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OLD SWANSEA THEATRE. We are publishing weekly a series oj Sketches (by Dafydd Grrent) of The Old Swansea Theatre, the only playhouse in South Wales which may be said to have a history. One of the Sketches will deal with Edmund Kean's toilsome tramp from Birmingham to Swansea with his young tofe-a powerful picture of the hardships of a strolling player's life. Another prominent figure will be Andrew Cherry, author, actors and manager, who engaged Edmund Keav/i Sketches toiU also be given of < Charles Matheivs, the Rlder, the Macreadys (son and father), Pugin, the scenic f ainter (father of the great Gothic architect), Paul Bedford, and other more or less famous people who have been connected with the (Jld Swansea house. The series will comprise five articles, one of which appear EACH WEDNESDAY. The first article was given on January 1st. The LONDON OFFICES of the South Wales Daily News are at 46, Fleet-street (opposite Fetter-lane), where Advertisements are received up to 4.30 p.m. for insertion in the following day's issue. The South Wales Daily News may be obtained immediately after the arrival of the 10.46 train at the Offices, 46, Fleet-Street at Messrs W. H. Smith and Sons' Bookstall. Paddington Station at Messrs ETerett and Son's, 17. Royal Exchange and at Messrs Everett a nd Son's. Bells Buildings, Salisbury-square, Fleet-street.
MONDAY. JANUARY 20.1896.
MONDAY. JANUARY 20.1896. WELSH LIBERAL UNITY. H WELSH Liberal unity," the Tory enemy will no doubt scoffingly retort, with flip- pant scorn and sneer "why it is 'the thing that never was on land or sea,' and never will be." Well, viewing the surface only of Welsh political things, we must confess with sorrow and shame as honest journalists that the painful and discrediting, might we not say discreditable wrangling and uproar at the annual meetings of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation at Newport on Thursday were not hopeful or encouraging signs for the future unity of Welsh Liberalism. But we believe with LONGFELLOW that "things are not what they seem," and cherish an I abiding faith in the smutd an-i solacing truth, which has been the sheet anchor of the world's hope throughout the ages, that true and honest men permeated with deep con- victions, and imbued with love and loyalty for the great principles they hold' in common, although fighting for a period on different or even diverse lines, for those great principles will gradually draw closer and closer together and adhere at length in unity, attracted by their common allegiance and love for the same great vital faith. An earnest progre&sive party, whether social, religious, or political, whilst striving loyally to reach the same common goal, will often differ as to tactics and modes of procedure. It is only a stagnating party, a party of stand stillism and inaction, that never dispute about their direction and their modes of action. What is more uni- formly and unbrokenly quiet than death ? men do not dispute about methods of move- ment in sleep. But Welsh Liberals when discussing questions of policy ought never to forget social propriety, and should never descend to rude vulgar retorts and un- mannerly personalities. Such deplorable exhibitions of temper and passion as were shown at the Newport meetings not only give the political enemy ample reason to blaspheme, but it damages and degrades Welsh Liberalism in the es- teem of friendly outsiders and if such scenes are to be repeated, every self-respect- ing Liberal will, for the sake of his own reputation, abstain from attending the party meetings. We are not indulging in exaggeration, we believe, in affirming that those unruly scenes at the Newport meet- ings will retard the progress of Liberalism in South Wales for years. Not only all the probabilities, but the replies to all the in- quiries we have yet been able to make justify this conclusion. It was said in an article in these columns on Friday morning, which commented on the deplorable outbreaks at the Thursday meetings, that 44 It is not our intention in this article to apportion the blame, or to say on which side the grave culpability rests Neither will we apportion the blame in the present article, not because we have not very definite opinions as to which side caused the lamentable uproar and confu- sion, but because, despite all that has hap- pened, we still cherish the very confident and cheering hope that the hostile minority party will loyally return to the ranks and yield, on the questions of policy and method, to the vote and voice of the majority. Surely South Wales Liberals— we speak thus generally so as to avoid every possible cause of offence-have not lost their senses Welshmen as a whole are credited with a profound love and reverence for the Bible, and the sacred text-book ot their religion tells them that The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention," for when it is once let out it will be almost impossible to stop it, or to forecast the evil results it will produce. The same book says "Now I beseech you mark those who cause divisions amongst you and avoid them." These are sound, practical, common sense maxims, and sound, practical, common sense persons practice and pursue them. It is only by obeying these maxims that unity of action for the common good can possibly be secured and without unity South Wales Liberalism will be as a rope of sand. If every individual Liberal, or any or every section of Liberals, persistently and obstinately determine to carry out their own individual and sectional views without any regard for and in utter defiance of the voice and vote of the majority, then the sections and the individuals will be doing their utmost not only to destroy South Wales Liberalism as a commanding political factor, but to paralyse and to bring to shame the political principles they profess to love. The South Wales Daily News has with unbroken consistency ever advocated the right of the majority to prescribe the policy and the method of political action and in an article in our issue this day week, that opinion was emphasised with almost tedious iteration, in view of the then approaching meetings at Newport. When a political party disagrees as to methods of policy. its unity of action can only be secured by one of two methods either the majority must yield to the minority, or the minority must yield to the majority. There is no third course possible. Which of these two courses is the most seemly, the most equitable, and the most in accordance with order, decency, and good sense, will not cause any difference of opinion amongst ^rational men. A two-fold and most significant com- mentary on this text was given at Newport on Thursday. There were two main ques- tions which divided the meetings one as to the appointment of an honorary secretary or of a paid Secretary to the National Council, the other as to apportioning Wales into four Divisions or Federations, subordinate to that National Council. A division on each of these two questions was taken. The party which secured a majority on the first division were in a minority on the second division. But on the first division the minority party, amongst which were the principal leaders of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation, at once and without attempting further discussion, yielded to the expressed will of the majority. On the second division that majority was turned into a minority. How did that majority when it became a minority act ? Did they yield implicit obedience, as their fellow-Liberals had yielded, to the majority vote 1 With deep regret we are compelled ts state that they did not. but violently clamoured and protested, and at the close of the afternoon meeting held a private meeting of their own, at which they denounced the pro- ceedings at the public meetings, and even so far forgot public decency and manly honour as to cheer uproariously a scandalous imputation upon the honesty of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Executive and officials that they had packed the public meetings so as to obtain a victory. It was an unpardonable accusation, pre- ferred without a shadow of pretence for it and preferred not only at that private meet- ing of the miuority party, but repeated at a public meeting twenty-four hours subse- quently, and after personal disappointment and angry passion had ample time to cool. How can Liberalism ever be- come a united and dominant political power in the Principality when scandalous accusations such as these can be preferred against honest and honourable Welsh Liberals—every whit as honost and as honourable, to say the very least, as those who prefer the charges and as those who thoughtlessly cheer them—and can be tossed recklessly upon the winds to the serious damage and discredit of Welsh Liberalism, and for the delectation and rejoicing of the political foe. We say no more to-day on this unpalatable and grievously-humiliating matter, but simply hold up the mirror that a certain class of Welsh Liberals might study the present- ment of themselves as reflected from their own political action.
