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ftabiu ffiompanus, &c. The LIST of APPLICATIONS WILL OPEN TO- MORROW (THURSDAY), the 4th of April, and CLOSE at or before 4 p.m. on the SAME DAY for TOWN, and the FOLLOWING MORNING for COUNTRY. rr R. ROBERTS, LIMITED. Incorporated under the Companies Aefcs. 1862 to 1890, whereby the liability of the Shareholders is limited to the amount of their Shares. Divided into 70,000 5 per Cent. Cumulative Preference Shares of £1 each, 76.000 Ordinary Shares of Jm each, and 1,500 Management Shares of £1 each. The Preference Shares are preferential both aa to Capital and Dividend, and after the payment of a cumulative preferential dividend of 5 per cent. upon these shares, a non-cumulative dividend of 7 per cent. will next be paid on the Ordinary Shares, and the surplus profits will (subject to the provision of a Reserve Fund) be divisible in equal moieties between I' the Holders oi the Ordinary and the Management Shares. It i. not proposed to create any Debenture Debt or Mortgages, so that the Preference Shares will be the first capital charge upon the undertaking. The Vendor will take in part payment of the purchase inonev 10,000 Preference Shares and 15.000 Ordinary Shares. He has a1«0 reserved the right to subscribe for the whole of the Management Shares at par. The remaining 60,000 Preference Shares and 61,000 Ordinary Shares are now offered for subscription, payable as follows 5s on application, 5s on allot- 8!!m, and 10s on April 22nd, 1895. DIRECTORS. T. G. FAR.)ELL, Esq., M.P.. 26, Hyde Park-street, W. Chaiimar. Mr B. PAGE, 222, UpDer-street, Islington, N.. and Mr I J. BALLS. 222, Upper-street, Islington, N., Joint Managing Directors. Mr C. C. TAYLOR, 222, Upper-Street, Islington, N. I Mr -T. FOTHERGILL, 222. Upper-street, Islington, N, BANKERS.—THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK I OF ENGLAND, LTD., Head Office, 112, Bishops- ate.street, E.C. the Islington Branch, No. 218, Upper-street, Islington and all other Branches. Suucito«3.—Messrs ASHURST, MORRIS, CRISP and CO.. 17, Throgmorton-avenue, E.C. I BBOKEKS.-Messrs CLARENCE and G EH VASE SMITH a.nd CO., 4, Queen Victoria-street, E.G., and the Stock Exchange. Auditors —Messrs DELOITTE, DEVER, GRIF. PITHS and CO., 4, Lothbnry. E.C. Secretary (PRO TKM.) AND REGISTKKBU OFFICES.— Mr E. W, OAKLEY, Nos. 215 to C2a. Upper-street, Islington, Lottdon, N. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company has baen formed to acquire as a "wring eoncern the well-known business 0: Mr T. R. Roberts, which, established 35 years ago in the ■jupoisant :h»>roughfare of Upper-street, Islington, has become one sf the large retail businesses to which U-«pie from all parts oi the Metropolis and Suburbs resort. The premises, N03. 216, 217, 213, 219A, SO, 221. 222, 223, 224. and 225, Upper-street, occupy an area of 77,100 jqnava fees, with 158 feet frontage; :t portion extend- ing from the mam thoroughfare nearly to the Liver- pool-road, and the remainder having a depth of 227 rtat. The buildings (as will be seen from the plan iccamp&nyirig the prospectus) are well ar- tynged' to suit the numerous departments of the business, and one great advantage which they possess is the ease with which any of the jepaitments can be enlarged to meet the requirements at increased trade, there being no less than 19,425 square feet of vacant greuud, giving also ample room to build au Immense Store or Market with access by way of Upper-Street or Park-street. The whole of this pro- perty is held under leases which have an unexpired "term of from IH/4 to 44 years to FUn. The Company also acquires the warehouse known as Tyndale Works, in Tyi-oale-terrace, Canonbury-lane, which is used as a Furniture Repository, and the Coal Merchants' bcsi- ness which has been carried on under the style of Roberts Brothers, at A.«hburton-grove, Holloway. The departments of the buiuess include Àe follow- h8 Drapery, gilks, Dresses, Millinery, }hutles, Bouts and Shoes, Coal, China and Glass, Furniture, Srocery, Provisions, and Refreshments. There is a constant service of Omnibuses and Trains nassiag he premises, and their close proximity to Sighbury Station (North London Railway) and Hollo- way Station (Great Northern Railway) makes the Upper-street one of the most accessible thoroughfares tram and to all parts of London. The success of the business is largely due to the %ttsntion which tila Vendor has given to meeting the requirements of aU classes of Customers, who have jvery advantage that Cash payments call secure, the beads of each department having perfect freedom jiven them to go to the best English and Foreign Markets for their goods, and it is intended that tha jiimo system of management shall continue, arr ..nge- tnanrs having been made to secure the services of those who have hitherto taken a leading and very active part in the business. The Board have arranged with Mr B. Page and Mr J. Balls, who for and twenty-eight years respectively have been associated with the Vendor, to (teccrae Joint Managillg Directors for a minimUJft aariod of seven years. They have also arranged with two uf the other Directors, Mr C. C. Taylor and Mr JQel)h Fothergill—who have taken a prominent part III tile business fur period of tweuty-four and eighteen veavs Ni:Opec¡,iv.sl,-toQ act as Buyers fOT a like period. It will therefore at once be seen that thoroughly p1"flctÍeal men are on tbe BQarq. The Vendor proposes to present nearly the whole of the Management; Shares \0 the managers who have taken Sf) successful a part in the business durin Inany years. The fact that these shares will be in the nalld of those wbo wiU have the auiaagement of the business, and can larcely con- tribute tQ it. SUCCflS&, will necessarily act as a stimulus "to th promotion of the Company's welfare, as, until 3- dividend 8f 7 per cent. baa been paid on the Ordinary Sharas, no dividend can be paid en the Management Shares, which then divide with the Ordinary Shares any surplus over 7 per cent. Many of the employees (exceeding 400), a number of whom have been in the business for a great many years, have expressed their intention of subscribing for shares, and it is proposed to make a liberal allotment; upon thse applications, as by so doing there will b6 a direct incanthe to make the bU8Ïne successful in the future. The business from its original formation has been highly successful, and the Directors are assured by the Vendor that only once during a period of thirty-five years has there been a decrease in the returns. The well-known accountants, Messrs Deloitte, Dever, Griffiths and Co., have examined the Books of the Company, and their Certificate shows an average profit for the hut four years o. £ 9,301 per annum, The financial year of the business closed on 23rd February last, when the stock-in-trade as then takes amounted to £42.007, and the book debts to £10,500. The Comoany takes over th9 business as from that ante, with the benefit of all Contracts made and crones accruing, the Company discharging all debts owing, which were about £ 1,000, ana the Vendor guaranteeing all outstanding book debta. There will, therefore, be an ample working capital invested in the business. The price to be paid for the whole of the properties acquired by the Company is £ 146,000, of which the Vendor agrees to take £10,000 in Preference Shares and £15,000 in Ordinary Shares. Such price is made up as follows :— Leasehold Premises. £38,285 Stock-in-Tvade 42,007 liidnre.<. fittings, horses, carts, vans, pan- techniions, and stock of coal, estimated by the Vendor to be worth 16,000 Book Debts „ 10'500 Cash in hand and at Backers 3*518 goodwill 35,090 The Vendor bears all expenses of the formation of Ûle Company up to alto i ment, and ftO promotion money if any kind has been 1" will be paid. The value of Sh.v.es in industrial undertakings of Ifcis kiad is shown by the following particulars :— Par value Market value of on .e (II .0MMB1. Ordinary March 28th, Share. 1895. flavrord's Stores, Limited £1 John Ba*W & Company, Ltd.. £1 D. H. Kvans A Company, Ltd.. £1 J. K Ro&erts's Stores. Ltd £1 Apoiication will be made for a settlement and quota- tion on the Stock Exchange. Applications for Shares must be made on the Form accompanying the Prospectus and forwarded to the Bankers of the Company with the amount of the de- posit. If no allotment is made, the deposit will be returned itl full and where the number of allotted is less than that aoplied for, the balance will be placed towards the further payments due in respect af the Shares allotted, and any excess returned to the Applicant. Full Prospectuses aad Forms of Application for Shares can be obtained from the Bankers, Solicitors, »nd Brokers, and at the Offices ot the Company. March 30th, 1395. MNNEFORDS MAGNESIA. The Best Remedy for ACIDITY of the STOMACH, HEARTBURN, I GOUT, and HEADACHE, | INDIGESTION, And safest Aperient for Delicate Constitutions, Ladies, Children, and Infants. DINNEFORD'S 15543 MAGNESIA. Prize Modal, Chieaga, 1891- QOTTERELL JgROS.' C B." WALLPAPERS. NEW, ARTISTIC. CHEAP. BEST AND CHEAPEST DESIGNS IN THE KINGDOM. lsk your Decorator or Builder for COYTEBELL'S PATTERN BOOK for 1895. See that each Pattern bears the Trade Mark, 0OTTERELL BROS., fl, CLARE-STREET: AND 2 AND 6, MARSH-STREET, BRISTOL. The Leading ffouse. 190 S TON E BROS., Sons of the late Aid. Gains Augustus Stone), COMPLETE FUNERAL FURNISHERS AND FUNERAL DIRECT1 RS. Every requisite for Funerals of all classes. Proprietors of Funeral Cars, Hearses, Shilli- biers, and Coaches. Superb Flemish Horses, &c. Price List on Application. Please Note the Only Address:- 5, WORKING-STREET Telegraphic Address I^STONE BROS., CARDIFF.' 1715 f| TEETH.—Complete Set, One Guinea. r*r Five years' warranty. GOODMAN AND CO., JO, Duke-street and 56. Queen-street, Cardiff. 13041*1114 ASK FOR E Y N O L D S" CHOICE FLOUR, la small bags, for the next HOME jj U P P 1 T, gold by an UadtagStoresand Provision Merchant* » 8auth Wales. Wholesale from J. REYNOLDS AND CO" ALBERT MILLS, GLOUCESTER. SK FOR Reynolds. 1396 THE DE REES BILL-POSTING AND JL ADVERTISING COMPANY, LIMITED, PROPRIETORS of 150 of the LABGEST STATIONS NEWPORT, PONTYPOOL, RISCA, EASTERN and WESTERN VALLEYS. TERMS ON APPLICATION, 144, COMMERCIAL-STREET. NEWPORT. 1009 .ushUIJ ),bbrtSlls. R ENE v A N 8 & C¡ 0., LIMITED, ARE NOW MAKING A QRAND SPRING saow FASHIONS; J^OVELTIES, ABB NEW GOODs, And are holdiag a SPECIAL INHIBITION OP FURNITURE. CARPETS, CURTAINS, FURNISHING MATERIALS, HOUSEHOLD LINENS. &c. They have also now OPENED TWO NEW DEPARTMENTS for the Sale of Ladies' and Children's BOOTS AND SHOES, 4ND BOYS' AND YOUTHS' READY-MADE CLOTHING. GRAND SELECTION. RELIABLE GOODS AND BEST VALUE IN ALL DEPARTMENTS. Swansea. IMS J. MARSH I\nd COMPY" UNDERTAKERS, ADULTS' FUNERALS 1st Class, with Best Glass-side hearse, or Victoria Car, Two Best Coaches and Pairs to Match, lin. Elm Shell, full lined, fWle, Satin-trimmed Robe, lin. outside 0 ik Coffin (polished) with Best Brass Furniture, Elaborate Name Plate (en?raved). Bearers, ind Self-attendance B12 12 0 2nd Class, as above, Without Shell and Bearers 9 8 0 1st Class, lin. Elm Polished Coffin, with Brass Furniture and Carriages and At- teudanee a* Above 510 0 With imitation Brass Furnituse (En- graved Plate) — 6 0 0 2ud Class, With Shellibier and Coa.ch, 4 4 0 ONLY ADDRESS- 80, ST. MARY-STREET, CARDIFF. 1365 i j THAT QUALITY TELLS IS EVIDENCED BV TEH FACT THAU PHILLIPS & CO. STAND OUT Ad THE TRAMEN o* CARDIFF. FURNITURE ESTABLISHED OVER TttRXB. CARPETS FURNITURE QUARTEfiS CKNTUBY. CARPETS FURNITURE —— CARPETS FURNITURE QOOP, ARTISTIC, AN, CARPETS FURNITURE CARPETS FURNITURE INEXPENSIVE. CARPETS FURNITURE CARPETS FURNITURE ——— CARPETS FURNITURE BEFORE YOU BUY CARPETS FURNITURE T M TT T> TO CARPETS FURNITURE FURNITURE CARPETS FURNITURE CARPETS FURNITURE CARPETS FURNITURE CARPETS CARPET'S FURNITURE CARPETS FURNITUBE DO NOT FAIL TO CARPETS FURNITURE VISIT < CARPETS FURNITURE » VPPTflM jb fiA CARPETS FURNITURE T AVER ION « CO. CARPETS FURNITURE JLi CARPETS FURNITUBE CARPETS FURNITURE CABINET MAKERS, CARPETS FURNITURE TTPTTnT ITPPlfRR CARPETS FURNITUBE U r f±UL.» I HiKJiKO, CARPETS FURNITURE HOUSE FURNISHERS CARPETS FURNITURE u ruftiuoniana, CARPETS FURNITURE MARY-LE-PORT STREET CARPETS FURNITURE CARPETS FURNITURE ° CARPETS FURNITURE BRIDGE STREET, CARPETS FURNITURE BRISTOL CARPETS FURNITURE CARPETS FURNITURE ——— CARPETS FURNITURE THEIR SHOWROOMS, CARPETS FURNITURE/ vi^R ONE ACRE IN CARPETS FURNITURE Aryi CARPETS FURNITURE EXTENT, CARPETS FURNITURE CONTAIV CARPETS FURNITURE CONTAIN CARPETS FURNITURE THE LARGEST, BEST, CARPETS FURNITURE AND CARPETS FURNITURE CHEAPEST STOCK CARPETS FURNITURE IN THE CARPETS FURNITURE WEST OF ENGLAND. CARPETS 1179 TO CUSTOMERS. WE BEG TO THANK YOU FOR PAST ORDERS, AND TRUST TO RE- CEIVE YOUR FURTHER COMMANDS, WHICH YOU MAY RELY SHALL RE- CEIVE OUR I. UTMOST PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION. jy* ASTERS A CO., CLOTH 1FTIS, 1346 CAVENDISH HOUSE, CHELTENHAM. HIGH-CLASS DRESS MATERIALS FOR SPRING WEAR. Ladies are invited to apply for Patterns, a Complete Set of which, including every approved Novelty of the Season, will be sent Post Free. Carriage is paid on all Parcels of 10s and upwards. ADD BESS CAVENDISH HOUSE COMPANY, .IlD, 'CHELTENHAM. Business JUiirossts. ROGERS' AK ALES AND PORTERS In 4 GallonCasksandupward PALE AND MILD ALES -.fromlodpoy GoallIaoun PORTER AND STOUTS .-from Is per Gallon BREWERY, BRISTOL CARDIFF STORES, WORKING-STREET 1161 ESTABLISHED 1867. TELEPHONE NAT. 52. W. BELLIER AND CO., 187, BUTE ROAD, WHOLESALE BOTTLERS OF BASS' ALE, GUINNESS' STOUT, Mild and Table Ales, Tottenham Lager Beer, Hereford Cider, Hop Bitter Ale and Stout, Ac. AGENTS FOR- BRISTOL UNITED BREWERIES' OLD BEERS, SMITHWICK'S KILKENNY STOUT, COX'S LONDON HOP BITTER ALE AND STOUT, CARTER'S BRISTOL MINERAL WATERS, HUTCHINGS' PRIZE MEDAL VINEGARS. Goods supplied twice daily to all parts of the Town, and daily to the Country Districts. 2504 39, QUEEN- STREET, 89, CARDIFF. pURE rjTEAS OF QOOD QUALITY, AT F A I R pRICES. jgJLLIS DAVIES AND CO. HEAD WAREHOUSE .— 44, LORD. STREET, LIVERPOOL. 1433 EAT" QUAKER OATS -"i i-)R FOR A KIT AST. 365 MILLION PERSONS DID IN 1894. MAKES DELICIOUS PORRIDGE. COOKS IN 15 MINUTES. REQUIRES NO SOAKING OVERNIGHT. SOLD EVERYWHERE. 1641 —— 1H. 2LB. PACKETS ONLY. NEVER IN BUIiK. TO HAY AND CORN TRADE. CROSSLEY'S "OTTO" GAS ENGINES Largely Used for CHAFF-CUTTING AND CORN CRUSHING. WRITE FOR PARTICULARS AND REFERENCES TO .USERS IN THIS DISTRICT. SOUTH WALES OFFICE 22, MOUNT STUART-SQUARE, CARDIFF. TELEGRAMS—" OTIO," CARDIFF. G. A. STONE & CO., UNDERTAKERS. ESTABLISHED OVER 30 YEARS. AT THK OLD AND Orn.T ADDRESS— 10, 11, & 19, WORKING-STRKET, CARDIFF. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Miss STONE, "gixtetl by An Efficient Staff, t TftlAgraphic Address:— "Stone, 11, Working-street, Cardiff." 8e—11<W NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Contributions sent to the South Wales Daily News should be plainly written in ink, and invariably on one side of the paper. We desire to urge upon our numerous correspondents the value of concise- ness and the desirability of curtailing the length of their communications. It cannot be too clearly understood that brief and pointed letters receive the first attention. All communications intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. No notice will be taken of anonymous letters. Rejected communi- cations will not be returned.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES. OJBATHW Settees of Births, Mamagts, and Deaths, It each, if Mt eaeeedmg 90 words, and tid for e*»h extra 10 words, BIRTHS. CORT.—On April 2nd, at Sea View House, Penarth, the wife of John Cory of a daughter. WÕ DADDS.—On April 2nd, at 24. Neville-street, Canton, Cardiff, the wife of J. H. Dadds, of a daughter, 790 LITTLE.—On the 30th of March, at Cwmpennar House, Mountain Ash, the wife of W. Little, of a daughter. DEATHS. COLLETr.-Oll the 30th, at Fair Orchard, Nash, after a short illness, Harriet, the dearly-beloved wife of Walter Collett, aged 50 years. Deeply mourned by her sorrowing family and friends. Funeral will leave Fair Orchard 2 o'clock on Thursday for Christ- church Cemetery. Friends please accept this, the only, intimation. 2538 JONES.—On the 31st ult., at Chapel Farm, Nash, Milly, dearly beloved wife of Alfred Jones, aged 42 years. Deeply regretted by her sorrowing family and friends.

