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LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES. Wedneaday, September 20.-We«ley in F hymn. Th-"Oy, September 21 (St. Matthew).—Eight a.m.i HolrCommnnion. Five p.m.: Steagall inQ: gntheM3," hrt?th ? (St & ner). "??S' 6 !?iTl= L ?' -th. "Ponder my words" (Gadeby). Saturday, September 23.-WalmWey in D i?o,, anthem, 0 give thanks (Elyey). 0. J. VAUaHAN, Dam.

Five lives were lost y.;t;may by a dJaM. troua fire which broke o !& ny HITs dism. Whibecb&pèl, The Bcene of the MtMtrophe ??Vh i rhaa&i i.? the rear aDd & Gonfectiopffj establishment in front. When ?e &- ya broke out, early 111 the one bed- room WAS occupied by the housekeeper and her daughter and two girl a«sistants. These all petl^hed in the lfames, the draught through n. hroken skylight in the apartment sueldllg them up like a furnace. The pro- prietor of the bu:;ineHS was burned to death in another room, but a workman, who was sleeping with him, contrived to escape. Although Mr. Thomas Ashton, the secre- tary to the Miners' Federation, showed on Monday, in an interview, the first indica- tion c,? his readiness to hold up his hand, providing hJrdP:the willing not to strike too hard when they have him and his clients fairly down, there was no sign of a settlement yesterday, although in a few isolated instances, as at Darwen, com- paratively small bodies of miners resumed work. L)nrins; the present week coal has gone up 3s. 4d. per ton in price in Man- chester, making an advance of 7s. 6d. since the commencement of the struggle. The unit by which to measure money values was the hard nut that chiefly occu- pied the attention of the British Associa- tion yesterday. The favourite theory has hitherto been the price of labour, but Pro- fessor Foxwell, after criticising the profes- sions of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Gifiins, and others on this ticklish subject, pronounced in favour of adopting the price of commodities as the unit. How it all ended is not very clear. Every bend and creek and eyot of the Thames has its own sad story. Another w., added to the records ,f Wo.lwi?l, Beaelt yesterday, when a steamer, name un- known, coming up the river, ran into a barge, cutting her clean in two and toppling a poor lighterman into the water, who was drowned. One of the earliest pioneers of the interest- ing Welsh Patagonian settlement, Mr. Ed- ward Roberts, has gone over to tho great majority at Bethesda. The summons came suddenly and unexpectedly, for his mind was full of a project for forming a new Pata- gonian gold mino company, and, as a matter of faet, he intended bringing his holiday of nine months to a close and returning to the home of his adoption this week. Lord Aberdare had a vigorous rejoinder in the Times of yesterday to the French preten- sions with reference to the territory of tho Royal Niger Company set forth in recent articles in the Debatt. After some hard hitting concerning the French scientifio mission and slave raiding, the venerable peer sums up the case with the caustic remark that the anxiety of the Debats for the free navigation of the Niger and the Binue, stipulated in the Treaty of Berlin, is wholly superfluous." Greater Britain has lost one of its men of light and leading, for Sir Henry Silloch Galt, the eminent Canadian statesman, passed away in the early hours of yesterday morning. He was the son of a notable Eng- lishman of letters, was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1849, and in 1858 became Finance Minister, and since then has filled a succession of brilliant posts. There aro aching hearts among the friends and relations of the 40 men who formed the crew of the Belfast steamship Horn Head, from Baltimore for Dublin, which is now fifteen days overdue. How slender are the hopes still entertained of the vessel's safety are to be inferred from ro-iusurances costing 80 per cent. It may have been complimentary to Mr. George Smith, Mountford, to be told by Mr. Commissioner ICerr at the Old Bailey yesterday that it would be better for the country if he re- mained in prison for a considerable period, but accompanied by a sentence of five years' penal servitude for obtaining pianos by fraudulent representations was calculated to take the gilt off the gingerbread. If that man Scott, whose presence is wanted to help in clearing up the Ardlamont shooting- mystery, does not quickly surrender life will h"rdl be worth living to men of his height, igbt build, or complexion. The d ?t.ti,. are ,il i busy in running in" in- offensive citizens on the off chance of their being Scott. A harmlessyoungfeJlow taking a holiday on a West Highland steamer was invited ashore at one of the piers by the Scotch police to give an account of himself. Away at distant Listowel an Irish policeman euw in a racecoiu-30pickpocket such a striking resemblance to Scott that he kept his man as long as he could in that belief. All notabilities in these days have advance agents to herald their approach, and so, per- haps, we ought not to wonder at the announcement that a company of American forgers are coming over to England with the intention of honestly getting cheques for small amounts from substantial persons ,nd then dishonestly, by the help of chemicals, alter the figures to good, big, bouncing amounts. The demand for short loans was yester- day extremely limited in London. The general tone of the stock markets was again dull and inactive, busi- ness still being much restricted all round. There was a slight improvement in the Cardiff Stock and Share Market, and buyers and sellers showed more disposition to negotiate business than has been the case for a considerable time.

