Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

General News. Messrs. James and Thorne, who are still enjoying n holiday in Spain, propose to make their appearance III "(ur Boys T at the Vaudeville Theatre on Lord Phyor s Day, November 9. The Jersey States have passed a regulation direct. lag that all vessels engaged in importing foreign cattlE to Jersey shall be licensed and registered, the penalty omission being confiscation of both the vessel anc car go. In the Court of Passage, at Liverpool, a dock porte) Muu\l Iratthas been awarded £ 10 as compénsat' f?r injuries caused by John Hughes, a publican, whe a-Miilted hull because he was unable to pay a score oij I_nltt"d hnn betauc he was unable to pay a score oi J.H. id. Mr. Charles Chadwick, thirty years of age, one (? [h? principal tradesmen in the Fishergate, Preston In- peiscncd himself with prussic acid. The cause H ..nd to have been the extreme depression oJ tri' j I )n the .1th of November next, at Westminster Aquarium, the famous Ober Ammergau Passionspeil tiiiupc. which has been brought over from Bavaria, vmake a a ppearance in oue of ib characteristic young man named John Harden, aged eighteen been taken to Si. Thomas's Hospital, London, lii'i-iing from frightful injuries caused by a circular s, ,v. The unfortunate man, who is a siwyer, got his 1 I' J caught, and was dragged round with the teeth j of saw. me of Paris is about to have reproduced by j.iriai hy all -he old maps of the cap tal that can ) r'uud in public or private collections. According I s'aii.-t: ■ drawn up by the service of Fine Arts at ti. of the Seine there arc in existence 1,8JO (I. h plans. | A- :-oil, rmliile (.amp, Major Bellamy, 17th Regiment, I: t, committed suicide by blowing out his brains. 1'1: < say no seems to have heard the report (i. t!:t' fin. ami I he occurrence was not discovered for a' an hour after the event. The deceased had than thirty years in the service. William Pearson, a retired master tailor, who: t ')y .v.nt. to reside at Jersey has committed Ti'¡e ?y '-i?[mg himself with'a revohcr whilst 1\1;; in b. d. He lias been for sonic time labouring hypochondria. In July last he purchased an: r-.rn-iity of ioO in the Star Insurance Company. At Stoke-on-Trent the other day, Mr. Price, late manager of the Apedale Colliery. charged with negligence in regard to the r.ccident that occurred at tl". colliery inMaich last, by which -u lives were lost. 'Lie case was dismissed, and costs allowed again th Home .Secretary, who instituted the prosei.il A letter from Chantilly states that at one of the re 'vnt shooting parties there the Prince de Joinville, v ii n pursuing a wild boar, escaped a serious accident, fh. ferocious animal turned to bay, and the Prince's horse received two wounds on its right shoulder. i li tunately the rider was unhurt. The boar, afier maiming eight dogs, was at last killed The Conservators of the River Thames have agreed toO the memorial of the Committee of the Thames Ailing Preservation Society, and bye-laws are to be forthwith made to prohibit fish from being taken with unhaited huok" and to abolish the practice of laying night lines. This result will be received by the i anglers with much satisfaction. As a Great Northern goods train was crossing the bridge over the Thames after leaving Ludgate Hill, 'h' tv other evening, a truck containing some loose straw <night lire. For a time there was considerable dan- g-r. but the driver had the presence of mind to draw: hi train up to the water-tank at Blackfrairs Station, vid the tlames were quickly extinguished. An inquest lias been held upon the body of Mr. IMward Wrench, agvd twenty-four, an optician, who expired at 35), Uny' .s Inn lioad, London, from an ex- pin-ion of oxygen gas, which occurred while he was i:i >king ■hemical experiments.—The jury returned a v Uct th:!t deceased expired from injuries accidentally >ed while making oxygen gas over an open fire. The liev. Jeremiah Donovan, curate of Jones- I" v ;Hh, county Armagh, has appeared in the Irish n .l.nipt. y Court having been made a bankrupt at t", suit of a young lady named Dalton, who re- ivurcd £;)I)(j damages against him for breach of promise of marriage. He had pleaded ill-health as tii" i aue of the breach, but he had married another Ltdy in the meantime. He was ordered to furnish a ■•ateinent of his affairs in ten days. At the Liverpool Police Court, Joseph Ollerhead, victuall'T, has been charged with having sold rikitstoa girl under sixteen years of age. It was that two police-constables found tluvo girls in the bar, one fourteen, one fifteen, and one sixteen y'?r-tof age. The youngest had a glass of whisky in her hand, whilst the other two ha i glasses before to -m on the counter, ordered by the eldest of the f ree. A penalty of 10s. and costs was imposed. Another accident has happened on the railway at Warrington. A boy named r()nl,liringwith his parents in Warrington, got on the engine of an express goods tr ,in, which was noing slowly, about three mi es Fi- jin the town. When it arrived at Warrington whrre it was going at a good speed, and did not stop, h" jumped oil", and his left foot was cut clean off by one of the wagons, and his leg fractured, lie was t drc-n to the hospital, and the injured limb was ampu- tated. At the last Suffolk Quarter Sessions, John Balls t/iy pleaded guilty to embezzling Sd., the p;operty of the trustees of the Star of the East Lodge (Manchester Unity), at Lowestoft, in December last year. He had been secretary of the lodge eighteen ii.i. and a document was produced, signed by nearly the members of the lodge, giving him a good (h'laeter, and the prosecution also recommended him to mercy. In consideration of this he was only sen- te'i'.efd to three months' hard labour. A serious accident has occurred a hundred yards from Poynton Station, on the Manchester, hcilicld, • I Lincolnshire Railway. Eights colts strayed on lit" line from a neighbouring field, unobserved, and a In ivy goods train ran into them, cutting two to pi"ivs. Ten wagons were thrown off the lino, and <mi.?shed to atoms, the contents b ing scattered. The kept the rails, end the driver and stoker ti aped. The guard jumped off on hearing the dan- ?-?r whistle. The l' •triHHctHfintl Journal finds from enquiries at U. Inland Revenue Office that there is not any change in the regulations of the Excise Department respect- ing the sales of (juinine wine. The requirement of a v.vcet-i license for the sale of quinine wine containing bss than one grain of quinine to the ounce of wine lias always been in force. No license ia required for U." -ale of quinine wine if made according to the rc- ipc in the British Pharmacopeia," and not sold as < proprietary or patent medicine. At the County Sessions, at Cambridge, the Great Put em Hail way Company appealed against a late raising- of the assessment in about twenty parishel in < uubridgeshire. It was intimated that the matter of i counts involved had occupied on the company'sside seventy men, with an aggregate of 8,000 hours' w .iik, and it appeared that, without some agreed .vttlement, the matter was likely to be interminable. Eventually the question was left over to the Epiphany Sessions, with a probability of a settlement bein'g come to. About four o'clock on Sunday morning, as a guard's tra in was approaching Wolverhampton on the Great Western line, the driver perceived through the fog thlt the danger signal at the distance signal-post was t v iinst him. lie at oncc pidled up his engine, and there was no,, response to his whistle, he sent the guild on to the signal-box to ascertain the reason. This was quickly explained by the guard finding the si'gnalman, John Uattrel by name, dead in the box. A. there were no marks of injury on the body, and 1, he had been in his usual health, it is supposed that he died in a fit. The desirability of planting trees in certain open i',1"t.S in Manchester has been considered, at a meet- ing convened by the Royal Botanical and Horticul- tural Society of Manchester. Ir. Bruee Findlay, •nrator of the Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford, read paper, in which he named a few trees likely to .ienrish, and pointed out the means to he adopt tO "'interact the deleterious influence to which all trees 11 large centres of population arc exposed. A resolu- affirming the advisableness of making the ex- "•riment, and commending the subject to the con- <i |. ration of the proper committees of the Coporation, n unanimously adopted. At Keynsham Petty Sessions, Francis Sampson i id Francis Sampson, jun, have been charged with 'troying fish in the river there with explosives. Mr. William Drury, fanner, of Publow, stated that )11 Sunday morning he heard an explosion, and on to see the cause of it he observed four or five standing on the bank of the river. He then heard mother explosion, and saw the water thrown up. afterwards he saw a large number of fish on V. T surface of the water, apparently stunned, and ('! iioners and other men put scores of fish into then t>- x kets.—The case against the younger defendant, who was a lad, was withdrawn, and the elder defend* was fined

