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FACTS AND FANCIES
FACTS AND FANCIES An awful Dad—Father Thames, in a flood.—Punch. The English Flag of the Future-Tbe school standard.- Verdi has taken his seat in t'ae Italian Senate. Just the m When £ e wSslSronclad^-Wben they heal over so many .lips gracefuj1'wU, '&c." has conferred upon b™ c^Jea8Ue the Ibriquet of Hunt the s.ipper Fatrick) Eccentric old officer to cerity)6: ^OchT"no^ you^ honour, if. not myself that'll be calling you n.vmes at all^at all r 2j £ B* vete(J b fc durinpf canoe" must have proved more than usually benencial.- F Mrs Partington writes to say that after reading half <\>z°n cases of assaults of feet, m the sbape of wife kicking, Se other dai, it was a positive relief to come across a para- graph announcing an assault of arms.Puitch. 6 A SEA OF TROUBLES. Now meat is high and coals are dear It's surely not surprising, p.toi hoaSrholders should quake with fear To find that water's rising.—Fun. AN ILLUSION OF THE RINK. Alone; the rink careering fast, ¡. How women hoax their lords ana masters Smith thought an ancrel glided past, And it was Mrs Smittton castors.-Pun ch. Rear-Admiral Maxse has been lecturing against woman suffrage at the Co-operative Institute, tie strongly opposes ?he movement. We can quite understand a modern adtxira taking this ground. Old women are proverbially jealous of ^Green*: "How is it Brown, you always have such splendid fruit from vour careen ? I exhibit, and carry off cups and prizes (at least my gardener does, for I onlysee i- in pririt). but I never have such fruit as this on my table brown = Simplest thing in the world, old fellow. I keep a gar- dener for my garden you keep a garden for your gardener. Some EFFECTS OP THE FLOOD.—Mr Slyboots fhd not reach the domestic haven until four m the morrung, owing to the quantity ot he-.vy wet about, Mr Sponger did not return Brown the half sovereign as promised, because his purse was carried n,way fr >m the piano where he had placed it. Mr Simpson's benour as a milkman was not injured by an unexpected inspection of his stock-in-trade, as the dilu- tion was so utterly beyond his control. Mrs Powder Blue couldn't be expected to pay for them three shirts as had been washed away"—and she didn't. Mr Hardup was compelled to liquidate, as the inundation had damped his hopes of pulling through. Mrs Firstfloor apologiseu to er lodger for the weakness of his brandy, ''but thro „ a-leavin' of the cork hout careless that 'orrid flood aJ P at it." "Mr Prodigal was compelled to ter hundred of his governor, just to keep his hea ab Mr Soaker was, for once, able to understand how when he got home from the club everything was swimming around him.-Fun.
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A short t.me ago a young man named William Hughes, son of the landlady of the Britannia Inn, Mold, ran over two iittle children while driving a pony. The children were not seriously hurt, but when their father came to the ( inn young Hughes ran out and banged himself. The ver- dict was "Tcmpotary insanity."
BYE-GONES;
BYE-GONES; NOTES, QUERIES, and REPLIES, on subjects interesting to Wales and the Borders, will be thankfully receivedjorinsertiOl1 in this column. But they must NOT BE SENT TO THE EDITOR oj the pfpcr, or delay will, e-n^uc. In all cases please address IJyeQones, Groeswylan, Osioestry."
December 1, 1875.
December 1, 1875. 'AHE pi NEATER (Nov. 24, In reference to this subjc6 the writer in Blackwood states in the Academy of Nov. 27, that the Cambrian Archseo!oaists at Ludlow in 1853 had the mutter beforethem, wheu "ilr Jloggriilge cited a case of this superstition as having occurred within five years at or near Llandebie, in the bill country of Carmarthenshire." (See Cam. Arch. Jour, s.' 11, v.' ii', p. 330).
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FROM THE PAPERS. Mrs Abel Heywood has presented a statue of Cromwell (which has cost" about £1:600) to the ciryof Manchester. The features are said to be dignified and expressive. Mr Browning's new poem, the Inn Album," has been reviewed by most of the leadinz papers. Some of tbem are charmed with it. The Academy says vulgarity is stamped upon it" in spite of the intellectual brilliancy which gives a value to everything Mr Browning has to say. The Sea Nymph, screw steamer, has towed into Lynn a derelict vessel. When she was pumped free from water, and search made below, five men were foun 1 dead in the cabin; having been either drowned or suffocated. The vessel had dnting the recent gales sprung a mast which blocked the cabin door and prevented them from escaping. Orders have been received at Devonport to draw the fires of her Majesty's ship Iron Duke. These instructions were accompanied by notice that a special court of en- quiry will be held to investigate the circumstances connected with the recent accident on hoard the vessel. The Rev Mark Wilks (Unscctarian) has^ been elee'ed member for the Sch ",1 lioard for Finsburv.—Wilks, 3.511; Lord F. Hervey, 2.734 Surr, 2,277 Bolton, 1,506. The accuracy ot the reports as to the probability of an im- mediate strengthening of the garrisons of Gv raltar and Malta is denie d by the Army and Navy Gazette. The movements which are taking place, and which Lave led to these reports, are simply connected with the sealing out of the ordinary winter drafts. A memorial signed by 129 clergy and 16 magistrates of the county of Derby has been forwarded to the Home Secretary praying that in any Bill which the Government may introduce relating to the observance of Sunday no per- mission may be given for the opening of aquaria or otrer places of amusement or of secular instruction on that for money payment. Since it was announced on the authority of Dr Ke:. lv and Mr Guildford Onslow that the fat convict in Dar:" or had been reduced from twenty-seven to thirteen stone: the governor of the prison has been made b expect with s- may the arrival ot the prison mail bags. The victims of obesity have, with singular accord, set tbeir hearts u; a copy of the prison bill of fare, and the unfortunate pit- man and governor are overwhelmed by their applications. j A Sheffield paper states that on Tuesday afternoon, Nov, 23, after visiting Hadclon Hail, Bake we 11, the Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, In company with two other gentLmen. chose to walk back to Chatsworth instead of ride, and started about three o'clock in that direction by the b >wIiDg green, and through a portion of Wixup wood into CaHou pastures. There they missed their way, as darkness came on, and they wandered about tor some time. As their absence began to create some alarm at Chatsworth, abcut half-past six o'clock preparations were about to ba made for a search for them in the park, when his grace's quests put in an appearance, to the general satisfaction of all present- The Observer understands that Government has complied with the request of the Egyptian Government to send a special Commissioner to Cairo to advi.- e tne Khedive v, ith regard to the reform which he intends to introduce into his financial affairs. The Exmincr gives cur,enev to the state- merit that Mr Avrton is hhortlv to leave England on a similar mission at the request of the Khedive, and supple- ments this statement by another, to the effect that the Right Hon. J. Gr. Dodson, M.P., has been requested to pr >- ceed to Constantinople to examine into Turkis:. finances. and will leave for Turkey at an arly date. Lord Napier of Ettrick and Mr Goscben were originally t) ac- company him, but neither of them can undertake to
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POLITICAL ,F' Mr William Dingwall Fordyce, the Liberal member for East Aberdeenshire, died on Saturday morning, Nov. :?7. after a very short illness. Thedecea.sed gentleman was a son of the late Mr Alexander Ferdyce. who vep^-serted the City of Aberdeen in the Parliament called in 1847, and was only thity-nine years of at the time or hisotMth. He was first elected for the undivided county of Aberdeen in ."lay,1866, when he. defeated Sir James Elphinst"ne, and in lSGS was returned for the eastern division. Mr Fordyce was married in 1870 to Christina, eldest daughter of Mr Robert Horn, of Edinburgh. Mr Ainslie Douglas Ainslie will be the Liberal candidate. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald has issued an aldctss to the electors of Horsham resigning his seat for that borough on bie appointment as Chief Charity Commi«sioner for England and Wales, in the room of the late Sir James Hill. The right hon. gertlem&n, who is fifty-eigbt years of as-e, was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the second Ad- ministration of Lerd Derby. and Governor of Bombay from January, 1867, to March, 1872. He sat for Horsham from June to September. 1848, when he was unseated on peti- tion, from July, 1852, to July, 1865, and was re-elected in February last year. Colonel Aldridge, a former Conserva- tive candidate, has already announced his intention of again contesting the seat, and Mr Hurst, Liberal, has also appeared on the field.
. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.
THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. The Observer states it is not improbable that Parliament may be convoked at an earlier period than would other- wise be the case, in order to ratify the agreement between the Khedive and Messrs Rothschild. The London correspondent of the Newcastle Chronicle says :-It is stated in well-informed circles, that the lead- ing members of the Opposition were communicated with in reference to the prospective purchase of the Suez Canal shares from the Khedive of Egypt, and that they acqui- esced in the adoption of that policy by the Government. It is also believed that Parliament will not, as usual, be prorogued beyocd the 15th of December, but that a short session will be held before Christmas, in order to obtain the sanction of the House for the Ministerial policy. It may be added that the captains of the army on half-pay have been notified that their services may be required immediately, and that the Royal Engineers have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness for service in the East.
THE PROPOSED COMBINATION OF…
THE PROPOSED COMBINATION OF SANITARY DISTRICTS. At a meeting of the Wrexham General Purposes Com- mittee, on Wednesday, Nov 24th, there were present:— Alderman Thomas Jones (chairman), the Mayor (Dr Eyton- Jones), Alderman Beirne, Alderman J. C. Owen Mr Robert Lloyd, Mr 1. Shone, Mr William Rowland, Mr E. Smith, Mr J. M. Jones Mr James (town c!erk), Mr J. W. M. Smith (surveyor), Mr LI. Williams (medical officer), and Mr D. Higgins (inspector of nuisances). I Mr ROBERT LLOYD rose to move a resolutisn having re- ference to Mr Doyle's proposal to unite all the Sanitary Authorities in the county for the appointment of a medical officer of health. The Sanitary duties were now efficiently discharged, and under the proposed arrasgement instead of being facilitated they would be rendered more difficult. He, therefore, moved a resolution declaring that the Council were of opinion that the scheme would not reduce the ex- penses of the borough, or otherwise be for the advantage of the district, and they, therefore, declined to accept it. Alderman OWEN, in seconding the motion, said Me Doyle's argument that the district should be treated as a whole and not with reference to one particular place, was a most unfair one. The Wrexham urban and rural districts were well looked after, aDd it was too bad for them to be saddled with the expense incurred in putting other places in the same condition. Such districts ought to pay themselves for the work that was found to be necessary. Let those districts that had failed in their duty be associated, so that they might bear the expense conjointly. Mr SHONE thought it would be best to postpone the ques- tion until tbey received a communication from the Local Government Board. The more he thought and lead about it the more satisfied was he that it was worthy of greater consideration than it had yet received at the hands of the urban and the rural sanitary authorities. The Local Government Board would, in arriving at a determination to unite certain districts, have infinitely better data than that Council had for their guidance. They could not shut their eyes to the fact that the average death-rate in Wrexham TiM twenty-eight per thousand, and in one month it had been as high as forty-eight per thousand, and that state of things existed notwithstanding that they had a medical officer of health, whose salary however was but nominal-a, mere bagatelle, and out of all proportion to the importance of his office. He had at a previous meeting shown them that they were losing pecuniarily about E3,000 a year on account of the high death-rate. He did not mean to say that he was favourable to Mr Doyle's scheme, but before they denounced a proposal which was the deliberate result of the vast amount of experience the Government had ac- quired on the subject, they ought to adjourn it for the pur- pose of giving it mature consideration.^ Was it worth while to fight at great cost a proposal which would involve an expenditure to the borough of only 1"0 a year, and to put their shoulders against a door which the Government de- sired to onen for the protection of the lives of those for whom the Council had to legislate ? It was a mockery and a delusion for any man to say that a gentleman could ,3o his duty to a town like Wrexham for the paltry sum of £ 40 a year, which was the remuneration which Mr Williams re- ceived. Mr J. M. JONES opposed the motion. The MAYOB—What the medical profession throu^Lou c'the kingdom, and the British Medical Association, desired was that local boards should appoint their own medial men to supervise their own districts, and that they should h-ve a body ef men labouring for the public health, organized and systematized, not as at present, one bo*rd adopting or.e tcheme and another adopting another, but all directed bv a scientific head as to what was the best plan of org•• n>z:n' schemes throughout the whi.de kingdom. In V'exham they had an illustration of the want of such organiza- tion. Wrexham above and below was controlled by Lbe Rural Sanitary Authority, and there was pouring into thj brook which ran through the town the combined filth of Brymbo, Minora, _Sjuthse», Moss, and Poolmouth, and there was being discharged into the midst of a concen- trated population the filth that came a: least from IOJO'X) inhabitants. (Hear, hear.) To his mind, Mr Doyle's scheme did not go far enough. He thought it would be best to appoint an inspector for an aiva as large ss he (Mr Doyle) had himself, .-t a salary '■>' £ 800 a year and travelling' over an area reaching H;.f-r -,s Carmarthen, he might collate the facts retcrable to disease, and also establish cert-in organised rules, which they ond Carmarthen, he might collate the facts retcrable to disease, and also establish cert-in rules. which they ond not got in Wrexham. Ultimate1?, the msnsg onent 01 t .b. t d-tricts would become p?ifec:.ly easy under sop-rvi.-mg The CHAIRMAN read the following extract I'- m T he-5/-• Medical Journal—"VTe Wrongly suspect that u w;hbe found that' Mr Dovle has exceeded his RiitLoruy.n he North Welsh authorities with compulsory combination, and that when his proceedings c, lobe Mr-rted :■< head quarters be will be greatly snubbed, and .he stv.b''orn Welshmen wili be allowed to follow their own s^eet- wr];in open rebellion against' all the Queen s horses an l all the Queen's men. "I (Laughter). —-j- me further discussion the motion was carried by six to three.
