The Cardiff Times

HOSPITAL SUNDAY AT CARDIFF. The annual appeal to the Christian public of Cardiff on behalf of the Infirmary and tho Hamadryad Hospital Ship will be made next Sunday, the 25th i istant, and it is hope-? a liberal response will be the result. There are one or two circumstaucss which render the event somewhat peculiar. It comes at a time of dullness, when trade is flat and calls for charity are unusually numHou-lhat is, when the receipts are decreased aud the outgoings are multiplied, and this unhappy chain of circumstances might perhaps in luce many to withhold altogether their u,ual donations. Bat there are weighty reasons against sach a course. In the first p'ace the Hospitals are in nesd. Further, a great number of working men who usually give something in their capacity as members of a Christian congregation, will be unable to spare a single penny they have nc t even enough to buy them- selves victuals. But others will not be in quite so evil a case, aud though they cannot give as much as usual it ia incumbent upon them to give something, and not abstain altogether. We should recollect that though trade is bad accidents v ill happen and that nurse3 and surgica' apj liances, nourishing food, drugs, building- & must bj kept together, because when trade revives we sha 1 reqniie thi m all again as much as ever. Agiiu, there is a considerable difference between tho Hospital Sunday and the Infirmary Satur day movement. Tne latter is promoUdfor therrost pait by working men; thi former is a movement in which all (lasses have an opportunity of joining. I Moreover, they join in it as a Christiau community— not as working men or professional men, or as members of what are termed the upper classes but as Christians. This appeal to the Christian Church may seem to involve the hardship of a double contribution but there is this to be thought of. The double contribution is needed, and the double apneal to sooiety-urst as a working and second as a Christian community, re- lieves the strain which one large contribution would entail. This is fair all round. The gentle- man gives his annual subscription, and puts ia on the plate at the collection; the working man joins in the Hospital Saturday movement and gives a trifle at his church or chapel and the Hospital Saturday movement, moreover, brings in the contributions of many who, as they never at- tend a place of worship, would otherwise altogether escape contributing. We have assumed all along that the legitimacy of this appeal on behalf of the Infir- mary and tho Hamadryad, is fuiiy acknowledged, and that no arguments or facts are needed to provo what a large amount of genuine good is effected by these two establishments. It is, we hope, unnecessary at this time of day to app nch the public in that way. The usefulness as well as the necessities of both insti- tutions is widely known and we need only wind up with the injunction that every one should give accord- ing as he is disposed in his heart; not grudgingly nor of necessity, but cheerfully aud with a good conscience. The committee appeal with confidence to the Christian Church. Whatever other resources may beopen to them they know from experience that it is the Churches which have ever been the mainstay of an movements far the elevation of man socially and morally, or for the cure of his infirmities physically.

ATHLETICS IN CARDIFF. It is not at all a bad sign of the -times that, concur- rent with the zeal which our rulers show for educa- tion, there has been a marked revival of the taste for athletic sports amongst the people. It is quite in ac- cordance with all our notions of right, that while the schoolmen are preparing fresh mental work for tho boys, the boys themselvts should be profoundly im- pressed with the importance of proper attention being devoted to play that while the elders and the wise men of the State are doing their best to give us a sound •mind, the youngsters are bent upon maintaining a sound body to keep it in. Ju every great town o England athletic sports are receiving a large amount of attention. As a means of preserving health, develop- in. physical strength and manly beauty, and not less as a counter attraction to vicious pleasures, they are highly valued on physiological and moral grounds, and it bodes well for the national future that, like our fore- fathers, we preparing ourselves by the mde buffet- iugs and slruggles of athletic contests, for those sterner and sharer conflicts in which once and again nearly all peoples Lave to engage. Assunuug that these reflec- tions are well-fouude J, we may view with satisfaction the i u ,,ilv^c'il exorcises of the kind referred to progress which pa.\ fa*c.u are making in Cardiff. There are a number of cricket clubs in the neighbourhood, and during the winter a football club has rendered good sport to its own mem- bers end tho public. Iu the summer season, too, there is a liltle rowing going on, and to soma extent quoit plaj iog. 13-n anyone who looks into tho question of sports at all will readily perceive that there is appa- rently a want of system. There ij no authority, no regulation. Everybody does that which is right in his own cyts, and there is no doubt in this way a greit amount cf energy end no small sum of money is wasted, and the minimum of good produced. Under these circumstances it would be well if an athletic club were fenced f r the town, to biing the various sports under a well-d.fmed system which would tend to their promotion and encouragement. Its duty wouldbo to arrange for regular aud systematu practice in various kinds of athletic exercises. It might in- clude running, cricket:ng, wrestling, jumping, throwing the weight, rowing, swimming, bowling, i -„r. Small sub-committees could watch quoit playiL§>tV0* i ? over iLe tames with which they were best acquainted and get up matches, at the same time working with the general committee for the good of the wholo scheme. Suitable ground should be secure J, if possible, for pra-tisiug, aud, when the funds permitted it, a trainer whose direction and advice would b9 available when necesfft'V. The want of funds might prevent for some tim» the engagement c-f such an official, but there is no reason why a well-fitted gjmnasinm should not at once be established. This is absolutely indispensable in a well-regulated athletic club. Such a programing as have here sketched out is feasible, and indeed could be carried out with ease. It is not so much a question of money as of energy. Only a small sum of money is required, but it is necessary that a great deal of interest should be shown in the matter. Supposing 200 to 300 members could be secured a subscription of half-a-crown wculd yield a moderately good sum, and there are many gentlemen who, though not active members, would become honorary subscribers from tha mere love of sport. For the first year suffi- cient fun is could be obtained to procure appliances for a start; wliil", to encou,a ;e the movement and keep alive the interest of the members, public contests aud matches of various kiiids could be given— say once a fortnight or so, one or two grand field days being organized every season. Such events would lend a very pleasing variety to the routine of life in this busy town, and would d) immensa good in a variety of ways. But the question Is. who will move in theater. It is necessary that some one should take the initiative, and it seems to us that the Com- mittee of the Glamorgam Football Club might very appropriately call a meeting of their members, and of athletes generally, to consider whether any and what scheme is practicable for the systematic encouragement of physical sports in the neighbourhood. The Gla- morgau Club numbers some 140 members, and after a most successful season, has a balance of fands in hand. Their expenses have been very moderate, and we throw out to them the suggestion to take up the question of establishing an athletic club in Cardiff, and giving it the benefit of their good management and ex- perience,

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LECTURES FOR SOUTH WALES. We are g^d to see that another step is about to be taken towards obtaining for Cardiff, Swansea, and oher towns in S>uth Wa)ei the advantage of syste matic instruction afforded by the scheme prepared by a syndicate of the Uuiversity of Cambridge, to which we have before alluded in these columns. Such pro- gress has been made by tho local committees at Cardiff n the arrangements and so cordial has been the sup- port tendered by the residents that the project uow stands on a firm bans. The sinews of war will not be wanting to carryon tho campaign, as will be seen by a glance at the very satisfactory guarantee list- amonnting to nearly £30,1, and containing names of such influence as the Lord Bishop of Llandaff, Dr Nichol Came Mr C. W. David, Mr It. O. Jones, and others. The UnivMBity.then, seeing that South Wales is really in earnest in desiring to KVail herself of the aelvan- tages she offers, comes forward to do her part. It will be seen by a reference to our advertising columns that a public meeting will be held at the Assembly Rooms, Cardiff, on Mond&y evening next, under the presi- dency of Mr. Robert Oliver Jones. The Rav. W. Moor Ede, B.A., of Cambridge, has been deputed by tho syndicate to attend this meeting, and will fully explain the scope and objects of the scheme, and give tnch details of its working in other large centres of population as cannot fail to be interesting. We be- lieve the committee aim to arrange some courses of lectures both as to time and price of tickets specially to suit the convenience of the working classes, and it is to be hoped that many working men will be present at the Town Hall on Monday evening to hear what educational opportunities will shortly be offered them. We trnst, too, that as ladies' classes are also contem- plated,ladies will master strongly at the meeting.

