South Wales Daily News

BIRTHS. MAR]ILAGES, DEATHS ,-ntiail Qf Birth: Marriages, and Deaths, ore s aarne:i at. he rate of Is for the first. Twentti Words, and Cd jor ,V'-i)¡ ¡u.xuiona¿ Te1 Moras, ana niust be PREPAID. In *U ct. the. notice, mtui be authenticated i/tf-ite■nam-' a i.! wtdrp.?a of tiz, writer MARRIAGE. JON FS—DANIEL.—January 24, at Lord Lianovet's Welsh Chu.-ch, Abercarn, by the Rev T. C. Phillips, the It-v Thomas Gray Jones, English Presbyterian minister, to Mary Daniel, both of Ebbw S ale. 900 DEATHS- DMET..—At 101. Richmond-road, on 24tii inst., Grace, wif of Nicholas Daniel, ngmt 92. Funeral Saturday, at :U5, from house. 913 I)Avirs,-On the 24th inst., at his residence, 161, Newport-road, Evan Davies, tgect 52 years. Public tnnei-a! on Friday at 1 p.m., for St. Melton's. 922 J,I;;W!S.—On Tuesday, afi 18, Aberdyberthy-street, Swansea, Sophia Lewis:, relict of the late John Lewis, t'ni:*gl3?, agt d 70 years. Fnnera) on Friday, 27th inst?. le.yinis at three for Crugglas Burial Ground. 'Vii.LlAJls.— On the 25rd instant, at Lynleigh, Howard Roath, Sartil, the widow of the late Stomas Williams, Castlefielu, Cardiff, in her 66tli Isar. Deeply mourned by tar sorrowing children. SIS (

A SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE. THK Conferc-nco at Pembroke Dock yester- day has been evon a greater success than its promoters anticipated. Not only was it an assemMy important on account of the attendance, hut also because of its repro- sentative character and the unanimity of its proceedings. Whatever the Liberal party even in Wales may have been in times past, there can be no doubt that they are practically of one mind now. Several gentle- men who were expected to attend the Con. ference had sent apologies for their absence. Among these were Mr HENUY RIOIIAUT), M.P., and Mr SOHNADHORST, whose names received that, cordial welcome which all true Liberals everywhere readily accord to them. Sir EDWARD RF.F.D'S name met with quite an ovation, and, no doubt, he himself wou!d have been, if possible, even more cordially received. The chairman at the morning conference placed the business in hand before the meeting in a very lucid speech. As usual at Welsh Liberal Conferences, the resolutions prepared by the preliminary committee were found to be rather below than up to the mark. In point of fact, the Welsh people are always ready to rush to the front. An illustration of this was oi von in the" one "man one vore" resolution. This soon developed itself into an "every man one "vote" proposal, in other words, "man- "hood suffrage." There cannot be the shadow of a doubt that Wales is ripe for this. Mr ARTHUR WILLIAMS; wished to push it somewhat, further. He was anxious to open the door to women on the same terms as men. There was no dissent from the proposal, but it was thought that it should be taken up as a separate question. So far, however, as manhood suffrage is con- cerned, Mr ALFRED THOMAS, who first mooted the question, had his suggestion greeted with loud applause. Mr Councillor RAMSTMT.E, of Cardiff, delivered an effective speech which contributed greatly to the enthusiasm of the proceedings. MAHON delivered a magnificent speech, which went thoroughly into the question which he handled. His treatment of the subiects calling for immediate legislation produced a marked impression on the audience. The intensely practical character of his remarks was what we might term their significant feature. This is, to a large extent, peculiar to working-class politicians. They are not mere theorists. They go straight to the point, and handle every topic in such a way as to leave no doubt as to what they really want. His remarks on the injustice of royalties were most effective, and we hope that this subject will be made still more prominent than it has hitherto been. Tne drain of these royalties, on the chief industry rJf South Wales means the abstraction of six millions of money from capitalist, labourer, and purchaser alike. ]f it b? true that this heavy and unjust tax j, in some instances, equivalent to shutting up collieries and throwing men out of work, the reformer cannot too soon endeavour to rouse the country and the legislature to use their utmost exertions to bring about an important modification in the existing customs. Mr IÆwT" MORRIS, as candidate for the Pem- broke District, was most cordially greeted. On the Intermediate Question, which had been a lily and minutely handled by Mr HrMPiuuiVs OWEN, Mr Morius spoke in such terms as to show that. he is prepared to support a much more Liberal scheme than Mr MX^NDELLA'S first endeavour. He also emphatically contended for a medical faculty as an essential addition to the other subjects at present included in the syllabus of our university colleges. The afternoon conference was even more numerously attended than the morning meeting. Its great feature, we need hardly observe, was Sir GEOROETRIEVELYAN'sspeech, which will be read with interest. Sir GEORGE himself had a splendid reception, and his address was listened to with the deepest attention, frequently interrupted with loud applause. The effect of these meetings on the Liberalism of the district promises to be not only considerable, but also enduring. It was, we think, very desirable that the Liberals in that part of the Principality should have the encouragement and the stimulus which such conferences must, impart. The next election will show the result.

