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LITERATURE. .
LITERATURE. MR. JENKINS'S NEW WORK. OBD BANTAM. By the author of Ginks' Latn," London: Strahan it Co., Lu Ufnte-kill. This is a very clever, and occasionally rather malicious, satire on the politics and the politicians of our time. Yet in the main the author's arrows are launched fairly and hit the right mark. If he is severe upon the "Prigs" and their belief in their right divine to govern the nation upon the young ladies who talk with unabashed fluency to young gentlemen about the Outrageous Diseases Act upon the "Eclectic" religionists who "attempt to organise human ignorance into a system;" upon the great Whig—we beg pardon, "Prig"—nohleman who having an income of JE700,000 a year, gets endless praise for his munificence in giving £ 10,000 to a relief fund, who shall say that the severity is not deserved ? Most of all is the just satire with which it describes the Prigs out of office, burn- ing to return thither, and who, seeing no chance of doing so while the Fogies continue passing somewhat dull but use- ful measures, go in for an ecclesiastical revolution, and with sundry twinges of conscience proceed to unmake a Church in order to make a Cabinet. The book ia perhaps hardly so forceful as the author's earlier work. But there are many happy passages in it, many brilliant epigrams while some of the scenes, notably the election contest at Woodbury, are exceedingly life-like. It would not be difficult to find the originals of most of the characters in this tale. But in the portrait some details are altered. Still the likeness of the hero to the son of a certain Whig ex-Premier is so close as to be unmistakeable. The readers will place other names at the foot of other portraits without help from us. And now for a sketch of the tale. Earl Ffowlesmere is a great Whig nobleman, the leader of his party in the Lords, the owner of prodigious estates, London squares, Scotch moors, Midland mines. His elder son goes to the University and the dogs, and comes to a very tragical end. The younger son, born eighteen years after, with no child between, thus becomes Lord Bantam. Very cleverly is the story of his birth told. Next to being born the most important incident in baby annals is being vaccinated. The incidents thereof are recorded in Lady FfoTvlesmere's diary. "I've had a most terrible frisrht. The person, Mr. Benew brought to the castle the other day, with her child, to vaccinate Albert from, was recognised by some of the servants, and it turns out that she is the wife of that shoemaker Broadbent, who is an infidet Chartist the plague of the tovm. He is repeatedly addressing meetings and getting up opposition to us at elections, and has insulted the vicar by calling him an t-d< siastical speaking-trumpet.' I was most indignant that such shoi-king blood should be transferred to poor little Albert, and sent for Mr. Bellew immediately. He had noti.inqr to say for himself, except that it was the healthiest child in the neighbourhood! I told him he ought to have Vnown that though we were free in our politics, we hated such vulcrar and seditious wretches; and It was an everlasting disgrace to us to have their brand on a scion of our house. The Earl gave him a cheque, and he is never to enter the castle again. I have sent to town for Mr. Burton to come and see him. I shall be in terror now, lest the child has been inoculated with some low Red opinions. The Earl says he is not likely, with the property he will get, to practise them, even if they are in his blood; but I have the utmost horror of extremists." The Earl having had enough of public schools (his eldest eon had gone to Winton ") selects a private tutor, a Mr. Kelso, who had intended to enter the Ministry of the Scotch Kirk, but was too liberal minded for the country- men of John Knox. This tutor, a man of vast reading, inculcates his opinions into the mind of his pupil, who accepts them, but not having rooted them by study he soon begins to sow political and theological wild oats. At the University he is noted for his eccentric opinions, and as they are expressed with much fluency at the Union, he receives the nickname of "the Crowing Bantam." He joins the Essenes, a society whose members "combina the self-conceit of the Pharisees with the scepticism of the Sadducees." The head of it is the Rev. Shadrach Ventom, whose father had been a Dissenting minister. The son had cast aside the paternal peculiarities, accepted every test, and had even entered Holy Orders without be- lieving a single dogma of the Church. The Essenes "made the loudest professions of Catholicity. They took an ostentatious interest in lower-class propagandism. Their humanity was extravagant. Their sentimental protests against evil and wrong were even exaggerated. Their breadth was enormous. They professed to find in Quakerism symptoms of the philosophic basis of practical religionviewed in Methodism some aspects of the highest evidence of an emotional spiritualism and studied Mormonism in its phenomena of 'an abnormal develop- ment of one of the divine ideas.' In their researches among these peculiar phages of fetishism they also included in- vestigations into the Unnatural outbreaks of human en- thusiasm, whereof a work of some notoriety, entitlel Hypt.- Transcen,lent Spouses,' was a fitting text-book. They were Athenian in their readiness to hear every new thing—but their credulity was reserved for negatives." Lord Bantam's political associates are worthy of his religious. He joins the Radish Club, a very advanced association indeed :— # Between these two associations, Lord Bantam's prin- cipies and politics assumed an aTanning shane. He began to astonish his tutors bv his political contortions and the breadth of his disbelief but throwing over faith is not throwing over credulity. In fact, he became a conspicu- ous instance of that increasingly common paradox-a. credulous believer in anything that is unbelief." After an extensive foreign tour with his parents, Lord Bantam returns to England, and preparations are made for celebrating his majority. At first the young heir will not hear of this, his Radicalism revolting at anything so feudal and foolish. But at last he submits with a bad grace. There is a very amusing scene, in which Broad- bent, the Chartist, presents an address to the young lord, worthy of the International. Lord Bantam not only receives it, but makes a speech, in which he endorses much of Broadbent's programme, to the horror of the Countess, his mother. Then he determines to go into Parliament: but instead of taking one of the manv family seats which are to be had at any moment, he datar- mii'es\o stand in the "popular interest, for a borough in which he has no influence. About one-fifth of the b .ok is occupied with the narrative of Lord Bantam's first experience of electioneering. Mr. Jenkins evidently remembering Truro, cannot forbear a hit at the Liberal whips who have muddled the elections so grievously of late. After describing the savage comments of the newspapers, he adds— ''Amidst all these objurgations it was omitted to be observed that the object of a party organisation and a parliamentary whip was to prevent such occurrences. Whether a little more tactical skill at headquarters might not have secured a victory for the party at the expense of a disappointment to the Government was not asked, though a most pertinent question." Of course, Lord Bantam did not long want for a seat. He took one of the family boroughs, and soon brought despair to the hearts of whips by his erratic conduct. The Prigs had been for a time waiting in the cold shade of opposition. Mr. Sardonius and the Fogies were passing some useful measures, when a certain Scotch member, weary of banishment from the Treasury Bench, suggested to the leader of the Opposition tha.t the time was come to g ,t back into office, and to that end the Bishops must be sacrificed. Mr. Jenkins then describes with something of malice a supposed intrigue between Sir Dudley Wright- mwipndthe Irish Cardinal, resulting in a motion for put- ting down the Bishops. Thereupon Lord Bantam, to the h uror of his father and all the other Prigs, denounces with vehemence the men who evoke religious and political a timosities at a time when a programme of social reform still lies unatte-.npted before the country. He asks, Is it of greater importance that the lives of a hundred thousand persons a year more or less should be lo t from ueglect of sanitary legislation, the regulation of m'nes, or the better inspection of factories, than that an eo -leMastical system sh uld be made more systematically pe: feet or more conSOIl:1.ut with theoretical freedom by deposing a score of bishops?" In spite of appeal and warning Sir Dudley Wrightman's motion is carried, and, a lis the biographer of Lord Bantam :— Meanwhile colliery explosions continued to blow their scores at a time of human machines into cinders, leaving an!,le families to test the charity of the ratepayers; big brewers or distillers and little publicans continued to fatten o t the blown corpses of the prey they pursued with unre- stricted licence men and women perished in filth and eiutivia carefully maintained for the purpose of assisting their exit from a world of rates and taxes by thoughtful guardians of the poor; an epidemic, sweeping over the (Vmtinent, waved its black flag across the Channel towards t'le hopeful fields where no legislation and the principles of Magna Charta combined to invite its attacks and the navy, the guardian of the honour and existence of free England, was left to be reformed in the face of the c enemy. Before this Lord Bantam had made the acquaintance of the Eclectics. How he presided at one of their meetings; how the ladies spoke out boldly on sexual sub- jects how Lord Bantam at first hung his head, u-i-il he got used to it, and saw that there was no use in being ashamed for the ladies" who had no shame for themselves how he embraced their religion or no religion and attended its services in St. George's Hall, Langham-place; how he married one of the high priestesses of Eclecticism who had advocated French pro- cesses for the limitation of offspring, but abandoned the theory after having twins—all this is very admirably told. There is yet one more scene. Lord Bantam is persuaded bv his old Chartist friend, Broadbent, to join the Inter- national, here called the Social Anti-Climax League. Soon afterwards the Earl dies, and Lord Bantam succeeds to the Fowlesmere title and estates, the latter having in- creased in value by two millions sterling under