South Wales Daily News

A WOMAN'S LETTER TO WOMEN. .-THE NEW FULLED SKIRT Is the first innovation I have seen on the close- fittiijg and ti$Jit-gored jupo, to which we have now been so id-ng accustomed. This make must, of course, be used with discrimination, and applies only to thin materials and slight people. It would be obviously unsuitable to those whose hips are very pronounced, nd for them the gored skirts alone are possible. Bub we must prepare our minds to expect a change, particularly in skirts and there are other indications of it in those that are draped a little to one side, this drapery being caught up to the waist on the left Side so AS3KS^FW!I*II ''PRETTILY-PK^ED underskirt. There ,*RE also some attempts, especially in eveninff-Sfessfes, to introduce once again the ol(l- fashioned paniers, but they, also, "ul" #«» cleverly arranged, are apt to add volume to the hips, and there are few figures to which they are absolutely becoming. The choice of materials will be a varied one, though it will have one limit, and that is to those of thin texture, but it will range through the whole list of efepons, beiges, mousselines de laine, and a host of light woollen fabrics with names too numerous to specify whilst thin silks, foulards, satinettes, pongees, tussores, and satin-foulards, not to speak of cotton crepons, muslins, and all descriptions of fancy stuffs will be employed in this way. The dress given in my illustration is a very simple little morning frock, and consists of A plain mauve crepon' in wool made with the new fulled skirt, a neat, tight-fitting bodice that fastens under the arm, cut square at the neck, which is trimmed with a frill ot the material. A goitnpe of cream crepon. set in to a neclc band of the mauve completes the upper part, and the sleeves are cut all in one, and largely puffed into the shoulder. STOLE MANTLES Are amongst the very newest of those designed for spring and summer wear. They are but a development of the wide collars that were so fashionable last year, but they did not reach much beyond the shoulder. It will be remarked that these now covet the arm even to below the elbow. Therlj is a. great advantage in this new style, because anyone with the least taste and clever- ness can fashion themselves a very pretty little cape out of comparatively small materials. Some black bengalme, moire, or sicihenfte silk, a few yards of black lace or guipure, and jet trimming, and you can make yourself as chic a little mantle as you can buy for three times the money m a shop. One of the principal features of the neweat mantles of those now fashionable is the stoles, or long ends that hang done in front. Sometimes they are made of the materials of the cloak, such as lace or siik at others a large bow of very wide satin ribbon appears on the front, as in my sketch, and the long ends form the lapels or stole. Nearly all the triple-caped mantles and mantelettes aze now made in this fashion, and it certainly breaks the horizontal look of these capes, which has a way of appearing to cut the figure in half. DO NOT FURNISH ALL AT ONCE If you can help it. It is pot necessary because you happen to have a oertain sum of money laid aside or given you for garnishing a new home that you must spenu it all immediately. Furnishing is a matter that ought never to be hurried. If for the same mousy you can derive a continual plea- sure and satisfaction by laying it out slowly, and giving time and thought to the most suitable articles required, rather than risk getting a num- ber of the spick-and-span horrors that are the pets of the upholsterers, it is well to go to work care- fully and slowly. This specially applies to the furnishing of the living-rooms. They ought to be a gradually-growing pleasure, because, if you buy a table, for example, you will take "Care that you will gradually collect chairs that wi!l-even of various patterns—go Suitably with it. After a little while you will probably happen on a book- case, cabinet, or couch which will tit and prettily fill a certain corner or position. Then by degrees a screen or an armchair will be discovered that will help to complete mattar", and give infinitely more satisfaction and pleasure than if carte blanche is given to the upholsterer to send in one of his terrible suites. If each item is bought only when just the right thing is found, or when actually re- quired, their value is enhanced by their suit- ability, and the history of how they came into your possession MAKES them more interesting. You will legard the curtains, over which you have spent some time and thought, with greater admiration because of their success. Any special piece of furniture for which you have waited, and perhaps saved up a little extra money, stand? as a small monument of your care and self-denial, and in its silent fashion becomes a homely friend. Thus the house that otherwise -if left to the tender mercies of the furnisher would closely resemble the rooms of an hotel or smart lodging-house—becomes gradually a real home filled with artistic treasures and small com- forts that acquire a deeper significance and far greater value than any of the usual conventional fittings', however costly, san ever give. FRYING Is a subject on which I have written before, but it is constantly necessary to remind allthose who take an interest in their cookery that too much attention cannot be paid to it. Many a cook is good in nearly all her cooking, but fails in frying, and indeed, like making putf. pastry, or ligh bread, it is one of those tnings that cannot b done anyhow. You must pay attention to it, ol your materials aie sure to be spoiled. This at- tention consists in having your frying-pan