The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

ROBBERY OF PLATE AT WREXHAM. APPREHENSION AT LIVERPOOL. The Liverpool police have succeeded in apprehending a man who is supposed to have been concerned in several burglaries recently committed in the neighbourhood of Wrexham. William Rowlands, alias Wrexham Bill" at- tempted on Friday, November 19, to dispose of some siiver plate at a shop in School-lane. The shopkeener, thinking the plate had not been honestly procured, called in the police, and Rowlands was taken into custody. Some other articles of plate were found upon him, and it was ascer- tained that they were the proceeds of a burglary committed on Thursday last at the house of Margaret Rogers, near Wrexham. Rowlands is also suspected of other robberies of the same kind. Inspector Wyld, of the Wrexham ) police, arrived in Liverpool on Friday, and took his prisoner .1 to Wrexham on Saturday.

A YOUTHFUL DICK TURPIN. At the Liverpool Police Court, on Monday, November 22, Arthur Wilson, a lad of 14, was charged with burglary. The prisoner was employed by a Liverpool cutler, named Richardson, and on the night of the 7th October the shop was broken into, and the cash box, which contained about £60. was stolen. The prisoner absconded two days after- wards, and was not heard of until a few days ago, when he was apprehended at Paris. Two handsomely mounted re- volvers and a hundred cartridges were found upon him, and at the time of his arrest he was booted, spurred, and ready to mount a pony which he had hired. He had been staying at the Hotel de Rome, and had taken a number of riding lessons. In his possession were found several sensational dramas and stories of highwaymen, and it was evident he was about to take to the road" in order to replenish his purse, which contained only six francs. He was committed for trial at the Assizes.

THE CHURCH TIMES ON THE DENBIGH i: REREDOS AWARD. A remarkable quotation has been sent us. It is from a sermon preached by Biahop Latimer at Grimsthorpe in 1552, and it is as follows:—" The devil came once into the church whilst the priest was saying Mass and when hq was at these words, Et Homo f actus est, the devil lool-ed about him, and seeing no man kneel down or bow his knees, he strake one of them on the face, saying, What will vou not rev- erence Him for this great beuefit which U* 1: you ? I tell you, if He had taken upon Him our nature ai He bath taken upon Him yours, we would more reverence Him than ye do!' It may be presumed that Latimer would not have repeated this curious legend, if be hnd sup- posed there was anything Popish, superstitious, or contrary to sound doctrine in the usage in question and yet 1552 was the year in which the Church of England reached the very lowest depth of Protestant- ism to which it has been fated to descend.— It is desirable to recall this passage from Latimer when we read theaward in the Denbigh reredos case. As we understand it,tbe arbitrators (Dr Deane and Dr Stephens) bave rejected as illegal the central panel, which represented the Cruci- fixion. The ground upon which they have arrived at this astonishing conclusion is because the group contained figures kneeling around the Cross, and it was thought that persons might bs stimulated thereby to do the like It appears, then, to be thought that there is grave heresy in the verse Crucified, we Thee adore The outrageous Soci- pianism of the award must be apparent to every one and we commend to its learned authors this story ef Bishop Jjatimer which after all does no more than embody in a parable the Scripture statement that the very Devils be- lieve and tremble which it seems is a good deal more than oar modern Scribes and Pharisees do.

TRIAL OF WAIN WRIGHT. The trial of Wainwright was resumed on Tuesday. William Adams, the cabman, who conveyed Henry Wain- wright and Alict Day to the borough, repeated his evidence. Alice Day then narrated her acquaintance with Henry Wainwright during the last five years, but denied that any impropriety had ever taken place. The meeting with him on Sept. 11 was accidental. Inspector Fox gave the account of his search at Whitecbapel road. The Lord Chief Justice compared the hair taken from the body with that found in the grave and observed that one was rather darker than the other, but it was stated that one portion had been partially cleaned.—In cross-examination witness said there was no truth in a statement which ;vpp-<,red in the Weekly Despatch. Henry Wainwright had made a confession implicating Thomas. The Lorvl Chief Justice said he was glad the statement bad not been Lrber circulated. It was highly improper. Inspector Macdonald proved finding two buttons in the grave. Mr Allen, son-in-law of John Lane, produced some buttons subsequently taken from deceased's box, which corresponded exactly with those. Ellen Wilmore detailed the circumstances of her acquaintance with Harriet Lane, aud produced the letter from the Charing Cross Hotel, sianed E. Fri-ke, and letters from Henry Wainwright, threatening to do nothing for the children if she continued to annoy him. She also identified the box in which thp buttons were tdind as deceased's. The children were still with witness, Klizibeth Taylo* sister of deceased, said that the remains, especially the hair, were like her sister's, George William Rogers identified the letter from Charing Cross as in Thos. W"Ù:lwríg-ht's handwriting. Miss Wilmore, re-called, identified the ear-riugs found in the grave as like these worn by deceased. The Court then adjourned. The trial was continued r Wednesday, Nov. 24, the evidence mainlv going to show t'l it the mutilated remains were those of Harriet Lane. j

