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GREAT BATTLE IN THE SOUDAN.
GREAT BATTLE IN THE SOUDAN. General Stewart had a most successful fight on the 17th instant, with about 10,000 of the Mahdi's forces near the Abu Klea Wells, which are about 23 miles on this side of Metemneh. The enemy's force was collected from Berber, Metemneh, and Omdurman—which place, prison- ers reported, was recently captured by the Mahdi, thus releasing the men from there to fight General Stewart. The enemy left no less than 800 dead round the square, and prisoners report the number of their wounded to be quite exceptional. The British loss has been severe but the success has been so complete, and the enemy's loss so verv heavy, that it may dishearten the enemy so that all future fighting may be of a less obstinate character. General Stewart's operations have been most creditable to him as commander. The nation has every reason to be proud of the gallantry and splendid spirit dis- played by her Majesty's soldiers on this occasion. The losses have been nine officers killed (including Colonei Bnrnaby, Conservative candidate for Birmingham), nine officers wounded, and 65 non-commissioned officers and men killed, and 85 wounded. Stewart's 'oree was 1500, all told.
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-AIR JOXES-PARRY, M.P., addressed his constituents at Xcvin on Saturday. GREAT CLEARANCE SALE. —A great clearance sale for 30 days is now on at W. O. Williams' (late Mr T. T. Roberts), 348, High-street, Bangor, where great bargains are uffered iu all sorts of drapery goods.—Advt. ANGLESEY SESSIONS.—In our account of the Anglesey Sessions there was an error, which we are requested to correct. The amendment moved byMrH. Wynne-Jonts, and carried by ten to seven, should have been that the sessions be held at Llangefni twice annually—at Holy- head once, and at Beaumaris once-and not, as reported. alternately at Beaumaris and Llangefni," which would exclude Iloiyhead entirely. GRAND CONCERTS AT BANGOR.—Mr James Sauvane will also take part in the two grand concerts which are to be held at the Pcnrhyn Hall, Buigor, on the 30th instant. The other artistes include Miss Mary Davies. London; Miss Marian Williams, London Miss Annie Hope, Carnarvon; Dr. Roland Rogers, Mr Lawson (violinist), Mr Davies (Cathedral); and Miss Annie Catherine Roberts will assist at the piano. THE GOVERNMENT AND TIIE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF Nopru WALES.—-Within ths last few days the authori- ties of the North Wales College have received an intima- tion from the Treasury that the grant will be paid to them for three-quarters of list year, that is to say, from the month of April, auionahag to £ ;>00 ). As the college was opened ill October, it aad been feared that the (Traut would only be paid from that date, and the liberal action of the Treasury has given great satisfaction to the friends of higher education t-iro»ghout North Wales. PROPOSED CHOI: YL UNION FOR BANGOR AND DISTRICT.—On Wednesday evening, at the Queen's Ileail Cafe, Bangor, a meeting was held for the pur- pose of considering the desirability of forming a choral union. Principal Reichel occupied the chair. A resolution was passed in favour of establishing a union, and a committee was appointed to ascertain the views of the public on the question. Dr. Rogers has expressed his willingness to accept the post of conductor. Mr J. Richard (Isalaw) is the secretary pro. tern. We sincerely trust that the movement wiil meet with a substantial support from the public in general. DISESTABLISHMENT IN WALES AND MANCHESTER LIBE- RATIONISTS.—At the quarterly meeting of the .Manchester and district branch of the Liberation Society, held at the offices, 4, St. Manchester, on Tuesday, .Jan. 1:3th, 1885, Mr Robert Affleck in the chair, it was moved by Mr Samuel Knowles, J.P., seconded by Mr Lawrence Whitaker, and resolved "That this committee congratulates the Liberal of Wales oil the reiterated assertion of the Right Hon. Lord Richard Grosveuor, M,P., on the Gth instant, that the question of DisL'sta- blishment in Wales is ripening for lcgi dative settlement, and therefore urges their Welsh friends to perfect their electoral organisations, so that not a single opponent of Disestablishment shall be returned from the Principality to the next Parliament." «U
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. THOMAS H. OWEN AND MR. W. J. PARRY. The following is a continuation of the. corres- pondence between the abovenamed gentlemen, the previous letters baving alrearly appeared in a supplement to the Observer and Express Brynllwyd, Bethasda, Bangor, loth Jan., 1885. •Sir,—-The mixture," which in your last you served up f >r my edification, and presumably that the pjoplj up f r my edification, and presumably that the pJupLj should Lttive been compounded by a person in whom confidence might be placed, in other words, by boma othor than yourself, before it was to be expected that any man of common sense could be gulled into swallowing it. How you can for a momant delude yourself with the ÎoJeJ. that the sli^hteBt credence is to be placed upon any statement of yours, bolster it up as you may, passes my cemprehension, after the unblushing- effrontory with which yen plead guilty to an act of wilful deception during the strike in 1874; an act, which I am happy to believe for the credit of my countryman, is as unique as it is vile. tJut as I purpose dealing with your statements as near as pos- sible ill tha order in which they appear, I shall enter fully into this dark spot, on your character further on. To begin, lot me take your answers. Your verbal reply was certainly full and complete, but tha.t I have not received a satisfactory written one, will be appa- rent to every impartial mind. I am told at last that "if I accepted the responsi- bility" of organising the Consarvativa demonstration, I am the man referred to iu your speech. But I do not accept it, and my particular requut in my last letter that you would lpe good euough to natUa the nobleman who "disclaiuu responsibility," and also the gentleman who informed you of it, you have ueeu lit to ignore. 1. This correspondence my own seeking." That is true, but your assertion that" tide issues were intro- duced by me is not so. Asse rtious are not needed here. Our letters are their own witnltsses -my iirst was a request for your written explanation. In your first roply you evaded my question, aad in your subsequent ones you particularly refuse to answer it, and seiza the occasion tc. make personal attacks upon me. My digressions have been confined to replyiag to t'hem. 2. Must have the last word." A woman's preroga- tive, surely, but you are welcome to it when the purpose for which I initiated this correspondence has been at- tained. 3. Mr Roberts, Jerusalem," is a Christian gentle- man, and that, I am afraid, you can never be. To say, therefore, that you will not emulate his gentlemanly treatment of me is quite superfluous. It would be utterly impossible for you to do so. You thank me for my reference to the letter iu the (rtnedl. Your affected lack of interest in the subject is. however, hardly consistent with the fact that certain passages in it. descriptive of the attack upon your house. &c., are almost identical, word for word, with your re- marks on the same subject in your letter to me. Your insinuations that I may, perhaps, have something to do with Beiriniad's letter in the Owalia is like the rest of your statements—utterly without foundation. I did not write or inspire a single word of it. You may rest assured that if I ever have occasion to attack you or any other man in the public press that I shall have the courage to do so under my proper name and address. 