The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-08-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

COMMONS. I thank you for the liberality with which during the past year you have provided for the services of the country. My Loam awn CiNSITLIMIN. I have had pleasure in giving my assent to a measure for enabling federal action in eert,ain matters to be Wren by the Colonies -of Auetralto a ranah needed amendment of the .minal Law, and to a bill for establishing a sear department of Scottish &ilia's.. I have also glad to concur in a mesenre for increasing the number ef occupying freehold, ris in Ireland. I notice with sincere gratilestien that an endeavour boa been made, by a Rill to which I have assented, to diminish the evils of overcrowding and of unsanitary dwellings, which hinders so seriously the moral and, material well being of the labouring classes. I regret to say that the depression which has so long prevailed in many important trades aud in the agrieeltartd and manniaatexing industries of the country, still continues. I have directed the issue of a Commission to esquire into the osenes of it, and to ascertain whether it can be alleviated by any legislative meaMIMS. During the last session your time has been principally occupied by ithe enlargement of the eleAorete, and the extensive changes which you have,tiniooneequenee, made in the constitution of the Rowe of Commons. I.earnestly trust that the eompreheneive meaaneve may increase the efficiency of Parliament, and may add to the eontentment of my people. It is my purpose before keg to seek their (mime]) by a dissolution of Parliament. I pray ,hat the blessing of Clod may rest upon, their extended liberties, and that the numbers who are called to the aserciee of uew powers, will use them with, the sobriety and. &merriment which for 60 long a period hare marked the history of this nation. [The speech was received with general satisfaction, though Liberals are inclined to think that Lord Salisbury has endeavoured to maim n certain amount of political capitol out of the Rgypiain embrAglio, particulady with regard to UN, "too late" alluaion ta the Khartoum expedition.]  asia,  Criiint.i  _ been  - . The TIMBI of Saturday,, referring to the I ' prorogation of Parliament, says: '‘The I last parliament of the noodle classes yesterday pawed of the political stage, and its eucaeasor, whatever its virtues and defects, cannot fail to reflect in many ways the oonsequencee of the electoaal revolution effemed by the combination of both great political parties. Old party cries have become obsolete, old veteran landmarks hive distppeared, and even party whose lives are the history of this generation, have feund it difficult to maintain their bold of men end things' hut the great change in the nest Parliament is liliely to be in the direction of etionomy." The &wedged seys t—" As a rule, no one term to the reviews which The Ministers place in the mouth ef the Sovtreige, with any et riousnese or hope of edification. ;The stiltedperagraphs offer abundant material for verbal criticism of a mire or lees depreciating kind. Year after year tie perennial wonder revives hew a body of ever and accomplish men manage t-i compress into eci small a spaoe, no large a number of false concords and barbarous idioms. As to matter, the art of the composers seem to be in makieg pretentious words do duty for definite ideas." The Time in the course on a seven column review of the doings of the Parliament that expired on Friday. says :—" It can hardly he lead that any fteeh elements have gained an wicendency in English pelities. Lord Salisbury's leadership baß been effirmei by the effiteement of , Sir Stafford aiorthcot., at the dictation, it is , believed, of Lord Randolph Churchill. But Mr. 1 Gladstone's supremacy an the Liberal party i remains undisputed. And it is plain euomzu i that it is owing to his personal ascendency alone i I that intestine differences' and rival ameitione I have been kept under and disciplined for common i party objects.  The botrossigeant, a prominent Ert, Wan paper, o Tuesiay, st^tors that the French Goverment onrbt tdemsnd reparation for the sasnasina.i.in of M. Olivier Pain from England, otherwise Ms friends will revenge themselves on Lord Lyow. whe is their hostage ih Paris.  Numerous representatives of the Liberal Working Men's C.nbu in Welverampton, waited on Monday, upon their member Mr. C. P. Villiers, awl presented him with an elaborate address. The right houour•ible gentlemen has repr.sected the borough in Paidiament for over 50 yleart. In thanking the deputition, he briefly referred to his long Parliamentary services.  fhose perilous rooks on the western esug of our islmd, called "The Bishop and his C.erks," aro said to derive their name from an inclient which happened ne,rly two hundred years ar. A fleet of merchantmen, coming from Spain, were Phipwrecked upon them, and only Mile. Bishop with J. and H. Clorke, were presrva lon a fragment of a mast. Hence the appals' tion takes it rise.  A Central News telegram states on Monday that the number of deaths at Mar...miles nine Friday amounted to 109 deaths. The pla.,ue, Om same telegram stated, has now spre id to some villages n the sips, the townspeople hay. ing Red there and arried the contagion with them. The Tolle, • ooncealing the number of deaths is still carri, . out.  A shocking suicide has occurred at the White Hort hotel at Margate. A visitor named Arthur D Torrent, of 28. Clargea street, London, formerly a stockbroker, was staying at the hot,l. n Saturday he invited a friend or two to sinner. He appeared dull and said he feared they would not think him a cheerful host. Shortly afterwards he went to his bedroom and shot himself through the right temple with a ravel. vex, death mining in a few Nantes.