South Wales Daily News

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES. DEATHS DEATH. JOHN.—On Thursday, at 30, Ruthin Gardens, Jenkin John, aged 44. Funeral on Tuesday at three, for Old Cemetery, Friends will please accept this intima- tion. No wreaths. 745 IN MEMORIAM. SALT.—In ever loving memory of Mary Louisa, wife of Charles Salt, of West Hartlepool and London, who died at the residence of her parents, Blaencorse, St- Clear'a, June 5th, 1891. 72*

SATUB?Jm £ JUNE 4, 1892. ULSTERIA." A NEW disease demands a new and dis- tinguishing name to effectually diagnose the malady from diseases possessing similar symptoms, but of a different type. The distressing mania which has smitten with such terrible severity the nerves and brain of Tories and Liberal Dissentients, distort- ing Irish Home Rule into a frightful monster, with distended jaws, preparing to gulp down Loyal and patriotic Ulster" into its ravenous maw, was with happy appropriateness ticketed by Mr CAMPBEIX-BANNEBMAN in his exceed- ingly able speech at Glasgow, on Thursday night as—Ulsteria. The name is an expres- sive one, and eminently suggestive of that kindred and troublesome malady which affects ladies of peculiar idiosyncracy with diseased nerves and over-tight corsets, and throws them at times into spasmodic convulsions. The "Unionists," as they ludicrously label themselves, are in that sad state of nervous disease now. The prevail- icg cause of the malady is sectarian animosity tempered by narrow class interests and racial hate and it falls with intensest severity upon those who, like Mr JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, join personal spite against Mr GLADSTONE with contracted political sympathies, and an incurable prejudice against the Irish people. Mr CHAMBERLAIN may possibly be playing at make believe, and is only feigning to have the disease, for he is essentially a political harlequin and charlatan but the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, as Mr CAMPBELL-BANNER- MAN pitifully remarked, has had the malady badly, and both he and Lord SALIS- BURY "had done their very best to tempt "the men of Ulster from the path of pru- "dence and moderation." One of the effects of this malady is immoderation in the victim immoderation in opinion immo- deration in statement; and immoderation in action. When Mr CHAMBERLAIN was politically in his right mind, before he felt hostility towards Mr GLADSTONE for holding on to the reins, and could not patiently wait for the reversion of the Liberal Leadership, he said in a speech at Bristol :—" The real question for Liberals to consider is this What is the object, in Heaven's name, of a representative system ? Suiely it is to "reflect faithfully the opinions of the people represented. It cannot be by fraudulent devices to secure a sham representation which has no authority, no popular weight whatever. This is a matter upon which Liberals must have the courage of their convictions. There are two courses open to you. You may try if you like a task which I think will be "impossible. You may attempt to govern Ireland in the nineteenth century des- potically, as you govern India, without a semblance of representation. But if you "admitthat cannot be; if you grant the necessity of constitutional rule, then, I say, let thafcconstitutional rule be a reality, and let us take all its consequences." Mr CHAMBERLAIN was not afraid of doing aright then because of consequences. Do right even-if the Heavens fall was then his ..watchword. But lie knew that if right be idone.theHeavens would not fall. But the tU consequences, oh! the consequences," is now the Ulsterial cry of plotting Tories and Liberal Dissentients who profess to dread the result of satisfying the just demands of the Irish people. What will become of loyal and patriotic Ulster," they shriek in unison, if you grant Home Rule to Ireland 7" It is now evident that around Ulster the battle of Home Rule will wax the hottest, and Liberals will not be at all dissatisfied that Tories and Liberal Dissentients should select that issue as the stand point of the Home Rule fight. The Tories have been striving to console themselves with what they must have known was a vain and delusive hope that Home Rule was dead but as the day of conflict approached nearer and nearer, they sum- moned religious faction to thwart, if possible, a purely political issue. One of the ablest and most honest of the Liberal Dissentients, and one of the ablest and most honest of the whole army of "Unionists, so-called, is Mr LEONARD COURTNEY, M.P. for Liskeard and Deputy- Speakerand Chairman of Committees; and Mr COURTNEY honestly told his