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FACTS AND FANGJES. i a solar eclipse li whipping lier i,)N? Bee ,'s a hiding of the suii. VUNO; LOGIC.—Respectable L-'awnlwoker (roc«ed from his !'imr'rs at three p.m., 1 >y r p-»«wd knockiug at his doo ): "Well, what is ,?.. h..i ""us: "hat's the tim i" itespectable Pawn:.v,.k« r: do yuu mean to :■ i've sot me out o! b. d ;t r.htntime o' uc&ht to ask me fool's question n- t« tr ? Volice t olue I — Eb,, Well, hang it, > ■ ;r-^bic)—v<!»"ve got my wat Punch. A, S PUBLISHED REMINI>CKNCE WF MR. i)CSRAFLI.- Sev the Methodist p<per- contain the following er- trac- a forthcoming LITV "f tfte Rev. W- Nay lor, wh, ed the Wesleyan ministry m 1802, and died in 1868, < an account of » utis meeting which Mr .sa, ended, and at which Mr Oisraeli w-as present, bef" right hon. gentl- ittaii ..¿¡tTt>d upon his parlia- mei. I.reer. This yt-,r (in which Mr IHnylor wae appo to Spitalfields) I hec,.m" acquainted with that not. -1 Lraordinary man, B. Di.-Ta^iu We a,tt on OUT misfulatform at H 11, ws then caeivassing for 1 time for a seat in parliament. At that time he was i, roueh-looking yuu h. He was a great favour- ite ladies, and could th,v have voted for tim they wou e secured his election i inr people invifd him to at ■■■■ ttieir missionary meeting, and when he entered the r such ascene was presented as I never witnessed befo or fince. It was cun.omary in those days for the femiic- t occupy the galiery, and by them the young as- riira'i ,g cheered in a way that oiust have been very nleasm The mayor was in the chair, who wag also chair- man f i.e committee opp<»sing_ Mr Disraeli. Of course thej m t, ",0 gentlemen, manifestiug no electioneering fat- lng. ,ja.f!lin was requested to move a resolution, which he d -1 < iking to the following ffect: I have pleasure in I-.■ -i 'ing with the request oi your committee to atte t! 3 meeting, for I teel an interest in Wesleyan mis i is When on my travels one of my companions sick,, nd died. He was attended by one of your missions 1-s, who administered unto him religious conso- laticns. f. r which I feel my-lf lai^ under obligations of grati; u nd respect for ywur body He then began to give us 01 tvice how to conduct ourselves towards the heathen in order to accomplish our benevolent purpose.

SUMMONED FOR INHARMONIOUS SINGING. There i no Act of Parliament forbidding persons with- out voire, far, or knowledge of music, from singing if it pleasl's tl em to do so. The consequences are sometimes dreadful, but they are borne with resignation, as it is felt that it would be contrary to the first principles of liberty to interfere with the exercise of the human voice when raised with no evil intention, however inharmonious may be its utterance. In the United States it seems that siRg- ing without, a decent knowledge of the art is, under certain circuuwances, aa indictable offence; and a man named William Linkhaw has just been tried before Judge Russell, at Robeson Superior Court, North Carolina, on an indict- ment for misdemeanour. It appeared by the evidence that Linkbaw is a member of the Methodist Church, and sings in such a way as to disturb and worry the nerves of the congregation. At the end of each verse his voice, when engaged in singing hymns, is heard after the other singers have ceased. One of the witnesses being requested to de. scribe the defendant's singing, sang a verse of a hymn in the voice and manner of the unfortunate man, producing «' a profound sensation," and sending a thrill of a disagree- able nature through the bar, the jury, and all who were present in court. It was, on the other hand, proved that Linkhaw was a strict member of the Methodist Church, and in other respects a man of the most exemplary deportment. Nor was it contended by the State upon the evidence that he had any intention or purpose to disturb the con- gregation, but, on the contrary, it was admitted that he was consciously taking part in the religious services. There was however a verdict of guilty, judgment and appeal by the defendant;" and here the matter rests for the present. In the event of the ultimate decision being adverse to T th. HPriona nuestion remains, whether, even though forbidden by law to take part in congregational melody, be will be justified in desisting if his conscience bids him lift his voice in song to the best of his ability.-Pall Mall Gazette.

HAPPY USE OF A SCRIPTURE TEXT. One of the correspondents with tb? Expeditionary force In Ashantee thus describes an incident which was torn in brief in a telegram published in the Daily News on Satur- day last Feb. 28th. He writes under date Oamp Detchiosu Jan. 29:—l< I do not know that a neater instance of a valua- ble hint, conveyed under circumstances of difficulty by an ingenious man, has often been recorded, It appears that the last time the envoys were sent back to Coomassie a letter wa« also sent to Mr Dawson, who ha,s been a cap- tive there ever since he was sent up to negotiate the deli- verance of a German missionary. The letter was from Captain Butler, the head of the Intelligence Department, and simply contained a small sum of money for which Mr Dawson had asked by way of something to live upon. It is understood to be obvious from the letter received that Mr Dawson had been very closely watched this time. As, however, the King bad- bGAft formed that th? money to Mr Dawson had been sent to the latter, the King was to a certain extent interested in allowing Mr Dawson to ac. knowledge the receipt of money. This accordingly Mr Dawson did in a letter to Captain Butler, which consisted of an acknowledgment in simple terms of receipt, and then concluded something in this way, 'The King's letter accompanies this by the same messenger; please see 2 Cor., 2nd chap 11th verse.' Your readers may judge of the temptation it was to our officers, engaged in very serious business, receiving at such a moment a notice of this kind, to throw it aside as a pious ejaculation. Somewhat irrele- vant I dare say, Some of your readers already remem- ber that the words, in fact, are Lest Satan get an advan- tage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices'—about as neat a hint of intended treachery as perhaps ever passed under circumstances of equal difficulty. In a despatch Sir Garnet Wolseley acknowledges the advantage which this clever warning was to him.

