The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

^EKIONETH7! FINAL 0 DECISION. J* Saturday last Mr OSMOND WILLIAMS, hose father was the first Liberal mem- for Merionethshire, was chosen to be Liberal candidate. We think the Vision does great credit to the mind heart of the electors of the county. *hat there have been great differences of ilon is well known, and that the 11. 1"lLls have successfully passed through MOST trying ordeal is perfectly obvious anyone who has followed the course of action since the late member first announced his intention to resign. We (uestion whether another constituency i Wales, or even in the United LNSDOM, could have come out of difficult a situation SO triumphantly. th do not mean triumphantly as regards tl1 e candidate chosen, but as regards the e ethods pursued and the loyalty of ejerybody from first to lasf, including Actors, officials, candidates, and delegates, o Mr LEIF JONES had been adopted, Mr J SJIOND WILLIAMS would have worked j0r him, and would have been just as Q Ya. as he has always been. We are 1 ^ignedly glad that the choice of the Ajority has fallen upon a native of the who is a resident. The Con- decided on Saturday not to Mr OSMOND WILLIAMS, who will e duly nominated and elected to-day Friday), and thus a long and ,cxciting PerIod of political unrest was brought to peaceful and highly satisfactory coll- ision. The meeting last Saturday wr»s <.J ^larknble in several aspects. To begin ^uh Dr ROGER HUGHES presided, and really excellent in his management of e excited meeting. We defy anybody 7? tell which way he leaned, for he l<i not seem to have any bias. He strong, intelligent, prompt, and kept meeting well in hand. It is not -JSicult to understand why Merioneth lt»eralism is strong when there are el1 like Dr ROGER HUGIIES to pre- !!)de over deliberations, and, if needs be, to take strong action in other ways. A Second feature that came out strongly was complete nature of the organization the faithfuln ess of the delegates and 2^cials to the rules of the Association. hird, and the most encouraging feature ] all, there was the intelligence, and earnestness of the delegates ,.e|t>selves. They were about equally lyided, and they felt very strongly, ^t nothing was said or done—or scarcely anything-that cannot easily be excused, and the decision was accepted, as we eue\e it Wouj,] have been accepted either way if the majority had only been one, and that by the casting vote of the CHAIRMAN. Mr LmF JONES HAS NOT succeeded, but there is still time for him to tight a battle, in some constituency, and perhaps to win a geat for the Liberals he would not, have won as the Member for Merionethshire, The position he achieved in Merionethshire ought to help him elsewhere. The probabilities are great against the next Parliament sitting for five years, however strong the Conservative majority may bs, and°it is to be hoped that Wales will be ready for whatever may happen In the future. We believed from the first that the Sectors were quite able to choose a candidate without newspaper interference-, and there can be no question, we think, that the back-handed sort of help some of the candidates received in Manchester, Liverpool, and local vernacular papers did them more harm thin good. It is to be hoped, as Mr EvAN JONES, Bala, Put it, that though feeling had run high it would subside, &nd that they work together as one ma-n. We Relieve the choice is a wise choice, and that the electors will have in Mr OSMOND j WILLIAMS a representative who will always be accessible, and who will be as. rue in the House of Commons to liberalism as he has been true in the j Constituency. Merionethshire Liberals, we re sure, have done a far greater thing during the past few weeks than choose a candidate—they have shown that they can differ in opinion and yet work in unity, and that they can be loyal to their own principles under the most trying circumstances. Wales might learn much from Merionethshire. We do not mean that there are not differences of opinion, but those differences are more i apparent than real as time will pro- bably show.

THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES. ANOTHER session of the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth has begun, and from the increase in the number of students, both men and women, there are good reasons to feel that the insti- tution is not only becoming more appre- ciated, but is every year becoming more worthy of the appreciation. Growth has been so rapid as to frighten the more timid lest the College should in the end be more highly appreciated in England than in Wales. We trust that the timid will take heart, as nothing can be better for the Institution from a purely Welsh point of view than for the Welsh students to compete with students of other nationalities There has been an- other far, namely, that the women students would outnumber the men. We do not say that this fear has had much influence on the policy of the College, and we trust it never will have any influence oa its policy. Women are as important in every respect as men, and it is to be hoped that the doors of the College will always be thrown widely open, and that there will be no attempt whatever to restrict or to hinder the growth of the Institution. One of the great difficulties the governing bodies are always face to face with arises out of the terdency of the Institution to out- strip its accommodation and means. This tendency, coupled with academic timidity of financial responsibility, forms an obstacle to progress of a very serious kind. There are many directions in which new developments are required, and more still in which old developments need to be extended. The timid person wants to have money in hand before he moves. The bolder business man knows that it is easier to pay off a debt of a thousand pounds than to raise a hundred to start something fresh. A hlJstel for men is required. We do not mean that all the men students should be forced into residence, but the present system has serious drawbacks, and if there were a hostel for men, as we understand there may be soon, it is likely there would be an immediate increase in the Lumber of men students. Aberystwyth as a centre for Wales is becoming more and more freely recognized. Its geographical position is good, and as the means of communication improve the old objection as to difficulty of access will cease to have weight. The town has grown in spite of a retrograde. Town Council, and by patient perseverance village survivals are one by one got rid of. We have no doubt that other colleges will be built, and the existing College will be greatly increased in all sorts of ways. A law department has now been assured. Quite apart from the teaching departments of the College it is a large business, and it is as a business concern that we see great room for development and expansion. You cannot grow an oak tree in a small flower pot, and if the College is to grow it must have room to grow, and it must be provided with the means to do new work and to extend old work. In technical instruction, in the training of elementary teachers, and in other directions there is plenty of scope if those who have the management of the College in their hands have the necessary insight and courage to be the first to move. There is no reason why Aberystwyth should not become a town of colleges if its affairs were in the hands of capable men. The place has great nataral and other advantages, and looking back at the growth of the past thirty years there is much ground for hope. The old enemies of Aberystwyth are either dead, or con- verted, or powerless. There are some of the original founders and supporters of the College still on its governing bodies. They have great cause for satisfaction in looking at the Institution, and we hope they will do whatever is necessary to inspire these with courage who took tIp the work later on. Let the governing bodies never forget that every goal is a starting place and that all fruit is seed. The University College of Wales has not done growing, for we look forward to the time when it will contain not fewer than a thousand students. There are difficulties in the way, of course. If there were no difficulties in the way of every great movement there would be no great move- ments. It is to be hoped that the new session will he marked by success, by progress, and by growth.

