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CONNAH'S QUAY HOTEL CASE. 0 At the Northop Petty Sessions, on Thursday, before Messrs. Charles Davison (chairman), James L. Muspratt, James Reney, Peter Jones and W. H. Lloyd, Edward Jones, an elderly labourer, re- siding at High-street. Connah's Quay, was sum- moned for being drunk on the licensed premises of the Hare and Honnch Hotel, Connah's Quay. and Henry John Hall, the licensee, was charged upon two informations with permitting drunken- ness and with selling to a drunken person. Mr. T. W. Hughes (Hughes and Hughes, Flint) ap- peared to prosecute on behalf of the police, and Mr. Stanley D. Edisbury (Wrexham) represented defendants. The case for the police was that at gO p.m on the 30th May Acting Sergeant Walter Hill (Connah's Quay), accompanied by P.C. Ben- jamin C. Jones, of Shotton, visited the Hare and Hounds Hotel. They saw one womtui and two men in the lobby between the. bar door and the back door. The woman was a Mrs. Hayes, and the men were Fred Hughes and the defendant, Edward Jones. Jones was drunk and was leaning against the wall. On a f-mall table near him was a pint glass half-full of ale. While the officers were there the landlord came. In the presence of the landlord Hill asked Edward Jones who had served him, and Jones replied, "One of the waiters. Hill asked the landlord to account for Jones's having been served while drunk, and Hall replied in a whisper, "I did not know he was here; was he that drunk?" Hill then told Edward Jones to leave the house. The old man got hold of his glass but the landlord took it from him. Jones then left the house by the back door. He was staggering, and walked in the direction of the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway line, which was in the opposite direction to his home. Sergt. Hill followed Jones out, and as the latter was incapable of taking care of himself, he was brought back. A young man residing near the defendant offered to take him home. otherwise Jones would have been taken into custody. The young man took Jones by the arm, and they went down the street staggering. Hill told the land- lord the case would be reported, and Hall replied, "I say he is not drunk. I consider he is within the line to be served by any one. On the following Monday (June 1st) the defendant Jones stopped Hill in High-street, Connah's Quay, and asked him to forgive his being drunk on the previous Saturday night. On Monday, the 8th inst., when Sergt. Hill served the summons on Jones, the de- fendant said, "I am very sorry. I was never sum- moned before in my life. I had no drink before I went there at about half-past six. I had four or five pints there. I don't blame you; you have only done your duty. It's their fault for serving me."—Evidence for the police was given by Sergt. Hill. P.C. Benj. C. Jones. P.C. Wm. Roberts, Thomas Evans, Joseph Bennett, Wm. Lloyd, Richard Peters and Fred Hughes. Addressing the court for the defence, Mr. Edis- bury called attention to the irreproachable char- acter of the licensee, and emphasised the fact that if he was fined his means of livelihood would be taken away. He had a strong case to meet, but he felt confident that after hearing suci a con- flict of evidence they would give defendant the benefit of the doubt. He urged that the old man Jones was at home up to 2 p.m. From then up to 6.30 he was working. He then met James Jones. with whom he had a drink at the Hare and Hounds. He had another half-pint with Peters, and then went home to tea, arriving at his house in a perfectly sober condition. At 8 30 he came out again and went to the Hare and Hounds, where he met Fred Hughes and Mrs.. Hayes. In two minutes after their arrival in the back room the police officers came. When charged by the police with being drunk, Jones stood up and went out. The licensee denied the alleged "whisper- ing," and had all along denied that Jones was drunk. It would also be shewn that, upon his arrival home Jones was perfectly sober. He called attention to the peculiarity in the gait of Jones, which might have been misleading. Having further reviewed the evidence, Mr. Edisbury a.sked the Bench to say that Hall had exercised reason- able precautions. Mr. Edisbury called the de- fendant Jones, who in reply to a question said that on the occasion referred to he was in drink. Were you drunk or sober? Defendant: I wasn't sober. Mr. Edisbury said that was contrary to the statement previously made to him by Jones, and he would therefore confine himself to the conten- tion'that the licensee and the persons employed by him took all reasonable sucps for preventing drunkenness on the premises. Evidence was then given by Hall (the licensee), Mrs Hall and Henry Richards (the barman) m '<■>•+'of the speech for the defence. Sl%f-,n Chairman stated that- for permitting drlXnSS Hall would b. «Md £ 1 ,„d £ 310s U. cS and on the charge of selling he would be S j' n nnd 7s costs. For being drunk on licensed premises..Edward Jones would be fined leense pr Is. and 13s. costs.