CARDIFF NATURALISTS' S CIETY. On Tuesday a lec- tnre was given at the Assembly Room of the Iowa Hall by Mr Lukis, the president o £ the society, on lumuli and Earth Mounds." Mr W. 11 Watkms presided. The attendance wss not commensurate with the character of the lecture, Tumulis and Kartn Mounds having for some years occupied the attention of Mr Lukis, who has examined many of them scattered, oyer almost all the co mtries of Kurope, and whose researches have enabled ™ni to tracethem as a very early, u not the earnest form of sepulture, ar.-d to illustrate by them tne progression of the several nations in civilization, by the greater sknl and c ire taken in their construction, 'i he lecture was fil- trated by a number of excellent elrawmg*, showing the interior of these places of interment, and also by the urn, evidently Roman, containing calcined human remains, found iu a cairn at Barry. A cordial vote o* thanks was giyen to Mr Lukis at the close.

AMONG THE POOR IN CARDIFF. II No. 1. An open door-sure sign of more families than one living in the house-dirty passage into a dirty back room, and seemi g to half fill it, the hurley figure of an untidy woman. For the time we can see nothing but her, and she tolls us her husband goes hobbling, but has done nothing these thirteen weeks. Turning to a dark corner we see two hulking lails fitting mute and motionless upon a table, and staring into vacancy, torn, dirty shirt sleeves, working trowsers, shoeless feet, and Sunday afternoon. An unsuspecting visitor might have offered a trac and thought that he or she had provided profitable "occupation. The "trac would be work without wages—in eight cases out of ten, even grown boys can only read so as to misunder- stand the text, or not comprehend it at all. The eldest of these lads inherits his father's business, a labourer, and like him has no'work the younger is "a striker," and gets two or three days a week, at 10s. per week. We urged him to use other tools besides the hammer' and try to pick up the trade at odd moments. Some pernicious kind of "tracs seem to find an entrance here. ItWe make our first acquaintance this after- noon with Dick Turpin in his brave soarlet coat. He is hung up, not on the gallows, but facing the window, and is handing a fine young lady out of a travelling coach. This family, two being young chil- dren, have, on one or two occasions, gone to bed without a meal; and if it wa3 not for the soup, would be slowly starving. They are not, as the town mis- sionary says, a very bright" family, but entitled to help and sympathy under dark and trying circumstan- ces. And now we find ourselves in a litter of children— seven or nine, and one of them being brought up in a 0 wooden shoe, or perhaps coalscuttle, or can it be a— cradle. It is meant for a cradle, and stands upon a chair. It is our old friend Mrs. C., whom, the last time we saw her, was occupying a lack room, which the family bed seemed to fill right up. The air in the room is so solidly thick and strong-smelling that we thank goodness there is a cheerful fire to assist ventilation where, perhaps, eleven persons in nil sleep every night. Oar first acquaintance with Mrs, C. came out of visiting a little Sunday school child, whom we found laid out with a number of lighted caudles round the bed to guard the innocent being from being car- ried off by the foul Jiends into Tartarus. By all ac- counts, the child herself had had light within which answered the purpose better, for she died singing I would be like au angel." Well, here is Mr. C. all in his working clothes, polite and kindly spoken as the Irish natiu aliy are. Ho is still waiting on the rivet- c-ri;not a riveter himself, but a help; and work is so bad that ha can scarce get a turn once a week, and weeks together ro turn at all. The soup here is a great boon. At the next house we knock at a piuched-featured woman brightens up into smiles and cneerfulness as she recognises tho town missionary, a-id gently up- raids him for his long absence. Tuo family are all at tea. Several pretty leir-liaired children—one tender little blossom sucking at the breast. This i3 a case not directly connected with the strike. The husband. bad been a sawyer, lost three lingers by the sasv, was afterwards not capable of much with his hands, but was taken on by the Taff, got colef, and fell into con- slimption could not lie down, now walks the ward nights together. But the Taff foreman says: "Never you mind, Mrs. S., the place is kept for hin. As soon us ever George is better, he shall have Lis work again, nobody shan't fill it for him. But meantime, how does blis. S. live? She takes in washing—buys soda and soap and when she has earned a pound, cannot get the money. She has more than a pound owing her now. She went to a place where they owed her five shillings, ,;)jJ they said they could not pay, as, being a-i eating-house, they had only taken in Is. 9d. the day before. Another party owing her money had sent her a lot of clothes the other da.y, and she was obliged to send them hack. But how does she live? This way. The house was taken over her head, and the party entering was going to turn them into the street. Eight times did she go to Csnton in one morn- ing. At lazt another Taff Vale ma i came to the rescue since George was in the Infirmary took the house himself that she might be left ill peace. But how does she live ? This way. Thursday morning comes, and no food for the children—even the fountain for little blossom failing. She goes up and down, back- war Is a-id forwards, like a ciged animal, and cannot find the way out; at last she discovers something more I to pledge, and gets the waiting children a breakfast. Why, smart spolen, energetic Mrs S. has positively broken down in telliug her troubles, aud bending her head drops a tear upon the corner of her apron. A moment after, however, she is roused into ire by an allusion to her son—a miscl ievou looking youth of 14: A bad boy he is, and tsars his clothes—clothes I can't bay for him—I cm't b ar to leok at him Sundays." Next wo come again upon a direct victim of the strike He is upstairs with a headache, but his young and pleasiug wife, with au infant of fourteen m«nth? which she had not wraned y?t, is in the back room both of them cut out darkly against a white blind bl-ziug with an April sun behind it. A veritable Madonna and child np(Ll a background of gold leaf, as the early Italian painters love to have it. Softly spoken is this hamble lady from Wiltshire. Her hualand has been out of wa:k for IU weeks. Her husband's sister-" there never was a more pious yoaug girl—here is a letter from her> yon can read it." She says she is glad to hear that William has found work, for it must be very trying, and hopes they will both learn to trust in God, for fl., is the best comforter." But your husband is not in work, is he?" we enquire 1. No you see he wr.s applying at the time I wrote, and we thought he would get it, so I told her, but afterwards you see he was disappointed. No use making them imeasv bv telling them the truth." We should be puzzled at meeting with traits of