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Broken Up in Sections. WAR WITHIN THE CARDIFF LIBERAL THOUSAND. The Forward Section Want to Call a Meeting but the Oldsters are Afraid. All is not peace within the limits of the Cardiff Liberal Thousand. There has been no meeting since the famous gathering- when Councillors Eamsdale, Shackell, Andrews, and Morgan Morgan handed iu their resignations and disappeared in a storm. Several efforts have been made to g'et the officials to call a meeting-, but, 80 far, these efforts have proved unavailing. This reluctance is, doubt- less, due to the fact that the gulf between the old and the younger Radicals is widening, the differences increasing in number and extent. It is felt that a meeting of the whole body would only exhibit the wretched state of shreds and patches into which the Thousand has been brought. Latterly, however, some of the for- ward politicians have been threatening the chairman and the secretary that unless they call a meeting forthwith they will be com- pelled to do so by memorial, according to the rules of the association. It is confidently stated by the young Democratic Radicals that they have been stepvdily gaining ground, and they want to see the Thousand a live and not a soul-less, illert body. The questions they intend bringing before the body when they can g'et it together will comprise the election or selection of magistrates and the action of members of the corporation in reference to the marriage of the Duke of York. They wil1 also combat the feeling said to be held by th-» older members that Lord Eose.bery is not the j most suitable leader for the Liberal party. All three questions are admirably fitted to biing out the points of differences between the younger and the more chastened members of the Thousand.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Interesting Pars about Interesting] People. The Archbishop of Canterbury has gone over to Rome—for a little holiday. Mrs. Langtry is about to come back to the stage again. She will appear in a few weeks' time at the Royalty, where the management are said to have undertaken to give her a salary of £100 a week, A man can be married cheaper in Melbourne than in any other part of the world. Ministers advertise in the papers against each other. One offers to bind together loving couples for 10s. 6d., another for 7s. 6d., and so on down to 2s. 6d. In seme cases wedding breakfasts and rings are thrown in. Very few people know that the cathedral city of Morningquest, in which the scene of the "Heavenly Twins" is principally laid, is iden- tical with Norwich, ancient and qU8.int. At one period of her life Sarah Grand lived in Norwich for some years, and she is still well rememberod there. An interesting ceremony took place at Liver- pool on Friday, namely, the dedication of the new steamer John Williams, which belongs to the London Missionary Society. A correspon- dent writes :—" A working man in the crowd on the landing-stage asked what craft sbe was, and another replied, She looks like some big lord's yacht.' 'Yes,' said one standing by, 'you are right. She is the Lord's yacht.' The Grand Council of the Primrose League have resolved upon organising a newspaper letter-writing corps. The moment a Leaguer sees any hostile statement in a newspaper, say in reference to the House of Lords, he is to reply to it. The reply will appear to be the spontaneous expression of an indignant elector but the Grand Coullcil officials have intimated that they will provide the points" in these replies, and a special staff is apparently to be employed for the purpose. 8I8.dIL

SAYS HE WAS DRUNK. Ship's Cook Charged with Jewel Robbery on the Elmsfield. At Cardiff Police-court this morning Cuth- bert William Walters, 24, a ship's cook, was charged with feloniously stealing; one gold ring, one gold brooch, one gold chain, and one gold bracelet, value £30, from the steamship Elmsfield, in the East Bute Dock, between the 15th and the 18th inst., the property of Margaret Townsend.—Detective J. Stephens stated that on Wednesday he received prisoner into custody from the Gates- head police. He charged prisoner with the offence, and prisoner said, Yes. I am very sorry, but I was drunk at the time." From what prisoner told him witness went to Newcastle-on-Tyne and received a gold brooch from Mrs. Street, a pawnbroker, and a bracelet from another pawnbroker in the sa-me town, named Summerfield. He received a ring from Mr. Miehaelstone, pawnbroker, Cardiff, and a ring from the Gateshead police.—Superintendent Haywa-rd applied for a remand for a week, in order that the rest of the property should be recovered, and prisoner was in consequence put back until Friday next. -v-

IN THE SEVERN. A Boat Capsizes and One Man is Drowned. Among the hundreds who on Friday morning went from Gloucester and distriot to Minster- worth to witness the grand sight of the Severn" bore were three excursionists from Bristol. Engaging a small pleasure boat, they pulled up the river to meet the "bore," but the force of the water capsized the buat, Willia-m Glass, fruiterer's clerk, of Clifton, beiu-T drowned in sight dT a large crowd on the banks. The body was swept away by the current, and has not yet been recovered. The other occupants of the boat were rescued by a man in another boat. -J /)..

