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Barddoniaeth.
Barddoniaeth. Bydded i'r Beirdd a'r Uenorion eyfeirio en tynyTohion fel htu-- T. DARONWY ISAAC, Treorky. "Odi Hiraeth" ar farwolaeth y Parch Samson Jones.—Llin^llau tyner. "Dewi Bach."—Tri englyn doniol a chymerad- wy "Yr "Yswain o'r Maendy.—Mae'r darlun yn bryaterth. Boed rhwng yr awdwr a'r gwrth- ddrych am ei gywirdeb. ODL mRABTH Ar farwolaeth y Parch Samson Jones, Treforest. Gyfaill, buost farw- Marw gyda'r haf; Cyn y gaoaf garw Est i hinsawdd braf. Cyn daw cawod eira. I brydferthu'th fedd; Byddi'n hen gyfarwydd, A rhandiroedd hedd. Collaia di yn sydyn, Croasaist drwy y glyn I fro iach y delyn, Cartre'r pur a'r gwyn. Cyn i mi bron wybod Am dy glwyf a'th boen; 'Roeddet yn ddibechod Ar ddeheulawT Oen. Eto myna. adfyd Wthio nos i'm dydd; Lleddf yw'm telyn hefyd, Gena nodau prudd. Nodau, na! cwynfanau Ddont o'i thanau, cri "Dyfroedd mawr a'r tonau," Yw ei chywair hi. .1 DEWI BACH, Sef cyntafanedig Mr a Mrs J. Williams, Penrhys Farm. Pan y rhowd i John Penrhys—y mab gwych Yn mhob gwedd gwnai'n hysbys; Falchder am lawnder ei lys, Diwallwyd ei ewyllys. Dewi bach, diau bydd—ei ymweliad Ymhatfas Amaethydd Yn ben ar bob llawcnydd. I'w anedd ef yn ei ddydd. Deallus fachgen dillyn-hudol)is Ei dalent bo'r mcbyn; Yn ddifraw pan ddaw yn ddyn, "O'r un- stamp a'r hen stwmpyn." Tylorstown. Y Dryw. T. JONES, YSW., Y MAENDY. Ein Thomas Jones o'r Maendy-mae ei enw 0 hyd yn tori'n hyfryd ar ein clyw, Ni raid udganu mewn braddoniaeth loew I'w foli ef a chadw'i enw'n fyw; Dyn yw a barcha y ddyledswydd symlaf, Dyn hefyd yw a Itygad yn ei ben, Yn nghylchoedd bywyd, i'r amcanion puraf- Dyn yw ganfydda y "tu hwnt i'r Hen." Boneddwr trwyadl. Yn rhandiroedd pellaf Ei natur hynaws ef y mae ystor 0 garedigrwydd, yn ei heigion dyfnaf Y mae haelioni megys tonau'r mor; Os yw ei enw yn mysg cyfoet.hogion Yn uchel gyda hwy yr "upper ten," Y" mae ei galon gyda ni'r tylodion 0 gylch ein drysau fel eolomen wen. Pan trwy ddyltinwad ysbryil yr amserau Y creir mudiad newydd er ein lies, Ilwyddo hwnw gytla"i ymdrechiadau Ein Jones o'r Maendy geir ar ben y rhes; Fel Ynad Heddwch, pan mae mellt cyfiawnder Yn bygwth darnio y troseddwr tlawd, Fe gofia ef "drugaredd" wen bob amser, "Tosturiol angel" ar y faine fe'i cawd. Pontygwaith. Myfyr Dyfed. gwal GYFEILLES FACH, Sef Mary, inerch fechan Mr a Mrs Morgan, Abercynon. Hawddgaraf eneth, O! mor hardd, Dy rnddiau iach gwridgochion, Cyffryddaist (lanau calon bardd, A'th fynych eiriau mwynion; Dy ddull a'th foes, a'th ddengar wen, A'm denodd i dy garu, A chanaf benill er dy fwyn, Gyfeillea fach