The Aberystwith Observer

MARINE TERRACE. 8, Mrs Davies— Mrs Holcombe, Yorkshire Miss Burwood, South Norwood Mi-s Cooke and Miss F. Pryse, Gogerddan 9, Miss Williams- Mr and Mrs Parry, Llidiade Dr Foster, Llanidloes 10, Mrs J ones- Mr Wheeler, Bath Mr J. Jenkins, Llaiiidloes Cambridge House, Miss Evans- Mrs Godfrey Price, Worthenbury Miss Price, Chester 29, Mr hvans— Rev and Mrs Sproston, Welverhampton 32, Mrs Delahoyde- Miss Parry 35, JJrviiynior House, Mrs M. Nelson- Dl" and Mrs Sc-oil- 43, Picton House, Miss Osmotherley- Miss Davies, Penpompren Miss G. Anwyl Miss Bynon, Hay 49 Mrs D. Lewis— Miss Preen, Ross, Herefordshire 62. Mrs Davies- Mrs Corfield and Mrs Craig, Ludlow, Salop 63, St David's House, Mrs Jones— Mr and Mrs Nichols, London 65. Mrs J. A. Powell, Ciifton House- Mr and Mrs Allen, family and nurse, The Avenue Ellesmere Mr Johnson, Kington, Radnorshire VICTORIA TERRACE. 2, Evelyn House, Mrs Jones— Mr and Mrs Treasure and family, Shrewsbury 4, Snowdon House, Mr Evans— The Misses Morgan 7, Brighton House, Miss Lewis— Miss Wace, College Hill, Shrewsbury Miss Heitland, The Priory, Shrewsbury Mr and Mrs Lloyd Jones and family, The Bank, Machynlleth BAKER STREET. 5, Mrs H. Lloyd- Mr James Warren Miss M. A. Miller. Stafford

JOHN P. THOMAS, M.P.S., PHARMACEUTICAL AND DISPENSING CHEMIST, (BY EXAMINATION.) 5, GREAT DARKGATE STREET, ABERYSTWYTH.

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OVER-PRESSURE. To the Editor of the Aberystwyth Observer. Sir,-Another case of the mischief caused in Board Schools was reported by the Liverpool Mercury last week. A girl died of acute disease, brought on by over-pressure. In vain do Inspectors of schools deny that over-pressure exists they think only of the amount children have to learn, or try to learn, and are utterly forgetful of the fact that the normal stateofa growing child is one of perpetual movement, and any artificial restraint, whether the brain be actively employed or not, develops a condition of the body favourable to local congestions by preventing the muscular motion which distributes the blood over the systemsHpd equalizes its flow in the various ex. tremities. Inaction, whether of dunce or scholar, whether accompanied by intense or only spasmodic braic attention, means overpressure of blood in some part of the organization, and whether the lee&on be A B C or the extraction of a on be root, the result in producing disease may be similar in kind though not equal in degree. Parents should learn a little animal physiology in their spare time, and pay a little less attention to the nuances of denominational controversy. The former has a promise in regard to the life that row is, and the latter has not, nor can its relation to that which is to come be v< ry clearly made out. Yours, &c., PAIDOPHILUS.

IMPORTANT TO DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. To the Editor of the Aberystwyth Observer. Sir,—I am desired by the Officer Commanding 24th ^Regimental District to ask if you will assist us in making it known in your county that the recraiting officer at Brecon keeps a book, in which are entered the nsmes of men of good or fair character, dis- 1 charged from the army on completion of their en- gagement, or transferred to the army reserve, who take up their residence in the county of Cardigan, and are desirous of seeking employment through this medium, and that if they communicate with him the nature of employment they wish he will endtmvonr to obtain it for them. Brecon, Yours faithfully, 10th Nov., 1884. W. S. MUCH, Major, RecrUIting-Officer.

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. To the Editor of the Aberys'wyth Observer. Sir,—In these days of compromise and expediency it is refreshing to find a promising young statesman like Lord Randolph Churchill giving expression to sentiments which none but a Tory in the true accep- tation of the term, dares to utter, for it requires no small amount of moral courage in those who love their country to speak freely and to breach state- ments and use phrases which have become hateful and unpopular, owing- to the abuse that has been heaped upon them by the snobocracy of England. It is to be hoped the Birmingham utterances will prove a useful alterative in that hot-bed of Radicalism, and in time show all Tories are not fools, nor all the talent confined to the caucus, nor shared exclusively by the Bright's and Chamberlain's and- Bradlaugh's and the roughs, they find it so easy to enlist for the purpose of curtailing the liberty of speech they have so long been contending for themselves. Machynlleth, ADDA. 17th November, 1884.

THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES. Mr John Jenkins and Mr T. J. Williams, students of this college, passed the final examination for the B.A. degree, recently held by the University of London. Mr Jenkins was placed in the first division. Mr W. E. Parry, a former student, passed the same examination.

