Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

WE ARE STILL IN THE THICK of the discus- sion as to the Cabinet of the future, and the combinations actual and possible are so numer-1 ous as almost to defy calculation. We may at least know who will not he in office even if they consent to sit in the Cabinet, which is far from certain. Mr Bright's health and age will forbid his taking office, and Mr Lowe, who has been the stormy petrel of two Administrations, is not likely to be invited to trouble a third.

GREAT WAS THE DISAPPOINTMENT: on Tuesday morning when the country awoke and found that a Liberal Ministry had not been installed at once. It was expected that twenty-four hours would see the crisis over the ont-going men gone, and the incoming men in. But, no The crisis was prolonged, and it was evident there was a hitch, and that some door creaked. The Daily News came out with a savage loader to this effect, "Staiid not upon the order of your going, but ,o It is easier, however, to put out the old than bring in the new, and we now see the reason why. No one," said the late Lord Derby, u who has not tried it, can have the slightest conception of the difficulty and labor involved in framing a ministry." It is precisely because writers for the press have not tried it that they are so ready to offer a hand, and send Mr Goschen to India, Mr For- ster to Ireland, Hartington to the Treasury, and Gladstone into retirement, according as the whim seizes them.

AMONG THE VARIOUS RUMOURS prevalent anent the new administration, those affecting I the legal appointments are not the least inte- resting to us. It is said that Lord Selborne is not likely to be re-appointed Lord Chancellor, in which case Lord Coleridge is likely to occupy the position, Sir Henry James being appointed chief of the Common Pleas. In any march upward Sir Henry is bound to participate, and as Sir William Harcourt seems to have grown into something greater than a law officer, it is tolerably certain that there will be one or two vacancies to be filled. The Solicitors' Journal of last Saturday has the following forecast :— It would he absurd to attempt to predict the course of events as regards the forthcoming occupants of legal offices: but it may be noticed that rumour already asserts that Mr Herschell, (I-C., will be Solicitor-General and Mr Osborne Morg n, Q.C., Judge Advocate General in the new Administration. We also learn from Carnarvon that the Liberals are keeping up the county organisation in the event of our old friend Mr Watkin Williams having to seek re-election on accepting office. We think it extremely probable that one or other, if not both of the Welsh members, may require re-election, and we venture to anticipate ( that on their appearance before their constituen- cies under such circumstances, they would be accorded the compliment of an uncontested seat.

THE OLD-FASHIONED TORIES who mourn that the destinies of the nation should be so largely entrusted to the ignorant masses are wont to derive some comfort from the hope that in a few year's time the Education Act will have so far operated as to ensure an intelligent exercise of the franchise. Judges, magistrates, and philanthropists, in deploring the frequency of crime, entertain the hope of moral regeneration on similar grounds. To a great extent, no doubt, they are right. But we confess to have been astonished during the past few days to find how much Board School Education is "as water spilled upon the ground." There are multitudes of boys of thirteen and fourteen who have passed through the Board Schools, and who within a year or two of leaving school have utterly forgotten all but their alphabet and their figures. Apparently such boys on leaving school have no books to read or no inclination to read them. A short time suffices to obliterate all they have learnt, and it is only when they want to make a rise in life to something beyond the position of an errand boy that they become conscious of their deficiencies, and avail them- selves of such gratuitous instruction as is afforded by night schools. Plainly, however, such agencies only touch the case in part, and it is for the promoters of public education to ¡ devise some means for enabling the children of I the past to retain the elementary knowledge which is imparted to them at so great a cost to I the community.

