The Cardiff Times

SCIENCE ANO ART AT CARDIFF. jpJ&lNQ this week a l*rge and varied eollection of .Swings and other Avorks of'Art and Science i3 on lew at Cai'diff. The exhibition has ken organized ay the promoters of the School of Science and i*rk, and the price charged for admission is to be £ d to" scholarships to enable some of the Ulast deserving local students to "prosecute their under the teachers at S uth Kennng- [011 an Dublin. This berug so, it is hoped tha.t be a large attendar.ce of visitors. The v Sf. Cardiff,do not know the amount of work W11t.4e by ,é stndfiit? coined'e.i| .v £ ith the Science aim Art classes, aud, they jire totJlly jpKttaliK #f the lofty tJOnception the elovated feeiiwg/ ths delicate manipulation niwfeStiitl itt'^tTie predictions whcli, y«ar ly y.jnr, spiijptj front tEtff hauls the gjrla /r&o study the local gjrla /r&o study ijl the local iBait' a visit to the lwr-fe raum or To«». Halt will «oirfer^plei»sure and impart iUt?f111:¡.tiQP,and those who will taketh trouble «:t i a^e^hibi& th:" will come, aivay with vJ^-ttiT id« £ erf th« youth, ef Cardiil", aad^ let us -with at ^et^r.miflat'Ofi to give sa$oe asstst- in. perfecting that knowledge, the effects of placed for pttblie; ei|hii>ition. ^ement iry classes ^liere are foii\^4pMjced Btud.eu £ # %k ^lawinsr and ^odellmg, 4flk& tho^peciaiess of woji now shown jowl -of the -future p^kiti<>h which 6 rt^iyccett^y- wiien itsi sfcotlwfe^ ecrtir into ^^petirion with \(iq £ q |ifrm other districts.- *0 1 1ti >:■

*■ K»K:a; r*-H"EAr.¥H FOK««*iM$HGAW- sJfiEfc./1' JhJ:>¡J'h.ii;: making & tear of (Jkisaorgaiisliii e 4 "Tfejr %rv enlist gyi«pathife8., of loc^l ^•-tfloritiea in his scheme of eauitary s'ipervisv>n. tndgv tkiiPubljta Jie ilift 4^)^Iedical Oiiicer of IJ101.;t.. be ttppMnted in every urban Tutal''s^nitirj*'tJiatrict. Tp tj the present tune have discharged e av.Cfi^cets o' "Hwiih, b itas always by the oentril authoikaes that the •°<^1 iaMuenc?s Would bo. so strotig that these Beatteftjeji would not dare^to exerdke that inde- supervision whi^| is esjch'iaf to the •flKsieat-jporkiDg' 0$t'le. Act. In rur^l parishes ^Jeciaily haa thii,difticul».y i>aen f-It, and-on this Ø1'ObBd, as it prdp^M to ifppoiAt a Medteftl. Utftcer of ^alt.h'fo^ A ivhalft.co'tirify, giving Hjtn a,sl!ary of •thou&and a year, andi re<]u;riug Jblaxv- to absiain «OQi prirate piactice-. There are many objection? 8ta.tdtø the scheme, «nd ore i» that the«,rea of 8uPtl"1;i is large, eBpdcially in a county. t, Glauiorgau, where there -9tyjieijoua lacge populated villages «* mining diitriete. To • pay a flying visit 0 all of th ^e the Officer of Health would have to I Cons^ntly in the saddle or in the fnia. On otiid £ hciiid there are apparent advantages ^nich waulti ic^alt from the arrangement'The official would ba thoroughly iudepojiient of ^9cal iMuenee#, .a.ú4 he would have plenty of ttfie to at tend'.to his duties. The KE^ISTRAK ^KEj^i^yrotufhs^ow us, quarterbyqqarier^ that Roni^, 2>Hri-t or 6therH^ thf, coui»tfy-there is ^"ways saKqjideKS^c.prevalent, and it woujd be the of th«(; Officer "of Health to visit the places ^here t'^e disr-foe existed,, and take vigorous ^asuros to eecure isolati^fc of pitienta and ^pi'cSiioa o( the aisaaao, by «a 11 itsry regulations, "hen anyone talka about "the laW» of health. pleare ap#; to smile, and their minds revert to goody litti'e book whicli tiiey may ha.ve seen long ago in their youthful dllYs; but. as a matter of fact, the laws of health have b.:6n elavated into science, and precautious which seem very simple are oftentimes vet? effieacieus in preventing the of disease. "Mr Doyle's proposal will have beçaretully qonsidered. VVe, h^ve doultj Whether, afttr all,'it will be carr.'od out; though it be, ^iete Will ba again inefficiency and Monoaiy. f'

M|itoi&cus OF MBBS Ei>rtH WXNNE. I The maWiage of the famous Welsh 8ongsfrefs, 4eaervea a passing comment. EDITH WVXNE is -ell known all over Wales, and has been a popular **>oaliflt ever since she was first introduced to fhe ■musical world a young budding irl, on the plat- torm of local eistoddfodau. As her voice became formed she asserted herself as a favourite, and P*t>bably in the course of a few years she sang at in nearly every part of Wales. The history of her successful training, her dxhut in London, asd her final triumph in artistic <nrcles i* Jell k no wit, and Wales is proud of her. Miss Sdith WySne had many charming qualities, a? "hoae who k«e\v her in private life were well aware "hoae who knew her in private life were well aware tf, aud her skill as an artist was only eclipsed by goodness of heart and kindliness of disposition. When the Be v. ROBBRT JONES, of Rotherhithe, ld her husband that he had committed to his Dare" the cherished daughter of the Welsh Hation/' he Mtpke^^ nothing more nor less than the tntth.

U "AnN.,¡ WATEK, EVTKYWHERE." has been literally a fact dutiog several days of the week. The rivers have run down to the sea, and the sea has buisc its bounds to meet the riven, and both together have covered the earth it were with a gsrinent. Earlier in the year the ieluge came and took us in detail. First, one district was flooded, and then another; but on occasion, the water has prevailed almost everywhere at onee. Engineers tell us that water i. one of the grandest of nature's benefactions as power but we are all fain to admit, that while » a good servant, it is, like fire, a bad master, j-t is even worse than tire, for its outbreak cannot checked, nor progress stayed. Strange to say, the mast of literature upon the subject, "0 see little or nothing suggested for preventing the recurrence of the calamity—for such it undoubtedly. is to some. We are asked to relieve the temporaly distress, and that having been done, we shall go on again till the next flood comeS. Houses will still be erected on flat plains the water level, and dykes and reservoirs Will be constructed with as little regard as ever to the exigencies of an unusually pressure of water.

A Lost WILL. ItD StL LEONARD'S will is occuillgpublie attea- won. The story is quite romantic. Mis lordship Was most exact and precise as a lawyer, and it is uxown that he made a will, and lavished great upon it. But strange to say, the precious document cannot be found* aud the will which is Q tp be his last, is now under dia- Ctttoion iri the Probate Court, its validity being disputed. The papers have been propounded Pj the plaintiffs, the xjoa. and Rev. Eraqk Sugden J^e Hon. CharlotteSugden, ason and daughter K ft* and their validity is contested by the defendants, the present Lord 8t leonards and other members of the family. By one of the codicils an important change was made in the testamentary dispos;tion of the tes- tator's property. He disapproved of an engage- ment with a yeung lady which his grandson anu heir, Mr Edward Burtenshaw Sugdeu (now Lord st Leonards), had enterol into, and cancelled certain bequfsts which he had made to him, and increased these made to his lordship's second son. the Rev Frank Sugden.

