The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

LOCAL SANITARY AUTHORITIES AND THE BOARD ABOVE The contest between local Sanitary Authorities and the Board above must always be an unequal one, for it is safe to assume that the latter seldom enter into controversies in which they intend to be defeated. They have at their back powers which local bodies cannot employ, and in the con- tests occasionally waged by courageous popular representatives there is sufficient resemblance to the conflict between mortals and the gods, to kake it easy to predict the result. Three years 490, as Mr DOYLK told a meeting of Sanitary Authorities at Carnarvon on Wednesday, the Board endeavoured to persuade the local bodies to appoint district medical officers, but failed in the attempt. What is the consequence ? The Board have Obtained parliamentary power to decree what they tried to secure by persuasion, and Carnarvonshire, and parts of Merionethshire, Anglesey, and Den- bighshire, are to be united in one medical district. The Local Government Board at the same time show sufficient respect for the important principle local government, by carefully explaining, through the mouth of Mr. DOYLE, the reasons that have compelled them to take the step which he announced. From all parts of the district Complaints have reached the Board of the shorfc- comings of the Sanitary Authorities. At Pwllheli the officer of health seems to have been ham- pered by an order which prevented him from doing anything before he obtained the sanction of the Authority, who ought to have laid down 111les for his guidance and then trusted in a large ) degree to his discretion. At Beaumaris the Authority have not even taken the trouble to appoint an officer and Penmaenmawr, according to a correspondent, is "soaking m sewage." III a word, the separate system, as we may call It, seems to have broken down, and the ques- tion for the Board above to consider was simply this whether the local Authorities should be permitted to neglect the duties Which the Public Health Act required of them. There could be only one reply. The integrity of local government is important in a very high degree, but, after all, the health of the People is the supreme law, and if local bodies choose to neglect that, they must go to the wall. The country has pretty well decided to put its foot down upon official manslaughter. People are not to be poisoned any longer by foul sewers, 0r polluted wells, or crowded dwellings, if skill aQd money can save their lives or protect them from suffering and local Authorities who are anxious to retain their own officers must at any "Ite take care that the evils we have enumerated are remedied with all possible speed. In Car- narvonshire the opportunity is past, but it is just Possible that in other parts of our district, where the Local GoverRment Board have not yet pro nounced a decision, a clean bill would prevent the union which so many Authorities dislike. We are no advocates for the separate system, but it is worth pointing out that the only way to avoid it is to show the Board above that the Act can be carried out efficiently without union. At any rate, and this is the most important lesson of all, the Local Government Board have shown that they will not tolerate negligence, and that they mean to use the powers which Parliament has given them, to secure the protection of the people against the niggardliness and carelessness of Sanitary Authorities.

UNNECESSARY PAUPERISM. We publish to-day a long report of an import- ant conference at Shrewsbury, where the question of Out-relief was fully discussed. The proceed- ings were of general interest, and since several well-known public men, including the PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOABD, took part in them, we may venture to urge all our leaders who feel any interest in the momentous question of pauperism to read and study our report. Unfortunately, Wales needs the lessons enforced at Shrewsbury, more than almost any other part of the kingdom. In some Unions, out-relief is still dispensed as lavishly as if it had been recognized as the most sagacious policy ever discovered and in many others a great deal remains to be done before the low standard of pauperism reached in several English Unions is even approached. In the meanwhile every sign of stern opposition to the old, bad ways into which the Welsh Guardians had fallen is to be welcomed. At Dolgelley, last week, it was stated that two persons, one of them at least, if not both, apparently well able to support their parents, had not been ashamed to let them come on the Union." These affectionate individuals had expressed the delight which it would give them to support their dear mother," if they were able to do so. We ob- serve with satisfaction that the Guardians refused to accept these endearing assurances instead of cash, and instructed their clerk to proceed against the polite letter-writers. It is a wholesome rule for Boards of Guardians to adopt, to assume that all persons are able to support their relations un- til the contrary is proved. At the conference there was only one opinion about the necessity of cutting out-relief down to the smallest propor- tions, except that two unimportant speakers, out of the whole assembly, had not succeeded in freeing themselves from the injurious prejudices of mistaken kindness. The emphatic testimony of men in high office, and of all who have studied the question intelligently, is in favour of offering the House in a vast number of cases which are now, in many Unions, dealt with out of doors. The effect of the change is greatly to reduce the amount of pauperism, and in some cases to les- sen the number of indoor as well as out-door paupers so that, while the ratepayers gain ma- terial relief, people who under the old system have become paupers regain their independence, and as one of the speakers said, are converted from consumers into producers,to the unspeakable advantage of the community, It is too much to expect that all Guardians will give the subject their attentive consideration, but we may ask tha more intelligent of them to take the lead in this matter, and not to rest until every Union in the land is as free from pauperism and heavy rates as Atcham is.