addfwyngu. Diniwed yw'th gyfeillach Ion, Mor lednais wyL wrth lolian, Ni nythodd gofid yn dy fron, Ond ffrydia mwyniant allan; Rhyw gamphir wyt rhwng clwyfron mad, Dy fam a'th dad yn wastad; Ac aelwyd hoff dy gartref glan Gynhesir gan dy gariad. Dymunaf i ti, Mary fach, Hir oes a hawddfyd helaeth, A chofia fyw yn eneth dda Yn holl drofeydd Rliagluniaeth; A phan y gwawria'r cyfnod pell, Pan fyddi'n wyryf lanbryd, Gwyn fyd a'th gaffo i gyd-fyw, A dringo rhiwiau bywyd. Pentre. E. W. Jones (Gwernogydd) ER COF Am y diweddar Evan W. Thomas, Trewilliam, arweinydd canu yn Seion, Penrhiwfer, yr hwn a gyfarfyddodd a'i ddiwedd yn Nglofa Peny- graig, Gorph. 21ain, 1898, yn 28 oed. Ma mynych nos ofidus, A chyniyl du uwchben, A ninau'n brudd, mewn ofn a braw, Yn deisyf "gloewach nen;" Daeth dydiT i'n dwysaidd ddryllio, ■^n hysbryd hvfrhau 0 dan y ddyrnod, boenus gudd, W(tha"I cylch yn ddau, Tra'r ddamwain brudd fyrhaodd Wyn dymor Evan, gan Greu prudd-der dwfn, tra'r tant oedd ber, A gollwyd o bob man; Datganwr oedd wymi,ii swyno Ond heddyw'n nystaw fedd, A'n gruddiau'n llaith ar lawer awr Heb belydr gwawr ïn hedd. Fe'i magwyd ef yn dyner Ar aelwyd gynhes, gu, A thyfai'n iraidd ac yn hardd, I Drwy'r anwyl nodded fu; Dyddanydd oedd i'r teulu, Fu'n uchel yn eu bryd, A'u serch a'u hoffder ynddo ef A lynai'n fwy o hyd; Troi'n lleddfus gwyn wnai'r ddamwain, Fynwesau'r teulu IIon. Gan frat-hol saeth o hiraeth dwys Ddwfndreiddiodd dan bob bron, Am fod y tant pereiddiaf Yn friw ar lawr y bedd, A phrudd ddystawrwydd gerdda'n syn, Can ofyn am ei wedd. Yr eglwys wan mewn galar dwfn a. phrudd, Sy'n deisyf gwawr o'r nos a'i deil yn nghudd, Tra'n nghanol nos ei helbul,—cilia'r ser Fu'n harddu'u lIe drwy'i gwybren gynt oedd der, Rhyw seren ydoedd Evaii-Ilachar iawn, Ar glir ffurfafen rhinwedd rhoddai'i ddawn, Ac eto yn rhyw seren amlwg, glir, Lewyrchai gylch o ddefnyddiolaeb pur; Ond trist yw'r syniad fod ei angen mawr I'r eglwys wan yn ddwyster prudd bob awr, Ond da yw'r syniad, er y brudded lef, Mai gofyn am ei lanw mae y nef, A da yw'r argraff geir yn ol ei draed, Mai cerdded wnaetb wrth arwydd pur y gwaed; Ac hael fu'r syniad dwfn o'r golled flin, Ar wlybion ruddiau'r dorf edmygwyr cun, I Gymdeithasau golli perl o'u haur, A uchel brisiwyd wrth ei ddefnydd claer. Ami ganai emyn mawl o'r talcen glo, Nes ei droi'n gysegr Duw ar lawer tro; Swynganai IIO! na byddai'n haf o hyd," 0 haf ei fywyd, ac haf natur glyd, Aeth ef i haf y nef, dam "loewach nen," Lie ca'i ddymuniad fyw dan goron wen, I weled gwyrddni haf heb wywo byth, Lie nid oes damunin, siom, na throion chwith. Penrhiwfer. D. George (Tegfab).
