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Shrewsbury assizes are fixed for December 2nd Chester assizes for December 4th. No civil business will be taken at Chester before December 8th. BANKRUPTS. — The following announcements appear in the Gazette :-Christopher, William, Machynlleth, quarry proprietor, Nov. 30, at 12 Cox, Samuel, Shrews- bury, commission agent, Dec. 6, at 10J Davies, J ohn Maurice, Antaron, Cardiganshire, barrister, Nov. 26, at 11; Lovatt, Chester, grocer, Nov. 29, at 11; Gosson, I W. ill Thomas, Shrewsbury, boot and shoe maker, Dec. G, at lOi: r soL Mr Morris, Shrewsbury off. assig. Mr Peele.

BALA. THE POST OFFICE AND THE TELEGRAPH.-BALA LOCAL BOARD.—At a special meeting of the Local Board held on the 24th instant, for the purpose of taking into con- sideration a letter received by the clerk from Mr Scuda- more, on behalf of the Postmaster-General, for the consent of the Board to permit the erection of a line of telegraph in Tegid-street and Mount-street, between the Post Offioe and the Local Board boundary-present: Messrs David Rowlands, Edward Lloyd, Jacob Jones, Griffith Jones, Richard Jones, and William Owen, and Mr David Morgan in the chair-it was resolved, on the motion of Mr Richard Jones, seconded by Mr Griffith Jones, "That the necessary consent be given, subject to the approval and supervision of the surveyor, as to the places on which the posts, &c., are to be erected." PESKY READI.NGS.-The first of this winter's series of penny readings was held on Friday, the 19th instant, in the British School. The proceeds- went to liquidate the debt of that institution. The chair was taksn by J. Jones, Esq., Vrondderw. The programme consisted of songs, choruses, recitations, addresses, instrumental music, and a competition ia reading a piece -of obsolete Welsh from Llywarch Hen's works. It were impossible.for us to say what U took" gest j but all the performers went through their allotted parts in the most satisfactory manner, and elicited frequent testimonies from the audience of their hearty approval. Among the pieces that were encored were—"Seren yr Hwyr," by Messrs E. Davies and party and "Hwre i Gymru," by Gwrtheyrn. One very good feature of these meetings is that they afford oppor- tunities for the display of rustic talent which would other- wise, perhaps, waste itself on "the desert air" of a cwm or a glyn. This was exemplified in this meeting—the young boy who accompanied E. Davies comes from an obscure village close to Bala. He has a powerful alto voice, good expression, and, with a little cultivation, would grace any concert in the kingdom. Gwrtheyrn seemed to be most favoured; the care he takes to utter the words distinctly in the pieces he sings ensures the attention of all. The meeting was very well attended, the reserved seats being quite full, though not uncomfortably so. Mr Simon Jones proposed, and J. Jones, Esq., Tremynfa, seconded, a vote of thanks to the chairman. Mr J. R. Jones, in a very neat speech, proposed, and Mr Anwyl seconded, a vote of thanks to the ladies and other performers. Both these proposals were passed with acclamation. After singing the "National Anthem" the proceedings ter- minated. The following was the programme :— Pianoforte Solo Miss Parry Quartette and Chorus (with pianoforte accompaniment by Miss M. Edwards)-" Hail to the Chief" Choir Recitation-" Y Bancer a'r Cobler Mr L. D. Jones Song (with pianoforte accompaniment)—"Through Bogs, Woods, and Rivers" Gwrtb.yTn Address Mr H. Lewis Song and Chorus (with pianoforte accompaniment by Miss Parry)—" Rock me to sleep, mother "Eos Penllyn Recitation-" Live for something" Master J. P. Jones Song—" Seren yr Hwyr" Messrs E. Davies and party Recitation—" Ceffyl yr Hen Bregethwr" Gwrtheyrn Cornet Solo.Mr M. B. Maurice Competition in Reading Duet (with pianoforte accompaniment by Miss M. Ed- wards)—"The Minute Gun at Sea" Messrs J. Lewis and E. Roberts IZecitation- Professor Snuffles on Electricity" Mr E. Evans Song and Chorus (with pianoforte accompaniment by Miss Parry)—" Come o'er the Brook Choir Recitation—" Dyddiau Mawr Taffi MrW. Price Song-" 0, na bawn yn Seren "Messrs E. Davies and a ■ party Song (with pianoforte accompaniment)-" H wre i Gymru Gwrtheyrn God save the Queen." COUNTY COURT, MONDAY.—Before A. J. Johnes Esq., Judge. Hugh Ellis against Robert Roberts. -Balance due for work and labour, £ 1 4s. 6d. Mr O. Davies Hughes ap- peared for the defendant.—Plaintiff said The amount is due for work. I have a note under the hand of Robert Evans. Mr Roberts came to me to Nantyrhelfa to ask if I would come and work as a mason to finish the work. I said I would, and that I had worked two days. You did," said he; "Yes," said I. "If you go there for a few days, I will pay you for all the days; I don't want you to be without your money." I th;n went to work, and he came there on Tuesday, and everything was in its place; he came there on Friday, and all was right. I said to him I would soon finish, and he said I was to make him a bill-that he would give me my money in one of the adjacent houses. I went to Festiniog, and sent him a bill of 1'2 6s. 3d. he paid 15s. 9d. of the same, and he would not pay more.—By the Judge Have you a copy of the bill, plaintiff?—I have an enigma (dychymyg)— (laughter)—handing a copy of the bill to the judge.—The Judge Mr Hughes, what is the nature of the defence?— Mr Hughes We paid the amount we thought due, and he has given a receipt in full discharge.—Cross-examined Mr Roberts, and not Mr Williams, gave me orders. Mr Roberts asked me to build a wall, make repairs behind the mill, and place culverts over some brooks. You may see all my work if you come there. The defendant was quite willing for me to do all, and he ordered me to do the culverts as well a the other work if not, why did he not send me away ? I arranged to finish the work next day. The last day I made the culverts and turned water to the work. Mr Williams told me to do that and the culverts. Mr Williams and gaffer (defendant) were together. I gave a receipt for the money (receipt produced.)— Plaintiff: This is what I received.—By the Judge This is a receipt for clays, at 3s. 6d. a day, settled in full, 15s. 9d., by Hugh Ellis.—Plaintiff: I said I would have my wages from whom I could get them. I did not ask Thomas Williams, because the defendant employed me.- Mr Hughes, for the defence; said that Mr Roberts ordered him to do some masonry, and at the end of four days, when he had finished, he was working for the con- tractor and other parties working the manganese, with working which Mr Roberts had nothing to do. The Slaintiff gave a receipt to Mr Roberts for 15s. 9d., in quidation of all claim upon him.—R. Roberts said: I have a manganese work near Rhydyfar. Thos. Williams, Robert Williams, and Thomas Williiams's nephews raised the manganese. I was to provide the wheel and machi- nery, and they were to raise the manganese and clean it ready for sale. I employed Hugh Ellis to do masonry work-a short wall-and to build in under the joists of the mill. He said he would go on the first Monday following. I went there on Tuesday, and the plaintiff was at work. I asked him when he commenced working; he replied, mid-day on Monday. He said I must have part of to- morrow to finish the job; he had done it pretty well; it was done without lime. He asked me when he would get his money. I said, As soon as I receive the bill with a receipt." There was not a word said about any more work than this, and he intended leaving next day for a job in another place. I was not aware he was there after, until I went over again. I had a talk with Thomas Williams, but plaintiff did not tell me anything. Hugh Ellis was engaged there. There was a ditch cut up-the work of an hour or two even for a weak man-for water to run through. The brother of Thomas Williams rebelled, because he had left, and he wanted me to pay Hugh Ellis. Thomas Williams himself said I was not to pay filaintiff, that the work was done by his order, and he Thomas Williams) was liable. I paid the 15s. 9d. with the understanding that it was payment in full of all claim that the plaintiff had against me. He had his choice to take that sum in payment of all or be without any, and he received it in full payment.—By the Plaintiff Did any- one else than you set me to work ?—I asked you to come there. The conversation about the bill was on Tuesday, not on Friday.—The defendant was recalled, and his Honour asked, were not the culverts and the ditch which the plaintiff made part of the machinery for the purposes of the manganese works ?—Defendant: I had only to see to the masonry work, and did not employ Hugh Ellis to do anything else.—The plaintiff being recalled, in reply to his Honour, said I made the culverts and flagged before the binns, and looked to the defendant for payment.