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LITERARY NOTICES. '■ ♦ NEW' BOOKS. "EARLY CARRIAGES AND ROADS. Sir Walter Gilbey has followed up his numerous works upon horses and horse-breeding by an ex- cellent book upon "Early Carriages and Roads," tracing the early history of wheeled conveyances in England and their development up-to recent times. The relationship between the improve- ment of our roads and the development of the highways is close, while both have exercised a re- markable influence upon the social life of the people. There is something strange in an ancient proclamation unearthed by the author regarding the indolence of riding in coaches to us of the present day who often hear gloomy prophecies of the decadence of the British race through the preference Tor cycles, motor-cars and other easy modos of locomotion. In 1588, says Sir Walter Gilbey, Julius Duke of Brunswick issued a pro- clamation forbidding his vassals and servants to journey in coaches, and expressed himself strongly, being evidently resolved that the vassals, ser- vants and kinsmen who "without distinction young and old have dared to give themselves, up to indo- lence and to riding in coaches" should resume more active habits. Many quaint engravings are reproduced of the clumsy, lumbering carriages of an early date, which must have placed a heavy strain upon the teams harnessed to them. Upon the subject of the weight of the vehicles, our author observes: "How much a coach weighed in those early days we do not know. Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, writing in 1817, says, 'Now travelling carriages frequently weigh above a ton,' and as carriages had undergone vast improvements by that date, we are justified in concluding that those of a hundred or a hundred and fifty years earlier weighed a great deal more." The teams employed to draw coaches in Crom- well's time are thus described: "When six horses were used, a postillion rode one of the leaders and controlled them; while the driver managed the wheelers and middle pair. When four horses were driven, it was the custom to have two outriders, one to ride at the leaders' heads and one at the wheelers' in town this would be merely display, but on a journey the outriders' horses might re- place those of the team in case of accident, or more frequently, be added to the team to help drag the coach over a stretch of bad road." Some notion of the cost of travelling in the seventeenth century may be gathered from the following ex- tract:— "Travelling on horseback was cheaper than by coach. The 'chapman,' or trader, could hire a horse from the hackneyman at from 6s. to 12s. per week. John Cressel estimates that a man could come from 'York, Exeter or Chester to Lon- don, and stay twelve days for business (which is the most that country "chapmen usually do stay) for -61 16s., horse hire and horse meatus. 2d. per day.' From Northampton it cost 16s. to come to London on horseback, from Bristol 25s., Bath 20s. or 25s., and from Reading 7s." No book of the kind would be complete without some refer- ence to the all-important coachman and guard, and interesting touches are given as to the duties and emoluments of these officials. A clear distinction is drawn between the leisurely stage-coach and th? Royal Mail, which brooked no delay. Regarding the easy pace of the former, it is related that "Billy" Williams drove the Shrewsbury-Chester coach and took twelve hours to cover the forty miles. "Two hours were allowed for dinner at Wrexham, but this obliging coachman would come into the parlour and say. 'The coach is ready, gentlemen, but don't let me disturb you. if you wish to have another bottle. These few extracts will suffice to indicate the scope of this unpretentious work, which is full of interest to the antiquary, as well as to that rapidly-increasing class of the community who find much of their recreation in travelling along the historic highways of England. "Early Carriages and Roads" (by Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart.—London: Vinton and Co. 2s.). THE JULY MAGAZINES. [FIRST NOTICE.] "Blackwood's" contains a charming mixture of light, entertaining literature and solid, sound political pabulum. Examples of the former are to be found under the heading of "Personalia: Political, Social and Various," and Musings Without Method," where the modern journalist comes in for scathing satire. Of the more sober articles, that upon "A Self-Sustaining Empire" commands attention from its whole-hearted sup- port of Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal policy, as the following quotation will sliew:- A self-sustaining empire is indeed what we want, and must strive after. It will do every- thing for us we need-coiis Ilidate the Empire politically and commercially, develop the Colonies, give us markets of our own for our surplus manufactures on which we can always rely, render us independent of foreign Govern- inents, and enable us to snap our fingers at foreign tariffs. In ord. to achieve these tempt- ing results we must have suitable tools to work with, and, if necessary, suitable weapons to fig-ht with. Tariffs alone will not suffice. Our "in- dustrial organisation will have to be improved all round, and from top to bottom. Our foreign competitors are not fighting us with tariffs alone, but with other and even more dangerous weapons also. The best supplies of raw material, the most efficient administration, the greatest technical skill, the most capable labour, the most energetic business methods-these are the factors which go farthest nowadays in the international struggle for supremacy. We are vulnerable at all these points, any one of which will be quite as important by-and-by as tariffs. As regards food and raw materials we are specially vulner- able. With the exception of coal there is no primary material of our staple industries in respect of which we are perfectly self-dependent; and our coal supplies are becoming steadilv exhausted. Iron-ore, timber, wool, cotton, and nearly everything else we need to keep our factories going, have to be imported. Even foreign supplies are rapidly reaching their limits, and the dire possibility has more than once presented itself of some dav there not being enough to go round. Our Lancashire mills arc many of them on half-time owing to a cotton corner in New Orleans. Our copper manufac- turers have had a similar corner hanging over them for months past. It is, in short, by a wholesale capture of the raw materials of every staple industry that American trusts hope to establish world-wide monopolies. Great Britain is the only country outside of the United States, and probably Russia, that can protect itself in the future against this greatest of all perils. Its colonies will, if properly developed, furnish I it with every kind of raw material it is likely to need. But they must be systematically pros- pected, worked and cultivated to that end. This may be a somewhat novel view even to Mr. Chamberlain, but it has only to be stated