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r UNIQUE WAR MEDAL.
r UNIQUE WAR MEDAL. By command of Lord Roberts, a special Trans- vaal medal has been prepared by the Mint for the medal section of the Naval and Military Exhibi- tion at the Crystal Palace which is unique in this respect, that it cannot possibly be won by any soldier. It is, in fact, an epitome of the war from the commencement up to the present moment, as the medal is surmounted by the twenty-four bars which mark the various incidents of the war from Belfast to Cape Colony. The series of bars are as follows: Belfast, Witterergen, Diamond Hill, Laing's Nek, Johannesburg, Transvaal, Defence of Mafeking, Wepener, Dreifontein, Relief of Ladysmith, Orange River, Paardeberg, Relief of Kimberley, Tugela Heights, Modder River, Belmont, Defence of Ladysmith, Eland's Laagte, Talana, Defence of Kimberley, Relief of Mafe- king, Rhodesia, Natal, and Cape Colony. The medal, although only specially prepared for the purposes of the Naval and Military Exhibition, is finished in the same style as the medal prepared by the Mint for personal decoration. It will be on view till the close of the Exhibition. I
FREE CHURCHES._I
FREE CHURCHES. _I Preachers for next Sunday in the various Free Church places of worship:— Congregational, Queen-street: 10.45 and 6.30, Rev. D. Wynne Evans. Congregational, Upper Northgate-street: 10.46, and 6.30, Rev. F. Barnes, B.A. Congregational Welsh Chapel, Albion Park 10.45-and 6.0, Rev. Ivor Jones. Congregational, Great Boughton: 10.45 and 6.30, Supply. Congregational, Handbridge 10.45 and 6.30, Rev. W. Jones. English Presbyterian, City-road: 10.30 and 6.30, Rev. D. Treborth Jones. Presbyterian Church ot England, Newgate-street: 11.0 and 6.30, Rev. J. Cairns Mitchell, B.D., F.E.A.S. Baptist, Grosvenor Park: 10.45 and 6.30, Supply. Baptist, Milton-street: 10.45 and 6.30, Supply. Baptist Mission Hall, Hoole: 10.45 and 6.30. Welsh Baptist, Peuri Memorial: 10.30 and 6.0, Rev. J. Nicholas. u Baptist, Hamilton-place IU.4& ana o.ou. Wesleyan Methodist, St. John-street 10.30, Rev. A. W. Ward, B.A.; 6.30, Rev. J. Jones. Wesleyan Methodist, City-road: 10.30, Rev. J. B. Jones 6.30, Rev. A. W. Ward, B.A. Wesleyan Methodist, Garden-lane 11.0, Mr. Bullen; 6.30, Mr. Sherratt. Welsh Wesleyan, Queen-Btreet: 10.30 and 6.0, Rev. Wesley Hughes. Welsh Calvinistio Methodist, St. John-street: 10.30 and 6.0, Rev. J. E. Davies, Holywell. Primitive Methodist, George-street: 10.45 and 6.30, Rev. J. Travis. Primitive Methodist, Hunter-street: 10.45 and 6.30, Mr. Forster, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Primitive Methodist, Boughton: 10.45 and 6.30, Rev. G. Rennison. Primitive Methodist, Saltney 10.45 and 6.30, Mr. W; B. Tunley. Methodist New Connexion, Pepper-street: 10.45 and 6.30, Rev. W. Bennett. Church of Christ, Northgate-street: 10.45 and 6.30, Pastor M. A. Collins. Church of Christ, Saltney: 10.45 and 6.30, Pastor Dobson. Unitarian, Matthew Henry's: 11.0 and 6.30, Rev. H. E. Haycock. Unsectarian Mission Church, Hoole: 6.30. Boatman's Mission Hall, Victoria-place: 6.30, Society of Friends, Frodsham-street: 11.0. Waverton Presbyterian 10.45 and 6.30, Rev. D. Manuel, M.A.
I TIDE TABLE.
I TIDE TABLE. I HIGH WATER AT CHESTER. atoam OT. EVIir. JULY. H. if. FT. IN. H. at, 20 Saturday 2 41 18 5 2 551 21 Sunday .——— 3 19 17 2 3 33 22 Monday 3 54 15 8 4 14 23 Tuesday 4 36 14 1 5 1 24 Wednesday 5 27 12 8 5 53 25 Thursday. 6 33 11 8 7 11 25 Thursday 7 50 11 0 8 23 20 Friday i 7 50 11 0 8 28
IWEEKLY STATE OF THE CHESTER…
WEEKLY STATE OF THE CHESTER INFIBMABY ENnEn SATURDAY LAST. IN-PATIENTS. In-patients are admitted on Tuesday mornings at Eleven o'clock. Ot-PATOCBTS DISCHARGED. ) Eff.PATIENTS. Cured 10 Admitted 23 Believed 4 t Remain in the House HO Made Out-Patients 0 J Believed :1i l UnreLieved. 1 j Dead 1 House ViRitors-Mr. Fonlkes and Mrs. Downes. OUT-PATIENTS. Medical cases are seen on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday mornings at Eleven o'clock. Surgical cases are seen on Thursday mornings at Eleven o'clock Ophthalmio oases are seen on Friday mornings at Elever o'clock. Dental cases are seen on Tuesday and Saturday morning at Ten o'clock. Out-Patienta admitted ninoe Saturday last 89 III —.—.
