South Wales Daily News

I BIRTHS, MAUlllAGES, DEATH Jotices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, are at ike rate of Is for th" first Twenty Words, ana 6-i el,lery additional Ten Words, and must be TRKPAID. i all cases the notice mu-ic :>' auihmiicat'd ¿''f the «!-»>•! t'id !1.,irl.'7P$ of the tcritfr DEATHS. HARRIS.—On April 15, at 26, Croft-street, Rcath, after a long illness, Mrs Sarah Harris, widow of late Mr Joseph Harris, Plumber, &c., Docks, Cardiff. Asred 72 years. 310 PETERS.—On the 14th inst, at 17, Alexandra-road, Canton, Cardiff, Charle3 Peters, aged 25. Funeral will leave the house at 2 p.m. on Thursday, the 18th inst. 305

TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1889. HOW A GOOD BUDGET GOES TO THE BAD. THE CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER made his annual financial statement last night to a House not prepared to hear anything very startling or sensational. A week ago we prepared our readers for the chief disclo- sures which would be made, so that the recital of revenue and expenditure, gains and losses, which we report this morning, will not create a surprise A large surplus was expected, a surplus which we reported a week ago as about two millions and three quarters sterling. Unfortunately we are not in a position to rejoice at this result. A man who has satisfied all his creditors may rejoice on the receipt of even a small legacy, but if he owe one thousand pounds, a legacy of five hundred will not make him rejoice greatly at the turn in the wheel of fortune. Mr GOSCHEN evidently felt himself in this predicament last night when he complained of a surplus having twice eluded his grasp. Last year he had the Local Government Act staring at him like a spectre, and on this occasion the sea, ever ready to devour, is prepared to engulf what- ever is poured into it. Unfortunately the sea gets rather more than its due. We spend untold millions upon the Navy, and then the sea has the disagr eeable trick of swallowing our fine ships one after another before they have been brought into action. Having so recently drawn the atten- tion -of our readers to the considerable excesses of actual over estimated revenue, and of revenue over expenditure, it would be superfluous to give them here in detail. The exact figures will be found in the report of the budget speech in another column. Some of the facts mentioned last night are of a very satisfactory character. Not without some degree of pleasure do we learn that five thousand pounds had been spent in the Supremo Court of Judicature less than before, owing to a reduction of the staff, but still more gratifying is it to learn that twelve thousand five hundred pounds less had been spent on special police, and thirty-three thousand five hundred less on prisons. There is, it appears, not merely a reduced number of prisons, but a reduced number of prisoners. This, too, notwithstanding the de- I mand made upon the police force as guardian angels to those messengers who have to collect the loving gifts of the Welsh farmers for the support of the English Church. Surely some of the money spent in that way could very well be spared. We hope special attention will be paid to the statement that the revenue on the duties on raisins, figs, and plums yielded thirty-three thousand pounds more than before, and why? Just be- cause France had chosen to exclude Greek currants, and, consequently, these currants came to the English markets, not only to the increase of consumption, but to the in- crease of the public revenue. This an- nouncement was very properly cheered by the Opposition, and we hope the supporters of the Sugar Bounties Convention Bill will grasp the moral. Mr GOUCHEN is evidently downhearted about the consumption of tobacco. The late Lord IDDESLEIGH did not do the wisest thing iu the world when he tried to get a few extra pickings out of the sacred weed. He made an attack upon it, but got less rather than more out of it than he did in former years. The present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has to complain, not so much of a diminution in the number of smokers, as of "a slow-burning tobacco" now in use which, to his dismay, gives "as much "enjoyment as the dearer kind." This is rather hard, it seems, upon the revenue, which has fallen to the extent of forty-one thousand pounds short of the estimate, but the smokers will not, we fear, steep their tobacco in saltpetre or putfauy harder in order toobligeMrGoscHEN. Acurious circumstance comes to light in connection with the sale of coffee and cocoa. It appears that the former is on the decline, while the latter is in the ascendency. The coffee has gone down two thousand pounds, while the cocoa has increased by six thousand, a most extraordinary and, one would imagine, unexpected revolution. But the cause assigned by Mr GOSOHEN is noteworthy. He attributes the increase of revenue from cocoa to the energetic advertising of that article." Advertisers will do well to take the hint. Here undoubtedly is the I highway to fortune. But while coffee and cccoa yielded only three hundred and twenty-eight thousand pounds to the revenue, tea, still the queen of all beve- rages, yielded no less than four millions six hundred and twenty-eight thousand, and yet if- -vas less by fifteen thousand than it y, as last year. This decrease, again, is r.i.¿iouted to the greater strength of Indian as compared with China tea. The sober drink r vvanue, we are told, amounted to only fv (J millions, while twenty-seven millions were derived from spirituous drinks. For all that, the wine and spirits tide is still said to be ebbing. The high-water mark was reached in 1875 76, and while the population has been increasing the drink bill has been falling off. We see no reason for shedding tears over backsliding of this sort. Sparkling wines have not been less used notwithstand- ing the five shillings of extra duty put upon them last year. Foreign spirits, however, have considerably increased while home spirits have been diminishing in consumption. It is a fact of very considerable significance that the tax on joint stock companies' capital has pro- duced one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, or fifty thousand pounds more than the estimate. But this is easily accounted for from the fact that between the 17th May and the end of the financial year f one thousand seven hundred and I forty-three companies have been regis- f tered in London, with a regis- tered capital of one hundred and I thiity-two millions of money. Companies getting limited liability under letters patent or a special Act of Parliament will have to pay the same tax as the other companies. The Income-tax has yielded a much larger revenue than was estimated. It has added to the Treasury twelve millions four hundred and fifty thousand pounds, being two hundred thousand pounds above the estimated amount and though the CHAN- CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pledges himself that no "screw" was put on, he asserts that one penny of Income-tax, after making all allowances, yielded last year the enor- mous total of two millions and twenty thousand pounds, the largest amount which was ever yielded." This would need some careful investigation before one would feel warranted in drawing any inference from it. To sum up, the revenue exceeded the estimates by one million six hundred and forty-five thousand, while the expenditure had fallen below the estimate by five hundred and forty-one thousand. We have thus a surplus of two millions seven hundred and ninety-eight thou- sand pounds, the largest surplus since 1874. Mr GOSCHEN estimates the total expenditure for 1889-90 at eighty-six millions nine 1 hundred and sixty-seven thousand, or three hundred and fifty-two thousand more than the expenditure of the previous year. The total revenue he estimates at eighty-five millions and fifty thousand, or less by three millions four hundred and eighty- three thousand than last year, but owing to the sound condition of trade he would only estimate for an increase of two hundred and seventy thou- sand pounds in the revenue. The upshot of the whole matter, however, is that with all our grand surplus there is to be no decrease of taxation. On the contrary, taxes are to be increased. The Income-tax, fortunately, is not to be touched, but the death duties are to be assailed, not in the spirit of justice with which Mr GLADSTONE proposed to deal with them, but in the usual Tory method of adding to the burdens already laid upon personalty. An additional tax of one per cent. is to be levied upon all estates of ten thousand pounds and up- wards, whether derived from land or personalty. The present twopence per gallon on beer ia to be in- creased to the extent of one-fourteenth part of a penny, certainly not a great deal for those who enjoy it. And here ends the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S tale for the year 1889. But for the insane cry for armaments and the make- believe alarms about invasions which never take place, Mr GOSCHEN would have had a golden opportunity, but we cannot go in for endless consump- tion of gunpowder and armour plated vessels, intended, apparently, only to sink or to become antiquated, and yet become rich. We must all rejoice to see evident signs of a revival of trade and an increase of wealth, but of what avail is all this so long as the Great Powers of Europe, professing to be on terms of cordial friendship, are spending their last farthing upon arma- ments ?

