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ENDOWED SCHOOLS ACT, 1869. T BALA SCHOOL. E Endowed Schools Commissioners have pre- irip f ^e Draft of a Scheme for the future manage- n»sr! school. Any objections or suggestions fcarv + v. such Scheme may be addressed to the Secre- iZ, e Commissioners, in writing, before the 22nd «-Pnl next. C0Py ^e Draft Scheme, and of an Abstract s been prepared in the Welsh Language for the {.°7'e,lce of persons unacquainted with English, will lie V^lic inspection at the School House, Bala, w rn ??Pies may be obtained from the Head Master, AhJ. ri I h!llip«', P"ce, Per copy of the Scheme and ^ostract together, 6d. Scheme only, 4d. Abstract only, tTil Q^0P^e3 m*Y aJS0 be obtained at the same prices from •• •»» + £ e«r" >1Rie Schools Commission, 2, Victoria- pt, o.W., on application by letter, enclosing postage without charge at the said *'< e of the Endowed Schools Commission (Signed) H.J. ROB Y. J January, 1871. Secretary. STEAM TO NEW YORK. 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THIRTEEN YEARS Surgical and Mechanical lIV- Dentist in London, may be consulted at the under- mentioned towns OLGELLEY—Every second and fourth SATURDAY, at Miss Evans's, Smithfield-street. 4;EA—Every first and third SATURDAY, atMrs JONES'S, sgid-strcet. ^LLHELI—Mr Francis Evans, bookseller, &c., High- THE 1st and 3rd WEDNESDAY in every month. RTMADGC -Every 2nd and 4th WEDNESDAY, at 'M-rr.. Bennett Williams's, Snowdon-street. 1_ All operations without pain. Advice free. .THE BEST PUDDING. AIAYAR'S SEMOLINA. I 24 PRIZE MMALS. NOTICE. [Read this with care and attention.] 'PHE MANUFACTORY OF MAYAR'S SEMOLINA was established in 1815. It is the "Oldest and the largest in the World, Twenty-five Million Pounds being yearly produced. (25,000,000.) TtMUr is ths staple food in Franco, Russia, Spain, aly> Ac., and will soon be that of England. It has obtained 24 PRIZE MEDALS is the Grand Exhibitions for its superiority over all others, and 18 Pronounced by the most eminent members of the medical Nnt.??'on> both in London and in Paris, to be far more Stah?'18 ^an Tapioca, Arrowroot, cornflour (which are only •cnn* or an*" far',laceous food already introduced into this this pa^ ^Ce Dr **as3a^'s Analytical Report in the columns of determined to maintain its reputation, we again ti,i4 i Public, that an imitation, to which a false and Jrafl r lime has been given, is introduced by a well-known arti'i advantage of its name and publicity to sell a similar -j c very inferior quality, to realise extra profits, and who *avonr °' article the qualities possessed by onr Anaf ft- Pro°^ °' our assertion we challenge a comparison, by ^J^jysis, between our Semolina and the so-called Pearlina. M>A Y A R' SSE MOL I N A 1; is solely the heart 11 Of the very best Wheat. M7A Y A K S SEMOLINA is richer than ar.y other farinaceous food in Azotic matter, indispensable in the mu-cul»r formation of the body. 3 A Y A K' S S E M O L I N A Highly commended by the 51 Faculty for Children and Invalids. \j |A Y A ITS S E M OL I N A -v* Is extremely nourishing and easily digested. fi A Y A R'S SEMOLINA makes delicious CD Puddings, Custards, and Pastry. A Y A R'S S E M 0 L I NA .l.l 2. unequalled for thickening S* Soups, Beef Tea, and Gruels. Y A R'S s eITTTTTA "-1- is the greatest delicacy • W for Breakfast and Supper. jy/T|AYAR'S S E M O L I N A £ Is very economical. ]!S5 May be used with or without Milk. > Recipes on each Package. Q_, 6d. lb. in Packet, 8d. in Canister. y all Chemists, Grocers, &c. HOMINY. A/r A Y A R s H O M I N Y, produced from the best Indian Maize, without any alliteration obtained by grinding, is far superior to the Maize orn Flour already introduced in this country, which is only larch obtained by a process of washing, which deteriorates entirely the quality, and is sold at a very high price. „ Sold by all Chemists. Grocers, and Corn Dealers. Wholesale at MAYAR'S, 36, MARK LANE, LONDON, E.C. A Wholesale Agent Wanted in erery town. MTO SCHOOLMASTERS. ESSRS ASKEW ROBERTS, WOOD ALL, & VENABLES beg to call the attention of the SchoiS.*tie Public to the Improved Edition of .,HE PROGRESSIVE COPY BOOKS, With ei.graved and traced Head Lines and Divisional LIlles (issued by the Scottish Schoolbook Association), Jvhich in quality of paper, and general get-up, are not to "e surpassed by many books sold at Threepence each. Messrs A. R., W., & V., having bought a Large Stock these Copies, can offer them at Liberal Prices to Schoolmasters and others. Bailey-Head, Oswestry, Jan., 1871. 1 ARTIFICIAL MANURES, f IVTESSRS VIVIAN AND SONS, Swansea, are in want of Agents for the Sale of their Superphos- phate and other Fertilizers in Merionethshire. Apply by letter, with references, &c. ] „ NEW PUBLICATIONS. I REV- JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A., F.S.A., A il, • Vicar of Kennington, Oxford. Account of the ENGLISH BIBLE from the earliest times of its Translation to the present day. Price 3s. 6d., Post-free 3s. 9d. C. PHILPOTTS, author of the Hillford Confirmation," THE MANOR FARM. A Tale. Price 3s. 6d., Post-free 3s. 9d. FATUTTAJ- DEAN GOULBOURN, fchipflt pRAYERS, compiled from various sources J trom Bishop Hamilton's Manual), and arranged on the Liturgical Principle. Price 3s. 6d., Post-free 3s. 9d. Cheap Edition Is., Post-free Is. Id. of the Middle Temple, ^tenuiSS^Y'S PLACE IN CHURCH HISTORY the aid of Facts and Documents unknown 1* .