South Wales Daily News

BIRTHS,MARRIAGES. DEATHS N-!t,cei; tf Births, Marrtageg, and Deathn, It eaeh, if ntt exceedinj tO WOI UH, and 6d for eaeh extra 10 wtrds, DEATHS. CLARKE.—On Dec. 16, at 24, Metal-street. Charles, youngest son of the late William Clarke, butcher, Clifton-street, age 26. Funeral on Thursday at 3 o'clock. Friends please accept this intimation. D Au,Lr:li 1\ papers please copy. 504 DYKES.—15th inst.. at 271, Bute-street, John M. Dykes, hatter, ageft 75 years. Funeral Thursday, IG punctually. 553 TR;GASK IS,-Un the 18th inst., at 35, Plymouth-road, Penarth, Jtilia Ann, the dearly loved wife of George H. Tregaskis. 591

WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1894. 8 ELECTION RESULTS. IT was absolutely impossible to tabulate with careful accuracy the multiplicity of Election Returns which reached our offices during yesterday evening and last night so as even to approximate definite results. But a general and rapid survey of the returns sufficiently established the fact that throughout South Wales and Monmouth. shire, and over large portions of the country besides, the Liberals have won triumphantly at the polls. But although it is not possible to state in definite figures this morning the full total of the Liberal gains, it is not only possible, but easy, to avoid the egregious blunders into which a South Wales Tory journal tumbled yesterday in publishing its returns of the Cardiff elections. To take one blunder only, that referring to Grangetown Ward, upon which the Tory writer lays considerable stress, and from which he seeks to extract much party capital, we are told in the Tory organ that in Grangetown, where a Fabian takes the first place, and three Radicals occupy the other placas in the list ofsuccessfulcandidates, "it is significant that there wera no less than 307 spoilt votes--an abnormal number, and only a few less than the total poll cast for the non-successful candidates. Lord ROSEBERY when he comes to Card iff may find further incentive for his waggish humour in Grangetown, which alone out of all the parishes of Cardiff (our Tory frisnd shall learn that Grangetown is not a parish) returns four Radicals and spoils 307 votes in the process." This is positively delicious worthy of GOODMAN DULL in his very best days. The highest number of votes polled for the first success- ful Liberal candidate was 458, and for the highest unsuccessful Tory candidate 345. Accepting these numbers as giving with approximate accuracy the total number of voters who polled for the two sides respec- tively on Saturday, they will show that 803 voters polled. Adding to these the 307 voters who spoilt their votes, we have a grand total of 1,110—more than the total number of voters on the Grangetown registers. But 307 spoilt votes would mean 28 per cent. of spoilt votes on the grand total a phenomenon which never happened, and which would have startled the Returning Officer out of his propriety. The hugely unprecedented number of alleged spoilt votes would have led any sober minded critic of political things to the conclusion that there was a mighty blunder somewhero. But the blunder served to barb a shaft, and so it was utilised. The explanation is this, as wo learn. The total number of voters who polled at Grangetown for the both sides, multiplied by four—each voter having four votes—would give a definite total of votes which could be given. But' the total number of votes on the Ballot Papers was less by 307 than that definite total, so that several of the voters did not exhaust their total number of votes-voting only for one, two, or three candidates, as the case might boo And this is called spoilt votes I If wo are to count spoilt votes after this extraordinary fashion, then there wero 4,400 spoilt votes in St. John's Parish and about a similar number in St. Mary's Parish. But what we. prize as of infinitely more value than party gains is the spirit of inquiry, and of thought, and of freedom, and the sense of responsibility which the Parish Councils Act has aroused. throughout England and Wales and even in some of the more backward districts. Not in all the backward and class-beridden districts, wo regret to say, but in many of them and the others will follow suit in clue time when they witness the advantages which the Act confers- Jt cannot be too often re- peated that this is an educative Act, and it will train and teach the people into a true sense of their rights, duties, and responsi- bilities presently. Unhappily, there are grown people as stupid as children, who do not want to learn whilst others are deterred from the attempt by the eye and the man- date of a stern and forbidding task-master. But knowledge comes," as TENNYSON wrote and it will come although wisdom may linger for a time and one of the great and most enduring teachers to bring that knowledge to our rural populations will be the Parish Councils Act.