DON CARLOS'S LETTER. THE Pretepder DON CARLOS has addressed a letter to "My Cousin ALFONSO," and signs it, |our Cousin, CAIILOS." This epistle is very cousinly at the beginning and the end, but its intermediary contents are Hot characterised by the most amiable sentiments. The writer manifests a craft and skill in composition which do him credit, and yet his intentions and aims are so patent that anyone can detect them. The PRESIDENT of the United States has hinted to King ALFONSO, ot Spain, that the independence of the colony ot Cuba ought to be recognised, or else the rebellion in the island should be put down. Now, King ALFONSO cannot put down a rebellion in Cuba; he cannot even put down the one which prevails in SDain itself nor is Spain inclined to give Cuba its independence. And so DON CAJIIOQ, the pretender to ALFONSO'S throne, writes to his cousin thusThe attitude of the PRESIDENT of the Republic of the United States must be considered as the prelude of war if you do not recognise the independence of Cuba. The revolution which you represent is responsible for the degree of ignominy to which Spain has fallen. Without the revolution this parricidal rebellion would never have existed. But the integrity of the country is at stake, and all its children must rise in its defence. It war should breakout, I offer you a truce which wili last as long as the struggle with the United states. But it will be understood that foreign war is the only cause of the truce which I propose, and that 1 maintain unalterably my right to the crown, as I keep the conviction that it will one day encircle my brow. In case of foreign war.do you accept the truce lofferl If so, let us name representatives to put it in due form. If you refuse it, the world will be witness that Catholic Spain has nobly fulfilled its duty. Do you prefer to ask a truce ot the enemy which threatens you ? Humble yourselt- if you have the courage—you will, perhaps, have a moment's respite; but they will stir up new troubles against you, and Cuba will be lost for the pairia, and there will remain to you the dis- honour of having humiliated yourself, and the shame of having humiliated yourself in vain. It would appear that CARLOS gives ALFONSO the choice between two modes of humiliation. By accepting his cousin's sword, he would accept the aid of a sworn foe, who has lam some of the finest provinces ia Spain in ruin. This would be more than the humiliation of acceding to the requirements of America. DON CARLOS reveals the weakness of his cause. His battalions are desert- ing, and his subjects refuse to find more money. His troops are demoralised, and as he cannot win in the field, he seeks to recover favour with the people by offering to fight America n defence of Cuba. Suppo a ALFONSO refuses his protiered aid will BON CARLOS bid his friends hold aloof from the fray ? If so, where is his patriotism 1 The letter is conceived and written in a grandilo- quent strain, U eminently silly, and shows the true weakness of the writers cause. Spain will unite in the defence of Cuba quite irrespective of the commands of DON CARLOS. -L.

MR. DISRAELI AND THE CHUHCH CAMPAIGN. THE PRBIE MINISTER, who, when angling for the support of the High Church party, dated a memorable letter on "Maundy Thursday," has I played many narts from the time of his early and Wondrous Tale of Alroy," in which he defended Judaism, until the last Session of Parliament, in which he felt stirred up to "put down Ritualism. He is now implored by eight hundred electors of the county of Buckingham-deans and canons, prebendaries, vicars, and curates, and of devout, or at least ecclesiastically-minded, Churchmen not a few—to play the part of 110 common deliverer, and to save the sacred soil of the national church- yards from the polluting tread of Nonconformists and Dissenters. Mr. DISRAELI is as thoughtlessly rash and as impulsive now as when, in spotless •white waistcoat auddeeply-dyed lavender-coloured gloves, he led the turbulent "Young England'' party, with Lord JOHN MANNERS as fugleman but, nevertheless, Mr. DISRAELI fights shy of leading through Coventry the sectarian host of Buckinghamshire Churchmen. He has sufficient prescience to foresee that the struggle in which these Churchmen invoke his leadership must, however prolonged and severe, end disastrously for the army of intolerance, injustice, and Establishmentarianism. The forces which govern human progress, and which silently but potently work in favour of the right and the true, are so unmistakably on the side of the Nonconformists and Dissenters in this conflict, that even Mr. DISRASLLI has learnt to be cautious, and hesitates to champion a cause in which eventually he must be worsted. The eight hundred "clergy and lay members of the Church of England, electors of tha county of Buckingham," urge the PRIME MINISTER to receive a deputation of their number to confer with him as to the mode and conditions of the campaign and to clench the reasons they oiler why he should receive tnem and lead them, they remind him, with malicious ironyi of his speech in the House of Commons "on March the 26th, 1873/' when he himself moved the rejection of Mr OSBORNE MORGAN » Burials Bill. But Mr DISRAELI can, in his turn, remind them that "many things have happened since then." He was then the leader of Her Majesty s Opposition he is now the accredited leader of Her Majesty's Government and a free lauce, fighting in guerilla warfare, or, like HARRY" of the Wynd, upon his own hand, is not weighted with 'the heavy responsibilities of the Com- mander-in-Cliief of organised troops, and defeat in the one case would not be so fatally damaging as in the other. Consequently, Mr DISRAELI fiehts shy of leading the forces of Sectarian Establishment in a protracted campaign, in which partial success must lead to final defeat. The past is not a sealed book to him, and he can learn from historical parallels lessons of prudence and caution, to which the typical clerical mind is impervious. He knows that men sternly in earnest are not beaten by reverses, and that after every fresh defeat they only rally their forces to prepare for another conflict, and the last victory of intolerance will be but the earnest of its over- throw. The Dissenters and Nonconformists have been often repulsed in their assaults upon the strong and entrenched citadel of Sectarian and Ecclesiastical usurpation, and privilege, and power, but they have never been dismayed by temporary reverses, and the ecclesiastical and religious history of the last half century is an undying record of the victories they have won after a successive series of repulses and tem. porary defeats. The rejection of Mr OSBORNE MORGAN'S Burials Bill, Session after Session, does not dismay them. That through successive repulses they must wade to victory is a principle interwoven in every fibre of their moral Jnature. Strong in the justice of their cause, and in the abounding faith of its ultimate triumph, they do not care to count the forces of the enemy, or to euquirewho is their leader. Eight hundred men of Buckin ghamshire, "clergy and lay members of the Church of England," in 1875, fighting the battle of pri vilegeaud intolerance under a half-hearted chief- tain like Mr. DISRAELI, are not like eight hundred men of Buckinghamshire in 1645, freeholders and freeholders' sons," led by a patriot like JOHN HAMPDEN, against the embattled forces of Kingly and priestly tyranny. And Mr. DISRAELI knows this as well as the Nonconformists and Dissenters know it, and he therefore instructs his private secretary to write to the Rev. Canon RIDLEY to express the "PRIME MINISTER'S regret that the pressure of business renders it impossible for him to fix a day on which it would be within his power to receive the deputation to which you allude." Prudent Mr. DISRAELI He is learning the arts. of the diplomatist in his old age. The pressure of business" ia a convenient euphemism to shelter a point blank refusal to receive the deputation. Whether tbe "eight hundred clergy and lay members of the Church of England, electors of the county of •Buckinghammay not resent this rude closing of the official door in their faces is a matter that concerns Mr. DISRAELI alone as a Member for Buckinghamshire; but as an indication of Mr. DISRAELI'S indisposition to commit his Govern. 1 meat to a defence of the exQlitfiye claims Qf tQ Church of England to the national graveyards, his refusal to receive the deputation is significant, and, to the Church exclusionists, ominous. His state- ment that the subject is engaging his attentioD," and his promise that" Le will not fail to give every attention to the points adverted to in the memorial," are of course but the mere courtesies of official good manners, intended to tone down the harshness of an official rebuff. What is tolerably certain from the correspondence just published is, that the claims of the clergy and the members of the Church of England to the exclusive right of using their own ecclesiastical rites and formularies in the national burial grounds will find no very ardent or chivalrous defender in Mr. DISRAELI. One of the striking features of this remarkable memorial of eight 0 hundred I, clergy and lay members of the Church of England" is the inability which it reveals on the part of the memorialists to understand the differentia of the question, the real issue in dispute. They appear to think that Dissenters are unjustly claiming a right to invade their just rights in demanding the right of sepulture in the burial grounds of the nation with whatever services they please. Hence, these "clergy and lay members of the Church of England piteously declare that they are unable to see that any case has been made out for such violent interference with the rights of the Church and clergy as this Bill proposes." But the whole contention is, that the Episcopal Church and its clergy have, as such, no rights of ownership in the national graveyards, save such limited rights as trustees possess, whose rights are extinguished by the extinction of the trust?. The graveyards of the Dissenters and Nonconformists belong to themselves and have been paid for out of their own money. The most unreasoning advocate of the so-called "rights" of the Church will not venture to affirm that the parish grave-yards the "God's acre" of our ancestors, were pur- chased by the members of the religious sect called the Church of England. They hold them simply by a Parliamentary title, and for a special pur- pose. They possess no rights of ownership in them cannot alienate them from national uses cannot dispose of them for the benefit and use of their own sect, as any other religious sect in the kingdom can dispose, if they please, of their ecclesiastical property. Ought not such a simple fact as this—one of many similar, and many of them more significant, facts-to teach these clergy and lay members of the Church of England that there is, at least, some distinction, and a very grave distinction, in the "right" by which they hold and use the national grave- yards, and the absolute and unrestricted rights of ownership possessed by the Nonconformists and Dissenters in their chapels and burial-grounds 1 The right which the Church of England possesses in the national churches and grave-yards-with the exception of those provided by private benevolence—is simply a Parliamentary right, and the Parliament which established the trust, and so created the right, cao, by disestablishing the one, destroy the other.

