South Wales Daily News

BIRTHS, MAiiKiACES. DHA'j'Hs A"etiaes of Births, Mama/jot, and Deaths, Is each, if rat exceeding fO word?, and 6d for each extra 10 werlÙ. MARRIAGE. DAVIES—EVANS.—At Ro-tth-road Wesleyan Chapel, by the Rev. Mr Clogg-, Harriet Emily IIIaITie), daughter of Mr Jolia Ogli-.by Davies, of Stanley House, Tre- degarville, Cardiff. to Edward Evans, of Brims- combe Court, near Stroud. 271 DEATHS. GRATREX-IDAVIES.-On the Elizabeth, wife of Edward Gratrex-Daviess, of Ashfield, Crickhowell. POWELL.-On October 17th, at her residence, 13, Cynon-place. Aberdare, Mary, widow of the late John Powell, engine-driver, in her 86th year. Funeral Satnrday, at 3 pltI, at the Old Church. 8791 LAWRENCE.—On October 16th, at Cosmeston, near Penarth, John Llewellyn Lawrence, in his 72nd year. Funeral at Penarth on Friday, the 19th inst., at four o'clock. No flowers. 172 STEELE.—On October 16th, at Hammersmith. Jose- phine, dearly beloved wife of Jame* Steele (late of Birmingham), and granddaughter of the late Thoiras Lloyd, E'q., Hendre Hall, St. Mellon's. 304

THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1894. THE BIRKENHEAD ELECTIGN. MORAL victories do not count iq numbering heads at Westminster, otherwise the result of the poll at Birkenhead yesterday should be scored as a Liberal triumph. Victories which augur, even if they do not spell, defeat are al notiee to quit to the party in possession, according to the time-honoured maxim of the Great King of EPURUS. The Tory can- didate was certainly re-turned at the head of the poll yesterday, but by the im- mensely reduced majority of only 106. The result, however, is not to be measured by the mere sum of the majority, but by the very near extinction of the old Tory traditions of the Borough, and the great weakening, the almost annihila- tion of the Tory supremacy which has prevailed in unbroken continuity from the hour that Birkenhead, severed from North- West Cheshire, was created a Borough until yesterday. No Liberal attack in the past, however skilfully and vigorously conducted, could shake the solid and stolid Tory majjority, whose dull inertia was only equalled by its stubborn inaccessibility tit "light and leading." Mr KENNEDY, Q.C., who fought a gallant fight against the Tory General Sir EDWARD BRUCE HAMLEY, and lost by an adverse majority of 1,173, could only reduce the inveterate Tory majority by 4 ia his next contest in 1886. Birkenhead seemed to be given hopelessly over to Toryism, and the watchword of the Birkenhead Liberals was beooming almost as despondent as that of the Hebrew pro- phet, "EPHRAIM has joined himself to idols, let him alone." But despondency any more than impossibility should find no place in a Liberal dictionary. Regardless of the mighty odds against him, and the incarnated anclencrusted Tory tradi- tions of the Borough, Mr W. H. LEVER took up the almost insolent Tory challenge of 1892, and reduced the rampant Tory majority by nearly one- half, bringing it down to 604. In the contest yesterday he redlilced that majority once more to the exceedingly narrow margin of 106. The result of the poll was ;-LEES (Tory), 6,149; LEVER (Liberal), 6,043. Such another Tory victory will be a defeat.

BAITED AND BADGERED." MR JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, notwithstand- ing his dexterous cleverness in political debate, and his admitted skill as a leader of a political guerilla faction, is, and has been for some time past, a spent force in British politics. Outside Birmingham he has no following worth serious considera- tion, and in Birmingham his influence, as we learn, is gradually waning. People flock to hear him as they would crowd to listen to any clever histrionic performer and the Tories loudly clap his I reactionary Tory utterances, and the Liberals applaud whatever lingering remnants of his old Radicalism escape him and then both sides leave the meeting regretting that a clever, although a somewhat superficial, debater should have thrown himself so utterly away through un- bridled amhition and an ungovernable temper. In his first speech at Durham on I Tuesday afternoon, whilst smarting under l the biting lash of the Times' criticism, and the criticism of some of the Times' corre- spondents, on his recent Birmingham pro- gramme, he affirmed, with no email show of resentment, that if he thought that any considerable section of the Liberal l Unionist party endorsed the views of a Liberal Unionist," whose letter appeared in Monday's Times, "he for one would at once resign the responsible position which he held," and retire forthwith from the chief lieutenancy of the Dissentient party, which he holds under the Duke of DEVON- SHIRE. But Mr CHAMBERLAIN must surely be aware, for it is as obvious as the sun in the unclouded meridian, that he is utterly dis- trusted by his Tory allies, and is suspected and held in scant respect by the largest section of the small Liberal Dissentient party. In a few of his recent speeches, which were to a considerable extent but modified editions of his many unauthorised programmes, Mr CHAMBERLAIN declared that the Tory and Dissentient Opposition "must have a definite and distinct policy. He was perfectly convinced that it was hopeless for any party to think, to live, and to be strong which contented itself with a mere policy of opposition to what was proDOsed bv its political adversaries, and he did not think they could approach the working classes of this country with any chance of success if all they had to offer was a scheme of neg. tive criticism. In our many comments in past years on Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S tergiversations and his indefiniteness of programme, we endeavoured, even by repetition, that offended one's literary fastidiousness, to impress this essential truth upon Mr CHAMBERLAIN and upon his brother Dissentients. He is now converted, so far as this truth is concerned, and in his late Birmingham speech" figured out" another programme, which is as crude, as misty, as unworkable, and as impossible as were his old" Unauthorised Programmes." The last programme was a strange medley of collectivist Socialism and of Radical indi- vidualism, and it has pleased nobody—the Tories and a section of the Liberal Dissen- tients least of all. The adverse criticism which his suggestions have provoked has aroused Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S temper, no difficult task at any time, and at Durham he fired some point-blank shots at his critics of the Tury and Liberal Dissentient persuasion. He knew the spot where they were most vulnerable and what would rile" them most, and like the good Christian that he is, he fired at that spot and riled them accordingly. It was said that GEORGE III. could never hear mentioned the name of "WILKES and Number 45"—the libel-i lous number of the North Briton which caused its suppression—without bursting into frenzied rage and that whenever his son, subsequently GEORGE IV., had a tiff" with his father he used to glide gently to the door of the King's chamber, shout loudly WILKES and Number 45 for ever," and then scamper off incontinently. Mr CHAMBERLAIN pursued a similar raking policy at Durham. He knew that nothing would so grievously disturb and irritate the Church and Tory party as telling them that he, their ally— who has already caused them to forfeit their own political consistency and self-respect by their abandonment of old Tory principles for the hybrid Toryism of the Birmingham prophet—was in favour of the Disestablish- ment ot the Welsh Church, and he conse- quently told them so. In his second speech at Durham on Tuesday night he said, I am not hers to couceal my opinions, and my opinion is that the connection between Church andState is indefen.sibleinprinciple." He expressed his firm belief, too, that the Episcopal Church would be more power- ful than it is at present if it were altogether released from the trammels of State control, and from the invidious privileges it brings with it." Mr CHAMBERLAIN could not refrain from his now most congenial work of casting mud at his old friends, the Liberals, as he passed along, by impugning their motives aud intent. But as if to compound for his reviling, he very distinctJy proclaimed his intention that I shall give my vote for the principle of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, an an- nouncement which struck consternation to the hearts of his Tory and Dissentient hearers, and drew upon him the resent- ment and the scourge of the Times yesterday morning. The Times' article is instructive and amusing reading to those who will take the trouble to study it between the lines. It is on.3 of the most striking instances of Letting I dare not wait upon I would, like the poor cat in the adage," that modern journalism can show. The Times, willing to wound, but yet afraid to strike," patronisingly smoothes down Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S choler, and con. deecendingly tells the great PANJANDRAM of Birmingham that he must not mistake the purpose and the nature of the criticisms to which the plans he propounded lately in Birmingham have been subjected in quarters not by any means unfavourable to him." Possibly the quarters were not unfavourable to him, but the criticisms were pitilessly unfavourable to him, for they denounced his proposals as crude, jejune, worthless, and dishonest. You do take my life," said SHYLOCK, when you do take the means by which I live." To spare Mr CHAMBERLAIN whilst stamping upon worthless, and pulveris- ing into minutest dust, Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S programme is to destroy the means by which Mr CHAMBERLAIN keeps himself in evidence before the British public. Similar tactical Jesuitry is exhibited by the Times in j condemning Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S views of Disastablishment. Mr CHAMBERLAIN said that he shall vote for the principle" of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, becanse the connection between Church and State is indefensible in principle, and confers I invidious privileges which ought to be abolished. The Times shrinks from direetly assailing Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S utterances, but with bland and smug complacency, and in ita usually eva- sive fashion, tells Mr CHAMBERLAIN that the Welsh Disestablishment Bill of last year was iniquitous and malicious in its proposals." "This is a very pretty quarrel as it stands," but if we were given to betting we would, to borrow Lord SALISBURY'S phrase, lay our money on the Times. Mr CHAMBERLAIN, judging from his action in recent years, will come down," like Colonel CROCKETT'S coen, and will pre- sently loudly chant the praises of the Times, as he now chants the praises of the House of Lords, which House he once so grievously riddled and scarified.