MARKETS.I
MARKETS. I WREXHAM CATTLE, MONDAY.—At this market to-day there was a fine supply of stock, most of the farmers having finished the hay harvest. Beef and lamb sold readily, but veal was rather quiet. Quotations:—Beef, 6d. to 6fd. per lb.; mutton, 6d. to nd.; veal, 6d. to 7d.; and lamb, 7d. to 8Jd. Pigs were still absent. LIVERPOOL CATTLE, MONDAY.—There were a, f J\V more cattle in market to-day. Demand slow, and prices in favour of buyers. Sheep and lambs less. Trade quiet, nice quality lambs easier sold; other classes worse, especially so for rough sheep. Quotations :-Beef, 6. to 5d. mutton, nd. to 5d.; lambs, 8d. to 7d. per lb. LONDON CATTLE, MONDAY.—Moderate supply in beast market, consignments from Norfolk being shorter, while grass-fed cattle from midland coun- ties were rather stronger. The latter being in steady request were a shade firmer, though not quotably dearer. Second quality shorthorns easier in price. Fat butchering cows were sold freely at a slight advance in value. Fat bulls firm. Sheep trade very slow, with slight downward tendency in value for wethers, and fully 2d. per 81b. lower for ewes. Best small lambs sold readily at late rates, but half meaty sores were difficult to cash at less money. Prices :—Beasts, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 8d.; sheep, 3s. to 5s. 6d.; lamb, 5s. 4d. to 6s. 4d. per 81b. MANCHESTER HAY AND STRAW, MONDAY.— Hay, (old) Sid. to 61d. clover, (old) 7d. to 8id. ditto (new) 6d. to 61d.; straw, wheat, 4d. to 4d.; ditto oat, 4 £ cf. to 4fd. per stone of 141b. BRADFORD WOOL, MONDAY.- Users bore to-day appear to be convinced that the bottom has been reached, and there has been more business doing at current rates both in merinos and fine cross- breds. There is no slackening in the demand for home crossbreds, and to-day there has been little more inquiry both for bright hoggs and for wethers of nearly all kinds. In pieces manufacturers are well employed on bright things. BIRKENHEAD AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE, TUES- DAY.—Hay, old, £ 3 10s. to X4 per ton ditto, new, S4 to X4 5s. per ton; ditto, clover, L4 to 14 15s. per ton American clover, E4 5s. per ton. Straw, wheat, £ 2 15s. to X3 per ton ditto, oat, £ 3 per to*. Manure, 2s. to 4s. per ton. SALFORD CATTLE, TUESDAY.—At market: Cattle, 1,325, demand slow; sheep and lambs, 16,435, a little more demand but prices no better calves, 214, trade inactive. Quotations :—Cattle, 5d. to 6id.; sheep, 6d. to 8d.; lambs, nd. to 8d. calves, 5d. to 7d. per lb. MANCHESTER CHEESE, TUESDAY.—There has been a rather heavier arrival of Cheshire cheese on to-day's market than usual for the time of the year, but most lots are in fair condition, consider- ing the hot and dry weather. There has been a moderate trade done, but the inquiry still runs on open meated" cheese, to the neglect of dry curdy descriptions, stocks of which are accumu- lating. Quotations: Finest, white and coloured, lating.. 60s.; fine, white and coloured, 47s. 6d. to 52s 6d.: medium, 40s. to 45s. per 1201b. Real Stilton lOd. to lid. and Cheshire Stilton 6d. to 6d. per lb. In American and Canadian cheese to-day's business has been restricted on account of holders acting with caution, prices on the other side having been put up Is. to 2s. per'ewt. Quotations here, however, are the same as last week, namely, 45s. to 47s. per 1121b. for finest white and aoloured. CHESHIRE BUTTER AND EGG, FRIDAY.— Trade has been tolerably active during the present week in home dairy produce. New-laid eggs are again slightly easier for buyers. Latest quotations Stockport (Friday): Butter, Is. Id. and Is. 2d. per lb.; eggs, 11 and 12 for la. Altrinoham (Tues- day) t Butter, Is. 2d. per lb.; eggs, 11 for Is. Macclesfield (Tuesday) Butter, Is. Id. and Is. 2d. per lb.; eggs, 12 for Is. Crewe (Friday): Butter, Is. ld. and Is. 2d. per lb.; eggs, 13 for Is. Sand- I bach (Thursday): Butter, Is. 2d. and Is. 3d. per lb.; eggs, 12 and 13 for Is. Congleton: Butter, Is. 3d. per lb.; eggs, 11 for ls. Northwich: Butter, Is. Id. and Is. 2d. per lb.; eggs, 12 for lB. Nantwich Butter, Is. 2d. and Is. 3d. per lb.; eggs, 13 for Is. Knutsford Butter, Is. 2d. per I lb.; eggs, 12 for Is. Runcorn: Butter, Is. 2d. and;i3. 3d. per lb.; eggs, 11 for Is. Chester: Butter, Is. ld. and le. 2d. per lb.; eggs, 13 for Is. CHESTER EGG AND POULTRY, SATURDAY.— Prices at this market to-day were :—E&gs, 13 for Is. butter, Is. and Is. ld. per lb. chickens, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 9d. each; fowl, 2s. each; ducks, 2s. 9d. to 3s. each rabbits, 6d. and 8d. each and pigeons, 8d. and 9d. each. CHESTER CORN. SATURDAY.—Poor deliveries this week and a small supply to-day of wheat, and any lots offered command Id. per 751b. over last Saturday's rates. Very few oats, beans, or barley offering, prices rather against buyers. American maize and foreign wheat are each dearer on the week's quotations. SEW.. OLD. !8. D. S. D. 8. D. S. D. Wheat, white. per 751b. 1' 0 0 to 4 30 0 to 0 0 Wheat, red „ 751b. 4 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 Malting Barley. „ (Wib. 0 0 U 00 0 0 L GriudiH? do. H Mlb.? 3 0—0 0 0 0—0 6 Oats 46'tcf> £ i 10 — 3 < 0 0—0 0 Beans „ Hilb.l 5 8 — 0 01 6 0 —0 0 Beai:s, Egyptian „ 2401b. 16 6 0 (01 0 0—0 0 ludiaii Uuru o' 24UIO. 11 0 0 Oi 0 0 0 0
.I I FLINT. I
I I FLINT. CHILD DROWNED.—On Monday afternoon, I at the Flint Town Hall, Mr. F. Llewelyn Jones, deputy coroner, held an inquest on the body of I Samnel Barratt, four years of age, whose parents reside at Furlong-terrace, Chester-road. From the evidence it appeared that deceased and a companion, five years of age, wandered to a field some distance from their homes. In the field there was an old pit of water, in which they paddled, when deceased fell upon his face and I was drowned, and his companion ran home to I say what bad happened. The jury returned a verdict of "accidental death."