PROTECTIONIST FALLACIES. THERE are two articles of his former faith to which Mr JOSEPH CHAUBERLAIN-UP to the present, at least-firiuly adheres, not- withstanding the deplorable phip wreck which he has made of all his other old beliefs. He is still loyal to Welsh Dises- tablishment, and voted for the second I reading of the Government Bill on Monday I night and he is still faithful to his old Free Trade views. In one of our articles yesterday morning we commented on Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S gloomy outlook on our national trade, in his speech at Birmingham on Saturday night, and his darkened forecasts of what the future may bring. He compensated somewhat for his pessimism however by his sturdy defence of our Free Trade policy against the shallow sophistries and the meaningless irrelevancies of the Fair Trader and the Protectionist. All foreign trade is a matter of exchange," said Mr CHAMBER- LAIN. This is a rudimentary truth in the I science of trade, and when rightly apprehended it destroys many of the Protectionist fallacies. We barter i something we wish to sell to other nations for something we wish to buy from them. There is the whole question in a nutshell. We receive from foreign nations the exact equivalent in goods for what we have sold to them. That cannot be, exclaim the Fair Trader and the Protectionist, because we receive in return goods so much more in value than we send out, and the balance of trade is therefore against us, and we must con- sequently be exhausting our capital. That old bugbear the balance of trade was effectually knccked on the head by ADAM SMITH, and pulverised into dust by BENTHAM, but its ghost is now visiting the glimpses of the Moon to frighten Fair Traders and Pro- tectionists out of their wits. Of course the declared value at the Custom House of the goods we recoive is considerably higher than the declared value of the goods we send out, otherwise we should soon be in a condition of national Bankruptcy. To the declared value of the goods we send out must bo added sailors' wages going and returning, shipping transport and profits on the out- going cargo, all of which we sell to other nations in onr goods, and which tend largely to swell owr national balanceWe mnst pay for all the goods we receive in the goods we sell, and in labour and freights, for we cannot and do not pay in gold. We do not grow gold in this country. We buy it, just as we buy corn, and wool, and meat, and pay for it as we pay for them in goods. We have more gold in the country now than we have ever had, and we have bought that gold with goods. We cannot in these islands grow sufficient foods for our teeming population, and some kinds of goods we cannot grow at all. We have to buy from foreign nations, therefore, and we pay for every pound's weight we buy by selling to them our goods. If we purchase less from them they will buy less from us, because international trade is simply exchange or barter, and consequently our national trade will be reduced and our profits will be less, and our national prosperity will decline. And yet there are Fair Traders and protectionists who either cannot or will not see this.