THE SWANSEA DISTRICT. THE delegates from the various Liberal Associations in the Swansea District Parlia- mentary Division will meet at Neath on Saturday, to nominate a candidate in suc- cession to the present Liberal member, Mr WILLIAM WILLIAMS, who has announoed his intention to retire from the representa- tion through pressure of business engage- ments. The task committed to the dele- gates by their various Associations is delicate, weighty, and responsible and will demand theexerciseof cool judgment, greatprudence, a high sense of political duty, and the widest tolerance of opposing views. If the delegates attend the meeting, as we believe they will, animated by the sole desire to adopt the candidate best fitted in all respects to represent the many interests of that important and populous district, with due regard to the claims of each and all, and the well being of the country as a whole, there will not be the slightest fear of dissension or severance. Divisions only come when sections, infeeted with the crude notion of their own wisdom and infallibility, stubbornly refuse to yield to the majority. Yielding to the voice of the majority is the only safe and rational method of managing Local or Imperial affairs with a Constitutional form of Govern- ment like our own. It is the duty of the electors to elect, but as men thinking freely will necessarily in some matters think differently, reason and morality and ordinary common sense alike, teach us that in making a common choice it is the duty of the less numerous body to yield to the more numerous. The South Wales Daily News has always vindi- cated to the utmost the right of the voters to do their own voting, and their equal right to choose their own candidate. It is an impudent interference with that right for any newspaper to nominate a candidate, and to commend him in approving and laudatory articles to the electorate. The South Wales Daily News has invariably sup- ported, and will continue to support, the claims of the candidate who is the choice of the Association in which has been vested the power of selection, and whoever is the candi- date selected by the delegate meeting at Neath on Saturday will receive our earnest and persistent advocacy. The choice of a candidate is. however, a matter of very serious moment, especially in the present condition of industrial and political things in the Principality and to make the voice of the Swansea District respected and. to have potency in the House oftCommons the choice should be unanimous. Dissension will not only risk the loss of the seat, but it will make the District speak with a divided voice, and this means the loss of political influence and power. We have no doubt that as the initial step of the proceedings on Saturday a resolution will be passed pledging all the delegates to vote for the candidate who shall have the highest number of votes. It will avoid friction and possible discussion to take this vote at the commencement of the meeting rather than at its close. By acting thus union will be maintained and success rendered certain.

WHILE cordially joining in the felicita- tions to the Rev. Canon THOMPSON, whose splendid work in Cardiff has just found fitting public acknowledgment during his lifetime, we should like to take this oppor- tunity of suggesting the revival of the scheme for the opening-out of St. John's churchyard. As time goes on the more obvious does the necessity appear of carrying out this project. Soon the handsome extension of the Free Library will be completed, and the institution used to a far greater extent than it has ever been. But how in- adequate its accessibility Under existing conditions the Public Market must remain the costly white elephant it has proved—a result that is largely attributable to the un- suitable character of the exit eastward. Let there be a direct connection between St. Mary-street and Queen-street via the Mar- ket, the churchyard, and the Arcade, and the aspect of the Market would be instantly changed for the better. At present the closed churchyard blocks the way. Three or four years ago the Corporation made an attempt to come to an arrange- ment with the Vicar in the matter, but negotiations fell through. We have reason to believe that a much better prospect now exists for a settlement. Naturally enough, the Vicar attaches importance to the manner in which the improvements should be effected. It would never do to have any- thing unsightly placed in offensive con- tiguity to the beautiful old church of St. John, and the Vicar is surely entitled to give what may be termed an aesthetic sanc- tion to what might be done by the Corpora- tion in seeking to make the churchyard an attractive spot in the centre of the town as well as providing a ready access from one busy thoroughfare to another. As to terms, well, seme 20 years ago an offer was made to the Corporation by the Church authorities. Let that offer now be renewed, and made the basis of negotiations. To obtain land in Cardiff at a price which was put upon it a score of years ago sounds highly improbable, but let it be tried in this instance. Let Vicar THOMPSON be again approached by the Corporation. No harm can be done, and much good may accrue.