THE NIGHT OF POLITICS. THE CHAIRMAN of Mr HENRY BICHARD'S meeting at Merthyr, on Tuesday night, was exceedingly apt and happy in applying the bold and atr km.dy poetic figure of the Hebrew prgpbet Watch- man, what of the night ?'—to describe the present somnolency of political life in Great Britain. That public spirit, and action, and life have been smitten by political sjneope, and are plunged into one of those dreamless sleeps which, as history teaches, is a needed counterpoise and restorative after an era of active political progress, ia a truth which Liberals need not deny and should not regret. Recuperative energy is begotten of inaction; and reaction is the neces- sary ;compement of action. It is only whorl reaction bee lotus-eating, and a nation is con- tent politically to stagnate, and, Ike the lotus eaters, to dream away'life and opportunity, as the poet sings carelej^ of mankind," that reaction is to be deplored aud night to be dreaded. Otherwise reaction is a preparative for action, and night th3 harbinger and the earnest of dawn. Mr JAMES, at that enthusiastic meeting on Tuesday night, evidently saw the first faint streak and glimmer of political daybreak, when, as he said, the old English fceÏng will be aroused once more, and we shall get honest men buck to conduct our business," Seeing those first earnests of the coming political day he interrogated the honourable Member for Merthyr not in the language of despondency, but of triumph, lathe stirring enquiry of the ancient prophet, Watchman, what of the night ?" 3t is truly, as Mr JES affirmed, the night of politics in Great Bii;aiu at present, but the ancient reply to the caller from the mountains of Seir waj "The morning cometh." And the morning of political life in England is sure to come, although it may tarry, and tarry longer than some expect; while the darkest hour of the political, as of the natural night, is just before the dawn. It is the fate of early risers who watch for the daybreak to ba reviled and ridiculed by the slug gard and the indolent. What do these restless and unquiet spirits mean by rising before daylight, and thus disturbing the pleasing dreams of those who want a little more sleep, a little more slumber, and a little more folding of the hands to sleep. Why cannot they, like others, "Rest and be; thankful?" Did not Earl RUSSELL, then Lord JOHN, tell the pountry years ago that the Reform Bill was a final acd a perfect measure of reform, and that" political agitation." ought to die a natural death, and everybody be contented with everything ? But the night could not last. Even in its darkest hours the world is rapidly speed- ing into daylight; and although we are kindly assured by political CASSANPRAS, whose prophecies are ever fated to prove false, that" the country does not want to be disturbed by revolutionary proposition?," the revolutionary propositions aie sure to be carried, and then bitterest opponents style them" sound and wholesome re- forms." Patriotism is always treason when it is under an eclipse. It resumes its rightful name when the darkness has pas3ed away. WTe understand clearly the scolding of the Times, its denunciations of "political agita- tors," and its assurance that" neither the country nor the House of Commons will give to any measure of Reform, "more than a fragment of its attention." We have heard all this sapient counsel, and have listened to this rebuking advice; ofttimes before in former political nights but the friends of political progress were at indifferent to the counsels then as they are now, and worked as they now work, patiently and persistently waiting in hope for the first heralds of the dawn. Unlike the natural night, the political night can be dissipated by those who long for the daylight. It was not by believing the "rest and be thankful" doctrine that the Tests and Corporations Acts were abolished; that the Catholic Emancipation Act was secured; that the great Reform Bill was carried that slavery in our Colonies was abolished; that the Municipal Corporations Acts were obtained; that the Corn Laws were repealed; that Church-rates were blotted out of existence that the Education and the Ballot Acts were won; and that the numerous other social and political Reforms of the last half-century have been achieved. Whig statesmen then, as now, assured advanced reformers that the time was not ripe for their schemes; that how- ever good in the abstract their principles might be, they were impracticable ia the then present of political parties, while the time wamost inopportune for their discussion- TiM Times then, as now, alternately coaxed, and scolded, and threatened these political Reformers, and assured them that their political agitation'' ø would dainaghe best interests of the country and eatraago from them the sympathies of all moderate t and safe Reformers. Through evil report and through good report these ad- vaiaced Reformers worked on perseveringly and unfalteringly; unseduced by favors; undeterred by opposition. By the agency of the platform and t^P|es»?tli|»y sought to enlightenthe people, to tWfcom to w?'ua$j to a sense of their p)litical responsibilities and duties; and dark though the political night was ofttimes, and inveterate as was the sleep of the nation, in every case the efforts of these picnec-rs of the dawn dispersed the dark clouds of tbe political night, and the reforms which they struggled for, and frequently suffered for, have been triumphantly secured. We are not alarmed, therefore, or dismayed at the political night. We have passed through its darkness before, and know well what it means, and me it as we have used it heretofore, simply as a preparative for the day. Watchman, what of the night the Chairman of the Merthyr meeting, in the language of the Hebrew prophet, asked the honourable Member for Msriliyr. Mr RICHARD did not answer in the precise words of the watchman's cheering reply, The morning cometh," but he gave that reply in substance, when he said, "Wlat they mean by speaking of restless men is to try to put down the men that are agitating for true religious equality by the separation of the Church from the State. But we shall go on, not- withstanding. We shall agitate we shall try to teach the public mind, and by and bye our Whig friends will come in and will do the work, taking it out of our hands, and then thy will eay, 'see our zeal for the L beral cause. That this will be the course presently adopted by the halting leaded of the Liberal party, and by the moderate we are assured, for it is the course they have hi-herto adopted in every Reform and that the political night is rapidly drawing to a close is clear, from every political prognostic and portent. The climax of the incompetency aad blunders of the Tory Government was reached, as it was thought in that Fugitive Slave Circular, so dishonouring to the pres'ige aud the honour of England, but even in that lower deep there has bean found another deep. Lord DERBY, the Tory Foreign Minister, in a recent speech at Liverpool, declared that while the Slave Circular would be suspended, in deference to public opinion, it nevertheless, been considered by the chiefs of Department*, and was deliberately issued with the sanction of the highest legal authorities." Mr CAVE, one of those high legal authorities, a law officer and adviser of the Tory Government, declaied, two or three days ago; at the Tory gathering at Bristol to celebrate the COLSTON anniversary, that the "Circular was an unques-ionable blunder, one of those things which sometimes occur in the absence of of responsible chiefs of Departments." But Lord DERBY affirmed at Liverpool that the Circular had been deliberately considered by the chiefs of Depart- meets, and issued by th9m with the sanction of the highest legal authorities. Mr CAVE, one of theee legal authorities, denies the impeachment wholly, and denounces the Circular as "an unques- tionable blunder—a blunder so palpable that no one could imagine it to be anything but a blun- der." Trnly we are in the political night now, but such a night as this is sure to usher in the dawn, and that most speedily.

