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MA1UUAUES, Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths are chirgc.: at the rate of ls for the first Twenty Words, and 6-1 tor every additional Ten words, and must De I'KEPAID. 1 all cases the notice must ile authenticated i/u u¡,' <uni> C ltÍ til, writer BIRTH. I.EWI.-On Friday, Oct. 4th, at 2, WoodSeld-terrace, Radyr, the wife of Captain Hugh Lewis, of a son. 422 MARTUAGK. NEWILI.—COLEMAN —On Wednesday, October 2, at St, Mar). Whitchurch, by the Rev. J. T. Clarke, M.A., vicirof the parish, assisted by the Rev. R. M. Smith, B.A. (cousin of the bridegroom), Percy H. Newill, solicitor, only son of H. Starr Newili, solici- tor, Bishop's Cistle, Salop, to Margaret A. (Peggie) Coleman, daughter of the late George Coleman, Llandatf Green. DEATHS. GRIFFITHS.—October 4th, at High-street, Bedlinog, Thomas Griffiths, in his 60th year. Fundral on Mon- day, at Graig-y-Fargoed. JORDAN.—October 4ch, at Treherbert, Mrs Jordan, late of Aberdare; deeply regretted. Funeral on Thursday, at 3 p.m., for lieorky Cemetery. Friends wiil please accept this intimation. 427 REY.'OLDs.-On the 4th instant, at the residence of Geo. Carslake Thompson at Pdn^rth, Gulieiuia, thirli daughter of the late William Metford, of BÜI1, wife of Freder ck Reynolds, of Warwick, in the 58th year of her age. 8417

