Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

FAILURE OF A LOCAL TIMBER MERCHANT. The statement of affairs has been issued in the bankruptcy of Robert Burden, timber merchant, of Chester and Gwersyllt. The gross liabilities amount to £ 69.937 19s 6d (expected to rank, X60,399 15s 8d), and the a-??.ets nre estimated at C2.O74 0:1 10d, leaving a dehciency of £ 57,625 14.? lOd. The unsecured ? creditors are scheduled at X35,820 5s 8d The debtor states his cause of fililure to be chiefly lossen on accommodation bills, trade losses (especially during the last twelve months), overstocking in 1892 and 1833. depreciation in value -of stock in trade, and heavy interest to money lenders." The Official Receiver, in his observations on the case, after refer- ring to the debtor's imperfect system of bookkeeping, says '• Previous to March, 1891, bankrupt had been iu the employ of Messrs Barker Brothers, timber merchants. Shrewsbury. In that month he started in business on his own account with a capital of £ 1,000 which v.wcz f-:Ivcii him by his aunt. n Burch, Lymm, and £2.000 which he obtained upon her guar- antee from the Burton Union Bank. The bankrupt appears in the years 1892 n.nd 1893 to have made very large purchases of timber in all parts of the country, recciTin? financial assistance for the purpose chiefly from Mc?r? 1 hrutch1ey Brothers, of Knutaford. Tho coal strike anlloubtedly stopped hill getting off his heavy stocks, and materially contributed to in- crease the tinaucial difficulties which he bad got himself into by his purchasing so much beyond his means. But apart from this I think the bankrupt's statement to me that some of his purchases were wild in tho extreme is accurate, and that he disposed of a large quantity of his Rtock at much less than it had cost him. In May of last year he commenced to raise money by means of mutual accommodation bills which ho obtained from various parties, to a large number of whom he was introducod by a frm, Messrs. Bhimentbal and Co., financial agents, London. The arrangement with these parties was that the bankrupt was to discount the bills, remit half the proceeds to tho acceptor forthwith, and the balance just before the bills fell due. This, however. I 'I was not carried out. ann m some cases tHe oankrupt exchanged the acceptances of other people, and in a few cases gave his own acceptances in exchange. The bills received by the bankrupt, and thus dealt with since last May, numbered at least 150, and amounted in the aggregate to over X31,000, and tuis does not include fjills accepted for the bankrupt's S31e acoommodation. Of bankrupt's unsecured liabilities, only about f6,000 represents trade debts, the remainder represents his liabilities to creditors for cash and accommodation. During the latter half of 1S94. bankrupt increased his' insolvency by borrow- ing large sums from money lenders, at ruinons rates of interest. The bankrupt states that he has been aware of his insolvency for twelve months. On the 9:h November Inst he gave notice to all the station masters, at stations where he had timber lying, stating that he had purchased the timber as agent for Messrs Thrutcliley Brothers, Limited, and re- questing them to hold it at the latter's disposal. There is a doubt as to the validity of this transaction. The bankrupt's timber yard at Gwersyllt is leasehold for fourteen years, at a rent of £ 50 per annum, with option of purchase at the price of £ 1,200. He states thnt he has spent over £ 1.200 upon the place in the erection of offices and buildings, and for machinery. The "lease is mortgaged to a creditor as security for a debt of £ l.l(b. Since writing these observations, the Official Receiver has received the proof of Messrs Thrutchiey Brothers, Limited, showing a balance due to them of zC20,920 17s 3d, which exceeds the bankrupt's estimate by SS,920. Mr Ll. Hugh-Jones, the official receiver for Chester and North Wales, presided on Wednesday, at Chester, over the adjourned meeting of the creditors. The assistant receiver (Mr Hugh Roberts) was present at the meeting. as also were Mr Waugh, representing the Liverpool Union Bank; Mr Sampson, representing Messrs. Thrutchiey Brothers, cf Knutsford and a largo number of creditors repro- senting debts amounting to £ 40,637. The Official Receiver announced that the proofs actually received amounted to .£61,545, while Mr F. It. Price, accountant, said lie now represented the debtor's brother, who was a creditor for £ 2,000. Tho claim of the Liverpool Union Bank was stated to be £ 10,639. The debtor's own statement of affairs showed a do- fieipncy of S57,625, but the Oiilcial Receiver said his books were in a complete muddle. The alleged causes of failure were losses on accommodation bills, trade losses, over-slocking, depreciation in value ef stock-in-trade. The Official Receiver said the accom- moda,tion bills received by the bankrupt and dealt with since May last numbered at least 150, and amount cd in the aggregate to 31,000. Of the un- secured liabilities only iE6,000 represented trade debts, the remainder being liabilities for cash and accommodation. The proof of Measrs. Thrutchiey Brothers, Limited. of Knutsford, amounted to £ 20,920. —Mr Hubert Miller, of Konnedy-street, Manchester, -Nir Hubert M i was chosen as trustee, and a committee of inspection ■was appointed. The public examination takes place on the 10th of May. ♦

SINGULAR SUICIDE IN NORTH WALES. An inquest was held on Monday by Mr L. R. Thoma* (deputy coroner), touching the death of a young man whose body was found lying across the Wi" crossing on the Chester and Holyhead line on s ttui-dav last. Mr Bridgwood, brother-in-law, of the accessed, identified the deceased as Walter G. Bateley, of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Deceased was t'.vtiitv-two years of age, and a bank clerk. Witness of no Lunily or monetary matters troubling the dccca.sed.-Ellis Roberts, Wig crossing foreman piatelayer, in the employ of the London and North- Western Railway Company, deposed to finding the body lying across the rails about fifty yards from Wig crossing. Ite found two letters some distance from the body, sta.mped ready for posting, which he banded to the stationmaster at Aber, who took charge of the body.—Robert Jones, stationmaster. Aber. said he gave the letters to Police-superintendent lL:rris.—The Coroner read the letters, which were as f Mlov.s :—" Lditor, Birmiu,1U!11t Gazeu.¡Birmingham, —Xorth Wales. I suppose by now I shall be figuring R" the central co-respondent in a notorious Stafford- shire divorce case, but rather than face the ignomy, degradation, and dishonour attached to same I am ending what might have been a brilliant future.- W.G.B." 'lhe other letter was addressed to Mr Pratt. Lloyd's Ba.nk, Rugeley, Staffordshire: North Wales. 17th April, 1895. Dear Mr P. -I am Borry to take iuto my own hands what might have been a brilliant future. Women have ruined my life, and lather than face the abasement and guilt of exposure I am taking these steps of c-tfacement.—Yours, regret- jury returned a verdict of b;,I!Cide wliile of temporarily unsound mind."