CARDIFF MUNICIPAL ELECTION. THE nomination of candidates for the four vacant seats, occasioned by the election of tbe new Aldermen, took place on Monday, and a list of the candidates, with their nominators, will be found in another column. In the South Ward, Mr. JOHN ANSTEE, Albion Hotel, Bute-street had announced himself as a candidate, but two days' reflection seems to have satisfied this gen- tleman that municipal legislation was not his forte, and he like a sensible man, retired from the field. The subsequent nomination of Mr. DAVIES was understood as a practical joke, but practical jokes of this kind reflect little credit upon their perpetrators, and had bis nomination not been de- clared informal, it would have cost the ratepayers t least fifty pounds, besides the annoyance and trouble of a contested election. Mr. D. EDGAR JONES, surgeon, will therefore be declared duly elected for the South Ward, on Wednesday next. In the East Ward, Mr A. FULTON was not opposed, and this fact conclusively proves the correctness of cur opinion, expressed last week, that he would receive the support of all sections of the burgesses." Mr FULTON is to be con- gratulated upon this marked expression of public confidence, especially at a time of great competi- tion for municipal honours, and when a spirit of trade or class hostility appears to be more than usually active. We believe the election of Mr FULTON will be a decided gain to the deliberative capacity of the Corporate body. III the West Ward there were five candidates nominated, all .of whom are apparently using their most strenuous efforts to secure success. Mr THOMAS [YAKS, grocer, and Mr THOMAS CROSS* ironmonger, are spoken of as the most acceptable candidates, and their chances of success have been materially improved by the nomination of Mr JOHN THOMAS, brewer, at the last moment. The "public-house influence," as it is called, is powerful in this TV ard, and as long as the field was occupied by only two publican candidates it might have been difficult to forecast the issue as between them and Messrs. EVANS and CROSS. The appearance of Mr. JOHN THOMAS, however, has materially changed the position of matters, and the probability now is that the public-house vote will be so divided as to cause a defeat of their three representatives. It is only right to state that neither Messrs. STEEDS, JACOBS, or THOMAS are the nominees of the Licensed Victuallers' Association—that body, we believe having declined to nominate either of the candidates. If such be the fact, we think the Licensed Victuallers' Association have manifested great wisdom in not interfering, as a body, with this municipal contest. There is a wide-spread feeling of dissatisfaction at the attempt which is being made to bring to the front candidates for municipal honours who are mere trade represen- tatives and if this practice be discouraged by associations, of whatever kind, the better will it be for our municipal government. Since the foregoing was in type, Mr. J. THOMAS has announced his intention to retire. Such fickleness of purpose in a matter of public importance is not commendable, and Mr. TnoAAs would have shown more wisdom had he refrained from entering upon a contest at the eleventh hour. His name cannot now be withdrawn from the voting papers—which fact will lead to a little confusion amongst a certain class of electors but the battle will now be fought upon more equal terms so far as Messrs. STEEDS and JACOBS are concerned.

