South Wales Daily News

BARRY DIRECTORS' MEETING. THE PROPOSED DOCK EXTENSIONS. A meeting of the directors of the Barry Rail- way Company was held on Friday, when there was a good attendance. Besides the transaction of ordinary business, plans and statements pre- pared by tha engineers and surveyors with reference to the dock extension works were laid before the board and considered, and bills of quantities incidental thereto were also examined. Resolutions were adopted in favour of pushing on the work with all possible despatch.—The question of the accounts of the company did not come before the meeting.

CARDIFF HARBOUR TRUST SCHEME. A DEPUTATION TO LONDON. It has been arranged that a deputation repre- senting Cardiff Corporation will meet Lord Tredegar's solicitors (Messrs Carlisle, Unna, and Rider) at London on Friday next, to discuss the subject of how his lordship's interests will be affected by the proposed harbour trust scheme, and consider what arrangements can be come to regarding them. It is understood that a deputa- tion will meat representatives of Lord Windsor and those of of other interests concerned before the date mentioned. As we previously announced, it has been arranged to meet the Taff Vale Rail- way Directors on the 16th inst., and by that date the harbour trust committee will have obtained a very good idea as to the attitude of the parties affected by the scheme.

THE LATE SIR GEO. ELLIOT. Sir Geo. Elliot and the members of the family of the late baronet desire to express their warm and grateful thanks for the expressions of sym- pathy they have received, which have been too numerous to admit of personal acknowledgment.

—— —— CARDIFF WATERWORKS. THE FIRE AT THE PUBLIC WHARF. At a meeting of the Cardiff Waterworks Com- mittee, held yesterday, under the presidency of Alderman David Jones, the report of the water engineer and on the various Parliamentary Bills affecting the waterworks property of the corporation were read, and the attention of the Parliamentary Committee called to the necessity of certain clauses for the protectionof the corpora- tion being inserted in several of the Bills. With regard to the scarcity of water available for ex- tinguishing the fire at Messrs Johnston's pre- mises at the public wharf, Ely Tidal Harbour Mr Priestley, assistant waterworks engineer, explained that the water was supplied by the corporation through meter to the Taff Vale Railway, and it was therefore not under the con- trol of the. corporation.

CARDIFF CORPORATION AND THE TRAMWAYS CO. OPEN DEFIANCE OF AUTHORITY. At the Cardiff Borough Police-court, yes- terday — the stipendiary magistrate on the bench-tbe Card i ff Tramways Company (Limited) were summoned at the instance of Mr W. McKenzie, head-constable, for allowing four un- licensed omnibuses to ply in Bute-street.-Mr F. C. Lloyd, deputy town clerk, prosecuted and Mr Harry Cousins defended.—Mr Cousins said it was desired there should be no friction between the licensing authorities and the company, and I he would admit the offences. He explained that the fees had been pad to the borouyh treasurer, and had not been returned neither had the licences been sent. The vehicles had been passed by the-liead constable, and the company considered that the practice which had been followed for years would be aUowed in this case. -Mr Lloyd said he must press for a penalty because the tramways company had openly defied the licensing authority. The company had been warned of their irregularity in running unlicensed 'buses, and they had been asked by the committee to withdraw them, but in spite of these the 'buses had continued to be run.-A penalty of 5s and costs was imposed in each caua.

