The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

TIPYN 0 BOB PETH. .V"'J'\ The Dolgelley pseudo-bigamist has received his dis- charge from the gaol. Preparatory to the closing of Mold gaol military pri- soners have been removed to Stafford. x n. The first sod of the little railway from Harlech to the beach was turned on Good Friday. The Rev. E. T. Davies delivered a Welsh lecture at Chester, on Tuesday, April 23. The subject was the Rev. Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, and John Hunt, an old man from Cwmyglo, fell on the Menai Bridge-road, near Bangor, on iuesciay, [Several of the leading drapers of Chester have agreed to close their shop3 on Saturdays at five o clock in summer and four o'clock in winter. At a meeting held at Bettws, near Corwen, a few days ago, a strong feeling was expressed against a warlike policy on the part of this country. A committee has been formed at bt. Asaph to celebrate the coming-of-age of Mr. Edward Watkm Williams Wynn, of Cefn Hall, heir presumptive to Sir Watkin. A family of nine, residing at Rbosymedre were all taken ill the other day after eating corned beef which had been bought in a tin It was feared that some of the children would die/but they all recovered The leaders of the Liberal party in Warrington have presented the editor of the Warrington and Mid Cheshire Examiner with upwards of four hundred guineas, in recog- nition of his services to the party. A number of young ladies in Wrexham have presented the Vicar with the hood of his new degree of B.D., and an address expressive of their gratification at the honour conferred upon him. The presentation was made through Mrs. Evan Morris. The death is announced of Mr. William Jones, of Mold, formerly chairman of the Local Board of that town. Mr. Jones, who died at the age of 67, was a native of Ruyton- of-the-Eleven-Towns, and commenced business at Oswes- try, from which he soon removed to Mold. At Mold county court Mary Iball sued Edward Row- land for £1, money which he had playfully taken from her on various occasions while 'hey were courting, and, now they had quarreled, refused to re, iirn. Ar, 1he sug- gestion of the judge, it was agreed that Rowland should hand 15s. over to Miss Iball. On Monday evening, April 22, Mr. Po ter, gardener to Mrs. Lynch, Glascoed, near Brymbo, went from his house to the Ffrith for a glass of ale. He did not return, and on Wednesday his body was found in one of the pits at the Ffrith colliery, into which he had no doubt fallen on his way home. It is stated that now the differences between the Chester Grand Stand Committee and the Duke of Westminster have been removed, His Grace will again present the Westminster Plate, value 100 sovs., to the race fund. The Militia Reserves left Carnarvon last week for En- niskillen amid a scene of great excitement. The band, playing" Auld Lang Syne and The girl I left behind me headed the reserves, who were accompanied to the station by an immense crowd; and hearty cheers were given as the train steamed away. ° At the annual dinner of the Denbigh volunteers on Easter Monday, Captain Williams, referring to a state- ment that the whole battalion had offered itself for foreign service, said he did not think that was a proper thing to do. There was not a man in the battalion who was not as ready as any man in the army or any of the volunteers, to do his duty to his Queen, but foreign service was not what volunteers were expected to undertake. The experiment of giving a concert for the Chester Infirmary free of charge for admission, but with a 'surer collection" at the doors, was tried last week. The Mayor explained at the outset that gold would not be refused, and that threepenny bits would be regarded with a certain amount of disfavour. Notwithstanding this intimation, nearly five hundred persons gave threepenny or fourpenny pieces, about the same number fave sixpences, and about two hundred gave shillings. N obody can say we are not a mean nation, at any rate. The Rev. T. F. Barker, incumbent of Thornton-on-tlie- Moors, and honorary canon of Chester, died on Thursday evenin" Aug. 25, after an illness of only two or three hours. He was visiting some of his sick parishioners, and was about to enter his carriage, when he fell forwards. He was removed home, and died not long after his arrival there. A Chester policeman named Roe, who already wears a bad^e of merit for courage, did another brave thing on Easter Monday. A little child had fallen into the^ Dee at a spot where it is fourteen or fifteen feet deep. There was a "fresh" in the river, and the lad had drifted some distance, when Roe, in his full uniform, except his hel- met jumped in to the rescue. He found the task a diffi- cult one, but brought the child safe to land. A "deaf and dumb beggar committed a sad blunder at Holywell the other day. With a card round his neck describing his lamentable condition, he entered several shops, and received relief. In one of them, however, he was forgetful enough to return audible thanks, after which he beat so hasty a retreat, that the police, though they were soon communicated with, failed to find him in town. Mr. John Bright has written the following letter, in answer to a resolution of the Quarterly meeting of the Carnarvonshire Baptists, thanking him for voting against calling out the reserves:- Llandudno, April 24th, 1878. Dear Sir, I thank you for sending me the resolution of the Baptists of Carnarvonshire. I am glad the course I h ive taken on the Eastern Question has received the approval of your Quarterly Meeting. It is a great satisfaction tome to observe how much greater is the opposition to war anlI the desire for peace now manifested by different religious bodies than has been seen at any former period, or any