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Jracts itilb Jhiivrics. "What will you give me if I restore your eyesight asked a quack. "I will see," replied the blind man. The young man who has proposed and has been neither accepted nor rejected knows how exciting it is to live in a doubtful state. "Father," said a roguish boy, "I hope you wont buy any more gunpowder tea for mother." "Why not I Because "every time she drinks it she blows us up!" Lo to bed, sir, immediately. A darkey bought a patviarchial turkey—"I took him j home," says he, "my wife bile him three hours, and den he crow. My wife put him in de pot wid detaters, and he kick 'em all out, "Where was Bishop Latimer burned to death?" asked a teacher in a commanding voice. "Joshua knows," said a little girl at the bottom of the class. Well," said the teacher, "if Joshua knows, he may tell. '"In the fire," replied Joshua, looking very grave and wise. A teacher in a village school was trying to teach an urchin the science of simple division. This is what came of it.. "Now, Johnny, if you had an orange which you wished to divide with your little sister, how much would you give her ?" Johnny:" A suck." A fellow stole a saw, and on his trial he told the judge that he only took it as a joke. "How far did you carry it, inquired the judge. "two miles, answered the prisoner. "Ah. that's carrying a joke too far," said the judge and the prisoner was sen- tenced to jail for three months. A FEW FACTS NOT SO GENERALLY KNOWN AS THEY SHOULD BE.—A watch fitted with a second-hand need not necessarily be a second-hand watch. Doctors generally agree about bleeding their patients. Steam is a servant that sometimes blows up its master. An ungrammatical judge is apt to pass an lncoirect sen- tence. Any fool can make a woman talk, but its hard TO make one listen. A thorn in the bush is worth two in the hand. A coloured philosopher thus unburdened himself on one of woman's weaknesses—"Jim, de men don't make such fools of demselves about women as de women do about men. If women look at the moon they see a man in it. If dey hear a mouse nibbling, its a man and dey'all look under de bed de last thing at night to find a man. Why, I nebber look under my bed to find n woman; does you ?" .,1111 v, 1 i "Doctor," said a lisping, fashionable belle, who had graduated at half a dozen boarding schools, to a friend of ours, who had just be n introduced to her at an evening party, "Doctor, which do you prefer, tholnlity of intellect or brillianthy. Thum admire tholiaity; but ath for me, as Shakthpeare thayth in hith Bride of Abydoth,' I prefer tholidity and brilliauthy com- bined." The doctor sank into the nearest chair exhau- sted. President Hayes was asked to fill a vacancy m the army by the appointment of a young man whose great- great-grandfather was a naval officer during the lutionary war, whose great-grandfather was a ga an soldier of the army, and whose father was a distin- guished ex-army officer. The President, Bays e Washington Star, responded with a merry chuckle, Dont you think it about time that one of that family earned a living for himself ?" c< There is a young and handsome woman at Saratoga who wears a large diamond ring on each of her fingers whenever she is seen, whether at breakfast or by gas- light. She also wears diamonds in her hair, large sol- itaires in her ears, bracelet and pins set with these rare jewels, and oue night she wore,a diamond cross five or six inches long. A saucy letter-writer says she is sus- pected of also having anklets and garters clasped with diamonds, as well as shoe buckles. Who she is, is a mystery, and she is popularly referred to as "The Diamond Princess." David Swing in the Alliance tells how a bride re- formed her profane husband. She invited her brides- maids, four in number, to a. quiet dinner. As they knew of the profane habits of the groom and also knew of his good qualities-that he was a maniworth saving --they entered gladly into the proposed comedy. The plan was that all of these beautiful women should use profane words at the table, as the hot coffee or weather or slow servants might afford opportunity. It was a hold plan, but it is said to have cured the wicked hus- band for when his elegant wife applied a profane term to the biscuit, and a fair guest made a like remark of the coftee, and still another applied a profane expletive to the movements of a servant, the husband absolutely cried with remorse that he had ever himself used such an outrageous form of speech. Professor Swing thinks that "while such a cure cannot be justified, because it mirdit kill the ladies without curing the masculine offender, yet the story itself may serve to show that man as an animal that swears is a mournful curiosity.
LONDON CORRESPOINDENTS.