BIRMINGHAM STILL LICKS THE DUST. THE return of Mr ALBERT BRIGHT with the unexpected majority of three thousand and fifty votes cannot be otherwise than surprise to friends and opponents alike. After all their pretended indignation, the Tories have as usual crouched down upon their knees before the great dictator from whom they cannot shake themselves free. It has to be remembered, of course) that this is the first contest which has taken place in the Central Division since the split in the Liberal ranks. The father of the new member had a walk- over in 1886, while he defeated Lord BANDOLPH CHURCHILL by only seven hundred and seventy-three votes in 1885. The poll yesterday was not a heavy one. In fact, both sides had cause for complaint. While the Tories were, or professed to be, angry at having a I Liberal Unionist candidate thrust uoon I them, many of the real Liberals were dissatisfied with Mr BEALE, and this, it is I said, led to the unusual device of pairing, In 1885 the votes recorded numbered nine thousand two hundred and five, while yesterday they made a sum total of only eight thousand one hundred and seventy. But while Mr BRIGHT polled five thousand sis hundred and ten, and his opponent, Mr BEALE, only I two thousand five hundred and sixty, it is clear that the Gladstonian Liberals are II greatly in excess of the Liberal Unionists. The four thousand two hundred and sixteen electors who recorded their votes for Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL in 1885 may bo regarded as about the full strength of the Tory party, and if we sub- tract these from the number of votes given yesterday to Mr ALBRRT BRIGHT, the remainder, that is, one thousand three hun- dred and ninety-four, will represent the strength of the Liberal Unionists within a figure or two. Now, as Mr BEALE polled two I thousand five hundred and sixty votes, we may take for granted that the genuine Liberals in the Central Division outnumber the Liberal Coercionists by nearly twelve hundred. It is, of course, impos- sible, in the present uncertainty, to make an exact calculation, but we think we are not far from the mark. But the return of Mr ALBERT BRIGHT even by so large a majority as three thousand and fifty is no real victory to the B rming- ham Unionists. This contest has not, on I the Liberal Unionist side, been fought on principle, but simply out of respect to a great name. For the present BRIGHT is a name to conjure with in the city which all but worshipped the great tribune who made his family name dear to every inhabitant. But between ALBERT BRIGHT and JOHN BRIGHT there is no comparison. Nobody pretends that the former inherits those splendid qualities which made his father the champion and the pride of the masses of our countrymen, and few persons, we think, would contend that he is a fit and proper person to represent a con- stituency which knew so recently what it was to be represented by his father. But this is in keeping with the policy of the Tory party and of those who fraternise with Tories I and ape their manners. It is the relic of the old custom which handed the.. vacant seat to the son when the father retired from it. Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is a man of ability. With a sort of harum- scarum unreliability about him, he is, nevertheless, a man beside whom Mr ALBERT BRIGHT cannot stand for one moment without suggesting a striking contrast not at all to the advantage cf the fatter. The fact that Lord RANDOLPH was ousted in obedience to Mr JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN'S mandate only proves into what an abject position the Birmingham Unionists have fallen. There is something most humilia- ting in the very idea of the centre of Liberalism in England becoming in a year or two the mere playground of one man, and the electors a mere lump of ill-sodden dough, fit for nothing but to be hewera of wood and drawers of water at the behest of one imperious will. A con- stituency which dares not call its soul its own cannot be said to have any political standing. Mr ALBERT return cannot fairly be pointed to as a proof of the adherence of the constituents to the Government policy in Ireland, but only of their servile devotion to Mr CHAMBERLAIN. If their dictator were suddenly to veer about and to proclaim that he had returned to the Liberal camp, and had resolved to be true to his old chief, Mr ALBERT BRIGHT would scarcely have, in spite of his surname and his liueal descent, a single supporter left. The Birmingham electors are, for the present, mesmerised. They are like men in a dream. No- body expects them just yet to be influenced by reason or by sound argument. From one point of view it says a great deal for them that they stick so faithfully to JOSEPH, but otherwise it is deplorable. One thing, however, is tolerably cerbain Mr CHAMBERLAIN is now known to his own friends in Birmingham as he was never known before. The Tories cannot forgive the overbearing conduct dis- played in this contest. To step forward just upon the stroke of twelve and prohibit the candidature of Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL was one of the most outrageous displays of self-will and tyranny on record. This in- trusion of JOSEPH, elbowing everybody, big and little, to one side, as if they were all but menials appointed to bow to his command, will not be tolerated often. Probably the result of this conflict will make a new starting-point for Bir- mingham. The designs of the man who has done his utmost to oust Mr GLAD- STONE will become more apparent now. Birmingham Tories have already learnt that Mr GLADSTONE is not the only man who will be required to yield at a moment's notice to the decree of the autocrat. Birmingham is finding out, if we are not mistaken, that it has been undergoing the process of conversion into a political commodity or into a. pocket borough the representation of which can only be acquired by those whom JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN delights to honour.

NEW USE FOR TIN CAM!. I GIVE the following for what it is worth :— "Scraps of tinned iron have long been a waste product, whose application, for any purpose worthy of the intrinsic value of the metals contained in them, has been an unsolved problem. It is true that scraps of this kind have been cast, but the hardness and granular structure render the metal fit only for use as weights. Also, to a slight extent, the tin has been removed by electrolytic processes. II But," the American Manufacturer says, there has not been, any definite use or this product all i1. material manufacture until its recent use for nails. Scraps of tin are cut by dies into rectangular bits, with a length of about three times their width. These scraps are then fed from an automatic hopper between dies, when they are squeezed first to square form, like a nail, and then headed. Nails of this kind are well fitted for many purposes, being free from tendency to rust, also light, very rigid, and capable of being driven into the hardest wood without buckling."

ACCIDENT TO A CARDIFF PAS. SENGER STEAMER. On Monday the new passenger steamer, Mar- chioness. met with an unfortunate mishap. She had just left her moorings at the Pier-bead bound for Bristol, when her engines broke down, ad accordingly the vessel had to put back. It was subsequently found on examination impossible for her to proceed to her destination. The passeugers were therefore transferred to the Earl of Dunraven for conveyance to their destination.

Mr Tom Smith, of "Crackers fame, ia dead. Of late he bad been much concerned in music-hall enterprises—notably as a director of the London Pavilion Company.

THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF CARDIFF. PROPOSED EXTENSION OF BOUNDARIES. PARTICULARS OF THE APPROVED SCHEME. For a considerable time past tho Cardiff Cor- poration have contemplated tho submission of a schemo to the Local Government Board for extending the boundaries of the borough so as to equalise the incidence of taxation on those whoso I interests are centred in the town, and secure more complete and efficient administration of public duties over a larger area. Under section 54 of the Local Government Act, 1888, now and ample powers have been conferred on the Local Government Board to deal with local boundaries, and they may carry such alterations into effect by a provisional order only requiring confirmation by Parliament. The Cardiff Town Council, at their meeting in August last, desired the town clerk, Mr J. L. Wheatley, to supply them with statistics as to the rateable value of certain parishes near Cardiff. At the meeting in question Mr Wheatley stated that the estimated population of the borough was 125,831, with a rateable value of £ 656,790. The total area was 8,409 acre, of. winch 6,067 jicres were unbuilt upon. The Boundary Commissioners' report affecting the unions of Cardiff and Newport was referred to by the town clerk, and he pointed out that the com- missioners recommended the transference of the parishes of Rumnsy and St. Melinn's to Newport Union, and the parishes of Llanvedw and Rhydgwern to the Cardiff Union. The Commissioners laid stress on the fact that the borough of- Cardiff was not prepared with any scheme of borough extension, and it therefore behoved the corporation to consider whether they would tfika measures to prevent the report affecting the Cardiff Union becoming law. Consequentiy Mr Wheatley drafted a compre- hensive and valuable report, in which he set forth most clearly adetined scheme of borough extension. He included in the proposed boundary line of the borough the parishes of Rumney, Llauedarne (part), Lisvaue (part), Llanisheu, L'audaff, Lackwick, LlandouRh, Cogan, and Penarth, showing a total additional acreage of 13 304 acres, about 17,000 population, and C124,126 rateable value. The corporation appointed the parlia- mentary and wards committee to discuss and amend the scheme, and the joint committee met on Monday in the Town-hall, Cardiff. There were present the Mayor (LNI r D. Jones), who presided, Aldermen Jacobs and Carey; Councillors Sanders, Vaughan, E. Beavan, Reynolds, Ramsdale, Shackell, T. Rees, Brain, aud F. J. Beavan, and Mr J. L. Wheatley, town clerk. An extract from the proceedings of the parliamentary committee was read referring to the wards committee the con- sideration of the report of Mr Wheatley as to the alteration of the boundary of the borough. It was rasclved,"Thatiutheopinionof thiscommitteeit is expedient that the boundary of the county borough be extended, and that a representation undpr Section 54 of the Local Government Bill, 1888, be made to the Local Government Board for :,tJeh alteration of the boundary on or before the 1st November, 1839,lt was further resolved that the boundal y of the borough be enlarged by the inclusion of the following parishes Penarth, Cogan, and Llandough, comprising the district of the Penarth Local Board so much of the parish ot Llanisnen as lies on the east side of tha line of tho Rhymney Railway, the parish of Rumney, the parish of Leckwith, and so much of the parish of Llaudaff as lies to the southward of the River Ely.—-The borough engineer was instructed to forward as early as possible a map .showing the parishes proposed to be dealt with to each member of the committee, r We are enabled, however, to present to our readers this morning a correct map of tha proposed extension, whereby the importance and scope of the scheme cau be seen at a glance. The major portion of the parish of Llandaff, including the city itself, is excluded, as is the village of Llanishsu and, roughly speaking, two-thirds of the parish. About onn-fif 'h of Llandaff parish is taken, including Ely and Fairwater. The Roath Park and the corporation reservoirs are contained, in the third part of Llanieben, which is embraced in the scheme. As the original report prepared by the Town Clerk is thus somewhat altored, all the figures adduced in that document cease to apply, and we can only estimate with tolerable accuracy the financial result of the change. But other conditions remain, and it will be interesting to here reproduce the leading arguments advanced by Mr Wheatley in the course of his able representation to the Local Government Board. He points out that the parishes affected, having little or no representation on the county councils for Glamorgan or Monmouth, would, by division into wards, have a direct and better representation in the corporation. The present constitution of the corporation, consisting as it does of 40 members—10 aldermen and 30 councillors—will probably be enlarged to 64 members, namely, 16 aldermen and 48 councillors. The poor rates cannot be interfered with, and in all likelihood the school board rate would not apply to the new parishes. The debt of Cardiff is only £ 402,240, and the corporation are already committed to schemes for laying out 113 acres in Roath Park, 26 acres on Canton Common, and 40 acres on Ely Common. The whole of the amalgamated parishes will be under one police force, and tho outlyiDg districts would possess the advantage of an efficient fire brigade. Money is more easily borrowed by boroughs of large area. Regarding the water supply the new parishes have much to gain. The corporation ten years ago purchased the Cardiff Waterworks for the sum of £ 322,000, and have I since expended large sums of money in extending the works, and are now proceeding with other works so as to obtain a supply of water of the best quality and purity from the Brecon Beacons. Considerable progress has been made with the last-mentioned works, and about two or three years hence the water supply will be available for use in the districts where ,the corporation are empowered to supply water. The water mains already laid down from the Toff Fawr are able to convey eight millions of eullons per day, the supply being practically inexhaustible. It might be added that the Cardiff Corporation Water- works havo not up to the present time cost the ratepayers of Cardiff one farthing, notwith- standing the fact that a part of the capital is paid off every year. The camtal expended up to the 31st March, 1888, was £ 727,264. The public cemetery at Cathay^, a very central place, require no support out of the borough fund. Sanitary arrangements will be better carried out, all public improvements and works will be carried out by the corporation, and under the revenue clauses of the Local Government Act Cardiff will receive LIO,000 per annum. The administration of justice would be by one bench of magistrates instead ot several. Tho various cases arising under the Shipping Laws would be dealt with locally as occasion required by tbo borough jiisticer, Cardiff having a stipendiary magistrate. Cardiff will, no doubt, shortly have a separate court of quarter sessions granted to it, and this would obviate the necessity of prosecutors, witnesses, jurors, and other's having to attend the Glamorganshire quarter sessions when held twice I a year at Swansea, as the inhabitants of tho proposed incorporated parishes would have justice brought to their doors at Cardiff, and thereby effect a considerable savincr in time and money. In Mr Wheatley's concluding words, Should this scheme be adopted, it would undoubtedly bo for the educational, recreative, and intellectual welfare of the incorporated parishes, and Cardiff would rank higher as one of tho largest boroughs of the Uuitati Kingdom. Hor comtr.oroe and industries would be represented to the world in greater magnitude than heretofore, and her facilities for more rapid growth in the future would be increased." The scheme will now be submitted to the corporation, and after receiving this necessary imprimatur will bo forwarded to the Local Government Board. That authority will order a local inquiry, and all parties, whether favourable or nd verse to the proposal, will be heard by the commissioner. It is not expected that there will he very strong opposition. I

DR. HKjOXGH'S LiGHT-BROWN COD LIVER OIL.— IN THROAT AFFECTIONS ITS EFFICACY IS UNEQUALLED. Lennox Brown, Esq., F.R.C.S.E., Senior Surgeon Central London Threat and Ear Hospital, writes :— "The action of Dr. de Jongh's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil has proved, in my own experience, particularly valuable not only in those diseases for which it was originally employed, butalso in many cases of Weakness of the Singing and Speaking Voice, dependent on Bronchial er Laryngeal Irritation, and in all forms of Strumous Enlargement of Glands, and Discharges from the Ear.' Sold only in capsuled imperial half-pints, 2s 6d; pints, 4s 9d; quarts, 9s, by all chemists. Sole consignees, Ansar, Harford, and Co., 210, iiigtl Holborn, London 1021

CARMARTHEN ENTIRE HORSE SHOW. The entire horse show in connection with the Carmarthenshire Agricultural Society was held at Carmarthen on Monday. The number of entries was in advance of last year, andj the quality showed an improvement. The judges L wore-Colonel Jones, Velindre, Llandovery Messrs T. Rees, Slanrafonddu, Llandilo and R. Raes, Bronllys Court, Talgarth. Their awards were :—Thoroughbred stud horse-I, JE5, J. Rses's (Llanboidy) Swondoun h c, Mr T. Morris's (Coomb) MacCalmount. Agricultural Stallion-I. £ 5, Davies's (Parkyberllan) St. Gadock 2nd, J32. J. Phillips's (Caerlleon) Llan- boidy Tanner, Hackneys not exceeding 15 hands high-I, £ 3, E, Evans's (Aberystwyth) King Jack h c, Messrs W. Davies's (Carmarthan) St. David's W. Jones's (Lampeter) Cardigan Sportsman C. J. Davies's (Cilgerran) Grand Express; J. Morgan's (Ystrad) Nantcaredig. Horse calculated to produce best carriage or hackney stock—1, 23, Evans's (Rhoscellan Fawr) Royal Revenge h c, T. J. Wilson's (Cefu- mystick) General Gordon.

THK Seville Orange Marmalade Season has now Closed, and W P. Hartley has made 3,767,360 lbs. 1,664 tons), thus showing tba groat demand for Hartley's unequalled brand. 1139

