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Wccliltr pUiii SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1909. The" WEEKLY MAIL ispmblisheH trt Fridays and Saturdays, and can be ohUrined from your local newsagent- If you find any difficulty in obtaining the paper, please communicate urith the Manager, Wetkly Mxil Offices, C'ardif. The Weekly Mail" will ie sent b-f post on payment of a subscription its advtmee on the following terms;— J. i. thie Quarter It Half Year 3 3 One J ear 6 4'

THE FORTRESS PRISONER'S FATE. Senor Ferrer, the fortress prisoner, whose trial and fate have aroused a strong feeling in all the capitals of Europe, was executed at Barcelona on "Wednesday morning. Many people, both in Spain and in other countries, are asking themselves whether this is not another Dreyfus case, only more terrible, since the last penalty of the law has been carried out. It is difficult for the out- side public to decide on the statements submitted in opfen court whether Senor Ferrer deserved his fate or not. He has been executed for complicity in the Barcelona riots. But was Senor Ferrer guilty? Republicans claim that he was not. What makes the case so suspicious, judged by British standards, is the procedure of the court tfcat con- demned him. The preliminary inquiry was conducted in camefa by the Secretary of the Military Tribunal, empowered with the assistance of the police to collect what evidence and to hear what witnesses he pleased. The prisoner was not repre- sented. The whole case was then laid before the court-martial, speeches were made by counsel and prisoner, and no witnesses were called on either side. This is not a fair procedure, and it is doubtful whether the prosecution relied upon con- crete proof of Senor Ferrer's participa- tion in or direction of the riots. The guilt of the man seems to have been assumed by reason of his principles and character rather than proved by his actions. Unless very strong evidence of justification is forthcoming, the execution of Senor Ferrer will prove a grave and, perhaps, a costly mistake to the Spanish Government, fop an act of injustice is lasting food for a revolution.

+ THE WELSH LANGUAGE. It was a happy and characteristic thought of Mr. Lloyd George to break away from politics on Sunday and to pay a visit to the chapel of a little colony., of Welshmen near Newcastle. Amongst his own countrymen, it need hardly be said, he was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm, and more, we warrant, because he is a Welshman than because he is Chancellor of the Exchequer. At any rate, it was as a Welshman that he spoke to them, point- ing out the advantage of preserving their language even though they lived beyond the borders of Wales. It was a great mistake, he said, to imagine that they could not be masters of both languages, Welsh and English, and he showed how a knowledge of the two languages is a great mental discipline as well as a help to broader views of life. His advice to Welsh parents to teach their children the Welsh language when they are young might be followed with advantage, not only amongst Welsh colonies in other lands, but also amongst Welsh people in their own native land. Parents are apt to be neglectful of these matters, and the neglect of the parent in this Anglicising age is one of the greater perils of the Welsh language. The stay-at-home Welshman, looking at his compatriots who have gone abroad, will find inspiring examples of constancy to the Welsh language. Not the least is that of the Welshmen who went to Patagonia, pre- served their language free from the encroachments of the Spanish, and taught it to another generation, who carried it to Canada, that land of promise, where it is spoken to-day. And who can deny that the Welsh language has been to that little colony an all-powerful chain of sympathy, a bond of goodfellowship and fraternity such as no more material inte- rest in life could ever hope to forge ?

IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION. For democracy and demagogy to cease being considered interchangeable terms, the education'of the masses is an obvious essential. With the objects, therefore, of the Workers' Educational Association, who sat in conference together on Satur- day at Cardiff, everyone must be in cordial agreement. The extension of the Parliamentary franchise—and it has not yet reached the limits of extension- makes it necessary that the people should be equipped adequately for the wise exercise of that privilege. Education alone can stimulate, first, an interest in politi- cal questions, and, secondly, the power of discernment which is the corollary of understanding. That the minds of many thousands of voters are incapable of full discernment at present is due to lack of development. For this the present system, as was pointed out at the confer- ence, which takes the child from school at a critical age, before the intelligence has become properly active, is mainly 'b I responsible. It is to meet this deficiency, to encourage those whose appetite for knowledge has been whetted by the elementary course that the association exists, and the provincial universities should render every assistance towards this end. The objects of education are in a sense twofold. First, its aim is to equip its alumni to take their place as citizens of the Empire, and, secondly, to enable them to attain personal success in life. The dominant feature of the lives of self-made men has always been the importance they attached to education and the sacrifices they were willing to make to attain it. Any movement, therefore, which has for its object the wider dissemination of this priceless possession can but merit the support of all good citizens. +

THE ELEVATION OF PUBLIC LIFE. In honouring Alderman John Moses on Tuesday with the freedom of the borough the Newport Corporation honoured itself in that it followed a wise precedent. Adequate reward is seldom given to those who make generous sacri- fices of the time and energy which a con- scientious discharge of municipal service necessarily entails. In the case of Car- diff, for example, among the freedom roll of fifteen names in only two or three cases was the honour bestowed in acknowledg- ment of municipal service at home. In conferring the freedom of the borough upon Alderman Moses, the Newport Cor- poration made graceful and grateful 't *c recognition of his long and meritorious services to the town. It is the highest honour that a municipal corporation can pay, and it is essential that it should be reserved for the few, lest its intrinsic value should suffer. But among those few let more room be found for men like Alderman Moses. Mayor of Newport as far back as 1878, he has given the best of a long and honoured life to the task of maintaining in public life a high standard of service and worth. We have seen around signs that warn us that public life is not in some quarters dis- tinguished by the high ideals that attract honourable men. Alderman Moses's record shows that he has always held a high conception of his position, and his example cannot fail to have its effect in the elevation of public life and the ennobling of public service.

