dolet was arrested, brought to Paris, tried as a heretic, and condemned to be first hanged, and then burned along with his books—a sentence fully executed. On his way to execution he made the epigram for the sympathising crowd: Non dolet ipse Dolet 6ed pia turba dolet. Dolet was a cynic, and ambitious of glory"; he retracted when called upon to re- tract. But he had neither the conscience, nor the courage, nor the faith of a martyr. He was not an Atheist, for he believed in the immortality of the soul; he was not immoral, for he waa & model husband and a doating father, and the little volume of Counsels he wrote, set ap, and printed with his own hands for the guidance of his son is a treasure of sound morality and practical I Christianity. The Anzin strike is likely to terminate disas- trously for all parties. Since two months 10,000 men are on strike, and how they have been able to keen themselves and their families alive onir He Who feeds the raven and caters for the sparrow knows. Public opinion is rather setting in against the company. Its shares a. century ago sold for a few thousand francs, now, or till before the strike, their value is over one million. These shares are nearly all owned by leading Orleanists, hence the dispute has now taken a political twist. The company is an apt illustration of the proverb: For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost. The coal mines were extremely rich, and so near the surface of the soil as to necessitate little expense for extraction. The galleries were arched with branches of trees, kept in rep-air by the aged miners and children. To ensure economy the company decided that the miners themselves should keep the galleries or runs open and in re- pair, and so allow of the discharge of the aged and the young allotted for that duty. Now all the miners are related like as in a village, every in- habitant has cousins. The miners would have no objection to keep the ways propped up, but rather than see aged hands discarded they struck. Such is tho origin of the row. It would have paid the company, as it now knows to its cost, to pension off the old people, or keep them nominally employed. Ths mines were badly worked thsy had their crea.m skimmed off, and so long as orders poured in, ana the coal plentiful, the morrow, the future, were forgotten, were not perceived through the showers of gold. The shareholders received their nuggets and were content. But competition set in from neighbour- ing mines; English and Belgian coal was in the market, and, to crown all, Rhenish Prussia sent coke into the manufacturing districts cheaper than Anzin, which hitherto had the monopoly. The company then discovered they had been kill- ing the bird that laid the golden egg; the surface mines were exhausted; it was necessary to sink shafts and utilise all the modern conveniences of perfected plant; all that implied reduced divi- dends, cheeseparings, and squeezings. Result final: Possible ruin of the company; misery and starvation for thousands. It is quite refreshing to read a letter from a Frenchman in Tonquin not written in the Cam- byses vein. From such I glean that the poor inhabitants' visages express only dread. They are slaves, but exchanged for new and different masters. The climate is not fatal to Europeans, as delicate ladies arriving pale and cadaverous from Cochin China quickly became plump and re- gained roses on their cheeks. Further, the soldiers revealed no abnormal campaign ills, though fight- ing and marching a fortnight up to the waist in water. The Delta is more densely populated than Belgium; as many as a dozen villages can be counted within a square mile, and the inhabitants cultivate the soil, which is of a marvellous fer- tility, like kitchen gardeners. A light skim plough, drawn by a single bullock, represents a strong farmer and high farming. The fields are so many pools, and the soil is best worked when in a state of dough or mud. The rice is sown appa- rently on water. Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days." It is surmised that the eight whites who lead the Black Flags to 44 death or glory are Americans, as the defence works constructed by the enemy resemble those current during the War of Seces- sion. The soil of Tonquin is a rich, hard clay, and when it rains, or when the fogs distill into gentle showers, a slime is formed as slippery as a glazed frost, so that a soldier, when he unwillingly slides with his lOOlbs. of baggage, fiopsdown like an unhorsed knight in armour. Alpenstocks are a necessity in the "plains." TheAnnamite soldiers are employed as scouts; their long hair is rolled up into a chignon, and kept in position by means of a back coaab the crown of the hat is fastened to the chignon by means of strings of coloured ribbon, and the latter fall down the back, like the suivez moi jeun homme streamers formerly patro- nised by ladies. The Turcos, believing these braves in jupons to belong to the fair sex, at first hesitated to march to glory with them. The Tonquin Volunteers are more feminine still in their equipment; they have only a petti- coat and a blue apron; their hat is an inverted tun-dish, with the minaret painted red, white, and blue. They have no shoes, that which is viewed as an advantage. The peasants, it appears, allow no fertilising matters to be lost, and every morning files of housemaids wend their way to the rice- fields, carrying a certain bedroom utensil on their heads, to empty on patches of vegetables and flower-beds. "Sweets to the sweet, farewell." The rich and the poor dress alike, that is the only way to do the tax extortioner. The people do not know now what god to devote themselves to, the Mandarins, the Black Flags, and the French arriving in succession. They are a loyal people, as on their pagodas they construct" figures of H cranes," said to live 1,000 years, and of tortoises," considered to have six times that longevity, to symbolise the wish that hia Majesty may Jive as long. It is said that in the attack on Sontay a single regiment stationed at the South Gate would have prevented the enemy escaping to Bac- ninh; perhaps a similar precaution would have captured the foe at Bacninh, and rendered a march on Honghoa unnecessary. Did the French really want to capture them? By still pursuing, still achieving, France has extended her grip over Tonquin, and run up the little bill that the Celestials must either payor cede a frontier province—that is, the break up of the Empire, and the laying a chief corner stone of the new realm, French-China. The death of the savant Dumas, considering his great age, 83, can hardly be called a loss to science. His work was finished. In science it may be truly said he touched nothing that he did not adorn. He was a self-made man; worked up from an apothecary's assistant in his native town of Alais to be on fame's eternal beadroll filed." He was lucky in his marriage, lucky in attaching himself to the fortunes of Napoleon III. He was a. tremendous worker, he was an excelient, speaker, and rumour says he adopted the Demos- thenic remedy against a stammering he had had in early life. He had a hasty temper, was intolerent towards opponents, and never accepted a franc for all his discoveries in industrial chemistry. The inauguration of the statue to Gambetta in his native town of Cahors enables one to measure the distance between the giant and the pigmies. It was his famous triumphal visit to Cahors that was employed by his enemies and rivals to sap his popularity. Of Gambetta it may be truly said, Nature formed but one such man." Murders and robberies are again painfully numerous in the suburbs. The victims are first strangled. M. Grevy has done well to sign the execution for the Douai parricide, who played cards till ordered up to march to the scaffold. The inhabitants of the townland where he committed the crime petitioned, not only to have him exe- cuted, but to be guillotined before them. A certain gentleman has the reputation of being so lucky that it is said if he fell from a fifth storey window he would drop on the head of his mother-in-law.