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER S, 1889. IJ "WALES FOR THE WELSH.' ONE gets tired of the continued repetition of reference at the Church Congress to the cry of Wales for the Welsh." Englishmen who attend the meetings or who read the reports will imagine there is in the Principality a dreadfully extreme and terribly powerful section who make this cry their motto. In fairness to these visitors, and in justice to Welshmen, we would say there could be no greater mistake. The Bishop of ST. ASAPH on Tuesday, at the Cathedral, and more than one speaker at the Colonial-hall yesterday, con- demned the cry and those who made use of it. In doing this the bishop and his imita- tors attacked a bogey of their own creation. There can be no greater fallacy than to suppose, as would naturally be supposed from the utterances of some members of the Congress, that Welsh patriotism has adopted this cry as its watchword. One of the speakers said that its repetition would induce Englishmen to retaliate by crying "England for the English." We can ven- ture to say that with the exception of an extreme section, so small in point of numbers and influence as to be infinitesimal, Welshmen repudiate such a cry in the sense attached to it by the speakers, and that they do not desire to see adopted with regard to Wales a policy different in charac- I ter to that adopted in England. England has practically raised the cry of England for the English for no one is elected to public appointments there who does not himself understand, and who cannot make himself understood in, the English tongue. This is only right, and as it should be. It would be manifestly absurd to appoint, say, a county court judge, or a factory inspector, or an inspector of schools, or a bishop of a diocese, or any other public functionary in England, if he could not converse with the people in their mother tongue. To that extent, and only to that extent, is it true that Welshmen have raised the cry of Wales for the Welsh.1' They place themselves on an equality with their English brethren, and say that in Wales, where the Welsh language is still habitually spoken by the great majority of the people, no person should be appointed to any public post who, from want of ac- quaintance with the language of the people, would be incapable of properly discharging the duties appertaining to the office. Now, in the papers read and the discussion which followed at the Colonial Hall yester- day afternoon, it was made sufficiently manifest that the Welsh language ig still a living power in the principality; that, being a living power, it should be taught and utilized in schools of all grades and that the clergy, in order to be fitted to properly discharge their duties, should have as ready a command over Welsh as over English. To this extent, then, Welsh Churchmen have publicly adopted the cry of Wales for the Welsh." Further than this Welsh Nonconformists do not go. Archdeacon GRIFFITHS and those who have laboured with him in the movement for which the Welsh Utilization Society is re- sponsible, and which has for its object the due recognition of the claims of the native language in the school system of the principality, must have felt gratified as speaker after speaker at yesterday's meet- ing enforced the views the society has been for the last four years engaged in propagat- ing. We venture to say that never has that movement been more fully justified than in the public recognition and endorsement of its principles by the several speakers at the meeting to which we have referred. We will venture to say more—that from no political platform, and at the great gather- ings of no Nonconformist denomination, have the principles of the Welsh Utilization Society been more clearly or so forcibly and unmistakably expressed. If Welsh Nonconformists were the intensely jealous and terribly hostile class which the imagination of some Churchmen paints them, we should have them up in arms against the teaching and utilization of Welsh because the Church Congress has formally given the movement its sanction and support. Having said thus much, we would wish to point out some fallacies in the arguments and figures adduced at the meeting. Mr T. MORGAN OWEN can hardly lay claim to be regarded as an authority on statistics iLhe is not more careful in verifying those he brings forward and is not more honest in deal- ing with them than he was on Friday. His acquaintance with Carmarthenshire, for in- tance-wbich, with the exception of a I comparatively insignificant portion, is as dis- tinctly Welsh as Cardiganshire, must be very small if he says it is difficult to de- termine whether Welsh or English predomi- nates and the accompanying assertion that six out of the twelve Welah counties were more English than Welsh equally open to doubt. Hia gleanings from. Blue Books of ten and eleven years ago bore >11 the musty flavour of ancient history, and When upon these he based misleading conclusions, he went, com- paratively speaking, as "far astray as if he had raked up the absurd charges levelled against the Welsh people in the notoriously execrated Blue Books of the first Welsh Education Cofcatnission. Had Mr T. MORGAN OWEN éiaminecl more recent Education Blue Books iie would have found official statements quite the reverse ot some of those he made, and would also have found that out of the 3,751 Nonconformist chapels in Wales, 2,853 were classed a entirely Welsh and 393 English. In other words, something over 75 per-cent, of the services in Nonconformist chapels were conducted in Welsh, and something under 25 per cent. in English. Equally misleading were his figures with regard to the Established Church. He gave the number of churches where services are conducted in English as 536; Welsh, 317; bilingual, 485 unclassified, 134. If this were true it would show the Church in a very unfavourable light as compared with Dissent so far as its care for the spiritual welfare of the people is con. cerned. For, according to his figures, while Nonconformists have purely Welsh services in 75 per cent. of their chapels, the Estab- lishment has only 21 per cent. of its churches exclusively Welsh, and even adding the "bilingual" to this number, only 54 per cent. partly Welsh. Neither is it true that a large proportion of those attending Welsh services would prefer English ministrations. It is a well-known fact that a large proportion of the English causes in Wales have been established In the first instance by drafting members from purely Welsh congregations, and that to day no inconsiderable number of those who are members of English Churches would better enjoy a Welsh than an English sermon. Add to this the equally suggestive fact pointed out by another speaker, that the Church of England in Wales not infrequently provides an English service for the benefit of a single family, and in other cases for a very few monoglot Englishmen in the heart of a purely Welsh parish, and the figures ad- vanced by Mr T. MORGAN OWEN wear a very different complexion. We must admit, too, to a certain feeling of disappointment at some of the utterances of Dean OWEN. To charge Nonconformists indiscriminately with narrowness and prejudice, and to claim for the Church of England the position of being the only body possessed of sufficient power of expansion to meet the possibly changed needs of the future of religious thought in Wales, was one of a few expressions certainly unworthy of that liberal mindedness, breadth of thought, and charity which Nonconformists would willingly attribute to him. Does Dean OWEN remember that he is speaking of the Church which had not sufficient power of expansion to retain the 2.000 evicted clergymen of 1662 ? which had not sufficient power of expansion to permit DANIEL KOWLANDS, and THOMAS CHARLES, and WILLIAMS or Wern to occupy a place in it? Is this indeed the Church, and the only Church, which can adapt itself to the needs of the future, and which, in doing so, must needs swallow up or oust for ever the Noncon- formist bodies which, according to Dean YAUGHAN, have done and are doing such n valuable service to the cause of true religion V It is evident that even the most advanced Churchmen have not yet mastered the secret of the strength and the power of Nonconformity.

