Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

SMILERS. "Patience" should be taken off a monument and put at the end of a telephone. Have you a large staff of reporters to gather the news for you?" Country Editor: "No; we have a wife." How was it that the judge granted your divorce before even reading your petition?" He was my wife's first husband." "And I suppose, like a brave soldier, you followed your colors ? Yes; whenever there was a battle I noticed that the colors were flyiiig, so I fled too. Tommy "Ma, I dropped those letters you gave me to post." Mother (excitedly): "Dropped them Where? Tommy (calmly): "In the letter-box." Mrs Huatley Oh, our church bazaar was a wonderful success. We cleared over two thousand pounds." Mr Beenthere: What frightful robbery." How are the acoustics of that theatre ?" The what?" "Acoustic properties." "Oh—ah—yes; the acoustic properties. Why, it struck me they were tather gaudy." Any man can do it. Goldbags (looking out at the tenements): "Alas, it must be very hard to be poor." Wentman: "On the contrary. It's confoundedly easv to be Door." Editor: "I am going to make an innovation with the next serial I print which will be popular with the ladies." Publisher: "What are you going to do?" Editor: "I intend to print the closing chapter first." "What is the deepest depth of ignorance?" asked the philosopher musingly, and the man of the world made haste to answer, It is the ignorance displayed by a railway official when there has been a wrtck on his line. If you have been insulted by a man who weighs decidedly more than you do, there are two things for you to do. and two only. You can bear it with Christian fortitude, or you can hire a still heavier man to show him the error of his ways. A little Siblcy-etreet boy caught a severe cold while his mamma was out of the city, and on her return rushed up to her, eager for her sympathy, and, throw- ing his arms around her, cried, Oh, mamma, both of my eyes is a-rainiu' and one of my noses won't go," The most extraordinary exhibition of cheek is con- tained in the following polite request of a non-adver- tiser to an advertiser C'I Bee you have advertised for a clerk. Will you be so kind as to send me a list of rejected applicants after you have made your selec- tion ?" Whan a man speaks of a woman he raves over her beautiful complexion, her delicately cut features, her glossy hair, and all that sort of thing. When a woman wishes to describe one of her sex, she simply tells what she had on. Each paiticularises what each values the highest. First Gent (coming up behind second gent and giving him a rousing slap upon the shoulder): II Howdy, Bob! Don't you remember me?" Second Gent (who proves to be a total stranger) answers coldly I can't recall your face, air, but I've seen fellows before with cheek similar to yours." Wife "What are you sitting by that open window for ? Do you want to catch your death of cold ?" Husband That new homoeopathic doctor across the way says that he can cure the worse cold in two days. I bet him five shillings he can't I am going to win his money." Mrs Oldtymes These new notions about feeding babies with nothing but sterillizad milk and boiled water are all nonsense. They make a heap of work all for nothing. I had eleven babies, and I ought to know something about it. The old ways are good enough." Young Mother II And did your children all grow up to maturity ?"—Mrs Oldtymes Two of them did." The Lancet says that when s man wants to sneeze and cannot, if he goes into the sunlight he will find the effect equal to that of snuff. This information must prove a great comfort to a man when an elusive snetze Eeizes his nasal organ about nine o'clock p.m. He can either make a tiip to some country where the sun is shining, or defer the sneeze until the next morning. These crazy spelling reformers are trying to per- suade people to spell kiss with one a. The attempt will be a failure. The man who lifts a finger, so to speak, to shorten a kiss, w:1! biiug upon himself the hatred of the rising generation. The tendency is rather to add more s's. That is to make the kiss a yard, a yard and a half, or two yards long, or as long as a strong young man can hold his breath. In spite of Signor having resided so long in England, and the fact that he married an English lady, he never learned to speak our language with any degree of fluency or correctness. At one time, when he was staying at an hotel at Brighton, he missed his hair-brush unable to find it, he rang his bell, and when his servant appeared he said, in a very serious tone Yesterday I was a hair-brush to-day—where am I A pious father entered a club last evening, and to his infinite surprise nnd unspeakable mortification discovered his only son seated at a card table, and in. dulging in the wicked game of nap. He turned cut the youth uncuemoniousiy; then, looking at the cards that had been left face down on the table, he ni ticed that hia ht-ir had left a very promi?ing hand, and so he sat down and played it. and got double nap. Thus is vii tne rewarded. We have received a story entitled "A Dark Deed," which is respectfully declined. The fiist chapter opens with It was midnight." That is all right. It is oftan midnight—at least seven times a week but the author forgot to add, and silence brooded o'er the city." This is a fatal oversight. Silence always broods over a city when it is midnight in works of fiction-nowhere else. We can't print a I story in which silence does not brood at midnight. Speaking of Gripper, Brown was saying that he was the closest-fisted man he ever knew. Why," says Brown, he's jui-tthe kind of a man to give a serpent if a wayfarer asked him for a fish." You wrong him there," interrupted Fogg, who never will hear an absent one maligned Cl you wrong him there. I am willing to admit that Gripper wouldn't give the fish, but I'm sure he'd never squander a serpent on a etranger," Sir Boyle Roche. the eminent "bullist," has a descendant at Lake Luzerne, New York, if one may judge from his conversation. One of his patrons (the last individual is a boatman) at the close of last season called for his account. "'Ere it is, sir," said "'h 1 ars and ten cents. 8 e orlgma, l'welve dollars and ten cents." Phew!" whitled the debtor, I'll have to run up to the hotel and borrow the money to pay you." Oh, don't trouble to do that, sir," replied the boatman, I can lend you the money." A CHINESE CHRISTMAS CARD. Wiites a Hong Kong correspondent I enclose a Chinese Christmas card, the paper of which is made from rice, and the poetry of whicn8 as follows :— Tune-" Ring the Bell, Watchman." Ling alia joas bells, ling, ling, ling, Klisimas time just now walkee in My makee sing song, you makee play, Melly, melly Klihimas hav come to-day. When you get an illegible letter from a corres- pondent don't lose your temper and write him a scathing rebuke. Just sit down in a good humour concoct one like this of Mr T. P. Aldrich to Pro- fessor E. S. Morse :—" My dear Morse,—It was very pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think I mastered anything beyond the date—which I knew- and the signature—which I guessed at. There is a singular and perpetual charm in a letter of yours it never grows old it never loses its novelty. One can aay to one's self every morning, here's a letter of Morse'?. I haven't read it yet. I think I'll take another shy at it to-day, and maybe I shall be able in the course of a few years to make out whit he means by those t'a that look like w's and those is that have no eyebrows. Other letters are read and thrown "w" y'but yours are kept for ever-unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime. Admir. ingly Joure, T. B. Aldricb." Pearton's Weekly.