the deceased nobleman's very careful management. The golden age is now at hand. Citizen Albert Augustus. &c., &c., commonly called Earl Fowlesmere," is looking over his accounts at Shufflestraw Castle, when a menial announces to him that Broadbent, and a band of Char- tists are approaching to speak to him. The new earl sends for the police, then steps out, and meets the deputa- tion. Broadbent reminds the young nobleman of his adheswnce to the programme of the Social Anti-Climax League, and asks him now to put its principles in force. "We are prepared to follow you to the death," says Mr. Broadbent. '"No Mr. Broadbent and my good friends, I—I—have lately had to reconsider with some care the subject of your address, and—in fact, gentlemen—I have changed my mind. So ends the story of Lord Bantam. He is left like Byron's George III., practising the Hundredth Psalm; while as for Broadbent, he no doubt retires muttering the 146th Psalm, and the third verse. THE COBDEN CLUB ESSAYS. COBDEN CLUB ESSAYS, Second Series, 1871-2. TLotulon Cassell, Petter and Galpin, Ludgate Hill. THK Cobden Club once again renders goed service by giving to the nation a series of able essays on various questions of national importance which are gradually working their way to the front, and which must at no distant date be taken in hand by the Legislature. Last year the Club published a most valuable work describ- ing the land systems which prevail throughout the dif- ferent nations of the world, and now with the new year, they have brought out another volume which deals with a greater variety of subjects, but one which is equally notable for the able and exhaustive manner in which the writers have treated their subjects. Though the whole of the contributions may be said to possess an international interest, yet they are nearly all of more immediate importance to England, and at least four of them will inevitably perpetuate our system of Party Government. For whatever certain oracles may say about the policy of the Liberal party being used-up, and as to the advent of a political millenium in which Tory and Liberal, Constitutionalist and Radical shall work har- moniously together in a new sphere of social reform, every astute politican must see that on such questions as the improvement of our landed system, the reform of the national finances, and the relations of capital to labour—not to mention many equally necessary re- forms—there will be the same clear distinction between the aims of the party of progress and the party of inac- tion, and the same incessant struggles for ascendancy, in which the Liberal party will doubtless suffer occa- sional reverses, but will inevitably prove victorious il.1 the end. The four articles in this somewhat imposing volume of 550 pages which will be read with most interest by our readers are those on The Law and Custom of Pri- mogeniture," by the Hon. George C. Brodrick; The Present Aspect of the Land Question," by Mr. William Fowler, M.P. Financial Reform," by Mr. T. E. Clift'e Leslie; and "Trades Unions, and the Relations of Capital and Labour," by Mr. Joseph Gostick. Besides these, there is a most able and exhaustive article On the Causes of War and the Means of Reducing their Number," by M. Emile de Laveleye, whose reputation as a publicist is as high in this country as it is on the Continent. Herr Julius Faucher, of Berlin, writes on A New Commercial Treaty between Great Britain and Germany," and as he was one of the earliest and most zealous of the Continental Free-Traders who entered into communication with Mr. Cobden, and by a long residence in England has obtained an unusual insight into our economic and fiscal condition, his essay is of peculiar interest at the present time, as showing the importance which German economists attach to treaties of commerce in the prosecution of the Free Trade policy, and the anxiety with which they still look to England for co-operation and sympathy. Mr. John Prince Smith, though best known as a member of the German Parlia- ment, a leader of the Free Trade party in Germany, and one of its most eminent economists, is by family and birth an Englishman, and he has, in his contribu- tion on The English Coinage Question," rendered to his native country the service of addressing himself to a question which is not only one of great international interest, but also one of special practical concern to England. Mr. James E. Thorold Rogers, the well- known Oxford professor, contributes a paper on the "Colonial Question," and Mr. David A. Wells, of the United States, who is known throughout Europe as one of the ablest living financiers, writes on The Recent Financial, Industrial, and Commercial Experiences of the United States," and it is so curious a chapter of politico-economic history, that it will be strange if the essay does not take a permanent place in economic history. Lastly, but not least, the Commercial Policy of France and the Treaty with England of 18GO," which was issued some time since by the Cobdeu Club as a pamphlet, and noticed in these columns, is republished as an appendix to the present volume—and very appro- priately so, for it contains so much statistical and other information relative to the advantages of the Treaty, that it cannot but prove very useful during the discus- sions which will soon arise upon that question. It is impossible, with the space at our disposal, to notice even briefly the various subjests which are dis- cussed in the volume, and we therefore content our- selves with a cursory reference to those of most interest to our readers. The articles of more immediate im- portance are two closely allied to each other—viz., those on the Law of Primogeniture and the Land Ques- tion. The first thing which strikes the reader of both of these essays is the singular spirit of fairness and moderation with which both writers treat the arguments of their opponents—a characteristic which is more or less observable in all the contributions. As our readers are aware, the present Government has already pro- mised, as one of the reforms of the immediate future, that primogeniture shall cease so far as the law is con- cerned, by the enactment of a provision that in all cases of intestancy landed property shall be divided on the same principle as that which is adopted in the case of personal property. This is so rational and ap- parently so small a reform that the opponents of the change frequently taunt its supporters with its insigni- ficance, and state that it will make no appreciable difference in our landed system. We admit that the change will not of itself produce the great results which some of its advocates promise, but what we do see is that the abolition of primogeniture will be the first and most important step which can be taken towards break- ing down the iniquitous system which enables the whole landed property of the country to be completely controlled by an infinitesimal section of the nation. This is clearly demonstrated by Mr. Broderick, who shows that the evils attributable to the law of primogeniture are so hound up with the existing system of entail and set- tlement, that the removal of one stake will go a great way towards a general loosening of the whole barrier. Of course Mr. Broderick advocates the abolition of the system of entail and settlement, and his proposal amounts to the very simple and unrevolutionary expe- dient of abolishing all kinds of ownership except owner- ship in fee simqle, with all customary and copyhold tenures, and by imposing restrictions on the length of leases. Such an enactment would at once give the whole land of the nation into the actual possession of its living owners to be disposed of as they pleased, and we need not go far from Cardiff to learn how useful and important such a provision would prove both to the landowners themselves and to the general community. The same conclusion is come to by Mr. Fowler in his "Essay on the aspects of the Land Question," when he says:— What we need is real freedom--freedom of sale, free- dom of exchange, freedom of transfer in all respects, freedom of testation, and for this purpose the prohibition of all those trammels which the system of settlements and entails has created. Given this freedom, we, on the other hand, do not require any other interference by the State, but the owners and occupiers of land may be left to settle their own affairs in their own way for their own advantage, and the greatest good of the people at large. In order to make this freedom complete, we must unlock the stores which the law of mortmain has kept, as it were, hidden, without benefit to the owners or the public, and for this purpose insist on the gradual sale of the estates of Corporations, so that the magic of property" may be brought to bear upon them, and that they also may be freed from the burden of perpetuity." Mr. T. E. Cliffe Leslie's essay on Financial Re- form" is, undoubtedly, one of the most argumentative and logical articles in the volume, and it sets forth very lucidly the whole case upon Customs and Excise duties v. Direct Taxation. He has, of course, no diffi- culty in showing the oppressive and cumbrous nature of all duties, nor of convicting our system of indirect taxation of putting many serious restrictions on our in- dustrial and commercial development, and of collecting revenue in the most costly way. But he is less success- ful when he comes to deal with the way in. which in- direct taxation is to be supplanted. One of his sugges- tions is there should be a shilling income-tax, which he calculates would produce £20,000,000 a year if it were applied somewhat lower in the social rule than at present—making employers responsible for the deduction of the tax on the wages of their labourers and servants. Though such an arrangement ould at once give us the free breakfast table" advocated by Mr. Bright, it is impossible to dejiy that a shilling tax is altogether out of the question while the present un- equal system of assessment is in vogue—a system which is so uneven in its application that notwith- standing the general prosperity and a 4d. income tax, there were universal complaints during the past year, not only in this neighbourhood but generally through- out the kingdom. When we have attained to a condi- tion in which the direct portion of the national taxation is levied in a scientific instead of a rough and ready way, it will be quite time enough to adopt the shil- ling income-tax. Mr. Leslie supports the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his proposal last year to increase the succession duties, and thinks