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FACTS AND FANCIES. Too PrRSON-AL.-The late Dr Cleland, of Glasgow, re- lated that a criminal, after attentively listening to demned sermon which preceded his execution, u ne companion and remarked, ia Dr Cleiands earing, very good sermon, but rather too persons. "What is the matter, o'd fallow ?" aaked a bachelor of a disconsolate married friend. Oh, my mother-in-law is up to her tricks again This is the third time that she has created a difference between my my ™ just written to Mr Cardweli." "What on earth for?" "To see if he can't give her an appointment as general of MIXED. A Norfolk farmer, not accustomed to literary composition or letter-writing, having lost a new hat at a countv meeting, and inquired into its possible mistaking, addressed the following note to its Rupposed possessor Mr A. presents his compliments to Mr 8.: I have got a hat which is not his if he has got a hat which is not yours, no doubt they are the missing one." The story goes that one night lately Mr KnatchbuU Hugessen and another honourable member were in conversation in the lobby of the House of Commons, when young Mr Levy, themanaging proprietor of the Dai y graph, entered, and nodded familiarly to the par dignitaries. An extraordinary man that," remarked tie Coloniel Secretary to his honourable frienf< heard that h, Wb»Sht «h« Wj-T. pa5™ t™m»us price°fnr H" ^person with long fair whiskers, and dressed in the height of fashion, entered a hosiers in Vienna, and re- quested the shopwoman, who happened to be alone, to show him some coloured shirts. Every variety was brought out, when he made his choice, and requested that a parcel might be made up for him. This being done, What an idiot I am he said. "I have not seen how the shirts look when on. Would you oblige me, mademoiselle, by putting one over your dress?" The shopwornan having complied with his request, Be so good," he continued, as to button the collar and the wristbands, and that I may get a thoroughly good idea of the effect. And now, he added, taking up his parcel, allow me to wish you a very good morning and in an stant he was outside the door, and had disappeared, the unhappy srirl, perfectly stupefied, not daring to follow him into the street on account of her singular costume. Her employer on returning from his cafe half an hour later, found her, with the fatal garment still still on, crying on the counter. A GHOST STORY.-Not long after John Brown's dea-h, one of the miners returned unexpectedly from his work in the forenoon, and to tin surprise of his wife appeared in front of their cottage. She was in the habit, unknown to him, of solacing herself in the early part of the day with a bottle of porter. On the occasion in question, the bottle stood toasting pleasantly before the fire when the form r' the gude-man came in sight. In a moment s e driven in the cork, and thrust the bottle un ern .^ncr blankets of the box-bed, when he entered and, « himself by the fire, began to light his ■while the warmed porter managed 0 f j,,r_ to escape in a series of very ominous neath the clothes. The poor fellow was outside in an instant, crying, "Anither warning, rin, rin, the house is fa'ing." But Meg "kenn'd what was what fu' brawly," and made for the bed in time to save onlv the last dregs of her intended I)otatioii.-Coo(i Words for May. ORIGIS OF THE DUTCH BEGGARS."—Brederode became the popular leader, and is more identified than any of the others with the Leaguers or Confederates, known under the name of "The Beggars" (les Gueux) It was Brederode who presented the petition to the Regent, at the head of three hundred gentlemen. It was he who christened the Confederates by the name of "The Beggars." At a ban- quet held after their interview with Margaret, the question name to be what they should call themselves, society of Concord, or what? There was a vast company, and the mirth and excitement ran hi h. When the question was proposed, Brederode-who lnd arranged niattets; before- hand-got up and recounted to his companions how one of the councillors had said to the Duchess when they presented their petition that they were "nothing but a crowd of beggars." The indignation was at first universal but h, cried out, They call us beggars, let us accept the name. Then, summoning his page, he produced a beggar's wallet t and a wooden bowl, such as were used by the religious men- = dicants in the Netherlands. The jest took immensely. The wallet was fitted on, and the bowl filled and sent round the company, who amidst a hurricane of applause drank to each other's health amidst cries of "Yivpnt le Gueux Such was the origin of a name which was destined ere long to become terrible. The "Beggars" were found banded together in almost every city. To representation and re- monstrance now succeeded threatening and riot. Brede- rode and his followers were but blind leaders of a blind mul- titude. The muttering-! which had been so long swelling underground, at length burst in the iconoclastic excesses of Antwerp and Tournay.- Good Words for May.

