The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

FROM^THE^PAPERS. A Bill has been introduced into the American Senate to give Cabinet ministers the right to sit in Congress. The National Council of Switzerland has finally resolved to adhere to the-decision of the Council of States in favour of re-establishing the capital penalty and abolishing corporal punishment. King Humbert having intimated to the Italian Ministry his desire to extend his clemency to Passanante, a decree has been signed commuting the sentence of death to penal servitude for life. Prince Waldemar, third son of the Crown Prince of Germany, died suddenly on Thursday, March 27. He had been suffering from an attack of diphtheria. Mr. W. L. Thomas, of the Graphic has received the French decoration of Officier d'Instruction Publique et des Beaux Arts. in recognition of the services rendered to art by that journal. The Wesleyan Thanksgiving Fund now amounts to upwards of £108,000. It is proposed to raise £240,000. Mr. Jevons, of Birmingham, has subscribed £10,000 towards the fund. The Postmaster General notifies that on and after the 1st April a stamp of one penny will carry a. postcard to any country in Europe, to Turkey in Asia, to Egypt, to the United States of America, to Canada, or even to Tahiti or Persia. The death is announced of the venerable James Garbett, the Archdeacon of Chichester, in the 78th year of his age. The archdeacon was an accomplished scholar, and a prominent member of the evangelical party in the Church of England. The hearing of the case of the Duke of Norfolk v. the Rev. George Arbuthnot, with reference to the Fitzalan chapel, was concluded in the Common Pleas Division on Friday, March 28. Lord Coleridge reserves his judgment. The Giosvenor Gallery, in London, was filled on Sunday evening, March 30, by a crowd which is said to have thoroughly appreciated the character of the works of art displayed. Two thousand five hundred tickets, each admitting two persons, had been issued. The Catholic members of the House of Commons met on Thursday, March 27, and adopted a very brief address, congratulating Dr. Newman on his elevation to the Car- dinalate, especially recognizing the sympathy ho had always shown towards the Irish people, and his labours in reference to "he University question. The Master of the Rolls granted on Thursday, March 27, a perpetual injunction asked for by the Rev. Frank Besant, restraining his wife, Mrs. Besant (from whom he has for some time been living apart, in accordance with the pro- visions of a deed of separation executed by him and Irs wife) from annoying him by bringing an action for a resti- tution of conjugal rights. The Birmingham Tories (remarks the Echo). will besom. what disconcerted to find that even the D. T. is ashamed of them, remarking that Lord Beaconsfield once said, 'The system that cannot bear discussion is doomed and the present Ministry would have a short life if it did not find supporters more enlightened and articulate than the organized Birmingham rowdies who refused to hear argu- ment, and appealed entirely to bellowing' and stentorian songs." Much comment is caused >y the strange action of a clergyman in Bristol. About service time he marches through the streets dressed in a white surplus and ecclesiastical hat. In one hand he carries a book marked with alarfje red cross, and in the othera bell, whichherings as he walks. He continually cries, Come to church," and has with him a boy carrying a lantern. He is, of course, followed by a large crowd. This is what the Conservative Standard says of the Conservative House of Commons — Within living memory there has been no House of Commons that con. tributed either less wit or less wisdom to the consideration of great questions, and, perhaps as a natural result, there never was one which consumed so much time in talking about them. This linked dulness, long drawn out, is found by the nation insufferably tedious." It is stated that Mr. Ira Sankey has been allowed to give one of his performances in the parish church of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, where a platform was erected under the chancel arch. and an American organ placed on it for his use. The Ritualists in the vicinity are said to be about to call upon the Bishop of Lichfield to interfere. The Crewe and District Liberal Association held their annual soiree on Wednesday evening, March 26. The chairman (Alderman Whittle) congratulated the Liberals of Crewe on the position that Liberalism had attained in the borough, more particularly in the Town Council, in which they had sixteen Liberals, six Conservatives, and two neutrals. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Walthew, of Stockport, Mr. Summers, the Liberal can- didate for Stalybridge, and Mr. S. Rathborne Edge, M.P. for Newcastle-under-Lyme. The meeting con- cluded with a congratulatory resolution upon the formation of a Liberal Club for Crewe. With reference to the murder of Mrs. Thomas, Richmond, a portion of whose mutilated remains were found in a box on the foreshore of the Thames at Barnes, the woman Webster, alias Webb, with other aliases, on ticket-of-leave. a former servant of the deceased, who was arrested in Ireland, has made a confession implicating a publican, named Church, at Richmond, who she avers was the actual murderer. She admits her participation in the crime so far as the disposal of the body is concerned, but says she acted under the coercion of Church. Both prisoners were taken before the magistrates at Richmond on Monday and remanded. On Sunday night, March 30th, a conference of delegates representing the goods guards employed on the Great Western Railway was held at W olverhampton, to consider the action of the Company in increasing the hours of labour from sixty to sixty-six a week, and the new arrange- ments for the payment of overtime, by which the men are compelled to work seventy-two hours before any overtime is paid for by the Company. Representatives were present from all the chief stations on the line. The meeting, after a full discussion, determined to take such steps as will continue the present agitation until the lost conditions of service have been restored to the men." The Lord Provost of Glasgow has received a cheque for S30 from Mrs. Theodore Martin, who gave a reading in Glasgow on behalf of the City Bank Relief Fund the contributions bringing up the receipt from the reading to £500. In her letter to the Lord Provost, Mrs. Martin says :—" Believe me, I have a great affection for your city, where I have always been received with much kindness. It has given me great pleasure to come amongs you again, and to show my sympathy with the sufferers from this late sad calamity by contributing my mite to a cause which I know the citizens of this great city have most deeply at heart." The Daily News correspondent at Berlin says it may interest those who happen to be learned in Berlin legends to knew that according to report the White Lady, whose visits always precede the death of some member of the Royal Family, was seen on the eve of Prince Waldemar's death. A soldier on guard at che old castle was the wit- ness of the apparition, and in his flight fled to the guard- house, where he was at once arrested for deserting his post. The remains of the Prince were on Friday evening, March 28, conveyed to the Church of St. Frederic, in Potsdam, where the funeral obsequies were solemnized on Saturday, in the presence of the Emperor, the Crown Prince, and other members of the Imperial family. The Judge of the Bristol County Court had to settle a delicate point on Wednesday, March 26, in which ladies were the disputants, and respecting which men are not often called upon to play the part of umpire. A dress- maker sued a lady for the cost of making a dress, the defence being, first, it was a misfit. The lady retired to a private room ta try on the dress in the presence of experts -two dressmakers—who could not agree, and the learned judge then adjourned the court for a few minutes and had the parties before him in his private room, where the dress was tried on. His Honour pronounced it a very bad fit, gave judgment for defendant, and awarded her the cost of material, which was claimed as a set-off. The Nihilist conspiracy seems to have taken a wide and deep hold of Russian society. The Government hare de- posed Colonel Anatoff, chief of the police at Odessa, owing to his participation in the revolutionary propaganda. Mdlle. de Malceff, daughter of a very rich Russian manu- facturer of the same name, who is barely twenty years of age. has been put in chains, and transferred to the citadel of Kieff, where are already in custody the daughter of General de Gerstfeld and the young Countess Panin on a similar charge. Both these ladies were wounded in a riot. Four Councillors of State, their wives, and one son, a student, have been arrested in connection with the recent attempt on the life of General Drenteln. In the Exchequer Division on Saturday^ March 29, the case of the London Sailors' Home, which raised the question of the exemption from licence of clubs and associations has been decided. The respondent was originally summoned for selling intoxicating liquors at the home without a licence. The magistrate dismissed the charge on the ground that the institution was not a place of public resort. Although this view has not been form- ally upheld—the appeal being dismissed on the technical ground that the respondent, even if it was obligatory on some one to take out a licence, was not the proper person to be summoned—Mr. Justice Hawkins expressed his strong opinion that the home came within the definition of a club, and did not require a licence.. In the Queen's Bench Division on Fnday, March 28, Justices Mellor and Lush had before them a case sent up by a magistrate, in order to obtain an authentic decision upon a question arising out of the introduction into the Adulteration Act of 1875, of words which require that the sale of the adulterated article shall be "to the prejudice of the purchaser." The point, as raised in the case before the Court, was whether an inspector of nuisances was prejudiced" within the meaning of the Act in buying for analysis milk which proved to be adulterated with water. The judges held that it was not the intention of the