The South Wales Star

BURCHILL, OF BARRY DOCKS, AGAIN IN CUSTODY. THREATENED TO SHOOT HIS WIFE AND A SAILOR. ATTEMPT TO STAB A POLICEMAN. PLUCKY CONDUCT OF THE CONSTABLE. On Monday evening last, a well-known boarding- house keeper, William Burchill, aged (jj, Ii ving at B7, Travis-street, was arrested on a charge of attempting to commit murder. It appears, from information gleaned, that for some time Burchill had been drinking freely, and brawls between himself and his wife, (8ecelia Burchill, with some of their boarders had been frequent. About seven o'clock on Monday evening Police-constable William Smith met Burchill coming out of the Victoria Hotel in Holton-road, and he deliberately walked up to the officer and told him he intended doing something serious. Smith advised him to go home quietly, which Burchill apparently did, but before eight o'clock Police-sergeant Brown was called to the house, and the officer at once proceeded to No^ 37, Travis-street, in company of Police- ccnstaole "William Williams Arriving at the house, the police were informed that Burchill's wife had run for safety into the house of a neigh- bour (Phillip's boarding-house), where she was followed by Burchill, who knocked down and kicked his wife. and a Mrs Baker, who attempted to shield her. Soon afterwards Burchill got back to his own house, and rroeatedly threatened to blow out the brains of sailor named Henry William Gilbert, but the police again interfered. At this juncture Burchill, it appears, coolly walked out the house, went up the street, and bought a six-chambered revolver and a box con- taining several dozen cartridges. He fully loaded the revolver, went back to the house, and the row re-commenced. Going out to the back, Burchill fired off one or two shots, in order it would seem, to try the revolver. Satisfied as to the efficiency of his dangerous weapon, he returned to the house, and was proceeding to carry out his threats to Gilbert, when Police-contable William Williams sprang at Burchill in the passage and seized him. Burchill's son snatched the revolver and cartridges out of his father's hand and ran upstairs with them, concealing them in a chest of drawers. Burchill then unsheathed a large dagger, and aimed a deliberate blow at the constable's throat, but in the nick of time a couple of sailors seized his arm and warded off the blow. Burchill was then overpowered, and was conveyed to the Central Police-station, followed by an infuriated crowd of several hundred persons, who wanted to put lynch-Iaw in motion. Both weapons and a box of cartridges were afterwards taken possession of by the police. At the police-station Burchill several times expressed regret that he had failed to murder Gilbert. PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. At the office of the Penarth magistrates in Cardiff on Tuesday (before Mr O. H. Jones and Mr John Duncan) illiam Burchill was brought up in custody charged with attempting to shoot a sailor named William Henry Gilbert with intent to do him grievious bodily harm, and also with attempting to shoot Police-constable William, Williams of Barry Dock, and attempting to 3tab him with a dagger with a similar intent. Captain Lindsay watched the case on behalf of ihe police, but Burchill was unrepresented. Thø .11.1 —— urn- TT v% «.«=> ii uuaui jjLciiry Gilbert., who said on Monday, about 8 o'clock p.m., he was sitting in the boarding-house, 21, Travis-street, when he heard two reports of a firearm. He went out into the street and saw a crowd of people assembled. Upon going to the doorway of Burchill's house he saw him ir. the passage with a revolver in his left hand, and a small dagger, about 7in. or 8in. long, in his right hand. Witness went up to him and tried to induce him to put the revolver away, whereupon he said, "You son of a b- I will blow your brains out." A young man named Shiels came up the street with witness. Police-constable Williams was also there. The policeman took hold of by his arm, and prisoner than dropped the revolver, or somebody took it out of his hand. Witnes took the dagger from him and handed it to the policeman. He had not threatened him before. That was the first he had seen of him. On the way to the police-station he said if he could only get loose he would shoot witness, and he kicked him several times. The prisoner, upon being asked if he wished to interrogate the witness, said he would reserve his defence. Police-Constable William Williams, Barry Docks, said on Monday last., about 7.30 o'clock in the evening, he was called into a house at 39, Travis-street, by Mrs Baker. Burchill was not there. This house is next door