— Judgment adjourned until next Court. Jonah Davies against Robert Thomas. -For turnip seeds and traveling expenses, 13s. 8d. -Plaintiff said I attend Bala market in the spring with seeds, and leave them at the King's Head Inn, Bala, from week to week. I found one sack taken away. On enquiry I found the servant of Brynmelyn had taken it to Mr Robert Thomas's, at Llan- dderfeL The sack was found in Robert Thomas's pos- session, and when returned to me, one packet of turnip seeds containing 121bs. was missing.—Robt. Thomas asked defendant if he could say that the packet was taken out while the sack was at Llandderfel. -Defendant: I don't may that it happened between the time it left the King's Head and its return. They say there is a lock on the warehouse, and Mrs Hughes gave the sack to the servant of Brynmelyn. I cannot say whether the warehouse was opened at another time. I cannot say whether the ware- house is left open on market days to any persons or not.— John Owens said I keep Jonah Davies's seeds on Satur- day nights, and lock them up. One Saturday he missed a sack and some seeds. I think it was the last Saturday in May. I went to Mary Hughes, my sister, to inquire who had been in the warehouse. She said no person had been but Owen Owens, the servant of Mr Jones, Brynmelyn, who had taken a sack away. Then I went to Llandderfel to the shop of Mr R. Thomas, and told him some seeds were missing, and that the servant of Brynmelyn had taken them to him. Mr Thomas said he did not know that no other than his own seeds had come there. Both of us went to the warehouse and found the sack with seeds in his warehouse. He opened it and said he had none of that kind of seeds, and sent his man with them to the station, and I came with them to Bala, and gave them up to the plaintiff at the King's Head, and when he examined them he found some seeds missing.—By the Judge Mr Thomas ordered his man to fetch his seeds from the King's Head, and by mistake Jonah Davies's sack was sent. Mr Thoma.3 had no sacks at the King's Head at the time.—Cross-examined by the Defendant: There was a lock on the warehouse, and many valuable goods were there, and many persons used to go into the warehouse, but not without the key from the house. You opened many saclp in ycur warehouse in my presence.— The defendant said he sent his servant for his seed to the King's Head, and his seeds were not there, but had been taken to another place, and other seeds were sent to him by mistake. John Owen had the sack as I had received it; it was kept in the warehouse, which was locked, and I keep the key myself.—Judgment for defendant. PETTY SESSIONS, SATURDAY, the 20th instant.— Before J. Jones, R. J. LI. Price, O. Richards, H. T. Richardson, and W. P. Jones, Esqrs. Mr Price did not sit on the bench in the first case. OBSTRUCTING THE HIGHWAY.—THE BALA LOCAL BOARD AGAINST JOHN LEE. Mr Passingham, solicitor (clerk to the Board), appeared for the Board. Mr John Lee, auctioneer, Manchester, SPP^ared personally for the defence. In the absence of ■Mr Williams, clerk to the magistrates, Mr John Roberts MC8p ^tor' actet' as bis deputy. *a8angham, in opening the case, said that the sum- mons and proceedings were instituted under 5 and 6 g' William IV., chap. 50., sec.72 and he was prepared to prove that the part of the street upon which certain vans had been placed was a highway within the meaning of the Act. He then called mons and proceedings were instituted under 5 and 6 William IV., chap. 50., sec.72 and he was prepared to prove that the part of the street upon which certain vans had been placed was a highway within the meaning of the Act. He then called Evan Jones, builder, Bala, surveyor to the Local Board, who deposed that the defendant had placed his vans or carriages the highway, near the White Lion Royal Hotel, Bala. Mr Lee's name was on the carriages, which were placed on the thoroughfare. Witness never heard of a gate or bar or any obstruction being at any time placed upon that part of the street by the owner -of the property or anyone else. He remembered the place fer twenty-six or twenty-eight years. Mr Price (to witness): Do the Local Board claim a right over that part?—No.—Do you, Mr 'Jones, consider the Local Board are bound to repair that part if it gets out of order ?—I do, sir. The Clerk (to Mr Price) If the question of title is to be raised, it must be disputed in another and superior Court; as to that the magistrates have no jurisdiction; and further, sir, you have no locus standi. The present charge is against Mr Lee. Mr Lee has his remedy against Mr Owen ÍII. a civil couct. The witness continued—I believe the Local Board are bound to repair the highway whenever it is needed. By the Bench-Tbe part obstructed belongs to the Local Board. Robert Roberts, Bala, said have liyed in Bala from siyty-four to sixty-five years. I know -the part of the town where Mr Lee's vans are well. I never saw any bar or gate placed there to prevent the passage of the public. When I was employed by the Local Board I used to clean that part on which the vans are placed. I have been scavenging the streets for the Board since its com- mencement, about ten years ago. Cross-examined by Mr Lee- I never paved the place or remember it's being paved. I have been in-the service of the Board for ten years. Mr Lee said he took the place from M-r, Owen with an understanding that he (Mr Owen) had a right to let it. Mr Passingham said if the Court were for going into that, he must read to their Worships an application made to the Bala Local Boird by Mr Owen, from the Minute Book :-At a meeting of the Bala Local Board held on the 3rd day of December, 1867, present—H. R. Pughe, Esq. (chairman), Messrs D. Morgan, Simon Jones, Griffith Jones, William Owen (Lion Hotel), Evan Jones, D. Evans, and William Owen (National Provincial Bank)— Mr William Owen, Lion Hotel, applied for leave to bring out the front of his house six feet further into the street than the old projection, by building a bay window at the gable end of that part of his house late in the occupation of Mrs Charlotte Jones." I wish the Bench to under- stand that we do not claim the right of the soil, but a highway over it. The Chairman --We are instructed that if it should turn out that the defendant committed the offence with a reasonable supposition that he had a right to station his vans there, he would not be guilty. Mr Passingham-But he received a notice to remove them. The Chairman-It is customary to let places in this town for stalls, &c., on the street, and to receive tolls for the same. Mr Passingham—Yes, sir, but not on the highway, especially not to obstruct passage. The Chairman-This gentleman (Mr Lee) finds the custom already in this town, and Mr Owen lets his ground to him. It is not likely that a man of Mr Owen's re- spectability would be a party to do what was wrong. Mr Passingham—The letting of places for stalls, &c., is only done on fair and market days, and then they are re- moved before night, which is not the case here. Mr Lee-But we had gas lighted up all night. The Chairman—It is done on those days because it is then that the place will fetch the price. The Clerk called the attention of the Bench to a case sometime ago against Mr E. Edwards, where a fine had been inflicted. Mr Passingham referred to the case of Williams v. Adams. The Chairman-The question in my mind is, whether you have summoned the right party. Mr Passingham—The vans were placed there by Mr Lee, or his men. The defendant admitted receiving a notice from Mr J. Roberts, the inspector of nuisance. Mr Lee then made a statement to the effect that he came to the town as a stranger to seek ground to place his vans on. Mr Owen let me the place (continued Mr Lee), and said he bad a right to do so, and I paid him his price a week before I came. I did not wilfully do what was wrong, as I thought I had a right to be there. Mr Lee then called William Owen, White Lion Royal Hotel, Bala, who said—About three weeks ago I gave J. Lee permission to place the vans by my house, at the same time stating that I claimed the ground to the gutter, and I charged him a toll, as I had done for the last five years. Cross-examined by Mr Passingham-The place has been obstructed before as now, so that nobody could pass. I did ask the Local Board for leave to bring out my window. Mr Passingham—Mr Owen, why did you ask leave of the Local Board ? Witness-I did it in this position, in order not to do wrong. (Laughter.) Dr Richards Mr Owen, do you wish to prevent the public passing, then ?—That is a knotty point, Doctor I don't know that. (Laughter.) The magistrates retired; and on their return, the Chair- man announced that they convicted Mr Lee of obstructing the highway, and, as Mr Passingham had said the Board did not press for a heavy penalty, so much as to show its authority and assert its rightst, the defendant was fined Is., and costs. VAGRANCY. James Collier and George Adams were charged by P.C. Robert Jones with committing this offence, at Llandderfel.—Sentenced each to one month's imprison. ment, with hard labour.

