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LLANDUDNO. To the Editor of the North rfales Chronicle. Sir,—My attention has been called to an article in your last week's impression headed Sea Side Sketches," and written by Wanderer," who from the number of articles to which his name is attached from time to time, evidently writes for the sake of notoriety. His subjects generally are so trivial and his genius so visionary, that his writings are more ridiculed by those who waste their time in reading them than would be pleasant or agreeable to this would-be reformer. One of his great subjects last year was the high price of that delicacy (to him) pigs' head, and now as he cannot relinquish his natural propensities, he must dilate not upon the pigs' head, but upon the poor pig himself, and he is not.satis. fied to direct his abilities against poor pigs alone, but forsooth he must cast his spleen on gentlemen of high standing and respect in the town. The principal object in this instance ofhisanimadversions asourmuchrespect- ed townsman, Mr. John Williams, Bodafon and now let us examine the basis of this scurrilous attack. The reason assigned by "Wanderer" is because a gate has been placed to obstruct the way, and increase the difficulty to car drivers in passing through, whereas the real reason for this gate being placed in its present position, was to prevent cattle, &c., straying from Mr. Williams's farm, through which this accommodation road runs, and the inconvenience, if any, is felt principally by Wanderer himself, as the road leads to his residence; and as two gates have already been placed by him for the same purpose, nearer his own grounds, he now under an as- sumed name endeavours to prevent other parties doing what he himself is guilty of; so that if it is as he asserts that Mr. John Williams, Bodafon, is our household god, we can boast of one who at all events is more to be desired than a self elected one, who must needs have the way cleared of all the barriers for his on conYenieace^ no Blatter at wliftt loss or inconvenience to ot under the shallow excu.-m that visitors will rejoice at it- Per- haps "Wanderer" would also wish to have the road afterward" etrewn n'Sth rosea; that proper honour maybe shewn him. However, tie; one that is acquainted with Mr. Williams, will bè the least deceived by this tirade against him, as it is not too much to say that, but for his exer- tion* Llandudno would most likely not be so well known as a watering place at the present time, and in all his actions he has the best interest fif the town in view; this and his unvariable courteous cofrduct to all, will easily explain why it i., as was stated, desirable to have his name and influence at al1 public meetings, and with all local Institutions. I am, Sir, Yours trulv, #1 NO HUMBUG. I LI,Ludti(Itio, Jtine 15tll, 18(;4.

RHYL IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS. I To the Editor of the Xorth HVf* Chronicle. Slr,-Ill vonr report of the last- meeting or Uie auove named boaril, and in reference to what took place regard- ing, watpring cart. I am there to have ,;aitl, the present axle was capable of bearing a, pressure of four 5011's. of water. This is preposterous. The barrel wig ll contaifn 2io gallons nf water when full, equal to a burthen of one ton and 4 cwts. or thereabout*, and my statement was, that if four t)()lba. weighte) were placed at the top when so filled, that the axle would sustain the additional pres- sure that if it did not do so I would make the board a present of a barrel for the old cart, and would take upon mytelf the responnibility of the consequence of any mis- hap in testing the 1 am happy to say that at the clone of tlH; HJeetin the combined talent of the accom- plished won of" the Liverpool tnnker, and that of a Rhyl wheelright, having been brought into contact to decide as to the capability of the cart, the former, I may add through his intelligent and descriptive powers soon con- vinced the Rhyl man that a t\.nr shillings outlay would meet the case, and thus frustrated an attempted ex. pense of three pounds ns proposed by a few nieiuoerfi of the Road Commits e of the Rhyl Board. I now remain, Sir, Yours vorv truly. Geürgp HotcI, HI,,] Tiles IIKALLM;. George Hotel, tthy!, J..np]('t!).]??. ?

EANGO? WAT!? WORKS. To the Editor of the Xorth. Wale* Chronicle. Sir,—I perceive that in your last impression your correspondent "Lex" has volunteered some information which I suspect will be found as valuable to otnersn.^u) nivself, respecting the proceedings of our Water and Uas Company, therein following up, as he states, a complaint to the Hoard of Health made by a private individual. The General and Local Acts on these subjects are ac- cessible to comparatively few, and I believe it would be a great public benefit if your correspondent, who appeals to be conversant with tlieiii, w(,ulcl ,t little iiiore information expressed in similar plain and terse terms to those of hi last Idter. For instance, it is that several persons intend to resist payment of their water rates on the ground of insufficient supply. Are they Iti,;tlly jiiit,:fie(I I)y so ? AgiLill, I eij,ltiire whether th e Water and Gas Company are liable for the loss by any conflagration, in a pecuniary point of view, (to say nothing of human life) when it may be proved that such loss may be at least partially attributable to ,t lack of water. It is worthy of remark too, that it is usual in other towns to see the letters F.P. (fire plug), often with some additional directions in case of need, legibly painted in conspicuous white letters in some spot witlun 1 o. 110, or 40 feet or yards as the case may be of each plug. I his is not the case in Bangor. The reason I presume is this —that it would le :t mockery to offer this notice when it is notorious that no water is ever to be found in the maills of the Company during the dark hours. I am (Iiiite titiie that any further information oil tliesf3 and similar points would be thankfully received from" Lex" or other correspendents, by many other Bangorians as well as by, Sir, Yours, &e, n.- INHABITANT. Bangor, June 15th, 186-1. lHABlTANT. I

BANGOR COUNTY COURT. To the Editor of the Xorth Wales Chronicle. Sir,—As one of the pleaders, named Nlr. R. D. Wil- liams, in the last County Court at Bangor, held on the 13th inst., asked me improptr questions, referring to a case between me and others at Beaumaris Assizes, held there on the 24th July, 18.57, in order to damage my testimony in the witness-box at the said County Court, at Bangor, I shall feel greatiyoutiged to you to insert in your next issue these few lines, together with an abstract of the case at Beaumaris, as it appeared at the time in our<iocal papers of Bangor and Carnarvon. It may be necessary for me to state that the case re- ferred to was brought forward at Beaumaris, with a view of invalidating a will made in my favour by a brother of the prosecutrix—a distant relation of mine. The old woman being incited against me by other relations. The old man, R. Pryse, the brother of the prosecu- trix, bad ordered me to get an attorney to draw a will for him and as Mr. R. D. Williams was my solicitor at the time, I applied to him, who made me a draft of will according to the old man's instructions, which I brought to the old man, who signed it in the presence of two wit- nesses. When R. Pryse died I sent the will to Bangor to be passed; but the old woman, being incited by other relations against me, employed Mr. 0. Owen, of Holy- head, to put a caveat against the will; and in order