[ HARRY FURNISS'S LONDON LETTER. The exigencies of engravers made it imperative for me to make my notes and sketches earlier than usual last week for the convenience of hard- worked prospective holiday-makers. I was, therefore, unable to introduce the portraits of 80m. well-known public men who have unfortu- nately passed away recently, their loss casting a gloom over the Christmas festivities of many. Theatrical London mourns the less of Mr Henry Pettitt, who has passed away after a sharp attack of typhoid, at present an epidemic in London. When I penned the paragraph which appeared in these columns a couple of weeks ago relative to Mr J. L. Toole's playing a practical joke upon a member of the Green-room Club, I had no idea that Henry Pettitt, the dramatic author I referred to, was lying on his death-bed Henry Pettitt was a popular man and a popular author. There was no nonsense about him. Could anything be better than the following opinions of the difficulty of his work ? If you write poetic lines, you are guilty of high falutin' or gush but if you stick to simple dialogue your style is bald and deficient in that unknown quantity called literary merit; if you put in smart things you are flippant and rude whereas, if your characters talk naturally, you are prosy and commonplace. If your situations are strong you are transpontine,' but if you are quiet they are ineffective and uninteresting; if your audience weepa it should have laughed, and if it laughs it should have been treated to instruction and moral elevation. The modern playwright's art is one continued illustration of the ancient fable of the old man and his ass. It may be profitable, but you must be prepared to sacrifice present rest in the hope of future fame." It seems but a few days ago that I had a long chat with him about this very subject. He was HENRY PETTITT. I full of his plans for the future, and when I con- gratulated him upon his success, he said "Yes, my boy, I have been successful and made money; I have a place in the country, live the life of a squire there, and come to town to work my heart out to keep it up and pay my gardenors and other servants. A man is a slave to his retainers when he takes a country seat. It's killing work, play- writing. I have to-day beaten the record- written a whole scene at one sitting, but it will all go to the gardeners, no matter how long the piece runs—the money all goes one way." As I left him I thought what a good comedy this leaf in the history of the successful dramatist would make. He was one of the few men I ever met who resented a caricature. I did one of him some years ago, and handed it over to a mutual friend. Pettitt snatched it and tore it into pieces, and threw the fragments into the fire. Political London has lost the popular Sir George Elliot. Sir George was the type of the hard-working, self-made man—he had a strong and distinguished appearance. In looking over my sketches this week I came across this character sketch of the baronet, drawn on the back of a SIR GEORGE ELLIOT. menu card a seasou or so ago, when I sat opposite him at dinner. Strange that three M.P.'s responding to toasts on this card have departed from this world of dinners and toasts in the space of a year. Truly the spirit of modern pantomime should be a young lady in collegiate attire, for the march of education has found its way over the footlights. At Christmas the fare of the youngsters is no longer the red-hot poker or the uncooked string of sausages the attraction now at Drury Lane is the series of historical tableaux, illustrating the history of England from the Conquest to the present time, and at the Lyceum Cinderella is not played to jingling music-hall I THE SPIRIT OF PANTOMIME. tunes, but to the masterpieces of Weber, Mendelssohn, Rossini, or Beethoven. This is surely in keeping with the Irvingesque dignity of the temple of modern drama. I suppose the topical duet which, at Drury Lane this year, is entitled We don't know where we are," will next year be answered by At Girton," and Professor Campbell and the lady principal, Marie Lloyd, will sing, in Latin, a parody on the collegiate examination papers for the edification of the stalls, instead of the political rubbish now the delight of the Gallery. If it had been all brightness in the theatres, it has been pretty black outside, for London has been visited during last week by a rich dense fog —the first we have had this year. We don't fall into canals as the unfortunate people in Holland have been doing, but there have been many accidents and much stoppage of business, and busy Londoners, who have been rather, spoilt by the clemency of the Clerk of the Weather during the last