South Wales Echo

PAHI3 WORKMEN'S CONGRESS. FRHCTEK S TELEGRAM. J I PARIS, Monday.-The Paris Workmau's Con- gress held its last sittiug yesterday, and decided that any candidate for the Municipal Council belonging to the workingmen's party should have his resignation signed beforehand, should agree not to accept any office in the bureaux ef the council, and. further, to repulse any proposal for I an alliance with another party.

> MEXICAN NEWSPAPERS AND I LOTTERY NOTICES, [REDTEB 8 TBLHOEAM. I I NEW YORK, Sandiy.-Intalligence received from Mexico states that the Press of that city are asking the Government to appeal to the Postal Union against the action of the United Slates in forbiddiug the transport of Mexican newspapers (bearing Mexican postage) which contain lottery cotices.

A FORTHCOMING CHESS MATCH I [RHDXEB'S TELEGRAM. 1 I NEW YORK, Monday.-It is announced that Ihrou Albert Rothschild will hold the stakes at the forthcoming chess match, while Baron Zubaroff, formerly Russian Ambassador at Ber- lin, will be umpire for M. Tschegorin, Professor J. L. Rice, of New York, being umpire for Herr Steinitz. Dr Tarrasch is uusble, on account of other business engagements, to accept the invitation of the Havana Club to play Herr Steinitz. A match between Herr Steinitz and Dr Gunsberg will be played here in December.

ASSAULT ON A CARDIFF I POLICEMAN. At the Cardiff police-court to-a y—before Mr W. T. Lewis (stipendiary) and Dr H. J. Paine-James Lynch (26) surrendered to his bail on a charge of being drunk, disorderly, and causing an abstruction in Quean-atreet on the 14th October and also with assaulting Police-constable (76) Cassidy while in the execu- tion of his duty at the same time and place. The constable's evidence showed that prisoner was very drunk and excited, and that on the officer's telling him to go home be was struck a violent blow on the chest and tripped. Prisoner, who &aid he did not remember anything about the affair, was fined 10s and costs, or a .month's imprisonment with hard labour :n de- ?fMlt. I —————— j

I POOR ENGLAND I An Attack by a Frenchman. Denunciations of England by French writers of ephemeral publications have become rather stale. Some new sensation was wanted, and this Las been supplied by some pretended reve- lations ef an Englishman who rejoices in the peculiarly distinctive British patronymic of Delbos. Mr Léon Delbos is not satisfied with the ways of the English people, whom, it would seem from his owa account, be did opt think worthy of continuing ta be honoured with his society. Englishmen, be declares, are steeped in prejudices and are impolite to the verge 01 being brute beasts. Everything to them is a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence, and especially of pounds. If M. Pasteur hid bx* born on this side of the Channel he would have patented his discoveries and made millions. When anybody wants information as to the respectability of another person hit asks, How ranch if be worth?" We are not even practical, and the current French notion that we are is a delusion, as is clearly shown by our bar- baxous system of weights and measure?, and by ,tboaact that our pout-office businesonsv carriacNm by small tradespeople in by small tradespeople in the intervals' of'mnidin^ their own-businegfl.

FOR JgOYS CLOTHING, IMMENSE VARIETY, SAMUEL JgROS., M A R K E T Bu I LD I N C 8 ST. m AP.Y. ks TREET, CA.P.DIFV 395-436b SYMINGTON'S ARABS COFFEE HAS MAINTAINED ITS SUPERIORITY FOR MORE THAN SIXTY YEARS. SOLD BY ALL GEOSKRS. slt f

SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE, +- -'+ CARDIFF* SWANSEA.t NEWPORT; Oct. 1 Mor Evn. figt. Mor. Evn. Hgt, Mor. EVn. Hg" 6 11 0 024 511 1311 bl 2.3 9 0 1324 9 7 T 0 43 1 30 23 9 u 3b 23 6 0 56 1 43 24 2 8 \V 2 20 3 824 7 1 24 2 1024 4 2 33 3 2125 0 9 T 3 45 4 15 26 7 2 48' 3 20 25 9 3 b8 4 28 27 0 10 F 4 43 5 7 29 1 3 48 4 1227 5 4 56 5 2029 6 11: b 29 5 4831 3 4 34 4 53 29 2 5 42 6 131 8 12 6 6 6 2333 1 b 12 5 2930 7 6 19 b 36 33 6 13 M 6 41; 6 5634 5 5 46i 6 IJ31 8 6 54 7 9(34 8 *R«ath Basin iPrince of Wales Uk. JAlexandra Dk.

