The Aberdare Times

BIRTHS. On the 22nd uh. the wife of P.S. Thorney, of a dmghter. Or the 24th ult., the wife of Mr. Hopkin Kneel, Quaker^ Yard, of a son. MARRIAGE. On the 15th ult., at the parish Church, Mer- thvr. Mr. John Jenkins, Godre'rcoed Farm, to Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, Quaker's Yard. On the 1st inst., at the Tabernacle Chapel, .A herd are, by the Rev. D. M. Jenkins, Mr. Thos. Me Intosh, Dean-street, Abcrdare, to Ellen, (' daughter of Mr. Thomas Istance, Aberaman.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. A # article on Education* our Board of Health rtyort, and several other matters, are unavoidably held over.

THE BRITISH SCHOOL AND MUSIC HALL Penny Readings are making their wonted progress, the lust meeting being equal, if not superior to any. PUOFESSOR MORGAN will commence a series of ♦Atertainments, at the Temperance Hall, on Mon- next. See advertisement. UNITED CONGREGATIONAL 'PTKGING. — The ] tpnrtorly meeting of the society established in this {own for the purpose of promoting Congre- «r-nal singing was held at Nazareth Calvinistic MeiViodist Chapel, on Thursday, January 2jth. *1 i:;> proceedings were opened by the reading of a *■' 'ipter and the offering up of a prayer by the V v. Thomas Roes, Aberaman. Mr. William :r'an, the well-known bard, ablv filled the ;.ir, and, aftor having addressed the meeting, lie called on Mr Danhl Griffiths, who ably led the dwir for the evening. The following tunes were I' ifr.,d with great correctness and taste, and "v. hen it is'remembered that they had only been r-eei fly practised by the- singers, the fact must h>* rptjarded as a creditable one Angel's Hymn, Lhmddewi, Rotterdam, Pwllheli, Liverpool, and C-»rmel, all of which are out of Ieuan Gwyllt's <f\»tirrr-gational Tune br)-.k. Addresses of a "t'lituMe character were delivered at intervals by j;("s-ts Thomas Davies, William Powell, and Ile^s. Thomas Rowlands, and Ebenezer Pti(,Ii, on 'he advantages of the present age having regard to congregational music, and the increase of the j-arrie. After a few words from the chairman the Meeting closed with a prayer, which was offereil tip hy the Rev. R. Saunders. PRESENTATION.—On Thursday se'nnight the '■c^gr'gation worshipping at the Old Unitarian Chapel, presented Mr Evan Griffiths, architect and surveyor, of this town, with an elegantly- ■bound Bible. The Rev. R. J. Jones, M.A., oc- cupied the chair and opened the proceedings in a lieat and suitable speech. The presentation was rmally made by Mr. Rees Price, who prefaced the pet with a few terse and pertinprt remarb, ailing the many obligations under which Mr. Vmffiths had placed the friends of the- chapel. The bible bore a suitable inscription and was fn->sented to Mr Griffiths as a mark of gratitude and esteem, for valuable professional services rendered gratuitously during the re-building and rnprovinsr the chapel, &c. Several speakers ad- drrssed the meeting in speeches highly compli- ) Umentary to Mr GritS tli3. LLWYDCOED FBNNY READINGS. -On Wednes- day se'nnight the second meeting was held in the .f 'flrner House long-room, ho audience num- bering about 120 came together, and a T-ieely varied programme was pleasantly exhaust- HI. The chair was ably filled by Mr W. Wil I'ams, (Carw Coch,) who addresse.l the meeting in a speeeh characterised by his usual good sense. A vote of thanks to the chairmnn closed the pro- -Ci<-dings. A STRUGGLE FOR POSITION. -A dispute has 1! < n for some time in existence between the G i. llys Iron Company and the Dare Valley Rail- r Company relative to the right of the latter to B".Ilit up a roadway leading from the turnpike road, near the Gadlvs Crossing, to the Gadlys Trou Wdtks. "Some few weeks ago the Railway ^'ompany, with a view of proceeding with the new h'i )ge now in course of erection near tii crossing 1^c k.3 up this road by cutting places for the foundation of one side of the bridge and, as if to piHce their intentions beyond the least doubt, they effectually blocked up the road with fencing. To get rid of this interuption the Gadlys Company ^ook up the,fereing and filled up the excavations, thus restoring the road to its former condition of usefulness. Matters appear to have remained in this position until Monday last, when a tang of excavators, headed by several of the officials of the line, proceeded to the spot and commen- ced re-opening the excavations. In this way the ordinary traffic over the road was put a stop to, t.t'd Mr. W. Davies, the manager of the works, ot-once hurried to the scene with a few of the work's labourers who, by his op lei's, refilled the cuttings as the excavators had opened them. For a long time this game of opening and shut- ting up continued, the work being conducted with exceeding good humonr on both sides. As the day wore or reinforcements seemed to be arriving, and Mr Davies, perceiving that matters could not very well be brought to a satisfactory close as they were then conducted, ordered down « lot of the" Company's Colliers, upon the arrival ,of whom the Railway officials made one or two desperate struggles to plant a stone or two and retain possesion thereof. Failing in this, they .• heat a retreat, leaving the Gadlys Company's men in peaceable possession of the field. Lest hostilities should be renewed, pickets were judi- t piously posted along the whole line of operations, -but up to now, peace and tranquilly have reign- ed over the scene. It is very creditable to all parties that, notwithstanding the provoking -character of the whale proceedings, not a single breach. of the peace occurred, unless, indeed, carrying a railway official from the top of a big stone and placing him comfortably on his legs a little distance off constitute an offence of the kind. W,NE DUTIES.—The consumption of wines in the United Kingdom, according to the returns of last year, reached a million of gaIlon3 per month, which is just double what it was before the reduction of duties. The following firms pay duty on the largest quantities of wines, as shewn by the Wine Trade Review, 20th January, 1866 W. & A. Gilbey, 364,607 gallons; Martinez, Gassiot & Co., 207,055 do.; Sandemnn, Son & Co., 150,158 do.; Dingwall, Portal & Co., 126,065 do.; R. Hooper & Sons, 110,406 do.; F. W. Cosens, 97 805. THE WAY TO PRESERVE THE PEACE.— It will be recollected by many of our readers that, -on Christmas-day last, a heavy gang of the sup- porters of the ignoble art" collected in a peace- ful spot near Hirwain to witness an encounter, of which there had been much talk, between Michael Ryan, Bank guarci, Hirwain, and Morgan Richards, alias Mocyu-y-Felin. Cwmaman. Se- veral rounds were fought, but the arrival of P. S. Thorney and P. C. Williams on the scene put an end to what promised to be what members of the P. R. would call a glorious encounter." This week eight of the prime movers in the disgraceful aflair were brought up before the Penderyn Magistrates to answer fox their conduct on that occasion. The two principals were bound over in JCIO each to keep the peace for six months, and Henry Evans, Railway Policeman David Roblin, Collier Aberdare; David Lewis, alias Dai Benlas, Hirwain Thomas Thomas, alias Twm Bryn Carno, Hirwain; Evan Thomas, alias Yant> Gambler, Hirwain, and Morgan Jones, Cwmaman landlord of the Forchneol Arms, were severally bound over in X-5 to keep the peaca for six months. The whole of the above named parties wei'e also fined Is. and costs, the eharges being I'! t'Vcu by P. S. Thoruey. and P. C, Williams.

