The Cardiff Times

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—" TOCAL APPOINTMENTS AND STATISTICS. rfA-.TADRYAID HOSPITAL Slup.-lteport for the week endin, Jaii'11th 1S72—Number of patients remaining last week, 48; admitted 'since," 12; discharged, S died, 0; out-patients treated, S5 primflioitiff on board, 46. CARDIFF INFIRMARY.—Keport for week coijiencmg Jan. lg, 137-> Remaining by last week, 33; admitted since, 8; dis- charged 5 died, 0; remaining in the house, 38; number of out Pitiolts on the books, 315. Medical officers for tke week, COIHllltJDcing January 16; physician, H J. Paine, Esq., M.D.; SUrgeon, Alfred Sheen, Esq., M.D.; Consulting Surgeon, J. R. Reeee, Esq. Gentlemen visitors for the week-M»gsrs. W r flftJkell K C. Downing, W. Vachell, I. Morgaa, Rees Jones. and Rev. A Tilly. Present-Rav. A. Tilly, Messrs. W. Vachcll H. Bowen, W. J. Gaskell. House Surgeon, C. T. Vackell, M.B. The Matron earnestly solicits contributions of old linen and old OMne), old sliypero and old toys for children. Jarn RITTES—Monday, Wednesday and Friday, officers and non-con,missioned officers' drill each evening at 8 p.m. Plain cu thes. There are reur members who have not yet lodged their arms in the armoury, and to avoid hayina their names published, it is requested that they immediately comply with orders issued.

I TT IVTMFP nATHEDRAL SERVICES AND ANTHEMS. Y SERVICES. ANTHEMS. A Morn Wesley in F. (Recitative)—Hymns 166,176. 2ad Sunday Fvpn' Russell in A.—anthem, -'Give the King," after V Boyce. Hymn 392. Epiphany, jjtany. Hymns 380, 297, 11. Monday Mom. 143 Tuesday Bovcein A.-Anthem," How goodly are Thy Wednesday •] tents." Ouseley. Thursday.Morn. Hymn 175. Friday No choral service.. Saturday „ on an(i 7 Holy Communion 8 o'clock ■Sunday Services at 11, 3.3 FI3HBOURNE, Succentor. RAILW^ry^K.^10 RETURNS. 1872 1871 re at Western, week ending January 7 £ 76,'64) £ 71.174 Taff Vale, week end ng January 6,571 7,1,8 Penarth, week en(.ing J iiiuaiy 6 941 1 ,^54 Rbymnev, week entuug Januarj 6 v 1,418 830 Brecon and Merthyr, week ending January i 1,|03..1,1S8 Monmouthshire, week ending January 6 2,684 2,o2o l.ivnvi and Ogmore, week ending January 6. /60 bOO Llanellv, week ending January 6

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Iu consequence of some unexplained default on the part of the Great Western Railway Co., an important parcel ot News from our London .gents did not reach us on Thursday night. Frora this cause, we are unable to publish our London Correspondent's letter, lengthy reports of the Stockwell murder and Trades Union Coherence, and other late matters of importance.

ptjs, ItomiM, anb i«t&s. 1 [These anBOuncements are inserted free of charge, but they cannot be attended to unless authenticated by the name and address, in full, of tne sender. No cards are charged 2s. 6d. each.] BIRTHS. BAKER.-On Jan. 4, at 8, Thomas-terrace, Working-street, the wife of Mr. Thomas Baker, of a son. MARRIAGES. BEDI>»ES—WILLIAM?.—On Jan. 9. at St. John's Church, Cardiff, by the Rev. David Howell, William Cartwright, youngest son of the late Mr. Thomas Bedc.ocs. Collector of Inland Revenus, Cardiff, to Gwenllian, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Thos. Ai\jiliaiBB, Old Wharf, Cardiff. PORTEII—WILLIAMS.—On Dec. 28, at St. Andrews Church, Dmas Powis, by Ihe Rev. T. Y. Kees, Mr- John Porter, schoolmaster, to MiJs Mary Williams, youngest daughter of Mr. J. Williams, builder, Dinas Pewis. JENKINS—DAVID.—On Jan. 2, at Llanwygan-church, by the Key. H, Howell). J. Herbert Jenkins, only son of Isaac Jenkins, Esq. of Melbourne, Australia, to Gwenllian, eldest daughter bf the late David David, Esq., of Aberdare. DEATHS. LATCH.-On Jan. 9, at Cardiff, Fanny, the wife of Mr. John Latch. MANNING.—On Dec. 21, Maria Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev J.W. Manning, Baptist minister, Almonte, Ontario Canada and granddaugkter of Mr. W. Manning, of 12, Mount Stuart square, aged 22. DAVIEs.-On Jan. 1, at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Ettery, Washferd, Somerset, Mrs. Mary Pavies, mother of Mrs. Owen Davies, the Wharf, Cardiff, aged 77. MILES.—On Jan. 5, at Llaneaiachisa-farm, a ear Gelhgaer- "0 churc1!, Mr. Willia ri Miles, aged 78. MIL^S.—On Jan. 8, at Whiston-farm, near Newport, Mon., (late of Berthlwyd, parish of Lanfabon), Mr. Edward Miles, aged 47. RoBERTs.-On Jan. 9, near Bedwas-church, Mrs. Kate Roberts, aged 58. BUDGK.—On Jan. 6, at Plymouth, Mr. George Budge, (lata of Cardiff), aged 55. BROWNE—On Jan. 5, at Whitebrook, Mon., Mary Ann Browne, daughter of the late John Browne, Esq., of Whitebrook, aged 83.