OUR STAPLE TRADES. THE necessity of increased dock accommodation has become so pressing, that almost any scheme which tends to supply this great want must be gladly welcomed. On Monday last, we published the formal Parliamentary Notices of the intention of the Cardiff Union Dock and Railway Company to apply for legislative powers to convert the present canal basin into a commodious dock, and to connect such dock, by a branch line, with the Great Western Railway. It does not appear to be the intention, at present/at any rate, to form a communication between the proposed dock aud either the Taff or the Rhymney Railways. No doubt a very large quantity of coal will be coming from the Western districts over the Great Western Railway for shipment, at Cardiff, for which the proposed dock will be most convenient, and to that extent the present docks will be relieved- It would unquestionably be advantageous to the trade if the collieries in Merthyr, Aberdare, and Rhondda had equal access to the new dock. But it is evident that what is now proposed must materially relieve the coming pressure. The Taff Vale Companies have refused to do anything in the way of extending their Penarth Docks, much as they have been pressed to do so, and they can hardly complain if other Companies, more alive to the existing want, undertake to supply it in their own and not in Taff Vale interests. It may appear anomalous, at first sight, to urge more dock accommodation as of, paramount im- portance to the port at a period when trade is so depressed, and moat of the collieries and iron- !N:41 tiW fcu* U n i^Jt. r,\ -—-—J*— the steady growth of our trade, notwithstanding periods of depression quite as great as that from which we are now suffering, it will be seen that, unless speedy provision be made for a large aug- mentation of our exports, the natural expansion of trade will be stopped, and much of the capital in- vested in colliery operations will be rendered unproductive. Emring the last four months the shipments from Cardiff, foreign and coastwise, amounted to, in July 421,219 tons. August 407,594 tons. September 394,505 tons. October 413,356 tons. To ship those large quantities, the docks were worked to the utmost limits, and merchants were paying enormous amounts in demurrage, not so much for want of coal to load the vessels, es from insufficient appUances and dock room for the ship- meet of the coal. It cannot be fcupposed that we have reached the limit to which the trade of Cardiff may hope to attain. The history of our trade utterly confounds any such psstimption. The continuous steady growth of commerce will be seen from the following returns showing the quantity of coal and cokj sent over the Taff Vale Railway to Cardiff and Penarth junction, from the opening of the East Bute Dock. 33i3,769 1861 2,092,505 450,569 1862 2,2^6,(^57 Js.'9 497,045 1803 '2,450 *95 561,698 1864 2,414,336 546,456 1865 2,501,CS9 607,240 18G6 2,877,492 701,502 1867 3,021,641 834,504 18t>3 3,159.895 980,632 1869 3,307,068 1.230,396 1870 3 415,193 ■J8^ — 1,337,830 1871 2,951,318 1,313,383 1872 3,219 501 1,582,211 1S73 3,423 925 1800 3,929,525 1874 3.548.3*U But even the?e figures do not nearly represent the actual increase. Until within the last four or five years the Taff Vale had a monopoly of the mine- ral traffic of the district. Now, large quantities of coal are brought by the Rhymney Railway Com- pany from Monmouthshire for shipment at Car- diff, and that Company ha? likewise forced itself into the Aberdare Valley, and. now brings down the greater part of the Powell Duffryn and Nixon's Navigation and other coal from that dis- trict. The Great Western has also of late brought down considerable qusintities of coal for shipment. If these be added to the figures as shown by the Taff Vale Com- pany, the increase of trade from 1871 will be found to be enormous and continuous. The existing docks have been taxed to the utmost to ship 'an average of a little under the rate of 5,000,000 t jns per annum. That may be taken as their present capacity. How, then, is he na'ural increase to be met 1 It will take time to construct docks, even after they are commance J. There appears to be no intention on the part of Lord BOTE to proceed with the extension of the East Dock, for which a Bill has been ob- I, tained. Meanwhile, large collieries in the dis- trict are being sunk and developed. From most of these collieries coal will be pressed into the market, before new docks can be provided. Necessity will doubtless compel these who can reach Newport and Swansea to resort, as far as practicable, to those ports for an outlet. It is not to the interest of Cardiff that trade should be thus forced away to rival ports; and, therefore, our merchants and traders-al-1, in fict, who have the welfare of the town at heart-niiait wish for the success of the new dock scheme, even though it does not meet, as much as could he de-ired, all the rquirementsof thepori". It will be a tangible relief to trade, especially the import trade, the -steady growth of which is apt to be lost sight of in the more rapid development of our export trade. The depression in the iron trade has greatly cur- tailed our imports, especially of iron ore but there has been considerable difficulty in discharging •even the comparatively few vessels which have brought it. When the reaction comes, a3 come it will, we fear that Cardiff will be found all too unprepared for the greatness which is vainly thrust upon her.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES. [BY AN AMATEUR ARTIST.] SOME gossips who take a great deal of interest in the public weal have been circulating an amount of in- teresting information respecting things to come in the public line, which, as it has come to my ears, I think is deserving of a wider circle of listeners than is usually found in the enug of a licensed victualler. Owing to recent events and those now brewing, it has been felt, by the members of the most popular trade in Cardiff—not that "the times are out of joint"—but that the signs aie out of joint with the times, and that, consequently, as well to indicate the progress of the town, as to sympathise with the mediaeval tastes of the most noble the Marquis of Bute, the signs and effigies indicative of our iuns, hostehies, and caravan- aries, should henceforth be completely renovated, so as to be at once in harmony with past ideas and modern occurrences. Mr. Burgess has not been con- sulted but local talent in the form of Mr. Wilson, is said to have 1 em engaged, aud to have even now upon the easel several great works of art, which are des- tined to adorn at frequent intervals our public thorough- fares. One of these has, in fact, been completed, and represents-, I The Three Jolly Waiters," it being un- derstood tLat they are waiters for a ward vacancy. Others of the happy designs of our local artist I have been permitted to mention. There is a noble signboard to represent Flying Steeds," with a great deal of gold in the back-ground. Next we are shown a repre- sentation of "Jacob's Ladder," with Jacob at the bottom, and, as a London potboy would say, the 'Evans above. Mr. Wi'son has also made a very spirited representation of the "Cross cut saw," and another medieval piece representing the disciples of Bacchus assembled together, and Thomas absent. I was shown a list of commissions which have been given our local artist to execute, and hasten to enumerate some of the suggestive sign boards, which are in the coming year to add lustre to our streets. I will take the simplest first-" The Victorious Pot," is a great favourite, but not inferior to the Jolly Alderman; The." Fish and the Mayor's chain," aad Cock spurs and Mayor's tails." The Civic chair, is afavourite type; and also in large letters, This is the way to the Town Hall." One gentleman who is prospecting a licensed house near the London and North Western Goods station, is desirous of having these words put on the top of the roof, so that the whole town may be informed ¡ that the way to the Town Hall may be found on the East Moors. Another class of signs has reference to the public duties of the estimable oflicials in blue. Ranged with this class, I observed The cat in gloves," and The dog that neither barks ror bites." The happy blind Peeler," is another effigy, and under it the scripture words, Watch and be sober." The beer-house keepers have combined with those having spirit licences, to pay for several representations of our jolly Board of Health," which it is expected will now perpetually consist of six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. While upon this reference, I may remark that it is expected the Borough will require the services of a second public analyst, and that there are already three candidates in the field, viza publican,a milkmaid,and a manufacturer of pickles. They expect to be preferrei to any one who may have been taught at college that whales are in reality shales, and yield a mineral oil; and they base their expecta- tions of success largely upon the fact of their long practical experience in the art of adulterating public comestibles. I have heard farther in reference to the officials who came under the direction of the Watch Committee, that Bond has been given for their good behaviour, and that a practical sympathy with the members of the force will be early manifested on the part of a majority in the Town Council. An asylum is suggested for those worthy and hard-working mem- bers, who, in the discharge of their duties, have become blind as a bat and deaf as a post—the qualification for admission being that for three years they should have shown themselves while on the beat unable to read the clock or to hear the church bells. It is feared that the force will be so much diminished by the operation of this benevolent design, that it will be necessary to appeal for volunteers, and here the patriotism of the licensed victuallers has shown itself- for, anticipating the emergency, they have volunteered to put their own sons into the police force; but all vacancies are likely to be filled up from the names of 40 thieves, who hare announced their retirement from business, in order to devote themselves to the guardian- ship of the public morality. I must now return from this digression to notice the sign which finds the greatest favour with the reforming and aggressive party among the pubucano-this is "The Corporation Entire." The brewers are busily engaged upon the manufacture of a new beverage, to which this name will be given, and wherever it will be sold the sign of The Corporation Entire" will be conspicuously displayed on the building. The sign will also serve as a watchword aad motto for the party. The Corpora- tion Entire," or as some prefer it, "The Entire Corporation," serving as a signal for attendance at every gathering at which elections for the Municipality, or the conduct of Town Councillors, is to be discomed. The same reforming party of citizens are anxious tc purify the magisterial bench from the numerous acts oi injustice which, in their opinion, has marked its history. The motto of this party—when acting in this direction— is The Bench of Magistrates an Ale Bench." Some other amusing items of information have been vouchsafed to me, such as the intention of one member of the committee, to make a signboard of the portrait of Sir Wilfred Lawson, hang with his head downwards; also of a commission given to Mr. Wilson, to paint the present Ministry holding a Cabinet Council within a brewer's vat, with the words upderoeatn The True United Kingdom Alliance:" but I ha'ye entered sufficiency into details, WLMPLINL ML mouths water, and their eyes also, at the prospect of the things that are shortly to come to pass in the town of Cardiff.