THIS WELSH CENSUS QUESTION, ANOTHER CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS. There was a letter in the Times on Tuesday from a Welsh enumerator at the census of 1891. Ho agrees with all that the Bishop of St. Asaph and others have said as to the pressure exercised upon the Welsh people to return themselves as speak- ing only the vernacular language. It has been asserted that census papers in theWelsh language were not supplied in sufficient quantity. The enumerator not only denies this, but adds that for the most part the papers were useless to those for whom they were intended. I do not remember," he say- "havinfr received ODe correctly filled in Welsh except by those who were equally proficient in the English language. Such translations are always too classical for them to understand,"

THE RATING OF SIR JOHN LLEWELYN'S PARK. We .are authorised by T. Freeman, J.P., to deny the statement that he said at a recent Cyn.ru Fydd meeting that in the matter of rating Sir John Llewelyn's park got off scot free." What he said was that his and other gentlemen's parks were not rated on so high a basis as workmen's cottages and crofts.

On Wednesday the "Seamen's Exchange'' round the Board of Trade Ofices was particularly quiet, and only a small amount of business ap- peared to be on band as the Shippiug-olfice. There were no fresh developmrants in the movement fov keeping up the wages of the port, and the ordin- ary work of organisation in connection with the Sailors* and Firemen's Union proceeded in thtJ UiUaJ course. During the past two days the following veasels have signed on crews, the wages and place of signing being given in each case :— "vrr* v*r» a v Name. Wage. Place. Parthaaia (sailing ship) S3 Office Rowland (part crew) £ 3 10sA.B.'s Office Ely (part crew). 30s Weekly A.B.'s..Office. Dora J £ 319s and £ 315s.. ttoath Basin Scotsman P,3 15s and B4 Office Rosebud. 28a for A.B.'s .Office City of Belfast £ 3 15s and £ 4 Office Hibernia £ 4 and £ 4 5s .Office Goldcliffe 28s Office Oakdene £ 3 10s and £ 315s..East Dock TUESDAY. Free Lance £ 3 and £ 3 5s .Office Roseland 28s' part crew- Office Monte Rosa Josand :2315s.itoith Dock Garonne 30s Office Glenbafren E312s 6d all round. Office Kate B.Jones £ 3 and £ 3 15s .Office Yedmandale £315s and:24 .Office Ellie 28s weekly Office Birden ower S3 and B3 15,1 Office Maroa £ 315sqtr-mastevs.OtHce Boyne £ 4 lireujieu Office In the case of the Maroa we are informed that a bonus of 5s per month in addition was given.

BAJRRY DOCK. On Wednesday matters were geuerally more active in the shipping line at Barry Dock than they have been for some time past. There were no less than six boats upon the board to sign on crews. The following is » correct list of the rates paid:—Alberton s.s., sailors, £ 3 15s; firemen, £ 4; Lord Derby s,s., sailors, £ 3 10s firemen, £ 3 15s MortUke s.s., sailors, L3 15s Monroria, sailing ship, £3 for sailors.

THE CARDIFF LICENSING APPEAL. DECISION OF THE JUSTICES I IMPUGNED. UASE TO BE HEARD AT CARDIFF. At the Glamorganshire Quarter Sessions on Wed- nesday his Honour Judge Gwilym Williams men- tioned the appeal entered by the tenant of the Charing Cross public-house, Cardiff, against the decision of the Cardiff justices refusing its renewal. Hia Honour thought the appeal would I be more conveniently heard at Cardiff, and fixed Ncvember 29sh for the hearing. Mr Francis Williams, Q.C., who appears in support of the justices' decision, atteuded at the court on Wed- nesday, and decided, after a conference, to make an application this (Thursday) morning for the appeal to be heard at Swansea to-day or Friday it possible.

SEQUEL TO A SWANSEA MURDER. RELEASE OF WALTER JENKINS. Walter Jenkins, who was nine years ago sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of a baker named Smith at Swansea, and who has been released on ticket-of. leave, arrived at Swansea late on Tuesday night. He was met at the station by a number of relatives. On Wednesday be was met by an interviewer, whom he told he was in fairly good health, and that while in prison he followed the trade of a printer. More than this he declined to say, and expressing his gratitude at agam having his freedom, he passed on.

SALE OF CORPORATION LAND AT NEWPORT. The Corporation of Newport, are offering for sale some of the freehold land oft* the east side of the river acquired by them in conssquenee of the improvement and opening up of the district lying immediately behind the river front. The plots I abut on the trunk road, which has been con- structed at a cost of £ 40,000. Three plots in all are offered, consisting of nearly six acres near Lis- werry Pill, and 13,246 yards abutting direct OR the road.