WE ARE HAPPY to rescue a gem from com- parative oblivio —comparative at least so far as these boroughs are concerned. Why should such a gem of purest my serene, &c. &c blush uiisec,lil? Rather let every reader see this latest choice contribution to our polite literature, and Judge! of its merits and style :— THE DENBIGH BOROUGHS ELECTION. To the Editor of the Chester Courant. SIR,-The Liberals: have not lost much time in Holt Borough to revenge themselves on their Tory tenants. A respectable voter, whose name if necessary I can give, came to me the other day, the yth of April, and tol(I iiie he had received notice to quit in consequence of his having voted for the Conservatives. This is quick work. The polling for Holt only took place on the 6th, on the 9th notice is given. This is only one cases are there not many more ? —Yours faithfully, J. H. LECHE April 13th, 18K0. Conservatives. 113 llads 38 75 Squire Leche is not unknown in the neighbour- hood of Holt. He is moreover father-in-law to the defeated candidate for the Denbigh Boroughs in the late election. He would no doubt have excellent reasons for fathoming the truth of what he states, and inasmuch as we have not been able to learn who this tyrant is who gives his tenant notice to quit for voting blue, perhaps he will enlighten our darkness by next week. What, however, does the writer mean by the figures underneath his letter ? We know that he cannot know how 151 electors voted, so suppose he is palming off the results of his own canvass book as those of the Ballot Box Not much of a stone this to hurl at the I public Mr Leche, Try again, you may improve. COPE THK BURGLAR who frightened the neighbourhood out of all propriety during the ivcent winter, was sentenced on Saturday at Stafford Assizes to ten years penal servitude, we are not likely therefore to be troubled in body or spirit by any more of his escapades for that term. But though Cope has been safely lodged, he may have rivals and imitators, so that locks, bolts and bars will still require to be attended to. Since the capture of this notorious burglar the Chief Constable of Denbighshire, Major Leadbetter, who aided materially in his arrest, has been busily employed in turning his scientific knowledge into the usef- 1 channel of discovering some mode of detecting such in- dividuals in their nefarious operations, and we are happy to say with considerable success. The agent employed by Major Leadbetter is electricity and the application of it to the pur- pose is both ingenious and simple. The apart- ment to be protected has a metal box containing a spring, to which is attached one or more cords, which can be fastened to door, window, or shutter. The cords are connected to the spring by a short length of yarn which will break on such slight tension as may be caused by the opening of these approaches to a room. The fracture of the yarn bring the positive and negative wire of the battery into contact and this sets the electric bell ringing at your bed side or wherever it may be fixed for the pur- pose of giving an alarm. The idea is a capital one, and the action of the little machine, as we saw it in operation, perfect. We understand that Major Leadbetter has arranged with Messrs. Gent & Co., of Leicester, for the manu- facture of the Burglar Detector and that Mr I Gittins, ironmonger of this town, has the local agency. The invention is simple and inexpen- s ive. and we feel sure will be largely utilized, and will entitle the gallant major to the best thanks of the community for his ingenuity and perseverance in devising so excellent a safe- guard. i

THE SURMISES AND oossir of the London clubs and coteries are all now set at rest. Her Majesty has sent for Lord Hartington and his lordship has visited Windsor. For this course there was ample justification. Lord Hartington was not only the recognised but the elected leader of the Liberal party in the House of Commons. His Lordship had taken the onerous position with all its anxiety and responsibility at a time when the fortunes of the party were at their lowest ebb. Mr Gladstone had retired from the position for reasons which were satis- factory to himself and were also accepted by the Liberal party, and this state of affairs had not been altered in point of fact and so far as the party organisation was concerned. But while Mr Gladstone could retire from the nominal position of leader lie could neither control his own power and influence, or the posi- tion his genius and eloquence inevitably gave him in the heart of the party and the nation. Nor, moreover, could he foresee the march of events which have subsequently transpired, and which compelled him to stand forth prominently as the determined opponent of the Beaconsfield policy in all our foreign affairs. These events we say compelled Mr Gladstone to change his pre- viously formed purpose, and that change and its consequent action, has resulted in the complete change of public opinion, as manifested in the National verdict just given against the late ad- ministration. And now we are as a party in the rather awkward predicament of having a nominal head in Lord Hartington and a real ol.e in Mr Gladstone, and her Majesty is wisely advised to send for the former. Now however comes the difficulty, and that is to whom will be entrusted the work of forming a ministry ? Lord Hartington will, if he has not done so already, decline to undertake the duty, and advise her Majesty that Mr Gladstone, and he only, can be acceptable to the nation at the pre- sent juncture. This will necessitate further negotiations, the end of which must inevitably lead to Mr Gladstone being sent for and under- taking the responsible duty. Monday will in all probability bring the Que,i and the nation to this position.