NOBTH WALES AND CHESTER ASSISES.—In reply to Mr Morgan Lloyd, in the House of Com- mons, the Home Secretary has promised to consider whether an allowance can be made for the expenses of witnesses for the defence of prisoners from North Wales at Chester Assizes, though such witnesses may not be called before the magistrates, and whether the allowance of X20 may not be increased to £ 30 in Merionethshire, Carnarvonshire and Angle- sey. The National Eisteddfod Assocation is preparing for publication the "Biography of Sir Hugh Owen," to which was awarded the prize offered by the As- sociation at the last Eisteddfod. The work will be published in crown 8vo. size, with a new portrait of Sir Hugh as a frontispiece. FAIR WHITE HANDS. ImIGHT CLEAK COMPLEXION. SOFT HEALTHFUL RKIN. PEAR'S SOAP, for Toilet and Nurspry. specially prepared for the delicate skin of Sadies and children, and others sensitive to the weather, winter or summer. Prevent" redness, routi- nes*, and ehar-p-Bjr. fold everywhere, in Tablets, b., act arger ,<izes, Is. 6d. and 2s". 6d. CURE OF CONSUMPTION .DR LOCOCK'S PUL)IONIC WAFERS.—Read the following :-Dear Pa Pa.—The Dr lo o kV Wafers you sent me completely cured my chest. I do no;, thi k I could have lived bad it not been for them.— Teresa Norman.- Prom Mr J. Norman, 28, Smith-street, Warwick." Asthma. Bronchitis, Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Gout, Rb--uipaiii;rn, and all Hysterical and Nervous Complaints are instantly relieved and rapidly cured by Dr Loeock'i. "Wafers. Nothing f-lse gives such a sound, refre-hing night's rest. ri hey taste pleasantly. Sold by all drug-ists »t It lid, and 2g 91 per box. Notices to Quit, from Landlord to Tenant and from Tenant to Landlord are gold at the Observer Office 1, North Parade, at one penny each.

DISESTABLISHIONT. ) [BY "JOHN JONES, OBSERVATORY COTTAGE."] I find that the question of Disestablishment has come to us so far that every Church Conference held within the last six months has taken it tip with more or less earnestness, courage, Christia.n hopefulness, and historical appreciation and it was one of the subj^ts discussed at the S"t Asaph Diocesan Confer- ence held at Mold a few days ago, which is destined to become memorable through the provoking triviality of the Prime Minister's long and subtle letter to the Bishop of the Diocese read thereat. And as this is admitted to have come within the range of prac- tical politics, kindly allow me to give a short resume of a paper I read on the subject some fifteen years ago. The march of events has only confirmed the views I then expressed. First of all, I take the liberty to question the wis- dom of bringing forward this topic for public discus- sion by the clergy of the Church, whose motives are so liable to misconstruction, and whose thoughts ought to be occupied with other concerns. Dis- establishment, in the common acceptation of the term, should be a matter of absolute indifference to the clergy, who, I presume, are living in an atmosphere where the disestab- lishment of the political Liberationist cannot exist. 1. Our National Church never was established or endowed at any known period by any Act, compact, or statute, kingly or Parliamentary. This we cannot repeat too often, or too loud. Means must be adopted to convince the nation of this cardinal his- torical fact. It is, above all others, a layman's question; to the rich man, and the poor man, of equal vital importance. Why, the unification of England, the consolidation of the monarchy, the very idea of a Parliament or a government by the people, are all due to the Church, which precedes and underlies the very existence of England as England. The Church grew in the hearts of the people; in material wealth, in political influence, in the number of churches, in the multiplicity of her organisations to subdue ignor- ance and eradicate evil. What never was established cannot be disestablished. She may be once more despoiled by'the secular power, as has often already been the case in her long and wondrous history. But her material spoliation adds to her spiritual wealth and spiritual strength in its turn brings back material wealth. It is the Providential order of the perpetua- tion of the highest and holiest. (a). That the unprincipled hirelings of the Libera- tion Society should. and do, scatter broadcast all manner of unveraeious things about the Church, which have absolutely no foundation except in their own mercenary brains, is what was to be expected, and should be treated with lofty contempt and in- finite Ecorn. The good sense of the people tolerably enlightened will evaporate the crafty effusions of such as these. (b). That the Liberal member* of Parlia- ment, or would-be Liberal members, should w-.rk themselves into hysterics on this qaertioa will be the idea-well, poor things, we naost not be too hard upon them, what will a man not give for his life ?"-and especially for a Parliamentary life, when it leads Ito fortune and opens the door to society. So they whip th< xmelves up to ft boiling make-believe that the Est tblishment involves some infinite wrongs ou innocent people. The more pity for them, for they themselves will fall the first victims to the fury of the spirits which they call from the vasty deeps and will rot be laid. Mr Henry Richard and Mr Dillwyn, you know, it is their trade upon which they live, and it is the whim of the populace for the moment to n- daiye them. They will do no harm, The people have got between them and the wind. (c). But that respectable and respected men, like, for in- stance, Dr Rees of Swansea, Rev Kilsby Jones, and Mr Gee of Denbigh, who are revered as upright and honest men, should continue to reiterate that the Episcopal Ohnrch is the creature of Parliament, and that the clergy are State-paid agents-and this in the face of all history to the contrary, and of every author who has treated of the rise and growth of the English Con.,tillation-ir, utterly inexplicable to rae, and transcends my comprehere:on. Who can describe the retina of the political soul which colours and distorts every historical fact presented to it The obliquity of their vision is an incurable disease they are become the wretched victimil of their own perversity. There are no men in Wales who know, or ought to know, better than these men that the Church is not the creature of the State, and that, though Dissenting ministers have received support from the taxes of the country, the clergy have never hefn paid by Parliament one single sixpence. Why do th >y repeat it P I shrink from the reply. Are men differently constituted in the very roots of their being, so that the same facts f the universe appear to one man black and to the other white ? Is God the author of confaeioD, or is it not a fact that any lie, however often rejecte(I., is good enough for party spirit, and that no amount of explanation, however simple and sincere, will prevent the grossest misrepresentations of opinions and fact from being used for their own purposes by religions partisans ? Now, how came we to be what we are ? The Church and her clergy, and her forms of worship are simply the result of forces which have been at work for at least twelve hundred years to form this England of ours. We have been established in the face of the most tremendous difficulties exactly in the same sense as the Nonconformist bodies are established in our day. In o- der to understand this we must re- verse the wheel of time for some 1,500 years, and realise the life-tlae Pagan life—of those far distant ages, and then live on the growth and work of the centuries up to the present time. Live especially in the heathen and Anglo-Saxon period, and see what the agricultural state of the country was. The clearing of the lorests. the dra.ir.aye of the land, the sowing of the seed, the garnering of the harvf st, &c., how all this was done by and uncer the supe"- vision of the monks, who, before the end of the tenth century, had built a mill on almost every available brook, and a church on Druidic and "moot" mound, and converted the Pagan townsfolk into the parish vestry. This land, cleared and cultivated, became their,; by every law human and divine, until by indefeasible right, at oce time, nearly one half of the kingdoms of Wessex, Mercm, and Northumbria fell into their possession. They were the smiths, the masons, carpenters, and millers, as well as the teachers of those long centuries, and Paganism at last succumbed before Christianity. Think of how the heathen rites of Hertha gave way to baptism, the ,a g old Saxon "wed" to Ghrietiau marriage, and the burial fire on the wind-swept headland to the lowly grave beneath the shades o; the village church and the "offering to devil" gave way to the Holy Com- munion. The church established herself by the un- daunted energies and heroic sufferings of the clergy. What an unparalleled history is theirs against Saxons, Danes, and Normans. The Parliament of England never conferred an acre of land on the f Episcopal Church. She his been despoiled from age to age by the same secular forces whiuh are now at work. See how the ceremonies of the Church are new being done a way with, one by one, step by step. No catechism f( r the young, no religious rite for marriage, no Christian burial for the dead, no holy days for the year, and at last there is a cry for se- e ilarising her endowments, and then to throw Christianity on the voluntary principle of a nation of infidels. (To be Continued.)

