The Cardiff Times

THE AMERICAN TARIFF. Its Effect on the Tin-plate Trade. A public meeting was held on Saturday evening at the Tabernacle Chapel, Pontardulais, when Mr David Randell, M.P., addressed a well-attended meeting of his constituents. Mr Randell was accompanied by Mr James Rowlands, M.P. for East Finsbury (London), and secretary of the Leasehold Enfranchisement Association. Mr D. RANDELL, M.P. was accorded an enthu- siastic reception upon rising. He thanked them for tho warmth, and the spontaneity of the demonstration which had met his hon. friend and himself that evening. (Cheers.) That showed, at any rate, that whatever services he might have been able to render his constituency smce his return to Parliament were appreciated by the section of his constituency comprised in the district of Pontardulais. (Applause.) He experienced the same treatment in all parts of his constituency. He took it that this snowed that there could be little doubt whatever as to the results of the next election and that Gower, when the day came, would remain true to its traditious of Liberalism. (Applause.) Having passed in review the chief incidents of the past session, which he described as signally barren, Mr Randell proceeded to aongratulate them upon the progress which trades unionism had made in England and also on the continent and in America. (Cheers.) It was by combination that workmen could successfully obtain higher wages, shorter hours, and better condition of work. This statement had been re- peated so often that it was now quite threadbare but having regard to the number of men who still stood outside their own tinplate workmen's union, this lesson of combination must be enforced upon them. (Applause.) In the midst of the prosperity in which they found themselves a cloud had appeared on the horizon. He referred to the American Tariff Law. This act was an attempt on the part of the Americans to make a "corner" and endeavour to do without the world as a producer. One comfort they had, however, was that the world was still larger than the United States. (Applause.) Amongst other industries which this act was calculated to injure was the tin-plate trade of Soutli Wales. Now the act might, no doubt, temporarily injure them, but he seriously thought that a thorough I mutual understanding between masters and men would prevent it permanently injuring- tho trade. (Hear.hear.) The present prices of tinplateswasvery favourable, and he had no doubt that manufac- turers were very pleased. He noticed that the market price for common coal quality was 17s to 17s 3d per box; Bessemer plates, 17s 6d to 17s 9d per box; and for Siemens' steel plates, 18s to 18s 3d per box. He could not of course project himself into the future, but he thought they could* safely predict that between now and the month of July next, when the Act came into force, as far as tin plates were concerned, these high prices would continue to prevail, since it was only natural that the consumer on the other side of the water would be anxious to buy as much as he could under the old tariff. Whilst he congratu- lated the masters upon these excellent prices, he hoped they would see their way clear to allow their men to participate in these large profits to a fair extent, and tho men would, during this phenominal period, and by mutual agreement, get a fair in- creased wage on the 1874- list. (Applause.) The executive of the tinplate workers' union ought to meet as soon as possible to consider the situation, and to invite a joint meeting with the masters' association. (Cheers.) He offered this advice to the masters to encourage skilled labour to remain at home. They would remember that about the year 1874 the Russian Government did all they possibly could to induce the skilled labour of South Waler to go out to Odessa and elsewhere. They did do a little in that direction, for several men went off to Russia. The same temptations, but to a larger extent, would surely be offered by the Americans ^o induce their best men to cross the Atlantic to make tin plates in the States. No doubt these inducements would take the shape of higher wages, and profit sharing. Whatever arrangements might be made between masters and men in respect to the pre- sent crisis, he sincerely hoped, and he enjoined it upon the men with all the earnestness he was capable of, as the tin-plate industry was specifi- cally a Welsh one, that the workmen of South Wales would be sufficiently patriotic to remain at home, and to resist all inducements the Ameri- cans might oifer them. (Loud applause.) This question would right itself, and and at no dis- tant day they would find fresh markets for their tin plates. (Cheers.) These were days when social and economic questions pressed and competed for supremacy with political measures. The eight hours' movement was an example. It had now attained to first-class importance. The Liverpool Trades' Union Congress would be a memorable one in the history of trades' unionism, for a resolution was there passed in favour of securing an eight hours' day by parliamentary enactment. An eight hours' day would certainly be beneficial to all who toiled under unfavourable conditions, and would not seriously interfere with the productive power of the country. How was it to be brought about ? There were two methods suggested—one by com- bination of workmen, and the other by legislative enactment. Personally, he approved of the change being brought abont by Parliament. (Cheers.) It was within the immediate scope of practical politics, and political economists them- selves did not seem to have any insuperable ob- jection to the principle of State regulation of male-adult labour. Mr Randell then treated upon the Irish question. Mr JAMES ROWLANDS, M.P., whose rising was the signal for applause, at the outset of a vigorous address, said the Welsh constituencies were much to be complimented upon what they had done during the past few years. (Cheers.) As Welsh questions were coming to the front, they had a sturdy and active band of men—amongst whom was their worthy member—(cheers)—who would be found in the front rank in the fight which must shortly come. (Cheers.) Treating upon the question of leasehold enfranchisement, he said that Wales and the south of England were the greatest sufferers under the leasehold system. He should like to see their county council doing with regard to this question what had been done by the Cornwall County Council. A resolution was there moved by Mr John Vivian that a com- mittee should be appointed to enquire into the Cornish leasehold system. This was decided, and witnesses were brought before them, and tho whole question thrashed out. He hoped the county councillors present would take steps in that direction. (Cheers.)

PEMBROKESHIRE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE. A meeting of the members of the above com- mittee was held at the Shire Hall, Haverford- west, on Saturday, Mr H. G. Allen, Q.C., presiding. There was a large attendance of members. The accounts of the Chief Constable were audited and passed. There were four applications for tho office of hall-keeper, rendered vacant through the death of Mrs Phillips. Mr Thomas James, clerk, in the employ of the Clerk of the Peace, was unanimously appointed to the office at a salary of jB20 per annum. Police-Sergeant Irving, of the Pembrokeshire constabulary, was recommended to receive a superannuation allowance of JB54 14s 5Ad, or two- thirds of his present salary. The motion standing in the name of Mr Lemual Jones, Clydeg, That • a sub-committee be appointed to consider the salaries paid to the petty sessional clerks of this county, and the county of the town of Haverfordwest," was next considered. After some discussion, it was resolved that the whole of the members of the joint standing com- mittee form a, committee for the consideration of the question.

PUBLlO APPOINTMENTS IN WALES. Welsh a Qualification. The monthly meeting of the Cardiff Board of Guardians was held on Saturday at the Work- house, under the presidency of Dr Paine. There was an unusually large attendance, and consider- able interest appeared to centre in the appoint- ment of a resident medical officer for the union hospital. The visiting committee had reduced the number of candidates to three—Dr Samuel Fleming, aged 25, of Halifax Dr R. Tompsett, 25, Crewkerne, Somerset; and Dr J. D. Williams, 26, Ogmore Vale—and they were called separately before the board. Dr Williams was the only candidate possessing a knowledge of the Welsh language and in de- ciding how the votes should be recorded a. short but somewhat heated discussion took place, in the course of which Messrs R. Cory and Rams- dale contended in favour of the Welsh-speaking candidate while the Chairman favoured the claims of Dr Fleming. Eventually it was decided to vote by ballot, with the following result:— Williams, 30 votes Fleming, 8 Tompsett, 4 the first-named thus securing an absolute majority. Immediately the result was announced t&ese was a general exodus of members.

