South Wales Daily News

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS Notices of Mariiayeg, and are at the rate ol18 for th .Jirst l'-went!J Word8, and L:d .lor i f"ery additiona'! 'l'en W 01'(18, and mI¿.t be I'RHP.un. 1 H œll cai!es the nct.ice Int¿8t be unlhe¡l.licaied ÍJ!I ti", 'Jj(!1i¡e of the writer. nnATH. JONES.—August 31st, r.t t!ia .Ship Ilotel, Bute Docks, Cardiff, 0!iver Jooes, ngcd 46. 456

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1885. THE ROSSENDALE DISAPPOINT- MENT. THE Liberal party may well congratulate themselves on the fact that Mr GLADSTONE has not yet retired into private life. There is still ground for hoping that before the general election the leaders of the party will say something definite about the policy which they intend to pursue if returned to power. Lord HARTiNGTON's speech on Saturday at Waterfoot, in the Rossendale Division of North-East Lancashire, is in our opinion a complete disappointment. We acknowledge its ability, we can enjoy the smart blows which he deals out to some of his opponents, Lord RAN- DOLPH CHURCHILL in particular and we can amply appreciate the criticisms which he passed on the conduct of the present Government. But throughout the speech we cannot find anything tangible, anything to inspire the new voters with conBdenee, anything like a clarion note summoning a great army to the field. The whole speech indeed is stale, Sat, and unprintable, utterly unworthy of the occasion, and ap unlikely as possible to kindle any enthusiasm or even to produce a moderate warmth. We make these observations not forgetful of the fact that Lord HARtlNGTON has rendered great services to the Liberal party, and laid them under deep obligations. While we make them we abate nothing of our admira- tion of his Lordship's ability. We are confident that he will yet be found in the front rank of the prominent chiefs of the Liberal party, and will yet render great service. But this consideration cannot prevent us from thinking that he ha.s lost a. great opportunity, that he ha.s spoken I words without weight, and left his followers exactly where he found them. Yet we are within a few weeks of a great general elec- tion. the most general that has ever taken place in this country—the first, in other words, in which the masses of the people throughout the towns .md the rural districts will have been consulted. It is true that the general election will not take place till November, but the constituencies every- where are already selecting representatives, choosing candidates, and giving them their commission The rank and file of the party have a policy, if their leaders have not. Lord HARTiNGTON cannot be ignorant of the topics which have been uppermost at every Liberal meeting. He must know perfectly well that the Liberal party outside of Parlia- ment are bent upon certain reforms, and that those who undertake to represent the nartv must be prepared to carry out these reforms. Lord BARTINGTON had much to say about certain proposed amend- ments in the land lawa, but said little by way of enlightening his hearers as to the policy which he was prepared to adopt. No doubt he did make some allusion to views expressed on a recent occasion by Mr CHAMMRLAIN, but the allusion was made rather for the purpose of rejecting than of accepting or pronouncing in favour of theae views. But it is high time for Lord HARTiNGTON and other Whigs, or nt least Liberals slow to move, to recognise the voice and the authority of the people. He may depend upon it that if he is not prepared to legislate in accordance with the strongly expressed demands of the majority, he will cease to be regarded as a leader. We quite concur in the censure passed by him on the present Government for enabling the Irish tenants to become proprietors at the expense of the State. This measure passed too easily through Parliament, because it simply means that the landowners of Ireland shall have the full value of their land at the expense of the taxpayers. It the State is to buy up the land, we can see no reasontin the world why it should not become the owner of the land, and let it at a re-asoiitble rent to anyone who will take it at its value, and use it for the public good. This is pretty nearly what, Mr HENRY GEORGE' proposes, and is cer- tainly a much superior plan to that which the present Government, in their magnanimity, have enacted in the interest of the present landowners even more than in the interests of the tenants. In other words, this law will enable the present pro- prietors to sell at a fair price many thousands of Mres of land for which they have not for a long time been able to get any rent. Surely those who have to pay for the land ought to possess it, but this is not Con- servative doctrine. The Conservatives seem to think it quite proper that the poor should be taxed to prevent the rich from becoming poor. But while we agree with Lord BLtRTlNGTON in his strictures ou the Land Purchase Act, we look in vain for any better proposal. He himself has no policy, or at least none to announce. Lord RAN- DOLPH CHURCHILL promised everything Lord HARTi:\GTON promised next to nothing. It is only just, however, to remember that Mr GLADSTONE may wish to give the initia- tive when he returns from his trip to Nor- way and the Shetland Isles. His untiring brain may at this very moment be busy a!; work evolving some grand schemes of reform which will stir the country to its utmost depths, and be answered by the universal assent of his followers. As the leader of the party, he cannot allow his utterances to be forestalled even by his most faithful lieutenants. He can unfold a policy with a clearness, eloquence, and force in which no one can approach, much less rival him, and if it be his intention to take this burden upon himself. Lord HARTINGTO'S comparative silence may easily be accounted for. From this yoint of view we cannot blame the noble lord for his signincant reti- cence. Lord HARTiNGTON is not the kind of man of whom usurpers are made. With statesmanlike powers in comparison with which the most brilliant efforts of Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL are only squibs and crackers fitted for a Conservative fete as a kind of accompani- ment to the whirligig and merry-go-round, he is too wise to imitate the latter by taking into his own hands the chief autho- rity. On the contrary, Lord HARTiNGTON has always set the noble example of being prepared to lead when called upon, and yet loyal to the very core in presence of the acknowledged chief. He has never yet tried to forestall Mr GLADSTONE, and if loyalty to his leader be the true explanation of the comparative silence which he maintained throughout his last Saturday's speech, it would be most unjust to pass any censure upon him, even though it is impos- sible to be otherwise than deeply disap- pointed.

