South Wales Daily News

--WOII STRIKE OF GASWORKERS IN LEEDS. The notices to the men who, a. fortnight ago. received an intimation of their dis- missal. at Wortley, expired on Monday. The first detachment of the discharged men left the works at two p.m., and the remainder withdrew in shifts. No demonstration was made. The 500 hands who are still in the employ of the corporation have handed in their notices, and public feeling is said to be strongly in favour of the men.

t RHYMNEY COAL AND IRON COMPANY. DECISION TO TERMINATE CONTRACTS. The Rhymney Iron Company have decided upon such changes at their works as to neces- sitate their issuing notices to terminate all contracts. Only the finished-iron department is, however, effected at present, so that the blast furnaces will continue in full working although this branch must before long be influenced by the blowing-in of several furnaces in Scotland and the new Dowlais Works at Cardiff, the weekly output here being estimated at over 1,000 tons. The past year has not been a satis- factory one for shareholders in iron and coal companies and although nothing has yet been heard of any companies in South Wales or Monmouthshire following the example of the Rhymney Compan3% it is not unlikely that the usual policy of acting in consonance will be adopted. The share capital of eleven of the principal iron companies amounts to nine millions sterling, but at the present time the value of the shares is not much more than three-fourths of that stim-the depreciation in value during the last twelve months amounting to quite half-a- milhon sterling. The Rhymney Company, how- ever, possesses collieries which, in the present state of the market, are highly remuerative; and, in audition, there is the brewery which last year -a c' earned sufficient to pay the interest on the pre- ference shares.

A LADY S PLEA UNSUCCESSFUL. At Newport Town-hall, on Monday, Agnes For- rest, alias Regan, a middle-aged woman, with a red shawl over her head, was charged with cutting and wounding ICate McCarthy. On Friday evening there were lively scenes in Speedwell street, and ultimately P.C. Smith was called in, to find McCarthy with a bad cut in her head and faint from the loss of blood, tie took her in a cab to the infirmary, and two stitches were put in to hold together a wound an inch-and- a-half long. Afterwards he learned that the prisoner smashed a ginger-beer bottle on her head. Prisoner said the prosecutrix used a stone on her head, and removed the shawl to indicate the locality of the bruises. The magis- trates, regarding the pallid face and bandaged head of prosecutrix, did not think it safe to deal with the case off-hand, and re- manded prisoner for a week. She pleaded to be let out on her own bail, but the Magistrates' Clerk, discounting a married woman's legal status, said if she were let out she would, perhaps, be breaking someone else's head.—Remanded in custody accordingly. —.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the wool- sack at a quarter past four o'clock. The Taff Vale Railway Bill was read a second time. The House adjourned at a quarter past five o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. The Speaker took the chair at five minutes past three o'clock. There was a larger number of members than usual in attendance at prayers, in order to secure seats for the debate on Mr Morley's vote of censure. The Strangers' Gallery was gradually filled, but, generally speaking, there were not so many evidences of interest iu the forthcoming debate as is usually displayed on like occasions. THE ARREST OF MESSRS DILLON' AND O'BRIEN. The SPEAKER read a letter, signed by a Folkestone magistrate, formally announcing the arrest within that borough on Thursday of Mr John Dillon, M.P., and Mr W. O'Brien, M.P., and their conveyance to Ireland. No manifesta- tions of any kind followed the announcement, as none of the Irish members were present. GAMBLING IN THE ARMY. Mr SUMMERS asked the Secretary of State for War whether any attempt had been made, or would be made, to enforce the provision con- tained in the Queen's regulations and orders for the army, that "the commanding officer is to discountenance any disposition in his officers to gamble." Mr STANHOPE I have every reason to believe that commanding officers do use their influence to discountenance gambling in their regiments and with very satisfactory results. (Hear, hear.) THE BACCARAT SCANDAL. Mr COBB asked the Secretary of State for War whether any communication had been received at the War Office from any officer in the army or from any other source which enabled him to con- tradict the statements which had been generally published in the Press connecting the names of a field-marshal, a general, and a lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Guards with a case of gambling and alleged cheating in Yorkshire in September last whether he was aware that legal proceedings had been commenced by one of such officers relating to certain allegations which had been made connected with his conduct at the gaming table and whether pending these proceedings be would take steps to prevent any officer connected with them from being retired. The lion, member further asked whether the right hon. gentleman had personally seen either of the officers referred to in the ques- tion upon the subject of the question. Mr STANHOPE No communication has been received to enable me to contradict the state- ments published in the Press. I understand that legal proceedings have been commenced by one of the officers alluded to. I do not pro- pose to allow any officer connected with the case at present to retire. With regard to the further question I reserve entirely within my own discre- tion the right to see whom I might think neces- sary for the purpose of securing information with regard to any subjkt which I might have to answer in Parliament. (Ministerial cheers.) THE NEW MEMBER FOR NORTH AMP- TON. J The newly-elected member for Northampton, Alderman Manfield, took the oath and his seat amidst enthusiastic cheers from the Opposition benches. MR MORLEY'S MOTION. Mr JUSTIN MCCARTHY, alluding to a motion on the laper in the name of the First Lord of the Treasury, suspending the twelve o'clock rule for this evening, asked the right hon. gentleman whether the Government intended to crush the debate into one night. Mr SMITH replied that he had endeavoured to ascertain the wishes of hon. members on both sides of the House, and he had been informed that it was the desire of the House that the de- bate should be concluded that night (Hear, hear.) He should be extremely sorry to be thought to be capable of crushing the debate. (Loud laughter.) The motion was put and agreed to. The House now presented a very animated appearance. The floor was crowded in every part, Mr Gladstone being in his accustomed seat on the front Opposition bench. Mr Parnell also put in an appearance, shortly before the close of the question. In the Peers Gallery a num- ber of members of the Upper Chamber assembled, including the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Ashbourne, and Lord Sandhurst.