ABERDARE PENNY READINGS. After two weeks interruption the Penny Read- ings at the Temperance Hall were resumed with considerable vigour and Success. T..e attendance did not suffer so severely from the partial discon tinuance as the friends of the movement feared. The number present, though not so large as on some occasions, was nearly equal to the average. For once we may congratulate the committee on the good order maintained. Posv.bly the noisy spirits which have so fnquentlv disturbed and disgraced these Readings were the absent ones. The proceedings were on the whole very merit- orious. it is a matter of regret thit the exertions of the committee to ensure a respectable pro- gramme, are not rewarded by a larger attendance. The chair was taken on Thurs lay by Mr. H. G. Thorn <s, late lieutenant in the army, who is re- siding temporarily in Aberdare. The following was the order of the evening Chri-ttmas Eve," by the Siloa choir; reading, Melting moments," by Mr. S. Richards' song and chorus, Gwalia," choir recitation, "flood's Bridge of sighs," by Mr. Mills, of Mountain Ash: song, "Slave chase," by Mr. Calla vav, also of Mountain Ash, accompanied on the piano bv Mr. Lnvis Evans; reading, Me Laiue's child," by Mr. C->peland song and chorus, When this civil war is over choir; reading, selection from the "His'oryof James Ferguson, the istroiiomer "Song of songs," by Mr. Callaway recitation, Uamiet's soliloquy on death," by Mr. Mills; Song and chorus, "Farewell, Lily dear," choir reading, (Welsh) by Mr. D. Lewis We< p MO more, my lady;" reading, Mrs. Lofty and L," by Master Lee; Song and chorus, choir; reading, "The idiot boy," by Mrs. Simmonds; finale, "Cod save the Queell."

HIRWAIN SECESSION. TURBULENT PUBLIC MEETING. Following in the wake of Mountain Ash, a section of the rate-payers of the Public Health District of Aberdare, residing at Hirwain, have recently been planning steps with a view of seced- ing from the parent board, and establishing a Public Health District at Hirwain. Several hole-and-corner meetings have been held for this purpose, but on Thursday evening, January 2jth, a public meeting was held at the British School, Hirwain. this having been couvened, in necessary compliance with a requistion, by one of the Churchwardens of the parish of Aberdare About the manner in which this meeting was publicly announced there has been a good deal of complaint, and from what we could learn on the evening on which it was held the publicity siven to the intentions of the promoters of the mnvu- ment was by no means satisfactory. If we are correctly informed, the bills were first seen at Aberdare on Sunday, January 21st, or the d'y previous. They were small folio crown bills, and by no means the sort of posters usually put out when a full attend-incj is thought desirable at a meeting. At the meeting under notice, which was one of the most disorderly we have ever had the pain of witnessing, on the motion of the Rev. W. Willi- ams, seconded by Mr. David Bevan, Mr. D. g. Williams was called to the chair. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, read the notice convening the meeting, whereupon a brisk spar essued between him and Mr. Aubrey as to where the announcement bills had been from the 11 th, the day they were dated, to the 20th, the day on which they were first seen posted at Hirwain. The Chairman, as wo understood, replied they ht I been with the printer, and ob- served that the question of separation was not new to the people of Hirwain, but had been talked of for years, although not yet reduced to a prac tical shape. A movement had been mads- in this direction last summer, but as Parliament was about being dissolved it was deemed advisable that the turmoil of a general election should be got through first, and tiie question again opened. He believed that the people of Hirwain had long thought of separatioa before Mountain Ash hal even dreamt of it, and he begged distinctly to 11 y state, that the movement now on foot in Hirwain was rot in consequence of the secession of Moun- tain Ash. He was glad to say that the feeling of the principal ratepayers was. in favour of se- cession, several of whom he had seen that day. So ns persons had stated that Hirwain was not sufficiently large for an independent board, but from a document published by the government yearly, he found that there were over 130 places which had adoped -the Local Government Act having a less population than Ilirwain, and one or two places having a population of less, than 300, had adoped the Act, and why should not the people of this place ask for a like privilege ? If the people of Hirwain would unite on the qaes. tion of separation he had no doubt of their ulti- mate success. The question was not so much one ofpjunda, shillings, and pence as of improved sanitary measures, and a resident local authorIty. He believed that the meeting would agree with him, that it was desirable tbey should spend their own money, and have the supervision of all sanitary measures carried out under the direction and instructions of a board in Hirwain. He trusted that all the speakers would have a fair hearing. He had not yet wit- nessed a bad rr eeting in Hirwain, and he trusted the present would form no exception to the rule. There must be a diversity of opinion upon all matters, and he understood there was some oppo- sition to the present movement, but, notwith- standing that, he claimed a fair hearing for all. Having explainod m Welsh the purport of the remarks he had jnst made in English, the Chair- man concluded by calling upon the Rev. W. Williams to move the first resolution, which was as followers: .That this meeting believes, in consequence of the daily increase in the population—and a great- er increase will soon take place-that steps should he at once taken to separate from the Aberdare Bo-ird of Health, and to establish a Local Board at Hirwain. In speaking to the above, the Rev. W. Williams dwelt upon the inconvenience of vesting in au- thorities three miles away the direction and supervision of local sanitary measures for Hir wain. He knew himself the difficulty of getting the present authorised officers .to act. He had pointed out an abominable nuisance to Mr Hall, ,the surveyor, but in consequence of his not having entered his notice on the nuisance complaint book the affair had not been attended to. This would not be the case if they had their own local board. Everything would be within reach, irvstead of walking to and fro seven miles to register a complaint as to nuisance. He considered that the people of Hirwain knew best what was re- quired for the improvement of the place, and that a local board of the people of Hirwain would manage matters much more economically than the people of Aberdare. He was also of opinion that the general position of property in the place, the form of houses, and the streets could be more efficiently and satisfactorily attended to by a re- sident local authority. He did not suppose th it Mr. Aubrey or Mr. William Williams — Mr Aubrey: Don't he pf'rs')nal-cloJJ't he personal. Chairman What fell fn>m the Hev. W. Williams was not, I am sure, intended to be offensive. The Rf-v. W. Williams 4gain made a fViv observa- tions and sat down after moving the resolution that had been read. Mr .J "hn Morgan, master smith, briefly seconded the resolution, expressing a belief that they were men enough to spend their own money at Hirwain. (M»«r. hear.) Mr Davi I W-ttkin?, Red Cow, would not like t'l see the people of Hirwain misled. If they, thought they would have their roads all put in repair by havIng- a hnard nf their own, they were making a great mistake for, first of all, they would have^to put them all right themselves