LONDON LETTER. (nOM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) [SPECIALLY WIRED. ) LONDON, Monday Night, Mr Goschen occupied two hours and thirty-five minutes in the delivery of his speech explanatory .of his Budget scheme, but its purport may be set forth in a sentence. He finds himself, owing to additional expenditure on the army and navy, and to the transference of revenue and the Local Government Act, with a deficit of close npon two millions. He meets this by appropriating one million out of the profit arising from the conversion of the debt, and £800,000 he takes from an increase of the death duties, the amount being drawn from an additional one per cent. charged upon estates exceeding There still remained £300,000 to cover the deficit, and, with a gracious compli- ment to Mr Gladstone, Mr Goschen drew upon bis resources for the sum. When the malt tax was substituted for the beer duty, Mr Gladstone proposed to fix the specific gravity of malt at a certain figure, which was objected to by the brewers as being excessive. Mr Gladstone yielded, bat as Mr Goschen said it had bean found in practice that his estimate was correct, Mr Goschen intends to go back to it, and though, as he declares, the impost upon brewers would be llnappreciable, an additional £300,000 will accrue to the revenue, and thus the deficit of the year will be met. Though there is nothing very sensational about Mr Goschen's budget, which may almost be described as humdrum, and though Mr Goschen himself is not gifted with those charms of eloqu- ence with which Mr Gladstone invests columns of figures, his speech was singularly interesting, more especially in those portions which dealt with the growth or falling away of taxation during the past year. The audience reflected the absence of keen excitement outside. The galleries were, of course, full, as they always are on budget night, persona who are—or who fancy they are— interested in the Chancellor of the Exclu quer's arrangements making tremendous efforts to obtain seats. But on the floor of the House there were many gaps, notably on the Conservative side. At no time was the House full, and though now and then there was a ripple of laughter, and once something like a cheer, there were none of those outbursts of cheering with which Mr Gladstone was familiar through the long series of his budgets. The exceptional cheer over and above that which rewarded the Chancellor of the Exchequer as he resumed bis seat came from the Opposition benches when it was announced that a portion of the deficit was to be sought in the death duties levied on the rictfcr estates. The Conservatives listened to this anuouueement in significant silence. Mr Gladstone was absent, being wisely located a Ha warden. In his place was Mr Childers busily taking notes, with Sir Lyon Playfair, Mr H. Fowler, and MrShaw-Lefevro for companions. Lord Hartiugton, who has been vary little in the House of late, paid Mr Goschen tin compliment of listening to his speech. There seamed to have been a regular muster of the dissentient Liberals, Mr Chamberlain nnd Sir Henry James dropping in shortly after the speocb was commenced, a combination not lately seen at the end of the Front Opposition Bench. About half a dozen peers still remaining in town watched the scene from their gallery. Punctually at half.past three there appeared in the seat over the clock in this gallery a white. haired gentleman, keen-eyed, and apparently showing little trace of his more than 90 years. This was Lord Cottesloe, whose proud boast is that he has heard every budget speech delivered in the House of Commons for the last 50 years. He was himself some generations ago Financial Secretary to the Treasury, tba post now occupied by Mr Jackson, and which is usually looked upon as the gateway to high ministerial office. Sir Thomas Freemantle, as Lord Cottesloe was before Mr Disraeli made him a peer previous to going out of office in 1874, became 111 succession Secretary of State for War and Chief Secretary for Ireland. But lie never lost his passion for finance, and has always since the year 1838 kept tryst with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Houo of Commons on the budget night. One of the most gratifying announcements made in the courso of Mr Goschen's speech was that which affirmed the steady reduction of the drink bill. Although trada is improving and wages are increasing, the money spent upon drink is a diminished quantity. But what confirms the pleasure with which this state of things may bo viewed is tha additional fact that tho revenue from the sale of drink is kept up to its present point only by a marked increase in the sale of the lighter wines. Not only is less drink consumed, but tho lighter wines find the preference. Coffee, to quote the current phrase in trade circulars, is dull. The revenue derivable from it remains almost stationary, whilst cocoa is. looking fotJp, Tea, of course, far exceeds coffee and cocoa combined in its revenue- producing qualities. But Mr Goschen, in one of those confidential asides which humorously varied the earlier portion of bis speech, complained that the introduction of Indian tea bears heavily upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Being stronger than the Chinese product, it yields more liquor for a given quantity aud provides a corre- spondingly diminished amount of taxation. spondingly diminished amount of taxation. Mr Goschen was particularly pleased at the prosperity that has attended his impost of last year on sparkling wines. This has yielded con- siderably over what was estimated, and any idea champagne drinkers may have nurtured that tho tax is only a temporary one will be dispersed by his exultant tone in alluding to the subject to. night. The increased tax has certainly come to stay. Another new tax of last year which has proved most productive is that upon new limited liabilities registered. Mr Goschen, smacking his lips over the aimost fabulous proceeds from this source, half regretted that he bad not stuck on an additional impost.

THE CHURCH IN WALES. MR DILLWYN'S MOTION FOR ITS DJ SEST ABLISHlENT. Aa Mr Dillwyn has on more than one occasion bad to postpoue his motion in favour of disestablishment in Wales in consequence of other motions preceding it, we are requested to state that the first place has now been secured on Tuesday, May 14th, when Mr Dillwyn will take a division on the motion.

SIXTY-SIX HOURS ON A LTFE-BUOT! The steamship Medway has brought from Bat" badoes Mr M. A. Batby, engineer of the steatØ" ship Gulf of Trinidad, who fall overboard froifl' bis ship, caught hold of a lifebuoy which Wa* thrown to him, and remained in the ocean hours before being rescued. The accident occurred, about midnight, when the vessel was 120 roilef; off Rio Janeiro, and, as a heavy sea was runninffr- he was speedily so far separated from tha ship at, to be lost sight ct. Throughout the whole and on the following day, under the heat of tropical sun, he clung to tho buoy, to which hI; eveutually fastened himself, as he was becoming j weak through exposure and want of food. more days and nights he remained in this position* I and was about to give up the struggle when Norwegian barque Vesterlide passed close to hi., and rescued him.

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Tbe Public hould take advantage of this Grand Opportunity of Purchasing High-class <-ioods at Lower Prices than are obtained for inferior articles. ALTERATION OF PREMISES. EXTENSIVE ADDITION OF THREE LARGE SHOWROOMS. 23 & 24, DUKE ST., QARDIFF. LEWIS AND T EWIS. _IJ 6193 SPRING FASHIONS tO AT CAVENDISH HOUSE, CHELTENHAM We are now making special displays of the latest Fashion Models in the Show Iloon. devoted to COSTUMES, MANTLES, MILLINERY, AND JUVKNLLE DKKSS, The Collection being one ot the iu-est we have ever shown. Ladies at a distance are invitee! to apply for Sketches of Styles. Patterns of Material?, Estimates of Cost, Ac. CAVENDISH HOUSE COMPANY, LIMITED. 1279 rpEETH.—Complete Set Ono Guinea; I Single Tooth. 2s twl. Five years' warranty. Re- models, repairs. Ac. Painless Dentistry, Gas, &c,— GOODMAN AND Co.. 1, Old Dock-street, Newport, and 56, Queeu-s CudHf. 13041 1114 ++ ~\TEATH AND DISTRICT ADVER- J.^1 TISING. BIL?u-POSTING, and CIIiGUl.AH DISTRIBUTING COMPANY. Office: 13. 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FLOWER SUNDAY. THE pathetic custom on Palm Sunday of depositing flowers upon the graves of the dear departed is assuming a new phase. Reverence for and recollection of the dead are gradually I being lost in the competition which is springing up. The scene at the Cardiff Cemetery on Sunday was more in the nature of a carnival of flowers than respect for the memory of the deceased. It is certainly a pleasing rivalry that one household should try to vie with another iu rendering the mounds which cover their beloved as cheerful and as beautiful as blossoms will make them but, unfortunately, this compaction is developing into a contest among the living as to who shall spend the most money. I heard yesterday of a family who ordered JS15 15 worth of flowers in order to exhibit to their less wealthy neighbours the amount of their sorrow. Such extravaganca is to be deplored. The majesty of Death requires no pomp or display of riches it ia itself a stern rebuke to the value of such tinselry. That the childreu should go into the fields and pick wild flowers, and wsave them into a wroath or a cross, or that a few pence should be spent in purchasing primroses, and with a gentle band lay them in acre," in memory and in recognition of the frail petals which have been transplanted (let us hope) to bloom in a happier garden, is a task as solemn as it is touching In its devotion but to enter upon the mission with no desire save to make a grander show than your neighbour is degrading an elevated feeling into a commercial propensity. Fifteen guineas' worth of flowers What a waste Yet I will dare venture to say that the little boy who trudged along by the side of his mother so willingly and gleefully, with bis cross of spring blossoms, felt and exhibited more real grief than those who bore tha treasures of the florist's hothouse. The one sought for his offeriag, the other bought it.

SOUTH WALES AND PORT SAID. IT isratherincerastingto note from Consul Burrell's (Port Said) report the increase of steamers which navigate the Suez Canal with the electric light. In January, 1887, there were only 13, but thia number gradually rose month by month until in December they were 73. The whole total for the year was 395. In 1838 there was an increase every month, and the number for the year was 1,611. British veseb which passed through the caoal totalled 2,619, whereas only 821 of the rest of the world were chronicled. Figures like these show how vast is our proportion of trade. The following extract will have a good deal of interest:—The average freight on coal from Cirdift has been a little over 10s per ton. In September, 1887, freights were as low as 83 ld, but although coal is the principal import ot Port Said, the variations of freight have not, owing to the competition that prevails in the coal trade, have had much influence over the price of coal at Port Said. The imports of coal for 1888 amount to 943,028 tons, or about 158,748 tons more than the imports in 1887. Taking the last three years, the imports for 1886 were the lowest.aad those for 1888 the highest. The great bulk of thie coal is sent from South Wales.

