The Cambrian

rho weather has been very unsettled during the whole of the paat week, but for the present there are no outward and visible signs of any change in the position of the wheat crop. It is quite possiblo that some detriment may have accrued to late-sown wheats, which have only been able to struggle slowly through the ground; but the early season was exceptionally favourable for wheat sowing, and, whethor tho acreage sown to wheat was comparatively large or small, it may be taken for granted that the great bulk of it was sown well, and that the result is that it stands well now With regard to trado thero certainly has bean no improvement, and local fluctuations due to con- ditions of supply must not be regarued as indicative of tho tone oi *ue weakening since Monday last. Native wheats still constitute the cheapest sources of flour available to British millers. Country flour continues to como forward liberally, and to meet a falling market. There is no appreciable im- provement in the demand for malting barley, but sound and well-matured seed is being inquired for, as also are good seed oats. For the rest there is no material change to note.-Mar c Lane Kvpres,. The proposal to purchase Ludlow Castle, and present ifc to the Prince of Wales has been too much for the loyalty of the Shropshire squires. Some of the county families, who would ha»e been reckoned by Sir Roger" as among those wh« have more money than brains, were anxious to carrv out the scheme, and it was understood that the Earl of Powis, the owner of the Castle, was willing l0 transfer it. But the Eat I of Fowl* had no heroic uotion about the transaction, «nd when the county re«- dents found that to pay tile purcuario money and restore the rilitis would cost about half amlllionof money, they very sensibly decided toteao Ludlow Castle undisturbed. The Prince of Wale, will not suffer by this arrangement, lie has kandringhatn and Marlborough House, Rnd Ins. choice of half a dozen other Royal residences besides, and could ill afford to maintain another costly establishment that brought no addition to his revenue. The residents of Shropshire will be relieved of a ridiculous proposal, made without thought of tbe agricultural depression from which tho county is suffer- ing so acuetly. The people of Wales will not be gr, atly disappointo't, for thc.ugh Ludlow was formerly the resi- dence of the Lords Marches of Wales, no amount of Cymric fancy can place Shropshire within the Princi- pdity. To attempt a restoration of this gr.tnd old ruin would be lit tie bettar than raorilege, and its conversion into a private residence would necessarily shut out the publio from the nohle but roofless hall in which the children of Lord Bridgewatar first porfoimed Milton's Coomt.

ECHOES FROM THE LOCAL PULPITS. On Sunday night, the Rev. Mr. Griffiths preaching at Lady Huntingdon's Chapel, St. Helen's-road, from the text, And they heard a great voice from Heaven saying, Come up hither, (Rev. xi. 12,) said besides the voices from Heaven speaking of admonishment and praise, there were voices from behind and below. The former was the voice of the past, and the latter was from Hell. The voice of the past acting on their consciences, clearly pointed out to them the good or evil of their actions and designs, and served to arrest many ill-conceived notions of right and wrong. The voice from below -how loudly that spoke, and how sad and bitter were its tones. Full of wailings and bitter cries, it came from that place where Dives-on earth the rich and influential Dives, clothed in fine linen and faring sumptuously—called out to Heaven in tones of anguish that the once despised beggar, Lazarus, might be allowed to cool his parched tongue. It was a itrrible voice. Its tones were heard in the rumblmg earthquake, when nature was convulsed and the works o £ man were scattered to the wind.s. The voice of conscience listened to in time would save them from many a bitter wail, a^-d enable them to meet in harmony and love friends and relations of former days in the Heaven above, when the voice should cry," Come up hither. ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, KILVEY. Special services were held at the above church on Sunday. The weather was very unfavourable, preventing many from being present. Special anthems were sung by the choir, and in the after- noon the Sunday School children assembled at the church. The vicar (Rev. T. Williams) officiated during the day. In the morning he took as the subject of his discourse "Christ in the storm" (Matthew viii. 23, 27) in the course of which he remarked that the Gospel history contained two contrasting incidents in the life of Christ. In the first case the disciples were in a great storm c in which Jesus is found to be asleep; and the second was the time when He was torn by a storm of mind in Gethsemane whilst the disciples slept. He could afford to sleep in the midst of the storm, as He was in harmony with the law3 of Heaven. In all the miracles Christ performed while on earth there was a grand display of the mastery of mind over matter. And in this a great lesson was to be learnt, that whilst God's people are often in trouble and suffer many trials, yet they should remember that Christ was near them, and that they were safe in His keeping. The storm in the text was a sudden one, as most storms were. When the disciples started on their voyage everything was calm, but suddenly all this was changed. So it was with life. The future was unknown to all. Scientific men always bowed their heads in reverence as to the future, and do not attempt to peer into futurity. Astronomy could foretell the movements of the heavenly bodies for hundreds of years to come, and could time an eclipse to a moment, but they could not tell what will happen in the world five minuteshence. God in His mercy had kept the future in his own hand. BRUNSWICK CHAPEL. On Sunday the Rev. Dr. Newton Young, classical tutor at Birmingham College, preached two eloquent sermons in this chapel morning and. evening. In spite of the boisterous weather, tne chapel was well filled in the morning, and m t e evening it was crowded to overflowing.* The tame of Dr. Young, who is practically the President-elect for the next Conference, was fully borne out by his performance. Special anthems were sung by the choir. Collections were made on behalf of the extension and renovation of the chapel, amounting to nearly £ 30. In the morning, Dr. Young touched specially upon the unbelief that was prevalent at the present day, when the mere child reasoned upon the problems of the infinite, and finally because it passes conpeptions rejected it altogether. The day in which they lived was fruitful of investi- gation. He did not now refer to sup- posed discrepancies between perfectly inci- dental statements in God's word, and the theories of physical science. They did not trouble him. He was amazed that they should trouble anyone; amazed, when science was so notoriously in its infancy that scarcely a day passed which did not discover a fallacy in some of its first principles, that men should allow difficulties of this sort to cast even a temporary shadow of discredit on the teach- ing of that book to which all history past, and present, bore such multiform witness, and which in its moral beauty and teaching far tran- scend the loftiest literature of their time. He referred rather to other problems the curious study of which was not only unfruitful, but positively disastrous. Take, for instance, the doctrine of the Trinity—the three person, God—the doctrine of the divine fore-kno^ ledge, < seen side by side with the Scriptural ^tement, as to human free-will, or the doctrine of c • j, ableness of God, as seen in the lig*1-1 0 of the prevalence of prayer, J1. these things, and never would m t is. i relation to these doctrines was clearly ^fined, even though we cannot understand them. What- ever mystery be in prayer, and it is compassed with mystery-threaded through and through with mystery-God has commanded all of us everywhere to pray. That is our duty. Whatever mystery be in human free-will, God has set before us life and death, blessing and cursing, and has said, H Choose ye." ALBERT HALL. At the Albert-hall, on Sunday evening, the .Lev. O. T. Snelling said Ifc did not for a moment sup- pose that all Sunday labour was unnecessary. bu„ a great deal of it was. He noticed that three classes of shops particularly opened on Sunday, namely:—Sweet shops, tobacconist shoPs> barbers' shops. The first two, no doubt they would be better without, and he appealed to the men who shaved to get shaved on Satur- day night. He did not think the town of Ports- mouth was so religious as bwansea-and he knew a little of both towns. Yet at a recent meeting of the Portsmouth Town Council, a reso- lution was passed to petition the Postmaster- w General to allow no work to be transacted at the post office on the Sabbath Day. deferring to the remarks made by the mayor at the dinner of the Postal employes, on Friday night, with regard to the closing of the post office in Swansea on Sundays as in London, he said he believed that they could do without their letters on Sundays. It would be the worst (lay's work that ever the working-men of