I BASINGWERK ABBEY.
I BASINGWERK ABBEY. I CHESTER ARCHAEOLOGISTS' VISIT. f PRESERVATION URGED. That noble memorial of the past, Basingwerk Abbey, possesses for various reasons a special interest for Cestrians, and it was therefore a happy thought which prompted the Chester and North Wales Archaeological and Historic Society to pay a visit there on Tuesday. It was a timely visit, for the fine old abbey is fast crumbling away, and unless some effort is made at once to stay the progress of decay, a heap of debris will mark the spot where, the guide will have to explain, once stately walls were intact. To stand by and allow such destruction to take place uninterrupted would be anything but creditable to those in whose power it is to rescue this beautiful ruin. Thanks to the kindness and hospitality of the various local authorities, the ex- cursion proved to be one of the most enjoyable in the history of the society. Mr. Walter Conway, the secretary, had evidently gone to considerable pains in making the arrangements, which were excellent. Members and friends of the society, to the number of about thirty, travelled by the 2.30 p.m. train from Chester, and reached the station for Holywell just before three o'clock. The party included the Ven. Archdeacon Barber, Dr. Stolterfoth (Deputy Mayor), Mr. Henry Taylor, F.S.A., Mr. J. Gooddie Holmes, Dr. J. C. Bridge, M.A., Mr. R. Newstead (curator of Chester Museum), Mr. E. Hodkinson, Mr. Haswell, Mr. W. W. Tasker, Messrs. Gleadowe, Mr. E. Powell, a number of ladies, including Mrs. Stolterfoth and Miss Lucy Brown, and others. It was a short walk from the station to the Abbey, where we were met by a deputation from the local authorities. It was an ideal summed day, and we sat upon the grassy slope opposite the west door of the nave of the Abbey while Mr. Henry Taylor read an able paper. Mr. Taylor's paper dealt with the decaying abbey before our eyes, and was therefore most interesting to all, for who could look upon that stately ruin without wishing to know something of its rich historical associations ? The DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL I story which Mr. Taylor had to tell was as fol- lows:—During the middle ages devotees from all parts of Christendom were in the habit of visiting St. Winefride's Well. That a place of this religious celebrity should be long without its monastic establishment is hardly to be expected, as such a course would be contrary to the custom of the times. Accordingly we find that a society of monks did exist here previous to the year 1119, for it is said that Richard, the son of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, was attacked by the Welsh on his pilgrimage to the Virgin's Well, and was obliged to take refuge in an abbey in the neighbourhood, but how long it had existed prior to that date we have no means of ascertain- ing. Nor is it known who the original founder was. The charters of Prince Llewelyn ap Iorwerth and his son David confirm several donations "to God, St. Mary, and the Monastery of Basingwerk," bestowed on them by their pre- decessors, and from this it may be inferred the founder was a native Prince of Wales. From King Henry the Second's charter to the abbey we learn that the primitive, institution consisted only of a chapel in which the monks dwelt. It is probable the Cistercian Order was introduced into Basingwerk by Randle, the second Earl of Chester, A.D. 1131. He was one of the greatest benefactors to the abbey. In the Annales Cestriensis," or Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Werburgh at Chester, there is the following entry under the year 1157:—"In this year the Abbey of Basingwerk is founded." We are thus able to fix the date when the building (the ruins of which now lie before us) was erected. I will give you the description of the remains as they were in 1846 from the first volume of the "Archaaologia Cambrensis" :—"The general style of the remains of this religious house is the early pointed, corre- sponding closely in character to the time of Henry II., or the latter half of the 12th century; the masonry work is good and carefully finished, but there are very few traces of ornament re- maining, not even any foliations being observable in the windows. The ruins consist of the abbey church, running from west to east, with a little deviation to the south, the refectory, abbot's buildings, barns and grange, and probably a por- tion of the porter's lodge. The church was cruci- form, consisting of a nave, with a single aisle at each side, transepts without aisles, and a chancel, probably also without aisles. Of the edifice nothing is left standing except the southern transept and a few courses of the outer wall of the southern aisle; nevertheless, from the traces .r LL- L ..J.L —1 1-L _1 1 1 iji ruuLusii, etc., tne piall oi tile cnurcn may De made out satisfactorily except for the chancel. It is probable, indeed, that if some heaps on which trees now luxuriantly grow were dug into with proper precautions many valuable fragments and perhaps tombstones might be discovered. As far as can be guessed, then, from the present condition of the church, the nave was about 80 feet long by 25 feet wide, the aisles were 10 feet wide, the piers of the nave arches were circular or octagonal, massive, and supporting bold arches very slightly pointed, like those of Buildwas Abbey; one pier and half an arch are still re- maining. The transepts were 20 feet long by 17 feet wide; the northern one had probably lofty lancet windows below and three smaller lancets above in the gable, judging by the analogy of the southern transept, where the upper lancets re- main. Against this southern gable the refectory is set ou so that no lower windows were there practicable, but a low circular-headed door- way, without any ohamferings or mouldings, leads from the south-western corner, of this transept into the refectory, while at the south- eastern corner of the southern aisle was a circular- headed doorway, with good mouldings and capitals to the shafts, leading probably into the cloisters. The chancel could not have been more than 25 feet or 30 feet long, and was probably as wide as the nave; no traces, how- ever, remain whereby to judge of its architectural character, but the tenant of the adjoining build- ings says that a few years ago a gable with three lotty windows fell down, and these might have been either in the chancel or the northern transept. There are no means of judging whether any tower sprang from the crossing of the aisles, but from the plainness of the remaining pier we should infer