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Colofn y Cytnry. [DAN OLTSIARTH T. D. ISAAC.1 COFADAIL LLEWELYN. Cyhoeddir fod y gronfa tuag at godi cofadail genedlaethol i'r Tywysog Llewelyn wedi ei chau. Yn ystod y tair blynedd diweddaf y mae sylw y genedl eihvaith a thrachefn, wedi ei alw at y mudiad, ac ar ol gwneyd pob ymdrech i gasglu tanysgrifiadau, y mae ei hyrwyddwyr yn gorfod hysbysu nad ydynt wedi cael y gefnogaeth a ddysgwylient. Bydd pob Cymro aiddgar yn flin i glywed nad yw y mudiad wedi cael ei gefnogi fel yr haeddai. Y mae rhyw gymaint o arian mewn Haw, digon feallai i godi coffadwriaeth i'r Tywysog. Nid ydyhti eto wedi penderfynu pa le y rhoddir, nac ychwaith pa ffurf a gymei y hyn a wneir. Pleidleisiau y tanysgrifwyr fydd yn penderfynu pa un a roddir croes er coff- adwriaeth am y Llyw Olaf yn Nghefnybedd, lie y syrthiodd, neu a roddir careg ar ei fedd yn Cwm Hir, lie y tybir iddo gael ei gladdu. Pa ffurf bynag a gymer yr hyn a wneir a pha le bynag y gosodir ef, bydd cenedlaethau dyfodol yn sicr o wncyd pererindodau at y fan er mwyn gweled hyd a lied, dyfnder ac uchder, y teimlad eonedlaethol Cymreig yn yr oes lion. Treulir nerth y teimlad mewn gwacddi nes y mae yn rhy wan i weithredu.
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HOLIDAYS IN UNUSUAL F01iM& Rather peculiar was the holiday taken some years ago by an eccentric personage known as "Old S—— living in the South of England S- was an original character, who earned a livelihood as a .hawker of cheap articles of wear- ing apparel. Previous to taking out a licence as a pedlar he had for many years been employed as a farm labourer. One day he startled his employer by asking for "a day's holiday." This was rather remarkable, as he had never been known to indulge in such a luxury before. His employer naturfl,lfy asked what he wanted the holiday for. "To see my brother hanged," was the answer, and he did so. A similar case occurs to the mind of the writer. It happened at the execution of a man in the precincts of a northern gaol. This convict was the last man publicly hanged in the district. A 'brother of the victim -3 cobbler by tracle-a sour, saturnine sort of man, who had never been known to take a holi- day, walked from a distant mining village in order to see justice vindicated. He cheerfully tramped to the county town and back again, a distance of twenty-seven miles, in company with the writer's brother, without partaking of re- freshment of any kind. He was never known to be absent from his employment on any other occasion until he was taken ill and died, leaving over a thousand pounds in hard cash to his family. A solicitor—well known to the writer- with a large practice, takes his customary week's holiday in a curious fashion. In the middle of August he hires a large mud-boat, that is, a flat- bottomed craft; provisions himself for a week with an ample supply of solids, liquids, and to- bacco, and indulges in a week's fishing on the river. He goes entirely alone, and camps out at night in a small bell tent, part of some old Gcvernment stores. Strange to say the produce of his angling has never been seen, yet this busy man of the law has for nearly thirty years taken a piscatorial holiday. A schoolmaster-a friend of the writer—also spends his month's holiday in a remarkable manner. He is a bachelor, and ft very skilful draughtsman. Every August he goes for a month on tramp. During the past ten years he has explored nearly every nook of England and Wales, starting from his home with only a few shillings in his pocket. Although a man of fair means, he literally "sketches his way." On several occasions he has walked as many as three hundred miles in the- month, sell- ing crayon and pencil sketches of the various parts which he passes through, and putting up at dusk at the nearest hostelry. Another gentle- man, a wine merchant in a large way of business in the City of London, but having a country re- sidence near the home of the writer, has for the past twenty years spent his holiday at an ob- scure French watering-place unfrequented by fashion. His chief enjoyment during his vaca- tiqji consists in rolling among the sand dunes, and gazing at the sea waves as they break upon the beach. Very curious, too. is the holiday- making of a postman, who enjoys, from a bene- ficent Government, fourteen days' leave of ab- sence from duty, with his pay going on. During twelve days of this brief holiday this man of letters turns his hand to shoe-mending, and settles the pedal covering affairs of his wife, and family for the next twelve months. A lady of high family, residing within a radius of fifty miles of London, devotes a whole month to per- sonally cleaning the parish church, where she is a devout worshipper, instead of louring on the Continent, as she is very well able to do. In early life she was left a widow, and after her husband's death built a noble pile of almhouses. which she liberally endowed. She has not left the village where she resides for some years, and, as stated above. spenSS her holidays in en- acting the role of amateur charwoman.—"Cas- sePs Saturday Journal."