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^ECCLESIASTICAL The Bishop of Ripon on Monday, November 29th, insti- tuted the R-v. F, Pigou to the vicarage of Halifax. On Tuesday night, in Westmuister Abbey, Dr MoffaSt, the Nonconformist African missionary, delivered a lecture on Missionary Enterprise," especially di-ectiog his re- marks to the scene of his own labours—Southern Africa. Dr Monatt entered on the details of the work, and urged that missionary labours should be stilt further encouraged until the whole continent was civilized. A disestablishment meeting was held at Birkenhead on Monday nrght, and the iui,i-"rrer!! of Church and State took the opportunity of showing their zeal foz the cause by attending in numbers and creating a disturb- ance. The Rev. W B'nns delivered a discourse, giving reason? why the Church should be disestabdshed but an amendment, in favoar of the continuance of a State Church, was put and carried. At a Liberation meeting held at Sheffield on Wednesday evening, the chairman, the Hon. Lvuph S'aniey. combated t the &gnmentS()ftè" employed against tbe Lioerati.m'.sts that their object was -imply the disestablishment, ot the Chute-, of England, and that tby were animäted by a sense os ir- ration and pique. The principles of the Liberation Society were very much sounder. The history of the Established Church in this country showed that it had worked great political and social injustice. Coming down c" the present k.e insisted that the existence of an Established Church in their midst tended to thwart and pervert the eiiorts made by the real friends of social, religious, and ed- ucational progress. He especially emphasized tne conten- tion tud>t the clt-rgym, c,f »rje Church of England had been mainly instrumental in hindering the development oi a really soaciu national system of education. Letters apol- ogizing for non-attendance were read. Mr Mandeda, M.P., said be Iiid always, and snoported by hid votes in Parliament entire religious equality, and so lung as be had the honour of a seat, he should continue tc do k-. Mr Allen, M. P., wrote, I believe Disestablishment the only thing that can effectually stem the torrent of .itualisai, which is at present carrying all before it in the Church of EL, -land. T-nies. The Bishop of doubter and Bristol last wee': presided over a conference of clergy and laity, at Chiopennam, to consider Mr Osborne Morgan's Burials Bul. tie said he felt h, under some grievance at present as regarded buryiDg their dead, and he thought Churchmen should attempt to remedy it. There was a clear and fatal objection, however, to Mr Osborne Morgan's bui, for it simply removed a grievance from a minority, and in so 9 doing would inflict an equal if not greater grievance on the majority. His proposal simply invalidated consecration, and the consciences of Churchmen were to be respected as much as those of Dissenters. The only way he saw out of the difficulty was for power to be given to local authorities to provide cetaeteries at the cost of the poor rates. Such an offer w..uld tesr, the sincerity of both parties. Resolutions pissed to the eff-c:. that the conference could not re- of the grievance, but would concede that if the Burial Service of tne Church of England was obj-cted to ur-.•vision be ujade for silent interments, and that fLic.Liti-js-b .uld be civn for the provision of cme- teries.
C H \ K1TIES OF M I N TGO…
C H K1TIES OF M I N TGO ME I L\^LIIRIL ( Centinued.) PARISH OF KERRY. THE SCHOOL. The charity school in this p*riah is of ancient d^e origin is not ble-, but its principal endowment that under the will of Richard Jones, E-q., in 1785. Tber. a re several benefactions of an eat her ii*;e recorded for its supwri, as follows John Jones's gi ft.-John Jones, of Black Hall, in 1718, gf-ve. JE.5, the interest wh-rrof was t., j", 1-id out in buving bu.ks for tin- school. J,r?.,ics Lo,,j Lioyd, in 1721, gave £ 5 to the vicar of tne parish, in trust ttot. the interest thereof should be yearly employed in leachiuu poor children in the school. Richard Lloyd's gift.—.Frmn an entry in a parish book relating to the schoo:, n. appears t.'iat tile Rev. Richard Lloyd, brother cf tbe before-mentioned James Llovd, gave, hy will, £ 5, which, with the gift -1 his brother (James), of £5. be is therein stated to have charged upon an estate in Kerry called Dole Howell. The interest, amounting to ten shillings, is received by the treasurer, from a farm called the Red House, in the parish of Kerry. Humphreys's gift.—Evan Humphreys, according to an entry in an old book, concerning the school accounts, gave iio, the interest of whicn was to be expended in teaching children of the parish. The sura of ten shillings as the interest of this gift has been annually paid by the owner of a tenement known bv tbe name (,f Mary Morris's tenement. Williams's gift.—From the benefaction table in the church it appears that Evan Williams, in 1720, gave the sum of £ 10, the interest whereof was to be given to the school- master. Mathew Edwards's Gift.—Mathew Edwards, in 1723, gave 220 to the then curate and ether trustees upon trust that the interest thereof should b? paid yearly towards teach- ing poor children in the school. Richard Jones's chard Jones, of Greenwich in the county of Kent., Esq., by his will, bearing the date 13th April, 1785 (proved with four codicils, in the Preroga- tive Court of Canterbury, 6th December, 1788), bequeathed the sum of J3600 navy five per cent, bank annuities unto Mathe'v Richards, of Wych-street, London, his brcther-in-law, William Biven, of Greenwich aforesaid, and his nephew, Henry Jones, their executors and adminis- trators, upon trust that they should pay the clear yearly dividends thereof to Mary Castle, for her life, and, after her decease, upon trust that they or the survivor of them, their or his executors or administrators should transfer the said trust-stock of £ 600 five per cent, annuities unto the chen Vicar and Churchwardens of the parish of Kerry, in the county of Montgomery, and other the then trustees (if any) of the charity school in the same parish, upon the following trusts, viz., that they or other the trustees for the time being should pay and apply the yearly dividends (after first deducting all expenses attending the re- ceiving the same and any yearly sum not exceeding £.1 Is towards the expense of a dinner and £ 1 Is towards the expense of a sermon to be preached in the Parish Church of Kerry on charity, and 10s 6d for a dinner for the poor children going to Kerry school on the charitable foundation, and the master or teacher of suc)i poor children at the yearly meeting of the trustees, on any day by them to be appointed for the purpose of regulating" the said charity) for and towards the victualling, clothing, and finding books for the poor children going to the said charity school aforesaid on the foundation, and towards the educating, clothing, and victualling any other poor children (boys or girls) of the parish of Kerry, (where the testator was born) aforesaid, at or in the said school of Kerry, but no part thereof to be applied as a settled salary for the master of the said school, except by way of quar- terage only (not exceeding 5s per quarter for any boy or girl), for teaching such poor children in reading and writing as might exceed the number allowed on the foundation of the same school, and afterwards in or towards the placing any such poor boys apprentices to some handicraft trades within the said parish as fr as the yearly income thereof would admit, such yearly dividends to be so applied for the purposes aforesaid, as the said trustees thereof and vicar and churchwardens of the said parish of Kerry for the time being, or the major part of them should think fit, and it was pro- vided that, if the said irust stock of £600, five per cent. annuities, or any part thereof, should be redeemed or paid off, the trustees for the time being should lay out the moneys to be received in lieu thereof upon other Parlia- mentary funds or public securities, or upon mortgage of freehold lands in or near Montgomeryshire, upon the like trusts, and tha% after the said stock should be transferred to the Vicar and Churchwardens and trustees of the charity school, when they or any succeeding or future trustees of the said trust stock were, by death or otherwise, rednced to the number of three acting trustees, the surviving trustees thereof should transfer or assign the said trust stock or se- curities into the joint names of themselves and the Vicar, Churchwardens, and Overseers of t.he poo- for the tlrns being, upon the like trust., so that there might always be a sufficient number of trustees thereof. (To be continued.)
