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TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. TttMPEBATURB. Date. 'M? ?"t ?M.M." RAINFALL. Tuesdav !q 44 28 41'0 015 Wednesday. 20 46 35 .C'O CM Thara.tM.Xt ? 2 ?5 003 Prid? <2 H ? 4?-0 CM Satu.dM 23 M -2 46 0 0'19 ?n"tM. 2' 50 38 4?0 coo Monday 26 60 !2 ?0 CM The Temperature represents extreme rea ingsofthe therenome?r for 24 b. "I I.d9. taken in the of??d? ?, Tledderch. near Cardiff. Ti?? R,i registered at Tredelerch, Cardiff, r- 21 ur.. 9 i!no

1- HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. FOXHOUNDS. The Glsmorganshire.—Wednesday, January 27, Pan- cross Barn; Friday. January 29, Bhyd-Llafa Cross Roads—11. Lord Tredegar's.—Thursday, January 28, lIe,,1I1. Court—11, The Carmarthenshiie.—Tueaday, January 8, Glan- rhydin ''?'ridty. j..u.y 29, Mydrim. W?.Lb?, per- miLtiuK-lû.30 "?'?nha.an and TatrsJ.-TuMtty. Janu"' 26. Tl,a 1, ?l*vv,, jMu*ry 29, B, nctl"- 10.30. The 1,&luby.-Fridav,J.nu.r,. Grnlg Hams—11. The Tivyside.—Thursday, Jauuary 4, Pantyderri Gate—11. The Pembrokeshire.-Tuesday, January 26, tHt undjlie- ton, Thursday, January 28, Ford Bridge; Friday, January 29, Moreton Colliery—11, Mr. Pi vse-BiCj's.—Tuesday, January 26, the Market- place, Llandovery Thursday, January 28, Mothvey V??fe: Frida January 29. Do!aucoWy, ?Mther p??.Itti g-10 T Z. Ja -iusry 29. Do!autotby, W.th., I permltUng-IO 30,HARRIERS. The Crickhowell.—Friday. Jauuary 29, Llanaunider Vijt?'g'.—OJO. ?_

LL.ANDAFK CATHEDKAL SERVICES. Tuesday, Jan. 26.—Smart in Q hymn, '61. Wednesday, Jan. 21.-00" ill 1; anthem, I'?- 'he rising of the Sun (Ouseley). Thursday, JAn. 28.~Garrett in D anlhem. 0 love the Lorlt" (Sullivan). Fridav* Jan. £ 9.-King in F: anthem, If Keep inno- cencv II ( Saturday,Jan. 30.—Tours inF; "Ocome ye servants of the itnra {:LYt'}. C. J. V AUG HAN. Dean.