the negative. A very beautiful and unusual bracket or corbel occurs here, from which the main arch of the southern transept sprang. There was a doorway in the western end of the nave, but no traces are observable of any in the western ends of the aisles; the roof of the southern aisle has probably been altered in its pitch, if we may so infer from a double line of junction observable in the transept wall. The refectory, entered by a circular-headed door from the cloister, extended southwards from the wall of the southern transept, about 75ft. and 17ft. wide; it had the dormitory above, and both the apartment* were lighted by small lancet windows with very wide and bold internal splays. At the southern end of the dormitory the gable is pierced with three bold lancets still visible, though two had been blocked up by the monks, and the easternmost converted into a fireplace from the outside. Southward of the refectory must have been originally a small court, but this was after- wards occupied by a building perhaps, for the im- provement of the abbot's house, for they con- sisted evidently of two storeys, and in the southern wall is still remaining a fireplace and two perpendicular windows, one of two, the other of three lights. At the north-eastern corner of the refectory was a room, or parlour, entered by two circular-headed archways, the central pier between them being longer than those at the sides, and standing in front of what seems to have been a hole in the ground, the use of which it is difficult to conjecture. This room, 13ft. by 17ft., is lighted by three lancets in the eastern side and one in the southern, of bold internal splays and deeply cut labels. The roof was vaulted in stone, and above was an apartment approached by a staircase in the wall having a double-light window in the eastern gable and a doorway in the dormitory. The roof of the dormitory seems by the traces on the wall of the church to have been flat at top, and not to have run up into a ridge, at least at the northern end. Westward of the refectory are the remains of one or two apartments, the use of which cannot be assigned, and also a beautiful room or hall, which Tennant and Groso call the chapel of the Templars. It might very well have been the chapter house, or library. It runs north and south, and was approached (to judge by Grose's view) by a doorway in the south gable under three or five lancet wirvdows. In the western wall is a range of seven lancet windows of unequal dimensions, but of excellent design and workman- ship three of these must have continued to be used as windows until a late period, but the other four had been blocked up, perhaps by the monks. They were divided by banded shafts, have bold splays, and the heads of two of the splays are oircular. There are brackets against the wall, shewing that probably the roof was of timber, and indeed the pitch ot the gable was rather low. Eastward from this runs a long range of abbey barns, ending at the eastern extremity in a plain square stone building, which was no doubt the granary, and having a return towards the south, the gable of which still shews its post and pen- dant. All the lower storey of the barns was of stone, the upper of timber work, brick, or plaster. The beams of the room and walls are untouched, in excellent preservation, all plainly chamfered, and of -unumally ponderous dimensions." ROOF AT ST. MARY'S, CHESTER. I have given this able description almost in full because it is evidently from the pen of some learned ecclesiastical architect and antiquary of half a century ago, and may be of assistance to those of you who are interested in the roof of the ancient church of St. Mary-on-the-Rill at Chester, which is said to have come from here, and probably from the chancel or choir. You will re- member the entry in the churchwardens' accounts of 1536, "also in their tyme (viz., that of the two churchwardens holding office then) the quere (choir) was boght at Besewerke, and sett upe with all costs and chargis belonging to the same." There is also a legend that part of the roof of Cilcain Church came from Basingwerk.. By taking I measurements it may perhaps be possible to ascer- tain how far both these legends are correct. No doubt the roof of St. Mary's at Chester is per- pendicular work, but then Basingwerk appears to have had alterations and additions made to it about the time of King Henry VII. The late Mr. Loftus Brock. F.S.A., the learned architect of the diocese of Canterbury, in a paper read before the British Archasological Association, said of Basingwerk The style of the church is early English of a good type, and when perfect of an excellent effect. The base of the south wall of the south transept seems somewhat earlier, and may be a portion of the 'small cell' which existed in the time of the Giraldus Cambrensis. It has a I small round-headed opening into the sacristy, a chamber, however, now quite destroyed, but we trace a round-headed and chamfered doorway which afforded entrance to it from the cloisters, and also a portion of a perpendicular window east- ward." This latter, like the roof, may have been made in the time of Henry VII. There is a tradition about this King with regard to church building and restoration in the neighbourhood. You will remember the Stanley family were very powerful in Flintshire and Denbighshire. Sir William Stanley, of Holt and Flint Castles, had rendered most valuable services to the King at the battle of Bosworth; yet upon suspicion of favouring the cause of Perkin Warbeck, the King had him seized at his castle at Holt and be- headed. At that time the first Earl Derby of the Stanley family had married Margaret, the King's mother, so to soothe the feelings of his step- father he honoured him and his mother with n visit in 1495 at their castle of Hawarden for the amusement of stag hunting, and it is said to shew his repentance for the death of Sir William Stanley he assisted with money the restoration of the church of Wrexham, Gresford, and Mold, as well as the little chapel over the Holy Well at Holywell, which in the time of Richard III. was served by a priest from Basingwerk, the abbot and convent being paid by the Crown ten marks annually as a salary for his maintenance. In 1188 Giraldus Cambrensis, in the train of Arch- bishop Baldwyn on his progress through Wales to preach the crusade, lodged a night in this monastery, and King Edward I. made Basingwerk his headquarters while he was building Flint Castle, but before then Henry II., as I have already mentioned, had been a good friend to the abbey. He became