The North Wales Express

the Anzin Company has terminated, except at the Blenzeborne and Thiers Pits. It seems to be deciced against Earl Granville that the word" illnuelld", must have more than one n." Hobart Pasha has been the guest during the last few da; s of Sir G. N. Broke Midleton, at Shrub- land Park, near Ipswich. A man named Lock was on Wednesday com- mitted for trial by the Bristol magistrates for publishing the "Fruits of Philosophy." Portions of Lord Dufferin's estates in Ulster have been sold in the Landed Estates Court for sums amounting to £ 39,000. The Queen was present on Wednesday at a cricket match, played at Osborne, between the Royal Household and the Royal Yacht Club. The balance of profit from the Caxton celebra- tion, amounting to JE1116 3s 2d, is to be handed over to the Printers' Pension Corporation. The pseudo Countess of Derwentwater has re- appeired in the* Rolls Court with a petition, the prayer -of which the Master of the Rolls had to refuse. The Canadian press welcome the appointment of the Mhrqius of Lorne as Governor-general of Canada in warmty-loyal terms. It is not expected that Lord Lorne and the Princess Louise will leave for Canada before October, or that the writ for Argyllshire will be moved during the present ses. 17, sion. WirE MURDER AT PERTH.—On Sunday morning last the Perth police received intelligence that a labourer, named Gallacher, had killed his wife, at his lodgings in South-street. They were heard quarrelling on Saturday night by their landlord, named Sweeny. They retired to rest, and renewed the quarrel at five o'clock on Sunday morning. Gallacher, it is said, knocked his wife down, and she died immediately from the effects of the blow. Gallacher left the house on the pretence of fetching a priest, but he did not return. Sweeny at once informed the police of what had occurred; but although scouring parties have been out in the town and neighbourhood of Perth, no trace has been found of the supposed murderer. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A shocking tragedy, re- sulting in thp death of two persons, has" been enacted at Erdington near Birmingham. The deceased were Edward Johnson and his wife who formerly carried on business in Birmingham but they latterly lived retired. They did not live happily, in consequence of jealousy on the part of the husband, and both were heavy drinkers. On Tues'lav, Johnson threw his wife out in the rain knocked her about frightfully, threw buckets of water over her, and afterwards locked her out of doors. She was found in a mixture of blood and water, pud she died on Saturday last from the effects of the treatment. Johnson, hearing that she was dead, committed suicide by drowning him- self. THE B.\GOT CASE.—Mr Justice Warren, on Satur- day last, at Dublin, heard Mr George Morris, the administrator pending the suit for a new trial of the Bagot case, who applied for instructions as to the property, amounting to Cl2,900, which was in Aughrane Castle, including £ 2o00 worth of plate, Mr John Lloyd Bagot being now in occupation of that residence. After an argument the judge decided that Mr Bagot should become tenant bona fide of Anghiane and have charge of the property under the receiver on an incentory, the lands to be let by the latter. Judge Warren refused the application for a new trial of the will case, with costs, upholding the verdict in every part. The matter will now go to the Court of Appeal. In the very short time that the new Prisons Act has been in force the Government has contrived to perpetrate s,me most egregious blunders, entailing an enormous amount of inconvenience and no end of useles expense. For instance, they have closed Devonport gaol, which contained 108 cells, and maintain Plymouth gaol, where there were only 44 cells. The latter is much too small to accommo- date the prisoners from both towns, and the result ha? been that the prisoners have had to be lodged two in a cell.

THE BIRKENHEAD NATIONAL EISTEDPFOr. CYMMRODORION SECTION. This section is under the management of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, and has been established for the purpose of holding meet- ings in connection with the Royal National Eis- teddfod, at which papers on scientific, literary, and other subjects relating to the development of the natural resources of the Principality and the intellectual advancement and general well-being of its inhabitants may be read and discussed. The committee of the Cymmrodorion Society have delegated the charge of the section for the present year to a committee composed of the following gentlemen: — Professor T. McKeima Hughes, chairman Mr Stephen Evans, Mr Ivor James, Rev. Robert Jones, B.A., Rotterhithe; Mr Lewis Morris, M.A. (author of the Epic of Hadn) Mr Hugh Owen, Mr T. M. Williams, B A. and Mr Howel Thomas, who will act as the honorary sec- retary of the section. The committee of the Birkenhead Royal National Eisteddfod liav* entered into cordial relationship with the Cymmrodorion Society in this matter, and have engaged to make the meet- rt ings of the section a prominent feature in their programme. The Eisteddfod will be held on the 17th, 18th, 19tli, and 20th of September next, and the meetings of the Cymmrodorion will commence on the evening of the 16th of that month; and will b held on the mornings of the three succeed- ing days, between the hours of 9 and 11 o'clock. A lecture on "The acoustics of music" will be delivered on the evening of the 16th of September, bv Mr Sedley Taylor, M.A. (late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge); and papers for the morning meetings have been promised by Professor Tanner (scientific agriculture), University College of Wales; Dr. H. Rees, general medical officer of health for Carnarvonshire and Mr T. M. Wil- liams. B.A. (inspector of schools under the London School Board).