SOtTlH WALES NOTES. YESTERDAY seems to have been a particu- larly busy magisterial day and the ,arcliff bench had a most unpleasant variety of charges before them. Two cases were particularly distressing owing to the light which they throw upon the de- pravity of many of the young children of tile town. I don't know whether I am particularly unfortunate in my discoveries, but I certainly have seen a particularly large number of youngsters of both sexes quite full privates of the ragamuiEu regiment, and full of promise of future rascality. In one of the cases yesterday a little girl of fourteen was charged with being drunk and refusing to quit a public-house; and with breaking a pane of glass. The chief constable gave her a bad character, and said she had appeared in the dock when she was but ten years old. In the other case, two young girh were sent to prison for theft, and one of them to a reformatory. The girl who is a few days older than the other will, how- ever, probably return to her old life in a few days while her younger companion will stand a chance of being lifted out of the life of sin. Why, however, in the first case, that of the child of fourteen, who has been four years a criminal, has she never been sent to a reformatory ? She is now too old. But here, again, it seems to me that a false distinction is drawn as to age. There can be no doubt that if, instead of sending such young offenders to prison for a few days to return then to their old life, they were placed under better conditions and happier innuenccs were brought to bear, many of them might be weaned from crime. This case is, indeed, all too revolting. A thief, a drunkard, a drab, and a gaol-bird at 14, what can she but become in a few years ? This is a case in which good influences are indeed sadly wanted. WHILE on this subject, I may refer to the large number of complaints which are con- stantly coming to hand as to the condition of matters in Adamsdown. I have had many communications from Adamsdown urging that there should be a police-station somewhere in the district, and I make the suggestion for what it is worth. TaERE are some remarks in reference to the Cardiff School Board, in the report of her Majesty's Inspector, Mr C. T. Whihnell, which I think have escaped general observa- tion. They occur in the blue book of the vear. and constitute a well-deserved eulogy upon the board. He says The population of the district is increasing very rapidly, and consequently additional accommodation will be required from time to time. The CardiEf School Hoard was formed as late as 1875 to provide for a, brge a.nd growing defic!ency, and has pursued a vigorous and enlightened policy, a.nd has suc-cessfuily grappled with the natural diniculties presented by a rapidly growing pou'dation, and with the artificial ones due to a, gigantic monopoly, which has necessitated the compulsory purchase of sites. This is a very satisfactory report of the work, and as even the enemies of the board will allow, I think, it is well deserved. Tms contrasts very favourably with the I report of the same inspector in regard to Newport. Everybody in Newport 11 knows that in the work of the school board there is much need. for improvement, and Mr C. T. Whitmell certainly confirms this opinion when he says:— In th" Newport. Schoo! Bo--ird district there has for sometime been i Tossing need for additional r,ccommoQation to meet the rapid growth of popu- lation. The present board ha.s been very luke- warm in the matter, and it is only recently it has commenced to take action. Tins board has, from considerations of economy, reduced the staff in the schools and the saiarie.s of the teachers, and the result has not proved really economics.), for a majority of the schools have done but very indifferently during the past year. These are very serious considerations, and the remarks deserve to be carefully pon- dered by the ratepayers. WHAT will be the exact amount of coercion brought to bear by landlords upon tenants during the next general election is a question which many people are asking. Of course everybody hopes that there will be little or none, but I am scarcely of so sanguine a nature. Experience has hardly been calculated to make one very trustful of the impartiality of the landed interest, while, perhaps, the voters have as yet hardly sumcient boldness to withstand when pressure is brought to bear. What the attitude of the landlords should be is well set forth in the following circular sent on behalf of a lady living in Hampshire to the tenants on her estate. The letter cannot be too widely circulated, so I may reproduce it here Having regard to the fact that most of you have recently obtained the franchise for the first time, J am permitted by Mrs to intimate to you her hope that you will all exercise this important 1-iglit at the election which will take place in November. Mrs——has no desire in any way to influence your votes she does not propose even to te)l you with which side she sympathises your vote is your own, :'nd you should give it without fear, in accordance solely with the dictates of vour own consciences. But Mrs —— wishes to remind you that the exercise of this right is a. serious responsibility, and should not be dealt with lightlv. She ndvis-H you to attend meetings on both sides, to listen attentive!y to what the speakers say, and judge between them. No one can possibly know how you vote unless you teH. for no matter what some dishonest people may te'! you, the baUot