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FROM THE PAPERS. 'r-.J.r- The death is announced of Mrs. Richmond, eldest daughter of Lord Aberdare. The Bristol papers report that swallows have been seen in Somersetshire. The Merchant Mill, Blackburn, was on Friday, April 12th, totally destroyed by fire. The damage is £ 50,000. The third cocoa-house in connection with the Leeds Public Cocoa-house Company was opened on Thursday. The Thessalian insurgents have adopted" Garibaldi's Hymn," as their national melody. Madame Rachel was, on Thursday, April 11, sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Princess Beatrice, the youngest child of Her Majesty, on Monday, April 15th, completed her 21st year, having been born on the 14th of April, 1857. Her Majesty has expressed to Lieutenant-General Sir Arnold Kemb'all, K.C.B., her appreciation of the services rendered by him to the British Government during the recent Russo-Turkish campaign in Asia Minor. The Emigration Commission has been abolished. Sir Stephen Walcot, the commissioner, has retired, apd the duties and staff of the office are to be divided between the Colonial Office- and the Crown Agent for the Colonies. Mr. Arthur Arnold's paper on- "The Business Aspect of Disestablishment in the Nineteenth Century contains the first tabular estimate of the capital value of, and the claims upon, the property of the Church. Mr. Arnold estimates the surplus at the disposal of Parliament at more than 2120,000,000. The Queen honoured Lord and Lady Henniker by be- coming godmother to their infant son, who was christened on Friday, April 12th, at Quebec Chapel, London. The Marchioness of Hertford represented the Queen, and the godfathers were the Earl of Beauchamp and Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P.. The Philosophical Faculty of the University of Berne has promoted a Russian lady, Madame Litvinow of Tula, to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. She passed her examination with such brilliancy, especially in the mathe- matical branch, that the faculty unanimously agreed to attach the highest mark (cum suminalaude) to her diploma. Ten men are now in custody on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Lord Leitrim, his clerk, and driver. A n, disclosure of some importance has just been made. The maker of the gun-stock found at the scene of the murder states that it was made for one of the prisoners last arrested. On this disclosure the gunmaker, who was in custody, has been released. Lord Shaftesbury was presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh on Saturday, April 13th. In the course of his reply, the noble earl said he could not but regard Edinburgh as the capital of a people unrivalled in the annals of mankind. Reverting to the Eastern ques- tion, he said we were bound by every sense of duty to God and man, before we rushed into a frightful war, to be sure that our cause was just, and that we had exercised every means of reconciliation. The Athenamm says, that in preparing the grave in Westminster Abbey, for the reception of the late Sir Gilbert Scott's remains, the red virgin sand of Thorney Island was laid bare, with the wave mark of the Thames plainly visible un it. It is said that this has hardly ever been observed before in the nave of the Abbey, where almost every foot of ground bears traces of the displacing of the soil by previous interments. The Athenccum says that the drawing of the "Pass of the Splugen" in the Novar sale has been bought, through the agency of Mr. Agnew, by some friends of Mr. Rus- kin's, who wish to present it to him on his recovery. Mr. Ruskin speaks of this drawing, in his notes on his own collection of Turners now in Bond-street, as one which only unlucky chance prevented him from baying on two previous occasions. This sale, therefore, afforded an opportunity they were led to seize of marking their gratitude and affaction. In the Common Pleas Division, on Thursday, April 11, a motion for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, was moved for in a case in which, last week, Mr. A. T. Thistlethwaite was sued for 2900, the amount of a milliner's debt contracted by his wife. Lord Coleridge held that there was no grounds whatever for disturbing the verdict, and Mr. Justice Lindley concurring, the rule was refused. Mr. Joseph Arch, who was chosen by the Liberal five hundred at Greenwich as one of the six possible candidates on the retirement of Mr. Gladstone, has received a letter j from Mr. Bennett, the secretary, asking if he is willing to stand if finally selected. In reply, Mr. Arch expresses his sense of the honour which has been conferred upon him, and adds that the importance of his work amongst the agricultural labourers will prevent his becoming a can- didate for the borough. Serious rioting occurred on Glasgow Green on Sunday, April 14. Some thousands of people assembled to hear anti-popery lecturers denounce the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy'in Scotland. Stone throwing was commenced by some boys, and the persons assembled round the lecturer retaliated. Eventually rioting became general, barricades were pulled down, and the staves used as weapons, the result being that many persons were in- jured. Ten of the rioters were apprehended. The acquittal of Madlle. Vere Sassulitch, who was charged with attempting to assassinate General Trepoff, has been attended by an affray between the public and the police in St. Petersburg, in which a student was killed and a woman wounded. Madlle. Sassulitch, after her ac- quittal, was being escorted along the streets by a crowd of students, inhabitants, and others, who were cheering her, when the police interfered, and endeavoured to disperse them. The death of Mr. W. W. Tweed, once leader of the great Tammany Rijig in New York, in one of the gaols of that city, has caused quite a sensation in America. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times says that he had been suffering for some days from a complication of dis- orders, but the immediate caus<? of death was nervous de- bility and heart disease. He died in sleep, his last words just before falling asleep being, "I have tried to do some just before falling asleep being, "I have tried to do some good if I have not had good luck. I am not afraid to die. I believe guardian angels will protect me." Mr. Barron, the bank cashier, who preferred to die rather than reveal to three robbers the secret of the com- bination lock, was as conscientious as he was heroic (says the Court Journal.) In the safe was found a life insurance policy of 5,000 dollars, with a letter stating that, if any errors should be found in the accounts of the bank after his death, that sum, or so much of it as might be needful, should be used in making good the deficiency. He was unwilling to have his memory tarnished by any accusation, however trivial or ill-founded, after he bad closed the ac- count current of his dealings on earth. At Glamorganshire Assizes on Friday, April 12, before Mr. Justice Mellor, the case of "Williams v. Morgan" was heard. The plaintiff, twenty-seven years of age, claimed 2500 for breach of promise of marriage. The parties had been acquainted with one another from child- hood, and were engaged at the age of fifteen. In 1874 the defendant married another woman, despite all his pro- testations of love. Both parties lived in a Cardiganshire village. The defendant promised to marry plaintiff when he became a master mariner. Verdict for plaintiff, with £ 80 damages. A letter bearing the signatures of seven gentlemen, re- presentatives of the congregation lately worshipping at A letter bearing the signatures of seven gentlemen, re- presentatives of the congregation lately worshipping at St. Raphael's, Bristol, has been forwarded to the Bishop, protesting against his arbitrary and oppressive conduct in withdrawing the licence from and inhibiting the Rev. A. H. Ward." His lordship is reminded that Mr. Ward posseses no right of appeal to the Archbishop; that the judgment of the Privy Council in the Ridsdale case was given in the teeth of three eminent members of the Court that, in enforcing that judgment, he has become the instrument of a secular court; and that the closing of the church is an event absolutely with- out precedent in the Church of England since the lat Papal interdict, and unparalleled since the Reformation. Sir Rutherford Alcock, the chairman of the Central Committee of the China Famine Relief Fund, states that a telegram received from the treasurer to the Shanghai committee shows the famine to be on the increase. Up to the present time the committee have been able to remit £ 9,400 to China. In addition to the contributions paid through the London committee, a sum of about j63,000 has been sent direct by some of the missionary societies to their own agents in China, and other sums have been raised in America, as well as at the treaty ports of China and Japan. The Colonial Government of Hong-Kong has also recently voted a sum of 10,000 dols, for the purpose of the relief fund. An Act of Parliament was passed many years ago by which persons on the common jury list were qualified to act as special jurymen, the words used being out of the list of jurymen shall be taken the persons so qualified." The under sheriffs throughout the country interpreted the clause in a way that was never contemplated by the framers of the Act, and expunged all special jury-en from the common jury list, although the Legislature in-1 tended that they should remain on it. The consequence, said Lord Justice Bramwell the other day, in addressing the grand jury of Nottinghamshire, "was really a most preposterous one. It was this-that when a man was tried for his life you took out from the jury the most qualified men, and having done that, you chose from the residuum those who were to try him; but if you had a case of horse warranty, with £ 50 involved, you left out the residuum, and picked men tried it." The anomaly has been pointed out for many years. The Commission on Common Law Procedure recommended that the practice and the law should be altered. "In vain 1 It was continued." Another Commission denounced it, and an Act of Parliament altering the practice was passed in terms so plain that Lord Justice Bramwell does not un- derstand how any one can misapprehend them. In vain. There is a law so plain that nobody could misin- terpret it, one would think, except the under-sheriffs of England and Wales but these functionaries have con- ->-C'C) so "throughout the fifty-two counties and l j c^le,s an'^ boroughs, as before." I suppose," con- • tVi lordship, that there must be some peculiarity in this matter which prevents people from seeing the plain meaning of plain language."