-9 THE REVENGE OF THE LIBERAL PARTY for the defeat of 1874 is so complete that the advice to listen to the counsels of moderation will not be thrown away when seriously offered and by staunch friends. Prussia had her Jena in 1800, and had to wait sixty-four years for her revenge, which, if slow in coming, was at least complete. The Liberals have not had so long to wait but they are already in some danger, not so much from the decisiveness of their success as from the dangerous counsels of those who have joined the party after the battle is won, and when the only question is as to the division of the spoils of victory. Sitting on the rail, as the Ameri- cans call the tide-waiters, who are always with the winning side, is a simple operation. It is not, however, without its dangers to those who accept the sinister advice of such worshippers of the rising sun. Those air my sentiments, gentlemen," said the American candidate; but! if you do not like them, they can be changed." Such pliability cannot be treated with the con- tempt it deserves. Congratulations, however insecure, must be received with civility, and once they are accepted the opportunity offers for thrusting in insidious advice, the intention of which is merely to make mischief and sow division. The Times, for instance, whose con- version to Liberalism is so opportune, surpassed itself by its remarks on Monday last. It hinted that the Queen would send for Lord Hartington, j insinuating, of course, that this would be Lord I Beaconsfield's parting advice to her Majesty, with the recommendation, however, that Lord Hartington should not transfer his authority to form a Ministry to anyone else. The intention of this was a piece of gratuitous mischief, the inuendo being tha.t in no case would her Majesty consent to Mr Gladstone re-! suming office as her chief adviser. The article concluded with a dropping fire of compliments to Mr Gladstone's great abilities in some subordinate post, or do the Lydhurst or Lansdowne of the Cabinet without office. But the inference which the writer wished us to draw from the whole article was, that Mr Gladstone had made himself so unacceptable to the Court circle, the clubs, the city, and those classes in a word, whose opinion the Times affects to reflect that it would be highly inexpedient to appoint him tc the post which the voice of the country has marked out for him. This is the danger which we must be on our guard against. The Liberal party is swamped with officious advisers, who have no other way of showing their vexa- tion at the turn which events have taken than by paying insidious compliments to Mr Glad- stone, every syllable of which is a covert stab. The insinuation is that he has every talent but one, which is the art of using his talents with moderation In fact, it is the Radical streak which they detect in this reclaimed Tory, which is his unpardonable sin. Had he bcen a born Liberal and moved with the times; moved, that is, on the same plane as Mr Goschen. Mr Lowe. and Mr Forster, all would be forgiven. But the touch of Democratic Socialism, the sintde whiff as of garlic waved over the social salad,is too much for them. "Onion atoms may lurk within the bowl and, scarce suspected, animate the whole but garlic is a lower stratum still and that these Society Journals cannot away with. We fear that the onion atoms were ad- niitted at last by Lord Palmerston, so the garlic of a Dilke and a Chamberlain will have to be put up with, and if this is the lesson of the elections, the'sooner it is learned by certain so- called Liberal journals the better.

Local News. THE ERDbia RENT AUDIT.—Mr York c has I postponed his Lady Day rent day to Tuesday, the 25th May, not April, as inadvertently stated last week, when the same return will be made upon fully paid up rents as the last rent day. ECCLESIASTICAL.—The Rev. Meredith Hamer curate, Wrexham, has been offered the living of Berse Drelincourt. It is, however, uncertain whether he will accept the preferment, inasmuch as we understand the Bishop intends insisting upon a Welsh as well as English service being conducted at Berse every Sunday. TIlE MILITIA.-During the week, the recruits of the Royai Denbigh and Merioneth Militia have daily marched through the town on their way to the training ground for drill, the regimental banel, undtr the excellent leadership of Mr Wells render. ing the- streets lively with martial music. Tm, TOWN BROOK.