PROSECUTION OF OFFICIALS, PROCEEDINGS^AT PONTY- PRIDD. On Wednesday the charges instituted by the Home Secretary aguinst the owners and officials of the Albion Colliery Company, Pontypridd, for alleged offences against the Mines Act on the day of the recent disastrous explosion in that colliery, came on for hearing at the Pontypridd Police-court. Intense interest was evinced in the oases, and the precincts of the court were crowded, a large number of miners havmg assembled from various parts of the district around. The magistrates on the bench were Mr Ignatius Williams (stipendiary), Mr T. P. Jen- kins, Mr Richard Lewis, Mr Evan John, and Captain Williams, who later in the day were joined by Mr Duun and Mr Wm. Williams. Others present in court were Mr J. T. Robson, H.M. inspector of mines for South Wales Mr Fred Gray, Mr J. M. Sims, and Mr Frank Adams, assistant-inspectors of mines Mr E. B. Reece, coroner Captain Lester Lewis, Ynysfeio Mr D. Hannah, M.E., agent of the Ferndale Collieries; Mr T. Griffiths, M.E., agent of the Cymmer Collieries; Mr W. Evans, agent of the Cambrian Association of Miners Mr S. Shipton, foreman of the coroner's jury, and Mr Ben Davies, Miners' Federation. Mr Henry Lewis, Ty'rnant, the managing director of the company, was accommo- dated with a seat at the solicitors' table, and so also was Mr Wm, Lewis, the agent, another ot the defendants, while Mr Phillip Jones (the manager), Mr Wm. Jones (the under manager), and Anstes (the sliotman), all of whom were defendants, sat in the body of the court. Mr J. R. Roskill (instructed by Messrs Strick and Bellingham, Swansea) prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury while Mr Abel Thomas, Q.C. (instructed by Mr G. F. Hill, Cardiff) appeared for the defence. THE CHABQES. There were three suirnroiisws—one each against the Alhion Steam Coal Company, Limited. Mr Wua. Lewis (the agent of the company), and Mr Philip Jones (the certificated manager of the colliery), the charge in each case being that they, being owners, agent, and manager of the colhery Unlawfully did contravene and did not comply with rule 12, sub-rule i, sub-heads 1 and 2 of the General Rules of the Coal Mine- Regulation Act, 1887, to be observed at the said mine by you, to wit, by allow- ing a shot to be fired in such mine in a dry and dusty place, part of a main haulage road or place contiglolOus thereto, anti showing dut adlJeriog to the roof and sides, neither of the conditions mentioned in sub-head (h) 1 and 2 of sutfb rule bElvjll been observed, and aU workuJen not having bteu removed from the seam in which the shot was to be ttrud, and from all seams communicating with the shaft on the same level, except the ineu engaged in firing the shot, and such other persons not exceeding 10 as were necessarily employed ill attendio to the ventilating, furnaces, steam boilers, enJØnos, macbiuery, mending apparatus, signals, or horses, or in inspecting the mine. There were other charges against Mr Wm. Jones, the uuder-manager, and Mr Wm. Anstes, the shotman, but it was agreed to take first the case against the owners. CASE FOR THE PBOSEOUTION. Mr Roski)), in opening, said the proceedings were instituted against the owners, manager, and agent under section 42, rule 12, sub-rule i., sub-sections 1 and 2, of the Coal Mines Regulation Act. On the 23rd of June—the day of the expJosion- blastm took place in the mine during shift and as against the owners, agent, and manager, the framing of the summons was under section 50 of the Act, viz. :— Every person who contravenes or does not comply with any of the general rules in this Ac shall le guilty of an offence against this Act, and in tile event of any contravention or non- compliance with any of tbe said general rules in the case of any mine o whieh this Act applies, by aDY person whumseaver, the owner, agIH. anil manage1" shall each be guilty of an oifence against this Act uuleas he ploves that be had taken all reasonable means, br pllblbhiJlg and to the best ef his power en- forcing the said rules as regulations for the working of the mine, to prevent such contravention or non-com- pliance. ° The Stipendiary Your contention is that they had allowed shot-firing unless they took every passible means to prevent it ? Mr Roskill said that the substance of the charge, or this particular portion of it, was this— that on the 23rd of June shots were undoubtedly tired at the point marked C on the pla-n, OIl the Cilfynydd side of the colliery, after the night shifts had gone down. These prosecutions bad been instituted by the direction of the Secretary of State, in consequence of what transpired at the recent protracted inqmry into the appalling disaster at this collierry. It would be shown that about five weeks be- fore the explosion a change was made in the hour at which the night shift descended on Saturday.?. Prior to that, the day shift on Satur- days ended at 2 o'clock and the night shift began at 3; but after the change the hour was so altered that the night shift descended at so that there was no interval atlltl between the dy shift and the night shif ton Saturdays. It wasusual in this mine to do whatever blasting was necessary on Saturdays, aud Morgan Dyer, the day fireman of the Cilfynydd side, would tell the court that on the day ot the explosion he was instructed that certain shots were to be fired at point C in six pieces of timber. The holes were bored by Anstes, the chargeman, against wham a summons was issued for another offence. Dyer on this Saturday came to the pit top at 2 5, and there saw Juhn Evans, the night overman, and David Griffiths, the fireman, both of whom were now dead. Before Griffiths and Evans went down, as John Howell, the banksman, would inform the Bench, the day men were coming up and the night men were going down, and crossed each other on the way so that there was no interval whatever between the shifts. Griffiths, in the ordinary course of his duties, had first to lock the lamps at the lamp-station after he went down, and the earliest possible time at which he ould have reached point "C," where blasting took place, was 2.40 p.m., tor the distance between the lamp-station and point "C" was 792 yards 36 chains. After the explosion these shots all seemed to be fired, and that they were fired by Griffiths would be proved in this way. In the first place, it was his duty to fire them, and then there was a fall of roof at that point. Under that fa!) there was one tram partially filled with rubbish, and the tint berma Hand bis butty were both fouod dead there, clearly showing that the work upon which they had been engaged was clearing the fall caused by the shots. The body of Griffiths himself was fouud 190 yards beyond that tall. He (Mr Roskill) would not suggest that these shots caused the explosion. It I was proved at the coroner's inquiry that there was no interval between the shifts on Saturdays and of all the officials of the mine, one oply had the candour aud the courage to say that he overlooked the question of the blasting when the night shift was altered, and that was Mr Henry Lewis. The instructions to the fireman with regard to shot-firing were that they must fire no shots only between shifts, and he I would put in a certificate dated 10th April, 1892, iu which Morgan Dy«r and Ed. Rees were appointed firemen, and m which the instruction was distinctly given—" No shot-firing only between shifts ?" It would be proved in evidence; that no fresh instructions were issued to the firemen after the changp of shift was made; that the necessary preoautlODiiJ had not been observed when the shot-firing took place, and that neither the manager nor the uuder-manager had ever been present on a single occasion when shots in timber were blasted 10 the mine. Mr Roskill argued that, so far aa these facts imposed or created liability against owners, agent, or manager, there was ample authority showing the nature and effect of section 50, and he need only refer to the case of Wynne v. Forester, in which Lord Coleridge said :— It was intended to compel strict and constant attention by the heads of these establishments by mak- ing them agents as well as managers, personally liable I unless they can show that they have done their best to enforce the performanoe of the regulations by their subordinates. If they show this, they will be exempt from liability, but prima facie they are held to be responsible. t Mr Abel Thomas pointed out that this referred only to agent and manager, and bad no reference to owners. The Stipendiary It is rather new, this. One can scarcely see how it comes against the owner. Mr Abel Thomas My friend will have to prove who the owners are. Mr Roskill: I will deal with that point directly. The case against the owners was then proceeded with, EVIDENCE OF HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTOR. Mr