A BUNDLE OF UNTKULHS. THE average voter does not realise how dies and misrepresentation and inuendo wound the heart and embitter the life of the upright candidate who seeks to serve his fellows in Parliament. The Welsh have a taying that the tree in the forest that rises above the other trees is sure to catch most of the wind. Mr LLOYD GEORGE stands above the other candidates in this general election, and if he is defeated, or if his narrow majority can be reduced, then not only will the Conservatives in the Carnarvon Boroughs be rejoiced, but the Government will be pleased, and Mr CHAMBERLAIN himself will be delighted. It is a s'id thing that Colonel PLATT should have sanctioned in his address the publication of untruths in reference to Mr LLOYD GEORGE. Political life is bitter enough at best without men who claim to be gentlemen condescending to the least departure from truth and equity. At Conway, on Monday night, Colonel PLATT attempted to interpret and defend his untrue assertions in reference to Mr LLOYD GEORGE and failed. What Mr LLOYD GEORGE had said any other Christ- ian gentleman-Mr CHAMBERLAIN will excuse us—might have said. It certainly seems as if Colonel PLATT'S address had been prepared for him by somebody who did not think it necessary to be as careful as is now found essential. Mr LLOYD GEORGE is a Liberal. He does not deny his Liberalism and is willing to take all the consequences of his political faith, and to bear whatever arises from the action that is the outcome of his faith. What he is not billing to bear is that he should be grossly misrepresented, and that the people should be prrsuaded to vote against a purely imaginary LLOYD GEORGE. We ask o^r readers—the rank and file of the Liberals in the Carnarvon Boroughs—to cast aside the lies and aspersions and muencioes which have been launched against him by political assassins in osticr to murder his political life. He is^ fighiiajj l}1,, battle of the people. \v that he is fighting our battle, and we ask our readers who are Liberals, especially those who do not see eye to eye with him, to put aside all differences and to give to him the support he has so freely and ungrudg- ingly given to them. In future struggles n ZD for greater freedom we will, if needs be, differ from Mr LLOYD GEORGE and we will criticise his words and acts, but when he stands before the electors as the champion of honesty in politics, and is face to face with unscrupulous foes, we are not going to play into the hands of his enemies and ours merely because Mr LLOYD GEORGE differs with us as to the best way of doing something that we all feel to be desirable. If Mr LLOYD GEORGE were merely a.n ordinary member of Parliament we would not ask the electors of the Boroughs to strip themselves for the fight on his behalf and to make sacrifices for his return. But he is not an ordinary member of Parliament. He has successfully attacked the most powerful member of the Government—Mr CHAMBERLAIN—and all the forces that can be used to secure Mr GEORGE'S defeat will be used unscrupulously. We believe that Mr LLOYD GEORGE has done more to damage the Government than any other member of the House of Commons, and it is for the electors of the Carnarvon Boroughs to say whether he shall receive from them a mandate to continue the work which, as far as we can see, there is nobody else so well qualified I as he to accomplish. The letter Colonel PLATT has received from Mr CHAMBER- LAIN will deceive nobody, but it ought to show the Liberal electors of the Boroughs how important the contest is. Send Mr GEORGE back to Parliament and he will show Mr CHAMBERLAIN who is the gentleman. It is like the im- pertinence of Mr CHAMBERLAIN to accuse Mr LLOYD GEORGE of ungentlemanly behaviour We do not plead with the Conservatives: they will vote for Colonel PLATT. We do not plead with a certain large body of Liberals they are as safe and as eager as Mr LLOYD GEORGF, himself. We plead with those who do not profess to understand all compli- cated public questions, and who are so bewildered by first one charge and then another brought against their candidate that at last they say they will wash their hands of the whole business, and leave the chief people to fight the matter out as best they can. This is just what we do not want the perplexed Liberal voter to do. We want him to take interest in Mr LLOYD GEORGE—to admire and support him, and above all to vote for him on the day of election. We do not want this for the sake alone of Mr LLOYD GEORGE, although he deserves more than this for all he has done and suffered in public life, but for the sake of Liberalism, and for the sake of those who in times past have witnessed for freedom on block and pyre and scaffold. We are not going to defend Mr LLOYD GEORGE from charges of bribery, or conspiracy, or collusion with the QUEEN'S enemies. We should as soon think of defending him from charges of indecision, or cowardice, or feeblemesp, and even his greatest and bitterest foes will not venture to accuse him of these faults. We ask the electors to believe that Mr LLOYD GEORGE is worthy of the trust he speks-the trust he has held so lustrously that the whole constituency shines in the light of it, and has made this contest one of the principal contests in the United Kingdom. It is not only the re-election of Mr LLOYD GEORGE we want. We want an increased majority, so that Mr CHAMBERLAIN, whether he comes down to assist