is quite secret. Ample time to <?oto\otowi!]beaiiowedto everyone on the pl.?e, and if the poU'ng p)ace is fixed at a distance, Mrs--will endeavour, as far as possible, to as,i"t in the convtV.utcs of aged and infirm voters cf either side to and from the poUing place. [ no not think it possible to praise this letter too highly. It is a model of its kind, and it would speak as powerful evidence of the impartiality and fairness of the landed proprietors if such a circular were used by all. Of course a close watch will be kept upon the action of landlords in SouthWales, and any laches of the kind will be exposed. I trust indeed there will be none to expose, and it is satisfactory to see that Mr A. J. Wuliama, so far as Glamorganshire is con- cerned, is hopeful of this and, writing on the ubject, and the circular I have quoted, he aav. 1 t expresses in singularly apt and impressive language the views which should be held, and,what is more to the purpose, expressed by all who occupy <he position of hndlcm:\s. I have already more than once pub!ic)y stated my belief that the land- owners of thm county, whatever their political views may be, would think it dishonouring to themselves to allvw their position to be used either directly or indirectly for the purpose of influencing their tenants in the exercise of their new duties as electors. I earnestly hope we shall receive a pub!io assurance that my belief is well founded; that they ''consider the votes of their tenants their own and that they f.hou!d give them without fR?' iu accordance so!eiy with the dictates of their own conscience."

A MHRTHYR GHOST STORY. A remarkable ghost story ia. now going the romifia at Mcrthyr. Not long since the wife of a local resident died, a.nd her child was banded over to the care of tho deceased woman's sister-in- law. Matters went on favourably until one night, when, it is said, the sister-in-law beheld, or fancied she saw, the form of the dead woman standing at the end of the bedstead as if in the act of appealing for the child. The husband of the sister.in-law was not then present, but on a subsequent r;ighh, after he had been informed by hi.s astonished wife of what bad occurred, he waited with his wife for a certain hour. Then they heard the door of the bedroom upstairs opened and shut three tunes They made no pretence of searchi'.g for thç, host, but ran out of the house. The c)'iid, which it is supposed has been the object cf this nocturnal visit, has now been handed over to the tnotber of the dece&sed young woman.

ELASTIC Stockings, Trus.scs, Surgical Applia.a 1;0.4. an,! at; l:1v:tli,! !{eq:u it'j.s.-J. 1. Hish-strcet, Cardiff. N.H.—A Wa.ter Bed, Inputs Hack Rest, and Water Pillow on Hire. 7?.)(¡¿ 1

LONDON LETTER. [SPECIALLY WIRED.] [BY OUR GALLERY CORRESPONDENT.] LORD HARTINGTON'S MANCHESTER SPEECH- A DARK OUTLOOK IN IRELAND—GOVERN- MENT OFFICIALS AND PARLIAMENTARY HONOURS LORD COWPER AND THE LIBERAL PARTY-THE STRAND NUISANCE —A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR-THE PRINCE OF WALES'S WARDROBE. LONDON, Monday Night. The general opinion formed in Liberal circles concerning Lord Hartiugton's speech is undoubtedly satisfactory. Among ad- vanced politicians there is the feeling that the noble lord s attitude towards land reform will bear more precise definition, but the prompt manner in which Mr ParnelFs separatist challenge was taken up has earned praise from all sections of the party. Even those who are prepared to go far in the direction of granting to Ireland largely- extended powers of self-government are as strongly opposed as the most moderate Liberal to breaking up the empire. The project of an Irish Parlia- ment sitting in Dublin, and owning only a nominal allegiance to England, is not a tempting one to any responsible politician, or set of politicians, on this side of St. George's Channel, and Mr Parnell by his uncompromising declaration in favour of separation has made it dimcult for any middle course to be adopted. The Irish leader has on previous occasions, however, shown himself such an astute tactician that this latest declaration may prove after all to be only a pilot balloon sent up to test the strength of English public opinion upon repeal. Meanwhile, those responsible for the good government of Ireland are growing not a little alarmed at the increase of agrarian outrages which is daily to be noted. Lord Carnarvon, who had thought that kind words were all that were required to pre- serve order, is fast losing his temper, and the severe snub he last week administered to Mr Clifford Lloyd, beoa-use that once beloved of the Tory party ventured to suggest that the best thing to do with the Lord-Lieutenant was to abolish him, and the letter published in to-day's papers querulously complaining that a bailiff for once had forgotten his writs, prove how completely the milk of Lord Carnarvon's kindness is turning sour. It is an open secret that the most experienced Irish omcials dread the coming winter, and although they may, for policy sake, keep silent, Sir William Dyke is doubtless well acquainted with their fears. Boycotting it beginning to be practiced again on an extensive scale, and as the ordinary law does not appear to provide an adequate remedy for this oSence, Lord Carnarvon and Sir William Dyke appear likely to have a cheerful winter before them. The heads of the various Government de- partments are determined that the Treasury order (about which we have heard so much last session in connection with the