The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

HOLYHEAD. Board of Guardians.—The meeting of the Guar- dians was held at Valley on Tuesday. Mi' J. Lloyd Griffith presiding.—The Clerk (Mr Hughes) reported that the following sums had beua paid in out-door relief during the last fortaiglit Holyhead, £ 74 2s 6d to 304 paupers, showing 31 decrease of 75 paupers and £3 Is 6d: in relief in the corresponding period last year; Abe, £ 17 to 180 p an increase of 11 pau p e? and decrease ;,r £r4;6:1' inrlif(k;r:I£¡612(kt7:9â paupers, decrease of 8 paupers and Ll 113 IN D relief.—It was also reported that there weN 8i iD- mates in the house, against 63 last year.—It wtw decided to obtain a. loan of JB420 towards the build- ing ,f new laundry B Pri, proposed, :llt /T :'?\I'. ,"l:j subscription of £5 be paid its usual towards, the Holvht?,?d District Xune Fund, and. this was passed. -The Clerk reported that there were 268 oldl ?'I? over 70 yesm of age in receipt of out-door reFief p' the Union.—The House Committee reported that the old well condemned by Mr Birchamw, only used for wiishing purposes, the new well hein", iisaj for drinking purposes,In the matter of the female wards being overcrowded, they recommended tliit anew building be erected, sufficient to accommodate 20 beds and dny room-, etc. The report W.1K ¡«(«>J}ted. Petty Sessions.—On Wednesday, before Mtssin Hugh Edwards. T. Forcer Evans, John Moreton Pricliari J. R. Jones, W. R. Jones, Robert Gardner, Joseph Hall, Captains Edwards and Kendall, Inspector Rowlands, N.S.P.C.C.. charged James and Ellen (Jain with cruelty to their chil- drew. Mr T. J. Roberts. Carnarvon, prosecuted 011 behalf of the society. Both defendants were II. tenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, and the children were ordered to be t»nt to the workhouse.—Hannah Roberts, p, H-,erry. charged with 4 like offence. and was sent to priron for one month with hant labour,-Henry .1, pi= W right, 11. North-weft-street, husband and wife, were aL<o char¡,red with the same offence. Th*y wera both sent to prison for three months with halt! labo\1r. the children to be soot: to the workiiouse.— P.O. 13 charged Hugh Parry, Ty Refu.il, Cci:-chiog, with stealing 22 fowls. The defendant w;is ?ent to prison for one month with hard labour.—Inspector Thomas-ore, L. and N.-W. Railway Company, | charged John Walsh, fishmonger. 31, C'iiarlos-street, Chester, under the .Merchant*' Shipping Act, with mi?lesting I)a?-wn i-, on the boats fmm Dublin to Holyhead. William Nolan, 24, Lower Brid?,e, Cheter. was also charged with the ,m16 offence. They were e;n: b fin,?O E 2 and costs. Mr Fenna rl- 'ed,re'db Mr f R<! Jo:: (a:n7:1; Owen. Cross K?s, Lianfachraeth for driving a spring car at night without a light was fined 2n M including ?ots.-C-rg?,. Stringer (age 15). 8, Harp- .tree Holyhead, was charged with te.ling bian. Ha was bound over to come up for judgmemt if called upon.Jo}ia Hughes, 9, Bone Wane, Holy head, was fined 5s including costs for being di-unk and incapable.—John Johnston, Railway Yard, j Holyhead, was charged with King drunk ami riotous. The defendant, did not appear, and a war- rant was issue d .— A G. Wilkes. H. M S C > l ossu«. was charged with being drunk and riotous. Th« case was ?.vztn?, Parlwr Hei. Market-street, Holyhead, for being drunk -,nd riotous, was fined 5:; and costs.—Mr T. R. Evan* Iq>plie<1 for a transfer of the iiccnce of the Skeiriex Inn, Stanley-street, Holyhead, to Alice Mav-h. The application was granted.

I LLANFAETHLU. The Reade-G-riflith Coffee Hou--e.—On Monday evening a lecture upon temperance was delivered at the above place by the Rev. 11. Jones, Bodewryd. Other s pcakers "Were expected, but owing to in fluenza they were unable to attend. There was a very good gathering, notwithstanding the fact tlut a great number were laid up ,{Ii th,Lt md:¡(;.