HOISTING SECTARIAN SIGNALS…
HOISTING SECTARIAN SIGNALS OF DISTRESS. I THE allied Church, Roman Catholic, and Tory party are uncomfortably uneasy and disturbed at the gathering clouds which are ominously threatening their banded League, and their contemplated raid on the pockets of the long-suffering taxpayers and rate- payees. Although Xtng SAJUSBV&Y andJus ecclesiastical henchmen, together with his son, Viscount CRANBORNE, the rising hope of Ritualistic Churchmen, and his nephew, Mr BALFOUR, the day star of philosophic Toryism, have promised the strangely assorted medley of Protestant Church and Roman Catholic dignitaries, and of nondescript Tories from straitlaced Pharisees down to Anythingarians, the help of all the King's horses and all the King's men, to assist Sectarianism in its subtle attempts to dip its hands still further into the taxpayers' money—and into the rate- payers, too, if the ratepayers will kindly oblige King SALISBURY by going to sleep for awhile and leaving the strings of their purses untied—the ecclesiastical and Tory party are decidedly not happy. They fear that they will have to suffer the proverbial slip betwixt the cup and the lip, which has proved so ofttimes disastrous to worthier and nobler causes than that which they champion. The report which has been in whispered circula- tion for weeks that some of the King's men are restive, and will certainly become rebellious if any Sectarian raid is proposed by Lord SALISBURY upon the pockets of the ratepayers, is now currently believed and deplored in the inner circles of rampant Toryism, beneath whose portals no prying, inquisitive Radical is ever permitted to enter. The Tory Manchester Courier, for long years the prophet of Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, and. to whom appertains the doubtful honour of proclaiming him to be the "coming man, is credited with occasionally receiving from its London correspondent inklings of probable Govern- ment issues, gleaned from behind those Tory curtains which inexorably shut out the gaze of outside worlds. From inside that sacred Tory Mecca, the London correspondent of the Courier sends a significant revelation which was published in Saturday's Courier. There are rumours in quarters exceptionally well informed," writes the Courier's London correspondent, that a difference has arisen in the Cabinet with regard to the aid which is to be given to the Voluntary Schools." King SALISBURY, we are informed, in particular, is declared to be in favour of Rate aid personally." We had gathered this fact months ago from Lord SALISBURY'S speeches and that there were dissatisfac- tion and differences in the Cabinet on the matter we inferred from a number of small incidents which, like straws thrown up to see how the wind blows, indicated the direction of the current. We were satisfied that some of the King's men would refuse to march through Coventry" at the heels of Lord SALISBURY on such an issue—the King's horses could be readily held within the course of obedience by stringent curb and rein — but we are none the less obliged to the Courier London correspondent, who has admission behind the scenes, for making the fact more distinctly evident. He tells us that the opposition to Lord SALISBURY'S pro- posals to tax the ratepayers fur the support of Sectarian Schools is headed by the Duke of DEVONSHIRE and Mr CHAMBERLAIN, who decline to assent to anything more than an additional grant from the State. This is considered as certain to be inadequate by the supporters of the Voluntary schools." Hence these Sectarian tears, and the frantic speed with which Mr BALFOUR hastened from Manchester to Chatsworth on Wednes- day night, after the tiresome labours of a busy day and evening, on an unexpected visit to the Duke of DEVONSHIRE," as the Manchester Courier London correspondent naively puts it, in his somewhat interesting communication. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE and Mr CHAMBERLAIN have not as yet, we are gratified to find, lost all their former Liberalism, through those evil communica- tions which corrupt (political)good manners.
NEW WINDSOR DOCK.