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I ISTRAIGHTFORWARDNESS.
STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS. By LADY COOK, nee TENNESSEE C. CLAFLIN. When an ancient was asked "Of what use i& philosophy?" he replied, 'It teaches man how to die." He might have added, and also how to live. The earliest and noblest conceptions that ever existed concerning life and its duties we owe to the Stoics. These have never been sur- passed, so that most of our best moral ideas to-day are the fruits of their philosophy. Pytha- goras, it is said, divided virtue into two parts- to seek truth and to do good; but the Stoics were more active with the former than with the latter. It is our moral duty to follow truth, regardless of consequences, wheresoever it leads. Truthfulness is the highest test of character, and when we add the doing of good to the seeking after it, we attain the greatest moral, excellence. We are then veracious in thought and deed, ready to follow evidence "even to the most un- welcome conclusions," and to do right whatevei may happen. Savages are normal liars. Vera- city is the product of civilisation, and especially of an industrial civilisation. The law of truth so powerfully inculcated by Greek philosophers among a comparatively non-industrial people, is one of the marvels of history. Mediaeval cre- dulity, however, with the legends and forgeries of the early Christian Church, and the univer- sal lying that followed obscured the national teachings of the Stoics, and debased the moral character of Europe. To lie was praiseworthy, provided religious purposes could be severed thereby. There was a light renewal of the love of veracity when chivalry was the mode, but this was chiefly confined to the knightly class. To tell a lie was opposed to the vows of knighthood, but any lie might, notwithstanding, oe received as truth. Chivalry was merely a temporary fashion, and knew nothing of philosophy. The Reformation was produced from a love of truth and the spirit of free enquiry as much as from the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church, and from the time of its inception truth and the love of truth and of scientific research, have distin- guished Protestant countries 'throughout the world. But, on the whole, wherever theological dogmas are concerned, we are obliged to believe with the great German historian Herder, when he asserted that the phrase "Christian veracity" deserves to rank with the phrase "Punic faith." The Romans were pre-eminent for their truth- fulness. They admired good faith, and prac- tised straightforwardness as a rule. The lessons of the Stoics produced great, results. This people was feared for its strength, and respected for its honesty. With the decline of fidelity to engagements and love of truth, its power de- clined also. For they who had scorned the base- ness of "Punic faith" became themselves as false and unreliable as the Carthaginians. The English have often been termed the Mod- ern Roninus. They have the same solidity of character, obedience to the law, and love of jus- tice; the same facility in ruling alien States; the same love of the solid and the useful, and the same strong tenacity of purpose. If they flatter themselves about any one thing more than another it is that they are straightforward. If they praise a friend they say he is outspoken; he means what he says and says what he means: he is thoroughly open and candid, and gives you what is in his mind. He is not like Mr Facing- bcth-ways, or Mr Pliable, a shuffler, a deceiver, a Jesuitical talker, disingenuous and unreliable. but a man who can trust and trust alway as a. truthful and upright friend. In a word be is straightforward. There is a, pleasant ring about this word. It is Anglo-Saxon to the core. It suggests the picture of John Bull, not as Max O'Rell paints him, but a stout, florid, healthy, genial gentleman, beaming with good-nature and honest in word and work, a candid friend and an open foe. Unfortunately, not only are not all Englishmen like this, but it is much to be feared that straightforwardness is a virtue possessed by the minority, and that the breed of Mr Fac- ing-both-ways is much larger than is ordinarily supposed. If we analyse Society into its various classes we shall see that there is still abundant room for an increase of straightforwardness. We will try a few. Take parents first. If there are any to whom, above all others, they should be straightforward, it should be to their children. These require the fullest candour of treatment as well as care. But how frequently are their innocent questions, which aro all-important to them, put off by subterfuge or downright falsehood? The mind of the child thirsting for information, dark ami desiring enlightenment, hungry for mental food, is poisoned rot the outset of its quickeniug