VANDUARA AFLOAT. Heels Over in Whilmoor Bay and her Crew Take to the Rigging. On Friday night another effort was made to float the ship Vandnara, which, it will be remembered, struck the rocks near Barry Island some days ago. A tug boat was taken down to the spot and a strong hawser attached to the ship. the tug succeeding in re- floating her, but when she was fairly off the rocks the tow rope broke, and the Vanduara suddenly heeled over, and those on board, think- ing she was sinking, hastily scrambled on to the rigging. The vessel then drifted to the jetty, where she now remains.

A WATER CURE. The Pope Has Tried it but Has Received No Benefit. A Dalziel's telegram from Paris this morning says :-A Rome dispatch stn,te8 that Father JCnapp's water cure, which the Pope followed some days, turns out to have done his Holiness anything but good. His knees are reported to have swollen considerably, and he has com- plained that the treatment has affected his general health. The Pope's ordinary physician is endeavouring to reduce the swelling knees.

ATLANTIC LINERS OVERDUE. A New York telegram (through DalzieFs Agency) says :The German steamship Rugia, from the Mediterranean, is now five da.ys over- due. No news has yet been received of the British steamer Apollo, and it is feared she has been lost.

ELECTION NEWS. Sheriff Be?-iy on Saturday fixed the nomination for the Parliamentary election in Mid-Lanark for Friday, the 30th instant, and the polling for Wednesday, April 4. The candidates are Mr. James Caldwell, Liberal; Colonel Harrington Stuart, Conservative and Mr. Smellie, Labour.

IN CANTON CHURCH. The Canton Parish Church Choir performed Stabler's beautiful cantata The Crucifixion on Good Friday evening in the presence of a large congregation. The choruses and solos throughout were well sustained and rendered in good style. Special mention should be made of the unaccompanied portien, which had a pleasing effect on its hearers. Mr. W. R. Wilkes, the choirmaster and organist, presided at the organ. _—.———

OHEE MINSTRELS, Park-hall, Easter Monday

His Brains Battered Out. BRUTAL MURDER IN A GERMAN GAOL. The Fate of a Criminal who Refuses to Help in a Plot to Escape from Prison. j A Central News telegram from Berlin says :— A tragic crime is reported from the prison at ¡ Nuremberg. Three criminals were confined in one cell, Huber, Lamson, and Krempel. The two former bad concocted a project for break- ing out of prison. Krempel, however, declined taking part in this risky 1,. I proceeding, pointing out that they were far more likely to be caught than to escape. The other two were unable to alter his decision, and, regarding him as an obstacle to their plans, they suddenly threw beds upon him, stifled his cries, and then beat his brains out. They afterwards saw that it was impossible to obtain their freedom by their original plan, and so they called the soldier who "'7'5 -I was keeping sentry with a view of overpowering him and seizing the keys. The sentry when called became suspicious, and in turn called his superior officer, who, looking through the slide of the door, saw the murdered man in the corner of the cell. The two men then confessed their crime, and will probably be executed.

A BOLD WELSH ENGINEER. He Proposes to Build a Vessel to go Sixty Miles an Hour. Sixty miles an hour at see is the startling proposal of a, Welsh engineer. This is a huge leap forward from the best that can be done by tile fastest of our ocean greyhounds. The Lucania, which has just eclipsed all her previous performances, averaged on her last passage barely 22 sea miles per hour, and it cannot be denied that every additional mile per hour can only be attained at an enormously increased cost. The proposed express passenger steamer to attain a speed of sixty miles an hour discards the screw propeller and reverts to the old-fashioned principle of paddle wheels. But, instead of having the number limited to two and placed one on each side of the vessel, the new ship would be fitted with a dozen or more, working one behind the other, in a water channel running fore and aft just above the ship's bottom. The paddle wheels are of a peculiar construction, the paddle always maintaining- a perpendicular position, and always entering and leaving the water at exactly the same point. The vessel to be thus propelled would be flat-bottomed, 550ft. long, 50ft. beam. wedge-shaped at each end for 100ft. of her length, and would have a displacement of about 14,600 tons. Such a vessel, fitted with sixteen wheels driven at 170 revolutions per minute, it is claimed would propel the ship forward at the rate of one mile in a minute. This would indeed be "beating the record" with a vengeance.