Legislature to confine such com- plaint to a private customer, and that a public officer could not be precluded from prosecuting the offending party. They therefore remitted the case to the magistrate, in order that he might fine the man who sold the adulter- ated milk. The Echo, in recording the intention of the licensed victuallers to present a testimonial to Mr. Wheelhouse, r'ifa^xn. i?re cannot be two opinions that Mr. W. has done his best to merit this re- ° ?.erv'ce.s 5 and, considering the strength mn™ thai »eJu(lUorinterei3t' would be easy to raise far T U8an<? g^neas. Mr. Wheelhouse, of C0U^ »WS Publican's cause from public motives atone, wouidnot care to accept the money for him- self. He is a kind-hearted man, and his presents of toys in Leeds prove that he IS specially fond of children. Why should he not with the money raised found an orphanage for the children of those who have been brought to a pre- mature death by strong. drink. It would require a large sum but the licensed victualler* are rich enough. A somewhat novel charge has occupied the attention of the magistrates at Muckley Corner, near Lichfield. The result was that Mr. Ferdmand Eghnton, a gentleman, residing at Ogley Hay, was fined 10s. and costs for unlawfully aiding ana abetting George Harris, a cake vendor, of Sheffield, in committing the offence of drunken- ness. Harris, it seems, was found in a ditch at Hammer. vich-lane drunk and incapable, and was next day taken before the magistrates and fined. It was elicited in course of inquiry that Mr. Eglinton had given him a glass of whisky when he called at that gentleman's residence on his round to sell cakes, and the magistrates thereupon directed a summons to be issued against Mr. Eglinton for the offence already named. It was, of course, contended for the defenee that giving a man a glass of whisky was not a breach of the law; but the Muckley Corner magistrates thought it was, and inflicted the fine mentioned. An appeal against the decision was allowed.

Epys's COCOA.-GRATEFUL AND COMFORTING.—"By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bill a._ It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hun- dreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."—Civil Service Gazette.—Sold only in Packets labelled, "JAMES EPPS & Co.,[Homoeopathic.Chemists, London.' g.

POETRY. MR. TENNYSON'S POEMS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY." The current number of the Nineteenth Century contains ■ two poems by the Poet Laureate. The first is a dedi- fcatory ode to the late Princess Alice; whilst the other is a stirring lyric descriptive of the defence of Lucknow. The dedicatory poem to the Princess runs thus :— Dead Princess, living Power, if that, which lived True life, live on—and if the fatal kiss, Born cf true life and love, divorce thee not From euthly love and life-if what we call The spirit flash not all at once from out This shadow into Substance—then perhaps The mellow'd murmur of the people's praise From thine own State, and all our breadth of realm, Where Love and Longing dress thy deeds in light, Ascends to thee; and this March morn that sees Thy soldier-brother's bridal orange-bloom Break thro' the yews and cypress of thy grave, And thine Imperial mother smile again, May send one ray to thee! and who can tell- 1 hou—England's England loving daughter-thou Dying so English thou wouldst have her flag Borne on thy coffin-where is he can swear But that some broken gleam from our poor earth May touch thee, while remembering thee, I lay At thy pale feet this ballad of the deeds Of England, and her banner in the East 1 From the second poem we can only take the following extracts:— Ever the day with its traitorous death from the loop-holes around, Ever the night with its coffinless corpse to be laid in the ground, Heat like the mouth of a hell, or a deluge of cataract skies, Stench of old offal decaying, and infinite torment of flies, Thoughts of the breezes of May blowing over an English field, Cholera, scurvy, and fever, the wound that would not be heal'd, Lopping away of the limb by the pitiful-pitiless knUe- Torture and trouble in vain-for It never could save us a life, Valour of delicate women who tended the hospital bed,, Horror of women in travail among the dying and dead, Grief for our perishing children, and never a moment for grief, Toil and ineSable weariness, faltering hopes of relief. Hark cannonade, fusillade is it true what was told by the I Outram and Havelock breaking their way thro' the fell mutineers! Surely the pibroch of Europe is ringing again in our ears All on a sudden the garrison utter a jubilant shout, Havelock's glorious Highlanders answer with ^conquering cheers, Forth from their holes and their hidings our women and children come out, Blessing the wholesome white faces of Haveiock's good fusileers, Kissing the war-harden'd hand of the Highlander wet with their tears Dance to the pibroch!—saved we are saved I-is it you ? is it you ? Saved by the valour of Havelock, saved by the blessing of Heaven! Hold it for fifteen days we have held it for eighty-seven! And ever aloft on the palace roof the old banner of England blew.