NEW WINDSOR DOCK. MR FORREST A PROMOTER. CARDIFF'S IMPORT TRADE. SCHEME TO BE STRENUOUSLY. PUSHED FORWARD. Public attention in Cardiff, and in the district surrounding that port, 19 being directed, now that the more important scheme of a new main line is out of the way, to the proposed Windsor D >ck, both because of the large addition it will make to coal shipping facilities and because of the special provision that will be made to serve the requirements of that unpor- trade which it is so desirable to cultit vate. The new dock will be in the most convenient and accessible position both as regards water approach and railway service, in the latter respect having a direct run for traffic from the Taff Vale Company's main line at Penarth Junction. A well-sheltered entrance right inside Penarth Head will lead through deep water, and the dook will take the largest vessels afloat, no interference of any kind being made with the navigation. Mr R. Forrest has joined the promoters, and hilI narrie will be included in the reprint of the Bill. This may be accepted as indication that the Windsor influence is at the back of the enterprise, and the face is the more noteworthy on accounts of Mr Forrest being one of the directors of the Barry Company. The scheme will be energetically pushed through the legislative stage, and should powers be obtained will certainly be constructed," its cost being approximately stated at £650,000. Should the Taff Vale Company, as is anticipated, undertake the working, the initial outlay for appliances, etc.. will be lessened materially. Mr Beasley, general manager of the Taff Vale Railway, has been appointed secretary to the promoters. There is a strong determination on the part of these gentlemen to make vigorous effort for developing the import trade, and to that end all needful provision in the shape of warehouses, appliances, etc., will be furnished. The favour- able position which can be established as against Liverpool with regard to railway rates upon curtain classes of goods—as exemplified in the aotion before the Railway Commissioners some time ajto-will be made the very most of, so that the development of the town as a great importing centre may bp fnllv achieved. ENGINEERS' ESTIMATES. #' Sir Alexander M. Rendel, C.E., and Mr George T. Sibbering, C.K., have prepared the Parlia- mentary estimates of the cost of constructing the proposed Windsor Dock and the railways and other works connected therewith at Cardiff. The total cost of all the works connected with this scheme JE659 308. of which the dock works will co-t £504,080; the embankments or sea walls, £30 160 the two piers, £39,600; and the two railways, £85,558. The details if the dock works show that the cost of £504.080 is made up of the following items :—Earthworks on the Penarth Flats, £86,000; masonry and concrete, £294.000; ballasting quays, £5,000; capstans, moorings, buoys, and mushrooms £4,000; accumulator, house, and pipes. £8,000; gates, slnices, and machinery. £54.000; copper dam, contingencies, £45700: tnd the acquisi- tion of 69 acres of "laud," £1,380, The embank- ments or sea-walls above mentioned are intended to reclaim the portions of the 69 acres of the Penarth Flats required for the dock. The embankments will occupy an additional 9 acres 3 roods of the Flats, which is estimated to erst £350. The balance of the total cost of £30,160 i uuvde up of earthworks (205 000 cubio yards), :£20,500; pitching Rlopes, £6,600; and contin- gencies, £2 710. The two piers, which will commence respectively at the termination of the sea walls will be 135 yards and 85 yards in length respectively. The longer of the two piers will cost £23 600, and the The total length of the two railways will be 1 mile 7 fur- longs?7 chains, and will connect the dock with the railway of the Penarth Company, As is already known, the promoters of this dock are nominally an independent company, but it wiU hard'v he denied that the real promoters are the Taff Val., Railway Company. It may, however, be stated incidentally that the eneineers above- named signed these estimates in the presence of two viz.. the Parliamentary agent to the Taff Vale Railway Company and the clerk to the solicitors to the sam* company.
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THE BUTE BILLS. .
THE BUTE BILLS. STRAIGHT TALK. WHAT THE "RAILWAY NEWS" SAYS. "A MONSTROUS ABUef RHYMNEY AMALGAMATION. Referring to the two Bills to be promoted next Session by the Bute Docks Company, the Railway News states:— So extraordinary are the objects and scope of these Bills, that it would be difficult to treat their promotion in a serious spirit if the Bute Docks Company had not already persuaded Parliament to invest it with powers not enjoyed, or even asked for. by any other dock company in the kingdom. But, while we believe that no Committee is likely to pass these Bills with the facts before them, we think it our duty to take care that. the facts are made known. The Bute Docks (Cardiff) Bill, shortly put, is a Bill for closing one of the most ancient and efficient waterways in the country and converting the same into a railway. In speaking of the Bute Docks Company, we are really referring to the Marquis of Bute—that great landowner, who already, by means of his docks, his vast mineral properties, and, as would now appear, his canals, has become at once the most wealthy and the most powerful individual in the Principality, and who, now in the guise of the Bute Docks Com- pany, seeks to constitute himself a railway com- pany with the object, not of creating traffic, or of providing outlets for traffic which do not now exist, but of abstracting traffic from neighbouring railways to which the trade of his docks prac- tically owes its existence. Including a line into the Monrcouthshirecoalfi-ld, he is seeking powers to construct no less than 49 miles of new railway and secure running powers over 236 miles belong- ing to other railway companies in Glamorgan and Monmouth, besides, by the Amalgamation Bill, endeavouring to acquire possession and become the owner of some 58 other miles belonging to the Rhymney Company. Thus, not content with closing a waterway and destroying its trade, and promoting railways which can be ot no real value to anybody, but which must bring him into direot antagonism with existing linos as every point, he seeks to compel those lines to afford him facilities for taking traffic from every colliery and works which his own lines will not reach. To grant such powers to a railway com- pany, constituted as such, would bean unheard of proceeding in Parliamentary history, to confer them upon a bona fide dock company would be an intolerable interference with vested interests, already none too valuable, but to invest a private individual with the powers which the Marquis*of Bute is seeking would bo nothing less than a monstrous abuse. The Bute Docks it seems do not pay-or so it is alleged. But the dividends declared by the Bute Docks Company by no means represent the sum totai of the Marquis