TORY MUD-THROWING. DURING an animated discussion at a Council Meeting in one of the Towns of West Wales a Tory Member, an Auctioneer, made certain grave and wholly unfounded charges against the Liberal members of the Council. Wn was vigorously and. effectivp.lv redli-fl to by one of the Liberal members—a Brewer in the Town—who utterly demolished his charges, proving them to be false and calumnious. On leaving the Council Chamber a gentleman said to I the Brewer: "Ht P. will be on your track at the next meeting." Oh no was the keen reply "he will not answer me (and he did not), but he will go round the town and say I sell poor beer (which he did). We arc reminded of this incident, which caused some little merriment at the time, by the evasive, vacuous, and abusive reply yesterday of the Cardiff Tory organ, in its usual forcible-feeble style, to our very plain and specific charges in one of the articles in these columns on Monday. If it pleases the Tory editor to revile, in unsavoury periods, the South Wales Daily News, he has, so far as any protest on our part is concerned, unlimited liberty for his prolixity in slander. Whab gratifies him does not hurt or annoy us and the mud will brush off when it is dry. But if the Tory editor imagines that he can entice us aside from our purpose by such palpable red-herrings drawn across the trail, he is egregiously self-deluded. The shameful charges preferred against the Welsh people and the Welsh members in the Saturday issue of his paper were two-fold. First, that the" enthusiasm of the Welsh people for the principles they profess to hold is a base manufactured article, the product of English gold and next, that the Welsh members have been 44 purchased by English gold that they are" the unconditional serfs of the English Liberal Party, and 41 are tied to the Government Juggernaut car." Sir GEORGS OSBOIINE MORGAN is insolently told that the party of which he is the titular leader largely exists by means ot English gold, that its very Liberalism is the direct production of the same agent," and that they (the Liberal members) are the paid agents of the National | liberal Federation appointed for the very purpose of manufacturing the Welsh 4 enthusiasm' to which Sir GEORGE MORGAN boastingiy refers." These are the very serious charges pre- ferred by the Tory writer against the Welsh people and the Welsh Liberal members. That the members have been "bouht by English gold" and are" the unconditional serfs of the English Liberal Party," and that Welsh "enthusiasm" for the principles we profess to love is a manufactured article, the outcome of English gold The Tory journalist will not be permitted to shelter himself from the gravity and the responsibility of making these false and debasing charges against a whole nationality behind bluff and bluster or by slanderous invectives against the South Wales Daily News. These disgraceful charges shall stand prominently out upon the page in all their deformity and turpitude, unrelieved by a single word of editorial com- ment on any other topic. It its reviling article yesterday morning, stuffed as it was with censorious flabbiness, the Tory writer does not attempt to justify, much less to prove, his disgrace- ful charges, bub repeats them with varia- tions, and then affirms "there can be no doubt of the fact. We refrain from brand- ing this style of defamatwy controversy with the language it deserves, but will leave the Welsh people to deal with their tra- ducer and resent the outrage when the day for resenting it comes. When, in BYRON'S Vision of Judgment," JCNIUS is asked by the archangel whether he had aught to say against GEORGE III., that" mighty shadow of a shade," who has kept his secret inviolate through some five generations of our race, replied First ask him for his answer to my letter." JUNIUS, perhaps, more than any other political writer of his age, knew the immense value of following with sleuth hound tenacity the issue raised, and settling that before diverging to other issues. The point at issue between the Welsh people and members and their Tory slanderer is — Have Welsh members been bought by English gold? and has Welsh "enthusiaem" for the disestablishment of the English State Church in Wales been manufactured by English gold ? This is the base and scan- dalous charge preferred; will the Tory slanderer attempt to prove it or apologise for his slander 1 It is a forged and coined charge, and no one knows this better than the writer who fabricated it. In the language of the old prophet to the Deputy of the Persian King, ib can be said to the Tory defamer of better men than himself, "There are no such things done as thou sayest, but, thou feignest them out of thine own heart."

Now that the Tories have thrown down the gauntlet at Swansea in respect of the Guardians' election, it will be well for the Liberals to take it up and before the new board meets decide that only a Liberal shall hold tho chairmanship. There will be a great majority of Liberals on the board.andamongst them many who are fully qualified to fill tho chair. The board has been under the domination of the Tories long enough, thanks to the presence of the ex-officio element. The cx-officios have now been swept off and the people will rule but this they can do only by controlling the chair.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING OF SWANSEA. The property committee of the Swansea County Council has decided that the districts to be first lighted by electrioifcy will be Quay-parade, Mount. fefcreet, Wind-street, Castle-square, Castle Bailey- street. Temple-street, Castle-street, High-street, Alexandra-road, Grove-place, De la Becbe-street, Cradock street, Union street, Oxford street, Dillwyn-street, Northampton-place, Goat-street, and Caer-street

DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN MARINER, LATE COMMODORE OF THE INMAN LINE. The funeral took placo on Tuesday, at Chester, of Capt. James Kennedy, of Dee Banks, Chester. Capt. Kennedy WfM commodore of tho Inman Line, and was in oommand of the City of Rome, running between Liverpool and Now York. In 1861 ho was in charge of tho Great Eastern, when fche conveyed7,000 troops from London toQudboc, On retiring from th.* service be cams to reside at Chester, and since then has served on the Royal Commission to inquire into loss of life at ssa.

WATERSPOUT IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. An unusual sight was witnessed in the Channel off Sandgate on Taesday, when a very large waterspout descended. An eyewitness states thab the water on reaching the sea rebounded into the air some two or three hundred feet. Fortunately no vessels were in the immediate locality. _——

Sportsmen who have never seen a moose will b» interested in the dimensions of ODe recentl, killed near the Ebeeme lakes iu Northern Maine. The animal measured 7ft. high at the shoulders, and his body vai 9ft. long. The measurement from his nose to his hind feet was 15ft, The snread of horns 4ft. 4in.