scru- pulollsly clean, a steady tire that is not allowed to let its heat go down during the process of fry- ing, and the medium in which you fry, whether butter, oil, lard, the fat off the bones when cold, which are continually kept boiling in the stock- pot, or dripping, brought up to and maintained at the right heat. This is ascertained by seeing that a thin blue vapour rises from it, and also by testing it with a bit of bread. You must learn the right heat, for meat in croquettes, rissoles, cutlets, fish, etc., requires a cooler heat than chops, fish in batter, or potatoes. You must be patient, and you must be untiring in your frying, or you will never succeed. Two things will teU you how far you go wrong. If your trial bit of bread IS sodden and greasy youv grease is too cold if it turns too deep a brown and looks blackish yonr grease is too hot. It IS for you to have the perseverance and care to find the happy medium which shall give you success. Another mistake is to be too niggardly with your grease if yqu are, your food is safe to be burnt. Whatever the depth of your saucepan, or frying- PFTTIJ it must be exactly half that depth full of boiling grease. This grease will serve you over and over again (except when onions have been fried in it) if you will only clarify it properly by pouring it in a large saucepan or fireproof bowl, with a little water, till the fat is all melted and capable of straining through sieve or muslin. Be sure to lay what you fry on a. sieve, covered with blotting paper, before the fire whilst you finish frying the rest. This dratns off all superfluous grease, and keeps each item crisp. BUSY BEE.

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NEUTYDD."—You will get the information you require from any large wholesale house in the trade. TED.As a rule, we do not allow cases which have been heard befora the magistrates to be re-tried in these columns, especially when the points at issue are purely PERSONAL. In any case—even the most impo. taut-we could not permit comment above a nom;deplume.

PROTECTION FOR THE BIRDS. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-Bird-nestiiig is once more upon us, and I want to direct the notice of the watchful local officers of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and others to the existence of the Small Birds' Protection Act—an •MJINIRABTA Act, and yet almost a dead letter. One hears and reads of a sparse number of convictions under the Ituthorityof this Act. Why is it ? Again, I am far from being convinced that something touching the fringe of cruelty is not practised at the many dealers' shop3 in our midst, where one gots in duplicate some of the demzens of Explorer Stanley's African forest.—I am, &c., The Parade. H. RALPH INSOLE.

DOWN WITH THE PEERS. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,The House of Lords is the chief topic of the day in England, and I earnestly ask why not jn Wales, and especially in the county of Glamorgan with its 10 Radical members of Parlia- ment, and with its thousands of inteligent work- ing inen holding aiUshades of occupations ? Why, in England ressolutions have been passed con- dooming the peers by all shades of Trades Union societies, friendly societies, and Liberal and Radical associations, but in Wales everything is AS quiet as if the House of Lords had been abolished. 1 beg to ask all true Welshmen what will W, accomplish by being asleep or half dead j when we ought to be in the thick of the fight ? Where on earth are our Liberal and Radical Association 4, and what are they doing? Don't they see i i; worth while to wake up ah over the country and condemn the peers, and demand that that they be abolished ? The peers are a sur- vival of the old times, when "might was right." In demanding their abolition as a legislative power, the people are bringmg forward no new claim, but are only continuing the fight for liberty that has been waged by our forefathers for centuries. If the Lords ventarc, to reject Heme Rule, Employers' Liability, and mutilated Parish Councils in committee, what will become: of Welsh Disestablishment ? The progress of the Welsh Bill depends very much on the electors of Wales at the present time. If the Bill is delayed or fail to pass the House of Com- mons through all its stages, it won't be the fault of our members of Parliament. If we do our duty as honest Welshmen* we shall be face to face with the Lords before the end of the year on the question of Disestablishment and Disendowment. The Welsh members were justified in supporting Mr Labouchere's a.mprirlm»»NFC to tho OI1F;Im' Speech, for it was a vote against the Lords. The great difficulty in regard to this question is not to find arguments for the abolition of the House of Lords, but to find any arguments from a national point of view for its existence. Take, for instance, the land question. The House of Lords is practically composed of landowners. It is estimated that its members alone bold about fifteen and a half million acres, with a rent roll of about £13,000,000 sterling. Can anyone in his senses expect that body to deal impartially with any measure that will tend to break down tho land monopoly ? It is the land monopoly that is at the root of the sweating system, the long hours and poor pay, the wretched dwellings in which the workers are forced to live, and every social evil which affects the nation. The peers enjoy their luxury by the misery of the masses. I can do nothing better than compare the Tory party and the Lords to Pharaoh of old. with a hardened heart, keeping the people in bondage, and the great Radical party to Moses, demanding that the people shall be free.—I am, &c., D. H. Llansamlet Higher.

