The Western Mail

LLANOAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES. I Monday, January 22,-Chant. and hymns by the holiday choir. Tuesday, January 23.-Chants and hymns by the holiùay choir. Wednesday, January 24.—Garrett in D ¡ anthem, "From the rising of the sun" (Ouscle,.), Thursday, January 2S (Conversion of St. Paul),— 8.30a.m, Holy Communion. Five p.m., Ki?. in P anthems, N.? wo are ?.b. r, dg How lovely (Mendelssohn). Friday, J.nitary 26.1?AriLlniiMey in Dminor; hymn, 406. Saturday, January 27.— Barnby in E anthem, II Wherewithal shall a ynuDS- man (Elvey).

II The GlamorgiUisliire appeal case against a magisterial eoDvictioD for selling a packet of linking: powder in which, it was alleged, there were ingredients injurious to health has ended in Mr. Justice Hawkins and ),11'. Justice Lawrance holding that baking powder is not an article of food within the meaning of the Foods and Drugs Act- That will surely be received as a bit, of a. surprise. To the lay mind there seams a close analogy between baking powder and German yea-st, and it is scarcely possible to think of yeast in any form otherwise than as an essential of food. But legal distinctions are too tiue for the untutored lay mind to grasp.

Lord St-anley of Alderley has given notice of question he intends to put as to the number of schools in Wales which have gained the "excellent" grant in which Welsh is being taught. "Thls is miching malreo- it means mischief!" It is pretty certain his lordship has been reading that very CIUSTK condemnation of certain Welsh methods in the final report of the Census Commissioners, and ia going- to show up by means of the return he will a;>k for the futility of putting scholars in public elementary schools in the Principality to study Welsh grammar and literature by proving that in the best schoo Is there is no time to do it except by sacrificing more important matters.

The Cardiff Free Libraries have now the advantage of a new catalogue of books in the central lending library, made up to the end of last November, which does credit to Mr. Ballinger, the chief librarian, to the free library committee, and to the printer. It is a handsomely-printed volume of very nearly four hundred pages, arranged on the alphabetical principle in respect of both sub- jects and Mithors, with a supplementary index to eaaavs and collected literature in the previous section. The preparation of the catalogue has been a work of considerable dimensions, and all oonoerued are to be con- gratulated upon the satisfactory conclusion to which their labours have come.

The executive council of the East Glamor- gan Conservative Association in deoding at their Caerphilly meeting, under the presi- dency of Mr. Gordon Lenox, to invite Mr. Herbert C. Lewis, sou of Sir William Thomas Lewis, to again contest the representation of the constituency at the next election, did the right thing at the right time. The Unionist cause is beyond all question being put at a considerable disadvantage in South Wales by the delay in selecting and adopt- ing standard-bearers for the comiag battle. Mr, Herbert C. Lewis is an admirable can- didate, and surrounded, as he will be in the struggle, by the best men in the CONSTITUENCY, he will certainly put his opponent on his mettle.

The vote of condolence passed on Saturday by the guardians of the Cardiff Union with the family of the late Dr. Paine ought to afford thoee to whom his loss is irreparable balm and consolation, if any earthly conside- ration can. It referred to his twenty-two years' efficient service as an officer and to his having been for thirty years an active member of the board and for ten its chair- man, and then put on record that in the dis- charge of his duties "he displayed indefati- gable energy, marked ability, AND great kind- liness of heart, presiding over the board's deliberations with uniform impartiality." That is a tribute to a gentleman's memory which any family might treasure with pride. It was endorsed by half-a-dozen prominent colleagues of him to whose memory the warm tribute was paid, supplemented by an in- dependent tribute from Mr. Bircham, the Local Government Board inspector for South Wales.

NATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL CONCEIT. "Beware of conceit" was the watchword yesterday in every Welsh cathedral, in every Welsh church, whether among the lonely valleys and heights of Cardigan or on the busy littoral of Glamorgan. Of course, the comfortable thing and the fashionable thing was to push the reminder aside as mere child's talk, and forget it, as having nothing to do with us and the perfect day in which we live. It is nonsense to suppose practical, hard. headed, go-ahead people like us are conceited. That is what most of us would be apt reply on first thoughts. Yet there is no dcuJ ing we have been very wise in our conceits about the progress of the age, which we have flattered ourselves has been tinner and greater progress than the world has ever known be- fore. "Give us fifty more years of Free Trade," our Chambers of Commerce cry, "and we will make every valley of South Wales a sounding street" and immediately the con- ceit naturally fostered in UR by such a boast is shocked by the cry of Mr. Bircham, the Poor-law Inspector of this half of the Prin- cipality, that pauperim is, and long has been, rising throughout his district. her- ever trades and manufactures are founded the people's lot is bettered," our capitalists have been saying at shareholders' meetings time out of mind, but crumpled and broken does that conceit look when "Alcan" tells us of tho wholesale starvation that is going on in the tin-plate districts of South Wales and the unspeakable shame and misery into which it is tempting some women, while breaking the heart of one-time happy mothers, and sapping the strength of men only too eager to work. "Let scienoe alone for another twenty years," we have also vaunted when conceit was strong upon us, "and we will show in electricity the true elixir of life, and by chemistry discovers. philosopher's stone of greater potency than was ever fabled, and disclose the profoundest secrets of the soul and destiny by some application of hypno- tism." But we look at Cowbridge in par- ticular and South Wales in general, with ruin staring honest, industrious farmers in the face, because their flocks and herds are sickening to death, while, in spite of all our conceit, no man is wise enough to tell them why or wherefore. Ah, these are material things look, on the other hand, at the wake- fulness and watchfulness and triumph of reli- gious and temperance efforts in these days. Never before was so much money spent in a year in the Welsh Metropolis in building churches and chapels and founding missions, and preaohing and TEACHING teetotaJism. Then, just as we settle ourselves down to enjoy that comfortable conceit, out comes the annual report of Mr. McKenzie, the head-oonstable, in which he tells us, in his matter-of-fact, drily statistical way, that last year within the limits of his jurisdic- tion alone 484 prostitutes were summarily dealt with and 16 on indictment; that 1,133 persons were proceeded against for drunkenness, being, in spite of the Sunday Closing Act, an increase of 379 cases; that! law-breaking of every kind is on the increase in Cardiff, and that "Black Maria," tlli- prison van, in spite of the work of priests and parsons and temperance lecturers, car- ried during the year 1,927 prisoners to gaol, or 227 more than ever before in Cardiff. There is not much room for spiritual or ecclesiastical conceit in the light of these melancholy figures, and still less when we remember that, just as modern Dissent arose through the coldness of the Church, the Sal- vation Army has arisen through the smug content of Nonconformity, and that every week Labour Churches and Secularist and Atheistic gatherings are multiplying beoause there are moods and tempers of mind, as well as sooial conditions of the masses, which are too unfashionable for any religious sect to trouble with. Well, at any rate, somebody says, if the conceit of Free Trade, and profit-making oapital, and boastful science, and self-satisfied religion is being shown up by the march of events, nobody can deuy that MANKIND has never known an era or a land in which so many miraoles were wrought in softening manners and raising the ideal of life by the help of schools. "What is that?" scornfully demands Dr. Horder. "The streets of Cardiff teem with waif s and strays, food less, clotheless, shoeless, friendless, who simply are a mockery and derision of your conceited boasta about universal education!" "Well, well," kindly and sadly the bllld- oonstable adds, "there are little ones in Car- diff, and many of them, who neror have ahanoe in life by the terrible eraeltj they have to endure from their earliest days; last year we sent eight to reformatories and whipped seventeen!" For pity's sake, after this drop the onrtain on the conceits, national, municipal, industrial, religious, educational, which we nurse so tenderly, which we cherish so fondly. We are far too wise in our own conceits even in this late day of the world's history, and, as we might have known, the inevitable dangers that must follow from such infirmities, whetlier national or municipal, whether religious or secular, are rising grimly around us in such numbers that it remains to be seen whether, with the help of all these institutions on which we have placed so much dependence, we can c.ontinue to stand or not. We have yet to learn there is no Royal road to the perfect- ability of the race: no patent way of manu- facturing the waste of civilisation into what is useful and good to look at. In spite of all our oonceits, we must come back to the old modest truth, that, though our hopes may be lofty and our ambitions great, poverty can only be Iœsellild, ignorance can only be dispelled, misery can only be allayed by the individual efforts of individual men and women, each working for and watching over some one little corner of the stony field of need.