ENGLYN I'r Parch. W. HERBERT, Bheithor Llansantffraid,- Ceredigion, am 47 mlynedd. I Herbert y rhoddwn hirbarch,-dyn Duw, A dyn doeth i'n cyfarch { Treuliodd oes heb nam nac ammharch, Ar hoedd y byd yr haedda barch. E. W. R., Mynwy.

AETH HEIBIO GALAN GAUAF. Ffarwel i fynydd ac i for, I Am dymhor boed a fyno f Tros fisoedd rai bydd rhaid i mi Wrth gornel i ymdwymno Am aeiwyd lan a chwmni lion Yn Ty "ryfron dysgwyliaf; Darparer i mi gynhes glog Ar riniog Calan Gauaf. Daw eira'n doraetli ar bob bryn, Daw glyn dan ;?oron g-anaid, Yr awei iem yn ddigon siwr A dyn y dwr ü'm llyg-iad; Daeth adeg diosg dillad haf, Ni allaf ar ol Hydref Fod yn oiygus yn y fro Heb wiSI; o frethyn cartref. Byddrhew i'w gael am fis neu ddau Yn didau wrth y 'bondo, A phrydferth goedydd yn y man Gan farug wedi llwydo Bhwymir ein daear cyn bo hir, Ni ellir ei haradru Y tvfiant welwyd ddyddiaa'n ol Sy'n hollol mewn anallu. Gall fod hen wyr ar ol yr ha' Fulz fath a mi yu union Man gamu ar hyd lhvybrau'r fro, Wrth bwyso ar y ddwyffon Bydd rhew y boreu, niwl y noa, Yn dangos i ni'n eglur Fod 'stoll dri throed yn llawer gwell Mewn cell lie byddo cysur. Tregeirioff. EJNIOJT DDvi