of Bute's iucome from the Bute Docks. He is paid in the shape of royalty a halfpenny per ton upon the many millions of tons of coal exported from the docks in addition to 10 per cent. of all wharfage dues, and a large pro- portion of the rents of property let on lease or otherwise. Add these to his dividends, and the i-noble M-irquis may well be content with the total thus arrived at, especially as the indirect benefits derived by him and his estate are believed to be colossal. The sole object which his predecessors sought to promote by constructing the Cardiff Docks was the development of tbo Bute Estate. Witness after witness has told Parliamentary Committees that before the docks were con- structed land in Cardiff, belonging to the Marquis, was considered" well let" at from 03 to 153 an acre, whereas after their construction B150 to 9175 per acre per annum could be got for the same land. The managers of the docks circulate widely a pamphlet which tells all who care to read that a little more than 50 years before the late Lord Bute succeeded his grand- father, it is on record that the large estate of Dowlais was let for 99 years at a rental of JB26 per annum 1" What is it now ? The Bute leases are not remarkable for liberality to the tenant, and they cover some 25,000 acres of mineral property, which produce millions of tons of coal per annum, the greater part of which is bound to be shipped at the Bute Docks. If the enormously enhanced value of this property does not make the docks remunerative, what may be said of the Marquis's property in Cardiff? A short time since the Cardiff Corpora- tion approached the Marquis with a view to acquiring half an acre of land upon which to Meet a new town hall, and the price put upon the land, which one of the local newspapers dubbed a swamp," was at the rate of 230,000 an acre, but for the docks it would have been dear at as many pence. Were the facts otherwise, however, and were it as clear as the noon-day sun that the Bute Dooks did not pay, we should still contend that there is no duty cast upon Parliament or the country to make Lord Bute's investments remunerative by empowering him to close a canal and invade the territory of his neighbours, or conferring rights not enjoyed by any other individual. THE RHYMNEY AMALGAMATION. It is certain that effect will never be given to both schemes even if both are passed and should the Canal Conversion Bill come on first and be fortunate enough to pass, the chances are that we shall hear very little of the other, or of the guarantee which the Rhymney shareholder is supposed to get under its provisions. We have heard a great deal in recent years of the determination of Mr Boyle, the chairman of the Rhymney Company, to obtain somehow, from somewhere, a guarantee of 10 per cent, for his ordinary shareholders. But what of the so-called guarantee? Clause 16 of the Amalgamation Bill provides that on and from July 1st next, the holders of preference and ordinary stock of the Rhymney Company shall, inlieuof and in exchange for, Ruch stock held by them respectively, have issued and allotted to them such amount of preference and new stock called Rhymney Amalgamation Stock of the company as shall be equal in nominal amount to the preference or ordmary stock of the Khymney held by such holders respectively." At first sight this wuuld appear to give the holders of the new stock something like a tangible security, as they would have all free income at their back but later on (Clause 18) we find that the Marquis of Bote's Company retains power to place other preference stock in front of the amalgamation stock. It is true that by a plausi- ble show of fairness, additional preference stock, ranking before that held oy the Rhymney shareholders, can only, without their consent, be issued to the extent of one half of the nominal amount of ordinary stock or shares issued by the amalgamated concern after the amalgamation is complete; but there is nothing in the Bill to prevent the only ordinary shareholder, the Marquis of Bute, from increasing the amount of ordinary capital as he pleases, and therefore the amount of preference stock. The so-oalled guarantee is therefore nothing more than a preferred ordinary stock, liable to have prior charges placed over its head at the will of the one holder of the deferred stock, who might, if he chose, create such prior charges in his own favour So far from the Rhymney shareholders getting a guarantee from the dock, the Rhymney Com- pany's profits go to strengthen the security of the holders of the Bute Preference Stock, of whom there is at present only one-the Maiq u's of Bute. Were any disaster to happen by which the net earnings of the dock, supplemented by the Rhymney earnings, were reduced below the amount necessary to meet the claims of the debenture and preference holders, where would the Rhymney shareholder come in, be having denuded himself of every penny piece of profit made on his own undertaking ?
MERTHYR GUARDIANS.
MERTHYR GUARDIANS. SMALL-POX AND BREAD AND CHEESE. ANOTHER SCENE. On Saturday at a meeting of Merthyr Board of Guardians, Mr D. P. Davies presiding, it was reported that n third case of smallpox had occurred, the sufferer being a young married man, Price Rickett*, son of the caretaker at Pant Hospital, with whom he frequently came in contact. A case of supposed smallpox was reported also from Hirwain. Alderman Evan Lewis viewed with alarm the spread of the disease, and considered the officials of the fever hospitals should generally take the strictest precautions against the spread of contagion. As to the question of diet on Fridays a some- what acrimonious discussion took place, especially as to the difference proposed to be made for Roman Catholic inmates. Fish was advocated rather than bread and cheese by the Rev. Father O'Reilly, but Mr Wills said rather than have indifferently cooked fish it would be better to have bread and cheese. Alderman D. Davies whilst speaking on the subject was greeted with cries of Order," and the Chairman reproved Mr Wiliti for coming there to insult the chairman and everybody. Alderman Davies explained that lie thought if bread and cheese were not given to all it would increase the work to the extent that they might want to engage additional officers. Subsequently Alderman Davies asked if it oould not he arranged for bread and cheese to be given on Friday, so as to meet the weakness of their friends. (Uproar.) Mr Wills appealed to the chairman, and Mr Dan Thomas said it was saandalous. Further protests were volubly made, and upon order being restored, the Chair- man said he thought Alderman Davies had mentioned one word which he should withdraw. He was going to ask him to do that before, only they were all speaking at the time. Alderman Davies said if the chairman wished it he would withdraw. It was eventually agreed, upon the motion of Mrs D. M. Richards, that Saturday's meal of bread and cheaee be given on Friday to meet the point, and Friday's soup dinner to take place on Saturday.