BY THE WAY. Breconehire is a Welsh county, and Welsh Nationalists dominate its politics-as yet. A party which recruits its patriots from Profumos and M'Kennas is now about to add another ardent one to the band. The favourite candidate for the Welsli Nationa- lists of Brecon is Mr. Charles Morley, who will pay his first visit to Wales when he comes for the nomination.

The 20th of September is the great Day of Atonement with the Jews. It is the Black Feast, a Sabbath of Sabbaths. From sunset last night to sunset to-day every member of the Jewish community fasts under pain of being cut off from the people in case of neglect. It is the greatest of all days in the Hebrew calendar. How little do we know of the strange rites and ceremonies of this most interesting of races, which has been with us, and yet not of us, for cen- turies.

Despite the magnificent summer, sea trips from Cardiff have not been so generally patronised, and the net results financially seem to have been somewhat disappointing. In days of industrial depression people begin their economies with luxuries. Cardiff people are better sailors than those of Bristol (says a gentleman competent to judge), which, if true, is remarkable, since Bristol was the chief of British ports when the Welsh Metropolis was a mere hamlet lying in the shadow of its castle.

I AFRICAN HUMOURS. There is a humorous side even to African troubles, grave as they are. Lord Aberdare seems to be pretty well satisfied that all the fine talk about a French scientific mission is only a cover for slave-raiding. The Berlin authorities are dubious about a great many high sounding African enterprises being nothing more than traps for catching slaves. Captain Williams again enlivens his study of Uganda with the humours of polygamy. Every man there is at liberty to have seven wives, who live happily and contentedly tog >ther hoeing his fields and gathering his crops for him. The average price of a wife there is four cows. One man he came across had got his wife on credit, and, as she happened to be eaten by a leopard when he had paid only two of the cows, he grumbled terribly at being required to pay the other two.

I AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. Last year the Government spent seven thousand four hundred and twenty five pounds in aid of agricultural education, and that, it goes without saying, is an increase on the amounts granted in previous years. Major P. G. Craigie, the Director of the Education Department of the Board of Agriculture, has one very definite opinion to offer. In conformity with the requests of various county councils, the advice and counsel of the board's inspectors have in the past year been more largely granted, with a view of utilising the experience acquired by general inspection as to the most economio and efficient methods of organising local technical teaching by county authorities under the Local Taxa- tion Act of 1890. In this direction it has become increasingly apparent, together with the employment of grants of the central authority in the more complete equipment of provincial centres of agricultural in- struction, will be found the most useful application of the direct Parlia- mentary grants for agricultural teaching. The colleges already established offer excep- tional opportunities for the training of teaphers in science subjects bearing on agriculture, and this work the ample funds now in the hands of the county councils give a much better chance of being accom- plished than ever before. At Bangor, for North Wales, and at Aberystwith, for Mid- Wales, the report says, the development of this kind of operations has proceeded satis- factorily, the board doubling its previous grant to Aberystwith College.