ROYALTY IN CARDIGANSHIRE. Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess Karadja of Sweden are staying at Dolwen, Aber- porth, and on a recent day were entertained by Captain S. H. Jones-Lloyd, V".P., D.L., Tyllwyd. Both the Prince and Princess appeared deeply impressed with the kind courtesy and dignity which characterise the good family of Tyllvvyd. and were also greatly touched at the kindness and attention paid to them b.v the nobility of the Tiyysicle m general. J;

The Tithe War. .1 THE CILGERRAN SALES. Scenes in Court. At the Carmarthen County-court on Friday, before Judge Beresford and a jury, the adjourned case of John v. Stevens and others was heard.— The court was crowded. This action was brought by Thomas John, farmer, of Trerhos, Cilgerran, against the Rev Thomas Jones, vicar of Penbryn; Rev. Thomas Parry, rector of Kilgerran and Charles Vivian Stevens, of Whitehall, London. The plaintiff claimed (1) J350 damages from the defendants for illegally and wrongfully distraining a partly-cut rick of hay and two stacks of barley, belonging to the plaintiff, on the 28th March, 18S9, and removing the said hay from the plaintiff's land on the 13th June, 1889, particulars being :—Value of hay and barley, jB55 damages, £15. (2) In the alterna- tive, plaintiff claimed the said J350 damages for the defendants having distrained the hay and barley, abandoned the same, and afterwards on the 13th June, 1889, illegally and wrongfully re-took possession of the said hay, and removed the same—particulars being the same. (3) In the alternative, the plaintiffs also claimed damages (a.) for that the defendants made an excessive distress in seizing corn and hay of the value of £35, in satisfaction of a total sum of £8168 2d, consisting of tithes, j36 18s 2d, and costs, JE1 18s; (ú) for that defendants seized the hay and corn, and failed to sell on the expiration of five days or within a reasonable time after (c) and that the defendants did not sell the hay on the premises on which count value of the hay was claimed B22 10s, and damages for renewal, J310 (d) for damages to a .gate-post and jamb. Plaintiff claimed various sums under the several paragraphs, but reduced the total to JB50, to bring it within the jurisdiction of the court. Mr Abel Thomas, M-P. (instructed by Messrs Asa and Ivor Evans, solicitors, Cardi- gan) was for the plaintiff and Mr J. Maurice Lloyd, of the North Wales circuit (instructed by Mr James John, solicitor, Carmarthen), de- fended. The jury consisted of Messrs T. E. Brigstocke, J. P. Carter, James Phillips (London House), David Lewis (Merlin Brewery), and Charles Finch. After the opening address of counsel, The plaintiff, Thomas John, said he lived at Trerhos, Cilgerran. On the 28th March he was ploughing on his farm, and when he re- tired in the evening his wife handed him the produced notice of distraint. It covered a partly-cut rick of hay and two stacks of barley. Mr Stevens came there on the 16th May, but no one was left in possession, and no one came there in the interval. On the 16th May Mr Stevens was accompanied by the chief constable and two policemen. There were a few of the neighbours present, but no disturbance of any kind. Mr Stevens had an auctioneer with him and appeared to value the hay and barley. Mr Stevens asked witness to settle for the tithes, and he refused. One of the neigh- bours asked Stevens if he were goino- to have a public sale, and Stevens replied" that he could not without his (witness's) written authority. Stevens asked for plaintiffs authority, and he replied, "you did not ask my consent to distrain, and why do you ask my authority to sell You must take your own course, and when that is done I will take mine." Stevens turned round and asked Mr Evans, the solicitor if he represented plaintiff, and he replied that he did not, as plaintiff had represented himself. Stevens and his party left the hay and barley on the farm, and did not say whether they were coming again or not. Mr Stevens came again on the 13th June, and carried away the hay on the 13th and 14th. Witness asked Stevens what he was going to do about that barley, and Stevens said he was satis- fied with the hay. He asked him who was goin"- to make up the damage to the corn by the rats and mice, and he replied that there was no con- ceivable damage. He left it there. The rick of hay was about 4% tons, and its value was £4 10s to £5 a ton. Hay was very scarce in March, 1889, and his hay was extra good. He valued the loss of barley at about 15 bushels at 4s a bushel. He estimated the loss on the barley at £10. He was short of fodder on his farm, and had to turn his cattle into the seed-hay fields, and the money value of the hay thus lost was J615 to J618. —Cross-examined by Mr Lloyd: He did not belong to any anti-tithe association, nor did he subscribe to such an association. He never attended a tithe sale till after he was treated in that way about his own tithes. Ho was not riding amongst the crowd on tho 16th May, nor did he take part in any disturb- ance. There was no disturbance at his farm on either of the occasions. He did not know of any negotiations between the chief constable and Mr W. Davies, M.P., for the quiet collection of tithes. He had never been promised funds for that action. Re-examined He saw the Rev Mr Jones, one of the tithe owners, before the distraint was made, and told him he conscientiously objected to paying tithes. Mr J ones said he did not like to distrain because of the disturbances in the country, and witness promised that there should be no disturbance at his farm. Thomas Evans, farmer, Tyhen, who lives at the next farm to Trerhos, said the hay seized was worth £5 at least in March, while in June it would be worth £ 2 10s. He thought the turning of the cattle into the clover field would be about £ 17 loss. Cross-examined There was a distraint made at his farm, and a trench was dug across the road. He did not dig it, and was in bed when it was done. There was no disturbance at plaintiff's farm. Thomas Vaughan, Pistillnvgan, Cardigan, said he was present on the 16th May, and asked Stevens if he were going to sell. Stevens asked, Where are the buyers ?" and witness replied, I am a buyer." Jle corroborated as to the value of the hay and barley. — Thomas, farmer, Bronfawr, generally cor- roborated. Mr Thomas said that was all his evidence, ex- cept two constables to speak to the state of the country, and the absence of any kind of disturb- ance at that time. The Judge said he need not go into that. If it were introduced on the other side he would allow the evidence to be called. Mr Lloyd, in opening the case for the defence, put forward the following proposition as the basis of the defence:— If there were a reasonable apprehension that the enforcement of the defendants' legal rights to the tithe rent charge would in the absence of police protection be attended with danger, violence, and a breach of the peace, and if all reasonable efforts were made by the defendants or their agents to obtain such protection without success the defendants should not be held respon- sible for or prejudiced by delay, owing to the absence of such protection." That was the sub- stance of his defence. After counsel's speech, a discussion arose as to the introduction of the tithe dispute and the con- dition of the neighbourhood into the case. The Judge held that it had nothing to do with the case. He would allow a general question as to the state of the neighbourhood, but if entered into particulars he would stop it. They could not introduce speculation as to the state of feeling into the matter. Charles V. Stevens, auctioneer- and distraining agent, valued the stacks of barley at 10s each after expenses were paid. He did not particu- larly value them. He had the hay judicially valued. He thought it about four tons worth— 30s a ton. That was its value to him in March. The consignee of the hay had made a loss. Mr Thomas objected that that must bo proved by the consignee. Examination continued He seized on March 28 and Juno 13. The hay was appraised at JB8. He sold it on the premises to Mr Knighton, for whom he acted as agent. Mr Cobden was not there, but gave authority to Mr Dale, who passed that authority on to witness. He and Dale acted together in such matters. He sold the hay for £8. As to the delay, he repeatedly asked, by letter and verbally, the Chief Constable of Pem- brokeshire for men to accompany him to the sales. Mr Thomas objected. The Judge .suggested to witness that he was prevented, by circumstances over which he had no control from carrying out the distraints earlier than he did. Witness adopted this statement of the position as explaining the delay. Cross-examined: He was a medium valuer of corn. The value of the hay depended upon the situation it was found, and the purchaser. Mr Thomas here proceeded to argue that hay and corn distrained must be sold on the premises, quoting sec. 3 of 2nd William and Mary, and the case of Piggott v. Birtle in support of his con^ tention. The Judge said he did not agree with that. Cross-examination continued: He (witness) forgot the number of policemen he had with him on the first occasion, but he had only a few at other times. He knew nothing about Mr Cobden except that he dealt in hay. He had not settled with him for it. He did not sell the hay by auction, but conveyed it to the buyer. He wrote Mr Cobden that night, but had not got the letter. He returned 16s 4d to the plaintiff, the balance after the tithes and costs were paid. J. W. Dale, estate agent to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who said he acted for the Church Defence Association in behalf of the clergy in South Wales, said Cobden authorised him to buy hay, and he handed the authority to Stevens. Thomas Griffiths, auctioneer, Cardigan, said he visited Trerhos on June 13th. He valued the 11:oy: at 4% tons, and 37s 6d a ton, and the corn at yJj. In examination, witness was asked about his visit on May 16th and the valuation made then. He produced his valuation book, in which the entry was, he said, 4g tons of hay worth 358 per ton. Mr Thomas pressed the witness as to the original entry in the valuation book, and suggested that it had been altered. The judge examined the book, and disagreed with Mr Thomas, and asked counsel what had been altered ? I Mr Thomas I don't know. Witness: It has not been altered, Mr Thomas: I suggest— The Judge: Will you limit your question to I what you suggest is the alteration ? When a i question goes to the credibility of a witness you must ask a direct question. Mr Thomas (to witness): Now, I suggest tSial on the 13th June you Wrote with a coloured pen il. Witness I may have had two a three in my pocket. The Judge (to Mr Able Thomas): Will you put what you suggest ? Mr Thomas: I must conduct my cross-examina- tion in my own way. The Judge: I must limit the question to Did you alter the entry in any way ? Mr Thomas: I object to putting the question in that way. I must conduct my cross-examina- tion my'own way. The Judge: WeB, I will prevent it forthenrc. tection Qt, the witness Mr Thomas: Do you say I am not to cross- examine him ? The Judge: Certainly. Mr Thomas: Your Honour says I am not to do it. I have conducted the examination in all fair- ness, and must leave it to the jury. Mr Thomas resumed his seat. The Judge: The character of a witness can only be impugned by a direct question. If you put it in a direct way you may. Mr Thomas (remaining seated): I don't pro- pose to ask him any more questions. John Wood Ffin, valuer, Chester, gave corro- borative evidence. He valued barley at £3. This was the case for the defence, and Mr Thomas said he would now call the policemen to show the state of the country. The Judge first said there was no need. He would tell the jury there was no evidence of disturbance; but afterwards added, if you call them we may have evidence of disturbance. P.C. John Rosser, St. Dogmells, and P.S. Morris, Boncath, spoke positively as to the peace- ful state of the country, and there being no difficulty in conducting and realising the dis- traints. The rows took place at Meline and Penbryn, seven and fourteen miles off. Mr Abel Thomas then addressed the jury, and while alluding to what Mr Llo- d ha.d said as to the removal of the case from the Cardigan court, where it was first entered, to Carmarthen for trial, was interrupted by The Judge, who said he should tell the jury why the case was removed. Mr Thomas submitted those circumstances should not be mentioned unless the plaintiff had the chance of answering the statements made. Any other course would be manifestly unfair to the plaintiff. It did not matter to him where the case was tried. His friend, by suggesting tithes were at the bottom of the case, tried to get an unjust verdict. The case had nothing to do with tithes. The plaintiff was entitled by law to do what he had done, and tho defendants, within proper limits, had the right to distrain. The Judge: Plaintui said he conscientiously objected to pay tithes. Mr Thomas If you force me I will go into the whole question. The Judge I will ask the jury to eliminate the whole matter. Mr Lloyd I will not allow you to suggest I was trying to get an unjust verdict. Mr Thomas I don't suggest it. You are not acting on your own behalf. The Judge You said that. Mr Thomas: Well, I hope the jury understood me at any rate. I am sure no one in court would understand what I said as applying to Mr Lloyd personally. It is the gentleman behind him. The Judge You said Mr Lloyd was trying to do something wrong. I went to Cardigan to try the case, and found the town placarded with notices signed "Rebecca." calling upon the people to come in thousands to hear the tithe case. I therefore moved the case. Mr Thomas This is the first time I have heard a judge giving his own views on facts not before him in evidence. The Judge I say why I changed the case to Carmarthen. You meet that by saying it is brought here to get a verdict on the score of the tithes question. Mr Thomas said that he did not care what the whole world said, but if the full report of that case was read, the people who read it could come to but one conclusion. He asked them to give a verdict on the evidence, and nothing' else. Counsel then addressed himself to the facts of the case. The Judge, in charging the jury, explained that I he had ordered the removal of the case from Cardigan, because he found the state of feeling there very high, and believed it would be a tra- vesty of justice to have it tried there. He only exercised a wise discretion for the sakeof the plain- tiff, defendant, and his own personal safety, in bringing the action to be be tried by a jury of respectable men at Carmarthen. After addressing the jury on the value of the goods distrained, he alluded to the alleged delay, and said the law was that a distress should be carried out and completed promptly. The plaintiff complained of delay, but he did not appear to have in any way remons- trated with the defendants during the period of the delay. In deciding the matter, they must look at all the circumstances, and decide whether there was excessive distraint and unreasonable delay, and if so, assess the damages. After a long absence, the judge .having mean- time gone home, the jury returned into court, and the foreman handed in the following verdict :— On the first point we find that: distraint was not excessive, after taking into consideration all the surroundings; and, on the second point, we think there was delay in carrying out the sale, but the amount paid into court is sufficient to cover the loss." The Registrar received the verdict, and counsel commenced a discussion as to its full meaning. Mr Thomas wanted to know whether the delay was considered "unreasonable," but afterwards withdrew that question. Mr Lloyd wanted to put that question, but Mr Thomas objected, and held that the verdict must be taken as rendered. No one except the judge had a right to ask the jury questions, and the judge had not left the written questions for the jury to answer. The Registrar said he would report to the judge, and at .the next court some one would apply for judgment to be entered. Both parties claimed that the verdict was favourable to them- selves. Mr Lloyd asked that note be taken that he had applied for judgment with costs, and Mr Thomas submitted that the verdict, having given as damages a sum of money, which had been paid into court for a specific purpose other than damages for delay (namely, the damage to the gate jamb), the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict for the amount paid into court and costs. The Registrar took a note of the claim set up by both the learned counsel, and the procgding's terminated.

