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LLANDAKF OATHKDUAL SKHVICES. 'Ihuraday, April 11.—5tn ford i:, 1J flat; anthem, "Send ou1 Thy light" vGounod), "'i::1, 1r'11i, I\?::odi; ¡ ..Ibem. 41 Draw near, all ye people (Mendelssohn). I Saturday, April 13.—Smart In F; authem, "Hosamm" fQit-boiiS). ERNKST BKRIMSHIHE. Succentor.

THI. The wentlier yorterday wal erN nt1 wet. The fallowing li tlie forecast for to d\y (We,hlea,tRY) S(nth.westerly and westerly \Yllld04, IDoJt!u,te i rain at times. Appended la a chart of t.he tJ&rometrical readings tor the 4o nours .11I1..d Tuesday ulid!liChr. ft8 at tbe nf.11trtt Mail Ortice, Cardiff, The tnstruinmii b iift. above sea lirvel*

YESTERDAY'S RAINFALL. Ihe rainfall, as postered ??t Tredelerdi. Uompu^y I 11- ?tiX. ?r the 12 .o p.m. > last idgbt, and for each 1'4 boun ,f ihe post ,e k, wu follows 9 98,m, Total, T'???v 2 CO '00 '00 Wfh?)!.y 3 ?5 12 v Thursday 4 03 00 '00 Fri.?v ???5 '00 '00 '00 Saturday 6 '00 (0 00 Su?t?y 7 '00 '00 *00 Mon? 8 .14 BD .M Tu.duy 9 .25 — — -— Inasmuch 15 ar the 24 ?t,i, l? '.Pl,? at 9.0 each morning belong to the previous day, l?. rainfall iu each caSt 18 Awlibed to that dnv', d.l.

HIGH WATE-1 T1114 DAY. Mor. Evn Mor. Jott Mor. Eva. Sw,m- 12.29 1,11 I Cur-lill 1.10 2.0 I Newpwt 1.23 2.8

In the House of lords last T,ight a number of Bills were advanced a stage. loi-d Salisbury announced tho time of the rising for the Eastor recess, and their lordships adjourned shortly before five o'clock, The morning sitting of the House of Com- mons yesterday was uneventful, and fair pro- gress was made in Committee of Supply. At the evening sitting IIr. Clark (G., Caithness) proposed a resolution in favour of Home Rule for Scotland. The motion was nega- tived by 200 to 79, and the House adjourned at ten minutes past one o'clock. Yesterday the writ for the election of a new member of Parliament was received at Rochester, and the election has been fixed for Tuesday next. It is reported that Lord tjondotiderry is about to resign the Vioeroyalty of Ireland. M. Chevreal, the eminent French ohemist, died yesterday at the age of 103 years. The River Monnow has overflowed its batiks owing to incessant rain, and has inundated the low-lying parte of Monmouth, the people being confined to the upper rooms of their house*. The Select Committee of the Home of 1 ords yesterday passed the preamble of the Barry Dock Rill with the condition that as regards the Channel pilots only the Barry Company shall for three jeara grant licences only to men already licensed by the Cardiff Pilotage Committee. It was yesterday agreed to postpone the consideration of the Bute-Taff Amalgamation Scheme until after the kasler holidays. At the resumption of the sittings of the I'arnell Commission yesterday Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., M.P., continued his address on behalf of the Irish members, and bad not concluded when the court rose. One man was killed and several other* were seriously injured at Deptford yesterday by the bursting of a steam pipe. The Home Secretary having been unable to itrant a reprieve in the case of Thomas Allen, now lying under sentence of death at Swansea, the dread penalty will be exacted to- day (Wednesday), At Limeriok yesterday Judge Puree]) oon- firmed the sentenoes of four nionth imprison- ment on Mr. Finucane, M.P., Mr. Moran, solioitor and Father MRrrinan,and reduced the sentences of six and four months on Mr. Sheehy, M.P., to five and one respectively, to run concurrently. A man namod Wallace, whilst in a tavorn near Holborn, yesterday afternoon, wai shot thrice by an Italian named Unanowa, and removed to the hospital mortally wounded. His assailant then shot himself, and is uot expected to recover. A number of Cardifi bankrupts underwent examination before Mi-. Registrar Ltmgley yesterday. At thi4 moetiug of Newport Town CotincU yest-rday amongst other matter-) considere-l j was the condition of the gas in the Enough i end i'he working of the Alloinsui-.t.H Ac. A lad fifteen ye wb oi named Jotbph Tayntoii, is in custody of the Watford police, clnrjed with the munler of his sister, a child ten.

HOW TUF. RATES MtE I Xl'KNDEP. It is an established fact that the cost of I managing pubiie institutions in this country is eRi>rmoin, and constantly on the increase. We h.'ar a good deal from the mouths of ltadwal orators of the extravagance and nepotism that prevailed before the advent of household suffrage and the ballot. But matters do not appear to improve in the direction of economy u: der the new dispensation. New oliiees are biiing established in all directions, and salaries are increasing. The ratepayer, who has to find the money, has no time to attpnd to tbe details of tbe "xPenditnr" of public bodies, and the gentlemen who are elected to manage them exercise but little in- lliience over the disposal of the funds. Th-se matters are usually managed by the ofIicials, who simply furnish periodi- cally a statement of income and expenditure. The Cardif fCouncil is composed of highly- respectable and exemplary gentlemen, who would not for the world dip their hands into the public purse; but they are practically helpless in the face of the torrent of expendi- ture that sweeps over everything, The ordi- nary outlay of the council is enormous, and is increasing by leaps and bounds; and the members are powerless to check it. Although a majority of them profess to to animated by higher and nobler motives than those which governed the old-fashioned Tories, yet the result of their management is not a whit better or more economical than it was under the old rtyimc. We do not attach blame to our friends—we merely describe matters as they stand. Human nature is the sani'j whether in tb5 garb of a Radical or a Tory—the same instinch are at work j and if there is any merit to be ascribed to anybody, we are inclined to the belief that tho old system was the iiiist economical. The same rule obtains in all the departments of the State. The cost of the government of this country is increas- ing in a much greater ratio than is warranted by the increase of population. New agencies and new departments are con- stantly created, and the new officials have to be paid. It is almost in- credible the number of persons em- ployed in the publio offices of the kingdom who are directly supported from the rates and taxes levied upon the community. A perastl of the reports and balance-sheets of public bodies and publio institutions is enough to paralyse a neophyte and impress on the inex- perienced moralist the conviction that the human race is as selfish as ever. The struggle for existence is so severe that no one has time to devote to publio matters. A nd those who have overcome the material difficulties of life are indisposed, and, indeed, unqualified, to undertake a task so thankless. The stream of extravagance goes on in an ever widen- ing course and with irresistible power. The disparity between the work done and the muney expended is extraordinary and almost incredible. The inoome of many institu- tions is almost entirely spent in paying the salaries of officials,and only a fraction isdevoted to the purposes for wh ch they were established. And the same rule applies to a large extent to publio bodies supported by the rates. Take as an illustration the Poor-law. hen the collector calls for the rate the ratepayer is not aware how small a portion of the amount reaches the poor. The Cardiff Union, we pre- sume, is managed as well as any other, but the reports of that board show an enormous expenditure of money in the conduct of its affairs. Take, for example, the borough of Cardiff, with its four parishes of St. John, St. Mary, Roath, and Canton, repre- senting three-fourths of the ratable value lof the Union. Apart from the large sums of [money spent on the extensive buildings in the Cowbridge-road, the cost of management- amounts to over six tholwmd pounds, which is equivalent to about fifteen shillings a head of all the indoor and outdoor paupers that are relieved. he number relieved during the, last official year was b,90i. The relief of these poor people is the primary object of the Poor-law, but it requires an army of officials to perform the work. It does appear reinark- I able that the cost should be so great. There are over one hundred guardians, | rx-ojficiu and elected, who are supposed to interest themselves in the management, but tue result is altogether out of proportion to the talent and experience engaged. There are thirty-six "officers" at the Woikhouse, | whose salaries range from jC160 to Elf), amounting (exclusive of rations) to JEI.436 a year. There are eight medical otticers and two dispensers, who draw the mndegt sum of £ 1,020 between them, besides what they obtain from fees. The col- lection of the poor-rate in the four parishes costs £ 1,960; and tbe distribution, in the shape of salaries to relie\ ing officers, exceeds 2 1,000. We have no reason to bdie\c that Cardiff is an exception to other Fnion, but ordinary people, who find it difficult to m,?ke the two ends meet, cannot help thinkiug that the work could be done for less money. But there is no remedy. We must grin and bear it, and be prepared to find the evil extending. The reign of Democracy has commenced, and experience proves that that kind of government is the most expensive under the sun. Under a less extended franchise the candidates for office were few and far between; but now their name is legioz), and the country will find out by and bye that the Radical maw is more greedy and capacious than that of the old- fashioned Tory.