such delicacy in a Shtfiie.d cnttler, or Aberdare pitman, or Merthvr iron roller, for in truth there is something brutalising in the work aud the surroundings of such men. It seemed natural 3S coming from Wilt- shire, where Kingsley found the Shakespearean heads and graceful features of the softer south, and where the staple trade is that which occ ipied the first gentleman and laly that apperred upon the world. Poverty, indeed, is stamped upon the aspect of the next room we look into. The woman with blotched features and torn dress is sweeping rp her room and has filled a basket with all kinds of rubbish-the only respectably ciad individual within sight being a cat with cleait tortoiseshell coat. On the way to the stairs we stop at the bottom to open another door. A large round featured woman tells us she has tha old man and three boys out of work. Boys aged 18, 17, and 13, not one of them bunging in a p?nny, mil the rent to be paid every Monday, or the egmt would turn us into the streets." Thirteen shillings he fakes from this house (dilapidated, snabby building, dear at £ 18 per annum), and he is now offered 15s. a week for it. Three families in it, you see but I must go from here; I can't pay it. He is a keen man the landlord, although a chapel man, tney say. I told her houses.were to be had at Roath for 5s. a week but the truth appears to be that roor and long families are not admitted into clean new streets, and that when several families hard together, the extortionate rack rent of 13s. or 15s. per week, being divided among them, falls within 5s. for each, and this kind cf property becomes sought after by men who will form;a whole street from the landlords, making a profit by raising the rents, c-ii,, of the niokt villainous ways of making a living, next to making drunkards, that it is possible to conceive. We will wait another week bef Ire we go upstairs.

I ROATH VESTRY.A. meeting of the parishioners of R)ath WAA held on Monday. Mr J. H. Wilson, in the unavoidable absence of the Yicar, presided. The meeting was called for the purpose of electing two members to the Roath Burial Board. Mr W. P. Stephenson and Mr E. VVintTen were unanimously re-elected. Mr David Roberts and Mr Prickett were elected auditors. Mr -Daniel J hojnas, lenylan, was elected a momber <'f the Board ill the place of Mr Thompson, who bad left Hit pari?h. The salary of the clerk was (nntírmed. At tht, request of the parishioners the clerk trave a of the proceedings of the Board, from its coinraenceme it to the present time, and this gave rise to considerable discn?s:on on the action taken by the Board, and also by the Cardiff Corporation, but the proceedings were, on the whole, satisfactory.

j A CONTINENTAL TRIP. BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. —«- — NAPLES. Two cities make the same proud Vault. 11 See Seville"—" see Naples," and then die." I have not seen Seville, but I have seen Naples, and I do not dis- cern tha necessity for dying on that account. If the epigram had been-" smell Naples and then die," I could have recoguised)be appropriateness for Naples is a city of bad odours, and there has been a great amount of sickness there this spring, and that sickness, originating in the said evil stenches, has too otten been a sickness unto death. But as a city, this, the fifth largest in Europe, is by no means remarkable. Never- theless, like Jerusalem, it is beautiful for situation," rising steeply from the sea, stretching for mile after mile along the shores of the blue Mediterranean. It is just the reverse of Rome. The latter city disappoints on a. first impression, but is found to be full of interest; the former takes your fancy at once, especially if beheld for the first time from the sea, but affords little of interest, either to artists or archajalogists. There is a large Museum, but the paintings, for the most part, are second-rate, or third-rate (one gets dainty after Flor- ence and Rome), and by far the most valuable contents are the frescoes inscriptions and mosaics carried off from Pompeii. The Cathedral of St. Jannarius is more famous for its lying wonder, the liquefaction of the saint's blcod (a miracle once wrought by the unwilling priests at the point of the first Napoleon's bayonet) than for architecture. Yet it has some fine points, and is as remarkable for brightness: as that at Florence is fcr intense gloom. When we saw it there were any number of masses going on at the same time in the different chapels. The favourite chapel is that dedicated to the patron saint, itself a thurch, and in this two masses were being said at the same time but as not a word was audible except the blessing, which was given pre- cisely at the same moment by the two officiating priests, as though they had been running a race, there was no confusion. There were two separate congregations in this eamo chapel, and a large grey cat walked about bestowing her attentions equally upon both, and evi- dently, like the swallow in the Psalmist's time, looking out for a place in the Temple where she might lay her young! Tha most prominent feature in Naples is the Castle cf St. Elmo, the most pleasant is the Chiaia. The first frowns from a very lofty hill, overlooking all Naples and its adjacent towns. In fact, it seems to have been built quite as much to overawe as to defend. When tra- versing the streets you think yourself a long way from it, until you come to an opening, and then you Snd that all the time it has been spying you out, and could in a very few minutes make short work of you. Just now, under a constitutional regime, the castle, though still garrisoned by troops, may be looked upon without unpleasant apprehensions, and is a favourite resort for those who do not mind a climb ia order to see mao- nificent view, though such I imagine are rarefy Neapolitans. It shews how completely the late govern- ment was demoralized aud detested, that though a a few huudied might have held St. Elmo, and°laid Naples in ashes, Garibaldi, without au armed force entered the city iu triumph, and drove through the Toledo in triumph. It is no longer the Toledo by the way that famous street, like many another in Italy during the last 15 years, has changed its name, and is called via Rome, a very good substitute it must be confessed. A busier street there scarcely exist even in London. It is thronged from early morn to mid- night, and in tbi, and still more notably in other streets, where there is no trottoir, there is one element of the crowd by no means pleasant. I speak now of the beggars one has got used to them at llome and Florence (ill the Ca hcdial at Florence, a small girl threw herself on her knees before me imploring me to give a soldo). But of the cab-drivers, cabs are cheap Rome, 8J. a course in Naples they are still cheaper only 'id., or allowing for the depreciation oi the paper money, a fraction over 6J., and for this sum you can drive from one end of Naples to the other. Hence every one goes in ca the very beggars diive, and if an E ngiLUlan is seen walking 5J cabmen will hail him with Zdonsieur uue voiturer," the only word of French they