England did when they threw away their day of rest, and turned it into a day of Pleasure, as on the Continent, where the saw, plane, and hammer were seen going on Sundays the same as week days. A VISIT TO THE SALVATION ARMY AT SWANSEA. The usual meeting of the Swansea detachment of the Salvation Army was held on Sunday night in the barracks (formerly the circus), and was con- ducted with the customary devotion under the command of Captain Guffick and Lieutenant Roy, two accomplished and religious young ladies. The building was very full and with an unusually quiet audience. The meeting was opened with prayer and singing, after which prayers were again recited. Then Lieutenant Roy sang a very pathetic hymn, in which aU the soldiers and a large number of the audience joined. This was done whilst all "the saved" were kneeling. On its conclusion Captain Guffick offered a truly feeling prayer, every period of which was crowned with cries of Halle- luiah A.men," Olory to God, Lord help ua," &o. The hymn, "The crucified tomb," published thia week in The War Cry, was admirably rendered by Lieutenant Rov, to the tune of My mother s dear home is in Wales The chorus was haartily taken up by the audience and was repeated several times after every verse. A bit of orthodox style came in when Captain Guffick read a chapter of Scripture (which she did amid a buzz of sotto voce conversation, mingled with the frequent cries of half-awakened infants), and de- livered a short sermon thereon. Christ, said she, was rich, because he created heaven and earth; but He gave it all up that we might behaved, and that the law given us by Moses might be fulfilled. He was wrapt in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger in order that we might be made rich in grace. Captain Guffick's style of oratory is in- tensely dramatic. She modulates her voice accord- ing to the need of her expressions, and keeps up a continual sawing of the air both witn her hands and with her head. The effect upon her audi- tors is telling in the extreme. The worshippers afterwards joined with Lieutenant Roy in the singing of "The blessed rock." A little noise being here manifested, the Captain appealed for order, and the appeal was at once regarded. A Carmarthen soldier started to give I've found a friend in Jesus to the tune of The little old log cabin," but he unfortunately broke down in the first verse. He therefore gave a brief address, in the course of which he observed that he had been an attendant at Church and Chapel for many years, but that he had never found such earnestness as among the Salvationists. (" Amen.") No, he had known many Church and Chapel goers who were far out on the barren mountains of sin. (" Ah God help them.") Brother Morgan, an able-bodied soldier, was glad to be on the platform. There was never any perfect peace for him until he gave himself wholly to God. Brother Lane, a saved Swansea builder, related a conversation he had had with a Polish Jew, and Lieutenant Roy sang Jesus Crucified." In the addsess which ensued the lieutenant asked her audience if they would risk the awful thing of leaving this meeting with the fearful thought of having put off salvation. They had better that night wash in the crimson stream that flowed from the blessed Redeemer's side. Miss Roy's oratory differs from her Captain's, not in being less impressive, but in containing less dramatically expressed fervour. The meeting closed with prayer. CASTLE STREET CHAPEL. This, one of the oldest Congregational chapels in town is still without a pastor. But they have been able to obtain excellent supplies. On Sunday, the Rev. Thomas Evans, late of Merthyr, now of Preston, a gentleman who is well-known as a most eloquent divine, occupied the pulpit of the above place of worship, both morning and evening. There were large attendances. In the morning the preacher selected as his text—"For He hath pre- pared for them a city," Hebrews xi, 16. The people to whom reference was made in the text all died in faith. They not only lived in faith, but died also in faith. They had faith in the promises relating to things to come. Many were anxious to know more about Heaven, but that was one of the effects of sin. There was no sun, no moon, no stars, no tears in Heaven. It was a kind of a negative aifair. Give me a land where there is no weeping and no death. If there was such a land here what emigrating would take place. There was no cemetery, no hospital, no sickness in Heaven. It was a negative description, but put the negatives all together, and they made a grand positive. If we could get a glimpse of that land, every man