THE BROWNIES. A COOK'S STORY. Or/D wives' stories, are they? Wait a bit, and Til tell yon what happened to myself. It waa when I was twenty years old, and lived as housemaid with Mrs. McWhister, and a hard lady she was to get on with, I must say. And she drove me night and day, and threatened me with losing my place if I did thi or didn't do that; and forty years ago, girls didn't go skipping about from place to place as they do now. If a girl lost her place it was hard to get another. So I did all I could, but at last I was beat out; and I went to bed one night, leaving a great pile of clothes, damped, in the basket, that she'd told me to iron, because I could stand on my feet no longer. As well first as last," I said to myself. I'll have to go sometime," and I fell asleep in a moment, so worn out was I, and knew no more about it until the dawn broke. Then I wakened, with a kind of start, and it rushed into my mind how I'd left my ironing, and what I should hear about it; and how I should be told to pack my things and go, and what the old mother and father would say about it at home and I can tell you I crept downstairs in a fright, and hardly dared go in at the kitchen-door-for, try as I might, I could do no more than make the fire and get breakfast before the mistress came down. But when I got into the room and pushed open the shutter, what did I see ?-all the clothes I'd left dampened down ironed so smooth as satin, and hanging on the horse Who'd done it I couldn't think, for I kn-w the mistress was in bed when I went to mine, and there was no one .1. but master, and I was all of a tremble, and could do nothing but stare and wonder, until, at last, mistress came down in her slippers and wrapper. You're late, Jane, said she, looking at me, and then at the clothes. But I can't blame you much. I heard you ironing at four o'clock last night, or, rather, this morning." "Not so late as that, ma'am," says I. l on't contradict, Jane," says she. I looked at my watch." God save us, ma'am says I, and I don't know what she thought of me. Well, I puzzled and puzzled, but nothing came of puz, ling. Well, Friday night came round, and I went to bed meaning to be up early, and scour and sand the kitchen, as we did in those days. But when I came down, the sun was not up yet. There it W is done, and more than that, the tins hung scoured on the wall, and t .,o biscuit were made up to rise, and there was half my Saturday's work done. L was frightened again, for who was there to do it ? Once in a way a person might have pbyed a trick like that, but who'd work this way more than once for fun ? I said nothing to mistress, but I felt queer enough all day and queerer days and days after, when, no matter how I'd left things all night, I'd find them done for me in the morning. Done so well, too. Nothing ever for- gotten and I suppose I might have been as idle as I pleased to this day, and found all my work done !or me when I rose, but for my curiosity. I could not help feeling that there was something more than natural about it; but all the more I wanted to see what it was. So one night I went upetairs to bed as usual, leaving everything at sixes and sevens, and th n crept down and hid in a long pantry that had a pane of glass in the door to light it by. There I stood peeping through the pane for an hour and I'd just made up my mind th it nothing would happen that night, when I heard a queer little noise, and saw a queer little light begin to shine, and in a minute more the kitchen seemed to be full of the strangest little men and women. They were no bigger than three-year-old children, and they had very little on, but each of them wore a cap with a little lamp set in it, such as miners wear. They hurried about from one side of the room to the other, scolding, as it seemed, in some strange language, and in a few minutes one was sweep- ing, another scrubbing, another rubbing the big bras, candlesticks, one sorting the clothes for the wash, and the queerest little fellow in the world sitting in the fry- ing-pan while he cleaned it. Every one was hard at work, and I saw how it was that I'd been helped so. These were the Brownies that my grandmother had told me of. How did I know but that some night they'd bring me a bag of gold? For if the Brownies take a notion to any one, they II do any- thing for them. And maybe they would, darling, but just at that moment something I think it was the pepper one of the Brownies was sprinkling into the hash—made me sneeze. Achu achu says I, and with the sound every Brownie of them all stopped working. "Somebody is watching us," said one, in plain English as ever I heard. Yea, some one is wat. hing us," cried the whole of 'em in chorus. And down they came in a bodv to the pantry-door, and open it new, and they all stood looking at me. "She's watched us." says one of them. 14 Yes, she's watched us," yelled the whole. Good- bye to her. We've done our last stroke of work for her And with that every cand e went out, and I heard the patter of the little feet on the floor, and then all was still as death again. don't know how I got to my room, but I managed to do it; and from that time I did my own work the Brow ies never helped me. Brownies won't put tip with watching, as ;dl the world knows. But never say there are ni ne maam, for I've seen 'em with my own eyes, and what I've told you is the living truth.