by its own misguided parents. It asks for bread, and they give it a stone; for a fish, and they give it a serpent. Or they stifle their offspring's en- quiries by replying: "Little children must not ash so many questions." But for how long will that hard falsehood remain a deadweight upon the child's soul? How long will the serpent of deceit coil around its conscience? Perhaps until the children are able to solve for themselves, when they in their turn will deceive their parents. They will conceal what they know, and they will know much in ways that may not be so wholesome for them as if they had obtained it from their father or mother. Deceitful habits will be formed early, and the virtue of straightforwardness thenceforth can never be theirs. When the time arrives they too will deceive their little ones. Take employers and employed. Are they straightforward with each other? How often are loyalty, fidelity, and the greatest possible services rewarded by a mean employer with the lowest pay and no thanks? How often does it happen that the more valuable and necessary the services rendered, the poorer the doer is compensated in order that he may be kept dowa and be compulsory dependent? An employer often values his work more than his employee. Of course, there are many honest employers who say: "Well done, good and faithful servant go up higher." But the mean, the grasping, the ignoble predominate. And so the employed on their side, knowing that the most perfunctory services are frequently best appre- ciated. become listfess and ultimately neglectful. Deceit follows, and the relation* between both become cold and strained. The selfish employer makes the workmen selfish, and each loses by it in every direction. Are politicians straightforward? The ques- tion itself will excite a smile. Their crookedness is so notorious that it is difficult to follow them. The late Right Hon. W. H. Smith could not understand this policy. He was too honest. "Why can they not say straight out what they mean and what they want?" he remarked on a notable occasion. Any man who goes into Par- liament resolving to be straightforward and in- dependent of party views is like a lost sheep in tljt, wilderness. No one will hear him or bear him company until he joins one or other of the party flocks. Straightforwardness will impede instead of assisting him. He must learn the art of political chicanery, then he may get on. Are lawyers straightforward? Do they advo- cate tin cause in whose justice they believe? Sometimes, no doubt. But generally the suc- cejsful counsel is he who has no legal conscience, who is indifforent to the merits of a rase so long as be is well paid, who can make the fairest fame look black, and torture innocence by cross- examination. He pleads not for right, but for a vetdict, md is indifferent to everything except the success of his client. Straightforwardness holds little ground in our Law Courts. Are traders and manufacturers straightfor- ward? If they were the Acts against adultera- tion and forgery of trade-marks would not have been required. Nevertheless, on the whole these are perhaps much more straightforward than the other classes named, because in their business honesty is always the best policy. It is comparatively uncommon, therefore, to find a just cause of complaint when one deals with a respectable firm in this country, although many dishonest men are doing their best to ruin the good reputation of our traders and manu- facturers throughout the world. Among religious bodies it is sad to find a large amount of what be called religious dishonesty, or deceptions practised for "the ausCe." Tenets are professed which nobody believes. Successes recounted which are based more upon imagina- tion than sober fact. The exercises and de- meanour of the Sunday are seldom in accord with those of the week. It is the fashion to be very devout on that day, and very worldly on all the others. If we are scrupulous we worship God about fifty days in the year, and self or Mammon during the remainder, and in this man- ner everybody is satisfied. The home should be the centre of happiness, the rest of earthly, delight. But how can this be unless husband and wife are frank with each other ? If each has secrets, if much of the every-day life of either is artfully concealed from the other, misery is -bound to ensue. Here, above all, complete straightforwardness is neces- sary to avoid misery, for the lack of it denotes the death of love. This manliest and most womanly ef virtues deserves a closer cultivation. Our happiness and self-respect as individuals and as a nation depend upon our possessing it. Without it we ar3 hollow, unreal a reproach to others, and a scorn to ourselves. "To thinE) own self be true; And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not thfll be false to any man."