in order to shew its importance Several experiments have been made in con- nection with the coloured plates presented with the" Badminton Magazine," and the latest is a decided improvement. Some inconvenience to publishers and subscribers was caused by the publication of the plate separately, but this diffi- culty has been overcome. A really dainty repro- duction of a picture specially painted for the magazine by Miss Maud Earl is published in the July number. The same issue contains a dozen or more most readable articles, each tastefully illus- trated, Major C. G. Matson writes chattily on The Modest Man's Motor :— To listen to the modern motoring hot-head one would conceive that there is one use and one only for the horseless vehicle-to fly and tear and rush, to blow the horn, to clear the road. "Speed" in the engine, "life" in the tyres, such the motorist demands, and such he gets; but it never seems to have struck anyone that what he really needs is an ice-bag on the nape of his neck and ten grains of bromide of potassium three times a day to quiet him. So long as agriculture remains what it is, so long as roads run between fields and are bounded by hedge- rows, so long will horses, carts, and other impedimenta be encountered upon them, and will have to be reckoned with. Where the real value of an efficient and inexpensive car is at present chiefly mani- fested is in the homo of the man of moderate means, who kept one or two horses at the most and found even those a serious expense, which, however, he was bound to sustain if he was to live in comfort at any distance from a town. He abolishes these, keeps a motor-car, and the whole position is promptly changed. A mile more or less from the town or station merely means to him an extra three minutes on the journev thither; there is no longer any hesitation about the mare going out because she has a cough or the grev horse is suffering from one of the in- numerable ills to which horseflesh is heir. The coachman either learns to drive a motor as so many do, or else he departs, and a smart lad takes his place; tho twenty miles drive out and back is an ordinary incident. Wet or fine the car goes and comes, a boon and a blessing to all who use it. It requires looking after, but not nearly so much as one would imagine, and if the owner has time once a day. sav while -lie smokes a pensive pipe, to take off the "bonnet" rom the engines, look at the moving parts. reeling them with an old pair of gloves on. to keep his hands clean the while, he will very soon see if anything requires adjusting; for it is just "'? daily "look round" that is the main factor In keeping it in the best running order. Good NN-ords has begun an exceptionally in- teresting series of articles, entitled Stories of Authors' Loves." The first deals with the Brownings, and forms a most beautiful and tender narrative of true and faithful love. The writer, Clara E. Laughlin, has been exceedingly sym- pathetic and delicate in her treatment, and nobody could read Robert Browning's love story without feeling moved by the great poet's simplicity in his courtship and wedded life Seumas MacManus, whom critics have been unanimously comparing with J. M. Barrie, on account of his true inter- pretation of Irish village life in his new book, A Lad of the O'Friel's," begins in this month's "Good Words" a series of sketches. "Trades and Tricks in Ireland." He starts with "The Jarvey," or driver of the Irish jaunting car. He has a number of racy anecdotes to tell of the humour of famous Irish Jarvics. whose repartee and ready wit are proverbial to this day. The editor, the Very Rev. Donald Macleod, D.D., contributes himself an interesting paper on the sensational case of John Carruth, the blind-born Glasgow man, to whom sight has been given after 30 years of darkness. Curios of the Camera still continue to be one of the most popular features of "The Sunday one of the most popular features of "The Sunday Magazine." These amusing and instructive conundrums of nature exercise the ingenuity and study of old and young alike, as is shewn by the mass of letters they produce from readers of the magazine. Month by month a photograph of some object is given, skilfully disguised by enlarge- ment, and readers are asked to answer the ques- tion, "What is it?" It is an excellent method of teaching the lesson of observation and investiga- tion. The Sunday Magazine" is, as usual, well to the front this month both in interesting matter and in the profusion of its illustrations. The editor gives a further instalment of his New Life of C. H. Spurgeon," and tells how the Pastors' College came to be founded; the Wesley anni- versary is commemorated by an article on The Great Itinerant Preacher," in which graphic extracts from Wesley's Journal are given, relating to his great preaching tours; and among the Men of the Month," whoso portraits are given and whose history is sketched, are the Rev. Carey Bonner, Secretary of the Sunday School Union, and Dr. Bernard, Dean of St. Patrick's. The summer number of the Live Stock Journal," which is published as usual during the week of the Royal Agricultural Society's Show, is quite up to date, and contains many interesting articles dealing with the origin and development of agricultural and horse shows, and the improve- ment of live stock generally. There are contribu- tions by well-known authorities on The Hunting Sires of the Past" "Hackneys 100 years ago"; Coach and Cart Horses in Early Times" "Early Show Reminiscences and Jumping Prizes"; "Polo Pony Breeding" "The Horse of the Future" and many others. Three coloured plates are presented with the number, and there are eighteen illus- trations in black and white. Messrs. Vinton and Co., Ltd., 9, New Bridgre-street, London, E.C., are the publishers, and copies can be obtained at the bookstalls. In the "Cornhill," which is ail excellent number, the instructive articles on Prospects in the Professions are continued, The Civil Service" being dealt with this month. If proverbs were true, this life of all work and no play would make the Civil Service Jack a very dull boy; and if some pessimists are to be believed, the work itself is equally dull. Their comments frequently remind one of William W llberforce's criticism of England's greatest Minister:—"The necessity (he wrote) under which Mr. Pitt often lay, of opening and speaking upon subjects of a low and vulgarising quality. such as the excise on tobacco, wine, etc., topics almost incapable with propriety of an association with wit and grace, tended to produce a real mediocrity of sentiment and a lack of ornament, as well as to increase the impression that such was the nature of his oratory." But this is not the feeling with which the picked Oxford or Cambridge scholar regards his daily task. Year after year he finds the work more absorbing; irig; and the spirit of the Servivce was never more appreciatively described than by no less eminent a man of business than Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech delivered a