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DOLGELLEY. I COUNTS- COURT.—Nov. 27th, before A. J. Johnes, Esq., Judge.—The Mawddwy Kiihvay Company were sued by James Kirkpatrick to recover X3, the value of a sheep and ewe, which strayed on the company s line of railway, owing to the inefficiency of the fencing, and were killed. -The plaintiff, a fanner, living at a.m-tad. goed, Mallwyd, said that he saw the sheep all right about two o'clock in the afternoon of the 23rd of July. They afterwards got thr"ugh a certaiu portion of the fencing, and were killed by a p.issiug train.—Mr Heury Morgan, the distuct manager uf the line, said that he was instructed to plead uon-.iability, the line beiug at the time ill the maintenance of Mr laylor, the contrac- tor, the company not coming into possession until Sep- tember of the present year,—His Honour said that the question had •' bea ly been decided; such an arrange- ment was between Mr Taylor aud the company, and not between the company and the public.—The case for the plaintiff was that the fencing was bad, but this was con- tradicted, and it was assertei on the part of the company that the sheep must have got through the gate of au occupation cro-sing.—Uis Honour gave judgment for the fnll amount. Hugh l'ugb, wheelwright, Dolgelley, sued Arthur Edward Wheeldon, gentleman, Hengweit, Dolgelley, to recover 13 5s 0,1 for work done in repairing a carriage belonging to the Llel'ondtut. ti was paid into court.— Mr David l'ugh appeared for the plaintiff. The defend- ant Contested the action on the ground that the charge was enormous.—His liouour gave judgment for the defendant. FATAL ACCIDENT.—About three o'clock on Wednes- day afternoon Ia-t, a person named William Williams, a labourer, was at work excavating a small hole under a protecting wall at the back of a new house, now in course of erection at Lletty Dcwi, near this town, when the wall gave way, together with a large quantity of earth, and the poor follow was buried in the debris. It is calculated that at least four tons covered him. Un account of the narrow space, it took about hali-an-hour before his body could be recovered, although a large number of people at once went up from the town at the first alarm, and every one worked with a will. When found, life was quite extinct. He leaves a widow and a very large rallllly of small children in deep poverty, although he was a very steady and sober uia,i.-Ou Thursday an inquest was held on the body of the de- ceased at the Shire Hall, before S. J. Williams, Esq., coroner, and a jury of whom Mr Owen Rees, Printer, was the foreman. The following witnesses were called: Mr John TLoiiia- ,,ai,l- I live at D"Igc-ll,!y. and am a mason. I knew the deceased, and he was working with me. I saw hiui last ativH yesterday, between two and three p.m. wove at the time engaged o maki <g a drain at the back of the new house at Lletty D -.vi, near this town. 1 was withiu three or four yards of him. We were working between two walls, aud he was with a crowbar trying to remove a stone projecting under the foundation ,f ozit, of them when the wall tell down upon him. It took us from twenty minutes to half-au-tiour to get him clear eM the stones and debris which covered him to the depth of about two yards. There was plenty of help near at hand.— Mr J. E. Jones said—I am a surgeon at Dolgelley. I was yesterday called to the deceased. 1 went, to the place where ho was, and at the time he was under the stones and rubbish. I saw him being taken out, and he was at the time fluite dead. In my opinion, judgiuj from outward appearance, the im- mediate cause of death was sutl)cati JII. As far as I could see iio bones were biokeu. I saw his body again last night, and from its appearance then, I thought that some internal rupture had taken place. Verdict- Accidental death.

Mrs S. C. Hall, the authoress, has been plaoed oil the I pension list for A; 100 a year.