5. You state that there was no regret when I left the Penrhyn quarry in 1873, and that my name was brought in by you on your own responsibility" in 1874. That the committee unanimously condemned the bringing in of my name," and that at a. mass meeting of the quarrymen next morning the unanimous voice was against my name being inserted." What inconsistency between your letter in 1884 and those written by you in 1874. A man's conduct is necessarily the reflex of his character, and let me caution you that you are judged bv your conduct. Let truth and falsehood grapple. Whoever knew truth put down to the worse in a free alld open encounter? With unflinching truthfulness, and unsparing severity, I shall enter into details on this subject. That the above are all false, I shall try to prove by the following extracts from letters which were sent to me at that time by an important member of the strike com- mittee. Here they are, and please peruse them. Inasmuch as this movement is an important one, and there is no knowing where it may terminate, I hope for the unkindness you received at the hands of some the time you were here, that you perceive the advantage of the present opportunity. There was a grave feeling here upon your departure, and by this it has become atl animated feeling, because we lost your service. Conse- quently, the general wish is, to see you here again." '•The committee were unanimous in acknowledging that your stall here would have been better for them. When presenting cases against certain people, we also confessed that we had no complaints against the slate inspectors, and our reason for that was, that your work when here impressed them that care was necessary, and that they, in virtue of that, acted so honestly that we did not get one complaint against them. This, according to the declaration of the committee to Pennant A. Lloyd, Esq., is a credit due to you." Now, Mr Parry, do these agree with your account ? From the display of good feelings I invariably observed when among the quarrymen in Mr Francis's time. I must state that you are wrong and this is right. Have you forgotten how you told me, in a general conversation some time after my departure, that had the quarrymen kuown that I was determined to leave, they would have struck in my favour ? I dare say it will be to your ad- vantage to deny that now. Again, I am to believe that there was general joy when I did not go to Dinorwic quarry! Assuming that there was, what was the cause of it ? It was because the Dinorwic quarrymen were given to understand- 1. That I was expelled from Penrhyn quarry. II. That the Bethesda quarrymen were, without ex- ception, against me. III. That I had said publicly at Bethesda that 2s Gd a day was sufficient payment for workmen. IV. That my appointment as an agent would ruin them all. These circumstances having since transpired, and other important facts revealed, I have been repeatedly informed that the revulsion of feeling with regard to me at the Dinorwic quarry has been most complete. I had that from the late Colonel Wyatt, as well as from you. Was it not natural that the circulation of abuse and falsehood, like the foregoing, should be more than sufficient to cause a rising amongst the men and embitter their feelings against ile ? 6. Your assertion that my support of concerts is confined to those at which 1 am put down as chair- man or conductor is easily refuted. 1 have never re- fused to buy a ticket for a concert or lecture. ince I am in Bethesda, whether for the benefit of a Dissenter or Churchman, Liberal or Conservative, so that if 1 am not able to attend in person my money is always there. That, 1 take it, is a more modest way than that of making a practice of sending letters (which are, of course, certain to be read from the platform) regretting my inability to attend, and stating the pleasure it gives me to contribute so much, ifcc., &c. I now come to that portion of your letter in which by laying bare one of the secrets, as you term it, of the strike in 1874, you forfeit all claim to the respect of straightforward and honest men. Not content with avowing the shameful deception, which, because it suited your purpose, you practised upon Lord Penrhyn and the workmen who placed such implicit confidence in you, you actually seem to think that you are to be congratulated upon the suc- cessful result of your crafty double dealing—a model champion, truly. And this is the man, this deacon of the elastic conscience, who the quarrymen of North Wales are to look up to es their guide and trusty (?) counsellor. I tell you, Mr I'arry, that the utter lack of principle of which you stand self-convicted will leave a blot upon your character which you will find it well nigh impossible to erase. You are, perhaps, one of those who can call such acts as these, innocent frauds; but. it is well remarked by a. very sound moralist that no frauds are innocent, because they de- stroy the confidence of society, on which our happi- ness and convenience in every part of our intercourse with each other greatly depend. I will venture to add, that lie who will cheat without remorse in one tiling will cheat in another whenever he can do it with equal secrecy and impunity. T can scarcely meditate upon this deed of yours without feeling my compassion powerfully excited. Your conduct was thoroughly degrading and con- temptible. What a fine specimen of a man who "never made himself small and contemptible." 7. New, with regard to my supposed ignorance of quarry management, which you allege was one of the chief reasons why the men objected to me, perhaps the best answer to that will be the fact that Lord Penrhyn and Mr Francis, notwithstanding my thrice tendered resignation, offered me the management of a district in the quarry. If that circumstance has little weight with you,what do you say to the following ? Mr Wyatt, the supreme manager of the Penrhyn quarries, recommended me to his late brother, Colonel Wyatt, as a suitable and competent person to take the management of the Dinorwic quarry; and before the appointment was confirmed, 1 was called to the office at Portdinorwic to be examined by the late Mr Wyatt of Bryngwynant, in geology, and in the general management of such quarries as the Penrhyn and Dinorwic. I acquitted myself to his entire satisfaction, as was proved by my subsequent appointment. 8. You ask whether I consider a Churchman and a Conservative to bo the most important qualification# of a quarry manager." I presume evea, according to your views, a quarry manager may have some opinions of his own—religious and political. Granting this, I have to submit the same remarks for your perusal as 1 gave in my last letter, viz., I- That there is a proper time and proper place for everything, and surely poli- tics and religion should never stand between man and the due execution of his dutv." V. Your reference to the election of governors for the North Wales College is rather unfortunate. I with- drew from the contest, because from what I could see I was afraid the election was not about to be carried out in a proper manner, and I withheld my promised subscription when I found that what I had antici- pated actually took place. Aly objection was fully and openly explained to the committee and general secretary, and all were quite satisfied, except with the fact of my having withdrawn. Had I consented to stand I have very little doubt but that I should have had the honour of being elected. In any case, I had nothing to fear from the candidature of a man who was placed fifth on the list out of six who con- tested for the post. 10. Your refusal to give the name of the man '• who opposed my testimonial is easily seen through. You have no one to name. Try to act your part in life as a man of polished sense and confi rmed virtue. 