LONDON LETTER. •{FROM 9UR LormaN CORRESPONDENT.]' [SPECIALLY WIRED.] LONDON, Tuesday Night. LADIES AND FENCING. One of the features of the Bath Club, which has just been opened, is the fencing gallery. Fencing is a recreation which is increasingly popular among ladies, and on the days when the club is sacred to the use of the fair sex a number of the flower of English beauty and fashion will doubt- less indulge in tho exercise. I do not know whether the Bath Club, in its passion for oxclusiveness, will decline to allow members of the theatrical profession to enter its doors, but there are several actresses who find relaxation from their studies in fencing, and more than one is an adept at the art. JOHN-A'-DREAMS." Mr Tree has arranged with Mr H. H. Morrell to tour Mr Haddon Chambers's successful play which is said to have played to larger receipts than any piece during Mr Tree's management at the Haymarket. Mr l'tforréll will start the provincial company early in the spring. CONSERVATIVES CROWING. There is a good deal of crowing in Con- servative quarters over the so-called rout of the Progressives and the triumphant march of the people who oddly namo them- selves Moderates in the London vestry and guardian elections. There is no doubt that, taken as a whale and excepting individual localities* where the result is all the other way, the personnel of the old vestrydom has held its own with limpet-like tenacity. But it doos not follow that the failure of the broom of reform means, as is in some quarters claimed, that the Conserva- tives of the Metropolis have been aroused from (heir lethargy and have gape forth in their thousands to resist the revolutionary tide. The simple explanation I take to lie in the fact that on the one side there have been compact and well-organised vested interests, defending their old supremacy under circumstances which placed thera in possession of full knowledge of the ropes, while the assailants were loose and untrained guerillas, lacking leadership, and not knowing where to direct their attack. The dwellers in pro- vincial towns and country districts have no conception of the helplessness of the ordinary London citizen in getting to know the merits of contests and candidates, and even arrangements for voting in a case like that of the vestries, where perhaps a score of men have to be elected. There is the greatest possible difficulty in finding out who and what the candidates are, who to support, and who to leave out. Under these circumstances it is easy for those in possession of the vestries to whip up the few huuureds of voters necessary to ensure the election of the dominant clique. INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY. Mr Keir Hardie has been giving further illustration of the fact that rudeness is tho only vehicle through which to assert his claims to independent manhood. To say that his references to Lord Rosebery's visit to West Hum are in the vilest tastø is only another way of saying that Mr Keir Hardie is their author. It is, however, manifest that there are clearer heads than Mr Hardie's at the headquarters of the Independent Labour Party. A statement of the troublous nature of its*finances, which fully justifies my recent inquiry whence are to come the sinews of war for the boastful electoral campaign, has just been laid before the inner circle of the party, and both Mr Tom Mann and what calls itself tho National Executive Council realise nearly what this means. They deprecate fighting any con. stituency where there is no reasonable prospect of their candidate being réturned, and in which the branch of the party is unable to raise the expenses, and they recommend a limitation of the campaigns to those already decided upon. If the con- tests be limited to places where there is a reasonable prospect of success, and where the local Labour men are prepared to find tho money, Mr Burgess's recent long list of seats to be fought will soon shrink into sbmewhat insignificant proportions. TEACHERS AND PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION. The Teachers' Association has very cleverly managed to head-off opposition to their Parliamentary candidate for West Nottingham, and there is some speculation as to the way in which it has been achieved. It will be found, so it is rumoured, that Mr Councillor Beevers, of Halifax, has defi- nitely retired, leaving the way open to Mr Yoxall, but under conditions which will not injure any prospects the Independent Labour party had of getting in a represen- tative. It what I am told be correct, the Teachers'Association will arrange to support an I.L.P. candidate somewhere else, and contribute to his expenses. This will leave Mr Yoxall with a very good chance for West Nottingham. I should not be surprised if the association, in its laudable desire to gain effective representation in the House of Commons, has approached some other can- didate not definitely connected with the Liberals or tho J.L.P., but perhaps tho suggestion is a little in advance of anything yet arranged. AMBASSADORSHIP AT PARIS. It is true that Lord Dufferin's term of office expires