South Wales Daily News

ALLEGED MURDER IN REGENT'S-PARK. At Marylebone Police-court, on Saturday, John Milligan, aged 39, a powerfully-built fellow, described as a coal porter, living at 26, Redhill-street, Regent's-park, was placed in the deck charge? before Mr. Mansfield with the wilful murder of his wife Sarah, on the 10th instant, at the above addrses. It will be remembe-cd that the prisoner was only remanded for the purpose of ascertain- ing the result of the verdict at the coroner's inquest. Inspector Savage said an inquest had been held, and a verdict of wilful murder returned against the prisoner. — Mr. Mark Windeyer Traill, surgeon at the University College Hospital, said since the last examination he had made a, post-mortem, examination of the body of the deceased. He found the body well nourished. There was a vertical cut over the right eye. about three-quarters of an inch in length, flid two or three bruises on both legs below the knee6. The organs of the body were heaii,iiy, but bloodless, and the immediate cause of death was haemorrhage. He believed it was caused from the kick in the Stomach. He could not find any other cause but by violence to account fur those sypmtoms.—Inspector fc-araga said he had the mother in attenciunee, who would prove how the deceased and prisoner had lived for some time past.—Mr. Mar.sfieid .T.id lie could not tike that as evi- dence. Did the accr -?ed make any dying declaration to her ?-Inspectrr Savage said th™ deceased did not.—Mr. Mansfield said, if the deceased had made any dying declar«t?.op; <bat would be evidence.—Tlie depositions were read over, and the prisoner, in answer to the usual caution that what he might say would be used in evidence against him on his trial, paid, I have nothing to say I am represented by my legd adviser, and I leave it entirely with him."—Mr. Mansfield committed the prisoner to the next Central Criminal Court for trial for wilful murder.

MYSTERY AND DEATH AT BALHAM. There are no further particulars to be reported likely to throw any light upon this Jafiair. The inquiry ordered by th Home Secretary has been opened at the offices of the Solicitor to the Treasury, in Whitehall. The witnesses examined by Mr. Pollard were Mr. Rowo, the butler to the late Mr. Bravo, and the other servants, Mary Ann Keeber, the h'ou&emaid, and Ellen Hunt, the cook. The investigation wa* of course conducted privately. The offer of a reward had not educed any information at all likely to lead to the ultimate settlement of the case. The Solicit or't Journal directs attention to the law of fresh inquiries generally. It is clear, it says, in the first place, that a coroner cannot, mero motu, hold a Second inquest, whatever may have been the finding upon the first, or whatever additional evidence may have been discovered since that finding. It seems, however, that a melias inquirendum may be awarded. This writ goes to the coroner himself if an inquisition be quashed for a defect in form only, but to the sheriff or special commis- aiollers if it appear that a coroner "hath been guilty of imy corrupt practice in the taking of an inquisition," ifcc. Such commissioneis, it appears, do not proceed super visum torporit, but on the testimony of witnesses. We can find no instance of a mtlius inquirendum to special commissioners,and the form given in Jervis on Coroners," p. SOS, is to a sheriff with jury. There are, however, very numerous instances of the writ going to the coroner himself for defect of form in the inquisition. As to the suggestion that the Secretary of State should order an inquiry, it would seem that he has no such power at common law, for how can the Crown inter- fere urith the ordinary course of justice? We are aware of no statute conferring such a power, nor should we expect to find one. The Crown could now order a commission to inquire into the sale of poison, or the general mode of conducting inquests, but not into the cause of Mr. Bravo's death. The ordinary remedy of the public is investigation before a magistrate, which, of course, can only t*Ke place where* particular person is accused of crime. Ana the theory of the law seems to be that, unless there be evidence on which a justice of the peace would grant a warrant of "-U ar apprehension under Jervis's Act against a particular per- son, au investigation before tLe coroner, legally conducted, is sufficient. We come, therefore, to the conclusion that the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court has juris- diction to award a melius inquirendum in cases of miscar- riage of justice before the coroner; that the writ in such case issues to special commissioners and has nothing to do with the writ de coronatorn exonerando; that the prece- dents for a special commission are none in modern times and that, apart from the High Court, no authority what- ever bab jurisdiction to issue such special commission. A public prosecutor, if we had such an official, would be the person to apply for the writ. Failing an official of that character, the Secretary of State may instruct counsel to apply for it.

It i stated that Mr. Rivers Wilson will shortly return from Egypt, and resume his position at the National D^bt Office as Secretary and Controller-General. A movement ig. the Morninej Prist understands, in con- templation with the view of obtaining the adjournment of the House of Commons (unless on urgent occasions) at the hour of midirlght. A banquet has been riven at. the Cambridge Barracks, Woolwich, by Colonel Kent and the officer* of the 77th Regiment, to the Lord Mayor and the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Paul's. The dead body of a respecfcaWy-dressed man. much mutilated, has been found on the Great Northern Railway near the Wood-green tunnel. Nothing that might lead to its identification was found upon it. On Saturday morning the infant Prince, son of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christ ian, died at Cumberland Lodge. In consequence of the death, her Majesty's ball announced for Tuesday next, the 23rd inst., is postponed. At Dublin Police-court., a washerwoman named Smith has been remanded, charged with causing the death of a man named Keegan, a labourer, by kicking him and beating him with a mangle roller while he was intoxi- cated. A medal has been presented by the Council of the Mer- cantile Marine Servico Association to Captain M'Credie, of the ship Greta, in recognition of his gallantry in saving nine persons in March last from the wreck of the ship Great Britain. It is rumoured, says the Examiner, that Mr. Disraeli i* engaged in writing a new novel, the subject, of which is connected with the increase and future development of the Imperialist movement in England. The fortunes of Lothair will, it is said, be resumed and carried on in this work. At Bow street Police-court, Isaac Moulden. police-con- stable 281) M, has been presented by Sir Thomas Henry with a cheque for £ 5, from the Police Reward Fund, for jumping into the Thames at St. George's-stairs, and res- cuing a woman from drowning, at the imminent peril of his own life. A gratuity of 16.1 has been awarded by the Admiralty to Mr. W. P.Saunders, thr chief constructor at Chatham Dockyard, as a mark of their lordships' approval