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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES. .-J"v- .r_r.r.f"J'o. GERMAN LITERATURE IX THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES. BY PROFESSOR HERJIANX KTHU, PH.D. f Continued.) Having given you short sketches and specimens from the poems of a number of minor authors who followed Klopstuck—Gleim, Peter C z, Ewald von Kleist, Ramler, and George Jaeobi—I will now proceed to the last three poets of that school, three fable-writers,—Gellert, Lichtwer, and Pfeffcl. Gellert, born 1715, died 1769, was one of the most amiable and popular authors of the eighteenth cen- tury, who, although much inferior to Klopstock, and even to Wieland, exercised a very wholesome influence on the higher moral education of his contemporaries by his fables, his humorous little tales, and his still to-day highly appreciated hymns, most of which form an essential part of our prayer-books. He was the only poet of his time who was greatly esteemed by Frederick the Great, who called him one of the most rational and reasonable of Ger- man professors. His greatest merit is that he wrote in very clear and correct language, in a style not so over- flowing with art and grace as that of Wieland not so high-tuned or so sentimental as that of Klopstock not so grave and full of deep thoughts as that of Leasing but plain, intelligible for every one, even a man of the lowest rank in society, and imbuing all his readers with a real interest in their own idiom and their own literature. He was a pious, straightforward, modest, gentle, and kind man, full of the most tender feelings, never hurting any- one by his writings, as Wieland's sarcasm very often did, but still unrelenting in disclosing men's follies and absur- dities, and criticising them in the heartiest manner. He was no genius, not even a first-rate talent, and yet he was a very valuable, estimable, and useful author. I will give you as specimens of his style and his way of writing, two of his charming little tales, replete with good humour and good didactic purport. The first is entitled "The Dying ILIather"- "There was a father with two sons and heirs, The prudent Christoph and the stupid George. And when his end came near and he was dying, He looked about for Christoph in deep sorrow And cried My son, me pains a grievous thought You are so prudent-are so reasonable, How will you ever prosper in the world? Now, listen, in the drawer there, a box With jewels lies. They all are thine, 0, take them But never give thy brother any one.' The son was quite perplexed and startled. 'Father,' He cried, when I receive so much from you, How will my brother in the world succeed ?' Your brother George you mean ? 0 never mind, Through life he'll make quite surely, I dare say, By his stupidity alone, his way The other tale is called, "The Good Advice." It runs thus :—■ "There was a youth who wished to take a wife, And as so many were to him proposed. He asked an old and well-experienced man For good advice, which sort of wife would suit him. 'My dear young friend, I really don't know,' The old man said, however will you choose, You may be after all deceived. But listen If you for pleasure only seek a wife, You better choose a handsome, lovely face But if you like a solid income better Than mere amusement—well, select a rich one If, on the other hand, you in the world Aspire to higher rank—forget at once That there perhaps are many prettier girl., And choose the daughter of a man in place, In high position, caring not a bit, If nice she looks or how she looks at all! And is it your intention to select A wife more proper for the mind and soul Than for the heart, the eye, and other senses, I only can advise you, take a learned And clever lady, an accomplished scholar.' So said the old experienced man and smiled. That I don't want to know at all, dear sir,' Replied the youth, I simply asked and ask, Which wife I have to choose, if I desire To live in peace and to my heart's content; If I, without the slightest grief whatever'— 'Oh, if you want to lead a tranquil life,' The old man said, you'd better take no wife.' Gellert's life, to say a few words about that, was a very simple one. Born as the son of a poor clergyman in the Saxon mountains, lie entered at first the classical school of Meissen, where he became an intimate friend of Rabener and afterwards, in the year 1734, the university of Leipzic. In 1743 he was appointed lecturer on rhetorical art, moral philosophy and poetry, and in 1751 ordinary professor in the same department. There has seldom been a professor in Leipzic so popular and influ- ential as Gellert. His lecture room was gen- erally filled with more than 400 students. He died in Leipzic in 1769, and whoever passes through that famous commercial and academical town may pay a short visit to Gellert' monument, erected in the charming park near Leipzic, called the "Rosenthal," or valley of the roses, one of the most beautiful promenades any town can boast of. Another poet of fables and little comical narratives is Lichtwer, born 1719 and died 1783. Like Gellert he was a native of Saxony, like him a student in Leipzig, and like him devoting his poetical talent especially to didactic writing, and making imagination subservient to utility. His fables are divided into four books, each one introduced by a rhymed preface, in which the author explains what a fable is and how to write a fable. Although imitating Gellert and the other fable-writers of the time, as well as the French Lafontaine, he is nevertheless often original in his poetical invention, full of wit, and very brisk and lively in his descriptions. "The Father ana his three Sons" is a specimen of his writing- A father, old in years and rich, Divided all his wealth and fortune, Acquired with many cares and troubles, In equal shares among three sons. 'A diamond ring alone I keep,' The father said, for him among you, Who by a noble action proves To me that he deserves it best.' In all directions spreading now The three sons are-three months pass by, At last the sons appear again. The eldest of the three began Into my trust a stranger gave, Without the slightest bond from me, All he possessed on earth-and I Restored it faithfully to him. Say, was not that a noble action ?' 'You simply did,' replied the father, As we should all and always do. Whoever acts in different manner Must be ashamed for duty teaches Us faithfulness and honesty. Good was your action, noble not.' Now, said the second, Whilst I travelled, I saw a little child just falling Through carelessness into a lake. I rescued it and saved its life, And all the village was my witness.' 'You simply did," replied the father, What we are bound as men to do.' Now spake the youngest of the three I found asleep my bitter foe Quite near the brink of dark abysses, And in my hand I held his life, But waking him, I drew him back.' Oh cried, with gentle look, the father, 'Thine is the ring. 0 noble courage, To save the foe—to do him good The third writer of fables in the manner of Gellert, Licht- wer, Hagedorn, and other poets of the Prussian and Saxon Schools was Pfeffel, born in 1736 at Colmar in the Alsace, that old German province, re-conquered six years ago. He died as President of the Consistory in his native town, in the year 1809. Pfeffel is the more interesting, as he, like many others, proved clearly by his writings that although his country had been nearly one hundred years snatched away from the German Empire by the brutal force and the cunning fraud of the French, the population was still throughout German in feelings and in language. In lan- guage, at least, the Alsatians are still to-day Germans. Even to-day the greater part of the population, especially the rural portion, and that of all the smaller towns, talks nothing else but a German dialect. The higher classes only in the larger cities understand and speak French. The following two little fables will give you an idea of Pfeffel's poetical peculiarity. You will see at once that he is much more satirical and sarcastic than Gellert or Lichwer, and more in the line of Wieland, Liscow, and Rabener. 'Go away, out of my way To the honest dromedary, In a very narrow lane, Once the camel said. 'What! give way to thee ? And why?' Was the dromedary' reply. Do you think,' the camel cried, That a man of my position Ever would belong to thy Miserable cast ? Only a single hump have you I, the lord, behold have two The second fable I will give you is styled" Gradation," and runs as follows :— "A cunning sparrow once had caught A little gnat. '0 let me go.' It cried, be merciful on me, Have pity on my youth, great lord No,' said the murderer, not at all, For I am large and thou art small.' The sparrow just devoured his prey. When by the sparrowhawk surprised And caught he was. 0 let me free,' The sparrow cried, What have I done ?' I No,'said the murderer, 'not at all, For I am large and thou art small.' An eagle saw the greedy hawk, And pounced on him and tore his back In pieces soon. '0, let me loose, My lord and king, half killed I am.' 'No,' said the murderer, 'not at all, For I am large, and thou art small.' That very moment hissing came An arrow from the hunter's bow, And pierced the eagle's breast. He fell. 10 spare me, spare me, lord,' he cried. 'No,' said the murderer, 'not at all,' For thou art short, and I am tall. (To be continued.)

THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES. THE PROPOSED GOVF.UXMEXT GRANT.—PRESENTA- TION OF THE MEMORIAL. On Wednesday afternoon, July 18, tUR Duke of Rich- mond and Gordon, K.G., attended by Sir F. Sandford, received at the Privy Council-office a highly influential and representative deputation, upwards of 50 strong, wb«nvaited on hit- Grace, as Lord President of the Counfil, to present to him a memorial to the Government for a grunt of not less than :t2,500 a year to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, and a sum of at least £ 5,0(V) towards the com- pletion of the College building. Lord Aberdare, President of the College Council, with whom. was Mr: Hugh Owen, the lion, secretary, introduced the deputation, (somprising a score of past and present M.P.'s, mostly connected with Wales, as were also nearly all the other gentlemen whose names follow with theirs, viz.:—Lord Aberdare, the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., Sir W. W. Wynn, M.P., Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Kensington, M.P.. the Hon. F. Hanbury-Twicy, M.P., Messrs. C. W. Wynn, M.P., Henry Richard, M.P., Watkin Williams, M.P., G. Osborne Morgan, M.P,, Sir Arthur Stepney, M.P., Messrs. Richard Davies, L. DiUwyn. M.P., W. B. Hughes, M.P., J. H. Piileston, M.P., the Mayors of Swansea and Carnarvon; Messrs. W. M. Williams (Swansea), and Thomas Jones (Manchester) Professor H. N. Grimley, Aberystwyth, Messrs. W. D. Jeremy, Lincoln's-inn, Henry Robertson, M.P' W. M. Torrens, M.P., W. Rathbone, M.P., and Thomas Barnes, late M.P. for Oldham, the Rev. Mark Pattison, rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, Mr. Morgan Lloyd, M.P., the Rev. John Evans, Abermeurig, Messrs. Joseph Edwards, sculptor, Lew-is Angell, C.E. E. M. Richards, late M.P. for Cardigan, "Gohebydd," B. T. Williams, Q.C., John Thomas, harpist to the Queen, Brinley Richards, J. F. Roberts, Manchester, Edward Lewis, Liverpool, T. J. Thomas and Stephen Evans, London, the Revs. Charles Jones, B.A., and Robert Jones, B.A., Rotherhithe, Messrs. Richard Evans, Chester, W. Price Jones, M.D., T. E. Lloyd, M.P., and T, M. Williams, London School Board. Letters of regret at inability to join the deputation were received from the Duke of Westminster, the Bishop of St. Asaph, Messrs. J. B. Bowen, ALP., Hxissey Vivian, M.P., David Davies, M.P., Captain Verney, Arch- deacon Griffith, and Lord Penrhyn, this last enclosing a checque for the College of £ 100. The points of the memorial were so exhaustively urged by the speakers that any analysis ot the document, which was taken as read, is needless. It should he added, however, that re- solutions endorsing its prayer have been passed by eighteen Town Councils, forty-four Local Boards, and 194 School Boards in Wales. Lord ABERDARE, in introducing the deputation, said that he approached his Grace a second time upon the same subject, having now a much larger, broader, and, he thought, a more representative body at his back repre- senting, as it did, all shades of political and religious opinion in fact, a stronger and more complete representa- tion of Wales could hardly be expected in any deputation. (Hear, hear.) They had upon another occasion gone over the same ground upon which they based their applica- tion to the Government, and since then their position had been advanced and improved. This institution, which had been established in 1872, had in the few years of its short life given a considerable proof of its vitality. It had met with very great favour, and there had been shown on the part of those classes the College intended to benefit a growing desire to profit by the advantage it offered. In 1872 there were twenty-five scholars, but at the present time there were 100, and he did not scruple to say that if the Government saw its way clear to give its as- sistance that number would easily be doubled. (Hear.) Since that time the contributions had to some extent flowed in, E40,000 having now been received altogether, but in such an institution that sum would not go far. They had bought the ground and building, and had met the current expenses. The yearly expenditure amounted to £ 6,000, while only £ 1,000 per annum was derived from the fees of the students. This showed the necessity of making a continuous demand upon the assistance of the people of Wales, pending the decision of the Government in regard to a grant. They had asked the people of Wales for an annual sustentation fund of £ 2,000 for three years, and the collection for the first of those three years amounted to A:3,000, which sum had been made up of con- tributions from at least 70,000 persons of the middle and industrial classes-a fact which showed the wide basis of their support. (Hear, hear.) Unless they saw their way to a fixed endowment, they felt that their difficulties would be exceedingly great. The sum they asked for from the Government was not a very large one—viz., a grant of £ 5,000 towards the completion of the College building and an annual grant of £ 2,500 towards its maintenance, which would only meet half the cost, without deducting the fees of the pupils. He knew the difficulty that beset this subject as to establishing a precedent for England, but he maintained that the Principality of Wales deserved peculiar consideration. It was quite true that their cir- cumstances were not in all respects like those of Scotland and Ireland, both of which countries had re- ceived large annual grants from Parliament. Al- though the union of England and Wales had been to some extent complete since the time of Edward I. and wholly complete since the time of Henry VIII., still the lan- guage, traditions, and peculiar nationality of Wales ex- isted in a more marked manner than in Scotland or Ire- land. In Wales there was at this moment a far larger number of Welsh speaking people than existed since the time of Edward I. Although the Welsh people had every desire to learnjthe English language, and there was not the slightest wish on their part to bring up the population to a knowledge of their own language exclusively, still, in spite of the establishment of schools, they were agreed to profit by their native language, whose long survival and the tenacity with which they held to it were very remark- able. The Welsh people considered themselves loyal sub- jects in every way. What they desired was a college to supplement Oxford and Cambridge. (Hear.) He sub- mitted that Wales had a very strong claim on the consider- ation of the Government. They had been very anxious to ascertain the opinion of the Welsh people upon the pro- posal, and they found that out of a population of 1,368,500, bodies representative of 1,042,874 had supported the me- morial. This showed how the higher education was ap- preciated in Wales, notwithstanding its alleged backward- ness in such matters. Such a feeling in favour of educa- tion, which was so much needed for the middle classes especially, should certainly be encouraged. (Hear, hear.) Mr. H. RICHARD, M.P., who said he had been specially asked by the Council of the College to urge the prayer of the memorial, reinforced Lord Aberdare's arguments at some length. He complained of the invidious distinction drawn between Scotland and Ireland on the one hand and Wales on the other. It was no answer to the College case to say Oxford and Cambridge were open to Welshmen, for, as Lord Aberdare had pointed out, not one in a hun- dred Welshmen could afford to send their sons thither. He was a staunch Liberal, but he almost envied the Conser- vatives the chance the Government had of ginning general popularity and the gratitude of his countrymen at so cheap a rate. Mr. T. E. LLOYD, M.P., asked why Wales, which was so poor a country, yet one in which were found as loyal subjects as in any of her Majesty's realms, was to be left out in the cold. Sir W. W. WYXX, M.P., remarked that since the land- marks of the two languages were pretty much the same now as in the Saxon times, there could be but little hope of Welsh dying out. Oxford and Cambridge colleges were endowed with tithes drawn from Wales. Mr. O. MORGAN, M.P., asked where would Oxford and Cambridge be without their princely endowments, so many of which they drew from Wales ? The friends of the Aberystwyth College were driven to the alternative of beg- ging Government support or depending wholly on volun- tary help, and, unhappily, Wales was so poor that