The Cardiff Times

A Forecast of the Report. The Pa11 Mall Gazette of Saturday aays in its "Tittle Tattle I hear that the report of the Welsh Sunday-Closing Commisiou is likely to be a severe blow to the hopes of the publicans. The fact that the Act leads to an increase of drunken- ness on the border will be taken as au argument in favour of the extension of the principle, and the laxity with which the bouS-fide clause has been interpreted by the Walsh magistrates may lead to an increase of stringency."

THE PROPOSED WEST MON- MOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL. The first meeting of the united school boards of Newport and Maindee, amalgamated on the 30th ult. under the powers of the Newport Im- provement Act, was held on Friday, the chairman of the Newport board, Mr R. T. Martin, presiding. The board occupy a unique position, as it is the largest school board in England with the exception of that of London. It consists of 18 members, the limit fixed by the Education Act of 1870 being 15.—The Deputy-clerk stated thatbebad consulted the Newport town-clerk as to the position of the school board under the Improvement Act, and he gave it as his opinion that the board would continue in office until the Education Department should issue an order. The clerk had also com- municated with the Department on the question, and, in reply, they declined to interpret the clauses of the Newport Improvement Act which affected the school boards of the district, but intimated their intention of shortly issuing an order, under clause 33 of the act, which empowers them to order an election or name the members of the new board. The chairman introduced a motion asking the Education Department either to allow the united board to remain as it is at present constituted, or to name 15 gentleman out of the 18 to form a new board, so that an election might be .avoided. Mr Hutchins secouded the resolution, and on a division, the motion was adopted by 8 to 5.—Mr W. Barnett proposed that the public bodies of Newport and the district be requested to petition the Charity Commissioners in favour of Newport as the site for the proposed West Monmouth Grammar School.—The Mayor was also requested to call a publiomeetingto paaa tt resolution on the subject.—The motion was seconded by Mr W. H. Brown, an,1 adopted.A discussion took place as to What name the board should adopt, and it wAs decided to call it, "The School Board of the Newport School District.—Tho treasurer's book showed a balance in favour of the board on the buildiug account of £ 5,248 lis 3d, and a deficiency on the current account of jS185 183 8d.

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WHIST AS SHE IS PLAYED. Scene: The small sitcing-room. A polished floor glimmering between rugs, book-shelves with calf-bound "favourities," which no one ever thinks of reading. A sofa with two pillows, on which Lilian's tair band has depicted some strange, preadamite forms of vegetation, of future value as illustrating the first savage stages of decorative arc. Round a green-baize table sit the family playing whist. Mamma, a benign, stout, gentle lady, with eyebrows perpetually lifted in a state of mild and plaintive deprecation, and glasses well down on tba tip of her nose, plays with Papa, at whom she gazes with timorous appeal Papa, round, flushed, gray-haired, tilts bis chair back on its hind legs, or else hitches it close to the table. As the interest of the game increases, be un- fastens, one by one, the buttons of his waistcoat, beginning from the bottom, till it gapes open and reveals a triangle of shirt. The opponents of Papa and Mamma are Lilian and Arthur. Lilian, in a green-and-buff tea-gown, looks bored, and, holding her cards high up under her eyes, sorts them with an appearance of resigned languor. Arthur shufflas the pack with a skill and dispatch which prove him to be no novice. Arthur (dealing out four cards face up) Papa's deal. Now, Lily, buckle on your armour—we're going to wipe up the floor with them this time. Mamma (folding her hands on the edge of the table and smiling absently at the falling cards) I don't remembor who won last time. Papa (dealing): No, dear, you never were known to remember anything in your life-whose card is that ? Lilian: Count the cards, Arthur. Is it a mis- deal ? Papa (confidently): We beat you last time, and we're going to beat you this time. You can't play whist without some science. Arthur The bettor the cards you hold the more science you have, Just wait and see-Lily and I have the luck with us. Papa (loftily): Oh, the cards are a small matter —it's the way you play them. Lilian:^I see. It's "Heaven sends good meat, but the devil sends cooks," over again. It's your lead, Arthur. Go on. Arthur: What are trumps? Spades. Let's see (Examines his cards, then looks trium- phantly at bis partner.) I told you we'd lay them out this time. Your name's mud, mamma. (Leads a heart.) There is a pause. Mamma, with her eyebrows well up and an expression of absorbed preoccupa- tion on her face, sorts bar cards. They all look expectantly at her, but she continues, placidly oblivious of their glances. Papa, tilting back his chair and running his fingers through his hair, watches her with the air of pride which one exhibits when viewing a remarkable aud novol possession. Mamma, at this moment, drops a card into her lap, and, looking up with furtive fear, sees three pairs of eyes fixedly staring at her. Mamma (politely, with innocent inquiry): Are you waiting for me ? Papa (bowing, and with a gracious gesture): Well, there was some such idea in our minds. Mamma (contrite and flurried): Ob, I beg your pardon (returning to the arrangement of her cards and speaking low in a preoccupied, inward voice). It takes me such a long time to sort them. If I could go into the next room and spread them out on the sofa, it would be such a convenience. What did Arthur play—hearts ? (looking over her glasses) hearts I (meditatively). Papa (in a cheerfully encouraging tone): Second in hand, low. (Mamma throws a heart on the trick, which Papa takes with the queen). Papa (letting his chair down on its front legs aud speaking with incisive emphasis): Now. mamma, it's a bad plan to return your enemy's lead, but that play of yours indicated so clearly to me how the cards lie, that I'll set aside rules and trust to my own instinct. (Plays a low heart. To Arthur) It's always a erood plan to disregard rules. Be independent. Don't play by the book, play by your own instinct. Arthur (dazzled by this sudden widening of his horizon): Suppose you haven't any instinet ? Papa (conclusively) Then don't play whist. (Encouragingly, as one speaks to timid children) Go on, mamma, dear. (Mamma, who, during his harangue, haa fixed on him a glance of concentration which would have done credit to Galileo when evolving the revolutions of tha spheres,grows suddenly nervous. She looks over her spectacles at the table, then at her hand, draws out a card, pauses, considering doubtfully, and finally throws down the knave. Then looks across at papa with a resigned glance, expectant ot, yet determined to bear meekly the wrath to come.) Papa (in an awed, low voice, laying down his cards and looking upward at the ceiling) Holy St Bridget 1 (Then returning to earth and speak- ing plaintively) You see the way your mother ruins my game. Playing with a good partner, you should base your play on his. Every card he plays should indicate to yvu the state of his band. but you can't count on the mother, there's no knowing how she will break out. Take the visit- ing cards out of your mother's reach, Arthur, or she'll be playing them. Lilian (to her mother, comfortingly): Never mind, dearest, there's always an element of excitement about your kind of playing with Arthur's there's nothing but a certainty that its going to be as bad as possible. Arthur (gathering up the trick): All the same, I notice that he scoops the tricks. Mamma (who has beeu meditating, with her head on one side, like a thoughtful bird) Now, I what did I do then that was wrong ? Papa (with gallantry): Nothing, my dear, nothing. Your play would have eiven the keenest rapture to Pole and Cavendish. But suppose, just ior form's sake, that you go on. Mamma (starting again): My turn? It always seems my turn. Let me see. A club. What are trumps ? Papa (in sudden agony): It's the first time round. Mamma: Oh, yes, so it is. Well (deliberating) clubs, and I m second in band. I think—I'll— play—this (slowly depositing a card). (They all lean forward in suspense to see what it is, then sink back, with great sighs of relief, on recognising a modest four.) Lilian (who has taken the trick): Gather up the spoils, Artur, I return your lead. Arthur (gloomily, throwing the ten on the table): It wasn t much of an inspiration. Lilian (glaring at Arthur, with sudden fury): Isn't that your load ? Arthur (frightened and feeling guiltily conscious of a stronger suit in spades): Don't kill met, break my legs! Papa (wickedly triumphant): spare the boy. Even Don Ferdinando can do no more than he can do. (A silence. Mamma, in a brown study, looks at the ceiling. Then) ) in three fit's your play, mamma. ArthuV ) ^rent keys 1 {[>" >'°ur PIar» dearest. Arthur/ \It 8 your play, patty. iuamma My play again i Oh—hearts I Has hearts been led before ? (looking round with vague inquiry.) Papa (with the vivacity of desperation): Now mamma, look here—Arthur third in hand plays the ten. The ten, you see. Do for pity's sake (in a tone of exasperated entreaty) try and take something. Lillian (sarcastic): That means you're to get that trick if it takes every card in your hand. (Mamma, spurred by this, throws down the ace.) Papa Why in heaven's name did you play such a big one? Arthur That's the way to take a trick, take it with a flourish. Mamma (with the cold resignation of one who knows herself blameless): It was the only one I bad. Papa Well, why didn't you play that the last time? Mamma I only just found it. It was bidden between two diamonds. (After long debate with herself, Mamma leads a diamond.) Lilian (suddenly concentrated)—Diamonds ?— diamonds ? Hasn't somebody led that before, or was it in the last game ? There are a lot of red things out. Ob, yes, of course, that's hearts, Yes-yea-now I remember. (She takes the trick and leads diamonds again.) Papa (second in hand, now debates. He holds his head and counts, looking at the ceiling with his eyes screwed up. He consults his hand and meditates. He turns over the last trick and spreads it out, muttering ominously to himself. The others watch these dark proceedings with melancholy forebodings. They fear the results of the concentration of the mind instructed in the labyrinths of whist when thus visibly working for their destruction. Finally Papa, hitching his chair closer to the table, throws down a card, looks round with a glance of triumphant challenge, and says with the air of one who dares to pat it to the touch)—I play the king, second in hand. Mamma (on the alert, and with her glasses on the tip of her nose so that she has to bold her head up to look through them): A diamond (Having studied the table that way she looks over them and says) Diamonds i (Then shetlooks suddenly up at Papa, her glance instinct with compre- hension and what seemed to his excited fancy devilish menace.) Papa (a prey to horrible feMa)-N ow, mamma, take care! For heaven's sake, take care I Look now. Here's the way the cards lie-the three is Lilian's—you see I'm putting it in front of her- the king is mine, and the eight Arthur's. (Care- fully placing each card before its owner.) There -now you see! That's my king, yon remember. Mamma (with offender) pride)—Of course I see. There is no no need to explain all that. (Studies her hand, and pulls a card half out, and pushes it back with a dark shake of her head. Looks im ploringly at Papa, who watches her in sick sus- pense. Draws out a card slowly, reluctantly, fans it back and forth for a moment uneasily deli- berating, then despairingly drops it on tbe trick. The six of trumps ') (Papa throws down his cards, falls back, and, running his finders through his hair, invokea several of the heathen deities who appear to be roosting in the chandelier.) Arthur (who has not understood what his mother was expected to play)—Was that an exam- ple of instinct ? Mamma (patiently)—I suppose it was wrong ? Papa—No, dear, it was great, majestic, sub- lime It might have been inspired by a close study of theosophy or a long residence in the Concord School of Philosophy Go on, go on (The game is concluded, giving Arthur aud Lilian two points.) Arthur (briskly dealiog)-The last game was a cold day for science. Mamma (with innocent sweetness)—I'm afraid I must have made some mistakes. Papa (exasperated): Now, mamma, I pray, I implore of you to take oare. If yon'd just think a httte, just keep your mind on the game. Lilian: I would caution you in the Bame way Arthur; but in your case tbere is always a ques- tion about the existence of a mind. (For some moments the cards fall in silence. Mamma's hand shows a weakness in diamonds.) Papa (fading diamonds): There; now, let's see. I did that for you, mamma. Mamma (atsently, ctftintng her cards): "Bad for me did you say ? "Wtiat a pity 1 Lilian: It will be bad fo't you if yon 'don't do what a expected of you.3i Play a diamond on.tbat. Mamma (bewildered): But I haven't got any. Arthur (interested); 13h?it your eyes and play the first card you touch. That's a good way to do when you're stack. 0 Lilian: Listen to the'iec^less manner in which Arthur's giving bimselfWlk (Mamma trumps and l&tds trumps. Arthur- refuses, and plays a loW gt&da). Papa: No more trunan'sr Arthur (both elbows on the table) s Not a trump << Ii Lilian (groaning); Wo)l, you are a partner Papa (rubbing his be^dj; That puts quite a different race on the matter (Mattering). Six, seven, and two—we'v^ got tbem this time, mamma. I'll try hearts. My queen's good, I fancy. (As they are playing t$e next band, Papa sud- denly pauses and stares gt tbe table in front of Arthur, off which that youii» man has moved one of his elbow?. Then Papa leans forward and softly lifts and bears awjjy live of Arthur's neatly piled tricks. Arthur, examining his Bleeve- buttons and humming eoftly is oblivious of the theft. So are Mamma and Lilian, the one gazing at the chandelier, tbe other looking at ber finger- tips.) ;i Papa (settlipg himsalE and sneaking with forced culm)—Go on, Arthur J Arthur (glancing at his cards)—Clubs I clubs Oh, weil snatch you baldueaded now. LIlian (wIth her eyes fixed on the table)— What s that loose card out there t-tbat trump t Arthur (picking it up): Qh that was the turn- np. How did it come there? Isn't that funny? Lillian (suddenly, in a high key): Where are our tricks t What's happened to them? Arthur (blankly); Yes! our tricks! Why, be s taken them. (Makes a lunge for the tricks.) Papa (guarding them): My children, it is one of the fundamental rules of whist that when the enemy revokes you are entitled to five of their tricks. Here, therefore, are five of your tricks on mypiie. Lilian (breathing tho air of war): Who revoked ? Mamma (waking from a dream and gallantly burang herself into the breach): If anyone revoked, it must ba me. Papa: No—strange, impossible, as it may seem —it was not you. It was Arthur Arthur (blustering): I never did Lilian (in concentrated tones the hideous truth breaking upon her): How did that tramp-the turn-up—come on the table ? Papa: Perhaps there's been a miracle performed in Arthur's favour, and OUf) of bis cards has been transformed into a trump. Mamma (soothingly) perhaps it fell from somewhere. Lilian (grimly): Perhaps the stork brought it. Papa: It was the turn-up. Arthur had his elbows on it by accident and forgot it. I saw him move it off just after he'd refused trumps. Arthur: Well; don't you think this is one of those cases where you ought to disregard rules? Papa (counting unctuously); Three—four. Go on, mamma, dear. Lilian (with coJd calm): I should think this would be a rather tame way of winuiofif a game. It can't be very exciting. Mamma (squeezing a band of each of ber de- feated opponents) You played beautifully. Arthur You did the best you could for us, petty. Which should you say they got it by, Lily, science or luck ? Lilian (pushing back her chair and sauntering away with a bored air): Consideration for my partner forbids ma to respond.—The Argonaut.