acquainted with the monks on his military expedition into Wales, and by a charter (the first witness to which was the great martyred Thomas A'Becket, archbishop of Can- terbury) the King granted to them considerable lands in Glossop, Chatsworth, and other parts of the Peak of Derbyshire, which they held at the time of the dissolution, and both the native Princes of Wales and their rivals the Earls of Chester, made them considerable grants of pro- perty. They had property at West Kirby and Caldy in Wirral. With respect to the right of presentation to the living of West Kirby they had a_long dispute with the monks of St. Werburgh at Chester. At Northwich they had a salt pit, at Chester, the Lache, and Saltney they also held property, as well as the Manor of Holywell, and their large possessions in this neighbourhood. Tennant mentions that the monks obtained for Holywell the grant of a market and fair, and that both had been lost until the former was renewed in 1703. On the Welsh Recognizance Rolls I find this grant in 1387, and by it the monks were allowed to hold the market every Thursday instead of Friday as they were accustomed to do by a previous grant of Edward I. The pious monks evidently felt that it was a desecration of the weekly fast day that the market should be held on a Friday, but their good intentions are now frus- trated by the townspeople of Holywell,who do their marketing on a Friday as their forbears did in the time of King Edward the First. Tennant also mentions that he could recover the names of only two of the abbots, viz., Thomas ap David Tennant, in the time of Guttyn Owain, and Nicholas Tennant, the last abbot, but the Recog- nizance Rolls mention William in 1316, Ralph in 1351, Richard de Acton in 1362, Henry in 1395, and Henry de Wirehall in 1432. At the dissolution or soon after in 1540 the house and lands were granted to Harry ap Harry, whose only daughter Anne,' by her marriage with William Mostyn, ot Talacre, conveyed them into that family, who are the present owners. So late as 1647 burials took place here. CHESTER AND BASINGWERK. -1 Archdeacon Harber mentioned that in the month of July, 1277, Edward 1. first turned his course towards the Principality, and arrived at Chester on the 16th of that month. He passed four days in camp at Basingwerk at the close of the month. It was a curious thing that Chester archaeologists should be at Basingwerk on the same day of the month that Edward 1. arrived at Chester. A further incident was that not long after the battle (of Shrewsbury ?) the King ordered the city to deliver ale and victuals to the Abbot and convent of Basingwerk, and to all sueh loyal gentlemen as had held by their allegiance in the county of Flint. Afterwards a tour of inspection was made under the guidance of Mr. E. Hodkinson, whose ex- planations and surmises were followed with in- terest by the whole party. There were evidences on all sides that Basingwerk has been rudely dealt with by the hand of time, and one could not look upon these, and especially what remains of the sout h transept wall, which was recently demolished in a storm, without feeling thankful that at last an effort is being made to preserve the abbey from further dilapidation. On viewing the refectory many were struck with the re- semblance which it bears to that of Chester Cathedral. AT HOLYWELL. I rrom Basingwerk we went to xiolywell and inspected the renowned well of St. Winefride, which is too well known to need description here. Father Borscht very kindly met the party at the Well. The Perpendicular Chapel and the old parish church having been explored, we proceeded to the Town Hall, where we were entertained at tea by the local authorities. Letters of apology for absence were read from Lord Mostyn, Bishop Mostyn, and others. The Chairman very heartily welcomed the society to the district, a visit whick he hoped would be mutually beneficial. (Hear, hear.) Archdeacon Barber, in returning thanks for the hospitality, said the society had never been treated better than they had at Holywell that day (Hear, hear.) He assured them that the members of the party had been much interested in what they had seen, partlffUlarly as there was in St. Mary's Church, Chester, a roof which had come from Basingwerk, and which had recently been restored at very considerable cost. The money for this restoration had, he regretted to say, sot all been obtained yet. He strongly urged the desirability of protecting the abbey from the further ravages of time. The society would be glad to do all they could to support the local authorities in their efforts to have the abbey preservecl- Dr Bridge moved a resolution to the effect that the society had visited the ruin and expressed the hope that the. Flintshire County Council would exercise their powers in assisting the effort that was being made to preserve the abbey from further dilapidation. Mr. Gooddie Holmes seconded, and thought the Archseological Society of Great Britain also ought to take an interest in the matter. He spoke of the great benefit to be derived from excursioas such as the one they had enjoyed that day. Mr. Henry Taylor briefly addressed the meet- ing, shewing that there were few more interei;t- ing districts than that between Cheshire and Wales. In that district great battles had been fought in days gone by between the ancestors of both Welsh and English, and for feats of chivalry and for romance, as well as for historical associa- tions, the border country of Wales would he declared, vie with the border between England and Scotland. Basingwerk had been connected with Chester from time immemorial. The monks of Basingwerk had fought the monks of St. Vverburgh's for many years, and eventually the monks of St. Werburgh's won. Speeches were aho made by Mr. H. A. Cope and Mr. W. Roberts, and a vote of thanks to the chairman (Mr. Joseph Jones) was passed. The party soon afterwards entrained for Chester.
I THE ARMY AND VOLUNTEERS.
THE ARMY AND VOLUNTEERS. f KING AND YEOMANRY. I PRESENTATION OF WAR MEDALS. I On Friday it was officially announcd that his Majesty the King proposes to make a presentation of South African war medals to 3,000 Imperial Yeomen on the Horse Guards' Parade, at 11.30 a.m., on July 26th. The presentation will be limited to 40 officers, non-commissioned officers, and men from each of the units specified in a list ap- pended to the notification. This list enumerates all the companies, from the 1st to the 79th inclusive, with the exception of the 64th. Members of the 21st and 22ad Companies should apply to the Adjutant, Imperial Yeomanry, Chester.