I NEWSPAPER PRESS REFORM. I V, hen the Britbth Association itself thinks well to consider the position of the British rfewspaper press it may be safely assumed there is something striking in the case not usually suspected. Mi-. J. A. Btrahan, M.A., LL.B., borrister-at-law, after tracing the history of British journalism from the time when London had only one newspaper until now, when British daily papers alone have an annual circulation of 2,000,000,000 over and above the circulation of the 2,000 weeklies, went on to urge the necessity for the reform of the laws relating to news- papers. Every person of common sense must agree with Mr. Straban that it is scandalous that the Court of Chancery should prceame, as it has of late presumed, to grsnt interim injunctions against the publication of what it anticipate* will be libel. That is a perilous constitutional doctrino to put in force, for every Had of press oensorship was suppoeed to have been dead for a couple of centuries. It is in- tolerable that newspaper proprietors should have no guarantee of getting back their oosts against persons who bring merely vexations charges of libel. It is unjust that newspaper owners alone should be held liable for fair reports of libellous speeches delivered by responsible speakers knowingly in the presence of rejxirters. These are all abuses that require ¡¡holition, in the interest of freedom of thought. Nor is it less im- port,antthat the common law and the thirty-one statutes which muddle and con- fuse the duties and rights of journalists should bo consolidated and harmonised. WJ H>ii Mr. 8tm,han proposes, 01' perhaps we had better say suggest*, that the time may come when the Institute of Journalists shall be given the right to grant or with- hold, after examination, the right to practice as a journalist, or to expel after admission for what it may deem unprofessional con- duct, we must frankly say we have our doubts. Circumstances are conceivable in which the Ins.itube of Journalists might be another Star Chamber.

THE TYRANNY OF MAJORITIES. The truism that majorities must rule has been dinned into the ears of the people so long that the doctrine is becoming dange- rous. The tyranny of a majority is the worst of all tyrannies, for a majority is only a class, and the triumph of class opinion necessarily involves the overshadow- ing, and sometimes the suppression, of independent opinion, which, after all, is the salt of the mental world. An indivi- dual tyrant can be swiftly dealt with. A tyrant majority can only be scotched and converted at the cost of much time and effort, so that it has the chance of doing incalculable harm. Charters, Bills of rights, local self-govern- ment, are exceedingly slow methods of securing human liberty, the liberty of man as man. Virginia for eighty-six years had a self-government, which meant slavery w one-half its population and danger to all those who championed the hard case of the slaves. John Stuart Mill showed practically what human liberty is, and how different from a tyrannous majority, by proclaiming to the masses their faults, their tendencies to trench upon individual liberty, and their innate inclination, as the makers of Governments, to inspire legislation ever more and more restricting personal rights. He told them the grim truth that a tyrant majority is harder to deal with than a regal tyrant. The danger of the tyranny of majorities was never so much in evidence as at the present moment. In England and Wales the majority, impelled by necessity, are struggling to escape from want, and in that wild stampede are trampling down the rights of the individual right and left. The liberty of the master would be taken away if it were not for military protection; the liberty of a man to work under conditions he is willing to accept would be taken away also by physical force if the minority in th's case had not resources behind them sufficient to hold the majority in check. Society can never outgrow the ancient issue between liberty and authority; but authority, serpent like, slips. from skin to skin, and liberty is prone to suppose that because one old form of authority has gone the thing itself is gone." Not so. In escaping from the restraints of the aristo- cracy of birth we are only too prone to fall under the aristocracy of money. The one hope of human progress is the jealous preserva.tion of the right to develop dif- ferences.

Jj^ON'T MISS SEEING THE I CARTOON IN TO-DAY'S "EVENING EXPRESS." SUZMCT:- RE WALES AND TYPHOID.

DEATH OF A WELSH PIONEER. Mr. Edward Roberts, who was one of the earliest pioneers in the Welsh Patagenian settlement, died suddeiily at Bethesda on Sun- day. He came over some months ago with his children, and was engaged in forming a com- pany for one of the gold mines which had been disooverod in the Colony, to which he intended returning on Monday.