RUSSIA AND TUh'KEY St. Petersburg, Tuesday.—Th" Jov.rnil de St. Pe*ershoro of Tuesday, referring to an article published in a. London weekly paper on Sunday last, urging the Biitish Govern- ment. to send a fl"et to the Borphoi'iit »n the event of the in Austrian or .4 nffo-Ru^ian ultimatum to Turkey, accompanied h" am occupation of the H-izugovina, says, "The article in question is a mere academical specu- lation, as of course nether an upon Turk"" by the Northern Powers nor an arbitrary occupation of Turki-h territory by Au?tm and Russia would be in harmony with the relations at present ex-sting between the different States. Nnrhing but the united act;r. of all the powers is conceivable."

_FROM THE PAPERS. The Vice-President of the United States Republic, Mr i Henry Wilson, died on Monday morning, November 22nd. An Itahan expedition for exploring the interior of Africa is to set out in Jafliiary, and be absent three years. At a meeting held in London on Thursday, Nov. lS'.h, it was resolved that the Cheque Bank Companv (Limited) should be voluntarily wound up. Arbitration has been agreed to by the Northumbt rland coalownera and miners in the dispute which has arisen re-pr-ctiug a proposal to reduce wages by 20 per cent. Mr Cavendish Bentinck bag issued an address to the elec- tors of Whitehaven offering himself for re-election on his appointment as Judge Advocate General. At a conference between the Durham colliery owners and miners, held at Newcastle on Monday, November 22 it was agreed to refer the proposed reduction of 20 per cent. iu wages to arbitration. The United Service Gazette learns thaf. amongst other clnng^s contemplated in the Cabinet, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Ward Hunt, is about to retire from that im- portant post. The trial of the brothers Henry and Thomas Wainwright, for the murder of Harriet Lane, was commenced on Mon- day, November 22, at the Old Bailey, before the Lord Chief .Justice. A firm of lady solicitors has opened chambers at 38. Chaaccry-i Lne, London, and successfully competes for business with the astonished mile firms. A telegrp.m has been received at the Colonial Office an nouncing that troops had marched from the Residency and shelled the stockades at the villages where Mr Birch was murdered. A detachment of the 80th regiment left Singa- pore last Thursday for Perak. Mr Banks, of the Labuur League, is in communication with gentlemen of influence with a view to establish a Le %ue c(ilonv in Canada- It is proposed to raise a fund of £10,000 in shares, and the preliminarv woik will be Com- menced almost immediately. A fire occurred on Friday night, November 19, at Glass Houghtoa Collieries, near Leeds, and cjnsiderable damage was dope, especially to the wood work and head gediin. before it could be subdued. Ninety men who were at work were imprisoned below for fifteen hours, and were all res- cued, though many were in an exhausted condition. The London co-respondent of the Manchester Guardian believes that compulsory attendance at elementary schools is to form portion of the Ministerial programme for next session. A report is current, indeed, that the Education Department aiready have under consideration a measure in connection with this special object. The first trial of the 81-ton gun subsequent to the proof took place on Thursday, November 18;h, at the royal arsenal, Woolwich. The shot weighed 1,260 lbs., the charge of powder was 220 Ib., and the velocity was 1,525 feet per second. The crusher gauges showed an expansive force of twenty-five tons per square inch. A special telegram from a correspondent at Rangoon states that the conspiracy there has been much exaggera- ted. It was merely a wild plot, which has created no alairo, and in no way interfered with trade. A telegram from Calcutta states that the Government attaches no political significance to the matter. In conseqnence of the refusal of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester to grant the use of the Cathedral for the trien- nial musical festival, the Mayor yesterday declined to attend the Cathedral service and, accompanied by several members of the Corporation, preferred to worship at his own parish church. We learn from Madrid that all the newspapers there ridicule the letter of non Carlos to Kinsr Alfonso. The Imp'xrcial expresses the hopr that his Majesty will not reply to it. A R"T,,I order ha.s meanwhile b-eo sent to