THE ANGLESEY BOROUGHS ELECTION. SIB,—Late in the afternoon on the polling day I went up to Mr Stanley near one of the polling booths at Holyhead, and offeied him my hand, saying, "The contest is now nearly over, and I believe you are the winner." He gave me his hand, and said, Let bye- gones be byegones." I answered, with all my heart; i am willing to forget the past, and hope the boroughs will derive nothing but benefit from our encounter." Acting in the spirit of that conversation, I purposely deferred my visit to Beaumaris next day until a late hour in the afternoon, in order that Mr Stanley might not be annoyed by aoy popular demonstrations in my favour on the occasion of the declaration of the poll. Oil my arrival at Beaumaris, however, I found that though my friends had kept away from the meeting, my honourable oppoueut could not allow the opportunity to pass without making some sneering allusions to the "defeated candidate." But though "defeated," I was received at Beaumaris with a welcome in marked con- trast to the reception the successful candidate met with; and on my visits to Llangefni and Amlwch the follow- ing day, the enthusiasm with which I was received by an entire population was such as to have made an im- pression upon my. mind and my heart which will never be etlced. I woull not, however, write this letter, or refer to these past events, had not Mr Stanley thought tit to renew his attacks upon me at a meeting of his support. ers held at Holyhead, last Wednesday evening. 1 have been tuld that meeting was convened by the issue ot cards to his own supporters, and that the general public were not admitted and that may probably account for the asse tions he and others made there being allowed to pass uncontradicted. Those assertions have now ob- tained a wide circulation, by means of your paper and other journals, and I cannot, in justice to myself and my supporters, allow them to pass uncontradicted. I shall not comment upon the self laudation con- tained iu the earlier portion of Mr Stanley's speech, and it is unnecessary for me to defend the other Welsh Liberal members against the charge implied in the fol- lowing sentence :—" I alone of the Liberal members of North Wales have voted according to my promises." But I shall at once come to the serious charges he has thought fit to make against myself. He says of me, I do not blame him for presenting himself as a candi- date, but 1 do blame him—a man of character, who seeing that my Parliamentary life was perfectly unas- sailable, used slander and falsity to undermine my cha- racter aui tiit the electors of Holyhead." Now, that is a serious charge, aud I defy the honourable member to substantiate it. Wbat I ziai(I of Mr Stanley was said PLIIJIIC Y, in thepiessnce of thousands of the inhabitants of Holyhead, and 1 said nothing that 1 cannot substan- tiate. 1 also confined my observations to subjects of a public nature, aad to matters in which the people of Holyhead were interested; his opposition to Mr Thompson's scheme for constructing docks at Holyhead -au opposition which I am glad to tind has been with. drawn, as a result of the contest—and other grievances which the inhabitants of Holyhead as a community, and not as individuals, complained of. 1 said that a public man must be a liberal at home, as well as in Parliament, and I am still of that opinion. Air Stanley goes on to say, 1 will not say much of Mr Lloyd's conduct, fur- ther than this. His conduct and that of his proposer, a magistrate of the county, and a few otheis, at the pulling booths, was such that if the returning officer had known his duty, he would have ordered them out, as the returning officer of Pwllheli ordered Mr Lloyd Edwards to leave the booth," & Here Mr Stanley has managed iu one sentence to drag in the name of a gentleman of high position and character in a neigh- bouring c tti,ty, to charge the returning officer with ig. norance of his duties, and to make au accusatiou against a brother magistrate and a neighbour, besides making another uufuunded charge against myself. What par- ticular conduct of my proposer" and myself is here referred to I do not know, but the passage probably refers to an attempt we made to prevent Francis Owen, the tax c illector, from iutiundatiug voters in poor cir- cumstances wuo cauie up to record their votes for me. We appealed to the returning ollicer to have that man removed from the building, but the attempt was un- successful, as Mr Stanley's solicitor told the officer that Fraucis Uwcn was Mr Stanley's duly constituted agent. 1 shall not dwell upon the doings on the polling day, but it is well known in Anglesey what iutlueuces were at work oi that day. Until after the late contest had commenced, Mr Hogg my proposer) aud I were perfect strangers to men. other, but 1 am now proud to call him my friend. He was for a long time reluctant to take part 111 the contest, aud until the last moment he refused to join my com- mittee. So far from his attempting to put any pres- sure upon his tenants to induce them to vote for we, he did not even canvass them, aud, wh few excep- tions, they all voted for Mr Stanley, ihe ill-natured allusions made to Air Hogg at Beaumaris and Holyhead will uot lessen the high esteem in which he is held by all classes in his own neighbourhood, aud his brother magistrates will not think worse of him because he has been attacked by Mr Stanley. The next charge that I shall notice is the following "But there is a worse feature iu the address of Mr Lloyd than the reviling of my character. What is his object t I will tell you. In the eloquent language which he knows how to use he has tried to stir up an ill feeling between the working classes and those above them," &c. And then he refers to a letter from a Re- spectable pastor," (which the pastor will probably not tiiaukhitut,-rpuulisiiiug)atict insinuates that the iusultof which tuat rev. geutleinan complains is attributable to my instigation. At all my meetings my hearers were of all c.asses, and my object has been in Anglesey, as well as elsewhere, to promote uuited action amongst all classes to secure the advancement of the Welsh nation. It is untrue that I ever sought to create an ill feeling between the working classes and those above them, bu. when, in the course of the contest, attempts were made to infringe upon the liberties of the electors, I have en- couraged them to stand tiriii in the face of iutimidation and oppression. I shall say nothing about the rev. gentle- man's letter, which Mr Stanley has thought tit to publish, further than this that I regret that a gentle- man should m a weak moiueut have allowed himself to make insinuations against me and my supporters which are not warranted by auything that has taken place; aud 1 trust that upon rellectlou lie will think it his duty to withdraw those observations. I shall only refer to one other charge contained in the honourable gentle- man's speech—a charge, not against myself, but against a minister of great taieut aud learning, and of unim- peachable integrity, aud whose renown extends wher- ever Welshmen are to be found. The Kev. Robert Ellis, of Carnarvon (Cynddelw), kindly attended one of my meetings at flolyhead, and must have been the strange minister" referred to in the following paragraph I have heard that the children of the town have been in- structed to bawl and siug about the streets, and to shuut they know not what, and that they were encouraged to do so by strange ministers, who, in blasphemous and irre- verent terms told thein it was thsir duty to do s(, Verily this charge requires no refutation. 1 would not have alluded to the speech of the Rev. it. Jones at the meeting referred to, had he not thought tit to introduce the name of my old friend and tutor, Dr Edwards, of Bala, in order to give weight to obser- vations which would otherwise have created but little interest, He complains that your reporter had omitted air observation winch he (Mr Jones) said he heard me make, at Beaumaris, respecting Dr Edwards. The com- plaint against your Reporter is, however, unfounded, inasmuch as 1 neither mentioned Dr Edwards' name nor even alluded to him in my speech at Beaumaris. Mr J oues'account of a supposed conversation between Dr Edwards aud Mr Roberts is equally devoid cf founda- tion. I have to apologize to you and your readers for the length of this letter, and I subscribe myself, Sir, your obedient servant, I MORGAN LLOYD. 4, King's Bench Walk, Temple, 2ud December, 186S.

MERIONETHSHIRE ELECTION. 8m-In your report of the speech of Mr David Williams, made on the hustings, at Harlech, on the day of election, we find it stated by him that, Mr Wynne had beeu deceived, his party having kept him in the dark as to his prospects for many weeks, or else he would have retired long ago," &c., &c.; aud They sent Mr Wynne to Loudon ou the eve of the election, and then they skedaddled from him." We desire to give a distinct aud explicit denial of the truth of the above statements. The confidence between the candidate and his committee has never been interrupted for an instant. --We are, Sir, your obedient servants, W. It. M. WYNNE, Late a candidate for Merioneth. RICHARD MEREDYTH RICHARDS, Late chairman of Mr Wynne's committee. Nov. 26th, 1868. [The foregoing letter was not received in time for last week's paper.—ED. N. II'.C'.J