HOME RULE FOR WALES. A meeting convened by the council of the Wehh National Association (the Cymric Fydd Society) was held last week at the Manchester Hotel, Aldersgate street, in pursuanco of a resolution recently passed by them to the effect that meetings of the society should be held at least onee a month from October to June to dis- cuss its objects and methods of operation. In a circular the council earnestly appeal to the mem- bers to show tbeir zeal for the Welsh Home Rule movement by active work during the coming win- ter, and by liberally contributing to the funds of the association, Tbe chair was filled by the president, Mr T. Howell Williams.—The secretary, Mr William Griffith, opened the subject fixed for discussion—" Home Rule, and how to get it." After remarking that there was general agree- ment among Conservatives and Liberals with re- gard to the abstract principle of Home Rule, be asked why Wales should have the control and management of its own affairs r First of all, he maintained, because of the complete failure of the present system. The parliamentary machinery at Westminster could not do justice to the special wants of Wales with respect to Church dis- establishment, education, and land reform, including fair rents, security of tenure, com- pensation for improvements, and the establishment of laud courts like those iu Ireland. Mining royalties urgently required to be dealt with. He contended that Wales did not at present get a proper return for what she contributed to the national exchequer. He thought the best form in which Home Rule could be given was the federal one. In dealing with the question, "How to gat Home Rule?" he urged that what tbe Welsh people had to do was to send to Westminster members who would de- mand it, and ridiculed the idea that the feelings of the Welsh people were ad^uately represented by such men as Mr Samuel Smith, M.P., and Sir E. Reed, M.P., or what was termed the Welsh Par- liamentary P,nty."and argued that the National Council of Wales, which wIll shortly meet, should have its band forced by a proposal which would compel it to accept or reject Home Rule, so that it might be ascertained whether there was any chance of utilising it to secure the object.— The Chairman having expressed his concurrence iu the views of Mr Griffith, a discussion ensued, in which the necessity of increased political edu- cation and of greater unity was referred to by one of the speakers us an obstacle to Homo Rule-— On the motion of Mr Gilbert, seconded by Mr W. Williams, the following resolution was adopted —"That this meeting urges upon the National Council of Wales the desirability of giving Home Rule for Wales the foremost place in its pro- gramme and believes that immediate steps should be taken to unite Welshmen all over the world in one association, amI to form a national fund for the payment of members and other emergencies."

