South Wales Daily News

IRONWOR]iiiWAGES IN STAFFORDSHIRE. On Thursday, the accountants of the Stafford- shire and Midland Iron Trade Wages Board issued their return of selling prices for January and February last. The standing com- mittee of the nawlv.eoustituted board have determined to continue the present rate of wages namely, 7s 6d per ton to puddlers, a. fall of 2% per cent, having occurred two months ngo.

i -h_ NEW MISSIONARY SHIP AT j SWANSEA. There has just arrived at the South Dock, Swansea, a. vessel in which the very greatest interest is being shown, especially amougst young Swansea. We refer to the auxiliary screw steamer John Williams, which has just been launched as all addition to the London Missionary Society's fleet, and is intended for work in the South Pacific Islands and New Guinea. To get the most economical results, she is rigged as a barquentine with about 13,000 square feet of canvas, and, in addition, she has a Bevis feather- ing propeller. Her length is 204 feet, her beam 31 feet 8 inches, and her depth 16 feet, while her gross register tonnage is 622. She is built of steel, and has a smart, yacht-like appearance. The cabins are on the main deck, and she has a dining saloon, six staterooms, and accommodation for 12 missionaries. On the 'tween decks forward there are 15 double-berthed cabins, and a saloon for native teachers, and there is good accommoda- tion for the officers and seamen. She is fitted with an electric light installation, and triple expansion engines. The visit of the ship to Swansea is due to a suggestion made by Alderman M-trtiji at the last quarterly meeting of the Con- gregational Union, the objadf being to encourage j the children of the district in collecting for j missionary work. Already no less than 11,000 tickets of admission have been distributed amongst the Sunday-school children of thedisiiricb { and to-day (Friday) there is to be a general S holiday amongst the board school children. On j leaving Swansea the John Williams will go to Bristol, then to Cardiff, on to Plymoutn, South. ampton, and London. The vessel is commanded by Capt. Turpie, some of whose relatives reside | ab Swansea.

I GOSSIP FROM "TRUTH." I heat that wheu the Queen visits Coburg it is probable that arrangements will be made for the early betrothal of Prince Alfred, the only son of the Duke and Ouch ass of Coburg. to one of the twin daughters (born March, 1876) of the late ) Duke Eugene of Wurtemberg and the Grand Duchess Vera, who is a daughter of the late Grand Duke Constantine Nicolaievitch, and a isister of the Queen of the Hellenes. j An untrue report that the Charlacote Estate is in the market has caused the appearance of I numerous paragraphs and articles in the papers, in all of which Charlecote Park is described as I having been the scene of Shakespeare's poaching exploits. The fact is that these" fixuioits" took place in another park in the Stratford district of Warwickshire which also belonged to the Lucy family, but which is not now in existence. I Post-office authorities have involved ^htirl^'Ve* "? fcv 'r'osfc ignominious incon- sistencies and absurdities in their attempts to distinguish betwaeii eomniinicationc, transmissible at the halfpenny and penny rates respectively. It i-ittinication with R.S. V,P." written upon it WIll pss with a haifpetlny -stati)p, Whpn, how- h„th.official mind^stranded .'Sg'.JSfTSt ■X'"am"S ^.nS',o7S i Sr/TSTJ t^,r\z!r>v ■s*r pronounce the tomuil »„|, whicl, iU'popuUrlv supposed to constitute the proposal? but this is an inconsiderable item in n,' J ra?3. NtaMmtb, of c,vi £ «J men'touK:^ venture to come to the point were thev Bnt morally certain of being accepted. In ianu meruble indirect ways the woman has frequent|v SESS TvrTrbef0l'e any sane SSSI tne oner, liy her invitations tD the house to dinner, and to entertainments, and by her con- him the girl's mother suggests™ his mind marry my daughter." Uon^TsaLo!, fcdy herself'~by looks and her conversation by many small acts of favouritism and m a variety of other ways, silently TnveJ; vorKvS' nWi11 you many me?" ^bTmS The maSv af y U"ered hy tha maa are consent Tt- cases 80 mu°h a proposal as a p*iv*rJ sl?rPnses me that no one has per- ceived this obvious fact before. t *S(tife reas<»able, is ife even tolerable, that, ogcther with the excessive strain which tho modern man has otherwise to endure, in snould undergo all the year round these covert attempts to get him in an unguarded moment to consent to one of the many proposals which are made to him by woman ? Obviously the time has come for Parliament to interfere. It must deolare a close time, and at the forthcoming general election this should be the cry to carry the party of Reform to victory A Close Time for Bachelors I have received in my time some queer episJe, but few more funny than the enclosed, lately addressed to a firm at Liverpool by a customer. Not the least ludicrous point in this composition is the use of the phrase, your respectful ser- vant." If this is the language of a respectful servant, what is to be expected from a master ? B 24th Feby 1893.—GENTLEMEN Where- fore have you not sent me the sope. His it bekawse you think my money is not so good as noboddy elses. Dam you Co wherefor have you not sent the sope. Please send sope at once and oblige your respectful servant RICHARD JONES.— PS Since writing the above my wife has found the sope under the counter."