previous occasion. It will be a IIIDDV thing for our country when the Christian sentiments of tho nation overpowers the ambition of evil-minded statesmen and the ignorant passions which they excite .anions a portion of ??? —With thanks for your kind remembrance, I am, ^urs very sincerely, T, John BRIGHT. To Mr. S. O. Hughes, Rhianva, Llandudno. \_t the children's dinner at Merthyr, on Good Friday, the Roman Catholic children, numbering several hundred, bravely refused the food, that would have been so grateful to them for conscience' sake. Upon this the rector, after blowing' his boatswain's whistle and calling for silence, Children, I have been told this moment that you refuse to take your soup. I respect your doing so very much and it brings to my recollection that you acted in the same way in 1875, when we gave the soup here before. You told me in 1875 that you did not like to do so because Father Carr had forbidden you. I saw Father Carr on the following morning and remonstrated with him. He said he had never told you anything of the kind, and felt very sorry you had refused to take it, when I in- formed him of it. At the same time he was glad to hear you showed such good discipline. Now, I have not yet seen the new Father who has come after him, but you may take my word for it that he has the same kind feeling towards you hungry children that Father Carr had. Therefore, you may well venture to eat your dinner, and nothinsr more about it. Besides that, listen to me. everyone of you. I am a priest as well as they are in every sense of the word, aud I give you dispensation to eat as muh bread to-day as you did yesterday. If there is any sin in it I will take it upon myself, and absolve you, every one of you. And if the priest makes a row about it, I will go to him and tell him it is my fault, and ask him to make me do penance, and not you. Now, what do you say? Will you take my dispensation and eat a hearty dinner? "Yes, yes," said hundreds of little voices. "Well then" continued the rector, "fall to at once and eat as much as you can carry." This was received with much cheering, and the children did fall to in right good earnest, joining heartily in the laugh and the fun of the ^Aber^parish church, situate about midway between Bangor and Llanfairfechan, was on Tuesday, April 23, opened for service, after having been entirely rebuilt. The old church was a favourite resort of Mrs Hemans, the poetess, and its erection (la-te-qo far back as 674, it being one of the oldest Christian churches in Britain. It was oc- cupied bv Cromwell's soldiery when or. their way to Ire- land The re-building has been carried out at a cost of auA,,V £ 4 000 bv Mr. Evan Roberts, contractor, Bangor, from the deigns of Messrs. Pugin, Westminster Mr. Roberts, one of the churchwardens, acting as clerk of the works. Lord Penrhyn gave ;C500 and the site; Major Platt, £200; and the Rev. T. Norris Wuhams who has just resigned the living, £ 100 The style of architecture is the Early Decorated, and the new building may fairly lay claim to being one of the mos*. perfect specimens of ecclesiastical architecture in Bangor diocese. It com- prises a nave, chancel, vestry, organ chamber, and tower sixty feet high, in which is hung the peal of bells, pre- sented by Sir R. Bulkeley, to be rung in stormy and foggy „r to warn persons crossing the dangerous Lavan sands from the Anglesey side of the Menai Straits. The west window is the gift of Lord Penrhyn, and v- executed V.w ClaV on and Bell; and that at the east end is by Messrs Clay .Tohn Piatt, M.P. for Oldham, •LrlT^nre -uited by Mr. Joseph A. Piatt. On the north aide are three other windows executed, with that at the east end by Messrs. Ward ami Hughes. One is given by Mrs Empson, in memory of her ~01 Clement, who was killed at the waterfalls two years ago the second by Mr. John H Piatt, and the other by Mr. and Miss Llewelyn Lewis 'Major *^tt is the donor °*the. °^J?> Lady Benrhvn of the altar cloth, and Mrs. N on is Williams of the chlnccl carvings. The Bishop of at the chancel carvings. The Bishop of Bagor prelliehed at the opening service, which was largely amended.

T "nun DUDLEY ASD THE WAR CRit --In reference to the declaration against war, Lord ]Dudley writ,-s "Luton, a •, 90 t i,ave signed, and now return to you, w|le Vr will. wMch good enough to forward to me. Since meetings are tor the moment disturbed by the senseless violence ofthewar party, I think this mode ofbringing the public mmd[round to a truer view of existing circumstances should be adored throughout the length and breadth of the land, and so M- duce the middle elates, whose real interests are being l perilled more and more every day, to speak out and put down the clamour for war which is raised by those who will never be called on for fighting, nor will they have to count the cost."—The following statement ts appended to the signature: "I cordially assent to this declaration against war with Russia, which would be senseless and sinful and I an1 ready to aid by all means in my power this apneal to the better sense of the nation, HOW carried away with the idea that our honour and interest are in- V°THR'CW\'DLR FAMILY.—Messrs. Woodall and Venables, \A V-Lr. nffire Oswestry, are putting through the Sfe -t y «-*» o i i «. Anf nf print. The copy from which the new a workion^mit of u be J annotated w[th the e l tion is 1oe np pi j m at Brogyntyn, Peniarth, oldest c°i>ies oUhe cKio'w_ w_ E. Wy°^ has <.lls('1 J1* -jTotes and dates from contemporary and added rmmerousr^e^d ,> gubgcribers wiR peicoJv0and a list of subscribers' names will be published in the volume. The following, amongst other names, have Will*™ and Rev. Canon Bridgeman, the Hon. W illou0ht j J^rrell, &c., &c. Subscribers' name.; t.» b, seat to A'ubu*.ers.