SOUTH WALES NOTES. fBY COSMOS.] -NO COLLECTIONS ON SUNDAYS." THE Penartli people have been rejoicing in their customary doleful manner at an announcement which appeared on the walls of the vicar's resi- dence. It read, "No collections on Sundays." The anxieties of hoarding; up threepenny pieces, of saving lozenges, of cutting off buttons at the last moment would cease from troubling, and church-going would be robbed of half its terrors. But Penarth was soon deprived of this pleasant illusion, and has relapsed into its usual sad condition. The person who read as he rau had only obtained superficial knowledge. This is always reckoned to be, according to the poet, a dangerous commodity. It was so in this case, because it was distinctly misleading. Those who drank deeply of the Pierian spring, or, in other words, sought out the hidden meaning of the notice, found that it applied to the collections of letters—to merely mundane matters. The vicar has come to the conclusion that the Sabbath ought to be a day of rest. He objects to answering letters on that day, and so, to out a stop to the nuisance, he refuses to receive any communications. Hence the placard. THE SUNDAY DELIVERY OF LRTTERS. BUT this story brings me to the vexed question of Sunday delivery. If the mighty town of London all manage to get along without letters on the Sabbath, cannot people in the country do so too? The argument put forward by the rural dwelleo is that they lose a day, which is not the case with the inhabitants of the metropolis. Nearly all the London fi rms do not live at their places of business, so if a lottor were posted on Saturday they would not receive it until Monday morning. But this applies to all the large towns throughout the country. Moreover, a purely bucolic population is seldom in a hurry. As for those who merely write for pleasure, their convenience should not be for one moment studied. I am nct aware that there is any obligation to plead on behalf of the post- men. The Government has certainly no right to work them seven days a week, but the remedy does not necessarily lie in no Sunday delivery, but in lightening the labours of the men on other days of the week. The public have to be regarded before the individual nevertheless, the latter is entitled to his just due. We are asked to give up the receipt of letters on a Sunday to relieve the postmen. I wish to point out that there is no call for this consideration. Why should we place our- selves at a decided inconvenience because the Post Office overwork their employee ? Obviously the cure for this state of affairs rests solely with the department. It should employ more men it can well afford to do so. It is absurd to ask the public to deny themselves anything which is requisite for the welfare of the community in order to allow the Government to shirk it" duties. Don't imagine that I have no sympathy for the poor postmen; but my contention is that the agitation should be for more men, not for less work. If, on the other hand, the objection to a Sunday delivery is based on sentimental ground?, or that it is a waste of labour, there may be a great deal said in favour of the change. Perhaps some correspondents may like to air their views upon these points. Per- sonally, I am neither for the alteration nor against it. To me it is a matter of indifference. THE TLANVALLTEG TITHES SALE. I CAN assure the leading Liberals now on the wing in Pembrokeshire that those among them who can make it convenient to attend the tithe sales which are to come off to-day at Llanvallteg will find a trip to the locality a very interesting and profit- able pilgrimage. Some of them, actuated by antiquarian proclivities, unless their minds will be too completely absorbed in modern affairs to pay any attention to such relics of the past, may be interested by a visit to a celebrated cromlech in the neighbour- hood, which, I believe, cannot be far from the scene of the tithe war.Then'the adjoining vicinity of CUmaeollwyd will remind them of the Rev William Jones, one of the 2,000 clergymen who elected to part with their livings rather than sacrifice their convictions when they declined to comply with the outrageous demand of tha Act of Uniformity. This revered gentleman, who, for conscience,' sake, endured three years' incarcera- tion in Carmarthen Castle, was the founder of the first Baptist church (Tibydwilym) in the western part of South Wales, and one of the pioneers of Welsh Nonconformity,which, despite the persecu- tions of the past, has, during about 200 years, grown from zero to the proportions it now assumes. Mr Talbot coming all the way down from Kent to make the audacious declaration that Nonconformity in Wales is a matter of sentiment rather than of principle exposes his purblind ignorance of its nature and history. WHO SAYS "ClHCKET?" THERE are some of us in Cardiff who fancy that cricket would receive some fillip if the Australians could be induced to visit the town during the forthcoming season. A correspondent points out that the team is not engaged for the first week in July, and suggests that some effort should be made to secure a match during this week. But if the idea is to be entertained the action muse be prompt. Cannot a Welsh team of 15, 18, or 22, either at present living in Wales, or including some Welsh countrymen in lOngii h clubs, be arranged? Or a side of Cardiff and district, and get val jable help from Gloucester County (includ- ing Dr Grace) ? Or, as a third suggestion, invite the Players of England ? After the enormous sum of money paid to see the scurrilous pugilism there should not be any difficulty in raising the needful for a creditable cricket match. SHOP ASSISTANTS' GRIEVANCES. DEAR "COSMOS/'—Please allow me, a poor, op- pressed assistant grocer, the greatest pleasure of congratulating the Porth shop assistants for their highiy commendable courage in being the fore- most in the field to fight the first battle against unreasonable long hours, and the tyranny of obstinate and imprudent employers. But I am afraid, unless these pioneers of reform can succeed in securing the co-operation of other shop assis- tants throughout the country, and organise themselves into a formidable body of Unionists, such an attemptas recorded by "A Sympathiser" will probably terminate in an ignominious failure. I think customers in the mining districts can do a great deal in assisting us in obtaining what are undeniably our rights. Miners know too well what a blessing the Undeb has been to them, and I am sure they cannot turn their backs to the appeal for their support and influence from their fellow-creatures who are treated so unworthily by some unprincipled employers. Miners cannot do better to support our just cause than by patronising only those employers who are known to be humane towards their assistants. If em- ployers act fairly towards their employe, customers, on the same principle, can't exprct such men to act otherwise towards them. Na farnweh y dyn oddiwrth y wen sydd ar ei wyneb." Ihcpe my fellow-assistants will act on the suggestions submitted by the able writer of the articles headed Behind the Counter." --r- WE ARE NOT OOINO JO DO WITHOUT THE unfortunate ladies-a place has not been found for them. Who was,it,pray, who blundered ? Not Mr A. J. Williams, M.P., or the Rev Aaron Davies. These two gentlemen did their best to introduce the female element into the franchise. "One man one vote if you like," said the agenda paper ot the South Wales .Liberal Federation, but "one woman one vote not just yet, thank yon." This deferment is most impolite, and should be remedied. Wales ought to make the enfranchise- ment of women a plank in its political platform. When the ladies, as they have done this year, can beat the sterner sex in the academical arena it is nonsense to pretend that they are not qualified to exercise electoral privileges. Moreover, the principle has been conceded when the municipal suffrage was conferred upon them. Had the women been able to vote,the Irish question would have been settled long ago. It is their mission to. bring peace. Perhaps this assertion may be questioned, and history, insomuch as it relates to Melon of Troy and sundry other professional beauties be quoted in order to prove the contrary. But this argument is similar to the Frenchman's observation. The first girl he met on landing at Dover had red hair, so he jotted down in his note- book that all English women were aaorned with these coloured locks. The vagaries of the individual do not permeate the race. When the Roman wives rushed in between husband and kinsmen and prevented; hostilities—here we have the true characteristics of the sex. Women have civilised our private When they are per- mitted to take part m cnir public lives, the same influence will be potent., Shutting the fairer sex up at home means a hindrance to progress. Let us have them among us, and the world will he all the better for their softening, refining presence. THE EMRNOR'S GREAT DEFENDER. IN the days of the Apostles it was the practice to scourge them with reeds. In the nineteenth century the successors of the Apostles have turned the tables, and now scourge their persecutors with a repd — Byron Reed. I hear that I have come in for a ca'tigation. But Byron io, like his poetical nimesake, a n.an of many thoughts, hut oniy one subject. Like the reed of the Scriptures, he .is agitated by wind. He is full of sou^d, but it signifies nothing, except—raising the wind. It was ne of his admirers whg. said that his eager- ness to press home a. point leads Jiim into a redundancy of expression which mars the literary polish of his addresses." In humbler terms, this signifies that he only emits one note—in fact, a reed instrument played.by the wind. Mr Byron Reed is member for Bradford, and a great, defender of the Church, or rather the tithes. He is paid for it, but whether the labourer is worthy of his hire remains to be proved. I also believe he enacts tho part of Sancho Panza to the Don Quixote of Mr Ashmead-Bartlett. At least, this is the style in which his admirer just quoted would describe a secretaryship to the member for Fccleshall. But Mr Byron Rsed is a ready deba- ter, and everyone will admit that he has a large stake in the Church. I think he has invested his all. When Disestablishment comes about, like lord Tom Noddy, he will have nothing to do.