THE NORTH MONMOUTHSHIRE CORONERSHIP. The subjoined letter has been addressed tó-KÏr G. H. Llewellyn by the honorary secretary of the Maindee Liberal Association:—Dear Sir, I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., which shall be duly laid before the Maindee Liberal Association. In the meanwhile, however, kindly permit me to reply to the various points touched in your letter. In the first place you are unable to recognise the right of the Maindee Liberal Association to criticise your action." I would remind you that the Maindee Liberal Association is affiliated with the Newport Liberal Association, has representa- tion upon the executive of the Newport Liberal Association, and you being a representative of hat association is directly interested in your action. The reasons you assign for voting for Mr Walford, and "which you are glad to have an opportunity of making public appear to be five in number. Firstly you state it to be necessary to have a "gentleman who would have the confidence of the general public." Had you any reason for supposing that the Liberal candidate would be destitute of this "public confidence?" Had you seen the daily papers you must have noticed that the public even held large meetings in various towns for the simple purpose of tastifying their high appreciation of Mr Jones' personal charac- ter, and the greatest possible confidence was reo posed in him in the very heart of the district for which his services as coroner would be most required. Secondly, you state that inasmuch as Mr Wal- ford had acted as deputy-coroner he had just claims for promotion. If this argument is to be admitted, a vested right is at once created, and the election of coroner is taken out of the hands of the county council. The third reason is that Mr Walford had the highest qualifications. Mr Walford doubtless had excellent qualifications he was a solicitor, held other good appointments, and was generally respected. In the opinion of the Maindee Liberal Association the Liberal candidate held far higher qualifications. In the event of Mr Jones being appointed, he offered to' devote the whole of his time to the duties which would devolve upon him he lived in the centre of the district for which his services would be required was thoroughly educated in law,having passed the necessary examinations which qualified him to practise as a barrister-at-law and, more than all, Mr Jones was a Welsh scholar and con- versant with the Welsh language, which, in the estimation of the great majority of the electors, is of essential importance, and were you more in sympathy with the principality this qualification would certainly have produced its due effect. In the fourth place, you allude to the manifesto of Mr William Conway. Suffice it to say that Mr William Conway (than whom a higher principled and earnest Liberal never lived) him- self supported the candidature of the Liberal candidate. In the last place you state that a "number of gentlemen holding the same political views as myself did the slme." Inasmuch as only five Liberals, with the exception of yourself, voted for the Conservative candidate, I am unable to follow you, but much regret that there should have been one. As to the closing paragraph of your letter, were it not for a sense of duty I should out of very kindness hesitate to notice it. You know per- fectly well that neither Maiudee nor any other Liberal association elects representatives to per- petrate a political job," and to me it is simply incomprehensible that you, a member of a Liberal .i,t".7Of). for "itirilrij, J TTggestion., Are we to tmderstana," as you 1 liinuato, t'hqt. the ?Q who suppcaied tllC liberal candidate perpetrated a political job," >r were they incompetent to judge as to the /arious qualifications of the two candidates, and.! hat only the remnant to which you belong were • ound staunch to Liberal principles? In the;! ipinion of the association of which I have the' lonour to be secretary, there were 29 true to their t principle and party, and the few acted in direct j antagonism to them.—I beg to remain, yours obediently, T. LL. Evans, > Hon. Sec., Maindee Liberal Association. ( G. H. Llewellyn Esq., Newport, Mon. t Maindee, Oct. 10th, 1890. I