I GENERAL. NEWS. I On Friday the frozen body of a young farmer was I found on Exmoor. The Bishop of Lincoln is to be further proceeded against for Ritualistic practices. On Tuesday morning Mrs Brown, of the Black Horse llotJ, Kirkbam. died in her 100th year. The Persian Government has decided to give I England the privilege of coining their money. During the past month the imports into Germany of English coal have exceeded those of several years past. During the election riot at Moran, in the Argentine Republic, twenty persons were either killed or wounded. Pleuro-pneuraonia having broken out on a farm at Catherton, near Rutjby, i; herd oi 35 dairy cows is being slaughtered. = An English gentleman has had an extraordinary run d luck at Monte Carl' winning 32,000 francs in the course of a day. There has just been lmrit, at Bratmhaw, James Well-, the oltlest inhabitant of Hampshire, who had reached the age of 104 years. Having saturated her clothes with petroleum and then sent fire to them, a woman at Odessa was in a few minutes burnt to cinders. Mr Millies Gaskell, M P., has given a site for a public park at Wakefield, and it is to be laid out by the Cornoration at a cost of £ 2.000. In twenty-four hours nearly 300 deaths li.,tve tikeri place at Chicago fr.:m influenza. Th., streets leading to the cemeteries have been blocked with funeials. Fire broke out at an hotel in Austin, Pennsylvania, late on Friday night, and fuur persons were either killed or burnt to death in their effoits to escape. The parish church of Bishopsioke, Wilts, has been partially destroyed hy fire, which originated in the flue of a new heating apparatus under the tower. Saturday being the anriiveisary of the death of the Duke of Albany, the (ju,,en diove to Cannes from Grasse to visit the Viila Nevada, where the Prince died. The alterations in the rales of wages to the men employed at the Royal Dockyards will involve an increased annual expenditure of between £70,000 and £ 80,000. A Hertford train dashed into a siding at Hatfield, smashing the bufferi-, surmounting the earthwork, and partly wrecking the refreshment-room. No one was injured. To prevent street begging in Chicago, a company is being organised which will furnish free lodgings and meals to men out of work, but who are willing to be employed. During an amateur dramatic performance at Man- chester on Tuesday night a compositor named Whulley fell on the stage, and died while being conveyed to the infirmary. For having obtained about R40 from a girl named Henderson on the promise of telling her fortune, Viera Smith, a gipsy, was at Glasgow sentenced to a month's imprisonment. A Boscastle, Cornwall, correspondent states that two slight earthquake shocks were felt there on Thursday, houses were shaken and the cround vib- rated for several seconds. Mr Findlay, the general manager of the London and North- Western Railway Company, was offered a place on the Labor Commission, but his many engage- ments compelled him to decline. I An appeal was issued oil Tuesday for subscriptions to a guarantee fund to enable the committee ap- pointed at Blackburn to appeal to the House of Lords in the Clitberoe abduction case. Jane Davies, aged 60, has been awarded 1:250 dam- ages at Hereford in an action which she biou^ht t against Lewis IL Lloyd, an elderly baker and grocer I for breach of promise of marriage. The wife of William Thomas Grimier, landlord of the Red King Hotel, Whitt field, fifty-one vears of age, has died from taking by mistake a dose of prusstc acid, instead of aniseed, for her ccugh. 11,400 Church schools were visited by diocesan in- spectors in 1889. Out of the 1,700,000 children only 5662 were withdrawn from any part of religious in- struction, and 2998 from all of it entirely. Julia Murphy, aged 12. has been at Hackft-town I I pnmmittod to the WivKluw Q. &or Ofessions for trial, charged with attempting to murder a family by putting a quantity of corrosive sublimate into a tea kettle. The great billiard match has resulted in a victory for Peall, he having run up 24,000 when Roberts, who had given a start of 12,000, had made only 21.410. Peall, therefore, had a lead at the close of 2,590 points. Two persons have been arrested in Paris charged with having committed numerous robberies in one of the churches. Upon one of the prisoners was found 8,400 francs, while the other was in possession of twelve empty purees. Maggie Mossman, aged 23, domestic servant, in the employ of Mr Percy Rodwell, farmer, of Kimcote, was found dead on Tuesday morning in a cell of Lutterworth Police.atation, having strangled herself with her apron strings. At the Lake of Como an experiment has been made with a submarine cannon invented by Signor Toselli. The cannon was sunk to a depth of more than 350 feet, and, in spite of the pressure of the water, the projectile fired was able to sink a boat. Mr Crompton Minn, a retired London merchant, aged 63, drowned himself in the Avon, at Bath, on Sunday night. He had been suffering from tits of extreme depression and nervousness, his chief delusion being that he was likely to become mad. The Tipperary riot trials concluded at Cork on Saturday. After deliberating for more than an hour, the jury acquitted three < f the defendants, but were unable to agree upon a verdict as to the other two—Mr O'Brien, Dalton and Mr Gill. Lord Kyllachy, while playing golf at Prestwick with Lord Rutterford Clark, another judge of the Court of Session, Edinburgh, and two other gentlmen, received a severe wound on the head from ablow with a golf ball. The wound bled profusely. It having transpired that the expense of defending the licensing appeal, Sharp v. Wakefield," nearly amounting to £1.000 will fall on some eight of the Westmoreland magistrates, a movement has been started to raise that sum by a special subscription. Alexander Robertson, the well-known "Dundon- nachie," was charged at Edinburgh on Monday, with having assaulted the Lord Justice Genera). As the accused was suffering from monomania, he was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. On Monday, at Oldham, a youth named Turner was remanded on the charge of attempting to murder Mary Ellen Moran, his sweetheart, by cutting her throat. Jealousy was the cause of the outrage. The woman died on Monday from the effects of her wounds. Leeds Corn Millers' Association further advanced the price of Bour on Tuesday by eighteen pence per sack, mhking a total increase of five shillings and six- pence for the month. The continuous advance is attributed to the persistent rise in tho price of Eng- lish and foreign wheat. A man named French has confessed to the Maid- stone police that he was in company with the perpe- trator of the latest White chapel (London) murder on the fright of the tragedy, and that the crime fol- lowed upon a burglary, of the proceeds of which the woman wanted a share. Lord Granvillp. who has long led the Liberal party in the Hou-e of L'irdp, died at his London residence on Tuesday, after an illness extending over feveral weeks. He had been in pubic life more than half a cen- tury, and had filled many important offices of State, notably that of Foreign Secretary. Baron de Fava, the Italian Minister of the United States, has presented letters of recall to the State Department at Washington. This tep caused great surprise. The reason given is that King Humbert is dissatisfied with the progress of the negotiations in regard to the lynching at New Orleans. The North Cornwall Hounds met at Colquite Lodge, and whilst drawing Dunmere Wood, near Bodmin, two of the hounds fell dead, evidently from the e ffects of poieon. Several others were taken ill, but ultimately recovered. The remainder of the pack were immediately called off, and returned to kennel. While some goods wagons were being detached from a mixed train near Kesh station, on the Great North of Ireland Railway, on Saturday, the carriages ran down an incline into a siding, crushing an engine and several wagons there. The passengers were greatly alarmed and much shaken, but none of them seriously injured. On Sunday afternoon a young man hired a boat at East Greenwich, and having rowed to the opposite shore took on board a boy and girl. Near Milwall Pier the boat capsized, and all were thrown into the, water. A waterman made great efforts to save them and with much difficulty rescued the children, but the man was drowned. A terrible cyclone has just swept over the Fiji and Navigator Islands. In the vicinity of those islands twelve vessels were wrecked and forty persons drowned. In the Fiji group twenty houses were demolished and eight persons killed. At Sara a number of houses were blown down, and the Catholic Mission House was damaged. Miss Durand, an actress engaged at a variety theatre at Portland, Oregon, having refused to marry the owner of a gambling house named Elliott, the latter went to the theatre, and from a private box began shooting at a group of girls upon the stage, among whom was Misa Durand. The latter, however, escaped, but two of her companions were killed. The murderer then ihot himself dead.