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The Man About Town. Religion has left the pulpit for the plat- form in South Wales. We have all been behind the scenes, as it were been admitted to the Councils of our teachers. The isolated austerity of the preacher has gi-ven place to the frankness of debate. Last week the Congregational Union met in brilliant assembly at Swansea this week we wel- come, no less warmly, the Baptist Union to Cardiff. + + + To some, doubtless, the first thought that will arise will be that amid disunion so marked, amid the divisions of parties so intellectually strong, religion istorn fcoshredf, and the inheritance cut up into terrible minuteness. But such division is a con- sequent of social life. When men combine it is at the expense of soma individual opinion a willing sacrifice where it does not touch the life deeply. But in religion the smallest article of faith is as precious as the greatest. It cannot remain a mere formula of the mind. It must find an outward expression. The ceremonial, the rich fabric of the Church, the solemn rite are each coloured by such individual opinions. Could Baptism, for instance, remain a mere article of silent Faith, there might be no necessity for it to call together, separate and apart, its believers. But when its due performance is equally essential, how can a believer remain where its practice has no place + + + The life of Cardinal Newman was one ong struggle with this truth. Whoever reads his Apologia will be struck by the overwhelming importance he attaches to what micrht appear to those without to be unimportant or unessential. But Newman plainly saw that an honest man could not worship in a Church which possessed but a part of the truth, It would have been easier to have claimed free- dom for his thoughts and been content to take the English Church as the nearest approach to the ideal. But the dogmatic temperament of man never permits such a position as this. Newman could not be content with a compromise. He could not lock up as prisoners any part of his principles, and allow what should be a con- stant guide of conduct to sink into a mere profitless luxury of the mind. And thus it was that with difficulties apparently so small he first found himself drifting from Anglicanism. To the religious mind, in fact, small things are as important as great, and no Church is endurable in which part of one's thoughts must remain silent, and to that extent one's life be hypocritical. + + + Nearly three hundred years ago lived another apologist, a writer no less exquisite in style, no less magnetic in character. But as different from Newman as possible, He speaks of his religious opponents with deliglitfulforbearance-indeed, makes almost a vice of toleration-and draws us a delight- ful picture of the liberal mind. Speaking of other religious bodies, he quaintly says, We have reformed from them, not against them for, omitting these improperations and terms of scurrility betwixt us, which only difference our affections, and not our cause, there is between us one com- mon cause and appellation, one faith and necessary body of principles common to us both and therefore I am not scrupulous to converse and live with them, to enter their churches in defect of ours, and either pray with them or for them." What would be said of this delightful confession now-a- days ? Our liberalism is strong till our dogma is pricked. But even this latitu- dinarian, in speaking of the dream of union amongst the Churches, is compelled to say: "That judgment which shall con- sider the present antipathies between the two extremes—their contrarieties in condi- tion, affection, and opinion-nity, with the same hopes, expect a union in the poles of heaven." For this, after all, is the insuperable difficulty. We can amalgamate, but never become one. We can centralise all the sects, obtaining for each a latitude of opinion. But the mind of man will need to change before there can be that identity of thought which is essential to a Common Church. + + + My vivacious friends at the Docks have roused themselves. They have been taunted with lack of wit, and the Mark Lemons sleeping in their souls have stirred within them. On Satuday, I heard, about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, there could be distinguished the ominous rat- tling of a hundred spoons in a hundred cups of coffee, a hundred matches were struck, a hundred cigarettes lighted, a hundred clouds of smoke circled aloft a deep silence fell upon the drinkers only one thought found shape, rising sternly and with melancholy visage. It was—Wanted, a Joke, Now, when the combined intellect of the young gentlemen of the Docks is at work, the results are rapid, if surprising. In the midst of the silence arose a voice, agitated but happy, and it said: "I've got it." + + + And this Joke has been duly forwarded to me as proof of the active intellect and keen wit of the young gentlemen who frequent the Docks. I give it publicity as they desire. It runs thus Will Alderman Sanders be knighted ? In K. C. B., will it not be a Knight-Mayor ?" And thus two innocent English sentences are made to harbour two villainous puns, two rebels to good reason and sanity, two traitors to the dignity of our language But I fear the effort has been too great. The Docks will be prostrated for a week. My witty friends should remember that they are not accustomed to labour. A walk through 'Change and a cigarette at the nearest Coffee House are excellent-br:t they are no train- ing for the mental toil of Joke-making + + + There is to be great excitement at Pentre to-morrow. If life is occasionally dull in the Valleys, it is compensated by some wild out- burst which glares up like Etna in eruption. There is to be a great shaving match for £ 25 a side, between Mr Teddy Wick, j Champion Barber in the World," and Mr D. Evans, of Treorky. It is a handicap, and Mr Evans is to have a start of 45 5 men shaved out of 50. There is a vagueness about the conditions. Nothing is said of a slip. If, for example, Mr Evans cuts a nose off, or slits the chin, or even snips off an par, is it to count ? And who are to be the brave hundred ? Shaving, in my experience, is a matter of calm con- templation. I have often thought that my barber was a profound philosopher. For in the middle of the operation he would stand mute and still, gazing earnestly into the street, till the lather cracked. I had to make some poor comment on the weather. But how inbongruousiy the remark must have fallen upon some deep thought of his on ethics + + + But here, at least, there is no contempla- tioi), all haste and rush and mad liurryings. Whisk, off goes the beard Flash goes the razor, down falls the poor hair, cut off in its prime. Nor is that all, for not only will "little Nellie Wick, the champion baby shaver of the world, attempt the extraordi- nary feet of beating her record of shaving five men in twelve minutes for a silver medal, but "Teddy Wick will also shave blind-folded and one-handed." It is refreshing to hear this, not because such a feat will materially assist the world in its onward march to the ideal, but because it speaks volumes for the bravery of the Pentre people. That they should submit their cheeks to the onslaught of a champion baby, blindfolded and onehanded is token I of a rugged heroism which is lost in the I cramped limits of the Rhondda Valley. + + + Newport is to be robbed of the excitement of a municipal contest. The Conservatives are anxious to leave the seats undisturbed. It is, indeed, interesting to hear their valorous threats. If you don't leave us alone,' they say, "vre shall fight you in your own wards Brave words which make infinite rattling, as tin-kettles. There was a respectable hen once who strayed into a stable where there were several horses. Gentlemen, gentle- men," she cried in alarm, "we must take great care that we do not tread on each other's toes This anecdote of true life is humbly dedicated to the Conservative party I' of Newport.

