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ptlilit amusements. CAKDiFP; yiHKATRTC iiOYAL, CAnIHVF. 1,&.t\¡';K An)1 UU01£R MR. ROWARYJ f1'L.TCIH::¡ 6CTI'ôfi MANAOKR .1n JONS TO NIGHT (WKDNKSDAY), NOVEMBER 19. tNUKMOUS SUCCESS and HXTHUSJAtmO PH, El*- TION of Au«ujta Van Blene'* celetrHted Burlesque Company in the great OniPty Sneco*?, KUY B AM)'rm; IJLASE OUE. I1 LAY HO OVFU 3'50 TIM KS AT THE (Mlttl'V THIJATRK, l,i .NOON. The Popular Cardiff 1,(llIrit. Miss ADA HLANCflK as KUY IH.AS, 6TRONG AS II VOWBKFVL CHOHV*. NEW AND ELAHOKATK COsTUMES. JBOHNlNG PKHFOliMANCK ul nut 1!LAS on SATUR- DAY. Nny. 22, Kt. Two o'clock. oud 'JV.-3 Rii-at Huymartet NON OA Y. OV. 24. Jkerl1oJlIl1 'f"f' 1Z"('Rt IIaymarket bucc. A MAN'S SHADOW. Box Plan at Thompson and glmckeN ■■ (Ltd.). H,T ind,~ rrnrE~A T K E n 0 y A L I  RFKFKCTAHIB YOUKa MEN Required /Li i AS Buprrmiinaries tor t he Great Drama, ? *A"'M<'K''?*?AM'?."?'* At the THRAIRE ROY *L, Cardiff. Monday Next. Nov. 4:- Reht'I\r""t. 6:tlur,J "(' (tirj'). n t T\f o'('f>ek. 42..bS nnHE M i' i R E J TONIGHT! MISS L- LUCY (jLARKE, Fresh from the field of her roaguiticent London f:uci'ue8, whitùflr ho returns upon the conclusion of ber engagement here. Thb js ftJ) espaial vi?it, which the has been induced too make (I) by ihv larie salary sho wUl receive for same, find (2) for t ho purpose of giving her friends a taste of her present quality. MISS KATIE LAWRENCE f THE MARVELLOUS FRANCOIS AND DAGMAR AND OTHER GIFTED ARTISTES, Up to the usual Standard at The Empire'. NO ADVANCE IN THE PRICES But Private Boxes at 209.6d. and STALL SEATS CAN UK BOOKED IN ADVANCE At 19. above the usual charge. Apply at the Office in The Empire between len and Two Dally. 1602d2t £ 10L0NIAL-IIALL, CARDIFF. At thp. ) j HaU. "ICi LiT (VVt >N? I \Y)V-»v. i9th, 1390, MIL. W. r.i;rrr IMVVMKIJ Has the honour t<> v • • » rsiOALand DRAMATIC r- k, fn?r)hffu!tuwii.j;? i I'.Mvonage Sir More-m Morgau. Ki.. A.i V.v.y, AldennnnT. w Jacob*. and Alderman 'I Councillors 3. H. Brain, haseelles Carr, W. c. Hurley, and Richartl Price. j<q.; the Members of tlu* Rmt1 Cycling Club; tile Members of lli« C.udiff Pscatorial Society; the Atembers of the Harlequin PootbaU Ttani. Keserve Seat-q. 3s. Seond Ditto, 2s. Body of the nail and Balcony, h. Dt*or« Open Rt 7.15. Comme«ee Kt 7.45. 97462 1JIIILHAKMONIC THKATlJiS OF J. VARIETIES. IO-OGIIT (a r.REln' MARVELLOUS TUOUFE OF 1'BRFOUMINO GOATS—A GIUUr NOVKL'ir. EUNICE VANCB. PUOFESSOK WOODHEAD, AND Ol'HKR*. S7Cc6 p 7vK K H A L, OAK o I F F. NEXT ATUIWA1', ?OfKM[!Ef: SZ.?MM, NEX T The Idol of Llmdon Opera Goers," MR. H K N ?A?'T?'S, Anù the E01iueill Contralto, MISS M A H I A N 31 A C K K Z IK Flan of the ilall and "e.la Booked at Mr. W. lewis's, Ollk.eef,. Balcony, h. 6-J,; Front Heat*. h.; Admi33ion. Eù. f 976 2 JOJIN ^ANGIiK AND ICONS' J 0  iiOVAL CIKCL'S AND WEN'AGKUIE, PENA ETll-KOA D, CARDIFF. The Lare^st and Grandest Show in the World, now in course of construction, and ",iff shortly open tor the Winter Season. For Dates and Particulars se- Uill3 aud Futurt Advertisements. Sole Proprietors-JOlIN SANG ER AND SONS, from Astloy's Ámpblt beatre. London, 57377 TtrOTICE OF REMOVAL, DR. COOPEK, RHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Has Removed from Fern Villa, Giangetown, to ISO. 113, BUTE-ROAD, CARDIFF. FOR THE WORKING CLASSES-SCALE OF CHANGES Advice and Medicine. Is. Dit 0, ditlo. for Children, 6J. Visits, li. Nigh: Visits, extra. VACCINATION, WEI>S>:S DAY. from Two p.m. till Four p.m. Vaccination, Is- Ditto frm Heifer Vaccine. 2s. MIDWIFERY FEE, lis. Dr. Cooper issues Self-Supporting Dispensary Notes, which ent:tle3 the patient to Professional Attendance and Medicine as under For Onv 'Yk. 53.; for Two "ek, 7a. Gd. For Chit.?en' F?r O.? Week, 3,. Ed.; tor Two %? ?,,k?, 5?. The nbove is strictly a Cash Transaction. ADRRM3: No. 143. BUTK-KOAD, CARDIFF. [!Mld22 CA VENDlSIl HOUSE, CHELTENHAM. COSTUMES. WALKING COSTUMES from 35s. 6d. VKslIING COSTUMES. laCH -ILK COSTUMES. IIANf)<)OMI!: DfNNfiK GOWNS. £ I. £ GANT BALL COSIUŒ" JHŒSSMAKI:\U. Cutters and Fitters of tha highest decree of efficiency and thoroughly eX(Jnienced. workers guarantee to our customers the i>erfec< ion )f tit ?'i'mi?h. PATTERNS of Materials and Sketches of Styles, with estl. mates of cost and all particu- jars. are Jenfc post free* on application. CA vmmnm OUSE ^JOMPANY (LIMITED). 