LONDON CORRESPOINDENTS. Mr Justice Lash h« gone to ^jpeal Ooart, there is <*ood reason to believe that Mr. YVatkm Wi[l»™,°who deserves something from Mr.Bhto for winning Carnarvonshire, will ha-v e the Chief Baronv. As to the Scotch judgeship and the Lord Advocate, it need not be filleu up, al"l /ieth^ li°]°t °" seeking for a constituency. He has not the slightest .ee ing for. idea of retiring from politics yet. The Romanists seem determined to have a pilgrimage. They did not quite manage to get to Lourdes, but they will go to St. Winifred's Well, Holywell. The pilgrimage will be neither so long nor so tedious, and t has the advantage of not frightening the people who are sick at sea. St Winifred s INrell is said to have miraculous powers; but St. Winifred's statue has been stolen. A new one is being made and it is pro- ved to buy the well, to place the statue m position -amid the prayers of the pilgrims The 1 arm-street priests will manage the affair. An English pilgrimage to English waters will certainly be something of a Plft7seSeCiden°t that Professor Robertson Smith, the most learned Hebrew scholar in the Free Kirk, is to be turned out of his professorship in the Aberdeen Free Kirk College. The first decision is against him; the feeling in the body of which he is a member is gainst him; and the demands of the orthodox are unrelenting. The great charge against him is that he asserts Moses to left no writings save the Ten Commandments. Nor is Professor Smith's the only case. The Established Church of Scotland has its heretics in the writers of the Scotch Sermons, and even the Presbyterian Church of England is being moved to eject false doctrine from its midst. Mr Donald Fraser is perhaps the most popular Presbyterian minister in London. He has lately built a new church in the Edgware-road. He has filled it to the doors. lut it seems that he holds lax views on the Sunday question, and would even open the museums on the Sunday. Whether the Sabbatarians will prosecute him or not remains to be seen, but they talk as if they meant to do so. If they do so. there will be great searching of heart among the Scotch ministers in London. Almost to a man they are more or less openly "Liberal" theologians. Enough has not been said of the good missionary, Mr Gordon, killed while tending the sick at Candahar. He was an eccentric. Of good family, and of the very temperament to shine in society, lie chooses neverthe- less to spend his days in India among the heathen. He was a volunteer missionary," and attached to no home association. He had a fortune of £ 8,000 a year, yet he spent only a little income on himself; the rest he gave in charity. He drank nothing but water; he ..i. ° BTvrinf]V- At night he refused any couch but £ » might be. with a few pabii leaves If the weather was cold he would pull a rouah mat over himself. He would have no servants ibout him, and, in consequence, it is sad to say, rather lost caste in the eyes of the natives. But all the was felt for his simple. ^s' .0sborne Moi'ga» bas iiuwy ,1 consternation into many a country been made f" tcd to have said, in reply to paisonace. 0f Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, docked the parsons of their that the Burl cstablishing the free right of burial, accustomed fee^ y churchyards, not only to all and gave ovei non.parishioners. The report parishioners but to all 1 ± Rector 0f Bideford, was widely C1^U^T A borne Morgan's attention to it, liowever, has called Air'Uajoi ° llWhat 1 state(V> and his reply is a full cont.ac th(j Acfc says the Judge-Ad vocap,, jiunlmbent to charge made no change ™ the r.gli01 before_or in the bunal fees—when he h..u tli^ g ot]lcrs to be right, if any, ol non-pai .shioncrs clergy interred in the churchyard.' Some of^c when they saw Mr Morgans ordpv have feared that the Dissenters woula all d that they might be buried for nothing, own, but in the next parish. He Mr. Watkin Williams has-surpnscd everybodj. w was expected to be granted the Chief He repudiated himself the idea that he would take :t11 01 dinary judgeship. That lie was fully capable of refte 1, ing the offer of a post lower than his estimate of his merits, he fully proved by his very deemed refusal to be Judge-Advocate-General. Yet after all, he II" become a puisne judge in the Queen's Bencli; siicceed- there, Mr. Justice Lush. Sir W atkm \Y illianis, as°he will soon be called, will be welcomed on the bench by the whole legal profession. There was an idea that he Had been rather shabbily treated when he yot nothing after the Carnarvonshire victory, and the recognition of him in this appointment will remove a reproach of ingratitude. He is a good lawyer, a good speaker, is clearheaded, though perhaps a little fond of M subtleties, and very determined when he goes to "Wales on .circuit. He will prooably be the most popu- Jar judge that ever sent a Welshman to prison.
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Mr. W. Atkinson, of Southport, has generously offered to wipe off the existing debt of £5,500 which at present hangs over the Southport Free Library. The building itself was erected by him at a cost of £ 8,00.0 • r On Saturday, on the resumption of the bearing of the Worcester election petitions, Mr. Powell, Q.C., 011 behalf of the barristers present, congratulated Mr. Justice Lush, who has accepted the post heul by the Lord Justice Thesiger.. A stained-glass window, m three parts, to the memory of Mr. Mark Lemon, formerly editor oU^mr/i has just been placed in the aisle or Craytlej Churc Sussex. In addition to various texts round the borders, the following inscription is places at the foot of the memorial "Tothe glory of God, and in memory of Mark Lemon, who died May 2o, 18,0. these three lights are placed by his family. At the Durham assizes, before Mr. Justice Field, William Brownlow was found guilty of haying murder- ed his sweetheart, by cutting her throat, at EN-enwood, on the 18th of August last. The prisoner afterwards attempted his own life. Sentence of death was passed. Late on Saturday night, a small tin box was found in the footpath near the sandbanks at Rhyl, which was found to contain the body of a ba^e, 111 a bad state of decomposition. An inquest was held on Monday, when the evidence tended to show that the child hid been born alive, but died from the want of due attention at birth. An open verdict was reAl™Redmond, M.P., for. Wexford died somewhat suddenly 011 Tuesday morning of heart disease, wiule on a visit to a relative at Blackrock, near Cork Mr Redmond was elected for the borough in 18/2 as a Home Ruler and was re-elected at the last elect on as a supporter of Mr. Parnell. He had been in bad health for some time. 1 •\t on Saturday, a woman named Brown threw her two children from the top flat of a house m Clyde-street. One child died soon afterwards, and the other was fatally injured The mother had befoie attempted to throw herself out of the when arrested, was endeavouring to hang herself. It e is stated that she had been drinking. 