THE BATTLE OF THE I UMBRELLA. Fina materials for an cpic poem were furnished by a case heard at Marlborough-street police-court on Saturday. It might be called "Tlio Battle of the Umbrella," and the names of the com- batants alone are enough to supply the poet with inspiration, or at any rate with a rhyme, for one was callod Martha Arndt and the other Amelia Grandt. These heroines fcught long and vigorously, under the admiring eyes uf a crowd of a hundred persons in Piccadilly, for the possession of an umbrella claimed by one of them, and said by her to have been stolen by the other. Taey were found, says the report, squaring up, and tugging and pulling and scratching as best they could," and thus they went on waging this terrible combat, until, as at Hans Breitman's Barty." "De consbtableR made dem shtop." Who shall say what were the merits of the quarrel that led to this fearful fight ? The solution of the mystery must be left to the poet. For the magistrate, it was enough that there had been a fight, so be prosaically fined both Arndt and Graadt.

GONFIRMATION OF LICENSES AT CARDIFF. At the Cardiff police-court, this morning, Mr Harry Cousins made an application for the con- firmation of the licenses transferred during the last few months. Mr Cousins represented the present landlords of the Oddfellows' Arms, the Rose and Shamrock, the York Hotel, the Terminus, the Albert Hotel, and the Five BflIs, The licenses were confirmed in each case. Mr McIntosh, who appeared on behalf of the lessee of the Grand Hotel, made a successful application.