11. Who. again, is the individual" precluded by a jury's verdict from decent burial" whom you assert I advanced as my authority f or making a charge against four gentlemen? I made no charge against four gentlemen, and certainly did not introduce tho name of any maa who committed suicide, if that is what you mean, though it does not follow that a man who commits suicide is precluded from decent burial." Will you please explain, and when you have done so I may favour you with something new on the subject. 12. You state that, "to put it mildly," I was "driven to resign." This is, indeed, news. Will you be good enough to state by what process of reasoning you arrive at this conclusion—a conclusion, I may add, as erroneous as it is misleading. Not only was I not ''driven to resign," but I had to tender my resigna- tion no less than three times before it was finally ac- cepted. To what a pitch of presumption and inso- lence you have raised your blindness and folly. Yon may perhaps know more about this matter than I, but as I cannot see by what you were actuated with the expression driven to resign," 1 must call upon you to furnish me with your interpretation, as I am determined not to allow you to indulge in misrepre- sentations and repeated endeavours to malign my character. You ought to blush at your own meanness and cowardice. 12. "Supper for the choir." Every event must have an adequate cause, and 1 have no doubt that the person referred to by you upon this point must have had a certain cause for refusing to pay his promised subscription. You will, therefore, I hope, in fairness to:the accused, and for the sake of the public, enter fully into particulars. 14. Your remarks about certain Liberals, whom you are pleased to name Stragglers," I treat with the contempt they deserve. I know them, and I respect them. They are men who have an opinion of their own, and consequently they are looked upon as stragglers by you. f venture, however, to state, without fear of contradiction, that they are thoroughly honest, open and respectable, and immediately they become convinced that the Conservative cause is the right one, we shall receive them into our regiments with open arms. 15. They who form great schemes, and perform great exploits, must necessarily be few but if we are to believe you, Mr Parry, you are one of the few. Pain, danger, and persecution have been incurred by you with alacrity in the service of mankind, with the expectation of no other recompense than an honour- able distinction You appear extraordinarily anxious to convince me how much you have done for the quarrymen and the Union in your time, and that gratuitously (? What about the wage," Mr Parry ? I do not grudge it. Do not trouble yourself about these points. I know all about you and your connections with the same. 1G. You state that your "illness" was not put on for the purpose of getting outdoor employment?" I cannot comprehend your meaning. Will you please enlighten me upon the subject, and also point out in what way I have made myself disagreeable to the present managers. 17. With regard to the string of questions (still more side issues ") with which you wind up your letter, I shall be happy to answer them if you can show me they have anything to do with the object of this cor- respondence. I have hitherto, as 1 have before stated, been con- tent with replying to your attacks without initiating any against you but after this correspondence has come to a definite conclusion, 1 shall, with your per- mission, deal with a few incidents in your career, which, in my opinion, require a little wholesome ven- tilation. As you have failed to reply to a certain portioa of my last letter, which I consider of vital importanco as far as this correspondence is concerned, I cannot do better than repeat the same in this, and also inform you that nothing will satisfy me but a. complete and straightforward answer. And here it is. Having thus replied to your attacks. I now come to the only relevant portiou of your letter-that in which you state that if I am the person responsible for the counter-demonstration, then I am the man referred to in the speech complained of." Before I accept the responsibility, will you be good enough to name, firstly, the "nobleman" who" dis- claimed all responsibility, and, secondly, the" gentleman who gave you the information." Yours truly, T. H. OWM. W. J. Parry, Esq., Coetmer Hall, Bethesda. Coetmor Hall, Bethesda, Bangor, N.W., 17th Jan., 1385. Sir,—After takin" upwards of a fortnight's time in its careful preparation I must admit that I expected some- thing more wonderful than the production received from you yesterday morning. I am not at a:l disappointed in tliejl spirit that pervades '-be same; but really, Mr Owen, the matter might have been a little more to the p unt. 011 the question of the opinion iu which we ho d one another, the less naid the better, perhap?. It is cle r that we do not look upon each other as Augels of ight." A jealous and suspicious nature can never se any creature of God superior to himself. Such a pc son is always a perfect, ideal of Jack Brag. But let r e say. in passing, Mr Owell. in the words of i gentlerna i—" a Christian gentleman."—as no doubt you will acknow- ledge him to be:—" I do not place any value upon the good opinion of Mr Owen, Brvnllwyd. I should prefer being without that man's good opinion. In such a case I should think better of myseif ?" I will add that your last effusion has quite satisfied me that you have completely lost your head. Wuat a descent between the 20th Nov ember and the 15th January! I suppose your de- fence will be that you have" so far forgotten yourself." I had been looking forward anxiously (?) to the ap- pearance of the present epistle-the threatened bomb- shell. But, behold, it turns out to be only a rocket of varied colours that in its ascent claims our attention, but which ends in smoke, it was described to me before its appearance in all manner of character. I had been told repeatedly that you were running about telling your friends that before, you had the rope round my feet, but that now, you had it round my neck," What a serious—what an awful state for a man to be in! The hangman having got hold of him After carefully perusiner it, and takinsr every precaution against deceiving myself, I at last became convinced that the rope, if it is there, is rottea, or the drop rusty, or Binns (Iriiiilc I I Perhaps all three combined. We are told that people get drunk on other than strong driuk. Mvnyddog once said that he knew an ass that had got drunk on "diod fain." Excuse my using Welsh instead of Latin. Before I take your last letter specially under my consideration, I will draw your attention to a few simple facts that ought to convince you that all these "side issues,"—as you wish to call them—owe their existence to your own action. I shall endeavour not to put down a single statement that you in any sense can dispute the correctness of. 1. Towards the end of September last a Liberal demon- stration was arranged to be held on the evening of the 14th October at Bethesda and placards were out early in October announcing it. 2. On the 12th October (two days before the meeting) it became known in the neigh- bourhood that a counter demonstration was arranged to be held, on the same evening and the same hour, and arranged in such a manner that a procession was to pass the Liberal meeting will torchlights and with brass bands. 