few years since:—"Eighteen years ago (he said) I was first called to be the years ago (he said) I was first called to be the chief of a great office. I came to my work as an entire outsider, not without certain pre- judices. I had heard a great deal of the circumlocution office, of red tape, and official obstruction, and I fully admit I expected to find a good deal of it where I was going. But, on the contrary. I found a body of trained experts, as businesslike as any men I ever met in my life, perfect encyclopaedias of miscellaneous knowledge, with vast stores of experience, all of which they gladly and cordially placed at the service of their temporary chief. I found every application from the public, however absurd (laughter)—every complaint, however ill founded, and every suggestion, however wild and insane —(laughter)—was treated with respect. was care- fully examined, and was decided upon with a single eye to the public service and with an evident desire to do justice to every individual." "The Windsor is a strong summer number. Mr. W. T. Stead, in his series of articles, "The Money Kings of the Modern World," deals with the great House of Rothschild. It is not difficult to trace the history of the Rothschilds. Before the middle of the eighteenth century there were no Rothschilds known to fame. The father of the first Rothschild was a Jewish merchant of the name of Amschel, or, according to others, Mayer Bauer. When the child was born, he so little discerned the true bent of his genius that he purposed to dedicate him to the service of the Synagogue. Young Bauer was to be a rabbi learned in the law. as young Cecil Rhodes in later years was to be set young Cecil Rhodes in later years was to be set apart in his youth for the ministry of the Church of England. But the destiny of both was not in the keeping of their fathers. It was the fate of young Bauer not to write Commentaries on the .Book of the Law, but to afford the world the most conspicuous confirmation of the accuracy of the prediction which declared: "Thou shalt lend unto many nations but thou shalt not borrow." Instead of becoming a rabbi the lad went into business and started his career as a money-lender at the sign of the Red Shield in the Frankfort Judengasse. Money-lenders in those days, like publicans in our day, advertised their business by signboards on which were painted emblems which had probably as little significance as the Red Lions and the Blue Boars under which British innkeepers supply their customers with ale and spirits. Bauer's sign was a Red Shield—in German, Rothschild. Under that sign he prospered exceedingly. After a time he discarded the family name of Bauer and adopted the less homely patronymic which he borrowed from his signboard. Exit Bauer, with its associations of peasant life. Enter Rothschild, who was to sit among princos and to inherit the throne of glory. In an article, Concerning Ellen Terry," in Cassell s Magazine," Mr. Sydney Dark says:— *s curious how histrionic power runs in families. One at once calls to mind Sir Henry Irving and his sons, John Hare and his son, the Robertfions, William and Ellaline Terriss, the Ernerys, the Calverts, and many others; but in no family is stage talent so general as in the Terrys. At the beginning of the century Daniel lerry was dramatising Scott's novels and man- aging the Adelphi-a management, by the way, which ended in bankruptcy. After him came Benjamin Terry, Miss Ellen Terry's father, who was connected for years with the old Worcester Circuit, and who had to put up with many of the scmi-comic, semi-tragic discomforts incident to the life of an old-time travelling actor, the sort of thing which Charles Dickens humorously describes in his account of the adventures of Mr. Crummies and his company in Nicholas Nickleby." Of Benjamin Terry's family, besides Ellen, Kate Terry, after gaining a reputation as the most accomplished romantic actress of her time, married Mr. Arthur Lewis and retired from the stage, to make a final appearance from the stage, to make a final appearance many years afte-- with Mr. John Hare at the Globe, her daughter, Mabel Terry Lewis, carry- ing on the family traditions. Then came Marian Terry, still happily with us, and Florence Terry, a very lovely woman, who played very little after 1882, and died some six years ago; Fred Terry, the best "Charles Surface," with the exception of Sir Charles Wyndham, that I ever saw; and Charles Terry, the father of little Beatrice Terry, far and away the best child-actress at present on the stage. Add to these Miss Terry's own children—Cordon Craig, a brilliant young man whose original ideas of stage management are now being exhibited to the public, and Edith Craig, who both designs stage costumes and herself acts—and you certainly have a brilliant and unique company. It would be interesting— and obviously by no means impossible-to cast an entire play from the Terry family. And how admirably it would be played! Miss Ellen Terry was born in February, 1848, in the town of Coventry, famous for the exploits of Peeping Tom and for the manufacture of bicycles. It is by the way, a remarkable tribute to her real greatness that no idiotic secret is made of the date of Miss Terry's entrance into a world that she was destined to cheer and brighten. She seems to have made her first appearance on the stage on April 28th, 1856, as Mamillius, in the Winter's Talc" at the Princess's Theatre, then under the management of Charles Keane. Among the audience were Queen Victoria. Prince Albert, and the lady who was afterwards to be Empress Frederick of Germany. Her success was instantaneous, and it was at once recognised that she was a born actress. The little girl of eight stopped some time at the Princess's, playing in a round of Shakespearean pro- ductions, and often in Christmas pantomimes. How hard she used to work is shewn by the fol- lowing extract from her Stray Memories When I was a child, rehearsals often used to last until three and four in the morning. What weary work it was, to be sure! My poor little legs used to ache, and sometimes I could hardiv keep my eyes open when I was on the stage." This early training and hard work doubtless gave Miss Terry, as it gave Mrs. Kendal and all the other players of the older school, the profession- alism and the knowledge of their business which is so conspicuously absent from our theatre in these latter times. There were no inspired amateurs forty years ago. The "Wide World Magazine" throws some light on an episode in the American campaign against the Filipinos. The story is entitled The Pursuit of Captain Victor," written by Sergt. Harry Glenn, of the United States Marine Corps, and is a full and authoritative account of one of the most striking phases of this remarkable campaign—the hunting down of the cruel and wily Filipino outlaw Captain Victor, whom both Spanish and American troops had sought in vain to capture. "A Unique Summer Residence on top of Mont Blanc" is another interesting contribution to the magazine.