DENBIGHSHIRE ELECTION. Sm, --I hal"e just been reading an account of the dcclaratiun of the poll for this county, ou Monday last, and cannot help expressing my deep sympathy for Col. Biodulph, and iiiy indignation at the base ingratitude with which the si-3 lied Liberal, (?) pait/ have treated him in the recent contest. Truly, asfue states in hisitoucli- ing "farewell address, he formed the Liberal party in 1532, and sixteen years ago he was the only card they c iuld play agaiubt Alr Bagot, He came forward and fought the battle manfully and successfully; and what has been his reward ?—shameful desertion by his own pretended friends. A small clique, heade I by tbat would- be tenor Uee of Denbigh has now made use of him under the guise of frieudship, but really as a cats-paw to accomplish their own selfish, narrow-minded purposes. The whole affair is humiliating in the utmost degree to the reputation of the county, and I trust, nay, firmly believe, that the history of the recent disgraceful intri- gues will be the means of causing the electors of the county to show unmistakeably that they will not submit to the arrogant and impudent dictation of a maa like. Gee, who, I am told, on Monday last was skulking in a corner of the Hall ashamed (as well he may be) of his recent electioneering manoeuvres. It cannot be denied that 0. Morgan was the nominee of the Dissenting com- munity of which Gee is the avowed mouthpiece, and with whom (congenial society) (?) 0. M. domiciled during the election. Is the county prepared to hand itself over to be dictated to, and led by the nose by such a man as Gee 1 Will the county allow itself to be swamped by the spiritual (?) influence of the Dissenting chapels, several of which in various parts of the county members were not allowed to leave last Sunday week, until they had pledged themselves, come what may, to vote for Morgan? Why! the influence and intimidation of the Papists in Ireland is a farce to the tyranny exercised by these political-not religious Dissenters, over their poor benighted, Vote-as-you're-told congregations. Electors of Denbighshire, be up and doing at once and prepare for another contest which must inevitably take place ere long, and evince an unmistakeable deter- mination to throw off once and for ever the shackles of this horrid species of priestly tyranny and chapel screw. The Dissenters in this county, and all over England have been in the recent elections, holding out the right hand of fellowship (unholy alliance !) to Romanists, in order to demolish, as they vainly hope, the Church of England, which is, after all, the grand bulwark of Protestantism in this country. The question will very soon have to be fought and decided. Shall Protestantism or Romanism be dominant in this Tealm ? That and nothing else will be the issue raised. Our highest privileges, our dearest interests, our boasted liberty of conscience are at stake '—men of Denbighshire, prepare for the coming struggle. AN ELECTOR. Dec. 3rd, 1868. SIR, -At the declaration of the poll on Monday last at Denbigh, I see by the newspapers that Mr Osborne Morgan made a statement that in the course of the con- test he had made an offer to pay the expenses of both Liberal candidates. This statement seems t,) have been questioned, and I am told that at this point in the meet- ing there were calls for me. I was unable to get into the room, but if I had been present and permitted to speak, any statement relevant to the subject matter I could have made, would have been That on the 22ud ult., I undertook a journey to Denbigh to see Mr Gee, to try and arrauge to have the names of Colonel Bil- dulph and Mr Morgan put on the polling tickets. I saw him and Mr Ellis Eyton at the house of Mr Gee, and pressed the subject. Waiving the immediate question, Uu-y begged of me to ask Col. Biddulph to allow me to accept Mr Morgan's retainer, and in the eveut of his compliance they said, We will put him in free of expense." This is all I can recollect to have heard on the subject of the expenses. I may add that Mr MorgM is paying my coets.—I am, your obedient I servant, JOHN JONES, Solicitor. I Wrexham, Dec. 3rd, 1868. I

THE RELIGIOUS SCREW." I Sm,-We have heard much of late coucerning this new fangled implement of electioneering warfaH'; and, being ignorant of its cxisteuee and modus operandi, perhaps either you, Mr Editor, or .the honourable ex-M.P. for Carnarvonshire (who seems to be so tho- roughly acquainted with its action) will kindly define its potent peculiarity, for the benefit of myself and the unenlightened public. Is it (supposing it to be used) anything more than powerful inculcation of strong moral precepts—urging the importance of acting con. scientiouslyand keeping promises, at all times and in all places ? matters of no consideration, as is well known, to those who use the old country gentleman's (bread and butter) screw." It seemed particularly undignified, ungrateful, and unfortunate iu the defeated candidate for the county to speak so disrespectfully on the hustings, at Carnarvon, of Dissenters, who form about three-fourths of the electors of the county, and who composed at least one- half his supporters. Doubtless they will not forget it. Did the old country gentleman's screw" prevail over the religious, or screw seiat," that so many Non- conformists (aud known Liberals) were found in the Tory ranks at the poll ? I think the less the Conservatives talk about 11 the screw" the better, wheu their conduct at the recent borough election is so well known and fresh in the memory of all those who took part in it—conduct that well deserved to be called" unscrupulous, unjust, aud oi)t)ressive,Yours, &c., -W- AN ELECTOR. I

AN APPEAL TO THE BENEVOLENT. I SJR,-I feel that to secure a response to my appeal, I have only simply to draw the attention of the public to the really deserving case of a Margaret Jones, who lived in service with Mr Pring for 24 years as a faithful do- mestic,—and who now, through the breaking up of this establishment, and ill-health and bodily suffering, is very unwillingly obliged to appeal to those who are ever ready to bestow kind attention on, and assist the poor and needy. To take care of such-bearing in mind the language of our Saviour-we confer more benefit on ourselves than on the receivers of our charity. This poor woman only receives at present a weekly pittance of 2s 6d from the parish; and the subscrip- tions of a portion of the charitably disposed of Bangor, it is calculated, would enable her to gather together a few of the necessaries cf life. The smallest donations will be most thankfully re- ceived by Mrs Simpson, Bulkeley Place, and also at the office of the North Wales Chronicle,-aud will after- wards be duly acknowledged in this paper. Hoping this object of charity will receive the atten- tinn nil,, rlnserves.—I am. yours obediently, A SUBSCRIBER OF TEN SHILLINGS. I

THE USE OF TOBACCO AND INTOXICATING DRINKS. SIR,—I am near my ninetieth year, and taught in a Sunday School above sixty years ago, and I am con- vinced that the superintendents aud teachers of such schools might be of as great benefit to the rising genera- tion as Robert Raikes was when he first commenced them; by having a book, and recommending all the teachers and all the scholars to write their own names in it, promising, by God's assistance, to abstain and avoid all pernicious and dangerous intoxicating drinks; and also from the use of tobacco, the constant use of them being the cause of the ruin of millions of souls, which is confirmed by the opinion of our judges, the most emi- nent divines, and physicians. M any professors and some ministers do not consider tippling and smoking a sin They do not believe and practice Jesus Christ's words: He said, If any man wiil come after we, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. St. Paul said, Let no man put a stumbling block, or occasion of offence to fall in his brother's way." Avoid the appearance of evil." A we,tk brother may perish for whom Christ died." "If lJJeat make my brother offend, I will eat no flesh while the world stands." I heard a Greek clergyman say that he spent sixty pounds a year for cigars and knew of another who spent the rame suia in sdtiff. Thus saith the Lord is the all-important point, for he weighs thoughts, words and actions, and will soon iudce all. W. WILLIAMS. I" Garth, Bangor. W, \VILLIA \IS.