THE PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL TO MR. G. WILLIAMS, MISKIN MANOR. At the same time as the meeting held at Ponty- pridd, and reported in our columns on Saturday, there was a meeting on Thursday afternoon at the New Public Offices, Pentre, to further the move- ment started by the Rhondda Valleys Chamber of Tlade to recognise in some way the services rendered by Mr. Gwilym Williams during his occupation of the post of stipendiary magistrate. There was a very good attendance. Mr. E. Thomas was voted to the chair. The proceedings having been opened in the usual way, a committee was appointed, comprising the gentlemen present and others, to carry out the objectsof the meeting; the chairman of the meeting was elected head of the committee; Mr. Idris Williams, Porth, was appointed secretary, and Mr. D. Evans (Bodrin- gallt) treasurer.—It was suggested that the meeting ought not to decide upon any particular course in regard to the testimonial until' they learned* the result of the meeting then being held at Pontypridd, so that the two committees might co-operate. After discussing the matter at some length, however, those presant resolved to proceed independently of the Ponty-1 pridd Committee, as it was felt that the Rhondda Valley was large enough to do something sub- stantial for itself. At the same time all agreed that, once the testimonials—whatever shape they might take—are got up," it would be well that the two sections should meet and make the presen- tation at the same place. Mr. W. Abraham (Mabon), who was present, was asked to lay the matter before the miners through the delegates aud circulars were ordered to be sent out to the colliery proprietors and managers, to tradesmen and others, in the two Rhonddas. A subscription list was opened, and the chairman's invitation was at once cordially responded to.