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, THUUSDAT. Next week the chief ease of interest in the law courtg will be the trial of the two Wainwrights, which is to be conducted by the Lord Chief Justice of England. This week Sir James Hannen's Court is the centre of attrac- tion, and all the world is crowding to hear the dispute about tbe late Lord St Leonard's will. The deceased peer seems to have been possessed by land-hunger." As fast as he amassed money did he invest it in real estate. He bought no fewer than seven different pro- perties in Kent, Sussex,Hampshire,Berkshire, and Cam. bridgeshire. By a strange irony of fa.te,the great lawyer, who beyond all others impressed upon the public the importance of making wills, has left all this property without any will, or rather without any that can be found. So the estate is now in the Courts, and no fewer than 10 counsel have been retained by the various parties interested in it. There seems no reason to doubt that Lord St. Leonards not only made a will but supposed it to be safe at the time of his death. But when his deed box was opened after his decease, the document was not to be found, though the codicils were still there. The result is that in the ordinary course, the late peer's son having died previously, the property wjuld descend to that eldest eon's eldest son, the present peer. But evi- dence is forthcoming to show that the late peer had quarrelled with his grandson, and hence the other relatives —chiefly the late Lord's daughter, the Hon. Charlotte Sugden.a lady of advanced years—dispute the present peer's right to inherit. The case is likely to last several days. By the way, I am not aware if it is generally known that oneoi the late Lord St Leonard's eons is a well-known actor. He act. under an assumed name. The London solicitors are disappointed to find that the new Judicature Act has not remedied one of their grievances. When they appear before a Judge in Chambers or a Mister they are compelled to stand while barristers are allowed to sit. Some of the Judges have the good sense to tell solicitors to be seated, but a recently-appointed Judge is very particular in asserting his dignity by humbling the profession. The result is that solicitors generally avoid attending there, and send their clerks instead. Mr Gorst has followed up the letter which he wrote to the Times under the signature of "An Active Con- servative," by a speech which is quite as remarkable as the letter. The report appears in Mr Gorst's own paper, the Standard, and from it I learn that the member for Chatham, addressing his constituents, made charges against the present Government. He complained that the political heads of Depart- ments are completely under the control of the perma- nent heads, who are nearly all Ridicals that Mr Dis- raeli is surrounded by a host of parasitea,who will not let him hear the truth, as was ehown in the management of the Merchant Shipping Bill, when Ministers refused to listen to the representatives of the shipping ports; that the Conservatives have produced no policy of their own, but are simply wearing their predecessors' clothes, and if they continue to do so the present Government will not survive the present Parliament; and that the Treasury is in need of a thorough reform, inasmuch ag it is starving the Services quite as much as the late Government did, and is guilty of those very same acts of mean parsimony which the Conservatives So strongly denounced when perpetrated by the Libe- rals. Mr Gorst furthermore asserted hia right to be a critic instead of a blind follower of the present Government. Strange to say, he had no criticism for the late Admiralty blunders. I am not sur. prised to read this attack, on the contrary, I have been looking for it. Here in London it is notorious that the relations between Downing-etreet and Shoe-lane are the reverse of friendly, and all official news is withheld from the Standard, in so far as the Treasury officials have power to withhold it. Mr Gorst is a clever man and it was not to be expected that he would quietly sub' mit to this treatment. SJ, as ha is not the sort of person to win his way by sweetness, he is going to see what acidity will do. Mr Disraeli will have to find a place for him, as he has for Mr Cavendish Bentinck and Mr James Lowther. Mr Wbeelhoqsa seems to have talked more nonsense than usual when speaking at the Wakefield Licensed Victuallers' dinner last year. He declared that he would not have his liberty curtailed because other per- sons abused theirs, and though helhowed that he had forgotten the very first element of the discussion, viz., that the Licensing system on the one hand curtails the liberty of the publican by saying when, and where> and how he shall sell, and on the other hand curtails the liberty of the public by making them pay for the maintenance of thepapers and the pun- ishment of the criminals, whom the licensing system creates. He said, that the passing of the Permissive bill would lead to illicit drinking. This is either a truism or it is a falsehood, If Mr Wheelhouse mean-g that the Permissive bill would increase drinking, then he simply said what was not trie; if he meant that drunkards would still drink privately, and that such drinking would be "illicit," then he is no doubt right. A man who steals my purse is guilty of illicit stealing, for illicit is simply unlawful. But when did any M.P. propose that a law should ba passed to licence stealing, because, under the present law, there is good deal of "iltieit" theft ? Mr Wheel, house is just one cf those men who repeat phrases without in the least understanding their meaning, and a gcod many persons are taken in by him. For in- stance, how many persons are there who understand that an action is wrong, not because it is illicit (that is unlawful), but is illicit because it is wrong ? The O'Connell Centenary is likely to commemorate something more than the Liberator. It will set forth to all the world the hopeless incapacity of Irish politi- cians to co operate. There is now a serious dispute about the Centenary Fund. The Lord Mayor of Dublin resents the demand for accounts as a personal insult, and the matter is to be thrown into Chancery. I have often wondered at the benevolence of the persons who advertise in the papers that they are willing to lfend money at 5 per cent., without security. I am afraid there are not many of us who would care to do that for strangers we don't always like doing it even for friends. We can get 5 or G per cent for our money on safe investments, and naturally shrink from incurring a very considerable risk without any compensating advantage. Yet, there are kind hearted persons who will not only do this, but spend a very considerable amount of money in announcing that they will do so. I have just had the curiosity to apply to one of these kind- hearted gentry, to see whether he would be as good as his word. Going to the address advertised, I found quite a large establishment, near Covent-ga.rden. Evidently his benevolence had been blessed to him. Oat of this 5 per cent. and no security, he was able to rent a bank and keep several clerks, besides paying for his extensive advertising. The benevolent gentleman was a trifle sharp in his mode of speech. I approached him with a smile that was child-like and bland, and he said rather roughly your business, sir ? I meekly replied that £100 would be rather useful to me just now. "Yoar name and address ?" They were duly placed at his disposal, and I looked with some curiosity (shall I add with small expectation) to see if the £100 would be placed at my disposal, "Our first oharge will be 30s to see if you really live at the place you repre. sent." Thirty shillings to ascertain what a messenger could learn in half-au-hour! And a first charge! Now I began to see how it was possible for benevolent persons to lend money without security to strangers at 5 per cent, and how one might pay clerks and keep a comfortably house out of it. As I did not want the did not pay the 30a. The information which I did want I got for nothing, and now offer it as a free gift to your readers. The ex-Queen of Spain has been in the Paris law courts. Some time ago her cook, who had contracted to supply her table at a given price, absconded. There- upon certain tradespeople, who had contracts with him, brought an action against Isabella to recover several thousand francs. They endeavoured to make out that he was her servant, and therefore acted for her, and she was responsible bat she went into the witness-box and took an oath that she had never employed the plaintiffs, and, therefore, the judge non- suited them. In Paris the sale of violets is quite a large business perhaps all the larger that the flower has a politicai significance. The spring violets grow in the fields, and fetch frem 15 to 20 centimes the basket; the utumn violets grow in enclosures and fetch from 60 .utimes to a franc. The total quantity sold in Paris during the year realises about £201000. There is good news for the advocates of the higher education of women. The Monthion prize of virtue has been given by the French academy this year to a woman. Her name is Annetti Panmont, and though only a servant, she was really noble. She tended to the end her old master, whojxad fallen into abject poverty. In prder to succour Um in his l*st yø, the sold all that she had, ani it was through hF fyyotion jtU<i )t1f-AétiA that W WM ¡ ta&d L the common ditch where paupers are in- terred. The Academy thereupon awarded Annette a prize of £ 80. Another prize of like value was bestowed on Sebastien Basque. He is the son of a poor tailor at Avignon. For Imany years he supported by his labours his mother, and five brothers and sisters. Then he married, brought up five children of his own, and daring the late floods he saved many persons at the peril of his life. He has also saved other persons from fiats. The Guizot prize has been awarded by the Academy to M. Leo Gaathier for his Chanson de Boland." While Miss Orme and Miss Richardson have set up as conveyancers in Chancery-lane, a new lady doctor, Mrs Atkin, has started in St. John's Wood. She had previously obtained considerable reputation in Bir- mingham. Miss Fenwick Miller, who has been deliver. ing a course of lectures on I I Simple Sanitary Science" at Tamworth, under the auspices of Mr Brooke Lambert, is going to repeat the lectures in Oxfordshire, and also in London, for the National Health Society. The Boston Women's Journal advises women to become architects. Theyare being increasingly employed as clerks in the Post Office they check the bills of the railway companies, and they examine about 60,000 telegrams a month, and the accounts of the news agencies, which amount to about £ 32,000 a year. They deal with returned deal letters, involving a sum of nearly £ 600,000 a year, and their salaries are only from £ 36 to £62 a year. Some insurance offices are now employ- ing women as clerks. Some persons must have a great love for Greek. Dr Vaughan gives lectures on Greek at eight o'clock in the morning, and he gets a very considerable class of young men from the City. This speaks well for him and for them. The Cobden Club has underta! e i to present to such ministers of religion as may like to have them and dis. tribute them, the publications of the club. Copies also are presented to the various Free Libraries. Mr Arthur Dake Coleridge has come out as a lee. turer, and is now giving in various towns his lecture on Robert Schumann, the musical composer. Mr M. Conway is showing that a prophet may have honour in his own country, for his lectures in America are having a great success, especially at Cincinnati. In his lecture on Oriental Religions, he described a certain Indian Society in London which is composed of native scholars Brahmins, an able Confacian priest, and a learned Hindu author. The American papers are telling a good story about Mr Gladstone. It relates to the sale of his library the other day. He went to a second-hand bookseller, and bargained for the sale of all his books, including pre- sentation copies, dedication copies, copies filled with his own manuscript notes, which, if they had been sold by auction, would have fetched almost any price. Among them especially was Mr Maguire's "Irish in America," which was full of Mr Glad, stone's annotations. The sale was duly made, and the next day, Lord Wolverton hearing of it, rashed off to the booksellers' in order to get the books back again. The man might have stood out for a high figure, but he was an honourable tradesman and was satisfied with a small commission. The paper which tells the story recalls Lord Palmerston's remark (or the remark attributed to him)—" Gladstone will die in a monastery or a madhouse." He has evidently made up his mind that it shall not be tha first.

