South Wales Daily News

THE REV. KILSBY JONKS. TEE last occasion on which I saw the Rev Kilsby Jones he ftood bareheaded on the Builth platform as the train which conveyed Mr Gladstone to South Wales slowly steamed in. No more venerable head, with its wealth of grey locks, was ever the model for an artist. It had size and dignity, and may be honestly described as realising our idea of the patriarchal. He looked a noble old man, and it seemed as if the central figure of t hat celebrated picture," Jeremiah Lamenting over Jerusalem," bad walked down from the canvas into the every-day life of the nineteenth century. And his seriousness heightened this impression. There was the gravity of the East about his mien, and his commanding physique imparted to his presence, that solemnity which one only associates with the prophets of Israel. There was a touch of melancholy about bis features—features whose breadth and massiveness told of the wideness of his views and the strength of his convictions, and which a Greek sculptor would have loved to have transferred to marble. There he stood in the bright sunshine of a Juaa afternoon impassive to the casual glance — a veritable headland among the waves of an excited humanity. He was an elder amongst the people, and, true to his character, exhibited perhaps the sternness, yet the calm and quietude of religion; as well as the elevation which the Mind always produces. Far away from the madding crowd is the little Northamptonshire village of Kilsby, from which he derived bis name. The celebrated tunnel on the London and North-Western Railway, and which is nearly three mileslong, passes under part of this parish. Close ,by is Ashby St. Ledgers —the house in which Catesby, Guy Fawkes, and the other conspirators hatched the details of the plot. From the hill above the village he could look across the valley, aud see the residence where Addison lived and wrote. The place is little changed since ho was there the bullocks still graze in the big pastures, for the hand of man has not violated its rural attributes,

CRADDOCK WELLS CHARITY SCHEME. AN IMPORTANT WHIP. CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL M. P.'S UNITED. The following circular was sent,to everymember ol the House of Commons on Wednesday HOUSE OF COMMONS, Wednesday, April 10,1839. CERTAIN DIVISION. In consequence of the motion by Mr Jesse Colliogs, M.P., for the rejection of the Craddock Wells Charity scheme for Cardiff (which comes on to-morrow, Thursday night, at probably a late hour), the undersigned Conservative and Liberal Welsh members, considering the scheme to be for the true interest of the working classes affected by it, venture to ask for your support Stuart Rendef, George Elliot, H. Hussey Vivian, G. Osborne Morgan, T. E. Ellis, Samuel Smith, W. Davies, Thomas Lewis, P. Morgan, Ll. Dillwyn, John Roberts, Fuller Maitlacd, F. Haubury Tracy, T. P. Price, Alfred Themae, W. Rathbone, E. J. Reed, A. Williams, J. Bryu Roberts, D. A. Thomas, C. M. Warmiugton, W. Bowen Rowlands, D. Pugh, W. Cornwallia West, W. Abraham, F. C. Morgan, Arthur Cowell Stepney, D. Randell, C. li. M. Talbot, Admiral Mayne, George T. Kenyon, W. R. H. Powell, Edmund Swetenham, mirty-ttiree out ot the thirty-tour members for Wales and Monmouthshire have expressed their approval; the thirty-fourth is Mr Walsh, private secretary to Mr W. Long.

{BY COSMOS.] FISH, ALL ALIVB, 0 THE coaveyauce of live fish is a. problem the solution of which is of the utmost importance to Suuth Wales, considering the development of the trade at Milford and elsewhere. That poor little Sweden should be ahead of this country shows a .sad lack of public as well as of private enterprise. The Swedish Post cch Inrikes Tidningar for the 4th February last says;— During the course of tho present winter, Captain R. Von Muhlenfels, in Carlskrona, has made a singularly interesting experiment in the storing of living cod, his object being to test ia what degree of confinement they could be preserved, not only without dyinv, but without deteriorating in quality. For this purpose be placed 1,300 kilogs of cod, about six weeks ago, in a cack, which was smeared within and without with asphalts tar, and contained 52 cubic metres. The cask was firmly anchored in fresh running water. During the first two weeks the fish were found to have grown thinner, aud they had deteriorated in taste as well as appearance. But at the end of six weeks those which remained were found to have distinctly improved, and at the present time they are the better for their captivity, and are in excellent condition. A quantity of this cod was sent from Carlskrona to Wexio on the 2nd February in one of the railway trucks which Captain Von Muhlenfels has specially constructed for the traU3port of living fish, and on their arrival the fish were found in capital condition. Mr H. F. Wilcox, of Newcastle, has estimated the cost of trying the experiment on these coasts. For £30,000 three screw steamers, with the necessary weils, and a water carrying steamer to replenish the tanks, conld be built, and provided a catch of 1,000 tons per annum. results, a profit of over £20,J00 is shown. The price of live cod in the Grimsby market is from 3* to 8 6d each dead, 2s to 4s live ling, 3s to 6s each dead, 2* to 4s, and live skate about the same. Judging from these sums,there is a potentiality of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice for the pioneers of live fish. However, it should be noted that these prices are mainly so high from the loss which is experienced. Do away with this waste and the prices would come down. Still, the absence of waste would amply repay the fisher- man, and, moreover, benefit the public.

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS Notices of Births, Marr-jagts, and Deaths, are eh xrj- the rais of Is for the jirnt Twenty Wortw, and 6.1 jo toery additional Ten Words, and must be 1T.EPA.ID. i *11 coxes the notice must authenticate oi; ch- wmh 0'td address o/the ■wri ter DEATHS. BoWBLL-On Aiffil 9th. at his sister's residence, The Village Farm, Whitchurch, near Cardiff, the BeT IL T. Howell, late pastor of lib" l.landaff-road Congregational Church. Canton, Cardiff. Funeral leaves at one -edc,k for the Cardiff New Cemetery on Thursday, April ilth. All friends kindly invited. 23 PlUCK.—April 7th, at J/Cmgswood, Cardiff, late of St. Aurlxew's-crbijcent, jane, the beloved wife of Bktfiard Price, age,-A 44 yaars, deeply mourned. .oeral leaves for Llantwit Major at 12 noon on Thursday.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1889. r. IN MEMORIAM: KILSBY. THE death of the Rev J. KILSBY JONES has taken place too suddenly for his countrymen fully to realise the fact. We record it with the most profound regret. It may seem unreasonable to express oneself thus of a man who had become venerable in years, but "KILSBY" was always young. His noble spirit, his humour, his playfulness, his freshness never bore the marks of age. From a twig he became a stately tree, but unbent by storms and never gnarled by age or decay. He was the same KILSBY to the end. Those who knew him twenty or thirty years ago, and who knew him eight days ago, would think lie was as like dying the one time as the other. He was one of those strong, hale, hearty men whom it is difficult to associate with death. He seemed fitted by nature for any burden. A man full of courage, staunch in principle, and of most tender, loving heart. Of the Rev. KILSBY JONES it may be truly said that he was a strong man in every light in which he could be viewed. Who that has once seen him could for a moment be sus- picious as to the soundness of his bodily health ? A man of princely presence, of noble proportions, a king of men in his physique. His very appearance repelled the suggestion of anything mean, fawning, cowardly, or truculent. His genial smile betrayed the charming inno- cence and the guilelessness of a child. His lofty massive forehead and his clear eye spoke of his intellectual strength. And everyone loved him. Of his pulpit and platform efforts all Wales knows so much that it would be almost out of place to com- ment upon them. His running notes upon verses which he read in succession from a passage of Scripture were often a great treat. They were racy without being irreverent. His hearers would often smile or even laugh aloud as they fell upon their ears, and yet they would feel that they hit the mark, and were only what would be said if all ministers had only KILSBY'S humour and courage. His sermons, too, were power- ful, sparkling, and suggestive, and so were his lectures. His style was peculiar to himself. He imitated nobody, while he himself was inimitable. As a writer also he excelled. He was not the kind of man to bury himself in a library of musty volumes, poring over them day and night with a view to the production of some magnum opus which should crown a life of usefulness. He was by no means indifferent to books. He had a good library, and spent many an hour within its walls while lie devoured the contents of volumes which both strengthen and improve the mind and heart. But he was not a book- worm. On the platform he had few equals. He was one of the soundest of Radicals, and he never was known to flinch. It was always needless to ask, "Where is KILSBY ? He was true to his faith, true to his party, true to himself. He rendered invaluable service to the Liberal cause in Wales, and in this respect his death must be a great blow to the county of Brecon and to the sitting member, Mr W. F. MAITLAND, for whom our de- ceased friend had a warm heart, and had always a good word to say. During the education struggle in 1870 he took a prominent part, and he worked hard with the late Dr CHARLES and others to found the Aberystwyth College. He frequently walked long distances to attend meetings, and yet never seemed to be weary. Wher- ever he went he received a welcome. He was a universal favourite among the young 00 well as among the old. Does anyone think he lacked perseverance ? Let any ,gucli person pay a visit to Glenview, where he once strong man now sleeps his ;Jast sleep. Let him look at the stately house, almost a mansion. Let him walk through the avenue of trees leading to it from either side. Let him visit the garden, or stroll through the well cultivated fields. Then let him lift up his eyes and look further off. What lies beyond A great waste, uncultivated land all strewn with stones, many of them of huge dimen- sions, and all seeming to cry out, "Waste "and desolation Yes, and such were once the cultivated fields, the fruitful garden, the grassy lawn, the avenues studded with trees in great variety, and the site on which stands the comfortable house. In- domitable perseverance uprooted tons upon tons of atones of all sizes and shapes, utilised them for walls, and even for house-building. KILSBY made for himself an oasis in the desert—a home in a dreary land. And no man deserved better the pleasures of home than he who did so much to make one. It was, indeed, by the homely ingle that those who were permitted to enjoy the friendship and the coHtidence of this great and popular Welshman found all that was best in him. His knowledge of men, his observation of things, gave to his discourse a rare zest. He was the life of a fireside gathering One could sit and listen till the night was gone, and the early dawn began to appear. Yes, but all this is at an end. KILSBY is no more where he was. But many a tear will be shed as the sad tidings fly apace from town to town, and from hamlet to hamlet. The dear old name will often be mentioned to-day, and many a prayer will be uttered on behalf of the aged widow now left alone, and of the son of whom the father was always proud. In bidding him a long farewell we are bound to place upon record our conviction that there never set foot upon the soil of Wales within living memory a man who, from every point of view, did more credit to the name of Welshman than the now lamented KILSBY JONES. j