1 • • The lifeboat at Wells, on the Norfolk coast, whicii went out on Friday afternoon to the assistance of a brig hoisting signals of distress, capsized. The life- boat could not get alongside, on account of the falling tide, and she then made for the harbour. While on her way a heavy sea struck and overturned her, resulting it is believed, in the loss of eleven out of liei crew of thirteen men. One of the survivors swam to the land. and the other landed in the lifeboat, which righted a ^d dro\ e ivc(j the freedom of the City of TfrnSSt Tuesday. In taking^the M^r -d Coroorntifm for the honour, Mr. Parnell said, among othePr mltters, that he could made by the Liberal Government to sap the ndepen l- ence of his Party. Should the efforts of that Party T,r J. unsuccessful they would return at Westminister be unsuccessful, to their countrymen, and consult with them as to what future action they should take. He oalkd upon them to continue organising into Leag^ S°"et cs' 01; by that means they would soonest obtain the rest01 a tion of their national self-government. At Bristol Assizes, on Tuesday, » yonng man named Ames was indicted for tl.c mnrc.orofa 'J" Miles who while fishing in a lock on the Kennet Canal' near Bath, fell in. Two boys jumped in, held him above water, and cried to the prisoner for help, but he closed the lock gates, and J ^^nd The rush of water carried deceased to the bottom, and his rescuers barely saved themselves. Prisoner was foundguiltyof manslaughter, and sentence wasdefgre^ Mr. Justice Denman started a subscription m the Court for the two lads, each of whom received three pounds. Josenh Waller, who murdered a gamekeeper and his wife 011 Saturday night, near Chislehurst, has confessed his crime. He says that when he was turned out of the public-house, having a loaded revolver in his pocket, he felt angry, and made up his mind to kill somebody. There was no ill-will between him and the deceased, yet he called the old man up, making him believe that some poachers were in the wood, and after shooting him he brought the old woman into the wood, under the pretence that her husband was hurt, and then murdered her. The Coroner's Jury yesterday returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against him. An extraordinary case of attempt to murder was heard at the Manchester Assizes. A man named Oldham was estranged from his wife, the quarrel having origin- ated about the son of a previous marriage. In the lad's presence the father wrote a letter to induce his wife to return, in which lie said Willie was missing. That night he took a walk with the boy on the banks of the river Roach, and pushed the child into the water. Then he hastened to the police, and told them, as well as his neighbours, that his son had been missing all day. The boy, however, scrambled out of the water. Oldham was sentenced to twenty-five years' penal ^Si^Fraucis Lycett died on Friday afternoon, after a few days' illness, at the age of seventy-seven. He was born at Worcester, were lie entered his father's glove works In 1832 he undertook the management of Messrs. Dent and Allcroft's establishment in Friday- street, and after the lapse of thirteen years he became member of the firm, and continued to be so for years. In 1865 he retired from commercial life. He was elected Sheriff of London in 1866, and was one of a deputation of the corporation who went Paris to present the Emperor of the French with an address of congratulation on his Majesty's escape when an attempt to assassinate the Emperor of Russia was made He was knighted in 1867. Sir Francis made several unsuccessful attempts to enter Parliament. At the Chester winter assizes, on Saturday—before Mr. Justice Grove—Richard Montagu Townsend, who was convicted the previous day, of defrauding a widow larlv named Milne, residing at Woodhead, Rockferry, r 600, which had been entrusted to his care, was ? 'jlt J., for sentence, and his lordship said he had en anxious consideration to the case, but could come pv 0ther conclusion than that a severe sentence must be passed. Under the influence of speculation he had without excuse applied the property of this lady to his own uses, and reduced her from a position of affluence to one of comparative poverty. There was defence, except that which was urged in every case n, tjie kind, the intention to restore the money nn intention which was never realised, according to nwu experience, and was in this case impossible, nrisoner being only in receipt of an annuity of £ 300. The sentence must be penal servitude for five years. A Cape Town Correspondent telegraphs that a serious outbreak has taken place in the Transkei. When they received news of the fighting at Maseru the Basutos rose and threatened an irruption into Kaffraria, where there were no troops to oppose them. In the expecta- tion that his 'men would fight for the British, Mr. Hope, a magistrate, applied to the Pondomese Chief, and at his suggestion furnished arms to the tribe, who then held a grand war dance, in the course of which they suddenly fell on Mr. Hope and his two clerks and killed them. Another magistrate and tour missionaries are also reported to have been murdered. Colonel Carriiia-ton }ias captured Lethorodi's village, but his troops'are about to return to the Free State for fresh S\Pman who from his appearance was an Irish harvest- man returning home after the harvesting season 111 England, was at an early hour on Thursday Oct. 28th, nicked up dead on the railway, about five miles dis- tant from Holyhead Station. It is believed he must have fallen or been thrown out of the tram due at Holyhead shortly after midnight. Before the news had reached Holyhead three harvéstmen were found lurking about the station, one of them having in his ^«ion a hat which did not belong to him and a possess | t0 Belfast. Upon being questioned bv'tiekSt he said the articles were the by the st f,man who had been in their company property ■ ai;(l -who had fallen out of the train from Crewe Station a 1)cing fonild open t" ° Upon the arrival 0°f the toi.i at SofyhiSal tt doo/v.-ere property fastened The "isrssJsA ticket in his pocket from Crewe to «« a letter from his wife, bearing the name of Can oil. 7-
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"Mr. Johnson in his Chemistry of Common Life pointed out that Cocoa had long reached the consumer with too much of its own fat. or loaded with a variety of farinaceous substances, producing a soup rather than a beverage. The Cocoa beail affords^ admirable nutritive flesh forming qualities, and staying power. In Cadbury's Cocoa Essence these are retained and concentrated providing an exhilarating infusion, not a starchy soup." Wa mint fx to the .ffoti*<'holtl»rx. [70
FOR THE PRESENT SEASON.