A MISER died a. few days ago. After careful investigation his trustees find he once gave something away. In the giddy frivolity of his early youth he gave the measles to his younger brother. This fact is to be handed down to posterity in brass letters on his tomb- stone. Hn Without joking, Elsie, I do adore you. When I look at you, there is such a cOiJJDlotion in my breast!" She And in mice too, Henri it must be the Iob"ter-salad!" ECCENTRIC old offioer (to new footman) Now, Patrick, call me a cab." Pat (who thinks this a dodge to try his sincerity) Oeb, no, your honor. It's not meself that'll be calling yoa names, at all! DOCTOR: Oh, there you are, Smith! How's the wife ? Farmer Wats, I'm afeard, sir." Doctor Indeed Is she wandering ? Farmer: "No, no, she's sensible. That's what I'm afeard of. I never knowed her so sensible. She's onnatrally sensible! A JUDGE recently appointed is a man of stern and unbending temper. One of his prisoners, in addressing the Court previous to sentence, used the words also and likewise in a way which implied a difference of meaning. Do voa know of any difference between the words 'a)so' and 'likewise?' asked the judge. Yes, your honour," replied the prisoner. Your predecessor was patient, kind, courteous, and gentlemanly. You are a judge, also, but not likewise." WHEN a man keeps on talking to you after he has said A word to the wise is suiiicient," the time to take summary vengeance has arrived. THE" steel fan" is simply a bar of metal, shaped and painted to resemble an ordinary close fan, and carried sometimes as a life-preserrer, sometimes, by the swell-mobsmen and rowdies of China, to be used at close quarters with murderous effect. Of the gains species is the well-known dagger-fan," which consists of an elegant imitation in lacquer of a common folding. THEY were rehearsing a play in which the leading rule was confined to an actor who was inordi- nately fat. There was in it one sensational seene in which the actor, tempted to the commission of a crime,. implored Heaven that he might not yield to the tempta- tion. Alas, at the rehearsal it became evident that the actor was too fat either to kneel or to clasp hit hands. We'll have it cut," said the disappointed manager. "Oh, no," answered the actor cheerfully, "I'll make it all right I'll attempt to kneel, an I then ery, with a despairing gesture, Lost, lost!' My sin.seared knees re- fuse their office; I can no longer pray MASON YOUNG waa at one time a well-known Character in west Aberdeenshire. He had a. great craving for drink, and after a boat" was so ill-natured to those over whom he had suibority as to be almost unbearable. 011 one of these working along with a. newly- engaged apprentice, he told the boy to go back for the spirit-level. The lad knew nothing about the article in question, and was afraid to ask any question, but the word spirit deci led the course. He went to the inn, which was not far distant, and brought a bottle of whisky, which he handed to his master and awaited the res ;I'. The i-na,on sat down on the stone he was dressing, and, taking a long "tcady pull at the bottle, he said; Weel, laddie, that wi na exactly fat I want it, bit it'll jist daD." MRS. LOYEAPPLK bought a new dreal. It was poult de soie of a delicate grass green. To match the dress she had a pair of boots. They were a'so poult"de soie of a delicate grass-green. Inspired with the idea of pleasing her husband, she daintily lifted the hem of her garment and displayed a foot worthy of Cinderella. What do you think of that, dear?" she tenderly asked her liege lord. Immense innocently responded the partner of her life. Partner, alas, no longer For the irate lady has gone home to her mothor to complain of Mr. L.'s extreme cruelty. WELL, wife, you can't SAY I ever contracted bal habits." "No, sir; you generally expanded them." THB dealer in nalfc must bav. a precarious time of it. yoa know, is always getting overturned.

THE CHURCH WELSH PRESS. The following letter, from" John Jenes, Observa. tory Cottage," appeared in the Western Mail of Thursday: Sir—The editor of the Linn, in his kind notice of my sketch of Dean Edwards's life in the Red Drago%, has taken me sharply, but good naturedly, to tas* for my supposed apathy, if not antagonism towards fcho Welsh Church Press and as I find this notion to be shared by others also, kindly allow me once for all to set myself right on this point. What I now hold, and always have held without wavering for the last twenty years, is that we—the Church people—do not want any new weekly or monthly periodical, but im- provement in the quality and circulation of what we already have. What I said in my sketch of D"an Edwards wasjsaid for the very purpose of benefitting the Llan, the Maul, and Cyfaill Kgluysig, The Gwalia for political purposes, the Llan as a Church organ the Cyfaill for the Church Sunday schools, and the Haul as a literary magazine. These four— they are quite enongh. Increased circulation is the one thing needful, and towards this point the efforts of Churchmen should be concentrated. Get them read. Take a lesson from the tactics of Nonconfor- mity. Let the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge help towards the enlarged circulation of these four papers, and all else we are anxious for will follow. Let the bishops and the following to their list of annual queries to the clergy Do you receive and circulate Wel-h periodicals and how many? If not, why BO!J?" And I answer for the clergy that the replies will be stunning. In thiee ) ears complete information will be in the hands of the authorities and with the information the remedy will not be long withheld. I yield to no one in my sincere desire for the success of the Welsh Church Press but if you fritter away your energies on some spick-span new affair every moon you will never succeed. My learned and dignified friends, put your heads together and your shoulders to the wheel to set up, not a printing, but a circulating machinery. Let me conclude with two sentences used by me in your columns years ago. And I hope I shall be forgiven for repeating what I have always maintained —the undesirableness of any new paper. Do not, by any means, attempt to get up some new-fangled thing. Not to supersede those already in existence, but to improve them, is our duty. Money, brains, and circulating machinery are all we want." And the sentiment quoted with so much triumph by the editor of the Llan, quoted by Dr Walters as emanating from a letter of mine written in your columns word for word—" There are scores of parishes in Wales where Dissent could not pos- sibly co-exist with the kindness, ability, and energy of the clergy only for the dissemination of falsehood scandal, and misrepresentation of all kinds by means of the Dissenting Press. The good work of the clergy is more than counteracted by the Dissenting news- papers. The press of Saturday is more than a match for the pulpit of Sunday." And us Canon Wvans of Rhymney, says, Now or never for it." If we can- not now, after all the talk and mutual recrimination, set upon a paying basis our Church Welsh Press, let our utter incapacity and drivelling feebleness stand out to brand us for all generations." And if ttle editor of the Llan will kindly allow me, I will gladly translate in his colums my letters on the Church Welsh Press for the sake of Welsh readers.