Colonel PLATT or not, may not be able to say in the House of Com- mons that the course Mr GEORGF. has pursued in reference to Government contracts has brought him, and not Mr CHAMBFRLAIN, into discredit. There are sufficient Liberals in any one of the contributory boroughs to do all that ia needed. Pwllheli, for instance, could easily render itself and Liberalism a great service by polling more heavily than on former occasions for Mr LLOYD GEORGE. We have not said anything in this or former articles against Colonel PLATT, the Conservative candidate. We regret that he in his address and the Con- servatives in other ways have descended to misrepresentation against Mr LLOYD GEORGE. If Colonel PLATT is to be defeated he should be defeated in a fair fight because he is a Conservative and the majority of the constituency is Liberal, and not because somebody in the Liberal camp can concoct a series of lies that have an appearance of truth and rob him of votes. What is true of Colonel PLATT is equally true of Mr LLOYD GKOROR. He ought not to be defeated by Conservative lies and misrepresenta- tions, nor do we think he will be defeated by them, but if he wins it will be because the rank and file of the people are intelligent and understand the issues that aie raised. There has unquestionably been a great rallying up to the Liberal standard bearer in the Carnarvon Boroughs, and it is to be hoped that those who have the issue in thtir hands will realize its important nature, and will hurl back to their foul source the lies and misrepresentatiolli with which it has been sought to pervert and becloud the great question submitted to the electors, which is whether for the next seven years the Conservatives are to rule the country without the slightest Liberal criticism or control. /;)

THE RESIGNATION OF MR D. U. ROBERTS. IN the course of the secret discussion held in committee at the last Aber- ystwyth Council meeting in reference to the Terrace-road Corporation lease, an allegation was made by the MAYOR. Mr D. C. ROBERTS asked for an apology and subsequently left the meeting. He has since resigned his position in the Council, and has sent the necessary cheque and intimation to the TOWN CLERK. For obvious reasons we do not discuss this step or the conditions which gave rise to it.

EDITORIAL NOTES. The Aberystwyth Town Council are dis- cussing the propriety of allowing the Govern- ment to fire guns over what will be a prominent thoroughfare. Is comment neces- sary ? Sir PRYSE PKYSE, Gogerddan, gives prizes for root and other crops. The judge, in his re- port on the root crops, suggested the addition of another prize, which Sir PRYSE has given. The scandalous lie that Lord ROBERTS wishes the Conservatives to win the election has been contradicted by Lord ROBERTS, but most likely it has done the work it was intended to do. And yet the liars are not ashamed! They had evidently accepted the lowest tender. It is said that at a Welsh chapel in Cardiff, on a recent Sunday, the members of the congregation one by one stood up and continued to stand. As each one stood up there was a ripping, tearing noise. The new varnish stuck and the paint also—to the clothes. The estimated loss was about £100. The saving in varnish was about seventeen shillings and sixpence, but no doubt they got the lowest tender 1 The Cambrian Railway traffic returns again this week show a considerable increase over the corresponding week of last year. The in- crease for the half-year is now £ 1,508. • • Not only has Mr LABOUCHERE not been defeated at Northampton, but a second Liberal has been returned and a seat won for the Liberals. The war business has been overdone, it seems. « Mr JOHN BURNS has been returned for Battersea with an increase of one in his majority. He has been very strong against the war and his defeat was expected by the Jingoes. The Liberals have held their own in Manchester. « ♦ The Liverpool Licensing Sessions resulted in a net reduction of fifty-eight houses in the city. This reduction will hit some of the brewery companies very hard, but whether the con- sumption of alcoholic drinks will be reduced is doubtful. Mr D. A. THOMAS is having to defend him- self against Mr PRITCHARD MORGAN, who has spent a good deal of his time in China. We think Mr D. A. THOMAS is quite equal to the task. Our Merionethshire readers know some- thing of Mr PRITCHARD MORGAX and his methods. Criccieth has a case in reference to the poor accommodation at the railway station and the town is determined to push its case. Criccieth is a growing place and its needs ought to be met. The Railway Company is to be ap- proached, and it is to be hoped the repre- sentatives of the town will be well and favour- ably received. < < The war in South Africa still lingers on, but large engagements are things of the past. The work of bringing back the forces has been commenced, and it is said that several pro- minent leaders are negotiating for a surrender, but wish their names to be withheld. The task of restoring peace may be protracted, but it is now quite clear that Boer resistance only takes the shape of guerrilla warfare, although it results in daily loss of life on both sides. On Wednesday the Western Mail was quite flat over the defeat of Sir Joll-N LLEWELYN by Sir GEORGE NEWNES. Our contemporary could not raise a crow of any sort, for the pollings of Tuesday showed a net gain to the Liberals, and even a gain of one to the Liberals