year, are grumbling at missing their engagements. More than one actor has kept the staiil waiting. A few years ago, at this time of the year, we had just such a fog as we have had this week. It was Miss Kate Santley, I think, who waa the cnucioal then at Drursr Lana i ■■ ■■ ■ — • í Pantomime at the time. There was no guidiBff star of limelight to guide her to the theatre; not even a link boy. Hamlet could not be acted without the Dane, fog or no fog. i Sliding about on greasy pavements in a dense fog hardly suited a pantomime princess, so she proved herself a woman of resource. A lnmbel j ing Pantechnicon van came looming through th { THE PANTOMIME PRINCESS IN A FOG. 1 fog, and no shipwrecked mariner drifting about in mid-Atlantic ever welcomed the sight of a sail as did the princess that van. It might knock corners in its transit and push smaller vehicles out of the way, but it was going home to the vicinity of the theatre, and natural impulse would guide the horses there, so the princess made a bargain with the driver and entered the spacious emPt3 waggon, and in this unromantic carriage sh. arrived just in time at the Palace of a Thousand Lights. The Winter Exhibition at Burlington House it interesting this year on account of the admirable collection of pictures by the late Royal Academician, John Pettie. Mr Pettie was a vigorous draughtsman and a beauti- ful colourist, and many of his portraits are very fine. He seemed to revel in paint- ing a red coat* —an object to many painters as maddening as it is to the JOHN R I-I- I infuriated buU. I recollect admiring on the last I Show Sunday before the sendmg-in day of the S Royal Academy at which he exhibited, a portrait ( of Mr Lamb, the celebrated golfer, in his red ¡ coat, when tbe original of the portrait came into I the studio. Not feeling very well, Mr Pettie bad j to avoid the crowd of his admirers seeing him. There were a few exceptions, of which I J was one. I had just left him when I saw Mr Lamb before his picture. In this portrait the 1 Bulger golf club, which, Mr Lamb, I believe. [ invented, to the delight of the golfing world, is introduced. I ran back to Mr Pettie and told j him that there was a stupid man in the studio wanting to know why artists always draw goit clubs wrongly that as a Scotchman, he must I protest against such a club which was out o! shape, like a club foot. "Tell him, mon, its » I bulger-Lamb's invention I returned. Hfi J wants to know who Mr Lamb is, and what is i bulger 1—perhaps it's a new kind of hunting crop, j and not a, golf club at all!" In rushed Mi j- Pettie, like an enraged lion, to slay the ignorant j visitor, buts in reality, to shake hands with Mt « Lamb, and explain my childish joke. > The London Thirteen Club hold their annual dinner on the 13th inst., at the Holborn Restaurant. There will be 13 tables, 13 guests at each, 13 dishes, and 13 speeches. Visitors will not be permitted to take part in any functicm I connected with the club ujnlU. they sign a j ,w declaration abating their sympathy'with the club. f They must all walk under the club ladder as they go into the dinner, the knives will be crossed, the chairman will be pleased to spill salty with the visitors, and altogether it will be a most unique gathering. Coffin-shaped salt-cellars arc being specially, made, whilst the banqueting faal will be lighted by a dim religious light obtair; I I THE THIRTEEN CLUB. 1 able from skull-shaped lamps." The club is < society formed a few years ago by this year's president, Mr W. H. Blanch, to protest against foolish superstitions, and members are being enrolled fast, and no doubt it has 5 a practical as well as an amusing side. Curiously anough, I received my invitation on the 13th of last month, quite by accident. I was dining that evening at a table round which were one or two very superstition* friends of mine, and they thought this fact -well, uncanny. But when I noticed that there were actually 13 at the table, my friends knocked over the salt-cellars io their agitation, nervously crossed their knives, and would have fallen under a ladder bad there been one there! And these. me 3ensiblp men of the world So equestrians are not to have a ride in ReRouVo Park! Sir Blundell Maple (whom we are all glad to see restored to health) agitated in the House on behalf of the riders. He lives in the park close to two other distinguished men, George R. Sims and Henri Rochefort, and probably, with his knowledge of horae J A RIDER'S REVENGE. flesh, groans to see the inhabitants taking ther, constitutional without proper accomoaadfition. The horsey exnert in John Leech's (Nature spok«