BARDDONIAETH, "Y SABBATH HWNW." (loan xix. 31.) I. Fy nghdu yw'r "Sabbath Hwnw,"—santaidd ddyddl A'i haues, fel ei enw, 'u santaidd fydd; Y Sabbath mawr Iuddewig,—Duw a dyn A'r dydd mewa RISU briodbs eydd yn nglyn; M:ie Duw fei rhagiaw wi th oi gyutedd g;&a, A'i srynghor Dwyf a rydd fel cieddyf 1&>J,— Cofia gadw'n sautaidd y Sabbath duyudj Fe'i gwnaethpwyd er dy fwyu yn fyuhol rydd, Yu etifeddiaeth rad, yu ddydd mwynhad, Y n gordial enaid caeth mewu anial wiad. Urddaso! ddydd brenhinol ddydd y dyddiau, Mae anniflanol fri'n coroui'i orlan; Mae rbwysg a tnawredd nr.yg ei dras banfodol Yn caaol bwyutio at yr Otsedd Ddwyfol, lit Ie cynhenld; Duw El Hun a'1 creodd Yu ddydd gorphwysdra, ac a'i myg gysegrodd Yu neillduedig ddydd—dydd coffadwriaeth U orpheu gweitbio gwaitb y Greadigaeth Olld dydd i weitbio eto ydyw ef, Ond pethau'r byd ysbrydol—pethau'r nef, Sydd i fodoli YILa, ac i fyw Y n awyr hwn, yn 01 ordeiniad Duw. Mae pethau'r Sabbath ddydd yn rby ysbrydol A cbysegredig fytb, ac yn rby Ddwyfol A pbethau y daearol, o un ryw Yo awyr bur y Sabbath i gyd-fyw. Gwel acw ddydd y ddarpar wyl" yn eau, A'r Sabbath mawr Iuddewig yn dyddkau; Yr haul yn machlud trwy'r gorwelion gaed, Fel cawr yo tiengu yn ei fôr o waed Tra darnan o gymylau du ar grwydr, Yn llercian fel angladdau trwy yr wybr, Fel darnau o fyddinoeda Ufforo gerth, Heb Iwyr ddychwelyd ar 01 colli'u nerth Y n Mrwydr y Groes;—holl ddygwyddiadau'r dydd, Gan rwysg y Sabbath Hwnw" 'n tewi sydd, Yn syrthio i anghofrwydd, ing a loes, Ac ininarluniol olygfeydd y Groes, Erch olygfeydd Golgotha—santaidd fryn,— Tywyllai'r haul wrth wel'd yr olwg syn Toniadau dwys y gair, "Gorphenwyd!" gaed Yu ysgwyd creigiau fel ar flaenau traed; Rhngliadau yr ysgydwad dyeithr mawr A glywwyd gynau n nghylcli y chwech'ed ttwr, Fel pethau meirwon yma'n ciiio sydd I f6r anghofrwydd gyda tbrai y dydd A myg ddystawrwydd sydd yn cau o'u bol, Dystawrwydd fel yn cymhell Dystawrwydd arall idd ei gol; Dystawrwydd fel yn blaenu santaidd lauw f A chyaegredig rwysg y Sabbath Hwnw." f 01 santaidd ddydd mae masnach byd yn trengu Cyn saugu'i randir; mae y byd yn plygu 0'1 flaen inewn pareh i'w urddasolrwydd nefol, Yn plygu gan folianu'i Awdwr Dwyfol. Y n wregys iddo mae "defodau" Klân, Ac yn ei ganol mae yn fawl a cbin." I genedl Israel mae yn goffadwriaeth o ddydd goilyngiad, dydd ei gwaredigaeth 0 hir gaethiwed tir yr Aifft bellenig Yu 01 i ryddid pur en gwlad gyutefig; A dydd yn arwydd foi eu Duw'n pabelia Y n mhliih y genedl, ac yn tabernaclu Yo ninas eu cyfarfod, yo goleno Ac ya bendithio'u gwaith I iawu ymlwybro; A dydd yn wystl o fyuediad heiaeth" I deg oryiiwysdra gwlad en hetifeddiaetb A ohysgod o'r dragwyddol Ganaan Nefol, o bur orphwysdra r Sabbath mawr ysbrydol. Ond dydd i srolli'i urddas, culii'i enw, A cboUi'i hunan mwy yw'r Sabbath Hwnw. Oyrhaeddodd bwyut uchelaf ei fodolaeth, A llinell-derfyu bellaf ei lywodraeth; Nid oedd ei holl flieuoriaid ond arweinwyr, Fel ceiyg militir yo cyfeirio teithwyr; Un ar 01 un yu daugos pwyut yr oia'. A threngai'r oil yn diwedd y fan yma. Mae dydd i wawrio'n decach a goleuacb, Rityw ddydd a'i oriau'n buracb, yu santeiddiacbj .1 freiutl8u'n lluoaocach. yo eangach, A'i adaysg yn rhugorach a dwyfolach,— Dydd mawr rbyfeddol! dydd o ardderchawg- rwydd,— Y Sabbath Cristioncgol-Dydd yr Arglwydd. II. Y Sabbath Hwnw,"—Sabbath mawr a hynod; Dydd mawr a cbysegredig, santaidd gyfnod 1 Y Sabbath Gwyl y Pasc,—dydd a'i rwysgfawredd Yo uwch a mwy urddasol, a'i frwdfrydedd Y 0 ausrherddolach; uydd a'i santaidd oriau Yu llawnach, cyfoathocach, a'i fynydau Yn feichioK o amrywiaeth. Hedd a syndod Fel pe mewn cyngbrair; gallu ac awdurdod Yu cerdded trwyddo; inawredd ac ufndd-dod- Nerth, gel, a curefyddolder-rbwysgedd defod— Yn Stchio Ðllw dydd yn ganolbwynt mawr o rwysg a mawredd pethau'r nef a IJawr; Pob path yn dangos, yn y gallu cryfaf, Y rhwysg breuinol penaf, urddasolaf. Tyrtaoedd fel llifeiriant sy'n dylifo 0 bob cyfeiriad, a'u gwynebau'n ffl ichio Eu crefyddolder, a'u calonau'n berwi Gan sêl a diolcbiadau, ac yn tori Aiian yn ffrwd o fawl i Dduw wrth nesa I'r deml i addo!i ac aberthu Eu Pasc i'r Arglwydd yno i adgoffa Am ddydd eu gwaredigaeth, ac i wledda Trwy ffydd am waredigaeth mwy sylweddol. Am waredigaeth uwch a mwy urddasol; I wledda ar yr Oen WD3 olchi ymaith Becbodau byd, a rhoddi gwaredigaeth 0 erch grafangau'r byd, y coawd, a'r didol. 1 ryddid a gogoniant plant ysbrydol. 11 Y Sabbath Bwnw," olaf Base d&earol, Dydd trancedigaetb gwyl y Pasc cysgodoI; Dydd mawr a bynod, dydd oedd gynt i'w gofio, Ond dydd a'i bethau mwy i fyned beibio, Ac i'w augbofio Aberth mwy rhagorol, A mwy gwirfoddol,—Aberth mwy sylweddol Abertuwyd droaom Crist ein Pasc aberthwyd Y n Oen difai;" Cyfiawuder a foddlonwyd, A'r ddeddf a'i dwyf ofynion anrhydeddwyd Ya swn dwfu-dreiddiol oslef y "Gorphenwyd." Mae'r Pasc cysgodol mwy i golli'i euw. Fel gyda machlud haul y "Sabbath Hwnw;" Nid colli o Un methlant-syrthio ymaith, A'i ddiystyru allan o fodolaetb, Pel "cysRod wedi syrthio'n fyr o'i amcan, A rbin ei swydd fel wedi treulio allan o ddiffyg nerth ond "cysgod" yo ymgolli Ei hunan yn y sylwedd," ac yn rboddi Ei swydd i fyny fel mae'r ser yo boddi o dau ddigynhwrf lanw'r wawr oleuui Yr Aberth mawr y Groes, yr Aberth Iawnol, A lyncodd iddo'i bun y Pasc cyegodol. Yr holl "ddefodau mâo," a'r myg "gysgodau," A cbysegredig "wyliau." a'r abertbau Rhyw ragymadrodd oeddynt o'r olynol, Fel petbau meirwon beb y Pasc SylweddoL Hwn ydoedd y canol-bwynt 0'1' swyddogaetb, Ffynonell fawr ac enaid eu bodolaeth; Hwn ydoedd yn rhoi rhinwedd—trrym a bywyd. Trwy'r "sacramentau," ac yn taflu ysbryd Ac anadl y peth byw i'r boll abertbau,— Yn gosod bri ac urddas ar y "gwyliau; Yr Aberth Hwn oedd bellacb i goroni Yr ebyrth oil; fe'i gwelwyd yn ffenestri Prophwydoliaethau'n dod, ac yn llefaru, A thrwy boll fwg yr ebyrth yn tywynu. Ond ar Galfaria, y fythgofus nawn, Y cawn yr Oen Gwirfoddol"—bythol lawn! 0, adeg ddyeithr! 0, dyma'r awr Y rhwygwyd holl ffynonau y dyfnder mawr," Dyfnder y Oariad Dwyf. Y Sabbath Hwnw" Mae r ddeddf a'r seremoniau yma'i farw • Ond marw mwy i PTW 01 bwyøig gyfnod, Cyfnod a dau rbyw gyfnod yo ei beuod Dau gyfnod mawr gwahanol—dan amgylcbiad- Dau Idr-gyfarfod fel mewn gwrthdarawiad. Mae llanw'r Orucbwyliaeth Seremoniol A llanw'r Ornchwyliaeth Gristionogol Ar draeth y dydd yn cwrdd,—yr Hen a'rNewydd Yn ysgwyd dwylaw—yu cofleidio'u gilydd Fel :1wy chwiorydd an wyl—anwyl ifryndiau Heb wel d eu gilydd er's rhyw lu o oesan Yr Hen yn adrodd am ei thaith a'i throion, Yn adrodd ei cbyfrinaoh a'i belyntioo, Ac yu rhoi beibio, diosg, ei hanrbydedd, Yu taflu'i choron wrth ei thrasd, a'i mawredd Tra hithau'r Newydd, gyda Dwyf fawrbydi, Ac urddasolrwydd nefol, yn coroni Ei hymdrecbiadan oil; ac yn ei derbyn Fw mynwes fel y derbyn mam ei phlentyn, Ei derbyn gyda gwresog ddiolchiadau Am ei ffyddlondeb pur a'1 haur rinweddan. Ni ddaethum, meddai'r Iesu, yma'i dori Un gair o'r gyfraitb fyg, ond i'w cbyflawnn J Estyn ei therfynau, ei hadgyfodi O'i cbyfiwr marwol, ei bywbau, a rboddi Anad! einioes yo ei ffroedau bythol,— Priodi &'i boll wendid yo dragwyddoL Fel nos bu cyfnod pell yr Hen Ornchwyliaeth, A mil-til ser yn britbio'r wybreo hirfaitb; Y "ddeddf," fel lloer, yn gwlawio'i chlaer oleuni A'r addewidion" megys ser yn t'wynu. ODd goleuadau oeddynt yn cyfiwyno Goleuni arall; golenadau'n fflamio Goleuni benthyg; golenadau'n derbyn Goleuni Haul Cyfiawnder sydd yn canlyn. Mae Haul Cyfiawnder mwy'n cyhoeddi dydd, A'r nos yn colli yn ei rawd y sydd: Dydd Iachawriaeth wawriodd ar ein byd,— Dydd mawr Priodas Nef a Llawr yn oghyd 1 m. "Y Sabbath Hwnw," cysegredig ddydd I Arglwydd y Sabbath yn ei feddrod eyddt Yr Hwn oedd "ddoe" o da«i yr ing a'r loes, Yn marw dros yr euog ar y Gross, Sy' beddyw" 'n buno yn ei fouthyg fedd,— Yn gorphwyt ar y Sabbath er ein hedd. I OI iideg 80br I Bywyd y Meirw'n gorwudd,— Yn gorwedd gyda'r melrw I Syniad rhyfedd Yr Hwn a gMriai wrth ei wregys mawr Allweddau UtIern a Marwolaetb, 'nawr Y n fud mewn badd! Os bu ar Deyrn Marwolaeth Awydd etioed neilldue 0*1 swyddogaetb, Credaf mai dyma'r cyfnod a phe gwyddai Yn gynt, y gwnai osgoi y siom a chredai, Pe cawsai "awgrym" am y frwydr yma, Y ceisiai atal ymffrost Pen Calf aria. O! synlad llwtr I diarowys gyfaddefiad- Calon siomedig mewn nacaol siarad. O. bu dynoliaeth rywbryd fel yn rbydd Oddiwrth grafangau angau, dyma'r dydd I Os bu'r dramwyfa i'r ysbrydol fyd, Er dyddiau Abel gynt, yn Wtg rhyw bryd, Ivfai dyma'r adej?—Y dydd Sabbath Hwnw, Pan deimlodd angeu'i blln fel be yn marw. Nis medrai ef lygadu ar ddynoliaetb, ITra mewn ymarechfa, yn ei anwybodaeth, j A Dllw mewn Cnawd; rhy boeth oedd yr ym- drechfa I ddal ei gledd yn ngbledd ag Arwr Bozra 1 § Mae "Brenin Braw," ar Anpreu mwy'n gam enw; i Fe'i 'sbeiliwyd o'i holl nerth y Sabbath Hwnw; I Rhyw dyner Gymwynasydd, Angel Weinydd, I F'ai'r enw mwyaf boff, er mor ddirybudd, | Crist yn ei fedd Mae'r byd, y cnawd, a'r diafol § Mewn ymgynghonad haerllug ac uffernol, | Yn ym^ynghori sut i wylio'r beddrod, | Rhag otn i weision Crist yn ddiarwybod II ddwyn corph marw'r Iesu. Yna taenn Hanesiaeth twyll trwy'r wlad, ac hyf bregethu Ei adgyfodiad Ef; cofient Et eiriau, Y gwuai orebfygu Uffern, Bedd ac Angau; Yr adgyfodai'r trydydd dydd yn wrol, Yu Feistr ar ei waith mewu rhwysg concwerol; Rhag hyn y traws-Iuddewon—beilch gythrealiaid, Y deillion b&r, ac haerilug archoffeiriaid, I borthi'u wane, orch'mynent fintai ffyrnig 0 filwyr arfog, o dan urdd Khufeinig, t I wylio'r beddrod yoo i lygadu Ar symudiadau'r wrthblaid, a chastelln Y bedd yn ddiogel, rhag i dwyll groeshoelio Eu hamuan (meddent) a bradychu credo! Dall gyfeiliornad Clyw Pbariseaid, Paganiaid, a cbythreuiig Arclioffeiriaid Yn tyngu, ac yn^wlawio'u brth regfeydd I bob cyfeiriad yn eu b&r baugteydd Yn brad gynllunio ac yn broch areithio, Yn feddwgau felus-win rhafcfarn credo. Fel mae y "Sabbath Hwnw" yn hwyrhau, Mae llanw eu llaweuydd yn cryfhau, Yn codi'n uwch, yn uwsb, nes tori weithian Dros ben terfynau rheswm yn darauan, Tarauau o fheddiadtm, broch ehwertbiniad, Fe! 'storm yu codi o wallgofrwydd teimlad. Cyflymu i gynllunio ac i siarad, Cyflyruu tua siom y maent bob eiliad Cyllymu i ymsuddo'n ddyfnacb, dyfuach I ddinystr erchyll,—cyfeiliornad pollach! Mae swn en crechwen a'r gableddus iaith Fel bys ar bared," yu ddiamwys ffaith, Fod ystyr arall,—dydd yu agoshuu, A draws-newidia'r grechweu bon am wae Mae ncbder eu llawenydd hwy yn awr Yn dangos dyfnder eu trueui mawr,— Y fynyd nesaf. Brysio maent a llama, Fe! yn sychedig yn ei wane i bachu. Rhyw fyn'd ofnadwy 1 amser yu eu eario Fel yn gyflymach y mynydau'n rhuthro Fel ar eu meircl.1,-ya rhuthro tua'r terfyn, Yn Uwythog tua'r "Tranoeth" sydd yn canlyn; Y "Tranoeth" hwnw drodd i'r arcboffeiriaid Fel rhaglith i'r dyfodol erch melldigaid I "Y Sabbath Hwnw!" B'Je mae'r gwyl ddya- gyblion ? A'r llu ganiyuent Iesu gynt mor ffyddlon? Pa ie maent bwy a weiwyd wrth y Groes, Yn mothu syllu ar yr ing a'r loes Heb wylo'r dagrau? a rbyw hiraeth trwm Yn pwyso ar bob bron fel Alp o blwm? A ydynt hwy'n inwynhau y Sabbath yma Mewu crechwen a llawenydd ac mewn gwledda? 0, na! rhyw ddydd o oS i, dydd o d'wyllwcb, Heb hollt un erobaith ynddo—dydd o drtstwcb I Mae'r Hwn fu'u Obaith iddyot ac yn Hedd, Y n tawel huno yn ei fenthyg tedd. Rhyw ofn a hiraeth, braw a gobaith sydd Yn gwibio yn mhob mynwes trwy y dydd; Rhyw ofni a dychrynu na chaeut hwy Fwynhau cwmpeini'u hanwyl Brynwr mwy. Er byn gobeithient fod rhyw gyfnod gwyn I wawrio'n fuan eto ar ol hyu. Ond d'rysent weithiau, metbont ymgodymu A'r synwyr dwys o FARW 'u hanwyl Iesu Ddifrifol ddydd! dydd ydyw yn rhagffaenu I'r gwyl ddysgyblion dydd o orfsleddu. Fel nos gaddugawl yn blaenori dydd Heb gwmwl pryder" fytb i'w bylu fydd, Na mellt "byg-ythion" eu gelynion lu I nflonyddu ar eu beddweh cu. Rhyw ddydd o storom iddynt bwy yn awr, Yn blaenu tranoeth teg o heddweh mawr Mae rhwysg y Trydydd Dydd" yn tori'i enw Ar odreu daleu ddu y "Sabbath Hwnw!" Pontyberem. THOS. HEWITT (Awelfryn.)