FOR THE PRESENT SEASON. ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SERGE.—Is the best, the cheapest, the most fashionable, and tlie most durable of any article woven, The Queen says it has 110 rival either in appearance or utility. It is made of selected and elastic staple wools; produced in the latest fashion- able colours and mixtures. Prices for ladies' wear, ls.6?rd., Is.lid., 2s.3d. and 2s.9d. per yard. Extra milled and "strengthened for gentlemen's snits and boys hard wear (new patterns) from 2s. lid. per yard. 54 inches in width. The Factors cut any length, and pay carnage 011 all parcels into London, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, or Claso-ow. In writing for patterns, wliicli are sent post fr»V°state whether for ladies' or gentlemen's wear Adr'ess Shearman and Spearman, Royal Devonshire Serge Factors, Plymouth. Special attention is called to the fact that this Firm is devoted exclusively to the production of pure wool materials for ladies' and gentle- men's wear. Serges sold as used by Her Majesty's Government. j
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(Helslt Antiquities. Information for thin colinitn may be sent the thntpleai jorw, to the Cambrian Xeien" Office, Aberyntwyth. Corre. pondenti can add to the interest tf W c/sh A?tti,ittiti es bysf-iuliny intend* Clll/tOUl. and old documents* All À18S. entrusted to the JJditur will be carefully kept and returned after perusal.
QUERIES.
QUERIES. L A MERIONETHSHIRE PHRASE.—I noticed a paragraph the other day in the Welsh Antiquities column respecting a phrase said to be peculiar to Merionethshire, —" Scrympiau Gwyl y Grog." That may be so, but there is a fair held at Pontrhyd- fendigaed three times a year, I believe, which is called Ff air Rh os Gwyl Grog." The "Gwyl Grog" men- tioned here evidently refers to the same festival as is referred to in the Merionethshire phrase, i.e., the festival of the Exaltation of the true cross at Rome. A short time ago I met with another Merionethshire phrase, which I should be pleased to submit to your readers for explanation. It is "Bwyd cenad y meirw," which being interpreted into English, means "The food given (or allowed) by the dead." The way in which the phrase is used is this At a certain season of the year the small boys of Bala, for instance, go from house to house, somewhat after the manner of English boys on Shrove Tuesday, begging for half-pence and saying, Bwyd cenad y meirm- MEIRIOX
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The Queen has been pleased to contribute £ 500 to- wards the fund which is being raised for the restoration of the ancient Abhy Church of Minster-in-Sheppy. HOLLOWAY", PILLS AND OINTMENT. — Influenza, Coughs, and Colds.—In diseases of the throat and chest, so prevalent in our changeable climate, nothing so speedily irclieves, or so certainly cures as these inestimable remedies. These disorders are too often neglected at their commencement, or are injudiciously treated, resulting in either case in disastrous conse- quences. Whatever the condition of the patient, Holloway's remedies will restore, if recovery be possible they will retard the alarming symptoms till the blood is purified and nature consummates the curer gradually restoring strength and vital nervous power. By persevering in the use of Holloways preparations, tone is conferred on the stomach and frame generally. Thousands of persons have testified that by the use of these remedies alone they have been restored to health after every other means had failed. RECKITT'S P ARIS BLUE—The marked superiority of this Laundry Blue over all others and the quick appre- ciation of its merits by the public, has been attended with the usual result, viz. a flood of imitations the merit of the latter mainly consists in the ingenuity exerted, not simply in imitating the square shape, but making the general appearance of the wrappers resemble that of the genuine article. The manufacturers bea I therefore to caution all buyers to see Reckitt'Paris blue" on each packet.
THE LONDON WELSH CHOIR.