ANI DOOTOR WILL TKLL YOU tli«re is no better Cough Mediciue than KEATING'S LOZENGES One gives relief if yoa xatfer from cough try tbeui but o&ee they will cure, and they will not injure your health they contain only tho purest and simplest drusts, skilfuily combined. Sold everywhere in 13^d health they contain only tho purest and simplest health they contain only tho purest and simplest drusts, skilfuily combined. Sold everywhere in 13^d tins 1075b

LAND VALUES, DEAR COSMOS,—I have read with interest youf I remarks on Mr Bolton King'.s experiments in co- operative farming. I do not intend to make any comment on that subject now, but merely desire to point out that, with reference to one remark you make, Mr George's scheme does not involve auy addition to the burdens the land already bears. Mr George does not propose to lay a tax on land, but on land values. This tax would be paid out of the landlord's rent. The landlord could not raise the I rent in proportion to the tax, because ho already takes as rent all he is able to get. It is impossible for the landlord to throw this tax on any other person's shoulders. (Cf. Adam Smith,Wealth of Nations," Bk. V., ClI. II., Pt. II., Art. I. A tax upon ground rents would not raise the rents of houses. It would fall altogether upon the owner of the ground rent, who acts always as a monopolist, and exacts the greatest rent which can be got for the use of his ground."—1 am, &c., 23, The Walk, Cardiff. A. C. E. P AUR.

THEIR EFFECT. ANY tax, whether it be on the land or on land vaiuos, must come out of the land. Consequently, if the landlord be taxed more than the land produces ha will not cultivate it, and the same applies to the tenant. Practically speaking, Mr Boltou King has not obtained any rent for the last five or six years, but he has had his land well cultivated, and the taxes have been paid. Place an extra burden on those farms, and the I tillers would decline to proceed. The more I go into the land question the greater fog I find myself in. Taxing ground rents would receive my heartiest approbation, but I am inclined to think that in the majority of cases it would only be taking money out of the landlord's pocket to transfer it to tue jerry-builder. Where the leaseholder is the tenant benefit would accrue, but the reduction of rates which would probably result from the taxing of the freeholder would induce the leaseholder to claim that reduc- tion in increased rent. A man who could afford tc give £40 for his bouse would be able to pay more than JS40 when the rates were reduced, and the leaseholder would raise the rent, and, moreover, he would get it. To show one example of the injury which Mr George's taxing land values would do, let us take an illustration in Cardiff. It is one of Mr George'* great points. Iu Cathedral-road thare is a patch of building land between two I villas. This land at present grazes a few sheep. I We may accept it for a matter of argument that I the owner will not allow that land to be built upon unless he can get a fixed price. Mr George would tax that piece of land according to its building value. It seams pretty logic, but let us regard the effect. A tew hundred yards further on is a productive I market garden. There is scarcely any difference in the plots except that one is pasture and the other is arable. To tax that market garden at its building value would either throw it ont of cultivation or turn it into a wilderness of bricks. Cardiff is already overbuilt, and the houses would stand idle. But once you insist upon building, where aro you to stop ? Every street of houses increases the value of the land next to jt, and to tax that according to its building value would prevent its cultivation.

SOME Of HER MEANS REQUIRED. IT is all very well to take isolated instances, but, after all, the land question depends upen the laws of supply aud demand. Hand the land over to the State to-morrow, and the State would exact the market value. The Government, as you know, lends money to municipal and other local authorities, but it drives a hard bargain. It borrows money off the people at 2 per c<nt., and then loans it out again to them at 3 per cent. It takes every advantage of the community. Why, it was only the other day that it robbed tho orphans of their interest in Consols. It makes a law that trustees are only to invest in certain securities, and then quietly refuses to pay the rate of interest it promised. But the acquirement of the land by the Government is full or difficul- tie. such as to appal anybody. There would be thousands of applicants for favoured: spots, and the question would either have to be decided by bids or by ballot. If the former, the system would not be preferable to that which is now in vogue, and the latter plan presents many objections. Moreover, I am of the opinion that no one would advocate the confiscation of the land, and where would the maney come from to purchase it! As I have before remarked, the land question is larger than Mr George I dreams of. I think I have conclusively proved that his taxing land values would lessen the food supply of the country, and furnish us with houses without occupants. There is no doubt that tha action of the landlords is in many instances adverse to the interests of the community. The other day there was a desire to erect a brush factory in Cardiff, but the owner of the soil put so many restrictions upon the ground that the firm could not accept the terms. This is a distinct loss, but how is it to be remedied ? I can tarnish many such cases, and the iniquity of them is apparent, but I cannot really supply [ any solution. However, I should like to see a graduated income-tax-everybody taxed locally according to the amount of his income instead of his ratal. Thus two men inhabiting the same kind of bouses would not pay the same rates, but would pay upon their receipts. Yet there is no more unpopular tax than the income-tax.

CLASSIFICATION OF RAIL- WAY RATES. MEETING OF TRADERS AT MERTHYR. A special meeting of the Federated Chambers of Trade of Monmouthshire and South Wales was held at the Assembly-room of the Bush Hotel, Merthyr, on Wednesday afternoon, at the instance of the Pontypridd Chamber of Trade, to consider the new classification and schedules of railway rates. Mr David Davies, J.P. (Aberdare), presided. The delegates present included Messrs J. B. Evans, D. Jones, J. Evans (Dowlais), Morris, Sheppard (Pentre), T. P. White (Aber- dare), Hansard, J. E. Davies, Roger Edwards, E. P. Biddle, D. J. Evans, David Bowen, Rowland?, J. P. Lewis, James Howfield (Merthyr), Lewis James, Connop, W. D. Williams (Brynmawr), Mark Lewis (Tredegar), Howe, Thomas (Abercarne), W. Harris, Evan Lewis, and J. S. Davies (Dowlais). No repre- sentatives were present from the Pontypridd Chamber. Mr J. PLEWS, the honorary secretary, read the following letter, received by the chairman, from Sir Heury Peek Wimbledon House, April 9, 1889. Dear Sir,—In reply to yours I should advise (1) Get out a circular on the lines of the one from Tun. bridge Wells enclosed as to how your own neighbour- hood will be afiected. (2) Tke care thoroughly to enlighten your members oi Parliament. Many are too much personally interested in railway property to entertain kindly anything supposed to be adverse. (3) Circulate the comparative rates table sent under separate cover. (4) Send your resolutions to K. B. Murray, Esq., secretary, London Chamber of Com- merce, 12, Eastcheap, E.C.—Yours truly, HENRY W. PEEK. A communication bad also been received from Sir Reginald Hanson. Mr Plews added that unless something like a tonnage rate could be arrived dt, it would be a most serious thing to many traders. Mr HOWE (Abercarne) observed that at Cardiff they ignored general trade. They went in for the interests of coal, iron, bricks, &c., and thought every trade should take up its own case, and any suggestion from traders could afterwards be taken into consideration. After some further discussion, Mr MARK LEWIS (Tredegar) proposed That a.. committee be appointed to consider the proposed classification of railway rates, and to report upon the matter at the adjourned meeting to be held on the matter in a fortnight." This was seconded by Mr WHITE (Aberdare) and carried unanimously. The committee was appointed to consist of the following:—Messrs R. Edwards, W. Meredith (Merthyr), W. Davies, London House, Captain Jenkins (Tredp.gar), Jacob Griffiths (Rhymney) Evan Lewis, J. Evans (Dowlais), Dd. Davies, G. George (Aberdare), Howe, W. Thomas (Aber- carne), James Conuop (Brynmawr), Morris, Sheppnrrt (Pentre), Ed. Phillips, Dd. Jones (Ebbw Vale), the president and secretary of Pontypridd Chamber; KuilJ. Richard Lewis (Mid-Rhondda), G. H. Daniel, Davies (Ponty- pool).—It was agreed to adjourn tho meeting until the 25:,11 May. Mr EVAN LEWIS thought the question of pro- viding funds was important, and that not only chambers or trade, but tradesmen generally, should be expected to contribute. Mr R. EnwAUDS mentioned that the coalowners at Cardiff would not start with less than 210,001, and 920,000 had been proposed. (Laughter.) Mr EVAN LEWIS (Dowiais) moved that they should cail upon each chamber of trade to consider it a duty upon them to canvass their towns and obtain subscriptions in this matter. Mr MOURIS (Pontre) thought the battle was one for the benefit of the whole community, and he seconded the resolution, which was agreed to unanimously. It was suggested that the secretary of the London Chamber of Commerce should be com- municated with; also the local members of Parliament. This was agreed upon.