BARBARITY IN TUNIS* i A Paris correspondent ttSegraphg —An if{"| credible piece of barbarity took place some days! ago on the island of Djernah, ill the Regency of 3 Tunis. A married couple named Aoudah ben- Yahia flung their new-born babe, only nine days dd, into a large earthen fish-kettle, and stood by quietly watching the process of boiling. After] /their arrest the doctors who examined the] prisoners stated that Bo€h the man and his -wife? were insane.

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SOCIAL SALVATION. IN DARKEST ENGLAND." General Booth's New Scheme. On Monday was published a book which is des- tined to exercise enormous influence upon the British people, namely, In Darkest England," the work wherein General Booth sets forth his scheme for ameliorating the terrible privations of the very poor, and for stemming the flood of vice and crime by destroying the evils wherein they have their source. It is a distin- guishing characteristic of General Booth that he succeeds in what he undertakes. The rigour of 83.lvation Army service hav8 driven from the ranks of that organization countless thousands who could not sustain in continuance the burden of the full measure of its requirements yet to-day the army is stronger than ever, with nearly 3,000 corps scattered over 32 countries, having 9,400 officers engaged solely in its work, and 13,000 non-commisioned officers and an annual income of three-quarters of a million sterling. It has 30 training garrisons in London, where cadets undergo six months' pre- paration for work, and last year 3,000 such cadets offered themselves for training, 1,320 being ac- cepted. Fifteen shillings to £3 is the range of weekly salaries in the army, no one getting higher than £3, the general himself having from the first been supported by outside agency. Until within the last two years, the army confined itself to spiritual work. Then it realised the fact that evil lives are largely the outcome of evil surroundings, a fact which many others have discovered; and it at once set about the work of rescuing sufferers from those evil surroundings, a work which most other observers have shrunk from, or have regarded as impracticable. THE NEW DEPARTURE is a development of social work which has been in operation upon a small scale, so that when General Booth makes a proposition he is able to fortify it with the statement that the suggested plan has been tested in actual practice, and has-been found effective. The social question en- grosses attention on all hands; each day that passes sees it grow in importance, and witnesses the relegation of partisan questions to comparative obscurity. It is a sign of the times that the great aggressive religious organization should find it needful to undertake the work of social reform and an interesting fact, at this juncture, is that the officer at the head of the Social Reforming of the Army has been clapped into jail. The discipline of plank bed appears to be indispen- sably associated with all reform efforts. Not that this is cause for regret; there need be no waste of sentiment upon the fact, for it serves admirably to. extinguish the dilettante, and to bring out the best qualities of really good men. In the sphere wherein Commissioner Smith and his comrades—- men and women—have worked they have learned the absolute necessity for wider schemas, for extended organization, and for a resolute and sustained endeavour, covering every branch of the great question, if they are to set right some of the social wrongs which exist. And this is now to be done, and to be done without diverting effort from the original purpose of the army as an evangelistic agency that, says the general, is its fundamental duty, but inasmuch as it is their duty to "fight the devil all round," they will stop his supplies of recruits as well as war against his veteran soldiers A TERRIBLE TALK is told in "Darkest England." Stories of the homeless wretches who pass the night on the scats of the Thames Embankment; of the hopeless would-be workers of deaths by starvation and the heartrending sufferings of those who are bear- ing all the tortures of living death. Men anxious to work, but unable to find employment; women sinking into harlotry through want. The general is a trade-unionist; but, says lie, "the worst of all existing schemes for social betterment by organization of the skilled workers I and the like is that they are founded upon the bottomless bog of the stratum of the workless The problem that we have to face is the organization of those who have not got work, or having only irregular work, and who, from sheer pressure of absolute starvation, are driven irresis- tibly into cut-throat competition with their better- employed brothers and sisters." THE AKJFY OF DESPAIR. From carefully reviewed statistics, it is com- puted that one-tenth of the population—3,000,000 persons—could not live for a week unless their earnings or income were supplemented by rates, charity, or the produce of vice or crime. General Booth, however, claims urgency only for the portion which is not cared for by the State, or charitable institutions. What he seeks to do is to bring up the lapsed and lost millions to the standard of a London cab-horse, which has food and shelter sufficient for its existence. He does not even aim at anything so high as the jail standard of com- fort! It would be hopeless to demand that every willing worker should be as well-lodged, warmly-clad, and regularly fed as the criminals in our convict prisons." Those who have to be dealt with are the homeless,the out-of-works, those on the verge of despair, the criminal, tho vicious- drunkards and prostitutes, and the children of all these. A chapter is devoted to each of these, and the stories of real life which are told in illus- tratlOn of the argument are star.;ling amI appalling. WHICH IS THE WAT OUT." All this is dwelt upon merely as preliminary to a description of his scheme, and for this we quote an admirable summary which— characteristically of the business-like methods of the Salvation Army—has been prepared "for busy men those interested in the new move- ment should write to head-quarters, 101, Queen Victoria-street, London, for a copy of this sum- mary Gen. Booth begins the exposition of his scheme in a very methodical manner by laying down the essentials without which no scheme can hope for success. These conditions are so drastic as almost to deter him from framing a scheme at all. The scheme must be large enough, so as to be able to benefit all those who need it. It must be applicable not only to-day but the day after, and it should be immediately applicable. Above all, it should effect a two-fold change first in the character of the individual whom it seeks to benefit, and, secondly, in the circumstances which have predisposed to vice and crime. THE FIRST STEP OF A THREE-FOLD SCHEME. His scheme is threefold, consisting of (1) the City Colony, (2) the Farm Colony, and (3) the Colony over Sea. His first step is to take that hungry, workless wight and give him some food for his belly and a shelter for the night. This he proposes to do by the extension of his food and shelter depots, some live of which have been in operation for the last two years in various parts of London. The result of their operations goes to prove that you can give a man a filling supper and substantial breakfast, and a bed in a well-warmed room, at a cost of little more than fourpence. At fourpsnce a head General Booth is willing to provide supper, breakfast, and beds for all the out-of-works in the land. With or without fourpence, General Booth pro- poses to take into his shelter any person in need, but if he has no fourpence he must not go out therefrom until he has doue fourpennyworth of work to pay for his bed and board. WORK FOR THE WOEKLESS. This work General Booth proposes to fmd for him in the first instance by the establishment of labour yards or factories in connection with the shelters where the penniless unemployed will be eng-aged on such rough and simple industry as chopping wood for firewood, making mats, sewing sacks, etc. Their work will be duly measured, and when they have done their fourpennyworth they will be free to go and seek work elsewhere. In connection with each labour yard he would establish a labour register for the registra- tion of the unorganised labour of the town. This scheme has been practically tested on a small scale in connection with the Whitecnapel Shelter. There exists a. small labour yard in which 70 to 90 men have been working for their rations for some time past. The labour bureau has been in full swing for many months, and has found situations for many unemployed. Steps have also been taken to pave the way for the organisation of the sandwich-men, and result the so far has been fairly satisfactory. A HOUSEHOLD SALVAGE BRIGADE. The next development of the general's scheme is novel. He proposes to organise out of the un- employed what he calls the household salvage corps, the members of which would undertake the collection from house to house of broken victuals, old clothes, old newspapers, and such like exuviae of the household. Some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the opera- tions which such brigade would have to undertake from the fact that it would require 2,000 men, and would cost at. least £25,000 to supply