THE fJUENT OF THE FLYING CROW. English Liberals and Scotch Liberals, and Liberals all over the United Kingdom who are reasonable, intelligent politicians, and not merely the victims of a craze, have got to decide under which king they will serve from this time forward—whether under Mr. D. A. Thomas, M.P., or under Mr. Gladstoo. We mean not the slightest disrespect to the member for Merthyr by putting the issue in this way, for, though the IIIere statement of the contingency makes Mr. D. A. Thomas look ridiculous, that is certainly not the fault of the honourable gentleman himself, but of the absurd position created by the blatant self- assertiveness of the Welsh party, of which he is one of the whippers-in. The member for Merthyr is an able and honourable and cour- teous gentleman, and in him the so-called Welsh party is represented at its very best. But when English and Scotch Liberals are left with no choice but to hold on by Mr, Gladstone, or follow Mr. D. A. Thomas, it cannot long be a matter of doubt what will happen. The Liberal Federation" the concern has rather out-grown its name— "The Liberal Federation of South Wales and Monmouthshire" at its meeting a few days back brought forward an official resolution con- demning the Government for sanctioning the recent candidature of Mr. lorr at Horneutle, and involving or implying a general grumble at the prospects of Welsh Disestablishment as a part of the Government programme. It was an official resolution and it was carried unanimously. No, not unanimously. There was a very significant exception. Sir Edward Reed, M.P., did not vote. We are often bound, as a matter of duty, to say uncompli- mentary things of Sir Edward Reed, but we have never dissembled our admiration for his shrewdness. There is no member of the House of Commons with a keener scent of the flying crow than Sir Edward Reed. He is a past master in the cult of the leaping frog. Are we not right, then, when we say that the abstention of the gallant knight from voting is significant? He is not going to throw Mr. Gladstone over and follow -Air. D. A. Thomas just yet. He knows, we do not ubt, that the cry of Welsh Disestablishment, ns the Welih party cry it, is unjust and un- true, but he also knows that the eminent Welshmen of the Major Jones and the Mr. Lloyd-George type, with all their transcendent genius, are not just yet going to be accepted as dictators by the Liberal party at large. He, therefore, announced in advance, in his speech at the Cardiff Park Ward dinner, that in reference to the Disestablishment question "there will, perhaps, be certain details of the measure to be introduced into Parliament in which he might not be in entire agreement with his party." We admit that thi was rather an oracular deliverance, for what does he mean when he talks of "his pMty" ? Is it the Liberal party at large or the Welsh rarty in particular? It is no good being too curious in that direction, for we shall know- when the frog has made its leap, and the crow has decided upon its line of flight. But the attitude of Sir Edward Reed is proof positive that official Liberalism is not likely for the present, to take the same view of Welsh Disestablishment that the Welshmen them- selves do. It is also not improbable that in assuming this appearance of independence in relation to the question of Welsh Disestab- lishment Sir Edward J. Reed shrewdly counts upon retaining whatever Church support he has had in Cardiff, or possibly improving upon it, as a set off to the Irish rotes he is sure to lose because of his wobbling on Home Rule. We will leave Sir Edward Reed, however, to his own devices, thankful for his most significant confession, "It must be understood my course will be guided by a recognition of what is obtainable in this direction, and not by what we are ultimately entitled to or may be demanding." He knows, evidently, that the inner Ministerial circle is not inclined to give what the Welsh party makes itself believe it will be able to insist upon having at the hands of the Liberal party. But if Mr. Gladstone is to be master and the Welsh party is to be master of the Liberal party its fate is sealed. A split is inevitable on Disestablishment, as well AS Home Rule. Mr. Torr would not accept Welsh dictation at Horncastle; there are, at the very least, a soore or two of English and Scotch Liberals who will not acoept it in their constituencies. Wherefer the cry of Welsh DISESW nt is sought to be made the paranr ,JE in a contested election on the Libt. • side. Liberal Churchmen, with rare exceptions, will withhold their votes, and the Liberal candidature will be fore- doomed to failure. The position then begins to make itself clear enough. Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet do not accept tho cry of Welsh Disestablishment in the sense th Welsh party attach to it. On the con- triry, they will countenance Liberal candidates who have views of their own on Disestab- lishment, as they countenanced Air. Torr at Horncastle through Mr. Gladstone. If the WS'.sh party tries to force the pace it will smash the Liberal party and put an end for ever to the little chance Welsh Disestablishment seems to have now. The standard-bearers of W elh Disestablishment are, therefore, be- tween the devil and the deep SM. go forward they will be destroyed. If they re- treat they will be laughed at. In smell cir- cumstances it is natural for shrewd and prudent Liberal members of Parliament to content themselves at present with assi- duously watching the flying crow.