for his havitg successfully launched the T^mdraire, the Admi- ralty expressing their satisfaction with the whole of the arrangements. In consequence of the lamentable results which followed the casting away of the passengers and crew of the Strathmore on the Crozets, the Bo&rd of Trade has sug- gested to the Admiralty that men-of-war en passing to the Australian Station should visit these islands for the pur- pose of rescuing possible castaways. Seven seamen and the boatswain of the Strathmore. which was wrecked on the Crozet Islands last year. have arrived at Newhaven on board the Brighton Company's steamer Paris. The men were landed hy the American whaler, Young Phcenix, at Rangoon; from thence they pro- ceeded to Port Said and Genoa, and thence overland to j Dieppe. Lieut. C. G. Williams, of K.M.S. Excellent, has been re- moved to the hospital at Haslar, where it was found he was suffering from typhoid fever,and in his delirium he jumped from a window ia one of the upper storeys. Death ensued shortly afterwards. Lieut. Williams won the chief scholarship at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, at the last general examination. At the Woolwich Police-court,a young labourer has been charged with robbery. The prosecutor, the landlord uf the Royal Oak Hotel, Woolwich, having been robbed of several bottles of whiskey, made up some dummies" filled with cold tea, and labelled Irish wL.,key," and kept watch for the thief. Late at light the prisoner stole one of the betties, and handed it to a companion, who has escaped. Mr. Balguy sentenced him to a month's hard labour. On Saturday morning a man named James Brown was charged before the magistrate, at the Themes Police- court, with running away from his wife and five children, and leaving them chargeable to the Poplar Union. In de- fence Brown stated that his wife told him to go about his business, as he did not.;earn money enough, and he took her at her word and left his hote*. He was sentenced to a mouth's imprisonment. A monument is to be erected in Hungary to Francis Deak, the Father of the Reformed Constitution of thy t country, The committee mvite all artists at home and abroad for a competition; the selection of the style to be entirely left to the competitor. The costs of the monument are nor, to exceed £ 10,000. September It of the present year is the last term for sanding in subjects. Prizes will be ?.warded for the three besi. of them of £100, £ 60, and £40. A good deal of attention, says tho Leeds Mercury, has been attracted at the Post Offie bv the mormons increase in the loss from light gold which thai department expe- riences; and in spite of all efforts to stop it, the continues from year to year. Five years ajro the loss to the revenue^ from all the post-offices in tho kingdom did not exceed £ o0o per annum, and now, although there has beon but a comparat ively slight increase in the receipts and pay- ment the loss i> said to amount to at least £ i,000 per exceed IMu per annum, and now, although there has beon but a comparatively slight increase in the receipts and pay- ment the loss i said to amount to at least £ i,000 per annum. It is ohvjus that at large offices time cannot he given to weigh every sovereign or half-sovereign which i.) received over the counter, but some such *-dinai-y care a< that taken by the Bovpnue to protect itself iron loss muht be exercised t

SPIRIT OF TH^ WEEKLY PRESS. COMMON SENSE AND THE BURIALS BILL. As the Archbishop of CaTiterbnry observed, says the fpictaior, it is »hnply childish <<> -&v that a difficulty which Is surmounted in the most despotic and the most orthodox countries of Europe cannot be surmounted in England. What it really needs to surmount it is common sense and the absence of fixed ideas. Unfortunately, the clergy have got the fixed idea that a compromise which is needful to remove the grievances not only of Churches and sects which object to the Establishment, but still more of Churches and sects which have never attacked the Es- tablishment—like the Roman Catholics, for distance, is a mere preliminary for disestablishment and disendowment. A very little good sense would make them see, on the contrary, how far from sorry the disestablishment party are to find thaI-, there is little immediate hope of this very moderate demand being granted how perfectly conscious they are of the value of the grievance as a weapon, and of the danger that a lethargt may fall on the disestablishment movement whenever the only wrong left to complain of shall be the Establishment itself. It appears to take something of a statesman to see this, and the last quality the average Eng- lish clergyman seems to have is the minutest tinge of statesmanship. He has not even enough of the wisdom of the serpent to know that what an opponent asks, he fre- quently asks not in the hope that he may get it, but rather in the hope that he may be refused it, and in that refnsal may find justification for asking much more which would otherwise be unreasonable, but which gains a colour of reason only from the refusal of the soberer demand. LICENSING BOARDS AND POPULAR ELECTION. Every three years, says the Saturday Review, the pub- licans throughout England and Wales would know that their interests depended on the result of the election to the licensing board, and they would move heaven and earth to secure the return of representatives like-minded with themselves. In eertain districts no doubt, where the organisation of abstainers is complete,and their numbers are large, a victory would be gained for the cause of pro- hibition. A licensing board would be elected as consis- tent in its opposition to the liquor trade as the Birming- ham School Board is to denominational education. Bat the example would only serve as a warning in other parts of the country and even in the district in which it was originally set it would have to hold its own against con- stant, and probably successful, attempts to reverse the decision of the ratepayers. The tribunal created by this bill would never be better than the licensing justices, while it would' in most cases be very much worse. Where it did not embody "the principle of fanatical opposition or of interested deference to the publicans, it would consist of men unable to get elected to more important local boards and glad to profit by the dislike which those whose time is already fully occupied with local business would feel to being members of a new and distinct body. While the country was startled by the violence of abstainers in one district, and shocked by the trucnlence of the publicans in another, the great mass of the licensing business would be transferred to men of lower social position and inferior social influence than those in whose hands it now is. It is hard to see how a powerful trade interest is likely to be kept under stricter control by such a change as this. INCREASED EXPENDITURE AND ADMINISTRATION. We entirely deny, says the Economist,the common notion that an increasing expenditure is a presumptive sign of a bad administration. We believe that this is a traditional conception, derived from old days of sinecure posts and of pernicious pensions. In the present day the presumption rather is that as the increase of the country