• °» ^unnoticed by, his Biographers. -"ice 5s. 6d., Post-free 5s. lOd. THE HILT PH^potts, HILLFORD CONFIRMATION. A Tale. l8"' P°St'free ls" ld< R°S1S5TS, WOODALL, & VENABLES, Bailey Head, vawestry. Head Master-Mr J. D. ROBERTS—(First Prizeman at I GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ABERYSTWYTH. I College.) BOYS receive a gootl TRAINING for the LEARNED PROFESSIONS and for COM- MERCE. The Seaside at Aberystwyth is unrivalled. Delicate Boys, especially, will find it a pleasant locality. Mr ROBERTS takes BOARDERS, and gives them PRIVATE LESSONS at his Residence in Queen's- road. School Duties begin on the 23rd. NEW MUSIC AT HALF PRICE & POST-FREE. "VTEW SONGS, NEW DUETS, NEW PIECES, and NEW DANCE MUSIC, all at HALF PBICE. NEW DANCE MUSIC. s. d. Cootes' French Lancers, on National Ain 4 0 Burlesoue Lancers, introducing Dutchman s Little Dog," "The Grecian Bend," and other Popular -A.irs • >•• ••• it a Grecian Bend Polka, by Charles Coote ••• Carnival Polka, introducing Vance s Popular bong, "Par Excellence," the idol of the day ••• Valentine Galop, bv M. Relle -„ r .r« of 0 H. 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Blamphin, sung by Miss Fanny Edwards and Miss Kinnaird 3 0 The Elderly Beau, by Harry Clifton 3 0 Don't be After Ten, by Harry Clifton 3 0 Maria Consents to be Mine, by Harry Clifton 3 0 Leybourne's Villiam Timothy Rags 3 0 I should Like to be an Alligator 3 0 Moet and Chandon, the Song of the Season, by Leybonrne. .) 0 Leybourne's Up in the Monument 3 0 _i Artful Joe 3 0 Sam Bagnall's I'll have Your Number or 3642 3 0 James Hillier's Mine Own Susan Jane 3 0 Turn it Up 3 0 Sam Bagnall's A Starry Night for a Ramble 3 0 Atilburn's As Good as Gol(I 3 0 Harry Fox's I Like a Drop of Good Beer 3 0 Songs by Claribel, Wrighton, Christy Minstrels, Miss Lindsey, and others. ASKEW ROBERTS, WOODALL, & VENABLES, MUSIC WAREHOUSE, BAILEY-HEAD, OSWESTRY. AN INFALLIBLE REMEDY FOR COUGHS, &c. 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The Oswestry Advertizer AND Montgomeryshire Mercury. 1 A Newspaper wWch » ^gjjmong^ *« landowners, Ller»>^gtrict etching from the inhabitants gen i-, the West Coast of Wales, Eastern Borders of^to tM r Shiwm CARDIGASHIRE and FLINTSHIIE, wlth the T followmg towns:VELSHPOOL, Llallfair, Montgomery. EWTOWX, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Llanfyllin, OSWESTRY, Shrews- Llan<7ollen,Wrexham,Conven,Bala,Dolgellej, > Towvn, Aberdovey, and Aberystwyth. events The Paper contains a full and faithful recou in the district where it circulates, a summary of the ntj of North Wales, and the general nitdhgenee of th<- > agricultural information, markets, £ c., and spuuii} devotes itself to the interests of Shropshire and W All communications should be addressed to the Office at Oswestry, where Advertisements are up to Tuesday night, for publication on Wednesday morning. C, I "k.ew Roberta, Woodall, & Vtuubles, Proprieteme
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gippil ø ob tth. The Rev. F. Pacificus, O.S.F.S., Superior of Piuitasaph Monastery, was found dead in bed on Thursday week. Breechloaders (Sniders) have been supplied to the 17th Shropshire (Shrewsbury) Rifles. Nantwich Poultry Show is to be held on Friday and Saturday, February 3rd and 4th. Sir Llewelyn Turner has been banqueted again; by the tradesmen of Carnarvon. It has been resolved not to apply for a School Board at Llanymawddwy. Llanfair-juxta-Harlech has decided against a School Board, the rector giving his casting vote in favour of the denominationalists. Mr C'ornwallis West, of Ruthin Castle, gave a grand ball to his neighbours and friends on Wednesday week. Sir Edmund Buckley has been distributing clothing and coal amongst the poor of Newcastle-under-Lyme. A boiler exploded at the Stirchley Iron Works a few days ago, and killed oneof the men employed there. A vestry, du]y summoned in accordance with the order of the Department, was held at Brymbo on the 13th, Mr W. H. Darby in the chair, when it was resolved, by 28 to 5, to apply for a School Board. The Peterborough Times has presented its readers with a portrait of Mr Whalley, M.P., and the editor is convinced that it will be welcome in many a household for the sake of the representative and friend whose likeness it is." Considerable consternation prevails in the neighbour hood of Penycae, in consequence of the ravages of a dog, which has destroyed a number of sheep, and cannot be found. The death of a well known Wrexham tradesman, Mr u R. Hughes, senior parner in the firm of Hughes and Sons, publishers, is announced. A silver tea and coffee service, a salver, and 100 guineas, were presented to Mr S. Davies, secretary to the Chester Constitutional Association, by his political friends, last week. The conservatives know how to reward their servants. Mr Justice Lush and Lady Lush paid a visit to Market Drayton the other day. The learned judge had journeyed there for the purpose of carrying out the wishes of the late Rev. J. Burroughs, a Baptist minister of that town, and a friend of his lordship's. The will of Sir William Curtis, Bart., of Cainham Court, near Ludlow, eldest son of the late Sir William Curtis, and grandson of Alderman Sir W. Curtis, Bart., was proved in London under 27,000 personalty. The Rev. T. M. B. Owen has been distributing relief amongst the poor of the Castle Fields, Shrewsbury. The Mayor has also been relieving his distressed fellow-towns- men in a very liberal manner, and several other gentlemen have assisted in the same good work. A