HERE AND THERE. \v„ „ i-i..A. tail f >-r n .t.■ i „: i pr.fi= <o m; th.- -uctios '.V- himuard ami -iti.er Tory j"imia'o h*vt-. I made notorious during Mr Gladstone's rei¿:n. If the Con- .rvative Government fail, it will he, we ho) e, so.ely through their want of harmony with the public will, and not in anv degr-e through the policy of abuse." Our readers .an I gine h w the Standard would have criti- j cized the" 14veuing day" if it had been Mr Gladstone's this is what th- Daily News says about, it: it j, not with any ill-na ured disp¡lrH.m"J\t 0; i. 8 possibilities th,t we say the Parliament will have something to do if it would write itself down in fame as being equal t,) that of its predecessors; a->d wh arknowled^e with iti;,t it began its work on Thn^;v',aV w;th an net alike sensible andgr»^( mtigt allow to the Conservatives so far e merit, of havinj t-mpl"V! d their new and uu auunar strength without any of the incautious and graspmg spirit w'.ich so often ace mpauie* thr sudden acquisition o. un- expected power." May we hope, by the way, that the cession of the Tories will have one good result-the taming of the Torv shrew ? The Standard, in noticing Mr Brand's re-election after, of course, one bitter snarl at Mr Glad- stone, says with unusual amiability Of the first act of the House after Us meeting nothing remains to be said th w that it was honourable to itself, and performed on both sides with remarkable good ta,te, judgment, and fair- ness." Mr Whalley will be glad to hear that the Jesuits have nat yet succeeded in carrying any powder barrels into the vaults of the Houses of Parliament. We believe their plans are not yet Huffi-neri'ly matured. On the day of opening Parliament, the Queen's Yeomen of the Guard, accompanied by their commanding officer, all in iull uni- form, arrived at the New Palace of Westminster for the purpose of making a tonr through both Housed of Parlia- ment aud inspecting the vaults beneath to see if any con- spirators or barrels of gunpowder were secreted. Shortly after ten o'clock the Yeomen of the Guard, preceded by the Queen's Marshalmen (in uniform), all with safety lanterns in band, and attended by the doorkeepers, Sc., made a most careful search, with a very satisfactory resu It. It is well to know that if any attempt should be made bv Jesuitical members to abolish this ancient custom, Mr Whalley and Mr Newdegate are still in the House, to oppose the insiduous attempt The enthusiasts of Sr.. James's Hall will hardly be pleased to learn that Prince Bisimrck is impartial in his persecutions, and that forty Lutheran clergymen in Hessen have been removed by the Prussian Government- 1 hey are reported to be "honourable a"d godly men, eDgaged in successful religious work," but they can neither agree with the Prussian Government, nor with the Prussian uniot. of the churches, nor with the new Church laws, and they felt themselves in conscience bound to protest against the new consistory which has been, against their will, set over them. So they have been remove i. We have tried to remind our readers before that Bismarck deserved their sympathy just as little as any of the per- secutors who have gone to work in a rougher fashion. Perhaps we shall be believed by and by. as Protestants" see that their own faith is not held sacred bv their darling statesman. We ;<re gl^d he persecutes *11 round. English Liberals" will be sooner disillusioned. A writer itt the Birminc/ham Pott c.uls attention to the explanation of Mr Gladstone's defeat which appears in this month's Ccnicinjiorare.. Mr Gladstone is too earnest. That I has been said before, but it bears raying again, because it. I' is true, and. beoause a (persistent attempt has been made to paint Mr Gladstone iff. very riiffereo-.t colours. No wonder." says the writer we have referred to, "that Mr Gladstone excites suspicion anf'fear. Th«re is nothing which the in- sincere dreed like sincerity. I* is more hateful to them, and makee them were restless than any talent, power. or vice. They are for-ever trying to prove that it has no ex- istence, and this is the meaning elf the constant iteration by Tory journals of t'charge of ii!-temper against Mr Glad- stone. 1ft k the attempt to make out to their own comfort :• that he" hath a devil and is mad," Thoe, however, to whom human liiatory is something more than the sublime sporr. of stumping out and'feeing 'stusaped out,'as above indicated, will always k)ok upon Mr Gladstone as the man above all men who skas prevented the Kouse from stinking in their nostrils. Me has jorrested the .decay of politics amongst u", and the growth iJÍ the popular belief that everything j public men say anE do is gammon, artfully constructed j with a view to re taining or obtaining pay and profit. The commonest people wc meet make an exception in favour of Mr Gladstone, and aan compelled to believe that he at least cafes for none of these. things, but his an interest in some- thing higher. With Mr Holyotke, I salute the noblest manifestation of politica I earnestness which has appeared in our time, and grieve that its ;-ery nobility should have been held to be a reason .amongst ms for getting rid of it." The K v. G. W. Pigg ot and the Rev. T. B. Lloyd, proctors for Salop, with th.-f 'e otkor proctors for the arch- deaconiies of the diocese, hav e addressed a cotnmunicatioea to the Home Secretary, pointii ot:t the very unsatisfac- tory way in which the parochi al elery are represented it convocation," and suggesting tl iat "df a Royal licence with a letter of business is again issued to convocation, the insertion of a sentence in the 1 attar document, including the better representation of the i >apoahial clergy among the subjects commended to the delil derations of convocation, will enable tha.t body to accompli, h on a legal and consti- tutional way that improvement in eorepresentatlon of the clergy which is on every hand des, At present the diocesan proctors are in the propirtu mw one to two of the ex-officio members, and the inadequ. It-6 way in which the parochial clergy are represented could n be better shown than by the fact that in the large an d important diocese of Lichfield proctors are sent up from the archdeaconries to the cathedral town to elect two of the w cumber to sit in convocation. The gentlemen who addret \Sed. this commu- nication to the Home Secretary were assem bled at Lichfield t. perform that duty, and they write as in, iividual clergy- men, not as proctors. In reply Mr Cross s tyi he "fully appreciates" the existence of the evil, but is unable, owing to the great pressure of business, to give his attention to the matter at present. He hopes, however, thi Nt on some future occasion an opportunity will be afforded for giving the question that consideration which in his (.opinion it fully deserves."

ASHANTEE. THE DESTRUCTION OF COOMASSIE. After the battle of Amoaful Sir Garnet Wolseley con- tinued his advance on Coomassie, but on the 3rd February he received a letter from the King begging him to hltlt, and I agreeing to his terms. Sir Garnet accordingly agreed to halt for the night, and promised not to proceed on the fol- lowing morning if the King sent his mother and brother as hostages. No hostages were sent. The expedition there- upon advanced on the 4th, crossed the river Ordah two hours after daylight, and a general action soon took place, which lasted for six hours. The enemy did not, how. ever," says Sir Garnet Wolseley, in despatches which have been received, fight with the same courage as at Amoa- ful for although their resistance was most determined their fire was wild, and they did not generally attack us at such close quarters as in the former action." The village of Ordahsu having been carried, and the troops massed there, the Ashantees attacked the place for some hours. The 42nd Highlanders then advanced and carried the positions of the enemy, who, after some further fighting, fled in complete rout along the road to Coomassie. The troops followeds and at about six o'clock in the evening J formed in the main street and gave three cheers for the Queen. All the efforts of Sir Garnet Wolseley to induce the King to come in and treat for peace, or to send a Prince of the Royal blood for that purpose, completely failed and on the evening of the 5th of February Sir Garnet Wolseley determined upon withdrawing his troops and destroying Coomassie. The decision to withdraw was strengthened by the fact that tornadoes appeared to have set in and that the passage of the rivers in the rear might be rendered more difficult by delay. Early on the 6th the homeward move- ment commenced. The town had been set on fire in every quarter, and the mines in the palace fired. Sir Garnet Wolseley, in thus fulfilling, as he conceived, the mission entrusted to him, says that no means were left untried to bring about a peaceable solution of the campaign. Up to H lç. hour," he adds, I left the King's palace un- touched in hcp69 that he would return." The troops re- frained from plunder, ai!.4 ^he P,a^ without carrying off a single article of value. Owin'h swollen state of the rivers some difficulty had been exper;?noed on Hie homeward march. A telegram from Sir Garnet WolseiCJ"; dated Headquarters, Detchiasu, 9th Feb. states that messengers had just arrived in camp requesting peace. The General intended to halt with the native troops north of the Adansi Hills until the 13th or 14th, to allow time for negotiations. No attempt had been made by the enemy to interfere with the returning troops. The Daily News correspondent, in an account of the burning of Coomassie, says :—I have given no description of Coomassie-a short one will suffice. It is a charnel- house, in no part of which is the odour of recent human slaughter unperceived. I do not use a term of my own, but one which is simply the term naturally employed by everybody here in speaking of it. It is a place into which it would not be worth the trouble of any one to go if it did not take so much trouble to get there. The streets are bread, with fine-some very fine-trees adorning them. The whole place is filthy. The houses for the most part of the ordinary Ashantee type, raised brick floors, an irregular kind of thatch above, open doorways, low roofs, only one floor. The palace is a huge rambling ugly stucco kind of affair. Handsome wood-work chairs and curiosities of various kinds, native cloths, worked often with handsome embroidery, sometimes formed into umbrellas, sometimes not, were the articles of most interest within it. Much had been removed. Everything was packed up. A small quantity of things was selected by prize agents, and is being carried down to Cape Coast. Most was destroyed. The value taken to the coast is probably not 21,500. The ob- ject of i-lie expedition, however, was future peace and respect for the name of England throughout this part of the world, and it has been amply achieved. A telegram, dated Cape Coast, February 15th, says :— everything t'oes on prosperously. The wounded are re- covering rapidly The naval brigade have arrived. The Highlanders and Fusiliers are within fifty miles.