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MILITARY CHANGES.—The following appeared in Friday night's Gazette "lst Cheshire and Carnarvonshire Volunteer Artillery G. F. L. C. East, gent., to be second lieutenant. 4th Volunteer Battalion the Cheshire Regiment: Lieut.-Col. and Hon. Col. J. Wood resigns his commission with permission to retain his rank and to wear the uniform of the battalion on retirement. Imperial Yeomanry—Denbighshire (Hussars) Sup. Sec. Lieut. E. E. Hutton to be second lieutenant on the establishment. SHAM FIGHT AT FLINT.-On Saturday the 2nd Volunteer Battalion (Flintshire) of the Royal. Welsh Fusiliers had a field-day and sham fight in the vicinity of Flint. There were about 600 men present. The operations lasted for two hours. The men were divided into two forces, distinguished as "Red" and Blue," the respective commanding officers being Majors Hurlbutt and Dyson. The general idea was that a force advancing from Chester to Mostyn on arrival at Flint received information from its advance guard that the enemy had taken up a position in the vicinity of Gwarth-y-Goed with the intention of check- ing their advance. The Red force attacked the enemy and drove them out of their position, thus clearing the country towards Mostyn for the advance of the remainder of the force. The umpires were Colonel Sheriff Roberts, Major Sparrow, and Captain Wills.
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THE HEALTH OF LLA.NOLLEN.-On Monday I the clerk of the Llangollen Urban District Council received an important communication from the Local Government Board. The Whitehall authorities express therein that they have come to the decision that the Urban Council may raise a loan of J6700 for the purpose of improving the local market. They have gone carefully through statements made by Mr. George Saint (urban councillor), on the strength of which they had deferred permission to borrow the money. These were to the effect tha tthe town was in an un- healthy state owing to the Council's neglect in looking after drainage, and squandering money upon unnecessary works. After close investiga- tion the Local Government Board have decided to grant the loan a decision accepted as tanta- i mount to a verdict of not proven so far as Mr. Saint's assertions are concerned. The decision has caused widespread satisfaction in Llangollen.
THE BRISTOL -PROSECUTION.
THE BRISTOL PROSECUTION. TRIAL BY NEWSPAPER. a a At Bristol Assizes, on Saturday, JxLr. justice Kennedy resumed the bearing of the case against Charles John Tibbetts, the editor, and Charles Windust, the crime investigator, of the Weekly Dispatch," who were indicted for con- spiring, and, on a second count, for attempting to pervert the due course of law and justice in connection with the recent Allport prosecution in Bristol. The Solicitor-General (Sir Edward Carson, K.C.), Mr. Duke, K.C., Mr. Sutton, and Mr. Charles Mathews conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Treasury. Mr. Foote, K.C., and Mr. Evans Austin were counsel for the defence. Mr. Foote contended that there was no evidence on any of the counts of criminal intent or conspiracy; that it was not proved or alleged that any of the statements in the news- paper were untrue or that the prisoners intended to procure a falte verdict or alter the course of justice. The Solicitor-General, in reply, submitted that it was settled law that if a man did an act calculated to have a certain result he must be taken to have intended it. The Judge said, as at present advised, he should hold that if there had been an offence at all it ought to be immaterial whether the statements made were true or false. Mr. Foote, in addressing the jury for the defence, said a vigorous attempt was being made to get a decision from a jury which would be a novelty, and which would alter the procedure of that class of case, or possibly render some statutory alteration necessary. To publish the matter of which the Solicitor- General complained was contempt ot court- that was not disputed, but it was not pervert- ing justice. There were plenty of contempts of Court which were not perversions of justice, and that was one of them. Perversion of justice meant setting justice wrong, getting a wrong result, intending to convict an innocent man or to acquit a guilty one. The jury were asked to say that if statements were published calculated and intended to prejudice the prisoners in the eyes of men who might possibly become jurors, that was perverting justice. He contended that there was no perverting. It might not be a high and lofty thing to put that sensational matter in the newspaper, but it was not criminal. Sir E. Carson said the reason for the prose- cution was that there had unfortunately grown up in this country this kind of sensational journalism, which might be all right as long as it was merely sensational as regarded indi- viduals or ordinary news, but the moment it became sensational as regarded the rights of accused persons it could not be ignored. They had purposely brought that case before the jury because it was a case which they thought they ought, apart altogether from other rights that they might possess on contempt of court, to bring forward. They thought it would have much more potency as a deterrent in future against this line of conduct being carried on by newspapers in relation to pending prosecutions if they asked twelve jurymen what they thought of it, and whether they thought it ought to be allowed at all. The Judge, in summing up, agreed with what had been said as to the importance of the case. To obstruct and pervert justice did not necessarily mean to obstruct and pervert justice judged only by the result of the trial. It was, of course, a perversion of justice if the guilty were acquitted or the innocent con- demned, but it seemed to him too narrow an interpretation of an expression which it was very important correctly to appreciate. They might find a correct result at the end of a wrong process, an unfair trial might result in the right way, but what was meant by obstructing and perverting the true course of law and justice was to do anything which obstructed not merely the right result but the method of obtaining the right result. It was no answer to say persons were not perverting justice because they were not getting up or stating evidence against an innocent man to his pre- judice, or stating facts in favour of innocence where a man was guilty. What were they to say when it was contended that it was not poisonous to the fount of justice that all sorts of statements of immorality, of financial mis- conduct, of blasphemous disregard of a sacred calling, should be raked up when a man was on his trial for cruelty to his children ? Had they any doubt it must have a tendency to obstruct and pervert the course of law and justice? If what was done was calculated to prejudice a fair trial by tending to prejudice the minds of ordinary jurymen, then it was perversion or obstruction of the due course of law and justice The jury, after a quarter of an hour's absence, found the prisoners guilty on all counts. Mr. Foote asked his lordship to state a case, 4nd in the meantime to admit the prisoners to iail. The Judge said he would state a case and admit the prisoners to bail pending the decision of the Court for Crown Cases Reserved. He bound them over each in his own recog- nisance of £100 and one surety each of £100. Benjamin Francis Fry, William Fry (printers), and Felix Charles (street singer), against whom there were similar indictments in respect of a pamphlet sold in the streets, then surrendered. The Solicitor-General said he understood the defendants were prepared to submit themselves to the law. They were unaware they were breaking the law, and apologised to the Court for what they did. He thought that the ends of justice would be met by their being discharged, particularly as what they did was in the main to copy from the Dispatch." The Judge saw no objection to this course beidg taken, and the prisoners were dis- charged.
