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agric ultu be. TLE ROYAL SHOW AND FARMJNG IN CCMBSELAJ. D TBY ITNIAY DUN, ESQ.) T?E ELEMENTS are EVIDENTLY adverse to the Royal A Society. The KILBNM DISASTERS have been repeated, certainly on a SOSASWHA: SMALBR SCALE. Ar;oth»er annual meetirg HAS beer, CA^ROD by four days' HENRY TatD, WVCH beg»« whilst the JUDGES W^TE busy en TKRI MOI' -71 SA;' CO" T;N;OD with brief intermission us ii ICURA^AYAFSERS.JEN, REARED in a moiat climate the CUMBRIANS reok not fcr waver, of rain or STORM, and 4O Gov peopie, be- rVes tkk^bcleers, trindgfd ABOUT cn the Tburs- D> Y with WE: and mud. Manyladiss, DETERMINED EG- to Icve «t:oh an exhibition, sallied for^h in waterproofs and goloshes; and is IS pcuiariy <U«i<I-cd that -WTI^EB THEIR IR.em FCR?, Sir W.'?rid Law,or,n, ia so fotd of water, Cumbrians cannot eoBPflain rt their full share of it On Friday, the We laat IIAY of TIE MEETING, tho sua shona cat bitll astly and aèè::vl TO the pieiaresqaoness o! the well arranged shoiv-y<»rd, fLirsied by the red towers cf tajlisio, ARJ THE GREEN slopes of the Cumberland tiiis. tiLce the Rcyal visited Carlisle a 1855, agri- euliuie has teen maty and great changes. She baa enjoyed 20 years of prograea and prosperity. Mere recently, however, she hsa had five ytiarrs of reverses and depression. Duties the juart-er of a century there have been good yeara and bad, upa and downs of prices, bat growing industrial prosperity, tolerably continuous until 1375, steadily augmented the demand for and the price of many articles of farm produce, notably of meat, milk, and butter. But the cost of manu- facture baa also increased. Bents for 20 years frcm 1855 advanced at the rate of about 1 per cent, per uimni, rates have doubled, labour has been enhanced in about the same proportion, for net cnly dees it cost more, but in Cumberland, aa is tco gererally the case, it haa deteriorated in a'nalitv, whilst the hours of labour are now included between seven a.m. and 5 30 p.m. This increased expenditure is to some extant ecunterbalanced by improved resources, miny of which have been set forth and nurtured under the auspices of the Royal Agricultural Society. Better implements and machinery, improved by the knowledge and emulation inspired by theae annual meetirgs, hasten and perfect labour. Steam ploughing and cultivation promptly and tffeetualjy prepare the land, and speadily overtake lagging arrears of work. A; C&rJieJe, last week, an ingenious digging apparatus promises to be of practical let vice. Mowers esd reapers,scarcely represented at tha Rcyal Carlisle in 1855, made their debut tl ree years later at Cheater. Twenty-five years ago threshing machines only beat out the grain, which had to be tediously winnowed and weighed up, entailing three separate operations. Now the threefold process is economically ejected by one effective apparatus. Drillirg machines and horse htea: adapted to follow up the cleaning, have beet ptrfected and mere widely distributed. A potato setting machine ia this year brought out, which untiringly deposits the seed as regularly and CC.L3C;"1:.tkns1} ae the most skilful aeld hand. In aiili another ixapcziant department of tila farm great, progress has been tnada of le:e years in the rapid ccdir g cf the milk, ia setting it ia deep instead of in shallow vessel?, in the detioes fir the quick eepaiation of the sieam, in improve- irenta in churns—ell important details of dairy management which have beaa worked out by the extcutive of the Royal, and which illustrates well the valuab.'o practical service which is beingdona by the scciety. The Boysl meetings have be-snaqually valuable in laiairg and diffusing a high standard of exoel- lence amongst the various breeds of live stock. Agriculturists and amateurs examining picked specimens at these annual gatherings have been infused with a healthy spirit of emulation. A wider demand both at home and abroad has been festered for reaJy gcod animals. They have been distributed very widely ever the country. In no department of British Agriculture has improve- ment been more substantial or general. Throughout both Great Britain and Ireland, on large as well as on sm all holdings, dating the laIlij quarter of a century, more useful, economical live stock are reared. The north-western counties were early alive to the importance of improving their herds by careful a elections, and the use of well descended bulls. Even before the Carlisle meeting of 1855 the Cumberland and Westmoreland farmer bought, or joined with several of his- neighbours, to buy a really first class shorthorn bull. Even ia such earlier lower priced times these far-sighted breeders "were satisfied to pay 50 to 100 guineas for a gcod sire. The economy cf the system wisely persisted in is abundantly demonstrated in the general distribu- tion of so many shapely, well. thriving, profitable beasts, and in the gratifying fact that nearly one half the prizes for shorthorn males have been retained in the county. Similar pains have more rt cently been taken with sheep. Good border Leicestera from the south of Scotland have beea introduced. Cheviots have been still move generally cultivated, and comprise trie chief flacks in the valleys and lower hill ranges. At higher altitude?, amidst the mountains and fella, the hardy Herdwick roams, contributes some good specimens to the ehow yard, where, unaccustomed to such trammels, they had to be ehained to their pens. When three to four years old they furnish the choicest of mutton, weighing 15 lbs. or M lbs. per quarter, and clip a fleece in which hair ia freely present of 3 lbs. to 4 lbs. Cumberland has long been famous for her pigs, mostly of a useful middle-sized breed. About 400 axe disposed of most weeks in Carlisle, and pig feeding appears to be more general than in many other parts of the country. Cumberland and Westmoreland have bred many superior hunters and harness horses, stoat of bone, and full of courage, and with such safe, good action, aa is seldom acquired by oolts reared on perfectly level land. Mr Christopher Wilson's famounstud of C, at Kendal Junction, with upwards of a score of euch admirabla sires as he has shown at Kilburn, Carliele.and elsewhere, must again bring the north-west to the iroat as the breeding ground of superior hacks and eobs. The Btseets of Car- .a of Car. lisle and Penrith, and the stables of many farmers, furniah capital specimens of stout, active Clydes- dales, not usually go poaderoua aa those of Lanarkshire or Dumbarton, but hardy and smart, with gcod short legs and sound feet, and well suited for their hilly country. The Cumbrian agriculturist in essentially a atoek farmer. He osually endeavours to divide hit chances amongst several descriptions of stock. His arrangements are shaped for the snoeesaful keeping of live stock. On moat low land farms the cattle and sheep bred are. now fed out. The disposition coismos a few years baok in favour of increasing the arable culture has wisely been abandoned. The amocit of grass extends; the seeds are kept down aa extra year. The restricted arable area is better and more liberally cultivated. There ia larger consumption of home grown corn, and a freer purchase of concentrated foods. Very little wheat is grown. Oats and barley are almost the only grain crops. Special pains are taken with roots, which are this year looking remarkably clean and more promising than they are further south. In many districts the breadth devoted to potatoes ia enlarged; they are particularly luxu. riant; several aorta are generally grown so as to lessen the risks of dimme, which hitherto, how. ever, has net yet been diacoverad. In sheltered suitable spots near e towns, market gardening ia pioaecuted. Making the beat of these resources, the indMtricca farmers of these north western counties have not suffered so seriously from the agricultural depression of reeoat years as have their brethren of tha Midland and iiaatem coun- ties.— Verbum sat.

(i ROU 01:R AGRICULTURAL C0XTEMF0KAivX £ -3.) CARLISLE FIBfeT PRIZE FARM. T he first pr'<13 farm in the class f?r "ara ois 0? u ;i?<1 farae, above 200 acres, to which prizs c? i 10 wfNaw.a^d by the Royal Agricu =.Sural ,.CL!«tv o Jtngland during the show, the oro r,rty of tfr K H ^igon, Dallas Tcwsr, irrrje- Mr W-.liam Handiey, of Greec Head thirteen years, Jromyear to year terminable May 12, aceotnn? to the custom of Westmoreland 1 ure are 2*1 acres equal!, divided^n «abfe lanrt and grass. In this respect there has been Bo charge for many years. The arable ia liX turnip and barley land adapted for folding and Mr faandky formerly folded half his roots on the prcttcd. ife sne^p fattened well on this Dl*n btit the coru become tco heavy, and therefore at the present time the fcota-ait swedes, except a few jB3B$eic"-are drawn off in late autusnn in iN.-vember by cbcJce, cr any time before Cariac- stored in heaps, and carried to the sheep an the pastuie through the winter, and tiil the end cf A!arch, lie pastures on this farm are the bfavier IATID, but noc on clay. They have been II uth improved by this Pyatem of feeding the tot)ta OR THFTN with a large AM^NNT of c&k? and e, n. The land lies conveniently around the eirg:« fccjrcstead. The abonr of FARR: "DENTS 1 ti tve SERTUETI?, all iivire in the farihcuee,

THE &T&AM DIGGER. The aypearance, or rather the re-appearance, of the sttam digger" at the Cariialo SBO V of the Boyal Agricultural Scciety of England, in a more promising shape than has hitherto distinguished it, is particularly opportune just now, wfien the agricultural mind has been led by able teachers co belxvo it possible that, ^ITH the largely increasing mjcrtations from America, the capability of prcducing, profitably, corn and meat in tllia country 18 an end. Not partaiing in ifcesa g'comy ANTICIPA^I'R.G, but, on THE contrary, feeling assured that with A population doubiir J itself in a !n;!u'a lifetime, while the area cf crop.growing land is decreasing every year, we have only to exert our power of selecting such crops as will beat meet the current denial da, AND use the best means of growing them, to be independent of competition, I desire to call attention to the fact TH_I much more practical tencfl-, -FFCNLD be done to agriculture by promo dcg ETCH a modification of steam cultivation as will place it at the command of the smailer farmers- I refer particularly to the cccupierscf heavy lands — THEN by any legislation aiming at the restricuon cf fcod importation. Up to this time steam cultivation has been choked by want of capital among those who ehculd adept it, and if it be true, as stated by jenr reporter— as I believe it to be-that the TERRIER work of the digger" costa the person uemg it no more than half that of ploughing by horEes," a means of saving may be effected EQUAL to the year's rent of an average sizod heavy JAID faim by the substitution of steam for horse labour. Why should cot the digger be mada available to the ordinary farmers of tain country ? It is the want of capital only that stands in the way, and it ia hardly too much to expect that the landed interest iteelf should devise a means by combina- tion of providing so economical a power as STEAM, to tenants who have not the means of securing it themselves.—J. BAILEY DENTON, Orchard court, btevenage, July 12.