THE CHURCHES. --+- CHESTER ONSISTORY COURT. WEDNESDA Y.- i eftYe the Ven. Archdeacon Barber. Mr. Fletcher, proctor, applied on behalf of the Rev. Lionel Landamerc Stanhope, vicar, and the wardens of the parish church of St. John the Evangelist, Chelford, for authority to remove the present communion rails and pulpit from the church and to erect in lieu thereof new com- munion rails and a new pulpit. The proposed new communion rails are to be the gift of Mr. R. A. Tatton, Manor House, Chelford, and the new pulpit the gift of Colonel George Dixon, of Astle Hall, Chelford. The cost will be £ 105.—The appli- cation was granted. r,The W Cawley Reid, M.A., rector of Coppenha.il parish church, applied for permission to place stained glass in the large east window of the church, representing the Tree of Life cul- minating in the Cross with the figure of the Crucified and figures of St. Mary and St. John. The design also included representations of the Fall, the Annunciation, the Nativity, our Blessed Lord in majesty, the witness prophets of the Old Testament and the evangelists of the new, also the adoration angels. The expense will be de- frayed by voluntary subscriptions.—The faculty was decreed. The Rev. Herbert Gardner, B.A., viqar of Christ Church, Wheelock, near Sandbach, sought permission to enlarge the church eastwardly by building a new chancel, with an organ chamber on the north side and a cnoir vestry on the south side, and to furnish the chancel with communion table rails, choir stalls and reading-desks; also to erect a screen betwen the chancel and the nave, to remove the organ from the gallery to the new organ chamber, to place sittings in the gallery, and to re-decorate the body of the church. The estimated cost is about £ 450, which will be de- frayed by voluntary subscriptions.—The Arch- deacon said this addition would add considerably not only to the appearance of the building but also to the accommodation of the parishioners.— The faculty was granted. The Rev. T. N. Wilmer (vicar) and the wardens of St. Thomas's in the new parish of Norbury, Stockport, applied for a faculty settling and ap- JESS £ p £ SU,f>!S' Mr. (Chester), while Mr. E. BiWy (§ £ £ 2 th6»PPl'«i»oi,, Several alterations were made, and eventually » I table of fees was agreed upon. The Archdeacon explained that he had not the power to approve the table of fees, but would recommend it to the Chancellor, for whom he was acting as principal surrogate. The alterations included a reduction by half of the fee for marriage by licence, a slight reduction in the charges for new graves, and increases in the fees for head stones, flat stones, and kerb stones.

RECTORY OF DAVENHAM.—The Rev A Goldwyer Lewis, B.A., B.D., was on Friday evening instituted by the Bishop of Chester to the rectory and parish church of Davenham. which recently became vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. W. IT. France-Hayhurst. THE CHURCH HOUSE. the Rev. T. W. H. France-Hayhurst. THE CHURCH HOUSE. Earl Egerton of Tatton presided on Friday over the annual meeting of the Corporation of the Church v, ']U\e' fe rePort stated that the additional offices had been found very useful, and were nearly Hin°w»f vi uhe Henry Hoiire Memorial Altoo-pthpr th m demand for meetings. Altogether they had now expended £ 112,722 on the bulIdn5S an? there was a sum of £ 8,250 oumg to their bankers, which the Coun^'i pay on but at present their regular income was not more than sufficient to cover the ordinary expenses.— The Bishop of Wakefield (Dr. Eden), in seconding the adoption of the report, which had been moved by the chairman, said that, in tlieProvinceof York, the too, were providing: themselves with a church house, and to do so were restoring that beautiful old building, Saint Wilhelm's College. He thought one great service which the church house was likely nlJftVL? fuV!r? was to afford a meeting Church of IfLl! councli of members of the the church h 1 ik ? ]ere no quest'°n which -"j had before it of late comparing in importance with that of having meetings of their levned and restored convocations of lavmen and clergy alike.

ENGLISH CHURCH UNION. -+- MEETING AT HESWALL. A meeting of members of the English Church Union was held on Saturday afternoon in support of the principles of the Union, at "The Roscote,' Heswali, by the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Thos Brocklebank. An address was given by Mr. Athel- stane Riley, vice president of the Union. About 150 ladies and gentlemen were present, including the Archdeacon of Chester, the Revs. W. H. L. Cogswell, J. Bell Cox, J. F. Howson and Walsham W" Brown. Mr. and Mrs. BrocWebank receive* thejr gue6ts on the 0, au tJf ul liivri near the hOl13e, -h.- arrange-- J ments were made to hold the meeting. Shortly after the commencement of the proceedings, how- ver, an interruption was caused by a downpour of rain, which had threatened for some time, and the party had to retreat to a more sheltered portion of the grounds.. Mr. Leadley Brown, who presided, said they were greatly indebted to Mr. Brocklebank and Mrs. Brocklebank for having invited them there that da}- One Oi tne defects which had been produced by the isolation of the English Church for many centuries was the want of sympathy that they. as English Churchmen, had with the large Catholic Ciiurch of which they formed a part. It had been the efrort of the English Church Union from the commencement to draw together, as far as they could, the sympathies of the Church with those whom they recognised as part of the Church. Mr. Riley had fought the great fight of the Church in the London School Board, and he had made a special study of the subject upon which he would address them. (Applause.) Mr. Athelstane Riley, who was cordially re- ceived, gave an instructive. and entertaining address on the Eastern Church. He said the Eastern Church was a subject of importance to English ChurchpeopJe. When they turned to the East they found a Cnurch which had always been extremely conservative. Mr. Riley alluded to the fo^te dTffe°rrnt0fd the €arly Catholic Church, and in the r?e!Snt^nt dmsions of Oriental Christianity tho rl? i statistics with regard to the adherents. Dwelling at length on the doc- trines, etc., he mentioned that the Eastern Church trines, etc., he mentioned that the Eastern Church recognised seven sacraments as follows:—Baptism, holy communion, confirmation, penance, holy orders, holy matrimony and unction with oil. A child was usually baptised on the eighth day after child was usually baptised on the eighth day after birth, and was confirmed immediately afterwards. Odd as that might seem, it should be remembered that the separation of confirmation from baptism was of very modern origin, for it was never thought of separating those sacraments for at least a thousand years after Christ. The custom grew up in the west, and the final separation of confirmation from baptism took place in the west in the sixteenth century. No less a person than Queen Elizabeth was baptised and confirmed by Archbishop Cranmer when she was three days old. llity still found children confirmed directly after baptism, and at once admitted to holy communion. Whichever way they looked at the custom, they could not get away from the fact that our practice of late confirmation and late first communion was nothing but mediseval Popery, and wholly a Roman practice. Referring to the teachings of the Eastern Church regarding controversial mat- ters, Mr. Riley said we must note their absolute rejection of the Roman claims. In that respect it was impossible for any body of Christians to be more Protestant than the Eastern. The Eastern Church recognised the Pope as the first bishop in Christendom, but beyond that it absolutely refused to go, and her position in that respect had been consistent from the beginning. The Eastern Church, speaking generally, rejected the doctrine of Purgatory, but anyone who had studied the Eastern literature on the subject of the prayers of the. departed for us must be aware that the people had a more vivid realisation of the l'n .