A WOMAN WITH A BAD HEART.
A WOMAN WITH A BAD HEART. I Miss Annie Spencer, of Highland Farm Broadholme, near Saxilby, Lincolnshire, has told a sensational story to a "Retford and Gainsboro' Times" reporter. Here are the main facts as she related them, and from their perusal the wonderful effects of Chas. Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness in all cases of debility, palpitation, and heart weakness will be gathered. Said Miss Spencer: "Just over five years ago I had an attack of brain fever. I got over it, however, but never got back my old health. Instead of feeling bright and well I felt heavy and depressed. Then I began to suffer from indigestion, palpitation, and general debility. My blood seemed to get out of order, and spots broke out on my face and fore- head, as well as my arms and breast. I consulted two of the best doctors in the district, and was told that my ailment was extreme debility as well as indigestion. No matter what I took to eat the effect was the same. Not only did it do me no good but it caused me terrible pain. Occasionally I had a sort of false appetite and took a violent fancy to some article of food. Yet when I had eaten it my suffering was terrible. The palpitation and heart trouble also caused me great pain and anxiety. So violent was it sometimes that I could hardly breathe, and I got very much afraid. In the end I became so weak that I was scarcely able to see anyone who visited me, it put me so much about; and I was so fearfully debilitated that I had to take hold of the table to prevent myself from falling when I walked across the room. The doctor said he could not do any- thing more for me, and I gave myself up in despair. Somebody mentioned Chas. Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness to me, and in the hope that they would do me a little good—for I really never expected them to cure me-I had some purchased. I had not taken the first box, however, before I found that I could eat better and with less pain afterwards. Of course having experienced that, I persevered with them, and the second box made a wonderful difference in me. Every day I got better and better, and when I had taken a few boxes I was entirely cured. Indigestion is now unknown to be, and I can eat and enjoy any food whatever. The heart trouble has one also, and I can even run up the stairs without the slightest fear. The spots and pimples have quite disappeared, I have re- covered my former strength, and instead of crawling about the house, of no assistance to anybody and a burden to myself, I can do any kind of work which falls to my share. All this I owe to Chas. Forde's Bile Beans, and I feel j must give a testimonial." The above is no isolated example of the power of Charles Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness. They are superior to all known medicines for ca?es ot beart weaness, paipira- tion, indigestion, liver and kidney disorders, constipation, headache, debility, nervousness, ansemia, summer fag and that tired feel- ins," female ailments, the after effects of ^influenza, pimples, face sores, and all blood impurities. All chemists stock them, or you may obtain them from the Bile Bean Manu- focturing Co., 119, London Wall, E.C., by send- ing prices, one and three half-pence or two and nine.
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SAFE ROBBERY AT BIRKENHEAD. Another safe robbery has taken place at Birkenhead. Some thieves broke into a co-operative store on Monday morning and wheeled the safe on a barrow to the nearest railway embankment, down which they throw it. They then broke it open with some platelayers' tools, and abstracted t e iC42 in cash which it contained.
I SAUGHALL.
I SAUGHALL. ALL SAINTS' CHURCH.—This chapel of ease to Shotwick Parish Church had a very large congregation on Sunday morning, when the Lord Bishop of Chester paid his first official visit to Saughall. Dr. Jayne delivered an eloquent and suggestive address on the texts, Love not the world," etc., and God so loved the world," etc. Morning Prayer was said by the Vicar, who also assisted the Lord Bishcp in a celebration of Holy Communion. Mrs. Wnite presided at the organ, and a collection was taken on behalf ot the debt on the church building fund. A book rest for the altar (kindly presented by Mr. J. Glynn Johnston) and a green silk veil for the Communion vessels (subscribed for by a few friends) were used for the first time.
I SHOCKLACH. I
I SHOCKLACH. I INDUCTION OF THE NEW VICAR.—On Friday afternoon, at St. Edith's Church, the ceremony of inducting the Rev. George Mathias ti the living took place. There were not very many present, owing to the farmers being busy in the hay. After the first portion of the even- ing service, the Archdeacon, after a few prefatory remarks, proceeded to the church door, and upon going outside, where the vicar and his church- wardens were awaiting him, gave the key to the vicar. The vicar then entered the church and rang the bell. The vicar, the archdeacon, and the rural dean (Canon Royds), then went up to the communion rails. The usual form of prayer was used, and the archdeacon afterwards took the vicar by the right hand and led him to the south side of the Lord's table, where he remained kneeling till the blessing was pronounced. On Sunday morning the vicar read the Thirty-nine Articles, and afterwards read his declaration and the Bishop's mandate. There was a large con- gregation.
HAWARDEN.I
HAWARDEN. I I SCENE AT THE WORKHOUSE. — At I Moid, on Friday, Florence Massey, aged 15, an orphan inmate of Broughton Workhouse, was charged with attempted suicide. Evidence was given that prisoner, who wanted to leave the house, was on Friday brought before the Guardians for refractory conduct, and when cautioned by the chairman, she became impu- dent. Upon returning to the workhouse she threw herself from a window twelve feet high. Prisoner now said, I was going to run away, I don't want to go back to the workhouse; they treat me like a dog." The Bench considered the charge not proved, and handed the prisoner back to the workhouse authorities. DEATH OF MR. J. WRIGHT.-On Monday morning Mr. James Wright, the carrier to Chester, was seized with sudden illness and died almost instantly. He had just started on his way to Chester, and had called at the Castle. While standing at the door he was seen to fall, and was carried into the house. Dr. Roberts was instantly summoned and pronounced life to be extinct, heart disease being apparently the cause. Mr. Wright was well known in the village, and the news of his sudden death caused a painful impression. He was apparently quite well when he started, and conversed with several people only a few minutes before in the village. Mr. Wright was a relative of the late carrier, Mrs. Hughes (familiarly known as Lady Margaret") and since her death some few years back has had the business.