LUMPY TUMS. Lumpy Turns, as mentioned by ycur correspon- dent, ARE simply the oatmeal and milk porridge of the North-west of England, and as such, focm the chief sustenance of many grown persona and children, especially as breakfast and supper. We consider it better to put the whole of the milk en the fire, with just a sufficiency of water to COt er the bottom ot the pan, in order to prevent the MIJK aitung to the bottom. Wien the milk is at bciling point stir in the meal, and alioT it to ccme to boiling point again. If it remain longer on the fire the meal is made slippery and un- palatable, and the milk is frequently bishoped" ty burning on the pan bottom. The salt is put in with the milk. Ice greater variety of ways we have cooked hominy the more wo are impressed with its usefulness. Made with milk into blanc- mange, it ia very nice, and it is cheap enough to form a refreshing relish to the harvest hands in hot weather.

NEW HYBRID WHEAT. The Haddington Courier says Our towns- man, Mr C. S. Doda, is following in the wake of his uncle, the late Mr Patrick Shirreff, aa an experimental grower of new wheatB, and with no inconsiderable saiccess. In the market last Friday he exhibited specimens of his new hybrid wheat, which he has named" Climax," along with known varieties grown side by side, and all sown the same day (October 31 laat). The kinda in the trial are Climax, Trump, Woolyear, and Squarehead. The Climax came into ear on the 19ch ult., and is fully shot out, while none of the other varieties on tte 25th ult. were more than showing ear in the shot blades, and to all appearanoe would not be aa far advanced aa the Climax before another week yet, or say twelve to fourteen days later. The appearance of the spring Bowings was even n:ore remarkable. Theae were sown on March 18. The Chmax sown on that day waa in ear on June 22, while the Trump and Woolyear were only in the eariy Btage of the shot blade, and the Squarehead little more than grass." It will thus be observed that the Climax, sown on March 18, was in ear fully a week before the aatumn sown known varieties. The Climax is a robust- looking plant, with strong straw and well til. lered, the grain seems to be of good quality but how it will go on the barn floor has yet to be proved.

VEKTILATIOiToF DRAINS. The ventilation of drains is, according to my experience, a most important matter, greatly t. SeotiBg their utility and durability. How often I hear, especially after the wet season of 1879, that the 11 Government" four-foot drains on Btrong soils were of no use of course I knew this to be incorrect, for during Buch continuous downpours the cask or earth was kept full to oveiflowing faster than the tap or dram could discharge it. When drains are recently made we seldom hear ccmplainta of their not acting, and this because air has free accesa to follow the water, for drains are like taps in a cask, they canuot discharge unless air is admitted at the vent hole-for the water will not flow-eo it ia in stiff or dense soils which, when consolidated by time and pressure, pass both air and water very slowly. When drama are recently made the pieces of earth fitting in the drain are thrown in loosely, and theea is a feee passage of air to the drains, but in after years consolidation gradually takes place and water passes more slowly. How much old drainage is improved by a crosa out drain, or an opening of the earth near the pipes The late sagaeioufe Josiah Parkea used to have bricked recesaea or boxes at intervals, into which the inch pipe discharged the water, the outlet pipe being three inches below it, so that air waa always pre- sent, and the flow more rapid, through these small conduits the vent or air pipe waa ttiui always open. Some years after I drained my land the outlets which opened into the open ditchea were led into a larger pipe or receiver, and the ditchea tmad up. lhe drains became gradually less active, and we ascertained that it arose from the air not passing into the mouths of the drains so freely as it lased to do. I remember a singular instance of benefit derived from having ventila- ting openings at the beginning as well as at the end of the drain s. It was recorded in print that no rain had fallen until some time after the fi?ld had been drained, but nevertheless the eecp waa wonderfully improved, and it was attributed, very justly, to the drying of the aoil by subter- ranean aeration. The engineer who effected this alwaya admitted air at both enda of the pipea. How wrong it is to allow vegetation to accumu- Late around or over the outlet, and thus impede free circulation of air This ia why I atrongly recommend iron pipea aa outlets, six or nine feet long, most of their length being firmly embedded in the aoil, their outside nozzles projecting are nnddaturbable. It is a great economy, because of immobility and indeetructibility. Earthen and brick outlets are frequently injared or overgrawr, and the drainage spoilt. I recently greatly im. proved some old drainage by crosa cutting and ventilation. For spring uprising water I have not fcund aeration necessary. In tenacious, stiff, denae soils ventilation is especially neceaaary. Where several drains are conducted into one closed drain or leader, ventilation at various points ia especially needful.—Correspondent,

HAY CARTING BY STEAM. At Staplehnrst on Monday, the novel spectacle was witnessed of hay carting by steam, a long line of gcods trucks being loaded by .ho loose gangs and supernumeraries from each station with the hay cut by the sides of the South Eastern Rail. way, while the train moved Blowly along towards Pluckley, where its burden was staoked.

GARDEN OF THE FARM. GREENHOUSE. PITS, AND FKAMBS.—The green- house ccntalns more flowers now that it had done since the spring bulbs went out of bloom, and with care will be gay and cheerful well into the winter. The magnificent lilium auratum makes a grand appearance with five or six immense flowers on a stem; and lilium lancifolium, or L. epecicenm, as it should bemore properly called, will eoon be in flower. Weak doses of liquid mature greatly aasist; theee attractive objects while their bucis are developing, and by all means they should have it. FLOWER GABDBJT.—The budding of roses should be BROUGHT to a close now, and preparations b3 TR.ACEAT once for propagating by means of cuttings W„ere L°SEA on their own roots are preferred to tbese on THE briar. The half ripened shoots, if ci.R fciec! KRTNLY INTO a light, rich nancy soil, covered wl"h a frame or hand-light. Keep the cuttings CJCHC AE J BEADED for A time, and sprinkle them cccssiczshy to kEep the foliage fresh. Tie out the J'ce GROWTHS of JJAHLIAJ before they get broken by the wind, HASKT FBITIT A-N-D "VEGETABLE GARDEN.— Exhausted crops of PEAS »TD beans Bhould be cleared Cff as toon as POSSIBLE and the ground be htdviiy matured and deep, DNG preparatory to sowing the winter crop Of spinich next month. Autumn sown onions will soon be fit for harvest- ing, therefore look over the orop and lay the tops of the" bull. necked ones, so that au MAYBG ready for gathering at the same time. Shallots should also be lifted as soon as the bulbs ARE ripe. The planting of winter greens of all kinds ehf uId be pushed on as fast as poasible while tae weather ia favourable.

A1IEBICAN GARDEN NOTES FOR JULY. SEED GBOWRXG.«»RHE following is a ;In spplfed 1D Acerea, wfcsre TH? lard 13 tiluch TSORE than JN this country, to such kitchen garden ree's ae cabbages, radish, lettuce, &J., which are being sown at this season cf the year Put the seeds in a canvas bag, dip them in warm water, end COHr with MOUT Band in a warm situation, fianrrr-G often. All soon as the outer shell of the Mtd begins to crack sow at once in a moist soil previously prepared. The 0B?30B of tnia ia to hasten germination as much as possible. PBIFAMNS THB GROUND.—The ground of the kitchen garden must be irrigated well, allowed to lie a few days, then dug up or ploughed, and made mellow upon the surface. Tho PE*« and beans can be soaked a few hours before planting. Put in drills and mulch well, and this last ia im- portant as the sun soon dries out the moisture. Lay a heavy covering cf litter alorg tho sides of the drill, examinirg it frequently, and removing when the young plants appear. Various other desirable seeds may be sown in a similar manner, and can be started in the driest weather. Mar- ket gardeners uae for a mulch a coating of manure on each side of the row, and water tbicugh it, eniicfaing the soil. SLUGS.—In order to keep slugs from your garden, do net waste your oriingo peel, bat make an inciticn round it midway, and remove care- fully in two halves. Take two oups and place theEI bellew downward j, one en tha GRASS and tho other amcrget the PLANTS AND vegetables. At the end of a few days you wili ba rid of all sings, black or grey. Every morning yon will fiad that they have taken refuge under the cups of peel and can F AMILY be destroyed. THB APRICOT TBE2.—The wotst disease to which tie spricci TREE F^HICH baR as few diseases as any other fruit tree) is Bubjsct, is the gum. The remedy for this ia, cut away all the diseased part to the perfectly healthy wood; scrape the wound entirely dry, and then coat the whole over with a solution of gum shellac, dissolved in alcohol to about the consistency of paint. This is the best preparation tried for covering the large wound made in all trees by pruning and other- wise. It can be applied with a brush in the same manner as paint; it eoon hardens, and becomes impervious to wind and water, it forme, as it were, a scab, and aa the young growth ia laid on it is lifted up FIND finally drops off.

THE WEA1HER AND THE CROPS. THE EFFECT OF THE THUNDER- STORMS. The Mark Lane Express of Monday says The rain storms which have prevailed drring the week have laid the grain crops in many districts, and have tended to emphasise that firmness wfaiohhas recently characterised the grain trade. Owing to the increased inroads of consumption upon granary stock prices have been well sustained, and in some casea slightly exceeded for English wheat, but the offerings have been so small, and lthe quality so inferior, that choice has been much restricted, and millers have found difficulty in satisfying their need. A sood demand has consequently been experienced for certain qualities of foreigD, notably Australian and New Zealand varieties, for which 498 to 518 has been readily paid. Bed wheat continues unusually Bcarce in the London market, particularly Saxonska and winter Amerioa, 80 that there appears little prospect of a deolins in tha imme- diate future, while a smart rise ia on the cards. The publication of the stocks of wheat in London shows a great decrease on Iaat year, as also do those of maize, but cats do not show much variation. In both these articles business has ruled quiet, but in the case of maize this is chiefly uue to scarcity of spot oorn.