every house in London with the necessary pigs' kit for the broken victuals, and the sack for the old news- papers and other rubbish which the Salvage Corps would undertake to collect once a week, or oftener if need be. Erom the waste food and waste clothes of the working population, General Booth maintains that he will bo able to feed and clothe and house all the workers. It can be done if the workers are willing to work, and for discipline I can answer." FOR THE SALVAGE OF SOULS. General Booth emphasises at every turn his conviction that the only hope of this social scheme producing any permanent results is by increasing the leverage whicn it gives to we salvation Army to save the souls of those who enjoy the benefits of the new departure. Mere improvement of the out-ward surroundings of a man will aot effect a change in his heart, and if there is no change in his heart the material improvement will produce no permanent good. THE FARM COLONY. After a. period of probation in the Salvation Factory or Labour Ya.rd, a limited number of picked workers would be sent down to the estate to settle on it as men settle on a newly allotted farm in the Far West. They would be supplied with spades and seeds and roots with which to grow their own vegetables. No public-house would be allowed upon the estate, and the same rule would be enforced as is established in the Salvation Factory and Labour Yard-the men would work for their lodgings and rations, and nothing else. The colonists would be trained in all the handicrafts necessary to agriculturists, and taught to study the times and seasons, to hoe, and dig and plough. AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY: TRADE. But the training of colonists in agriculture, the raising of vegetables, fruit, and other cereals, to ,npply the demands of the food depots, these ■\p!ain only one half of the necessity of the 'arm Colony. The operations of the Household Salvage Brigade will necessitate the acquisition of iand on which the mountainous and multitudinous -Lores of City refuse may be sorted and utilised. The salvage of the households of London will be conveyed in barges drifting downwards with the tide to the wharves of the Fawn Colony, there to be utilised in a thousand different ways. General Booth's imagination luxuriates at the endless openings for employment which will be created by the disposal of the cream of the refuse of London. To begin with, there are the broken victuals, endless store ef old crusts, which will be capable of being served up when steamed and dressed as human food. Other crusts will serve to diet the horses, of which he will have sufficient for a cavalry regiment when the brigade is in full working order. What the horses will not eat will be passed on to the innumerable clutches of poultry with which the estate will be studded, and what the poultry will not eat will come to the pig as the residuary legatee. The Army piggery will be the largest in the land. Round the piggery will spring up an industrial community to feed, to kill, to cure, and to work up the invaluable porker. Bacon factories, brush works, saddlery of all kinds will have to be created and run by the Army. Old clothes form another material from which will spring many industries. The deft fingers of the women will be employed in patching and re- pairing. A colony of cobblers, technically known as translators, will be formed for the purpose of renovating the damaged shoe-leather of the citizens. Cheap second-hand clothing establish- ments will be created in order to provide the colonists who are working for lodging and rations with the uniform proper to their colony. The old bones of London will lead to the establish- ment of button works and manure works. The grease, fat, and kitchcn stuff will afford the material for a soap works. The waste paper of London and the otherwise unusable rags will enable the Army to manufacture all its own paper, and at present it uses 30 tons a week. And so forth, and so forth. Thus the Parm Colony includes not only the Farm colonists proper, but I also an industrial village. Fruit farms will he established, cottages with allotments and every kind of experiment will be tried with co-operation on the Ralahine model, and peasant proprietorship pure and simple, with one difference—General Booth is sufficiently im- pressed with the ideas of Henry George to object to part with the fee simple that will be invested in the Army, and the unearned increment will go to the credit of the institution which has created the colony and added to the value of the land. THE COLONY OVER SEA. We now come to the third and final stage of the remedial scheme, the establishment of a colony in the new Britain ever sea. General Booth con- demns emigration as usually conducted, and insists that if emigration is to succeed the land must be prepared for the people, and the people prepared for the land. His idea is to take estates in the colonies, by preference in South Africa, and have them laid out and made ready for the advent of the colonists. He would fill a sailing ship with a colony of men and women who had passed the probation of the Farm Colony and had proved themselves to be capable and willing workers. When they arrived at the colony they would at once be taken in charge, conducted to their new homes, and established in their new1 surroundings in such conditions as are calculated to keep them straight and enable them to make a new start in a new land. The colonists would be debited with the cost of their transport and the capital value expended in providing them with a house, stock, land, and food for a few months. They would repay this by an annual charge or land tax, and by this means the General hopes to see the scheme made self-supporting. TiIE PRISON GATB BRIGADE. General Booth proposes to establish a Prison Gate Brigade, with officers near the doors of every gaol in the land, where every discharged prisoner will be at once taken care of, and work be found for him, if possible, and everything be done to wipe off the prison brand and restore him to society, instead of allowing him, as at present, to be driven back to prison by shear distress. CHEAP INEBRIATE ASYLUMS. General Booth proposes to form inebriate asylums on a cheap scale, to which he would have drunkards committed by erder of the magis- trates but, failing that, he would open the home for voluntary confinement for those who wish to be rid of a degrading habit. A NEW HOPE For. FALLEN WOMEN. General Booth's scheme for the unfortunates who are dealt with in the Eescue Home at present holds out a new hope to those classes. At pre- sent, with the exception of bookbinding, at which a few are employed, domestic service is the on!y outlet for the reclaimed Magdalen. General Booth proposes to form fruit farms and establish other industries on the land, where he would despatch his rescued women, training them for life on the land, and ultimately finding t'hem husbands and passing them into respectable society. THE RFJ'ROBATE RESIDUUM. When all is said and done General Booth admits there will remain a residuum which will not work unless they are forced, and who will ..stea.1 when they get a chance, and who must therefore be regarded as hopelessly reprobate. These he would treat as moral lunatics, and lock them up for the rest of their lives. He would never cease to labour for their conversion, bnt after a certain number of convictions he would confine them for life in labour colonies. FOR THE STRUGGLING POOR. The General's scheme is primarily to help the most helpless class of the community, and rescue and save the lost, but he devotes one chapter to the consideration of methods by whicn the struggling poor can be improved, by which those who cannot be regarded as either lapsed or lost would find their lot in life materially im- proved. His suggestions he arranges. under many heads, which cannot be more than mentioned here. They are: Improved lodgings, a model village' in the suburbs, the establishment of a cheap seaside watering-place which he calls White-chapcl-by-the-Sea, and which he proposes to be brought within range of a shilling return ticket of London. He would develop tho co-operative system, superadding the principles of discipline and authority. He throws out in a very tentative fashion the suggestion that a matrimonial bureau might be a very desirable adjunct of modern civilisation. But the chipf suggestions in this chapter are those which deal with the establishment of a POOR MAN'S BANK AND A POOR IIAN's LAWYER. G-eneral Booth declares that if anyone would give him the price of a racehorse, or an old master, he will make the experiment on a small scale of a bank which will endeavour to do for the poor man what the ordinary bankers do for the well-to-do trader. His Poor Man's Lawyer is a still more ambitious undertaking, involving as it docs the providing of a father con- fessor and a family lawyer to all the poor and destitute of the land. Among the departments of this new departure would be those of defending the defenceless prisonerswho can make out a prima, facis caws of their innocence. General Booth says that no one can say what expenditure will not be necessary to deal with all the sunken tenths of all nations, but in Britain he is prepared to grapple with the question if he has £100,000 down, and an assured income of £30.,0JO per annum.