COERCION IN IRELAND. INDICTMENT OF Mil BALFOUR'S POLICY. SPEECH BY MR JOHN MORLEY. Mr JOHN MORLEY rose at twenty-five minutes to five o'clock to move That in the opinion of this House the action of the Irish executive in connection with the recent prosecutions at Tipperary and other proceedings was calculatcd to bring the administration of the law into con- tempt, and violated the civil and constitutional rights of Irish citizens." The right hon. gentleman, who was greeted with Opposition cheers, said he had seen it stated in various quarters that the motion he was introducing was one that events had put out of date. He had been for eleven years or more, not bringing forward anti-coercion motions in the House, but making' protests againt coercion in one foPin or another, and lie could net recall one occasion on winch a motion against coercion was more in season than it was that day. (Hear, hear.) His motion could hardly be considered out of date when it was remembered that only a few nights ago there passed from the neighbourhood of the House of Commons to an Irish prison two members who did not stand lowest in the estima- tion of that House. (Cheers ) He proposed to confine his observations on that occasion almost entirely to the proceedings in connection with the events in Tipperary, which resulted in tho im- prisonment of those two gentlemen, A bill cie- culated that morning directed attention to the length of speeches in that Ilottse-(a laugh)—and proposed that when the speech of a privy coun- cillor had lasted half an hour the clerk at the table should sound such a bell as was used at diocesan conferences. (Laughter.) It was, perhaps, fortunate for him that such a provision had not yet become part of the law of the land, as he was afraid he should have to occupy some time in bringing under notice the events to which his resolution referred. On the 17th of September last year warrantsjwere issued against four members of that House and eight other persons for conspiracy and intimidation in connection with the property of the member for South Hunts (Mr Smith-Barry), and when the hearing of the case began on the 25t,h of Sej>- tember, he (Mr Morley) and others made it their business to be present. His attitude to the Irish police, unlike that of Mr T. W. Russell, had never been one of hostility, He had always made allowance for the difficulties under which their duties were discharged but that was no reason why he should not use his senses and describe what he saw, what he considered a great abuse of authority took place in his presence. (Hear, hear.) What he saw at Tipperary opened his eyes to what a pitch of refined incompetency, brutality, and lawlessness the agents of the right hon. gentleman (Mr Balfour) had been brought by his system of standing- up for every act of theirs, whether right or wrong, and refusing inquiry, however strong a case was brought before him. (Cheers.) He had not been ten minutes in Tipperary before he found that cheering and hooting were regarded as offences sufficient to justify the police in dis- persing a crowd. A crowd assembled to see certain prisoners pass with an escort of constabu- lary, and it was after the escort had passed that the crowd began to cheer some of the English members who were present, and to groan at other people. This threw Colonel CaddeH into a paroxysm of agitation and alarm, and he began to cry out that the crowd was disorderly and dangerous but the streets were not blocked, and Colonel Caddell himself said that the crowd was dispersed in two minutes by five constables. In dispersing it, however, an amount of violence was used which would have led any watch committee in England to cashier every officer who was concerned in it. (Cheers.) The second scene took place outside the court- house, and was a much more serious affair. There was not a great crowd. He should put it at 50. Colonel Caddell did not put it at more than 101; and it was as quiet and harmless a crowd as ever he saw. To keep them in order there was a large force of constabulary and red coats who probably outnumbered the crowd by more than two to one. It could not bs denied that whatever disturbance occurred was due to the closing of the gates contrary to law.—(hear, hear)—and no Englishman who was present would deny that the assertion by persons at the gates of their lawful right to go into the court- house was resisted by the constabulary, under the orders of their officer, with a brutal^ ferocious, unnecessary, and unprevoked violence, of which he should expect to see any disciplined force in the world ashamed. (Cheers.) He denied that lie was unnerved by the sight of broken heals, and declared that he had been prepared ever since the incident happened to attest what he had said about it in the most solemn manner that the English law would allow. (Cheers.) It was no fault of his that he had had no oppurtunity of doing SÓ. (Cheers, and a gesture of dissent from Mr Bal- °^) £ hd the right hon. gentleman mean that ne had shirked going into a court of justice to give his evidence ? T, F 'J-. BALFOUR No what I mean is this That the trial for which the right hon. gentleman went to Ireland was postponed at the instance, went to Ireland was postponed at the instance, not ot i:e Yrov™' of h,s friends, and is to come on m March. (Ministerial cheers.) wK.,fLEfif±ld ^at the "ght hon. gentleman forgoi. that the presiding judge must have thought the reason for the postponement an adequate one or he would not have allowed it. (Opposition cheers.) He (Mr Morley) went into the Courthouse wice, and on both occasions the space allotted to tne public was absolutely empty. (Cheers.) No stones were thrown, and if ex- plosives had been used the effect would have been to destroy Mr Dillon, Mr O'Brien, and other friends of the people. When an excess of force had,' been exposed "anywhere but in Ireland there had been censure and redress, but the only redress offered in Ireland was to bring the matter before a packed bench of resident magistrates. (Cheers.) If the Chief Secretary in his New- castle speech had asked the people to suspend their judgment and not take his (Mr Morley's) story for he should have had no complaint to make; but the hoa, gentleman had thought it worthy of him to say that Colonel Caddell was the person who ought to be believed, and that he and his friends were passionately partial, and not the witnesses of truth. He denied that he had garbled, misrepresented, suppressed, or misquoted anything, and he challenged the right hon. gentleman to make good any one of his injurious charges; or, if he could Hot make them good, he respectfully invited him, for his own sake, publicly to withdraw them. (Loud cheers.) The right hon. gentleman apparently awakened to the fact that he had per- petrated a disastrous indiscretion in leaving the matter to two resident magistrates, and deter- mined to send the case to the assizes for trial; but when the Coercion Act was passed it was never contemplated by Conservatives or Liberal Union- ists that a case of this importance should be withdravm from a jury, (Cheers.) If juries in Ireland were not to be trusted, it was the duty of the Government to have provided some efficient substitute for them, and a case of this kind ought not to have been left in the hands of the judge3 selected for the purpose by the executive. The appointment of Mr Shannon to try these cases was nothing less than the prostitution of the tribunal. There was another point he wished to raise. He invited the House to consider what sort of evi- dence of the success of a policy was afforded by the fact that, after the Coercion Act had been in force three years, the Government had still, according to their own account, to cope with a conspiracy of unparalleled audacity and atrocity—(hear)—and if this conspiracy was to be prosecuted at all, he desired to know why it was not prosecuted until it had been in operation for some months ? The only reason he had ever heard was that at the time selected Messrs Dillon and O'Brien were on the point of starting for a campaign in America. (Hear, hear,) This was probably the last time he