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TIDE TABLE. Fen. THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 28, 1805. sT •a m ri 0 O >— r-s ins +5 O DAYS OF TBS SS b| -5 g g 3 M g M 8 ° W dl a (Morning 6 26 6 13 6 o 7 25 5 12 isaturdy J Eveiung 6 43 6 45 6 33 50 5 39 (.Height 30 1 32 3 32 9 24 6 29 10 ("Morning 7 15 7 7 6~57 8 147T-i Sunday. -J Evening 7 34 7 31 7 22 8 3S 5 2! (-Height 31 3 3i 6 34 0 25 11 30 2 (Morning 8 5 7 55 7 8 9 4 6~54 Mondy -< Evening 8 2i 8 21 8 13 9 23 7 .9 (.Height 32 0 34 6 35 0 27 1 31 0 (Morning 8 54 8 44 8~37 9 51 7 43 Tuesdy -J Evening 9 8 9 6 8 59 10 13 8 5 (.Height 32 1 34 10 35 4 27 5 31 1 (Morning' 9 40 9 30 9 22 10 37 8 28 Wcdnes-J Evening 9 56 9 54 9 48 11 I 8 54 '.Height 31 7 34 4 34 10 25 U 30 8 (Morning IO^TITO 16 10 13 11 23 9 IS Thurs. J, Evening 16 46 10 40 10 38 11 47 9 44 (.Height, 30 7 33 6 34 0 25 11 30 2 (Morning 11 i3 11 2 11 1 — 10 7 Friday ■< Evening 11 33 11 25 U 25 12 9 10 31 C Height 29 0 32 2 32 8 24 5 29 5
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'1'1 + 1 piail SATURDAY, JUNE 22 1895, THE WEEK. A battalion of the 2nd Glamorgan Artillery Volunteers went into camp at Lavernock on Saturday. Mar Lodge, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of File, was entirely destroyed by fire on Friday afternoon. The House of Commons' Committee on the Unemployed met again on Friday, when Mr. Charles Booth, author of works on labour subjects, WfJS examine/! Twenty-nine workmen are reported to have been kilitd by an explosion or naphtha at a, Massachusetts harness establishment on Fri- day. The "New York -Herald" on Friday pub- lished a dispatch from Panama stating that Colombia is hurrying troops across the fron- tier into Ecuador. It is reported that the Germania Ship- but] aing Company has received orders from Spain for the construction of six gunboats for service in Cuban waters. A fearful boiler explosion occurred at the or Warrenby Ironworks, Redear, on Friday night. Nine workmen have died, and several a others are more or less seriously injured. A number of placards have been posted in Paris calling upon the inhabitants to display the national flag covered with crape during the time the French ships are at Kiel. At a meeting of the Cardiff Waterworks Committee on Friday Mr. C- H. Priestley was appointed engineer, at a salary of JB450, in place of Mr. J. A. B. Williams, resigned. The Portuguese Chamber of Deputiod wad destroyed by fire on Monday. James Canning, who murdered his ruveet- heart at Bermondsey, was hanged at Wands- worth Gaol on Tuesday. The R<yal yacht Osborne left on Monday morning for Hamburg, en route for Kiel, with the Duke of York and suite on board. At the Old Bailey on Tuesday, on the appli- cation of Mr. Avery, the indictment charging Jabez Balfour with offences under the Debtors Act was postponed' until next sessions. Arthur Roland Harrington Hill, who cut his sweetheart's throat and his own at Wel- wyn the other evening under extraordinary circumstances, has been committed for trial on charges of attempted murder and suicide. The "Sun" learns that Mr. Saunders, the chairman of the Great Western Railway, con- templates resigning, and there is every probability that Lord Emlyn will be his successor. At an inquest held at Eagle's Bush Hall, near Neath, on Friday, the jury found that Mr. Philip John, of the tilln of John Brothers, colliery proprietors, had met his death on Wednesday evening by accident. On Sunday morning grat excitement was caused at Helmsley, near Thirsk, by the dis- covery that a Mrs. Hudson and her child had been murdered and buried on the moors, four miles north of the town. No arrest has yet been made. The result of the Inverness election was made known on Saturday afternoon as fol- lows:-—Baillie (L.U.), 3.164; Macrae (L.), 2,514; majority, 650. At the last election (1892) Dr. Macgregor (R.) was elected by a majority of 2>28. A steam-tug, towing two barges from Buffalo', has been seized by the Canadian authorities on a charge of emptying the city refuse on the Canadian side of the lake of Ontario, and the crew have been sent to K ol. Proceedings have, we believe, been already instituted against a past director of the National Bank of Wales, who is intimately associated with one of the largest firms at the Bute Docks. The case will come on for hearing at an early date. A special meeting of the Cardiff County Council was held on Monday, when, aJnoiighit other business, the university college contribu- tion of £9,750 was1 granted, on condition that the corporation was insured a^a.insit legaH pro- ceedings in regard to certain previous pavment-s amounting to £ 3,200. The "Atheneeum" states that they were, to tome extent, mistaken as to the ir-.tentions of the Government with* regard to the continua- tion of the work of calendaring Welsh MSS. The Treasury has allowed a sum of J6450 for this purpose in the Estimates for the current year. A dispatch from Fort Erie, in Ontario, states that the owners of the steam tug which was towing barges and had been seized by the Canadian authorities upon a charge of empty- ing city refuse on the