LOCAL EXHIBITORS AT THE CARLISLE SHOW. At the meeting of the Boyal Agricultural Show, held at Carlisle, the Bristol Waggon Worka Company exhibited a large assortment of their carts, waggons, and carriages, and displayed all kinds, fTcm the neat light spring tip-cart to the heavy carts, suitable for farmers, contrsatora, and builders. We are informed that, among otaera, they have received orders from her lady- ship the Coonteas of Derby, the Eight Hon. the Earl of Lebim, THO Bight Hon. Lord Arthur Cecil. Sir JrhnMajor^anka, Bart., Sir J. Camp- bell O!d'3, Bait., Lady Armstrong, &3. Two specialities en their stand ara wcrthy of notiJÐ- alight waggonette and a Parisian phaeton. wlich, for elegance of design and completeness of finish, cannot be surpassed. We may add that Mr Charles D. Phillips, of Newport, is the sole agent for this company for Monmouthshire and South Wales.

THE EEV.GABNONS WILLIAMS ON NATIONAL INSURANCE At the fortnightly meeting of the Brecon Board 01 Guardians, on Saturday last, ths chairman, the Rev. Prebendary Garncna Williams, intro- duced the subject of national insurance, in conse- quence of a communication whioh had been received from the National Providenoe League. The scheme, be states, was briefly this-that before the age cf 21 the sum of .£10, or Is 3d per week foe three yeara, whioh employers of labour would be empowered to deduct from the wagee, should be paid by every youth into a national club, through the agency of the post-cffices. This payment once made, if it were national AND compulsory, would provide him with 8a A week during siokness, and after the age of 70 with 43 a week permanently, lhe scheme was startling in its simplicity. He confessed that when he first heard of it he thought it too good to be true. and was inclined to look upon it as impracticable and visionary. But, being deeply impressed, as no one who had to do with the administration of the Poor L,), could fpil to be, with the demoralising effect of pauperism^ he determined thoroughly to examine the subject. Having dene so, he waa convinced, not only that the principle of the scheme, without pledging himself to the exact details, was feasible, but tnat, sconer or later, it would be adopted. After the experience of the Education Act, it could not be said that the country would not bear compulsion. If parents, for the welfare of the State and the good of their chil. dren, be compelled to pay for their edueation, why should not a man for the welfare of the State and his own independence be compelled to provide against sickness and old age ? Again, why should the thrifty have to maintain the unthrifty. A large portion of the poor rates were now paid by those who by honest industry have laid by for a rainy day. Why should they be taxed to provide for the idle And the drunken — for thoee who have dissipated their earnings, if it be possi- ble by law to prevent Buch an iniquity ? The system is even now acted upon in certain oases. Compulsory deductions are made in the army. Two-pence a day are kept back from every soldier, as deferred pay. The whole of this sum ia now given to him when he is discharged. It would be groatly to his advantage if one-half of it were spent in inauiance. In the police force a sum is actually deducted for insurance, and this is the ccue in other depart. ments. National insurance, when in full opera. tion, would immensely reduce the poor rate. It would-bury pauperism, and give a new birth to independence. It would give to every man a direct pereonal intereat in the welfare and .stability of the country. The scheme was now within the sphere of practical legislation. IS H»d been ably advo- cated a few weeks einoe by Lord Carnarvon, one of the meet philanthropical statesmen ct the day, in the House of Lords. Articles O' deep interest had been written upon it by Mr Blackley in the nineteenth Ceatury and the Conti niporajry Review, It had been favourably COM MENTED upon by some of the leading journals. Upon the council were men of mark and note, in Church and State; amongst them Lord Shaftesbury, the Bishop of Winchester, and Cardinal Matnizg. The secre- tary of the league was Mr John Lloyd, whoae energiea were indomitabte.

THE POSTMASTEB-GENERAL AND INLAND TELEGRAMS- The Council of the Society of Arts have addressed a memorial to the Postmaster-General with reference to the reduction of the tariff for inland telegrams, iu their memorial the council express the opinion that the present minimum charge of Is on inland telegrams might be reduced to 6d, and they submit that the charges on inland telegrams in thia country are higher than in any other European countries. A deputation from the council waited upon Mr Fawcett on Saturday at the General Post Office in support of the memo- rial, and Lord Alfred Churchill and Mr Chadwick, C. B ? having spoken in favour of the reduction of the price of inland telegrama, Mr Fawcett said the financial effect of the intro- duction of a sixpenny telegraph service would be a total coat cf £ 167,600 in increased working expenaea, loss of revenue, and interest on extra capital: It should be borne in mind that the PcBt-cffice had two diatinct functions to discharge. In the first plaoe, they had to supply a revenue for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in the Beccnd place to supply eertain services to the country. The amount of revenue they had to raise was not for them to determine—that was a part cf the general policy of the Govern- ment but what they had to do was to obtain the revenue whilst affording the maximum amount of advantage upon the entire community. If it were decided that the country was ia a position to afford the sacrifice of revenue cf .£167,000, then not a word of opposition to the reduction to a sixpenny rata would be raised by his department. They would accept the decision, and would endeavour aa far as possible to make the sixpenny telegrams work aa efficiently aa the shilling telegrama were now doing. Lord Alfred Churchill, in thanking Mr Fawcett for his courteous reception or the deputation, said that the Council felt that their case waa very much strengthened, and that the time was not far distant when the Chancellor of the Exchequer would see his way to consenting to the reduction sugget,ted. The deputation then withdrew.

The Gaulois claims tbe monument in West- "T YI M *KE right of Prince Napoleon, TO *° TO Zululand in the Connaught, who was abont to be married, and that the Queen, acoepting hia services, called him her "son. V The colorelcyofthe 4th Hussars, vacant by the death of Lord George Paget, has been conferred upon General Parlby, of tne 21at Hussars, who served for many years with the 4th: and Lieutenant-General the Hon. Jamea Macdonald, private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge, haa been gazetted to the cUocelcy of the 21et HR, saaiB. The eolicHore of Sir Thomas Bouch, the de. SIGNER of the Tay Bridge, have obtained from Colonel Yell and and Mr Barlow, two of themem- bers OF the court of inquiry, a statement that Mr fiothejy WM not warranted in wpwacDtiDpf their cpiniona as ocnccrrinz with hifl own In xaatteranot referred to in their report. DINIJBXI OWB29 A3?D CO» 8 A B C EALTWAT I N TASIEB, EVERY Traveller SHOULD PUROHF.SI onr of *20 jfuiiUa. j^-ice Qu Fanny# Wary '.res?