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March 11, 1874. NOTES, FAMILY OF LLOYD, of Llwynymaen, Llan- vorda, and Drenewydd. NU1'gS. I' This tainily deduces its dedeut from Hedd Molwynog. of Llys Alaes yr Hnnllvs, in Liangeruiw, and Lftd ot Uwch Aled. He was Chieftain of the Ninth Tribe of North Wales, and is said to have been Reward to Prince David ap Owen, but must hav^ nved much earlier. The armorial bearing!) attributed to Hedd Molwynog, and borne by his df^cendants, excepting the Lloyds, are, sable, a stag trippant argent, attired or. Menng Lloyd (not Maurice as in Bye-gones for 1873, page 115), alinealde-ceudantof the chief taiu ab >ve referietl to, was lord of some part of Uwcli Aled, and would not yield subjection to the English Government, under which the Oautrev of Dyifryn Ulwyd aud several others then were. He took several English officers who came there to execute the English laws, hanged some, and killed others consequently forfeited his lands to the King, fled, and took sanctuary at Halston in Shropshire, where he is said to nave been taken under the protection of John Fitz Alan, Lord of Oswestry and Clun, who gave him a command in the army at the S't'gè ot Acre, in the reign of Rich: I, 1190. Here he so distinguished himself, in recovering fr>m the enemy the standard of the Emperor, that the following "coat armour" was given him argent, an eagle displayed with two necks sable, beaked and armed or; being, only substituting argent for or in the field, the coat of the Em- peror. Ttii is substantially the same account of Aleurig Liloyd as that given in Bye-gones for 1873, page 115. From him was lintauy desceuded Robert Lloyd, of Llwynymaeu and Llanvorda, who died 10th Sept., 1498. tlis son. Hicham Lloyd, of Llwynymaen and Llanvorda. died 8lh Sept., 1508, having two sons and a daughter. The son, were, Jonn Lioyd, of Llaatorda, living 14th Nov., 1544, ano Edward Lloyd ot Liwynyintven, whose will is a.Led 14th Nov., ana was proved 16111 Dec., 1544. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Kd. Stacmey of Oswestry, who survived her husband. They ha i, besides several daughters, Kicha d Lioyd of Liwynymai-n, mentioned in his father's will, John Lloyd of Whittingtjn, ancestor to the Lioyds of Drenewydd, whose will is dated 8'.hjan., 45 Eliz:, and Hugti Lloyd, also mentioned in his father's will. From John, the eldest son of Richard Lloyd of Llwyny maen and Lianvordi, who died 8ch Sept., 1508, were descended tile Lloyds ot Llanvorda. Ho.v i,he Llanvorda estate was alienated from them is statedin Byev ones for 1873, page 122. From Edward, second son of the above named Richard Ltoyu, Wde descended the Lloyds of Liwynymaen. l'hat estate remained in their possession for many generations, but how it became uuiied to the great esiar.es of the \Vyun- stay lamiiy, I am uuable to discover. Chid Edward Lloyd was captain under the Earl of Arundeil, ar, the siee of Boulogne in 1514, and was Constable of Uswestry Oastie. CapLaiu Richard Lloyd, of Llwynymaen, son of hdward Llowt, ,f L-wyuymain, E-q (not, of course, the preceding Edw. Lloyd), was living in li 41. From John Llo) d, of vVhutiugton, above mentioned, whose will was proved 6 Jan. 45. Eiiz.. were descended the Lloyds of Drenewydd. Edward Llovd of Drenewydd, the Shropshire Historian, I whose Valuable collections were at Halston, and are now happily preserved ao Hawkstoue, was buried at Whitting- tou 5 Nov 1715. His next brother Charles, who died in Jan. 1749-50, succeeded him, and had by his second I"ifco, Annabella Kingston of Cirencester, who died in 172, an onlv child, Annabella, who was the third wife of Kichard Williams, Esq., of Penbedw, M P. tor Flint, youngest brother of Sir VVatkin Williams Wynu, the third liaroiiet of that house. Drenewy, id was sold about the year 18 JO, by their granddaughter, Antiabella Williams of Fen bed*, and her nephew W. W.E. Wynne, Esq., of Peniarth, upon whom it was entailed, to the late VV. Orinsby Gore, Esq., M.P. Upon the death, without, issue, in 1808, of Watkin Wil- liams, of Penbedw, Esq., Lord Lieut. for Denbighshire and Merionethshire, M.P. at one time for Montgomeryshire, and afterwards, for many years for the Flint Boroughs, several houses which he owned in Oswestry were sold by his executors. It is piobable that the very interesting house, upon lwhich is the armorial bearing of the Lloyds, at the comer of Bailey-street, was one of them. Much is it to be desired that so valuable a relic of antiquity should be prest:rved, oi, at all events, good photographs of it tiken. It may safely be assigned to the fifteenth, or very early in the sixteenth century. fhe Lioyds of Llanvorda, &c., are said to have been the oldest family of Welsh descent, bearing the name of Lloyd, perhaps they were the earliest instance of an established surname in any Welsh or bordering family. W. QUERIES. EGRYN ABBEY.—An old house three miles from Barmouth. Can any one tell me when it was built? and when and how it ceased to be Church property ? and it it was ever connected with the old Parish Church of Llan. abt!r ? CHESHIRE. WELCH-POOL OR WELSHPOOL.—Which is "ght ? QUERIST. MERIONETHSHIRE CHURCH WINDOWS.