FAST OCEAN STEAMING. The Union Steamship Oompany's Royal Mail steamer Athenian, which left Cape Town at 5,32 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17, arrived at Southampton at n'Mn yesterday, after a net passage ofi17 days 15 hours 13 minutes.

LADIES AND LAWN TENNIS. The town councillors at Treves here have opened the municipal gymnasium as a lawn tennis ground for girls. The clerical minority, however, oppose the use of the establishment for such a purpose, declaring that lawn tennis is a un- becoming German girls. I

I THE GOUFFE MURDER, Contrary to what has been stated, the trial of Eyraud and Gabriel Boinpard for the murder of M. Gouffé will not take place during the present month, but in November. As the case promises to be of an ultra-sensational character, the chief President of the Assize Court is besieged by thousands of applications for seats.

Buy PHILLIPS & Co.'s Pure Teas.-Tea Ware- house, 74, Que n-street, Cardiff. 247 HERMAN VKZIN, the world-famed tragedian, will appear at the Grand Theatre every evening next I week. During Mr Irving's illness this gentleman was } the one selected by Mr Iryiug to take his place at the Lyceum. í7ö1

THE "GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES." [BY ONE WHO IS NOT AN ART CRITIC. 1 A tlirg unheard of by entomologists, a But- tcdly with a sting, is at large, and is causing woe and confusion in the ranks of those respectable persons whose livelihood is connected with the manufacture, appraissment, or sale, of painted canvas. In the Gentle Art of Making Enemies, this Euttetfly bums up its deeds oi darkness, and completes the record of its misspent life. Under I the nama and guise of ouo James McNeill Whistler, it gives the world a collection of papers and correspondence calculated to make a Royal Academician turn in his Academic chair. It pretends, indeed, to ha" taken this step in cotisequonce of repeated efforts by insects uf a different specif to pirate the aforesaid collec- tion. But the reader will be able to see through this specious and plausible excuse. The flook, of course, is an allegory. Nn one can seriausly believe in the existence or James McNeill Wh istlsr j Chelsea, forsooth. The diabolical Butterfly merely assumes that nme for its own unworthy purposes. It peeps out in its own fnrm on every other page, and always in some new attitude. In ,ne place it lies curled up in treacherous quietude, the next moment it is shooting its deauiy sting across the whole length of the page. Hare it appears to be administering a playful kick to seme noxious parasite; there it bas settled down into an aspect of mournful dejection over its own loneli- ness. It is a truly Sttanic Butteidy. Can it be that there r&aliy is a being uauiied Whistler, and that this insect is a frightful symbol, a visible incarnation of his fallen soul ? But ta citisie to the allegory. Many years ago this Butteifly caught the eye of certain persons whose trade it was to catch such things, t¡; stifle tbem with camphor, and to transnx them wit,b the lethal pin. Naturally they essayed to capture this brilliant aud novel specimen. Were they to blame Corta nly not. How could they suspect, after crushing buUe; lfies all their lives with impunity, that this particular insect would have a sting and use it ? Wicked Butteifly, to let its nugry passious rise Iu the book before us the above true story takes the quaint disguise of a narrative of con- fiscts between the imaginary Whistler and the critics of pictorial Art. From it we gather that Mr Whistler, with the cunning of insanity, began his career with work remarkable for its technical perfection, or rather finish, Then, having cut the ground from under the faet of any who might wish to accuse him of lack of technical knowledge, he loolJly threw off the mask, and pluaged into a wild orgy of I Art, an unbridled debauch of mere beauty, which drew down upon him the uuanimous disapproval of the Art world. By Art world, of course, is meant tue respectable classes already referrod to. Two cardinal faults marked his pictures, Firstly, they would not bear minute, not t » say microscopic, looking into. Secondly, they told no story, and consequently cenveyed no moral lesson. They thus possnssed neither the merits of the shilling photograph nor of the illustrations in the Child's Bible. Well might Ruskin rare, Well might Art -critica give way to unseemly transports of IUdigm,tiol1. Then it was that Mr Whistler (to continue the parable) had the cruelty to turn and crush them. This was wrong. The unfortunate creatures were no mere to blame for obeying the instincts of their kiud than are wasps anci rattlesnakes, or the tiny denizens of the Ljndon lodging-house. Mr Whistler shnuld have remembered this. Ho should have reflected that critics are doubtless created for some wise end. It