in November next, though he has certainly never had any idea of antici- pating the date of his retirement from the diplomatic service. But the association cf Lord) Lansdowne's name with the British ambassadorship at Paris is quite unwarrant- able. It is impossible for Lord Kimbcrley to have considered the question of Lord Dufferin's successor nearly a year hence, and no one will be more surprised than Lord Lansdowne to find himself designated for an appointment which may be disposed of in a very different: manner. ALIEN IMMIGRATION. Mr C. Geoffrey Drage.whose reputation is of a rather mixed quality, depending largely on the political point of view, read a highly- interesting paper at the Statistical Society this afternoon. Ho took up the subject of alien immigration, and dealt with it in a fashion which can hardly be pleasing to his master, Lord Salisbury. He seems to think that, after all, the immigration of Jews from the Continent to the East End is a good thing. They become rapidly Anglicised, and, he would have us believe, do nob reduce wages—at least, in certain trades and, more than that, they preserve for us some occupations which would other- wise go to the country or be done by machinery. His most valuable suggestion is that two now political parties are likely to come to the front, between whom the dividing line will be Socialist and individual- ism, State-interference or self-reliance. I hear that Lord Salisbury is almost certain to go on with his Aliens Bill, and endeavour to make stricter regulations against Anar- chists in the coming Session. PEEL AND THE CORN LAWS. Sir Wemyss Reid has been convinced by fresh information and statements laid beforo him of the unfounded character of the wide- spread story about tho determination of Peel's Cabinet to repeal the corn laws having been confided by Mr Sydney Herbert to the Hon. Mrs Norton, and by her sold to the Times. Tt is to be hoped that Sir Wemyss may find himself at liberty to com- municate to the public the nature of the evidence which has led him to recall his recent repetition of the old legend for that account of the transaction, which caused one of the greatest political sensations of the century and vvasfraught with importantresults has, although previously contradicted, been sustained in several works which are entitled to be consulted as authorities. Sir Wemyss Reid now simply curiosity, not only as to the reputation of the Norton story, but as to the statement that Greville's account was much nearer tho truth. How much ndarer Greville's version is that Mr Delane wrote the celebrated Times article on the atrerigth of statements made to him by Lord Aberdeen, not without the hope that they might bo given to the world. Mr Delane went beyond what his inspirer wished, but the publication answered Lord Aberdeen's purpose, though he had by no means counted on tho hubbub raised. CALM IN DOWNING-STREET. Downing street has suddenly become quiet again, the only sign of life being at the Colonial and Foreign Offices, At the lattdr there are hints that it is premature to announce who will represent England on th Armenian Atrocities Inquiry. This is taken as giving colour to the notion that a special 1 envov extraordinary will be sent, as an I adverse report would jeopardise the post, tion of any permanently established Consul entrusted with such a mission. The importance of the inquiry also necessitates the employment of a man of first-class experience. It would not surprise me to learn that Sir Condie Stephen might- be at any moment selected. Ho is a splendid linguist, and one of our most. trusted Ministers, and the Duke of Coburg could spare him easily from Coburg. Sir Condie, who is now in this country, dined; last evening with the Prince of Wales. ROYAL PRESENTS. On their return to London the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York made a round of calls among the trades- men, and also made purchases from the multifarious goods laid out at Marlborough House for their inspection. Subsequently there was despatched from our Foreign Office a huge parcel of presents from the Prince of Wales to his friends in Russia. Sir Frank LasceHes will have to distribute. these. Several are for the Princess of Wales and the Dowager Empress, but tho, names of the Czar and Czarina appear several times in the registored i official bags which left Charing Cross. The Foreign Office is nearly always the medium through which the royal pre- sents circulate, and I learn that this year the Queen has both received and sent an un- usually large quantity of presents, HER MAJESTY'S MEMORY. Her Majesty is credited with having vindicated her reputation for an excellent political memory. It is said that on one of the courtiors representing to her Majesty that there was no precedent for a Canadian statesman dying in this country, she re- marked at once that she remembered that in May, 1873, the Minister for Militia and Defence of Canada died here, and his body was sent to Canada. The courtier looked the matter up and found it was as the Queen stated, and tho gentleman was Sir George Etienne Carter, Bart.

