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T. Richards & COMPANY, BANGOR, r FASHIONABLE MILITARY AND NAVAL TAILORS, CLERICAL PROFESSIONALS, AND CIVIC ROBE MAKERS, LIVERIES, &C. ESTABLISHED TWELVE YEARS. DESPATCH IN EXECUTING ORDERS. 997 J&ale# bn Auction. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. MR JOHN rRITCHARD begs to an- lfl nounce that lie will Sell by Public Auction, without reserve, on the Otli day of January, IS69, the whole of the new and very superior London-made House- holil Furniture and other Effects, at the Rectory, J refnw near llanrwst. Particulars in future advertisements and CdtnlOpUGS* IlftDAWA Plasllwyd Terrace, Bangor. 1600 DWYGYFYLCHI.—TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, by T?fR GEORGE FELTON, at the Ers?ino 1'. Arms Hotel, Conway, on Friday, the 22nd day of January 13o!l, at ? o'c?.ek in the aftemoon, (unless pre- vioiuly"disposed by Private Treaty, of which due netico will lie given:) r LOT i.—All that freehold messuage called SYCH. NAXr COTTAGE, with the two fields adjoining, con- tainingin the whole by admeasurement 3 roods and 10 perches or thereabouts, situate in the village of Hwy. gyfylchi, aiid adjoining the old read from Conway to Rmgor. The situation is most healthy and charming, commanding a tine Landscape and sea view, being within a short distance of a splendid bathing ground and the accomodation of the Messuage is sufficicnt for a moderate 8jed familv. ™ LOT 2.—All that Leasehold Water Corn Mill and pre mises commonly called NEW MILL, with the faxed machinery therein, and the cottage and garden called PENTRliKKLlN, and four fields adjoimng, continuing in the whole by admeasurement 3a. 2r. 9p. or thereabouts, now in the occupation of Elizabeth Pntchard, her under- tenants )r asiu. '?i?YotT?d' under a Lease for the term of ?O years, from the 29th dw of December, 1829, subject to the yearly rent of yToT 3-Au th? Freehold Wool Factory with the fixed machinery (if any) therein, containing by admea- surement la. 2r. situate in the parish ..f Dwygyfylchi, and now in the occupation of Mr John J enes. For further particulars or to treat by Private Contract apply to Mr William Jones, Solicitor, Conway; or to the Auctioneer, Mo-tyn Estate Offices, L'andudno. 1628 $u&Uc Xottttfc MONEY TO LEND. P I AAA TO Lend ? Freehold Property, X+lM >U in one or in varieus sums. Apply toMr. S. 0. Williams, S.h?tor, Llandudno 18 MICHAEL KENNEY, Bill Poster and L Ocueml Adverti-i? Agent for N°rth^ ale3' Contracts entered into for P'?"S bills in Great Britain and Ireland All O'ders mtrusted to M. K. from other towns hy Rail 01' Post promptly attended to. P.S.-Ju connection with the United Kingdom Bill P0 Association. Addret-MLCAU.L KE..?-. C.eU.ppa, B.ng.r. 10 AMLWCH PAMSHCHUKCH. T > BUILDERS. THE VICAR, (on behalf of the Building TComiiiittec,,) is desirous of receiving Temlers for c?tain Mason's and other works. The Drawu? and Specifications may be seeu at the Vicarage, Amlwch, on ? ??1 ?'onday. the 21st inst. Tenders Mated and en- dorsed n-?? tbes?tto.heRev. J, Hichards, the Vicarage, Amlwch, on or before Tuesday, the 12th day of Jan?ry 180> The Committee do not biud themselves to accept the lowest or all)' tenÚer. L-1?liDY & O'DONOGHUE Aiv'iitects, Bangor: and Albion Chambers, 11, Adam Street, Adclphi, Londou. Baiigov, December 18th, lSGS. ° ROBINSON, HOME AND EXPORT SLATE MERCHANT. LONDON: 4, COLEMAN STREET, E.C. I MILLWALL DOCKS, AND CORN MARKET I STREET, OXFORD. 1620 TOLLS TO BE LET. I N-qtICK is hureby ?'ven, that the loJlla t\ anoint! 't the Toll Gate upon the Beaumaris and Menai Bri<lo Turupike Road, will be Let by Auction to the )? t) dder at the Williams Bulkeley Arms Hotel, ?th t.'u of Beaumaris, on Thmsel"y. the 24th day of December ?ext. bctw?uthe hou? of Meveu in the ["re. ?'rhrce iu the ..ften?D. in the manner directed ? ?e A t Xd in the 3.d year of the reign of His late ?. e?tv King George the Fourth for regulating lurn- pike Roads," which ToU. pro?cedthc last ye?r the sum ?1?, above the expenses of collecting them, and will be ?tup at that sum to be let for one year, from the first day of ,) au \I"ry uext. ???"t his '?' M?.?-" be required to pro, duce or ?me his sureties, which if not satisfactory, his bidding will uot be taken, and whoever happens to be the best bidder, muscat the some time, give secur ty with sullicient .sureties for the due payment of the Kent by quarterly instalments, or in such other proportions as snail then be ticelitred. .hall theu be FJCHARD WILLIAMS, Clerk to the Trustees. Beaumaris, 20th Nov., 1868. 15ü9 BANGOR AND BEAUMARIS UNION. TEN 1) Ell S FOR PROVISIONS, ltc. i LL twrsons desirous of contracting with Atl, Guar,Uans for the supply of the Bangor and Beaumaris A. ^rrn,teo Months hum thc JOth day 01 December iMMnt, with the following *[tiolM, viz. 1<:st. Qt. Est. Qt. Est. Qt. lb. lb. Bread b(lj Sweet milk Si* Pepper 2 ?'; un Buttermilk 2M> Salt 308 oattueal lb. Qt, lfcefAMutton ISM S.? »;■ P?.OU-  Suet 77 Mustard 3 Ib ?. ? ?? ? ? ?.r- i7 SoftSo?p .o   Ri c 2a stz%r?;h }'638 471 ?. "43 Cwt. Hlack Lead. ?,, 6 Coals 01# Vinegar 8Qts Sugar 266 lb. ?:?: ? Ca?Uc.. ? Andotherarticles consumed in the house I 0yds (!altco, Moleskin Liusey.Strong Lincn^OydsStriped Ijvd%Stril,e(A Flannel, ?"t ''Htk ?i.? ShoM, Cto?. -Mbs Worstod Y.rn Scoun..t; Mamt?.Com? <:?,arert.quMt<.?