South Wales Daily News

WHO WILL TEACH THE TEACHERS ? READERS of the "Antiquary will doubtless remember that Sir ARTHUR WARDOUR persistently contended that his ever accurate opponent MONKBARNS had no advantage over him in argument save in the trivial matters of facts and dates," and such like things. The trivial matters of facts and dates are, of course, too insignifi- cant for the consideration of that large class of talkers and writers who depend upon their imagination for their facts, and upon their memory for their arguments, as SHERIDAN tersely phrased it. That magnus Apollo of Fair Trade and Jingoism, Sir ELLIS ASHMEAD-B ARTLETT, once assured a laughingly sceptical House of Commons that the nearest and quickest route from our Indian Empire to Great Britain was through the Soudan. He had on a previous occasion delighted the House by demanding to I know why, during the Russo-Turkish War, the British Fleet had not been sent to the coasts of Poland to overawe Russia Poland being an inland country, and consequently having no coast line. But Sir ELLIS ASHMEAD-BARTLETT'S exploits in Geo- graphy pale and die into nothing- ness before the astounding achievements of that high and dry Tory and Jingo organ, the Irish Times. Writing about the Trans- vaal and its geographical positions, the Irish Times says:—"The Cape Colony as its southern headland centres in the famous Rock of Gibraltar, and is well-known to vessels bound for India or Australia. With- in the confines of this somewhat irregular, but still compact area of land, the territory now on everybody's lips, the Transvaal, is situated." Prodigious as DOMINIE SAMPSON has it. We know not which would be most astonished —the Transvaal, which is more than fifteen hundred miles away inland from Table Mountain, the Cape headland, at being transported from ics African home into Spain, or Old Gib," as sailors and pas- sengers to and from the Mediterranean lovingly call" The Rock," at being exiled to confront the stormy waters of the South Atlantic as they battle with the onrush of the Indian Ocean. What are the School Boards thinking about that they have not taught editors of and writers for news- papers the elementary lessons of Geography ? We forget, however there are no Board Schools in Ireland.

By a vote of 27 to 7 the Cardiff Union Board of Guardians rejected the ill-advised recommendation of their Vaccination Com- mittee that they should appoint six men to make a house-to-house visitation and inquire for unvaccinated persons. The rejection is very satisfactory. Such house-to-house inquiries have in them the risk of arousing panic, and also the substantial evil of causing Cardiff to be declared by foreign Governments an infected port," with the result that Cardiff-laden vessels would sustain the loss of being subjected to quarantine. In addition, there is the graver risk that the re- sponsible health authorities would trust to vaccination and not give every attention to sanitation. Remembering what does happen in Cardiff-the very serious over- sight when first cholera was raging on the west of the Continent, the neglect of the slums, the existence of sewers that killed men sent: to cleanse them, the dilatory tactics upon registration of seamen's boarding-houses, and many other shortcom- ings—it is most impolitic to leave the Health Committee even a shadowof reason forfailure to give strict attention to municipal cleanli- ness, which is the great preventive of disease. Many members of the Committee are&edulous in attention to duty, and we may hope that these will stir their colleagues to searching investigation and thorough cleansing of the foul spots in the town. The ineffective proposal of the Guardians' Committee having been rejected, we trust that the Corporation's Health Committee will at once get to work, for the danger is real. Although we have opposed the visitation project, the opposition has been due to recognition of the need for general precautions, and to a desire to obviate sole reliance upon one agency. The Health Committee of the town have done excellently thus far by prompt isolation and disinfection they have stamped out the disease in three-fourths of the places where it has appeared. They should now go further, and exercise their full powers of inspection and purification. The new bye- laws give them additional power over the boarding-houses (the common lodging-houses they can always deal with) and there are several localities where the visits of the inspectors would result in immense advan- tage. If the proposal were for appointment of half-a-dozen fresh inspectors we should heartily support it.

-W- LANDSLIP AT BARRY NEW DOCK. FORTUNATE ESCAPE OF WORKMEN. A landslip, resulting in the displacement of over a thousand tons of debris, took place on the new dock works last week. It appears that the excavators had completed the preparations neces- ,4- sary for depositing the concrete of the new walls on the north side of the dock, and nearly a hun. dred men had moved off to another spot to work, when in about an hour's time the embankment constructed near the place gave way and fell below. The great weight of falling debris broke the wooden supports into matchwood, and filled up the trenches made for the conorete foundation. It is an exceedingly lucky circumstance that the workmen were not engaged at the spot at the time, or a large number must have been buried alive.