yearly augments the revenue, so that increase will also augment the cost of Government. To hope that we shall ordinarily be able prudently to apply the whole increment of taxation in taking off taxes is as if a railway company should look on the inorea.se of its traffic receipts as so much revenue ap- plicable for dividends. On the contrary, most of it,as those companies know, must be laid out in necessary charges and in improving the line. And so with the nation. In the long run it will be found (though it is not a popular thing to say) that an enlarging expenditure is an inevi- table accompaniment of a developing nation. Does Sir Stafford Northcote, says the Examiner, does any intelligent and fair-minded Conservative, believe in his heart that the difference between the state of the army and navy in the present year and the state of those ser- vices in the last year of Mr. Gladstone's administration is to be defined as the difference between national security and national peril? The suggestion is preposterous. If a foreign enemy could have baffled our fleets and ciushed our armies in 1875, we are afraid, it must be admitted, that we live by sufferance in 1876. But, setting the increase on the army and navy estimates aside, and waiving any objection to the new method of redeeming debt—though in fairness that operation ought to be carried on within the normal limits of expenditure, and to be set against the reductions to which the Liberal surpluses of receipts were applied — we have an augmentation of the Civil Service charges to the amount of £ 2,180,000. Part of this increase, too, is probably defensible, but a large part of i; '.prang out. of a feeble attempt to perform the rash and profuse promises that the Conservative party had made to the farmers and to othr remonstrants against the burdens of local taxation, when the responsibilities ui office did not rest upon them. It it no defence of this policy, the cost of which is now visible, to appeal to the assent of the House of Commons, for the Conservative majority was a partner in the rash pledges and in their reckless fulfil- ment. INCREASED INCOME-TAX AND DEDUCTIONS. It may perhaps have been impossible, says the Saturday Revietv, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer had ascer- tained the amount of his needs, to supply them by any method wkich would not have been open to grave objec- tions but it ought not to be fergotten that alterations in the rate of the income-tax create anomalies which efface themselves when the tax is permanent and equable. The operation of adding a penny to the tax for the purpose of paying off a portion of the Debt can only be justified on the ground that it was necessary to vindicate the consistency both of the Chancellurof the Exchequer and the House of Commons. If a part of the surplus of 1874 had been retained, the income-tax need not have been increased. The debate on Mr. Hubbard's motion disclosed a general agreement on the principle which was nevertheless rejected on the division. No speaker, with the remarkable exception of Mr. Glad- stone, condemned the inooma-tax.nor was there any serious opposition to the limit of £ 150 a-year as substituted for £ 160. On the other hand, strong arguments were ad- duced against the reduced liabilitv on incomes of JMOO t. year. Mr. Gladstone calculated that. in the alarming con- tingency of an income-tax of 2s. in the pound, the revenue would be diminished in oonsequence of the exemptions by v- than £ 10 000,000. The question is evidently one of degree, and the deanction which is readjusted by Sir S. Northcote was first introduced by Mr. Gladstone. LORD SANDON S EDUCATION BILL. In referring to this measure, the Spectator says Ther* was no attempt to tamper with the Co wp« Temple clause, or to paralyse and discourage School Boards. There was no want af courage in the standard eho«.-n for the test of a child's education, and though it is possible that the con- cession offered to poor districts i. insufficiently guarded, some concession of the kind is no doubt wanted. We do not think any indirect com- Sulsion will be adequate. But, no doubt, in- irect compulsion will be an immense aid to direct compulsion. And if I'ord bandon's proposals on this head are carried, they will, no doubt—five years hence, when they will all be folly at work produce a most bene- ficial influence on the education of boys. To prohibit an employer from giving work to any boy between ten and fourteen who cannot produce his '"labour-pass"—that is, evidence that he has been cither for fiva years regular attendant at school, or that be is alrevly to far master of the rudiments of know- ledge as to be able to pass the fourth standard- will assuredly give a great and most useful impulse te their education. And the simplification of all the laby- rinth of laws of indirect compulsion iu the various depart- ments of labour thus introduced^will be most valuable. But Lord Saudon must do as much for the rural districts, and for the girls of the rural districts, before any hearty Liberal can be satisfied. Lord Sand;m claimed straight- forwardness as one of the chax-acteristica of his measure, and, no doubt, in » sense jiMly. But it would be both a much simpler and a much more manly measure, and there- fore still more straightforward, if he would but make the primary principle f his bill one, of direct compulsion. COURTS OF INQUIRY AND THE BAT.HAM MYSTERY. Referring to the Balham my ft cry. the Examiner say? -With an efficient public prosecutor, such a scandal as MI., oresent would be imuoesible. It would be the duty oj Ifle coroner to hold an Inquest -.s a matter of form in all ordinary cases, and at- once to report to the public prosecutor all cases involving any doubt or I ordinary cases, and at once to report to the public prosecutor all cases involving any doubt or difficulty. Had this been done in the present instance, we should have had it the time much such a inquiry into the circumstances of Mr. Bravo's death as Mr. Cross now proposes to insti- tute. The public prosecutor would have named two or more deputies, selected. like nautical sissestiors, for their special knowledge, and have instructed them to ir.quiit: htio the to take evidence upon oath, and to advise whether ground existed for a prosecution. In this respect, as in manv others, we might with advantage take a lesson from the criminal procedure of Continental nations. It is no paradox to say that- our criminal :&w is practically two or three centuries behind the existing state of civilisation with which it has to deal. We have a coroner, elected by the ratepayers, and paid by piece- work, when we ought to have a public proseor. _.r or; wee d'instruct ion, with a position equal to that of a stipendiary magistrate or a county, court judge. The result is that every now and then we have some such terrible blunder as the present. A coroner may be fully competent to conduct an inquest upon a man who has been run over in the streets, bat an inquiry such as that into the circumstances of Mr. Bravo's death demands judicial abilities ot the highest order. It is not Mr. Carter's faul but tL!I. of tue system under which he was elected, that he was unequal to so unusual a demand upon his abilities.