. IANOTHER MAN-OF-WAR IN COLLISION.
ANOTHER MAN-OF-WAR IN COLLISION. On Sunday a c-jllision occurred off Start Point between the ironclad turret el ip Monarch, Captain W. A. Wood, and the Norwegian barque Holden, Captain Ob", Jacobsen, in which both vessels, but more especially the barque, sus- tained serious damage, and both put into Plymouth sound for repairs. The IVIouarcu was on her WI\j7 down channel from Portsmouth direct for Vigo, to join the Channel Fleet there. The baique, which is a large vessel of ever 1,000 tons burthen, was timber-laden, bound from Pt-nsacola London. She is owned by Messrs Weal and Co., of Frederickshald. She was ou the starboard tack at half-past three this morning, beatiog tip channel against an easterly wind, when the Monarch was seen approaching her under full steam. The m^n-of-war, being a steamer, ought by the rule of the road at tea to have passed astern of the Ilolden, but she tried to cross the barque's bows, and, before the C' -arse of the sailing vessel could be altered to counteract this action on the part of th" Monarch, both vessels came into violent collision. The shock completely smashed in the bows of the barque, and with a tremendous crash her topgallant rigging 1-11 to the deck. The bowspiit, j'bboom, ani other gear was likewise destroyed. Had not the vessel been timber laden, her condition after the c,I. must bhve b,-ei) one of extreme perd but, according to the statement of her officers, the ironclad steamoo "a without giving assistance or asking whether auy was re- quired. As it was. ,he barque r powt-r of progress, was of course destroyed, and she left roiling helplessly in the channel fairway- Fortunaitiv, a pilot cutter was in s;sht and this cr3.ft was despatched to Plymouth for aid. In re- turn the steamtug Secret was sent, which picked up the oisabkd Norwegian, and gùt hr s foil' to PIvmouth. Meanwhile th« -i.^rcu had put kt > the Sound with her plates smashed ou the iJort side, Tbe Holden had scarcely anchored^ when an officer was de-patched to her frt-m the tu ret ship who ma a* inquiries of Captain Jacobsen with L go8 Z{ r Rnh '"> circumstances ?.f 3^'n Jacobin replied that he saw the "n," '"x- A °'vn hkewis.e were binning bru.h.iy. t he IS orwegun capUin was then asked by the 10 ^n a statement regarding the accident, but, aC'r'" 0n a friend, iu- deedneu to cio SQ.
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HOLLO WAT OINTM?YT AND •ILLS.—C-ughs, iLfiuecza. — lot; soot-fciig t -.i. of se medicaments render fhí-m •»- H worthy triel in a'i diseases of ry a n co he P'- irlzt-r- o'v.a )-•. r. aed te Oin 'ment ruobed over the chest and throat, are exceedingly efficacious. When influx zi is epidemic, th's treatment is driest, psfest. and surest. HoUoway'B Pills pu:ify the bl'«>->. remove s-.ll obssae'es to its free cir- culation through the lungs,relieve the over-gorged a r tubc-3 and render respira'icn free without reducing the SM- n;h, irritatii g the nerves, or depressing the spirits, such are the ready meats of saving suffering wb?n any one is afflicted with cold, coaghs, bror chilis, and chess complaints, by which so many person-, are Strict s y and permanently r fiTcted in most countrie*. fi"c'
J1 THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT…
J 1 THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE SUEZ CANAL. PURCHASE OF THE KHEDIVE'S SHARES. The Khedive of Egypt has sold his shares in the Suez Canal to the British Government for 24,000,000. These shares amount to about 177,000, out of a total of 400,000. It is thought probable that this may be but a first step to the question of the purchase of the canal. The following telegram was received on Thursday, Nov. 25, from Alexandria, by the Bank of Egypt, LODdon "Egyptian Government sold to English Government Suez Canal shares for R4,000,000 sterling. Minister is authorized to draw the amount on Rothsebild at sight." Cairo, Nov. 26. It is confirmed that the Khedive has sold his shares in the Suez Canal Company to the British Government for four millions sterling cash. The Egyptian Government is to pay five per cent. on the purchase money during the period of nineteen years for which the dividends on the shares have been already hypothecated. The Times contains the following We have to make a somewhat startling announcement. The British Govern- ment has purchased the Khedive's Suez Canal shares. An event like this will rouse curiosity to the utmost, and let loose a flood of conjecture and speculation. There is an audacity about it which we do not generally associate with the acts of a British ministry. We seem to trace in it the hand of Mr Disraeli. While people are looking towards the East in doubt and apprehension, the Queen's Government resolves on an act which will at once fix the regards of the •world No waiting for Parliament, no feeling of public opin- ion no mysterious hints to prepare the city and the country for something remarkable. The nation awakes to find that it has acquired a heavy stake in the security and well-being of another distant land, and that it will be held by all the world to have entered on a new phkse of Eastern policy. The public, both of this and other countries, will "ok a, this important act of the British Government rather in its political than in its commercial aspect. It will be regarded as a demonstration, and something more a declaration of intentions, and a commencement of action t:pon them. We have no desire for an extension of terri- tory we do not covet the land of the Nile, even with its magnificent extension into unknown regions which it has acquired through the courage and endurance of urxttsb travellers. Bat should insurrection or intrigue, aggress.on from without or corruption from within, bring a pohtical as well as a financial collapse to the Turkish Empire, it might become necessary to take measures for the security of that part of the Sultan's dominions with which we are most nearly concerned. The acquisition of so commanding an interest in the Suez Canal, an interest which must inevi- tably tend to increase, will lead the Government and the people of this country to concern themselves habitually with Egypt and we trust the effect will be to arrest the financial mismanagement of the Province, to introduce order and economy, to husband its resources, and to elevate its submissive and oppressed population. The Financier looks upon the purchase as eminently satisfactory from a commercial point of view, and adds- We have at last the distinct intimation sent forth, as may be said, to the nations of the earth, that the British a;gis is spread over Egypt and the high road to our Indian em- pire. We opine it will be a big power that will presume to interfere with the mercantile transaction concluded with the Khedive." The Pall Mall Gazette says-" The bargain had to be settled at once, or not at all it was a question of a few days, almost of a few hours. It had been known for some time past that the immediate financial troubles of the Khedive were extreme those who trouble themselves to follow the reports of the fluctuations of the stock market will have seen that for the last month at least this has been BO secret anywhere. The truth is that the circumstances of the Khedive were such that a forced sale or a forced hypothecation of his interest in the Suez Canal had become absolutely necessarv to meet engagements falling due at the end of the present week. Such a sale or hypothecation was indeed actually contemplated, and had it been carried out the Viceroy's interest in the canal. and with it the whole interest of the canal, mast have passed into other and Derbaps jealous hands." Comments continue to be passed in the foreign papers o\x the purchase by the British Government of the Khedive shares in the Suez Canal. The Journal des Debats thinks that the fears which the transaction has aroused are per- haps exaggerated. France, far from being uneasy or jealous, ought, it says, to congratulate herself for her own Bake and for that of civilization generally. The Orleanist Echo praises the boldness, promptitude, and ability dis- played by the British Government. It regrets that a great Work due to French genius should fall into foreign hands, but consoles itself by the reflection that of all the Powers ready to dispute over the ruins of Turkey, England is the least obnoxious to France. In Vienna, our Correspondent telegraphs, considerable surprize has been caused by the purchase, but the comments upon it are mostly of a friendly character. The Berlin, and the German Press generally, continue to express great satisfaction at the event. M. de Lesseps, with a view to allay the uneasiness ef some of the shareholders in the Suez Canal, has issued a circular respecting the purchase of the Khedive's shares by the British Government. He points out that in other day's that Government threw every obstacle in the way of the undertaking, and says that even until recent times the in- tervention of English agents was prejudical to it. Now, however, the Kritish nation accepts the position in the Com- pany originally allotted to it, and M. de Lessseps regards this powerful union of French and English capital as a for- tunate occurrence.