YSTRADYFODWG SCHOOL BOARD RE MIXED SCHOOLS. TO THE EDITOR. SrR,-Witil your kind permission I should like to express my unbounded gratification in discovering that through the instrumentality of IT I my stigmatised revised edition I was enabled to move" Dyn Dod to admit the excellency of our present girls9 schools. Facts are stubborn things, and the excellent results attained in the Rhondda Infants' and Girls Schools amply testify to the efficiency of the teaching imparted. -,tir, sure that Mr Edwards, in conjunction with the other H.M.I.'s, will feel grateful to Dyn Dod for so emphatically defining the duties of their (iffice-but he has omitted one of the most important functions of their onerous office, viz., their representative character. In discharge of this duty, Mr Edwards seems to have roused the iro of Dyn Dod." The com- parison between Tyisaf new mixed schools for 590 children and the proposed conversion of the present excellent Llwynypia Girls' and Boys' Schools into a mixed school for 600 children, is obvious, and amply justifies Mr Edwards' I objections. I affirm the present exceHent re- sults of our separate departments would be unattainable in the proposed mixed schools, and I base my convictions on the following :—Firstly, the head teachers should be personally acquainted with the mental and physical constitution of the l children committed to their care, so as to enable them through their staff to tram to the best I i d vantag-e the mental and intellectual faculties of child. Can any head teacher this knowledge of 600 children, especially when we consider the diversity of the character of the physical constitution of boys and girls ? With- out this knowledge no lasting or beneficial results can be secured. Seoondly. the diminution of tho classes must always be detrimental to success. Thirdly, the indelicacy of a mixed class being taught in a olass room under the charge of a boy P.T. Fourthly, the difference of curriculum for boys and girls. Fifthly, the number of P:f. are diminished from six to three in mixed schools; this in itself is an impor- I tant factor for us as parents (who, Jike myself, have a number of children to rear) to oonsider. I will admit that some slight pecuniary advantage may result in the proposed mixed school, but this advantage would be considerably enhanced if the board appoints a distress as head- teacher, as this alone would minimise, to a con- siderable degree, the evils accruing from the mixing of the children. It would be the only means of justifying the board's action in this matter. I, in conjunction with others, intend waiting on the board to try to avert this pending evil.—I am, &C^ A PARENT.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. [FROM MONDAY S c. MARK-LANE £ XPRKSS,"1 Tito cakintry is looking forward to April to give ¡ it those showers winch are SEASONABLE. Snould this expectation be realised the promise' of autumn wheat, of early Lent corn, and the pastureslwould compete in excellence. Tii bright sunshine of the past week has had excellent effect upon all vegetable growth. English wheat prices un- fortunately remain low, the mean quotation last week being 24s 4::1 only, against a septennial average of 30s lOd per quarter. Foreign wheat I resuming after Easter was 6d cheaper from before the holidays. Prices rallied somewhat subsequently, but holders are still accepting a triple less money than they stood at just before Good Friday. The spring corn trade has been firm, and the turn dearer for all sorts of maize, but linseed is 6d cheaper on the fortnight. BRRley is 3d dearer on the fortnight for feeding sorts, but rye is cheaper. Oats, hay, beans, and peas are dull, but not quotably changed in price. On this bare record the spring corn trade seems in a very uncertain state, but as barlev and maize are more important staples than linseed and rye, the balance of the fortnight's alterations is decidedly M sellers' favour.