The Barry Dock people have hitherto suc- ceeded in getting anything in the world they asked for. They ootained their dock; they secured their railways, with vast powers to acquire land and to run through parish pro- perty to right of them and to left, wherever they chose to meander. Their latest fight, for the oontrol of the pilotage, has not been their least arduous. 1 hey resolved to cut out Bristol, Cardiff, Newport, and Gloucester, and to set up a separate pilotage authority of their own. Very many people have professed themselves unable to under- stand why Bristol pilots should be lioensed over Cardiff waters, and why the inaii who took his ship to Sharpness Dock should be able to traverse both his neighbours' courses. Our Barry friend* thought that at far ni; they were concerned they would simplify matters. Let the difficulty between the other portal be what it might, they would have no part or lot in it. Barry Mould fix hi for its own hand. It must have a separate set of pilots, with regulations all its own, entirely free of oontrol or interference from any of the o- her port authorities. The new dook authorities, as usual, made out a very plausiblecase. It seemed a pity, almost, that at the last moment so many of their old friends turned against theln-shipbrokee, pilots, and others, The upshot was that they did not win hands down, aa heretofore. I bey got a part of what they wanted, bnt not all. The Select Committee of the House of Lords passed the preamble of the Barry Dock Bill, but upon condition that as regards Chan- nel pilots only the Barry ompany shall for three years grant lioences only to men already lioensed by the Cardiff Pilotage Hoard, This is a sortof compromise, which different people may regard from different standpoints. Thus the Barry folk may congratulate themselves upon having got as much aa they expected, although they had diplomatically asked for more while the Cardiff Pilotage Itoard may rejoice in the fact that their oppo- sition saved them from a disastrous inroad upon those rights and privileges which never until now were seriously threatened. A three years' truce has been deolared, and we shall see who makes the best use of it -Cardiff pilot or Barry dookowner.

Prohibitive liquor laws could nowhere meet with condition* more favourable to tuooen than in the New England States of North America. There the peouliar characteristics of the people- Puritanical and imperiously Sabbatarian in thought-all make for prohi- bition. Tho temperanoe movement has, naturally enough under the circumstances, secured the active allegiance of men of higher type intellectually than the ordinary teetotal ranter with whom tho Britiah publio it familiar. And yot, with all the natural agencies working for its sumin, what has been the result of prohibition in America P Maine, which has been the chief experimental station far decade*, is still in a condition of ferment. The problem," ever- tMlin?ty to be given up," oontinues to vex her = Titicians. The prohibitory law bm Mti<med no clan. It hM been *o oID tinkered that little of its original charaoler remains. The healing of one inveterate sore has simply produced many. Refusing to profit by their experience, the tee-total party olamour for more repression at every man;fes- tation of the evils of repressive measures. It does not matter that the general community suffer physically and morally, that di unken- liess grows more gbneral iiiiil more depruling in its iiattir, so long as iho utility of their nostrums is not discredited. But in Maine, where the temperance facidist r has had his fling, thoughtful prohibitionists even are perceptibly tiring of reaping tares year after year when they have sown for wheat. General NEAI. Dow, happilv described as the arch-prelate of cold water," recently frankly confessed the failure ill Maine of his own gospel of prohibition. Despite persistent mending, the prohibitory law is admittedly defective. Dow, upon being aaked to assist in introducing further changes, said — For more than twenty years 1 have bet-ii to every Legislature in Maine, often with hundreds of petitions, asking for such amendments to the law as would make it thoroughly effective. These efforts have always failed, and the grogshops keep on pretty much the same cs they did twenty years ago." if the members of the temperance party were amenable to reason they would ponder over these'words, which come from a statesman who has devoted the greater part of his life to the promotion of temperance legislation The people of Wales have good reason for looking ahead, and for watching the results of the experiments now being made across the Atlantic. lii this branch of legislation the Americans are many years in advance of the British. The trials and tribulations which they have suffered by reason of compliance with the wishes of the prohibitionists we, too, shall in due course have to suffer, nnless we learn to be wise in time.

The wonderful part of the business is that the electors permit an active minority to impose their will upon the majority. Why should this be? The secret, probably, is that the majority are inert and passive, They have no sense of cohesion. Tem- perance men win their successes because they know what they want and are energetic in seeking for it. On the other side the only body capable of organised action is weakened' by the fact that they are pecuniarily interested in the results. The public are unable to throw the weight of their influence into the balance. 1 hey cannot do so without identi- fying themselves with the trade," which many of them are disinclined tc do. Thus it is that the masses are tilched of their rights and tyrannical laws are called into existenoe, which, when enforced, produce a general revolt. There is another influence at work. Professor GOLDWIN Sunn, in a paper on Prohibition in Canada and the United States," places his finger upon it. "Pruhibition," he wrote, has become a marketable commodity among politicians, and furnishes the ladder by which knavery olimbs to the mark of its ambition. It is now, per- haps, after Irish clanship, the most noxious of the sectional organisations, the number of which is always on the increase, and which are destroying the characters of the citizens, and reducing elective government to treating the State as an oyster, to be opened with the knife of their vote for their own particular end."

