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--DEGREE DAY AT ST. DAVIDS…
DEGREE DAY AT ST. DAVIDS COLLEGE. Degree Day was celebrated at St David's College, Lampeter, on Thursday. The degrees were conferred in the hall of the new school buildings shortly after eleven o'clock. The Prin- cipal (Rev F. J. Jayne) was supported by the. visitor of the college (the Bishop of St David's), vice-Principal Davey, the professors of the college, several of the examiners, and other clergy.—The Principal, in opening the proceed- ings, said on that day would be presented for the first time certificates for proficiency in music, and the fact that music had been added to the college course was a matter of much congratulation to the college board, and especially to the clergy of Wales. (Applause.) The prize list was as fellows:— RECOMMENDED FOR THE B.D. DEGREE.— Rev J. F. Lloyd. B.A., vicar of Llanpumpsaint; Rev Stephen W. Jenkins. B.A., vicar of Oxwich. B.A. DEGREE.—Honours.—Classical—E. J. Davies. class i. Mathematical—W. J. Cole, A. Field, class i. C. M. Jenkins, class ii. Historical-E. M. Rowland allowed a simple pass. Scientific-B. S. Lloyd. class ii. Ordinary.—Theological—Rev J. Williams, class i. J. J. Ellis, J. L. Jenkyn, W. Lloyd E. B. Price, J. A. Jones, D. Davies, W. Morgan, 31. Powell, class u.; A. W. Davies, A. A. Mathews, 1. R. Davies, T. W. Moore, J. W. Lewis May. E. P. Jones, class iii. Classical—J. f. Bess. class i. Passed in divinity separately-W. J. Cole, class i.; C. 31. Jenkins, E. J. Davies, class ii. B. S. Lloyd, class iii. 12 LICENTIATES IN DtVKiTY.—J. Williams (Llandilo), Fitzroy Somerset, W. Thomas*, T. LI. Evans, class iii. MODER » TIONS. —Special Honour.—Theological—Jos. Davies, class i. Classical-W. Roxburgh. John Lloyd, class i.; D. 1" Marsden, R. H. Williams, class ii.; X. W. Longtield, J. O. M. Thomas, class iii; J. M. Morris. Mathematical—E. J. Lloyd, class i.; William Lewis; E. 31. Jones, class ii; C. 31. Smith. Scientific^ohn Williams (Kidwelly), class i; P. R. Phillips, class ii. Histor col—Edw. Owen, class ii. Ordinary-D. D. Jones, K. LJ. Parry, W. Jones, jun., Evan Jones, jun., D. F. Lloyd, class ii. J, R. Jones, T. W. Davies, J. L. Evans, T. H. Vaughan, W. T. Williams (Neath), J. P. Davies, Thomas Edwards and John Edwards bracketed, class iii. Passed in Divinity separately—W. Roxburgh, class i. John Williams (Kidwelly), D. L. Marsden, class ii. John Lloyd, B. H. Williams, P. R. Phillips, class ii I. BESPONSIONS.—Classical—A. Wolfe, J. D. Jenkins, W. T. Williams (Llandyrnog), class i. D. Owen, class ii.; Stephen Evans, class iii. lIlathtmaatical-E. R. S. Morgan, class i.; Thomas Williams, class ii. Scien- tific-G. W. Page, Thomas Reynolds, class i. History -J. T. Collins, Evan David (Llanilar), class ii. Ord i- iiary—G. Roberts, J. J. Bees. G. J. Jones (non-matric) (Friars' School, Bangor), J. W. B. Jones, class i. D. F. Allen (non-matric) (Neath High School), W. Griffiths, Evan Davies (Lampeter), David Stephen, class ii.; J. B. Jones, J. H. Rees, W. B. Atherton, Watkin Price, class iii. PR. JES.—Bates—E. R. S. Morgan, Second year (Burgess prize)-E. J. Lloyd and W. Roxburgh, bracketed. Hebrew (Ollivant)-J. L. Jenkyn and William Morgan, bucketed. Theology Rev. J. Williams. Classics—K. J. Davies. Mathematics—W. J. Cole. Science-B. S. Lloyd. Bistory Evan Davies, Llanilar, and J. T. Collins, bracketed. Hebrew-Jodeph Davies. Music.—Certificates for proficiency in music were presented to Messrs — Lang, Rees H. Williams, C. 31. Smith, C. 31. Jenkins, and J. A. Jones. Subsequent to the conferring of the degree, a meeting was held to consider steps for a proposed testimonial to Principal Jayne, on the occasion of his leaving Lampeter for the vicarage of Leeds. A circular was issued, in which it was stated :— "The last great undertaking of his headship included the addition to the college of a large block of buildings, and an appeal has been issued for £ 10,000. The building is now being erected at a cost of £5,650 furniture and apparatus will require at least £ 1,500 more and the scheme as set fortljeannot be fully realised till the whole £10,000 has been raised. With characteristic generosity Mr Jayne has made strong repre- sentations to us that no memorial would be so gratifying to him as one which would permanently connect his name with the completion of the scheme in its entirety. j65,000 has already been raised by the numerous friends of the college. Mr Jayne's desire and the object of the memorial is to raise the remain- ing £ 5,000, and those who wish to express their admiration of him are invited to do so in this way." This suggestion was adopted. At the luncheon which was served in the college ball Principal Jayne, who presided, and who was received with renewed cheers, spoke with con- siderable emotion about his going away from Lampeter.
CORONATION DAY AT PEMBROKE…
CORONATION DAY AT PEM- BROKE DOCK. Monday being the anniversary of bar Majesty's Coronation, the Dockyard and Government offices were closed, and at noon a royal salute of 21 guns was fired from the Hill Fort. Special excursion trains carried numbers of people to various places of interest on both sides of it he haven and in Pembroke Dock the annual sports came off in the presence of 4,000 people. The following were the events 220 YARDS RACE (for boys under 13).-1. W. H. Smith; 2, W. Evans 3, W. PhiUips 4, J. Gwyther. 120 YARDS' FLAT RACE.—1, G. John, Haverfordwest; 2, W. G. Williams, Haverfordwest. Hoop RACE (for boys),-I, W. H. Smith; 2 W. Howeli*; 3, M Mulligan. ONE MILE BICYCLE RACE.— 1, J. Farrow; 2, G. Sloggett 3. H. D. Harrington. 220 YARDS' HURDLE RACE.—1, W. G. Williams, Haverforitwest 2, G. Lewis, Carmarthen; 3, G. Griflihs, Pembroke Dock. ONE 3IILE FLAT RACE.-I, W. Sheldon, Sannders- foot 2, W. Davies, Saundersfoot; 3, O. Davies, Carmarthen. 440 YARDS' FLAT RACE (confined to the residents of Pembroke Dock).—1, G. Griffiths; 2, T. John 3, J. Davies. TWO IIILE BICYCLE RACE.-I, W. E. Williams i 2, H. D. Harrington 3, J. Farrow. 440 YARD.s' FLAT RACE.-l, W. Sheldon 2, D. Wbit- tall 3. Private Keenan. Litop KICK.-Won by George Lewis. 220 YARDS' HURDLE BACE.—1, G. Sloggett; 2, J. Davies; 5, T. John. HORSE RACE.-I, W. Sheai's Nancy 2, A. H. Williams's Pave-the-Way 3, W. H. Lewis's Miss Nightingale. GALLOWAY RACE.—1, Mr Campbell's Cuthbert 2, Mr Agleby's Wild Agnes. PONY BACE.—1, Mr Flutter's Farewell; 2, Mr Sheaf's Black Pearl.
CARDIFF COAL CUSTOMS.
CARDIFF COAL CUSTOMS. The Newcastle Chronicle savs The question of the short delivery of Cardiff coal at Genoa is becoming serious. One Tyneside firm have in a recent period had five steamers at Genoa. In each case the output of coal was much less than that of the bills of lading, and the firm have had to pay for the coal so declared "short" After having allowed 1 per cent., as usual, the following are the quantities short, the sums charged for the coal short, and the total lost to the vessels :— "¡"+- Delivery. Price per Ton. Total Cost. Tons. First 36 10s Od £ 18 0 0 Second. 22-25 10s 6d 11 13 8 Third 22'bO 10s Od 11 4 11 Fourth 21"60 10s Od io 16 0 Fifth 24 10s Od 12 0 0 Total ..126-55 Thus in five voyages one tirm has been unfairly mulcted to the amount of J665 because of the absurd custom of signing for a stipulated quantity at Cardiff, without the opportunity of knowing whether that quantity is in the vessel or not. It would be far better to have a lower freight than to submit to such impositions. And it is possible that in one such case there may be legal proceed- ings, which will test the question whether such customs as those at Cardiff will hold good. The shareholders in steamers will be indebted to any turn which will attack these customs.
LOCAL COMMISSIONS.
LOCAL COMMISSIONS. The London Gazette ot Tuesday night contains the following;— WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, June 29tb. LINE BAITALIONS.-South Wales Borderers- Lieut.-(Jol. and Col. Russell Upcher has been appointed to command battalion. Major Farquhar Giennie to be lieut.-colonel, vice J. F. Caldwell placed on half pay. Lieut. J. Ewart Waterfieid has been seconded for service with the Indian Staff Corps. WeMI Regiment—Lieut. William Cecil do V. Barrow resigns his com- missions. Reserve of otficers-Undermentioned lieutenants to be captains: George L. Field and R. C. Hanbury Williams, captain of the Royal Monmouthshire Engineer Militia.