WORKING MEN AND RELIGION. SOME years ago Dr. MIL WARD, of Cardiff, published an exceedingly able and interest- ing essay on The Truth Taught in Myths," which gave great offence to a few narrow and contracted souls who scent a heresy in every form and manifestation of religious truth outside their own limited range of vision. Your modern Great Briton, when he is hunting for heretics, or is endeavouring to solve the problem I why other men do not believe as he believes, never for a moment I suspects that these other men might perhaps be blessed with a wider mental horizon and a more unclouded sun than he enjoys; or i that their reach of sight may possibly be I further than his, or their perceptions more acute and accurate. To believe more or less than he believes; not to see Truth in exactly the same aspect as it looms upon his vision, or in the same proportions, and with the same limitation, is in his opinion to be infidel to truth—that is what he calls truth for, of course, to borrow Bishop WARBURTON'S famous phrase, "orthodoxy is his doxy and heterodoxy is the doxy of all other men." We are unable to say why, or by what suggestion of ideas, a sentence in one of the paragraphs in our London correspondent's letter recalled to memory Dr. MIL WARD'S admirable essay, but it did. Our correspondent writes, that the Reverend Lord VICTOR SEYMOUR in his last Sunday's sermon in St. Barnabas, i'imlico, said, referring to the controversy which is going on act to why working men do not go to Church, yon might give a hundred and one reasons, but the answer is really very simple because they don't want to come. Was ever such a crude, empty, undigested, superficial exposition of the reason why working men as a rule abstain from attend- ing public religious worship ? They do not attend because they do not want to attend is the profound explanation of the Reverend Lord VICTOR SEYMOUR, But the crux of the grave inquiry lies in the ques- tion, Why do they not want to attend 1" The profound depths of this question Lord VICTOR SEYMOUR has shown himself utterly unfitted to probe. Why do not working men want to attend public leligious services in the present age ? There is nothing in religion as religion which should keep them away. There is something intensely human in religion when it is presented to men in all its beauty, and poetry, and attractiveness something which soothingly appeals to men's yearnings and aspirations and satisfies them' The common people heard the Great Teacher gladly, and why Because He did not attempt to feed them with the dry husks of scholastic theology, or the barren ornamentation of Ritualistic observances. The aesthetic in man has to be satisfied, unquestionably, in religious worship but it has to be satisfied through the intellect as well as through the emotions and it is not satisfied by dry theology or by barren ritual. The sermons of the Great Teacher touched the heart through the head. They were full of poetry and illustrative imagery were studded with parable, and metaphor, and simile, and his most forcible appeals were drawn from the facts of every-day life. Let Lord VICTOR SEYMOUR mould his sermons upon the model of the Sermon on the Mount; let them be counterparts of that sermon, but adapted to the changed circumstances and the different modes of thought and reasoning amongst ourselves in this last quarter of the nineteenth century, and he will never again have to complain in feeble and jejune repinings that working men will not come to his Church because they do not want to come. They will then want to eome. Working men are not so satisfied with their surroundings, too fre- quently sordid and mean, and often re- pellent, as to shun any rational methods which would give them change of scene, and uplift them for a time above their environment into an ideal world of beauty and of good- ness. It is because they do not find that in the religious teaching of the present day, speaking generally, that they do not want to go to Church. CHRIST'S discourses were full of such teaching. They were pervaded by an intense humanity. The fatherhood of GOD and the brotherhood of man were the constant themes of that teaching. One of the truths taught in myths was a grand humanitarianism, and the gods shared this earth with man as with their friend." The ideal was not perfect, it is true, but it was as true as many of the ideals of religiou of to-day. It is a libel upon working men to allege that they do not go to Church because they dislike religion. Let religion be presented to them in true practical form, and in all the fervour of its humanity, and they would yearn to get away at times from the grovel and the grasping of their life toil into its higher and serener altitudes. The world is too much with us," sang WORDSWORTH in mournful numbers and religion, as presented to him in popular theology, did not uplift him above that world, so that in his bitterness of unrest he exclaimed— I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So inifbt I, standing on this pleasant) lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn." There are a poetry, and a beauty, and a brightness in religion, which spring directly out of the relationship of man to GOD, which would, when properly under- stood, dispel, partially at least, the gloom and sombreness of the lot of so many thousands of working men and would give them a true ideal of the blessedness that lies in duty. But then religion must be pre- sented to them in its attractive form it must appeal to all the faculties in man and must not cultivate emotion only to the neglect of the taste, the imagination, and the intellect. Men need to be interested in the thirtg they seek after to pursue it successfully. Let Lord VICTOR SEYMOUR teach religion by arousing the imagination, the taste, and the intellect, by awakening man's fancy, and his sense of poetry, and even his humour and he will in time tell a different tale from that which I he now proclaims, that working men do not go to Church because they do not want to go.

SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD'S HUMOUR. Condensed reports of the Solicitor-General's speech at Sheffield on Saturday night omit an r.ide that much delighted the audience. "X hope," said the ex-Recorder of Sheffield, that during the ten years I was connected with this city I have given satisfaction—" (here the com- pany broke into a loud cheer). I was about to add," continued Sir Frank Lockwood gravely, to those gentlemen who came before me in my judicial capacity. I did not realise till I heard the applause ttaaV there were "so many: present he-. fc»»nishtu"

REPRESENTATION OF CARDIFF, THE LIBERAL NOMINATIONS. MR FLETCHER (" DAILY CHRONICLE") PROPOSED. LETTER FROM LORD E. FITZMAURICE. It had been arranged that on Tuesday eveuing a meeting should take place of the sub-committee of the Cardiff Liberal Executive who are charged with the duty of receiving nominations and of commu- nicating with gentlemen proposed as candidates for the seat to be vacated by Sir E.jJ. Reed, Owing, however, to the absence from home of Mr R. Bird, president of the association, no meeting was held but ittwill take place a few days hence, and we shall then be in a position to report as to the action thus far taken. Among the more recent nominations is that of Mr A. E. Fletcher, late editor of the Daily Chronicle, who has been mentioned also as a candidate for Greenock. It) is felb by his pro- posers that Mr Fletcher would, more than any other gentleman in public mind, fitly represent the new spirit in political life, the spirit that tends to utilise collective power for the due development of civic life, a* opposed to the old laissez faire prinoiple and that to enlist for a great working-class and rapidly-progressive community like Cardiff the Parliamentary services of so able and distinguished an exponent of the Progressive faith would be to xnsure the winning of the seat by an enormous majority, as well as the political education and advancement of the community. Mr Fletcher's advocates have the strongest views as to his power of attracting support. It may also be mentioned that the sub- committee, having notified Lord E. Filzmaurice of his nomination, and made the usual inquiry as to his wiflingness to stand and to abide by the decision of the association, have received his lordship's reply, which will be read at the next meeting.