J. T. Robson, H.M. inspector of mines, was then sworn, and gave evidence proving the plan of the colliery now produced in couxt. THE DAY FOREMAN. Morgan Dyer, day foreman on the Cilfynydd side, stated that he was down in the mine on the day of the explosion, 23rd June. He came out about four or fivemlnut Hehad benat the point "C" lIlarkodonthcpJan produced, where the tirrb»rs which had been prepared for shots stood. He saw David Griffiths, night foreman, on top of the pit. Griffiths Was killed in the explosion. He saw timber down and a lot of rubbish, and he noticed as well that all the shots had been fired. He found the body of the haulier and the eavcase of a horse and a part of another body and the body of a labourer there. They found the timberman's tools there, and his I body was there, aud his butty's also. The body of David Griffiths, night foreinau, was 190 yards away from where the timbers which had been prepared for shots were. That part of the mine was naturally dry, but) was kept moist by watering. Tanks and barrels were used for watering the mide. They splasbedOthe sides and roof with their hands, and also with buckets. He had seen the place watered that day where the timbers were, about half-past one o'clock. It was possible to water the place satisfactorily m that manner. He was quite satisfied with the system of watering adopted in the mine. Cross-examined by Mr Abel Thomas A great number of falls had occurred in the main road- ways. There were a number of falls where the timbers bad stood. He had not examined the timbers. H had not seen signs of any shots in the timbers that were down because be did not examine thnm particularly. He ( assumed that the shots had been fired. The right to tire the shots according to the instructions, T he had received was between the shifts. He did I not know whether the particular shots at point; C had been tired at all. The explosion might have fired them. MR ROBSON RE-CALLED. Mr Robson, inspector of mines, was re-called, and deposed that he had not the slightest doubt in his mind that shots had been fired. The Stipendiary We cannot accept that; you must give us your reasou. Witness (continuing) observed that the place where the timbers were was pointed out to him There was a fall close by. By side of the fan wa;, the body of.lå horse. The bodies of two men bad been removed. Close by was a tram full of stones which had clearly been filled by hands. The manager and three or four mining enjneers were witl1 him. It was apparent thwe that the shots, with one exception, had not been fired on Grover's side. The legs were standing. One shot out of five had no doubu been fired by the explosion. He did not seejthe timbers at point "C"because there wasstill a largo quantity of rubbish down there. The manager of the colliery had admitted to him that there had been shot-tiring at point C." Mr Abel Thomas remarked that shat statement was very improper. They were trying a very different thing now to what they were trying at the inquest. Cross-examined by Mr Abel Thomas, witness said there was no doubt Mr Wm. Lewis, the agent of the colliery, was a skilful mining engineer, and were he (witness) in a company he would not hesitate to appoint him agent. Mr Philip Jones also, the manager, no doubt was a first-class man and a good practical miner. He (witness) went down the mine believing that these shotshad been fired, and he repeated that the condi- tion of the timber pointed to him that they had been fired. He could not see that there were any shots in the timber, but the collars were down and the arms were standing; and it was the identical place pointed out by the fireman as the place where the timbers had been charged. Mr Thomas: You went there with a pre.con. ceived opinion ? The Stipendiary Ho has admitted that. Witness, qualifying his previous statement, said that only some of the arms were standing 00 the left-hand side. If there had been shots in the arm the arms would not have been left standing ?—Very likely. Then the timbers were no indication to you of shots having been fired ?—No, except that the collars were down. But 1 put it to you that that might have occurred in any fall. Was that not the very place .you would expect to come down if an explosion happened ?—Yes, one of the places. Witness was closely cross-examined on this point, but adhered to his statement that the position of the horses, the repairers, and the trams showed ,to him clearly that these timbers had come out and the stones had fallen before the explosion, otherwise these things would not have been there. He was as sure as could be without knowiug it that there could have been no ripping top at this point. Re-examined, Mr Robson gave it at his opinion that the system of watering at this mine, as describad by Dyer, when shots were to be fired" was not a proper one. To Mr Abel Thomas, witness said that the watering should be done according to the Act. Bottom, sides, and top could not possibly have been sufficiently wetted by the system. Of his own knowledge he never knew gelignite or gela- tine to explode gaa. He bad heard also that from experiments it had been found impossible to explode coaldust with either of these explosives. Mr Abel Thomas quoted sub-section 2 of sub- section G, Unless the explosive employed in firing the shots is so used with water or other con- trivance as to prevent it from inflaming gas or dust, or is of such a nature that it cannot in- flame gas or dust." The Stipendiary Do you suggest that water- ing is not required if that hi done ? Mr Abrl Thomas No, sir the watering is done, but if we usa an explosive which won't explode gas and we water, we are not in the wrong, Sir. Mr Robson said that experience had shown that these explosives were no better than gun- powder. To Mr Abel Thomas: He admitted that when the shot was properly tamped the liability to inflame would not be so great. EVIDENCE OF THE SHOTMAN. Wm. Ansteys, employed in charging shots, deposed that the charges were stemmed by horse refuse or damped clay. The shot holes were about nine or ten inches deep. The cartridges were put down right to the bottom. Between the mouth of the hole and the top of the cartridge there was a space of about six inehes, so the cartridge would fill in about three inches down in the bottom of the hole. About three or four inches of stemming would be put in on top of it. He bad been stemming shots for many years. He had never known shots fired between the shifts. A MANAGING OWNER CALLED. Mr Heary Lewis, managing owner of the col- | lieiy, aod one of the shareholders of the com- pany, was next called. He stated that it was not necessary to gtve fresh instructions to the firemen respecting shot-firing when the alteration of the tune of the uight shift was made. Mr Roskill Did you say to me that you had overlooked the whole question of blasting ? Mr Abel Thomas May I ask where was the conversation ? Mr Roskill (to witness) Did you say at the inquiry that you bad overlooked the whole ques- tion of blasting ? Mt. Abel Thomas, interposing again, remarked that thiól wasanastooiiihingwayof tryinK to prove a case against 400 or 500 people. Mr Roskill: We can't have the whole of the 400 here. The Stipendiaiy: I should not think that the evidonce against him would be against the others. Mr Abel Thomna I ask Mr Lewis not to answer. Mr Lewis: I shall follow the advice of my C0I111S6J.. The adjournment tbpn took place for luncheon. After the adjournment, Mr RoslciU asked whether the bench agrend with him as to the construction of the rule as to tamping? The Stipendiary remarked that the first thing to prove was that shot-firing actually took place. There seemed to be no doubt that there were men down ;n the pit at the time spoken of. Mr Roskill said the difficulty of proving the -Sol-firing was that all the men engaged were I;\d. The Stipendiary And if there is no evidence called we cannot convicb. Mr Roskill was about calling Mr T. J. Hughes, shorthand writer, to prove a statement made by Mr Henry Lewis, the managing director at the inquest, when Mr Abel Thomas objected, and argued that a statement made by auv member of a limited liability company could be used as evidence against the company itself. That would not apply event',to civil proceedings, still less would it apply to criminal proceedings. Mr Lewis was not the entity now prosecuted he was merely a share- holder in the company. Mr RaskiH replied that evidence against any one person constituting that entity would be admissible, and Mr Lewis was a person consti- tuting that statutory entity. Mr Lswis, whether as owner or shareholder, was a managing director, and therefore an ageub within the meaning of the Act. If there waa any doubt, he would ask bis worship now to grant a summons against Mr Henry