MERTHYR ELECTION,#
MERTHYR ELECTION,# SPEECHES BY MESSRS § RICHARD AND JAMES. § A meeting or the electors was held on Monday* night at the Drill-hall, Merthyr.. The. chainwas taken by Mr Thomas Williams,. J.P.,schairman of the Merthyr Liberal Association, and amongst1 those present were Mr Henry Richard.and*Mrs i Richard, Mr C. H. James and Mrs James, ^Mr' C. R. and Mrs C. R. Jame3, MrtJ, W, Jamesu Miss James, Rev. Nestor Williams, Rev. Rees j Evans (secretary), Mr W. L. Daniel, Rev. D.i|C.lJ Jcnes, Mr Walter, Mr Thomas Thomas,'Mr* JV; Evans- (Cyfarthfa), Mr W. John,Mr J. Williams,, Mr W. Morgan (Pant), Rev. W. Ricbarda (Dow- lais), and Jonah Lewis. The CHAIRMAN said that the House of Commons having rejected the bill for the better protection of the. Irish people, in consequence of some of their Liberal leaders having rejected their chief— ("Shame")—they were now face to face with another election. It was true they had expected some good and valuable measures from the past Parliament. (Hear. bear.) As they were aware, a large number of Irish members in favour of Home Role was returned, and Mr Gladstone— (applause)—seeing this, concluded that it was impossible to carry on the business of the (Hoase of Commons unless a measure to.:satisfy the Irish people were dealt with. (Ap- plause.) Bat the result was, as he had alreadyJJtold them, against the Ministry. Mr Gladstone then, with the sanction of her Majesty, bad applied to the country, and novtfae matter was before the country to decide what they would do with Ireland. (A Voice ".Home Rule.") Some of tbe friends said Home Role. He entirely endorsed that. (Applause.) They would not have peace in Ireland until they got Home Rule. (Applause.) It was, indeed, full.tim« they should have it. He hoped the resulfrof the present election' would be to return a' majority to support Mr Gladstone in his endea-t vour to govern them by love and by" fair, and .1 honest means. Coercion waa j a "failure, and. the only disaffected country in the British dominions was Ireland, and he asked, why should, they give Home Rule to Canada and deny it to Ireland? He hoped next Thursday to.. retmn their old members, perhaps as the earliest elected in the kingdom, once more. (Applause.) Mr White, the returning officer, had been very kind in selecting the first day possible for the nomine tion. (Applause.) The other party had tried to get Paper Unionists to cornS" forward*, although they might as well try to fly in the air as to-, induce the Merthyr Boroughs to turn- against their two old friends. He proceeded to refer eulogistically to Mr Richard. and Mr James for the faithful services they had rendered, the former for eighteen and the. latter for six years, in the House of Commons. The Rev. W. J. RICHARDS (Dowlais) moved, and the Rev. D. C. JONES seconded, the follow. ing resolution :— That this meeting expresses its confidence in the Ministry of Mr Gladstone, particularly with respect to the Government of Ireland Bill. and pledges itself to do all in its power to assist in passing a measure for the management of exclusively^rish affairs by a Parlia« ment to held in Dublin. Mr RUBY RICHARD supported "-the"resolu- tion, and was received with prolonged ap- plause.: After speaking in Welsh, be ad- dressed the meeting in English. He said: The one question which is mainly and almost exclusively to occupy our attention during this election is that of Ireland. This is a part of the penalty we have to pay for our long neglect- neglect, indeed, is much too mild a word—for our long and gross mis-government of that country— that it is now thrust upon us with so imperative a claim that we are obliged to postpone the consideration of all other matters, though some of them are of a very urgent character, as respects the legislation of England, Scotland, and Wales. And unless there is some speedy and satisfactory settlement of this question, so far as I can see, it is likely for years to block other reforms for which we are longing and panting. (Hear, hear.) And why is this pressed upon us now with such special urgency ? Because by giving to Ireland such an immense extension of the suffrage, and that by the unanimous voice of Parliament, we appealed to the popular opinion of that country, and that appeal has received so emphatic and overwhelming a response that we cannot, we dare not, we ought not, to disregard it, or attempt any longer to follow the old system of repression and coercion so long in vogue. (Applause.) If you doubt the justice of this view, I will call into court two witnesses whose testimony, all will admit, is unimpeachable. First, Lord Salisbury, in the speech he delivered at Newport in October, 1885, said: You had passed an Act of Parlia- ment giving in unexampled abundance and with unexampled freedom supreme power to the great mass of the Irish people—supreme power as regards their own locality. To my mind the renewal of exceptional legislation against a population whom you bad treated legislatively to 'this marked confidence was so gross in its inconsistency that you could not possibly hope, during the few remaining months that were at your disposal before the present Parliament expired, to renew any legis- lation whi^b expressed on one side a distrust of what on the otber side your former legislation had so strongly emphasised. Mr Gladstone has been charged with having suddenly sprung the matter en the public, with having given to us no timely or sufficient notice of his intention to deal with it, and to give it the prominence which he had given it. But this is what he said in Midlothian last year If at the outset of the proceedings of the new Parliament, as I have described, a demand is made constitutionally by tbe vast majority of the representatives of Ireland fer the concession of large local powers of self- government, accompanied with a demand that the unity of the Empire is not to be impaired, the magnitude of this subject and its character will sweep into the shade for the moment all those subjects of ordinary legislation on which I and on which others have addressed you, and the satisfactory settlement of that subject, which goes down to the very roots and foundation of our whole civil and political constitution,will become the first duty of the Parliament." If the question is asked, why should we give Home Rulg to Ire- land ? my answer is this: You have tried to rule that country for five or six centuries, and you have failed utterly and ignominiously—that is to oy, if the end of a Government is to make a people prosperous, contented, and loyal. (Loud applause.) For what is the condition of that country now, at the end of your rule of five or six hundred years ? Its condition is this, that there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of its people who are always on the verge of starvation, and with no means within their reach of improving their con- dition that the tillers of the soil,instead of own- ing and occupying their own land, are tenants at will, with higher rents than it is possible for them to pay, and liable, therefore, to be evicted from their holdings, and they and their children cast on the broad world to perish that this state of things, as its inevitable result, engenders discon- tent, resentment which breaks forth with violent and atrocious crime; that to keep the people down, you have to maintain an army of 30,000 men, and a large constabulary force, which is a second army under another name- that you have to do this at a cost of some three or four millions a year to the people of this country that with all this apparatus you wholly fail to preserve peace and order in the country, but that you burn into the Irish heart a. hatred fof yonr rule so deep and desperate that whenever you Had an Irishman in any part of the world you find a deadly enemy of England. (Loud cheers.) I have said that England has treated Ireland with cruel and persistent neglect. Let me give you one illustration of this. Everyone admits that the land question is at the bottom of Ireland's sufferings and crimes. And bow has England dealt with the Irish as respects the Ia.ud ? That evil strikes its root back into far distant times. By a series of wholesale confiscations, often on the most flimsy and fraudulent pretexts, we seized the land, and drove the people out of it, and dis- tributed it among hungry English and Scotch adventurers — ("Shame") — and thus tried to force upon the people, against all their habits and traditions, our English system of landlord and tenant, which, in the estimation of many, is not the best system of landed tenure anywhere. But in Ireland all the inconveniences and disadvantages of that system were intensified by every kind of aggravation. For the men we imposed as landlords on the Irish people were men who were aliens in faith, language, and religion, between whom and this people there were none of the kindly and generous relations which existjamong the same classes iu England men whose only object was to extort by rack- rents the uttermost farthing from the miserable cultivators of tbe soil, and then speed the money wrung from the toiling peasants, not in their country, but in England or Scotland or on the continent, far away from the soil whose resources they were drawing to spend on their own luxuries. It is estimated that five or six millions of the money paid in rent in Ireland are spent out of the country, or. as another authority describes it, one third of the whole rental of Ireland is withdrawn from and consumed out of Ireland by absentee landlords. But it may be said and is said: We admit that tbe land system in Ireland was evil, and even execrable. But why do not the Irish seek re- dress by legitimate and constitutional means? Why not appeal to the legislature of which they have been members for 86 years?" Why, they have done so, patiently and persistently. (Ap- plause.) No one can read such a book as Mr Barry O'Brien's 2" Parliamentary History of the Irish Laud Question," an able and admirable book, and all tbe more valuable for being written in a perfectly plain and temperate spirit, without being struck with the fact how long,how earnestly, and how vainly Irish representatives tried to per- suade the British Parliament to deal with this pressing question of the land. There has been scarcely one Irishman of any distinction in the House ot Commons for 50 years who haa not tried to press this matter on the attention of the Government and people of this country. Among them were Mr O'Connell, Mr Henry Grattan, Mr Smith O'Brien, Mr Sharman Crawford Sir Henry Barron, Mr Napier, Mr Serjeant Sbee, Mr George Henry Moore, Sir John Gray, Mr Maguire, Mr M'Carthy Downing, and Mr Butt. Mr Healy, the member for South Londonderry, in a pamphlet he published in 1880, gives a list of Land Bills introduced by Irish members in this House be-1 tween the years 1871-80, amounting to 28. No one 1 will now say that any of the proposals made' in these efforts, made for more than 50 years by Irish members in this House, were unreasonable, or violent, or revolutionary on the contrary, they were eminently mild ajd smooth. (Hear,. hear.) But what becamelof theml? |They were all pooh-poobed, set aside, rejected, or neglected. S-inietimce --here were select committees, and commissions were appointed, who took evidence, and presented reports, emphatically confirming and sustaining the statements made by the reprc- sentatives from Ireland, and making excellent suggestions and recommendations but there was no attempt by the successive Governments ruling this country at anything like effective practicable legislation, and such attempts as were made by tha Irish members themselves were baffled and frustrated, cast out, generally in this House of Commons, but if 'not there then in the House of Lords.. What was the Imperial Government doing in the>k meanwhile ? Ob, the Imperial Government was very busy indeed, prosecuting a spirited, foreign policy in ail qnarters of the globe, regula-" inz the affairs »»? Europe, upholding the integrity' and independence of the Ottoman Empire,correct- ing the morals of Russia, lavishing untold blood and treasure on unjust and aggressive wars in Afghanistan, in China, in Persia, in Japan, in South Africa, adding enormously by fair means or foul to our national possessions, rebuking Russia for its misgovernment of Poland, and Austria for its oppressions in Hungary and Italy, 1 and generally thanking God .that they were not like other man. (Shame.) And yet i iii cam hardly be said that the Imperial Govern-} ment was so busy with its cosmopolitan duties that it conld not find time to attend to the^ affairs of Ireland, fer during those-many years' they found time between 1830 and 1875 to pass. 48 coercion acts for Ireland. and the total number1 of those coercion acts enacted <-or re-enacted since; the union amounts to 86—that is-one for every' year. Now, I will describe to'ryou in> a. few sentences the chain of reasoning by which I have! been told that 1 ought to support the policy of Mr. Gladstone. (Cheers.) The Irish question must be dealt with,and dealt withatooce. (Hear, hear.) You cannot ignore, you cannot safely postpone. If you don't take it in hand yon-will have, Ireland agitated lika a boiling canldron" from. one end to; the other, and your difficulties of governing itJ increased fourfold. Yon will have an absolute block of legislation in Parliament, for it matters not what sort of procedure yon may-adopt you. cannot prevented able and resolute men, like the, members from Irelandlt,from finding themeansJ to paralyse your action. In thes e' circumstances I find set before-me a proposal long and anxiously thought of and carefully elaborated by the most able and eminent statesman of the period <—(oheers)—a plan which for the first time is' accepted and welcomed by-the leaders of the Irish people and I must confess that a feeling of this sort—that it was a brava and plucky thing for a veteran statesman in the 77th-year, of his age— (cheers)—to grapple with this vast, formidable, and difficult question, and to do that with a boldness of conception, a vigour of intellect, and a; splendour of eloquence which even he has never ex*. celled, and which prove that his great powers are in no degree whatever