know, and not content with a refusal will drive right acrojs your path, almost on your toes, a proceeding tending to irritation. If they capture you, how they drive Their Ii'tIe horses go rattling along the pavements as though they were on a trotting match, aud what a hacking of whips there is, thongh I am glad to say there is more noise than real use, and I s-iw none of that ill-usige of animals iu Naples, f which has been so generally attributed to tha inhab- itants. Of their harness, the Neapolitans seem very wry proud. They are elaborately decorated with brass onimen's sometimes flags, sometimes a guaidian angel, or a patron saint, or a warrior in brass are pricked upon the collar. Of private carriages, such as- we saw at MUau and Florence, where they are numerous and handsome, we saw few at Naples. For such as there are the Clr.aia is the chief resort. The Chiaia is an ornamental quay, a boulevard by the sfa, a place of trees, and statues, and fountains, and brilliant flowers, a'tractions greatly elli by pretty women, for the Neapolitan women are very handsome. With their olive complexions, jet bhv/k hair, aud lustrous dark ey^fc, some of them might almost pass for Asiatics. A few are beautifully fair, but the majority of them are as brunette as any of the Spanish beauties John Phillip used to paint. The vege- tation is lil-e;the women hugeness that I Len,l their broad leaves the cactus, with its fqaaJ hands is everywhere, and here aud there the feathery palm rises gracefully from amongst the inimo-as and orange trees. It is along the Chiaia that most of the hotels are situated. It was a great I mistake to place them there, for the Mediterranean in front of them is at that point little better than a sewer. The result is that thsre is generally a good deal of fever among the tourists who frequent them. We were fortuuate enough to get accommodation at the Hotel Tramon- tano, which is situated several hundred feet above the Chiaia, has a gloiious view of the Bay, and is so healthy that we found several persons who had been invalids at the Chiaia hotels had come up to the Tramon tano in order to gat well. Though the streets are rarely handsome they are full of lip. I have alreaiy spoken of the innumerable cabs that thronged the streets. I saw a "block" in the Strada de Chiaia. the street lea ling to the Chiaia, as complete as any I have seen in Cheapside at 4 p.m. and besides this truly Euglish feature, there are streets that strike an Englishman by their novelty. There are the little wooden temples in the streets, where the owners make and sell lemonade; there are the little stalls along the quay, where they sell oysters and other sbelt-fisli, with the m:st picturesque background of lofty pointed houses there is tha quack dentist, who stands up in his carriage beneath a huge umbrella, and with all be instruments of his craft spread out before him, most alluringly debates on the pleasures of tooth- drawing there is a group of penny (two soldi)-peep- shows, with a man blowing a very brass horn in front of some wonderful pictureôi, and a m h ap:iig from booth to booth and then in the midst of all this. life comes a procession of death—men wearing cowls which hide their faces, and holes only for the eyes, looking like murderers when they stand on the scaffold waiting for the drop to fall, and bearing lighted toches in their hands, they trudg > along before a richly-gilded bier, followed by a priest intoning the funeral office in dirge-like notes—all thase thivg, g) t) make up the great city. Few of the churches are fia", and the Anglican Communion which so often, and even at Rome, has to content itself with unecclesiastical structures, here has a Church which to my mini is the most beautiful iu N ip,es. It hln not long been opened. The Sunday we ware there "e heard the Bishop of Gibraltar pre a-jh a rather mediocre sermon.. I have spoken thus far of the Citv of Naples, bit of course the chief glory of the p^ace is the Bay, one cf the very finest in the world, and q-iiie the most densely populated, albeit Vesuvius towers above it, and even when quiescent, as throughout our stay, alwa-s sending forth a light cloud of white smoky to remind the half a million of inhabitants who dwell beneath of what it has dona and may do again. A very good first view is to be gained from the Castle of St. E'j, There you see the city at your feet, and further off the siib,rbs of P,r.I:ei, and P,,esina, and Torre del Gre-o, Torre dpi Arno, Ziala, all continuous, and then after a gap—a very ominous gap, which marks where Pompeii once stood—the towns of Ca;tellamare and Sonento, and so to the extreme headlanl, tLe Punto rldla Cam- panella. In the middle of the by rises Capri, with its curiously irregular outline, and then on the right Pozzusti Baiq- Cape Misenuna, a id a mountain peak (to be duly noted and sealed) which you quickly learn is Monte Epomeo on the i.-land of Ilschia. Turning away from the bay you have a grand range of snow-clad mountains in Abruzzi, still hauated by brigands. Theie are bays within bays. That ia which the Chiaia lies is very like Monte Bay in Cornwall, snd that to the left, facing seawards, is still mo:e strongly like Plymouth Sound, on a vait and grand scale however. Viewed from Lorrento, a night, the ciojamfereuc 3 of the bay looks one long crescent of i ht extending without a break from the f-)ot of Vesuvius to Posili on tho nthpl" --n "ide d Naples. I Bat the chief charm of Naples is that it is the centre of countless excursions. We have made the best of them in eight days, but could have spent twice that time with advantage. 0 r first wa3 a drive to Bara, or Baice as it is indifferently called. The beginning of tbii little journey is decidedly exciting. We drive through a lofty tunnel half-a-mile long. Tunnels of twio that length are not unusual, but then one always associates them with trains. Posilippo tunnel is full nf cabs and waggons, and herds of cattle, and meD, 1;n.\ women, and you get past them as best you can in the dim light afforded by the gas lamps. "Then we drive along a charming piece of waste past Nisidi Island to Pozzuoh. This piece abounds wiih nuns and guides. The second are not at all necessary to see the first', though useful in showing one other lion, an extinct volcalln. The rims include a flue amphitheatre worth a visit, even by those who have seen Verona and the Coliseum. Golfotara, the crater of an exti-ict volcano, is a weird and desolate piaca, very like the slope of a Cornish China clay work, only tha e-?r;h, instead of being Kaslin, is male up of alam, sulphur, and am- monia. At some points it is very hot, and there is a spring of steaming bubbling water, and anether of steaming bubbling mud. They all say that this goes on while Vesuvius is quiescent, but should the greater volcano become active, this little one cease's to cast up mud and dirt. They attempted to establish an alum manufactory here some years rgo, but the attempt failed, and they now make stucco. We drive off the mnin road to see the Lake of Avernns, and find that even more unlike Turwen's picture than Heidtdbsr^ cattle