BITS FROM BOOKS. HOUSES AND MEANS.—I do not deny the right or a poor man to live ill a fine house but be cannot be iiG happy, ox so thrifty, or so respectable, as in a plain house adapted to his inoiltnate wants and his limited means. An educated poor man in skich a house might not seem out of place to ene who is not aware of his poverty. But all igliol-alit iriaii with clownish manners cannot live in a palace without making his personal defects both eonspicnoul and ludi- erous. Yet how often do we observe that the most ostenta- tious house in a village belongs to some unlettered clown, who has by a blind turn of Fortune's wheel become rich. Conscious that wealth alone can distinguish him above his equals, he eeizes the first. opportunity to gain distinction by building a costly house. But its splendor does blind him to his own personal defects, and when he approaches his man- sion with a stranger lie shrinks from acknowledging it as his own property, hecause lie is S6ii&ilkla of a practical ab- surdity when the splendor of his house is contrasted with his :%vkward manners, his ungrammatical speech, his hard bauds, and his rustic visage,-Atlantic Monthly. IRISH BULLS.—IN a description of the funeral of Lord Macaulay inWestmiuster Abbey, the Morning Post, in hn- guago which called forth Dean Stanley's keenest sarcasm, unintentionally buriod the organ "When place;! on the ropes above the grave, and while being gradually lowered into the earth, the organ again pealed forth." Under the influence of the tender passion, the Irish will say some startling things. The restraints of reason and common- sense are powerless to check the wild flights and daring metaphors which love suggests. The swain who assured his mistress that he could not sleep of nights for dreaming of her, must have been very spoony and not less so was he who. wli!!r informed by his betrothed of the kind- ness shewn her by her intended mother-in-law, exclaimed Well, wait til} we're married, and see if I don't beat my mother." It was in a gush of well-meaning hospitality that Sir Richard Steele-to whose account so tnany, bulla are set do w n -exclaii*ne(I in rather an equivocal manner 11 If •ver you como within a mile of my house, air, I hope you'll stop there." It wai not love, we suspect, which prompted the fair young daughter of Erin,after a request for isoney made in a letter to her sister, to add as a P.S.. "I was so inneh ashamed of what I have written, that I sent after tbe messenger, but he could not be overtaken." Akin to this is the Irish gentlemftn's postscript "If this letter Miscarries, write, and let me know."—Chambers' Journal. ENGLISH AND AMHRIOAN QUALITY IN LITERATURE.— The New England settlements from the beginning, and all the eelenies from the time of the Revolution, claimed tepertte standards of judgment in government, based on truths of which they had a clearer view than the mother eountry. Im Hke manner, mdependenee of view is the root from whieh all distinctively national literature among ns must spring. This, of course, implies no arbitrary cori- aection between it and any attitude of hostility which may exist between two governments. On the contrary, the best American writing has, I think, proceeded from minds the meat imbued with a love for England deeper than the seas and much stronger than time. This is because the mood of the American revolutionists was not one of hatred, but of a great and injured affection toward the mother land. It was this affection thit t gave to their resolve for freedom a pathos and a nobleness beyond all. They fought for truth, and so were forced, in a measure, to fight against their own hearts. So that it is the attitude of re- membered love and reverence, combined with an absolute reserve of individuality, which makes a chief part of what we call the Amerioan quality as opposed to the English, The English quality in literature is something compounded of various ;«tnrio elements, but it is perfectly wi-lded, entirely unified, a thing by itself, and absolute.—So'ibner's Magazine. PERSONAL POPCLABITY OF HENRY VII I.-Racked and distresaed by th Civil Wars, accustomed to the severe, precise and suspicious rule of Henry England sud- denly sprang forth, as at the dawn of a new day, upon the accession of Henry VIII. Gayest among the gay, the head and eentre of the btillant throng by whom he was surrounded, the young King, in the flower of his youth and beauty, brave as a paladin, courteous as a knight of old, mixed freely as >10 sovereign had ever mixed with hia paople, and, fend of popularity, was popular with an classes, as no king had ever been. Loyalty was not a duty, but a fasoination and not the less because the older influences which had divided or absorbed the zeal and devotion of man- kind had fallen to decay. PopeJ and Emperors had sunk to the level of ordinary humanity. The Church produoed no saints, Little art, and less literature, existed to interest and divide the thoughts of men. In the ligh of that loyalty Englishmen judged the king and in the light of that loyalty they re- fused tocoiidown kiin, let him do what he would. Su- preme ever the wills and consciences of his subjects, there was little need for any violent assertion of the royal autho- rity, No prelate, no noble-not even Fisher or More— would have dreamed of opposing his wishes.