PENRHYN DEUDRAETH. Pettv Sessions.—These sessions were ulI j Thrrsday. bsfore 1\11' William Jones (in the ch.ci) and MrR. Jones- Morris.—On the a.pplie:l.tion nf Mr R 0, Jones. the licence of the North-Wetaeru Hotel, Festiniog. was transferred from Mr Timm.is Wo-twarth to Mr Robert Scott Naylor. LLverpo.)!. -Rowland Evan Jones. Bull Inn, Trawsfytayd t. ap- plied for the transfer of the licence to himself from his father. Application refused.—Evan Roberts, Penvgroes, Penrhyn, was charged by P.C. Davies with bsing drunk and disorderly, and was fined and 8;; 6d costs.—John Jones, carter. T:bT1:)'bwk:l. was fined 2s 6(1 and costs for committing a similar offence.—William Ellis. Penybwlch, was, fine-i Rnd 10s costs for being drunk and disorderly Hid for committing a similar offence Thomas Davies. Ty Gwvn, Penrhyn, was fined. 2s without coots.—!>iif- fith Evans, Crown Inn, ianfair, was ch¡rb..oo wit II having been drunk on his own licensed premise*. Mr Guthrie Jones, Dolgellev. prosecuted on behalf of t,ii. ,nd Mr Oswald Davies, Do!ge.Ucy. ap- peared for the defen d ant. P. C Owen J()?: Hai k.afdr h:h,e;¡I; C-own :n d: i from the demeanour of Mrs Evans he thought -110' did no', wish to see him. Witness, however, went into the parlour, and there found Griffith. Evans I.vi;i-r down drunk. Ir" Evans said the man was old, and that a little drink would up.set him. \11 attempt was madb to ruisa Griffith Evans, who was helplessly drunk. The son. Pierce Evamt, nbatit tlie place. No one told witness that Griffith Evans was ill. Crosa The man was flushed in the face. The wife and d:t.I!oghter let.. the defendant in the room, and went to the kitchen. Fzyr the defence. Pierce Jones Evans, son or" the defendant, said his fzttlivr perfectly sober, iff left him in the p:;rlour, but on hearing a oi., as of a fall witness ran bICk. and found hi;! fa'h r lying on the floor on his side. He appear*I very pale. The officer simp'y pat hi" "bead in" and said "Is it like tlill. The wife oft tv ? wit- ness gave a similar h.t;lJ1,:J).V. Evan Thfrml..S spoke to helping to lift up the defendant, who appeare d to be in a faint. Cnci-eNanined In w: I", opinion, defendant was so b er. William Joa«w 110 *;gn<' of drunkenness in She ee f co- I ::t. Be f ore givhig their decision in this ease, th";r Wot-V pi'MCOc d e d to hear i h nrges against the de f en d pei,-ti;lt,ing drunkenness and selling drink tn drunken person, and r.geinst Own .Tmt.. (>rlr Llanfair. and Thovj; Jnr.«ts Pen'r?. Gwyn- fiyn. Llanbedr. for being drunk 011 r.' ed premises. Sv-Hl vvitnes.-es ,,tort" «rlled. T' Bench fined Griffith Evans for being d rk his licensed premises 10* and 10s 6d c't". fee per ui'Uing drunkenness B5 L2 licence to b'c' endorsed, and liisuvis.ed the charge o! rolling drink to a drunks-n person. Tlie case against Owen Jones -a d;1UI¡-"c1, whilst Thorns? Jon wa» fined 5B and 16* 6d cost, Printed and Published for tlie North WaJee Chronicle Company. Limited, by David Witiia*, at the "North Wales Chronicle." "LI■.r.Ji-»«Ji Directory," and "Gwalia" Printing Works, las- ton House, High-street. Bangor, in the r a ruth of Bangor. in the County of C;<rnar-voD,- Saturday, January 27th, 1900.

aJI. Greenlv, tor Jones, Mr Jones, Mr J. Har- ooocs, Rev. Richard Jones vViliiam Jones. Professor W. H -ry Lewis, Mr F. Llewelyn -,el Lym, Coloi?l C. S. MUlln";rng. 14W Pincipal Silas ilovris, Mr J. Roger Owen, Mr J. AUanson Picton, Mr H. Hulkley Price (chair- man of the College OouTw"), Dr. John Roberts (Menu Bridge), Dr. R. P. Roberts (Bethesda), Mr > O. Robyniwwen, Mr W. ivester Smith, Rev. T. J. Wheldon, Professor Wlaittl. Mr D. J. Williams (Bethesda County School), Mr D. P. Williams, Mr T. HuJon WlWam8, and Mr W. Glynn Williams. The Registrar stated that letters of apology for inability to be present had been receiv:rfrom the following ladies and gentlemen :—Mr W. R. M. Wynne (Peniaxth), Dr. Jones-Morris, Mr Lloyd Griffiths, Mr P. P. Pennant, Mr T. G. Osborne, Mr A. C. Humphron-Owen, M.P., Principal Caird, Mr John Davies (Liverpool), Rev. Daniel Cwlan?is: Mr Thomas Gee (Liverpool), ik-v. Griffith Ellis (Boot!e), Mr J. Kinsey Jones, Mr D. Roberts (Llau- troed), Mr E. Myrddin Jones (Bangor), Mr Iggoed Jones (Llanrwst), Principal John Price, Mr Jas. L. Muspratt (Rhyl), Mr R. Gardner, Sir Wyndham Hanmer (Whitchurch), Mr John Evans (Barmouth), Miss A. J. Jones (Oownty School, Wrexham), the Rev. M. Griffith (lAaagoed), Mr John Owen (chair- man of the Llandudno Urban District Council), Mr E. Sydney Taylor (Hawarden), Mr J. Williams (Ruaoon), and Mr L. Lloyd John, The Bishop o: Bangor WTote —"I am most unfortunate about the University College meetings. I hope I may be able to attend, though late, on Monday, but I have to read the funeral service over a very pld friend, and it will depend whether I can catch the train reaching Bangor 2.37." At the suggestion of Principal Reichel, the Registrar read the following extract from Mr P. P. Pennant's letter:—"I regard Sir Henry Tate's death1 aft a low, not only to the college, but to the Tvhoto kingdom, and not, perhaps, so much on ac- COlmt of his great generosity, m on account of the ,Pry great jgmtlnt with which that gneroity was, exer??i.ed. Mr Rathbone, then addressing the court, said it was his sorrowful duty t. ask them to instruct their registrar to convey to flie Duchese of Westminster and to Lady Tate their sincere regret for the loss they and the court bad sustained in the deaths of those two remarkable men. He did not think any of theoa had ever known more perfect examples-the one as a leading member of the aristrooacy, and the other ES a leading member of our commercial classes —tliaji those two gentlemen had been in all the I relations of life (hear, hear). He had never known I more generous men, or roerf who took more care to give their hearts and their souls with their means, and who useôI their positions so 118 to be of the greatest benefit to the public. They were at once models of the true Kaghsh Christian; nobleman and of the true English Christian gentleman, in the highest sense of the word, and they in North Wales had felt in many ways tine great advantages and benefits, not only of their wealth, but, still more, as Mr Pennant put it in his letter, their wise, care- ful, and judicious use of their wealth (hear, hear). He lwped the Principal, in better words than lie had been able to express himself, would convey to Lady Tate and the Duchess of Westminster, and their families, the court's sense of the loss the nation, the country, and the world had sustained in the deaths of these two great men, great examples of what might be done 'by men who had had U advantage to possess and the Bouls to use great opportunities (loud applause). P?o?eeding, Mr Rathbone said it was now his duty t& ask the registrar to read a most important letter from the Depaty-«hancellor of the Uaivetsity of Wales, and their Vice-president, Dr. Isambard Owen. It was II most important letter, and probably one that would mart an important step forward in the history of that college. He (Mr Rathbone) would afterwards move a resolution to carry out the sug- gestions of that letter. He hoped they would then allow him to ask them to ask eomeone to take Bis placei in the chair, for ho had a very important meeting to attend the next morning, early, when they had to choose the leading physician for their great hospital, and as he had not been alto- gether out of the doctors' hands—(murmurs of sym- pathy)-for some time, he should like to avoid a late jouruey- (hear. hear)—and ,he would ask them to let him go away for the three o'clock train (hear, hear). Professor Lloyd then read, the following letter from Dr. Isambard Owen, making, however, before he did o, a short statement to the effect that the present meeting had been summoned to consider a communication from the Council as to the site of the college. The Council ;had had under its con- sideration for some time the question of the future sitei of the permanent budlding9 of the œ"ge. and they appointed, in order to consider the subject, a special Permanent Buildings Committee, consist- ing of a small number of their own members. This committee approached the Bangor City Council, and were very kindly received 'by the Council, who pro- mised them their warmest co-operation, and ap- pointed three of its members, including the mayor, who he was glad to see was present, to act with the College Committee, which, therefore, had had, throughout, the advantage of their assistance. Threo meetings had -been held of the committee, and, finally, they reported to the Council, at its l' b rec? finllyl th?e kth   em b er, an d upon tiieir Te- meeting on the 20th December, and upon t.r.eir re. port the Council unanimously passed the following resolution:—"That, in the unanimous opinion of this Council, the Penrirp Arms property, the pre- sent site, is not a possible site for the permanent location of the college buildings, and it is not ad- visable for the college to continue its work upon that sito any longer than was unavoidable." It was then resolved to have a special meeting of the Court of Governors to consider this resolution. Professor LloJd then read the letter from Dr. Isambard Owen which was as follows:—40, Curam-street, Mayfair, W., January 19th 1900,-r Mr Rath- bon-I am greatly disappointed to find myself all- able t<j be present at so important a meeting as ;8 to be held of the Court of Governors on Monday. The examinations of the Royal College of Physi- cians, which will extend in,o next week, owing to an unexpected^ increase of candidates, ullfortulHltely make it impossible for me to leave London. The question of the site of the collego is one which has been in my mind for many years past, and, notwith- standing the advantages of remaining on the ori- ginal site, and the difficulties surrounding a removal of the college buildings from it, 1 have long seen, or believed myself to have seen, grave reasons for thinking it an impracticable site for the future pro- sperity of the college. Since the college was founded, the City of Bangor .has greatly increased I in extnt, but the extension has been almust entirel upo,l the opposite sidle of the o-wn, towards w!?ier, the effective centre of Bangor life is rapidly mov- ing while no corresponding development geemt; pos- sible in the neighbourhood of, or beyond, our pre- sent buildings. Even already I am informed that a very large majority, both of the staff and of 'he students, are living in Upper Bangor, at an incon- venient distance from the college buildings. And this is not a temporary, but a permanent, condition ot things. Even if aecommO<.htion could be pro- vided in the neighbourhood of the college, serious considerations of health would still oblige both teachers and students to live as far as practicable on the liigher ground. The student's life neces- sarily makes demands on tho bodily vigour, and it is obviously desirable that students should live in the healthiest locality available to them. A daily walk to and from the student's home, ios, it i. true, not altogether a disadvantage, given fairly good weather and country or opes surroundings; but the academic session includes tl*e most ii-cLmerit parts of the rear, and the surroundings of the walk be- twoen Upper Bmgor and the present buildings are -even now not altogther of a rural character. But we have the future to consider as well as the present in ailti. a site for a permanent building. There can be, I think, little doubt that the increase in the size and population of the City of Bangor will ga stesdilv forward, if the owners of tho neighbouring land a.re judiciously advised. Upper Bangor has always seemed to me an ideal site for (1 pleasant Tcsidentiil town of the type of Clifton, though, per- haps, on a smaller scale, and circumstances now veezi extremely favourable to such a development. The magnificent air of the plateau on which Upper lhngor E, the romantic scenes upon which it look* on tvtrv side, the vicinity of the historic Cathedral city, the existence of excellent schools both for boys and for girls, and the presence of a University Collage, appear to me to point strongly ■ n the development of Bangor, at no distant future, in the direction I have indicated. But every exten- sion of Bangor towards the west and south-west will carry the centre of the college population the further away from the present college building*; while every mere use in tha goneral population of the city will add to tlie objectione. which, already, I umfer- st ::nd. begin to be felt, to the daily transit of the great body of students through the lower-lying quarter. The difficulties, it is true, may be at ight and easily overcome, but what een before my mind is the portion of jay. fifty years hence, when the develop- e anticipated will have taken place, when till have Decome a somewhat populous .d when residents may be expected to settle M ilip? do in Clifton, Bedford, and 4DMtefi- wi'" i \'¡w, amongst other things, to the jititniu facilities it affords for the:r children. "V.