3. At the Liberal meeting I condemned in the strongest language at my command the person or persons responsible for this arrangement. 4. On the evening of the 20th October you met me at the Bethesda Railway Station, and asked nn> you were tha person referred to in my speech; and i asked you to answer me first if you were the person responsible for the counter demon- istration to which you answered No. I then said that some of my remarks were intended for the person respon- si'ole. who ever he might be. 5. In a week s time,- -OD the 27th October-you called upon me a second time and asked me to write a letter to say you were not the person referred to; and I answered, Certainly not until vou have first put down in writing what vou want of iue." And that the letter must contain some defi. nite charges." 6. On the 4th November you wrote sir- ing, in general terms, that you bad accused me of mak- ing certain statements," and claiming a most unquali- fied denial in writing." 7. As use was going to be made- of the correspondence, and as I felt your letter to be wry vague, on the 7th November I wrote: If you require from me any definite denial or explanation of anything I have said I must call upon you to put downinwriting what you accuse me of. I shall be leadr at any time to sup- port what I have said in my, speech andto you personally." What could there have been more reasonable than this ? I simply wanted to have in writing what I was accused of, so that my letter should be an answer to something definite, about which there could be no dispute. Here you were charging me with making certain statements," some of them you mentioned to me at the first inter- view. You called upon me to withdraw them in writing. I said, Let me have from yon in writing what you accuse me of. and I shall see if there is anything to withdraw but to this day-for some purpose or other-you have not done this. Do you consider this fair ? Do you con- sider this in character with the behaviour of a gentleman ? If you wanted simply a plain answer to a plain ques- tion why did you not put down in writing your full plain question ? If you had put down in writing what you accused me of," you would have had my plain and straightforward answer instead of that, and in con- sequence of that, you drifte I this correspondence into all the side issues that have since crept up. These bare facts prove clearly to every mind that you alone are re- sponsible that you did not in November last get "my plain and straightforward answer" to any" definite charges" that you might have put down in writing." I shall now take your letter as numbered by you. No. 1 I consider is dealt with in the foregoing state- ment, and with this further remark-that in my first letter I simply refused to answer any general charge, and called upon you to make some definite charge. The leader shall judge whether to this day you have done this. If my remarks affected you to the extent you pre- tend, certainly they were remarks that you might have put down in writing." You know best why you have all along evaded this, in the face of my repeated chal- lenge to you to do so. The reason for your behaviour does not concern me, but the fact does. You may treat my demand as you wish and you may follow the sub- ject in aay way you like -I stand to this. Nos. 2 and 3.—I have already satisfied myself that you are not a man, and I don't want to allow you to prove yourself a woman. I take it that in the corres- pondence with Mr Roberts you consider that you have proved yourself entitled to "a woman's prerogative." 1 shall, in this correspondence, endeavour to take from you even this consolation. The good opinion of bigots is not worth securing. No. 4 does not call for any remark further than thnt you are welcome to the belief that I can be the writer of the letter i:i the G-enedl. The fact that you believe it possible in me ,Hakes me think it quite probable with you. I did not insinuate that you were Beirniad." I expect I know him. I did say that "with the consent and literary assistance of your neighbour Beirniad," we might, in the next Parliament, find you our member for Pwllfanog." Must I say that you purposely attempted to mislead ? X o. 5 is clearly the number that has drawn most blood. It clearly touched the tumour that had been gathering in your nature. I am not surprised. I expected, if there was any blood at all, that we should see it. In your remarks on this you have resource once more to private letters. Clearly you have private pigeon-hales marked P and D. Remember now, Mr Owen, before we go any further, that it is you that first trod on this dangerous and sacred ground. Don't think of saying it was me. It can clearly be proved otherwise if you do. I shall simply ask you to refer to your copies of the letters marked private written by you to me on the 29th October, 1874, 12th November. J S74, and IStli November, 1S74, and you will find they don't agree with the statements you have allowed yourself to make in your last letter. This is enough for the present. On this question you say that my statements are all false." Let us see. My statements were as follows :—(a) That your name was brought in by me on my own responsibility, (b) That the committee unanimously condemned the bringing in of your name." (c) That I confided to three members of the sub-committee my private reasons for what I did." (d) That I I when the letter, next morning, was read to the mass meeting at old Coed quarry, the unanimous voice of that meeting again was against your name being inserted." (e) That Lord Penrhyn's answer was, c. Lord Penrhyn, while having personally no objection to Mr Owea, feels that he, having been brought up as a scnoolmaster, has not sufficient practical knowledge of the working of a quarry to put him in the respon- sible position the men would wish him to occupy." Those are the statements, Mr Owen, that you state "are all false." We shall test then. As to e, the correctness of this cannot be denied it is published. As to ,d, some two thousand, and more, of the men who were at the mass meeting are alive, and I have made it a point, since you raised the question, to ask every one I met if he remembered the circumitance, and in every instance they confirm my statement. If you doubt, call the men together, and you will get their unmistakeable answer. Aa to c, I have seen the three members of the sub-committee, and they are pre- pared to confirm what I said. As to b, I have seen every member of the sub committee within my reach, and they. again, are prepared to swear to the correct- ness of what I said. As to a, you will have to take my word and the committee's confirmation as a suffi- cient legal proof that I am speaking the truth. In the face of all this, will you still say that you are pre- pared to prove that the above are all false ? As to the work you did in connection with the slate inspectors, I don't want, and should be very sorry, to refuse you all that is due to you in this matter. I want every man to have his due. I never acted other- wise towards you. I don't want to act differently now. The quotation that refers to the slate