At Isandula several hundred British soldiers were killed by an overwhelming force of Zulus. That was described as a massacre. On Monday a fight occurred in Afghan. istan; on our side seven killed and wounded; on the side of the enemy 200. That was a "brilliant charge." Pos. sibly the Zulus, however, would call the first action by the Zulu equivalent for "brilliant charge," and the Afghans would call the second by the Afghan equivalent for "massacre."—Echo. An anecdote is told of a well-known lecturer on "Artificial Memory," who was expounding his theory in a provincial assembly-room, asserting that, under his sys- tem, the memory was so disciplined that it never failed. One of the waiters, who had listened to the end with rapt attention, was about turning down the gas, when he espied an umbrella in the corner of the platform. The waiter's confidence received such an unexpected shock that he exclaimed in tones of the greatest wonderment, "I'm blessed if that there Artificial Memory man hasn't gone and forgotten his umbrella" CURIOSITIES OF A LIQUIDATION.—Mr. W. Turquand, of Tokenhouse-yard, London, and Mr. E. G. Clarke (Tribe, Clarke, and Co.), of Albion Chambers, Bristol, the joint official liquidators of the West of England Bank, are, it is stated, receiving over a thousand letters every week, from all parts of the country, from shareholders, depositors, creditors, "parties to bills," and others; and it appears that many of the envelopes are addressed in a somewhat eccentric style, the writers being evidently sorely puzzled as to the exact names, &c., of the two gentlemen appointed to wind-up the company, as the following specimens, sent to the Western Mail, will show Turquand Clarke, Esq., London and Bristol; Mr. Turkey Bank, Bristol; Messrs. Tokenhouse Yard & Co., bankers, Bristol: Mr. E. G. Liquidator, Turquand Street, Bristol; W.E. Bank Clarke, Esq., Bristol; Messrs. Albion Chambers and Tribe, Clarke's Yard, near Bristol; the Liquid Officials, Bristol Bank; Tokenclarke Chambers, Esq., Turquand Yard, Bristol; Turquid Bank, Esq., West of England.