'I"U_ Official confirmation of the sending of an ultimatum by President Harrison to Chili was afforded by the President at Washington yesterday, and his message to Congress has naturally caused great sensation. The President maintained that the oonduct of the Chilian Government was warranty for the demand for an apology and reparation for the outrages upon Amerioan seaman. The Government had further demanded the with- drawal of tbe offensive note sent by the Chili an Foreign Minister to the various European Governments. The President oonoluded by asking Congress to sanotion the American demands and to allow them to be enforoed if necessary. Both Houses referred the message to the Foreign Committee. It is announced that, as the Chilian President is temporarily absent from Santiago, a delay of a day or two in answering the ultimatum has been granted. Influenza continues to spread, and in Arizona many Indian villages have been de- populated. A New York telegram states that the Chilian Government will reply to the demand of the United States to-day (Tuesday). Ex- oitement is growing. The Grand Duke Constantine, uncle of the Czar, died at midnight on Sunday, in his 65th year. Reports from Hong Kong stat- that the Imperial troops have beheaded 200 rebels whom they captured. Notwithstanding the contradiction, it is stated that the marriage of the Archduchess Stephanie to the Duke of Braganza is defi- nitely settled. As the result of the Plymouth School Board elention the Unseotarians have gained one seat at the expense of the Homan Catholio representative, and they now stand in a majority of one to the Churchmen. At a meeting of the Cardiff General Pur- poses Committee yesterday it was decided to entertain the Lord Mayor at a oivio banquet, and also to present him with the freedom of the borough. An animated disoussion also took place upon the Welsh Intermediate Education Aot. Penally Church, near Tenby, was partially destroyed by fire on Sunday night. A memorial fund for the benefit of the family of the late Mr. F. Sonley Johnstone was inaugurated yesterday, when nearly jECOO was subscribed in the room. Replies to the Cardiff Corporation queries put to numerous provincial corporations on the subject of public lighting by electricity have been received by the town-clerk. The particulars will be found detailed in another column. The Cardiff Library Building Committee agreed yesterday to recommend the council to adopt the Iluseuine Act. There were two convictions at Llandaff Polioe-oourt yesterday for failing to report outbreaks of sheep scab in the Llandaff district. At an inquest held yesterday on the body of the boy Blower, who was killed by the swing-bridge over the Old Sea Lock at Cardiff, the jury returned a verdiot of acci- dental death, and strongly reoominended that some kind of gate or fence should be pro- vided to prevent children getting on to the bridge. At Cardiff yesterday Henry F. Itossiter, late secretary of the Cardiff Tradesmen and Seamen's Union, was remanded for a week on a obarge of bigamy. Three boys, named Brown, DonoghaD, and Jones, were at Cardiff Polioe-court yes- terday each ordered to be whipped for steal- ing missionary boxes. The ooroner's jury yesterday inquiring into the death of Mr. Hume Webster returned a verdict that deoeased committed suioide while temporarily insane. In the Dublin Court of Exchequer yester- day the editor and owners of the National Press were tined t25 for the contempt they had committed in connection with the aotion by Mr. Sheehy, M.P., against the Fi-eeman Journal, at present aub-judice. On the petition of two Malvern oreditors, a receiving order was made against Mr. Hastings, XV., at Worcester yesterday.

RANDOLPH REDIVIVUS More nonsense has been talked and written concerning Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL since his temporary withdrawal from the arena of aotive politics last year than could be crammed into a twelve volume work. But most ridiculous of all is the impression which seems to have survived all others con- cerning the member for South Paddington, that he will never be able to raise his political head again. One would suppose, to tew people talk, that he was a kind of Sir GEORGE OTTO THEVELYAN, and that bis hair had gone prematurely white and his nerves been shattered beyond repair through dan- gerous official duties connected with Ireland. We are told gravely that this Special Com- missioner" business has utterly done for him; that he will die as a politioian, if be has not done so already, of sheer ridioule. Men of considerable intelligence in other matters curiously enough hold this view, and on one or two occasions Lord RANDOLPH has been rather inelegantly referred to as a .1 gone coon." Never was a greater mistaVe made by shrewd politioal workers and observers. The ex-Leader of the House is not going to die of ridicule any more than he is of Ministerial satiety. Moreover, our readers may take this as quite trutworthy- that he is, if anything, keener than ever on politios. He has followed with great atten- tion, albeit in a very quiet way, the oourse of party politics during the last few months. He has noted the figures of every by-election, and has taken speoial note of the new Gladstonian policy and programme with regard to the agrioul- tural voters. In a word, Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is gradually, and with considerable thought and mental labour, feeling his way, we believe, towards a re-union with party politios. It is obvious that he will not strike till the generalvalection oomes. In the first plaoe, he has no burning desire, suoh as bis enemies love to impute to him, to run amuck against the Ministry, as shown, indeed, by the loyal spirit in which he withdrew his Licensing Bill and his amend- ments to the Government measure of 1890. Then, secondly, the present time is on the face of it very inopportune for any new ven- ture. Soarcely anyone whose opinion is worth having has made up his mind what is likely to be the precise state of things after the next general eleotion. To oome back at the present moment or before the great event of the year would be the height of folly. I ord RANDOLPH knows better than to return at a time when he would be borne down and carried away by the waves of political change and convulsion. He will, therefore, lie low for the present, in order to strike all the more effectually when the right moment arrives. He has always known what time of day it is in party politics, and no one is quioker than he in gauging the temperature of the masses. By-and-bye he will repeat his Walsall and his Blaokpool suc- cesses. A bove all, should it be the fate ofthe Unionists to retire for a while into Opposi- tion, Lord RANDOLPH will be once more a deadly and watchful foe of the Gladstonians. He shone brilliantly in Opposition previous to 1885. Since then he has learnt a vast deal, and what Lord RANDOLPH learns he also digests. He is a trae Conservative, and now, as ever, an uncompromising opponent of Home Rule and Churoh disestablishment.