— A fine Gothic window of the Perpendicular Style had its tracery tilled up with stones, and had been plastered within and without so that it bore the appearance of a quadran- gular mullioned window of the Elizabethan period, at Llanddwywe Church. The occasion on which it was brought to light was when a lady of the Mostyn family desired to give a new arched window to the church, the men pulliiAg down the old window discovered a fine window in the Per pendicular Style-so it was left after being opened and restored. If we visit the dilapidated church of Llan. j danivg we find a large pointed window shut up in its upper part similar to that of Llanddwywe. Why were these windows treated so ? Was it to make them conform with the predominant style of later times-or owing to some superstitious religious motives ? The wainscot above the communion table at Llandanwg at oae time had represen- tations of evil spirits painted on it, as we were told by some old people who remembered the place. I recollect having seen a painting representing an angel at Talyllyn Church. Can any of your readers give the origin of these paintings and why they have been effaced ? ENGHAM. BICKERTON'S POOL AND BEN STARCH.— In Bye-gones, Oct. 2, 1872, in a Reply about Ffynnon Maen Tysilio, your correspondent, BEN STARCH, mentions Bickerton's Pool, which I presume, from what he says, to have been somewhere near where the new Wesleyan Chapel now stands. It would be well to give more definite infor- mation. 'Bickerton's Pool I and 'Ben Starch' are myths to us youngsters. Who was Bickerton and how did he give a name to a pool ? and who was Ben ? I have heard that the original Ben was a local celebrity forty years ago. IOONG OSWESTRY. REPLIES. WELSH AUTHORS (Feb. 25, 1874).-Onc of the John Joneses.—John Jones, a Welshman, or at least of Welsh extract, was educated in both the Universities, especially in that of Cambridge, where, as I conceive, he was graduated, that is, took one degree in physic, and became eminent for the practice of it sometimes at Bath and sometime? iu Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. (Wood's Athen. Oxon. Vol. 1, p 118.) He flourished in the latter half of the sixteenth ceniury. M.H.P. J. P. BRISCOE, dating from Nottiugham Free Library, writes thus of John Jones, in the Local Notes and Queries column of the Nottinghamshire Guardian, Oct. 24, 1873 :-An old medical writer of note, residing in the neighbourhood of Nottingham in the sixteenth century, has escaped the notice of writers of local history, &c. John Jones was either born in VV ales, or was (f Welsh education. He studied at both the universities, and took his medical degree at Cambridge. He is said to have prac- tised with great distinction in Bath, Lincolnshire, Not- tinghamshire, and Derbyshire. He published his Dyal of A^ues, wherein may be seene the diversitie of them, with their°names, the definitions, simple and compound, proper and accidental divisions, causes, and signes." This was an octavo. Mention is made in one of Dr Jones' works of his curing a person at Louth in 1562, but where his place of residence was at that time I am unable to state. Ten years later (1572), we gather that he was practising as a phy- sitiori the Kin&'? Mede, near Derby," where he wrote a quarto volume ( The Benefit of the Antient Bathes of Buckstones, whiC" Cllrtt4 most grevious sick- nesses: never before published." It was i^d Jan. 18th, and was printed, as was his "Dyal of Agues," in London. In the same year (1572), we find he resides at Asple Hai i, besydes Nottingham," where he wrote another quarto London-printed volume, entitled The Bathes of Bathes Ayde wonderfull and most excellent agaynst very many sicknesses, approved by authoritie, confirmed by reason, and daily tried by experience; with the antiquitie, comeditie, propertie, knowledge, vse, aphorismes, diet, medicine, and other things there to be cousidered." This curious work contains a poetical contribution from the pen of the Nottingham Archdeacon-Louthe. This publication has been very freely quoted from by Short in his treatise on mineral waters; and was spoken of in the highest terms by Guidott in his treatise on Bath, which he issued in 1673. In 1574 he published A Brief, Excellent, and Profitable Discourse of the Natural Beginning of all Growing and Living Things," &c. It is very probable that this is taken from Galen's "Four Books of Elements,^ which Dr Jones translated and printed the same year, or it may be the same work with another title. The information respecting this noted medical writer is that in 1579 he published another quarto work, entitled The Arte and Science of Preserving Bodie and Soule in Healthe, Wisdome, and Catholike Religion; physically, philosophically, and divinely devised right profitable for all persons, but chiefly for princes, rulers, nobles, byshoppes, preachers, parents, and them of the parliament house." This brief notice is compiled from ten authorities. ROBIN HOOD. The Dr.fohit Jones referred to was a great authority on Baths. Thorpe's Catalogue of Books," page 375, men- tions some of his works; and Lowndes, p. 1226, says of his Bathe of Bathes A yde, Mr Park observes that this medical Welshman was a profound genealogist, and in his wonderful pamphlet traces the pedigree of the legendary Bladud up to Adam! The story of Bladud is published in British Watering Places. Dr Jones seems to be ignored by all Medical Biographies: no mention is made of him in the Select Medical Bibliography of the Cyclopaidia of Praetkal Medicine, which was "intended in some degree to fill an important blank in the medical literature of this country, which has long been felt to exist." (See advertisement in vol 10 of the Cyclopaedia.) D.S.J.