BY COSMOS. "STOP AR 3UXIO SASNEQ." Mr T. MORGAN OWEN, in Lis address at the Colonial-hall ou Friday, eaid tbat the Welsh of South Wales was half English. Had he listened to an address delivered at the Welsh Baptist Union on Wednesday last, he would have been convinced that his statement was justified. For his benefit I give the address vo'batirnet literatim Yr wyf i yn supposo mai peth da i authorities yr undeb fyddai arrange beforehand pwy sydd i broposo, secoudo, a supportio y resolutions Pe gwuelid feily feallai y cawsem multum in parv* a byddai y resolutions hwyrach dipyn yu more important Nid ydyw yn usual, ond credaf mai grand improvement fuasai byay. Nis gwn pwy fydd yo ubjecto uac yn plotestio yu erbyn byu, oud tybiaf nad dibroffit i ni fel Bedyddwyr, neu i gommitti yr undeb, fuasai discusso ac adoptio y suggestion. Nid wyf yn leicio expressio fy ideas yn rby rough, ac nid wyf yn usio gwneutbur felly ond yr wyf yn trustio y bydd i byn gyfro'r grounds sydd genyf mewn view 1 Yr wyf raewn earnest wrth bresentio byu i chwi, a gwn yr excusiwch fi am beidio developio y question. Yr ym i gyd yn cymeryd interest ynddo to a greater or less degree a gobeithnf na wna. neb shifto yn ei farn pan arrivio y voting-time, hyny yw, os ceir vote arno at all. Wrth derfyuu, pity mawr os bydd i neb brotestio yn erbyn adoptio y suggestion hwn, mae yn ddigon innocent, o herwydd gwir byn i'r eyfryw ag ydynt yn waitio ac ya watcbo ddes- pondia a mawr, yn brokenhearted liCofiid pawb all round nad fy object yw offeado neb, yn hytrach improvio pethan 1" But lest Mr Morgan Owen or any others of my readers should be misled, I should add that the speaker was Mr Iwan Jenkyn, F.R.K.S., who purposely put together this hotchpotch to ridicule the custom which certainly obtains to too great an extent with some speakers, of unnecessarily intro- ducing English words into their Welsh addresses. Though it does not prevail to so great an extent as Mr T. M. Owen stated, it is certainly too prevalent, and needlessly so. A few such sarcastic lessons as Mr Iwan Jenkyn gave at Llandudno will do good.

ANOTHER MISTAKE. MR T. MORGAN OWKN fell into another, and equally grievous error, when he said that the Welsh language was not adapted for the purposes of science and commerce, and that its vocabulary is so limited that it is a matter of difficulty to translate the English into Welsh, He adduced as a proof tbo fact that English words appear in Welsh print, and are bsard in Welsh addresses. This reply to this is simple. It is not the language which is at fault the fault lies with the writer or the speaker for not having properly studied the language. There is no such inherent defect in Welsh as there is in English. For nearly all scientific terms English scholars are compelled to go to other languages for the material with which to build these terms. In Welsh this difficulty would not apply. It possesses in itself such a wealth of simple roots as would enable a man with any pre- tence of Welsh scholarship to manufacture a purely Welsh term which would be not only descriptive of the idea intended to be conveyed, but would also be self- explanatory. Take, for instance, the words tele- scope, telegraph, and telephone. These are not English words, and their meanings have to be explainedto any person who has heard nothing but English. In Welsh we have the necessary roots in pell, far; yr, an instrument; gweltd (gwd-wcl), to see; eb, to say; and sain, a sound. Thus wa form :— Pell-wel-yr—an instrument to see afar—telescope. Pell-eb-yr—an.instrument to say afar—telegraph. Pell-sein-yr—an- instrument to sound afar—tele- phone. The Welsh language may not have been developed in the direction of scientific terms but this is not the fault of the language but of its students.

TOOTH EXTBACTipN, JRXTKAORDINAKT, A" COBRESPONDENT writes:—"I was at Ponty- pridd on Thursday evening and had the pleasure of witnessing a well-known expert pulling teeth- pardon the expression,1 for I should have said extracting. Judging by the numerous operations which he performed, be is an excellent dentist. I stood in front of his scenq of operations for about ten minutes, and, during that comparatively brief period I witnessed him extracting about thirty teeth. There was a large crowd present, and everybody seemed to be surprised at the marvellous rapidity and dexterity with which he accomplished bis work. My curiosity was aroused by one particular thing, though probably it struck no one else. Immediately before the operator proceeded with bis task, he motioned to the band, wbicb, I understaDrJ. invariably accompanies te dentist, to give some music. The brass band then played away, and instantly a female ascended the platform and seated herself in an arm chair. The operator seized the jaw, opened the mouth, peered in, turned around and took bold of an instrument, which ho inserted in the proper place, and out came the decayed tooth. Off she goes, and up comes another. Off he goes, the tooth is thrown aside, and up comos another patient, the band stIll playing. Then up steps another, and another, and another, men, women,'and children —well, parsons of a!l ages—the patients ascending and descending and passing before one's eyes like some panoramic scenes. The gathering around the van was immense.