CORWEN. PRESENTATION TO A RAILWAY OFFICIAL.—Some months ago Mr Robinson, the manager of the locomotive depart- ment on the Ruabon and Dolgelley Branch of the Great Western Railway was promoted, and consequently had to remove from Corwen to Chester. No time was lost by his fellow employes in setting on foot a subscription amongst themselves and friends who wished to shew their respect towards Mr Robinson and family, and it was resolved to present Mr and Mrs Robinson with a suitable gift, as a mark of esteem and regard towards them, and the sum of 215 was soon collected. On Wednesday evening the presentation took place at the Eagles Inn, in this town, a grand supper being provided for the occasion by Mr and Mrs Davies, the worthy host and hostess, who gave great satisfaction to their guests. Mr Buckton, station master, presided, and Dr Walker occupied the vice-chair. There were upwards of fifty present. The tables having been cleared, Mr C. Roberts, engine driver, on behalf of the subscribers, in a very appropriate speech presented Mr Robinson with an elegant marble timepiece, made by Mr Bevan, Birkenhead, and Mrs Robinson with a broach. Mr Robinson very suitably returned his thanks for the kindness shown to himself and Mrs Robinson. Several toasts were given and responded to, and songs enlivened the proceedings. DEATH OF MR JOHN EYTON JONES.—In our obituary of this week we have with regret to announce the death of Jno. Eyton Jones, Esq., of Tirllanerch, near Corwen, who departed this life on the 19th instant. Mr Jones was the eldest son of Jno. Jones, Esq., of Plasisa, Cor- wen, and of Dolawen, Rhyl, and only a few years ago had come into possession of the Tirllanerch Estate which is situate to the east of Llansaiiitffraid village. The vil- lagers were attached to their respected neighbour, especially the poor, to whose calls he always responded, and they deeply feel the loss sustained by his death. On Wednesday, the 24th instant, his remains were conveyed from Tirllanerch to their last resting place in the family vault at the Corwen Churchyard. The funeral cortege started at 12 30 in the following order :— 0 First Coach. Rev. W. Richardson, M.A Corwen. Rev. 1). Evans, L'ansaintffraid. Dr WalkerXorwen. Jones, Esq., Oswestry. O Bearers. « Bearers. CI) » Second Coach. Dr Eyton Jones, Wrexham. E. Samuelson, Esq., Liverpool. Wm. Geddes, Esq., Liverpool. Wm. Geddes. jan., Esq., Liverpool. Third Coach. O. D. Hughes, Esq., Corwen. Walter B. C. Jones, Esq., Corwen. Win. Jones, Esq., Penybont. James Moltby, Esq., Corwen. Fourth Coach. Mr Lloyd, Pentre-brewyn Mr Hugh Jones, Penybont, Llan. aaintffraid; Mr Godfrey Parry, Llansaiutffraid. Fifth Coach. Mr Ellis Jones, Tirllanerch Mr R. Roberts, Vron-dderwen Mr R. Evans, Nantmadwen. Sixth Coach. Mr Jones, London House, the undertaker. The cortege arrived at Corwen shortly after one p.m. Great respect was shown to the deceased by the inhabit- ants of Corwen, all the shops and places of business being closed for the greater part of the day. We should not omit to observe the neat order of the funeral procession, whose management was entrusted to Mr Jones, the under- taker. The Revs. W. Richardson and D. Evans offi- ciated. COUNTY COURT, TUESDAY.—Before A. J. Johnes, Esq., Judge. There were fifty-two new summonses for this court, most of which was disposed of before the Registrar, Mr James, before the arrival of the Judge. Claim for Ale, -Mr J. Price Jones, brewer, Mold, late partner in the firm of Jones and Brooks, sued Mr Robert Morris, innkeeper, Cynwyd, for two half barrels of ale. Mr O. Davies Hughes, for defendant, denied ever having two half barrels of ale. Plaintiff said: Morris had a barrel of ale which has never been paid for.—Mr Hughes You sue for two half barrels. Plaintiff: Well, two half barrels make a barrel. (Laughter.) A witness was called to prove that Morris gave the order and that the ale was delivered.—Defendant, sworn, said he had paid for all he had from Jones and Brooks. The case occupied considerable time and it was probable that the defendant was somewhat led astray by the summons being (in error) for two half barrels of ale instead of for one barrel. His Honour gave judgment for plaintiff. Jury Case. -Mr John Whittington Roberts, Dolgelley, sued Mr Robert White, Rhydyglaves, Corwen, for work done in plans and measurements of land wanted to pro- duce in evidence in a case which was set down for trial at the last Merionethshire Assizes. Mr Passingham, of Bala, appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Adams, of Ruthin, for defendant. The following gentlemen were sworn as jury- men:- Mr David Roberts, Tynycefn, foreman; Mr Edward Jones, AfonrO; Mr John Edwards, Penybont, Druid; Mr Edward Henry Phillips, Glyndyfrdwy; Mr Thomas Evans, Llygadog. The claim was for nine days' work and sundry expenses, for which a bill of 219 16s. 4d. was sent in. From this there were certain reductions in the way of payments which reduced the claim to kil, the amount sued for. In reply to the Judge, Mr Adams said his defenoe was that the claim was excessive, and that the £8 16s. 4d. already paid was more than the work was worth. Mr Baseingham explained the facts of the case to the jury, and called plaintiff to prove the time the work took him. The job he said, was very pressing, and he had to work night and day, including the whole of Sunday. He was sure there was not a surveyor in Wales, who would do, the work in less time and produce such maps as he had. In cross-examination plaintiff admitted that all he did in the first half day charged for, was to travel from Dolgelley to Rhydyglaves, and that he left Dolgelley at sixelock in the evening. He had left home at Llanfachreth, at two o'clock, so his time was occupied. Mr Adams further cross-examined plaintiff to show how little work was done on the second day at Rhydyglaves, but his Honour said that the plaintiff's time was occupied, whether uselessly or not, at defendant's pleasure. Plain- tiff said he charged two guineas a day, and that the desk work at home occupied six days, in making the maps. One day charged was for attendance at the assizes. He went because Mr White said to him Well, we shall see you at the assizes." The pleas were withdrawn; so the case was not heard; but he was not advised of the withdrawal. He considered that six days was a reasonable time in which to execute three copies of the map he enlarged. The enlargement took him about a day, and the tracing of the copies the other five.-For the defence Mr John Williams, Llangollen, was called and said had he been engaged he should have charged 23 3s. for the map, and 21 lls. 6d. for each of the tracings. That would have in- cluded the journeys required. He should expect the enlargement would take him from nine o'clock in the morning to six in the .evening, but he would not call that a day and a half's work. It was not usual to charge desk work by the day. The two tracings could easily have been done in a day.—Cross-examined: Two days' work would be plenty of time to do the enlargement and tracings. Six guineas would have been plenty to cover all expenses of journey from Llangollen and the work.