FIRE AT THE MUMBLES. CASTLE HOTEL DESTROYED. Early on Saturday a fire broke out at the Ship and Castle Hotel, Mumbles, near Swansea, of which Mr Packman is proprietor. When the outbreak was discovered by Mrs Packman about 3.30, the flames had such a hold on the premises that the united efforts of the Swansea and Mumbles Fire Brigades were ineffectual, and the house was totally destroyed. The inmates were rescued, and fortunately no one was injured, ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Our Swansea correspondent telegraphs Early on Saturday a fire broke out at the Ship and Castle Hotel, Mumbles. The Swansea Brigade was sent for, and on arriving found an inadequate supply of water hence tha men had to go into the sea up to their waists and pump. The flames had by this time got a thorough hold, and the hotel and a house on either side were burnt to the grouad. EXCITING SCENE. The scene aftf-r the discovery of the outbreak was somewhat exciting. Mrs Packman, the land- lady, was awakened by uoisea in the basement of the hotel, whicii she. with womanly instinct, attributed to burglars, and thereupon sent her hus- band to investigate, Mr Parkman, hastily throwing open tha bedroom door, was met by a blinding rush of smoke, and the roaring of timber burning furiously, He knew at once that the oid house was doomed and that no time was to be wasted if the lives of the inmates were to be saved. In the scantiest of clothing Mrs Packman and himself made their way down the smoke-hidden stairs, rousing the barmaids and the servants as they did so. and all of them, six in number were speedily out in the street. There were soon plenty of willing helpers, but the flames gained till the building was one mass of flames, and before they could be extinguished the hotel was gutted as well as a small house on each side. The damage is estimated at about 24,000.

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THE LOCK-OUT AT TWO OF THE OCEAN COLLIERIES. MASS MEETING OF THE MINERS AT TON. FINANCIAL AID FROM THE CLYDACH VALE COLLIERS. NO PROSPECTS OF A SETTLEMENT. REFUSAL OF ARBITRATION BY THE MANAGEMENT, On Saturday evening a mass meeting of the workmen of the Ton and the Bwllfa Collieries was held in the Ton Schools, under the presidency of Mr Theophilus Rees, miner, Clydaoh Vale, to hear addresses by Messrs Ben Davies and I Isaao Evans upon the lock-out of the workmen of the Bwllfa Pits and a large number of the miners of the Ton Collieries, which belong to the Ocean Company. The building was crowded, and the proceedings lasted for about two hours and a half.—The Chairman, in his opening remarks, said that the Clydach Vale Colliery workmen, numbering about 2,700, had decided to contribute JB15 per month towards the support of the miners locked out, and if a larger sum were necessary they would increase the proposed con- tribution. (Cheers.) The Bwllfa miners were fighting not only for their own rights, but for the rights of thousands of miners in the South Wales coalfield as well. (Applause.) They had been fighting now for 10 months, and he thought they were as determined as ever to win. In the imme- diate future the Clydach Vale miners themselves would have to settle with the management a similar question, for the oompany were sinking at Clydach Vale to a similar vein to that reoently struck in the Bwllfa Colliery. Consequently it was of grent importance that the Clydach Vale miners and all other miners m South Wales should support the Bwllfa men. (Cheers.) Mr BEN DAVIES, having read a telegram from Mr John Williams, Ynysybwl, organising secretary of the South Wales and Monmouth- shire Amalgamated Society of Miners, apologising for his unavoidable absence, said that the Bwllfa Colliery dispute was practically in the same place at present as it was 10 months ago when the men brought out their tools. Some kmd friends had stated that the Bwllfa dispute would never be settled as long as he was actively engaged amongst the men. (Laughter.) Mr Davies then submitted the price list offered to Mr Jenkins, agent of the collieries, in January last year, and Mr Jenkins replied that he would not meet the men to consider such a list of prices as the matter was outside discussion. While the seam was being opened out, the miners were p-ud a day wage of 53 for hewing and filling the coal into the trams.' The dead work, such as standing cogs and other timbers and removing the rails in the faces or shifting the road forward as the faces advanced, was done by labourers paid by the management. However, the management discontinued paying day wages to the miners and tried to enforce upon them the company's list of pnees drawn up by Mr Jenkins, agent of the colheries. It was urged by Mr Jenkins that the men would earn a higher wage than 53 p"r day or at all events would be equally as well off in working by the company's list of prices. The cutting puce per ton of coal according to that proposeáhst was Is 9d, but the men alleged and explained that they could never obtain a liveli- hood by working at such a price. Mr Jenkins, it was stated, contended that the list of prices was a fair and just one, as he bad had a record kept of the variuus items of labour done by the minora when they were paid a day wage of 5, and had worked out or drawn up the list of prices offered by him in accordance with those accounts, Mr Davies, however, exhibited to the meeting a batch of pay tickets received by the Bwllfa, wen before they brought out their tools, showing that Mr Jenkins's calculations were' incorrect and most misleading. He said that the pay tickets gave credit to the miners for dead work they had never performed, and the only object Mr Jenkins or his officials bad in doing so was. Mr Davies alleged, to mislead people and show that the men would earn by his own liafc of prices a higher wage than they actually could. ("Shame!") Mr Davies also maintained that when an experienced mmer performed satisfac- torily a timberman's work he ought certainly to be paid timberman's wages. (Cheers.) He (the speaker) entered minutely into the matter, criticising each of