General Quesada directing him henceforth to receive no communication from Don Carlos, unless it be the announce- mer-t of bis unconditional surrender and that of his parti- sltr.. In an address to his constituents at Bradford on Monday night, Nov. 22, Mr W. E. F-r-ter bore testimony to the ,i-'gvtt. ability arid consci'nciou indus:r:: displayed, by the Marquis of Hurtinaton as the leader of the Liberal party- After a brief reference to the past session and th- present aspect of foreign affairs, the ri^ht honourable gentleman spoke on the future of home politics, smartly criticizing the action of the Government in sev-r.il r-natters of recent occurrence. A New York correspondent telegraphs that the Spanish Note respecting Cuba, handed on Tuesday, November 16, to the American in Madrid, is satisfactory, and that all the questions at issue between Spain and the United States have been settled. The negotiations through- out, the correspondent adds, were of the most friendly character, and at no time was there any prospect of war. The Keighley Guardians are resisting the legal steps taken to enforce their compliance with the provisions of the Vac- cination Acts. They resolved, on Wednesday, 17th, to make a return to the writ of mandamus issued against them by the Court of Queen's Bench, stating that it cannot be obeyed without serious injury to the health of the dis- trict, and an increase in the mortality of young children and further that the Local Government Board, if it desires to prosecute persons for not conforming to the requirements of the Vaccination Acts, has power to do so without calling for the intervention of the Guardians. Tuesday's papers say the floods are subsiding at Windsor, Oxford, Gloucester, and other places but in some districts large tracts of country are still under water. In the west of England, it is stated, boats can be rowed from North New- ton close to Glastonbury, a distance of nearly 21 miles. The main line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway is for a distance of nearly two miles covered with water to a depth of three to three and a-half feet. During the whole of last week the trains passed through it with great difficulty. On the Great Eastern Kaiiway traffic is still suspended between Ely and Brandon. The Telegraph announces that the appeal of the King of Uganda for missionaries, sent through Mr Staaley, has been responded to, a gentleman whose name is meanwhile withheld having placed the sum of 210,000 in the hands of the Church Missionary Society, in order to answer the invi- tation of King Mtesa and to carry out the experiment of establishing a Christian centre of civilisation in the heart of the dark continent. It is added thit the society in question has always united evangelical labours with the arts of industry and commerce, thus blending moral with social regeneration. While a passenger train was standing at Ludgate Hill station, on Friday, Nov 19. another passeugtr train, which had come from Clapham Junction ran into it. Eight or nine persons were injured, but not seriously. A porter, named Spearman, hadfa remarkable escape. He was in the act of coupling the carriages when the engine of the second train dashed into the hinder carriage. Spearman was knocked down, and the train partially passed over him. His fellow-officials naturally expected that he was cut to pieces but he escaped without a scratch. Archduke Francis, ex-Duke of Modena, died at Vienna on Saturday evening, Nov. 21, at the age of 56. He had twice fled from his dukedom. The first occasion was in 1843, when tbe revolution drove him into exile. The battle of No vara, in March, 1849, led to his restoration. Ten years later, at the end of the Italian war. he again became fugitive—this time never to return, for, by a vote of the nation, Modena, as well as Tuscany, the Romagna, and Naples, became part of the newly-constituted kingdom of Italy. With respect to the Mid-Surrey election, Mr Digby Seymour, Q. C., has written a letter, in which he states that he was quite prepared to come forward as an indepen- dent candidate, holding views, in some questions, far in advance of Sir Trevor Lawrence, but still far within the Ra -ical Platform." He could not, however, undertake at his own expense to fight a battle apparently so desperate, though he regarded it as far from being absolutely hopeless. Had anything like a subscription list been opened and supported, he