—Mr Walter B. C. J ones, Corwen^ valued the work at between £ 6 and £ 7. —Cross-examined He did not include being away three days to get the original tracing he should have supposed one journey to Corwen to see the map would have done. —Mr Passingham replied on the whole case, and his Honour summed up, candidly giving his opinion in favour of defendant. -The jury retired, and returned shortly with a verdict for defendant. POLICE COURT, FRIDAY, 19th inst.—Before Captain Taylor. Vagrancy. -George Trindell, hailing from Kent, and George Clarke, from Sheffield., were charged by P.S. Williams with begging at Gwnodlfawr in the parish of Llangar. — Trindell sentenced to fourteen days, and Clarke to one month's hard labour. Passing a Base Coin. Isaae Hughes, alias Isaac Bodorlas, was brought up in custody and charged with pass- ing a base half crown at the shop of Mr John Evans, ironmonger, of this town. The case was not gone into to- day, and at the request of Sergeant Williams prisoner was remanded. A TOWN AND MARKET HALL.—PUBLIC MEETING. There can scarcely be a more important moveinentforthe weltare of Corwen than the one now on foot, to obtain a useful town and market hall. It is a subject which has occupied public attention for many years, but matters have re- mained in abeyance till the last few weeks, when owing to a resolution passed at the Merionethshire Quarter Sessions to erect a lock-up and magisterial room here, the inhabitants, with the assistance of several others, resolved to hold a public meeting, which came off on Friday week at the County Court room. The follow- ing gentlemen were present :-The Hon. C. H. Wynn, of Tycerrig; Mr Moltby; Dr Walker; Mr Walter B. C. Jones; Mr Jones, Penybont: Mr Roberts, Bryn Brith Mr Parry, Llansaintffraid; Mr E. James; Mr Evans, Llygadog Mr Jones, Caenog Mr Roberts, Tyfos Mr White, The Stamp; Mr Jones, Maerdy; Mr W. E. Williams; Mr J. Watkins, Treddol; Mr Jones, Voel; Mr Roberts, Penycoed; Mr Jones, Maesgwyn; Mr Hugh Jones, postmaster; Mr W. V. Jones; Mr T. W. Lewis Mr Robert Hughes, relieving officer, &c. On the motion of Mr ROBERTS, Bryn Brith, seconded by Mr JONES, Penybont, the Hon. C. H. Wynn was moved to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in a very appropriate speech, referred to the object of the meeting, which was to consider whether or not they should have a market hall at Corwen, a convenience which was so much needed. It was really a disgrace to the town and the inhabitants to see the sheds and huts on the streets where parties exhibited their goods for sale but what would they do ? Corwen had had its gas works, and the new scheme of the water company was now progressing, and why not a market hall ? It was only a question how to get the money, as with every other work. A market hall would cost between £1,000 and £ 1,500. They were not going to ask them to take shares or advance any money to-day, but they had simply met together to feel their pulse, and hear what any of them had to say upon the project, whether they would support it or not. Adjacent towns had their market halls, and people from a great distance attended them, and if there was a market hall at Corwen, such would be the case with them. Perhaps a larger number ought to have been present to-day, but they must not look at the dark side of the question. If he approved of the plans, as no doubt he should, he should be very happy to give the site. (Geeat cheers.) The world was improving, and they at Corwen must not be behind. The railway accommodation now was so great that they would have more people than they imagined to attend their markets. As he said before, it was now the question whether they would raise the amount required, and whether the gentle- men present would support the project.—The hon. gentle- man concluded amidst the cheers of the company. Mr MOLTBY advocated the utility of a town and market hall, and expressed hi3 regret that so few of his fellow- tradesmen were present. It was their duty to consider what was looming in the future. The lease for the County Court room had nearly expired; and very probably unless they supplied room for the court, the business would be allotted to the neighbouring districts, and it behoved them to put their shoulders to the wheel in getting up a market hall at Corwen, as it would be a great benefit to the town and a great accommodation to all parties. Families coming to reside in the neighbour- hood, would, as their first question, ask, What kind of a market have you ?" At present parties had to hawk their merchandise from door to door, which was absurd in a place like Corwen. If they supported the hon. chairman and did their best, and left matters in his hands, he (Mr Moltby was confident that Mr Wynn would assist them. (Cheers.) His (Mr Moltby's) motto at the time when the gas question and market hall were mooted together, was "Get gas first and then light up your market hall." Let them come out like bricks. (Cheers.) Mr ROBERTS, Bryn Brith, thought that a market hall would be quite as beneficial to the farmers as to the townspeople, and when they had a market hall complete, the farmers would, instead of doing as they now did, taking what they had to sell to neighbouring markets, bring it to Corwen, and when that was done, buyers from different towns in England would come and buy their goods.—The speaker was decidedly in favour of the movement. Mr GOODMAN JONES, of Voel, thought that Corwen ought long ago to have followed in the footsteps of other towns of the same size. He advocated a central site if possible. Mr JOHN WATKINS, Treddol, next spoke in Welsh, and expressed his satisfaction on the one hand and his sorrow on the other. His satisfaction was to observe the movement now on foot, and his sorrow, that so few of his fellow-farmers were present. He was of opinion that a market hall was essential. It would be a boon to the county, to the town, and to the labourer. The speaker also advocated economy in the building. Mr WALTER B. C. JONES moved the following resolu- tion :—" That a town and market hall be greeted at Cor- wen, the capital to be 21, 000 in 1,000 shares of £1 each." It would b for them to obtain as many shareholders as they possibly could-and having the shares at 21 each would enable almost every individual to take one. They should get as many as they could of the townspeople to take shares, for then it would be to their interest to send people to the hall to buy and sell their goods. Mr MOLTBY seconded the resolution. The Hon. CHAIRMAN having put it to the meeting, it was carried nem. con., and amidst loud cheers. It was proposed by Mr JONES, Penybont, and seconded by Mr DAVIES, Druid, That a committee of two persons should solicit subscriptions in each district," which was agreed to, and persons were appointed for the several districts in the locality. The Hon. CHAIRMAN observed at the conclusion that he hoped the matter which had been discussed would meet with the unanimous support of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, and it would afford great pleasure to him to see the market hall completed in time for the agricultural show, which was to be held at Corwen next year. The usual compliment having been paid to the hon. chairman for his kindness in presiding, and also in so readily assisting to promote the welfare of Corwen, it was announced that the meeting would be adjourned to Friday, December 3rd, to hear the result of the canvass.