the various items in all the p.iy tickets, which he described as bogus. Several of the pay tickets showed payments to the miners for handling or removing "clod," which is an extraneous mineral above the coal, whilst, in fact, the miners had never handled any at all. The clod was shovelled away or removed by the labourers employed specially by the management. Mr Davies then remarked that it would be well for him to read out an item or two from Mr Jenkins's price list, and they were as follows" Cutting large clean coal, Is 9d per ton, the price for large coal to cover the cost of any small coal that may be sent out in the trams and also to cover posting in faces, standing cogs, and walling sides of roads and also allowance of Id per ton for clearing and shifting clod or inferior coal on top of seam to the extent of six inches m thickness." Therefore they would see that Mr Jenkins did not mean to pay for dead work. Every collier working under the Barry system in the Bwllfa Colliery would have to stand every fortnight about 18 pairs of double timbers or flats or do all that work as a Thank you job." ("Shame.") One sixth of the total money or wages accounted for on the pay tickets was for work the men had never done, The pay tickets were absolutely worthless. Why did not Mr Jenkins agree to refer the dispute to open arbitration? (Cheers.) He hoped the Bwllfa men would live long enough to see the banner of victory hoisted; but the banner of victory could never be gained while there were amongst them certain men intriguing and wotking clandestinely in thematter. Whenoutsidersoameto investigate the Bwllfa men's case they should be acquainted with the aggrieved men's views upon the matter otherwise investigators going into Mr Jenkins's offices to examine the official accounts there would, in ignorance of the details of the dispute, be led to believe that all the documents there were gospul truth. (Cheers.) Why, the men had the facts of the case in their possession. If the Bwllfa men lost the battle they and their children, who would have to work in collieries and the South Wales coalfield, would have to suffer through it. On the 29r.h April last Mr Jenkins refused to reconsider his decision, remarking, This is my last, by which I shall swim or fall." If the Bwllfa men lost the battle through the unjust interference of outsiders, it would be a curse on the intruders. Hie advice to people was, "Leave the Bwllfa case entirely between the employers and the Bwllfa men." (Loud cheers.) Mr ISAAC NVANS (Neath) was received with cheers, and, speaking in Welsh, remarked that the fact that the workmen had offered to submit the case to open arbitration spoke volumes in their favour, and it showed great weakness on the part of the employers that they had refused to do so. (Cheers.) He believed that ere long there would be an Act of Parliament compelling people to refer disputes of the kind to arbitration. H believed that when 10 per cent, of the workmen in any industry were affected by a dispute between the men and the management that it was reasonable to resort to arbitration. Then strikes would be at an end. (Applause.) Dealing with the tactics adopted by oertain employers of labour on occasions of disputes between them and their workmen, the speaker referred to the unfortunate position of the workmen of the Caerau and the Plymouth and the Bwllfa men. The owners of the Caerau CoHieries having failed to get their men to submit to their terms locked out the Coegnant men, enforcing idleness upon 800 men where no dispute whatever existed, in order to try to get them to work in the Caerau pits. ("Shame.") Then at the Plymouth Collieiiea the dispute, according to the reports in the Press, 1 really existed only between the employers and about 400 persons, but 3,000 men were locked out through it. Those were the tactics of ¡ employers. And with respect to the Bwllfa case the dispute only affected about 250 men, but a large number ot the Ton Colliery workmen were looked out by the management of the pits evidently for the purpose of starving the men into submission, or to get the Ton men to go into the Bwllfa Colliery to work. (" Shame t" and a Voice, They ought to be shot.") Mr Evans, resuming, said the question was, how were they going to shoot them ? The only possible way was by their own powder and shot, and that meant organisation. (Cheers.) If a strike occurred at any of the oolliwriee belonging to tha Coalowners' Association a list of the workmen's names was sent to the various employers, and what was the object ot sending the black list round ? That sort of fighting was fighting in ambush. Then the discharge-note system was a bad one, because a man canying a discharge-note signed by the manager and the overman of a colliery where a dispute, or lock-out or strike existed carried hia death warrant in his hand. He complimented the coalowners in the western district, where he acted as agent for the men, because he bad never known them looking out miners from one colliery owing to a dispute or strike in another pit. (Applause.) A vote of thanks to the speakers and the chairman brought the proceedings to a close.

THE COLLlJiRY DISPUTE AT MEIITHYR. MR BAILEY'S SURPRISING STATEMENT. THE MINERS' AGENT AROUSED, SETTLEMENT YET HOPED FOR. [FROM OUR MEUTHYB BKPOBTEB.] Another twist was given on Saturday to the wheel of events in couneotion with the Plymouth Collieries dispute by the publication in this journal of Mr Bailey's statement concerning the position. Evidently there had been a misunder- standing on one side or the other as to how the negotiations at Newport on Monday, between Mr Edward Jones, of Varteg, and Alderman David Morgan, miners' agent, of Aberdare, were lefb when those gentlemen separated. ACODBDING TO MR BAILEY, Mr Jones, having full power to deal, in bohalfiof the employers, for a settlement, had been expect- ing to hear further from Alderman DavidMorgan, who was understood to have intended to consult the men in a mass meeting. Days elapsed, and yet Mr Jones, of Varteg, had not heard from the miners' agent. But in the meantime, a