ROYAL CORNWALL SOCIETY. Local Exhibits.: The.MnaaI exhibition ()f the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society has been held at Falmouth during last week. Mr A. P. Vivian exhibited a full series of examples of articles—rough, turned, and polished—in Messrs Vivian's "Ferro-bronze." This is a new patented alloy of copper, steel, and zinc, and the object of tbe firm in working it out was to discover a useful and at tbe same time a 'not very costly metal which, unlike the usual bearing metals, would w ork in their mills, bot as well as cold, aud also be capable of being CftSt, rolled, and forged. The exhibits sbow bow thoroughly this object has been attained. A bolt tied tigbtly into a neat knot is the most striking illustration of the quality of the metal, but a series of most exhaustive tests have been made and tabulated by Messrs Kirkaldy. These are too long of coarse to be quoted in auy fullness here, but we may take a few. The ultimate pulling stress of bard rolled per square inch reached 74,485 lbl. of soft rolled., 66,645 |_b* ultimate thrusting strength, 61,74.-5 aud 54,765 Ibs.; twisting stress, ultimate ou end, 4,093 aud 3,681 Ibs.; banding strews (20 inches between supports) ultimate* 30,724- :},nd 23,666 Ibe. and shearing stress 47,195 and 40,710 lbs. These are all per square inch on ban, two square inches in section. The specific gravity may be taken at 8'33. As for its numerous practical teats, it has been used for wagon and locomotive bearings in Welsh miner.al and other railways with the best results. The judges thought moet highly of the valrA 0f this inven- tion, and gave a first silver medaj.

FACT ANETFANCY. I In Unequal Proportions. When the barber talks too much his stories are generally illustrated with cuts. The pen enables a young man to give bis girl an inkling of bis sentiments. Tbe man who is in the bands of his friends as a rule keeps their hands pretty full. 1 Too EXPENSIVE.—Jack: Edith, will you have me ? The heiress: Thanks, Jack—I can't afford you. "Is your new employer a Christian, Fred?" ¡ "No, I'm afraid not. Yon see be has to me tbe telephone a geeat deal." Young husband Ah, you bachelors have no real happiness 1 Bachelor; Well, we can,at least, escape from real misery There is a great deal of poetry about poverty, no doubt, but it takes the poor man's well-to-do neigh- bour to discover It. A business-man now-a-days hardly feels that he is winning success unless he fails and has alaw suit within the first five years of his mercantile career. If grown men only knew as much as their mothers thiuk tbey know when they are babies, I the world would have no further use for books of reference. t Railroad whistles are a great nuisance, but think bow much worse it would be if railroad managers should try and fix them so that they would play tunes. I A SWEST GIBli GRADUATE. I She had finished at a cooking-school, And when I rashly said Does science lead your thoughts to riso As it does the college bread ?" She answered coldly: "Sir, not so; It helps me to prepare A gelid atmosphere far you From currents iu the air." NOT THE OKLI ONE.—"My friend," said one passenger to another in a railroad car. "excuse rue, but is that liquor you're drinking?'' "It 18, that." "And how mucb, may I ask, did you pay for that bottle?" "Fifty cents." "Fifty cents! Ins-var spent fifty cents in my life un liquor." "You ain't the only one, my friend, that sponges tor his drinks, but you ain't going to get any of this, you bet!" | MITIGATED AFFECTION.—She Am I always in your mind, dearest» He: Well, Clara, I can't say that exactly, but during the summer when the days were real long, I often thought of you several times, but now that the days are shorter 1, of course, don't think of you as often as I did in the summer, but I manage to think of you at least once a day, and occasionally twice. HE FOUND HER AND FOCNDEBID. I called her my own destiny, My dearest ship of fate, That sailed the stormy sea of life With love of me as treight. I wandered in the garden, still Beneath that witching spell, And found my ship at anchor On the bosom, of a swell. Ar ran MABKIAGB AGKNcr.—Would-be-cus- tomer: Yes, I would like to marry, and if you come across a handsome, young, amiable girl who has money and who wants a good home, just drop me a postal. Marriage broker: I bag your pardon, but if I find that kind of a female I'm going to marry her myself. Too SENSITIVE.—Mistress: It seems you haven't got sense enough to know bow long to let the eggs stay in the water. Did they never have soft-boiled eggs for breakfast where you served before you came here? New servant No indeed. The lady where I served before I came here was so kind-hearted that she never allowed me to boil an egg- PAT'S WISDOM. Tim Doolan and his wife, wan night, Were drinkm' av the crayture, Whin something started up a fight, And they wint at it right an' tight. According to their nature. O'Grady andmesilf stood near, Expecting bloody morther. Say he to me: Let's interfere." Bu: I, pretending not to hear, lIlelTed off a little further. Lave off, ye brute," said he to Tim No mau wad sthrike alady." But both the Doolans turned on bim, And in a whist the two av thim Were wallopiu' O'Grady. Thut night whin I was home in bed, Renumbering this token, I took the notion in my head That tho wisest word I iver said Was ihe one that wasn't spokon. NOT ALTOGETHER ALONE.—There was a very small audieuce present and it was dwindling away. On the stage the hero and the heroine are holding a rendezvous. Hero to heroine: Are we alone ? Heroine (thinking of the audience): Not yet, there are two fellows near the door who look as if they might be able to sit through another act. FROM THE GEKMAN.—First servant girl: What are you crying about? Second servant girl: I was engaged to a grenadier in Company A, and now he has gone back on me. Well, why don't you engage yourself to another grenadier in Company A ?" Because I have already been engaged, at one time or another, to all the rest of the company." SHB: RKMKUBEBED HI.m.—He: So yon recognize me. Sue: I knew you as soon as I saw you. It is very flittering to me tbat you should recognize me wben you have not seen me since we met at the seaside three years ago. Would you mind telling me what it is that has kept my image fresh in your memory all this time ?" Why, you have got on the same shabby coat and old- fasbioned hat as you wore three years ago." THE MONK. From gyves of care and custom free, In summer a recluse I'd be For shady cloister I would find A woodland hauntod by the wind For rosary the flowers I'd tell That prauked the bosom of the dell; From branch and tree-trunk I would read My pleasant articles of creed The robins lilting loud and long, Would furnish me with choral song; In sweet seclusion I would know The source whence hermit pleasures flow. But stay Should Sylvia pass—why then Metbinks I'd be a man again A POPULAR MISTAKE.—One cold day in winter a lady, accompanied by her little boy, was making a friendly call upon a medical man, and on enter- ing the warm drawing-room told her son—as mothers would, from having been similarly admonished when children—to take off his over- coat, or be would not feel tbe benefit of it wben be went out again. "Excuse me," interposed her host; but that is a mistaken idea. Let the little fellow keep it on and get all the warmth he can into his body; for if he starts off with a good stock of warmth, he will remain warm." We are not prepared to offer an opinion one way or another on this point, bnt can affirm that ever since that visit the doctor's advice has bean followed in that family with tbe best results. A BIT OF MY SOUL. The moonlight glistens on the sea, It shimmers, quivers on the shore I But 'tis not this that makes the glee Within my heart for evermore. 1 What is it, heart ? Wilt tbou not tell ? I know I My love has told me that be loves me so. 1 I bear the bluebells' silver chime; The cooing words of nodding grass The gentle breezes' whispering rhyme; All sing of love. Is't this ? Alas. It is not, heart but tell me true." Ah, r,ro1 You say, • He told me that be loves me sc* I hear the music in the air Of merry flower and laughing tree: The brooklet o'er its pebbly lair Rings out a witching melody. Perhops, like mine, thair hearts arr/ light. They know Some one has told them that be lovfjs them 80. Ah! dancing beam from yonder rtar, Just lightly touch my lips, 'ihfcn See Across the seas to land afart And give my love a kiss fjrorn me. One long, sweet kiss, a sweet good-night, you know. And say I told you tbaV I "love him 80. SOMy; DAT. They'll all corye back again," she said. That by-gone, summer day, < The while we wntched the goodly ships Upon the rAacid bav. They sail so fov, they sail so fast, upon their ebiniug way, But tbey wil1/ come again, I know. some day- some ottJe1' day." Some oiay So many a watcher sighs, WUarj wind-swept waters moan, Witii tears pressed back, still strives to dream Of the glad coming home. Good ihipa sail on o'er angry waves, 'neath skies ol) tempest gray, For/qaivering lips so bravely tell, They'll come ugain—some day I" Some day; We say it o'er and o'er, To cheat our hearts, the while I < We send our cherished ventures forth, Perchance with sob and emile; And tides run out, and time runs on, our life ebbs fast away. And yet with straining eyes we watch for that sweet mytb-øome day Full many a true and heart-sped bar May harbour find no more. But hope her beacon light will trim < For watchers on the shore; I And those who bide at home and those upon the watery way, In toil or waiting, still repeat, "Soma day—some J blessed day