Canadian side, have been fined 4,500 dollars, this being half the value of tho vessel. The dispute between the Corporation of Car- diff and the Bute authorities as to the bed of tho River Taff is aesumi g an acute phase, proceeding's being i reatencd on both sides The matter is to be thrashed out in a few days at a meeting of the property and markets committee. A special telegram to the "New York World' from Winnipeg states that Dudley Majoribanka, son of Lord Tweedmouth, who was sent by his mamma, to Northern British Columbia on a polar-bear hunt in the hope of weening him from the London concert-hall singer, "Birdie" Sutherland, has been hastily summoned home by his father. At Cardiff Police-court on Friday Timothy Adams, 22, was charged with selling beer without a licence at 30, Stanley-street, on June 2. He had been previously convicted three times, and was now ordered to pay the maximum penalty of £100 and eo«t«, or go to prison for three months. The latter alternative was accepted. Passengers who arrived at Tampa from Cuba oil Sunday state that the rebel leader Marco, with 2.000 insurgents, effected the capture of a train or. Wednesday last between Gibara and ib Holgiun. taking prisoners 125 Spaniards, and seizing 80,000 dollars in silver, 1,000 rifieo, and a large quantity of ammunition. The "Herald's" correspondent at Pa-nama states that Cuban sympathisers claim that news has been received that Marshal Campoe his been shot at and wounded on board A a yacht at Gam tenarns. No confirmation, has been re- ceived of this report from Santiago dc Cuba. Under the presidency of Councillor Mil- lington, of Hull, the eighth annual conference of the Labour Electoral Association was opened at Nottingham on Tuesday. The president said they felt now, as at the time the organisation was started, that there was great importance in securing more equitable and direct representation for labour in the Imperial Parliament and on public governing bodies. The delegates afterwards proceeded to the consideration of the policy of the association in regard to the next general election. The Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Elbe was co-ncludcd at Westminster on Mon- day, when judgment was given. The Court held that the officer in charge of the Crathie was primarily the cause of the disaster, but the officer in charge of the Elbe thould have slackened speed when danger was apparent The steam whistle of the Elbe should also have been sounded. The master of the Cra.thie was justified in attend in y- to his own vessel, and the evidence showed he remained in the; vicinity of the disaster until daybreak. On the last question the Court found that the mate, Robert Henry Craig, was a.Ione in default, and can- celled his certificate. The "Westminster Gazette" says a com- promise has been suggested- in regard to Mr. Lloyd-George's amendment to the ninth clau 'e of the Welsh Bill. It is proposed that Mo. A<squith's arrangement for administering the funds of the Church shall last for five veara, and that then the funds slia.ll be transferred to a Wrelsh Council. Mr. Dalziel is drafting an amendment to give effect to this '.rug;ges- tion, and it is understood that the Wei MI members are favourably disposed towards; it. In the event of the Government refusing to accept this modification, it is said that ther* are at least three Radicals who will abstain from taking part in the division. The Paris "Figaro" says that. according to a provincial newspaper, which professes to derive its information from an important member of the Diplomatic Corps, a treaty of alliance already exists between France and Russia. It was signed by the Grand Duke Constantine, in the name of the Czar, and by M. Carnot, on behalf of the French Republic. The document had never been submitted' to the French Chamber, at the express wish of the late Czar. who wanted to have nothing to do with the "House of Lawyers," a.s he called it. The treaty, there- fore, was somewhat irregular, and M. Carnot had hesitated to overstep his constitutional powers in signing it, but ultimately he per- mitted himself to be persuaded to do so from patriotic motives. The fresh reply of the Porte to the Arme- nian reform scheme of Great Britain, France, and Russia, was handed to the Ambassadors of the three Powers on Monday. The Otto- man Government accepts in principle the proposed reforms, but requests discussion on several points. It, however, denies that Article 61 of the Berlin Treaty confers upon the Powers the right of demanding the guarantee formulated in the scheme, and concludes by expressing the hope that the ve Sultan s Sovereign rights will in no way be prejudiced. Immediately after the receipt of the Turkish reply the three Ambassadors met at the residence of M. Cambon to con- sider the situation. The impression prevails, however, that the reply may be regarded as tantamount to a refusal, and on this account apprehensions are felt for the adoption of more stringent measures by the Powers. Lord Colin Campbell died on Tuesday morn- ing of pneumonia. 