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MARRIAGE ROMANCE. A Duke's Humble Bride Refuses his Hand at the Altar. A most romantic story is attached to the engagement of the Duke of Antikoli and the Princess Eugenie Bonaparte, which has just been announced. Don Massimo Anti- koli, some time ago, fell violenty in love with a beautiful Roman girl of humble birth. The girl's parents, in spite of the' duke's earnest entreaty, refused to give their consent to the union. But, after persuasion, the girl consented to be married civilly upon a certain day. The ceremony began, and the duke bad given his "yes," when the girl suddenly fell into his arms weeping. You shall see now," she said, how great my love is for you. I will not marry you. People say I want your title and your money. I don't, and I could not make you happy." The duke entreated her to go through the remainder of the ceremony, but she absolutely refused. Now that the duke's engagement to the Princess Eugenie Bonaparte is publicly announced, Roman society is wonder- ing if the girl will regret her choice. The Emoress Eugenie, by the way, has given the bride £40,000 as a wedding present. WHWPIWIII min'ii.nff'i 11 > ■mm——1——

A WEDDING SURPRISE. The Bride Gets an Unexpected Present From an Unknown. A curious thing has just happened in South London. About 12 years since a young girl, daughter of well-to-do tradespeople, lost nearly £20, which she had saved out of a very liberal allowance. The money was taken from a drawer in her bedroom, and the thief was never detected. A day or two ago the girl—now an active young woman—was married. On her wedding morning she received an anonymous letter stating that the writer was the person who stole her money when she was yet in her teens, and enclosing bank-notes representing as nearly as possible the amount stolen with com- pound interest added. Of course the bride was delighted, and no effort has been made to trace the anonymous writer. wuMBaanHEnHcwoBinMMamBunagBnaaaa

A LADY MISSING. She Has Mysteriously Disappeared from Oxford. The Hon Mrs. Charles Fielding, who during the past few weeks has been staying at 41, Ban- 'It "Slu bury-road, Oxford, has been missing since Mon- day. She went out about eleven o'clock on that day for a walk, intending to keep an engage- ment to call on a friend and accompany a youug lady to church. She went in the direction of the University Parks, where she was seen later on in the morning. It is supposed that Mr. Fielding went for a favourite walk through what is known as Mesopotamia, and fears are entertained that she fell into the river. Mrs. Fielding has for some time past been subject to fits of giddiness. The river is being dragged with the view of finding the body. Mrs. Field- ing, who came to Oxford from Cheltenham, has only recently lost her husband.

FLAMES IN VIRGINIA. Factories and Houses Destroyed and Lumber Ablaze. A Central News telegram from Norfolk (Vir- ginia) this morning says :A conflagration of a widespread character broke out at Money Poir.t near here on Friday. Several factories, miiis, ) and houses were destroyed, and enormous piles* of lumber, estimated at 5,000,000 baulks, are I now burning fiercely. The damage will exceedhalf a million dollars. iiniBiiiwiiiiiimwi IIWIII m.in win ■mimm

OFF TO GREENLAND EXPLORiNG. A Dalziel's telegram from Copenhagen says —Lieutenants Count Moltke and Petersens, of the Danish Royal Navy, accompanied by M. Jessen, have left Copenhagen, by the Hvidbjornen, for Greenland, on an exploring expedition.

Silk Hat for Cleveland. A Dalziel's telegram from New York this morning says :—An English silk hat, consigned st President Cleveland, has beed sold by auction, I Customs duty on it were not forthcoming.