OlJR LONDOL LETTER. By the way, I heer that the C'tOiC3 of an editor fer Punch, in the place iof poor Tom Taylor, is still in abeyance. Th8 choice lies, at prefent. between Mr Burtandand" G A. S." of Daily Telegraph fane. For my put I should thick it would Efver pay versatile George Augustus to throap hia lucrative ergagemert at Peterborough Court, to ceaae e-sclvicg "ichceacf the Week." to discontinue all and inrdiy Lis other literary engagements, and, forsaking all but comic writing, to keep himself only unto it, for the eake of the traditional salary which ths proprietors of Fu rich are prepared to offer him. I have a high Benee of Mr bala's journalistic value. I know that he is, eo to speak, lilid on by telephone to the Alexandra Palaoe, or, rather, to the residence of the A. Po's genial and enterprising proprietor. I den't want Mr. Sala to bury himself in Punch, and to fritter úway his great powers in the demoralising process of topical verse writing. All for Mr Burnand, he would naaka a very good editor of Punch, and, considering th*t he baa for a long time past supplied the bulk cf the "copy" fcr tbe London Charivar^, hi8 claims upca jlr Bradbury are gre&t. But why not confer tho poat upon Sir Wiifrid Lawson ? Taat worthy baronet would then perforce pour hia watery witticisms into the appropriate medium of Punch, and the mixture would. as a matter of course, be more palatable than flit and UNNIIZED I.AWAOAIAM*. From a purely comic paper, the Rock, hu degenerated in*o a quack m« dicine pafTar. In its issue of the 16th in at, I find set forth ia editorial type a nauseous resume of the signs and aymp. tom a of dyspepsia, with a business-like "tag" anent the curative virtues of a quack medicine which I shall certainly do nothing to advertise. My object in writing this will have been gained if I can, perforce by friendly expos. tulation, succeed in convincing the editor of the Rock of the doubtful expediency of investing a quack circular-cum-testimonials with the importance of a headed article. It ia true that the word advertisement" is marked in at the finish, but the finish happens to be on the nex*. page, and the original impression produced on the reader ia that he is being favoured with the Rock's views on "an alarming disease afflicting a numerous class-" # Sf Secretary Sir William Vernon Harcourt" still holds out to murderera the crime-inspiring banner of reprieve. What I predicted ia coming to pass. John Key, the hero of the blood-stained flat iron, haa received an intimation that he will be permitted to continue bis existence nnder the laborious restrictions of penal servitude for life. As a matter of course, the wife-slayer of chisel disrepute will receive a like respite, and so tha thing will go on. Seriously speaking, the prospect opened up by the Heme Secretary's promiscuous clemency is an alarming one. Nunf .jss villains are deterred from the slaughter of their fellows only by a rigid process of deduction in which Mr Marwood is the leading motive "—to borrow a musical term. Aa soon aa the criminal classes discover that murder has ceased to be a hanging matter—that a reprieva is the sure reward of a little well-contrived eccen- tricity in the committal of the no longer capital crime—and Secretary Sir William Vernon Harcourt" will have kis hands full of red repro bates who have chanced it," as the saying goes, and ate prepared to be very grateful," as John Key is, for what is termed the Qieea's, bat is really the Home Secretary's clemency. "Ccmirg events cast their shadows before them." So do ccoiing nuisances. It ia said to be Mr Bradlaugh's intention, when tha Burials Bill comes on for second reading, to claim for faeculariats the new euphoniam for Atheists —the right to be buried in parish churchyards with their own rites "—whatever they may be. If only the whole lot would consent to contem- poraneous interment there would, I am sure, be a very general disposition to grant them any "ritea" they choee. The beginning of the third week in July finds U8 in much the same position, from the point of view (f practical legislation, ae we were at the ecdof June. The cry of What are the Government going to dor" evokes no response. They have pat down their charming no. rent Bill aa the first c rder of the day to night in the House of Commons, when everybody thought they would have been more careful about their supplies, which are btill very backward. This, however, ia only in keeping with what Mr Gladstone said last week. that Parliament should do nothing else until the Bill ia passed; and it ia not till after this event has happened that he will consent to pay which of his measures he will abandon and which he will proceed with. The Government wire-pullera are saying that none will be aban- dcned, and that is the impression which the Prime Minister likes the Hocsa of CommonB to gather, but anyone who haa had any practical experience of the wcrking of the House of Commona under a Gladstone Government will know exactly how to measure this idea. After ail that has been said, in apite of the new members' enthusiasm, a greater part of the Ministerial programme will have to go. All Ministerial programmes have to suffer curtailment at this period, and people are naturally anxious to know which of the measures will be amorg the innocents whioh must be sacrificed in the course of the next week or ten caye. # # m gather from what haa been said that Mr Gladstone seta especial store by one or two of the measures, but tbat if any sacrifice is to be made there are others which it will not be very difficult for him to persuade himself to abandon. The three doubtful measures are the Hares ana Babbits Bill, the Employers' Liability BiU, and the Burials Bill. Mr Gladstone's Savings' Bank Bill may be put out of the question, evan aeEumirg that it came within the cate- gory of a measure of first-rate impor- tance. Two, and, perhaps, all three, of the Bills above mentioned, will. it is thought, have to be sacrificed, but tbe opinions current as to whichia likely to be selected are somewhat contradictory, The Burials Bill having passed the Lorda, ia thought by some to supply a paramount reason why it should be forced through the Commons, even at this period of the Session. On the other hand, there are those who seem to think that thia fact will supply the reason why the controversy should not be brought into the House of Commona this a cession, i 8 the Bill at present stands it is very doubtful whether it will be satisfactory to the Nonconformists, and to make any alteration would naturally involve the Government in a controversy with the Upper House, which it is by no means unlikely that they will be glad to avoid Just now. The oontro- verey having rested so long can very well be left for another year, when the Government can introduce the Bill into the lower Houae in its preeent position, and fight its battle with the House cf Lords next spring. As to employers' liability, the Prime Minister is understood to be very anxious to settle the question, but to have suddenly become conacioua of the difficulties by which he is surronnded on the matter, while, in regard to harea and rabbits, the farmera will b.-these, are not my words, but those of an ardent Liberal supporter of the Prime Miniater- quite content with the Budget and promises. The dictator," however, keeps his own counsel very much for the present. Perhaps he is forming an estimate of the value of the round robin whioh is still in circulation among a section of the now members on his own Bide of the House anxious to show how devoted they can be to party calla. Two Ministers are now wandering about the country in search of a seat, for Captain Home's victory at Berwick on Monday, by whioh he re- gained the seat from which the present Lord Belper ousted him in April last, still leaves the Lord Advocate for Scotland without a. seat ia the House of Commons. A morning paper aptly aaya that "two men overboard makes it. an awkward matter for the captain." Mr Dodson and Mr John M'Laren are companions in distress, not as Ministers without portfolios, but as Ministers without seata, and as Ministers concerning whom the party organisers are driven to their wit's ends to know what to da with. They had hoped that when the good "Eliza" came to their resoue in regard to Sir William Har. court they had done with thia dis- agreeable business of providing a place for the Ministerial flotsam and jetBam. It is being said that Sir Harcourt Johnstone is to be offered a peerage and a peat so provided for Mr Dodson, but I den't think that mech credit is to be at- tached to the statement. Tha end of the Parlia- mentary session, even under the most adverse circumstances, cannot be very far off, and Mr Hibbert will for the remainder of that period be a very efficient substitute for Mr Dodaon in Parliament, while as to the Lord Advooate-seeing that he liaa never yet had a seat in Parliament and yet an affirmative anawer may atill be given to Macbeth's question of Stands Scotland where it did r"—no great harm or inconvenience will aoorue from his absence for a few weeks longer. A good deal may happen in the recoa. The tale of Liberal corruption is not yet fully told. We have more to learn about what was done with the quarter of a million whioh went out from the Reform Club at the same time that the famous circular was issued from the Liberal Central Com. mittee. More vacancies will arise without arti. ficially creating them, and in the period whioh will elapse between the prorogation and the meet. ing of Parliament next year they are pretty sure to find a haven of rept.

3IEBTHYR FINE ART EXHIBITION. The town c'e7k has recaived the Co]owir g com- munication frcm the secretaries to the above ex. hibiticn in reply to hia letter of the 10th instant: —" Mertbyr Tydfil, July 14, 1830.—Dear Sir,— Merthyr Art Exhibition,—We are directed by the committee to acknowledge the receipt of cheque for JE20, being a subscription from the mayor and corporation of Cardiff towards the fund being raised for founding a School of Art in ,Merthyr, and to thank them, not only for the donation, but also for the kind wishes conveyed in your letter.— Yours obediently (Signed) T. tF. WEBSTER, JOHN FOKBESTEB, hon. secretaries.— J. L. Wheatley, Esq., Town clerk, Cardiff." The committee have decided to wind up the exhibition with a ball, to be held at the Drill hall, Merthyr, cn Thursday, the 5th of August next. The proceeds of the ball will go in aid of the funds fcr whioh the exhibition was started. M any of the executive committee have been told eff to make arrangements for theballaWhioh, it is hoped, will prove a success, and further add to the exhibition lunds. Nothing succeeds like success; the labours of the committee, so fairly rewarded up to the present, bid fair for the happy termina- tion of the ball. The object is a worthy one and should deserve Bupport.

At a large meeting at Gurteen, oounty Mayo, on bun jay evening, a resolution was passed strongly oensunng the action of Mr Mitchell Henry and Major No,an in sitting on the same benches with the Government, and also ceneurwg Mr Henry's eppoeition to the Land Bill.

MICK MALONFS LETTERS TO HIS COUSIN DEfiKIS. namaoi Ko they may starve 118, laush at tig, tax tte, !;ran". p0rt us. Ihc j may take our mountains, O;1r val16YS, ard ocr bf gtJ; but bac luck to item. tfeey can t steal 6Ur tliiiity."—C"A<H'46A' O Mailey, p 601.

THE GRATE TAMCES FAST, EL1 SETARER. MY DAELIN' DINNY,— Did ye hear tell of the grate could wither blasphemy—the Yankee Faeht of Dochtor Tanner of New Yor'k? He eays he can live forty daya on air an' wather 1 Is he a fish tbat the divil have tur'nd into the chape of no man, or ia he what they call an amfibeeua animalP That's a quare quarey. The Yankee ray. por'turs say be have done three weeks already tbat he Eleeps Boundly, dbrinks wather freely, talks cbsrofully, an' tides a dale, Who'd boisve 'cm? Not the likes cf you an' me, Dinny. I'd like to krow what's put wid the wather that Dcchtor Tanner dhrinka— pothetn, or brandy, or por't? Or do 'Merikon wa.her differ from Irian an' English? It takes a mickrerscope to sea the anymals in our wather. May be Yankee wathar have rats in it, an' other craythura the size of rats, an' that the dochtsr, be seme thrick of lijardemane is able to swaller the likes.of 'em wholesale 2 There must be some divilree about it, anyhow. It's quare, Dinny, but it's tbrue for me, you'll find manne people ray jictiii' a belafe in the miracles of Knock, aosipt this tale about fashtin' forty days on air an' wather. I'll tell you, let 'em beware. Look at the judjmint that'll bafall 'em. I'm tould Bishop Colenso thried a fo'rty daya* fast, an' Dochtor Cummicgs, the false prophet; An' thin there was a Wilah fastin' gerr'l that diaayvod a lot of people, dochtors an' nurses, an' prayohers, an' taychers, an' in the ind died of starvayshun wid a bottle of milk undher her arrum— a bottle that had made a hole for t&ilf in the flieh, that wasn't .found out till too late—too late. Ah, me boy, it's a quare wnrr'ld. That little gerr'l dyin' in a protindid faeht, wid the Bible open be her bedside, an' pioua Wilthmin lookin' on her as a livin' miracle It's a wondher that Dcehtor Tanner don't spind seme of his spare time—an', bo dad, he have plinty — radein' the Bible. It might help to dhraw tanners or dollars even in New Yor'k. But as for me, Dinny, I'd be afrade of goin' to see him wid a free pass, for fear he might tbransfor'm himeilf into the ottld bhoy anne minnit. An' the horse he rides might be like the White Horae of the Peppers or a magic shteed or a dragon, or I dunno what other mystayrins anymal-Ob, the thought of it 1 Oh, the blasphemy; See here, me darlia', is another quare bit. The Shakers in tbruble. They say thay're led be the Spirit of God to do no wurr'k for a mashter. That's royligin for ye, an' they have the Bible in their hands, that says, Servants, obey your masters." They live oat in a field undher the ttaefry of a woman. There they pi? togither day an' night in this heightened counthry. An' wan John Frampton, a strong, able-bodied Shaker, led be the Spirit of God to do nothin', have been orcter'd to pay five ehillln's a week towards the support of his wife, that's a loonattio, livin' on the parish in Lymington. It sarves him right, if ba don't pay, an' go to wurr'k, to put him hemp piok:n' in the nearest gaol. An culd Mother Girling, that's the head of 'em—sli# have county court summonses up to twinty pounds agin her. So they're talkin' of sellia' up the goods an' chattels of the inthire oommoonity the way the oreditors will be satisfied. That's the right thing to do, me boy. What a free country is England be the side of Fraace She allows a commoenity of Shakers to pig tcgither in a field, and France turns oni the Jaysooits neck an' orop, for fear the ri^in' jinerayshun will have the chance of a raylijis idioayahun. As we're on matthers raylijus, lev me teU you an odd way an English collier livin' near Man- chester have of protiatin' agin Sabbath breakin'. A feller wurr'kman livin' in a house of his orrn was maykin' cartridges for blastin' in coal pita on Sunday lasht. There were three other min in the house. The rsylijus wan Mein* the man of the houae at his wurr'k, picks up a 41b tin of powdher that ehtad close by, flings it into the fire, sayin' he'd have no cartridge maykin' on Sunday, an', lo an' behould! the powdher goes off, the min are all bur'nt about the arruma an' the face, and the cottage is jast blow'd up. Och, me boy! Is'nt that the way to protist agin Sabbath breakin' ? Suppose you or me did that, Dinny, would aither of us git the credit cf bein' rsylijus ? What a wnsrl'd we live i:1 Is MisMer Gladstone to blame ? The Pyx" joory sat lasbt week. It was their annual meetin' for thryin* the coins of the relum. It's thin thia London Companee eee what goes in the sov'rins. the ehillin's, an' the pince—what's the gould like, an' the Bilver, an* the copper. There was a grate dinner afhter to the Prime Minister, the Home Secratree, an' the cfilcers of the Mint. The Press was ixelooded. Who's to blame ? That's what I'd like to know. What diddlin' thricks was practised that day ? Who can tell the sort of pounds, Bhillin's an' pince for the nixt year P Miahter Gladstone knows how to make a boodjit. May be he have a knack of coinin' as well. It'll be right to keep an eye to this-partioularly as regards min of feenanco like you an' meuilf, Dinsy, that have a dale at shtake in the counthry, an' oonthriboota heavily to the taxas. There's a fly in me eye-so no more, Good bye from yer own thrue cousin, MICK MALONE, To Mishter Dennis M'Carthy, Co. Cork, Ireland. >