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NORTH BUCKS ELECTION. Splendid Liberal Victory. The result or the polling in North Bucks for tilt election of a member of the House of Commons in the room of Mr Egerton Hubbard (Cunservative), now Lord Addingcon, was declared on Saturdaj as follows:— Captain E. H. Vernay, R.N. (L.) 4,855 Hon. Evelyn Hubbard (O.) 4,647 Majority 208 The market-square at Buckingham was crowded with people waiting to hear the result, and wbea the figures were declared, and Captain Veroey appeared at the gates of the Town-hall, his sup- p ift-ots displayed immense enthusiasm. Captain erney proposed a vote of thanks to the high-soeriff, and this was seconded by Mr Hub- bard, who said he considered that the result was as good as he could have hoped for. He bad polled nearly 203 votes more tban bis brother did at the last eiecuion. He believed there was It change coming over the feeling of the country, The seat would be held by Captain Verney until tue next election, but no longer. Captain Veroey and Mr Hubbara then shook bands. Capt. Vernej subsequently addressed his supporters fruæ the balcony of his hotel. PREVIOUS ELECTIONS. 1835. 1S8&. Veruey (L) 5462 | Habbard (G) WbG Wiison (V) 4u0o j Verney (L; 448i> Majority Itoo ( Majority ? Population, 56,328 electorate, 11,307. Lord Rosebery, tetegrapiiing to Captain Verney, says:—"Wish you in joy your great criumph, in spite of tue 690 outvoters and the other powers arrayed against you." Oac or two of the villages went solid for Captaia Verney. Captain Edward Hope Verney, of lluiauva, Anglesey, is Lile eldest SIIn. o: Sir liarry Verney, aad was boru in 1838. He enune i the Royal Navy in 1851, became captain in If¡¡7, and stjf ved in the Crimea, and the ludian Mtu.uy. He is a magistrate and depucy-heuienant tor Bucks and Anglesey, and chairman of the quarter- sessions for the latter county. There was a scene of unparalleled excitement at the National Liberal Ciub yasterday when the newa of Captain Veruey's victory attived. Loon before the message was completed ou the tape s the uproar had reached the topmost floor of tbt building, tor as soon as it was seen that the first name commenced with a "V:' the ctowd ol members wbiub had gathered in the vostibuie cheered lustily. The note of triumph, audible in all parts ot the house, was echoed uownsiairs in the smoke-room ana re-echoed upstair* in the dining-rooms and reading-room. The demonstration culmina.ted in a tre- mendous outburst; or applause in th< vestibule when the size ot the majority was discovered. Ti-e results from Petarboroogu and Elgin were inspiriting, and the display of enthu- siasm was not stiuted when the Liberal victories in these constituencies wera announced, bat the success of Captaiu Veruey, <;om;ug so soon after- wartis,wastelt to be the occasion for extraordinary jubilation, and the club Simply went wild tor half au hour. Congratulations for Captain Verney. At a crowded uieeuns of the ha.ht Ward com- mittee of the Cardiff Liberal Association on Saturday evening, the following resolution wai enthusiastically carried, on the motion of Mt Lewis Williams, seconded by Alderman Lewis "Tbat the East Ward committee of the Oardifi Liberal Association heartily congratulates Capt. Verney on the splenuid victory achieved by him in North Bucks in gaining the seat for the Liberal party, ana thanks him for the gallant manner ia which be has championed the cause of Home Rule and justice to Ireland throughout the wtioto struggle on this question."

A CHURCH CHOIR SCANDAL, American despatches state that Miss Minnie Gitto, a pretty brunette, 18 years old, a daughter of Joseph Gitto, a well-to-do-tailor of Oyster Bay, got a warrant from Justice Chipp of that place for the arrest of Thomas S. Cbeahire. Cheshire has a buoine.ss in Brooklyn, and is said to have considerable money of his own.— Miss Gitto is a member of Cnrist's Episcopal Church and of the Suaday school. Cheshire sang in the choir. Recently Miss Gitto confessed to her parents that she was in trouble. Mr Gitte saw Cheshire next day. He tried to prevail upoa the latter to save his daughter's honour by marry- ing her. Cheshire positively refused to do M. Mr Gitto, however, made him promise to call at hit house that evening on his return from Brooklyn. Upon entering Mr Gitto's house that evening, Cheshire found a small party assembled in the parlour. Among them were Rev Mr Washburn of Corral's Obmeb. Dr Pyre, Justice Chipp, ttewentt members ot the choir and prominent members of the church. They all took turns entreating Cheshire to save Mi^sGitto'e reputation oy marry- ing her. Rev Mr Washburn and Justice Gbipp were eacu ready to ■officiate. With tears ana prayers Miss Gitto besought him not to abandon her in her trouble. There were few dry eyes in tåe room. Cheshire was visibly affected, but he stili refused. Finally, it is said, he arose from his seat, and, taking Miss Gitto by the band, led her to the centre of the room, where a iatge family Bible lay on the table. Placing her band on the Bible he asked her to swear that ahe bad never baeu intimate with anyone except himself. it is said that Miss Gitto hesitated and then re- fused to swear. The next instant she swooned away in her mother's arms. Cheshire left the house during the excitement. He was arrested on Saturday morning, immediately after the war- rant was ieeutid. At the trial before Justice Chipp Miss Gitto bad the sympathy of the crowded court-room. Sheaai in one corner dressed in black aad heavily veiled. She broke down several times while giving her testimony. The most trying ordeal was when tbe defence accused her of beiu^ intimate with other members of the choir. Frank Price and another young man, both members ot the choir, were named. When Miss G;tto acknowledged that the accusations were true, those preseut could hardly believe they heard aright. Still their sympathies were with the girl. Justice Cbipp decided tbwt Cheshire muse pay the casts of court and give bonds to support the child. Cheshire had hardly complied with the ordejr of the court when he was rearrested, this timtl ac- cused of complicity in malpractice. In her com- plaint Miss Gitto alleges that Cheshire bought medicine for ber and directed her bow to use it. Cheshire was arraigned again before Jostie* Cuippw Upon the advice of his counsel be waived exami- nation, and he was committed to the Qaeeu's county gaol to await the action of tbe f/ranu jury. The scandal has had the effect of alax/st breafcmff up the choir of Christ Church. Not halt the mem bers of the choir appaared on Sunday, A majority of them say that unless the mell.bel. whose names are connected with the scandal resi gu they will not remain.

CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS The ordinary weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians was held at xha Cardiff UaiOll Workhouse, on Saturday, \)r Paine in the cbair. Alderman J Aooas BQOV id the adoption of the report of the Finance 'Committee, which coa- sisted of recommendatio as to increase the salaries of minor clerks in the clerk's offioe by raaitxtf abovt 3s 61 each a week. Hf/exptaiued tuat these clerks not being recognised clerks of the Board, thoagta they were actually so, could not be dealtwitb directly by the Board, but to obviate that difficulty they would nomir,aUy increase the salary of tbe clerk, Mr Harris He could then deal with -his subordinates, atid distribute the increase to aaoii over a period rf aye years. In order not to have the trouble of. opening up this salary qnnstion too often they t-ijought it baot to arrange so tbat the salary of er.lCb clerk should rise annually every year for five years. For the first three yfjute Mr Harris would be slightly in pocket, tint in the last two years be would lor- so that, in the result Mr Harris wouid bot gaiu. p,,nu!l in addition to his present Salary. Their cierk. vras a most efficient man, but it was bot propped tbat he should gaiu in the slightest br this agreement. Mr if. J. BEAVAN bore out the staiesMot of A.iderman Jacobs. Mr WATKINS said be did not like as member of the Fmauce Committee to object to tbetrrepott, or to divide the Board upon it. At tbeeametUn* he might be allowed to take exception to the meagre increase given to a clerk aamed WIH MBS. While a junior clerk under him was raised- £ *6i a week be only got an advance of 2s 6d, though 4m WKS a married man. Mr F. J. ÐtiVAN explained that when Williams, who is a very young man, entered tbe service of the Board as cleik he was taken in at 17s 61 a week, with im agreement for two years at that figure. He then chose to get named, bat tbe Board could not help that. flaughtmi Though the board were entitled to his services at 17s 6d a week for the two years they voluntarily proposed to give tuna 2s M more than they wesa bound to. Mr EjMNEtZB BEAVAK considered the sum s- ceedingiy sma,li. If a man was not capable ot doing the work they should send him away, instead of fining him as it were for inefficiency by giving him a lesser advance than was given to others. It was obviously too little for a married clerk who was worth anything. General Ln held that it should be a pan question of efficiency and not of marriage. After some further -conver«ation the matter was left in the discretion of the clerk, and the Finance Committee's report was adopted.

THE POSTCARD LEADS TO PRISON. The Siam papers repoi t the imprisonment in Bangkok of a Turkish subject named Belitski, for seven month?, without being brought to trial, by the Siamese authorities. His offence was that, having lately arrived in Bangkok from Hong Kong, be bad addressed to hit, wife, Madam Charlotte Belitski, Tornovie Seimeu, EasliU8 Rouinauia, Turkey, a post-card, on which wae written in tii« German language:—Bangkok, December 7, 3323.—Here everything is wild and uncivilised the women go about buuf naked. All vices Sourish here a paradise for problematic existences. What a contrast to the highly civi- lised natives of China and Japan, where I have lately been! Siam is a genuine Waliaehian country. It is the wildest country I have ever seen in my travels.—ROBERT BELITSKI." On December 16 Belitski was arrested on a charge. as he understood it, of libelling tbe Siamese Government. He was never brought to trial, aa4 was liberated on July 16 last on the representa- tions of certain British subjects. He made his way to Batavia to lay his complaint before the Turkish Consul tbare, Turkey having no treaty with Siam.

