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THE REFORMED CHURCH IN WALES.…
THE REFORMED CHURCH IN WALES. FOURTH LECTL'KE BY REV. CA>T0>~ WILSOX. On Sunday evening last the Rev. Canon Wilson concluded his series of lectures at -t. iAivid's C'atuolio Churcn, taking as ins subject The Ket'ormed Church in Wales." 'l'heie was again a large and inicrested congregation. The Rev. Canon, m ttie coarse of his remarks, said :— It is beyond all question that, down to the accession of queen Elizabeth, the whole of Wales was Catholic; even the changes effected .luring the reign of Edward had made Itt le d*twt>aure in the re;igious practices of either ]N"ortti or bouth a t is true the Monasteries had been suppressed, and much ecclesiastical revenue alienated from the Church and appropriated by the State s'jine few pm.-hea had also made acquaintance with new ministers, who were not altogether as careful of ritual and liturgy as their piedecessors. btill, generally, Mass was said, Holy Conuniiiaon was distributed as usual, and the people kept to their old habits ana traditions, neither observing any change < v doctrine, nor having "nx mis- givings as to the intentions 01 their ru.ers. Dr. Rees, in his History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales," ndmits that "down to the accession of Elizabeth, trie mass of the nation, both priests a:.d people, were cecided Roman Catholics (Papists). Some priests may have conformed outwardly during Edward's rei^'ii, but they returned with Mary." We f.ave now to notice the changes made, and their character, by the Acts of Elizabeth. She commenced by enforcing the Act of Supremacy, thus seve:ing Welsh Communion with Romlt. Next she suppressed tne Mass, and removed such of the old clergy as refused to conform to the new liturgy and ceremonial. Then came the new service of the Book or Common Prayer, together with the Thirty-nine Articles, which were published as so many corrections and emendarions ot the traditional creed. Bishops and priest: remonstrated and refused to acknowledge the right or t:;e Sovereign to interteie in a province which had always b. en recognised as exclusively and divinely the privilege of the Ctiurch. The former, with the exception of Kitchen, of Xiiandatt, w!-o weakly yiei ed, were silenced by illlpri8olHllcllt: and the latter were simply dispossessed by unqualified substitutes who were put in their place. Tne people, fur a time as 1 shad show you, disapproved of the new worsniV ami cere noma., yet luirdiy realised the change of doctrine and of their alLgl .nee, which was being gradually established by the new ecclesiastical ordinances. As soon as thetruth dawned upon them, and they saw that !>y Acts of Parliament and Elizabeth's Royal pleasure, they were"being robbed of their ancient faith ani a new religion substituted in its place, they abandoned the Church to the unordained and illiterate iellows who had been S3nt to replace tbe sacriticing, urdaioed, priests who iiad hitherto served tiiem and prcferreii to remain without religious services rather than conform to a religion which came to them, not by sllccession from the aneÏent British Bishops, but from I Act" o: an English Parliament, inspired by an English Sorereign. 1'1.10 treatment of this reluctauce aud ullwiliinguess of the Welsh to alter .heir faith and worship at the dictation of Elizabeth's G-ovemment, was the same in Wales as in England. Tile Acts against recusancy, witii tbeir penalties of tines and impri.. nments, were rignlly 811forcc(l. *vith the consequence that there followed some increase of outward and insincere f on- formLy more of tbe old clergy disappeared, and many of the better class of peop:e tied the country. Still, in s.f'te penalties and the active vigilance of subservient magistrates, the churches remained largely unused and unserved, and the people sank deeper into the darkness of irreligion and impiety. If anv of the old clergy were found endeavounng by secret services to practice the old worship of the Mass, denying Elizabeth'* supremacy, or trying to ket'P alive the tiaui.ionil faith, they were either quickly imprisoned, or hanjed, drawn and quartered, as guilty of h gh treason. By these coercive- Acts of Eli7abetn, persevered in througa her long reign, and continue t through [he subsequent reigns of James X., Charles I., the C .mmonwealth, and Charles II., the practice of the old Catholic worship of the Mass, the uoctrines of the Real Presence, of the Pope's Supremacy, ot devotion to toe Blessed Mother of G-od, of the .-even Sacraments, and of prayers and sacrifices for the dead, were general.y suppressed, and in their place was imposed, simply by leg-tl enactments, a mere outward conformity witii tne meagre ceremonial, and il'cgical doctrines of the new English creed. id give you, in confirmation of my statements, a shortlist of the Welsh victims to the new system ot evangelising a benighted Roman Catholic people. Robert White, a schoolmastdi, for refusing to go to Church Hnd afterwards denying the Queen's supremacy, was executed at Wrexham, in i584 William Davies, a priest, was executed at Beaumaris, in 159.1; a priest named John Jones suffered in 1593 and another priest named William Richards in 1803 a certain John Pugh was condemned but not executed and Henry Pugh was cruelly tortured in 1610, Roger Cadwallader was executed at Leominster in Herefordshire, also John R cherts. Ot Merioneth, at Tyburne; in 1(:2, Edward .Morgan, from Flintshire in 16(6, Philip Howell, from Brecon were executed at Tyburue; in 1641, Thomas Vaughan, of Courttield died of harsh treatment at Cardiff. After ttie wicked plot concocted by Titus Oates, uuring the reign of Charles II., there were several executions. John Lloyd and Philip Brans were imprisoned and executed in Cardiff; Charles Alahoney at Ruthin; John Kemble, at Hereford Charles Baker, at Usk. He found many Catholics in Usk gaol; and lastly, William Lloyd, a Carmarthenshire man, was cOilùemnell at Brecon, but died in prison six days before his execution was to come off. I could increase the list by the addition of several more names if I were to include tbe victims executed ill the neighbouring counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Devon and Cornwall but J hanl already said sufficient to show that Protestantism iD. Wales did not spontaneously grow out of the religiou which was accepted and follow8d by all the people before the accession of Elizabeth, but was something new, previously unknown, foreign to the traditions and tastes of the people, and only adopted under yary stringent compulsion. I will now offer you proofs, which I have taken from various sources, in conlirmatiom of the statements I have made, and I will give you them under tuesll heads ;—(!,) The character of the new Clergy; (2) The state of religion and of the fabrics (3) The preference of the n elsh for their old faith and Catholic practices, and their unwillingness to adopt the new creed (i) The continued decline of re.igion and morality down to the present century. 