ALLEGED HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT MACHEN. At Newport county police-court, on Saturday, James White, a young labourer from Ledbury, was charged with an attempted highway robbery at Machen on the 7th inst. The prisoner had been drinking about at public-houses during the day, and noticed that the traveller to Messrs Searle and Herring, the brewery firm of Newport, had been 011 his rounds taking money and orders. John Bray, coachman to Mr Searle, is in the habit of driving the traveller round the district, but on this particular occasion the latter returned by train with the money, and the gig was brought home by Bray, who said he was perfectly sober. In a lonely part of the road, with a steep hill ahead, prisoner jumped out of the hedse and caught hold of the horse's head. He demanded all he had; Bray said he had nothing. The horse was whipped on, and then prisoner caught hold of the tail end of the gig, and threatened to get him out. Bray broke the whip, and used the butt end on the footpad, even- tually getting rid of him. Prisoner was arrested from the description by P.C. Bladon, at Ponty- pool, some days later, when he laughed, in answer to the charge, and said, That is all right, bufj I did not do that. There are plenty as can prove I did not do it.—John Pres- cott, working on the line near Machen, said that prisoner was in his company and in that of his mates, from four o'clock to eight, but admitted inferentially that prisoner went from the Tredegar Anns to the Forge Hammer with a mate about the time (half-past five) when the incident. occurred spoken to by Bray, who was uncorroborated.— Prisoner stoutly asserted his innocence, and said if Bray had laid about with the butt of the whip as he said he did, the person beaten off must bear marks.—The Bench decided that there was not sufficient evidence to convict, and discharged the accused.—Prisoner Thankye, gentlemen. I knowed I should not suffer wrongfully; I hope he (meaning- Bray) will have somebody elseafter him.

DEATH OF A WELSH LADY IN LONDON. A large number of South Walians vill learn with deep regret of the death, which took place on Sunday afternoon, in London, of iNtrs David Edwards, formerly of Cardiff. Mrs Edwards, was the daughter of Mr Thomas Williams, of King's-road, Canton. She was a highly gifted singer, and was very well known in leading musical circles as Miss Annie Williams. During her residence in the Metropolis she identified herself in various Welsh movements, and was always ready to give her valu- able services for the promotion of any charitable or deserving object. On the occa- sion of her last visit to Cardiff, she not only took part in a concert in Edward-street Chapel, Can- ton, without recompense, but was Instrumentalm obtaining the services of several other accom- plished vocalists. She was deservedly held in high esteem throughout South Wales. The greatest sympathy is felt for the deceased lady's husband in his sad bereavement (he having been left with two children of tender age), and for her parents in Cardiff, who are much rcspeeted.

EARLY WOODCOCK. Mr Isaac Phillips, road surveyor, Burry Port, shot a fine woodcock on Saturday on lands known as Blaengwastad, near Five Roads, Llanelly.

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Dymunir i'n gohebwyr Cymreig gyfeirio eu goheb- iaethau, llyfrau i'w hadolygu, &c., fel y canlyn Dafydd Morganwg, Morganvsg House, Llantwit- street, Cardiff.

AT EfN GOHEBWYR. "Y Dyn Pechod."—Gwallus iawn; dim ond y cyrchair sy'n cynghaneddu. "Robyn Ddu Eryri."—Sarhad eithafol ar yr hen fardd coeth a manwl fyddai cyhoeddi llinellau iddo, dan ffurf ac enw englvnion heb feddu cyng- hanedd. Nid oes cysgod o'r cyfryw yn y cyntaf o'r rhai hyn, ac nid yw yr ail neinawr gwell. "Y Llusern."—Anhawdd, os nad anmhosibl, yw credu mai yr un yw awdwr y llinellau hyn a'r rhai uchod. Mae y rhai hyn yn gywir bob un "Y Gareg Fedd."—Cywir etto; ymddengys. "Dydd Gwyl Mabon."—Cymmeradwy. "Y Llusern," otto. Y mae hon wedi ei goleuo. "Y Cynhauaf," awdl.—Mor bell ag y mae'r gelfyddyd yn myned, y mae yn dda iawn. Fe ddichon fod yr awdwr wedi aros yn rhy hir gyda'r cynhauaf gwair, ar draul brysio gyda'r gwenith, y ceirch, a'r haidd, &c. Modd bynag, yr ydym yn ddiolchgar iawn am yr Awdl. "Llusern," drachefn; a llusern dda hefyd. "Meindied pob un ei fusnes ei hun."—Gwisg dlos am hen adnod Gymreig. "Y Meddwyn, "Yr Afon."—Rhaid newid gwedd y rhai hyn. "Y Falwoden a'r Bresych."—Dyma destyn can newydd, beth bynag, er mai hen a chyffredin yw malwod a bresych. Ymddengys yn ei dro. "Diwrnod Lladd Mcchyn.'—Testyn rhyfedd etto, a llinellau digon doniol ar y testyn. Llangranog."—Can gelfydd a chymmeradwy iawn. "Anfarwoldeb yr Ysbryd."—Yn ei dro, wedi tori y penill olaf i tfwrdd. "Hwfa Mon, a'r Gath." Y 11 eu tro. "Gwaith pob una wneiryn amlwg."—Mae rhai o'r llinellau yn ymyl bod yn gableddus, gan mor wrthun y maent. "Edrych Ef a golwg sobr "Nid yw Ef yn ddrwg yr olwg Da chwi, cym- merweh drafferth i wneyd y peth yn deilwng. "Hen Dderwen Fawr Trebanog."—Mae crvn waith ad-drefnu ar y llinellau hyn. Nid yw'r dar- lun yn gywir ychwaith—mae ei gogoniant wedi diflanu eisioes, ac nid rhyw ddydd a ddaw. Rhosynau.Annealladwy. "Y Rhosyn."—Nid enw ar y Creawdwr yw Iau." "Esgyn," &c.-Beth yw chwithrwdol ?" Os ceiramser, ceisir trwsio ychydig ar y llinellau hyn. "Golygfa Hwyrol."—Mae son am nngelion mawr dwyfol yn casglu eu nerthoedd i syllu, &c., yn wrthun dros ben.

t BARDDONiAETH. Y DYFRGI. Cawr hyf yw ci yr afon,—anhafal Nofiwr, bwystfil creulon; Heliwr dig ar welv'r don Ar eogiaid yr eigion. CROESFFTTTT.

Y GWENIEITHUS. fe allai mai fel cyfaill mwyn—i dy wydd Y daw ef yn addfwyn; Ond, is gweniaeth tes gwanwyn, Ei loew ddagr neu gledd ddwyn. NAMORYDD.