"OBSERVED" AND "NOT OBSERVED." (BY RAMBLE LI.") OBSERVED." That the disturbance in the Malayan Peninsula has caused an advance in the price of tin, although it is not positively known that tin is raised in the disaffested districts. That the Colliery Proprietors propose to ask for a reduction of 20 per cent in the men's wages at the end of the present year. It is simply impossible for the collieries to be worked to a profit under present cir- cumstances steam coal has been sold this week at 10s per ton. That the excessive rain-fall of the last few weeks has seriously inconvenienced mining operations, many of tbe pumping engines being unable to cope with the unusual quantities of water finding its way into the shafts and workings. That it is officially contradicted that Mr H. Giffard has been appointed Solicitor-General, and that tbe original rumonr has been affirmed. That two young girls have commenced to solicit subscriptions for missionary societies, on Cardiff streets, after daik. This is a dangerous practice for the girls. "NOT OBSERVED." That any steps have been taken to remove or improve the very awkward stiles in the Penylan fields. The beautiful rural walk across the hill, like most others around Cardiff, is entirely unused by ladies, on account of the stiles, which closely resemble five-barred gaka, and are no more easily scaled.

CORRESPONDENCE. THE FLOODS AT WENVOE. To the Editor of the CARDIFF TIMES. rn,AB a householder in the village of Wenvoe for fifteen years, who has openly identified herself, at con- siderable persona! expense, with the drainage of the place, kindly allow me to ask, through your columns, what are we going to do to guard ourselves from a repetition of the danger we were threatened with on Saturday last, owing to the overflowing of some of the drains, and to the inefficiency of existing ones, and, alas, it must be added, to the sad wa-it of drains of any kind in some parte ? My warning voice has not yet been listened to, but from the ready thanks which, have spontaneously been awarded me by several of the chief ratepayers since, for the prompt and effectual steps which the emergency of the case justified me in taking cn Saturday, I hope I may augur that we shall at once call a ratepayers' meeting and determine, once for all, on a different system of local drainage and surveillance of our parish roads. We have had more than ample warning since the flood in July and with the excessive barometrical disturbance that exists at present on all sides throughout a vast area, on sea as well as on laud, why should we rest upon our oars until some calamity befals us, satisfying ourselves with the floods are out, we can do nothing?" We do not find it said, "The fire is raging, we can do nothing," but we immediately go for the tire engine, and try to check its progress. Water, that danzerous and deceiving element, is to be trifled with; new wells, at the expense of the ratepayers, to be begun and then left, without any precaution as to overflow new drains opened and new walls run up. utterly irrespective of the comfort of the outdoor and aged pauper, or the chiles that has to go twice a day over the road to school, and subjecting a-U, of every class, to arrive in church or chapel as if they had gone through a pond, and the general pedestrians having their health undermined for ever. As far back as July, I brought thie matter before a surveyor. On the 12th October I requested a medical officer to come and re-inspect the locality, which he did, bringing with him a surveyor, filling just now a two-fold capacity—" Their report was to be sent in for the October meeting of their Board," but though I have seen a report of the meeting in the local journals, I can see no reference in its details to the important m ttters we discussed then and there. Undoubtedly the report would have been most unfavourable, but, be it remembered, having tried in every way to secure justice in this matter since February last, I must now exercise the power, the individual ratepayer has, under the Rural Sanitary Act, 18 and 19 Vie,, c. 121, s. It, unless those mostly concerned are convinced by what they experienced on Saturday, that the drainage I have been working to secure around my residence for so many yean, is become a matter of necessity—to be taken in hand at once and when I say that the only way in which wè could at all get a hold over the four feet of water that day, at 4 p.m., was by my ordering my tenants' stock to be removed from my meadow, and portions of its boundary wall to be knocked down, and the flood let in the justice of my remarks will be seen. Our village pond 1 have since seen, measures 160 feet by 32, and is G feet deep. So enormous and insU /itaneous was the rise of the waters (over 3 feet) throughout the churchyard, up to the village well, that in less time than I can write it. this huge pond overflowed it i entire length. I had foreseen the danger from an early hour, but failed to impress anyone else with it until at 3.30, with the baro- meter rapidly rising, sirid the birds singing as though it were a May day, a complete water-spout broke over us, and before I could form the available men of the place into a gang to make the most of our strength, we were in 3 to 4 feet of water. It being Saturday, hands were scarce, and but for the return from Cardiff of a local squire, who drove' on rapidly to send his men down, and returned him- self to help, we should have had great difficulty in dispersing the laree tract of water before the many returned to_ the lower side from Cardiff market. As it was, it was considered too gTeafc a risk for the two aged and helpless paupers living cloee to the well to be left there for the night, and with some diffi- ettlty they were persuaded to allow themselves to be carried by a strong man to be domiciled here under my roof, and I have great pleasure in saying that no credit is due to me on this score, but it arose entirely from the kindly consideration felt for them early in the Cokw- trophe by our local condable-P.C. Butler-who also proved himself one of the ablest of the gang I had work- ing under me that night, and though it was his night for going on duty, yet he very readily worked in the water for over five hours in drenching rain. The important position of this road to and from Car- diff. and winter only beginning, will be a sufficient apology for my bringing forward, through the public press, a matter of such public importance.—I am, &c., GERTRUDE JEjNNEB. The Cottage, Wenvoe, Nov. 17,1875. THE WEST BUTE DOCK. To the Editor of the CARD IFF TIKBS. Sra,—Noticing a paragraph in to-day's issue of the l South Wales Daily New headed Opening of the West Bute Dock," I beg leave to correct one or two inaocura- cies. It is true the West Bute Deck was opened in 1839. I But Captain Dornford was not the first Dockmaster. Captain Abbott was the first, and resigned to take oom- mand of one of the Royal West India Mail boats, and afterwards was made commodore of their fleet. Captain Dornford succeeded him. Mr Frazer was appointed to the West Dock as Deputy-Dockmaster in the year 1849, ¡' at which time Mr William Scaadrett was foreman, in which capacity he remained for some years afterwards under Captain Dornford and Mr Fisber. ONE WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH, Cardiff, 18th November, 1875. Always good dike," is ttoe standard of excellence «f ONE WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH. Cardiff, 18th November, 1875.

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■ ■? MARRIAGE OF MISS EDITH WYNNE. SPECIAL TELEGRAM FROM OUR LOSTDOV COEEKPONDERtf The marriage of Miss Sarah Edith Wynne, the well- known vocalist, to Mr Aviet Agabeg, a member olthA American Bar, was solemnized on Tuesday morning at the Chapel Royal, Savoy. Admission to the Chapel was by ticket, but long previous to the time fixed foi the ceremony a large number of persons had collected around the gates, and inside the building were a crowd of celebrated musical artistes. The ceremony, which was fall choral, was performed by the Rev. H. Whites M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, assisted by the Rev. Robert Jones,Vicar of All Saints, Rotherhithe, an old friend of the bride and bridegroom. A pie- cession was formed at the entrance to the chapel and passed to the chancel, the choir singing John Keble'g well-known marriage hymn The Voice that breathed o'er Eden." The bride wore a dress of white satin, trimmed with Brussels lace and orange blossoms, sur- mounted by a veil of Brussels lace. The bridesmaids- five in number, viz., Miss Ida Agabeg, Miss Josephin* Agabeg, Miss Clinton Fynes, Miss Beeate Waugh, and Miss Patey (daaghter of Madame Paiey), were attired in dresses of pale lavender and cerise, and wore hats of white plush and cerise. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr H. Wynne. At the close of the cere- mony Dr Monsell's Wedding Anthem, from BAmdai. was rendered. The Rev. Robert Jones then offered his felicitation* to the happy pair. Addressing the bridegroom, the Rev. gentleman said: "To you, individually, I would say a rich treasure has fallen to your lot-the cherished daughter of a nation which prides itself on the rich talents of her whom they this day commit to your care. Love her, cherish her. Be trag to her as you would be true to yourself. She will be your friend in the happy summers, your support and comfort in the stormy winters, of life. Turning to. happy bride, he remarked To you, individually, I would say, the experience we have had of the lofty principle that has animated you as a daughter, ministering as you have done with your own hands to the comfort of your parents in their declining years, I heeitate not to say even from this sacred spot, is some sure warranty that you will not forget the higher duties of a wife. Con- tinue, then, faithful, and trust and tlove each other. Be your world centred in one another. Thus, with God's blessing, which we all invoke, resting upon yon your years will flow smoothly onwards, and when the great change comes, may your happy spirits fly to soeneg where bless is unchanging, and love immortal. The happy couple then retired to the vestry with their friends for the purpose of signing. the register On their return a procession was formed, and amidst the congratulations of their friends they proceeded to their carriage. The wedding breakfaat took pfeee at 18, Bentinck-street, Manchester-square.