1. This is not a proper place to state ail that can be said in rela- tion to the decline ol morality amongst the clergy owing to the relaxation which had been permitted in the law of celibacy by Edward VI., and to the influence of the new princiulei advocated by Continental reformers. More than I like to sav, as regards concubinage and illegal marriages, both of Bishops and inferior Clergy, may be read in Hallam's Constitutional History. Similar evidence is given by Dr. Rees in his History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales. In 1;65 com- plaints were made against the two Diocesas of Llandafi and Bangor, as both being in II. scandalous statl, the Cathedrals were already much dilapidated, and the Bishop of Bangor was COIltinuing to lie en" concubinage amongst his clergy by the acceptance of pensions. A few years later, we have some strong language used by a certain John Penry, an enthusiastic pioneer of Welsh I Nonconformity, who was executed hi a barbarous manner because he r,.pr0ved the lives and VT-EJ-S vt Bishops, and denied her spirituai supremacy. He gives a shocking account of the low characters and wicked lives of the clergy, and charges them with awry vice that is gross and beastly. Rees Prichard, who was vicar of Llandovery before Elizabeth died, says :—" It were difficult to decide whether the clergyman, the farmer, the labourer, the artisan, the bailiff, the judge, 01' tbe nobleman was the most daring in impiety." In the preamble to the Act, passed in 1563. authorising a translation of the Bible, occur* this statensent :—" Her Majesty's subjects are utterly destitute of God's Holy Word, and do remain in the like, or rather more darkness and ignor- ance than they were in the time ef Papistry." Canon Beavan, speaking of the condition of the Diocese of St. David's, about the same time, says If the conduct of the clergy at the Cathedral Church may be taken as a measure, the standard of professional daty must have been indeed low." In the next century, we read of the Diocese of 8t Asaph, that Bishop Hughes was chargsd with holding 16 benefices, and with misgoverning his Diocsse and tolirating the most disgraceful abuses." 0«e person that had two of the greatest livings in the Diocese boarded In lion alehouse." As to the number, zeal and efi.ci8ncy of the clergy, inch statements as these are comitan. "To one parish where there is a sermon we have 20 that have none." (Peary.) Many ot our parishes haTe no clergyman, and some Diocese* are without a Bishop. There is hardly one who is both able and willing to pleach the word of God." (Sanders.) "In the whole county of Hereford there are but 20 constant and conscionable preachers. In the city. where there are 27 Prebendaries, six Parish Churches, and 12 Vicars that sing in the choir, excepting Dr. Rogers, there is net any preaching and scarce olil.e Bermon to be heand Olil. tile Lord's Day." ("The Survey.") There are no Bibles, the clergr are asleep, the upper ¡ classes are neglecting religion, the poor are ignorant and un- willing to receive instruction unc1lastit. drunkenness, theft, lying, and infidelity, are rampant. (Ilees Prichard.) Thousands of our peeple know Jesus Christ to be neither G-od nor man, priest nor prophet, and almost never heard of Hijrn." (Penry.) The mxM of the nation were as ignorant and superstitious 1558 Cathoiic Practic-«) i. 1639 as they were in twonp?«chersB1o?h °* ?ftng°r complains that he has only The r^ord of Dloce,es were in a similar plight. efficien y and i°w Character™ of*Vh °f the^u-ity, in- whatever direction we look fa 5 cler«y, ls the samc Ul centuries to the present.10'Whe^rhJthe,'C™ Church clergy were displacedM^,n'l0lw,'ltl|' scandalous living and urunkennew, and Wa?e» was and its benefices appropriated by a host of ministers, who held the religion, charge of the Principal for about 14 years, religion a^ade no progress, but rather feu from bad to worse. Because of the scarcity of preachers, » system of itinerant preaching was set up, and, consequently, efforts to influence the people towards a virtuous or Christian living were occasional, uncertain, and spasmodic, and, un- questionably, without any good result. Many parishes remained vacant for years. Some were occupied by labouring men—for instance, one by a weaver, another by a ploughman, another by a cobbler, and others by a tailor, a shoemaker, a miller, aud a masen. Cromwell, trying hie hand at overturning one Church and substituting another, had to have recourse to the same low class of Hieo for his preachers asllJizabeth had before him. In a petition presented to Parliament in 1651, from the six counties of South Wales, it was averred that in some of the counties there were not above four or five itinerant ministers." Again, in 1663, it was alleged, that in the county of Brecon one might ride 20 miles on a Sunday without finding a Church door open that upwards of 50 of them were, at that time, not supplied with ministers. and in Churches the Word of &od had not been taught for two Cri«vv>Lth^ in the town of Brecon, and in the towns of had notT^i Hay and Builth- being all market towns, there years £ ne con8tant *bl* teacher or minister for two Welsh parish fhop of. G'loucMter describes the state of the The holy hoii°m wbic^ been ejected, in these words the hill more &od *re de«erted, ruined no cottage on So that it seenJat,9A defaced. I which have elapsed swki??- b,ac^ over the hundred years new Church for her set her hand to fashion a duced under botti io .ktug at the results pro- Protestantism nor tnat neither Cui impression upon th» h*d ^de any /efplr re" eUninz them to the new Creeat V °J hl.d 8acc?«ded "» in- clining u». Under circumstances and re- •h? to helieve that the^WeUhto- us ln ^tory, poisibte to reformed principle. *lther voluntarily accepted the Knghsh ^ormM pnncipu* ? regardtd the Ch{;rch upJKem by W* Acta intruded •2nd. If we try to meagre e religion shown in the care taken of ecclesiastical we And the ..mo t«i« nf neglect and dilapidation wtu we eaWi lMt Bundav in England. Canon Beavan says "From tne time 0f the Reformation there set in a period of declension and dilapidation,' as BishoD Burgess termed it, which lasted nearly to the middle of the sent century." We read of Bishops stripping thllead off their cathedrals, selling it, and pocketing the proceeds-, 0f » bendarierf pilfering the cathedral p ate and ornaments; *nd o{ others dismantling the Lady chapel and aisles of their churches/and leaving them open to the co.d and rain. At the beginning of the 18th century, in Queen Annes reign^ Bishop Bull, of 8t, David's, found a lamentable amount ot dilapid^. tion inAhe cathedral buildings, and of insufficiency as well as Inefficiency in the clergy." (Canon Beavan) Dr. Saunders is still more emphatic. He writes Did you see these desola- tions of our noble cathedrals aud collegiate churches, and of so many parochial churches and chapels, of the Bishop « palaces, aud of almost all the parsonage houses in the diocese, it might well tempt you to think we had Iain in the road of the Turks and Saracens in some of their wild excursions, or thtt we had but very lately the discipline and reformation of an Olivemn army." Listen to this extract, taken from an article in the Edin0u,¡"gh Review, printed in 1S53 The 18th century may be called the age of ecclesiastical dilapidation. In Wales, several parishes thought it the cheapest method to let the structure tumble down altogether. The ruin of Llandiff Cathedral was the worst example. The Bishop had long cfased to reside; the Pre- bendaries had followed his example; the daily service had been discontinued; the very organ had been broken up The building itself was suffered to remain utterly without 'as'>'t was literally blown down by a great storm in 1722. The nave and towers were left in ruins the choir under- went a more degrading fate, for it was patched up in the w irst style of a Baptist meeting house; the noble arches being built up with brickwork, bull's eye windows being added for oraa- ment. and a white-washed ceiling to make all snug. 8uch was: the fat -of a cathedral which had been the seat of a Christian Bishopric, while the Saxons were yet idolators, and when Canterbury was.st¡ll a Pagan city. In tbis llisgraceful con- ditiou tile fabric remained for 140 years, typifying by its appearance the state of the Church to which it belon¡.