CONFERENCE OF POOR LAW GUARDIANS AT MALYERN. The annual conference of ,in(I vice-chairmen of Boards of Guardians in the Vv est Midland Counties, was held at the Imperial Hotel, Malvern, on Tuesday, April 29th. On the previous day up .yards of fifty representatives hotel, under the presidency of Sir M. Hicks Beach, Bart, M.P. sir 1\1. Hicks Botch presided at the Conference. tu»b u wrge nrWO™?K'not'guardians were opposed to spending money upuii what appeared to them to be mere speculative theories, and it Nvcli (I be some time before they became convinced of the fact that a judicious exnenditu e on sanitary improve ments lowered the death rate, and diminished pauperism. The speaker dwelt upon the importance (,f appointing efficient officers, upon whom the manner in which the Acts were carried out would largely depend. Mr Lowndes quoted the 10th section of the Act, to show the power to appoint a medical ( fficer of health, wl, he advised, should be a gentleman having a special inclination for, and a full knowledge of, the study of preventive medicine, and the practical application of the Sanitary Acts, and who, with efficient inspectors of nuisances under him, might act over a very large are, such as a county, or a lurce division of a county. He would be the superior officer over the various inspectors of nuisances, keeping them up to their work on the one hand, End, on the other, securing (as far as the various sanitary authorities might allow) uniformity of practice over a large are. This method of carrying out the provisions of the Sanitary Act would give an adequate salary to a properly qualiifed gentleman, who would devote his whol- time to the duties of this office, thus combining efficiency with economy. Thc paper concluded with a Statement of what had been done in Shropshire in carrying out the Public Health Act. The Rev. J. HOWE (Solihull) that in the district which he represented four unions had joined and formed one large area, over which one medical officer of health had been appointed, at a salary of £ 800 per annum. It hid been decided to five the rural Authority three delegates and the urban tivo. The ratable value of the area was f 550,000. Several other instances were given in wlrch unions had joined and formed districts for th■; appointment of medical officer*. Clifton Union, however, was an exception, they having in that Union appointed a very valuable officer in the person of Dr Davies, late of Bristol, for the Union, at a salaiy of £ 100 per annum as a retaining fee, and also a gratuity proportionate to any extra services he rendered in case an epidemic broke out, or in similar cases.. Mr LOXGE (Local Government Inspector) having re- ferred to his former support of joint districts, stated that in lar"-e areas there was no objection on the part of the Local*3 Government Board to appoint assistant medical °^THE CHAIRMAN- said he must express his regret that the Boards of Guardians were chosen as the authority for the purpose of the Sanitary Acts. In the first place, it seemed to him th.it the Boards of Guardians had enough to do in the administration of the Poor Law- (hear, hear)—and that, if those other multifarious duties were superadded. the fi rmer would be neglected, while the appointment of the Board of Guardians as the sanitary authority had created no little of the difficulty of the appointments which had been discussed. (Hear, hear.) He thought rural Boards of Guardians had not unnaturally objected to the appointment of district medical officers. First, they felt that if a medical ofricfr were appointed for a large district, comprising several unions, he would not be so much the officer of any one of thoe unions as of the Local Govern- ment Board. There had been a natural jealousy of the central interference and control which they might expect from the Local Government Board, and doubt as to the real authority which they might perhaps find themselves able to exert over their own officer. (Hear hear). The following resolutions were then unanimously passed — That, in order to obtain the services of a medical officer of health, specially quanhea for the work, at a saving of cost to each locality, it is desirable that sanitary authorities unite in making a joint appointment and, "That, in the opinion of this conference, it is essential that the whole statute law on the subject (If the public health should be revised and consolidated in a single Act.The conference afterwards discussed the question of the emigration of pauper children, under the care of Miss Rye.—After a long discussion, in which Miss Rye's scheme was generally ap- proved, it was unanimously resolved, "That this conference, qelieving hat the < fforts of Miss Rye have been productive of lasting good to the child rea placed under her charge, ex- Sresses the hops tiiat the Boards Qf Guardians in the West lidland district will co-op:rate with Miss Rye in her "Votes of thanks to Mi»s I\> e for htr attendance, and to the Chairman for presiding, concluded the proceedings, I

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An ingenious gentleman st Teignmouth has discovered a new method of defeating the machinations of the Secu- larists": he has offered ten prizes of half a sovereign eac for competition among the children of as many Board schools each prize to be awarded to the boy "r g r who recites most correctly, at Christmas nex fe nninc number of verges out of the Gospel of St.. o than at the first chapter no prize to be awar | serve that ICO verses. Intelligent readers will not fad to ob-er^^h the Scripture chosen for refci^ jpr9tandi ng—and which is children are least c.pable °f difRoulties. The gentle mostlik.lyto^oileoonwvl""1 Se „.f °f lhe man at reisnrooutl Luc;E1ft proposed that his offer Education Umon. Anderson seconded the should be,r^fdtedsuch offers were likely to bring ^Scriptures into contempt and, after receiving the sup- ( f »ntlpnen rf various denominations, the motion was carried ^and the offer was refused. The deep-laid scheme of the Gentleman at Teignmouth was frustrated. ° Another instance of the belief in charms which still exists in the rural part of England, side by side with more popular superstitions ii more civilized regions, has just come to light. One Benjamin Hudson has been arrested on a charge of murdering his wife. Shortly before the body was found, the prisoner informed his friends that he had cracked his wife's skull, and he was glad ot it. lie made no concealment of his crime, but expressed gratifica- tion that he had "finished t' job." He had ill-used her upon many previous occasions. Upon the body o ceased were found a packet of pins and the following charm It is not these pins I mean to burn, But Ben Hudson's heart I mean to turn. Let him neither eat, speak, drink nor comfort find, Till he comes to me and speaks his mind. thl Pr^ier' ATarge'and'"bnUillnt ofS^|ts, b, the Duke of Argyll to conduct With sreat pleasure wul I conduct it, said the doctor butin tfiif ciwtle of Argyll must ob*rv..the goodoH Presbyterian form, and begin by singing l« agreed that a Scotch psalm should nbel( "_tliat tune but the difficulty was to find a „ is, a gentleman or iady who *o«ber of jad;e3 and gen. and lead the singing. A declared themselves "Tfe? ped ,<,rward' »a5;,ng- "I'll r°U ti.. Dr Guthrie," and »e!l did he perform the task. Simultaneously the question of amusements is being discussed in the Dissenting Press and in the Church Pulpit. Canon Lightfoot recently defended dramatic entertain- ments, ana the Bishop of Carlisle, who preached at St. James's on Sunday, pointed out that the danger of operatic amusements was in the excess, not in the proper use, and that the dissipation connected with the opera was not caused by the music in it, but was a fault which might be found also in the Church, in hearing sermons, and in at- tending high ceremonial worship. Matrimonial statistics are always interesting, because, we suppose, most of us have either married or hope to marry, or, at least, some of our nearest relatives ha-e married A contemporary has compiled the following fact,In 1870 eleven gentlemen approaching 90 years of age betook themselves to the altar of Hymen. The wife of one of them was eighty, while the others married young women of thirty and thirty-five. The marriage of a bachelor of 75 with an old maid of three score and ten is recorded. A r.adv at the rioe a?e of ti5 was successful in wmm.i0 the taJ.nd h.a>"S a spoony of thirty. The "to". ever, seem the most adventurous and successful. Several are mentioned who, after having passed their seventieth year, put off their weeds, and succeeded in being wooed by mens till in the prime of life. Of a piece with the wonders worked bv the widows is the extraordinary number of iii,rr:,ages. between old men and young girls. June, in her fifteenth year, weds December at sixty; and a hale^old o-entleman of seventy, five wins the heart ot an interesting creature just entering the twenties. One widow at tne age of "sweet sixteen" enters again into wedlock and ner exam- ple was followed in 1870 by Ml girls not more than sixteen years of age. The total number of marriages which took place in this country in 1870 amounted to nearly l^OOO. Nearly 150,000 of these marriages took place between people who had been previously unmarried; but 8134 bachelors married widows, 15,36G widowers married spinters, and 9307 couples entered into tlia married state for the second or third time. The average age at which men marry is twenty-eight, and that ot women about twenty-six. Thirty-four divorced persons were raai"«d ajdn i.i the year in question-twenty being men and fourteen women. v We asked, last week, whether the magistrates had not acted unlawfully by appointing overseers f'^t.ie parisn o Chirk more than fourteen days.after tlle We have since been referred to an annotated edition of the Act from which it appears that it has been decided, in Ileg'. v. Sparrow and other cases, that an appointment made beyond the limits prescribed is not necessarily in\ aiid. e are also informed that the March sessions were technically adjourned for the purpose of making tha „agpj»ntment. [Wis iniguVoe explained.