The barque D. Jes, of Liverpool, reported in August last to have been lost in a gale, has, it appears, arrived safely at her destination, at Brass river. It is rumoured in Liverpool that the Conservatives of the borough and county contemplate inviting Mr Dis- raeli to a public banquet. Rev. Mr Hall, of Guildford, Conn., was dismissed from his society, recently, for the great crime, in the eyes of the parishioners, of hanging out a political ban- ner on election day. Moses Smith, a coloured man, died at Washington, on the 4th instant, at the age of 120. He was formerly a slave in Virginia, and retained a distinct recollection of the stirring events of the revolution. He was a servant of au officer in the Legion of Light Horse Harry, and remembered many incidents, which, despite his age, he related graphically, of the campaign of this cavalier in the Carolinas, His wife is still living, at the age of 115 years.

I THE CHURCH AND THE LANDLORD. gin,-The Church of England has been sometimes called the Poor Man's Church, at another time re- proached as the rich man's church. Both appellations have their true aspect. It is the poor man's church, inasmuch as no payment is required from him for the ministrations of the clergymen, or in the form of pew- rents. It is the rich mau's church, inasmuch as the majority of the gentry are members of it, and its clergy are educated up to a standard, which is only attained by the rich, who alone can spare time and money for the cultivation of their minds after the age of labour com- mences. So far as this is the case, the clergy are placed in a mid-position between the rich and poor. Their power of uniting in interchanges of mutual benefits, these two classes is considerable; but as the tendency of modern society is to isolate rich and poor more and more as agencies are at work to create division between them, and set them against each other, the suspicion has arisen, and in various Welsh publications has found expression, that the,clergy instead of softening down the the imperiousness of landlordism have become its ally, and even instigator in acts of harshness. On the other hand the landlords seeing the increasing dis- affection of the poor, and the spread'' of communistic principles have been inclined to. blame the clergy for not teaching more effectively a due re- spect to the powers that be. It is not perhaps too much to say that at this moment the landlords, the clergy, and the working classes, look upon each other in many parts of the country with suspicion and distrust. This is by no means a healthy state of things, and any reme- dial measures which would have a tendency to unite these forces, deserve consideration. If I may venture to speak upon this great subject, I would say that the landlords and gentry in Wales, as well as in many other places, do not realise, except at election times, the great value and need of coming into closer personal contact with the people. It is to be feared that they trust to the power of gifts of money dispensed through the clergy or theii own agents, aud expect a return of good- will, which money alone cannot create. They live in a separate world of their own, and derive their opinions respecting what goes on around them from their law- yers, their surgeons, their schoolmasters, and irom occasional Bittiugs of boards of guardians and quarter sessions. The great teeming moving world around goe3 on, and goes ou without them. They are oblivious of those sources whence opinion is derived and spread abroad. Have newspapers a power ? Yes, everywhere. Have they not when written iu Welsh Yet. how few of the landlords of Wales, whether they are of Welsh or English extraction, take any interest iu the support of a Welsh newspaper. Are Sunday Schools a power in Wales which it is not easy to overrate in their moral power in forming the opinions and habits of the people ? Yet, how few squires would not I rcat with contempt a re- quest that he should be personally present in a Sunday School ? I am sure many a poor parson would tremble at the idea of even preferring such a request. Are meetings of the members of religious bodies either as held weekly or through delegates monthly, quarterly, and yearly a power in Wales ? The late parliamentary elections could tell a tale. Are similar meetings which are he:d in connection with the Church of England, in the form of communicants' meeting, deanery and diocesan meet- ings, to be held of less value ? Yet, how few of our gentry ever attend any of them. I am not sure tbat there are many of them, who even know what is meant by what is now established in almost every Welsh- speaking parish, where any attempt is made t. grasp the needs of the people I mean a communicants' meet- ing" for churchmen. Again, are Sunday evening ser- vices at six o'clock a power ? Is it not an admitted fact now, that the endowment of a parish is misappropriated whenev r the church is not opeued at that hour ? Yet, how few country squires in Wales are to be found at that hour supporting by their presence a Welsh service ? Do any ? It may be answered, no doubt, that as a rule. they tlonot understand the Welsh language. That may be true, though not to their credit, but they attend at other hours, when the services are in Welsh. Why not at six ? But to understand, so as to derive more profit for oneself is less noble, than to support the weakness of others even without fully understanding, and to give a good example. To give out moral power is greater than to receive. To give is more blessed than to receive not in mouey only, but in what is of more value than money, in council, in influence, and iu example. I write not in tbe spirit of one preferring a bill of indictment, nor in the spirit of one who would lay upon one class a blame which must be distributed perhaps equally but these are not times when plain speaking should be out of fashion, and if, by any word, that evident want of co-operation, of mutual understanding, of greater inter- change of good-will, and fellow-feeling between those whose interests are one can be mitigated, it should be spoken h .wever imperfectly, and however inadequately to the breadth of the subject. More that is practicable and tangible might have been added, but if the spirit of uuited action burns more brightly among us, a thousand instances of the how and when will suggest themselves. More union, more personal contact, and Dissent and Communism will decay, and true religion flourish. NIL DESPERANDUM. I