inspectors is correct. But this you must admit does not affect the general question. You have more than once made statements, and added after them, "I cannot expect you to admit that." a.id. I dare say it will be to vo ;r advantag-e to deny that now," clearly indicating ih.it yeur conscience condemned you of writing a falsehood. The Dinorwic statements as laid down in this letter, and in the private one you wrote me in 1874, do not agree. The facts stated by me still remain, There was no regret when you left Penrhyn." If there had been, why was it not shown in some way when you left or soon after? There was general joy when you did not go to Dinorwic. This you admit yourself. "There has been nothing but unpleasantness since you returned here." This we all know, and you don't deny. I attain ask, Is this all caused by the atmosphere—the waters -or the man ? No. I). is a peculiar mixture. The concert portion is not worth much. Whe ever saw you attending anything in a chapel in the neighbourhood unless you were there as a conductor or chairman? Can it be that people are correct in putting you down as too bigoted or to selfish to attend in any other case ? I once in- my life, owing to a sufficient reason, which is set oid in the letter wrote to a conductor, who happened to be yourself, enclosing a donation towards a charitable object, because I and my family could not attend. Gentlemen will know how to look upon the use made by youjjof it. A man that can use private letters, without as much as asking permission, and can refer to a letter such as I wrote with my donation, can descend to any mean act. I don't blame you. I leave you to the condemnation of others. The further reference this No. contains to the strike incident only proves that I was correct in calculating that it would draw blood. Truth always does. I have written the truth. By it your bladder has been probed. I am not in the least surprised at the nature of the matter it has brought forth. I feel satistiel in the possession of the good opinion of the quarrymen as a body. I have served them for close upon twenty years. It is very clear that in this my present act I have done them some service. I have exposed you effectually. You have to thank your suspiciousness, restlessness aud jealousy for all this. Your lecture goes for nothing. Nos. 7, S and 12 can be treated together. I don't want to dispute your qualifications to be a quarry manager. It is very clear that you verlj much, most sickly, want to be one. I should be sorry to say any- thing for or against your qualifications. In doing so I should undertake a duty for which I am little qualified. I only un lcrtook to give the opinion of the committee, the men, and Lord Penrhyn. I have not said once but that I might have been personally glad to see you coming back as a manager to Penrhyn. This again does not do awav with the fact that there might be another reason besides a personal one, why your name was mentioned. You are welcome to take what steps you like to prove yourself qualified. I do not consider that thf II nation of Liberal and Con- servative, Churchman an L Dissenter, should enter into I the question at all. Your repeated references to this goes a long way to prove to me that you consider them the two must important qualifications. You admit yourself that you thrice tendered your resignation." What process was there at work that brought things to this pass ? Were you in bad health? I suppose you will now say that it was not driving. No. 9. You were at the General Committee on the lay before the election when all tha arrangements for die election were passed. You did not resign then. You allowed your name to be printed 0:1 the voting Li,) e r. I know that your suspiciousness had the best It" you here again, and that you had such distrust of the men and the committee t hat vou did your best to get three ditterent locks put on the ballot box but no 'tlier candidate dreamt of showing such distrust of i iteni But even after this was refused you, you did not withdraw. But after meeting your scouts that evening and receiving their report of the forces, you wisely decided to get up early next morning, and attend at the quarry office before the sun made its appearance to withdraw from the contest, in which you would have suffered a worse defeat than your friend. He is much more popular in the work than you are. It is enough,— you withdrew; I was elected /).'1 the Penrhyn quarrymen a governor for life. Never mind if you pay your X,5 as a. donation, it will do quite as well as if it was the same amount in subscription. feel an interest in the College, and I should like to secure your c£3. No. 10. You have had my answer on this. t^No other will be got until you fulfil the condition. No. 11. The name is known to you. You gave it me. Put in writing what you told me in conversation, and the name will come out. Is this not an admis- sion ? "I may favour you with something new on the subject." No. 13. This need not be further proceeded with as the person has since paid as a d /nation, the exact amount, he promised as a subscriptioii! No. 14. It is not worth while following this up, as there is a prospect of the parties being received into rhe Conservative regiment with open arms." I may inform you, Mr Owen, that in consequence,—or if you prefer,—after your torchlight procession and brass band performance, our regiment has increased from thirty to upwards of three hundred We ought to be, and are, very thankful indeed to you. No. lo. You ask me not to trouble myself "about these points." To oblige you, I won't. those whose opinion I value understand them and you have not been able to disprove a single fact I have stated on this head. Out with whatever you know, Mr Owen. Dou't act the coward if you have anything to disclose. No. 16. If you cannot understand my meaning I cannot help your dullness. My words are plain enough. Try to understand them. No. 17. If you don't want to answer the questions now, all well aid good. We may have another opportunity to treat upon them more fully. In conclusion, let me tell you once more, Mr Owen, that you are too fond of threatening people. These letters of yours contain three distinct threats that have not been followed up. I am a witness to your sjleaking in a threatening manner as to what you might do to other people. You have been, I don't I, know how many times, at the Observer office, threat- ening them with all manner of proceedings; but I can't see anything beyond threats. I have repeatedly called upon you to Rest and be personally satisfied or to proceed. Where is the use of keeping the ball running if you mean to act up to your talk. You have siid you can do something besides insinuate. Act, my good man. When you do act I shall place in the witness box all the witnesses you want so much to get the names of, not before then. One more thing. You say at the close of your letter,—" I shall with your deal with a few incidents in your career which in my opinion require a little wholesome ventilation." This, if it means anything, means a serious charge. You want it to be understood as such. I take it you don't ask for permission to state anything that you cannot prove. I give you the permission, asked for on the clear under- standing that they are to be proved bv you. Now, Mr Owen, I will not allow you to withdraw from this. I challenge you to proceed. You must proceed. If you decline, then I shall brand you as the meanest of cowards. Yours obediently, WM. JXO. PAKRY1 T. H. Owen, Esq., Brynllwyd, Bethesda.