SENTENCE OF DEATH.—At the Nottingham assizes, on Saturday last, Thomas Cholerton, a labourer, was sentenced to death by Mr Justice Hawkins, for the murder of a woman named Jane Smith. with whom he had lived. The prisoner afterwards made an attempt upon his own life with the razor he had used upon the throat of his victim. Jealousy was alleged as the motive that led to the crime. The herring fishing on the east coast of Scotland was last week again generally successful. At Fraserbu'h the average catch for the season now amounts to 71 crans. At this date last year the average was only 45 crans. The average take at Peterhead is only 45 crans, compared with 23, and at Wick upwards of 20.000 crans have been landed, as against 14,000 at this time last year. SEVENTEEN PERSONS DROWNED.—A melancholy boat accideT" happened on Thursday evening last, on Lough Billen, near Shcrcock, county Cavan. A schoolmaster named McCabe went out in a boat with his wife, two assistant teachers, and thirteen children, for a pleasure trip, and had not proceeded far on the lake when the boat capsized. A man named McDermott, who witnessed the accident, pushed out in a boat to give assistance, and saw McCabe trying to hold hfs wife up with one hand while he pushed the boat towards the shore with the other, with two little girls on his back; but before help could reach him he sank, and the whole party was drowned. FATAL RESULT OF A FIGHT.—Two men, named Samuel Lock and Henry Wood, fought at Newton Abbott a few days ago. Wood was much hurt, and told his wife that Lock kicked him when he was down. After staying at home a few days, he started for work on Wednesday last, but fell down in the street. He was taken home, and died on Saturday last. At the inquest, held the same day, Dr. Haydon, who bad made a post-mortem ex- amination, said death arose from effusion on the brain, the result of great violence. The inquiry was adjourned. I

LIFE-BOAT SERVICE IN NOKTH WALES. The report of the National Life-boat Institution from January 1st to March 31st, 1878, has just been issued, and we extract therefrom the follow- ing items of services by local life-boats:— PENMON.—On the 25th January, during ajstrong gale frcm the north, while tke disabled steamer Pioneer, of Dublin, was being towed into the Menai Straits, the howsers of the tugs broke, and the vessel drove on Puffin Island. The Penmon life- boat Christopher Bro-uin was towed out through a heavy sea by the steam-tug Royal Saxon, but could not get alongside the vessel on account of the surf. She was, therefore, towed round to the lee- side of the island, and, on arriving there, it was found that 10 of the vessels crew had been landed by some Penmon pilots, 3 others having been un- fortunately drowned. These 10 men were taken into the life-boat, put on board the steam-tug, and safely landed at Beaumaris. The thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, were voted to Mr W. M. Pr< sLon, the Honorary Secretary of the Penmon Branch, in acknowledgement of his ser- vices on this occasion. He ran a distance of four miles to the station to get tile life-boat ready, and afterwards went out in the boat, acting as cox- swain. RHOSNEIGR, ANGLESEY.—On the 1st March, at about 3 a.m., a light was seen for a short time, apparently from a vessel off Rhosueigr. The crew of the life-boit Thomas Lingham assembled, and the boat was got out, but the' light disappeared, and it was thought that the vessel had proceeded seaward again. In about three quarters of an hour the light was again observed, and the life-boat then proceeded out in the direction in which it had been seen but, unfortunately, before she had seen the vessel, the latter had been totally wrecked, and owing to the darkness of the night and the he vy sea, only one of the a '( W was saved4 He was found upon a small piece of rock, in a helpless condition. After having taken him on board, the boat remained out until daylight, in hopes of being able to find some of the other men. It was afterwards stated by the rescued sailor that the cause of the light being missed was that the lamp was washed off by the sea, and it was some time before another could be obtained. The vessel was the Dutch brigantine Elizabeth Kloosterbocr, on a voyage from Falmouth to Liverpool, with a cargo of horse beans. HOLY ISLAND.-On the 21st March, at about 11 p.m., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sta, and th • night was very dark. The life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great caution was necessary in approaching her, as she was rolling very heavily, and every roll of the sea swept her decks. The crew of three men were holding on to the bulwarks, and they were most thankful to see life-boat approach, as they were in great danger of being washed away. They were eventually taken on board the life-boat, and brought safely ashore, the vessel being left at aftichor. On the following, morning the life-boat o, again went off, with the view of saving her, but on account cf the heavy sea, she was obliged to return to the shore. A second attempt was afterwards made, when the boat succeeded in boarding her, and having received some aid from a passing tug, she was brought safely into port. She was the schooner Dispatch, of Sunderland, bound from that port to Kirkcaldy. PORTHDINLLAEN.