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ORATORY AT THE BAR. The "Globe," in an article on "Oratory at the Bar," ,-ays: -"it is certainly not true that elo- quence has entirely lost its hold in the Courts. Sir Edward Clarke is capable of making many things clear, and this is among them. His style is, perhaps, a little too deliberate to permit him to rank with Cockbum and Cairns. So carefully does he choose his words that they seem to lack the spontaneity of the highest order or oratory, but nobody who heard his speeches in the more famous of the trials in which he has been engaged can believe that the power of thrilling a jury with fervid eloquence is possessed by no living member of the Bar. Sir Edward Clarke's only rival for the palm of forsenic eloquence is Mr Carson, who possesses one of the most delightful brogues that ever came from Ireland. Mr Car- son is the superior of Sir Edward Clarke in the power of passionate declamation; his words come more spontaneously, and with greater warmth, and his gestures are more dramatic; but his speeches" lack the finish of Sir Edward Clarke's. His sentences are not so clear cut, nor is his choice of words so large or accurate. It is not merely his brogue that proclaims his nationality he is sometime; guilty of making a bull. Mr Asquith does not show to such advan- tage in the Courts as in Parliament or on th6 platform. The current of his speech seldom strays outside the realms of fact. He speaks in a cold, argumentative style, as though he de- sired everybody who hears him to believe that he reserves all his enthusiasm for more worthy things. His manner is admirably suited to cases tried by judges alone, but is less effective when he addresses a jury. He conveys the impress sion that his audience is too small, and the mat- ter in dispute too unimportant to wariant an exhibition of his best oratorical style. One of the most graceful speakers at the Bar is Mr Lawson Walton, to whom belongs the distinction of obtaining the largest amount of damages ever given in a libel suit. His voice is one of the most pleasant to be heard in the Courts, while his presence gives assistance to his more mater- ial gifts. His speeches approach Sir Edward Clarke's in their literary finish, and his manner, when he is at his best, is most impressive in its earnestness The appeal he made on behalf of a lady tried recently at the Old Bailey was worthy of the best traditions of the profession It would seem that the chief defect of his ora- torical style comes of too large a supply of ear- nestness. He is apt to treat the smaller inci- dents of a case with the same fervour that he deals with the larger ones, with the result that the jury, kept too long at concert pitch, some- times have their sense of proportion impaired. This fault also belongs to Mr M'Call, who, like Mr Carson, is an Irishman, and helps to main- tain in the English Courts the reputation of his countrymen for eloquence. Many of the most eloquent speeches made in the Royal Courts of Justice are delivered in the Divorce Court, but they come from such advocates as Sir Edward Clarke and Mr Carson, and not from Mr Inder- wick or Mr Bargrave Deane, the two Queen's Counsel who practice regularly in the court. Both are most skilful advocates, but They make n) pretence to be orators.
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Mr. Gladstone as a Whist Player. How Mr Gladstone played whist is thus told by Mr Smalley in "Harper's Weekly" — "While at Brechin Castle Mr Gladstone played two or three rubbers of whist each even- ing. I played against him the first evening, when Lady Dalhousie was his partner, and the second evening with him. The same trait was evident whether you were partner or adversary. He played his own hand with very little regard to his partner's. Whist was not a game he cared much for or played often, but when he played it he gave his whole mind to the game, as to anything else which he undertook. His play was anything but orthodox. Of rules he took little heed, and he did things which would have scandalised Cavendish or Clay. It was evident that he thought out his whist as he went along; constructed, or reconstructed, the science of the game for himself; never led a card without a clear reason in his own mind for leading it; never forgot a card; took no chances; trumped ail doubtful tricks, whether himself strong or weak in trumps, and almost never led a trump til late in the hand. He never found fault with his partner. Such matters are signalling for trumps, or echoing, or other conventional langu- age of the game he ignored. If he had played long enough, he might have invented them over again for himself, as Pascal did the axioms and propositions of Euclid. All through his game was an interesting study; an expression of his intellect and of character.