-re not a, rtrong probability (may I not say a yjoitainty) that the college wou'i find itself seriously handicapped by being tied irrevocably to a site which would be at all times inconveniently placed foi, the residential parts and which must always be, in plain terms, at the far end of the least desirable quarter of the town? And besides these disadvan- tages, another matter, I think, for serious considera- tion seems to me to be the impression which, under such circumstances as I have anticipated, the pre- sent sito of the college would make upon visitors and strangers. To a public institution, in appeal- ing to the public, as we have to do, for voluntary suppsrt, my own experience would seem to show that a good or a bad sito iA by no means.. matter of indifference. Our college will probably always have to maintain its position against a certain amount of friendly rivalry on the part of other 1Ie- cessible institutions of a similar nature; and no doubt my impression of the disadvantages of the present site has been coloured by the contrast, vomeh •has been alwayB before my riew, with the position ot the sister college at Aberystwyth, whose com- manding situation in the centre of the best part of the town gives it a\ prominence as a publio institu- tion, and makes it a centre of student life to a degree which it io difficult for us to attain in Ban- gor at present, and which would, I fear, become im- ,glib in such a future as I have ventured to anti- cipate. I do not, of course, for one moment mean to say that I regard the actual removal of the col- lege as in any sense a matter of immediate urgency; but, ■believing, as I do, that the removal will even- tually be found a necessity, and, considering that the acquirement of another site will become more difficult year by year, it does seem to me a matter of te urgency to secure, if in any way pos- sible, a site to which the college may be removed when the time has come; be it sooner or be it later. Until such time, I should suggest that the further extensions of the present building which our increasing classes require should be provided for, as has been done at Cardiff, by the erection of tem- porary and removable wooden or iron structures. May I beg you, dear Mr Rathbone. to pardon a let- ter somewhat hastily drafted during a busy time, and to believe me, very sincerely yours, Isambard Owen." At the conclusion. Mr Rathbone asked the Regis- trar to read the following resolution, which he (Mr Rathbsne) would move:—"That the court endorses the opinion unanimously arrived at by the Council that th& present irite is not a. pe88ible one as the permanont. location of the college buildings, and that it is inadvisable for the college to continue its' work upon that site longer than ie unavoidable. Further, that the court is of opinion that a suitable site for permanent buildings should: be secured at the earliest opportunity, and request the Council to take the matter into immediate consideration, with a view to the provision for tbe college of a permanent home suited to its needs and its position as representing higher education in North ;&I Speaking after the reading of the resolution, Mr Rathbone said he thought they- would all agree with' him that Dr. Isambard Owen's letter was a most important and valuable one, coming, as it did, Crom one whose expemnoe of the foundation and grom?: of the work of the college, and of the University of Wales, was unequalled, and who pos&mecl one of the finest intellects of the d??y. At the close of their discussions on this subject, he (Mi Rathbone) had said: "Why, he is the man we must have at the head of our university system, for he combines the qualities of a great lawyer, a great diplomatist, and a great educationalist' (applause). He had seldsm met a man who combined in such a degree all those qualities (hear, inear). He had only re- ceived the letter of Dr. Owen the previous morn- ing, and was not at all aware of the resolution which their Joint Ommittee had come to, and he con- fessed that at first he was a little staggered at the greatness of the work which, he foresaw, must 11(, the outcome of it, if they carried out the proposals outlined in the resolution, and the reeommendations of Dr. Isambard Owen, and yet, on consideration, he came to the conclusion that he might-partly, no doubt, from the confidence he placed in Dr. Owen's judgment, and in that of their Council-that they ought to accept at once the decision of their deputy- chancellor, their principal, their staff, and their ad- mirably-selected ncil-except himself, of course —(laughter)—had come to after all their work and labour, and ".tha.t after bringing the institution to its wonderfully successful position within 'ho period and with the means at their disposal, and that decision was that the time had come when they must make a distinct and decided attempt to carry out the second part of the provisions necessary to make complete a University College worthy of North Wales (applause). They began, and they began most wisely, he thought, by acquiring the Hving t (w, which must be the real and necessary foundation of any educational institution, and par- ticularly that paxt of it which dealt with the highest education, and they were wonderfully suc- cessful, he thought, and they must look back with the greatest price| and satisfaction to the selections they then made of the principal and professors of that college (hear" hear). They now saw what had been done, and the success was something wonderful to his mind (hear, hear). He (Mr Rathbone) was a very sanguine young fellow—(laughter)—when this work was begun, but it had gone beyond anything j they could have deemed possible at that time, wnb- in the time, and with the means at their disposal—■ (bear, hear)—and if they had had to suffer the loss of two or three of their distinguished men-some of the most distinguished men in the kingdom, he would venture to say, who had taken the very highest positions in their respective spheres of learn- ing. Surely to be the successor of Lord Kelvin was itself a great success and honour—(hear, bear)- wWe their friend, Heniy Jones, had I e- come Dr. Oaird's successor (applause). Waa not that again a proof 0 the success of their. selections? (hear, hear). And now, having done this much, they were bound by what hai.