Whatever may be the outcome of the efforts now being put forth by the colliers to secure a revised sliding-scale, there can be no manner of doubt tha' the initial step was a prudent one. The matter is not one which can be safely entrusted for decision to large meet- ings, where the discussion has invariably a tendency to drift into side issues, and unneces- sary warmth of feeling and vigour of expres- sion are apt to be introduced. A small com- mittee of intelligent, practical men can do more in a couple of hours than can be done at a dozen of mass meetings. Kqually judi- cious was the decision to invite suggestions from all the collieries interested. By tixing a stipulated period for the receipt of these, and then subjecting the opinions elicited to a process of assorting — dividing the wheat from the chaff-the members of the conrtflittee will be enabled to know exactly what views obtain and the lines upon which revision should proceed. So far, good. We believe the present scale to be imperfect, and have never hesitated fi oni saying so. That stage has now, however, been passed. 'I he question now enters upon another, infinitely more provocative of differences in opipion. The expei-ts delegated by either side to arrange a new agreement may be 8afelyleft to arrange the details. We can only refer in general terms to the undertaking. And our chief arrtiety is that forbearance and moderation should b3 exercised by masters and men alike. The latter flushed by their recent victory, are the more likelyto be carried beyond the point of reason- able demand. At the present time thev seein to hold the game well in hand. It is for them to see that they do not take undue advantage of 'their commanding position. Power is fickle. To-day it is here, to-morrow it is there. This is a truth which the colliers cannot afford to ignore. If in the hejday of their prosperity they attempt to ride rough- Rhtxl over their employers, they cannot when the wheel of fortune talles another turn expect to be treated with sympathetic consideration. Human nature is pretty much the same in tbe capitalist lIS in the collier. The interests of all classes demand the existence of a scale, and au honest en- deavour should be made by employer and employed to frame a scale which, so far as possible, will deal justly with both. The manner in which the present scale has been threatened does not afford promise of per- manence for any future arrangement. Hence the greater need of seeking for a soale which shall in no respect provoke the active bos- tility of one side or the other when the spell of prosperity is at an end.

The events of the last few days simply go to confirm our belief that the idea of a tin-plate syndicate can be dismissed absolutely. A few of the manufacturers may feel tempted to entertain the scheme, but that fact does not materially affect the matter, since" consoli- dation" call only succeed by practically united action on the part of the makers. The pro- j mnters of the scheme have not given up hope, we are assured. Perhaps not. But their hope rests ou exceedingly unsubstantial founda- tions. The leading manufacturers have already explicitly condemned the pro- posal. Without their oo-operation the scheme, like the famous French Constitu- tion, cannot possibly march. Those whose capital are invested in the trade are wise in preferring to permit matters to take their natural course. The industry is in a prosperous oondition. Demand kee 6 pace with the rapid increase in the productive capacity of the works. Probably no other branch of trade can furnish a record which is so consistently one of pro- gress. Fratioe alone of all tbe importing couutriea shows a diminishing demand. Tbe United States, where the chief consumption takes place, every year ash for larger and still larger supplies. During '888 the latter purchased 202,623 tons of tin-plates, of the aggregate value of £ 4,087,147. The total value of the tin-plates exported from this ouuntry represented kA,53,4,310. And still the returns expand, for the previous year the exported goods realised but £ 4,792,854. It would be an act of criminal folly for the manufacturers to risk the existence of the trade on a single speculation, I- ortunattly, they know it.

THE NEW CARDIFF 'BUS COMPANY. We heer that a meeting of the promoters of the now Cardiff t)tu cimpiny was lielfl on Tuesday for the purpose of disrating the perstmntl of the dii actorate, and the namp. of five gentlemen were decided upon u provisional directors. It it raid that the prospectus of the new company will shortly bo lNued, but we give lb* information with all reserve.

MRS. BOUCICAtJLTS ALIMONY. In the Divorce Division on Tuesdav Mrs. Agnes Boticicault cUiuieJ that a sum of 1200, the pro- ceeds of certain royalties of copyrights belonging to Mr. Dion Bnucicault, should be pull out of court in part satisfaction of her claim for alimony, Mr. Justice Butt directed the money to be paid to the petitioner.