(% Cardiff Cttras. SATURDA Y, JAXUAEY 13, 1872. TOPICS OF THE WEEK. THE chief feature of the week has been the speech which Lord DERDY delivered to the Conservative Work- ing Men's Association at Liverpool, on Tuesday even- ing. As a whole, his remarks were marked by the good sense and fairness which are always more or less ap- parent in Lord DERBY'S public addresses. Opening with a brief reference to the action of the Government during the past session, he naturally took advantage of various administrative blunders to express a belief that one might thank heaven that the power of public men for good or evil was limited, and that a prosperous country survived many administrative blunders." He was not discouraged because the Conservative party were in a minority of 100, for he believed that with the Ballot the old Liberal programme would disappear, and upon the new questions which were coming to the front he thought there was a << fair ground of hope" that the next House of Commons would be disposed to take a Conservative rather than a Radical view. Lord DERBY somewhat bruskjy reprobated the eagerness which is said to exist amongSt the rank and file of the Conserva- tive party to force on a dissolution in the coming session by saying Don't let us spoil our own game, don't let us lose power in running after place." He added with still more empbasig( » F0r myself, I tell you frankly, though I shoul^ rejoice to see a strong Conservative Government in power, I had infinitely rather, in the public interest and that of your party, see the Conser- vatives forming a strong and compact opposition than have them, for the fourth time in twenty years, holding office without a tolerahly assured majority." With re- ference to the Monarchy, he thought it had been com- pletely demonstrated that it was safe, but with regard to the House of Lords Lord DIBBY did not say it was per- fect, but Jjrged that if they condemned the hereditary pnncIPle in he Legislature they must condemn it more strongly 111 ûhe Monarchy. He argued that a second ciawi,t:i 5 necessary as a check upon the tyranny of 55u(JT» c, i, objecting to an unlimited creation of life- pet "¡-,f àaw some advantage in the admission of a lirr. atimber of this class. c. T"TNG to the other questions which must sooner or V > discussed in Parliament, Lord DERBY said that a Church there was logically not much differ- >-ween its position in England and Ireland but nt tended that practically the English Church was una' iilable, provided those who belonged to it kept the •Dears amongst themselves. He approved of the present Arlnnational settlement. Touching the Licensing ques- tion on which he dwelt at length, he described the plan of the United Kingdom Alliance as preposterous—as sheer tyranny. He had no great faith in any of the Tironosed remedies for drunkenness. Time and teach- ins and the force of opinion would do more, he thought, than any Act of Parliament. As regards sanitary re- form what was wanted, he said. was not so much gillsntie plans as careful supervision of local details, which would make all the difference between healthi- ness and tmhealthineBS to a district. The Ballot he characterised as the most exaggerated question in the whole range of politios, it would not cheek briberv nor ensure secrecy; hut Lord DBBBY did not point out that it would effectually prevent the innumerable influences of an undue character which at present affect the voter. Lord DERBY said he should like to see a reform of the judi- cial administration, for justice was still very slow, and often very costly. It ought not to be difficult to estab- lish a single and supreme Court of Appeal, nor could he understand why so large a portion of judicial machinery should stand still half the year. The noble Earl then expressed himself in favour of a further reduction of the National Debt. For social improvements he con- sidered State machinery inferior to the efforts of the people themselves. Home Rule he thought practically meant Irish independence, for it was not to be supposed that an Irish Parliament would confine itself for a single session to Irish local affairs. Lord DEBBY con- cluded an effective speech by urging that the political connection between Conservatives should be strongly maintained, and that there should be no quarrelling among themselves. The whole tenor of the speech ap- pears to indicate that the Conservative chiefs have re- solved to bide their time," rather than commence a determined action against the Government at the be- ginning of the Session. They may be wise in adopting such a course, but we fail to see what prospects of success are in store for the Conservative party. With the Ballot in vogue, advanced Liberals will be only too glad to try their strength at another election, and the result we are perfectly sure will be a House more thoroughly Liberal than even the present one. THE death of Sir FRAKCis CROSSLEY, which we an- nounced in our Second Edition of this day week, re- moves from the House of Commons one of its hand- somest and most imposing figures, although, unhappily, 11 IU one that has been seldom seen during the last year or two. Sir FRANCIS usually sat on one of the front benches below the gangway, and being quite six feet high and stout in proportion, and wearing a long flow- ing heard, he always attracted the curiosity of strangers. He was never unwilling to address the House whew :ubji'Cts.of trade and political economy were under dig- ussion, and always spoke with perfect ease and qglf- ossession. He used the plainest simplest langnage ad was by no means ashamed of his honest Yorkshire Icent. The House listened to him, because be only oke on subjects which he "ell understood, while his ldness and benevolence to his workpeople and towns- In were fully appreciated on both sides of the House, -vas no small honour for the staunch Nonconformist when he was summoned from the representation of Halifax to represent the great West Riding in Parlia- me it. Sir FRANCIS CROSSLKY has won a high place in the roll of Yorkshire worthies, and his death has evoked general expression of regret. THERE are no less than five vacancies for members of the House of Commons at the present time, and several of them appear likely to give rise to spirited contests. Mr. RIPLEY, who successfully contested Bradford with Mr. MIALL at ihe general election in 1868, and who was afterwards unseated on petition, has announced his de- termination to contest the representation of the Nor- thern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, vacant by the death of Sir F. CROSSLEY. Mr. RIPLEY is an advanced Liberal, but the somewhat hasty and impru- dent manifesto which he has issued does not bid fair for his success. No Conservative candidate has as yet been announced. The representation of North Notting- hamshire, which will be vacant by the elevation of the SPEAKER, is likely to be hotly contested; but if the Liberals cannot come to an understanding, and prevent a split in the camp," the Conservatives who, it is said, have resolved to give their united support to the Hon. Mr. MONCKTON, son of Lord GALWAY, may carry the election. In Galway (rendered vacant by the resigna- tion of Mr. GREGORY, the new Governor of Ceylon), Captain NOLLAN, accomplished both as an officer and writer, has come forward as a Home Rule" candidate, aud an advocate for a thoroifgh reform of the land laws. He is opposed by Captain FRENCH, who will have the support of the priests and the landlords. In Kerry, Mr. PONSONBY