was not for him to question the mysterious way of Providence. As the angel in the goldett Legend very proporly observes of a character in that work- "Since God suffers him to be, Doubtless 'tis for some good, By us not understood." Moreover, sometimes even critics are inspired to speak.the truth. All are not like the gentleman who sublimely described a watercoiour drawing as the first oil painting we possess" of a brother critic, and then, on the streugtb, apparently, of this unique achievement, went in for the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford or some such place. No, for even the malicious Butterfly is compelled to quote with mute respect the profound observation of a writer in the provincial Press (paper unhappily not named). "There are things in the paiutor's art which eVtH) a photographer cannot understand." Aud one of the tables i II this very volume goes to show that the Butteifly's worst enemies have been found, not among the critics, but among the practitifiners of paint. In the presence of a work of Art a critic reviles becauss be cannot help it. As a modern satirist puts it,- It is their nature, God has made them so." But at least hs refrains from physical injury. Not 80 the Royal British Art-dealers—or is it Artists ? Mr Whistler the fictitious Wilititler of the legend—had pamted a sigaboard for them, without fee or reward, on which he of course introduced his atiendantsprite, the dreaded BLitte; fly, Maddened by its mocking smile, and tearing no doubt that the beauty of the signboard would put the con- tents of their shop—or is it Gallery ?- to disadvantage, the Royal British Picture- sellers—r Painters ?-headed by their president, the Churchwarden of Claphana Comirioz, set upon the signboard, defaced its colours, and obliterated the uncanny butterfly. For a performance like this we know of no precedent in the annals of msre criticism. But the Butte-, fly is worst in its is ore serious moods. For then it takes so lofty a flight into thl;) bluest blue, and breathes so rare an atmosphere, and showers such marvellous radiance from its twinkling wiigg, that those who fain would follow it with missiles and other marks of their appreciation, are bewildered and get left behind, and lost, and go groping through morass and mud, and cut very pitiable figures indeed. The Ten O'clock, which it puts into the mouth of its lay-figure, the mythic Whistler, was to the painters a stumbling-block, to the critics, foolishness. And naturally, because it was about Art, and it was true. Mr Swinburne, the poot, must at one time have been an enraptured admiror f the Etitteifly. We infer this from the merriment, distorted by malevolence," of his diatribe agraiust the Ten O'clock. It is as a rule only fallen idols wb.m Mr Swinburne attacks with such werti personal mahguity. Poor Walt Whitman went through the SlIotlie phases of extravagant homage and ex- travagant reproach. Victor Hugo's turn will probably come next. But that is Mr Swinburne's nature, as the same satirist records M Whosa curses come like snowflakes, and remain About as long an those they seek to stain." The Butterfly is sobered for snce at the spectacle of Mr Swinburne's fall. Its rebuke is touching in its pathos. Tha sease ef desolation overshadows it. There is nothing BO moving in anything that Mr Swinburnu has given to the world for years. But the Butterfly soon recovers its outward sprightliness. It will not do for it to Wear its heart upon its sleeve For daws to peck at." And it flutters off to a more congenial victim. But there is tne supreme triumph in its stormy career-we mean its enci-unter with Mr Ruskin. Ruskin, Ruskia the great, whose infallibility is only equalled by his gentleness, is the only Art critic who has ever really paid tribute to the Butteifly. Yet even he bnly paid a farthing, and he would not have paid that unless an in- telligent British jury haoi made him. Immortal Butterfly What doast thou among the 'Arriem, and Hamertons, and Hadens of every- day life! What haht thou in comm.,n with them, bright exile fr"m a mare glorious country, mis- taking in thy flight the gross dwellers tn tbie barren soil far the inhabitants of thy nwn native sphere ? And they, too, blind, mole-eyed creatures, had they not some excuse? It was the limitations of their nature that would not tot them see that they had anything mere than a man and a painter to deal with, and led them thus to waste their senseless enmity upon thee, invulnerable, winged, defiant Wonder of the Air POSTSCRIPT.—Has not the Butterfly done less than justice to Mr Ruskin in tjuotin* iiis dictum that truths of colour are tho least important of all truths," without at the samo time giving us this,—" Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most diviae, tin most solemn." Mr Ruskin is a manysided man.