LONDON LETTER. ♦ A COLUMN OF INTEREST TO ALL OUR READERS. LONDON, Thursday. We owe it to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the verbatim report has come into vogue again. I wonder how long it is since Sunday newspapers made arrangements to publish a politi- cal speech in full. So keen was the interest in Mr. Lloyd George's Newcastle speech known to be that this was actually done. Five years ago it was believed that the verbatim report had gone, never to be seen again, but current events remind us of the days of the Midlothian campaigns of the late Mr. Gladstone. The best reported of our public men are the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Balfour, Lord Rosebery, and Mr. Winston Churchill. If Lord Morley had been a younger man he ""ould have been amongst the verbatims," but for physical reasons he has given up the labours of the political platform. In the earlier days of the present Parliament Mr. Birrell was a great platform ''draw," but he has gone back since he became Secretary for Ireland, and even his public jokes are now often neglected. Mr. Waiter Long, as the leading spirit of the Budget Protest League, has been very conspicuous as a platform speaker lately, and has received handsome recognition in tha. press. KINO AXD OPPOSITION LEADERS. The political "crisis" was responsible for more "thrills" on Tuesday. We began the day with a Times story of a referendum on the Budget, and before we had recovered from this we found that Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Balfour, as well as the Prime Minister, had been visiting the King at Buckingham Palace. Simultaneously, the readers of the early editions of the evening newspapers di&- covered that Mr. Lloyd George had left London for a Continental holiday. It may be imagined how the Lobby would have buzzed if the House of Conmipns had been sitting, but, alas! there are no symptoms of excitement at Westminster to record. The Lords are as aloof and impassive as ever. They at least have no taste for lobbying, and so one is driven back on the opinion of the clubs, which may be very briefly put. I cannot find any politician of experience who regards with seriousness the Times yarn about a referendum, nor is there much disposition to believe that the audiences given by the King at Bucking- ham Palace will substantially affect the political situation in so far as it is con- trolled by his Majesty's Government. PEERS AXD THEIR PROGRAMME. The Peers, who are sitting right through the present week wliile the Com- mons are taking a holiday, have arranged to have a little vacation on their own account. When their lordships met on -e -it W ednesday Lord Crewe, on the invitation of Lord Lansdowne, gave a little sketch of prospective business. The House of Lords will not sit on Monday next, the day on which the Commons return to their exacting duties. But the report stage of the Irish Land Bill is to be taken on Tuesday and probably on Wednes- day, and thereafter the Committee stage of the Development Bill, which is likely to be very interesting. In the week beginning Monday, October 2.5, will come the third reading debate on the Irish Land Bill, with the later stages of the Development Bill. Their lordships assented to this arrangement. It was enough for them that by an arrangement between the two Front Benches they were arranging their own programme. THE POSITION OF LORD ROBERT CECTL. Though, apparently, Lord Robert Cecil has finally come to terms with the Tariff Reformers in his constituency, there are still not a few extremists who view the arrangement as one that must inevitably break down. They argue that the Unionist party is coming back on Tariff Reform or on nothing, and they insist that Lord Robert ought to do one of two things, either come into line with the party generally or stand aside. In the meanwhile he is clearly disposed to do neither. What the extremists also point out is that if a candidature is to be officially recognised on these unsatisfac- tory lines in the case of a Cecil, there can be no logical justification for denying it elsewhere in the case of a Brown, Jones, or Robinson. Still, the fact remains, as I mentioned some time ago, that the compromise in Marylebone has the assent of all the Unionist leaders, including Mr. Chamberlain. NEW NAVAL WAR COUNCIL. I believe the Admiralty authorities are rather afraid that Lord Charles Beres- ford will take credit for having stirred them up to the creation of the new Naval War Council. One of his indict- ments against the department was a lack of cohesion and well-balanced responsi- bility, and with some plausibility be will be able to contend, especially on an elec- tion platform, and more especially still on the floor of the House of Commons, that lie has applied the spur to some effect. Nobody denies the remarkable ability and equally remarkable energy of the First Sea Lord, Sir John Fisher, and if he could livl for ever no doubt all would go well with the British Navy, but one of the unfortunate results of one man gathering all the power into his bands is that when he disappears things are reduced to something like chaos. The appointment of the Naval War Council is a movement in the right direction. Its composition may, perhaps, be open to a certain amount of criticism, but, possibly, we shall hear about that when the House of Commons is sitting again. SUPERB ART EXHIBITION. The National Loan Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries promises to be a great success. All who are interested in the development of art in our midst may devoutly hope that it will be. No doubt, the cult of the old masters has been overdone, and some very extravagant prices have been given in recent years for more or less famous pictures, but, all the same, the keeping open for three or four months of such a superb exhibition as that which has been brought together at the Grafton Galleries will be something in the nature of a national test. If it is a failure there can be no further justifi- cation for screaming for money-that is what it has amounted to in some recent instances-for the purchase of more pictures for the nation. The non-success of the National Loan Exhibition would be tantamount to a national indictment, and, so far as art is concerned, we might hide our heads for evermore. Such a magnificent collection in any Continental city would draw the common people in their thousands as well as the rich and fashionable. TERRITORIALS AND TRAINING. An interesting meeting of the execu- tive committee of the Council of County Territorial Associations was held in Lon- don on Monday, the Earl of Dartmouth in the chair. Several other Territorial magnates were present, including the Duke of Northumberland and Lord Cheylesmore (chairman of the National Rifle Association). A representation was made to the executive by the Monmouth- shire County Association with regard to the care of clothing and equipment during the non-training period. On this point a useful discussion took place. The suggestion was thrown out that every Territorial should be required after training to deposit one completo service suit at his headquarters, with the idea that in case of mobilisation it would be instantly ready for him. This re-calls the old jest that if only the last gaiter- button had really been ready France would have beaten Germany in 1870. It was agreed that the question of extra equipment on mobilisation would have to be faced, but the idea of invoking the Army Council to make a general order was rather fought shy of. Eventually" t was resolved to leave each County Asso- ciation to solve the problem for itself in consultation with the commanding officers.