that by such an in- crease, combined a proper application of the succes- sion duties to land, with a revenue of ,tl0,000,OOO per year might be permanently reckoned on. It will be remembered that the great flaw in Mr. Lowe's proposal was that he proposed to double the succession duties in the case of the immediate relatives—so that it would have proved especially burdensome to the widows and children of limited means—while he left the more dis- tant connections of the testator alone. Mr. Leslie, on the other hand, would double the duties along the whole of the present scale, which is a much more statesmanlike proposal, though, in our opinion, it should includc exemption of widows and children from paying more than the present one per cent. Neverthe- ) less, we fully believe with Mr. Leslie, that however faint may be the indications of the hour it might be foretold that we are advancing towards a period of great) financial reforms and we think think that these re- forms will be, as Mr. Cobden predicted in one of his speeches on Parliamentary reform, in the direction of the substitution of direct taxation for duties of Customs and Excise. Space forbids us to refer to any of the other articles in this most interesting and instructive work, a perusal of which we most warmly recommend to all who take an interest in political economy. NAUTICAL MAGAZINE (London Simpkin, Marthal and Co.) Amid the many publications professedly repre- senting particular interests or classes, there are few de- voted entirely to one of the most important branches of our industrial or commercial pursuits, namely, that of the maritime or mercantile marine section of our nation. The amount of capital invested in ships—the profound skill and science required to manoeuvre them, I and the daring displayed in the constant contest with the elements in working these vessels, surely require, in this literary age, ready pens and willing minds to do such a noble theme justice, by a more extended repre- sentation before an impartial public, and by communi- cating to the members of the mercantile marine them- selves valuable information regarding their noble profes- sion, which may make them more proud of it, more safe in the exercise of it, and happier in its pursuits. We are in- duced to make these remarks by the receipt cf the Jan. number of the Nautical Magazine. A perusal of its pages has given us the impression that a period is dawning on the seafaring world which has never yet been opened up. The pages of this periodical are full of matter, mostly of a scientific and professional caste, but which indicates to our minds that the calling of the sailors is no longer to be a simple matter of reefing and steering and sailing and working along by dead reckoning." The article, for instance, upon Correct- ing the Sun's Declination," is one which every ambi- tious master mariner, anxious t@ make himself ac- quainted with all the best modes of navigating, would be delighted with. It is a sort of guarantee of the promise that in future numbers there will be substan- tial and scientific catering to the appetite of those men who like to lay up sach stores for long voyages. There are also able articles, of a more commercial bearing, such as are upon Steam Shipbuilding in 1871"—another upon The Future of the Suez Canal." A racy morceau entitled The Highway" gives us a spice of lighter fare dealing, as it does, with the pecca- dilloes of the sailor when ashore on his beam ends" in the thoroughfare Yclept—" Ratcliffe." The Retro- spect for 1871" is especially useful to persons who are interested in Mercantile Marine officers, and analogous subjects. So are papers on Health of the Navy," Lifeboat Services," &c. All of these have close rela- tionship to nautical affairs, and of course thereby com- mend themselves to seafaring men. A great effort, we understand, will be made this year to improve the magazine and render it more and more worthy of its title. A supply of "fresh blood" has been poured into the ar- terial system of the editorial department, in the shape of assistance from a well-known and able official of the Board of Trade, who will, from the special knowledge attained in his position, be able to keep this periodical well informed upon any and all official matters con- nected with the shipping interest, over which that department of the Government have a special surveil- lance. We have confidence in commending, in such a large shipping port as Cardiff, one of the few but able publications devoted to nautical and maritime subjects.
CARDIFF SAVINGS BANK.
CARDIFF SAVINGS BANK. The annual and general meeting of the trustees and managers of this Bank was held on Wednesday. The Mayor of Cardiff presided, and there were present—Mr. Alderman Pride, Mr. Alderman Alexander, Mr. Alder- man Evans, Mr. Griffith Phillips, Mr. W. D. Bushell, Mr. E. Whiffen, Mr. G. Salmoa, Mr. J. W. Vachell, Mr. W. R. Harvey, Mr. Hardess, Mr. P. Davies, and Mr. J. E. Williams, actuary. The accounts of the bank were examined and passed. The balance sheet and report, which are printed in our advertisement columns, were of a most gratifying kind. Reports were made by Mr. Richard Evans, banker, Pontypridd, and Mr. R. Williams, cashier, National Provincial Bank, giving the result of their audit of the books of the bank. A summary of the proceedings of the year, supplied the following interesting facts: —The sums received from 10 till 2 on Saturdays, in 1,713 transactions, amount to £13,862 2s. 4d.; on Saturday evenings, in 2,016 transactions,, to £7,863 15s. 5d.; on Monday evenings, in 2,586 transactions, to jEll,346 10s. 3d.; in 6,315 transactions during the year, JE33,072 t's. There was repaid during the year, in 2,607 transactions, £ 28,229 17s. 6d. The number of depositors on the 20th of November, 1871, was 3,870—an increase of 127 over last year. The capital of the bank this year is £108,472 19s. 4d. last year it was £100,667 9s. 4d in- crease in capital, £7,805 10s. The MAYOR said it was a very gratifying thing to find that the Bank still retained so large a measure of the Confidence of the public, and that during the year the capital had increased to £7,805. It was a curious coin- cidence that in 1851 the amount of capital was £39,000, in 1861, £72,000, and in 1870, £107,000, showing the same proportionate increase of depositors in each decade. The establishment of Post-office Savings Banks by Government did not seem to have weakened the interest of the public in this institution, and he attributed that to the confidence placed in the gentlemen who gave their time to manage its affairs. The bank performed a most useful purpose. The saving of money, when once begun, became a habit, and that once contracted, was one which was not often broken. The bank insulcated the habit of saving money, and in doing so it elevated the working classes and tended to make them better members of society, while it also tended to increase the practice of industry and economy, so that by their thrift they might pro- vide for themselves in their old age. One thing in connection with the bank was very satisfactory. Dur- ing the last year there had passed through the Actu- ary's hands £60,000, and the working expenses of the institution had only been £300, which was the very small cost of one-half per cent., or a fraction over a penny in the pound. A series of resolutions were then proposed, which will be found in our advertising columns. Alderman EVANS referred to the very gratifying increase in the number of depositors, and said that much of the suc- cess of the Bank was due to the kind and courteous manner in which the depositors, however humble they may be, were received by the Actuary, and the gentle- men who were managers for the day.—Alderman PRIDE, while pleased at the signs of prosperity the accounts evinced, regretted the Bank was not used by a class of depositors he would like to see. He wished for a larger number of Is. and 5s. weekly depositors, ap well as those who invested larger sums. He was sorry the labouring classes did not take a larger interest in the Bank. He pointed out to many of them, who came before him at the Board of Guardians now and then for relief, that when they were earning, as they sometimes did, 30s. per week, they should put a little by, in order to pro- vide against times when work was wanting; but it seemed impossible to give them habits of providence.— Mr. W. D. BUSHELL mentioned that he saw recently that the Manchester Savings Bank, a similar institu- tion to their own, had fifty thousand depositors, and a capital of upwards of a million.—A question arose as to the success of the Aberdare branch of the Bank, and it was stated that though the business done was small, yet it was encouraging, the amount received last year being £1800, and the total number of deposits amount- ing to £ 4382.—Mr. PRIDE remarked that he had not the same opportunity of inspecting the pass-books of the Aberdare bank and it was agreed that he should be requested to take an opportunity of paying a half- yearly visit to Aberdare to examine the pass-books of the branch.. In moving an addition of £20 a year to the Actuary's salary, Mr. PRIDE said the Actuary's work had very much increased for a great number of years, and it was now thirteen or fourteen years ago since he had an in- crease of salary. It was a good principle that when they gave a. man more work, they gave, or ought to give him more salary, and he thought the time had arrived when they should give Mr. Williams an increase, the increase to date from the 20th of November.—Mr. BUSHELL asked if JB20 was enough.—Mr. PRIDE said he thought Mr. Williams would be satisfied with it. He received d6150, and JE40 for a clerk at piesent, with a house rent free.—Mr. ALEXANDER seconded the motion, and it was agreed to. Mr. W. D. BUSHELL called attention to the item in the statement" of nine deposits exceeding £200 each, amounting to £1,825 2s. 9d., and citing the Act which forbade the Bank to pay interest on deposits over £200, asked if interest was paid upon these sums. Mr. WILLIAMS, the actuary, stated that these deposits had been increased so as to exceed JE200 during the past year. Interest had been paid on the sums up to the maximum of £200, but when they reached that sum, the depositor ceased to receive interest. The custom was for persons to withdraw a certain sum to reduce the deposit below .£200, though one man at Llantrissant had allowed the deposit, which exceeded £200, to re- main for two or three years. Votes of thanks to the Mayor for presiding, and to the Actuary, were carried, and the meeting ended.