ST. ASAPH. I BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The fortnightly meeting of this board was held Oil Thursday last, at the Union Board-room. Present-Captain H. L. Thomas, chair- man Mr T. G. Lunt and Mr John Roberts, Denbigh Mr Robert Jones, Mr E. Powell Jones, aud Mr Thomas Winston, Rliuddlan; Whitehall Dod, Etq., Llauerch Park, ex officio and the officers of the board. The relieving-officer's books having been examined and passed, and the master's books passed and his re- quisitions granted, the guardians proceeded to examine and rectify the out-door relief lists. A person of the name of Thomas Parry, from the Denbigh district, applied in person for relief, com- plaining that bis relief had been discontinued, and that owing to ill-health he was not able to support him- self.-If is application was supported by a letter. The officer stated that he had been given to under- stand that the applicant was interested in some property at Rhyl, where he was in the habit of going every sum- mer season to attend to some bathing machines in which he was supposed to be interested, and to the officer's knowledge he had been bringing home on the Saturday night from twenty to twenty-seven shillings—he being at the same time in receipt of parish relief. The applicant in reply stated that he had no interest in the property referred to, as long as his mother should live, and though his mother was the owner of thirty bathing machines, he got nothing from them. The Chairman thought that the applicant ought to be ashamed of himself to come for relief while he was at all connected with a mother owning thirty bathing machines at Rhyl. The only thing the board could do in a case like that was to offer the house. The applicant thought it hard that he should be re- fused, and said that be would have starved long ago had it not been for the kindness of his son, who was also in ill-health. The board declined out-door relief, but offered the house. Questions were put to the clerk concerning the pub lication of lists containing the names, residences, and the amount of l'c'icf each pauper received throughout the union and it was stated that such lists were pub- lished halt-yearly, and that thosj for the last half-year would be ready soon. Mr E. Powell Jones said that he should like a list of the description referred to, published for the parish of Rhuddlan, and exhibited in the vestry and elsewhere as it would be a great assistance to find out the worthy and the unworthy recipients of relief in the parish. The Clerk was instructed to have a hundred of such sheets printed for each district without delay. The officer for the Abergele district reported the case of Hannah Brett, of Voryd Bridge, whose husband had lately deserted her, stating that she had a ticket and came to the house on the previous day. He was of opinion that she was still connected with the Bridge, and kept her nephew there while she was pursuing the present course, in order that the guardians should go after her husband, who was supposed to be somewhere in Manchester. The Chairman thought Mrs Brett had better po after her husband herself, with which sentiment the guardians agreed, and declined interference in the case. The Master's Reporl.Knmber of inmates in the house, 97. Number of vagrants admitted during the past fortnight, 47. Births, 3 deaths, 3. Financial Statement,—Amount expended in out-door relief during the past fortnight, X322 8s lid. Amount of cheques granted for out-door relief during the ensuing foitnight, £410. Amount collected by the board collector since his ap- pointment. 1;138. Balance in the treasurer's hands in favour of the union, £ 1964 10s 8d.

One of the most extraordinary instances of disinter- ested charity we ever heard of (says the Dorset County Chronicle) came under our attention yesterday. An officer belonging to the Bridport divisiou of the county constabulary was conveying two prisoners by rail to the Dorset county prison, one of whom had been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for stealing and the other for non-payment of a pour rate. Just before reaching the Dorchester station a gentleman, whose name has not transpired, asked of the police officer the charges upon which the prisoners had been convicted, and upon being informed that one of the poor fellows had merely failed in the payment of a rate, amounting to 12a 6d, he immediately drew from his purse a half-sovereign and a half-crown, which he handed over to the constable. In addition to this he also presented the poor fellow with a shilling to help him on the road home.

MENAI BRIDGE. I MILITARY FUNERAL —On Thursday, the 2Sth ult, one of the members of the 3rd A A.A .C., Guuner H. LI. Williams, was interred at Llaudysilio Church, with military lionotii,A being present about 3u 1111'11, under the command of Capt. eldon. lhe firi_ng party which cuii.-i-tcd of 12, went through the usual formula of f'u'iug three of volleys over the grave. The ceremony was w1111e■ ■■ I by a very large concourse of pe'.ple, people, and was throughout very impressive.

CAERHUN. I Sm,-N ow that the elections are over, I cannot refrain writing a word to express the feeling of gratitude and approbation felt throughout this neighbourhood towards the noble old Squire of the parish, who, at a season when many others are doing their best to curry favour with Lords and great men in power, has shown himself the true generous gentleman he is, by allowing his tenants and all in auy way dependent, full liberty to vote as their consciences may dictate. We all know Mr Griffith himself to be a great friend and supporter of him we most of us hope Isooii to see at the head of our Government. He has set a noble example to all other large landed proprietors, and I am sure I am only echoing the wish of all true Welshman when I say I wish him and all his family every happiness and prosperity.-1 am, sir, yours obediently, A LIBERAL VOTER FOR CARNARVONSHIRE.