New season's teas, choice blended anil rich in flavi.ur the purest, and the cheapest, at ('. K. Benson '•i'i I'd. faniilv "Tocery stores, 14, Hi;;h-street, Wrexham ■ v Inch are established tosupply the public with ?. as,, ?'rt?s, and general groceries, at merchants' pnc?. J

PREFERRING EXPATRIATION TO BEGGARY One of the shareholders of the City of Glasgow  in Fifeshirc, sold his house and effe<\t.last week, and has left the country, for Canada ocLr tASnofr Si' 1•8 b^ eleved' Aa he held shares to a considerable amount, he feared that the calls would °^ \M T lA6 0f his means, and he made no E?'?intention to leave Scotland, telling his friends and neighbours that he preferred expatriation with what little money he still posted to being reduced to beggary by staying at home.

A SCENE IN COURT. At the Salford Sessions on Tusday morning, John Smith, a powerful man, was indicted for doing wilful damage in revenge for losing an action against an estate agent. He took a billhook, and went to house, belonging to the agent, and smashed 74 sheets oi Wate glass, and 22 glass panels, of the value of £ 100. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. On hearing the sentence the prisoner begged to be transported, flung his cap at the chair- man, and had to be overpowered by the gaolers.

INGENIOUS SMUGGLING. Selem Forsby, commission agent, of Manchester, was fined at the Liverpool Police Court, on Tuesday, wlOO and costs for smuggling spirits and tobacco. Some cases consigned to him arrived in Liverpool from Beyrout, and were found to contain a number ot tin canisters containing fish oil. These, how- ever, were found to contain false bottoms, in which were contained spirits and tobacco. Prisoner said the cases were sent as a present from his father, and that he was not aware of the fraud.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A GEMTLEMAN. On Tuesday morning a lighterman, named Beaeher, of Grays, Essex, was navigating a barge up the river, off Barking, when he discovered the body of a gentle- man floating with the tide. lie called assistance, and it Wa" taken ashore. Upon being searched a copy of the llornvt and one of Punch were found. In the trousers pockets were four £ o notes, and in the waist- coat pocket a gold watch by Benson. His linen was marked B. C." Deceased was aliotit ii), anJ 5ft. Gin. in height hair, whiskers, and mcustachc dark black suit, side-spring boots. In the coat; pocket was the address of "J. Carsley, Esq., St.! James's, AV." The body appeared to have been in, the water about three weeks.

ROBBERY OF £iJ50 BY A HOUSEKEEPER. An elderly woman, named Catherine Jones, was: charged on remand, at the Liverpool Police Court i on Tuesday, ith stealing at various times during the last two years, sums of money amounting to £ o ")0, belonging to William Phillips, whnl -sale butch- r, Hardin;in Street. The prisoner ha.,1 been in the piti- ploy of the prosecutor as hou-keeper..Money being missed day after day from the safe, a number of coins were marked, and having disappeared were afterwards found in the possession of the prisoner. She admitted, when arrested, that she had a duplicate key of the sate, and had purloined about £ 55. A large iiiit)unt of property bought with the stolen money had since been recovered by the police. The prisoner was com- mitted for tria at the Sessions

THE LEGALITY OF GLOVE FIGHTS. At the Surrey Sessions, mi Tuesday, Thomas Porter, proprietor of the St. Helena liotherhithe, appealed against a conviction by Air. Balguy, at the Greenwich Police Court, for permit- ting quarrelsome and riotous conduct on licensed premises. The conduct complained of consisted of a glove fight and the behaviour of thost-, who were pre-! sent at it. The contest began at a quarter to seven in the evening, and lasted till nearly nine. There were thirty-one rounds, and one of the combatants was very severely handled. During the tight a rush: was made to the platform, and there was a great dis- turbance in the gardens. The conduct of the visitors was so riotous that the police had to summon the; appellant, who was fined for permitting this disorder, j The Bench affirmed the decision of the magistrate, but decided that the defendant's license should not be ondor.-ied.-On the application of Mr. Clarke the Court then proceeded to hear Mr. Porter's application for a renewal of his music and dancing license.- Owing, however, to the evidence of Inspectors Banis- ter and Clarke, who said the gardens were the resort of bad characters and thieves, the Bench refused the license. .——

LiDlSON'S ELECTRIC LIGHT. I The 37"- Yi.rk Herald of the 12th of October has the following on this subject:—"The alarm among the English gas companies and the panic in their stocks on account of Edison's last invention in lights. as narrated in the Herald cable des- patches, are not without good cause. America's great i inventor has in truth solve I the problem which for years had puzzled the ablest electricians of the age. He has successfully divided the electric light, and has mad., It for illuminating purposes as far superior to gas as gas is to the tallow candle of the past. His marvellous invention gives a mild, soft, yet brilliant light, pleasing to the eye, clear, siea y, and without blemish, and at a co-t less than one-tuird of that re- quired for gas. Thos • who have seen the invention pronounce it wonderful. Already a company has been formed, composed of a number of wealthy eapaitalists, and Mr. Edison's lawyers are engaged in l' liil 0'" completing the final arrangements for the legal trans- fer. Before long, therefore, the work of introduction will begin. The patents for the United Sintio I.a,o only just been granted, while those for the various countries of Europe have not yet been obtained. The French and other patents will be applied for simultaneously with the English one. When word is cabled to Mr. Edison that the patents have been granted he will throw his invention open to the public gaze but until then he declines to make knows its details, his recent controversy with Pro- fessor Hughes over the alleged stealing of the micro phone having made him cautious. A Herald reporter learned the system proposed to be adopted after he patents are all granted. First, the Professor will light up all the houses in Menlo Park gratis, and from his laboratory watch the lights' progress from night to night. When all is in readiness for gene- ral introduction, central stations will probably be established throughout New York city, each station controlling a territory of, perhaps, half a mile. Wires will then be run in iron pipes underground, after the manner of gas pipes, connecting dwellings, stores, theatres, and other places to be lighted. Tho gas fixtures at present used, instead of being re- moved, will be utilised to encase the wire. In the place of the burner will be the invention, and meters will be used to register the quantity of electricity consumed. The light is to be of the batwing, 15- candle power character. To kindle it a light spring is touched, and instantly the electricity does its work. The amount of light can be regulated in the same way a? can that from gas. To turn off the light the spring is again touched, and instantly all is dark- ness. No matches being used, and there being no flame, all the dangers incidental to the use of gas arc obviated. The light gives out no heat. It is simply a pure white light, made dim or brilliant at the will of the person using it. The invention has been seen in operation in Mr. Edison's laboratory. Tho inventor was deep in experimental researches. What he called the apparatus consisted of a small metal stand placed on the table. Surrounding the light was a small glass globe N ear by was a gas jet burning low. The Professor looked up from his work to greet the reporter, and in reply to his request to view the in- vention, waved his hand towards the light, with the exclamation, There she is.' The illumination was such as would come from a brilliant gaa jet surrounded with "round glass, only that the light was clearer and more brilliant. Now I will extinguish it and light the gas, aid you can see the difference,' said Mr. Edison, and he touched the spring. Instantly all was darkness. Then lie turned oil the gas. Tho differ- ence was quite perceptible. The light from t. e gas appeared in comparison tinted with yellow. In a moment, however, the eye had become accustomed to it and the yellowish tint disappeared. Then the Professor turned on the electric light, giving the writer the opportunity of seeing both side by side. The electric light seemed much softer; a continous Tiew of it for three minutes did not pain the eye whereas looking at the gas for the same length of time caused some little pain and confusion of sight. One of the noticeable features of the light, when fully turned on, was that all colours could be distinguished I as readily as by sunlight.