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THE TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV.…
THE TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. CANON AND MRS. MORGAN. A very interesting meeting took place on Monday night at the Town Hall, Cardiff, when the testimonial subscribed for by the parishioners of St. Mary the Virgin, was presented to the Rev. Canon Morgan, the late vicar, now Rector of Llanmaes, near Cowbridge. The Crown Court and its galleries were crowded with members of the congregation of St. Mary's, and among the audience were the scholars of the Day and Sunday Schools, who were accompanied by their band. The handsome testi- monial which we described last week, was exhibited on a dais in the centre of the hall, and beside it were a group of statuary and an address, which were presented to Mrs. Morgan. Mr. H. NORTH presided. Canon and Mrs. Morgan entered the hall soon after seven, and were received with an enthusiastic welcome, the school band striking up Auld Lang Syne." The CHAIRMAN, after a few prefatory remarks, said a quarter of a century was a long time for any connection to exist; but when a connection of more than a quarter 8f a century has existed of unbroken harmony between pastor and people, it was surely long enough to enable them to appreciate and know how to value an earnest and faithful preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ (hear, hear). Such had been the religious instruction of him whose separation from his parishioners they had met together that evening to lament, Whatever they might say, whatever they might do, would fall far short of his worth and their regret at the severance of this useful and beneficial connection (applause). It had been his privilege to attend Canon Morgan's ministry for a period of more than 18 or 19 years. There might be some in the room who had had the benefit and happiness of his valuable teaching for a longer period even than that. Canon Morgan had now, wisely he had no doubt, thought proper to sever the bond which had existed for 28 years so affectionately between himself and his parishioners (hear, hear). Should they have done justice to his worth and their own feelings if they had permitted him to leave them without offering for his acceptance some trifling recognition of his long and faithful ministry? (hear, hear). He thought there would have been something chilling and cold hearted if they had. The little they had to offer independent of words, was but a very imperfect and inefficient acknowledg- ment of his worth, and their regret in parting with him (applause). The Rev. J. T. WEENFORD, vicar of St. Paul's, New- port, said it was a quarter of a century ago that he first came into connection with the subject of the testi- monial. Canon Morgan gave him a title to holy orders, and he afterwards for many years worked with him in St. Mary's parish, and those years of his life that were spent in work and companionship with his old vicar had been of great value to him ever since. When first he came to Cardiff it was a very much smaller town than it was then, and St. Mary's Church was very dif- ferently placed in regard to congregation. He remem- bered once attending a public meeting in the old Town- hall—which for many years had ceased to exist-and be there heard the then member say something like this —" Gentlemen,—When I had the pleasure of address- ing you six years ago, the population of the town was 6,000; now gentlemen it is 12,000!" (laughter). The population now was nearly 50,000—an immense stride in 25 years. The parish of St. Mary had grown rapidly, but Canon Morgan's energies kept pace with its growth, and in every duty of a clergyman's wife Mrs. Morgan had been a true helpmate to her husband (applause). Canon Morgan had well earned his retirement to a sphere of less laborious exertions. Twenty-eight years in a parish like St. Mary's, and of such labour as that of Canon Morgan, was very different from the same period in a country village, and must tell upon his physical energies. Therefore he thought he did wisely in retiring to Llanmaes ^applause). The presentation was then made to Canon and Mrs. Morgan, the first address being read by the CHAIRMAN and the second by the Rev. J. W. OSMAN :— THE REV, CANON MORGAN, M.A., VICAR OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, CARDIFF, AND RURAL DEAN IN THE DIO- CESE OF LLANDAFF. Rev. and Dear Sir,—We, the undersigned, on behalf of the congregation of St. Mary's Church and subscribers generally, desire to express our heartfelt regret at the severance of the tie which has so long existed between us, and in so doing wish to bear our testimony to the faith- fulness with which you have exercised the duties of your pastoral office during the 28 years you have been amongst us. We feel that the gospel of Christ has been preached by you in all its purity and simplicity, with an earnest- ness which showed your extreme anxiety for the souls of your people, and that you have exemplitied the same by the consistency of your daily life. We appreciate most highly the patient perseverance and energy which you have exhibited in the management of the various institu- tions and charities which owe to you their orign. You found us destitute of many appliances for the advance- ment of the religious and moral welfare of the poorer in- habitants of the parish and you leave us with large, flourishing and efficient day and Sunday schools, bible classes, clothing clubs, and many other kindred societies. In this particular branch of your work we must refer with affectionate remembrance to the invaluable and untiring assistance of your devoted wife. Only those who have been associated with her in this labour of love can duly estimate the manner in which she has always made it her special duty. We are anxious that you should take with you a memento of our sincere attachment and esteem, and therefore request your kind acceptance of the accompany- ing Epergne, which has been subscribed for by a large number of your parishioners. It now remains with us, in bidding you and your loving partner farewell, to record our earnest prayer that He who ruleth all things for our benefit and His glory, may shed His richest blessings upon both, and spare you for many years of honoured useful- ness and work in His vineyard.—(Signed) H. North chairman), John Carr (treasurer), Edward Howells (secre- tary) T. W. P. Plain, Henry North, jun., John D. Simp- eon, Joseph Milner, John Griffiths, J. C. Mackadam, A. North, W. Henry Lewis, Robert Maggs, Robert S. Fisher. To MRS. W. LEIGH MORGAN, ON HER LEAVING CARDIFF FOR LLANMAES. Dear Madam,—We, the superintendents, teachers, and leaders of Bible classes in connection with the parish of St. Mary, Cardiff, feel that we cannot allow you to go from amongst us without expressing the deep sorrow with which we contemplate your departure. To you is due the honour, in conjunction with your reverend husband, of founding the first Church Sunday school in the parish. From that school, held in St. Mary's Church, ere the corner stone of any school building belonging to the Church had been laid within the parochial limits, have sprung the four large and flourishing schools which as- semble at the school services in the parish church. Your kindness and unfailing care, together with the unwearied interest which you have shown in the Sunday schools, as well as the ready tact and forgetfulness of self in all ar- rangements affecting the comfort and happiness of the teachers and children, have always endeared you to those whose privilege it was to work under Canon Morgan's direction. Our increasing prayers and ardent wishes that every earthly comfort may be yours will accompany and follow you to your new home. The remembrance of your good example will continue to animate and cheer us in life's pilgrimage, until we all come, in fulfilment of Christian hope, and through God's mercy in Christ, to the Home