to where Burchill lives. About 8 o'clock witness was going along the back of Travis-street, when he saw the defendant going into his own house through the back door. Soon afterwards the officer heard two shots fired in quick succession. Witness ran round to the front and saw a large crowd of people outside his house. He then tried Burchill's front door, which was locked from the inside. He afterwards went to the next door to get into Burchill's backyard, and the crowd shouted "He is out." Witness came out and saw Burchill with his son at the door. Witness said, What is the matter, Burchill, ?" Then Gilbert, the last witness, came up, and prisoner said to him, You son of a b- I will shoot you." He then took his hands from behind his back, and witnessed noticed a revolver in his left hand and a dagger in his right. The officer rushed at him, and catching his arms, held both arms up. He went back a bit, .md held the revolver in front of witness, saying, I will shoot you, you b Witness struggled with him, and gat his arms up a second time, and the revolver either dropped or was taken out of the prisoner's hand. He then brought his right hand round with the dagger and said. I will stick you, you son of a b- Witness parried his blow, but the dagger grased his right wrist. He held Burchill while the dagger was taken away. Accused was very violent. With the assistance of the crowd witness handcuffed him, and took him to the police-station. Upon going to the prisoner's house subsequently the officer found a revolver and cartridges. Police-sergeant Brown was there. This morning ho charged him with intent to shoot "Willam Henry Gilbert with intent to do grievous bodily harm." He said, "What with?" witness Eilso charged him with attempting to shoot him with a revolver, and also with attempting to stab him with a dagger. He replied, "I know nothing." By Burchill: I saw you with the revolver." I held your hand up, and the revolver was then in it. rhere was a crowd of people outside. I did not bake possession of the revolver, because in the struggle somebody took it out of your hand, or it tell. On the application of the police, the accused was remanded until Thursday, at Barry Docks. An application by the prisoner to be admitted bo bail was granted, and he was ordered to find two mreties for £ 25 each and to allow himself to be bound over in a sum of £50. BURCHILL AGAIN BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. Prisoner was brought up in custody, oo remand, it Barry Dock Police Court yesterday (Thursday) j on the charge of intent to do grievous bodily harm to Henry William Gilbert, Travis-street, and also to Police-constable William Williams, by means of a revolver and dagger on Monday, the 11th instant. Mr F. P. Jones-Lloyd appeared for the prosecution, prisoner being undefended. Burchill asked Gilbert whether he saw any- one in the passage with him {Burchill) at the time of the occurrence.—Gilbert replied that he did not notice anyone.-Burchill repeated this ques- tion in different forms, but Major Thornley re- minded prisoner that the Bench did not want to sit there all day.—Burchill then asked Gilbert what he saw when he (defendant) first came to the door Your hands were partly behind your back, a revolver in one hand, and a knife in the other. P. C. Williams, questioned by Burchill, said the revolver was pointed with the left hand, and he heard two shots fired. Frederick Oxley, 17, Travis Street, said he heard prisoner say he would shoot someone, and saw him attempting to use the dagger. Witness asked someone to take the revolver out of Birchill's hand, and this was done. Jatnes Harrison, 10, Kingsland-crescent, heard one shot fired. He saw the iirearm presented by defendant at the constable's head, and P.C. Williams caught Irild of Burchill's arm. He also heard Burchill remark he meant to shoot some one. James Lewis, seaman, Sydenham-street, corro- borated. Police-sergeant William Brown also gave evi- dence, and said he found a six-chambered loaded revolver and a box containing 44 cartridges in prisoner's house. In answer to the charge, prisoner said he had nothing to say. For the defence, William Burchill, son of the accused, said the prisoner had no revolver on him, neither did he (witness) put the revolver in the drawer. Josephine Burchill said prisoner and her step mother lived happily together so far as she knew. Bail was applied for, but was opposed by Mr Jones-Lloyd, and the Bench remarked they would not grant bail on any account. Defendant kissed one of his daughters on leaving for the cells, being:committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions.

THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN RAILWAY. THE PROSPECTUS WILL BE SHORTLY ISSUED. It is understood that the prospectus of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway will be in the hands of the public within the next few days, invitin yo subscrip- tions to the capital. This, as fixed b-, the Act obtained by the promoters in 1880, co.- ists of j £ 360.000 in £10 shares, there being also powers to raise £120,000 in the form of debentures. By the agreement scheduled to the Barry Company's Act of last year, this company is empowered to work the Vale of Glamorganshire, receiving 60 per cent. of the gross takings in respect of its service. As has been already stated in these columns, there is a. probability of the Barry Company guaranteeing 4 per cent. upon the Vale of Glamorgan capital.

CRICKET. ST. PAUL'S v. PENARTH. Played at Penarth on Saturday last, and won by the former by 23 runs. Andrews, for the winners, took seven wickets for 30 runs, and E J Rooney and Brown scored 26 and 23 respectively. Scores Penarth—J Parkinson, 4 W P Edgington, 3 H E Morgan, 3 T C English, 0 J Llewellyn, 7 White (pro.), 11; S Thomas, 1; Cowley, ]5; F Morgan (not out), 9; Stephenson, 2; T Benson, 15; extras, 4; total, 74. St. Paul's-S Rooney, 9 G W Swain, 18; E J Rooney, 26; J S Cullen, 0; 0 J Browne, 2.3; W Ashton, 1; W. Walker, 0; J Andrews, 3; M Phillips, 3; D W Evans, 0 J Sullivan (not out), 0; extras, 5; total, 97. CADOXTON PRESBYTERIANS V BARRY CONGREGATIONAL "A." Played at Barry on Saturday last, and resulted in a win for Cadoxton by three runs. Scores :—Cadoxton Presbyterians: J Dure, b Miller, 8—b Miller, 4; J Miles, c Ashmore, b Miller, 0—b Miller, 8 D Griffiths not out, 3-b Murrell, 22 J Davies, c Field, b Miller, < 13-b Ashmore, 0 A Dunn, b Murrell, 5-b Row- < ledge, 6 E Llewellin, c Evans, b Murrell, 1-b i Murrell, 14 D Taylor, b Miller, 0—b Murrell, 0 A Park, b Miller, 0—b Murrell; 0 D Thomas, b Miller, 1 0—not out, 0 A Giddings, b Miller, 0—b Ashmore, 0 D Lewis, b Miller, 0—b Ashmore, 0 extras, 3—4; 1 totals, 33 and 58-91. Congregational Seconds • G I Rowledge, c Thomas, b Taylor, 1-b Griffiths, 1; W < Edgar, c Thomas, b Llewellin, 0—run out, 0 W Evans, t a Llewellin, b Taylor, 5—not out, 13 W Murrell, b Llewellin, 0—b Griffiths, 0 J Miller, b Taylor, 5— t run out, 6; J. Ashmore, b Llewellin, 4-run out, 2 ( J P Thomas, run out, 5-b Llewellin, 1; Harrison, b f Miles, 3—b Llewellin, 6 Bedingfield, not out, 9—b Griffiths, 3 Butler, run out, 6—b Griffiths, 4 Watts, C and b Griffiths. 0—b Llewellin, 0; extras, 12—2 c ;otals, 50 and 38—88. § 1 ;otals, 50 and 38-88. § 1 WHITCHURCH v PEXARTH A.