11 Lady Bute gave a bail at St. John's Lodge. London, on Friday night. "Mabon, 'who has been interviewed on the subject of the rumoured Australian appointment, would say nothing except that he was "not in a position to say anything." Some indignation has been caused at Paris by news from Martinique that Behauzin, the exiled King of Dahomey, is made to go through the most degrading dances, in which his three daughters also participate, when- ever he desires any little favour from the authorities. In the Divorce Division on Friday the president granted a decree nisi in the case in which Mr. George Francis Thomson, a gentle- man of means, who had resided at Tenby, sued for a divorce from his wife, on the ground of her adultery with his valet, Karl Rudochinka. The suit was undefended. Councillor Shackell on Saturday sent in his resignation as a member of the Cardiff Liberal Thousand. In future he does not pur- pose to identify himself with any political party. Mr. Shackell has taken this step because he disapproves: of Sir Edward Reed's resolution to stand again after having agreed to accept the freedom of the borough. At the next quarterly meeting of the Glamorganshire County Council Councillor Thomas Jenkins is down to bring forward a motion asking for a special report from the Local Government Committee as to what steps- "can and ought to be taken for the conservation to this county of such areas as may be necessary for the adequate supply of water." The Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Chamber- lain were the guests on Friday night in Lon- don of the National Union of Conservative Associations, and, responding to the toast of their healths, the Liberal Unionist leaders II emphasised tne closeness of the alliance between their party and the Conservatives, and prophesied a triumphant victory at the next general election, which, in their opinion, could not long be delayed.
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One of the most significant Unionist victoi-its-iiicieed, in some respects the most significant of all—since the general election of 1892 was that at Inverness,, by which Mr. Baillie was returned by a majority of 650 over his opponent. The political penuulum seems to have swung completely round in that con- stituency. In 1892 Dr. MacGregor won the seat in the Gladstonian interest by a majority of 329 votes. On the present occasion the Radical candidate has polled 521 fewer and the Unionist 458 more than were obtained by their respective candidates in 1892. Party feeling ran exceedingly high during the con- test, and there is little doubt that the fate of the election turned on the Disestablish- ment and Disendowment question. In Scotland the feeling against the secularisation of endowments devoted to religious; purposes is daily growing more intense. This feeling was quite a marked feature of the contest at Inverness, a fact which it would be well for the Government to take into considera- tion. Some time ago there was a strong Dis- establishmentarian party in Scotland of late, however, especially since the intelli- gent Scotch people have learnt the nature and aim of Mr. Asquith's Bill, the Liberationism have sensibly o'ecrea^d in numbers and influence. At Inverness the verdict would have been still more emphatic had it not been for the absence of some two hundred fishermen who were at sea and, there- fore, unable to record their votes. What the effect of this splendid Unionist victory on the Government will be remains to be E.e2n. It is impossible for any constituency to express its con 'emantion of our present Ministerial policy in a more emphatic manner, and Lord Robbery and his colleagues may well take it into account. At annual intervals we are reminded by the exhaustive reports of the R.S.P.C.A. of the shocking brutality with which the lower creation are often treated in nineteenth cen- tury, civilised—not to say Christian—Eng- land. There are few sights more calculated to make the average man's blood boil and his fingers twitch than that of some heartless and unfeeling wretch belabouring a dumb and passive beast of burden merely because of its sheer inability to draw its allotted load. Yet such cases are among the most frequent of those for which convictions are recorded. It is surprisingly rare for an animal used for draught purposes to do aught but tremblingly submit. The fact that t' many of the convictions obtained by Inspector Wan in the Cardiff and Glamorgan district have included ca,ses in which horses, donkeys, bullocks, goats, and other a,nimals have not only been beaten and kicked, but actually maltreated by stabbing, shows what a claim the society has upon all who hate cruelty in any form. It is a pity that physical chastisement cannot be dealt out to a few of the worst offenders, for the only feeling of which they are capable comes by the way of their own carefully-preserved hides. Some very kind remarks on elementary teachers and their w-ork were passed by the principal of the North Wales University College in his address at the meeting of the Teachers' Union at Rhyl on Saturday. The principals of the three university colleges fully realise the importance of the