mass meeting, it will be recollected, had been held at the Temperance Hall, Merthyr, and upon that occasion Alderman Morgan said, In his opinion they had done everything they could that was legitimate to meet the other side and settle the matter. Now, there was nothing left but to go into the fight to the bitter end, unless some satisfactory proposal came from the other side." From the representations now made by Mr Bailey, I think most people will be led to con- jecture that the terms desired by Mr Jones were not necessarily final, but that) in the event possibly of some fractional concessions being arranged, the matters of difference between the parties might be reduced to a vanishing point. WORKMEN'S LEADERS ASTONISHED. The workmen's leaders, several of whom I bad interviews with durinsr Saturday, said this inti- mation in the South Wales Daily News was the first they had had that the negotiations carried on at Newport mighc be considered to be open. They believed it to be impossible for Alderman David Morgan, their agent, to have made the mistake inferred, and referring to my suggestion in the paper on Friday for a Sliding Scale settle- ment, one of them asked why had not Mr Bailey adopted that ? I explained that my suggestion was of course made upon the supposition that the personal negotiations were actually broken off. Should negotiations be renewed with Mr Jones, Varteg, it is to be hoped they will bear good fruit. If the contrary should prove to be the case, then the suggestion as to the Sliding Scale should still hold good. I did not see Alderman David Morgan on Saturday, but I understand from tha workmen's representatives that he, no less than themselves, was astonished at the state- ments made by Mr Bruley. What the alderman read in Saturday's South Wales Daily News was this Important statement by Mr Bailey. In response to inquiries made by our reporter, Mr Badt-y stated that there was absolute power left in the hands of Mr Edward Jones, Varteg, to con- clude the dispuce on such terms as he might think fit on behalf of the employers, with Alderman David Morgan, the miners' agent, and that this was a matter which apparently had not been represented to the workmen. The negotiations were still open, and Mr Jones was waiting to hear from the miners' agent." THE MINERS' AGENT AROUSED. I Now, Alderman David Morgan, who has gmwn grey in the service of the miners of Aberdare and Merthyr-I won't say old, because he continues to be a man of vigorous force-was deeply moved when he perused this, and he did not rest until he came over to Merthyr to vindicate his own veracity. A Council was held, I and whilst the workmen's leaders expressed their complete confidence in him, they also supported him in his determination to communicate at once with Mr Jones Varteg, for the purpose of having a plain understanding with that gentleman as to whether he endorsed Mr Bailey's statements. Pursuantly, Mr John Evans, the indefatigable secretary to the Workmen's Deputation, set the telegraph and the telephone going. It was then found that Mr Edward Jones had left Newport on a visit to Somerset, and no communication with him could be had at that time. Ultimately it was arranged that Alderman David Morgan should seek an interview with him at his residence, Snatchford House, Poncypocl, on Monday with regard to the matters which had arisen, it being also held by the workmen in reference to the paragraph above quoted that they were not averse to a settlemeno with Mr Edward Jones, seeing that he has plenary powers to aot on behalf of Messrs Hills' Plymouth Com- pany, provided his terms are agreeable. OUTLOOK SOMEWHAT HOPEFUL. The circumstances of the dispute have I become mixed, but not irretrievably so, The present conference mav even hA regarded as a source of hope. This is especially the case if Mr Jone is still desirous of dealing witn Alderman Morgan, because no mere personal misunderstanding on either sido would be allowed by an experienced Labour leader hk& the latter to stand in the way of a proper adjustment of this vexation" dispute, which is now affecting the welfare of 9,000 or 10.000 men, women, and children. Misunderstandings do occasionally come about when and where least expected, and if any misunderstanding has arisen between Mr Edward Jones and Alderman D. Morgan, it will be a great pleasure to those gentlemen to rectify it. and thus (let us hope) pave the way for a settlement of the Plymouth affair upon terms which will be honourable to both parties. THE MISSION OF ALDERMAN MORGAN. It may be safely asserted that Alderman David Morgan, in his mission or visit to Pontypool to-day (Monday), is followed by the best wishes and congratulations of the 3,000 workmen waiting for news in the Plymouth Colliery districts. PUBLIO BELIEF WORKS. Meanwhile, the Piymouth workmen's represen- tatives are assiduously engaged in assisting to make all arrangements possible for the relief of the unemployed and the distressed workmen. Bulky registers are being compiled, and the miner's leaders, including Mr Thomas Thomas and Mr John Evans, two Labour representatives on the Urban District Council, are doing all they can to obtain suitable apportionments at various e- local centres of such public relief works as have been authorised by the Council. SLIDING SCALE TEST CASE. With regard to the alleged braach of the Sliding Scale agreement by the Messrs Hill's Piymouth Company, in giviug their workmen a month's notice, a test case for alleged wrongful dismissal has now been entered in the High Court of Justice. 