MR ARCH ON THE GAME LAWS. The examination of Mr Arch before the Committee on the Game Laws excited a good deal of interest. There was a larger attendance on the committee than usual, and many other members of the House of Commons were present during the day. He said that poaching was not looked upon by the majority of agricultural labourers as respectable and proper, though doubtless they did not think it was not so in their hearts. It was the law that m,de the poacher a vagabond in the general public eye. Personally, he thought poaching to be no crime whatever, and if his wife and family were in want of food m.isfc certainly he would kill for them either a rabbit, a h:i- e, or a pheasant. lie knew that the pursuit of poaching, called illegal, did not lead men to c,munit felolliol13 offences, and, more than that, he knew that, as a general rule, labourers, adequately paid' did not take to poachirg. His main objection to the Game Laws was that by them men were tempted to trespass, and afterwards were punished both for the tres- pass and for the game pursuing. He did not approve of trespassing, because m man had a light to infringe upon or to take possession of that which was nor, his own. But, lie Poked, who were the real owners of hares rind rabbits? Where was the 'citlioii ? Mr Winterbntham asked how conid the labourer be better off by the rano^al of the Game Laws, since still the witness would maintain pun- ishment for trespassing? — Witness said there would be little or no temptation to trespass if there were no Game Laws.—In reply to a question whether he thought it would be a breach of the law to smuggle or to sell spirituous drinks without a licence or pav- meut of duty, the witness said, Ye. most deci- dedly," adding that things upon which duty was paid bore a stamp, but rabbits and hares were not. marked in any such way. He went on to say that animals preserved as game would come and "breakfast" in his cottage garden, and afterwards run off t.) the fields of the owner of the estate or elsewhere, and if he there saw one of them aiid killed it for a dinner he was seized, condemned and disgraced, and, being unable nfterwards to get work, turned out a regular pcacher, and went, as the witness nut it "the whole hog.r' Many an innocent, harmless sort of man he had known to be ruined ever after through qiiiries* under the Game Law. the witness said he luid not the least hesitation m pronouncing them alto- gether one-sided and unjust; for on the one hand there were the magistrates (themselves game preser- vers) and the hired game watchers, and on the other was the helpless labouring man, who, having once happened to knock down a hare in his path, was made a marked man, branded alwavs after as an outlaw and a scamp, Mr Winterbotham reminded the witness that trespassing did not necessarily imply a pursuit of game, and the witness said he knew that, but he knew also that local magistrates generally believed the hired watchers, who would say there was pursuit of game whether there was or not. Only a day or two ago he saw a man in his district who paid £ 1 19s. Gd. in avoidance of imprisonment on a charge of trespassing in pursuit of game, whom he privately well knew to have only gone into a wood to collect liverwort, a well- known medicinal herb. In answer to further questions, the witness adhered to his statements, and maintained that there were other ways in which game preservation se- rioudv affected the agricultural labourers. It destroyed the farmers' crops and kept down wages, while it kept many thousands of cultivable acres fallow. Mr Arch also said he had learnt iu that committee tr.at a man cou d not be punished for merely crossing a field and he could kill hares and rabbits on his own ground J his bemgthe law, he was more than ever convinced that the law had been wrongly administered, and he could not retract what he had said on that point.

A STRANGE TALE. One of those romantic tales which are generally explained afterwards in a very prosaic fashion has recently appeared in the London papers. The hero's, or rather the victim s, name is Keighley, and he is a naval cadet. During the Easter holidays he left the training ship Worcester to spend a few days with a brother in London. On the 9th of April l e was addressed by a man in the streets, who asked him if he wished to purchase a model full-rigged ship. He declined the offer, but went, with the stranger to look at it. They proceeded to the house of the owner of the model ship, where the lad was invited to take a cup of coffee, which had been drugged. He became perfectly in- sensible. An hour afterwards a gentleman, who knew Keighley, happened tj be on the platform at Waterloo fetation, when he observed a young midshipman, who was apparently drunk, being supported by a man. Being very sorry tor the lad, lie turned and followed. When he had pansed he observed the youth was deadly pal-1, and then the recognition took place. The g-ntleman immediately called to the youth, but with no effect. The man said, "Do you know him, sir?" « Of corns3 I do,- was the reply what are you doing with him ? The man said he found hrni m that state in the Waterloo Road he, how- ever, knew that he bad not a ticket. The gentkm'n de- sired him to wait by the lad whilst be jan for one, and on his return llI, half a minaie his protector wasgonj. The lad had re iiainid unc mtcious for twelve hours. Jt is sur- po e l that the boy was ki Ji.apped for the purp S of being shipped on board a rara.u lyan man-of-war. <>

JVOypf QUER.IUS, and KEPLIKS, on subjects interesting to Wales and the Borders, must, be addressed to Bye-gones, Caxton Wrku, Oswestry. Rial nam's and addresses must be swnt in confidence, and the writing must be legible. Old news- papers, books, and MS.S. carefully us id and promptly returned. — 1 May 7, 1873. NOTES. DRUIDISM AND DARWINISM. Druidism, the ancient religion of the Welsh, in one of its doctrines, seems near akin to Darwinism. Druidism was not the religion of a barbarous and savage people, but rather of a race who had attained a certain state of civiliza- tion and intellectual refinement. One of its chief teneta was that the soul never dies, but transmigrates, after the decease of one body, into another. Nor were the ancient Welsh singular in their belief; this tenet was held by many heathen philosophers, and also by Origen and other emuient writers amongst the early Christians; and there have not been wanting writers of modern times, who have maintained that the doctrine was confirmed, no less by Revelation than by reason and the appearance of things. This doctrine, as explained by the following extract, seems to involve something not at all unlike what is laid down in the comparatively modern doctrine of Darwinism, and suggests that if we are not satisfied with an ape as a progenitor, we may claim, according to Druidism, the earth-worm or even some lower organism as our antecedent. We call attention to the similitude between thetwosystems, which so far as we know has not been remarked upon. The leading tenets in the Bardic religion were these they believed in the existence of one Supreme Being, of whom they reasoned that he could not be material, and that what was not matter must be God. 3 The s ml was considered as a lapsed