THE LONDON WELSH CHOIR. This choir has lately entered upon its 3rd session under the leadership of Eos Morlais and Mr. Thomas Davies. The rehearsals are held in Fetter Lane Welsh Chapel, and the principal work for the next Concert, to be held in December, will be Mr. Emlyn Evans' "Fairy Tribe." The annual Soiree was held on Tuesday eve- ning, October 26th, at the Lecture Room of Dr. Parker's City Temple. Though the evening was wet and cold the attendance of members and friends was very large. Among those present were Mr. Stephen Evans (the president), Mr. Brindley Richards, Mr. W. Davies (Mynorydd), Eos Morlais, Mr. Lewis Roberts (Treasur- er), Miss Marian Williams, Mr. Thomas Davies, Mr. Lucas Williams, Mr. R. S. Hughes, &c. Tea and coffee were provided at 8 o'clock, and the company partook of them in groups in a free and easy manner. Mr. Stephen Evans, in taking the chair, said that he was very glad to be among them once more, and to seo Mr. Brindley Richards present. During the few years that the choir had been in existence it had done splendid work; and they had special reason to be proud of their performance of Dr. Parry's "Emmanuel" at St. James's Hall. Not only had they done credit to themselves, they had introduced the compositions of Dr. Parry and Mr. Jenkins to a London audience. He would merely suggest that in the future they should perform the works of Mr. Brindley Richards and Mr. John Thomas. Mr. Brindley Richards said that he could not resist the invitation of their Secretary (Mr. Jenkins) to come -ir r among them, and to congratulate the choir on their memorable performance oP Dr. Parry's "Emmanuel." He mentioned the names of the most prominent con- nected with Welsh music, and said that having such talent we had no occasion for the assistance of strangers in our Eisteddfodau. Music and poetry had been cultivated for centuries, and he was glad to see that the nation was exerting itself in the cause of education generally. After these short speeches, the musical portion com- menced, and was as follows:- Duett, "Excelsior," Eos Morlals and Mr. Lucas Williams; "Regret," Miss Woolley, R.A.M.; "The Distant Shore," Mr. Hirwcn Jones, R.A.M.; "The Rivals," Miss Marian Williams "The Better Land," Miss Spencer Jones, R.A.M.; "Phillius is my only joy," Eos Morlais; "0 Lucia de quest amina," Mrs. Edwards, late MissTillie Robinson; "The Inch Cape Bell," Mr. Lucas Williams; "Pun- chinello," Miss Annie Williams, U.C.W.; Mr. R. S. Hughes accompanied on the piano, the "Inch Cape Bell" was composed by him, and performed that evening for the first time in public by Mr. Lucas Williams; the composer and performer received quite an ovation at the conclusion. The pieces were all rendered in admirable style, and the audience warmly manifested their appreciation of the splendid way in which the artistes had contributed to their enjoyment. Mynorydd, in proposing a vote of thanks to the chairman, said that he did not expect that so many professional singers would so kindly give their services. The Chairman in reply thanked Mr. Brindley Richards and Mynorydd for their presence, and the officers of the choir for their services. The meeting, which was a very pleasant one, terminated by singing "God bless the Prince of Wales," Eos Morlais singing the solo, and the composer accompanying. The choir is progressing satisfactorily, thanks to the able Conductors, Com- mittee, and the hard-working Secretaries-Mr. Edward Jenkins (Gwalia House), and Mr. Hugh Edwards. The thanks of the members are also due to the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Aeademy, who so generous- ly assist at the rehearsals. W. D.
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN MANCHESTER.
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY IN MANCHESTER. Late on Thursday night a Manchester police officer made a shocking discovery which leads to the belief that a terrible tragedy has been committed in one of the most thickly populated districts of the city. About ten o'clock Police-constable Carrol was on duty in Chester-road, when he met CIh. labouring man who had been pushing before him a handcart on on which appeared to be a quantity of clothes. He stopped the man and questioned him as to where lie was going, but was unable to get a satisfactory answer. He therefore watched the man's movements and and followed him a considerable distance along Chester-road. At last the vigilance of the constable A-as rewarded by a discovery which almost unnerved him, but quickly recovering himself he rushed up to the man and seized him. AVhilst lie was watching the man, the jolting of the cart caused the clothes on the handcart to move and the officer saw a human leg protrude, and eventually hang over the back of the cart. He then drew away the clothes, and found lying on the handcart the body of a woman apparently about forty years of age. The face was much bruised and besmeared with blood, and the body, except for a chemise, was nude. The officer was now fully convinced that a terrible tragedy had been committed, and lost no time in seizing his prisoner and conveying him to the Park-place police station. Having left the handcart and its ghastly burden in the care of several people, he returned to the place and removed that also.to the police station. Here it was discovered that the bodj had been covered with blankets, which gave the constable the idea that the cart contained clothing only. The man gave his name as John Smitlison, and said he lived in Brewery-street Brad- ford. near Christ Church-street. Sergeant Potts, of the D division, immediately went to the place indi- cated, and there found three women and a man named Thomas Bardsley, who described himself as a com- mercial traveller for Hartley, a chemist and druggist carrying on business in Chester-road. When quest- ioned, they said they were waiting for a corpse which Smithson had gone to fetch from the railway station, in order that they might lay it out. The man Bardesley was taken into custody, and he has since admitted in writing that he assisted the other prisoner in putting the body in the handcart in the yard of a chemist and druggist's warehouse in Chester-red The sergeant next paid a visit to this place nd in the warehouse found indications that the body had been lying in the warehouse. The woman's clothes saturated with blood were lying about the place, and the officer could see where the woman had been lying. At present the wh le circumstances are shrouded in mystery, and very little definite can be said. The police have decided to charge all three men in custody with the capital offence, the evidence aganist thern having been greatly strengthened by information which the authorities have received since the case was last before the court. The solicitor for Hartley and his wife has made a public statement as to the reason for their separation, and further adds that Hartley ad- vl neres to his statement that his sole object in removing the body was to avoid scandal, and to prevent his wife from learning of the intimacy between him and the deceased.
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It is reported that Sir Stafford Northcote is to be a guest at the banquet shortly to take place at Brecon on the occassion of presenting Mr. Gwynne- Holford, late M.P., for Brocou, witli a testimonial.