-Played at Whit- church on Saturday last. Scores:—Penarth f H 4 Neale, 0 A Lee, 0 C Kirby, 0; G W Shepherd, d W It Rawle, 0; T Dewar, 6 T C James, 0; W Coney, 5; A Andrews, 1; .1 Glendinning, 1 H Griffiths (not out), 1; extras, 7; total, 30. Whitchurch: J C Phillips, 5 W J Lloyd, 0 J Davies, 0 W J Norton. 7 T B Rosser, 4 A T Haddock (not out), 16 V Taylor, 4; D M Thomas, 1; M Hussey, 0 H Evans, 0 J H Hale, 3 extras, 2 total, 42. BARRY CONGREGATIONAL v CARDIFF GUILD- FORD—Played at Cardiff on Saturday last, and resulted in a win for Barry on the first innings by 19 runs after a tight game. Barry had six wickets down for eight runs in the second innings. Scores :-Barry, 39 and eight for six wickets Guildford, 20 and 62. BARRY v. WENVOE. This match was played at Wenvoe on Saturday last, and resulfeci in a win for Barry by 28 runs. West and Llewellyn bowled well for Barry, and H. C. Roberts and Waite for Wenvoe. Appended are the scores: Wenvoe: H Thomas, 0: H Alexander, not not, 11; H C Roberts,2; S Robinson, 0 A Waite 1 J P Poole, 1; W P Powell, 7; E Nell, 1; C H Kempthorne, 0 M Febrey, 0 S Weaver, 0; extras 3; total, 26. Barry: W West, 8; T. Lewis 6; W Morse, 0; D Williams, 2 W T Llewellyn, 26 H E liltston, 0; E Davies, 1 J H Cranston, 0 R Knott, 0 T. Wilson, 5 J. Martin, not out, 1 extras, 5 total, 54. BARRY 2ND. v. BROADWAY WESLEYANS 2ND — Played at Bany on Saturday last, and resulted in a win for Barry by 23 runs. D Edmunds and Jenkin Lewis bowled splendidly for the home team, taking four and six wickets respectively. The score list arrived too late for publication. GLAMORGAN POLICE V. LLAXTRITHYD C.C. Played at Llantrithyd on Wednesday last, and re- sulted in a win for Llantrithyd by 13 runs. Scores:- Llantrithyd, 63 Glamorgan Police, 50. TO-MORROW'S FIXTURES. BARRY 1ST v. CHARGES-STREET.—To be played at the Buttrills, Barry, when the following will repre- sent the home team W West (captain), T Lewis Owen Lewis, E Davies, J H Cranston, W T Llawellvn' W Morse, D Williams, H E Til-ton, T Wilson, and George Edwards. A-01 BARRY CONGRKGATIONALK v. BARRY TOWN 2ND.— To be played at Cwmbarry Field. Congregational team :J W Cant (captain), C Munn. W Holloway. T Saunders, A Mein, R Miller, W Ashmore, T Davies, H Roberts, W Williams, and F John. Barry 2nd team :-F Bray (captain), J John, G H Richards, A P Kavanagh, R Knot, B A Willett, L Willett, D Edmunds, W Murphy, Jenkin Lewis, and J Jones. BARRY CONGREGATIONAL 2ND XI. v CARLTON C.C.-This match will be played at Cardiff, when the following will represent the Congregational •—VV H .1 Murrell (captain), W H Evans, J B Miller J P Thomas, F Harrison, W Edgar, B Butler, B Beding- held, J Ashmore, H Brown, and G Watts. Reserves —G Rowledge, A Ashmore, J James, and S Black- more.