intelligence, under a total privation of knowledge or happiness, by its falling to the lowest point of existonce. To regain the state of intellect, it had to pass through all the intermediate modes ot existence. Fo" buch a purpose was this world created, as well as other in numerable worlds that is, as means ot approximating eternally through varied states of being toward the Deity. Further, that this earth was originally coverod with water, which, gradually subsiding, land animals arose, of the lowest or least perfect specie" thus corresponding in organization with the then capa- city of the soul. New orders in the ecule of being were succes- sively produced from these, continually improving iu form, and augmenting the cap jcity of intellect, so that, in course oj ages, mm u'timately appeared, the most perfect receptacle of the soul on earth. Then the soul had so augmented its faculties as to be capable of judging between good and evil, consequently it was a stzite of liberty, and of choice. If the soul became at- tached to evil, it fell again to brutal life, or the state of neces- sity, to a point corresponding with its turpitude of human exis- tence and it again transmigrated towards the state of man for a renewed probation. When the soul became attached to good, death was its release to a higher existence, where the loss of memory was done away, so that it then recollected the economy of every former state, thus being made happy in the knowledge of all animated nature below its then condition. It was con- ceived that in this world life was gradually increasing in quan- titv and perfection; that therefore truth and justice were ad- v-.ncinK therewith, so that the Bards looked for a period whnn those attributes should prevail over the principles of evil and devastation; that when the period arrived, man would then make rapid approaches towards the summit of that perfec ion which the terrestrial state is susceptible of; and upon the con- summation of such an event the design of this world should then be answered, and it would then be destroyed by tire I (Essay on Druidism prefixed to Cambro-British Biography London, 1820, p. 23.) This ideii is more tersely expressed in the following pas- sage from the same work "Their sen imeuts concerning the soul were, that it pre- existed in a state of gradual advancement by transmigration, and that it was immortal. Bnt in some of the leading traits 01 their ideas on this subject there was a very striking peculiarity; the wholt, animated creation, they said, originated in the lowest point of existence, evil in the extreme, and arrived by a regular train of gradations, at the probationary state of humanity; those LTadations were necessarily evil, but more or less so as they were removed from the first source. (Ibid, p. 31). May we venture to append the query—Has Darwin bor- rowed from the Druidsj?—Z. QUERIES. OSWESTRY. Bloody Lane. Why is this name given to a lane leading from Llwyn-y-Ki lane to the Bradley, just below Bryn IIafod ? Bradley is the name of a larçe field below The Hayes, nearly opposite Brogyntvn Lodge. Is it a corruption of Broad-lea ? — BEN bTARCH. HERALDIC GRIEVANCE OF WALES.—Under this heading some of your able correspondents once keenly contested an heraldic point connected with the Principality. I beg to offer to them a kindred point, if they will kindly give us their opinion on it. One W. H. wrote in London Society for March, 18tH., an article cn St. David's Day,' which concluded as fol- lows One more observation have we to make. We know not whether to address it to Garter King-at-Arms, or to whom, but we find that in the reign of Queen Elizabeth there was an order of knighthood—that of St. David of Wales. What has become of it ? We have no knowledge when it was instituted or when it died out. But might it not be revived ? The writer then goes on to ask, Could not the Order of St. David once again have being, and might not its first and foremost knight be Albert Edward Prince of Wales?"—CYJIRO AM BYTH. CORPORATION OF MEOLE.—I saw the other day, in looking over an old file of the Salopian Journal, in the number for June 19, 1799, the followid- Whn the gallant Admiral Sir Thomas Paisley resided at ^ews- i i. —<0IT;ranixiber o.f the tliojf ftfa about £ o.pi*esezifc liim witii r- a very j handsome box, made of the Heart of Oak, with their Arms curiously wrought thereon. The Jixm* of the Corporation are particularly appropriate, viz., Thru Jolh/ Topers, with the Motto, Nunc est Bihendim." What wi, this Corporation ? What connection had the Admiral with Shrewsbury? And why were tke arms appropriate'— SALOPIAX. REPLIES: BEIBL I BAWB O BOBL Y BYD (Apr. 9, 1873). —The late bard Robert Davies, TST.intglyn, in his Ode (Awdl) on the Death of George III., gives this golden gem— Carai anfon ca r wynfyd, Bcbl t bnwb 0 boúl y byd." But the author.-bip is disputed, miny supposing that Davies used the line, without quoting it, frcm another eminent bard, the late Robert Williams, Bandy whose genius created the well-known line, "Lluu cwr lloer yn llyncu'r lli'' CTSDDELW would be able to settle the ques- tion of authorsaip. — MERYINIAN. T'10 auth?r of. this famous line was Mr Robert \1: iamN ^hhvaedog, near Bala.. It occurs in a stanza suoscriot;i with his initials in one of the earlv nuin- bers of Lrysorfa Ysbrydol," published by the Revsl Thos. Charles and Thomas Jones about the beginning of the present century. I quote the stanza, frjni memory, bull believe the following to be the exact words of it I L'ty fr doeth yn cry foe ill i gyd,-lawn addysg, A chleddyf yr Ysbryd Gair Duw JVer yw hefyd,— Bcibl i bawb o bobl y byd." The line also occurs (perhaps it was intended as a quota- tion) in an Ode oil the death of King George Ill," by the late Mr Robert Davies (Bardd Nautglyn) for which he gained the Powys chair at Wrexham Eisteddfod in 1820. Hence the authorship of tbe line in question has been fre- quently attributed to the litter. -R. W. FFYNON ELIAN (Nov. S, 1871).—There are many rather good stories of this famous spring. Dervel Meirion, while there carving on tomb-stones, used to lodge with the last of the heirarchy under St, Elian, and can relate many interesting particulars concerning the old man. John Evans complained to him once that he had suffered a great deal of persecution during his priesthood. He once went to the Calvinistic chapel at the place to hear John Willixms, of Llecheiddwr. The old preacher, who was celebrated for his zeal and sternness, looking at the priest most fiercely, said- There I see old Jack Ffynon Elian; he will be roasting in Hell fire before long." The old man said he was neither frightened nor much angered, since he attributed Williams's rough manner to his genuine, although ignorant, z,il in doing good. A woman came to Evans once wanting him to put her husband in the well, when the following conversation was carried on between them — \Sf.—I want you to put my husband in the well, John Evans. E. Very well; what punishment do you wish him to Unw!"