A GENEALOGICAL ROMANCE.
A GENEALOGICAL ROMANCE. FORGED ENTRIES AND FAlSE IN. SCRIPTIONS. An extraordinary charge of fraud was investi. Sited at Bow-street the other day when Herbert avies, a young man residing at Barnes, was brought up on remand. Mr. Bodkin, who prosecuted for the Treasury, said that Lieutenant-Colonel Shipway, whose family resided in the West of England, was some time ago desirous of tracing his pedigree and his right to bear arms. He was introduced to the defendant, who passed as a B.A. of Oxford. In 1895 Colonel Shipway engaged defendant to make inquiries for him at a salary of 6s. a day. but, ly cooking his accounts, Davies had defrauded the Colonel of considerable sums. Coming across an old "History of Dursley," in which the Shipway family was mentioned. defendant apparently thought that it would pay him to tell the Colonel EXTKAORDlNAKT THINGS about his family, and he did. He wrote about the important position the family had occupied in the neighbourhood, and discovered the seal of the Shipways, a lion rampant with a weapon in its paw. Then having access to the old parish registers, he discovered six interesting entries relating to the family, one, made in 1625. men- tioning that John Shipway < seal was a lion bearing a weapon in its paw. But all these entries were forged, each being crowded into the bottom or top of a page, an examination of a .duplicate register betraying the fact. Then an old oak chest was discovered with "ye giffte of J. S." inscribed on one of its hinges. Defendant had sent the hinge to be so engraved in an antique styie. Defendant one day borrowed a hammer and chisel, and hammering was heard from the belfry. Next day "John Shipway, 1541," was found carved on one of the old beams. Having obtained permission TO OPEN SOME GRAVES from the Home Secretary, defendant, after trying the Shipway grave, had one opened on the opposite side of the church, bearing the name of Hicks. A rotten wooden coffin was found there, containing a leaden one, and taken into the vestry, from whence, when defendant was alone, there came a strong smell of acid. When the lead was inspected "Lto telo manu was found on it, and Underneath "John Shipway, 1628. Defendant then had the Shipway gravestone put over the Hicks grave and the Hicks gravestone put on the other side of the church. Behind the church organ was a female figure, carved in stone, belonging to the Blount family. But defendant had tho organ removed, the figure dug up, and a screen placed in front of it, saying that two figures were behind it erected to the memory of John Shipway and his wife. On a black shield in the church defendant, alter, as he said, removing eight coats of paint, discovered the words, "John Shipway, 1620." The College of Arms was informed of these extraordinary dis- coveries, but could find no confirmation in their records, and suggested searching for wills. The defendant went down to Gloucestershire ayaia and found some extraordinary wills dating from the fifteenth century. All of them appeared to have been forged on old parchments, Defendant was again remanded on bail.
THE CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT
THE CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT The acute controversy of last session as to the propriety of empowering accued persons to givo evidence is terminated, so far as England and Scotland are concerned, bv the passing of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1858. The general result of the Act is that the accused iiitiv now in all criminal cases apply to be heard as a wjtl's in his own defence in summary proceedings, in a preliminary inquiry as to an indictable offence, or on his trial on indictment or information. He may not be called by the prosecution. H called, he will give his evidence from the vvitne>s-box. unless the court otherwise orders. His evidence is to be taken immediately after the conclusion of the case for the prosecution; and if he is the only witness for the defence. his advocate will have the last word, except in cases where the special right of reply by the Law Officers is claimed. His right to be called as a witness does not affect his right to make an un.-w,m statement before the magistrates or at, the Having regard to the Crown Case lteserved 1.0\\ under consideration, remarks the Lair Juunutl, it will probably be. inexpedient to call the accused at a preliminary inquiry, since it m::y expose him to severer cro.examination at the trial as to discrepancies in his evidence on the different occasions, or entitle the prosecution to put in his deposition at the trial if he then elects not to give evidence. But the prosecuti in must not comment on his electing not to he sworn. The husband or vile of the ace wed may also be called as a witness; but as a general rule only for the aefence, and only on the application of the accused. Omission to can such witnesses is not to be commented on by the prosecution, and disclosure of communica- tions made by one spouse to the other during the marriage cannot be compelled; this enables the court to exclude evidence, of admissions of guilt by one spouse to another. The cross examination of fhe accused, if called, is thus regulated. lie may be asked incriminatiog question*, but not questions tending to shew that he has been charged with or convicted of other crime?, I io unless the witnesses of the prosecution have been examined on his behalf with a view to establish his good character, or he has given evidence of good character, or the nntun* or conduct, of the defence is such as to involve imputations on the character of the prosecutor or the witnesses for the prosecution. This rule will have to be worked with great care in trials for offences against women. Another exception is when an accused jciutly charged has given evidence tending to implicate a co-defendant., in which case both the Crown and the co-defendant may cross-examine freely. The Act will come into force on October 121, the result of which is that in some districts the Michaelmas Quarter Session:- may be held irrespective of the new statute.