A TIP FOR THE DOCTORS. Now, it struck me whilst gazing at the opera- tions as they were being performed, that there was a novelty about the business, and a novelty indeed from which our doctors and dentists might well take a tip. Before telling you what the tip is, let me contrast this particular operator's method with that adopted by doctors generally through- out South Wales. A person is suffering from toothache and writhing with pain. He or she goes tc a medical practitioner. The patient is put in a chair. The room is siient aud undisturbed but by the cries of the unfortunate sufferer. He tells the psor patient, "Don't cry, all will be right just now." He then goes about bis work-the extracting business. Here goes—especially if the painful tooth be a stiff one—oh-o-o-o-oh-ah-a-a-a- ah The operator drops it; takes his instrument out because the a-a-ah is so terribly bard to hear. He makes another attempt, and here goes a-a-a- ati again. Well, gentlemen, take the tip; get, say, a kettle drum, and engage a person tempo- rarily to play it furiously when you are about proceeding with the job. When you are ready to seiza the jaw and insert the instrument into the patient's mouth, just mutter "Perhapsthe kettle- drum player will oblige us with a tune." Then when the operation is being performed you have rum turn tiddie de- tum, tiddlede-dum-rum-tum, and so on, until the work is satisfactorily executed. You medical practitioners may laugh at this sugges- tion and pooh-pooh it, but I am talking seriously upon the matter. The rum-turn business Dot only effects a sort of charm, but it drowns the cries and the ejaculations of your subject, and nerves you up whilst the painful task is being accomplished. Why should not the strains of a brass baud be as efficacious in the surgery as on the battle-field. I sugggst a kettle-drum to begin with because the experiment would cost but very little. Try it, gentlemen.

A LETTER STAMPING MACHINE. A LETTER stamping machine is, says Iron, now on trial at the New York General Post-office, which, in the opinion of those who have observed its work, has solved a, most difficult problem in the handling of postal matter. The number of letters stamped by operators using a hand stamp in con- nection with an inking pad is about 60 a minute, or 3,000 an hour. The maximum rate of the new machine is 500 por minute for letters of uniform shape and thickness, while with general mail matter, including letters of different sizes and post-cards, the actual work is but little lass. For the busy portion of the day its record is 4-,OOO letters an hour. The machine is a little larger than a sewing-machine, and a small dynamo fur- nishes the motive power. The operator feeds the letters in quantities into the hopper of the machine where they are seized by a t-ystem of feed-rollers, which pass them one by one, but with great rapidity, to the printing die. The mechanism of this automatic feed-bed and stamping device con- sists of a belt, which forms the moving bottom of the hopper, and carries the letter against a series of rubber wheels or feed-rollers. The wheels on the right of the path of the letters revolve swiftly towards the printing-roller, while those on the other side of that course turn slowly in tha opposite direction. The letters are thus separated, and sped quickly forward one at a time to the printing die, which is self-inking, and normally out of the path of the moving mail matter, and which is controlled by a lever in that path. Each letter in its passage along the feed-bed of the machine strikes this lever, which instantly brings the printing die into contact with the envelope, cancelling the stamp and imprinting the post- mark.

A GRIEVANCE. I HAVE a grievance to air. The first bis reference to "wheelmen," as they are now sometimes termed. I have nothing to urge against cycling when indulged in under reasonable conditions. I regard it in fact as one of the most enjoyable and beneficial means of travelling, and the cycle itself as a boon to mankind. The patrons of the machine, however, have become so numerous that in the absence of a lighted lamp or a signal from a gong the pedestrian at night runs great risk of serious accident in the streets of Cardiff when the reckless rider of tbe "safety" in out for a run. What I want to know is why the cyclist in Cardiff is allowed with impunity to neglect to light his lamp or to ring his bell, and allowed to put on the speed to any extent, while in Newport and other towns such neglect would be speedily taken cognisance of by the police ?

THE TAFF YALE RAILWAY AND THE BUTE DOCKS. A London correspondent informs us that arrangements are already being made for pre- senting another bill during the ensuing session of Parliament for the proposed amalgamation of the Taff Vale Railway and Bute Docks. The bill will probably take the form of a working agree- ment, and the promoters hope to modify the provisions in such a way as to remove the objec- tions which proved fatal to the scheme presented in the last session of Parliament.