79370 T MP OUT ANT TO LADIES. P A D Y ANT) B E E R (Lite SAMUEL PADY>. HIGH-CLASS TAILORS AN P HHKKr'HES MkKER, 42. QUEEN-STIiKK'i. t I I Messrs. PADY and BEBK 1, kltj they liavfi fouud it necessary, t>v rt-ii- >civasing ::r.1 to OPEN a BEPAUAT': i>" I'-UiM r tor LADIES' Genuine TAlLOH-MAbi) 1.-US1 UMK.S, and arp, now Showing Specially Deal-ne t Cloths for Autumn Gown*. Coats, Ulsters, Hiding Kablts (!.pe??tS Skirts.  A ?? ? ??  Co>TUMKS from £ 3 15s., Rqual in every re-<p ct to Loud -n 1\(.¡Jcps. Gnt1eftwn'i4 De[",rt.m"llt in its usual efficiency. New Goods für Autumn aud Winter In fjifest Desig-.s HUÙ MRIHil&l. Liveries, Uniforms. Ac., Ac. bpecialiti— bveuiug Dr''ssSuiis. ??''?''? ?. &>*74 A It M E Ji 3 ervu YOUK OWN WOOL TO BE MADE INTO CLOTH From V. 3d. per Yard. BLANKETS from Is. 2d. pr Yard. BIOCKINO YAKN from 9d. per lb. Ca*ri»R« «H>th ways on all orders over £1. Patterns forwarded to select from. TY b 1, A CO. MAKSUAN MILLS. LLAMJYriSlL, SOUTH WALKS. lF29.. EPI-S'S| (VKRiKFAHT) (1 00 0 A.! J I GRATEFUL AND COMKOJtTING. MADE 61MPLY WITH BOILING WATER OR MILK. LSI 37 ..II.-I'K ?'?'? '?"? WILD WI1J I J 1. BAY."—Unquestionably there 1& no remedy up to 'lie present a^e equd to '\L'J)'O?W)M.)A.\?'S PATENT BALSAM W HONEY for all Chest Auc- tions. Ff)r1.ifl. the system, increases th resisting I?Wr agaii.9t disease, ht.als thu lungs, 'Id cures.. I •winter cough "hn "It ulher ntmdie9 fail. If you, children,or fri? i, losing vour grip on Iif? and ucely able to breath* von should tl.V 1'Q,lo! wun, n:'3 Piient Balsam of Honey. For weak-Rhe^rnl men, women, and children. H curt's when aU other me iicin^s fail. Cures C('Uh8. Colds, JlrC\lIchltis, A!hma.. Tightness ol theCtiest. Cur»-s thousands of uhiidren from Bienchitisand Whoo)Ung Cough. Cure3 for Oll 8hiUh ishen pounds have bn spent in vain. -(.[ If S(ii<i t\v nit Chcmtsti and Stores. 1^34 ^pELTH amkj.'h > .r 81JUKTH. JL OWEN'S AT CA!?I>IFE. X 11rom lonifr- ^*he i JO vears), AMtST?7 ?' l v,KNAH12. A'JTIJN 1 LL iSf 4T 2. Q\!Y :> ,iW1H" AMERICAN U.»: .Now Dentistrr. I'?', ? Ircm ',2d. l to £ 9.10s. Single lfl. cji- ^0 (-9 N arranted {.- ,:iv« y satisfaction.p \rt:'bj(:: iJSi,].I. V, 4, OXbVHo-STUc:hlVt SW?t..SA K ConeutUtions Froe. U.iilv. ti».n Nnu nd Eight. N AN J EL OWEiN & CO. 'S A I> ?' 1 ? ttA'L?At \!u UB8. the "UIŸ:U' 1, RsM • hk*. jifice Id. iv*«r attimtn Iroa t. 5,. m '¡. c*r»«0 public gmusewnit^ SWANSKA. E\y THEATRI^ WIND-STREET, .r SWANSEA. Kntire Change To-Night and During the Week, at 7.30. 'Ir. IV. H. SUAKPE'S Company with the Great Realistic (hama,entitled ?'?" SAVED FROM THE STREETS, An ind<firi*l School 8wry; with xtraQrdinary Real W;,tr y.:tTct" Ua' Ri,?r ?t'h '!?? Bo*t*. y R'.1 8c"J»erv, k1'. '?M??y ..It, THE ROMANY RYE. from the Prin- cess's Theatre. Hermann Vzlll's return visit at early date. Dorothy, hI. and l'epil" are coming. r31580 SEASON 1890-1. H. Jgl VANS AND CO. Are now siiowing a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF ME L ATES C AND MOST jpASHlONABLF. NOVELTIES FOR TBW p R-USENT g )! A S 0 S IN CLOTH & PLUSII MANTLES, JACKKTS AND COATS; HEAl, SEAL-SKIN MANTLES AND JACKETS, F UK- LINED CLOAKS, C 0 S T U M E S, TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED HATS AND BONNETS, LADIES' & CHILDREN'S OUTFITTING, LACKS, HIBBONS, GLOVI", DRESS FABRICS AND SILKS. ALSO A VERY E A V y g T 0 C K OF THE BEST MAKERS' GOODB IN FLANNELS, BLANKETS, QUILTS, SHEETS, LINENS, AND CALICOES. F U It N I T U B E, CAUPICTS, CUUTAINS, FURNISHING MATKRbVLS, BUDSTEADS, BEDDING, AND HOUSEHOLD IRONMONGERY TO SCIT ALL REQUIREMENTS, Toraiile-slrcat. 81Vlluea, November, 18S0. [81496  W I K'S Pi -:) ¡ ,y n N'" G ?BAKSMG ?"POWDE? C'I, ,# W,