first. Mr A ubrev asked if it was true they bad been stating at previous meetings tint Hirwain paid £ZGO a year towards the Aberdare Board. Chairman: The matter of money is nothing; we want It laid Ollt tlf Ie. Mr Aubrey: But YOI1 IHlve heen nnsieadui-r the people by telliag then, thev have been p iyins? £ 2fi) VP ir which is wrong. There was no district <>t a similar kind in Glamorgan where the rates were '°p!ir'irmar|e,a iV'niatters not we want what's pai l r Chw™v ".in to be spent here. (Cheers.) Mr Howel Jones said they had paid about £ 833 towards the Board since its formation, nearly 12 ^Mr Aubrey You have said before that £ 260 a year had been paid. (Cheers and il)roar.) Chairman Well, then, we stand corrected.. Rev. W.Williams: We bad included the handetof Cwmdare. „ MrAuhrey: Rut you should take care not to n people dissatisfied by making wrong statements. (Cheers and confusion.) Mr H. Jones then referred to a letter woioh had appeared in the "I.eadt'r" rt"lalivt'! to thi" q u-stion, and with reference to the size of Hirwain, he tlipught it was sufficient for them to know that there were no fewer than 130 places smaller than Hirwain where boards bad been established. (Cheers ) Mr Aubrey was quite sure they could hardly ex- pect a better state of things than at present <-xisted. A good many faults lay with themselves, and they would have to find their own remedy for them if they hadaboardoftheirownto-monow. (Hear, hear,) As to there being 130 smaller places then Hirwain tlirt had adopted the Local Government or Public Health Act, he thought that proved nothing, 140 people might commit suicide b.it it would not f il'o.v t'nt anyone bad a right to ad >pt their example. (Hear, hear.) Besides, there was no proof tii it these 130 places had ha l the adr-mtigea of a central board as they had at Hirwain. Let them look at to • Merthvr Board, extending from the top of Dmvi .is to the bottom of Troedyrhiw, taking in I'et'ncocdcynimer and all thosrf other populous dis- tricts, II of which we»'e content to t>;i eonnecte I with one large and powerful bond. He wis fully eonvii.red that the p«:ipl« of Hirwain ought to he content to be allied with \herdare unless, indeed, thev would prefer p i\ iiii: £ 2.53 instead »f £ 140 a year. Chairman: We find now that tiv t >tal su.n paid to the Aberdare Board is £ 10W. (Cheers.) M". Aubrey, in continuation, said he did not think that a'tered the case; t iey ha I heen misleading tiie people by m iking ex iggerated st-itenifnts. As to the Hack lanes and roads of which so much h id been said, be should like to kn vv whose tanlt it was they were in such a stat»j. If thev were oii'-e put in a proper state of repair, they would ever afterwards be kept ui> i>y the Board, but they who were inter- ested in having them in good repair had refused to doths. (A voice That is not true.) Mr. Aubrey If it is not true, bo-.v is it vou have not done it? (Cheers and signs of disapprobation.) After a few fur h r rem irks of n pertinent character, and point- ing to the a'os wditv of esiabhshina a board of health at Hirwain, Mr. Aubrey concluded, a!id The Chairman sai l it was only ritdit and natural that they should spen I their own nion •>. Th" with- drawal of Mountain Ssh would mik? a difference of £ 709 a year, and this must be made r.p in some way. (Cheers.) Messrs. D. Bevan and John Morgan made a re- mark or two whirh were lost in a confusion of voices. Mr. William Williams then stepp- I forward and said amid repeate I interruptions, which the chair- man seemed powerless to'stop: I have an amen I- ment to move, but be lire I do so I should I ke to ask the Chairman a question or two with reference to some remarks he has made at a previous meeting of the ratepayers in connection with this separation movement. My first question is Do you still per- sist in asserting that the accounts of the \b"rdare Board of Health are not audited aii'iudly,o indeed, at all; and that no abstract of the same appears in any newspaper? Chairman I was aware that the accounts were audited annually by Mr. Jones, but 1 have not seen or heard that an abstract of the sa t'e had ever appeared in any newspaper since the exis- tence of the Aberdare Board of Health. Further, I ask why is there not an abstract inserted regu- larly in the ABERDARE TIMES, a paper which circulates principally amongst the ratepayers of the parish? (Oh -ers) Mr. W. Williams: f am glad, Mr. Chairman, that you admit one point, and I beg to assure you that you are equally as wrong as to the non-ap- pearance of an abstract of the accounts in the ABEKDARE TIMES. It do.s appear annually in that paper, and I now produce a copy of that paper in which an abstract is inserted. (Cheers and confusion.) I consider, therefore, that you have been acting most injudiciously and wrongly in publishing such grave and unfounded charges against the Aberdaro Board, with a view of biasing the min ;s of the people of Hirwain against that Board- (Cheers and uproar.) When allowed to proceed Mr. Williams continued: Another question I thought of referring to was the total amount of rates asserted to have been collected here yearly towards the Aberdare Board of Health. It has been freely stated that the annual contribution of Hirwain to the General District Rate amounted to £260, whereas it turns out now, according to the calculation of the pro moters of the separation, that it does not amount to £120 i but as you, Mr. Chairman, stand cor- rected iu this matter, I deem it unnecessary to go into this point any further. (Cheers and interruption.) The subject of separation is a most important question for the rate-payers and owners of property at Hirwain, and it should be decided calmly aud without prejudice—all ambi- tious feelings being set aside. (Cheers.) I would give the separation movement my hearty support if you could convince me that the rates would be lowered by having a separate Board at Hirwain. I am myself a heavy ratepaysr, and perhaps the heaviest ratepayer iu the room. (Mr. David Evans, grocer, here made a mean and"-uncalled for remark, bringing down upon his devoted head a host of shouts of turn him out," "shame," cowardly," all being freely intermingled with hisses.) Mr. Williams continued: It stands to reason that I would be the last to oppose a move- ment that would be such an advantage to me in apecuniarysensf; but I must say I cannot see any advantage that would Da likely to accrue from the separation. On the contrary, I antici- pate disadvantages and heavier rates. (Cheers and confusion.) I have prepared a rough esti- mate of the future annual expenditure that would be likely to come upon us in case a separate Board were formed at Hirwain Scavenging.648 15 0 Public Lights, 20 Lamps at £.3 3s, each 63 0 0 Lighting Lamps 15 0 0 Interest on Capital of Lamp-Pil- lars at 10 per cent 6 0 0 Repairs of Highways. 60 0 0 ESTABLISHMENT Clerk, Surveyor, Collector, &c. 60 0 0 Rent of Board Room, Office, Sta- tionery, and Audit. 