We note with much regret the death at Calcutta, where
he had gone to attend the Indian National Congress, of Mr. Samuel Smith, who sat for Flintshire in the Liberal interest from 1886.1906. Mr. Smith, who was born in Kirkcudbright seventy years ago, and built up a successful business as a cotton-broker in Liverpool before entering politics in 1882, was a most fearless and uncompromising social reformer, whose energies were not confined to the platform, but found vent in a great deal of practical philanthropy. Thus he was the president and liberal supporter of many charitable institutions, carried on Sunday mission services at his own expense, and founded an excellent Seamen's Institute in Liverpool in memory of his only son. It is characteristic of his freedom from bigotry that, though an advanced Radical, he was fully persuaded of the social and physical advantages to be gained by military training, not only in our elementary schools, but for young men also.
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