case of Sir William Curdon) directing that officials in the permanent posts of the crown shall not become candidates for parliamentary hon- ours, shall not remain a dead letter. The latest instance of the application of the order is, I hear, in the case of a candidate for one of the newly-created East-end con- stituencies. The gentlemen selected is a clerk in the Post-omee (a fact, by the way, which appears to have been unknown to the political council which chose him), and he has received an intimation that he must either withdraw his candidature or resign his post. He prefers, I believe, to do the latter, and as he is confident of winning the scat, he considers that he will be able to better serve his country at Westminster than at St, Martin's Ie Grand. It seems strange, however, that army omcers on full pay should be privileged to be in Parliament and to vote their own allowances, and that other permanent public servants should not. Earl Cowper's article in this month's "Nineteenth Century" (the advance copies of which were issued this evening) which bears the title, "What is a Moderate Liberal to do ?" is likely to attract some attention. The noble earl, though constitu- tionally timid, is not M easily frightened aa the Toriea would like, and he ia determined still to cast in his lot with the Liberal party, on the ground that the moderate section has only to bestir itself to secure as much influence in its council as it deserves. Lord Cowper is evidently a little afraid of what Mr Chamberlain may be expected to do, but he comforts himself by the reflection that there are some Liberal leaders who do not talk nbout "Ransom," and he does not see why lie should not trust them again as he has trusted them already. The conclu- sion is welcome, as a proof of the essential unity of the party, but it is very disappoint- ing to those Conservatives who have ex- pressed hopes pf winning over the Whigs. The efforts made by the police during the past two or three days in the direction of suppressing the noisome literature of the pavement have for the time freed the Strand from the nuisance which for weeks had shown an alarming increase. It is, how- ever, being asked why such measures were not taken before, and the omcial inaction of the tv/o months during which the plague has raged, is certainly inexplicable. But now that the police have shown their power, it is fervently hoped that upon no pretence wul the Strand be allowed to drift back into the dismal state in which it has lately been sunk. We have just now a visitor in London who is receiving and giving a great deal of attention of an unobtrusive sort. Notwith- standing a few ugly revelations made from time to time, there are no institutions of which we may be so proud as our hospitals. Whatever may be said of our schools of surgery or medicine, our hospitals, both as to liberality of support, management, and comprehensiveness, rank very high indeed. At present they are receiving a. visit from M. Michelin, the president of the Muni- cipal Council of Paris. He is going about from one to another, and obviously his tour of inspection is intended to have practical result. A doctor on his travels, if he be really fond of his profession, visits the hospitals of a great city very much in the way a barrister takes a turn through the courts of law. M. Michelin's visit is not to gratify an idle curiosity. The notes he is taking amongst us he will print when he returns to Paris. The exigencies of his position seem to demand from the Prince of Wales some of the qualities what belong to what, in music-hall programmes, is called a quick change artiste. He has almost as large a wardrobe as Mr Irving. It is not vanity, but business with the Prince, and his master of the robes would require to have a good memory. The Empress Eugenie used to have. two wooden models, exact counter parts of her own Bgure, and these used to be dressed every day by the ladies in waiting, and exhibited to their original. Thus the Empress was able to crit;ciw, her own proposed get-up, and suggest such alterations as she judged desiraoje. The Prince of Wales has no such discretion, for the variety of his attire is due not to his costumes being dress, but being uniforms. I am told he has about 75 of them, nearly a score of these being military dress. Then there are his omcial costumes, as Governor of the Charter House, President of the Society of Arts, Great Steward of Scotland, and inummerable other distinctions. George IV. would have been enchanted with these opportunities. And these leave out of account the dress by which the Prince of Wales is chieny known, that of an ordinary English gentleman.

THE STRAY LION'S FATE. A sudden and melancholy ending has befaJIen the lion Sultan, who so imprudently broke away from his cage last week a:¡d took to inhaling the sea. breezes on the beach at St. Brevin t'Ocea.n. His keepers spent three days scouring the country in search of him, but without any result. Sultan, however, unfortunately for himself, was observed on Friday roaming about the beach by three bathers who happened to have guns in their possession, having come out on a shooting excursion, preparatory to which they were en. joying a swim. Alarmed at the extraordinary apparition of the leonine wanderer they ran for their guns, and discharged a volley of slugs and shot at the unlucky beast. Sultan succumbed to his wounds in a short time, and was borne away from St. Brevin in & cart, amid the wonder of the inhah?ants. ??—?—.