A PURITAN AT THE DERBY. HOW "LADAS" WON THE RACE [SPECIALLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE BARRY DOCK NEWS."] A correspondent, writing on Wednesday week last, says I went down to the House cf Com- mons last night, but I could hear nothing in the lobby and corridors except" Ladas." All interest in politics and in everything else was for the time suspended. This morning again I awoke to find everybody talking of Ladas." The atmosphere was heavy-laden with it. So the end of it was that I, who had never taken the slightest interest in the turf and in the fate of the Derby or the Oaks, or any other race, was bitten by the preva- lent complaint, and at 1.30 this afternoon found myself in a second-class compartment at Waterloo Station due for Epsom. I was not alone I was constantly meeting acquaintances from South W ales, and in the same compartment with myself a well-known Barry gentleman travelled to see the Derby run. Through a lovely country we passed, stopping at Vauxhall, and Clapham Junction, and Wimbledon to pick up passengers It was somewhat late in the day, for the races commence at 1.30, and so there was not a great crush. Still there was enough of the evil-smerinu- crowd around the station at Epsom when we alighted at 2.15 to make me feel somewhat dis- gusted. Just outside the station there was the usual number of ae^i-essiv<=» rahhiVo -1- C-- r-J "fo, Jo.VL hire. Picking out the least drunken-looking driver of the lot, who shouted at the top of a hoarse voice that he would take all and sundry to the course for a bob, I climbed up a ram-shackle conveyance, and we were off and away at once. Immediately we were reminded of the character of the crowd which had assembled to do bonour to the great English carnival. Some policemen were bringing three of the lightfingered fraternity in custody. Two of them were evidently mem- bers of the swell mob, with glossy toppers" and blazing watchchains the third was dressed as a labourer, and "loafer was writ large on his face. A little later" Black Maria" passed us with a load of women pickpockets. The little village of Epsom is situated in a most lovely spot. The peaceful English country that surrounds it seemed most incongruous to its surroundings on Derby Day the well-built, respectable "illas standing in their own ground which line the road on both sides are evidences of greater taste and culture than we would expect in a great horse-racing centre. Hace crowds covered the ground almost all the way from the station to the course—a distance of over a mile. On our way we passed all sorts and conditions of men -the coster in his donkey shay, the showy four-in-hand from London, the hansoms, the dog-carts, and the nondescript vehicles which are brought into requisition on the 6th of June. The scum and the great of the earth seemed to have been brought together. On the way we heard men and women conversing in as many languages as were heard on the great day of Pentecost. We were eventually hailed by a well- known banker from home in Welsh from the top of a 'bus from Ludgate Hill. Old men and youi^ well-dressed persons and people clothed in rags' laughed and shouted, ran, walked, and drove to- wards the course. On the way we noticed several caravanseiais, where bicycles and coaches and cars were put by till the races were over. Just outside the course there were thousands of vehicles, and the usual amount of roundabouts and "aunt sallies," and ragged men and women dressed in loud finery. We alighted just by the grand stand, but" it was hopeless to expect admission to it. A friendly policeman told as that the crowds had been waiting since the early morn until the grand 3tand was opened, and that it had been filled some hours before the first race was run. We tad nothing to do but to accept the inevitable, md content ourselves with a five-shilling ticket. rhis admitted us into a stand close to the winning post, though we were in blissful ignorance of the act at the time. It was ten to three when we ound ourselves ready to take a good look round md the great race was timed to start at three. I rhe ten minutes, however, extended to thirty or nore. I had taken the precaution of leaving my vatch at home, and so I could not say how long sxactly before the horses were brought out from ,he paddock. I utilised the time to take a eisured survey of the field. The scene that met ¡ ny eyes was worthy the day and the occasion. It vas more like what my boyish imagination had ancied John Bunyan's "Vanity Fair" to have leen than anything else I can liken it to. The lay was fine though bazy, and as I viewed the housands that were assembled, and saw the small ilack specks of humanity that loomed dimly in he distant horizon on the top of the downs, I ould not but ruminate in my mind on the lifference between the English and Welsh ideas f pleasure. The field was blazoned with various oloured banners and gaudy roundabouts. The s'ouu ""ilJJU wnN pacKea to excess by well-dressed ladies and gentlemen the field and the cheaper stands were tilled with the rank-scented May and with overdressed tipsters and their horsey- looking satellites, while a vast proportion of them were evidently loafers who attend every race- course in turn, and who eke out a precarious livelihood by their wits, by threats, and some- times by actual violence. I could not help con- trasting this scene, so striking in its alternating glory and shame, with other scenes which I had wit- nessed on the peaceful slopes and mountain sides of Cymru Lan. How different the two crowds, how different their language, their hopes, and their objects The one seemed to have but one thought, one aim, one ambition, viz., to