there was little hope of her keeping it up without her fair share of the national funds. He urged the need of such an in- stitution for Wales and its great value to that country, whose wants Oxford and Cambridge by no means met, even apart from the inability of Welsh parents to give their children the necessary time or funds for educating them in England. The Welsh University College .was, in fact, a kind of stepping-stone to the older Universities, something between a high school and a college, such as he had found in his time the Scottish Universities afforded to his own College, Balliol. He would not press the popularity argument; but if his Grace saw his way to the grant he would be conferring a great national benefit. The Marquis of HARTINGTON said that he had the honour of representing a Welsh constituency, and desired to say one word in support of the application. His knowledge of the subject did not enable him to mention anything further than what had been already urged. The character of the deputation showed how strong and wide- spread was the desire felt upon the subject in Wales. (Hear). From all that he had been able to hear on the subject in Wales, he could assure his Grace that the de- putation was an entirely representative one. The attention of the President had been called to the sums voted for the support of similar institutions in Scotland and Ireland, and though they might be answered that there was no like grant of public money to any quite similar institutions in England, he would remind his Grace how large were the endowments devoted in England to analogous institutions, and that there were no similar endowments available in Wales. These endowments were almost universally considered as the national property. (Hear.). He had no doubt the labours of the new University Com- mission would result in making the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge far more available for the class of persons for whose education this Welsh College was intended, and he hoped these improvements would lead to the benefit of Wales. He could entirely corroborate all that had been said as to the difficulty of the strong feeling of nationality in Wales, which would always be in the way of education, and however much they might popularise and; extend the operation of the English Universities, they would never be able to dispense with the necessity of such an institu- tion as this in Wales. (Hear, hea,r). The Rev. MARK PATTISON observed that the bulk of the founders and friends of the Welsh University College were themselves self-made men, who in early years were without any higher education. But they knew its transcendent worth, and were resolved that at any cost their children should have it. Such a spirit deserved the heartiest recog- nition. Mr. PULESTON, M.P., Mr. ROBERTSON,, M.P., Mr. DILLWYN,M.P.,Mr.RATHBONE, M.P., andLorJ KENSING- TON, M.P., also spoke in support of the memorial. The Duke of RICHMOND and GORDON,, in. re.plying to the deputation, said that in the first place he had to express his sincere thanks to Lord Aberdare, and to thos* gentlemen who succeeded him, for having brought before him in so very clear, calm, aad, he might say, statesmanlike a manner the views hjch they entertained upon this verge important subject., Anything which, concerned the eiUr cation of a vast portion of the people of this country he thought might fee. characterized as a matter of the- very greatest, and of the very highest importance—(hea*i„ hear) —and it certainly was a question which cornmeuiw, itself to his feelings and to his attention, occupying the honoured position Vie did of President of this Department. He had had the. opportunity, through the kindness of his old friend, ,UH Owen, of going oVor the memorial with which he had been good enough to furnish him, and of ascer- taining from that gentleman- some of the details which were there set out. Me th wight he must have misunderstood the remark which fell from one of the gentlemen who addressed him, because he quite concurred in tne views which were mentioned by Lord Aberdare, that this deputation might be considered as highly representative, not of on- particular party of politics or sect of religion, but representative of the feel- ings which were entertained by a great mnnbe.f of persons connected with the Principality. The remark was that in the movement of upholding this College they had received little or no support irom the higher classes of the- country and that the support, which was given -lyas mainly attri- butable to the middle classes, and that tlie higher classesi ¡ o Y a h,ad not responded to the appeal" which had been made to them. He was astounded to lw.su- that rw.iark, bicause it was so entirely in contradiction tc.the opinion ex- pressed by Lord Aberdare that this was a representative meeting. Lord ABEHDARE explained that the statement which was made by the Rector of Lincoln College was Dtrictly aocur- a*iL rlzV ^^thismoven^ent was originated !xy geiitleisnen who had raised themselves by their own exertions, and it was not supported by the persons who represented the pro- perty of the country. By degrees, however, tb.tc opposition on the part of those gentlemen had been reino-ned and they were all now united. (Hear, hear.) The Duke of RICHMOND and GORDON proce eded to say that with regard to the establishment of the institution, from what he gathered he thought it partook mere of the character of a large school than of a University (" No, no. ) No doubt, as lie understood it, at the present time [;' it numbered something like 100 students, the ag^of whom varied from 15 to 18. The Scotch Universities -no doubt admitted young men very much in the same wiv, in con- sequence partly, he thought, of the weakness of siirondary instruction in parts of Scotland, although jirimarv-educa- tion there had always been very good; and it was to be hoped, m course of time, that, as regarded Scotoh Uni- versities, the progress^ of_ education might be su^b as to make theirs Universities in the general acceptation- of the word. With regard to the necessity for Wales of improve- ment in education, the thorough revision of the whole system of endowed schools in that Principality wao-at the present time being carried on by the Charity Commission- ers. The subject was a large one, dealing with something like 000 a year; and there were also other endowments oeionging to Jesus College, Oxford, which amounted to about £ 2,500 per annum. According to the report of the Schools Inquiry Commission, which was issued in 1870 this latter fund had greatly benefitted Welshmen d>,the lower class. From the memorial he gathered that tile in- stitution was a non-theological high-class College, and he had been informed by Mr. Owen that there had been a proposal to unite the three educational establishments of Aberystwyth, Lampeter, and Brecon. Lord ABERDARE stated that they were to be simply affi- liated to some common University. 1 he Duke of RICHMO>, D and GORDON understood tisat the main object was to get the grant from the Government to keep up the establishment of the College. Some of. the speakers had stated that they wished to make this an in- stitution not only for the education of voun" men hut that they wished to have the power of granting cheap degrees. I his was entirely outside the question, and must be considered thoroughly and entirely apart. In conolti- sion, the noble Duke said that the question was one of the greatest importance, and he would promise to lay the whole matter before his colleagues in the clearest and fair- est manner. He would state to them the importance of the deputation, the views that had been laid before him and would also point out the very emphatie manner in which Lord Aberdare had declared the wants and neces- sities of the country. He was sure that his colleagues, knowing well the position of the noble Lord, and also his noble friend the leader of the Opposition, would feel 'that nothing but the great importance of the subject and of the necessity of the case would have induced them to come for- ward and state the case in the manner in which they had done. (Hear. hear.) Lord ABERDARE wished to explain that the average age of the students who attended the College was twenty, which showed how eager the population of Wales were to avail themselves of the education provided. The deputation then thanked his Grace for his courtesy, and withdrew.