TEACHERS' CONFERENCE AT LEICESTER. The session of the Teachers' Conference at Leicester opened on Thursday morning, Mr. Greenwood presiding. A proposition from Bristol, That children need not be presented for exami- nation unless having made 300 attendances," raised a long discussion. The resolution stated that teachers were not responsible for attendances, which Mr. Dawson and others questioned, contend- ing that teachers had much influence on atten- dance. The resolution, however, was carried, and also one supporting Mr. Brodrick'e motion in Par- liament regarding pensions to aged teachers.

PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS TO DISSENTERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY MAIL." Sir,—The South Wales Daily News has recently honoured me with its attention in two leading articles headed Mind Your Pockets" and "Cation Bevan's Charge Against Dissenters." The head and front of my offending consists in a statement I made at Carmarthen, to the offeot that Liberationists had made a good deal of capital out of the Parliamentary grants to Queen Anne's Bounty, as swvirgf, in their estimation, to prove that the Church was a State Church, but that it had apparently escaped their observation that during the same period, or, rather, during a much more prolonged period, grants were also made to Dis- senting bodies. I was referring to those which appear in the Appropriation Acts from 1804 to 1842, under the head of Protestant Dissenters in England." My argument, it will be observed, was one of a purely defensive character, intended to rebut the assertion of the Liberationists that the reception of these grants communicated to the Church the character of a State institution. The writer of the second article to which I have above referred does not dispute the fact that such grants were made: he even adduces other instances — such as the grant to Maynooth College, and the Regium Donum to the Irish Presbyterians. Either of these cases would equally well have served my purpose. I say that those grants did not convert the Roman Catholic or the Irish Presbyterian Churches into State in- stitutions and I claim the same consideration for the Church of England. The argument is a simple one enough, and does not, as far as I can see, transgress the limits of fair and friendly discussion. In what way it can be twisted into a charge against Dissenters passes my imagination. The only charge that I bring against anyone is that the Liberationists have overshot the mark in their comments on these Parliamentary grants to the Church. Your contemporary assumes that I have accused the Welsh Dissenters of having partici- pated in these grants. I said nothing of the sort. For the purpose of my argument it makes no difference who received them. Assuming that they were confined to the Presbyterians, as he asserts, I say that the Presbyterians in England did not acquiro the character of a State Church by receiving them. What, after all," he asks," have such facts to do with the Disestablishment of the Church ?" That is precisely my point. I say that no fair argument can be drawn from the Parlia- mentary grants to the Church, inasmuch as such grants were not confined to the Church. Whether your contemporary is correct in saying that the grant to Dissenting ministers in England was restricted to Presbyterians is a point on which it would be very desirable that we should have more precise information. My impression is different; but I have no access to official sources of informa- tion on the subject. The Regium Donum in England had nothing whatever to do with the Regium Donum to the Irish Presbyterians. The former dates from 1723, and, according to Peter (" Hanes Crefydd," p. 618), the money was entrusted to the leaders of the Presbyterians, Independents, and Baptists, to be distributed to poor and necessitous ministers belonging to their churches. In what way these three'bodies carried out the operation I do not pretend to know. It may be only a coincidence that the still existing society termed The General Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denomina- tions" came into being just about the time when the grant was instituted. Your con- temporary says that Welsh Dissenters have never received a penny of it. Possibly so. Yet we should like to know who received it, particularly as your contemporary has shown such an extraordinary degree of sensitiveness on the subject. As to the French Protestant refugees, I have made no refe- rence whatever to them. They were simply in- cluded in the heading under which the grant was described.—I am, &c., W. L. BE VAN. Hay:

LIBERATION 1ST TACTICS AT CARDIGAN. [FROM A correspondent.] Some time ago I had occasion to point out through your influential columns some of the many tactics adopted by the Liberationists of Cardigan in order to arrive at their scurrilous ends in con- nection with the Dis68tablisbment movement, and now, again, recent events necessitate the exposure of another instance of equally dishonourable prac- tices. A few weeks since a monster petition was got up in Cardigan in favour of Church defence, and the local Liberationists were so exasperated at the unexpected suddenness and effective way in which it was pre- pared that they decided upon a counter paper. But although every possible means were adopted to obtain signatures (and children of the tenderest age were required to subscribe thereto), scarcely half the hoped-for number of names was obtained, and the promoters of the counter-petition had, con- sequently, to forward the same to head-quarters with feelings of the most bitterly-disappointed character. But, however gloomy and downcast they might appear, they were evidently determined not to be outdone, and their next movement (carried forward upon lines characteristic of the usual utter lack of straightforwardness with which they are now so familiar) was in the direction of a "surprise" religious census of the different con- gregations in the town and neighbourhood, such census being taken on Sunday week last. Now, although the returns from a neighbourhood of such comparatively small popu- lation could almost instantly be made up, still the "concoction" of the figures was not completed until the latter end of the week. On Saturday they were honoured with a corner in your Highland, anti-Welsh contemporary, the South Wales Daily News. Now, so far from the allegation being true that the taking of this census was a surprise one, I may be permitted to explain that in every chapel throughout the district the congregations were acquainted of the fact several weeks before- hand that the census would be taken on this par- ticular Sunday, and, further (armed with this fact), even prayers for fine weather were offered, and a blessing beseeched upon their undignified proceeding. The appellation of surprise could, therefore, only be applied to the Church congregations, for to them it was, indeed. a surprise, as the number of worshippers in Cardigan Church, especially in the morning of that day, happened to be excep- tionally small. Then, again, the numbers were taken, not by men of trustworthy integrity, but by a gang of miniature humanity." the eldest of whom had scarcely outlived his teens." One or two of them, I feel sure, could not run up a scale of plain numerical figures from one to 350 with any degree of certainty or accuracy. The returns, therefore, thus offered to the public as genuine are certainly not of much value, and their authen- ticity must consequently be taken for what it is worth. Another fact in connection with the misleading fabrications of these political tacticians is that, although they made the returns appear as if they implied the attendances at all the services in Cardigan Church during the day, the audacious youths I refer to took only the number of those present at the English evening service and a portion of the same congregation in the morning, those attending the subsequent Communion Service being forgotten, while those present at the Welsh service in the morning, and the mixed congregation at the ser- vice in the afternoon were entirely overlooked. Facts are stubborn things," and I offer you these facts, sir, for publication, not with the view of provoking a controversy with the youthful census- takers, but merely to show the groundless misre- presentations of the Liberationists in the matter, the Nonconformists being taken in their fullest strength of numerical power, whilst the churches were suddenly pounced upon at the greatest pos- sible disadvantage.