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THE RAILWAY DISASTER NEAR WHITLAND. THE ADJOURNED INQUEST. On Monday Mr George Thomas, county coroner, resumed the inquiry at the Yelverton Arms Hotel, Whitland, into the railway disaster near ou the Whitland and Cardigan Railway, wheLeby three men lo-.t their lives. Pre- vious to the inquiry Colonel Rich, the inspector of the Board of Trade, vis)ted the scene of the accident. Mr Jones, of Malmesbury, solicitor to the WhitIa.adand'Cardigan Company; Mr Geo. Howelt, manager of the company and Mr Walton, engineer, were present at the inquiry. The nr.-it witness examined was Dr. Vaughan Bowen Jones, of Llanboidy, who said: Last Tuesday evening at 7.5 I was standing on my father's lawn at Gwarmac, which overlooks the Whitland and Cardigan R:ulwa,y, when t observed a large cloud of steam at a, spot 185 paces fr<jm where I stood. I rushed down and found an engine upside down, lyini? diagonally, so to speak, across the permanent way. i cannot positively speak to the number or position of the wagona and beeause my attentiGD was wholly directed to the rescue of John Grimths, who was nnder the engine. I found him very seriously injured—mortallyso,I thought. He wa.s taken to Carmarthen Innrmary, and has since died. After the man was got out I ascertained that the other two men, Thomas Daviea and Thomas Philips (the subjects of this inquiry), were quite dead. The accident occurred on an mctina Philips (the subjects of this inquiry), were quite dead. The accident occurred on an mctina s)opmg uownwarcts to Urymmych, ana commenc- ing ?buut 150 paces back towards Llanfalteg. I believe the train was behind ti.me. The tine curves slightly at tha.t spot. John Gibbon, carpenter, Cwm Mills, LIa.n- boidy, said he walked boino from Llaiifalte,,y al,-)n,g the line on Tuesday evening, and was on the scene of the accident at 6.25. James Wil- liams was with him, and they walked between the rails, stepping from sleeper to sleeper. If there had been any obstruction they woutd have noticed it. Eva.n Parry Rees, porter, who acted as guard on the train in question, said they were due to leave Whitland at 6.50, but did not leave till 6.50. The train con-dsted of a tank engine, running funnel in front, four loaded wagg-jns, a Grea.t Western salmon carriage, a third-cbss carriage, a uutujwHue, ana anotnertmra, wmcn CUI1alu,u.u" brake couipartment in which witness was riding. There wasa.serew brake in this compartment, a.ndanotherontheen?in'3. Therowas no occa- sion to use the brake from Whitland to Llanfal- te?. The train was due at LI.iufaltes: at 6.40, but arrived at 7 and left at 7.2. From LL?ntalteg the line wa.s f'Lit for about half a mile, but not very straight, and then there was a. falt towards Crymmych. The train was nearly at the end of the incltne when the accident occurred. They never used the brake there. He was sta.nding' up entering parcels in the book when bo felt a sudden stop, and was tumbled against the side of the compartment. The train stopped at once, and witnessed out. The engine was off the line, and the truck which was next but one to it at starting was on the top of the ensrinc. The truck next to the engine was partly on the bank, andthethirdtruckwasatsootftherails. The ca.rna.sres and the fourth truck were on the rails. Witness did not know what speed they were going at when the accident occurred. He wns not aware of any instructions to guards with respect to that incline and curve. He always acted as guard on that train on Saturdays, aud on the 22nd they left Whitland at 7.0, arrived at Llaiifalteg 7.10, left 7.15, arrived at Login 7.22, left 7.24. Colonel Rich You Rained two minutes on that journey. By Mr Jones We were late leaving Whitland because the Great Western down express waa 17 minutes late. By the Coroner An omnibus takes the pas- sengers on from Crymmycb, and there was nothing to catch there. David Roberts, permanent way inspector on the Whitland anc Cardigan Railway, said he had been employed in that capacity for ten years. The line had lately been relaid with steel rails. He usuatly inspected the greater part of the line once or twice a day. On Tuesday last he rode on the engine of the mail train from Crymmych at 4.50. His men were working there about three weeks ago. Witness was at Llanfalteg when the acci- dent occurred, and ran to the spot in about six or seven minutes. The engine was completely oS the road, and one p:iir of wheels of the first and third wagons were off the rail, The second wagon was quite off the roaa, wnue ona wagon ann me carnages were on the tails. Four pairs of rails were damped, seven rails were bent, and one broken. The first mark of the engine getting off the road was a mark on the sleeper at the sixth rail from where the engine lay, the outside of the curve having been out. There were six pairs of rails between this mark and the place of the accident. Two pairs of rails were un- damaged, but the sleepers were marked, showing that the wheels had run on the sleepers. The other four pairs of rails were bent, and the sleepers completely destroyed. There was no mark on the metals where the engine left-it must have jumped. His men had not altered the road, put it to rights, or packed it up between LIanfalteg Station and the place of the accident since it occurred. It had not been touched. Charles Jeffreys, who was in charge of the Great Western break-down gang which arrived from Neyland at the scene of the accident at eleven o'clock on the same night,8aid li43 the position of the engine, and thought it got off the rails on the right side of the line, up the embankment, turned around, and was then forced by the trucks about 15 yards further