{ed." St. Davids was anutlJllr example of similar ruin aud disgraceful neglect. 1 a in sure you neell no more testimony on that point. The story is tLe same to the elld of the chapter. Here is the con- summation uf ttle great, Protestant Jietormatioii in this country described bV Canon Beavan '• Tne nineteenth century dawned gloomily on the church of this diorese (St. David's.) The iroll age of declension and dilapidation' still brooded over the land. At. no period, perhaps, was the Church at a lower ebb—the buildings ruinous —the accommod, tion inadequate, both to the area anJ. the population, the clergy insufficient, both in number and quality." Behold the result of three hundred years of Protestant Reformation j 3rd. I will now show you what was the temper and dispo- sition of the Welsh people towards the new religion, and how tellaciously they clung to their old Catholic practices, believing that whilst tue outward furms and eeremomes were visibly changed, the substance of their faith still remained. "Penry (the Puritan complains of the continuance of Popish practices far illto Elizabeth's reign." The Bishop of St. David s was oiJligeLI to order the replacement of the commUlllon table In St, Peter's, Carmarthen, to its proper vhlce"at the east end of the nave, for fear of tumult. Strype says, In v\ ales the people ordinarily carried their beads about with them to Church, and used them in prayer, and even at the cnurch of Carmarthen, while the Bishop was at the communion table, bareheaded, doing his devotions, the people kneeled there. and knocked their breasts at the sight of the communion, using the sarne# supoistitious ceremonies as they had used belore the mass.1'* They brought their corpses to be buried with songs and candles lighted up "about them." Bishop Bar.ow alleges that the people continued to make pilgrimages to the old site of St. David's. Tbe: Bishop of St. Asaph repnrts in 16 .3 "That 11.11 was ex- ceeding! v well. save only that the number and boldness of some Romisn "recusants increased much in many places." A eertain I John Lewis, ill a pamphlet written III 1616, after complaining of the small number and pOOl; quahty of the sermons "igno- rant and scandalous mUllsters were preaching, he says, tbe pom- must be Papists or worse; and tbat there still survive amongst them many blind superstitions ceremonies, such as calling upon Saints, and making pilgrimages to wells and chapels." Dr. Rees says that even when the Puritans, during the Commonwealth, were active and conscientious in their ministry, Un, mass of the nation was little better than the Irish, having envenomed hearts against the way of God," that is, against the preaching of the Puritans. And referring to ttie rise of Welsh Methodism in he makes this admission *• It is reamly granted that the eelebrllted founders of Method- ism found a lamentable amount of ignorance, irreligion, and SllperstltlOn (Catholic practices) in different parts of the Princi- pality hut it 1S equally true that tbey left vast districts in tbe same condition, after their most snccessf\lllal,ours for upwards of fitty years. Evangelical religion and X unconformity did not take anything like II general hold of the \e18[1 nation until within the last 40 years (meaning the early part of this century), though their progress was much more rapid and general ever since." b The writer of the Diocesan History of St. Asaph says tbat in the reign of James 1. Roman Catholics were numerous enough to be feared. Tile autbor of the Diocesan History of Hereford says In the Diocese of Hereford the feelmg of the people, or, at any rate, of those who were looked upon as representing the people, for many years Juring the sixteeath and seventeenth centuries, appears, both in the City and County of Hereford, and also in Shropshire, to have been advQrse rather tban favourable to the refcrmed During the period of toe great rebellion, about 1G45, "Hereford seems to nave become a refuge for Roman Catholics driven from other places, and bore tbe reputation of beiug a very malignant town, for when L ,rd SLtmford occupied it in 1642 all the citizens except three were said to be of that way of thinking." Twenty years later Popish recusants are admitted to be not" inconsiderable;" it is alleged thltt Jesuists, that is, Catholic priests, abound in Shropshire and ilonmouthshire. In many gentlemen's houses Mass was secretly said. All these admissions prove that the Welsl1 were not opening tbeir armll to weieome the change of religion. This important evidence of the long mrvival of Catbolic sympathies and the tendencies of the people of Wales should not be omitted — that, during the Civil Wars between the Royalists and the Parliamentary Party. the Welsh gave their support, in tbeir Catholic loyalty, to the Royalists, and eagerly fouad shelter fOl" their King. 4th. Let me add one or two extracts from Johnes' Causes of Dissent in Wales," He says tbat-" Hardlv It doubt can be entertdned that tue predisposing ranses to Methodism (about the middle of iast century) were to Le found in the inetticiency of the Establishment." He further tells us, quoting from a letter written in 1799— The land was dark, indeed 1 Hardlyany of the lower ranks could read at all. The inorais of the country were very corrupt. Cfluttony, drunkenness, and licentiousness prevailed through the whole country." The pour attended Church better tban the rich. Sundays wele mostly spent in amusements, singing, dancing, and playing tennis." The people still retained many Catholic practices. "When the Methodists first came into Wales, tue peasantry expresseù tiieir horror of them by the truly Popish gesture of crossing tbeir foreheads." Devotion to the Blessed Virgin sill survived, and also" the Popish custom of praying the "onl out. of Purgatory." When Wesley came into hales l1e fOlllld the ignorance of "the people so great that he pronounced them as little versed in the principles of Christianity as a Creek or Uberokee Indian." But hi further admits tbat there wall much superstition. Dissenters and Puritans have always userl the word" super- stition" to describe Catholic practices of piety, The writer of the article in the Edinburgh Review, wbich I 'have already quoted, maintains and proves that this state of ignorance and clerical neglect, uf irreligion and impiety, of ruin and desolation, was prevalent even down to 1847. Iu my judgment tbe reading of modern history will bring the conviction to every reasonable mind tbat tbe L'th Century was tbe darkest and the least satisfactory page in the social and religious tlistory of ourcountry. From all the testimony which I have brought to YOllr notice, and drawn exclusively from Protestant and non-Cathode sources, we can easity draw some very evident conclusions. J. The auss of tbe Welsh were Papists, or Roman Catholics, 10n2: after tbe Reformation was in:mgurated-that tbey clung tenaciously to their old faith and pious practices-that they conformed reluctantly and only under compulsion, and not until they had. lost almost all their Cathclic traditions, and fallen back into a IItate of ignorance bordering on Paganism that the population partially and slewly gave their attention and their .ympatl1r first to Methodism iu tbe last and to the Church in the pr..1I6nt century. 