public dompaims, &r. the LIST of SUBSCRIPTIONS will OPEN on TUESDAY, the 9th day of January, 18S4, and will CLOSE on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of January. 1334. rpHE PORT BEIRA PIER, TRAMWAY A AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED. Registered under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1390. SHARE CAPITAL, In 150,000 Shares of £1 each. Payable 5s per Share on Application, 58 on Allotment, 5s in Three Months, and 5s in Six Months Allotment. DIRECTORS. B. BENSUSAN, Esq., Managing Director of the Port Beira Co., Ltd., 1, Shaftesbury Mansions, W. Count DE MENDIA, Director of the Mozambique Company. C. ALGERNON MOREING. Esq., Director of the Beira Railway Co., Ltd., Broad-street House. E.C. •ROBERT G. WEBSTER, Esq., J.P., M.P., 83, Bel- grave-road, N.W. Will join after allotment. BANKERS.—PARRS BANKING CO. and THE ALLIANCE BANK, Limited. 77, Lombard-street, E.C.. and Branches. BROKERS. —Messrs G. H. and A. M. JAY, 17, Old Broad-street, E.C., and Stock Exchange. SOLICITORS.—Messrs HURRELL and MAYO, 165, Queen Victoria-street, E.C. AUDITOR.-E. LAYTON BENNETT, Esq., F.C.A., Bishopsgate House, Kt; CNGDTEERS.—Messrs Sir G. B. BRUCE and WHITE, 3, Victoria-si reet, S.W SECRETARY.-HERBERT EDWARDS, Esq. !>FFICES. — BISHOPSGATE HOUSE, 55 and 56, BISHOPSGATE-STREET, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company has been formed for the purpose of Acquiring and working certain valuable privilege-! and toncessions, granted by the Mozambique Company, for the construction of Piers and Landing Stages, Tram- ways, Telegraphs and Telephones, in the port and town of Beira, particulars of which will be found lelow. The Mozambique Company governs the Provinces of Manica and Sofala and their dependencies, with the right to develop the resources thereof, either itself or through the agency of Sub-Companies. It will be found on reference to the map enclosed with the prospectus that this territory includes :he only practicable harbour in this part of the coast of South-Eastern Africa—namely, Beira, M the mouth of the River Pungwe, which affords a safe anchorage for large ocean-going vessels. The Port of Beira has recently acquired a Tast im- pottance, not only from its command of the trade of she Mozambique Company's territory, but as bein the only port giving access bv a cl1ea and expeditious route to the domains of the British South Africa Com- sany, and the whole sphere of British influence in Central South Africa. This fact has been recognised 'ay the British South Africa Company in the formation ,111 conjunction with and, ulldt;r conession frem the Mozambique Company) of the Beira Railway Company, limited, which is uow rapidly celJstructin 1\ line from Che Pungwe River to the frontier of the Portuguese md British territories, and thence eventually to Fori Salisbury and other parts of Mashonaland. There is Also a proposed line from Beira to the Zambesi. By means of this lino the distance for the land transport of goods will be reduced from about 1,670 to S65 miles. with an enorn..OU8 diminution of cost, and a rapid delivery at all -evons, as compared with the resellt slow and precarious routes from Cape Town, which require some three months to traverse, and are lable to periodical obstruction by floods or drought. The Castle Royal Mail Company, under contract with the Postmaster-Genorai, the Union Steamship COID!>any. under contract with the Portuese Govern- ment, and the German East African Company, by means of which a regular fortnightly mail service has wen established, and it is expected that this will be ibortly improved. This Company acquires the following concessions :— 1. To construct one or more landing stages in the harbour at the points found most convenient. 2. The right to establish tramways, to be worked by tteam or other traction, in any direction within a ius of seven kilometres from the Government Buildings, with an undertaking to take over the exist- ing line. 3. The right within the above-named radius to fix ind work telegraph and telephone lines. 4. A grant in perpetuity (viz., "lease for an indefinite rm"), at a nominal quit. rental cf 10 rei" per hectare {less than a half-penny in English money), of 25 hec- tares (about 62 acres) of land, situated near the town, and which will be in suitable positions for bWliness premise- and private residences. The concessions for the landing stages, telegraphs, telephones, and tramways are for a term of 50 years from 21st January, 1893, at the end of which period all Ifce works, constructions, and plant will belong to the Mozambique Company. At the end of 15 years from fóh 21st January, 1893, and at the end of every sub- sequent term of 10 years, the Mozambique Company •will have the right to acquire all