—On the 24th March, during a heavy gale from the N., accompanied by snow showers, the schooner Velocity, of Nefyn, bound from Silloth to Nefyn, with coal, while anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay, was observed to show a signal of distress. The crew of the life-boat George Moore were immediately assembled, and the boat was launched; she then succeeded in bringing the vessel's crew of three men safely to land. The life-boat crew afterwards remained up all the night on the look-out, in case their services might again be needed, as it was blowing a very heavy gale.—- On the 29th March, at about three p.m., during a heavy gale from the N.E., the schooner Margaret Ann, of Carnarvon, was seen to be riding heavily at her anchors, and at low water she struck the ground severely and unshipped her rudder. The George Moore was again launched through a heavy sea, and, her assistance having been offered and accepted, three of the life-boatmen went on board the vessel and assisted at the pumps, the boat re- maining by her until high water. The vessel :car- ried a crew of four men. RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY.—This Life-boat Estab- tablishment has been entirely renovated by the Institution, a commodious and substantial boat- house having been erected, from the designs of the Honorary Architect, C. H. Cooke, Esq., F.R.T.B.A., and a new mahogany life-boat, mf the 22-feet 10-oared class, provided in lieu of the old fir boat previously stationed here. The expense has been met from the munificent contributions of £ 2000 presented to the Institution by the Countess de Morella, for the permanent endowment of,. a life-boat, to be named the Ramon Cabrera, in memory of her late husband, the Count de Morella and Marquis del Ter, who had, as is well known, held the distinguished rank of Field Marshal in the Spanish army. The new life-boat was duly placed on its station in February last. During the year 1877 the following services were also rendered by boats of the Institution, the figures denoting the number of lives saved on each occasion:—Agnes and Helen, soli., Bangor, 4; Ann Pritchard, smack, of Carnarvon—saved vessel and 2; Darling, sloop of Beaumaris—assisted to save vessel and 2 Elizabeth, smack, of Cardigan, 2: George Evans, of Newquay, 2; Isabella, schooner, of Portmadoc, 5; Jane and Ellen, schooner, Nevin, 3; King Ja Ja s.s., Carnarvon. 10; Rebecca and Mary, Carnarvon, 5; Test, of Portmadoc—assisted.

EXECUTION AT DURHAM.—On Tuesday morning at eight o'clock, Robert Vest, sailor, was executed within the precincts of Durham gaol for the wilful murder, on the 29th of June, on the high seas off Sunderland, of John Wallace, a North Sea pilot, on board the William Lackey. The culprit was tried and condemned to death at the Durham Assizes before Mr Justice Baggally. He was recommended to mercy by the jury, and offorts were made to obtain a commutation of the sentence, but without avail. From the period of his condemnation Ves-u seemed resigned to his fate. He paid all heed to the attendance of the prison chaplain, and admit- ted the justice of his sentence. On Tuesday morn- ing he rose early, and showed signs of havinc endured much mental agony during the night! As he was being piniened he shed tears, but walked to the scaffold with a bold step. He requested to shake hands with all the officials assembled, and the request was granted. He prayed ferventlv, his chief ejaculation being "Lord Jesus, receive'my soul." Just before the executioner placed the white soul." Just before the executioner placed the white cap over his head he addressed the chaplain as follows: "Mr Lowe, I will pray for vou in heaven." Death was almost instantaneous. The fall of the drop was between five and six feet. ATTEMPT TO POISON A MISTRESS.—At Hereford assizes on Monday, Emma Wall, 13, was charged with attempting to poison Miss Maggie Meek. The'p isoner was engagedby prosecutrix as general servant, and on July 6 was sent by her mistress to the butcher's shop to purchase a mutton chop. Whilst she was absent Miss Meek, who was under Dr Evans' care, wentuptairs, and discovered that a bottle of medicine was effervescing and had turned another colour. During this time the prisoner had returned, and Meek found that Is, which she had given her to purchase the meit, was quite black. Wall said that monev always turned black in her hands from perspiration, but on being given 6d to hold it did not in the least discolour. Prisoner gave various accounts about the state of the medicine, and it afterwards turned out that she had. taken some bichloride of mercury, which was used for sheep, from her mistress's kitchen cupboard, and had put it into the bottle. The jury found Wall guilty and his lordship, considering her youth, sentenced herto six months' imprisonment.