ROYAL COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURE. The JSojiJ Commission ou AFrieultmv w? .2: at eef=i: uel:b:: Lefovm, M.P., p-idi,-g. It a-iiei to appoint Are h." names were chosen. The qoeption of areaii was decided, as also was the koadft of inquiries. It i. expected that the BUh-oommj"I- ?iB k e "Poft on ?le?ted -?m in %?* :4!.re The :ami;:iod= until the 9th of NoT<mb<r

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One of the seven doctors selected by the Local Government Board for special work in connection with the cholera epidemic at Grimsby is Dr. D. Pryce-Jenkms, brother of the Rev. W. C. Jenkins, vicar of St. Mary's, Pembroke. Pryoe-Jenkins is the old Welsh international footballer, whose brilliaut try at Newport gave Wales iis first victory over Scotland. In later years he took to the stage, and was a popular member of the pantomime company at the Theatre RoyaJ, Cardiff, less than three years ago. Abandoning the stage, he resumed his medical studies, emerged from the examination with suooess, and now is a fully-fledged doctor.

The case of the Penybut reeidents for light As presented to the Cardiff Committee yesterday luid a literary flavour which is rare as matters go. "Qoethe," said the chief apokeømBn-Mr. C. J. Jackxon-" (lied asking for more light, whereas the natepayeis of Penyian had no light at all." This oomes of getting a barrister to head a deputation. It is tolerably oertain that Goethe did not want suoh a light as the Cardiff Gas Company supply, unless it was for the purpose of reconciling him to the inevitable rapture with tilings earthly. The use made of the famous saying was calculated to make Goethe wriggle in his grave.

A correspondent makes cne very sensible suggestion that the Cardiff Grand theatre mieht be acauired. by the corporation and transformed into public baths. If the (-or- poration were in the habit of doing sensible things in a sensible way, some tangible result might come of this. The present baths are A disgrace and a scandr.1. A public body inspired with an adequate idea of their duties would have weired the Taff years ago and established baths and wash- houses on its banks, as the Parisians have done on the Seine. But a big scheme of that kind is absolutely beyond the Cardiff Council, and so also, probably, is the less ambitious one of buying the Grand Theatre. If simple talk in unmeasured quantities could effect improvements, Cardiff would rival Glasgow.

The lot of the Welsh M.P. is, like th? policeman's, not a happy one. If they use libellous language," says a Welsh writer in this week's Llan, they will be respected; if they happen to be Englishmen, the party popes grant them every indulgence if they sub- scribe well to the cause. But woe unto them if they show signs of an independent spirit. Only letthem do what they are told, and they are described as men of whom Wales should be proud,' men of backbone." Men of backbone, indeed. Rather they are like the I boneless wonders' of the dime museum. Poor Bryn Roberts has dared to express his own views. Then it's Geitedt to right of liim, Faner to left of hinl, Herald in front of hiui Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with threat and sneer Our I.P. quails with fear, Though he fails to see where He has blundered."

Sir William Harcourt stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the offer of the Marquess of Bute to re-pay all deposits in the Cardiff Savings' Bank of friendly and charitable societies had been accepted, and that the final dividend would be paid to depositors in November. 'Twill be a happy day when the whole incident finally closes. Some eight thou- sand three hundred pounds have beenspent on the liquidation, and the enormous expense of the prolonged litigation has served no one, save our legal friends. Want of proper appreciation of their moral responsibilities on the part of some men, want of common sense in others have con- tributed to a foolish wastage of mon?y which might have gone to repair the losses of the depositors. The law suits proved nothing, except that the less a trustee or manager did to help the bank and carry out the duties of his office the more easily he could slip through the legal meshes. Law went one way; justice in the opposite direction.

Mr. Brynmor Jones has overdone his part. He has unduly pmphasised the fact that the Land Commission is intended to serve a merely party purpose. Even-handed justice to all classes it certainly does not secure. If there had been any real desire to get at the truth, the right of cross-examination would have been conceded to landlords and tenants alike. As it is, counsel mercilessly heckles one class of witnesses, and the other class put on record statements which would not atantt the test, and interested parties are driven to seek in the press those facilities for correction which the machinery of the commission does not afford. Landlords and agents move and speak in full view of the penalties which mis- conduct on their part would bring upon them a hint of persecution from a tenant is deemed enough to justify solemn warnings from the chair, but there is neither threat for nor check upon the tenant who may un- scrupulously slander his landlord. A report produced in these circumstances will have as much weight with reasonable men as the findings of commissions with purely partisan functions usually have. And that is not much.