At the meeting of the Geological Society on April 3, a communication from Mr. G. On an Unconform- able Break at the Base of the Cambrian Rocks, near Llanberis, was read. The degree of LL.D. has been conferred upon the Rev. Thomas James, -r.S.A., (Llallawg), Vicar of Netherthong, Yorkshire. HOLLOWAYS ORNTJFENT AND Pnxs.—The finest reme- dies in the world for bad legs, old wounds, sores, and ulcers. If used ^c«lrding to directions given with them there is no wound, bad leg. or ulcerous sore, however ob- stinate or long standing, but will yield to their healing and curative properties. Numbers of persons who have been patients in several of the large hospitals and un- der the care of eminent surgeons, without deriving the slightest benefit, have been thoroughly cured by Holloways Ointment and Pills. For glandular swellings, tumours, scurvy, and diseases of the skin there is no me- dicine that can be used with so good an effect. In fact, in the worst forms of disease, dependent upon the con- dition of the blood, these medicines, if nsed conjointly, are irresistible.

w- FACTS AND FANCIES. J The Apple of My Eye had Wed Another," is the title of a forlorn new ballad. A New York paper calls a flower-girl on Broadway, who sells rose-buds, Budhist." A Chicago gentleman, who recently travelled through Ohio, says that everybody he met called potatoes taters," except one young lady, who called him a "small-pertater." The sweet singer of Michigan was smart enough for the Chicago interviewer. "You were the oldest of the family, were not you?" he said. "No, of course not," replied the poetess, "my father and mother were older than me." "Do you belong to this boat?" said a passenger on a Mississippi steamer to a rough-looking old man. No, the boat belongs to me quietly responded to stranger; and so it did, and several other steamboats also. NOT QUITE THE SAME THIN G.-Merciful Traveller: "Your little horse has been going well. When do you bait him?" Pat "Ah, shure, it's been a purty livil road, Sor but oi '11 have to bate him goin' up Sloggin Derry Hill, Sor I "-Punch. A man in Oregon, on the evening of the recent earth- quake, had informed his wife that he had an important business appointment which he was reluctantly obliged to keep. When the shock came he rushed home with a billiard cue in his hand, which he had forgotten to re- place; and now his wife won't hear of any business ap- pointments after eight o'clock in the evening. In a little town in Missouri a lady teacher was exercis- ing a class of juveniles in mental arithmetic. She com- menced the question If you buy a cow for ten dollars-" when up came a little hand. What is it Johnny ? "Why you can't buy no kind of a cow for ten dollars. Father sold one for sixty dollars the other day, and she war a regular old scrub at that." DOUBTFUL. Humpty-Dumpty sat on Porte wall, Humpty-Dumpty got a bad fall.. Will my Lords B. and S., they and all of their men, Ever set Humpty-Dumpty up again ? During the long French war, two old ladies in Stran- raer were going to the kirk, when the one said to the other, "Was it no a wonderful thing that the Breetish were aye victorious over the French in battle?"- Not a bit," said the other old lady, "dmna ye ken the Breetish aye say their prayers before ga in into battle The other replied, "But canna the French say their prayers as weel?" The reply was most characteristic <l Hoot! jabbering bodies, wha could understan them. At a certain trial,, the counsel for the prosecution, after severely cross-examining a witness, suddenly put on a look of severity, and exclaimed, "Now, sir, was not an effort made to induce you to tell a different story? A dif- ferent story from what I have told, do you naetn ? That's what I mean." "Yes, sir; several persons have tried to get me to tell a different story from what I have told, but they couldn't. Now, sir, upon your oath, I wish t« know who these persons are. — Well, you've tried about as hard as any of them." Some dishonest faces (says the New Fo;vi; Times) are fair to look upon, but the new silver dollar of nine cents, has not even the poor merit of beauty. The eagle has the beak of a crow, the wings of a six months pullet, and the attitude of a camp meeting preacher in the act of exhor- tation The goddess of liberty is burdened with from forty-five to fifty per cent. too much chin. The only ap- propriate feature is the sharp prominence given to the motto In God we Trust." To no other source can the holder of the coin look for the ten cents, out of which it cheats him. „ r FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW!—Many mothers are either compelled to stay away from church and theatre, or take their babes with them. A poor woman took her little one in her arms to hear a famous preacher The loud voice from the platform awoke the child and made it cry, and its mother got up and was leaving the hall when the minister stopped her by saying, My good woman, don't go away. The baby doesn t disturb me." It isn't for that, sir, I leave," she replied with a perfect unconsciousness of sarcasm, It's you disturb the baby." I knew a man who, as a farmer and maltster, had amassed (for him) a good fortune, and who could never- theless hardly read or write. When he got into quarrels with his neighbours he used to slap his pocket and warn his opponent, "You'd better not meddle wi me, I be pretty respectablish here." Riding home from market one day very tipsy, he fell from his horse, and lay help- less in a ditch. There he was overheard saying, Here lies ten thousand pound!" But as if he had not done himself justice, and on second thoughts and further con- sideration, he added, "Why not say elev'n? "-Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences. v v p Dr. i)elaunay studies character by the feet, as Gall did by the head. Generally he finds the fiet to be long, flat, and more or less thin, with negroes, Japanese. Arabs, and nglish; to these distinctions the feet of the German, the broad and thick. Only the French, it seems, have the feet short small, elegant, and arched. Also, in the -same race, the superior classes have the feet more arched and shorter than the others. Thus, in the Middle Ages, French nobles called the people "flat feet." Country people have the feet less arched than citizens, and the ancient governing classes must be degenerating, as their feet are becoming long and flat, while at the same time the head is diminishing. The class of men upon town- petits crevés, as they are called so justly—have remark- ably flat feet, and to give an artificial curve to them is the reason why they patronize high heels. Students have highly arched feet, but persons in holy orders, the doctor says, have fine heads," but long and flat soles.

FROM LONDON LETTERS. If there should he war now, this country will be eter- nally disgraced. Prince Gortschakoff's circular so clears the ground of all those obstacles which diplomacy has been so busily raising up that it must require an ingenuity perfectly Satanic to devise others which shall bring about a catastrophe. Of course, Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury will get all the credit of having brought Rus- sia to her senses" by their !vigorous words and deeds, but it should now be the duty of M.P.'s on both sides of the house to see that their success does not make them over- bearing, and compel Russia to choose between humilia- tion and hostilities.-Liclyool J.Iercury. The distrust of the Premier is by no means confined to one side of the House. There is a very prevalent appre- hension that in the course of a few days, after the members have risen for the recess, we shall see an expedition setting out from our shores for Malta en route to—Lord Beacons- field alone knows where.—The divergence between Lord Derby and the Government is becoming very great. The bitterness which was revealed last Monday is deeply felt, and it seems highly probable that the breach between him and the Conservative party will become incurable. At all events, it is highly improbable that, if the conduct of affairs passed into the hands of Lord Salisbury, the late Foreign A sinister would consent to serve under him. He is believed to have very strongly resented the arrangement by which his brother was taken into the Cabinet without his knowledge. Lord Carnarvon is even more widely severed from the Conservative party than his fellow-ex- Minister, Lord Derby. He is believed to have so com- pletely broken with the party that it has become almost impossible for him to co-operate in a Tory Ministry again. I-Liverpool Post. 0 The farewell address which Mr. Watkin Williams lias issued to his constituents is very friendly in tone, but, un- der such circumstances, a man does not always speak his mind on such occasions, and the member for Denbigh burghs is very sore at the