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WREXHAM BOROUGH MAGISTRATES' I COURT. SATURDAY. APRIL 20TH. I Before this Mayor (Charles Murlass, Esq.), W. Prichard, Esq., and Evan Richards, Esq. DBINEINS CASKS. .Tnmea Smith, a groom, whose face was much bruised, was in custody charged by Sergeant Berea- ford with having been drunk and disorderly on the pro- vious night.—Complainant said about 9.45 he saw the prisoner kicking at the door of Misi Pierce's school, tie was asked what he wanted, and Smith oxplained that lie wanted a drink. Witness ordered him away, but lie became disorderly. and hid to be IOCI.OCI up.- Inspector Rj binsou said ha saw the prisoner during the day at Bangor raoes. where ho was disorderly. In the evening, as the Denbighshire police were entering their conveyance to come homo, the prisoner undid tho girth and attempted to upset the trap.— The magistrates imposed a line of 10s 6J and costs or fourteen days. John Souter. of Altrincham, a groom, was in custody charged by Sergeant Roberts with having been found drank and incapable in Abbot-street at 10.30.-111,.1 ector Robinson said Souter wa3 with Smith at Bangor.—Souter indignantly denied the suggestion, and protested thak he did not know Smith. I —lie was fined 2a 6d and costs- AI.I.KOED WITCH 8NATCTIIXO. I Frank Gardner, Z, Dean-street, Liverpool Frederick Roberts, 26, Lower Orme-street, Man- chester, and Robert Taylor, 103, Oxford-street, Man- chester, fashionably dressed young men, were in custody charged by Mr John Piercy Lawis, living at Higher Berso Farm, with having stolen from his pocket a silver watch and gold chain, valued at £ 5. Mr Lewis said he lived with his uncle at Higher Berse Farm, and with him drove to Bangor on the previona day. They returned about 5.15, and witness saw the three prisoners standing at the entrance of the Wynnstay Arms yard. Witness got out, and was moving out of tho way of something whicn was coming in, when the three prisoner-! hustled him agaiusi tho wall. He felt a tug at his wttteh chain, and discovered that it and the watch had gone. He at once oalled out, and the three prisoners, who were all together, were seized and taken to the ostler's room. P.C. Salisbury said be was called to tho Wynnstay Arms yard, and found the prisoners in tho ostler's room. Nothing was found on the prisoners, but the watch and chain (which had been identified by Mr Lewis) were discovered in a corner. None of the prisoners asked any questions, and upon the application of Inspector Robinson, they were remandod until Friday. MONDAY, ApitIL 22ND.-Before J. F. Edisbury, Esq., I in the chair Dr. Palin, W. Prichard, Esq., Simon Jones. Esq., and W. R. Eyatis, Esq. WOKKIMO A LiMt HORSB. I Inspector Clarke, R.S.P.C.A., charged Charles Prince, Johnstown, with cruelty to a horse by work- ing it while in an unfit state, and John Pritchard, of Johnstown, with causing the horse to be worked. —The Inspector said that on April 1st he was at the top of Wrexhaiii Feclian when he noticed two horsos attached to a cart containing coal. The horse which was leader was moving its off fore foot about in a very uneasy manner. He examined the foot, and found it was very much inflamed. It was suffering from side bone, and fractured tendons. He spolte to Prince, who was in oharge, and he said he had brought the horse from Johnstown. The horse was very lame. On the same day he saw Pritchard in Ruabon-road, and told him that he had had occasion to ItfJp his horse. He asked what condition the horse was in, and the officer replied that it was in good condition, but that it was not fit te work owing to its lameness. He admitted he knew the horse was laUlo. —Sergeant Tippett corroborated.—Prince was fined la and costs, and Pritehard 10s 6d and costs.—Mr Pritchard, who had not appeared at the hearing of the case, came into the court after the case had been disposed, and said he had been detained.—The Chair- man said the magistrates could do nothing in the jnatter as the case had been decided.—Mr Pritchard said he was afraid he should have to do as Sir ?VatMa did, and Get the case re-heard. DBUKKISNEBS. I Charles Clntton, labourer, Pymrhyd Mill, was sharged by Sergeant Roberts with having been drunk in Tuttle-street, 011 Sunday evening, 17th instant, and WJoS fined 59 and coats. Robert Bellis, Gun-street, Rossott, was charged by Sergeant Woollam with having been drunk in Chester- street on Sunday, 14th instant, and was fined 53 and costs. Annie Edwards, of Wrexham, was charged by P.C. Thomas with having been drunk and disorderly in Mount-street, on tho night of the 13th instaiit.-The defendant, who has been several times before the court, did not appear, and was fined 10.1 6d and costs, or fourteen days. Mary Burke, a married woman, living at Buckley, was charged by P.C. Pendlebury with having been druuk in Hope-street on the eTening of the 13th inst. The defendant had to ba locked up until she became sober.—She was fined Is and costs. COMMITTING A NUISANCE. I JohnJonea.li?h-street. Coedpoeth, wa? charged I by Inspector Robinson with coii?niittin a nui c?3 in Back Charabor-streel on the night of the 6th inst. He was under the intluonee of drink, and gave a I fal sa nobine and address.—Fined 2s 6d and costs. ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. Ihomas Grey, Mount-street, was charged by Annie O'Noil with using abusive language, and was fined Is and costs. I AXV/OUHNHD. William Joknson, Hill-street, was charged with drunkenness.—P.C. Evans said that shortly after eleven on tha night of the 15th inst. he found the defendant in Abbok-atreet. Ho was druuk, and wanted to fight. There was a larje crowd of people. —A.S. Tippett sitid he afterwards met the prisoner by the old Guildhall. He was staggering drunk.— The defendant danied the charge, and called William Evaua, a tailor, who said the defendant had been out with him all day fishing.. Ha was sober when they came home at eight o'clock.—Thomas Edisbury said ha was with the defendant from ten o'clock to twenty minatsa past ten on tho night in question, and he was quite sober at that time. He left tho defendant at the San Inn.—The police said they could call an independent witness, and the case was adjourned for that purpose. I SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CAS1. I John Fenton, Rnabon-road, was fined 5s aad costs for not sending his children to school. I A DOXXKT AND CART. L.atnerine Dilton, wife of John Daltou, 33, Mount- street, chargad William Mitchell, of Market-street, with stealing a dankoy and cart. The prosecutrix said tho defendant had keen hiring her doukey and cart, and paying her at tho rate of 2" a week for the hire. He had paid her 8i or 9s, but had not been at all regular- in his payments. At length she took the donkey and cart from him because he was paying so badly. The defendant had wanted to buy the donkey and cart, and she said he could have them for JS3, and ho offered X2. One day the defendant came and took the donkey and cart away from her yard while she was away from home. She had endeavoured to get the defendant to give her them back again, but had failed. The defendant had offered her 5s on account of the purchase monev, but she ha.d refused to take it. The magistrates ordered the defendant to give the donkey and cart back to the prosecutrix, and the police were instructed to see that this was dono,-The defendant said he would do as he was ordered. UCBNBIXO. Mr S. P. Beron, on behalf of George Ash, applied for the temporary transfer of the licence of the Regent Tavern and this was granted. Tha licence of the Mitre was temporarily trana- fetred to Robert Evans, and that of the Green Dragon to Thomas Roberts. DISCHARGED. Davia TnOmlè3, & youth, who came from Liverpool, was in custody charged on suspicion witk stealing a pinafore.—Superintendent Vaughan said the boy had been taken into custody on the 13th inst. Ha made several statements, which were found to be false. He said he picked the pinafore up at a certain place in the neighbourhood of Gwariiyllt, and ho (the Super- intendent) was glad to say that statement had been found to be true.-Thomas wa3 then dis- charged. GOING TO BAKOOB RACES. Thomas Jones, who said he was a tipster, and oame from Liverpool, was chafed with frequenting with intent to commit a felony. Acting-Sergeant Farrell said that on the 19th inst., Bangor race'day, he was on duty in plain clothes at the Great Western Railway Station. On the arrival of the Manchester speeial he saw the prisoner run to- wards the gateway. He saw him get in front of a gentlaman and turn sideways, and get hold of his watch chain and pull it. He then went through the gate and another man came up to him and said Did you get it ?" Prisoner said No." The officer then arrested both men, but the other got away. The prisoner, when charged, said he knew nothing about it. On being searched 2s 7fd was found upon him.— In answer to the prisoner, the officer avid there was a great crush at the station. Superintendent Taughan said the prisoner gave an address in Liverpool, and the Liverpool police had been communiaated with, but no reply had been received. The prisoner said he was perfectly innocent of the charge. He was sentenced to twenty-eight days' hard labour. He asked the magistrates to give him the option of a fine, but the Chairman said they could not do so. The Chairman complimented Acting-sergeant Farrell on his clever capture, and the clear wayiu which he had given his evidence. FaSliUSNTINO. I Ihomas Colling, who aaid heca.ma from Brierley Hill, was in custody, charged with frequenting with intent to commit a, felony. Mra Hardman, of Vernon- street, Rhosddu, said that en the night of Saturday, the 13tk inst., she was in High-street, when the prisoner put his hand in her pocket. She accused him of doing no, aud he denied it, and said he was waiting for the 'bus.—Sergeant Tippett said ho arrested the priiioner on Town Hill.—The prisoner was sent to prison for fourteen days' with hard labour.