-ip gad done to go on, and complete their work by giving to the staff they had secured proper habita- tions and proper laboratories and workshops to do their work in, and to continue alike their work, and their discoveries of fresh knowledge in science and in every kind of way (applause). In fact, he 1id not think the,, h Z 1,,f(t ap teI "ue). rn fact, he did not think they had left themselves any liberty in this way, fo" their past success necessitated their future progress (applause). Of course, when the need of this 90Xt of thing came before one, one could not 'help looking back as well as looking forward, and he remembered that some of them thought it a most extraordinary thing in establishing a system of education that t,hey should begin at the top be- fore laying the foundation of the structure-to begin the ooueges before they had a system of intermediate education. It did secm extraordinary, but for legis- lative reson8 it was the only thing they could do, and therefore they, with Lordt Aberdare, Mr Mun- del'la, and Sir Hugh Owen, took it on their own heads, and did it, uidi it had proved curiously suc- cessful, because the success they had in Wales, in establishing for the first time within the British dominions ?? national gystm of intermediate educa- tion, received a great = its stimulus from those very centres of intellectual life, their three colleges, and the men they had accumulated in them as a great intellectual force in the country (applause). Proceedmg, Mr Pathbone said be wished to say a few wQrds of a personal character, and he hoped they would not consider they arose from any ego- timn on his part, for it was the result of carul and deliberate consideration, ever sinoe they first did him the honour of making him their president. What he had: to say lis should say for this reason, that at the age of 81 years, tho chances were, he would not say equal, but very great, that he might not have another chance of seeing them (murmurs of "No, no"). He bad thought at the beginIDng, as their principal W 7 knew, and he ffd thought ??ev since, that he was not a suitable col- league for the great Welsh dignitaries both in jtosi- tion and education and learning with whom) he was associated as president of that pollege. Now that tliey had to make a fresh and very great departure and in undertaking a work witch would require all their energies and all their pewers and all their diligence to carry to a success- ful issue, he had; felt, and still felt that the com- mencement of llis work ought to be put in hands younger and stronger than his, with more time be- fore them than it was certain hA had, so that the work might go forward with consistency, with rapidity, and with success..Let them not suppose that he was meaning to say farewell to t er. (cheers). He was very far from wishing to do so, but he wished them to allow him to step down into the ranks, where, so long as life and strength were spared to him, ho should etili wish to stay, in those ranks, a fellow-worker ,nth whatever leader they migh? choose to succeed him, with the object, whick ought to be the fole object of them all, of bring- ing that great work to a successful issue (applause). When thCf initiated the college, it was begun by a number of them who met together, and agreed to contribute certain! sums, Lord Penrhyn at the head of the l?et, and that, he thougbt, would not be a bad way to begin now-{laughter}-hut they would want very much larger sums to complete thi* larger institution, sums which, he confessed, when tMY began a similar work in Liverpool, they would never po8Iibly attain within a generation or two (but it was wonderful hovf good work fpicad), and he did not despair that the great capitalists, whether agricultural or commercial, of Wales would come forward in connection with the new move- ment, as they had done with them in Liverpool, in accordance with a suggestive scheme which the late Bishop Lightfoot gave them the benefit of in one of his speeches, in which he' clearly indicated the duty of those who! possessed the means to do so, how they might leave xtaifehle memorials of their wealth, and of their affection tor their fellow countrymen, to whom the great bulk of them owed their wealth and; the pleasures they enjoyed, and he could not help thinking that, look- ing as they must die at the great success of that institution and the proof which that success gave that. the people of 'W4&1e? were keenly anxious for education, and were ready to make an ample use of education when obtained, that their great capitalists vwxuld realise that is was their duty, their debt to society and, to put it on a lower ground, that it, was distinctly to their own interest to give to Wales that educa- tion which had her c?xmtries, small countries poorer and smaller even than Wales itsely-to place this great country for all its wealth and its rich lands and great manufactures, in the second rank both in agriculture and in manufactures, and they appealed to those men to do their duty and lead them into -a system of education which would enable them to regain the rank they once held, in r'culture,.in commerce, and in manunctures (ap- se). He was not speaking of mere) visions, but of actual facts, if those men would only realise it, tuid not 'with -that invincible ignorajica which was the deadliest sin of Englishmen of all ranks, rihat their eves to what, if they kept them shut, they would iinct to be the deadliest peril of their national greatness (applause). He did not, in say- ing that, blame anyone in the past. TIley hal all Me Si. tlie last sixteen years what could be done by education, and what had been doner in other countries, such as Denmark and Sweden, who spent with a lavishness with which their poor contributions seemed child- ishly small. There was Denmark, crushed under the beel of an invader, her best provinces taken from her, and yet, while our agriculturalists were complaining that they could not hold their own and make it pay, that email country had been thriving in its Wi4culture, and dn* own farmers from the markets at their 0 ,?im our own ply and entirely because they had made their system of education complete and satisfactory (hear, hear)-. And that was what they had to do. He did not like to use the argument of interest, because he could not believe that the noble and cultivated (society of Groat Britain needed any such motive. They knew that the .people of Great Britain shed their blood and gave their lives away without stint amd without itation in what they believed £ 0 be the causa of their country, and now they asked tberd to join that army which they proposed to or=* against ignorance, and paupensm, and ,rÍœ, and to make sacrifices f6r the cause of educ tion, the pOwer of which he hoped would be in- creamed by what they now proposed t. do (hear, hear). He was not speaking aggressively, he was speaking hopefully, because he was not a pessimist, aoà his long experience in life led him to form a mush more favourable opinion of human nature than, perh&pø, -be began with. He did not agree with the-well, he did not wish to get into a theological discussion—(laughter)—but he believed that mien once people realised that a certain course lay before them, they would take it (hear, hear). He had that confidence now, and therefore, though he felt a little alarmed at first sight of the proposi- tions and