NOTES OF THE I WEEK. [Br WESTMINSTER."] LONDON, SATURDAY. There has been a siight revival of interest in the Home Rule question this week owing to the remarkable frankness of Mr. Edward Blake's appeal to the people of Canada to sub- scribe nearly C50,000 for defraying the requirements of the Irish Parliamentary party during the current year. Of this amount it is only fair to say that the actual payments to be made to members of Parlia- ment are set down at the MODEST sum of £ 9,000, which, supping there Me suty out of the eighty members who need such help, would allow them not more than 2150 ?pic". Registration and election expenses are put down at Lll,500, and E4,000 is to be set aside for "propaganda in EngLind:" As this propaganda is chiefly carried en by men who sit in Parliament, the fees paid to them for platform-speaking at English elections must form a welcome addition to their small salaries. The settlement of old debte will absorb nearly £ 7,000; and, if Mr. Blake's appeal is listened to by the Canadians, wllj), however, will probably think there are a thousand other purposes to which their money can be more usefully and legitimately applied, there will be a twlance of some B17,000 left for the relief of those victims of Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien, the evicted tenants. These piquant revelations of the impecunious condition to which the Irish Nationalists have been reduced throw a good deal of light on tlkt) artificial meansbywhich the agitation in favour of Home Rule has been sustained. So iong as Mr. Parnell was the leader of the party, the United States supplied him freely with the sinews of war, but the shrewd citizens of the United States have lost faith in the Irish Nationalists since they ceased to be guided by a leader of un- doubted political genius and became nothing but a fortuitous concourse of atoms. The Home Rule sentiment in Australia seems also to have been worked out; and no more sub- scriptions will be forthcoming from South Africa. The amiable and ingenuous Mr. Swift MiicNeill, whom personally I believe to be quite disinterested in such a matter, for he is not supposed to be himself one of the paid members, published a few days ago a graphic account of the way lie hunted down Mr. Cecil Rhodes and got a cheque for £10,000 from him for the elctioneering fund of the Paraellites. Beiug a fellow-passenger with Nlr. Rhodes on a voyage to the Cape, Mr. MacXeill started, a "propaganda" on his own account, and found to his surprise and delight that Mr. Rhodes, being in favour of Imperial Federation, wouki back the Irish Home Rulers if they would insist on main- taining the representation of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament. Having tumbled on this gold mine, Mr. iuacNeill worked it with great skill and tenacity of purpose. He gave Mr. Rhodes no rest in Africa, and, when that energetic olonist came to London in pursuit of great projects of his own, Mr. MaoNeill lost no time in finding him out, and asking when it would be convenient for him to sign that promised cheque for £10,000. Tackled in this way, Mr. Rhodes finally sur- rendered at discretion, and Mr. MacNeill re- turned in triumph to Mr. Parnell with the cheque in his pocket. Outsiders may per- haps, form the opinion that Mr. Rhodes was moved, not so much by enthusiasm for the Irish cause, as by a prudent consideration of the necessity of making friends unto himself in the House of Commons, in view of the con- troversy that would arise whenever he attempted to carry out the Imperial designs which he had already conceived. So Julius Citsar sent tribute from the spoils of Gaul to I propitiate the politicians at Rome, who might otherwise have spoilt his plans of personal aggrandisement. So the Indian nabobs of the eighteenth century bought a goodly number of boroughs, in order that members might be returned to the House of Commons who would leave them undisturbed in their career of con- q net. Certainly, the Irish Nationalists have shown no eagerness to join Mr. Labou- chere in reviling and running down their benefactor, Mr Rhodes. But no more money can be WON from this source,, and so the attempt is made to work the sterile soil of Canada. But is it not a little odd that no subscriptions are forthcoming from Great Britain? It is estimated that there are two million Irish residents settled in this island, the great majority of whom are alleged to be panting with a desire for the passing of the Home Rule Bill. Yet they will not even subscribe amongst them the £ 4,000 wanted for the "propaganda in England. That propa- ganda will be more costly than ever now that the Irish Unionists are so busily engaged in counteracting it. The adivity of the agents sent from Ireland to convince the English people how Iw.tcful and intolerable Home Rule would be to Irish Protestants was of very great service in the Horncastle elec- tioii and it is most gratifying to learn that many Nonconformists voted for Lord Willoughby in order to show their sympathy with their brethren in Ireland, and at the same time to enter a protest against tiie malignant assumption of the Liberation Society that every Nonconformist is bound to be an enemy to the Church of England. Mr. Pyne, the English engineer who has succeeded in gaining the confidence of the Ameer of Cabul, and whose real mission in England is understood to be to overcome the reluctance of the Indian Government to let the Ameer himself pay a visit to this country, has given to a news agency a highly romantic account of his adventures in Afghan- istan. Some allowance must naturally he made for the enthusiasm with which he speaks of a Prince who has treated him so well; but Sir Mortimer Durand, who had no bias in the matter, ha.s also brought away from Cablll a most favourable impression of the ability, and what is more to the purpose, the sincerity of the ruler whom we placed on tha throne of