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GROYE PARK SCHOOL. I GROYE PARK SCHOOL.. I On Tuesday afternoon, at the County Buildings, Wrexham, a meeting was called by the local governors of Grove Pa.rk School. to which the mem- ners of tho Town Council and the School Boards of Wrexham and Stansty and the District Council, together with the members of the school district local committees were invited, for the purpose of considering the best means of raising the ftind23 required to euhrge and improve tha nchool premises. Mr J. E. Powell, chairman of the Board of governors, presided, and there Nyore also pre,;ent Mr Philip Yorke, Mr Simon Jones, Mr W. Thomas, Mr John Francis, Mr T. B. Taylor, Mr G. Clarke, Mr J. A. Hogan, Mr \V. Kllis, i\Ir John liogers. Rev. E, K. Jonea. Mr 11. J. Powell, Mr Thomas Jones, IV' • G, u eyward. Mr Richard Hughes, Sir R. 13. Egerton, Mr W. R. Evans, clerk to tho governors, and Mr W. J. Hussoll, head master of tho school. Letters regretting inability to attend were received I from Hon. G. T. Kenyon, Capt.-iin Griffith-I>os- cawen, Mr W. Trevor l?rkina. Archdeacon Howell, Mr James Tomlinson, Mr J. F. Edisbury. Mr T. II, I Clavton, Mr Darbv, Rev. W. HatH, Mr F. A. Sturge, Mr 13. Bellis, and Mr R II. V Kyt-ko. The CHAIRMAN said their rea,son for calling the representatives of the various bodies together was in orJcr to take into consideration the be"t steps for securiug the money required for extending the premises at Grove Park School. At tho last meeting of the governors, tho chairman rvag empowered to complete the purchase of the school premises for £ 4,500. In addition to that, they would recei ve Xl,045, and that made E5,545 from the County Governing Body coming into the coffers of the Wrexham Govorning Body. But before they could receive the further sum, they would require promises for iEI,500, and tha.t would make f 2,545 coming to the school. But that would not bo at all adequate for wliat tlioy required. When they took the school over at Christmas there were fifty-eight boys in the school. There were now eighty-four, or an increase of twenty- six in the first term, and they lookod forward to a a great increase owing to the scholarship scheme, and owing to the very moderate fees which wero being charged. In the scheme, it was provided that there should bo accommodation for 200 boys, and he thought that was not too large a number when they considered that already at Carnarvon, where 110 school had existed before, they had now ninety-eight boys in the school. They had an old school with a good character, and which had done good work in the past. If in Carnarvon they had already nearly a hundred scholars, they could certainly look forward in Wrexham to a material in- ""T'tA in tinnih^ra .ttA"'lj"cr thn g,},r\n1 In addition to the accommodation he had mentioned, they had to provide for a hundred girls. The portion of the house which 31ra Whitehonse at present occupied would bo used as the girls' school. There would not be there accommodation for a hun- dred girls so that before long they would have to provide increased accommodation there also. What was more pressing was the necessity for the imme- diate increase of the accommodation at the boys' school. At present they had eighty-four boys attend- ing the school, and without doubt, if the school were an elementary school, they would at once have to provide iucreased accommodation. To get the money required to make the increase, they had invited them there that afternoon, in order to secure their support and co-operation in carrying out tho work. He might say a word as to what had been done since the school had been taken over. The school was then efficiently staffed, but it was felt with the increased number of boys attending, and with a change in the character of the school that it was necessary to in- crease the masters. They now had a science master and a commercial master. Tiiey had bought a type- writer, aud in every way they were doing what they could to equip the school in a thoroughly eifacient manner. Tha question was what was the Wrexham district going to do to meet the necessities of the case. They required accommodation at once for tha boy, and they knew how far £ 2,500 would go. They were hoping to have workshops, and it would ba necessary for them to do their part, in order to find tha money. Most of the governors had promised to subscribe, and a few others besides. The promises amounted to JE515. so that he thought tho governors had done fairly well. Now they were looking to the public to do their part. And he was certain he was only expressing the feel- ing of every member of the governing body. when I10 ,-aid that they were determined to place their school in such a position that every boy and girl attending it, might have an opportunity of securing the very best education that could be got in a school of that nature. Mr J. A. HOGAN moved the following resolution: That inasmuch as the Grovo Park School has now become a public intermediate school under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, and tha premises have been purchased by the governors, and, inasmuch as a considerable sum is required to moot the amount of £ 5,545 granted from county funds and from the old Grammar School fund for the purchase, enlargement, and improvement of the school premises, this meet- in., representing different portions of the Wrexham school district, pledges itself to do what is uecessary tovvarda raising the amount required." He pointed out that they were standing still until they raised £ 1,500. There was a source of wealth around Wrex- ham, and the only question was how to tap it. Mr W. THOMAS said ho was very sorry he had to go. He was very pleased that his name should bo put down for £ 10. (Applause.) Mr P. Y OUKU seconded tho resolution. He could j assure them that he would help forward tho matter in every way he possibly could. (Hear, hear.) Not only did he feel thoroughly iu favour of the success of thav admirable institution, which they in Wrex- ham were proud of, and which co-.il-,l not fail to be a success under the able principalship of his good friend Mr Russell, hilt he felt tha,t thay could not do otherwise than support it to the best of their power. (Hoar, hear.) Mr JOHN FRANCIS said he thought his sympathy with the school had been expressed pretty practically for many years, and his only regret was that he had not moro boys to send there. He did hope that the people of the neighbourhood, wlfo were likely to, either directly or indirectly, benefit by tho immense advantages brought within reach by that school, would not fail to realise the claim that was made upon them for support. (Applause.) The resolution was unanimously carried. The CnAiiiMAN said it had been decided that the subscriptions should bo paid in three yearly instal- ments, so that they should not press heavily upon tl-ie subscribers. He might mention that the district had been divided into areas for the purposes of tho collection of subscriptions. On the motion of Mr RoGFit-, soconded by Sir SIMON JONKS, the district was divided into the follow- ing treas:-Brynibo. BersliLiii and Minera. Brough- ton, Rossett and Gresford, Holt, Marchwiel, Wrox- ham, and Gwersyllt. On the motion of the Rev. E. K. JONKS, seconded by Mr HOGAN, it was decided that the first instalment of the subscriptions should be paid in October. The Chairman, Captain Grifnth-Boscawon, and the Clerk were instructed to draw up a circular. Mr THOMAS HUOHIS said that he thought tho colliers should be approached. He had no doubt they would contribute liberally. Mr FKANCIS said that in Carnarvon and Merioneth- shire much had been done in that way. The Rev. E. K. JONES then moved the following resolution :—" That we confidently appeal to all the workiug men of the Wrexham district to give their earnest and practical support to the Grove Pitrk School, which has been re-established under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, and that a copy of that resolution be sent to the committee of the Miners' Federation." Mr TIIOMAS HUGHES seconded, and it was agreed to. The meeting then terminated. -*■

SALE OF FREEHOLD PROPERTY I AT HOPE. Messrs Bevan and Phennah. auctioneers, Wrex- ham, with the approval of tho Board of Agriculture, offered for sale on Monday, at tho Whita Lion Inn," Hope, several freehold pieces, parcels and quillets of pasture land, and the freehold Inn, called the Whito Lion," in the township of Hope. There was a largo number of gentlemen present, including the Rector of Hope (the Rev. T. E. Jones.) Mr H. G? Roberts of Mold, as solicitor, read the conditions of sale.—Lot 1 was the pnblic-house now in the occupa- tiou of Mr Alfred Jones, the tenancy expiring on the 1st of May next. Contiguous to the house is an out- building known as the hearse-house," to which the parish has had free access for many years, and the parish council, fearing their rights would be invaded, had appointed a committee to look into the matter, and attend tho sale. A satisfactory arrangement, however, was arrived at, and the solicitor read the special conditions before the sale commenced.—Part of the premises is a building built on gleba land and used as a hoarse house. The site of the building is included in the present sale, but the right of the parish council to use the building for its present purpose free from rent, is expressly reserved, and the ros erve d -til d the conveyance will contain a reservation of the rights of the parish council to such uses as aforesaid. It was remarked that probably the parish council would be willing to effect an exchange.—Mr W. Jones Swotenham, chairman of the parish council, said as far as hia council was concerned, they could not pledge themselves, but no doubt if a more convenient place conld be found, they would place no difficulty in the way.-The bidding for the house started with an offer of JE400, and finally was knocked down to Mr George Bate of Wrexham, for £ 650.—A freehold piece of pasture land called Gardycullan." in the township of Estyn, in the occupation of Mr Bowman, and containing 3 roods, 20 perches, was bought by that same gentleman for £ 75.—The sale of two free- hold quillets of pasture land, caused considerable discussion. Mr Kyrke asking for information as to the right of way, the solici tor saying there was a right ot way, but declining to give the information, as in all probability succeeding tenants had altered it to suit their convenience. This lot formed part of n. field called" Cae Pwl Estyn," and contained la 2r. 26p., rent being X3 10. This was also in Estyn. Eventually bought by Mr Kyrke for £ 142. Two freehold pieces of pasture land, situated at Moorside, in the township of Shordloy, containing 3a. 2r. 26p., and at a present rental of JE6, was taken over bv Mr Price Davies, of Kinnerton, for f225. A freehold quillet, part of a field called Cae Parkia," abutting on the main road, in the township of Rhanberfedcf, and containing Ir. 36p. was bought by Miss Jones for S45. Another quillet of arable land, part of a field on Llwyn Farm, in nope Owen, containing 3r. 4p., was knocked down to Mr Mitchell for 145. A parcel of meadow land. part of a field called "Ddol Shannon." in the township of Caegwrle, and contain- ing La. 2r. 3p., was bought by Miss Jones for £ 75. The total amount realised for this property was 11,250.