TOWYN. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRYN-EGLWYS QUARRY.—A fatal accident occurred in this quarry about four o'clock in the evening of Friday, the 19th inst., to a man named John Davies, from Bryncrug, who was engaged in pulling down a part of the rock when a huge fragment fell upon him. He only spoke a few words, and before the stone could be removed life was extinct. The deceased has left a wife and six children to lament the loss of a tender husband and a good father.

PENRHYNDEUDRAETH. PETTY SESSIONS, Nov. 25th. Before Samuel Holland, Esq., J. E. Parry, Esq., and Hugh Pugh, Esq., of Pwllheli. An Ejectment Case. -William Penny v. Joseph Griffiths, both of Festiniog.—Defendant said he had no objection to give the house up to complainant, except that he could not get another. He had not received notice. -Plaintiff said he had only allowed defendant to go to his house for two months, so that he might look out for one. He was to pay 15s. per month for it, and leave without notice. Cross-examined by defendant: Your wife paid me 45s. once. I asked your uncle whether the agreement was that I was to let it him until Christmas, and he said it was not. I did not let it to you for P,4 10s. until the 13th November. I offered you another house. I had let the house occupied by defendant.—Defendant said the com- plainant had told him he might remain in the house until Christmas, but at an increased rent.—The defendant was ordered to quit the house by the 21st of next month, and to pay the rent at the rate of 21 per month. Drunk and Riotous. -P.C. Cadwaladr Jones ?,. Edward Jones, Penybont, Llanfair. The officer proved that the defendant was drunk and riotous at Harlech on the 10th inst. Defendant did not appear, and a warrant was ordered.—The same officer v. William Griffith, of Tal- sarnau, charging him with the same offence at Harlech on the 10th inst. It was stated that he had been fined at this Court before. His wife appeared. Fined 5s., and 9s. costs, with a caution that he should not appear before them again. Stealing Wood.—Mr Wm. Chalton v. Jane Richards, Jane Hughes, and Jane Jones.—The defendants were charged with having stolen wood, on the 9th inst., belong- ing to the ship Castilian, which Mr Chalton had bought. He had often warned these defendants and others, and his object was to stop these depredations. There was some of the timber coming from the ship now with copper nails in them, some of which had been stolen.—The case w-is ad- journed, the defendants being ordered to appear this day fortnight to receive judgment. Dog Cases.—Mr Thomas Rendale v. John Owen, of Gellidywydd, Maentwrog. Defendant kept two dogs, one of which he maintained was too young when he took out the first licence, and he thought it was not necessary to take out another licence until the same time the following year. Mr'Rendle said it was a common practice to keep two dogs with only one licence. Fined 25s., including costs.—Mr Rendle v. Gwen Edwards, of Sychnant, Maentwrog. Mr Matheson, excise officer, said Mrs Edwards had two dogs, the licence for one of which she had taken out after being cautioned; but she only took a licence for the second after being warned a second time on October 4th. Fined 25s., including costs. Common Assault. -Mar.-aret Owen v. Anne Ellis and Ellis Ellis, of Plasmeini, Festinio-Complainant said: On the 18th inst., I was standing at the door, and was giving food to the hens at the door Ann Ellis was passing for water at the time. I asked her to tread a little aside and not on the food. The defendants fell upon me and abused me most shamefully.—Margaret Jones, servant of com- plainant said: I'did not see the beginning. On my mistress calling me I went out, and saw Jane Ellis and Ellis Ellis (her boy) dragging mistress, they had dragged her about five yards in the direction of defendants' house; the dress of my mistress was much torn, and there was blood flow- ing from her face.—Defendant allowed that she had trodden on the food of the complainant's hens, but it was complainant who had come out and ordered her to walk on the road and not on the parapet, and on her refusing to do so, complainant rushed at her hair and a regular fight ensued. —The Bench said it appeared they had often been quarrelling, and warned them to beware to conduct them- selves properly for the future.—Both parties were bound over to keep the peace to one another. FESTINIOG UNION, TUESDAY, November 23rd.— Present: Samuel Holland, Esq. (chairman); Messrs W. E. Morris (vice-chairman) and John Hy. Williams (Ynyscynhaiarn), William Evans and Humphrey Richards .(Beddgelert), Richard Roberts (Treflys), Wm. Hughes (Penmorfa), Edmund Edmunds and David Williams (Llanfihangel-y-Traethau), Ellis Pugh (Llan- danwg), John Owen (Llanfair), Morgan Jones (Llan- frothen), Evan Evans (Maentwrog), Hugh Jones (Trawsfynydd), Robert Jones (Llandecwyn), and Wm. Williams, Esq., and John Vaughan, Esq. (Festiniog). Parishes in Arrears. -The following parishes were de- clared to be in arrears, namely:- Dolbenmaen, C26 6s. 8d.; Penmorfa, £75 6s. 8d.; Treflys, B10 6s. 8d.; Fes- tiniog, 2606 13s. 4d.; Llanbedr, £28 6s. 8d.; Llanfair, £ 50 13s. 4d.; total, £797 13s. 4d. Balance in treasurer's hands, 2783 19s. lOd. Out-door Bel,ief.-The following sums were paid in out- door relief during the past fortnight:— By Mr E. Evans, Tremadoc District, JE91 12s. 4d.; Mr Robert Jones. Fes- tiniog District, £ 13818s.; Mr Rees Roberts, Llanfihangel District, t74 2s. 7d.; total, 2304 12s. lid. Cheques for the out-door relief during the current fortnight were signed as follows:—Tremadoc District, £ 97; Festiniog District, £ 145 Llanfihangel District, 975; total, 2317. Master's Rpm.t,-The master of the workhouse re- ported that the number of inmates in the house for the last day of last week was 44, as against 40 in the corre- sponding week of last year; vagrants relieved during the fortnight, 5, as against 11 in the previous fortnight imbe- ciles in the house, 4. Inspectors of Nuisance.-Only one parish responded to the invitation of the Board at the previous meeting to elect inspectors of nuisance, that parish being Llinbedr. At the previous Board it was stated that the term for which Mr Pring, who had been elected as an extra in- spector of nuisance for the village of Festiniog during the prevalence of the typhoid fever, had expired, and a dis- cussion took place as to whether the sanitary condition of the village required his further services, resulting in a re- commendation being made to the parishioners of Festiniog, as the most interested parties, to hold a vestry upon the subject.—At the Board this day it transpired that the vestry had not been held, the parishioners maintaining it was more the business of the Board of Guardians, and they further protested that Mr Pring's salary, said to amount to B6, should not be thrown on the funds of the parish.—Mr Hugh Jones, of Trawsfynydd, insisted that Mr Robert Evans, the permanent inspector of nuisances, who was the collector of poor-rates, of the assessed and income taxes, should pay for any assistance he might have required out of the 220 per annum allowed him as in- spector. The man had too many irons in the fire, and if he found he could not discharge the duties of all these offices property, it was his duty to resign that of inspector of nuisances, so that a man might be appointed who would discharge the duties of that office satisfactorily. He main- tained it was the parish or the inspector that ought to pay Mr Pring.—Mr Edmunds said it was the parish that should have to pay.—Mr Vaughan asserted that Mr Robert Evans had discharged the duties of the inspector- ship of nuisance very well, and that they should never get a better.—Mr Holland stated that the disease had now almost disappeared at the village of Festiniog.—The subject then dropped. The Sunday Closing of Public-lwuses. The Chairman said that letters had been received, from Wrexham and Manchester on this subject, requesting the Board to petition Parliament in favour of a Bill, to be brought in next session, to close the public-houses on Sundays. He asked the opinion of the Board upon the subject.—Mr Edmunds said all the public-houses at Talsarnau were closed on Sunday, and the Chairman further observed that the greater number of publicans at Blaenau Festiniog also closed their houses on Sundays.—The Board was generally in favour of petitioning, and the clerk was in- structed to prepare a petition to that effect by next Board, so that it might be signed by the guardians. The Board then proceeded to consider the applications for relief.