A man uamfd Seguin. who has been summoned before the Ea>t!"urn. magistrates for an assault on his wife, has drowned him.lf m the sea. The failure ot Messi s. Morion a.id Taylor was announced on Tuesuav, at the ( oint of bankruptcy. The debtors, who had pres-.nted a petition tor liquida- tion. are merchants, of Glasgow and London, trading uiulor tho firm uf James ztnti Co. Their li,-t- bilities arc estimated at £ 2,500,000. A lad marneil Willian Murphy, ha* been charged at the Thames Police Court with being concerned with others in committing a garotte robbery. He was ro- unnded for a week, TilE MKDICAL I'IIOI'KSSION are nw ordering Cnd- burv's Essence in thousands of eases, because it contains more nutritious ;vnd flesh-forming ele- I Ù I. ments than any other beverage, and is preferable to the thick starchy cocoa ordinarily old. When you ak for ('adburv s (\\COil Es-enee be sure that you get it, as shopkeepers often fjmsli imitations for the sake of extra profit. Makers to the (^ueen. Paris de- pot: W, Faubourg St. Honore. 801 HOU.OW.YY'S OINTMENT AND PII.S.—Much watcli- fulnes> nm-t be exercised as winter ad vances, and the earliest evidences of ill health must he immediately checked and removed, or a slight illness may result ill a seriou- malady. Relaxed and -ore throat, diphtheria, (tlii-4),tt cou?h, chronic cou?h. bronchitis, and ,!i(-i,t other I)i-ilin(,rizii-y%ill he relieved by rubbing this cooling Ointment into the kin as near as practicable to the seat of mischief. This treatment, so simple and effective, is admirably adapted for the removal of these diseases during infancy and youth. Old asthmatic invalids will derive marvellous relief from the use of Holloway s remidies, which ha\e brought round many ,iucli health after every other means has signally fai.ed. OFFENSIVE BREATH—Generally the result of im- perfect digestion and constipation and consequent accumulation of decomposing matter in the upper portion of the alimentary canal. Wo dlatt s family aperient pills are a sure preventative against this omplaint, they give a healthy stimulus to digestion ;md remove all indigested matter which, if aHowed to iccumulate give rie to great I?npuntles "f the blood, tntl subsequent disease in one form or another. Soldi in boxes, Is ld, by J, F. Edisbury, High-street, Wrexham. London agents: Barclay and Sons, Far- j rin."don-sti,eet. 1453f

I AN INCORRIGIBLE OFFENDER. At the Chelmsford Quarter Sessions, Edward Thur- good, a lad 16 years of age, has been sentenced to fire years' penal servitude for having broken into the parish church at Littlebury, Essex, and stolen the contents of the poor-box, and also a a prayer book from one of the pews. Sir II. Selwin-lbbetson, in paising sentence, said the prisoner, since he was eight years old, seemed to have pursued a course of continual crime. He had committed three or four misdemeanours, for which he had suffered punish- ment, and had been sent to a reformatory for five years on a conviction for felony. His behaviour in that reformatory had been such that he had been dismissed from it by order of the Secretary of State.

ASSISTING TO ESCAPE FROM AN ASYLUM. At the Dorset Quarter Sessions, Emma Levy has been charged before Mr. Floyer, M.P., with enabling her husband, a felon, to escape from the Dorset County Lunatic Asylum, at Charminster. The pris- oner visited her husband and took him surreptitiously a suit of clothes, which, while in the visiting-room, he exchanged for his asylum dress; then, putting the latter up the chimney, passed from the precincts of the asylum in his new dress and so effected his escape. He had not since been heard of. The chair- j man said it was a novel case. The woman had ren- dered herself liable to penal servitude, but she was under the influence of her husband, and had been in prison since September 14. One week's hard labour was the sentence passed.

TREASURE TROYE. In digging the foundation for a new shaft in the rear of premises belonging to Messrs. Morgan and Co., in Long Acre, on Friday morning, some wor <- men discovered a chest containing a large number of gold and silver coins of the reign of Henry VIII., in a high state of preservation. Besides a quantity of miscellaneous articles the box contained upwards of twenty pieces of what is believed to be valuable Church plate. Among these were a massive chalice, ciborium, and monstrance, all of which were set with Erecious stones a finely-carved crozier head, a lapis- lazuli crucifix, a pectoral cross with gold chain attached, some small vessels, and what is believed to be an abbot's or bishop's mitre. At the foot of the chalice a cross with a nimbus in engraved, and in a 8croll t1. inscription "Ad majorem Dei gloriam." A very old house until within a week or two covered the spot where these things have been found.

ACCIDENT TO THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. The Empress Eugenie, accompanied by her son, the Prince Imperial, and suite arrived at Dover by the Ostcnd mail boat, Louisa Marie, on Friday afternoon. As her Majesty wa proceeding to the Lord Warden Hotel to partake of luncheon and await the departure of the mail (ra n, she turned round to speak to one of her maids, wnen, being near the edge of the kerb, her foot turned and she fell on her side to the ground, striking her right cheek. Her Majesty, who ap- peared to be very much shaken, and in great pain, was immediately lifted up and assisted by the Prince Imperial into the Lord Warden Hotel, where restora- tives were applied, and she was sufficiently recovered j by the time of the departure of the South Eastern Railway boat train, to continue her journey on to Chislehurst, where she arrived shortly after five o'clock. Her Majesty appeared none the worse for her accident.

DARING BURGLARY NEAR UXBRIDGE. A burglary of a most daring nature has been com- mitted at the Cedars, Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, the residence of Colonel Garrett, but at present occu- pied by a very aged lady named Hoare, who is con- nected with the great banking firm of that name. Mrs. Hoare has two daughters residing with her, and the other nigh. the family retired to rest about half- past eleven, everything being then apparently safe. At six o'clock next morning a cowman noticed that a window over the front porch was open, and sub- sequently it was found that most of the rooms had been entered during the night, including the bed- rooms occupied by Mr3. Hoare's daughters. The in- mates, however, had not been disturbed, nor had a dog which was in one of these bedrooms. The burglars secured a dressing case and despatch-box each containing jewellery, and both of which were taken from one of the occupied bedrooms. They also ransacked drawers in the lower apartments, but only took the jewellery, which is valued at £ 40. The des- patch-box and dressing-case were found broken in the garden. No arrests have been made.

ACTION AGAINST A LIVERPOOL MONEY i LENDER. At the Lancaster County Court, an action has been brought by Mr. Thompson, a solicitor of Kendal, against Mr. Woolf Levy, a money lender, of Liver- pool, for an illegal distraint. Some time ago Mr. Thompson advanced D3 to a farmer named Walker, upon the security of a bill of sale in respect of certain farming property. In 1877 Walker obtained two loans from defendant's agent at Lancaster, and a bill of sale upon other property was given in each case. The bonus to be paid for the accommodation time amounted to upwards of 40 per cent. In March last four bailiffs appeared at the farm, with an authority from the agent to make a distraint. They took nearly everything away, including some of the pro- perty for which Mr. Thompson held securities, and which was valued at £16. The property so semed was afterwards snld by auction, and tho present ac- tion was brought to recover the £ 16. The defence was that the bailiffs had no authority to commit a wrongful act, and that if they had done so defendant was not responsible. The judge held otherwise, and gave a verdict for the piaintiff for £12 10s. and costs.