or any of the con itruejions, works. and plant at a price to be fixed in Accordance with the terms of the concessions. The nant of land, however, is not liable to be acquired by the Mozambique Company, but is a concession in per- petuity. The directors abstain from giving any estimate of Vie income derivable by the Company from the work- ing of the above-described concessioo8, but any person Who considers the position of th Port of Beira. as the e ocean outlet of a territory nearly as large as the Atain Continent of Europe, teeming with natural health of all descriptions, containing numerous exten- sive goldfields, some of which have been known for centuries, while others are being constantly dis- covered and now being opened up and brought into contact with civilisation, can easily complite the enormous possibilities of this town. A comparison of its situation and circumstances with those of cities tike San Francisco, Sydney, and Melbourne, which, under similar conditions, have made such astounding progress in little more than a generation, will de- lIIonstrate the certainty of a brillictnt and prosperoilS future for this port, which has been aptly described as the Liverpool of South Africa." The following is an extract from a' report of Mr Desparil, the Treasurer-General of the Mozambique Company, dated January 27th. 1893 :— "Stands (about acre blocks) were sold by auction on Monday last. The bidding was on the rental, and was spirited. The gross annual rental of the ave Stands amounts to £ 205, with cash premium of £160; the rentals, capitalised at 14 years. amount to £2,870, which, with the premium, would make the average price of the Stauds about £600 each. We are in no great hurry to sell Stands here. There can be no question, looking at the situation of the Harbour and Town, and the great increase which must take place in consequence Ot the whole of the traffic of the Mozambique Company and the Chartered British South Africa Company having to pa.:>ithrcugh the port. that Beira. will become one of the most thriving towns in South Africa. The Customs House revenues are increasing very rapidly, and the imports in January last were about three times what they were 12 months age." And in his rwport of 1st Aueust, 1893, in referring to be freight, he further says — This will make the total cost per ton from Seira to Salisbury in the first instance. £23 5s, as. against ton by the road from the Cape to Salis- bury. When the railway is finished to Chimoio (perhaps next January), and competition in the waggon traffic reduces prices, the cost per ton will probably be about S15 (fifteen ponncls). The price to be paid for the 62 acres of land referred dp above and for the various concessions is fixed by iHe Vendor at £100,000, payable as to £15,000 iu cash or debentures of the Company, and jMO,050 in tally-paid Shares, and the balance in fully-paid Shares T cash, or partly in cash and partly in Shcjes, at the wtion of the directors. The concessions provide for the payment to the Mozambique Company of a pro- portion of the share capital in fully-paii Shares of the pany or Companies that may be formed to work the concessions. The above purchase price includes the payment to the Mozambique Compauy of their proportion of the preseut share capital of this Company for the grants of the various concessions, and the con- sideration payable to the Port Beira Company, Limited, and also all legal and other expenses of pro. motion up to allotment, except the duties payable on registration. The following contracts have been -entered into, viz. Four Agreements, in Portuguese, dated 21st January, 1893, and made between the Mozambique Company and the Port Beira Company, Limited an Agreement 13th September, 1893, and made between the fort Beira Company, Limited, of the one part, and Robert Grant Webster, of the other part; and an Agreement dated the 31st day of October, 1893, and made between Robert Grant Webster, of the one part, and loan Rhydderch Da vies, of the other part and Indenture dated 1st day of December, 1895, and made between the said Robert Grant Webster, of the one part, and the said loan Rhydderch Davics, of thf other part; and an Agreement dated 6th day of December, 1893, and made between the said I0an Rhydderch Davies (who is the Vendor), of one oart, and Herbert Edwards, as Trustee for ■and on behalf of this Company, of the other part, b eic" the agreement for sal,e. Theie are various other contracts and arrangements With various persons In relation to the formation of the -Company, and raising a portion of the capital and stnerwise (including a draft agreement intonded te be 4me between the Company and Messrs Batchelor and Snowden for the constructioo of a Pier at a cost £ 2^000), which may technically constitute conTracts within the meaning of the 38 uh Section of the Com- Saiues Act, 1867. Applicants for Shares will be eemed to- waive the insertion of dates and names of the parties to all such arrangements or contracts, and to accept the above statements as a sufficiect copö. ance with Section 38 of the Companies Act, 1867 Prospectuses and Forms of Application tor Shares can be obtained at the Offices of the Company the Bankers, Brokers, Solicitors. &c. London, Saturday, 6th Januaiy, 1894. 