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THE .MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL, FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE. SPEECH BY MR. C. M. PALMER, M.P. The" Press Association'' has received a copy of correspondence between Sir Thomas Farrer, the Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, on behalf of Mr. Chamberlain, and the Clyde Steam and Sailing Ships Association with reference to the Merchant Shipping Bill. The former states that the failure of the proposal for a conference between Mr. Chamberlain and the representatives is due to the latter making it a condition that the present Bill should be withdrawn. Such a condition was inadmissible. Mr. Chamberlain now proposes to call into council several eminent shipowners and underwriters, not with the intention that they should bind other shipowners, but in expectation of deriving valuable assistance from their advice. Mr. Chamberlain is surprised that the directors of the Clyde Steam and Sailing Ships Association anticipated the result ef the proposed conference, and condemned it before- hand. The secretary of the association replied that the directors are not actuated by prejudice. but believe the Bill is revolutionary, and that no conference can satisfactorily represent the many interests involved. Mr. C. M. Palmer, M.P., presiding on Wednesday at. the annual meeting of the North of England Steamship Owners' Association, Newcastle, allud- ing to the Merchant Shipping Bill, said he gave the President of the Board of Trade credit for the very highest motives, but the cry of lessen- ing the loss of life at sea was at the present moment inopportune, because it was not based upon facts. Mr. Chamberlain must have received his information from those connected with the Board of Trade, and should, therefore, be acquitted of doing anything which seemed improper in the estimation of the ship- owners. After the Bill appeared he met Mr. Cham- berlain, who was somewhat excited, and said he had expected a great reception for such a measure. He spoke rather curtly, and said he would appeal to the country upon the Bill if need be. He (Mr. Palmer) would venture to appeal to his own constituency of North Durham, and he was confident, when the subject was placed in its proper light, the working men especially would condemn such aggressive legislation. After the introduction of the Bill he met Mr. Goschen at Lloyd's, and they came to the con- clusion that the Bill was unworkable, that the question of cargoes would excite the whole mercan- tile community, that bills of Jading would cease entirely, and that the unseaworthy clauses were such that both merchants and bankers would not allow advances upon bills of lading. This he ex- plained to Mr. Chamberlain, and the cargo clause was withdra wn. He could not understand why it should be withdrawn. It had never been proved that over-insurance had caused the loss of a ship, but it was otherwise with cargoes. It seemed to him that the claust referring to the insurance of cargoes was the most necessary clause to be retained. He had ventured to speak strongly to Sir Farrer Herschell upon the limited liability portion of the Bill. Many persons had invested their capital in shipping entirely on the security afforded by the Limited Liability Act, and to alter that Act against any special industry would be a breach of faith on the part of any Government. If he stood alone he would divide the House of Commons on that point. In conclu- sion, Mr. Palmer asserted that the introduction of the Bill had greatly aggravated the depression in the shipbuilding trade. A resolution was after- wards passed calling for a Parliamentary inquiry into the way the powers and responsibilities of the Board of Trade in reference to maritime com- merce were exercised, and asking for the reorga- nisation of the department. Mr. P. Stewart Macliver, M.P., speaking at Ply- mouth, said the Merchant Shipping Bill had excited keen interest all over the country, and the opposition which had arisen was not surprising seeing the universal depression that existed in the shipping industry. He sympathised with a good deal of it, but said the question should not be made a political one. His desire was to see the Bill so framed as to reconcile the interests of seamen and their employers, and to introduce a system which should be mutually satisfactory. CAUSE OF THE SHIPOWNERS' OPPOSITION. Mr. G. A. Lawes, writing to the Northern Daily Exp-ress, says:—" As considerable misapprehension appears to prevail in the London press as to the reason that causes North country shipowners to dislike the proposal to give up inquiry before a Select Committee in favour of a conference at the Board of Trade, it may be well to remind the general public of the real point at issue, which is as follows:—Mr. Chamberlain has stated that he will be C as firm as a rock' to the vital principles of bis Bill, though he also admits that it is badly drafted, and requires alteration to bring it into harmony with the memorandum, which document was sent out to every paper in the kingdom to cause a false im- pression. The memorandum can be easily under- stood by the general public, and states at page 2, par. 3, that an owner may insure everything that he exposes to risk. The Bill itself can only be un- derstood by experts, and enacts that a shipowner, by sections 5, 11,14, and 29, can insure nothing that he exposes to risk. These two documents cannot be brought into harmony by mere altera- tion of details, which Mr. Chamberlain says is all that he will concede to a conference. First. The vital principle of the Bill is based on the supposition that the present law of in- surance causes loss of life at sea, but the ship- owners and mutual underwriters deny this, and the point cannot be decided, except by a Select Committee, after hearing evidence on both sides. If the promoters of the Bill are right, then it should be passed through both Houses without the altera- tion of a single clause, as being necessary for the safety of life at sea. But if the shipowners are right on the vital point, then the Bill should be withdrawn as a useless and unwarrantable inter- ference with trade. Second. If the insurance principle of the Bill is right, then the promoters should have retained the same restrictions on the insurance of cargoes as upon the vessels, otherwise it will be left open for a fraudulent owner to make the same profit on the loss of his cargo as he is now supposed to make on the loss of his ship, and the object of the Bill will be frustrated. On this point alone the country should demand the report of a Select Committee. Third. The shipowners have charged the Board of Trade, Marine Department, with causing loss of life, through improper regulations as to deck openings, &c. Will the public allow this serious matter to be hushed up in conference at Whitehall, when the lives of our seamen might be saved by the report of ajSelect Committee ? Finally. Assuming that a compromise could be effected between the promoters of the Bill and the shipowners at Whitehall Gardens, what guarantee is there that the agreement would be confirmed in Grand Committee? Past experience is not in favour of such a result. These are the reasons why the shipowners hold out for inquiry before a Select Committee, and they will do wisely to hold on to the bitter end."