THREATENING TO MURDER ASWEETHEART At the Chester Police Court, Joseph Coleclough and John Evans have been charged with threatening to murder Mary Hughes. It appeared that Coleclough, meeting Miss Hughes a short time ago, paid his ad- dresses to her, representing himself to be the son of a London tradesman. They became engaged, when Miss Hughes found out that Coleclough was a bugler in the Cheshire Militia, and at once broke off the in- timacy. This so disappointed Coleclough that he threatened to take her life, and on one occasion actually struck her in the mouth. She summoned him, but afterwards withdrew the charge on his promising not further to interfere with her. On Thursday morning one of the young ladies at the shop where she was engaged handed her a letter con- taining a sheet of mourning note-paper. On it was clumsily drawn a coffin, and beneath it the word, The sheet further printed in large letters, Prepare The ¡<heet further contained objectionable language and a threat that she had not long to live, and six crosses, with the words, The kisses if death." From investigations made by Detective Wallace, it appeared that Evans, another bugler, wrote the letter, at the barracks, at Coleclough's dictation. The magistrates remanded the prisoners for the production of further evidence.

A DECEITFUL I,OYER. A DECEITFUL LOVER. At Cardiff Police Court, on Friday morning, Henry Simmonds, a young man. was charged with attempt- ing to drown himself in the Old Canal on the night previous. Henrv Harris, a middle-aged man, who carries on business as a gasiitter at 60, Hackney Read, London, stated that the prisoner had been paying his addresses to his daughter. The other day the pri- soner, who himself to be in business at Car- diff, where he had eas'-i in the bank, left London, with a diamond ring, which the witness entrusted ban with. The prisoner telegraphed his arival at Car- diff, but, as nothing further was heard of him, wit- ness resolved to come down and see him, and to make inquiries about his position, ["nl'oiiuuaiely, on reaching Cardiff en the previous day, ho found that (,X.70U,; ? fi)i?n(I tll!Lt the prisoner's statements were h!,e a. u battle of smoke." lie had some difficulty in looliiii- f(ir l,ri- soner, and oclv met him aeeidenta'ly in the street. Witness complained of his bad conduct, and was walk- ing, ashethonght, in the direction of prisoner's lodgings when the latter sprung into the Old Canal, faying "Good-bye. Had it not been for a bargeman, the prisoner would have been drowned. The prist,HOT had pawned the diamond ring, a;;d had the duplicate among others in his possession. Du: ing the night he attempted to strangle himself, and he was now re- manded, Mr. Harris stating, in answer to the rntgis- Mates, that he cii-ta iniy did not want to take the prisoner back with him.

The Societv for promoting Christian Know ledge has received a donation of C!,000, given anonymously through I la" Rev. Brownlow Maitland. The Lu of Mr. John r'imoa, C.B., recently ex- hibited at the lioyal Academy, has just been presented by the subscri bersio the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr. Plimsoll, M.P., ;Hccnpaniod by Mrs. Plimsoll, is about to start on a long tour to India, for the bene- fit of his health. The Bishop of Eipon has been presented with an oil painting of himself, h- rr, Watts. R.A.,by the olcrgy and laitv of his dioceso. HORN I.IIA's TEA.—Choice teas at very reasonable prices are always to be had in every Town and ViI. hge, "f Horniman's Agents. Being direct importers, Messrs. Homiman, London, guarantee the purity, strength, and flavour of their teas it is well known that the tea sent to England is painted or faced with mineral powder, Prussian blue, &c., to hide worthless brown leaves; the Chinese thus pass of the inferior Autumn crops as best tea. IIorniman's Tea in tin foil packets is sold by appointed Agents, and for 40 years has been preferred for its strength, delicious flavour, and real cheapness. Agents:— Wrexham—Potter, IS and 19, High-street. Ruabon -Sinitli, opposite the Railway Station. Che,.iter- Thomas, 13, Bridge-street Row. Mold—Hughes, 22, New-street. Llangollen—Ditcher, stationer. Col A REWARD of 920 is offered by Messrs Reckits and Sons, of Hull and London, for information that shall lead to the conviction of any person selling imitations of their Paris Blue in Suuai-e. It is easy to detect the cheat, as the Paris I-,e ./scd in the Prince of is only genuine when sold in squares wrapped up in pink pape; bea; ing 1. Reckitt tand > Sons' name and trade mark. 8Cle FIRS.—EPILEPTIC FIT OK FALLINC; SICKNESS.— A certain method 01 cure bi s been discovered for this distressing complaint by a physician, who is desirous that all suPereiv may benefit from this providential discovery is never known to fail, and will cure the most heipek-s.- ease after all other means have been tried. Fiiil particulars will be sent by post to any person free of charge,-Ad- dress:—Mr WILLL\t- B, Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, London, 1818

ACCIDENT TO THE TORPEDO FLOTILLA. Two accidents to the torpedo Flotilla, now engaged in evolutions in the Gulf of Finland, are reported from Cronstadt. The Silfida, formerly on the Dover and Calais line, was going from St. Petersburg to Cmnstadt, and when about ten miles from the mouth of the Neva she encountered 8 torpedo cutters, one of which ran into her. The Silfida, being a strong vessel, sustained no serious damage, though for a short time a panic was caused among the passengers, several hundred in number, most of whom had read of the Princess Alice disaster. The torpedo cuf>ter, however, with Admiral Schmiddt on board, was severely damaged. At Cronstadt the passengers drew up a petition to the Government for the discon- tinuance of torpedo cutter manoeuvres adjacent to the track of passenger steamers. The same morning an explosion occurred on the torpedo cutter Metch, Captain Baranoff, and three men were dreadfully scalded.

PREYING ON CHARITY. At the Liverpool Police Court, Michael Hilton, a young man, aid to be in the employ of the Corpora- tion, has been charged with attempting to steal money from Mr. Thomas Davies.—The prosecutor, who is the owner of the York Hote', Williamson S luire, stated that he had placed a parrot-cage outside his house for the purpose of receiving small subscriptions to the relatives of the sufferers in the late Colosseum disaster. As he was watching the cage, he saw the prisoner come up and put a brush inside, with the object of getting out some of the money. At the end of the brush was some adhesive matter, so that any coins in the cage would have stuck to it. The prosecutor felt sure that money had been taken from the cage by some means similar to that used by the prisoner. —The magistrate said the object for which the cages were put out ought to have made them sacred from such heartless attempts as the prisoner had made. ThQ ,tde. Tho' prisoner was remanded.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. A deputation of British commissioners, exhibitors, and jurors waited on Thursday on the Prince of Wales I at the British Embassy, to present him with an ad- dress inscribed in a costly volume. The Prince re- ceived them standing, The address stated that the exhibitors of the United Kingdom have seen with great satisfaction that his Royal Highness's interest i m the undertaking was real and effective, and they had good reason for believing that, but for his per- scinal example and superintendence, the Paris Exhi- bition of 1878 would, as regards the United Kingdom, have been a failure. The address further recognised the unceasing care and attention they all had re- ceived at the hands of the various members of the Prince's staff. His Royal Highness, in reply, ex- pressed his gratification at the compliment that was paid to him, spoke of the cordial co-operation he had received from the French authorities, and expressed his conviction that the result of the Exhibition would be to knit still more firmly the bonds of friendship between England and France.

WHOLESALE ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A young man, of about eighteen years of ay, named John Henry Lambert, has been taken into custody by the Shrewsbury police upon the charge of stealing, at different times, the sum of P,212 10s., the property of his master, John Evan Jones, grocer and provision dealer, of Coleham. It appears that the prisoner had been in the employ of prosecutor for soma two years as shop assistant. For some months past Mr. Jones had been losing money from the shop, sometimes in large amounts at a time. The excellent character the prisoner bore seems to have averted sus- picion from him, -but Detective Lloyd was sent for, and the prisoner being questioned, he showed the police and Mr. Jones the sum of jE212 10s., which he had concealed in an attic. He also admitted having taken X12 during the past week. The prisoner was locked up at the Borough Police Office on the charge, and during the morning he attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife. The wound is only a superficial one, and although he has lost about a quart of blood, it is expected that weak- ness will prevent his being brought before the magis- trates for some days, no fatal consequences are appre- hended from the rash act.