TIN-PLATE COMBINATIONS. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-I have road your leader" and Mr Taylor's fair and open letter-from his point of view—with considerable interest, and I thank both for strengthening my opinion that the proposed consolidation of tiu-plate manufacturers has the benefit of experience to start with. The vast, and I may say the saving, difference between the salt and tiu-plate proposals appeared to me to be very fully apparent to the proposers, who stated that one of their chief points was a binaiug clause limiting the profit to 21 per box. Certainly nothing was said or hinted attthat an average profit of 2 per box was to be made all the year round. I beg to say that there is nothing unworkable in such a proposition, becauso the 2s per box would refer to the outside limit allowed for the whole production, some works, of course, making 2s 3d or 2s 6d, while others could only make Is 91 or Is 6d. The well- situated works must make up for the deficiency of the others. But it must be borne in mind that 2s per box was never mentioned as anything but an outside limit, and, for my part, I look UPOUlt as a very fair limit, for there have been times in our experience when 10s per box would not have represented the difference between cost and selling price, and it is, in a great measure, to the temptation to speculate on the recurrence of such; times that over-production is due. In fairness to me, also, it should be borne in mind that what I advocate is a manufacturing concern, and not merely one for speculating in shares, and I maintain that as a manufacturing- concern it could be worked so cheaply as to make a handsome return without altering the present rate of price of making and selling, and would be able, and should not hesitate, to swamp any further increase of mills by outsiders, but this, of course, could not be done without from time to time being satisfied with a profit which I should put down at nothing less than 5 per cent. I mean that I believe that the consolidation could work 5 per cent. cheaper than any outsider, and I must ask Mr Taylor to remember that I speak not of what speculators would do if it were in their power, but of what could be done by honest consolidation, and I should like to see a limit put on the profit which the concern should make, as well as a limit on the profit *per box, and this profit I should put down as low as a clear 10 per cent. Probably such a meek and mild suggestion would not meet the ideas of the proposers. I don't think that Mr Taylor had any reason to apologise for his letter. The subject is well. worthy of being fully discussed, and either taken up or crushed. Mr Taylor expresses surprise that the scions of the trade do not more prominently denounce the proposal. Why should they? It i3 not from the" scions" of the trade, but from the "old hands" that opposition would be most likely to come. The surprise to me is that so,very little can be said against the proposed consolidation. Mr Taylor says that to suppose it possible for the consolidation to act rationally by keeping down prices so as to minimise the danger of increased American tariff is nonsense. I must confess that be has failed to convince me where the nonsense comes in. Mr Taylor has- done wisely by abjuring a uom do plume. His letter fairly represents, no doubt, the opinion of some makers, who misjudge the present proposal by comparing it with the 100 per cent. rise of the salt syndicate. His letter, I say, if it bad not been signed, might have fallen very flat indeed, and the editor would, in my opinion, do wisely if he refused to insert anonymous effusions on such a serious subject.—I am, &c., J. RUSHTON TURNOCK.

LYNCH LAW IN THE TRANSVAAL. A fearful tragedy is reported from Standerton (Transvaal). A Kaffir outraged a Dutch woman, and afterwards horribly mutilated her. The Kaffir was secured and lodged in goal, but a party of Boers broke in and literally cut; him to pieces.

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LONDON LETTER. (FBOM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) [SPECIALLY WIRED. ] LONDON, Wednesday Night. The House spent a quiet afternoon in discussion on a new Irish Land Bill. It was modestly brought in by Mr Ctilly, but it is understood to have been carefully considered by Mr Parnell. It certainly receivecKthe full support of the Irish members, as well as of the Liberals present. The Government objected to it on the familiar ground, that the settlement at the land question in Ireland was too recent to warrant fresh disturbance. With Mr Chamberlain and other of the Dissentient Liberals present voting with. the Government, the majority against the bill was only 61—a considerable reduction on the normal muster. Mr Chamberlain turned up late in the sitting, and his vote was certainly not influenced by anything be had heard in the debate. He created some sensation by entering the House just before, five o'clock, and passing through it at the top of- bis speed in a manner, for him, unusually excited. Rapidly skirting the front Opposition; bench, and getting behind the Speaker's chair,: he signalled Mr Balfour, who, rising with 8ome. thing less than bis usual languor, went out, and held an animated conference. It is not too much to presume that the subject under discussion waa Birmingham, where the state of affairs is greatly embarrassing to the Conservatives and their allies. The afternoon closed amid a characteristic outburst from Dr Tanner, sternly repressed by Mr Courtney, who was onca more in the chair, owing to the continued absence of the Speaker through illness. Mr Peel, I bear, intends to be in his place to-morrow. The Dublin papers very confidently assert the accuracy of a report first published in a London evening paper that Lord Londonderry is about to resign the lord-lieutenancy. The truth of the report is, however, doubted in quarters of the House where information on the subject is likely to be lodged. The Solicitor General for Ireland, questioned at the opening of the sitting, declared he bad never beard the suggestion, at which there was laughter and cries of Ob, ob." It is quite true that because Mr Madden does not know anything of the alleged event it is not therefore necessarily apocryphal. Nevertheless, it is stated in Conservative circles that the report thus circumstantially and emphatically put forward is nothing more than the revival of an old rumour. It is well known that the state of Lady London- derry's health does not make it easy for her to perform her share of the duties, and for that reason Lord Londonderry would be glad enough to retire. But a vacancy in this office at the present time would be so embarrassing to the Government that he has probably been induced to hold on. Mr John Morley was in the House this after- noon, and voted in the division oa Mr Crilly's bill but be is suffering from so bad a cold that he was obliged, at the. last moment, to break off an engagement he had made with the.members of the Eighty Club to attend their house dinner to-night. He had, I happen to know, prepared an important speech for tho occasion. In his absence Lord Ripon and Mr Henry Fowler stepped into the breach. Great alacrity was shown by members on the Conservative side to attend the banquet given to-night to Mr Smith. A good many were absent, but it may safely be taken for granted that it was owing to prior engagements of a character that could not be foregone. Mr Smith is undoubtedly popular on his own side, where he is gratefully recognised as the man who least divides the party. I hear from a Minister who is likely to possess bis confidence that there is no truth in the rumours current of his approximate resignation. He is in better health than he was at the beginning of the session, and though bis stay in the House of Commons may not be extended beyond the present session, it will certainly last so long. There is one provision in the Scotch Local Bill which is greatly agitating the minds of English representatives on both sides of the Honse of Commons. It is the proposal to allocate the sum of £171,000 to the payment of school fees. In Scotland this comes very nearly to establishing a condition of free education. It involves, as was pointed out on Monday night, the vexed question of payments to denomina- tional schools, of which something will be heard from the Scotch members before and after the bill gets into committee. Where English members are concerned is with tha conviction that even Conservative Government cannot establish free education in Scotland and draw the line at tt;3 Tweed. If Scotland has free education Englaud and Wales must have it also, and gin the south, ii far larger proportion than in the north, will loom the vexed question of concurrent endowment. The number of Roman Catholics and Episcopalians attending voluntary schools in Scotland is small compared with the numbers in England. In Scotland the Government propose to dispense public money alike to denominational and board schools,with what measure ofprivilego willbem^de known in due course. To carry out the 8D!1e principle in England would be impossible, and there yet remains tho-dilemma that the Govern- ment cannot give free education to Scotland and withhold it from England and Wales. Mr Leatham Bright, the member for Stoke, has no intention of resigning bis seat during the existence of the present Parhament. But unless he alters an intention now firmly held, he will not offer himself for re-election. A formal intimation to this effect has, I understand, been sent by him to the chairman of his committee. The return showing the names of all present lords of Parliament in receipt of public money from the national exchequer incidentally brings intorelief the able manner in which members of the Royal Family manage to secure little extras, The Prince of Wales, in addition to his pension of £40,000 a year and the rich revenues from tbo Duchy of Cornwall, draws £1,5;30 per annum as honorary colonel of the 10th Hussars. The Duke of Cambridge has £12,000 a year pension, but in addition he receives £6,6;31 14s 2d as commander-in-chief and colonel of the Grenadier Guards, with £109 10* thrown in as ranger of I Richmond-park. The Duke of Edinburgh, in addition to his £25,000 a year pension, has for some time been drawing at the rate of £1,825 per annum as commander-in-chief of the Mediterra* nean squadron. But that does not represent the full emoluments of this prized post, to which gallant officers who have borne the heat and burden of the day hopelessly aspire; There is table money, £5 allowance for stationery, and the precise sum of jS54 15s as light allowance when afloat. When on shore a careful country cuts down his royal highness's candles to an allowance at the rate of £27 7s 6d. London is not unfamiliar with atmospheric phenomena of the fog order; but what happened to-day is in respect of the season of the year quite I unprecedented. Early this morning there were signs of a fog of the customary London parti- cular make, common enough in and about November. Towards twelve o'clock, however, the aspect of affairs changed. Instead of fog we had thick darkness very much the same as happens at night. By noon it had thickened in density, and from this period till half.past one the atmospheric condition of London was precise^ what it would have been supposing the population had, with oneaccord, arisen at midnight and gone about their vocations under the impression that it was midday. There was no, obscuration and mystification of familiar objects such as takes place in an ordinary fog. It was simply midnight darkness; and where gasligbt burned or the electric light shone there was no more inconvenience than there ia through ordinary evenings when twilight has faded. In the busy thoroughfares, where the shops were ablaze with, gas as they are at night, there was no inconvenience in the traffic; but in the domestic economy of London no provision is made for lighting the street lamps on an emergency such as befel to-day. The consequence was that in. thoroughfares where there were no shops Londoners enjoyed an experience of what the metropolis was like before gas was invented."