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A BRUTAL (iEKMAN OFFICER. As recently reported. Count von Stolberg- Wernigerode, "enptain in the 15th Kegiment of Uhlans, in garrison at Sarrebourg.anu belonging to one of the best familips of Prussia-, has killed a non-coi):missio!ied o'licer of his squadron by cutting bin* down with his sabre. The folicjw.- ing details of the affair are supplied by a corre- spondent The non-commissioned ofli^er Seheinhardt was on supervi-ion duty in the kitchen when he received orders to go and take deliverv of a load of forage. In his absence the a'si&tant-couk.- neglected to close a patent ) < i'er in the proper manner, with the result that, the food was spoilt. Captain von Stolbe ^-U'criiigerode sent for Scheinhardt in the evening and asked for an explanation The non-commissioned otlieer pleaded that lie w<is not responsible, since he was absent on other duty when the boiler was closed A little later Von HtoILerg met Scheinhardt and began to abuse him, saying that he was the worst dog and the greatest blackguard in the regiment, and when Scheinhardt replied he did not think he was all this, Captain von Stol- berg-Wernigerode gave him a lox on the ear. which sent him reeling up against a cart. There- upon Scheinhardt called on two comrades to bear witness to the assault, saying: "You see how I have been struck." This put the captain in such a rage that he drew I.is >,a'ore and .-aruck the man twice. The first blow was a cut on the leg, and the second was a thrust which reached the man's head. fc\:heinhardt took out his handkerchief to staunch the blood flowing from his wound and tried to stand at attention. He fell, however, to the ground insensible, and was removed to the hospital of llaguenau, where he died next morning without having recovuvu consciousness. Scheinhardt was the son cf a workman, and had two brothers in the anry. Count vou Stolberg-WernigoroJe has belonged to the 15th Uhlans for something less than a year. He is about, fifty years of age, and ""1. formerly in the 12th Hussars, which regiment he had to leave on account of assaulting ;¡h orderly. He is now under arrest, and has Ice:, brought to Strasburg.
PARIS JOURNALIST SHOT BY A…
PARIS JOURNALIST SHOT BY A LADY. The ether afternoon Madame Paulmler, wife of the deputy for Calvados, went to the editorial offices of La Lanterne and asked to see M. Mil- lerand. As lie was absent, the lady Wit;, received by M. Ollivier. Scarcely had he entered the room when Madame tl;tulmier drew a revolver and fired two shots at him. M. Ollivier fell to the ground, and was conveyed to the hospital. Madame Paulmier, on being arrested said that she wished to kill M. Millerand on account of an article which had appeared in La Lanterne slandering her and her husband io connection with a letter written by M. Paul- mier asking General Chanoine to put a stop t the attacks on the army provoked by the Dreyiu- affair.
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Early on Friday morning the Nantwich Libera Club was entered by burglars. The locks on too doors of the billiard-room, the bar, social, and the committee rooms had been wrenched off, and the money-boxes belonging to the manager's children had been opened and the contents btiie-. together with a large quantity of eigar4.
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