impaired. (Cheers.) I don't say bis plan is perfect. Dealing as it does with so many critical and complicated questions, it is»: j no difficult matter for statesmen like those who; assail it to pick boles in it. Is there any plan' which the wisdom of man could devise in which such men could not pick holes? But when I turn 'to those who are pulling it to-pieces, and ask; them—" What do you propose to do—(applause)—* what is your, alternative plan?" they are, either dumb or they reply in » perfect ,Babel of confused and conflicting voices. You will observe tnat nothing exasperates Mr Gladstone's opponents like putting to them this question—"Whatis'youralternative schemefor tho government of Ireland ?' I don't wonder at it, for that is the crucial question, the question they are bound to answer, and which they cannot answer. In conclusion, Mr Richard asserted that there were only two alternatives—the scheme of Mr Gladstone or the coercion of Lord Salisbury. (Hisses.) From the bottom of his heart he abhorred and hated coercion. (Applause,) Choosing between these two alternatives, ha. would vote for Mr Gladstone and liberty. (Cheers.) He would be thankful to bis country- men if they sent him back to the House of Commons. (Applause.) He felt he would end his career in the next Parliament—(cheers)—but he would be satisfied and contented if he had contributed in any way to the permanent pacifi- cation of Ireland. (Great applause.) Mr C. H. JAMBS was enthusiastically received. He said that with the turmoil of parties in the House of Commons as it stood at present, it was unlikely that the Parliament which was now being elected could possibly live out many months. However that might be, let them try and grapple with this question, which was tbe sole question before them. He must remind them that when the Irish people asked us to give them back their Parliament they were not asking for any new thing. They had in Ireland a Par- liament which was as old as that in England. It was a Parliament for hundreds of years just in the same way as our Parliament in Westminster, but only in the year 1780 or 1782, what was called Grattan's Parliament came. That Parliament was purchased by English (money, and it was im- possible for English Liberals, with their old traditions, to refuse to grant the measure that was now sought. (Applause.) Some people were very much afraid that when the Parliament was brought to Dublin great coercion would be brought to bear upon Protestants. (A Voice: "Nonsense.") He believed it was non- sense, and he wanted to bring before them some very curious facts. He then dealt with the facts relating to return of Protestant representatives by Catholic constituencies in Ireland, which he said afforded a strong contrast to the circumstance that only one Catholic was returned, as be believed, by this kingdom. He spoke of the Home Rule question in Canada, which be believed was now more loyal to the Queen than this country of England itself. He criticised the attitude of Lord Salisbury, Mr Goschen, and Lord Hartington, and, after dealing with the procedure rules advocated by the latter, said it was not by rules in the House of Commons, but by doing fair justice to the Irish people, giving them that which would seize their imagina- tion—and this bill had seized their imagination— (applause) — that Ireland could be won over to that which was fair and right towards England. After alluding to Chamberlain, whose name was received with manifestations of displeasure, he said this measure of Mr Glad- stone's was a well-thought-out measure, a measure that would work well. He knew it was the fashion for a great many people—good Liberals, too—to say it had got its faults and so forth. He had never said so. He had gone over the bill over and over again, and his opinion was that the more they altered it the more they would injure it. Let them staad by the good old man as far as they could, and to bring his bill out of committee, if ever it should get into committee, as near as possible as it was when it emanated from bis brain. He called upon Iverybedy present who wished their members to vote for the Home Rule measure to hold up their bands. A forest of bands at once appeared, and Mr James said he thought that was a pretty good missive. The resolution was put and carried, with but one solitary dissentient. The Rev. D. JONES proposed the following resolution:— That this meeting desires to declare its unbounded confidence in Messrs Henry Bichard and C. B. James as parliamentary candidates for the boroughs ef Mer. thyr and Aberdare, and to mark its appreciation of the hearty and constant support given by them to Mr Gladstone in his efforts to deal justly with Ireland, and pledges itself to do all in its power to secure their triumphal return at the coming general election. TheRevRsss EVANS seconded the resolution, which was carried with acclamation. Mr HENlty RICHABD acknowledged the vote, and proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the chairman, which was seconded by Mr JAMES, and carried unanimously. MEETING AT ABEBDAKE. Mr Henry Richard and Mr Charles H. James, on Tuesday night, addressed their Aberdare con- stituents at the Temperance-ball, which was crowded with electors. The chair was taken by Mr D. P. Davies, president of the. Aberdare Liberal Association and among those present were Mr D. Davies (Canton House). Mr Ben- jamin Lewis, Mr J. Prosser, Rev. Mr James (Merthyr), Rev. Benjamin Evans, Rev. Mr Foulke, Mr Keoshole (secretary), Rev. D. Grif- fiths (Cwmdare), Rev. Mr Davies (Llwydcoed), Revs. Jones (Treharris) and Jones (Penrhiwceiber), Mr Thomas Thomas, the Rev. J. Davies (Zoar), and Rev. Mr^Owen. On:taking their places on the platform, Mr Richard and Mr James received an ovation, and cheers were also given for the South Wales Daily News. After a few remarks from the chairman, Mr BENJAMIN LEWIS proposed, and Mr MrLLs seconded, tbe following resolution :— That this meeting expresses its unabated confidence in the Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and trusts that he and those candidates who support bim will be returneù by an overwhelming majority at the present election. Mr RICHARD, whose rising was the signal for prolonged cheering, having addressed the meeting in the vernacular, spoke as follows in English Lord Palmerston once said that the evils of Ire- land were to be traced to the history of Ireland. Never was there a truer word spoken. It is Jim-{ possible to separate the present state of things in Ireiand from its past history. The cruel perplexi- < ties which now beset us, and have long beset us in our attempts to govern that country, are the Nemesis of long years, I may say many "genera- tions, of gross misgovernment. The record of the relations between England and Ireland is a miserable story, astory of incessant violence and blood, alternating between acts of l^utal oppres- sinn on the one side and of ferocious revenge on the other. There is scarcely any portion of it on which it is possible to dwell with complacency or satisfaction. It reflects no honour on British statesmanship. On the contrary, it seems to me to afford another illustration of an audacious theory of mine which I have ventured to expound even in the House of Commons to this effect—that the Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Norman- race, whatever is the proper designation, amid all their splendid qualities of character have one fatal defect—they lack.the faculty of rule. As a conquering race, as a colonising race, as a com- mercial race, in whatever related to the manipu- lation of the material elements of hfe and society, they are without their equal among the-races of the world, bat as a governing race they are not so successful because they fail to .attach and to assimilate to themselves1 any races which they may conquer or annex. This arises in part from two sources. One is the cool assumption which is rooted in the English mind that they have a right to dominate all other races, and that any peopla;who> refuse to accept their domination must be the subjects of an inherent and incurable depravity of nature. There is a stery told of the older' English I Puritans, proving how the same idea had taken1 possession of their minds. A. number of them I -met together and^ passed three resolations:) 'First, that thesaints shall inherit j the earth secondly, that we are the saints i thirdly and logically, that, therefore, we ought to inherit the earth. That seems to be < still the general con- viction of the Anglo-Saxon race. Connected with this is another. peculiarity, and that L the implicit faith which Joht;. Bull has in the dDcacy of brute force as an instrument of rule. John Bull is a very strong, robust, vigorous fellow, with great muscular arms, and an imperi- ous, masterful temper. His first impulse is, when any person or people disputes his will, to sttike at them with all his might. I remember hearing Mr Roebuck once say—and be was a sort of embodiment of John Bullism—when he was complaining of the Government not acting with sufficient promptitude on some occasion:—"Our old Enelisli motto is a word and a blow, and generally the blow first and the word alter." We. see much of this spirit in the language which is now held M respects Ireland. We are constantly told, and that with a tone of assurance, as if it were a self-evident and incontrovertible axiom :—. Execute tho law in Ireland. The first and most sacred duty of a Government is to enforce the law." I take leave to dispute that dogma. I say1 the first duty of a civilized and Christian-Government is to see that the laws to be enforced are jast and: wise laws ;i otherwise, enforcement of the- lawmight become' the most intolerable of all tyrannies. We have read of an Oriental monarch who passed a law' that whosoever should not bow'before a brazen- image of himself should, bo* cast into a burning fiery furnace. Wonld' anybody say that it was his first and most sacred duty to tenforce'that law? Waf it not his first duty to re- peal: the law, and- to repent in dnst^and1 ashes for having ever promulgated it?' It is very curious, indeed, to observe how- slowly* and reluctantly the English people—or-rather, as) we sboulds say,, English statesmen—relinquished* those ideas,'and learnt to see and acknowledged! thatthere is a more excellent way of dealingrwithj human beings. I should likeito'i give-gyou some; historical illustrations of' this.1 They* tried in Wales. For many ages the English Government attempted to: subdue our ancestors by force of, arms and by oppressive-penal legislation. Mr' Burke in his great speech onconciliation'with; .America, described.the^varionsTneasures <taken: •" to subdue the fierce-spirit of the Welsh by/all^ sorts of rigorous laws." Then-he adds But all this while Wales < rid'thi^ country like an* incubus; it was an oppressive and unprofitable burthen, and an Englishman travelling in thatcountry could not go six yards from the high road without being^ murdered. It was not until after two hundred years" discovered that by an eternal law Providence hadyde creed vexation to violence and poverty to rapine. ,Our" ancestors did at length-open their eyes to thè; ilf husbanding of injustice. Accordingly, in thohwenty- seventh year of Henry^VUL, the conrsa-waa entiraly altered an act was passed, giving to..the Welsh) ^all-the "rights'and privileges of English £ subjects. .And ultimately he proceeds to show a complete* Vani. not ill-proportioned representation by coun-. ties and boroughs was destowed upon all Wales by Act of Parliament, the tumult subsided, obedience was restored 'peace,- order, and; civilisation followed in the train of liberty." r ^You will remember also" that for centuries Athey ^tried this same system of rule in Scotland. A. long attempt was made > to'; force episcopacyby '.savage persecution upon Presbyterian' people. Mr Lecky, in describing that persecution, says :—j rUThe Presbyterians were/hunted like criminals" over the mountains their-ears were torn ;from the roots; they were branded, with hot Irons; their fingers were wrenched- asunder by the tthumbkins the bones of their legs were shattered in their boots; women were publicly scourged through the. streets; multitudes were transported to Barbadoes j infuriated soldiers were let loose upon them,, and encouraged to exercise all their ingenuity in torturing them." But the Scotch clung to their religion and to their liberties, and the English Government at last, as Burke says, began to open their eyes to the ill- husbandry of injustice, and a union was effected between England and Scotland, in which the freedom and the rights, and, to a great extent, the power of self-government was accorded to the' Scotch people, and from that time forth there has been peace and prosperity in that part of the coun- try. Again, English statesmen tried theisystem of arbitrary rule in their own colonies,for they would not trust even their own countrymen to manage their own affairs. I can remember a time when there was chronic disaffection, sometimes breaking forth into open rebellion and revolt, in all tho British colonies. That was the normal condition in Canada, in the West Indies, at the Cape of Good Hope, in Australia, in New Zealand, in f act,every where. Thejquestion was raised and of ten debated in Parliament, what was to be done to meat. this state of things! Some of the Radicals of that day demanded Home Rule as the only thing for colonial disaffection. But they were violently opposed as msn who were trying to disintegrate the British Empire. The colonists themselves were denounced,>justas the Irish are denounced now, as absolutely unfit to exercise such powers. Just listen to the words used by Lord Derby—not the present Lord Derby, but bis father, long the trusted leader of the Tory party—on the proposal being made- to give self- government to Canada. You may imagine you were listening to a speech uttered now, about the Irish people — They were a people of ignorance the most profound, of prejudice the most inveterate, of simplicity the most undoubted, of vanity the most egregious, a people in the most absolute and entire dependence upon those demagogues and leaders who flattered their prejudices for tbe purpose of obtaining their support. If