20 0 0 Total. £2n 15 0 According to this estimate, which is not an ex- aggeration, our rates would be 9d. in the "£1 in- stead of 4d. as at present. From these considera- tions, I am induced to propose the following amendment: That it is the opinion of this meeting that it will be neither wise nor prudent to separate from the Aberd ire Local Board of Health, until further particulars be obtained, as to the exact amount collected here, and the probable expenditure likely to be incurred here if the separation should take place. The chairman made an explanation which we did not catch, as to the insertion of the abstract of accounts in the ABERD.VBK TIMES, and the meeting was afterwards briefly addressed by Messrs. Thoa. PiulHps, David Watkius, and John Morgan. The chairman remarked that they might remain there all night in the way they were going on..Mr. "Williams proposed that they should remain connected with Aberdare would any one second that? Mr. Aubrey: That is not the amendment. Please to read it. After another little squabble in which anyone seemed at liberty to take part, the amendment was seconded by Mr. J. E. George, chemist, and put to-the meeting. As there were only three or four hands held up in its favour it was, of course, lost. The original resolution was after wards adopted am d loud applause. Mr. William Williams then demanded a poll on behalf of the absent ratepayers. After a warm discussion on this point, Mr. Silm, chemist, proposed, and Mr. David Bevan seconded —" That the votes of the rate- payers should he taken in the manner proscribed by the Act of Parliament." This was unanimous- ly adopted. Mr. Bevan could not see what Aberdare wanted to keep Hirwain for if she did not make a profit by it. lie had property at Aberaman, &c., and if the rates of Aberdare went up, it would be a loss to him, but still he was anxious they should have the control of their own money (cheers). He thought that the deputation appointed to inquire into the Board accounts should have inspected, the hooks. Mr. W. Williams The very thing we wanted. Mr. Bevan, in continuing his remarks, endea- voured to show how they had been misled. The Chairman said that at Bridgend the cost of the whole staff did not exceed more than £59 a year, and he did not see what they wanted an expensi* e staff for. Mr. D. Bevan We have a surveyor here who would do the work for JE10 a year or so. (Hear, hear.) Mr. John Phillips, master of puddlers, said he had lived at Aberdare for three years, and he well remembered how, on Saturdays, he used to see the Board servants cleaning before the Boot Hotel, the Welsh Harp, and on by Mr. Lewis's (the gro- cer) shop. He had paid regularly fourteen pence a quarter, and he had never seen one of the Board-men near his house (cheers). He would rather pay 14s. a quarter and have to spend their own money than go on as they were now. (Cheers, and cries of "W^ll done, fy macbgen i.") Mr. Howell Jones again briefly addressed the meeting, and Mr. David Bevan said that when they waited upon, him to obtain his signature to the notice concerning the meeting, Mr. Wayne treated them very kindly. He told them he had no doubt that they would benefit themselves very much by se- parating, and advised them to do so by all means. He (Mr. Wayne) thought they were too distant from the Aberdare Board for that Board to do its duty by them. As chairman of the Board he, however, could not sign the notice. (Cheers.) Chairman He spoke like a gentleman. The Rev. W. Williams addressed the meeting, at this stage on the advantage of meeting together to discuss their affairs in this way. They would be better off, he thought, if they met oftener. (Cheers.) Mr. Jonah Thomas, collier, next addressed the \1 meeting am d nmi'i mfrimsnt. which was con sidevably stimulated by an indecent pantomime which the speaker went through to illustrate the kind of nuisance to which he was subjected over and over, n-twithstandi .g his continual sweep- ing. After another little turn at binter and a good deal more talk amongst the audience, The Chairman re id the petitio i it was intend- ed to adopt, a,.1d Mr. Willia u Williams having refused to withdraw his demand of a poll, Mr. David ISevaa propose! and Mr. John Morgan seconded—That a3 Mr. W. Williams persisted iu m iking th,'ffi go t.) the trouble of issuing voting papsrs, he should bear the whole expense of the same. Tno chairman having been appealed to as to whether, if this resolution were a 1 j,>te I, Mr. Williams would be bound to pay, and some sen- sensible f-llosv in the andience having answered, "Certainly not," two or three hands were held up for the resolution and, to the great relief of most people present, the meeting broke up, forgetting, however, to award their thanks to the chairman for his good-humoured presidency.

ABERDARE POLICE COURT. TUESDAY.- rjBc/bre J. c. Fowler, Gwilym 1f;Ji lams, and R. T. Roberts, Esqrs. VAGRANCY Roger John, described as. ? smith's striker, was ?chargad with wandert" abroad^without any visible means" of iobtaining livelihood. That morning P.C. Lewis discover him sleeping in an ash pit under a boiler at Lletty Shenkin Colliery. He had been previo to ly cautioned by the constable.—Committed prison for a week. j THE BUSINESS OF THE COURT.:—Several orf having being called on without either of the p ties answering to their names, Mr. Fowler to occasion to make the following remarks:— have another instance of the extreme irregularis of parties who have4obtained summonses in t Court and who will not take the trouble to 00 here even three quarters of an hour after t court opens, and^the consequence is that a'nuol ber of persons whose time is valuable-the n gistrates, magistrates' clerk, police, and gently men connected with the press are kept waiti™ doing nothing. I have conferred with my brot magistrates and shall be much obliged to gentlemen of the press if they will make a of of this for the benefit of the parties concerned that at half-past 10 o'clock we shall dismiss summonses if the parties do not appear. T Court sits at 10, and if we allow that margin one can complain. A?SERIES OF ASSAULTS.—Mary Ann Tho v. John Jones, Harriet Williams against the S3øJ and Mary Anit Jones (wife of John Jones) Mary Ann Thomas. — Several witnesses called by each of the parties and the Bench, afn a patient hearing, dismissed the first case agai^J John Jones, but for the assault upon Har^* Williams, viz., striking her on the head with stone, he was committed to prison for a VI. Mary Ann Thomas was also commited to prlØ for one calendar month for assaulting Mrs. The latter was it appeared attempting to take^ husband home when defendant came behind. and struck,her with a brush on the head, in ing a severe scalp wound.* OVERCROWDED HOUSES.—John O'Brien, Bankes-street, was fined Is. and the costs, K Thomas Me Carthy, Alma-street, Mill-str was fined Id. and 14s.costs for the above o William Williams, of the Pelican, was boØ, overj to keep the peaoe towards his wife for months. ROBBING AN- EMPLOYER.—Eliza Morgan* J married woman, was charged with stealing quarters of tobacco, the property of 5 David Jones, grocer, Mill-street. Mr. Joue# thejprsoner was employed by him as a wasb*j woman two days a week. He had missed quantity of tobacco from time to time and, hll his suspicions aroused, he watched the priso That morning, about half-past 6 o'clock, he her go to a box in the warehouse which* opened, and took therefrom 13 packets of toba^j (produced) put them in a bread tin and away. She returned in about twenty miolJ after, when he spoke to her as to what he seen. Prisoner said, "I'll biing tlrem b$4 you'll allow me to go and fetch them." He tb sentfor a constable. The value of the toba^ was 15s. 2d.—Sergt. Thorney arrested the K* soner who, on being told the charge, acknowl ed having taken the tobacco. Prisoner was tb £ charged with stealing 14 half-quarters oftoba value 8s., which was sold to Mrs. Willi White Hart, Aberdare, on Saturday last, Williams said she had several times bought bacco of the prisoner and of her son. Prison- on being told the charge said to the police, bought some of it and the rest I took."—Mr.Jo^ in reply to the Bench, said he believed he missed between £50 and f60 worth of tobaC from time to time.-The Bench commented A verely upon the conduct of the prisoner, 'VJ committed her for six calendar months, three each offence, at Swansea. Charles White was fined 5s. and costs being drunk and riotous in Whiteombe-streett the 29th Oct. last.