HUSBANDS WHO TIPPLE. German Ladies Take Action. Some ladies of Rhineland have sent a petition to tbo Burgomaster of Mettmann in the follow- ing strain: We, your petitioners, pray that your police officers may visit the inns of this place to prevent our husbands and (fons from staying there far into the night, while we, your petitioners, are at home anxiously awaiting them from their daily labours. Furthermore, we are of opinion that the money squandered there could be more advantageously spent at homo. In the hope that our appeal will meet with your sympathy, we remain, with bi?heat esteem— I .,ytr)!)athy, Wives of savaral Mettm a I (SiV-nad)-'Xbte

I A Shocking Tragedy. |KKCTERS THLEGRAM.J PERIQUEUX, Monday.—The bodies of a youal man and a young woman were discovered yester' day morning in a meadow near here. A letter was found on one of them stating; that they had killed themselves in despair of ever being united in life. An enquiry was subsequently held, and it was proved that after both had taken miorpbig the man shot the girl in the temple and then committed suioirip.

Death of the Chief Con- stable of Cardiganshire. JSPKCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE 11 JCCHO. "J SWANSKA, 12.30 P.M. Information has jus reaclwd Swansea of thf death of Mr David Evans, the newly-appointed Chief Constable of Cardiganshire. The sad event took place at 9 30 this morning. Another teiegram says Police-sergeant David Evans, whoso appointment; as Chief Constable of Ciird.ganshire the Homo Secretary refused t< confirm, died suddenly Lijis ixiorniiig, At a meet- ing of the Joint Police Committee, to be helf this week, it was intended to confirm the appoint- ment notwithstanding the Homo Sacretary's refusal.

A Violent Drunkard in a Rhondda Pit. A Collier Threatens io Throw a Hitohet Out of the Cage. [SOCIAL TKLKGRAM TO THE" ECHO, "J At the x strati police-court this afteriloon-I before Mr Ignatius Williatrit;-Alorris Trurot, a collier employed in the Mamdy Coiliery (Ocean); Ton, was summoned for a breach of the 245tl. rule of the special rules of the colliery. Mr Rhyl (Morgan and Rnys), Poutypnud, represented the company. It appears that on a recent occasion the defendant, who was employed by night, wet to the lamp station, near the bottom of the shaft, to have his iamp locked in compliance with the colliery rulas, Tho overman immediately per- ceived that the (lefandput was drunk, and thera- fore positively declined to lock the lamp, and ordered the bitcher at the pit bottom to take hiio out of the mine. Ou being lifted in the cage defen' dant became noisy and violent, and threatened tc throw his conductor headlong down the shaft. An official at the mouth of the pit, who heard the altercation, tendered corroborative evidence. The learned stipendiary characterised the offence as a most serious oue, auti imposed a panalty of and costs.

THE PROPOSED NEW TOWN- HALL FOR CARDIFF. Meeting To-day. A meeting of the Special (Towu-hall) Conamittow. of tho Carddf Curporation was held this morninf at the Town-hall, when there were present Alder, man W. Lewis (In the chair), Alderman J acobs Councillors S, A. Brain, Vaughan, T. Rees, and Sym-nds. A letter was read from Mr W. D. Blessleyc. asking whether the Corporation were disposed tll purchase Guild-hall Chambers for the purposes of the extension of the Town-hall. Councillor Brain Does he mean the bank as wall ? —The Town Clerk: No only his own offices. The Guild-hall Ciiambers are a separate building altogether from the bank, having a separate entrance aud wallq.-Couucillor Brain said that it would be au invidious position for the Corporation to have a bank in the centre of their chief building.—The Chairman considered that they must have the whole block if anything at all; though, in his opinion, they had plenty of ground of their own at the rear of the Town-hall, if they cared to utilise it.-Oil the motion of Councillor Rees, seconded by Councillor Brain, it was resolved that the consideration of the matter be aujourned. A letter was read from Messrs Fiocktoa and Gibbs, architects, Sheffield, recommending their patented splau for the construction of municipal offices for adoption for Cardiff. The various advantages were pointed out by the adoption of their scheme, and Coun- cillor Btain said that what the Corporation should do was to advertise, offering a premiun. for tho best plans for municipal offices. —Council' lor Viuglian Let us see first what ground we have to build the offices upon. No action was taken iu regard to the letter. Some correspondence was read which had takeu place in regard to the land in West- gate street belonging to the National Provincial Bank. One of the letterit stated that shortly the directors would offer a portion of their rear land of the pizi of 148 yards by 50, or 820 superficial yards, more or less, A letter was also read from the Q ueu's Hotel Syndicate, offering to let the Westgat«-8treat site for £ 4-60 a year, or else £ 10 a year with a premium of £ 10,000. Both latters were silov.'cd to remain in abey- ance. The instructions given by the Council on August 11th, 1890, as to reporting upon cer* tain schemes for the better accommodation of the council were read, but no site having: been decided upon, the matter was again adjourned. A committee, consisting of Alderman David Jones, Councillor Piogar, and the Borough Engineer, was appointed to carry out improve- ments in the ventilation of the Crown and Nisi Pr-ius Courts.