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NOTES. PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF CARDIGANSHIRE. (BY THE LATE Ml. JOHX HUGHES.) 15 CHAKLES 1. Day of meeting. 13 April, 1640; dissolved, 3 May, 1640; duration, 22 days. ,tiiies Lewis, Abernantbychan. Boroughs.—John Vaughan, Esq., of Trawscoed (Crosswood), Cardiganshire. The following is the character given of this John Vaughan in the MS. just mentioned:— i oliii Vtiigha-.i--oiie that will upon fits, talk loud for Monarchy, but scrupulous to wet his finger to advance it. He served Burgess for Cardigan in the Long Parliament; but quitted it upon Strafford'stryal; named by his Majesty of the Commissioners to attend the treaty in the Isle of Wight, but refused it; personally advised Cromwell to put the Crown on his owne head; purchased Mevemth, one of his late Majesty's Manors within the County of Cardigan; personally assisted the taking of Aberystwyth, a garrison then kept for his late Majesty. These services kept him from sequestration; bore offices in the late several governments. He is of good parts, but puts too hiah a value on them; insolently proud and match- lessly pernicious; by lending f800 to Col. Phillip Jones and other favourites of the late tymes, procured the command of the County he liveth in, to continue in his friends and descendants to this day." The subjoined extracts are taken from a brief account of his life prefixed to the "Reports of Sir John Vaughan, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas." "He was the eldest son of Edward Vaughan, Esquire, and born on the Fourteenth of September, in the year of our Lord 1603, at Trawscoed, in the County of Cardigan, the Ancient Seat of his Family, himself being the Eleventh of that House in a direct line. He was elected Burgess for the Town of Cardigan, ,a to serve in the Parliament convened on the Third of November, 1640, where he gave sufficient Testimony his Learning was not confin'd within the walls of Westminster Hall, but that he was possessed of great Publique Abilities likewise. Soon after King Charles the First withdrew from White Hall to Hampton Court, and that the Rent between Him and the Parliament was too, too visible, being no longer able to serve his Prince there, lie left the House of Commons (whence lie, among other worthy members, was not long after secluded by vote of that house, and a new writ issued forth for the election of a member in his place) and he betook him- self to those duties wherein he was capable of serving his Prince in his proper Country. From the year 1641, in which he retired from the Parliament, until the year 1660, in which God blessed us with the restoration of our present King, he did in a manner quit his profession: FOl in that time he never received a fee from any person whatever, nor could be prevailed with to appear in any Court, although exceedingly importuned to it by such as had a desire to make use of his abilities, and the reason assigned for it was that it was the duty of an honest man to decline as far as in him lay, owning Jurisdictions that derived their Authority from any power, but their lawful Prince. "Thus for the most part for twenty years together lie past a retired life at his own Country House, until he was elected to serve as Knight of the Shire for the County of Cardigan in this present Parliament, begun the Eighth day of May in the year 1661; and on the Twentieth of May, 1668, his Majesty, whose goodness is ever extensive to worthy men did by his Commission under the Great Seal, constitute him Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in which employment he died on the Tenth of December, in the Year 1674. This is his portrait drawn by Lord Clarendon, Sir John Vaughan was then a student of the Law in the inner temple, but at time indulged more to the politer learning, and was, in truth, a man of great parts of nature, and very well adorned by arts and books; and so much cherished by Mr Seluen, that he grew to be of entire trust and friendship with him, and to that owed the best part of his reputation, forhewasof so magisterial and supercilious a humour, so proud and insolent a behaviour, that all Mr Selden's instructions, and authority, and example, could not file off that roughness of his nature so as to make him very grate- ful. He looked most into those parts of the Law which disposed him to least reverence to the Crown, and most to popular authority, yet without inclination to any chango in government; and therefore, before the beginning of the Civil War, and when he clearly discerned the approaches to it in Parliament (of which lie was a member), he withdrew himself into the fastnessess of his own country, South Wales, where he enjoyed a secure, and as near an innocent life as the inquity of that time would permit; and upon the return of King Charles the Second, lie appeared under the character of a man who had preserved his loyalty entire, and was esteemed accordingly by all that party. His friend, Mr Hyde. who was then become Lord High Chancellor of England, renewed his old kindness and friendship towards him, and was desirous to gratify him in all the ways lie could, and earnestly pressed him to put on his gown again, and take upon the office of a Judge; but he excused himself upon his long discontinuance (having not worn his gown, and wholly discontinued the profession from the year 1640, full twenty years), and upon his age, and expressly refused to receive any promotion; but continued all the professions of respect and gratitude imaginable to the Chancellor, till it was in his power to manifest the contrary, to his prejudice, which he did with circum- stances very uncommendable." Lord Clarendon here alludes, probably, to Sir John Vaughan's speeches against him in the House of Commons, on his Lord- ship's impeachment for High Treason, These speeches seem certainly very llll,rsh.-See Cobbett's Parliamentary History. A much more amiable idea of him may be gathered from Selden's dedication to him of his" Vindiciæ Maris Clau-ii," in which he addresses him with the warmest expressions of esteem and affection. Selden also made him one of his Executors—the other two being Sir, Matthew Hale and Rowland Jones, Esq. 0 (To be continued.) THE OLD WINDMILL AT ABERYSTWYTH.— A short time ago I gave an account of certain occupants of the old Windmill at Aberystwyth. There were two others. One was Charles a man between sixty and seventy years of age, who had spent at least fifty of them on water in different parts of the world, with- out either reaching the position of master or mate. though lie was a very steady man. After leaving sea he became a boatmen, and as lie had a very smart gig he generally obtained the cream of the business in giving short trips to visitors. Dick another boatman, and also one of the Windmill tenants, like- wise had a fine boat, but somehow or other visitors passed him by in order to get to Charles. One day while Dick was leaning against the bow of his boat, two ladies approached and asked whether Charles's boat, which was being pulled towards shore, would be many minutes before it arrived. "No, not long," answered Dick dubiously. Charles is a very steady boatman, is he not?" asked the ladies. "O, yes, replied Dick, unless the fits come on." Dear me, what fits?" asked one of the ladies. "Well, ma'am," replied Dick, I don't like to say a word. He is a good man, but not always safe. But," lie added, "it is now several months since he left the asylum." "Oh, dear," said another of the ladies, I can never go with such a man." Dick added, "But I think you may venture, though they come 011 very suddenly, and they are very dangerous, but perhaps they will not come 011 for a week." "Oh," cried the ladies, "we can't go with him. This is your boat, is it not ? Can- not we go with you in that." "Yes," said Dick reluctantly, "my customers are very select. I don't carry ordinary people. I am always employed by Duke of Penmynydd, and Lord Cae tattws, and Sir Oliver Cromwell. The members of the Royal Family, when they come here, will have no other boat." "Well, indeed," said the ladies, "we are quite respectable we can assure you and if you take us we will pay you well." Eventually Dick consented to take them out in his boat, and during the course of the trip told them innumerable yarns concerning himself and his boat, which were of such a nature as to induce the ladies not only to hire Dick's boat throughout their stay at the seaside, but also to recommend it to all their friends. SEXJEX.