constituents on Thursday night that the relations between Great Britain and Ireland was still the question of questions—all others might be more or less important, but they were relatively insignificant compared with the question whether they should maintain the existing Union between Great Britain and Ireland." By the existing Union Mr COURTNEY meant the Act of Union—the Act of the Irish Parliament passed in 1800, for the union of Great Britain and Ireland existed for hundreds of years before that Act was parsed, and will exist for hundreds of years after that Act has been repealed. Some of its most important clauses have been repealed already, and the union between Great Britain and Ireland is as intact and as strong, nay stronger, than it ever was. To prevent the repeal of other clauses of that Act; to negative the just demands of the Irish people in asking for what every free people possess, the right to govern themselves in their own local and internal affairs, Tories and Liberal Dissentients turn aside from political issues and strive to stir up the fires of religious discord and fanatical intolerance. They allege, with- out the faintest shadow of authority or proof, therefor, that if Home Rule be granted to the Irish people the Roman Catholic majority will oppress, persecute, and ultimately stamp out of being "the loyal "and patriotic Protestant minority" in Ulster. This is a calumny in advance on the Roman Catholic majority unsustained by an atom of proof or of probability. The Irish Roman Catholics are not persecutors. This is a truth vindicated by all who have had experience of them in the most Catholic districts of the island. Do not assail their religion, do not traduce their beliefs or their forms of worship, and they will be found to be amongst the most courteous, generous, and hospitable of all nationalities. The persecutors, the in- tolerants, the religious supremacy men are to be found in the ranks of Irish Protestants and not of Irish Catholics. But it is only a section of the Irish Protestants, the noisy faction of Orangemen those who toast the pious and immoral memory," and who sing in boisterous songs, "The Battle of the Boyne" and "Croppie Lie Down," who cause riot and disturbance in the land. And these, forsooth, ticket themselves and are ticketed by English Tories and Liberal Dissentients as the "t loyal and patriotic minority in Ulster. Loyal and patriotic indeed. At what time were these noisy Orangemen ever loyal and patriotic to the English connection, to the Imperial Parliament, or to the QUEEN, when their wshes were thwarted, or their Protestant ascendency assailed, or their power to oppress and outrage their Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen curtailed. Let any fair-minded and impartial Englishman read the history of this Orange faction from its birth till now, and he will speedily dis- cover that its sole end andaimwas to secure what was called Protestant ascendency, reli- gious supremacy over the Roman Catholics amongst whom they dwelt. And not only have they beep traitorous to the English rule andtotheImperial Parliament, but traitorous to the QUEEN and the Constitution. Just before the death of the last king, WILLIAM the Fourth, the Duke of CUMBERLAND being then their Grand Master, the Orange Lodges of Ulster conspired to place their Grand Master upon the Throne in defiance of the lawful rights of the Princess VICTORIA, our present QUEEN. Ulster was then honey- combed with treasonable Orange Lodges, and so rampant in treason were they that the Lodges were suppressed by the authority of Parliament, and the Duke of CUMBERLAND was given a quiet hint that there was such a crime as high treason. A quarter of a century has not passed away since the Rev. JOHN FLANAGAN, another Grand Master of Orangeism, declared in Dublin at a grand meeting, amid the treasonable shouts and approval of Orangemen—" the loyal and patriotic minority "in Ulster, be it remembered— that he and his brother Orangemen would kick the QUEEN'S crown into the Boyne if she dared to affix her signature to an Act of Parliament of which they disapproved. If the battle for Home Rule is to be waged around the loyal and patriotic minority" in Ulster—as there seems every probability now that it will—the whole truth concerning these braggart and blustering BOBADILS will have to be revealed, and the hypocrisy. of the Tory cry to save Protestant Ulster from the evils and terrors of Roman Catholic ascend- ency revealed. The facts of history will weigh more with the intelligent English, Scotch, and Welsh people than the fictions of the Tory platform or the romantic inventions of Tory journalists.