ROADS AND MAGISTRATES IN CARDIGANSHIRE. At the April Quarter Sessions held at Aberaeron the chairman Mr CHARLES MARSHALL GRIFFITH called the attention of the Court to the state of the law relating to the Turnpike Trusts of South Wales, and said that if the Government were going to bring in a Highway Bill effecting a sweeping change, it was most desirable that the counties of South Wales should be prepared with an expression of opinion as to what course should be adopted. His own opinion was against the continuance of the county roads plan, as the County Roads Board was an expensive system introduced to meet an exceptional state of things. The time in his opinion had come when they could safely place their turnpike roads in the hands of the district boards. As regarded tolls he would let them go and would meet the expenditure on the roads by a road rate. Mr BRENCHLEY agreed with the chairman in what he had said, and believed it would be an easy matter to convert turnpike roads into district roads. He thought it would be advisable to do away with turnpike gates, as the tolls were not sufficient to keep the roads in repair. Mr LEWIS PUGH PUGH also spoke and defended the County Roads Board. He aso thought it would not be fair to throw the whole cost of the roads upon the rates. After some fur- ther speeches Mr LEWIS PUGH PUGH gave notice that at the next sessions the question of the future maintenance of turnpike roads would be taken into consideration and he would move that a memorial embodying the views of the Bench should be sent to the Local Government Board. This may be called the first chapter in the County Roads Muddle. At the July sessions the question was again discussed and Mr LEWIS PUGH PUGH said h6 thought if they put all the roads under one management it would effect a great saving in their management and supervision. The CHAIRMAN during the three months seemed to have modified his views considerably, and said that at the last sessions he had expressed his opinion that the district boards would be found efficient to manage the turnpike roads in their particu- lar districts. After having considered the matter he had come to the conclusion that it was impossible to do away with control some- thing like that exercised by the County Roads Board. He was in favour of extending the pow- ers of the district boards, but would still maintain a central authority. The relative position of Mr LEWIS PUGH PUGH and the CHAIRMAN it will thus be seen, was very different in July from what it was in April. The petty squires from the south were anxious to preserve the County Roads Board, and had also decided, it seems, to oppose Mr LEWIS PUGH PUGH. With the CHAIRMAN'S reasons for changing his mind, we have nothing whatever to do, as from first to last he did his utmost to ob- tain unprejudiced discussion of the whole question. Mr BRENCHLEY like a good tory and a docile fol- low er, had committed himself somewhat hurriedly at the April Sessions to the CHAIRMAN'S views, and did not think it advisable to open his mouth in July. The third chapter was commenced on the 19th of the present month, when Mr LEWIS PUGH PUGH attempted to open a discussion based on the resolutions passed at the Aberystwyth meeting. The Chairman, Mr CHARLES MARSHALL GRIFFITH. seemed to have recovered more of the tone he possessed in April, and expressed himself in fa- vour of discussing Mr PUGH'S propositions. The CHAIRMAN acted very fairly, but the desire to de- feat Mr PUGH overwhelmed every other object. The real question at issue was lost sight of, and Mr BRENCHLEY, who in April thought it would be an easy matter to convert turnpike roads into district roads, and was almost unnecessarily anxious to get rid of turnpike gates, showed that since then the petty squires had worked their sweet will upon him. He was made the medium for the concentrated littleness and venom of the south as I will be seen from his words. The CHAIRMAN tried to obtain a fair hearing for an important question in which he and the whole county are interested, I but a desire to gratify personal feeling was too strong for Mr BRENCHLEY, who moved that the whole thing should be allowed to remain as it was at the present time." Mr JORDAN, an antiquated relic of a forgotten age, promptly seconded the amendment. The CHAIRMAN here pointed out that if this amendment was carried it would have the effect of stopping the discussion, but Mr BRENCHLEY, notwithstanding his April remarks, and the CHAIRMAN'S observation that the magis- trates were not there to discuss the matter as partisans, refused to withdraw his amendment, which was put and lost. Colonel LEWES then moved a3 an amendment to Mr PUGH'S motion a series of resolutions, and Mr PuGH was beaten by a large majority. We will not insult our readers by pretending to believe that these county gentlemen, who are supposed to teach the lower orders how to conduct themselves, acted in this matter with anything like that fairness which may be found daily among their own underpaid labourers. The whole county has been insulted in order that Mr T. E. LLOYD'S silly escapade at Aberyst- wyth might be avenged, and Conservatives, when in future they are paying the vexatious toll, may console themselves with the reflection that if the Aberystwyth resolutions had been moved by a sound Tory they would have been passed unani- mously.