THE LANDORE VIADUCT, The rebuilding of this viaduct has been com- pleted at a cost of about

BARRY ESTATE COMPANY, LIMITED. IMPORTANT MEETING OF DIRECTORS. At a meeting of the directors of the'Barry Estate Company, recently held, the secretary} Mr J. A. Hughes, was authorised to let the hall, which has been used so far as a mission-hall, as a public-hall for any purpose. It will be known in future as the Barry Public-hall. The directors decided to let the land at the back of Princess- street, Barry, for the erection of cottages. There are about 150 lots available, and the directors themselves will probably proceed to erect about 50 cottages immediately, as the demand for houses at Barry is simply abnormal. An application from the Barry Market (Jo. tor the plot of ground they had selected for the new market was granted. The directors also resolved to do the private im- provements in the streets of Barry immediately. They also determined to purchase forthwith per- manent pumping machinery, which, with the well and reservoir already belonging to the com- pany, will ensure an excellent aud plentiful supply of water.

EAST GLAMORGAN LIBERAL ASSOCIATION. At the close of the Liberal meeting hold at Pontlottyn on Thursday night the following reso- lutions were spoken to by Mr F. SonleyiJohnstone (editor of the Soulh Wales Daily News); Rev Dr Roberts, Pontypridd Rev J. R. Williams and Mr W. Lewis VVilliams, and passed with great enthusiasm :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the only remedy for the disturbances in con- nection with the tithe movement is the disestablis- mout and disendowment of the Church of Eng- land in Wales." That this meeting hopes the county council will appoint well-qualified and experienced educationists who are in touch with Welsh aspirations to act upon the committee to draw out and initiate schemes of the Intermediate Education Act for Wales." A resolution was also passed protest- ing against the 81 uni versity bribe for Ireland.— Rev Alderman Davies proposed a vote of confi- dence in Mr Alfred Thomas, the member for the division, and of thanks for bis able and ex- haustive address.—This was seconded by Rev Roger Williams and agreed to unanimously.—A vote of thanks was also tendered to Mr W. Abraham (Mabon), M.P., Rev Dr Roberts, Mr F. S. Johnstone, and other speakers. The meet- ing was large and very enthusiastic all through.