<end in their Tender, under seal, addressed to me at the Union Houst% t?nxor on or bdoN ? ?, the?Jtht?t ,ia order to be hM before the Guardiaus at the Meeting tu be hcMNt the Board Hoom.onWEuxEsDAY.the 3 ^imulea wHIbe required 01 all those "rCelos of which they may be given, and also securities for the due performance of the Cl\Htraet. Forms ? Tender may be had on application at thb Union Jloiiio, Bangor. TIIONIAI,, 0 Cittk to the (;aHdt&ns. B >ard Koom, Union House, Bangor, 10th December, lStteL

Tin' bei'iunim"' of winter cannot be considered a sea- sonable tilne for a strike, yet the colliers of ltuabou have just determincll on this extreme measure, The men, how- ever, allege that they submitted to a reduction of wigoi il: summer un the condition that the sum should be added ?n in the ?Mtcr, .md a?tb.sanai.gement-itsex ?euM seems to be !\i.puted by the masters-has not beeu carried out, the men have resolved upon a resolute strike.

ST. ASAPH. BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The fortnightly meeting of the Guardians of this Union was held on Thursday last, the 17th instant. Present—Captain H. L. Thomas (chairman); Browulow W. Wynne, Esq. Whitehall Dod, Esq., Lhnerch; Thomas Sleight, Esq., Dyserth Thomas Evans, Esq.; MrT. G. Lunt and Mr John Roberta, Denbigh; Rev. Thomas Williams, St. George Mr E. G. Powell Jones, Rbyl; Mr Jos. Lloyd and Mr Hugh Parry, St. Asaph Mr John Roberts, Bodfari; Mr Brown, Tremeirchion Mr Jones, Groes, [leullan Mr T. Davies, Bettws, &c. The master's bouk and the relieving officers' books were passed, also the chaplain's report. The School master's Rel)oi-t.-The schoolmaster and schoolmistress brought the children before the Board as usual, of whom there were a larger number than what they are generally, but they were reported to be all well. The Chairman observed that there were several good boys who were fit for service should they be wanted, and he called the attention of the schoolmaster to a boy who had been taken upon trial to the parish of Tre- meirchion without sufficient clothing, aud was brought back to the house by the guardian of that parish, with only pieces of a shirt on his back, and had been for six weeks or more without a change of a shirt, and it ap- peared that he had been requested when he left, should he want a.change, that he should come to the Work- house to have a change. That was not as it ought to be -the boy might get wet and many things, which might require a change of clothes. The guardians d;d uet wish the boys to go out in such condition, and wished the schoolmaster to see that when boys and girls go out that they were supplied with proper and sufficient clo- thing. The schoolmaster promised to comply, and the matter was dropped. A shoemaker, from Bontnewydd, applied for a boy named Robert Jones as an apprentice. The application was granted. Correspondence.—A letter was read from Mr Doyle, the Poor Law Inspector, informing the guardians that he would visit the Board on the 31st inst., next Board day, or on a day that would suit the guardians, he hav- ing deferred his visit before. The guardians approved of the day before named. Arrears of Calls.-The parishes of Cwm, Denbigh, Llansannan, and St. Asaph, were reported to be in ar- rears upon the last call. The chairman observed that there was nothing to be done, but to proceed against the overseers for payment forthwith-and in this the guar- dians acquiesced. Lists of Paiipers.-It having been ordered at the pre vious Board of Guardians that the lists of persons re- ceiving relief in the various districts of the Union be published without delay-a number of lists for the St. Asaph district, showing the number of residences of paupers, and the amount of relief by each person were produced on the table. The Chairman said that the lists for the other dis- tricts were not yet ready, and it was to be hcped that when the lists should be posted up in the vestry rooms, and upon the church doors, they would be the means of shaming some people to come for relief, as they ap- peared to come at present as if they came for wages which was due to them. He suggested that the amount of relief should be added in the lists for the other districts, it having been omitted in the list before the Board. Tenders for Provisions.-The tenders for provisions for the ensuing quarter, which were accepted, were read, and it appeared that the majority of the articles arc to be supplied by Mr Jones, of Denbigh, Air Roberts, of the same place Mr Griffith, of St. Asaph, Mr Jones of the same place; and Mr Williams, of lthyl. The Oottdoor Relief L;sts.