is unlike the engraving by the same artist. In reality Avernus is nothiug but a small lake, or rather a large pond with low hills around it, and ia no way remarkable for beauty. Altogether it was so very commonplace an entrance into the infernal re-ions (it was so styled by the ancients) that we did not care to make further acquaintance with it to examine the Grotto of the Sybil, but resumed our drive to Baice. Here, again, there is an abundance of ruins and a fine old castle, and a little farther on a noble view of Pro- cida and Ischa, marred alas by gathering clouds which at length descended in rain. Next morning the weather was still worse, and we went to the Museum, and studied the most interesting frescoes, mosaics, and sculptures brought from ell. They are marvellously fresh, though the marvel dimi- nishes when one remembers that they have reaily been safely preserved for seventeen centuries beneath the ashes of Vesuvius. As we studied these stories of the past the weather cleared, and what could we do better than go to the place where they originated ? An hour's railway journey brings you to Pompeii, and a two hours' ramble in that dead city is one of the strangest experiences that an ordinary traveller who has not dug at Nineveh with Mr Layard can have. The dullest imagination cannot but be "impressed at seein" the very rooms which were inhabited in the time" of Christ still with their wall frescoes visible, their court yards still adorned with fountains, their' streets still bearing the mark* of heavy chariot wheels, the election notices still legible on the w dls. The guide will "show you (if you are a man), too, vivid token; of the wicket, ness that prevailed in the doomed city, and one's thoughts turn from the lewd pictures upon the walls of tho brothel to the ghastly corpses still preserved in the Museum; and on9 wonders if the Pompeians were sinners above all other sinners that they should have lesn overtaken by so terrible punishment. Of course v;e ascenctel Vesuvius. We took a cab from the Naples pest-office and droe to Resina, aud from that town made the assent and the descent on foot. We had a guide (scarcely necessary), and a stout lad to help my wife up the cone (this is almost indispensable), and these and the drive to and from Naples cost 14 francs for two persons. I mention these figures be- cause Baldeker says that the excursion costs 15 francs a head. It might easily be done for 7 francs for two persons. He does not exaggerate the toil of the as- cent. Up to the Hermitage it is easy enough. 'You simply trudge on np hill, and even carriages drive up to that point. But beyond you find a very different state of things. You change from hard cinders to a moderate slope to soft ashes, so steep that every step is made with difficulty. The ascent was much easier be- fore the great eruption of 3 years ago, but eincs then the old path has had to be abandoned, and you have to gc t up ankle de p in ashes, as best you can. Personaliy I faund it less difficul than the ascent of tho FoJgefonJ, the };reat snow-mountain of Norway, for that wns so slippery I could not get a good footing. But on Vesu- viotis your footing is only too good. Your feet siuk down ajgreat dbal deeper than you wish. The lower part of the mountain is wonderfully intcrkstiug: The lava rocks are contorted into the straugest and ghastlit s t shapes. Here they look like great knotted scourges; there like colossal snakes. The enormous force of fire was never more strikingly shown. Out cf this horrible ruin industrious man is making a garden. Where the lava is friable it forms a rich soil, and that is dug out into terraces, on which vineyards are phuted -viii(-y.Ards which yield the famous saccharine Christi wiue, that you are persuaded to buy every half-mile up the mountain. Familiarity breeds contempt, even when it is a volcano which is concerned. The people go on cultivating their vineyards and olive gaidens on the slopes of "Vesuvius just as though it was three csntu- tunes and not three years only since that terrible ruin was wrought whose results are plainly visible net only on the two marble tablets at the Hermitage, which b tell you the names of the people who perished, but in the black lava torrent which has pushed its way far below you, and has ploughed up not only vines and olives, but houses too, utterly swallowing them up. For all that, men still work, and women still rear their babes, aud children still play upon the slopes of Vesuvius, and will continue to do so though Resina share the fate of Pompeii. The Hermitage is a collection of buildings, part hotel part observatory. It is here that the luxurious travellers dismount from their carriages and betake themselves to mules in order to do the next portion of tile ascent. Outside the Hermitage (IVtJ did not stop to enter it.) you will hear a crowded babble of many languages, and will see a mediey of tourists, drivers, guides, beggars, and all sorts and conditions of men. About half-a hour higher up you reach the point where even mules mu-;t be dispensed with, and you find yourself surrounded by a crowd of fellows who lay hands upou you anl in-iit upon dragging yon np the cone. I saw one strong and stalwart tourist actually submitting to be hauled up by four men, and it was with difficulty that I kept the rascals off from myself. They gave me up at last a9 a bad job, and at length after three or four halts we gained the top. We gained it to find ourselves in the midst of a sulphureous smoke, considerably worre than that which fills the Metropolitan railwav on a July evening. It made us sneeze and cough, and hurry 00 along the brink of the crater. At one point there was a smdl bole in the groun3, too hot for us to loear our bands close to it Into th It hole our g!:t'i."e thrust our s:ioks, and iu a minute they were iu a blaze, aud ceme out hardened i.n 1 b'aek. At another point tbev boil ergs for yon in the water. The wind was in the wrjng di- rection for us, a id blow the smoke upon us, and pre- vented us from seing far into the fiery pit. Fortu- nately the clouds, which had obscured tLe view all the way up, cleared off just as we reached the tcp. They were torn aumier by a brisk breeze aud sent hurrying hither and thither, and their dispersion enabled us to see the whole of the Bay of Naples aud surrounding- country, the beau ties of which I have so imperfectly described. The descent of the cone was rapid enough. We simply shot dowu through tb9 ashes-a sort of glisade in fat; and where we had ta'ea more than an hour to mount the cone we slid dewn in ten minutes. Then we took oil our boots aud got rid of the ashes, aud set off oil our journey back to Naples, which we reached by dinner time, the whole expedition having taken about seven hours. A very different expedition was that which we male at Capri. It was marred by the rain unfortunately, and we were obliged to keep under cover in the steamer. Arrived oil tho is"and, we got into' a little boat, and pulled tor the far-famed Alue Grotto. We see the entrance-a low arch in the rock -and won- der ho,v we can possibly ge in. T..e boat- man tells us to lie down fiat there is no cuoiee but to obey his comma-ids. Then ho seizes a favourable moment, the reflux of a wave, and shoots through the low arch and tells us to g-t up. ,y", find 4 ourselves in a lofty caysrn, is rocks falntly^i-ated with azure, but its waters brightly blue with the blue of the torquoiee. For a cons deration the boatmen will strip and plunge into the water, and as they swim they seem to make a pathway of silver. It was very unrornantic, but I could Dot held recalling a transformation scene at Drury-lane. Too soon we had to lay ourselves down in the boat again and regam the steamer. It took us next to the town of Capri, and we saw as much of the island as an hour's walk in tha pouring vaia would permit-ear,u.