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THE WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. THE BlonOP OF ST. ASAril ON THE BILL. At -t meeting held on Wednesday, in the Guildhall, Cambridge, to protest against the Disestablishment Bill, the Bishop of St. Asaph spoke as follows :-Tli, second reading of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill was passed by a majority of forty-four. This majority significance in so far its it was composed of sections, some of whom care nothing for Welsh Dis- establishment, but want the votes of Welsh DisestaVilishcrs for something for which they do cure. Log-rolling with its give--titd-tztke, iii(-tlcas produces curious combinations. The majority is less significant for the still graver reason that many who voted fur the second reading lightened their conscience with the reflection that even if this measure struggled through the House of Commons it would stop and end there. These considefations minimise the significance of the majority. Still, a majority of forty-four for the second reading of Bill to disestablish and dis- endow :t part of the Church of England is warning enough to arouse the most apathetic Churchman to the stoutest and sternest resistance. In the majority appeared the name of Mr Chamberlain. I recognise and respect the consistency of Mr Chamberlain's conduct his attitude on this subject coiitritst3 favour- ably with those politicians who have first appeared itS zaalons defenders of their own Church, and finally have allowed the exigencies of pa.rty politics to smother their life-long convictions. These gentlemen seem to use their conscience as an accomplice and not as a guide. I have no sympathy with the out-cry raised against Mr Chamberlain in this matter. At the same time I hold the opinion that the lIIore Mr Chamberlain sees of the methods and ultimate do- signs of the Welsh Liberationists, the more will he realise that the real motives of this movement are of a character with which he can have no sympathy. Mr Asquith, who introduced the Disestablishment Bill, deserves the thanks of all Churchmen for his clear and candid statement of one important fact. He frankly said that he was not one of those (for example the Prime Minister) who thought that the legislation of Henry VIII. transferred the privileges and endowments of a national establishment from the Church of Rome to the Church of England, a vievo resting upon imperfect historical information. Mr Asquith avows his belief that amidist all these changes and developements there has been a substantial identity and continuity of existence in our national Church from earliest history down to the present time. A most wise and admirable statement of the truth. What it. gigantic bonfire there must now be at the Liberation Society, of all those leaflets which have for years asserted the error exposed by Mr Asquith. What is to come of those Liberitionints agents whose rude throats those dread clamours counterfeit." But thanks to Mr Asquith. Farewell their occupation's gone. Nor does our gratitude to Mr Asquith end here. The Church in Y/ales is accused of being alien. We have had three apparitions of this ghost of -in argument. The first apparition appeared thus The Church in Wales has been throughout its whole history an alien Church, the Church of the conqueror and in- vader, and that mark is branded upon it indelibly." This apparition of which Sir George Osborne Morgan and Mr Lloyd George were the chief costnmiers was laughed off the stage as a bad joke. The second apparition of the alien ghost came from the more skilful bands of Mr Gladstone, who described tho Church as alien because she was the Church of the few and not of tho many, of the rich and not the poor. Mr Asquith recognising the failure of boih these apparitions trios once more to rehabilitate the alien argument. The Church in WaUs. he says, is indigenous, but although indigenous has become adulterated, in other words the Church is Welsh and has becomo so Welsh that it is alien. After this third and last apparaition I think vro ma.y safely sar that Mr Asquith has laid the ghost of the alien argu- ment finally and for ever. Passing from these more general statements, I come next to the local or special arguments advanced against the Church in Wales by Mr Asquith when he introduced the second reading of the Welsh Bill. He gave a.n historical survey of the Church in Wales, reaching from the 12th to the 19th century. Giraldus Cambrensis, whose rebellions craft' rejoiced in exaggeration, is accepted by Mr Asquith, not only as an accurate historian of tho Welsh Church in his own century, but of the six centuries following. Having thus dis- missed the history of 600 years in one sentence. Mr Asquith comes to the foundation of Welsh Methodism. At the end of the last century Mr Asquith mentions only two names—Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, and Rowlands, Llangeitho. He asked what became of these iiieil, They were driven away," he said, from tho Church." Well, what are the facts t Griffith Jones was for forty-five years Vicar of Llan- ddowror, ho died Vic;Lr of Llanddowror, and was buried in Llanddowror Church. He never left the communion of the Church for one day, and was there- fore never driven out. What he did do was to found within the Church itself circulating schools attended by no less thnn 10,000 pupils in a single year, and Sir Thomas Phillips states in his History of Wales that 150,000 persons had been taught to read the Welsli Bible during twenty-four years in these schools started by Griffith Jones. In these schools the Church catechism and a brief system of divinity was taught, and Griffith Jones states him- soif that tiieso schools were suggested to him by tho catechising which took place in church after the Second Lesson on Sunday. Suffice it to add that all this work was done by a Welsh clergyman within the Welsh Church, who left at his death S7,000 for carryin g on this work by the bishop3 a.nd clergy of the Chmch in Wales. Mr Asquith's statement with regard to the Rey, Griffith Jones is a pure romance, for which I feel sure he is not responsible. There is no evidence that Rowlands, Llangeitho, was driven out of the Church, although it is fair to state that it has been asserted that the Bishop deprivod him of his cure at Llangeitho. But of one fact we are certain, given on his son's authority, to whom he said on his death-bed in 1790. Stand by the Church by all means. You will not be repaid for doing so: yet still stand by it, even unto death. There will be a great revival in the Church. I shall not live to see it." Then the son asked, Shall I live to see it He then put his hand for a time over his eyes and afterwards said, 1, Yes, you may live to see it." So far for what Mr Asquith calls the history of the foundation of Welsh Nonconformity. Mr Asquith then passes from Welsh history to present-day facts. He first protesta against a religious census in Wales, because, in the words of Lord Macaulay, the effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads." After this solemn declaration against the futility of counting heads, he proceeds with equal solemnity to count heads in Wales. This is how he counts :— Compare," he said. the Church communicants in Wales and those of the four leading Nonconformist bodies," but he quite omitted to state that as Non- conformist communicants he counted the whole roll of their members, which includes in a, Nonconformist chapel every member who pa.ys his subscription. In I a Welsh Nonconformist chapel the list of members practically exhausts all the adults in the denomina- tion. As Church communicants Mr Asquith counted only those communicants present on Easter Day, as returned to the Church of England Year-book, several of the more populous parishes making no returns at all. The comparison, therefore, is wholly misleading. Mr Asquith next proceeds to count heads by comparing Sunday schools. Here he forgot to state that in a Welsh Nonconformist chapel the Sunday school is the chief service of the day, attended not only by the youth, but by all the adults as well. In the Church the Sunday school is confined almost entirely to young people. Not content with this vicious comparison, Mr Asqnith overstated the numbers in the Nenconformist Sunday schools by 80,000. Still more unhappy was this statement which Mr Bryce wa.s instructed to defend, viz., ihat for 76 parishes in the county of Anglesey there were 27 resident clergy of the Established Church." Here, again, tho facts are as follows :-Tlier-- are 76 parishes in Anglesey, aud there are 68 resident clergy. How the united wisdom of Mr Asquith and Mr Bryce came to represent 68 (resident) clergy as only 27 I cannot offer to explain. I may observe in passing that the Welsh Methodists are stronger in Anglesey than in any part of Wales, and claim nearly as many adherents as all the other denominations put together