DEATH OF THE REV W. BRUCE. We regret to record the death of the Rev. Wm. Bruce, M.A.. whicn occurred on Wednesday at Brynderwen, near Usk. The deceased, who was 77 years of age, had been ill for the past 18 months, and death was due to heart complica- tions. For a period of about 30 years the de- ceased was rector of St. Nicholas, near Cardiff, but resigned the living in 1872. Shortly after- wards he purchased Brynderwen, near Usk, from Major k- r«cton, and lived there, universally respited. He was a J.P. for Glamorganshire and Monmouobshire, and at one time took an active interest in county matters. He was also one of the governors of the University College, Cardiff. Deceased married the only daughter of the late Dean Cony are, ^eitn of Llandaff, and grandsu.. of .Bishop Oonybeare, of Gloucester aud Bristol, by T 1RA7 k6 Were f°ur sons and one daughter, n i or • marrie(i again. Margaret, daughter of *lvIer, who survives. By the second wife there was one son and one daughter. Archdeacon iJjUCf' Vicar of St. Woolos, Newport, is the eldest son by the first marriage, and a second son, Major Bruce, is in India. The funeral is arranged to take place next Tussday afternoon at Bettws, near Usk.

CLEANING ILVER.AIl difficulty in keeping el' Ctro-plate, &c., untarnished and with a bril- liant polish, may be obviated by using Goddard'.j Non- 'e*'curial Plate Powcier. Sola everywhere, in boxes Is, 2s 6d, and 4s 6d. Six Gold Medals. 105 Ihe Victoria Dog Biscuit* are manufactured only by Spillers' and Bakers', Ltd., Cardiff and Bristol If you wish your dogs to be in fullest health and con- aiuon, ask your Urocer or Corn Deaier for these Bis- cuits aecaofc no other. They are the beau 4000

ECHOES OF THE WEEK. I BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. An itrpulsive young Frenchwoman, one I Victorine Bocarne, has been fined ten francs by [ the Pans Tribunal of Correctional Police for pelting on a public stage a young lady vocalist, Mademoiselle Jane Hardirig-wllo must not be confounded with the celebrated actress, Jane I Harding, who is now in America. The missiles used by Mademoiselle Bocatne were a dead rabbit, a cod-fish, aud several cabbage stumps. The judge, in sentencing the defendant, regretted J that he had not the power to send her to prison, This is a kind of case iu which, for oncb iu away' we manage things better in England. A member of a theatrical audience who disgraced him or herself by pelting an actor or actress with such trifles as dead rabbits, cod-fish, and decayed vegetables would most assuredly bo charged with an aggravated assault, and ou conviction sent to prison. prison. Splendid Easter Monday "copy "for the news- J papers was made in the elaborate narrative of a So-called hyeti-i-ilunt in the Victoria Docks. A steamer called the Nairnshire arrived on Satur- i day, the 24th, from New Zealand, and oil calling as usual at Las I almas, she shipped a hyena, described as large and powerful, which was con- fined in a wooden bux or cage. Tha brute I managed to make his e cape and took reiuge i among some casks underneath the forecastle deck, where it remained for five days, to the great terror of all on board. The skipper's first impulse was to shoot the animal; but he finally decided, as it I was a valuable beast, and properly consigned, to j endeavour to deliver it alive. So carrying a j loaded stock down, and having oil either side of j him a man armed with a revolver, he repaired to the forecastle hold and saw the hyena ted with choice pieces of New Zealand mutton. Eventually on the arrival of the steamer in the docks, the j hyena was driven into a corner behind a large | cask a sailor managed to get a rope round his I neck and he was then dragged into his cage and S landed. | ^eannot Leip thinking that ciie choice pieces or JNew Zealand mutton were thrown away on j hyena, which, all ferocious as it is, is a very t°!jaic"y animal. Even the man-eating species seiciom endeavour to destroy adults of either sex, out limit their attacks to young children. The Arabs scorn to use a lethal weapon against the yeua, and kill him iu a very unique manner, ing, a handful of wet mud, and presenting s t, ^sO'^es at the mouth of the hyena's den, they j ex enq^their hand to the beast and say inock- | 'ng'y, ;jSee how pretty I will make you with this | henna | they then dash the wet compost into tho creature s eyes drag him out by a paw, and gag j > mm before he recovers from the sudden bewilder- ] »nd then hand him over to the women aud children, who stone hitu to death. j ¡ The hyena has a bushy tail, but it is a short j one otherwise that big cuskin the hold of the JNairnshire might liavo been easily utilised for the j capture of the obnoxious brute. Did you ever i read that extremely droll balk.d of The new j tale of » tub," written by F. W. H. Bailey, aud j illustrated by an Anglo-Indian civilian, who, 1 faucy, supplied the po«*t with the text for his j ? Two Anglo-Indians who have been out ( shooting are quietly lunching in the friendly I snace of an empty hogshead, when they suddenly | become awaro of the presence of a large Bengal tiger. The infuriated animal chases the civilians round the cask they dodge him and dodge him till nearly faint from exhaustion but one of them, by a dexterous movement, contrives to turn I the hogshead right over the tiger's head. In his attempts to release himself the beast pushes his tail through the bung-hole of the cask. Swiftly the resourceful civilians tie the tail into a doubie knot and then triumphantly climb to the summit of the barrel, exclaiming,— j no sleep, no drink, no grub, j lul we've starved the tiger under the tub." j In an interesting book called The hand- wrltmgs of the Kitigg and Queens of England," by Mr Hardy, F.S.A., published by the Religious 'J0/ etJ-' apd illustrated with p'no-ogravures and fac-similes, it is pointed out that King John j did not, and, what is inovc, probably cutiid Dot, write either Johanues Rex," or, indeed, any- thing esse at the foot of Magna Charta and that it is a matter of fact that prior to the reign of Edward III., when the Black Prince is believed to have affixed to a document words equivalent to his signature, there is no evidence of any member of the Royal Family being able to write his or her j name. The British schoolboy must therefore no i longer pin his faith to Leech's exquisitely droil cartoon in the" Comic History of England," in which King John, with the most rueful and woe- begone of countenances, is scrawling his namo with a quill pen of prodigious length on a long i slip of parchment ou the table before him. i i I The great Charta of our liboiti<)B was not signed at all but it was sealed with the Royal sea! and 5 such sigiilation was tantamount to the Royal autog'uph. The original Charta, or at least an ancient copy of it, was acquired by the British Museum with the Cottouian Library. It was i nearly destroyed in the tile at VI t'stminster In 1731 the parchment is much shrivelled and mutilated, and the seal is reduced to an almost shapeless mass of wax. According to garrulous and diverting Mr John Timbs in his Ouriositie of London," there is a tradition that Sir Robert Cotton bought Magna Charta for 4d from a j tailor, who was about to cut up the parchment into yard-measures. Our present Royal Family areone and all remarkable for their excellent caligraphy and her Majesty the Queen writes in particular a bold and beautifully symmetrical hand. Among the few autographs which I possess, and which I prize, is the Queen's sigua- ture approving of the monthly pass-words used in the Tower of London. The clever, but unequal, writer who contributes the "WMes of Autolycus" to the Pall Mall Gazette has just Igid down the postulato that "women should be taught or should learn to writs;" and a lengthy diatribo against the alleged defective caligraphy of the sex concludes with the grave remark that it should be no longer a true charge that the educated woman in England writes far worse than any average shopman." It chances that as conductors of a certain weekly periodical, my wife and I have to read every week about a hundred letters from women, the majority of whom arewell educated,.tnd I unhesitatingly affirm that, as a rule, feminine handwriting is ten times more vigorous and more intrlligiblo than was the case twenty years ago. The old Italian hand—which was not really Italian-is dead and gone, and nobody regrets it; but on the other hand I am afraid that it is incon- trovertible that neither men nor women, in Eng- land at least, write half so well as they did in th« last century. I have in my library a handsome folio called the Universal Penman published )I in 1741, in which there are at least two hundred specimens of handwriting, executed by the editor of the work, Mr George Bickham, and by his assistants, Champion, Vaux, Clarke. Wlulton, Lay, and others. The "flourishes" in some of I these examples are marvels of decorative penman; shtp. Kow I am quite certain that the very cleverest of our copper-plate engravers, and litho- graphfirs. to cay nothing of cur writing masters, could not produce nowadays so magnificent a monument of caligraphy as that brought together by Bickam, I am afraid that this- lamentable falling <>u in handwriting is due to two caus^. First, the feverish impatience which is one of the chief characteristics of the age, and next the universal interemployment of the steel pen Who can flourish with a J pen ? or for the matter of that with a magnum bonum ? A valued correspondent has pointed out to me that the statement which I quoted from Sir William Eraser's Words OD Wellington." that I among the portraits of the great Dukeof Welling- to. til(I one to which the duke himself gave the preference was the portrait pulling the bell" is incorrect. I am assured on the very best authority that the portrait preferred by the hero of Water- loo was the one painted by Count Alfred d'Orsay, 111 which the duke is represented in profile, in p^ening dress, with the Star and Ribbon of the Garter, and with an opera or crush hat of half-moon shape under one arm. The Duke used emphatically to say that this was the only portait of himself which made him look like a gentle- man." The hero's susceptibility on the last point was curious. HP often said that Napoleon was not a gentleman. Now, that interesting little book, "La Verite ur lIOS Bonapartes," by the Librarian of Bastia, proves conclusively that Napoleon was a gentlemau of long descent—of better lineage indeed thnn the duke, the real name of whose family was not WeSlesley, but Col ley. Again, Napoleon looked like a gentleman," inasmuch as he was the image of Augustus Caesar. For a!! this the duke was quite right, ln his manners and conversation the great Emperor was far from gentlemanlike and in his behaviour to women he was .often positively brutal.