MR GREEN'S ELECTION FACTS AND FIGURES. When we first called attention to Mr GEORGE GREEN'S election facts and figures with reference to the harbour, we did so in order to point out to our Aberystwyth readers that those facts and figures were not in accord with truth. Since then they have been reiterated in a way which has deprived their originator of any right to claim the confidence of the public as a disinterested reformer of those wrongs which he seems to think will be righted if he can obtain a seat in the Council. Mr GREEN on commencing his elec- tioneering campaign stated that the maintenance of the harbour was a charge on the ratepayers' pockets, and asserted that the rates were mort- gaged as security for the money borrowed for the erection of the stone pier. This was a good card to play and one likely to win the game, as the more thoughtless ratepayers have always been inclined to look with disfavour upon the trans- ference of the management of the harbour to the Corporation. We contradicted this statement on the first opportunity and stated distinctly that not a penny of the rates has been spent or could be spent upon the harbour. Mr GREEN then wrote a letter in which he repeated the assertion that the rates were mortgaged and that a consider- able portion of the sum already spent was rate- payers' money. Last week we again in the most emphatic and distinct terms contradicted these stat- ments, which are nothing more nor less than an unjustifiable attempt to obtain a seat in the Council by imposing upon the ratepayers a tissue of errors. On Saturday evening Mr GREEN called another meeting, which he addressed at great length. He again dealt with the harbour question and again betrayed a lamentable ignorance of facts. Indeed so complete is the fog in which he is wrapped that it is difficult to know where to begin to set him right, especially as C) we fear the fog is of his own creating and is intended merely to blind the eyes ot electors. Take one example Mr GREEN on Saturday night said that £3,016 had been spent on the harbour during the past year, and he asked his audience if they could see any way of getting out of that expenditure for the next year. Mr DAVID JONES, the Borough Ac- countant, last week presented to the Council a statement of accounts from which Mr GREEN might have procured trustworthy figures if he had wanted them. We find from this statement, which does not answer Mr GREEN'S purpose, that instead of R3,016 having been spent on the har- bour last year, as stated by Mr GREEN, only £ 1,752 was spent in this way. Of the £ 1,016 received in dues, &c., put down as spent, there is £ 150 in hand of the loan of iC2,000 which is obtained at 4t per cent and not 5 as stated by Mr GREEN, there is R364 in hand,and 9850 of the remainder was spent in discharging old liabilities of the trustees and other expenses which will not have to be paid again, so that if the Corporation spent 93,016 on the harbour next year,they would get £1,264 more work than they got last year! Again, last week we published some figures which showed that in the year 1880, when the annuities of the tally holders have to be met, the present income will be sufficient to meet all liabilities and to leave a sum ofJ6200 towards maintenance. Mr GREEN, in order to bring a balance of 200 a year against the harbour, sub- stantially adopts our figures and inserts an additional £ 300 a year for interest on money which there is no power to borrow and which is not required The conclusion of the whole mat- ter as far as the harbour is concerned, is that the rates are not mortgaged that no ratepayers' money has been spent on the pier that the dues are more than sufficient to cover all the harbour's liabilities and to leave a balance in hand that zC3,016 was not spent on the harbour works last year that the interest is 41 and not 5 per cent 2 that only R4,000 has been arranged to be borrowed that the money has not been wasted and that Mr GREEN has never said a word during the whole twenty-six years of his fault-finding career to show that he has any better scheme to propose than that which has been carried out. He wants a seat in the Council and it is not diffi- cult to see why his ambition points in that direc- tion. Mr GREEN is the Apostle of the Flats, and gave his audience on Saturday night some figures as to the relative cost of pumping and gravitation, which will deceive nobody. It is too much to ask us to believe that the annual de- preciation of gravitation water works will be £ 500, and of pumping works only zC200 I The fact i3 that if the Llanbadarn scheme would not cost a shilling it would be dear as long as health and life are worth anything. The electors will do well to remember that in Mr GEORGE GREEN they have a candidate doggedly determined to carry out the Llanbadarn Flats water works scheme. This in itself ought to secure his rejection, but in addition to his desire to supply us with dirty water he is anxious to erect some harbour works on a plan which he has never brought before the public, but which we may take for granted entails the undoing of all that has been hitherto accom- plished. Mr GREEN commenced his canvass by a chain of inaccuracies, and seems to think the best way of finishing it is to forge additional links to that chain.

MANAGEMENT OF ROADS IN MACHYNLLETH DISTRICT. A correspondent writes: —"The Union of Machynlleth is divided into four parts, and each part has its Board and full quota of officer?: There is: 1st.—The Montgomeryshire Turnpike Trust (1st Dis- trict). 2nd.—Montgomeryshire Turnpike Trust (2nd District)- 3rd.-Tbe Merionethshire part of the Union. 4th.-Tho Machynlleth Highway Board. Each of these bodies has a clerk, surveyor, and trea- surer, so that there are twelve officials, or an officer for each man working on the roads. A report appeared in the Cambrian Ncics to the effect that the Trust had al plied for a rate in aid, and that a meeting would be held on the first Wednesday in November to consider the application: The Trust has not done any work in the district for the last ten months. When the Surveyor discharged his men, he was only B30 in arrear, and the Government allows 2230 a year in the district for the repair of the roads. Where has all the money gon to? Has it all been swallowed up in the salaries ot the officers. Since the formation of the Highway Board that body has done a great deal of good work, and its officers are fully competent to perform all the work required to be done in the district Would it not, therefore, be well to place all the roads under the Highway Board, and so save a great deal of useless expenditure ?" It is, of course, not to be expected that an important change of this kind can be carried out without a good deal of trouble, but it is high time some steps should be taken in this direction.