LLANDAFF CATHKDRAL SERVICES. Wednesday, November 19.—Stainer in E flat; anthem, It As pants the hart/' (Rpohr). Thursday, November 20-Go iu A; hymn, 285. Frid<>v. No\'m"r 21. Gibbons in F; anthem, Daughters of JelU,.¡em" (Elvoy). 8aturdtt,r. Norcmber 22.—Barnby in E; anthem. "We will reioice (Croft). C. J. VAUGHAN, I

WEATHKR FORKCAST. I The weather throughout the West of Englandand South Wales for to-day (Wednesday) je fcrecasted. as follows {—Southerly and south-westerly winds. mild damp sonic rain at times. The weather in Cardiff 011 Tiicday wm dull autl wet. the ïortc,at havinr been Southerly winds, stroiig; squally showery.

BAROMETRICAL READING AT CARDII'F. Appended i, ?f the tinrometrical readings for the 43 IIIIUIS endei Tuesday midnight, as REGISTERED !tt the ?M'tftt Mail omer. CudH'f. Ti,? tntMumoi? is ,f: 'I\ 1.-el.

-=- YESTKKDAY'S RAINFALL. The rainfall, as registered »t t Tredeleroli. t Komi 11 near Cardiff, for tlm 12 liwir. ended 9.0 |>.n:. ;nst. niKht.aiid for cm:u 12 hour# ,( the P.?L ?.k. «« »s follow*:— 9 p.m. 9 a,Tn. Total. Tues inv 11 '14 -15 *29 Wednesday 11 '00 -M 'CO ,hu, Y )3 'DO '? '04 F?.? M 'M '00 '00 ?tur.t.y lo "0^  '!5 Sunday 16 *17 <0 *17 Mondav 17 -CO "00 '00 Tnes.?y. IS -S — Total for Hie week '75

SOUTH WAlES TIDE TABLE. ? Wednes i Morning. I 11 3b I 10 45 j 11 39 )0 ^8 )0 69 We.lll.' ) 1.i"i:TII 3Ç¡-ïo 4Ç¡Tl-39 ,-10 68 ïlO 69 dav. < Evening. I 12 0 J11 21 I 12 0 NtY'1911i:i:;rg I ¥ l i n ¿ g ¿ 3 11 31 Tours- i Siorning 112 10 I 12 0 | 12 15 1 12 0 1 12 0 lSvenin ■ 12 611'0 181 23 N?'SOtM??." ¥ 50 1 ? Z'?e 29 g J Nov. Fr, ri.d, ay, >Jor:iinn. I 1 36 I 12 40 j 1 34 j 11 48 j 12 51 F.(,t.y.t?,? 22113 2141 2.9 1 3^ | £ 7 10 | 26 0 ]_ 23 ? I 3 11 36 S;?tur- i Morning.. 3 1 1 £ 6 | 60 2 9 2 —98 ??."?_ \?JH??_?? _?_' ?o' ""2"2(H..?h?: 29M I 27 10 30 4 3l0 |J8 6 w- fn j 9 2 49 3 53 | 3 14 f 3 11 Sunday 4 27 1 4 zl | 3 42 | 3 38 N., ??V8 ]1 29 7 1 U 5132 9)06 ;M7 ond; av) 1 Morning* I 5 b | 3 55 4 49 I 4 9 4 8 E(,e[lil.t. ft 4 22 5 16 4 35 4 33 Nov. '? ) Height. 33 610 0 1 31 22 354 1 46 14 3 _358 l?24303 illuming 1 Tuesd; av } B nil 2 TMTT47 541 5 0 5 1 6 "1614 5'1 'l 65 1 6 2421253261 N, "2[,! ??i,t,?:. 13 1 3r 1i 3 3 2 I 2 MioaVli «asln tKaVt. Dock Sill. lAlexandra fiock. tHo k Sill.

I eaterday, at Liverpool, the greater part of the afternoon was devoted by the Conserva- tive Conference to the discussion of a resolu- tion to the effect that social legislation should be in future, as it bad been in the past, the sveat aim of the Conservative party. Mr. Haifour had been expected to address the dele- gates, but the chairman intimated that the right hon. gentleman thought it desirable to reserve himself for the great meeting at night, especially as it was against hiB doctors' orders that he WM attending the conference. The Dnchc.ss of Tuscany has received news of the snfety of her son, Johann Orth." His ship had been damaged and driven oat of her course by a hurricane. Grave apprehension is felt in Amerioan Government circles that a great rising is imminent amongst the Sioux Indians in the North-west Provinces. A New York firlll of bankers suspended payment yesterday, with liabilities amounting to 1,000,000 dollars. Miss Minnie l'almer," the actress, bas made a sensational statement, in which Rhe charges her husband with having attempted to take her life. In another column we give particulars respecting the recent finanoial crisis. Marien" has received an official com- munication from the Governor of Tasmania stating that David Davies (better known as Dai'r Cantwr "), who was one of the chief actors in the liebeoca Riots and was sentenced to transportation for twenty years, has been accidentally burned to death. At the meeting of the Edihhurgh Town Council yesterday notice of motion was given that it be remitted to the Lord Provosts Committee to consider and report whether the name of Charles Stewart P rnell, M.P., should not be removed from the burgess roll of the City of Edinburgh. A motion by the Radical members of the counoil, asking the provosts committee to decide if any, and what, action on the part of the corporation should be I takon, wae also agreed to. At a National League meeting yesterday Mr. John Redmond, who presided, said, on behalf of the Irish people, that they had read with disgust the malicious rumours with referenoe to the political position of their leader. Mr. Parnell, and that, despite recent events, his political colleagues would stand by him as their leader. Canon Francis Kearney, of Brooms, County Durham, died yesterday morning at the age of 70. He had ministered for 40 years among the Irish Catholic population of West Durham. The aotion by the London School Board against Messrs. Wall Bros., builders, for breach of contract in regard to the erection of schools at Kilburn was concluded in the Queen's Benoh yesterday, after lasting five days, The school board was awarded £ 2,141 damages. Mr. Morris A. W. Cohen, a justice of the peace for Macclesfield, oommitted suioide at his residence yesterday morning by cutting his threat. He had been suffering greatly from illness, aud was much depressed. The annual eihibition under the auspices of the South Wales Art Society will be I opened to-day (Wednesday) at the Queen- street Arcade Hall, Cardiff. A first noticu of the exhibits is given in another column. The fourth annual show under the auspices of the Cardiff Chrysanthemum Society was I heldyelterday in the Cardiff Park-hall. A full list of the judges' awards will be found in another column, Rival faotions amongst the members of an Independent chapel at Ferndale at the Church meeting oil Monday night came to blows, and engaged in a disgraceful meler. At an important conference yesterday, at Merthyr Tydfil, of the South Wales Miners' Federation, it was resolved that efforts be made to obtain an eight hours' day by means of legislation. An alternative proposal in favour of combination for the attainment of the same object was lost. A public conference was yesterday held at Merthyr of gentlemen interested in education with a view of considering the conditions of the county education joint committee in offering to aocept Merthyr as a place for erecting an intermediate school. A deputa- tion was appointed to wait upon the com- mittee and place at their disposal for tempo- rary use Caediaw School, and it was agreed to give a pledge for the fulfilment of the committee's conditions. A large sum was subscribed in the room. At Narberth County-court yesterday a solicitor's olerk, who had been aseaulted by two farmers in connection with proceedings for the recovery of tithe, was awarded R25 damages.