-Another proof, if proof were needed, of the great necessity for covering in 1 the town brook was afforded 011 Monday Two little girls were playing by the brookside, when one of them, leaning over the wall by the Townhill bridge, suddenly overbalanced herself and would have berii instantly precipitated into the water hud not her little playmate actually kept her up by holding on to one of her feet, as she hung head downwards, until assistance was r»n>cu ,1 and the child rescued from her perilous" p.; on There has been, and still is, a great out-en abut "the rates and increased taxation, but w "incv there are few giumbling ratepayers but wou;,i be glad to see a dangerous open stream, in the oinity of a large school, safely covered in and ma ts secure,  ) FKEE LIBRARY. — Attendance tJ.¡, S Thursday, 148; Friday, ISO; SntUr,] J',1" I Thu\Hlay, 4.; rll,ay, II- (\t,ur'l' ',c. ?Monday, W; Tuesday, ITS; \e/¡n¡.'<;d;l'i; THE ALLKUHANIANS.—THESE WeJi-KN; TiiK ALLKt:ANi.\N.s.—These wejj-  '}, ) lists and beilringers are announced to "IIT ":1,  I'uhHe HaJl on Tuesday and \d,? ,?' all¡' Knw-nŒET HAX? OF HOPE En:itT\'Xt. 1* 'I' 1 J\ 'IF' -On Tuesday eveiiiiig, tile of t? i!- street Baptist Chapel had their quart(I'ly t Kl¡ll;. and ellt(jrtail1lrelt. Tea, which was Oil t:; yarty at five p.m., having be?n partakoK?f and th! en  o y e d an en ¿." t \-t'n ? \ltoultl\ enjoyed an entertainment was given at M'lr" an attractive programmc of vueal music r" ':hr:¡¡ dialogues, Ac., was very I ,-I.I ,itlf (Ia ogucs, 'C" was "cry cn'cuta IIy n:l1flf.t"l¡ 111\ who took part. Ie' 'y all PHKSESTATIO\ COBWY¡)X SE):VI< K ?'j.L r thIS week on view at the cstaHiMhtnentr/ até O. Jones, (.)I(icn Pa(ilock, 'till. ,?IL. o ee I some sets of Communion .Service intendcW all.]. 1 -'<J' I '¡t,r cntatlm to three different }J ces of \n<r.?i ? ¡Immediate district. The services, which a?, ()t best Shc?cid tnake, comprise chalices ç)¡r;)t thé bowl, salvers, cups, &.c. PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL.—It has been r e.> Vt'l by a number of the friends of Mr Price "e(l to present him with some slight t"hn (of rI:a tion of his valuable services as hon. Si.c f'1" Wrexham Ragged School, an (?thee whic' h | held for a period of 24 years, and thc" tll', .Ia I .r make an earnest appeal to all his friends t>. .'}e them in carrying out thiH project. Any??? a'¡'ht I them in cari-yiii-, out tlils I)roj(-,ct. Aiiy n?y be obtained from MrR,l.rt H.?. Hifl. '? THE FAIR.—At the fair on Thmsday.t)) ?'? an average supply of beef and mutton, \J;t), ,I show of store cattle of but middling (jtialjt prices of which had to be c'.n.s  L 'r.   ))  tl priccs of which had to bL- dnsidoraiVly redn^V'* effect a sale. Beef and muLton were jn „ t'J demand, aad a large number ft dcaios ),?),' 'I.'¡'II¡ C ""al and from a distance, were in attendance. fl'- f b f "i 1 t () t II' ':Q. tions were for beef 7'il to 9}d mutton <j- l'' J I. } t I I 1'1 t., IE Yea., 'I 001; pork pigs, 0d to <;• 1 jJ* ''0'1"  I 1 store   pigs, Gd to G^l; good store pigs, 30* t" .). 'U';k: ing pigs (eight weeks old and upwards), ] Ss t ..? HI" J. H.UŒ ANO Ho?NDS CLn? SI-OUTS, -W," ar- I I I. I 1 ar" given to understand that this club jjx,| T I f .t Ii/In Saturday, June ôlt I, for it? sports, which \vi!f i" held in Acton Park. We trust that the \M?? will be a little more favorable than it was la-t v A sumnHU'Y of the Sport'! bal.tJH.:e shed il!  A summary of the Si)()rt-3 s)i(,.ttt u?j t ? its present financial state. Receipts ]?. ? scriptions to general fund as p?r annex, ) ■ 'ii t:24 7s Od, admissions and other receipts, CIS i;j!( total, £ GS0sGd. Expenditure; kar(I: -Cl I 15s 4d due to treasurer, but towards uhi!'?! has been collected £ 12 0s 7d -,i N-iii,t a 14s 3d to the good provided an amoullt of n unpaid su bscri ptions for last year are paid ip, TnI-; WREXHAM 1, Flltll Ally. -The to thank the following ladies and gentlemen -'f'r their kindness, during the last tuo moutls in sending to the patients presents ot h h,s v„,V'' empty medicine bottles, linen, orau^s, an > flowers :—Mrs Yorke, Erddig Park; MR lAaii- Bronwylfa Ilrs Peter Walker, L'oedvglyn rr Colonel Jones, Ahenhury Cottage Mrs Waluyn- Dr. Eytoii-Jones, Crosvenr.r Lodge; the M;s, Williams, Plastirioll; Il's Overton, 3i^>n<u-b Grove Road Mrs Bennion Acton, (Jiov,- Kumj the Misses Retemcyer. :t..Jame' Ternue, ddu Mrs White, Gladwyn Mrs J. LI. William! Chester-street House Mrs Jones-Parry, LI\Il"!Ju Mrs William Thomas, Ashtield Ner^t. War" 2:kcl Re('iment; :\11' awl :\11' .r, F. E,¡¡,¡,u! 23rd Regiment Mr and Mrs J. F. Kdi-burv Bel grave House, Grosvenor Road Mr High-street Mrs Farquharson, Actoii Gardens. Scraps of wool ef anv kind or col-mr the use and amusement of the patients wouid be very acceptable. SUDDEN DEATH IS ABBOT-STRKET.