QUEEN'S PARDO. (To William Habron, March 17, 1879;) TBUE JUSTICE. "Queen's Pardon!" What do these words signify? LEGAL JUSTICE. Mere form—a pardon from the Queen. TRUE JUSTICE. Indeed What signifies a pardon from the Queen To one who's innocent ? LEGAL JUSTICE (in explanation). 'Tis her prerogative To temper justice with the balm of mercy. TRUE JUSTICE (indignantly). Nay here's no "tempering justice." Habron lay Condemned unjustly—what you call "Queen's Pardon" Is simply Reparation for Injustice. Queen, Witnesses, Judge, Jury—all alike, Need Habron's Pardon for this fearful wrong. -Punch. No," the honest farmer remarked, in tones of deepest, dejection, the big crops don't do us a bit of good. What's the use ? Corn only thirty cents. Everything is dead set against the farmer. Only thirty cents for corn 3 Why, by gum, it won't pay our taxes, let alone buying our clothes. It won't buy us enough salt to put up a barrel of pork. Corn only thirty cents By socks, it's a livin' cold-blooded swindle on the farmer, that's what it is. It ain't worth raisin' corn for such a price as that. It's a mean, low robbery." Within the next ten days that man had sold so much more of his corn than he had in- tended that he found he had to buy corn to feed through the winter with. The price nearly knocked him down. What," he yelled, thirty cents for corn I Land alive— thirty cents I What are you giving us? Why, I don't want to buy your farm; I only want some corn. Why, I believe there's nobody left in this world but a set of graspin', blood-suckin', old misers. Why, good land, you don't want to buy a national bank with one corn crop Thirty cents for corn! Well, I'll let my cattle and horses feed on cornstalks all winter before I'll pay such an un- heard of outrageous price for corn as that. Why, the country's flooded with corn, and thirty cents & bushel is a blamed robbery, an' I don't see how any man, looking at the crop we've had, can have the face to ask such a P"DOING TWO THINGS AT ONCE.—The present writer, -who certainly d >e.s no t claim the power of thinking of two things at once (nay, believes that no one ever had or could have such a power) finds it perfectly easy, when lecturing, to arrange the plan for the next ten minutes' exposition of a scientific subject, and to adopt the words themselves for the next twenty seconds or so, while. continuing to speak without the least interruption. He has also worked out a calcula- tion on the black-board, while continuing to speak of mat- ters outside the subject of the calculation. It is more a matter of habit than an indication of any mental power natural or acquired, to speak or write sentences, even of considerable length, after the mind has passed on to other matters. In a similar way some persons can write different words with the right and left hands, and this, too, while speaking of other matters. (We have seen this done by Professor Morse, the American naturalist, whose two hands added words to the diagrams he had drawn, while his voice dealt with ether parts of the drawing; to add to the wonder, too, he wrote the words indifferently from right to left or from left to right.) In reality the person who thus does two things at once is no more thinking of two things at once than a clock is, when the striking and the working machinery are both in actien at the same time.—-x rom "Bodily Illness 80S no Mental Stimulant," in the Comhill Magazine for April. FROM LINES IN THE SPECTATOR. From Sir St—ff d N-rthc-te to Lords B—c—nsf—ld and S—I—sb—y. My Lords B. and S., do not take it amiss, If I hint that I've grown rather weary of this. I'm weary of saying—so often I've said it— That "I think that the C-mm-ns have done themselves credit," When I feel from my heart that, for better or worse, For years they've been doing the very reverse: I'm weary of plying invisible soap. Till my graceful ablutions with Or—nv— lie's might oope; I'm sick of denying the logic of figures; I'm sick of O'D—nn—lis, and P-rn-lls, and B-ggrs; Most peaceful of men, with mankind I'm at feud, Though H—rt—ngt -n's gentle, yet H-rc-rt is rude; From the Member for Gr-nw-ch I shrink to my shoe, He says such unmannerly things,—and so true And Truth, as you know. is not much in our line (Though I've a dim notion it once was in mine); In my Budget I've nothing to do but confess That we've spent ten times more, and saved ten times less, Than we ever expected to save or to spend; And I heartily wish the whole thing at an end From the trail of your chariot fain would I far be, And join Cinciunatus, rn-rv-n, and D rby. Dig potatoes at P—nes, both your Worships henceforth cut, And be a good man. Your misled ST— FF—RD N—HTHC—TE.