TALK ON 'CHANGE. IfRARD BY THE MAN UNDER THE CLUCK. [FROM THE "SOUTH WALES ECHO."] CARDIFF, Thursday. J <( WASTING MONET. | I was at the end of Roath Dock yesterday evening, and saw they are boring right away out on the foreshore, close on low water. That means new docks, I suppose ?" I suppose it does but why in the name of common sense the dock should be put I out there when we've such a fine site 111 the harbour puzzles me." "There's no common sense about it. If we were at all up to the times, or if wo hscl nivm who could see what s coming, tUere'd be a break-wat^r from the old pier across to peiv-rtli Head, and they'd flood the harbour and make all the dock; inside bt cause, mind you, Cheviot' hits it in the South Wales this morning, that the d;-y of docks may bp gone by, and only harbours with deep water will be u eful." Then you'd better .eti your Brirry Stock. Because why ? What's the g-ood of building a new dock if it's going to b« no use?" --0- COMBINATION CLAUSES. No, what Bary should do is imitate the Bute, and get a lump charge clause, so that you can get your trade by preferential rates." How's that; what's that ?" Why, there's that clause in the Bute Bill where they can charge a lump sum for all services, 1 hey re to have running powers over the railways, and may put into one charge, railway rat^, carriage, tipping, weighing everything so that if a man wants an allowance he can get it, and nobody else be able to find where the allowaiice is made. It's a very neat clause that is and opens the way to getting preferences. 0 COAL CARRYING CIIABGES» And there's another very neat one, to provide that no railway shall charge more than the lowest rate per mile to Bute Ducks. Now see how that works out on Monitioii thsti I fOI2, nstance. Say a man makes a consignment to Penarth and a con- signment to Bute. Penarth being four miles further than Bute, the Taff people must charge J more for Penartb, their own dock, than they do for Bute." Instead of charging the same rate as they do now ?" Instead of charging the same. All the docks Instead of charging the same. Ali the docks are grouped now Barry, Penarth, and Hute are on the same rate, but this Bute clause would j compel discrimination, and will alter what ha been the practice all there years. Those swo clauses together are rich." • Good old Bute Scoop it in for themselves wii/h one hand, and knock down the other people with the other." And yet they could make only 2% per cent. on the property." Perhaps the tu'penny toll on steamer pas- sengers ivill help them up." If the corporation are fools enough to let that go through." -0 OIL INSTEAD OF COAL CARDIFF'S DECADENCE. But it doesn't matter. We're all going to the dogs. Coal is to be supplanted by oil. Did you see that about the steamer in Avonmoutli last week ? Across the Atlantic and back, and burnt oil ail the way ?" That's nothing. There've been oil steamers on the Caspian for 10 or 12 years, and they've got oi oconiotives on the Great Eastern." Only one." Thirty-six." But oil can never supplant coal, because there's not the quantity of it." Don't you moke any mistake. It's crude oil or only residium that's used for fuel and half of it is run to waste at Batoum because there it no market. Well, I was looking it up, and I fonnd that the total production of oil was only equivalent to 30 million tons of coal, whereas 550 million tons of coal were raised last year." -0- NOT ENOUGH OIL TO COMPETE. But you must net reckon the oil trade as you see it. Were only just at the beginning of it, and its not only in its cheapness, the first cost but there's the convenience of handling all the way through. You'd fill your bunkers with a hose pipe, and you'd tire up in the fengine-room without any shovelling. At least 30 per cent, cost would be saved in handling down below. A ton of oil equals three tons of coal for work, and than again you can get up steam so quickly. I've been on the Caspian, and they've got up steam in less than half an hour on those steamers." "But if the thing is so much cheaper, the increased^ demand will raise the price, and so things will equalise themselves." --0-- OIL LIMITLESS. "No, sir, increased demand will make increased development at the wells. Why, there's r? 'Ine ,n -^ussl'a ''he they've got in America. If the demand became greater, there'd be a pipe line down to Batoum, and save the cost of hauling down m tanks. Then you've oil everywhere there's Buruiah with a great area, and last year one-third of the oil taken into India came from Sumatra; and there's oil at the Cape, and you know what there is in the States. Even the Canadian Government have reserved 100,000 square miles because it's oil-yielding territory. In this country, too, there's a lot ot shale, oil made, let alone Somersetshire, whatever there may be there. And, mind you, the Great Eastern locomotives don't burn imported patrc- leum it's the shale oil that they bum." "Let's put the shutters up. Exit coal; enter oil. Any oil shares about ?"