—J. S. Brewer, Jf A. ItOHAN CATHOLIC FRAUDS AT GENEVA.—This little town on the shores of the Leman llad the dilltinction of possessing the brain of St. Peter, which lay usually upon the high altar. It was examined and prcnounced to be a piece of pumice-stone. Again the monks looked grave, while smiies mantled every face around them. The spirit- nal treasury of the little town was further enriched with the arm of St. Anthony. The lifing arm had doue valor- ous deeds, but the dead arm seemed to possess even greater power but, alas for the relic and for those who h&d kissed and worshipped it, and expeoially those who had profited so largely by the homage paid it, it was found. when taken from its sbriue, to be not a human arm d all, but part of a stag. Again there were curling lips and Irook- ing eyes. Nor did this exhaust the list of discoveries. Curious little creatures, with livid points of fire glowing on their bodies, would be aeen moving about, at dewy eve," in the churohyards^or in the cathedral aisles. What could they oe ? These, said the priests, are souls from purgatory. They have been permitted to revisit the pale glimpses of the moon" to excite in their behalf the compassion of the living. Hasten with your alms, that your mothers, fathers, hnsbands may not have to return to the torments from which they have just madfl their escape. The appearance of theAe mysterious creatures was the unfailing signal of another golden shower which was about to descend on the priests. But, said the Genevans, Lefore bestowing more masses, let us look a little more closely at these visitors. We never saw anything that more nearly resembled crabs I with candles attuned to them than these souls from pur- I gatory. Ah; yes! the purgatory from which they have come, we shrewdly suspect, is not the blazing furnace below the earth, but the cool lake beside the city we aliall restore them to their former abode, said they, casting them into the water. There came no more souls with flambeaux to soH iit the charity of the Genevans.— Hittory of Protettanr tis"&. TBJI PMOPEB END ov ABT.—But imitation is not the only end of art; it imitates for a purpose. It reproduces the facts of nature, but it doea so in order to tell us some- thing about them. It is at its best impo-rfact;-a real tree is much more beautiful than any painted one, a tragedy in real life more interesting tnan all the sorrows of the stage and therefore, if it were the sole function of art to repre- sent such things with great waisemblance, it would be who to discard it and go direct to nature herself. But the beauty, the grandeur, the moral teaching, the spiritual significance et the world around us, are by ordinary people almost, if not altogether, overlooked, and would be no better uuderstood if could exactly reproduce the features of natnre in the form of paintings, or sculptures, or IrYs. Just as conceit&d and empty-headed tourists journey through earth's fairest scenes untaught and uninspired, so would they pasa by with vapid praise and yawning admiration the exactest counterpart of them which we can connive. It is much I > iter as it is. The artist can only give .,II a portion of the effects of nature; but he can place them in special lights, can insist upon eertain features, can mark particulvr associations of facts and sequences of ideas; can, m short, use his art as a vehicle of thought, and all its technicalities a3 varying means of expressioa. It is ouly thus that art can rise above the dignity of a toy. It is true that it may and does give pleasure when it tells of nothing but the techaical ability of the artist. Thousands of people go into raptures over Vevvios' painted fiddle at Chatsworth, who would be in no way affected by tiie contemplation of a real violin. The emotion excited in them is precisely the same as that which would be aroused by a of Chinese concentric balls intricately carved. These persons are delighted only by the ekill and patience of the workmen and the artist who works to be so admired, works in mere vanity and selfishness of heart. Playthings are very useful in their way, but art would at le st bo unworthy of the life-toil of its professors, or the enthusiastic study of its amateurs if it were no better tliaii a superior kind of legerdemain A r>s and their tjsis William Bdlars

Jusurattcc, ONE M 1 li t 1 (J;, T E R L I N G His i)i"n paid a* C O M P 3 -V S A T i O N P, -K DEATH AXD INJURIES Caused by ACCIDENTS of ALL KHvUS, By the RAILWAY PASSENGERS1 ASSURANCE COMPANY, Nov. A. KINNAIRD, M.P., Chairman. PAID T-P CAPITAL & KSsfiKVE FUND, £ 156,000. ANNUAL INCOME £ 200,000.. Bocus allowed to Insurers of PtandLasr. Apply to the Clerk. at the k.f'wa,- Sutions, the LocM Agentlf, or et., COBNHILL, 10, KK'N^tUfeiEr, ONrON. 4958 1' :,1 VUX, .ic'atiry. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT to any particular .LA- peison is, no doubt, a (theoretically) rem -j coaiie.- geney botae it may happen, as a matter of fact, the very next journey undertaken, aDd as the sum at whioh it will the risk (in a pecuniary 5cnee) may bv e«to*gu»heu r OR LI"f; is atmoit .i;- aurèly small, it in not too much to say that the ii;- lIunnel ia an 010 VIOIl" DUTY .n b!: case of most Wwet-lers..4t,0SO if with Ubnrai slloirane?* if injured, for a slntfe payment of jjs, covering the whole life. Smaller amounts proportion. RAILWAY ACCIDENT MUTUAL ASSURANCE COMPANY (Limited). The Right Hon. LORD KINGS ALE, Clufrmao. 