CHURCH AND CHAPEL. The Rev W. Davies, B.A., vicar of Llanfihangel Geneu'rglyn, was on Friday week instituted to the vicarage of Llanllawddog. The living, which is in the gift of the Yen. Archdeacon James, is worth .£300, having been recently augmented by the Eccle. siastical Commissioners. It was until lately held in conjunction with Llanpumpsaint. Mr Davies is a native of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, being a son of Mr Davies, Typica was educated at Llandovery Collegiate Institution, and at Cambridge, where he was a scholar of Queen's College. He took the degree of B.A. in 1870; was ordained deacon the same year, and priest a year later was for 3 years curate of Abergwili, afterwards for 5 years vicar of Ystrad- ffin, and has been vicar of Llanfihangel for 7 years. He is also a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and holds several minor appointments. The Rev Joseph J. Cooper has resigned the pastor- ate of the English Congregational Church, Corwen. During his ministry the debt on the church, which was only erected a few years ago, had been paid off. Mr Cooper has accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of Doddridge Church, Nottingham. A new Welsh Hymnal, of a high-class character, likely, it is said, to meet the demand of the Church, is being actively prepared by the Revs W. Glanffrwd Thomas, Vicar-choral of St Asaph, and Ellis Roberts (Ellis Wyn o Wyrfai), rector of Llangwm. It was stated by Mr A. Baker, at a lecture given last week, under the presidency of the Dean of Chester, that out of 225 churches in the diocese of St Asaph in 1873, no less than 114 were founded prior to the Norman conquest. Of these 101 were dedicated to British saints, while some of them bear Saxon names 13 were founded directly after the Norman conquest, 36 by Normans, and 9 chapels ill the 16th and 17th centuries since then 63 new parishes have been formed. The Rev D. Cynog Davies presided at the Quar- terly Conference of the .Congregational Union for Anglesey, held at Cemmaes. Among the resolutions passed was one urging the churches to exercise the most careful discrimination as to the occupancy of their pulpits by strangers. On Wednesday in last week the Rev John Thomas, for so ma.ny years pastor of Fleet-street Congrega- tional Church, Swansea, "fell asleep." Few men were more respected, or in their way did greater good than this well-known home missionary. The funeral took place on Saturday. Mr Thomas was born at Eglwysfach, Cardiganshire, and passed his youthful days at Machynlleth. The death is also announced of the Rev S. S. Davies, of Rhyl. Mr Davies entered the Congrega- tional ministry in 1835, and shortly afterwards com- menced public services at Rhyl, where a church was formed in 1840. Subsequently he was immersed, and in later years was a member of the Baptist com- munion. He was a native of Pembrokeshire. The Rev J. Ogmore Davies, of Craven chapel, London, has accepted the pastorate of the chapel in Chapel-street, Blackburn.

FOOTBALL. ABESYSTWYTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL V. ARDWYN SCHOOL.—These clubs met for the first time this season on the QTound of the former on Wednesday, and a well-contested game resulted in a win for the Grammar school by three goals to two. The follow- ing composed the teams :—Grammar school: Goal, W. J. Evans, backs', P. Smith and D. Jones (captain), half-backs, R. Vauerhan and F. Wooding, right-wing, R. C. Kirkby and H. R. Jones, left-wing, J. R. Jones and W. Richards; umpire, W. Jones. Ardwyn school: Goal, J. Jones, backs, H. E. Jones and J. Davies, half-backs, R. H. Morgan and T. Davies, right-wing, J. D. Jenkins and J. Evans, left-wing, J. C. Rea and Edwards, centres, D. Jones (captain) and J. E. Jones; umpire, J. Berry.