on. where it turned over, falling on its right side. The truck next to the engine felt on the left side of the line Jooking towards Crymmycb. The second truck was mounted on the tank of the engine, and the third truck was close by with itq leading wheels off the i,al *).,i. He thought the accident was caused by the train travclliiig at a high rate of speed. There was no doubt that the engine was jumping along, and leaped or jumped off the rails at the point of the accident. He judged the speed from the fact that the reversal level was in full gear at the first notch, and the regulator was wide open, indicating full steam. The coroner If the accident was caused by the speed, how do you account for the passenger car- riagea being uninjured ? Witness There are some things like mysteries, and this seems to be one. It was something like an overruling Providence protect- ing the passengers. By Col. Rich I know the wheel base of the v engine and its length—11 feet. The engine is not calculated to run steadiiy with such a train as it had that night at a high rate of speed. I have had experience in driving, and I would not like to have driven that engine and train. The trucks behind would be likely to make it worse-to box the engine and kick it off the road. I think it was the speed and not the trucks that forced the engine off the road. By Mr Jones I should thick they were going 20 miles an hour. I cannot say 50. It is & mera supposition. Col. Kich The time table allows 17 miles an hour, which is the highest rate of speed. The Coroner Would they not be likely to run faster 'i?wn hill ? Co). Rtch No doubt they do that. Col. F. 11. Kid), of the Royal Engineers and Inspector of Railways for the Board of Trade, sworn I said I have this morning examined the scene of the accident, and particularly that part of the railway just before the place of accident, and it bears no appearance of having been altered. The line is quite new, and ap- pears to be in very good order. I can cnly attribute the accident to the train having been run at considefab!y greater speed than the time avowed on the working time table. I shou!d say from the effects c.f the accident that the speed was from 27 to over 30 mi)es an hour. Tho engine that drew the train was a tank engine of shorL-wheel base, 11 feet Ijng, and very dumpy springs, and such a one as is not calculated to run steadily at such speed. Its unsteadiness would be further aggravnted in my opinion by the four loaded waggons which were coupled on behind it, and in front of the passenger carriages. Thu position that the engine and waggons were found in after the accident, together with the destruc- tion of the permanent way, are in my opinion in- dicative of speed such as I have before stated. Mr J. B. Watton, M.I.C.E., and engineer to the Whitland and Cardigan Railway, said that from the level crossing at the LIanfatteg Station m the direction of Crymmych, there was a length of four chains of straight, or horizontal tifie, then a falling gradient one in 95, -measur- ing 'even'nd-a-half chains then a rising cradif))t of 1 in 165 for 4g chains, and a further rise of 1 in 58 for 4 chains. The next eight chains were levei, :md then a descending gradient of 1 in 77, and the nccident happened about 10 chains' length down this gradient at a distance of jnst overhaif a m!e from Llanfalteg station. He thought the engine lett t.bø rails owmg to the snpedt The Coroner: For that high speed the men in charge of the train w, ,uId be responstMe? C'ionel Rich The dnver wouid be. The stoker would be able to do nothjng. Witness The driver knew the line well. I always considered him an experienced driver. I have known him four or five years, and always considered him thoroughly n'jiable and a very intelligent man. Mr George Howell, secretary of the Whit!aud and Cardigan Cotnpany, produced the working time table which showed the rate of speed between Whitland and Crymmych Arms to be 16 miles an hour, with 12 minutes for stoppages. No one is allowed on the engine but the permanent way inspector. The driver, Thomas Da vies, bad been in the employ of the company for nine yenrs, t))e]aatnveye;trsasdriver,andhela!way$to carded as steady and trustworthy, and thoroughly experienced. The engine was thoroughly over- hauled in the Great Western repairing shop at Neath last Aprit at a cost of £182. He had had experience in raUways, and could only attribute to accident to the high rate of speed, for which, of course, the Mame would rest solely with the) driver, j The Coroner: Have you had any complaint aa to the state of the line ? Wttness: No. I have heard nothing. Colonel Rich It was originally a liglit railway, but now it is much heavier, though the same rate of speed is observed in the time tabies. That is in favour they should be able to run easier. The Coroner: You seem to be al! of one m!sd '? that the cause of the accident was the high ruto of speed for which the (h.ver is responsible, j Colonel Rich T)' i-.nn was net fit to ruu at a 1 high rate of speed. The Coroner B"c it was suitable for the rato in the working time table, and that relieves tho company of responsibility. Thomas Hopkin Evans, Hanfaiteg. a fitter in the employ of the Whitland and Cardigan Com- pany. said that he last examined the damaged engine on Sunday, the 23rd August. He j examined it c?refuHy and thoroughly, aud found it Mund in every respect, The jury briefly consumed in private, and agreed upon a verdict that: Thomas Divies, the ¡' driver, and Thomas Ptu!I!ps, the stoker, were accidentally killed. No rider of any kind was added to the verdict. The inquest upon the man Job Grimths, who I died in CariRarthen Innrmary, will be held next Thursday.