—I want to have him plunged in the well, and kept there till I call for him. E —That is all very well, my good woman; but before St. Elian will have anything to do with you, he must know your grievance and what sin your husband is guilty of before he can decide what charges to make, and whether he' is to take away his eyes or his nose, or to render him bedridden or lame. ■\y._He is very unkind to me, and is continually beat- ^O, if that is the case he can be easily managed. We will not put him in the well now, but will try another remedy, which will answer quite as well, and not be nearly so expensive. It will cost you-let me see-five shillings to St. Elian, and sixpence for the bottle, and sixpence for the water. It only comes to six shillings altogether, and it will answer much better than putting your husband in the well all at once. W.- But what am I to do with the bottle and the water. E.-That is what I was just going to explain to you. You must keep the bottle in a dark place, and near at hand. Then whenever your husband begins to be unkind, you must take the bottle immediately, and fill your mouth with the water. Keep the water in your mouth until it is warm, then spit it^alTout carefully, and mind not to swallow a drop. W.—But what shall I do when the bottle becomes empty ? E.—You must come back to me of course but it you like you can pour fresh water into it continually to keep it full, provided there be left a certain quantity of the holy water to strengthen it. However, the cure -Is so certain and quick, I do not think you will require more than this one bottle. Of course'the reader will see the dodge and appreciate he good sense if not the honesty [of the old priest. We can never be thankful enough to science for ridding our country from such tyranny as was exercised over it by such superstitions as Ffynon Ellan.-I.P. KINNERLEY FONT (April 2.3, 1873). Mr "Walter Thornbury, in his Old and New London, p. 227, says that the font of St. Martins, Ludgat?, which dates 1673, is encircled by a favourite old Greek palindrome, Tripson anomccma me monan opsin, (Cleanse thy sins, not merely thy outward t-elf)." He also states that Mr G. Godwin, in his Churches of London, s ys that the inscrip- tion is found on the foat in the basils of St. Sophia, Con- stantinople.— N. W.S.

TIPYN O BOB PETH. The Earl and Countess of Dudley are at Vienna. The Good Templars of Bangor have formed a brass band. A Knutsford butcher has been fined £ 20 for sending a diseased lamb to sell in Manchester Carcase Market. The Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Londonderry, and Mr Pender have been staying at the new Colwyn Bay Hotel, near Conway. The Denbighshire and Flintshire Agricultural Society offer B363 in prizes for the show, which is to be held at Rhyl on the 5th August. Messrs Chapman and Hall write to the Athenceum to say that no airangements have been made with them for the publication of Dickens's works in Welsh. On Sunday, April 27th, three boys, between the ages of five and ten, were baptized by immersion at Christ Church fEniscopal), Wellington. Dean Howson's paper on the Dee in the Art Journal for the present month is illustrated with woodcuts of Wrexham ani Overton churches, Brynypys Cemetery, ancient fresco in Ruabon church, Chirk, Bangor Bridge, &c. Captain the Hon R. S. G. Stapleton Cotton will succeed Lieut.-Colonel F. W. E. Forestier Walker in the adjutancy of the first battalion of the Scotch Fusilier Guards. Xhe list of students who have passed their examination in anatomy and physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, contains the name of Mr Edward Tilston, brother of Mr Tilston, Wrexham. A deputation of the Shrewsbury Licensed Victuallers met Messrs Figgins and Straight on the occasion of their recent visit to the borough, and a long discussion was held with reference to the Licensing Act. Perhaps those persons who hoped to see the Prince of Wales at Mold will be consoled by the knowledge, which we gather from a Conservative contemporary, that the Prince has expressed his complete sympathy with the ob- jects of the meeting at Mold." On Thursday, May 1, Mr John Bellis, of Barton Farm, Carden, was returning from Wrexham, with a load of coal, when his horses became restive, and, iu endeavouring to quiet them, he was thrown to the ground and fatally in- jured. We learn from the Chester Chronicle that at Beeston a robin has built her nest in a beehive, and is sitting there. At Shrewsbury, we are told by a writer in another con- temporary, a bird has chosen the sword hand of Lord Hill, on the column, for its home. There is a report that Mr E. G. Salisbury, of Chester, will make a third Liberal candidate for the Flint Boroughs; but we do not believe it. Mr Salisbury, is more likely bent on a practical joke at poor, confiding Mr Evton's ex- pense. A Cheshire coal dealer has been fined 403,, and costs, for selling coal by measure and not by weight. It was stated that when the bag, which was sold as a hundredweight, was weighed, it was ten pounds short of that measure. Mr Ellis Eyton has announced his intention to build a Working Men's Club Room for Holywell, if a suitable site can be found; and has sent £5 to the Good Templar Lodge at Biigiilt, and three donations of the same amount to the charitable institutions of Holywell. The other night three militiamen had a carouse in a bed- room at Chester. They stole a jar containing about a o-allott and a half of whiskey one evening next morning thev were found fighting in the bedroom, and all the whiskey except one pint had disappeared The doctor had to be called in. The Committee of the Mold Eisteddfod, disappointed in their hopes of securing the attraction of the Prince of Walk's attendance, have wisely resolved to redouble their efforts in order to secure success for a gathering which has been regarded with so much interest. If it is true that Mr Gladstone will take part in the proceedings, they may be sure st any rate of a crowded audience on one day of their meeting- At Market Drayton petty sessions, William Bedson was chared with assaulting his wife. He pleaded that he was disappointed in his matrimonial speculation, that his wife broudt him a large file of Christmas bills, and that he only admiristered a little salutary correction. The Bench seemed ir to take this view of the case, for they fined him 2s., and costs. PerhaDS some of them were symparhetic in the matter of bills. At the last meeting of the Bangor and Beaumaris Boird of G-iardians some strong opinions were expressed with reference to Mr Doyle's "suggestions" for consideration at the Rivl Conference. One gentleman said "Mr Doyle was iraking a hobby horse out of these suggestions, but reason and kindness would prevent the Guardians from carrying them out. But suppose Mr Doyle has "reason and kindness" on his side—as well as such experience and intelligence ns few Guardians can lay claim to? Mrs Jones, landlady of the Four Ails. Drayton, ha s been fined and costs, for exposing certain clothing which had been in- fectedVv a small-pox patient, without disinfcctm; it. It was stated that she kept her house open_ after the disease appealed, and one of the magistrates said several deaths lay ather door. The actual offence seems to have consisted in waking into town immediately after attending her son, who bad the small-pox. without first disinfecting her clothes At the last Denbigh County Court, Judge Vaughan Willia-ns remonstrated with Mr Knowles, solicitor, for not appearing in his robes. His Honour said, If