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SWANSEA ECHOES. I BY SENTINEL. I THE CHUKCH 'DNPENUE MEETING IN SWANSEA. J THE Church defender* of Swansea cannot com- t plain that they did nor, et fnll scope in the expression of their no surrender principles in the Albert Hall on Tuesday night. In fairness they ought to admit tl1:1t the audience was not a very largeone for such an important occasion, and in the midst of such a large community. From those who attended there must be deducted a not inconsiderable body of non-sympathisers with the views of Mr Byron Reed, .VI.P., who contented themselves by occasional expressions of disap- proval in a good-humoured, bantering tone, and cheering the mention of Mr Gladstone and the South. Wales Dai-ht News, a harmless but unmist.akeable form of protest against the attacks of Mr Reed on the Grand Old Man and his Welsh Liberal supporters. Mr Reed admitted that the meeting was considerably maller thrill when he made his last appearance Oil the platform five years ago, but curiously enough he derived some encouragement from this ominous feature. If his hearers were fewer in number on this occasion, it gave h1111 ;1tisf:1ction to know that it was a more peaceful gathering. The friends of civil and religions liberty will not grudge him this curious consolation, but in laying that flatter- ing unction to his soul he might reflect that the sparse attendance might also imply that fhe mass of the inhabitants of Swansea, are not greatly concerned as to the fate of the Establishment, which we are now assured by its defenders is being attacked in a very practical manner. On the first visit of Mr Reed several Liberals put some awkward questions, hut they were answered so unsatisfactorily that a disturb- ance ensued, and they did not care to trouble themselves and embarrass Mr Reed and his friends again. Tt must be acknowledged that the supporters of Church and State have found in him an able champion. His readiness as a speaker was manifested by his extempore observations on the recent speeches of Messrs Davies and Abraham at Narberth,and the strictures of "C(mmos" in the Set nth Wales Bath/ Ne ws but -as the gentlemen referred to bad no opportunity there and then of replying, lie had tho field prac-' tically to himself. Of course his comments were based on a necessarily brief summary of the speeches at Narberth, and were therefore incon- clusive and unreliable, but he managed to make his sympathetic listeners laugh at the deductions which his fertile imagination was able to make from the short excerpt from the utterances of two Radical M.P.'s. After all, in sober seriousness and without a tonch of party acrimony, it may be asked Was 'the meeting representative of either the classes or the masses ? The Tories would, no doubt, hold the latter as of little account though they do not always say so. Nearly ail the gentlemen on the platform were ministers of the Establishment—n;en whoselivings and pro- motion are supposed to be in jeopardy. Scattered through the hall were a few local somebodies, but for that night at least they mostly left Mr Reed and the clergy to look after the loaves and fishes. Mr J. T. D. Llewelyn was, of course, there in full force, but his presence may be taken as a matter of course, as he has long since taken the Christian religion generally under his protection, and is regarded as an honorary travelling lecturer in the cause of political ecclesiasticism. HENRY THE EIGHTH T; THE GREATEST OF ALL LIBERATIONISTS." THAT was the unkindest cut of all when Mr Reed spoke of that fine old rapacious wife-slaying monarch, the first royal head of the Church in England, Henry the Eighth, oi pious memory, as the greatest of all Liberationists. He was paying bluff King Hal an unconscious compliment, which he certainly did not deserve, for the regal Tudor, who, as a great writer of his time said, spared not man in his anger, nor woman in his lust," never intended to apply the Church resources to national purposes, but to support his own peculiar Church minister, to his own luxuries, and those of Thomas Cromwell and his creatures. The Liberation!.itsof the present want to use thenioney for national, charitable, and educational purposes, to be applied, not as they wbh, bnt as the nation vctes. Nothing can be plainer or simpler than that. But how unkind of Mr Reid to throw such a benefactor overboard, as if the Established Church owed him nothing—nay, to jeer at hhn and compare him to those whn, no doubt, are the modern types, to Mr Reeii's mind, of political capacity. I', may be urged that the Church of England, as by law established, was not really constituted until the next reign, that of the young King Edward the Sixth, who appears never to have cut his eye teeth properly, inasmuch as the Duke of Somerset and others did the plunder- ing and establishing—for both works went on simultaneously. Of course, we know that the new story, vamped" np for political exigencies, is that the Church of England in its present form and spirit always existed, and only got a new lease of life from Edward VI. and his noble myrmidons, but that theory is only in course of manufacture just now, and cannot be seriously treated. Mr Gla^codine is about, th only local exponent of this revised history, and his arg-n- tripnts, if they can be called such, are scarcely taken serioirdy exempt by some very enthusiastic Churchmen who do not to be connected with the "appropriations" —what a polite word I-of more recent years. Why does not the Society for the Prevention of Crusty to Animals proceed against Mr for this black ingratitude to the man—no, the kinC"- who initiated all the plundering*, constituted himself first head of the Church—his- own special and particular Church, which was certainly not identical with the present one, but waf; the fore- runner of it, created the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury in the person of Thomas Cranmer, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and of course was the first lay- man—and such a layman appoint bishops and archbishops at his sweet wiii, and discharge other fmportant functions oi Church government ? Much of the land, and nearly aij the churches that he despoiled, passed into the possession of and are now being enjoyed by the Church of England, except what the "lay impropriators" have bought up from the successors of the apostles, or the great landholders' ancestors managed to invest in their own sweet selves and their heirs for ever—well, perhaps not for ever. Then to pocket the gift, and not, to acknowledge-nay, to abuse the iver, and repudiate association with his name, and his dee is, may be very astute, but it is nuhistorical and ungrateful. "Blow, blow, thou winter wind thou art not so unk nd as the ingratitude of Mr Byron Ueed and the inheritors of the pilfered "endowments."