LLANGEFNI.
LLANGEFNI. PETTY SESSIONS. MONDAY—Before Captain Evans lienblas; Captain Lloyd, Tregaiau and Air David Morgan, Brynwvn Hall. Drunkenness.—Griffith Williams, Church-street, New- borough, was summoned for this offence, hut did not appear. Fined 2s Gd and costs. —William Jones, of the same place, was summoned for being drunk and riotous. He did not appear Fined 2s lid and costs. Both eases proved by P.C. Wm. Jones, Brynsiencyn. Pig Astray.—For allowing his pig to be astrav, Mr Robert Evans, Druid. Heueglwys. was summoned at the instance of P.C. Wm. Jones, G walchmai. and fined Is and costs. Refusing to Maintain Parents.—John Roberts, Feisdan Bach, Trefdraeth, and William Williams, Brindin Bach, Penmvnydd, were sum noned for re- fusing to contribute towards the maintenance of their parents. Both pleaded inability on account of the snialluess of their wages, and being married. Summons was dismissed. Larceny.— !i. ;-C3, Groeslon, Gacrwen, pleaded guilty •: 'r.. on the 12th January, taken barley, valued at, .>s. th,. property of his employer, Mr Williams, Carnan Fawr. — Mr S. 11. Dew. Bangor, on behalf of the defendant, called witnesses as to good character, and asked the Bench to deal leniently with Inn. Fined 20s and costs. Affiliation.— Elizabeth Anne Williams, Llaugaffo, against Hugh Williams, joiner. LlangaiYo. --}.1, Allan- son appeared for the applicant, and Mr Dew for the defenlant. Several witnesses were called on behalf of the applicant, but it was contended for the defence that there was not sufficient corrobation of the applicants' evidence. No order was made. Assaults.—William Jones Hughes, Plas Bach, Llan- bedrgoch, summoned William Lewis, residing near Pentraeth, aud John Hughes, Union-street, Bangor, for assaulting him. Richard Owen, White Horse, Pentraeth, also summoned John Hughes for a similar offence.—Mr A. Gray appeared for the complainants, and Mr Allansou for the defendants.—These sum- monses stood adjourned from the last court, to enable William Lewis to take out a cross-summons against W. Jones Hughes. The assaults were committed at Pentraeth, on the 4th December last. Several witnesses proved that the defendant Lewis walked up to Jones Hughes and without provocation struck him to the ground, and otherwise assaulted him. Jones Hugo.es was said to have joined Lewis, and when Ricbard Owen attempted to rescue William Jones Hughes he was struck violently by John Hughes. The Bench stated, as the costs were heavy, tliey would deal leniently with the defendants, ::lnJ fined Lewis 10s and costs, and John Hughes 5s and costs on the second charge only. The cross-sum nons was struck out.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT BETHESDA.…
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT BETHESDA. TWO LADS D-ROWNED. A shocking accident occurred on Wednesday afternoon on Llandegai Mountain, by which two children lost their lives. When the sad alfair was made known the neighbourhood war: thrown into a state of mourning. It appears that the lads went to skate on the reservoir and, the ice breaking, they went oui of sight before any assistance could be obtained. The bodies of the deceased, who were the sons of Robert Parry, late of Sling, and Owen Evans, Waen- gefni, were found yesterday (Thursday).
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OUR LONDON LETTER.