No fewer than ten boys were, it is stated, drowned in the Thames last week. It is reported from Turkestan that the Russians are discontinuing their armaments. The Right Rev Dr S. Gregg was formally en- throned Bishop of Cork on Saturday, in succession to his late father. Mr Joseph Makinson, the newly appointed stipendiary magistrate for the borough of Salford, took his seat for the first time on Monday. The field manoeuvres of the Prussian corps of Guards-will begin on the 16th August and be con- tinued till the 18th September. The merchants in German ports are very anxious to establish direct communication by sea with the mouths of the rivers Ob and Yenissei on the north coast of Siberia. Altogether 94 bodies belonging to the Grosser Kurfurst have been brought ashore. One body, which was recovered near Lydd on Sunday, was buried on Wednesday in Folkestone cemetery. The marriage between Mr W. E. Price, M.P. for Tewkesbury, and Miss Philips, daughter of Mr R. N. Philips, M.P. for Bury, took place at the Little Portland-street chapel on Monday. At the Leeds Assizes, on Wednesday, the Rev G. H. Mortimer Kennedy, curate of Monk Bretton, got a farthing damages in an action for libel against the proprietor of the Barnslty Times. At Marseilles a duel has taken place between M. Bouge, an advocate, and M. Dubosc, editor of the local paper, the Citoyen. The cause of the hostile meeting was an article which apperred it the Citjyen reflecting oil M. Bouge's father. The journalist received a wound on the right side. The Home Secretary has appointed Captain Twyford to the governorship of York Castle. Capt. Twyford has had considerable experience by the management of prisons and convict settlements, and served in the Crimean War and during the Indian Mutiny. Henry Charles Hammond, public librarian of the Doncaster Free Library, was on Monday fined £ 5 and costs, or a month's imprisonment, by the Don- caster magistrates, for assaulting his wife by throwing a knife at her. He was further bound over to keep the peace. The blade of the knife entered the woman's back. At the Staffordshire Coal aui Iron Company's colliery at Fenton, Stoke-upon-Trent, on Monday, while a man named Dale was being brought to the surface, the cage was overdrawn, and the man was precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 500 yards. When picked up the corpse was frightfully mangled. The Gazette contains despatches from Lord John Hay, commanding the channel squadron, describ- ing the transfer of the government of Cyprus to the British Empire. The Gazette also contains the official announcements of the investiture of the Duke of Cumberland and the Earl of Beaconsfieid with tlio order of the Garter. An extraordinary verdict was given at the Kerry Assizes. The Rev. Robt. Scanlon, of Bal lab anion, was placed at the bar charged with the commission of a felonious assault on a little girl on the 13th of February last. The prisoner is a Roman Catholic priest, but has not officiated for some time. The case for the prosecution was that on the day stated, about four o'clock in the evening, he entered the house of a man named Enright, a publican, in company with another man, for the purpose of getting drink, but did not get any. Leaving his companion in the shop, he went into the kitchen, where En right's daughter, fourteen years of age, was, together with an aged grandmother, who was blind, feeble, and of weak intellect, and he then committed a criminal assault on the child. During the trial he interrupted the witnesses and conducted himself in such a way that the Lord Chief Justice threatened to commit him, but no evidence was offered for the defence. The jury, after a long absence, came into court, and stated that there was no chance of agreeing to a verdict. The Chief Justice observed that they ought to agree and must agree. They were sent back to their room again, and after some time returned into their box with a verdict of "Not guilty," which was received with applause in court. His lordship expressed his sur- prise at the verdict, for which, he observed, they were responsible, and not the judge or the law. The law provided for the protection of female in- nocence, and upon the evidence which came before them he was surprised at such a verdict. MR DISRAELI VERSUS LORD BEACONSFIELD.—In a speech by Mr Disraeli, delivered in the House of Commons February 28, 1859, will be found the following passage, which may be of interest at the present time :—" [f this house loses its hold over the executive of the country,'what happens ? We fall back on a bureaucratic system,, and we should find ourselves, after all our struggles, in the very same position which in 1640 we had to extricate ourselves from. Your administration would be carried on by a Court Minister, perhaps a Court minion. THE PRODUCTS OF CYPRUS.—Copper is the chief metallic wea'th of Cyprus it is said to have once produced gold, silver, and emeralds. What is called the diamond of Paphos is a species of rock- crystal, found near that place. In this same vicinity is produced the celebrated amianthus, or mineral' cloth, famed among the ancients for its incombustibility, flexibility, whiteness, and deli- cate fibrous structure. Red jasper and amber are also productions of Cyprus. The slopes of the mountains are thickly clad with woods of oak, pine, cypress, beech, and elm, together with groves of olives, and plantations of mulberries. Myrtles, various evergreens, and innumerable sweet-scented flowers, adorn the northern sides of the range and the narrow belt at its foot. Hya- cinths, anemones, ranunculuses, the single and double flowered narcissus grow spontaneously, and deck the hill slopes, valleys, and plains; giving the country the appearance of an immense flower- garden, aud regaling the sense of smelling with delightful odours. The vegetable productions are tines, olives, cotton, lemons, oranges, apricots, and others congenial to the climate and soil. Cyprus has always been famous for its wines, which are of two kinds, red and white, made from grapes superlatively rich and luscious, their juice resembling a concentrated essence. These wines, however, are unpalatable to British taste, by their sickly sweetness, which it requires almost a century to remove. They are strongly aperient, and must be drunk with caution. In colour, sweetness, and other properties, Cyprian wine strongly resembles Tokay wine. It is supposed to be perfect at forty years old, when kept in casks covered at the bung- hole with a thin sheet of lead. Its qualities are then considered truly balsamic. All the valuable kinds are white, and the red is the common wine. Sugar-canes were anciently very abundantly culti- vated, till they were all burned bv a Turkish pacha. The silk of Cyprus is of two kinds, yellow and white, but the former is preferred. The cotton is the finest in the Levant. Of the cerealia, wheat is the chief, and of superior quality; but there is little or no capital in the hands of the peasantry, and the exportation of wheat is a monopoly, shared between the moutsel- lim and the Greek archbishop, who export or retail at an advanced price the whole annual produce, which they purchase at an arbitrary valuation. More than once during the war in Spain, the whole of the grain produce was pur- chased of the persons above mentioned by the merchants of Malta, and exported, leaving the people without a morsel of bread. Game abounds in this island, as pratridges. quails, woodcocks, and snipes but here are no wild animals, except foxes and hares, but raanv kinds of serpents, especially the asp, whose bite Is said to have caused the death of the infamous Cleopatra. All kinds of domestic animals and fowls are bred here, where the natives boast that the produce of every land and every clime will not only flourish, but attain even the highest point of perfection. Cyprus is noted for its manufactures of leather, printed cottons, and car- pets. The first is remarkable for its brilliant and livelv colours: and the second for the permanency of their colours, which become brighter by wash- ing. The carpets are of excellent workmanship, and though barely large enough for an English hearth, bring from 40 to 50 piastres a piece.