Afghanistan. One trait of cha- racter mentioned by both Sir Mortimer a.nd Mr. Pyne is that Abdurrahman is a tre- mendous talker. He spoke to Mr. Pyne for hours together on all sorts of subjects, and I understand that his conferences with the British Agent were very prolonged, and that he spoke repeatedly, and at great length, of the bitter I«collections he cherished of the humiliations inflicted upon him by the Rus- sians during his exile in Bokhara. It in taking this line he wa. not sincere, he must be a remarkably good actor. At the same time, it must be remembered that he had r, good deal to gain by representing himsdf to Sir Mortimer Duraud as the friend of England and the foe of Russia. The increase in his subsidy, which has now been granted to him, was a much more important consider- ation in his eyes than the surrender of very doubtful claims to outlying portions of terri- tory which the Indian Government wanted to round off the British frontier. The present situation is, that we have put our trust in the Ameer to the extent of allowing him to manufacture magazine rifles and machine guns at Cabul, while he still maintains ias own independent and suspicious attitude with regard to concessions which his English friends had a right to expect at his hands. Th11R, he still refuses his assent toO the extension of the railway Y) Cadaliar becauS< as he says, his people are opposed to it Nor have we heard that he has yet aholishcd the preference granted to Russian imports into his dominions, and given British tractefair play. If he were now, for uiy reason, to change his mind and seek the "friendship of Russia, we have put into his hands weapons which wonld make the adranoe of a British army to Cabal a much more difficult matter than it has hitherto been. The decision of the Indian Government not to impose an iinport duty upon silver betrays a oonjciousnens on their part that the experiment of closing the mints for tlx. purpose of main- taining au artificial rate of exchange has broken down. I pOinted out long agn.as your reMer may remember, that the experi- J meat was bound w fail unl- the importation of il?.r into Idi. could be stpp?d, nd the objections to depriving the Indian people of the right to buy silver at the market rate were so serious that the Government HAVJ shrank from sanctioning what was an in. dispensable condition of succe" in the NEW currency scheme. It is now only a question of time when the mints will be re-opened, but the damage done to the trade of India AND China by the unwise change of last year will not easily be repaired. The only persons who have benefited by the closing of the mints ARE the people of Lancashire, who have got better prices for their goods. Sir William Harcourt arid Lord Herschell, hoping to mak« a LITTLE party capital out of this fact, boo,sted that they had injured India for THE sake of doing good to Manchester- but far-sighted Lancashire men must be I aware that this advantage is temporary AIIA fleeting, and that it cannot benefit them PER. maneutly to have the consulllwg ca,paclt:. of the natives reduced by the decay of theW. port trade of India. The appointment of a Commission to r? port upon the mismanagement and the WANT of orgamsatlOn of the French Nay is amusing ?nimentary upon the fuss lat?iv made in the English papers b.ut the perf. ?tionofsliip,ir,eti, andarmamenwontbeothet iJe of the Channel, The French Minister of Marine goes so far as to say that few, accidents happen to men-of-war in Bn;;lan,j than in France, and that our superiority in the mechanical arts renders it impossible for the French authorities to build ships a quicklv, as cheaply, and as well as tbev CAN be built in this country. I remember reading in the "POVUE dai Deux Mondes''A paper by A distinguished French critic, who maintained that, for similar reasons, the English mastery of the seas had been stengtbened rather than diminished by the changes which have cor- verted battleships into immense storehouse of complicated and delicate machines. nr. English, said this critic, are accustomed to the handling of all kinds of maohinery and have a skill and aptitude for such work which the French, as a rule, cannot acquire. These qualities will be invaluable in time ori war, for no one who has seen the engines OF destruction massed on board one of our IRON. clads can have helped wondering how, with- out pluck and coolness of temper and the alertness which is the fruit of good training, J these formidable weapons can be used at ali in the confusion of a sea fight. It must not be forgotten that all these modern sliip8 /lore really experimental. Their actual capacity can only be tested in a maritime war, and: we shall then have to relv, AS we always, did in the past, on the figiiting qualities cf, our men more even tiian upon the ships themselves. What ships and gims are worth1 without men may be inferred from the tedious story of the civil war in Brazil, where both sides have gone on firing at one another for months together without doing anv serious harm. I do not find that Sir Edward Reed's statement at Cardiff as to the unarmoured cruiser he is constructing for A foreign (JO- vernment, which is to be armed with "guns which can penetrate the unarmoured ends of ten of our line-of-battleships, which, being so penetrated, must sink, has struck either our naval authorities or the British public with consternation. I suppose they take comfort in the thought that this wonderful cruiser would find it no easy matter to hit the desired mark before being herself sent to the bottom of the sea. Sir Edward has evi- dently forgotten the remark made by an old duellist to Charles O'Malley when that lively young gentlanan, on the eve of his first duel, boasted that he could hit the stem of a wine-glass at fifteen paces—"I care nothin for that; the win,, I a?s had not a loaded pistol in its hand." The ironclads Sir Edward is so fond of denouncing have unprotected ends, 1JO doubt; but these ends form a small mark to hit at A great distance, and it is certainly not the case that, even if their ends were penetrated, they would infallibly sink. No inference of that kind can fairly be drawn from the fate of the Victoria, which Wa.i rammed by accident ,h,n the crew were un- prepared nd even the doors of the wate-- ti'l?t ? partments were not clost A ship going into action would be p?