in our Father's House, where the parting hour and the word farewell" are wholly unknown. We beg your kind acceptance of the pieces of statuary, purchased with the joint subscription of the school children and ourselves. [This address, which was tastefully printed upon satin, was signed by the curates, the superintendents and teachers of .the Sunday schools in the parish, and others.] The Rev. Canon MORGAN, who was warmly cheered, in acknowledging the presentation, said My dear friends,—Bight-and-twenty years ago I came to this parish and began my ministry at the then new Church of St. Mary. The town of Cardiff, and more especially the parish of St. Mary, was in a very different condition then from what it is now. Eight-and-twenty years are a large portion of a man's life but now that they have passed away, I can scarcely believe that I was amongst you so long. Those years have gone by never to be recalled, and your kind request that I should be present amongst you this evening makes me reflect seriously and solemnly as to how I have spent those years. Upon your part, I have always been well and kindly received and considerately treated. I do not remember that I had the ill will of any one manifested towards me. You have assisted me liberally in main- taining the church, parish, and other charities, and enabled me to deliver them into the hands of my suc- cessor unburdened with debt. The schools, which were' the heaviest charge, have a large balance in their favour. Upon my part I know of many deficiencies, faults, and failings in duty. I can honestly say, how- ever, that I tried to do my best, but, oh, how far was that from what I could have wished it had been As a financier, I have dealt faithfully, correctly, and suc- cessfully with all your moneys. I am prepared to give an account of my stewardship, and to pay over the balance to the new Vicar and churchwardens. As to the all-im- portant matter of preaching the truth of the everlasting Gospel, I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God, but have warned everyone night and day. As far as I have known the truth, I have conveyed it sincerely to each of you without respect of persons. In this portion of my ministerial labours I have always felt my constant need of Divine grace and of your earnest prayers. I have no doubt but that both have been freely given. If I have felt my infirmities and failings in my parochial ministrations, how much more have I felt them in my labours among the great congregations? To givothose np was my great pleasure. I had for the laB] ^J66 JearS felt the faili»gs of increasing age and that the time was at hand when I must give way to a younger and an abler man, and retire to a less arduous and an easier field. But when God in His merciful and allwise providence opened a door for me, I entered it with such fear and trembling that I became, as you all know, seriously ill for a month before I left you, and worse for a fortnight after. When I heard of your kind intention of giving me a testimonial, not in words only, it brought on my old feelings of inefficiency and un- worthiness. I have now to thank you for that testi- monial, but I cannot do it as I wish to do it, for no expressions of mine can possibly tell all I feel; but I do it very sincerely. It was quite unnecessary to give further proof of your kutd feelings towards me than what you had shown all along in your daily conduct; but you in your kindness have thought otherwise, and you overwhelm me now with a new proqf. This costly testimonial will recall many recollections of the most solemn character, aud will ever tell me that I had in this parish a congregation and friends that never turned a deaf ear to my cry for help, and who never undervalued any services that I rendered to them. I thank you, dear friends, once more for this generous act, and now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an mhentance among all them which arc sanctified through grace in Christ Jesus" (applause.) I feel sure that you will not expect my dear wife to get up and make a speech on this occasion (hear hear). She has written down in her own way, and in ker own words, what she feels upon it, and 1 have never seen it until a few hours ago. She says To the Super- intendents, the Teachers, and the Children of St. Mary's Sunday and Day Schools.—My dear Friends.—I am sure your feelings will go with mine when I say that being here is a pleasure, and at the same time a great trial, to me. It is a pleasure to find myself once more among so many old friends and it is trial to me, be- cause it makes me realise, more fully than I ever did before, the separation that has taken place between us; inasmuch as that I have been asked to attend this evening to receive a parting gift from the super- intendents, the teachers, and the children of St. Mary's Sunday and day schools. There certainly has been, and I believe I may say there is, a great tie between us, for we have worked together in a good work for many years, and with perfect unanimity. I always felt that I was greatly indebted to the superintendents and to the teachers for the kind consideration with which they invariably treated me; and I could go over in words, as I often do in thought, the efficient help I received from them, the alacrity with which they always entered into my plan to give pleasure to the dear children, and the cheerfulness with which they carried it out. I could also tell of the leady obedience I constantly met with in the children but 1 will not weary the meeting with all that; but this much I must say, that so long as God shall keep me in this world, and I am permitted to re- tain my powers of reflection and recollection, so long will St. Mary's and St. Mary's schools be fondly en- graven upon my memory. I thank you very much for your handsome present. You who have given it know me well; and I am fully persuaded that you also know how greatly I shall value it" (applause.) That, Canon Morgan went on to say, has been written down. I am sure if my wife and myself had trusted to anything not written down, we should have broken down long before this. I could not possibly have ad- dressed you without writing down the words I had to say, because meeting you once again under these cir- cumstances, quite overpowers me (applause). I thank you from my heart, and my wife does also, for your kind- ness this evening, in presenting her and myself with these costly memorials (applause). The Rev. J. W. OSMAN, senior curate of St. Mary's, next addressed the meeting. He heard Canon Morgan preach his first sermon in St. Mary's Church, and he heard him preack his last. He had always found in him the utmost manly frankness, geniality of disposi- tion, and loving care for others. He bore testimony to the industry and energy with which the Vicar had worked in the parish, which had but the nucleus of a Church when he first came and all the improvements which had been wrought, were chiefly, if not entirely, owing to Canon Morgan's exertions (applause). The Rev. D. PARKER MORGAN, Aberavon, the Rev. A. ELIAS, Roath, the Rev. W. JONES, and Mr. J. D. SIMP-, SON each made short speeches, expressing their love and admiration of their late Vicar. Mr. J. TOMLINSON moved a vote of thanks to the committee, which was acknowledged by Mr. JOHN CARR. Mr. H. NORTH, jun., proposed a vote of thanks to the hon. secretary, Mr. Edward Howell, whose indefatigable exertions in pro- moting the testimonial were made the subject of much commendation. Mr. HOWELL said he was only sorry that he had had such a poor opportunity of returning the many kindnesses he had received from Canon Mor- gan during the last ten years. A vote of thanks was then cordially voted to the Charman, at once as chair- man of the committee and chairman of the meeting, which were acknowledged, and a vote of thanks given to the Mayor for the use of the hall. The doxology was sung, and the meeting terminated.
CANTON LOCAL BOARD.