m. GLADSTONE AND MR. I'Al,NEI,L. I In the full knowledge of his guilt-of his shameful conduct—Mr. PABNELL asserted his rights to the leadership of the Irish Parlia- mentary party. if nothing hart happened, he issue:l the usual sessional announcement to his followers on the very day of the trial which was to blast his reputation in the eyes of every man of honour. No thoughts of resignation evidently entered into his mind. Perbaps he thought that the Catholic priests would say, as the Pall Mall Gazette suggested that they should say: Oh I I'ARNELL is only a Protestant; and what else can you expect from Protestants ?" In view of the consistent manner in which the Catholic priesthood has been recently courted by the Nonconformist ministers, perhaps Mr. PABNELL expeoted that those preachers who are the "backbone of the Itadioal party" would take an equally lenient view of his treachery and immorality. At any rate, we now know that no idea of resigning the leadership of the Irish party has entered into his mind, and it appears as if he were determined to brazen the matter out. Under these cironmstances, the interest of the publio will centre in Mr. GLADSTONE and the atti- tude which the Separatist chief will take up towards his oolleague in the leader- ship of the Opposition. If the issues of the present situation of affairs were not so important. it would be interesting to re-call the dealings of Messrs. GLADSTONE and PAnELL, Less than ten years ago Mr. GLADSTONE spoke of Mr. TAHNKLL as a menace to sooiety, and as a conspirator who was steeped to his lips in treason. At that time Mr. GLADSTONE was independent of the Irish vote. Later on, when Mr. PABNELL oame to the House of Commons at the head of a party numbering between eighty and ninety, Mr. GLADSTONE discovered that the Irish leader was a very much maligned man and a real patriot. Mr. PARNELI, became the bosom friend of Mr. GLADSTONE; nay, it is now remembered that he was actually an honoured guest at Hawarden at the very time when Captain O'SHBA'S petition was filed. The EX-PJ<EMIKR, no doubt, like a good many other English liadicals, fully believed that the suit was instituted against Mr. PARNELL for the single object of working his political ruin. If the lIimsieat justification could be shown for such a belief, it is oertain that lIlr. PABNKLL would not laok friends, because Englishmen, above all things, love fair play. The verdict of the Divoroe Court has, however, shattered onoe for all the pre- tension that Captain O'SHBA'S charge against Air. PABNELL was a political dodge, and the treachery has been fixed on the right person. How, then, will Mr. GLADSTONE act P It is certainly creditable to a largo section of the Gladstonian press that it has seen the prudence of making it very clear that English Radicalism can no longer ally itself with the Irish leader. Even the j?aM A?a? Gazette hi!uldt :ej:t1/Ja,,I longer hear that Mr. PABNELL is "only a Protestant," and as suoh nothing better than treaohery and immorality conld be expeoted from him. On the contrary, the world is assured that to keep Mr. PARNELL would be "to tar the whole Home Rule party with the dirty brush that has besmirohed himself." Proceeding, the same authority asks, Can any sane man believe that the Home Rule cause will benefit during the next six months by the hero of the many aliases being retained as one of the three oommanders-in- chief, or that the fire escape will be the golden bridge to conduct the waverers back to Liberal fealty P The refusal of Mr. PARNELL to withdraw spontaneously from publio life and the universal condemnation which has visited him conspire to raise anxious fore- bodings as to the attitude which Mr, GLAD- stone will assume. What have the Welsh preachers to say of their Irish ally? What course will the ministerial conductors of the Welsh press take?

A correspondent in our impression of yesterday draws attention to an important question in connection with the recent emeute at the Bangor Training College. The re- bellious students, who went out in a body, differ from ordinary students at schools and colleges, in that they are trained at the public expense for the work of masters in the board schools. That sixty or seventy students should rebel against the authorities, be then expelled, and re-admitted, all in the course of a few days, is a matter that cannot be dismissed by a few passing observa- tions. There are serious moral ques- tions involved. One of the ohief qualifications of a successful schoolmaster is the power of maintaining order and discipline in his school. That sixty students of this class should disobey orders and set legitimate authority at defiance and afterwards be re- admitted on making apologies-as if tbesfl were matters of ordinary life-are indications of the existence of a radical deficieooy in the management of the college. These young men will be marked for life, and their future effioienoy, to a great measure, impaired. How can boys be expected to obey suoh masters, when it is known that they themselves were onoe expelbd from the training oollege P There ought to be a thorough inquiry made into the way the oollege is managed, and step taken to have the evil causes removed. rhe worst feature of the matter is that the authorities do not realise the gravity of the situation. Expulsion is the last resort of discipline, and should not be enforced until all other means have failed, To re-admit the expelled upon only a mere apology is trifling with publio institutions. If the authorities cannot command the respect and obedienoe of the students, the sooner the better they resign their positions and make way for abler men. The recent faroe at Bangor bodes ill for the future of board school educa- tion in the Principility.