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THE GUARDIAN ON THE DENBIGH…
THE GUARDIAN ON THE DENBIGH REREDOS AWARD. The Guardian in a leading article, condemns the award in the case of the Denbigh Reredos as contrary to law. Our Contemporary says—Dr Stphens and Dr Deane have given their award in the case of the Denbigh reredos^ deciding that it is in their judgement unlawful to place over the altar a sculptured representation of the Crucifixion with the figure of our Lord in high relief. The case is on all fours with that of the Exeter reredos, except that at Exeter our Lord was represented as in the act of as- cending to heaven, at Denbigh as hanging on the cross. It will be convenient, therefore, to take, in the first instance, from the Exeter judgment, a general statement of the facts and principles on winch the decision of both cases alike depends. A statement guaranteed by such names as those of Lord Hatiierley, Lord Penzance, Lord Selborn-j, the Lord Ctief Baron, Sir Montagu Smith, and Sir K. Collier may safety be relied upon." The Guardian then proceeds to give the facts and principles upon which the Exeter judgment was based. In 1547 (Edward VI.) the clergy were directed to destroy all sncti images as had been abused by being made occasions of pilgrimages or offerings, and in February, 1547-8, a docu- ment reading like an order in Council was addressed to the Archbishop, reciting that questions had been eoiiteutiousiy raised whether particular images had been abused or not, and directing that all should be taken away. On these the Judical Committee comment as follows:- It appears plaiu to their Lordships that the iu junctions were directed (3rd and 28th) to the removal or destruction of such images only "as had at any time been abused." by superstitious observances; but the letter refers to the difficulty of distin- guishing them from others and to the p-etext made for retaining some that had been "manifestly abused" by reason of their alleged exemption from abuse. Accordingly, it is directed that, in order to make sure of attaining the original purpose, all the remaining images should be then ruiuoved. This order, or letter, theu of the King's Council, explained as it is in its objects and intentions on the face of the document itself appears to their lordships to amount to no more than an administrative act or step taken at the time, for the bme, ana dictated by the necessities peculiar to the time. It did not con- tain, nor profess to contain, the enunciation of any general PAW of a permanent character with respect to images. It, no doubt, proceeded on the implied assertion that the wor-dup or abuse f images was contrary to the true doctrine of the Church, then at the commencement of its Kef .rmat:on. But it did not involve all images in a general coiuteiun-ition, even by implication, fur it distinguished between those which had been abused and those wijich had not, so far as condeLunation went. and ordered the removal of all, whether abused or not, for the sake of peace, ana for the purpose of ensuring obedience to the former orders, i ar from denouncing dead images as things aulavflit, this document speaks of them as things not lie ;estary.. „ These injunctions, therefore, may be dismissed trom view, as dictated by the necessities of the particular time," and not enunciating any permanent or general law." The Act of 3rd and 4th Edward Vr., which, after for- bidding the use of any Missals or other Reman service- books throughout the King's dominions, enacted that if any person had in his possession any such books or images taken out of or still standing in any church or chapel, and did not deliver up such books for destruction, aud destroy or deface the images before the 1st of June then next ensu- ing, he should be subject to a penalty for every book re- tained, is regarded hy their lordships as relating only "to the destruction of images already ordered to be removed, but which either had not been removed, or, having been so, were still retained for private devotion and worship." That is to say, their lordships were of opinion that this whole mass of order, injunction, and legislation was intelldd to meet a particular state of things, and not to impose any law on the English Church. The destruction of images by Edward VI. no more precluded their restoration after their abuse had become obsolete than the destruction of cottages in the New Forest by William Rufus precluded their being rebuilt when English Sovereigns ceased to care about stag hunting. Nothing can be clearer. There was legislation in the reign of Mary respecting that of Edward VI., and the old state of things was restored under Elizabeth and James, from which time there ap- pears to have been neither further legislation nor inquiry with reference to pictorial or sculptured representations of sacred subjects in churches." Their lordships then proceed to decide that the Exeter reredos was set up for decoration only and was lawful. The sum of the whole, then, is that though the statute of Edward is in force technically, it is practically exhausted by the emergency which it had to meet, and does not apply to images set up in the present day—that such images are lawful—but that their abuse is forbidden by the Twenty- second Article, and liable to be put down by law. All this appears to apply directly to the Denbigh reredos as fully as to that of Exeter and in order to except the Denbigh case from the scope of the judgment, it seems necessary to show, at least, that the Denbigh sculpture is not set up for the purpose of decoration only, nor as a mere representation of a historical subject, however, solemn and touching, but for the purpose of abuse, or so as to be in danger of abuse-that abuse being the wor- shipping and adoration" condemned in the Twenty-second Dr Stephens is, doubtless, one of those who rate highly the duty of accepting the law of the land as declared by the highest tribunal of appeal-and would condemn any attempt to subvert or turn the flank of that law by any inferior Judge or arbiter as severely as its open defiance by a Ritualist curate. Let us see how he deals with the judgment of which the substance is before our readers- These are his words :— The Judicial Committee, in their judgment in the Exeter reredos case (.. Phillpotts v. Boyd," 25th February, 1875, official report, p. 14) state that the Act of Edward VI. remains un- repealed." This is the last statute upon the subject of images and, con- sequently, images in churches are now prohibited by the statute l»r. It seems almost incredible that a lawyer with a character to lose should have committed himself to such a statement as this. The statute of Edward, says the Judicial Committee, was revived by that of James 1. But it appears to their lord- ships that the efficacy of the Act of Edward was spent upon the definite purpose to which it was directed, and that the Legislature did not thereby make or intend to make pro- vision in respect of the subsequent use or abuae of any such images." The statute of Edward, says Dr Stephens, was revived by that of James I., and consequently images in churches are now prohibited by the statute law." And this he says actually quoting—and therefore having under his eye and consideration—the judgment which he so audaciously con- travenes. Of course what follows is simple :— The Å ward. Under the foregoing facts aud circumstances I award and determine that- The figure or image of our Lord upon the cross in the central compartment of the reredos erected in the proposed new church at Denbigh is an image within the prohibitions of the Royal In- junctions of 1559, and the provisions of 3 and 4 Edward VI., c. 10, and is therefore illegal. If any one will take the trouble to read the facts and circumstances" to which Dr Stephens refers, with a hazy generality which, under the