THE BEITISH ASSOCIATION. The preparations for the recaption of the mem- bers of the British Association in Swansea in August and September next are being made with all hsste. The meetings, whioh will last from August 27 to September 4, will be held in the immense wooden pavilion which has been erected 'on Burrows square, and in which the South Wales Eisteddfod will be held on the ith, 5th. aud 6"h of August. This bnilding will hold about 7,000 people. The mayor will receive the visitors at a soiree which he will himself provide. The follow. ing is an addition to the list of those who are expected to attend the meetings :— Mr John Ambler Rev Thomas Adams, M.A Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. G. Austin; MrJ. H. Atkinacm; General Sir J. E. Alexander, K.'J B., H.C.S.S., &c.; Mr Arthur T. Atchison, M. A.; Misa Lydia Becker; Mr Stephen Bourne, F.S.S. Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., F.E.S., &<j., aud Lidy Baikly; Sir James Bain, Mr G. T. Bettany. M.A., B.Sc. T.L.S.J Ch. C. E. Bergeron, Pana Mr 1. M. Balfour, M.A., F.R S.; Mr Charles Barry, Mr Alfred W. Bennett, MA, B.So., T-L-S. Mr Ward J. Barrington, MA., F.S.L., F.B.G.S, &o.Mr John Cliff, F.G.S., and Son; Rev C. E. Cholmeley, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, MiA., F.R.B., F.G.S., F.S.A.; Mr C. E. Dekarce, F.G.S., Associate of the Insti- tution, C.E.; Bev. W. Delaney, Rev. W. H. DaHinger; Mr John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., V.P.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S.; Mr Riohard Eaton- Mr Clement Le Neve Foster, B.A., D.So" F.G.S.; Mr William Fisher, Rev. A. Fuller, Mr G. Carey Foster, B.A. F.E.S., F.C.S., &o.; Mr James Geikie, Mr Charles A. Greaves, M.B., LL.D.; Mr Albert Grinther, M A., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S.; Mr J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S.; Mr Walter 6. Gervis, M.D., F.R.G.S.; Mr Oliver Giles, Mr William Greaves, Mr A. L. Henderson, Mr Henry Hill; Mr Edward Hanoe, LL.B.; Rev F. Howlett, F.R.A.S.; Mr Charles Hill, F.B.A. Mr G. H. Kinaband, M.R.I.A. MrThomas King- ston, Mr Francis John Lace, Mr J. I. Lalor, M.B.I.A. and Mrs Lalor; Major Aoguste Lendy, F.F.L.S., F.G.S.; Mr Matthew Moggridge, F.G.S. Mr Walter Merwale, Dr Henry Muirhead, Mr John W. S. Meiklejohn. M D., H.M.'a Dook Yard, Chatham Mr W. R. M'Nab, M. D.; Mr James Mnsgrave, J.P. Mr C. D. Naves Captain R. D. Bedford Pim, M.P., F.P.G.S. Mr J. Arthur Phillips, Mr Alfred C. Pass, Mr J. A. Sidebotham, Captain Sterry, Mr T. W. Sorby, Mr J. W. Sidebotham, F.S.A, Lieutenant-General Sir H. E. L. Thnllier, B.A., C.S.I., F.B.S., F.B.G.S Rev Joseph Thompson, B A. Mr C. G. Tal- mage, F B. A,S. Mr J. M. Thomson, F.C.S. Mr P. M. Tait, F.R.G.S. Mr W. E. Taylor, Mrs Taylor and Son Captain Edmund H. Verney, R.N., F.R.G.S.; Mr D. D. Nesh (Holland); Mr C. B" A. Wright, D.So., F.C.S., and Mrs Wright; Mr Walter Weldon, F.R S E. and Mra Walter Weldon; Mr W. F. A. Weldon Mr William Whitaker, B.A., F.G.S. Major Water. house (Calcutta). Mr Herbert A. Williams, M.A. Mr C J.B. Williams. M.D., F.R.S. j the Rev Duke Yonge, and Mr John Yeomans.

ROYAL DEVONSHIRE SBEGS.—NO artioia woven for ladies' dresses equala thia in usefulness; it is the best, the cheapest, and most fashionable. Prioes, Is. 31d.. Is. 11¥1., 3d.. is. £ d. the yard. For gentle, men's suits ana boys" hard wear it ia made in strong qualities and r,ew patterns. Prices from 2s. I'd. the yard. Carriage pw w London. Patterns post free, • State whether for ladies* or ffentlemeii's wear. Address Spearman and Spefttttan^ Roya Devonshire Seege FACTOR*. Plvmoufcli EOLLOWAY'B CINTMBJTT AND PILLS.—In al sores, woanda. bad itgft, and sprains of any kind thij Ointment is the most efficient at plication. I« a.t oi-ae Rives ease by allaying inflammation aad moderating the dow of blood to the part. "Whenever the malady has been of long staadirg the Ointment should be asaisted by Hcllowoy's Pills, which act upon the stomach and liver, guuding digestion from falhnsr into that cusordered state whioh the pain, restleasBes*, and fever attending th?se ailments ia apt to pioducp, acd whieh much retards recovery, and sometimes even makes serions the slighte6t ease. :Ðlo mother or nurse should be without these noble remedies; they are equally applicable to all ages and constitutions. They purify the blood, regulate it a circulation, renew diaeatod strusUres and invi^otate the system.