The relations of the two members for Merthyr towards each other are striking proofs of the rotten oondition of Welsh liadioalism. Both members have recently been addressing their constituents; they profess the same political creed; both swear by Mr. GLADSTONE and Home Rule—and yet will not speak to each other. Each member has his chairman and committee, and each his own supporters. Mr. THOMAS WILLIAMS is the perpetual chairman of Mr. 1). A. THOMAS—as he is of a score of other things—and Mr. JOSEVII OWEN does the same duty for Mr. PEITCHAED MORGAN. ICach of the members has his political friends. Mr. PRITCHARD MORGAN has been assisted by "Mabon" and Mr. ALFRED THOMAS, whilst Mr. I). A. THOMAS has bud Mr, I .LOYD- GEORGR to exercise his choice vooabulary upon the Merthyr people. An unknown Scotch member was thrown in as a make- shift. Why this display of M.P.'s it is diffi- cult to guess. Nobody questions the Radicalism of the majority of the eleotors of Merthyr, or the soundness of either of the sitting members in the Hadical faith,The usual praotioe of members of Parliament during the recess is to oall their constituents together and give an acoount of their steward- ship. But the members for Merthyr take a different oonrse. Their meetings appear to be held more with an eye to the general election than as an opportunity for the exchange of sentiments and courtesies between representatives and their constituents. The bitter quarrel of two years ago has not been healed. The Caucus has not taken its thrashing kindly, and appears hkelyto revive the contest at the next general election. What are the Merthyr Conservatives doing at the present time,and what steps have been taken to provide a Unionist candidate ? More than a third of the registered electors voted for Sir WILLIAM THOMAS LEWIS in 1880, and the Conservative element has been growing in strength ever since. The lanan is of opinion that a Tory would have a good chance.

General BOOTH'S appeal for funds for his great scheme for the amelioration of the ills of the human race has been most liberally responded to. It is reported that over forty thousand pounds have already been subscribed, and it is fully expected that the hundred thousand pounds asked for as a first instal- ment will soon be forthcoming. Whatever merits may be attached to the scheme, of one thing there is no doubt: that is, the respect in which the general is regarded by the public. It is on the face of it a little singular that, with the numberless religious organ isations existing throughout the country, there should be any need of such extraneous aid as that proposed by General BOOTH. And there is in the hearty manner in which the appeal is responded to a tacit admission that the present religious systems are inadequate to meet the wants of society. Is it not full time to inquire what the tens of thousands of ministers of the Gospel are doing P We hear much about new gospels," as if the old Gospel had been a failure. We likewise find a wide difference between profession and practice, and a readi- ness to discharge duty by deputy. The liberal way in whioh General BOOTH'S appeal has been met is due, no doubt, to this feeling. Wealthy men find this method an easy way of quieting their consciences, and a kind of compensation for the neglect of personal obligations. We do not attempt or wish to dopreciate the efforts of General BOOTH and his Army, but rather to stimulate existing organisations to a sense of duty, and a determination to grapple with the evils of the times.

Lord SALISBURY never uttered a truer word than when he said that "British trade followed the British flag." We penetrate into Australasia, and open out a vast scope for com- mercial enterprise. We annex Burmah, and the steel bayonet is soon re-placed by the steel rail, along which runs the laden coal wagon. We open out Africa, and the ant)- shin", of commerce is let into the thick and tangled woods and trade re-places barbarism. In the solitary item of coal exports, of which Wales has had the lion's share, the aphorism of the PRUMIKB is finely illustrated. We sent to British Africa in ltiSS only 16,45.1 tons of ooal. Next year, 1889, we doubled it by sending 32,210, and this year, up to the present, wo have already sent 60,5 ^3 tons, lu the case of South Africa, England is destined to again do the tutelary part which it has been her mission to perform in the growth and the rearing of nations. Thegroat colonies were nurtured from the family cup- board until they became strong enough to support themselves, and wise enough to develop the mineral riches which Nature has given so unsparingly to every land. In the case of South Africa, so far as it has been mapped, there are 6,000 square miles of ooal in iiasutaland alone, and 500 miles long in its greatest length. This coal is said to be very similar to that of Wales, aud is good for marine and locomotive engines. Singularly, too, there are tracts in South Africa disposed in precisely the same way as that of W ales — at its extreme point bituminous, then changing successively into semi-bituminous, good steam coal, and anthracite.

We lately gave some interesting statistics concerning the savings' banks deposits of our colliery and other districts, showing the w ise provision that is being made for the inevi- table ramy day. It would appear also, from the POSTMASTEU-GHNKBAL'S report just issued, that in one particular place the initia- tive has been taken amongst the benevolent in connection with ragged and Sunday Schools, which might very well be widely imitated. At the annual gather- ing and presentation of prizes over 800 books were presented to the scholars, each containing an entry of 6s. to the scholar's credit. In another case a liberal-hearted brewer gave away £ 1,630 in a similar way to the 340 men employed by him. In the coming Christmas season these prudential examples might well be imitated, and the Christmas gift to servants and employes be in the same attractive form. Amongst a large number there would, of oourse, be a proportion whose necessities or weakness would prompt to withdraw the money as soon as possible, but a certain number might assuredly add to the amount, and be stimu- lated to thrifty habits.

A local case near Cardiff has just been brought under our notice where a gentleman parting with his servant gave him a sovereign to deposit in the Post-office Savings' Bank. The master saw it done, as the man's disposi- tion was to spend all he could get.. me time afterwards the man showed his old master the book, with thirty pounds to his credit, and it was only a few years afterwards that the Savings' Bank depositor was able to buy his own house. It is far from our inten- tion to encourage parsimonious ways, as the miserly habit is too often accompanied by selfish and unsympathetic actions, but to be prudent and to be miserly are distinot charac- teristics. Last Mabon's Day a helpless collier was observed in one of the publio streets of a colliery town amusing himself as he vtaggered along with dropping now a shilling, then a sovereign into the mud. Unwittingly he was simply giving an illustration of himself and Of his life.

Just as expeoted, the representatives of the South Wales miners who met yesterday at Merthyr declared in favour of legislation on the eight hours, question. For no body of workiag men oould a stronger case be made oat than on behalf of the colliers, and if the experiment of an eight hours' day is to be tried, let it be tried in the coal pits if the men are fairly unanimous in their demand. It is in the main a matter for the men themselves, because even under economic considerations the colliers will be the greatest sufferers if it be found that a com- pulsory eight hours' day places this country under a disadvantage in its competi- tion with the foreigner. The resolution which was passed at Merthyr, and which will be found in another column, protests that the Miners' Federation of Great Britain should use its influence for the purpooe of effecting an international combination and of in- fluencing the various Legislatures to act together, we presume, on this question. If this could be done, we conceive that all objec- tions to an eight hours' day would soon vanish.