way in which his relations to the constituency have changed of late. He contends that he has always refused to support the Permissive Bill, that it is only a minority of the electors who want him to vote for it, and that since Sir Wilfrid Lawson went down to Wrexham and made a, great Permissive-Bill speech there he has found it impossible to get on with his old suppor- ters, who now accuse him of dividing the party. So he thinks it better to make his bow; and in all probability Sir R. Cunliffe, who stood for the Flint boroughs in 1874, will be his successor. I presume that Mr. Williams will seek a seat elsewhere, though in his farewell address he speaks of his numerous professional engagements. He is too high up in his profession to retire from Parliament altogether. He narrowly missed being made Solicitor- General at the time that Sir Henry James was made Attorney-General on the elevation of Lord Coleridge to the bench but it was found necessary to conciliate Sir William Harcourt, who at that time was rendering him- self peculiarly unpleasant, and seemed on the point of go- ing over to the Tories. Perhaps Mr. Williams thinks tnat the chance of the Liberal party returning to power is so remote that it is not worth his while to go back to Parliament at the next electioii.-Liverpool Mercury. There are two spectacles which I have not witnessed, but about which I shall be expected to write something- last (Friday) night's scene in the House of Commons, and the boat race. As to the latter, let me briefly say that the contest came off on a lovely morning, and ended as nine-tenths of the world supposed it would. As for the proceedings in the house, they seem to me to reflect little, credit upon anybody. It was bad form for Mr. O'Donnell to attack a dead man—one, too, who had arfgred suc^ a 'miserable end as Lord Leitrim. But I see rtjMkfi'Son why the house should have been cleared. The part of the affair was that Mr. Gladstone should HW^e been hooted in the lobby. It is scandalous that the manners of the mob should be introduced into the House of Commons, and that politicians should have their feel- ings so little under control that they must display them in the lobby. I fancy that this clearing of the house of strangers has been impending for some time. Conserva- tive M.P.'s have been growing very impatient of the obstructives, and have suggested that the newspapers should not report them, believing that notoriety being their sole object they would collapse when they ceased to obtain it. But last night's proceedings were a tactical blunder. Of course, the Irish papers have obtained a sufficiently full report of what was done, and Messrs. O'Donnell and Parnell will be esteemed more highly than ever because of the "persecution" to which they were siibje-.ted.-Liverpool Mercury.

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BYE-GONES. NOTES, QUERIES, and REPLIES, on subjects interesting to Waits and the Borders, must be addreteed to "ASKEW ROMEKTS, Croeswylan, Oswestry." Real name, and addresses must be given, in confidence, and MSS. must be written legibly, em one side of the paper only.

NOTES. HEREFORDSHIRE CIDER. — Gerard, the Cheshire herbalist, writing, in 1597, of apple trees and their fruit, has the following quaint particulars Kent doth abound with apples of most sortes. But I haue seene in the pastures and hedge rowes about the grounds of a worshipfull Gentleman dwelling two miles from Hereford, called M. Roger Bodnome, so many trees of all sortes, that the seruants drinke for the most part no other drinke, but that which is made of apples. The quantitie is such that, by the report of the Gentleman himselfe, the Parson hath for tithe many hogs- heads of Syder. The hogs are fed with the fallings of them, which are so many, that they make clioise of those apples they do eate, who will not taste of any but of the best. An example doubtlesse to be followed of Gentlemen that haue land and liuing: (but enuie saith,. the poore will breake downe our hedges, and we shall haue the least part of the fruit),—but for- ward in the name of God, graffe, set, plant, and nourish up trees in euery corner of your grounds the labour is small, the cost is nothing, the commoditie is great, your selues shall haue plentie, the poore shall haue somwhat in time of want to relieue their necessitie, and God. shall reward your good mindes and diligence. I take it, this Master