IT has been reserved for the Newport School Board to obtain unenviable distinc- tion. This it did at the monthly meeting yesterday in discourtesy to a deputation. Public bodies, whatever their internal bickerings, are smooth and polite when visited by a deputation of ratepayers, who wish to confer with them on any given topic. To be exact, it should be stated that it was the six forming the minority on the School Board who, by their acts and their silent assent, outraged prevailing traditions. The deputation which received this treatment consisted of fifteen or twenty gentlemen, headed by an ex-mayor and supported by the Chairman of the Monmouthshire County Council, and the subject of their visit was the giving at monthly intervals of lectures on temperance, scientifically con- sidered, to the children attending the schools. It was explained that the attend ance at the lectures was not compulsory, and that school hours, already crowded with work, would not be infringed upon. A publican member of the Board attempted to heckle the deputation, and this lead was followed by a cleric, until the deputation claimed the protection of the Chairman, and the Chairman, in order to enforce order, threatened to suspend the business for an interval nnless his ruling was obeyed. The majority protested against the discourtesy, but no apology was offered by the offenders, or by their friends, which include two other clergymen, on their behalf, and the deputation was allowed to leave the Board-room, to be followed with a parting gibe savouring of the pothouse from the aforesaid publican. The Newport School Board has done many remarkable things since the days when Archdeacon BRUCE proclaimed its famous new departure policy, but probably it has excelled itself, difficult as that feat might be considered to be, by its latest breaking through of all restraint and decency.

FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL MAYNE, M.P. [FBOM OUR REPORTER, j LONDON, Friday. This afternoon the remains of the late Admiral Richard Mayne, C.B., M.P. for Pembroke and Haverfordwest Boroughs, were interred at Kensal Green Cemetery amidst many outward tokens of regard and affection. The circumstances of the death of the hon. and gallant gentleman were such as to evoke general expressions of sympathy with Mrs Mayne and her family. The admiral was present at the Welsh National Banquet given at the Mansion House on Saturday evening by the Lord Mayor. He was then apparently in robust health, and responded to one of the toasts on the list. Later in the evening he was seized with apoplexy, and was removed in a comatose condition to his town house, 101, Queen's Gate, where without a return to consciousness he died on Sunday afternoon. The remains of the deceased officer, after being enclosed within a shell, were given a temporary resting place in an apartment on the ground floor, which he had used as a dressing-room. The outer coffin was of polished oak with light brass mountings, and bore the inscription :— RICHARD CHARLES MATNE, Born 7th July, 1335 Died 29th May, 1892. The coffin was enveloped with the Union Jack, upon which were placed the sword and belt, the epaulettes, and cocked hat of the deceased. The remains were surrounded by banks of wreaths and crosses; several of the more ornate were fixed upon a screen at the head. In the mass they covered so large a space as to entirely hide the furniture of the apartment from view. The great majority of these floral tributes, in which immortelles were the most conspicuous, were from relations and a wide circle of friends. Others were from public bodies, and had descriptive cards attached. The chief of them were the following With sincere sympathy from the Premier in Wales Habita- tion of the Primrose League," In loving memory from the Tenby Conservative Associa- tion," Haverfordwest Conservative Association," "With deep sympathy from the Pem- broke Dock Conservative Club," From the members of the Milford Haven Conser vativa Awonittion in grateful recollection (, r public services loyally and faithfully rendered," In affectionate and grateful memory of our lamented member, Admiral Mayne, C.B., M.P., from the Pembroke Conservative Club," With the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress' deep sym- pathy," From Sir Win. Humphrey and Lady Humphrey, in kindly recollection of a friend," A token of sincere sympathy from the Metro- politan Police." The first part of the funeral service it was arranged to hold at St. Peter's Church, Cranley- gardens, close to Queen's-gate. At 12.30, a few minutes before the half-hour, a four-horse open hearse received the remains, and a long line of carriages followed to St. Peter's. The mourners and other occupants were First carriage-Sir H. Dent, Mr Edward Dent, Mr Clinton Dent, and Mr L. Mayne. Second carriage—Mr Horace Broke, Mr E. Maiden, Captain Bouvene Clarke, and Mr Percy Mayne. Third carriage-Rev Charles Dent and Rev Dr Ridg- way. Fourth carriage—Mr L. W. Dent, Mr C. Dent, Capt. Herbert Dent, and Col. Cavenagh. Fifth carriage—Mr Leeham White, Mr Blake, Col. Mitchell, and Admiral Field. Sixth carriage-Rev Dr White (Lord Mayor's Chap- lain), Rev C. Joyce, and Mr H. W. Dent. Seventh carriage Representative of Warrant Officers, Mr Baxter. Mrs Mayne and the Misses Mayne had pre- ceded the cortege to the church. Here the remains were met by the Vicar of St. Peter's and the Rev J. F. Downes, and the solemn sentences of the liturgy were intoned. As the coffin was borne up the centre aisle to the chancel four admirals actsd as pall-bearers, namely, Admiral Field, M.P., Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, Vice- Admiral Parker, and Rear-Admiral Cleveland. Occupying seats in the nave were Lady Willis, Admiral Durryman, Admiral Gordon, Admiral Sir George Richards, General Sir Andrew Clark, Admiral Bowden Smith, Sir F. Lucas and Lady Lucas, General Banbury Thompson, Admiral Sir Algernon Lyon, Mr and Mrs Lewis Hill, Sir R. Alcock and Lady Alcock, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs Appleby, Sir Thomas Merrick, and Sir C. Phillips. Mr G. Hugh Stokes was present as a deputation from the Milford Haven Conservative Association. The service was choral, and the clergy of St. Peter's were assisted by the Rev Charles Dent, a brother-in-law of the deceased. At its conclusion the coffin was borne back to the hearse, and the wreaths replaced upon it. The cortege then left for Kensal-green, where the committal sentences of the liturgy for the dead were read by the Rev Dr Ridgwajr The arrangements for the interment were satisfactorily earned out by Mr W. Doran, from Messrs Gillow and Co., Oxford-street.