THE IMPRISONMENT OF JVLR O'BRIEN. -fl¡" RESULT OF THE APPEAL. The bearing of Mr O'Brien's appeal against the sentence of six months' imprisonmeut in connection with thaPlan of Campaign on th Ken- mare estate was resumed before Judge Curran, at Tralee, on Wednesday. His Honour confirmed the sentence, but ordered it should run concur- rently with the previous sentence, terminating. May 22nd. The judge stated that the trustees of the Kenmare Estate bad declined bis offered arbitration, and he regretted they had refused I Mr O'Brien's offer, which he thought Was a fair oae.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. The death of the Rev James Rhys Kilsby Jones removes from the Welsh pulpit and platform one of its most prominent and original personalities. For very many years past Kilsby's name has been a household word amongst his countrymen. Wherever Welshmen have congregated—whether at home or from home, across the Atlantic and in far colonial settlements, the reputation of this gifted if singular preacher and wit, lecturer and litterateur, has received universal recognition. His genius was as unquestionable a force as his quaintness. There was not an iota of artificialism about the man. He stood out in bold relief among his contemporaries as a most inveterate hater of cant and humbug of all types and shades. He was, to the dismay of not a few of his earlier contemporaries, a strenuous believer in muscular Christianity," and spent much of his time in the open air. He was like no one-but himself. Outer influences left him to the last just ia they bad found him—rugged, earnest, fearless, and brimful of intellectual life and play. Thomas Binney once tried to define the difference between Kilsby and any other celebrity of the Welsh pulpit. Mr said Mr Binney, "made himself; but God made Kilsby." What Mr Binney meant to convey was, that whereas the character and manners of the former had been much changed by society and culture, Kilsby still bore in mind and bearing the old evidences of a changeless individualism. The intelligence of Kilsby's death will be received by the people of Wales with very real and deep regret. NARLY YEARS. The details of Kilsby's life come into very short compass. He was born early in 1813 at a hillside farmhouse,'situated within a mile of the town of Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. His parents tenanted the holding. Xii*by'g father, Rhys Jofseo, oiigioaiiy hailed from Beilihalog, just below Builtb, Brecuushire, and is described as a sedate, serious, Puritan Christian." His mother was a native of Llanwrtyd. She was a woman of robust intelligence and mercurial temperament. Kilsby was passionately attached to her, and Glenview, the house where he spent his latter years, was built on land which be bad purchased out cf respect to his mother's memory. On it was the homestead in which she was born. When Kilsby was in his fifth year-lie was the only child—his father was ordained minister of the Independent (or Congregational) churches of Ffaldybrenen and Esgerdawe. The family then removed to this new sphere. Kilsby's mother died in his childhood. His father, who re-married, survived till about 25 years ago and was buried at Pentreheigwyul—" a very Machpolah" of Independent ministers. When Kilsby was 15 years old he was taken by his father to an excellent preparatory school for youug preachers, kept at Neuaddlwyd, near Aberayrou, by Dr Philips. His vocation—the ministry—had already been practically selected. Up to that time Kilsby was known simply as | John Jones; now ho adopted his lather's patronymic of Rhys." From Neuaddlwyd Kilsby proceeded to the Presbyterian College, Carmar- then. The Rev D. Lloyd, M.A., LL.D., was Principal. IN THE PULPIT Kilsby rapidly gained .distinction as a brilliant and powerful preacher. During his stay at Carmarthen he was regarded as the star" or the Welsh pulpit. He eventually quitted Carmarthen and went to Blackburn Academy, where he studied Greek under the late Rev Dr Liudsay Alexander. of Edinburgh. While there Kilsby had the satisfaction of rendering Dr Alexander valu- able literary aid. At Blackburn Kilsby perfected his knowledge of the English idiom aud pronun- ciation. He became an adept in the English language as well as in the mother-tongue. Kdsby paili repeated visits to Wales during tho first years of his migration to England, and his popu- larity retained and increased its supremacy. "He was an incomparable speaker," remarks one who remembers Kilsby then in the pulpit. "His magnificent appearance, the beauty of hie speech, his sprightliness of spirit, eloquence and poetry of diction, the originality and philosophy ot his dis- courses, and complete mastery of the Welsh hwyl,' constituted a charm." KILSBY," NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Kilsby's first pastorate was at Leominster. He undertook it in 1834. He met there the lady who subsequently became his wife. She is still living, and is over 80 years of age. The profoaudest sympathy is felt for her-"and her son in their sad bereavement. Kilsby's next removal was to Kilaby, Northamptonshire. The name Kilsby, which he interjected into his baptismal appellations, and by which he is beåt known, was taken from this little English district, where the deceased gentleman spent very pleasant days. Boltou was his next remove. Then he built Glenview House, Llan- wrtyd went to reside there, and became pastor of Rhayader Independent Churob. His last migration was to BEDFORD STBEET CHAPEL, LONDON, where, by the way, several of our best Welsh preachers have passingly officiated as pastors. He stayed in London a few years, returned to Glenview, took charge of the old Independent Church, Caebach, near Llandrindod, and then built the religious edifice now known far and wide to Llandrindod visitors as Kilsby's Chapel. He was the sole instrument of collecting the money needed to defray the.outlay on this much needed convenience for Nonconformist worship in the hygienic capital of South Wales. LITERARY TALENT. The rev. gentleman's literary talent received speedy recognition. His articles in the Tvacthodydd —then in its palmiest days—were models ot terse, vivacious Welsh writing I so were his other contributions to leadmg Welsh magazines. His racy political sketches in the Pyst were a feature of Welsh journals. He enjoyed a well-earned .reputation amongst the Scotch publitllbing firms, and edited a splendid edition of Williams's (of Pantycelyn) works. His love for literary work never abated, and his recent articles in the South Wales Weeldy News, on Wales and Welshmen, are exquisitely faithful portraitures of a bygone Welsh age and the men who have rendered its religious anuals illustrious. As a lecturer Kilsby took highest rank. His elocutionary powers and I wealth of descriptive faculty had here unlimited scope. Those who heard Kilsby lecture in his ripest years will never forget the intense realism of his utterances. His lectuies would of themselves have been safe credentials to distinction. SEBVICBB TO LIBERALISM. To Welsh Liberalism the deceased also rendered inestimable service. He, more than anyone else,. dethroned Toryism in Breconshire-and in many a Welsh constituency besides. It is questionable whether Mr Maitland would have succeeded, in his first campaign against the oppressive politico-territorial influences of the county in which Kilsby lived had not Kilsby fought the battles with him. In Radnorshire and Cardi- ganshire Kilsby rendered notable and- magnanimous political help. He possessed to perfection" the art of ingratiating with the masses the cause that he espoused. He was never daunted by opposition. When the Breconshire Tories finally mustered their forces (before their 'l¡¡J Kilsby actually walked iuto the enemy's camp, and stood by Sir Joseph Bailey's side to ] expound to Sir Joseph's lieges the follies and errors of Sir Joseph's political ways. Kilsby was la vice-president of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation. Yet—after all we have said of "Kilsby," the readers who did not [see and hear him for themselves have but a poverty-stricken conception of the manner of man he was. For their sakes, and also as a natural appendix to these hurried glimpses of a great and exceptional Welsh character, it will be well to extract some passages from tbe delightfully vivid plctureswbichwa have of him from the pan of the Rev David Davies, M.A., Brighton. Mr Davies wrote last year a series of descnptive sketches to Cymru Fydd," entitled, "John Vaughan and his Friends at Llandrindod Wells." They were written with tbe consummate ability that one might have expected from the talented author of Echoes from the Welsh Hills," and nowhere is the art of literary photographing displayed more perfectly than in the allusion to Kilsby and the "ana" about Llanwrtyd. KILSBY AT HOUB. Kilsby," says Mr Davies (' John Vaughan'), lives in a house commanding a very beautiful valley, through which a river goes singing on its way, a river which is the home of many a merry trout, and the resort of many a cunning angler. Beyond his bouse is a charming little glen where he ordains that be shall be buried without a stone to mark his resting place, but only the healing touch of Nature to beautify the spot, and the lonely wild flower to send forth its fragrance like incense o'er the grave of that child of Nature, who, haviug revelled on her bosom, desired at length to sleep upon her lap until his Lord should wake him. He is as happy in climbing the mountain steeps, and in breathing the pure bracing air upon its summit, as Adam was in Paradise. He is very much like his mountain. There is a great deal of RUGGED GRANDEUR about him. He is a veritable Peter, with any amount of rock in his constitution that shows on the surface here and there in grand projections but in his character, too, as in his mountain, there is many a fertile nook where the tender blade and fragrant flower grow in rich and charming profusion. Ho is as stern as a giant; he is as tender as a woman. I well remember meeting him once on yonder peak. I said to him, This is a splendid view, sir.' 'Almost panoramic,' was his prompt reply. 'Besides,' ha added, 'it is classic ground. In that farmhouse John Penry, our great apostle, was born and bred; there in that little church by the river side, and at tho junction of the valleys, William Williams—the Isaac Watts of Wales—spent the earlier years of his ministry and there Charles Wesley—wise man—fouud a wife.' That and much more he told me. He talked like a prophet. To come into contact with him was as invigorating as it was to climb the old mountain, and breathe the pure exhilarating air upon its summit." PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Nothing could, according to Mr Davies, be less ministerial than Mr Kilsby Jones's appearance. He wore a straw hat, with wide brim, and a loose collar, revealing the foundations of the neck and its sinewy strength. His countenance was stern and tender in its rapid alternations. His eye darted light with every piercing look, and yet it was tremulous with merry glances that played hide and seek in every corner. The central ornament-tho nose—which gave character and individuality to the whole, was long, straight, and firmly set; and, by an occasional dilatation of the nostrils, asserted supremacy in royal fashion, and shot upward a threefold furrow, dividing into two counterparts tho lowering forehead above, that has braved many a storm and thought many a noble thought. A fine mouth, powerfully set, but indulging occasionally in a playful pout, completed the picture of forehead aud face. It presented an index of the man, who is as stem as a judge, yet frolicsome as a schoolboy. The transitional expressions of righteous indignation, withering contempt, and melting tenderness, and especially the relaxation of that face in the presence of woman, child, or congenial spirit, is a study. Tho head and neck are upheld by a large expanded chest and a pair of shoulders which, in the days of physical prowess, would have alone asserted his pre- eminence among