1. Interview between Aid. D. Morgan and Mr Edward Jone% 10th February inst. 2. Temperance Hall, mass meeting, 11th inst. 3. Witness Ald. Morgan's advocacy of eight hours winding coal per day. INTERVIEW WITH MR D. MORGAN. One of oar correspondents met Mr David Morgan, miners' agent, Aberdare, on Saturday evening, in reference to the statement made by Mr Bailey that negotiations were not broken off, that he had given full powers to Mr E. Jones, J.P., to deal wibh the matter, and that Mr Joaes was waiting for Mr Morgan to see him. Mr Morgan said I can hardly understand the position of Mr Jones, inasmuch as when the deputation met Mr Jone?, Mr Wilson, Mr Bailey, I and Mr Green at Cardiff, we entered into a written agreement that full powers were to be I given to Mr Jones and myself to settle; but when I met Mr Jones at Newport he was continually leaving me to consult Mr Bailey in another room, so it was clear to mo that he did not feel that be had the plenary powers necessary to come to a final agreement. Ultimately Mr Bailey told him that he was willing to leave the matter in his (Mr Jones's) hands, provided I was willing also for Mr Jones to act as an umpire. To this, of course, I object. Mr Jones was appointed by the employers and I was appointed by the men, and it was quite all absurd to ask me to allow Mr Jones to settle as it would I be for me to suggest to Mr Bailey that 1 should settle it all and it is only fair to Mr Jones to say that be quite agreed with me and objected to be put in such an invidous position." What occurred then ?" Mr Bailey then agreed to leave the matter in the hands of Mr Jones and myself. Mr Jones then suggested that I should go back to the men and endeavour to get them to accept the terms Mr Bailey and himself had suggested that day. This I declined, and Mr Jones then suggested that I aud Mr Bailey should discuss the whole dis- pute at home, and he added, 'You see, Mr Morgan. it is only now I have full powers, and I think my suggestion of your seeing Mr Bailey again is the best," and he added, If you and Mr Bailey fail to agree perhaps you will see me again." Of course I felt this a vague way of doing business, and I made no reply, leaving the employers to take the next step. Seeing, however, Mr Bailey's statement, I am going to see Mr Jones on Monday, and hopo to find him in a position to go on with the matter. ELECTION OF CHECKWEIGHER FOR THE NATIONAL COLLIERY, Considerable interest was shown by the miners in the Rhondda Facli in the appoinbmenfc of cheokweigher by the workmen engaged at the National Colliery. Wactstown, the final ballot taking place last Friday night. There were 151 applicants for the post, which had become vaoant owing to the retirement of Mr Griffith Davies. The ballot on Friday was in favour of Mr Morgan by 121 votes. The appointment of Mr Morgan, who commences his duties to-day (Monday) is a very popular one.

I Welsh Wealeyans are beginning to agitate in favour of so modifying the connexional rules as to make the triennial removal of pastors optional rather than compulsory. Mr Jones, postmaster of Aberystwyth, who was appointed to the postmastership of Bangor some time ago, but who resigned it on account of ill- health, has now been appointed to the post- mastership of Carnarvon. Dr. Roland Rogers has arranged to increase the Llandudno Eisteddfod Choir by 500 voices by a contingent of 180 from his famous Penrhyn Choral Union and about 80 from Penmaenmawr. It will thus be the largest eisteddfod choir on record. I I The refusal of Mr Reginald M'Kenna to accept the junior whipebip of the Welsh party is regret- table. It is especially unfortunate that at the present time all the officials of the party should represent North Wales constituencies. The quarrymen of Bebhesda propose establish- ing a scholarship at the intermediate school in commemoration of the late Robert Parry, for many years years president of the Quarrymen's Union. The scholarship will be limited to I quarrymen's children. We understand that a Life of Sir Joseph I Barnby is in preparation by Mr W. H. Sonley Johnstone (formerly of the South Wales Daily News); that there will be two editions-one at a guinea and the other at a more popular price. Among those who proceeded to the degree of M.A. at a congregation, holden at Cambridge on Thursday, was Mr W. Jenkyn Thomas, classical lecturer at the North Wales University College, Bangor. Mr Thomas is a cousin to Mr Thomas E. Ellig, chief Liberal Whip, is 25 years of age, and is a frequent contributor to Welsh magazines. The public reception into the communion of the Roman Catholic Church of a well-known North Walian Nonconformist is creating considerable sensation. This appears to be the first practical fruit of the systematic attempt to reconvert Wales to Roman Catholioism which is known to have been contemplated for some years past. Principal Edwards and the whole staff of Bala Theological College have resented the attack by Mr Eleazer Roberts, of Hoyiake,upon theciroular letter on the Armenian question addressed by the Bala students to the Welsh Presbyteries. In a letter signed by the principal and professors, the staff of the College emphatically approve of the circular issued by the students. Welsh Nonconformity is in some danger of becoming endowed." Each of four leading denominations have lately developed a marked tendency towards the building of manses as official residences of their pastors. Even the Calvinistio Methodists, whose ministry does not as a rule partake of the character of settled pas- torates which characterise the Baptists and Con- gregationulists, have in Merionethshire alone no fewer than 20 such manses. The zeal of the newly-created magistrate in Monmouthshire apparently knows no bounds, and the Duke of Beaufort, who is the Polonius behind the Lord Chancellor, ought really to be more careful in swelling the ranks inordinately of the great unpaid." At the Newport County Petty Sessions on Saturday no fewer than ten magistrates appeared on the bench, and their duties were all comprised in the trying of two or three cases which were of the smallest type. What will happen when a really interesting case is down for hearing it is hazardous to indicate. Teh mfigistrates is a terrible waste of energy. Cardigan writes In your issue of the 14th I note that in reply to your query as to when stocks were last used in Wales, P.C. D. James, of Newcastle Enilyn, says that 24 years ago (viz., 1872) stocks were used in that town and that they I were fixed at Adpar. I was at Newcastle Emlyn, and have a perfect recollectiou of the I plaoe and people, and I can say I never saw stocks at Adpar, but