2. That the new religion was so different from the old, so objectionable to their tastes, and filch an overturning of all previous traditions and baUts, tLat for two centuries and a lJ ilf the nation preferred to be without religion than aecept what they ttiew 10 be heresy. 3. The facts I have adduced prove that the Reformation in Wales did not grow out of either the British or the Pre-Reforma- tion Church. It was not a reform wblch came from a Divinely- appointed authority, but it was a mere legalised establishment, all whose doctrine, liturgy, and ritual were imposed by Acts of tbe English Parliament. The whole system was a purely English concoction in wbicb the Welsh nation had no share. They had to adopt it, or else pay the penalty of inconformity. All the motives which gave it life and wtlich carried it on were English, beginning with Henry YIII. and his divorce; then Edward and the sympathies of his Ministers with the Contin- ental reformers, and lastly, Elizabeth, anù the personal pride which determined her 1;0 maintain the Royal supremacy and spite tbe Pope. These, unquestionably, were the foundation upon whicb a Protestant Church was built up in Wales IU well III in England. 4. Nothing stands ont more clearly from the many facts I have stated, tban this conclusion, tbat Protestants are not now what they used to be. People under 40 years of age, who see the present activity and energy displayed by tbe Protestant Church, think it WitS always so. But older people, who have witnessed a prior state of things, know tbat it is only in racent years that the Established Church has roused itself from sleep and displayed such apostolic solicitude for the spiritual welfare of the pe6ple. Men, no older than myself, can can to mind the days when even the cross was contemned and not suttered as an ornament on the Churches, when Catholic vestments and ceremonies were contemptuously caned" Popish Millinery ami Mummery" when Church peopleglorled in the term Protestant "and witb pr!de,looked back to the days of tbeir origin, when the glorious pnnclples ef the Reformation were asserted, and never thought of appropriating to themselves the name of Catholic." All these terms, "Hitl1alism," High Churcl1," "High Celebra- tiC>!lS," the" Branch" theory, the assumption of a legitimate pries hood, and the use of vestments, incense, candles. banners of the Blessed Sacrament, of the Blessed Virgin, aud many other Ritatfistic hobbies, such ag birettas and Roman collars, are all llOveltiólë, no older tban many of the young curates who are leaming the duties of their profe8lion. In conclusion, let me ask you in imagination, to set the Welsh pre-reformation Church against the work of Elizabeth, and by comparison and contrast, judge whether there is any growth of one from the other, or any contlllUlty or Identity of ODe with the otber, The Welsh Church was undoubtedly and admittedly Popish-that is, Roman Catholic; II. province in communion with all othw Roman Catholic Churches, and in union with them, subjecrto the supremacy of Rome. It had a creed and a worship which had come down by the teaching of a Divine authority and tbe Apostolical succession of her pastors. It was indebted neither for its doctrine nor its ceremonial to civil power or to legal enactments. It was truly a part of God's spiritual kingdom on earth. Now look to the new faith, not a revelation brought by an Apostle, but an establishment originating in a royal eaprice, and forced upon the notice of Welshmen by legal enactments, fines, imprisonment, and tbe gallows. The supremacy of the of Th*l&a was ^ue to an Act of Parliament. The suppression to an H'e substitution of tables for altars, were due the Book of CommmenJ' The mode of worship pDescribed in as defined in the Thirt^'NIN^'A the doctrin8 to be preached Parliament. And all the also due to Acts of appropriated the revenues and th £ n n ? .pa.an<i parsons-who people, came into Wales like V^ed both Church and authorised by Act of Parliament of harpIes, licensed and Let anyone look fairly and honestly iHto facts ami v, acknowledge that the Papistry," or the^ wRrfn™f?-U*t religion Of the Welsh, was something yery different from the cold, capnclons Protestant substitute which usurped its place. The one came to them w1th the sweetDess and lif.thtnes8 of the yoks of Christ brought bT. Apostolic Saints and legitimate teachers. The other was venly and truly an English establish- ment, the inspiration of caprice and disobedience, imposed upon Wales by repeated CoerCIOn Bills of more 8tringency and severity than bave eyer been known since, and which would, in these days, draw down the execration of the whole ciyillsed world. It was a doctrinal deluge, devastating Christ's vine- yard in this country, and for two 8lenturiell and a half covering the land with ruin and desolatl8n. It is truly and accurately described in its own definition of itself the Reformed Church of England established by law," or. it is nothing else than the embodiment of the pl1!1ciples of tàe Protestant Reformation. The Church of the" elsh was tbe Church of Christ, built up by the Apostles, taught by their successors and governed by the successor of St. Peter, ttJ. Vicar of Christ, the Bishep of Rome. I uk with St. Paul, "What concord hath Christ with Belial ? Who will direct me where to find continuity or identity between tWI) terms so contradic- tory; or between two kingdoms 10 mortally hostIle to each other ? Green, in his" Short History of the English People," speaking of the expulsion of the Puritans in 1562, make. these strctag remarks: The Chnrch of England atood from that moment isolated and alone among all the churches of the Christian world. The Reformation had severed it lrretrienbly from those which still clung to the obedience of the Papacy. By its rejection of aU but episcopal orders, the Åct of Uniformity had severed it all irretrievably from the general body of the Protestant Churches, whether Lutheran or Reformed. And while thus cut off from aU healthy religious communion with the world without, it lank into immobility within. With 11he expulsion of thi Puritans, aU change, all efforts after reform, all national development, suddenly stopped." Who, after thill, wilJ maintain that the Protestant Church of England, by law established, is not alien both to England and to Wales?