A MODERN ANCHORITE. Argenteuil possesses a bona fide anchorite, who burrows in a hole scooped out by himself, and lives on vegetables. The man is called Jean Loup by the women of the locality, who use his name for the purpose of frightening children. The hermit's real name is Morin, and itr. IS an inoffen- sive lunatic, who declares that he is a relative of the Queen of England and the Bonapartes. Morin is said to have formerly been well off. He lost most of his money by bad spoculatioiis then set up as a barber in Rouen and finally came to Argenteuil in order to carry on business as an independent anchorite, free front the trammels of civilisation, in a Thebalci of his own.

AFFAIRS AT THE CAERAU PITS. I TO THE EDITOR. SIR,— Seeing the letter of A Sympathising Collier," I am very glad to find that this long hidden matter of identity of seam of coal at the Caerau Pits, near Maesteg, is having a little vent. I have been working at these pits, but I t have every reason to believe that your corres- pondent is correct in saying that the identity of the seam is a simple question. We can have no satisfactory result so long as the officials aud their subordinates attend the meet'.u^s of the workman. Let those keep away and not inter- fere with the workmen, and the affair will soon be amicably settled. Another stumbling block to settlement are the contractors. Why are can- tracts let out so that contract rs can allow men working for them to earn more than if men worked on their own hook ? Because this is an attempt, and an ingenious one, to blind and to cnoke our claim to the 4d per ton, and to prevent r t if°LtlhS ,nen earll!I1g a living.—-I was sorry tnat lviabon could not muster half-a-dozjn of us as workmen, willing to stat", facts, and to prepare the ground for the tight. Let us make a stand, protest against these intruders to our meeting", ond again appeal to Mabon for his help. We have farm ground to stand upon, and with the assistance of our fellow-workmen at the Coc-gnant .Tit we must win our legitimate (iemands.-I-,4,ti), &c-> TO ARMS FOR LIBERTY.