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METROPOLITAN NOTES. I Taa Wau.s' CHABJTY ScumtR. The supporters of the scheme drawn up by the Charity Commissioners for the adminis- r, rallt, the poli.ti.ci the Wells Charity at Cardiff (observes our Lon- don correspondent) have a remarkable and specious argument wherewith to uphold their case. Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Jesso Col- lings have described the scheme as being one designed to rob the poor for the benefit of those better off. To this the friends uf the scheme reply that the poor cannot suffer, because they are already receiving education for next to nothing under the provisions of the Educa- tion Acts; but, on the contrary, must benefit by the higher instruction which the scheme offers to the brighter scholars of the clemen- i tary schools. Somehow it does not seem con- clusive to say that, because the poor already have something, they should, therefore, be deprived of something else which is their's by right. As to the talk about higher instruction for the poorer classes, wo know what has become of such IIoble fonndations 611 Christ's Hospital and Charterhouse. '1 hese were left by their founders for the education of poor children. But there is not at this day, nor has there been for years, a scholar within their walls whose parents could not easily afford to pay for his instruction elsewhere. And what about the general pubiio interest in the matter P The elementary schools are mainly supported out of the rates and taxes, and, as Mr. J. M. Maclean pointed out to-day in discussing the question with me, the spolia- tion of the Wells' Charity means, therefore, that a larger and perfectly unnecessary addi- tional call will have to be made on tbe pocketa of the ratepayers and taxpayers. THE WELSH LANGUAGE OF TO-DAY. On Friday evening last the learned pro- fessor of Celtio at Oxford delivered a lecture before the Charing Cross Presbyterian Church Literary Society on the Wellih Language at the present day. It would require (says our London correspondent) a full report of the leoture to enable your readers to follow Pro- fessor Rhys' criticisms of the diverse fashions of orthography followed by modern wntera of Wel?h, or his suggMtioM for a more rational and Mtentino method. The present obaotio condition he attribute to the influence of writers for the popular newspapers, whose lin- guistio ooncoctions and contortions he strongly denounced. I understand the paper is to appear in Y Tratth dydd. THB RAUBBIAN LACAJBOLOAICAL ASSOCIATION. ihe latest issue of the Athermum an- nounces a spring meeting of the Cam- brian Archaeological Association, to be held in the Metropolis (writes our London correspondent). This departure from the procedure of former years, which was the holding of but one meeting in some part of the Principality, has been rendered neces- sary (says our London correspondent) owing to the relegation of the consideration of the association s affairs to a few houre at the fag end of the autmnn meeting, and con- sequently to the postponement of several important questions. I am enabled to state that the paper by Mr. Willis-Bund will deal with the monasteries of South Wales. CLWYDPAUDD'S TESTIMONIAL, A correspondent to your columns a short time ago (writes our London correspondent) brought a hornet's nest "boot his ears by drawing attention to the absence from the list of subscribers to the Archdruid's testi- monial of the names of those who talk loudest about the eisteddfod. The latest list shows that the aeotion alluded to by your correspon- dent has not hastened to swell the amount that is supposed to testify to the respect in which Clwydfardd is held throughout Wales. The ancient bard might be asked to tune his lyre to an expiring effort in praise of friendship but that one would wish to spare him the bitter thoughts such a contemplation would call forth. I have been asked the question—Who is the John Arthur Kvans, secretary to the testimonial movement ? I understand he is an ex-schoolmaster and ex- newspaper proprietor, but of his present occu- pation 1 can give no information. GOOD 01.D AI.LKIATOB. The folloivin, is by iLt the Gl.be :— A fcly old alligator once was Imking in the sun, Aim waiting for a chance to (ioeoiuo good for Bull)- bt-r one, When up a fat chameleon came, the fatloat ever seen, Who«e hue tliit afternoon appeared to be of vivid green. (Tll, colour of chameleons depends tll some extent, So na-urnli-U uB 'd 10 say, on their environment.) •' AM William snid the ullig.itur," How d'ye feel lo-day ? You look, if I may ?ay 8", just a little hit distrait." (.Of alligntors Imlf ure French.) "Ti.fi!" the ciiamelenn s lid, "I'm not at all the thing, in fact-I'm troubled in the h«*<1. Our good King Crocodile you know, 18 ctc-nh gdling old, I g,?tti, aEr..id, whcn he r.\irs, of being in the Cold. I know he'll hang on while he can: but wiipn he hao to n, Whú'lI rule us reptiles. Labby, then ?-thn\'s what I w iut to kmiw." The uHigator didn't S|:eak, hut slowly winked his eye In sticii a way a* seetned to say, "I mean to have II try." Oil," snoned the chameleon, "if that's your little game, You'll find, I fancy, one or two of us will do the .e. You quite forget, it seems to me, my "??' '"? aolity, My noble birth, my love of truth" All, y?, and your humility. No doubt observed the other, lighilng up a cigarette, But litre's our friend, the Irish snake; he'll beat U.- boili, %oti beL!" (An Irish snuke? I know, of course, noologists deny There ate such tilings; but mw a .d then &"ologi-Wo can lie. For I myself at Westminster have seen 1hem in a tlirong- All xons of colour, shape, and eiz- short,mtd um, "nù long.) Tha snake, when asked politely to deliver his opini m. Declared that as a Sicialist. he Imtcd all dominion; And yet In pite of this lie soiiit-how let the other- know That when h f lirly got a chance he ineaut to boa- the show. And then the fight berin-I cannot say what might have been Had Dot a Secretary-bird appeared upon the .cen i At sight of whom the snake, of coui-ee, decided to skeiliiddlc, The fat chameleon turned quite white and sounded I- Boot nnd Sucnile While the entity alligator, who abhorred tbe sight of blood, Crawled off and bid his carcase ia some uninviting mud. I MOKAL When old King Crocodile decides at Inst to nuke his bow, It's clear that in the reptile world there'll be a jolly row. As OLD-TIRII. NAVAL 3ERO. Our contemporary Seafaring contains this week an interesting paper on Jack Crawford, the hero of Camperdown, the 2.Stb of a series under the heading Some Seafarers." Jack Crawford was a sailor on board a ship of the line in Admiral Danesn's fleet which had many a stiff fight with the Dutch fleet under De Winter, in 1797. It was at the battle off Camperdown, in October of that year, that Jack distinguished himself by olimbing the mast amidst a terrible fire from the enemy, and nailing the Britiah colour* to the shattered stomp Left where the masthead bad been shot off. He got down again, unhurt, and was subsequently made muoh of in London, and became for a short time a popular idol. One little act of Jack's showed what a sterling feUow he was. In the heyday of his popularity he WM offered 9100 per week if he would appear nightly on the 'tage at Vauxhall Gardens, in the act of nailing the colour* to the mMt. Jack answered, No, I will never disgrace the real ACt of a sailor by acting like a play fool I" What would our modern fistio heroes say to this (asks the Evening News) f I A NATIONAL LIBIBAL CLus LIBBABY, They are determined to set up a library at the National Liberal Club (according to the &. Fames's Gazette). All the boolm selected which may have been originally published in one-volume form will be re-bound in two or more volumes-as a compliment to Separatist principles. All the Homerio scholars in the olub are expected to conform to the Chori- zontiat theory of the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey. The department of Irish history will be carefully supervised so as to give a purely Nationalist view of Irish questions; and only those epochs will be represented which throw on odioua light upon Saxon tyranny. The obminittee intends to make a special feature of Contemporary Fiotion and TravelieW Tiles drawn from the apeeches of Parnellite members of Parliament and the letten addressed to the D-y N-e by Glad- stonian tourist*. A copy of the Deoalogue ? w!M be provided for the me of the memben wbon aoation bu been neglected ? but oare will be taken to expunge any passages which might be twisted into a condemnation of the I Plan of Campaign, EMIN PASHA'S HISTOHY. I Because Emiu Pasha is an ? ustrian it is Bnppo?cd that he is a Christian. Thixia (says the Ei/to) a mistake—Kniin Pasha is a Mahoinedan—a convert, or pervert, accord- itig tu his ci-itie,.i' tasle, froin Judaism, In other words, the Pasba was liorn an A uatrian Jew. His real name is Edward Schnitzer, He is in his forty-ninth year, and his birthplace was Oppeln, in Silesia. In 1865, after having taken his medical degree in Berlin, he proceeded to the Eiut. At Scutari he found employment as a quarantine physician in the Turkish service. That was the beginning of his luck. At Scutari he made the lasting friendship of Ismail, the Turkish Governor. The story of his rela- tions with Ismail is very romantio. In 1868, when Ismail fell into disgrace (through official jealousy, it was said) with the Sultan, the young Austrian doctor accompanied his patron in bia exile to Trebizonde. When 18mait was re#Wred to Imperial favour his devoted young friend shared in his good fortune. In 1874 or 1876 Ismail died, and theo the Austrian married his widow. Meanwhile be had given up Judaism for Mahoinedanism, hence his new name of Einin. This lady died, and Emin's African adventii-en began, Emin Pasha is a splendid linguist; he knows Albanian, German, Turkish, Arabic, Italian, Persian, French, Knglisb, besides several inner African languages, such as Suaheli, Galia, and Berberio.