JEWEL ROBBERY CHARGE. At Lewes Polioe-court on Saturday a Ger- man, named Franz Schules, was remanded, charged with stealing jewellefy, valued at £ 1,250 at the Esplanade Hotel, Seaford, on September 19, the property of Mr. Arthur C. Abrahams, Nos^olk-fffcroot, Park-lane, London.

——^—a—a^—an———a— MARRIAGE ROMANCE. f WELSH PARTIES IN COURT AT PITTSBURG. An interesting and romantic story appears in last week's Drych," the Welsh-American weekly, in which the parties are all con- nected with Wales. The scene of the little domestic drama is laid in Pittsburg, the famous iron and eteel manufacturing centre in which thousands of Welsh people have made their homes, and many of them their fortunes, from time to time. Before the local magistrate at Pittsburg on September 25 Robert Matthew Jones, a native of Morfa Bychan, near Portmadoc, was charged with bigamy. the charge being laid against him by David J. Jones, the brother of his second wife, who hails from Pontardawe, in the Swansea Valley, and who was married to the defendant in February, 1907. It was alleged that he married his first wife—Miss S. Evans -at Victoria Chapel, Liverpool, in 1882, the Rev. David Williams officiating. The copy of the marriage certificate was produced, bearing the names of the witnesses to the ceremony, one of whom was the Rev. J. R. Evans, brother of, the first wife. About ten years ago defendant was separated from his first wife and daughter, who made their home at Seacombo, Liverpool, for a time, and then emigrated to the (States, settling down eventually at Pennsylvania. Defen- dant at this time was a preacher, having been ordained by the Episcopal Methodists. Soon after he had married a second time the rumour began to spread that his first wife was alive and that he had not been divorced from her. As a result of inquiries made, his second wife left him and returned to Wales. Shortly afterwards defendant was arrested, and while he was in prison await- ing trial a photo of him was shown to his first wife, who testified to him being her hus- band, but, as the prosecution did not choose to incur the expense of bringing her forward as a witness, the defendant was discharged.

CONSERVATIVE CHAMPION. THE PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATE FOR WEST MONMOUTH. Mr. John Cameron, the prospective Con- servative candidate to oppose Mr. Tom Richards, M.P., in West Monmouth, is 45 years old. A North Countryman, he was apprenticed to the engineering trade, and since then went abroad, visiting many parts of the gtobe. He settled at Ebbw Vale in 1899, and at that place is connected with a Mr. JOHN CAMERON. [Photo, H. O'Connor, Ebbw Vale. large number of public movements. He is a member of the Ebbw Vale District Council and Bedwellty Board of Guardians, chair- man of the Fiie Brigade, is on the committee of the Ebbw Vale Fur, Feather, and Canine Society, Nantyglo Pur and Feather Society, and Cadet Company, chairman of the cricket club, vice-president of the football club and the Y.M.C.A., member of the R.A.O.B., a Free- mason. and is connected with several other publio movements.