WELSH AND BORDER NOTES. Mr Pritchard Morgan, M.P., has contributed ?50 to the fund for the proposed intermediate school for Merthyr. The Whitchurch tradesmen have decided to close at two on Wednesdays, except on the days when cheese fairs are held, and then at four. Whilst crossing the river from Birkenhead in one of the Woodaide ferry boat-4, on Saturday, a woman, jumped overboard, but was rescued aft!r some difficulty. Lord Ponrhyn s keeper* on Monday trapped three otters tie,' r the mouth of the Cenin river, Bangor. The animals hud been doing gre »t havoc amongst the fi h in the river. 1 ha Master and membeisof the Wvnnstay Hunt propose to e? tertain tlõe 'arger faimeis over whosj land they hunt in the neighbourhood of Eilesrnere at luncheon on April 20, and to hold a horse show. The Council of Aberystwyth University College ar. making an urgent appeal, not only for 28 000 to clear off the debt on the building, but for E20 000 to enable t::em to extend the educational work of the college. It hns been resolved, at a conference in South Wales that there should be only two Bapti-t Colleges in Wales, one at Bangor and the other at Cardiff, to enable the students to enjoy the advantages of the University Colleges in those places. The Bishop of Chester on Tuesday confirmed ninety-sfven candidates at the private cii:<pt-.l a' Eaton Hail, the candidates inr-ludiziz Lord Gerald O roavonc, Lady Constance and Lady Let ice Grosvtnar, and Miss Cecil Parker. At Carnarvon on Tu-sday, the Hon. Mrs Ellis Nanney was preset.t.'d with a portrait of h-r husband, in recognition of his servicts t) the ConservaUvp cause. C ). rfackville West and Sir John ruies.of, ,N].P took part in the pruoeediiijjs. A meeting of WVlsh clergy was held on Tuesday at Bangor, to consider the advisability of founding a Welsh church at Chicago. The Rev. T. Edwards, the newly-appointed Rector of Llanllyfni, who has travelled much in the United States, wa3 a prominent advocate in favor of the project. Anglesey Chair Eisteddvod took place at Llangefni on Monday, when the prize of fifteen guineas for the best rende, in of a song by a choir of net less than sixty voices was awarded to Carnarvon Ssgontinm Society. Conway Castle band was successful in the quick-step competition on any march. The annual festival of village choirs was held at Eaton, on Monday, when "The Messiah," with the exception only of one or two of the solow and choruses, was performed. Th° principal artistes were Mrs Mary Davies. Miss A ice Lamb, Mr White, of Liver- pool, and Mr G ¡ ic. S., Par.1V, London. Wel-hmen in London who are adherents to the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion have united in hold- ing an Easter series of Cymanfa. Some of the most, di-tinguishtd preachers from the Principality have tiken part. Forty-six sermons have been preached, of which twenty-five were delivered on Sunday at the eight chapels in London belonging to the connexion. Strong protests were made by delegates to the Con- ference of the National Union of Elementary Teachers at Cardiff, on Wednesday, against the favoritism and oiffciou8ne8s of country clergy. Instances were cited in which masters had been dismissed for absence from church on Sunday; and it was said that attempts were frequently made to fuse school work with chuich choir oversight. The South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation hpld two largely-attended conferences at Cardigan on Tuesday. Among the res Ititions adopted was one requesting Welah members to pu-h forwaid the Welsh Local Option Bill. Another renffirmed the demand of Wales that tithes shou'd be rationalised, and denounced the Tithe Act just passed by the Government. John Williams, laborer, was charged at Conway on Tuesday with assaulting a married woman at Towyn. The assault occurred some time ago, but the prisoner eluded custody. When the case was called, no wit- nesses were forthcoming, and the prisoner, who had been in custody since Thursday, was discharged. Later in the day the witnesses appeared, having mis- taken the time for the court meeting. The Cou t of Governors of the University College of North Wales, at their meeting at Bangor on Wednesday, resolved to appoint a committee to con- sider the means of obtaining a degre;-conferrintj university for Wales. It was decided to extend the College's work of agricultural education to Shrop- shire. Among those present were the Bishop and Dean of S\ Asaph, Sir R. A. Cutiliffe-, and Mr J. Evanp, Bala Grammar School.

CAER^WITIJJIJ JNOTJSS AND I COMMENTS. A rare time to learn the art of oratory is at one of our vestry meetings. Oh the bells of Aberdovc-y, how sweetly they will ring. The glove of defiance has been thrown at the feet of St. Asaph, but, "bow down ye slaves, bow down." Are we giving a Roland for an Oliver ? The Rev. R. Robeits will act as curate-in-charge till June. May fortune smile upon him. Will the Railway Company nelp the parish in the matter of the Sarn Bridge ?

ISYCOKD ECHOES. I We have had a vestry meeting. According to notice it should have been held in the schoolroom. It is whispored the room is too cold these winter evenings. Perhaps the convener of the met ting did not cousuit his colleagues, Had he have done eo, his disappointment would have been avoided. A heating apparatus would be an acquisition. The posts alongside our roads lend additional charms to the view. A traveller was inquiring if they were monuments. Yes," was the answer, "of the Highway Board's desire to please the parson." It would be wis9 to fence these posts, and coat with luminous paint. They would net then be so dangerous. A thoughtful one suggests that oil lamps be fixed to them on dark nights.

RUMOURS FROM RUABON. I That Sir Watkin intends the Wynnstay House Cricket Club to shine during the coming season. That the club has a few open dates for June and July. That tbe>illage Wynnstay" club will be known as the lluabon in the future. That Mra Kirkham Jones' singing was the leading fefature at the concert on Tuesday evening. That Sir Watkin's remarks about the Impromptu' gentleman were fully deserved. That there were doubts" expressed as to whether it was Christmas or Easter. Thfrt the lime light lecture, so abruptly terminated on Wednesday evening, in the Wesleyan Chapel, owing to the apparatus, will be given next Wednes- day.

LITERARY NOTICES & REVIEWS. I THE BOY'S OWN PAPER for April contains the opening chapters of a new story by A. Laurie, en- titled Maurice Kerdic." The scene is laid in Persia, and the story promises to be very interesting. Mr Laurie seems to have taken Jules Verne's place amongst the contributors to the B.O.P. The Rev A H. Malan has a readable article, "Photographing the Dutchman." Two instructive articles oi wood carving for boys are contributed by Fred Miller. In THE LEISURE flOUR for April, the principal article is one on the Statesmen of France. The study, in character, is that of Horace. It is rather out of date, but is nevertheless interesting. Northampton is the county whose story is told by Canon Creighton this month.

In answer to inquiries, we wish to Atate that the PEKOE BLEND advertsed by PHILLIPS AND Co., is an Indian Pekoe Tea. It is superior to the old-fashioned Orange Pekoe of China in being stronger and richer in flavour, besides being absolutely purp. It iq sold in wrapper printed in red ink at Is Sd a pound, for net cash only. 99 The Editor of the Medical Annual lor 1890 poins out that potash is largely used to add to the solubility of many of the Cocoas at present sold, but that, in marked contrast MESSRS. CADBURY supply an absolutely pure Cocoa of the highest quality; and that the name CADBCRY on any packet of Cocoa is a guarantee of purity. 2459 Liverpool Remedy relieves in twenty minutes, and cures in a few days, out. rheumatism, tic, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, &c. Pust free, 15 stamps.—56, Boaler-stres t Liverpool. 1642 It is so The Piles Laxativp, guaranteed cure for Piles. Post-free 15 stamps.—56, Boaler-street, Liver. p.ol" 1642 210 12s 6i per lb. for tea. Purchased by the MAZAWATTEE CEYLON TEA Co., London.— Agents for Mazawattee in Wrexham, H. and T. Jones. m