back the winner. Then talk was of odds; their leaders and guides, on whose lips they hung, were the gentlemen of the sporting class who loudly and publicly, in the hearing of the Prime Minister of England and seemingly with ms sanction, incited the lawabiding people to break the laws of their country and bet and gamble on a chance When I thought of the other scene in distant Wales, of the grey-coated peasants and their patient wives taking a hard-earned holiday, and trudging weary miles of rugged country in order to spend it in the presence of God and in hearing the voice of His servants, I felt my heart swell within me, and w I acknowledged, as I had never done before, that our Puritan forefathers were after all in the right, and that they had choseu the better way But now the excitement begins. The Old Sports begin to cease their clamour. The disso- lute loafer turns his lack-lustre eye towards the paddock, as the horses make their appeaiance. Bullingdon comes first; 10 to 1 on Bullingdon," then cry the tipsters; "70 to 40 he doesn't get first or second," cries another more reck- less than the rest. "Two to one he doesn't get first or second," shouts another close by determined not to be beaten. "Matchbox," Lord Abington's horse, comes second, amid a cry of "Eight to one on ♦ Matchbox' from the sports. Then glides into the course a lithe and stately animal, as black as coal and as stately as a swan. The primrose colours of the jockey as well as the shouts of the eager crowd proclaim him to be "Ladas," the favourite, the Prime Minister's horse. The horses canter over the course up to the sharp turning on the hill, and then walk or canter back again past the stands, and then they disappear into the dim distance where the starting place is. What followed happened so quickly that it almost baffles description. I could not see how the signal was given, but I could see through the haze six horses in the far distance starting on their way up the ridge of the downs, [t was impossible for my untrained eye to dis- tinguish the colours of the riders, but a sporting gentleman at my side excitedly shouted that Bullingdon" was leading. For a short time the huge roundabouts shut the horses from our view. When they came in sight again a great shout arose, for Bullingdon" had dropped behind, Matchbox was in front, and Ladas was struggling for the second place. Many and anxious were the glances that were 'cast at the last turning-the most awkward bit of the whole race, which, it is said, has upset many a good horse and spoilt the chances of many a favourite. The turning was passed, however, and another loud shout proclaimed the fact t liat Matchbox was still leading, while "Ladas" was a good second. I cannot describe the rest. The excite- ment was contagious, and I found myself shoot- ing with the best, as if I had a fortune at stake. Matchbox wins," 4 Matchbox wins easily,^ '• 'Matchbox' wins in a canter" shouted the exultant optimists who had laid against the favourite, and a groan escaped the lips of the friends of "Ladas." No Ladas' ia creeping up, he is abreast with 'Matchbox,'he is ahead, no it s a tussle, 'Ladas' is ahead, Lad xs wins, Ladas wins by a length. Hurrah When the rose-capped jockey cantered past the stand, thrice winner of the Blue Ribbon of the turf, he was received with a roar of applause. Then the crowd rushed over the fences into the course and thronged in front of the grand stand. Another great cheer was raised when Lord Rosebery, looking very proud and happv, and with hia handsome boyish face ail smiling and dimpled, made his way surrounded by a strong escort of poiicemen to the paddock. A few minutes later and the cheer was renewed as the Premier led Ladas and his rider in triumph to the grand stand. My nerves were still tingling with excitement, and I shouted with the others. Then I looked around me, and saw the sporting men reckon up their wins and losses with cure-wora looks, and recking nothing of the winner or its. owner, but only of their own gains. "And is this what is called English sport ?" I asked myself, "this sordid, scheming, money-making JuRShng craftIf so, then, indeed, is Wale» well nd ot it." A trial of strength or of speed between trained muscles and sinews is a thin" of beauty, and may be enjoyed even by a philosopher. But until rhp tn..f ;e «».«*i.- disreputable characters that haunt it, and of tha practices vyhich disgrace it, it can add to no msn'a credit to be its patron. As I was leaving the Sii T ear a cr? of Wels her, v\ elshei, but I was too wearv to think of waiting to see what was the cause and what the consequence. I luckily came across the con- veyance that brought me from the station, and I made haote to catch the first train to town. This time I travelled with a clergyman who had- surreptitiously, it seemed to me—visited the race- course, and who tola me many things of Ladas that I had never known or had forgotten. He told me that there was another Ladas that won the Olympic prize—the Greek Derby—over 2 000 years ago. He was a subject of Philip of Macedon and on the same day as he won the Derby —on the 6th of Ju:;e—Philip's son, x'}. er, was born, and Philip himself took the rebellious city of Polidae. How events happen in triplets, I thought, for here is another lover of horses, who has attained the summit of his am- bition before he has reached his half-century for Lord Rosebery has married a Rothschild* he 19 Inme Minister of England, and to day he is the owner of a Derby winner His luck seems to be almost uncanny and one cannot help recalling the story of the Greek de-spot who was so uniformly fortunate that he became afraid the gods would at last grow envious.