—On Tuesday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Old Swan Inn, Abbot-street, before Mr B. }{. The 1 well coroner, and a respectable jury, of whom Mr Alfred Owen, ironmonger, Hitii-stt*iL!t, %ts foreman, 011 the body of Mary Jones, a woman aged 52, living at 10, Abbot-street, who dicl suddenly on the previous Saturday eveniii". It appeared from the evidence of two witnee, named respectively Mary Harriet i,i Elizabeth Thomas, that the deceased was desirous of removing from her own house to go and live with her sister in Regis-plaee, and un Saturday evening she was assisted downstairs. She then, however, became very ill, and a little brandy and water was given to her; but before she could be removed from the house she expired. A duet ir was sent for, but she died before medical aid euuld be obtained. There appeared to be 110 reason to suspect that the deceased had been in any way neglected, or that there had been any foul" play, and the jury finally returned a verdict of Death from natural causes." MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BOARD.—The usual fortnightly meeting of the School Board "iI" held on Tuesday, when there were present, Dr Williara- vice-cliairman, in the chair Mr Coleman, and Mr Gittins, Mr Ashton Bradley, clerk to the Hoard. Mr Lindop, attendance officer, presented the t<> | lowing report :— To the members of the Wrexham School GENTLEMEN,—The cases I have to HRIN^ von t". day consist chiefly of a class such as it has never f the lot of this Board to adjudicate upon Oil any lirfviuu occasion. For some time pa.st there has been such a omilmu tion and concentration of adverse circumstances at work in the borough so far as they bear upon school attend mre as to bring some of our schools aim st into a state of dis- integration. First and foremost amongst these I wmM name the Parliamentary Election, in the I)rel):ii-:ttitizi C which the parents seemed to think that the Hdie- ai^n Act was in abeyance for the nonce, and th:!t all local inter^N must give way to the Imperial. Next to this antnc mi-ti.- influence I would class our March Fair in Apri) which, luckily now is at an end, and the schools, I am liappv te iv have already began to reap the benefit. I-George Price, ;j!I, Monnt-street, Joseph, twelve August. Absent from school 30 consecutive time* Thoirnis Davies, 30, Mount-street, Thomas, ek-un b.t October. Abseiit ;3:1 tiiiie4. 3—Samuel Evans, 1-2, Stanley-street, Alfred t,n 1:[ December. Absent 37 times, but has improved (iiiriii'- the past fortnight. Annie Laurie, nine last .Manli, verv irregular. 4—William Billington, 14, Eagle-street, Arthur (ienruc, ten last August William, twelve last I>emnl,er; .Mill Henry, eight last May. All absent for three weeks o-Frederic Xorm:m, 5, Crescent-place, Alfred and Frederic, both constantly reported for irregular attend allce. (i—Joseph Hughes, (i, Crescent-place, Llewelvn, liiiK ). school Benjamin, seven last January, lioth absent from school. i-Thomas Parr-, Crescent-place, Thomas, 'about seven. Very irregultr. .S John OUerh«ad> 6, Lambpit-street, Martha Jane. eight last June Charles, six. JSent to school .in,'c' nnticr Was served. !I -.Joseph Wright, 42, Crescent-place, Henrv and *„«■.< ot in school. 10—William Davies, Crescent-place, Utitia, seven thi* month Hannah, nine last January. Have bee:, very lllfgular but have been removed to another sob ol during the past fortnight, where their atkwhnce lias bee,, very good. I have the honor to be, gent lemon, 1 your ol.-ilicn: servant, April 20, 1":80. The mother attended in No. 0 case, and ph-advi illness as the cause of t!i- irre,,tilti-ItN- ,i tilc attendance of one child, but promised that both should do better in future. Mr Lindop said lie had good reasons for thinking that there wmild be an improvement in No. 3 case, and it was resolve! to take no further action for the present. A re't- was read from the parents in No. Ii case -tatm. that depression in trade and the excitement of ill'1 election had been the chief causes of the children's absence from school, and promising reformation in future. The parents in No. 7 case were ordered be summoned before the magistrates untc- th* iv was an improvement. LECTURE BY MR G. (JROSSMITII.—Aceonliu:; t- announcement, this world-famed humorist delivered his lecture-entertainment on Charles Dickens, ai reflected in his works," at the Public Jbll, uJl Thursday evening. The body IIf the hall was fjrly well filled, especially the first seats, and the patform was tastefully adorned with a vari-ty1,1 hcalltifnlllIants rangod rdonthe front. Tlie meet- ing Was opened by the Vicar, who regretted to state that the Mayur was unavoidably absent home, and could not occupy the chair. I n-Uv tnesc circumstances, he tLiou,,Iit it Williaiiis to take his place.—-Tlie Chairnia?!. after expressing regret that their excellent friend tilt, Mayor was not present, briefly introduced tile lecturer, as an old friend whom they felt tlie Maimest interest in seeing amongst them (Applause.) Mr Grossmith then delivered his in- comparable recitals of those portion* of the i'vorit« 1;'1 _I' 1 I' 1 th,' Kiiiolish author's works which are considered t h best illustrations of the mail's uiind. lie colli" menced with a description of Dickens lust 'iterary attempt, and fe-citHed the anxiety with hiei- nearly half a century ago he wen-led his -ay ""t nearly half a c(,ntui-v a(,, ,) he Nycii.