CHABITT COMMISSIONERS AND WALES, THE Charity Commissioners' regret that the Lords of the Trghsury have not permitted them to conduct their inquiries into the present condition of charitable endowments outside the county of Denbigh. In the session of 1887 a demand was made for inquiries into the charities of Wales. In 1819,37 there was a commission of inquiry, presided over by Lord Brougham. But the record of this has long been out of print, although it is stated that the volumes contain most important information, Mr T. E. Ellis has recently urged the Commis- sioners to institute the local inquiries necessary for the issue of a revised edition of the Reports of Lord Brougham's Commieeion in rwpact of Charities in Wales." The Charity Commissioners I have replied that they are as desirous as ever that > a new edition of the whole of the reports of that I commission should be issued to the public that a work of such magnitude is not likely to be undertaken by the Treasury, or by Parliament, except by instalments; that the issuo of such a new edition in respect uf one or more separate counties would tend greatly to facilitate the progress of the whole work, by affording an indication of its probable cost and duration, and by establishing its value; and that tha commissioners are disposed to concur in Mr' Ellis's opinion that the work may fitly be beguu by dealing with some or all of the Welsh counties, because:— (a) Those counties are small, and definite results may be obtained, and early publication ensured at a comparatively small expenditure of time and money. (b) The condition of the original reports, and of supplementary information, as to Welsh charities is defective, owing, probably, to the remoteness of many of the districts, and to the generally backward condition of the country, if not, in part, to the prevalence of the Welsh language. lc) A need exists—illustrated in some measure by the report of the departmental committee of 1881 on mtermediate and higher education in Wales—of precise and recent information as to Welsh charities, educational and eleemosynary, as a condition of effective legislation on the subject of education in Wales.

THE SOUTH WALES TELEPHONE. THE wiro belonging to the Western Counties and South Wales Telephone Company, and which crosses the entrance to Dartmouth harbour, has the remarkable span of nearly half a mile, viz., 800 yards. On leaving the Dartmouth side, says the Electrician, the wire is 332 feet above high water mark, it drops to 198 feet near the Kingswear side, and then rises again to 207 feot. The wire is very fine and light, being of No. 17 silicon-bronze, weighing 24 los. to the span. This line has already withstood several strong gales in a most satisfactory manner. This telephone is decidedly improving. Whereas there was once a difficulty in Cardiff speaking with Newport, now there is no indistinctness even between Bristol, Swansea, or farther.

STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT. In the House of Commons last evening, in reply to Mr Kenyon, Mr Matthews said that the arrangements for inquiry into the working of the Sunday-closing (Wales) Act were not complete, and he could not therefore give the names of the commissioners,

VIEWS OF NONCONFORMIST CHURCHKS AT DOWLAIS. THE ACT VINDICATED. The members of the Nonconformist Churches at Dowlais are adopting concerted action for tho defence of the assailed Welsh Sunday- closing Act, and a committee has been appointed more especially in view of the approaching visit to the principality of a Royal Commission. On Sunday night, under the auspices of this committee, a public meeting, representing various churches, was held in refer- ence to the act at Bethania Chapel, Dowlais, the pastor of which place of worship, tho Rev li. S Williams, presided. The attendance was large. A resolution, moved by Mr W. L. Daniel, Morthyr, and seconded by Mr W. Morgan, was passed indignant!y protesting against the wicked attempt being made to rob Wales of the Sunday-closing Act, gladly testifying to the good results produced by the operation of the Act, and hoping that the outcome of the Royal Commisssion of luquiry will not be a policy of retrogression, but rather the strengthening of the provisions of the act, so that religious Wales may more than ever have causo to ba proud of the general character of its Sunday. Tho importance of preparing for the visit of the commission '-iinphasized by the mover of the resolution and other speakers, although no fear was entertained as to the result.

ABERDARE. GETTING UP EVIDENCE. Another largely attended committee meeting was held at Carmel Hall on Sunday evening, The Rev J. Foulke3 presided, and among others present were the Revs H, B. Johnson, M.A. (curate), T. Jones, D. Silyn Evans, and W E. Thomas, Mr Charleu Kenshole, Mr David Morgan (miners' agent), and Mr W. A, Davies, Aberaman, A lengthy conversation ensued as to the best course to adopt with reference to procuring evidence for the proposed Royal Com- mission in favour of the Act from Aberdare and surrounding districts. It was ultimately agreed that Mr Kenshole be requested to communicate with the authorities in London as to when and where the Commission would sit, and as to what arrangements would be made regarding witnesses. Upon the reply being receive-t a public meeting will be called in the town to make further arrangements,

LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY AND LLANELLY RAILWAY AND DOCK COMPANY. LONDON, Monday. This bill, the object of which is to amalgamate tha Llaneilv Railway and Dock Company with the Great Western Railway Company, came before Mr Leonard Courtney (Chairman of Ways and Means) as an unopposed measure. It was approved, and in due courso will be reported to the House of Commons for third roading. CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS (STEAMBOATS) BILL, This bill, which has already passed tho House of Lords, came to-day before Mr Campion for proof of compliance with the standing orueM. Formal evidence having been given, the examiner declared the standing orders duly complied with, and ordered the bill to be reported to the House. The object of the bill is to authorise the Cambrian Railways Company to provide, build, work, lot, and use steam vessels in connection with thair system of railways. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY BILL. This bill to-day came before Mr Campion, ono of the examiners of the House of Commons, for proof of complianca with the standing orders. Formal evidence having been given, the examiner declared the standing orders duly complied with, and ordered tha bill to ba reported to the House. The object of the bill is to confer further powers on the Great Western Company to dissolve the West Somerset Railway Company, to vest in the Great Western Company the Witney and Wye Valley Railway Com- pany, &c.

ABERDARE AND MERTHYR MINERS' ASSOCIATION. MONTHLY DELEGATE MEETING. The representatives of. the Aberdare and Merthyr Miners' Association held their monthly meeting at the Red Lion, Penrheolgerrig, Mer- thyr, on Monday. The representation was very satisfactory. The workmen of the Yscuborwen Colliery, Aberdare, were admitted as members of the district. The workmen of the George Colliery and Cyfarthfa were also permitted to re-enter as members of the association. The following resolutions were passed (1) That the question whether the monthly mass meetings shall be continued to be held or not was referred back to workmen to decide, and that they take the voice of the district in the next meeting, and if the workmen give a favourable answer, this meeting expects that each colliery will carry ont. their resolu- tions. (2) That this meeting regrets to hear that the different collieries have not taken tÜe necessary interest in the suggestion of amendments in t113 sliding-scale, and hopes that each committee will tako the m11.tter up at once, and espl3cialJy the clause deding with certain iteni3 of labour in December, 1879.

A CARDIFF^TEAMER IN COLLISION. Intelligence reached Cardiff on Monday even- ing, which has since been confirmed by a telegram 1 received by the owners, to tha effect that the steamship Rhyl, of Cardiff, had collided with the steamer Stepbanotis, of Sunderland, in the Danube, the former vessel being badly damaged. The managing owners of the Rhyl are Messrs J. Cory and Sons, Mount Stuart-square.