CARDIFF TRAMCAR HORSES. HEAVY PENALTIES FOR CRUELTY. At, the Cardiff police-court on Wednesday, Thomas Morrisey, driver, in the employ of the CardifTTramways Co.,was summonedifor working a horse in an unfit state, on .latmary and William Morgan, stableman, and Henry Barber, foreman, in the same employ, were summoned for causing tho animal to be so worked Mr Easor, junior, defended, and Mr Greemveil, local inspector for the R.S.P.C.A., prosecuted From the evidence it appeared that Col. Turber- ville, passing through the streets on the day the offence was committed, saw a horse, obviously unfit for work, being attached to a tramcar. He mentioned the matter to the police- man, who, in turn, spoke to the defendants Morrisey and Morgan. The latter, however, persisted in putting the animal into the shafts, and caused it to make a journey to the Dcck and back. Barber was subsequently seen on the subject by Mr Greeuwell, but he stated that the horse "had been looking like that for a long time." The animal, according to Mr Greeuwell, was very lame in tho off fore leg, and quite unfit tor work.—Mr Handy, veterinary surgeon, who had examined it, testified that it was suffering from ruptured tendons.— Morrisey was fined £2 and costs, Morgan, j35, and costs, and Barber, £4 and costs, in default one month's imprisonment each.

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TERRIBLE COLLIKFTY ACCIDENT. LOSS OF MANY LIVES. VrCTOIlTA. British Columbia, W'-due^day.—Aa explosion occurred early this n.orn-'ng al Duns- muirs, Wellington Mines, Vancouver l'hud, causing the death ef 20 w»ll'a end a number of Chinese.

DISASTROUS EXPLOSION AT BREST. ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED AND THIRTY INJURED. [" DAILY C'TUONICLK TIT.KGRAM.] VIENNA, Tuesday.—-A terrible explosion tor.k place at Brest, Litoosk, last Saturday, due to a lighted nutch being thrown down in a shop where a large quantity of gunpowder was secretly stored. Upwards of a hundredweight exploded, causing the death of 11 inmates and injuring 30 others.