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FFESIPZNIOG. yi». awr fwy o de yv-'r0)rv,i, ) T)n„ "7 ucrj^i. Jir fol{ rf,Tlr '*°r^ AS. ac erailh ai 61 fereuafI oddi- Mr- Holland,. LMFOGYDD AJA\VI4&sc.— Dydd SuJ- Qf Cynfai a Dwjryd nes p*ri i ddyffrv* >w?y-dC 'ymdebygoli^11 fawz i'r traeth sydttl yn ii derfvn eitW* r.pob ymdjecli ciudwyd a lhvyr ddinystriwvd IHWP wair oedd newydd ei- tSori. Digw^tlofW hynv yr un m viri yn rhanau Kiel Tiawsfynydd. ) y un n,Mid UN- DEH y CHWAiBiSLWYK.— jS'c*. Wr>}Mr diwptM-.f Assembly Koom(, eynhaliodd vtr■ nodedig v,boblogai<M. Er fod y rhybudd vn f-rr- f i'i yr ystafoll ei llanw a chynulleidfa, fm, I fry, 1^7 Cym^wvd y gadair gan Mr D. G. WilMo* Uywydd cang^, T^es tmiog,. a chafwyd anerchiaifcu brif swyd|J?ion undeb, sef y W. J. Pa-Y, Bethosda, Uywydd • R w I Par" Llanpu^ is-lywydd; a W. J. William^ Bethel' w yr ysgr/tenyddL.^ Lied isel a ditywy,] y<tyw yr Undeb wp I; bod,yn Ffeatiaiog, ac amca«, y tyfarfod ydoecjl ail ,1' sel y chwarel-wyr, yiigh\'0'A gain, sylw at yr rwydd am fyrhau oriau liafur yn y ehwarelu,u ° A R T pasivyyd pewderfyniad jwresog trwy i l)arb'^od, J™ eraed yn ffarr gofyn yn ejaenaf am y cais. i'r wyr, ac. o& ceir ateb na/jool gofyn i'r meisiri °f> nodwyd mai dymunoi uael pwyllgor cyffr^rli« 1 ? perwyl un am. )»b cant o'r gweithwyr er %ei' v 1 mlaea. Dadleuid Sod odau llafur yn y-mudlad nac un gymydogaoah ya Ngogledd Cymru V 7 Llanberis yw 52 o onau yn yr wvthnn^' T1 n -yn Bethosda, 55 Cwrfa. 57 a ai the dwell¥i-A",hoQi-16 of JA R JONIS High-streot, Bala, ins the county Merioneth; of J^MN' r a' ',n Aberystw^Wi, in tfte county <,yt Card;»ln n^i ('T^ enT "r Portma^ ?i?,fe» county 0f Carna^on' David LLOYD^ > Fridayx fuly Q, 1m,

UP AND DOWN THE COAST. _y- -f'if.¡ VERY RELIGIOUS. Xot far from my bit of a place on the colist there was a House of Worship. The congregation grew in numbers until at last some of the chief men said. Let us arise and builll." Other of the chief men replied, Yea, and let one half of this multitude go and worship the Great God in lowliness of heart in the new House, and let half remain here." This arrangement seemed good to all the people, and it was agreed that one half the cost of the r.ew House should be paid by those who went out, and the other half by those who stayed behind. And this also seemed good to all the people, and they at once began to build. The new House was made to look pleasant in the eyes of the beholders, and was adorned with pillars and with towers, and there was much of stucco put upon it. From the high places of the town the new House of Worship could be seen in all its beauty, and all the people were greatly pleased with it. At the top of the tower there was gilded work, and inside there were comfortable seats, and everything that could minister to the well-being of the cause. When the House was finished it was opened with solemn services. The congregations were large, the sermons powerful, and the prayers earnest beyond anything that had been known in those parts for many years. Peace and goodwill reignell supreme, and there was nothing but a slight weakness in the collections to cast gloom over the spirits of good men who had built this new House of Worship. It had been agreed that one half the congregation should go to the new House, and that the other half should re- main at the old. Xow, it so happened that the rich half of the congregation went to the new, and the poor half remained behind. This was so much the case that the new place of worship was known by the name of the House of Lords, and the old one by that of the House of Com- mons. it had never been anticipated that the new place of worship would take nearly all the rich, and leave be- hind all the poor. But this is what happened, and the new congregation made it a boast that they had no poor a-non, them. The old congregation, bereft of their rich men, were sorely beset with difficulties about money. They had many expenses to meet, and many good causes to assist, and they laboured hard, and succeeded better than they hoped, until one day they received a demand for many hundreds of pounds from the new congregation towards the cost of building the place of worship which was known as the House of Lords. What is this heavy demand that you make?" asked the old congregation. It is according to our agreement," replied the wealthy offshoot. "Yes, but all the wealthy men went down with you, and the poor remained here with us. Besides, we have collections for missions and other things, and we have to gather together as much money as when you were all here to help us." That may all be true," said the Lords, "but the agree- ment is plain enough. We have paid our share of the expense, and now you must pay the remainder, as the agreement setteth forth." True, you have paid a share of the building expenses, but you have made no collections for missions or other good causes. Besides you have no poor. When the agreement was entered into it was expected that rich and poor would have departed in equal proportions, and we think you ought to pay for the building yourselves, especially as our place of worship needs altering, and we are poor." We must bring this matter before the monthly meet- ing," said the Lords. "An agreement is an agreement, and should be kept. We have given no money to anything except the building debt, and this is what you owe us" (showing a bill for many hundreds of pounds). The dispute went on for many months and years. The monthly meeting appointed a committee, and the commit- tee met, and talked goody goody a great deal, but were no match for the Lords, who were men of business, and did not allow religion to fetter them in their negotiations with their old brethren in the faith. "You have got among you all the rich men," said a poor member of the Commons and in equity you ought not to press for the fulfilment of the agreement. You are not Shylocks, but Christians, and your behaviour in this matter ought to be the behaviour of Christians. We are not able to pay you, but if you insist upon your pound of flesh you must have it, but remember this, the Great God whom you pretend to serve cannot approve of your doings." The old man sat down, and one of the Lords stood up, and looked as if he were ashamed somewhat. He said that business was business, and hoped it would be left to the committee that had been appointed. "No, no," said the old man. "You know the commit- tee will split the difference. Speak out yourselves as Christian gentlemen, and say whether you think in equity, and as Christians, you have any claim upon us. We admit the agreement, and only plead that it is unjust, seeing that the rich men went with you." The question was left undecided, but we may hear more about it before it is settled. IN MEMORIAM. Mynyddog is dead. It was his high mission in a land where simple mirth and honest laughter are clashed as sins to war with humour against gloom, and to preach a gospel Wales greatly needs. There was a tender meaning beneath his laughter that not always found its way to those who listened to him. But then, is there not always in our words and acts meaning that common eyes and ears fail to catch. It is often not until death robes men in immortality that the true ring of their life echoes into our souls, and then we turn round to give our mite of en- couragement, or sympathy, or praise and, behold, we are face to face with Eternal silence. A pure, simple life, whenever ended, is always complete. This life was his, and it is finished. Let us think for a moment what he taught, and how he taught it. It shall be for a memorial to him that he taught men to laugh, and pointed out the follies of his countrymen in ways that made them ashamed. Mymyddog was a teacher of virtue, and his text was the greatness and littleness of human life. Teachers such as he was are scarce in Wales-are.,citree everywhere. No hollow words of praise are needed for one who so well knew their worthlessness. It is enough to say that he h-As laid down his work, and no one is able to take it up. THE HOMES OF THE POOR. One of the things often said by people who think little of their words is that the poor are happy in their misery. The other day the wall of a mud hovel at Penparke fell upon an old man whilst in bed and killed him. The curious may go up to Penparke, a mile from Aberyst- wyth. and see for themselves the miserable den in which this old man lived, and at last was killed. How often I have pleaded for the inhabitants of Penparke is more than I can remember, but perhaps the sacrifice of the old man's life will accomplish what a sense of justice ought to have got done long ago. The Town Council will have a good deal to say about this miserable place, which is nothing but a great hole. The Coast. PERRY WINKLE.