REMARKABLE AFFILIATION CASE AT PONTARDAWE. A YOUTHFUL DEFENDANT. At the Pontardawa potty sessions-befi).c Messrs H. N. Mier*, G. N. Shriek, and Herbert Lloyd—Thomas Davies appeared in answer to an affiliation summons taken out against him by Mary Hannah Jones. Mr W. Robinson Smith appeared for the complainant, and Mr H. F. A. Davies for the defendant.—The case had been partly heard on the 29t.h ult., when the com- plainant said flie was 17 years of nge, and lived at Clydaoh. She was delivered of a child on tho 10;h of February last, of which defendant was the father. Tho child had since been taken away by defendant's aunt. She had been living with defendant's mother, who was her aunt, and connection had taken place in defendant's house. -On Friday, in reply to Mr Smith, complainant said she had lived with defendant's mother seven months ending last August. Defendant's step-father, brother, and sister lived in the same house. Witness slept in the back part of the house with defendant's sister, who was between 9 and 10 years of age. Defendant slept in the middle room of tho houso with his brother, who was older thau him. Connection took place in the back room upstairs at night-time. It first took place on the 31st of May, and continued tiil witness left on the 4t,11 August.—Cr-oss-examined by Mr Di, vigm Witness would be 18011, the 31t of August next, and the defendant would be 15 on the 18 h of Saptember next. When defcudant came into her bedroom she did not cry out, Defendant was with her from that time almost every night till she left. Sometimes defendant's little sister was in bad with complainant when defendant came in, and defendant would got into the bed notwithstanding. She had never told anyone that the defendant was sent to sleep with her. She had had nothing to do with a young man named Hawkins, who lived next door, —Maria Grey, defendant's mother, producsd a certificate of his age, showing that he would be 15 next September. He worked at the tin-plate works, and earned from 5s to 8-s per week. When complainant was with her as a servant she noticed no particular friendship between her and defen- dant. She had not sent hc-r sister-in-law to get complainant out of the workhouse. After com- plainant left witness she went to stay with Mrs Francis, whom witness had paid 30s on account. She had arranged to pay Mrs Thmnas, who now had charge of the child, £ 27 lO^, Defendant objected to this, but witness did it because complainant was her niece, and she had been with her. Complainant had no one elsa to assist her. —The bench dismissed the case for want of corro- I borative evidence. <

SUSPENSION OF A CARDIFF MATE'S CElTIFICATE. At the offices of the Bristol Ljcal Marine Board on Monday—before Mr Mark Whitwell, Mr John Edwards, and Mr Percy King, wi,th Mr J. Inskip as legal arsessor-an inquiry was held into a charge of misconduct and drunkenness against William Eliiott while acting as second mate of the barque Molilamo at Cardiff, on the 17th May last. Mr Henderson (Messrs Fussell and Company) prosecuted on behalf of the Board of Trade, and Mr W. C. Clifton appeared for the accused. Evidence was given by Inspector Reader, of tho Mercantile Marine Offica at Cardiff, to the effect that on tha morning in question the accused was drunk, and the master of the vessel had to obtain a substitute. In consequence of the misconduct of tho accused, the vessel was delayed three or four hours.—Mr Robert Kerslake Carroll, shipbroker, Cardiff, gave confirmatory evidence.—The accused havingbeen sworn stated that ha was on board the ship early that morning, and had ai\ alterca- tion with the steward. The captain took the hteward's part, and told witness that if he was dissatisfied with the ship he had better leave it. He took the captain at his word, and left.—Mr Henderson said be regretted it bad baen out of his power to secure the attendance of the master, Tha ialolilainc) was at present on a voyage to Buenos Ayres, and would be absent for a period of nine months. The board considered the case made out, and suspended Elliott's certificate for two months.

BOARD OF TRADE PROSECU- TION AT PENARTH. At Pnarlh police-court on Monday-before Messrs J. S. Corbett, S. Batchelor, Jamas Ware, J. P. Thompson, and 1. W. G. Gore —John George, master of tho British steamship Algamo, of L:verpool, was charged with not supplying lime-juice to his crew while on a voyage from North Shields to Port Said, Bombay, and home, whereby 113 was liable to a penalty of L20. He was also charged with neglecting to enter into the official log the illness of the third and fourth engineers. Air P. Ingledew appeared for the Board of Trade, and Mr T. H. Stephens defended. :.The defence was that tho ship was well supplied with lime-juice, and that if it was not served out, defendant was not aware of it. With regard to the other charge, the illnels of the two engineers was very slight, and, in defendant's opinion, hardly worth entering in the log.—The bench imposed fines of 10s on each charge. John Grant, master of the steamship Long Ditton, of London, was next charged with neglecting to make an entry in his official log book, of the circum- stances attending a collision between his vessel and the steamship Lymington, which oocurred on the 211cl February, whiio the Long Ditton was on a vcyage from La Rochelle to Cardiff. Mr P. Ingledew, who appeared for the proseoution, said the dofondanfc hd made himself liable to a penally of £ 20. Mr Kidd, a Board of Trado official, hiving deposed that the log contained no record of tho collision, was cross- examined by Mr Downing, who appeared for the defence. The Long Ditton, he then said, was principally engaged in the coasting trade, and when she weut a foreign voyage the master was required to use a different log. Mr Downing thereupon put in the defendant's home trade log, in which the entry with respect to the collision appeared, and urged on behalf of his client that the offence was a moat trivial one, and had arisen out of a misapprehension on the part of the latter. —The bench, concurring, fined defendant Is only and the ordinary costs of tho court.

+-+- MONMOUTHSHIRE VALLEYS COL- LIERY OFFICIALS. A Pontywain correspondent writes A meeting of the Monmouthshire Valleys Associa- tion of Colliery Officials was held at the Crcsa Kays Hotel on Saturday, when members wera present from Risca, Abercarn, Newbridge, Cwm- bran, and Blaina. Mr John Bevan, Risca, was appointed provisional chairman, and at once declared the meating open for the trans- action of business. Members of the various mining districts in the valley reported very favourably of the popularity of the association. After some close voting the following gentlemen were elected officers of the association :—Messrs G. W. Wilkinsou, general manager, Risca, president Theodore Hale, Owm- bran, vice-president; John Davis, Newbridge, vice-president; Edward Williams, Risca, secretary; Lawreuza Bushell, Risca, treasurer. To make the management as representative as possible it was unanimously resolved that Mr Theodore Halo should be appointed vice-president without vote. As many of the members had to leave by train, it was decided to defer the election of the council to tha next meeting, which is to be held at the Cross Koy- Hotel, at 6.30 p.m., on Saturday, April 27, when it is hopad that the officials of the whole county will be present. Any information can be obtained from Mr Edward Williams, secretary.

HOUSE-COAL MINERS IN CONFERENCE. THE SLIDING-SCALE AND THE MONTHLY HOLIDAY QUESTIONS. IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS. Tho monthly delegate meeting of the hau-c. coal miners of tha Rhondda, Gilfachgoch, and Glyhcorrwg district was held at the Washington Hotel, Porth, Rhondda Valley, on Monday. Mr Morgan Weeks, the workmen's representative on the siiding-scale, being present. Twenty collieries were represented, snd three new collieries, viz., Mynacbdy, Newbridge Rhondda, and Tyntila, were received into tho district. With reference to the dispute as to driving headings, &0., at Dinas Isa Colliery, it was decided to request Mr Morgan Weeks to wait upon the manager with a view of bringing about an amicable settlement, failing which he was authorised to take legal proceedings. A long discussion took place with reference to the proposed amendment of the sliding-scale arrangement, and a draft scheme of a new scale was decided upon, a copy of which will be sent to Mr Lewis Mile?, Bedwas, the scale secretary. According to this scheme, long contracts will be entirely excluded from the audit, and separate bases will be provided for steam coal and house coal workmen. At present both sections of workmen receive an advance in wages of 2 par cent. on every advance of 4d per ton in the selling price of coal, but the scale submitted to this meeting provides that the advance shall take place on every threepence. It was resolved to demand weekly payment of wages, and to use every legitimate means to secure that boon. The employers' request that the monthly holiday should be changed from the Monday to the Saturday was discussed at very great length, and eventually it was unanimously resolved to adhere to tha present arrangements. Collieries were recommended not to make any change in tbeir delegates until the sliding-scale bad been revised.