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LONDON LETTER. (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) SPECIALLY WIRED. LONDON, Friday Night. INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS. If a report which reaches our Foreign Office from Berlin be true, Russia ha* Just effected a stroke of business calculated to create much uneasiness in the councils of the Triple Alliance. It will be remembered that early in the summer the Czar went out of bis way to pay court to the Prince of Montenegro, whom be styled bis best friend. People wondered what this sudden development of triendship for the little principality might portend. Now the secret is out. It is stated that during bis visit to St Petersburg, the Prince of Montenegro concluded a convention with the Czar in accordance with which a portion of the Bay of Antivari has been ceded to Russia, A large sum in cash was paid down, and Russia will forthwith proceed to establish in the bay a fortihed seaport and naval depdt. This acquisition considerably changes the position of Russia in the Mediter- ranean. Now sbe will have a naval depot, entirely free from the restrictions which environ the Black Sea. She will b3 close to the Austrian frontier, with a clear run into the Mediterranean whenever necessity may arise. Should the report be confirmed and this congenial Russian enterprise be carried out, it will necessi- tate considerable increase of the armaments of England and Austria, whose ports and arsenals would be exposed at any time to a coup de main on the part of Russia. A SEQUEL TO THB STRIKJ. An immense number of legal actions are pend- ing arising out of the strike. There is scarcely a large commercial firm in London which did not suffer loss owing to the impossibility of fulfilling their contracts. Demurrage, in particular, is a formidable item in the accounts of many firms through tha month of September. The question is whether the strike was an influence of so abnormal a character as to set "aside the ordinary responsibility for demurrage, and other consequences of unfulfilled contracts. Claims have beeu sent in various quarters by wholesale, and have in most cases been met by refusal to pay. Up to the present time no action has been entered, everybody apparently waiting for someone else to test the case in a court of law. It is probable that test cases for the various issues raised will in a short time be selected, and fought out. before the judges. COAL PRIors. It is a curious fact that the reduction, of the coal tax, as a preliminary to its abolition, has been immediately followed by a distinct rise in the price of coal. Best Wallsend is selling in London to-day at 25s a ton, a rise of from two to three shillings within the pastv two months. The explanation given of the added charge is that it has been found necessary to increase the wagas of the colliers. It is true that in most districts wages have gone up, probably to the average extent of 10 per ceut. But it is difficult to see how that can send up the price of cual 2 or 33 a ton. The colliers' wages, taking them all round, would pro- bably be 25 a week an advance of 10 per cent. is equal to an additional 2; 6d per man per week. If the collier's average work was the production of a ton of coal per week, the rise .would be just accounted for; but I am informed that a collier's week's work averages about 30 tons, his in- creased wages of 2s 6d a week being, therefore, equal to a penny on each ton of coal. Why London should pay 36 pennies, or even 24 pennies, additional is one cf those things no householder can make out. EMIGRATION. Amongst the manifold work now on his hands, Lord Brassey is concerned with a company of capitalists in the effort to solve the question of assisted emigration. The company have just pur- chased wide stretches of land in Canada, intending to settle thereon a colony of British labourers. Whilst the. undertaking is based on sound commercial principles, it is ex- pected that it will do something to relieve tho labour market here, and it may be the forerunner of a much more extended system. AN AWKWARD MISTAKE. A good story comes home about Lady Carring- ton, wife of the popular Governor of New Soatb Wales. A South Australian magnate from the country called one day at Government House. He gave his name to the footman, but said he would run upstairs unannounced, and "give his lordship a surprise." Running up the stairs two at a time, be met at the top a ueatly-dressed young woman, who he thought was about the style of person that the represen- tative of a great Sovereign would have as a house- maid. So he chucked her under the chin, pressed half-a-crown into her hand, and said, Which room is Lord Carrington in?" The "housemaid led the way along the passage, and, opening the door of Lord Carrington's study, said, Bob, here's a gentleman come to see you, and," opening her hand, shewing the coin, he's given me half-a-crown to shew him where you are." A FLORAL DISCOVERT. A French paper, Les Mondes, give3 a fascinating account of a newly-discovered flower of which rumours have from time to time reached the ears of floriculturists. It is called the snow flower, and is said to have been discovered by Count Anthoskoff in the most northern portion of Siberia, where the ground is continually covered with frost. This wonderful object shoots forth from the frozen soil only on the first day of each succeeding year. It shines for but a single day, then resolves to its original elements. The leaves are three in num- ber, aud each about three inches in diameter. They are developed only on that tside of the stem toward the north, and each seems covered with microscopic crystals of snow. The flower when it opens is star. shaped, its petals of the same length as the leaves, and is about an inch in width. Ou the third day the extremities, which are five in number, show minute glistening specks, like diamonds, about the size of a pin's head, which are the seeds of this wonder ul flower. Antboskoff collected some of these seeds, and carried tbem with him to St Petersburg. They were placed in a pot of snow, where they remained for some time. On the 1st of the following January the miracu- lous snow flower burst through its icy covering, and displayed its beauties to the wondering Russian royalty. THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION. To-morrow is the private view, at the :New Gallery, of the annual exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society. This ia the second show, and it takes place under very promising circumstances. When the first exhibition was projected last year the society were largely dependent upon well- known artists like Mr Burne Jones. They had a fair sprinkling of the work of obscure craftsmen, which it is their principal object to bring into view, but it was a new depar- ture, very little known, and the British crafts- man did not readily take it. This yuar a long stride forward has been taken. A very large number of exhibits have been forwarded from working artists and craftsmen of both sexes, and have been displayed under the skilful direction of Mr Walter Crane. Arrangements have been made in connection with the exhibition for the delivery of a course of lectures. William Morris is to lecture on "Gothic Architecture Henry Holiday on Stained Glass;" Cobden Sanderson on "The Decoration of Bound Books Lewis Day on "Ornament;" and Walter Crane on "Design and Expression." The lectures will 'follow on successive Thursdays after the 7th of November. The lectures will be given in the north gallery, after which all the. galleries will be thrown open and will remain open till eleven o'clock. Last year the society—in taking the new gallery for their show—made an arrangement by which half the nett profits were shared with the proprietors of the gallery. Contrary to expectations, the show turned out a pecuniary success, and this year they are running it themselves.