KOKCONFOEMIST JOTTINGS, BY NONOON. QUILL. The Editor vivhet it tote undevsteoi th.t;n, author of this "Co itc 01 ariults is pcrstnaUy retptneillsjti tht ftlUgioll3 &11 fi j* ¡" itJØ ¡ opinion vrprvsfi' A ¡ /¡¡n. 1"1,. gHat interest whicli .tt«ch'-8 t. the subjecxdedlr wit). cmd the high cha- racter un d special qualification* possessed by the writer Jor the tasli he hits undo tnkHn ayvear tt the Editor II *f thecourse taken in this particular instance. I bavo to-day to call a^.tent'on to 6I!venl of ccneiderable interest, and I think it my bouudon duty to trim my quill well, lest it BOR^SUU aa 1 occasion pain to gcod and EXCELLENT møn. 20,500,000 quills are imported to this countrj tvery year; in addition, there arc tho quiila of horns growth. I should much like to have NOW q iiil, bui as that is not practicable ja-itao-v, I TNUNFR use the old OBpt "Tbo truth AG«IU»; TAE WOD' The truth is great snd will provsil." AhH. being killed and buried, it al«v.<ys RW.~ E&I-LY '/1" third day. A lie which flatters RACA ia ge>.5«vilj more wslecsse than the truth WHHH A-IV £ >IUZU them. Men, no doubt, are quoor animals. I read in the Chr istian World laat week that there are 500 Congregational ministers without charges. In that number the ministers who have voluntarily retired from active service are probably included; but of many of them it may be said that their retirement is enforced. This is the REASON why an effort is being made in the Congregational denomination to establish confidential committees to bring into correspondence miuiatera seeking Churches, and Churches Becking ministers. Soma people marry first and think afterwards; others think first and marry afterwards. Young minis- ters, fresh from college, belong to the former class—they are glad of a call to any Church, and thankfully accept it; then they sit down to think and work, work and think, and—some repent and others don't. Paragraphs have recently appeared ia the papers that an effort ia to be made to PLAOE Dr. Parker, ol tho City Temple, in the presidential chair of the Congregational Union. It is supposed that the permanent officers of the union are opposed to him. His chapel, cne of the moat central and commodious in London, being offered to the union to hold their spring maeticga in, was declined, whether with or without thanks I am not able to tell. Dr. Parker is a free.lance in the denomination, and emitea hard whenever there are abuses to be corrected, and now and AGIIA pokes the reverend divines under the fifth rib, ard the reverend divines do not like to be poked; hence their determination that ho shall not sit in ''MOSBB'S chair." But in fC Moses's chair "he will and must sit; and THEN—look out ? No look on and look in. Notwithstanding his strong individuality, he is now tha eUoagest power in English Congregationalism. A circular has reached mo soliciting A subscrip- tion towards a testimonial to the venerable Samuel Roberts, M.A., formerly of Llanbrynmair, NO? of Conway, North Wales. I cannot holp asaag with the poet—aged and venerable MAN-VHSIE are the "dreams gone by r" Gone by, cf oo^tse. I have an impression that I contributed my mite towards a testimonial to him before; but THAT iu no reason why I should not oontribute AGAIN. I wender who eomposed the oircular Eyidaatly the author believes tbe daring old preacher, the Rupert of debate," is tha promoter of all the reforms brought about in tha 19th csatuiy. LET me quote: "Kind friends at Machynlleih, NAWTT^A, LIanidloca, Berriew, and Llandinam GENER? WL? rewarded him for hia ex-rtions ia fasouv of A Montgomeryshire railway, His LKAORYI. U-aii friends kindly presented him with testimonials' for bia Efforts to promote tho temporal and RELIGIONS progress of their district. Anti-slavery and D »AOE friendB kindly helped his efforts on behalf of their noble purposes and principles. Some boar-id of health acknowledged hia long and strong ¡,I',s.a. inga for the utilisation of city manures. His R. -LP* to colleges and other useful institution were gracefully acknowledged, aa were his protsata and pleas against Chartism and all social VIOLENCE. Friends in the United States made him a donation of 1,1500 dollars for his advocacy of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad as a bond of union be- tween the North and the South, A noble welcome* heme testimonial waa given him on his return from Tennessee to Wales." And the circular goes on to prove that he is the true inventor of the penny postage system. The honour and the re- ward have gone to the credit of Sir Rowland Hill, but they really belong (so says the circular) to the aged S. R. He knew how to make almost everything except money. Money will do a great deal fcr a man, and some men will do a great deal for money; but money never did much for S. R., and S. R. never did anything .for money. But I hope his friends will rally around him now that the rim of his life's sua has touched the horizon, and that a testimonial will be presentad him for inventing the cheap postal Bystem of Eag land— for that or for something ebe, or for nothing. We Welshmen claim to be the originators of most things. A Welshman discovered Amerioa; a Welshman founded Sunday Sohoola; A Welshman founded the Bible Society; and now it is maintained a Welshman founded the Penny Pest. Hurrah for Wales! I have often wondered on what principle speeches are reported in the newspapers. My faculty of wonderment was exoited anew by tha reports of the Centenary meetings held last week at Cardiff. Mr Reed, the honoured and popular M.P., i11 a great authority on shipbuilding and naval offitirs generally. But Mr Reed is no authority on Sun- day Schools, and has nothing much to say about them. å. preacher once divided his sabjeot thus First, I chall tell you something I know and you don't—I have no trousers to wear fit to appear in public; second, I shall tell you something whioh you know and I don't—how much each of you aaana to give in the collection to help me to purchase one; third, I shall tell you something whioh neither I nor you know —how much that rogue of a tailor will charge me for making one." And Mr Reed spoke chiefly upon the second head—something he did not know very much about, ibut about which most of his hearers knew a great deal, namely, Sunday that he drifted from Sunday Schools to speak about "ChnMh and State." "Church and State" he did not say much on the Chareh, and still less on the State, but en the nexus between Church and State; and as a conclusion he can- verted the copulative into a disjunctive eonjamt- tioJló Do I blame himP Certainly not; I praise him for doing his best under cir- cumstances stranger to hia that to many of his audience I He could not help introducing a little of the politico-ecclesiastical element—he is aocuatomed to look upon evory movement from a Parliamentary standpoint. And one thing should be said t* his credit-a Church- man, however much he might differ from, him in his conclusions, could not be angsred with him, for happily he never introduces a particle of bitterness into his utterances on this delicate and much oontcoverted subjeot. The Rev. Guinness Sogers, B.A., the Hector of Nonconformity, is muoh more violent. He spoke about Jews and Jingoes, fthuroh and State, Bradlauflh and Parliament. Too much politics, but too little religion; and though his hearers cheered him to the echo, aa in politeness they were bound to, yet in reality in their heart of hearts they would have preferred his speaking on questions more immediately affecting the Centenary. Mr. Bogers speaks with great energy, now and again mistaking vehemence for power, and exaggeration for enthusiasm. His eloquence is of the hammer and tongs" kind, and naturally rushes to extremes. He is always over-violont or over-civil. And every man with him is God or devil. A boy approaching the fire the other day was told by his father Keep away from the fire, the weather is warm enough." "Bat, father," re- monstrated the boy, I am not [warming the weather, I am only warming my hands." But the weather and hands were pretty well warmed in the great meeting in Wood street—Mr Rogers spout- ing warmed the weather, and the audience dap- ping warmed the hands. A warm week's work, can assure you. The General AE<JCMB?7 of tha Calviai-atio Methodists has met, and concluded its BAAINSAA meetings. A feeling cf sweet harmony pervaded the deliberations cf the Bodies of Divinity or the Dootora of Divinity, just as yott like, in solemn conclave assembled. The Rev W. Powell, of Pembroke, the retiring moderator, delivered the presidential addreBa—an address characterised by sweetness, unction, and a holy glow. No allusion to politios, no allusion to Churca and -State, but a sound, kindly address on the present duties of the Connexion. Then several business meetings wero held touching the literature of the Connexion, &c. The appointment of one OOll1, mittee made me laugh till my sides shook. Oh, dear! But I must not tell. "Someone has been to the jam," remarked the mother as the family sat down to tea. A dead silence. "Jimmy, do 1011 know who has been to the jam ? Please, ma," replied the blushing Jimmy, pa says I must not speak at meals." Oh, dear, I do laugh so but I must not say—we are not allowed to speak at meals. The mos inteieBiirg MHETIRG t tteouM public was that in wh the Assomb and the deputatioES from the other Presbyterian bodies exchanged greetings-Dr. M'Coll from the Engli Presbyterian Church, DRS. Knox and Rob from tbe Irish Presbyterian Church, and Dr, Stoele from the Australian Presbyterian Church, and other gentlemen from the American Churches. Several snggeetion3 wero made respecting the incorporation of the Calviais io Methodists aad the English Presbyterians. Bat I oould not but think it would be better to ircorporate the latter with the former. As I listened I thought of an incident I witnessed on my way to the meeting—A cat eatirg a bird. Well, thought I, it would b3 rathar tough work for the bird to swallow the cat; bit it is exceedingly easy for the oat to swallow the bird. The English Presbyterians absorbing the Calvicistic Methodists—it is the bird swallowing the oat. The Caivicistio Methodists absorbing PresbyterianB—it is the cat swallowing the bird. But either way, many devoutly wish tha process cf swallowing to b?gin at onca. For tn9 two ChurcheB to spend a couple of hours every year congratulating each other will not effect much good. What is wanted is a Bchame of co- operation in towns where the English language is triumphing ever the Welah. A little boy, listening to his father poetioally describing how William Tell, the Swiss patriot, ahot the apple placed on his son's head, failed to see thE sublimity of the incident, and asked, Pa, who ate the apple afterwards P" And as the represen- tatives of English and Welsh Presbyterianism expatiate eloquently upon the Soripturalness of Calvinism and the apostolicity of the Presbyterian form of government, one cannot help asking, Who eats the apples ?" Who are winning the people? A Presbyterian Chapel in Dumfries place, and a Calvinistio Methodist Chapel at Great Frederick street, Cardiff —only two small chapels in a town of 80,000 inhabitants. Oh grave divines, who is eating the apple? Look to Swansea. A Presbyterian Chapel one side of the street and a Calvinistic Methodist Chapel the other lide-only two English chapels in al Swansea-Oh, reverend brethren, who eats the apples ? Newport, a large and growing town, only one chapel-Who, think you, eats the apples ( But, there-I must go to the Welsh preaching, a feast of fat things. Calvinistic Methodism has become the largest denomination in Wales by the sheer force of preaching; it maintains its ground by the same power with which it won it; and, could it add to its preaching power the organising power of Wes. leyan Methodism, it would in a short time double its numbers and quadruple its influence, especially in the mining districts of South Wales. Ye men and brethren—Who eats the apples ?

THE BECTOR OF MERTHYR ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CENTENARY. ADDRESS TO THE CHILDREN. The following is the full text of the address delivered on Sunday last by the rector of Mart-hyr to the Sunday School children of the town. The rev. gentleman said: — It is, I have no doubt, to many of yon children a great wender why we in this town, and others ia every town and village throughout the whole world, are making now a great fuss about Sunday Schools and Sunday scholars ? The reason is thia: that it is now exactly one hundred years ago eiuoe the first Sunday School that turned out to be success- ful was originally started. It began in THA town of Gloucester. At first it was a very small mat cor indeed; very different to what yonr notion AND mine is now cf what a Sunday School ought to be. Four ancient dames, living in the back slums of Gloucester, received one shilling a Sunday each for gathering and teaching ragged little boys and girls in their own kitchens. The gentleman who gave them the shilling; waa Mr Robert Raikes, a printer and publisher living in the town of Gloucester. The other gentleman who helped him was a clergyman of the n icae of Stock—the Rev. Thomas Stock. That was the beginning of what has become since the greatest machine I know of connected with religion to bring little people to Christ. Taking tile vant proportions whioh Sunday Schools all ovar the world have assumed now, the beginning was lets even than the grain of mustard seed. The grain of mustard seed only became a tree a large tree, it is true, in whioh the fowls of the air roosted. But what was that compared with the growth of the poor little kitchens at Gloucester ? That growth has developed itself now into hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of schools, to be found everywhere all over the world, in whioh ohildren of the poor are taught to love God, to tell the truth, to keep their hands from picking and stealing, and to do their duty in that state of life in which it has pleased God to CSJL them. Indeed, I look npon tbe Sunday School in a large town—eay London, ManuheBter, Liverpool, Bir. mingham, Bristol, or even Merthyr—as I do on the little lifeboat, which goes through wind and wave, storm and rain, to the rescue of the big ship with hundreds of men on board, wreaked on a rook. The great sea. waves, like so many huge mon. sters of the deep, roaring and soreaming, are dashing around her, hurling themselves at her with the roar of a thousand guns, they are bent on breaking her to pieoes, and on drowning every living being on board of her. But by and bye here comes the little cookie shell of a boat, manned by some ten or twelve brave men, breasting the huge waves, sometimes dashing right through them, but minding them no more than if they had baen mountain mist, and made of nothing but clouds I They are not to be beaten. And why so ? Baoause they are engaged on an errand of meroy. They are determined to save lives. Oh, I know cf no sight in the world for bravery, and plnok, and gallantry that can come up to thia. Every man there carries his life in his hand, and is ready to loae it at any moment rather than let the wild waves take that of a brother. Just so is the SundaySchool. It is the lifeboat of great cities. They who man it are the teachers, and they who are to be saved are the soholars. The great sea roaring, and the wild waves hustling and dashing, and threatening to break the great ship to pieces are the devils of crime, and vice, and drink, and murder, and wickedness of every description. There is no town without thezm These devils have it pretty nearly all their own way. Just only tike London. There are in this great oity more than four millions of people. That is nearly four times as many as there are in jail Wales. Yet if you reckon all the people who go to church and chapel in great London oity, they are only about500,000 That is, 3,500,000 never go to any plaoe of worship at all! Is not that dreadful ? Yet it is (quite as bad ia our town, only that ours is A very small one comparatively. It is muoh worse in Liverpool aid Manchester, which are very large tjwns, yet are only one. tenth as large all London. This will show you what a. great army the devil has, aad what teed there is to fight him. It shows you also how strong God's army iSa though it ia very small in number compared with the devil's. If it were not strong—if God were not fighting on our aide, (the wickedness of these great oities is such that the earth would hwe opened long ago and swallowed us all up, as it did Sodom and Gomorrah, where even "the ten righteous men oould not be found to save them. But we have the ten righteous men," and, blessed be God, more, or what wauld have beoome or Y-JU P These are the Sunday School teachers, the men who sacrifice their leisure, even on the Sabb ith Day, in order to win you to Jesus. This shows their love for little children. Take care, than, you do Dot disappoint your teaohers by turning out bad boys and girls, and so spoiling all the work they did for you. There ia a verse ia the Bible which makes teachers of Sunday Schools and preachers of the Gospel very often sad. It is this:—" Where- fore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes P" Why does it make us sad P do you say. Why, because we work hard to make you good, and then in the end we find that au our work has been thrown away. You are as bad as ever you were; or, rather, you are worse, because you have been taught how to be good, and yet you are not better. Before you were taught you could not help being bad, for you! did not know better. We tried to make you good soldiers of Jesus Christ; but, instead of that, you left your own ranks, turned your backs on them, and became soldiers of the devil. Yon know that we are preparing some of you just now for confirmation. When the bishop comes you will tell him that you are ready to take upon you the vows your godfathers and godmothers pro- mised for you in baptism—that is, to fight, as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, against the world, the flesh, and the devil. And, let meteU you, a very hard fight it is; a oruel fight-a fight in whioh you will be hurt, and wounded often. But you must not yield. You must not give way. You must not givenpone inob, or it will be all over with you. Tha devil will have you on the hip instantly. I will tell you a story, and then finish. It is one of principle; one whioh ahows you what pluck ia, and how very necessary it is that you should have pluck always to fight the devil. Many years ago we were at war with China. Our ships were forcing their way up one or the great rivers of China. We had only three ships, but the Chinese had forte and cannons all along the river bank, We were, in short, getting the worst of it. In those days the method of fighting on board ship was very different to what it IS now. The great gura were not the same. They were loaded differently with cannon ball, and not the long bolt", they use now. Tae men who served tho guns had little boys attending upon them, not so big as many of ;you. Iheir business was to dive into the powder magazine and bring up the charge of powder, which was packed up in NANXIFCLF and deliver it to the men fighting the guns. They were very active little fellows, and went on T board ship by the name of powder monkeys, The war correspondent of the Times newspaper tells the story. These little fellows had been killed many of them in that fight, and one cf those surviving was a little fellow not 12 years # TI* CAPTEIN of the gun, pitying the little fellow, who was already wounded about the faoe and hands by the splinteis of wood that were nying about, told him to go down below and keep quiet. No, oap'n," said the little hero, 'scuse me, I don't care a rap whether I am killed or not, only let ns beat the heathen Chinee." That is the sort of spirit, children, whioh you must fight the devil with, and be determined to conquer him, even though it cost you your life. We are requested to add that our reporter, in stating the numbers on Monday, took no acconnt of the adultB in the three Welsh Sunday Schools. Anyone who saw the long line could not ou the smallest computation have put them down under 1,200.