OHKE MINSTRELS, Park-b.til, Easter Monday. I

A Too Confiding Maiden. SHE CLAIMS HER BETRAYER PROMISED MARRIAGE. Alice was From the Country and had Lost Her Way in London when They Met. At Birmingham Assizes on Thursday Alice Hobson, a single woman, of Brierley Hill, claimed damages for alleged breach of promise against Thomas Ingram, of London. Mr. Vif.jheil was for the plaintiff and Mr. Parlitt watvv'or the defendant. A Painful Case. Mr. Vachell said the case was of a very pain- ful, and at the same time cruel and heartless, nature. The plaintiff was a young lady of 24 years of age, who lived with her parents at Brettell-lane, near Brierley Hill. The defendant was a man of some means, and lived at 279, Camberwell-road, London. He was the general manager of the New Civil Service Corporation (Limited). In August, 11892, the plaintiff, who had a married sister living in London, with other young friends went to visit her sister, a lady whose name was Badger. On August 22 the party had been seeing some of the sights of the Metropolis and got lost. Seeing some apparently respectable persons they asked to be directed to a 'bus which would take them to Islington, in which district Mrs. Badger lived. The defendant and a friend whom he called Jack volunteered to show them the way, and the two men walked the whole of the distance with the party. On the journey the men said they were both unmar- ried, and they asked if the plaintiff and her sister also were unmarried. They were informed that they were. The men thereupon expressed a desire that their acquaintance should not be allowad to cease, and it was arranged that tfcey should go to a theatre on the next day. On that evening the plaintiff expressed a desire to become engaged to the girl, and dis- tinctly spoke of marriage. An appointment was made with the defendant and his friend and the members of the party to meet outside St. Paul's 611 the following afternoon. After inspecting the cathedral some conversation took place about t4e defendant's'rooms, and 1.e said he should like plaintiff to see them. Mrs. Badger, before con- senting to allow her sister to go with defendant, asked him if she could trust her with him. He replied that it was all right, as they were going to be married. He called a cab, and tpok the confiding young lady to a house m Vauxhall, and there accomplished her ruin. There were other interviews, and the defendant succeeded in persuading sthe plaintiff to remain in London longer than she intended. Eventually a child was born, and the defendant allowed her 108. a week. During the whole of this time he passed himself off as a single man, whereas he had a wife and family. Counse' added that the defendant was ill receipt of a salary of £300. a year from the company of which he was manager. He was also a share- holder in that and several other concerns. Plaintiff in the Box. Having given evidence on the lines sketched out in Mr. Vachell's address, the plaintiff was cro::5s-examined by !1r, Parfitt. She admitted that the thoroughfare in which [ibe and her sÍster met the defendant and his friend was the Strand, and that they went to a refreshment bar together, and afterwards to Short's refreshment rooms. On the following evening she went with him to a tbeatre--the Alhambra—and left with him whilst the performance was going on, and proceeded to the house in Vauxhall. The plaintiff was also cross-examined at considerable length with regard to the letters which passed betwe8n the parties, in the course of which it was shown that, with one exception, there was no reference to the alleged promise of marriage. Sisters Called. A young married sister of the plaintiff, named Florence Mumford, deposed to being with the plaintiff wLen they met the defendant and his comvanion. Cross-examined by Mr. Parfitt, the witness acknowledged that after meeting the men they went with them to the Coach and Horses, Short's, and to another place. She did not know the name of the third place they visited, but it was a very nice place indeed. (Laughter.) She would not be surprised to hear that that place was the St. James's Restaurant in Piccadilly. She heard the defendant on the night they went to the Alhambra tell her sister that he would marry her. Mrs. Alice Badger, of Wilmington-square, London, another sister, also gave evidence. She deposed to looking upon her sister and the defendant as an engaged couple. This concluded the case for the plaintiff. Defendant Denies. The defendant was sworn. He said that when he first met the plaiutiff and her sisters they went, with his friend Williams—who had been spoken of as Jack—first to the Coach and Horses, where they remined for half-an- hour. They afterwards went to Short's, and subsequently to the St. James's. They stayed at the latter place for about three-quarters of an hour. The whole party, who by that time were on pretty free terms with each other, after- wards drove to Wilmington-square. On the evening he took the plaintiff to the house in Yauxhall she knew perfectly wen the kind of place 8he was being conducted to. He never promised her marriage. The subject of marriage was never mentioned between them. The first intimation of any supposed promise of marriage was on June 25, in a letter from the plaintiff.— Cross-examined: He had been married about twenty years. Verdict for Defendant. After hearing further evidence this morning, the jury found a verdict for defendant.

"LUCKY TO LEAVE WITH LIFE." A Visitor to Mary Ann-street Tells the Old Story. At Cardiff Police-court this morning Elizabeth Bowden, 22, and John Suliivan, 29, were charged with stealing £11 in gold and silver and seven American coins from the person of James Turney, with violence, at 44, Mary Ann-street on Good Friday.—Prosecutor said he was a steward on board the Emeite, now lying in the Roath Basin. About 10.30 on Friday evening he met the female prisoner and went to a house in Mary Ann-street. He went with her to a bed- room. Then he found out the character of the house and wanted to get away, but the female called two men into the room, and they held him whilst she went through his pockets. She took £11 in gold and silver and seven American dimes. Witness then went downstairs and saw Sullivan, who said he was the land. lord. Witness complained of his loss, and Sullivan said he was lucky to get out with his life, and then he threw witness out.—Police- constable Copeland said he went to 44, Mary Ann-street and arrested both prisoners. When Bowden got into. the station she threw two American coins and some English silver money on to the desk. PrÜ;ønors were remanded for a week.