-h. however, to unders'aad why the Ern- perior Tiberius should have made it a favourite resi- dence—he had no less than twelve villas there. The steamer next took us to Sorrento, where we wer., to pass the night. We climbed a staircase cut in the rc)cl,i, a-d found ourselves at IAST, in a charm- ing hotel, the Tramontans, with a garden full of lemon trees, and a view over the Bay. The weather cleared during the night, and the next main ng was brilliant. This was forlnnate, as ve had a long day before m. First of all there was a walk acro-s the nloantaill to the other side of the Peninsula, which separates the bays of Naples and j Salerno. At one particular portion of it we ha 1 both bays at oar feet, the first on our left, the secvnlon our right, just as you have on the Uon: at Sark. Here we were, I am afraid I must say, inten'ienally led astray by some peasants who showed us the way, and brought us to a point whence further progress was almost impossible. We had to retrace our steps, and resisted all importunities for money, f.rn.1; and i idig. nantly refusing to give a single soi-lo. At last we came to the beginning of the long and very steep de- scent which leads to the little fishing village of Seara- catozo, wnither we were bound in search of a boat, to Amalfi. Here we had a long but good-n&tnred n¡;bt. with the fishermen, who insisted ,ha' the sea was sufficiently rongh to require four rowers, and that we must pay 15 francs. We were obliged to take the four, bat reduced tie 15 to 12. I am bound to con'es; that it would have been a hard pull for two, and if w, bad but that number we should piobably have mi-sed the last train to Naples. As it was we hal a gL)ri&us little cruise of 2l bour-, the torque-e. neueathns, the grey olive-clad mountains before us with ner a uiue village resting among the orange and lemm trees there a stately town like Positano gradually clambering the steep hill side, and so at last we disembark at AmMti. Here there is another bif, cf bargaining to be gone through. At the hotel there -a4 no good to be done, so we sallied forth into the market place, and were fortunate enough to find a return car- riage with three horses, the driver of which was glad to take us to Yietri for eight franc?. Soon we were bowling along the most beautiful road in Europe. It was superb, and therefore I cannot possibly descrile it. I Cl: only say that we kept on wincing point after point, constantly changing the scene, now looking towards tae plains of Pcestum, beyond Salerno, now back to the point frcm which we had started, now crossing a deep ravine by a lofty viaduct, now dii .ing through olive yards aud orange gardens, with the moun- tains always on one side, and the sea on the other and so at last we reach Sictri station with twenty minutes to spare—a sufficiently close ehave after an eleven hours' journey by foot, by oar, and by wheels. From letn there is a fine railway ride back to Naples and we reach our hotel about ten, between thirteen and r'meK i10UrS h'0m Sorrento. Our last expedition •jin^ Naples was to Ischia by steamer. There we •K\eafitUUThy' and ,cl.^bed Moaat Epomes, about feet. Tne ascent is really easy enough, but -we were seduced into trying a short cut, as ended ae most short cuts ao. Presently we heard shouts, and ssxv two men coming towards us, and as one was armed with a gun a suspicion that they might be brigands inat flasued across the ihind. They turned out to be the most brainless of peasants, who had coma to set us right, and soon we were on the top gazing on what if the day had been as bright as it was grey, would' have been one of the most glorious views ever seen. Dot the Mediterranean is too faithful a lover of the Italian sky not to reflect her every mood, and so as there was clouds above, there was a dark sea beneath. However, we have the three bays of Naples, Salerno" and Gaeta, with the far distant snow-peaked Abruzzi mountains, and Ischia and Procida at our feet. On the very top of Epomes is a curious chapel and sub- terranean house hollowed out of the rocks. Of old a hermit lived there. Be was represented on the day we were there by a lad, who brought us some very primitive refreshment, which however was refreshing enough. We did not lose our way going down, and got back to onr hotel well satisfied with our ex- pedition in all things save the absence of sunshine It had cost us something under a franc.

Serai JuMijgmce. ♦ ^ENGLISH COXGREGATR0NALCHAPEL,CANT0N-THESUNDAY School Anniversary Sermons were preached last Lord's Hay, by the Revds. W. Watkiss, James Whitehead, and Ezra T'. Shaw. All the services were well attended, and the collections in aid of the School funds exceeded those of any past year. GLAMORGAN AND OTHER POEMS. —" The Central News Weekly Circular of Coming Events" states that a volume of poetry, composed by Mr K. W. Boyle of the Hour (formerly editor of the Cardiff Guardian) is expec- ted to be published shortly. The volume will be dedi- cated to Mr C. W. David of Cardiff. ACCIDENT AT THE DOCKS.—As one of the dock-gate men, named McGilvey, was at work on Mondays morning on the lock gates of the Best Bute Dock, one of the pad- eile handles slipped out of his grasp breaking his left arm above the wrist. He was taken to the Hamadryod Hospital Ship, where his injuries were attended to. ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, TVNDALL-STRELI.—On Sunday last English services were commenced in this church. Morning prayers were said by the Rev. A. Eiias, curate the communion service was read by the vicar, the Rev. Charles Jones, and an eloquent and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. C. J. Thompson, M.A. vicar designate oi St. John's. In the evening the vicar con- ducted the service, and the Rev. S R; Jones, chaplain of the gaol, preached a powerful sermon. PHOTOGRAPHY.—Mr. Howe, of Duke-street, exhibits at bis window a photograph of the shaft winding appa- ratus working gear and premises at the. Glamorgan Coal Company's Colliery, Llyvnyria, Riiondda ValU-y. The photograph is remarkably clear and well defined, as well as the landscape round, while it is one of the largest photographs ever produced, being 3 ft. by 2 ft. 4 in. RELIGIOUS SERVICE O; KOARD SHIP.