DEADLY PARAFFIN LAMPS AT NEWPORT. On Monday Enoch Beachain, of 64, St Mary- street, Newport, was working at Mr C. H. Bailey's engineering works, Mill-parade, when a paraffin lamp exploded, and set fire to his cloth- ing. His face and back were burnt, and he was conveyed to the Infirmary and detained. Shortly after midnight on Tuesday a man named Everett Williams, of 10, St. Mary.street, was on a visit at a house in Nelson-street. Ho was in the act of descending the stairs from a bedroom where he had been to see a child, when the paraffin lamp he was carrying exploded and 8eb his clothing on fire. His head, face, and right hand were badly burnt, and he was con- veyed to the Infirmary in the ambulance carriage, and detained.

FIENDISH ILLTREATMENT. MILD PUNISHMENT. The Birmingham magistrates had before them on Tuesday an Army Reserve man named Michael Rutter, who was charged with an aggravated aasault on his wife. Because the latter purchased a pair of shoes instead of books, prisoner savagely beat her. kicked her about the body, and set a dog on her. The animal tore the flesh from her amis and legs. Prisoner was: sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and a l judicial separation was jcrantai.

MR AND MRS GLADSTONE. RETURN TO HA WARDEN, Mr and Mrs Gladstone left Lincoln on Tuesday for Hawarden. The morning was cold and wet, but they drove from the Deanery in an open carriage. At the station, where a special train had been provided for them, a large crowd s assembled, and loudly cheered the distinguished couple, and Mrs Collier, on behalf of the Lincoln Women'? Liberal Association, presented an address with a bouquet of flowers to Mrs Gladstone. The address contained an eulogistic reference to the high character and noble and loving qualities of Mrs Gladstone, who for many years, through storm and sunshine, had been the staunch friend and constant helpful companion of the greatest statesman of the century, Mrs Gladstone briefly acknowledged the presentation, remarking that to her they owed nothing, It was all to her husband.Mr Gladstone said: I must add the expression of my thanks, although I did not like to interfere with my wife addressing you. The fact i8, ladies are taking a good deal to the expression of their sentiments in public speech, and in my opinion if they persevere and keep steadily to it they will beat the gentlemen.—The train moved off, amid cheers and the wavipg of handkerchiefs, at 12.25. The Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs Gladstone, accompanied by their granddaughter, Miss Wickham, arrived at Hawarden Station by special train from Lincoln at half-past two in the afternoon. The ex-Premier, who was looking remarkably well, was met by the Rev. H Drew and drove at once to Hawarden Castle in an open carriage which was awaiting him.

LOCAL COMMISSIONS. The London Gazette of Tuesday night contains the following:— WAR OFFICE, April 2. J LINE BArrALYONS.-The Royal Welsh Fusiliers —Second Lieutenant H#nry Rotberham to be lieutenant vice Grov placed 011 temporary half- pay dated 6tli March last. MILITIA INFANTRY.-3rd Battalion the Welsh; Regitnent-C, i S. M. Thomas is granted honorary rank of major dated 3rd insb. VOLUNTEER RIFLES.—2nd Volunteer Battalion South Wales Borderers—Captain J. O. Llewellyn te be major Lietitonant Ii.4 J.c Phillips to be, asiotain dated 3rd inst.

SOUTH WAIVES LIBERAL FEDERATION AND THE ABERYSTWYTH CONVENTION. Mr R. N. Hall, the secretary of the South Wales Liberal Federation, has addressed the following communication to Mr D. A. Thomas, M.P., the president of the Federation, with respect to the meeting which it is proposed to hold at Aberystwyth during the sittings of the Welsh National Convention In the absence of Mr Williams, chairman of the Executive Committee, I think it is my duty to report to you that after making many inquiries among the leading Liberal Associations in South Wales, I have ascertained that we should not be able to secure an adequately representative meet- ing of the Federation at Aberystwyth during the Easter week, nor would the delegates from South Wales likely to attend be sufficiently numerous to constitute such a meefciqg as is competent to deal with the serious questions of Welsh Liberal organisation, more especially as the local constituency associations have had no opportunity whatever of discussing the proposed scheme of amalgamation. There are other reasons for supposing that the association meeting should be postponed, and I am only conveying to you the general opinion of Liberals that the meeting when held should be held in some central town in South Wales, at which all interested could attend with convenience. I find that the Convention for considering the Welsh Disestablishment Bill is to be held on the day following our suggested meeting, and I do not think that in the middle of Easter week Liberals would be prepared to sacrifice four days for the purpose of attending all the meetings. I feel sure that if the whole of the executive had the matter laid before them they would approve of the postponement under theqe circumstances."

INTERESTING DISCOVERIES AT LLANDAFF. During some excavations on property belonging to Mr Clement Waldron, near the old Castle walls at Llandaff, some interesting relics have been unearthed. Bit. of ancient pottery, bones, ete. are among the finds, but whether the bones are human baa not yeh been ascertained. A hideous carved head, in splendid preservation, was also brought to light, and ia evidently a gargoyle belongipg to the old Norman Cathedral. The excavations also exposed what are apparently portions of the old Castle walls, one running parallel with the lane leading to the Cathedral being of immense thickness. The excavations are still in progress, and doubtless further relics will be found. J

CAPTURE AT CADOXTON, ROBBERY AT WESTON. On Monday P.O. Phillips, of Cadoxfcon-Barry, arrested two men of the seafaring type named James Webb and Ssimuel Davies on suspicion of stealing a double-barrelled breechloading gun, whioh the offioer had previously watched them deposit in an empty house. The men could give no satisfactory account of the manner in which they came into possession of the firearm, and were consequently detained in custody pending a magisterial investigation. With Tuesday's post, however, a communica- tion was received from Superintendent Balkwill, of the Weston-super.Mare Police Force, stating that two man of the same description as those in custody were wanted for stealing several articles —including the gun and a suit of oilskins found upon them—from a coal barge at that place on Sunday last. The men arrived at Weston on Sunday evening in a small boat with the oars marked" E. Webb, Docks, Cardiff," and left again during the night. The accused were handed over to the Weston polios at Barry Dock to-day, after being brought before the magistrates.