work of the elementary schoolmaster and the great future that is before him in this country. Principal Reichel very properly reminded the Union that Welsh elementary teachers have a stake in the university colleges, and, consequently, in the Welsh University. "Quite recently," said the principal, "a system of training for elementary teachers has been started at each of the constituent colleges, a scheme initiated chiefly by Prin- cipal Viriamu Jones, of Cardiff." It was really a stroke of genius on the part of the Cardiff principal to thus connect the system of Welsh education at both ends. In this respect Wales is now brought somewhat on a par with Scotland, where the avenues of the highest educational success are open from the most insignificant parish school. As to England, it is a good way off from this desirable advantage as yet. To a great extent the future of the Welsh University lies in the hands of the village schoolmaster, so that it is of the greatest importance that he should form correct views as to the objects and work of a university career. Principal Reichel entertains a high opinion of the Welsh University degree-indeed, looks upon it as superior in merit to that of London University, inasmuch as it will be "more elastic and highly educational." In course of time, as our educational system will develop, there is no reason why all who are engaged in teaching or some other profes- sion should not go out into the world bearing a, university stamp in proof of their qualifica- tions. There was a. time—and it was not very remote—when degrees were very unusual distinctions in Wales. In a few years' time the order will be reversed, and professional noi: graduates will be rare exceptions. Whether this will tend to destroy originality in the national character by reducing it to a monotonous level it is difficult to say. One thing is certain: Wales will never again see a period devoid of culture. The Swansea Cymmrodorion, it is stated in a circular just issued, have recognised the need of a Welsh library of their own, and they are making a special effort to collect the necessary funds for that purpose. One of the aims of the society is to rai.se "the I character of the language as spoken to-day in the vernacular." While one is able to sympathise with the endeavours of the Cymmrodorion in establishing a Welsh library, one fails to see what is meant exactly by "raising the character of the language as | >i;vKvii to-day in the vernacular." It is to be heped, in the interests of the vernacular, that the enterprising Swansea patriots do not aim at raising the character of modern Welsh to the extent of doing away with its verna- cular or dialectio character. The strength of the Welsh language, as, indeed, the strength of every other language, consists in its being a spoken tongue. Being thus a living lan- guage, certain peculiarities of speech are found in different localities. Thus, we have dialects which have become features of the Welsh language. The same thing occurs in all languages. In Greek, the most perfect, perhaps, of all tongues, there were several dialects, and though one of them—the Attic --took precedence in point of perfectness, it should not be supposed that the Doric or Ionic was without its merits or its uses. In Welsh the case is similar. Here we have the dialects which go respectively by the names of Gwynedd, Powys, Gwent,' and Dyfed—though this classification is far from perfect—and to deny their existence or neglect their cultivation and study would inflict a great injustice on the language. The vocabu- lary in use in certain localities in Wales may be a great deal mixed with English words, but this is no reason why an attempt should be made to supplant dialectic by so-called literary Welsh. In recent years, if we mistake not, the tendency on the part of scholars is not to ignore or under-vaiue the uses of dialects, but to study and cultivate them. Indeed, a society with a view of bringing the comparative method to bear upon Welsh dialects has been formed, though we do not hear much of its operations in South Wales. We venture to bring tiiat society to the notice of the Swansea Cymmrodorion, believing that a. society of that kind, whose members come fiom different parts of Wales, could do a great deal in exploring what is practically virgin soil from a philological point of view. At any rate, we strongly ad- vise the compatriots not to attempt to dis- card Wel-h as "she is spoken." They are entitled to use what forms of Welsh they please themselves, but to attempt to do away with dialect, which is language in its most tenacious form, is to attempt the impossible. English scholars would never dream of sup- planting the picturesque dialects of, say, Wiltshire and Yorkshire by one stereotyped standard English. Ambulance work has been taken up with a great deal of commendable zeal and enthu- siasm by the police force in Cardiff and other populous towns in this country. Much to their credit, not one of the twenty-eight candi- dates who presented themselves for examina- tion in ambulance work before Dr. Thomas, of Bridgend, at the Cardiff