writer in the Times suggests that the best way to prevent the explosion of kitchen boilers in frosty weather is, to keep the water circulating in the pipes, by letting a gas jet play against one part of them when the fire is out, or by using a night light in place of the gas jet. Several vestry meetings have been held at Maentwrog with reference to the Education Act, but it has been at length resolved to accept Mr Oakley's offer to provide a schoolroom, where full religious liberty is to be allowed. An influential meeting, with the Bishop of St. Asaph in the chair, has been held at Ruthin, to consider the proposal of the Endowed Schools Commissioners to establish one of the two high schools for North Wales at that town. Mr Hammond, assistant commissioner, was present, and explained the scheme. The proposal is, naturally, very acceptable to the people of Ruthin. How strange is he classification adopted for members of School Board? We often see it announced that so many churchmen, so many Baptists, so many Catholics, and so many workingmen have been elected, as if working men were a special religious denomination. Now we have Liberal Churchmen distinguished from Churchmen pure and simple. The daily papers in describing the Wrexham School Board, say it consists of two Church- men, one Liberal Churchman, &c. The Chester Chronicle well says—"If one wished to im- press a heathen with the gentle and benignant teachings of conventional Christianity, he might have been led to Bun- bury churchyard a few nights ago, where a young child was buried in the dark, without ceremony of any sort, because a few drops of water had not been sprinkled upon it with the usual formalities. A spotless infant is put into the grave like a murderer; while a sensual debauchee, guilty of «wry crime, perhaps, except the worst, is hope of resurrection to eternal life.' Verily we require a Burials Act to save us from the reputation of barbarism." A very foolish act was almost followed by fatal results at Llandyn, near Llangollen, the other day. Mr Edwards, a farmer, keeps gunpowder upon his premises, for blasting purposes, and on the day in question Mr R. Edwards, jun., and a servant man were examining a cask. The servant remarked that the powder was not the same as that which they had had before, and proposed to apply a match to a small quantity, to test it. Mr Edwards suggested that the experiment had better take place out- side the building, but the servant said there was no danger, and proceeded to carry his own suggestion into effect. A spark fell into the barrel, an explosion followed, the roof was blown off, and the two men were thrown down and burnt about the face, but, strange to say, escaped with their lives. Col. R. F. Hill writes as follows to a contemporary:- Sir,—I think, in justice to the Hon. R. C. Hill, Vis- count Newport, and Mr Ormsby Gore, the following facts should be known therefore I shall feel obliged by your insertion of them in your next edition. Mr Vaughan, of Burlton, has sent a notice to the Hon. R. C. Hill, signed by himself, his son, and, I believe, five of his dependents, warning him, his servants, and all his field, off his pro- perty when hunting also a further notice to Viscount Newport, and, I believe, Mr Ormsby Gore, the M.P.'s for the Northern Division, announcing that he withdraws his influence, whatever it may be, from the conservative interest; the reason of this proceeding being that the Lord-Lieutenant had declined to insert either Mr Vaughan's or his son's name in his list of recommenda- tions for appointment to the Commission of the Peace. Without further comment I leave it to the public to judge whether the Lord-Lieutenant's judgment erred on this occasion, after the facts stated." A letter from Alderman Meadows Frost on the same occasion may be studied with advantage by some of our readers. He argues against the delay which the educa- tion committee are advocating. The Act, he says, seems to him the essence of chanty and humanity, for it operates in the high roads and bye lanes for bringing the children to a school, where, under a happier and brighter in- fluence, they will have the opportunity of a happy destiny, and of rising to be ornaments to their race. It is sorrowful to see little deserted children in the streets; temporary relief to them does harm, as it encourages their parents in their unnatural career." He concludes-and here is the point of his letter-" A School Board for Chester will cost only a trifle, as we are told that there is sufficient school accommodation consequently I can see no reason in favour of delay, but a very serious one against it-if we postpone the subject for twelve months and then adopt the Act, many children will have lost twelve months' education, which will be a great injustice to them." He might be writing about Oswestry. How easy it is to talk about forgetting religious dif- ferences," and working together for the common good" when one has all one's own way At the last meeting of the Chester Council Mr Duncan-after referring to the rating question-said, They had committed to them the great eternal interests of the poor, and he trusted they would forget whether they were whig or tory, radical or conservative, churchmen or dissenters, in the one recol- lection that they were fellow Christians, and he hoped that no religious animosities would be shewn." How charitable Only the charity was somewhat easy, since Mr Duncan's political friends had it all their