SWANSEA EXCHANGE.I
SWANSEA EXCHANGE. I In consequence of the continued excited state of the iron markets, there was again a large attendance on 'Change on Tuesday afternoon. Amongst those present were Mr. O. J. Van Wart, Liverpool; Mr. Smith, Crowther and Co., Kidderminster; and Messrs. Basil Jayne, Pontardulais; Roger Beck, Elba S'eel Works; E. Trubshaw, Llanelly; J. Spence, Mumbles; Daniel Edwards, Morriston G. B. Strict Amman Iron Co. "VV. Quick, do. Thos, Freeman, Clayton Works; A. H. Bartlett, Leach. Flower and Co.; W. J. Rees, Morlais Co. D. Jenkins, Port Talbot; D. h David, do.; Llewelyu Howell, do.; Jenkins, Daniel Jenkins and Co., do.; MacClaren, Llanelly; McNeiIl, Watson and Co.; Thomas, Llanelly; E. F. Daniel, H. A. Chapman, Joseph Bangham, Barrow Co. Travers Wood, It. A. Wood, Wm. Davis, Ebbw Vale Co. Thomas, Blaenafod; W. H. Edwaids, John Stanley, Richards, Pantyffynon; W. Bright, Fairwood A. T. O'Sullivan, Jose, Ford and Co. T. H. Jones, do.; J. Cound, Pontardulais; L. E. Trickey, Gseat Western Railway; R. S. Lowe, do. John Glasbrook, Tho?. Davies, Cambria; Joseph Hairop, Grove's End T. W. Davies, Jones, Newport; Davies, do.; Bertie Morris, Letcber, C. E. Sutton, Neath; Godfrey Thomas, uo. Robert Eaton, do.; C. E. and H. M. Peel, Thos. Eltord, M. Moxham, W. W. Storr, Edwin Ball, W. H. Jenkins, Capt. Rees, T. R. W. Mason, David Owen, Midland W. Rosser, H. Chalk, Thos. Ford ana Co.; J. D. Thomas, T. Sinam, S. Stevens, G. H. Blenkinsopp, R. Lester, Carmarthen; J. il. Thurgood, Swansea Harbour; ThurguQd, junr. John Powell, Landore Tin Plate Co.; Messrs. Forrester, D. Morris, Glanainman; Lewis, Gorseinon S. Lippman, Cwm Clydach; A. T. Davies, do.; D. Russell, do.; G. Birkbeck, Gower Co.; Heyw< od, Cardiff; E. Roberts, Geo. Sbaddick, Burgess and Co.; Starbuck Williams, A. P. Steeds, R. Hardy, Biggd. Britonferry; J. R. Davies, Dynevor Coal Co.; and W. Bertram, Cardiff. There was a very firm market, notwithstanding the fluctua- tions that have taken place during the week. Pig iron has closed to-day at a higher figure than our last quotation, with still an upward tendency. The statistics of the British Iron Trade Association for the first half of this year showing an increase in the home consumption of over 2,000 tons per day, are considered sufficient reason to account for the present improvement in the price, and it is anticipated that the latter half of this year will show a further increase in the consumption. The supply of coke and other raw materials will not have enabled any additional furnaces to be put in blast, so the effect of the ine: eased consumption without the equivalent production will have its influence on the market to drive prices still higher. These facts, which appear to be well considered, rather intensified the anxiety °f 1, c°n8umers to buy with the view of enabling them to make forward sales. Pending arrangements to secure the raw materials no large transactions in tin plates can be entered upon therefore the quotations for tin plates to-day remain normally ag they were last week. BARS AND BLOOMS.—The existing sales will carry makers to the end of the year, and none were disposed to entertain any business for delivery over next year unless at a tempting increase in the price. The rapid late at which all the articles consumed in the manufacture Lave risen, has placed the manufacturer of plates at a gtt&t■<^advantage, there being some who had not been covered witn sutheigm; raw materials to last over the period for which they bad engagements to deliver. „ The price of block tin leaves off to-day at an advance of £3 on the price we quoted last week, aud spelter and lead have also shared in the improvement. Pia IRON.—Glasgow warrants, 59s. 6d., 60s.. 59s. 6d., cash sellers. Market strong. MIDDLESBRO. — No. 3, 59s. to 60s. prompt. Other numbers in proportion. Market strong. HEMATITE. — Warrants, .25. Od. to 72s. 6d., for mixed numbers, f.o.b. Cumberland. „, WELSH BARS. £ 1 10s. to £ ios.ua. Angles, &c., at usual extras, f.o.t. at works. n, SHEET IKON.—Singles, £ 9 oS* ua" t0 £ 10 0s. 0d., f.o.t, at works. STJSEL RAILS. — Heavy sections, tb 5S. to f;7 10s. light ditto, t7 5s. Od. to £ 7 10s. Od., t.o.t., slfcepere, angles, channels, &c., according to selection and speciucation. STJEEL SHEETS.-SingIes, £ 10 Os. to £ 11 Og-, with the usual extras for the higher guages. BESSEMER BTEEL.l'iu-plate blooms, £6 7s. 6d. to iL6 12s. 6d. tin-plate bars, t6 15s. Qd. to ±7 us. "d. SIEMEM'S TIN-PLATK BABS.I,ES^ ±6 ;s. 6d..67 10s. Od. All delivered in the district; cash, less per cent. TIN-PLATES— Iron coke U"S< T^I.C., 15s. 6d. to 15s. 9d.; Bessemer steel coke, 15s. Jd. to 1 Ua.; Siemens' (coke finish;, 16s. 6d. to 17s. Od. ternes, per oouble box, *8 by 20 C..3is. to 35s.; charcoal do. (Siemens steel), 3os. 6d. 32s. Od. best cilarcoal, 2*2g. 6d. to 27j5-•accoi,<iing to finish of brand; wasters, 6d. to ls. per box Primes. All delivered in Prince of Wales Dock, Swansea, easn, iegg 3 ancj cent. The Swansea Harbour Trustees nave furnished tne following official return of tiii-plates received from the works, shipped, and in stock ;— j. HeeKeuiii"s ijorrespouuuug Nov. i, week last year. Boxes. -Boxes. Boxes. Received 3ti,096 •• 52,969 52,834 Shipped 69,150 •• ^3,4o2 66,6j<> In stock 116,344^ • • • •'60,098 70,739 UOPPER.—Cimn oars, BLOCK TIN, 15S. Od. to £ 3b os. Od. SPELTER.— £ 22 15s. Od. to A- I/s. 6d, per telegram received on 'Change. LEAD.—English, £ 13 0s. T° 5s.; Spanish, £ 12 15s. to £ 13 15s- „ *■ Kir, ANTHRACITE COAL.—Best o;G vein, selected for malting purposes,lis. Od. tolls. 6d.; ordinary large, according to quality and selection, 8s. 9d. to 9«. 0d. "Wallrubbly culm, 5s. Od. to 5s. 3d. per ton. All delivered f .O.D. Swansea, cash in 30 days, less percent. M STEAM COALS.—Large, 12s- 0(1 •1013s. 6d.; bunkers, according to quality, 10s. 6d. tc 12s. 6d. • 6s. Od. to 6s. 6d. per ton, delivered f.o.b. Swansea, cash P^ys.less per cent. BITUMIKOUS COALS.—Large, 12s. 011. to 13s. ad.; thro* coals 9s. to 10s. Od.; small, 7s. 3d. to 8s. 3d. per ton, delivered f.o.b. Swansea; cash 30 days, less 2! per cent COKE.—Best foundry, Ms. to 21s. (M furnace 19s. Od. to 19s. Sd. per ton, f.o.b. Swansea cash 30 days less 2! per cent. PATBKT FUEL.-lls. 6d. to 1211. 3d. y IROX ORES. Prices, 15s. Od. to l5s.6d. per ton, ex-ship cash 3u days, with an additional charge of I4, 6d. per ton for selected large. PITWOOD.—19s. Od., 19«-6(i. per ton into trucks; nett, cash 30 days.