-?p.,?!d for any eventuality. But what alxmt the cruiser! She, having no armour on at all, would ex- pose 11 very large mark to the fire of the big guns mounted on the Sans Pareil or the Howe and it is not denied that these shlp make'verv steady gun-platfom?. It would not sav' much, then, for the akill of our gu nners' if they could not blow Sir Edward Reed's unprotected cruiser to smithereens before she could possibly do any mischief. So much for that piece of idle brag. It l worthy of observation that the very same alarmists who decry the "Admiral" class of ships rushed into print a week or two AGO to proclaim that the Resolution WAS A failure, till they got the cue from Sir Edward Reed that they must not attack this ship, as it had been built on cew lines to meet mnnv of his objections. There can be no doubt, however, that the Resolution rolls prodigiously, and is, in this respect, interior to the older ships. The truth is that nu iiaval architect has yet produced a perfectly satisfactory ship, to fulfil all the infinitely varied requirements of modern maritime war- fare. May I suggest to the "experts" that they had better leave the Navy alone now for a while? They have had a very good innings, and there is some danger that they will soon get the British taxpayer's back up. and create a re-action against what Lord Beaconsfield once denounced as "bloated arma- ments." There are oertain sets of people whose book it suits to have unlimited money spent upon the Navy. There are the makers of armour plates, guns, and engines in tie great manufacturing towns, whose representa- tives are always so eager to proclaim our weakness at sea.. There are the naval whose advancement becomes more rapill the greater the number of ships we have afloat. And, finally, there are those deserving men, the naval constructors, whether in the pay of our own or of foreign Governments, who live such a merry life when shipbuilding :s brisk. But the man who has to find the money for the gratification of these gentle- men's expensive tastes is beginning to a«K himself where the competition in armaments is to come to an end. On the Ointment the nations are growing heartily sick of it all; and the Kingdom of Italv is in danger of actually falling to pieces because thi people are unable to bear the strain of keep- ing up an Army and Navy far in EXCESS 01 the financial resources of a poor country. It is not at all likely that the Court of Appeal will reverse the decision of the judges who decided yesterday that the Tussauds have no right to exhibit the waxworK effigy of Mr. Monson without his permission- The only kind of celebrity this gentleman can pretend to is that arising out of his trial for murder; and, as he was not found guilty of this charge, it would be an infamous thing to let him be added to the Tussaud collection. The defence set up, that HIS effigy was not placed in the Chamber of Horrors, is A very paltry one, for, wherever it was shown, the visitors would at once remember him as the man who figured in the Ardlamont murder case. The individual man is fa?t -I?ing to have anv rights m this country, but hiQ Tight to his own f?,tce has not before been serit),,sil denied. The decision against the Tu.?saulq will, it may be hoped, hinder the kodak. men from making too free with their cameras. It seems to me that a stranger has no morf right to take a snap-shot at you with his kodak than he has to knock you down. I cannot say that I feel much sympathy -with Mr. Charles Coborn in his quarrelwitb the management of the Palace Theatre, It so happens that I was myself at the theatre on the Saturday night when Mr. Coborn took offence at being hissed. I was wonder- ing to myself how a man who had writtn such a capital song as "Monte Carlo c ul think there was anything funny in the song he was then singing when some people in the gallerv began to hiss. Mr. Coborn stopped, took his cap off. and, removing hi. "ipe from his ,)nt h com plained that an "t;,to I I Z, I who was dY¿' lmtnet) t:rn ::t;:r: ebarmt?e,s on the st?e shouM be tjMted SO uncivilly. Then, his anger rising, he :ulr!ed, "I care no more for your hissing than io for the whistling of the wind outside this house; but, as vou have chosen to interrup me, you can finish the ,,ng "olllelv." me, therewith he bounced nff the st?. There was no necessity for this sort of thitÍ. for the applause was much more genera, thai the hissing and the gods have alw&y oo- sidered it their prerogative to expr's their feelings quite plainly. But successful muste- hall singers ae fond of abusing their pop itu-ity. Mr. Chevalier, to my ?"'?: *EN quite spoilt by the ?<7'?'? upon him for his <XMt? songs, which 11- made him take himself much too .eri()\Lly. His "Old Dutch" and "Cradle sonp <*« tedious rathr t?M inching Md TWL-E ?h th&t he would get back to r?cM 'em in the Old Kent-road." What, an odd notion of being funny t,kOM gentlemen MUST have who ATTWDED the ..)??t S  r ?j,, 4inner of the, "Thirteen Cluh" ^SATURDAY. j A more painfully-laboured attempt at plea- santry was surely never made. The only good effect of the affair hM been tn from Oscar Wilde and Lorf] ient letters in defence of superstitions • are based on the belief that there is F-IIch a thing av liiol- in this world. Lord Nelson, as chairman of the Patriots Fund Commissioners, denies the th,t he Md his co'?gue!= intend to hold f'e the capital subscribed for the sufferers h1 five loes of THE Victoria, and only to AISUI faute the iattreat.