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EXPERIENCES OF A DETECTIVE, BY JAMES M'GOVAN, Author of "BROUGHT TO BAT," "HUNTED 401rs.>> SlRANQK CLUES," and TRAOED AND TSACKKD." No. XLII. A BOARDING SCHOOL ELOPEMENT. It is not pleasant when you are about to slip "'to bed after being on your feet for a whole day j° be told that you are wanted on an urgent case. *■ h*d been trailing about for hours, and was Just ^Hiking how tempting the bedclothes looked and a priceless boon is sleep, when that impera- ring at the bell sent a chill of apprehension to !uy heart. The situation can be understood by lIIedical men, but by no others. Tell him to go to the Central, for I'm quite OtO out," I cried, but it was too late. An ^Xions-looking man of fifty burst in on me with the ^ordg—"I've been there already, and they sent 11. here. No one but M'Govan they said could manage a case like mine, and all I 147 life dependa upon it." "Oh dear," I groaned, as I sat down and stared I'd rather have sleep than praise just Iao". Can't you wait till to-morrow ?" Not a moment, not a second be feverishly *0a»ered. "My daughter has run away from a J^iea' school in town here, and she's only seven- and they think she's gone cff with a poor °*8fk of twenty-two, who only earns about twenty t>°Uuc}8 a year. They must be chased at once and fought back. She belongs to me surely till she's '"eaty-ona j" "Certainly she belongs to ycu as much as any *°a»an belongs to any man—that is, as much as an 661 Would belong to you if you heid it wriggling in rour hand above the water." fle flopped down into a chair and began to cry, Evidently more distressed at losing his daughter I was at losing my sleep. 'I must have her back," he managed to say at I've toiled and starved and pinched and Itemed for that lassie ever since her mother died, •"•t thinking she might make a good match and lret into a good position, and now she's run off !Iith a ne'er-do-weel, who can hardly keep himself cigars, I'm a country schoolmaster myself, and •thoughtto finish her off by sending her into Edinburgh every day. I have finished her off and Myself at the same time. I've a school two miles etlt of the town, and my name is George Blyth-a I 4iOG name for a broken-hearted man!" I lnoked him all over and seemed to see a whole I history in his threadbare black clothes, his j tumbling hands, furrowed face, and grey hair—a f. of devotion and self-sacrifice rewarded with I lfiRratitude and desertion. The story did not "Uprise me; it is common as day and night. "I only got the message about an hour ago, and ■* ran in every inch of the way," he said, with more i tears. I thought I was shot through the heart, she was out seeing me yesterday, and never j hInted at such a thing or looked the least like it When she went away. If i don't get her bstck it'll I the death of me; perhaps I'll die either way, I Iot I could never trust her again." The passive despair and tears wore too much for tee, and I forgot about sleep, awl was sorry I tad spoken with impatience. There is enough bItterness in every one's life without us adding to it, and he is actually a blessing to his kind who toes along neither blessing nor hurting. As his j|opes sank I tried to cheer him, and we left the together to see what clue could be picked up the school, which was not five minutes' walk 'ro?n my house. They had not been able to give j schoolmaster the slightest hint as to the Probable destination of Flora Blyth. She had 1'011e out without leave in her ordinary attire without luggage, but left a brief line stating that she had gone away to be married to the man 01 her choice, and requesting them to let her Wher know of it "at their convenience." There appeared to be a dim idea, however, among the Otber young girls that the favoured man was a llbrk named Charles Grant, whose chief recom. mendation was the elegant manner in which he held and smoked a cigar. While the father was sadly making this known 10 Ine it struck me that as nearly every school girl bat a boon companion and confidant I might try to fiad out who bad been Flora Blyth's at this young ^di«s' seminary. Her father had already been to the home of the young man, who had there care- left word that be was Roing to Glasgow for a »oliday trip, but on that information I placed no fiance whatever. At the school we found the Principal very much Deemed over the disgrace of an elopement and be probable effect on the school. There was Nothing said of the probable effect on the father. 009 or two questions elicited the fact that flora's boon companion was a girl named Nina Poison, and that girl I bad brought before mi. !rbe moment she entered I saw that she was almost ^falysed with terror, and without one preliminary j Nation to give her time to recover, I looked her 4tftiRht in the eyes and said— Wher« did Fiora say she was going to be •warried?" The girl's eyes fell, and I knew then that she the information I sought. I took out a pair J1 handcuffs and toyed with them carelessly, while 8harply added- Out with it, now 1" "Peebles," she faintly stammered, looking as Pitied aa if I had sentenced her to death. *'They're to spend the honeymoon there." Honeymoon groaned the father, and what 44 they to live on ?" I "Oh, I don't know. Mr Grant is in a bank, 14cl they think you will help them," was the tono- rejoinder. How could gir I of seventeen be to think of such contemptible things as "*»»ys and means with their whole heads swim- ming with romance and love! "Me help them?" cried the father, in a burst of ^spair..«Me, who have hardly one penny to *bb on another? Does Flora think I'm a Millionaire?" "Yes," frankly returned the bread-and-butter Miss, with the utmost calmness, all if millions -ere as common as slate stones. "Does she!" (trimly returned her father, with a tard setting of the lipa, more suggestive than a *houaand speeches. "Just wait till I get bold of her. 1'11 millionaire her I" I was inclined to believe that the confidence tejfardiuK Peebles was of the same nature as that Of Grant regarding his Glasgow trip—a mere ruse to lead pursuer3 astray; but the girl Poison Assured us that Peebles had been selected for its Wetness, and through being an unlikely place Or an angry father to think of. No more coald be done that night, as the last train for Peebles bad Rone; but very early next morning, as a favour, we Rot taken out on a goods train, and started to bunt fot' the fugitive pair. We soon went over every bla" in shape of an hotel in the small town, and *tan concluded that they had gone to a private ^Riug We got back to the station and tackled railway porter, who, with some prompting, telDem bered the young couple arriving, and "king whure they could get a lodging. He had been busy at the moment, and merely directed Jtam to one place, nearly opposite the principal tatel. "They may have seen us then, and bolted the foment our backs were turned," I suggested, but Jta father thought the hour, too early, and hopa- J»Uy led the way back. The house was easi y 0,1M, and we no sooner had the door opene o tI. than we felt some delicious odour of fried J*l*Oon steaks being prepared for someone s rea »*• I felt wolfish in a moment^ and orgo my tasinegs, but the father merely said "I want to see your new lodgers," and 8 e after the servant into a tiny parlour, in w tc very youog conple sat—both on one chair, of ootirse. The girl-for she was little more-was tatt-inly very pretty, but the man was a slight, being whom no one but a gushing girl ttoQld have dreamt of choosing for a husband. He '0.. all we entered, and the girl, with a little threw her arms round bi« neck Mid "id tar faqe from her fatties* Grant was the first to find his voice. "Well, air, what do you want here?" he de- manded, as coolly as if he bad been the injured one. You scoundrel I I want my property there— my lassie," answered the infuriated father, advan- cing to tear them asunder. This is M'Govan, the detective, and he'll attend to you." "She doesn't happen to be your property, but mine now," defiantly answered Grant. "This is my wife, and if you doubt it read that," and he took from his breast pocket a paper which he tossed down on the table before us. I took it up, for the father was too much overcome to move hand or foot, and he read it aloud. It was a con- cisely worded agreement of marriage between Flora Blyth and Charles Grant, dated at Edinburgh the day before, and signed by them both. That's not a marriage at all," cried the father, when I had finished and gravely returned the paper, and you'll have to answer to the law for abducting my daughter before she was of age." He didn't abduct me, father. I came of my own free will, as soon as he made me his wife," cried the girl, looking up very sweetly and shyly; then gathering up courage, she tripped across the room, and dropped at his feet on her knees in the style of the penny novels and added—"Oh,father, won't you forgive me." Humph you're not worth forgiving, ex- claimed her father, with deep bitterness. "I've done with you for ever. You've ruined yourself for life, and you'll regret it to your dying day. Never oome near or speak to me again, for we are utter strangers from this day." He pushed her off roughly—tears and pretty looks and all-aud abruptly left the room. She appeared to be overcome with grieff and took shelter in the Mms of her husband, who seemed a little disconcerted at the turn which affairs had taken. It'll be rather awkward for me if he keeps up that," he ruefully remarked as he twirled and tugged at his moustache. Couldn't you go after him," he added to me, "and pile it up about repentant son and daughter—so sorry, won t do it again—and all that sort of thing, and advise him to forgive us and share up like a brick ? We don't want him to die just yet, of course, but a little money would come in very handy just now." H T "I've nothing more to do with the case, i dryly returned, and I'm afraid yon 11 find that Mr Blyth is as poor as yourself." Haw. haw, haw I Good loke. Flo, good joke," be broke forth, turning to his youug wife, all if he saw through my cunning attempt to mislea.d him, •4 but he'll come round all right by and by." I left them cuddling and consoling each other, and got back to the railway station, where I found the father, sitting sober and grey and old-looking, waiting for the first train to take him back to Edinburgh. „ He firmly believes you're a man of wealth, i remarked after a little. "So I see; and I'm glid I haveni a penny, ]art that they may suffer. She deserves all that may fall upon her after treating me so coolly. She has probably deceived him, and he has deceived her. It will be a bitter finding out for both. But is that p?,per really binding on them?" It is; indeed the very declaration before wit- nesses whioh he made is enough in Scotland. There is no doubt whatever that they are man and wife." It doesn't matter tome now," he said, with wonderful calmness, I have no lassie now. I am alone in the world." He remained silent till we got back to Edinburgh, and it seemed to me that in the brief time he had been with me he bad aged ten years. A kind of shivering sigh escaped him as we parted at the Waverley Station, and he said— "I'm sorry I've given you so much trouble all for nothing, but you're a father yourself, I've been Wrtd, and nobbdy knows what's before hiic, so you'll maybe forgive me." "Hoot, ay," I lightly returned, "and I've seen a worse sorrow than yours, mind, so don't break your heart over it just yet. Wait till you see the purpose of it." lie opened bis eyes widely, and appeared startled into a new train of thought; then be grasped my band fervently, and passed out of kiight without another word. Anyone of experience could guess that a fine crop of misery must certainly come out of a marriage like that, but the keenest could never anticipate the strange incidents which really followed. About two years lator, when I had completely forgotten about the runaway match, I was called out to a poor lodgiug in Richmond-street with the message that a young woman bad tried to commit suicide. When Ijrot to the place I found a doctor and a policeman trottiug the slight creature about the room to keep her from falling asleep for ever. I had not the faintest idea of ever having seen via her before, and the name "Miss Grant" did not help me in the least. She appeared to have taken laudanum, and was said to be a teacher, and poorly paid. When she was able to look about her and talk sensibly, she smiled feebly to me, and then for the first time I thought that I had met her before. "You know me, I think?" I said at last. "Oh, yes, Mr M'Govan, I've seen you often siuce that unhappy day when I ran away to Peebles; but you never seemed to know me. No- body does, so that isn't strange. My own father wouldn't look at me, I believe. I wish I ware asleep and at rest for ever;" and she cried in a soft, woeful way, more touching than a noisy burst. I scarcely recognised her even then. Her beauty was nearly all gone, her clothing was shabby and worn, and her face sunken and aged. She was changed from a girl to a woman, with ten years added on. Is it possible that you are the bonny young girl, JTlora Blytb, whom we chased to Peebles V I exclaimed in genuine surprise. Most of us change a little, but you—you're like another being." I am; I think I was somebody else in those days," she bitterly returned but how could a girl know anything?" "You have lost your husband, then ?" I sug- gested in sympathy. My husband I" she exclaimed hysterically he is not my husband now. He soon got tired of that when he found that be was to get no money from my father, and burned the paper we had signed and left me." "Burned the paper? But that makes no differ- ence in the bond," I exclaimed, scarcely able to believe my own ears. "He could not destroy the marriage though be burned a hundred such papers." "Oh, yes, he could," she positively returned. *'He said he knew all about the law, and that I hqd basely deceived him in saying that my father was rich enough to keep us both." "Aud had you really said that?" I asked with a pitying smile. "I said it because I believed it. What did I know about money ? I only knew that my father always had plenty for me, and said he had plenty more, and I felrthat I had deceived Charlie, and that he had a rigbt to throw me off. But then I thought that be was rich too, for he bad always seemad to have plenty of money: so when I learned that be had only twenty pounds » year, I knew he couldn't keep me, and we parted. I could not go back to my father, so I came here and got a place as teacher, but I'm just starved on it. I could have borne all that, but now I bear be is going to marry a woman with plenty of money, so his love for me must have been all a deception. I did think that after he got on a little in the world he would seek me out aud make me his wife properly, but there seems to be no truth in men, and I am tired of everything." "Was that why you took the laudanum?" u Y 88, I could bear him leaving me; but I couldn't bear him QturyinK another woman; and I tbought-I thought when he heard of it be might be sorry for what be had done, and wish mo back again." Humph much good that would do jyra. I don't suppose he would thick twice about you, but rather be glad to be rid of you for ever. You are utterly wrong about the marriage not being bind- ing. It is AS firm and legul as though twenty ministers bad been at the work. Charles Grant declared you to be his lawful wife before two wit- nesses, and also showed us tlbe signed agreement, therefore you are his wife at this moment, and can step forward and command him not to marry another." "Surely you are mistaken?" she tremulously exclaimed, with her clasped hands quivering violently asrainst her breast; "and then I would need a lawyer to help me, and I can't afford that, for Ilya no money." You need no money, for there is an agent for the poor who will be only too glad to get such a good case. Why, your own father would help you in a case like this, where your honour ia involved." "Oh, but I daren't go near him. He knows nothing about it, and it is better so. He has suffered enough without me adding to his misery. If I could prove that I am a wife I might go to bim, not unless. But, oh, tell me, are you not just saying this to please me and cheor me V' "I am saying it because it is true," I answered, "and it seems amazing to me that you never thought it out for yourself." "And I am his wife still-bis true, real wife she exclaimed in ecstasy. Ob, it seems like a dream from heaven I and YOU-you must be an angel come to tell me 1" "Ha, ha I an angel without winge, and with, tackety boots on, and a tweed coat, and a pair of handcuffs in bis pocket," I cried, laughing op- ro&riQtuly. ,V"NQ, no, lassie; Migels are sparge, sf^jC i — A; you must be doinir with men. Now, as a matter of form, I have to take you away with me for try- ing to take your own life, but as soon as that ia over I shall try to see your husband. I'll warrant you be won't call me an angel-Rt least, from the same place," She was quite delighted to go, and clung to me more like to a father than a police officer. Indeed, if I had asked her to walk through a flaming furnace I don't think she would have hesitated. A new life seemed to be infused into her; a faint tinge of colour had come back to her face, and a gleam of hope to her eyes. I took her to the Central in a cab, and then after she bad seen the Fiscal and been locked up I saw one of the agents for the poor, and with him drove out to the father of my prisoner. He was astounded at the news, and wanted to go straight in and cudgel Graat within an inch of his life. I wished him to see Grant, but managed to get possession of the cudsrel on the way into town. The house of Grent's parents was in Clerk- street, but on reaching the place we were told that he was not there. Not quite satisfied, I went through every room and closet in the house, and concluded that I had been told the truth. In looking over his own room I was a little relieved to find that there was a dress suit, with white tie, white gloves, and patent boots, laid out ready for use. Tho marriage then was not over. The house at which Grant was supposed to be spending the evening was round at the Sciennes, and was occupied by the parents of his intended bride. On the way thither I audibly expressed a regret that we had not been a day later, when I might have taken him for bigamy; as it was I could not lay a finger on him. The schoolmaster only wished for his cudgel back again, but didn't get it. There was evidently a gay gathering or a party going on in the bouse, for the servant was simply showing us in when I made her understand that it was not the company, but Mr Charles Grant we wished to see. There was an awkward interval of some minutes, and then Grant appeared, radiant and exultant, as bridegrooms always do, to distin- guish them from married men. But his brightness vanished the moment his eyes fell upon our three faces. The lawyer's face be did not know, but ours were only too familiar, and evidently full of unpleasant memories. Well, what do you want here!" he demanded in the old defiant tone; but then, before I could interfere, the schoolmaster lost control of himself, and ran at him, collared him, and kicked him all round the room as nimbly and effectively as if he bad been the younger man. When I got the limp and well-mauled creature out of his grasp, and had satisfied the crowd of guests about the door that no murder had been committed, I said to him— We have come to tell you that your wife tried to commit suicide to-day, but is now happily out of danger." My wifp. J" be contemptuously returned. "If you mean Flora Blyth, she's nothing to me we were never married." "We both heard you declare that she was your wife," I sharply interposed, when the blockhead would wag his tongue and more firmly enmesh himself. "Oi), ye&, I said that," he answered; "but it was only to get rid of you." Humph you've done yourself now," exclaimed the lawyer, and in two minutes he satisfied even the reluctant Grant that he was not a bridegroom, but an old married man, and that his bright looks were therefore utterly out of place. The immediate result of the agent's reasoning, however, was that one young lady who had been listening to it all just within the door uttered a short scream and dropped away in a faint; and while her lady frieuds were bearing her off some of her male ones were eager to help Grant out of the house with the toes of their boots, "You may force me to keep Flora as my wife," he said as he got off, "!but I'll take all out of her. She'll not hamper me iong." It was soon proved that he earned about twenty- seven shillings a week, and as his wife was simply dismissed with an admonition from the police- court bar, she speedily sued him for support, and he grudgingly consented to receive her as his wife. A little money was given by the schoolmaster, and under these inauspicious circumstances they began their new married life. From the first hour Grant seemed to set himself to the task of killing her by cruelty and neglect; but in spite of it all she seemed to thrivo and flourish as she had never done before. She seemed to live on her husband, and the more he abused her the more devotedly she clung to him, and worshipped hinrfj and served him. At length he got badly hurt in driving home from Musselburgh Races, and would have died but for the wife be had tried to kill off. He was pulled back from the grave, but was so long weak and sickly that he had time to see and understand something of the great love which was welling in his wife's heart. The result was that his hatred was a littte subdued, and when a relative left her some property shortly after it appeared to vanish altogether, and the last years of the schoolmaster were cheered by seeing them as happy as most married folks are.