About the World. A writer in a French journal predicts a hard winter. He has noticed that peculiarly cold winters recur with almost unvarying regularity every ten years. The year 1789 was very cold; so were 1799, 1809, 1819, 1829, and 1840 (one year out). The winter of 1859 is also remem- bered for its severity. Yet another distinguished Catholic ecclesiastic declaring against the dogma of Papal infalYhility- The Paris papers publish a letter, addressed by Monseigneur Dupanloup to the clergy of the diocese of Orleans, in which he declares himself adverse to a definition of the personal infallibi- lity of the "Pope as inopportune. Monseigneur Dupanloup, moreover, blames the intemperate language of such journals as the Civilta Cattelica and the Univers which have opened the dis- cussion upon this delicate question, and have prejudged the decisions of the (Ecumenical Council. His lordship says that a declaration of personal infallibility would be inopportune at the present time, because it would be useless and dangerous; would drive schismatics and heretics still further from the Church, their restoration to which ought not to be despaired of; would provoke the mistrust even of Catholic Governments, and would revive the hatred of the Pontifical Power. Mon seigneur Dupan- loup mentions only to blame those Popes who confounded the spiritual with the temporal, and arrogated to themselves claims to dominate over thrones, referring particularly to the Bull of Paul III., which released the subjects of Henry VIII. from their oath of allegiance. This Bull Monseigneur Dupanloup considers to have been calculated rather to precipitate the English nation into heresy than to have brought it back to the Church, and to have been for all Christendom a great misfortune. The Bishop of Marseilles has followed the lead of the Bishop of Orleans in expressing an opinion, in a pastoral to the clergy of his diocese, that the proposal to be sub- mitted to the (Ecumenical Council to declare the Pope to be infallible is inopportune." The deep-seated hatred of liberty, or rather of the popular cause, whieh is the ruling passion of the Conser- vative Press, as represented by the Standard, comes out in a recent reference to the manifesto of the French Par- liamentary Left. That manifesto has been received with- out disapproval even by the semi-official press, and with praise by the moderate papers of Paris, but our own English Standard says— So the programme of the Left is simply this:—To make as much noise as possible when the Legislative Body meets; to bring the Government as far as possible into hatred and con- tempt to refuse it all aid in the difficult task of introducing liberty without revolution, but, on the contrary, to combat it in every possible way to take no instalments, but to insist upon immediate concessions which it is quite impossible any Govern- ment can make. This programme may be, in one sense, a suc- cessful one, M. Jules Favre, M. Jules Simon, and theircolleagues, may promote their own political interests by refusing to co operate with the Government, or with the Liberal majority of the Corps Legislatif, but they will certainly, if, when the Cham- ber meets, they act in the spirit sketched out in this manifesto, be the most dangerous enemies of liberty to France, and prove themselves, what careful observers have long been disposed to believe them-either honest men, utterly wanting in practical political ability, or clever politicians, looking only to the ad- vancement of their own ends, the gratification of their passions, and regardless altogether of the far greater and properly para- mount interests of their country. The Daily News has a story of the Kir.g of Italy which shows that his heroism did not desert him in what it was feared might be a mortal illness. The incident will endear him to his people. Apprehending that his end was near, he sent to the Archbishop of Pisa to request the attendance of a priest. A priest returned with in-tructions to demand of the king, before absolution, an abjuration cf ;he offences which he had committed against'the Church. The king, however, was equal to the occasion. As a Christian," he replied, "I have lived in the faith of my fore- fathers, and am prepared to die in the same: as a king, itnitatin- the example of my forefathers, I have done what my conscience as a sovereign commanded me to do for my country." The priest, we are told, confused by his reply, administered the Sacrament, and was reproved by the archbishop for so doing, and sent back once more to insist upon the king's abjuration of his offences against the Church." Then the king told him, If you come hero to speak to a Christian of his approaching end, I will listen to you with calmness and with gratitude; but if you require to speak about politics, my Ministers are in the next room." Professor Seeley painted the character of Napoleon in a lecture at Birmingham last week- He had a barbarian rudeness and barrenness of mind; he shrank from no crime, and there were no flashes of honourable feeling or tenderness in him. Perhaps he never forgave a foe. He was a barbarian complete-a wild crab of humanity, without the graft of civilization a stranger to Christianity, to gentle- manly feeling, to philosophy, and even to the rudimentary virtue of patriotism. However, men naturally admired valour, energy, and success; children, barbarians, and in all countries the uncultivated clusses, admired nothing else. Nay, the bar- barian was in all of us. In his own times people admired Napoleon, because it was a delight to feel the wild blood of the sivage bonnding in the veins, it was a holiday from civiliza- tion, a happy momentary escape from the monotony of virtue. Let them, then, if they would, admire the splendid human savage in Napoleon. They could not, in fact, regard him, anv more than they could regard a tiger, without admiration of such fearful energy and elasticity, such picturesque fury and cruelty but let them not make a mistake of classification, and number him amongst great men. The New York Times says-It was one of the peculiari- ties of Mr Peabody that he never would have a house of his own. He cared little for himself in all things it was his habit, for instance, to dine off a mutton chop at the grand dinners he used to give, where every luxury was spread upon the table. He had a room in the house of his old friend, Sir Curtis M. Lampson, in Eaton-square, and it was there that he died. He used to live there in the most quiet and retired manner, and his name did not appear in any directory or Court Guide. He has suffered much during the last four years, and could very seldom be induced to call in a doctor; when he did, he neither obeyed the doctor's orders nor took his medicine. As one of his physicians complained a short time ago, Mr Peabody was a "most unsatisfactory" patient. He hated to be asked after his health, or to have any fuss made over him. An "English Traveler," writing in the Daily News, gives us a dark picture of public life in America. The State Legislatures appear from his story to be full of men who, when they are not utterly corrupt, subordinate jus- tice to party motives. "In the late Legislature of Albany," he says, "it was generally considered that there were sixty Democrats and thirty Republicans who were notoriously corrupt, and whose votes might be se- cured for any job, provided they were allowed to share in its spoils. Attached to every legislative body there are regular agents of corruption-they are called lobbiers." Even in Congress it seems to be too true that corruption prevails, and in the Executive as well as the Legislature; and not only there but in the Judiciary too. I do not believe that in the Senate of the United States votes are bought and sold, but in the House of Representatives there is no doubt that such is the case. Almost every manufacturing interest that is protected by the tariff has disbursed large sums at Washington, and where has the money gone, if not into the pockets of legislators ? This corruption pervades the Executive as well as the Legislature. Several Cabinet Ministers have within the last ten years retired from office, which they ent 'red as poor men, with large fortunes. The reeent revelations re- specting the gold speculations in Wall-street have shown that, although General Grant is pure himself, many of his friends, re- lations, and political adherents have enriched themselves at the cost of 'the public. With respect to the judiciary, no member of the Supremo Court—although some of them have allowed them- selves to be biassed by their political feelings—has ever been suspected of being influenced in his decisions by pecuniary in- ducements. The same may be said, with some slight reserva- tion, of t'je judges in every State, except that of New York, the venality and corruption of whoso judges is a disgrace to the name of justice. The Chief Justice in New York is the