BLENNERHASSETT, also a Home Rule candi- date, is opposed by Mr. DEASK as a Rome Rule candi- date. The Conservatives of Chester have invited Mr. WILBKAHAH FREDERICK TOLLEJIACHE, to come forward as a candidate for West Cheshire, in the room of his father, Mr. JOHN TOLLEMACHE, who is retiring from the ropresentation of that division of Cheshire. The con- test in Wick is a purely personal one Mr. LAING and Mr. PENDER professing precisely the same principles. The contest is likely to be very clese. THE Board of Trade returns for December and for the past year have just been issued, and they reflect in a most encouraging light the general commercial pros- perity and trading activity which have especially cha- racterised the closing month of.an unusually favourable year. We find that during 1871 our imports amounted to £326,834,647, being an increase of £2:3,577,154 on the imparts of the previous year, and i.t31,374,433 as compared with 1869. The exports last year were £21Ü,319,071, being an increase of £19,722,149 over the preceding year, and of A'29,365,114 over 1869. During the month of December last our imports were £25,444,758 and our exports £16,965,298. These figures seem to show a decrease, but a note which is prefixed to these statistics explains that the import account for the last month, though in many cases exhibiting a cousiderable deficiency when compared with the month of December in previous years, must not be taken to indicate a decrease in the trade of the period, inasmuch as in former years the account for December was not published until the end of the fol- lowing February, and embraced the record of large quantities of goods imported in previous months, but not registered until the "landing account" had been received. The returns altogether indicate a commercial prosperity alike gratifying to the toiling millions and to the mercantile interests of the country. THE Times makes an important intimation this week with reference to the Navy of the Future." In what is'evidently an officially communicated paragraph, it states that when the Navy Estimates for 1872-3 are laid upon the table of the House of Commons, it is very probable that they will be found to contain provision for the construction of a vessel the armament of which will consist of torpedo artillery carried below the water- line. Some time sines trials were made with the Whitehead Fish Torpedo, under conditions entered into between the inventor and the Government of this coun- try, that if the torpedo proved to he as effective upon trial as it was asserted to be by its inventor the latter should receive the sum of £15,000, the Government obtaining the right to the use of the torpedo as part of the national armament. Upon its trial the torpedo ex- hibited powers exceeding these which had been claimed for it by its inventor, and he received from the Govern- ment the sum agreed upon. As it is to further test the torpedo as a new form of sea artillery that the new ves- sel will be constructed, the Times presumes that she will, as a test vessel, be of very limited dimensions. The facts of the great success which attended the trials of this torpedo, that the Government has paid so large a sum for it, and that the Admiralty are about to con- struct a vessel to test its merits as a new form of sub- marine artillery for our fleets, would appear to indicate that little or no doubt is entertained of its successful application. If it shquld be found in practical work that a ship can thus carry her battery of torpedo guns at any required distance below her water-line, or say from seven to 12 feet below her line of flotation, the nation will be committed to another reconstruction of its Navy. Armour-plating will have to be extended to ships' bottoms and not cease at their top-sides, while chain cables, coals, provisions, &c., will then, in all seeming probability, have to be stored above the level of the ship"s water-line, and in about the positions where she now carries her guns. THE quession of the fate of Dr. LIVINGSTONE was brought before the Royal Geographical Society on Monday night, when Sir BARTLE FRERE detailed the steps that had been taken by the Council with regard to the search for the gallant traveller. It has been determined to equip an expedition into the interior of Africa, and in response to the call that has been made for volunteers, already forty applications have been received. The Council has proffered a grant of five hundred pounds towards fitting out the expedition, and a hope is expressed that the Government will render some pecuniary assistance. The resolution of the Geographical Society constitutes a very just though tardy recognition of the Iperilous and public-spirittd enterprise to which years ago Dr. LIVINGSTONE devoted his energies and courage. For nearly a quarter of a century this intrepid man has been engaged in the great work of the exploration of unknown and dangerous lands. Exploration is essential to colonisation, and colonisation is nothing less than the parent of civilisa- tion. It is no idle phrase, therefore, to speak of the beneficence of LIVINGSTONE'S toils to the entire human race. ———— THE most interesting feature of French news this week is the result of the Paris election on Sunday, which, contrary to general anticipation, has resulted in the defeat of the Red candidate. M. VAUTRAIN secured 121,158 votes against 03,423 recorded for Victor HUGo, and the result is a decided victory for the Government. Though both candidates were Republicans, M. HUGO was the choice of the Reds, and unreservedly accepted their programme, while M. YAUTRAIN'S programme was virtually the Government's although it asked for an amnesty for the Communist prisoners and for a return of the Assembly to Paris. The Parisians appear to have thought that there was more prospect of their getting both objects by the election of M. VAUTRAIN, than there would be if they returned M. HUGo, who could not be otherwise than an irreconcilable to the Government. The action of the Parisians will greatly strengthen M. THIERS in his desire to return to Paris, and we hope will have the effect of inducing the week-kneed majority of the Assembly their consent. It is quite evident that a Fr arnment outside Paris will always be IGoker being provisional" in its character. As 1 is sixteen other elections the Radicals carrier "q of the seats. THE Atlantic orms ws of the assassination on Saturday of i most prominent and notorious of America The remarkable JAMBS FISK, jun., whoa., ionsof vErie Railway bonds and uuscrupulc .nent of the New York gold ring created sue. U -„ on some months since, was in an hotel in N • v on Saturday when he was shot by a person n: < OWABD S. STOKHS. Mr. FISK was wounded in )men and arm, and, though retaining his consciousn lhe last, he died on Sunday morn- ing. STOU arrested. According to the ew or 0f the Daily News there has Deen a lo- ';ous litigation between the as- sassin ai. lS ^aating in the arrest of STOKES for takin o.jLUi/ with whom FISK had illicit relations, TOV b <.av^ tmdence against FISK on Satur- day In a 1J i er t, in >1 eh this woman was concerned moreover, J. threat,- to publish letters of FISK to rlg V rlClJ orets counected with the Erie V *J Gained an injunction forbid- the Crarnfr ese letters, and had induced J7 1L1 STOKHS for conspiracy. Th« correspondent '"¡e: LT GeuLD, who was intimately connected WIt: ,s. the many questionable Erie Railway trant r D TWEED, the great head of the Tamman. .L; Uers of New York, attended the victim to t'• u-.