as far as the pollings had gone. This was depressing for the "flowing tiders," but things may mend from a Tory point of view. The Western illail may claim some of the credit for the victory of Sir GEORGE NEWNES. People do not like the way the Mail treats its political opponents. The Brewers' Association at Birmingham are ivilling to surrender twenty licences. Brewers have found, what the drink returns prove, that reducing the number of licensed houses does not reduce either the drink traffic or the drink profits. The teetotaler says that if everybody was teetotal there would be no drunkards. Quite true, but everybody is not teetotal, and in the meantime the teetotaler keeps a still tongue in his head in reference to awkward situations. At the last meeting of Criccieth Council there was some sharp talk about an alleged nuisance and the action or inaction of the SURVEYOR. Mr J. T. JONES brought the matter forward and had a case, we think, until he accused the SURVEYOR of favouring people who go to the same chapel as he goes to. The SURVEYOR wanted an enquiry, and he ought to have one. The old and common mistake was made by Mr J. T. JONES, namely, of mixing up three or four questions. The subject cannot, in the interests either of the SURVEYOR or ratepayers, rest where it is. ♦ It seems as if Mr CHAMBERLai>T had abolished the Conservatives, for some of the papers only give Liberals and Unionists in the election returns. The election is Mr CHAMBER- LAe(s election, and if there is any falling off in the majority he will be debited with it. If there is an increased Conservative majority he ought to be credited with it, but the whole Government will claim that. He is bidding high. He says that every seat lost to the Government is a seat gained to the Boers. This is rubbish, as the two republics are annexed, but nearly anything is good enough, in Mr CHAMBERLAIN'S opinion, to tell to the electors. < Mr BALFOUR, in his speech in the Prestwich division of Lancashire, on Tuesday night, dwTelt on the inconsistency of the Liberal party in opposing the war last year, and in now pro- fessing a belief in the necessity for the annexa- tion of the republics. We have destroyed the two republics, and unless we take possession of the countries they will be at the mercy of any power that chooses to take them. There might be a good deal of opposition in a woman's family against a certain man marry- ing her, but if he did marry her, the woman's family might justly insist upon his keeping her. A course of action may be objected to because of its probable results, but if the course is pursued nothing is gained by not accepting the results. .y. There are signs .that the election, if it does nothing else, is going to unite the Liberal party once more, and we may, perhaps, have to date the revival of Liberalism from the disastrous election of 1900. We think the country is awakening, but the Conservatives will most likely increase their majority, although that is not the present trend of the polls. Activity that does not begin until after Parliament is dissolved is too late to retrieve an election. There is something quite pitiful in the appeal of the Conservatives not to consider any ques- tion but the war. If the election could be carried on for three months the Liberals would secure a majority, but they will all be over in less than three weeks. At a recent meeting of the Church Congress the Rev J. W. HORSLEY, of Walworth, gave a terrible picture of overcrowding of the poor in London, where nearly half a million had homes consisting of one room. Fourteen hundred one- roomed houses in Spitalfields were occupied by from four to eleven persons, and in one in- stance seventeen persons inhabited a single room. He showed how the evil was productive of crime, drunkenness, and immorality. He warmly urged the need of efforts to check the evil. To preach temperance, soberness, and chastity to dwellers in insanitary dens without attempting to ameliorate their conditions was more than futility; it was an irreligious absurd- ity. The conditions of overcrowding and in- sanitation were illegalities, and those who pro- fited by them were criminals. He strongly urged it was the duty of the clergy to take up the matter which affected other parts of the country as well as London. We are sure that if the churches took up this work they would have the people with them. But the churches are afraid, for the owners of these hell-hovels are members of the churches, and therefore it is only a minister here and there who is not afraid to speak out. Some women have been writing to the daily papers. One of them says You consider it a grievance that householders should be disfranchised, by removal, for one election. Is it not a far greater grievance for them to be disfranchised permanently ? I pay rents and rates for two houses, having occupied them for ten and eight years respectively, I have studied politics from my youth up, I am over forty, I am not related to any elector, I hold a university degree, and-I have no vote I" The saddest thing about the non-enfranchisement of women is that every year at the meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation a resolution is carried with great enthusiasm in favour of working politically for parliamentary candidates who avow that they are opposed to women's enfranchisement. That women should be such absolute idiots as to do this is proof that they are not fit