his fellows. Altogether he is a mau who at once claims attention by his com- manding presence and movements. Had he not feared God he would be terrible, tor he never feared man in his life. He is terrible in war, and at such times as erratic as Samson in the wielding of his strength. The huge practical jokes immortalised in the story of the foxes, and of the carryiug away of the gates of Gaza, have found repeated counterparts .in the history of 'Kilsby's' attacks ou the Philistines of the Welsh Establishment and squirearchy. He is then terrible in bis grim satiric onslaughts, laying low his opponents with a weapou which, like Samson's, is suggestive of grotesque wrong acd irrepressible mischief." HIRAKTHOG'S CHAIR. In the corner of the Llandrindod Chapel, on the left side of the pulpit, might have been noticed au arm-chair. That was the chair in which Gwilym Hiraethog—Mr Gladstone's friend and great intimate of Kjlsb"s used to sit when he came to Llandrindod for his holidays and attended the services. The highest compliment which lyiJsby could pay an acquaintance was to ask him to sit in that chair. It is sacred," writes Mr Davies, for hib departed friend's snke." On one occasion, Mr Davies tells us, a man who had a big waistcoat, but required only a small bat. walked pompously up the aisle, and seated himself in the arm-chair. It muso be confessed that so far as body was concerned he filled it well. Mr Kilsby Jones's eyes, however, were restless. During the sermon he cast an occasional glance at the intruder, and noticed the evident disproportion between the head and his stomach. Memories of a more august aud inspiring presence rushed upon him, and, recalling a reminiscence by way of illustrating the subject of his discourse, he began, as he cast another significant look at the chair, with these words—"There sat a man in that chair once." The preacher proceeded, but every eye was fixed on that chair, and all wondered wlu the individual was who occupied it just then. KILSBY'S PBKACHIXG. In the pulpit Mr Jones 3tood erect, with commanding mien, and in authoritative tones be projected for the space of half au hour terse, thoughtful, stimulating sentences that stuck like burs in men's hearts and consciences." Mr Davies describes him preaching on Christ's conversation with the disciples 011 the way to Emmaus, and pointedly remarks :— I forget much I heard, but I remember him saying. In travelling the mind prows tired sooner than the body. The experience of pedestrians largely points in this direction. I recollect the time when my feet carried me many a mile when I was too poor to hire aud too proud to borrow. Now and then I meet with men of extraordinary conversational powers, and forget all about my feet and the rouahness of the way, but when we came to the parting of the ways, and 1 lost them and their exciting conversation, I soon had tele- grams from my poor feet. There are some men who talk to you so charmingly that even if you were an alderman you would forget your dinner. On this ever-memorable journey seven miles soon passed. It was now cettiug late. The shadows, which were cast deep and wide over the quiet glens and hillocks, told the travellers that they reside,1 there, and had retire to rest, and that it was time for man to wend his way homeward for the Jliht. The disciples arrived at length at their deotination, but He made as though lie would have gone a further but they constrained Him, saying, Abide with us, for it is evening, and the day is far Having spoken of the eyed of the lhscipIes being opened, so that they recognised their Lord in the breaking of bread, Mr Jones proceeded to read, And He vanished out of their sight,' a blauk: said the preacher,'when He vanished I I remember well the visits of my old friend, tha Rev J. P Mursell, many years ago. Whenever he came he tilled every nook with light; but when, after an hour's brilliant talk, he used to leave me ill my room alone, the Iisrht vanished all too rapidly with him. I used to "gather tl1", remains of his presence, and iudulgod the fond imagination that he was still in the arm chair. Ou one occasion a. small brother called upon me, and broke the reverie. Ho was about to sit in the chair just vacated by my great friend. I said, Pray, sit in this chair, not that.' But that is empty,' responded the visitor. No,' said I, it isn't empty; it will be if you sit in it.' These words of scathing satire were followed by words of thrilling tenderness, Ah me, that was a dark room when Jesus vanished out of it!' But the reflection of His presence still shone in their memories and hearts, and they said 'one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us while Ho talked with us by the way, and opened to us the Scriptures Mr Davies recites several telling stories about Kilsby m bis morelsecular connections, and we may be pardoned for again reproducing two of these here, for they mirror the man Kilsby." SOME PERSONAL ANKCDOTKS. About 35 years ago Kilsby was, we are informed, walking through Havcrfordwest arm-in- arm with Mr Rees, the lato well-known solicitor of that town. As they paced along the leading street, a poor mau, recognizing Mr Rees, took off his hat repeatedly, and bowed and criuged in bis presence. Kilsby at last said to lum, Put on your hat. my man worship God, and not Mr Rees, the lawyer." At another time Kilsby met a Dr R—, who, in a conceited fashion, peered at him through his eyeglass. Kilsby was at the time on horseback, and quick as lightning be took his foot out of the stirrup, through which be in return stared at the doctor. Mr Kilsby Jones retained to the end an unbroken influence as a potent factor of Welsh social and political and Eistedafodic life. He has passed away his genial, animating presence will be long missed at all popular assemblies of Welshmen. His latest literary production was the remark- ably able and interesting Reries of articles on "Early Welsh Nonconformist History," whiob appeared some months ago in the Cardiff Times, and which he for a time discontinued owing to failing health. These articles, which dealt with the trials and triumphs of the pioneers of Welsh Nonconformity, were widely read and generally appreciated. It had been bis intention to resume his contributions should bis health be sufficiently restored to enable him to bear the strain their production entailed but alas! that I should have to say that the hand that held the eloquent and instructive pen is now closed and still for ever.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. Mr Courtney (the Deputy-Speaker) took the chair at half-past 12 o'clock. THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. Mr SKXTON I beg to ask the Solicitor-General for Ireland whether it is true, as rumoured, that the Marquis of Londonderry intends to resign the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for IRZLAND This is the first time I have heard the suggestion. AGRICULTURAL TF.NANrs, (IRELAND) BILL. Mr CBILLY, in moving the second reading ofithis bill, regretted that he had another Irish Land Bill to introduce in the English House of Commons; but it was necessary that either he or some of his friends should do so, because the House would neither deal with the Irish land question in a thorough-going and drastic fashion nor send the Irish members about their business across the Irish Sea, where they could settle the question themselves. This was a large and comprehensive measure, because it had to deal with large evils. It was intended to do two things—to give in the first place a natural and legitimate effect to principles and measures which had already been accepted by the House and in-the second place to make plain points in past land legislation which were involved in obscurity. The bill sought to carry out the spirit of the Land Acts of 1870, 1881, and 1887 in so far as these acts evinced a desire to do justice to the Irish tenant, and to give him legal pro- tection in the enjoyment of his own property. The bill sought to protect more efficiently the tenants' own improvements of their holdings, to bring about a revision of the statutory term of 15 years which was set up by the Land Act of 1881, to empower the land courts to deal with the question of arrears, to amend the law relating to leaseholders, and to regulate the question of turbary. The bill also proposed to include all leaseholders in Ireland within the benefits of the Land Act. It further proposed to alter the statutory term for judicial rents from 15 to 7 years. Prices fluctuated so much on the longer period that the term was not fair to the tenant, and might be unfair to the landlord. It was proposed that rents fixed between 1882 and 1885 should cease on the passing of the act, because then prices were high and afforded no basis for present rents. He commended the bill as no false light bung out by a Birmingham wrecker, but an honest attempt by those who knew and understood the Irish tenants' position, and he submitted it with the absolute conviction that it contained a settlement that would bring to the Irish tenant farmers peace, prosperity, and comfort. (Hear.) He moved the second reading of the bill. Mr FLYNN seconded the motion. Mr MACARTNKY opposed the bill, which be denounced as one of a series of measures directed to the abolition of rent, and to the upsetting of the settlement effected by the Acts of 1881 and 1887. He moved that the bill be read that day six months. The SOLIOITOR-GBNKRAL for IRELAND remarked that it bad been said in former debated that the whole question of tenants' improvements was involvea in very great difficulties and obscurity. But he could not admit that it obscurity remained it would be just or fair that it should be removed in the way proposed by this bill. What he submitted was that the alteration introduced by the Act of 1880 was a fair and reasonable protection to the tenant, while the clause in the bill under discussion would be grossly unfair to the landlords. The bill pro- posed to assume that all improvements were made by the tenant, and that only prairie value should be left to the landlord's credit. This would be most unfair. The bill was an attempt to eliminate from the land legislation of the last 20 years all reasonable aud fair safeguards for toe protec- tion of the landlords' rights and that being so, ho must oppose the measure on behalf of the Government. Mr SHAW-LKFKVRK said that if the House were to go iuto committee on the bill, ho did not doubt that a settlement might be arrived at with reference to improvements. It would be very easy to so alter the bill as to finally settle the question of arrears, and so do away with the remaining disputes between landlords and tenants. He predicted the failure of any attempt to fill the vacant farms in the south with Protestant tenants from Ulster. It would simply result in the revival of religious animosity. Iu conclusion the right lion, gentlemau said he hoped that the Government would take the opportunity of thi3 bill being before the House to deal with the arrears question. (Cheers.) The House then divided, when the figures were:— 1 or the second reading. 163 1 A-ain&t 229 Majority against 61 rpj,„ 1,: 11 r .i J.UC Ulii watJ liUlUVTU uui. I THE PARTNERSHIP BILL. DR TANNER AND COLONEL HILL. Colonel HILL moved the second reading of the Partnership Bill. Dr TANNER objected, remarking, "Let it be promoted by a respectable member of this side of the House." The DEPOTY-SPKAKER warned the hon. gentle- man of the impropriety of his language. Later on Dr TANNKR said ho should always object to the introduction of pseudo-Liberal rnoagures by Tories or traitors sitting on the Opposition benches. Colonel HILL said the Bill was backed amongst others by Sir B. Samuolsou and Mr Saale ilaynes, who, he supposed, wore not included in the category of traitors. The bill was postponed. The House adjourned at six o'clock, A deputation from tho Elementary School Teachers' Association will wait upon members of Parliament to-day, at the House of Commons, to promote their opposition to certain provisions cf the new Education Code.