A CARDIFF PENSIONER IN TROUBLE. At Carmarthen Borough Police-court, on MOII- i day, David R. King, an Army pensioner recently employed at Cardiff Infirmary, was summoned by his wife for assaulting her, and to show cause why j he should not find sureties of the peace and con- tribute the arrears of maintenance due to fief through a Reparation order. Mr H. Brunei • Carmarthen, w«s for the complainant, and Mr D. R. Williams, Llaneliy, for the de- fendant,-Coinplainant stated that the defendant I; had forcibly entered her shop in St. Peter's-street. Carmarthen, on several occasions recently, pushed I her about, and threatened to knock her brains out I ?• J N0L: KREAK the order. She had been obliged to seek police protection, and Superin- tendent Thomas Smith was much concerned, seeing that one of !ii>> mer. had had to patrol near /vr IIR6^RX^ IOR A -0K8 TLUIE past.—The clerk V-R. M. 1 NOMAS) stated that at a previous sessions defendant promised to pay the arrears I when his pension BECAME due on the 2nd inst. II —It transpired that he was in receipt of 17s 6d I per week from that. source, and that he had I been ordered, when the separatiou was effected, to pay his wife 10s weekly.—Mr Williams said I' his client was prepared to go away from the town, but should not something be done to stay -the passage of the post-card missives declaring that she was starving Such hounding was in- jurious to the defendant, and he could not keep A berth owing to their receipt.—Eventually the defendant was Ubund over in his own reeogniz- ances of 910, and another 210, to keep the peace for six months; á!d the defendant s solicitor undertook to forward A dlieque to Mr White for the maintenance ARREARS.

LIVELY STREET SCENES AT MERTII YP, Twelve prisoners who were dealt with at the Merthyr Police-court on Monday morning were being marched from the police-station, under the escort of In. speetor Davies and several constables, in the direction of the railway station to catch the three o clock train tor Swansea, and, when they were enierging from Victoria-street, A man from Quarry-row rushed forward from the crowd and savagely assaulted one of THE constables, pre- atitnitbly with the mtention of rescuing a prisoner. A seoond offioer, coming up, was also boaten by the same assailant, who eventually was arrested. About the same time the High-street outside Zoar Chapel, where a erowded cynaanfa was proceeding, was the scene of another disturb- ance. Two men, backed up by their friends, fought several rounds, and the presumable victor subsequently fought a third man. whom he knocked down and left in a dazed state in the road way. A fun;-rkl procession then came up and passed through theremaining portion of the crowd.

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THE WELSH PRESS. [BY LLWTDFRYN.] "THE HERO NOW AT REST." Kossuth s brave fight for freedom found en- thusiastic sympathisers in Wales in the days when the Times and the Tories denounced him as a subverter of the peace and a curse to his country. The Dissenting ministers of Mont- gomery presented an address to the Hungarian patriot in 1850, and the name of the 1llustrious Welsh writer S.R. is the first on the list of subscribers. The addrees was published in the Cronicl Bach, a sterling little magazine which was edited by the Robertses of Lianb^ynmair, and which was to one generation of Welshmen the most fearless exponent of Liberalism and the most unflinching friend of progress and liberty. The Herald Cyiuraer;, in its article on Kossuth, quotes the following eloquent words, which formed the conclusion of the address:—"The account of yonr heroism and sufferings has made an indelible impression on OIIr hearts it will be written in our family records and printed in our periodicals; and graven with an iron pen and lead in our rocks for ever, that om- children and our children's children may learn to bate with a deadly hate the machinations, the cruelty, and the flir3rvf your oppressors." It may be that this sanguine prophecy has not been literally fulfilled. The march of events, the building up and the throwing down of dynasties and thrones, the growth of new and the resuscitation of old nationalities, and the triumphant progress of democracy have caused the younger generation to forget much of the life and sufferings of Kossuth. But there is no doubt that his successful vindica- tion of the right of a nationality to autonomy in its own affairs has influenced the minds and opinions of the leaders of the Welsh people in no small degree during the last 50 years. The Welsh papers this week pay a last tribute of respect and affection for the Hungarian champion. The