LAMPETER. Thf.FT.—On Friday, July 13, before the Very Rev. Dr. Lewellin, and William Jones, Esq., Thomas Walters, a bov tramp about sixteen years of age, was brought up in the custody of P.S. Lyons, and charged by James Olby, labourer, Lampeter, with stealing a woollen scarf valued at 6d. from a box at McGlynn's lodging-house. He was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour, in Cardigan Gaol. BOARD OF GUARDIANS, FiunAY. JULY 13TH.— Preeent Mr. William Jones, Llwynygroes, chairman, the Very Rev. Dr. Lewellin, ex-officio; Mr. Lewis Davies, vice-chairman;1 Messrs. John Rees, Cellan, James Edwards, Lampeter, W. Jones, Llangybi, Thomas Jones, and David Davies, Llanwenog, John Davies Llanybyther, T. D. Rees, and John Lloyd, Pencaecr, David Lloyd, clerk, Herbert Davies, and Abel Evans, medical officers. Statistics.-Oiit-relief: Llanybyther district, per Mr. John Jones, Sol 17s. 6d. to 239 paupers Lampeter dis- trict, per Mr. David Parry, return not presented to the Board. Number in the house, 3. Pencarrey.-Durin- the consideration of the relief lists for the Lampeter district, the relieving officer presented the following At a Vestry meeting of the ratepayers of Pencarreg, held at the house of Elizabeth Lewis, Red Lion, on Thursday, the 12th day of July, at two o'clock, p.m., and duly convened for the purpose of ascertaining the feeling of the parishioners as to the propriety or other- wise of asking certain paupers residing in the parish, to become inmates of the Lampeter Workhouse, Mr. John Thomas, Cilblaidd, in the chair, Mr. Parry, the relieving officer, kindly attended the vestry, and carefully read the relief list, as far as the same appertained to Pencarreg parish. After due consideration of each case, the vestry was of opinion that they could not recommend the Guar- dians to offer the house at present to Any one of the pau- pers now residing in the parish and they further begged to" express a hope that the Guardians will kindly relieve them out of doors."—The Board did not think it advisable to "kindly relieve" the paupers of Pencarreg out of doors, but decided to offer the house in one or two cases. "ft.plicf Durin^ a conversation respecting a balance of £ 168 against the union at the bank, the Clerk referred to amounts administered in P** three years. For the year ended LacJ^y, 1!,o the sum was £ 3 380 • for the same period m l&b, iwJ.lo, and for the same period in 1877. £ 2,982 5 Rowing a reduction of £ 398. —The Chairman remarked that the rate of reduction —The Chairman remarked that the rate of reduction should be made known, as by and by it would be put down to the workhouse. He thought the old arrange- men should have the credit of what had actually been accomplished under that system.

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SHOCKING MURDER AT DOLGELLEY. MUTILATION OF THE VICTIMS BOD Y. Dolgelley has been the scene of a tragedy apparently equalled only by the Wainwright case. On Monday, June 4, Sarah Hughes, a single woman, 36 years of ige" living with her sister at Coedbach, Brithdir, a small vigage some four miles distant from Dolgelley, went to that town on business. At nine o'clock at! night she called at a friend's house and stated that she was on her way hemae. She, however, never reached home, and, her continued absence giving rise to the suspicion that she had met with foul play, the police and a number of the neighbours devoted several days to a most careful search of the looality, but without the slightest trace as to what had becorae of the missing woman. About half-past six o'elook on Mon- day morning, July 16, a little girl, who was crossing a wooden bridge which spans the Arran river, a tributary of the Mawddach, about a mile from Dolgelley, noticed a human arm floating down the stream. She informed her parents of the occurrence, and eventually the polke got to hear of it, and a number of mmi, aug- mented by others, who speedily volunteered then- services, commenced making a thorough exam- ination of the river and its banks. Prooeediag up the stream, their search was soon rewarded by., ttte dis- covery of twelve pieces of a human body, and these, on being put together, were found to form., the body of a female. The lungs, liver, and a portion of the entrails, were found under a wooden foot-bridge in the middle of the town. The arm was found suspended in tfee water from a pillar of the bridge. There was a bulles hole be- hind the ear. A large portion of the woman's -clothes were found. It appears from the state of the clothing that the body was chopped with a hatchet into sixteen pieces. The mutilation and dismemberment had apparently been executed in the most brutal and unscientific manner. One foot was cut off the leg with the boot and part-of a stock- ing on, and both the breasts were severed from.the trunk. The identification of the mutilated remains, which were not decomposed, as being the body of the missing woman, is beyond doubt. It is supposed that the remains were put into a sack and taken a good way. up Bvvlch Coch, a little above the Frongoch Woollen Factory, and thrown into the river Arran, in the hope that the flood on Sunday night—the river being greatly swollen by the heavy rain- would carry them out to sea. The discovery has naturally created great excitement throughout the neighbourhood, and at Dolgelley business has since been entirely at a standstill. The places where the remains were discovered have been visited by a great number of persons. All manner of rumours were current as to the manner in which the unfortunate woman met her death. The deceased was the mother of one or two illegitimate children, and was far advanced in pregnancy. Up to Tuesday night the police were without any relia- able clue as to the_ murderer or murderers of Sarah Hughes. Further inquiries showed that about nine o'clock on the night of Monday, June 4, she spoke to a Hughes. Further inquiries showed that about nine o'clock on the night of Monday, June 4, she spoke to a girl near Felin-ship, a short distance from the workhouse. This was the last seen of her. A rumour that she had left home for Llanidloes to join a man who was the puta- tive father of one of her illegitimate children appears to have quietened the suspicion that she had met with foul play j- and, after the neighbours and the police bad searched the I woods on the way to Brithdir, where she lived with her j unmarried sister, the matter appears to have rested uniibj the horrible discovery on Monday morning. THE INQUEST. The inquest was opened on Ttiesdiay morning at the workhouse, before Mr. Griffith Jones Williams, coraner. for Merionethshire, and a jury of whom Mr. W. Ri. Williams, C.E., was foreman. Captain H. Lloyd dough, chief constable of the county, watched the proceedings.. After the jury had been called; it appeared that n< re],i-. tive was present to identify the body, which was lying in the dead-house of the NN orkliouse., and was described as. that of Sarah Hughes, single woman, aged tliirty-,iix. The Chief Constable said that the father and sister of the- deceased woman had both seen the remains on theprer- vious day, and had promised tc.be in attendance at nite-1 o'clock.—The Coroner directed a conveyance to be sent* for both. No matter what the expense was, he w-as.de- termined to sift this—the fOulesft thing he had fiver he-it-ivS of- —thoroughly. At present ho intended to take siifcpljy evidence as to identification,, and the discovery of (ibe remains and clothes. He had ordered a post; most&m examination to be mactebyMr., IJoyd Williams, and Dr. Ed. Jones, and, for certain reasons, he propesad: to have an analysis of those internal organs wl i<-h haufiVaen discovered, in case the wornaia had been f iisonetl. He should also communicate with the Secretary of, State;. and urge the desirability;of offferimg a large reward for tite dis- covery of the person or persons guilty of this mostrlirutal murder. The body at the inquest WAS hardly reccgnisabfoas that of a human being, so tecriMy was it hrcked aborjt. It presented the appearance' of having besn-.soma. time in fresh water. The hair oft}e head and part oi.