LORD LANSDOWNE'S SUCCESSOR. MR CHAMBERLAIN AS CANADIAN GOVISRNt >R-GEXERAL. A Times Philadelphia correspondent says:— Reports have been received from Ottawa that Mr Joseph Chamberlain will probably succeed Lord Lansdowne as Governor-General of Canada; and also that the London Cabinet is urging the Cunadian Covernment to make such concessions on the fisheries question as will produce a settle- ment,

INTERVIEW WITH MR CUN NIN GUAM E GRAHAM. ALL WELL AND .FOLLY. GOING TO BEAT THE RECORD AT OAKUM PICKING." Mr Cunninghame Graham's solicitor had rn interview on Wednesday with Mr Cunninghame Graham at Pentonvilie. The meeting had been granted, ys Mr Graham had several matters of business to discuss with his legal adviser. This gentleman was first presented to the governor, who warned him that matters of prison discipiine must not be discussed, and the interview must be confined to strict business. He was then ushered into the prisoners' reception room— a little apartment with bare walls, a bit of druggeting, a table, and a couple of chairs. After waiting- a couple of minutes he heard the tramp of footsteps along the passage, and in came the prisoner in charge of two g'pntJpmel1, a warder and a clerk, who remained in the room during the, fifteen minutes' intervier. I am all very well and very jolly," said Mr Graham, who, if he is j all}- must necessarily be enjoying the rather austere menu of the Pentouville chef, the 6arly hours and little dissipations of her Majesty 's well- known retreat. And I'm going to beat the record at oakum nicking," ejaculated Air Graham, locking at his finger nails. The prisoner was clad in a dark brown arrow snit, he looked very well, his beautiful moustachios have not been touched, nor has the prison barber laid violent scissors on his attractive beard and flowing locks. Mr Graham will be released on the 18th of February.

TNE BANKRUPTCY OF LORD COLIN CAMPBELL. In the London Bankruptcy Court on Wednes- day, fiord C. Campbeil a^k'-d for a certificate nnd"r th, .Vet to the effect, that his bankruptcy was caused by misfortune and without misconduct on his part, the object being to remove certain disqualifications which the bankrupt suffers under unless so certificated, such, instance, M inability to sit in the House of Lords or Commons, or to hold certain public nffic.-1Ir Humphreys, for the applicant, explained that the bankruptcy arose from the debtor's inability to pay the law- costs in the divorce case.—Mr Woolf opposed, arguing that the bankrupt should not plunged into litigation with his wife when unable to The liabilities wore £ 8,000. but only £ 3,000 were for costs.—Mr Registrar G iff aid held that the bankruptcy was not caused by mis- fortune, as the bankrupt; must have foreseen that if he failed in the law suit, he would not be able to pay the costs. He declined to grant the certifi- cate. Notice of appeal was givi-n.

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WELSH POLITICAL SOCIETIES. MrfTi has been said and written of late of the revival of national life in Wales. Evi- dence is not wanting that this revival is more than superficial, and destined to have more than a temporary existence. The feeling has manifested itself in several ways. First may be regarded the formation of non-political societies of the Cymrodorion type, which deal with questions affecting Welsh literature and social life. Fol- lowing these comes the desire, al- ready to some extent realized, of uniting the different local political organi- zations into a Federation for North and South Wales respectively, supplemented by a National Council representing equally the two portions of the Principality. That these Federations have already effected much good, and that there is a hopeful prospect of their doing much more in the early future, is self- evident. It is not too much to say that to them is to be directly attributed the adoption of Disestablishment and Disendowment, as an essential plank of the Liberal platform at the now historic Nottingham Conference. But going beyond these even, is the formation of independent political bodies in Wales and among Welshmen, which aim at securing reforms, not alone, nor even chiefly, as parts- of the Liberal programme, but because they are deemed essential to the interests of the principality. The newly-formed Land, Commercial, and Labour League, and the somewhat older, but apparently no less active, Cymru Fydd Society, may be taken as types of these separate organizations. The question has been raised whether themnltiplyillg of these societies is not really a source of weakness rather than of strength. From one point of view it might appear so. Apparently, they necessitate a division, instead of a combina- tion, of effort. If Wales is to secure much- needed reforms, it goes without saying that she must be united. When demanding redress of grievances, shé must speak with no uncertain voice. If the formation of these societies really meant the weaken- ing, by division, of the influence which might be gained by union, then it would be the duty of every Nationalist in Wales to set his face sternly against them. But do they really mean this ? Does it follow that because a branch of the Land League or of the Cymru Fydd, for instance, is formed in a district, that the Liberal organization and influence there will be weakened ? Would it not really rather be strengthened thereby ? Take an almost analogous case. There is in Cardiff a central Liberal Association. There are also a number of separate and more or less inde- pendent Liberal organizations, of which the Junior Liberal Association is a fair sample. Has the Junior Liberal Association been a source of weakness or of strength to the Liberal cause in Cardiff? There can be no doubt as to the answer. The energy and zeal displayed by its members in all the political battles fought in the town since the formation of this and similar associations, and the excellent results which have followed these efforts, no less than the educative influence of the public lectures delivered under their auspices, afford ample justification for their existence. This is somewhat the light in which we are inclined to regard the various Welsh national organizations which are now beginning to take a hold upon the country. Rightly used, they may render invaluable service to the Welsh cause, and to the cause of Liberalism generally. If we regard tho Federations as the standing Liberal army, the other societies may be looked upon as the irregular troops--ofiteered, be it remem- bered, to a very large extent by those bear- ing commissions in the regular forces as well. These irregular troops may fight many a skirmish in which it would hardly do for the accredited army itself to take part. At the same time they would make admirable re- cruits, already trained to battle, to strengthen the standing Liberal army from time to time. More than this. Their very existence would secure another important advantage. With these ever on the watch, there would be the less danger of the Federa- tions themselves forgetting, ignoring, or paying too little attention to purely Welsh questions. The Liberal associations will be more likely to be kept up to the mark by the knowledge that there are other organiza- tions in existence which, while ready to support them heartily when they actively carry on the Liberal campaign, would not be slow to awaken them to a due sense of their duties should they ever be inclined to be somewhat somnolent. There is nothing to prevent earnest Liberals, who are connected with the Federations, being also active and energetic members of some or other of these independent political societies, to the mutual advantage of both. The work they do will either justify or condemn their existence.