METROPOLITAN NOTES. I fFROM oUs LONDON CORRESPONDENT.} I Ma. PlRNKtX'5 ACCIDHNT." I opened my Daily News this (Tuesday) morning fully expecting to read therein that the verdict of the jury in the O'Shea v. O'Shea and Parnell case was a moral victory for the leader of the Irish Nationalists. What was my astonishment to find that the leading artiole dealt with the two forthcomiug political campaigns at Liverpool and Hheffield, organised respectively by the National Union of Conservative Associations and the National Liberal Federation. The second leader was headed Opera Law," and it was only in the third leader, and at its extreme end, that the subject of Mr. Parnell and the divoroe case in which he has been figuring—or, rather, in which his name has been figuring-was incidentally alludsd to. "The circumstances," according to the Separatist organ, "are deeply to be regretted." But it adds that the cause of Home Rule will not be injured by an "accident of individual leadership." THE NEW MOIlALITY. I The Separatist press evidently does not quite relish the position. When it was first announced last winter that Captain O'Shea had resolved to sue for a divorce on the ground of his wife's adultery with the Nationalist leader the Pall Afall expressed itself very strongly on the subject. It was very angry indeed because a Conservative writer in the Western Mail pointed out how unreasonable it would be to deprive Mr. Parnell of his position as leader of the Irish party even if the oharge were substantiated. The PaH Mall instantly warned the unorowned one to beware of such" Tory whitewashings." But here is the same organ a few months later itself whitewashing him because he has not followed the example of an ex-illustrious Gladstonian and perjured himself in the witness-bor. This is the new morality, then -you may commit adultery if you will, there is no harm in that; but you must not deny that you have committed it. A NEW HOUTS TO THB CONTINENT. The project of a new line from I fist to West, which will, if carried into execution, pass right through Derbyshire, reminds me of an ambitious scheme for a new route from the Midlands, the North of England, and the Eastern Counties to the Continent. This remarkable project has been frequently dis- cussed by several well-known City men for the last two or three years, and Sir Edward Watkin, M.P., was himself consulted in the matter a short time since. The chairman of the South Eastern, however, could not ap- prove the project, as he was of opinion that it would injure the company over which he himself presides with suoh success. Still, the would-be promoters of this bold venture are far from being disheartened at the scant sup- port which they have met, and it is quite possible that the scheme will come to the front before very long. ITS PIKKCTION. The raison Metre of this route would be the avoidance of the Metropolis. The line would cross the Thames, or, rather, pass under it, at some point near Gravesend, and the terminus would probably be at Dover. It is believed that a great deal of time and expense would be thus saved by a great number of people who are now obliged, muoh against their own will and convenience, to pass through town on their way to the Continent. The new line would most probably be in conjunction with theGreat Eastern and the Great Northern on the north side of the Thames, and with the South Eastern on the south side of the Thames. THE DAHKNTH VALLEY RAILWAY SCHEME. By the way, perhaps some of your readers well versed in the history of railway enter- prise will recolleot a somewhat similar scheme which was to the fore a good many years ago. I oannot at this moment fix the exact date. This was the Darenth Valley Railway scheme whioh, despite the strong opposition of several of the existing companies, would have been accomplished had not the promoters them- selves abandoned it at the last moment. The objeot of tho Darenth Railway scheme was to make trade livelier between the Eastern coutitiesand the Southern counties—princi- pally Kent. It was believed that agricultural produce would by the proposed line,which would unite Kent and the Eastern counties, passing by a tunnel under the Thames, be exported from east to west and vice versa at a greatly reduced rate. The objections of the com- panies were over-ruled, but the promoters refused to start operations until a oertain amount of money wa, subscribed, so the scheme fell through. LANDSKBB AND MILLAIS. I understand that a picture of much interest will be sold at the King-street rooms ou Saturday next. This is the 1 leath of the Ktag," the joint work of Sir Edwin Landseer and Sir J. E. Millais. The pioture was exhi- bited last spring at one of the private galleries in Old Bond-street. The stag itself is, of course, the work of the great animal painter, but a large portion of the background and the landscape in their rich and effective colouring bear clear evidence of Sir John's brush. Several Welsh landscapes-for the most part drawings and water-oolours-will be disposed of at the same time, namely, the Market-place, Conway, by L. Rayner Grongar Hill, Carmarthen, by David Cox a view in Wales with soldiers on the march, by David Cox (1838); and a view on the Biver Lud, Radnorshire, by J. Pettitt.

MINERS' PROVIDENT SOCIETY. GliNEllOUS DONATIONS TO THE FUNDS. Mr. A. Yauglian Le., Rheola, Neath, lias sub- scribed £100 to the funds of the above aocisty for Ilia present year, in addition to tlie;C25 stnt earlier in the year, to assist the society to meet the claims arising from the Morfa colliery explosion. Lord Aberdare has also increased his iinnurl oubscrip- tion to the society from £20 to £50.

LOCAL COMMISSIONS, The Irnidtn Gutitti of Tuesday night contained the following:- War Office, November 18. LINE BATTALIONS. The Welsh Rt!giiiietit,-Calitain Vernon B.] Kussell from half-pay to be captain, vice C. H. D. Cass, transferred to the Connaught Rangers, dated 19th of November. The undermentioned seoond lieutenants to be lieutenants, dated 19th of Novem- ber:-Arthur Phelps, to complete establishment; Lomax, vice A. Phelps, seconded for service with tha Army Service Corps.