*U'LE CALENDAR OF TBE UNIV&Ii. SlIT COLLEGE OF WALES. EIGHTH SESSION, 1879.80. This little volume is a small octavo of 82 pigea, with some 60 additional psgss of examination papers, and gives one a very elear ausmary af the work whioh the University College of Watles is doing in the Principality. The government of the college seems to be vested in a LARGA number of governors scatteeed all over tha country, with a selection Lorn them under the name of the council, subordinate to which is the teaching ataff. What, however, tbe relations are between these two bodies wa cannot discover from the Calendar, but we pre- sume that the principal and other tutors of tile college are removable at pleasure, and do not hold their professorships and offioas with that security o? tenure whioh is connected with them in the Uai- versilies of Oxford and Cambridge, and some otlier older placos of education. This detracts from the dignity of the posts, we admit, and may render them ICES sought after, but considering that modern legislation has taken away the freehold of the headmasters of onr greatest grammar schools, and subordinated them to the governors, we do not think the position of the teaching staff at Aberystwith on that aooount an exceptional nor an intolerable one. The unfortunate emeute of the scholars a short time baok, which took the world by surprise, and revealed the exiBtenoe of more differences than wore suspected among the friends of the college, has naturally directed our attention to thia ques- tion of government, and, as we cannot sea any reference in this Calendar to it, we presume the b dy formerly called the Senate has either ceaaad to exist, or to retain any independent powers except what is necessarily delegated to it by the ocuncil for the internal regulation of the college and its students. The year is divided into three terms, and we notice that, as compared with the previous year, the time of actual residence in each term has been increased, and the length of the long vaca- tion shortened for the year 1880.81. This we believe to be a step in the right direction, though it seems to have required all the power of the council to enforce it. We are thoroughly at one with th&t alteration, and will presently explain why we.are so. The amount of the endowment for the main- tenance of the college is not stated, but we see that a fair number of exhibitions and prizes, amounting in the whole to something under .£250 a year, is put up for competition among 60 students, the largest amount in one scholarship being .£2'1, whioh is limited to students from the Calvinistio Methodist Collage of Bala. The other exhibitions are not limited to any religious body. The earliest age of admission is 15. The number of students does not show any increase nor diminution as compared with the past year; 18 of them resided in college, and 41 out in the town in Miohaelmas term, 1879. Three or four had gained honourable distinctions from the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge in the course of the year, which is duly mentioned, as usual, in scholastic calendars, and the collage ia to be congratulated upon the fact. The examina- tion papers are very good, and would be sure to test fully the knowledge of those examined. The variety of the subjects which profess to be taught is very large, but each teacher takes mora t'lan cne of them, and the stall is thus kept wiihin limits, but sufficient for the number of scholars. Apart from the pretentiousness of assuming that it fills the place and performs the functions of a university, which we thick a. MISTAKE, the college at Aberystwith is doing a creditable educational work. There is no difference, how- ever, that we can see between its finished work and that of good grammar schools. The teaching staff at Llandovery, Brecon, Bangor, and Monmouth respectively ia not smaller, nor less distinguished. The number of pupils who gain BcholarBhips and good places in the class liats iø certainly not greater from Aberyaiwith, but it is muoh to its credit that it should turn out any, and a proof that the instruction is oareCul, diligent, and sound. This ia the time in whioh we wish especially to see its usefulness extended. We would say the same also with regard to its rival at Lampeter, and it is with great pleasure that we read Dr. Jayne's letter in our columns respecting the proposed affiliation of Lampeter to the University of Oxford. We have repeatedly expressed our opinion that the great want of Wales is, not a local University, but good secondary schools. Wales is already isolated by its situation, and by ita language, and a University in the full sense of the word would isolate it still more, and prevent its most promising young men from deriving the advan- tages which can alone be obtained from association with others in a large arena of thought such as Oxford and Cambridge, with their tradi- tions and concentration of intellectual power and activity, bring together. We wish our young Welshmen of ability to receive the same advan- tages as young Englishmen, and to suppose that they can do BO at Aberystwithor Lampeter is to indulge in a delusion. We do not say that these places cannot perform most useful work for the country. We wish them well. We have not the slightest prejudice against either of them, nay, oUt prejudice is all in their favour, but we oannot be blind to facts. No amount of teaching talent concentrated at these isolated centres can alter their geographical position. The Welsh gentry, professional men, and best endowed clergy will always send their sons to the English universities. The father of a clever boy at Cardiff would find Oxford nearer and cheaper than Aberystwith, An unattached student at Oxford can live for 30s a week in lodgings, and we know of young Welsh- men who now do so with advantage for less. Then, if the sons of the better olasBes, and the olever sons of less favoured classes, now prefer Oxford and Cambridge, how can a Welsh University be expected to attract, and unless it attracts of the best it must be inferior. The real point at which assistance is required in Wales, owing to its various peculiarities, is at the junction between the primary and secondary Bchools, Enable the promising. boys at the elemen. tary schools to be transferred to properly oenduoted and efficient grammar schools, by means of exhibitions, and you will have struck a new vein of talent for the benefit of the oountry. We have found ourselves obliged to differ from Dr Harper on the subjeot of the Jesus College eohoiMships, but his paper read at the Swansea Congress obtains muoh that is exoellent relating to intermediate and higher education in Wales with which we fully agree. His idea is that the whole system of intermediate education in Wales has to be strengthened, multiplied, and improved in buildings, teaching staff, and free pIaQee or scholarships for promising youths, before any place of higher edncation can be anything else than a rival to the schools. The oases of Scotland and Wales are not parallel. The pupils leave the Scotch Universities at an early age, almost as early as they are allowed to enter at Aberystwith. A FEW picked youths move southward and enter Oxford or Cambridge. The colleges in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, and Nottingham have large populations around them, and are filled by, or rather give instruc tion to, persons who have their employ ments nfear. THIS oould be only possible in Wales in Cardiff or Swansea or one or two other large centres of population, where students oould be found in sufficient numbers to support a college, and secure sufficient; fees to remunerate lecturers of ability., That with this basis and in such localities a scheme of higher education would be practicable we fully believe, but the initiative must come from these centres, and would not affeot existing institutions to any appreciable extent. We augur well from the now universally admitted fact referred to by Mr Collett, the examiner at Lampeter, that "the rawness of the raw material" is the Welsh educational difficulty, and must be first dealt with. Aberystwith, by shortening its long vacation, and thus assimilating its time to that of the grammar Bchools, and Lampeter, by affiliating iteelf to Oxford as a feeder with oertain privileges, indicate by their action respectively that our view is correct, that it is NOT A univeisity for finishing, but improved and multiplied institutions for the preliminary work of preparing the raw material for the polisher, which we are in want of now. Whatever will contribute to the improvement of the raw material after its elementary stage IS our greatest need. We hear with great satisfaction of the proposals. to make the Meyrick Charity aBeful in this direction, and of new schemes for utilising other educational endowments for helping promising youths to continue their school eduoation. Dr. Jayne states in his letter—and we presume he haa sufficient authority for the statement-that there is a proepeot of a Royal Commission being appointed to inquire into the condition and requirements of higher eduoation 111 Wales. We have always advocated such a oourse, and believe no just or reasonable scheme of Parlia- mentary grants oan be drawn up without the report of such a commission duly representing among its members the various interests—educa- tional, religious, and political-inTolved. Parlia- mentseems favourably disposed, but we have not yet seen any broad and cosnprehansive aoheme wbioh a practical AD minis IRDIOR could adopt.