to be entrusted with votes. It is impossible for women to be enfranchised until they want to be enfranchised, and as long as they will work politically for their op- ponents they cannot want their supporters to succeed. The women in this district are not likely to work politically for their opponents. The EMPEROR of CHINA will be sorry to hear that Mr PRITCHARD MORGAN has been defeated at Merthyr, but other people will bear his defeat with quite proper resignation. # Although Lord ROBERTS has [emphatically contradicted the lie that he wants the Conser- vatives to be returned to power, the Western Mail still goes on printing it. This is the sort of thing that degrades the newspaper press. ♦ The prominent Liberals in the Carnarvon Boroughs who differed from Mr LLOYD GEORGE on the war are all supporting him on the ground that he is a good Liberal and a first- rate representative. The great thing is to vote for him and to increase his majority. Colonel PRYCE-JONES'S address appears in another column. Everybody feels that he has been a good member, and we do not think he will be defeated. He believes that the war in South Africa was "just and inevitable." Well, he will not be returned because of his war policy, but because he is a strong candidate, and because he is personally popular. The Liberals will make a fight for the seat, but it says a good deal that they had to go away from home for a candidate. The MASTER of the Machynlleth Workhouse was ordered to remove some refuse, but he did not think the order was one that need be obeyed in a hurry, so at last the Town Council decided to summon the Guardians, and there seemed to be an idea that the Council had been unkind to the Board. It is high time that refuse should be removed, and it is almost time that officials should be made to realize that orders given are really intended to be acted upon. «- The Ziska," the police boat of the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries Board has this week come round into Cardigan Bay on a trial trip and inspection. The Chairman of the Board, Mr JOHN FELL, and other members of the Board were present. The University College of Wales might take action in order to establish a marine labora- tory, on lines similar to that at Plymouth and other places. The Government aids the laboratories with grants. There is much work that needs to be done in this department. The Daily Chronicle wants to know how it is that so many of the London members of Parliament are Conservatives. One reason is obvious, namely, that papers like the Chronicle play down to the Jingo crowd and are just Cockney in spirit. It may be true that under "fair and wholesome conditions the Liberals of "London can hold their own, and more than "their own." The conditions arc neither fair nor wholesome when great newspapers take their bias from the crowd and howl with it as long as the howling is popular. London Liberalism needs champions. At the Aberystwyth Town Council, on Tues- day, the MAYOR moved an amendment, as we suggested last week, to the recommendation of the Finance Committee not to grant a lease to the Rev EDWYX JONES, and the lease was granted by eight to six. Mr D. C. ROBERTS left the meeting and did not vote. The Council had.the grace to discuss the matter in committee. The premises cannot be touched for twenty years and then it would have come into the hands of the Council. This is the end of one chapter in a long and important controversy. The bulk of the ratepayers do not understand or take interest in the subject, but they will understand it, we think, before the expiration of the present lease. This final act deprives the majority of the Council, in our opinion, of any claim to be impartial. That the Council can grant leases to whomsoever they please is certain, but whether they should exercise the right is another question. We shall see now what will happen. « ♦ During the height of the war fever it was positively dangerous for an opponent of the war to venture to express an opinion adverse to that unrighteous strife. Speakers were howled down, and they were practically told by Jingo newspapers that it was quite right they should be howled down. We anticipated that a time would come when that brutal system would be applied to Conservatives and would not be found to be acceptable. One night, since the dissolution of Parliament, a Conservative meeting was held at Battersea. Mr WYXDHAM was present. The Standard says that "a mob of Mr BURNS'S ruffianly sup- "porters-we hope without the knowledge and approval of the Radical candidate himself— took possession of the hall and shouted down the speakers by mere force of lung-power. A party which is reduced to breaking-up meetings and stifling discussion is simply conscious of its own weakness." We thought the Standard had agreed that in future the "rough" was to rule public meetings in this country. Perhaps there is to be an exception when the "rough" is a Liberal. Dolgelley is anxious to advertise itself. Mr EDWARD WILLIAMS brought the subject for- ward at the last meeting of the Town Council and a committee was formed. There can be no doubt that a great deal could be done both at Dolgelley and elsewhere to make the beauty of the district known, but the best way of all of advertising Wales is to keep it clean and to get lodging house keepers to realize that visitors want order and tidiness and, as a rule, have a prejudice against horse-hair