PENNY BANJ I > I >N.—We are glad to learn that several of the iViUipsU residents in Canton have re- cently interest i ?h<imselv-.s in the establishment of a Penny Bank, &uu the vm-Q it is that such an institution will be comment cS cm Monday evening next. The bank will be held ever;' Monday evening between seven and nine o'clock for th« re<»*ipi of deposits from one penny upwards. By t; is lueac.- it is hoped that habits of economy and saving; will ;;8 more generally practised throughout the .;i?tr ict. Ie; the bank is open to persons of every age and' It-t b n ,;e8. Mr. G. F. Webb is the honorary secrete. » >1 wi=.k good management and a responsible com:4 known to the residents, we doubt not that *.i :I prove a success. THE ADMIRAL. RIALS AND BAXTER'S MIX TURE.—Tb^ Armv Gazette says:—The long and careful serie to the comparative me- rits of Welsh coal or of Welsh coal mixed together with noi coal in equal proportions, an»i known as Br tire, are now concluded. Two of her Majes, ps, the Serapis and Cro- codile, have for 01 io India and bad:, been placed entirely at ..1 of Mr. M'Culloch, the Admiralty contract.. assisted in carrying out his experiments by h, an inspector-general of machinery, and aff. Judging by the figures we have befl u« result of these experi- ences must have prov incontestably to authori- ties the great superior ne Welsh over mixed coal both as to economy an* ..wer of generating steam' We therefore trust thr -ong, Mr. Baxter's most objectionable of the past. LORD DERBY'S OPINION OF HIS PARTY. NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that Earl Derby was speaking on Tuesday night to his neighbours, even to listeners who might be called his personal friends, his sober temperament and subdued imagination seriously narrowed the limit of his opinions, and made most of his perceptions as regards national hopes and national feeling fall short of that knowledge of the country which is frequently the possession of less intellectual men. It is a cold comfort to tell one's party, flushed with their two recent triumphs, that it is their mission to be out of office. Don't let us lose power in running after place," said Lord Derby, "I had infinitely rather in the public interest see the Conservatives forming a strong and com- pact opposition, than have them holding office without a tolerably assured majority." The noble Earl's defence of the Hereditary Principle cannot at best be thought encouraging to any Conservative. Undoubtedly if we were framing the Constitu- tion for the first time, we should not select some 400 or 500 heads of families, and constitute them a separate branch of the Legis- lature." It is Earl Derby's opinion that something can be done to strengthen and improve the House of Lords, and his solution of the difficulty, sug- gested three years since by Lord Russell, is that a trial at least should be made of Life Peers, their creation to be "limited," as he is convinced that under an hereditary system "pauper peerages" are a misfortune. After &11, the noble Earl is not so severe as he might have beeaonthe existing Govern- ment. Althoughhe referred to "unseaworthy ships," described the Budget as eccentric and unfortu- nate," and spoke of the unwonted straining of a lucid Act of Parliament for the purpose of translating a law officer of the Crown to the Judicial Committee, he admitted his approval of the Education Act of 1870, declaring certainly that it never would have bean passed had there not been a Conservative opposition to back up Mr. Forster against his own followers, and putting forward his opinion that it was "perfectly natural" that the success of the party of disestablishment in Ireland should have encouraged the supporters of a similar policy for an attack on the Church here. He believed, how- ever, the position of the Establishment in England to be unassailable, as long as those who belong to it can manage to keep the peaco among themselves. After this assumption, that the danger to the Church, if there is any, is from within, Lord Derby passes over in a few words the conduct of those politicians who believe in the theory of governing Ireland through the Catholic clergy. There is a want of logical force in this view of his lordship. The Catholic clergy demand denominational educa- tion, and yet Lord Derby must be aware that as we are not in favour of the denominational system in England, neither can we by any possibility favour it in Ireland. Lord Derby's bitterest sally is against the United Kingdom Alliance. He calls them the framers of a preposterous LitWising Bill, and refers to all supporters of Mr. Bruce's mea- sure as the Puritans of the nineteenth century." Personally his Lordship thinks it is best to leave the trade open to all competitors, and to enforce strict regulations as to hours and manage- ment. Lord Derby's whole speech, though vehement and comprehensive, is meant, it would seem, rather as an attempt to inform the Conservative party what sentiments he, as their leader, holds in view of the next campaign rather than as a strong condemnation of the Libe- ral party, and a preparation for their speedy dissolution. Mr. Helps recently dedicated his Thoughts upon Government" to the noble earl calling him the improver" rather than the reformer. As Lord Derby has spoken with his habitual good sense, and in genaral has not exceeded the bounds of fairness, it may be that he meekly accepts, for the present at least, the posi- tion, of improver—of his own partv.

THE ASSASSINATION OF FISK. THE strongest feeling excited by the news of the assassination of Mr. James Fisk, jun., will probably be that of curiosity. The crime of solving public difficulties by murdering public characters has long been condemned as useless as well as odious but it is difficult to excite any sentiment of sympathy on behalf of a man who tempted Providence by the enormity of his offences, and his victims by his successful assertion of wrong over right. When one hears of such an event the mind is at once prone to speculate upon the possible consequences had it not taken place. Would Fisk have continued as he began—successful to the end ? Or would the ordinary principles of justice and morality have asserted themselves, would he hare furnished another example of the retribution that is provided in this world for even the most prosperous of evildoers? We believe that the assassin's bullet merely anticipated Fisk's destruction. At the very moment of his death his great edifices of evil were one by one crumbling away. The tide of misfortune had set in strongly against him. His colleagues had fallen, public alarm and indignation had been aroused to the highest pitch, the hand of justice was being stretched out. The murderer has deprived justice of its due. But for him Fisk might have lived as a salutary warning that the overhapte to be rich not only leads men from the path of recti- tude, but frequently fails to secure the wealth for which everything else is sacrificed. Though the man whose career was thus tragically terminated was called James Fisk, jun., the history of commercial swindling in America records only one Fisk. Mr. Fisk, senr., was a respect- able nonentity, a travelling pedlar, who speedily took alarm at his son's go-a-head style of business. As an itinerant merchant, young Fisk succeeded admirably, and then transferred his talents to a wider sphere. He accumulated large gains in Boston during the war, and after- wards removed to the great centre of commercial gambling, Wall-street, New York. Here his throws with the commercial dice multiplied his money with amazing rapidity. He did not establish