1 FOR D A I L Y tJ S E. TiM essential properties in H'lgh-class 111 L O U R ARE PURITY, SWEETNESS, QUALITY. 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EIRTIA S, MARITIAGES. DJfiATHS t Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, la each, if not exceeding SO words, and ad for each extra 10 words, BIRTH. EMERY.—At 6, The Rise, Beaufort, Mon., on 3rd January, the wife of J. A. Emery (Boys' School), of a son. 733 DEATHS. 7 RAYNER.—On the 3rd inst., Evelyne, beloved daughter of Gilmour George and Helen Rayner, Woodleigh, Orrell Park, Aintree, Liverpool, aged 21 years. 56S5 EVANS.—On the 5th inst., at 26, Llandaff-road, Cardiff, Catherine, widow of the late Richard Evans (who died on the 3rd inst.), of Blackland Farm. Funeral leaves at 12 o'clock on Wednesday next for Pen- doylan. No wreaths. JOHN.-On January 5th, at his residence, Trecynon. Aberdare, David John. aged 71 years. Funeral on Tuesday, at 3 o'clock prompt, for Ebenezer Chapel, "a 1 for service, thence to Aberdare Cemetery. 3701 JOHN.—On January 3rd, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Davies, 8, Mill-street, Pontypridd, William John (Mathonwv). aged 76. Funeral on Saturday, leaving Pontypridd at 9.30 a.m., for Monknash, via Cowbridge. 3560 IN MEMORIAM. JAES.-In ever loving memory of my dearly-beloved husband, Charles Foxwell James, Pontypridd, who di..d January 6th, 1892. "Though absent, yet t memory ever dear." 3702

SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1894. CANALS AS PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. BRINDLEY, the famous engineer, is credited with the saying that Providence designed rivers for the purpose of feeding canals. If this aphorism be true, then it is clear that the designs of Providence have not been extensively promoted in Great Britain, for canals in this country are few and far between, whilst our numerous rivers run, for the most part, unutilised to the sea. And yet what a mighty auxiliary to inland traffic in a great trading country like ours, and what a cheapener of traffic charges canals would be if canals were plentiful amongst us. Other European countries are far ahead of us in this cheap and productive means of transit and even China, which we are told has progressed backward," has canals running through every populous district of that immense Empire,-some of them dating back hundreds of years before the Christian era. Ancient Egypt, too, was farrowed with canals which were extensively used for the two-fold purpose of trade and irri- gation. BRINDLEY, whose name will be for ever connected with the construction of canals in Great Britain, indulged in the pleasing dream that canals would become a great water highway for heavy traffic throughout the Kingdom in the then im- mediate future. After his completion of the notable Bridgwater Canal from Worsley to Manchester, he made the Mersey and Trents Canal, 93 miles long, connecting the Mersey with the Trent and the Humber, which he named the Grand Trunk Canal, and subsequently designed the construction of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Oanal, 46 miles in length, for the purpose of connecting the Grand Trunk with the Severn and with South Wales. After the death of thi3 great engineer canal construction in Great Britain received a check, and was almost entirely neglected to the great damage and injury of British trade then, and to the still greater damage and injury of British trade now. Then home trade suffered and languished from the want of ready and fairly-quick means of transit for goods in bulk now it is impeded and grievously injured from the want of cheap means of internal transit from place to place. Monopolist Railway Companies which, as Lord THTJRLOW said of a Corpora- tion, have neither bodies to be kicked nor souls to be saved, have annexed by purchase most of the few canals which have been constructed in Great Britain, which would have been impossible, however, if BRIND- LEY'S grand dream had been realised and Great Britain had been covered by a net- work of connecting canals for trade pur- poses. Monopolist railway companies would not then have