should make a motion against the coercive policy of the Government in the present Parliament. The noiseless foot of time was rapidly bringing that day near when the members of that House would be brought to a national account. Gentle- men opposite would then have to explain how it was that, in spite of pledges abundantly given, they had passed a Coercion Act for Ireland, and how that act, passed in fraud on the con- stituencies, had been administered in a spirit which was a fraud on Parliament. (Hear, hear.) They might that night note that they rejoiced in the vindication of the law, but they would have to explain to the constituencies of the country who had an old love of freedom-(her, hear)- that by the vindication of the law lihey meant proceedings which would not be endured for a day nor an hour in England or Scotland, and %Which were a hundred times more foolish and more intolerable in a country like Ireland, where the paramount object of our policy shotild be" by a rigorous impartiality, gradually to efface that inveterate distrust of the law which the corrupt and cruel partiality of an alien Govern- ment had for long ages burnt deep into the hearts and souls of the Irish people. (Cheers.) Mr T. W. RUSSELL then moved all amendment declaring that the proceedings referred to in the resolution had been rendered imperative by the existence and activity of an illegal conspiracy, directed against the civil rights of a large section of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland, who have been subjected to cruel persecution and great Joss in following their lawful callings; and this House rejoices in the successful invocation of the law in Tipperary and elsewhere, which has gone far to restore freedom to the individual in every part of Ireland." The right hon. gen- tleman (Mr Morley) had spoken as if "the proceedings in Tipperary had commenced on his arrival. But he knew that they did not. When Mr O'Brien visited Tipperary some months before he found it one of the most prosperous towns in Ireland. Now it was as if an avenging army had passed through it, leaving nothing but devastation behind them and this, although no one in Tipperary before this quarrel professed to have any grievance against Mr Smith- Barry, their landlord. The whole dis- pute arose out of the determination of the tenants to assist the Ponsonby tenants out of the rents due to Mr Smith-Barry, because that gentleman had exercised his legal and moral right to assist his friend and brother landlord. He did not deny that the right hon. gentleman was entitled, if he liked, to go to Tipperary in order to see how the engine of coercion was worked but when he did so he ought also to have enquired into the work of the conspiracy, the results of which he had described. The right hon. gentleman had done nothing of the kind. Chief Baron Palles had solemnly declared that the conspiracy in question was one to induce people not to pay rent which they were entitled to pay, and then it was enforced by boycotting of the most cruel and cowardly kind, and also by violence. (Hear, hear.) He maintained that in such a case it was not only right to institute a prosecution, but that the prosecution should have been instituted at an earlier date. (Hear, hear,) Although it might not suit the Parliamentary game to take such proceedings the Irish executive had nothing to do with the Parliamentary game. They had no right to stand by and see people boycotted and ruined. (Hear, hear.) The hon. member then discussed in detail Mr Morley s account of the proceeding's at the Tipperary Court-house, contending that in so far as regarded the inno- cence of the so-called stripling," Mr Henry Harrison, it was inconsistent with a recent speech of Mr Parnell, who, in introducing this gentle- man to a meeting- at Kilkenny, had described him as the only man who fought single-handed at Tipperary and choked three of them. "(Laughter.) Proceeding to discuss the measures taken by Col. Caddell to prevent the intrusion of a crowd into the Tipperary Court-house, he defended them on tiie ground that not only was the court-house small, but its available accommodation had been diminished by the reservation of one gallery for the press and forjjthe ladies. Mr J. REDMOND I saw you amongst the ladies. (Laughter.) Mr RUSSELL Yes, and what is more you tried to keep me there and failed. (Renewed laughter.) Mr REDMOND You ran away. (" Oh and loud laughter.) Mr RUSSELL next contended that Messrs Irwin and Shannon, the magistrates by whom the Tipperary prisoners were tried, had acted with perfect impartiality. The action of the Irish executive was, he submitted, impera- tively demanded, because people were being deprived by this conspiracy of their just rights, and it had been exercised in the interests of and not against i.e. I freedom. (Ministerial cheers.) Mr GLADSTONE, who was received with loud Opposition cheers, said, as no member of the Government had risen to address the House, he was anxious not to lose a moment in tion to the peculiar and, as far as he knew, unexampled position in which the House had been placed. (Hear, hear.) A right hon. gentle- man, who had himself held Cabinet office in connection with the government of Ireland, brought forward charges of the gravest, most formidable and definite character against the Government, and more particularly against the Chief-Secretary for Ireland and his hon. friend behind him, acting at the suggestion of the Government, or with their evident approval, endeavoured by an amendment entirely to prevent the discussion from coming on. (Cheeis and a gesture of dissent from Mr T. W. Russell*. The hon. gentleman shook his head, but he had not appealed to him for assent. He appealed^ rather to the language of the amendment and the character of the hon. gentleman's speech. (Hear, hear.) The amend- ment set aside the whole subject of the accusa- tion against the Chief Secretary, and the liort gentleman had not said a word in relation to them. The House was entitled to a discussion of those charges. (Cheers.) Tjie speech of the hon. gentleman consisted of attacks upon the IN atidnalist members, and upon certain Roman Catholic priests, and the contention that the plan of campaign, as exhibited at Tipperary, was illegal and pernicious, and that his right hon. friend ought to have made an inquiry into the origin of the difficulty at Tipperary, instead of doing what he had done that night. His right hon. friend (Mr Morley) abstained from touching upon subjects to which the'hon. gentleman had referred, because they were subjects which were still liable to judicial inquiry. (Cheers.) Now, the question was whether his right hon. friend was right in the matter he had adduced and it was the first time in his recollec- tion that, when a right hon, gentleman occupying such a position made grave and serious charges against the Government, counten- ance was given by them to an amend- ment which completely shifted the issue and evaded a contest into which they apparently had no wish to enter. (Loud cheers.) The plan of campaign was a most fit subject for discussion, and so also were the other matters to which the L_ _1_ "1' r iion. gemieuian liar, reierred; but he was not justified in bringing them forward to "rive the <-o bye to the motion of his right hon. friend and to prevent the discussion of it which was a legiti- mate and constitutional subject for debate. (Cheers.) The first of the charges made by his right hon. friend was that the action of cheering and booing was treated -ut v(, by the officers of the Executive Government as justifying the use of force against the people. Was that so or was it not ? (Cheers.) It was upon that issue that they wished to hear what the Government had to say, when some one con- descended to speak on their behalf. The next charge was that people were shut out from their statutory right of entering into a court of justice by the arbitrary action of Colonel Caddell. The movement of the people towards the court door was an orderly movement. What ground, except illegality or violence on the part of the people, could justify their exclus:on? If the court