it were desirable to retain the colony, this project, which would at once render nugatory on our part all control over them, and plunge us into difficulties whicb could only be escaped from by violence, must not be enter- tained for a moment. What would be the consequence ? The establishment of a Republic. The concession would remove the only check to the power of the dominant majority-a majority in uumberg only for in wealth, in education, in ent8rprise. it was greatly, inferior to the minority, who were settlers of British de«cenL| But it was in Ireland that the policy of distrust and suppression was carried out in its most perfect form. There is one aspect of the case. to which I wish specially to call your attention. I think I mentioned to you on a former occasion —some three or four years ago—that one of the great calamities of Ireland was its want of mining and manufacturing industries to drain the surplus population from the land. I asked you to imagine what would have been the condi- tion of England and Wales if the people—the thousands and tens of thousands, I may say millions—who now find occupation and means of subsistance in the mines and quarries and mills and factories which abound in our country had been atl thrown back on the land. It may be said, and has been said, that the absence of these classes of industries is owing to the want of enterprise and energyonthepartof tbe inhabitants, or to their slothful and indolent habits. I believe we have done the Irish people wrong; in this respect, for when they have a motive for labour, they can be as industrious and hard-working as any people. Let me state to you one fact, which is given on the authority of Lord Dufferin, which in my opinion is infinitely to their honour—that between the years 1848 and 1864, that is 16 years, no less a sum than Bl.5,000,000 was sent by the Irish in America to their kindred and friends in Ireland to help them in paying extortionate rents, or to enable them to join them by emigration to America. Why then have the Irish no trades or manufactories of ,their own ? I will tell you. Because for generations England has set itself to discourage, and, indeed, to crush their efforts in that direction. Hear the testimony of Lord Dufferin, who is an Irishman, and now Governor- General of India :— One by one each of our nascent industries was either strangled in its birth or handed over gagged and bound to the jealous custody of the rival interests in England. until at last every fountain of wealth was hermetically sealed, and even the traditions of commercial enterprise have perished through desuetude. As early as the commencement of the 16th century the beeves of Boscommon, Tipperary and Queen's County undersold the produce of the English grass counties in their own market. By an Act of the 20th Elizabeth, Irish cattle were declared a nuisance, and their importation prohibited. Forbidden to send our beasts alive across the channel, we killed them at home and besran to supply the sister country with cured provisions. A second Act of Parliament imposed prohibitory duties on salted meats. The hides of the animals still re- mained, but the same influence put a. stop to the im- portation of leather. Our cattle trade abolished, we tried sheep farming. The sheep breeders of England immediately took alarm, and Irish wool was declared contraband by Charles H. Headed in this direction, we tried to work up the raw material at home, but this created the greatest outcry of all. Every maker of flannel, fustian, antI broadcloth in the country rose up in arms, and by an Act of William III. the woollen industry of Ireland was extinguished, and 20,000 manufacturers left the island. Mr Gladstone's plan has been gratefully wel- comed by the Irish leaders and tha Irish people. I bave looked into the plans tb*t have been suggested by others—the plans of Lord Harting- ton—(hisses)—the plans of Joseph Chamberlain -(hisses)-and. Lord Salisbury—(more bisses): —and I say this: that there is this radical defect in them all-tbat the Irish people won't have. them. Come what may, I shall stand by the Grand Old Man. Mr C. H. JAMES also supported the resolution. He hoped they were determined to help Mr Glad- stone to carry out one of the wisest and most generous schemes that had ever been offered to a neighbouring nation. (Applause.)' Was it possible, he asked, to ignore the voice of the whole nation and say, We will not listen to it, I but go on as we did before V He did not think a Parliament in Dublin would have the same diffi- culty in dealing with crime as the English Government had. Every Irishman cloaked the. other now when a crime was against Englishmen, but when they came to feel that there was an Irish Parliament in Dublin composed of their own countrymen, and that a.law made on Irish soil ,was being broken, their members of Parliament and Irish jurors would stand up for the old land andsay,"Thismust not be in our land. Now we have made the laws you unlucky people must lobey them or we will make you obey them." Tbe proposition was carried, and On the motion of the Rev. Wm. James, seconded by Mr Edward Jones (collier), a vote of confidence in Mr Richard and Mr James waa unanimously agreed to.
A UNIONIST IN THE FIELD.
A UNIONIST IN THE FIELD. On Tuesday afternoon a telegram was received atMerthyrtotbe effect that Mr Montague J.. Guest, third son of the late Sir John Guest, and at brother of Mr A. E, Guest, who unsttccessfuJlyt contested Cardiff in the Conservative interest in 1880, had consented to contest the borongh of JVIerthyr Tydvil as a Unionist, A circular signed by Mr David Williams, < of the Taff Vale Brewery (Conservative), and Mr Jno, Vaughan, (Liberal), was issued, setting this forth. Mr Montague Guest, of Bere Regis, near Bland- ford, Dorset, was born in 1839, and educated at; Harrow. He is a J.P, and Deputy-Lieutenant for' Dorset and a magistrate for Middlesex. He was 1 M.P. for Yonghal fiom 1869 to 187*. IA 1874 he contested Wareham (Dorset), but was defeated, the numbers being—J. S. W. S. G. Drax (C),, 502; M. J. Guest (L), 310. In 1880 he again, contested Wareham, and was returned by a majority of 35 over Mr Drax, who polled 416.; Wareham ceased to have separate representation in 1885, and Mr Guest did not contest ,either of the county divisions. Lord Wimborne, is an elder brother of Mr Guest. A committee meeting, hastily summoned, met at eight o'clock. The chair was taken by Dr Biddle, and amongst those present were Mr Thomas Jenkins (Pant), Mr Plews, Rev Daniel Lewis (rector of Merthyr), Mr Smytbe (all pro- nounced Conservatives), Mr Peter Williams, and. Mr Vaughan (secretary of the 1 Merthyr District I' of East Glamorgan. Liberah Association). The negotiations which had passed were referred to by Mr Vaughan, and expressions of opinion in favour; of bringing out a fresh candidate?were -given by' the gentleman above named. The great, difficulty the meeting had'to contend with was jthe fact that the' actual politics of Mr Guest ['were not known. Mr Peter Williams and one or two others favoured the idea of the candidate being a Home Ruler, but the majority preferred ) to have a Unionist Liberal.candidate, and it was ultimately, arranged that Mr Guest should be requested by telegraph to come to Merthyr to-' morrow and give an exposition of bis "views on the: Home Rule question. An > address, it is said, is also in course of preparation: on his behalf. ^Mr: ] David Williams, one of the. conveners of the i meeting,Is chairman of the Merthyr Conservative .Association. It is* supposed, that Mr Guest has lan, anti-Home Rule-tendency, and that he will rely upon: his M influence at: Dowlais to a great. ji extent.
MONMOUTHBOROUGHSs ,*
MONMOUTHBOROUGHSs IGREATLIBERAL'MEETING &Tf j NEWPORT. fc'«As mass; meetingvof.; electors* wast held in:the; |Albert-hall, Newport, on ♦ Saturday evening, to hear an address by Mr E.. H. Carbutt. The hall j ,wasfwell filled before the;tima appointed for the) (commencement. of £ the proceedings, and great f enthusiasm, prevailed. Colours were' freely worn, i ['whilst^the?Carbutt.ticket was conspicuous in the' ,hats off many. The audience, getting an inkling of the^hon. member's approach,^ struck up .an' -election song,: and when Mr John Cory, president lOfcthe Newport. Liberal Association, appeared oni s'the platform steps, with Mrs Carbutt, on; '.his arm,, the vast.throng rose to. their} feet and gave. -every demonstration? of'welcome; possible. The 'otherTovation-iof the, .tevening-wasrreserved:for the RevCharles OLeacb,} of Birmingham, whose short but#eloquent' gpaech, was evidently an echo of the feelings oH almost" everyone present. In addition to Mr Cory, who.' Vwas chairman, there were the hon candidate him- Iself, Alderman Jacob, Alderman Batchelor,? Messrs.J. R,.Parnall, T. Jones, W. Evans,,L. B. iMoore, Revs Charles Leach and C H. Poppleton, .Messrs T. Porteous,, B.Jones, ;*T.«Goldsworthy, i i O. Goss, and others. „ The,;I CHAIRMAN expressed his pleasure in being able to. <be present at the first. public meeting to '-welcome Mr *5 Carbutt," who j had come there for Jthe third time to fight their battle. The hon. candidate's first words on arriving attbe {railway,station were—justice 'for Ireland and fairplay. (Applause.) It was evident, from. the hearty way in which that declaration had, been received, that there wasnamisunderstanding about-the issue before the-country. He found that at Cardiff there was misapprehension' amongst the Conservatives;and. some of their Liberal friends, who thoughts with the Conserva- tives, as to the important question; whether Mr Gladstone intended' again -to bring in his Home Rule Bill. (Hear, hear.) Ho wanted every elector of Newport to be satisfied; that the bill lately voted upon was- -dead, and that the present fight was purely upon the principle of Home Rule, and the giving to Ireland the right to manage its: own affairs. (Applause, and a voice Wo will."), He denied that tbe Liberal party were being led'by the nose by Mr Gladstone, as the Conservatives asserted, and quoted the words of Lord Spencer, Lord Sandhurst, and Mr Campbell-Bannerman that the establishment of a domestic legislature in Ireland was the surest way to regain Irish friend- ship. He saw that Sir George EUiot, who had come to contest that seat after being twice rejected in the north, at a-semi-private meeting of his supporters (Voice: "Supporters and gaffers," and laughter)—bad said he could not see Ireland separated from the rest of the empire without a strong, protest. That was the great cry of the Tories and the so-called Unionists, but these, be asserted, were far more Separatists than the true Unionists. (Cheers.) Mr Carbutt did not desire separation, neither did Mr Gladstone, and the cry was merely raised by the Tories for the purpose of keeping Liberals out of Parliament, and getting in their own friends. (Hear, hear.) Mr E. H. CARBUTT then addressed the meeting. The hon.r candidate waited for some minutes before the enthusiastic greeting and the singing of For he's a jolly good fellow If had died away. He said he regretted the loss of his honour- able opponent, Mr Cordes. ("Hear, hear," hisses, and applause.) Personally he was sorry Mr Cordes had thrown up the sponge, (Laughter.) Sir George Elliot was returned for Durham on the Irish vote, but when he got into Parliament did he vote for the, Irish 2 (No.) He thought the Irish electors of Newport would not trust Sir George with their votes because he would not hereafter espouse their cause. He also saw that Sir George was afraid of his colours, and that his announcements-were printed in black or violet. He regarded it as a bad sign when a can- didate had not tbe honesty of his convictions to say whether he was a Conservative or a Liberal. (A voice: "He's afmonopolist," and laughter.) On the Irish question, the hon. speaker continued, he was sorry he had nothing new to tell them. His convictions as to the expediency of Home Rule were of long standing, for he was one of the eight members in the last Parliament but one who were in its favour. (Applause.) The speaker glanced at the past. history of the ■ legislative union with Ireland, pointed; out, that it was obtained in a nefarious way, and that it had been maintained by no less than 70 coercionacts, and then spoke on' the land question. He asserted that this question was at the root of the-evils which afflicted Ireland, and declared his conviction that if Irish landlords had behaved anything like Englisblandlords had done, this agitation for Home Rule would never have arisen. He referred to the days of the potato famine and to the recent agricultural distress, and' by statistics proved that the Irish land- lords had cruelly rack-rented their tenants,. evicted them to create large farms, and: oppressed them in every possible way. The landlords deserved no consideration from the State, and he should utterly oppose any proposal to buy them out. This land question was not only at the root of the Irish difficulty, but it was also at the bottom of the English difficulty of bad times and agricultural depression—(applause)— and as soon as a home legislature could be given to Ireland, Parliament would be able to devote its energies to the many English questions needing treatment. He was glad to say that a bill had been passed during the recent session dealing with the Scotch crofters, which, although not a very Radical measure, would, he hoped, settle the question for a short period. Then the leasehold question cropped up—(applause)—and it was < settled that Mr Broadhurst's Bill should go into committee. The speaker said he was arranging, in case Parliament had continued, that one or two gentlemen should have gone up from New- port to give evidence on the working of the lease- bold question in that borough, because he was confident the only way to get a question adjusted was to throw upon it all the light possi- ble. (Applause.) The success which attended his efforts to make the landlord responsible for a portion of the cost of private improve- ments was also referred to" as well as the benefit to this district from the determination of the Indian Government to spend five and a half millions this year on Median railways.»A large amount of rails and iron sleepers: had