FEARFUL ENCOUNTER WITH A BULL. ——.———————————— A terrible fight with a bull took place the other evening, at Mr. John Glover's farm, Coppuil, near Chorley the result of a foolish wager. A collier, named John Frith, was drinking with one of Mr. Glov r's sons, when the latter bet half-a-crown that Frith dare not fetch his father's bull from the field to the shippon. Frith proceeded to fulfil his task, and as a measure of precaution, took with him a hay fork. As soon as Frith neared the bull it attacked him fiercely, and he defended himself by thrusting- tke prongs of the fork into the animals nostrils. This made the bull more furious, and, releasing itself, it made another dash at Frith, and, catching him with its horns in the lower part of the body, tossed him in the air. A terrible gash was i flicted on the poor fellow, a large piece of flesh being torn away. As soon as Frith alighted on the ground the bull kneeled on him, and the parties watching were afraid to inter- fere until they s t a large dog at the infuriated bull, which seized it by the nose, causing the vicious ani- mal to get up. Poor Frith was then rescued, and pvesenteil a ehocHnq ftpprarance. Dr. Neville, of Chorley, was called in and although the sufferer is in a precarious state, hopes are ascertained that he may recover.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN A CHURCH The New York papers contain an account of a ferocious attack, made in a church in that city dur- ing Divine Service, upon a young woman, whom the assailant mistook for his own wife. On Sunday, October 6th, an early mass was being performed in the Jesuits' Church, West Sixteenth Street. About 300 persons were present. Suddenly the congrega- tion was startled by the screams of a woman, who seemed to be at the church door. The priest turned round and stilled the incipient disturbance by some cautionary gestures, suggested, doubtless, by the recollection of a panic which had occurred in the same building not long ago. Immediately a woman was seen to enter hurriedly, but with so little noise that only a few near the entrance observed her evi- dent terror. She was followed by a strongly-built, coarse-featured man, :who, however, moved so delibe- rately that no one could have suspected his murderous purpose. The woman hastened up the central passage, entered a pew about the middle of the church, and threw herself on her knees, clasping her hands in an attitude of prayer. Her bent head had scarcely touched the prayer-desk in front when it was rudely clutched and pulled back by the ruffian, who held her firmly in a sitting position. He then lifted his right hand, which held a long bladed knife, and made three slashes upon his victim. The whole proceeding occu- pied hardly two seconds, and it was all over before the people in the next pew were aware of the assassin's presence. A smothered groan escaped from the wounded woman, and as he loosened his grasp she fell forward on one knee, her head resting on the prayer- bench. The ruffian coolly shifted his weapon to the left hand, scowled menacingly around, and slowly walked down the passage to the door. He had actually quitted the building before anyone moved. One of the very few who actually saw the deed rose from his kneeling attitude and went out after the assassin. The latter, finding himself followed, threw, away the knife and began to run; but after a short chase he was captured, and no policeman being visible, was taken back to the church Meantime some ladies and a clergyman had gone to the wounded woman, who was able to rise and walk to the door of the church where she encountered her assailant. A! policeman had by this time come up and asked her whether she knew the man. She answered that she did not; she had never seen him until a few minutes before, when she had noticed him following her. He was asked whether he knew the woman. He answered i very coolly, "No. It's a mistake; it ain't the right party." Upon examination at the hospital it was found that, although three slashes of the knife had been made, there was only one wound, which, though by no means slight, is not likely to have a fatal result. On his way to the police-station Carpenter, the as- sassin, told the officer in charge that he had attacked the wrong woman. Carpenter is well known to the police. Some years ago he shot a man, and has been frequently in prison for brawls. His wife has had! several times to appeal to the magistrates for protec- tion. Carpenter had threatened to take her life, and the universal belief is that when he plunged the knife into Marv l.yons he thought lie was slaying his own wife.

_'0_°' ° Two men named Jacks -n and Smith have been, at I the Surrey Sessions, sentenced to bi-P years* penal: servitude for stealing two shorthorn heifers from a f i' farmer of T- oiing. j Asp, IVrgcr, and Co., a large timber commission I house at Stockholm, have suspended payment. Mr. Edison's patents for the subdivision of the electric light were filld in the Patent Office in London on Wednesday morning, andVhenthe formalities have been completed public experiments will be made. Pure, strong, and delicious Teas and Coffees can alwayi be obtained at C. K. BENSON'S Family Grocery Stores 14, High-street, Wrexham THROAT AFFECTIONS AND HOA li'iEs-E-jS. -All suf- ffering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use of Brown's Bronchial Troches." These famous lozenges' are now sold diy most respectable chemists in this country at Is lid per box. People troubled with a "hacking cough," a slight cold," or bronhical affections, cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles, allowed to pro- Kress, result in serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic atfections. See that the words Brown's Bronchial Troches" are on the Government Stamp around each box.—Manufactured by JOHN I. BROWN & Soxs, j Boston, United States. Depot, 493, Oxford-street, j London. 20c ADVICE TO MOTHERS -Are you broken in your rest; by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harm- less and pleasant to taste, it produaes natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as bright as a button." It soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea whether aris- ing from teething or other causes. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers, every. where at Is lid per bottle.—Manufactured in New York, and at 493. Oxford-street London. 20p

CONFESSION OF MURDER. At the Marlborough Street (London) Police Court, Henry Thorne, seaman, has been charged on his own confession with having murdered a man unknown, at Globe Island, near Sydney, New South Wales, on the 20th Februrary, 1877. The prisoner's statement to the police inspector was to the effect that while shooting for drinks with a revolver in a clearance, near Sydney, his revolver accidentally went off, and killed the man. He was frightened, and ran away. The prisoner was remanded.

MILITARY PASTIMES AT ALDERSHOT. At the Aldershot J'uliee Court, Clara Haywood, an I attrctively-dressed young woman, has been charged with stealing a variety of articles, the property of ¡ Lieutenant De Warre, of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards. The prosecutor said that on the 20th ult. he took leave of absence, leaving the keys of his rooms in charge of James Guilliam, his servant. On his re- turn his servant informed him that two of his brother officers had entered his room, put the prisoner in his bed, and roaioved his furniture. lIe had lot altoge- ther articles to the value of £10..Tames Guilliam, the servant, said that shortly after the departure of his master on leave two officers entered the 100m and locked Clara Haywood, the prisoner, in it. They put her in his master's bed, and locked the door from two to six p m. Tho officers were larking. When he re- monstrated with them they threatened to put him in the guardroom. They shifted the whole of the furniture in his master's room into that of another officer. Further evidence showed that an effigy was made of Lieutenant de Warre, and tiiat the prisoner was made drunk with brandy, stripped, and put into the prosecutor's bed. At the close of the case the prosecutor said he wished to withdraw from the charge as he believed the whole affair was a joke, and that the prisoner did not intend to steal the articles found in her room by Detective Mayne. The bench designated the whole affair as a most disgraceful one, and discharged the prisoner.

rnROW ESCAPE OF THE DANISH ROYAL FAMILY. The King and Queen of Denmark and the Princess Thyra had a narrow escape from death the other night. They were driving into Constantinople to be present at the representation of a new national opera. On their way they had to cross the railway line, where there is a gate which should be closed when a train is expected to pass. By the neglect of the gatekeeper, the gate was left open, and the royal carriage went on its way, when suddenly a train turned the curve, and passed so close that the hind wheels of the carriage were actually touched by the buffers of the engine; while only the presence of mind of the driver of the carriage containing the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, which followed close after the royal carriage, saved its occupants from certain destruction, the train passing between, the two carriages. The Queen was naturally much af- fected by the terrible danger, and her Majesty was unable to remain in the theatre during the entire performance of the opera. The railway company in- stantly dismissed the gatekeeper, but at the request of the King, who thought that the man had had such a lesson that he would be sure to be careful in the future," he was reinstated in his situation.