- the scalp had entirely disappeared!, and under one -ear,wa4sthe mark apparently of a byiet, and) there was aloo a slight fracture. The sleeve of the dress was upon one fih; and! the boots and portions of red stockings on the feet. The body was complete, excepting a. portion of tae left log. Present appearances point Slat the woman, who we stated to be very strong and well aNe to protect herself," was stunned., and shot aijd that r being kept six weelcs, the body was cut up and the remains thrown over a. precipice at- Plas-yn-Brithdir iivtta a deep pcoLof idle river, in Vic, hope that they would! be carried out to sea. with the flood. A juryman mentioned a statement- whit'h obtains general credence that a fortnight last Sunday a fsiarmer living near Brithdir met a man carrying a sack; at BontnevAydd bridge. He wished the man g jod nighk,, Itit got no raply; and he noticed a very strong smell jprcweeding froi-it, thx- saci. After a delay of more than, an hcqir. tite father anilsistw- arrived. The latter. Margaret Hugltes, who was. deeply distressed^, having given evidence "t identification, toe, Coroner said he should adjourn the inquest to T&P TO>WB Rail 011 Wednesday, AUlt 1, a long adjournment) being necessary in order to give, the police ample tiraa to make inquiries. During the proceedings, a juryman complained that, notwithstanding, the long absence of the deceased, no reward had been atifered by the county, aa in the case of the missing woffipftin Carnarvonshire—jk^remark which elicited the rejouadjer from. another juryman that the county magistracy would have speedily offered a reward had it been a case of salmon killing. The remains were interred at Rhydymain, near Dolge,V ley, in the aftewwu, the funeral fceflig of very priv^o character, APPREHENSION OF THE SUPPOSED MUKTHiRER. An important arrest in connection with the murder of te-arah Hughes was made on Wednesday, July 18 Suspi- cion appears to have attached to a young man named CadwalaUr Jones, IjviJtg at Park, a small farm about midway between DolgeOey and Brithdir, the village where the murdered woman liv»<l. Jo«aes-, by whose father de- ceased was occasionally employed was known to be on intimate terms with the deceased', who was far advanced in pregnancy. He w&s aarested on: suspicion of bein" connected with the murder, and, on-a search bein<- made° the womb and other interned parts missing to complete the portions- of the body discovered in the river were found buried in a field contiguous to lhe house. Sergeant Hugh" Williams (Corwerl' having had some intimation that the prisoner was susposted of the murder he at once proceeded- to Park, ruid upci close examination of the fields a grave was found with some part of the bodv buried in it. An axe and a chopper Weve also found In a sack not far frcm prisoner's hous-e, with which it is believed the murder wan- committed. On Wednesday morning the prisoner' was brought before the magistrates (Messrs. Lewis Williams H. J. Reveley, and Griffith Williams,) at the Police Station, and charged with the murder oSarah Hughes, úm the application of Inrtpector Jones, lie was remanded until Thursday, July 2Gf.h. c< ANOTHER ACC3UNT: Scarcely had Sir I' itzroy Kelley, turned life- back upon Dolgelley where, at -he, assizes, he hid sincerely congratu- lated the Grand Jury upon having really nothing to say to them as a Grand Jury for a sounty with a large population of all classes and all raieks of scsiety, than a murder of the most horrible description discovered to have been committed, and that too, even whilst his Lordship was offering his congratulations. That a murder of any sort could have been committed !n this paltofwales, must have been lncredulous! y reoei ved by the inhabitants of the district in the first instance. E veil when the mmourwas confirmed it must have been- thought that there would be some extenuating circumstances, some excessive provoca- tion, some temporary insanity, or, at èast, drunkenness prompting the murderer, in hot blood, to take the life of ins victim. -L>u„ astonishmeut reached its utmost point when it was ascertained that not only lad a woman been murwered, but that she had tso been l urriby n\i\ltrht(l -ciit limb from limb, and piece from piece--fiter her ueat/ii, ana tnen unrown into tfte river Ai*2*!sn which rnis through the town of Dolgelley, and .veins' tlie River Wmon near the railway. The facts appear to. be as follows:— On the Iriday after June 4th, Inspector Jones reived information from the mother of Sarah Haghes, daughter of Robert Hughes, Coedbach, Brithdir, thai! her daughter was missing since Monday, 4th June. The parents of the woman believed that she might have gene a war from home with some one, having come to that conclusion in consequence of her non-return to her home. The wean's mother informed the Inspector that her daughter stated before leaving home that she had business to transact at Dolgelley. She described her daughter as-about thirty- six years of age, about 5ft. 2in. in height, .somewhat of stout build, with a fair face and black hair. She afeo in- formed the Inspector that she wis,, not aware her dareshter was enciente. If she were it had not been. long. The woman s sister, Margaret Hughes, likewise said she-knew of no man having visited the deceased for years. Tliey also stated that the deceased had had two t'astard child- ren, one of whom is now ten years of age and' the other sixteen. They thought that the might have met with some old acquaintance at -■ Dolgelley,. and have gone off with him either to Llanidloes Dylife, or South Wales. Inspector Jones then, instituted enquiries, and found that the deceased 'had :iJeell to the house of a person in Unicorn-lane, and left., On doing so she looked at the clock and said," Is the clock right t It is only half-past eight." On being told that the clock was right, she said, "Well, I thought it might be about nine. However, I shall be at home about ten o'clock, She also called at another house aftenvards where lieraiece is in service. She left that place, bidding them Good night." She was afterwards seen near the Board school on her way home, and by- another person, about 300 yards further on still going towards her home. That was the last time she was seen alive. Thei-e were no tidings of the missing woman up tc seven o'clock on Monday morning last, when Inspector Jonis- received information that an arm had been seen in the river A rran, about 120 yards from the bridge. The In- spector went there and took possession of the arm. Hardly had he taken the limb out- of the water when a man named Griffith Thomas, went to the Inspector and said that a. large pieoe of a human body had been picked up in. the same river about a quarter of a mile higher up, at-a place called Pandy Abernaint. Griffith Thomas made the remark, It will prove everything," in explanation that it would prove that the second piece was the arm belorigihgto a. woman. The river was then searched by scores of people, though it was done with difficulty, inconsequence of-the- water being so strong and liigh. Subsequently1 the head' of a female was found near the Frongoch Factory, and higher up still the breast, back, feet, enclosed' in stockings and shoes, and a portion of a woman's clothing. In fact, there were about eleven pieces bouncL together,, which, on being put together by Mr. Lloyd Williams^ M.R.C.S., and Dr. Ed. Joiies, the body of a woman.was fbtaad to be nearly complete. An inquest was opened on, TtlssdAy before Griffith Jones Williams, Esq., coroner, when the fcllowing jury was empanelled :-Messrs. W. R. William*, io;eman, R. Wynne Williams, druggist, Wm.,Daviesj,d?aper, Thos. Roberts, ironmonger, William Vaughaji, stone- ensmeller; Robert Hughes, ironmonger, William; Hughes, printer, John Williams, Shoe Mart, Thomas Richards, batcher, Richard Jones, New Shop, Edward Ellis, Birmingham House, Robert Ellis Lloyd, watchmaker, Rees Pugh Roberts, Glyndwr House, JamosB, JVIee-, fishmonger. The body having been viewed,! Margaret Hughes, the sister of the deceased, and Robert Hfaghes, the father, identified '(tlw remains as those <- o £ Her sister and his daughter. • The inquest was ,.then adjournsd to the first of Augustyfjn order that the Police might make farther enquiries, A post mortem examination was- also ordered to be made by the two medical gentlemen. The excitement at this time in the town. and neighbour- hood was intense. Rumours of all kinds were flying about, and tM, murder attributed to, serial persons. The, public, however, appears lo have gone- on the wrong; scent, andihad the police followed the adirice given them, from all quarters, they would Tiave ilad their hands full" of work which would have turned ouii in the end "II.: successful. On Wednesday,. July 18th, at four o'clock in the mcKiing, InspectorJ 0nes accompanied by Si;p$i. Hughes,- Towyn, Sergeant Williaiias, CWwen, 1:.