< iCI tnc whole Church, living and A**? n rtnan we had in the west. After a. hiding to the Easterns' strict obser- vance of lasts. Mr. Riley said it was sometimes oi i *j'e -rn Church was an unspiritual i i y,c ,:u ot course when we looked at countries like lurkey, where the Church had been oppressed for centuries, we did find in many instances a want of spiritual life and activity. He often thought that the Enghsh Church would have been utterly destroyed if she had had to endure such terrible persecution as the Greek Church in T'ur- key had ror three hundred Years. Considering the way in winch the Church had been corrupted by the- conquerors. it was astounding that the Greek Church in Turkey was in such a good state as it was at the present day. But wherever the Eastern Church had been liberated from persecution we found an extraordinary amount of spiritual life. It was not, he thought, generally known that there were a number of most successful missions in the Eastern Church. It was a striking fact that the Eastern Church was practically the only Church in Christendom at the present day which was making any impression whatever upon Manommed- anism. Far more Mahommedans were comerted to Christianity every year by the Eastern Church than by the whole of the rest of Christendom put together, and nowhere did we find th? conversion from Mahommedanirm to Christianity carried on on such a large scale as in Russia. At the close of the address the speaker was ac- corded a hearty vote of thanks, on the proposition of the Archdeacon of Chester, seconded "by the E^v. Walsham Postsnce.-On the motion of the seconded by the Rev. Bell Cox, a °i i £ ai\ks r^,as also tendered to Mr. 'V Brocklebank The members of the Union were subsequently entertained at tea.

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CONNAH'S QUAY'S LOSS. I DEATH OF MR. JOHN COPPACK. It is with regret that we have to record the! death of Mr. John Coppack, late head of the well- known firm of Coppac.k, Carter a.nd Co., hip- owners, ship and insurance broker?, which took place last week at his residence. Dee View, Connah's Quay, at the age of 65 years. The sad event, although not wholly unexpected, was heard of with unfeigned regret, as the de ceased gentleman was prominently known ajid deeply re-pected over a wide- area, the nature of his large business bringing him in cont-act with people all over the country. Mr. Coppack, for some years past ha<d not enjoyed robust heallb, and in ooossquence retired from business some five years ago. Although able to get out of doors his health, during the past six months, had under- gone a serious change for the worse. His medical adviser (Dr. Purdon) was unremitting in his attention upon his patient, but some weeks ago it was seen that the end was fast approaching, and he passed peacefully away as stated in the presence of his family and hi? particular and life- long friend, Mr. Tom Williams. In the ea.rly _part of his career Mr. Coppack followed the pro- fession of a mariner, and rose to the position of master of a coasting schooner, being engaged largely in the trade of carrying iron ore from Spajn to Mostyn Ironworks. He abandoned the seafaring life and commenced business in con- junction with Captain Samuel Vickers as a bhip broker in Connah's Quay. Captain Vickers was not long associated with Mr. Coppack, and on his retirement from the firm Mr. Coppack took into partnership the late Mr. H. C. Carter. The firm, under the name of Coppack, Carter and Co., grew by leaps and bounds and eventually became one of the most prominent and influential in the coasting-trade business in this part of the coun- try and, indeed, was well known in every port around the coast. This success was not attajned without much exertion and hard work by the partners. Their energies, coupled with their keen business perception and capacity, placed them in a unique and prominent position in shipping circles. In the later years of his life Mr. Coppack became largely interested in shipping property. It can be truthfully stated that he has done his full sharo in endeavouring to develop and extend the trade of the port. Mr. Coppack's great ambi- tion was to see a good navigable river and float- ing docks at Connah's Quay. He had every con- fidence that the volume of trade that would accrue would fully repay the capital expended in carrying out these projects. In the absence of a safe, navigable river, he did all that was possi- ble to encourage and foster trade and provide an outlet for the shipping on the Dee. It was chiefly through his influence and untiring exer- tions that the fine steam tug Faiiesen was brought to work in the river. His firm managed this tug and made it possible for ships when loaded to be towed from sea to port, or from port to Mostyn Deeps. On the establishment of the Dee Conservancy Board Mr. Coppack became a member, his experience and sound advice on matters affecting the river being of the greatest value tc that authority. For a time Mr. Coppack held the position of pilot master, which carried with it the full control and management of the licensed pilots on the river-a body of men who found in Mr. Coppack a sincere and true friend to their best interests. The deceased, although largely engrossed in business matters, found time to take more than a passing interest in public matters. He was a Liberal. He will be missed on all sides. Amid expressions of general regret the inter- ment took place in St. Mark's Cemetery on Thurs- day afternoon. Prior to leaving the residence of the deceased a short and impressive service was conducted there by the Rev. T. J. Martin. At the Methodist New Connexion Church a portion of the-burial service was read and special hymns sung, the officiating ministers being the Rev. J. C. Storey (circuit minister), the Rev. J. G. Wil- liams (assistant circuit minister), and the Rev. T. J. Martin. The funeral procession then passed on to St Mark's Cemetery, being met on the way by the Rev. T. Williams. M.A. (vicar of St. Mark's Church) and the Rev. E. Timothy (curate). All along the route from the Xew Connexion Church business establishments were temporarily closed and blinds were drawn at private residences. Flags were at half-mast on all public buildings, shipping offices and ships in port—in fact on every hand there were striking evidences that the town mourned the loss of the deceased gentleman, who had so worthily filled so many positions with merit and distinction in the public and social life of the district. Representatives were present of the St. Mark's Lodge of Freemasons and the "Anchor of Hope" Tent, Order of Rechabites, the deceased being a member of both these institutions. The chief mourners were Mrs. Coppack (widow), Mr. and Mri. John Coppack, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Coppack, Mr. and Mrs. William Coppack. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Coppack, Mr. and Mrs. John Wright, Captain and Mrs. T. Coppack, Captain and Mrs. W. Rcddin. the Misses Florrie and May Coppack (sons and daughters). Mr. James Cop- pack (brother), Mrs. Samuel Coppack (Chester). etc. Among a large numbe:' of the general public were Mr. C. Davison. Mr James Reney, Mr. T. B. Barnett, Mr. Robert Thomas (Liverpool). Mr. T. W. Hughes (Mayor of Flint). Mr. James Prince, Mr. T. Rowlands. Mr. Fred Green (Hawardenl, Captain C. A. Reney, Captain S. I Vickers (Shot-ton). Mr. F. Coleclough. Sir. W. E. Hushes, S.-rgt.Major J. W. Bowyer, Sergt.-Major Holden (Shotton). Messrs. F. E. Jones, John Heysett, W. Butler, G. Butler, J. T. Humphreys. k etc. The coffin was covered with a cumber of beautiful floral wreaths sent by sorrowinc; rela- i tives and friends. At the Connah s Quav Urban Council meeting on Wednesday, Mr. W. H. Lloyd moved a vote of f,ondolence with the bereaved family of the late Mr. John Coppack, formerly a member and over- Reer of the parish for many years. Mr. James Reney seconded the motion, which was carried in silence.

NATURAL HISTORY NOTES- (From" The Field.") WATER VOLE CARRYING YOUNG. hen I was trout fishing a few evenings ago a water vole swam three times close past my feet, each time carrying a. youngster, which she brought from the other side of the pool. As she passed on the third trip I was in the act of landing a trout, the splashing aInrmed her, and she drcpped the young one, which I dipped up in the landing net; it was at least as large as a full-grown field mouse. -Morris Richardson. PARTNERSHIP IN A NEST. A tenant lia, biought me the contents of a nest numbering thirty-seven eggs, and made up as fol- lows: Fifteen French partridge's eggs, eleven common partridge s eggs, and eleven pheasant f'SSS. Ine nest was deserted, and two or three of the pheasant eggs which we have bioken are half sat.—Morris Richardson [Such partnerships in a nest have been frequently" lepcrtcd. but the eggs usually belong to only two of the three species named.—Ed ] SHELDRAKE'S EGGS DROPPED IN WTER. This beautiful duck (Tadoma vulpanser) breeds in some numbers in rabbit holes among the sand- hills at Braumon Bui rows, N. Devon. I saw as many as twenty-six old birds in one of the manv shallow fresh water ponds in April. Last week. I c' on visiting the spot. I was surprised at finding several single eggs on the grass where the water had subsided, evidently dropped while the water j was there. I thought this an unusual c-ircum- stance, and I should Lke to know if this has been noticed in other places where this biid resorts for noticed in other places where this biid resorts for breeding purposes—Jas. Partridge •BE.rn^taple). fit- is not an unusual occurrence for ducks to drop their eggs in the water.—Ed.] their eggs in the water.—Ed.] WEIGHT OF OTTER. Th? arccptcd record weight of an otter is. I be- lieve, 38Jb.. but I have one in my posscs-sicn stuffed by Messrs. Rowland Ward, which weighed 421b. (wet in a sack), say 401b. Messrs. Rowhnd Ward were unable to accept this as an authenticated record owing to the lack of witnesses, but said the measurements were larger than those of the otter which weighed 381b. As a matter of fact. I am satisfied myself that- the weight was genuine, since my keeper, a most reliable man, weighed it twice carefully. He trapped it on the Spencer's Oak fishing on the Blackwater in the spring of 1898. underneath the big rock on the left bank.- Edward F. Oakley, Captain (Fairfield. East, Ravenhill, Lanes).

THE LORDS AND DIVOriCE. In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, Lord Russell moved the second reading cf a Bill to amend the law relating to divorce. The nobiC lord said he introduced a similar measure last year with a speech which was intended to be reason- able, temperate, logical and respectful to the House. The usual amendment to the effect that the Bill should b? read a second time on that day three months had been placed on the papei, but this amendment was contemptuously brushed aside by the Lord Chancellor, who said that the Bill and the speech in support of it were an insult to thoir lordships' House Knowing that he had a large majority behind him, the noble end learned lord on the woolsack, who during his term of office had revived the use of many archaic r.nd rmty weapons, made and carried a motion which had not been made for a great many years, viz.. that the Bill should be rejected. The clause to which the noble and learned lord most strongly objected —permitting divorce after one year on the joint petition of the parties—had been omitted from the present Bill, and he therefore hoped to have on this occasion the support of the Lord Chancellor instead of his opposition. The Bill picvided that a marriage might be dissolved on any of the fol- lowing grounds:—That since the marriage the other party had committed adultery; that since the marriage the other party to the meriiage had been guilty of cruelty to the petitioner; or. that during the three years preceding the presentation of the petition the parties to the marriage had lived apart, and that throughout that period either of the parties did not intend to resume cohabita- tion. It was further proposed in the Bill that where the joint income of the parties did not cxceed £ 500 they should be able to obtain relief in the local County Court. The measure of last year was characterised by the Lord Chancellor as a Bill to abolish marriage. So far from this measure being one of that character, it was a Bill I designed to put an end to a state of life which had already ceased to have any semblance of marriage. The Lord Chancellor did not propose :o repeat what he said last year, but. he believed that the remarks he then made met with the "milc ap- proval of their lordships. No one else intervencKi in the debate, and the amendment which he sub- mitted was at once a creed to. The noble lord really did not appear to understand the gravity of what he was jlomg. All the existing Divorce Acts were swept away by the schedule to the Bill. Up to the present time the policy of the law had been to prevent anything like divorce by consent, but under this Bill there would be simply an arrange- ment between the thirties in order to get rid of a marriage. He did not think he went too far last. year when he said that to make such a pro- posal to a Christian assembly was an insult. The motion for the second reading was negatived without a division.