MR DISRAELI'S REWARD. The information that the Premier has accepted the dignity of a Viscountess for Mrs, Disraeli rwiil interest the public, and will certainly displease nobody, There is hardly any partisan so bitter as to deny the appro- priateness of the compliment her Majesty has paid to the brilliant and adroit politician who now conducts her Majesty's Government, and to the lady to whose attach- ment and devotion he has himself borne witness. Mr Disraeli has been in the fore front of the political battle from the very earliest days of the present reign. He was returned to Parliament at the general election of 1837, and, though unsuccessful in one or two of his first speeches, he was not long in making his mark in the house. From that time to this there never has been a session that Parliament has not been enlivened by his acute and orginal genius, and there are few names that the men of this generation have had so constantly in their ears as that of Benjamin Disraeli. A parlia- mentary aspirant has his discouragements: though there is no path which conducts so rapidly to public re- putation as that of a member of the House of Commons, yet the ablest man may be many years before official rank, official emolument, power, and dignity fall to his lot. For seventeen years did Mr Disraeli sit on the benches of the house, listening to every speech and watching every turn of events, before the day came for him to take his seat at the Privy Council as one of her Majesty's Ministers. Nearly the same period has passed away since, and it is not until his form is bowed and his countenance wears the impress of age and toil that the highest prize is won, and as Prime Minister of England he can decorously accept one of the highest honours of the state for the partner of his life. Who can grudge snch a recognition after snch long services ? Thirty-one years of toil and anxiety, ill-rewarded if judged by ordinary standards, have been crowned with a short tenure of the highest office of the state, in which Mr Disraeli is admitted to have carried himself with dignity, and M far as regards administration, to have acted for the benefit of the country. It, has been a long uphill struggle, that of the un- friended mail of letters who entered the most aristo- cratic representative body in the world with the deter- mination to be its leader. He had fair play, no doubt, for, whatever the prepossessions of the Houee of Com- mons, it will always recognise genius and applaud eloquence. But a man in Mr Disraeli's position has to work for years before he arrives at the point where the young nobleman begins. He must not only get into Parliament, but he must keep himself there he must answer the terrible question, Who is he and the still more fatal question, "What does he want ?" He must get friends about him he must make himself one of the body of a great party, and not a mere hanger-on to it, as he begins with being; in fact, to succeed he must prove himself not oiily useful, but indispensable to politicians, most of whom look upon every honour given to a man of the populer order as something taken from themselves aud their friends. It has been the,- achievement of Mr Disraeli to rise to the highest rank under these conditions. He did not come into Par- liament till he was thirty-two years of age, and he was forty before be took a leading position by his attacks on Sir Robert Peel. All this time, and for years after- wards, there were young Tory uoblemen and gentlemen blessed with all the advantages that the member for Shrewsbury of those days needed—youth, wealth, high rank, hereditary party connexions,—all desirous to press to the first rank, and particularly to take the places left vacant by the "apostasy" of Peel and that body of Peel's younger colleagues who were afterwards popularly known by his name. How they all failed t,) displace Disraeli from the position he had by this time gained as the parlittm-t)tary spokesman, if not the leader, of the Tory party is known toeverybidy, and forms the most interesting and extraordinary political nar- rative of our time. For years past the attempt to de- throne him has been given up, and Disraeli has reigned supreme. He has not only been first among the Con- servatives, but there has been no second no one else has the House of Commons cared about hearing. From no one else has the public formed its notion of Conser- vative policy. To go back no further than the session of last year, see how vigorously he educated" his party, and how summarily he threw overboard any one of his colleagues who, in the simplicity of his heart, declared opinions which the lapse of a fortnight had antiquated, That Mr Disraeli should choose to place a coronet on his wife's head rather than upon his own is natural and creditable. Mrs Disraeli has taken even more than a wife's ordinary interest in the success of her husband, and he would be the first to acknowledge that to her he owes the means of success. The arrangement, too, is the best that can be suggested for a public man who is willing to accept the hououis of the state and yet to re- main a power in it. The authority of the nation is con- centrated more than ever in the House of Commons. No greater misfortune can befall a rising statesman than to be summoned by the death of a relative from the real and earnest conflict of the Lower House to the formal tournament of the Lords. One is apt to think of him as having passed away, and to believe that his political obituary may be safely written. The statesman wl o should in the present day voluntarily pass from the Commons to the Lords while in the vigour of his power would lie looked upon as guilty of a political suicide. Mr Diiraeli is not the man to do this. Some of the greatest of those whom he might make his model—St. John, Pulteney, Walpole, Chatham—took peerages, but the world is unanimous in declaring that the statesmen who have accepted this seductive dignity have lost real power, and even, in many cases, the popular esteem. Mr Disraeli has studied the past and understands the present too well to commit such a mistake. He has still all his old powers, and probably most of his old ambition. His faculties have matured, and they have uot yet begun to decay. Probably at no period of his life could he have made a more able speech than that which he addressed the other day to the electors of Buckinghamshire, lie has been overthrown in the elections, but we very much mistake his character if he permanently acquiesces in defeat. By February next Mr Disraeli will have become reconciled to a situation more forlorn and dis- couraging than many through which he has passed. Could such a man be expected to leave the warm and exciting arena of the Commons, to forego the "rapture of the strife," to condemn himself to speak for evermore without the most efficient incentive to his genius—a hostile majority ? We should all have felt such a retreat, as if an unworthy act had terminated his political career. He has preferred to receive his honours in the person of his wife, and in this he has at least one pre- deut of the highest order. The great Commoner ac- cepted a baronetcy for his wife several years before he himself left the House of Commons. Mrs Pitt became Lady Chatham in December, 1761, while her husband was not created Earl of Chatham till August, 1766. To this may be added the respectable example of the late Lord Campbell, whose wife was created Lady St rathe- den, while he was still in the House of Commons. The practice, however, is sufficiently recommended by its obvious convenience, and it is possible that the present creation may be a fruitful precedent. It is, we think, a much more dignified proceeding than that which was hinted at as hkely to accompany the retreat of the government—the nomination of Mr Disraeli as a Knight of the Garter. So inappropriate a reward may not have been seriously contemplated yet the idea has been sufficiently dwelt upon to justify an allusion. We hope Benjamin Disraeli will long lead the Tory party as plain Mr," and that only in his extreme old age will he exchange his familiar appellation for the vain titles of nobility or chivalry.- limes.