USED FALSE PAPERS. I A Seaman Fined Forty Shillings for I, This Offence at Cardiff. At Cardiff Police-court this morning (before Mr C. F. Gooch, Alderman T. Rees, and Councillor E. Beavan) Edward Keefe. an ordinary seaman, was charged at the instance of the Board of Trade for fraudulently making use of false dis- charges when engaging to ship on board the steamship Savernake at, Cardiff on the 16th inst. —Mr. Roe (from the office of Mr. Ivor Vachell) appeared on behalf of the Board of Trade, and stated that Keefe was charged under Section 176 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1874.—Defen- dant pleaded guilty, and was fined 40s. and costs, or, in default, one month's imprisonment wIth hard labour.

DEATH AT AN INQUEST. At an inquest held by Mr, Wyatt, Streatham, on the body of Ellen Searle. aged twenty years, a-domestic servant, who died somewhat sud- denly at Highb01.gue, .Ba.lha.m, on Saturday last, a allocking incident occurred. Almost immediately aft?r the coroner had sworn in the jury one of the /lumber, a Mr- Johu Dommett, aged 72 years, fell backwards iu his chair, apparently in a lit, and.died in less than half an hour, after which the inquest on the girl was resumed. The death of Mr. Dommett was due to syncope, iudueed r.Y Gx.eií.e.m811t. I

A Princess Tak .ig the Veil. The Patriote states that the taking of the ':t veil by Princess Clementine, daughter of the King of B -tgiurn, is now only a question of time. I

OH IJE MINSTRELS, Park-hall, Easter Monday.