MISCHIEVOUS BOYS AT RHYMNEY. SETTING A HAYRICK ON FIRE. On their way home from the Newtown Board School yesterday morning, two little lads, named David Thomas and Joseph Richards, about five years of age each, ;went into a field belonging to Mr Wm. Thomas, Windsor Arms, Newtown, and made for the hayrick, which was sheltered from the weather by an open end hayshed, Lighting some matches in their possession they set fire to the ricks, and although attention was speedily attracted to the fire, a considerable amount of damage had been done before the flames were extinguished.

REPORTED RELEASE OF MRS MONTAGU. A CONTRADICTION. The Press Association's Londonderry cor- respondent telegraphs :-It is stated that Mrs Montagu, who was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for cruelty to her children, was released from Londonderry Gaol yesterday morning at an early hour. The prison officials who have been questioned upon the sub- ject decline to give any information. The Central News says :-Mrs tMontago was transferred yesterday from Londonderry to Grangegorman JaiL There is no truth in the report that she has been released.

CABINET COUNCIL. A Cabinet Council, which had been postponed from Wednesday, was held at the Foreign Office at eleven o'clock yesterday, and was the last before the Whitsuntide recess. Eleven Ministers and Mr Balfour and Mr Jackson did not arrive until half an hour after the appointed time of meeting. The Ministers absent were Mr Stanhope, Mr Ritchie, Lord Cross, Lord George Hamilton, Lord Ashbourne, and Lord Cranbrook. The meeting ended at quarter to one.

HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND. The annual conference of the Scottish Home Rule Association was held at Dumfries yesterday afternoon, Dr Clark, M.P., in the chair. Resolu- tions were passed in favour of a separate Legisla- ture and Executive to manage purely Scotch national affairs, and in favour of Scotch Home being made a test question at the next election.

DR SAUNDERS. Our representative was informed yesterday that Dr Saunders continues to improve daily. in con- dition.

LONDON LEITER. a [FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] [SPECIALLY WIRED.J LONDON, Friday Night. THE WHITSUNTIDE RECESS. The House of Commons separated this afternoon for the Whitsun recess without Mr Balfour having made the announcement yith respect to the Dissolution that has.been in some quarters persistently looked for as a preliminary to the recess. As you were informed on this day week, he never had any such intention, always meaning to defer the announcement till the last possible moment. This cannot be post- poned long after lie reassembling of the Commons n&xt Thursday. Possibly on that day Mr Balfour may take the House into his confidence, though in conversation he laughingly declares that Story, God bless you, I have none to tell." Everyone knows as well as he how things are shaping, and that the precise date of the Dissolution depends entirely upon the rapidity with which the House will content to put through Supply and wind up the remaining stages of the considerable quantity of second-rate Bills that still cumber the orders. That is all very well, but it is evidently convenient that some definite statement as to the course of public business should be made from the Treasury Bench. THE PROGRESS OF BUSINESS. This afternoon saw advanced a stage fifteen Government Bills, none of supreme interest, but each affecting certain classes of people. The House naturally wants to know when it is intended to carry all these measures. The Irish Local Government Bill still stands on the Orders for the Com- mittee stage. No one supposes there is any intention of proceeding with it, but there it is, and should be withdrawn with any other measures the Government do not see their way to add to the Statute Book. The House is also anxious to know what course the Government intend to take with respect to Supply. SUPPLY. It is very much in the state it stood on this day six years ago, when Mr Gladstone was approaching defeat, and Parliament was on the eve of dissolution. When the Dissolution was announced in June, 1886, the House agreed to Mr IGIadstone's sug- gestion that the Army and Navy votes should be disposed of in the ordinary way in committee, the Civil Service estimates being left over for the new Parliament, a vote on account being taken to cover the period up to the 31st of October. Will Mr Balfour follow that precedent, or will he, as he has been pressed to do from the Front Opposition Bench, clear off all the votes in Committee of Supply, leaving the new Parliament with a clean slate ? AN IMPORTANT DECISION. On one important point I have the best authority for stating that a decision has been come to. In 1880, when Lord Beaconsfield