MOUNTAIN ASHV t; mk u A RAILWAY MAN has sent ua a letter suring George Davies for having written L epistle which appeared in our last, and sfca IS that the inhabitants of Mountain Ash repose K utmost confidence in Dr. Davies, of that to 1J and that, if he had4been called to view the øJ dered youth's remains the result would have bo equally as satisfactory, a fact upon which nO but that very energetic man, George Davies, ™ ever expressed a doubt.

IF YOU WANT WORK DONE WELL GO TO A }(øj; -ri))! THE Cheapest House in Aberdare for repft^, -L Watches, Clocks, and Jewellery of e description, is at E. WEIGHT'S, 399, CARDIFF-ROAD, where work will be done in the best possible yf with a warranty of 18 months, at One-fourth than at any other shop in the neighbourhood- E. W. can produce a list of upwards of t church and public Clocks made under his Owl' mediate superintendence. Observe the address: 'XV; 1 EDMUND WEIGHT, j Practical Watch & Clock Manufacturer, V?0*' Jeweller, Silversmith, and Engraver, 399, Cardiff-Road, Aberdare. ABERDARE J. Printed and Published by JosiAH THOMAS and THEOPHILUS LINES JONES, at the t" TIMES Office, Commercial-place, Aberdare, County of Glamorgan. Saturday, February 3, 1866. ,4

D It. PRICE ON" li R F 0 R M [BY oint OWX REPJKrER.] Brecon, Thursday, Jan. 25. Last night one of the most, enthusiastic anJ numerous- ly atten le I political meetings ever held in the good old tovn of Brecon came off at the Town-Hall, liav/ng sueeeelel in screwing a second address out of the Earl of Brecon, in which the noblo candidate expre sie3 himself satisfactorily on some of the most imp arrant poinfs in the liberal creed, Dr. Price, rather than di- vide the Liberal camp, most gracefully with Irew froo, the Sell. Prior to doing S), however, he took leave of the electors and non-electors of Brecon in one of the ablest, reform speeches it has ever been our plea- sure to hear. Insteal, therefore, of damaging the Earl of Brecon's position, Dr. Price has been instru- mental in placing that gentle nan in a more favourable light in the eves of the Liberal electors, and has, moreover, ¡IY his spirit-stirring addres3 of last night fanned the slumbering embers of Liberalism into a brisk flame throughout the length and brevkh of the constituency- Having done this tie was wd ing to "rest and be thankful." At the hour appointel for the meeting the Hill was cram oed its every corner, and amongst the audience were sever 1 of the most inuuental inhabitants of Brecon, comprising the Mayor and Ex-Mayor, the Coroner of tne district, with a- host of other firm friends of Dr. Price. Mr. Jones, chem st, having been proposed by the Rev. D. Edwards and seconded by Mr. Walton, took the chair, and said — Brother electors and non-electors,—I trust that naa iy of you who are now non-electors will, after the passing of the next Reform Bill, have the privilege of having your names added to the list of Voters in this borough (jipplause). I have acceded to thewishesof my friends in taking the chair at this important and overcrowded meeting out of respect to my old ánd I highly respected fri.md Dr. Price (cheers), with the conviction that it will be for good, and not for evil, as many have already vainly prognosticated, for I feel convinced that it will terminate in the Bud of Breck- nock's return as our future represeatative ia the Com- mon's House ot Ptrhamant. (Great cheering.) It is much to be regretted that there are individuals who are so addicted to put the most foul constructions on the most consistent actions of the best of men. Tins it has been in reference to Dr. Plice. He has been most wrongfully accused of having come forward as a can- didate at the request of Mr. Gwyntie's friends, in order to cause a division among the Liberals, so that the Earl may be defeated (shame). Such a fdse statement is a direct libel on the estimable character of Dr. Price, the well-known friend of the Liberal cause, who never woul,1 have come forward if his lordship had issued at fir,t the satisfactory address which has so recently ap- peared. and which has met with the approval of Dr. Price and all the Liberals of our town (loud applause)' Some have said that it was a degree of assumption on the part of Dr. Price to offer himself as a cSndidate, he having been a working tradesman. To his ere lit let it be said that he has '¡een a hard-working rain, and even since he relinquished his trade. (Cheers.) By hard work and close application, duriug some years at Pontypool College and for many years after, he st last obtained the honourable degree of Master of Arts and Dr. of Philosophy. As a mark of gratitude and re- spect his flourishing church at, Ab-rJare, where he has laboured hard for twenty years, presented him with 111 address in a gold frame, a'so an elegant and costly omolu clock of the same design as that of the Houses of Parliament. At the highly important meeting at Worcester last June, as a proof of how highly they appreciated his services for 19 years, he was appointed Graod Master of the Order of OJd Feitovs, not only of Wales, of England, and of Great Britain, hut of all the world. (Loud and continued cheering.) The speaker, after enumerating other marks of respect bestowed upon Dr. Price, continued: Tnus they did unto the man whom they delighted to honour (dieersj. Admitting he had the honour of being returned to Parliament, he would then be not an idler, but still a hard-worker, and the powerful advocate of Reform, Retrenchment, and progression in the riabt direction. (Applause.) Dr. Price will now address you, and with his Welsh fire will no doubt infuse life into/this large audience now assembled. (Loud cheer3.) Dr. Price, on coming foiward, was cheered most lustily. Hecommencedhisaddressby giving a frank and manly reply to a question wnieh had been put during the last few weeks cc Who was Dr. Price?" In continuation, the Rev. Dr. said:—From London I was received into Pontypool College, and having com- pleted my term there, I was invited to preside over a srndl congregation in Aberdare, where I have spent the list 20 years of my life, d )ing what nood I could in religion, and also in politics (cheers), and now. through the kind Providence of God, I am in a posi- tion to devote as much time and as much money as vou can fairly expect from your representative (cheers,). That is briefly my answer to the co ttemp uius quests j n asked about me, and I do not know that I tiav^ don e anything to b3 ashamed of during that p riod (cheer A voice, It is an honour to you). As to my rig t to come and seek your sutfrtgfS, I thought, that I h d as much right as any other person (cheers) if I we-e prepared to make the necesstry sacriifces to servo y mr interests. I am a Welshman nre 1 and born, a Welshman in heart and feelings. I am a Noncon- form st fro n conviction- I was born in the vicinity of Brecon, nurtured a nongst you, and commenced my religions 1 ifa in y.)ur inidst, and sinre I left v « ur tomn I have done nothing to it. I thought after an absence of 27 years I might come back honourably and a<k you to ivtur > me as a repres-nta'ive in Par- liament (cheers). I and manv otaers have long felt that it is a disjrace t> Wales that out of the thirty-two members sent to the House of Com mons we have never sent one Welsh Nonconformist (shame). We have not now in the Hoiise of Com- mons one member who represents the religious feel- ings of eight-ninths of the people of Wales (cries of "shame," "right yo'< are.") At the last genera) election England-a id Scotland sent to the Housed!) Dissenting members, whilst Ireland sent 49 Ro man Catholics to represent the feelings of the Irish peop'e in Parliament but Wales, to its eternal disgrace, has no t sen t even one Nonconformist to the new Parlia- ment. Is it not time that we should bestir oursdves and remove the stigma that rests upon Wales as the land of Dissent? (cheers.) Well, [ tame to give the electors of Brecon a chance ot doing so failing to in- duce you to invite another and a better man, I offered myself as tho b -st substitute I could have (cheers a n 1 laughter). When I learned of the deatii of your I »te respected tnaLa )er I watched your movements w th great anxiety, hoping that ..g-clltlemal1 of lacal inft li- ence and advanced liberal opinions, like your Mayor, would come forward; but I was disappointed in this. Two gentlemen issued their addresses, neither of which di I