would not accommodate the whole of them, that was no rrround "for excluding all. (Hear, hear.) Another charge was that when the proceedings against the police were taken, the bench was packed with resident magistrates who were afficers of the body whose conduct was impugned. (Cheers.) The House had a right to have those matters discussed, and it was for that discussion that he pleaded and pressed. (Cheers.) The counter charges of riot were brought under the Coercion Act, and it ap- peared to be the practice of the Government to draw everything they said into that net in order to withdraw matters from a jury. (Hear, hear.) That was a charge against the executive Government of Ireland which deserved to be discovered. The Secretary for Ireland was in the habit of accepting wholesale statements lie received from his official representatives and servants in Ireland but it was indecorous for him to charge Air Morley with deliberate suppression, with garbling, and with misrepresentation Such statements, he knew, were according to the manner of the right hon. gentleman, and I he did not ask him to change it; but he felt justified in calling upon him to defend his allegations in the House. (Cheers.) This was not -the first time that the Govern- ments had been charged with attempting to nullify and destroy the right of public meeting'. That question was raised by the member for East Mayo (Mr Dillon) last session. Whether the hon. gentleman behind was right or not right in denouncing the proceedings at Tipperary, as to which he pronounced no opinion, the rights of the people with regard to proceeding in courts of justice and with regard to public meeting were proper matters for discussion in that House, and it was their business to do their best to maintain and defend their rights. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman had contended that the proceedings taken against the memberfor East Mayo and others were analogous in their legal character and importance to the proceedings taken in 1880 against the member for Cork but the late' Government never endeavoured to bring the member for Cork within the sweep of summary jurisdiction. The charged against the present, Government was that they showed a disposition to exclude, and shut out wherever they could, the protection of a jury. The last of the charges was that. the Secretary for Ireland' selected Mr Irwin and Mr Shannon for the trial of this case, though he knew that Mr Shannon and the member for East Mayo had been engaged shortly before in a sharp personal altercation. (Cheers.) The mover of the amendment seemed to think it a matter for immense congratulation that the number of cases under the (joercion Act had been reduced to 500. But there was one thing in which he must admit there had been success, and that was in the compulsory exclusion from the House of two of the ablest and most honoured of its members—(cheers)—at a period when, un- doubtedly, it must be felt on all sides that their country stood in especial need of their services. (Loud cheers.) It was a great, noble, and superlative stroke to have secured the closing of the prison doors on the member for East Mayo and the member for North-east Cork, and if the hon member had limited his amendment to a commendation of that proceeding there might have been something to be said for it. (Cheers.) He did not see any signs of the alleged success of the Government. The purpose of coercion was to put an end to agrarian crimes and to the combination which depended upon deterring tenants from taking derelict farms but, accord- ing to all the available evidence, these farms were either derelict or simply used for pasturage. (Hear, hear.) The Government had not only placed the magistracy and the constabulary of Ireland in an attitude towards the Irish people more unfortunate than they h -id ever yet occupied, but they had within the last three or four years made not only Irish but British audiences regard with favour infractions of the law in Ireland. That was a deplorable fact but if laws were passed in violation of reason and decency, the people felt that, whatever discredit attached to the infraction of the law, far greater blame attached to them who made and administered it. No doubt the House would again that night dis- tinguish itself by passing a vote of confidence in itself and inscribing on its journals an eulogium of the legislation it had adopted and of the spirit in which that legislation had taken effect and ,within those walls that might be an easy, comfort- able, and satisfactory proceeding. But it could not avert the coming doom—(great cheering)—or observe the ever-growing evidence of the fact that the people of this country are determined that their fellow-subjects in Ireland shall enjoy the same precious and invaluable liberties as thev themselves enjoy. (Loud and continued cheers") Mr W. H. SMITH, who was very indistinctly heard in the gallery, strongly censured what he described as the reckless and unscrupulous manner in which the right hon. gentleman oppo- site had brought several charges against those who were engaged in the administration of the law in Ireland. The motion was directed specially against the Chief Secretary for Ireland, but the Government fully shared his responsi- bility. (Hear, hear.) Mr Swift McNeill, Mr Cameron Corbett, and Sir Thomas Esmonde continued the debate. Mr G. WYNDHAM said that in attacking the Irish police of the Government hon. gentlemen opposite had been firing ata constantly diminishing target. (Loud ironical cheers from the Opposition.) They had not attacked the conduct of the Govern- ment in instituting the Tipperary prosecutions, but had contented themselves with criticising the manner in which their orders had been carried out by subordinates. Now although the Government were, no doubt indirectly, they were not directly responsible under the latter head, and he wai therefore, satisfied that the Opposition would, if they could, assail the policy for which the Cabinet were immediately answerable. (Hear, hear.) Mr HENEY HARRISON said with respect to the speeches which had been attributed to him and Mr Parnell with respect to the part he took, or expressed his willingness to take in the proceedings in Tipperary. that he had been greatly misconceived and misrepre- sented. What lie charged against the police in regard to the occurrences at the Tipperary Court House was that they attacked a small crowd hemmed in by stone walls with unnecessary brutality. For his own part, he never assaulted the police until h« was struck on the head with the butt end of a rifle. Then, no doubt, he struck in self-defence, as lie was fully justiffed in doing according to the priri<j);.le enunciated by the Homo Secretary in the case of I-largaii- (laughter)—and he had reason to believe that what he then did caused the police to desist from any further assault. (Renewed laughter.) Mr BALFOUR found great difficulty in under- standing why this motion was brought forward. At first he was inclined to think that it had been made merely because no session of Parliament y was now considered to be complete without a vote of censure on the Government in respect to their Irish policy. (Laughter.) Put now he found that it was a combination on the part of the right hon. gentlemen opposite of a personal controversy which had sprung up between himself and the right hon. gentleman in November or December last, and which,it appeared to him, rankled in the mind of the latter ever since. (Laughter.) Could anyone conceive a more trivial ground for a vote of censure on a government than that two persons should have their heads broken in a street riot in Tipperary at which an ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland happened to be present ? (Ministerial cheers and laughter.) He wondered that the member for Midlothian, who usually posed as the guardian of parlia- mentary traditions, should have allowed himself to be led into a course so detrimental to the interests of parliamentary debate. (Cheers.) The House divided, and there were— For the resolution 25 Against 320 Governmelltmajority 75 [LEFT SITTING.]