An attempt is being made by a small sec- tion of Swansea county councillors to make political and religious capital over the very neoessary and urgent work of providing a cemetery for the added area of the town. It seems a pity that any acrimonious element should be introduced into the burial of the dead, but even this, apparently, is part of the programme of the I:adioal and Dissenting party. The provision of a oemeterv on the (Jwrngellr site is, it is said, being de- layed by the strenuous objection of certain councillors in committee to having the ordinary divisions made to meet the requirements of the various religious denomi- nation!. There is plenty of room on the Cwmgelly site for every religious denomina- tion, but, apparently, the dissatisfied seotion of Dissenters wish to shut the adherents of the Church of England out from carrying out their own peculiar rites and ceremonies with respect to the portion allotted to them. This is another instance of the intolerance of toleration. It appears that the plans for the new cemetery have been sent down by the Home Office with the intimation that the usual divisions of "consecrated," "unconsecrated," "Roman Catholic," and "unappropriated should be made in them. The Dissenters say •« No, we will make no such divisions, and we will compel the people of Morriston and distriot to walk in all weathers round Swansea to St. Thomas rather than give up our senti- mental grievanoe." The fallacy of their argument is obvious. The Nonconformists, if they have any real faith in their creeds, should be as tensoious of them in death as in life. Members of every denomination have a right to lie amongst their friends, and in that part of the cemetery in which their rites and observances are sung or said. Let the divi- sions be made in this way, and the Church of I ngland can consecrate her portion after- wards, and if the Nonconformists wish to do the same it is quite open to them. But the fact is that the opposition only shows the leaning which the Nonconformists very widely manifest towards the Mother Cburoh on the occasion of all important events in their lives. Thousands of them are christened, married, and,buried according to the ritea and oere- monies of the Church, and the old faith is still so deeply rooted in them that they cannot t"rate- the idea of being outside her pale. We can accept many of thes- jealousies as happy omens, therefore, for the future; but they should not be allowed to delay the long-oonsidered work of I providing a cemetery at Cwmgelly.

The disturbances in the ooal and tin-plate trades seem to have aoted but very slightly upon looal banking concerns. Two large local banks held their meetings at Swansea on Monday. They were able to declare dividends which for the whole year just passed amounted to 7* and 81 per cent. respectively. In the former oase the chief consideration seemed to be to lay a large amount aside towards the reserve fund, whereas in the latter the directors resolved to divide in a narrower ratio to the profits justly earned, and both show, therefore, a good all-round condition of affluence. We oall attention to theae meet- inn limply to extraot from them ?ialigs oroomimbply(,f comfort to the com- mercial community of South Wales. Thev showed conclusively that the trade of

the district has been in a fairly flourishing state during the past half-year, and that people have not been in any great straits for money there. In the faoe of the tremendous decrease in the output of tin-plates, this aspect of the question is rather remarkable. Such a blow as the tin-plate trade has—we hope temporarily—received through the Inl- position of the M'Kinley Tariff must be fe!t to a certain extent throughout the whole of the trades of the immediate district, and to make this up there most have been increasing vigour in other directions. We accept as a good omen the assurances of the chairman of the South Wales Union Hank chairman of the that the tin-plate industry is likely soon to recover its wonted vigour, and that if America ever successfully competes with South Wales in this branch of industry, it will be by the natural laws of commerce, and not by the exaction of oppressive imposti.