THE FAILURE OF THE WKLSH SUNDAY CLOSING ACT. DISCUSSION AT THE SWANSEA WATCH COMMITTEE. At the monthly moeting of the Swansea Watch Committee on Tuesday, after the formal business of the meeting, a conversation ensued upon the Sunday Closing Act. Tiiiewascom m-need by Mr. Councillor Francis, who called attention to a speech by Mr. Cavendish Bentinck in the House of Commons. Mr. Beotinck was reported to have said," The Clilef-csnstable of Swansea had ot a single word to any for the Act" Was this o rrect ? —Ciptain C >Iquhiun said lie had never said any- thing of the kind. He had said that the Act was defective and needed amendment, and lie still said -o.-It ""8 asked If the persona who got drunk on Saturday night and arrested after twelve o'clock were not rec k one d in tlie suu&y c"nie Head- cnn"lnble replied thit this waa Bo.-Mtel' further discussion, Mr. W. H. Edwards stated that since the Sunday Closing Act had been in force the tin- plate employers of Morriston found that their workmen were very much more regular in their werk on Monday morning than they were before. In the days prior to the Act they had to keep relays of men to maintain work, as some of the men would not turn in until Tuesday or Wednes- day. Before the Act came In foroe the men could get drink around thsm; now they had to go some ilistanne in order to get drunk, and if they eat drunk they were erresteJ on thoir w?y tiome, and thia was how the retu' ns wer,? owl(ed. He was not a temperance man, but those were hie views upon the question—views which were thoroughly impartial, and based upon experience SUNDAY DRUNKENNESS AT I ABERDARE. At Aberdare Police-court on Tuesday 0"Or"8 Cooper, Tonypandy, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Commercial-street, Aberdare, on Sun lay last. Prisoner went up to Polh e-sergeant Meyer, who was in uniform, and asked where he could get a pint of beer, and afterwards followed the officer begging for 3d. The Bench imposed a &"e of 108. MJ co8tB.-William Davies was charged with being diunk and disorderly in Ynyoll,?ii- street, Aberdare, on Sunday, the 31st r18:le: dant, who Mid tht he bad got the drink at Moun- tHin Ash, wns a l io fin4 00. and c,?gts.- J ohn Owen, Abernrnm, was charged wilik a similar offence in Rlligoa-rcad, Hirwain, on Sunday, the 31st of March. P"l ico:-con8'W Gambling *aidhe found the landlady of the Globe Inn trying ti ject ,he defendant, ind be i-uhsequently saw him s'a^geriog bo.t the road. A fine of 10.. and costs was itittictt,fl in this cafe also.—James Lowis, Cwmaman.charged with heing drunk in High-street, Birwnitt, on the 31,t ult. was mulct in a like p naliy. A WORKING MAiY.S VIEWS. I TO TUB tDlTOtt OF THi. WkSTKBN MAIL." I SIR,—Th" qwst ion of Sunday Closing is one of I great importance to the woikingirao, because it affects his liberty as a citizen. Hie Cardiff chapelites, or, tai liot-, I heir prominent representa- tives, say to liim—"You have six days ot the week to work, and you must obtnrve tlie seventh all we do. You ahull not go to th<' public-tiouqe on that day to drlnlr, tind we will tak- every eire that it shall be closed ag-tiiMt vou." This is, in effect, the sum and substance of what tlx>?e fanatical people seek to accomplish. Tlie knight of taboui- feels that he ought to have his refreshments on a SUndy ju-t the snm-j as the rich or Well-to-do man does who has his club or, it may be, his cellar, wherelii« brandies,wines, and cordials are stored up. I cannot discern in all that bis controversially transpired what altitude the working sun is going to take. We linve been told that a Royal Commis- sion is to itiquite into tlie merits and demerits of the Sunday Closing A< t. 01 our e, such eniliu- sifisiic teetotaler* ns tlie Messrs. Beavan, Williams, and Co. will figure prominently bt-fore it. But how is the working man's voice to be heard in the tuat'erV There is one way in which it might be used effectively, and that is by getting up a petition anint nuch a repressive measure and Fending it round for signature 10 every working ulan who may be 21 years of age or over, and in this manner —besides getting hissigtia1 ure attached to the peti- I ion-a good npporr unity would be opened up for eliciting nis views. Or-, bt)ttor still, could not mass meei ing, be I;eld of the working men of the town, ind let some of them p, &it and move resoluti IfNI. which could be submitted to the Royal Cotnaois- j-ion P As the Commission will sit shoitly, some- thing should be done immediately to make out H clear, forcible, and comprehensive case against Lilig tyrannical Act.—I am, &c., << Cardiff. A WORKING MAN. ••FAILURE OF rHE SUNDAY CLOSING I ACT." TO THK KDITOB OF THil "WbSTEBN MAIL." I :,1111,-111 tlie amusing speech nf Mr. David Sl eplwrd delivered at the usual weekly meeting of the Cardiff Blue Kibboniteg, and reported in Monday's fVettern Mail, he bj,,et a to the headings of the articles tnd 1.lIard relating to Uie qu@&tion of the results of the Sunday Closing Act i u Wales, a n d s t4 t a "lie u I d k t, n,) in what respect the Act had been a failute." If you will aliow me a little 1)1 your va'uablo space, I will try and how Mr. David Sjln-nherd that lie admits tlie railurein this very speech. Mr.DavidSlieplierd states that "tlie Act had been a blessing to the inhabi- tants 01" Cardiff. People 0"u d row go to phcea of worship at tlie Docks without being molested by persons who u->«d io fiequot tin- public-housaa. With regard to the quantity of drink sold, peibap; the Act was not a success." Now, if the Sunday Closing Act was passed to enuble the pious to walk tn their clutches and chapels witliout meeting their poorer and, perhaps, weaker brethren, it may be that the Act is a success; hut if the Act was passed to try and ramt d), tlie curse of exces- sive drinking on Sunday or to prevent Sunday drinking, ti. am.rding to Mr. David Shepherd, Uw Act is a failure. Theie is more Slroq drink sold ou the Sabbath at the present time in Cardiff than lhere w,,? before the passing of the Act. It is a measure Lad in principle a d d i -t,u. In eI:ellu:o:: 1i8 pDIÎIrng,ï: if he consider the following argument which he used in his speech a mend oac He eUIII-' that the opponents of Sunday Closing should bold a meeting and produce their supporters, and then see if the people we teetotalers produce do not compare very favourably with them," Tlie day of Ssbtoatsrisn legislation is gone by, never to return. Mr. David Shepherd must not think me unkind in quoting the following lines frow" fiudlbros*— Make up for a. they Indlasd to By damning thou they IIAT. m mind to. Some people cook on Sunday, some use Sunday t,.ine Going up tbe line on Sunday I met two prominent teetomlers who" tak.n &a acÚve p" rt in "tlie Sunday Closing" oootroverey. In conclusion, Mr. David Shepherd states thet he does not require a dub on Sundays, and why should other" Well, sir, why tlie "utfiers" require a club is the look-out of the "others," aid doea not concern Mr. David (Shepherd or the Blue Ribbon party. When teetotalers strive by example and persuasion, and by holding ant other inducements, to help their weaker brethren to overcome the curse of excessive drinking, they are doing « good and noble work, but when they or any M otllen" say," I don't do "and-so, and I won't let you do it because I don't do it," they are guilty of the worst form of tyranny.-I ass, he., A MEMBER OF THE WORKING MSN'S INSTITUTE. Mr. Jabes Watkins, 143, Sigh street, Cynuner, write* a long and earnest letter, wherein he appeals to ministers of the Gospel to eschew legislative methods of compelling men to be sober, and to adopt instead the methods Ofd lined by tlw Holv Scriptuiea. I