I well remember stocks being fixed outside the wall surrounding the Police Court in Sycamore-street, and I could give you the names of men I saw stocked. Ancient history isn't worth a button unless true." Liberal Unionism in Wales must really be advancing. We have it on the authority of a Press agency that as the Unionist members for Welsh constituencies have now increased to 11 in number, it is felt that, withont attempting to form anything like a separate group or party, they should arrange, so far as practicable, to act together, especially on Welsh questions." This is news. Before the last eiecfcion Walss returned 23 Liberal to two Conservative members. Last year the Conservatives gained six seats. How the party now numbers 11 avin Mr Marchant Williams would find it difficult to explain. Another English member ot a Welsh Board of Guardians has resigned his seat because the proceedings are conducted in Welsh. The historical town of Conway is the scene of this latest revolt of the Saxon against the Celtic fringe. His colleagues courteously passed a resolution asking him to reconsider his decision, and he consented to do so, adding somewhat i piteously that he could scarcely be expected to vote upon a question he did not understand." And yet this is what scores of Welsh guardians have for many years been practically doing out of j a sense of innate courtesy to the English "squires" who sat as ex-officios on their boards in I Welsh Wales Dotr Mr Gossip," writes Cochfarf, You refer in your to-day's notes to the incongruity of an epitaph in Caerau Churchyard, hub if ) you turn to page 370 and 371 of the Iolo MSS. you will find that Caerau Churchyard is famous for the long age of some of the people buried there, and to the inhabitants of a parish possess. ing such a prestige for longevity the epitaph you quote is not so incongruous as it may appear to general readers. The whole of the paragraph in the MSS. is too long for quotation. In lolo Morganwg's time a tombstone bearing the follow. ing inscription was to be seen in Caerau Church- yard :-— Hzaic LIBTH THE BODY OF WILLIAM EDWPS, OF THE CAIREY, WHO DEPARTED THIS LlFE THE 24TH OF ri EBRUARY, ANNO DOMINI, 1668, ANNOQUE ^ETATIS SUII 163.' I The word Edwds' is so printed in the Iolo MSS."

A MOTTOLESS COUNTY COUNCIL. Glamorgan's County Council Has no motto on its seal, And so for one well suited j We earnestly appeal. We earnestly appeal. A county famed for beauty In men and maids and lands Ought surely to produce one To satisfy demands. Fair Anglesey has got one, And so has Breeonshire, Carmarthen and Carnarvon, And lovely Denbighshire, Merioneth, Radnor, Pembroke, Flint, and Moncgottif-,ryshire- To which is added Cardigan Why not Glamorganshire ? Where industry still prospers On the very highest grade, Let Labor omnia vincit Set forth success in trade. Let pick and shovel also Have place upon the seal, Or any other object That helps the public weal, SILURIAN. A Cardiff student has won very favourable mention. Saturday's Times referred to one incident of the conoert at the Royal College of Music on the previous evening:—" Miss Marfydd Williams sang the solo part of Brahms's Rhap. sody for alto solo and male chorus, opus 53, in a manner that, bearing in mind some singers trained at the Royal College who have now established a reputation in the musical world, makes it hard to realise that she is still in statu pupillari. But for a rather pronounced tendency to hurry the tempo there was little fault to be found with her admirable performance." Miss Williams is the daughter of Mr Williams, Kitigoe- road, Canton; and it will be observed that she sings in Cardiff on Wednesday week, in the Blue Ribbon Choir's conoert. The Aberdare Almanack for this year is a distinct noveliy, for, in addition to the features usual to this class of publications, it has some scores of pages devoted to biographical notices of looal mBn of note, living and dead. Really a hasty perusal even of these pages forces home the conviction that sweet 'Berdare is a more famous town than people are apt to credit it. A fair proportion of the most eminent Welshmen of the day are here shown to have been, at one time or other, connected more or less with Aberdare. And the local barle;-phew their name is legion. Fancy, 250 names recorded under the title of Beirdd Aberdare Wilab a.u imaarina- tive parish this must be The article dealing with the "beirdd is in Welsh, and emanates from the pen of Mr D. M. Hicliaies, wliovo painstaking labours have produced a unique and interesting record. The portraits interspersed through the volume are, on the whole, excellent. |

r NEWS IN BRIKfa I Greba Castle, in the ISIF; of Mattj has "n Mr Hall Caine for £ 1,025.. On Thursday last the National Aabbew-VO sung in the Ontario Parliament. Mme. Antoinette Sterling will return America about the end of April. < The population of England in the middle 1894 was estimated at 30,060,763. At the tobacco factory in Seville there ™ 5,200 women and about 100 men. Every civilised nation in the world, even CblØ" and Japan, now has a Weather Bureau. # I On 13 Sundays of last year 19,722 people isiw the London Corporation's Art Gallery. M.P.'s who have been to South Africa 3T6 low in their praises of Mr Chamberlain's policy. of It is quite noticeable how much the custom01 wearing ciSpe in mourning has grown of late. Miss Ward, an American visitor at bloo Carlo, had her jewels stolen on Thursday niglit- The London bonnet shops are full of bright spring colours in straws and flowers and ribbons. Nansen once remarked that St. Andrew's VFSO the coldest place he had ever been in in his life. According to Mr A. B. MacDowall, every 12 or 13 years we have a mild firsb quarter of year. Charles Reade was fond of fish, and he pro- tested that fresh herring was the finest product g the sea. 1 The number of marriages registered in 1894 filii. 