own way on the education committee, from which dissenters had been carefully excluded An attempt was subsequently made to redress the injustice by adding four nonconformist mem- bers but, strange to say, we hear no more of Mr Duncan or his liberality! When the four fresh names were about to be proposed, several members beat a hasty retreat, de- stroying the quorum, and the Council had to break up. Mr Duncan, we suppose, was satisfied with his unctuous exhortations, and considered charitable action superfluous. The other day we gave an abstract of a letter by Arch- deacon Allen on the Duke of Sutherland. A Shropshire Vicar has replied in the Duke's defence, and stated that the late and present holders of the title have spent more than £ 7,000 on the church, school, and parsonage of the writer's parish. All the other clergy on the estate, says the rev. correspondent, can speak in equally high terms of His Grace, who does good without trumpeting it abroad, and is not likely to be driven from the exercise of his own judgment as to fitting objects of support, by any pre- diction as to his "final account." The writer, who is severe upon Archdeacon Allen, writes as follows If all proprietors acted like the Duke," says the Archdeacon, "the Church Extension Society would not exist." I believe it would have been nearer reality to have said, "If all proprietors acted like the Duke, the society need not exist, and the Education Act of last session would have been superfluous." The Archdeacon admits that the Duke is liberal in helping poor benefices it cannot be denied that he is at least as liberal in building and sup- porting schools for his people. The Duke then is de- nounced in the public press, and warned that he is unfit "to pass his final account," because he declines to sub- scribe to a certain society, and wishes to have a rate- supported school in some parish in which he has property. This denunciation is called by the Archdeacon "healthy criticism to me it seems a poor attempt at clerical terrorism, as unjust to the subject of it as it is mischievous to the cause that employs it.
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It is rumoured that Mr T. Adcock. of Stourbridge frauds notoriety, has gone to New Zealand. The storm of Sunday night did some damage to ship- ping. The Italian barque Unico was lost off Filey, twelve of her crew perishing. The telegraphs were disturbed. Mr Forster addressed his constituents on Monday; not without manifestations of discontent, on the education question, from a portion of his constituents. The vote of confidence was defeated by an amendment. In refer- ing to the war, he said "who could have helped sympathising with the Germans in resisting the invasion at the onset, and with the French for resisting inrasion now."
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nrrtJonatn(t. THE CAMBRIAN RAILWAY. SIR,-A short time ago a scheme of arrangement was preaented to the shareholders of the Inland Section of the Cambrian Railway, in which it was represented that further litigation would be prevented, and that dividends from July, 1870, would be paid on the 1st of January, 1871, on their signing the said scheme, and it was stated in the papers that it was carried unanimously at the last meeting held at Crewe. Up to the present period no dividend has been paid, and to remove all doubts in thematter, previous to signing the secretary was written to and he corroborated the statement that the money would be forthcoming on the 1st of January. It would be a great boon and a solace to disappointed hopes if some person acting for the share- holders would throw a little light on these peculiar and mysterious proceedings. D. CAMPBELL, M.D. Waterbeach, Camb; January 17th, 1871. GAME AND GAMEKEEPERS. SIR,- You cannot in the present day take up a news- paper, which, in any way, refers to agricultural matters, without finding in it something about the game question. It seems to be one of the principal subjects, if not the principal subject, which is occupying the minds of agricul- turists. And who will have the courage to say that it is a subject which is yet unripe for consideration? Justice demands it; and it is encouraging to see the way in which many landowners meet the question and acknowledge that the present state of things is by no means satisfactory, either to themselves or to tenant farmers. It is needless for nie to enter into the grievances of the farmers-on some estates they are sufficiently well-known to make a repetition of them useless. If any one will just r in through the numbers of any agricultural paper for 1870, he will be able to make out a lo,g list of evils arising directly and indirectly from the over-preservation of game. I wish, in this letter, to point out one or two of the causes which lead to so much trouble and ill-feeling which exist in many places between the tenant farmers and their land- lord, or if the game be let the lessee of the shooting. Rabbits, perhaps, are the first great cause of complaint. They are too numerous, and do immense injury to the farmers' crops, for which, possibly, they obtain little or no compensation. But why are there so many rabbits ? I believe in nine cases out of ten if strict inquiry was made it would be found that it is the fault of the gamekeepers and not the gentleman who has the shooting. The keepers don't care to kill the rabbits if they did they would be unable to give a day's shooting, as they do now and again