in Anglesey. In Anglesey the Metho- dists have 87 chaptls, and by their own official year- book it i'! shown that no less than sixteen out of these 87 chapels are without a resident pastor. Mr Asquith selected Anglesey for comparison, and tho result is that for seventy-six parishes the Church provides sixty-eight resident clergy, while of eighty- seven Methodist chapels sixty-ono are without a resident pastor, although Anglesey is the stronghold of Welsh Metliodisiii-rttlier an unfortunate com- parison for Mr Asquith. One minor point deserves notice. Mr Asquith computed the tithe of twenty- seven of these parishes at £ 7,000, a slight overstate- I ment, as the tithe of the whole seventy-six parishes | only amounts to somethimr like £ 8.000. T ATr Asquith's local figures with a wistful curiosity as to their real authorship. Can it be that Mr Asquith plunged a thoughtless hand into a bran-tub, we will not call it a lucky-bag, of Welsh statistics, pressed upon him by some too zealous Welsh Li berationism I will not weary you by replying to all .he specific assertions made in tho House of Commons against the Church in Wales, beyond pointing out the follow- ing as a sample. One \VeIsh memhor-who shall be nameless—asserted that the V-elsb Church was much weaker than tho Irish Church. Fortunately he glwo his proof, which was as follows The Irish Church claimed 13 per cent. of the population, while lie assigned to the Welsh Church otilv 6 per cent, of the population. He arrived at this conclusion bv com- paring the whole Church population in Ireland as given in tho official census, with the number of Church Commnnica.nts present on Easter Day in Wales. I venture to say deliberately that no epithet is too strong for such a misrepresentation as this. Other Welsh members made much of the fact that Noncon- formity built more chapels than the Church did churches in Wales. The Nonconformist chajjels, especially in rural districts, are cheap structures, the cost of which would not average S400. The Metho- dists, the richest sect in Wales, officially admit a chapel debt of something like £ 300,000. They have 1,2C0 chapels in Wales. Now it is Derfectly clear that this represents au average debt of X250 on each building, or if we take the cliapals en masar, it shows that more than one-half have not been paid for. Ou the other hand the Cl-urch works in a different wav. Now churches are not fragile and ephemeral structures, raised on credit, but permanent and sub- stantial structures, the payment for which must be guaranteed before the Church can be consecrated. The fact that such a wealthy body as the Welsh Methodists are compelled to -build their chapels en credit, and to carry on .their work under what their own Moderator called this 'stupendous chapel debt "-is all admirable comment on the virtues of the voluntary system, although be it remembered that the majority of the chapel sites in Wales have been given or leased at nominal sums by Churchmen. In this connection I may mention one curious assertion made by Mr Asqnith, that the funds which have been spent on the restoration of onr Welsh Cathedrals were by no means given entirely by Churchmen. For St. Af;ph Cathedral and Bangor every penny, I believe, was subscribed by Churchmen, and I am utterly at a loss to conceive who could have supplied Mr Asquith with tho material for his mis-statemont. I havo now doalt with tho specific charges made against the Church in Wales. I leave this with one remark. There was not one single accusation brought against the Church in Wales in the whole of tho debate, which was not either a half-trnth, or an nntrnth. It is obvious that Mr Asquith before the debate closed, became, like Mr ,e c l oqe d I)ecaiiie, like llr George Russell, fully ceiivinced that the AVelsli Liherationist land of percentages and averages was highly dangerous ground, and it is therefore pleasing to follow Mr Asquith in the speech which lie delivered at Nottingham, where wholly discarding the local allusions and figures with which he had evidently been supplied for the second reading debate he endeavours to lift the discussion up to a higher level. And now let us follow him in this more pleasant atmosphere. lie begins by drawing the sharpest distinction between the Church and the Establish- ment, and then to imply that iii,(Ier establishment must be included all her oxternals and environment. The Welsh Bill enab'.os us to understand that by these words Mr Asquith means our cathedrals, our churchyards, and the wholo of the small pittance which forms the maintenance of our working clergy. All these things he describes as invidious and extraneous privileges, and solemnly declares with all the sincerity of which ho ia capable that the attempt to strip the Church of these things springs from a desire for tko spiritual wel- fare and beneficent influence of the Clivrch. The public has not hitherto been familiar with Mr Asquith in the character of a champion earnest to promote tho spiritual welfare and influence of the Church or any other Christie n body, but of this I am sure that no man who roally cares for either can believe that it will help the Church in her work to deprive her of her property and her clergy of the bare subsistence which now enables them to carry on their ministrv in the remotest and poorest parishes. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach described Mr Asquith's asser- tion of benevolent motive as cant of the most nauseous kind. I will venture to call his distinction between the Establishment and the Church as a a rhetorical artifice of the shallowest and most mi-ileitclitig character. From this declaration of motive, Mr Asquith proceeds to give his account of the tithe. The tithe," lie says, is a universal and compulsory tax upon every owner of land, a form of endowment which the State alono can create, which the State, if it pleases, has a right to resume or divert." He does not explain how the State is to resumo what it never held, or why tithe is any more a tax than the rent of land. Mr Asquith calls tithe an universal and compnlsory tax created by the State. The late Professor Freeman used these words The tithe can hardly be said to havo been granted by the State, and as to tithe it should also be remembered that, though the duty of paying tithe was tau-ht very early, yet for a long time the titliepaver had a good deal of choice as to the particular ecclesiastical body to which he would pay his tithe. Nothing was moro common than an arbitrary grant of tithe to this or that relitrious house." In short, tho ecclesiastical endowments of England have grown up, like every- thing else in England, bit by bit. I will only add one more remark with regard to the tithe. The titho in Wales belongs not only to the Church, but also to school and colleges. and lay-impropriators. If titho is national property how cornea it that these aposlloa of righteous dealing propose to strip the Church of tha tithe, while they leave the lay-impropriator, whom Mr T. E. Ellis describes as a person who deserves no consideration, entirely untouched. I asked Sir William Harcourt this question some time ago in a letter which he never answered. Mr George Russell was wonderfully eloquent upon these lay-impropriators who thus enriched obtained peer- ages and transmitted their honours to their descend- ants. Mr Asquith used theso remarkable words at Nottingha.m. I say that when a man gave his property to the Church, he was giving it to the com- munity upon its religious side, and no one would be more surprised than some of the pious donors, whose memory is so irrelevently evoked, could they be summoned from their graves, to tind to what religious uses their gifts are being now devoted." Mr Asquith is not strong on facts. There is not a single instance of a grant or bequest of tithe to the community, and any one who has read Lord Selborne's book knows well that all the evidence in existence points to those gifts of tithe liavint- been granted to the Parish Church on its consecration, or to somo particular religious house. Mr Asquith summons tho pious donors from their graves to bear witness in favour of his disendowment Bill. If we were permitted to cross examine these witnesses sUlllllloned by Mr Asquith, I think we may safely say that they would tell us th:tt when they gave their tithes for religious pur- poses, they never contemplated the bare possibility of their gifts being diverted to allotments, parish- halls, institutes, museums, and public baths. In fact, I feel certain that the evidence of Sir Asquith's wit- nesses would be such that he would' wish them back with all possible celerity in those resting-places from which he too rashly summoned them. Finally, what- ever Mr Asquith's statements are worth with regard to tithe, its character, origin, and purposes, one thing is absolutely certain that his argument for taking away the tithe from the Church in Wales applies with identically