THE TTA TJAN EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA. We jmhlb.lipd 'in. our hzue of Jnnvch}/ ;?!¡If¡ tile of r.eriex of letters and telegrams with nhirh ice hare arranged to furnish our readers relating to the. important military operations nov1 pending on the frontiers of Abyssinia. The importance of the positions ■n-hich are. threatened, and the intimate relation of this cimntrii thereto, hare induced iis to despatch a special correspondent to illasso- VKih icith instructions to accompany the Italian Expedition in -its campaign againd the. Abi/ssinians. The gentleman selected for this service is itti- Montagu. Visefelli, ivho) as his name indicates, has the special (pialijicat n'm of being of Italian, extraction, but who has for flip ]HlSt" :?o years been ■well-knoivn awl highly esteemed among London journalists. lie acquired m ilitary knowledge and. tastes whilst re- ho and pur this information to good account I q if-ifli, the French, armies in ami as a special correspondent of one of the London daily pavers. His j'our- nalistic and literary icori: in England has been rery varied, and he has excelled. as a dt-criptic. writer upon passing ecents. Mr Vi-xtelli has succeeded, not irithont much difficulty, and as the. result of very important support from England, in obtaining from thp JtahanGorernmerd a permit to accompany the expedition. Mr Vir.eteUi is now v:ell

ALLEGED SUNDAY TRADING NlAlt SWANSEA. AN UNSUBSTANTIATED CHARGE. On Wednesday, at the Swansea county police- conrt-bpfore Mr John Trevilian Jenkin—Eliza- beth Evans, of the Joiners' Arms, Fforestfach, near Swansea, was charged by B.C. Williams with keeping her licensed premises open for the sale of intoxicating drink on Sunday night, the 8th inst. Mr MeLachlan prosecuted Mr D. R uidell, Llanelly, defended; and Mr J. V. Leeder watched the case on behalf of ths owner of the house.—P.C. Williams deposed that he was on duty on the date mentioned near the Joiners' Arms. He observed a woman enter the house by the backdoor of the Joiners'Arms with a bottle m her hand. She knocked at the door and went in, coming out again in ten minute;. Witness' approached her, and asked for the bottlo of beer she had had at. the beerhouse. She denied having had any. He told her if she did not give it up she would be taken to the police-station to be searched. She then struck him a violent blow on the left cheek, causing it to swell and discolour. She also threw down the bottle and knocked off his helmet. She refused to give her name, and seemed to be the worse for drink. He led her to the public-house door, and asked the landlady if she had supplied the beer. The landlady replied that it was paid for on Saturday night for her brother David. He said he would report her, and she took him into an adjoining room, and asked him to pass it. over this time, but he declined. On cross-examination by Mr Randell, the con- stable denied having caught hold of Airs Howelh in an improper manner.—Mrs Evans, thelandiady, swore that the beer was purchased and paid for on Saturday night. Mrs Howells said that, on Sunday night, Air Simons, her brother-in-law, came into her house from chapel, and sat down. He said he had forgotten to take a bottle of beer out on Saturday night, which had been paid for at the Joiners'Arms, A lodger named Roberts, who paid for it, suggested that she might fetch it. She went to the Joiners' Arms, and got from Mrs Evans; a quart bottle of beer. She was accosted by the officer, who said she must go with him and, not knowing who he was in the dark, she refused at first. Somebody pot a hand around her waist, but shfe could not say positively who it was, the darkness being so dense. In the scuffl 3 the bottle of beer fell to the ground. She did not carry it under her apron. In fact, 51w had no apron.—Mr Simons swore that :1, man named Roberts paid for :t quart of beer for him on Saturday night. If he (Simons) really desired to evade the law he couid find plenty of excuses for doing so, because Mrs Evans was his sister-in-law, and he could go in to sec her on business. She often consulted him on business.—Mr Trevilian Jenkin said the bench did not require any more witnesses. It was quite clear to them that the sale was effected on Saturday night, and what took place on Sunday was merely the clelivety.

ARRESTED FOR PRIZE. FIGHTING. John Lyons (25), a butcher, was charged at West Ham, London, with having been concerned III a prize fight at Walthamstow on tho previous day. Several publicans were charged with being concerned with him. Police evidence showed that the prisoner was fighting with an unknown man in a garden attached to a public-house, A ring was formed and seconds were appointed, prisoner getting the worst of the fight. Lvons was remanded in custody. Others were admitted to bail.