and woman would be wanting to emigrate there, to that land where the streets are paved with gold. Why does he represent Heaven as paved with gold ? A pavement of course was under foot. You- keep money under your feet and it will do, but woe betide the man who hugs his gold in the heart. When they will enter the city, God will be their loving Father.. Heaven is a prepared place for prepared people The only thing that can get you there, is to have Heaven within. May God give us a spirit that we might be prepared to meet him in that land above. In the evening the sacred edifice was densely crowded, so much so that benches had to be put along the aisles. The rev. gentleman selected as his text the 13th chapter of Matthew, part of the 44th verse.—"Again the kingdom of Heaven is like unto a treasure hid in a field." The leading idea of the discourse was that religion was a real treasure—a pearl of goodly price. The blessings of Christianity must not be merely general but personal —unlesethey possessed personal religion they did not get that one thing needful for support in life and in death. He disagreed with the notion that any man honoured religion—religion honoured the man. But patronising the Lord—what a sentence, what vanity and pride. The kingdom of h ? n'en in itself is a grand glorious treasure without adding anything to it. That is the estimation which God gives to it. It costs Him so much to give power, value, and force to religion, that He gave His only son to redeem man and with reverence he said that such a costly sacrifice could not be repeated. The world we live in is great, but is a little speck in the creation of God. God could create and keep on creating worlds that when they come to the work of redemption — saving men they find this was the masterpiece of God. Man's salva- tion in the estimation of God was a treasure and a pearl of great price. Calvary was the favourite spot of Heaven. He had seen some people come to Christ, but with a kind of patronising air--they did not expect to make anything out of religion. There is a kind of feeling that religion is only for the weak. Men are getting too intellectual to sit at the feet of Christ. Some sceptical minds pro- fessed to be able to unravel all the mysteries of the word of God—to explain its wonders, and tear open its hidden secrets—wonderful iconoclasts were these sceptical men but they should remem- ber that the destructive element in man is the weakest, the constructive element is the strongest. He was thankful to God for the intellect of the Apostle Paul. Paul sold all he had with joy for this pearl. No man could come to Christ unless he did it in that way-sell all they had with joy. If they only saw the value of religion, he was con- fident that all present would sell all that they had to possess it. They all had need of an enthusiasm which would enable them to spend an May God in His mercy show us the value of this pearl, and enable each of us when we die to live for ever with Him above.

In the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, a cheque- Uker of t'. e Army*»?rea sued the propria. r of the lloslierville Pl^"™ Giir^.ns f' r.,r'^FrltS reoelv« whilst a visitor to the gardens. The plaintiff was |>«SM„g a beu-'s ca<"e when the animal seized his hand and so iniured it that he had lost the use of his arm. He asked for £200 eamige., but the rry Hwarded him £ 500.— liornn Huddlcston ceit.fifd for tlwt amount. The missing Dominion Line steamer Sarnia was reported at Plymouth on Monday ss spoken by the Cork steamer Upupa. The Sarnia wis flying signals of distress and was feund to have lost lur rudder. She was rjpidly drifting at the time, but refused to be taken in tow, under tbe impre.sion that she would fall across one of the Irish tugs. The Upupa stood by her all niaht however, and left in the morning. After this a stron^ gain carat on, and the Upupa s captain thinks she must have a very rou^h tune. The Sarnia, which has a larae number of passengers, has not since been reported At the Chester Assizes on Monday. a Hindoo surgeon named Tomanzie, ag«d 40, was charged with the mur Irr of Elizabeth Tw^t, at Birkenhead, on the 25th September last. The deceased who wM 27 years of wa marmd won'.au «nd had had three or four clidd en, but for some three y. ars previously to her doa-h she ha I been imng arartfrom her hushand. She was in .service „t the A«gd Hote., Dak-street, Liverpool, »s a pantrymaul. It is alleged that the prisoner performed an uu!a*fi i operation oa the deceased, which resulted in her death from b ood-ppis mn.g the 23rd October, The o»- b»d not concluded whea the court SUM.