THE WELSH PRESS. (BY CUNKGLAS.] THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. The Aberd'ire Eisteddfod Corn,iiLt.-c is sin. cerely to be congratulated upon the great and signal success of its efforts. It has succeeded in spite of gloomy and quite dismal predictions, and in face of many local dimculties and petty jealousies. At the beginning of the year slug- gishness seemed to prevail at AberJare, but Wales seems more and more determined to make its time-honoured national institution a real sue* cess, and it spoke out. The Eisteddfod Associa. tion was also roused from its lethargy, and partly made up for its long sleepiness by promoting several very sensible competitions. The presi- dents of the various meeting delivered valuable addresses, and this year's eisteddfod was made memorable by the presence of that great and brilliant friend of the Celt, Mr Matthew Arnold. We trust that his visit to Duf- fryn, and h)s personal examination of the chief manifestation of the Celtic turn for the gigalltie will induce him again to turn his thoughts to the working and the destinies of the Celtic genius. Another of his essays in criticism would be at once a stimulus and a guidance to the rising national life of Wides. The Welsh papers will this week the Eisteddfod in review. Last week the Tyst a'r Dydd and Gwalia alone devoted to it their lading nrticiea. "Years ago," says the JJ,st, the .Z'tmes and other English papers cast dirt and scorn at the eisteddfod, but by this time they have had to eat their words, and to confess that. the institution has its roots deep in the national life, that it wields a powerful innuence upon tho trusic and literature of the people, and that it forms a rallying point for the nation of North and South Wales. Apart from the revival of national life, the chief cause for the increasing popularity ottaeeisteddtoa is un: prominent place which it has given to music, more especially to the groat choral competitions. But there is a. danger lst as a nation we should pay too great a heed to choral competitions to the neglect of the weighty mattersof art, literature, and science. The eisteddfod committee at Aberdare is worthy of all praise for its ceaseless exertions and enter- prise, for its insistence in Riving the Welsh its due position in the proceeding, but is t.' be blamed fur slighting the best feeling of Wales by allowing intoxicating liquors to be sold within the eisteddfod enclosure. The Cymmrodorion section was well arranged, and the eisteddfod association is valuable so long as it doea not dominate over and interfere overmuch with the action of the local committee." ABERYSTWITH COLLMK. At last the voice of the paople has prevailed. It fell to the lot of Mr Thom-ts Merchant Wiliiams to preside ovor the Cy;tiznz.od(,,rioji section the morning it was announced that tha Government had at last granted the just elaima. o. the Welsh National College at Aberystwith. Thny must all be glad," he is reported to havs said, that the full grant had been given to the college, which had been labouring under great dimcultie-i and disadvantages, and winch during the last two or three years had been doin? admir- able work." That last admission may by Air Marcliant Williams be considered exceptionally- magnanimous, but by those who have closely watched the career of Aberystwith it will be considered as exceptionally incorrect. The coHege has been doing admirable work not for two or three, but for twelve or thirteen years. Mr Marchant Williams's tender and pathetic re- ferences to the great difficulties and disadvan- tages must have directed the memories of hia hearers and readers to the ceaseless intrigue against the college in London and in Wales, to the ineptitude and treachery of its so-catted friends, to the anonymous articles of June, 1879, against the principal, whose shades (if articles have shades) must have felt particularly uneasy last Wednesday, to the memorably execrable treat. ment of the college at the Chester Conference, and to the continued opposition of Welsh repre- sentatives like Mr Rathbone and Mr Richard Davies. Mr Mundeila remained obdurate, but Mr Stanhope has listened. Wales has begun tt, score points against difBculties and obstacles, one of the greatest of which is the English Govern- ment. Wales will, even sooner than she expected, score more points. The Gol euad, in its congratulatory leading article, says that the possession of a full (rrant is chiefly due to the constant and ceaseless efforts of Mr Stuart Rendel. Let not this good fortune, however, lead \Va.1cs to be apathetic. The college build- ings are in ruins, and to raise again that magnifi- cent pile will be the work of the Welsh people. Some districts, notably Corwen, are already making arrangements for helping this noble and truly national work, which will surely be done if the appeal is made warmly to the people them. selves in every neighbourhood." HEDGING AND TRIMMING. The Liberal split in Merionethshire is stil! en- grossing the attention of the North Wales papers. The Herald and Genedl contain long reports of Mr Morgan Lloyd's meetings in the quarry district of Festimog, which