226,449, being at the rate of 15'1 persons Pgg thousand. There are 37,000 women telegraph operators the United States, and the number is constatkby growing. It is understood that the United Slates Co0* gress will agree to the construction of three D9* battleships. Mrs Henry Ward Beeoher's opinion of "bloomers" is terse and definite. "They are f abomination," she says. Mme. Adelina Patti detests great joints, affeaio dainty French dishes, and her wines are tit. finest France can produce, The Pope, at the Consistory to be held ip March, will confer the red hat upon all bbs I nuncios of the highest grade. The Russian Government are taking actiVO steps to ascertain the facts of the case concerning Dr. Nansen's reported return. In consequence of a strike prociaimed in th* Berlin tailoring and mantle-making trades, aboot 10,000 persons have suspended work. The Daily Telegraph says that Mr Chamberlain in his effective and magnificent speech had handicapped successors to the debate very heavily. A new combination has been formed among the leading British manufacturers of steel rails with the object of maintaining prices and regulating sales. A curious discovery has been mode by Dr. Antonio Penafiel, namely, a copy of jJEsop Fables transacted into Azteo or Nahnatl in the sixteenth century. Pots of flowers traversed by the electric current from three Bunsen cells for two and a half months gave far more vigorous plants than similar pots not electrified. William Swann Fisher, solicitor, was committed for trial ab the Mansion House on Saturday charged with forging a power of attorney for the' sale of Consols for £ 850. A woman named Bradley, wife of a fish- monger, was found dead in her house at Londonderry on Saturday. There were marka of extreme violence on the body. Miss Mary Burton, the Grimsby centenarian has juet died at her residence in Hainton-street at the ripe age of 103 years. Miss Burton attri- buted her longevity to abstinence from alcohol and medicine. Messrs Chapman and Hall have just issued pamphlet entitled Editorial Ethics," by the Rev. Canon MacColl. It will doubtless be read with mterest by those to whom the ethics ot editors are of consequence. Mr Albert Chevalier, who recently published volume of his reminiscences, will shortly make another excursion into the world of books with a small volume entitled The Uninitiated," It will be issued by Messrs Swan, Sonnensohein and Co. Mr George Gregory, J.P., ex-Mayor of Dor- chester, fell dead in his dressing-room on Saturday. Deceased was one of the oldest Free- masons in Dorset, and held many appointment* in Dorchester besides being connected with various charitable bodies. By a vote of 31 to 11 the Iowa Senate has passed a Bill making it a crime to manufacture or keep for sale cigarettes in the State of Iowa. It maket it unlawiul to handle cigarettes in any manner, They cannot be given away. The penalty is fine or imprisonment, or both. According. to Kemp's Mercantile Gazette, the number of failures in England and Wales gazetted during the week ended February 15tb was 104. The number in the corresponding week of last year was 91, showing an increase of 13b being a net decrease in 1896, to date, of 10. Her Majesty's first-class gunboat Jason, which ran aground at Haulbowline on Friday evening owing to the sudden breakdown of both engines, was successfully towed off at high water oB Saturday by a looal tug and moored to a Govern' ment buoy. The Jason will be docked at Haul- bowline for examination of her bottom. The coldest March experienced over England during the whole of the past 25 years occurred at the close of a winter which was quite as mild, if not milder, than the present season. This, the London Daily News says, was in 1883, when northerly winds and snow showers were experi- enced throughout nearly the whole month. Prince George of Russia completed his seventieth year on the 12th inst., which he celebrated very quietly on account of his mourning for his brother, the late Prince Alexander. It is not generally known that Prince George is an author of no mean reputation) and has written several very successful dramas under the name of '\Georg Conrad." The Right Hon. Stuart Wort!ey, M.P., ad- dressing a meeting of railwaymen at Sheffield, on Saturday, expressed his complete confidence in the future of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin- colnshire Railway, of which he is a director. The London extension was likely to be finished with- in the time specified in the Bill. It was evident, however, times of lively competition were in store for them, especially in regard to the trnffio from Sheffield to the South. The North Western were already in the place, and now, it was said, that not only the Great Northern, but even the far off Great Eastern, were determined to have a look in This is how a high school girl in Ohio reoently parsed the sentence He kissed me." He," she began, with a fond lingering over the word that brought the crimson to her cheeks, is a pronoun, third person, singular number, masuline gender, a gentleman, and pretty well fixed universally considered a good catch Kissed' is a verb, transitive, too much so, regular every evening, indicative mood, indicating affection first and third persons, plural number, and governed by circumstances. 'Me '-Oh well, everybody kOOWJ. me." And she sat down. The Sign of the Cross may or may not (saya the Observer) be to the liking of the individual playgoer, and for ourselves we must confess tc finding distasteful both the introduction and the treatment however reverent —• of its subject upon the stage. Tb. general popularity, however, of the produo tion, which reaches its 50th representation at the Lyrio to-morrow, is beyond all cavil, and amply justifies Mr Wilson Barrett in cancelling his projected tour and American engagements for 1896-7, In one of the companies presenting the piece in the provinces Mr Barrett's part is to be, played by Mr H. B. Irving. An interesting occasion 1n connection with the new Session will be the gathering of abstaining members of Parliament, to be held to-day in St. Martin's Town Hall, under tha auspices of the National Temperance Leagttr The Bishop ot London, the president of èihll League, will be supported by no less than 24 M.P.'e, representing every shade of opinion in the House