to try to frustrate the passing of it, he indicted me. among others, to appear at. Beau;c ris Assizes, under the pre tension that I committed a .raudulence in another affair against the old woman. The result of this pre- tended indictment will be seen in the able address of the Hon. Chief Justice Cockburn to the grand jury, which I beg to insert below. I ought also to mention that the old man had made his will in favor of his sister (the prosecutrix) during her life, when I had nothing to do with the property except to look over it for the old womar. In consequence of the said indictment, I was advised to employ Mr. E. G. Powell, of ('arnarvon, rather than the other, which I luckily did. Whether this piece of business had anything to do with the mode of cross-examination adopted at Bangor County Court, I don't know nor care. One of the advocates employed by Mr. Powell for me at Beaumaris was a gentleman named R. Vaughan Williams, Esq., a barrister-at-law at the time. Now for the address of the Hon. Chief Justice Cock- burn on my case. The Justice said :— "Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—I am happy on this, the first occasion I have had of meeting the grand jury of this county, to be enabled to congratulate you on the state of the calendar. Two cases only are to come be- fore you." After going over the first, lie said,— "There is another case to which it is desirable to call your attention. It is an indictment against four per- sons named HOBERT JOIIX PHYSE, William John PljSe, William Thomas, and Catherine, his wife, charging them with conspiracy, by false pretences and fraud to obtain some money from a person named Ann Pryse. The cir- cumstances are these Ann Pryse is an old woman and spinster, and Catherine Thomas, "ife of William Tho- mas, one of the accused, is her niece. It seems that William and Catherine Thomas purchased some property according to the old woman's ac- count; or rather, it appears that IV,, John Pryse pur- chased the property, an arrangement being made be- tween him and Catherine Thomas that he should let it on lease to her. These parties went to Ann Pi-yse to borrow money to pay for the property, and the old spinster assented to advance the sum of k200 to them upon that property, on the understanding that as soon as the deeds were completed they were to be brought to her. The deeds were completed and brought to her; but after her brother's death, who at the time of this transaction was alive, and who advised her on the sub- ject, the old spinster complained that these deeds were a fraud upon her, and made by W. J. Pryse without her consent. She further complained that a portion of the property, a small quillet, was omitted from the mort- gage deed, and that it was not done at all according to her sanction. She, moreover, complained that provi- sions were introduced into the deed with regard to the payment of the money by instalments, which she did not consent to. It seems that as soon as her niece, Catherine Thomas, had seen the old spinster on the Sub- ject, and got the money, the niece and her husband, as well as Wm. J Pryse, the purchaser of the property applied to a gentleman named Hoose, who is a respect- able attorney living at Amlwch, for executing the con- veyance deeds, who said they could not be drawn out until he saw Ann Pryse. It appears from the old lady's story that the niece did come to her at once, but that she said it was not convenient for her then to leave her brother alone, who was bed-ridden. The gentleman re- ferred to was asked, as Ann Pryse could not leave her brother to enme so far to him, whether he would act upon a letter signed by the plaintiff, which he agreed to do. The niece, thereupon, goes back to her aunt and uncle, and they get two letters,, which were written by the person named ROUKRD JOHN PRYSE, who is the fourth included in the prosecution. It seems that this R. J. Pryse- was a friend of the prosecutrix and her brother;: and! was in the iabit, they both being illiterate, ot writing, letters for them; and UJAO- this occasion he, not being mixed fife other Pryses/ fc sent for to write, and he writes tvT^ waters, to one of Ann pry-e pats her name, aiH # Frying, her br,)tller sigm the other. These two letters Militarise the nlmiillg of the mortgage in the very terms t\f Which these forties are charged." (His lordthip then read the leltetfcj li The old lady does not dispute that theee two letters are genuine; she says she did not know what was in them; but here i. her mark, and the Aiglllttllre of her brother, who managed the business for her. She now charges the.e M a fraud upon her with conspiracy! As to ROBKIIT JOHN PursE, the man who wrote these letters, the only part he had in the matter was the writing of the letters for the brother and the old maid. True, after the brother's death, he comes and a%il;.i her if she will iigii the deed, and she looks at it and signs it. It seems to me that there it not a shadow of pretence for mii/inf/ that lie is mixed np with any fon- Apintrut; and the effect of it, is ttli. tli;lt tlle. whole of the transaction as regards the brother's rihare rests on the testimony of that man and by making him a de- fendant, they deprive the other defendants of the only person who could exculpate them in the transaction. I must say that it is extremely improper—it is a most grievous injustice to the other defendants—to shut him out from the possibility of giving evidence. If you think that there is no ground for implicating him. you may if/iiore the. eltarye at/nuist him, so ((# to make him a competent witnes* in regard to the other parties. « "On the other hand, when the deed was brought to her she did not ask to have it read It. J. IVyse goes afterwards and asks her to sign it. Tb-J affair goes «.11 ismoothly until she quarrels with it..I. l'ryse ("hont the will of her brother], and this indictment is the result! Now, if there was anything wrong in the preparation of- the deed, if the terms were not carried out. she has her remedy by civil procedure; but it is a very different thing to indict perx-ns for a crime These indictments for conspiracy are not unfrequently resorted tn, when peoph: think they are not certain of a success by a civil huit, in order, under the fear of criminal procss, to compel parties to make terms. But we must take care that criminal proceedings are not abased. If you think, upon the fact- presented to you, you can see—and upon reading which I.do not, I UlUrit confess, myse)f see— sutiicient evidence to convict these parties oi the charge, then you will find the bill; but if you think the whole matttV in dispute is simply of that nature relating to the t 'rni* of a deed, Îllr which a suit in Chancery would be the proper means of obtaining redress if the party be untitled to rudrees; then-it is your duty to see that criminal process ii not abused in this way. The matter remains entirely f- r your consideration. "The (iraud Jury then retired, and threw out the bill charging Rubcrl John Pl'v..e and others with con- spiracy." C-t i l(?i-s initil C(,Ii- Seeing the old maid spending the property of herself and brother in licigatiou as she did, I left the will un- passed, as the remainder of the properfv, after all the costs she incurred, could not be of aiiy great conse- quence to me I .shall now leave the case in your hands, and appeal to the judgment of your readers, whether the questions put to me relating to the above matter were tair, just, and honourable, and worthy of an experienced pleader in- a court of justice. Yours, R. J. PRYSE.