YR HYDREF. Breimol gerbyd o'r llys nefol, Deithia brif-ffordd blwyddyn yw Yr Hydrefol dymhor swynol Yrir g-an dosturi Duw Heibio'r llwythog, hardd berllanao, A'r maethlonoi winwydd ir; Cluda hwynt i'w hysgrthoriau, Efo'r haidd a'r gwenith pur. Mcdi rydd i hwn fodolaeth, Eto'n ien:nc bvdd mewn bedd. Mewn gwyn am do. mewn marwolaetli, Hh/infyr wana'i fron a'i gledd; Mawr og'oniant haf a giliodd, Fel mewn dvchrvn aeth ar ffo, Yn ei urddsw fe a. clrengodd. Anian sydd dan bruddaidd da P'le mae'r blodau swynai'm Uygad-, Yr hardd lili wen ,t'1' rhos, Frithent len Arlunydd Cread Megys addurniadau tlos ? Gwel y coed, fel pe yn wylo Syr'ahia'u dail'n gawodydd trwm, Fel yn ddagrau i esmwytho Myuwes lawn, sydd 'nawr yn 11 wm Driugo i fodolaeth blwyddyn Wna'r Hydrefol dymhor llwyd, Fel rhyw lofrudd neu erch elyn, Buan ef ei fwgwd gwyd Gyr ei fysedd meinion, llymion I fodolaeth natur gref Y 11 eu hamdo, megys meirwou, Mfte y ddaear 'nawr :¡,'r nef. Mae y ser fel pe'n ymloni Yn nhywyllwch Hydref noeth Ond ymwinjjant fel pe'i drengu, Gwel hwy'n syrthio'n dalpiau poeth. Cilio wnaeth y gog a'r wenol O'r dymheredd oeraidd, brudd, Gyda rhybudd j'r liil ddynol— Chwithau Hwrdd a ffowch ry'w ddydd, Ond er cryfed north difaol Yr Hydrefol dymhor llym, Mae gwyrddlesni fel y nefol Nad effeithia arno ddim; Bythol wyrdd yw y gelynen, Ghwyshed Hydref arni'i wynt, Cura'i dwylaw, chwardd yn Ibwen, Gwerdd ei gwisg yw 'nawr fel cynt. PLENTYN Y GWANWYN.

YMADAWIAD Mr Tom Price, B.A., o Drecastell i Australia, Y mae yn ddyn ieuanc o ddysgeidiaeth ac o dduw- iolaeb. Aeth allan olierwydd afiechyd Gwelaf Soar yn ei dagrau, Ac yn llwythog iawn ei bron, Wrth werd un 0'1 haddurniadau Yn diflanu dros y don Y mae hiraeth yn ymchwyddo Yn ei mynwes yn ystcr, Pan yn gorfod edrych arno Yn vmadacl dros y mor. Pan ddaeth adeg i ffarwelio, Anhawdd ydoedd ysgwyd Haw; Hawddach lawer ydoedd wylo 'R adeg hon, ac edrych draw. 'Roedd calonau'n nghlwm am dano Beunydd gan anwyldeb pur, Ac fe fyddant etto wrtho Yn glymedig amser hir. Aeth ei hunan dros y tonau, Heb gymdeithas neb ond Duw, Ond yr adeg hon fe deimlai Fod ei Arglwydd wrth y llyw. Aeth dros fryniog donau'r eigion, Er mwyn chwilio am wlad well, Ac fe aetli a llawer calon Gydag ef i'r gwledydd pell. 'Roedd ei dalent yn dysgleirio ;j 'N danbaid yn yr Ysgol Sul, Ac yr oedd yn caru gwisgo Holl rinweddau'r liwybr cut Chwilio'r Gair a'i dudaienau, Ac hyfrydwch pena'i oes Oedd cael gafael ar drysoran. Duw i ddyn yn lawn y Gj-oes. Ei gymeriad oedd mor wyr^d A'r goleuni bron ei hun y laith g'wirionedd oedd i'w/ chlywed Yn ddieithriad ar ei fiii Llawn o burdeb oedd ei g-alon, Llawn duwioldeb oedii ei fron, Ac er gorfod croesi'r ei fnon, Aeth a'i grefydd dr/ y don. Pan y collwyd gwedrj ei wyneb, Teimlid gwagder yma'n bod Collwyd un o ddefr.yddioldeb, Uno feddwl, un o nod. Teimlwn fod rhyw; un yn eisiau Er yr adeg aeth i ffwrdd, Ac mae'r fron yr, erfyniadau Am gael eto'n fuan gwrdd. Cadwed Duw y stormydd blinioD Yn ddyogel yn Ei law Cysged tonau garw'r eigion, Nes cyrhaeddo'r ochr draw; A dychwelec\ eto'i Gymrn, Y mae yma lawer col Yn agored i'wroes:>.wu Pan y daw i'w wlad yn oL N&ntgwared, Trecastell. ROGER WtLZlAtU

ABERGWESIN. Ymddangosodd erthygl yn ddiweddar yn lr Dryck, gan y Parch. R. Gwesyn Jones, D.D., am y lie hwn. Saif y lie ychydig filldiroedd i'r gog- ledd a Lanwrtyd. Yno y ganwyd ac ymagwyd y Dr., a myn ef lychyrenu yr enw yn Abergwesyn, er mai Abergwesin sydd ar y mapiau gora.f o Sir Frycheiniog. Sicr yw, y gwyr y Dr. parchedig fwy am y lie ua mi; ond credwyf y gellir ei argy- hoeddi ei fodyn gyfeiliornus o barthed tarddiad yr enw. Dywod ef yn yr erthygl y cyfeiriwyd ati mai Gwy-sydyn, sef dwfr yn rhedeg yn wyllt. yw'r enw gwreiddiol, ac iddo gael ei droi yn Gwasyn. Enw Cynuaeg am ddwfr yw Gwy, wrth gwrs, ac felly y niae y Dr. yn iawn mor bell a hynyna. Ond ci idd Gwy-iesin, sef dwfr gloyw, neu afonig bert, yw'r enw gwreiddiol ? Y mae yn ymddangos i mi yn fwy naturiol o lawer. Naturiolach hefyd yw troi. Gwy-iesin yn Gwesin, na throi Gwy.sydyn yn Gwesyn. Ymddengys i mi hefyd fod yr enw Yrfon yn agosach i'r gwreiddiol nag Irfon, am brif afon yr ardaJ. Hir-afon yw'r gwreiddiol, medd y Dr., yr h^m air sydd wedi ei droi yn Irfon. Yrfon yw yr enw ar y mapiau goraf. Cwm Yrfon, &c., ac yrncVlengys i mi mai Yr-afon yw'r enw gwreiddiol, ac iddi gael yr enw mewn cyferbyniad i'r arnryw- iol nentydd a redant iddi. Nentydd a chornent- ydll yw'r lleill. Hyhi yw'r unig afon teilwng o'r erw yn yr ardal, ac felly naturiol oedd ei henwi Vr-afon, yr hwn enw a lygrwyd gan ei droi yn Yrfon. Os ywir syniad uchod am darddiad yr enwau yn gywir (ae ymddengys i mi yn ddigon naturiol), fe ddylai y Dr. parchedig o hyn allan vsgrifenu ei enw yn Rhys Gwesin Jones, ac nid Gwesyn, fel y mae wedi arfer, oblegvd enw ar was bach yw Gwesyn. ac nid trwas bach yw efe yn sicr i chwi.