MR WILLIAM DAVIES, M.P. We are requested to announce thlt in conse- quence of a meeting to be held to-day (Tuesday) 0' of the supporters of Mr William Davies, M.P. for Pembrokeshire, that gentleman will not be able to take part in the division on Mr Morley's resolution respecting the administration of the Crimes Act in Ireland. Mr Davies has, however, paired with Col. Brookfield.

_i. THE NEWBURY TRAGEDY, EXHUMATION OF THE BODIES. Early last month the coroner's jury at Newbury which enquired into the circumstances attending the deaths of Mrs John Chamberlain, wife of a cattle dealer, living- at "Warren Farm, and her brother, Mr Sydney Heath, returned a verdict to the effect that Mrs Chamberlain shut her blotter while in a state of temporary insanity, and that she herself was accidentally killed while struggling with her husband for the possession of a gnu. The bodies of Mrs Chamberlain and Mr Heath were exhumed on Monday by order of the Homo Secretary, and were examined by Dr Bond, chief surgeon to the London police force, who was assists^ by Mr .Tenner Clarke, surgeon, of Newbury, who gave evidence at the inquest! The result of the inquiry will be laid before the Home Secretary.

frn-i>wp'n LATE SPORTING NEWS. ANTICIPATIONS. The betting on the Waterloo Cup showed Colonel North's nomination a, better favourite than ever. Wise Man kept his place at the head of the Lincolnshire Handicap quotations, for which event War Dance met with very rough treatment. Choufleur advanced for the Grand Nationial, as did Orvieto for the Two Thousand and Derby. To-morrow, at Sandown Park, I fancy the following Cardinal's Hurdle Handicap—THE VICAR or LEPKECRAUN. Prince of Wales's Steeplechase- -VVILLIE BLAIR or AWAJws. Hunters' Hurdle Race—BLOODSTONE. Burwood Open Hunters' Steeplechase— Mn> SI-IIPMITE or BEDOUUS'. Selling Hunters' Flat Race-FAIRFIED. Selling Handicap Steeplechase-Swatton s best Monday Night. VIGILANT.

,ftJ. ABERDARE POULTRY, PIGEON, AND CAGE BIRD SHOW. The second annual show of the Aberdarfe Poultry Fanciers Association, which will be held on Thursday next at the Market-hall, promises to be a brilliant success. There are over 700 entries, and the exhibits include poultry, cage birds, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and cavies. Considering that nearly the whole of the members of the association are workmen, the continued and in- creasing success of this show is highly creditable.

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SWANSEA. THR CHARLES BATH MEMORIAL.-At last tenders are being invited for the erection of a memorial hall in memory of the late Mr Charles Bath. This is in connection with the Christ Church effort, not that initiated at a town's meeting, about which nothing has been heard for many months. THE NOETH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY AND SWANSEA. —Steps are to be taken immediately to double the line from Swansea to Pontardulais, and to largely increase the siding accommodation, also to make a station at Bryn Mill in the place of that at Swansea Bay. Other improvements are also understood to be in contemplation.

NEATH. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A fatal accident occurred at Bryncoch Pit on Monday afternoon, a collier named Thomas James, aged 35, being killed by a fall of coal in the stall iii which he was working. The deceased was a single man, and resided at Bryncoch.

CWMAMAN. ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS. — The anniversary meetings of tho Cwniaman Chapel were held an Sunday and Monday. The Revs Moses Thomas (Resolven), Morris D. Jolies (Mountain Ash), and J. Morgan (Aberkenfig) officiated.

ABERAMAN. ANNIVERSARIES.—The anniversary services at Saron Congregational Church, Aberaman, were held on Sunday and Monday, the Revs J. Foulkes (Aberavon), and D. Evans (Carmarthen) officiating.

LLANDILO. A Boy DROWNED.—The body of a young lad, aged 11 years, who had been missing from his homo in Rhosmaen since Friday last, was dis- covered in a well at Cefntresgob on Sunday.

MOUNTAIN ASH. BOARD OF HEALTH.—The fortnightly meeting of the Mountain Ash Local Board of Health was held on Monday, Mr Morgan Morgan, chairman, presiding.—The Chairman moved, in accordance with notice, that Lord Windsor be asked for the price of a site at Ynysybwl for the proposed cemetery. Mr Llewellyn seconded. — Mr S. Evans said they had been efTered either the Gelli site or the site near the church. It was, he assured them, the wish of the inhabitants of Ynysybwl that they should have a cemetery at the Glli site.—It was agreed to ask for the terms of both sites, -It appeared from a letter and statement by Mr Bell that there was no level land which the colliery proprietor (Mr Nixon) could offer, without interfering with the colliery arrangements, for the purpose of the proposed recreation ground, and it was resolved to refer the matter to the committee.

RHYMNEY OFTDINATFION.—On Monday afternoon ah ordina- tion service was held at the Goshen Welsh Con- gregational Chapel, when Mr Elias Joseph, of Carmarthen College, was ordained on his becom- ing minister of the above chyich. The Rev W. Charles, B. A., presided, and the following also assisted in the ceremony, viz.. Revs G. Owen, R. E. Peregrine, B.D. (Rhymney), T. P. Phillips (Llandvssil), T. J. Hughes (Maesyowmmer). During the day Bermons were also delivered by During the dav sermons were also delivered by the Rev Professor D. E. Jones (Carmarthen), and Professor Jones, B.A. (Brecon), W. Joseph (Maesteg), aud T. P. Phillips (Llandvssil). DVIITI-L 'OF AK OLD INHABITANT.—In the person of Mr Thomas Griffiths, Cuba House, one of the oldest inhabitants of Rhymney passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 76 years. Deceased was a deac.a i- the Brynhyfryd Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, and was much esteemed in the town.

HIRW AIN. EARLY PRIMROSES.— Several blossoms of prim- roses were open at Penderryn yesterday morning.

MARDY. FIRP. -A fire broke out in the lamp-room of the Mardy Colliery at half-past seven o'clock on Sunday evening, but it was soon extinguished by means of water carried in buckets. Little damage was done, The origin of the conflagration is un- known.