DEATHBET) OF MA.TOR-OEN'ERAT, J. STUART. The following notice of the last hours of the gallant and distinguished Confederate soldier Major-General Jeb. Stuart is from the Richmond Examiner.'— Ni) incident of mortality since the fall of the great Jackson has occasioned more painful regret than this. Major-General .T. R. 15. Stuart, the model of Virginian cavaliers and dashing chieftains, whose name was a ter- ror to the enemy. and familiar as a household word in two continents, is dead, struck down by a bullet from the foe, and the whole Confederacy mourns him. He breathed, but his gallant spirit resignedly, and in the full possession of all his remarkable faculties of mind and body, at 22 minutes to eight o'clock on Thursday night, at the residence of Dr. Brewer, a relative, in Green-street, in the presence of Drs. Brewer, Garnett, Gibson, and Fontaine, of the general's staff, Rev. Messrs. Peterkin and Kalper, and a circle of aoirow-stricken comrades and friends. We learn from the physicians in attendance upon the general that his condition during the day was very changeable, with occasional delirium, and other unmis- takeable symptoms of speedy dissolution. In the pass- ing moments of delirium the gallant general reviewed in broken sentences all his glorious campaigns around M'Clellan's rear on the peninsula, beyond the Potomac, and upon the Rapidan, quoting from his orders, and issuing new ones to his couriers, with a last injunction to "make haste." About noon (Thursday) President Davis visited his bedside,and spent some 15 minutes in the dying cham- ber of his favourite chieftain. The President, taking his hand, said General, how do you feel ?" lIe replied, "Easy, but willing to die, if God and my country think I have fulfilled my destiny and none my dnty." As evening approached, the general's delirium again in- creased, and his mind again wandered to the battlefields over which he had fought, then to wife and children, and again to the front. A telegraphic message had been ent for his wife, who was in the country, with the in- junction to make all haste, as the general was danger- ously wounded. As evening wore on, the paroxysms of pain increased, and mortification et in rapidly. Though Ilffering the greatest agony at times, the general was calm, and sup plied to the wound, with his own hand, the ice intended to relieve the pain. During the evning he asked Dr. Brewer how long he thought he could live, and whether it was possible for him to survive through the night. The doctor, knowing he did not desire to be buoyed by false hopes, told him frankly that death, the last enemy, was rapidly approaching. The general nodded, and said, 1 a111 resigned if it be God's will; but I would like to live to see iiiy wife. But God's will be done." Several times he roused up and asked if she had come. To the doctor, who sat holding his wrist, and counting the fleeting, weakening pulse, he remarked, Doctor, I suppose I am going fast now. It will soon be over. But God's will be done. I hope I have fulfilled my (testinv to my country and my duty to my God." At half-past seven o'clock it was evident to the physi- cians that death was setting its clammy seal upon the brave open brow of the general, and they told him so, asking also if he had any last message to give. The general, with a mind perfectly clear and possessed, then made disposition of his staff and personal effects. To Mrs. General R. E. Lee he directed that the golden spurs be given as a dying memento of his love and esteem for her husband. To his staff officers he gave his horse. So particuar was he in small things, even in the dying hour, that he emphatically exhibited the ruling passion stronger in death. To one of his stafl, who was a heavy built man, he said, You had better take a larger horse; he will carry you better." Other mementoes he disposed of in a similar manuer. To his young son he left his glorious sword. His wordlv matters closed, the eternal interests of his soul engaged his mind. Turning to the Rev. Mr. Peter- kin, of the Episcopal Church, and of which be waatn exemplary member, he asked him to sing the hyrnn commencing Rock of Ages cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee," be joining in with all the voice his strength would per- mit. He then joined in prayer with the ministers. To the doctor he again said, I am going fast now. I am resigned. God's will be done." Thus died General J. E. B. Stuart.