AN M.P.'s LIBEL ACTION. Mr J. T. Brunner, H.P., has instructed Messrs Lewis and Lewis to commence an action for libel against Mr H. Champion, the well-known Socialist. The statements impugned appeared in o. series of articles in defendant's paper, The Labour Elector, in which Mr Brunner was accused of sweatinsr the employes at Messrs Brunner, Mond and Company's Alkali Works, Winnington and Sandbach, Cheshire, and with culpable care- lessness, resulting in loss cf life and personal injury to large numbers of workpeople. Sir Charles Russell, Mr Finlay, and Mr Asquith have been retained as Mr Brunner's counsel,

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—A well-known Sanitary Reformer stated at recent Sanitary Congress at Bolton that the best preventive against infectious disease was Soap and Water. The only reliable, and at the same time refreshing, toilet soap possessed of powerful medicinal properties which can be used as a, preventive against fevers, measles, and other infectious diseases, is Wright's Coal Tar Soap (quarter of a century's repu- tation-no novelty). Etefuae all other Tu Soaps Wright a is the only genuine 11

THE BIRMINGHAM ELECTION. RESULT OF THE POLL. The polling took place on Monday for the election of a member of Parliament to serve as representative of the Central Division of Birmingham, which seat was rendered vacant by the death ot the late Mr John Bright. The candidates were Mr Piiipsou Beale, Q.C. (Gladstonian Liberal), and Mr J. Albert Bright (Unionist). It is notorions that the CentralDivision is a stronghold of Conservatism, and Mr Phipson Beale entered the field against tremendous odds. Both parties displayed great activity on Monday, and there was no lack of vehicles on either side. Desperate and successful efforts were made on the eve of the election to repair the breach in the Unionist ranks. The result was that Conserva- tives on Monday flocked to poll for Mr Albert Bright. In some cases, however, an indisposition was shewn on the part of Conservatives to support the Unionist candidate, and these generally paired with Liberals who were not enamoured of Mt Beale. Polling com- enamoured of Mt Beale. Polling com- menced promptly at eight o'clock a.m. Up to noon the voting proceeded steadily, and without any great excitement. Nevertheless both parties were working with great energy. Mr J. A. Bright (Liberal Unionist) arrived from London about 11.30, and was met by Mr Jesse Collings, M.P., Sir T. Martineau, and others ot his leading supporters. The party were well received as they drove round the wards. Mr Phipson Beale was accompanied by Mr Osier and Councillor Fulford. Artisan voters commenced to poll rapidly about one o'clock. Tho poll closed as peacefully as it had proceeded throughout the day. There was little doing in the afternoon, but in the evening the recording of votes was again busk. There was nodistmb.-mce, and although the contest was conducted torougll- out with the keenest interest,perfect good humour was maintained. The result was announced at 10.45 p.m. The fipures were- J. A. Bright (U.) 5,610 Phipson Beale (G. L.) 2.560 Majority 3,050 PREVIOUS ELECTIONS. In 1836 the late Mr John Bright was returned unop- posed, Population, 65,816. Electorate, 12,453. 1835 Poll. Bright (L) 4,989 I Churchill (C). 1,216 Liberal majority, 773. After the figures were first announced, it was discovered that through a slight error the numbers were subject to alteration. The official result was declared as follows :— Bright. 5.621 Bealo 2,561 Majority. 3,060

THE VACANCY IN ROCHESTER POLLING TO-DAY. A Rochester correspondent, telegraphing en Monday night, says :-If one may judge from the excitement that prevails in the town, the polling to-morrow is likely to be boyond all previous record in Rochester. There are blozing posters on the walls, gay draperies flount political colours from the housetops, and every citizen is rosetted out of all reason. The proverbial oldest nhabitants confess that they never saw such grim electioneering. But what tho end of it will be no reliable person seems to have the least notion. The Conservatives declare that they are going to carry Mr Davies the Liberals say they will put Mr Knatchbull Hugesseu ill. Both parties have been beating up their followers to-day, and the Liberals had a meeting at seven o'clock, where Sir George Travelyan delivered a vigorous address. The interesting fact may be made known that Inspector Denning, late of the House of Commons, is iu Rochester in tha interests presumably of the Corrupt Practices Act. Electors will record their votes at a dozen booths. The counting will begin shortly after eight o'clock, and the result is expected to be known before eleven. PREVIOUS F.i.TrtrriONS. 1886. 1886. Hughes-Hfdlett (C).. 1627 Hughes-Hallett (C).. 1602 Passmore Edwards (X.) 1386 | F. F. Belsey (L) 1353 Majority. 241 I iN[,ijority.. -i49

LOCAL LAW CASE. DAMAGE TO CARGO. SPILLER AND CO., LIMITED, V. THK OWNERS or THE GITAHA.—On Monday S r Jamas Hannan and Mr Justice Butt, sitting with assessors as a divisional court, in the Probate, Divorca, and Admiralty Division, had before them the appeal of the defendants from a judsrinent of the county court judge sitting at Cardiff holding them liable, as the owners of the barque Gitina, of Liverpool, for damage to a cargo ot wheat, during transit, which was owned by the plaintiffs. The Gitana left Talcahuano on the lOdl of May last year with a cargo of wheat for Cardiff. The vessel ex- perienced very rough weather during the voyage, She arrived in Penarth Roads on the 29th of September, and docked on the 1st of October. From the evidence given before the learned judge at the trial he held that tha damage to the cargo was caused by salt water, which peuetrated through a crack in tha port coaming of the main batuhw»y of the batque, and in other places through the deck, and he accordingly gave judgment for the plaintiffs with costs, the damages to be assessed by the registrar. The defendant (Mr Ralph Watts Leylaud, of Liverpool) now appealed from this decision on the grounds that the judgment was wrong in point of law and against the weight of evidence. Sir W. Phillimore and Mr Abel Thomas ap- peared for the appellants, and Mr L. E. Pyka and Mr Thompson for the respondents. Sir James Hannen, in giving judgment, said that the county-court judgo had ample evidence before him to find for the plaintiff. The appeal would be dismissed, but each pr.rty should pay their own costs.

THE RAILWAY FATALITY AT CARDIFF. ADJOURNED INQUEST AND VERDICT. The adjourned inquest on the body of David Miller, 49 years old, 32, Sandon-place, Cardiff> coal trimmer, was held at the Cardiff Infirmary on Monday evening, by Mr E. B. Reece, coroner. It will be remembered that deceased met with his death on Saturday morning at the east branch ot theTaff Vale Railway through being knocked down by one of the company's engines. At the preceding enquiry there was a conflict of statement upon Mveral paiuts-se between deceased's so and the driver, and stoker of the engine. The proceedings were then adjourned so that further evidence mightbe taken. After further evidence had; been given the Coroner summed up, and pointed out that it was for the jury to say whether they thought the driver was guilty of negligence, or whether, on the other tfand, deceased himself was not guilty of contributory negligence in walking along the line as he had done, when in moving to the place alongside he might have proceeded quite safely. Ti-io jixry at once returned a verdict of "Acci- dental death," and said t.hey could not see there was any evidence of negligence on the part of Russell, the driver of the train.

CARDIFF LIBERAL ASSOCIATION. EAST WARD, The annual meeting of the Liberals of the East Ward, for the election of ward officers and committee, will take place this evening in the Swiss Hall, Queen-street. The chair will be taken at eight o'clock by Mr Lewis Williams, J.P. The meeting will elect 16 to the executive, and 211 to the Liberal Thousand, also ward chairman and secretary, and six assistant-secretaries. ROATH; WABD. The Liberals of the Roath Ward will meat to- night in the Star street Congregational Schoolroom at eight o'clock. Mr Councillor Ramsdale will preside. Nineteen representatives are to be elected to the executive, and 252 representatives to the Liberal Thousand, and ward officers for the ensuing year. Addresses will be delivered at the conclusion of the ordinary business. The Roath Ward is the last ward to hold its annual meeting, and the election of its representative* will complete the Liberal Thousand.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A WHITCHURCH PUBLICAN. At Llandaff police-court, on Monday—before Colonel Woods and Mr C. Thompson—George Worett, landlord of the Plough Inn, Whitchurch, was charged with being drunk and in possession of a revolver, which he fired in the public thoroughfare, on the 6Gh inst.—William Lewis said that on the night of the day indicated he was in his house, which is directly opposite prisoner's, when ho heard two reports of firearms. He ran outside, and saw prisoner, who was very excited, with a revolver in his possearton.-P.C,. A. 0: Jones (206) said he also beard the report of firearms, and saw prisoner, who was very excited, and making use of bad language, with a revolver in his hand. He ordered him into the house. Prisoner admitted using the revolver, but said he only fired blank cart- ridges.—Ho was fined 20a and costs, or 14 days' bard labour. _n-

A SURGICAL ACHIEVEMENT. The Manchester Guardian mentions a new departure by a provincial surgeon. A small tumour was removed from an important nerve in a patient's arm, and in the course of the operation some of the nerve itself was taken away; this was naturally followed by loss of sensation in the part of the skin to which the nerve was distributed. After 48 houM the surgeon, having obtained a piece of healthy nerve from a leg which bad just been amputated, proceeded to restore the continuity of his patient's nerve with the borrowed piece of tissue. The result wae that sensation returned in 36 hours, and there was every prospect of a complete recovery.