the same force to tho Church of England as a whoie. I have not said much with regard to tho character of the Disestablishment Bill, but I wish to endorse most strongly the statement made by Mr David Plunket, in his eloquent speech, that the Welsh Bill differs from the Irish Act in this, that every provision in the Irish Act, which was favourable to the Church, has been carefully and of set purpose eliminated from the Welsh Bill. That fact affords an excellent commentary upon the sincerity of those motivos of benevolence to the Church, with which Mr Asquith claims to be inspired. I do not know what special fitness of Mr Asquith can claim for his new interpretation of religious purposes. Let me now deal with the Irish precedent quoted against us by our opponents. Now, without going in tne merits of the Irish Church controversy there &re essential differences in the two cases which our opponents do not call a.ttention. In Ireland tho J'.?t?biished Church was the church of? small minority, proved snch, not by a tainted census of partisans, "but by an official Parliamentary rligiou8 census. The Estab- lished Church in Ireland was confronted with one great historic Church commanding the allegiance of four-fifths of the whole population. In Wales we have the Church and Nonconformity. But Welsh Nonconformity is not an historic body. It has Rprung up in the present century. Nonconformity in Wales does not command the aflogiince of four-fifths of the people. Why, according to its own official year books, Nonconformity in Wales does not command even a bare majority of the people. But wiiat is still more important Nonconformity in Wales is not one homogenous body. Why, it is split up into half-a- dozen bodies, which are divided from each other as much as, and often by more than, they are divided from the Church. Take the Calvinistic Methodists, they are the most powerful sect in Wales. The population of Wales is 1,771,651. Of that population 939,634 are found in the two counties of Monmouth shire and Glamorganshire. In these two counties the Calvinistic Methodist all told, men, women, children, babies, and casnal attendents, number 73,984, that is to say that in these two eounties with a population, of nearly a million the most powerful sect in Wales does not claim one in twelve of the people. Take again the Baptists, one of the three most numerous sects in NN clies. The population of North AVale is 470,666, the Baptists all told number in North Wales 25,385, that is to sa.y not one in nine- teen of the population. In Wales the Church is everywhere, the Nonconformists sects are somewhere. In one place the Calvinistic Methodists are strong, in another the Baptists, in another the Congrega- tionalism, in another the Weslcyans. The unfairness of classing together these lieter- goneous sects, wholly separated, wholly divided from each other under the one common title of Non- conformity, and then M if they were one unity body. of comparing them with the Church, is great and manifest. I now pass from the differences in the two cases of the Irish and Welsh Churches to note the differences between the Irish Act and the Welsh Bill. Under the Irish Act the Church had a chance given her, under the Welsh Bill no single chance that the craft or subtiltv of man could foresee has been left to the Church in Wales. Commutation left the Irish Church with a large capital sum wherewith to begin the work of re-construction and re-eudowmont. The Welsh Bill gives the Church as a Church no snch capital sum. The Irish Act safeguarded the vested interest of the clergy and specifically safeguarded for the Church the discharge of their duties by the holders of vested interests. The Welsh Bill gives the Welsh clergy their vested interest on a precarious security, but practically gives no security to the Church for the discharge of the duties attaching to these vested interests. The Irish Act gave the Church her cathedrals and her churchyards. The Welsh Bill vests our cathedrals in commissioners, and robs us of our churchyards. Then as to finance, when the Irish Church was disendowed it numbered 667,998 out of a population of 5,412,377, or one-eighth of the people. After disendowment the Irish Church received under commutation a capital sum of £ 7,581,000. The Welsh Church at the lowest com- putation numbers 700,000, out of a population of 1,771,000. Now, the capital value of the property of .1" 'I"" tne w eisn unurcn as tne present time is less than .E4,000,000. You see, then, the point. Tho Irish Church, numbering only one-eighth of the population, was left after disendowment with three millions and a half more money than the Church in Wales possesses before diseudowment. But this is not all. The Irish Church body were able to invest their capital at 4 to 4J per cent. on stock that still yields to the Church 4i per cent. on the price paid for it. EVPIl if the Welsh Church had the same terms as the Irish Church, sht could not invest any capital sum given to her at moro than 2; per cent. This most important fact I owe to Dr. Salmon, the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, who conciudes a most valuable letter he recently wrote to me in reference to the disendowment part of the Welsh Bill with these words, It seems to me that this part of your Bill was drafted, not by statesmen anxious to reclaim from the Church something that belonged to the State, but by sectarian enemies desirous that your Church should not only lose what she possessed, but should as far as possible, be deprived of facilities for acquiring any- thing more." Our opponents say very little about diseudowment. They are evidently conscious that the more the poverty of the Church in Wales is known, the more the history of her small endow- ments is studied, the stronger will be the opposition to this iniquitous measure of apoila,tion. Mr Asquith has cleverly attempted to get over the difficulty by a sharp distinction between the Church and the establishment, and then Bpon the strength of this distinction proceeds to claim every penny given to the Church as given to the State and not to the Church. Here again let me quote Dr. Salmon. The idea of the despoilers is that everything given to a. State Church is given not to the Church but the State. The case is the same as if a man divorcing his wife thought himself entitled to turn her out quite nn.kcd, keeping possession not only of the property she had originzill), brought into settlement, but of every dress she had bought with her pin money, and of everv jewel her friends had presented her with." Dr. Salmon adds these words, "Clearly if our churches were taken from us we should be the only religious denomina- tion in the kingdom without houses to worship God in. If we ha.d never been united to the Sbte, we should in the course of a coup]c of centuries, if we had not done so before, have provided o rselves with places of worship as other religious bodies have been able to do, and it is unjust that we should- be placed in a worse position than others because tho State for many years thought us worthy of special favour. The same thing may be said about endowments for the maintenance of the clergy. Other denominations have them, and if we had not been made to think there was 110 need of them we tthouid have nad them too." The Irish Church by commutation, was given time, and it was owing to tiiis that they now have a substantial endowment. 1 leave the Irish precedent with one remai k. The Irish Church Act was a measure of re-coustruction. The Welsh Church Bill is a measure of destruction. I have des-It with the arguments brought against the Church by Ifr Asquith, and lvili the Irish precedent. Let me say one word about tho Welsh Liherationist members. They have deliberately asserted that the Church is anti-national, and that they are national. No doubt thirty-one out of thirty-font- Wrlsli members are in favour of dis- establishment. These gentlemen represent less than half the registered voters, and if we had proportionate representation in Wales there would be twelve Con- servative and twenty-two Liberationist members, even upon the very adverse poll of the last general election, but there is another consideration. The Welsh members represent 146.000 Welshmen, who voted for theni.