LOCAL AND DISTRICT NOTES. One of the most important meetings in aid of the Uni- versity College of Wales Sustentation Fund has been held at Bala, and we report it to-day. Some of the speaking was singularly effective. It placed the advantages of the College in a very clear light, and must have convinced all who listened to it, we should think, that the efforts made at the present time in aid of the Sustentation Fund ought to be generously responded to. Mr ROBERTSON'S hand- some promise of 2100 a year for three years, or five years if necessary, to the Fund, completed the satisfaction which the meeting was calculated to produce. In making an order of 4s 61 weekly against EDWARD MORGAN, one of the Guardians of the Aberystwyth Board, the Llanbadarn magistrates, on Wednesday last, addressed some strong remarks to the defendant. What chance is there of bringing about any considerable reform in the administra. tion of the rates as long as cases of this kind exist, and while some of the Guardians of the Aberystwyth Board receive payment for attending the meeting?. We could give names and amounts, but by doing so should lay ourselves open to action for libel, perhaps The time is coming when out- relief will have to be greatly curtailed, and when paid guardians will have to find other ways of turning an honest penny. On Thursday morning Mr T. H. JONES, one of the can. didates for the seat rendered vacant by the death of Capt. DELAHOYDE, issued a circular to the voters, in which there was this paragraph" I may, perhaps, be allowed to advert to one fact, and that is that, taking it from a deno- minational point of view, the Calvinistic Methodists have already five members in the Town Council, while the Wesleyan body have not a single representative on that Board A sectarian Council with a vengeance If the stupidity of the foregoing paragraph should ever be fully comprehended by its author, he will wish he had either never been taught to write or had been compelled to write sense. Aberystwyth had an election surprise yesterday, when Mr T. H. JONES was preferred to Mr JOHN JONES, who, it was supposed, had only to offer himself to be sure of suc- cess. The ways of electors are past finding out. The can- didate who mounted a Sectarian platform has won Per- haps Mr JOHN JONES'S friends reposed too much confidence in the desire of the townspeople to have their affairs managed by men who place the public interest before any other consideration. The dispute respecting the •' water works" at Towyn has been amicably settled, and Mr JONES, while standing upon his rights, paid the sum alleged to be due to avoid a squabble. It was admitted that a cat might have been thrown into the old level, and our TowJ n readers would do well to be careful how they use water of this sort. The surveyors of the highway districts iato which sjme unions are divided, cannot be said to command the confi- dence of the ratepayers. The highways are allowed to fall out of repair, and the labourers on the roads are more like masters than the surveyors who employ them. Some time ago we exposed the doings of one of these surveyors and showed how rotten the system is which rallows a man to sign receipts for money alleged to have been paid,^but which on inquiry it was found had not been paid. The incompe- tency of that surveyor was clearly demonstrated but he still occupies his position! At the last meeting of the Aber- ystwyth Board of Guardians it was suggested to amalga- mate the four highway districts, and there can be no doubt that a step of this kind would result in better roads and lower rates. Aberystwyth union takes the lead in reforms of different kinds, and we believe the question of the manage- ment of roads will be solved by the Aberystwyth Board before the question has been discussed in some places. From the quarterly journal of the Royal National Life- boat Association we learn that it has been decided that a new lifeboat shall be placed at Aberystwyth in lien of the boat at present on that station. A new lifeboat house is now in course of erection in Queen's-road. It is to be hoped the advent of the new boat will be made the occasion of trying to arouse a more active interest in this excellent institution at Aberystwyth. At Aberystwyth there is still a considerable amount out- standing in respect of gratings supplied to ratepayers. The statement of accounts shows that JE201 5s. 7d. has been paid for gratings by the town authorities, and they have only received j6128 69. lid. Some awkward questions will be asked about those gratings one of these days A road surveyor was fined on Tuesday at Tregaron for obstructing a road by leaving a heap of stones upon it. Mr Superintendent LLOYD was the prosecutor, and we trust he will follow up this class of cases. The roads are not fit to travel over owing to heaps of stones and road scrapings, and unless the offenders are prosecutod it will be impossible to teach them that there is any harm in endangering the lives of the public. Courting in Wales is not like courting in any other part of the world, as our readers are well aware,but it is not a habit, we trust, among Welsh lovers to steal horses to carry them to their lady loves. At Tregaron on Tuesday last a cattle dealf-r named JONES was charged with stealing a horse to go a courting. The prosecutor did not press the charge and the case was withdrawn. Seven tenders were sent in for the erection of the new workhouse at Tregaron, and the work was let to Mr THOMAS WILLIAMS, Tregaron, for 22,195. Some weeks ago we published an article on the sanitary condition of Aberystwyth, which has been commented on in the following terms in the Sanitary Record In the table of mortality statistics in fifty English seaside watering-places, relating to the second quarter of this year, which we published about two months since, the annual death- rate in the borough of Aberystwyth was shown to be equal to 26 7 per 1,000, no less than sixteen per cent. of the deaths being referred to the seven principal zymotic diseases, in consequence of the fatal prevalence of measles. The zymotic rate was higher than in any other of the fifty watering-places during that period except Whitby. Now that the visitors' season of 1875 is virtually over, we are glad to see that an influential local paper, the Cambrian Neios, has directed attention to the unsatisfac- tory condition of this watering-place. It may be hoped that the urban sanitary authority may be stimulated to exercise the powers they possess under the Public Health Acts of 1872 aud 1875 for the benefit of the health of the town. The Cambrian News says Pigs once more prevail in great force, sewers are as offensive as formerly, the streets are as dirty as in the old times, the water supply is still defective ib fact, Aberystwyth is going backward instead of forward in sanitary matters.' If, as our contemporary asserts, the drainage is defective, the water supply insufficient, and the town abounds with unsavoury nuisances, the high death-rate in the town, and the large per- centage of zymotic or preventible death. is fully accounted for A watering-place that has not yet banished its pigs must indeed be in a stage of sanitary progress which is more primitive than hopeful The next eight months should be utilized by the sani- tary authority in putting this borough into improved sanitary condition, or else the prosperity of the town as a atering-place may be seriously affected, and the results cf the season of 1876 will point the morala of a false economy in sanitary m-i'tei-s. Each season the holiday public becomes more critical in res- pect of the sanitary reputation of health resorts an t in spite of all attemps to dissuade them from the convicticn, there is a wholesome and sound belief now pretty generally adopted that where the death-rate is high, and the proportion of zymotic diseases excessive, all cannot be right. In thirty-seven sea side watering-places the Registrar General has reported that the death-rate from all causes in the second quarter of this year averaged only 20-1 per 1,00), and the zymotic rate 15. In Aber- ystwyth, as we have stated, the general death-rate was 26'7, and the zymotic rate 4-S. These facts speak for themselves.