TIPYN 0 BOB PETH. Mr H O. Aiorgan, Q.O., ^us on- of the guests at a ■■■iv- n Hj th- of Londun bt week, Sir Watkia W. Wynn, M.r., icesi at the annual jinnl' 'If tne Liverpool Oambri m Society la-t f-rek. Mr and Mrs Corn«aUis West have left London for a short tour in Italy. Captain Pearson, chief constable of Carnarvonshire, has met with an accident while hunting in Leicestershire. ft is believed that Mr Disraeli will recommend her Vi sje-it-.y to grant a pension to the widow of Mr Shirley Brooks. It is proposed to present a testimonial to Sir R. A. Cua- In ackuo-vledgf-meDt of his services as representative of the Flint Boroughs. rne Bishop of SE, Asaph took the oath and hii seat as a member of the House of Lords on the day of opening Par- liament. Mr Horatio Lloyd, Q C., has been sitting for Judge Vaughan Williams auring that gentleman's absence on the continent. The coming-of-age of Earl Grosvenor is to be celebrated at Calveley, where his lordship passed his childhood and part of his youth. Ihe Chesttr Chronicle says that a child born at Chester on the evening of the polling day has been christened Cecilina Dodsomana Frosterina Malgarina Disraelo. A labourer was searching a rabbit burrow near Hoole the other day when a quantity of sand fell on his head and suf- focated him. Tha parishioners of Rhyl intend to present Canon Morgan with a m-irk of their appreciation of his disin- terested conduct i>i refusing the living of ^birk. A ladies' committee ha* been formed at Wrexham, to present a testimonial to the Hon. G. Kenyon for his courtesy and straightforwardness. I'he various chili ch associations of the archdeaconry of St. Asaph have united in au eff irt to obtain the holding of a gene, al conference on ehurch matters, in April. Education will be one of the subjects diseased. The North Shropshire Agricultural Society do not appear to i).. vry favourably disposed towards amalgamation with the proposed county society, but the subject will probably be discussed at. an adjourned meeting. We learn that Mr Blarchard Jerrold will write a per- son il and biographical sketch of the late Shirley Brooks, with the aid of materia!s in the possession of the family, for tin- May number of the Gentleman s Magazine. The vlayor of Wrexham recommended that Tuesday, March 10th. should ba observed as a general holiday it Wit" 1, day on which his Worship treated the Sunday ,clio, ,I children..f ihe town in honour of the marriage of tho Duke aud Ouchess of Edinburgh. The Athenceum s ys Ntr Thomas C. Jack, publisher, Kdinburgh, h-s nearly r--a.ly for publication a new Welsh Fdunlv Bihle, with Peter Wi fiama's Comments, extensive ex- (rac-i fr(oui Matthew Henry's Commentary, and intro- ductions to all the books of Scriptire, by the Kev. R. T. H..W.-11, Swausea. The death of Ar Chri,s Vynne Finch, who represented rhe I!arn«rvn ■ Bor..u=;hs irom 1859 to 1865, is announced. Mr Wynne Finch was ehcc d as a Conservative, but his v'"w diverged so widely from those of that party that a la-it. he issued an address announcing his change of opinion nod y he proposed Mr Love Jonts-P.rry as the Liberal member for the c,,unty. l'ite other .1>1. at Ahrystwyth, a commercial tra- Vf-ller lost a C500 note and announced his loss to the po ice. On enquiry they tound that he had changed a five p -ut,d note (a- he imagIned) at a public house. Further e. quirv showed that the landlady seut to a neighbour for the change, an i at the neighbour's the 9500 note, which all al irijj h id been taken f..r a live-pounder, was discovered. have h-en considerable rejoicings in the town and nekdib »urh"od of Bridgn irth to celebrate the marriage of MrW. H. Foster, M.P., to lVIi-a Pakenham %,Iahon. A silver cua has also been presented to Mr James Foster, on his majorii.y. The presentation was by deputy, as Mr Foster was absent, with his regiment, the Grenadier Guards. The people who tell with great glee how working men spend all their additional wagt-s, sir." in food and drink, will not like to hear that he miners of the Ironbridge dis- iric Ti-ic, the other day, under the presidency of Mr A. H Brown, M. P., a d reso-ved to celebrate their improved position by establishing a fund to provide for widows and orphans, aged and:worn.out men, and families bereaved or distressed by accident. Th- Sh-cwsbury Free Press says Last Sunday even- ing, March 8th, a person ILood in one of the pulpits in this town, an held forth to the congregation. After reeling off a lot of stuff about original sin, and so forth, the person— that. is. the preacher-sid the Tichborne trial is endeu, and just as Pilate condemned Christ, so the unjust judge and jury in Westminster Hall has condemned that poor Loan. Mr Eytori, M.P., like many other men, consoles himself by appropriating scripture texts when his enemies revile him. It is not many mro" however, ",bo would have the audacity to quote as Mr EYLOD quoted at a dinner in his honour at FlInt last week. "I have been trampled on by the Press on all sides," said the hon. member, but the same stone which the builders rejected has become the headstone of the corner." This remarkable appropriation of a sentence referring to Jesus Christ was received, we are told, with immense cheering The Broughton School Board election, which took place on Tuesday, March 3c has resulted in the return of a majority in favour of unsectarian teaching, the voting be- ing as follows :—John Harrop, colliery clerk, Cerney, non- conformist, 781; Peleg Ishmael Jones, mason, Pentre, nonconformist, 634 Thomas Clayton, colliery proprietor, churchman, 542; William Griffith, colliery manager, nonconformist, 503 Misj Dorcas Hayes, Gatewen, church, 480; and the Rev. F. T. Williams, churchman, 417. The first five were elected. Great interest was evinced in the contest on account of the candidature of Miss Hayes, who is the first lady that has sought a seat on a school boird in this district. The church party endeavoured to persuade her to retire, so that she might not endanger the seats of the two churchmen, but she declined to do so, and the consequence is that the clergyman of the district, who sat on the old Board has been thrown out. A correspondent of the Birmingham Post says—One of tL.e members sworn yesterday (Friday), was wheeled into the House from behind the Speaker's chair in a Bath chair. He laboured under severe physical disablement. His right hand, co/ered with a large glove, hung useless by his side, and he held the Testament, signed the Parliamentary rolls, and shook hands with the Speaker with his left hand. When the ceremony was over the attendant drew back the Bath chair, and the disabled representative was seen no more. He was said to be Mr Peter Ellis Eyton, of Rhyl, who has entered the Hous, in the advanced Liberal inter- est, for the Flint Boroughs, in the place, if I mistake not, of Sir R Cunliffe. Mr Eyton was Town Clerk of Flint, and is L'OW Registrar of the County Court at Mold. If his disablement is owing to gout it msv be only tem- porary, but otherwise, as a Bath chair I.q a nuisance in the division lobby, it may be necessary for the new member to obtain the privilege accorded to Mr Kavanagh, of voting from his seat or Bath chair when the Li.ouse goes to a division Really, Conservative meetings are often great fun. There was one last week, when the Denbighshire "Constitutional Association" met and made as merry as was possible in the circumstances over Mr Kenyon's narrow escape from winning the borough seat. Mr Townshend Mainwaring had been on a tour after some- body who admired Mr Watkin Williams's principles," and I could meet with none-in fact he did not know where to find them." Although Mr Williams had so i;1any who agreed with him that he beat Mr Kenyon! Mr Marn- waring's political scent must be defective. But Mr Yorke, of Dyffryn Aled, did the comic business of the meeting. He talked about Bob Lowe," a piece of familiarity which the Tories never tire of appreciating, and he ap- proached that profanity which to some folks is irresistibly amusing by saying that "it was the same in this country as it was in the heav«?DS—we had one head (the Queen), and the Lord be praised that we had and he asked the people to rally round the Throne and the Bible, and hand both these things ever untarnished and intact, for the benefit of future generations"; and he asked whether the children of the middle and lower classes were to be brought up like a lot of heathen Arabs." The Liberals are under great obligations to the Constitutional Association for in- ducing men like Mr Yorke to make speeches.