NEWPORT. THE RECENT FOOTBALL MATCH.- The New- porc and County Infirmary funds will benefit to the extent of between £ 70 and £ 80 by the recent match between Cardiff and Newpoi-t publicans. The greatest good feeling, as became participators in a charity match, was exhibited between the players on the ground. One noticeable incident occurred ander the pavilion. One forward had given another a fair but intensely unpleasant push into touch. As the pushed one regained his feet, his opponent, holding out his hand for a handshake, began to apologise. The frown on the opposing Boniface's visage (he was a bigger man) vanished in a moment. A NEW RESIDENTIAL SUBURB.—A company with £ 50,000 capital has been formed to pur- chase the Springfield Estate, a tract of land lying on the south side of Stow Park, for the purpose of laying it out as a residential suburb. The land was the property of the late Mr W. G. Cartwright, colliery proprietor, who died whilst holding office as high sheriff. There is a residence on the land, which has, until recently, been occupied by the widow and children of the deceased gentleman. It is noticeable that Mr T. Beynon, the present high sheriff, is one oi the directors of the new company. ALARMING FIRE.—Shortly before ten o'clock ou Sunday evening a lire was discovered in the shop of Mrs Sadler, grocer, 29, Cross-street. A sailor named Piatt, living in Dumiries-place, Dock- street, was proceeding to his home when in pass- ing the premises he noticed smoke issuing from the crevices of the shop door. He raised an alarm, and the elcctric bells called up the members of the fire brigade, who were speedily on the spot, but their efforts were not successful until the whole of the contents of the shop (a small one) ancl the oedroom above had been destroyed. The adjoining premises of Mr Hewertson, tobacconist, were ignited ab the rear, but the brigade speedily discovered this and prevented the spread of the lire. The daughter of the proprietress of the shop, who lives on the pre- mises, went shortly after nine o'clock to go to Maindee to visit her father, leaving ti paraffin lamp burning on the counter. When she returned she found the place on fire, and the brigade at work. The disaster cannot be explained except on the hypothesis that the lamp must have exploded and ignited the counter.

MARSHFIELD. MONTHLY STOCK SALE.— Messrs Ncwland and Hunt, auctioneers, K ewport, held their first monthly sale at Marshfield on Monday. The auctioneers were supported by a large number of buyers from Cardiff, Newport, Treherbert, etc., and most of the farmers in the district. They successfully disposed of about 220 prime fat sheep, 12 head of cattle, 20 pigs, etc. A brisk competition was experienced for all lots. Sheep made from 40s to 53s each, top market prices being realised. The auctioneers intend holding sales every month, on the third Monday in each month.

CARDIFF. PRESENTATION TO Mu II. S. DATE AT WATCHET. —On Wednesday evening last, an interesting prèsentation took place in the undenominational schoolroom, Watchet. Mr R. S. Date, who has most ably discharged the duties of organist at the Weslevan Chapel for upwards of 40 years, has recently found it necessary to remove to Cardiff, and his numerous friends in the Wesleyan body decided to recognisfi his long gratuitous services in some practical manlier. A subscription list was started, and the ultimate result was the purchase of a most handsome present, which took the form of an epergne. An entertainment was given in connection with the presentation. The Rev J. M. Mangles took the chair at 7.30, by which time the room had become literally crowded, so many were there desirous of witnessing the presentation and of manifesting their regret at Mr Date's departure and wishing him Gocl-speed. A portion of the programme was first gone tnrough, and the Chairman, in making the presentation, said Mr Date had, for upwards of 4-0 years, given his voluntary and gratuitous services as organist of the Watchet Wesleyan Chapel.—Mr R. S. Date, in acknowledging the gift, said he could not possibly give lull expression to his feelings, for his emotions were bÿyond description. lie had no idea when h camo over from Cardiff that he was going to meet that large gathering and be the recipient of that beautiful present. He could hardly say that he had been the organist of that chapel for 40 years continuously, but ib was 38 or 39 years. He was reading the other day an account of a piesentation to an organist who had occupied that position in a church for 42 years, and who was supposed to be the oldest organist in the kingdom, and he thought he might claim to be the second. (Applause.) THE ROATH HARRIERS.—A good muster of the laiatn Harriers went for their usual weekly ruti last Saturday evening, leaving the Royal Oak 1viT^1 ''D' r^le bares (V. Douglas, Bailey, ana vv. jiidgar Stephens) with a start of 10 minutes made their way in the direction of the Ruinney .Jiats, keeping to the Moors until within a. parallel, the latitude of St. Mellons, when they made for tho village after ascending the hill cross country was again taken, and after going to rough some splendid country made the road on the top of Rumney Hill, when they wended their weary way homeward, the hounds arriving about 40 minutes after the hares. The committee have £i,ed the annual handicap for the 21st March, at a 1 entrance fee of 2s 6d. Members are reminded at they are required to run three times in the 88 'on, at least,vith the club before they become qa ilified to take part in such races. LECTURE BY THE REV DR DALLINGER.—On Monday evening the Park-hall was filled by an intensely interested audience to hear a lecture by the Rev Dr Dallinger, F.R.S., on "Contrasts in Nature; the Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Small." It was illustrated by transparencies drawn from nature. No mere report or descrip- tion could give anything more than a bare idea or outline of the manner and the matter of this unique lecture, for even Dr Dallinger himself de- clared that no language he could use c.oUj^ give a conception of the wonders of the infinitely great and the infinitely little without physical demonstration. The lecture (which was presided over by Dr Vachell as chairman) was listened to throughout with rapt attention. AC the conclusion the usual vote of thanks was passed amid hearty applause, on the motion of the he* S. Dunman, of the Roath-road Wesleyan Chapel- LECTURE.—At the Town-hall Assembly-room to-night (Tuesday), the Rev C. J. Thompson) M. A Vicar of &t. John's, will lecture on "A walkthrough Rome. Principal Jones is aa" nounced to preside.

SAD SQUEL TO A CAHDIFF PANTOMIME. DEATH OF A STAGE MANAGER. The thousands of people who witnessed and laughed over the pantomime of The Babes tllf Woqd at the Grand Theatre, Cardiff, will doubt- less learn with regret of the death of Mr Charles Franklyn, who successfully and effectively staged the "show," and up to» the last day tended its production. Mr Franklvn caught » severe cold a few days before" the urs0 performance of the pantomftie, and this eluded his appearing Cll the stage as Friar TucK- Soon symptoms of malignant pneumonia "0 veloped, but Mr Franklyn wag an enthusiast m his profession, and although strongly advised take a respite from the worrying work of managerial post, he struggled on, and may said to have been dying when he rang. curtain up in the last performance W a pantomime the all-round success of which he W&* justly proud of. That evening he took to his bed, and there his life closed. Dr Vachell and Ifr Mullen did all that was possible for the patieA but the complaint under which liesuccuiribed d secured too firm a hold on his elifeebleu, constitution. Mr Franklyn had made numerous friends since his sojourn in Cardiff, and widow and two children will, we are sure, ha'/0 the sympathy of these in their bereavement- 5 funeral will leave Park-street this afternoon, al1.. we learn that there will be a large members of the profession now engaged at various places of amusement in tha town.