The Agricultural labourers in Norfolk have struck against the reduction of their wages to 13s a week. Many farmers have given way. Colonel Baker's effects at Aldershot, where he was assist- ant quartermaster-general, were sold on Tuesday, Oct. 26. A professorship of mechanism and applied mechanics, with a stipend of X300, is to be foucded at Cambridge. Lord Darnley has withdrawn the notice to quit given to Mr Lake, admitting that he was scarcely justified in giving it. Mr Lake, however, declines to continue a tenant on the estate. It is reported from Teheran that the military have re- volted in consequence of the non-receipt of their pay, which has been due for eighteen months. A vessel. The Orcadian, has brought intelligence of three wrecks off the Orkneys, all the crews having been lost. At the Old Bailey a true bill has been returned against Henry and Thomas Wainwright in connection with the murder of Harriet Lane. Parliament is further prorogued to December 15. A largely-attend d meeting, in connection with the Liberation Society, was held at Liverpool, on Tuesday even ing, October 26th, Mr W. S. Caine in the chair. A resolu- tion was adopted that the question of Disestablishment; is of such importance and pressing need as to make its early settlement absolutely essential to the uni m of the Liberal party and the highest interests of the nation. The London correspondent of theLeeds Mercury says the Marquis of Hartington has received a letter from Mr Gladstone expressing in the plainest terms his resolve to remain apart from public affairs. Mr Gladstone says that he now considers himself as a mere spectator of passing events. Mr John Bright, M.P., has written a letter to a Bir- mingham gentleman, in which he states that those who wish to reform funeral exhibitions and funeral txpenses would do well to copy the practice of the sect to which he belongs—that of the Society of Friends. They would be wise also to follow them in rejecting the fashion of wearing mourning, which is always costly, and, a worn by many women, hideous." The medical men who have examined Count Arnim, by instruction of the Court which tried him, have declared that his health is such as will not permit of any long period of incarceration-

LOCAL AND DISTRICT. CHIEF CONSTABLE OF CARDIGANSHIRE.—Mr Supt. Lloyd of Aberystwyth, is one of the candidates for the office of Chief Constable, of Cardiganshire. At the Northamptonshire quarter sessions, Captain Chas. Pearson, chief constable of Carnarvonshire, was elected from a large number of applicants to the office of chief con- stable of that county. There subsequently arising some difficulty respecting the house accommodation, Captain Pear- son declined to accept the appointment. The marriage of Miss Edith Wynne with Mr Aviet Aga- beg, an Armenian barrister, is to take place at the chat el Royal, Whitehall, Nov. 16. SIR WATKIN'S YACHT.—Sir Watkin Williams Wynn took possession of his yacht Hebe, which he has purchased from Mr Charles Mac Iver, on Thursday, October 21. It is said that this is one of the most complete sea-gc ing steam yachts in existence. There will be several important alterations in the run- ning of the November service of trains on the Cambrian Rallwavs. DEATH OF OLIVER V. PUGH, ESQ OF LLANFYLLIN.— In our obituary of this week we regret to record the death of this gentleman, who was well known as an attorney, and has been for the last six years Registrar of the LlantYJlin County Court. We are given to understand that his funeral will be a public one, and that the procession will leave the deceased's residence at Penybryn at two o'clock on Fri- day (to-day). ACCIDENT TO MR BULKELEY HUGHES, M.P.—Mr Bulke- ley Hughes. the member for the Carnarvon boroughs, met with an accident on Monday night, October, 25. He was driving from Menai Bridge to Plascoch, and, when on the other side of the Britannia Bridge, his trap came into colli- sion with a cart. Mr B. Hughes was thrown oat of Lis trap by the force of the collision, but fortunately his in- juries are limited to a few slight bruises on the legs, which will necessitate his confinement to the house for a few days. Mr Morgan Lloyd, Q.C. M.P., addressing his consti- tuents at Beaumaris on Tuesday, October 26th, condemned the slave circular as an insult to Liberalism and liberty and as having unwittingly afforded the Conservatives the means of uniting the Liberal ranks by giving them their old rallying cry of freedom," which would be responded to from every part of the country. The Government, in deference to the expressfd wish of the nation, should have immediately withdrawn the c'rcular, not suspended it. He strongly censured the Admiralty for their decision in the case of the Vanguard collision, and referred at some length to the Burials Bill, which he said was a question of right upon which Dissenters and Liberals could have bat one opinion. ROBBERY FROM A WELSH STEAMER At Bangor on Wed. nesday, Oct 27, Edward O'mallty, a native of Dublin, was brought before Lord Penrhyn and Colonel Williams, char- ged with breaking into the schooner Britannia, of Carnarvon, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel belonging to the captain. The Britannia and Prosperity were lying alongside off Portdinorwic Quay, and on the night of the 15 Oct, the cabin of the former was broken into and some clothes stolen. Information was given to Police- constable Hughes, who found the missing property in the prisoner's bunk in the forecastle of the Prosperity.