THE LLANDILO TOWN CLOCK. A meeting of the executive committee of the East Carmarthenshire Liberal Association was held at Llandilo ou Friday, the President of the association (Mr J. W. Jones) in tbe chair. Arising out of the minutes of the last meeting of the council of tbe association was tbe matter of the clock in the church tower at Llandilo. It will be recollected that Mr D. Pugh, M.P., gave a clock which was placed in the church tower, advising at the time that any money required for its repair should be raised by voluntary subscrip- tion. The Llandilo Local Board, however, stepped in, undertook the charge of the clock, and paid for its maintenance out of the rates. Certain of the inhabitants appealed to the auditor against the charge, but it was allowed on the ground that Mr Pugh bad declared that be gave the clock to tbe town. The Liberal Association took tbe matter up in the interests of the Liberals aud Nonconformists who, on principle, ob- jected to the re-imposition of church rates. The association passed a resolution on the matter, and sent it Mr Pugh, who did not reply. At the council meeting last May another resolution was passed, and again sent to Mr Pugh, and to this a reply was received and submitted to the executive committee on Friday. Iu the course of bis letter, which was dated June 5th, 1889, Mr Pugh said :— When I presented the clock to the town I wrote a letter, which I have no doubt is in existence, stating that any repairs that were wanted in the future (I pay for tha winding) mi 'ht be defrayed by voluntary sub- scription, and that I considered a rate out of tbe question. It in not likely that I, who abolished church rates in this parish some 50 years ago (alone I did it), should wish to revive them now. After the reading of this letter, a discussion [ ensued in which the chairman, Mr D. Pugh, M.P., Rev W. Da vies (Llandilo), Messrs J. W. Gwynue Hughes (Tregib), T. Powell (Carreg. cetiuen), Gwilym Evans (Lianelly), and J. J osepb (Llangeunecb), took part.—A stiong desire was expressed on all sides that tbe matter should be finally arranged, so as to allay the very bitter feeling engendered in Llandilo by the attempted re-tmposimoa of Church rates.—The Rev W. Davies assured tbe committee that everything would end satisfactorily if Mr Pugh would state in definite and distinct terms that be gave the clock on condition that it/should not bemamtained by rates, but voluntarily; Mr Pugh's recommenda- tions were no good, for the Tory-Church majority on the local board twisted what be said to suit thdif own purposes. The vicar, too, claimed that tbe clock was church property, and said no one should interfere with it, but he was willing to accept public money for its maintenance. The matter would shortly come before the Local Government Board-m tbe form of au appeal the decision of the auditor, It would be fought at every point, in Parliament and out of át, and if not settled would cause unpleasantness and friction for years. lIe very much regretted ,the affair, but it was a matter of principle.—Mr .Pogh said he had that week written another letter to the Llandilo Local Board, and before h.Utrot8 another letter he would like them to this one, and what its effect would be.—It was eventually resolved, Mr Pugb acquiecainf. that the chairman should wait upon the clerk of tbe Liandtio Board and state that Mr Pugh says that he understood that the clock should be supportlédlbY a voluntary rate."

-=. MR GLADSTONE AND HOME ROLE- £ Mr Ogilvy^ secretarj^'of the: Dundee Radical Association, A few days'#1* called the attention of Mr Gladstone to tNe tpeecb of Air Asquith, M.P. for East Fife, in wWcfa the latter gentleman said it was thought" "desirable, as they were now approaching witbfn Jltbe reach of another general election, that tftfey SbouldOavg placed be- fore them a little more e&wciuy Ottd in greater detail the modificationS,<i4j sriginal scheme of | Horn# Rule, which of the Irish members would involvfe^ Gladstone, writing from Hawarden on theTtb inst,, says: In all that falls from Mr Asquith there is sure to be much force, and so far as a judgment can at this moment be formed I think there is very great force in what he niged in the remarks YOD haTe sent me, subject to this one reservation, that I am too much chilled by the frost of age to take it for granted in the present state of the evidence tbat we are approach- ing within reach of another general elactiorv I b«Mti!$Uath we were.

DymuoiriJngobebwyrCymreig gyfeirio eu gobeb- laetbau, Hyfrau i'w hadolygu, &0., fel ycanlyn Dafydd Morganwg, Morganwg Souse Llantwit- street, Cardiff.

..fl ¡ AT EIN GOHEBWYR. Dymunir ar ein gohebwyr i yagrifeuu mor ddealludwy ac eglur ag y gallont. Byddai byny yn bwylusdod i ni a'r cysodwyr. Adgofion am y Dyddiau Gynt."—Ymddengyg. "Yr Ystlum," "Y Celwyddog," "Homo Ddu."—Mae'r blaenaf yn gywir a lied dda, ond y ddau olaf yn eitbafol wallus, yr hyn a brawf mai uid yr un yw'r awdwr. "Y Oardotyn," "Y Lloer."—Os mai ieuanc ydycb, na ddigalonwcb, er nad yw y rbai'n i fyny &'r aafon. Dysgwch sillebu yn gywir. Mae Haw- ysgrifen dda genych. Ni fu Lazarus o amgylch y byd. Mae cynghaneddiad y Lloer" yo gywir, ond y syniad yo ddiffygiol. "Bedd Gwag yrlesu."—Gwallus yw'r cyrchiad yn yr englyn cyntaf—"Ac arfau ohweg Rhufain," ac y mae'r aillinell yn rhy bir. "Fy Cyfiawnhad."—Mae amryw linellau cloffion ac anafus yn y darn. Pa fodd y bu byn, frawd ? Ceiaiwyd cy wiro'r gwallau. Cywydd y Cytarfyjddiad."—Fel yr awgryma. yr awdwr, y mae rhai man frycbau arno. Modd bynag, fe gaiff ymddaugos mor fuan ag y gallwn. D" geuym fod yr awen wedi parhau mor fyw yn awyr Lloegr. "Dyn a Aned i Flinder."—Cymmeradwy. Ni ddychwel efe mwy.'—Yn ei dro.

THE TAXATION OF CYCLES. The Curse of the Age." At the ordinary meeting of the Aberdare Local Board on Friday, Mr R. H. Rbya, J.P., in the chair, Mr Thomas Tbomas introdueed his motiou relative to the taxation of cycles. He bad been urged to do so, more than ever, by receiving a prospectus of an association, called The Road and Path Cycling Association," the object of which id, amaqg other things, "to promote fast and long distance riding on bicycles aud tricycles on the public roads, to promote, aavist, and protect the use oi these vehicles on the public roaas."—Mr Thomas thought that the tims had come when bicyclists should take a fair share of taxation. It was not just that tradesmen and others who wished to ride or drive for plea- sure could only do so after satisfying the demands of the state, whereas bicyclists rode about at will, very often to the danger of life and limb. He baa repeatedly seen cyclists riding down the principal street, of Aberdare (Cauon-street), at toe rate of from 10 to 12 miles an hour, and ou country roads at a higher rate of speed. He moved, "That this Board petition the Chancellor of the Exchequer to place a tax upon all bicycles, tricy cles, and multicycles, and other similar vehicles." A tax of 2i 61 per vehicle would briug in a revenue of £150,000, he thought, aud as one or two English boards had sent a similar petition, he hoped tbat Aberdare would be the first to lead the way III Wales.—Mr D. P. Davies, J.P., seconded.—Mr D. Davies, J.P., could not support the motion. He thought that it was an interference with the public rights, and the next move would be to tax all perambulators and bath-chairs.—Mr Thomas Do perambulators zo at the rate of 12 miles an hour through public streets ? (Laughter.)—The Chairman quite agreed with the mover of the proposition. Bicycles and tricycles were undoubtedly the curse of the age in the way they were now used, and certainly if taxes were placed upon pleasure carriages, why not upon bicycles Perambulators were certainly a nuisance, especially in Cardiff, where the pave- ments in tbe principal streets were already crowded enough. Still the time had hardly come when their taxation was necessary.—After some further remarks from Mr Thomas, the motion was carried with but one dissentient (Mr D. Davies, J.P.).

COMMERCIAL INTEGRITY AT SWANSEA. Many of onr readers will remember the failure, more than six years ago, with very great, liabilities, of Messrs Richards, Power, and Company, Swansea. The failure was due, not to the shipping part of the business, which was, even at the time of filing the petition, in a prosperous condition, but to another section, which had largely to do with the metal trade. At the time it was contended that the shipping business was quite a distinct one, and that Mr T. P. Richards, not being connected with any but that, be, therefore, could not be involved in the collapse. The uame, however, under which ho traded was associated with that of a partner in tbe insolvent firm, and so the contention failed. But, with that steady persistency that conquers success, Mr Richards at once set to work to redeem, not only his fortune but bis credit. How be has succeeded in both objects is now evident. A few days ago there appeared in the papers the announcement:— "It is requested that all remaining unpaid creditors of the shipping businetis of tbe late firm of Richards and Power, of Gloucester House, Swansea, as also of Thomas Picton Richards, individually, willaend in their their accounts for full settlement to the said Thomas Picton Richards, at Gloucester Honse, Swansea. It transpires that in less than six years Mr Richards has succeeded in paying 20i in the £ to all tbe creditors of the firm with which he was actually aesociated-tbe shipping department. The shareholders of one banking establishment haxe been the delighted recipients of over dE5,000, and in reply they have sent a resolu- tion of thauks and a letter in which they express tbeir appreciation of the honourable manner in which Mr Rtchards has discharged obligations be was not legally bound to do.

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