to their private friends, which, as may be expected, usually results in their being richer at the end of the day than at the beginning of it. Gamekeepers make a great deal in this way—much more than is generally known. There is another reason, too, why they preserve these enemies to the farmers. They can generally get lOd. or a Is. a couple for them, so that if they were to exterminate them their future supply would be uncertain. They like to keep a good stock, so that in a case of emergency they have their means of procuring the needful. I daresay many will doubt whether I am not overstepping the mark in what I say. Facts are stubborn things," so let me give one amongst other instances, which only last summer came under my notice. A tenant complained t. me of excessive damage by rabbits, his oats being nearly all eaten up. I went to look at the crop, or rather the remains, and found that nearly the whole of it was gone (but I should say that the field was nearly surrounded by wood). I wrote the gentleman who had the shooting over the land in question, and he was taken quite by surprise, for early in the spring he had seen that the rabbits were too numerous on that farm, and in that particular part of the farm, and had given strict orders to his keepers to destroy all the rabbits they could find. They had, however, never killed a single rabbit anywhere near the place. It was some distance from the nad and a quiet part of the estate, and therefore a very suitable place for them to have a day's ferreting or shooting with their friends. It is advisable for farmers to keep in" with the keepers if possible, because if they happen to fall out the latter have their revenge and can easily do much damage. They are usually glad of a glass of beer as they go the rounds, or a tip" now and then, for any small mercy which they may bestow will generally put the farmer all rijrht with them, but if any Hjttle quarrel puts an end to their friendship (and how s^-ttJ^^tter.^ojn.etjnies does it) all thev have to pay dearly for his misconduct. Perhaps the farmer makes complaints to headquarters. The keeper gives some plausible excuse for the rabbits being so numerous, but, of course, then Abe mischief is done. Possibly the landlord may believe the keeper and not the farmer, and then comes the ill-feeling. But sometimes the keepers quarrel amongst themselves, and this very often results in annoyance to the tenant farmer. Only last week a complaint was made to me, by the lessee of the shooting, about a farmer who had been shooting rabbits with some of his friends. Part of his farm was in one township and part in another, and the townships were under the charge of different keepers. Uponenquiry, I found that the farmer had gone to one keeper, and asked for a day's shooting. He said he would come with them, and went. However, he went over his boundary into the other township for a short time (but still on the same estate, and under the same lessee). The keeper of this township heard of the fact, and hearing also that his brother keeper had received twelve or fifteen shillings from the gentleman for his services, immediately lodged a complaint with his master that the farmer had been shoot- ing without permission, and the consequence was that he had to endure a good deal of annoyance and trouble. Any man would feel himself safe in shooting when a keeper was by, and consenting; but in this case, just because the keepers (although under the same master) were not particularly friendly, the farmer had to suffer for it. My own opinion is that if landlords would give their tenants the rabbits and hares, they need not engage keepers at all. Poachers want ground game chiefly, and the farmers would protect them, not destroy them. In many cases, I believe, the farmer and his landlord would work more in harmony with one another if there were no keepers. Above all, however, I would recommend that on no consideration whatever should game be let to a stranger, as the tenant farmers are nothing to him and he is some- times tempted, therefore, to injure them for his own benefit. One word in conclusion—I don't for a moment say that all I have said in this letter applies to all keepers. I know some very honest and respectable men, who would scorn to do a mean action, but I think that there are many who eause very much ill feeling between tenants and landlords. Jan. 12th, 1871. A LAND AGENT.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. [WEATHER PERMITTING.] The Idris Side Harriers will meet on Monday, Jan. 23rd Cefnrowen-ucha Friday, Jan. 27th Corsygarnedd At 10. The Vate of Ayron (Capt. Vaughan's) will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 21th Crossways, Llanayron Friday, Jan. 27th Bwlchbychan At 10.30 The North Jfontgomery Harriers will meet on Saturday, Jan. 21st King's Head, Meifod Tuesday, Jan. 24th Powis Arms, Pool Quay Saturday, Jan. 28th Llanfyllin At 11. Earl Vane's Harriers will meet on Monday, Jan. 23rd .Abergwydol J At 10. Captain Adams's Harriers meet on Saturday, Jan. 21st Kennels Monday, Jan. 23rd Gwynfynydd Thursday, Jan. 26th Talerddig Gate Saturday, Jan. 28th Voel, Llanbrynmair At 9. STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES. Midland Counties .Feb. 7, 8 Carmarthen T Birmingham i? u' Jo Moreton-in-Ma rsh i 2 Baschurch -March 7 Liverpool March 20, 21, 22 Bridgnorth April 10 Lichfield April 10, 11 Cheltenham April 13, 14 Knighton April 2o, 26 Abergavenny April 27, 28
IAN UNSPOKEN SPEECH.