YSTRADYFODWG SCHOOL BOARD BE MIXED SCHOOLS. To THE EDITOR. SIR,-Allow me a space in your valuable paiv-r to offer a tew remarks to Dyn Dod's efiusion in to-day's paper. The parents may well rejoice >n the beneficial results (the modestly girlish behaviour of our own dear girls) of our present 6X? !^nt s?3te,n of S'rls' and boys' school. I do not think that too much stress can be attached to the fact tnat Mr Edwards, H.M.I., has distinctly objected to the mixing of boys and girls, and I think that our school hoard members would do £ L c?ln?ldsr th!S before they proceed further. t?j' rf"larks of a gentleman of Mr 'u 8 cahfc>re arid his undeniable experience among our schools should have great weight with the members. The inspector whom Dyd Dod quotes may differ with Mr Edwards in this il o rtr' tV Edvval(Js alone speaks for this locality. Would it not be well for a few of the parents to wait on the members of the board and suggest the desirability of holding a public meeting^ so that the parents may learn the reasons for this unwarrantable innovation in the present excellent arrangements of existing school tiom the members thein-e'ives ? In reference to economy, will Dyn Dod kindly furnish the ratepayers with the total saving to the board in having mixed schools. He wisely admits that t.iere w«uld be but little save in the staffing, us that is based on the average attendance, A'S re- gards efficiency, I believe we must go further afilá than Rhondda it mixed schools are to excel the present excsllent girls' school, for from the last report I quote the following It will be observed that the setio,-)Is continue to maintain their lead on the boys' schools." As a plum of conciliation to parents, Dyn Dod says that to evety mixed department there are separate playgrounds and offices for girls and boys; but let us, as parents, not only have these but also prsty the board that we may have separate schools for giris.-I am, &c., A PARENT.

THE HEALTH OF THE LARGE TOWNS. LOCAL STATISTICS. The return of the Registrar-General for the week ending Saturday last, 24-tli Match, shows that in 33 of the largest towns of England and wales, which include Card iff and Swansea, and contain each upwards of 80,000 persons, there were registered 6,076 births and 3;973 death- The deaths corresponded to an annual i-,tte (if 19 8 per 1,000 persons living. rates of mortality in the several towns, ar- ranged in order from the lowest, were as fol- lows p".0J 10-6 Norwich 183 £ oiu;,iouth 1V1 Oldham 18*9 owaiwea 14*2 Leeds 13-9 £ Iahfax j4-0 Leicester I9'8 V/?ydon 14-3 Xewcastie-on-Tvne.. ZO'l Snnhton 154 Lunuou 20-3 rr ,y-u- Birmingham 21 "0 HuUctersfield lo"i Bristol 21*2 rr ,y-u- Birmingham 21-0 HuUctersfield lo"i Bristol 21*2 Birkenhead 17 5 Preston 22*0 „k,U!ni ^7'4 Vtolverhanmton 22*1 Sheffield 17 4 Gateshead 22'3 l»raai'ord 17-5 Bolton 22 o iSottiagham ISO Liverpool 23"Q Cardiff iy-2 Manchester 25*8 Lurnley 1S-Q Sunderland 25"8 Plymouth ia-4 isalford 25*1 West Hain IS-fi To the principal zymotic diseases 480 deaths were referred in the towns, and corresponded to a rate of 2'4; no d..atb was referred to any of these diseases in Brighton or 1U Norwich and among the other towns the rates ranged upwards from 0'5 in Croydon and in Derby, and 0'6 in Halifax, to 3 7 in West Ham. 3"8 in Salford, and 7'4- in Birkenhead. The highest rates from each of the zymotic diseases were From measles, ID in Leicester and 4*9 in Birkenhead from scarlet f ver, 1*1 in Burnley and 1'2 in W'olvorhamptou; ">m whooping-cough, 1*3 in West Ham, 1"4 in i -to!, 1'bmHuii arid in Newcastle, and 2'0 lto Birkenhead and from" fever," 1-1 in Gates bead. The rate from diarrhoea did not reach 1-0 per 1,000 in any town. The deaths from diph- theria numbered 34, and of these 56 occurred in j London. 8 in Mancnester, and 3 each in Livor- pool, Salford, and Bristol. Five deaths from ) small-pox iv,-re registered in Birmingham, 3 in Oldham, and 1 in London. There were registered in the borough of Cardiff l;ist week 111 births, as compared with 81, 101, and 99 in the three preceding weeks. Tht>si- III births comprised 51 boys and 60 girls, and corresponded to an annual rate of 33'9 per 1,000 of the population, which was estimated t, amount to 148,890 peia-ms at the middle of this year. The deaths, which had been 50, 64. and 42 in the three preceding week,, rose last week to 52, of which 30 were those of males and 22 those of females. Thesn 52 death-; w-re equal to an annual mortality of 18 2 per 1,000, as compared with 19'8 during the same period in the large English town.?. Among the 52 deaths were included 16 of infants under one year of age, and 14 of persons aged upwards of 60 years, the former showing an increase of 7, and the latter an inei-ease of 6, as compared with the numbers in the previous week. Three of the deaths were referred to whooping- cough, but not one to any «ther of tho zymotic diseases, these three deaths giving a rate of 1'1, or 13 less than that for tiie 33 large towns. One death from violence was registered, 4 inquests were held, and 13 of the deaths occurred in public institutions. In Swansea there were registered 50 births (22 boys and 28 girls), which were fquai to a rate of 27 -3 and 26 deaths (10 males and 16 equal to a rate of 14'2, or 4'0 !e« than that for Cardiff. The deaths included 3 of infants under one year of Jige, and 6 of persons aged upwards of 60 years. Thre, deaths (of which 2 were due to measles and 1 to fever) were at- tributed to the zymotic diseases, and gave a rate of 1"6, or 0 5 more than that for Card ff. Ao death from violence was registered, and no inquest was held during the week one death occurred in a. public institution.