Our statedient in the I)av by Day colun);l yesterday that representatives of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain were sedulously preaohing the doctrines of their organisation in the Rhondda Valley has already been verified, and yesterday Mr. W. ABRAHAM, M.P.,and other leaders of the men found it neoessary to warn Welsh colliers against listening to soft wordeatid heeding the wiles of the tempter. There is much to be said in favour of the idea of complete organisation among the miners of the kingdom, and it is easy to fascinate the mind of the miner with the glowing picture of prosperity brought about by the perfect onion of wage-earners. Welsh miners, however, must not forget that amalgamation with the Miners' Federation meaM the death of the sliding-scale. Virtually, the federation was formed to sweep sliding-scales out of existence, and our colliers of Wales have to face the problem whether they are prepared to saorifioe an arrangement which has placed them in the matter of wages 15 per cent, better off than the miners affected by the English federa- tion. The advantages of a sliding-soale are of so substantial a character, and have been brought home to the majority of the Welsh colliers in so clear and effeotive a manner, that we sosroely think it is neoessary to labour the point, and we refer to the subject only to join with Mabon and his co- leaders in warning the weak from being led into a course of action which they would soon regret.

We are sorry to find that the Risca Colliery Kxplosion (1880) Relief Fund is in anything but a satisfactory condition. According to the statement of accounts just published, tbe balance at the London and Provincial Bank, Newport, is only £ 10 8s. 4d., a sum which would not be sufficient to maintain the depen- dents for a single week. I he catas- trophe of 1880, although, in all con- science, set. IOUs enough I involving as it did the loss of something like one hundred and twenty lives, was not so appalling as some of those which had pre- ceded it nor as some which have succeeded it. It is, however, satisfactory to find that other funds raised on similar occasions are not so badly off. With a touch of human sympathy which does them credit, the trustees of the Abercarn Fund, who have at their disposal an amount more than enough to meet the probable demands of the dependents left after the explosion at that place, have pro- mised suoh aid as they are able to give to meet the deficiencies of the Kisca Fund. With the paying out of the money, of oourse, the list of those who have a claim upon such charities shrinks from various osusoo-death, re-marriage, and the attain- ment by children cf an age of independence. But there must be some left who would fe¡,! the pinch if the fund tan dry, and it is very pleasing, therefore, to find a spirit of mutual help amongst those whom sorrow and need have united in a common bond.

This year another name will be added to the list of freemen of the borough of Cardiff, and we donbt if anyone will say the honour could have been offered to a worthier man than the present Lord Mayor of London. Alderman EVANS is a Welshman who is proud of his nationality even in London-a merit of no little importance when we bear in mind the numbers of Welsh-born people who repudiate their fatherland after they have for some little time mixed with Englishmen in English oities and learned to glibly talk 11 yr iaith fain." We have no part or lot in the exclusiveness which the Wales for the Welsh party aim to secure, but we have litt'e sympathy for those Welshmen who can find it in them to deny the land of their birth. Alderman EVANS is not among these. He is Welsh to his finger- tips, and tba Lord Mayoral functions of the year will long be remembered for their truly Cymric flavour. Such a Welshman as this we love to honour, and we doubt not that when Lord Mayor KVANS visits the Metropolis of his native land to receive its free citizenship he will get such a wel- come as can only be given to a Welshman in Wales.

Yesterday the general purposes committee of the Cardiff Corporation gave a good deal of attention to the application of half of Craddock Wells' Charity for the purposes of higher education, and, judging from the com- ments which were made, we are glad to find that we have won some converts by our preaching. Of course, those who contended that the old alderman's legacy has been misapplied were able to make out au unanswerable case, bnt they only Raid what we have been saying in and out of season for years. We are thoroughly in sym- pathy with the recommendation that the sum to be devoted to intermediate education should be reduced from eight hundred pounds to five hundred, and hope that the education committee will be. induced to give effect to the suggestion. Our regret is that the gentle- men who are now taking up the cause of the poor boys and girls of Cardiff did not do so when the original scheme was under discussion. Their assistance would have been of great value at a time when we were alone in raising our voice against the spoliation of a legacy which is the exclusive property of the very poor. However, better late than later, to give the phrase in its Cymric form, and we welcome the conversion to our views of so many municipal represen- tatives. Even Mr. FRANK BEAVAN on this question comes with us northward3.