Welsh Wit and Wisdom. GOSSIP AND CHATTER OF THE PRINCIPALITY. I, A Column of Paragraphs of Persont and Places Gathered from Over Gwaiia. Silver medals are to be given to efficient members of the Barry Police Ambulance Lord Dunraven and Lord Windsor have been ¡ invited to open the Barry and Cadoxt-on Con- servative Club next month. Under the new Parish Councils Act infante are not eligible for member-ship. Still, that doesn't matter very much. A Swansea councillor made a. charming hull the other day, when lie spoke of the" N'd rsuj which wa-s being wheeled across the path. The Swansea County Council are buying a fifteen-ton roller instead of a ten-ton one, as in use at present. Where is Alderman Tut ton? Isn't he heavy enough? When the saw had run through a large elm in a Porthc-awl sawmill a day or two ago t-to workman noticed a sandstone fast embedded in the tree. The stone was long, and ran parallel with the heart. There was nothing amiss with the bark. A London paper thinks that if Sir Edward Reed were not a great naval constructor h( might take quite creditable rank among out 72 (or is it 172?) minor poets. So he might. Sir Edward is at home among poetry and romance, especially romance. How the Newport football people have lost caste since the affair at Cardiff on March 3. Tn some of the announcements of the forthcom- ing charity match at Cardiff the thing is described as Mr. Norman Biggs' Cardiff Team v. T. Graham's Newport Team." "There are two committees in Cardiff oí: which any town might well be proud," say. a local writer, and he adds that "one of them is the free libraries and the other the museums." We are frantically proud of the museums. Councillor Evan Lewis can make as neat a "bull" as any man from Connemara. The other night bO!J1e kindred spirits were discussing their expenditure, and the county councillor chimed in with "I should have had at leas* £1,000 more to-day if I had never been born." 'Twas ever so (says the St. James's Gazette). Mr. Gladstone studies Basque at 85; Cato began to learn Greek at 80 Plutarch to learn Latin when almost as old: Dr. Johnson applied himself to Dutch just before his death; and— a.nd Sir George Osborne Morgan, M.P., has just begun to learn Welsh, at. 65. An Englishman is to preside over the Swan. sea Cymmrodors for next year—Mr. C. H. Gla-scodine, who has learnt scholarly Welsh out of books. The Cvmrv are wondering wha.t his Welsh appellation shall be. "Carl Cae- parc" is sugg-ested-Cae Pare being his pla-ce of residence. We would as soon hear him called Carl St. Helen's-road. A Wales for the Welsh Cadoxtonian has come out at the wrong end of a lesson in Welsh. He sent a parcel of perishable matter to a friend some days ago. and addressed it to "Penybont-ar-Ogwy." The parcel has now come back, covered with postmarks, and labelled, "Place not known." The language of the sender was almost as loud as the odour of the parcel. Mr. Ton Chivers was dressing the grave of his uncle (tile late Rev. Isaae R.r.* iau Is, Pen- darrt n) in the Merthyr TydSI Old Cemetery last Saturday, when a newsboy, with an anuivl of papers, entered the burial ground and stond still to watch. Thinking the lad might be better employed. Mr. Olivers said. "Do you uell many papers here?" ""{es," said the ladt they sire all ordered," a.nd he o-,nt:us«d tllS wall- round the cemetery. According to Lord Rosebery, every manse, or nearly every manse, of the Established Church of Scotland is an agency for the Tory party. "The case is still worse in Wales," say: the South Wales Post." "Here every vicarage, rectory, or 'curatage' is a Tory office." This is not strictly aocurate, but, even if it were, it would be mild compared with Noncon- formity. Here every chapel is a Radical organisation centre, every set fa,wr a caucus, and every deacon a party boss. Whence arise these howls from the Good Templar lodges of Cardiff? The "Templar Clarion" publishes a letter which is a model of condensed condemnation. This is it:—"He sought fruit and found none. Dear Sir,—As the result of my visit to the various Cardiff I.O.G.T. lodges, I declare that the above remark is appropriate.—Yours truly, E. F. Ivennard, Cardiff." It will be observed that Mr. Kennard modestly compares himself to the Divine Being, who sought fruit and found none. Two tradesmen at Merthyr—<nie a licensed afforded a good ileal of amuse- ment by a story whieh Lhey tell I\g..vll.;t diem- selves. The hotel-keeper wanted a cask, and g-ot one which had contained tar. How to clean it was the question, and onu or the twain suggested that the tar should be burnt off, ai is generally done with petroleum casks. WIlli" the lire was doing its work the tradesmen ad- journed to the bar of the hotel for a refresher, a.ud when they returned found only the hoopt of the cask left. It was the only cask about. A London paper thinks that the doctor of the future will score by being a Welshman- The reason assigned is the ease with which Welshmen can get round long :I.nd rugged words. The "Pall Mall Gazette" evidently thinks that a, n-an who talks every day about Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogeryehwyrndrobwllllan- tysiliogogogoe-h would make very small potawe. of such simple things as tetrahydroparamethy- loxychinoline and" periodotetrahydropara- methylosychinoline." Do doctors ever say these word-i as well as write them? quei'dou&ljr asks Mr Astor's paper. A fa-iters' paper published no Lund m savt — '"Welsh cobs and horses have he-j me de. se; edly popular on account of tlieir manv useful qualities, and especially their hardiness of constitution. Welsli cart aorses, for wh-ch Montgomeryshire in particular has lorg been crleh.ated, are likewise much sought after by English dea.lers. We know of several from our own particular neighbourhood which, aftsr selling for high prices here, have Itwu taken to England and sold for double and tr-ahlo t' « origimd prices, and are now to be fouud 1U the statles of some of the wy bluest m '.Id iaai." The late Miss E. M. Grenfell, of Maesbpf House, Swansea, was a devout and accom- plished student of the Bible, and, impelled by the desire to read the Scriptures in the original, she learnt Hebrew, and became an excellerd Hebrew scholar. Several Hebrew scholars, :1.!1long;t whom were the Reys. ,James Lewi*, M.A., of Nottingham, and David Price, B.A., rurate of Llanelly, Breconshire, used to ba daily seen wending their way to Maesteg House as early as eight o'clock in the morning to lead and discuss a chapter in the Hebrew Scriptures. An amusing story cornea from Edinburgh University. The other day Dr. Andrew Seth, the well-known professor of logic (who \va< once a.t the Cardiff University Col. lege;. received. an addition to 11i: family. This fact somehow became known, and next morning the professor enteree his class-room to the strains of "Molly and 1- and the Babv," which was duly followed bt "Tlie Alabama Coon." While the songs wer& being sung the professor stood at his table, ouite helpless, for the students numbered hun- dreds. After the strains had died a-wav h. nervously sa.id: -[ can hut how mý acknow- ledgments," and proceeded with his lecture. Mr..T. Wynford Philipps, who has resigned his seat for Lanarkshire, is known in Wales as few husband of Mrs. Wynford Philippe. Mrs. Philipps is a vigorous public speaker witii the more advanced of the advanced Liberals, and is in much request with the Radical organisations, which take kindly to wornen- speaJcers-. Her husband üutered Parliament; ar- a bye-election in 1888 under peculiar oir- ounistanees. Be had never set foot in Laa/irte- shire, bat he was eager for a flight, and when trie me-ssape reached rtitr. at Tangier, oe was s'pendbtg his honeymoon, hr; sw.l bw wife came posting back, and the seat was »nu ia spite of the fow hundred vnteil dirwt-wl by Labour candidate. His wiie is the dwjjsfcwc of the laie Mr. Ifridor Gothenburg, and Wettsjhi him more thru wealth.