A STAGE KISS. A Berlin correspondent writes:—A stage kiss is, in the minds of all but very hyper-particular people, generally considered to be both permis- sible and harmless, and yet Paul Heyse, a well- known German dramatic writer, has been charged with setting a bad example and giving his audience a sort of general permission to abandon themselves to all kinds of disor- derly conduct, becausi he makes his lover at the very appropriate moment of betrothal say to the girl of his choice, Before these witnesses, as seal of the bond, I kiss thee, 0 dearest one, on the mouth." The objection seems to be a prudish, ascetic whim of the parish priest at Eschenbach, a Franoonian townlet of Southern Germany, the birthplace of Wolfram of that ilk- the author of ParsiraL" Paul Heyse was re- quested to write, a play to be given in honour of Wolfram's birthday this summer, and in its closing scene the betrothal of the hero with the daughter of the citizen in whoso house he had written his famous poem Parsifal" takes place. Whilst putting the engagement ring-a gift from the Landgravine of Thuringla—on her finger, he greets her with a few lines terminating as above. The author considered the objection so absurd that he saw no reason for altering the text. He very rightly said that what he had written was a national drama that ordinary people could witness without biding astonished or offended, and the little episode of the kiss corresponded to the customs of the nation. 1

SCENE AT A WEDDING BREAKFAST. A wp-dding party was banqueting at an inn in the neighbourhood of Roubaix, when two young men made their appearance, and insisted on placing themselves at the table. At last, as they paid no heed to remonstrances, the guests deter- mined on evicting them, but they showed fight, and shouting "We are Anarchists by way of a war-cry, they charged the company with such effect that several of their opponents were sent sprawling on the floor. Tiie bride and her maids went off into hysterics, and assistance bad to be summoned, the gendarmes experiencing consider- able trouble in capturing these noisy and ill- behaved young men, who are now under lock aud key awaiting their trial.

A FIRST OFFENDER Susan Burns, a young domestic servant, appeared at Caerleon Police-court on Thursday on a change of theft. It appeared that Burns cam to Cwmbran from Middlesbrough about three weeks ago, and went as servant to Mr Aired Wadley's, and a few days after her ad veraf into the family first one thing and then another were missing, amongst tiN number being a brooch, a scarf-pin, some money, and on Thursday last two large pieces of pork Wt*re missed from the dairy. Miss Burns now pleaded guilty to stealing the pork, but as she had been in custody since Mon day the magistrates bound her uver, under the First Offwaders Act, to come up for judgment when called upon.

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FISH AND FISHING. 18 THE GRAYLING. BY W. EVERSHED. The grayling (Tkijmalltts vulgaris) is an at oi unate fish in certain respects by some people e is ma igned, accused of driving away the trout 0 eating their spawn, and looked upon as a fist whICh gives no sport-one that is easy to rise, and then gives no play. It is only fair to say, tllougL that these objections are urged chiefly by thost. who are unacquainted with him. Anglers whc are uckily so situated that they have access tc grayling streams, admire and prize him for the sport he may provide at a time when all fly- fishing wou!d be at a standstill were it not for his presence, for the grayling comes into the pink ol condition m autumn, when trout are out of con- dition and worthily engaged in propagating their species. The objections to grayling are not based on an5 direct evidence. Perhaps they do eat a little trout-spawn, but is the trout quite innocent ot returning the compliment, and is it not more probable that the eel is a far greater offender that either? What evidence 'have we that grayling drive trout away? Is it not a question of the food supply? Where grayling are introduced, and the stock of trout deteriorates, that is evi- dence only that the stream is too heavily stocked and the survival of the grayling points to the food and surroundings barng more adapted to it than to the trout. Some streams, rich 10 the various forms of fish food, support both, and rive sport to the fisherman nearly all the year round. Cotton, unfortunately, charged the grayling with being the deadest-hearted fish in the world," which may be true of him in the hot summer months, when he is regaining his strength and condition after spawning, but towards the end of September, and through October and November, when be is in the height of condition, he fights for his liberty in such a way that he is indeed ONR OF OUR BEST SPORTING FISHES, while from a gastronomic point of view, Qftf mght are tar worse than pat grayling The grayling is a very local fish as oompared with the trout, Some people have thought that they were introduced by the monks, owing to thf coincidence that some of the old monasteries are situated near to grayling streams but in the ab- sence of additional proof, we can hardly give them the credit of supplying us with such a handsome aod sporting fish. Tho most celebrated streams for grayling are the Wharfe, Swale, Dove, Wye Jjerwent, Lug £ Teme, Avon, Itchen, and Test! In the Hampshire streams they reach a heavier weight than elsewhere, fish of two, three and even four pounds being caught. To get a good notion of the beauty of the fish, it should be examined in November, when it is in its prime. A typical specimen has a small head lozenge-shaped eye, thick shoulders, rising up almost like a hump, and a gradual taper to the tail, the tail half of the fih being somewhat similar to the herring in shape. In colour it is nearly black on the back, and the sides have a rich bloom shot with purplish copper) turning quickly into silver grey, and pure white on the belly. The doivai fin is characteristic, being very large,and havingindistinot lines of red-brown spots. A freshly-caught grayling has a peculiar to itself, likened to thyme by some, but perhaps more resembling cucumber. A ROUGH MOUNTAIN STREAM IS CKSUITED TO THEM they like gravelly streams, alternated with quiet pools. When they arp on the look-out for surface food, they frequent the quiet running streams, two or three feet in depth, and the tails of pools; the swirl or eddy formed by a submerged post or weed is a favourite position for them when a rise of By is on. The food of the grayling consists of flies, larva, cmstacea, and worms. The writer has occasion- ally caught them when spinning a minnow for trout in April, but as they have always been big fish, an 1 not m any instance the small ones which have not reached the spawning age, the proba- bility is that they were hooked in driving thE intruder from their spawning ground. Grayling spawn about the end of April or he ginning of May, and complete t.he operation much more expeditiously than trout. The ova are smaher than those of trout, and hatch out in about 15 days, the period for trout ova varying from 40 to 50 oays, according to the temperature and suppiy of water. The angler who wishes for a reasonable amount of success must not confine himself to flv-fishinn only, or an empty basket may not unfrequently be his reward. When fish are rising, try them with the fly by all means, but he who fishes through the autumn months late into winter, and perhaps to the end of January, will certainly be out on days when no rises are to be seen, and when the fish will not respond to the attractions of the many fancy patterns the grayling-fisher usually carries on such a day the worm, gentle, or grasshopper, wi; i probably succeed where the fly tails. It is unreasonable to regard bait-fishmg for a sporting fish as poachl1g. IT MAY BE A KIND OF POACHING to fish worm for trout when rains are just bring- ing colour and more water into the stream, but clear water worm-fishing for trout is a science, and in the same way swimming the worm for grayling needs a knowledge of their haunts and a delicacy in fishing which only those who have tried it can appreciate. Grasshopper fishing is just as deadly in certain rivers as it is unsuccessful in others it is prac- tised extensi vely in the Teme and usually accounts for the heavier fish. The barb of the artificial grasshopper must be pointed with one or two gentles, and the deeper pools searched over with an alternate sinking and drawing up the bait, care being taken never to raise the bait too far from the bottom. In worm fishing a very small float is used, sufficient to carry a smgle swan shot placsd about a foot above the hook. The bait, whether it is the brandling or a small red worm, should be well secured in moss the float is adjusted so that the bait just travels along the bottom and every eddy, the siaes of the more quickly running streams, the head and tail of pools, and any sudden depression or hollow in the bed of the stream, should be carefully tried. Whenever the bait stops, a gentle strike should be given, and at the end of every swim, before withdrawing the bait for another cast, it. is advisable first to give a gentle strike, as grayling are partial to taking the bait then. Fishing with gentles or wasp. grub is very similar to worm fishing, but which, ever method of bait fishing is tried, fine taakit gives a better chance of success. In the Northern and Midland streams, THE WET OR SUNK FLY is more usually practised, but then they have more broken water than the southern streams and the sunken fly probably represents a strug- gling half-drowned insect far more truthfully than the upright winged dry-fly does; but on the smoother waters of the southern streams the dry- fly in turn counterfeits the natural fly better than a wet fly would. Possibly also the average size of fiih being smaller and their numbers greater, they are not educated up to the same wariness that is displayed by the big fish ot the Test and Itchen. When fishing down a scour with a wet 8y it is better to cast almost straight across and let the stream bring the flies round to tbe side yau are fishing from, and to strike gently but quickly at the slightest stoppage 01 tightening of the line. Grayling frequently take the fly so far below the surface that there is 1;0 indication of & rise other thau that oommunicated to the line. When a fish ia risen but not pricked, perseverance in casting over him will often be successful; he may ignore the fly for a dozen casts and then be tempted the very next one. Great care must be taken in playing a grayling, for the mouth is most tender and the fly easily comes away. When first hooked there is ? pecu- liar "wobble" ou the surface ot the water-a moment when many a good grayling parts com- pany from thp hook this over, he tights gamely to the end. We have known them to jump out of the water, but only on very few occasions. If the stream runs at all strongly, it is nearly always fatal to your chance to hold a good fish or to try to draw him up against stream give him line instead, and follow him down till he can be landed.