The dress for lady novelists.—Print. The Proper Magistrate for Spirit-rapping cases- Knox. Always in debt when there is no necessity for it -the letter B. Naturally enough, "Truth is stranger than notion," because it is not so common. THE PASSIONS.—The passions are at once tempters and chasti:-ers. As tempters, they come with garlands of flowers on the brows of youth; as CiiKstisers, they appear with wreaths of snakes on the forehead of deformity. They are angels of light in their delusions they are fiends of torment in their inflictions. CONFIDENCES.—Why will not mothers know that to invite and possess the confidence of their daughters is to secure them from evil? Never make them afraid to tell you anythiilg, never make them ashamed of the natural desire to have atten- tions from the other sex. Let them look upon you as the dearest friend as well as the kindest mother. Why are stokers well versed in the laws of punctuation? Because they never put coal on (colon) when they should make a full stop. What is the difference between a schoolmaster and a locomotive driver ?-One minds the train, the other trains the minds. Said the late Lord John Russel to Hume, at a social dinner: What do you consider the object of legislation?"—"The greatest good to the great- est number."—"What do you consider the greatest number ? J continued his lordship.—" Number one, my lord," was the commoner's prompt reply. A couple of gentlemen, strolling along a turn- pike, came to a toil bridge, aiid one of them said: I wonder when that bridge was erected, and who built it ?"—" I don't know," responded the other; but let's go over and we shall be tolled." There is a new version of an ancient rhyme, which strikes us as being a great improvement on the predecessor. It runs:— It is good to be merry and wise It is good to be honest and true; And, before you are off with the old love, It is best to be on with the new. A servant-girl in a country town, whose beauty formed a matter of general admiration and dis- cussion, in passing a group of officers in the street heard one of them exclaim to his fellow: By Heaven, she is painted Yes, sir; and by Heaven only!" she quickly replied, turning around. The officer acknowledged the force of the rebuke, and apologised. A MILLION PEOPLE.—Few are aware of the vast number of people that can be placed in a small space. When we speak of millions of men, we are apt to picture to ourselves an almost boundless mass of humanity yet a million of people standing together, each person occupying four square feet, could be placed upon a patch but little more than a mile square. An Alexandria telegram states that Nubar Pasha has accepted the post of minister without portfolio. The telegram further states that there is no truth in the report circulated by some foreign papers that differences existed among members of the committee of inquiry into Egyptian revenue. BRAVE HEARTS.—He that looks upon life from a sour or severe disposition, with hard and stringent notions* is ill-prepared to meet the experiences of this world but he who has the sweetness of hope; he who has an imagination lit up with cheerfulness; he who has the sense of humour which softens all things—he who has this atmosphere of the mind- hab made himself superior to accident. As the angel described by Milton, who was smitten by the sword, and whose wounds healed as soon as the sword was withdrawn, so ought man to be and, when he receives a spear-tlirust in life, no sooner should the spear be withdrawn than his flesh uueht to close of itself again." Lord Norbury when once charging a jurfr in a breach of promise case, noticed that the letters of the faithless defendant had been so long in plain- tiff's pocket, or so often shown to her sympathising friends, they were greatly frayed at the folds, and almost in tatters. Gentlemen," said Lord Nor- bury, carefully holding up one of the epistles to the gaze of the jury, "it's easy to see these love- letters, because they're so mighty tender." LOVE OF OFFSPRING.—It is generally taken for granted that parents love their children; yet the care and anxiety most parents feel for their families quite overshadow their consciousness of lovins them, and thej^ fall back upon a sense of duty and obligation and responsibility that, however it may stimulate them to perform the actual exterior demands made on them, renders all their labour vain. This sense of duty is not the highest of motives. It is all very well to require filial obedi- ence and submission from children because it is their duty to render it; but when they are lifted into the higher atmosphere of absorbing love for the parent, the sense of duty, that frosty motive, will be no longer needed. "I do not love my mother one particle," said a middle-aged man the other day, "simply because she never loved me. She took care of us children-oh, yes-kept us clean, taught us the Bible, prayed over us, and cried over us but we never felt the warmth of a mother's tender love, never went to her with our little troubles or our little joys. It is very different in my family. If there is one thing that my children know, it is that I love them, and what I do for them is not from a sense of "parental duty, hut because they are infinitely dear to me. And such children as they are so affectionate, so obedient, so happy The teacher who is so wise and so fortunate as to win the love of his pupils has little difficulty in enforcing oilier or securing the highest grade of intellectual labour of which they are capable. In order to gain their love, however, he must first love them; for only love wins love. So with the employer. If he can convince those in hiseemploy that he bears to them good will, kind- neos, a sincere desire to promote their welfare, they will give him a fidelity and thoroughness of service that no wages could secure.