WELSH DISESTABLISH- MENT. THE RUMOURED COM- PROMISE. BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH INTER- VIEWED. CHURCHMEN BENT ON FIGHTING. HIS LORDSHIP'S VIEW OF THE RECENT DEBATE. 01) Tuesday evening our Rhyl correspondent waited upon the Bishop of St. Asaph, who is now busily engaged at his Palace, and asked his opinion as to the rumoured compromise. His Lordship said proposals for compromise had certainly been mentioned, but they came not from the defenders of the Church, but from its most strenupus opponents. tfhe offer of such a proposal at this time was significant. It was a clear indication that the more far-sighted even of the Welsh Liberationist members now saw that the carrying of Disestablishment and Disendowmenb for Wales was not such an easy matter to achieve. The difficulties increased as the real truth about the Church gradually leaked out, and the recent debates in Parlia- ment bad done the Church an incalculable amount of good by educating the English people upon the real merits of the case. Nearly every single argument advanced bad collapsed, the only ones remaining being those that were equally applicable agamst the Church in England. Another and unexpected difficulty which beset the Liberationist party arose from the fact that the Welsh electors now clearly understood that even after Disendowment the tithe would have to be paid, and that the present generation of Welshmen would not even derive the benefit of the Is 8d, which would be what each individual would eventually get when the tithe had fallen in the course of some 40 years. One of the moat prominent of the Liberationist lumbers, who bad been foremost in pressing forward terms of compromise, Jet out the awkward admission that they must get some- thing to give the people at once. It was clear that in prder to do this, some compromise would have to be arranged. That was the real issue of the rumour about compro- mise. The Bishop sdded that the terms of the compromise and the foundation of the rumour could be traced to the samg source, namely the Welsh Liberationist members. As to the Church, they would have nothing whatever to do with compromise, Tfcey were fighting the battle on principle, and they were perfectly convinced that the more the truth became known the stronger their case would become. It was admitted even by opponents that the whole weight of argument in the recent debate was on the side of the Church. The particular instances upon which the Welsh members based a general accusation against the Church in Wateft were flimsy and unsupportable, and Mr Asquith would probably be very much more careful in the future how he repeated information supplied to him by his Welsh Liberationist friends. Probably few public men in so prominent n positiou as Mr Asquith ever committed themselves to such absurd and nufounded assertions as he was led to pake in his speech when he moved the second reading. The reporter asked the Bishop his opinion about Mr Sam Smith's protest against paupers signing the petition in the St. Asaph Workhouse. His Lordship replied that it was only fresh evidence that the Welsh Liberationists were determined that in their campaign against the Church they would give no consideration what- ever to the poor. Mr Smith was a Scotchman, and must therefore be pardoned for want of humour in asking the question, which ostenta- tiously betrayed a disregard of his party for tha interests of the poor. Church people had always thought that in these matters care for the poor was one of the nrat things to be considered. It had been left for the Welsh Liberationist mem- bers to make known the fact that the Welsh people, whose voice was not, to be heard in what they called this religious controversy, was the voice of the poor. Referring to the majority on the division, the Bishop said it was wholly with- out significance, except so far that it would stimu- late Churchmen to sweep it away at the near General Election. His Lordship considered that Church people were more united than ever, and the number of those who had signed the petitions surprised him. They were more numerous than those against the Suspensory Bill, and the pries aboub pressure and psrsusion were absolutely absurd.

LONDON GENERAL BANK LIQUIDATION, NO PROSPECT OF MONEY FROM THE LIBERATOR. The report on the progress of the liquidation of the London General Bank was issued on Tuesday, from which it appears that since February, 1894, the sum of £23,000 has been collected. At present £47,000 of estimated assets have been gathered it), and dividends amounting to 128 in the ;8 have been paid, and notice will be given of further dividend during this month, but there is no prospect of repoyering any money from the Liberator.

DIED IN THE STREET. FOUND DEAD ON THE PAVEMENT AT BARRY. Early on Tuesday morning, whilst a man named Wm. Turner, of Victoria-road, Barry, was passing along the roadway leading to Barry Island, he discovered a man lying on the pave. ment near the railway bridge. On examina- tion he found that the man was dead. Some navvies engaged upon the work now going on under Messrs Prioe and Mills, contractors, soon arrived upon the scene and identified the body as that of Yorkshire Jack,' the only name by which deceased was known to them. It appears that the poor man went to his work early in the morning, and feeling unwell asked the timekeeper for a note in order that he might visit Dr. Nealeab his surgery. This was given him, buthe must have fallen down dead on his way, the note being found on him. The remains of the deceased were subsequently conveyed to Barry Police Station by Dock- constable Gill, to await the coroner's inquiry. Tha police subsequently discovered couple of letters at, the man's lodgings, both addressed to "John Stanford," one from a person named Mrs Stanford, 36, Sunderland-terrace. Doncaster-road, Barnsley, Yorkshire, with the superscription Dear son" upon it. In a pocket book was written "Eliz* Stanford, 39. Cawdor-road, Runcorn, Cheshire," this perron being believed to be either his wife or his sister.