42, POULTRY, LONDON. RESERVE FUND AND GUARANTEE £ 14,000, Prospectuses, &o., free on application to itr W. Burr, 7.3.5. Vanagm? I^rictor. 1o Mr G. HAWKINS, 82, High-street, Swansea. Or Mr M. WATERS, 2, GrarenrxT IIRBICE, .nEATH. 5923 Uii4iUø oriettt5. JgRIDGWATER SECOND EQUITABLE PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY. SHARES Zbo EACH. MONEY ready to be ADVANCED upon UertjraTe of Freeholl and I easehold Property. Apply to Mr. JAS. SLOCOMBE, 'i126 Eifct street, Ccrdiff. GLAMORGAN benefit BUILDING SOCIETY, CARDIFF. ESTABLISHED 1837. TRXSTSBS JAMES LICE, Eeo., Cathsrfra! Hoad, Cardiff. THUS. >• VANS, Ksi., Suryeon, Cardiff. JOHN E. m'CoNNOCHlK, Kcq., C.E Cardiff. Deposits received daily from £5 to P-5,0(0 Iat Five per cent. Interest, payable half vearir, withdrawable *• short UPWARDS OF £ «,<.KK> ALMEA.DY ADYAV..KD OV MORTGAGE. Apply to the Managing Secretary, MR. R. EMERY, Docks, Cardiff. 18th April. 1878. 70i?8 ::£r:í3 iaudiicmtona. 0 S E P H D UGDALE, BOOKSELLER AND STATICNEK, 4. TEMPLE BUILDINGS, GOAT STREET SWANSEA. ALL BOOK BUYERS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, Will be well served at the above address. 7544 A SPLENDED ASSORTMENT TO SELECT FROM NOW RKADY. THE CONFESSIONAL: A Reprint of THE RECENT CONTROVERSY In the Sout.h Walm Daily Set ot between The Rev. F. W. l'UILtR. Vicar of Roath, and The Fev. Wx. BRAILEY, Wesley an Minister, Cardiflt Togtfher with the ARTICLES therein which hare appeared in t'ho above JournaL COPY or BtSOLUTION:— At a meeting of the Cardiff Uinisterial Cuion, which comprises the Pastors oi Nineteen Nono.-nfonr.ist Congregation*, the fci- lowing resolution as u/:an»jnc>usly pawea ioll paeaeu:- "That this Union expr.-UKtsiva treat aduiiraUoc of the manner bi which the Uev. W. JfctnUky ha. eonuueted the diecossioo with the Rev. W. F. PuHer, en 'iUtUAiiaDi and R"3r.ai:;wa Identical,' and warmly congTatulaUn hioi upon the abie maimer in whicfe he has established his positiona. "This'Union also regaids with high appreciation the heading articles on the 'Social and Politioa'. ti,Kut;.c^a «f the Con- lewional.'which hare appeared in the South U'aias JJaily Mews, and believing that the circulation in a permanent form bnth of She Jetcera of Mcesta. Brailey and Pull«r, and of the articled referred to, woulrl be of great service to morality and religion, thia Uaien ex urease* the hope that ateps will be taleci for their fcnmsrfists pubUettioa ana iude dismliui-ion." PRICK THREEPENCE. To be had of all NewcagenU ni Svuth Wales and tae West, of England, or post free for FOUflPfciSCiS frozu Pnbiisher, Daily Now, CardiS. 6í3i Be the West of B-iglane. a J South Waiea District Monthly Y,(hi,,ory ne¡:¡!r." JW'-OTICE .—Id C'ure.jHerice of tbe immense sup- A.1 port this f uMioatiori li»s recesred throusrhoutthe Unito4 Kingdom and t ibc i-ulo is i;r.w n,l consistent, there- tore, from the iFt of Arrii, 111;6, it will ba known as Plil l'ILI PS' REGISTER of New at:dSecand-bv&nd Machinery. •Free by post, One Shilhur. A few pagw to ie; for advertis obants, entries received up to the 2c.th of evh month. Full: particulars to Charles D. f-hiffilys, Newport, Mon. 0733 Jfefela. i RUTLAND ARMS HOTEL, RUTLAND" STREET, SWANSFA.—The Proprietor of this Hotel begs respectfully to inform the public gen erally that he is now in a posttion to supply AIjL^OFP'.i ana other best BUIlTOiN" ALES, which hitherto be has been unable to do.—J. hEYAJOUR, Proprietor. 74j2 pRO BONO PUBLICO BODEGA DINING KOOMS, FIRST-CLASS DINNER for the Moderate Charge of ONE SHILLING. leaner from f to 3. Also Oyster and Sapper Rooms. TEA, COFFEE, CHOPS, and STEAKS W1NE3 of the Best Quality, drawn from the Wood, in Dook and Sample Glasses W. H. SALISIiUKY, BODEGA DINING ROOMS KOYAL ARCADE, CARDIFF. 5J77 B N A B T H H à-T-E L I NKAR CARDIFF. APARTMENTS, with BOARD and Attendance, Two-and-a-half GUIHEAS per Week. PARTIAL BOARD, Thirty-ouo Siiillu^s aud Sixpence, Psa Wsax, j _i f| >J^ -U1- > -IV,. I.V.. i'LAi'l, UL. JL iuar,i.s\, 78 & 79, FLEET-STREET. LONDON, E.G., BOOKING GL\S MANUFACTl RL: CARVERS. GILDERS, PICTURK FRAME MAKERS, DECORATORS, kc., ESTABLISHED UPWARDS (F 100 YEAR?, EXHIBITORS OF THE IMMENSE PLATES AT THE EXHIBITION OF 1851, FOR WHICH A 1 JUZE MEDAL WAS AWARDED, Invite the inspection of their new and variei tTOCK ot CHIMNEY GLASSES, Ct-hMCFS, PIER an" COS()i,E TABLES. GIKAADOLKS, «'HATtfO'I! KAUiCY TABLES, IOILET CLASS fib, & A constant saesmion et the nrveat (;e,-un; at priees unequi.u by any heusc in the trade. FRAMES MADE TO ANY DESIGN in 8.1ty kind of wood, gilt -r otherwise. CAREFUL AM) PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORLEKS. BE-GILDING, RE-SILVKBING, by Patent Process, OIL PAINTINGS SOLD ON COMMISRJO.v. A HAJS'll'SQMilLY OKXAMLiiTLD KiCHLV GiLt u" EllONIZJO) A:IJ GOLD IRAilE. Kebate 5b. Oufaide Jteasuri-mf ru Fr c 0 bv 40 to: br:> i! o 66 „ 44 07 f»S a: m 'rZ „ Bi o v GILT (OBKICES, frtin 3s. jier foot. A FEW FECOND-HAND CLASHKS I "10, AT (JhEVTLY liEI U E'» PIUCBS. j IrtinaUS and I)ta<tra;ed i i •.ystwe i mj o>: ;'l\ j ■ t; o:: j Cows try i floods can be ette-.t-U (1t:;I. :t a" i. *.■ t i:, r.. f j .[;, Is, tn £ &0, '.V. ill -1 ■■ «• f ONES BROTHERS, PRINCIPAL BILL- ?OSTEti« kSt> JZl'Y/. Kk>, HlGU- £ "t,T, Ne.oTH, AND CirculaiB addressed anil cls.iTcred. Bill Fosters to the Graa WfwteiE and Nestb aid Brecon R?ilnnv&, jwd thr prlncipa1 ▲edieseeir. Leasees of th. poituur Piaoes- Ii "TRUTH 1TCST PREVAU.