"THE SHAUGHlAUN" AT TIlE THEATRE ROYAL. pantomime of Sinbad. was brought ? close on Saturday night amid considerate enthusiasm, much of which was to the presence of the Cardiff footb^ team and other members of the club, whe turned up in force to do honour to Mr Price-Jenkins» who, m times past, has rendered yeoman servic0 to his club and country as a three-quarter Last night, the second chapter of fhe dramatic season was opened, when Mr J. P. Hard acre's com- pany presented Boucicault's stirring drama cf Shaughraun. Regarded as a whole, the compa1^ must be described as possessing all the abili'? necessary for such piece and the scenery and cessories added much to the effectiveness of performance. On Monday next the opera of If Cigale (the Grasshopper) is to be heard for first time in Cardiff, and already elaora. arrangements are being made for what will ull' doubtedly prove one of the most successful ail" eventful weeks of the season.

"LOST BY DRINK" AT THE GRAV. Mr W, Raynham's company appeared at the Grand Theatre last evening in the drama, Lo^ by Drink, which, by reason of the lessons whic" it conveys, possesses genuine interest for peoplo who regard the stage as an educational medium. 011 I Thursday evening, however, a very differed form of entertainment is to be presented at t!^0 Grand; Cyclops and Goliath—two of th* numerous band of "strong men" now aP, pearing before the public—being announce^ to compete in trials of str-?- and athletic feats for a considerable sum of money. Some of "the strong men °j- Cardiff have determined to try conclusions the two pnucjoals bearing historic names in this direction ;:e imagine the fun will As a novelty, the strong business is sure to dra a crowded house.

THE WAR IÑ ZULULARD" T SANGER'S CIRCUS. ——— Fun and frivolity a>s represented by the W^et jaVaT last evening at Messrs Sang0' and oon s Circus, Penarth-road, to a more seriotl.s* out highly effective spectacle, presenting Irl tableaux such memorable events in the War i0 ululand as the Battle of Isandu\st and defence of Rorke's Drift. In mimic f°rtU some of the horrors of that eostly canp*^n are >*e-enacted with a degree of that frequenters 0f a circus would hai'dty expect to he reached jn an arena, and withott the aid of scer^ry, 0r much in th| way of effects." King Cetewayo and several o his chiefs have their representatives in the Pf5" formance; and the British officers ^vh?, became famous in iiiat "little war once diore — in the persons members of the company—go through t'ltf awful experiences associated with numerous skirmishes and pitched fights. The large band Zulus and the antics and yellings of the black' sicins are as to the manner born but the real military air of th" whole spectacle is imparted by a strong detachment of the Welsh Regiment froir* the Cardiff Barracks. The musieaf bayone* exercise of the detachment is alone worth seeing; but taken all through the show 11 a good one. The first part of the programme is as interesting, and marked by as much ability, on the part of the company and the animals, heretofore but special mention must be made Louis, Elba, and Florence, whose trapeze worj and flights through the air are marvellously executed.

FOOTBALL. K LANCASHIRE v. SURBEY. c!'?n,v^" Ku§by championship match was plaf at \V halley l.an-e yesterday. The weather was beau» lully fane, and there wero 6,000 people presejit 0 two changes were made in he teams, Kome repU^i Strang m the /orwar,i rank for Lancashire, McCutcheon taking K H. FJovrere' uJaee at ttJ quarters. Gwynn played three-quarter for ncore Lancashire, 3 goals, 3 tries, 6 minors 1 minor.

1:W' THE SCHOOL TEACHERS CONFER ENCE AT CARDIFF. t On Monday afternoon a. committee of the whO of the members of the Cardiff School Board held at the Town-hall, under the presidency of Lewis Williams, when a deputation—composed ° Mr J. W. Hall (Moorland-road Board School), ■iames YVaugh, M.A. (Higher Grade School), Waiter Lrockmgton, B.A. (Radnor-road Scho^ and Mr E. C. Williams (Albany-road School) attended, and, after explaining that animal conference of the National Union Elementary Teachers would be held in Cardiff aster, asked the school board to give the cOol ferenco official recognition.^—On the illotiol", the Rev. Father Hayde, seconded by 0f .Butler, it w&s decided to accede to the request^ the deputation it being remarked that >v'u i the members of the board took, of course'j( practical interest in education, it was desii'»lj. that an interest should be awakened among c public generally.

A NENVPOR T 8 RESOLL-TIos. Robert Dunbar, the local prize-fighters' trai' was summoned at ^Newport policc-court on ,,jj day for being drunk in the Steampacket I11.11 j# oaturday week. A policeman was called ir\ turn out the defendant, who admitted that he 0 reproving a woman in the bar becrt she was helping other people out of a to which he had called for. On the ias# the police office defendant said this was the time he would go quietly. What is Runb»: sententiously asked the magistrates' clerk. •( £ gives a great deal rf trouble he is connected v prize lighting and boxing," replied stable Sinclair.—Mr Parnall observed that was defendant's sixth appearance and Mr l'ug4 Wansbrough, his colleague, told defendant no right to go to a public-house intoxicate Dunbar admitted that his worship was Q right, and turned away to pay over a or take the alternative of 14 days' impris°n0

LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAME^' i eof In the Private Bill Office of the IIOl: Commons on Monday, Mr W illiam John »» to Morgan John have deposited a petition P^L^or* be heard by counsel against the Garw and j Gas Bill when it reaches the committee ^jd Mr John Griffiths, Wheeley, and anofche1'' the Abersychan Local Board have J;e\ypo0 similar petitions in regard to the I Markets Bill. The Blackwood Gas an^ ..je*1* Company (Limited), the vicar and chutc*1 .o1Ji00 Oi tne parish ot Mynyddislwyn, and ag^lJl Edmunds, have petitioned to be heard the Western Valleys (Mon.) Water BrU-