ABERAYRON. VOCAL SOCIETY.-The weekly meeting of this society was held as usual in the British Schoolroom, on Tuesday evening. There were three canditates proposed for membership, and were balloted for. Mr Moses R. Jones, London House was unanimously elected while the other candidates did not obtain the necessary number of votes for admittance. It was resolved that the annual concert should be held on Christmas evening; also, that no candidate should be admitted a member of the society, unless held at least the Elementary Certificate of the Tonic Sofa College. DIN AS MAWDDWY. RENT AUDIT AND COURT LEET.—The half-yearly rent audit of Sir Edward Buckley, Bart., was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 18th and 19th, at the Buckley Arms Hotel. The court leet for the manor was held on Tuesday, and for the city and borough, on Wednesday. Mr W.* Williams, Oswestry, the agent, attended to receive the rents, and Mr W. R. Davies, Dolgelloy, steward of the Manor, conducted the Court leet, when several an- nouncements were made. Mr R. P. Jones, the Mayor, was re-elected for the coming year. A sumptuous Dinner was each day provided by the Host and Hostess. Mr and Mrs Burman, in their usual liberal style, and a large party sat down to do justice to the good things provided. The meeting on the second day was mueh enlivened by thePerthyfelin Glee Party, who sang several pieces. LLANFARIAN. PRESENTATION.—On Thursday evening week, Mr H. S. Richardes, J.P., on behalf of the Cwmgoedwig Literary Society, presented Mr Evan Davies, P.C., now a sergeant of police at Lampeter, on his leaving the neighbourhood, with a splendid commentary on the New Testament, as a. token of the esteem in which he is held by the society. On Saturday the Literary Society met as usual. The subjects under consideration were not of general interest, but were discussed with much spirit. j

DISASTROUS FIRE AT LLWYNGLAS, TALYBONT. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE INMATES. A fire of a terrible chararcter broke out early on the morning of Wednesday last at Llwynglas, Taly- bont. The farm is occupied by Mr James Jones, a gentleman who is well-known and highly respected. The family and servants retired to rest as usual on Tuesday night; but about one o'clock on the follow- ing morning one of the servant men, named Joseph Piper, awoke, and at once found that something was wrong. He awakened his fellow servant, when they observed that the room was filled with smoke, which nearly suffocated them. They at once gave the alarm, and Mr and Mrs Jones and the other inmates, includ. ing the children and servant girl, were at once roused but not a moment too soon, as the fire had got complete hold upon the building, and it was found that any attempt to save the house would be futile. Most of the inmates escaped with scarcely any article of clothing, one of the children indeed having only a hair's-breadth escape, as it was slightly scorched, while the servant girl only saved her life by getting out through the window without any clothing, save that with which she retired to bed. The conflagration soon attracted a large number of people to the spot, but all efforts to secure any of the furniture were useless. The nearest house is Tyngwndwn, about half-a-mile off, and thither the poor sufferers had to repair, with but scanty habiliments, Mr Jones only having secured a pair of trousers, and one or two of the children and the servant girl was even in a worse plight. To add to the misery of the situation, the weather was cold and stormy, and altogether their condition was a very sorry one. But, fortunately, neighbours soon rallied round them, and provided shelter and clothing. Mr and Mrs Davies, Penpom- pren, Dr Jones, Tynyparke, and others opened their doors, and also provided clothing, all in fact showing the greatest kindness and giving every assistance. The origin of the fire cannot, of course, be given with certainty but it is believed to have started in the chimney connecting the kitchen and back-kitchen, which was of ancient construction, and containing a large quantity of woodwork. We are pleased to learn that the buiding, and we believe the contents also, were insured; but after all the loss sustained will be considerable. We congratulate Mr Jones and his family upon their almost miraculous escape, because a few minutes' longer stay in the burning building and their doom must have been sealed.

ABERDOVEY. NEW PILOT.—The Trinity Board have appointed Mr Humphrey Rowlands, mariner, son of Mr Morris Rowlands, of this place, to pilot vessels on the river Dovey. The number of pilots will now be four. S.F.M.S.—Owing to advancing years Captain Rees Lewis, who has been honorary agent at this place of The Shipwrecked and Mariners' Society for the last twenty-four years, has resigned, and the committee appointed Mr W. Williams, stationer, of this place, to be their representative for Aberdovey and district. HERRINGS.—Since the wind has turned to the east the Dovey fishing boats have been busily employed in herring fishery. On Saturday morning some of the boats came in with exceptionally good catches. This week their success has been varied. On Wednesday morning all the boats netted but very few fish, with the exception of Mr J. Griffiths's boat, who came in with about fifteen maize. THE INSTITUTE.—On Tuesday evening, at the Assembly Room, a concert was held in aid of the In- stitute, the chair being ably filled by Mr J. Lloyd Tamberlain. A financial statement was read by Mr Robertson, Import and Export Company, showing the deficit to meet all the expenses of the current year to be about .£10. Miss Jones, Ladies' school; Aber- dovey glee party, Miss M. J. Owen, Towyn glee party, Mr R. Roberts, Miss- Lizzie Evans, Mr W. Williams and Captain D. Morgan, Mr John Davies, Miss Lizzie Jenkins, Miss J. M. Rowlands, Mr D. Hughes, and Mr John Pugh were the performers.