ECCLESIASTICAL A Dutch correspondent, writing on the affairs of the Jansenist Church of Utrecht, says that the church is fully resolved to abandon the nominal subordination to the Pope, hitherto kept up as a matter of form. And it is furtherin- tended to adopt the name of Old Catholic, in token of the communion of this branch of the church with the new re- formers in Germany and Switzerland. The death of Dr Binney was the chief subject in many of thG metropolitan pulpits on Sunday, March 8, both in the churches 01 Q Establishment as well as the places of worship belonging to the Noncontoi'S^W Welsh House Chapel was draped in black, and in the evening so large w the I attendance that it was impossible for many to get even standing room. The preacher was Dr Binney's successor, the Rev. W. Braden. He denied the representation of two London journals that Mr Binney was a rigid adherent to the doctrine of perpetual punishment. He said that in later years Mr Binney did not believe in that, doctrine.

At Northampton, on Tuesday, Thomas Chamberlain was sentenced to death for the murder of Newell, an aged farmer. SOKES, BAD BREASTS SOKE LEGS, King's Evil, Sore Heads, St. Anthony's fire, scrofula eruptions, burns, all wounds and skin diseases. Such complaints disappear in a miraculously short time, and the scource of mischief is extracted by the use of HUMPHREY'S (PORTMADOC) GLYCEROARNICINE OINTMENT, as many thousands can testifv who have been cured, after having suffered many years. It is surprising the numbers of old wounds that have been completely cured in a short time (to the wonder of all) doing away with the use of crutches in a few weeks. Numbers have been cured who have suffered frightfully for over forty years, and has long given up all hope. Many cases discharged from Hospitals, Infirmaries, and given up by Doctors as incurable Testimonials and directions with each box. The following are extracts of testimonials, and are published only by permission :—Mrs Jones, Ruddland, had lo ulcers in her leg for 27 years, and was cured by this ointment; Mr Griffith Lloyd, Tremadoc, sore leg for 40 years, cured Mr Ellis Roberts. Pantyclegor, Maen- twrog, bad leg for 46 years, cured Mr Robert Williams, Penrhos, Bangor, bad leg for 38 years, cured; Mr IV-. Jones, Penrhyndeudraeth, had 34 ulcers on his leg for 12 years, was cured. Ask for Humphrey's (Portmadoc) Glyceroarnicine Ointment. Sold by all Chemists, in boxes Is. Ud., 2s. 9d., 49. 6d., and lis" each; and for stamps post free, of the proprietor, Henry Humphrey, Portmadoc, North Wales. Wholesale of all medicine houses in Great | Britain,

j TBE N.i^NAL AMALGAMATED association of miners Ithf nJSnalPrande eTeSe °fc th^ ;°UDcil of | Amalgamated Association of Miners was held 1 on W6d f lf' Institute' David-street, Manchester °n «dnesday, March 4th, for the purpose of cons^der^' several matters of importance to the respective bodies anS also for congratulating the two miners' representativ'c their return to the present Parliament Mr a tr °D donald, M.P., president of the National Ac!/ ac' pied the chair; and amongst thosfSlinT1^'011 ^°CC^' Burt, M.P., and Mr T HalbdLP 6 ,Were Mr T- i Amalgamated Association of Miners Pre81fent of the been passed that a vote nf tknt 1' ^resolution having of Stafford and Morneth f ^8 b?glven t0 the and Burt toThe' Macdonaid sarvyifng Th th0Sn K^slatifVe questions which were neceT sary for the well-being of working men generally and miners in particular. It was also resolved that the ad- dresses which had been agreed UDon f,ir n^D t the members of Parliament who had. Pre9entatl0u to Mines Regulation ActThourdbeDreDarlf^ paSS,ng the ble and A J- prepared as soon as possi- which it ,A ^SCU8Si°n afterwards took place, in Sected tnTa ge that' 48 attention had lately been directed to securing^provisions for the health of the'miner Lure sanUarvTin 8rr0fUn-d' efforts should made to secure sanitary improvements IH the surroundings of the miners above ground. It was urged that efforts should be made for securing a better class of house for the mitdn- population; and that amongst other sanitary measured ?supplyofgood water should be aimed at ia the districts m which they lived, which was a matter of special importance. After the conclusion of the business a congratulatory dinner was given to Messrs Macdonald and tfurc, as the two members who had been returned +n the present Parliament from the mining ranks.

The colliery proprietors in Fore3t of Dean have decided to reduce wages twenty per cent. UNBE<VWORTHY SHIPS-—11! a "rough memorandum" of his views, Mr David Maciver points out, among other thiaes "That there is no reason whatever why the atten- tions of the Marine Department. of the Board of Trade should, so far as annual survey is concerned, be devoted exclusively to British passenger steamers; nor any reason why foreigh vessels should be permitted to load outwards from British ports, on conditions other than those under which British vessels may compete with them. That the Marine Department of the Board of Trade is^, as iat.present constituted an unfit tribunal to be entrusted w th increased XrSv powers. That the shipowners of the country may reasonably claim a right to control any 4ePara%e°hlt there tical charge of shipping and emigration, and jh would be no difficulty in Government nominating as a Court of Appeal or otherwise-sav, not less thatit nor more than seven-of persons possessing the confiden of the country, who could perform such duties satisfactorily. That the system of Courts of Inquiry into maritime disas- ters is so bad that hardly any change could be made for the worse; and therefore that it is high time the question were entrusted to competent legal authority with a view to practical suggestions for improving the mode of procedure in such manner as would be likely to best elicit informa- tion, while giving shipmasters reasonable opportunities for defence—which at present is not always the case. There are many instances where substantial injustice has been done to unfortunate shipmasters; and also where the owner has been prejudiced in a court of law by the allegation that his master had been adjudged in default—and that, perhaps, by a tribunal not very competent."