ALIEN IMMIGRATION. I Major E. R. Jones, M.P., during his candidature for the Carmarthen Boroughs made a chance reference to the need of some restraint on alien immigration, but he never followed the topic up. It was his American proclivities, very likely, that betrayed him into the utterance. His British Five Trade associations told him he was treading on dangerous ground, from a party point of view. Some prominent English Conservatives are earnestly com- mitted to the principle of stopping pauper immigration into this country. Their attitude is excusable, if not absolutely commendable, when it is remembered that the streams of pauper immigration into Great Bi-itaitimeaii sweating, and sweating means all over the country the existence of the lowest standard of wages, with, of course, cheap goods in return. Still, any attempt to prevent the immigration of aliens into England would mean an end to Britons seeking their for- tunes in foreign lands. The Board of Trade ha-s just issued a remarkably full and complete report 011 alien immigration into the United States, prepared by two commissioners appointed by the British Labour Commission. It seems to be there ax in England. In the Eastern cities the immigrants flood the labour market, AND their coming is desired to BO stopped; in the Western tdlms they ar<- needed, and the wish is that they may be allowed to come freely; the South is con- vinced that its prosperity would be greatly increased by an extensive immigration. It is not likely, therefore, that any further restrictions will he imposed on aliens, though the existing laws will be enforced. Only two thousand eight hundred and one aliens were returned LU/T year from the United States to the countries whence they came out of a total immigration of live hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-three.

LOCAL CONSULAR APPOINT-1 MENTS. The Queen has been pleased to approve of I Mr. Leonidas Metaxas W" Greek Consul at Cardiff; and of Mr. W. E, Heard, Mr. J. Burke, Mr. M. Whitwill, and Mr. G. S. Kelway as Uruguayan Consnls at Newport (Monmouth- shire), Belfast, Bristol, and Milford Haven I respeetively.

BARRY-LADEN SHIPS ASHORE. I A Lloyd's telegram says s—The British ships I Qenesta and Orontes, from Barry, stranded ou Shoalwater Point, near Adelaide, but will pro. I bably float without damage.

