Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

Notes and News. South Wales is, once more, the land 6f peace. The Labour Leaders acted very honour- ably in their negotiations with the mine- owners during the recent dispute. Welsh Parliamentary life is dead for the remainder of the Session. Now, that Dis- establishment is postponed, the Welsh Members are becoming very scarce around Parliament Square. The Welsh Congregationalists have been calling upon the Welsh Members to resign. But our M.P.'s are too particular to act in unison upon any subject concerning Wales. It is all finance and taxation at West- minster these days, and Mr. D. Lloyd George is proving himself too cute a financier for some of the greatest authorities on Finance in England to day. What can a young country lawyer like Mr. Lloyd George know about Finance," contemptuously asked a city financier re- cently. But the question to-day is, What doesn't Lloyd George know about Finance ? Mr. Horatio Bottomley, M.P., recently suffered a humiliating defeat in the Law Courts at the hands of a young Welsh lawyer-Mr. Simon, M.P. Is that the reason whv he published an article in his last issue of John Bull on The wily Welsh ? The recent airship scare in South Wales is now fully explained. An English inventor has been taking some trial trips in his new aerial ship for some months past, and in order to avoid public curiosity, elected to make his experiments during the night. He asserts that on one of his midnight flights he travelled as far as Ireland. Sir Alfred Thomas, M.P., entertained the Cardiff Women Liberal Association at his residence, Bronwydd Park, on Monday after- noon last. In his address to the ladies, Sir Alfred stoutly defended the policy of the Welsh Party. It would be interesting to know what the women thought of the Welsh M.P.'s after Sir Alfred's defence. As a result of the recent assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie, the authorities have thought it advisable to give police protection to Mr. J. D. Rees, M.P. It is well known that Mr. Rees has no sympathy with the Indian agitation, and like most retired civil servants, believes in the policy adopted by English officials in all our possessions abroad. Since the days of Mr. Alfred Davies-the Pickwick of the House of Commons—we have had no questioner to equal Mr. J. D. Rees. He is continually asking for informa- tion upon all subjects, not only in India and the East, but occasionally on matters affect- ing the welfare of Wales. This week he has been conspicuous in his interrogatories to Mr. Lloyd George on many Budget pro- posals. Some minor critics assert that Wales does not produce good instrumentalists, but Dr. Coward, at Llandilo, last Monday, repudi- ated that assertion. Commenting on the pianoforte competition he said he did not believe in the common assertion that Wales lacked instrumentalists. What happened was that they were lost to Wales by migra- tion, and so were heard of no further as far as the locality that produced them was concerned. The other day Mr. S. E. Morgan, of Bwlch, Breconshire, caught a carp in Llan- gorse Lake The fish was a fine specimen. It weighed 16 lbs., and measured 29t inches in length. 2 Even as comparatively recent as the year 1840, not ooly Monmouthshire, but Here- fordshire were classified with Wales in the Registrar-General's returns for that year.