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SMALL-POX IN SOUTH WALES.…
SMALL-POX IN SOUTH WALES. NEWPORT WORKHOUSE UNDER QUARANTINE. The Visiting Committee of the Newport Work. house reported to the Board of Guardians at their sitting at the Town Hall on Saturday that a case of smallpox had occurred at the Workhouse on Tuesday last, and that the case bad been removed to the Smallpox Hospital. All inmates who had come into contact with the patient bad been disinfected, the wards had also been disinfected, and the Workhouse had been put under quarantine. Dr. Macormack, Workhouse medical officer, also reported that arrangements had been made to revaccinate any of the inmates who were willing to undergo the operation. He also recommended that temporary hospital arrangements bemadoif necessary. Several members expressed the opinion that the Newport Sanitary Authorities should provide sufficient ao. commodation to deal with all cases in the borough. ) Dr. Macormack, however, statsd, on the authority of the Chairman of Newport Sanitary Committee and the Newport Medical Officer, that the Now. port Hospital was full. Dr. Paton, however, now informed the board a certificate had been given this morning for the admission of a case into the hospital, and that there was room for three more cases. Several patients in the hospital had almost recovered. Eventually the board decided to give a small committee plenary powers to deal with any further cases that might arise. SWANSEA. It appears that there are three cases of small- pox at Swansea. Two or three weeks ago a man, his wife, and httle girl came to Swansea from Llanelli'and went on to Aheravon, where the sickened for small-pox and was removed to tho hospital. The father returned to Swansea, where he developed the disease, and was taken to the fever hospital. The same day the sanitary offioer visited the house at which the man had stayed, ordered the other inmates to be vaccinated, and disinfected the house. One of the men lodging there changed his lodgings and went to the Strand, where he developed symptoms of small- pox, and his removal to the fever hospital was necessary. A week ago a third case developed in the Strand, and this patient was taken to the fever hospital. The authorities are taking every precaution, and it is hoped that the progress of the epidemic has been arrested.
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. FURTBEil CHARGES AGA!NST A CARDIFF AUCTIONEER. On Saturday at Cardiff Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder, Mr B. F. Williams, Q C,, further charges were heard against Frank Halford, a Cardiff auctioneer, who was yesterday found guilty on indictments of false pretences. In this instance Halford was charged in conjunction with Samuel Thomas Povey, a Forest of Dean publican, the allegations being that they, on April 9th and 29th of June of last year, unlawfully conspired and agreed together by divers false pretences to fraudulently obtain from Frank Herbert the sum of JB40, and from Henry John Willis the sum of J650, with intent to defraud. The same barristers were engaged in the case- viz., Mr Arthur Lewis and Mr Tudor Howell, M.P. (instructed by Messrs David and Evans) for the prosecution, and Mr Benson (instructed by Mr Lewis Morgan) represented Halford Povey being undefended. Mr Benson, before the opening of the case, raised a point of law. On the previous day the jury, at the direction of the Recorder, returned a verdict of "Not guilty" on the charge of obtaining money by false pretences from Willis and Herbert therefore, Mr Ben- son contended that the second indictment could not be proceeded with. Counsel then quoted authorities showing it had been decided; that if a man had been found not guilty on an indictment he could not be re- charged with the same offence. 011 the evidence necessary for the fir3t indictment could Halford have been convicted on the first charge ? Mr Benson argued that he could, as he was charged as a principal, and could have been convicted of aiding and abetting, or procuring. The learned Recorder said the evidence neces- sary to convict Halford of false pretences would not be sufficient to conviofi him of conspiracy and after further argument overruled the objec- tion, declining at the same time to reserve a case on the point. In opening the case Mr Arthur Lewis said the men were charged with conspiring together to defraud. It was neces- sary he should establish in the mind of the jury an agreement to commit an unlawful offence. It was immaterial whether the offence was committed or was impossible of committal, provided the jury were satijfied that there was an agreement to do it. At the time of the alleged existence of the conspiracy, Povey was the lessee of the George Inn, Littledean, and Halford carried on the business of a public-house broker at Cardiff. He was advertising public-houses to let as well as for tenants. Through the medium of Halford they induced people to enter into agree- ments to take Povey's house, possession to be given at a certain date. They received and shared the deposit money, and by certain acts made it impossible for the persons to carry out the contract. This was effected by defer- ring the date of entering into possession, and as time was the essence of the contract the deposit was forfeited. Up to a certain time Povey was not a party in those cases, and there was no evidence to show that he was aware of what was going on. The complexion of things altered after a certain date, and he should show that they were acting together and that the money was divided. Frank Herbert, a horse dealer, of 30, North Church-street, said he entered into negotiations for the purchase of the George Inn, Littledean. The ingoing was £ 160, and witness having only J660 prisoner said he could arrange for the remaining 2100. Having seen the house he saw Mr Wintle, the owner of the property. He signed an agreement with Halford. paid £ 40 deposit, and arranged to enter into possession on May 1st. There was a blank space on the agreement sufficient for six or eight lines, and there were other blank spaces on the agreement. The ingoing price was altered from JB160 to 2200 without his knowledge, and he would not have paid the deposit had he known the ingoing was j6209. Halford ultimately told him he Could have possession on May 6th. Witness was examined at considerable length on numerous documents which were connected with the case. Defendant Povey, who defended himself, cross- examined witness at length to show the bona tide character of the negotiations between the two. Henry John Willis, a cooper, of Cardiff, said he got into communication with Halford over the George Inn, Littledean. He was told the ingoing would not he more than £ 125, and he paid j350 deposit. He had not received possession of the house, neither had his money been returned. James Williams, a coachman, of Ferndale, was another witness called for the prosecution. He entered into negotiations for the George Iun, but did not get the licence. Mr Francis Wintle, the owner of the house in question, proved giving Povey notice to terminate the tenancy of the house, and said he accepted Herbert as a tenant. Detective-Inspector Scott deposed to arresting Halford and taking custody of certain documents, among which was a letter book. Evidence proving Halford's handwriting having been given by the schoolmaster warder of the Cardiff Gaol, Mr Brnson submitted there was no evidencH of conspiracy. The Rficorder said he considered there was some evidence, but by no means a conclusive case. Mr Lewis said he was not deceiving himself. He knew his case was not a strong one, and if the jury thought there was insufficient evidence of a conspiracy he had no wish to go on. The Recorder, addressing the prisoner Halford, said he had behaved in a very cruel manner. It was a cruel thing to take money from persons of the class to wtjicli they b,,klo:iged-I)eople in the humblest position in life, who had saved up a little money, and who were induced to part with it on his representations. It was a particularly cruel thing to rob Mrs Pullen. She was a widow, he found how much money she had, and took it all. With regard to the conspiracy, there was no doubt that the two oases proved that day were only part of a system, Povey was sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment, and Halford, on each of the counts for false pretences and for conspiracy, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, the terms to be concurrent, This concluded the business of the Sessions.
LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT
LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT Thn Examiners met at Westminster on Satur- day for the first time for he purpose of receiving proofs of compliance with the Standing Orders. Among the Bills which passed this stage, and which were ordered to be reported to the House for first reading, were the Barry Railway Bill, which empowers the company to construct new railways in Glamorganshire, to exercise certain running powers, and to raise 2350,000. additional capital the Taff and Bargoed Junction Railway Bill, which empowers the construction of railways connecting the Llanoaiach branch of the Taff Vale Railway with the Taff-Bargoed branch of the Great Western and Rhymney Joint Railways, and the raising of 260,000 the Porthcawl Water Bill, which dissolves the Porthcawl 'Vatr Com- pany and reincorporates the members thereof with others, empowering them to maintain and continue tho Water Works, and to supply water within the parishes of Newton Nottage and Sker, and to ribise 220,000 eapital the Llanelly Harbour and Burry Navigation Commissioners' Bill, which empowers the Commissioners to con- struct a dock and new cub for the river Lliedi and other works, and to borrow for the purpose; and the Ystrad Gas and Water (Additional Water Works) Bill, which empower4 the raising of. £ 150,000 addigaiial bapits).
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The Marquis of Bute has been elected one of the vice-presidents of the Society of Biblical Archae- ology. The Herbert family, who will now inherit the Llanover and Abercarn estates, are Roman Catholics. Lord Mostyn will present the Llandundo Eisteddfod with a silver harp as a prize in one of the competitions. Mr Wynford Philipps is now in Venezuela looking after the interests of the commercial undertaking with which he is connected. Llanover is so called after St. Gover, one of the three primitive saints of Gwent. The three "saints" are Gover, Henwg, and Gwarawg. Show me your tongue," said a Rhondda quack, before your ills I heal." Quoth Jack No use no tongue can tell how deuced bad I feel." The Cywimrodorion Society propose issuing an annotated edition of Gildas as the first of its series of works in illustration of Welsh history and archaeology. A posthumous work of the late Rev. David Charles Davies, principal of Trefecca Theological College, has just been issued by Messrs Hughes and Son, Wrexham. His Honour Judge David Lewis is benefiting by his sojourn in Egypt. He left Philae last week for a journey up the hill to Wady Haifa. Alderman Walter Lewis is returning to Swansea. The editor of Geninen, the Welsh National quarterly review, says he has now discovered the missing manuscript of the late Gweirydd ap Rhys on the Gorsedd," and will publish it in an early issue. "He was looking for work when he died." This was a passage in a letter read at the meeting on Saturday of Merthyr Guardians by the clerk. The allusion, although sad, was, said he, an Irishism." A Sunday school teacher at Bridgend recently asked her class what was the meaning of Salem." None of the members of the class being able to give the answer, she exclaimed that Salem meant Peace." One lad with hazy ideas of the pronunciation of English words, and thinking she said Peas," asked if she meant split peas." The Rav. J. D. Jones, Elim, Carmarthen, has recently added to his many eisteddfodic victories by carrying off the prize at the Utica (U.S.A.) Eisteddfod for an essay on the subject: Civilisation in the 19oh Century." The author is rapidly winniug a foremos*) position amongst vernacular prose writers. Gweithiwr dystaw, gweithiwr da." The Llanover estate is four miles broad, and comprises about 5,000 acres. During the last eight years the late Lady was continually pur- chasing adjoining farms as they came into the market, and in that period the estate has conse- quently almost doubled in size. This does not include either the Abercarn estate or the Pontypridd property. Mr Charles Farley, who has just attained to the honourable position of alderman in Tenby County Council, was elected a councillor in 1893, taking the thtrd place. Three years later, without soliciting a single vote, ha was returned head of the poll, while his three former colleagues, who also sought re-election, received some 200 votes less and faded to get in. There existed a most affectionate bond of unity between the late Lady Llanover and members of her household. Mr Daniel Lewis, her Ladyship's butler, has grown grey in the service, having served Lady Llanover for the long period of 43 years, "and during the whole of that time," he assured our special correspondent, her Ladyhip and I never once quarrelled." The proposed South Wales Musical Festival at Cardiff is exciting a good deal of interest in Yorkshire. The Post, of Leeds, speaking with experience of the festivals of the county of broad acres, expresses surprise that nothing has yet been done in the way of raising the guarantee fund. The right occasion for starting the fund would seem to have been missed when the pubho meeting was held the other day in Cardiff. Whilst the South Wales Liberals were absorbed in their lively discussion at the Newport Tem- perance Hall on Thursday, Mr Tudor Howell, M.P., was engaged at the Town Hall hard by, calmly endeavouring to convince his Honour Judge Owen that an ex-Welsh member, Mr T. P. Price, had no right to any portion of the bank of the Usk below high water mark. The son of the eloquent Churchman gained his point and won his case. The work of restoring the Cynfaen Memorial Chapel, near Holywell (which was erected as a memorial to the late John Hugh Evans, Cyn- faen," of Liverpool), which was partially wrecked by lightning on the night of the 6th ult., has just been commenced. The chapel is built on the Penyball Mountain, which stands at an altitude of some 900 feet above the sea level, and the storm which wrecked 16 was one of the most terrifying ever experienced in the locality. Mr Herbert F. Clarke, writing in the Athenaeum this week in reference tothedeplorable condition of the gravo of Henry Vaughan, the Silurist, to which