Mr. Macdonald, M.P.. has gone to the Continent for the benefit of his health. A deaf man was knocked down and killed on the Llanberis Railway, near Carnarvon, the other night. The Metropolitan Board of Works have resolved to promote a bill next session for the acquisition of the interests of the water companies ..i London. The panic among the holders of gas shares has ex- tended to Derby. The shares of the local gas com- pany are now selling at from £ 3 to £ 4 less than they were a few weeks ago. The Dundee Advertiser announces that its composing room has been lighted with the electric light. The room is over 100 feet long and 30 feet wide, and the experiment promises to prove highly successful. The German Government, through Count Munster, has forwarded a Berlin vase to Captain Notorne, and gold watches and mone" to others who rendered assis- tance when the Grosser Kufurst was lost off Folk- stone. An elderly man, named Joseph Moss, who was engaged in blasting some rock at Blue Anchor, near Bridgwater, fell over a cliff 60 feet in height, and was picked ii, Quite dead, his body being shockingly mutilated. General Ponsonby has, by command of the Queen, forwarded to Dr. Poore, secratery to the Parkes Museum of Hygiene, University College, the sum of £ 50, "as her Majesty's donation towards the estab- lishment of a museum of Hvgine." We (Globe) understand the Post Office authorities have under consideration the question of fitting up letter boxes in London similar to those used in Liver- pool-i.e., with indicators showing when the next collection of letters will be made Evans Hallet has been summoned before the magis- trates at the Maryborough Street Police Court, Lon- don, and fined in three penalties of ZCIO each, for selling certain specifics, or secretly made medicines, without having paid the duty thereon. A rumour is very current that the Prince of Wales will visit Derby in November. Supplementary races are to be held in that month, at which there is great reason to believe his Royal Highness, as the guest of a nobleman in the vicinity, will be present. The Mercers' Company of the city of London have contributed £ 10.5 to the fund now being collected at the Mansion House towards the expenses of holding an international agricultural exhibition in London next year, under the auspices of the Royal Agricul- tural Society of England. Mr. George Agar, proprietor of the Summer Tea Gardens, in Whitby, has been killed while engaged at the top of a chimney iu Messrs. Turnhill's ship- yard. He had contracted to remove the chimney, and while so occupied he seems to have overbalanced him- self, for he fell backwards to the ground, and was killed on the spot. At the Liverpool Police Court, a collector, employed by Messrs. Yates, Aeock, and Copeman, Liverpool, has been charged on remand with ewbezzling the sum of S400 from his employers. He absconded with the money, and on being arrested stated that all the money had been spent in betting and fast living. He wa3 committed to the Sessions for trial. Already about 907 persons have been registered under the Dentists Act. No less than 816 of these had no claim to legal recognition except that of be- Insr engaged in the practice of dcntistry-;)i);3 alone, 2G3 in connection with pharmacy. Of tho.:e regis- tered 89 possess the license in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.—Lancd. Major M'Tull 'ch, inspector for the Local Govern- ment Board, has terminated his official enquiry into the condition of the river Cam as the result of a personal visit described the state of the stream as disgusting. The result is that the town of Cambridge will be com- pelled to divert its sewage from the river at a cost of £100,000. It transpired that the City of Ely draws its water supply from the Cam. At the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions, Samuel Artus, the corresponding secretary of the Royal Har- monic Lodge of Oddfellows and the Widows' and Orphans' Branch, at Cheltenham, has been sentenced to two years' hard labour for embezzling large sums of money. One witness called as to character ad- mitted that the defalcations had been stated to amount in the past few years to t700. In the course of an address while distributing prizes to students at the Mechanics' Science Classs, N ot- tingham, the Duke of St. Albans urged his hearers to bestir themselves if they wished England to main- tain her position, for Germany was far 'ahead of us. He had bL'en recently told by a banker that he could obtain three German clerks, who spoke four langua- ges, at the price of two Englishmen. The Admiralty has decided upon the use of steel in the construction of five new guiiboats, to be built at Pembroke Dockyard. Two will be of 250 tons and 16-horse power, mounting one heavy gun. These I will be called the Bouncer and Insolent. The re- maining three will be of 455 tons and 360-horse power, and will carry four guns. They will be named Bullfrog, Cockchafer, and Espoir. The Court of Common Council of the City of Lon- don on Thursday fixed the salary of the Remem- brancer at £ 1,500" per annum; also, they docidei to elect to the vacancy a solicitor or barrister of not less than seven years' standing. It is understood the election will take place on the 31st inst., and the. qualifications of the c;ndidates will be considered al a private mcetinir of the Corporation held the day previous. FLORILINE !—FOR THE TEETH AND BREATH.—A few drop s of the liquid Floriline sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush produces a pleasant lather, which thoroughly cleanses- the teeth from all parasites or impurities, hardens the gums, prevents tartar, stops decay, gives to the teeth a peculiar pearly-whiteness, and a delightful fragrance to the breath. It re- I moves all unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth or tobacco smoke. The Fragrant Floriline," being composed in part of Honey and sweet herbs, is delicious to the taste, and the greatest toilet dis- covery of the age. Price 2s Gd, of all Chemists and Perfumers. Prepared by Henry C. GALLUP, 493, Oxford street, London. 20z RECKITT'S PARIS BLUE. The marked superiority of this Laundry Blue over all others, and the quick appreciation of its merits by the Public has been attended by the usual result, viz.: a flood of imita- tions the merits of the latter mainly consists in the ingenuity exerted not simply in imitating the square shape, but making the general appearance of the wrappers resemble that of the genuine article. The Manufacturers beg, therefore, to caution all buyers to see Reckitt's Paris Blue" on each packet. 861 VALUABLE DISCOVERY FOR THE HAIR.—If your hair is turning grey or white, or falling off, use "The Mexican Hair Renewer," for it will positively restore in every case Grey or White hair to its original colour, without leaving the disagreeable smell of most "Restorers." It makes the hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth of the hair on bald spots, where the glands are not decayed. Ask your Chemist for the MEXICAN HAIR RE- NEWER," prepared by Henry C. GALLOP, 493, Ox- ford-street, London, and sold by Chemists and Per fumers everywhere at 3s 6dper bottle. 20n New seas on's teas, choicely blended and rich in flavour the best, the purest, and the cheapest, at C. K. Benson and Co.'s family, grocery stores, 14, High-street, Wrexham, which are established to supply the public with TeaQ, Coffees, and general groceries, at merchants' prices.