THE SLIDING-SCALE. MASTERS AND MEN. THE EXPIRING NOTICE. MASTERS DO NOT NEGOTIATE FOR' RENEWAL. WIDOWS' RIGHT. At a meeting of the miners' representatives on the Slifling-scale Joint Committee, held in Cardift on Tuesday,several matters of importance weredis- cussed, the leaders sitting under the presidency of Mr Abraham, M.P., and there being a good attendance. Among other subject*, the "Widows' Right question was dealt with, there being a suggestion to bring this before the joint; com- mittee but it was decided that as all the leadora had-ab the Round Table Conference—taken up and thus far pushed forward this question, it should be left to the re-assembly of that confer- ence on Monday next. Strong determination was evinced to take every stop calculated to ensure for the widows and orphans at. Cilfynydd the payment of moneys subscribed for their benefit. Another subject discussed WM the delay of the employers' side to meet the men in reference to ainondinent of the sliding-scale agreement. The existing agreement is now running out a term of six months', notioe, given by the men because the masters departed from the usual practice as to receiving evidence in oases of dispute, whieh the joint committee deals with as a board of arbitra- tion. On three chief points is amendment desired by the men first, that the' percentage of rise or fall in the wage-rats atiall be 10 and not 8% to each "billing change in the price of coal second, that an umpire shall be appointed and third, that the yr-eii shall have a voice in fixing the selling price. But the present grievance is that a meeting cannot be arranged with the masters' representatives for discussion of amend- ments. There is a growing feeling of dissatis- faction on this account, a feeling whioh in the interests of the trade should not be allowed to spread, if at all avoidable.