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TALK ABOUT WALES AXD THE WELSH, BY AN OLD MOUNTAINEER. TIM WELSH AN "INFERIOR" RACE TO THE ENGLISH, -ALL lIOSH AND XONSKNSF. KlDSAPriSO IN WALKS, A I'KOI-EK PHOCKEM.VO AMO.NOST YOUNI; AND « FOOLISH GOATS." A SIKCBRK THANKSGIVING THAT TUK NAI'SKOL'S C'AF.K'H'ON ClIAI'K!. CASt: HAS BTKN DISMISSED—WITH OK WITHOUT COSTS. AM- LWCH HEUATTA AND MAW-WORM HYPOCRITES. A STOPPER TO TIIK BAD CONDUCT OK THF. BANCO it GAS AND WATKR COMPANY. 'r(OU NIANY Nk,'WSI'APER KLFIKAHSALS OK TliK "GRAND CANTATA. AND, A SHAIII' SHOT AT THE Two POACHING GAME- KKITIiliS. To the Editor of the North Wales Chronicle. I Dear Mr. Editor,—What rubbish and false assump- tions persons do tind in liew.sj>i»]>er< Bometinies, to be nurc.and from mn who one would really think were very clever fellows. Last week, one of your correspon- dents based a loug letter about a prop wed University for Wales, upon tile notion that Welshmen were con- sidered and treated as inferior in every way to the English, and .k. incapable, because they are Welshmen, of learning the higher branches of knowledge. Why. what unnecessary twaddle is this, and very much like one of our own myths bat 1 should like to know is —v!l(t so considers them ? If a Welshman hits real ta- lent, and goes to England, he is as much thought o £ »nd patronised it.; if he were born in Middlesex. Look how poor Mr. Roberts, :theS Welsh Engineer and inventer was honored whilst living and now that he is dead, the English, out (if respect and regard to him. is going to .subscribe a little fortune for his daughter, poor thing! because, although he was such a clever man. somehow he did not make money, although that was bad luck and for liich nobody can be blamed, unless it be those s'.vi'ic.li ig Americans. Again, are Miss Edith Wynne and John Thomas look- ed down upon in London, just because they happened to be born in Wales Is that elever lawyer, Mr. Mor- gan Lloyd, who I aiii told wa, bonl in a small farm house am .ng it the mountains somewhere about Traws- fvnydd, in lt rilmeth:ihirt" looked down upon and un- derrated by the Judges, or, indeed, by anybody else, because he is a Welshman, and has a Welsh twang. We all know that it is not so and it is not only foolish, but downright unjust to talk in that way. or to suppose that a Welshman, if he have talent and ust's it properly, has not as good a chance of getting oil iu the world as an Englishman has. If Welshmen underrate one another, that is their own fault; but I do not think this is the case except by a few foolish snobs, who fancy that because they have been a month in London or two years at Cambridge, they have a right to look down upon their countrymen, and to put on airs like silly dandies. Now. on the contrary, I firmly believe that th" mi. nority of the Welsh people have quite as high opinion cf themselves as any other people have, or, indeed, ought to have. They extol their language above all others they believe that their bards are nllequalled: "lid they believe, and rightly too, that they are as brave and as loyal iii aiiv other section of the. Where, then, is this implied "inferiority" to be found, or when, where, and by whom, is it assumed In short, I have no patience with such nonsense, for I like truth and common sense above all things. Talking about common sense By Jove, from what I can learn there does not seem to be much of it amongst some foolish quarrymen at Bethesda. Why, only to think of young men, earning a decent livelihood in a quiet country, being wheedled away to America by a set of rascally agents, to fight tliei-t- 'oil the sham pre- tenoe that they are wanted as quarrymen, and that they will have enormous wa^es. Knormous wages is it! Well, just let us see, what that funny, bold writer in thc Standard says about high wages and which I read only as late as Tuesday last. This is it, and which I quote for the especial benefit of those foolish dupes who think of makiug a fortune, by going to New York We are in a perfect snarl about the wageR for labour. Large meetings are held daily and nightly, for the pur- pome of raising wages to 3 dols. 4 cents per (lly, but wtx,,tt is the use of it ? J ust in proportion as old Chase throws his 50 millions of greenbacks upon the market every week does the price of gold go up, or rather the Cllrrenev down. When he has 500 millions more out, it will be down to 25 cents a dollar in green. Labour that to-day is remunerated at 4 dols. will then demand 8 dols." And again, a little further on he say, "The use of meat will have to be abandoned by a large class in this city (New York), before the summer is over. A pound of meat now costs 40 cents (Is. 8d.) A tender loin beefsteak costs 80 cents, raw Upnll my word this must be a sweet country for a working man to go to, let alone the chance of being shot by thij Confederate sharp shooters. Taffy had better be content at home, and let alone the high wages in America to those who like them—that he had. I'm so glad that that Caerdeon Chapel Case nuisance has Come to an end at last; for everybody was sick and tired of reading about it. There- is always a row amongst Welsh Churchmen about one thing or another, and they do snarl and bite at each other in fine style. Now that Mr Jelf is fairly stationed in Llanaber Parish, and has safely got into the Chapel saddle, there will be very nice "goings on amongst them. It will be rare iiiits for the Dissenters to crack, and an amusing sight to all hokers.on: I wonder what will the next apple of dis- cord be, and also whether Mr. Jelf will be made Rector of the parish, in lieu of Mr. Jones—disgraced? Would not this be retributive justice," as it is called ? Do you know I was rather astonished the other day to learn that a Regatta was deemed a "sinful" affair by any mortal man living but so it appears to be, if that your rambling Reporter (is he one of your lunatic fie. jmrters ?) has not been telling a pleasant bit of a fib. We all know that dancing is sinful, that racing is diabolical, and that walking out in the fields amongst the pretty little flowers on a Sunday is most reprehensible and anti- Scriptural (?); but that a Regatta was placed in the category of "offences" by even the most sanctimonious amongst us, was what I never dreamt of. Upon my word, Sir, I do believe that we have a frightful lot of hypocrites amougst us—that we have Now, that you may know what a real genuine hypocrite