The London Welshman

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MR. LLOYD=GEORGE WARNS THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Addressing a meeting of Liberal Agents in connection with the assembly of the National Liberal Federation in Liverpool, Mr. Lloyd- George spoke about the House of Lords. He said :—After all we are only beginning our task, and that we should not rest on our oars. As a matter of fact we have only just succeeded in getting the boat into the water, and the time has begun for plying the oars. We won the last election very largely owing to the angry resent- ment which the country felt at the worst display of incompetence that any Government has ever been guilty of. Our task was almost an easy one. We had simply to roll out the list of the names of those who composed the Ministry, and the thing was done. But now we have got a very big job in front of us, and we need all the encouragement and strength that comes not merely from the loyal support of those who are in the country, but from the organised support of the country, and that will depend upon you. We are challenging great interests and powerful ones. It is true that next year our task may be a little easier. When we are attacking the drink interest I shall expect at any rate that all the zealous friends of religious education will support us. But still there is a great deal to be done, and it is only to be done by steady, con- sistent work. Our majority is a very huge one, and that in itself is a peril, because there is no battle in which you must not expect casualties, and those casualties will probably occur here and there in the course of the next few years. But nothing must discourage us. We must go on. The country is really Liberal at heart. It believes in progress, and wherever they get it I am perfectly certain they will support the Minis- try that is accomplishing their wishes in that respect. That seems to me to be the lesson in every part of the Empire. It does not matter where you go-Canada, New Zealand, any part of the Empire-as long as a Govern- ment is really engaged upon the work of progress they get the support of the vast majority of the people dwelling in that part of this great Commonwealth. I am sure that is what will happen here. It is rather extraordinary when you come to think of it. The Unionist party have practically been in power for 20 years, and as long as they were doing progressive work they got the support of England. Between 1886 and 1892 they did some fairly good work. They disestablished Quarter Sessions, established free education; they gave local government in this country; later on they gave local government in Ireland and as long as they were doing really progressive work the country was behind them, and it was only when they began to fall back upon the old reactionary ideas that the country repudiated them. That shows that England is really Liberal; and if this Government not only fully realises that, but fully acts upon it, there is not the slightest danger that England will desert them. Of course, the Celt is always all right. You need not fear him. He is a man with great ideals and great hopes. He must be, or else he would have broken his heart long ago. You can do a great deal not only by supporting us when we are doing good work, but by seeing that we are doing good work, by insisting upon it, and by occasionally reminding us what we are there for. Even Liberal Governments have to be reminded sometimes that they are there to do the work of Liberalism, but not this Government, I hope. I don't know how soon -you cannot tell. That depends upon the House of Lords, but you may depend upon it that a Liberal Government will not allow the will of the people to be thwarted for ever by the House of Lords. It is just possible that the time may come, and that it is not far distant, when a Liberal Government will find it incum- bent upon itself to really place that great issue before the country. But, whether or not, one thing is important, that when my friend Mr. Geake, head of the Liberal Publication Depart- ment, comes to prepare the Liberal leaflets for, let us say, 19x1, he will have such a record of work done to place before the electors that they will say to us, Well done, thou good and faithful servants, enter upon another six years."

"THE CROWN" (IS. Monthly).—New journals, like misfortunes, seldom appear singly, and amongst the recent number of good class weeklies and monthlies, The Crown has made its debut, thus gaining an advantage upon its even more pretentious contemporary and rival, The Throne. The first issue contains two supplements, beautiful reproductions in colours of The First Lady in the Land''—Her Majesty the Queen, by Cecil W. Quinnell, R.B A., and I Seek but One," by Nibs," and in connection with which is introduced the novel and convenient method of perforating the pictures, and a special wrapper for easy detachment. Having perused the first number, we are forced to admit that it goes a very long way towards justifying the promises and claims made in the interesting editorial.

NEAR GOWERTON, GLAMORGANSHIRE. IMPORTANT SALE OF AN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-BUILT MODERN COUNTRY RESI- DENCE, WITH PLEASURE GROUNDS, ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS, EXCELLENT AND WELL-ARRANGED OUT-BUILDINGS, LODGE-KEEPER'S HOUSE, GARDENER AND WORKMEN'S COTTAGES AND GARDENS, AND AN ADMIRABLE AND WELL-CUL- TIVATED FARM OF ABOUT 77 ACRES. MESSRS. JAMES and JAMES (F.A.I.) IVi are instructed by the Owner, Mr. R. H. James, to SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, before the end of June, at the Hotel Metropole, Swansea, the above Handsome FREEHOLD RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, Known as "CEFNGOLAU PARK," situate within one and a half miles of Gowerton Railway Station and six miles of Swansea, in the midst characteristically beautiful Gower scenery. The Property will first of all be offered in one Lot, and if not sold in that way, then in smaller lots to suit Purchasers. Full detailed Particulars, Plans with Views, may he obtained from the Auctioneers, Goat Street, Swansea 01 from R. T. Leyson, Esq., Solicitor, Swansea.

FLINT. The Flintshire Education Committee have had reported to them three remarkable cases of regular school attendance on the part ot children attending the Northop National School. Florence Mary Isabel Smith has made every possible attendance for 9J years, and Sydney Freeman and Lena Owen have an equally good record for seven years. The Committee have decided in future to award medals to children who show similar good records by way of encouragement. GLAMORGAN. The death occurred yesterday morning, after protracted illness, of Mr. Henry Abraham, M.E., first cousin of Mr. W. Abraham (Mabon), M.P., and one of the old school of colliery managers in the Rhondda Valley. The Rev. Cromwell Hughes, the late pastor of the Bethesda Baptist Chapel, Swansea, is back again in the Principality. Mr. Hughes is in charge of the Hyde Park Church at Scranton, which has a membership of just over 1,000 The Central Hall, which was opened by the For- ward Movement at Swansea in the beginning of the year, was on Sunday evening formally incorporated as a church of the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion. During the time the Rev. Seth Joshua and Mr. George Rowe have been in charge of the mission there has been a large number of converts. The members have appointed Mr. Myrddin Davies, secretary, and Mr. Prosser, treasurer. MERIONETH. At a special meeting of the Barmouth Urban District Council, held on Tuesday evening, a letter was read from the surveyor (Mr. R. Lloyd Jones, Bala) tendering his resignation. The grounds were not stated, but at the last meeting the Council refused to pay his out-of-pocket expenses in con- nection with the waterworks. The resignation was accepted.