Lewis as an agent. The Stipendiary disapproved of such double- barrelled proceedings, and he very much doubted whether he could gnuit such a summons. In any event it would involve an adjournment, so< that Mr Lewis should not be prejudiced. MrA'n»l Thomas pointed out that, according to section 62, complaint must be made within three months of the date when the complaint arose. The Stipendiary Then it can't be done. Mr Roskill further pressed his point, and asked the bench to make a note of it. He sub- mitted that the evidence of Mr Lewis as director was evidence on proceedings under the Act against the owners as body corporate for an offence against the Act. The Stipendiary said that they could not dissociate Mr H#ory Lewis from the Albion Steam Colliery. The information was against the Albion Steam Coal Colliery in its corporate capacity, and they eithei stood or fell together. Mr Abel Thomas said that the real question was whether a statement made by a director in other proceedings was evidence in this case. Mr Roskill said he did not propose calling additional evidence against the owners, and was about addressing the court, when Mr Abel Thomas interposed, and objected to such a proceeding as irregular. THE DEFENCE. Mr Abel Thomas then addressed tbe bench for the defence, and pointed out at the outset that why he dwelt on the tamping question was that under sub-head I. of sub-section H of rule 12 under which the prosecution proceeded, if the company had properly watered, and had used an explosive, or used it in such a way that it would cause gas to inflame, there was no offence. He (Mr Thomas) would not, however, trouble the bench with this, for he considered he had a com- plete answer to the charge outside this. With rogard to the facts of tht, case, tbere were* two answers which he considered conclusive. In the first place, he submitted that the prosecution had entirely failed to prove there had been any con- travention of the Act. He had utterly failed to prove that there was any shot-firing that after- noon whilst there were persons employed in the minw. But assuming that there had been a con- travention, then the owuer, agent, and manager should be guilty of an offence ngainsb the Act, unless they could prove that they had taken all reasonable means by publishing and to tbe best) of their power enforcing such rules al1d regula- tions for the working of the mine. There was nothing, the Iarned barrister declared, thab a limited liability company could do except to appomb properly qualified officers for carrying on the work of the colliery, and Mr Robson himself admitted that the agent and manager of the Albion Colliery were excellent officials. It was too farcical to suggest that by some means or other a man down in South-west Pembroke, who had a j35 share in the Albion Colliery Company, should come up to the colliery and go down the pit to find out if they carried on tbe work properly. All the company could do was to appoint properly qualified officials. They had doue this, and it was too ridiculous under the circumstances to suggest that they were now liable because somebody had committed an offence against the Act. The eompaay had also published the rules in a pro- minent place. He (the speaker) asked their worships to say that upon thwse summonses it was perfectly clear a prosecution never ought to have been brought, and that the company were not liable for the offence with which they were charged. Further, he submitted again that the prosecution had utterly failed to prove that there ever was a shot tired in this one place on the 23rd .of June, but whether there was, or Whether there .was not, it was absolutely certain the .company, as owners, would not be liable. Of course, if their worships found that j ithe prosecution had failed to prove shot-firing, 7-then 'fei'took it that that would affect not only this summons but also four other summonses, all of which must fail on this one ground. Un- doubtedly an impression had got abroad that the shots wure fired by David Griffiths some time on the 23rd of June/vand before the explosion. No one knew better than their worships how impres- SJODS of that kind did get abroad, which were wholly without foundation simply because some- body thought there had been an arrangement for those shots to have taken place. Once a man bad formed a» opinion of that*kind it was difficult for him to form an opinion with a free and open mind and come to a true conclusion as to what had taken place. It was clear that Mr Robson. when he went down this unfortunate pit, had heard that the shots were fired, and he caine to the conclusion that they had been fired. No doubt Mr Robson believed now as strongly as he believed anything in the world that shot-firmg took place there, but their worships would have to go upon the facts as they were proved before them. Mr Moigan Dyer had evidently made up hl tnmd about it. He told the counsel for the prosecution that be could point to thp spot, withina yard or so, where the collars were, aud Mr Robson said he was not sure of the spot, but thought he bad found the place. That is exactly what would have happened, for in a long parting like tjis, where there were several falls, it would be very difficult indeed for a man to put his hand on the proper place where he saw a shot, and say distinctly that it was that particular place. But if, as Mr Robson alleged, he finally did point out the arms, then most certainly these shots were. not fired, for the object of the shot would be to burst the arm asunder and to break it, and yet according to the evidence there were two of these very arms standmg with three feet of them show- ing up above the fall, and showing that they had never been broken. Mr Roskill said that the shots in those par. ticular arms might have blown out. Mr Abel Thomas said it was absurd to suggest that a hole in timber loaded with a shot of dyna- mite stood the same chance of blowing out instead ,of bursting the stick itself, stemming or no j'Stemming. The very facb that the arms were found there in the way described was the strongest argument in the world to show that they were not fired at aU. One of the poor fellows was found under a. fall at this spot. How did he get there ? If the fall was caused by shot firing, then this man must have been standing there when the top fell down upon bun. If the fall was caused by the explosion, he very likely would have been standing there. Then, as to the tram. If these men had shot timber, the probabtlity would be that the trams could not have been got close up. When properly looked at, every fact brought up by the prosecution was more consistent with the supposition that there was no shot firing rsither than with the supposition that there had been. It was now knowD that it would have been Griffitbs's duty some time that day to have fired two shots in the Bodwenarth districts. Those shots were not fired. Why, then, should it be assumed that be had fired shots which were a bit lower down? The probability would bo that he would have gone to the furthest part first, and then work backwards. He strongly maintained that the prosecution bad utterly failed to prove their case. Then, as to the certificates produced, there was, he argued, no necessity to change the instructions to the firemen, for even Morgan Dyer told them that there was no shot fired be- tween shifts since the Saturday shifb had taken place. Mr Thomas then called EVIDENCE OF THE COMPANY'S SECRETARY. Mr David EllIS, the secretary of the Albion Steam Coal Company, Ltd., said that copies of the special rules and of the general rules were hung up in prominent places in and about th mine.—Cross-examined by Mr Roskill: Witness said be bad nothing to do with managing the mine. ■ Mr Roskill, dealing with the point of law raised by Mr Abel Thomas, argued that the owners of the colliery must stand or fall with the respon- sibilities or negligence of those that they appoint. THE DECISION. The magistrates having consulted together, the Stipendiary said :—We all think there is not sufficient evidence to convict the company upon a criminal charge of this sort. There facts which lead to the idea that the shot may have gone out, because active preparations were made for it and watering had taken place, and the Inan whose duty it was to do it had passed the spot where they intended to do 18; but with this exception, the ciroumstances connected with the locality itself throw no light upon this at all. That being so, it really is a case of mere suspicion. I really think, too, that upon the point of law there is not sufficient case against them as owners, and that they have done all that they could do. Mr Roskill; You find for the company upon the facts! The Stipendiary: Yes. The case against the Albion Colliery Company was then dismissed:

THE CASE AGAINST THE MANAGER. The case against Mr Phillip Jones, manager of the colliery, was next proceeded with, the sum- mons against him being identical with that against the company. Mr Roskill, in his opening remarks, said he wished to put before their worships the admission made to him at the inquest by the maDagl.-thab tbe timbers had been blasted. Not only was thfilre a stron suspicion that the timbers had been blasted at point C, but, in the absence of tbe meu who lost their lives there, no better evidence could be procured than what he would bring be- fore their worships. There hd not been a suggestion that the timbers had not been bh-ted. The Stipendiaiy The object of charging the timbers with dynamite was to burst open the pillars or posts. Two pillars were standing, and was it likely they had resisted the blasting ? Mr Roskill said that Mr Robson stated that dynamite with stemming iu such holes would pro- duce a blown-out shot and blowu-out flame the same as gunpowder would. A SHORTHAND WRITER CALLED. Mr T. J. Hughes, shorthand writer, engaged by the Home Office at the inquest, was calUd to produce his notes of the evidence of Mr Jones, manager of the colliery. Mr Roskill produced a type-written transcript and read out the following extract: Question to Mr Jones at the inquest.—You admit there has been blasting in Cilfynydd ?—Yes, in Cilfynydd. —Mr Roskill Do you then accept my suggestion that some time in the atternooH shots bad been fired 1-Ye, at two o'clock.— Why do vou say at two o'clock ?—All I can say is that Anstey-J told me that John Evans had told him to put the boles down at two o'clock. — These shots were in the Cilfynydd ?—In the Cilfynydd. OTHER EVIDENCE. William Ansteys was next examined. He said he had been ordered to bore holes and clmrge them at Point C by John Evans. But John Evans had not told him when they were to bü fired. He left the pit about half-pant one on the day of the explosion, but he did not lcuow whether they would be fired in the ordinary course that afternoon. He had not told Jones that timbers had been blasted at two o'clock, but very likely he told him that he had been ordered by John Evans to bore and charge them. The charges vi dynamite invariably split th", timber. I He had never known dynamite failing to do so. He had never known shots being fired during the shifts. He had known shots allowed to remain not tired from half-past one until eight o'clock iu the evening, but could not give a date. jThe Stipendiary Assuming that Griffiths, nreman, who was killed, was found 190 yards from pomt C" would you. assume that he was going to Bodwenarth ? Witness I can't say. The Stipendiary Have you ever known him firing shots in tbe locality of C. the same evening that he would fire in the Bodwenarth district ? Witness No. Mr Robson, Inspector of Mines, was nextcalled. He said that it was not safe to leave shots unfired in a hauling road. He had neverjheard before the explosion at the Albion that shot-firing was car- ried out in timber, He had known shots being left unfired at the faces of the coal. He considered that to leave shots unfired in haulage roads was most dangerous, because a malicious person might ignite the charges. The fuse attached to the charge was hanging out of the charged holes, and something might fall upon it causing an ignition. But there was nothing, as far as he could remember, in the rules of the colliery or the Mines Regulation Act against leaving shots unfired. An abstract of the special rules was posted up at the colliery. Mr Joues, manager of the colliery, was, in his opinion, a very competent man. And he thought the deceased, John Evans, overman, was an experi- enced collier. Witness then repeated his evidence in the previous case. Mr Morgan Dyer, day fireman on the day of the explosion, was next examined. When he was leaving his district to come out of the pit he noticed six timbers charged with shots. The Stipendiary: I think you told us that Griffiths's body was found 192 yards from pyinb C, and that distance would be about one-eighth of a mile ur rather less. That distance was about two or three minutes' walk from point C ?—Yes. Supposing Griffiths had exploded the charges just before he started to walk, would there have been time to bring a tram thero aud load the tCiilr1 to such au extent as it was loaded in two or three minutes?—No, sir. What time was necessary?—Half-an-hour or three-quarters of an hour. Austeys, recalled, said he could not remember when it was he told Mr Pnilip Jones the holes had been bored and charged. THE DECISION. The Stipendiary theu delivered judgment, and stated We are of opmion that thre is not suffi- cient ovidence to convict hero. The prosecution labour under great difficulty. They are bound to call the employees of the company, but after all we must go according to the evidence, and not upon anything else. There is a difference from the other case in this that there is supposed to be a confession or an admission by lVlr Phillip Jones, but when we come to test it, it amounts to nothing mor than that Phillip .Jone5 had heard something from Ansteys before he made the state- ment to Mr Robson, which led him to come to the same conclusion but he draw his conclusion such as it was from that which is in evidence now. We have got Anstey's firsthand,and therefore ltconjes to very little. Then there is this further point that no doubt half 01' three-quarters of an hour's work had been done in filling this tram after the timber came down. It is admitted that if it was done at all it was done by Griffiths, and the probability is that GrIffiths had only passed that spot two or three minutes before, so that he could not have done it. Mr Roskill I did not quite catch your last sentence, your worship. The Stipendiary If Griffiths passed three or .four minutes before, then he could not have fired the shot in passing, because three-quarters of an j hour's work bad been done after the collar came down. The case against Mr Phillip Jones was tbeI dismissed. Mr Roskill Your worship will see thepo3lL tion those who have instructed me are placed is. It is :t position which clearly imposes the obliga" tion upon the other side of clearing themselveS hum what is, in.our opinion, a very strong Pre* sumption that there was something wrong at t point. r' A SUMMONS WITHDRAWN. Continuing, Mr Roskill said After what h81 fallen from your worships with regard to th* management, I do not feel justified in going on with the summons against the agent, Mr WilliaHl Lewis, because the eviùUlJCe against the ag-ent IS no stronger than that against the manager. The Stipendiary Weaker, I should say, for in j his case there is no admission. Further, Sectioll 50, to my mind, more effectually protects the agent than it does the manager. The court then adjourned until 11 o'clock this (Thursday) morning, when summonses will bl beard aguinst Mr Wm. Jones, the tinder-manager, for neglecting to see that the officials employed under him understood their duties," and against Mr Phillip Jones, the manager, ana Mr Wm. j Ansteys, the shotmau, for alleged illegal storing of explosives in the mine.