MR A. J. WILLIAMS, M.P., AND CHURCH DIGNITARIES ON DISESTABLISHMENT. THE HOS. <xENTLEMAN\S TIECilNT UTTERANCES AT BARRY DOCK. CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE VICAR OF PEXMALLK. To the Editor of the B^RRY DOCK NEWS." SIB,—In your report of a Liberal meeting held at Barry Dock on Thursday, the 17th ult.. Mr Arthur J. Williams, M.P. for South Glamorgan, in referring to Disestablishment, is reported to have said that He was prepared to say that men of the highest character, men of knowledge and high station as high as any archbishop or bishon—sucii as Canoii Scott Holland, Rev Prebendary Eyton, and others, ha-<l thnmclten mfctcmr of tin Iit'h. Having a little doubt as to the wisdom of allowing the public to accept that statement on. the authority of a newspaper report-sometimeq, in the nature of things, inaccurate—I ventured to test it so far as Canon Holland was concerned by the very simple means of writing to ask him if he had declared himself in favour of the Bill at present before Parliament. As to the Question cf KliUK.. fact, his answer is conclusive—as an indication ol his attitude towards the whole matter, it will be j of interest to many of your readers and. since Mr Arthur J. Williamq, M.P., recommends him as "of the highest character, Knowledge, and station— as high as any archbishop or bishop "—I will hope that they who are endeavouring, with Mr Williams, to bring about what we, Churchmen, regard as a grievous and intolerable wrong, wilt not only read. but "inwardly digest" what he writes. I shall be glad, therefore, if you will give it publicity in your next issue.—Yours, &c., Penmark Vicarage. EDWAUD MORGAN. (; DEAR. SIR,-I have never been called upon to say a word about this Bill, whether of approval or disapproval. I have always confessed that I understood why the Welsh Nonconformists should think some such measure just. But I own that I am profoundly grieved that they should not think: well in doing an act which, however just they may deem it, must of necessity be a hard and harsh one towards a Church already very poor, t& show a larger spirit of Christian goodwill and human generosity towards the oldest national institution in their laud, and towards a body which serves, with them, a common Ma.srer.- Yours truly, « S. HOLLAXD.~ — MR ARTHUR WILLIAMS, M.P., AND THE WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. LETTER FROM THE HON, GENTLEMAN. To the Editor of the "BARRY DOCK XEWS." SIR.—In looking through the report of my address at Barry Dock. I observe tha.t the letter from Prebendary Eyton to the Wrntmln»ter GazOttr which I quoted, is attributed to Dr. Pereival, the head-master of Rugby. I am also reported to have said that they, and Canon Scott Holland, had declared themselves ia favour of the Bill. I believe I said that they had declared themselves in favour of the principle of the Bill." I certainly intended to say so, because they had not, so far as I knew, expressed any opinion as to the details of the Bill. It seems a small matter, but in these Ca8e$ one cannot be too accurate, and I should have said that they had declared themselves in favour of Welsh Disestablishrnent.-Yonrs, &c., ARTHUR J. WILLIAMS* House of Commons Library, June 12th, 1834.