THE ELECTION OF CARDIFF BOHOUGH AUDITORS. The ir IlHntion for the above that has just taken place was of an unusual nature. Messrs Gunn and Macdonald were the two retiring auditors. The latter resolved not to seek re- election, and Mr D. Shepherd was nominated to fill his place, At the last moment Mr Gunn also sent an intimation that he would be unable to accept the office again. Mr Webber, secretary of the Ratepayers' Associa- tion, was, therefore, nominated to act with Mr Shepherd, but when they found Mr Phillips (who has tried for the office several times before), was again nominated, both Messrs Shepherd and Webber refused to act, and tendered their with- drawals, but the Town Clerk refused to accept the withdrawals, and, therefore, the matter must go to the poll on Friday next to be decided by the ratepayers.

THE LUCKY CARMAN. He Has X30,000, but Grumbles. TLe Chelmsford carman who suddenly came the other day into a fortune of JE50,000 has?tarted for a holiday in the South of France, an object of envy to his less fortunate neighbours. From the report of his conversati, u with a visitor, which appears in the Essex County Chronicle, it wouH seem, however, that Mr Bennett as not found bis windfall an unmixed blessing. He is not grateful to our conteaa* porary for being the first ta proclaim the fact to the world; for since then be has been "pelted with letters from all ^arts, not to speak of the nuisance of having to stop every minute in the streets to shake hands with semebedy who is so glad" to hear of his good luck. "Tkere gi a lot cf them now," exclaimed Mr Bennett, pointing across the way. "You see, they all know it, and nod to you and grin and shout across tke road-o it's too much of a good tring."

STRIKE OF LIVERPOOL CARTERS. 11 The Press Association Liverpool correspondeat telegraphs :-A partial strike of Li varpool carters took place to-day, when about 1,SQJ raen refused to resume werk unless increased wages and shorter hours were conceded. The strike has caused considerable derangement of work at the docks and warehouses, and a large DUlIlber.,1 grain and cotton porters have been rendered idle by the action of the carter! It is net anticipated that the striki will ba prolonged.

SOMETHING LIKE A BICYCLE RIDE. Adventurous Muscovites are f"'rld of travelling to Paris nowadays, using f-)r their j-urneya means of locomotion not generally patronised by the average traveller or tourist. To the number of enterprising Russians ansS other inhabitants of Eastern Europe wo cama here during the Exhibition on horseback, in handcarts, or in a trunk, like the Viennese tailor, Eiust now be added a Russian Artillery., fticer, M. Martos. who arrived in Paris from St Petersburg yester- day morning by velocipede, having, it is alleged. dans 3,100 kilomfeftres, or 1,925 miles, in 30 days.

D. JONK3 and Co C 'iebratkd iiacou is uow seld by the side at bd per lb BUKAKFA3T is KKAUY I'll take a cup of Masa- wattee. lieduceil prices Is 13d, 2s, 2s M, 2s lod per h b, JONKS and Co.'s Celebrated liae<tu is &w sold by the side at 5d per JIJ.