himself in New York until the close of the war, and by the year 1868 his power was fully established. He was the most wealthy man in America, and so strangely strong and unassailable became his position, that the most audacious robberies were perpetrated in open de- fiance of the American Government and of the public opinion ai the world. He obtained the con- trol of the Erie Railway. This, the grandest of his enterprises, was linked with many others, making altogether the most colossal conglomeration of fraud known in our times. The command of the Erie railway—one of the finest properties of the kind in the world—was obtained through a series of skilful manoeuvres by which other speculators were defeated, and Fisk and two other confederates invested with the functions of President and Trea- surer, Controller, and Counsel of the Company. The directorate was effaced, the shareholders ren- dered completely powerless. How three men could setat denanceawhole body of proprietors, andappro- priate their money at pleasure, is a problem which is explained by the facts that in the United States each individual portion of the Union has full con- trol over its internal affairs, and that in New York every species of power is to be bought. The Erie conspirators bought a judge, and prescribed ver- dicts. They allied themselves with the Irish muni- cipal rulers of New York, and thus promoted the frauds of Tammany Hall in return for assistance in their own schemes. Fisk and Co. helped Tam- many to plunder the New York taxpayers Tam- many strengthened the grip of Fisk on the Erie Railway. Nothing could be more pleasant. If the snarenoiaers in England or elsewhere attempted independent resistance, a great isSOe of fictitious stock m.ade them powerless. If they appealed to justice, they found the verdict written out before the case was heard. In the New York Legislature no difficulty whatever was experienced in passing an Act drafted in the line board room. During this period the extravagance of Fisk knew no bounds. He owned a fleet of steamers, an opera house, and maty other trifles, which would have sufficed to engage the whole attention of most other men. The opera house was at once the scene of shameless orgies and the board-room where the gigantic frauds of the Erie triumvirate were planned." In the autumn of 1869 Fisk's power received a severe shock. He and some satellites conceived the project of winning immense gains by raising the price of gold to a fabulous pitch. This result was of course effected by enormous purchases, and for a time the scheme looked very like winning. The events of that week will never be forgotten by business men. Two or three persons in the Gold Room went mad several committed suicide; vast fortunes changed hands every hour. But the conspiratofc were beaten at last. The Secretary to the Treasury threw a large quantity of gold on the market, down went the price, and so ended the combination. Fisk was a large loser, whilst his old enemy, the scarcely less notorious Vanderbilt, was a large gainer. But the loss did not impair his supremacy for evil. He still did as he pleased with the Erie railway, still wielded at command all the powers of New York. More serious events have happened within the last few months. The organisation by which the New York taxpayers were plundered has been broken up; its leaders have fled, or are in custody. This great blow has produced its effects in every direction. The Mayor of New York has been loud in his penitence virtue is being patronised in the Legis- lature i the judges are no longer to be had for the asking. All the props by which the autocratic influence of Fisk had been supported were giving way at the moment "of his death. It seemed im- possible that he should escape, and it was highly desirable that natural influences should be allowed to bring about his fall. But one way or another the annihilation of such power was indispensable to New York, and to the States. These autocracies of wealth are the greatest danger to which the Republic is exposed, and they are so great as to threaten its very existence

LOCAL TOPICS. NEW DAILY LIBERAL NEWSPAPER. IT will be seen from an advertisement in another column, that a new morning Liberal journal is an- nounced t. appear on Wednesday, February 7, 1872 being the day after the Opening of Parliament. It will contain all the telegraphic news as supplied to the Lon- don and leading Provincial Journals by Reuter, the Press Association and the Central Press, together with Foreign Home, District and Local News, and Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, and other Shipping Intelligence. Essentially Liberal yet Independent in Politics, it will endeavour to faithfully reflect the opinions of the great bulk of the inhabitants of Wales and Monmouthshire. That such a political organ is required admits of no doubt and as the leading idea is to provide a first-class morning paper, giving the news of the day in a concise and readable form, at a price which will bring it within the reach of all, it will unquestionably secure an immense circulation throughout these popu- lous districts. The paper is named the "South Wales Daily News," and the price is fixed at One Half-Penny. It may be added that the Proprietors and Publishers are Messrs. D. DUNCAN & SONS, who have for so many years carried on the CARDIFF TDIES" —at once the pioneer of the Cheap Press in this county and the most successful and influential news- paper in South Wales. Their practical experience as Journalists is a sufficient guarantee that the New Daily Newspaper will be 6ohclucied with energy and ability, and become a worthy exponent of the political opinions of the vast constituency it claims to represent. To successfully establish such a Journal, the support of the Liberal party is essential, and we feel sure it will be accorded in a hearty as well as in a practical manner. THE WANT OF THRIFT. IT is as difficult to say why the English are, as a rule, improvident, as it is to explain why the Irish are impe- tuous, the Scotch cautious, or the Welsh both, with the addition of being musical. But there is no doubt that among English people in the mass, thrift is a qualitv not held in the highest estimation. The lewer we go in the social scale, the more is its absence to be noted and among the lowest of all, where thriftiness is mosi required, it is, alas! only known byname, and only named to be hated. Those remarks, though general are not so sweeping as to include all society. Many shining examples of economy and providence might be drawn from the ranks of the poverty-stricken. On the whole, however, ;thrift i» confounded with parsimony, economy with meanness, and as no vice is greater than meanness in the workman's eyes, he likes to avoid incurring a suspicion of practising it by going as far as he can into the other extreme. Although things are bad enough in this respect, and there is room for a vast amount of improvement, yet they are not so bad as they were a few years back. The era of Savings Banks, Friendly Societies, and Benefit Clubs has long set in; but still the habit of saving money is not a general one and least of all is it practiced enough among the work- ing classes. To insist upon its importance is needle.s. No one denies the advantages of saving in the abstract, but when people are urged to carry an admitted precept into practice, difficulties are raised and obstacles urged which make up a solid argument of vis inertia. Suc- cessful as the Cardiff Savings Bank has been it has not for this reason, been patronised so larcely as it tWU &f V*3 DOt b6nefitted to