FROM THE PAPERS. .r-r-V'> The Registrar of Marriages has recently registered a new place of worship in Coventry, and the title given to it by the applicants for registration was Salvation Factory." Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the Princess Beatrice, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite, arrived at Windsor from Osborne last week. Gennral Thesiger, commander of the forces at the Cape of Good Hope, has requested the War Office to send him out more officers, in order to carry on the war with the Kaffirs. • A new weekly paper, called Piccadilly, is to appear in May, and under the editorship of ladies, to join the legion composed of the World, Truth, May/aw and London. The threatened strike of Scotch railway workmen against an increase of working hours from fifty-one to fifty-four took place on Monday, April 29th, 2,000 being now idle. It is proposed in the report of the Oxford University Commission to make considerable re-arrangements in the professoriate of the University, and to carry out other reforms, with a view to the inclusion of several scientific and other subjects it modern study. The Prince of Wales, who has gone over to Pans in connection with the opening of the Exhibition, gave a grand dinner on Sunday, April 28th, at the_Caf<$de la Paix, to the members of the British Commission. M. Gustave Dore was among the guests. In a betting-house prosection at Bow-street, Mr. Poland, who appeared for the Treasury, stated, with respect to the racing season about to begin, that the Crown intended to put the Act in force on every occasion, and to sue for the full penalties. The new dog tax of 7s. 6d. will come into operation on the 1st of June next, bat the licences taken out previously will remian in force until the end of the year. It is stated that the authorities of Somerset House have already 10,000 summonses to deal with against persons for having dogs in their possession without licences. Mr. James Sharman Crawford, the Liberal M.P. for the county Down, died on Saturday night, April 27th, at his residence near Downpatrick. A keen contest for the vacant seat is expected. Mr. Crawford had only repre- sented the county since February, 1874, when be became colleague to Lord Arthur Hill Trevor, Conservative. One of the most disastrous boiler explosions on record occurred in Dublin on Saturday afternoon, April 27th, at Strong's foundry, Hammond-lane, a crowded locality. An adjoining public house was entirely demolished, and other property in the neighbourhood suffered severely. The work of digging out the dead and injured was con- tinued through the night and Sunday, until the men were compelled to desist owing to the dangerous state of the surrounding buildings. On Sunday night 15 deaths were reported, and three persons were missing. Many of the injured have been taken to hospital. A case in which hydrophobia was cured is belived to have occurred at Chelmsford. The Lancet says:—"Of twenty-five medical men who saw the case at Dr. Nicholls's invitation, none who witnessed the early symptons ex- pressed any doubt regarding the nature of the disease. Dr. Nicholls does not consider that the nature of the affection is open question. The case thus acquires great importance .as apparently one of the rare instances of cured hydrophobia." The Stradivarius violin, date 1704, known to connois- seurs as the Betts Strad," has been purchased by Mr. George Hart for the sum of 800 guineas. Some 70 years ago it was bought by John Betts, the violin maker, for a sovereign, and be declined all offers of sale, though the then unprecedented sum of £ 500 was tendered, but after his death it was disposed of to M. Vulliauttie, of Paris, and afterwards to M. Wilmotte, of Antwerp, from whom its late owner purchased it.—At heme am. A family, named Oakley, residing in Bromsgrove-street, Kidderminster, have been in a dangerous condition from the effects, it is believed, of eating preserved meat, the symptoms being declared by the medical gentleman who ,n, has been attending the case to be identical with those of poisonivig. The unconsumed portion of the meat at Oakley's house, and also a can from the shop where the purchase of the meat was made, have been handed to the borough analyst for examination. Writing to the Times with reference to his recent lecture on the influence of alcohol in health and disease. Dr. B. W. Richardson says that in the period from 1861 to the present year the effects of total abstinence and the benefits arising from it had been specially under his observation, but it was not until 1875 that he commenced personally to abstain altogether from alcohol. Dr. Richardson is now an earnest advocate of total abstinence contending that the use of alcohol, even in very moderate quantities, is injurious to health, and that only in rare cases should it be used medicinally. Mr. Gathorne Hardy arrived at Low Moor Station, near Bradford, on Saturday evening, April 27th, to open the New Bradford Conservative Club on Monday. On his arrival at the station he was heartily received, an address being presented to him by the local Conservative Association expressing confidence in the Government and welcoming the right hon. gentleman to Bradford. Association expressing confidence in the Government and welcoming the right hon. gentleman to Bradford. Mr. Hardy made a brief reply expressive of his apprecia- tion of the very cordial welcome, which he had been gratified to receive. In American society the new phase in the Tilton-Beecher scandal does not appear to have excited so much sensation as might have been anticipated. New York cerrespon- dents say that the general opinion is that the dirty waters have been disturbed quite enough, and that all parties to the scandal are best left in obscurity. There is Rot one of them upon whom the scandal has not left an indelible stain. "Beecher," says the correspondent of the Daili; News, is no longer a popular leader. Tilton is no longer a prosperous man of letters. Plymouth Church is no lon- ger a power in the land. America