MOLD. I
MOLD. I LEAVING WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION. -Ellis Owen, a workman at the Alyn Steel Tin- plate Works, near Mold, was summoned at Mold Petty Sessions on Monday for absenting himself from work without giving notice.—Mr. Howard Evans appeared on behalf of the company.—Mr. J. T. Morgans, managing director, said that on the 2nd inst. the defendant and another man absented themselves from work without notice, and the re- sult was that two mills were stopped. Efforts were made to find the men, and one came back to his work, but the defendant did not. Through the defendant's absence the company had been put to a loss of about £ 2.—The Bench ordered the de- fendant to pay JE3, including costs and damages. THE PONTBLYDDYN LICENSING CASE. -At Mold Pty Sessions on Monday, Mr. Wynne Evans (Wrexham) appeared in support of an ap- plication by Job Davies to sell at the Crown Inn, Pontblyddyn. lkfr. Evans said the incoming tenant had been a licence holder in Denbighshire for four or five years, and held good testimonials. There had been a conviction against the house while it was in the hands of the late tenant, Henry Foster. The house had been conducted for Messrs. Sisson and Co., of Wrexham, for about 25 years.— Superintendent J. Ivor Davies stated that the late licensee had not occupied the house at all. The police objected to the transfer that day and also intended to oppose the renewal at the next brewster sessions.—The Bench refused to grant the appli- cation, and said the whole thing could be thrashed out at the forthcoming brewster sessions in August. SHOOTING WITH INTENT,—On Monday at Mold Thomas Joseph A. Ffrith, labourer, was charged with shooting at Albert Sadler with intent to do grievous bodily harm on Friday.—Mr. Marston, for the prosecution, explained that prisoner objected to the removal of some furniture from his father's house, and fired a revolver at Albert Sadler, who was assisting in the removal.—Mr. Wynn Evans, for the defence, contended that an unloaded pistol was fired to frighten the prosecutor, and that the gravity of the case had been exaggerated owing to the recent Cymmau tragedy. Prisoner was bound over to keep the peace and discharged.
FRODSHAM. I
FRODSHAM. I PAROCHIAL COMMITTEE.—The monthly meeting was held on Friday evening, Mr. Charles E. Linaker presiding. The Railway Company wrote that they did not hold the views of the committee with regard to the Frodsham station platforir. A letter was read from Messrs. Merryweather stating that their tender still held good for the fire appliances, and it was resolved that the Fire Appliances Committee be re-appointed to take up the work of arranging for the fire station, &c. The inspector of nuisances reported various breaches of the Public Health Act, and in two instances he was instructed to take out sum- monses. JOINT WATER COMMITTEE.—At a meeting held in the Court-room, Frodsham, on Friday evening, Mr. Henry Tiley presiding, orders were given for the outside painting of the reservoir according to the specification to be provided by Mr. Barrow. Applications were made for a supply of water from the mains ^by Mr. John Davies, builder, for his workshop in Church-street, and also by Mr. John Mayers, builder, Chester, for work in connection with the building of the new Parr's Bank. It was resolved that in both instances the water be supplied by meter.— Mr. P. D. Timmins, churchwarden, wrote asking upon what terms a supply of water could be obtained for the parish church. It was resolved that the sexton be permitted to use water from his house tap on the payment of 10s. per annum by the churchwardens. Accounts were pro- duced including one from the Frodsham Gas and Water Co. amounting to L28 19s. 3d. for gas used in the pumping stations. The accounts were passed. The water rate collectors reported that in Frodsham Lordship, with the exception of 10s. 4d., the whole of the rate had been collected, while in Frodsham something like £ 35 of the past quarter's rates was still in arrear. It was decided that a week's holiday be granted to the water engineer.
WREXHAM. I
WREXHAM. I CLUBS AND SUNDAY DRUNKENNESS.— What are described as the Sunday drinking clubs were very much in evidence during the hearing of a long list of drunken cases at the County Police Court, Wrexham, on Monday. One police-officer, asked by the chairman of the Bench if he knew where the defendants had been drinking, replied that he believed they had been at a drinking club near Wrexham. Another officer declared that the way the Sun- day club houses were being used now was disgraceful. DISPUTE AT A MUSIC HALL.—On Mon- day, at the Wrexham Borough Police Court, before the Mayor and other magistrates, Henry Stennett, an Irish comedian, summoned William Gregory, manager of the Empire Music Hall, Wrexham, for assault. Complainant, who had a black eye, stated that he and his wife were engaged at the Empire last week, and gave a double turn, which went well. He had heard that the manager had a grudge against him, and later on Gregory told him that his wife was not to sing a certain song, which she had given on Monday night. (Laughter.) On Wednesday Mr. Gregory called him into his office, and paid him for the two previous nights' services, saying that he would have to go, and that he would not have him any more. Mr. Gregory then called the stage manager, who helped him to remove his things. Complainant pro- tested, whereupon defendant struck him senseless. His eye was blacked, and one of his teeth knocked out. In answer to the Mayor, the complainant said his salary was at the rate of L3 10s. per week, ana he received £1 3s. for the two nights.-M,arian Stennett, the complainant's wife, corroborated. —Mr. Gregory, the defendant, admitted the charge, and pleaded that he committed the assault under great provocation. On the previous night, Stennett was drunk, and for this reason he told him next day that the engagement was terminated in accordance with the terms of the contract. Stennett replied, I am here for a week," and after calling him filthy names, struck him (the defendant) on the back of tha head with a brass-heel dancing shoe. The defendant retaliated.—Mr. Thomas Smith, the stage-manager at the Empire Music Hall, supported the defendant's statement.—The Mayor said the Bench considered the charge proved, but agreed that the assault was done under provocation, and imposed a fine of 2s. 6d. and costs.
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