chairs, sofas with broken springs, beds that squeak every time the occupant moves, stuffed chimneys, and windows that will not open. We tried for years to advertise Dolgelley in a very efficient way during the summer season, but we could not get sufficient support and had to abandon the scheme. Machynlleth is also moving in the same direction. One thing is certain, namely, that if these and other towns are to achieve anything they must work together and must do that which is within reach. A licensing appeal of great importance is likely to come before the Courts. Mr W. S. CARMICHAEL, the secretary to Lipton's, Limited, was an applicant for leave to sell drink in a shop belonging to the Company. The matter came up by way of renewal, as the permission had been granted on a previous occasion. But the magistrates meanwhile contracted doubts as to the legality of Mr CARMICHAEI.'S position. He does not keep a shop, according to their judgment, and this, it appears, the Act requires. Therefore, they declined to grant his application. It is for the convenience of the directors of Lipton's that Mr CARMICHAEL is put forward for these off- licences, and he already holds upwards of 200 of them in various parts of the country. The question raised, it will be seen, is whether a number of people who form a company can bold hundreds of licences. We wish it were possible to get temperance reformers to deal with abuses in the drink traffic instead of trying to repress social customs—a task which history has shown to be impossible. Social customs may change, but they cannot be repressed.

CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS.—Approximate return of traffic receipts for the week ending September 30th, 1900: Miles open, 250. Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 3,864; merchandise, minerals, and live stock, £ 3,211 tutal for the week, £ 7,075 aggregate from commencement of half-year, £105,655 Actual traffic receipts for the corresponding week last year: Mites open. 250. Passengers, parols, &c., £ 3,494; merchtiudisc, minerals, and live stock, 93,016; total for the we*k, 96.510 aggre- gate from commencement of half-year, fl04 147. Increase for the week Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 370 merchandise, minerals, and livestock, £ 195 total for the week, £ 565 aggregate from com- mencement of half-year, £ —, Decrease for the week Passengers, parcels, &c, £ — merchandise, minerals, and Ji,'e stock, E-- total for the week, E-; aggregate from commencement of half-year, E-, Aggregate increase Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 887 j m- rchandise, minerals, and live stock, 1621 total for the week, aggregate from commencement of half-year, f 1,508. Aggregate de- crease passengera, parcel, &c., C-; merchan- dise, minerals, and live stock, zC- total for the wetk, £-; aggregate from commencement of half- year,

OLD FALSE TEETH BOUGHT. Many Ia<ii< s and gentleman have by them old or disused false teeth which might as well be turned into moiiey, IMessrs R. II und J. B. Fr?iser, of Princes, trebt, Ipswich (^stublished since 1833), buy old false tetth. If you send your t<:cth to them they w 11 remit you by return post the utmost value or, if preferred, tnvy will nlllke you the best offer and \;01,1 the teeth over for your reply. Ii reference ut ce,sary, apply to Mesirs Bacon and Co,, Bankers, Ipswich. :111

THE NEW PARLIAMENT. MGMBERS ELECTED. The following have been elected members of the new House ot Commons, the asterisk (*) affixed to names indicating that the members sat in the last Parliament. C denotes Conservative; LU, Liberal Unionist; L, Liberal; Lab, Labour Soc, Socialist; N, Nationalist:— THE METROPOLIS. C LU L London (City) *Alban Gibbs. 1 — Sir J. Dimsdale 1 ■— — Battei L-.ea .I iburns 1 Camberwell Dulwich.Sir J. B. Maple. 1 Chelsea *0. A. Whitmore 1 — — Clapbam *P. M. Thornton 1 — — Deptford *A. H. A. Morton 1 — Fiusbury, Holborn *J. T. Remnant. 1 Fulham. *W. Haves Fisher 1 — Greenwich *Lord Hugh C-cil 1 Hamrstead *E.Brodie Hoare I — — Islington, South *Sir A. Pollit 1 — — East *B. L. Cohen 1 — — North 'G. C. T. Bardey 1 — West *T. Lough — I Kensiogton, South.Earl Percy I — Lambeth, Brixton *Sir R. Mowbray I — Kennington *F. L. Cook I — North F. Horner 1 — — Norwood *C. E. Tritt-.n I — — Lewishain *J Penn 1 — — Padciington, South. "Sir T. G. Far.lell I — — I North *J. Aird 1 — — St. George's, Han- over-square .Col. H. Legge 1 — — Strand -W. F. D. Smith I — — Wandsworth *H. Kimber 1 West Ham, North .E. Gray 1 South *-Nlajor Bares I — — Westminster W. Burdett- Coutts. I- — Woolw,lch *Colonel H uehes 1 ENGLISH BOROUGHS. Ashton-under-Llyne *H Whiteiey 1 Astou Manor .E. Cecil. 1 Barrow-in-Furness .Sir C. W. Cayzer 1 Bith *Col. Wyndham- Murray 1 *E. R. Wode- houte 1 Bedfcr,i -C. 0. rym .i- Birkenhead *Sir Elliott Lees. 1 — — Birmingham, West.. "J. Chamberlain 1 — Central E. Parkee 1 — Bordesley '"Jesse Coliings — 1 Edghaston *F. W. Lowe 1 North. "J, T. Middlemor 1 — South 'j. Powell_ Wnis.- 1 — Blackburn -SirW.B.HorLibyI — — *Sir W. Codding- ton .I — — Bolton R. Shepherd Cross 1 — — *G. Harwood — — 1 Bosten .W. Garfit. 1 — — Bradford. East *Capt F. Grevilie I — — Central *J. L. Wanklyn1 — West *E. Flower 1 Brighton *G. W. E. Loder 1 — — *B. Wentworth. I Bristol, West *Sir M. Hicks- Beach 1 — Bury, St. Eclmuudis.-Sir E. W. Greene 1 — — Cambridge *Sir R. U. Fitz. gerald 1 — — Canterbury .J H. Heaton. 