Herald devotes a long and suggestive leading article to a review of bis life and a sympathetic criticism of his work. It recognises that his f indirect influence was even greater than the direct power that he wielded. His eloquence not only swayed the thousands of Hungarian soldiers, but his burning words made tyrants everywhere fear, King Bomba at Naples and the chairmen of quarter sessions in Wales. The Baner devotes two columns to an account of his life, but as it has only reached down to the out- break of the rebellion" of 1B48, it promises to revert to the subject again next week. The Genedl has a short but extremely able article on Kossuth's life and work. What Luther's Bible did to the language of Germany," it says in con- clusion, Kossuth's addresses did to the language of Hungary. Before his time a Latin dialect, which flourished m the Middle Ages, was used in the Senate but Kossuth gave dignity and status to the popular tongue, and made it a literary language. In all things he was a fervid and faithful Nationalist. He saw that language was a valuable aid in retaining a nation's character- istics. If a nation is true to itself, it is pretty certain to keep alive its old tongue. No one ever doubted Kossuth's thorough honesty. His aims were elevated, and all his efforts were pure and without guile. He was honest, pure, and loving his country with a consuming love. Therefore his memory will ever be blessed."—The Cymro has also an excellent leading article on the subject. In a sense," it says, his career was a failure, and some there were who once said that Kossuth was a curse to his country. But we in Wales especially are perfectly acquainted with this libel on the memory and work of patriots. We were taught as children by an English educa- tional system that Owen Gwynedd was anr uncivilised brute, that Llewelyn was- a turbulent disturber, and that Glfudwr was a hot-headed busybody but who will to-day deny that they did their best to unite Wales, and that we are not even to-day something the better for their having lived ? Thus, though Kossuth died a poor exile 1 in Turin, his hfe was not wasted, and his career was not a curse to his oountry. He lived for a purpose, and the history of Hungary to-day is a proof of the value of his service. Though he tailed, if he be judged according to his own J standard, yet he did great service to the natfcous of the world. By infusing into his own country- men the spirit to tight their oppressors, who knows how many souls, outside of Hungary, he fired to do the same work as himself, but in another way and finder different circumstance ? He sacrificed himself for his country's nationality, and to-day the tears of many a country besides his own fall, as it were, upon hie grave." TVrese eloquent tributes show that Welshmen have grasped the true meaning of nationalism, and have perceived that it is no mere isolated move- ment, confined to Wales and Ireland, but is simply part of a vast and revolutionary movement which has swept over the whole of Europe during the last half century. The sympathy which the careers of Kossuth, Mazzini, and Garibaldi, and to a lesser degree of Cavoui and Bismarck, have met with m Wales shows that the Welsh nation has, with unerring instinct, appreciated the fact that these heroes were fighting its battles along with their own. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN WALES. The Llan publishes an article on the position of the Church in Wales, which makes one regret that so much ability and good sense should be distorted to such inadequate, if not unworthy, objects. The writer admits that the Church has neglected her duty in the past, and that sh* is only begiuing to realise, dimly and darkly, the true nature of her mission, and tjie value of her opportunity. There are signs (wocld that there were a hundred thousand times more) that Churchmen realise the spiritual needs cf their countrymen, and that they are opening tl*eir eyes to perceive the deepest aspirations of the nation." But though he admits the Church's failure in the past, and her imperfect grasp of the nature of her duty to-day, he can find no words strong enough to condemn the sectarianism which has been originated and the sectarian spirit which is being fostered by the Church of England. The Church, it is sometimes boasted, has betn in fur 15 centuries, and she is, according to the Llan, but now opening her eyes to her real work; and yet those Welshman are b amed, who,; failing to rouse the Church'.to A sense of her duty, seceded from her inhospitable roof. The Llan compares the.se wen and their descendants to Saubalat and his follow- ors, who