a"7 We extent ted Th 86 antage u Was Principally institu- ted. There are not, as Mr. Alderman P*ID, 8aid, so many depositors of small sums between Is. and 5s. as there would be if thriftiness and economy were regarded with greater favour. Many a workman, by exercising a little providence in his house, could set aside each week a few shillings, if it were only I two, and these accumulating mites would provide him with a fund to draw upon when he was out of work or sickness had prostrated him. Of what avail are Trades Unions, what good results from advanced wages, if men continue to spend all they receive, as they did before trades unions were formed, or wages commenced their upward rise? We want a second LUTHER to preach a second Reformation-a temporal not a spiritual reformation, which shall place thrifti- ness and saving habits among the social virtues, and if that reformation is ever to be effected it must be by in- dividual exertions. If every man would see to his own reformation How very easily we might reform a nation. tI DEATH OF MR. CRAWSHAY BAILEY. ONE after another the links which bind the present to the past are slowly disappearing. The age that saw the commencement of the great works which are the main source of the present prosperity of Cardiff, are bound to the age which has seen the vast development of those undertakings by very slender links, and those are being gradually snapped. N.t to go so far back as Sir JOHN GUEST, we have within recent years seen the last of the FOREJIANS and the HI:4LS, WILLIAM CRAWSHAY, Sir JOSEPH BAILEY, and ROWLAND FOTHERGILL, and now to this list of Death's victories is to be added the name of Sir JOSEPH'S brother, CRAWSHAY BAILEY. There are still GUESTS, there are still CRAWSHAYS, FOTHERGILLS, and BAILEYS. Some among them seem inspired by the ss,me genius which impelled their forefathers to gigantic en- terprise and collossal fortunes. But these descendants are of a different stamp to their famous progenitors, and though they be wealthy and great among the great of the land, the existence of numberless others of wealth aud fame, deprive them of the advantage which made their grandfathers brilliant and conspicuous stars in a dark firmument.^CRAWSHAY BAILEY, who died on Tues- day, was a representative man. He was, in many re- spects, of the same type as the early ironmasters. Un- like JOHN GUEST or ROWLAND FOXHERGILL, he began with- out promise of fortune, and like the first of the Claw- SHAYS, or like BACON, the great contemporary of iron-king RICHARD, he may be said to have commenced to climb the hill of life with no capital but his own exertions, and no influence save his own industry. Bona in 1788, he was a boy when the earliest specula- tors began to see that the stone of the Philosopher and the dream of the Alchemist were alike hidden in the Welsh hills, and consisted of iron and coal. He was a man or nearly so when some of the most enterprising discovered the secret of FORTUNATUS, and coined wealth by intelligent work alone. He was a Yorkshire boy, and therefore shrewd and far-sighted. He was of a fimily of keen, sharp-eyed, thinking men.XComing from somewhere near Normanton, his elder brother JOSEPH tramped through England from north to south to find his uncle, RICHARD CRAWSHAY. That JosEPH, in 1806, was taken into RICHARD CRAWSHAY'S employ, afterwards became a manager, and then rose to the position of part proprietor of the works of..Cyfarthfa, tuen-for it was before the Dowlais era set in—accord- ing to PENNANT, the largest works in the kingdom. Upon the death of RICHARD CRAWSHAY, in 1810, JOSEPH BAILEY whose early days form the keystone to his brother's successful life—the yet unfamed JOSEPH BAILEY, found himself owner of two-eighths of the works of which he had been formerly manager, Mr. HALL, the father of Lord LLANOVER, owning another fraction, and WILLIAM CRAWSHAY, the son, being the proprietor of the major portion. JOSEPH BAILEY sold his share in Cyfarthfa, and conjointly with Mr. WAYNE, afterwards of Gadlys, bought Nantyglo ironworks from the Blaenavon Iron Company. When Mr. WAYNE left him to develope the now world-celebrated Aberdare coal (of which he was the first exporter] JOSEPH BAILEY obtained the services of his brother to manage the large works already under his hand. CRAWSHAY so- called after his uncle—was the mechanical director of the works, his brother being the financial and business head. Overcoming difficulties, demolish- ing the obstacles which obstructed their upward path, the brothers made Nantyglo pay, and achieved their first triumph. They afterwards bought Beaufort works, and several collieries in Monmouthshire, until they had secured an extensive property equalled in value by no other in the kingdom. JOSEPH BAILEY was speculative, and invested largely in railway undertakings but so great was his power of prejudging success that his in- vestments were never unremunerative. He promoted several of the railway schemes which now are so well known throughout the coal basin, and was also the leading spirit in pressing forward the great docks at Birkenhead. JOSEPH BAILEY'S services to the country, as great m one capacity as those of WELLINGTON were in another, received the reward which JOHN GUEST also wal the recipient of-he was made a baronet. The possessor of a princely fortune and a title, be soon retired from active participation in the works of which he had previously been the foremost partner, and then CRAWSHAY BAILEY, the younger brother, though well- known before, began to obtain more prominence. He had been elected High Sheriff of Breconshire in 1835 and lin 1850 he was again High Sheriff, this time for the county of Monmouth. Two years after, in 1852 he was elected a member ef Parliament for the Newport district of Boroughs. He was a staunch Conservative but not a violent one, and his views underwent some modification upon his election. While to gain the support of the agricultural party he promised to vote for a repeal of the malt duties, he gained the support of a larger body by giving his adhesion to the move- ment for the extension of the county franchise. For sixteen years he sat in the House, a useful though never a talking member, and in 1868 he retired from political life. During his Parliamentary career he did not neglect his Welsh industries. He took to the works at Aberaman, which now lie an idle waste, a testimony of the expense of drawing back after putting one's hand to the plough. The works for a time were carried on under Mr. CRAWSHAY BAILEY'S personal supervision. At that time he lived at Aberaman House, which afterwards fell into the possession of Mr. G. ELLIOT, 1\1,1\, and is now one of the items of that large p^ty \those ownership rests upon the decision of a suit at law. Aberaman works did not result SQ guojessfully as their owner expected, and although his coal trade was large and profitable, he gave up the whole estate, and returned over the moun- tains to Monmouthshire. His return infused new energy into the works at Nantyglo and Newport; but failing health and increasing years compelled him to relinquish the active management of the extensive works into which his original purchase had swelled, The Blaina Iron Company relieved him of the manage- ment of these works by purchasing the whole of his j large property. He then retired into comparatively private life, and the iron world knew him as a working ironmaster no more. But as a safe speculator, and as a promoter of local railways, he was still active, and that shrewdness and long-headedness which had dis- tinguished him in every step of his transition from the Yorkshire