(Tlie petitions against the Suspenrory Bill were signed by 316.000 people. Now, why should we say tha.t the 145.000 people represent all Wales, while the 316,000 represent nothing? At any rate, the Parliamentary argument loses its force when we find that less than half the registered voters hrive recorded their votes for disestablishment. He this as it may, I entirely dony the right of the Welsh Liherationist members to represent them- selves as the people and nation of Wales. It is a very remarkable fact that out of thirty-one Lihera- tionist members with the self-given title of Welsh Nationalists, no less than eighteen of them are un- able to speak a sentence in the Welsh language. The Welsh language is generally regarded as the test and stay of Welsh nationality. In this linguistic classi- fication of the Welsh members, I have put into the \V elsh-speaking class thirteen, of whom more than half possess a knowledge of Welsh that the friends of onr youth—the examiners—would mark viz satis. One of these Welsh-speaking members recently addressed the Welsh farmers in a remote village iu my own diocese. He spoke in English, but at the end of his speech said a few words in Welsh. Xext morning a knot of farmers were seen eagerly discuss- ing what language those concluding words were in. One said Hebrew, another French, but it was finally agreed that it must be Greek, as the speaker had been educated at Oxford. The anti-national charge against the Church in Wales is just as silly as the old alien" accusation. If Wales has one badge of nationality it is her language. Her language is alive to-day simply and solely because a former Bishop of St. Asapli 300 years ago gave the Welsh people the Bible in Welsh. There is not one single movement or institution in Wales which can claim in any sense the epithet national which does not owe the greater part of its support to Church people. I have endeavoured to put before you some facts with regard to the Church in Wales. Finally, I ask you to remember that the Church in Wales is the poorest part of the great Church of England. If during last century the Church in Wale3 failed to discharge her great work as fully as she ought to have done, that failure was due partly to the poverty which followed the wreel. tnd confusion of the Commonwealth, when the whole Church machinery was thrown out of gear more violently and completely in Wales than in Eng- land. It was due partly to the diffisulties that gathered upon the wreckage left by the Common- wealth, the"difficulties inseparable from an English and often non-resident episcopate. All that is now past, and I say without any hesitation, that in ne part of the Church of England is the work of the Church being carried 011 with greater devotion and self-denial on the part of the clergy and laity than in Wales. As Welsh Churchmen we ask for no favours -we only want fair play. We are confident of tho justice of our cause, and we ask that the work and heritage of thirteen centuries should not be irre- parably wrecked in a moment of unreasoning passion by political partisans, who trust to achieve their ob- ject not by fair discussion and fair play, but by craftily using the ignoble opportunities offered by degenerat6 political combinations. As a Welshman who bus lived and worked all his life in Wales, and spoken the language of the people all his life I resist the dis- establishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales as a deadly blow dealt at the oldest, and most honoured of Welsh institutions. As an English Churchman I would resist Welsh disestablishment to t he utmost of my power, because I believe that the dismemberment and disintegration of the Chnrch of England jnyoln-c1 in this piece-meal legislation is a greater danger than the disestablishment and dis- endowment of the whole Church would be. As an English citizen 1 oppese this measure of Welsh dis- establishmeni. It has been said that one of the first and most leading principles on which the common- wealth and laws aro consecrated is that those who are the temporary possessors and life-renters in it should not be unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors or what they owe to their posterity, and that it is not amongst their rights to cut off the entail or commit waste on the inheritance by destroying at their pleasure the most precious ar.d the oldest part of that inheritance. Much less is it the right of the citizens of to-day to leave to those that come after them a ruin instead of a habitation, and to tcach their successors to respect their own contrivances as little as they themselves had respected the institutions of their forefathers. SIR G. O. MORGAN AND PETITIONS I AGAINST THE BILL. At the annual meeting of the Rhos parish council, on Friday evening. April 19th, the Chairman rend the following letter from S:r G. O. Morgan, Bart., M.P.— I was very glad to gc-t the re>olu:ion of the Rhos Parish Council you sent me. It is hi-ii time that' the tactics of the Church Defence party in getting up petitions against the Welsh Disestablish- ment Hill should ba exposed. Happily the Hor.se cf Commons is now thoroughly wide awake to these methods of getting signatures, and pays little or no attention to such petitions as thoso to which the resolution refers." I MR. SAMUEL SMITH, M.P., OX THE BILL. I On Thursday evening, April ISth, Mr S. Smith M.P., paid a visit to the Lixwm district, where he was very cordially received. He addressed a very largely-attended meeting at the British School, Lixwm, when the chair was taken by Mr W. Thomas, J.P., Piasnewydd. The chairman having introduced the lion, member, Mr Smith spoke at length on the Disestablishment Bill, siiyinii the Government was determined to push it through the Commons, and after the substantial majority they hr.d en the second reading, the House of Lord/weufd think twice before they rejected it, however much they disliked it. The efforts of the Lords' would be directed mostly to the securing as large a share as possible of the loaves and fishes. They were all anxious to deal fairly with the Church, and to respect all interests, but they would strenuously object to any interests being created for the sake of being protected by tho HilL He referred to the petitions which had been obtained and presented to Parliament against the Bill. There were pages oi signatures in tho same hfin^rrricin",1 and these had been obtained by unfair means- means so unfair ,hat it was surprising religious and honourable men and women would degrade them- selves by pinking to such discreditable devices in obtaining them. These moans were well known to the House, and they might depend upon it that petitions so obtained would havo no more weight with the House tha.n had they been so many basketfulls of waste paper. (Land cheers.) A verv hearty and cordial vote of confidence in Mr Smith was passed, together with thanks to the chairman. On the follow- ing day Mr Smith passed through Rliosesmor, Ilalkvn, Hhesyeae, Lixwm. Ysceifiog. Afonwen, and Naunerch, receiving everywhere a hearty welcome. A Church defence" meeting, admission to which was by ticket, was held on Monday night at Car- sided. The Lord-Lieutenant (Mr Greaves) pre- sided. The Bishop of Bangor was unable to attend, his medical advisers having prohibited his attendance at evening meetings.

A WEDDING AT FLINT. I Great interest was manifested by tho inhabitants of the ancient borough town of FJiut in the marriage of the Rev. Thomas Hughes vicar of BULtin toil, near Welshpool, and Miss Maudd Dyson, eldest (I.,tugh ter of Aldernitil Dyson, J.P., Mayor of Flint The interesting ceremony took place in the Parish Church on Thursday, April 18. when the church was well filled. Some time before the service began, the less fortuiiato of the public hasing assembled in a vast crowd round the residence of the bride and the entrance to the church, anxious to catch a glimpse of the wedding party, and showering rice on the happv couple. The residence of the bride being situated opposite the Parish Church, carpets had been laid across the street to the church doors. The best ruiii was Dr. Hughes, brother of the bridegroom, and the bridesmaids were Miss Maggie Dvson and Miss Bessie Dyson, sisters of the bride. The bride was givICu away by her father. During the service, which was choral, Mr E. J. H. Williams presided at the organ, and at the close of the service, Dr. Bridge, Chester gn.ve tho wedding party and the audience a rare musical treat, the Wedding March and a selection of music being rendered by him. The Rev. W. Ll. Nicholas. M.A., ofSciated, assisted by his curates the Revs. O. Davies and T. J. Roberts. The bride was clet-antlv attired in white satin, with a wreath of orange blossoms and white veil, and carried a lovely bouquet of white lfowers. The bridesmaids were also very prettily attired in white silk. and wore black liats trimmed with gold and black, and carried beautiful bouqets of daffodils. Conspicuous atUong the numerous guests was Miss Jones, Tanrallt, who was charmingly dressed, and was much admired by the spectators as she walked out of church leaning on the arm of Captain Dyson, uncle of the bride. Mrs Muspratt, Cornish Hall, sent her carriage and pair to convey the happy couple to the railway statioti, aiid they left Flint by the 4.24 p 111 trr-in cii route for the Vicarage, carrying with them the good wishes of a numerous circle of friends. The presents ( were very numerous and costly. In the evening a reception was lieid at the Guildhall, where a large party of relatives and friends were entertained by the parents of the bride.