FROM LONDON LETTERS. Until the death of the Princess Alice, the Queen never lost one of her children. She has already lost her sixth grandchild. The first break in the circle took place in the very home which is now a second time bereaved. In June, 1866, the little Prince Francis, the third son of the Princess Royal, died at the age of two. Seven years later, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt fell from a window and was killed. The third son of Princess Christian, born in May, 1876, lived only a week. The third son of the Prince of Wales, born in April, 1871, did not live twenty- four hours; and little Princess Marie, whose death oc- curred last November, and was followed by that of ber mother, was the third daughter of her parents, and the only grand-daughter that the Queen ever lost. Prince Waldemar was again the third surviving son of the Crown Prince. His death will be a severe blow to the Princess Royal, who has one of the best qualities of the women of her race—strong domestic affection. She was almost crushed by the death of her sister Alice, and would have shorn the marriage ceremony of a fortnight since of many of its ceremonial beauties, so little consonant were they with her feelings. She has not recovered that sorrow when another even more bitter falls upon her. It is a touching circumstance that the last words of the prince were Good night." He did not speak German. The Princess Royal has made her native tongue the language of her nursery. With "Good night" in English he fell into the sleep from which there is no awaking on this side of the veil.—Liverpool Mercury. It is seldom that the Times breaks into poetry. To- day it breaks into very poor poetry about Isandula. The piece begins, It was a fearful battle," and ends with an apostrophe to the dead brave who have Reached by duty's path a life beyond the lives they lost. Between the beginning and the end there are one or two rhetorical lines but in the very midst the poet bursts into a kind of lyric song, Alert to fight, nthirst to slay, They shake the dreaded assegai, And rush with blind and frantic will On all, when few, whose force is skill. The Zulus of course did not rush on all whose force is skill. There are others whose force is skill not numbered among the dead at Isandula. But what is the meaning of all, when few ? That is a mystery which the Times would never have asked us to solve had the pOet been other than a peer of the realm. But, being Lord Strat- ford de Redcliffe, it was difficult to tell him that his verses needed polishing before publication,—Liverpool Mercury.

NOTES, 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 ven, in confidence, and MSS. must be written legibly, on one side of the paper only.

APRU. 2, 1879. NOTES. OSWESTRY CORPORATION RECORDS. (Mar. 12, 1879.) ELECTION OP TOWN COUNCIL. Apud oswestre the viij° die Junij Anno R. R. Elizabeth &c xxiiij0 in their ellection howse of the said Towne Where by the book of constitution latelie assented into by the Right Honorable the Earle of Arundell xxvti p'rsons were to be appointed to be the Comon counsaille of the said T1 owne to do that, that in the said boocke is for them appointed. It is nowe ordered and aggreed uppen, by the bailiffs and the whole burgesses of the said Towne that there shalbe no such comon counsaill made as in that book ys menaced But that A comon counsaill of xxvti burgesses shalbe made by the most voices of the whole burgesses commorant* in the said Towne To the onlie entent their names may be ussed in xxvti ways? ffor the callinge of the ellection of suche burgesses as shalbe yereli ellected to be bailiffs and sergeants of the said Towne And the said ellection to be ussed in ev'ry thinge as is ussed in the Towne of Salop And the eaid com' counsaill to be ellected ev'ry vij yeres. Th. Evance ) a Rychard Will'ms ) balIyffs John Edwards Rich lloid Hugh Yale Thomas lloyd Wyllyn Goughe Rychard Staney Davyd Edwards Rich'd Jones Thomas Jamelt Richard ap John a>p M'redith John Trevor David lloyd Drap'r Raine Hanmer Thomas laken John Morys 1583. BIGHTS OF BURGESSES. Also where one other article is sett down in the said booke authorising the bailiffs & com' counsaill to dis- franchyse a burgens of the said towne upon compt. [com- plaint] The