THE CHARGE OF DKU^'iiEN- »ESS AGAINST THE REV. S. GS-^G-FI LOWTHER, THE PRO SECTION DISMISSED. L* BD PE3SZ FT OS'S OPINION OF KISS JENSE&'S EVIDENCE. On Siitnrdey Lord LciizMca, Bitting as the D.¡m of Aotfi:! at a. OJart teld in the Hoase of Lords Committee room, delivered judgment in tha catie of the Bishop of Llandaff v. Lowther. The plaintiff sent the matter by letters of request en charges against the defendant, the RJV. W. S. G. P. Lowther (the rector of St. George. super-Ely, Cardiff). There were four charges of druiikeiiiiesa and mitsbehaviour—on the 19sh of Jtovenaber, 1878, at a harvest thanksgiving aer" vice; at Mr Jacob Morgan's residence on the 27th cf March, 18V9; un tht oUth of Maroh, 18/D, at tha rtctory house; aad ue ohuroh on Gaud Fridiya the 11th of april, 1879 Dr, Phillimore WAS oour.sel for the PROMOTERS* and Mr Diliwyn for the IMPENDENT. The defendant was pwc^ui, and in his examina* tica denied that he was i^toxioateJ at tha thanksgiving service, or ou any oc-sasion men- tioLtd. Me said thai, ho suffered from harcditerjf gout. Mr Dilltvjn said that it was a mos., unfortunate thing for his client that tv-ia oaaehad b-,»en brought before his lordship, and if the cuse had ba ja heard in the country many witnesses material to hÏIJ client's case might have been called; and, besides, in the country the tribunal would be acquainted with the character of one of the principal wit- nesses who had taken a most active pari in pro" moting the case against Mr Lowther. Ha referred to MisB Jenner, who was a mis- chievous person with a lively imagination, The chief change against Mr Lowther was that ha stumbled, and that hia utterance was thick, which might Imse from oold or weakness. Mr Lowthee had brought forward five witnesses, and would have called more, but he was not in a position to do so, as he had only j650 a year with A house and garden, and had 10 ohildren. Dr Phillimore having addressed the oourt 011 behalf of the promoters. Lord Pea zauce delivered judgment, and said that the investigation of the case had been the subjeot of much anxiety to him, because from a tolerably early period in the case he perceived it was a question that would depend upon weighing the testimony of witnesses whose evidence was diametrically opposed to one another. He had, on some other occasions, expressed the wish that such cases could be determined by a jury, but that was a proceeding whioh had never been grafted upon the procedure, of the Eoolesiastical Courts and, therafore, that very aiffioult and unaitiflfac* tory function devolved upon the judge. In cases of that kind, whare oath was mada against oath, one of the most important features was the demeanour of the witnesses and their character, and especially theid motives, if they could be got at. The present case had been taken up in the parish, and ape peared to have originated in a petition signed by four people who were all witnesses that day against Mr Lowther. Mrs Trehearn hatI also something to do with the mattera because one of the witnesses admitted that aha signed the petition at her request. One ofi the witnesses had also said that Miss Jennec asked her to sign the petition, whioh she refused to do because it was not true. All this was matter of erave consideration as to whether tha oourt should give unbounded oredenoe to tha testimony of the witnesses. Speaking generally of the demeanour of the witnesses, he thought that en the part of the promoter it was very unsatis- factory. He thought Barton gave hia evidenoa very badly, and Kudman was not much better, and Mies Jenner's evidence was such that any jury would pause a long time before they would rely upon it altogether, She waa considerably excited, and her manner would not favourably impress anybody. His lordship then went in detail through the various charges, and gave his decision in favour of the defendant, remarking that Mr Lowther had given his evidence in a very fair and oandidi manner. He, therefore, dismissed Mr Lowthes from the suit, and added thai aa thas gentleman had not ATTTFNRJ^D belore tha comfit's <D0R, when probably he would h,v, aos'/ered tha i;*0e, he would net make any or;i»/j tw to iSach party would haTo to pay hia orao (\tfol, and he should dismiss the precaution ^7^1.^3 Mn Lowther. J

THE WIMBLEDON RIFLm MEETING. SHOOTING FOR THE QCSHN'S PBIZE. The volunteer camp was visited by several thousands of persons during Sunday. In the mornirg a service was held in the Umbrella Tent, the sermon being preached by Canon Fleming In the match between the Lords and Commons on Satnrday the Commons gained the victory by five points. This is the tenth year they have won, aa against eight in whioh the Lords have carried oH the victory. The China Cup competition was won by the Lanark men, who take* the cup and ft prize of .£25; the second prize of .£15 going to Kenfrew, and the third prize of £ 10 to Devonshire. For the Belgian Cup contest the priza went to Lanark, the let Berks, 1st Derby, and 2nd Middlesex taking the other prizes. The Snidee ABBOoialicn Cup was won by Corporal Taylor, ofi the let Stirling with a score of 35..For tha Prince of Wales's, Capt. Hall, of the 22ad Foot, who represented the Irish Rifle Assooiation. won with 93, He takes the badge and jJlOO. The second score was made by Private Charles, 01 the 22nd Aberdeen. The all absorbing event of Tuesday at Wimble* don was, of course, the contest for the Qieen'a Prize, which took plaoe in the afternoon, under ai blazing sun. The Queen's Prize was won by Private Fergnaon, lat Argyll, of which the Duka of Argyll is Colonel-in-Chief, with a total of 74. Thia is not so good aa last year, whea the total was co, Ferguson is a working stone mason* and has never been to Wimbledon before. No greater assembly has ever witnessed the olosing stage, and the winner was greeted with enthusiasm, Sir Garnet Wolseley, among others, congratulating him. Lady Stanhope pinned tha Queen's Medal on his breast. Sir Garnat in- spected and addressed the Canadians, Bpeaking of the high character the Canadian Militia had earned under him at the Red Biver,

OCCIDENTS IN MINES. The Home Office has just issued the annual raports for 1879 presented to the Home Secretary by the Inspector of Mines. The summaries show that during the year 1879 the aggregate number of persons employed in end about the whole at the mines in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland amounted to 523.870 persona. Of thesa 476,810 were employed under the Coal Mines Re- guiation Aot, and 47.060 under the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Aot. The total number of fatal accidents was 843, and tha total number of deaths occasioned thereby 1,037, showing a diminution compared with the totals for 1878 of 39 in tha number of fatal acoidents and of 4 S3 in tha number ot lives lost. It appears, therefore, that on the average during the year 1879 there Wall °fe,5tair,S°«leili evefy 621 persons em- 1 j y accident among everj During the year 187S acaident for every 595 P oytod' 4114 on6 death by aocident for^ho Persons employed. The results A are therefore muoh more favour- aple than those for the preceding year. Taking tne summaries of statistios relating to mines nnder tke Coal Mines Regulation Aot, it appears tbat in the 12 districts comprising such mines 476,810 persons were employed in ana about the mines, of whom 385,179 were employed underground and 91,631 (of whom 4,812 wera females) employed above ground, showing, as compared with the respective numbers employed during the year 1878, an increase of 1,481. A summary is given of the mining produce either in districts or counties, by whioh it appears that 133,720.393 tons of coal. 1,455,003 tons of fire clay, 9.387,766 of ironstone, and 803.207 tons of &o.j were produced in the mines under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, including some iron pyrites, &0., found m working those mines, which is separately given in tha respective districts. Comparing' the abovs quantities with the output of 1878, an increase is shown in coal of 1,108.330 tons, fire olay a diminu* tion of 170,583 tons, ironstone a diminution of 1.359,461 tons, and a diminution of 10,055 tons in the quantity of shale, &c, Another Bummary oontains an account of fatal aooidents and lives i -9 in ftnd about all tha r 1 Mmea Regulation Act. Tha £ £ £ £$tmo?nted t0 782' THE S J 0 973» a diminution. £ + £ Pw ed 77th the summary of 1878, of 23 "L L m?|>.er fatal aooidents and of 440 in tha number of lives lost. The last summary shows the proportion whioh the aooidents and deaths Dear to the number of persons employed and that quantity of minerals raised. It appears that on the average during the year under review there was one fatal accident among every 61fl persons employed in and about the mines, and orig death by accident amosg every 490 persons em- ployed and that for each fatal accident 185,899 tons of minerals were raised, and 149,400 tons foe each death by accident. During the year 1878- o! every 586 persons employed there was one fatal accident, and for every death by accident 33S persons were employed, and for each fatal aooi- dent the lesser quantity of 179,777 tons wera raised, and for eaoh death by accident 103,183 tons. As compared with the preceding yaar tha returns show an uicrease in the number of persons employed, but a diminution of 12 mines at work; and although the quantity of ooal is 1,103.330 tons in excess of the quantity for 1878. the aggre< J!'ate qUB1'htv of coal, ironstone, fireclay, shl\1e. &J., ia 431,769 tons lesB.

LOCAL BILLS IN PAKLIAMENT. HAVERFORDWEST AND ST. DAVID'S RAILWAYS BILL. Un Monday in the House of Lords this Bill oamo before Mr Examiner Robinson, and complied with the further standing orders of Parliament without opposition. GBEAT WESTERN AND MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY AND CANAL COMPANIES' BILL. On Monday in the House cf Lords this Bill wiWJ read a third time and passed.

As a young woman, named Marie Delaorc n, waS walking near one of the Paris boulevards, she was accosted by a man who spoke so insultingly that t he gave him a tap with hsr umbrella. The felloe immediately fired two shots at her, and she wa# mortally wounded. The murderer was arrested, The famous Irish Probate case, Lalor v. JoneS* '•n whioh the will of Miss Joy—under whioh Captain Lalor took over £ 40.000—was disputed by the next of kin, has been settled. Captain LaloC paying the defendant JE1.250, and eight intervenes £ 1,000 each and aIIooaM, reducing his to about £ 29,000.