"ONLY USED BACK DOOR." STRANGE STORY OF ALLEGED THEFT. William Hill (34) w;ls charged at Cardiff Quarter Sessions on Thursday with feloniously s-t-efaling in the <1 well ing-house of the said William Hill (the two Hills being one and the same). Hill is a clerk in the employ of the Taff Vale Railway Company, and he was charged with stealing P14 6s. 6d. from Evan Howell Griffiths, between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. on September 23. Mr. St. John Francis- Williams (instructed by Mr. Tom Jobn) con- ducted the prosecution; Mr. J. C. Gaskell (instructed by Messrs. Harold Lloyd and Cross) was for the defence. Mr. St. John F-rencL--Williams said in August last prisoner was occupier of the house, 22, Kut.hin-gardens, Cathays. Ap- parently he could not pay the whole of the rent. and he ■d-d not occupy the whole of the house. Urifiiths, who had been looking fo.r rooms, went to 22 Ruthin-gjardens, and arranged with Hill to take a portion of the premises from him. Upon completion of the negotiations prisoner mentioned a, singular fact. He said, I agree to the terms, but you must always come in and out through the back door. as there is something wrong with the front door, and we cannot use it." There was, as a fact, nothing the matter with the door, though Griffiths believed the statement, and in consequence the back door opening into the lane was always used by the inmates. On September 22 Griffiths handed to IL'' < £ 1 5s., his share of the rent, and at the same time he said to the prisoner, You know you must get something done to the front door. I don't like going out and leaving the back door open. I do not think it i6 safe, especially as I have 213 or X15 in a. ceeh box in the bedroom upstairs." Prisoner replied, You needn't be at all nervous, because the only way anyone can come in is through the back door and the kitchen. I have a dog in the kitchen; your money is ell right." Griffiths apparently was satisfied. Prisoner came back in half an hour, and said he had paid the rent, and went away. Griffiths locked the bedroom, brought the key downstairs, and he also then left. Returning at seven in the evening, he found that somebody had created lodis- turbance, the appearances suggesting that an outsider had effected an entrance. Pro- ceeding upstairs he found the door still locked, but missed the money from the cash- box. and gave information to the police. The case against Prisoner was that he knew where the money was, and told Griffiths no stmnger could possibly get into the house and that things had been tnrown about as if to suggest that entry had been forcibly effected. But singularly, the police could find no trace of any such entry. Again, for some reason, prisoner did not return to the house until seven o'clock-on the following morning. The charge against him was at once made, upon which he burst in the door and said, "I hope they don't suspect me." Oil the same day he absented himself from his work at Treherbert. and asked where he had been, he explained that he had been looking for work. and was so upset over his non-success that instead of going homa "he walked about the park." A day or two later a purse belonging to the prisoner wa3 found, containing £5108. ONLY COPPERS LEET. Th eprosecutor (Evan Howell Griffiths), supported this statement, and said he also had a dog which was kept in the conserva- tory. On the occasion of the discovery of his loss, be found a table in the passage was upset, a loaf of bread was on the floor, and everything was disarranged. The cash box was wide open, and all that was left was 38 6d. in coppers. The washstand close to t-he window was undisturbed, and so was the dust on the window cill." "Where have you been all 'night." asked witness of Hill on his return, and he answered that he left work and went to see Mr. Blackmoro (works manager to tho Taff Vale Railway Company), about IEIS bonus money, being bound to have money from somewhere, as he had paid out a lot, and had run short. Mr. Charles Edwin Blackmore, the Taff Vale works manager, said that on the day in question prisoner did not come to see him about an £ 18 bonus. As a matter of fact, such a sum was not owing to him. Mr. Peter William Gibbs, colliery age:nt, owner of the house, said prisoner never paid any rent to him on September 22nd, and no rent was due until the 26th. Prisoner was found guilty, and a long list ? convictions was put In against him when he was a resident of Gloucester. He was once charged in the name of William Corne- lius Archibald O'Reillv. (iaughter.) The Recorder said the la&t ro-nviction was ten years ago, and it was that alone that prevented him passing a sentence of penal servitude. Committed, for fifteen calendar mouths.

POLICE TRAPS. CONTROL SERGEANT'S SIGNALS TO MOTORISTS. In the Divisional Court on Wednesday the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justices Darlin.g and Bucknill dismissed an appeal of Mr. Frederick Betts, a control sergeant of the Automobilo Association, against a conviction by a Surrey bench for obstruction of the rolice in the execution of their duty by signalling motorists of the existence of a police trap at Witley. Mr. Rufus Isaacs submitted that there was no ground for saying that appellant had obstructed the police. Their Loxdships held that the magistrates were warranted by the facts they had found.

280 PAID FOR MURDER. — CANADIAN CONFESSES TO SHOOTING A WOMAN. A young Canadian, Edward William Bed- fort, was charged at Bow-street, London, on Tuesday OIl his own confession with the murder of Miss Ethel Kinrade, at Hamilton, Ontario. The prisoner was remanded until next Tuesday. Detective inspector Kidd stated that prisoner called at Scotland Yard on Monday moriung and said that he wished to give him- self up for the murder. He then wrote a statement, in the course of which he said he met a man in Toronto, who went with him to Hamilton and paid him 400 dollars to shoot Miss Kinrade. He did not know the man's name. Prisoner had only 6d. and a comb on him. Prisoner said the murder took place in 1908, but the real date was February 25 of this year. Bedford, however, is understood to have since verbally amended the date he gave. The facts of the murder are:—In February thie year two sisters named Etnol and Florence Kinrade were in a house at Hamilton. Ontario, when a man came to the door and asked for money and food. He pushed his way into the house, and Florence, who had answered the door, ran upstairs. The other sister came down, and the man fired seven shots at her, killing her instantly. It is understood that the prisoner declares himself to be the man who fired the shots. He says he was employed to commit the murder by another man, who had been jilted by one of the girls. The other man stood on the doorstep while the shots were fired, and afterwards paid him 400 dollars and gave him his pas.sa'ge to Liverpool. After the crime had been committed the prisoner, according to his statement, escaped through the dining-room window. The circulated description of the murderer doe8 not compare with the man Bedfort, though, curiously enough, it compares with the man alleged to have accompanied Bedfort.