sought to prevent the building of one temple in Jerusalem wherein all the people might worship. Had the writer's charity not been obscured by the b, tternes-, of his zeal for the tem- poral possessions of the Church, he might have remembered that others nobler and holier than Saubalat protested against the centralisation of the people's worship in one temple and against the arrogance of a sacerdotal caste. The Goleuad, in a very clear and comprehensive account of tlie Stundists, or Russian Dissenters, draws A very interesting parallel betwren the rise ot the Stun- dists and the rise of the Welsh Dissenters, The same religious and moral degeneration in the Established Church, indifference and world 1 mess on the part of the PRIES* and the same influence of the Lord's Spirit on the masses are to be noted in the history of the Soundists and the Noncon- formists of Wales. As it was in Wales, so in was and is the nest of all degradations The priests were known as the dtnnKenest and. uncleanest persons in the land. As drunk as a prmst, I as wasteful as a priest's wife," as disorderly as a priest, house' were common phrase, to express extremes in sin and wastefulness; and the priests cared nothing for their duties as tlie religious teachers of the people as long as they received the tithes." It concludes by saying- that the future of the Stun- dists is still a secret bitf in the dark womb of the future but that there is no doubt that it is one of the purest and mort powerful religious revivals the world has ever seeo. WELSH EDUCATION. The Tyst has a very sensible article on the Welsh University, in which it supports Lord Bute's suggestion that Mr Gladstone should be asked to be its first ichaaceUor. The Independent organ does not believe that the establishment of a University in Wales will decrease, but will increase the number of Welshmen at the English Universities, but it is of opinion that the number of these will be small in comparison to that of those who will have to depend entirely on their Welsh degree. Everything will therefore doii-etid on the market value of the Welsh University degree. If the degree will not be a good one Wales had far better be without a University at all. It is on this acoount that the Tyst supports Lord Bute's suggestion, tor M: Gladstone, one of the most learned men in the world, as well as the chief statesman and greatest orator ot his time," would give dignity and honour at once to the University.—The Germll, in A letter signed A Student," gives publicity to an niveasy suspicion, which is fast gaining ground in Wales, that Welsh teachers have been boycotted at our University Colleges. It will be rememeaibered that Mr Otven Edwards eome time ago advocated the appointment of Welshmen and Welshwomen to Welsh schools AND colleges wherever possible. Since that time Mr Edwards has received the double benefit of being attacked by the Bishop of St. Asaph and supported by Mr Thomas Gue. The latter, in comparing th: resnlfes of Aberystwyth and Bangor University Colleges —much to the lAtter disadvantage—traces all the failure of Bangw to the Principal's objection to Welsh teachers. Be this as it may, "Student" wonders that the young Welshmen, who have givgn themselves up to the work of teaching their countrymen, have not become tired of the treat- ment which they receive at the hands of those iu authority. M0OT901C1NTY ELECTION. 1 The greatest uneasiness as tu the result oftn Montgomeryshire election was manifested by the WlJh papers. The Baner devotes four and a half oolumns to a comparison of the claims of the two modidates the Genedl tells the electors that the eyes of all Wales are upon them, that their action will hav3 widespread influence on the fate of the Welsh Questions: it deplores the interference of A -4 sometimp Liberal, Mr Marchaut Williams, in f the Iff'"}J6t!eeln Tory atld Libera!, and it fcan u whictl,the thousand non-resident voter? but ti i°U ^^ction. The Llan is prudent snlphZ ana reJ°,ces to a"d that Welrt meetmo-a cnynUiCa m the Tory candidate': retnrn of u S" 3 we fancy that even th< IR.ajonty J M ^P^eys ^-EN L A ^NCED Liberals! a reJ,ef to ^°rth Wales Th» v Tm KEW ;:agISTRAVES. new magi^ti-ltes °f?'y p,artlaI1-v satisfied with th; Lord Windsor's count5' Glamorgan, bbirur too one-sidSd'n^tments are condemned as prominent pTae, ,s a"d Conservative owners, and k landowners and coal list contains also the °F IUINES1; TH' but the names of manv of'ti y Bler?lanrs' of the people whn mo £ t trusted leader.' workmen, are consul,, s!.1°PkeePers 01 Lord HerscMV T absenca excellent as far as it other nam«s on it as weil 'The writ"* °Ufrnt to thankful that an