and eaoh ot the four divisions of the kingdom. Personal testimony in favour of total abstinence will be the burden of the speeches dehvered, and the gather- ing will be a unique illustration of how men o< diverse political views may unite on a common platform for the promotion of a principle affecting the public good. A strange story concerning the adventure of a £ 1,000 note comes to hand from St. George Eitst. It appears that the other evening when walking down Commercial-road a man named Carl Hertz, well known in the neighbourhood, saw a clean piece of paper on the pavement. Picking it up he found that it appeared to be a banknote for 21,000. Not knowing whether it was a genuine or an Imitation note. Hertz went with it intai number of public-houses, until at last he found that it was genuine. He then made inquiries to see if one bad been lost, but being unsuccessful, in the morning took it to his solioitor, who handed it over to the bank to be claimed. In the meanwhile a fruiterer of Commercial-rokd, named Cooper, missed the note, which he had obtained for the sale of three houses. In despair Cooper made inquiries, and at last came to a public-house where Hertz had shown it. He hunted up Herts, aad went to his solicitors, only to find that the note was at the Bank of England, who, it is aaid, are holding it pending the time Cooper can un. mistakably prove himself to be the owner of ifc

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THE ETHICS OF MODERN JOURNALISM. SOME startling newspaper events which have occurred within the last few days awaken strong fear, if not suspicion, as to the future independence and integrity of some leading organs of opinion amongst the London Press. The sudden dismissal of the editor and sub-editor of the Pall Mall Gazette because they would not merge their own individuality and independence and become the more mouthpiece of the wealthy proprietor who is &u alien and an American citizen, and, as we believe, a financier and advocate American views on pending questions between this country and the United States, and represent them as the matured convic- tions and the reasoned thoughts of indepen- dent British journalists and gentlemen, is an unpleasing fact. The London Daily News, too, within the last few days has veered directly round to the opposite point of the compass to that towards which it formerly pointed on the Transvaal and the Chartered Company question. There has been a change in the pmoitnel of the London Daily News staff, and with that change the change, of view on South African affairs has come. Far be it from us to insinuate that anything besides an honest change of conviction has caused the sudden change of policy in our London contemporary. But without any reference to the London DaiM News, an inquiry is essentially necessary as to the extent in which newspaper opinion in this country is under the direct influence of aliens and outsiders—of Jewish financiers ftom Germany and elsovihere, of Stock Exchange speculators, of riggers of the market, and of thimble riggers who would recklessly plunge this country into a war with any nation provided that therreby the price of the shares in their Companies would go up. The British public have an immense, an almost vital, interest in this question. When views are circulated as the impressive and matured utterances of some recognised organ of public opinion, it is becoming more than ever necessary to know whose views they are. Are they the views of a man of acknowledged ability and thorough know- ledge of the question discussed, who is debating it from an independent and honest standpoint or are they the opinions of some speculative financier who has shares in Chartered, or other large and influential Companies, and who is seek- ing to influence public opinion, or to "Bear" Stocks and Shares for his own sorbid financial gain ? It is very needful for the public to obtain, for its own guidance and safety, the true limitations in the valne J of newspaper opinion, l

GLOUCESTER ASSIZES. FOREST OF DEAN TRAGEDY. At Gloucestershire Assize* on Saturday George Leaver, of Bristol, was sentenced to 18 months' for stealing various articles from the ketch William at Gloucester. Thomas Hewitt, labourer, for stealing money at Horfield, was sent for a similar term. lqaae Hudd, for warehouse breaking at St. George, Bristol, was sentenced to nine months, while Henry Smith and Thomas Collins received three months for housebreaking at Littledean. The important case of the Forest of Dean tragedy is to be heard on Tuesday.

THE RAILWAY FATALITY AT NEWPORT, OPENING OF THE INQUEST. The inquest on the bodies of the two men who were killed in the railway accident at Newport on Thursday evening was opened on Saturday at the Town Hall, Newport, before Mr Lyndon Moore, borough coroner. The names of the men were Sidney John Bibbing*, dnver, and Walter James Conway. fireman Mr Paxton, Newport (assistant superintendent, Monmouthshire Valleys section) appeared to represent the Great Western Railway, and Mr Frank Lewis, solicitor, was for the widow of Bibbmgs. No one appeared for the friends of Conway. Only formal evidence of identification was given. Jabez Daniels, goods guard, 31, Courtybella-terrace, identified both bodies. Conway, be said, was only 19 years of age, and Bibbings was 30 years old. The Coroner said it was necessary for him to report the accident to the Board of Trade, in order that they might have an opportunity tobereprfsented atthe inquiry. He therefore suggested an adjournment until Wed- nesday. No doubt the railway authorities would give the jury facilities for inspecting the scene of the acoident if the jury would give them an appointment. Mr Paxton said the company deeply deplored the sad circumstance, and would lay before the Coroner and jury all the mforma- tion in their power. Ha had a plan of the place where the accident occurred, and he would arrange for the jury inspecting it. The Foreman (Mr E. Frost) thought ib would lis cmvenient to go at once, and this w is accordingly done, ana the j inquest was adjourned nntil Wednesday. I