notorious Judge Barnard. He is a man of large wealth, and it is not be- lieved that he himself receives money for his decisions. But most of his friends and associates are disreputable persons. He is the tutelary divinity of jobbers and scoundrels. Last year he was elected to a second term of office. This was not done, as might be supposed, by the votes of thieves and knaves alone, but he was the official candidate of the Democratic party. He had naturalised many thousand emigrants, and thus enabled them to vote for the Democracy before they wera legally en- titled to the franchise. He has thus shown himself to be a good party man, and his party remained true to hira. And then we have a sketch of municipal corruption, with the comment that "native-born Americans of New York are ruled over and pillaged by a gang of adventurers, who C, merit a prison rather than civic honours." The New York Tribune says—Two English sailors who were sojourning at the Seamen's Home, in Cleveland, for several days, talking and associating with each other, have, accidentally, discovered that they are brothers. For eighteen years they have been wanderers, and the merest accident bringing them together, and having changed greatly, the discovery of their relationship was itself accidental. The American papers contain many stories of Mr Pea- body. The Boston Transcript says-Mr Peabody was strongly opposed to fraud in little matters. The conduc- tor on an English railway once overcharged him a shilling for fare. He made complaint to the directors, and bad the man discharged. Not," said he, "that I could not afford to pay the shilling, but the man was cheating many travelers to whom the swindle would be oppressive." Mr Peabody visited, incognito, the houses erected by his munificence for the poor of London, to see if those in charge of the charity properly attended to their duties. He asked the wife of the superintendent the name of her child, and was answered, "George Peabody." This prompted a present to the infant, which the mother quickly interpreted, and announced to her neighbours the presence of their distinguished benefactor, who gladly took refuge in a cab to be rid of their benedictions. The Pall Mall Gazette says-University men, especially clerics, who object to the tuition of women at Edinburgh and their examination at London and Cambridge, ought to be comforted by the consequent elucidation of a hitherto obscure prediction which clearly refers to the author of "A System of Logic," and the higher education of women. The predicted time has evidently come when two women shall be grinding at a Mill. In the happy future both mother and daughter will spend their days and nights in- li poring over his inevitable text book prescribed for uni- versity honours. The Daily News warns the Government that there must be no repetition next session of the treatment the Uni- versity Tests Bill received last year. The Bill must be a Government Bill, and it must abolish all theological tests as a condition of honour, office, or emolument in the col- leges and universities of Oxford and Cambridge, professor- ships of divinity and clerical fellowships alone excepted. Mr Forster doubts whether the Government will have time to take up the subject. The News ventures to say that the waste of time will be incurred by their leaving it alone. If a Liberal Government, so far as regards legis- lation, is simply the organisation of the Liberal party for giving effect to Liberal principles, there is no subject which it is more strictly bound to take up than this. The application of Liberal principles to the matter is not open to doubt; and the Liberal party has made up its mind, and is unanimous on the subject. The University Tests Bill will, in one sense, be a Government Test Bill and very unfortunate consequences may follow from an imi- tation of the unfortunate precedent of last session. The grossly defective state of the Manx criminal code has just led to a disgraceful miscarriage of justice. The woman who was accused of having tried to murder her husband, by slowly poisoning him, at Port Erin, was put on trial on Thursday; but, although the evidence against her was almost overwhelming, the prosecution had to be withdrawn, as there is no provision under the Manx criminal code for the punishment of a person charged with attempting to murder by poison. I Mr Mark Twain responded to the toast of The Ladies at the Newpaper Correspondents' Club dinner recently held at Washington. He said- Mean intelligences cannot estimate what we owe to weman She sews on our buttons, mends our clothes, she ropes us in at church-fares, she confides in us, she tells us whatever she can find out about the little private affairs of the neighbours. (Laughter.) She gives us advice and plenty of it, she gives a piece of her mind sometimes, and sometimes all of it. (Laugh- ter.) Wherever you place woman she is an ornament to that place which she occupies, and a treasure to the world. [Here the speaker paused, looking round upon his auditors inquiringly-] The applause ought to come in at this point. (Great laughter.) Look at Cleopatra, look at Desdemona, look at Florence Night- ingale, look at Lucretia Borgia. (Voices, "No, no.") [The speaker paused as if in doubt.] Well, suppose you let Lucretia slide. (Laughter.) I repeat, look at the illustrious WidoW Macree, look at Lucy Stone, look at Elizabeth Stanton, look at Francis George Francis Train—(great laughter)-and, I say it: with a bowed head and deepest veneration, look at the mother Of Washington—she "dragged up" a boy that could not lie. Could notliel It might have been different if he had belonged to 8 newspaper correspondents' club. (Groins, hisses, cries of Put him out," and laughter.) I repeat that in whatever posi- tion you place a woman she is an ornament to society and treasure to the world. As a sweetheart she has few equals and no superiors. (Laughter.) As a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is un- speakably precious. What would the people of the earth be- without woman ? They would bo scarce, perfecly scarce. (Renewed laughter.) Then let us cherish her, let us protect hero let us give her our support, our encouragement, our sympathy, ourselves if we get a chance. (Laughter.) But, jesting aside, Mr President, woman is lovable, kind of heart, gracious, beauti- ful, worlhy of all respect, of all deference. Not any here will refuse to drink her health right cordially In this goblet of winer for each and every one of us has known, loved, and honoured the best of them all, his own mother. (Great applause.) The Economist gives the following, as an outline of the Irish Land measure which the Government intends to bring in next Session It is said currently, and we apprehend truly, that the Govern ment Bill on Irish land will contain something more than a com- pensation for tenants' improvements, and enabling clauses to facilitate the purchase of freeholds by tenants who have saved money. The former of those provisions will certainly be in the Bill, and the latter probably. But besides these there will be something else less easy to describe, and perhaps as yet less perfectly thought out. In extreme cases," it is said, the power of the landlord is to be limited. He is to be prevented from making a grossly unfair use of his legal right; a local tribunal' is to sit frequently in every part of Ireland, which shall have power to redress tenants' wrongs, to prevent any capricious evic- tion, and to arrest any excessive or tyrannical rise in the rent. We do not profess to be able to describe with accuracy what the Government mean to propose next February. Indeed we do not believe thntlthe Government yet know fully and exactly what they intend to propose. A great deal of information is yet to be col- lected which must suggest much and modify much. But the general notion is said to have been agreed on by the Cabineti and to be such as we have described it. The Spectator has the following on the same subject— The latest and most credible report as to the nature of tha forthcoming Tenure Bill is that it will establish two principles- one, that a tenant has a right to full compensation for improve- ments; and the other, that no landlord can evict without the intervention of a tribunal. i On receiving notice, the tenant, unless contented, will appeal to a Land Court, which will arbi- trate in the matter as if it were itself the good landlord, giving compensation where it is due, or a lease where it is deserved, and, in fact, preventing entirely what are called extreme cases." The fear of landlords' caprice will thus be lifted off Ireland, while the law will appear, what it has never yet been, the pro- tector of the tenant. It is not the least of the advantages of snch a proposal that it will not interfere with property, and that as long as a landlord and his tenantry get along comfortably together, neither will he affected by the new law.