VVE A TH ER FO R KC A ST. TIIURSI1AY'S POKKOAST. THCLTS04*'IJ WKATHKR. Easterly brp.e7.er5, mode- South ensterlv Wiûih, rate to fresh; fair. ,moderate; fair. The forecast of the weather throughout, th", Westof i- 11I,-)II11<j snid South Wules for to-dav (Saturday) is as follows:—Eflsterty ijyinds, strong fine dry.

TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL I T'-MPEBATUCK. V r> i 'p 12 — jfc AINf'i'Lf,, Max. jMin. Me an. '-I Friday 118 59 33 46'0 O'OO -siturdav 119 59 35 47'0 O'OO Sunday !2o 59 45 52 0 O'OO Monday |2j 59 44 51 5 O'OO T'u«sday 22 59 36 47'5 O'OO Wednesday :23 59 33 45 0 O'OO Thursday 24 59 40 | 49'6 0.00 TIJe Temperature represents extreme readings of the thermometer for 24 bånrs ended 9 a.m., tu ken ill thü shade a t Cwrt-y-Vil, Penarth. The Ra it registered at Cwrt-y-Vil, Penai th, for the 24 hours ended a.m. =-

HUNTING APPOJ NTMENTS. FOXHOUNDS. CA :<MI RTHKNSH IP.I;.—Monday, March 26, Aliyferin (brealrfast at 10.o0); Pridav, March 30. RhydAherwem —10.30. OLAMOKOAJISHIKK.—Monday, March 26, Ash Hall —11. LI.AN«IBBV.—Saturday. March24, GrnigHarris-ll; Tuesday, March 27, Llanbaddoc 1- riday, March 30, Llannaartin—10.30. MONMOOTHSHTBE.—Monday, March 26, Crowfield Thursday, March 29, Liauvair Crossroads—11. PKMBROK'SHIRH.—Monday, March 26, Canastou Bridge: Eiiday, March 30, Castle-square, Haverford- west,-ll. MR. SEYMOUR AU.KK'S.—Wednesday, March 28, Pembroke Saturday, March 31. Llangolman—12. TIVYSIDX. -Monday, March 26, Alitycam Bridge; Thursday, March 29, Llaneycli Gate-10.45. j ifSTRAD.—Tuesday,March 27, Tougwyulais Thurs- A, W:wr-h 29. Talf's 0, i

LILANDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES EASTER DAY (March 25).—In residence, the Ven. the Archdeacon of Monmouth. Holy Communion Eight a.m. and Mid-day. Morning (Eleven a.m.) Stanford in B flat Litany, Tallis Kyrie and Creed, Stanford in B flat hymn, 134; introit, Why seek ye (Hopkins) hymn, 140 preacher, the A-rch- deacon. Afternoon (3.30 p.m.) Stanford in B flat hymn, 135; anthems, Behold, I shew vou a mystery" and Worthy is the Lamb" (Handel) hymns, 138 and 134 preacher, the Rev. J. R. Buckley. Collec- tions for the Parochial Schools. Monday, March 26.Five p.m. Elvey in A anthem, They have taken away (Stainer). Tuesday, March 27.—Eive p.m. Smart in F; anthem, Christ is risen (Elvey). Wednesday, March 28.—Eive p.m: Barnby in E; anthem, Praise His awful name" (Spohr). Thursday, March 29.-Five p.m. Calkin in B flat; hymn, 125. Friday, March 30.-Five p.m. Parry in D anthem, If we believe that Jesus died (Goss). Saturday, March 31.—Five Garrett in E flat; hymn, 136.