I CORRESPONDENCE. I RUABON SEWERAGE I SIR,-I beg very humbly to apologise to Mr Penn Dennis for using his name in connection with the above. It should have been Mr Dyke Dennis and i not Mr Penu Dennis. I am glad to find that the nuisance complained of has to some extent been remedied. Hoping Mr P. Dennis will accept this apology, I am, &c., J. LL. THOMAS. I THE NEW TOWN HALL. SlKj—I have been rather surprised that no oue has ventilated his views upon the want of a Town Hall for Wrexham. There seems to be a general opinion that something is wanted in the place of the rococo edifice in Chester-street. The Mayor and other members of the Council have spoken in I favor of a big plan. I hope this will come to pass, but Shades of Sir Christopher Wren No more I patchiug or adapting for the Borough d credit sake. —I am, &c., BURGESS. RUTHIN GUARDIANS AND THE INDUSTRIAL TRAINER. SIR,-I feel convinced that the majority of all right-thinking pwple resent with just indignation Mr Rouw's attack upon the industrial trainer, a3, reported in the columns of your last issue. The fact that the chairman of the Board-a bosom friend of Mr Rouw's—should have pronounced her explanation satisfactory, conclusively proves, in my humble opinion, that the attack was moat wanton and unjustifiable, and that the supposed breach of discipline existed only in Mr Rouw's own fragile imagination, I rejoice, however, to think that he will have to fight for his re-election at the forthcoming contest, and that I shall have an opportunity of marking my disapprobation of his conduct in a tangible form, by recording my vote against him, and thus be instrumental in some degree, I hope, in relegating him to the limbo of obscurity, at all events as far as membership of the Ruthin Board of Gardians is concerned.—I am, &c., ANTI-SLAVEUY. Ruthin, 30th March, 1891. WREXHAM SCHOJL OF ART. I SIR,-I am convinced that no one will fail to feel delighted with the success which has attended the Wrexham School of Art. It is needless to say how valuable an educational agency drawing if, for evcryoue knows that even supposing a boy or girl is not intended for any profession or trade in which it will not be required in its immediate and nominal form, it is well they should have a knowledge of it, because of the training it gives to the eye, and the use it is in tempering the student's sense of pro- portion. Indeed art has more than a material side, for its moral aspect is invaluable. I know I am writing what is trite to many, but it may be that these lines will be read by some who have not yet interested themselves in the classes. But it was with another object I write. It is to wish success to Aid Jno. Jones'appeal to the Town Council to provide permanent rooms for the classes. His plan, as sketched at the last committee meet- ing, appears to me admirable, and possibly there are those who sympathise with the movement who would subscribe, and so make the amount which I am sure the Town Council will grant. The money matter is trivial, and the only question is, will the provision suggested be satisfactory ? It sounds well, but of course until the plans are seen it is impossible to say with absolute certainty. I have no reason to doubt Aid. Jones' opinion that they will, and so I hope he will succeed.—I am, & PERSPECTIVE. THE BRYMBO BURIAL SCANDAL. I SIR,-I am sorry for the Vicar of Brymbo, he cannot forget the above. His last letter is only a i repetition of hia previous letters, the same old assertions. I have only one or two remarks in reply to his last. 1. I suggested the only practical meaus of settling the whole matter, viz. :-That Mr Roberts and myself should meet at the house of the widow, and for her in our presence to settle the dispute, and he took no notice whatever of it. Why ? I will leave the public to draw their own conclusion. 2 I had a legal right to arrange the funeral for Sunday, and I had the authority of my sister-in- law, the widow. The only difference the Act makes in reference to Sunday is that if the hour fixed in the notice clashes with a service in the Church the vicar or rector, as the case may be, is to fix another convenient hour. 3. Tho Vioar had no legal right to reject the notice I caused to be served for the funeral, and I still say that he was not authorised by the widow. The certificates he has produced were all drawn out after the funeral, and I still maintain that their object was to try to justify an illegal Act. 4. The statement I published was duly signed by the widow in my brother's presence, which contains a true statement of the facts of the case. 1 will now leave the matter, and not follow the Vicar in his trash about his broth, it seems that he has spoilt his own broth, and no fencing about words will clear him of his mistake.—I am, &c., ROBERT DAVIES, Lodge, Brymbo. TEA AT ;ClO PER LB. I SIR,-Referring to a communication which appeared under this heading in a recent issue, may we add that the high prices realized lately in Mincing-lane for several parcels of Ceylon tea ha-. e been the subject of much curiosity, if not perplexity, to those who perhaps supply their own needs at la Sd or 29 a pound. If we may be allowed to contribute an opinion to the solution of the problem, we would say that the intrinsic value in such teas does not in any sense correspond to their cost. It may be noticed in the first place that these fine teas invariably consist of a few small packages only, and consequently the buyer has only to calculate how much per pound he can afford to pay, or to lose, to obtain a gratuitous advertisement throughout the country. Such teas as those above referred to undoubtedly represent the finest products of Ceylon, picked and prepared at immense trouble, but for a purpose which has of late been abundantly attained by bringing both growers and buyers into publicity. A short time since an immensely fine parcel of tea from the Hethersett Estate was sold in Mincing Lane at a very high figure, and out of curiosity we obtained a small portion of the consignment, which we valued as being intrinsically worth about 49 6d per pound. If this tea had been sold at 59 per pound, probably no one would have cared to give 6s for it, but because the tea was run up in public sale to 30s 6d per pound, this absurd figure proved a reason why it should bring a still higher price, and the parcel became divided up between dealers &nd brokers, some of it eventually selling at 5s per ounce. Whether such teas pay the planter or not is open to question, but that as a marketable article they are not worth more than as or 6s a pound is a certainty, and any one at all acquainted with the London market knows very well what a joke these high figures are considered in Mincing Lane. With reference to a further remark of your cor- respondent to the effect that finest China teas now-a-days do not see light in this country," we would observe that although the proportion of finest China tea consumed in Great Britain is relatively small, this is owing, not to the competi- tion of Russian dealers, but because the British consumer has decided that the finest growths of both India and Ceylon tea are really superior to anything that China ever has been, or is capable of I producing.—We are, &c., 1, Town Hill. PHILLIPS & Co. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. I SIR,-I yield to no one in my admiration of the English Sunday when rightly observed and on intelligible principles, but the debate at the Deanery meeting recorded in the Advertiser of last week might well have been a discussion at a local Sauhedrim supported by arguments drawn from the Talmud for all the Christianity there is in the ¡' report. It is clear that the old muddle-headed spirit of Puritanism is not dead yet even in the I Church. There is a sect of Protestants called the Seventh Day Baptists, who at least are logical when they repudiate the Christian Sunday, and observe the Sabbath according to the Fourth Commandment, pinning their faith on Exodus as our enlightened leaders at the Deanery meeting did, and ignoring the fact that a special command as part of the ceremonial law given to the Peculiar People can only bind Christians in so far as it is allowed and approved by the Catholic Church. What then has been the action of the Church in this matter ? The Jewish Sabbath, the seventh day, has been vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day, or, as Justin Martyr and Tertullian call it, Sunday, the first day of the week and Christians observe the Sunday, not on account of Exodus, but because of the great events which happened on that day, the greatest of which has just been commemorated by the whole Christian Church-the Feast of Easter. That Christians should abstain from following their usual calling on the Lord's Day is admitted, the reason being that they should devote that day particularly t3 God's service, not forgetting the assembling of themselves together" especially at the Eucharist, which should, as in early Christian times, form the great service of the day. But that men should not enjoy any innocent amusement on Sunday, and toys should be put away and everybody, young and old should walk abuut with the whites of their eyes turned up, and the corners of their mouths drawn down like mutes at a funeral, is a monstrous perversion of the Sun- day, and an insult to Him who was Lord also of the Sabbath. Neither can I see why people should not recei ve their friends on the Sundav, or even heathen strangers. If it was lawful to heal, to pluck the ear of corn, to pull an ox er an ass out of a pit, and generally to do well on the Jewish Sabbath, it is most certainly not unlawful to enter- tain strangers according to their degree on the Christian Sunday, and it is greatly to be regretted that such excellent men and sound churchmen as the Duke of Westminster and Lord Salisbury should have been, without protest, so lightly sp Iken of. But while we speak of the Sunday, what is to be said, in this over professing Christian Wales of ours, of the utter neglect, or worse, of the most solemn day in all the year, Good Friday, the anniversary of the death of Him whose followers we so louldly profess ourselves to be. What would be said of one member of a family who should select j the anniversary oi his mother's death fur tea drink. ing, fetes, dancings, and excursions, not to mention I what is too often the sequel, mere drunkenness and debauchery. Yet disobaervance of this one rests on the same authority as the otheis, and the fourth commandment applies alike as far as it applies at all, under the Christian dispensation, to all the fasts and festivals of the church, whether Sundays or Saint days.—I am, &c., A CHURCHMAN.