PUBLIC MEN AND PUBLIC MATTERS. BY FUSTIAN. During the first week of issue of the valuable little paper Tnt, Cambrian Daily Telegraph, I was honoured with a place in its columns, wherein I compared the difference in the state of society and its wants and expectations at the present time, with the period when The Cambrian was in its infancy. In my short letter I predicted, from the able manner in which the old weekly had contributed to the welfare and success of the Borough, that the new venture would usefully fill up the gap caused by the go-a-head demand of our commercial and social community. What I said then as to the ability of the editorial staff to with the growing rage for early news has fully verified, and he must be an epicure who is not satisfied with the mew. served up iu J ;1 t".reeand four editions of The Telegraph which are J 1Sf?ued to the public. I can only hope, Sir, that journLlIstfcs'ense^^51"11101'1117 has been in vL-nniH0^! T^tkout saying that the late General Election much of itcMeeni <?°'nParalively speaking, shorn of I'nfnrmA,! +1°^ 1?terest if we had not been kept i ] > stirring events of the campaign by hourly bulletins contained in The Daily Telegraph. It did good service for the Liberal cause on that memor- able occasion, when Priests, Publicans, and Petticoats combined to retard the car of progress Smarting unuer the Sunday Ciosing Act. the publi- cans may be pardoned for being antagonistic to the party who had redoced their takings by one-seventh with the dames of the Primrose League, we can afford to* sympathise in their having had the colours of their saint lowered by true patriotism but the base ingrati- tude of the Irish was really too bad. When the cry of "Justice for Ireland" rang out during the election campaign cf 1868, who more nobly rallied around the banner of the oppressed than "the loyal Weteh." Yet when the battle-cry of 1885 was ''Justice for Wales, in the Disestablishment of the Church, the Irish, almost to a man, threw themselves, heart and soul, into the ianks of their hereditary foes, the Tories, and fought tooth and nail to return to power those who the sequel has proved would chastise them, not with whips but with scorpions-who, instead of giving them Home Rule. would pass measures of a still more repressive character, which could not but fail to again raise anarchy and bloodshed in the fair Isle. How these misguided zealots have been hoist with their own petard is best seen by a reference to the division- list in the House of commons last Wednesday evening. It is to be hoped that this latest display of the would- be dominancy of Tory labdlordism will teach our Irish brethren to discriminate between those who are the true friends of Ireland and those who would rivet their chains of serfdom still closer. In mat lets, too, more closely connected with the Borough, the Dailu Telegraph, has kept the ratepayers more fully cognizant of the state cf local arfa-irs thaw could have been expected from the columns of The Cambrian, notably the suicidal war now being waged between our two great public bodies — the Harbour Trust and the Corporation. It must be a great consolation to the burgesses at large to have both sides of the question so ably discussed in your columns; but still more must it give satistaction to all rignt- thinking men to find your leaders and leaderettes espousing the cause of right and justice. All public tolls, whether on gates or bridges, are come to be looked on as relic of a bygone age and not now to be tolerated; but; those who look on both sides of the question calmly and discriminately. are not so easily given to agitation merely for the sake of gaining popularity. All will agree that if the half-penny bridge could be made free to the public it would give general satisfac- tion but, as the poll will declare, very far from all will say that it ought to be freed in the way an now demanded. Although not a betting man. I will wager a trifle that, when the poll is declared, it will be found that the majority against the Corpuration and in favour of the Trust, will more than double Mr Dillwyn's majority at the late election. I have always contended that landlordism is at the bottom of this toll bridge agitation, and that the occu- piers of SIOHII tenements the other side of the river are but dopws in their bands, as will be proved to their cost when the proper time comes for throwing the bridge open to ft,ot-l)ussengei-s-- which, however, will not be just yet, while for horse and vehicular tmffic-Denr. The Cambrian office stands nearly mid-way between the house I occupy and one of similar size a little beyond the Midland Station. I pay 8s per week for my house, and my frieud tho other side of the