LOCAL COMMISSIONS. I The 1.01140" Gazetti of Tuesday night eontalas the1 following i— War OBce, April 8,1880. t VOLOKTMM. I ™ viueen nas approved tue undermentioned sorieoBi "'S' '?*«t u fit.wo. under Amy Onttf? of tBN) .-SMpen.tt)?oM nn)(tnt M iUtat<M?<e)otx?- J. G. H?.T?et.X.?.n HtB V.t.M.C..w, J," J;nkin., 1st VotM?tetr Battalion "I WOtt Wadmom »"raaon-«a^,« tM)HM M M<?x*-B. p. HUMM. Us P:=:L'I:) V?n?ter =; ::r mentt 0, Pegas, '*< Gkm.,pe AUl" YnI.- CJ. L, W. Ward, M(9hm<?") TetaMem Btt?Hou th. Wthh Regiment; 8, Jon#@. Srd (0)tm<? ■*n) Volants* hattalloti the WWb Bednsl i 1, BMM. M Votant? lkttb.. the OMMt IW.IM BM- i ti:r'¡81==:= D. V. ?L!i L(bd=kn?*MMII) V*I%.Ww 8-th W,,W- Borderers.

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NONCONFORMIST GOSSIP. I Elly NOXCOX. QOILL.] PRINCIPAL KDWAUDS, OF ABROYSrWriTit. Tho anxiety deepens us tho time draxs iirglr for Principal Edwrtrds to give his answer 10 the request to succced I,i 1.,II;cr as principal Gf i Theological College. Tiie Methodius are devi/i iy hoping ttiat Dr. Uwsird-i will goto Bala, so Ihat the college affairs may >jncn more be put in order. For eighteen mouths, p>esuinnb'y because no fit man can he found to fill the important post, the princip81hip of the Calvin's'ic Methodist College of the North has been vacant. Will Dr. Edwards come to the rescue? The Golevad is pretty sure that be will, but no authority is given for the statement. I can understand that Dr. Edwards must find himself placed in a very delicate position. It is well kuown that he is anxious to devote himself entirely to theology and preaching, l'hoso who were present at the Llanelly Association In August, 1885, remember his passionate appeal for assistance to re-build Aberystwlth College, recently destroyed by fire. He was anxious, he said, to see Aberystwith a success so that he might with an easy conscience resign his post and give hilDsclCto preaching; until success came be was bound to remain where he was. If Principal Edwards thinks bit work at Aberystwith is done he will undoubtedly go to Rata, not otherwise. The decision will be made known next Tuesday at the Menai Bridge Associa- tion. Meanwhile I note that the council of Aberystwith ColJtge has passed a strongly-word, d resolution of appreciation of Dr. Edwirds's wo 1: and expressive of a desire not for him to h i v. Aberystwith. TIIK DOWN OBADB MOVEMENT. Dr. Hannay has denied that in his 4 UbI 1 alian speeches he attributed such a widespread f"lIiDg off from orthodoxy to the Congregational ministers of this country, and the big guns of the denomina- lion are beginning to resume their wonted self- satislaction. But Mr. Spurgeon is still uncon- vinced nay,he finds that the evil which he decried nearly two years ago is growing continually. In the Sword and Trowti ht this month the great preacher writes:- If any friends imagiue that the growth of error in the Nonconformist Churches his come to a pause, they are sadly mistaken. We have mourn- lul evidence that the bad are growing worse, and some of whom we hoped better things are becoming unstable. The worse feature of the case Le the want ot moral honesty which allows perMm to pa*s reaoinHoM in ?hich they do not believe :l:}:f:,cI:hIb,1 :It another for private U6. THE INTMrrtONS or in* LIBKBATIONISTS. I Liadmarydd," of the lyst, contributes a long letter to this week's issue of Y Genedi Cymreig, in which he discuses Welsh subjects of immediate importance. Among others, of coarse, the ques- tion of disestablishment is taken into considera- tion, and Dr. Thomas gives it as his opinion that the matter cannot be postponed once the liberal pMtycotpe ir'n power. It has been acknow- ledged general iy as one of the most important planks in the Liberal platform, and moat. be dealt with at once. Evidently the enemies of the Church are determined to overthrow her and seise her property. The sooner Churchmen realise the atti- tude of the political Nonconformists and take measures accordingly the better it will be for the future of the Church. The preachers are making a great fuss about Ireland and Bome Sule. The fact Is, these gentlemen don't care a toss for the Irish question, but they are anxious to see it out of the way, so that they may work their own sweet will in matters relating to Wales. TM eMORiO Aa?OCiATtOW OF TNE CAMMFF I JOUTODIM, I I am In receipt of a letter on the nbove subject from a Welshman, who signs himself" Sholl Gorpli." As it dealq with H matter of much local interest, I may be allowed to traoiilate it verbatim. "Stion Gorpli" writes:- Sir,-Pet-niit me to call itt!enticn to the Singing Association of the C.ilvinislic Methodists of Card:ff district. The Association is just at li-ind it will be 10.. >i Good Friday. I understand that a lot of il." ng exists among the singers because Dr. Park iicen chosen to conduct at tlie festival. Mie-. • "t that lie was chosen by unfair mcans- tha 11 clique in the committee rushed liirn throIUII. This is surely not the time to raise such object oris. When Dr. Parry was appointed, many nr. r ago, the complaint was tliat the commit' ..adgone outside the connexion i'ot- a conduc ■while there were 10 tho body nren equally capable of conducting, and that such men were slighted by the choice of Dr. Parrv. That may be so or nor, but Dr. Parrywas cimijec. and for my own part 1 think \bat the committee showed Its liberality by tiriating n man belong- ing ':J:%tIffn'ld t% b'Dn!t the MetModist Association. I earnestly hope that the ringers will unite to make the festival a success, and thus bush up the contemptible and mean bigots who thrust their prejudice forward on all occaaions of this kind. DB. 11MB.. KTANS AT WESTMINSTER CHAPEL. I Dr, Herber Evans lms been preaching In West- minster dispel, London, and the papers speak In very high terms of him. By far Ih" moat interest- ing account appears io the Brittth tVeeMy, from the pen of Claudius Clrar," who tells This part is stocked with good preachers, but in obtdisnce to instructions I found my way to West- minster Chapel on Sjnday evening to hear Dr. Berber Evans, Not unwillingly, because lie come- from Wales," the land where ancient altars burn -where there