I ANNUAL DINNER. The annual meeting of the Vale of Llangollen Beagles was held at the Royal Hotel, Llangollen, on Wednesday evening, under the presidency of Mr Aveline Tanqueray, after which the members of the hunt dined at the hotel. The annual report was adopted by the members, and was considered to be of a most satisfactory character. There was a considerable increase in the number of members during the year, and the accounts showed that there was a substantial balance in the hands of the treasurer. Excellent sport had been enjoyed throughout the season, and hopes were expressed that the hunt might become increasingly popular in the district. Mr Aveline Tanqueray presided at the annual dinner, and the vice-choir was taken by Mr T. R. Hughes Parry. Among those present were Mr C. P. Jones, Oakleigh Mr George C. Richardson, Maesmawr: Mr Hungerford Davies, Wenffrwd Mr W. R. E ltitrds, The Tower Mr R. Ll. Baker, Mr Bethel Roberts, Mr J. E. Griffiths, Mr James S. Shaw, &c. ———— —————

PROPOSED LOCAL BOARD FOR COllWEN. At Corwen Rural Sanitary Authority on Thurs- day, Mr Murray Browne. Poor Lw Inspector, Rhyl, attended to give the decision of the Local Government B"ard in regard to the appeal sent up by the local Authority against the order made by the Merioneth County Council to establish a Local Board for the town of Corwen. Mr Murray Browne, announced that the Local Government Board will defer their decision in this case, 80 as to give the Sanitary Authority an opportunity of giving the Board an assurance as to the works required, which they are prepared to undertake, and as that their intentions in future in regard to the due exercise of the powers entrusted to them. A resolution, moved by Mr W. E. Williams, was adopted, pledging the Authority to carry out any improvements as to the drainage, &c of the town of Corwen, which they may consider from time to time to be necessary.—The Chairman, Dr Jones, then gave notice that he will move on the next meeting the appointment of a parochial committee for the Parish of Corwen.

LLANGOLLEN LOCAL BOARD I ELECTION. Wednesday was the last day for receiving nominations of members to fill the three vacancies taking place on the Board this year. The following nominations have been made :—Mr S. Lloyd Jones, flannel manufacturer, by Mr John Morris Mr Thomas Rogers, butcher, by Mr Thos. Roberts; Mr David Parry, Dee House, by Mr E. H. Mathews; Mr Edward Roberts, Fronhyfryd by Mr John Roberts Mr H. C- Thomas, by Mr J. O. Thomas, Board School. The first three are old members, Mr Lloyd Jones being the present chairman of the Board. In the event of a contest, the voting papers will be distributed on the 2nd of April, and collected on the 6th, the counting taking place the following day. [The above appeared in a portion of last week's issue.] —

MARKETS. WREXHAM.- THURSDAY. s. d. p, d. Red wheat (new), per 75lbs 5 6 to 5 9 Oats (old), per bushel of 45.bs, 3 4 to 3 10 Malting barley, per 701bq 4 6 to 4 11 Grinding per 641bs. 3 6 to 4 0 Potatoes, per 901bs, 3 6 to 0 0 Butter, per lb. of Iiioz 1 3 to 1 4 Beef, per lb. 7 to 9 Mutton, per lb. 5 to 9 Pork, 7 to 9 Veal It 7 to 9 Fowls, per couple 3 6 to 5 0 Ducks, 91 4 0 to 5 0 Ge-se, per lb. 9 to 10 Eggs 11 to 15 for a shilling. MOL WEDNESDAY.—Wheat (new) 1..8 Od to lis 6d barley, 9s tid to 10J oats, 7s' d to 7s 6d oats (new), 6s Oil to 6s 6d potatoes, 8s to 8s 6d per hamper fresh ULtter, Is 5d to Is 6d per lb. eggs, 16 to 18 for a shilling. RUTHIN. TUESOAY.—There was rather a small attendance, and prices were as per last week's quotations. DENBIGH. WEDNESDAY.—The m irket was slow, but the supply was large, and steady business was accomplished. There was a slight increase in the price of wheat, which sold at 12s to 12s lid per hobbet. Barley, 9s to 10s. Oats, 7s to 7s 6d. Cluverseed, 7d to 9d per lb. Fowls, 4s 6d to 5s per couple. Fresh butter, Is 4d to Is 5d per lb. Kggs from 18 to 20 fur a shilling. Fowls and eggs sold rapidly for transporta- tion, CHES TEli. CORN, Saturday.—The market has a deseited appearance, local horse show interfering with the attendance, there being but few farmers at market, with a limited supply only of wheat, the few samples offering selling readily at previous full prices, which are repeated in quotations for to-day, viz. :-5s 7d to 5s 8d per 751bs. All other grain firm. Oats and be.ins slightly dearer. Barley unchanged. Indian corn, owing to short supplies, is 4d per 1 Oils, higher since this day week. Quotations :-Wheat, white, 5s 8d per 751bs. red, 5s 7d to 5s 8d barley, m lLing, 4s to 4s 2d per 6Ulbs. grinding, 3s to 3-:1 6d per (541i s. oats, 3s to 3s 6d per 461bs beang, 5s 3 1 per SO.bg. Egyptian, 32s per 4801bs. Indian corn, feed, ti, 6d per lOOlbs. CREWE. CATTLE, Alonday.-Small supply of fat and store stock. GO.11 atttniance of buyers Prices: Bset t>i-i to 7d, mutton Si 1 to 9d, real 9d, porket pigs 8s 9d to Is per sc re, bacon pigs 8s 6d per score, new milch and calving cow. and heifer*, JjIt} tu .£2, barrens .£10 to £ 3, stisks X7 to E.4, yearlings £5 to 17. store pigs 17s to '.iZ'a. SHREWSBURY. CORN, Saturday.—Tnis market was thinly attended, and little business was done. Wheat was in small supply, and realised last week's full prices. Quotations:—White wheat, 53 6d to 53 9>1 per 751 s. red wheat, 5s 4d to 5s Sd malting barley, 48 3d to) 4s HIl per 701b?. grinding barley, 4i to 4i 9d; oats, 14561 to 16, 6Li per 2257bs. peas. 14s 6d to 15s 6d bsans, 15s to ltis per 210lbs. OSWESTRY. White wheat (per 751bs ), 5; 6d to 51 9 i red wheat (new). 5s 5d to 5s 8d oas* (new) per measure, 13s 4d to 14s 7d milling barley (per measure), 17s to 19s U d potatoes, 3s 6d to 4s lid per measure butter, Is 3d to Is 5d per lb. beef, 7d to 9.1 mutton, 8d to Ud veal, 8d to 9d pork, tid to 8d fowls. 4,. Od to 5s Od per couple ducks, 5s Od to (is Oil eggs, 15 to 18 for a shilling. ELL a.SMEKE. TUESDAY.—White wheat, 5s 2d to 5t 4D red, 5s Id to 5s 3d per 75!bs. barley, 4s 8d to 4s lOd oats, 3s 8d to 3s lud Indian corn, 3s 8d to 3s 9-i per cental eggs, 16 to 17 for Is; butter, Is 2d to Is 3d per ItSuz. fowls, 3s tid to 4s 6d per couple ducks, 5s to 5s 6d per couple. WHITCHURCH. FRIDAY.—Wheat, 4s 1M to 5s 4d per 751 bs. bar'ey, 4s to 5: per 70lbs. oats, 3i to 4s 6d per 501bs. eggs, 15 to 16 for a shilling butter, Is Id to Is 3d per 16oz. fowls, 3s 6d to 4s per couple ducks, 4i to 4s 6d per couple potatoes, 3s 3d to 3-s 6d per measure beef, 5!d to Sid per lb. mutton, 7d to 9d veal, 81 to 101d pork, 6d to 7d.