is, I will give you his photograph, as taken by that great moral photo- grapher— Robert Pollock. It is rather long, but I think your readers will like it; find besides, I have not given a snack of poetry very lately. Here is what a jiure hy- pocrite is- He was a man Who stole the livery of the Court of Heaven To serve the devil in in virtue's guise Devoured the widow's house and orphan's bread In holy phrase translated villanies That common sinners durst not meddle with. At sacred feast he Rat amongst the gaint" And with his guilty hands touched holiest things And none of sin lamented more, or sighed More deeply, or with graver countenance, Or longer prayer, wept o'er the dying mail, Whose infant children, at the moment, he Planned how to rob. In sermon style he bought, He sold and lied and salutations made. In scripture terms he prayed by quantity, And with his repetitions long and loud, All knees were weary. With one hand he put A. penny in the urn of poverty And with the other took a penny out! Sees thou that man ? A serpent with an angel's voice, a grave With flowers bestrewed And yet few were deceived. His virtues being overdone, his face Too grave, his face too long, his charities Too pompously attended, and his speech Larded too frequently and out of time With serious phraseology—were rents That in his garments opened in spite of him, Through which the well accustomed eye could see The rotteness of his heart." Well! this is rather a long quotation; but I hope that none of your readers in or around Amlwch will find that his portrait has been sketched in it. Yet, I don't know, there must bo a strong family likeness in those two preachers who thought it an act of godli- ness to rail against a trial of skill in a yacht, or who thought, or pretended to think, that a boat race was highly sinful. I wonder did Pollock ever visit the Isle of Auglesey? What a rumpus there always seems to be, to be sure, about that Gas and Water Company of yours. They always appear to be in hot water with some- body, and all about their cold water! Sometimes Betty Jones wastes the precious supply, and then she is taken before her betters and fined for waste—she forgetting the adage, Waste not, want not; or else prigging John Nehemiah takes his can to a neighbour's aud fills it from a fount which is not his'n, and for which hp. does not pay, when he, too, is summoned. Thistime, however, the Company themselves are the defendants, if that their conduct be not altogether indefensible. It certainly seems a pretty case that a person who pays a iregu ar price for water and pays it regularly, can only be tuppheJ with it when the Company does'nt choose to put the stopper on—water was intended to flow aUvays; for do not the old bequests say that such and 811Ch a legacy should be paid, Ac., as long as the sun shines and water runs ? In liangor, such a bequest would never be paid, for the water stops theroalmost all the day, and nearly all the night. Old John Pipeclay, I know, wouldn't care much about it, for he never drinks water, unless in an artificial condition but John Pipeclay is'nt everybody anil I think if they attempted t,) ttoI) my water, and I lived in P>angor, there would be the very old dellc" to pay, as well as the Magistrates' Clerk there would he no half-and-half measures with me, I can tell you. What a wonderful clever Cantata, to lie siire, fliat liew one must be, and which is cllcd the" Siege of l-hrlech," for I have seen it described no less than four times in vonr paper, and the same quotation about bur-tin-; the Porch of the Castle each time. I "are say the Hurrahing in the eliortis is a very grand affair (you should have heard the ol(I SLIllil'e li ttl'i':kliitlg ") but could you not manage somehow to print some other part of the poetry, just us a variety like, for you know "variety is pleasing," as the e:>pv-book heading says. I don't think that this continued boasting is in good taste, lior is it always prudent, for it ra'ses people's expecta- tions too high, and then when they hear it, they think it is not worth anything, because it may not come up to their j>re-coi:ceived notions of it, so thitt it often does more harm than good. As for myself, I don't like the way Kisteddfodau have been conducted of I ate, and so you may IK- sure I shall not hear the Cantata sung at Llandudno. As my fingers are beginning to ache a little, I shall conclude ill the usual old fashioned way, viz., I reuiai' Yours, &c.. A MOUNTAINEER. June 16th, 1861. Please to present my respects to Ar Air a Chydwy- bod." and tell him I very wicli approve of the excellent shot he fired at those two rouguish gamekeepers, as it was something better than a Hash in the pan. As they have both left," it all "right A. M.

ENGLISH CHURCH SERVICE IN WALES. To the r(lito?- of the .\ortk 11 <i!cs Chronicle Sir,—I presume that now a final decision has been given in this vexed -oil Chap"l. question, all cor- respondence oil the subject will cease in the newspapers. Will you permit me, however, to have a parting word with that refined anil gentlemanly correspondent, "An Inhabitant of Llainber." This partial scrive afll,cts to doubt mv impartiality," and strongly insinuates that I am OllP of the Rector's friend in disguise." In answer to this I beg to say that I iiever saw tlie. Rector in my life, to my knowledge, nor was I ever at Llana ber, although ufion one occasion I paid a visit to Barmouth, and with the picturesque beauties of which I was greatly delighted. Will this satisfy your correspondent, that I run Hut (JHe of tile Rector's friends, in disguise or other- wise ? lie next accuses me with telling "lies.' This is a serious accusation, and if made at all ought to have been substantiated l y ia':ts. At least this is the course which would be pursued by any gentleman. Your cor- respondent, on the contrary, rests satisfied with simply preferring the charge, thinking, no doubt, that an asser- tion emanating from so great a quarter would. bo re- ceived by the public as an incontrovertible truth. I wonder whether this unscrupulous writer is the "eel" or the shark" alluded to by your witty and talented correspondent Crane." That production seems to have scared as well as crabbed" the entire shoal, for they refrained from putting in an appearance in print after- wards. Well, we all know that sometimes "discretion is the better part of valour." Yours truly, LOOKER ON. I JuncHth,lSG4. LOOKER ON.