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THE WELSH 14ATIOl PiL I FEDERATION t At the V, csh N?tion?I Corner '■ 1 m   at Aberystwyth, the following ren," e'd !?t ?.? t .l 1\. ?. M constituted L proVIsIOnal e,- "It I ¡:uHcil" '0. the functions of ? n?ion? co? c '-?'P? ? the functIOlB of a national cJa^]""1 P«foJ I eJectIOn ot saen C0anciI ai-'v' 5 I ?on ?e'? ( f,, i "°  NOP.TJI Y\"ALES Mi Anglesey—Mr Snmuel HI D,Lvid I'ees, (,apE, fjk m.1,rQ' P HHi a, J, .II. C..t I..ftlHl 1'. t)y.l;'U1\h. õ,tV. Holyhc?. N.nn C.rn?rv.? t?" ,?Y?j ? ?i?t)<Iudr!0;Rev. Trcv.v, fr" 0. p" s- HI p,j J O. G.orKC Brvmer Bethel, <2 ■ Robert Thomas. Cricciah- Ir 1 j 'r> V'riai'v°a—ii K Robert Thon?. Cr.?th; ?. i?'p, '? F? ■ Lrossc.s.and ?r Hy??. C.f.nL c.r?.. '??0?. B —Mr T. C. L?\)s. ?.ngot.? ]/,  na.rvon  Car. ■ imrvon.and Mr William AntLonv, JP \^es« t Den BI b?b—Mr 0. I?o..d Jones, J..„?,?'? D??II.n. ?-:?. T;.o,?, ;u,?'? h  I 1 '1 l' I IT l. J1" Dcn?gh-Mr Ed.v.r.t Hoo.o, Pl-i n' tan I| Mr Chn?m:? Jon?. Cd! l!d ? ? ?"-?0? Morgan. Denbigh Bcrongks-'i; .t. J.. J ,=,t l: t.P D- t Cuuncit!?- Lumiev. R?h?.C.nd ■ Wrexham. Flintshire—MrE.Ilrv.uTr^W°n StiesII IN rexlilizi. d J I", t:' W.Jone., ,hy; an d Mr .i.\IU;'¡J1't' }.']' "Jr1 lint F: Bor<jugh?-Mr J?cph Jonc.. \?l'Ir]Y?u.? ??. ?"Bt ■ l'?-y,Mo!d; .?d Eev- J, MT, T BB J. I AIL _a .L:v.r?. MGri?e'L?ire-Rev. G- '4° av*s-J-P. IB Barmouth Miss Eilis. Cvnlas •" v" Huv.. r?r.r.io?. MoiitgrnierT-^jiV\rRicM I .?onc? Pertheiry.1 Mr W! Thence fi I Dr. D?ie! Ho?). L!an!?n? Boroughs—Alderman Hith:u] I e<< 'v fitter* B '??- Dr, :.ùwar, L?nfy?in a? ?r' V?,?"otsc? B :\cwn,?a. ,na!!l, SOUTH WALES a Curdi?nshirc—Mr D. C. Itouers u B Dr. Enoch D?-i??d Her. J ,'m vv'ii 2ltn; B ■ gan. Pembrokeshire—31 r Wyt.ford pl? '¡;p" B JameH, ?ryn?a.nk: &nd Rev.'J)n' c. '?° Y"'? Pembroke J?rough——Uev. Jame. Piii'])i)u??' B fordw?t Rev. W. Evans, Pembroke Dc?' ???- I .3 n "1' '}' I ,p u !Ir J. Lloyd Widi??.Tenbv. \e.tCn??' B liev. William Thomas, -n'h' 1 d !n:re"- I■ llC" 1 JI11l lûIlia; t. It, :Jj l'O\1ncilIrJr H rhJlna, L,:L!JfYllyùJ ::u:d C)U!iI.IIH L:Jd. A;;t! gwiH; J. Tiiomas, POlhvrby<: the HT. D, G:: DaTies, G]Triieath br.'J.jhn D n-(, V. "n B G?Tcr—Mr J?. \i?i?;n? G-wer.,tt'Ye'f' BB Headley, Pont:udawe the IW. Hen D.TiMp?"??- Hhonrtd? Valley Councillor Daronw. 'I; Treorkv Alcieriiian Lewis, Penvarai 1^& flB Banmel Nicholas, Blarn-Rhonoda. 'sW'C (;IRInr,t"j1: Samuel ?icbo!as.Hl?Q-Rhon(!da ?T''?' r) ? -Conncinor T. J. n?bea. Brid?nd p!raa B J d 'I] J (un Matthews. Barry and Councillor G ai^» 7' n B CardIff-PrIncIpal Edward-. DD.?.dC?'??? ThomM (CocM.rdJ.) East Glamorgan—p'i. B Dav i e3. E,ts'L D?vie-. P.tidottrn ?r Aifr-] Ti?n.t. ?? ?" John Williama. YnysybwJL Merthyr Md Ah-? ^n; B MrD.D?-ies.Gicb?Md; ?r ?or?n Pan'?'? :won; Mr Dam..l, Troedvrhiw Alu.-rnia* nB Morgan. AberdMe. Breconshire- R? Wr^ n"y Mr John W?tMn.. T??r.h and 'Mr W. T' Lee, Brecon. Radnorshire—Mr Jenkins GlI:J;: Llandriudod ReT.?'iia (Bi, Knighton '• \}H^' B :a B Morgan (PhyeLdr.) South Monmouth—Mr u.B W?ttera. Blackwoo Rev. T. G Ji?e.;   John Morgan, Pcntne?Tnydd. We!t Monrno*Va Bfl Mr Dan Ihomas, RhymneT Alderman H?r- l' fl Bt?iun; Councillor BL\wn. Tre?e"M v' Monmonth—CounciUor Wiliia.-u Ti?otm. ?' hee? Councilor Thom-?a GriMth. ljiie-J™ fl Councillor J. Daniel. Aber-?vehan. Ea-tCsmarba BB shire—Rev. Towyn .Jonc, Miss Kate Jenkins L'aiB ??ttock and Mr Hughes, Llangeuech. C?n!? ?orousha—Atderman Gwdym Evanj ?nd ? B Jones, L'aneIIy and l'ro[6or D. E J -jc flB C?rn?ar?hcn. Swansea Borough—Councillor T-v^ fl Mr WiHs, and Mr H. J. Tbo?n:'?. Swa-e?b?'r? Councillor T. Freeman, AIdermau J. H. D?u IB H?naatntet and Alderman la?c E?Ba ?mh fl Monmoulh Horon?hs Dr. Garrod I?OB?t CounciHor W. H. Brown, and Mr W. BractHfl Newport. ENGLAND. B Liverpool—Mr William D?v!es, Elm Bach E?' fl dale Mr E. B. Hcghe-. Toxteth ?nd Mr G. C. N Hets. Birkenhead. Manchester—Mr Gome Jcns^ N Dr. Emrys Jones, and Mr D. S. Davic?. MrG?'h t JdDes, Mr 0. Owen, Cswestiy and Mr EjB?d I Clayton. LADIES' UNION. ■ MrsWynford Phiiipps, Mrs Htrbc-rt Lewis, and HH Mrs Gwynneth Vaughan. The Press Association is desired by Mr D. A. fl Thomas, M.P.. president, and Mr R. X! Hi! acting B secretary or he South Wales Liberal Federation, to B state tliat that Federation, which covers nearly B three-fourths of the population of the Priccipaiitv, B took no part in the recent Welsh convention it B Aberystwyth, and is in no way committed by resoln- B tions then passed, but continues its work a= an B independent cr!m¡sation.

CHINA AND JAPAN. I I: is reported that Russia. Germany ar.d France B hare presented an Identical Note to the Government H of Japan, protesting against the terms of the treaty H with China. In an official communication received I by Renter's agent at Yokohama, the Japanese I Government repudiates the interpretation pa, Gpon .he treaty in Europe, and dL:nie:! tha: ,hpan seeks zin ,T exclusive commercial advantage, or lias con- H eluded an offensive and defensive allictnes with China.. The Emperor of Japan has issued a priclamatien to I his people, in which he counsels nuderatioa after I victory. I

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