THK ÐaINB: OF UKALTH.—Neture demands a varm aud refreshing bewage to Dourish and -.1. the lutem after fatigue. Those who value tlietr health must b.f.1 ,b.t thej drink. Herniman's T?- I- -Im t.1.1, pure; f uniform q.tUty. 6'e't %U_gth, .?d d?il?1-? B?oat. Homimane Pure T? H m? in p?kets oa y at !owMt Loutm pri-. Ltit ot Asentt ia the locality: — Dardift; Hoooll. 266, BntMUMi; Ireharnl and *on, ltute-road Anthony, JB. St* M*ry-«vrPei: Williams, chemist, 8, .lammitre.t; Muuday. chend«, Duke meet; I'rtint, lit, OU»ten-«reM; Dno« and Son. Chemiit,. it..Tohn'wqnare: Oaleuwu and Co„ I «.(»«« .touei, Oheiaf.t, Raath; William., 11. Pi"?" rk. Mn t.X I" Pl.th.r. Catha, Joe. Roath: Rarrf. 108. QuMit* «««■ VorataChenns. Oaatoa. Owrmatthen: TT,Ul,B md Co.. IS, Uneeu-sueei; wbuam& 7 GWII. h'?q?.- ?h??'tf'?MMM?O.wM?, Ri??Y"2:6.a.woji-. Po.?,. Obanritt. UEWRT J RN. Okeeint. inidd! KCeoyw. britee. W. J. Thomas, v.mulerolal-plaoe. Btelwrtwrt^RWIARDJ.Olwartat.Merthy:; Stephens, t'lKsmm. Penanb: Pr°<««r, OheiMrt. OadoT on; H"o kins <Ü."R=-.1:: HEMTOU If-th Hntrt HlrwaU: Oeorge Chemist. Owmaren: AneM. Chemist Ac. MJG