A PUBLICAN ROBBED OF £ 20,000. — A daring robbery has been committed at Stanningley, near Leeds. Nearly £ 5000 in notes, about X,20 in gold, and bills of exchange amounting to about £ 15,000 have been abstracted from a drawer in a bedroom at the house of Mr William Sowden, the Thorn hill Hotel, Stanningley, between the hours of six and ten p.m. Mr Sowden, who is an old man, has been in the habit of discounting bills, and it was his custom to keep a large quantity of memey in his house. This fact has evidently become known to some expert thieves, who llave also probably as- certained that the sum has within the last few days been largely augmented, for it was on Wednesdav last that he drew out of the National Provincial Bank at Leeds in Bank of England notes £1850, which had been deposited there on interest for three years, and the term had just expired. The money stolen consists almost entirely of Bank of England notes, aud among them are three £ 500 notes, one £ 200, fifteen £ 100, one £ 50, three £ 20, about twenty-two £ 10, and about £ 1300 in £ 5 notes. Mr Sowden kept his money and bills of exchange in a pocket book in a drawer in his bed- room, where were also his deeds and securities. It is supposed that more than one thief was con- cerned in the robbery, and that it took place about nine o'clock on Thursday night, for at that hour the taproom company were making a great noise, and the landlady and a servant were de- tained at the bar by two men for about a quarter of an hour. The men only talked to themselves as they drank their beei, aud were strangers to the landlady. It is supposed that during this time the thieves entered the house by the backway, and went upstairs. They broke open the bedroom door, which was locked, and ransacked all the diawers, and made off with their bootv. The robbery was not discovered until half-past ten, when Mr and Mrs Sowden were going to bed. No clue has been obtained as to the thieves, nor is any one suspected. Yesterday morning £ 20 in notes was found on the platform at Stanningley Station. The numbers of notes to the value of about zC2000 have been ascertained, and these notes have been stopped.

Y WASG (AMERICAN), JULY 20. AMERICAN VIEW OF LORD BEACONSIIELD AND HIS POLICY.—Our co-uitrymcn on the other side of the Atlantic, seeui to entertain similar views to our own on Lord Beaconsneld 's mode of dealing with the Eastern Question: The Wasy says, referring to the English occupation of Cyprus:—Disraeli has won another victory and has astonished the world with his boldness and cunning. The Premier never blows his trumpet before performing his danng deeds. That is one good quality iu Lim as a statesman. He keeps his secrets so closely as to make it impossible for even the Parliament to know any more than the man in the moon knows of his plans. He performs everything without coaiulting the representatives of the people. He sent the navy to the Sea of Marmora, and the Sepoys tJ Malta, and made secret bargains with Russia and with Turkey—with the conqueror as well as with ihc conquered—without consulting anybody, and without paying any more attention to the two Houses of Parliament than if the members were children who had not learnt their alphabet. In the same manner he bought the Suez Gannal shares a short time back. Have the Senators of Great Britain no rights ? If we take Lord Beaconsfieid as an example, the Prime Minister of England has much more authority than the President of these Stares possesses. Not even General Grant dared to buy San Domingo without consulting some of the Senators, and when he found they were averse to the project, he abandoned it. He dared Rot attach that country to the States without the authority of the two Houses of Parliament. Y 'GENEDL GYMREIG,' AUGUST 1ST. THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES.—Regard- ing the future of this excellent institution, the Genedl says:—What cheers us chiefly in the pro- ceedings of the late council (held last week) is its determination to appeal to the public for aid. A high authority has said that he who has a future should learn to wait. We believe that thd'c is a bright future before the University College. Noshing can be more certain than, when t".e Liberals return to p jwer, that this institution shall not be forgotten. As education is more ap- preciated—it is very rapidly becoming so—its stu- ck at.