suffered a crushing defeat at the poll, he, without awaiting the meeting of Parliament, sent in his resignation to the Queen, and by the time Parliament met Mr Gladstone was not only Prime Minister, but had formed his Ministry. When in 1886 a similar disaster befel Mr Gladstone he took a parallel course, immediately re- signing. Lord Salisbury's Government will revert to the practice in vogue in the time of Peel and Palmerston, and, whatever may be their minority, will face the House of Commons and formally submit to its verdict, taken after debate on the Address. Mr Gladstone, to whom this determination has been privately communicated, offers no objection, stipulating only that the new Parliament shall be summoned as early as possible after the elections are completed, a pledge that has been readily given. A SHORT AND IMPORTANT SESSION. From this circumstance it appears that the first session of the new Parliament, which will open towards the end of July, though short of duration, will be lively in its pro- cedure and important in its consequences. The course of procedure will be of special personal interest to the Duke of Devonshire, recalling to his mind a similar state of things existing in 1859, when he made his first prominent appearance on the political atage, moving the no confidence" motion, which, being carried, ousted Lord Derby's Ministry. AN ECHO OF THE PAST. Two old members of the House of Commons were last night talking of the event in which they had both participated. One recalled how Dizzy, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, after listening to Lord Hartington's stumbling speech, observed when he sat down, The House could not stand that from anyone less than a Marquis." It must have been, according to these eye and ear witnesses, a painful performance, through which Lord Hartington, suffering most, plodded with that dogged obstinacy that finally landed him in the front rank of Parliamentary debaters. AFTER 1886. As the first session of the new Parliament will in some respects run closely parallel to that summoned after the General Elec- tion of 1886, it may be worth while noting that this, the 12th Parliament of the reign, met on the 5th August and was not prorogued till the 24th September. Only a small portion of the time was occupied with Com- mittee of Supply. The Address was not disposed of till the 3rd of September, Supply being reached oti the 7th. Six sittings sufficed to dispose of the Com- mittee of Supply, after which the Appro- priation Bill ran its usual course. BUSINESS BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS. The business on the orders were run through so rapidly at the sitting of the House of Commons to-day that it was all over a few minutes before five. The Government orders were, as I have mentioned, cleared right off. There re- mained a long list of private Bills, but no one concerned thought it worth while to interpose with the request for a hearing. The attendance keeps up pretty well, close upon 200 being within call, as was shown on the division on the private bill, in which Sir Henry James figured in a minority of six. Mr Balfour was in his place, Sir William Harcourt representing the Opposition, having the front bench literally to himself. There was a glut of ques- tions, the total reaching 64, but the aggregate of public interest was not .9 overwhelming. Mr Cobb questioned the Home Secretary about two recent scandals, but was somewhat jauntily put off. With respect to the so-called glove fight, one of the subjects that interested him, I am told by one of the appreciative audience that he paid no less than j325 for his seat, whence it would appear that prize-fighting, reckoned by the money scale, affords a higher delight than theatre or opera. CHECKING AN IRREGULARITY. The Speaker, after long suffering, which the House would readily have seen shortened, broke out this afternoon in protest against a practice by which the patience of the House is cruelly abused and one of its rules systematically evaded. With the view saving time and ensuring accuracy, it is a standing order that questions addressed to Ministers shall be handed in in time to be printed and circulated. When his turn comes at question hour a member is not permitted to recite the terms of his question, being content to refer to it by its number in the list. The ingenuity of some members has, however, found a way of evading this salutary ordinance. Having had their printed questions answered, they get up and put sometimes two or three supplementary ques tions vim voce. Mr Sexton is the great practitioner of this art. The occasions are exceedingly rare when he does not graft a minimum of a couple of questions on any one appearing in his name on the paper. Mr Patrick O'Brien has fallen into the habit of imitating his leader in this matter. To-day he had not less than 13 questions on the paper, and after receiving an answer to each one he proceeded further to interrogate the Minister. After this had gone on for 20 minutes the Speaker sternly interposed, and formally called the attention of the House to the irregularity. The life of the present Parliament being so near its close, this incident is not likely practically to affect its procedure, but the incident and the ruling enforced may be usefully recalled in the new Parliament.