Mr Bealej, at a meeting of the Reform League, a day or two since, asserted as a part of the reason for his de- feat in the recent contest for the representation of the Tower Hamlets, that the police had orders from the Go- l'crnmcnt to frustrate his return! This must have been too rich even for a Reform League audience. The whole of the statues are now placed in their re- spective niches in the ornamental arcade facing the Speaker's residence in New Palace-yard, in the following order, viz. —Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Henry II, King John, Henry VIII, and William III (Prince of Orange). The two last were placed on their pedestals on Tuesday morning. These six statues are all the work of foreign sculptors. One of the physicians of Burlington, Vermont, driving into town on election morning, was met by a friend, who hailed him with the question if he had voted. "Not yet," said the doctor; "but I have been out all night after a voter. I got him safe, too." When will he vote ?" Oh, about 21 years from now.American Paper. THE EXTENT OF THE ENGLISH TELEGRAPH SYSTEM.— A return has just been published showing, in a concise form, a number of details respecting the extent of the English telegraph system. The railway companies in the United Kingdom possess 4,872 miles of posts and underground lines, but the wires on those circuits ex- tend to 11,022 miles. The telegraph companies have circuits to the extent of 16,879 miles, which are worked by 79,6-lii miles of wires, which are worked by the railway companies conjointly for railway and public purposes. There are 3,381 telegraph stations, less 738 which are exclusively used by the railway com- panies. The undergraduates of New College have all been "rusticated" because of their refusal to give up the names of some of them 'who broka the windows of an unpopular student on Friday evening last. An under- graduate writing in the Times says It may be thought that the real culprit was guilty of cowardice in not vo- lunteering to give up his name, But the fact is, that, though most anxious to do so, he was restrained by a large number of his fellow-graduates, who objected to the system of discovering individual offenders by punish- ing and putting the pressure on a whole college." A priest of the Church of England has presented Father Ignatius with an old monastic house and five aeres of land, near St. Alban's. It is reported that the Government propose to give some reward of honour to Major Palliser, perhaps a baronetcy. A penny subscription is being raised in Lancashire in order to present a testimonial to their late defeated Radical candidate, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. Mr Charles Freemantle, private secretary to the Prime Minister, has been appointed to the office of deputy master and controller of the Mint. Captain Jesse Jones, a Waterloo veteran, has just died at Colchester at the ripe age of eighty-one. Capt. Jones saw service in the Peninsula. An adrlrees to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., is in course of signature by the women of Lan- cashire. The notorious martinet, Col. Crawley, has retired from the 6th Dragoons on half-pay. How to prevent sea-sickn eiis- Keep on shore. N.B. This is a sure preventive.—Judy. The Irish Times understands that it is the intention of Mr Gladstone, should he come into power, to offer the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland to Earl Spencer. A rowiug match for X400 between Kelley and Sadler took place on the Thames on Tuesday. Kelley won by two boats length. A demonstration was attempted in Paris on Thurs day, on the occasion of the anniversary of Baudin's death, but the police dispersed the crowd and made oce or two arrests. Her Majesty has been pleased to confer the honour of a baronetcy upon Mr Thomas Edwards Moss, who has long been coHnected with the banking interest at Liverpool. The citizens of Cork have elected as mayor for 1869 Mr Sullivan, who was a short time ago struck off the commission of the peace on account of his open profes- sions of sympathy with Fenianism. Summonses have been obtained by Mr Grenville Somerset against Colonel Clifford (the late Liberal cand- date for Monmouthshire), tho Hon. Clifford Butler, and a farmer named Williams for an assault committed during the election at Abergavenny. An acrobat at the Liverpool Colosseum on Thursday night met with a serious accident in the course of his performance. While performing on the trapeze, and in the middle of one of his perilous flights, he lost his hold and fell, fracturing his skull and otherwise sustaining serious injuries. He was taken to the infir- mary. It will be remembered that on the 24th of October a passenger traiu ran into a goods train at Northenden juuetiou, through the engine driver of the latter neglect- ing a danger signal. One of the passengers has since died, and the engine driver has been committed to Chester Assizes for trial on the charge of manslaughter. On Monday the Hev, Wauchope Paterson, minister of the High Bridge Church of Scotland, iu Newcastle- upon-Tyne, while walking in the suburbs of thit town, dropped down in a fit, and expired within an hour after- wards. Mr Abbott, of London, the unsuccessful candidate for Cork, before leaving that city, sent to his agent, Mr James Lane, a cheque for 9700, to be distributed to the charities of that place, both religious and non-religious. To the new Protestant Cathedral he has given 1:100 and X50 to the Protestant Hall, where his meetings were held. He holds himself again, says the Cork Constitu- tioll, at the service of those whose cause he came to uphold. LOCOMOTIVES.—At the close of 1867 the sto,:k of locomotives owned by the twelve leading British rail- way companies was as follows Caledonian, 515 Great Eastern, 3SO; Great Northern, 463 Great Wes- tern, 842 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 455 London and Northwestern, 1,443; London and Southwestern, 259; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 252 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 264 Midland, 623 North- eastern, S51 and Southeastern, 243. 'lhe twelve coini aiiie,, thus owned between them 0,595 locomotives, the first cost of which, at au average of £ '2,500 per engine, was £ 16,487,500. No final return of the polling in Orkney and Shetland has been published. With regard to the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities, we are told that the voting being almost exclusively by meaos of voting papers, of which not more than 800 can be recorded in the course of a day, the agents have agreed to record the votes alter- nately, one in favour of each of the candidates, until those given for one or other of them shall be exhausted. it follows, therefore, that to the present time the num- ber of votes recorded denotes nothing more than the amount of clerk's work accomplished. Mr Swinton and Dr. Play fair were nearly even on W eduseday for Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities, but we learn that at half-past eleven on Thursday morning Dr. Phyfair was eighty ahead of his opponent. THE LAW OFFICERS OF THE NEW CABINET.—The Soli- citor's Journal says that It being certain that, pending the question of Church disestablishment, Sir Houndell Palmer will not accept office under the new Govern- ment, it has, we understand, been arranged that Lord Justice ood is to be offered the woolsack, and that, should he accept office, as is to be expected, he will be succeeded as Lord Justice by Sir Roundell Palmer, who will be at the same time raised to the peerage as a coun- terpoise to Lord Cairns in the House of Lords. Mr Coleridge is, we believe, to be Attorney-General, and Mr Jessell Solicitor-General, some other place, not yet de- fined, having to be provided for Sir Robert Collier, it being reported, truly or falsely we know not, that neither he nor Mr Coleridge will serve under the other." Aubrey Charles Smith, aged eighteen, the only son of the Venerable Archdeacon Smith, the respected vicar of Eiith, h-V committed suicide under peculiar circum stances. He had taken a particular interest in the West Kent election, and on returning home after the polling was asked by his mother a few questions respecting a meerschaum cigar holder which he exhibited, and which he said had been given him as a present by his aunt. This statement appears to have been doubted, as that lady had visited the house just before and admired it during his absence. Deceased became excited and offer. ed to fetch a letter from his bedroom to prove his asser- tion. Soou after he left the report of a pistol was heard, and ou being searched for he was found lying in his bed weltering in his blood, which oozed from a fearful wound in his head. A pistol was found lying by his side, and he died in about half an hour afterwards. It appears that he was much given to smoking, and his father had ofteu asked him to give up the habit. At the coroner's inquest upon the body, the jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity."