lad to the millionaire here served him in equally good part-whatever he touched he seemed like th? wand of MIDAS, to turn into gold. Truly, money makes money, and success induces success. He went on working with money, and his work proved more than profitable. He was one of the large shareholders in the Penarth Dock and Railway Company, and Vas the chairman of directors up to the time of his death though his feeble health had prevented him from presiding at their meetings for some years past. His successful labour and his fortunate enterprise made him wealthy even among the wealthy and he has quitted this life the owner of an immense fortune. When Sir JOSEPH BAILEY died it was estimated that he left behind him four millions of money. Though this appears small compared with his cousin WJLLIAM CRAWSHAY'S eight millions, it was still a gigantic for- tune to leave. CRAWSHAY BAILEY will probably have died as wealthy as his brother, and his fortune will show to the million that opportunity, enterprise, aud intelligence alone are wanted to Bolve the preblem which puzzled chemists of oid, and turn dross into gold. It is only a few weeks ago that G*AWSHAY BULKY became ill. The wonderful constitution which had enabled him to labour as he did, sustained his sink- ing energies, and supported his failing vitality. But his time had come. Skilful physicians could only alle- viate luffering, and avert pain they could not drive away Death, the inevitable. At his residence, Llanfoist House, Abergavenny, at the ripe old age of 84, he closed a useful and honourable life on Tuesday last, and in the midst of his family he quitted this world, which to him had been a hard and busy one, for another which is less disturbed, and let us hope, more happy than that he knew in his scene of earthly labour. The deceased gen. tleman was a Deputy Lieutenant of the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth, and a Justice of the Peace for the counties of Brecon and Carmarthen. He mar- ried Anne, daughter of Mr. JOSEPH MOORE, of Mitchan, Surrey, whose demise preceeded his own, and he has left a son, who recently married a daughter of Count METAXA, and a daughter now relict of Major GWYN. Tmt NINE HOURS' MOVEMBNT.—The agitation in favour of the nine hours' movement continues to de- velope itself in connection with various local industries, following in the wake of similar action in other towns. Oa Saturday evening about 200 of the shipsmiths of the port met at the Blue Bell Inn, High-street, when a number of speeches were delivered, in the course of which it was contended that the shipsmiths worked nine hours more than any of the other artizans con- nected with the shipping. It was resolved that a cir- cular should be addressed to the employers asking them to adopt the nine hours systim, and deputations were appointed to wait upon the various firms for their answer. On Monday evening a large number of masons held a meeting at the Carpenters'Arms Inn, theHayes, for the discussion of the same matter. Deputations from the General Union and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters were present, and, after considerable dis- cussion, it was resolved to adjourn the meetiug to an early day. On Wednesday evening the shipwrights held a meeting at the Cardigan Arms, Maria-street. Their action was taken in concert with a general move- ment which is going on amongst the shipwrights of Newport, Llanelly, Swansea, Bristol,- and Gloucester. It was resolved to send two delegates to attend the dis- trict meeting, which is to be held at Newport on the 22rd inst, when a memorial will be adopted asking the whole of the master shipwrights throughout the Bris- tol Channel to adopt the nine hours system. In addi- tion to the firms whom we announced last week as having adopted the nine hours' a day, we may add that Messrs. Edwards and Gover, carriage builders, St. Mary-street, have, unsolicited by their workmen, ex- pressed their intention to adopt the new system.

L Soai JiiUUijgmtc. THE LORD-LIEUTENANCY OF PEMBROKE.—We (Globe) hear that the Lord-Lieutenancy of Pembrokeshire, rendered vacant by the death of Lord Kensington, will be conferred on Colonel Sir Hugh Owen, Bart., whose father, Sir John Owen, formerly occupied the position. SIGNOR PAGGi, the well-known flautist, announces a concert for Tuesday evening next, at the St. John's Scbool-rom. An attractive programme has been pre- pared, and the principal performers will be Mdlle. Paggi, Miss Griffiths, Miss Jenny Lewis, Mr. Frost, Mr. Aylward, and Signor Paggi. GLAMORGAN LIGffT INFANTRY MILITIA.—Capt. Morris, of the Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia, has received a certificata of pro jciency iu his duties from the com- mandant of the School of Instruction at Wellington Barracks. MR. GEORGE GROSSMITH, the well-known and inimit- ole humourist, is announced to give two of his poj n'ar lectures on Monday and Tuesday, the 29th and 30th iasts. The subjects will be "The Comic Side of Lift" and Additional Souvenirs of Charles Dickens," and the proceeds will be given to the Cardiff Infirmary. PRESENTATION TO A POLICE SERGEANT.—Police-ser- geant King, of the county constabulary, who was some months back removed from Canton to Roath, was so generally respected in the former place, that it was de- termined to mark the regret felt by the respectable in- habitants at his departure by a testimonial. Upwards of £6 was collected, and on Monday this was presented to the sergeant by Mr. G. Bodington, V.S., who told him that the sum itself was by no means a measure of the esteem in which he was held in Canton, but was rather a small indication of the general respect he had earned for himself. CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The weekly meeting of this board was held on Saturday, Mr. Alexander (the vice-chairman) presiding. The master of the Workhouse reported that there had been during the week 21 admissions, 2 births, 20 discharges, and no deaths, leaving 273 in the house, of whom 52 were in the Refuge. This number was a decrease of 40 upon the corresponding week last year. The number of tramps relieved during the week had been 12, at a cost of Is. 4d. Mr. Harris (master of the Industrial schools) reported that three children had been admitted into that institution during the week, and there had been nine discharges, leaving 263 inmates, which was an increase of four upon the corresponding week last year. Mr. Harris's report also stated that en New Year's day, Miss Gertrude Jenner, of Wenvoe, had kindly made every child in the schools the present of an appropriate toy. Miss Jenner's generosity was spoken of very highly by the Board. There was no public business. A SEAMAN DROWNED IN THE EAST DOCK.—On Monday afternoon Mr. R. L. Reece held an inquest at the Town-hall, Cardiff, upon the body of Andrew Watson, aged eighteen years, an apprentice on board the ship Callao, of Whitehaven, who was drowned on the yrc- vious day in the East Dock. From the EVIDENT ad- duced, it appeared that Ole Neilsen, the BOA^WAIN of the Advance, a Norwegian brig, lyins alongside of the Callao, saw signs of a bodv having fallen into the water abeut half-past six O clock on Sunday night. He threw out a rope; IJZlt nothing appeared; but afterwards saw a cap floating on the surface of the water, and got it out. when it proved to be the cap of the deceased. 1'he body of the deceased was grappled for and afterwards recovered. James Fearon, mate of the CF»iiao, said about the time stated the deceased left the brig with letters to post, passing over the ship's rail to cross to another vessel. It was then he must have fallen. Deceased, who was sober, and had been a total abstainer for years, could not swim. The jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned." DISASTROUS COLLISION OFF GIBRALTAR.