EpPS'f COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COMFORTING.— "By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of dierestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well- selected Cocoa, Mr, Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitu- tion may he gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating Jaround us ready to attack wher- ever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame." Civil Service Gazette.— Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in Packets, by Grocers, labelled- "JAMES Epps & Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, Lon- don." Also makers of Epps's Afternoon Chocolate Essence. < 2011 During col(i weather fanciers should use SPRATTS PATENT POULTRY MEAL as the first feed, giving grain at nijiht and add a little of their Granulated Prairie Meat Crissel they will find results well re-pay them. They are not condiments, but actual food;, alld al e eaten ravenously by all birds, from the twenty-four-h- ur-o!d chick to the laying hen. Your tradesman will supply you, or write for post-free sample b Spratts Patent, Limited, Bermondspy, London. 559 Try it! Worms dislodged in Children and Adulte. Post free, 15 stampe.-56, Boaler-street, Liverpool. 1643

( TRADE INTELLIGENCE. I COAL AND IRON. BABBON, Monday.—The holidays have been ob. served to-day by business men, a,d many of the works are temporarily closed. There is a quiet de- mand for hematite pig iron, and make rs I*iow less disposition to buy for forward delivery, because prices have still a downward tendency. Memati'.e warrants, to which the sale of pig iron is largely confined, makers doing next to no new business, are changing hands at 47" Od net cash, but makrrs cannot quote helow 50.. with the present cost of labor, and raw I material for be.-ssmer mixed numbers net f.o.b. Steelmakeis are fairiy but not fully employed. Rails are required in some large parcels, but orders are net freely given, heavy sections being steady at £ 4 12< 61, light >ec'ions £ 5 15s, and colliery rails £ 6 15s. Steel I shipbuilding nutt rial in quiet request, I ut inak-n's ara expecting new orders of considerable moment. Other qualities of steel quiet. Shipbuilders remain very busy both in shipbuilding and engineering d'.pait- mei-.t-. Iron ore quieter at 10s and lis at mines. I Coke rather cheaper at 203 to 21a de-iver;d. MIDDLESBROUGH, Tuesday. Attendance very thin. Inquiry extremely dull and no sales reported as yet, merchants quo'iny 39s for prompt deliveries of 3 Cleveland. MiddLsbroUjih warrants 37: i-id cash. Giey forge 38s. and tetidcncy of price not upward. Local hematite 523 Gd to 53s for mixed numbers. No change in finished iron and steel prices. Coke delivered lseie 13< 9 1 done. WOLVEUHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The amount of business in the local iron trade is small. Marked bars at 28 have a small sale common iron rl-alises E6 5i common sheets are slow of sale at 27 10s for doubles; rounds, flats, and squares are in fair request. There are (i!lit t sales in pitf iron at late rates. Coal in fair demand.

AGLTLCULTUKK. I AGRICULTURAL SEED TLIAL-E, LONLON, Wednesday. MESrd J ohll Shaw and Sons, seed merchants, write that the backwardness of the season still delays sowing operations. With favorable weather, a strong consumptive demand would result, under whrch the moderate stocks held would quickly disappear. As regards cloverseeds, prices are unchanged. Peas and Laricotp, with rapidly dwindling supp iea, are in britik request. Bird seeds are unaltered. Rape and ); seed 6rm.

FARMING AND THE CORN TRADE. The JIai k Lane Express of Monday says:- The aspect of our cornfields is not discouraging, but the autumn-sown wheat, although good in co!cr, and of a healthy growth, is so far behindhand that even thus early in the season the anticipations of a September harvest instead of an August crop have a strong balance of probabilities in their favor. This will show the burden of finding an extra one or two million quarters of wheat and flour on the present cereal year-a burden, of course, quite irrespective of eventual yield per acre of the new crop. The February wheat is little more than up, and will be now later than the sowings of the old year. Spring corn is wanting rain, and if the drought of the first quarter of 1891 be repeated in the second quarter, we shall have a failure of all but the hardiest and deepest- rooted of the crops. The dry, cold equinox is held by some to threaten a droughty and backward sprinj, but in this case we may say, happily, that the more weather experiences we live through, the less do we become inclined to credit any vaticinations on the subject.