(3. Vaughn P.C. Jones, and,. P.C. Hughes, Doigelley, ceeded.fco Pare Farm, about two miles froiu the town, .to make; s, tfurther search. ill. the caurse of the- investigation Inspector Jones had cause to appreltend, amdl did appr.e- hencj. Gxdwallader Jones:, the tenant of the farm. S;r«ral thingSf, a sack, an axe, a saw, anil several other ai^ieles- wero-,found in the cowh ouse ;and. down bdmv, yards from the house, a grave which had lately bee1.. fillecL in, This place had e- idiently Beeo cov-erc-d thiclly.o.voar witkbranches about a cart loaiA' havungr been c^i.aiwi taken to the place from the hiige rows in the iir.iaediafr* vicinity. On the othor,side o.L the hedge was a io-rk,. at pike, and a wooden rake, these.things, being found .con- cealed in a bush. The prisoner was loeji before Lewis Williams,,Esq,, H. J. Iteveley .Esq. said Griffith Williams, Esq., .and-charged &jr Inspe3tojc..Jciu>s, with the wilful Of HiiylLss. Th.") offered sufficient evidence far a reward, and th.o.. Bench remanded the prisaner to r,e-t Thur.-laY. The prisoner, Cadwallader-Jones, is aged 41 aad 'S »f a respectable appea.ace. He i*five fwt eight nigh, oSfresh coniiplexion and brown hai-tv. He is of slight. LuUJ. He was married in December. 1876, and his r/ife ha-< -,i,)w a young child of aljoitfc thise or fopir months pf,ag^ The prisoner seems to have be«a an hàtelliger ma. the hewse he occupied ftt Paris was fosund a book;co niiiun iny several Htanzas wl eiigjy-iiion i-,g his ov.mcomposition, setIDe of which r/ere fair]# meritcorious. When, the portions c tjw body were brought the dead house at.thif workhmnse it was discovered on jetting- the efeyen pieces together that one part of the ■left leg from bOTe tlso-kaee to the left ancle -.w missing. The feet had been outo off alwe the. boots which were still attached- io the. ifcei. T head :tad been, severed at the neck, ard.the trniik had been cut across above the hip Inies. This portion (the truijk) was likewise cut lengthwise, so>as tenlsvide it, into two .piece-}. The arms had been c~jt -off at the shostlder jo nts, OE$_-arm having all the clothing atimrhed and the other quits naked. Tb} lower extr&mitiesswere cut off throagh the, -.ol-, part of tha thighs, aT-ill also tlluough both thighs abov« the knee joiv a. It is sai'i that tike heart, was abo cut-offj' a-nd is missing at the present iitae. It is also reported that the wc^b had beei, divided; in half, one part of which is likewise still missing. A post-mortem e sapiiyatioa was made on Wednesday,.bv, Dr. Ed. Jones, Bryny&Pnon, and Mr. H. Lloyd ivvili, M.R.C.S., tha result o'f* which is not i-sr- tainly '.j30wi!„ai& the present t'iiie. lt is> however, seated that t\» .causa, of death was fracture cf the skull, caus edby somc, !iwtrument, of which fwUpy particular. will transpire at. <ihe adjourned ravestigatioa. Statements to the adect that the deceasec1 was, SQlThe months goije in pregs^iicy Save also gained, currei. The f&rnji-house of Pare i^situa&eu. in the mids's-of thoq wildest sealery, about a laile fr(,,ul, tire town. Tvear the, b, bvojiiiingj. which is of the Aost miserable charactosy was 3,, sJ-ed or and in the confer is now to • be sle-RU: a ,small :bjle, where the saw, the axe and the sssk were #tuid. At a little disiance litim the house i&a sr4i»I pot;atw garden, and in the ilirp". portion is t .roark..s, of iVtgra»*o, about three fiet deap, and seven feet long-. Ea this gi-ave the police f,)U}id blaefc human hair and.a. pie«je of sMa from the head, wstji two finger nail?. attached, These pieces of skin And the-nails were nun sing froiri, aie pieces of the body taken from the_ River Arraa* A siaaES quantity of r-^d stuff appearing in tho grayes$was at lirst supposed that it usas. blood, but turner l-sjvestiga- tiwia proved it to he par ø.f magenta stockings, aitd. under- diathing. Tlie 'ipdges, around have been cleanly cut, apparently with a hook; and the boughs, throwa over tho garden. Abou'j forty yards^from the garden aa<l |;rave is the river Arrrji, rushing with great l^apetuosi-try through a deep cut. A spot in pointed out where tbo water falls into a pool, where it is- supposed the ttiurde?§if disposed of the body, afaor cutting" it up. A correspondent writes: It doe&not appear so far thai the murderer had any accomplices. The report about the search or the remains being unaer direction of Captain Clough and Inspector Jones is;in- corrwt. The first was not near the place, and people waited nearly an hour, and sent a number of messengers foc-the other before he iriadfe his appearance. J, am not $»re if the police found of the pieces. Thejc- were in the crowd, but the F3EVch was made by aii(I under the guidance of private parties. Not, a policerojui wetted his whtto dozens the river and p^i w, \q, waists in extricating pieccsr of remains and clothing from. beWeen stones and boulders with which this mounS torrent (river Arran) is full. The theory of the police was that si-it- had gone away to follow some Ole--she was rather loose in that wiv -and no representation of any one could make them to stir in the matter-until Monday, hvery one believed from the i-ommeneement that' she was mnrdered, eseept the police v-mi laughed to scoro every suggestion made to them r PV fowsto- the murderer waste be found in the-direction where the woman was last seen alive. No one-, it appears, thought of connecting her disappearance withs the prisoner, 'llie first hint was given on Tuesdav by h«r father to Hugh Williams, police sergeant, Corwen an old gamekeeper, well known in this neighbourhood 2o years ago—who was -sent for on Monday afternoon by Captaun Clough. The feint led him *,<y watch Park house and farm, and all movements of the landlord during the evening: and all night; and in the mertiiii'j, about 6 a.m he took him into custody. Prisoner moved to Park abottfc 25th Msrch last; child S°me be <>3?e- His wife has an infant ^f'Le»vis Jones •■Coedmwsogiog, near Bontnewdd Station. The murdered woman worked twelve wir0PP .n°rid t0 mflther about ten or was if she VuM"')- 1 sh^wocJd not have been as she mother tho-Jrht °f ,K.ei1 at Af-«r missing her the b °! renca*k> and gathered that her iiieamn wrf that some one at Coediawsosdo"- was the cause of her being then in tro-.bl- In the lowrr partof the farm, of Park, in a -wild diin-le not very far the house, and not fal" h(n the river Arran, is a sbp of land about 1 yards wide ami 15 yards long, which has an appearance., of having been used by a former tenant AS a garden. The western siie ci this shp -that farthest. from the river «nd-ni^st sheltered-had an appearance as If lately the soil had been tuamed over from top to bottom for about two yards wide, the remainder untouched. Ihe police, on -Tuesday- morning, went up with a labourer, The place was opened, and about the middle, a yard from the hedgva pl:>e8 was fomd about two feet deep evidently latelyo pened,, and it is. reported that a portion of hair and flesh, was fCilnd t&ere.