-le,l his a dark court and dropped bis first manuscript in the dark letter box of the dark office (-f a ''? '? periodical, and then stole away as if lie had dom1 something of which lie had been ashamed." account of his boyhood, and his books, and .h? .J. 1 Õ L I t ,¡'t..d 111 troupes and expenenccs a er on were iv'it' such a manner as to present a vivid panununa?t the incidents before the minds of the audience. Pa™1 ?pperncld's life with the Mi?wbc.r i.uiulv. 311 th h t f tl tl 1" "In' the characters of the worthy con [do were  i?'?'' 1 It 'It' with happy effect, and the lecturer then dealt ?'t'! Ir Alfred Jing!e, of Pickwickian notoriety. A'?' the recital of A Coach ride to London, illu?tra- tinnsof Dickens' reporting desenpb(\n fit ?ickwick on his legs," and the cvcrL-?tin?'huiCf') case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce" were given, a"" called forth peals of laughter and much ?n'!?' Then came an account of his first ?ttatchn?"r when the youth of seventeen \v?s h?d o\ ?r c3.r='" love with the "eldest Miss Larkins, and 1, the 't I cl est   tii l tIt recital of the ball room scene ami other ii)?'?'"? wore most heartily enjoyed. Thf lectnrc'- ??' referred to what Dickens had doM in cxp?'c ?' a b f T" }' 1'1 ) 'a.m' abuses of some Knglish institutions. The M" Rat-an-&wiil Election" proceedings wet- '?' illustrate this, and the description of ?unic'? tactics used by the buffs and blues certainly ap- peared to be not altogether chso!ete. It ?" Quite superfluous for us to attemot to p;e j' lecturer's genius and talent as they dca?-? h I d tl (' ka cause he is already recognised as <me of the t'?'" humourists of the age, and this cnter?in-ucnt t?. won for him a name thai must ever acco?''?' of the immortal Dicker At the concha"" lecture, the  lecture, the Vicar n?de a few apt remark. -?., I good effect which Mr Groasmith's recite ? the mentIoned illustration would be hke!) tn ?'j,, removing any little acerbity that mig'n ? .?, account of the election, and at his   unanimou? vote of thanks was accorded Mr smith for the intellectual treat he hd fi0!l

TO CORRESPONDENTS. -1 WE ARE WEEKLY inundated with requests for preliminary paragraphs of entertainments, Ac., but the space at our disposal is so limited that as a rule wo can only insert such notices when accompanied by advertisements, or for which the printing is done at our office. The same applies to tradesmen's paragraphs. WE WOULD IMPRESS upon our many correspondents the necessity of receiving what items of passing events they may favor us with as early .s possible after their occurrence. ] t is unfortunately a too frequent thing for us toreceivenews five orsix days old on Friday morning, with a request for it to appear this week." Of course, it is impossible to gratifvall such expectations, and while we, on our part, do all we can towards ensuring this, it is not too much to ask our contributors to co-operate with us in so far as they are able.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths. r I r No Notice of Birth, Marriage, or Death can be inserted unless authenticated hv the name and address of the sender. Announcements, with any remark other than the simple facts, one shilling each. BIRTHS. CANDFLAND-April 17th, at 5, Parkaate-road, Chester, the wife of William Candeland, of a daughter. CARTER -April Utth, at 28, Egerton-street, Chester, the wife of R. W. Carter, Rock Ferry, of a daughter. EDWARDs-April 21st, at Ty Llanercliymor, Holywell, the wife of .Mr Edward Edwards, of a daughter GOUGH—April 18th, at Rhyl, the wife of George Gough, Q.ueen's-terrace, Morecambe Bay, of a daughter. HALL-April 20th, the wife of Mr Jolm Hall, Brvncelvn, Greenfield, Holywell, of a son. HUGHES—April 18th, the wife of Mr Robert Hughes, watchmaker, Llangollen, of a daughter. JONES—April 18th, at Llangollen, the wife of Mr Edward Jones, 11, Avenue, New Brighton, Cheshire, of a son. ROBERTS—April 15th, the wife of Mr John Roberts, Bachau Canol, Llangollen, of a son. RATCLIFFI-Apnllst, at fi2, Spruce-street, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., the wife of Thomas Ratcliffe, of a daughter. ROHERTS—April 17th, the wife of Mr Morris Roberts, Oak- street, Llangollen, of twin sons. ROBERTS—April 22nd, the wife of Mr David Roberts, Chester-street, Holywell, of a daughter. WRIGHT—April 3rd, Esless Mills, the wife of William Waite Wright, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. AXDERTOX-TYREH-April 2 'th, at Northgate-street. Congregational Chapel. Chester, by the Hev. J. D. Riley, of Shepton Ma'let, the