GIUiAT WESTERN KAILWAY
GIUiAT WESTERN KAILWAY Week ended Oct. 26, 1888 Description. Weekended (C.rreetsd to Inc. Dec. Nov. 3, 1Ssg, the act 11 a I figures). C- £ £ C/n 2«ar> In *• c- M- Cl Me. ef Miles open.. 2,469 60 "<*»o 9 18 Passengers, parcels, ? 64tl00 58,530 c.n Ac., and mails ) u Merchandise live > 98 730 86,640 12 090 stock, & minerals J *• Total for the Week. 162,830 "&.220 i7.6ïõ Amomnt for pre- ) vi«asl7 Weeks of 0 -0A half-year ) 3,011,310 2,5=44,790 100,520 Agnate for 18 J 2>990(01Q Hioatsg. Secretary. TAFF VALE RAIL WAY. Week ending Nov. 2, 1889 ••413,575 Corresponding week last year. • ■ £ 16,824 Decrease •* ••• £ 3,249 BRECON MERTKYR RAILWAY. Week ending ."orrOPgnding Description. Jftiv. 3,1889. wee« J^gted). Deer. £ s 4 (\\e. £ 8 4 £ d. Passsengers, &c. 270 12 2 257 11 &oods, ini&erals Sc 1/253 5 6 1.5SL 11 Total 1,523 17 8 1783 1? l~ 264 19 n Per mile per week 24 19 8 29 6 Aggregate for Is 30,443 5 1-32,239 U 3- 1.796 e 2 Weeks
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. THE CORN TRADK.—Wheat threshings continue to giy-e gnch variable results that a good crop in one P*rlSrpv,e weicht^ in the next is a most ordinary eecurrence. 1 of th« grain seems generally better than last y.ear* .ip at sales continue to take place on an extensive s > oh the figures returned by the market inspectors at statute exchanges are undoubtedly misleading to a ve The sales of English wheat at the metropolitan ve dropped from 3,020 quarters to 975 quarters, o^ t» to the mean price paid having fallen from 32s. v-' P0r quarter. The imperial average for the week en 2, 1889, was 63,662 quarters, at 30s. 3d. per '^jnpared with 61,912 quarters at 32s. 3d. per quarter i'1 ,|low t °f November last. The markets of the weeK exchanges out of fifty firm and thirty ^^anectively -rv18 figures having been sixteen and thirty-four resp 7* The mean tone of business, therefore, can scarcely 0 Worse from a week ago for English wheat. Flour, pxnnrto ? 80 good and so strong amarket as formerly, the ,r,ota America having begun to influence opinion. ,1 or a!turd„ ,h*s b^en hard of sale all through the week, and on «rday lagt niere was a disposition to sell Californian, Kussi«n> lnc*lttI> and ¥ew American at a slight decline. There is not'is yet how- ever, any really suitable alteration in value. in the quantity of grain on passage is not much, Dfined almost exclusively to Californian, which cannot P°swoiy iarnve withia the present year. The smallness of Indl^"nuldalI^d the falling eff in consignments from Russia •? -nl* a greater influence than they do; however, atways a difficult month in which to do business, and not » !rC frost in the Black and Baltic seas seem likely rA sn mv? the active and buoyant spirit which has ^"J" gone years, when supplies both in hand and in ^dvicai. '"Ster than they are to-day. Owing to a LS New York, the Liverpool market ha"s presei don f amount of tone. The arrivals of grain into^q.? quarters of week ended Friday, 1st Kovember, included 4,1 imported ■English wheat anil 56,526 quarters of foreign- nzjZ) Odessa, wheat comprised liberal consignments from -1'* 5f flour, a isganrog, and 4,032 quarters from >"ew Zealau< total quantity «qu»i to 40,000 quarters was receive"' 100718 quantity of breadstuffs for the week, therefore, b rjjle j s* Spring corn has been in fairly K00d 3j. to 32s. lionden average for barley has advanced from 3^ • gJtj0g- The quarter, with a considerable increase i» feature of business in good barley has been a P'f, rm«rs are 01 October trade, but there are at last signs that ou(. 0j beginning to overstock the market. Only four n ;a tjje teu times that number have quoted any decline, bu aV# previous week there was no decline anywhere..ilf, exception Qnia^*upply' but concession to buyers has been quantity and not the rule. Beans, peas, and rye are on passage of wheat and flour reckoned as wheat which is n aulirters of to the United Kingdom gives us a total of week aaro but ^iS!Uff3' which is 71-^0 qi^ters more than a week ago, out 81b,5J0'quarters less than was cc miug this Mark Lam Ezprtss.
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T^v*^nn#r Breat prize of 500,000f. ip Exhibition lottery is a workman of i am0d Frannsseng, employed in a printing establn THE "BOOK OF THE DEAD. Very soon after the arrival in the country of the magnificent and UDjqUe copy or edition of the "Book of the Dead, a papyrU8 of unprecedented dimensions and beauty, which wag dis- covered at Tliebes by Mr. Budge, it was tound that the splendour of the whites of the illuminations and other designs was palpaply obscured by contact with the unaccustomed and inhospitable climate or London. A later inspection of a day or two ago leads to the sad but inevitable, conclusion that our atmosphere is destined to be equally disastrous to all the other pigments, and not the whites only, of this papyrus. As a precaution agaiust the atmosphere, it was found necessary to cut the papyrus into uniform lengths of something over two feet, which, being appropriately mounted, have been practically hermetically sealed with it covering of glass.
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LONDON GAZETTE.