already been made in Newport and:shippedto India, and doubtless the decision to proceed with the works would do good not' only to India, but also to that district. (Applause.) In; conclusion the candi-. date, expressed a hope that.he bad not forfeited; the confidence of the constituency, ;that ho bad I expressed their views by his parliamentary action, < and that if they thought;he Was worthy of con-, tinuedh confidence, they would return him on Tuesday week by a good majority. (Applause.) Mr J. R. PABNALL gave the experience of a very recent visit to the south of Ireland, and. said the result of it was to convince, him that it was bis duty to be not a dissentient Liberal, but an earnest and warm supporter of the Home Rule measure. (Applause.) He described the armed police system of Ireland, with its connection with the resident magistracy and Dublin Castle, and said Irishmen bad in this way to submit to a military despotism which would not be tolerated for a day in this ceuntry. He proposed— That this meeting takes the opportunity of thanking Mr Carbutt for his past services, and, having heard his address, considers him a fit and proper person to represent the Monmouth District Boroughs in Parlia- ment and hereby pledges itself to use every legitimate effort to secure his triumphant return on the 6th July. Alderman JACOB, in seconding the resolution, claimed* that Mr Carbutt had served the con- stituency well during the past six years, had faithfully carried out all his pledges, had given close attention to local affairs, and was always in his place in Parliament on important divisions, so that Newport was not disfranchised, as was the case with places which might be represented by gentlemen who were tn, Egypt or on the continent (Lausrhter., Sir George Elliot declared in a recent speech that as far back as 1883 he was in favour of the enfranchise- ment of leaseholds, but he had taken no action in Parliament. He had been satisfied with a barren declaration whereas Mr Carbutt's name was on the back of the Leasehold Enfran- chisement Bill, and he had moved the insertion in another bill of the clause making the land- lord jointly liable, for improvement expenses. (Applause.) The resolution was carried with one solitary dissentient, whose presence was greeted with much laughter. The Rev CHARLES LEACH congratulated Mr Carbutt upon representing such a constituency, and eulogised the tenacity of purpose which the hon. member bad shown in sitting up in the House of Commons nntii 3.30 a.m., that he might I secure for the working men of Newport ji clause. compelling the ground landlord to pay a fair proportion of expenses incurred under leases. He was confident Newport would send Mr Car-? "butt back to the House to help the Prime Minister. to say, It is the will of the people of this great nation that Ireland should J:>e, free." (Great ap- plause.) Mr CARBUTT brieny thanked ?4he meeting for the vote of confidence, "nd' the proceedings tar- t minated with the usuq.1 compliment tq^the chair-1 .manforpresid)ng, During the dinner bour, on Monday," Mr E. H, I Carbutt addressed thes workmen' of the Great; Western Railway Wharf and the Chemical Works, „ Amongst the ppeakec$was Mr R. W. Jones, who" alluded to the labour question at the docks, *ar?d' asked the pertinent question,who was the leading spirit in the Powell's Daffryn Company ? Sir George Elliot was the man who with-that company alone maintained the old. tonnage rates, and stm continued to « sweat s the coaj trimmers' money. Mr Carbutt, since he had come among them,.had honestly redeemed every pledge which he gave.—A.vote of confidence in Mr Carbutt was unanimously passed. iMR;CARBUTT AT BABNARDTOWN. A large open air meeting was held at Bsu-nard. ;town;,Newport, on Monday evening, to support the candidature of Mr E. H. Carbutt,Gladstoman Liberal candidate for the Monmouth District •Boroughs. The chair was taken by Mr J. W. .Jones, J.P., who was supported on the platform by Mrs and Mr Carbutt, Messrs E. Grove, J. R. Jacob, J.P.Revs — Leach (Birmingham),C. H. Poppleton, and Others. Mr CARSCTT, on rising to address the meeting, was loudly cheered. He'said whether they re- turned the Conservatives or the Liberals the Irish question would have to be dealt with. The only question that was before the country at present was that of Home Rule. The bill that Mr Glad- stone introduced was dead, and they in giving their votes would- only support the principle of Home Rule. He appealed to them j to give to Ireland the same privileges as they enjoyed themselves. They bad the power to "govern themselves, and- that was all the Irish > demanded. Speaking of the Municipal Cor- porations Act (Ireland), he said that it ought to j be 1 extended. In Belfast there was a town five J times as large as Newport, and yet the voters were onlythesamenumberas in their own town. (Sbame, ) ,.The representation was in the hands of the ,moneyed class. If he was sentto Parliament again ;'he would vote for the.Irish people managing their 5 own affairs. He was*in favour of a proportion of "Irish representatives being sent to Westminster to 'assist in .managing the imperial and national afiairs,. He was not in favour of the. Land Purchase Bill, and should oppose it. He believed that the working classes would do justice to Ireland, and they would support not a paperunion but a union of hearts. He appealed [to them to vote according to •their consciences J and not to -be intimidated. He urged, them to remember that they had the ballot. If they returned him he should- vote for Home Rule, but i nevedor the scheme to spend 150 millions to-buy tout the Irish landlords. (Loud cheers.) A vote of confidence was proposed in Mr Carbutt by Mr E. Grove, and seconded by Mr S. fSwantpn, and carried with acclamation.
3MR PARNELL AT NEWPORT.
3MR PARNELL AT NEWPORT. Mr C. (S. Parnell, the leader of theIrish parliamentary party, arrived at Newport by the 12.45 p.m. train on Tuesday. He was met at the railway station by Mr J. R. Jacob, J.P., Mr Vaughan, J.P., Mr H. J. Parnall, and several ? other prominent Irishmen and Liberals. A large crowd bad gathered outside the station to witness -the arrival of Ireland's "uncrowned king." The i horse was taken from the cab, and Mr Parnell iwas drawn by willing hands down Commercial -street to the Friars Field, where he delivered an address on the situation. Mr PARNELL said he regretted that it was not possible to address them at any length or to attend the great meeting which was proposed to be held that night. He bad taken the opportu- nity, on his way through to Chester, to meet the numbers who were now present just for the purpose of explaining to them shortly the case of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) Now, there were two "alternatives for their choice. There was the old, well-trodden road of coercion—(groans and hisses)—which if they pursued it they would have to follow new leaders, inferior men— vastly inferior men—to the great Englishman who asked them to accompany him on the new road, the road of justice to Ireland. ("Hear, hear," and cheers.) The issue was very plainly put by Lord Salisbury—(groans)—when he said that he was in favour of twenty years of steady and persistent coercion. (Hear, hear.) And what would that coercion mean ? Not coercion 'against criminals or law breakers, but the putting down of political agitation, .freedom of the press, and free discussion by the armed, forces of the Crown. He did not believe that the working men of. England, now that they had secured their liberties by the possession'of the franchise, would go back to the old evil road of coercion. (Hear, hear.) He was confident they would embark with Mr Gladstone—(cheers)—their rival leader—in his course of attempting to knit the affections of the two nations together, not by force, but by the silken chains of mutual interest and self-respect. (Hear, hear.) Let them help Mr Gladstone to give the right of self-government-and autonomy to Ireland, and they would find that all those difficulties which now looked so alarming would soon disappear, and that the charges conjured up regarding the oppression of the Protestant minority would be forgotten and 10 five years' time, when men would look back, they would thank God that it was in their power to help in the great work of conciliation and justice. (Hear, hear.) Mr Parnell proceeded to say that be wished to address some observa- tions to his Catholic fellow countrymen. He understood that an attempt was being made to seduce them into voting for the Tory-SIr George Elliot-a. man cast off by his former constituents. He (the speaker) thought it was always a very suspicious thing when a man left the place he sat for before and tried fresh fields and pastures new." It showed great dissatisfaction on the part of his constitueuts. But he (Mr Parnell) understood that an attempt was being made to get the votes of the Catholic Irishmen of that town for Sir George Elliot upon religious and sectarian grounds. Well, all he bad to say to his fellow countrymen was this: That Ireland called upon them to help the country of their birth and descent at a supreme moment in the history of her destiny, and if they were false to her now they would be false to themselves hereafter. No relisrious, educational, or sectarian interest should II weigh in the balance against the interests of their country. All local questions and ideas, School Board education and so forth, sank into ;insigni6cance as compared with the imperative duty resting on every Irishmen; so that he trusted they would vote for Mr Carbutt i-and their country at the polls. Orange- men had propagated, the idea. that in the event, of Home Rule being granted, the Protestants of Ireland would be persecuted by the Catholics. To those living in Ireland this was such an extremely absurd proposition as to be scarcely worth while to argue about. The Catho- lics of Ireland had never enrolled themselves under the banner of intolerance and he was sure that when they had 1he power they would never revert to the intolerance of the middle ages. There might have been cases of boycotting. But who began it? The Irish people had been boy- cotted by the landlords before giving back ahttleof the same sauce. (Laughter.) For one Protestant boycotted there had been 100 Catholics boycotted. This was not a sectarian question at aU, because there was no such feeling in Ireland. The Pro- testants of Ireland were as fine a bodv of men as could be found. They were not a bit afraid of the Catholics. When the incitements of Mr Cham- berlain and Lord Randolph Churchill—(hisses)— to outrage ceased, the Orangemen would become peaceable. (Cheers.) In reply to a written question put by Mr Tun- stall, Commercial-street, Mr PARNELL said he had said on previous occasions that he accepted Mr Gladstone's bill as a final settlement ot the Irish question anj he believed it would close the dispute between the two nations. He believed, too, that five-sivths of the Irish people would at the polls declare that they accepted Mr Gladstone's measure. (Cheers.) A hearty vote of thanks was awarded to Mr Parnell on the motion of Mr JACOB, seconded by Mr H. J. PARNALL. Mr Parnell was again loudly cheered (In pro- ceeding to the railway station. GREAT IRISH MEETING AT NEWPORT. A crowded meeting of Irish residents in Newport was held in the Albert Hall on iuesday evening to hear an address from Mr Joseph Nolan, late M.P. for North Loutb. Mr D. A. Vaughan, J.P., occupied tho chair, and was supported by Fathers Quaid and Burns, Revs H. Abraham (Baptist) and C. H. Poppleton (Umted Free Methodist), Alderman Jacob, and Messrs T. Jones, B. Jones, T. Porteous, Keyse (secretary of the local league), etc. Mr NOLAN, who was warmly received, said that England had in later times been the champion of the great principle that every nation bad the right to choose its own form of government, The great men of the country had advocated the cause of oppressed nationalities of the earth, and English blood and treasure bad been given to that purpose. Ireland, the Poland of the British Empire, now claimed her constitutional rights in a constitutional manner. The people were willing to-forget the black and terrible past, to forget it as though it were a terrible nightmare, and they appealed for sympathy and help, not to the callous classes who were responsible for that oppression, but to the toiling masses, in the factory and at the bench, and 1D the mine. The speaker then dealt with the false issues which were being trailed over the real question, and said it was ridiculous to suppose that because 300 men were to be permitted to assemble in Dublin the great British empire, which it had taken so many centuries to build up, would tumble to pieces and nothing remain of it but the name. (Laughter.) He denied that Home Rule would break up the union. What union? Was there ever such a mis* nomer as to apply the term union to the transaction of the year 1800—that union, which was effected by fraud and force and corrup- tion, and which every honest Englishman was ashamed to read or think about ? The student of history knew that the people cf Ireland bad not attempted to sever the link when it would have been easiest to do so, such as when the military power of England was at zero. It was only after the so-called Union that the desperate attempts were made to break the Union. The speaker protested as an Ulster man against the patchwork schemes for the separation of the North from the South. The Almighty had made Ireland one nation, and one nation she would remain. The sentiment of Irish nationality, which he asserted was not incompatible with the unity of what was called the British Empire, had sustained many a rude shock from coercion, famine, and the sword, but in spite of persecutions of every kind it was never stronger than at present. (Applause.) Was there no better treatment for this great indestruc- tible principle of Irish nationality than the stamping-out process ? Could not some statesman grasp the idea of making use of it, and of makiug it a power in the building up of a truly British Empire. (Applause.) Father QUAID proposed votes of thanks to the' Premier and to Mr E. H. Carbutt, which were; ;secQnde4 and adopted with great cordiality.