WELSH GOSSIP. The Earl of Powis, who has had a relapse after influenza, is now making satisfactory progressi towards recovery. Mr Llewelyn Williams has decided nob to proceed with his candidature for the representa- tion of Cardiganshire. The Rev. James Evaps, O.M., of Tonna, Neath, has accepted the call from the church abLibanus,- Pontardulais, to become its pastor. During the recent ballot of miners, no fewer than 150 men were found absent from one Rhondda colliery-r-influenza, of urse. The Rev. Owen Davies, Carnarvon, who is jusb editing q. re-issue of Christmas Evans's sermons, preached at Aberdare on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday last. The Lord Chancellor has placed the name of Mr Griffith Jones, of the Middle Temple, and Aberllolwyn Hall, near Aberystwyth, on the Commission of the Peace for the county of Car- digan. The Rev. Dr. Griffiths, the Unitarian minister of Pontypridd, has been invited to read a paper on his missionary experiences in Wales at the May meetings of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association. Edward Walley, who was fined at > the Aber- dare Police Court on Tuesday for being drunk and firing a revolver in Blaenaman-road, Aber- aman, argued that that was the way they did it in America, where be was brought up. A curious feature of the long debate which closed on Monday night is that not one of the three Tory members returned from Wales and Monmouthshire bad a word to say against the Bill. They are Col. Morgan. Mr Kenyon, and Sir Pryce Jones. Mr Ellis J. Griffith, the Liberal candidate for Anglesey, has taken up his residence in Bangor for the coming three weeks, during which period he will address meetings of the constituency a Menai Bridge, Beaumaris, Holyhead, and else- where in the county. Mr T. Lloyd Jones, B.A., a former student of the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and now a student of New College, London, has succeeded in obtaining the degree of B.D. from Sb Andrew's University. He is, of course, another Cardi, hailing from Gwernltwyn, near Llanayssul. The Bishop of Llaudaft has offered the post of examining chaplain (vaeant by the lamented death of the Rev. Chancellor Woods, M.A.) to the Rey. William Harrison Davey, M.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford, Vice-Principal of St. David's College, Lampeter, by whom it has been accepted. The Goleuad is responsible for the statement that one of the late empioyees of the London and North-Western Railway testifies that the com- pany are shadowing Mr Lloyd George for the part he had taken in calling public attention to the action of that body in turning out Welshmen from their service soma time ago. It does not appear that the attacks upon the Senate of the Welsh University which have been made in certain periodicals of late have produced any very great public impression, and perhaps Welshmen are beginning to find out that the best way to help a public body is not exaefcly to sneer ati and denounce it before it has had a fair oppor- tunity of completing its work. During the county council election in the Gadlys Division on Tuesday, in one of the booths which is lit with electricity, the presiding officer, Mr W. D. Phillips, solicitor, Canon-street, and his clerks were left in total darkness owing to the temporary failure of the light. Cardiff can no longer boast of being the only town where the electric light plays these tricks. Sir Edward Burne-Jones, the famous artist, is of Welsh extraction. He is Rudyard Kipling's uncle. Burne-Jones is almost entirely self-taught, and nearly all his pictures are restricted in colour to curiously varied tones of bluiah purple and ruddy bronze. Usually his subjects are prac- tipsJly imaginative. To look upon he is a pallid- faced, dreamy-eyed man, and well over 6Q years, Fr Hauwr, a Sunday school magazine pub- lished for the use of the Baptist denomination by Mr Jenkin Howells, Aberdare, for April, con- tains a portrait and biography of the Rev W. Jones (Ap Rhys), of Newport, who recently published an excellent biography of the late Rev. Evan Thomas, Newport. Mr Jones is a native of Duffryn Clwyó, Merionethshire, and an alumnus of the Pontypridd (now Cardiff) Baptist College. The Right Honourable Lord Swansea has con- sented to be enrolled an honorary member of the Loyal T. H. Griffiths Lodge, Wales Unity of Oddfellows, held at the Old Prince, Graig, Morriaton, of which lodge the late Lord Swansea was an honorary member up to his death. Lord Swansea has also expressed a wish to become an annual subscriber to the funds of the lodge, which is in a very prosperous position, both as regards finance and membership. An ejection of a county councillor will take place on Thursday to fill the vacancy paused by the elevation of Mr T. 11;. R Hughes, of Neuadd, t* the aldermanic chair. The district comprises the Lianwnen and Silian parishes, inciting Lampeter extra urban. There are two can- didates in the held, yig., Mr Edward Owep Jones, of Llwynygroes, solicitor, Churchman and Liberal, and Mr Joseph Price, of Gwacoed, Lampeter, farmer, Qalvinistio Methodist and Conservative. Mr J. F. Cæsar-he is by birthright a Julius Caesar of an old English family of that name- has besn appointed Traffio Agent to the Severn Navigation Commissioners, A better man could not have been found for the position. His earlier experience as a traffic manager was gained in the employment of Messrs W. Johnston and Co,, ot the Johnston Steamship Line, sailing from Liver- pool. Of late years he has been the right-hand man of Mr Robert Johnston, of the Victoria Wharf, on the Ely river. Mr Caesar—Julius, if you please—was an indefatigable worker in col- lecting and arranging the facts which Mr Johnston enumerated in the reports in favour of a Harbour Trust for Cardiff. A new local composer has made bili appearance in the person of Mr Sydney H. Rees, of Cathays, two of whose productions have been sent to us. The one is a sacred song entitled, "Eventide," the words being taken by permission from Hymns, Ancient andt Modern," while the other is a bass song called The Mystery of the Sea." There is in each the evidence of a fresh and graceful fancy, and the power of producing sweet and agreeable melody, but the music is rather of areminiseent than an original character. There is in it, however, sufficient to warrant the expectation that the composer will be heard of again by his offering to the public larger and more ambitious works. The pieces named have been sung locally with a considerable measure of success. The Welsh landlords, despite the statements to the contrary, are willing to accept in a cordial spirit the understanding with the Royal Com- mission on Agriculture that the inquiry into their part of the kingdom shall be confined to agriculture. They dbjecb, however, strongly to being twice called over the coals with regard to their relations with their tenants. Unfortu- nately (says the London correspondent of a Man. chester Tory organ) the Welsh witness is apt to leb his tongue run away with him when he has a chance of talking, and it may well be the case that the whole system of Welsh land tenure will be dragged into the inquiry. Mr Shaw Lefevre makes a reasonably impartial chairman, but hardly a firm one. Complaiuts are made by several of his colleagues that he might curtail the loquacity of witnesses, The absence of Mr Chaplin will deprive the Commission of an expert whose questions are invariab y to the point. The death took place on Sunday of the Rev, Richard Brown, Old Hall, Llanidloes, from an attack of influenza. The deceased was 83 years of age, and up to the time of his death had regularly preached in the Calvinistio Methodist chapels of the district. He was born at Llanid- loes in November, 1812, and was the oldest minister of the Calvmistic Methodist Connexion. He was ordained in 1838, his first pastorate being at Llanmarbin, Monmouthshire, but be removed to North Wales, and, in company with John Elias, preached at the General Association at Bala, and by his death the last of the preachers who took part in that association has passed away. Some years afterwards he took over the superintendent- ship of the Liverpool City Mission, whsre he had about 25 missionaries under his caie. He reo inained in Liverpool for 17 years, and during that > time published 17 works, one of the moat popular of them baing" Byways of the Bible." When be left Liverpool he retired from aotive work in the ministry, and went to reside at Llanidloes, He was a well-known figure iin the < district, and only a fortnight before his death-preached three sermon* the sams da".