SCHOOL BOARD EXPENDI- TURE AT CARDIFF. MR BRAIN'S DEFENCE. TO THIC EDITOR. Srn,-I have digested the leading article in your paper this morning with a great deal of amuse- meut. Whoever did write it made a very bad case out of the proceedings ot Monday's council meeting. He outdoes even a member of our illustrious body in personalities,and that is saying a great deal. To begin with, I am only doingmy duty to the ratepayers (whom he so politely says I misrepresent) by protesting at all times and places against extravagant expenditure of public money, and there can be no doubt of that when the school board rate has doubled itself in five years, and the population has done nothing of the kind, so it must be ic the management expenses tha iucrease takes place my figures were given me in the room on Monday, namely, the total receipts of the borough treasurer are about £ 78,900 from all taxes, and the school board for half a year want £ 10,500, that is at the rate of X21,000 per annum. I aid it was rapidly getting nearly a third. I think you will agree with me it is. About my wantiug to hold my seat by making unfounded statements, that is another flight of imagination on his part, for I hold my seat for the Canton Ward by the good will of the electors, which was shown by their not giving me the turn.out last November when sitting as a Conservative ) they could have done it. I may say there is no man in England who holds a greater respect for educating the rising generation than I do, knowing full well that as education increases, so vice and immorality decrease but I will not, as a representative of the people, who pay the piper, allow any branch of the public service to increase their expenditure to double In five years without criticising what, on the face of it, is wanting some explanation. I am fond of a fair critic, but there is such an undercurrent of bad feeling to myself personally, I could not but let you kuow I had seen it.-I am, Itc., S. A. BRAIN. Cardiff, April 10, 1889.. [Our correspondent ought to know that the school board rate for a whole year cannot be calculated by multiplying any half-year's precept by tw). He overlooks the fact that the Govern- ment grant affects one half, but not the other. We can only regret that a member of the council, who might rendor good service, supports the opponents of the board school system.—Ed. S. W.D.N.]