is trying to forget them all. The marriage of Miss Mary Cholmoudeley, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Henry Pitt Cholmondeley, rector of Adlestrop, and honorary canon of Gloucester Cathedral, to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart., of Walton Hall, War- wickshire, took place at Adlestrop on Wednesday, April 24th. The bride is a niece of Lord Leigh, Lord Lieuten- ant of Warwickshire, her mother being the daughter of the first Baron Leigh. The bridegroom, who is the tenth baronet, was born in 1836. The wedding breakfast took place at the rectory, and was attended by a distinguished company. Sir Charles and Lady Mordaunt left Adle- strop in the afternoon. The Bombay papers which trrix-M by the mail on Saturday published, in their issue of April 8, full reports of the riots at Surat in consequence of the imposition of the licence tax. A despatch from Surat, dated April 7, published in the Times of India, says: "No immediate renewal of the disturbance is anticipaced, although a rumour prevails that the Mussulmans are promoting another rising. Similar strikes have occurred at Nadod, Oomrath, Randier, and Balor, but are now over." On Saturday, April 27th, at Marlborough Street Police Court, London, a summons taken out bv Mrs. Rosamond Emily Dilke, widow of Mr. Diike, of"Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire, against her brother-in-law, Major Feather- stone Dilke, for publishing an alleged libel upon her, was heard. Air. Lewis, for the prosecution, said defendant had for about seven years persecuted Mrs. Dilke, by making false charges against her, and had at length gone so far as to allege that Lord Aylesferd had committed adultery with her. Not satisfied with writing letters to the husband, he had actually addressed an envelope to Airs. Dilke, at Maxstoke Castle, To the care of the Earl of Aylesford, thereby maliciously attributing that she was living in open adultery at her husband's house. Mrs. Dilke was called, and examined with reference to her acquaintance with Lord Aylesford. She strongly denied that the slightest impropriety had taken place between them. Several other witnesses were called, including Lord Aylesford, who was under examination when the case was adjourned until May 6. defendant being bound over in his own recognizances in £10J.

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FACTS AND FANCIES. A BLACK COUNTRY SYNONYM.—Ruling with a rod of iron.—Beating your wife with a poker.-Pullch. ONE CERTAIN EFFECT OF AN ANGLO-RUSSIAN WAR.— Private-tears in England.— Punch. Kidnapping is very common in our churches, especially during sermon-time.-Fan. LORD BEACOXSFIELDS DIAPASON. (Described with all Reserve.) The tumult of sacked town and burning village, The rush and roar that prayer for mercy drowns, The soldiers revel rout, 'mid blood and pillage, The wail of starving folk in leagured towns- The bursting shell, the houses rent asunder, The galling rifle-fire, the clashing blade- And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The Diapason of the cannonade !-Punch. ALL EQUAL ARE WITHIN THE CHURCH'S^ GATE.—The following quaint extract from Cough's Memoirs of the par- ish of Myddle, (Shropshire) appears in the Free and open church Advocate this month. The date of Gough's MS. was 1700 About that time there happened a difference betweene John Downton of Alderton, and W imam 1? or- meston, about the right of kneeling in the sixth peiw on the south side of the north isle, and John Downton putt a locke on the pew doore, butt William Formestone, at Marton, who claimed a share in that seate, came on the Lord's day following, and giveing the peiw doore a sud- daine plucke, broake off the locke. Upon this there was a parish meeting appointed (for then there were noe Ecclesiasticall courts held in England) to decide this con- troversy, and to settle persons in vacant seats for it was held a thing unseemly and undecent that a company of young boyes, and of persons that paid noe leawants, should sitt (in those peiws which had beene the passage) above those of the best of the parish." A WELSH PARSON OF THE 17TH CENTGRY.-The follow- ing story, from a book called The Gamester's Law, published in 1708, is given in LYotcs and Queries Mar. 2, 1878. After spsaking of the two books of sports, James's in 1618, and Charles's in 1633, the writer goes on as follows But tempora mutantur our Gracious Queen [Anne] and our Reverend Bishops will not Patronize any such Custom or Allowance. And, that the ignorant People were misled, and thought such Pastimes Innocent sort of Mirth appears by this story of a WJth Parson, John (a poor Boy) was bred up at School, and being a plodding Lad at his Books, used to assist some Gentlemens Sons that went to the same school. Afterwards John took a trip to the University and got a Degree and Orders He, in process of time, upon some occasion comes for London in a tattered Gown One day a Gentleman that hadgon to. School with him, meets him, and knew him Jack (saith the Gentleman) I am glad to see thee, how dost do ? I thank you (Noble Squire) replied Jack. The Gentleman invited him to the Tavern, and after some Discourse of their School and former Conversation, the Gentleman ask'd him where he lived? Jack answered in Wales. The Gentleman askt him if he were Married ? The Parson replied he was, and that he had a Wife and seven Children. Then the Gentleman enquired of the value of his Benefice, the Parson answered it was worth £ 9 per Annum. Pugh quoth the Gentleman, How canst thou maintain thy Wife and Children with that, 0 Sir, quoth Jack, shrugging his Shoulders, we live by the Church-yard, my Wife sells Ale, and I keep a Bear, and after Evening Service (my Parishioners being so kind to bring their Dogs to Church) I bring out my Bear and bate him, and for about two Hours we are at Heave and Shore, Staff and Tail till we are all very hot and thirsty, and then we step in to our Joan, and drink stoutly of her Nutbrown Ale, and I protest (Squire) saith he, we make a very pretty Business of it."