NEWS IN BRIEF. The city of Melbourne has lost 40,000 inhftbi* tants in two years a.nd a half. The collection of lace belonging to-the Princess Of Wales is valued at £30:000. The eggs of the Bahama cuckoo are held at per set by dealers in birds' eggs. In the year 1400 English horses, suitable for cavalry, were to be had for £2 each. Mr Justice Chitty, Lord Esher, and Mr Justice Denman were all members of University eights. When Lord George Hamilton was ab Harrow he was supposed to be the best-looking boy of his day. The late king of the New England gipsies, who was buried the other dav, left an estate valued at £20,000- The Maine House of Representatives has passed a resolution making Abraham Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday. A brilliant reception has been given by the Art Club of Philadelphia in honour of Mr and Mrs Beerbohm Tree. Black teas yield to boiling water 31 to 41 per cent., and green teas from 40 to 48 per cent. of their total weight. The total amount of beer drunk in the world during 1893 is estimated by a, German statistician at 4,500,000,000 gallons. Between 700 and 800 negro families recently arrived at Ilahualila, Durango, Mexico, from the United States as colonists. Miss Florence Hollister Dangerfield, the second woman to be admitted to the bar of New York city, was recently sworn in. An expert oculist has been appointed to teat the eyesight of all conductors, engineers, and brakesmen on the Canadian Pacific lines. At no previous boat race has the number of rosettes sold been so small, and even the display of colours was exceptionally scanty. In order to foster the butter trpde the Canadian Government has offered to buy the winter butter made by its citizens for shipment to England, Preparations are already in active progress in Moscow for the twelfth International Medical Congress, which is to take place in that city in 1897. The Channel Squadron has arrived at Gibraltar from Las Palmas. The vessels will remain there for a week, and will then proceed -to Vigo and Portsmouth. It is reported that the Moorish Government has purchased the establishments belonging to the English company at Cape Juby for the sum of 1,250,000 francs. The line through Bt. Catherine's Tunnel, Gujld. ford, has been restored, and all trains are now running between London, Portsmouth, and God- alming as usual. Chili proposes to try the experiment of State management of railways. The Government has announced its iptention of buying up aU the existing roads. The German postal authoiities say that up to Monday over 1,000 parcels and 200,000 letters and postcards bad arrived for Prince Bismarok on the occasion of his birthday. Glass is the most perfectly elastio substance in existence. A glass-plate kept under pressure in a bent condition for five-and-twenty years will return to its exact original form. Steel comes next. French footballers are to pay a visit to London during Easter week for the purpose of playing a match with Mr A. Roston Bourke's London Eleven on the ground of the London Caledonians at Caledonian Park. M. Maurice Boucher has finished his transla- tion of all the songs found in Shakespeare. They will be published shortly. It will be interesting to learn how "Full Fathom Five" aud Where the Bee Sucks are rendered in French. It is stated, with every show of authority, that after a rest of several months Mr Speaker Peel will give up a good deal of his time to finishing a volume of Parliamentary memoirs, the rough notes of which he has long been putting together. For a long time it was held that the railway was not a safe or dignified mode of travelling for Royalty, and it was not until June 18th, 1842, that her Majesty the Queen made her first railway trip from Windsor to Paddington op the Great Western Railway. The Queen has been in excellent health sinpe her arrival at Cimiez, and seems to like the place very much, being able to lead a quieter and more restful life than at Florence last year, when there was a succession of Royal visitors and of func- tions which proved fatiguing. Whist is a favourite game with Queen Victoria, and many years' practice has rendered her an expert iq this Tpastime. No book on whist is pub- lished that the Queen does not read carefully, and her opinion as to its merits is of value, in the judgment of experts who know her game. The Institution of Civil Engineers now consists of 1,862 members, 3,687 associate members, and 17 honorary members, all being corporate mem- bers under the by-laws besides which there ara attached to it 356 associates and 816 students, representing a total of 6,737 of all classes—being an increase of 180 in the past year. Despite the more favourable reports respecting the cqndition of the Duke of York's health, it is stated, upon unimpeachable authority," that the danger of a relapse is by no means paab, Âa. a matter of fact, although it haa been stated bis Royal Highness has suffered from intluenga, he has had a slight attack of pleurisy. The Local Government Board has issued a memorandum with respect to the powers and duties of parish councils and parish meetings with respect to rights of way, roadside wastes, com- mons, village greens, and recreation grounds, which is supplementary to the memorandum on the same subject issued in January last. The various biographers of the late Admiral Alcester have omitted to mention two distinctions achieved by him. In 1883 he received the Freedom of the City, together with a Sword of Honour; and shortly aherwards the Grand Master, the Prince of Wales, conferred on him the distinguished post of Grand Warden of the English Freemasons. On the 201,h May SO years will have elapsed since Sir John Franklin left Greenhithe on his ill- fated expedition. There will be commemorative meetings in London in May, and at Edinburgh in June. On the 2nd June Franklin touehed at Stromness, in Orkney, the lasb British port he and his companions ever saw. Arctic relics, photographs, and objeots relating to Polar ex- ploration will be exhibited at both meetings. The Church in Wales (says the World) has sustained a heavy loss in the death of Chancellor Woods, of Llandaff, who graduated in the same class hst at Oxford with Mr Gladstone and the late Lord Sherborne. He was one of Dr. Pugey's earliest pupils in Hebrew, and when chaplain at Vienna he translated from the German into English the leading dictionary (at that time) of the Fatherland. A railway clerk will f' book" eight hundred passengers an hour; in the days when he had really to book t4am.ta write their names in a book—ho would have thought the eight hundred a good day's work. The saving of labour hai been enormous, and, unlike most inventions, the ticket remains much as it was at first. It is stiU numbered and dated, as it was then, and its only changes have been in colour and the words printed on it. The injuries received by Lady Augusta, Boylft Lord Glasgow's daughter, in a fall from her hors4 while riding, are much more serious than was first believed, and it is feared her leg will have tc be amputated. Lady Augusta is a handsoro4 girl, not yet nmeteen, anel has mdQ, bar dóbul since her father was appointed Governor of New Zealand. She is an excellent rider, and it. i* not yet quite understood how the apcidenfc took place. Among the eccentricities of Harriet Beeohei Stowe is said to have developed in her old age a detestation of all reference to her famous hoofa Uncle Tom's Cabin." Nor can Lewis stand much allusion to his books in public. he arose in the midsb of a dinner-party whe" Alice in the Locking-Glass was being talked I about and left the table. The writer had the from the late Alien Havers, the artist, who I present at the time. There is a survivor, after all, of the 420 eouls thab composed the crew of the lost Regente, the Spanish crum-r whose fate is still a mystery, His name is Pablo Fernandea. 6 took too much wine at Tangier, and missed bi* ship. His mother lives at Carthagena, and :& thought him lost with the rest, until she receive" a letter from him the other day. The sin 0 Pablo Fernandez did him supreme service, under the circumstances, he will think lightly the punishment he has iucurred for breaking bl. leave. Lord and Lady Bute have left Dumfries øQqlc Ayrshire, after a residence of two months, House of Falkland, Fifeshire, where they stay until they come to town for the season beginning of May. Lord Bute purchased «»* Falkland estate in 1887 from Mr Tyndal Brutse* I and has ever since been engaged in excavating and restoring the ruins of the ancient cas'i^ where the Duke of Rothesay was starved to by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, in 1 "The adjoining palacg was a hunting James V., Queen Mary, and James VL Scotland, and its large chapel has been careW restored by Lord Bute, whose own house_^ modern Gothic edifice on, the* edgeof „,||<r glen, and is surrounded by very beaufllful-gcøaø —f H World.