MEETING OF SANITARY AUTHORI- TIES AT MKKTHYR. v ^^Thursday a meeting was held at the Board-room of the Merthyr Workhouse, of urban and rural sanitary authorities, and of persons associated with the Board of txuaraians for Merthyr, and the Merthyr and Aberdare Local Boards, to meet Mr Doyle, Poer Law Inspector in order to hear his explanation of the wishes of tha Local Government Board as to the appointment of a medical officer of health for the whole county There were present :-Messrs R. H. Rhrs (in the chairL tt iiuam Jones (Merthyr Board of Health), J. Matthew J. Sneurng Henry Thomw, Rev. A. Davies, Johj James, D. E. Williams, W. L. Daniel, J Place, George Martin, Rev. W. Davies, Dr. Price' J W Jones, Francis Phillips, James Lewis. Henry Davui Dr Probert, Dr Davits (Aberdare), Thomas Jenkins Thomas Lloyd. G. Watkins (Deri), Frank James (ec thyr), and R. Gery (Aberdare). The CHAIBMAK having explained why they been summoned together, called oa Mr £ >oyie to the meeting. Mr DOYLE then detailed the proposed scheme, which was substantially the same as the report of his exhaus- tive statement at Cardiff, a full report of wh;cb appeared in the columns of the South Wales Daily Nam on 1 hursday. A recapitulation therefore is unnecessary He said the salary of the propemd officer would be about £ l,0u0 a year, of wto the kSSt Union-assuming the proposed combination to be cou- fined only to the county of Glamorgan—would contribute £ 111 per annum. Whether they would consider It necessary to continue their local officers in exactly the same position they were now, was a matter for the Sanitary Authority themselves to determine. A discussion ensued, and Mr Doyle was pretty cloeeiv interrogated by several members. Mr WOK. JoxBS thought they were being asked to cam- tribute towards the support of a medical fanctionacw who would be for the benefit of districts where no local medical officer existed, but Mr DOTtaexplained that tbat would not be so. In reply to the Rev. A. Davies, Mr DOYLE said the proposed officer would have to devote the whole of his time to the duties of his office, and .Q ereage iu private practice. Dr Paies thought that while a IoOlI oSper—DrDaiSta. at Aberdare, for instance, was anng Us wo»k tiilL ■ £ county functionary would con» doweat thsnHT frt Are, year and publish a flamin* report at the exJftM* of local officer. This would dfaeousagfag to lac £ effort. He thought the iocfl effiqpe would do duty efncienuy. The CHAIRMAN thought the great <$s^et ai Mr &oyk's argument was that he had not showp them that-it would prove beneficial to the urban district that the Q" should be appointed. Mr JOXES said Mr Doyle had«ipMnei pretty well that so far as the four districts were concerned, they did not require the officer but he wanted toenliat urban co-operation for the benefit others outside, who would not otherwise reap aid. After some discussion, and a few remarks front Dr Probert, Mr DOYLE said that doubtless the good object the scheme had in view was for the good of all, far it would trace out infectious disease and get rid of it, thereby bene- fitting the whole county. For instance, typhoid fever had lately appeared in Swansea, and Dr Rogers said he did not know the eource. It might be that he was morally certain of the source of that fever—-which was outside the lins of his district or jurisdiction. Now at present in such a case, much delay attended authoritative inves- tigation. The Local Government Board appointed an able man to go down from Londoa. bnt there was no reason why they should not have a good man in the county, ready at any moment to go, for instance, with Dr Rogers to trace it out. Furthermore, the consulta- tive officer could meet local officers at Mertbyr. Aberdare and Swansea, and talk over the shortcomings, if acr oi the district, and co-operate in sanitary matters. Dr. PROBERT thought Monmouthshire stood more in need of such an officer. Mr DOYLE hoped there was a sufficient represent*. tion of the Local Boards of Health in this district, to take upon themselves to give some definite expression of feeling, he should be glad. If they could intimate that thev were mif&vour&bl&^to tb6 ^ppointmciitj it wouiu useless going further, but if, on the other hand the* thought it practicable, by conference with the Local Government Board or otherwise, he should be only too happy to meet them at their Local Board meeting and explain any points, and discuss auypoint with them. Mr JAMES LEWIS (Aberdare) thought urban authori- ties ought not to look at this matter from a narrow point of view, and thought the expenditure of a feu hundred pounds ought not to influence them when they remem- bered the indirect advantages secured by a special medical officer for the county who could aassist local authorities in detecting, and preventing, it possible the spread of disease. Urban authorities should therefore look upon the scheme beyond the boundary of their own district. A* Mr WILLIAM J ONEf. said much would depend upon the name of the proposed officer. Don't have anything that would make it ittfro dig on the part of the varlom obown to act. Mr JOHN JAMES, after going into some matter of detail, expressed an opinion that the proposed consul- tative officer would be a kind of gentleman at large, one whom local authorities would have no control The CHAIBM-VN was glad that there was such a good representation of the Aberdare Board at the same time they came with the understanding that they were net to pledge the Board by any expression of opinion one way or the other, and that he should striotly nilbisn to. The matter would come forward at the next meeting of the Board, and would be brought forward aad dk- cussed with moderation, and he hoped with liberality; &nd after the discussion had taken place, they communicate with Mr Doyle and inform him of the general opinion of the Board; and if they thought any further explanation necessary, would wriu to Mrifcyla and ask him to name some day that would be conveaisait fer him to come and make further explanation to the Board. He dared to say the Merthyr Board would &&Vt the same course. Mr JONES: Yes. The CHAIBMAK You are not pledged, Mr Jones, is anyway. Mr JoifE.s No, we are bers as listeners. The CHAIRMAN Then the better plan would be te close the meeting with that understanding. It appeared to him that if one urban district cleoliwd it was fMaI to the whole scheme. Mr DOYLE I am not sate of that, bat one nrhaa authority wouid have the effect of very eerioeiv impairing it. t The CHAIBMAK Very well; perhans by that M shall bear what Swansea and viudS the subieol DOYLE I would rather have hoard what foa m on the subject first. The CHAIBMAK But they consider themselves by fat the most important. (Laughter.) hear7) DorLE' urban authority does. (Hear, The CHAIRMAN We don't at Aberdare, iadeed- vg are very modest. (Sensation.) 1 Mr Doyu: Then I am put in the position of ttie county officer iii embryo, tie COIae when I am. seat for The CHAIBMAK I don t know aay better course. If you can suggest any other, well aad good. We shall b« meeting next Thursday. V After further discussion the meeting separated m-ith a E°L^nk?-t0 ^chu!rman' *ad to Mr Doyk for hie e *-ha ^au d >b\ t; ex planation of his scheme, ¡

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