FROM LONDUiM Llii i'ERS. Lord Beaconsfield has made a most admirable selection for the Bishopric of Lichfield in all respects but one. Mr. Maclagan is ns good a man theologically as could be found, but I doubt if he will be physically strong enough to do the work of a diocese which the vigorous Selwyn found too much for him. It is only a few months ago that Mr. Maclagan refused the bishopric of Calcutta be- cause his doctors forbade him to accept it. So recently as the Lent just passed he had to leave town for awhile, being quite overworked. He belongs to a family of many brothers, all of whom have done good service in India. He himself was once in the army.—Liverpool Mercury. The rumour goes at Paris that a .very notable person has just arrived there—some one whose name just now is much more on people's lips than the Prince of Wales or any other of the royal notabilities there. I mean Vera Sassoulich, whose acquittal by a RussIan jury has caused such c(wsteriittio)n in imperial circles, and will be one of the causes to make Czar Alexander spend anything but a happy birthday on Monday. The Russian Charlotte Cor- day is coming over here, where she will no doubt be heartily welcomed, and find a place in the English Walliztlla, Madame Tussaud's. The two latest admissions there are Pope Leo. XIII. and Sir Wilfrid Lawson.— Liverpool Mercury. The Carlton Club has been greatly agitated the last two days by the rumour that Sir'Stafford Northcote has re- signed. It will be remembered that similar rumours pre- ceded the resignations of Lord Carnarvon and Lord Derby. Therefore the present report cannot be treated as a mere canard. It has been manifest for some time past that Sir Stafford is much more pacific than his colleagues. He has always minimised the importance of every step which the Cabinet has taken in the direction of war. But then it was thought that this was a convenient arrangement which suited the Premier, who found his Chancellor's mild words very useful in disarming the fears of those who dread war, just as lie found Mr. Hardy's martial eloquence admirably suited to please the Jingoes. More- over, experience had shown that Sir Stafford was not a man given to resignation. He had swallowed household suffrage, and there was no reason to suppose he could not swallow a second Russian campaign. Perchance the Tam- worth election has opened his eyes to the danger of that course; that most remarkable incident, which has simply put to silence the war journals, seeing that the war candi- date was rejected in the borough which had been repre- sented by two most prominent advocates of war, may have convinced the member for North Devon that the country does not wish for war, and that to commit it to war would be most perilous to the Ministry which was responsible for that step. Of course the rumour may prove untrue. I most sincerely hope it will not. One of the happiest things which could happen for the country at the present time would be a complete break up of the Ministry, such as must follow the resignation of the leader of the House of Commons coming so soon after the retirement of two principal Secretaries of State. Lord Beacoimfield's Cabinet could not stand that third seces-" sion. Possibly he might have recourse to a dissolution, but his confidence in such a step must be sorely shaken after the two late elections, and it would be a desperate I expedient if Sir Stafford Northcote had resigned. He and Lord Derby were two of the members of the Govern- ment who were most trusted for their prudence and if they were gone, all confidence in the Government would be gone. Neither Lord Beaconsfield nor Lord Salisbury is the man to inspire confidence at such a crisis as this.- Liverpool Mercury. Mr. Jenkins's motion for an enquiry into the Ritualis- tic pratices of the Established clergy is to be revived in a new form, and will be brought before the House on the 10th of next month, if all goes well. It is now rather a lengthy affair, in five resolutions. The first is general— that a humble address be presented to her Majesty pray- ing her 10 issue a Commission. The second prays that she will direct it to enquire into the extent to which Ro- man Catholic doctrines are taught by the clergy. The third is directed against guilds, sisterhoods, and other in- stitutions of a similar character. The fourth asks her Majesty to ascertain for us whether any of the clergy believe the Reformation to have been an eÜi, and not a benefit. The last beseeches her Majesty to take-care that upon the Commissicn the laity are represented. It need hardly be said that Mr. Jenkins will not carry his resolu- tions that they w,H,ld be of no use if they were carried and that Mr. Jenkins is not the man to carry them or anything else.—Birmingham, Pest. It is justly said that at the present crisis an accident might lead to war, and the country ought, therefore, to congratulate itself that It has such an officer as Admiral Hornby as commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, a gentleman who is not likely to permit accidents, or to suffer from any dizziness of the head. He is very reso- lute on an emergency, but not by any means a fire-eater or a follower of Captain Pim in his hatred of everything Russian. So long as Admiral Hornby is in the Mediter^ ranean nothing will go wrong unless it is directed from head-quarters.—Birmingham Post.