1 — — Carlisle *W C. Gully — — 1 Chatham *Sir B. D. DaviesI — — Cheltenham J. T. Agg-Gardcer 1 — — Christctiurch .Major K. R. Bal- four I — — Coventry *C. J. Murray 1 — — Croydon *C.r.Ritchie 1 — — Darlington *H. P. P-ase 1 — Derby Sir T. Poe — 1 R. Bell — Lab Davenpoit *H. E. Kearley — — 1 'E. J. C. Mcirton — 1 Dewsbury *M. Oldroyd — — 1 Dover *G. Wyndfai-n. 1 — — Dudley 'B. Robinson 1 — — Durham 'A. R. D. Elliot — 1 — Kxeter ~*Sir E. Vincent 1 — — Gloucester R. Rea. — — 1 Grantham. A. Priestley — — 1 Gravesend. G Park"f I Great Yarmouth *Sir J. Colomb .I- Grimsby *G.:Dougli;lv — 1 — Hartlepool Sir C. Furness. — — 1 Hastings .Freeman Thomas — — 1 Hereford J. S Arkwright 1 — — Hiidderbfield *Sir J. T. Wood. hosse — — I Hythe *Siz E. safleon.I — — Ipswich. *D. F. Goddard — — 1 Sir C. Dalrymple I — — Kidderminster Sir A. Godson 1 — — King's Lynn *T. G. Bowles.1 — — Leicester .H. Broa.dhurst.. — 1 Sir J. Rolleston 1 — — Lincoln *C. R. Seely .1 — Liverr.ool, Walton.J. R. Sto,-k 1 — Abercromby *W. F. Lawrence 1 — East Toxteth *A. F. YVarr 1 — Everton *Sir J. A. Willox I — West Derby *L. W. Higgin- bottom I — West Toxtetli *R. P. Houston 1 — Manchester, East. *A. J. Baifour 1 — N(,rth-East -Sir J. Fergusson1- — iNorth-West *Sir W. Houlds. worth 1 — South .W. R. W. Peel — 1 — South-West *W. J. Galloway1 — — Middlesborough Colonel Sadler. 1 — — Northamptcn J. G. Shipman. — 1 *H. Labouchere — 1 Norwich "Sir S Hoare 1 — — "Sir H. Bullard. 1 — — Nottingham, East .E. Bond 1 — — South "Lord H.Bemiock 1 — — West *J. H. Yoxall. — ] Oldham 'A. Rrrmc)tt — 1 WinstonChurchtll 1 Oxford -*X'ise'nt Valentia 1 — — Penryn and Fali-nouth*P. J. Hornirrau I Pet-rborougi *R. Purvis I — Plymouth H. E. Duke 1 — — 'Ivor Guest 1 — — Prestcn W. Hanbury 1 — — *W. E. M. Tom- linson 1 — — Reading *G. W. Palmer. — 1 Rochdale *Col C. M. Royds 1 — — Rochester *Viscount Cran- borne 1 — — Salford, South J. E. Groves 1 — — North .F. Patt-HigginsI — West *Dees Krowies 1 — — Salisbury W. Palmer 1 — — Scarborough .J. C. Rickett — — 1 Sheffie!d, Attereliffe.*B. Langley — — 1 Brightside. J. Fitzilin Hope 1 — — Central -I;ir H. VmceDt.. 1 — — Eccleshall °Sir E. Ashmead- Bartlett I — — Hallam C. B. Stuart- Wortley 1 — — Shrewsbury *H. D. G,-eene .I — — Stafford -C. E. Shaw — 1 Stdybridge M. White Ridley 1 — — Stockton-on-Tees Colonel Ropner.-I — — Stoke-on-Trent *D. B. Coghill .I — — Taunton Colon,l Welbey 1 — — Tynemouth F. L. Harris 1 — — Wakefield *Viscourt Iklilton-I — Walsall Sir A. D. Hunter — J Warwick & Leamington'A Lyttleton 1 — '.Vednpsbury W. D. Gaeen 1 — WestBromwich .E. Spencer 1 — — Whitchaven *A. Belcler .I — — Wigan *Sir F. S. PowellI — — Windeor *SirF.Tress Barry 1 — — Wolverhamptou,Ear,t*Sir H. Fovler. I South W. H. Norman. — — 1 West 'Sir A. Hickman. 1 — — Worcester G. H. Allsopp 1 — — York J. G,Butch,,r.-I- — *G. D. F;%b-r .I — ENGLISH COUNTIES.1 Berkshire, Abingdon. ".A. E. Lloyd 1 — Newbury WT. A. Mount. 1 — — Wokingham E. Lloyd 1 — Bucks, Aylephury. *W. Rothschild I — Cheshire, Edisbury.*H. J. Tollem- ache 1 — — KnatsforO *A. De Tatton Egertnn 1 — — .Nlacclesfield W. Bromley. Davenport. 1 — — Derbyshire West. *Victor Caven- disli 1 — LJe'l'onshire,Totncs. "E'. B. intildmay 1 — Honiton -*SirJ.KenDaway 1 — — South "G. Lambert. — — 1 Tiverton *SirW.Walron(II — — Dorsetshire West *Ccl. Williams 1 — — Durham, Jarrow. 'Sir M. Palmer — — 1 Gloucestershire— Circenster *A. B. Bathurst 1 —- — Tewkesbury.S:rJ.Dor:t;gton I — — Thornbury .C E H A Oo'istou ] — — Hamphshire— Basingstoke *A. F. Jeffreys. 1 — — New Forest "J.ScottMontagu 1 — Petersfisld.. "W. G.Nicholson 1 — — Herefordshire, South C^pta n P. Clive — 1 Leominster 'Sir J. Rankin.•• 1 Hertfordshire- Hertford *Abe.]Smith 1 — — Hitchin C. B. Hudson 1 St Albatis *V. Gibbs 1 — — Watford *T. F. Halsey 1 — Lie of Wight ° Capt J. Seely — 1 Kent, Faversham Captain J.Howard 1 — Dartford "Sir W. Hart Dyke 1 Isle of Thanet 'J- Lowther 1 Medway *Colonel Warde 1 — St Auguatine 2 1. k e r s Douglas i — Lancashire, Chorley*Lord Baloarreg 1 — Blackpool. w.Sir M. White Ridley 1 — Ince .'ColoneJBiundell 1 — Rossendale .W. Mather 1 R.. Lancashire, Bottle ° Col. Sandys. 1 Ormskirk *A. Stanley 1 — -Nli(l,dlesex, Ealing *LordGHamilton 1 — — Brentford J. Bigwnol 1 Hornsey C. B. Balfonr.. I Uxbridge *S:r F. D-xon- HartlaDd 1 Monmouth, South *Col. Morgan I inorthumberland- Berwi,k *Sir E. Grey i Nottingliamshire- Newark.•Sir C. G. Welby — 1 Oxfordshire— Woodstock *G. H. Morrell. 1 — Rutlandshire 'G. H. Finch. 1 Shropshire, Newport 'Colonel Kenyon- Slcney 1 Lt)dlow *J. More 1 Oswestry S. Leigh ton I — Somersetshire, Wells "'R. F. Dickinson 1 — Pridgwater *E. J. Stanlry 1 — —. Staffordshire, West *A. Henderson. 1 Kandsworth 4-Sir H. M^-yeey- Thompeon ] Kingswinford Col. W.G. Webb 1 — Surrey, Reigate *H. Cubit, I Kingston *T. Skewes Cox I Wimbledon E. Hambro. I Sussex, Chichester *Lord E. Talbot I T,-wes *Sir H. Fl< tcher I Horsham J. H. Johnstone I Sutlo.'k, Sudbury. 0 Sir C. Qailter — 1 — Warwickshire- Stratford *Col. V,.Milvrari I Tamworth P. A. Muntz. 1 Westmorelf nd— Kendal 'Major Bagot. 1 W orcestershire- Be.wd!ev -A Ba"dwin I Yorkshire— Thirsk *J. G. Lavrson .I — — Barkstone Ash.Col. Gunter I Howden WHWilsonTodd I Ripon M. L. Wharton I Whitby *E. W. Beckett 1 Cleveland ° A. E. Peaie i UNIVERSITIES, Cambridge -S 'r J. G,:)ret I *,Sir R. C. Jebb I Dublin *Sir E. H. Carson I *W. E. H. Lecky ] Edinburgh and St Andrews -Sir J. B. Tuke I — Glasgow & Aberdeen *J. A. C-mpeil 1 — Londc-n *Sir M. Fo..tt:r. 1 — Oxford *J. G, I albot 1 — — 'Sir W. Anqon. I — WELSH BOROUGHS. -Nlerthyr Tydvil D. A. Tnomas J J. Keir-H&rdie. Lab Swansea District *D. B. 10D£:S. l Swansea Town Sir G. Newnes l WELSH COUNTIES. Angles(y .E. J. Grfffith i Carinarth,:n, West.J. L. I%Iorgan l Carnarvon, S,)uth *J. B. Roberts. 