LONDON LETTER. a Lifitox OUR LONDON COERKSPONDENTS.J LONDON, TUESDAY NIGHT" A Cheerful Assembly. The report that another eleaner of the House had been seized with intense pains, and that it WAS not at all unlikely that tlie cholera bacillus wa lurking hi some un- suspected corner, did not have the effect of lumping the spirits of the members of Parliament who assembled at prayer time to-day. It was, in fact, a particularly cheerful assembly which gathered together. Sir William Harcourt entered from behind the Speaker's chair, with a smile on his f.:<:e and A joke on his lips, shortly after the commencement of the sitting, and so impresed was he with the humour of the story that he had to take an hon. member aside to give it -in detail. The Home Secretary WAS in an equally felicitous mood, and when the Right Hnll. Joseph Cham- berlain, wearing an exceptionally fine orchid, entered, he and Mr. T. W. Russell, Mr. Jesse Collings, and Mr. Powell Williams formed quite a happy quar- tette. It is true that the Chamber itself wore a gloomy aspect, but that must be attributed to the economicd spirit of the gentlemen in charge of the lighting arrange- ments. Discomfiture OF the Pukists. The more than satisfactory reply of the President of the Local Government Board to Mr. Howard Vincent Oil the cholera scare was probably one of the causes of this ii but, undoubtedly, the chief cause was the uiilooketi-for discom- litiue of the purists by Sir Richard Tempte. Mr. Stansfeld and Mr. James Stuart, respectively members for Halifax and Shoreditch, were desirous of moving the adjournment of the House to discuss the c<tonment system in India, and to urge upon the Government the duty oi immediately putting in force the i-esojutiori passed by the Hu,, in 1868 on the subject There was quite A collection of the purity paity occupying the seats close to the gangway on the Ministerial side prepared to support them. But Sir Bit-hard Temple, whose knowledge of the House is as exten- sive and peculiar as is his knowledge of India, forestalled them with a resolution calling upon the Government of India to consider the regulatiun as to the health of the troops in the East. Thi gave Sir thetroop.iintheK.t.t. ThM?ave?ir wanl the motion at anv time, and, as .!d Parliamentary hawl" aie aware, hi, t,im<; means no time. There was some rejoicing ,It the outwitting of the purists. 'L'hcy received no sympathy. THE Cakdifk SAVINOS' BANK. I Tho reply of the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer to Mr. GEORGE Howell on this unfortunate 1!bieet was the one that 1 predicted some days ago. The whole if the proceedings will be warmed up after "C LONG Vacation, and the official dividend WIN he declared in N ovem Iw1". ir William did not HAZARD a suggestion as t" what this would be, bat I am infonmd that 'he ,0licitor8 to the Treasury are samjuine of P<*Y-NG 5s. in the £ on all outstanding liabilities. Sir William replied that the offer of the !al'que.s of Bute to umkibute enough to re-pav all deposits to friendly and charitable societies had been accepted. I am told that when the offer was made t he amount mentioned WAS believed to be £ 500 less than it actually is, and that there is some slight hitch in the arrange- ments. As, however, the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not allude to this, probably some sort of settlement is in course of formation. Sir William con- cluded by stilting that the costs were close upon £ 9.000, and that only rank as dividend. The Slaughter OF the Innocents. The with,lrawal of the even Government Bills yesterday was a foregone conclusion. There was 110 possible chance of legislating t-hi 8"e..ion upon such topics as Welsh disestablishment, English and Scotch regis- tration, vaccination, the liquor traffic, and the Conspiracy and Breach of the Peace Bill, and. in endeavouring to keep faith with the Opposition, the Government threw them over. A large number of Bills standing in the NAMES of private members must follow, unless those interested take the trouble to move them on to the autumn session, and even than the chance for discussion will he SM;L, AP it is expected that the Parish Councils Bill will monopolise all available time. EARLY AND LATE. I So far as the business now before the House is concerned, members on both sides are showing a disposition to tackle it with the greatest despatch. Had any mischievous member desired yesterday to move a count out he could have found man opportu- nities of doing so. But there "Y 4 no such disposition. Mem bel's will sit early and late to rise by Saturday. It was five minutes past two o'clock this morning when the House rose, and it will probably be much later to-morrow. Just on the stroke of 11.30 a slight breeze between the Chairman and Sir Richard Temple had every appear- "lice of developing into a storm. the mem- ber for the Kingston Division of Surrey commenced to vigorously assail the policy of the Admiralty with regard to Gibraltar, when he was ruled out. of order. Sir Charles Dilke pointed out that when pre- viously he had raised the point he was told that he would lie in order in raising the question on this vote. Sir r. Kay- Shuttleworth defended the Chair, and the discussion os to the difference be- tween tweedledum ond tweedledee was continued by other members, until Sir Ri?li??d quit. lost his temper l;¡ demanded i¡:h' lt kn:g= was the use of a mole at Gibraltar uni?-s it was to be followed by a dock?" This unlooked-for outburst caused the Assembly to roar, and what might have developed into an unseemly scene dwindled away into ridicule. The Paris FUNDS. I Dissatisfaction in the Irish ranks about I the Paris funds appears to be spreading, According to t.( in authority, the party is di, Td int,? Dillon itA>s O'Brienites. and Sextonites, and so ,?i.u, has the split become that Mr. Michael Davilt has deemed it necessary to appeal to mem- bers to heal all differences. It is humi- liating," he says, to thresh out these details in public, to the delight of the nemie of our cause and the certain injury of its highest interests. What is the object of prolonging this miserable dispute, and of thrusting all its squalid features and details under the notice of a. disgusted public?" I am surprised that Mr, Davitt puts this question. He should know the I object as well as any man. It i, not the first time that the gratification, of private spleen has wrecked a party. The Parting OF the Ways. I Mr. Wallis Mackav commences his work on the converted Fun" this week. His cartoon, mtitlf?d "7%e Parting of the Way,?, is a declaration of the attitude l now taken up by the paper. It represents Gladstone marching on to separation and ruin, whilst the personification of "Fun" leads John Bull towards Unionism, peaee, and prosperity. Tlie cartoon, excellently conceived, is as exactly delineated. Strange to say, this is the first paper Mr. Mackay foun d e, loyment on in Lon d on. It wf;,? îld C)Jkden;v °To; :on. t;í:; 13rml,?, impressed with his ability, took him on to his" Punch" staff, but an un. fortunate caricature of Tom Tay" lor in the "Captain's Critic," which he was THEN doing for his ^Sporting and Dramatic News," made that gentleman remember him when he took the chair at the Punch" office, and the youthful carica'.UMT was wiped MIF during his reign. Burnand then irrote him, "This is no longer a close borough," and "Lucy has nominated you for Parliamentary sketch" Unfortu- nately, Mr. Mackay was away special commiMioner for the London Ncws" in Ireland, and Harry Furniss stepped in. Mr. Mackay has started well on Fun," and he should he able to place the re?ty humorous wPRkly in the position it onceJ held. THE Quern AND MR. Gladstone. Apropos of the communications that have recently been passing between the Queen and Mr. Gll\.dne, an extraordinary story ?("'n'ent.tof.hef?'ctth.ttvhfn Mr. G1R-dtone had biR prolonged interview with the Queen at Buckingham Palacc about the time of the Royal Wedding his conduct reduced her Majesty to t*ors. I am abis to sav that there is no foundation for this version of what happened. Instead of womanly tears, her Majesty took refuge in Queenly dignity. What took place between the Premier and hm- Majesty no one will know at least, witnm our generation. Bnt t-hix mncl. is known, that after the andienoe her Majesty swept out of the room, flushed and indignant, and Mr. Gladstone went away looking angry and diøoornfitt'd, If the Queen had TOW Mr. Irladstone that she would never IIMeGt to the Home Rule Bill, and that if the necessity arose she would not hesitate T, exercise her constitutional right to dismiss Ministers and appeal to the country, MR Gladstone could not have looked mora unhappy.