A WELSH FARMER IN CANADA. We give a fourth instalment of the report of Mr W. Edward?, Bathafain, Ruthin, one of the tenant farmer delegates who visited Canada last year :— The best wheat-growing districts, in my opinion, are in Manitoba, and the same remarks will apply to all of them,commencing with Winnipeg, the cauital of Manitoba, situated 1,424 miles from Montreal. The population is 28.000, increased from 100 in 1871, Brandon, Portage-la Prairie, Neepawa, Indian Head, and Plum Creek are all grand wheat-producirg dis- tricts, and farms can be bought at about the same price in all of thm-ic., from 20s to 60s for prairie farma with buildings, and partly broken, except in the immediate neighbourhood of Winnipeg, where it a held by speculators at a higher figure, and a great deal of it rtquires draining. In crossing the stubbles in all these places I noticed the si ftness of the earth, the surface yielding under the fot t like snow and in looking at the farm implements I could nowhere dis- cover a roller the first I saw was not werthy of the name, being evidently home-made, and consisted of a number of rails nailed on to two round ends it was very light and 9 feet long, but could do no good ex. cept smoothing the surface, and would not pay for the trouble. The next, and the only other, was a very good iron cylinder roller, 3 feet in diameter, and in two pieces. I questioned the owner as to the effect of this useful implement; he confirmed the idea I had already formed, that it was not used enough by far, and that he had a heavier crop of st aw, and better grain on the rolled land. This was one of the most practical men I met in the North- West, and his opinion after using the roller for two years is worth recording for the benefit of those who are already settled there, as well as of ti e intending settlers. The use of a heavy roller on such mouldy, soft soil, must be of a great benefit. The dis- integrating Effect of the frost ought to be counteracted, and nothing will effect this but heavy rolling, by which the farmer would be amply compensated for his extra labor—in fact, I believe he could get one- third more corn on his land, of better quality, and it would ripen earlier. Consolidating the surface would also assist in keeping the frost and dampness from being drawn out d the ground too fast, which would prove of great importance in a hot season aLd. be. sides, wheat, like clover, requires a firm grip for the root. I am so convinced upon this subject that I cannot leave it without expressing my opinion, and also a hope that experiments will be carried on in Government farms. My firm belief is that two or three rollings would net be too much, and for the two last very heavy rollers should be used, either by add- ing some weight to the frame, or by using the cy inder roller that can be filled with water to any weight de. sired. The seed distributor, with small spring wheels pressing the ground after the drills, are found to answer well, but the young plant will soon spread iti roots to the soft ground on both side", and until it gets to the undisturbed soil will present for a few days a yellow, sickly appearance, indicating that its progress is much retaided. Summer frosts are complained of in some district", but the harm caused to wheat is much exaggerated, no doubt to suit the purpose of the buyer. I was in. formed by the manager of the mill in Minneapolis, United that the frl zn wheat, as they call. d it, turned Obt as good flour as the other, but not quite so much to the bushel of wheat. Hailstones in other places do cccasional damage, but they are of rare occurrence. I saw only one piece of about 30 acres of wheat damaged in this way. Leaving Brandon, and journeying westward, passing some 22 towns and cities, including some I important settlements, such as Moosomin, Wolseley, and Qll'Appelle. we come to Regina, the capital of Asaintboip, where the Member of the Dominion Parliament resides, who accompanied the delegates to Prince Albert. Regina is an important centre, having a population of 2,200, and is increasing very fast; it is the headquarters of the Morth-West Mounted Police, a force 1,000: trong, which maintains order all over the territory between Manitoba and the Rocky Mountains. The Lieutenant Governor's residence is situated about a mile beyond this station. Between this point and Calgary are thi ty-eight stations of more or less importance the delegates only stopped at Medicine Hat, and inspected the produce brought in for exhibition i.ext day, to which reference will be made in dealing with the agricultural shows. The distance from Regina to Calgary is 483 miles. On each side of the railway, at intervals, there is some excellent land, but thinly populated several large ranches, and among them some of the Canadian Agricultural Company's farms (better known as Sir John Lister Kaye's farms) are to be seen from the railway between these two points-they are ten in number, and contain 10,000 acres each. These have been valuable pioneers, and intending settlers may benefit by their succesffut, as well as by their un- successful, experiments. Although ranching in Canada has been successful in the main, the profits realised from the invested capital is not equal to the average of smaller holdings where individual attention to the stock amply compens; tes the owner. The Byttem adopted in ranching answers well in summer, and if the straw of Manitoba could be utilised as winter fodder and shelter for these large herds in, tead of being burned, I have little doubt but that the syttem would tuit both corn producers and ranchers, as the latter would suffer less from ioasea in winter, and the farmer would benefit by preserving the vegetable matter and other ingred ents contained in the straw until the land requires it, which is certain to happen in the next 20 years. I found that some difference of opillje n existed among practical men as to the effect of manure after a few crops of corn are taken from the land. One who has adopted mixed farming on the plains of Brandon declared that he got better wbest, ripening sooner, after a dressing of farmyard manure; another, who grows nothing but corn, condemned it as being worse than useless. Both farm in the same neighbourhood, the former utilising his straw and the latter burning it. This gentleman, I think, ought to consult the Ontario farmer. Calgary, the centre of all the great ranches, and the moi-t thriving town between Brandon and the Rocky Mountains, is n:c.IY situated on the Bow River, and has a population of 3,400. Baing sur. rounded by plenty of goo-I building material, the chief business places are all stone built, and'tbe town has no d, ubt an important future. Cloth manu- facturing has been commenced here, and judging from the quality produced the vei ture will no doubt prove a success. The samples of barley shown at the agricultural show also commends the district for the cultivation of that valuable cereal, and the exhibits of cattle would have been a credit to a provincial show in any country. There are several important ranches between Caleary and the Rocky Mountains, a distance of about 80 miles, which lack of time pre- vented the delegates from visiting. Leaving the un- bounded prairie behind, the Rockies present an appearance of grandeur that will baffle the most de- scriptive pen. Having reached an altitude of nearly I 3,400 feet at Calgary, and travelling 60 miles further, the line eiit-ripg the gap shows an ascent of 800 feet in 18 miles. Further on is Banff, noted for its hot sulphur springs, where invalids resort to benefit by bathing in the wonderful waterp, which bubble out of I the mountain too hot by several degrees for the patient to enter. From Banff to Stephen station, a distance of 43 miles, the railway ascends to the highest point of the Rocky Mountains, 5,296 feet, rising nearly 1,600 feet in 61 miles. The passenger becomes almost bewildered by the magnificent views, I the mountain cliffs lowering above on both sides, covered by cedar and fir-trees, the torrent below I rushing and roaring through narrow passes, presenting nature in its most picturesque garb; but all of a Budden the mind is diverted to the engineerin skU j that has given mankind this opportunity, not only of studying nature, but of admiring the accomplishments of n odern engineering. The agriculturist must pardon me for wandering for a short time from study- ing his interest, and if ever he haa the good luck of vUitiog this district he will readily forgive my weaktiesi; for scenery. With this very inadt qua&@ description of these wonderful mountains, some of their peaks rising 10,000 feet high, I will endeavour to give a tihOlt description of British Columbia. The climate in this part of Canada is all that the Britisher can desire. The Hermit and Gold Ranges are similar to the mountains of Wales, but the valleys between them are much richer than ours, and grow trees of enormous siza. It is not uncommon to see cedars and pine perfectly sound six to seven feet in diameter. and many weighing 30 to 35 tons, an,1 in sime places so thick 0:1 the ground that it would be almost impossible to pass between them. 1 put my tape around one stump, supposed to have stood the "corm. of over 2.000 years it is now some 60 feet high, and girths 56 feet, or nearly 19 feet through. The value of timber in tlritisb Columbia is not iiowr,, and the expense 01 transit and handling such :monsters is a barder that remains to be overcome. To a stranger the splitting up t pine four or five fett in diameter for firewood s ,.us an unpardonable offence. Sprue of Uie.e hod tn-.s run up 200 feet without a branch, and from 50 to 100 feet higher with very few branches of oiiiy Hituul dimensions. The land that produces these needG no other recommendation, but the clearing of even a tew acres is almost too much for individual ex. l'tion. No doubt, in a few years, the timber trade 01 Biitish Columbia will develop a mine uf wealth, and will gradually clear the laud for the ngricuituritit.

FIELD EXPERIMENTS ON GRASS LAND AT HAFODLTNOS, ABERGELE, BEPORT BY MB. DOUGLAS GILCHRIST. B.OC. In the district in which this experiment has been conducted there is considerable difficulty in keeping Krass land in good condition after it has been laid down for a few years, and in many instances it becomes quite overrun with moss. In order to combat this difficu.ty the application of lime to pasture is largely practised, and the object of the experiment is to test the effect of a dressing of hot time on such land, and also to compare its ttfect with that of other manures. The land fLr the experiment was carefully selected, so as to obtain similar con- ditions of soil 011 all the plots, and four plots were measured off, each being one-twentieth of an acre. Plot I. received an application of hot lime at the rate of 4 tons per acre. Plot II. was unmanured. Plot III. had a dressing applied of 4 cwts. basic Slajr per acre the slag contained phosphoric acid equal to 40 per cent, phosphate of lime. Plot IV. had an application of 3 cwtf. of a manure called Boø Superphosphate per acre it contained about 27 per cent, of phosphate of lime made soluble, and about 1? per cent, of ammonia. The hay harveft?d on the unmanured plot was equivalent to 16 cwts. 14 ILa. per acre on the lime plot, 17 cwts. K6 lbs. of hay per acre on the plot manured with Basic Slag, 25 c wtg. of hay per acre and on the plot manured with superphosphate, 20 cwts. 40 lbs. per acre. It will chua be seen that the lime has not given much of a return during the first year after application, and that on this land the Basic Slag has given a much more satisfactory returu than the superphosphate. This result entirely agrees with that of the other experi- ments on grass land carried out this teasou in connec- tion with the college. The cost of the superphosphate as applied was 10, 6d per acre, while the cost of the slag was 8i1 per acre. The manures were applied in the iaiter part of March. Before the pluti were mown it was m tsd that the lime had a dtcided tffect in removing a large propoition of the moss, and also that clover was more abundant on this pLlt than on any of the others. It should also be stated that the lime on the limed plot prevented the grass being so closely mown, so that for thia reason the lull result; on this plot is not hnown in the weight of the hay. The plot on which the slag had been applied had the thickest bottom of pastute. It has been arranged to continue this experiment to test the after result of the manures applied, as well as the ifftcts of a further dressing of the manures used, and it is alsi proposed to extend the experiment in order to determine the relative effect of different artificial manures on land that has been limed. Mr Sandbacb, of Hafodunot, Abergele, placed the land under experiment as well aa the manures used at the disposal of the college, and M:.jor Sandbac'i has been associated wffi myself in planning and carrying out the experiment.

