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OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT MODEL.
ABERYSTWYTH.
ABERYSTWYTH. A STUDY IN LANGUAGES. In years past Aberystwyth was famed for its learning, and for its academies for the study of dead languages. To-day it is notorious for its circus-like Town Council, and for the choice specimens of very live language that is uttered within its walls at every sitting of that assembly. Members have created a new set of rules in order to secure peace and quietness, and the Mayor has been empowered with the unusual authority to throw out any unruly member; but unfortunately the rules are quite unin- telligible to the majority of the members, and the Mayor is too puny an athlete to act the chucker out" in order to enforce his rulings. Last Tuesday week things were somewhat lively, but no blood was spilt and no noses were broken. The Mayor was called a silly fool, the ex-Mayor as a bally old pauper." Mr. C. M. Williams was asked to hold his jaw," and Mr. Gibson told to "mind his own business." It is high time that things should be improved at this gathering, and that modern machinery be used to carry on the work of so old-fashioned a place. Our artist has endeavoured to solve the difficulties by a very timely sketch this week.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES. A well-printed and neat little volume entitled Historical Sketches of Glamorgan has recently been issued under the auspices of the Glamorgan Society in London. It contains four papers read before the mem- bers of the Society during the past two sessions, and the committee have done wisely to preserve these historical contri- butions, in order to give them wider publicity than would have been possible through the medium of these meetings alone. The first paper is from the pen of Sir D. Brynmor Jones, M.P., and deals with Morganwg in the Tudor period. Readers know full well of Sir Brynmor Jones, and of his repute as an author of Welsh History, and the contribution here given is eminently interesting. It is a very lucid and fair description of the land of Morgan in far off times, and though one may feel tempted to question some of his arguments and accepted facts, yet the fragment as a whole is well worthy of perusal. Mr. W. Llewelyn Williams, M.P., is the author of two papers, both dealing with a hero from the county. In his two papers Mr. Williams takes us back to Cromwellian times, and his pictures of the old characters and heroes of that period is unusually fascinating. The last fragment deals with the early History of the See of Llandaff, and is from the pen of the Rev. D. Bryant, a writer of much power and a staunch supporter of the Society in London. The volume is well worthy of the Society, and copies should be secured from the Secretary, Mr. T. Leason Thomas, 35, Granville Gardens, W. The price is one shilling, postage 2d. extra.
THE PRUDENTIAL.
THE PRUDENTIAL. ENORMOUS INCREASE LAST YEAR. In our last issue we published the Annual Balance Sheet of this well-known Insurance Company, and as so many of our readers are interested in its success, a word as to the extraordinary figures contained therein will not be out of place. When such figures as £ 63,887,008 odd represents the total assets of a concern, it ceases to be regarded as a business company or a private enterprise, and becomes more of a public institution whose financial interests and influence claims the position of being second in importance to the State itself. The organization of the Prudential extends throughout the length and breadth of the land; its operations are intertwined with the social, commercial and industrial life of our people, and its name is known all the world over as the symbol of opulence, strength and liberality. This report was the fifty-eighth issued annually by the company, and from its earliest days the Prudential has continued its unbroken record of progress. Last year, in spite of general depression, the company was able to add the enormous total of nearly four and a-half millions to its funds, and they have a record number of 16,764,654 policies now in force. Last year they paid out nearly a million sterling to relatives of deceased persons, and another million was paid under its endowment schemes to old policy-holders to provide for comfort in their old age. In these days of talk about old age pensions it is interesting to note that this company already has a scheme which works admirably, and whose members in one year received the enormous sum of £ 985,838 provided by their own thrift and frugality for the closing years of life. The careful policy of the directors, and their generous treatment to policy-holders, will commend itself to the careful Welsh- man. In the Prudential he will find a safe investment for old age pensions, as well as generous terms for ordinary insurance. Their agents are to be found all over England and Wales, and any information can be immediately obtained by communicating with them. The local chief superinten- dent for this district is Mr. G. H. Heap, 1, Argyle Square, King's Cross, W.C., whose extensive knowledge of insurance, and his advice, will be of the greatest assistance to persons contemplating new policies. A communication to him will at once ensure the reader to come in touch with his nearest agent without any difficulty.
Gohebiaethau.
Gohebiaethau. A WELSH POET. To the Editor of CYMRO LLUNDAIN A'R CELT. DEAR SIR,-I beg to inform "Pendragon" that the poetical works (Welsh) of Hugh Derfel Hughes were printed for the author by R. Jones, Bethesda (2nd edition), 1862, in a small volume entitled "Blodeu'r Gan," which contains "Y Cyfamod Disigl (The Immovable Covenant). I have a copy of the book, and the author, in a note at the foot of the poem states, among other things, "Ymddangos- odd yn Blodeu'r Gan' ac wed'yn yn mhen rhai blynyddoedd, cyfieithiwyd hi i'r Saesoneg gan y Parch. D. L. Pugh, gweinidog y Bedyddwyr, ac ymddangosodd mewn llyfr o'i eiddo a alwai The Radnorshire Champion. "Y Cyfammod Disigl is, in my opinion, one of the most dramatic and soul-inspiring poems in the Welsh language, especially when one considers that its author was only a working man, as he states in his note- Cyfansoddwyd y gan hon, mewn rhan, ar ben y Berwyn, 23 oflynyddoedd yn ol, sef 1839, pan oedd yr awdwr yn dyfod adref a'i bladur ar ei gefn « gynhauaf y Sir Amwythig, a thra yn dyfod i olwg bro ei enedigaeth, a mynyddoedd Arfon a Meirion- ydd, lie y ceir golygfeydd tarawiadol." The author made good use of the striking views presented to his inspired imagination from the top of Berwyn in composing The Immovable Covenant." Yours faithfully, Bermondsey. DAFYDD AP GWILYM.
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