[SPECIALLY 'oIREO.j rBY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MR CHAMBERLAIN AND THE VICEROY ALTY Oi? CANADA—HOW HK WOULD BE ME*'IT BY T [I E KGSITION — MP. BRIGHT'S PREVIOUS KPISTI.ES — A LAMENTABLE SPECTA CLE—SIP. K. WATKIN AND HIS DETRACTORS —SIR BAI.KOUU AND THE REPRESENTATION OP WALTOX-Mn Jf ARIilOTT S RELATION TO THE TORY PARTY — Jilt CAIR ON MISSIONARY WORK—A MELANCHOLY RECORD. LONDON, Wednesday Night. The story telegraphed from Ottawa to-day, to the effect that Mr Chamberlain is to succeed I Lord Lansdowne in the viceroyalty of Canada, i, of course, not true. But there have been things worse invented. Nothing could serve Ir Cham- berlain's interest more directly or more thoroughly than that he should be honourably, retired for five years from the strife of home politics. He has greatly benefited by his temporory withdrawal for the purposes of tho Commission on the Fisheries. He has got out of the way of making mistakes either by saying too much or too little. He has also had his position im- proved .by the action cf Lord Hartington. As mentioned the other day, in the absence of his Radical ally, Lord Hartington has drifted with wind and tide into the -haven of Conservatism. He has gone far to supply Mr Chamberlain with an excuse for dissolving the partnership if, on his return, that astute person should find such a course on the whole desirable. But to get out of home politics for five years, and to come back with the opportunity of making a fresh start, freed from the manacles forged by himself when led astray by personal feeling, would be an advantage worth manoeuvring for. It will take Mr Chamberlain. at Last five years to regain anything like a posi- tion iii-tbe Liberal party, and the five years might as well be spent in mock-majesty at Ottawa as in a corner seat in the House of Commons. The drawback to the story js, however, that no such proposal has ever entered the mind of Lord Salisbury. It is a pity Mr Bright has not some friends sufficiently influential and careful for his reputa- tion to take away his pens and paper. Tho public have now grown used to the spectacle of the once great tribune snarling at the heels of Mr Gladstone, whose dignified attitude of non-reprisal seems to have an increasingly infuriating effect. But of late Mr Bright ia so angry that he has lost all sense of humour. Otherwise he would have been saved the curious position in which he presents himself in a letter published to day wherein he appears lamenting the pro- bability of Liberals forming :1II aJ. liance with Conservatives, or, as he characteristically calls one, the Gladstonian party," and the other" the T"ries," The letter refers to the rankling defeat of a friend and sup- porter of Mr Chamberlain at the recent Birming- ham municipal election. Mr Bright, appealed t7" can only regret the increasingly bitter spirit manifested by the followers of Mr Gladstone. In boroughs where municipal contests have been fought on party lines, it is likely that the hostility of the Gladstonian party to the Unionists will draw them into an alliance with the Tories." Mr Bright "can only regret this." This is a little amusing on the part of a quondam Liberal who, next to Lord Hartington and Mr Chamberlain, has done more than any man to maintain Conser- vative predominance at the present juncture. To-morrow the half.yearly meeting of the South-Eastern Railway Company will be held an occasion looked forward to with exceptional interest. Then will be decided the narrow issue whether Sir Edward Watkin is to retain his seat as chairman of the board or whether he is to be ejected. That the opposition is serious is shown by the efforts made to meet it. To-day every proprietor in the South-Eastern Railway has received a circular reproducing some correspon- dence with the Brighton Railway, and proposing that a committee of shareholders shall be appointed to confer with the board on the Brighton Railways' proposed truce. The circular encloses forms revoking proxies that may have been given to Mr Abbot; and proprietors are invited to sign them and return them to the board of directors, who have indi- vidually and unanimously signed the circular. Tt will be a stiff fight, but I should be inclined to back SIr Edward Watkin. He is supported by the recollection of the immense serv ces he has rendered to the railway and proprietors. During his term of chairmanship the property has nearly doubled in value. His position is also strengthened by the unanimous sup- port of the board and some of the largest and most influential shareholders. Lastly, as I have pointed out before, the nature of the hostile combination will, with many shareholders, tend in the chairman's favour. Mr Abbot is not the kind of man likely to be move 1 to laborious action simply by philanthropic interest in the con- cerns of the proprietors of the South Eastern Railway. Nor are the chairmen of the Chatham and Dover and Brighton Railway Companies precisely the men who give a foremost place in their hearts to the interests of their dangerous and active rival. Mr Balfour has his troubles. Bayond those that arise out of his treatment, of the Irish members, he ha been drawn int." an angrv and somewhat compromising correspondence in connection with the vacancy in the Walton division of Li verpool. As it was settled that Mr Gibson was to be elected to the bench, Sir Henry Hoare made a desperate effort to get himself selected as the Conservative candidate. Sir Henry, once upon r. time, figured in the House of Commons as member for a Liberal con- stituency, though with strongly developed Whig tendencies. These have now deepened into good Toryism. He has a long time been on the look-out- for a safe Tory seat, and thought he had found one in Walton. He secured the approval of the authorities of the Carlton Club, and was taken under the wing of Mr Forwood, a mighty man in Liverpool politics. He went down full of hope, and, upon arrival, found Mr Wyndham, the Chief Secretary's private secretary, already in the field, of course with Mr Balfour's cognisance and support. Sir Henry Hoare protested against this hostile movement from Conservative head quarters and, whilst he and Mr Wyndham were wrangling, the electors of Walton took the matter in their own hands and fixed upon Mr Mattinson, who now holds the field. Sir Henry Hoare is very wroth and is not the kind of man to mince expressions of his displeasure. From what is being said to-day in Conservative circles, Mr Marriott is likely to have a dead-set made against him in the m itter of his remarkable doings in Egypt. That a member of her Majesty's Government should go over to Eg-ypt and profes- sionally engage himself in a case of so delicate a nature as that of Ismail Pasha's claims upon Is, oil the fac; of it, incredible. But there is no doubt about it, and several rods have been put in pickle for the Judgn Advocate General as soon as the House meets. Mr Marriott has never been popular on the Conservative side, some, more especially amongst tbe Conservative lawyers in the House, think ng that his promotion to Ministerial office was an unduly high price to pay for his secession from the Liberal ranks, especially when there were so many desirable candidates of uncompromised political character in the field. But Mr Marriott mu-t be pulled through, since, of course, before he vontured on such an enter- prise, he obtained the consent of Lord Salisbury. Mr Cable's letter to the l imes to-day has fluttered the dovecotes of the foreign missions. It is likely to have an important result upon missionaiy support at for Mr Caine, in ad- dition to being a shrewd otner.er,is a devout man, above suspicion of lack of sympathy with mission work. In brief, his letter may be summed up in the statement that foreign missions to the East are a melancholy failure. Unfortunate]}-, this is no new discovery. When I was in India some four years ago, few things struck me so much as the pitiful results of extraordinary and well-planned missionary efforts. At Benares, for example, the population, according- to the last census, was a little over 175,000. Of these I found that 133,000 were HindlF, 42,000 Mahommedans, and 205 Christians. Of this comparatively infinitesimal number a considerable proportion were missionaries and oŒcin ]s, I visited the mission- house cf the London Missionary Society to attend the native service. The pascor, Mr Hewlett, is in all respects a model missionary. When I entered he was preaching to twelve natives, one-half of whom were directly and officially con- nected with the mission. It is worse than this in other towns less densely populated than Benares. A missionary told me that at Mirzapore the native congregation was at one time reduced to a single individual, a lad of 15. In course of time the news spread that the congregation at Mirza- pore was growing the lad of fifteen was becoming a youth of eighteen Next, the glorious news went round that the congregation at Mirzapore had doubled, the fact being that the young man of nineteen had token to himself a wife.