circumstances, cannot be thought injudicious, he will find that the whole of the ar- gument, comprising some twenty pages, is expended in showing, first,_ that a figure of our Lord on the cross is an image, which is a truism if "figure" is synonymous with image," untrue if it is not synonymous, and in any case immaterial; secondly, that images were indiscriminately destroyed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a fact which no- body denies, and which, as the Judicial Committee have de- cided, is no proof that they were illegal. In one respect, he unwittingly shows that a cru cifix on the altar would be exceptionally free from the danger of abuse, inasmuch as he quotes a Roman text-book to show that is is placed there not for the superstitious purpose of attracting worship, but for a purpose confessedly legitimate —that the Image of the Crucified may recall both to the priest and to the faithful present the memory of the pas- sion of Christ;" and he seems to think that he advances his case by elaborately applying this justifying explanation to the particular case in hand. This he does by a quota- tion from the same text-book (Fornici), to the effect that the Congregation of Sacred Ilites has decreed that if in the chief compartment of the reredos the sculptured Image of Christ crucified (Imago Crucifixi) holds the principal place, there is no need of another cross on the altar during Mass." The quotation might be accepted as effective on a platform where a practice would be assumed to be guilty if it was shown to be Roman. But a lawyer of less ex- perience than Dr Stephens ought to have seen that whilst showing this practice to be Roman he also incidentally went far to prove its innocence. Dr Deane's award the Guardian treats more shortly. From the Exeter case, which did not exclude crucifixes from legal images, he looks back to Westerton v. Liddell, which laid it down that crosses were not images. Upon the whole, their lordships, after the most anxions deli- beration, have come to the conclusion that crosses as distin- guished from crucifixes have been in use as ornaments of churches from the earliest periods of Christianity, that when used as mere embtrms, and not as objects of mperstitious reverence, they may still lawfully be erected as achitectural decorations of churches, And that the large wooden cross erected at St. Barnabas s must accordingly be allowed to remain. On the ground of this allegation, "that crosses as distin- guished from crucifixes" have been used as ornaments of churches from the earliest times the mere statement of an admitted historical fact—Dr Deane considers himself enti- tled to assume, first, that the tribunal was of opinion that crucifixes were illegal, whicn at that period of the argument was likely enough to be true and next, that they intended to pronounce them so—which is evidently not true. Thirdly, to mr.ke his argument good, he ought to have assumed that this earlier and unnecessary ar.d indirect indication of opinion was to outweigh, the later and explicit judgment of the Court in Boyd v. Phillpotts." This a lawyer could scarcely do. But. he does what aprears to us quite as surprising. He alleges (without argument) th:t the prohibition of crucifixes which he extracts from "Westerton v. Liddell" is consistent with allowance of images manifestly contained in "Boyd v. I Phillpotts. "The distinction" (he says) PO pointedly taken in that" I (the former) case between crosses as mere emblems of Chris- tian faith and crucifixes which are more than emblems" (this is not the distinction taken) is )tot iiz way affected by P/allpoits and Eoyd, and seems to me a real, sound, and practical ais auc- tion." And this is the sole ground of his award, that the cru- cifix in the centre compartment of the. reredos erected in St. Mary's Church, Denbigh, is unlawful as an architectural decoration." That is to say, because crucifixes arc nut crosses within the scope of "Westerton v. Liddell," they aje not images within tae scope of "Boyd v. Phillpotts," V are sorry for the Denbigh People. T^ut 't will bu, course, understood that thi. award has n.. sort of authority over any who have not pledged themselves t<^ accept it.
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NOTES. AN OLD OSWESTRY STRIKE."—The jour- neymen tailors suddenly struck for wages in Oswestry (says the Shrewsbury Chronicle of the period) on Satur,lav, June 15,1822. HYLLD. MAYORS OF WREXHAM.—Perhaps some other correspondent will give you an outline of our municipal history the following is our list of Mayors from the com- mencemei)t 1857. Tnomas Edzworth, solicitor. 1858. Do. Do. (re-elected). 1859. Thomas Painter, wine-meichant. 1860. John Clark, tailor and draper. 1861. John Dickenson, surgeon. 186.1. John Lewis, solicitor. 1863. Do. Do. (re-elected). 1864. Joseph Clark, brewer. 1865. William Overtou, wine-merchant. 1866. Peter Walker, brewer. 1867. Do. Do. (re-elected). 1888. Thomas Rowland, brewer. 1869. William Rowland, chemist. 1870. John Beale, retired chemist. 1871. John Bernard Mnriess, Wynnstay Arms Hotel. 1872. James Charles Owen, solicitor. 1873. lv>bert Lloyd, draper. 1874. Do. Do. (re-elected). 1875. T. Eyton Jones, surgeon. RECORDF.R. LICENCES TO EAT PLESH DURING LENT.— The old parish books of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, which have unfortunately been lost, contained the following licence — Whereas John Tomkies, Itf.A.. and public Treacher of the Word iu the town of Salop, is notoriously visited with sickness, inso- much that he is desirous to eat Fiesh, for the recovery of his former health, during the time of his sickness. By the Minister of the parish uext adjoining, according to the stdutes in that behalf provided, 1, therefore, Andrew Duker, Minister of the parish of St. Alkmonds, do licence the aforesaid John Tomkies, to eat Flesh during his sickness. and no longer, according to the true mean- ing and intent of the afore mentioned statute. In witness whereof I have subscribed my name this 15th day of February, 1591. "AND, DUKER." The foregoinar shows how strictly discipline was maintained in the English Church long after the Reformation, but there is a still later instance at VVem. An entry in the register of that parish, dated 14th March, 1613, records that the Rev. Richard Sankey, rector, licenced Richard Ward, gentleman, to eat flesh in Lent for the recovery of his health. A copy of this licence is given by Garbet, at page 288, of his History of Wem. R.E.O. Shrewsbury. QUERIES. WELSH BOOK WANTED.—Where can a work be seen or purchased, the precise title of which I have lost, by a writer named, I thiok, Roberts, on the superstitions and popular traditions of Wales ? It does not appear ts be in the British Museum. Th, book wlas published some twenty or thirty years ago. I am aware that this is but a vague reference, but it is the best I am able to give. DAVID FITZGERALD. In Notes and Queries. MELVERLEY GOD HELP.—Who originated this saying and when ? I presume it took its rise from the frequency and suddenness of the floods in the district? I have seen it somewhere stated that on the day of the com- pletion of the pillar on the Breidden to the memory of Lord Rodney (see Nov. 10, 1875), there happened a sudden and most tremendous shower of rain, which almost instantaneously swelled the current of the Severn at the time, a man sleeping on a cock of hay was carried down the stream, and never awoke till under Montford Bridge, six miles from Melverley. If such miracles were common no wonder the saying! There is a story of a storm told in one of the editions of the Gossiping Guide to Wales where the people of the district, who religiously believed the ball on the top of the tower to be gold, rushed up the hill on seeing the column shattered, expecting some valuable salvage, and coming down again sadder and wiser men How is it no one has yet favoured readers of Bye-gones with some re- cord of the ceremonies connected with the inauguration of that pillar, by the way ? SCROBBES BYRIG. REPLIES. CWM LIKEY (Nov. 10, 1875.)