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CORRESPONDENCE. I WHO ARE THE PEACE MiKERS ? To tlw Editor of the Dewiglahxre Advertiser. Sir,—I have read with contilerable pain the observa- tions made by our moch. respected townsman Mt T. T. Griffith, at the meeting of the Volunteer RifleSj which took place in the Town Hall on Saturday last. We generally look upon Mr Griffith as a gentleman who speaks and acts as one who has a due sense of the words and actions of an. accountable being. There is in the tone, manner, and matter of Mr Grifli'.b's public ad- dresses a rich vein of religious feeling which impresses us with the idea that he speaks under the moral guid- ance of a well cultivated conscience, aad a heart that is fixed in iti right place. I am at a loss, therefore. to re- concile all this with the sentiment to which Mr Griffith gave utterance, according to the public reports on Satur- day last. In the report of a contemporary of yours I find the following. He had more confidence in 50,000 men like them, than he had in alL the Peace Societi es in the Kingdom. This looks very like a sneer at the efforts of the Peace Society, and many will be surprised to find that so unkind a rebuff should have escaped the speaker's lips. Blessed are the peace makers" said one who spoke as never man spake, and we don't read that he ever instructed his hearers that the way to promote peace was by arming for war. On the contrary, the "great teacher" whose birth was heralded as peace on earth good will to men" enjoined upon his followers, in the sermon on the mount, very different doctrines to those which are preached at Volunteer Rifle meetings. The peace society has only one object, that is the promotion for peace, and the means they have at all times adopted for carrying out their ob- ject, are of a character that will bear the strictest scrutiny, whether tried by the standard of scripture or patriotism. In fact if they stand the test of the first we need have no misgivings about anything farther. Can this much be asserted of the course the Volunteer Rifles have adopted. It is not by abusing a man that we are likely to securehis friendship, nor is it the way to promote peace for the people of one nation to abuse the ruler of another. And is it not abuse of the French Emperor that generally forms the staple commodity of the speeches at Volunteer Rifle meeting?. "Let him come if he dare," or some such language is the idle braggadocia that we hear uttered at these gatherings. Is this the way that 50,000 volunteers are more calcu- lated to promote peace, than all the peace societies in the Kingdom. What absurd language to use towards a man who has never shown the slightest inclination to quarrel with, but on the contrary has oftpa gone out of his way to show the friendly spirit he entertains towards us. Not a single fact have any of the innumerable host of volunteer orators adduced to show that the Em- peror of France has any design upon England. All they can do is to abuse him and thus try to verify their own foolish predictions, and how lamentable it is to see men of intelligence, influence, bntteresses of the nation- al establishment, aiding in such wicked work. A PEACE MAN. RUABUN GUARDIANS. To the Editor of the. Denbighshire Advertiser. Sir-I noticed in your last week's papei a communi- cation severely criticising the capacity and standing at the Board of the Ruabon Guardians. The communica. tion in question though purporting to be written by an Ex-guardian" sets out with a mis-statement, for it hap- pens that the poor rate in Ruabon was last year not four and sixpence in the pound, but four shillings. When your correspondent talks about incompetence and negleot I beg to inform him that when I became guardian first the paiishwasin debt to the Union above one thousand pounds. This has all been paid off, and at the present time there is a balance exceeding that sum in the hands of the treasurer and overseers, and if an equitable rate was only levied throughout the parish I confidently be. lieve that there would be no necessity for a rate of more than 3a in the pound. But I shall say no more at present, as m a few days the auditor will go through the accounts, and state what is the balance now in the the hands of the treasurer and also the overseers, which will afterwards be published. CHARLES WEIGHT,

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