arguments in Dr. Isambard Owen's letter, he cams to be convinced that they were thoroughly sound and correct, and that they ought to go for- ward in faith and hope, and with confidence in their fellow Welshmen, especially when they re- membered the conduct of the Welsh quarrymen of Carnarvonshire and Merionethshire, and the small farmers of Anglesey, and/ what an immense amount of =(I had' been done by small means, and that it was their duty and privilege and opportunity to place increased means in the hand s of their Welsh e(kcationists (applause). He was extremely glad to hear that their Myor and Corporation td awakened to their duty and their interests in this matter, and that there were great hopes that they would take this matter up and do what their municipality didin Liverpool, and give the collefe a proper site (a. Tlzr NK,It brought Bedford out of its position as a small country town Y I I Its schools. The same thing had taken place else- where, and they had it on the authority of one who was not only a very able man, pessessed of the qualifications he had already mentioned, but who vus one of the leading physicians in London, I that, if they only knew bow to use it they had wealth at tlir hands in their beautiful air and surroundings. Why, &inw that college had been I brought to Bangor, their rateable value had risen something like £ 12,000,and thaib was a very different I rate to that of any other town in their neighbour- hood, and they owed it to that college. He assured them it was an immense advantage to a town to have situated in its midst a colony of intellectual and educated men, and of course if it was an ad- tantage for a large town like Liverpool, it would be a more eminent advantage, and a more bene- ficial institution to a town like Bangor. So he hoped that their Mayor, who he understood was a very enlightened man on these subjects, and their Oounci1 would come forward and do everything in their power to enable them, to have a college, as Dr. Isambard Owen said, worthy of all the advan- tages the town possessed, and which it would do so much to devel ops. What he had said showe d them in what fa.itl: and hope, and confidence he moved the resolution which ha(ubeen readf to them, au4 he must now ask them to choose a new leader to lead them to the new victory in the great work before them, into whose hands he must surrender the great position and trust which they had placed in his hands, and which he had only been just retaining, even as he had done, until his sucomor was appointed, to &how all his warm devot ion to j U:r 1Lf:: :d MJsW ;nc:i: tg:o:c ¡ under their distinguished principal and staff, whom they had got to lead them to victory. They must believe ham wet= th::ct¡id'n{hshu: I feel less interest in the work. His interest in the North Wales Oollege had become so much a part of his being that while life, and strength, and thought remained, they could be sure of any in- terest that he could give being theirs, and he would be very glad to do for their second movement to the same extent as -he did for the first, as soon as they were prepared to collect supporters to their movement (applause). He had the greatest confi- dence, as he had already expressed it, in the wisdom of their vice-chancellor,principal,and staff,and Coun- cil, but he must repeat that at his great age it would be unwise to undertake to begin to lead them to what he hoped would be a great and a speedy victory (loud. applause). Mr Henry Lewis seconded the resolution proposed by Mr Rathbone. Mr Rathbone, he said, had passed well deserved encomiums on several gentle- men, but he (Mr Lewis) must say, with great confidence, that to no one man connectedr with the college did they owo so much as to Mr ;Zb?ane himself (?ppl=,,?e). Mr Rathbone had so identified himself with North Wales interests, and c??iallv in educational matters in North Wales, coming amongst them first as a stranger, seeking the suffrages of tho electors of Carnarvon- shire, it was really most remarkable the way in which he had interested himself in Welsh matters of National importance, so much so that by this time they had almost forgotten for many a long day that Mr Rathbone was not a. Welshman (hear, hear, and laughter). He had identified himself with the Welsh. people; a great dioal more sot than some men who had been born and, bred in, and derived their wealth from the country (hear, hear). Mr Rathbone, in short, was the man to whom they looked as the natural leader of North Wales in everything that was great, and noble, and good (applause). But he (Mr Lewis) thought that not oniy in their interests, but in, his ownv interest, Mr Rathbone should reconsider his decision (applause). It was frequently the case that when men retired from business they collapsed (laughter). Mr Rathbone: I don't want to retire from busi- ness I only wish to retire from the leadership (laughter and applause). Mr Lewis: But his feeing with us will give an additional stimulus to :his life, and so preserve it for years longer (laughter and applause). Mx Rathbone: I am afraid I must go; you can have all that remains of me, bu a comrade and not as a leader. Mr Rathbone then ro3e to leave tlw room having to catch the train, and on the motion of Mr BiSkeley Price, seconded by Principal Reihol, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded him for his services in the chair that day. Colonel Mainwaring was then unanimously tusked to take the chair for the remainder of the meeting, and Mr Lewis resumed his remarks, pointing out that the premises in which the college was now located were originally an hotel, and that part of the work of the couege was now being done in what Rsed to be the ,t4,bl. of that hote f A gi eat part of the capital of tlie college had been expended in adapting the hotel and stables buildings to the work of the institution, but no amount of ingenuity could do that satisfactorily. The demands upon University Colleges were increasing every year. The college was intended at first to provide e uca- tion simUax to that prorided at tte University Colleges of older foimlhtion with special mpbsi? on the scientific side of education. It was then thought that those buildings would answer the pur- pose for at least the lifetime of those who started the institution, but the demand for an increase of the departments of the college, that fomr new le- partments had already been adacd; and there was now an imperative demand for another department. for tho imparting of manual intrtnJction, to the teachers of elementary schools and others. This would involve the expenditure of more money on the present buildings unless a new site was obtained, and in any case, II. large