THE LOSS OF INCOME FROM IRREGULAR ATTENDANCE. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-I cannot of course take any part in the controversy just raised with regard to the school board rate, but I should like to point out one matter which was entirely overlooked in the discussion the serious loss, educational and financial, involved by irregular attendance at school. At the schools in the borough the average attendance for the year 1837 was not quite 76 per cent. This means that about one child out of four children is away every day. I have calculated that a rise of 9 per cent. in the average attendance from 76 to 85 would bring in about £ 2,000 a year more to the borough in Government grant alone, to say nothing of the large additional sum in school pence. This question of irregular attendance has been so constantly brought before those concarned in it that I really despair of doing any more. Unless the magistrates will enforce the law I expect little improvement for the future. I have often wished that some portion of the drastic treatment, which has practically extinguished bogus clubs, could be applied to check this serious evil of irregular attendance.—I am, Ac., CHAS. T. WHITMELL. 18, Park-place, Cardiff, 10th April, 1889.

ANOTHER IRISH LIBEL ACTION. An action for libel, damages being laid at £ 10,000, was concluded at county Antrim assizes, Belfast, on Wednesday, before Judge Andrews and a special jury, the plaintiff being Captain R. B. Stokes, one of four Irish divisional commis- sioners, and the defendants the Freeman's Journal Company, Limited. The jury, after an hour's deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at 2300, holding that the words complained of were not for the pubhc benefit, and that they bore the construction plaintiff placed upon them, viz., that he acted improperly and dishonestly as a magistrate appointed at thefpleasure of the Lord- Lieutenant.

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THE WELSH TRAINING COLLEGES. A GOOD RECORD FOR AN UN- DENOMINATIONAL INSTITUTION. Two events within the past few months have tended to endow the annual reports of the Welsh Training Colleges with more than ordinary interest. The first of these is the correspondence published in the South Wales Daily Neios as having passed between Mr C. T. Wbitmell, her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, and the Rev O. L. Roberts, secretary to the Cardiff Cymmrodorion Society. This correspondence, it will be remembered, turned upon an alleged statement attributed to Mr Wbitmell, to the effect that Welsh School Boards were com- pelled to go outside the borders of the principality to find candidates suitable for the higher appointments in Welsh elementary schools. The statement aroused at the time a storm of indig- nation in Welsh educational as well as national circles, but no statistics were produced cn either side in support of the views expressed. The second event referred to is the introduction into the New Code of the principle of day training colleges, which are intended tc hugely supple- ment the present residential training colleges. At present there are four of these residential training colleges in Wales, situated respectively at Swansea, Bangor, Carmarthen, and Carnarvon. Of these the first two are undenominational, while the others are connected with the Church of England. Of the undenominational colleges, Swansea is devoted to the training of female teachers, and Bangor to males. The annual report of the Bangor College has just been issued, and contains some very interesting particulars. A long list of 71 names of Bangor students who have distinguished themselves after leaving the college" is given. The list includes the names of Professor John Rhys, of Oxford, Professors H. Jones and R. W. Phillips, of the University College of North Wales; seven have secured the London or the Glasgow M.A. degree, 15 have the B.A., and five the B.Sc., two have been appointed sub-inspectors of schools, five hold the Government appointment of assistant inspectors, three are inspectors of board schools, while there is a fair sprinkling of honours," prizemen, and gold medallists. This list, creditable though it be, by no means exhausts the honours which Bangor may fairly claim. Many of those incluieli in the list are in actual charge of schools, some of them holding important positions under the London School Board, and others the principalship of important educational institutions in the colonies. It should be remembered, too, that a large number of the most successfnl schools in the Principality are officered by Baugor men. As an instance of the home-made article turned out in the Princi- pality, it may be stated that one of the Bangor trained teachers, a Welshman by birth and language, has worked so well that since 1881 no fewer thad 22 scholarships, of the aggregate value of JE500, have been won by the boys in this schoo!. We must not assume that even Welsh teachers aro always without honour in their own country." In the face of these facts, and bearing in mind that Bangor is only one of four similar institutions in Wales,and that it turns out only 30 teachers per aunum, it is the height of absurdity to assume that there is any actual necessity for going beyond the borders of the principality to seek for suitable candidates" for any appointment in connection with elementary education m Wales.

THE MORRISTON STRIKE. CHARGE OF INTIMIDATION. At Glamorgan quarter-sessions, in Swansea, on Wednesday, William Benjamin and Robert Henry Ivey were charged with that they, on the 12th March, 1889, wrongfully and without legal authority, and with a view to compel one John Alford to abstain from doing an act which he bad a legal right to do. to wit, working at his trade in the Forest Tin-plate Works. Mr Bensan (instructed by Mr W. R. Smith) prosecuted, and Mr Abel Thomas and Mr Marchant Williams (instructed by Mr Randell, M.P.) appeared for the defence. Mr Benson, in stating the case, recapitulated the circumstances which have already been published. He said that if the words alleged to have been used by the prisoners to Alford were really used, he thought they would have no difficulty in concluding that their effect would be to frighten the person to whom they were addressed. They followed him to his house, ho had to lock the front gate at the entrance to koep them away, and the following day he went to the works accompanied by a policeman. The prosecution was taken under an Act of Parliament of 1875, made specifically with a view of combinations among men, and, if they liked, with a view of combinations among masters. He should not for a moment contend that there was any wrong whatever in a combination to do a legal thing if they adopted proper means of doing it. It was not a part of the prosecution to argue that the workmen had any less right to combine than masters had, but what ho did put before them was that the Act of Parliament which regulated the principles ou which these combinations were legal, and which turned them from being legal to illegal, indicated that in this instance a lawful purpose was carried out in an unlawful manner. Without troubling the jury with all the sections of the act, he would remark tb\,t the 7th section says Every person wb.), with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing any net v/h:c!^ such a person has a legal right to do or b abstain from doing." Mr Thomaa snggasted that be should read the entire section. MrJBenson said thel was no need for his purpose to quote the whole. They might put from their minds actual violence. That was not charged, but they were charged with intimidating others to prevent them exercising their legal rights, John Alford was then examined, and described how a crowd followed him on his return from the Forest Works in the evening. They asked him why he was working when he was out." William Fisher told him that if he struck he would get 10s a week from the union. Witness replied that 10s a week would not keep him and pay for his lodgings. Benjamin then said they would make an end of him before the end of the week.—On cross-examination by Mr Thomas, the witness said he had gone out the same night courting, but be was accompanied by a policeman. (Loud laughter.) David S. Davies, who was with Alford, gave corroborative testimony of a general character, but did not bear the expressions attributed to the prisoners. Mr Daniel Williams, foreman of the tin-house at the Forest Works, said tbe defendant com- plained to him the same evening of the threats used against him, and he told him to obtain police protection. On cross-examination by Mr Thomas, this witness said Benjamin had been about eight years under him at the Forest Works.—Mr Thomas: Has he during that time been sober and respectable ?-Witness He has been sober.—Mr Thomas: Has he been reRpectable ?-Wltness: Am I obliged to say ?—Mr Thomas: If you know anything about him, out with it. Has be been respectable?—Witness: He was disconteated at his work. Richard Rees, called for the defence, said the crowd did not consist of more than 15 or 20 per- sons. He never beard the accused aduress Alford. Edwin John Sneyd, David Rees, William John, William Fisher, Nathaniel Davies, Frederick John, and John Evans stated that neither of the prisoners spoke to Alford. They admitted that William John did, and he only said, "Here is a boy who told me he would not work for the Forest Works, and here ho is gone again." After hearing counsel on both sides, Judge Williams addressed the jury, who, without leaving the box, found the prisoners not guilty. The announcement was received with slight applause in court.

THE HEALTH OF CARDIFF. The return of the Registrar-General for the week endiugSaturday last (6th April) shows that in the borough of Cardiff the number of births registered last week was 90, as compared with 82, and 95 in tho three previous. Those 90 births comprised 49 boys and 41 girls, and corresponded to an annual rate of 41'66 per 1,000 of the population, estimated to be in the middle of this year 112,712. The deaths in the last week numbered 41, and in the threejprecedingthetotals were 42,50, and 37. Those 41 deathsyielded a rate of 19 0 per 1,000. This was a low;one, for it was 1'3 below that of the 28 great towns in England and Wales. There were but eight of them with a smaller one. In Bristol it was 19'3, or 0.3 above that of Cardiff. The 41 deaths in the latter included 21 males and 20 females, and of the total, 14 of them were those of infanta under one year, and six referred to adults who had attained 60 years and upwards. The borough has lately been but very little affected by the principal zymotics, and the highest number of deaths from them in any one week in the last twelve was six. In the last those causes were represented by only two of whooping cough. There have been only three deaths from scarlet fever in the last 14 weeks, but there were eight of fever. There were uo deaths from violence in the last week, but there was an inquest held on one body, and three persons died in the public institutions. The rates of mortality in the several towns arranged in order from the lowest were as follows:— Brighton 12-7 Newcastle-on-Tyne 20-7 Portsmouth .16*8 Bradford .20*9 Leicester. „37\5 Derby 21*2 Halifax 17* Huddersfleld „ 2r4 Nottingham 178 Birmingham 21 b Birkenhead 17 8 Wolverhampton 22-8 Plymouth 18'0 Jjeeds — ,.23'9 Hull ,18'1 Sheffield.. _25'0 London" .18'8 Boltou Cardiff 19 0 Oldham 26* Norwich 19*3 Manchester ° Bristol 19 3 Preston 30 ° Liverpool 19*9 Blackburn .30 6 90-7 t..JQlI.,l.VLU

LLANELLY LOCAL BOARD ELECTION." The counting of the votes in No. 2 Ward resulted as follows:- ELECTED. aJ. Hopkins 1,035 J. Harries — 891 IV.. J. Wilson 799 NOT ELECTED. aJ. B. Phillips 526 Those marked a were memoers oi tne old board. The name of Mr Randell, M.P., should have been included with the old members in our Wednesday's issue.