PRACTICAL RELIGION.
PRACTICAL RELIGION. The Standard says :—Wisbech may well be proud of Thomas Clarkson, to whose honour a Memorial is in course of erection in the town. There are just a few men in each generation who, like him, cast aside all personal ambition, family interests, and live for an idea; devoting their whole time and labour to the accomplishment of an unselfish end. Sometimes their idea is to obtain a positive boon for mankind, some- times to abolish a great evil. In either case they are generally misunderstood, or even vilified, by their fellows who have never ascended for a moment to the moral plane on which they stand, and who consequently are entirely at a loss to comprehend the motives which inspire their self-devotion. Sometimes they live to see the fruit of their toil. More frequently they perish on Pisgah without entering the Promised Land, and other men reap in joy what they have sown in tears. Honour sometimes comes to their memories, or is given to others for whose easy path to success they smoothed the way, and they are forgotten even when the great achievement for which they laboured has become the heritage of mankillll for ever. What matters it ? They nO more intrigued for posthumous fame than they strove for the prizes of contemporary am oi tion. All that they desired was that their work should be done, and if it was done everything which concerned their own renown would have seemed to them trivial. Truly such a life as this was led by Thomas Clarkson. Out of the prosaic eighteenth century (as we were wont to deem it) not a few splendid enthusiasms sprang forth and the Anti-Slavery movement was, perhaps, the brightest flash of them all. A great evil is often the provocative of a great good the existence of an enormous wrong is ever destined, sooner or later, it would seem, to call forth a hero-some modern Her- cules or Theseus—to set it right. The wrongs of the African slaves in the atrocious slave ships, and the sufferings they endured on the West Indian planta- tions, were enormous, and yet we ought, in justice, to remember that it was not so simple a matter as now it seems for an English gentleman to feel any concern in arresting them. These very Anti-Slavery workers were almost the pioneers of that kind of philanthropy which stretches out its arms across the world, to deliver him that is oppressed from the hand of the adversary." Before their time men thought a good deal of their duty to their" neighbour," their townsmen, their fellow- countrymen, occasionally, perhaps, to the men of a neighbouring and friendly country with which they happened to have had intercourse. But human sym- pathy had very little extended its ever widening circles beyond each man's own race. The typical Englishman of Dibdin's Songs hated a Frenchman almost as a part of his religion. No laws had ever yet been proposed in any country for the humane treatment of animals and while cruelty existed in the prisons, in the schools, in the penal systems, and in the habits of men of all classes, to an extent of which now we can hardly form a notion, the story even of the most horrible wrongs suffered by remote and inferior races must have come like a far-off echo and tale of little meaning to the ear rather than as the shrill and stirring appeal we should now find it to be. At the utmost the indolent reply which we still hear offered in feebler cases-" It is very shocking, but what can be done ?"—must have been the natural expression of hopelessness of almost every private individual who, in 1785. sent his merciful thoughts from an English University in the wake of those dreadful slave ships ploughing the Atlantic with their miserable living cargoes, or into the depths of those immense plantations whence came the wealth of Liverpool and Bristol, of which places it was once said, that every stone in them was cemented with the blood of a slave." Who could dream that it lay within 1 the power of a handful of young men, armed only with the righteousness of their cause, to destroy a traffic that Wesley described as the sum of human villanies." Probably the Prize Latin Dissertation proposed by Dr. Peckard, the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge in 1775, to the Senior Bachelors of Arts] stands alone among all such compositions, past and 1 present, in having produced a great practical result- not indeed, even in this case, on its readers, but on its writer. Clarkson, then a Cambridge student (son of the master of the Grammar School at Wisbech), resolved to compete for the prize, the subject being j "Is it right to make slaves of others against their will ?" and having once commenced a study of the subject his strong young mind fastened upon it. Again the truth was illustrated that an honest inquiry into practical morals is like a walk on a mountain path —at once invigorating, and affording large and noble views never beheld on lower levels of thought. Clark- son, in fact, gained much more than the prize for a Latin Dissertation—he found an object lofty enough to waken in him an enthusiasm which bore him through a life of splendid self-devotion, till he reaped his glorious victory, and saw the Slave Trade abolished by the law of England, when (as Wordsworth wrote) he might thenceforth enjoy" a good man's calm, a great man's happiness. There was yet, however, work to be done, and Clarkson laboured on, and not till negro slavery was abolished in the West Indies and (though he knew it not) the knell of its abolition in the Southern States of America was on the eve of sounding, did he pass away in 1846, after more than fourscore years of as noble a life as the history of philanthropy records. It is precisely to such men that it is fit and right that public Memorials of honour should be raised. They did not ask for fame or lucrative employments or reward of any sort, and they are