hop0 The growing reputation of Herefordshire for delicacy of flavour, and the consequent1 ueji# in the acreage planted, is a matter of I-JJ vieVJ 9 >mment in the trade papers, especially. of the fact that the acreage of is decreasing. The Brewers' Journal ber remarks that brewers are rapidly b^„stei's' the whole of the growth of "°,to ^6\ the quality of which they find superior. the finest East Kents. The clean Pst excellent curing of Worcester hops cUrio^ the planters in good stead. lS1]„j VV°r anomaly that two-thirds of the so-caii-, 0 ^0 cestera" are grown in Herefordshire, to jjop°. of the latter county being never ,,nd m the trade. Messrs Charles WatkiO6i^ir of the Hereford Brewery, have hops purchased direct from local growers gulJli^ m brewing their specialite, the „« Ale, an<f attribute not a little of its r P in this and to the fact that the ba-rl^' is made by themselves from home-gr J31W ^Sore0S THROAT IRRITATION AND 9?(?UCING COUK'DP^ and dryness, tickling and irritation, m-g u3e t|j0 affecting the voice. For these symP „jands Glycerine Jujubes. In contact with moment they are excited by the ac bec0f^ \xh Glycerine in these agreeable corrfe^- tins tively healing. Solcl only in bo.?e!gnathic labelled "JAMES ISPPS & Co., Honio; PTOSE AND J London." Dr. Moore, in his worK on. prep £ r f Diseases," savs The Glycerine d ser^pjeS, James Epps and Co., are of curative or palliative agent, while yijroat a Senior Physician to the tr'ah J* Infirmary, writes After an ex; i(ierat>le '•> 7^43 found your Glycerine Jujubes or con. almost all forms of tJiroat dise. painter, LADDERS.-Ladders for ?°lV terers, farmers, private use t Brist"1- old-established Manufactory, Bitrr s

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ABERDARE. FOOT RACE.—A 120 yards race for L20 a side was run, on the New Recreation Ground, between Tom Jones (Llwydcoed) and Gwilvm Wilkins (Cwmbacli). Starter, James Tiley; referee, Phillip Davies (late of Treharris). Jones won easily.

EBBW VALE. MINISTERIAL.—The Rev M. E. Thomas (Cynwyd), Cardiff, has received a unanimous call to the pastorate of the Calvinistic Metho- dist Church at Ebenezer, Ebbw Vale. The rev gentleman, who is a brilliant and a well- known young poet-preacher, has not yet setit ft definite answer wheiher he will or will not accept the invitation.

public-houses, and they were robbing them, tynuowntrs and boarding-masters combined were doiLg in Cardiff, he repeated, and in other ports to-day what the establishment of the shipping offices was intended to prevent. Some would say that was a strong statement, but lie would prove iõ, They had men on the platform who had been kidnapped out of foreign ships, and who had been sent from Shields after being three days in a boarding-house and charged 22 15s for being there only that length of time. (Cries of Shame.") Again, no later than that day, six foreigners had been stolen from ft foreign ship at the top of the dock, »nd taken to the Mercantile Marine Office by a "Cardiff boarding-master, who was a member of the bogus union. As soon as the men had signed on the Board of Trade did their duty and put them into a cab and conveyed to the police-staticm. The penalty for false declaration was three months' imprisonment. Was it right that these Por men should suffer for a scoundrel ? Xo.) Was it right that they should be punished for the men who were behind that scoundrel? (No.) The Shipowers' Federation said they did not take foi-eigners unless they had been four years in English ships. (Derisive laughter.) They might well smile. He would tell the shipowners that they were ready and willing to enter into a proper compact with them, giving fair play to both sides. If they were pre- pared to meet him, he was prepared to meet them. If the sh ipowners were anxious to come to terms, they were willing to come to terms. At the same time (" Don't give in.") Did they ever know Wilson give in ? (Cheers.) Judging from the tone of the Shipping Federation, he believed they had had enoL^i. They were at least perfectly satisfied they would never break up the Sailors and Fire- men's Union. (Renewed cheers). He had not entered into any negotiations with the ship- owners, and he did not know that he intended to ask them to negotiate. They had as much right to ask as he had. (Hear, hear, and applause) Still it would not he right on their (the men's) part, if they thought they could come to reason- able terms by asking, to stand upon their dignity, and as long as they felt the federation would not turn round and say they were climbing down. When they came to approach each other, he should draft a manifesto, showing what they were prepared to conceded to them and what they would expect them to concede. He should pre- pared it that night ov to-day but in the mean- time they were going on fighting. (Cheers.) In the meantime, thpy were not going to bate one jot or tittle. (Renewed cheers.) HELP FOR THE STRIKE. The Shields branch of the Seamen's and Fire- men's Union have voted £ 500 in aid of the strike fund f t Cardiff. Mr L. M. Rees, the secretary, ferwarded to the strike committee on Monday the "lUn ef £ 15 2s, representing the contributions of the Barry coal-tippers in aid of their brethren on strike at Cardiff. It will be recollected that the tippers at Barry voluntarily undertook the payment weekly of a 4s levy dining the con- tinuance of the strike. STRIKE OF CARDIFF BOILER- MAKERS' HELPERS. On-Menday morning the disagreement which has been occasioned through the delay in the passing of the new port rules which were sub- mitted some weeks ago by the Dry Dock labourers to their employers, culminated in a strike of the boilermakers, or platers' helpers at the Mount- etuart Dry Dock, the Tyueside, the Wallsend, and the Bute Companies yards the dissatisfied numbering more than ICO. Mr Thomas Davies, the general secretary to the National Amalgamated Labourers1 Union, to which body the whole of the men are affiliated, was communicated with but during the day he failed to effect a settle- ment. In the evening a crowded meeting was held at the Cymrouorion Hall, and although at first a decided disposition was manifested to refuse to return to work until the whole of the claims had been ecnceded, it was agreed after a con- ciliatory address from Mr Davies to accept the advances offered by the employers. Some little differences still exist between the platers' labourers and the platers who are members of the Boilermakers' Society, but in all probability these will be amicably adjusted during this week. BOARDING-MASTERS AND FREE LABOUR. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—In reference to the letter of Mr Hiram Weeks which appeared in your issue of to-day, we are pleased to acknowledge that this gentleman is about the only bona-fide boarding-master that has signed the petition for the removal of the free labour registry from our headquarters. With regard to Air Weeks' assertion that he was one of the founders and strongest supporters of the Cardiff Boarding-masters' Association, we find it our painful duty to remind him of the time when he (as chairman) was re- sponsible for the management of our affairs, the unanimous opinion expressed by our members was that, if your correspondent had continued another two months in office, the association wculd not have been in existence at the present date. As for his ceasing to tie a member on account of the (Seamen's Union being promoted, we must inform the public that Mr Weeks was not recognised as a member of the company fully two months before the Seamen's and Tradesmen's Union was registered. As to your correspondent possessing the largest boarding establishment (next to the Union Home), we have the Sailors' Home, in Stuart-street, and several other similar institutions with larger accommoda- tion and more influence at Cardiff. We think we are giving a true version of the matter when we state that Mr Weeks himself v, as a competitor for the appointment as ageiit to the Federation.—I am, &c., J. D. NOLCINI, 1 eb. loth. Secretary to the Association.