BARRY RAILWAY COMPANY. The directors of the B irry Railway Coinoany at a meeting ou Monday decided to recommend a dividend for the half-year ended December 31 lael. at the rale of 9 per cent, per annum, carrying forward £ 1,800. The dividend for titecurrispuvid. ing half of 1890 was 10 per cent., and for the six months ended June 30,1891, it was 11 per cent- per annum.

WELSH CHURCH AND CHAPEL N L, WS. The members of the Welsh Bap'ist chapel at Odoxton, who will shortly have i ie.tKd a new chapel in Court-road, have given unanimous call ai pastor to the Rev. Morris Iss-c, at present minister of the Welsh chapel of the same ,it-nomi- nation at Llanf»ir-C>eieinion, Montgoaaeiyshire.

DEATH OF THE REV. BRAVIN GRANT. The death is announced, at the age of 71, the Rev. Bravin Grant, for the last sixteen years vicar of St. Paul's, Bethnal l¿nf;'iei:l I that time a well-kn..n Noneonfornii't ininister Mr.GMntWfub?rn near Leicester, and educated at Highbury College, London. He was succes- sively pastor of the Independent Churches at Prescot. near Liverpool, at Birmingham, and at Sheffield. At Birmingham he was engaged in a strenuous controversy with Dr. Newman, ana during a three years' mts-im engaged in dis- cussion with Secularist leaders. In 1810 h. was ordained by the Bishop of London, and laboured in Bethnal Green until his death.