-Likey is no doubt an Anglcised form of Lleucu, the Welsh for Lucy; at least Llcucu Llwyd is rendered in English Lucy Lloyd. R.W. WELSH SKETCHES (Nov. 17, 1875).-The com- piler of the three series of Welsh Sketches published in 1851-3, is the Rev. Ernest Silvanus Appleyard, M.A., Crawley, Sussex. He ia also the author of Five Histori- cal Essays on Christian Union," which he had previously published. LLALLAWO. SALOPIAN THANKFULNESS (June 2, 1875.)- Hulbert says (History and Description of the County of Salop, page 130) At Nescliff there was formerly a chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, the site of which is now occupied by the parish school, which was founded by W. Parry, in 1767, and supported by several subsequent bequests. On the front of the school is the following inscription God prosper and prolong this public g^d, A school erected where a chapel stood. Another version of these lines is given at page 352 of The Shropshire Gazetteer, 1824 God protect the publick good, A school erected where a chapel stood." Dukes, in his Antiquities oj Shropshire, 1844, mentions this, on the authority of the Liber Regis, as a destroyed chapel formerly belonging to the Church of England. Shrewsbury. R.E.D. THE SALOPIAN BRIDE (Nov. 10, 1875).-With regard to further information respecting "The Salopian Bride," I think "the rich and admired widow of a third husband," mentioned by Hulbert, is a mistake, because, I believe, the only offer of marriage Lord Burleigh made in that neighbourhood, besides to Sarah Hoggins, was to my grandmother, then a Miss Taylor, possessing considerable personal attractions, and who, in 1837, was a rich and admired widow, but not of a third husband, she having been married only once, to a Mr Masefield. She refused Lord Burleigh's offer of marriage because her father would not allow her te entertain any idea of a man who appeared to be a travelling adventurer. She was of much higher birth than Sarah Hoggins. F. HARTSHORNE. With respect to the family of Fox, my recolleetions are that the father was a blacksmith, and that Lord Exeter, having been very kindly treated by him as Mr Jones," got one of the sons, who was very musical, the ap- pointment of band-master to a militia regiment; for the other son he procured a commission in the Guards :-that on one occasion, when Fox beat the other officers at quoits, one of them exclaimed, "How well he sledges!" That Fox wrote to Lord Exeter begging him to remove him to another regiment; I think the 36th; and that before his removal Lord Exeter attended a parade of the Guards, and took the'opportunity of walking arm in arm with Fox, m the presence of the other officers. In the same regiment with Fox was a Captain Wingfield, who was educated as a surgeon, but afterwards entered the army. I remember hearing it remarked that it was singular Captain Wingfield should hold a commission in a regiment where his senior officer (Fox) had at one time shod his horse. I remember Captain Wingfield well. He was wounded at Buenos Ayres, and was for a long time plagued with his wound, until my father removed some splinters of bone from it. On one occasion, I think at Salamanca, on the men halting after a charge, Captain Wingfield turned his head to look along the line when a bullet carried away his eye-brow had he been looking directly to the front the bullet would have gone through his temple JOHN EVANS. Wbixall Vicarage. MINSHULL'S. PRISON THOUGHTS (Nov. 3, 1875.)-The circumstances which led to Minshull's im- prisonment are perhaps not so well known but that they will bear repetition. Minshull was not only a printer and a poet; he was also an "editor." When any event out of the common course occurred in the town he issued a leader" on the subject, and some of these articles were exceedingly sarcastic, and were felt accordingly. His mode of publication was simple. He wrote his article in a legible hand, and exposed it on a board outside the little shop attached to his beerhouse. At that time there was a society of young men in the town yclept the Dead Set." They were the successors, and imitators (in a small way), of the Mohawks of the last century and the Corinthians of the early part of the present. Their nightly feats were quite in the Tom-and-Jerry" style, and sometimes crested no little pinic in the orderly old town. One night in August, 1835, a large tub which stood near the shop of a respectable cooper in the town was abstracted. The actors ui the mid- night freak were at once surmised, and next morning an article appeared on Minshull's board (the" OsweRtry Recorder" he called it) lashing the "Set" unmerci- fully. The title of this essay was, Let every tub stand on Its own bottom." A few hours later several young men called upon MinshuU and remonstrated with him on the severity of his stricture. When they departed it was found that the "Recorder" had vanished. Minshull applied to Gittins, the town crier, who however, declined to have anything to <'o with the m&'ter. His application to the Mayor was also a failure, so he donned a red cloak and cocked hat, procured H b-jil, and went through the town to proclaim his loss. Mr Jacob Smith, then chief consta- ble of the borough, found hixi in the exercise of his adopted calling with a great crowd at his heels, and ordered him to dtsict. ii his Jacob laid on him his paw" and matched him to "quod." It wea said at the time that Sroii.h bad to pay i-uiartly for this display of his authority how far this is true this deponent sayeth not. "The Miller of the Wern," mentioned in i he doggrel, d d cry his dog both well and Vnd;" and the other miller, Mr Lea, is still living respected among us, and if he did not cry the preaching near his mill" he was at that d&y the very man to do it. BEN STARCH. o
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.T!IPYN 9 ,BQ3 PET!J There is still a good deal of foot ai.d mouth disease in Flintshire. Dean Howson has been elected president of the Lanca- shire and Cheshire Historic Society. The Wrexham Public Hall Company, who were asked to form a skating rink, have refused. Amongst the persons convicted at Denbigh police court the other day was William Hughes, Welsh bard, poacher. and labourer. A memorial with about GOO signatures has been presented to the Dean and Chapter of Chester Cathedral praying that Hvmns Ancient and Modern may not be used. The death of Mr Randall Cotton Mainwaring, a magistrate in New Z-aland, second son of Sir Harry Main- waring, is announced. The permanent staff at Wrexham have male a presenta- tion to Surgeon F. L. Meaton on his retirement from the militia. A meeting has been held at Buiith, with the High Sheriff in the chair, to form an agricultural society for that di.tr»ct. :.l, I> Theodore ifartin is about to play in King Rene's L) play translated by her husband—for the bene- fit ot the Theatrical Fund. A new farce Y Wyn-wyn-wn, or the Welsh Chorister, has been put upon the boards in London the play is said to be a poor one. It is hoped that the arrangement which been made bv the Cheshire Chamber of Agriculture with Sandbach Grammar ISchool, for the education of farmers' sons, will come into operation after the Christmas holidays. Another lad, twelve years old, son of Mr W. Davies, of Owinachie, Lo.ver Chapel, Brecon, has hanged himself. He was a companion of t.nr> boy who recently committed suicide in the same locality. At Derby lasc week jiiss Elizabeth Eastwood, of Crewe, now a. governess and formerly engaged in the Rugby rail- way station refreshment rooms, sued Christopher AtkimoD. for breach of promise of marriage, and recovered £ 300. J The dead body of Mr Hugh Roberts, a Carnarvon potter, who has