Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

Notes and News. NEXT year's Parliament promises to be a Welsh Parliament! MR. LLOYD-GEORGE will, after all, be the saviour of his country. It is he that will introduce the Disestablishment Bill next Session. SOUTH Wales Conservatives are very dis- appointed over the Pembrokeshire election. It was hoped that the majority would, at least, be under 500. CARDIFF Trade Unions, and the local branch of the I.L.P., are combining to select a Labour man for the city in readiness for the next general election. ACCORDING to the Pall 31all Gazette, a Welsh Nationalist candidate will be brought forward to oppose Mr. Keir Hardie at the next election. THE members of the Welsh Church Com- mission held several sittings in private during the present week. It is said that the report is in a fairly advanced stage. LONDONERS had an exciting time in the Haggerston district this week, where a candidate will be selected to-day to succeed the late Sir W. Cremer in Parliament. It is a three-cornered fight, and the result is anticipated to be a win for the Tories. » "ACCORDING to recent reports, the Welsh County Councils are not as sympathetic to the Small Holdings Act as they appeared to he at first. Is it because there are so many small landowners on the councils ? IN his student days, Mr. 0. M. Edwards had a leaning towards becoming a preacher, and whenever he preached he took for his subjects some of the Old Testament charac- ters, and illustrated his points by examples from the Mabinogion." LONDON Welsh musicians are going to make a bold bid for the chief choral prize, at Cardiff, on August Bank Holiday. Their choir is under the leadership of Mr. Merlin Morgan, and it will be the Eisteddfod Choir of London in 1909, THE great holiday rush has commenced, and the Welsh holiday resorts are filling up rapidly. Aberystwyth, Rhyl, Llandudno, Builth, and Llandrindod are all having a busy season. All this is a good index as to the condition of trade in the country. THE list of subjects for the National Eis- teddfod, to be held in London, June, 1909, is now complete, and is being circulated this week. IN the report of the public opening of the West-Wales Sanatorium, in one of the South Wales daily papers, it is stated that one of the ladies who handed a bouquet to Princess Christian accompanied the gift with some remarks in Welsh. And, in the words of the reporter, the Princess smiled amusedly." Why "amusedly"? Where does the amusement come in ? "OUR CHANCELLOR." THE Chancellor of the Exchequer was the principal speaker at the Peace Congress, held at the Queen's Hall, last Tuesday evening. He was considerably interrupted during his address by women shouting their usual war cry-" Votes for women." AFTER years of disappointments there is now every prospect of the new railway being laid down between Lampeter and Aberayron. There is no doubt that the latter town will benefit considerably, although it will kill the coasting shipping trade. At present coal and heavy goods are shipped to Aberayron by sloops and small steamers, but when the railway is constructed they will undoubtedly be carried per rail. On the other hand, more visitors will be attracted to the place, and superior lodging houses will be built. A LARGE number of the pupils of Prof. Abraham N. James, R.A.M., St. Alban School of Music, Roath Park, Cardiff, were success- ful at the recent examinations in connection with the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London. To those excursionists from South Wales, who have been doing" London, nothing was more gratifying than to find a Cardiff young lady taking a very important part in the musical comedy, "The Merry Widow." She is Miss Alma Griffiths, and the post she fills, with considerable skill, is that of Do Do," one of the flirts of Prince Danilo," at Maxim's swell restaurant. INSPECTOR WILSON, of Merthyr, has been appointed Chief Constable of that newly- constituted borough. Inspector Wilson is a Yorkshire man but, although an English- man, he has a little knowledge of colloquial Welsh. Nevertheless, Detective Williams, of Scotland Yard, who was also a candidate for the post, would have made even a better chief constable. But Inspector Wilson's "local popularity carried the day. WELSH people, generally, will learn with satisfaction of the excellent arrangements that are being made for the reception of Madam Hughes Thomas and her Cardiff Welsh Ladies Choir, on the occasion of their first visit to America, in August. The tour will be an extensive one, necessitating railway journeys of 7,000 miles. There are already over 50 concerts booked up to date, with promises of an additional number, which will keep the choir constantly engaged for a period of nearly four months. THE Cardiff Eisteddfod, next Monday (Bank Holiday), promises well. It will be held in Cathays Park, in the temporary pavilion, recently used as a health exhibition. Just opposite the pavilion is the new Welsh University College and the site of the Welsh National Museum, while close by is the Gorsedd Circle, used at the National Eistedd- fod when it was held in Cardiff. Moreover, surmounting the dome of the City Hall, to the west of the pavilion, is a fine figure of the Welsh Dragon. It will thus be seen that the atmosphere of the Eisteddfod vicinity is decidedly Welsh.