LONDON GAZETTE. (From Friday Night's Gazette.) THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 18-3. — RECEIVING ORDERS. — Owen Henry Elia3, Beecroft Vallev, Anglesea, late Daev-road, Breckfleld-rOad, North, Liverpool, builder.—Leyson" Rhys, Rollmg MIll, 8taüon.road, Hirwain, Brecknockshire, beerhouse- keeper and mining engineer.—John Robert Evans, Pharmacy, Vale-street, Denbigh, chemist and drnggist. FIRST hfEETINGS AND DATES OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS David Jones, late of Llanfiha.ngel. now of Ffwnog, Montgomeryshire, farmer. Public examination, November 14, at 10.30 a.m., at the County Court, Newtown.- John Williams, Bute-street, Cardiff, milliner and fancy draper. First meeting November 12, at 10 a.m., at the Official Receiver's Cardiff; public examination, November 12, at 11 a.m., at the Town Hall, Cardiff — Edward Roberts, Penygare- terrace, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, boot dealer and grocer. First meeting, November 9, at 11 a.m., at the Official Receiver's, Carmarthen public examination, November 9, at noon, at the Guitdhidi, Carmarthen.—Thomas Davies, Hannah-street, Porth, Glamorganshire, grocer. First meeting, November 8, at 5 p.m., at the Official Receiver's, Merthyr public examination, November 26, at 2 p.m., at the Court House, Pontypridd. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.—C. Ii. Williams, The Hayes, Cardiff, and Cadoxton-juxta-Barry, Glamorganshire, ironmonger. Final dividend, 5s. lOd. in the pound; payable November 2, at the Official Receiver's, Cardiff. ADJUDICATION.—Leyson Rhys, of Hirwain, Breckonshire, beerhouse-keeper and mining engineer. (From Tuesday Night's Gazette.) RECEIVING OKDEKS.—John Thomas, Chapel-street, Ponty- pridd, butter merchant. Leonard John Baugh, Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire, innkeeper. ADJUDICATIONS. — Edward Roberts, Penvgare-terrace, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, boot dealer and grocer. John Thomas, Chapel-street, Pontypridd, butter merchant. FIRST MEETINGS AND DATKS OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.— Llewellyn Beynon, formerly Brynmawr, Brecon, now Mardy- terrace, Merthyr Tydtil, late inkeeper, now commission agent. First meeting, November 14th, at 2 p.m., at the Official Re- ceiver's, Merthyr. Public examination, November 18th, at 4 p.m., at the Court-house, Merthyr Tydfil. Thomas Davies, Penn-street, Treharrfs, collier. First meeting, November 14th, at 3 p.m., at the Official Receiver's, Merthyr. Public examina- tion, November 18th, at 3 p.m., at the Court-house, Merthyr. William Rowlands, of Brithdir, in Gelligaer, Glamorganshire, collier. First meeting, November 14th, at 2.30 p.m., at the Official Receiver's, Merthyr. Public examination, November 18th, at 3 p.m., at the Court-house, Merthyr. PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. Robert Nicholl Byass and Arthur Byass, trading as Robert B. Byass and Company, at Port Talbot, tin-plate manufacturers, colliery owners, and coal masters also tradiDg as the Mansel Tin-plate Company at Aberavon, and tin-plate workers. A. Byass retires.
♦-COMMERCIAL FAILURES. f
♦- COMMERCIAL FAILURES. f According to Stubbs' Weekly Gazette, the nurnber failures in England and Wales gazetted during the weeV Nov; 2, was 165. The number in the fanures of last year was 171, showing a decrease of and tor corn- 0 were distributed among the following trades, ndjng weeks Dariaon we give the number in each in the corr a of 1888 and 1887. l889. 1888. 1887. 20 12 8 Builders, Building Materials I I I Chemists and Drysalters 1 3 1 China, Glass, Earthenware ••• 34. Confectionery, Toys, Fancy Good 5 7 „ Corn, Coals, Minerals 27 23 n Drapery, Clothing Textures 7 jq Farmers •" ••• 3 4, V .Furniture, Upholstery. 7^1 Horses. Vehicles ••• 3 i 1 Jewellery, Watches g — Leather: g 6 Metal. i S 6 Paper, Printing. 3 — Provisions Tobaccos 37 14 Wines, Spirits, Beer, m u 10 Miscellaneous. — 17 14 12 • /vf Oft t" 1.1i5 171 £ Q The Bench for the » i?nt* Rn<i Wales registered at the in the corresponding6 endiaS Nov. 2 was 178. Thd ?he corresponding weeks for th^v °f la8t year WaS ana tne The receiving „ t*le three previous years 2.53, ^decrease of 15, and the numbS™?az«t.ted S2>ahowin^ ^nt was 73, a decre»se fTf of registered deeds of «rrange- "^irients registered ,u In Ireland there were 42 in increase of 2 bankru^36 of 28 bills of 8ale 8' 8howinS ttie registered dePrt. 8azette!(i was 3, an increase of 1, The Scotch returns show tw arra»gement l an increase of 1 protests, an increase we ^Wished 3- recorded 9 The totals for *1, • ancl 28 failures, being a decrease of bills for sale retriJJ 5 ?°"fon of the year to Nov. 2, are crease of l 97 mistered for England and Wales, 8054, a de- decrease of 937' ? receiving orders gazetted number 3848, a an increase of cm tlle registered deeds of arrangement 3030, a decrease n( i. Iu Irel«-nd the totals are judgments 2405, the banknmf • the bills of gala 406> a decrease of 70 and reeisterert ,? 8 gazetted number 139, a decrease of 28, and the land the t ''s "rr.iiigemeut, 69, a decrease of 9. In Scot- of SO? totals are recorded protests gazetted 925, a decrease arul the failures 1236, a decrease of 195.