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FROM THE PAPERS. The Oxford Cambriit?* rvat r.ce will take pl.ic. h,- tween pW»»v> *»r>d twelve on March 28th. J The Athcruvun stages that Mr Tom Taylor is the re* ed'.o,- of Fuiic, Dr Forbes Winslow died last week, at Brighton, agfd ] sixty-three. A story by Mr Black, the author of A Princess of j Thule," will be begun shortly in one of the magazines. It will be illustrated by Mr Du Maurier. A Mrs Delia.r. of r • who advertised in various papers home employment for ladies," has been brought up on a. charLe "t fr ,u.t, and r¡'IO>tf1,j-d The Government have decided that Dr. Livingstone's body shall be brought home at the public expense. The body will arrive in five or six weeks. The British Medical Journal announces that the Com- munal Council of Vienna has adopted a proposal to estab- lish in the Cemetery the necessary apparatus for cremation, the use of which will be optional and open to all. At B'-lfast assizes on Tuesday a young woman named Anne Mills was sentenced to death for the murder of her child. The Cambridge crew rowed from Putney to Barnes Bridge and hack on Tuesday afternoon in excellent form, coached by Mr Chambers. They seem to be one of the best crews ever sent up by either University. Berlin, Tuesday evening.—The Post and Spencer Gazette of Tuesday evening state that after Easter an English deputation will arrive in Berlin to thank the Emperor for his letter to Earl Russell. At Nottingham Assiz-s, on Tuesday, William Bryant, the engine driver of the excursion train which was run into by a fish tiain at Retford Level Crossing last Aagust, was charged with manslaughter. The jury, after a long trial, acquitted him. Exchequer accounts to March 7th are as follows Revenue, £ 70,464.896 ;Jlast year, £ 71.386,660 Expenditure, £ 70,100,574; last year, C64,437,983 balances, 1:7,405,399 last year, £ 12,083,827. The case of the Rev. Newman Hall was before the Divorce Court on Tuesday, and leave was given to produce evidence anterior to the date named in the petition. On Tuesday morning the Dido, Government Coal Depot off Sheerness, was discovered to b on fire. Two men named Gleadle a"d Hynes, were suffocated in their berths, At a general meeting of the National Rifle Association, on Tuesday, the Duke of Cambridge presiding, the report stated that Wimbledon Camp would open on the 6th July, and that over £ 3.000 had been added to the funds of the institution. At the Belfast Assizes two shipowners, named Quinn, father and son, were sentenced to two months' imprison- ment, and a fine of 21.50 each, for sending a vessel to sea in an unseaworthy condition, so as to endanger the lives of those on board. The Registrar General report-, during the week ending last Saturday, 6,014 births and 3,788 deaths in twentv-one large cities and towns of the United Kingdom the average mortality in these towns was 26 per 1 000. The rate in London was 24: Edinburgh, 28; Glasgow, 28; Dublin, 28: Bradford 20; Wolverhampt,m, 21; Leicester, 22; Nottingham, 22; Bristol, 27 Liverpool, 28; Manchester, 28; Birmingham, 28: Sheffield, 29; Newcastle, 30; and Leeds 31. A lad, eleven years of age, has lost his life at Milford, near Godalming, from the insane follv ot a youth dxte^n old, who presented a gun, which he thought was unloaded, at the lai, threatening at the s..me tim" to shoot him. The boy challenged him to do so, the elder one pulling the trig- ger, and the result was that the boy was shot, dying in- stantly. A limited liability company is about to be started in London, for opening, on temperamce pr nciples, a number of people's caf £ -> in some of the lea'linu; thoroughfares of the most densely-populated parts of the metropolis, to serve as a counter attraction to th* public-house. The pre: liminary steps were taken at a meeting over which the Earl of Shaftesbury presided. On Friday afternoon, March 6th, not long oefore th* rising of the Bow-street m*<ristrate, Capt^in Brown," a witness for the defence in the Tichborne was brought up in the custodv ot Inspector Clarke^ charged with per- jury. Mr Pollard from the Treasury, attended on the part of the prosecution. The sworn information of Captain Oates and Captain HO:ik'DS, uuon which the warrant was granted, was read ovt-r, and the prisoner was remanded, re- fusing to say anything at present. At last week's meeting of the Londnn School Board, Canon Gregory's motion respecting the policy of the old Board underwent another long discussi«n. After the de- livery of many more speeches, the ]>revious question, a motion proposed by Air H. Gover early in the debate, carried by a majority of 24 to 21, and Canon Gregory's proposition for a committee of inquiry consequently tela to the ground. The governor of the lie de Saint M ;.rg"uerhe kss been dis- missed, and the reason is said to b-then. he treated Marshal Baziine with unnecessary rigour. lNilt-43MO Basaine is, now living with her husband, and has a cemforta^le acarrmeat in the fort. But she is not allowed to walk ;ib<<«t the island, and can only take exercise like the prisoner himself on the terrace fronting ths donjon keep. The two sows an t daughter of Marshal Bazaine are witt feim Lord Carnarvon lias been presented with an from the Aborigines' Protection Society -on his return to the Celonial-office. Amongst the subjects touched upon was that of Polynesian labour. His lorrlship said that he had been compelled to consider several cases of a very sh. cking description, and he could assure the (deputation that every. thing reasonable within the power of the Government should be done in order to ran<-dy the evil. At present they were awaiting the report of a Ceoimission of Inquiry. Dr Dickson, of Jersey, was to have been married to Miss Nicholson, of Loanend, near Berwick. On Thursday, March 5,he was staying at theKing's Arms Hotel,Berwick. When called in the morning he was found dead, sitting dressed in his night clothes. An artery in his arm (which rested over a bath) had been severed, and he had bled to death. On a piece of paper found near him the deceased requested his brother to excuse the trouble he would cause him, but added that he could not bear the mental strain any longer. Great preparations had been made for the marriage.. Sir Daniel Gooch, M.P., in presiding over the half- yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway Company, referred to the question of the Board of Tride supervision of railways. While he did not deny that the Government ought to possess some control, he thought it should be pro- perly exercised. He suggested that a committee consisting of the chief officers and superiors of the various large com- panies should be formed, whose duty it should be to inspect anything connected with the working of railways, signals &c., and recommend what was right for adoption, and then a Government department should have the power to enforce its being carried out A resolution protesting against the passenger duty, and directing the Board to take steps to obtain its repeal, was carried. A point of much public interest formed the ground of an action for libel, which was heard a day or two ago at the Leicestershire Assizes. The defendant, Mr Freer tele- graphed to the father of a girl who was in his employment, and whom he suspected of dishonesty, "Come at once if you wish to save your child the disgrace of appearing before the magistrates." In a second telegram, he siid ,.Lf you do not come at once or reply, your child will be given into the hands of the police. She has taken money from the j till." The hearing of the case served to clear the girl's cha- I racier, ana tne jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £100, the Judge, Mr Justice Brett, ruling that telegrams passing through the post-office containing libels were not privileged but oublished. Leave .was given for the defendant to move for the verdict to be set aeide, on the point that teleerams .we privileged. 5

NEW M. P., s. (From the Times). PENNANT, the HOD. GEORGE SHOLTO DOUGLAS, who has been returned in the Conservative interest for Carnarvon- shire, in the place of Mr Thomas L. D. Jones-Parry, is the eldest son of Lord Penrhyn (who sat as M.P. for the county from 1841 down to his elevation to the Peerage in 1866), by his first wife, Juliana Isabella Mary, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the late Mr George H. Dawkins-Pennant, of Penrhyn Castle, North Wales. He was born in the year 1836, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He is a magistrate and deputy- lieutenant for Carnarvonshire, and late Major-Com- mandant of the Royal Carnarvonshire Rifles. Major Douglas-Pennant, who married in 1860 Pamela Blanche, C' daughter of Sir Charles R. Rushout, represented the county from 1866 down to the General Election of November, 1868, when he was defeated, His return on the present occasion involves the gain of a seat in Carnar- shire to the Conservative party. PULESTON, Mr JOHN HENRY, banker, of London, and of Marden-park, Caterham, Surrey, and of Brynogion, near Ruthin, North Wales, who has been elected for Devon- port, in the Conservative interest, in the room of Mr John pelftware Lewis, is the eldest son of the late Mr John Puleston, of Plas Newydd, near Ruthin, by Mary daughter of Mr John Jones, of Tryddyn, Wales. He ) was born in the year 1830, and was educated at the Grammar School, Ruthin, Denbighshire, and subse- quently at King's College School, London. He married, in 18o7, Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Edward Lloyd, of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire. Mr Puleston, who is a partner in the banking firm of Jay Cooke, M'Culloch, and Co., of Lombard-street, now enters Parliament for the first time. He resided for many years in the United States, previous to entering on business in London and he was invited to contest the representation of Denbigh- shire, along with Sir W. W. Wynn at the last election, but declined. The return of Messrs Puleston and Price in the place oflthe former members for Devonport involves the gain of two seats to the Conservative party. ROBERTSON, Mr HENRY, of Pahs near Corwen, Merioneth- shire, who has been returned in the Liberal interest for the borough of Shrewsbury, in the room of Mr James Figgins, is the eldest son of the late Mr Duncan Robert- son, and was born in the year 1816. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, where he took his degrees in Arts. He became a civil engineer. His name is well known as the engineer in chief of the Shrewsbury and Chester, the Shrewsbury and Hereford, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and other lines of railway. He is a magistrate for Denbighshire, and a magist, at, and deputy lieutenant for Merionethshire, ot wincn county he served as High Sheriff about four years ago. He is also an ex- tensive coal and iron master in Wales. He represented Shrewsbury in the LibeM interest from 1862 to 1865, when he retired, so that he is not wholly new to Parlia- mentary life. Mr Robertson, who purchased the estate of Pal6 from the Lloyd family in lSli3, married in 1S46 Elizabeth, daughter of Mr William Dean, of London. The return of Messrs Robertson and Cotes in the place of their Conservative predecessors, involves the gain of two seats to the Liberal party.