HORSE DEALERS V. POLICE LIVELY SCENE IN CWMCARN FIELD. John Fury (21) and Hugh Fury (49), travel- ling horse dealers, were charged at Abercarn on Thursday with releasing saven "horses seized for the purpose of being impounded at Cwmcarn on October 22. John Fury was fur- ther charged with assaulting Pol ice-con .stables Matthews and Lett, and Hugh Fury with assaulting Police-constable Matthews. Mr. Horace Lyne, Newport, prosecuted. Hug-h Daries Jones, under estate agent for the Llanover trustees, Aberoam, said he found a number of vans on the Llanover Estate, and as tho men had not received permission to leave them there he said that they would have to be moved. The men then went away, and later witness demanded a rental of 2s. 6d. from somo of the women. They said that the money would be paid, bUft, as it was not he went to the police with the object of removing the vans. When he returned he found seven horses being grazed in the field, aaid he seized them in order to put them in the pound. The defendants, however, released them, a.nd also assaulted the police. PoliceH?bnsta.ble Ma.tbbews said that he and Police-constable Lo-tt endeavoured to arrest the men after they had liberated the horses, and when they caught John, who was on horseback, he struck witness a violent blow on the back of tha neck with a heavy stick and then ra-n away. Witness and Pol ice-con- stable Lott caught, him again, and he then kicked and struck them both. The other prisoner then came up and struck Polioe- constable Lott with a heavy stick. Defendants alleged that the police assaulted them in the first place and beat them about with their staves. Hug-h Fury, jun., and Mary Fury, daughter of the elder prisoner, denied that any assault was committed upon the police. The Bench fined prisoners 40s. each for each offence, or one month each in default.

RAID ON A BANK. FOILED BY A MOTOR BREAKDOWN. New York, Thursday.—The newspapers report a daring raid on a Chicago bank, which, owing to a motor breakdown at a crucial moment, had a tragic ending. It appears that a well-dressed, respectable- looking man yesterday called upon a firm of jobmasters in Chicago and hired a powerful automobilo, which he himself drove away. He made straight to the branch office of a bank, and, entering the office with a pointed revolver, coolly ordered the staff to bold up their hands, while he helped himself to all the coin and paper money he could take trom the counter tills. Then, still menacing, he paralysed the staff with the revolver. He rushed out of the ba.nk, jumped into the automobile, set off at a great pace, which he speedily increased as the clerks and other employes ran out after him and raised a hue and cry. There was soon a hot pursuit, other motors joining in the chase, and more than one revolver bullet wa.7 sent after the fugitive. The latter, however, would probably have got away but for the merciless manner in which he was handling the oar, which ended in its breaking down and placing him at the mercy of his pursuers. The robber, seeing the desperateness of his position, drew his revolver once more, and turned on the crowd. Those who were armed at once began to fire upon him, and for just a few seconds he was the centre of a perfect rain of bullets, several of which struck him, but rather than be captured he suddenly pointed the weapon at his own bead and shot himself dead.-Central News.

"COULD NOT SUFFER IT." LLANELLY MAN WHO DEFENDED HIS NATIONALITY. Thomas Badger, Caroline-street, Llanelly, was charged at the local police-court on Wednesday with obstructing the highway by fighting thereon. Police-constable Edwards proved the case. Defendant (addressing the bench): If a, man ca,me up to you, gentlemen, and hit you, and say that a Welshman is of no good, what would you do but hit him back. (Laughter.) The Clerk: Would you like to give evidence yourself? Defendant: Yes. Murphy (his combatant) knocked me down once, but I knocked him over three times. (Laughter.) Do you ftame me for that," added defendant. No. certainly not," he continued. Why does he not come here like a. man amd face the music." (More laughter.) Inspector Jones: How long did the fight last?—I do not remember the number of rounds. Did the policeman take you away?—The policeman said, That is enough," but I gave him some more after that. The Clerk: Why did you not stop when the policeman told you? Defendant: Murphy was punching me. Would you suffer to be punched by anybody? (Laughter.) He 6aid a, Welshman was no I. good, and I could not suffer it. (More daugh- ter.) After further evidence had been given, the Bench fined the defendant 515.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. f CHATTY ITEMS ABOUT MEN AND MATTERS. Grand Duke's Betrothal. The betrothal of the Grand Duke of Saxe- Weimar to Princess Karola Feodora of Saxo- Meiningen took place at Schloee Altenstein. near Libonstein. A Triple Career. The Rev. S. R. Jenkins, who last week resigned a Congregational pastorate at Gravesend, after a seven years' ministry, to go to the Bar, promised at a meeting of the Gravesend Liberal Club to contest the borough at the next election, in opposition to Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. Presentation to Mi". Ceilings, M.P. An interesting incident took place at the house of Mr. Jesse Ceilings, M.P.. at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Tuesday, when Mr. Chamberlain presented an illuminated album and eddress to Mr. Ceilings, congratu- lating him on the twenty-first year of his presidency of the Rural Labourers' League, and also on his golden wedding. Officers Wed Two Sisters. A most interesting wedding ceremony took place at St. Mary Abbot's Church, Kensing- ton, London, on Saturday, when two officers of the Royul Field Artillery, Mr. C. Leyoesber Knyvett and Mr. Charles Edward C. Boyee, were married to two sisters, the Misses Ida and Phyllis Chaster-man, daughters of Mr. W. Chesterman, of Asbover, Derbyshire, aul Sheffield. New Knight of the Thistle. It is officially announced that the King has been pleased to approve the appointment of Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, C.V.O., to be a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in the place of the late Lord Twoedmouth.. Lord Hamilton of Dalzell is one of his Majesty's Lords in Waiting, and was amongst the members of the suite which attended the King when he arrived in London from Balmoral on Monday night. The Kins' of Portugal's Visit. It is understood that King JTannel will arrive at Portsmouth on Monday, November 15. His Majesty will be met there on behalf of the King by the Prince of Wales. ;1 He Royal tram will then proceed direct to Windsor, where the King and Queen will receive the young Portuguese Monarch. P. is stated in 1 l Manuel will be the guest of King Edward for a week, and will leave England on the 22nd of November. Hoya) Baby's Career. The two-we?ks-Oid son of the German Crown Prince will probably be christened Henry Adalbert, after two lloyal sailors, his great- uncle, Prince Henry of Prussia, and his uncle, the Kaiser's third son. This is takou to indicate that the Royal infant is destined for a naval career. The first admiral of the old Prussian Navy was a Prince Ada! be jr., and the Kaiser wishes to hand down this name among the llohenzollern Princes who serve in the fleet. Society War Nurse. name among' the llohenzollern Princes who serve in the fleet. Society War Nurse. A beautiful Spanish lady, the Marqueaa del Merifco, has left London for Melilla, whore she will join the Red Cross Nursing Corps. The marquesa, who is connected with some of the most aristocratic families in Spain, has been in England for some time in con- nection with the education of her son, and was presented t .:) the King and Queen at one of last season's Courts. The marauesa Las gone in person to Jlelilla in order to set an example to Spanish society, and her pro- mise to join the nursing corps has been received ,lth f'nthusia.">m, somø of the officers having telegraphed their appreciation of her resolution. British Centenarians. Mr. Thomas Enstone, the Gloucester centen- arian, has just celebrated the 101st anniver- sary of his baptism. His exact age is not l;i)owi». but as he walked to church who;; he wa,s christened it is thought that he has ivdched his 105th year. He was very active until he w-aa knocked down by a bicycle in Gloucester in 1S06, when one of his thighs was fractured, and ho has been practically bed- ridden since. Mentally, he is still lieen and alert. Richard Withers, of Great Eollright, Oxford- shire, has attained the remarkable age of 1C4. He served on one farm as a shepherd over fifty years, and did not give up work till he had passed his 90th year Duke to Ma^y a Gcuid. The Duke of Berwick, more familiar as the Duque de Alb;* a.nd seventeenth holder of that title, is said to be engaged to the Ameri- can heiress, Marjorie, the eldest of the four daughters of Mr. F. Jay Gould, and the niece and the god-daughter of tho Princesse de Sagan. Miss Gould has been a gocd deal in this country, though she has not yet made her debut in London society. She is still in her teens, ThÐ 1)LiQ110 de Alba was born in I Madrid some 30 yeaj-s asro. Hia patronymic of Stuart FitzJames perpetuates' the Roya-l origin of their house. Its more immediate progenitor was the feeand Dulw of Berwick. I born of his father's second marriage with a De Burgh of the Clanricardes, then Dowager Countess of Luican. The Duchy of Aiba de Tormes, which dates from 1465, came to the Dukes of Berwick through the marriage of the third Duke of Berwick with the daughter of the eleventh Duquesa de Alba, in 1738.