-will be ten for everyone it has at present. The college also becomes older every year, its officers ga'll in experience, storms cause its roots to spread and deepen continually. But it must be able to wait. And in order to do so, it must get money. It is gratifying to think somebody now and then remembers it in his will and testament. It obtained lately £ 5,000 in that manner, and it is certain to get more again. But it needs money to spend. We learn that the directors have decided to appeal first to landowners in Wales, from whom they expect generous aid. We have not suihcient hope to be disappointed in this project. One of th" principal privileges of the Welsh people is, that their aristocracy allow them freedom to work alone. If they were to come forward and take the load, nothing could have kept the nation from following them: but. by thus keeping aloof, leav- ing the people to exercise their own muscles and loins, and learning to dispense with the wealthy and great, a generation of Liberals is fostered, not enfeebled by the patronage of the "aristocracy. We are much more prone to look to the middle and the commercial classes, and even to the plebeians and the million." And already the gifts of these av- pouring in. In addition to their former gifts, th loliowing gentlemen have sent in recent subscriptions:—Mr Samuel Morley, M.P., -6600; Mr John Roberts, M.P., £ 300; Mr Davie?, Bootle, £ 150; Mr A. C. Humphreys Owen, £ 120 Mr I Stephen Evans, £ 100. And we feel assured that there is need only to appeal to the congrega- tions, as before, in order to get an annual col- lection towards the working expenses of the college without limiting the time to three years. Wales has taken heart on having an university, and no obstructions can prevent her obtaining ii. There was a time when the prospects for this were- in- nnitely less'than they are now. Incredible diffi- culties have been surmounted, and what was done ivi the past is an earnest and a pledge of what may be expected in the future." PARLIAMENT AND THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.— The following is translated from one of the Notes of the week in this number:—"We were glad to notice that Mr H. Richard, M.P., and Mr D. Da vies. M.P., raised their voices in the Par- liument in favour of Wales, during the debate OR the motion for granting a million and a half towards education in Ireland. Mr Rickard said that he did not begrudge giving to Ireland any educational advantages that cauld be extended to her, but it was impossible not to be struck by the contrast between the prodigal generosity of the Government towards Ireland on the question of education, and the mean and narrow spirit evinced towards the Principality of Wales, to whom the Government had just refused the request of an im- portant deputation for some help. He was not sure but that the people of Wales were too peace- able and loyal, and that, if they started a Fenian or a Home Rule movement, the Government would be more inclined to listen to their voice." itIVAL EISTEDDI-ODAU.—"We acknowledge, in the name of Wales, the service rendered by the Liverpool Mercury to Welsh movements, during the whole time when Wales, recently, sought to get some recognition, of her national rights. The Mereury did much towards bringing the rights of the natives of the Principality to the notice of the powers that be. But even the Mercury, on Tues- day last1 committed a serious mistake by stating that the Chair Eisteddfod of Anglesey, which will be held next week at Menai Bridge, is to be con- P i the National Eisteddfod to be held in Birkenhead. We deem a3 unfair, unjust, and injurious, the insinuation that the Menai Bridge Committee had taken advantages of the fact that the National Eisteddfod is to be held in an English town, so as to decide to hold a rival Eisteddfod at the Bridge, remembering as they did the success of the one held there in 1873. Hosts of Welsh nationalists from Liverpool and Birkenhead will visit Menai Bridge, and Anglesey will be amply represented at Birkenhead. There is not the slightest rivalry between the one and the other. Each institution stands on entirely different basis, and we believe that each will be an effective means for the enhancement of taste, morals, art, science, and Bardism in its various branches among our countrymen in England and Wales. BANER AC AMSERAT7 CYMRU, JULY 31. THE COST OF A ROYAL FAMILY.-The first page leader of this week's Baner is devoted to a critque on the late debate on granting £10,000 a year more to the Duke of Connaught, in consideration of his projected marriage, and it says:—"The Queen gets towards her own personal expenses, and the cost of her establishments, the enormous sum of four hundred and six thousand seven hundred and nine pounds ( £ 108,709) per annum and she has received that sum every year for the last forty years. And besides, her sons and daughters are already in receipt of the sums seen below annually from the treasury of the country. We shall name them according to their respective ages :-The first is the Princess Victoria, who was married to the Crown Prince of Germany. A grant of C8000 a year was ceded to her on the occasion of her marriage in 1857—and she has received this sum for twenty years—which make, up a total of £ KAft00. In 1863, £ -10.000 a year was granted to the Prince of Wales on his marriage, and he has received this amount for fourteen years, making a total of £ 560,000. The Princess of Wales, on her marriage with the Prince, obtained JE10,000 per annum from the treasury of this country; and what she also has received in fourteen years amounts to £ 140,000. Prince Alfred, in 1866, when he reached his twentieth year, got £ 15,000 a year, to which was added the sum