COHN AVERAGES. The following is an official statement showing the quan- tities sold and the average price of British corn, imperial iiie,suie, as received from the inspectors and officers of Excise, conformably to the Act «f the 45th and 4Ch VA-ct., c-ip. -17, in the week ended March 28, lVl Quantities bold. Average Price. Qrs. Bus. s. d. Wheat 65.434 3 35 3 Barley 57,938 3 27 11 Oats 12,846 3 IS 6 Comparative statement for the corresponding week in each year from 1:-7 to 1890 Wheat. Average Barley Aver ge Oats. Average. Qrs. B. s. Ii, (Jrs. B. s. d. Qr-. B. s. d. 1SS7 .53,t>8ti 7 33 3 29,400 3 24 4 6.034 1 IS 1 1888 51,331 5 30 3 14,171 1 £ 9 7 5,881 2 15 11 1849 .56.0S5 6 30 2 33.679 5 Z5 7 S.735 3 16 11 1890 .65,171 IS £ 9 9 24,333 5 £ 9 10 12,61t; 0 18 6

IMPENDING RETIREMENT OF COL. WEST, M.P. Colonel-Cornwallis West, the Dissentient mem- ber for West Denbighshire, has intimated to the Conservative Association of the county that he does not intend to seek re-election at the next general election. The Liberal candidate is Mr G. W. Taylor. The Conservatives of Colwyn Bay held a large demonstration on Thursday evening, the principal speakers being Mr T. W. Rutsell, 1, P, and Coi. Cornwallis West, M.P. The Colwyn Bay Liberal Association presented the following protest to Col. West on his attending the Conservative meeting :—"Presented from tha Liberal Association of Colwyn Bay to Col. Corn- wallis West, M.P., attending a Unionist ticket meeting at Colwyn Bay, Thursday, 26th March, this meeting of Liberals thought it best to absent themselves from. We observe with feelinga akin to shame, though not with surprise, that you have consented, in company with T. W. Russell, Esq., M.P., to appear at a private meeting of Unionist*. You thus treat with studied neglect, nut to say contempt, the great body of your constituents by whose votes you have been empowered to ait in the House of Commons. Setting aside for the moment your strenuous upholding of the principles of coercion in the goverment of Ireland, we venture to suggest that you would have adopted a more honorable and manly course had you met your constituents in a public meeting, there to justify, as far as you might be able, the course ot aetion you have steadily pursued in support of a Tory Government. You appealed to us, the Liberal electors, as a Liberal, and with Liberalism on your tongue before your constituents you have accorded Tory votes in the House. Feeble as we feel this protest to be against the betrayal of the trust we committed to your keeping, we are nevertheless constrained to make it in defence of those principles of true Liberalism in which we steadfastly abide."

NOMINATION OF GUARDIANS. HOLYWELL. There will be contests in the parishes of Holywell, Mold, and Noi thop. The following is a list of the persons noninated, the atarisk denoting those who had not a seat on the board last year :— Holywell (five vacancies). Messrs Isaac Hughes, farmer, Bedol, Bagillt James Kerfoot fcvana, printer and publisher, the Strand, Holywell; Thomas Humphreys, grocer and provision dealer, Sea View House, Bagilit; Joseph Garner, draper, High-street, Holywell; Samuel Davies, general merchant, Britan. nia House, Bagiilt *Goodman Price Edwacda, grocer, Bagillt *Robert Foulkes, grocer, &c" Bryn Gadlys, Bagillt; *Septimus Howell, engineer, Bryn. hyfryd, Bagillt; *Thomas J. Grieni JO, gentleman, Bryntirion, Bagillt. Mold (five vacancies). -Messrs John Corbett, wine merchant, Wrexham-street; Edward Pric Edwards, tanner, Newstieet; Edward Jones, farmer, Bistre; Edward Peteis, builder, Leeswood #J »hn Lloyd, fatmcr, Maesgarmon -,Tames Peters, BjJtffi Farm, Buckley. Northop (three vacanciec).-Stes-ir-3 James Reney, shipowner, Marsh Cottage, Connah'a Quay; Win. Astbury, farmer, Galehog, Northop; Thus. Edwards, farmer, Pen y-Park, Caerfallwch; *Henry Charles Carter, shipowner, Wepre, Connah's Quay. The voting papers will be delivered on the 11th of April and collected on the 13th. —————

INTERNATIONAL MINERS' CONGRESS. The International Miners' Congress held ita first sitting in Paris on Tuesday. England was represented by forty-one delegates. Mr Burt and Mr Pickard, who both addressed the assembly, were respectively elected Treasurer-General acd Secretary-General of the Congress. The whole of Wednesday's proceedings waa taken up by a discussion of the question of the method of voting. Great difference of opinion existed,and at times much heat was displayed. The matter was still undecided when the Congress ad- ou r ned for the day.

A child three years eld has been carried off near Trencsin, in Hungary, by an eagle, iu sight of the child's father and mother. The father, who is a rait. way servant, was giving th9 signal t() an approaching train, and the child was left alone for a moment. Tie eagle seized it and disappeared with its prey into the cloude. Articles have been signed between Capt. Andrews and Captain Lawler for a race across the occan in 15ft. dories from Boston Lower Light to the Lizard in England, the race to be started the middle of June. COLMAN'S SINAPISM.-The improved patent Mustard Plaster.—Wholly of pure flour of Mustard. Cleanly in use safe for young children and delieate women. Does not scorch or blister, and ready at a moment's notice.—Sold by all Chemists and Grocers, or Post, even penny stamps for packet of three, to COLMAN'S 108, Cannon-street, London. 1608 ADVICE GRATIS.—Mr Banner, registered and doubly qualified under the Medical and Pharmacy Acts. will have great pleasure in giving his advice to anyone so painfully and peculiarly situated as not wishing to consult their family doctor, and by strictly moderate charges for medicine only, to be of some service to those requiring the benefit of his great by writing fully t) 56, Boaler-street, Liverpool. 164r4 "CADBLUT'S COCOA has, in a remarkable degree those natural elements of sustenance which givd the system endurance and hardihood, building up muscle and bodily vigor with a steady action that renders :t I a most acceptable and reliable beverage."—Health. 2459

.STRANGE FREAK OF A CLERK. I At Corwen Petty Sessions on Thursday, Richard Whitehall, clerk, Wrexham, who did not appear in answer to the summons, was charged by P.C. Edwards with furious driving and drunkenness in Corwen, on the 14th inst. The officer said defendant drove to Corwen in a trap on Saturday, in a drunken state. Hp. stated that he had driven to Vroncysyllte, and after that in the direction of Llar.gollen, thinking he was on the way home. He ultimately found himself in Corwen. He was started back by the police, but after proceeding about a mile on the road he returned. This was done a second time, and ultimately the horse, which was in a very deplorable state, was taken out of the conveyance, and stabled for the night, while defendant obtained lodgings in the town. He was allowed to diive home the following day. Fined E2. ————— —————