ia stilt a spiritual, mysterious, poetical thrill In pulpit speech. Ever so mu) years ago I heard Dr. Evans preach a sermon to young men in the same place, and on Sunday night, as I Slit in tlie gallery andgaz.d on the preacher, It seemed as if time bad stood still. For the chapel looked handsomer than ever (it is a bright, spacious, and, indeed, a magnificent buildi ng), and no wrinkle had been written on the preacher's genl," fnOt; his eye was not dim, and I could not even trace fit. 11 fil at flakes that tell of the hastening snow." The audience, thongli not so large as on that occa- sion, was large, and it was certainly no older. Genial before all things is the word to apply to the pn .mr. Fresh, poetic, and other adj-ct'ves ino in nfr>r«ards, and have their pine. but that i. the first thing. It was preaching Uiat touched the iioalt. sacseaioNs TO TB8 CHOBCH. I The Linn this week confirms the report which appeared in the Western Vdrit a fortnight ago, that a Calvinistic Methodist minister was about to go over to the Church, and furnishes full particulars The minister in question, s lya the Llatt, iatlie Rev: John Williams, late pastor of the Methodists wor- shipping at Libanus Chipel, Maovtel. He it a comparatively young man, acceptable as a preacher, and of high repute among the Metho- dists as a successful student. He was at Trevecca College for five years, where his diligence and talent placed him at the liead of his clave*. In the synodioal examination, which it the theological examination that pre- cedes ordination, he was btacketted first through- out the whole of Wales. Leaving Trevecca he took charge of the English cause at Naiitymoel, where he laboured for three years. Be left for Siaestsg in the summer of 1889k and ever lID. lias been pastor of LitMaua. I do not altogether, on account of a personal ooaaeetion wftli him, feel free to speak of his merits, but there is no doubt but that In bis secession the monthly meet- ing of West Glamorgan toeee one of its most promising young men. MULTUM Ii PARYO. I Mr. Joseph Bar" was crdilood on Monday at the English Church, Hirwain, the Beva. R. Thomas (bandore), D. Cadvan JOIM* aod C. Tboums, BJk. (Carmarthen), T. Ediuuada (Hirwain), W. B Thomas (Aberdare), aod J. 0, Jamea, B.A. (Merthyr), taking part.—By tbe death of Mr. Joseph Joaes the KnglMi Oahrinlstlc Methodist Chureb at Brecon has lost its senicer deacoa and treasursr. For many years he wss a teacher and superintendent of the Sunday SehooL A few months age at the South Weiss Oon. ference held at Brecon he initiated tiie sustentatlon fun& At Mx htMMt on Thu"&y uw Bev? J. :nr'w' oactt«d<—The <tet<h is announoed of MrI. 8. Stephene, widow of the Now. 8. Stephens (" Tenymarian."), She died quite suddenly at her residence, near Bangor.— August It and following daTa hare beea bed AI the daye on which the Union of W" Independents win meet at Betheeda. Tlie Rev. Tho*. Davits, of Llsnelly, Is chairman-ehiet.—The Rev. B. Trogwy Evans, formerly of Greenfield, but who for eome time has held a paatorata In Amerlea. will shortly ram to the Pri-dp-Oty-A mm*"W hM bew htM at Brynrodyn to bid fMw-eU 'oth< R<?. W. W.D<?ttt.o<t)M)etvinth?pMh)tM)HDttotn. 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LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT. THE BARRY DOCK AND RAILWAYS COMPANY'S BILL. PROCEEDINGS HEFORF, THE SELECT DECISION OF THE COMMITTEE, (FROn oca OWN REPORTER, ] Th..Bi..? 'ur.h..r considered h/thf)* C. mmittee of Ihe B'>U8e (I Lords p?eei%jtd byErl Cowper r, rge O".le" R:i.to!, II;e .„)  United Kingd?)m Mot.' aM?iatkn. wa.u? 6? witneg, He said he hd a g-?d tnowiedm?E IOL&Iitr. ?nd bad given evidence about it bet- the 8eltct 'nm?iMM M Ute Home of c« moua on PiiotMe I&t year. He h.!i?-.t I the Cardiff FILOtAks Board as existed e. present was one of UIO most capable hot t. in the United KiDgdom, and lie should like se pilotage hnards to be similarly constimt* throughout the country. It gave the town a t representation on behalf of ctie public, whilst tAk, interest* of the dock and sliip owoers and 1..01 pilot4 were also represents, flavin "I corfi.tf. able experience, he believed thk, ,t ii s were amongst the mostcomr. tjouiui k kingdom, nnd the Cardiff I ir tKPBll,ril pilots of the Barry Dock ,icf He CM not see the need f<r aootiwr pilo:^ authority for Barry. belifv.rK that it would Ud to endless confusion. If Barry bad anot i*r pilotage authority every other dock would it entitled to the same right, which wr)uld ien t uv Ihe cutting down of rales and the lowering of ;■« xt^ndard ot pilore, Ciost<-ex'iniined by Mr. Peiiiber, Q.C. (foi i:* r.-motera): Why eliould not Baity, as an iinp s- act dock, have control over its own business aid license the people whom it thinks fit ? Wttnsss: I think the importance of Berry rx rrs in the minds of the dockowners of Barry. Is that your reason P—No, that is not my reason I say Barry U not an important place. It does Mt exist. Why should not Barry have power to license N own pilots as well as Cerdifr and Newport1- Becaose the pilots are already licensed by CatdH. I think it is thoroughly undcsirabls for a IDI8 III attempt to serve two masters and be licensed fe two ports in the same Channel. It is unde-irttb to have dual control for two iloek* so c: s" 11) os* another. Mr. Pope, Q.C. (for the Car Jif fJ'ilutogc I; then proceeded to address the commute,, 118 said that if he had not known the Barry Dock Ow- pany for a good many years past he atioul(I uW Ihls action on their part an impudent request; I., the fact was that they bRd grown to consider tfcst Pfrixment should *x<fciM < providential int<? mee in their favour whenever they had MB difficulty tbeIIm:ieTf=;: call this action on their part an uou8ualapp- lion. They said, Although we made an a pat- cation in 1886 for pilotage authorify for Ba? long li- 'e "e ad commenced (,. —which c not yet completed, althoM thev are progressing rapidly towards cctnpMfm —although in 1885 we made the arrangessnfll that the Cardiff Pilotage Board ehould be ito I'ilptage authority for Barry, on condition ihsta 1887 we had a certain number of representatives— although Uiis is the case, the lrat -at U« 