BIRTHS GRIFFITHS.—November 12th, at Little Water-street, Carmarthen, the wife of Mr John Griffiths, machinist, of a daughter. NICEOLLS.—November 12th, at Castle Hill Lodge, the wife of Mr Nicholls, of a daughter. PHILIPS.—November 1st, at 14, Francis-terrace, Carmarthen, the wife of Mr Rowland Phillips, of the North British Grocery and Provision Com- pany, of a son. MARRIAGES BLAKE—WILLIAMS.—At the Register Office, Cardi- gan, Mr S. Blake to Miss EsthnethWilliams, both of Old Castle Farm, near Cardigan. DEVONALD—AUGUSTUS.-Atthe Register Office,Car- digan,by the Registrar, Mr J Devonald, carpenter, Cilgerran, to Miss M. Augustus, Glanpwllafon, near Cardigan. EVAN S-MOR GANS.-November 14th, at the Register Office, before the Rev W. Jones, registrar, Mr John Evans, of this town, to Miss Catherine Mor- gans, Goginan. FEELS-Ey ANS.-At Ebenezer Chapel, Cardigan, by the Rev J. Evans, minister, Mr W. Feels to Miss R. Evans, both from Llanfihangel-Penbedw. GRIFFITHS—JOSEPH.—At the Register Office, Cardi- gan, by the Registrar, Mr John Griffiths, Crugefa, to Miss Francis Joseph, High-street, Cardigan. GRIFFITHS—DAVIES.—At the Register Office, Cardi- gan, Mr John Griffiths, farmer, to Miss Mary Davies, High-street, Cardigan. MICHAEL—EVANS.—At Tabernacle Chapel, Cardi- gan, by the Rev G. Davies, minister, Mr Thomas Michael, plasterer, Cilgerran, to Miss Mary Anne Evans, St Mary's-Jane, Cardigan. MORRIS—OWENS.—At the Register Office, Cardigan, Mr David Morris to Miss Martha Owens, Moly- grove. PUGH—JENKINS.—November 17th, by license, at the Tabernacle Chapel, in this town, by the Rev W. Jones, registrar, Mr Wm. Pugh, Llwyngwril, to Miss Anne Jenkins, Llanafan. RICHARDS—EVANS.—November 14th, at the Register Office, before the Rev W. Jones, registrar, Mr Morgan Richards, Moelifor, Llanrhystyd, to Miss Mary Evans, Gilfachafael. Llanrhystyd. THOMAS — LLEWELYN. — At Llwynadda Chapel, Llechryd, by the Rev H. H. Williams, Mr Daniel Thomas to Miss Mary Ann Llewelyn, Tivyside Inn, Llechryd. WILLIAMS—JONES.—At Tabernacle New Chapel, Cardigan, Mr W. Williams to Miss E. Jones, both of Llechryd. WILLIAMS—J AMES.—AttheRegisterOffi.ce, Cardigan, Mr Thomas Williams to Miss Maria James, both of Manordeifi. DEATHS. DAVIES.—Nonember 9th, aged 3 years, Sarah Jane daughter of Mr David Davies, Tyrhos,Ponterwyd EVANs.-November 11th, aged 13, Enid Gertrude, second daughter of the late T. Walter Evans, of Heyworth-street, Liverpool, and grand-daughter of the Rev D. Silvan Evans, rector of Llanwrin, near Machynlleth. EVANs-November 5th, aged 18th, at Tylor's Town, from the result of an accident, Evan Daniel, son of Mr Evan Evans, Fort, Ystumtuen. Ev ANS.-N ovember 17th, aged 42, Mr David Evans, County Court bailiff, Penpa'rke. Ey ANS.-N ovember 11th, at Blue-street, Carmarthen, Mr William M. Evans, publisher, aged 62. HUGHEs.-N ovember 9th, aged 9 months, Evan Lewis Hughes, son of Mr Richard Hughes, joiner, High-street. HUGHES.—November 17th, aged 34 years, at 34, Portland-street, Richard David Hughes, surgeon, late of Deri and Tir Phil, Glamorganshire, and son of Mr R. Hushes. HUGHES.— November 14th, at Cross Pipes Inn, Pontfathen, Towyn, Mary, only child of Mr Wil- liam Hughes, ag'ed 11 months. JONEs.-Noyember 8th., at Mary's-lane, Cardigan, Mr Daniel Jones, tailor, aged 84 years. JONES.—.November 12th, aged 61, Mrs Elizabeth Jones, 2, Terrace-road, Strata Florida. JONES.—November 11th, aged 7 years, at Ponterwyd Mill, Mary Ann, daughter of Mr Thomas Jones, miller. LEWIS.—November 17th, aged 60 years, at Penbryn- hir, Llanfihiingel-y-Creiiddyn Upper, Anne, wife of Mr David Lewis, farmer. MICHAEL.—November 13th, aged 60, Rachel, the wife of Mr Henry Michael, stone mason, Portland- lane PIE, RCE 14th, aged 60 years, Elizabeth, wife of Mr John Pierce, Royal Oak, Gogerddan. THOMAS.—November 11th, at the residence of her son-in-law, Alma Grange, near Cardigan, Mrs Mary Thomas, widow of the late Mr James Thomas, aged 84 years.

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