MANY CLAIMANTS. A CARDIFF INHERITANCE: SUIT IN CHANCERY. In the Chancery Division on Wednesday, on a. summons taken out in the matter of the estate of Jane Freedman, deceased, Mr. Justice Parker was asked to determine who was entitled to a house, No. 44, Loudoun- sq uare, Cardiff. Mr. Jolly, who represented the sole execu- tor of the will, said that the plaintiff, Montague Freedman, was a son of the testa- trix, and there were seven defendants, the testatrix's six other children and her grand- daughter Marjory. By her will the testatrix specially bequeathed the house in question to her grand-daughter Marjory, but upon the evidence it would appear that it did not really belong to the testatrix at all. She only took a life interest, and the real estate was vested in the plaintiff and his brothers and sisters, who became entitled under the will of their grandmother. Mr. Justice Parker as-ked whether it was not. a ca.se for election.. Counsel thought that it wa.s. and that it was for the benefit of the seven children to take under the will. but there were infants concerned. The house in question was worth about £218, His Lordship said he would declare that it was a case for election, and that election was for the benefit of the infants. '1'he beneficiaries electing to take under the will, he would direct that the children of the testatrix, including the infants, should con- vey the house to the executor of the will, to be held by him for the graud-daughter Marjory, in accordance with the trusts of the will.

LIVING WITH ANOTHER. SWANSEA CAPTAIN GETS A DIVORCE. In the Divorce Division on Wednesday Cap- tain Geoffry Francis Pinkney, of Sketty- avenue. Swansea, petitioned for the dissolu- tion of his marriage with Jessie Pinkney (nee Moles) on the ground of her misconduct with Joseph George Thotaas Carruthers> a retired colonel. Mr. Bayford, who appeared for the peti- tioner, said that the parties were married on September 15, 1881. at the parish church. St. Marylebone, London, and after the marriage lived together at various places where he was quartered, and ac H imblcdon. In 1038 the petitioner was invalieded out, of the army. They lived together after that for a short time, and then tho respondent said she wanted to get some employment, and left him and went into a millinery busi- ness. The petitioner made hor an allowance. In August 1890. be went to Canada, and continued the allowance, his wife being supposed t& be living with her sister. in January, 1909, he returned, and after making some inquiries he found that hIS wife had been living for a consideraV.o time with tho co-respondent at different places in London. This petition was then filed. Evidence in support of the petition having been given, the President granted a decree nisi