-It was reported tint a pauper in the Denbigh district had died since the pre- vious meeting of the Board, and the relieving officer for the district had taken possession of the few articles in his house, which he sold for, £ l 16s 0,1. The question was referred to the clerk for the law upon it, and it ap- peared that the right course for the officer would have been to take possession of the goods, and report at the next Board meeting of the Guardians for instructions. However, the guardians were not disposed to find fault with the office-r under the circumstances, as the Board often loose what happens to be belonging to paupers by the relations clearing them off before the guardians could proceed. Advance of Dispensary Chai-ges.-It was reported that the dispensary to which the guardians subscribed,advan- ced their charges for the union patients from 4s per week to 6s, while private subscribers' patients were still ad- mitted at the rate of 4s. After a few of the guardians had changed opinions, it appeared that there were regu- lations which restricted that there were limits beyond which no private subscriber should not issue tickets without advance in charge, and the guardians as a body having but one subscription, could not expect to be al- lowed beyond what they were entitled to according to the amount of the subscription. Some of the guardians would in that case suggest that 4s per week be allowed to applicant for admission into the Infirmary, and let them take their chance for admission. Others thought that was not an honourable way of dealing with the question, but there were other members who maintained that it was dealing with the question both honourable and above board, when there were other subscribers to the institutions who had ticketstodiApose of; there was nothing dishonourable in allowiug a person 4s a week for four weeks, and if they could find admittance through other subscribers all very well. The matter was dropped without further discusion of it. The books showed that the collector to the guar- dians had collected since his appointment the sum of X200 2s lid.

I THE PROTEST OF THE CALVINISTIC METHODISTS. Sin, -I have to thank you for inserting the protest of our monthly melting in your last impression. To that article you appended a foot-note of your own in which you say," We ask again what is that' Book of Remem- brance,' but an unjust and coercive influence to compel Dissenters to vote against Conservative members ?" (query—candidates ') Now whether your oft repeated allusion to this mythical volume has at last brought you to believe in the existence of such a book, it is not for me to say; but lest this insinuating enquiry should mislead the ignorant and unwary, allow me to state not only that I have no knowledge of the existence of such a book, but also that certainly no such book is kept in cny of our churches aud further that the jocular (as it appeared to inc) allusion to it in your columns was the hist I ever heard of it. Now, sir, as I have frankly answered your query, I trust you will likewise unre- servedly answer the following You are aware that the copy I sent you last week for iusertion bore the name of Mr KUis James, of Vaenol, as well as my own, but in print Mr James's name is suppressed; what I ask is, by what authority my co-secretary's name is omitted ? I think some explanation is due not only to me, but to those by, and on behalf of whom we, as joint secretaries, were requested to give publicity to this protest.—I am, sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS LEWIS. Market Place, Bangor. [We received a note on Thursday morning requesting us to leave out Mr Ellis James's name.-ED. N. IV.C,J

NORTH WALES CHRONICLE, ALMANACK FOR 1869. On Saturday, December 26tb, we will present our Subscribers, and to each Purchaser of the CHRONICLE, a Large Sheet Almanack for 1869, re- plete with Local and General Inform- ation, and containing a List of Fairs for the Welsh and Border Counties. This Almanack has been got up with great care, and is neatly printed in coloured inks, on good strong paper.

Ifcrmi of Butaeription to the North Wales Chrouisle. ffAMPIO. Cash. Credit. Toairly 198.216. EUl(*y«*tly $I- Od ios. ed UNSTAMPID. Cash. Crtdii Ywly tit. lta. Hall.rl, 7i. < Quarterly Is. Od. 4a Pnti.aHct Ordtrt to b. m&dt pat/abU to the Proprietor JOHN KENMUIR DOUGLAS.

TO ADVERTISERS. <0 -_J. WhihtKttakttnrt iotemre the corrrct prtni\ngar«nrf niemtmi w cannot b, an8inerible tor inaccuraeiM, or for ,mv cqnstl%cnc" xrilinj jiurejrom. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ho notice can lie taken of anonymous comraunloitloni. wtill, •rer ii Intended for insertion must be sutherticated by the name tnd address of the writer; not necessarily for pub..c»tio» bttl gUftrantw of hit good faith. W. canaot undertake tC ftturn rejected eomtttUDicationi. [ SCRCW-TA.TUR.—We think enough has been said and written on this subject.