think reflected the op,nion or a large por tion of the independent electors of this borough. Let us for a moment look at the addresses issued bv the m. Let us t'lke the Earl of Brecknock's ad Iress. Tiie n rst paragraph is worthy of his lordlslnp's kindly feeling towards the late member; the second and thirl para- graphs are simply old stereotyped expressions that. have been used in a hundred addresses before (cheers), and are as meaningless as they are common to everybody in the habit of reading the pap (" Wnat was your first?") The pith of the address is that h; woul I give a firm and independent support to Lord Palmer- ston's Government and feeling. The foreign policy of Lord Palmerston's Government was good, and for that we were indebted tn Lord Russell; for its fi lancial policy we were indebted to Nlr. Gladstone; with two exceptions Palmerston's p dicy was vague, extra- vagant, vacillating, and unsatisfactory("hoar, boar," 11 iic), no"). He was a Liberal in name, but in reality doing the behests of the Tories. And yet this was all that was really promised by the noble candidate in his first address. The address of Mr. Gwyn is all that yon could have expected from a professed and consistent Conservative. We have the oft-re- peated description of the Conservative and the pruning knife, as if the Conservatives had ever been in love with the pruning knife (cheers) Why, every one that has read history must know that a Conser- vative is the dead weight to all progress, reform, and improvement (applause). Then comes the conscientious Dissenter," as if Mr. Gwyn had ever met with a Dissenter without a conscience. Why, even William Hopkins, the shoemaker, of Ystrad- gynlais, marntained that he had a conscience, though the magistrates wondered at the idea, and took the man's leather and sold it to a policeman for half its market value to, pay the church rate (loudclfeers). I have no quarrel with these gen- tlemen-they have a right to hold these views but I put it to you, would tho principles set forth in either of those addresses reflect the opiniotn of the majority of the electors of Brecon? I believed not, and hence my reason for coming forward to enable you, or some of you, to enter yonr protest at the hustings, and on the poll book, against these mani- festoes. I came forward to make an experiment, to put to the test the loud professions made in some places, and i" some gatherings, as to the necessity of electing a Welshman, a Welsh Nonconformist, to represent at least one of the 32 Welsh constituen- cies and I wanted t) see what chance a practical man might have of entering Parliament without. being compelled to engage half the lawyers in the borough, and without being obliged to secure half the pub- licans (loud applause); and whether a man could bo returned at a less cost than pounds sterling reckoned by th1 thousand. The answer I have learned is that I am just a trifle before the time. But, gentlemen, the time will come when this will be done and one would have thought that Brecon would have been a fair field for making snch an experiment (hear, hear), there being here, in this small borough, no iess than oi-ht congregations of Nonconformists, and also an important college where our future ministers arc taught the doctrines for which our Puritan Fathers bled and died (elvers). The question of Parliamentary Reform will certainly have the attention of the Legislators in the next session, and you should be prepared to look the question fairly in the face. I believe that there are three points that will have to be dealt with before this question can be considered as settled — the franchise, the protection of the voter, and a redis- tribution of Parliamentary seats. Let us look at the franchise as now possessed by the electoral body in this country. The present House of Commons is constituted of 6í6 members, 466 of th'm being returned to represent counties and boroughs in England, 105 for Ireland, 53 for Scotland, and 32 for Wales. These are elected according to the provisions of the Reform Bill of IS2 by a certain number of persons having a given qualification to exercise that right. In counties under certain regulttions, the freeholder, the copyholder, the leaseholder, and the tenant, if his rental is £50 per annum, may vote for a repre- sentative in Parliament; whilst in borouo-h-s the holder of houses and land, to the value of £10, has a right to be on the list of voters. This was settled in 1832, 31 years ago, and no change has since taken place so far as England, Scotland, and Wales are concerned, but in Ireland the fran- chise has been considerably lowered. By the Act of 1850 it was reduced to a JS12 rental in all counties, and an £8 in all boroughs. In the y.sar 18ol the serosa number of voters on all the li^ts in the Unit-d Kingdom was 1,333,690. This gross number would give an average number of voters to each of the 656 members, supposing they were equally distributed, of 2,033 each. But when we strike off the list all dupli- cate returns, take into consideration all deaths, re- movals, and other disqualiifcations, we shall con- siderably reduce the list ot actual voters, and find that they will number at the utmost about 1,100,030 out of a gross population of between 29 and 3j millions, so that in this country we have but one person out of 29 souls who has a right to vote for a member of the House of Commons. Let us try and make this clear to each of you. Sup. pose it were possible for us to collect together the whole of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom they would together cover an area of 1,587 acres of land; now, 1,500 acres would correctly repre- sent that portion of the people of this country who have no right to vote, while the remaining 67 acres would show the portion who now have a voice in the election of Members to Parliament to make our laws (cheers). Is it to be thought for a moment that this is a fair representation of the people——is it not inconsistent, unjust, and cruel? Surely, to name the first is sufficient to convince the thoughtful (applause). Is it fair and just to confine the elective franchise to less than four per cent. of the population of this kingdom ? Again, if we suppose that each of the 1,100,000 persons who are on the register to be heads of funilies- which is not the case in fact—but we will for the moment suppose so—then we may put it down that they would represent themselves, their wives, their children, and their domestic servants when exercising the right of voting; but even in this case we shall have left over 5,000,0,00 of families that are not represented at all; or say that these 1,100,000 electors would represent 5,500,000 souls in a given election then we have the important fact that 25,590,000 are entirely excluded from the privileges of the franchise. I believe, gentle- men, that fair play., common honesty, and bare justice, call for an extension of the suffrage (cheers). Without now arguing in favour of or against the London platform for a full manhood sulfrage, or for the Manchester manifesto for a clear voting suffrage, or for the plans proposed by any friends in Bir mingham or Newcastle-upon- Tyne, it is clear that a considerable extension must take place. I consider that nothing short of a £10 rental in counties and £6 in boroughs will meet the demands of the case (cheers). But for my own s If I would go further than that, and say that every man who is entered upon the rate- books, who ha l lived 12 months in one electoral district, and is free and untainted from crime, ought to have a vote (cheers). This would be just to the honest workman who pays his share towards maintaining the honour and dignity of the country. But the question comes', ought that property and intelligence to be the basis of representation ? Even on that score the working man should not be excluded from the privilege of having a vote. As to the property of the country. Let us take the Lords. [Mr Bow- den here put a question to the speaker, but it was drowned in the uproar that ensued.] Dr. Price pro- ceeded Let us take the House of Lords perhaps Lhe most wealthy body of men in the world A very competent authority, after careful investiga- tion, has pat down the annual income of the pro- perty represented by the tIoase of Lords at £ 11,000,000; but to be quite safe, let us double that sum and give the House of Lords a gross an- nual income of £ 22,i>00,000, and then take the other side of the question. The same authority has put down the annual income of the working-classes of this country at ^250,00:),000, hut to be perfectly safe here again, let us reduce the sum by one half and call it bl2o,030,0i)0, and this reduced income of the working-classes is more than ten times the income of th^House of Lords (loud cheers.) Thus then if property is to be a basis the working men of this country, who hold the largest amount, ought to be enfranchised. Look at the taxes paid by dif- ferent classe in this country, and you will find that the working man is the heaviest taxed of any man in this country. He pays out of every £1 sterling that he earns by the sweat of his brow, 5s. in taxes. Thus he is taxed to the extent of 25 per cent, upon all his earnings, hence it is but common honesty and justice to give him a voice in the making of those laws that weigh so heavily upon him (cheers). If we take education and intelligence as the basis for legislating upon this question—we say the working man has a right to put in his claim. Great progress has been made by the working-classes of this country since the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832, and if the state of education justified the legislature to extend the franchise—in the borough of Brecon for instance, from 15 to 2i2—for previous to the lleform Bill of 1832 the number of voters was 15 only, but by the passing of that Billthe num- ber was increased to 242, surely the present con- dition of things justifies an .extension now. Now let us for one moment glance at a few things that have been done since then as proofs of the growing intelligence, prudence, and stability of the working- c as-ies of the United Kingdom. In the year 1831- the year before the passing of the Reform Bill- there were 1,276,747 children in the various schools in the land, giving an average of one scholar for every 11 of the whole population. In 1861, when the last returns were made, we had 2,750,000 child- r" '1 ,1 1 • i <t"'I.;UO!], or an average of one in seven of the whole pop ilation. This is a vast stride in 30 yoii.s, a < i: ratio is still on the increase. In 18(51, we had in the whole country 55 Mechanic Institutes containing in all 7,600 members; but in 1861 we had no less than 80G of these institutions having an aggregate of 140,000 members. In 1831 there were in this country 429,503 persons who used the Sav- ings'Banks, and who had then in deposits the sum of £ 13,000,000 sterling and in 1861 we find no less thaa 1,500,000 using the Savirfgs' Banks, and they had, to th iir joint ere lit, the large sum of £40,000 000 in these institutions, (hear, hear). Look again at the Friendly Societies of this country whose members are numbered by hundreds of thousands, and whose accumulated capita! is between twelve and fL'ieen millions sterling. We have now about one out of every four of the adult population enrol- led in these institutions of the working men of this country—while you only find on the Continent of Europe about one in every seventy who belong to any friendly society at all. We have in our build- ing societies over 100,003 members, whose annual subscription am aunts to £ 1,790,000, and wnose subscribed capital is considerably over £G,OOO,nno sterling (cheers)..Take one other fact, —in 1831 there were in this country 205 newspaper tt but now we have 1,270, and the number is still increas- ing. The increse ha; been equally rapid and won- derful in our quarterlies, mOllth 1 ie", and weeklies. I mention these things to shew that the working men of this country have a fair claim to the franchise (hear, and cheers.) Then a re-distrubution of parli- amentary seats must form an important portion of any Reform Bill to be satisfactory to the country great changes having taken place since 1832 Tn taking the Electoral Register for 1834, and dividing the number of voters equally between the 656 mem- bers of the H ">use of Commons we find that it would dye an average of 2,033 voters for each of the 656 members T:1e 466 members for England would average 2.073 voters; the 105 for Ireland would average I.Ð5 { the 53 members for Scotland woul I average 1,91 J; and the 32 membets for Wales woull average 1..(6) voters. i}ut tne disparity betweon one constitumcy and another is almost beyond bj- lief. We will illustrate this by eleven large boroughs which return between them 21 members to the House, and 12 sm all boroughs which also return 241 members to Parliament in the first place we shall take Bristol, Finsbury,"Lambeth, Liverpool, Man- chester, the City of London, Marylebone, Tower Hamlets, Westminster, Glasgow, and Dublin these united have a population of 3,758.668 souls the number of voters on the register is 212,329 the annual value of this property is £29,164,6(j4; they pay under the income tax the sum of £3,433,635, and they return 24 members to Parliament. In tak- ing the following twelve boroughs, Andover, Buck- ingham, Chippenham, Thetford, Cockermouth, Har- wich, Devizes, Honiton, Lymington, Great Marlow, Marlborogh, and Richmond, we shall find that they have a population of 68,106 electors, 3,858 the annual value of this property is £314,202 they pay under the income tax act the sum of £22679, and yet they also return 24 representatives to Parliament. This of itselp shows the great inequality and great inconsistency of our present mode of representa. tion. If we take the little borough of Portarlington, with its 105 electors, we shall find that one elector in Portarlington is equal to 48 in Salford and equal to 151 electors in the county of Cork, and equal to 290 electors in the Tower Hamlets. The absurdity of this must be at once apparent to all. Look at Thetford and Bristol—the former, wtih 223 elec- tors, sends two members to Parliament, and Bristol with 13,829 electors, sends precisely the same num- ber, and hence, as matters now stand, the 223 men of Thetford are equal politically to the 13,829 men of Bristol. If we were to amalgamate into one electoral district the boroughs of Thetford, Marl- borough, Andover, Honiton, Knaresborough, Calne," Arundel, Tewkesbury, and Leominster, their united number of voters would be just 2001, and that would give them the right of returning one member between them—nnd on the principle of numbers. wealth, and intelligence, Bristol, should have the right to return eight members to the House (hear, hear, and cheers). A careful examination of the re- gister will show that one-half of the present members are returned by less than 14 per cent. of the electors of the United Kingdom, while the other half is returned by more than 86 per cent. of the whole body of electors. Hence, in the House of Commons upon any division, 14 per cent. of the electoral interest of the country has as much weight as the other 86 per cent. We, therefore, think that a complete re-modelling should take place (hear, hear). I should like to see the towns of Crickhowell, Hay, Glasbury, Builth, as well as Trecastle added to Brecon (loud cheers)—and form one united borough (continu- ed cheers.) And believe me, gentlemen, it will be a prudent and wise course on your part to get this effected with the least possible delay, or you may find some fine morning that Brecon will be swept out of the register altogether (hear, hear,). The next point in any comprehensive Reform Bill should be the due protection of the voter in the exercise of his right. To give a vote to the working]"man without the proper protection in the exercise of that right would be to him a delu- sion and a snare (hear, hear). I believe the ballot to be the best approximation of the safety re- quired (bravo and cheers), and would therefore be glad to see the ballot a part of the law of the land (renewed cheers). I should like very much if time will permit me—("Go on for a week if you like ") —to direct your attention to Ecclesi- astical matters at this moment. In my address of the 19th of last month, to you as electors, I stated openly and honestly my views as to the connection, or rather non-conijection that ought to exist between religion and the State (hear, hear). The paragraph runs thus :—"In Ecclesi- astical matters I am a Non-comformist, and be- lieve that the religion of Christ was not intended by its Divine Founder to be allied with or to be- come an-engine of the State, and that true relig- ion would be greatly benefited