-ComMoN Sxssa. SILK AND FELT HATS AND CA F EVERT DESCRIPTION. S. W E I O H E R T, MANUFACTURER, 39, BUTE-ST. DEPOT, 2, HH3H-5T. Established 13 ii /^VFFERS nothing extraordinary, but really ^-rtieloB at fair a ,x reasonable prices. He does not keep « stock," but sufficiency large for any person to seiect rrom He ooes net sell cheaper than any other house m the trade, bnt quite cheap as any. S. W. is i. possession of Allie-Aine* Patent Conformateur. t),. Pe^nFlt™ takes the exact Size., fcud thus secur,. > A VISIT WILL AT ALL TIMES BE VERT MUCH APPRECIATED. elso OR COUGHS, COLDS, ASItillA, BHONCillTIS, and NEURALGIA. Di». J. COLL1S BROWNE'S CHLORODTNE. Vicc-'Jluscailor Sir V»*. Page Y>o<A auied public!<. i* Court that Dr J. OoOia Browne was undoubtedly Lbg in-nmtor of Cfclorodjne, that the wv..ole sioiy cf the oeieadaut Fre«Bi*n was iteliberat&ly untrue, aud he re^retied to say it had btien swore tA,SOe the Ti=U, July 13, I&A- DR. J. Co'lis Browne's C fcl LO RO D TN &. The Bi.^ht Hon. Fail Russell ooaimun-cated to the College of Puyaiciana, andJ. I. Davenport that he had recen e a information to tta* efface that the only remedy of any service in coolers was (Jjulorodyna. -.Set- Lancet," Dec. 31, lt5 DR. J. Tirown i's i HT/JRODYSE. Extract from the Meoicai lift;*i." Jsa. iiS, latid "Is presonbed b) scores of orthoiox i uf course it wotiidnotb* thus singularly popular did it oot auPP!y a want ead liil s place.. DR. J. CoIIis Browne's CHLORODYNE is the best and naos' eertain reaiedy in ooughs, colds, asthma, coosumpuon* neuralgia, rheunaaUem, &c. DB. J. ColUa Browne's CHLORODYNE is a certain euro cholera,dysentery, ^.arriiea, DR. J Collis Browne's CHL' iRODYNB CAUTION -XoM geuu ue without the words Dr. J. Coliib Browne's Chio- odyre on the GoTcrnmeat stamp Over* ctjuaing medical timoay aceompaBics each b ,!tli. Sole manufacturer, J. P. DAVENPORT, 33, Great R'isseU-sb'eec, Bloontsbury, Lood old in Igttlco, is li, 2a 9d, ia 6d, and 11L 3726 Tii iti COAL TAii PILL <V> r;aht s Pimi,i JL Carbuiiis DetWKSna) Kiieur.y, J&MUSTY let. lS7. "Pfetse ,('I:d me two boxos of cur va u hie T r Piiif, fix which I etic'G»i ?s. 3d. Iain bound to o-Bfess that I hav« de> rivod more benefit ;rom them than frosn any other pllla. Jews RvAn. Stiff St r^ean They act upon the Stomach. the Liver, and the Elsit~ys, are 1'IIG.ienl, touic, and punryin^. They sweeten the broatn, are the heat ftmi e pills known, and a save remedy (or those pa'nfui affections, iter-iorrloide, (Piles) Sy vD Chemhts, iu Boxes, la. Jj«L, and is. »;—W. V. WBIGKT &. CO., Sov.thwark-street, London, pronriL'tors of the celebratad CeaJ Tar Soap (Wright's Sapo Carbouis XietergensX -i4» ]VTR. GRAHAM YOUNG, DENTAL SurgboJj JLtJL io. 7, pa' k-Li 'jet, L.? :evOi. Atteauanoe professionally,CARDIFF— EVI I T WEDSiEsrAY at do, CROCK HERBTOWN, from 10 .05. MEAVPOBT—SECO*l and FOURTH THURSDAY i-i ee-N month at RuraeU Joaoa chemist, 64, IHGH-STKEKT, fioui 10 to 6 neat visiea T9UP.tD\>. ila- 2LLh a Juna RRlDQliND- FIRS r au« THxRt'. THURSDAY in every moath, at W. 22, CAUOHNS-cilRKET, from 10 to 4_3,1; next viaits, TOUR* DAY. MAY ISth & Juno leu LTAXJLLY-tht:: Til IRL) n" DAY in frervni mh, at 1, STEPMEY-STBEKT, frcm 10 to & Awendanee FRIDAY, MAY 19th. ArtIficial Teeth 08 tiu most ffptoved system, from 68 to 21s each. Stopping from 2A CKI. Painless opt-ntions by nitrous oxide gas by apoointmsaf oniy, by tetterto rett''ence. 850 DELLAR'S CORN and BUNION PLASTERS are guaranteed to cure Corns, Bunions, and Enlarged To* joints in a few applications, without causing tbe lOIèt inooa venieboe. Boxes, It. lid. and 9a 9d., of vAl Obenuats. By poet 14 stamps, of J. Pepper, 237, Tottenham Coun-road, London. HAIR RESTORER.—Large Bottles la. €K £ each. LOCKTER'8 SULPHUR. HAIR RESTORER (Pep. r.e's preparation) will restore in a few days gray or prematurely light hair to its original colour with perfect miety and oomplet-* ueas. Sold by &I', chemists, and J. Pepper, 367, Xottenham-oourti rowi, London, whose name and address ta-ist be on the label, ot i is not genuine, EPPERtS WHITE COUGH MIXTURE 11 the most reliable and e-greeable cnr'; for Covins, Coida A5thm&, Bronchitis, Consumption, and all Luner Diseases. If t:ays crimes rost at night. Bottles, Is lyd. and 2L gd. each, ey all Choinists. BE^ ENAMEL OF THE^ETH^-By usiniE CRACRCFTb ARECA NUT TOt. PAiTE ^ldali»W coating beconi, g^uiii, white, and po'iaiuad as the Attest rvwy Ft is psrticulDriy fragrant. Sold in Pots, la aad 2a M. sark, by all Cheir.i;ts. IXEALTH, STRENGTH, ENKRGY^jwr JL PER S QCLNjI.^ and IRON TONIC suengthsBa tfte nerves, increases the quantity of. the blood, promotes tffSltU, improves w«ak d'^estion, acirBat^ the spirits, lire: thoroue. 650, IIL I reenr je the health. Boreies, 4s. fid.; nrxtaiM, lXa "f ail Cuerii.s'us. Save Pepper s t'vep&valioil DEAFNESS, Noises in the Ears.—DellMfr? E%ence for Deafnees is aa Extraordiaary B»neay, always, and generally Cures. 1" is quitr harmless. P-tti- arH 9!11 mch. stold bv all CbemiAM. 7SPO rjpARAXAC DM, OR DANDEL i ON COFFEE A Prepared from the pure ircsh Dandelion R-vsU Contains three times the B!reni;th o. ord mry Coffee, rsoaagt- n.enoed to a:l aiitfcrintr f'ora INDIGESTION Oil LiVEK COMPLAINTS. Directions for use on each Tin. Prepared and Packed t'v PHILLIPS L- SON, COFFEE MERCHANTS, ETHUE-STREET, wESr, J.O.N uO A URiDGK. LO.