the attorneys think it a bore to come before me in their robes I don't mind but as the rule was laid down by all the attorneys in thb circuit I think it should be followed." There is no rale against judges' using slang, but may not that rule be as to the dignity of the court as the u s e ot robeaJyf solicitors WniTTjorB'frbm à (¡¡stance; 10 fie rubed. Sensationalism does not always take. Last week placards were posted in Chester, with the words Five fire fire The world on tire in large type. as an announcement of a temperance lecture by a Air Duffill. When the time came for the delivery of the lecture, a reporter constituted the whole audience. A quarter of an hour later there were four denizens of the burning world in attendance, with the President of the Christian Temperance Society, who was disposed to lament that the teetotallers had all gone mad about that new-fangled ism called Good Templarifm and finally it was resolved to go out into the highways and raise tie alarm of '• Eire" there. The populace, however, were little alarmed by Mr Dutlill's philanthropic warnings. It is well sometimes to get a glimpse of the interior ojf a Working Men's Conservative Association," and listen to the wor-ls of WiJJolll which now from the lips of the mora. bers. i-t a recent meting of the Carnarvon Association, Mr T. Xewton. master of the National Schools, drdiv^red a lec- ture on Politics. For the whole, we regret to say, we cannot find rami, but this was the peroration Let Diike, Her- bert, and OJger, with all the motley crew, be sc-i .tered to ell the foar winds of Heaven When the gre-m grass is springing from their commingled dust, and their names arc forgotten, let the fair fame of our gracious Queen be the theme of orators, statesmen, and poets. May a loyal popu- lace rise meanwhile, and stand a wall of firj around our much-Icved isle Let U3 heartily and firmly re-echo the loyal sentiment, 'Godsive our Queen and Constitution.' From these eloquent words, let our readers judge what the lecture must have been. I

OPENING OF THE VIENNA EXHIBITION. The International Exhibition at Vienna was opened at noon on Thursday, May 1st. The ceremony commenced with an address of the Archduke Charles Louis to the Emperor, congratulating his Majesty on the completion of an undertaking which he himself had initiated, and the object of which was to illustrate the power of industry and culture. The Emperor, in his reply, expressed his grati- fication at the termination of the work, the significance of which he appreciated in the highest degree. He then declared the Universal Exhibition of 1873 onen. Prince Auersperg next addressed the Emperor, and said that the Austrian nation regarded the Exhibition as an evidence of the genuine strength and undoubted growth of the Father- land. Dr Felder, the Mayor of Vienna, followed, and drew attention to the progress made by Austria during the quarter ol a century his Majesty had been upon the throne. Important works which had benefited the communi- ty, and promoted the welfare of the city, would remain, he said, as lasting monuments for future ages. The Mayor concluded his speech by exclaiming—" God bless, Gcd defend, God sustain your Majesty, our Emperor Francis Joseph." A chorus was then sung, and the Emperor and Empress, with the distinguished visitors who were present, passed through the Exhibition. They were everywhere received with much enthusiasm, and notwith- standing unfavourable weather the crowds were very great. —

THE SHIFNAL SMILIXG CASE. -In the House of Com- mons on Thursday, May 1st, Mr P. A. Taylor asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention had been called to a statement in the papers respecting the case of George Whitefoot, who was fined by the magistrates at Shifnal, in Shropshire, 30s. and costs for being drunk; and who, being observed to laugh as he left the court, was called back and sentenced to be sent to prison for one month, without the option of paying a fine whether he did not think such sentence excessive, if not illegal; and whether he had taken any steps in the matter. (Hear, hear).—Mr Bruce: My attention has been called to the case, and I have received from the clerk of the magistrates a statement in regard to it in which he entirely denies the accuracy of the newspaper reports, upon which I presume my hon. friend's question has been based. (Cries of Hear, hear from the Conservative benches.) The real account of the matter is this. This man baj fre- quently been brought up and fined for being drunk and disorderly. On the occasion referred to, he was bought up, and behaved with levity but so far as I gathei from the statement of the clerk, there were no two sets of pro- ceedings, and one punishment only was inflicted upon Um, and that was the sentence of one month's imprisonment without the option of a fine. That is a sentence which the magistrates are entitled to inflict under the law and it was inflicted in this instance in consequence of the re- peated misconduct of the defendant under similar circum- stahccs, and the fact that it was within the knowledge of the magistrates that the previous fines were paid by his widowed mother, which made him indifferent to the impo- sition of pecuniary penalties. (Conservative cheers.) THE NEW ADCLTEKATION Acr.—Any person now sell- ing adulterated articles is liable ti a penalty of £.30 for the first offence, aud six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for the second. Borwick's Baking Powder is warranted pure and free from aTurn aud other injurious ina-orlicnts found in most cheap Baking Powders. THE AMENDED BASTAHDV ACT.— By the Amended Bastardy Act, which came in force on the 24th of April, any woman who was entitled before the 10th of August, 1872, to apply for an order within twelve months from the biitli of tLe child, is now entitled to apply for an order at any time within six months after April 21th, 1873 and any woman who has received money for the child's main- tenance within twelve months a'tcr tie birth of a child will be entitled to apply f, r an order at any fme a'ter April 24th, 1873.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT. On Wednesday night, April 30th, an exfraor linary acci- dent happened at Harrington, on the west Coast of Cum- berland. There is a private tramway from Meikto Pit to Harrington Harbour, by which the workmen return home from their work in the evening. On Wednesday evening, as a train consisting (f an engine, tender, and one passen- ger carriage, was travelling along the line, conveying a number of work men to Harrington, the engine got beyond the control of the driver, on a steep incline near Harrington, and dashed along with fearful velocity. The engine driver shouted to the passengers to warn them of their danger, and advised them to leap for their lives. He leapt off the train himself, and most of the passengers followed his example. A few of them escaped without injury, but six or seven others were considerably ipjured by their fall. The train rushed down the incline till it reached a sharp curve near the harbour, where it left the metals, dashed through some coal waggons, knocked over a crane, and finally both engine and passenger carriage fell into the har- bour upon a steam tug, which was greatly damaged.