CARDIFF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. PROPOSED VISIT OF THE LOAD-LINE COMMITTEE TO CARDIFF. An ordinary meeting of the Cardiff Incorporated Chamber of Commerce was held at the rooms of the institution on Wednesday, Mr. J. Fry pre- siding. There were also presentMessrs.Archibald Hood, W. H. Lewis, C. E. Stallvbrass, E. F. Thomas, A. Thomson, D. Griffiths, J.'B. Ferrier, and W. L. Hawkins (secretary).—Mr. Hood again drew atten- tion to the Employers'Liability Act (1880) Amend- ment Bill. He said he did not know that he had anything to add to what he said on the subject at the last meeting. The Biil proposed to prevent employers and employes from making certain arrangements between themselves, and that ap- peared to him to be an interference with the liberty of the subject. Practically, the Bill aimed at sup- pressing certain Provident Societies which secured a provision for widows and orphans who might be deprived of their bread-winner, and also for work- men who might meet with accidents rendering them unable to follow their employment for a time. Many employers contributed 25 per cent. on the workmen's subscriptions to these societies, which was far more than they (the employers) would be required by law to pay. He was not speaking on this subject from an interested point of view, because the men at the various works of his firm had not adopted their offer to pay 25 per cent. into the Provident Society, but he had no doubt they would do so. These societies were ad- vantageous to the workmen, and they were also advantageous to the employers, because they pre- vented litigation. He did not think there was the slightest chance of the Bill passing, but, at the same time, it was their duty to petition against it. Mr. Hood read a petition which had been drawn up by the secretary, in which Parliament was asked to reject the measure on the ground that it would be most prejudicial to the interests both of employers and employed, and concluded by moving its adoption by the chamber.—Mr. Stallybrass seconded the motion, and it was car- ried.—The Secretary then read the following letter which he had received that morning:— Load-line Committee. 15th April, 1884. Broadway Chambers, Westminster. Dear Sir,—The Load-line Committee propose to visit Cardiff next week. They will meet on Wednesday, the 23rd, and on Thursday morning will devote themselves to visiting the docks and inspectilljt all that may be of interest in connection with the various types, &c., of vessels sailing from the port. Although the primary object of the commit U-ein visiting Cardiff is rather to inspect vessels than to receive evidence,yet they are most anxious and willing to meet the shipowners and others interested in shipping with the view of receiving from them an expression of their views on the important question into which inquiry is now being made. With this view the committee will be prepared to sit on Thursday afternoon from two o'clock to receive evidence, and I shall feel it a great kindness if you will cause such a notification to be circulated as will ensure the shipowners and others being made fully aware of the proposed proceedings of the committee.—Yours faith- fully, E. J. HMD, Chairman. The Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Cardiff. The Chairman asked whether the chamber had not referred this subject to the Shipowners' Association.—The Secretary replied that they had not exactly done that. The Shipowners' Associa- tion had received a similar communication that morning, and as that body was more interested in the matter than the chamber he presumed they might be left to make arrangements for meeting the committee.—Mr. Stallybrass stated that the association had appointed a committee to consider the matter and prepare any evidence they might think it desirable to give. He regretted that the Load-line Committee only proposed to give such a short time to Cardiff, because in the Cardiff Docks they might see a large number of types of vessels and of modes of loading.—The Chairman remarked that the committee had already visited several other ports, and he supposed they had seen many vessels similar to those they would see at Cardiff.— After some further discussion, Mr. Stallybrass said that two or three members of the Shipowners' Association were prepared to give evidence, and it was decided to leave the matter in the hands of the association, and to reply to Sir Edward Reed accordingly-—This was all the business.