,SIR GEORGE ELLIOT SI CANDIDATURE.…
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT S CANDIDATURE. ;;1 MEETING AT THE ODDFELLOWS' t HALL. A meeting of electors,: to support the candidal • ture of Str George Elliot, the Conservative candi- date for the Monmouth District Boroughs, was held at the Oddfellows' Hal!, Herbert-street, on Tuesday evening. The chair was taken by Mr C. D. Phillips. <5 Sir George recapitulated his former views on the questions now before the country. He stated that he had been asked why be left Durham. The reason was because be refused to oppose the candidature of a labour representative. He was of opinion that labour was not yet sufficiently represented in the House of Commons, and he would be the last man to oppose the election of a working man. (Cheers.) A vote of confidence in Sir George was passed.
SOUTH MONMOUTH.
SOUTH MONMOUTH. COLONELMORGANS CANDIDATURE. MEETING AT CAERLEON. A meeting of electors was held at the Drill-hall, Caerleon, on Tuesday, to support Colonel the Hon. F. C. Morgan, the Conservative candidate for the Southern Division of Monmouthshire. The chair was taken by Dr R. H. Woollett, J.P., who was supported by Colonel Morgan, Colonel Lyne, J.P., and others. Colonel MORGAN, oo rising to address the meeting, was well received. He said that at the la^t general election six months ago the electors did him the honour of returning him as their member by a majority of 600, His opinions were the same as when they returned him last November. Mr Gladstone had suddenly sprung upon the country a Home Rule Bill He (Col. Morgan) was of opinion that the bill, if passed, would tend to the disruption of our empire, and Ireland would eventually be separated from Eng- land. He further stated that if the scheme of Mr Gladstone was sanctioned by the country, capital would be withdrawn from Ireland, the result being that the labourers would leave Ireland and come to this country, thus swamping our labour markets. He had represented Monmouthshire for the last 15 years, and had always supported the institu- tions of this country, and had tried to benefit Monmouthshire generally. He could not account for the Radical opposition to him. Since the candidature of Mr Bryant had commenced he had received a large number of letters from all classes of his constituents, regietting the opposition, and promising to support him. He promised, if returned to Parliament, to serve them as faithfully in the future as he had done in the past. He appealed to the electors to return him to Parliament to vote for the maintenance of our constitution, and against- the disruption of our glorious empire. A vote of confidence in the hon. gentleman, and pledging the meeting to use all legitimate means to return him as the member for tbe Southern Division of the county, was passed on the proposition of Mr 1). W. Jenkins (Liberal Unionist), seconded by Mr T. Parry, who stated that Mr Conway (vice-chairman of the Lfberal Association, told him that he spoke and voted against the motion to oppose Colonel :Morgan,- The resolution was supported by Colonel Lyne, Liberal Unionist.
NORTH MONMOUTH.
NORTH MONMOUTH. THE CANDIDATURE OF MR T. P. PRICE. On Monday evening Mr T. P. Price, the Gladstonian Liberal candidate for the North Division of Monmouth, addressed his constituents at the Town-ball, BIaenavon. The building was crowded to excess, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. The chair was taken by Mr C. White (gas manager), who was supported on the platform by the Revs W. Rees, I. Meredyth, J. George (Llanthewy), and J. E. GrHEths Messrs J. G. Eilis, C. R. Lyne, W. H. Hughes (New- port),»W. Conway, J. Daniel (Pontypool), W. Edwards, T. M. Jenkins, W. Bryant, G. Rees, &c* Mr Price gave a lucid exposition of Irish affairs from the insurrection of 1641 to the date of Union, 1800, and contended that the pacification of the Celtic race bad been enforced through the agency of arms. In spite of the opposition they were about to re- ceive at the hands of the Conservative and Unionist party in the person of Mr E. Jones, J.PM Abersychau, ho >vas» not afraid of tbe issue, and believed that at the forthcoming Section bis majority would reach 3,000. He added that his voice, as far as he could make it heard, would be on the side of Mr Gladstone, and he implored bis Blaenavon friends, whom he characterised as his dearest, to fight for justice to their Irish brethren even if the heavens fell.—A resolution approving of Mr Price's candidature -ii7 -r,W' Edwatds, and supported by the Revs. W. Rees and J. George, and Mr J. G. hims. and on being put to the meeting, was without, a. dissentient.
MR JONES'S CANDIDATURE.
MR JONES'S CANDIDATURE. A meeting was held at the White Horse Assembly-rooms Blaenavon, on Monday evening, by the Conservatives in support of the candidature of Mr ±j. Jones, J.p, in the unavoidable Mr t ^V' Kennard (Blaevanon i ,.an £ ford (contractor) occupied norfc nf Hi« p ons> expressive of the warmest nServativo. and Unionist party ° vi- were unanimously approved of, ngwas arranged for Friday evening at the Town-hall,
A TORY CANDIDATE.
A TORY CANDIDATE. It was definitely stated at Pontypool on Monday tbatMr E. Jones, J.P., of Snatchwood House, a member of the firm of Partridge and Jones, colliery proprietors, had consented) to contest the Northern Division of Monmouthshire as a Con- servative, against Mr T. P. Price, the Gladstonian candidate.
WEST MONMOUTH.
WEST MONMOUTH. HOME RULE MEETING AT ABERCARN. A Home Rule meeting was held in the Garn Chapel on Saturday night, under the auspices of hw Liberal Association. Addresses WTl$r ?> r \SS Jessie Craigen, of Bristol, an cfinn« 'ettlan> Abercarn, and several quest o rin £ upon the subject were satisfac- t0n&*alSWerAdT by., Miss Craigen. A vote of not in fhi T Uia £ stone's Home Rule Bill, unanimously, ^debase Bill, was passed
--MONMOUTHSHIRE ELECTION FIXTURES.
MONMOUTHSHIRE ELECTION FIXTURES. The nomination for the Southern Division of Monmouthshire will take place on the 2nd of July, the polling on the 7th of July, and tbe declaration of the poll on the 8th. The Northern Division nomination will be on tb" 5th July, the polling on the 9th, and the c aration on the 10th. In the Western Division, the nomination 1 1 July»the PollinS on the 12th, and the declaration on the 13th.
FOREST OF DEAN. .
FOREST OF DEAN. THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT. It was authoritatively stated on Monday that Mr 1 redenck Lewis Lucas, of 11, Westbourne- terrace, London, will, as a Unionist, oppose the return of Mr T. Blake (Gladstonian). li S"'k Iwuis kucas, M.A., Trinity Col- the^return ofM^'Ti 1S °PPosin^ as a Unionist, Mr ih0II^3 Blake, the Gladstonian J. V' nephew of the late Sir Francis T i °wned extensive estates at Ciren- P,r £ ul osecpuuty residence wasRancombe Tho r an influential family connection. ^^°RR^ 'ves HAV9 adopted him as their iand ,vvi11 vote for him solidly. They j ? P^iced their electoral machinery in the P • „ /(lJa Unionist committee. Mr John Wright «io^f;6Wn^ain)bas accepted the appointment ™The working men, who are the tniA tr» fk i t'J0 constituency, will remain chosea candidate, Mr Blake. Active Ju Yere commenced on Tuesday night, T u n" °f Unionists was heldatNewn- ham Town-haIL Mr F' E. Guise, clerk of the peace for the county, presided, and there was a large gathering of Tories and Unionists.
MID-GLAMORGAN.