-n_ London Gossip. ø ¡' ,J"J .1' According to news just received in town, it appears that Dean Stanlev, who is now the object of much attention in tho United States, will visit the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome in Canada before re- turning to England. The dean preached a couple of Sundays since to an immense congregation in Calvary Church, Fourth Avenue, New York. His sermon was, aa usual published next moming in full in all the leading American papers. The Ex-Empress Eugenie and Prince Louis Napo- leon are once more at home, if home it be for them in England. When they arrived at Chislehurst o h. I I' L E they found the chapcl in which lie the Emperor's re- mains a ruin. It is only so, however, for a space as a large and handsome church is to be reared there. The small mortuary chapel containing the sarcopha- gus is not to be meddled with. The new building will ha vein its neighbourhood some extensives- schools necessitated by the growth of Chislehurst. < it I have been told by a house agent in the West End that he has not for many years known such a demand for houses and apartments at this time as just now from which he anticipates that we are going to see an exceedingly good scasen and a merry one. I do not know much about the mirth of London my experi- ence has generally told me that London society is par- ticularly miserable. But it will be more showy, I I fancy, from all I hear, this winter than ordinarily. and that, I suppose, is equivalent with our country people for mirth. We are becoming more and more like the Americans every day. I mentioned at last writing that the failure of Ur, Hough would throw upon the charity of the world the children of several artists whose education and support he had undertaken. I regret to learn that sad results will take plaee immediately, and as no in- dependent provision whatever has been made for the support of these children, the blow has fallen so sud- denly that many of them will be absolutely destitute in a few days. Perhaps there never was a case where the childless and the wealthy could step In with more advantage, and the cause of these may well be com- mended to those who are so fortunate as to remain unscathed by the recent commercial disasters. Mr. Robertson explains, but his explanation is not explicit. He announces that the people of Ober Am- mergau who are coming across here to give us some tableaux out of the Passionspicl are not going to turn the stage at the Aquarium into a means of burlesquing the most sacred of all stories they are only going to give a series of living pictures representing events in Scripture history. Mr. Robertson does not say how many and what incidents in the life of Christ wi!l be made the subjects of representation in his music hall. Even if we do not have the Crucifixion, what can be said for dramatic use being made of the greatest of historical figures before an audience like that which nightly gathers at Westminster—an audience not likely to be more select after the closi j of the Argyll? Cardinal Manning has already ra his voice in protest, and an organisation of clergym is at work to secure the prohibition of the Lord Chamberlain. It will be remembered that so plentitul were the j contributions to the Mansion House Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Princes3 Alice disaster that the Lord Mayor was at last constrained to say no more were required, and the community had the satisfaction of knowing that if money could in any way alleviate the distress caused by the calamity, then the result would assuredly be brought about. It now transpires that the Eurydice Relief Fund was so liberally responded to that, after giving to the widows, children, and other relations of the officers and seamen lost the various amounts which it is thought they will need, some £3,000 will be left as a surplus out of £23,000. These magnificent funds, raised within a short period of each other, speak vol- umes for the liberality of the country, even in such a period of commercial depression as that through which we have been and still are unfortunately pass- ing. Less interest than usual centres in the Social Science Congress this year, and its attractions will rather be those of Cheltenham than those either of the opening address by Lord Norton or the work in the sections. If the congress succeeds it will be because it is to be held near London at a time when a large number of Londoners will be glad of an excuse for a short holiday. There are to be two conversazioni this year—one given by the Baron and the Baroness de Ferrieres, and another by the association at the Ladies' College. There are to be excursions for pic- nics to Birdlip, for its ancient church to Badgworth, for its Roman villa to Chedworth Wood, to Gloucester and its cathedral, to Hardwieke and its reformatory, to Sudeley Castle, and to Tewkesbury. So that if the proceedings prove too prosy th re will be plenty of opportunity for poetry in the beauties and relics of the neighbourhood. I learn on very excellent authority that the follow- ing will be the basis upon which the revision of the treatise between Japan and the European Powers are to be negotiated:—First, suppression of export duties on all native products. Second, the creation of mixed tribunals, like those which exist in Egypt, to regu- late all differences between Europeans and natives. Third, complete liberty for Europeans to travel throughout the whole of Japan, on condition of sub- mitting themselves to the native laws, and offenders to be sent before the mixed tribunals, of which I have already spoken. Fourth, permission for Euro- peans to acquire property in the country, and to erect therein worshops and factories for private enterprise, Fifth, the rents payable for land ceded to Europeans in the treaty ports to remain as hitherto, and to U0 regulated in the same manner, with permission to the proprietors to abandon, purely and simply, the same hinds to the Japanese Government if the" v are no longer willing to pay the rent. Surgeons do not like dental surgeons, yet the Irish (' 1 f 1, b II College of Surgeons has been creating-an end less series of the surgeon's abomination. It ia mcrclv a matter of menry. The English dentist pavs his ten guineas at Dublin and eets his diploma. Of course, the lieen- sing bodies in England are exceedingly savage. Thev v nre ready to do anything to expose the Irish bod v. They call the degree the L.S.D. instead of the L.D.S.I., and see their own chances of fees dving .t'" 1. I I }' ,0 with a severe melancholy." Indignation j ac- cording to the British Medical Journal, is wa.-ted on the subject. "That it should be a part of a .scheme of reform authorised by an august council, which, as Dr. Aciand so beautifully, but rather ob?urciv, say!! is 'in the progressive state of human knowlJdgc. of ?dentine thought, and of transitional e(I11'tin' in future to sit in judgment on all the universities of the land,' is probably no light reason why its deli- constitution should be much changed and con- siderably fortified." It is a pity that diplomas should be bought with guineas instead of real work. The catalogue of terrible accidents for 1878- already an unusually mournful one—has received mother addition. An accident occurred at the Pontypridd junction of the Taff Yale Eailwav, bv winch twelve persons met with instant death" and between 40 and 50 others were injured, some of them beyond hope of recovery. The main line of the Taff Company and two branch lines converge at Pontypridd junction, and it is primarily to this fact ihat the cause of the accident is to be attributed. A train from the Rhondda branch was approaching the junction, while another from the Llantrissant branch, j liter discharging passengers, was being run into a 1 siding adjoining the rails in which the Rhondda f rain was travelling. The Llantrissant train ran beyond -he point at which It should have stopped, and dashed into the centre of the Rhondda train, with the dread- ful results mentioned in our report. It is all very well to be wise after the event, but on the face of the facts as reported it does eeem a strange want of pre- :aution to allow the lives of passengers in one train to depend upon the stopping of another train at a partieu- lar point only a few yards from the line which they must cross. It may be necessary that the siding which the Llantrissant train had run into should adjoin the Rhondda branch lino, but there can be no neccs- sity to send one train down the siding at the time cr is coming up or is shortly expected to come up the branch line. This is a matter which will! doubtless be duly investigated at the enquiry con- ducted by the Board of Trade. The dreadful nature of the occurrence is increased rather than mitigated by the fact that this is the first fatal accident which has happened on the Taff Yale Hailway since it was opened forty years ajio.

The German excavators at Olympia have discovered the Prytaneion. The Loeal Government Board have, it is state,l, decided that the fee for searching for a child's regis- tration of birth for the puipose of the Education Act is payable only when the ee.tifieate is actually given. There is a rumour on 'Change in Paris that the c-n gagement of Fnulem Maggy ,:on HothschilJ, youm-er daughter of Baron Carl von Rothschild, with the Due de Guise, son of the Due d' Aumalc, is imminent. Epps's COCOA.-All the Year Bound says—" Let us stroll to the Euston Road, hard hy the Regent's Park, to Epps's Cocoa Manufactory, where may be studied the making of cocoa on a stupendous scale,, giving a just idea of the value of these articles, not as luxuries, but as actual food." Eers's COCOA.—John Bull says-" An idea of the vast extent of the industry may be gained from the fact that one firm alone—that of Messrs. Epps & Co. —now sell some 4,000,000 pounds annually. EPPS'S ('OCOA.-Clil'i$ti(()l World says If I am to take cocoa," said I, I must see and judge for my self what are the ingredients of which it is composed with this view I made my way to the cocoa manu- factory of James Epps and & Co., in the Euston Road. EPPS S COCOA. C assell s Household Guide" says — We will now give an account of the process adopted by Messrs. James Epps and Co., homcepathic chemists and manufacturers of dietetic articles, at their works in the Euston Road, London." EPPS'S COCOA.— Mornino Advertiser saw- ar two centuries after, in 1^32, the duties which had hitherto been almost prohibitive, were greatly reduced, and one of the first to take advantage of re- establishing the popularity of cocoa was Messrs. Epps and Co., the Homcepathic Chemists. 24->7 New season's teas, choicely blended and rich i. n flavour the best, the purest, and the cheapest, at C. K. Benson and Co.'s family grocery stores, 14 High-street, Wrexham, which are established to supply the public with Teas, Coffees, and general groceries, at merchants' prices.