CARDIFF CORPORATION LOAN. HOW THE LOAN WAS ALLOTTED. COMPLETE ANALY&JS AND IN* TERBSTING DETAILS. The National Provincial Bank of England have completed the work of allotting the new Cardiff Corporation Loan for £ 596,800, the tenders for which were opened last Friday. Tho total number of tenders that had to be dealt with was 179, and of this number allotments have been invala, either wholly or in part, upon 42 of the tenders, whilst in respect of the remaining 137 tenders the deposits were returned to the applicants. With the exception of tho corpora- tions of Liverpool .and Brighton, who recently launched redeemable loans as the rate of 2% per cent., no corporation has hitherto succeeded in jJoating a 3 par cent, vodeemable loan at such higli prices as Cardiff. The allotments upon the 42 successful tenders were mad«» ab the following prices and to tho following numbor of applicants 1 £ 1,000 to onA A-pp icalit at £104 5s per cent. £ 3,000 to one applicant ab £ 104 per cent. £ 1,000 to one applicant at £ 103 *5s per cent. £1.000 ta one ipplicaiitit £103 10s od per cent. £ 4,000 to one applicant at £ 103 10s per cent.. £ 30.000 to one applicaM at £ 103 7s 6<1 per cent. £ 300 to one applicant at N103 6s éd per cent. £ 2,500 to one applicant at £ 103 6s per cent. £ 37,000 to four applicants at. R105 5"1 6d per cent. £1,000 to one applicant at £ 103 5s per cent. £ 11,500 to six applicants at EIOS 3,. 6d per cent. E48,000 to four applicants at JB103 3s per cent. £ 20,000 to eloveu pplicmts at B103 2s 6d per cent. The balance, amounting to 20 per cent. of the* wholo Joan, was allotted amongst eight appli- cants, who had sent in tenders for sums amount- ing in the aggregate to £ 2,010,000. These eight tenders, which were pit in by representatives of tho London Stock Exchange, were for sums respectively of £ 500,000, L450,000, £ 350,000, £ 335,000, £ 220,000, L100,000, £ 35,000, and £ 20,000. Tho nearest approach to these allotments which any corporation has yet made in the issue of a 3. per cent. loan was in the caso of the Corporation of Hastings, who last week made an allotment of 40 per oent. of a loan of £ 150,000 at a minimum of £ 102 18s per cent., or 4s less than the minimum of the Cardiff Loan. The total aggregato, amount applied for upon the 137 tenders was 92,762,600.

CARDIFF'S BACK LANES. j LIGHTING REQUIRED. At Tuesday's meeting of the Cardiff Lighting Committee, held under the presidency of tho* Mayor (Alderman Carey), Councillors Noah Rees, Good, and Crossman drew attention to the necessity of lighting up certain back lanes, in. cluding Pitman-lane, Gordon-lane, Bedford-lane, and the lane at the back of Crwys-road. The want of light m these placts, it was urged, fostered a good deal of objectionable conduct. Councillor Comley also drew attention to the necessity for lamps being placed at the corner of Singleton-road seing that a new church was being opened there. Tho Borough Engineer recommended an extra lamp being placed in Bedford-street, ono in Bed ford-lane, and one, in Dal ton-street, opposite Wldtclmroh-laifte, one in Fanny-street, at the other eud of Wbitcliuroh-laue. With regard to the other lanes mentioned, the Mayor said he would rather the committee lefti the responsibility with the council. He pointed out that if thov commoncod to light up the back lanes of the town they would have to face the question of lighting tho whole of them, and there were scores of such streets in Cardiff, all of which had an equal claim on, their consideration, whereas on the other hand they had scores of main thoroughfares which were aft yet badly lighted and needed attention first. The recommendations of the borough engineer were adapted. A letter was read from the Cardiff I Impartial Society on the same subjeot, in which it was stated that the society considered that in many instances where light was most needed there was no light at all, Tiger Bay being specially referred to.

MADAME PATTI AT WINDSOR. PRESENTS FROM THE QUEEN. When Madame Patti went to Windsor lase week aho was the guest of Sir Henry and Lady Ponsonby at the Norman Tower. She sang seven times to the JQueen, who not only most graciously expressed her delight, but presented Madame Patti with an autograph photograph of herself, a large diamond and sapphire butterfly, and an ornament bmring the letters V. R. I. surmounted with the Royal Crown in diamonds and rubies. The next day her Majesty tele graphed to Madame Patti expressing a hope that the long journey to Wales had not tired her.— The World.

HATT CAINE'S NEW STOBT, The Mahdi," a tale of Jove, and heroism, is now appearing in the Cardiff Times and South Wales Wiekly News. Don't miss this new story by ths author of Manxman."