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Vicellent WRITING PAPER-eaoà li a<ied an1 address, complete in JI(¡¡.,tirM" by return eomplcte, Fire ■ ■ Quires, ht. M.—T. Thatcher,ColleKe- R.I^DNSWL. taNaS 4 PUBLIC Slmuttmrntst. CARDIFF. THE E M P I R E. Manager OSWALP SrOLL. TO NIGHT I J^ICHARDS- CANINE pETS In a moat Extraordinary Performance. THE SIbTERS LESLIE, Fr- th E.?l.i, Theatres, London. Tw N::u}:p:ndon. MISS AMY LAURENCE, A Young LADY of 1\tuu: Cbarms, a Swetct Singer IU10 Gmct-ful Danctr THE SISTERS PARIS, One of the chief featuroo of tho week's programme. EDWARD CLARK and ALICE CONWAY, Smart ?——??A'r Comedy and ?' Dauce Art!stee. F. V. ST. CLAIR, With his Happy Hits at Current Topics. CRAVEN and CONWAY, Ethiopian Sketch Artistes. LAWRENCE BARCLAY, Vocal Character Comedian. TIIE PARROT," by WALMNK S POPULAR SKETCH PARTY N* cit Week The DAHOMEY AMAZONIAN WOMEN WARHIORS. from the Crystal Palace, Oxford, and Canterbury, I.o:f1oH. CJTOIIL'S PANOPTICON ? r)u!)?rn..?ic.hK)).S<?rT-strf.<-t. OPEN ALL DAY. ATMtSSMN. SIXI'ENCE. 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Heads no larger than those of ,?bbit.. MADAME POLONAWSKT. The B.,d,d L'M).?. Edison's Lutest FHOKOORAPH. Dcvpno's °rtic.llllnsions- The M.rs.rr "SWft." 'V Weekly Guinea CompetitionsKope Climbing, Wednesday, January 24th; Skating Race (50 laps), Friday, January 26th. Open all Dny# .(I!ce NEWPORT. ijlHE JGJMPIRE, Manager OSWALD STOLL, TO NIGHT THE THOMPSON TRH), Including Percy Hour!, In the Melange of Music and Comedy. CATAWHEELA, on the Bicycle. FOSTER. WALLACE. AND FOSTER, In th(? irVMilitary Interlude, In thei '!ôi!;gEl!rlU<I', MDLLE. ROSA, tho aceowplisbed Lady "eutn10' quist. The only feminine profioient iu tbis difficnlt art. TOM VINE, the Lively Topical Lyrist. WOOD AND BkAbpy, American Burlesque Entertainers. FRAN'! D ADAMS, Vocal Com.ainu. CLARA NISBETT, Serio-Comic Vocalist. MISS LEAH ADELL, The accomplished Singer, in her Sympathetic Scena, SWANSEA. TYTEW THEATRE, SWANSEA. J^( Pr(iprietor and Mnuagt-rl, A. ME T,Y I LI,Y,. TO-NIC.HT WYNN MILLER'S Powerful Compauy in t!»e production of a New Play, A GUILTY MOTHER. By Ben Landeck, author of a Lion's Heart, My Jack, IO. Etim,y N?w =n?ry and Vff?t.. dt<f(¡tl"yIyN;' J?.. 9: h1 famous D-, THE STILL ALARM, ith all the ,rigi .?'I Effects, Tr.u?e\ Thi ill?,f.ii.w,l by th? Cardiff Pantomime, BLUE BEARD. L'31580 THEATRE ROYAL' TEMPLE-STREET, SWANSEA. LESSEE AND MANAUVB J. E. EVANS. TO NIGHT AND EVERY EVENING DURING THE WEEK, The Enormously Successful ralt0mjme w HITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. Direet from the Lyric Theatre, London. THE EMPIRE. TO-NIGHT! LES ONOFRI! The Celebrated French Gróte.<¡u8S. HUGH DEMPSEY, The Happv Irishman. in a brillianMt ARVF'I 76, US STEBBINGS, In a brilliant A('robatj A t—one of the rreault ChJr it'en. ERNENT"* TROWBRIDGE, Baritone V o""Ii.t. MONS and MADAME EOFIX, In a Balanciug Act that compels iinteig. wonder, "VIOLE'T' T ??Ill?LE, The Fisher Girl. HYDE and ELTON, Variety EntertAiner. and Chair Vaulters. 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BAKOMETRICAL INDICATIONS. Appended i.. dmrt of tb? barometrical readings f.,Ap t?. 48 .? eHded S nd.L? id.ibt, as re,is. tered at ?' Western Afait Office, Cardiff, The inetrnmeut is 33ft. above sea Jevel.