CARNARVONSHIRE TURNPIKE TRUST. TOLLS TO BE LET FOR 1869. NOTICE is Hereby Given, that on Satur- day, the 5th day of December, 18G8, will be LET by AUCTION, at the Guild Hall, in the town of Carnarvon, (to commence at Three o'clock p.m.,) sub- ject to conditions then to be produced, to the best approved bidder, the Tolls, arising under an Act, the 2nd William IV., and other Genera Acts, and payable at the several under-mentioned Toll Gates in accordance and in manner directed by the Acts passed in the 3rd and 4th Years of the Reign of His late Majesty George IV., and other Acts, for Regulating Turnpike Roads which Tolls produced the last year (clear of the cost of collecting) the respective Sums opposite each Gate. The Tolls from Stage Coaches, Cars, or Carriages licensed to carry Passengers, are reserved. 1. Gwydyr Gate, near Llanrwst. £ 135 0 0 2. Gjltiu Gate, near Conway 75 0 0 3. Sarn-y-mynach Gate, near Llansantffraid, 420, and subject to repairs of the Road of that district 000 4. Con way-marsh Gate 85 0 0 5. I eumaenniawi-Gate 65 0 0 6 Tanylon Gate, North of Talybont 130 0 0 7. Bangor Gate One Lot 295 0 0 8. Vaenol Gate) 9. Tan-y-grisiau Gate 12J 0 0 10. lioilrual Gate, near Carnarvon 11(150 0 11. Penllyn Gate, near I.lanberis 28 0 0 12. Gwastad-nant Gate, East side of Llanberis ..#10 0 13. Glangwna Gate, near Carnarvon 145 0 0 14. Ehyd-itdu Gate, Eastof Quellyn Lake 40 0 0 15. Gelli Gate, near N antlle, clears Pant-du Gate" I,) 5 0 10. Pant-du Gate clears Gelli and Dolydd Gates.. 44 0 0 uij v> 0 18, Berth Gate, South of Llanllyfni 24 0 0 19, Maes.mawr Gate, near Pwllheli 45 0 0 2u. Clynnog Gate 55 0 0 21. Seiont Gate, near Carnarvon., 530 0 0 And they will be put up as above, or in Lots, at those or such other Sums as the Trustees shall then direct (or may have authorised me so to do,) for one year, from the 1st of January to the 31st of December, 1869, No Bidding will be received unless the Bidder, before, or at the time, hands to me the undertaking of two or more Sureties or Joint-Takers, to the satisfaction of the Trustees or myself. The party being the highest accepted Bidder will be required at the time to sign a contract, and other en- gagement, with two sufficient Sureties or Joiut-Takers, to the satisfaction of the Trustees present or myself, for the due performance of the Agrepment and payment of the Rent by proportionate Quarterly Instalments, or in advance, as the Trustees or myself shall then require. Parties iuten ling to become Takers, are requested to send me the undertaking of their intended Sureties or Joint-Takers, on or before Saturday, the 14th day of November, 18G8. O. JONES, Clerk to the Trustees of the Carnar venshire Turnpike Trust. Castle Square, Carnarvon, 24th October, 1808. 1441

At Liverpool Bankruptcy Court, on Thur.d y  stone dealer and lapidary at Rhyl d Llan(lud, 9 ontheapphcation? ofMrL? ockeM? n' ed d f  obtain  or ar of diP. h Hr N appeared for the amiguee. The discharge.   the assets £ 429. debts were £888 and the ?imets X429. dlAt tcZ*^ ™Thur8day- TT 013?9' At as er ?ncorn, was charged with attempting fto m- Lr Mary Gil', at K?corn. on the 6th ult. The mllr er.' ary ?Lnd g"itt. of doing grievous bodily Prliloner a I ? L? .cutenced to seven years penal servi- ELIICTIOIiEERISG VIRULRNCE.-ROM time to time we have called attention to the rabid and coercive virulence of Dissenting ministers in North Wales in matters political. This clerical interference has become a serious evil and is rapi. div converting the docile congregations f the Principality into a priestridden people. This is so foreign to their natural love of independence and freedom that we are sure they hive only to be aroused to throw otf the moat irksome and degrading of all tyr. annies, the eeclesiastical yoke. Ministers have nothing to do with politics, at least in their character as spiritual advisers, and the less they meddle in these subjects the better for their people and their own position. In the recent elections, however, this wholesome principle has been violated, and that, too, under circumstances of peculiar disgrace. The threatened "Book of Remem- brance" has never been explained the blasphemous language of various ministers has never been withdrawn, and the clerical functions have been used for political proselytism in all directions and with audacious intoler- ance, The languagtl uttered has been really shocking, but probably the most shameful was that employed towards Sir Watkin W. Wyun, in a chapel and by a minister. The "reverend" speaker said-" Sir Watkin ought to be crucified, his head cut off, and used as a football[The above is taken from the Liverpool Courier, whose iuforuw.it says I called upon the minister of the chapel a few days after, and asked him if such words had been used at the meeting on Monday night. He stated he was sorry to say that they had."} ELECTION OF PROCTORS.—The clergy of the diocese of Bangor assembled at the Chapter-room, yesterday (Fri. day), to elect two proctors to represent the diocese in Convocation. The Very Itev. the Dean of Bangor, in the absence of the Chancellor, presided, aul the rules laid dawn at the commencement were, that the nomina- tor of a candidate should occupy not more than live minutes, that the seconder should make no speech at all and that the candidates themselves should be allow hI eight minutes. Judging from the excellent character of some of the speeches, it was unfortunate that the rule with regard to the seconders was not relaxed, and that additional time was not given to the candidates to ex- press their views. The Rev. E. Lewis, Rector of Dol. gelley, Merionethshire, was proposed by the Rev. D. IV. Thomas, and seconded by the Kev. R. W. Mason the Rev. J. C. Vincent, vicar of Carnarvon, was proposed bv the Kev. 11. Owen aud the Hev. W. Johnson, rector of -,t,A I Bishop's Chaplain the Kev. P. C. Eilis, rector of Itirfe,;Ii:Lu and the Rev. J. Pryce, ■junior vieir of Baugor, were also put in nomination. The candidates having severally stated their views, (all being opp ,sed to the disestablishment of the Irish Church 'nd to ultra-Ritualism) a show of hands was taken, which was declared to be in favour of Messrs Lewis and Vincent. A poll was then demanded, the result being that Mr Itiwis received 37, aud Mr Vincent 29 votes, these being the highest. The number of votes polled for the other candidates were not announced, but it was understood that Messrs Johnson and Kllis were about equal, and that, Mr I'ryce received the fewest number of votes. Messrs Lewis and Viucent were de- clared elected.