WELSH GOSSIP. ;1 The Rev. R. J. Rees, B.A., Clifton-street,.1 Cardiff, whilst at Aberystwyth College, edited a", newspaper entitled Tht Student* A correspondent writes to "point oub that Systich is Edryron Dafod Awr's translation of Englyn," and not" Distich." Cardiff Gaol is at present so full that the Pontypridd magistrates have been asked to send no more prisoners down for the nexb fortnight! Lord Mostyn condemns in emphatic terms the action of the London and North-Western Railway Company in turning adrift some of it3 employees because they knew but little English. Thomai Charles o'r Bala owed his proficiency in Greek to his more intimate knowledge of Hebrew. Thus it was by studying the Greek translation of the Old Testament that he acquired familiarity with the Iauguago of the New. The Cardiff Board ot Guardians have begun badly by separating husband and wife. Mrs Norman was triumphantly returned for Grange- town, while Mr Norman, who has sat on the board for many years, was rejected at Canton. Mr D. Glynamman Jones, of Trefecca College, is understood to have accepted a call to the Calviniskic Methodist Church at Cwmdar. Mr Jones is one of the 44 beirdd-bregetliwyr," and will reinforce the Rev. J. T. Job, who has the cure of Nazareth, Havelock-street Chapel, Newport, does not, as stated in this column some daya ago, furnish the only instance of a dual pastorate in a Calvinistic Methodist church. Some years ago both the late Revs. W. Powell and John Rees Owen were joint pastors at Pembroke. The society with a long name," which was started at Cardiff with a view of procuring the election of women on public bodies, must be con- gratulated on carrying all its candidates at the recant guardians'eleetion. And yee it is rumoured that the society will be dissolved. Professor Ellis Edwards, Ba.1a, is not only an excellent composer cf hymn tunes, but an art critic as well. A yea" or two ago he lecturad on portions of Ruskin's bost-known works. He is, moreover, an effoctive public reader of Shakespeare, Macbeth being his favourite play. We asked for a French englyn, And a kindly Correspondent sends us the following specimen :— Le dessein d'englyn anglais Me paraib Important aux btJbcs. Que pens»r, done, d'un francais ? (j'ast bion fou, meme si bien fait. We shall dio satisfied if we can get another speci- men in Russian. He was a learned, but; honest, professor at Aberystwyth College, and he picked up a purse of gold on a country road. He promptly handed it over to tho police, to whom tho owner, a farmer's wife, applied in due course. Great was her joy to find its contents undiminished. Next Sunday that young professor had duck fordinner. Since his appointment as Manuscript Commis- sioner, Mr Gwenogfryn Evans has been deluged with applications for the post of assistant. Nothing has surprised him more than the enormous amount of latent taleulJ which has suddenly unearthed itself. H., used to think thab all the Welsh palaegraphers wero a mere handful of men, but he now finds them to bo legion. Elfcd is an incorrigible optimist. He lately heard Mr T. K. Ellis and Mabon address a 1 meeting in Welsh, and in the dying number of the Cyvuill he hopes to live to soe tho day when t. British Premier will be able to speak pure and undefiled Welsh. This surely is the true poetio spirit which prompted Byron to ask to be placed on "Suniutn's rocky steep," where he might "swanlike sing and die." Coal was known to the Ancient Britons before the coming of the Romans, but no trace of its use oan be found in the early literature of the Danes Or Normans. There was for centuries an intense prejudice against it in England. One man was executed in the reign of Edward J. for using it, and up to the reign of Henry VIII. the under- graduates of Oxford and Cambridge wore denied its uso. At the opening of a new organ at Ruabon Church in 1770 several solos were performed by" PaxJton, the first violoncello, and Signet Giardagni, the first singer in the kingdom. The 14 company" wero all invited to Wynnstay to dinner, and a grand entertainment, including a representation of 14 The Babes in the Wood," was provided. It was calculated that the whole must have cost Sir Watkin Wynn a couple of thousand pounds at least. We are indebted to the pseudo-Archdmid Morien for many curious and amusing deriva- tions of Welsh words, and wo had always thought; that his chef d'eeuvre was his connection of "ofydd," ar "ovate," with tho Latin "ovum," an egg. Tha learned mystic, however, has since surpassed himself in explaining "Crair" as being" the same as Creuand "laen Llog as being the same as "The Stone of the Interest of Money." Are the Druidio mysteries aftor all but the discreditable Bcandals of money-lending ? Many are the tales that aro told of tho curiosi- ties of publishing" in Welsh chapels. The publishing," be it noted, had nothing to do' with papers or books, but with announcements of the week's services. This is how one old deacon is said to hava published" in rhyme :— Bydd John Thomas Levi, o Landdewibrefi, Yma'n pragethu Wythnos i heddy1; Am ddeg ac am wheoh. Que day last summer. Professor Anwyl, of Aberystwyth, made a pilgrimage on foot to Llanthony. Father Ignatius, who was deeply concorned at the apostfMIy of the leaders of Welsh Methodism, explained hid own ecclesiastical: position. He was nick-named a Methodist by his friends, because of his evanjMlicisnr. On tho other hand, he firmly believed in the employment of symbols and images, which were the book of the illiterate. He cave prominonce to the imagos of the Virin" because they especially typified the Incarnation. Many stories are told at Cwmdu in Breconshire of tho kindness of tlwi Welsh historian Cam- huanawc. Rev. T. Price, who was for many years the vicar of the parish, Oncd during a severe frost he gave an Old road-mender a shilling, instructing him to get a pint of beer— "and get it hot"—on the four succeeding days. The next time the vicar met -the old man the latter confessed thab he had given tho whole shilling to his wife. CarnHuanawc straightway mado a contract at the public-house thab the old man should for four days receive a quantum of beer hot. Dr Rhys Jones, of Paget-street, Cardiff, who has had the cruelty to beat a woman at the last guardians' election, is the son of a Cardiganshire farmer, and gavo evidence before th., Welsh Land Commission at Newcastle Emlyn. Con. trary to the usual rule among Welshmen, Dr. Jones id an ard-nt Fabian, and* a thorough believer m land nationalisation. Hi., evidence showed a great deal of acquaintance with the social lifo and history of rural Wales, and his account of old Welsh customs was about the most intarcsting bit of ovidenco that the Commis- sion rectivsd. "In your 'Welsh column on Monday," writes a correspondent, U yon mention the old Wolsh marriajro custom where two bards repre- sented the brido and bridegroom. Perhaps the following vers.3S will be interesting to your readors as instances of the kind of thing that was sung on such occasions by the bards. It was at a wedding in Dyffryn Aman, and the bridegroom's j mail called out before the bolted door of the bride's house YnK Nghana, Galilca, Y bu'r uriodaô gynta Ac yn yr Hafod hwn fyw'r dydd 'Rw'yn geao bydd y And tha brido's bard answered frcm within, without a moment's hesitation :— Oe yng Nghana Galilea Y brioslas gynta; Dywed i mi yn ddio'd ni phriododd Efa 1" Mr St. Vincent Peel, who heads the poll at Llangadoek in the parish councils election, is of the same family as the great Sir Robert Peel, and is descended from the Robert Peel, tenant farmer and weaver, who laid the foundations of the family greatness about a century ago. His father, tho lato Mr John Peel, was one of the' largest cotton spinners ab ManchBster, and, married Miss Lloyd, the daughter of the late Mr Lloyd, of Danyrallt. Mr St. Vincent Peel is married to his covjsin, the daughter of the late-J Mr Peel, of Taliaris Park, Carmarthenshire, and at the old family residence, Danyrallt House, which is charmingly situated on the banks of the Towy. near Llangadocle.