scarcely been sober a d*y, it is said, since his wife died, was found in the new quay at Carnarvon a few days ago. This is said to be the eleventh person drowned in the new quay. At the annual meeting of the Cheshire Agricultural Society Mr G. Slater moved that the next show should be held at Northwicb, but. an amendment, in favour of Chester was carried by a large majority. The show i- to be open two days. We are glad to see that the Mayor of Wrexham (Mr Eyton Jones) presided last week at an entertainment at the Catholic Schools in that town. In his opening speech he remarked that he was the Mayor not only of the Pro- testants, but of all the people in the borough. A man named Mathers died suddenly at Mold on Thurs- day, November 25, it was supposed from poison, for h: had told his wife just before that it was the last time he should see her, and asked her to forgive hLu for all his unkind- ness. He had been drinking. The other day at Rbyl the dead body of Thomas Thomas, an upholsterer of some sixty years, was found, much cut and bruised, on the stone embankment adjoining the Voryd Railway bridge. It is supposed he fell over the bridge when he was drunk, in an outbreak after a long interval of teetotalism. It is stated that on a tombstone in St. Tudno's church- yard, Llandudno, the words" Of your charity pray for the soul of have been inscribed. The interference of the bishop is to be invoked, according to some people, but one hopes his lordship will snub the !ji]v souls who can- not put up with freedom even in a graver; h A lad of six, Joseph Forgham, was standin" in his night shirt by the fire the other day at Dawley wben the shirt caught fire, and he was burnt to death. A similar case is recorded from Stirchlev. A boy of four (Rowland Walford), was left with other children, while his mother went out with the father's breakfast, and when she came back she found him fatally burnt. A curious custom prevails in Shrewsbury—the first drunkard who comes before the new Mayor is let off," as Mr Gowan Cross informed Margaret Lawless on Wednes- day. Margaret could labour under no suspicion of having taken advantage of this singular tradition of the ancient borough, for she evidently expected to undergo the rigours of the law. A few days ago an Irish navvy engaged on the Cardiff vond Ogmore Railway challenged any Englishman to com- pete with him in any possible physical feat. A n an named Brown accepted the challenge and elected to fight. In three quarters of an hour Brown fell down inseosible, and he soon died. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the Irishman. Collins, and men named Keefe and Downs who acted as seconds. The interest in Disestablishment is maintained at a high pitch in South Shropshire by the exertions of Mr Gordon for the Liberation Society and Dr Potter for the Establish- ment. The other night these doughty champions met at Oakengates, and it was the small hours of the morning, a contemporary says, before the duel ended, when one of the speakers ceased from pure exhaustion. Dr Potter, we be- iieve, could go ou for a week if the powers of nature allowed him of Mr Gordon we know less, but he is, we fancy, almost a match for the doctor. Dr Potter is doing admi- rable service to the Liberation Society, for the more the question is discussed the sooner will the end come. An anomaly so great as that of founding a religious church upon inequality and injustice cannot long stand the brunt of public dispute. At the last Wellington county court Joseph Jones fued George Ridgway, secretary of the Victoria Lodge, of the Miners' Provident Society to recover P,3 damages for wrong- ful dismissal and to claim re admission. Plaintiff had been expelled for gathering mushrooms when he was receiving sick pay and also for fighting, under the 16th rule-" That any member of this lodge falling sick, and rendering himself unable to follow his employment through fighting, drunk- enneBS, misconduct, or immoral practices, shall not be en- titled to the benefit of the society." Plaintiff admitted gathering a few mushrooms for a meal, and as to fighting, said he was struck first, and wot mon wud stand that ?" It was urged on his behalf that he had received L55 from the club, which made some of the members anxious to expel him. and they watched for an opportunity of doing so. His Honour ordered his re-admission, but refused the JE3 damages. A meeting of the Church Association was held at Chester the other day, when a resolution of regret at the introduc- tion of Hymns Ancient and Modern into the services in the Nave of the Cathedral was adopted. A Mr Wimperis who seconded the motion said it was a most abominable thing to imagine that such a book should ever come into the Cathedral city at all." Mr Wimperis, we suppose, wants a Protestant Index Expurgatorius-but then some members of his own church would put his sp-eche* in it. HV M,.ir.id go to the Vatican and adopt Catholicism—what such men want is a monopoly for their own opinions, and it cannot matter much to them. we should think, what those opinions are. In one of the trains whinh arrived at Chester from Lon- don on Thursday, November 25, was a boy, apparently about eight years old, giving the name Noel, who said he came from Melbourne, but had lately lived in London, and 1 FI v-8 ^at^er» w^° put him in a carriage in London, and told him to stop there till he was fetched out, had pur- posely deserted him. His father, he said, had been punished posely deserted him. His father, he said, had been punished for doing the same thing before. A tradesman took the lad to his house while enquiries were being made. At Denbigh police court on Nov. 24, William Jones, who had been in an encounter with a number of keepers and received severe damages, was charged with poachincr, of which he had been convicted eight times before. He was fined £ 2, and costs, with an alternative of two months' hard labour. He was also charged with assault, but the Bench decided not to inflict a penalty, since they con- sidered that the keepers used too much violence. They bound defendant, however, to keep the peace, for using a threat. At the same sitting, Morris Davies and Robert Jones were fined 22 (or two months) in each of two charges of poaching. They did not appear. Thomas Pierce wis fined in the mine penalty on one of the charges—the one in which William Jones appeared. These three men es- caped, but the keepers secured Jones. Mr Nevill, M.P. for the Carmarthen Boroughs, has ad- dressed his constituents at Llanelly, but the meeting ended in away which can scarcely have encouraged the hon. gentle- man to repeat the experiment. At the conclusion of his speech several questions were asked, which the hon. member answered, and then Mr Mee of the South Wales Press addressed the meeting. Mr Mee pointed out that, while Mr Nevill deprecated "party," his whole weight was given to the Conservatives, ani, after expressing his conviction that the election of Mr Nevill was only a temporary aber- ration on the part of the constituency, be moved a resolu- tion to the following efiêc-" Th.it no representation of a Liberal and Nonconformist constituency can be satisfactory unless it be on Liberal and Nonconformist principles." Mr Nevill, who had before requested that there should be no resolution except one of thinks to the chairman, now re- peated his request and pointed out that he had engaged the room and called the meeting. The hon. gentleman, however, discovered that it was one thing to invite his con- stituents to meet him, and quite another thing to prevent them from expressing their opinion. After the chairman had been duly thanked Mr Nevill retired, and then Mr Mee's resolution was put from the chair, a large number of hands were held up for it, and the meeting refused to listen to an amendment.
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