gone where human honours avail them not. But it is good for us to place on record their noble devotion and the reverence which it inspires. We rightly raise a statue to a General who leads our troops to victory. We may well raise some modest memorial to the man who led us to a moral Waterloo—to the victory over the great national sin of the Slave Trade. The proposed Memorial at Wisbech, of which the first stone has just been laid, will, it is estimated, cost about two thousand pounds, of which fourteen hundred have been already subscribed. The balance will, we doubt not, be speedily provided. Clarkson's great ally, Wilber- force, sleeps near his costly tomb in Westminster Abbey, with his sculptured features so strangely moulded as to present rather the aspect of a Mephisto- pheles than that of a serene Christian philanthropist. But Clarkson has 110 place in the national Valhalla, pheles than that of a serene Christian philanthropist. But Clarkson has no place in the national Valhalla, Wisbech may, therefore, well claim that he shall have such honour as his native town can pay, for the spirit of Clarkson is still needed amongst us-not only to interfere now for the wretched negroes of the Soudan (still trafficked in by Egyptian officials). but in every direction where good men endeavour to establish the Divine Kingdom of Mercy and Justice. To no better model of the truly religious, and at the same time the truly rational man, could we point than to him who when he was asked. "Whether he were not afraid that while he was engrossed with labouring for the slaves, he might be neglecting his own spiritual concerns ?" replied, in the language of an old Puritan, "I can trust the Lord that while I am doing His work He will take care of my soul I" From the day when, as Wordsworth said, he "led forth this pilgrimage sublime"—this crusade against Paynims far worse than Saladin and his host of yore—Clarkson never faltered in his course, never took his hand from the plough, either for his own temporal or (as his fanatical friend may have desired) for his eternal interest. He gave himself to his task, and he achieved it. That was his whole story, and his great reward and it might be his epitaph. When the benefactors of mankind are reckoned over, the number of those who freely and disinterestedly devoted themselves to philanthropic work, from Herocles Atticus down to the close of the last century, is not very large, unless we include those saintly founders of the Romish Charitable Orders and their followers, who, like St. Elizabeth of Hungary, laboured for the relief of their neighbours from immediate disease or want. The bold thought of reaching to the root of prevailing evils-of reforming the whole prison system of Europe, of abolishing Slavery, of ameliorating the condition of entire classes, such as factory workers or chimney sweeps, or destitute children-is an essentially Protestant and modern idea. Of the noblest Order of Philanthropists who work it out (the curers of disease-not the mere alleviators of symptoms), Howard, and Wilberforce, and Clarkson were the first belted Knights.
MR. WATKIN WILLIAMS, M.P.
MR. WATKIN WILLIAMS, M.P. Mr. Watkin Williams Q.C., M.P. for Carnarvon- shire, has accepted the judgeship vacant by the promo- tion of Mr. Justice Lush to the Court of Appeal. The uew judge is the son of the late Rev. P. Williams by Lydia, daughter of the Rev. J. Price, and was born in 1828. He was educated at the London University and at St. Mary Hall, Oxford. He was first married in 1855 to Henrietta, daughter of Mr. W. H. Cary, ind secondly, in 1865, to Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Justice Lush. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in November, 1854, and joined the .then Home Circuit, and was made a Queen's counsel in 1873. The learned gentleman represented Denbigh Erom 1868 until the late general election, when he was returned for Carnarvonshire. Mr. Williams has for a long time past had a considerable practice at the Bar, his name being more particularly associated with commercial cases. The announcement of Mr. Watkin "Williams's ippointment to the puisne judgeship vacated by the promotion of Mr. Justice Lush is technically prema- ture. Her Majesty's pleasure will in all probability be taken to-day, but until that ceremony has been completed no post can be said to have been actually filled. We are glad however to believe that so excellent an arrangement will soon have actually taken place. Mr. Williams is so popular both in the House of Commons and in the profession that the satisfaction with which his elevation will be generally received is in some danger of being mistaken for a merely personal feeling. It is however known to those who occupy themselves in such matters that he is a thoroughly sound lawyer, who is extremely well acquainted with general principles, and takes particular pains in considering their application to the details of complicated transactions. Like the eminent Judge whom he succeeds, but who will happily not be lost to the Bench, Mr. Williams is particularly at home in that commercial law which, as it is not the least difficult to master, is also the most practically important to a modern English practitioner of all branches of jurisprudence. In the art of stating a difficult case to a special jury of London merchants in a simple and at the same time convincing form he bad very few rivals. His success as a verdict-getter was perhaps due as much to his studied moderation as to any other quality. He never overstated his case, and he always kept his temper. The latter statement will seem faint praise only to those who do not know the disorderly bustle amidst which proceedings at Nisi Prius are conducted. We trust that Mr. Williams will be as great an addition to the Bench as he will be a loss to his party in Parliament.—The Daily News.