WEATHER FORECAST. SAT1!"II!\AY'S FORKCAST. Settth westerly winds, strong; aqutDysnd ,.?"Y. [ SATBKDA r's yflATESR,  South westerly winds, ,ong showers. I The forecast of the weather throughout the Went of I ntrland Dud 8,,?th W.],? for t.-d.? (Monday) i? follow*:—WESTERLY t? "tl ?t.,Iy i,?d? ."d gaits sqUAlly: colder,

TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. T MPBRATURK. ?" M?'M?.'?'?.? BA.K?n.. Max, Mill, Mea" ?ill, 5.3 4' 4;õ- -¡;¡) folldny.15 66 0 46'5 0'07 WedM?xy.?? 57 40 g: Thuriid?'Y.M 56 42 49 0 0*15 Friday 19 67 40 48 5 0*00 12o 56 32 44,0 D,26 The Temperature represents extreme readings of the thermometer for 24 hours ended 9 H..ln.. taken in the shade at Cwrt-y-Vil, I'euarth. The 11,fol1 registered at Cwrt-yVil, Psnaith, for LIE 21 hours ENDED 9 Lm.

-=-= HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. HARRIERS. CRH'XROWF.I,L.-Tuf!!4rtay, January 23, Llangenny B?i,lg? Saturday, January 27. Cmtl(? Inn, L'engen- Cord, Mtr' T'??th-lt.' W?the!-permitting. FOXHOUNDS. C.u-MJ.RTH);NHIHF.1\Iond:tY, January 22, Mfien- llwydd, Mvdrim; Friday, January 26, Talog—10.30. WITHER permitting. GI>AMORFIANSHIRT\—Monday, January 22, Elwys- brewis Wednesday, January 24, Brynsadler; Friday, Janusiry 26, Coedriglan—10.45. I LLANUARAN.—Firday. January 26, Pentyrch Village -10.30, 1,UNdIuT.-Tuesru.y, January 23, LlansoarWood -10,-10; Friday, January 28, Graig Harris—11. MOKMOVTHRHIRS.—Monday, January 22, Raglan; Thursday, January 25, Three Salmons, Graigo'-l1. PEV81\OKI. 8UIRE.-MondaYI January 22, Neyland; Thursday, January 25, Solva-ll. MR. ALI.l:N'S.-rI'1te9day. January 23, Coedcan-.tlas; Friday, January 26, Yerbeston Gate -1, "TiTT?DE.Mond.y, J?nt)M.Y  22, Bwlch,y.Brith C,d?: 'rhur., j,'?, J"nlr 25, Llerhryd 0.45. ??[).Tue?y?BnuKr.v 2.1, Cefn-On W'd?i?,- DAY. January 24, Black C.?l, 1-10; Friday, Jannary ?Mtimdy Mountain—9,30.

"Gwalchmai," the well-known Welsh bard, has just celebrated his ninety-first birthday, and lim received the congratulations of an influential deputation representing his fellow- townsmen at Llandudno. We wish to add our felicitations to those which have already flowed in upon the venerable Welsh minstrel, and to say ungrudgingly that we envy him his patriarchal years and his vocation in such a dwelling-place. If existence has an ideal CORNER for a poet, it must be somewhere near the Great Orme's Head. Bards have always been a long-lived race in Wales, and "Gwalch- mai"—may his shadow never grow less-is proof titit in this respect, at least, we are not worsening,

Mr. Lewellen Wood's excellent letter urging the making of an import dock a.t Cardiff has incited a gentleman well acquainted with shipping matter's at Hull to tell a represen- tative of the "Western Mail" that there is no special import dock at HNLL, that the nineteen slaps owned by the Messrs. Wilson engaged in the Transatlantic traffio do not trade exclusively with Hull, but with New- castle and other ports as well, thai the im- ports they brijig are distributed over the Korth and East of England as well AS the Midlands, andl that, above all, the vessels 80 engaged are fed by the Continental steamers of Uw same firm. Even so, the sounduem aM urgency of Mr. Le-Ðen Wood's > demand for an import dock at Cardiff are not I in the least affected. I

When, oh! when, is the long-promised Mumbles Pier to be constructed? The news just circulated, that Sir John Jones Jenkins has acquired tho whole proprietory interest in the line has probably had some significance attributed to it in this direction. Sir John is well known as the most active and enter- prising capitalist in the DISTRICT i?d, as it has been generally seen by tlitm" that he can induce capital from others also, it is na turally expected that this transfer may I)e the preliminary to the formation of a com- pany and the prosecution of the work before the summer a,gain comes round, with its in- evitable call for pier accommodation. Pos- sibly, Sir John would like to see the Rhondda ltaihmy-the big iron in his fre-out of hand first, but we hope this is not so. So far back as January, 1890, the following words appeared in a Swansea organ:- Mumbles people may resf assured that, what- ever the harbour trustees may decide, the pier will be commenced next winter at the latest. As illustrative of the "air promise- crammed" upon which Swansea folk are fed, these words ai-e very suggestive. JJET the winter of 1893-4 show some of those indications of activity which the winter of 1b139-90 did not bring forth

D ON'T MISS SEEING THE CARTOON IN TO-DAT'S "EVENING EXPRESS." SCBJBCT ON THE RHYMNEY. DON'T mc Nasvous OR Low SPIRITED.— Pepper's quinini md um Tftk *omes it ..ti.v,. Ylal ANTONs take Carter's Little Liver Pills, tbsy?sor.rymWI. So trooM* to imUow. Ho unia '.??ESJaES??'?? I