MID-GLAMORGAN. MAESTEG LIBERAL ASSOCIA- TION. A public meeting of the Maesteg Liberal Asso- ciation was held in the Llynvi School-room, on Friday week, Dr J. Da.vIeJ presiding. The secretary read the following letter from Mr C. R. M. Talbot, M.P., the present member:- DOA.R C- X Margam Park, June 19, 1886. iPtt I beg to acknowledge receipt of your nnocf- 18th inst., in which you inclose a list of °-n which the Mid-Gla.morsra.ii Liberal Asso- desire an expression of my views, which I have llen °n the paper inclosed.—Yours most truly, C. It. M. T-VLBOT. nnn.^ 'j Mr Gladstone's Irish policy. I a'n ,1U}^ Tri..u ^et? that a sepai ate Parliament to deal with iJf" anairs, and holding its sittings in Dublin, has (Ton? necessary, and I agree with Mr Gladstone's fnUTu in reference to this question. In his Edinburgh last week, Mr Gladstone observed ,"a.c J the bill was dead, but that tbe policy re- mained;" from which I infer that in the next session ? ii menta new bill will be introduced more effec- tually to carry out the objects io view. I see, there- vire*110 reason to doubt that I should be able to give- Gladstone a hearty support if I should be a mem- o ofTthe next Parliament. '•—-I have already voted in favour of Mr Dillwyn's motion for disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales, and should do so again. 3.-1 am in favour of a large reform of the land laws 4—And of a. scheme of county government. 5.-Mr Broadhurst's,bill is entitled "A Bill to facili- tate the Purchase of Fee Simple OF Leaseholds," an object which I fully concur in, but in my opinion it requires amendments as to the manner in which the intention is to be carried into effect. 6.-Abolition of perpetual pension list. I quite concur in this. i7.—- Abolition o £ oatbs in Parliament, Would, hnk, be very desirable. Letters were also read from Mr Gyril Flower* Downing-street, S.W.; Mr Abel Thomas, Swansea; Mr Thomas Williams, J.P., Merthyr Tydvil; Mr Fred Davis, Femdale; Mr John Cory, Cardiff and Mr Robert D. Burme, Swan- sea all of whom thanked the central council for their nomination, but declined to become candi- dates.—Mr J. Will iams proposed" That, inasmuch as Mr C. R. M. Talbot, had pledged him- as Mr C. R. M. Talbot, had pledged him- I self to votg for the ,policy of Home Rule for ————-—————-———'——— Ireland, this meeting is of opinion that he should be re-elected as their rep-tentative in Parlia- ment."—This was seconded by the Rev D. Prosser, and supported by the Rev John Jones and others.—Mr S. Docking moved an amendment tothe effect "That Mr Talbot is not a fit and proper person to reprssent the Mid-Glamorgan Division in Parliament." The amendment was seconded by Mr Daniel Jacob.—The Chairman ruled the amendment out of order, and said he would take the sense of the meeting for and against the motion. On a division, 37 voted for the motion and 9 against it. Several abstained frcm voting, and subsequently went out of the room, some maintaining that they were not members of the association.
SELECTION OF MR C. R. M. TALBOT.
SELECTION OF MR C. R. M. TALBOT. A meeting of the executive of the Mid-Glamor- gan Liberal Association was held at the Indepen- dent Chapel, Briton Ferry, on Monday last, to finally decide upon a candidate to represent that division. Dr Davies, the president of the associa- tion, occupied the chair. There were fnearly 100 delegates present, but none attended from Ogmore Valley or Tondu. Mr Pon. darves Vivian, the president of the Aber- avon Association, was among those present. The Secretary read the minutes,, and then tho replies of the various gentlemen who had been selected as candidates, viz. Mr Talbot. Mr Abel Thomas, Mr R. Ü. Burnie, Mr Thomas Wil- liams (Merthyr), Mr John Cory, and Mr Cyril Flower. All declined to stand except Mr Talbot. Mr Talbot's letter (which we published yesterday) having been read, Mr LLEWELLYN HOWELL (Aberavon) proposed, "That Mr C, R. M. Talbot be accepted as the Liberal candidate for Mid-Glamorgan." Ho pointed out that that gentleman had made great progress towards the views they, as an associar- tion, held. During a long political career Mr Talbot had supported the Liberal party with one option and he was glad to find that he had made concessions on that one point—Home Rule—which would bring him more in unison with their views. (Applause.) After a long parliamentary career this last act would redound to his lasting credit. (Applause.) had found siucetho formation of their association many who had expressed advanced views had lagged behind. That being so, they ought to extend their sympathy to Mr Talbot, who bad seen sixty years of public life, and had at the close expressed such advanced views. He was glad to find that they had now only one candidate to choose from and he was one of the brightest and most matured intellects of the House of Com- mons. (Applause.) Alderman DAVID (Aberavon) seconded the, proposition. Mr Talbot had seen many changes m the House of Commons, but through aU those changes the pledges he gave to the electors had been faithfully carried out. The Rev. JOlIN DAVDtS (Glyn Neath) thought Mr Talbot, by his recent vote on Home Rule, was more of a Paper Unionist than a Gladstonian supporter. Considerable discussion took place on this point and on the views of Mr Talbot on other matters before the country, bat the resolution was eventually carried unanimously. Further discussion ensued on a motion pro- posed by a Briton Ferry delegate that Mr Talbot should be called upon to support Mr Gladstone's general Irish policy unreservedly. The motion was carried after expunging the word" unre- servedly," A sum of ten guineas was voted to Mr W. R. Thomas, the secretary of the association, for his arduous services during the past 18 months. On the motion of Mr PENDARVES VIVYAN (who promised every help he could give to the associa- tion), a vote of thanks to the chairman for pre- siding was carried by acclamation.
WEST GLAMORGAN.
WEST GLAMORGAN. UNANIMOUS SELECTION OF MR F. A. YEO. A largely attended meeting of members of the Gower Liberal Association was held at the Swansea Liberal Club on Saturday afternoon, under the presidency of Mr Dill wyn, the principal business being to select a candidate. After some formal business bad been transacted, Mr FREEMAN proposed that Mr Yeo was a fit and proper person to represent the Gower district in the next Parliament. (Applause.) The electors, he said, wanted from him no arguments to enable them to see the advisability of renewing that confidence in Mr Yeo which was placed in him a few months ago. (Hear, hear.) He had already made his mark, and gave promise of being one of the most valuable members of the House, and one who would certainly reflect high credit on the principality. (Cheers.) Mr PHILLIP JENKINS, in seconding, said the electors of that division had in Mr Yeo a fit succesor to the lord-lieutenant. (Applause.) The CHAIRMAN, in putting the motion, said he endorsed all that had been said in favour of Mr Yeo. He and Mr Yeo had put their heads together for the weal of the country, and generally they had found themselves voting together. (Applause.) In the recent great division, they both entered the same lobby as warm supporters of Mr Gladstone. (Cheers.) Mr Yeo spoke most ably on the question, and, altogether, had made such a mark that the constituency could not possibly do better than elect him again to represent them in Parliament. (Applause.) He was glad there were no paper-Unionists amongst those present, but that all were one in wishing to make a real union—a union of hearts—which would have the effect of making us and the Irish friends. (Applause.) He trusted the example they weie getting in that part of the country would be followed by the democracy at large. (Applause.) To prove that the Gladstonians were not seceders from the Liberal party, he read an extract from a speech of Fox, whom the Whigs adopted as their leader, where it was said he knew of no way of governing the Irish except by conciliating them—the more the country was under Irish government the more she was joined to [English interests. (Applause.) That was said many years ago, and the country had at length determined to act on the advice. The resolution having been carried with enthusiasm, MrF. A. YEO, who was heartily received, expressed his pride at being again chosen to represent the constituency. He assured them that he was net one of those who merely put on the cloak of Liberalism be was a Liberal from conviction, and he promised in the future, as in the past, to do his utmost to serve the best interests of the constituency, and to do his utmost in behalf of the policy which was most likely to be a success from an imperial and governmental point of view. (Applause.) He did not believe even tha most sanguine of Conserva- tives could cherish the hope of winning the con- stituency, but he did believe they might come forward in order to give the constituents trouble and him expense. All he could say was that if the constituents were kind enough to look on that with equanimity, he should do the same- (applause)-and were the contest forced on them, he had no doubt that they would Win a fresh triumph for Liberalism. (Cheers.) He extremely regretted that they should have for some time to come to bear the anomaly of an English State-aided Church m that principality of dissenters. His opinion was that until they had Home Rule in local matters in Wales they would never get what they wanted. Parliament was overweighted with work. During the past session there was no obstruction, and yet night after night the parliamentary sittings con- tinued till 1, 2, 3, and even 4 o clock In the morn- ing The reason was the large amount of domestic legislation, which could be better dealt with by general councils than by a parliament which tried to do ten times more than it really could. The question at present before them was Home Rule for Ireland. (Applause.) It had been demsnded for 86 years, and behevmg, as he did, in the justice ot the demand, he should be very giad to joni with the respected president in the policy of Mr Gladstone, for he certsinly sympathised with his endesvour to redress the grievances of that unfortunate country. (Cheers.) Mr DILLWYN said he did not think they ought to separate without proposing a resolution in honour of their great leader—Mr Gladstone. He, therefore, moved "That the council of this association expresses its most hearty and in- creased confidence in the Right Hon. W. M. Gladstone as leader of the Liberal party, and its sincere and earnest hope that the result of the Parliamentary election will be to return a still larger and more compact majority t9 support him." (Applause.) Mr CORY YEO seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously. The meeting terminated with votes of thanks.
SNOW IN THE BALLROOM.
SNOW IN THE BALLROOM. Everyone has heard of dancing on the ice, but dancing in a ballroom under a snowstorm is not so familiar. This, however, was what a party of friends found themselves doing not long ago in Sweden. The circumstances are thus described in a foreign paper .-—During an extremely cold night, but with the sky clear and the stars shining, a large assembly were gathered for a ball in Sweden, and in the course of the evening it became so hot in the room that several ladies fainted. An officer tried to open a window, but he saw that the pressure of the ice was holding it fast shut. So he broke a pane, and the rush of cold air coming from without produced a fall of snow in the room. The atmosphere had been charged with watery vapour, ana this becoming suddenly condensed and refrigerated fell, under the form of snow, on the heads of the astonished dancers.
THE EFFECTS OF A CYCLONE.