were evidently en- thusiastic. The contest has elements of interest which do not appear on the surface. Mr Robert- son was selected three years ago by the Liberal association, and the selection was confirmed at large public meetings in various parts of the county, at some of which the Rev. Thomas Gee, of Denbigh,and the Rev. Michael D.Jones, of Bala, took a prominent part in supporting Mr Rubertson. It is well kuown to every reader of tne native press that the Messrs Gee and M. D. Jones have for many years been preaching a mild form of anarchism in Walesinreligiousmatters. the former among the Methodists, the latter among the Independents. Their vigorous articles con. tinually and ceaselessly dealt blows at the central organisations of these two denominations, the monthly meetings, the unions, and the associa- tions. They obtained a large body of supporters who lived in a state of feverish revolt against all central organising bodies. In Merionethshire Mr Morgan Lloyd found ready hearers in these mild anMchiata, who have taken their cue from the Messrs Gee and M. D. Jones. From the .Ba?er and CM( it is easy to see that these two gentlemen are frightened at the enthusiasm which Mr Morgan Lloyd obtained chiefly from those whohaveimbibedtheiropinions. They are tbua in LL corner. They have publicly supported Mr Robertson, and yet their disciples are enthusiast!. cally supporting his rival, Mr Morgan Lloyd. Their articles in the Baner and CM( show conclu- sively, even laughably, how uncomfortably they are in the corner. The editor of the Baner cannot screw up bis courage to declare unhesitatingly for the Liberal candidate selected by the association, because he fixes his eye tremblingly on his Fcstiniog disciples who cheer and drag about the rival and split candidate. The Rev. M. D. Jones, in the Celt, similarly makes a rabid attack upon the Liberal Association in order to satisfy his Festiniog supporters, which he fol- lows up by dealing blows at Mr Morgan Lloyd in order to ease his conscience. Assuredly these two influential gentlemen do not appear at their best 'n public this week. The Sey-en (Baia), Wytknos, Rhedegydd, Dydd, and GoteMaat trenchantly con- demn Mr Morgan Lloyd for dividing the party on such nimsy pretexts, and for needlessly arousing animosities which wi!l take long to forgive and forget,and which will impede progress in the Cuuuty by playing into the hands of the Tones. THE WELSH POLITICAL PROGRAMME. The C.'Mj/?o?fM, ?enc(M, and ?Zer?M have articles preparatory to the general elections, but incomparably the best article on the political claims and wanta of Wales appears in the Goteuad. It is a stirring appeal to the electors to be firm and exacting in obtaining definite and clear pledges from candi. dates with regard to the burning questions. They must be perfectly sound on the question of the tenure of land, of a complete system of local and national self-government, of a thoroujrhjy national and popuiariy.governed system of education, and complete severance of thu Church of England from the State. There is greater oppression in the matter of the holding of land m Wales than any which occurred igt Irfinnd. Ittfi the truth were known, it woul(i make the b!o)') of land reformers boil. Every county in Ivales has serious grievances against its magisterial and governing authorities, their utter disregard of pOIJll:ar wishes, their waste- fulness in salaries, and then- unfairness in } ''J- motions. Endowments likt: those at Ashfo'd <tra Sitdly misapplied, a.nd must be immedia:.ely Dationali<-ed. Let Wales during the next few weeks show that it representati č with backbone, and that it means to make its p'm'er really felt in the iagislation of the United K f dom." JOTTIXGa. The Elan liasan article oil "HeIigionandPotitics." It is a veiled attack upon Nonconformity, unnecs sarily bitter and insinuating. It expi&ins how Welsh Nonconformists continue obstinate and unrepentant in their strong dinlike of the Church of England. Mr OSb,.rne Morgan s:nd it was an a.ttipathy to tho Anglican ritual, but that i.s mere gammon. It is the spirit of the Welsh Anglicans, their intolera.nce, :md their Toryism which alienate the Welsh people. The G!oa<t<th<ts an art-icle condemning the leading Ltbfra.1 economists for refusing to a.ccept sea.ts on the commission for examining the caUi;e. of thR depression of trade. The l'yst and Se'I'en Cym¡'u continue to diaeuss very earnestly the reconstruction of the Welsh theoiogtR.d cutieges. A correspondent in the Golwad strongly urges, upon the Calviu'stio Methodists to i8l1e a denommatujnal year-book. The ?*artK y Gweith- devotes its leading columu to inculcating the duty of utihsing the Welsh l&n- eruage as all educational instrument in our elemen- tary education. The Geitedl suggests a natiünat Welsh conference, to draw up a progrMmne for the general election.

A WORKING COLLIER APPOINTED AS MINING INSPECTOR. The Homp Secretary has just appointed a working collier as mining inspector for the county of Durham, the person selected being Mr John Piummer, under-viower at Hetton CoU'ery.

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