— Prisoner was commited for four months with hard labour. FREEMASONRY IN WALES.—A Provincial Grand Lodge of Freemasons in the province of North Wales and Shrop- shire was held at Bangor on Friday, Oct. 22nd, by direction of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master, Sir Watkin Wynn, M.P., who was present. All the officers of the Provincial Grand Lodge were also present, and there were about 150 brethren from the different lodges in the province, including Brother W. Bulkeley Hughes, M.P., P.P.G.S.W., and Brother Morgan Lloyd, Q.C., M.P. The Provincial Grand Lodge was formed at Penrhyn-hall, which bad been fitted up as a Masonic Temple, at four in the afternoon. The proceedings were purely formal, and confined to the opening and closing of the lodge in due form The brethren, who appeared in full craft—Masonic clothing and jewels--tben proceeded in procession to the Cathedral, where full choral evening service was performed, the musi- cal part of the service being rendered by the Cathedral choir. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Bangor, on Friday, Oct 22nd. WELSH LOYALTY. At a meeting of Welsh residents in London, held in the Welsh Church, Southwark Bridge-road, on October 11th, the Rev Dr Thomas Rees, of Swansea, in the chair, the following resolution, moved by the Rev Samuel Roberts, of Conway, and seconded by the Rev R. L. Thomas, of the Borough, was unanimously passed with a warmth of feeling characteristic of the patriotism and loyalty of the Welsh nation:—"That, as his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is at this very hour commencing his important journey to India, this meeting desires to express its warm attachment and faithful devotedness to the Throne, and its ardent wishes that the illustrious Heir of the British Crown may eoj )y the protc-ction and favour of Providence throughout all his j .urneyirigs on sea and land and its ardent prayers that his visit to Tndia may deepen an' c. end 'he sanctifying and peaceful iufluency of the tru li- and ordinances of Christianity thria^hout, the wide and rich and populous provinces of the vast Easterfi portion of the British Empire. And the meeting also desires to record its strong confidence that the 'Welcome home' of his Royal Highness may be characterised by a joyful loyalty worthy of the occasion and that the recollections and records of his journey may prove of lasting joy and cheer to his Royal Highness, and to her Gracious Majesty his mother, and to his dear chil- dren, and their affrctinnaf« mother, and eyery member of the Royal family; and that they may also prove Of help and strength to all the missionary and philanthropic insti- tutions of our country, so as to promote thtreby the grow- ing prosperity of the kingdom of the Prince of Peace." The following gracious reply was rtceived from the private secretary of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales: Saiadringbam, King's Lynn, Oct. 15, 1875. Sir, -I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the resolution adopted at a meeting of Welsh residents in London, assem- bled at the Welsh Congregational Church in Southwark Bridge-road, on Monday the 11 th instant, and to inform you that I have laid it before her Roval Highness the Prin- cess of Wales. In reply, her Royal Hiehness has directed me to request you to convey to those present at the meeting her thanks for the good wishes expressed for the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his Royal Highness's departure for India, and for the assurances of attachment to all the Boyal Family.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, M. HOLZMANN, Private Secretary.— To the Rev Samuel Roberts, M.A." HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. WEATHER PERMITTING.] Sir W. W. Wynnes Hounds will meet on Monday, November 1 Hardwick Wednesday, November 3.Sarn Bridge Friday, November 5 Brvnypys Saturday, November 6 Carden At 10.30. The Marquess of Londonderry's Barriers will meet on Friday, October 29 Croesllyn Monday, November 1.Darowen At 10 o'clock. The North Montgomery Harriers will meet on Saturday, October 30 Trefnanney At 11 o'clock. The fevern Valley Harriers will meet on Saturday, October 30 .Tha Powis Arms, Buttington At 10-30.