THE SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFFIC.—The representatives of the English Good Templar Lodges of Flintshire (with Denbighshire) held their Quarterly District Lodge at Mold on Monday, and transacted lodge bnsiness. In the evening, a public meeting was held, presided over by the vicar, the Rev. Rowland Ellis. Mr Scott Banks, chair- man of the Flintshire quarter sessions, moved a resolution to the effect that as other trades should not be pursued on Sunday, it was both unpolitic and unfair that the sale of intoxicating liquor should be sanctioned as at present by the laws of the realm. This was seconded by the T ery Rev. the Dean of Bangor, who urged in English and Welsh the sanctity of the Lord's Day, and said the opposi- tion to Sunday closing did not come from the workin" classes, as proved by the canvass in Liverpool.— Mr. 17. Daniel, of Merthyr, Rev. John Pugh, of Tredegar Mr. Jacob Forrest, Mr. T. I. Kelly, Lieut-Colonel Cooke, Rev. Thomas Heeley, Mr Edward Thompson, J.P. and the Rev Burford Hooke, also took part in the proceedings which were most enthusiasuic throughout, many being un: able to gain admission. HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS. -Rheumatic Painso Tic-Doloreux.—These diseases are unfortunately very pre- valent in this country, and are frequently^ most distress- ing, sometimes for years baffling all. medical skill to al- leviate the sufferings of the victim. In no case have Hol- lowav's Ointment and Pills failed to produce a cure. The Ointment exerts a peculiar and soothing influence over the nerves and muscles, relaxing spasms and subduing pain. The attack soon becomes milder a.nd the intervals between the paroxysms longer until they cease altogether. The Pills restore the body from a weak and debilitated condi- tion to a state of health and strength. Persons bedridden for months with rheumatic pains and swellings, after us- ing the Ointment have heen cured in an incredibly short period. THE LATE BISHOP OF LTciiFTELT).-At L nieeting of the Memorial Committee, held at Lichfield, on Friday, April 26, at which the Earl of Harrowbv, Lord Dartmouth, Lord Hathert m, and the High Sheriff of the county were amongst thos ■ present, it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Bishop Abraham, that the proposed memorial to the late Bishop Selwyn should take the form of a monument to be erected in Lichfield Cathedral, and also the f, u idation of a college at the University of Cam- bridge, to be called the "Selwyn College," and that special provsion ghould b made for the education of mis- sionary students. Upwards of was sr.b-crifccJ at the meeting.

I BYE-GONES. r NOTJSS, QUERIES, and, REPLIES, on subjects interesting to Wales and the Borders, must be addressed to "ASKEW ROBERTS, Croeswylan, Oswestry." Real names and addresses must be given, in confidence, and MSS. must be written legibly, on one side of the paper only. 1

MAY 1. 1878. AT A WELSH FUNERAL.- A correspondent says: "On Apr. 11, just as the coffin was lowered into the grave ia Llansilin Churchyard, a woman stepped forward with a quantity of clean straw under her arm, which she commenced strewing over the coffin before any earth was thrown in. When spoken to about it she said, I know what I am about.' The question is what was she about V

NOTES. BISHOP LLOYD AT OSWESTRY.—A novel incident in the ecclesiasticall]istory d Oswestry occurred nearly 200 years ago, in the shape of a discussion in the Town Hall (in 1081), between Bishop Lloyd and the Non- conformists. Some of your readers will be interested in the following note concerning that discussion, from the Life of Jam's Oreen., who was the Independent Minister in Oswestry at the time :— That Excellent and Learned Prelate, being a declr red Enemy to Persecution, studied to reduce the Dissenters in his Diocese, by mild and Christian Methods He visited the most consider- able Towns within his Episcopal Care, and by Dint of Argument endeavour'd to remove the .Scruples of all those who dissented from the National Establishment. His Lordship after some private Conferences with Mr. Owen, order'd him to give his Attendance at the Publick Hall of Ofioestree, and there produce his Reasons why he Preach'd