THE DEAN OF CHESTER ON THE CHESTER RACES.—On Sunday night, May 4th, the Dean of Chester preached in the nave of Chester Cathedral. Before commencing his sermon, he gave notice that on Sunday next he intended preaching two sermons in the cathedral "On Certain Aspects of the Chester Races," and further said-" It is a gad reflection that during the week which is now begin- ning, while no one human soul will be brought by the races nearer to heaven, many-very many—human souls will certainly be brought by them further down that de- scent which leads to spiritual ruin. We can have no more fearful commentary on our Lord's words in the Sermon on the Mount-' Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; because strait is the sate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.' I have been asked to speak some words of caution on this Sunday evening, but I am not sanguine of much good resulting from such words of caution. The excitement which makes temptation strong causes persuasion to be weak. I have theiefote simply quoted these words of Christ's in the Sermon on the Mount. The divine power attends words of grace, and it may be that this power will be exerted at this moment for the benefit of some that are here present." HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—D:sorders of the kidneys, known by the deeply.seated pain in the back and scanty secretion of water, can be arrested in their distressing and rapid course by these regulating pills. Their highly tonic and strengthening properties prevent the impoverishment of the blood and the derangement of circulation, characteris- tic of kidney disease, and often ending in partial or general dropsy. Experience has proved the almost unvaried success obtained when Hollowav's pills are taken in the earlier stages, and the ease they affoid when the complaint is more advanced. They relax the h( t and parched skin, overcome the attendant cost!ven jsf, induce a copious secretion I y the kidneys, which are tleha-bine.-a Of disease departing and health returning.

POLITICAL The members for Birmingham unite in declining- to sup. yo,-t Sir Wilfrid Lawson's Permissive Bill." Mr Bright considers the measure to bE, "out which, in i t- present shap", can never be adopted by Par'i.iment." At a mass meeting oZ Gloucestershire colliers, held in Bristol on Saturday, May 3rd, to celebrate the union with the Amalgamated Association, Mr Halliday announced that he intended to become a candidate at the next general election for Merthyr, and Mr Pickard for Wigan. He also stated that the colliers will not submit to a re. duction of wages during the summer months. The majority (222) by which Mr Jacob Bright's Bill to confer the parliamentary suffrage on single women being householders, was rejected on Wednesday, April 30th, was made up of 180 English, fifteen Scotch, and twenty. seven Irish members and the minority (155) of lla Eng. lish, twentv-two Scotch, and twenty Irish. Mr Stansfeld and Mr Hibbert were the only members of the Govern- ment who supported the measure; but it was opposed by Mr Bruce, Mr Cardwell, Mr Childers, Mr Grant-Duff, Mr W. H. Gladstone, Mr Glyn, Captain Greville, Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir H. Storks, and Mr Winterbotham. Mr Homey, for the first time, voted in favour of the measure. The sup- porters of the Bill of lasc session were 143, but on Wed- nesday 155 honourable members gave it til. it adhesion.