1 Brecknockshire 0 C. Morley 1 Denbighshire, East. c S. Moss. ± SCOTCH BURGHS. Aberdeen, North *Captp-in Pirie. 2. South *J. Bryce — — j Glasgow, Central.J. G. A. Baird 1 — Paisley *Sir W. Durn — i Perth *R. Wallace — — 1 Dunclee E, Rribinson. — — 1 *Sir J. Lang — — 1 SCOTCH COUNTY. Wigtownshire Sir fl. Maxwell I — — IRISH BOROUGHS. C LU N Belfast, East .G. W. Wolff I — — West.H. O. Arnold- Forster — 1 — Sout'n *W. Jolinstoo 1 — Dublin Harbour *T. Harrington — — 1 St. Patrick's *W. Field. — — i Galway M. Morris 1 Kilkenny. -P. O'Brien. — 1 Newry *P. Carvill — i Wat"rford .J. E. Redmond. — 1 IRISH COUNTIES. Armagh, Mid *J. B. Lonsdale I — — Clare, East -kV. Redmond. — 1 Cork, East *Capt. Donolon 1 Mid *Dr Tanner 1 Carllow *J. Hammrnd 1 Donegal, West. °G. J. Boyle. 1 Down, East ° J. A. Rentoul 1 — — Galway, East Roche — I Conneinare .W. D'Mall-y. — 1 North Colonel Nolan. — 1 Kerry, East J. Murphy — I South J. Boland — 1 King's County- Tullamore Burke — — 1 Kildare, South *Al. Ntincb — — 1 Leitrim, South *J. Tully — 1 Limerick, East .W. Lundon. — 1 Londonderry, North °J. Atkinson. 1 — — Mayo, East "J. Dillon — — I Meath, South .J. L Carew. — — 1 Monaghan, South .J. Daly — — l Roscommon, South.J. P. Hayden — — 1 Sligo, South .J. O'Dowd — 1 Tir-p-rary, South J. Cuilinan — 1 East 'T. J. Condon — 1 Westmeath, South.D. Sullivan — — 1

PARTY GAINS. The following table shows the constituencies it which party gains have been obtained UNIONIST. LIBERAL. Galway 1 Gloucester. I Leicester 1 Graintham 1 MiddU sborough I Hartlepeol 1 Oldham 1 Hastings 1 Plymouth I Northampton 1 Stockton-on-Tees 1 Swansea Town 1 Sheffield 1 Wolverhampton, S 1 Derby 2 Waleall 1 7 10

NOMINATIONS IN CAR- DIGANSHIRE. The Under-Sheriff (Mr John Evans, Aberyst- wyth) fat at the Town Hall, Aberayron, yesterday, to receive nominations and the necessary guarantees. Mr Vaughan Davies, the Liberal candidate, was nominated by Mr John Jenkins and Mr D. C. Roberts, Aberystwyth and Mr Harford, the Conservative candidate, by Mr D. P. James, Aberayron. Mr Harford was present during the nomination and Mr Vaughan Davies was represented by his agen (Mr Wm Davies). Numerous friends of both candidates were present from Aberayron, Lampeter, Aberystwyth, Talsarn, New Quay, and Cardigan. The procesdings were quiet and formal, and at one o'clock the nominations were duly posted.

MACHYNLLETH: THE RIFLE RANGE.—The formal inspection and opening of the new rifle range took place on Wed- nesday afternoon, in the presence of a number of spectators, including Mr Richard Rees, C.C., Canon Trevor, Adjutant Walker, and the members of the corps. The inspection was made by the Government Inspector of Musketry for the district who remarked that it was one cf the finist ranges he had ever inspected. The first shot at the target was fired by Mr G. W. Griffiths, one of the oldest volunteers in the county and, strange to say, he made the bull's eye with the one shot, the performancs eliciting a hearty cheer, In view of the persistent opposition to the approval of the site by the War Office the satisfactory result of the inspeclion has given much gratification in the town generally. It may be mentioned that it was market day and there was continuous tratfic across the road which intersects the range, yet not the slightest inconvenience was felt by anybody and the groundlessness of the objection raised was made apparent. It is stated that renewed efforts are going to be made to get the War Otfice to disapprove of the site, but it is very improbable, stter the tinfjualifieri verdict of the Inspector, that they will come to anything.

PENNAL. HARVEST THAXKSGH .X<—On "Wednesday and Thursday ot last week harvest thanksgiving services were held at St. Peters Church. On Wednesday evening a Welsh service was held, the preacher the Rev E. Hughes of Bar- mouth. Un 1 nurs.aay morning, at 8-30. there ^aSTauCe j a °f the holy communion in English and one in Welsh at ten, both being taken hy the Rector (the Rev Gomer Price). The English service at eleven was fnllv choral, the sermon being preached by the Rev W. Roberts, curate of Llanidloes. At'three p.m. an English service was held and one in Welsh at seven, the serin oris on both occasions being preached by the Rev Canon Davies, vicar of Pwllheli. The church decorations were very effective and the services, which were of ahearty character, were continued on the following Sunday, the Rector of the parish officiating.

Mr H. K. Newton, the Lord Mayer's son, was brutally injured by roughs at an election meeting in West Southwark on Monday night. His nope was severed, a deep cut nearly six inches in length severed four arteries on the right side of the face and the loss of blood was such that his clothes were saturated down to the waiBt. His right hand was severely cut, and other parts of bis body showed signs of ill-treatment. The last bndetm of Dr John Tanner of 19, Qaeen Anne, street, who remained with him all Monday night, states that Mr Nekton remains in a very exhausted condition. Tne Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress have received many messages of s-ympathy in their son's il ness.