without Ordination by Diocesan Bishops. The Warning was short, for he had not above Four or Five Days to prepare, yet had no Reason to be asham'd of the Consequence. His Lordship having directed him to procure what other Ministers he pleas'd to assist at the Conference, Mr. Owen fix'd upon the Reverend Mr. Philip Henry, of firnad oakr, ami Mr. Jonathan Roberts of Slainvair in Denbighshire, both edu- cated at Oxford, and turn'd out of the Church by the Act of Uniformity, 1662. Mr. Henry was a Gentleman of Excessive Modesty, yet would not forsake Mr. Owen at so critical a Juncture He mana'/d his part with a prudent and primitive Temper, with such Mildness and forcible Reasons, as recommended him to the high Esteem of my Lord the Bishop, and the Company. Mr. Roberta was an excellent Scholar and a warm Disputant; a truly upright Man, an lera-c-lite "itdeed for Plainness and In- tegrity. The Bishop brought with him the Learned Mr. Henry D-divel; whose Judgment I presume was not so much distemper'd then, as it has since appeared to be, by his late Writings; else the Reverend Prelate would not have been so unequally yok'd. It may interest some of your readers to know that the warm disputant" Mr. Roberts was the innocent cause of something like a row that broke up the Conference. Sir J. B. Williams, in his edition of the Life of Philip Henry, gives a record, which says :— The Confereuce broke off a little abruptly. The bishop and Mr. Henry being somewhat close at an argument, in the re- capitulation of what had been discoursed of, Mr. Jonathan Roberts whispered to Mr. Henry, "Pray let my lord have the last word;" which, a justice of peace upon the beuch over- hearing, presently replied:- You say, My lord shall have the last word;' but he shall not, for I will;—we thank God, we have the sword of power in our hands; and, by the grace of God. we will keep it; and it shall not rust; and I hope every lawful magistrate will do as I do. And, look to yourselves, gentlemen, by the grace of (od, I will root you out of the coun- try." To which a forward man in the crowd said, Amen Throw them down stairs:" This the Bishop heard with silence, but the Mayor of the town took order for their safety. In the lives both of James Owen and Philip Henry we have outlines of the arguments pro and con. A similar discussion took place at Llanfyllin, which I think is re- ferred to in the Life of Richard Davies, the Welshpool Quaker. JARCO. A COPPER TABLE.—In the autumn of 1802 a copper table, weighing 20 tons, was cast at Bersham Iron Works, Wrexham, for the Ravenshead Glass Company, Lancashire. The metal was melted in five furnaces, each containing four tons, the buildings were secured from the immense heat of the casting by means of a wrought iron umbrella. A carriage of eight wheels was constructed to convey it to its destination. WREXHAMITE.

WELSHPOOL REFORMED CORPORATION. The first members of the Welshpool Corporation under the Municip t' Act of 1835 were John Davies Corrie of Dysserth, Esq., Mayor; Major Pugh of Llanerchydol, R. Griilithes, and Edward Pugh, of Pool, Aldermen Messrs. Thomas Bowen, Hendrehen; Thomas Beck, Llwyuderw; Charles Wilding, Dairy; William Powell, Ben iew-freet: Thomas Davies, Moors; Thomas Jones, High-street F. Evans, Welch-town Thomas Yates, Nuvv-street; James Roberts, Derweii Morris Jones, Broad Street; Thomas Clarke, High Street, and Owen Jones, High Street. BLACKPOOL. QUERIES. MACHYNLLETH.—The Mansion of the Owen Family.—Towards the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries John Owen Ar. J.P., ab Owen. abHowelGoch, resided in Machynlleth town. He was representative of a family descended from Elystan Glodradd, was Mayor of Machynlleth, and, judging by his pedigree given by Lewys Dwnn, and from the frequent occurrence of his name in the public records, a man of note. His house, according to George Owen, of Kemys, who visited him, was greatly superior in style and com- fort to those of his neighbours. Is the house still in existence? If so, in what part of the town is it to be found? Does any pedigree of the descendants of this John Owen, of Machynlleth town exist, giving generations later than those found in Lewys Dwnn, Visitations, Vol. I ? MAGLONA.