—The barque Neptune, of North Shields, bound from Cardiff to Con- stantinople, coal laden, came into colhsion on the 17th ult. with the steamship Norham, of West Hartlepool, fifty miles west of Gibraltar, with the result that the Norham sank, and ths crew of nineteen men narrowly escaped a watery grave. The Norham .was a fine new steamship, on only her second voyage, having been built on the Tees in 1871, and owned by Messrs. Cory, Lohden, and Co., of Hartlepool, and had on board a valuable general cargo, laden at Newcastle for Bar- celona. When it was seen that the Norham was sink- ing, Captain Evans ordered the smallboat to be launched, and into this fifteen of the crew jumped for their lives., the captain and three others only springing into the forechains of the barque as their own vessel was going down, which she did within five MINUTES of the collision, Although the weather was rather wild and a strong easterly wind blowing, the boat containing the fifteen men was safely picked up by the fearque, although, of course, not a creature on board had saved even a spare coat. They found, on reaching the deck of the Nep- tune, that she had suffered severely in the collision, her bowsprit and jib-boom being carried away, stem started, and leaking so badly that it required the united efforts of the two crews at the pumps to keep her afloat to Gibraltar. IMPORTANT QUESTION OF MARITIME LAW.—A case c>l considerable icterest and importance to shipowners, and captain has been tried at Greenwich. Mr. Cuthbert. &ux, the owner and master of the British ship Iron-- side, which sailed from Cardiff in the spring, appeared to a summons at the instance of the authorities of the Board of Trade, charging him, under the 207th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, with a misdemeanour, for having on the 23rd of June last, left behind at vn aPv« e0/ge Parker> a Britisk seaman, who joined at Cardiff, without previously obtaining a certificate in writing endorsed on the agreement from a public shin- pmg master or other officer duly appointed by the local government or of the chief officer of. Custom., statin* the fact and cause why the said seaman was so left: Mr. Gardiner prosecuted, and said the proceedings had been ordered by the Board of Trade as an example, because of the great cost to the Governmem 13? serving home English sailors left in foreign countries, Evi- dence was then taken showing that in January of last year George Parker shipped on board the Ironside at Cardiff as an able seaman to Singapore and back to London. On the voyage he was raised to the position of boatswain, but, not giving satisfaction in that capa- city, on the arrival of the vessel at Singapore he was informed that he would be disrated. Parker said he would not serve in the ship another day as an able sea- man only, and demanded his discharge but on being taken to the shipping master the permission to defend" ant to discharge him was refused. During the time the ship was at Singapore Parker ran away en three occasions, and some few hours before weighing anchor for the return voyage he suddenly disappeared and was left behind. Mr. Gardiner contended that, as Parker's character was so well known as an absentee from the stnp, precautions ought to have been taken to have kept lm on board but to this it was stated the law would not admit of a seaman being kept in irons more than While in P°rt- Mr- M^de said the fullv and *ament aPPhed to cases where masters wil- en ™ T8 J leffc seamen behind, and had not os Practicable means to secure such sea- man s return. There had been no proof given that the defendant had committed any act wilfully which had led to what had occurred, and the only question was as to what was meant by the word "practicable." Mr Gardiner then conferred with Mr. O'Dowd, who was in attendance to conduct another Board of Trade inquirv, and said that in eonsequence of the very high character of Captain Yaux, and the explanation that had been given, he would consent to the withdrawal of the sum- mons. A MORNING AT POMPEII.—Mr. T. H. Thomas, son of Dr. Thomas, of Pentypool, delivered a lecture at St. John's School-room, Crockherbtown, upon the above subjeot, on Monday night. The Mayor of Cardiff presi- ded, and there was a large attendance. The lecture was of a most entertaining character, and was largely illus- trated and explained by a number of sketches, the work of Mr. Thomas's skilful brush. Besides a great deal of information about Pompeii, topographical and historical. the lecturer gave his audience many of the fruits of his artistic research, and the whole was lightened by the infusion of happy humour and felicitous jest. Some of his humorous reflections were very amusing, and especially those in which the quaintness of some of the discovered curiosities was heightened by violent con- trast with the ways of modern life. Speaking of the name of a Pompeian nobody," Fnmidius something which appeared on the walls of the Forum, he remarked that it was not a little strange that that had been pre- served throughout 1,1"00 years, while the name of the architect was lost for ever and so if London were ever overwhelmed like Pompeii, the name of Robinson on a slab in ruined St. Paul's might be alone preserved to a future world, who would honour the byegone Robin- sen" as the architect of that noble though rained fane. An announcement had been disentombed of a Gladitorial display, which ended with the pompous de- claration that one particular Gladiator would achieve the victory, the Gods being propitious." Thia might have been added to qualify the boast or it might have been a statement that the Gods were propitious. But what, asked the lecturer, would be thought of such a form of announcement in our own P.R., and what would be the feelings of the reader who saw in Bell's Life a statement that on a certain day, and for a specified stake, the Putney Pet would fight the Cardiff Slogger —D.V." With laughable allusions of this kind en- livening a graphic description of Pompeii as it is, the lecturer carried his audience with him from house to house in the buried city, pointing out to them here and there where skeletons had been found after eighteen centuries immurement-a mother clasping her babe to her bosom, women whose arms bound each to the ether, the miser overtaken by the blinding ashes as he was hastening away with his gold, the epicure seated still at the table spread with the rich banquet. He showed us where Diomed lived, where Glaucus bathed, and where Julia wandered. There were many brilliant imaginative passages to make the lecture a greater treat. Mr. Thomas restored the amphitheatre and filled it with its throng, and placed in his chair of state the great .'Edile. He called up the procession of gladiators, and pictured the scenes in the arena. Then his vision sinks again into the mysterious past, and he sees a sunny-haired, laughing-eyed English girl leaping from seat to seat upon the upper benches of the ruined theatre, and the pretty face, as it always has and always must, drove away dreams of the gloomy past. With this episode. Mr. Thomas brought to a conclusion his account of a morning in Pompeii. A very cordial vote of thanks to the lecturer was awarded, and it was in- timated and heard with pleasure by the audience that Mr. Thomas would probably make a visit to Cardiff N annual event, in which case the Mayor placed the TvWIl Hall at his service.