river pays 5s per week for his. Can any sane person imagine for oue moment that landlords will allow this ditfenmce iu rent to continue when the tolls are done away with. Again, what clap-trap to talk about amalgamating the Harbour Trust and Corporation bodies together, or rather relegating the duties of the former to the latter. The figures quoted at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last week safficiently prove the ability with which the Trust has grappled with and overcome enormous difficulties, and brought the Port to its present proud position a striking contrast to the blundering money-spending-for-no-purposo body who represent the burgesses in the Town Council. The duties apertaiuing to the two bodies diverge as far apart as are the Poles, and for the credit and stability of Swansea it is earnestly to be hoped that apart they will be kept. The expenditure of the Harbour Trust has been enormous of late. but much more will have to he expended in the near future if they would hold their own. In my opinion, lIIJ amount of writing, speechifying, or even still harder Work on the part of the Trustees will ever make Swansea a National Port; but the Port of the Bristol Channel it can, and will in lime, become, and to this end the Trustees ought to be eurou- raged to devote their best energies. In my opinion, also, it is useless to harbour the notion that Swansea will at any time become « station for the Atlantic Liners. It is Milford—and Milford only—which is destined to mono- polise thi.i great trade. Liverpool doe", uot, fear Swansea ever rivalling her in maritime affairs of It-tioaal irulnir- tance", but it is quite differeut with the Harbour which tho immortal Bard so highly eulogised. After years of patient waiting, fickle fortune has once more deigned to smile upon the town of Milford, and the sound of the hammer and chisel again ring out npon the ear, predict- ing, under the regime of a new directorate, the speedy completion of the grandest docks ia the world,—and the o eiiing of t!,e Severn Tunnel will euhanee tenfold their clftims to this appellation. Without encountering the dangers of the Channel the largest steamers afloat will be able to run into Milford, day or night, and land their pasaengera, who may be transacting business j„ London within eight hours after their arrival in port, thereby JIVING many MOUTH of valuable time as compared with the Liverpool route. H*ct8 like these should lead our great public bodies to work m unison, and assist each other in every possible way in developing tho tosources they have so richly at their command, It, is impossible for the Harbour Trust to work in a btt.er grove than tba1". which they are now ■pur.au.ug. If the Corporation has money at their command to make ducks and drakes of in a Parlii- inentarv contest, let them bethink themselves whether u would net be wiser to lay it out in such a manner as would i,r!iig grist to tht null iu the shape of increased trade to the i-nan, of fctrujghng tradesmen. Tneio would Iw "0 poll of the buiyessea required to enable the Town Council to enter on a lawsuit for the restoration of our Foreshore r-ghts and privileges, nor wouid the nec is.sary m mey be begrudged which would transform tho embankment into a grand prorcenat'e such as wouid attract visitors and invalids, and make Swansea what it once WIIf-a health-giving and pleatuie-seekine rescrt. Instead of fighting against fite let the wise men of the Eust manfully accept the inevitable until a more convenient season and lec tLeoL say to the Harbour Trust, "You go on developing the port, and we will use our best energies iu the adorn- ment of the town, so that it shall no longer be a reproach and a byeword, and to commence we will at once set about makinw vs streets presen:able.M Conduct such as this would commend itself to all, and would infuse new life and vigour into our trades- men and shoplctepets, who would see in the improvement of the town and its suhurbs the sure prospect of an increased demand for their wares by the sttady influx of r jady-icouey customers. For my own part I cannot but think that the sup- porter I of the Bill are only.waiting a favourable oppor- tunity to thow up the sponpp, itS they must ere this have been convinced that the a: tempt to carry it in Parlia- ment after the public exjjressiom of all our locul M.IVa wou:d be simp'.y preposterous. Let us hope. therefore, thai wiser coui;suls v/dl prevail, and the Borough sltvtld an enormous expense, and that both bodits will go CD. as heretofore, working harmoniously together for the gjod of the community at lar^e.

A woman named Cuddity died on Tuesday of injuriVs alleged to be inflicted by fr-r buebacd At BoUyiutltigJi Monday night.