To the Editor of the North IlVfs Chronicle. Sir,-Allzt il Alla, There is (fortunately) only one Jelf, and "An Inhabitant of Llanaber" is his prophet. But let me entreat the public to believe that there are more inhabitants of Llanaber than one, and that the particular oue who assumes the title in your columns is not a representativeman; unless indeed he be of the clique that has sprung from Cael'deon Chapel, and which, like the stones of Deucalion, has vivified by being thrown behind people's backs. 1 don't, know why our Rector should be "surfeited with his friends," as this writer thinks he should be. In the first place the latter forgets that everyone is not possessed of the wealth of ingratitude.which he himself has accumulated, aud is knowh to lavish freely; and in the next he has not considered that after reading his productions the force of surfeit could no further go. Nor do I see the necessity for the Hector's entertaining any feeling of disgust," except it be for the writer of the letters referred to, and the Billingsgate expressions he uses. It would be quite objectless to tell any "lies, as he politely calls them, of him. The Rector's friends might with great force retort in the words of Martial,— Lie on—and our revenge shall be To speak the very truth of thee." I have watched the progress of this Caerdeon dispute —and knowing and hearing on the spot what I do, I have been amused by the anxiety of some of your cor- respondents to ascertain the names of the subscribers to the Rector's Defence Fund, and their anger at the formation of sucli a fund. One of them, the lioney- tongued "Inhabitant," was graciously pleased to say, that "he had no objection to the begging box going round the parish for the Hector." This was very ge- nerous of him—because at the same time he held in his hand, and was poking under people's noses, a receptaele of that description on behalf of his quondam foe of Ynysvfri, but present patron of Caerdeon. It is a mat- ter of parochial notoriety that Mr. Jelf's expenses have been subscribed for by his friends. Am I, therefore, unreasonable in asking that if the list of contributions to one fund be published, that of the other should also be ? Mr. Jelf's epistolary defenders and friends (from whom he may well cry "save me") deprecate a continua- tion of the controversy. And well they may. We in the parish know how much they lose by it; and we also know what they have to answer for in having originated it, and in having deprived us of what. we had always hitherto enjoyed—viz., l-'nglish services at Barmouth. They may exult in a fancied triumph for Mr. Jelf and they may do so with all the more freedom, as they will not be shackled by the restraint of consideration for the true welfare of the Church. But I would recommend to their attention the following lines, which by the slight alteratioll of Caerdeon" for Gorham," become appropriate:— "Hurrah for the Bishop hurrah for the Vi car Hurrah for the row that grows thicker and thicker! Alas for the Church that grows sicker and sicker!" MORAL. Odium thcologicum to fish up In a Priest is a ciii-se, But in right reverend Bishop Keep ter fjV.otet que worse 1 am, sir, your obedient servant, MAWDDACH. I

To the Editor of the North Wales Chronicle. I Sir,—It is a good rule-dictated by policy no less than by generosity—to take no notice of a lapsus liitgv.ee, or any other mistake on the part of an adversary, which is not vital to the principle at issue. This rule, sir, I shall observe in this my last letter upon a controversy which has occupied a mnst unmerited share of public attention. Nor can we regret too much the gross per- sonalities that have been levelled at the Lord Bishop of Bangor and Mr. Jelf; but past experience proves that the intrusion of such aspersions will tend only to help forward the good cause, and to arouse to increased efforts the energies of those it has assailed, while at the same time it has awakened the attention of a languid public, and attracted the sympathy of fair and manly minds. "Carnctacus," in his last letter-if the two letters were written by the same pubJicist-represents me as candidly admitting that [ have no knowledge of the Caerdeon belligerents, the seat of war, or the real "achos ymrafael." It is true that I have never, to my knowledge, seen the Hector of UalJaber lJor Jelf. But it is not true that I have uever visited the seat of war. My in- consistent reflections" were founded upon the pamphlets, the public papers, and correspondence upon the subject; and therefore upon the same basis as the solitary bay of the platform utterer, the full cry of Parliament, and the deeper-mouthed chorus of the English press. But is it seriously contended that it is impossible to un- derstand the real "achos ymrafael" without a personal knowledge of the belligerents 1 If it is, then it is not a public, but a private question between Mr. Jelf and his Rector. This, however, the Rector denies in his letter to the Lord Bishop of Bangor, dated Dec. 8th, 1860. However that may be, it is impossible that Mr. Jelf can obtain a more convincing testimonial of character than his sacrifices in the cause of religion and education be- speak it is impossible there can be a clergyman who would be more acceptable to the district than the gen- tleman to whom it owes such a debt of gratitude. To Caractacus" it has been left to ventilate the idea that the bench of justice is the less to be respected when it possesses no personal knowledge of the belligerents, and sits far away from the din of the battle-field. Nor does greater candour characterize his language in his endeavours to draw a parallel to the Caerdeon dis- trict. He charges me with having questioned the ac- curacy of his facts, as regards the parishes of Dolgelley and Pwllheli What were the facts ? Why, that the resident population of each flI theaa two important t >»-n-]larishes is double that of Llanaber, that the num- ber of churches is the same, and in each case there is but one English service on Sunday, None of these facts did 1 question, but I said, and I repeat it, that these data do not establish a parallel. The definition can only be satisfied by there being a district in these parishes with English residents, four luiles fffjrn an English church, or a church where there is an English service; and that a gentleman had offered to make a provision for their religious instruction and for public worship for the term of his natural life. It is absurd to talk about statute acres, and equally irrelevant about Pwllheli having a town population half M large again as the parish of Llanaber, unless the church is uncom- fortably crowded. Why the very fact at the Welsh population of Pwllheli bearing sticii a greater ratio to the English—the English residents and visitors at Pwll- heli being according to his own shewing not greater than at Barmouth—-should CO' vaice the most prejudiced that the chim of the Pwllhe i English for an additional service is proportionably weaker. But I have never contended that the English residents of Barmouth have any right to expect or demand from the Rector a second service what I condemn him for is, his having deprived a portion of his not within reach of his ministrations—of the consolations of re- ligion otherwise provided for them. They may possess carriages, bnt that would only affect the condemnation in degree. So long as the parishioners are within a reasonable distance- say two miles-of a church, it would be unfair and uncalled for to impose any fresh burden on the Rector. Where the provision for the clergyman is small, as at Llanaber, and where the ener- gies of the Incumbent are already over-tasked, public opinion would regard it as an exceptional case to be met by exceptional exertions. "Although I have accepted Caractacus V challenge in this instance, I shall decline to contribute further to a correspondence which has presented, in a compendious form, an exhibition of those qualitie" of wind--that ar- rogant self-complacency, that logical incoherence, and that moral bewilderment—w hich a long career of im- i,liiiitv and of irresponsibility could aloue engender. P. J.