CANTON LOCAL BOARD. The monthly meeting of the Canton Local was held on Monday evening, when there were present Messrs. T. V. Yorath (in the chair), T.R. Davies, W. Treseder, B. Francis, T. L. Graves, C. Winby, J. Stacey, G. Boding- ton. The deputy-clerk reported that the balance at the bank on the general account was jElO 6s. 9d. and on the private improvement account £399 19s. 6d. Dr. Pearce, the medical officer, presented his report which stated that a few cases of enteric or typhoid fever had occurred in Leckwith-road, though there was only one case at present, and he thought it probable that they arose from the defective character of the drainage and the offensive matter to be met with there. The general health of the district was good, there being a few cases of measles and scarlet fever but none of small-pox. The CHAIRMAN said he thought it desirable that the board should recur to a matter which was discussed at the last meeting—that was the resignation of Mr. Bodington. Though they had prevailed upon Mr. Bodington to withdraw his resignation he thought it would be desirable, so as to prevent any question at a future, time to regard the resignation as valid and to re-elect Mr. Bodington to the vacant seat. The sugges- tion was approved of by the board and on the motion of Mr. Stacey seconded by Mr. Treseder it was adopted. Mr. BODINGTON said he should not have been present had he expected that the board were going to. take the course they had, and he would retire while the board discussed the matter ("No, no"). He was exceedingly obliged to the Board for the considerate and kindly course they had taken in the matter, and he only asked that bygones should be bygones, and that everything should be as heartily forgotten and forgiven as he wished. The Deputy Clerk read along and able letter which had been sent by the Chairman, the Clerk and Surveyor to the Local Government Board, in reply to the objections made by Mr. Waring to the new bye-laws of the board. The Surveyor reported the result of his interview with Mr. Cartwright and his solicitor in reference to the water-pools on Canton-common. After a dis- cursive conversation, it was agreed that a plan showing the pipe drainage which the board proposed to lay down should be sent to Mr. Cartwright as requested by him. In regard to the medical officer's report, a discussion took place with reference to the Leck- with-road drainage, and it was resolved that the owners of the houses in South Leckwith-road should be ordered to re-open their drainsg, and see that they were in proper repair and workin order within twenty- one days. A communication was read from Sergeant King, the late nuisance inspector, thanking the members of the board and others who had subscribed towards the testi- monial which had been presented to him that evening by Mr. Bodington. The amount which had been col- lected by Mr. Bodington was £6 3s. 6d. Mr. STACEY stated that a good deal of dissatisfaction existed outside the Board in reference to the collection of the private improvement rates—so many persons being in arrears for several years, while others had paid up the whole of their accounts. Another question was the expenses of their elections, a good deal ef which, he thought, might be saved by the appointment of the clerk as the returning officer. He proposed that Mr. Waldron's salary should be increased from JE50 to i.75 a year, and that that salary should include the whole of the clerk's law charf ? against the Board, with the exception of out of f"3t expenses and the cost of making out the ra* fro BODINGTON supported the proposal to inc.reas 'rk's salary, so as to include all the charges. 11d make against the J3oard. The question" important, that he sug- gested that the L— adjourned for a. month for consideration meantime they should obtain from Mr. ■ stating exactly what duties he would considei '■ f called upon to per- form for the £75 a. year conversation it was agreed to hold a special iat day fortnight to consider the question and "on's reply. Mr. STACEY called atter 7. H'J condition of the footpath on the main road + ho orkhouse and the Albion Hotel. TheCou d had agreed to give a load of gravel' to í ,Q down by the Canton Board. He estimate ha' tbt. nse would not be £10, and the work ■ led.—Mr. BODINGTON opposed the pro;- .■ prised the offer of the County Reads a mean and shabby character, conside., )!Ue revenue they drew from the Canton ter remarks by Mr. Glaves and Mr. Franci Mr. Stacey's proposal, it was adopted by a i the Board. The CHAIRMAN gave notice day month he should propose that the disti, be extended so as to be conterminus with f Parliamentary district. The present disk. small, but by the proposed extension they w de Grangetown, the Ely Harbour, and variou and would cover an area which would in a few Jme a most im- portant district. Mr. BODINGTON called atten e-two schemes of drainage presented by Mr. J, Mr. Waring for the drainage of the. Iilistrict — t.; • 3d to the neces- sity of deep drainage for Canton, ue urged that a special meeting should be > "finite settlement of the matter. At the su 1¡e CHAIRMAN, Mr. Bodington said he woult •, it the next meet- ing. This concluded th
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THE COAL AND IRON EXPORTS.
THE COAL AND IRON EXPORTS. THE DECEMBER RETURNS. The Export Returns for the concluding month of the past year, have been published this week, and they show that there is no diminution in the usual briskness which has characterised the steam coal trade of this port during the past few months. In December, upwards of 219,556 tons of coal were exported to foreign ports, against 194,349 tons in the corresponding month of 1870, but only 63,851 tons of coal were sent coastwise last month, against 73,997 tons in the corresponding month. The iron exports were 20,726 tons in Decem- ber, against 24,789 tons in the corresponding month the patent fuel shipments, 3,945 tons, against 4,524 tons; and the coke clearances, 994 tons, against 1175 tons. The number of vessel which cleared foreign last month were 373, against 337 in the corresponding month. The French ports and mail packet stations in the Mediterranean continue to be the principal markets for our steam coal, but during the past month some heavy shipments were also .made to South American ports. Upwards of 1,000 tons were cleared during the month to the following places Alexandria 1831 tons, Aspinwall 1058 tons, Alicante 1819 tons, Aden 2268 tons, Bombay 3369 tons, Bilboa 1191 tons, Buenos Ayres 1657 tons, Bordeaux 1450 tons, Bahia 4405 tons, Barcelona 9437 tons, Cape de Verds 2404 tons, Calcutta 1499 tons, Cape of Good Hope 2428 tons, Callao 6291 tons, Constantinople 5079 tons, Charente 1504 tons, Caen 1752 tons, Cadiz 1544 tons, Cienfuegos 1806 tons, Corfu 4138 tons, Dieppe 4574 Gibraltar 4377 tons, Genoa 7611 tons, Havannah 3611 tons, Honj Kong 6666 tons, Havre 12635 tons, Ham- burg 2271 tons, Jamaica 1596 tons, Lisbon 2622 tons, La Rochelle 2066 tons, Martinique 1472 tons, Malta 4033 tons,-Monte Video 13576 tons, Naples 32^9 tons, Nantes 3871 tons, Niewe Dieppe 2195 tons, Odessa 4576 tons, Point de Galle 1058 tons, Palermo 1659 tons, Port Said 4279 tons, Rangoon 2062 tons, Rio de Janeiro 15325 tons, Rouen 3141 tons, St. Nazaire 13432 tons, St. Malo 2059 tons, Suez 1040 tons, Singapore 4737 tons, St. Jago de Cuba 3391 tons, Shanghai 1444 tons, Teneriffe 1206 tons, Venice 1153 tons, and Yokohama 1007 tons. Our clearances of iron included the following :—1,000 tons rail to Alexandria, 722 tons rail to Charleston, 2,:ill tons rail to Galveston, 1,068 tons rail to Leghorn, 1,500 .tons rail to Mollende, 6,704 tons rail to New Orleans, 3,149 tons rail to New York, 930 tons rail to Pisagua, 733 tons rail to Pacasmayo, and 1,302 tons rail to San Francisco. The December returns for the feur South Wales ports are as follow :— FOREIGN. 