same article to be hensforth void/ and y't no burges be disfranchys'd hensforth in the said towne but by due order of lawe & as law permitteth and all the rest of the said booke to be of force. Also is agreed y't all burgesses to be hensforth made in the said towne, shalbe made by the most voices of the burgesses of the same for the tyme beinge for the price & after the rate at the lest of an order heretofore sett downe and subscribed by the right honorable the lord Lumley & the then Bailiffs & burgess of the said towne. It'm yt no burgess nor town dweller here shall pay any fee for any accon [action] to be by hym or them there com- enced. It'm where iiijd. is allowed to the bailiffs for eu'y accon comenced or to be commenced in the s'd towne It is agreed y't the same shall be devid'd among the bailiffs & s'r'iants for the tyme being ov'r & besides the fees & dewties allready dew to the said s'r'iants. It'm y't all burgesses of thes'd towne if theygevs cause to be comitted to ward in the said towne shalbe comitted to their free ward & to no other ward except it be in case of treason, murder, or felony. Th Evance ) -p Ric. Will'ms } Balllffa- John Edwards Rich. lloid Hugh yale Davyd Edwards. BAILIFFS' ACCOUNTS The accompt made upon the d'p'rture of my L Com'ishioners in July or August, 1583. Re: before y't tyme for burgess's made ) & sworne f CC1V13" xs* Deducted thereof as folow'th by iry L Coun- saill & the 25 of the coem' counsaille of the Counsaill li. s. d. To my L of Arundell lxvj 13 4 To Hugh Dutton xli. To T. Evance xxiiij li. 'i To Ric Will'ms & Hugh Yale xxvli. To Gruff Kyffyn xis. Nor the charge of my L comiss'rs xixli. xiijs. ijd. Remainet' cxvli. js. ijd. Rec'ved by Mr. Baily lloyd and Mr. Baily Gough sithens the accompt aforesaid as folow'th (viz) li. s. d. ffurst of Mr. Banastr xxiij vj viij Rc of Je'n ap Edd glov'r for his burgeship xxxs. Rc. of phelip lloid for his burgeship la. There is due upon Jon. moris glover for h's burgeship Is. Rc. of W. Heilyn by Mr baily Goughe iijli. yja. viijd. Ccmorrant, ie. living in the town QUERIES. ■ YSTWYLL, YNYD, AND GARAWYS.—Will some of your philological readers kindly give the derivation and meaning of II Yøtwyll" (Epiphany), "Ynyd" (Mawrth Ynyd=Shrove Tuesday), and "Garawys" (Lent)! lEUAN GLAN YSTWYTH. OWDL GADARN I RICHARD SION. — Mr. Rowland Jones, Bridge-street, Dolgelley, has in his pos- session a fragment of an old MS. book of poetry, which contains an awdl by Shdn Tudyr, bearing the following heading :—"Owdl Gadarn i Richard Sion un o wyr y gard y frenhines Elizabeth." Who can this guardsman be ? It may be that one of the englynion in the awdl referred to mentions his home; but what place is intended to be de- scribed by that name, if such it be ? This is the englyn re- ferred to:— Cawr or clas Gwinias Gwynedd-cryf Ewin Carw o fuellt orsedd trwy glod y teru ai gledd naw o Gowri n i gorwedd." ROBYN FRYCR. REPLIES. SALESBURY'S WELSH TESTAMENT, 1567 (Mar. 19, 1879).—There is a copy of the above in the Library at Merthyr-mawr, Glamorganshire. It was purchased at the sale of Dr. Bliss's Library, in Oxford, 1858; and so keen was the competition for it that the present owner (Mr. J. Cole Nicholl) had to give sixty guineas to secure the book. The volume is in the finest condition perfect, in the original boards, and margins uncut. E.S.A. Brecon. PRINCE D'AREMBERG (Aug. 14, 1878, Jan. 8, 1879).—Prince d'Aremberg, I am informed, was taken frisoner at the battle of Arroyo de Molinos, in Spain, by Lord Hill, who attacked General Girard on the 28 Oct., 1811. Lord Hill commanded on that occasion the nst and 92nd. The French were 5,000 strong, but although the English soldiers under Lord Hill were tired and foot- sore from marching, they defeated the French, taking 1,300 prisoners, and all the artillery, colours, baggage, and plunder. Prince d'Aremberg was taken prisoner, and General Girard had a narrow escape. At the time Prince d'Aremberg was at Bridgnorth there were about 500 French prisoners of war. Some of them were from Badajoz, of which General Phillippon was governor, when it was taken by the Duke of Wellington, with the loss of 5,000 men, April 6, 1812. General Phillippon retired to San Cristobel and surrendered next day, and it is said was treated by the Duke with