FACT AND FANCY In Unequal Proportions. An unkind word falls easily from the tongu.% but a coach and six horses cannot bring it back. The author of the saying that you must always take a man as you find him was a con- stable. It is easy to be noble among the noble. The difficult thing is to keep the nobility of one's nature nnreryerted among the petty and ignoble. Work and play are seeming antipodes;, yet with- out play work will be unprofitable, and without work play will be uii}Measurable. If thou art not born again, all thy outward reformation is naught; thou has shut the door, but the thief is still in the house. What have you been doing. Thomas ?" asks a wife picking up a crushed bonnet. Sitting on the style, Mary," the husband replies. I have three thousand a year. You certainly could live on that," he said. "Yes, but I should hate to see you starve." RODD Hello, old boy going out for a little ple:1.Sure trip, ehHooker No, I'm going out fishing with my wife. A famous artist once painted an angel with six toes. Who ever saw an angel with six toes V' people inquired. "Who ever saw one with less? 7! was the counter question. "When you were stealing the cake, my young friend, what thought did you have?" inquired Rev Doctor Primrose. "I thought nobody was looking, replied little Johnnie. Hostess: What, going already, professor ? And must you take your dear wife away with you ? Professor Indeed, madam, I am sorry to s&y I must." Little girt Mamma, what in the wori^l is a grass widow 7 Little brother (breaking it) Why, Sis, anybody knows that. It's a woman what had a husband that diod of hay fever. How does a marriage certificate begin ?" asked Edith. I don't remember exactly but I think the very fi^st words are Know all men by these presents," answered Mrs Plusher. Through to Atlantic city without change, eh ?" remarked the tramp, as he scanned the tune- table. "That suits me Any place that I can travel te without change fills thebilL" And he climbed cheerfully into the car. She Am 1 the first woman you ever loved ?-*» He I think you are the first woman I ever truly loved. I have been attracted more or less by other women, but in each instance, before I fell in lova with you. there could be found some rational excuse for it. Auntie (visiting in the country): What a heavenly morning it is, Nina. I feel as though I should like to make some one supremely b»ppy to- day "—Nina (catching the game feeling): Yes, auntie, and so do 1. Let's go and scratch the pig's back. Some young men, bantering a fat man, said, If all flesh is grass, you must be a load of hay." I suspect I am," replied he, from the way the asses are nibbling at me." Mr Isaacs I sells you dot coat at a gread sacri fice. Customer But you say that of all your foods. How do you make a living? Mr Isaacs lein Frient, I makes a schmall profit on de paper a.nd string. Miss Boston (on Western ranch) Dear me I don't see how each man canjpick out his own cattle among these thousands Lariat Luke H in The real trouble, madam, comes when a feller picks out cattle that ain't his Mr Hoffman Hows I see some fellah has an ahticle in the Foioum entitled, "Have we Two Bwains or One ?" What do you think of that question, Miss Fligh ?—Miss Fligh Well, really, between you and wte, I think we have only one. Mother (to small son going to the country) Frank, have you taken everything you will need ? —Frank Yes'm.—Mother Have you your tooth- brush?—Frank (very indignantly): Tooth-brush? Why, I thought I was going away for a vacation Grocer (to son): I see that you don't know how to buy watermelons. Son Why so ? Grocer Because all those you selected have short stems. Son Does that make any difference ? Grocer Of course it does. When they have long stems. you can cut off part of the stem every day and by that means have fresh melons every day. The difficulty which boys and girls experience in expressing their ideas is notorious. An exanu- ner at a seminary for young ladies requested one of them the other day to give him her notion of what sort of telegram she would send her father in the event of her having met with a railway accident. It was a thing that might occur., of course, and the lesson prove usefulbut, in any case, it would give an idea of her mental resources. He threw out no hints, but, with the proviso that it should be as brief as possible, left the whole composition to th3 young lady's imagination. This was the telegram: "Dear papa., Dear mamma. is killed Jane (her sister) and I are in the re- freshment-room." TACT EVEN IN BEGGING.—A well-known New York restaurant runs through an entire block,, with doors opening into two streets. Nearly a.">i the patrons of the plaoe enter at one door and leave at the other. ragged tramp stood for aD hour at the latter door and begged piteo'jsly for penny to buy some/lung to eat without meeting with any success. Then an idea occuvred to him, and he walked rapidly around to the othet doot, and poured forth his plaint to those entering the restaurant. H<' succeeded admirably, and gathered in a good deal of coin. He deserved ft, too, for he was bright enough to see that hungry men were more apt to pity hun.ger in others than men who had dined. POLLY'S DYING WORDS.—A professor of tlu Michigan TLlniversity, who was on a visit to thl! Sandwich Islands, was presented with a fino parrot that was able to speak a good many English words. On the professor's way home he gave the bird tc, a boy to take caro of. The boy, thinking that Polly needed warmth, put her in a dose room next to the boiler. When her master went to look at h er the next day ho found her completeSy pros- trated with the heat, and removing her imme- di ately to his own state-room he did h:s best lie revive her. She did rally for a little while, but 'only long enough to say in a very solemn manner: "I'd sell myself for a cent!" A few minutes later she was dead. How THE LADY OUTDID THE COCKNEY SHARPER, —Country cousins are generally supposed to bl. rather green but it appears that on occasion they can over-reach even the wily Londoner. Twc young ladies were walking recently near tht Strand, when, hajjpenmg to lose their bearing, they asked a gentlemanly-looking fellow to direct them to Piccadilly. I am going that way." re- joined the scamp, "and I shall be pleased to show you." But he had not proceeded far in the wrong direction when he complained of thirst. Could you young ladies oblige me with a trifle ?" One of the two, in a moment of nervousness, gave him sixpence, but even this did noti satisfy him. "1 have been ill all the winter," he went on, "and I am behind with my rent. Could you let me have half-a-crown ?" The other young lady thought it her turn now. I have half-a-crown in my pocket." she said, and if you will give back that six. pence-" He held it out; the young lady took it, placed it in her purse, looked at the fellow for an instant, and-quietly walked away. A UNIQUE GEM.—The diamond signet of the ill-fated Charles I. of England is of immense in- trinsic value. It was supposed to be the handi- work of the monarch himself. He was known at a skilful artificer in gold a.nd silver, and much of his leisure was devoted to this oongenial occupa- tion. On the seal was graven the voat-of-arms Great Britain and the monogram of the king. At his demise it passed into possession of his de' throned son, who, during his banishment in France, became in such straightened circumst:1DCef that he was forced to part with the precious relic. It was purchased by the well-known French. traveller, Tavernier, who shortly afterward mada a journey to the far Orient. He exhibited the jewel at the Persian Court, and the Shah offereti him a fabulous sum for the unique gem, which wa* preserved with extreme care in the treasure vauft of the Oriental satrap. THE ASTONISHING SPREAD OF LEPROSY.—Accord- ing to Dr Morell Mackenzie, leprosy. th« scourge of the Middle Ages, has not become practi- cally extinct among Europeans, but is in reality spreading. It has between 1,000 and 1,200 victims in Norway, is also found in Portugal. Greece, and Italy, and is rapidly spreading in Sicily, in th« Baltic provinces of Russia and in France, whiU the British Islands are not exempt from it. In the United States, cases have been found in California in some of the states of the north-west. in Utah, and Louisiana. Many cases exist in New Bruns- wick. In the Sandwich Islands the disease first broke out in 1853, and there are now 1,100 lepers it. the Molokai settlement alone. The diseaoA II. extending in the West Indies. THOU ART AWAY. Thou art away—the evening shades are fatlfnj. The stars steal out and shed their light on m« t The sweet-voiced whip-poor-will his mate is cijl mg, And all around is sweet serenity. But I am sad—I miss thee-oh, r miss thett I do not feel thy soft hand on my brow I cannot hear thy voice—I cannot kiss thee, How sweet were life if thou wert with me now. Thou art away and midnight comes to greet m", The moon her soft light throws upon my path, And fancy whispering sweet things, tries to ob.- me Out of the sadness which my sick soul ha.tta. But ah, she cannot lure me into smiling, Nor to my bosom lend one throb of chew, With all her fond and innocent beguiling. For, oil, my love, my love, thou art not 1IA|^ Thou art away, and morn again is breaking j The air is vocal with the wild bird's song I Red glows the east—all nature is awaking, The babbling brook runs merrily along. And still I miss thee, loved one, from my ing, Morn, noon, and night appear and disappear, And still my heart with sad unrest is sweTLng, Because, my dajLmx one. thou ark not here.