addition I eJS1>ecia!,ly bonch at Pontypridd and fcdda^of mt who will administer the law so a* who wdladmn1!stH the law s:) as to clear th district of the chr-e OF'^OSIT^OA honest opinion i.V- it continues, ihat if ih- magistrates are to remain an institution in tte land they should be taken from all cW radrffercntly, and that the most numerous cka* especially,^ viz., th* workmen, should not bf neg IDCWD< SffSOfiLLANEOUS. The Tyst has « charming sketch of a tvpica1 1-nriepeiident minister, which is only marred%y v too frequent use of Eullsh terms and expressions. -The tt/mro publishes a letter from a "Church- min," quoting the Haul's protest against the Anglicising policy of the Church iu the latei thirties.—The Rev. £ K. Jones, of Bryrnbo, eon tributes a masterly character sketch of Lore. Rosebery to the Bav.tr, and the same statesmar Comes in for a drilling by the Llan's leading con- tributor, the SyllycUL" The JUa-a also has an amusing description—though somewhat over- drawn—of a nagging wife's tantrums ai home. — The Tarian is alarmed at tin increase in the number of horrible cri.me8.-The Seven Cymru announces the ap. EMntment of the Rev. W. Pr it chard Wil hams. andore, as editor, and Mr Williams gives si declaration of policy. lit starts with a high ideal ofedttorial duty, which will be difficult 01 w nmr"ei^ even 'n a religious weekly. Mi iluams is, however, a vigorous writer, an in- defatigable worker, and has already had a lengtlu experience as a leader-writer.—The Goleuad sug- gests that Mr T.E. Ellis should be asked to contes* the Montgomery Boroughs at the next election, and that Mr Richard Jones, Pertheiun, should succeed him in Merioneth.— ( ranogwen," in thf same jonrnaJ, writes of the necessity of a closet union becwesm young Wales and Methodism.— The Celt announces that Eynon is going ovec to Rome in the literal sense, and that he will con- tribute every week letters descriptive of bis travels and impressions to the columns of the Celt.

AFFAIRS OF A LOCAL COLLIERY MANAGES. EVILS OF THE OVERDRAFT -SYSTEM. The first meeting of creditors to the estate ol James Thomas Green, coUisry me.mager, of Newbridge, near Newport, was held on Monday at the offices of the official receiver, Newport. The statement disclosed an unusual condition of affairs. It showed that whilst the gross liabilities were £4-,825 18s ld, there was awrplus Of £7,784 6s lid, or uearly double, so that if these were realised the debtor was able, if need be, to pay 40s in the £ The valuable assets were a one-third share in the Fernhill Mertbyr Colliery Company, which was estimated tu be worth £10,000, and a one-fourth m the Viaduct (Cromhn) Foundry and Engineering Goni- pany, worth £750. The creditors unsecured amounted-to £3,256 12s lOd those fully swourec, £503 15s; creditors partly secured, The. gross liabilities were £4,825; and the assets, or £7,784 to the credit of tire debtor. The cause of failure was prnssune by the liquida- tors cf the National Bank of Wales, who had obtained judgment against the debtor Is Id and afterwards tiled a petition in bank- ruptcy against hirw. The«amit»?rs of the Fernhill Collieries during the period IlmÐ-2, amounting to £18.000 (th Official Receiver explains in a note at the foot of the statement), were expended in developing thceoUMries, ajid vv^re not shown at profits in the company's books. The collieries have been -greatly improved, and fwre now able to raise 800 to 1.000 tons of-coal per d-ay, a ad -are considered to tie worth about The debtor states that he joined the company in Jaly. 1890, that the original capital was :£3,750, of which he contributed one-third, and that he subsequently introduced £2,500 further capital, which he obtained upon an overdraft from his bankers, the National Bapk of Wales. In this way the claim of the licwudators of the bank has arisen. The debtor has been collierv manager for 33 years, and during the last 20 years h&s been so engaged at Abercarn, hip present salary being £600 a year. The deficiency account shows excess of assets over liabilities on the 9th of Marc! 1893. of £ 3,766 Is lid estimated profit of the one-thiv j shanp in the Fernhill Colliery, £ 4,0CQ; salary as colliery manager, £ 600 rent of Risca houses, £ <f0 Abercarn G»°- Co. dividend, :£15 15s; total, Expenses, household, &c., interest on mortgage of houses, and ground rent, £28 10s I surplus, £7,793 6s lid. The Official Receiver intimated that as the dbtorltad no offer to submit to the creditors be had been adjudicated I bankrupt. Mr C. E. Dovwy, Cardiff, was appointed trustee, and Messrs J. Liscombe, J. C. Llewellin, and D. Boweti were appointsd a com- mittee of inspection.