by being freed from State patronage and control. I would there- fore, [while firmly maintaining vested 'rights, and^duly respecting the interests of all living persons, and whilst cherishing the most cordial feeling of regard and respect towards the Epis- copal Church, as one of the Christian communi- ties of our land, gladly support a measure for the total emancipation of the Church from the State, finnly believing that this wonld prove an act of lasting blessing to the Episcopal Church itself, and a simple^measure of justice to the other re- ligions bodies of this kingdom." (Cheers.) I am not alone in this view of the case. There are some of the best men within the pale of the Establish- ed Church, who are much of the same opinion. In proof of this I will only now refer to the able sermon lately preached before the University of Cambridge, by the Rev. John Ingle, of Trinity College, where he states:—"The period is not far distant when the Church will be deprived of any predominance, social, or political, which she still possesses and the various sects by which she is surrounded will be placed, with respect to all public rights and privileges, on a footing of perfect equality with herself." (Cheers.) You will remember these are not my words, but were addressed to the University of Cambridge a few Jays ago (cheers). I might refer you to the Co- lenso case and its immediate effect upon the pro- ceedings of the five bishops of New Zealand, who have respectfully returned their Patents as Bish- Op3 to the Crown, and desiring henceforth to live upon an equality with other religious bodies in the Colony (hear, hear.) I would also refer you to another paragraph in my published address, referring to the patronage of the Church, which runs thus :—' I would do all in my power to promote a Committee of Enquiry into the work- ing of the Established Church and Endowed Schools in Wales, with a view of ascertaining the amount of provision it has made or is now making, for the spiritual wants of the people and the edu- cation of the children of the poor; the effect of appointing into high offices those who do not un- derstand the language of the people the evil of alienating the revenues of the Establishment from the poor Churches in Wales for the purpose of the aggrandisement of richer Churches elsewhere; and whether the Establishment in Wales has an- swered the purpose of its being, and if it has brought forth fruit commensurate with the large sums drawn by it from the taxes of the country." I believe there is no country where there is an Established Church where the abuse of its pa- tronage is greater than it has been in Wales for the last three hundred years fhear, hear). I will confine myself to a few facts-facts well authenticated. In Johnes' Essay on the Causes of Dissent in Wales," we find the following state- ment:— "When Henry VIII. assumed the su- premacy of the Establishment, the monasteries and other religious houses fell in Wales as in England. But this was not the only act of spoli- ation. The county of Merioneth was stripped of tithes equal in amount to nearly one-half of the whole income of all resident clergy, for the erection of the new Bishopric of Lichfield. Car- narvonshire was similarly taxed for the sake of Chester whilst other new sees were enriched at the expense of South Wales. In the North, the tithes of many of the richest parishes were made the perquisites of English cotleges in the South, the tithes of the majority were conferred upon laymen. In the county of Glamorgan alone, no fewer than ten parishes are in the gift o^ the De-in and Chapter of Gloucester. We must also bear in mind the fact that the Bishops appointed to Welsh Dioceses are Englishmen and these English Bishops have never forgotten their own family connections iu making the appointments to the best livings in tha Principality hence it follows that the great bulk of the patronage has for the last 3 centuries been conferred upon Eng- lishman,thus depriving tho, natives ot Wales of their just share of the revenues of the Church in their own country. (A voice—I wonder they don't stop at home). While they can have plenty of cream in Wales they will not drink skimmed milk at home (lioars of laughter and immense cheering). The Doctor then proceeded to show how this patron age was divided between the Bishops of St. Asaph, Bangor, St. David's, Llandaff, the Deans and Chapter of these dioceses, the Archdeacons of Brecon and Llandaff, the Provost and Fellows of Eaton College, Jesus College, Oxford Christ College, the Bishops of Lincoln, Chester, Lich- field, and Gloucester and Bristol, and the Deans and Chapters of Gloucester and Bristol. Exclu- sive of cathedral offices there were 400 livings at their disposal, and of these 330 were in the gift of the four Welsh sees. He continued Will any Philadelphia lawyer in this room tell me how minv Welshmen are among that lot ? (Mr. Bow- den '• lou aint into none of 'em, are you?" Cries of ''turn him out.") And our endowed schools are in no better position (I now refer to some two or three years ago.) Sir Thomas Phil- lips, some time ago, declared that Christ College at Brecon, from its establishment down to our times, has been a scandal alike to Church and State." And the same might be said of the Ban- gor school, and that of Llanrwst—the first hav- ing an annual income of £500, and the last of £600 per annum, and originally established for poor men's children but the poor men's child- ren have been robbed of their rights, and the revenues have gone to enncS ecclesiastical cor- porations that have no sympathy with Wales, or its poor men. Hence, I believe that a Parlia- mentary enquiry ought to be appointed fully to examine these abuses, and a thorough and search- ing investigation would prove a blessing to the Church; and would be an act of justice to the working clergy in Wales. But again,referring to the Reform Bill, I believe that the two main ob* jects of the next Bill will be a widening of basis of representation and a re-adjustment ot Parliamentary seats—these w i11, -1 believe, h9 the main features of the Bill—and I am glad tfr learn that the Government is prepared to stand or fall by the Bill. Allow me, again, in concltt* sion, to warn you to take early steps to watoh every movement of the promoters of the netf- Bill. Scrutinize tho first draft of the Bill, ofj some fine mftrning you may wake up and the borough of Brecon deprived of its presei^j privilege of sending a member to Parliament*; One of three things, in my opinion, must come tfrj pass-the towns of Crickhowell, Hay, Glasburyvj Bunth.and Trecastle must unite with the town o*) Brecon, and form one electoral district-or tb borough will be merged in the county, and y will send one member instead of two, as now possibly Brecon may be left out of the list, make room for some of those large and growing towns, such as Staleybridge, in various parts OH the kingdom. In any case, be on your guaru and watch the interest of your town, scrutiny the draft of the Reform Bill, petition for tb*j union of the towns I have named into one bH rough, and always take care to send the best maffij that will represent yoa in the House of CommoDSj The Doctor resumed his seat amidst thunders w applause.. j The chairman then inquired if any one to put a question to Dr Prioe, whereupon-1 Mr. Bowden, mounted the platform,but owi to his having previously manifested a dispositions to annoy Dr. Price, the audience were Hiden in no temper to hear him, and after having several ineffectual attempts to address the mee ing, he was hissed ofF the platform. j Mr. J. Williams, coroner, eulogised the co"j duct of Dr. Price an(li expressed his admiration of, and thanks for his splendid speech, and 10 pudiated with the utmost contempt the libello assertion that he (Dr. Price,) had come to Br^ con as the nominee of Mr Gwyn and the Torletr an announcement which elicited the loudest ap' plause. Two or three other gentlemen having address*, ed the meeting, -1 Mr. Cansick (ex-mayor,) in a highly corn) mentary speech, proposed that the thanks of»tW meeting be given to Dr. Price for his able, manly address. This was cheerfully seconded W Mr. Davies, jeweller, and afterwards adopted!^ the meeting, amid rounds of cheering the very rafters ring. A vote of thanks to the chairman brought tb proceedings to a close.

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