:1. NEWS IN BRIEF. g|j A London evening paper asserts that toMW 8,000 Anarchists in the Metropolis.. A love for pastry, jam, and similar dala forms one of Dr. Grace's weaknesses. t Dr. John Lord, the celebrated historiaDi on Saturday at Stamford, Connecticut. 20 In Ireland there are 28 packs of harriert of foxhounds, and six packs of staghounds..• A naturalised Chinaman is to stand j, California Legislature in a San Francisco ^lg. £ S|| Mr Geoffrey has accepted the P08*. of secretary to the Liberty and Property of secretary to the Liberty and Property DefeØ08 League. The heaviest rain ever reoorded in was in Argyle, Dec. 7th, 1863-seven inches,0 hours. 011 Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill started it Saturday from Cairo for Marseilles, on the return to England. J The Primate at Ashford combatted the ld that there had ever been a Roman Catholic e* j lishmant in the country. The total import of foreign meat from and American ports during the past week <j 1,848 cattle, 6,580 sheep, and 13,798 quartet* beef. t Sir Frederick Pollock declared at Toynbee^jj; Tyndall's whole life exemplified the whole •rrJ < of "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do* Ihy might." The Shah has conferred upon the C**1 f Agdas Order, the highest Persian decoration in brilliants, and bearing a portrait of the ™ in the centre. /il t Mr Chamberlain will reply in the ( Review for January to various criticisms thatjj | been passed upon his suggestions with regard f, old-age pensions. H The Empress of Austria is said to have j the record in regard to being a juvenile mother, for she was only 36 when her first child was presented to her. M j- There are to be some tableaux and U theatricals in the Indian room at Osbornethe* f after next, which will be arranged by Louise and Princess Beatrice. The leading Scottish professional golf Bernard Sayers, i3 only 5ft. 3iu. in height, t I » shortest public player of the game. His £ r physical strength compensates for his wapt height. A footman has been elected chairman district council in Cambridgeshire, only to 1 J¡ professional situation, because he was b' (wait at table at tho very hour appointed fot I ¡, council meetings.. I The Queen much dislikes new clothes. ? confidently asserted that It was only after g^v* difficulty that the Princess of Wales succeeded inducing her Majesty to order new clothes fot t Jubilee procession. II The Times representative during the Matabé It' War, Mr E. F. Knight, will bring out in a days a work on Matabeleland and He is well known both as au author and adventurous traveller. General Sir Charles Gousrh and General. Hugh Gough have each gained the Victoria for distinguished gallantry in tho field. no other case of two brothers gaining this honourable decoration. The Earl ef Rosebery is the guest of Spencer at Althorpe, and was one of a sht party which also included (besides Earl SpeP";J the Marquis of Ripon, Southampton* Ihe Hon, C. R. Spencer. The South African mail brings news of < wedding of Mr Ernest Beerbolim, a farmer, brother of Mr Beerbohm Tree. of the Hayni** Theatre, to a ZuJu lady named direct descendant of King Chaka. Mr Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson will reØ, over Christmas in this country. Mr RbodeØ, present intention is to leave for the Cape a. the second week in Jamwy. He wilf be notl as a visitor to Sandringham next week. The great Syriac dictionary which Canterbury, a profound Oriental scholar, been working out for more than 15 years, 18 no's approaching completion. This colossal 1 being published by the Clarendon Press.. Five women, all dames of high degreft • been appointed to the command of crack monts in the German Army. The Frederick, who iscolonel'of a regiment of Hu83^ has often l-idden at the head of her dress as like the uniform as possible. II An airship or a balloon catamaran ha* bet iI invented by Mr J. Franklin Cameron, who that his vessel could be built at a tithe of the & of one cruiser and be competent to sustain a o of eight men wich provisions and ammunitton to rreparable damage to the fleet of an inva i enemv. u Peter Lombard records in the Church a very oomical mistake by a speaker the day a a parochial council preliminary 441 will call yon by the noblest name 11 can have," said he. 41 You are tons of tOI He had transposed his consonants in his dahvery. Tho three Consuls who Turkish Commission of Inquiry to the seene the outrages in Armenia will not sit on the c". mission, but they will keep themselves 1nfortØ of the commission's deliberations, and ifne0^ sary make suggestions regarding the of witnesses. j.. We are always declMing that: the climate gets worse and worse. But the earbeSl known oontinuous weather reoord in the w0* containing observations by the Rev. W. from January, 1337, to January, 1344, is. Bodleian Library at Oxford. This record the weather to'have been similar to what l* .IOW. A Paris cabinet-maker committed suicide most extraordinary manner. He broke one the largo panes of glass in the window of room, and then, placing his head through t d ho!e, pulled the upper part of the window "O with great violence upon his neck, with the reslJ- that he was almosb decapitated by tbe brok glass. of The presents from the which Marshal Fuad Paeha, the special envoy»* the bearer, consist of a sword of honour ob øI. .nlid with jewels for the Emperor, and 'for the Empress. The decoration of the Order which the Sultan conferred upon ™ Empress is inlaid with brilliants of an estlØ1ate value of £1,000. The success of" Charloy's Aunt" is still °. the increase. The author (Mr has already made a fortune out of the pieoot the actor (Mr Penley), who in a great measure responsible for its suocess, has probably sect1 £100,000 as his share. "Charley's Annb: indeed, has already beaten 44 Oar Boy*" Š- financial results. One of the most startling eccentricities tht, parish council elections is embodied in the cof" plaint made by a country squire, that ha been beaten by his own cools. The oook. ¡ appeared, had served the squire faithfully many years, and had retired to live on savings. Sho came out as a candidate for ,bt council, and she defeated her old master.. elf Jewelled shoes and boots are nob entlr novel at the same time they appear to causing much exoiteinent just now amongst South American ladies, one of whom rece^ j went walking 1n a pair of shoes embroide^ with rubies, emeralds, and turquoisee, and heel, atudded with diamonds. The total vahle ° these understanding covers could not have bceif less than £5;000. The Duke and Duchess of York are to Sandringham until the first week in Febru*j^ when they will como up to St. James's Palaoe the season. The Duke of York is to hold next year's levees in the place of the PrinC Wales, who will be delighted to be relieved of t, work. The Duke and Duchess are to attend t If Powis Eisteddfod next year at Welshpool, wbe" they will be the guests of Lord and Lady at Powis Castle.. A copy of the Matabeleland Newt is to and a quainb little production it is, written hand on foolscap paper, and the headings of news given in capitals. Its full title is -f Matabeleland News and Mining Reoord, )J11 h< wayo, September, 1894, vol. I., No. 26. lished every Tuesday, price 6tl, and dilly r. tered as a newspaper." Below the title IS divided into two colomns. There are five written on both sides. One who has lately seen it, reports that Great de Lasseps Panama ditch is a meIanøI and gigantio wreck. The wharves are f* into the water, and acres of machinery are ;11 ing to dissolution. On the isthmus are ° 1,000 miles Of steel track, with locomotives ¡Ø thousands of dump carte, now half biddetØ the tropical growth, in which also 76 great9 shovels, standing side by side in the 1 are more or less buried. Yvette Guilberb has been telling all .t1( viewer what she thinks of English \Vomeø. rø. be frank," she remarked, "if I am to f()t'IØ d i. opinion from the faces I see in the street, aIIe,.J. front of me at the Empire, Englishwomen y doll-like. Mind, I am only speaking as. to p_riSo features, which would have no success 10 barru. Their faces are expressionless and Jack C k 8 All I seek to do is to explain what ot is 11 woman admired and beloved in I e"ell charme. Granier, Judie, Sarah, aDt-pes Re jane, who is far from pretty, are 7 women full of savour and cannot find beauty in Rejane, yet she avervbodv

DIED ON A PUBLIC PLAT- FORM. i SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR EDWARD LECHMERE, M.P. The Press Association Evesham porrespondent telegraphs that Sir IS J ward Lewitnere, M.P., died very suddenly on Tuesday night at PéMhore. He was about to address a large mocking of hit 6onstituents in the Music-hall, and was apparently in the best of health before entering the hali He was talking in good spirita to oho of his supporters, when he fell against the stde of the table. He then said. all right." These were bis last words, for he almost immediately expirod. Death is attributed tu epilepsy.