ECCLESIASTICAL- .r- 'r- .r_ The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have been presented with a memorial against Ritualism, signed by 60,000 lay members of the Church. Father Hyacinthe preached a sermon on Sunday, May 4th, at Geneva, in which he spoke strongly against con- fession, and said that it would be the first subject taken into consideration at the approaching Old Catholic Synod. The Oxford University Union Debating Society, which has numbered Mr Gladstone and others as presidents, will discuss on Thursday, May 8th, the startling proposition that the Church of England ought to be disestablished and disendowed. The Rec-ord has an article strongly objecting to the selec- tion of Earl Russell to lay the foundation-stone of Mr Newman Hall's new church, ontheground of the unorthodox opinions avowed in his lordship's latest book ou Church history. Wi- h reference to the rumour that the Government have determined not to surrender the 25th clause of the Educa- tion Act, the Metlwdist Recorder says that if the report is true, the whole connexion must bestir itself. The Government cannot afford to defy and ignore Nonconformists. The day is at hand wheu they will be glad of a little of our help" We have to recori the death of the Rev. Mr Pennefather, of Mildmay-park, Stoke Newington, which took place suddenly, at his residence, on Thursday afternoon, May 1st. Mr Pennefather was in his usual state of health until within a short time before his death. llr 1',nuefather Ni-as a well-kuowu clergyman of tile Evangelical school. At the annual meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, Lord Napier and Ettrick presided." The Secretary read the annual report, which stated that the total home and foreign receipts for the year amounted to £ 150,910 12s. 5d., while the expenditure was £ 150,048 5,. lid., leaving a balance in hand of LG,262 Gs. (>•]. In the income were included £1,000 from Mr Thomas Wilson, of Waterford, and many large sums from from friends of the mission. Since the last annual meeting thirty-five missionaries have been sent out. The debates in the Irish Church Synod have been quite lively and interesting. This is due in a great measure to the passages of arms, as it were, between the "lay" and the clerical members. On the debate on the" real presence" question, Lord James Butler taunted the Bishops with being dumb dogs," who did not oppose heresy but remained silent on the Bench. After some vigorous speeches from the Bishops of Killaloe and Casliel, and the Primate —the last of whom expressed the earnest desire that the House snould rest content with the black rubric-the debate terminated in a division, affirming the the Revision Committee's addition to the rubric, which runs thus:—" Whereas questions have been raised as to the meaning and intention of the preceding declaration, and it hath been taught by some that by virtue of conse- cration there is in, or under the form of, the elements a presence of Christ, or of Christ's flesh and blood, unto which adoration may be or ought to be done, it is hereby declared that such teaching is not permitted by the Church of Ireland." The Sixteenth Annual Missionary Meeting of the United Methodist Free Churches was held in Exeter Hall on Monday evening, April 25th. On the previous day, ser- mons:were preached in thirty-four chapels in the Metro- politan districts; the services were, on the whole, well attended and well sustained. The gathering on Monday was looked forward to with more than ordinary interest. The^jfact that the Rev. C. New, missionary from East Africa; the Rev. S. Macfariane. missionary elects for S w Zealand and the Rev. Luke Wiseman, President of the Wesleyan Conference, were expected to address the meet- ing, gave it an additional attraction. The hall was well filled with an enthusiastic audience. Mr W. Bowron, of London, occupied tne chair. The report was read by the ltev. R. Bushell, general missionary secretary. The Free Churches have stations in Australia, Jamaica, China, New Zealand, Sierra Leone, and East Africa. The returns had not yet been received from the whole of the places, but the committee had reason to hope they would be encouraging. Australia reports an increase of seventy-four members. On the foreign field there are forty missionaries labouring having churches comprising a membership of 5.553. The income of the year was nearly £ 17,000.

TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER. THIRTY PASSENGEitS BURNED TO DEATH. New York papers landed in Queenstown give harrowing accounts of a fearful disaster on the Providence and Hcn- ington Railroad, by which thirty persons were killed tLe victims were roasted to death, the wrecked train having taken tire. The following are the full particulars of the horribie occurrence :-A terrible accident occurred at Rich- mond Switch Railway, on the Honington and Providence Railway, at four o'clock on Sunday morning, by the burst- ing of the mill dam just north of the track on the Powca- tuck river. The water rushed down the stream in torrents, caused by a freshet, and, rising above the usual level some ten feet, washed away the bridge of the railroad track over the stream. The Honington steamboat train, en route to Providence and Boston, coming along at the time, vvll prccipitaed into the chasm, the engine leaping to an oppo- site bank. Three crate cars and three coaches were tele- scoped, and all of them took fire afterwards, and were burned up. The engineer, fireman, and six others are known to be aiiion,- the killed, and others are supposed to have been washed down the stream or burned in the debris. Parties of workmen and volunteers are clearing the track and searching for bodies. The Owl train, from New York, was jutt behind the steamboat train, and only escaped by being three minutes behind time. The Owl'" train h id four sleeping cars filled with passengers, all of whom would doubtlessly have been instantly killed or in- jured. About forty persons were wounded, the majority being only slightly injured. The engineer and firemen were killed. All the bodies were found to be badly burned. Twenty bodies are still missing. Three passengers perished through being caught and held fast among broken seats. There were 130 persons in the train. Up to the present time seven chaired bodies have been found which it is impossible to identify. The engine jumped across the chasm, and the end of a broken rail on the opposite side of the bridge penetrated the boiler head, causing steam to escape, and thus preventing an explosion. The engineer "and fireman were killed at their posts, and remained in an upright position even after death, the former with his hand on the throttle, and the latter with hold of the brake. Both were consumed by fire, as there were no means by'which any person could cross the stream to recover the bodies It would be impossible to give the names of the killed, their faces being so disfigured. The engine made a fearful leap passing over the stream and embedding itself in the opposite embankment. Three passenger cars were burned.

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN AMERICA. Details of a horrible tragedy are given in the New Ti ork papers brought to Plymouth by the mail steamer homf^'after ?ame? Hennessey, upon returning to his home after some hours absence, could not obtain admit- tance to his apartments. After some time the door was opened, and his wife, pointing to a tub, said, in an unearthly voice, that the children were all ng-ht-that they were happy now. The room was pervaded by a sickening- odour; and upon going near the tub, which was close to the fireplace, he saw that it contained the bodies of his two sons, aged two years and five months. Thev completely naked, and so mutilated that the fenf nrL not recognisable. The flesh had been burnt}™ 7^ faces and shoulders, the eyes from th.'ir socketJTi ^e-C lips were awfuUy disfigured and swollen to 1 + ? size. A daughter, aged seven years was Bi unnatural fully. Mr, Hennjey wL mania, and it would appear murdered the chfE by strangulation. Mrs Hennessey is a native of Dub in anl aged twenty-six years. When ia health she is said to have been remarkably beautiful.

LOCAL MINING. The following are from "Notabllia" in the Minim WorldJ DYLIFFE.—These mines have been among the richest mines in Montgomeryshire; they are about five miles from Van, on three large parallel lodes, and were worked chiefly by Messrs Cobden and Bright, at a prcfit, it is said, of £ 30,000 a year. They are still making good returns, but on a miserable scale of working but ere long a vigorous development, under new blood, will be given them, with a fair prospect of their becoming as rich as ever. WEST ESSAIB LLE. --Tnis mine is opening out one of the finest properties in the county of Cardigan The work- ings, as they are developed, are monthly adding hundreds of tons of ore to the already large reserves. The lode, as it is opened or, is also becoming of a richer character. At the east mine every foot driven shows an improvement, and the ten-fathom level east being in whole ground to surface (twenty-fire fathoms) is now valued at two and a- half tons of rich ere per fathom. This level is developing a piece of stoping ground which it will take years to ex- haust. At the western mine the levels both east and west are beiag rapidly pushed on, and an enormous quantity of ore ground s b..n, la d open. The new machinery is pro- gress nj wtU.