an American lady (Miss Guiney) drew attention some time ago, says I am glad to be able to state that the appeals made have not been in vain. Miss Morgan, of Brecon, and the Rector of Llansantffraed have taken the matter in hand the tombstone is to be repaired and the grave cleaned and kept in good order henceforth. At the request of Miss Gumey and with the consent of Dr. Grosart, I am about to send to Miss Morgan the subscriptions I have received, and it only remains to thank cordially all those friends who have contributed to the fund." "Moirion," writing to the "Byegones" of the Border Counties Advertiser, says :—I heard the following toast given in Carnarvonshire some years ago. The translation is-" Good health to us two—and to those two. If those two love us two as we two love them two, good health to us four. But if thore two do not love us two as we two love them two, put those two on one side and good health to us two Ipchyd da i ni'll dau Ao iddynt hw:v'¡( dwy Os ydynt nwy II dwy 'N'eiu caru ni'il dflu Fft 'r'ym II ¡'II dau 'Neti caru 'nhwy '11 dwy Iechyd da i ni'l! pedwar. 0* nad Yilt hwy'll dwy 'N'eiO earn ni'll dau Fd 'rVIn ni'll dau 'N"ll cam hwy'lI dwy 'Nhwy'll dwy 'r naill du Iechyd da i ni'il dau. A curious circumstance, which illustrates how the Welsh languoge springs up in the most unexpected place, is related by Colonel Ivor Herbert, the eldest grandson and one of the heirs of Lady Llauover. While in command of a battalion of Colonial troops in Ottawa, Canada, the gallant Colonel-who, by the way, speaks Welsh litiontly and is an ardent Cymro—took a fancy to one house in particular, and eventually decided to purchase it. He was told it had a most outlandish name, which no one seemed able to properly pronounce. Judge then of his surprise when he got the house to find that its name was a good old Welsh importation, Gorphwysfa And it was an ideal place of rest," buiifc upon a sunny spot commanding a glorious view of the river. It afterwards transpired that the original owner was a 'Vi!lsh settler, who having made his pile ereoted is for his home. The Welsh name brought the Colonel many Welsh visitors, and one of these, a man named Davies, he engaged as his gardener. Davies and the Colonel invariably conversed together in Welsh, a language which the Canadians could not identify, far less compre- hend. y
"COSMOS."
"COSMOS." When falls the journalist in daily strife, How few the tears that glisten on his grave Yet who, amid the vaned Ecenes of life. Displays more valour, proves himself more brave? Day after day some battle must be fought, Sn many evils are there in tho way. So many things the public must be taught Lost all should end in a disastrous fray. Cosmos Thy death wetli regret to hear, For thou hadst talent, morit that was great; With interest we read thy thoughts w!ii)>; here, They were so fresh, so fully up to date. Ofttimes we felt the poetry that ran Through every line that traversed woodjandjfield, And 'tis but ff-w descriptive writers can Within a column so much pleasure yield. Rest now Thy labour here was nobly done, s j And well deserved the bliss of endless peace So be it thine the joy that thou hast won I To taste in rapture that shall never oeaae. I SJLUBIAN.
, KEWS IN BRIEtf.
KEWS IN BRIEtf. Ships' bells in ancient times used to be blestsA A trial shipment of butter is now on its way from Melbourne to this country. About 3,000 camels are employed in the traffic to the mines in West Australia. The daughter of the Prime Minister of the Shans has a vegetable stall in the market. Lord Esher, thb Master of the Rolls, is at I present confined to the house with a severe cold. The Independent Labour party proposes to change its name into th Socialist Labour party. I According to the Standard our ships of to-day have no grave faults, and will not soon become obsolete. News has been received at Caloutta of the death of the Jamali of Lusbeyla, on the Peshawur frontier. The Tippcrary Sentinel refers to the Prime Minister as the jeering, swaggering, braggart I Salisbury." The Zulu in Natal is not allowed out at night after the curfew bell has rung without written I permission. The next election at the Royal Academy is fixed for the 19th prox., and four vacancies have to be filled. If there was ever a race of raideis upon this globe (says a correspondent of the Timet) it is the Transvaal Boers. Matthew Arnold once wrote The English have more in common with the French than with any other nation." I The post of Registrar to the Judicial Com- mittee of the Privy Council, worth £1,500 a year, will shortly be vacant. The English would prefer a permanent alliance with the United States to any other that could be suggested. -Spectator. The icefield which now practically blookades the port of Odessa, stretches seaward for a distance of nearly ten miles. Those who think that the Transvaal crisis is over live in a fool's paradise. It is only just bpgi nning. Saturday Review. Various diplomatic changes will shortly be effected in Europe of Plenipotentiaries represent- ing the South African Republic. In 1839, two years after the Queen's accession, the State paid £39,000 for the education of the people. Now it pays £9,000,000. "The great thing in the world," said Oliver Wendell Holmes, "is not so much where we stand as in what direction wo are moving." The Duke of York will take the chair at a dinner in aid of the funds of the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum for Necessitous Boys and Girls. The wood of the lime tree is used for the sounding-boards of pianofortes, as it does not warp under change of temperature or atmosphere. Transvaal," according to a remark made by a German, will henceforth be between England and Germany what Egypt is between England and France." Professor Moaso, of Turin, has shown that on the summit of Monte Rosa the rarefaction of the air may even cause a stoppage of the respiration dnring sleep. Temperance voters have been urged to abstain from taking any part in the Brixton election, as in the opinion of the Temperance Council the views of neither candidate are satisfactory. The Rev. W. Rogers, the well-known rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, who has been suffering from bronchitis and pleurisy for several weeks past, died peacefully on Sunday afternoon. The system of sweeps" is in strong vogue at Johannesburg, and on the occasion of a big race often reach immense dinimensions, £10,000 sweeps being nothing out of the way at a pound each subscriber. A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Mr Edmund Heathcote Thruston, of Pennal Tower, Machynlleth, and I Lucy, third daughter of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., M.P., of Bray ton, Carlisle. Mr Thomas E. O'Bnen, Lord-Lieutenant an6 Custos Rotulorum for the county of Limerick, died on Saturday night, at his residence, South Hall, Limerick. He was appointed some few years ago in succession to the late Lord Eml". As showing the phenomenal character of the present season, there can now be seen hay ilf, cock in a field in West Hill, Hessle, mown and made since Christmas, and in far better condition than much made in the abnormally wet season a few years ago. A Central News telegram says the Duke of Orleans while riding on Saturday at Mandrea with his brother-in-law, the Duke D'Aosta, and his sister, was thrown from his horse, which stumbled. Hts left shoulder was dislocated and his right foot hurt. A curious fact has been noticed about divers— they always wear thsir boots out at the toe. It shows that they do not walk upright, as they are always represented in pictures, but bending for- ward—in other words, tho bottom of the. sea is t not level, but slopes steeply. The Post Office officials for some time past have been energetic in their endeavours to stop the transmission by post of circulars and advertise- ments relating to foreign lotteries, and when received from abroad in open covers they are detained at St. Martin's rJ Grand. According to Kemp's Mercantile Gazette, the number of failures in England and Wales gazetted during the week ending January 18th was 85. Tho number in the corresponding week of last year was 89, showing a decrease of 4, being a net decrease in 1896, to date, of 9. The Press Association telegraphed ou Saturday: The Portsmouth Mail to-day states that a telegram was received at C >weslast nightby Captain Cairns from Lord Lonsdale directing that the preparation of the German Emperpr's yacht, the White Heather, should be stopped, as his Majesty will not be able to use her this spring. Ten cases of smallpox (several of them mild) having occurred at Oxford, the Vice-Chancellor has issued a notice calling attention, for the benefit of undergraduates who are down to the recommendation of the Corporation Sanitary Committee that adults not vaccinated for the past seven years should undergo re-vaccination. The Dangerous Trades Committee, consisting of Mr H. J. Tennant, M.P. (chairman), Mias Abraham, Dr. ThomM Oliver, and Captain Hamilton Smith, R.N., secretary, has been taking evidence at the Home Office during the past week, and also visiting flour mills, galvanis. ing works, electrical gpnerating works, and lithographic printing works. At the last meeting of tho Church Building Society, grants were made towards building the following new churches :—Bryncsthin St. Theo. dore, in the parish of St. Bride's Minor, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire, £100, and Ystrad Rhondda St. Stephen, near Pentre, JB150. Among grants paid for works completed was one for Pennar St. Patrick, near Pembroke Dock, for JB150. It is stated that the Rev. Dr. Pierson—who, ife wIn be remembered, was the clluse of 150 much dissension at the Metropolitan Tabernacle jusS after Mr Spurgeon's death, and who is now in England—will probably be invited to the pastorate of Westminster Cha-pf). London, vacant by the recent death of the Rev. W. Evans Hurndall, M. A. This church is the largest Congregational placoof worship in the Metropolis. The Press Association learns that Lord Zouche has offered the hving of Wiggonholt-with- Greatham, in Sussex, to the Rtv. George E. Jelf, Canon of Rochester Cathedral. Canon Jelf will retain his canonry, which, although of the nominal valuo of £1.000 a year, has, like all stipends connected with Rochester Cathedral, diminished by one-half owing to agricultural depression and the fall in the value of landed properties. A special Court, consisting of the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Wright and Kennedy, had before themonSaturdayan npplicationfqranorder absolute for the extradition of Frederiok Richard Galway. Mr Vaughan had previously ordered the prisoner to be surrendered to the Belgian authorities to be tried on a charge of receiving valuable securities knowing them to be stolen. The Divisional Court granted a rule nisi, which was now made absolute and extradition granted. The numerous band of workers identified more particularly with the business side of journalism have this evening given tangible form to a unanimous desire which existed among them to show in some manner their appreciation of the conspicuous geniality and commercial enterprise of Mr Walter Radciifri Horncastlo. Mr Horn. castle ""a recently given the honour of a Viscountcy of tho Portuguese Kingdom, in recognition of his services on the committee which took in hand the reception arrange- ments for the King's visit to London, and this has been seized upon as a fitting occasion for a little demonstration which shall express the sense of London and provincial newspaper managers of the persistent and courageous efforts of Mr Horuoastle in en- couraging by financial aid and expert advice the promotion of schemes, the announcement of which 10 the Press has resulted in a most substantial benefib to every newspaper of any standing in the United Kingdom. On the 13th of February therefore Mr Horncastle will be feted at ths Holborn Restaurant. The chairman will he Mr Charles Birchall, proprietor of the IAvtrpotk Journal of Commerce, and the company will be thoroughly representative of the commercial side of London and provincial newspapers, a large number of names having been already received from both within and outside the Metropolis.— London correspondent of the Irith Times (17th January).