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LONDON LETTER. fFBOJI oca LOSOOS CORBKSPOXDENTS I LONDON, MONDAT. RADICAL JIBILATI./N. As uual when thy win an election, the Gladstonians are threatening unutterable things. They are in a seventh heaven of jubilance, and profess a firm conviction that their Jtossendal., triumph will drive out the iTovernment.. They will met Ministers in a i spint of turbulent truculence, and will make the Parliamentary situation as hot as they i possibly can. h"ir sole endeavour will to ] hinder legislation and bring allout a dissolu- tion. 'I he exaggerated importance attached I hy the Opposition to liossendale is bihly dlvertin. Seeing that !he Tories never enler. tained a hope of retainin g the eat, it is isubliiiit?ly ridiculous to talk, as earneat Rtdic?h are doing to-night, of the Govern- ment trembling in their shoes at the hostile verdict and hesitating whether thy should "chuck up the sponge" and appeal to the I coulltry or go on to the bitvr end. 1,?rd Salisbury, as we all know, attach" not tbe 8"ht"st importance to any by-electioa. lie i certamly will not be influenced a hairs- breadth in his future dispositions uy a result which was an assured certainty. TH OLD MAS WAHl. When Parliament meet. the heckling will begin by an attempt to extort from the Government the date of dissolution. This will be done with a great show of moderation by Mr. Gladstone. He will not even move an amendment to the Address, but will make a speech in which he will probably profess to be satisfied if Nlinister. will give an under- taking that tbe present shall be the last session. Of course, Ministers cannot give so grossly illegal and improper an undertaking. Ihe natural life of Parliament is seven years. If inir. Balfour were to say that Parliament should only live six years he would be guilty of an unpardonable and arbitrary act of pre- sumption. Failing to get an undertaking, Gladstonians will begin to obstruct, MINISTERS PREPABRD FOR OBSTRUCTION. It is on the card that the Opposition will find the Uovernment unexpectedly prepared to deal with obstruction. Although Minis- ters cannot pledge themselves to dissolve within a given time, it is open to them, in tbe case of obstruction, to appeal to the country About Whitsuntide would be a convenient time for making such an appeal. Mr. Gosohen's interesting and important financial proposals and the rural peform, in- cluding the Small Holdings Bill, which will be both largo and geuerous, will then he before the country. On their strong programme of reform the Unionists would make a strong appeal to the electorate, and dissolution under such circumstances would be a last i esuuice. The Government would give a disorderly Opposition rope enough to hang themselves with, and, when they had sufficiently exhibited their incapability to govern themiielvtio. Ni iniiiters could appeal to the country for a verd et against them. PEHSONATIOS AT ROSSINDALB. Over 1000 Rossendale voters who had pledged themselves to Sir Thomas Brooks broke their promises. As I stated last week, the Unionist promises were over 6,000. twenty per cent. failed. It is an unusually large proportion of broken promises for Lancashire. There is go.id ground of sus- picion that personation prevailed in Kossen- dale. It is now clear that 97 per cent, of the electorate voted, leaving only about 600 votes unpolled. As there are several hundred duplicates, this means in effect that the con- stituency was polled to almost the last name on the list. Such a thing is utterly impossible. The obvious inference is that per- sonation has prevailed. The Irish have taken an aotive share in the con est, and it is a curious coincidence that, wherever the Irish politicians are acti ve, there is a suspiciously extensive poil, I presume this sort of thing will go on till the Irish Glad- stonians make a mistake in their arithmetic, and permit more men to be polled than thtre are names on the registers. PARLIAXINTART SPGAIRRS. During the Rossendale oontest the difficulty that is always witb the Conservative par:y of inducing members to go down into the con- stituencies to speak was more painfully apparent than usual. The greatest difficulty was experienced in meeting the requi-itions for speakers. The case, too, happened to be of more than usual urgency. lor liossendale is one of the districts where people argue out their own politics, and are to some extent influenced by public meetings. I do not suppose that if the whul-* Tory party had gone down and preached Unionist poli- tics day and night they would have altered the result. At the same time, it is neoessary that every effort should be made to improve our position even in the most forlornly hope- less contest. Certainly, the Tory members are not showing that alacrity in rushing into the fighting line that is displayed by Glad- stonian M.lVs. I think I am not under-esti- mating the case when I suggest that the brunt of the fighting is borne by about a score of Tory members, and that about another score render occasional assistance. At every by-election the same set of names appears and re-appears. The names of members who thus sacrifice themselves are honourably distinguished. SaAKSPEARE FOR All TlME. A melanoholy interest attaches to the two great Sbakspearian plays of Henry V III. at the Lyceum and Hamlet at the Hay- market, which are now delighting London audiences. They illustrate in a painfully graphio manner how that Shakspeare was not tbe dramatist of an age, but of all time. At the Haymarket the play teems with allusions to our "sweet prince," which are reverently recognised by every- one as fitting precisely to the case of the late Duke of Clarence. At the Lyceum the play throws into pro- minence the immense popularity of Kpirnog- Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn. The marriage was popular because Anne was thoroughly English, whereas the unfortunate Queen she supplanted was a foreigner. In these latter days of the nineteenth century popular enthusiasm was equally as pronounoed for the proposed marriage of the late Duke of Clarence. The Princess May is thoroughly Knglish, and it intensifies the public grief for the loss of the Duke of Clarence to feel that bis death is her speoial loss, and is also the loss of a beloved Engl ish Princess for our future Qlleên; LADY TPLKOBAPH CLEBKS. I am afraid serious wrong is done to lady telegraph clerks by the complaints that are being made against them in the public press of incivility and inattention. My experience is quite the reverse. I use a post-office where the whole staff are ladies. 1 have always received the greatest courtesy and Mention. In the matter of oourtesy I would much rather deal with lady than male olerks. I rather fancy that the persons who complain of feminine incivility belong to a class of men who address the lady clerks in a tone of consununate impertinence, and who bluster egregiously because they may not be dealt with out of their turn. It is natural that young ladies should preserve a reserved attitude to customers of this sort. But I have noticed that where courtesy is given courtesy is returned. My praises apply only to young ladies on the regular telegraph service. Moth ill London and out 1 have found that the young ladies in shops where a sub-telegraph office is attached are disposed to be haughty and supercilious towards Government customers. They will sell you a stamp as a favour, and will receive a telegram as if you were a very suspicious person indeed. But I have alway. found the young ladies in the regular offices quite different-alert, quick in reckoning, polite, and affable, without being forward. WALTZING OUT OF FASHION. There will not be as much dancing as usual in the coming season, but at the balls that will be held we will see a marked change. Wallzes are waltliDg out of falbion. Tbey DO longer hold the carpet. Sohottisches and mazarkaa are coming into favour, and will be danced a great deal more than hitherto. The dreaminess of the waltz ia also passing out of fashion, i he measure is taken at a much quicker pace than has been usual. I don 6 know whether this general quickening up of