NEWS OF THE WEEK. The new paper, the Echo, says that the revenue returns of the current quarter will not present a satisfactory result, and there are some heavy arrears of the Abyssinion expedition to meet. Perhaps the wish is father to the thought. The late Mr John Bairstow, a wealthy cotton spinner, of Preston, bequeathed the bulk of his large fortune to religious and charitable purposes. The aggregate amount of the bequests is about £ 100,000. It is stated with some show of authority, that the new Ministry have resolved upon the recal of Lord Mayo from the Governorship of India, whither he is on his way. Sir John Lawrence, it is said, will continue in office another year, and the Marquis of Salisbury, who seceded from the Conservative Government upon the Reform ques- tion, and where several members of the new Cabinet have been during the present week, will then accept the post. This act of the deposition of an important officer without trial is, we believe, without parallel. The following letter from the Marquis of Salisbury appeared in the Times of yesterday:—"I observe, in your impression of this morning, a statement quoted from another paper, that Lord Mayo is to be recalled, that I have placed my services at the disposal of the present Administration, and on the return of Sir John Lawrence am to go out and assume the important post of Viceroy.' Will you allow me to say, that, so far as my part in the announce- ment is concerned, it is without any vestige of foundation. The forthcoming Election Inquiries will com- mence early in January next. In the meantime it is anticipated that another of the present judges on the bench will be appointed to try election petitions, power for which is given under the bribery act of last session. It is also understood that the petitions against the boroughs will be first proceeded with. Bisgrove, the Wells murderer, immediately after his condemnation on Wednesday, begged to see an Independent minister, to whom, after he had engaged in prayer, he stated that on the night in question, being quite intoxicated, he lay down near Cornish he awoke, and he had an impulse, not from any feeling of revenge, or with any in- tention of robbery, to kill the man. He got up in a semi-drunken state, and went to the brook, and there he took up a stone he carried it to the spot where Cornish was lying, and threw the stone upon his head, and that blow killed Cornish. No one was with him. This tends to exculpate his fellow-prisoner altogether, and shows that the evidence of the woman Drew was substantially correct. A most brutal murder has been committed near Wigan. A collier called at the house of a farm bailiff, and being told by the little girl that her father was from home, the inhuman wretch smashed the child's skull with a coal hammer, and with the same weapon nearly killed a younger girl before he proceeded to rob the house. It is not easy to conceive a human being so lost to all sense of humanity that he could thus butcher a child of twelve years old. For such a tiger we fear there can be no reform. The hangman or life-long im- prisonment must secure society from the ferocity of such a brute. But it is an imperative duty to look into the circumstances which have produced such shame to our common human nature. And if we regard the place where he was reared, and the peorle by whom his life has been surrounded, we shall find that authority has, by default, had a hand in making this human beast. Wigan is canopied always by "infernal" clouds of smoke in Scholes" its meanest quarter, there are nests of houses, rotten and reeking with filth dwell- ings which the law ought to condemn as unfit for habitation, to which women colliers, in jackets I and canvas trousers, return after their day's labour in shovelling and wheeling coals at the mouths of the pits and all with drink unlimited with education not made compulsory If society permits these circumstances, it should be ashamed as well as shocked when such a deed as this mur- der thrills through the kingdom. The fifthteenth report of Bishop Gobat's fund for missions in Abyssinia, Egypt, Syria, and Chaldea, which was issued on Wednesday, directs attention to a very striking Protestant movement in the Armenian branch of the Greek Church, whore from deep conviction of its errors, brought about by comparing its Liturgy with our's, and I both with the Bible, one of the ecclesiastical dignitaries, Archbishop Makerditch, has left that I church, and is now under license of Bishop Gobat, labouring as a Protestant clergyman at Aintab (Tarsus), the 'no mean city of Cilicia,' of which province the Armenian patriarch has made him archbishop." Later telegrams from Constantinople and Athens place it beyond a doubt that the Hellenic Govern- ment has rejected the ultimatum of the Porte, and that, in consequence, the diplomatic relations between the two powers have terminated. Turkey is evidently in earnest in the high tone it has at last adopted. The Greek male adult residentg in Turkey have received an official intimation that unless they leave Turkish territory within fif- teen days they will be treated in every re- spect as subjects of the Porte. Several steamers have been placed at the disposal of those who desire to return to Greece, and such of the Greek residents as have compromised themselves have received orders to quit Turkish territory immediately. There is another circumstance which still further tends to show that Turkey is determined to push matters to an extremity, un- less Greece alters its policy with respect to the Cretan insurrection. The Turkish squadron has pursued the blockade ruuner Enosis into Greek wateis, -aDd is now blockading her in the port of Syria, {where she has taken refuge. Spanish affairs have again become tranqailized, the Cadiz insurrectionists having surrendered, and the Government has received assurances that no further disturbances will take place. Perfect agreement exists among all parties, including the Republicans, to await and respect whatever deci- sion the Cortes may arrive at. The suppression of the insurrection at Cadiz has [considembly strengthened the hands of the Government, and has dissipated the alarms which prevailed. The interest due on the 1st of January on the bonds of the new loan is to be paid in cash..