Rev. W. E. Anderton M.A., of Morley, third son of William Anderton, J P. Cleckheaton, to Ellen, fifth daughter of the late John Tyrer, of Liverpool and Chester. CRUTCHLOE-WRIGHT-April 8th, at St. Oswald's Church, Oswestry, by the Rev. E. J. Rees, John Crutchloe, of Bailey-street, Oswestry, to Ellen, second daughter of the late Joseph Wright, Coach and Dogs, Oswestry. GRIFFITHS—WILLIAMS—April 14th, at Zion Chapel, Oswes- try, by the Rev. O. Thomas, D.D., i.iverpool, the Rev. J. Griffiths, Penmaenmawr, to Eliza, second daughter of John Jones, Llwynmapsia, Oswestry, and widow of J. Williams, Dinorwic House, Carnarvon. JONES—PICKMERE—Apiil 15th, at the Parish Church, Llanfair, Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, by the Rev. T. J. Jones, father, assisted by the Rev. Henry Parry, rector of Llanfairisgaer, Bangor, uncle of the bride- groom, John Griffith Jones, of Kilcarbery, Enniscorthv, Ireland, to Adela Maria, youngest daughter of the late John R. Pickmere, Esq., The Mount, Llanfair, Caereinion. PARR V-DAVI Es -April 21st, at the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Llanrhaiadr, by the Rev. Michael Jones, Flint, Mr David Parry, stationmaster, Flint, to Miss Ellen Davies, third surviving daughter of Mr John Davies, Pentre Llech Farm, Llanrhaiadr, near Denbigh. ROW LA-, DS-JO.N Es-April 20th, at St. James', Upper Bangor, by the Rev. R. Foulkes Jones, minor canon of Bangor Cathedral, Edwin Rowlands, to Mrs Ann Jones, Albion Hotel, Bangor. ROBERTS-W ALKER-April 19th, at the Congregational Church, Westminster-road, Mold, by the Rev. D. Burford Hooke (pastor), Mr Arthur Roberts, to Miss Mary Walker, Tyn-twll, Mold. WEST- JACKSON—April 17th, at St. John's Church, Chester, by the Rev. S. C >oper Scott, vicar, assisted by the Rev. C. Rock West, vicar of Stretten, Der-jysliire (cousin of the bridegroom), Henry Rock West, of the London and North Western Railway. Chester, to Sarah Hunter, eldest daughter of the late George Jackson, Bold-square, Chester. WILSON—GREEN—April 14th, at the Parish Church Hawarden, by the Rev. the Hon. A. V. L ttelton, M.A., John, eldest son of John Wilson, Esq., The Laurels. Blessington-road, Lee, Kent, to Jannette, fifth daughter of Thomas Green, Esq., Wold-house, Hawarden. DEATHS. BOOTH—April 19th, at Penybryn Cottage, Llangollen, in her 89th year, Mary Ann. widow of William Charles Boot i, late of Twemlow Hall, Cheshire. EDWARDS-April 20th, Mrs Sarah Edwards, Pandy-ucha, Glyn, aged 62. EVANS-April 16th, at Beaumaris, aged 30, John Hepry, third son of Roger Evans, Craig Owen, Menai Bridge. EDWARDS—April 14th, aged 6; Mr John Edwards, Caellwyd, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog. HARRISS-April 20th, at 8, Erddig-terrace, George Harriss. aged 80. HUMPHREYS—April 20th, aged 70, at the residence of his son-in-law, Air Thomas Lewis, Welsh Frankton, Mr Edward Humphreys, late of Maesbury. JONES—Apri^l lltli, Mr Edward Jones (Iorwerth Goes Hir), Llansantffraid, Corwen. JONi-i-April 2:3rd, at Manley-road, Wrexham, Mr John Jones, joiner, aged 40. JONEs-April 14tli, at :30, Beast Market, Wrexham, John Jones, Cooper, aged 41, and son of the late Town Crier. JO;mS-April 20th, at Canal-side, Llangollen, Mr John Jones, aged U8 years. JAMi.s-April 19th, Mr William .Tames, butcher, Nannerch. JON P-c;-April 11th, aged 1 day, T. Walter Vaughan, son of the Rev. J. SHin Jones, Independent minister, Llanidloes. KEXYON—April 17th, aged 73, at The Pradoe, John Robert Kenyon, Esq., D.C L., Q C., Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the County of Salop, and Recorder of Oswestry. LEwis-April 17tli, aged 84, John Lewis, Ty Mawr, Capel Coeh, near Llangefni, Anglesea. IIINTO.N-Alareli 30th, aged til, Jane, wife of Thomas Minton, Upper Astloy, and fifth daughter of the late John Humphreys, The Rea, Shropshire. OwFs-April ]')tfl, aged 69, Mrs Grace Owen, Brynhvfrvd, Tregeiriog. PARRY-April 12th, aged 75, the wife of Thomas Parry, Royal Oak Inn, Park Gate, near Chirk. PARSONS—April Ilth at Plymouth, Devonshire, aged 32, Elizabeth, wife of John G. Parsons, lato of Liverpool, and daughter of Thomas Baker, of Manchester, and late of Chester. ROSITER—April 17th, at Amlwch, aged 25, Plicebe, wife of Captain Rositer, of the Flying Foam. RoiiEUTS—April 19th, Mr James Roberts, Greenfield E.»Iywe!l. SMITH—April Kith, aged < (i years, Jonathan Smith, of Burlington-street, Liverpool, formerly of Wrexham. TOMKINS—April 5th, aged 1, Herbert William, third son of Mr Charles Tomkins, Cefn Coch, Selattyn. WILKES—April 19th, Mr William Wilkes. Red House, Holy- well. WRIGHT-April 20th, at Esless Mills, Blanche, infant daughter of William Waite and Jane Wright. WILLIAits-April 8th aged (51, the Rev. Edward Williams, minister of the Independent Chapel, Dinas Mawddwv. for the last 32 years.

THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN have been added to the Commission of the Peace for the Borough of Denbigh :—Mr J. Parry Jones, solicitor, Mr J. Copner Wynne Edwards, solicitor, and Mr William Morris, printer and sub-postmaster. To have made the Bench complete and to preserve the balance of power upon it, the names of men such as Mr T. Gold Edwards, Mr Thomas Gee, and Mr E. T. Jones, the present mayor, should not have been omitted; doubtless, however, anamolies of this very glaring kind will be corrected in the near future. Justice at all events should hold the scales even between both or all parties. IT WAS SOME CONSOLATION t" the Tories when the first batch of Liberal victories was an- nounced, to point to the immediate fall <>f Con- sols and foreign stocks. It is additional all to them now to observe that, not only has the money-market recovered, but even advanced nearly everywhere to a much higher poi" t than that from which the temporary declension com- menced.

CONSIDERABLE COMMENT is already heard on the different treatment Her Majesty accords to Lords Beaconsfield and Harfcington. To one is accorded the privilege of riding to and fro in the royal carriage between the Castle and the Station; to the other the duty of walking through a drenching rain. Of course the Queen can do no wrong, and that being the case, she might have taken the trouble to avoid even the ap- pearance of discourtesy.

THE Times has not forgotten or forgiven the Radical Dissenters of Berks for setting up Mr Rogers, and running Walter so hard that but for the split votes kindly lent him by the Tory party, he would certainly have lost the seat. In all this the Times sees or suspects the Glad- stonian element, and, as one good turn deserves another, it losea no opportunity of hinting as broadly as it does, that under no circumstances must Mr Gladstone be the leader.

A HAPPY SUGGESTION and one we fully endorse was that made by the Rev. the Warden of Ruth in at a meeting of the guardians this week. He proposed that relief should be given to young laborers in the form of loans in order that they might be encouraged to support Friendly Societies. This proposal emanated from a com- parison of the figures relating to vagrants, by which it was seen the numbers had of late greatly increased, in fact to a total of 1273, upon the year and this was believed to have been caused by thebadstateof trade which compelled certain classes to be moving from place to place in search of employment, and a number of young laborers falling ill, who, having no provision immediately went to the parish for relief. We think if such a system were adopted it would work well in many cases, as the borrowers would not have that objectionable taint of pauperism cast upon them and would not lose that in- dependence so dear to most people no matter how poverty stricken.

BISHOPS ARE RAPIDLY MULTIPLYING in the English Church. A new Missionary Bishop is appointed for China, and Liverpool is created into a see-a port see as well as a seaport. The new diocese is not large but it is populous, and the appointment of a Bishop of Liverpool may have as important a bearing upon ecclesi- astical life as the appointment of a Bishop of Manchester had there. St. Peter's Church will make but a poor Cathedral. It will certainly be the smallest and meanest in the Kingdom, but the Liverpudlians have been promising for the last ten years to build a bran-new Cathedral at a cost of half-a-millioll of money and perhaps in another fifty years they may be stirred up to the proper pitch of zeal to fulfil their pledge. It does not appear to be part of the genius of Protestantism to build Cathedrals, but only to restore them. Is there a single Protestant- built Cathedral in England besides St Pauls ? Canon Ryle has been to Liverpool to prospect his new diocese, and to make the acquaintance of his leading clergy. The exact date of his Consecration is not yet fixed, but it is said that the Mayor of Liverpool intends to give a ban- quet on the occasion, to be followed by a general reception of the clergy and leading laity of the place. ♦