General. The earnings of the French Atlantic Cable during the first thirteen weeks of its existence were £ 21,000. There is now no doubt Government will propose a half- penny stamp for printed matter. One day last week an inquest was held on six persons who had died at St. Pancras Workhouse. The state of the house was described as perfectly disgraceful. Mr Dalway, M.P., has been suspended for a year by the Grand Orange Lodge of county Antrim, for having supported Sir Shafto Adair, the Liberal candidate at the late election. The Earl of Zetland is about to resign his office Grand Master of Freemasons, and at the next meeting °| the Grand Lodge it is expected that Earl de Grey ana Ilipon will be elected in his place. The Morning Post is informed that Mr Nathan, Englishman whose imprisonment in Italy was made the subject of a question in the House of Commons towards the close of last session, has been released. The Alabama and the Tennessee Legislatures have given their decision upon the proposed amendment of the federal constitution by extending the suffrage to negroes, the former having ratified and the latter rejected the propo. sition. The Times has good authority for contradicting the as' sertion of the Madrid Ministerial journals, that" the Duke of Genoa, if elected, will accept the Spanish Crown." The young Prince has, on the contrary, e- pressed his firm determination "not to accept the CroWll of Spain, either now or at any time." # Messrs Flint and Fitzgerald, the witnesses committed by the Beverley Election Commissioners for contempt ot Court, having sent in their submissions and expressed their readiness to be sworn and examined, the Commis" sioners have ordered their discharge from York Castle, where they were confined. The Morning Advertiser says the Attorney-General haS' caused informations to be filed and notices served on Mr Vanderbyl, ex M.P. and Dr Kinglake, brother of A. W. Kinglake, to the effect that he intends prosecuting them at the ensuing assizes for bribery and corrupt prac- tices during the last Bridgewater election. The body of a woman recently found drowned at Sheffield was identified by some persons as that'of f" relative. They discovered their mistake, and then woman named Berresford identified it as that of he' sister. The body was buried, but it now turns out th»c Berresford's sister is still alive. A case in which Mr Goschen and Sir Morton Peto were- the defendants, was disposed of last week, before Vice' Chancellor Stuart. The plaintiffs, Messrs Fielden Mount, sought to recover £ 30,000, representing thetf interest in two equal third parts in a Russian Railwaf concession, and which interest, it was alleged, had beeH- surrendered for a stipulated price to the defendants. Tbe case was dismissed, with costs against the plaintiffs. The Dundee Advertiser says that about 215,000 wortD of gold has been extracted from a limited area in t" Sutherland glen by a few gold diggers operating on a- small scale, and in the face of obstacles of the most dis- couraging kind. We are assured that in thenotherl1 county just mentioned, gold-finding is so remunerative to yield, after an excessive taxation, wages per man o1 5s. to 20s. per day. A correspondent of the Daily News gives an account °l a state election in New York. His conclusions are con- tained in the following sentence:—"What I have seeo has confirmed me in my conviction that the ballot is absolute security against bribery and intimidation* a°J that our elections will never be conducted with order »n.| quiet until we largely increase the number of our P°.\ booths, erect them at the public cost, and allow no Pal agents of candidates to have access to them." At a recent meeting of the Court of Common Council a report was read, signed by Mr Harrison and Mr Clar e two of the engineers appointed to inquire into the coH^ dition of the Holborn Viaduct. They stated that, havi^ made a careful examination of the defective pillars, thej were assured that there was not the slightest danger of tile safety and security of the bridge being impaired. They were still engaged in endeavouring to ascertain the cause of the injury the columns had received. An extraordinary sight was presented at LaytoWO' Bettystown, and along the coast as farasDrogheda bar to other morning. The strand, for the distance of betwee two and three miles, was literally covered with herringsj which were washed ashore by the tide. The farmers o the district lost no time in taking their carts to the sh^r » where tons of the fish were secured during the day. peasantry filled sacks and baskets with the treasure. 11 The so-called "English Amnesty Committee" late r sent to the Premier a copy of a memorial to the Queen fOo the release of the Fenian prisoners, and requested him receive a deputation on the subject. Mr Gladston declines to comply with this request, for, though acknowledges that it is the duty of the Government to S1. careful attention to the subject, he does not regard it suitable for discussion between himself and a deputati"^ The "Amnesty Committse" has dissolved itself, indisg118 at Mr Gladstone's reply. < A At an electoral meeting in Paris, one of the speakers a letter written by a candidate whose name he sa. Jur would mention afterwards. The letter proved to be bi?^ eulogistic of Republican Government, and was receiv^ with very loud cheers. At this point the Commissary 0 Police interfered, and declared the meeting dissolved. speaker thereupon announced the writer of the letter Louis Napoleon, the present Emperor of the Fren<^ Much disorder followed, and the meeting broke up ^V1 shouts of "Vive la Republique There was a most exciting scene at the s- street Station of the Metropolitan Railway, on day week. Owing to the dense'fog a young who, with her mother, was a passenger by the smith train, opened the carriage door, while the train in one of the numerous tunnels, and got out, just bel the train reached the station. The officials inst»n^ blocked the lines, stopping all trains, and the ?° woman was found in the tunnel alive and uninjured, -j prodigiously frightened. The mother was in a fea state until her daughter was found. of The eccentric lady who styles herself the CounterSOL, Derwent water has again made herself conspicuous. t" the 17th a gentleman attended at Haydon Bridge sS receive the Greenwich Hospital retits. The Counte oø richly dressed, and wearing a-sword, entered the with half a dozen of her retainers, and formally f°r the receiver to take the moneys. Ordered to leavf ftIl room, the Countess attempted to draw her svvordi^ old-fashioned rapier, but this was seized and broken. ere- tenants dealt with the "retainers," and very ■3! momously bundled them out of the mn. It was not after the arrival of a force of police from Hexham quiet was restored. The friends of Permissive Prohibitory Bills de- note of what has happened in Massachusetts. recent election, there was, alongside the fight between de- Republicans and Democrats for the governorships a 0111, perate struggle between the licence men and the P bitionists for the control of the Legislature. In. aiid Legislature the prohibitionists had a large majority* passed a prohibitory law, from which, however, exempted cider, the farmer's drink, par excellence of law was not imposed in a single town—that is,# "t I the places m which drunkenness and its resulting^j M are most rife so that the town population was a' drink its favourite liquors, and the farmers we £ e-r to drink theirs; but the prohibitionists rubbed the over the Act with as much glee as if the milleni.. Ji3' at last come. The public, however, was thoroU, gusted, and 175 licence men have now been the Legislature to 75 prohibitionists, and the pr law will be repealed this winter,