I THE NORTH WALES TEMPERANCE ELECTORAL ASSOCIATION. WE have received from the Secretary of a So- ciety calling itself The North Wales Temperance Electoral Association," over two columns of re- print from the Alliance NetCs, which we are modestly asked to reproduce in the North Wales Chronicle. We respectfully decline the honour- in the first place because we disagree with the principles which appear to animate and guide this immaculate Society and secondly, because we consider our columns to be far betteroccupicd. This excerpt from the columns of out teetotal contemporary bears the heading Results of the Elections," and it professes to treat of the recent contests in Anglesea, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth, and Montgomery. The whole pre- sumption throughout is that in every case, or nearly so, the elections have been swayed, if not actually decided, by the influence of the North Wales Temperance Association, and that electors have given up their own political convictions, with the sole purpose to secure the return of advocates of teetotalers and their precious Per- missive Bill. Thus we find for the first time that the cause of Mr Wynne's retirement from Merio- nethshire was not, as he himself stated, that he found the verdict of the electors to be against him and his opinions upon the Irish Church question, but that his opponent had promised to support the Permissive Bill, whereas he would only vote for a committee to thoroughly inves- tigate the present law as regards the sale of in- toxicating liquors," and consequently "could not hope to succeed." In Montgomery Mr Tracy (who was returned unopposed) is willing to support the Plrmissive Bill so far that it should be referred to a select committee," and the friends of temperance are advised therefore to teach'' Mr Tracy the merits (the italics are not our own) of the Bill. We shall be curious to know when Mr Tracy commences his scholastic duties. In Carnarvon Major Pennant "treated our question and applications with silent contempt," and it is no wonder, then, that Captain Jones- Parry having replied courteously and favour- ably" (!) and being, "although unpledged to the Permissive Bill, in agreement with the principle," was "returned with a majority of 148." Mr Bulkeley Hughes, too, was pledged to support the Permissive Bill, while Mr Wynn only was "favourable to the principle," and, ergo, the itpermissive" candidate was returned over his opponent by 550 votes. Mark that, ye candidates who like Temperance, but decline to go in for the whole hog The contest in Denbighshire seems to have been made the point of concentration for the ef- forts of the Electoral Association, which has, it appears, its head quarters in the county town. Their efforts, however, were, they acknowledge, far from satisfactory. Col. Biddulph point blank refused an interview with the Chairman of our Executive, or any further correspondence." The opinions of Mr Osborne Morgan, on the other hand, "being such as justified every exer- tion being made to secure his return, action was at once taken." Need the result be stated ? In seven days from his candidature Mr Morgan was returned as one of the trusted representatives of the most important county of North Wales," notwithstanding that the proposer of Col. Bid- dulph (P. H. Cliambres Esq) did all that he could as a personal friend" to secure the gallant officer upon the side of Temperance. Too late, Colonel Biddulph Your latest opinions, like your general conduct, came too late, and you have only yourself to thank for the result," for had you "listened to wise counsel, it would have been otherwise." Think of that, Col. Biddulph, and repent that you had not placed yourself at the disposal of the "North Wales Temperance Elec toral Association," and like Mr Osborne Morgan^ "owe your election in a great measure to its good offices." Poor Mr Mainwaring You too were sacrificed at the shrine of Temperance, although there certainly seems to have been some labour required in bringing your opponent over to the cause. The electors of North Wales will perhaps be surprised to hear that the results of the recent controversy have been so materially brought about at the dictation, and by the influence, of the North Wales Ttmperance Electoral Asso- ciation." Individually we certainly were ignorant of the loadstone that was attracting the magnet, while we fondly believed that the battle was being fought upon the question of the Irish Church. But then we were not members of this important association, and not in their secrets. Seriously, we protest against this presumption of a compara. tively small number of individuals banding them- selves together, claiming to wield a huge power, and compelling every candidate for Parliament to bow his knee in allegiance to it and we are even more sorry, advocates of real temperance though we are, to find many in their eagerness to obtain a seat in the Legislature, only too williug to truckle to a tyranny which will take a high place amongst the "screws" in use at the present day. It requires but little discrimination to discern that the real object of the association is a political one, and that its weight has been thrown into the ultra-Radical scale. It is true that Sir Watkin Wynn is judiciously thrown in on the other side, but it is only to cover the real design and we arc certainly astonished beyond measure that any person of sense and understanding can be hood- winked in the matter. If the members of the association would take our advice, they would at any rate devote their talent and exertions to some better and more worthy objedfc than in perpetrating such a vile and abominable pun as the following :— Thoy may not shine and gUtter iu the nun. but it ia only because they are themselves true and noble tons, ever singing, &c., &c."