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY FACILITIES. THE PROPOSED NEW LINE TO LONDON AND THE SOUTH. LBY A CORRESPONDENT.} The first meeting of the general committee appointed by the Newport Conference on AUltnt 10 lost, for endeavonrincf to secure IMPROVED railway facilities for South Wales, will he held at the Cardiff Council Chamber on Thursday (to-morrow) afternoon at 2.30. and if the efforts of the committee result in forwarding in any appreciable degree the project for constructing a competitive railway system to London and the South Coast, it will have accomplished a great work. So far as we can sec, tllPre would lie not much difficulty either on the Welsh side or the Enp-lisli side in forming a scheme for linking up existing lines on the ""(-].h side, and leaving the promoters of a NEW scheme free to deal with the problem of crossing the Severn, and joining, say, with the Midland and South Western systems on tlie English side. In any event the Severn Sea must be compasBcd eithor by a bridge or a tunnel. The OfTat Western Company seem to have preferred flhe latter, and it is extremely doubtful if, with the experience they gained ia connection with that work, their preferenoe would be shown in the same direction again. There is a bridge already in existence carrying the Severn and Wye Railway across the Severn, but, in considering a competitive route to London, that structure could hatdly be accounted favourable, since it would mean a detour of something like 25 to 30 miles (up and doom) out of the straight to cross it and return to the strict route again. Near the estuary of the Wye there seems to be about the most favourable point for ereeling a new bridge. The Severn ie th.s considerably narrower than at other adjacent points, and the high cliffs indicate suitable positions for founda- tions. If A new line should cross the river at that potnt there would be very little dif- ference in the distance by it from South Wales to the English shore of the Severn and tho existing route, via the tunnel. Having reaehed the Kneli -h side, the new line would join the Midland system and connect with Bath and Bristol, and from the latter point across Salisbury Plain to Andover would be a matter of about 60 mile. for the new line to traverse. At Andover it would join the London and South Western, and thus get into immediate touch with London at Waterloo Sta- tion, and with Southampton, where a large traolc is being developed by the Atlantic line., awl all the other South Coast towns. Not only would the South Coast look with the !:rcate8t favour upon It new route to South Wales, but Plymouth people seem to be yearning for competition towarda the Welsh industrial bives. The difficulty of reaching the South Coast is shown by the fact that a passenger going from Swansea to South- ampton has to leave the former town at 9.40 a,m, to rcseb Southampton at 6.30 p.m., the rate of travelling from tovm to town being something like seventeen to eighteen miles per how. On the Welsh side it might not-E-nd ought not- be difficult to link up the Rhondda and Swansea Bay, the Taff Vale, the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport, the Brecon and Merthyr Railways, ANA, with a new link between Cardiff and Newport, the district would have a good deal to be thankful for. The secretary of the committee. Mr. Samuel D. Williams, of the New- port Chamber of Commerce, although having no chairman or executive to consult, has collected and formulated a large mass of valuable infor- mation, and, though he has been compelled in many matters to act on his own responsibility, we believe be has proceeded upon such lines as the committee will thoroughly approve.