THE MISSIONARY^STEAMER JOHN WILLIAMS.. A VISIT TO CARDIFF. This vessel, of which we gave a descrip.'&Hi jx OUr columns a few days ago. will be on vtøw at the West Bute Dock, Cardiff, on Wedtiesdavwd Thursday next. She comes here from Bristol, where she is at present lying for inspection. She will enter the dock at 7 a.m. to-morrow (Wednes- day) morning under the charge of the pdot, Mi, Thomas Thomas. She visits Cardiff that many friends of the London Missionary Society who live here and hi the adjoining towns and valleys may have an opportunity of seeing first steamship that has been built fat this society's use, and that she may be coaled with South Wales coal. Mr John Cory has kindly offered to supply her with all the coa-Is she re- quires at cost price, besides giving a donation of £25 to the society. Sir W. T. Lewis has kindly granted free dues for the Bute Docks, aud every facility is being afforded by Captain Pomeroy for the berthing of the ship in a cotvonient position for being visited. Messrs J. Marychurch and Co. are the local agents, and have been assiduous in making suitable arrangements, giving then I services without charge. The pilot also gives hit services. f(,<!<t!. The ship is in temporary com- mand of Captain Griffiths, and at Liverpool, I Swansea, and other ports she has been visited by 'I tens of thousands of people. Tickets to, see tb( vessol can be had according to arrangement! given in our advertising columns. I

I' WHAT THE CARDIFF GUARDIANS SPEND. I As the old order will shortly give place to tin I new at the board of guardians it will be incerest ing to turn to a Parliamentary paper just issued, giving in a'n easy form for reference the eost of ie and out-door poor relief for the half-year ended I last Michaelmas, together with calculations show, j ing the cost of pauperism per head of the popula- I tion. In the whole of England and Wales, with a population of 29,731,100, the totai amount el poor relief was £ 2,269,628, being at the rate ol Is per head of the entire population, being at the rate of 8%d per head of the population fot in-maintenance, and 9%d for outdoor relief. Tiis cost of pauperism rises highest in North Wales, the charge being 2s SVod per head of the popula- tion and lowest in Shropshire, where theoltargs only amounts to 11%d per hea.d. In this Union, with a. oopulation of 173;, tm in-maintenance cost :£4.956 and the outdoor rciiet £7,936, making a totai of £12,892. This money is all spent by the guardians, the cost of pauper lunatics, if in asylums, not being itt- cluded. The outdoor relief IS made up of the following items — Doles cf money, £7,885; school fees, £3; in kind, £37; boarding-out children, £11.

MATRIMONIAL INFELICITY AT NEWPORT. James j'ktts. of 6, New Ruperra-shreet, ap peared at Newport Town-hall on Monday, befor< the magistrates, for illuming his wif*. Setiua j Betts, the wife, one evening last week retarwec home, having been out at work alljiav, her hus- band being out of employment. The husband j shortly afterwards came in the worse for drink, and asked for some money. The wife declined tc give the money, and Betts took out a razor from a j box, and threatened to cut his wife's throat, j —There was a long list of previous convictions against the defendant, and a judicial separation had been granted, but the parties had gone tc j live together again. Defendant BOW offered to give his wife half his wages. Tlie magistrate! inquired what that was, and the defendant sa.id that at Cardiff the wages were 7%d per hour, at Newport 7a per hour, a»d at Pontypool 6rl pei I hour.—The bench ultimately bound the defendant ovr to keep the peace for six months. I

MR IRVING'S DOUBLE. j In his lectures oa delivered bpfcxre the professors and students of Harvard University four days previous to his departure, Ilrlr Irvine: told an amusing story. It wae eidf the other day," reUted, "that a geuttemn I wrote to me from Paris, asking for a little temporary assistance, on the ground that his Tile had become a burden to him from his painful resemblance to myself. He was an Englishman, he said, and the people i* the streets ;rwd caf& wherever he went pointed to him—I hope not j with the finger of scorn—aud said, That't Irving, the actor.' IN consequence of this perse- I cution he solicited from me the loan of 100 francs I replied, suggesting that bis misfortunes wooid 'I come to a speedy end if be would take the first opportunity of having hie hair cut."

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