IRISHMAN'S STRANGE DEATH. --+-- WALKED OUT OF A TRAIN IN HIS SLEEP. Mr. J. H. Bodvel Roberts, the coroner for Car- narvonshire, conducted an inquest on Saturday evening at the Cottage Ho-pitai, Llandudno, as to tile cause of the dea: of Patri/k O'Dowd, of Clooiinaoool, Tubercurry. county Sligo. Ireland, who died at the hospital on Thurs-d^v llLrning frem injuries sustained by falling out of the- Irish. best express early the "ne morning. The case wa., watched on bahaif «>; the police bv Superin- tendent W. Rees, of Cc-way. Job Lea, one of ttott w,if cf the Llandudno Junction station. dc- cubed the finding of O Dowd about 550 yard = on the Chester 'ide of the Junction s^tcition. T/.e man wa- uncoii.^ious and mcrtaiiy injured. He was removed to thai collage hospital by speoiaj train. James Bowker, cari-iagle exanic rier. of Chaster, statfd that when the t-rajn drew up &f the Chester •-tanon he saw one of ihe eight men who were in a third compart m ex:, putting out- his a l'-O. as though to turn the handie of the door straigm. The h-t-'di« was turned back, and Ü the door was held cilly by the automatic -h. When the £3.W tilO witness he drew his and back. and th", wit- ness turned the handle -imself. As he-, did -o he cbs-erved th-at the glass in the door wiudow-frame was broken;, and asked for an explanation from occupants of filiet r-oinpartm-ent, w-ho were Irish harvesters. They ail declared that the-v did! not know anything about the brp".1nng- of the gia but- one of them, the younges: cf the party, stated that somewhere during the journey anotner man who w a with them had wakened up from vleep, had &aid. "AD change here," had walked across the ca.rric.ge from the side where no had been sitting, a;id had opened the dc;cr a.nd jumped cut. The young man .-ud he was about to follow when h<> saw that his companion had !aJ]pn. and then he .*veld back. He fTcive tho name of the deceased, ponited to the rack where his bundle. was, and st-at^c that the deceased had b ithe young man's) ticket in his pocket. The w itne~s examined the look of the door which was in good order. It had an in-ide handle. The men: seemed to laugh <bout, the matter and at first witness took it as a. oke. but afterwards thev wisned to know what, had: become of the man who had fallein and then tihe witness began to believe them. new- of the missang pas-ienger came while the train remained at Cnester, but shortlj' afterwards they heard of an injured man having been found a,t the Junction and they xv i r-ed to Lime-street- for the men in the carriage with the broken wsndov. to be questioned. The witness exhibited the door sash with the frac- tured pane in it to the jury, and said that in his opniion the breakage ws-s drje to the rebounding of the door after the deceased had r>a-sed out. Robert Hughes, of Liverpool, the guard of the train from Chester to L- :r;e-street, gave evidence to the effect that he questioned the men at War- rington, and they told the same tale as at Chester. He asked them why they did not st.cp the oe- cea ed when they saw lim going cut while the train wa- movng, and n"y said they were half a-l-eep. Then he asked them why they did not pull the. oommun-i-catk- cord. shewing them wnere it was, and pointing out xhat it was put there in case cf necessity. The man he spoke td replied, "I wouldn't, middle, with that; I might break it. Under -e circumstances he felt jusnficd in locking the men in the compartment at. Warrington, and he, wired to Lime-street for the men to be seen by the inspector and the ponce. At Liverpol he got the:r and ad- dresses in Ireland. As they were going about locking for work he c-ju.Id not get their addre.ses in England. George Parsons, acting night station master at Lime-street, stated that she young man who wa alone able to tell how deceased, had left the compartment was named Michael Weed, and he came from the same place in Ireland a; O'Dowd, and that they were trie; ds. That was the rea- son why O'Dowd had Wood's ticket. All the men scorned ouite sobei, and they did not seem even to !:I;.Ye< been smoking. Dr. D. P. Foulke-, of Conway, èpJed that the deceased died from fracture of tho fore part of the -kuii. Tne Coroner stated that a telegram had been received from James O'Dowd. of Cloonnaccol, stating that he was the- farher of Patrick O'Dowd, the dect s-sed who was 25 years of age. The father wired that he war unable to attend the :n quest. There wa, no m.,j'e> evidence to offer, and so far as he (the Core ■ > t) could see. there was nothing improbable ocy --n-picious in the story. There was no suggestion of a quarrel or d'jturb- anee between the men the carriage. Superintendent Ree- said he had no ground for suggesting there had anything wrong. The jury found that itv- deceased died from in- juries received from hi-, having faHen from the express tram, and th-a- there was no evidence pointing to foul play.

WOOLWICH INQUEST STARTLING STATEMENT.—At the resumed inquest at Wool- wich on Saturday on the victims of the recent Arsenal explosion it was stated that 1,500lb. of lyddite was stored in an adjacent building, and had this been limited Woohvkh might not now have existed. If the sheds had had mounds as at Kynoeh's buildings the li >-es lost might have been saved. The inquest was adjourned.

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