A MOUNTEBANK AT BANGOR-BRIDGE. I have just seen an 8vo. pamphlet of 32 pp. bearing the following title Merry-Andrew's Epistle to his Old Master Benjamin, a Mountebank at B ingor-Bridge, on the River Deo-, near Wales. London Printed for E. Smith in Cornhill. 1713. What was it all about, and to whom does it refer? A. lThe pamphlet no doubt refers to Bishop Hoadly, the con- troversial Bishop of Bangor. There is probably nothing local in the pamphlet, or we would &sk for the loan of it—ED.] A SALOPIAN DRINKING CUP.—During my absence from home some person called and left for my inspection a curious Salopian Cup, but he gave no history of it, and I am thus left to gather what knowledge I can of its antecedents from the article itself. It is made of white china, and stands about three inches and five- eighths high, it is two end a quarter inches across its base, and about three and a quarter across its upper end. There is a narrow border marked with gold limes on the inner part, near the top, and within this border is printed in gold letters, Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry." On the outer rim, within -t,.berder, is painted, alto in gold letters, "King, Constitution. Country," and below this, within thee compartments, formed by coloured festoons, there are—1st, a royal crown surmounted by a lion, the letters G.R., and the motto, Lieu et Ifoit Druit. 2nd, an Earl's coronet, the letters L.P.B., and the motto, In Unita Forticr. 3rd, two military caps, with feathers, the letters P.I.M. Hill, L.H. Volunteers, and the motto Ne Concede Mali's. These are underlined with three bands, two in gold and one in another colour, and upon the base of the cup is printed "Reviewed by Pr. Willsn. Fredk, Hawk- stone Augst.. 1. 1803. Rt. Honble. L. Pultney, Bath. Presd. Standard June 4, 1799," and in an inner circle 1799 Ass., Rowl. U-Ent, John Edwards,Thomas Walford, Thos. Presiand Clk. 1798 Acc. It is a very grace- ful cup, and in a state of good preservation, but the lettering is fading in places. If some of your correspondents can supplement the silent history thus given by the cup itself, I am sure that in these blustering dsys, when war is freely spoken of as a thing at hand. many of your readers will be glad to know something of our old antecedents, when the Hills and Hunts of Salopia met in military array at Hawkstoue rabout eighty years ago. E.G.S. Glanaber, Chester. REPLIES. CHESHIRE NOTES (Ap. 17, 1878). Bislwp P,omiiei-It is impossible not to' have a feeling akin to hatred towards Bonner, but your correspondent CESTIUAN would do well to state what I dare say he, having read Bur- net's Histoi'y, knows, viz., that when Burnet writes about Bonner—or Gardiner—he frequently allows himself to be so carried away by his dislike of them, that his state- ments must be received with caution by .all who care for historical truth. Bonner was undoubtedly both a bad man and a silly man, but I believe that the particular statement which your correspondent copies from Burnet liaso.)een proved to be inaccurate. He vj '.I, I think, find a note to that effect somewhere in Dr. N a re's large edi- tion, though I cannot at the moment pwt my finger on it. D.L.B. "Welshpool. See of I 'hcstrr. — Ri-shop Burnet, owiiafr to a narrow education received on the other side of the border, was ill and cursorily read in English Church lore, and is, moreover, a most untrustworthy and inaccurate historian, as is fine case with all partisan writers. He- makes Chester a new See in 1539, created and endowed before any patent- roll, or charter, by Henry VIII., and ink-takes Roland Lee for a prelate who did not exist!! and is manifestly in error 3of) regards Bonner's -parentage. The Gsamnission for the swrender of Haughiiond Abbey was .addressed to the Bpp of Chester our right trust'e and well beloved counsellor and lorde president of our counsel! in the Marches of Wales," Aug. 24. 32 Henry Vill. [Fonr Minsten ,round the Wrekiit., 41, 43.] This v.as famous Roland Lee, made president of Wales the y-eere who "died lord president the yeere 1543, and was buried at Shrewsbury." [Godicin, 265.] He was ki.shop of Coventry and Lichfield. The bishops of Lichfield are occasionaSy called by medive val historians bvHSops of Chester, because Peter left Lichfield in 1075 forS. John's Collegiate Church, Chester, which he made his See, in obedience to the Council of Lottdon; his successor removed to Coventry, where he died in 1117. Matthew Park says there were three sees, Chester, Coventry, and Lichfield. The scheme -of bishoprics in Henry VIII.'s handwriting omits not only Chester but Bristol also yet the scheme of sees "newly to be erected by the Kinges highnes. in the Augmentation Office, inciudes "Chestre cum Wen- lock" [fo. 24], a ad Shrewesbury cum Wenlock" [fo. 2G]; the latter was cancelled, so that Shrewsbury's loss was Chester's gain [fo. 29], when "the erections of all the new houses cam from the bisshopp of Winchester." The bishoprickof Chester, wholly;" new creation, was endowed in 1541. [Hot. Pat. 33 Hen. VIII., p. 2.] The foundation was made on July 16, and by a new charter Aug. 5 1541- and an Act of Parliament transferred the see to the Province of York. John Bird was the first bishop. He was translated from Bangor. He had been consecrated to Penreth and Louis Thomas to Shrewsbury on June 28 1537 by Thomas Cantuar. John Roffen. and Rob. S. Asaph. The Cathedral was formed out of the Benedictine Abbey of S. Werburga. MACKENZIE E. C. WALCUIT. WELSH I1 L NERALS. Bell-corn(Apr. 24, 1878).— The perquisite known as Bell-eorn was not one attaching to funerais, although Air. Pennant in the passage quoted by G. G., mixes op funeral services in connection with it. Yd y (r7(>c;t = the corn cluo- to the Hing-er, was a dona- tion expected by the sexton when he collected the tithe for the pardon. Yxgut w (,7oc?<=tho Boll sheaf, used also to be a weU-I:noTrji term and a portion expected by the sexton. BcwwM. j