Roger Bodnam was the Roger Bodenham of Rotherwas, who Was born in 1545, and was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of James I. Of this worthy Knight and his then residence of venerable oak" Blount, in his "MS. Collections for Herefordshire," has embalmed this .lively bit of descrip- tion :— ROTHERWAS This is a delicious seat, situate near the river Wye, and within two myles of Hereford, abounding with store of excellent fruit, and fertyle arable land having also a park within less than half a myle of the house, where there is a neat lodge upon a hill which overlooks the whole country adjacent. It was held so delightful a place that the proverb was current, as anciently of Corinth— Non datur cuivis adire Rotherwas," f "It is not given to every one.to dwelljat Rotherwas." The house is partly of old tymber work but an end" of it was new built of stone in the last age by Sir Roger, where there is a fair parlour full of arms, according to the fashion of that age; and over that a noble dyning room, wainscoted with walnut tree, and on the mantle tree of the chimney 25 coats in one atchievement, with this motto, Veritas libertabit. Even the long table .within the hall is inlaid with coats of arms. The old house was, I understand, pulled down towards the middle of last century, and a new mansion of red brick substituted. In the hall of this new structure the 25 coats in one achievement" are yet to be seed, and several other ornaments of the older house are likewise preserved in the new. I wonder if the apples and the "syder" are still as plentiful and itasty as they mani- festly were infold Gerard's day T. HUGHES. Chester. .CHESHIRE NOTES.—In Burnet's voluminous but interesting History of the Reformation, I came across some notes relating to Cheshire which possess an interest to many readers, and for convenience I have put them under separate heads, thus :— Bishop Bonner, believed to be the bastard son of one Savage, a Priest settled in Leicestershire, who was him- self the bastard of Sir John Savage of Cheshire. Elizabeth Frodsham (a Cheshire name) was the Bishop's mother, and mother also of one Wymsley, Archdeacon of London, who was base born. She was afterwards married to one Edmund Bonner, and the Bishop ever after went by his name; he had himself several dastards. Otorge Marsh, the unhappy Priest who was burnt at Chester on the 24th April, 1555, having embraced the new faith. "There was a new invention of cruelty" got up for hi6 punishment—" a firkin of pitch was hung over his heat}, that the fire meltiftg it, it might scald his head as it dropt on it!" The See of Chester. -This is not mentioned in the list of new sees which Henry the 8th named upon a list seen by Burnet, but the Bishop adds, I wonder much that in this list Clutter was forgotten, yet it was created before any of them, for I have seen a commission under the Privy Seal to the Bishop of Chester to take the surrender of the Monastry of Hamond, in Shropshire, bearing date the 24th of August that year (1539, I presume), so that it seems the see of Cluster was created and endowed before the Act passed, though there is among the rolls a charter for endowing and founding of it afterwards." CESTRIAN. QUERIES. MR. EVANS OF LLWYNYGROES.—In May, 1802, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manu- factures, and Commerce adjudged the sum of Forty-five guineas to Dr. John Evans, of Shrewsbury, son of the late Mr. Evans, of Llwynygroes, "in consideration of the merits of his two maps of North Wales." I always thought that it was the father whose maps were so famous. Who and what was the son, and'in what did his maps excel? TELL. CARNARVON CHAPEL.—In Feb. 1802 an ad- vertisement appeared in some of the local papers, addressed to builders, and signed by Mr. Owen Anthony Poole, at Carnarvon, stating that The Trustees apnointed for putting into execution an Act passed in the fortieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, entitled "An Act for taking down, and re- building upon a more enlarged scale, the Chapel of St. Mary, in the town of Carnarvon do hereby give notice, <kc., &c. And here follows the information required by builders and contractors in order to enable them to tender. What was this chapel, and why was an Act of Parliament re- quired to abolish and set it up again ?, G.G. REPLIES. MR. ROBERT COTTON (Mar. 27, 1878).