THE COMING CONSERVATIVE BANQUET. THE Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald is evidently fearful that the coming Conservative banquet to the recent candidates for the county and bo- roughs, is to be a success. Well, we believe, and we ,have good grounds for the belief, that our contemporary's worst fears in this respect are to be realised. It is possible that we regard the demonstration about to take place at the Sports- man Hotel, Carnarvon, from a different stand- point to our contemporary. We rejoice, nay revel, in the fact that Conservatives know how to bear a defeat, and that instead of venting our mortification iu breaking the windows of oppo. nents, and in like acts of lawlessness, we can submit to defeat with dignity, and deduce from it the lesson—the all-important lesson, as we con- ceive, not to be disheartened, but to determine that our best energies shall be employed in the future to rectify the past, and secure victory to our side-to secure it, moreover, by just and jus- tifiable means, and by no resort to those peculiar stratagems which we honestly believe our oppo- nents to have brought into use against us at the recent election. It is with the feeling and the confidence of future success that we propose to commemorate our defeat—to inaugurate an era of action, and to bury, it is to be hoped for ever, that inaction and lethargy with which we credit in part the victory of the Liberal party. We do not care to follow our contemporary through'the tangled lIlaze of classic lore in which he has lost himself in endeavouring to see the practicability of our funeral banquet. We can well imagine that ay evidence of Conservative vitality is gall and wormwood to our contempo- rary, who seems to us to have called to his aid (for the spirit of the article is exceptional) those fanatics who see nothing worthy in the deeds of aught but themselves. We have much gratification in being able to say that numerically the gathering of next Wednes- day will be an undoubted success, and that the represented influence of the county will be pro- portionate.

CA-RNARVONI. POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT.—The third of the present series of papular entertainments, was held in the Guild. hall, on Wednesday evening last, December K!th— ? John Marr, Esq., in the chair, when the following pro- ?rame was gone through -Pianoforte duett, "La Dame Blanche, Mi? MiHer and Miss E. J. Marr; suc?, Dublin Bay," Mr I onnie; recitation, "The Pride of the Land," Mr A. Williams; song, KiHarney, Miss %VitHame; reading, "The Pawnbroker's Shop," Mr- Thus. Morris duett, "The Larboard Watch," Mr Webb and Mr Evans; recitation, Dyiyniad o "Gwenhwyfar," Mr J. W. Davies; song, "The Twin Brothers," Mr Wylie; song, "Yesterday," Mr A. M. Williams, en- cored, and gave, Hen wlad fy nbadau reading, "The Obstinate Shop," Mr H. Chinery song, Y Ffeniaid," Mr Edward Foulkes. God Save the Queen." CHRISTMAS H OLIDAYS.-Thei-e has been some excite- ment in Carnarvon during the past week, in connection with the movement which has been set on foot for clos- ing the shops of the town on Saturday next, the 26th inot. It appears that the respected Mayor, in order to further this object, gave notice that the Carnarvou market, which was to be held on Saturday, would take place on Thursday next, the 21th inst., and thus the great inconvenience in closing the shops would be ob. viated. To this arrangement the great majority of the tradesmen at once fell in, and announced their intenti n to close their shops, but it appears that one of the town criers was sent round by somebody or other to announce that the market would be held as usual on Saturday, and that the shops would not be closed. This caused great indignation on the part of the great body of the tradesmen of the town, and a meeting was announced to take place in support of the mayor and the two day's holiday movement. This meeting came off on Tuesday evening last at the Guild-hall, Mr It. It. Roberts, Twt- hill, being in the chair, and there was a numerous and very respectable attendance. Mr Williams, Shop y Maes, in an appropriate speech, proposed the following resolu- tion :—" That this meeting pledges itself to support the majority of the tradesmen of this town in their resolve to close their places of business on Saturday after Christmas 1808, in conformity with the wish of his worship the mayor." The resolution having been se- conded by Mr John Griffith, jeweller, and supported by Mr Richard Griffith, draper, Mr William H. Owen, ditto, Mr Edward Foulkes, ditto, and Mr John Pugli, grocer, was put to the meeting, and carried by acclamation. On the motion of Mr Vaughan Williams, seconded by Mr Rathbone Jones, a vote of thanks was awarded to the chairman, and the meeting terminated with three hearty cheers for the mayor. We believe that all the drapers of the town, with one or two exceptions, have given in their adhesion to the movement, and that the grocers are unanimous in its favour.