—On Sunday after- noon, an interesting leligious service was Leld on board the ship Devon (Captain Hicks) of London, now lyin°- in the South Basin loaded with patent fuel for Point de Galle. Addresses were delivered to an auditory that quite filled the spacious quarter deck, and crowded the adjacent quays. The s.;eikers were Messrs. Midiss and Ilaiuey, Mr. Sale, of the Hible Repository, Bute Docks and Mr. Hicks, the -i:io\s husband, the service was interspersed with the hy:n=is used by the Messrs. and Sankey, Mr. ac-s-cupauyiug the lUg-Jn very effectively on the hariiM iai. Tue Devon will, ill all probability, sail this SERIOUS TRAP ACCIDENT. — On Sun lay evening Gover, wheelwright, "f Sh. Alary s-sc c-et, was dri- ving a lady to Ton vy.-de's in a hor v aud d -gj.rt, Wh-n a short distr.n t ) Whuehurc'i th-s trap w\ run into by another- t, in I ;.h • horse started off. md the trap capsized a' i • fro'it t;i.- Holly 1Is\ Tongwynlais, and tin- <• -■ v >ts on t. > t.h- roa i, T lady was very severely «}.>•„>r *u-t d a r .•> ture of tie arm, and v ;-y as -n red <,n face aud head. The a, s were broken a',iii),t to pieces, and the horac severely cut about the legs. Some persons passing at the time imlered alt the assistance they could to Mr. Gover and the lady, byth of whom were conveyed to the Holly Bush, where medical attendance was procured, and in the evening they were brought home in a, clb. STAR-STREET CHAPEL- PRESENTATION, -On Tuesday evening, after the practice of the singing class, Miss Davis was presented by the members with five volumes of music, beautifully bound in cloth and gold, namelv. the Elijah, "") Juoas Maccabeus," Haydn's Creation," and Rosinni s St&bat Mater." Master J. T. Priest made the presentation in a few appropriate remarks, hoping that the class liligh hive Miss Davies' valuable services for a long time, and that ehe might be as punctual and regular in attendance as she had been for the last t-our years. Miss Davies thanked the class for their great kindness, and promised to try aud merit it more in the future than she had done in the plst. After a few words from a member of the choir, the meeting broke up. ° ABUSIVE AND REFUSING TO QUIT.—At the County Police-court on Thursday, before Mr O. W. David and Mr J. S. Corbett, Margaret Welsh and Emma Stallard were charged with usinsr abusive language in the Albion Inn, and refusing to quit when requested to do so. on Monday last. Mr Watson, the landlord, gave evidence- as to the violent language usd by the prisoners. P.C. Oiliver was called to take them into custody. Inspector Thorney gave evidence to the effect that both wom3n were of low character and had been to gall. The pri- isoners were each sentenced to one month's imprison- merit. ASSAULT CASE.—Jane Hughes was summoned for having committed an assault upon an old woman, named Ann Phillips, aged 72 years, by pushing her down in the street last Friday outside her own house. Mr Bl.-ll >ch appeared for the defendant, who (,vj)tii was fined 10s and costs. DISREPUTABLY ASSAULT. —Catherine Smith, a young married woman with a baby in her arms, was sent to prison for two m mths with hard labour, for having severely assaulted a woman named 2.Iary McCarthy in Miltos-street, on the 19ch instant, file hid taken a large stone and thrown it at the complainant's head, causing her to be insensible. The magistrates thought it was a merc'ful thing for the defendant that she was not. charged with murder. It was hoped that the present sentence, though lenient because of her young child, would opernte as a caution to the defendant and other persons for the future. ANOTHER INEIV STEAMER FOR CARDIFF. -On Thurs- day, a splendid new steamer left the Tyne with about 3,000 tons or coal for Alexandria. The steamer in ques- tion is the fksots Greys, built to the order of the Messrs C. O. Young Christies, of Cardiff. The vessel is the best of the rleet of steamers owned by this firm not only is she finely modelled and strongly built, but she possesses all the requirements and improvements which the ex- perience acquired in the building of her predecessors has suggested. She has been constructed by the eminent firm of the Messrs llaylton, Dixon, & Co, of Middles- boro'-on-Tess, and her trial trip on the I-5th inst. proved highly satisfactory. Her dimensions are as follows: — 2e>l feet overall by 33 feet; beam, by 17 and 24 o feet deep. Besides being classed 100, AL, at Lloyd's, she has considerable extra strengthening. Her buiid-jr's measurement is 2.700 tn% The engines were built by the Messrs Biehardson St Sons, Hartlepool, and are of 130 horse-power nominal. A CABMAN'S ADVENTURE. —One of our local cdbmen reverse of fortune lat Tuesday, He wâ driving horse along Bute-street when the animal I became restive and unmanageably plunged into Mr Pedrazzine's shop near the Bute Bridge, and, to cabby's dismay, did prompt damage to_a number of articles to the value of £ "2L 2s G l. Tiiis sum is exclusive of the damage caused t-o the plate glass, which was insured. The sp- pearance of t\e hors? in Mr Pedrazzme's eh op caused considerable astonishment to the inmates aid to the passers A Sr. • •- ACCIDENT IN Hi OH STEEET.—Some old bous sin liigh-street have been recently purchased by Mr D. Lewis, cabinet maker, of Duke-street, for his new premises. The contract for pulling down the eld premises and the erection of the new one has been taken by Mr e builder. Several labourers were yesterday engaged in* pulling down the roof, and for this purpose they w^re s anding on the first floor, which was in a sad state of decay. The joist gave way, precipitating the 9 whole of the men on to the ground floor, the timbers of the ro jf falling on them. Ibree of the labourers, John Shean, a young man living in Baker's-row, John l) inoVf>u, and John Thompson were severely in- jured by the fading timber. Shean was cut on the head and inju el also in the back. John Donovan was injured on the shoulders and one arm, and Thompson was in- jured in the back. Shean was considered to be more Berit>n?lv hurt than the others, and he was conveyed to the Infirmary but afVr having his wounds dressed he was conveyed home. The others were conveyed to their homes, where medical attention was given t', them, and they are able to sit up but Shean is still confined to his bed. THF. LATE Suicinr. AT THE HAVES. Mr T. Hayden wnvs to say tholt the Nir Johnson, when in the army, hel l the position of sergeant and sergeant-major.

FIRE AT WHITCHURCH. Shortly after midrd-ht on Thursday information reached the firein.iii at Cardiff that a hayrick was on fire in the rio^-vard of Mr B .ok-r, Whitchurch. A, the fire was o i-side the Borough, tbe engine oonldnot be dispatched, bnt the members of the Fire Brigade were called up, an 1 th-y proceeded as-quickly a s pos^ble to render as s'stauce. The ricks were insured.

ItUMOURJ £ L> DE MO N STRATlUls FUK DR. K ENEAL Y. A startling rumour of a demonstration of one thousand men from the Kxst Fni of London mucbing t.) West- m'ust.er) with Dr. Kenealy to-<lay were discus-el in The lobby of the House of Common^ It night. About ml hiight a copy of a placard to this "!T, ct was given to the ^p-akf-r. and it is said that extensive military ard police rotK-tiv.t o;;s will be made in consequence.