Jules Favre will not leave Paris during the bombard- ment. The Denbighshire Infirmary Ball took place at Denbigh on the 10th, and was very numerously attended. The total receipts, including donations, were 2101 8, What would be thought, in these days of swift locomo- tion of the following old-fasioned method of doing a jour- ney? In Nimrod's" Chase, Turf, and Road, the author sayg The Shrewsbury and Chester Highflyer started from Shrewsbury at eight o'clock in the morning, and arrived in Chester about the same time in the evening- distance, forty miles. This was always a good hard road for wheels, and rather favourable for draught; and how, then, could all these hours be accounted for ? Why, if a commercial gentleman" had a little business at Ellesmere, there was plenty of time for that. If a real gentleman" wanted to pay a morning visit on the road, there could be no objection to that. In the pork-pie season, half an hour was generally consumed in consuming one of them for Mr Williams, the coachman, was a wonderful favourite with the farmers' wives and daughters all along the road. The coach dined at Wrexbam-for coaches lived well in those days they seem now to live upon air- and Wrex- ham Church was to be seen—a fine specimen of the florid Gothic, and one of the wonders of Wales! Then Wrex- ham was also famous for ale-no public breweries in those days in Wales—and above all, the inn belonged to Sir Watkin About two hours were allowed for dinner; but Billy Williams—one of the best-tempered fellows on I earth, as honest as Aristides, and, until lately, upon the same ground-was uever particular to half an hour or so. The coach is ready, gentlemen," he would say; but don't let me disturb you, if you wish for another bottle." AN UNSPOKEN SPEECH. our Irregular Correspondent.) There is perhaps no commoner error than to feel con- tempt for those who do not possess knowledge that has long been familiar to us. It seems incredible to a reader of fiction that there should- be a man in England who has never heard of Dickens, Scott, or Thackeray, and a lover 0 13 .led with blank astonishment when asked who Goldsmith, Pope, or Bjn-on was. A politician natur- ally thinks that debates and budgets are everybody's delight, and expects all his acquaintances to be as well up in past and present political celebrities as he is himself and a, zealous sectarian is apt to stamp a man as lament- ably ignorant if he has not heard his favourite preacher and come to unalterable conclusions on all his darlin dogmas. How ludicrous is the pitying tone of a racin" man towards one who does not know the favourite for the next Derby, or who has failed to remember the peculiar line in which George Fordham shines. A constant reader" is puzzled with a man who never looks at a news- paper, and an admirer of the changing beauties of nature gazes with something akin to disgust at one who prefers a crowded theatre or concert room to the finest scenery in the world. It is difficult to say how much of the pleasure of life consists in imagining that our views, our know- ledge, our impressions, our desires and aspirations, are participated in by most people, and not a little of life's journey is embittered by trying to bring about this unison where it has been discovered to be absent. Hence the existence of many of the sects and parties in religion and politics, much of whose time and streugth are spent in trnng- to obtain a preponderance of support to a certain side, rather than in working harmoniously together for the common end. In the way men set about work that is in itself disin- terested we find this same mistake thwarting their efforts and sometimes dragging them down to despair, and even in personal struggles to get on in the world the same error crops up at every turn. A man rightly or wrongly comes to the conclusion that he is fitted for a certain position, and forthwith makes an effort to obtain it. He is probably snubbed and driven back disheartened. If he has concluded rightly in thinking himself fitted for the position he seeks, his failure most likely ought not to be attributed to the number of competitors or some unlucky accident, as is frequently done, but to the fact that he neglected to convince the proper persons that he possessed the necessary requirements for the place lie sought. His mistake is the radical one of taking it for granted that everyone is as well versed in his qualifica- tions as he himself. The failure of carefully framed beneficent laws often results from the same cause, though this peculiar risk is obviously not so great in nations where the first require- ment previous!}' to passing a national law is that there should be a demand for it by the people, as it is in private life where one or two enthusiasts may obtain the reluctant aid of their friends in establishing societies and schemes for the promotion of social reform that the bulk of the people will never hear of. Preachers, when addressing their congregations on religious matters, spend no inconsiderable portion of their time in persuading their hearers that there are great blessings to be obtained by a certain course of life, carefully impressing them with the fact that they are losing pleasures in this world ind the next by a short- sighted policy of trying to live to themselves it is clearly shown time after time that wicked men fail to make the best even of this world and are wrong altogether as regards the next. The great object of this kind of preaching is to create a consciousness of loss and deprivation, and then, when the mind has been aroused, a way is pointed out by which the best may be made of both worlds. This may not be high-class preaching, but there is wisdom in the method, and considerable success attends it. Political agitators, too, if they wish t) see their ideas embodied in legislation, spend far more time in creating a conscious- ness of need than in canvassing fur supporters thev adopt the same course as the preacher. There was a time when the people of this country took no more interest in the repeal of the Corn Laws than they do now in the repeal of the Law of Primogeniture. Mr'Cobden. Mr Bright, and others, however, compelled the people by force of their eloquence to feel the burden of these laws to such an extent that there was at last an almost universal demand for their repeal, and when the cry became loud and clear, they were repealed. On the edu- cation question a different course has been followed. A cotnparativ ely small section of the nation, aided by a favourable ministry, has passed an education Bill to mv there had not been great indifference and division of opinion outside the House. The great majority of those who are sought to be benefited by the provisions of the Act are at the present time almost totally indifferent to the subject in any of its bearings, and when the Cobden and Bright of this subject have succeeded in making the and Bright of this subject have succeeded in making the labouring people of the United Kingdom feel the burden of ignorance, and they see clearly how unfairly they are weighted in the race of life by it, they will insist on the passing of an Education Bill very unlike the one that was made law during last session of Parliament. The pro- moters of education made the old mistake of fancying that all the world knew what was so obvious to them. In almost every town and village there are institutions for the moral and social elevation of the people, estab- lished and supported by those who never intend to avail themselves of the advantages they offer. In the great majority of instances these institutions are in a chronic state of debt and difficulty, and have to look to the wealthy, not only for subscriptions to meet ordinary expenses, but for large sums at frequent intervals to tide them over special emergencies. A few good-hearted, thoughtful men see that an infirmary, a mechanic's institute, a public library, a working men's club, a new school, a church, or a chapel is needed in a town or a dis- trict they look around them, and see that