'hete appe?rt to beany fnotioe betwom our rep? s,henertae t*i,p ,Md the rest of the pik*ap board as will come to Parliament to upset the wbois d that arrangement and constitute oursdba a separate pilotage authority." Then assa many reasons why they shou'd mt be allowed separate powers. He mm far from Myin? that the Barry &a and Dock @hould not enter into &I ke a = tion with the Bute Dock* or T.ff Vale 2401 a they <y?)d, but he would mu&o their Am am plaint. It was that Barry should have cksai rates than the other porta in the district. For I" reason P The shipowners, of course, might Ms to have a saving upon the cost of bringing (kk vessels into port, and tbe dockownsrs and railaag would )if? the ,pportu?ity of hiMf in dm fc" 01 the public that was a cheaper dock tl4n c.r8 because the dues were less. But as regardedfts public Ihere would be no advantage, becau." reduction, compared with the freight rate, wetfl be so small as to make no differenoe In the COlt" oinveyance. Tbe Barry people seemed to ttet that the moment they had got any kind 4 grievance they should tppn to Parliament pnas* dentially to interfere in their behalf. Since when their dock was authorised, there trad est been a session when people had not been rtraqgj hefor" Parliament to test some contention of ft Barry Dock and Railways, who wanted sasw iurther powers to euabie them to maintain th& couipelilion. New railways, new docks, pilotsp boards, and all sorts of tilings were to be sew tioned for tlie sake of the Barry Dock and 16 ways Company which were not sanctioned for., other dork in the kingdom. lbeinrood eounal contended that the Barry Company, 4 they felt they had a grievsuce ty the fixing of the same rates Ie Barry as for Cardiff, could have appealed to :<< 8<'I\d of Trade, who would have bad power 8 settle the rates definitely. But Barry had 94 done this, and, therefore, they had no right to at Parliament to afford tbtom" heroic remedy wlaai they had nut triod tho ordinary one. Upon tMa ground, if upon no other- he urged that tlie ■ should be rejected. li-re-Wtive of that up ment, tliete were other reas ins why their lordaMta should hesitate before passing a Bill of this ksA Had the Barry Company appeaM to the Board of Trade and set had their grievances removed, then thW :i: have been justified in coming to Psrlitmes,, as t!ie supreme &uU'Orityt to settle the ratbr. But, apari from that, tbere wir? other reasons wif their lordships should not interfere with the east- ing pilotage auti oritiea. and that was the ilNli- nence of public upon the very Their lordships tiad heard that last year a c- minee sat upon the pilotage of the UMi Kingdom and made recommendations, and thU Bill had been preparadby the Board of Tiwfc which was now submitted to Um best pilotap bodies at command. But what was tlie grievan* of the Bnrrv Company ? It was that tlie Csriff Pilotage Boud had not given to Barry advantages of its geogiap'iical position." TlaC meant cl-etpt?r mtes lo rry bw&ut* it w« further down tiie t^iauueL But no l>y-i«r of the Cardiff board could deprive lary of the advaii1 ages of its geogr.oliiisl position, for tlie simple r.ason that B". being at the point of the Channel where pilotage 61 not become necessary—all the pilotage tlie vesrf after the had readied the limite of the Baty division, 1\8 and by ttte by-law, weald have to PIlY would be the pilotage from AM Breaksea Lightship to tlie Barry Docks. In ease eluding, Mr. Pope denied Uiat a pilot would beND to do more work at Barry and multiply his awn- ings. Therefore tlw increase in the number of ft* men employed wouid reeult in the decrease of fee pilots, wages nnd the loweiingof tlieeUndaid .f tlie men ew ployed. Mr. Pembar, Q.C., then replied on behalf ■ as promoteis of th'4 Bid. li. aid tliat lh U-7 Companr claimed tiie right to be free, nnd it sua obvious th it, being only three on the board out of eighteen, ih-y were in a hopeless minoriiiby fifteen to three. THE DECISION. The room WRI theft cleared whilst t lis c. mnrntMi deliberated in private. ?" Lbe pu"" ?"' re-admitted, The Chairman ann unced that the commi ts* pllllel the preamble ul the Bill, on the eksiitjii .-m that a* regarded Chinnel pilots only the J1 >I 1 Dock Pilotage Board shnll for three ye ir. !a their licences only to men already licensed "Y Se other board. Mr. Wolfe Barry woe than called to explain .«e or two cl.- in the Bill which w" u"cpp?A With ?e ,d to the Puwtn to raim adolkona 18í:riJ Vat these were necessary for Ms purpose&om was for tlie larger ft'ting up d 4* dock than origin.lly contemplated, ana 0,6 *Nw for Uw purpose of t?iat a deep water iwk so that 8IU could 8pploadl uie doek all tMM of the tille. Anothw putt of the prsatnM* related to now roads, which had be* constructed by the company for the purpose ef giving access between Cardiff and Barry. Sts company saw for PO" to allow U- to ag? with the toc? amiorkin for um sftul&t?. di these reaft The clauses having been gone through by A8 Chairman, the Bill pasted UIII committee. THE GOLDEN VALLEY RAILWAf BILL. Ttus Bid cam* before a select committee of do Bo- of -(P-" w to B40V &lw,.) "7. Ttt =., as Bill 18 to obW.. the -oD 01 t?MMMnt M ?t construction of new railways between the PAig- port. Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway at Wi81 Harold to the Moomootk Railway at Msg Hill Station, as as undertaking with ggpmoft captal; to enable ibso to no om and we porum vi those two Milwajs and of the Hertford, )m and Brmnw the 88nrn .nd Wye Md &me Brtd?e, Gt*U "0 f?Hwoyt; to e<Mr t?? -rking and traft agreement* wim tbe am* Wemern, London Md Nertt) WetKm, = = t?t<'ty and to pay out" c?pittf during an time limited for t" 00. ttoa of Ute wocb.-Tbe ht?tint had not conch'" whsa tbe committee roee. THR BUTE-TAFF AMALGAMATE BILL. A POSTPONEMENT AGREED UPON. The Bill for amalgamation between the Nds Dock* and the Taff Vale Railway Coaspsav ha* been postponed till after Easier. Lsrf OowpoOs Committee will dlseolve today (WodMP day), and counsel stated that it would be kh- passible to finish the BIll by that time. Ate fester it may oome before the same or ansMsr Committee.

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