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What is the legal status of the nuns ? A Mr. Napoleon ^berborreaa has applied to the Montreal Courts for an order requiring the presence in court as witnesses of the Hotel Dieu, who claim a legacy of £ 10,000. His Propositions are that, if the nuns be civilly dead, cannot claim the property if they are not civilly dead, they can be summoned into court like any other people- He has refused the offer to take the testimony of the nun in the convent, because he says that plan has been tr before, and a voice from behind the cloister proIlloted the witness. Archbishop Fabre liag, however, t nuns not to go to court, declaring the summons Vhe'triaTt*ok place in Birmingham on Wednesday self contained electric tramcar, which is the first of its special kind which has been manufactured. It is pro. posed, if the consent of the City Couucil can be obtained, to run the car upon the Bristol-road route. which has hitherto been worked by horse power. The car was worked over several of the steepest gradients in the town, and passed them without any hitch. The car is the out. come of the recent union of interests between the Julian, the Sprague, and the Electrical Power Storage systems. The car can be propelled at five different speeds, the maximum being eight miles an homr, the Board of Trade regulation speed. With a full load the car went up a gradient of 1 in 17 with ease, and with less than its full power being utilixed. <
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The inner cill of the South Dock is 18 inches above the cill of the South Dock half-tide basin. The inner cill of the North Dock Lock is 3 feet above the cill of the North Dock half-tide basin. MOON'S PHASES. Full Moon, 7th. 4.5 p.m. Last Qiiar., 15th, 8.3i"> p.m. New Moon, 23rd, 1.44 a.m. First Quar., 29th, 5.29 p.m. A WONDERFUL DIEDICII BEECHAM'S PILLS C, H [?/ VI\ MPATENT \^i Iff I PILLS. M Jzil ARE universally adB>! A be worth a Guinea » billions and nervouS diI such as wind and paW, stomach,sick head.che, fulnessandswelling aftet dizziness and drowsing "hiils, flushings of heat, •.ppetite, shorti/ess of br(* tiveness, scurvy and blov t'.ieskin,disturbedsleep,fl diearns, and all nervC trembling sensations, f firit dose will give relief miv.utes. Erery sufferer is earVØ viteel to try one box Pills, and they will ')e I ledgei to be WORTH A GUINEA A BO% For females of all ages these PiU) are hwalnable, I doses of them carry off all humours, and bring about is required. No female should be w'thout them. Tr medicine to be found equal to BESCHAM'S PILV mcving any obstruction or irregularity of the sys' taken according to the directions g'ven with each will soon restore females of all ages to sound and robuf This has been proved by thousands who have tried tl found the benefits which are ensured by their use. For a weak stomach, impaired digestion, and all dig the liver, they act like "MAGIC," aula few dosct found to work wonders on the most important orgaJ human machine. They strengthen the whole musculo restore the long lost complexion, bring back the keel appetite, and arouse into action with the ROSEBUD the whole physical energy of the humau frame. FACTS testified continually by members of all d society; and one of the best guarante F to the net1 debilitated is, Beecham's Pills have the largest sal1 Patent medicine in the world. 1 BEECHAM'S MAGIC COUGH PI* Affpot-a remedy for Coughs in general, Asthma, Hoarseness, Shortness ol Breath, Tight# of the Chest- Wheezing, Ac., these l'i» will They are the bcst ever offered to the rf remove that sense of oppression and di* nprson irive lf1 niRht!'V '^Pfive the patient of rest. 1 r,t cniiffT?EECHAM's COUGH PILLS «, trial, and 1 violent c°"ghwiH in a short time be removed. Preparea only and sold wholesale and retail by the pt Thomas Beecham, St. Helen's, Lancashire, in boxes aI and 2s. iid. earn. Sold by^a^Sgistsand Patent Medicine Dealer? ev^ >.H. Juil directions are given with each bog; I RAILWAY TIME TABLES—NO Trains leave Swansea daily at the following tin* GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. UP TRAINS, HIGH-STREET (VIA CARDIFF) #A 8.40, 9.45, a.m.; tll.5, 1.20, 3.1 5.40, 7.5. 9.45 p.m.—Saturdays (I Talbot), 7 LO P.M. —Sundays, 5.55, 9.0 a.m. 12.40, 6-' p.m. Not on Monday's between Milford and Cardiff. t Via Severn Tunnel. DOWN „ 3.55, 7.15, 8 10, 9.50, 11.30 ■> n».; 3.5 4.20, 8.30, 11.15 p.m. Sundays, 3.55 and 11.5 a.m.; 7,4;: r-t UP (VIA VALE OF NEATH) 7.40, 1' 3.5, 5.10, 8.0 p.m.—Sundays, 9.0 .t p.m. „ J, (VIA EAST DOCK) :—3.5 and 5.0 p.n> SWANSEA TO LLANDOVERY 3.55, 7.15, 9 50 4.?0, and 8.30 p.m.—Sundays, SWANSEA TO MORRISTON-.—9.0 a.m.; 4.40, 5.43 Saturdays, 2.0, 6.30, 7.30, 9.0, 9.50 i" p.m. f MORRISTON TO SWANSEA.—9.25 a.m. 5.0, 6.5 f Saturdays, 2.20, 7.0, 7.50, 9.20, IC} p.m. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAn UP TRAINS (VICTORIA-ROAD) :—6.15, t8.0, JC. 12.35, -)-2.0. 15.30, 6.0, 18.45 p.a. days, t5.0, t5.40 t To Llandovery. + To Pontardulais. MIDLAND RAILWAY. UP TRAINS (ST. THOMAS) :-8.0. 11.0 a.m.; v p.m.-Saturdays, 12.30, 9.10 and'' RHONDDA AND SWANSEA BAY HA!J UP TRAINS (HIGH-STREET) 6.55, 8.40, 11.5 3.55, and 7.25 p.m. — 'iJ The present Postmast?r-Geueral must be disliked by some of the fossils of his departmeO; is astern hater of the red-tape system. A corfei recently comolained to him that on returning *"■ after the Long Vacation he found on hi-3 table on which a surcharge of one penny had been de because the words "Not to be forwarded" b: t\e written above the address. Mr. Raikes haS through his secretary, that having given the ;0 the complaint his careful consideration, he b¡>s that such words upon the front of a postcard a» be forwarded should be regarded as part of (to which this side of the card is reserved), instructions will be given accordingly for t" —. guidance of officers of the department. JNCO.,1 SWAJNSJUA AND MUMBLES KAIIJWAX. r<TEAM TRAIN SERVICE from NOV. 1st, 1889, and until further Notice. Trains between swiØ O the MUMBLES will run as under, leaving:— 55 Swansea (Rutland-street) for the Mumbles at 6 0 8 0; 9 40; 11 30 a.m.; 15; .-> 5; 4 15; 5 30^; ^1 fjj? 9 30 p.m. A train also leaves St. Helen's Junction for Mumbles at 7 10 a.m., and from fl* 0 Sundays at 9 30 a.m. i o; 3 s; 55: 6 30; 8 30 p.m. Trams also leave Gower-street for the Mumbles three minutes before the above times (with the ;.0 a.m) and join the steam train at St. Helen's-road Junction. '1'J Mumbles for Swansea at 5 15 6 40 7 50 9 5 10 15 a.m. and 12 15 2 5; 35; 3 40 4 50> *111 <3 nnr 7 30; 8 50 10 0 p.m. A Sundays at 10 lo a.m. 2 5; 4 5; 5 45 7 30; and 9 30 p.m. n- bet, 1..3 Purchasers should see that every 3° of the Original [W WORCESTERSHIRE SAucI bears the Signature thus :— II C" "J ¡ 11 c ( "tT ?' I ■■ Sold Wholesale by the PROPRIETORS, Wor<^e:: CROSSE k BIACKWE1-11' London. ? ( RETAIL 3 t —g; a 9 ESTABLISHED i8S5_ Pon INFANTS, t INVALIOSY a NEAVE s FOOOTHE AGED. t A3STr> CHEAPEST. I t yl Pears Soa Fair white hands. ht ,Ie Brightcteaycomptexio Soft heaWhfnl skin* I i UnBnBBDBBHD^^V^SV|VV I ■ w M ■ «aJI Mk ■ BllklBklfl S 3 ■ A .J B c 8 SB 1 B y H ik.1 H ■■ m 1 d YM The best remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout a*, Indigestion- and the safest aperient for delicate Constitutions, Ladies, Childr,i) and Infants. a 180, BOND STREET, LONDON, and all Chemists. fiATTTTON.—See that DINNEFOBD Co." is on every Bottle and Lab.