THE CARDIFF SAVINGS' BANK. COST OF LIQUIDATION M30& MARQUESS OF BUTE'S OFFER ACCEPTED. FINAL DIVIDEND IN NOVEMBER. In the House of Commons on Tuesday after- noon Mr. HOWELL (G., Bethnal (beett, N.B.) asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he could inform the House if the liquidation aa regards the Cardiff Savings' Bank is oompleted, whether the last and final dividend is paid, or when it is to be paid to the depositors; whether the offer of the Marquess of Bute was accepted to contribute enough to re-pay all deposits t8 friendly and charitable societies, and, if so, have the amounts been paid; and whether he could state to the House the total cost of the liquidation, inclusive of the law costs, and what amount of the latter has been paid by the Trea- 6, Sir W. HARCOURT I am informed by the solicitors to the liquidator that the liquidation cannot be completed until after the long vaca- tion. It is anticipated by the liquidator that, subject to the approval of the court, the final dividend may be paid some time in November. The liquidator states that he has obtained the sanction of the court to aocept, and has accepted, the o&r made by the Marquees of Bute. The amount payable will be sent to the liquidator for distribution at the proper tima. The approximate cost of liquidation up to the present date is £ 8,300. During the earlier part of th. proceedings legal costa to the amount of £2,477 10s. 3d. were paid by the Treasury solicitor.

WHY DO WE SNEEZE? MR DANIEL OWEN ASKS FOB THE OPINIONS OF EXPERTS. TO VfTE BDITOR OF THE" WESTERN lUt." S»".—The great philosopher, Aristaus, wits was born in the year 384 B.C., said thai A ma., Vo does not sneeze cannot live." I pre- sume thiapplim to the fair sex as well. I haft kno-wn a lady for several years who, when she sneezes, only does so once. I have also known for many years another lady who, when she Baeezes, manages to do so three times, and it is -■tuck and loud and I heard a gentleman < it claim some time ago, when he heard her, What a devil of a row she makes." Last Saturday I was in the office of Mr. D. T. Alexander at Cardiff on business, and he at that time sneezed five times. When I sneeze it lasts for several minutes-I should say three or four—and at times it is very annoying to me, when I have to leave the table. I have never noticed Mr. Lascelles Carr or Morien sneeze. I presume they do so, otherwise, according to the theory of the great philosopher, they would not live. I should like to know, through the W< ?tcrn Mail, from medical and other scientific gentlemen, why we should snoese at all. What is the cauee of it r Another tbing I should like to Imow ie, how the sound which emanates from the sneese is spelt.—I am, Ac., Ash H.J1, 8ept.19. DANIEL OWEN. Ash Hall, Sept. 19.