MR STANLEY. A great reception Is being prepared for Mr Stanley when be arrives in London—a reception in which the Royal Geographical Society will take a leading part. The only difficulty will be to secure a place of meeting large enough to bold the crowd that is sure to seek admission. Dis- astrous as in some respects it has been, this last eventful journey must be regarded as the crowning feat of Stanley's African career. 'd

RELEASE OF MR CON'S BE ARE, M.P. The. Press Association's Londonderry corre- spondent telegraphs :—Mr Conybeare's sen- tence expired yesterday morning, and at half-past eight, the usual hour of release, Mr O'Hanlon, M.P., and a number of sympathisers arrived outside the gaol with a wagonette, but the hon. gentleman did not appear. Messengers were seen hurrying to and from the telegraph office, aud it transpired that Mr Conybeare bad been guilty of a breash of discipline, which may prolong bis imprisonment. The prison authorities have telegraphed to Dublin foe instructions.

DISASTER AT SEA. A STEAMER BLOWN UP. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.) NEW YORK, Friday.-A terrible disaster oQr curred yesterday on the Quachita river, Louis- iana, the boiler of the passenger steamer Oorons exploding with terrible force. The steamer Was shattered, and the passengers and crew were hurled into the air, along with the wreckage of the vessel, the huH of which instantly sank. Forty persons are known to have perished, and it is believed this number will be exceeded. Many of those who survive have been wounded by the, flying splinters, and others are fearfully scalded. [REUTER S TELEGRAM.J NEW ORLEANS, Friday. -Fart I)er intelligence of the explosion on the steamer Corona, on the Mississippi, states that the 40 persons who lost their lives did not comprise all on board, as at first believed. Of those who perished 24 werd members of the crew, including the captain. The survivors, several of whom were injured by the explosion, were rescued by the steamer City of S\ Louis. Tha Coiona, which belonged to the Quachita Consolidated Line, sank in deep water. She was valued at 20,000 dollars.

AUTOCRATIC RUSSIA. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM. I Sr. PETERSBURG, Friday Evening.—The Govern- ment have notihed to all foreigners employed in the St Petersburg civic telegraph offices that they must become naturalised Russian subjects before January 1st, 1890, on pain of being dismissed.

MR GLADSTONE AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. [" DAILY NEWS TELEGRAM. I PARIS, Thursday Night.—The morning paperi in general eulogise Mr Gladstone's article in The "Contemporary Review." The Libtriidiscusses it at length, and gives it warm praise. It thinks it out of the question for anyone but Mr Gladstone to have written the article. In any case, it says, the tone and style and manner of dealing with the European chessboard are statesmanlike. If Italy is treated with rough sincerity, it is also the object of warm affection. ROME, Thursday Night.—The article on Italy and the Triple Alliance published in the" Con. temporary Review has naturally attracted the greatest attention here. It is thought that justicy is not rendered to themotives which induced Italf to enter the Alliance. It is remarked that since 1870 France has systematically opposed Italy not only in her foreign policy and in her attempts to extend her commercial influence, but has evep attempted to create internal difficulties blÍ lending clandestine support to the Vatican and to the Ultramontane party. Such being the ca3e, it was at least excusable, if not justifiable, that Italy should accept Prince Pismarck's out, stretched hand. Public opinion is, however, be ginning to be disillusioned as to the Triple Alliancet and to find out that it has its drawbacks. Only lately Senator Facini published an important article on the question in tho NuovA Antologia, maintaining that the only foreign policy Italy ought to follow was that of the most absolut* neutrality. The Fanfulla publishes a leader or the article in the "Contemporary Review," ex. pressing satisfaction at Mr Gladstone's having, as it says, denied the authorship of it. Mr Gladstone," says the Fanfulla, has, by th. immense service he rendered Italy, an un deniable right to -gratitude of all Italians. Had he, therefore, really been tti4autlior of thr. article, some expressions contained in it would have deeply wounded the national sentiment, and we are therefore heartily glad to bear that he it not the author."

M. ZOLA ON PRESIDENT CARNOT. ["DAILY NEWS" TELEGRAM.) PARIS, Thursday Niglit. M. Zola has 81:' pressed himself as well satisfied with the on the ground that artists and literary men have much to gain by quiet times. He attributes th« result of the vote of the 22ad to the astounding success of the exhibition and the wise conduct of the President, who is, in his opinion, a model man, and exactly fitted for the place be fills. M. Zola says "He treats seriously the social dutie. of the Presidency, and sees the importance of seeming trifles. He goes to every fAfce, to every inaugural ceremony, and is by nature correct; and be quietly puts up with being bored. He gets in nobody's way and excites no jealousy, and, though a little solemn, is affable. Of all the mud that has been thrown, none has been flung at him, His neat frock-coats are just as clean, metaphori- cally speaking, as his hands. As for Madams Carnot, she is simply perfect in her sphere."