—Mr. Robert Cotton was the elder brother of the Field-Marshal. He died young as an officer in the Guards. His picture, in uniform, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is in the possession of Reginald Corbet, Esq., (.)f Adderley, having belonged to Lady Corbet, who was Aiiss Cotton, aiiit to this Mr. Robert Cotton. M.K. Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Lord Combermcre's father, took his degree at Cambridge, and married, in 1767, Frances, daughter and heiress of Colonel Stapleton, uncle to Sir Thomas Stapleton, afterwards Lord Le Dis- pencer. Sir Robert represented the county of Cheshire, in the Tory interest, for thirty years. His eldest son, Robert, born in lIUS, died in 17J'O, of an inflammatory attack, brought on by exposure in an open boat at Weymouth (see Life of Lord Combei-mere, vol 1, p. 15). Mr. Robert Cotton was therefore the elder brother of the great soldier. READER. NASH POINT (Feb. G, 1878.)-In The Cambrian newspaper, bearing date June, 1832, 1 observe this is called Nass Point. ANON. DYVRDWY (Jan. 16, 1878).—Far be it from me to offer even an opinion on the question this word suggests to readers of Bye-goncs. All I want to do is to add another poet to the list—from Spencer down to Tennyson, who have written on The Dee. Here he is Had I been U, And in the Q, As easy might I B I'd let U C Whilst sipping T, Far better lines on D. Who he is I know not. I find the lines on the same page as some by Drayton, in a book on Wales, by T. Turner, Esq., of Gloucester, who had his tour privately printed, and adorned it with his portrait. T OSWESTRY THEATRE (Apr. 3, 1878). I have a copy of the Oswestry Hcrdhl of Feb. 12, 1822, which contains an advertisement of the Amateur Theatricals, and list of performers. In it there is-where your correspondent gives "Mr. Onions," "Mr. 0. N. Jons." In this list C. Jones, Williams, 0. N. Jons, and Wynn, are given as plain Misters Dovaston, Thorndike, Fa'unce, Salisbury, and Yates, as Esquires. The younger Faunce is described as "Master Faunce," so I presume he was but a boy. FITZALAN. Mr. C. Jones was "Charles Jones, The Critic," so called, I think, because he wrote the theatrical criticisms in Mr. Cathrall's Oswestry Herald, published 1820-2. He was by profession a Surveyor. His father was a con- tractor for some portion of the building of the House of Industry. Masters Faunce were sons of Col. Faunce who lived at Trefalgar Cottage, Pentreshanel. The colonel, I believe, came into some property in Kent and left our district'in order to reside there. Capt. Thorndike married Colonel Faunce's daughter, and afterwards went to Canada. BEN STARCH. Mr. D. Thorndike was an officer in the Royal Artillery; son in law of Col. Faunce, who lived at Trefalgar Cottage. He died at Bath within the last two years, as General Thorndike. Mr. T. Yates lived at Mount Sion, now Oakhurst. He was one of the best of the actors. Mr. Williams was the late Edw. Williams, Esq., of Lloran House. The Faunces were sons of Col. Faunce. E. THE CASE IS ALTERED QUOTH PLOWDEN. (Jan. 23, 1878).—MrMACKENZIE WALCOTT gives the following origin of this Shropshire saying, in Eddowes's Journal of Mar. 20, 1878 :— A tenant went to Plowden and with a sorrowful countenance and many awkward bows and cringes, thus opened his business Sir, an't please your worship, my bull has gored and killed one of your worship's oxen I beg to know what I must do in this case ?" Why, surely, pay the value of the ox," answered Plowden, that is both law and equity." Very well, sir," answered the farmer, "but I have made a little mistake in th# matter, it was your worship's bull that killed my ox." Oh, is it so ? then the case is altered," quoth Plowden. Your readers will doubtless have heard this story told in a variety of ways and applied to a variety of persons per- haps some of them will remember an Oswestry version that is not bad. A lawyer lived in Lower and a butcher in Upper Brook-street, and one day the latter went to the former and said, "A dog has carried away a leg of mutton from my shop this morning is its owner responsi- ble for the damage?" "Certainly," replied the lawyer. "Then," said the other, the dog belonged to you How much was the leg worth?" asked the lawyer. To which the butcher replied, "four-and-six." "Then I will trouble you to hand me two'and two-pence," said the lawyer, my fee for advising you is six and-eight pence." JARCO.

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