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BIRTHS MARRIAGES, & DEATHS. uiurus. GA^0N"7°Ct- 26thf' at 18, Alfred-road, Claughton, the wife of Thos. Cdsson, of a son. R CLARKE-OCT. 19th the wife of Ir Jas. Clarke, Board School Llangollen, of a daughter. ELLIs-Oct. 20th, the wife of Mr Edward Ellis, London House, Cefn Mawr, of a daughter. HrGHES-Oct. 20th. the wife of Mr D. Hughes, Market Vaults, Newtown, of a son. JONES-Oct. 10th, the wife of Mr Lewis Jonep, Olinaychisga, 0__ Bettws Bleddrws, Lampeter. REES—Oct. 5th, at Cefngwyn, the wife of the REV. J. Rees, vicar Elerch, of a son. DEATHS. BATEMAN—Oct. 19th, aged 31, William, youngest son of David ar. d Anne Bateman, Red Lion, Llanwnen, Lampeter. BATEMAN—Oct. 26th, aged 77, Anne, wife of David Bateman, Red Lion, Llanwnen, near Lampeter. BEXUOW—Oct. 24th, aged 60, Mr Chas. Benbow, Berriew-strie', Welshpool. CORBETT -Oct. 2nd, aged 41, Mr Richard Corbitt, Cumberland- place, Welshpool, UAVIES Oct. 15th, aged 70, at his residence, Windsor-terrace, Lpper Parliament-street, Liverpool, Mr David Davies, tea merchant. The deceased was a native of Aberystwyth. DAvIES-Oct. 22nd, aged 79, at Dysserth, Montgomeryshire, the residence of her brother, Susanna Maria, relict of the Rev. D. Davies, late vicar C-f Llangiinlio, Radnor-hire. EBWARDS-Oct. 13th. aged 73, at RtJyl, Mr Edward Edward. oldest, son oi ine late Air Samuel Edwards, flannel manufac- turer, Glyn Ceinog, Llangollen. EVANS—Oct. 8th, aged 81. Mrs Anne Evans, relict of Mr Edward Evans, Penis'rllan, Llansamtffraid, EVANS-Oct. 24th, at Uprer Medlock-street, Manchester, Eliza- beth, wile of Mr in. Evans, formerly of >Tewtown FRANK-Oct. 24th, aged 75, at Gwern Hafod, Miss Frank. JOHNSON-Oct. 12th, at Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, Mr Johnson, chief officer of the steamship St. Louis, of Liverpool. JONES—Oct. 11th, aged 79, at 36, Canton-road, Birkenhead, Edward Jones. Esq., late of Hooton Grange, Cheshire, and Brynhyfryd, Ruthin. JONES—Oct. 24th, Mr Thos Jones, relieving officer, Newtown, Molgomeryshire. JO.NEs-Oct. 21st, aged 27, at 19. Bridfe-treet, Aberystwyth, Ellen, youngest daughter of Mr Edward Jones, assistant turn- cock. LL »YD—Oct. 12th, at Boulogne-Sur-IXer, Richard CAcil Llovd formerly a Lieutenant in the 96th Regiment, youngest brother of J. P. A. Lloyd Philipps, Esq of Dale Castle, Pernbrcl-e hire, and son of the late Captain John Allen Lloyd, of the Coldstream Guards. PERRY—Oct. 15tb, aged 49, at Newton Toney, near Salisbury, Wilts, Jane, relict of John Perry Esq" formerly of Rockbourne, Fordingbridge, Hants, and mother of Mrs Adam Hunt, ol Nep- tune Villa, Towyn. PRICE—Oct. 17tb, aged 5 mcnths, Gwenllian, infant daughter of John and Jane Price, LGn, near Llanwnen. PUGH-Oct. 24th. aged 49, at Penvbryn, Llanfyllin, Oliver Vaughan Pugh, E-q., attorney-at-la'w, and Registrar of Llan- fyllin County Court. REES-Oct. 21st. aged 60, Anne, wif, of Mr David Rees, Tor- glwyd, near Aberystwyth. ROBERTS—Oct. 19th, aged 59, Mr Isaac Roberts, The Lodge, Plas Pengwern, Llangollen. Oct. 11th, aged 11, Edward, fourth son of Robert Roberts, 12, St. Luke's-terrace, Roscoe-lane, Liverpool, and late of Pwllheli. THOMAS Oct. 19th, aged 15, David Price, Eon of Captain John Thomas. "Pregre-s," of Aberystwyth. W ILLIAMS Oct. ISth, aged 36. Amelia, the wife of Mr John Wi:- liams, Queen-stree;, Llangollen. WILLIAMS—Oct. 15tb, at the residence of her parents, Angles, Mrs W iiiii-nis, wHe of the Rev. Philip Williams, Wesieyau minister, L'angollen.

IMPORTANT CASES OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. On Friday, October 22, at the Newcastle Emlyn Petty Sessions, before W. L. Fitzwilliams, Esq., chairman, Sir Thomas D. Lloyd, Bart., A. R. Jones, and Martine Lloyd, Esqrs., Mr John Jones, of the Salutation Hotel, Newcastle Emlyn, was charged at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty tc Animals, with causing two horses to*be ill-treated, abused, and tortured, on the 20th July last. Mr Griffiths (Green and Griffiths, Carmaithen), who was speciallv retained for the prosecu- tion, but unable to attend was represented by Mr Howell, Llanelly. Mr Jones conducted his own defence, and took several legal and technical objections to the proceedings. We may remark that the case was firot heard on the 26th August. The justices then present being evenly divided, there could be no adjudication. hence the present proceed. ings. Mr Howell, having briefly stated the facts, called James James, postilion, in the employ of the defendant. He stated that on the 26th July last he took two horses to Gernos,and about ten o'clock put them to Mr G.Tyler's car. riage, and proceeded with a party of four gentlemen to Cardigan. Mr Tyler's coachman, Thomas Davies, was riding on the box. When within a short distance of Cenarth toll gate the horse witness was riding suddenly fell down. The road was level, and they were going at the rate of five or six miles an hour. One of the horses' knees was cut, and witness was badly injured, and had to be taken home in a cart. The off horse had a small wound under the pad on the off side, about the size of a threepenny bit. Thomas Davies, coachman at Gernos, stated that he rode on the box, and as soon as they started he noticed a raw wound under the pad, on the off side of the off horse, about the s;z of a shilling the pad was touching it. After the accident at Cenarth, he rode that horse back to the Saluta- tiun Hotel for a fresh horse. He told the postilion about the wound when he was putting the saddle on. The gen- tlemen said something about the