been able, because of the insufficiency of adequate capital, to have bought up all the canals, and we should have possessed a competing and therefore a cheapening means of conveyance for goods and for all trade purposes. Now the merchants and traders of Great Britain are destitute of any competing and cheapen- ing alternative method of transit, and the Railway Companies, having bought up the canals, are masters of the situation. And most masterful and despotic are they, especially some of the great Railway Com- panies in imposing heavy and excessive and capricious charges upon the conveyance of goods, which charges are frequently so exorbitant and arbitrary as not only to reduce traders' profits to the barest minimum, and sometimes to destroy all profit what- ever, but also to be a bar to all trade. In a paragraph in the South Wales Daily News of yesterday, to the effect that local business men contemplate holding a meeting in Cardiff within a few days, to discuss the comparative advantages and disadvantages of goods transit by rail and water, it was stated, in proof of the need of some alteration in the excessive and capricious Railway charges in the district, that it costs as much to send iron ore from Cardiff to Staffordshire by rail as it does to bring the same quantity of material from Greece to Cardiff, and that goods can be sent by Railway from Bristol for distribution through districts of South Wales as cheaply as they can be sent to the same places from Cardiff." This is most absurd, and necessarily must be damaging to local trade. But the entire system of Railway traffic charges is mons- trously unfair and unjust to British trade, and grievously handicaps the British trades- man in his home competition with outside traders. It was proved some time ago by a deputation of British traders which waited upon the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE, that the charges for conveying goods from Kent to London—only a few miles apart— and to Manchester and to other towns were higher, not merely proportionately higher, but absolutely higher than for conveying the same class of goods from Boulogne to Folkestone, and thence on to London, Manchester, and elsewhere, by the same lines of Railway. The whole system of Railway traffic charges in this country is a most iniquitous tax and imposition upon British trade, and is a most fruitful source of our trade depression at the present moment. It was also proved to the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE at that same interview, that agri- cultural produce was actually brought from Chicago to Liverpool, a distance of 4,000 miles, at a lower figure than the charges made for conveying that very same produce from Liverpool to London. We have said that the entire system of Railway traffic is simply- monstrous, and a most serious and occasionally an absolutely pro- hibitory hindrance, to British internal trade; and such facts as these, and they can be multiplied a hundredfold, conclusively prove the truth of our statements. The evil is palpable enough, and griev- ously damaging to home trade. But how is it to be cured ? This is the crucial question; and a most serious and complicated qnestion it is. The Railway monopolists are almost omnipotent in the two Houses of Parliament, and any hope of compelling them to reduce their charges, low enough te give a fair chance to the British merchant, and tradesman, and farmer, to compete by absolute equality of charge on British Railways with the foreigner is almost hopeless. No doubt a vigorous expression of public opinion, and an outburst of public indignation, may do something towards lowering these arbitrary and excessive railway charges, as was proved some eighteen months ago, when the altered charges were made. But such trade relief would be only temporary and utterly insufficient to do justice to the British traders and farmers. Touch these Railway monopolists, however, in their pockets, for that is the only vulnerable part belonging to them reduce their dividends by resolute competition, and that would speedily bring them to a reasonable compromise. At present they are monopolists of the internal traffic of the Kingdom, and monopolists are ever harsh, grinding, and oppressive. If BRINDLEY'S ideal dream of covering the country by a vast network of connecting canals had been realised, the gigantic Rail- way monopoly, with its grasping, excessive, and arbitrary charges for the transit of goods, would not have existed, and British merchants, traders, and farmers would not have been handicapped, as they now are, by monopolists making haste to be rich. The reat Railway Companies ought never to have been allowed to possess