the honour due to a brave opponent. I was at Badajoz in 1875, and its position will not only account for the loss of 5,000 English soldiers, but gives another remarkable instance^ of the bravery and intrepidity which alone could have given the English so great a victory. General d'Aremberg resided whilst at Bridgnorth in a large house on the St. Mary's steps, im- mediately below the St. Mary's Church, and the Castle Hill. Until recently it belonged to the old Bridgnorth family of Sing. The garden of the house is formed in terraces along the steep slope, which terminates abruptly above a precipice of the sandstone cliff. The view from this house almost overhanging the cliff across a wooded island called the Bylet, and the Severn winding its course below St. James's is very beautiful and romantic. The Prince, who was on parole, seems to have passed a plea- sant time whilst at Bridgnorth. His medical adviser at that time was Mr. James Milman Coley, afterwards Dr. Coley, now dead. Dr. Coley was twice Mayor of Bridg- north. Prince d'Aremberg's residence at Bridgnorth ter- minated in 1813, when he returned to the Continent with the other French prisoners of war. HUBERT SMITH. [On reference to Bye-gones, Jan. 16, 1878, in a query about Count De Crillon, it will be seen that the Prince d'Aremberg was removed from Oswestry to Bridgnorth, because he was sus- pected of aiding, by his purse, his fellow-captives to escape; among the number Gen. Philippon.—ED.] THE VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS OF 1804. (Feb. 5,1879.) The first movement in Merionethshire to form a little volunteer army seems to have been In the autumn of 1803, and in November of that year'Sir Robert Williames Vaughan and others were named as the Major-Com- mandants. In the Grand Total of Volunteers in Eng- land and Wales" published in Dec. 1803, the county of Merioneth only numbers 464, all infantry; and in the Official list of Officers issued by the War Office in 1804 the following names are given, with dates of appoint- ment :— CADER IDRIS. Lt. Col. Comm.: Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, Bart.— 3 Feb. 1804. Major: John Edwards—7 Mar. 1804. Captains Edward Owen, Lewis Pugh, Edward Price Anwyl, Humphrey Williams, Thomas Richards, William Williams—7 Mar. 1804. Lieutenants William Lloyd, Francis Roberts, Anthony Morgan, Griffith Jones, Ellis Williams, Thomas Pugh —7 Mar. 1804. Ensigns Ellis Jones, Thomas Hartley, John Evans, Robert Jones, Henry Oliver, Edward Wallis—7 Mar. 1804. Chaplain Richard Hughes—7 Mar. 1804. Adjutant: John Simpson Kennedy—3 Feb. 1804. Quarter-Master Griffith Griffiths-7 Mar. 1804. Surgeon Griffith Roberts, jun.,—7 Mar. 1804. EDERNION. Major Comm. Edward Lloyd Edwards—24 Dec. 1803. Captains: Hugh Davies, William Davies, Thomas Davies— 24 Dec. 1803. Lieutenants: Walter Jones, Henry Maesmawr—24 Dec. 1803. PENLLYN. Lt. Col. Comm. Richard Watkin Price—28 Nov. 1803. Major: Robert Williams—28 Nov. 1803. Captains: David Anwyl, Griffith Richards—5 Nov. 1803; John Jones—28 Nov. 1803; Gabriel Davies—15 Dec. 1803. Lieutenants Thomas Anwyl, David Davies—5 Nov. 1803; Thomas Charles—28 Nov. 1803; John Jones- 15 Dec. 1803. Ensigns Robert Williams, William Evans—5 Nov. 1803; Edward Evans—28 Nov. 1803; Chidlow-15 Dec. 1803. Chaplain Lewis Anwyl—5 Nov. 1803. Adjutant: Lieut. Thomas Anwyl—5 Nov. 1803. Quarter-Master Benjamin Chidlow—5 Nov. 1803. Surgeon :-Jones-5 Nov. 1803. In the interesting notice of the late Mr. Lewis Williams i of Vronwnion, published in the Cambrian News of Mar. 21, it is stated that when quite a stripling he was appointed Lieutenant in the Cader Idris Company. This would probably be half a dozen years later than its date of formation. Was Mr. Ellis Williams, one of the original lieutenants, his father ? We note, in a newspaper list of the period, that the captains of this Company are de- scribed as "esquires," and the lieutenants and ensigns as "gents." The effective force of the Merionethshire Volunteers in 1806 was as follows:—Barmouth 71, Captain Edward Roberts; Edeirnion 234, Major Hugh Davies; Penllyn 286, Lt. Col. R. W. Price; Cader Idris 431, Lt. Col. Sir R. W. Vaughan. There were no yeomanry cavalry or artillery corps in the county. D.

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