END OF A MFS-SPENT LIFE. An Wednesday by the deputy coroner for Manchester on the body of Annie Chapman, aged 43, a woman of loose character. Early on Tuesday morning a nightsoil man wenl into an entry off Back Style-street, Angel Meadow, and found the deceased lying face downwards. She was quite dead. The mac informed the pohee.who took the body to Newton street Mortuary, where an examination was made of it by Dr. Dearden, divisional police surgeon. He faund that the body waa fairly nourished, but the flesh on the hand and right arm had been eaten away by rats. The cause of death was syncope from fatty heart and pneumonia. There was blood on the face, but when it was washed away no wound was found. He foimsd the opinion that she had bean dead for several days. Chapman was well- known to the- police, having been convicted nc fewer than seventy times for drunkenness and other offences. There was no suspicion of foul play. It transpired that the deceased had beas in the habit of sleeping in the tmtry. the neigh- bours giving her admission out of charity. ThE entry was used for the removal of a sanitary can. Those facts led 4 juror to remark that such places oug-ht to b done away with, but tbe coroner ob- served that the class of people to whom the de- ceased belonged would not go into the workhouse, and it was bstter that sba should sleep in an entry than in the open air. A Juror I think the attention of the corpora- tion should be directed to the district. It is one of the worst holes in Manchester. The Coronor It is a terrible district, and a. terrible lot of people live there. The jury returned a verdict of Death from natural causes."