ILLEGAL DISTRAINT. Frank Moran, boot-repairer, Caerphilly, claimed damages a.t Pontypridd Couuty- court on Wednesday from his landlady. Mrs. Leah Gould; Philip Jones, rent collector; and Thomas Davies, certificated bailiff, in respect of an illegal distraint made upon his effeots. A counter-claim was made for .£17 15s. 7d. for rent due and recovery of the premises, which, it was alleged, had been lersed to plaintiff. It was claimed that the bailiff did not make a proper inventory of the goods dis- trained upon when giving notice of t,he distress, and that this had not been carried out within fifteen days according to the la. IV vies submitted that he had delayed pro- ctedings in order to give Moran time to find the money, in whioh endeavour he f. led. Mr. Hugh Jones, who appeared for plaintiff, said the bailiff had acted in a high-handed way. and forced an entry whilst his client was in Cardiff Prison under commitment for (t deht. Judgment was entered against Mrs. Gould for £5 for the illegal distraint and £7 ICe. for goods seized from plaintiff used by him for trade purposes. On the counter-olairr< jtidgsneoft wae gtoen for JE16 7s. lOd,

WEEK BY WEEK. 1 LIGHTER SIDE OF CURRENT EVENTS. Indications go to show that more books will be published in the Welsh language this winter than has been the case in any previous year. A contemporary magazine tells the follow- ing concise short story: —"Angelina Smith loved Edwin Jones. Edwin Jones was poor. Angelina Smith is Mrs. Robinson." If anyone in Merthyr wants to know what Mr. Fox-Davies, the new Conservative candi- date, is like, he has only to look at Dr. Ernest Ward and he will see his double. There were purveyors of jam tarte, chew- ing- gum, and chocolates at the Newport football field on Saturday. Does this mea.n that the sturdy old race is becoming effemi- nate ? A phenomenal female posed before the Car- diff recorder. She told a long story in self- defence so slowly that his honour had to "arge her several times to go on." Not a suffragette, evidently! "Where is Windsor-place, my boy?" asked a. stranger who wanted to find his way to the Harley-s-treet of Cardiff. "Oh," said the youngster, who was a newspaper boy, "you mean Sawbones-avenue. There it is." According to the amount of frozen meat sold in Cardiff quite 65 per cent. of the rate- payers are, or have to be, satisfied with that article. Not so the inmates of the local workhouse, who eat only British fresh meat! Plums have been cheaper in South Wales this autumn than they have been for years. 3o a Monmouthshire retailer informed a cor- respondent. Plums were actually sold at Newport the other day at a halfpenny per lb. Among the defendants at Pontypridd County-court on Monday four bore the fol- lowing names:—Richard Bell, Alfred Thomas, Evan Roberts, and Ellis Owen. Of course, they were all somebody else, not the men all Wales knows. They were discussing politics in the ba.r parlc'ur. I see as 'ow they're going to as.;i a referendum about the Budget," said one. What'* that. Bill?" asked his butty. Wy. one of them chaps wot blows the whistle in football matches," was the oonfident reply. Mr. Timothy Davies, M.P. for Fulbam, who is a native of Carmarthenshire, has gone on a visit to Canada and the United States. Mr. Davies owns one of the biggest drapery estab- lishments in London, and is also one of the proprietors of silver .mines in America. The word heavy is relative. Carnar- vonshire with its advizes is conscience-stricken over a heavy calendar of—six prisoners. With only six prisoners for trial Glamorgan and Monmouthshire would plume themselves M the proud possessors of every propriety and virtue! According to an observant correspondent tomato-growing is on the increase in South Wales, especially amongst working men, who rear them in their back gardens. In a back street in Cardiff a labourer has put up a little glasshouse in his narrow yard, and hero he daily contemplates quite a, prolino crop. There is no end to the enterprise of Fish- guard. A little cottage at Llanwnda, just outside Goodwic-li, is called North Pole.' and now that Americans are landing in droves at Fishguard they needn't bother to decide whether Peary or Cook discovered tho Big Xail. They can all go and find it lor t t øYn-êl ve,s. Mr. A. A. Booth, the new chairman of the Cunard Company, is only 37 years of age, but he has already had a brilliant business career. He is a firm believer in Fishguard as a port of call. He is one of the directors of the Booth Steamship Company, the first line to use the Welsh port for disembarking passengers. Are girls less subject to tuberculosis than boys or infants. Aocording to the schools medical inspector at Cardiff the percentage of girls examined suffering from tuberculosis is 0.9, of boys 6.6, and of infants 6.6. If this is a case of doctors differing over their tests, the value of the school inspection, statistics is somewhat discounted. Mr. Carey Morris, the Llandilo artist, has had two of his pictures accepted at the present exhibition of the Birmingham Royal Society of Artists. One is hung in the prin- cipal room, and next to a painting by Mr. J Shannon, R.A., and the other is ako in a prominent place. Mr. Morris has al&o four pictures at the Swansea exhibition, one of which, that of The Return of the Monks to Caldy," is a very striking work. An old Aberystwyth student, the Rev. R. E. Davies, B.A. (Wales), M.A. (Cambirdge), late of Mold. has just reooived a call. to the lnrrpesrt. Presbyterian Oh 11 roll in at Dnnodin, New Zealand, where he has a corps of officers consisting of at least sixty eldt-ns and deacons. An old pupil of Dr. Ethe in Hebrew, he acted for some time as Ilobrow lecturer a.t a theological college ?n Sydr.ey English visitors to the Church Congress who attended the evening meeting addressed by tho Archbishop of York were much impros^d with the song, Long Ago," composed by Mr. Trevor Evans. This was the song which the late George Meredith had in view when he penned, his last tribute to Wales, a few weeks before he died. The song was impres- sively S\1l,g by the composers brother. Mr D. M'orris Evans, a baritone of exceptional ability. They have a vigorous Welsh Society in Gloucester, and the programme for the present season is full of good things. Papers will be given on Owen, Glyrdwr, the family of Williams of Llanspyddid, Cromweli in South Wales, Dafydd ap Gwilym, and Christmas Evans. The chairman of tho society is Mr. David Jones, and the hon. secretaries Mr. W L. Meredith and Mr. Alfred Davies, who are showing boundless enthu- siasm in keeping1 the Red Dragon rampant. A correspondent of "Notes and Queries" makes the curious statement that whereas in former times the word "one" was pro- nounced like the first syllable in the word only," the modern pronunciation is said to have arisen in Shropshire and in neighbour- ing Wales! It would be desirable (he says) to trace this supposed Welsh influence upon the English pronunciation, and to quote some similar instances where the initial vowel was preceded by the sound of "w" in accordance with Welsh euphony. Dark rumours are afloat about the Cardiff seismograph. It is said not only to record earthquakes, but to manufacture them. Every time the assistant goes to the instrument to change the record he himself sets up an earthquake which lasts for twenty minutes to half-an-hour. It is a case of 'quakes furnished while you wait"! The attention of Dr. Milne, the great seismologist, ought cer- tainly to be directed to what is far and away the most active and enterprising apparatus in the British Isles. Cheshunt College, recently re-opened as a. theological seminary for the Anglican Church by the Bishop of London, really represents what the Darwinians would call reversion to type." It was originally founded near Talgarth, in Breconshire, by Selina Countess of Huntingdon, to train young Calvinists for the ministry of the Established Church. Her trust-deed required all students and teachers to sign the Calvinistic Articles of the Prayer Book. Practically, however, Cheshunt had become a private preserve for the Oon- gregationalists, who have now transferred their students to Cambridge and sold the college. Welsh bards are never so happy in their compositions as when they sing to their lady loves- Here are a couple of specimens which it would be hard to beat in any language: TO GIVES. Gw(Y!¡ fel eirÎ:1\l, Gwon fa! a.rian--ei lliw, Gwen a llais fel organ; Gwen wen dlDs, Gwen hynod Ian, A Gwen oreu gan Ann. Aran." it may be said, was the name of the love-strioken bard. TO ELEN. Am un Elen mac'n nolur; Am hon i'm calon mae cur; F.lcn ion 0 lan wyneb yw J'eilun i 0 flaen neb. The benefactions of Mr. David Davies, M.P., are on a large scale. He is now going to spend between £6.000 and £8,000 in converting the old Parliament House in Machynlleth into a public institute and free library. It was in this ancient building that Owen Glyndwr was crowned Sovereign of Wales in 1402, and that, in the flush of successful rebellion, he declared Wales to be a separate Principality. Here, also, he held his brief Parliament, and tradition has it that in one of the rooms Dafydd Gam attempted his assassination at the instigation of the English King Henry. Parliament House has formed three dwelling-houses, and Mr. David Davies's scheme of conver- sion aims at retaining all the exterior ancient characteristics, but it has been necessary to demolish the whole interior in order to substitute a modernly- equipped reading-room, library, billiard- room, and temperance restaurant. During the demolition important discoveries have been made. Within one well under- neath a window the workmen came across* fcrrteen old coins, and one of these bear.-) around a head the inscription, Iestin ap Gwrgan Tywysog Morganwg." Iestin was a noted Prince of Deheubarth, and son of Gvrgan, a Prince of Morg-anwg ^Glamorgan-' He. in the eleventh or twelfth century, repelled a Norman invasion under a baron whose ooat of arms now constitutes the arms of tho city of Cardiff. If this bronze coin proves to have been struck in Iestin's time it will probably prove unique. When com- pleted the public institute will be handed over by Mr. Dayid Davies, M.P., to the Machynlleth Urban District Council, a repeti- tion of the gift to the Uanidloes Town Council,