vice, ignor- ance, disease, and vicious pleasures are rife on every hand, and they conclude that the need is great and must be met; outside the little knot of reformers everyone is quite unconscious that any such need exists, or, at most, have only given it a passing thought now and then when the want has come very near home. However the good to be accomplished is very palpable to the few, and they, falling into the common mistake, think it is equally so to the multitude, and commence a vigorous canvass for subscrip- tions. Gentlemen who are known to be liberal patrons of public movements are waited upon; men with vested interests in the district are asked for help a ladies' com- mittee is formed a subscription list (headed by a peer if possible) is opened somebody gives a site a fashion- able concert is got up, at which a member of Parliament, a baronet, two or three reverends, and several ladies assist; a fancy bazaar is held and at last the scheme is brought to a successful conclusion, and amidst a grand flourish of trumpets enters upon its career of supposed usefulness. True, those for whom all this trouble has been taken and all this money expended remain uncon- scious that they are in need of what has been done, and are quite unable to see how they are to be benefited, especially if the supporters of the new movement should be rash enough to ask for a small subscription from those who avail themselves of its advantages. At the end of the first year a meeting is held and the secretary announces, after apologizing for the want of interest in the movement on the part of the inhabitants of the town, that there is a balance against the committee of no inconsiderable amount, and goes on to say that if gentle- men on whom God has bestowed wealth do not subscribe liberally, the committee will have to be content with something less than their original programme. This, he thinks, would be a great pity, and then, as at the com- mencement of the scheme, he waxes eloquent on the requirements of the class for whom they have erected that noble building," and concludes by saying that he has no doubt in years to come children now unborn will bless the projectors of that scheme when they look back on the good which has thus been brought within their reach and so the movement enters on its second year of exist- ence with a prospect of doing very little good and almost a certainty of showing a balance on the wrong side when the year is ended. The promoters of projects such as those I have men- tioned are thoughtful men, and therefore different in that respect from the masses around them, though, owing to the popular delusion, this fact never strikes them. In their case to think is so natural, and in that of others to act on sombody else's thought is so common, that they are misled by appearances and succeed in bringing into exist- ence schemes and institutions that really have not the slightest prospect of being self-supporting. At the end of next century, or later, they may succeed, but under the present system there is only a dim chance of even this somewhat distant good. I am convinced that it is not in the multiplication of means of improvement that we must look for the advance- ment of the masses, except in so far as these means are multiplied by the people themselves; but in the awakening of their dormant faculties by contact with superior minds. The ever-recurring mistake in all schemes for the amelio- ration of the condition of the people is in not showing them —a slow and difficult process-the importance of those schemes, and insisting on their taking a proportionate share of the trouble and expense of their establishment and management; in fact the only sure proof that any in- stitution of this kind will fulfil the intention of its pro- moters is to be found in the co-operation of those who are to be benefited. I can perhaps show what I mean more clearly by the following instances:—Suppose two or three gentlemen, alive to the evils of working men spending most of their leisure time in public-houses, re- solved to establish a working-men's club. Unless they were very ignorant indeed as to the best way of carrying out their idea, they would never think of doing anything publicly until they had first of all interested the work- ing men themselves in the movement. This done, there would be a chance of success, though not so good a chance as if the working men had been the means of in- teresting the gentlemen. In the establishment of a work- ing-men's club, the need for the co-operation of working men is very evident, but not more real than in the case of an infirmary or a school, and yet how differently our two or three gentlemen would now set to work. In the latter case the artizans would not be invited to the pre- liminary meetings, nor be put on the committees; they would probably not even be told that such an institution was being erected for their benefit. Now, it is probable that neither of the schemes may prove successful, but it should be borne in mind that if the attempt to start a working-men's club had been made in the same way as the infirmary or the school, the probabilities are that it would haye been found impossible to set it afloat at all. MR STRAIGHT AS A FREE LANCE. Both conservatives and liberals are crying out for Armr- Reform, but there is a vast difference between their cries. The conservatives grumble at the niggardly economy of the Government, and demand a larger expenditure. The liberals ask for greater efficiency, and gi eater economy also. The country will not have much difficulty in de- ciding between them—not so much as, we fancy, Mr STRAIGOT, the junior member for Shrewsbury, will have in shaping his political career. How will Shrews- bury Tories, who, of all men in the world, have least sym- pathy with any taint of liberalism, like their new representative's announcement, that he is not quite so conscientious a conservative as Mr CHARLEY," but that, on the contrary, he has a great desire to be one of those free lances who are capable of exercising an independent opinion upon political matters ?" This must be rank heresy, in the nostrils of the true Shrewsbury Tory, and Mr STRAIGHT, we are inclined to think, will have to mend his ways or appeal to a different constituency. Mr CHARLEY is much more likely to -A-in the confidence and sympathy of Mr STRAIGHT'S present—or ought we to say reccnt !-supporters. The member for Shrewsbury, as far as we can gather from the report before us, was care- ful in his words, and he assured his audience—he was speaking at a conservative meeting in London—that "he believed, on general topics, be had a thoroughly consena-. tive feeling," but this will hardly satisfy our thorough-' going Salopians. To do them justice, they cannot under- stand half-hearted torvism. They are as incapable of admiring a free lance, or any dangerous political hybrid of that sort, as of deliberately employing a liberal car- penter to mend the corporation chairs. Mr STRAIGHT, therefore, had better look carefully before he leaps-as he seems half inclined to do—into the arena of Army Re- form with "a deep-thinking man like Air TREVELYAN. The learned member's constituents have no liking for deep-thinking men of that sort, who possess an unhappy knack of routing out abuses. Mr STRAIGHT, however, may think more about doing his duty and carrying out his convictions, than pleasing his supportt'rs. If so, w& shall be glad—but he must bid adieu to Shrewsbury. W& shall watch his conduct in the coming session with great interest-and we await his appearance at the grand con- servative banquet at Shrewsbury with no little anxiety. Will he come out as a free lance there ? In the midst of the chorus of lamentation over liberal deficiencies in the war office, will he say, as he said in London, that the- conservatives had been just as bad ? Will he dare, in the sacred precincts of his own Tory borough, to admire Mr TREVELYAN and hint at becoming his disciple? If so, may we be there to see-the effect upon his constituents.) -Osivestr,y Advertizer.