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SWANSEA HOSPITAL. TO THE EDITOR. Sip.,—Allow me as a tiu-plate worker to offer a word of advice to the committee of the above institution. The institution if, doubtless, worthy of support, and so it is annually supported by tha tin-plate workers around Swansea; but if the committee will receive to its fuuds the fines imposed on tin-plate workers in court yesterday, in my humble opinion their act will be undoubtedly detrimental to future collections. The offer was described as a graceful act by the stipendiary, and we are willing for the learned gentleman to enjoy his opinion, but our opinion is that the offer or the acceptance cannot be but ungraceful, therefore tho committee should decline it with thanks.—I am, &e., TINPLATER. April 5.

GAMBLING IN POLITICAL CLUBS. TO THK EDITOR. Sltt,—Although I quite agree that there is too much drinking going* on in our clubs, and that every fair means ought to be used to put it down, I believe the gambling at the clubs is a greater curse than the drink. Few persons have any idea of the extraordinary amount of gambling carried on at our so-called political clubs in Cardiff. The other evening I by invitation spent a little time in one of these clubs, and was shocked to see grey beaded men playing with boys not out of their teens as late as 12 o'clock at night (and may be later for all I know). I saw the sou of an old friend of mine," to my own knowledge not 20 years old, playing with men old enough to be his grand- father, and playing heavily, too. I thought it my duty'to inform his father and also his employer, but I blame the older men for encouraging these boys, simply for the purpose of winning their money. This boy has a very small salary, being engaged in a large office at the docks. I hope be may never be tempted to do wrong. The result in so many cases has been so deplorable to clever young meu that I tremble for the future of this young lad in such pernicious company. Cannot tha law reach gamblers of thin description? If this sort of thing continues, I think any person would be justified in publishing the name of the club, and tbe players also, if possible.—I am, & „ ^.a ANTI-GAMBLER. Cardiff, April 6th, 1889.

CAVE CANE M. TO THK EDITOR. Sift,—Whilst going home in the simill hours of the morning it has been my dread of constantly meeting a large retriever <i&g in the vicinity of St. Audrew's Church, Cath.iys, this animal having made several savage attacks on persons going home at that hour. Perhaps this will meet the eyes of the owner, who may prevent a. few more patients payiur M. Pasteur a visit.—I am. &c. NOCTURNAL.

THE TIN PLATE CRISIS AT MORRISTON. TO THE KDITOR. SIR,—I feel it my duty to contradicta statement which appeared in your valuable paper on the 30th ult., and also on the 6th inst. 1 thought at tirst to let the matter drop without being con- tradicted, but as it appeared twice, and in about half a dozen other local newspapers, I do not feel disposed to be silent on the matter. 10 the report of the public meetiug held at Horeb Vestry ou tha 28;b ult,, it states that I, after being called to the platform, admitted being called into the office to sign a letter that I did not read." I beg to lot your many readers know that I did not admit anything of the kind, because I read it myself, and beard it read to the others. I simply said that I had no desire whatever to injure Mr D. John's character, nor any other person's, and that my principal object in signing the letter was to certify that we at ths Forest are fairly paid for the over-weight gains. I should be very foolish to say or write anything to injure the rights of my fellow- workmen. By so doing I would injure myself. As long as we receive about the same average wages as in the other neighbouring works— for this was fairly discussed at a previous meeting at Landore, and partly at a meeting held at Morriston on the following Saturday—I feci it right to let these facts be known. I am afraid that we shall not mend matters by using unprovoked, malicious language towards Mc Williams, which I certainly think he does not deserve. Let us cast tho uncalled for, maliciout words to the moles and to the bats," and use more tender and affectionate language. I deeply regret the present state of affairs at Mortiston. 1 thought that the battle would be eudoct before this, and every man working in peace, as in tbe past.—I am, &c., Morriston, April 6, 1389. T. WILLIAMS.

SHOULD VOLUNTEER OFFICERS j EN UOURAGR S HOOTING ? TO THK EDITOR. SlR,—lam led to ask the above question by tho occurrence ot au incideut tbat cau hardly be said to reflect much credit on the person whose action has given rise to The facts are britfly as follows :—Sergeant Phillips, of the Haverfordwest (1st Pembrokeshire Welsh Regiment) Volunteers, on behalf ofbinjself and other members of tbo CMps.cnailenged abeam of the Worcester Regiment now stationed at Pembroke Dock to ahoot a friendly match. The cballBntv? wivs in doe conrne aeceptfsd, match fixed to take place this (Thursday) at the Penally Range, near Tenby. On Wednesday evening, however (the night preceding the day on which the match was to taka place), Sergeant- Major Bowen intimated to Sergeant PbillipiI that the adjutant had declined to give bis consent to the match being shot. The reason for this strange proceeding on the part of the adjutant is unques- tionably attributable to inadvertence on the part of Sergeant Phillips, who, it appears, did not apply to the adjutant for his permission before orgauising tho team, although I hardly see why that was necessary, when it is considered that the expenses incurred were to be defrayed by the men themselves, and not by the adjutant, or any other officer. The men were, therefore, either through the negligence of their captain, or the unreasonableness of the adjutant, prevented at the eleventh hour from fulfilling their engage- ment, aud a telegram to that effect wa this morning despatched to tbe Worcester Regiment. This kind of conduct, coining from sources that should be expected to yield nothing but en- couragement to everything pertaining to volunteering, will hardly tend to increaae ° the popularity of the force and it is surely a miser- able acknowledgment to those who do not hesitate to expend time, labour, and money in perfecting themselves in that art which is now uuiversally recognised as the essential element in volunteering—namely, a thorough practical knowledge of tbe rifle and its use.—I am. &c.. Haverfordwest, April 4th, 1889. SNIDER.

ST. EL VAN'S CHURCH, ABERDARE. TO THE KDITOR. SIB,—Perhaps you will allow me, through the columns of your paper, to ask my fellow- parishioners a few questions with reference to a rumour which is current that it is intended to place altar-lights in our church. In tho tirst place, I should l'ke to know if the above rumour is correct. Secondly, has a general meeting of the parishioners taken place, and if so, how many were present; and also when the said meeting took place ? Thirdly, has the approval of the congregation been signified iu any way, to prevent future unpleasantness ?—I m, Jtc., A CHURCHMAN.

THE MORRISTON STRIKE. TO TfTJZ EDITOR. Sm.-Any unprejudiced person perusing Mr Thomas Phillips's letter in your issue of Friday would naturally conclude that the respected squire of Maesygwernen Hall is a man who deal* hardly with bis employes but is that the case. ? From inquiries made, I learn that to-day Mr Williams has in his employ workmon who have been with bim since he first commenced business, and these men are proud of tbe fact that they are in the employ of a master that they respect, and whose sympathy they have had in times of sorrow and trouble. Surely what Mr Phillips states cannot be true, otherwise tbe feeling in Morristou would not be that of regret, that such a popular and esteemed gentleman as Mr Williams should be so persistently misrepresented and vilified, Morriston people believe tbat this ill-ctarred dispute is kept afloat by the leaders of the union to suit their own ends. It certainly is not to suit the pockets and homes of their deluded followers, who have already lost more money than they will ever make up, and who are tired enough of the interference of agitators, judging by the numerous meetings that they bold to keep up their failing courage. Why do the men on strike not endeavour to meet Mr Williams in a reasonable and manly manner, and discuss their imagined wiongs with him I do not think but what th«y would then settle this uobltpPY —I am, &- April 6. OBSERVER. [Whatever fault some of Mr Williams's work- men may have to find, he certainly enjoys the reputation of being one of the most popular and highly esteemed employers of labour in tbe wbel. district.—ED- & W.D.N.]

BREACH OF THE LICENSING LAWS AT CARDIFF. HE WY FINE IMPOSED. William Henry Cbappell, f3, Cai ra-street, was charged at tiie Cardiff police-court on Wednesday with selling beer without a license. Inspector Cox said that on Sunday afternoon, March 31st, be, in company with Sergt. Hawkins and Constable Rees, went to search Chappell's bouse, having a warrant for that purpose. As they approached they saw three men leave the bouse, one of tbem being drunk. Defendant tried to prevent the entrance of the police, but they succeeded in getting into the kitchen, where there were four men sitting down drinking from glasses of beer. Under the stairs was a cask of beer, a tundish, aud a pint measure.—-Defendant called evidence to prove that the bouse w"only occupied by lodgers, but it was shown tl aft, ne of the men was married aud lived in another street —The bench imposed a penalty of £25 and costs or one month.

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