of ten thousand pounds more every year since he was married. He, therefore, has already received £195.000. It was granted to Princc Arthur, in 1871, when he attained his majority, £ 15,000 per annum, and he, by this time, has received £ 90,000. Princess Alice (of Hesse) got zC6000 on her marriage in 1861, aud C, she has received £U6,I)()O. Princess Helena, of Scn'eswig, was voted an annual grant of L6000 on her marriage in 1866 and the sum of sixty-three thousand pounds were poured into her coffers by this t.me. On the marriage of Princess Lausie with the Marquis of Lome, in 1871, £ 6000 were granted her also, and so she has received £ 36,000. Fifteen thousand a year was granted Prince Leopold on his attaining his majority, in 1871, and he has received £ 45,000. The Duchess of Cam- bridge receives three thousand pounds annually since 18H, which makes £102,000; and her hus- band, the Duke of Cambridge, the Queen's uncle, receives £ 15,000 a year since IS50, which makes his portion from that time £ 321.(>00. Aud last week there was added the annual sum of ten thousand pounds to the fifteen thousand pounds per annum already enjoyed by the Duke of Conuaught

THE WESLEFM CONFERENCE. METHODISM IN WALES. The proceedings of this conference were resumed at Bradford on Tuesday. After the daily record had been read and confirmed, the Rev E. Haughton, wh-i has travelled 40 years, was allowed to become a supernumary. The Rev. John Bedford raised a question in reference to the appointment of a .Welsh minister to the English work. It was proposed to appoint a promising young Welsh minister to an English circuit. The Rev. W. Davies, chairman of the Welsh district, opposed the proposal, and requested that the minister should be retained in Welsh work. Dr. Osborn asked if Methodism was to be ex- tinguished in Wales. Some people said yes, for the language was doomed. He did not believe that the language would go out in our time. It was not likely to be absorbed in the period of our re- sponsibility, and the best policy was to make Welsh Methodism as good as possible, by keeping up a good supply of Welsh ministers. The Welsh people were born theologians. They were logicians and divine? by nature. He was satisfied that they could not trample out the Welsh language, or the marks of nationality associated with it. I STATISTICS OF MEMBERSHIP. The Rev. R, N. Young presented the statistics or membership as follows:—First London, 14,339, decrease seven; Second London, 17,198, increase 303. Bedford, 11,145, increase 116; Kent, 6.566, increase 81; Norwich, 6603, decrease, 42 Oxford, 6146, decrease 98; Portsmouth, 6022, increase 214; Channel Islands, .3347, increase 48; Devonport, 1580, increase. 354; Cornwall, 19,240, decrease, 298; Exeter, 5822, increase, 180; Bristol, 11,803, increase, 49; Bath, 7617; decrease, 39; Swan- sea, 8357, increase, 2; South Wales, 4520, in- crease, 12; North Wales, 13,019, increase, 5; Birmingham, 18,805, decrease, 460: Macclesfield', 11,974, -lecrease, 237; Liverpool, 18,886, decrease, 117; Manchester, 17,077, decrease, 10; Bolton, 16,355, decrease, 172; Halifax, 20,568, decrease, 483; Leeds, 20,106, decrease, 79; Sheffield, 12,176, increase, 100; Nottingham, 15,975, in- crease, 167; Lincoln, 13,622, increase, 20; Hull, 16,042. decrease, 385 York, 13,036, increase, 51; Wliitby, 13,122, decrease, 101; Newcastle, 14,805, decrease, 127; Carlisle, 5423, increase, 154; Isle of Man, 2801, increase, 26: Edinburgh, 379, in- crease, 18; Zetland, 1170, decrease, 54. The total number of members is 380,876, a decrease of 1413 24,896 have been admitted. The districts reporting a decrease are, Cornwall 898, Birming- ham 460, Hull 395, Halifax 384, Macclesfield 237, Bolton 172, Newcastle 127, Liverpool, 117. NONCONFORMIST DEPUTATION The secretary of the Conference introduced the deputations from the Nonconformist ministers and the Primitive Methodist Conference. The Rev. Dr Antliffe, the president of the Primitive Metho. dist College at Sunderland, presented an address from the Primitive Methodist Conference. The president said he was glad to meet so many repre- sentatives from the churches, and to hear their fraternal greetings. The Rev. T. Smith, the ex-president of the Primitive Methodist Conference, said :—Honoured and beloved brethren,-I can't express the pleasure I feel at being before the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. If, 40 years ago, the question had been asked me what distinguished assembly I should wish to visit, I should have replied the Methodist Conference. I am indebted to Methodism for everything I hold dear, and I am here to convey the paternal regards and our cordial greetings of our conference to you. We, like your- selves, are engaged in spreading scriptural holi- ness throughout the land, and we esteem it a privilege to be allowed to spend these few moments with you. We are deeply interested in your pros- perity, for we preach the same doctrine. The speaker made s&me other observations, and the deputation were cordially welcomed. The conference soon afterwards adjourned.