OUR LONDON LETTER. rllY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]. LONDON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. tilth of Mr Gladstone and Mr Chamberlain—The P>'e«n and Mr Chamberlain's Land Policy—Henry (stJorge—The Ten greatest living Englishmen—Mr Tl'allace and the Parson of the future—Professor 1 yndaU- The Vivisection Controversy. g is satisfactory to learn that Mr Chamberlain is gradually recovering his usual health. It would av.e been most unfortunate if, at this important Period in the history of our country, the two congest Cabinet Minisfers were hindered through ness from performing the onerous duties devolving pon them everybody, no doubt, read with great delight, in yesterday's papers, the familiar ■j'e that Mr Gladstone had cut down a tree in ^Warden Park on Monday, and the no less "ctcome news that Mr Cha.nberlain was going on Satistactorily." The two right hon. gentlemen are sP^cially wanted at Downing-street just now, and ls sincerely to be hoped that health and strength be granted them to conduct our diplomatic egotiationa with the Cabinets of Europe. Glad- stone and Chamberlain—they are the men that will Poll us through. It is also exceedingly pleasant to read of the ^curate construction put upon Mr Chamberlain's recent great speeches by the Liberal Press of the c°Untry. The leading organs of Liberal thought all ^•r the United Kingdom, in the Metropolis, iu > e great cities of the North, in Scotland, and in reWd, have studied those important utterances to advantage, and have unmistakeably grasped exact meaning. I allude more especially to jr Chamberlain's references to the land question .shF °n ^is point it is essentially ueccssary that there no uucertaiu sound in the Liberal chorus. to1.1 **r.y George, on tbe one hand, is bold enough j., .cl;tiin Chamberlain a convert to his way of '^kinr and n0 doubt the ingenious Yankee would Yj? highly elated if he could enroll the whole Liberal tas inetabera of Land Nationalization Societies, tu, Tories, on the other hand, profess to believe Soa.t jvjr (jharnberlain's ideas are communistic, ■j,ClaHstic, revolutionizing, and I don't know what, th' 8UsPect that our friends really find those wicked u in Mr Chamberlain's speeches would be an ^generous slight upon their intelligence I prefer attinS in this way the Tories, being exasperated .^he success of Mr Chamberlain, and the world- prevalence of his progressive teaching, are ^er on the watch for some pretext for attacking (j?03 tailing, however, to discover a good one, they 0r they are uncommonly clever people), invented shiiin one. In the land policy of Mr Chamberlain, thus profess to see the land nationalization of ^teury George, and so they unscrupulously couple •he two names together, and apply to the former j°l'iewhat strong epithets—the wickedness of the rptter, of course, being taken for granted. Anyhow, 0r.y editors write this sort of thing, and Tory °rators preach it. I should not have thought, how- that Sir Stafford Northcote would have con- jystenvied to play this transparent trick but he has ne it. and that in his first speech to his new eon- ^ltl>entsat Barnstaple. I think it will be admitted hat, in face of all this, it is essential for the Liberal ^rty to be unanimous and pronounced in its Land 1oliCy_ I believe that Mr Chamberlain is safe and f°Utld Up0a this matter, and that we cannot do etter than follow him. Thus it is that I rejoice to the Liberals of the country understanding his <Jas so thoroughly, and adopting them so heartily, vxln the Christmas "Extra," the proprietors of Pall Mall Gazette offered a prize of ten f^Ueas for the best answers to a set of questions, tk ^ply-pape^ b-'ing taken as voting papers, j e competitors being thus their own adjudica- rs- The first half of the results is published. ''Staining the opinions of the competitors as to are the ten greatest living Englishmen, selection is interesting. (1) Statesman (after Gladstone1, Lord Salisbury, (2) Journalist, r/\0l' £ e Augustus Sala, (3) Painter, J. E. Millais, Soldier, Lord Wolseley, (5) Man of Science, Huxley, (6) Writer, John Ruskm, (7) .°v«li8t, Wilkie Collim, (8) Preacher, Canon T^ddon. ({)) Actor, Henry Irving, (10) Humbug, Claimant. Among the journalists, Sala has I* votes, while the next to him, John Morley. ias only 113. Huxley scored 8G6, and Tyndall. second, 440; while Professor Owen has 37, Roseoe only 4, and Herbert |Spencer, As a writer, Ruskin comes first with Tennyson second, 262, Froude third, 1<6, Arnold fourth. 143. Leslie Stephen received 2 votes, and Mallock, Lord Salisbury, Entiles, Burnand, A. Forbes, Duke of Argyll, only Canon Farrar had 3, Gladstone 6, Free- 7, G. R. Sims 17, and Cardinal Newman 28. uscar Wilde is the second Humbug with 230 Yotes (Claimant has 453), General Booth 205, Mr -Gladstone 44, Dr. Parker 10, Lord Coleridge 10, guskin 7. Eno's Fruit Salt 5, Pears' Soap 3, 1yudall 2. and Sir Stafford Northcote 2. .It is interesting, though somewhat painful, to Witness the demeanour of timid Liberals at the moment when the Liberation Society seems to be preparing for action. Just when the axe i., about to fall upon the lifeless bough, these good men are inclined to beseech the woodman to spare it. The latest example of shirking the -te(, consequences is Mr A. R. Wallace, the great naturalist—he of the Malay Archipelago. He is a most ingenious person, and his ingenuity has borne fruit. To the Daily News of Monday he contributed a sketch, called "Church Funds: How to use them." in which he elaborates a com- plex scheme for the better disposing of the parsons' incomes. It's an extraordinary arrange- ment. The Funds are to remain intact, but to be placed under the control of a body of specially educated men, who shall hold them in trust and administer them for the good of the entire population." The clergymen arc also to be preserved, and are even to retain their present titles; but Mr Wallace's rector of the future is a personage worth studying. Indeed, it requires a deal of studying to make him out, and the more you study the more you suspect either that Mr Wallace's mind was not very clear on the subject. or that the revelation is not complete. This phenomenal rector is to bo doct»r, sanitary- inspector, lawyer, scientific lectiirer, and society dictator of his parish; his work is to be "co- extensive with the population he is, moreover, to be demagogic orator and agitator, to look after charity money, the proper use of commons, the condition of highways and footpaths, to see that nuisances arc abated, and to bring all unsani- tary conditions under the notice of the proper authorities. What share he is to take in saving his parishioners' souls Mr Wallace does not tell us. Hut he will be a strange officer, this parson of the future; and as one tries to delineate his fea- tures in one's mind, and fancies how he will be treated by doctors, lawyers, and town councils. the tears almost force themselves to one's eyes. From this funny article of Mr Wallace's, how- ever, three lessons may well be drawn That the writer knows more about the Malay Archipelago than about the parsons of this country. That the :ase for the Establishment must be hopeless when a clever man like Mr Wallace has recourse to such airy fancies. That Mr Wallace is firmly convinced that religion is becoming too narrow, too much a speciality, while it ought to be "co- extensive with the population,"or, as Burke beauti- fully and powerfully expressed it, "mixed through- out the whole mass of life." To the last I may add a rider That a good Ilnny thoughtful people agree with Mr Wallace. I can't say I know much about the Germ Theory of Disease," but t'roifessor Tyndall in- formed us at the Hoyal Institution, last Friday evening, in his lecture on Living Contagia," that it was now accepted by nearly all the scientific men of Lurope so I suppose its all right. Sealed up in bottles, the Professor exhibited germs of splenic fever, cholera, and erysipelas. They were not let loose upon the audience. We all shuddered when he showed us the cholera germ, but he in- sisted that a splenic fever was a far more virulent malady than cholera. In the course of the lecture, the learned Doctor dealt one or two hard blows to the anti-vivisectionists, and I see that he has at last entered the field against them in the Times controversy. It was high time lie should do so, for two women threatened to vanquish all the loud-mouthed men of science in argument. Miss Cobbe and Miss Kingsford, M.D., tackled with ease the boisterous "F.R.S." and all his comrades. Historian Freeman has taken the cudgels on behalf of the ladies, and probably the hottest fighting will now be between him and Tyndall. It will be interesting to watch the battle. Mem: I wager Tyndall inwardly chafes because Chamberlain takes no notice of his attacks in the Times on the Trinity Brethren generally, and himself particularly. At any rate, if I had been Tyndall, I should.