proportion of the money which had; been already spent would be lost. Against the present also it must 1M¡ advanced that the area 1 was not large enough to contain the series of build- ings which, in the course of the next fifty or sixty years, would be required to meet the developments of eduœbion even on present line, but if the develop- ,mthee ntn' = a gogTm of education will be the same in the next 20 years as it had been in the past 20 yews, the present Imation of the college buildings WM entirely out of the qUe6tion. ,With a normal increase ,of students it is almost out of the question, but if new departments will be added, as in the past, then the ar em upon which the college had teen built was entirely out of the question. They required buildings which could be readily adapted to cope with any increase, and this was generally provided for in new institutions by the erection of a series of separate buildings. For example, they required a separate building for the accommodation of their valuable college library of 20,000 volumes, which were now housed in very confined quarters, as they could see for themselves in that very room, for the books were even now. laid out in three rows on each shelf, which was a grc?t drawback to the students, who were, besides, very cramped I for room themselves, the accommodation being m fact miwmbl inadequate. A building to com- modate the library 24 the museum of the college ought. to be a separate building, because their trea- sures were of incalculable value, and could not be replaced. But that would be impossible on the present site (bear, hear), They also aspired to have fine buildings so prominently situated as to be an inspiration to the mindS of the men and women students for many years to come. That was utterlv impossible on the present site. Dr. Owen had also referred to the fact that the present buildings were at the wrong end of the town, and to the fact that them was- no room for development there. T^he raHway station Imd most of the available build- ing land was at the other end of the town. High- street was a poor avenue to lead to such an insti- tution as the University College. Most of the people and the students lived at the other end of the town. On them grounds the Council had come te the unanimous decision that the present site was not a possible one for tho peimanent location of th-1 college buildings. He might say they had several other sites in view, on elevated ground, amongst beautiful surroundings, far more suitable than the present one. He hoped, therefore, that the meeting would confirm what had been done by the Council in no grudging spirit (hear, hear). A large anwmt of money would be required, but this was a matter of national importance, and they were anxious to place the college in such a position that in a century hence their descendants might be proud of the achievements of their ancestors (ap- Pl--). Principal Reichel said that, as the court was aware, the question of accommodationlllad been before the authorities of the college for many years. The rapid growth im the number of their students made it inevitable that the qiwstioa of proper class- Koms, etc., vh?ywd 00 fac6d before long. He must cmdess that of the two alternative plan-that of acquiring additional accommodation on the present site, = that of a. new site, he was originally T,s. posed in favour of the first. But he was a con- vert—(laughter)—and, as in the case of all converts, his change of views wa.9 very complete (laughter). The fact was, that as the question To ? Iete (laughter). had to be gone into more and more in detail, and all tbe diffi t? ies considered, he was driven to ?Lt that the case against the present site was over- whelming if the future of the college was to be considered, and that his own disinclination for the change was due to the not altogether creditable feeling-(Iaugl?ter)-that any removal would be most arduous task, which might prove too much for his peam,of mind and Jis strength of body (laughter). But he had to co-, ifess-an, ,hiis victions being attained by force of logic were most ,ii?, absolute-that if the co l lege was to expan:f and not to be hampered in. its ruture de- velopments, that it should be moved to a larger and more suitable site (hear, hear). But, in his view, it was a question of the future, and, not the very near future of the college which was at stake. He did not think that if they stayed where they were, the disadvantages of the present site would be so overwhelming as to seriously hamper the working of the college, but he was most perfectly convinced that the expansion which would be re- quired by every university institution throughout the countiywwithin the next fifty or one hundred years w»u £ d HeillllpoltSible where the college was at present located. It was the whole future of the institution which was at stake. On the develop- ment of that college the development of higher edu-1 cation in North Wales depended, and still more the higher technical education in North Wales. He always laid great emphasis, not having had any technical training him-,& on techni(? y education. and on the f= that the technical education side of was one of the the work of a prov,incial college was one of the most mlun.ble departments to the country and of the college (hear, hear). He was com-inced tba the future of their national industries largely de- pended en the development of technical education. It ,had been so in Germany. Every day their atten- tion had been drawn "to some new department in which they found they were unable to compete with the Germans. The war had brought that out, for they found that the Boers were using a kind of field glass made by a firm in Germany which had discovered, by means of the higher technical educa- tion developed in Germany, a special kind of glass which gave a more accurate definition of the objet looked at than glasses made here. But they werel learning very slowly; intellects in Wales weie rather quicker than those ÍDJ England—(laughter)— but, in England they had been for many years L prey to what he might describe as an ignorant seIZ- satisfaction. They were being rudely shaken out of that in umny ways, and the E "g li h ice beginning to 1,wzn the lewon, and IV? (K. oPL7ari. had very largely laid down the lines of the future development of technical education. If they ar- cepted that general prinoiple, it followed clearly that a great responsibility rested on that oollege. It was the only institution of higher, as opposed, to secondary education in North Wales, and' it was the only -,institution in connection with which higher I technical education could be developed. No one knew what those