THE NIGHTINGALE AT PENMAENMAWR. I To the Editor of the North Wafcs Chronicle. I Dear Sir,- I perceive "A Resident" questions the statement of the Nightingale having been heard at this place, and says he had been weak enough to walk at night in the most enticing places for them (for what, nightmare or nightingale)?" but the only sound he heard had been the note of the landrail or corncrake." I have been more fortunate, and without taking a special walk round," for a fortnight past have repeat- edly heard the nightingale pouring forth its delicious song, and last night not one nightingale, but several, four or five were singing at the same time. For the first few nights it appeared from the distance to be located at the foot of the mountain near to Plasucha On Sunday night, a friend heard it near to Plascelyn, the residence of R. Kneshaw, Esq., not more than 200 yards from the I'enmaenmawr Hotel; while last night as I walked from Llanfairfechan, I heard one singing in a copse at the foot of l'enmaenmawr, between the Point" and the tollbar, and again when I got home, about 11 p.m. heard several sini ing at the foot of the Voel-llys mountain, between Tan-y-Bryn farm and Tan- y-foel. For some time I had a doubt as to the indentity of the bird, thinking it might be the Readsparrow, but having now on several occasions heard the peculiar guttural jug-jug-jug-jug-jug, so characteristic of the nightingale and having resided in the South of England, where dozens might be heard at the same tjme-I have no doubt our visitors are the veritable nightingale, and not the landrail, nor crokers of any other kind. If A Resident" has any further samples on the sub- ject, lethim chargehis pocket-flask with material for ty- ing a nightcap" or rather two, as recommended by Mr. Samuel Slick in the Attache," and come to my resi- dence any evening, and I will venture to ease 'his mind, and prove to him that one fact in natural history has at any rate become a fallacy, and a most welcome one too. i too. I am, dear Sir, I Yours faithfully. Mountain View, Penmaenmwr, W. P. AYRES. I June 14th, 1864.-

THE EGHAM RAILWA? AcctoENt.—The inquest upon Mr. Esau Trigg, at Charlfig-eross Hospital, was opened on Monday last, before Mr. Bedford. Tlte evidence taken was formal. The body wioi identified, and the cause of death certified to by the surgeon to the hospital. The inquiry was then adjourned to Mcwtoy next. The Duke of Sutherland is on his way home from his yachting excursion. He returns overland, and is expected to reach London on the 17th. He called at Oaprera on his return voyage, and saw Gnribaldi. The General is in good health and the best of spirits, leading his old simple life, and full of grateful recollections of the kiud- ness of his reception from all ranks and classes of the community. M. Munk, a member of the Jewish perflation, is said to be the person chosen by the French Minister of Pub- lic Instruction to take the place of M. Kenan as profes- sor of Hebrew, Syriac, and Chaldnic at the College de France. The nomination of an Israelite is perhaps to show that the objections to M. Renau were not solely on account of his private opinions. At, the Mansion House, London, on Mondav, Antro- bus, described as an accountant, was committed for trial on a charge of forging the signature I of a commissioner for taking affidavits in Chancery, as the attesting witness to the execution of a deed and of certain other docu- ments used and intended to be used as evidence in the Court of Bankruptcy. On Sunday last considerable surprise was excited in Trinity Church,. St. Phillip's, by the banns of marriage between two parties being forbidden. It appears that the persons desirous of entering into the married state were a man abaut 70 years age, residing at Iron Acton, and a young woman between 20 and 30. On the banns jing read, the son of tke would-be husband stood up md forbade tlem-,UPW PotU.

I i.GttUanI$MS; The honour 01 knighthood has been coMtried by flrg qtieeii tipon Mr. Jillitict Stlee- A Conservative Club was opened at BlackbiW 641 Mønday. to ]3rornyaf  The first sod of a rail?fy from ? orcestcr to Bromyara and I?ominster was turned on Tllesdy. the Karl of Cork has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire in the room of Lord Portman, re- sigfted. T¡vo yrmng men, brothers, were drowned on Mon- dav while feathing in a stream in Cragg Vale, near Halifax. A destructiwr thunderstorm passed over London on Monday, ft' wiw followed by heavy rain and violent wind, which FmrioVrAly injured the fruit trees. The body of a feWiale, liude and much mangled, was found iu the Thames on Saturday. It is supposed that she was murdered. he Queen's state r.,1!, announced to take place on the 27th instant, has been postponed till the -29th in. stant. A man named Limack was stabbed by a drunken companion in Sheffield on Sunday night. The wound exposed the bowels. Mr. Thomas Jones, treasurer of the Manchester Rechabite Savings Fund and Equitable Loan Society, bai been committed to the county sessions on a charge of embezzlement.. The Gazette de France says that r he projected mar- riage between the Princess ftaginar, daiiKhter of King Christian of Denmark, and the (irand Duke, heir to the throne of litissia, is definitively broken off. The prices of wheafcen bread in the metropolis ar. from (i.Jd. to 7d.; of household ditto 5 £ d, to fid. Somu bakers are selling from 4.\11. to 5d. per 4[b. loat, weighed o i delivery. It is reported that the heiress to the Brazilian throne is likely to marry the Austrian Archduke Louis Victor. If so, the Hapsburg family will number three Emper. orfl. The use of meat will have to be abandoned by a large class >11 this city before the summer is over. A pound of meat now costs 10 Ccuto. A tender loin beef- steak costs 80 cents, raw.—Letter from Net" York. On the 2:3rd of April, the tercenterary of Shakspeare's birthday, the inhabitants of .Melbourne presented an address to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean,as a proof of their appreciation of the high t,o..nt- of those celebrated r&- of the English stage. Disturbances broke out at Cozes on Sunday, the "20th :\fay on the occasion of the Corpus-Cln isti proe. si in. Some Protestants, on leaving their houses, wished to cross the street, but were prevented by the gendarmerv. They ultimately broke through the ranks and followed the procession. During a thunder storm which passed over the N-orth Riding a few days ago, two women, just out-side the town of Maltoii, were struck by the lightning. One of them is very little worse, but the other, named Hud. son, is yet unable to walk or speak properly, 'I he wo. intnwere sheltering near trees. Mr Guinness, who is restoring the national cathedral of Ireland at his own expense, has ordered a very lari clock to be constructed for the building. The hours will be struck on a bell