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SWANSEA TRADE REPORT. SWANSEA, Thursday.—In the export trade very httle has been doing during the past week owing to the holidays, the shipments of coal, fuel, and tin-plates all being tar below the average. The llnporli trade, however, has exhibited consider- ty, able activity, giving an increase of 7,658 tons compared with the corresponding week of last year. The entries of shii)i,il)g in ballast amount to 16,704 tons, as against 14,760 tons in the same week of last year. The imports amount to 17,595 tons, and exports foreign to 19 531 tons, including 13,789 tons coal, 9.902 tons patent fuel, and 2,492 tons tin-plates, &c., the latter being 692 tons for France, and 1,800 tons for Philadelphia. The tone of the tinplate market is slowly improving, and there is more disposition to purchase for American re- quirements, but makers are not disposed to do busi- nass pending the settlement of the tariff question in the States, which, it is anticipated, will not be much longer delayed. Imports coastwise— Blende ore, 520 tons zinc ore, 84 potatoes, 162; grain, 236; building material, 2,286; salt, 5; flue dust, 15 manure, 315; pitch, 2,166 tinplate bars, 977 sundries, 1,520. Foreign :-Frat)ce-pit..woud, 612; genpral, 255. Bilbao-iron ore, 1,896. Hueiva—copper ore, 1>055 copper precipitate, 157. Pomaron— sulpLur ore, 940. Droutheim -iron pyrites, 730. Christiania ice. 400 tons. Frederieliscadt- flooring boards, 339. Antwerp—zinc ore, 1,840. Port Nolloth— copper ore, 1,052. Philadelphia— general, 18. Exports :—Cual—France, 10,315 tons Spain, 874 Germany, 1,850 Algiers, 300 United States, 450. Patent fuel— Spain, 1,950; Algiers, 1,300. Tin-plates, &c.- 2,492 tons.

MIDLAND IRON TRADE. BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—The quarterly meet- ings are being looked forward to with much anticipation on April 15th here, and the pre- ceding day in Wolverhampton. Although there is not much expectation of an tdvance in branded iron yet it is possible some attempt may be made by sellers to improve the prices of common de. scriptions, which at the present time are far too low. It is doubtful, however, whether such an attempt, if made, will prove successful. More demand, both home and foreign, is needed beforu the position of producers can much improve, and, knowing this, buyers are not likely to grant more money. Marked bars continue £ 7 10-; with the L.W.R.O. brand of the Earl of Dudley, £ 8 2s 6d, and other descriptions of marked iron are in proportion. Tees, by the list houses, run from £ 7 10s up to £ 8 103; and angles, £ 7 5s up ta L8 5s. The steel tritde keeps busy. Pig iron is steady, with a moderate business passing Staf- fordshire cinder is 37s 6d to 38s 6d, and part-mine 43s 6d to 44s 6d Nortli amp tons are quiet, at 43s to 41s.

NORTH OF ENGLAND IRON AND COAL TRADES. MIDDLESBROUGH, Thursday.—The iron and coal trades have been affected by the holidays, and matters are only again getting into shape, scarcely any business having ooen done for the past week. The ordinary weekly iron market was not held on Tuesday because of the holifiays. There is not very much difference to report in the general con- dition of trade, prices remaining pretty much tha same as last week. Some little fluctuation has occurred in warrants, but in other descriptions there has boon scarcely any change at all. No. 3 is about 36s for early delivery, and 36s 3d for the next three months; No. 4 forge stands at 35* 6d No. 4 foundry, 35s 9d hematite, 44s 9d to 45s for mixed numbers. Warrants last itiglit and early this morning were 365 2d sellers. The stock of Messrs Connal's warrants has increased, but not to the same extent us last month. Shipments of pig iron have been upon a good scale, mostly for foreign account, but Scotch and coastwise deliveries are also somewhat improved, a little more iron having been sent to South Wales. There is no change in manufactured iron or sfcoel. The worKS are again in operation, but fresh orders have for some time been rather scarce. Tiiare is, however, a fair a,mount of work in hand, more particularly in ship plates, Stesl ship plates arj !oii in ,auK'es ditto, £ 5; iron ship plates, rll 7c i' c1ommo,u iron bars, £ 5 iron angles, £ 4- 15s, all less 2per cent. Steel rails are quiet, and the figure still remains at about 23 15s nett. As regards the coal trade, collieries were laid off over the holidays. Work has again been pretty actively resumed, but there is not much demand, as supplies were got forward before Easter. There is likely now, however, to be an improved demand every week for best steam coals, as the Baltic will be getting open, and enlarged requirements will appear in that directiou. Still the general condition of trade is such that prices are not likely to be stronger to all appearance, as the supply will more than meet the demand. The quotation for best steam is about 10s to 10s l%d f.o.b., but in some cases less has bqen accepted. Small steam is rather more plentiful, but the prlC. is unchanged. Manufacturing and other classes of coals are generally quiet, including households. Un screened coals are weak in price, being about 5a per ton at the pit. Gas coals are also quiet at late rates. The cuke t,rade is not very active, although more furnaces have been put in blast in Cleveland. The price for ordinary furnace coke is 12s 6d per ton delivered tt Middlesbrougli.

THE AMERICAN IRON TRADE. NEW YORK, Wednesday.—There is no great improvement to report in the condition of the American iron market. In the pig-iron market the demand for all kinds is slow, as also for muok bars and epiegeleisen. Prices of American and grey forge pig and muck bars show a slight decline. In the steel trade there is a better demand for rails, while a fair business is being done in blooms, although prices of the latter are somewhat irregular. Billets and slabs are quiet and unchanged, while wire rods are in dull call, with a weakening tendency. As regards finished iron, a moderate business is passing iu old rails, while the market for scrap, bar, and sheet iron is steady. For tin-plates there is a moderate do. mand, although prices tend to weaken. In the metal market copper and spelter is weak and dull, prices showing a decline. On the other hand tin and lead are firm and fairly active, prices for these having advanced.

NEWCASTLE COAL AND IRON TRADE. NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The coal trade is rather irregular, but some good orders are being booked, the Rotterdam gas coal contracts having been just transferred from Germany and placed in Durham, while our own Government has come to Northumberland for best steam coal. The latter is quoted at 9; 9d to 10s, and the former 7s 6d per ton. Freights are still weak. Chemicals are very languid. Shipbuilding and engineering are steady, but the strike of moulders on the North-East coast continues. They are offering now a compromise, which will probably b < accepted.