DEFENDANTS FROM WALES BARGOED GROCERS SUED FOR PRICE OF GOODS. The Cobden Tea Company (Limited), of Victoria Warehouses, Goodman-fields, Lon- don, at Whitechapel on Wednesday sued Morgan and Morgan (husband and wife), grocers, of Upper Capel-street, Bargoed. to recover k5 2s. 3d. for goods supplied. The plaintiffs' solicitor said that the defendants disputed the amount on the ground that the goods had not been delivered. The defendant and his wife stated that they did not sign the railway delivery note. The plaintiffs' traveller had called upon the defendants' daughter, and her signature on the railway note tallied with the specimen of handwriting obtained i from her. It had been necessary to bring a witness up from Wales to prove that. Mr. Morgan: The goods never arrived at my place. It was stated that both the defendants had come up from Wales to defend the case. A clerk from the Great Western Railway produced the delivery note. Judge Bacon (to Mrs. Morgan, who inter- posed): Go away from the box. You must not get him to swear what you want. The Solicitor: We have brought witnesses from Wales. Mr. Morgran: My wife did not sign the sheet, because she cannot write her name. The Solicitor: 1 will put in the signature, which is the daughter's. Judge Bacon How can that be evidence? The Solicitor said that it was clear that the goods were received. Judge Bacon told the defendants that they should have brought the daughter. If they succeeded, they would have had all the costs of coming up from Wales. He gave judgment for the plaintiffs. The male .defendant said that be was not in the business now, and could not pay all at once. Judge Bacon: You have means. Your wife looks well and as smart as a new pin this morning. (Laughter.) You have chosen to defend the case, and you must bear all the costs, which will be about £5. An order for El a month was made.