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NOTE 8 By "OBSERVER." CARDIFF, SATURDAY MOBNING, Yesterday one of our seniors limped into the office with a right woeful countenance, and wearing- on his sinister foot (excuse the heral- dic expression) a, slipper that might have been worked for him by his inamorata in the early fifties. We all gathered anxiously round him, and a, simultaneous exclamation of "What's up?" resounded thiough the palatial apartments of the temporary offices. Sinking into a chair, and with a rueful glance at his slippered extremity, the unhappy scribe unfolded his tale of woe to a sympathetic audience, for, old sin- ner though he is, we are all very fond of him. He said he was on his way to the office, and was stepping off the pavement at a street corner when a vehicle shot past, cutting the angle with dangerous abruptness. The result was that the wheel passed over ftve good "Western Mail" toes and introduced mingled feelings of surprise, pain, rage, and vengeance into one of the gentlest bosoms that ever swell°cL with pleasurable emotion as its owner gazed into the limpid depths of the office beer aii. "If I could only have caught him!" gasped the figure in the chair, and he shook his well foot in a way that would have boded ill for J. lift fundamental ethics of the offending Jehu had he been at arm's length. The case was heard from start to finish, and then a junior reporter moved, the Poet seconded, and it was re- solved nem. con. that the meeting cross the road to further consider the situation. I hereby devote a whole note to the unini- tiated by informing them that the Tudor is across the road. Further particulars, testi- • monials, &c., on application at the office. The company having first liquidated, the chief reporter said it was a "bally nuisance," another described it as a "blanked shame," and the sporting man, who is eminently broad in sympathy, consigned the unknown offender to the nether regions without further intro- duction. There was a general consensus opinion that this cutting of corners was a dang-erous feat far too common in the streets of Cardiff, and that the police should take particular notice- of it. All which is perfectly true. I have my- self seen a couple of young fellows in a trap scoot round a, corner, almost on the pavement, "shave" a, pedestrian, and drive rapidly away, laughing and grinning all over their faces. N on", the exigencies of traffic and of btisi- ness ofien compel rapid driving', but this performance at street corners is wholly un- necessary, and I cordially agree with my brother scribes that the police should note a case or two and get the offenders into trouble. Only in this way can these exer- cises be relegated to their proper domain, the circus. At the meeting above alluded to it was also stated that some cyclists had a neat little ruse for frightening pedestrians. They will creep up behind them, ring their bells vio- lently, and enjoy the fright their victims receive. This kind of thing might easily be put a stop to by a smart pedestrian with a walking stick, the latter being rapidly inserted between the spokes of the jokist's machine.

Next Thursday night a great meeting will take place at the Park-hall under the aus- pices of the Cardiff Conservative Working Men's Club. The principal speaker will be Sir John G-orst, M.P., who as an authority on questions of special interest to the work- ing classes will speak specially on these im- portant matters, and an address will also be given by Mr. J. M. Maclean, the Unionist candidate for Cardiff. The whole of the arrangements are in charge of the Conserva- tive Working Men's Club. I am also asked to remind readers of the ball next Thursday evening in aid of the funds of the infirmary and Nazareth House, right worthy objects both of them. Mr. William Ap Morgan, of Bridgend, has I forwarded some interesting reminiscences of Cardiff as it was more than half a century ago. Most of my readers are aware that since tha.t time the place has been utterly and absolutely transformed. My correspondent first saw Cardiff before there wa.s any Rute Dock'- or Taff Tale Railway constructed, and, after giving some particulars as to the paucity of houses, lie adds, "To think of what Cardiff was then and is now is as great a change as I witnessed in London, where there was no railway whatever when I went there for the first time." My aged informant is a bit involved in his writing, for which reason I cant, give all his statements, as I should like; but he say? "there were no houses in the rear of St. Mary- street, and between that and Penarth all was mud and water, and small craft sailed unim- peded by any bridge right up to the Shsp-on- Launch at the end of W omanby-street. It must have been charming "On the Moors between the east side of the new Bute Dock-there were no houses all the way to Roath or Adamsdown, and from Crock- herbtawIl-say, from the Glove and Shears at the corner of the Merthyr-road—right on to Roath not above 200 houses all the way; and from Cardiff Bridge through Canton right to Ely and Llandaff not above 100 houses on both roads. At Penarth, on the beach was John Roberts' public-house, the church on top of the hill, and about twenty farm and other houses were all from Ely to Lavernock Point." 'Twas a bit slow in those days, I should say.. lentie reader, what say you ? I hope all good "Express" folk will spend a haonv Easter.and be none the worse for it t