weighing one ton and a half, and four tunes and chimes played on nine other bells varying in weight from 5 cwt. to 2-i ewt.A thenrf um. Askern Church, near Doncaster, was struck by light. iiiii,, last week. Portion of the bell-turret and roof wers struck with such violence that some portions of the stonework and roof were scattered over the par-onige garden, a distance of at least 150 feet. The lightning then entered the church, tearing down the bellrope in its descent, and carrying a large portion of one of the cross beams from the west end to the chancel, a distanc* of at least 60 feet. Mr. Speak, a private in the Skipton volunteer corps, took his rifle down to clean on Monday evening, and, to please a little Ooy visitor at the house, named Cossgrove, he put a cap on the rifle, and presenting it at the child, fired The rifle, unknown to Speak, was loaded with blank catridge. The contents went the child's face, and thecatridge penetrated the skull. The child, who is only IS months old, is dangerously wounded, but hopes aN entertained of ultimate recovery. At a banquet which was given the other day in con. nexion with the opening of the new railway liue between Copenhagen and Klsinore, Bishop Monrad proposed The Princess of Wales," who (says the Copenhagen correspondent of the Times) might almost have heard the hurrah which rose in her honour all the way from the shores of the Oresund to her boudoir at Marlborough House. The King of Denmark, in reply, assured the byestanders that his absent daughter' felt a< poignantly fur the calamities of her country as any there present." The dead body of James Henderson, a private in the 92nd Highlanders, was found lying at the foot of the Castle Rock, Edinburgh, on Sunday morning last. It appears that decmscd was married without leave a few weeks ago, and in accordance with military law his wife had to reside ontside the barracks It is supposed that on Saturday night, yielding to a sudden impulse, he re- solved to get out of the castle to visit his wife, and on endeavouring to creep down the rocks he missed his footing and was precipated to the bottom. The agent to Colonel F. Greville, M.P., for the county of estmeath, and a suppporter of tenant right, has been threatened in a letter sent to him, and signed Your Coffin." The agent, with the sanction of the colonel, has forbidden the cutting of turf on Ceddah Hog. In consequence he has been threatened with a doace of lead." Colonel Greville has therefore published an address to his tenants, saying that if a hair of his agent's head is touched he will evict every family in the townland of Caddagh and level their houses with the ground. THE PARIS CALCRAFT. Since the day," says the Fhjarn Programme, when the last of the Sansons was able, as he so philosophically expresses it, to give himself the satisfaction of really washing his bands and wiiting his memoirs, the executioner in Paris has been M. Hendercich, who resides in a handsome house on the Boulevard lieaumarchais. The person who lives on the same floor with him is the actor Laferrier, wbo salutes his neighbour on the stairs, thinking him a private citizen. M. Ilendereicli has living with him a youth of 15, whom he is having educated at one of the colleges. The lad calls M. Hendereich his uncle, and is not aware that the latter is an executioner. The youth is also ignorant that he himself is the son of a condemned prisoner, and that he was taken care of from charity by the man who had been charged to execute his father." A FEDERAL Foiicyp,In his last letter from New York Maubattan" writes-" One of our wealthiest brokers, a first-class citizen, was on Monday sentenced to hard labour in the State prison for two years. I al- lude to Solomon Kohnstamon. Few gave such elegant dinners as he. He was tried in the United States Court before Judges Nelson and Shipman. I think both of those judges have frequently been partakers of his hospitality. Mr. Kohnstamon brought forged claims upon the Government amounting to millions of dollars. It seems for some weeks that the Treasury did nothing else but pay these enormous frauds. All this while Kohnstamon was spreading himself and giving his diu- llers, and inviting all the prominent people to his feasts. When arrested he was sent to Fort Lafayette. Then he was admitted to bail. His bondsman signed for 150,000 Kohnstamon never expected to be shut up for weeks or years. He is past praying for in Sing Sing." TIIF. MURDER IN SIIEFFIELD. -The inquest upon the body of Mrs. Myers was opened on Saturday, by Mr. W. W. Woodhead, deputy-coroner. The only witness called was a married sister of the deceased, named Ray- nor, living in Parkwood Sprangs, and she identified the body. She last saw the deceased alive on Monday, when she appeared to have been crying. Asked her "What was amiss at home ?" and the deceased replied that her husband was ill, and that she felt sorry to hear his cries. 1 he prisoner is sutienng from a painful disorder, brought on by drink. The witness described the deceased as being of a particularly mild and forbearing disposition, and said that he had frequently been compelled to in- terfere to protect her from the violence of the prisoner. The character which the latter bore she described in & significant sentence, He was very fond of driuk and would not work." The inquest was adjourued until Thursday, and the deputy-coroner ordered a post thoHcth examination of the body of the murdered woman.—The prisoner was reported to be improving, and it is very likely he will recover. He expressed some anxiey to know when the assizes would be hefd. HARVEST PROSPECTS IN SCOTLAND.—During the past week we have had several thunderstorms, accompanied in places with heavy showers of rain. The moisture his been of much benefit to the growing crops, which an many districts, owing to the drought and cold, were looking both unhealthy and backward. The oats in some parts still wear a yellow and somewhat sickly ap- pearance, and the hay crop cannot now be an average one. Potatoes suffered severely from the frost of the last day of May, especially in the western counties, where it is now doubted if they can prove a full crop, Turnips have been injured so iftuch by the fly, whose ravages were enconraged* by the dry weather, that nu- merous fields have had to be sown over again. The wheat crop, however, is, on the whole, looking healthy. and gives token of bulking well in the stack and on the barn floor. It is somewhat later than usual, however, though in Kast Lothian ear-a were noticed to be shot in the middle of last week. Barley looks very fairly; and since the rain tin- grass has sprung up wonderfully, though a fortnight ago it afforded a very poor bite. The rain 1\11 yef has had vevp- little effect. upon the rivers, the grotlndibeing so tttythtt it was-stteked up" jlmost as soon as it fell. Maw rain, is potman,