THE GJYERN31EKT AND THE PRESS. Mr Sullivan M.P., has positively dH^rmined to fulfil his threat* to exclude reporters from Parliaments e ■-< ry jPh' u i'e>s he receives an assurance from Gove n:rent that ae status of the Pre,s in the will r»e» ve serious consideration. It is reported < n one hand tl at Mr Bright or Lord Hartingtem will move aresoluti<n on tbe an'->ject, and on the other hand that the Govern* ment will entertain the question.

.n sented against the Bill abundantly testify. Then commenced another process of concession the shape of compronLsc and the abandonment of some portions of clauses and the modification of other?, to as to seeivic the withdrawal of seme of these IM :i:( -i: uv at least the active opposition of the I- et The Biil tlius serionsiy and in some* important improvements lightened,amended, and modified, went before the Lords' Committee to be further modified and amended, whence it has issued in the form and with the provisions now before us. Of the amended Bill we are cer- tainly not prepared to say with the school-boy. after he bad mattered the difficulties of the mul- tiplication-table, that it is doubtful whetherit was worth vhile to go through so much to obtain so little, because every improvement to streets and buildings in a large and rapidly growing town like Cardiff, however fettered those improvements may be by proviso aud limitation, is useful, and should be accepted as the earnest of further and more valuable improvements. Still, we cannot but think, in sympathy with a large number of the Cardiff public, that a little more comprehensive- cess of vision and a sterner resolve to secure public improvements, even at the limitation ot private interests, would have secured a more use- ful Bill, and one more adequate to the expendi- ture which will be incurred in passing it. It would be both interesting and profitable to the Cardiff public to see the original Bill compared and contrasted with the amended Bill, so as to as- certain the balance of profit and loss between the two. This we shall attempt in a future article, but meanwhile think that there is one matter equally important and still more pressing, which the Cardiff ratepayer?, who will have to bear part of the txpeni-ts of most of these improvements, and the whole of some of them, should rightly ap- prehend, and that without delay. The Bill has yet to pass through the Committee of the Com- mons, and it is advisable that any portions of it which are not for the interests of the Cardiff public should be fully discussed, with a view to their amendment or rejection by that committee. It will be readily admitted, and it was a prin- ciple again and again enunciated by the Lords Committee, that when a public body such as a, Corporation improves the public thoroughfares of a town, the benefit of these improvements should in a large degree be secured for the public, and not for private owners. This was the prin- ciple upon which the Committee decided against Colonel TYNTE, in his opposition with regard to his property in Mill-lane. The cuntention of Col. TYNTB was. that inasmuch as only a portion of the houses owned by him was needed for widening Mill-lane he .should be allowed to I retain the other portion, and ought not to be compelled to dispose of the whole of it to the Corporation. If Cul. TYSTE had succeeded in his opposition, the whole of the expenses of widening }li11-hnè would have fallen upon the Cardiff ratepayers and Col. TYTE would have received a valuable money equivalent for the portion of the houses sold, while he would have retained the other portion with all the benefit of improved frontage for the erection of a better class of houses. The Committee, however, de- cided against the claims of Col. TYSXE to retain any part of the property, upon the principle that the Corporation ought to be able to recoup itself for the expenses of street improvements by ac- quiring the improved frontages which were made at the expense of the ratepayers. A just and most valuable decision, which the Committee were ready to give in every case, as the short-hand report of the proceedings show. It will be in- teresting then to notice Low the principle which guided this decision of the Committee was treated in another case of street improvement. Our local readers will not fail to remember that one of the street improvements scheduled in the Bill was the w idening of Angel-street, This was to Vio bv the purchase of the entire block of buildings between Angel-street and Castle-street, so as to widen the former street to the extent of half of the width of the houses. The estimated cost of purchasing and pulling down these houses was £L3,t OJ, and the rates ot the town were to be recouped for the outlay, either by the selling or leasing by the Corporation of the other half of the existing block of buildings with the whole of Castle-street, for the election of an improved class of houses, The benefit of the improved stre^* ana the improved frontages which the .-trect would give would then be heuied 1 v the very parties whom the Com- mittee afiinned might to rtcei\e them the ratepayers of the town. The Marquis ot BUTR however, opposed this portion of the Bill upon .the plea, slated in the words of his Agent, that any L eviction up«-n the Castle-street site would "enti;e!y block up the view of the wall" of the Marquis of BL'TK'S park, or at least that portion of the wall bounded by Castle-street. The en- quiry v.as put again and again to the witnesses, and especially to r JOIJNSOX, the engineer to the proposed works. Mr JOHNSON was asked by the agent of the M arqnis of BUTE whether if the site the northern balf of the houses in Castle- street and a portion of Castle-street were built upon,"it would not have tIle. effect of bringing the house fronts or backs so much nearer to Lord wall and property i" The engineer frankly admitted that it wouU-tllere was no escape from that fact anyhow. If houses were to be erected they would be actually some feet nearer to Lord BUTE'S park wall than the present houses. Mr. -JOHNSON could not, however, see any special objection in that. "lam of opinion," he said, that the site is good, and that no damage would accrue to the land occupied by Lord BUTE by the site being built upon, if the whole of the residua of the land were built upon." The Lords' Committee evidently agreed with Mr JOHNSON, and the Chairman thought that it would be advisable that Lord BUTK and the Corporation should arrange matters in as friendly a way as they c it!. The agents of Lord BUTE readily agreed to that-, and the advisers of the Corporation reciprocated. tMibsequently they announced to the Committee that they had come to "friendly arrangement" which appears to be most espe- cially friendly to the Marquis of PUTZ. These frieiicily arrangements" are inserted ia the Bill in the shape of a clause with the side heading "protection of Marquis of BUT;; as to Angel- street and Cattle-street," and the all sufficient protection is that no erection or building shall at any time be set up on any part of the site of the houses now situate be;ween An^streetgand Castle-stree' nor upou any part of Cistle-street without the previous consent of the Corporation I and the Marquis of Burn, his heirs, and assigns.' The Town Council by their Bill have obtained powers to pull dowu the houses between Angel- street and Castle-street, at an expense of some £ 13,000. They propose to recoup the Cardiff rate3 for the outlay by selling or leasing the sites thus obtained by the improvements sites thus obtained by the improvements for building purposes, bub to prevent the possibility of this being accomplished they have agreed that no building shall be erected there without the consent of the Marquis of BUTE. Of course,tbe Marquis of BUTE will never consent, for his agent distinctly stated before the Lords' Com- mittee that Lord BCTK would prefer the streets remaining as they aiv, than that houses should be •erected any nearer to his park wall. The Town j Council may certainly reply that if Lord BUTE will not consent they will not pull down the houses, ol expend the But then this necessary improvement will be stopped, as the t result of their "friendly arrangement" with tire 1 I'lar:iiis (if