[ POLITICS. B Sir John PakingLon is B:ron Hampton, of Hlimpto!l Lo i,t tt, and of Westwood, iu the county of Worcebter. 01' ci°8-Srth n0r?inat!0D is fixed for Saturday. Ho opn sition expected to the return of ST I Eiphinstone. Liverpool nomination is fixed for Friday • o op. ,.4tioH "North. Hants nomination will take place on Saturdaj, r° opposition is expected. wii-6 ad^-T l^e Commons wid be moved bv Sin William Stirling Mac well, and seconded by Mr V\ R. Callender. A petition h^s bren presented a-mst the return of Palmer and Beil for North Durham A nation will also be presented against the return for S ■ Du oaniJ A Home Rule meeting was held in Dublin on 'ay Mr T. O. Gooman Mahon presiding. Mr Butt, Mr n van' Mr Callan, and Mr Marten, wen- o .-111. A resolution was passed, expressing a hope that i i would be defeated in Dublin couDty. It was observe tM no Irishman, except Lord Cairns, had a -at the Cabinet. Mr Disraeli and Sir Stafford Northcote have r iv.-d a deputation from the Anti-Income Tax League ^uced by Sir Charles Russell. Mr Attenborougn, -!i i ,ran of the League, said they considered they had a p- < r e a rn to the advocates of a free breakfast table Th-y t ■■■u fit it unwise and selfish to agitate for the repeal duio D only- He asked for the total repeal of the; i rIle re.. moval of the machinery by which it was suuLo ed Mr Disraeli asked what taxe- they prop, .,ed as su v tms Mr Green, Bristol, respecifully declined to inenti 11 v Bfx Robinson, Gloucester, said the large surplus « with reasonable economy, provide for the ab lit, • 1 t e taxj Mr DUraeli said in the grave consideration wh>e ii,v W'3rc giving to this important subject the rep.-es- ns Lieo should receive due attention. We learn from t.he Observer "a meeting ;e viing members of the ]a\ G 'Verntnent was heid in -.„ it to consider %<? arrangements requisite tor the :>•» of the Opposition. The result )f the meeting vaa m the impression that Mr Gladstone will decline t. ttik- v etive part a Jeider of tLk Liberal party during the <■ u; _■ ses- sion. The name of the Marquis of Harti ii i- u* ad interim leader was put, forward by au ilflu-- ti, w>a of the meeting, but no final agreement Wa. c "ne the subject. t fhe Daily News -,aytt Mr Gladsu>n»- w are mformed, announced his intention of not acting a- ader. Hopes, however, a^e entertained that thi* de -on tion may be modified into a retirement Ju ring the t ses- 1 sion only, tither alt.>gether, or, what Tv.>u! ira- ble, from the merely routine duties >f n-,»d- o It is hoped that in the course of a few days a definite eiion will be arrived at. The Women's Disaoilities Removal Bili «'t iced in the forthcoming session by Mr Forsyth, Q.( i for Maryle'ione. ( he result of the general el»-ct pn ft considerable net tjain to the friends of th- c f ir as the "pinion" of members have been declare rt- vere at the time of the dissolution 227 mem I "ers '• i voted or declared in favour of the principle, 40 .» aiuot; majority agtios!, 101. In the new Parli.tn. Ire 218 avowed fri-nds f the Bill, and 230 nrr-m -i op- ponents The h->*tde m tj irity is therefor u rd rom 101 to 12. and the minority include- the Prime \1, ? r and three other leading rnemb-rs of the cah-ne- -» iu j rltv of members of 111.. Government who i, ¡, "Ie r CoUi:;>OiiS

WORK AND WORKERS The Rh, si-ok miners are determined to rr> -i u r-nu of wage?. A meeting of managers and miners' d^leg c: to be held, an if no settlement be made n j.t w; rtnke of 4,000 hands. The min-rs employed at the gas coal seam 1:; 1 :r- collieri^s, Fifeshir-, have struck work iu Co ,-t-qr nr reduction of *a^-es. A. strike is threatened >n « estate f-r the same reason. On Saturday, M iv he :jy8. fell 1-. b 1. per ton through >ut Fitoshire. J cot A couside-aole nuinoer of agricultural labour out in Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, S jffoik, !"Ck< Norfolk, and other cfun ies Iu 50me n>8' ^S'J1T out arises from farmers prop"ng to reduc oei .cl most cases from the refusal „f unionists* »'u' i as f.»r crea»3Mn 11 On Monday, March P/th. at a meetir .c^ OT t;1. the West Lancashire ,'oal Associati va, neld in i D°' 8 0 it was resolved to r'lve a fortnight's r .ot /Ce oi r r °0^ 15 per cent in t'ne w tges of colliers. This »• -n O "in corisrque'ace of the recent reduction* m Wa,> titkei coal and tti- depression of the trade." e 'ce 03 The uifiv-etnent inausjnrated at Wit>an estab lshiag a Miners' Relief Society, for th- ° providing for widows aud children of min.J K,iled bv I accidents, aud for affording elief in case of disabU,,J?» has met w.th pie.a.ingjmccess. At the firs- an ing on Saturday, March i th, it, was stated tha ^Jiei balance of ..ver £ 5,000 in hand, and the scU.. of r T & miiteri iily increased. was Some of the lodges of Durham miners hav- be,d n, ^r^iT°lUtlOD6 "lakme C irpPulsorv tl)it no S shall drink beer at any public-house, or man ;,ur(-n 's .I any shop, where either 1 c at to have voteH for the Conservanvl- .raft*sm^kn(iWZr parties so offending o Dav a fi *Sections William Crawford secreLr. t", fhf mt" uui',u" Mr again t the pr.,c-edintrs of rh 'he urn .1., 1 a- protested leaatnend ^hThrel lodges lCiHCUlar he k*5 S'fsraed^o tTv^S a servant of "n £ dlStlnCtly understood that w-,ile I am a servant of the Durham miners I am not their s-rf-neithS will I be 1 he mere exercise of my own independent judgment ha. roused the ire of many narrow-m:nded an(] bigoted • The Council, ,f the Labour Representation League have issued an address to the member.R, in which they that of 2 tt'?ate^eneralteSl Kmmg l°, be rePre^nt aives of labour at lue lare general election, onlv two wore r ^a u I they are recognized as men^ uudSundbJ" ?1 1 ^Ut question, and devoted tr, th.. ,ng the lalK,ur was made at the time, that the candidature 0)£ thpse working- class represt-ntatives 10st 8eeoralsea.ts to the 1'hp were all r f °y askmg why those candidates, who minajtr,nf ?K TLK er,al princiPles, ^ere regarded by the ^in an^ui^'ri^dly^mint^'wklf^C'° "1 Hall last week, in support of the movement for obtain- the redress of ,{rievances complained of by railway servants. The Mayor Chamberlain) presided, and rnade an introductory speech, cordial 5Upport to the move- Jlaerwryk- rd8 addressed the meeting at length uShe overwork and underpayment of various classes of radw^ Mrl TimSfn am0tW-°fMr J°8eph Areh' Seconded 5 Mr S. Timmins a resolution of sympathy witb the movZ ment was passed and, on the motion of Air J. S wS injury arising tromthTnegnlenlfoTZ^1118 ° £ their employers. Offence or faulty arraagements of

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