Town-hall on Mon- day failed to satisfactorily acquit himself, a fact which in no small degree, probably, is due to the successful teaching and drilling el of Inspector Damm. The numerous instances in which constables have rendered valuable aid and even been instrumental in saving life have fully established the usefulness of ambulance training in the force. As educa- tion progresses, it is to be hoped that the objects and methods of St. John's excellent society will be better known and appreciated by the community at large. If this had been the case in the past, a great number of lives would have been spared which fell a prey to ignorance and neglect. "The House of Lords, a Defence," is the name of a very useful little handbook pub- lished by Mr. Watniough, of Idle, and of which Mr. Henry Hull, of Bradford, is the author. The pamphlet contains a mass of matter with which every good Unionist and true should be thoroughly acquainted, for it will serve him in good stead in the coming struggle, if, indeed, the Radicals •will at all summon sufficient courage to pursue their promised attack on the Upper House. Among the questions touched by the author are the origin of the House of Lords, checks and balances provided by the Constitution, the hereditary principle, Radical objection to the Lords' veto, its abolition, the revising power of the Lords, public ser- vices of the peers, and their judicial functions. Under this last head a. writer in the "National Review," March, 1888, say, "Free from the sordid tyranny of money- making or the sorrowful restraints of poverty, they can enjoy a leisure which is essential to the dispassionate pursuit of large ends in the tumultuous arena of public life; dis- turbed by no constituents, accountable to no caucus, and threatened by no dissolution, their judgment is not warped by personal considerations, is not controlled by the clamour of the platform, and cannot be per- secuted 11 but by the sting of a guilty con- science." Mr. Carvell Williams, always: on the alert to hunt up any scandal against the Church and the clergy, asked the Home Secre- tary yesterday a, question which in no way bore the slightest con- nection either with himself or his constituency. According to Air. Williams, a Bedfordshire rector who had published) the banns of mar- riage between a certain couple declined to allow the interesting event to proceed Oil becoming aware that the lady had not been baptised. Assuming that Mr. Asquith is an encyclopedia of ecclesiastica.1 knowledge, Mr. Williams wished to know whether the rector had' legal warrant for his conduct. If the member for Notts had carefully studied the English Prayer Book, which is a. clergyman's guide, philosopher, and friend' in a case of conscience like this, Mr. William8 might have found out for himself that the rector had sufficient "warrant" for his refusal to proceed with the wedding, whatever an unjust law may have to say on the matt?7"* The special services of the Church—that for the solemnisation of marriage included-are intended for members of the Ohurch of Eng- land or Christian people. As an unbaptised person is not a member of the Church or a Christian, it follows that he or she is not entitled to the privileges of membership or of Christians. This, at least, forms one Of the elements which constitute the "warrant' of an incumbent who refuses marriage to vil, baptised persons. Marriage, in the eye Of the Church, is a "Christian" service, and those who wish to have it performed in church should tind no difficulty in conforming to the rules of the Church, "The poise of the earth io altering waS the astounding information submitted by an under colliery manager to one of the'firms of South WalesS coalowners the other doy- "Here," he added, "we are sending a way from the whole of the South Wales and Monmouth- shire coal districts no less than twenty million tons of coal annually. From the whole of the country we are exporting or using one hundred and fifty-eight millions yearly, and it follows that such a vast output and despatch to other parts of the world must alter the poise of the earth 1" Submitting this matter to a colliery manager, we learn that there is a certain degree of deflection of the needle to he traced in the coal mines beneath our feet; that for some time the deflection of the needle from the north towards the w."g,t has been apparent. But, he adds, it has a.lgO deflected towards the oast. "It is difficult to say, he continued, "to what these tions are due. There is a theory amottff^ astronomers that the Poles change in the of a vast number of vears, and the tropiOS become a Polar region. This may or mav not b0. There are magnetic currents, throbs." passing through the earth constantly, which men suggest have in previous times p!ave'^ a part, in past explosion* "At all events- he summed UP, "the matter is one intere'11 as a speculation as to possible result probably grave, to he caused bv the subtrnc- tion of one hundred and fifty-eight million ton^ from one part of the earth to another. It wea ken's one's innate i wo region of the sØj1 v and security of the globe."