WELSH GOSSIP. The late Sir Love Jones Parry, M.P. some fcima for the Carnarvon Boroughs, was a liiwaf descendant from Llewelyn Ein Llyw Olaf." Sir George Osborne Morgan, in a recent speech, called Catherine of Arragon "a very plain wife— J a. sort of Primrose Dame of the 16th century." j One of the contributors to this month's CymrV i is Mr John M. Edwards, a younger brother to Mr Owen Edwards, and an undergraduate ftt Jusus College, Oxford. The latest definition of the parish counoil hat been supplied by Mr T. E. Ellis, M.P.. wW 1 called it. in bis speech at Bala, "the executive j committee offthe parish." J Mr Charles Ashton, the literary policeman," who is 45 years of age, and served for 25 years in the Merionethshire County Police, was allowed a pension J339 a year by the joint police committee on Tuesday last. The oldest preacher in Wales is uGlan Pherath." So old is he that he was a tall ld6 when he was doctored by the celebrated Baptist minister, J. R. Jones, of Raraoth, wbcl died in the early part of the summer in 1822. There was nearly a Jacobite rising in 1718 in Wales, which was organised by the Earl of Mar, and the then Price of Gogerddan. Mr Arthur | Price, of Lincoln's Inn, will give the full details J of the abortive attempt in the next number of J Wales. Llywarch Hen, the old Welsh bard, did not believe in the modern dictum that a poet should "learn in suffering what he taught in song." "Three things," said Llywarch, "are indispen- sable to inspiration; success, company, and praise." jj Mr T. E. Ellis, M.P., thiuks that the machinery for nationalising public administration not be complete until a "National Assembly, elected on a democratic suffrage," will form the highest embodiment of the national unity of Wales. Gwyneddan, J.P., the well-known Welsh litterateur, who last year officiated as Mayor of Carnarvon, is at present spending a holiday in the United States. American papers to hand give glowing reports of the reception accorded him by his compatriots in that country. Dr. Frederick RobeVts, the well-known London physician, is a native of Carmarthen, and is one of the best amateur tenors in the Metropolis. Another medico, who could have made a mark as a tenor, is Dr. Cromwell Jones, of Merthyr, who has refused many a flattering offer from enter- preneurs. .8- "Penar" writes a. very entertaining sketch io this month's Cymru of Dafydd John, of Aberdar*, who may be described as the pioneer of choral singing in Glamorganshire. Dafydd John was a native of Cilgerran, in Pem. brokeshire, and Was the father of Mr Tom John, schoolmaster, of Llwynypia. Mr J. W. Williams has decided to become a Welshman in spite of great temptations to b9" lonff to other nations." He is by birth aD Englishman, by commercial associations a, v Cockney, by residence an Irishman, nnd, that he will represent the Montgomery Borough4 in Parliament after the next election, by senti* ment a Welshman. Williams or Wern," who was probably the greatest preacher that the Welsh Independents have ever had, lived on the" Marches," the borderland between England and Wales, for nine months in order to pick up English. His knowledge, however, was so defective that he was unable for years to make himself under- stood to Englishmen without the aid of aB interpreter. This is bow Mr Owen Edwards speaks of the commotion which has been raised by Professor Hugh Williams's paper on baptism at PwIlheli :— In the Pwllheli Association one of the pro- fessors at Bala said what had been said by ths principal in a monthly meeting a little before, and what is aid by the scholars of every denomina- tion with regard to the method of baptism in the early times." Two better Liberals never sat in the House 01 Commons than Mr LI. L. Dillwyn and Mr C. R. M. Talb:?t. Yet their daughters have turned Tories. Miss Talbot, of Margam, is a stronp Tory and now Miss Llewelyn, the daughter ol the late Mr Dillwyn, M.P., has announced her intention to support at the nexb election hot cousin, Sir J. Dillwyn Llewelyn, the Tory candi- date for Swansea. What feature in the Parish Council Act do you find most generally popular in Wales?" was asked the other day of the Rav. Towyn Jones, the well-known preacher and lecturer. The pro- vision with reference to the establishmenb of village reading-rooms," was the answer. Nowherew, surely, can there be found a people who art possessed with euch an enthusiasm for education and culture in every form. A good story is told of Mr Ernest Bowen. Rowlands, the editor of the late Welsh Review, "What do you mean," asked a friend one day, "by spelling Llywarch Hen incorrectly in the last number of your review ?" Why, is h< annoyed ?" asked the editor anxfonsly. It No," was the answer, Llywarch has been dead these thousand years." has he?" said Mr Rowlands then I don't care Mr Lewis Richards, Blaenau, though he is president of the South Wales Tin-platers' Union, is, in the narrowest sense of the word, a working man. He is a rollerman, and puts in his hours at the mill every day. He has travelled all over the world, worked as a collier in California, and haa lately been employing his leisure time in reading Kidd's Social Evolution," the book which har cteated such a stir this year in the literary world. Lord Peurhyn, in addition to giving a valuable site, has contributed £200 towards the cost of erecting the intermediate schools at Bethesda,. near Bangor, where his lordship's quarrymen reside. The sum of £1,04-3, necessary before building operations could be undertaken, has now been secured. Mr W. Rathbone, the member for the constituency, has promised his assistance to make the Bethesda School a model of its kind, more especially in regard to the technical tuition* Mr J. H. Roberts, Mus. Bac. (Cantab) is the subject of this month's sketch in the MusieaA Herald. Mr Roberts is the organist of a larg chapel at Carnarvon, where he has a wide and remunerative teaching connection. He is one 01 our leading musical composers, a part-song by him having been one of the test pieces for the chief prize ab the NatlOual Eisteddfod this year. A song; and chorus by him appears in this month's Cimru, the monthly magazine edited by M. Owen M. Edwards. The fifth volume of" Cambrian Minstrelsie,* the beautiful series of Welsh airs. which ia edited by Dr. Joseph Parry and Professor Rowlands, has just been issued by Messrs T. C. and E. 0. Jack, the Grange Publishing Work-, Edinburgh., This is really, with due respect to all previou. efforts, the first important modern record of the songs of Wales. Mr Gladstone once sard, n If you want to know whether the Welsh are » substantive, historic race, go and listen to theii music." The work is beautifully got np, and will end with the next, the sixth, volume.

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