BRUTAL ASSAULT IN THE RHONDDA. A COLLIERY MAN AG: R ATTACKED I BY AN EMPLOY]' At the Pontypridd police-court on Wednesday —before Mr Ignatius Williams (the stipendiary), Messrs T. P. Jerkin" Biandy Jenkins, and Dr Jones—a labourer named Rees Davies was charged with having savagely assaulted Mr Griffith Thomas, manager of the Mardy Colliery. Mr Simons, Merthyr, who prosecuted, stated that on Tuesday week "prisoner was reported to the man. ager for committing a breach of the colliery bye- laws. On the following day prisoner was "called to the office am; fined 5 s, but resolutely refused to leave the premises when re- quested to do so. Eventually complainant endeavoured to close the door, whereupon the accused forced the door open and dragged the manaer by his beard outside, where he threw him on theground,aud attacked him in. a most ferocious maimer. In tho meantime, a man named Jones held the office-door closed so as to prevent any assistance being rendered complainant by the officials inside, and aided the accused in attacking the manager.—Dr Griffiths deposed that the in- juries received by complainant were such as con- fined him in bed for two days. His eyes were much swollen, and there were nasty wounds rn the crown of the. liead and behind the ear.—Pri- soner was committed for two months with hard labour,

ITALY AND ABYSS LF?A. fOFNTISAT. NEWS TK'I.FCT'w,J MASSOVFAH, Wednesday.—Although the Italian troops retain the positions assumed some days ago, everything is ready for a forward movement. Stores and transports have been accumulating, and there is now nothing to hinder operations from baiiig commenced at once. Nothing has yet been made known as to what course General San Iarzana will adopt, but there is a general and well-founded impression that the immediate occupation of Sahati by the UOIIMIS is im- pending.

THE CAMBERLEY MYSTERY. INTERVIEW WITH THE HOME SECRETARY. The Central News telegraphsMr Henry Matthews, tho Home Secretary, in an interview with our correspondent at Birmingham on Wednes- day: stated that he should not give his decision until Friday in answer to the petition for the reprieve of Henry Bowles, sentenced to death for the Camberley poisoning case. It will be recollected that the jury at first said there was no chance of their agreeing, but after being locked up a little longer they returned a verdict of gnity. Mr Matthews held a lengthy consultation with Mr Justice Ciiaries on Saturday, and has ;ncl) received some additional evidence and many communications iu reference to the case. One letter has come from the foreman of the jmy, stating that they were not driven to a hasty verdict through fear of being locked up allnig-ht, but were unanimous in their opinion after very careful consideration oi the evidence.

SAD lJEATH OF A YOUNG LADY. The town of Corwen, North Wales, was thrown into a state of excitement on Wednesday by the intelligence that a young lady had fallen into the liver Dee. Dr, J. and Horatio Walker, the policy and a number of residents hurried to the river side, and a police officer plunged into the water, and an exciting scene was witnessed. Ultimately the body of the lady was recovered, and proved to be that of Miss Louisa Jones, from Rhaggat Hall, the seat of Mr Vesper, of Livei- pool. All efforts to restore, animation proved unavailing. It is believed that Mi-s Jones walked into the river in the dark. The coachman at the hail was recently drowned ticqz- tie same tpot whilst endeavouring to save Air Vospcr's son.

DUBLIN WORKHOUSE DISCLOSURES. At a meeting of the North Dublin Guardians on Wednesday, it was stated that the unien, owing to the loose manner in which cercain con- tracts were attended to, sustained a monetary loss annually of no less than £ 2.SCO odd. li was ndderl that in many cases persons receiving out-door t'elfef received their meat direct from the butcher.

A DARING CONVICT. REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FaOM PORTLAND. Considerable dissatisfaction was caused last week in Portland owing to the fact that during the recent fogs the convicts were sent out as usual to the works, and it is generally felt that the officers, whilst exercising the utmost vigilance, can hardly be expecterl to hold themselves responsible for the safe custody of the convicts under their charge if this state of things is permitted. During the latter end of the week one of the convicts, it is stated, sue- seeded in getting away from his gang under cover of the fog. lIe is said to have oliir.be,i a, wall and reached the Grove-road. He then entered the house of a prison official, roughly pushed by a woman who was standing- in the passage, and effected his escape into some fields at the rear, where he was afterwards captured by an officer who happened to be in the vicinity, and whose attention had been called to the fact that a piisoner was running away. The convict on being caught offered no resistance, aud was led back to prison.

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