11 C'STWISE. PORTS. •> Coal. Iron. j Fuel. Coke..Yesls.j j Coal. Cardiff 219,556 20.726 3,945 994 373 63,851 Swansea 52,842 2,165 11,846 585 176 15,307 Newport .l 24,406 12,487 — — 60 59,126 Llanelly ;j 7,431 — — — 33 9,991 Totals j| 304,235 35,37S| 15,791 1,579 (5¡2ij! 148,275 Ii On comparing this table with that for the corresponding month of 1870, we find that in addition to the improve- ment in the Cardiff returns previously referred to, there was an increase in last month's coal trade of 6,000 tons at Swansea, and of 4,000 tons at Llanelly, but a decrease at Newport of 14,000 tons. The iron exports show an increase of 1,400 tons at Newport, but a. de- crease of 2,300 tons at Swansea, while the clearances of patent fuel and coke were pretty much the same in both months. In the coal shipments coastwise there was a general decrease last month, viz:—10,000 tons at Car- diff, 3,000 tons at Swansea, 8,000 tons at Newport, and 2,000 at Llanelly. We append our usual table showing the December returns for the whole of the British coal ports :— FOREIGN. COASTWISE. Dec. 1871. Dec. 1870. Dec. 1871. Dec. 1870. Cardiff 219,556 194,349 63,851 73.997 Swansea 52,842 46,817 15,307 18,308 Newport 24,406 38,352 59,126 67,334 Llanelly 7,431 3,165 9,991. 12042 Newcastle 216,528 222,702 255,697 218 619 North Shields. 10,960. 20,484. 699. — South Shields 7,932. 2,235. 12,127. 6 283 Blyth 17,928. 9,931. 4,279. 5 549 Amble 2,815 2,383 623 175 Sunderland 81,150 72,238 154,930 167,753 Hartlepool 24,804 46,418 67,060 68,403 Stockton — — — 455 Middlesbro' 1,816 1,564 3,155 5 457 Hull 30,672 21,810 6,692 2,562 Grimsby 19,633 19,963 4,032 2*950 Greenock 6,939 3,922 — Seaham 3,134 150. 29,741 28,738 Liverpool 61,008 58,708 10.364 10,584 Whitehaven — — 10,050 9,815 Goole 2,030 1,378 10,696 9,004 Ayr. — 320 15,611. 8,133 Glasgow 13,572 5,863 — Port Glasgow.. 104 — —- — Grangemouth 11,401 12,770 — — Charlestown. 7,391 10,546 1,245 2115 Alloa 8,284 7,618 1,068 1^169 Barrowstoness. 2,650 198 2,327 2,012 Troon. 14,006 12,561 35,877 27^243 Ardrossan 4,096 3,447 13,850 12,929 St. David's 5,188. 4,329. 175 103 Irvine. 252 — 7,849 6,125 THE ANNUAL RETURNS. The publication of the December returns enables us to complete our annual summary of the Export Trade of Cardiff, and to determine the relative position which the trade of 1871 occupies in regard to previous years. The following table gives tha result of the monthly reports which we have published throughout the past twelve months :— Coal. Iron. P. Fuel. Cske. Vessel. C'stwise. Jan. 207,640. 13,937. 1,056. 1,633. 325. 79,300 Feb. 166,164. 18,094. 4,050. 640. 256. 73,232 March 177,717. 19,795. 6,973. 719. 321. 76,201 April. 180,838. 28,722. 3,293. 32tL. 355. 70,814 May 217,336. 25,928. 9,719. 237. 389. 78,113 June. 67,906. 18,126. 9,251. 223. 189. 58,625 July 89,905. 20,198. 6,995. 89. 199. 61,156 August 102,052. 33,676. 5,001. 202 217. 64,835 Sept. 190,623.. 21,008.. 5,674. 1,294. 352.. 73,776 Oct. 221,529.. 20,789 3,599. 1,820.. 378.. 80,197 Nov. 218,172.. 17,571.. 6,474.. 1,761.. 402.. 79,923 Dec. 219,556. 20,726. 3,945. 994. 373. 63,851 Total 2,059,438.258,570.66,030. 9,940. 3,756 860,023 The great falling off which is observable in the coal ex- ports for June, July, and August, is of course due to the disastrous strike which prevailed among our steam coal colliers during those months. Similarly, the ex- cess of orders which has been experienced since August, is due to the exhaustion which then took place in the stocks of coal at most of the continental ports, and the demand continues so great that it wili bably be some months before the colliery propriet' 1 over- take it. But for the strike there is no doubt coal trade at Cardiff for the past year would h. iter than it had ever been previously. Ho ■■ th- standing the almost complete stagnatio- f or three months it is gratifying to find that 1e upon the whole year is not considerable, for LU6 1 export for 1871 is only 242,000 tons less than tJ r 1870, and is about equal to the trade of 186r I ■; will be seen from the following table, showinr coal shipments from Cardiff during the past COAL SHIPMENTS FOREIGN FROM CARD 1859—Tons 998,187 1866—Tons 1860— „ 1,142,552 1867- „ L 1861— „ 1,127,232 1868— „ 2, 1862— „ 1,322,531 1869— 2,1. 1863— „ 1,485,655 1870— „ 2,30 1864— „ 1,481,657 1871- „ 2,05'. 1S65— „ 1,450,941 But tnouga we have to report a falling off in tiu exports, it is gratifying to find that the iron exportc, continue to exhibit the progressive increase which has been observable for a number of years, so that we are enabled to again report that the year's total is larger then it has ever been in the history of the port. The total export of the year in rail and bar iron only was 258,570 tons, which, though only 1200 tons above the total for 1870, nevertheless maintains the steady progression which is taking place in this department of our export trade. The following are the annual re- turns which we have published during the past thirteen years:— IRON SHIPMENTS FOTIFTGN FROM CARDIFF. 1859—Tons 182,847 1866—Tons 142,295 1860— „ 169,467 1867— „ 136,633 1861— „ 132,493 1868— „ 147,294 1862— „ 172,352 1869— „ 251,864 1863— „ 157,892 1870— „ 257,395 1864— „ 152,563 1871— „ 25S,570 MM— „ 160,854 The increased facilities which the railways offer for the cheap and rapid transit of coal to inland places, is slowly but surely telling upon the coasting trade. Though there has been an increased demand for Welsh coal from various parts of the kingdom, there has been no improvement during the year in the amount of coal sent away by vessels engaged in the coasting trade. The total clearances during the year were 860,023 tons, which is 24,000 tons less than was the case in 1870. The following have been our returns since 1864 :— COAL SHIPMENTS COASTWISE FROM CARDIFF. 1864—Tons 839,569 1868—Tons 819,183 1865— „ 898,525 1869— „ 897,899 1866— „ 887,358 1870— „ 884,681 1867— „ 876,957 1871— „ 860,023 Local consuls and others will be interested by the following table, which shows the number and nationality of the various vessels which cleared foreign from Car- diff with coal during 1871 „• ,O a -a s ir s> p- -w > u 1 (U « CM a S3 S Qi « O « 8 "1. JL -5- J- m ° Q Americn 8 8 15 3 4 I'll,? n i? Austrian 12 14 6 21 22 5 3 11 9 11 9 1.0 British 170 185 :60 163 198 93 116 111 174 187 189 179 Belgian 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 Danish 5 8 0 2 olnln i a ? 2 Dutch ,2 2 0 1 4 2 0 0 1 3 4 6 French 53 Si 63 85 b3 71 53 48 7o 75 91 77 Greek 0 1:1" 1 a 0 0 o o 0 Gti'ina'a 2 10 85 22 14 z 7 2 8 22 27 10 Italian 35 3! 21 «(5 ->'2 8 8 28 *9 40 31 Norway 21 6 7 14 4 4 2 b 7 !;0 17 14 Port'fjse 1 0 1 4 4 1 } 2 0 2 Kugsiun 12 .8 o 0 li Swedish 818 2 2 4 0 1:2 4 6 9 i8 Spanish 0 1 u 4 8 6 3i Turkish 0 0 0 W 1 0 0j0|0 U 0 Oj Total 3aT 256 321 355 389 1189 199 ,217 352 378 402 373 The following table shows somewhat concisely the annual returns of coal exports from all the British coal ports TOTAL EXPORT OF COAL TO KOKIEGX PORTS. Ports. 1868. 18(3!). iy70. 1S71- Cardiff 2,099,707 .2,lii2,586..2,301,761..2 060,133 X'IanS6't 588,218.. 5S5,9i>8.. 600,601.. '664,3$ TsTewport 339,238.. 335,958.. 385 386.. 371,2$ Llanelly 128,737.. 126,663 117'43l" 123,206 Newcastle ..2,382,993..2,431,642 2,809,643. ^3 301,7^ Jorth Shields. 86,354.. 97,692.. 1501355.. 167,1^ feoui,h Shields 113,182.. 140,610 177,941).. 118,8$ ? 173,095 176,371.. 208,317 287,1^ Amble 39,745.. 39,367.. 47,930.. 40,2$ Sunderland ..1,184,433..1,161,793 1,219,078..1,4m,711 Hartlepool. 658,512.. 592,054.. 611 323.. 693 51* ST 41,939.. 53,340.. 59^212.. S9,03| Stockton.. 1,352.. 782.. gyi 27^ Middlesbro 52,143.. 37,254.. 34,343! 40,77* 179,787.. 168,697.. 