LOOAI.;AND DISTRICT. Mr Bruce, the newly appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department, is brother to Mrs Campbell, wife of the Bishop of Bangor. The Rev. Dr. Cooke, of Belfast, the eminent Presby. terian divine, died on Sunday evening. His last ap- pearance in public was on an occasion when he protested vigorously against the proposal to diiestablish the Church in Ireland. The Rev, D. Evans, Rector of Llanycil, has been ap- pointed Surrogate to grant Marriage Licences in the Diocese of St, Asaph. PENRHYN PRIZE WELSH CATTLE.—The Exhibition of Fat Stock at Biimingham and Smithfield have added four more prizes (two first and two second) to the list of prizes which have been won by Lord Penrhyn for Welsh Cattle. Since the year 1855 eleven first priies and three second have been won by his Lordship for fat Welsh oxen, and eleven silver medals distributed amongst the respective breeders of the oxen. While during the same period, six first prizes, five second, and two third prizes have been taken by him for breeding stock of the same breed at the Shows oi the Royal Agricultural Society. We understand Lord Penrhyn does not intend to exhibit in these classes in future. At the Liverpool Poultry Show this week, the Hon. Miss Douglas Pennant, of Penrhyn Castle, took the following prizes:—1st for best Bramah Pootra cocks exceeding one year old (dark). 2nd, Best Spanish hens exceeding one year old. 3fd, Best Bramah Pootra pultetg hatched in 1868 (dark), and best Spanish cocks exceed- ing one year old.-Commended for-Best braman footra cocks hatched in 1868 (dark). At the Dog Show, Mr R. J. Lloyd Price, of Rhiwlas, Bala, was awarded the first prize for the best Clumbea Spaniel dog, and was commended for small and large sized pointers. At the Fat Cattle Show the first prize for Welsh ox or steer (exceeding 3 years and 3 months in age) was taken by C. Platt, Esq., Brynyneuadd, Llaufairfechan. The first of the disputed claims to compensation arising out of the Abergele railway catastrophe was tried at the Manchester assizes on Saturday. The plaintiff* were the children of Mr W. T. Lund, of Blackburn, who was killed in the accident. The company did not dis- pute their liability to pay damages, the only question being the amount at which the compensation should be fixed. Since the estate has been wound up it is found that the balance available for the children is only £ 710, together with a reversionary interest in some cottage, and the jury awarded to each child a sum of XI,451) for the death of the father, making £ 4,350 iu all. The will of the Rev. Sir Nicholas Chinnery, late of Flintfield, in the county of Cork, and of No. IS, Hyde Park-square, clerk, baronet, deceased, who was one of the sutferers by the Abergele disaster, has been proved. The personalty is sworn under £ 120,1)00. All the testators' real and personal property is left to his daughter for life, with a pewer of appointment among her children. If his daughter should not leave any child who should live to take a vested iuterest in his property, the testator leaves all his pure personalty to be equally divided between the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, the London Society for Pro. moting Christianity among tha Jews, and the Society for the Diffusion of Keligious Knowledge on the Con. tinent. WELSH DISSKNTI-RS ASD THE ELECTION.—The following letter appears in the Liverpool Courier, under the signa- ture of Traveller :-Sir,- The facts which find their way into the papers are only a small part of those known and freely talked about in every part of Wales. Just before the election of the Denbigh boroughs, one of the elders of the Calvinistic Methodists, at a weekday meeting in their chapel at Denbigh, demanded to know who in- tended to commit the offence of voting for the Conser- vative candidate, Mr Townsbend Mainwaring, and added that tl;ey-inez%t)ii)g the members of the church-would not desire to see again the face of any one who should so vote. It is quite likely, if(this appears in your paper, some one may contradict it; and I may as well tell you beforehand what these contradictions are worth. Itis just possible that the report of what took place at this meeting may have reached the outside public in words slightly ditferent to those actually used, and this would be heH as fully justifying any religious correspondent in saying the report was not true. The Welsh people —the religious people more especially—are verv ingeni- ous in matters of this kind. Some years ago I knew a deacon of a chapel who was in business, and liable to in- come tax but he had an objection to paving, and to evade the tax he kept a separate set of books for the in- spection of the very intelligent commissioners of income tax. When asked I "Are these your returns ?" his an- swer was, "These are my books, and I hand them in; and he maintained this was not telling an untruth! So much for the convenience and comfort of a religion of faith, and not of works. A HANGOR BANKRUPT.