developmentS woulcl be during th next century, but they would enormously transcend anything of which they had the least experience. The developments had been so great already, and competition with foreign countries was getting TO much keener every day with the spread of educa- tion abroad, and' the cheapening of the means ,f transit, that it was as inevitable as anything could be in human affairs that the demands on the next generation would be aJtogether out of proportion to anything, probably, which they had in ther minda Ihtey 'c el t:nJr:c:: They must, therefore, in thinking of the future of the college, dream of an institutionj so planted that it would have large room, large atmosphere, and most encouraaing surroundings in which to strike root and gpowin- order that it might attain to that stature and strength required in order to meet the immense responsibility before it (hear, hear). Some of the advances of the college had already been mentioned. He must confess that ho regarded those as very small beginnings. He thought their agri- cultural department was a thing of which they might legitimately be proud, but he regarded that only its a humble beginning of what their descendants might see in fifty years hence. Those who had been abroad well knew what a mere drop in the bucket it was all compared with the provisions in say Den- mark, where the whole country was practically an agricultural department. They ought, then, enormously to expand those two e artmeu they ought to have a department devoted to the great industry of quarrying and mining. It was alto- gether out of accordance with the iftness of things that, there should be ho chair of geology in such a college as that, situated, as it was, in a part, of the country richest in geological formations. They must always remember that technical education made far greater demands than even scientifie education tor buildings and materials: it was a most expensive thing, while science made more demands than art in those respects. Therefore, if the tendency of things was in the direction of scientific and tech- nical education, they must look to a larger site, larger buildings, and: a greater quantity of material, and the-object) of that resolution was to call atten- tion to the. advisability of making provision for a ne7r coU before the extension of the town ma& it I pownti? to do so (hear, hear). It did not mean that the DW college was to be built within the next two or three years. He believed that a college which would fulfil the requirements of North Wales would not, could not, be built within the next ten years, but what they believed was that the time should not be allowed to arrive when the Council of that college should find themselves f,ice to face with that problem without being in a. position to I it, in a sition W?Wre tney are "ou W say "we have used up all ocr availa le 4!Lp we have no room where we are now," but unless tbey took thought at the present time, that situation was by no means an impossibility (applause). The Rev. T. J. Wheldon said that with every desire to do so he could not. agree with tlhe resolu- tion as proposed. He approved of the suggestions of the president a to the capitalists of the country coming forward, to help the new movement, and 00 hoped the mayor, whom I10 ?ot Itd wai present, would, together with tho members of the Town Council, notice th?t part of the pn?Ment's pce"h which dealt with tho duty of municipalities iu tfaia matter. If any ather town in North Wal? came forward in this connection and offered a good site ? and a large sum of money, he thought the Council would be very foolish not to accept such an offer (laughter). It dotolved- on Bangor, if it realised all the advantages conferred on the town by the existence in its midst of such an institution as a University College, to do what, it could for it (hear, hear). At the same time, as to the remarks of I)r. Owen aJlld, Mr Henry Lewis, he (Mr Wheldon) did not believe much in somo things which had been "aid, or in some of the arguments brought forward. The arguments of Mr Reichel and of the president were of the greatest importance. They should have ample space, and he was thoroughly of opinion that Ctpt4lr premises could be nuide for the same money in anotker place. But he did not believe one iota in the arguments brought forward for a change. He did not. for example, believe that, the students or the professors who lived in Upper Bangor had brighter brains than those students aaid professors who lived in the lower part of the town (hear, hear, and laughter). He believed that if they took some professors, and even some students, and placed them oil the top of Snowdon, they would not be much brighter for the change (muc'h laughter). He did not believe much, either, in the argument about Lo- He (I"l d -I t ing through the town to the college. He did ""it t ?mk there w? anything in going trough the town to injure or to I.»wer the characwr of any man or womani student who Cil.I!HJ tirrougli the town on the way to the college, and he should not object to any of his children passing tloiig t-litit Also, won- derful to say, lie had it certified on medical autho- rity that Hirael, the lowest part of Bangor, was the healthiest part of the town (laughter). He thought it would be a great and grievous mistake to remove the college too far from tho centre of the town. The president had already referred to Aberystwyth. They certainly had a great advantage in the situation of the college there, which was in the centre of the town, where the stu<Jents could assemble together in a few minutes, while heie they had to take a long walk to get to the college, and might, on xet days, get drenohed, but they would get worse I drenched if they took the colleg e too far to the west of the town. What was wanted was a central posi- tion. Mr Glynn Williams said that as one who had had experience of Lower Bangor for 20 years, and who hoped to have an experience of Upper Bangor for mme years, he begged to express his most entire and cordial agreement with practically every word of Dr. Owens excellent letter (applause). The Mayor said that while ne had 110 right to bind the City. Council in any way, he was sure he might say thaAJ the Council would give any sug- ge.stionsbrought forward by the Collego Council every consideration, and would do all it could in the interests of the college (applause). The resolution was then put to the meeting, and carried unanimbitsly. On the motion of Dr. Roberts, Menai Bridge, se- conded by Mr GI-nn9 Joneos it was 'id,,l that a rep it of 4 OWCII letter^Wogether with a re- prinf of the speeches made -Ilting sli ull be sent t..1It r? of G'66vveer r (,