TRUCK.
TRUCK. Witnesses from Ruabon have been examined before the Truck Commissioners at Birmingham but it is obviouar from the evidence, which we published last week, that the enquiry, as far as that district is affected, was insufficient for practical purposes. The statements of the five or six witnesses called before the commissioners were, to a certain, extent, contradictory, and a larger mass of evidence must be adduced before we have any chance of arriving at the truth. Mr BOWEX, for instance, tells us that he considers the company's shops more detrimental than the "butty truck" system, while Mr WILLIAM GRIFFITH holds & directly contrary opinion. The last witness, again, says there is an understanding that the workmen must deal at the Ruabon Company's shop, while Mr GEORGB THOMPSON, the New British Iron Company's local manager, declares that there is no understanding" what- ever, but acknowledges to an "expectation" that the, employes will patronize the shop. The evidence points, and about 'e&ln Oi^Uieiu we snotua nice to Hve llUle information. The "butty truck" system is said to be "growing to a gigantic height," and the opportunities of- petty tyranny which it affords are immense. The butties give their notes, and make their "poundage" out of some of the tradesmen and it does not require a word of explanation to show how great a hardship may tbua be inflicted upon the workmen. As far as the company shops go, we are not furnished with any instances of grow abuse, such as are met with in other districts but this may easily be because the enquiry was not sufficiently thorough. The shop belonging to the Ruabon Company's works is said to be conducted on fair principles and tIa. charge moderate prices and it is urged on behalf of this mild form of the truck system-for such it must be called, —that the families of the men are benefited, and that money is spent there which would otherwise go to the public-house. The force of these facts may be fully allowed, without, however, acknowledging that the system, even in this modified and possibly beneficial form, ought to be permitted. The whole system stands or falls together, and the fact that gross abuses are connected with and inseparable from it, is enough to condemn it in the eye of the law. Indeed, according to some of the witnesses, the present favourable state of the system at Ruabon is owing to the stand which has been made against abuses, and to the fact that the law has been put in force. The Truck Act, which forbids any except money payment, defines a. contract to mean any agreement, understanding, device, contriiunce, collusion, or arrangement whatever, on the subject of wages, whether written or oral, whether direct or indirect, to which the employer or artificer are parties, or are assenting, or by which they are mutually bound to each other, or whereby either of them shall have endeavoured to impose an obligation on the other. The draw-clerk at the Ruabon Company's works says he never told the men that they were expected to go to the shop, and he does not know that they consider they are expected to go but he also says "he thinks it proper that the men should go." Of course we shall not attempt to decide whether such a shop comes within the Act; but it would be safest to abolish the system altogether, as far as that is practicable and, let us add, it would be better to pay the men regularly oftener than once a month. Weekly payments are best. They help to protect the workmen against the evil system of credit, and against the grasping tyranny of many small shopkeepers.— Oswestry Advertizer.
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The New Orleans police have confiscated the wagons and horses of a large number of milk dealers who put milk in their water. t4 Tables "turn," and "creak," ana groan, and are "set in a roar;" but doors beat them-they can speak-at all events to those who say that they answer" them.— Punch. A deputation of salesmen, butcners, and others, in» terested in the trade in British cattle, on Monday had an interview with Earl de Grey, and pressed for the removal of the existing restrictions, which, it was said, had injured trade. Earl de Grey promised that the subject should be considered. Topham Banks was at a ball on the Gth, where the ladies' dresses were so excessively and inconveniently lonj. His remark at supper was that he understood now what the American poet meant by "the trailing garments of the night. The jury on the NVitton explosion have returned an open verdict, accompanied by an expression of opinion that there was an absence of many precautions necessary to the carrying on of so dangerous a trade, and that the manu- facture of cartridges, kc., should not be permitted to be carried on, except under the immediate supervision of properly qualified persons, to be appointed by Govern- ment. CoHrsing as well as racing, it seems, now finds employ- ment for the genus tout." During the last fortnight the Irish constabulary were puzzled by two well-muffled indi- viduals, who made a small inn, in the neighbourhood of a. gentleman (celebrated for his excellent kennel of grey- hounds), their head-quarters. Their demeanour was very respectable, but their conversation was carried on in a slang" that only themselves could comprehend. Some thought they were amnestied Fenians, and others that they were megsmen'' keeping out of the way. At last, light was thrown upon the subject in a very unexpected manner, owing to a violent dispute occurring, through one declaring the other a complete" duffe, at "business." An altercation oomrnenced in Cockney lingo, which ended in satisfaction being demanded. A ring was at once formed in an adjoining field, and simple villagers were im- pressed as seconds and bottle-holders. Nine or ten rounds were fought, clearly proving their mastery of the noble art," and astonishing the simple natives, when the con- stabulary put in an appearance and arrested both pugi- lists. On being searched, a round sum of money was found upon each, besides diaries proving that the said gentlemen had been traveling the United Kingdom during the last two months, obtaining complete information as to the condition and chances of the probable candidates for the Waterloo Cup. On being brought before a county magistrate, they politely explained their "business" and the cause of the quarrel, regretting that the latter should have occurred. They complained bitterly that the late frosts had interfered with training, and prevented trials of importance in that part of the country. On promising to return to London by different routes, their money and papers were handed them. Both bore extensive marks'of the punishment inflicted by each other, and will doubtless l find it their imterest and business" to live more amicably.