INDIA AND AFGHANISTAN. PROPOSED RAILWAY TO QUETTAH. ["DAILY NEWS TKLEGKAM. j SIMLA, APRIL 16.—Orders have been issued by4 the Indian Government for the extension of thaj railway to Quettah. At present the line fromj Sukkur, on the main line from Hyderabad to Rawul Pindee, only reaches the mouth of the Bolan Pass, the terminus being at Dadur. The length of thq new line, which has been projected for some con, siderable time, will be about 100 miles.

A PARISIAN SCANDAL, [" STANDARD TELEGRAM.] PARIS, APRIL 16 (NIGHT).—The papers to-day full of the details of a disgraceful scandal, otj which M. Savary, formerly a. Government official and a Deputy of the Chamber, is the hero. ItJ seems that while M. Savary was the director of thai Banque de Lyon et de la Loire, which stopped! payment under his management, he had under him, a clerk named Lamy, whose wife subsequently* left her home with a large sum of money, and; lived under Savary's protection. Last night, the outraged husband entered a brasserie, in tha; Rue des Martyrs, where M. Savary and Madame, Lamy were playing at cards. M. Lamy having struck M. Savary, the latter covered his own and Madame Lamy's retreat by presenting a revolver at his assailant. The latter, also armed with a re- volver, followed them into the street and fired, but without effect. The upshot was that the three were taken to the station by a policeman, and Lamy was detained in custody, M. Savary and Madame Lamy being allowed to leave.

ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN AT DARMSTADT. A Reuter's telegram, dated Darmstadt, Thurs- day, says:—Queen Victoria and the Princess Beatrice arrived here at quarter-past nine this morning and were received by the Grand Duke, the Princesses Victoria and Elizabeth, and Prince Henry. The Queen appeared in good health.

A MERCHANT SHIPPING LAW AMENDMENT BILL. The Daily News says:—We learn that on Tues. day next Mr. M'lvey will introduce into the House of Commons a Merchant Shipping Law Amend- ment Bill. This Bill will provide that an annual return be laid before Parliament, setting forth th& composition of the Board of Trade. It re-enacta the principle of the owner's load-line, but pro- vides that a declaration of the intended load-line for each voyage shall be made by all ships at the time of Customs entry. The Bill gives the Board' of Trade general power to survey all ships; and provides for the criminal punishment of persona concerned in the despatch of unseaworthy vessels. Mr. M'lver also proposes to repeal much of the existing legislation, which is now represented by 1103 statutes.

SIR E. J. REED AND THE FLORIDA, LAND AND MORTGAGE COMPANY. In an article entitled "A Winter Tour in the Southern States," which appeared in the Times on Wednesday, it was stated that Sir E. J. Reed was a director of the Florida Land and Mortgage Com- pany. This statement is contradicted by Sir E. J. Reed in Thursday's issue of that journal. Ha, writes:—I shall feel obliged if you will allow mo to state that I am not a director of the Florida Land and Mortgage Company (Limited), as your' correspondent supposes. In conjunction with Dr~ Wertheim, of Amsterdam, I arranged, on behalf of a syndicate of gentlemen, for the purchase of wha.t your correspondent justly calls a Royal Estate, and acted for them as vendor to the company men- tioned, but my position as vendor was not com- patible with my joining the board of the company on its formation.

ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN. An attempt was made to throw a train proceed- ing from Cork to Skibbereen off the line on Thursday, a number of large stones being placed upon the metals. Fortunately, the obstruction was discovered in time to avert a disaster.

CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES. LYNCH LAW VERSUS STATE EXECUTIONS. In 1883 there were 1,517 murders reported in tha United States. Of these criminals 93 were legally executed. The same year saw 118 lynchings.. Thus, 1,306 murderers evaded the extreme penalty of the law, whilst the lawless executions out- numbered the legal ones by 25 per cent.

THE DYNAMITE PLOTS. Commenting on the dynamite plots, United Ire* land says:—It is silly to talk of the men who. undertake these things as cowards or hirelings. They are not. They come over with their eyes open to the fact that the chances are 999 to 1 that they will be caught, lynched, hanged, or, at the very least, buried for life in a convict cell. All the gold in the bank cellars would not induce men to engage in such a service for mere pay, and the bravery required in a pitched battle is chiid's-play compared with the nerve that is demanded of a man whom, at any hour of the day or night, any- one of the millions of enemies around him has the right to slay as a hostis humani generis.

SUPERSTITION IN LONDON. THE BIBLE AND KEY TEST. At the Thames Police Court on Wednesday 9 woman named Lyons was charged with violently assaulting a woman named O'Brien, by striking her over the head with some heavy instrument, tearing out some of her hair, and knocking her down. The prisoner admitted the assault, but said the prosecutrix struck her first. The dispute, she explained, arose out of the loss of her shawl, which had disappeared in a mysterious way. She felt certain that it had been stolen, and she, therefore, made up her mind to find out the thief by means of the Bible and key," a test which never failed. She accordingly invited several friends to her room. She got a key and a Bible, and laying the Bible upon the table she took the key, and after tying a. piece of string to it placed it inside the Bible, with the wards fiat upon the leaves. She then close the Book, and sitt.ing so that those in the room could see her she took in her hand the part of thtP key which she had left projecting, and pronounced the names of the persons she was acquainted with, repeating after each name the words Turn, Bible, turn, turn round the key; turn, key, turn, and show the name to me." She repeated several names, but no sign was given. At last she men- tioned the name of Mrs. O'Btien, and then the key gave such a turn that it twisted itself out of her hand and fell on to the floor. She picked it up and replaced it, and then in the same way she got the name of the pawnbroker where her shawl waa pledged. The prosecutrix, who was not the Mrs. O'Brien that was discovered by the key, went and told the other Mrs. O'Brien, who was meant, that she (the prisoner) had marked her down for stealing the shawl, and this caused a row; and then, after they had some drink together, the pro- secutrix attacked her, and she only took her own part.—Ultimately the magistrate bound both tha women over to keep the peace.

RESULTS OF A FIGHT IN THE STREET AT SWANSEA. At Swansea Police Court on Thursday Georga Gowman (and not Gorman, as previously reported) was charged with assaulting Henry Beynon, a seaman, on Saturday last.—James Warner stated that on Saturday the parties were in the Bay View Public-house, at the bottom of St. Helen's- road. When prisoner entered he pushed the door against. Beynon, and Bevnon returned the com- pliment in the same way. After words came a struggle, and the parties left the house and fought on the tramway crossing. Beynon, in attempting to throw the prisoner, fell and struck his head on the curbstone. Prosecutor, whose head bled pro- fusely, was taken to the Infirmary.—The Bench thought the fight was caused by the parties having drank too much, and as prosecutor had attempted; to throw the prisoner the latter would be dia" charged.

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THE QUEEN AND THE LATE DUKE OF ALBANY. The Home Secretary, bv command of her, Majesty, has forwarded to the press a letter iig which the Queen most warmly thanks her subjects in all parts of the Empire for the very gratifying manner in which they have shown their sympathy with her Majesty and the Duchess of Albany, their high appreciation of the late Duke of Albany's great qualities of head and heart, and of the loss which his death is to the country and to herself. The Queen declares that, though "much shaken and sorely afflicted by the many sorrows and trials which have fallen upon her during the past few years, she will not lose courage, but will strive to labour on as long as she can for the sake of hep children and the good of the country she loves sc well.