—At the Liverpool Bankruptcy Court on Monday, before Mr Commissioner Perry, Frances Pidgeon came up to pass her last examination and receive an order of discharge as well as to apply to be released from common gaol. Mr Gully, instructed by Messrs, Evans and Lockett, appeared for the bank- rupt, a widow, formerly of Dublin, but latterly residing ill Bangor, Mr T. H. James, instructed by Messrs, Dun- can and Co., for the execution creditor, and Mr Cotton for another creditor. The judgment in this case was obtained in one of the Irish courts, and under a recent act of Parliament registered in England, where Nfrs Pidgeon had gone to reside. She was arrested in Ban- gor and lodged in Carnarvon Gaol, from whence, in order to obtain her release, she petitioned this court and was adjudicated bankrupt. The court, upon her surren- der, at the instance of the execution creditor, declined to order her release unless she found security to ensure her attendance at its various Isittitigs. She was unable to procure the necessary security, and was remitted to prison, where she remained until this day. Mr James now stated that his clients were not desirous of further detaining the bankrupt, and should therefore discharge her and prove their debt. Her discharg e having been signed the creditor proved a debt for £ 7^3, and pro- ceeded, through hi, counsel, to examine the bankrupt on her accounts. The unsecured debts were stated to be £ 67, and the liabilities on accommodation bills ■ £ 1,894 whilst the assets were of the value of £:31, con- sisting of 'plate and trinkets. The latter item, upon in- quiry, was found to have been wrongly inserted by the gentleman who gave instructions for the preparation of the accounts, and the item of accommodation bills, it was also explained, was not entirely correct, as the bankrupt had received some consideration in respect of the bills. Mr Charles Coates, a membec of the Irish bar, and a re- lative of the bankrupt, was called for the purpose of ex, plaining the accounts, but his evidence was of so discur- sive a character it would be impossible to summarise it, the history of himself and family being the principal topic upon which he enlarged.—The baakrupt was then recalled and examined with respect to the evidence she gave on a former occasion, which, it appeared, was in- consistent with her present statements but the only explanation she could offer was that she was so nervous and confused as to be unaccountable for what she bad previously said. His Honour expressed his surprise at such an answer, and remarked that there must be fur- ther investigations of the accounts, and before he could be satisfied on the subject he should require the vouchers and papers which had been delivered to the official assignee that morning to be carefully examined and re- ported upon. An adjournment for that purpose was thereupon taken to the 31st inst. THE INDEPENDENTS OF CARNARVONSHIRE AND FREII VOTINC!. — We are requested to insert the fol- lowing Resolution, unanimously agreed upon at a quarterly meeting of the Independent Denomina- tion of the northern district of Carnarvonshire, held at Llanfairfechan, on Thursday, the 9th inst., under the presidency of the Rev. E. Edmunds :—" That we, Min- isters and Deacons of the Congregational Denomination of Arvon, in conference assembled, having observed, with much astonishment, the charges repeatedly made against the Dissenters of the County, in the columns of the North Wales Chronicle, since the late election, of having exercised authority over the members of our churches, to compel them to vote for the Liberal candi- dates, with the threat of exclusion in the case of dis- obedience and that at the time evangelical preaching of the Gospel in our pulpits had been replaced by poli- tical speeches, beg to express our most decisive denial of the charge, and to announce that we are prepared to meet any tribunal for the thorough investigation of the groundless asgertions.Signed, for the Meeting, EVAN EDMONDS, Chairmau. CHRISTMAS Snow.—Mrs Margaret Owen and Mr Hugh l'ritchard exhibited their Christmas show of beef, &c., yesterday (Friday). Mrs Owen's show, which was her forty-ninth, consisted of three prime fat oxen-from Mr H. B. Roberts, Trefarthin, Anglesey, averaging in weight 12 score; 10 sheep, from Mr Roberts, Bryn- adda, near Bangor; 12 mountain wethers, from Mr Griffith Thomas, Talsarn, Llanllechid and 2 calves, from Mr William Williams, Penffridd, Bangor. Mr Hugh Pritchard, Vaynol Arms, exiiibited-2 tiue oxen, from Capt. Platt, Brynyneuadd,one of which weighed 13 score lolbi 2 oxen, fed by William Williams, Esq., at Sybia Abbey, Northamptonshire 12 mountain wethers, from Mr Lewis, Aber S ditto, large ones and 1 calf. The other butchers reserved their show of meat, until Thursday next.

The foundation-stone of a new infirmary for the parish- of St. Pancras was laid on Thursday, in the centre or an area of 31 acres of land, which has been bought foe the purpose, at the cost of X4,200, on a slope of t < Higtigate-hills, lying immediately between the Highgate Cemetery and the Small-pox Hospital.

7 THE CARNARVON NEW HARBOUR WORKS. I NONE but the most perverse sceptic can fail to see and appreciate the immeasurable advantage that cannot fail to ensue from the completion of the harbour works, which were so successfully add with so much eclat inaugurated last week at Car- narvon. We regard the impetus which must thereby be given to the trade of that port with no feelings of jealousy, believing that any benefit that it may derive will be shared, perhaps ni equally, but in some degree by our own town and port. We trust, at least, that this may be the effect of the project of our neighbours, and that their enterprise and their anticipated success may stimulate our own townsmen to increased activity on behalf of their own interests. The occasion ought not to pass over without the acknowledgment that is due to the energy- untiring and unceasing-on the part of the Mayor of Carnarvon, (Llewelyn Turner, Esq), But for the patience and the indomitable pluck with whihe his worship has overcome almost insur- mountable difficulties in connection with the work, and the labour of years that he has bestowed upon its development, it is not difficult to believe that Carnarvon would not have witnessed so speedy a prospect of its port being saved from ruin, or at any rate from partial extinction. We do not doubt that the people of Carnarvon will show their appreciation of the public spirit of Mr Turner, not only in this, but in the innumerable other acts of good, by readily adopting the sug- gestion put forward at the commemoration ban- quet of last week.