224,612.. 339,4^ ^oole 14,540. 15,399.. 27 012 25^ WI-RPU°O1 *••• G6;3.4:5'- 559,608.. 536W 694>7^ Whitehaven 1,162.. 'sis.. 1 050 450 ^LA^V 114,460.. 74,089.. 103 800" 118,680 PortCrlasgow.. 21,48S.. 17,742.. 18 228 15,87* Greenock 134,364.. 110,390.. 132 561 115 # Grangemouth 131,229.. 100,293.. 106 092!: 133 # V 129,055.. 96 5o5.. 96 815 104,079 Charlestown.. 154,981.. 123*275.. 131 398 138,436 Borrowstoness. 10,308.. 9 211 92183 2,438.. 2,506.. 2 9->5 "Y,2^ Irvine \,ni VTfA Inverkeifcing 21,358.. 8,027^ 5 540" i- IR°ON 112,947.. 120,678.. 132',852 159,5^ Ardrossan 83,784.. 75,765.. 52 402 51,053 Bowling Bay.. 1,960. St..David's 76,361.. 56,382.. 62 58'>" 55 51* GNMSBY 225,814.. 216,621.. 233:7SS" 273^ It will be seen that Newcastle and other northern ports show a substantial increase in last year's coal export a portion of which is doubtless due to the late strIke in this district. The Cardiff export, however coH- tinues to be greatly above that of Sunderland, though considerably less that of Newcastle. In the succeeding table is shown the quantity of coal sent t« London and other British ports by vessels cleared coastwise, and here Cardiff occupies the third position Sunderland as well as Newcastle being before her TOTAL QUANTITY OF COAL SliXT CO VSTWLSF Ports. 1868 1869 1870 1871 Cardiff 819,183. 897,899. 810,684 860# Swansea 247,335. 246,456 213.889 2111$ Newport 643,472. 775,880. 719 971 7<)8'o83 £ >ielly 181,790. 148,652. 161,773 161 Newcastle .2,420,879 .2,316,113 2 427 421 ■> 354 2*1 N. Shields 19,028 54,264 u'/A S. Shields 5,836 17,285 52*182 89082 Blyth 72,496. 58,918. 62 557'" so'#*0 Amble 4,354. 3,406. 4 2905'o9J Sunderland.1,911,716 .1,809.722 .1 694 204 1 665'^ Seaham 520,874. 454,055.. '449 727 '435 5$ 39 Hartlepool 858,182 834.709 778'379 (599 Stockton 115. 951 1853 'w Middlesbro' 89,527. 71,823.7 61*442 50 4$ S°°le 93,208 103',658 103^ iro.oa 31->74S. 362,196. I™ 54,150. 77.732. sM Ardrossan 142 O^o 123,017 115,851 140 OOj Ayr 110,6o4. 100,181.. 91 730 138 8^ Whitehaven 136,757. 142,991 l'\s'l50 vrr's# Charlestown 27,117. 28,836 25 (mZ 15,7$ Alloa lb,467 12,805. 17,760. 12,0^ St. Davids. 3,688. 5^593 3 9l>> 2$ Borrowstones 36,426. 39,026. 40,593 38'oSf lnverkeithing 210 1,022 835 7$ 21,808. 20,044. 23 009 .26 Liverpool 114,832 129,390 142 813 IU7$ G-nmsby 37,315. 33,217. 33^035 7 27',#
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Setters to tbe (fotitur. i I THE CARDIFF CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY, SIK —It is a common accusation against the Liberal-" of this country that they are frequent disturbers of tbe public peace but what are we to say of the constat T o1tXhm fii-M S°~°? Constitutional Association-' lea parties, fetes, and orations are the apologies for tb« renev.-ed spmiting of the "perpetual candidate" for Caf i ;i I'll!] + dec«»cy of this perpetual agitatio« i V^nnt o^ rellre'selltative of the borough- general election, without having our ears'dinned6 with tl-!e abscnce from office of the me» whom thej delight to honour, or hearing their den unci?' tions of the Queen s Ministers, who will stick to the# places and obstinately reiu.se to give way to those write1* on Providence who would so much like to hiv^ sod* share of the loaves and fishes? It is ve^stpfeg^ a barrister in full and large practice cannot produce some- thing original, either from his own mind or from tW store of his own experience, better than the hash of 0^ articles from the {standard with which Mr. Giffard inV»' i"la :'ly treats his hearers. That certainly would be sofl^ excuse for periodically starring 011 the boards of St John'3 schoolroom If Mr. Giffard's speech is to be taken as -&1 indication of the future policy of the Conservative partf the history of their next administration will be a politic^ curiosity. According to his programme th* licens^ victuallers the clergy of the Church of En -land rhe Romish priesthood are to be satisfied, and iie'do^ together in peaceful Conservative pastures As for the parts taken by the other performers the? have become stereotyped, and may be classed with the eneral utility gentlemen of the stage. Mr. Hill as Per petual chairman, answers to the wire pulling from th? Oastle corner with double obedience. The amiable »»d good natured Alderman, who rejoices in a name the verf opposite of his humility, is ever ready to tak- a part f the drama, while the great stage manager declares patriotism, as if such a thing as "six and ei"htpence had never entered into his imagination. How many of, these little reminders may find their way into those cap^ •IOUS pockets before the borough finds peace it is difficult o say. It is, however, fair that what is got by law should niially repose in a lawyer's strong box, but it will reeling more than the united efforts of the standard Pei-forinOto on the platform of the Cardiff Constitutional Association to add the magic letters M.P. to the ().C. of the suppos^ learned advocate who so kindly offers his services whef8 W they are not required.—Yours, &c., Jw AN IMMOVEABLE LIBERAL, F
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THE LONDON MARKETS. LONDON CORN MARKET, MONDAY.—A firm tolle prevailed in the grain trade to-day, though the transa^ tions were by no means extensive. The supply of Fni'li^ wheat was very limited, and the few samples exhibit were much out of condition. Really good parcels accord lngly commanded an advance of Is. per qr. This IrJJf provement did not extend to foreign wheat, the show 0 which was large but full rates were obtained in all sal^ concluded. Flour ruled quiet, but steady in value BarM' beanS; and peas were nominally unaltered, in the absent ■ of important business but maize and oats were very firio in price. j Current Prices of British Grain and Flour in 3fark-lan& j ouii., uur ur.. <ihji IW, (>• Wheat—Essex & Kent Oats—Irish black 0 — 0 lute, new, 57 64 Ditto wbite 0-jT jLutto red, -55—81 Rye ^9 laluvera, 1876 0 — 0 Beans—Maza-'an, -8H — *1 ^oi'folk & York new- 55 59 Tick, ditto 39—4 B.ir.ey—Malting 34 — 43 Harrow Pigeon do 40 A Grinding and Dis. 32 — B4 Peas—Non-boilers 0— J iIa]t~-Essex & Suliolk 5G — 63 White boilers 41-^ Kingston and Town- 66 — 63 Ditto, liue Suffolk 0—? BroWn -0-0 Mapie ..ll1 -39-€ Oats—Essex & Suffolk 25-29 Grey- Scotch and Lincoln Flour—Best marks, de- „ nH? 00 „ Jivered (per 2801bsi 48 — 0 — 0 Seconds & Country • *08—^ LONDON COKN MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Wheat ■ TB? grain trade to-day was not active, but the tendencv 0 > "alues was upwards. There were small supplies of bOtP nghsh and foreign wheat, which changed bauds quietly Monday's improved quotations. Barley was quiet, 'ally malting qualities, and prices were with difficult -d. Malt sold slowly, at about late rates. 0»ts; w of oats on the stands was moderate A prevailed for sound corn, and in some instances vance was realised. Maize was firm in val«ej ?ady enquiry. Beans and peas were in limite n former terms. Flour was quiet, but firm & •; CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-The number 9f ot quite so large as last week, but the averag" good. Irade is not so brisk, and prices oeakmg rather lower. There are a few inote i. ls ,sparcely as good. Choices*' » f but httle altered in price trade is slower f°f ( Choice calves are still very scarce and deaf; supply consists of 700 beasts, 700 sheep aH<> i From bcotland there are 213 beasts Irelan<?r < and Suffolk, 1,000; and 1,227 from the lal ne Counties. T, bs- s- a- V V' Per st. of Slbs. s. d. s. » Bes; -efds. 5 8 o 10 Best DdsiHlf-brd sh 0 u 0 o f 'i f j 8 Best Long-wools ..6 8 7 S r"au.p 1 « i"! 0 Ditt0 «horn ..0 0 0 | p. q Q A Ewes & 2nd quality 5 8 5 ? a 5 n £ 0 »o. do. Shorn 0 0 « J" 'reds 7 0 7 2[Lambs o 0 0
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