THE EFFECTS OF A CYCLONE. The official report on the cyclone which swept vver Orissa last September has only juat been published. It appears that the Government estate of Birso, in the Balasore district, suffered most. The storm wave came over the sea embankment and saturated the land with salt water, destroying the whole of the crops and a great number of cattle. The Government granted a remission of the entire rent for the year, and made advances. The loss was very slight in other parts of Balasore, and no relief was neces- sary. Three hundred persons are reported to have been killed in the Cuttack district by falling trees and houses. No traces were found of the remains of houses at ^Hookeytorlah, or of the treasure chest of the port department. It is supposed that the chest was stolen. Previous returns show that the sea coast at Orissa has suffered from the effects of a. cyclpne every ninth .ar.;
,\ THE WEEKS MARKETS.^
THE WEEKS MARKETS. CORN. CARMARTHEN, Saturday.—(WUIiam Pugh's PEPM'^ The supply of all kinds of ^rain at o«ir J to-day was again small, and the prices were much as lollon-sWheat, 35s to 40s: bar'W- ^0s to 32; white oats, 23s to 22s; black ditto, l?4! 2ls. GLOUCESTER..Saturday.-Prices of both KngW; and foreign wheat were again bd to Is per pr. Io* M. although the supply from farmers was small. Grin1'? | SJj- barley and maize were both rather cheaper and wvre sloiv at previous rates. Weather fine. LONDON. Wednesday.-DuIl market for wheat, *1 prices nominally unchanged, but the tendency is buyers'favour. Flour neglected Barley quiet Arrivals:— English — Wheat, 480 qrs; barley. unaltered. Oats, maize, beans, and peas a SLOW S'*]* Foreign—Wheat, 23,280 qrs barley, 840 qrs; Q] 28,440 qrs maize, 2O,780 qrs flour, 15,560 sacks, barrels. Weather brilliant. GLASGOW, Wednesday.—Stock in GLASGOW «RANARY-' « 145.000 qrs wheat 3CC.000 sacks flour fully"9 0004* barley 16,000 oats nearly 17,000 maize'; LT.OOO'BEAN*1 Small business transacted to-dav in wh»at and prices 6d per qr. and SACK lower. -Barley, oats, beans dull and unchanged. Maize easier lis T* lis 8jd. SEED "•,— LONDON, Wednesday.—Messrs John Shaw and r SFED merchants, of 37. Mark-lane, London, that to-day's market was sparsely attended, and JH sented no feature either of interest or importance- R" tbe moment, owing to the dry weather, there is N" "BO sowing demand whatever, In the absense of trso" "CH actions prices are necessarily without ALTERATION WI Tbe t.rado in canary seed and hemp seed is confined J0( narrow limits. White millet sells at last WEE^ HTIN figures. Blue boiiing peas and haricot beans arc DJJN in favour. Feeding linseed is quiet. CATTLli. ? MOXMOUTU. Monday.—The usual fortnightly martel S—. held to-day was not a large one, and showed general" »• a dowuward tendency. The prices were as FOLLOW: £ rat sheep—prime yearlings, by auction, 36s to 40s JB head ewes, ,45A to 55s lambs, 24s to 30s. Stol* sheep— English ewes. 35s to 4Cs per bead WELS? owes, 14s to 20s per head. Fat cattle—cows »N, heifers, under the hammer, £ 14 to £ 22 per head' calves, £ 3 to £ 4 10s each. Store stock—cows calves at side, £ 8 to £ 17 per couple: steers, £ 7 to £ 9 per head harreners, £ 9 t.o £ 12 P*' 5» t head yearlings. £ 3 10s to £ 5 per head. Pigs STRONG stores were IN good demand from 40s to 55s eacb* P Nice-weight porkers, about 9s per score breeditt- T^. sows, 45s to 55S per head; quarter-old, 20s to MEN each weaners, L^S to MS each. Beef, 7d to 7id W* lb; veal, 6d to bid per lb; mutton (best quality)' K? wether, about 3d per lb; ewe, 6d to bid per lb • LAM"' about 8d per lb. R NKWFOBT, Wednesday —There was a large r ipply I? all departments at the market. The attendance buyers was fair, and a large number of lots hands. The paces realised were a littlo lower .tb»"» K last week.. Beef—superior quality. 7d to 7id second' ary sorts, 6d to 6*D; mutton—wethers. 8d to 8*1 J Z?D ewes, 7d to 7id lamb, 3d to 9-ill; and veal, fed* ta epee BID per lb. Jjjocl PRODUCE. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday—Sugar firm sales corf' prised Peruam at lis 6d Peru grainy. 133 3cl to 141, syrups, 12s 3d to 12s 9d Porto RICO sold on PRIVATE j, terms beet closed dull business done at lis JUNE- FF11' July, and August. Coffee and cocoa unchanged J>„ —a cargo of Ngatsein due, 6s 6|D. Linseed DULL- Castor oil unchanged. Palm kernels—sales at ATIC tion at £ 10 5s. Lard stroug at 35s 6d. Tallow QIIIE'; ^-22 Petroleum unchanged, itosin, 3.< 6d, Turpentine an<» nitrate unaltered. LONDON, Wednesday. Sugar-the refined warkei •»- was steady all round beetroot was quiet with a doW* I ward tendency in prices business dune at, Us Hd fo July and August sellers, buyers LID less. Coffee'' sales passed off without material change in Tea—over 15,000 packages of China were sold to-day j CIT new seasons Moning sold quietly at 10id to lOi1'1 Ceylon broken pekoes realised up to Is Id. R'4* neglected. Cotton market, stoady..Tnte renj»'n* dull Tallow unaltered Y. C.. 298 ON the spot. 8/ Turpentine. 24s bd on the spot. PO«I PROVISIONS. MONMOUTH, SATURDAY.—THE MARKET TO-DAY WAS N0' not LARGELY attended, and prices were as FOLLOW FRESH BATTER, LS TO IS ID PER LB. HEN EGGS, 14 FOR A Dressed poultry—chicken, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per coup'8' row s. LARGE size, 5s 9d to 6s 6d per couple. LI'* RLD poultry-young fowls, from 4s 3d to 5s 6d per coupI«j M chicken, 4s id to 5s 6d per couple. Fruit—cherries. ') per lb; gooseberries; 2,D to 3d per quart; stra*J berries, IS 6il PER quart; pineapples, from Is upwards; tomatoes, foreign grown, 8d per IH ORAIIG^' — 9d per dozen. Vegetables—green peas. Is 3d pEF gallon, or 5d per lb Kuglisb FR»W6 cucumbers, ^D T0 6d each; Dutch cucumbers, 2d to 3d each; YOIIFL* potatoes, lid per lb young cabbages, ID to LID EACH carrots. 2d bunch; turnips, 21.1 per bundle Fish" salmon, Is 2d to Is 3d per lb soles, Is 2d per Vj lemon do, 8d per lb cod, 4d to 8d per lb; whiting, per lb; turbot, lOd per lb lobsters. Is to Is 6d each] crabs, 4d to 6d each. Butchers' meat (prime JOINT* only quoted)—beef, 7d to 9d per lb; mutton, to lOd per lb lamb. 9d to lOd per lb; veal, 7d to per lb pork, 6d to Sd per LB. CO LONDON, Wednesday.—The butter market is fito except for Normandy which is rather lower, at 84s It 94s; Kiel and Danish have improved, 84s to 94S • "p Friesland quoted 7as to 84s Jersey, 70s to 781 Ain&rl" can, 70s to 80s. Bacon steady at tbe recent advanc"« V Hams unaltered. Lard remains dull. Cheese wituou' change. BUTTER. 7 CARMARTHEN, Saturday.—(Wiliiam Pugh's Report. K There was a large supply of butter at our market to* ^5 day, and the price paid was a slight reduction last week's quotations, thf present price being Fr0lj 8id to 9d per lb Fresh market pound butter SO'™ at from lOd to Is per lb. CHEESE. I CARMARTH F N..Satiirday. --(William Pugh's Report.)-* There was a very small supply of cheese at the iiiarigot to-day, the demand for which was little. and tllo price paid was from 20s to 22s per cwt.. according s: quality. POTATOES. FC? LONDON WEDNESDAY. — VERY LITTLE DOING IN 5?,' POTATOES. Good SUPPLIES of new, and trade rathet k BETTER, AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES:—ROUNDS, 5S TO 7S! KIDNEYS, 8S TO 9S PER CWT. OLD MAGNUMS ARE QUOTED JT1 70S TO 80S; AND CHAMPIONS AT 50S TO 60S PER TON. RJ SUGAR. P GLASGOW, Wednesday.—Everything cleared AFCF" 3d advance. The official report states :—Market CONL, 5^ tinues brisk, and again a large business done at fill prices to 3d advance since Saturday. Prices SHEW 3™ to.6d adTauce. Weather again brilliant in Glasgow. WOOL. LONDON, Wednesday.-12.577 bales were brougb* 1 forward this evening, comprising 5,7^6 New ZEALAND 4 2,046 Victorian, 653 Horc Phillip, 655 Queensland, 501 ESH ALLSTiaiian, 1,492 New South WALESJ LAI Adelaide, 18 Sydney, 261 Tasmanian. 766 Cape AIIJ* rsatal, 211 Swan Hirer, and 43 Vancouver's Island* The prices remain very firm. WINCHESTER. Wednesday. — Mr James HarrIS: twenty-third annual wool sale took place yesterday d. the corn exchange. There were 90,000 fleeces pitched. I which sold at rather an advance on late prices. THERE wa3 a large attendance of buyers, and a bri*K was done. Mixed Hampshire ewe and teg, 9J;d to 11" L lambs, 8ID to 9jd Southdown tegs, lid wool, 7ID to 9 £ D Shropshire wool, 9jd. The princip*" buyers were Mahoney, Cork; Lupton, Bradford j Haddon and Co., Bradford oung, Howarth, Co., Halifax; Burnley and Kenton, Bradford J Franklin, London Morgan Brothers, Neath EVAN* and Jones, South Wales; Ealey and Co., Witney, etc. Franklin, London Morgan Brothers, Neath EVAN* f a.nd Jones, South Wales; Ealey and Co., Witney, etc. COALS. LONDON, Wednesday. — The house-coal market without alteration to-day. Hetton and Tees, 14s 6D I Lara boon, 14s Lyons and Wear, 12s 6d per toil' Lambton, 14s Lyons and Wear, 12s 6d per ton- < Ships arrived, 12; sold, 12; gas, 0; ships at sea. 5. METALS. LONDON, Wednesday.—Copper easier; good ordinal. Chili bars, £ 39 15s to £ 39 12s 6d cash; £ 40 7s 6d t<J £ 40 5s three months. Tin irregular—Straits OPENED at £ 102 5s, and closed at £ 101 10s cash; £ 103 TO £ 102 5s three months; Australian, £ 102 10s casbt Dutch sale Banca averaged equal to about £ 104' ENGLISH INGOTS. —. SPELTER UNCHANGED £ 13 15S G £ 14. LEAD—SOFT SPANISH, £ 13 5S. SCOTCH PIG I SOLD AT 38S 9D CASH. ] GLASGOW, WEDNESDAY.—MARKET FIRM FAIR BUSINESS 1 DONE AT 38S 7JD AND 38S 9JD, CASH ALSO AT 38S TO 38S LID ONE MONTH. CLOSING—BUYERS, 3#S 9' | done at 38s 7JD and 388 9JD, CASH also at 38s 10. TO 38S LID ONE MONTH. CLOSING—BUYERS, 3#S 9' | CASH, AND 38S LID ONE MONTH SELLERS, JD HIGHER.
WHITLAND AND CARDIGtl4 I^…
WHITLAND AND CARDIGtl4 RAILWAY. I < R 9? ^,0'' IDS?ECTED THE EXTENSION I OF THE WHITLAND AND CARDIGAN RAILWAY FROM ORYMRAYCH Arms to Cardigan, on behalf of the I BOARD OF TRADE, AND STATED THAT EVERYTHING WAS LN A RQOS'; SATISFACTORY MANNER. TO-DAY WL- I E AY.) O'D LINE FROM CRYMMYCH TO HITLAND WILL BE INSPECTED BY COL. KICB. THE LINE HAS BEEN RELAYED FOR THE PURPOSE OF RUNNIDF? TRAINS. IT WILL BE WORKED BY THE GREAT Western Railway Company. The date of THE opening of the extension to Cardigan has not yet been fixed, but it will be an early one. '■
SUICIDE AT SWANSEA.
SUICIDE AT SWANSEA. On Saturday morning, William Francis, a coal trimmer, of .Recorder-street, on returning home for breakfast, found the door locked. He got in through the back, and, not seeing his wife, went upstairs. The bedroom door was locked, and I on Francis gaining access to the room through th4 window, he found his wife quite dead on the floor with one end of a handkerchief round her peck and the other fastened to the bedpost. The cause of the rash act is unknown.
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