_.U)mL-H[ i 1 Fun for the Family. ? "I HEAD MEN.—Phrenologists. A uoT-not SE is a painful sight. A Ci LTICATKII K —An ear of corn. j A TABLE OF I>'II:UI;ST.—Tho dinner tabla. THE TIED or Lire.—The married ones. WHAT flies fur ever and rests never P—The wind. COOL PROCEEDINGS.—Kissing a lady's snowy brow. THE COLUT OF Hiou Mi'.v. At the Horse Guards. IT takes a Japanese girl thirteen hours to dress for n party. IT is quite appropriate that many new books on pot- tery should be illustrated with plates. THE FOX-HUNTER'S MOTTO.—Never give offence while following the hounds, but always take a fence. ABOUT the least satisfactory wedding ring a woman can receive is to have her husband ring her ears. ONE of the earliest financial transactions on re- cord is where Distance lent Enchantment to the view. Two of the worst puns on record—The largest ant is the eleph-ant; and the worst relation is the carb- uncle. THE difference between a hill and a pill is-that the hill is hard to get up, and the pill is hard to get down. IT is reported that a lady applied the other morn- ing at the box-office of a theatre for preserved, seats for two.' A KICKING cow, savs Josh Billings, never lets drive until just as the pail is full, and seldom miSses the mark; it is just so with some men's blunders. the matter with your eye, Tommy ?' Oh, it's only been going through an operation at the hands of a knockulist, that's all.' As a rule the theatres, in announcing a new play, speak of it as being produced with a "great cast.' This latter, however, is generally all in your eye. Yorn room is better than your company,' as the examiner of the bankrupt insurance corporation said to its president, as he glanced at the elegant offices. A VISITOR to an art gallery said, I like the statoos bctter'n I do the picters. I kin go all 'round the statoos, but I can see only one side of the THE ladies are all opposed to the telephone. They don't care to have a young fellow whispering in their ears with his mouth twenty miles away. Do you know, Elvira, that I saw a singular sight this morning ? I saw our poor old crippled gardener walk.'—' That's nothing, William. I saw the walk.' As observing politician says that the difference between those going in and out of office is mainly this—the former are sworn in, and the latter go out swearing. 1 WHAT in the name of your cat, sir ? inquired a visitor—' His name was William,' Raid the host, until he had fits, and since then we have called him Fitz William "HEX a Philadelphia critic wishes to be very ex- pressive, he compliments a. dramatic star' by saying that she shines like a brass tack on an old hair trunk.' THERE is a man over in Jersey who, even while asleep, manages to watcha table by his bedside—or, rather, we should say. keeps his eye on it. N.13.— It's a glass eye. 'MY son, accustom yourself to be polite to the porter, the servant girl, the coachman, to all the servants thus vou will come in time to be courteous to all people, even your parents.' THE proverb says the devil is not so black as he is painted. With regard to the 'devil' usually ram- pant in printing offices, he could hardly be made any blacker if he was painted. A CATHOLIC priest was asked the difference between Romanists and Ritualists. The difference,' replied the priest, the former are Papists' and the latter Apeists.' A STRON'O-MINDEP woman in New York was heard to remark, the other day. that she woul; marry a man who had plenty of money, though he was so ugly that she had to scream every time she looked at him. AN old bachelor who particularly hated literary women asked an authoress if she could throw any light on kissing. I could,' she said, looking archly at him, but I think it is better in the dark.' WHAT is the reason of a blow leaving a blue mark after it asked an enquiring young man of a medical student. It's easily accounted for,' was the reply, for you know that blow in the perfect makes AT a social gathering in Wieklow the conversation turned Ly some accident upon marriage. One of the girls, addressing a handsome young Paddy, quite unconsciously, as she- explained, said, If I were you, and you me, I would have married long ago.' AN old gentleman who had dabbled all his life in statistics, says he never heard of more than one woman who insured her life. He accounts for this by the fait that one of the questions on every insurance paper is. 1 What is your age r' A MA in New York seeks only a limited divorce from his wife, though she has poured boiling water down his back, seared him with a hot iron, shot at him with pi3tols, and wounded him with a carving knife. His love of self is small. SOME people say that twenty minutes is about the proper length of a sermon. In the case of bad boys it is not so much tho length of the sermon their fathers preach to them about their evil ways that troubles them, as the length of the accompanying strap. THE gentleman whose lips pressed a lady's snowy brow, caught a severe cold. The lady who had a spark in her eye is now suffering with a match in the other. The gentleman who was devoured by love's flame recovered when his lady love threw cold water on his proposals. A CLAss was being examined recently in a sea-beateB town of Sussex. The subject under discussion was the flood. Among the first questions put was, How did Noah understand there was going to be a flood ?' "Cause,' shouted an urchin, 'he looked at his al- manac A MAS who had been nominated for a city office was annoyed by his wife's eagerness look after his interest in the ward.' Finally he said to her, 'See here, my love your business is indoors. I'll look after the ward, and you attend to the wardrobe.' HE was defeated. THE Italians say there is a skeleton in every house. Most commentators are of the opinion that they mean the cellars of newspaper offices, and that the remark has something to do with the mysterious disappear. ance of young poets and amateur jokers who come tc tell the editor the funniest thing he ever heard. FRIENDS,' said a political orator, would that I had a window in my heart, that you might look upon its beatings and see how it pulsates with patriotism.' Just then an apple struck him in the front, and a voice exclaimed, Perhaps a pain in your chest will do, seeing you've no window in your heart.' IT has long been held that the diamond for its size is about the most costley thing that can be found. Young men, however, who go to fancy fairs, and find themselves on coming home utterly impoverished as tc money, and at the same time the possessor of a two- penny necktie or pen-wiper, are very often inclined to doubt the statement. A MAN was on his trial for some petty theft the other day in America. He pleaded that he was of toe respectable a family to commit the crime. The judge asked him what he meant. He replied that no mem- ber of his family was either in Congress or in the State Legislature. The evidence against him was strong, but his defence was felt to bo stronger, and he was acquitted. AN eminent Scottish divine happened to meet two of his parishioners at the house of a lawyer whom he considered .too sharp a practitioner. The lawyer jocularly and ungraciously put the question Doc- tor, these are members of your flock; may I ask, do you look upon them as white or black sheep ?'—' I don't know,' answered the divine, dryly, whether they are white or black sheep, but I know if they are here long they are pretty sure to be fleeced.' A GENTLEMAN who had been fishing, and came home without any spoils of the finny tribe, told his wife that he had seen but one fish, and that was a pike which looked at his bait and seemed weighing the chances between catching it and being caught him- self. The wife responded, 'And of course he was able to weigh the matter correctly, because he had so many scales. That fin-ishes me,' exclaimed the gentleman, as he dropped into the chair. THE stage is not what it used to be. Great men are not paid sums proportionate to their greatness these hard times. At a recent theatrical represen- tation there were sixty men employed, each one over six feet high, to enact the noble Roman army. These truly great men have been interviewed, and it appears that they received only a shilling a night. These are indeed hard times, when a noble Romar will go through a whole series of war's foi tfytt insignificant sum of twelve pCh",C.

 THAFFlC IŒCEIPT:-ï, < treat "'e"tel'n -) £ llS,iX>!» <-?t?<Mtern. x I W?t Mitlland > 1«7-S. ?'uth WiU?..?]]i),g3<j 1"77. London and North Western ) ill^2,510 Shrewsbury and Hereford 1?- Shropshire Union. *161,789 CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS.— Approximate return oi iramc receipts for the week ending 21th February, 1*78 Miles open 171,1 passengers, parcels, horses, carriages, dogs, and mails i: 1,257: merchandise, mineral, and live stock £1 \135: total for the week, i-i-12; ,t from com- menceinent of half ye?r to this date, ?(!,ti'!ti. Actual traffic receipts for the corresponding week last veir ?nies open, 17*1; passenaers, parcels, horses, carriages, and mails, ?I,0t merchandise, miner?s, and live stock, £l,Hl total for the week, ?:?2: a.s?re?te from commencement of half-year to this date, £ 22,787.

ACCIDENT AT THE GREAT MINF.UA LEAD MINE.— On Thursday, a miner named Kdward Edwards, living at Vrondeg, was working in the 160 yards level, Roy's shaft, when a heavy piece of rock from the roof fell upon him, breaking his left leg between the ancle and the- knee. There were others soon there, and his stocking being; cut off, it was seen that the bone protruded through the skin. He was carefully taken to the surface, and Mr Gibbon sent for, who soon set the leg and the injured man was taken home in a trap belonging to the com- pany,