themselves of the existing canals. Parliament ought to have interfered to prevent that even to the extent of purchasing the canals for the public and converting them into public highways. In France, we believe, some canals are free national high roads, se- cured to the public by the French Government, notwithstanding they compete, in the in- ternal carrying trade, with the Railways which are the property of the Government, or rather of the nation. Suppose the* Railway Companies could possess themselves of all the public high roads as they have been allowed to possess themselves of the canals, they could then prevent the public from using the roads, just as they now prevent them from using the canals. What a glorious carrying monopoly they would possess then—glorious for them, we mean, but most destructive to the trade and pros- perity of the country. But it is as equally absurd, although not as equally mischievous, to permit them to possess the canals as it would be to allow them to take possession of the roads. For the transit of heavy goods, which do not require prompt de- livery, canals are in every way preferable and more advantageous than Rail- ways, and the charges for convey- ance would be vastly cheaper. Nothing could be of greater benefit to our internal trade as a people nothing more conducive to trade prosperity and to unchecked freedom of goods transit than the nation- alisation of the present canals, which have been captured by the Railway monopolists and the extension of connecting lines of canal throughout every populous district of the country. The construction of tho Manchester Ship Canal is a great and a grand step in this direction; the utilisation of the Severn for a similar purpose would be another. When shall Great- Britain see another BRINDLEY to carry to consummation the glorious ideal of his forerunner

IT is opportune, just when an inter- national match is attracting all attention, that the leading medical journal should dis- cuss the alleged dangers of football, and the Lancet, in this week taking up this subject, pours a douche of cooling common- sense which is eminently refreshing. Deaths and casualties notwithstanding, the medical critic declares the popular pursuit to be distinctly advantageous in regard to public health, but none the less is desirous to still further lessen the risks attendant on the game, and we are promised, in future issues, a careful review of this field of con- sideration. By all means let this be done. Every sport and pastime has its special liabilities, it would be difficult to name, one altogether innocuous. Even the ultra- careful individual who limited himself simply to walking erercise would have to face the playful variations of the British climate, with its sudden changes of tempera- ture and alternations of sunshine and shower. So long as football is played generally, and is not a mere spectacle of professional display, its influence can hardly li i y fail to be physically beneficial the real danger is that it may degenerate into exhibitions by trained athletes.

IF justification were required for the Provisions Act it was supplied last evening in the House of Commons when Mr MUNDELLA, replying to Mr JOHN BURNS, stated that of 1,015 examinations made of the stores furnished for long-voyage ships, in no fewer than 391 cases were the pro- visions rejected. That more than one-third should turn out unfit is a serious reflection upon the methods by which the stores are procured and it should be borne in mind that. of the samples passed," a pro- portion is likely to have proved unsatis- factory when opened out weeks or even months later on. The seaman has many grievances, not a few of them well-founded but one of the worst things that can be done to him is to cheat him out of his due in respect of food, for he has no remedy. Were the men not such a devil-may-care lot, were they steadier and more persistent in safeguarding their interests, they might, through operation of the Seamen's Union, do a great deal to remedy both this evil of bad food and some other of the faulty features of ship-life. Unfortunately, there is no class more diffi- cult to combine and the hardships and injustices of their lot both afloat and ashore have a reactive effect in making them, on their own side, reckless in dealing with employers and others with whom they come inco business relations. Now that some endeavour is made to protect them in the matter of provisions, it is time to move in respect of protecting competent men from being sent to sea with wretched incom- petents, gathered from the gutters and shipped at low rates or pay as qualified members of a crew. This is a practice shamefully prevalent.