condition of the horses. At the time the accideut happened they were going at a slow pace, and the road was in good order. The horse did Rot stumble, but went down at once as if he was shot. When he went back to the Salutation he told defendant what had occurred. Defendant said, Could not the other horse go on." Witness said, No." Defendant thea sent another horse. Witness subsequently drove them back to the Salutation, and borrowed horses elsewhere to go to Cardigan. Inspector Thomas Dargan, R.S, P.C.A., said on the 26th Julv last, acting on a complaint, he came to Newcastle Emlyn and saw defendant. Told him who he was and his business. Defendant showed him the horses. The bay horse had a raw wound through the skin, about the size of a shilling all round, which was inflamed and very tender. It was then lame in the off fore leg, and very groggy on both fore legs. The other horse had a wound on its knee, apparently caused by the accident. Defendant said to him twice, "You are sure you have had a complaint." He said Yes." Have the horses been worked since?" Defen- dant said, Yes of course they have." P.S. John Thomas, stationed at Newcastle Emlyn, said that by direction of a magistrate, he cautioned defendant about three weeks before the 26th July to be careful ab.)ut his horses, ns the Inspector was coming rounc?.—During the examination, and at the conclusion, the Chairman and ISiriHowell engaged in:an animated and amusing lpgal dis- cussion on various points of law and objections taken and urged by Mr Jones, which they debated warmly. The justices had the court cleared, and after a lapse of twenty- five minutes the public were re-admitted. ^The Chairman said-The majority of the Bench are of opinion that you are guilty of this offence,and you are fined 20s and costs, amounting to 2169 6d. The Chairman—If defendant appeals to the Quarter Sessions the decision will be reversed Mr Jones-If he does, in our opinion, it will rot be re- versed, James James, postilion, was then charged with cruelty to the same two horses at the same time and place, and having pleaded guilty and the prosecution not pressirg, was ordered to pay a fine of Is, and lis costs. Th e cases lasted a considerable time and created much interest.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THURSDAY. There was only a small show of wheat samples offered and much of it sadly out of condition. Prices ruled very firm, on the basis cf last week's quotations. Fine malting barley scarce and rather dearer grinding quiet, and prices abnut the same. Oat, btans. and peas fctead^-—^YYe:ther steady. lit

GENERAL. Bank rate unaltered. A Hong Kong telegram says the Alexandra British schooner went ashore north of Formosa. The rr*w except one, are lost, ew» The mill of George Mayall and Co., Moslev Mani chester, was destroyed by fire on Thursday. On Wednesday night, Francesco Gaveriere, one of the CreAW^iVnVanfSK ^Gre?m,Ck, Was fata% stabbed. A meeting of bondholders in '63 Turkish Loan was held at Moorgate-street, on Thursday. They appointed a coir: their interests. A meeting of '65 Bondholders was held, and the Foreign Bondholders likri wise appointed a committee,

A MILITAKY OFFICER CONVICTED OF SWINDLING. Captain Hamilton, late 2nd West India Regiment, was on Thursday convicted at the Old Bailey of swindling, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude.

DEATH FROM BURNING AT CARMARTHEN. An inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon, October 26" at the Workhouse of the Carmarthen Union, before Mr 1* Hughes, borough coroner, touching the death of Rachtl Samuel, a little girl aged about four years, who hoi in the Workliouee, 011 the preceding dav por anrn past deceased had been in ill health, and was H?6 somewhat better cared for with regard to diet etJ e,?re death, it appeared from the evidence, resulted'f v received OH October 9, about 7 30 a resu^ed.from hurls permission to go down stairs after' hav:«7aiVmC ^,ecelvc^ according to ti e u u .1 custom, ?be went bftn » where a fire had just been lighted SVn ti ft y r03ir» of the paupers, emiloved « bkortlV afterwards 01 e piuafore on tire, the fUme« tW ( DUr8?\saw bfcr htr ThelsereamSjof the T^r*e t ab°ve her headj the workhnnsa tn tv, u?ht the mister and matron if guished the fire e sPotia°d the former immediately extin- much linrnt e-The poor child had, however, been already dontnr T faCe anl arm?-She w is attended by the pron? r <?urir)g the week, but died on Monday eveniiaizfrom the irtju,iew,.There had been a ifreguard on hing's in the day room. but at the time of the occurrence, having cli upon ir, it was easily to be opened One of-the nurses indeed stated that she had often seen the children open it. Since the 9ib, however, a lock had been Lcd on it. The Coroner, in summing up the eviJeuce, sa.d that the acci- dental injuries no doubt caused the death of the deceased. I There had bten a want of n-:ana_-< !r►nt in the institution" and some neglect, but nothing that could attach criminal cu;pabiiitv to any one. He did not consider one of the p .upers employed as ?. nurse a competent person to hold that responsible position, and the authorities, bv removing her froia it after the occurrence, shewed they held the same opinion. The .Jury (<>f which Mr W. Morris was foreman) returned a verdict to t'-e effect that Rachel Samuel died from the effect^ of burns accidentally received by her on the 9th Oct. They were glad to hear that the authorities had t tken steps to prevent the recurrence of a similar acci» had t tken steps to prevent the recurrence of a similar acci. 1 delt