DEATif OF'- Mr. Richard Davies, familiarly1 known, throughout Wales as Mynydclog," died on Saturday,, July ii, at his tesidence Bronygan, Cemmes, on the borders of the coaniie^ of Mont- gomeiy and Merioneth. The deceased, who was i» his 45th i.V', w.as (".10 the most prominent character? amongst the elsn bardic fraternity, and. no .national eisteddfod was com- plete without his presence as coreluctor aad vocalist, a position he was to have occupied at forthcoming Carnarvon eisteddfod. He composed several songs, which are in great vogue amongst his countryman, wish all classes of whom he was most popular. He accepted an engagement to visit America last autumn, and returned home suffering from cancer in the stomach, which resulted: ii i deajh. He leaves a widow and a widowed mother. A correspondent of the Daibj CVe-irs writes "Welsh literature and the eisteddfod have just lost one of their brightest ornaments in ttik) person- of "Mynyddog," whose death, on the 14th inst., is announced. He was the author of several volumes of poetry, and wrote many popular ballads, which are set to music by ) Brinley Richards and John Thomas. [?! w,-lH known as a conductor of the National Eisteddfod meetings, in wh ich capacity, his inimitable wit, fund of anecdote, sound sense, a nd rare administrative ability made him more popular than anj other man in Wales." The funeral—a public on, took place on Thursday (yesterday) at the Burial Ground attac -bed to the old Independent Chapel at Llanbrynmair, of which place he was a native.

LOCAL AND DISTRICT. PARLIAMENTARY PET: ITIONS.—By Mr. 7|. ?). Morgan, from Cerrig-y-drudion, and by Mr. T. E. Lloyd, from Bettws Bledrws, for a ] Bill to stop the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday. ° UNIVERSITY COLLEGJ a OF 'VAl'The monthly meet- ing of the Council was held on Wednesday, July 11th, at the office of the College in Queen Victoria-street, London. Present—Mr. Henry Richard, M.P. (in the chair), Mr. Lewis Angell, Mr. St ephen Ev.° as, Mr. John Griffiths, (G-ohebydd), Professo- r- T. Mclv. Hughes, Mr. John Hughes, the Ilev. RoLtcrt Jones, M.A., Mr. Hugh Owen, Mr. Henry Parnall, t die Rev. Mark Pattison, B.D., and Mr. W. Rowland. I' i; was announced at the meeting that the Lord President 0: f the Privy. Council had appointed Wednesday, the 18tl 1 Julv, at 'hree p.m., to receive a deputation in reference to a nit-j-torial for a Government grant to the College. STATE BALL.—Tlu ( following were amongst those who were invited to a S tate Ball at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening July 11. The Duke and Duchessof Sutherland, the Di; ke and Duchess of Westminster, and Lady Beatrice Grc 'sver.or, the Marquis of Hartington, the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, the Earl and Countess of B. -,tdford, Eirl and Countess Grosvenor, Earl and Countess Tankerville, Lord Kensington, Lord H. Vane Tempesl Ljrd and Lady A. E. Hill Trevor. Lady A. Wins. W ynn, the Hon. F. Bridgeman, Hon. B. Lawley, Hon. G. < Jrm.by .Gore, the Hon. Misses Wilson Patten. (2), the H on. Misses Grosvenor (2), Mr. C. Wil- li.atr.-v Wynn, Miss Wynn, the Misses Wynn, &c. TrHE_ BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. The ann-u.e country cc ngress of -thiF,, body has been fixed .for Lb<-tgi:0en for tl i_e, week commencing the 27th August and the arrange re ientv-so far as they can be made before- hand5,. have just been completed. The meeting is held under the patroi uage of his Royal Highness the rrihee of W ales, and the immediate residency of Sir Wattim Williams Wymn. Theopernng meeting and dinner will be held on Mon day., the, 2-,th, and there will be excursions ea-ery day in the week, and Inaee tings at night, for the reading of pap( rs. Among the places set down to be visited are Off a V Dyke, Denbigh Castle, Chirk, Castle Castell Dinas ]th-a V Valle CAicis Abbey, Eliseg's Pillar, the Gaer, an ai icient British encampment, site of Owen, Gltendower's ho use, Pn, ancient stone castle, and SevaraL amcient. church es at Dolgelley, Denbigh, Wrexham, and; other jiiaces. Ma, WATKIN WILLIAMS and MR. Pigotts'Appoint* ment- In thf HtfUBe of, Co'mni.Bns on Monday, July 16 during the del Jate- on the appointment of Mr" Pigott to the Sfetaonery Mr. W„ Williams, spltl. he ha,d lis- tened? to th*. Chancellor of .the Exchequers speech with the- spreatest astomshmentW regret. Hon. members on .the zq)positit,,n sjde of the. Hse- had only-to ^udy the faces of Ministers opposite to see how they felt the painful poon i v ;hi -h they ware placed. (a Oh," and laueh- te £ ;liriuf was a serious, charge against., the Prime Minister ot dirwprding the I%h tras t placed in him in thi* nomination to an important post, and he utterly de- cliEJjed to hi: in Aetl by tho War Seens'tar *'3. ingenious ar. gMBaent. 'Th;.charge was osie- of jobbery. A select com- msStee, with a full sense of it s judicial ddty, had made certain iieeommendations, wliicl i fi-Ad beeD entirely neglected. Thsj Chancellor of the- 'Exchequer's defence was absolute^ nothing., Tlie api»rntir.ent would have a ii&morahzing effect upon a great public department the servants in vvhich migt-fc. h&ge relied op. the Select Com- mittee's juc gpaent thoÍl\t 'prai&tical knowledge was.essential iim. the head of, their department. Trie.lo-,Iseof"c,!Ommons would conc.amti itself before the t",Lintlv if it did not pro- nounce thrafr it worjd no!?, ratify anc". "affirm, but would ratb er titt --Ay con d,)m. n -.vaat w,4 a g-job. (Cheers.)

CARMARTHEN COUNTY -POLICE COURT.—At this court on Tuesday .Tulv 17, before Mr.-J. Beynon, John Da.ies was* cEar^ed h P. C. Miciieftnore with biing a deserter from h# now lying- at Peir,i&?v>ke-Dock.—Prisiiier 1 he.nded ;;¡t.J31ewg¡oo, SL was Drder.cilto, be sent to his i? ^aSw?i' ^Purr-ell. R. Lester,, and-G; W White— Rach 1 T^mia- of tb: Tanners' Arms, was .-harmed with smppiyrng hquaw to Daviid Lewi;, butohe* while in state of- intoxication,, on the 7th July. pear jd. for the defence.—From the Ovidc^ice of Sunt" Lewis and P:C. Harris it app^d that Lewis, wlSk> drunk; ode It", to the door of die Tenners- Arms and caLad f or a glass (I ale, which v,-as supplied him by the hal'In:ud, J em.ma .J enklns, buc before Ae could drink it SuT^intenclenfe Lewis; who was passing, took it from hi,n. Mr. Griffiths, for the d'ft«jice, contended that there hi.J.been nu .Aeli rery within the meaning of the Act, bat the Bench oonssdered the offence p.-ovtid, and fined de- fendant 4Cs arid costs, and also ordc.red tho licence to be ,endorsed. -!tii%iid Lewis, the man referred to, v;ss also., an-ed ICs.and'costs, for behsg drunk, when in charge of a* horse,