THE LOSS OF H.M.S. LILY. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM. 1 NEW YORK, Friday.-The uaval court-martial at Halifax inquiring into the loss of the gunboat Lily has concluded its sittings. The court found Captain Russell and Lieutenant Hewitt to blame for wrecking the vessel, and reprimanded bot officers, and dismissed them from their ships.

ANOTHER RAILWAY CATAS- TROPHE. [RECTER'S TELEGRAM. I POSEN, Friday.-The passenger train which left here at a quarter-past eight last night collided with a goods train near Lasswit z. So far as it known at present four railway officials were killed, Many passengers were injured, and some hatl been brought here.

TELEPHONE IN GERMANY. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, Friday Evening. The Bavarian Government have introduced into the Diet a bill demanding a credit to establish telephonic com- munication between the following towns Munich and Muremburg, Muremburg and Hof, and Nuremburg, Wudzburg, and Aschaffenburg,

MRS MAYBRICK'S CASE. It is understood that the application for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the body of Mrs Maybrick ou the ground that her detention in penal servitude is illegal will be made in the Queen's Bench Division on the afternoon of the 24th inst., when the Law Courts re-open after tht Long Vacation. Although on that day not mucb business will be done, there is sure to be one eourt sitting to hear ex parte motions generally, and the Maybrick committee deem the matter of sufficient urgency to warrant the instruction of counsel to apply to the judges at the first poaaibif opportunity.

THE DUMFRIES SCANDAL. TERRIBLE CHARGE AGAINST AN EARL. The Press Association's Dumfries correspondent telegraphs :—On Friday the Earl of GallowaJ appeared before Sheriff Hope at Dumfriet Sheriff Court in answer to a charge ol indecently assaulting a little girl. The charge on the sheet was that he did use lewd, indecent, and libidinous behaviour towards Jane Ann Edwards Gibson, a girl under the agt of puberty, and daughter of Andrew Gibsonj burgh officer, Dumfries, on the 1st Septembei last, on the Lockerbie-road, near Greenbrae, in the burgh of Dumfries." The charge bavinjr been read over, Mr W. Whiteland, solicitor, Dumfries, who appeared for the noble defendant,sai(i be had no objection to take to its relevancy. His lordship was then asked whether he was guilty or not, and in reply pleaded "Not guilty." The trial of his lordship was thereupon fixed to take place on the 14th October before the sheriff and a Jury at Dumfries,

WEATHER FORECAST. The following forecasts were prepared last nigb at the Meteorological Office at eight o'clock DISTRICTS— } South-easterly and east' 0. Scotland, N. > winds, strong in plr' 1 changeable; soma ra 1 changeable; soma ra 1. Scotland, E. ) 2. England,N.E. { Southerly winds, v • c. England, E. I or fresh; weat' 1 4. Mid. Counties I proving somaw' 5. Engl.,S. (Lou. probably showe' and Channel), j eauffl-i. 6. Scotland, W."J Variable or %)le 7. Engl., N.W., > breezes; cha & NortbWales raiu. 8. Eng.,S.W., & Nortb-westeao westerl, South Wales te or fresh z 9. Ireland, N.. showeM: 10. J changer

DASTARDLY OUT *1 NEAR J RETFO -police officials reo On Thursday the Reickiugly cruel act ceived information of J upon two youae which had been per, t Joseph Bartle horses, the property" of Clarbro', Ret- farmer and market *»artle was awav fmm" ford. It appears tlrf»rd October Fair, and home, engaged at V ^POSED person cu< during his absencf, iUal?'e younsr norsell off the tails of 8uimaJgf it has take. Besides the at least 420 ofl

THE MANUFACTURE OF TIN PLATES. AMERICA BEGINS TO MAKE HER OWN. An industrial exhibition has just been opened at Pittsburg, and one of the exhibits therein is causing a good deal of interest. It consists of a tin-plate mill, which daily turns out tin-plates of good quality, a feat not hitherto accomplished in America. The mill belongs to the American Tinned Plate Association. It is expected in course of time successfully to compete with the imported article.