The announcement of the death of Ras Alonla is quite discredited by those who know the circumstance and the, messsengar well. MRS S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER never fails to restore grey hair to its youthful colour. It acts directly opon the roots of the hair, invigoratiug them. cleanses the scalp, removing dandruff, rendering the hair soft, silky, and glossy, and disposing it to remain in any desired position. It has hoit3 of admirers, male and female, young and old. Sold by Chemist? and Perfumers.

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST A CARDIFF SOLICITOR. SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. I IN RE A SOLICITOR EX-PAKTE INCORPORATED F LAW SOCIETY.—In the Queen's Bench Division on I Monday, before Mr Justice Field and Mr Baron Pollock, sitting as a divisional court, Mr Holland) t who appeared for the Incorporated Law Society, said this was a motion requiring a solicitor to answer certain affidavits, ami to show causa why he should not be struck off the rolls. It arisen out of an action for malicious prosecution by a Mr Barnett against Mr Lascellos Carr and Mr Walter Scott, which was tried at Swansea, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for £100 damages and costs. I Mr Justice Field: I tried that case; I don't know whether it will make any difference to either oi you. | Mr Finlay, Q.C., who appeared for the solicitor. intimated that he was perfectly satisfied. 1 Mr Hollams went on to read the affidavit of Mr Walter Scott, solicitor, of Cardiff, who stated I that tha action was tried before Mr Justice Field I and a special jury at Swansea. The plaintiff's r solicitor bad made an affidavit on the 3Lh October last in which th, allowance to a witne.s named Henry Cairncross was set down at £17 lis, but the amount was disallowed by tha district registrar on his (Mr Scott's) pointing out that the witness had not been called, and that his attendance; was not necessary. Tho learned counsel proceeded I' to read a number of statements and affidavits which had been made in consequence of the matter having been brought 'before the Law Society, and the solicitor in question having been f asked for an explanation. The solicitor'* expla- nation of the Cairncross transaction was that j two or three days after the trial of the action for malicious prosecution, he saw Cairncross in the street in Cardiff, and requested him to call and sefttle as to the amount due for their expenses f attending tha trial, as the amount had to be J embodied in au affidavit bofore any. of the costs could be taxed. Cairncross accordingly called upon him on the 11th August, as nearly as he could remember. Ha asked Cairncross what his expenses were, ar.d ha replied, Say three guineas a day for five dayn, one guinea for Sunday, and 15s for railway fare," which amounted to JB17 lis. He (the solicitor) therefore made out a cheque for £17 l, being the amount claimed by Cairncross less 10s paid him with his subpoena, and took a receipt for that sum. The solicitor then said, Cairncross, you will have to return to me nuch amount all the registrar may take off your allowance, and you not better leave the cheque with ma uutil the costs are taxed, which will be next week?" Cairncross agreed to this, but said he wanted some money there and then. Accordingly Cairncross was given £2, tha sum which he required, the solicitor keeping tho cheque and giving Cairncross an undertaking that as soon as the costs were taxed he should be paid the balance with his allowance. That was the beginning and end of the cheque transaction, and his reason for his asking Cairncross to leave the cheque was that he (Cairncross) being a man d somewhat impecunious circumstances, there might have been some difficully in recovering from him any difference over-paid. The solicitor's statement continued to the effect that his mother was at that time seriously ill, and she died on the 30th August, rendering him unfit for business for some time,and consequently the costs were not taxed till the last day or so of August. It was perfectly true that he swore the affi iavit, inasmuch as he had Mr Cairncross's receipt, and Cairncross bad his undertaking and he respect- fuily submitted that though he should not do the same thing again (as it might be taken as a colourable transaction), the most it came to was a matter of account between himself and Cairn- cross. The solicitor added that this was his first experience of an action where witnesses bad to be paid prior to the amount of their allowances being settled by the registrar and if it had not been pointed out to him by Mr Clifton, of Bristol. president of the Law Society of the city, that it would be more prudent in future not to treat a similar matter iu the same way, he should have committed the same mistake again with as much inuocency as he did in this cane. The cbeque in question had never been dealt with and had never been passed through the bank. There was some correspondence with Mr Tonkin, a solicitor, of Bristol, who applied fof Cairncross's money, but which Mr Hollams said he did not think it necessary to read. There waS an affidavit by Mr J. Henry Cairncross, theatrical manager, of Cardiff, which confirmed the soboi- i tor's account of the transaction with him. He said he referred the cheque to the solicitor of his own free will without any pressure. He after- wards called upon the solicitor several times, but I failed to find him at home. However, he one day I met the solicitor, who said the registrar had j allowed nothing for expenses but if he (Cairn- j cross) would call at the offica ho should be Nettled, with. He did not call, because having met Mr I Tonkin he mentioned the matter to that gentle- man, and left it in his hands. It appeared f that the Cairncross claim had been ultimately settled by a payment of ten guineas, j Than there was an affidavit by tha solicitor himself in addition to his explanation made to the Law Society. In his affidavit he expressed his I', sincere regiet for having done anything which might be inconsistent with hi" duty flS a solicitor of the High Court, urged that he had only been in practice three years, that he had acted innocently, and that any severe treatment by the court would ruin him. Mr Finlay, on behalf of the solicitor, said bo had no wlIIh to defend hi.? comi uofc but he would point out that what he had dona was exactly upon the Rame footing as tho practice which the learned counsel was told was very common-payill witness a certain sum and taking an undertaking ■ ■ from him to return any sum over and above that' which he might be allowed. Mr Justice Field Is there such a practice? Mr Finlay I am told to, my lord. I Mr Justice Field: Than the sooner it is put an J eud to the better. | Mr Baron Pollock: But making statements on f oath which are not true amounts to perjury. | Mr Justice Field: Is not this really a charge of j perjury ? f Mr Finlay; Of courso if a prosecution fot f perjury were instituted it would be a question for î the jury to aiy whether, under all the circumvf stances, the conduct of the solicitor amounted Ms perjury. But be would call their lordshipa* 'j attention to the fact that the solicitof had nothing whatever to gain for himself in this matter. He bad no selfish interest* Solicitors were in a very difficult position with regard to the payment of witnesses whose expenses must ba taxed off, and if the money could not be got back the solicitor's client must [ suffer. The witness in this case bein a. theatrical manager was not in any of the recognised classes of witnesses, and the solicitor had to be very careful in the interest of his client. t Mr Justice Field: I want to know if wa ar0 competent to try a man for perfury, which is a j crumnal chare, upon affidavits ? Mr Finlay hoped their lordships would not say t anything which would give an encouragement to" prosecution for perjury. There had been a great deal of bitterness and ill-feeling in this matter io f Cardiff, and this case was no doubt to a | certain extent the outcome of that state f of feeling. He hoped, however, that j* I would go no further,and he did impress upon thelt lordships that it was not a case in which they should make any order. The solicitor had nevøt the slightest intention of committing any but merely wished to take precautions against paying to a witness money which he might not be able to recover again. In doing so the solicitor | had made a mistake, but it was an innocant on«» fallen into through inexperience, and without anV ( fraudulent intent. Their lordships would 1 remember that the solioitor had been in practic" s only threo years, and that this was the first timi j, he had had to deal with a case of the sort. | Mr Justice Field: It seems to me that this i* f perjury or nothing. The offence is having sworO I a false affidavit. j Mr Finlay: But it must have been j corruptly. 5 Mr Hollams pointed out similar case. in which t the court had acted, and had struck tba solicitor off tho rolls. | Mr Justice Field said the registrar of the taxinf? { master would not make any allowance to witnessed without these affidavits. They absolutely insisted; on them. < Mr Finlay had no doubt that, without the oourt acting with any severity towards the solicitor. what had taken place would act as A lesson to him, and also to other solicitors wbo miht ha VI) beod in the habit of paying witnesses, and taking security for any sum taxed (1/1 by the taxing master. The learned counse' then put iu a number of testimonials to the personal and professional character of the solicitor; There was ona from tho ex-chiet magistrate Cardiff (Mr Windsor Jacobs), one from the mayor (Mr Jones), and one from Mr Abel Thomas, barrister, of tho South Wales Circuit; also from Judge Owen (the county court judge of Glamorgan), from the official receiver, and a iettat from the registrar, who stated that if he had been the registrar of any other court he should hl1 vt been bappy to have testified to his honourable and straightforward conduct. (Laughter.) Their Lordships then intimated that as this a very important case and involved most serioo' considerations, they would take time to considet their judgment. i