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. The Duke of York completed his 27th yetf yesterday. Charles Keene was the first to advise Mrs Langtry to join the stage. Three directors of the Barry Company will, it iff stated, contest the Barry Local Board election next year. Sectarianism, writes the Drych, the organ of the Welsh Americans, is still a peril to the Welsh people. It implores Welshmen to rise above the shibboleth of mere denominationalism. The annual general meeting of Reuter's Tele- gram Co., Ltd., was held in London on Thursday. when the report, which declared a dividend of 5 1 per cent., was adopted. j There are no limits to the enterprise of Car- diffians. This week two Cardiff match boys tramped all the way to Swansea in order to sell matches during the show week in the latter town. A Llanelly gentleman, home from the East, describes the agreeable sensation which he experienced on seeing the names of two Swansea gentlemen inscribed on the visitors' book in the small island of Elephanta, in the Indian Ocean, famous for its ancient temples. A wealthy Australian, who is at present sojourn- ing in London, is making his friends laugh by showing them his "family plate." He claims to be descended from the oldest family in New South Wales," and-trots out the hand- cuffs in which his ancestor landed in Botany Bay! M. Zola is a great lover of curios. His home io Pans and his country seat at Medan are filled with artistic treasures, and he spends much of his time in the auction-rooms. He only remain* three hours at his desk, and those in the morning. He cannot, therefore, complain of being over- worked. A marriage has been arranged between Captain Stuart Morgan (3rd Battalion South Wales Borderers), of Bolgoed, Brecknockshire, and Blanche Dutton Budworth, only daughter of thfe late Mr Philip John Budworth, of Greensted Hall, Ongar, Essex, and step-daughter of Major Heales, of Leesons, Chislehurst, Kent. The proposal that the honorary degree of LL.D. should be conferred upon Mr John Mor-, ley, Mr Chamberlain, and Sir Henry James emanated from the Duke of Devonshire, who, all Chancellor, has the privilege of submitting cer* tain names to the Senate. The invitations to the right hon. gentlemen to accept the honour were sent direct by his Grace. The type-written conditions of the World's Fair International Eisteddfod at Chicago haØ been altered and made to read thus :-(3). "Thltt the essays, handbooks, and novels shall be type- written, or, if pen-written, should be in a round and clear hand, with proper distance between the lines, so as not to tax adjudicators in the reading thereof." It has now been decided by the Treasury and Mint authorities that the designs for the neW coinage shall not be published before the general issue of the completed coins to the public. It i. anticipated that there will be a great run on the new issue, and accordingly a very large number will be struck off ready for distribution to the different banks on a given day, not sooner tbaJl about three weeks hence. Bishop Smythies astonished the friends of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa by affirn" ing that since the arrival of the Germans in East Africa things are on the whole improving Measures towards the repression of the slave trade and the mitigation of the drink traffic have been taken, and although, as we gather, they are of a prudential and material character, they seem to have had good effect. For example, one German governor hanged 17 Arabs for holding » slave market. The death is announced of Mr John Davies. omerton, in whom South Pembrnkf>shir«» has lost one of its oldest tenant farmers. Mr Davies, who passed away at the ripe age of 77 years, wa a great lover of horses, as well as one of the best mounts and cross-country riders in the district. He was full of anecdotes of Pembrokeshire steeplechasing in the old days. Mr Davies sent out some splendid animals from Somerton to all paits of Wales and England, and as a breeder be had a high reputation throughout Wales. H6 was a genuine type of the yeoman, now fast dis- appearing. The fourth annual gathering of "literary ladies was held on on Thursday night at the Criterion, when about forty women writers sftt down to dmner in the Prince's Room. Tbc outer cover of the menu bore an appropriate etching by Miss L. C. Smythe, representing Millerv* offering a libHticm to Bacchus tw inside pages set forth the nectar and an; brosi. 