Family Notices
IEdhs, ^/diTt;t0C3f aitir JkatK BIRTH. WILLIAM.—January 20th, at Cefnceed Ucha', Llan- fagdalen, the wife of Captain Thomas Williams, Cordova, of a son. DEATH. EVANS—On the Inth inst., at Ambrore-street, IIirael, Bangor, aged years, Mary Iv.-ans, wife of Mr Humphrey Evans, master mariner. JONES.—January Sth, at 12, Menai View-terrace, Upper Bangor, Ann, the beloved wife of Mr Owen Jones, in her 73rd year. Weep not for your loved one whose form lies at rest, For her spirit now roams in the realms of the blest Your tears may fall fast, and your heart may heave with sighs, But they cannot recall the freed soul from the skies; Then weep not; Oh! mourn not, your lost one is above In a beautiful land of glory and love.—[ADVT.]
LLANFECHELL.
LLANFECHELL. THE AMLWCH AMATEUR MINSTIIKLS gave a nevel and most enjoyable entertainment at the schoolroom on Tuesday evening, 20th inst., to a most enthusiastic and appreciative audience. It was a treat, which we, in this little place, seldom enjoy, and it was marvellous to witness the great musical talent, which these self- organised and self-instructed young men dismayed. It is a fact that there is 11) instrument that this string band company cannot master. The farce called "Starvation" was also acted by them, and each played a part in a most commendable and creditable manner, producing roars of laughter. To finish off the programme of the evening, the amateurs and their freuids were invited by Mr D. Jones to the Crown Hotel, where substantial refreshment was partaken of.
HERE A N D T H ERE-
developed oratorical abilities, and argumentative power, with which he has not been credited hitherto, a«d his famous "ruoks" speech is now quite fcclipscd. His maiden effort at Carnarvon occupied Dot far short of an hour and a half, and even then, fearful of overtaxing the patience of his auditors, he left unsaid all that he had prepared for detivery. At Bangor and Conway he limited his remarks to ^Wtaty minutes; but at Pwllheli, Criccieth, and ^evin, where he spoke in the vernacular, his time Was extended. He-imparted a little novelty into speech, and iu this respect lie rose superior to Ellis-Nanney, who, in his political wart are with liathbone, confined himself with painful and Odious reiteration to his utterances when first Odious reiteration to his utterances when first Publicly introduced to the constituency as the Con- servative candidate for Carnarvonshire. The chairman of the Conway meeting did not show ^ittiself a good tactician. His opening speech was too elaborate, and the invasion of the platform^ by a £ eUtleman rejoicing in the uame of Smith led to confusion, and to the omission of allowing the feting to extend to the Government that confidence had just expressed in Mr Jones-Parry, ana. con- Be(Juently there was an unexpected climax. .:11<* That the annual meeting of the County and troughs Liberal Association which has been con- Vefled for next week can be for the transaction of ?r°ly formal business will be taken for granted, -^othing can be done as to the selection of a candi- ate or candidates. Aa Mr Jones-Parry pointed ^t, the delegates must be called together again after e division of the county is finally settled, and ^vhen they have been chosen by those electors who wIll be added to the register by the franchise Act of 1884, as well as by those who are now in posses- of votes. Phis cannot be until towards the ?lose of the year, so thac, barring the chance of a ye-election taking place, the constituency has P'eQty of time for consideration. =? Mr Jones-Parry by nis speeches adheres t) f"8 decision to retain the candidature of the ?0r°ngha in preferencetohavinghis name submitted o the delegates as a candidate for the South. Mi u £ h fugh makes no secret of diis intention of Posing his claims, nor is Mr Pughc-Jones keep- j 8 his in the shade. Then the Liberals have to ijCkon with Mr Morgan Lloyd, who, spenking at i °'.Vhead on Wednesday, intimated that he had i °Pes of finding in Carnarvonshire that seat which T5 forfeits through the political extinction of the r^glesey Boroughs. Mr Rathbone, it may be Jresuined, will have his choice of the two divisions. other, as well as in the boroughs, the great- rp care must be exercised to preserve unity, oi oryism will once mole be rampant. The an- tt,uncetnent which has gone the rounds of the papers 1Ht Mr Kani)ey had been selected as the Consc- ^ative candidate tor the South is premature, no final aeci8ion as yet being arrived at, but the forecast is ^ost reliable one. As regards the North or the 0rougha, should there be a split in the Liberal 8) it would be no surprise to find Mr Henry Oetytj relinquishing his candidature for I lintshire, T 1-0 he has not the ghost of a chance against p°rd Hichard Grosveuor, and backed by the t^°rhyu influence, endeavouring to run in between 0pp0sing candidates representing the same j £ ny- Colonel Piatt is named as a likely Tory n<:llddate for the Northern division.