MORIEN S" VISIT TO I AMERICA. UNPLEASANT TRAVELLING EX- I PERIENCES. [BY "MORIBN."] I VIRGINIA, U.S., OCTOBER 23. We left Chattanooga on the night of Mon- day, passing off into fields of recent mining speculations. Now, to reach them the heavy Pullman sleeping and dining cars, filled with travellers, were taken over out-of-the-way lines of railway, where they bad never been seen before. We afterwards learned that the officials of the excursion trains dreaded the risks we ran, risks we ourselves were totally ignorant of at the time. The lines we tra- versed and the tressellod viaducts over which we passed were erected to sustain the ordinary light traffio of the districts. But eaoh of our trains weighed at ieast 400 tons, the engine alone weighing 60 tons. It seems that the principal risks were between Middles- borough (Kentuckyl aiid Pulaski, a distance of between 7U and SO miles. J»ooK)ng out trom our beds into the night on our journey to Middlesborough. we eaw in the dim moon- light that we had entered a hilly and wooded country. We were rooked to sleep by the un- easy motion of the cars. It was rather diffi- cult before falling to sleep to keep from roll- ing owing to the rooking referred to. No sooner had one re-settled himself flat on his baok, so as to secure, as it were, a broad foun- dation against the consequences of the rock- ing, than the whole train seemed to adopt a mild kind of gallop, and one had to plant his heels in such a position as to save oneself from rolling out of bed. Occasionally groans or snores-I am not certain which-would escape, like the un- earthly cries of Hamlet's father's ghost, from some of the other nineteen sleepers in the same caravan, nine of whom were prostrate on curtained shelves. In this manner were the late hours of Monday night and the early ones of Tuesday morning spent. At last, in the words of the poets, "gentle aleep visited the eyelids," and one dreamed of the steamship Servia and of the majestic rolling billows of the wide Atlantic. When we awoke daylight was struggling into the oars along the sides of the drawn curtains of the windows, and the white-jacketed negro guardian of each respec- tive car was moving, cat-like, down the narrow passage, through the middle of the oar, between the two rows of bed ourtains. We discovered that the cars were stationary. MORIEN TAKEN FOR A LORD. "Where are we P" I asked the mild- mannered Africanus. "At Middlesborough, lord," was the reply. The fellow, for some unexplained reason, has taken it into his head to address me Lord ever since I entered the oars and it is so pleasant to be mistaken for a lord, especially in a land like this, where lords are so much appreciated, that 1 have not taken the trouble to disabuse the son of Ham. Each hastily dresses behind his curtains, and occasionally a head is seen bobbing into eight between the curtain junc- tions during the toggery evolutions." The words, Breakfast is ready I" are cried by a messenger passing through the entire length of the ten cars, and after performing the necessary ablutions in a neighbouring car- through which the ladies pass with averted faces to the early meal-we enter the dining cars in relays. MIDDLESBOROUGH. We see through the windows that Middles- borough is a surpassingly pretty neighbour- hood, as far as natural scenery goes. The town-if it be correct, as yet, to designate it such-had no existence twelve months ago. The site of the town, which is in course of formation, is in a circular bollow about a Imile in diameter, among a circle of low mountains, rising in grand wooded stages— with deep dents between—back to the distant verge of the horizon. The wooded heights form a series of picturesque knolls, which, liko rolling waves, encircle Middlesborough. The leafy woods present to view almost all the tints of the rainbow, and there were in sight, afar off, charming dells, fit homes for Queen Mab and all the fairies of the Arthu- rian legends. The old Cymric bards would have peopled those dells with airy oreations, danoing in circular dances in the moonlight to the lively strains of the musio of the Goddess Ceridwen I daresay, were it possible to discover the ancient Indian legends re- lating to this beautiful and romantic neigh- bourhood, we would here find traces of the human mind, even in savage communities, seeking to commune with the world unseen, and endeavouring to imagine a world so fair w h ere neither sorrow nor death is found. Many of the visitors rode to the summit of the romantic hills, and saw from there wooded hills peeping over the shoulders of each other as far as the eye could reach. Others visited extraordinary caves and a subterranean tunnel, adorned with stalactite and stalagmite formations of such beauty as would have sent Mr. Storrie, of the Cardiff Museum, into a trance. The tunnel and oaves have been explored a distance of eight miles, ex- tending under the mountains, without finding their end. Local geologists are of opinion they are eighteen miles in extent. THE TOWN IN PROCESS OF FORMATION. I To the purely commercial mind, the locality was chiefly interesting as the scene of a large town rapidly springing into existence in truly colonial fashion. Two new iron bridges had been recently thrown over the small river flowing at right angles through the small hollow. Over one of the bridges passed the railway and over the other the principal road. Mules, in two pairs, were attached to a low iron cart, which had in front an open month a yard wide and a blade of the same length. This blade as it was dragged along by the four mules shaved the clay off the road. Thus each cart was fiiled. When that had been accomplished the contents were emptied into the hollow places in the new road. Thus, the cutting, filling, and levelling process proceeded rapidly. Along the places where the foothpaths had been designed were rows of planks a yard wide crossing each other at right angles in the middle of the town,and extending in all directions. Many of the carts described were in full operation. The local authorities seemed to have first designed the future town, and then proceeded to carry out that design in its entirety. New cottages had already sprang into existence at the foot of the adjacent hills, all within the last twelve months. A WELSHMAN IN MIDDLESDOROLTGH. South Wales people will be interested to learn that Mr. Watts, one of the proprietors of Cwtoh (Cootsh) Colliery, Rhondda Vach Valley, and of the Monmouthshire Works, is here busily engaged in erecting important ironworks. I met here one of his sons, who is well known in the localities indicated in Wales. Coal is already being worked here on a small scale, but it is stated that the neigh- bouring hills are full of coal and iron ore. RECEPTION OP THR VISITTS. 1 The local auinoritiwi reueiveu me vionuro with beooming dignity in the long room of the newly-completed large hotel of the place, and sent them away each with a souvenir in the shape of a small book of photographs of objects of interest in the locality. Now com- menced the dangerous experience to which reference is made at th" beginning of this sketch. A PERILOUS JOURNEY. I The two first trains passed out of Middles- borough, and the third train, to which the writer and many others belonged, stayed behind at the station. In about twenty minutes after the departure of the two first trains a message was received by the officials on theMiddlesborough platform to the effect that the two trains had passed all right." We little knew at the time the significance of the words. We steamed away, and soon were in the dark tunnel of Cumber- land Gap. When we emerged into daylight again we beheld a narrow bridge, constructed of beams-fork-like-tresselov and orois sleepers, with the two lines of rails over them. There were DO fences of any kind on the sides of the bridge, and, viewing it as our train advanced towards it, the frail bridge seemed aotually narrower than our cars. Such, indeed, was actually the case, and when our cars were passing over their aides projected over considerably. We crossed several of these frail-looking erections bridging ugly looking chasms. Between Middlesborough and Knoxville-on the Knoxville, Cumber- land Gap, and Louisville Railway—a distance of 79 miles, we passed over a valley 220 feet in depth on one of those tresseled bridges, not one of these tressels being more than ten inehes square I Let the reader imagine our three trains, of about 400 tons eaoh, crossing such bridges. We afterwards learnt that nothing approaching the weight of one of our trains had ever before passed over these bridges, and we now learn that the drivers of our trains trembled at the risk which we all ran! A HINT TO AMERICAN POLITICIANS. Our experienced engineers were horrified when it was ascertained what a terrible ordeal we had gone through without knowing it, and were there a Board of Trade sitting at Washington I doubt not that that board would soon have been made acquainted with these facts. It is felt by everybody that this vase country, with resources in it beyond the dreams of avarice, should, insiead of fearfully erring for special "proteotiilu" to its own industries in its competition with the other nations of the eart h, pay more attention to the constructions of speculators, and thereby gnard the lives of the oitizens of the ilepublio and those sojourning within its borders. A DIFFICULT ROAD. Since writing the above we have left the main track, and gone by a special train from Pulaski (Virginia) to Cripple Creek, a distauce of 60 miles. The day was a wet one, and the rails were very slippery. What the last fact implied will be understood when it is stated that during twenty miles the railroad was so steep that two locomotives were required to push behind the train. I am told the gradient was 3ft. Oin. in every 100ft Here they call it a "grade." There were ourves as sharp as 289ft. radius, forming part of a cirole 578ft. in diameter. Occasionally the buffers of the oars would overlap each other at the sides, and thereby subject the coupling pins to an enormous strain. On the return journey two locomotives were in front and one behind. A merciful Providence, by means of the three locomotives, and the care and intelligence of the officials, brought the party back to Pulaski in safety, but wet and tired. Cripple Creek is noted for its wide, magnificent scenery, and from the searches made there for iron ore, one fine seam of which has been discovered in a ver. tical position. A COLONY OF SWANSEA TEOPLR. At Pulaski are the works ot tne jjertna Zino Company, the principal of whom is Mr. Thomas Jones, from the neighbourhood of Swansea. The principal manager is Mr. Enoch Phillips, formerly of Llwydcoed, Aberdare. I found at these works about 40 natives of Wales, most of them from Morriston, Swan- sea. They admitted that they were not earn- ing better wages than they did in Wales. Rents are double, and in some instances more than double, what they are in Wales. One could not, they said, buy a decent suit of olothes at Pulaski under BG. It appears that negro labour keeps down the rate of wages. The negroes are willing to work at one dollar and ten cents (4s. 7d.) per day. Pulaski is a very pretty locality, with distant hills in view. No public-house is allowed ia the county where it is situate. THE WELSH OF POCAHONTAS. We left Pulaski in pouring ram on Wednesday night, and on Thursday morning reached Pocahontas. It is a commnrlity of 1.800 inhabitants, mostly negroes and their families. The mines, where nearly all are blacks, are under the management of Mr, Henry Rees, Merthyr, son of Mr. Rhys, chandler. The very large company shop of the South West Virginia Coal Company is under the management of Mr. Morgan Gibbon, nephew of !III'. Wil. liam Williams, shopkeeper, Llantrisant. Ilis wife is a daughter of Mr. Edward Davi- Llantrisant, and Miss Davies is also here with her sister. Both Mr. Gibbon and Mr. Rhys oame to the cars to see me, and their cordiality beamed in their eyes. They and their families were enjoying, as it seemed, much prosperity. Sir James Kitson, Sir Lowthian Bell, and others went into the interior of the mine. The character of the country about here resembles that of South Wales, with wooded slopes, dingles, and watercourses. ALONG THE NEW RIVER. While closing this sketch we are travelling along the right bank of the broad New lliv- Virginia. On our right, in close proximity to the line, are tremendous craggy heights crowned with trees. And beyond the muddy river are seen, as far as the eye can reach, undulating, low wooded hills, with many spacious hollows between. We are now en route for Koanoke, Va., and thence to-morrow we go to view Luray Cave, and then depart for Washington. Wherever we have been we have not seen the slightest trace of good farming. F'or generations the Sonthern States de- pended upon slaves for the performance of labour. The land is most fertile, I am told, but the labourinit population-niostiv negroes-are attracted from the land by the comparatively high wages at the mines and ironworks whioh are springing into exis. tenoe In all directions.

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