44 which the ladies were to feast, and the last pagt was decorated with the motto from Tb6 Taming of the Shrew Irame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life- Mr John Gorell Barnes—or, to give him his, new style and title, Mr Justice Barnes- although young to bear the burdens and wear the honours of the Bench, has fairly earned his distinction. The son of the late Mr Henry Barnes, of Ar-field Cottage, near Liverpool, a considerable shipowner, Mr Justice Barnes may be said to have been born and bred in an atmo- sphere m which matters maritime loomed large. There can, indeed, be no doubt whatever that be largely owed his success at the Bar to his intimate and special knowledge of shipping and mercantile business as well as law. The ministerial ranks in the Rhondda have received a notable accession in the person of the Rev E. T. Jones, late of Blaeawaun, Pem., whc a week or two ago assumed the pastorate ot Jerusalem Welsh Baptist Church, Llwynypifc Though hailing from a somewhat obscure cornel m Pembrokeshire to take over the charge of one of the most important churches in the Rhondda, his fame had long preceded him, and although » comparatively young man-lie is but 34-he is already in the front rank of popular preachers. He has a style peculiarly his own, and clothes old truths in a new and striking manner with cliarin, ing felicity. Tommy Burns, the champion diver, has left Liverpool for Hay, in Brecknockshire, for thl purpose of giving an exhibition of his diving powers on Whit Monday. The most daring feat he will perform at Hay will be a dive of 70 feet into three feet of water. Tommy is in splendid form at present, and is in hard training prior to his departure for America in a few weeks. 011 the other side of the Atlantic he will challenge the best man that can be found in running, diving, and swimming. He will, however, re* serve his decision as to what he will try at Niagara till he has had an opportunity of inspecting the famous falls. The Welsh members who fought the Clergy Discipline Bill inch by inch on Thursday night wereMr Dillwyn, Mr Ellis, Mr Samuel Evans, Mr Lloyd-George, Mr Lloyd Morgan, Mr Pritchard Morgan, Mr David Randell, SIr Edward Reed, Mr Bryn Roberts, Mr BoweO Rowlands, Mr D. A. Thomas, Mr Abel Thomas. Among the members who supported the repra- sentatives of Wales were Mr Burt, Mr Channing. Mr Conybeare, Mr Dalziel, Mr Duncan, Mr George Howell, Dr. Hunter, Mr Arthur O'Connor, Mr Oldroyd, Mr Maden, Mr Wynford Philipps# Mr Roby, Mr Angus Sutherland, Mr Sexton, and Dr. Tanner. M Of Mr Victor Cavendish's bride, Lady EvelyO Fitzmaurice, it may be said, as was said. that she H is more beautiful than her beautiful mother. The generation which is now getting into middle age wondered which they should the more admire, the seven beautiful Hamilton girls or the eight lovely Moncrieffes. For the Lady E. Fitzmaurice is the daughter of the Marchioness of Lansdowne« who, as Lady Maud Hamilton, when she used to come to Harrow, and the First Lord of the Ad- miralty was a boy at the school on the hill," was verily with her sisters the cynosure of the Harrovians' eyes. Of the seven sisters, one married a Duke, the Duke of Buccleuch, fouf married Earls, and the youngest and the youngest but one Marquises. The bride is the eldest child, and will be twenty-two next birthday, and it possessed of all the grace and winsome beauty, with the Irish eyes which her mother possessed before her. It is remarkable bow completely the Welsh papers have overlooked the death of Mr R. J. Griffiths, M.A., LL.D., who died at Catford, near London, on the 20th ultimo, at the early age of 41. He was the son of Mr R. Griffiths, formerly master of Bryn Eryr School, Llanrug, but now /11 resident of Portdinorwic. Born at Llanfairtal- haiarn, Dr Griffiths was, at the age of 13, apprenticed to a chemist at Denbigh, and at the end of four years he entered Chester Training College with the view of becoming a schoolmaster. He kept a school at Llanarth, and from there went to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree, and colul menced what proved to be a distin- guished literary career. He subsequently toot Holy Orders, and for seven years laboured in London as a Church of England clergyman; but, at the instigation of the Duke of Wellington, he took yet another departure, being called to thfl bar at the Middle Temple. His favourite pursuit, after all, was journalism. He was an accomplished linguist, was at one time an examiner of the London University, and a candidate for the principalship of Aberystwyth College when vr Edwards resigned.