\ DOX, a\V CASTLE S Q U A K E SWANSEA, Eslablisbeci in the C ty cf London, A.D. 1760. AOBNTS FOR Swa.VSAA.—Phillips and Son, Cast.e Squar«; Ed ward Gregory, Hij;h-strset; D. Evans, Hixh-street: wfilim Ric);a:di, llith-strcct AftrvTS roa lIiz.uu.I;bm B"en, ;e"¡trt'et; Grei'ory a.nd Philiips, Tse.v-street; Hannan lowii-, O. Market; Wilnaro Rictiardi, Ca.atie-stieet. AQBKTS TOR CARDIFF.—E. Sicker and Co., Qua^n-streot; Stranaghan and Stevens, Angel-sireet; S. lletch- r, St Mary. street: Holder liroa. S.. >iiry-a;re«t; James G iJiths, 22, B:¡tc-!l'ee: S. Andrews. Bute-street. ACSSTS FOR CAEU-FIIILLT.—i,. Woo.ter. D. Jiorran, H. Cog- gines. J. Ii. Jeokm*. AaasTsroa 1 LitoArr.—W. Lioweilyn, Pees, N Many. AGBNTS FOR. N' rwr,RT. Luoch Gritfiths, 41. b izii-treet iior- gan 13z, Coxmc'oial-roa«i W. 3Jorr.s3, ho, Coiiimorcial" road; 11 fc'mst, 20, Commercial-road; Gie^orr and Roberts, Conimercial-st^et; i h lii^h-aweet'; Edward Hall* Hiph-»treet; W. J. AOSSTS FOR .krxr.rAP.N.- I-). Davics. llith-E-tref L. Ei1»y, Widcomb,-btreei u. Barnes, Bar- rutt-sirett: W. ChancK. Barristt-»treet; Lewis Jones, beli- street: J. John ar.d C.»., if 11-itrett .I, hn Ersns, Wi!)-etreeL A &BX M FOB MOt-.NTArs ASH. — Bt;V;J>nim itvans: W. L. Herbert; W. U hite, ci> mist; Ed wards and Co. AOIWT roll. CARMARTOSX.— Thomas Arthur. Prijrv-street. Aeasr FOR KBRTBTK. kl- Wm. itr.rns, As Ptis FOA LLANE^UY.—Henrv 4 1 a. e-t G. B. 31 Market-street; W. Phillips, Thomas-fittest; Dnid '1 bomlf", Park-lItr"Gt, r11 HE 'I LOOD PURIFIER —OLD DR JL JACOLI TOWJISLUSLJ'?' PAPILLA. Nc one shotod cr f- be without the Blood >'ur:fier. Old Dr Jacob 'lowi'seod's sai-sapardia as the great- purifier of 'he Uocd. It effects the n saiutarj ches let disease; cure* arofula, 6-(rrlJ1n;c disoiderb, chrowc ftore eyes, ¡-htumalit&m, liver come p at:,te, er\s*f«lss, a.i' blotches mid eruptions of the ekin it -a. ajovee e'er.1 uupority of the blood, aJid aii hunv>ursand mosrbis collections ui the bo.ly in abort, 'tac.s like a charm. In bottle^ 2a (xl, 4s, 4s 61, Ts <5a, anr! lis. Sold by &I! druartrisra Chi. Depot, IS 1, k'leet-ssrcot, London. Oct the rod and bius wrappetv with the old Doctor's head in ths contre. 1 HE OLD DR.'S SARtsAI'ARILLA PILLS Are the most popular medicine kno ,vn for all biliouti affectiomd6 ;;rer jn<i couiolaiiite, and indisrestioti, M proved by iijvuwtndg. Also, SAliSAPAR11.i.A OINlilEST. The baa BO itner oi all S-its, liurus, aud scAtftN, each tn ooxes, is. ltd., 2s, 9d., ami is. fti. liy p tA. 16. 36, and GOatanins. 8711 Ohi«.f I>cpot—121. 5612 ^fcXj^OR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."—Sat A Deuteronomy, cl.jp. xii, vera -'X CLARKE'S WOELD-FAMED BLOOD MIXTr-TMi Tral't' lthr, Li.nod Mixture." THE OREAT Ei-UUit PURIFIER AND RESTORER. SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions, Blotches, Ulcerated Sow U'8, o'-d Sons, tjiJajidular 1\'cl¡in':8. Cauixfoas Ulcers, iswi.t», Pimples, Pustoies, Boils, Carbuncles, BingvonM, rr^ai.l Head, Sore Eyes, Erj-sipelas, lkll, Scurfs, DISSOIOM. 'is oi tilo ,kin. Humours and Ihs.jases of the e « islet er name C,13 nature, &re literaiiy c&rricd out of the K stern in a short time by the use of this world-faumd D:i:inc.. TaorsASM OF TSBTwoinALS FROM AIL rAR-rs, L IMPORTANT ADVICE TO ALL.—dense the vitiated L;.uo whenever you nud its impurities Ui rati us through Mir skin In pimples, erupt,Jü:18, t.1'" seres; cleanse It viw& > ou finil it obstructed and sluzpsh II. the veins cisanaa it «hen it is foul, and your feelings will tell y. u when. Keep the b'.fiod pure, and the health of the system u ill follov. Mixture is pleasant to the taste, and warranted f"fr fr'l¡; a:iyth;n.c injurious to tn1)ost "¡(:list c(ioT"siu- t ■•■ii of either sex, the proprietor souciUsupers to e a a t::1 to test it* val'se. CLARKE'S WORLD-FAMED BLOOD MIXTUKIS Is b«.ld in Bottles, 2a. 6d. eactt. aud iu Casus, vw.tali.uii: b.x ;;si#a the quantity. 11?. each—sufl»-i«nt to «:ffc.t a pcrma:ii't in the great majority of l.'iyr-slaitduiir «j«ea~ ny aiJ Chemhts and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout tie United Kingdom aud the «vor:d, or sent to any acidi se, ot! receipt of SO or 132 stampe I t1; proprietor. F. J. CLARKE, Chemist, Apothecaries* Hall, Lincoln W iuJsa.e: Al; Patent M.^iicine Houses LO oXl oRO-STKEET. SOLD IN CARD I FIj by '¡"¡'IJ 1\,1\1 „ Hi^^reet. port E. M tree!. 1^1, Commercial-»treei n. P.ice, 127. I"otnjn<»rcis!*<trcei. I (" jJO<\j: E. (itcphena, Clarence-street pbwVaw L. JOPO. A. J. Frie- Swauseai J&1IH;" 11m:)>>, X DAVIES S (CtviHcvon) TOZSMC, APERIENT, AVL! 1\Kt; i'r'.Lii, are a most t-Sfjo'- oi rcuwxi'* m rers->8 sutir. -fr(,ri. Ii\».r coinplain^, «>st>ve^ nee-, curios, winJ :ti th- •.tontach, r»w*Wf* of spirits, sin^'tKT Douse# i;i tr.f tars, ncrvomness, paii>lHit.ion a' the heart, gMdi- ness, nca «■.•»>«.•, fii.es tie do'wetta, ire. tfaey "Y btt wuh safety a" any seavou u: the r, reqm; no con. tfcc- -nt t. UK» mvhc 010 "Pv, exereiw 1'(" s aOOII v<T:;cts«. 0.i« tria: wdloasure their teia^ resi*. !,p ;ir"v r'lls," sn «'iHle i« their ac :c">, jo'esruin • r "i"i.. • ■: ill N. li.l. an ii. ««i?. w»i'U, i>rc^ar«vl e^a < ,i l'■ tiie "J .ie p.o,iri«;io. iiii.iijas ii.>veil, Pnarmaceuticai Coeruist, Liu. :or', Caru.ifi Arid had Of all respectabln chsinista. bent direct ior 14 or BQstaaiai