should have certainly addres-ed the electors. In Mr Seymour's view, the country wants a "party of the centre "—a Derby-Granville coalition. Lord Coventry's hunting party on Thursday, November 18th, met with a mishap which narrowly escaped resulting in serious consequences. His lordship has been in the habit of bringing his men and horses and hounds by train to Alcester station but on Wednesday the party alighted at Coughton station, about a mile and a half from Alcester, where the meet was announced. Three horse-boxes and a private carriage contained the party, and no sooner bad tbese been detached from the ordinary train which brought them than they began to run backwards in the direc- tion of Alcester. His lordship and others had left the train before the carriages were detached, but two of the whips and a groom, with the horses and hounds, remained in the horse boxes, which rapidly gained momentum. Fortunately, the runaway carriages were noticed as they approached Alcester, and a man, named John Cornwall had the presence of mind to turn them into a siding, where their force was broken before coming to a dead stand, bv a platelayer's trolley. and the men and horses escaped with a severe shaking. Had the carriages not been thus inter- cepted they must have gone some miles down the line in the direction ot H,ve«nam, there being a gradient the whole of the way, and a goods train being due in the opposite direction, the consequences must have been very serious. The author of A Plea for a Free Churchvard" writes to the Daily News as follows The memorial of the Buck- inghamshire churchmen just presented to the Prime Minis- ter, and which appears in your per of to-day (rhe 17th) submits to the Government seven 'consLI<:r?ti(ms' as rea- sons why the Burials Bill should not be oas-ed Wi'l vou allow me to supply an eighth contention which the me mot ia lists have omitted ? I find it stated in a letter of Canon (Ryle to the Record, waere it appeared on Monday lastWe contend furthermore, that to allow the minis', ters and members of other denominations t» carry on relig- ious services either in the national churches or churchvards is to dethrone the national clergvr. an from his position, and to '-eprive him of his official privileges. If Mr Morgan's Bill contained a single clause which fully reco £ iii>ed the rights and privileges which the clergv of the Established Gtjurch have enjoyed for three centuries I might think differ- cutty of it. At present it appears to me a most transparent, attempt to bring us down to the level of ministers of a sect.' Honest.but imprudent, Mr Ryle his 1-t out the cat which the Bucks memorialists kept in the bag It is a question of clerical position which is really at issue, and the clergy are fighting for themselves when t?,Y profess to be "icht-n^ for religion and decorum, and a of o'her things which Mr Osborne Morgan's sup; oiters appreciate as much a* thr mselves." It does not appear to be generally known that by the County Courts Act of session, the provisions of the Acts of 185*1 and 1867 with reference to ob'-ur'nor judg- ment bv default are repealed, and provisions much les3 re- stricted are enacted in their place. A creditor can now, in an action for a d< bt oi liquidated money demand, have a judgment by deh.ult in ad ca-.es. except that he carnot have it in an action for 25 and less, without le:>.ve of the Judge, unless the ac ion be for the price, value or hire of g,,ods sold nd delivered, or let on hire to the def^a^ in the way of his trade or calling, In the latter c a (i- fault summons can he issaed even if the riebt be under £ 5. The eff- ct Will no drubt be to c nAdorably 1e»*en the t?m» occupied on court days, as mo,t creditors will prefer being spared to- necessity for appearing in court.

'l:V A new Roman Catholic Church, dedicated to Rt- Aloypius, was opened nn Tuesday at Oxford bv Ca-dinai Manning and Dr Uikthorne, Bishop of ham. Pontifical High Mass was Celebrated, and in hfs' sermon Cardinal Manning expressed the ho,-e thit the University of Oxford would eventually return to its old Se9S'°ns on Tuesday. November 16. Mr William Smith. landlord of r< i i_r„, „„„ •, .ra 01 tne bhoes Commercial 8 Q *> ^2 ,18s costs for attempting to bribe two poi e-officers by offering them each a glass of whisky. the defendant was the holder of « nrnv-isionnl lifpnee and on his applying to have the licence forma ly trans- terred from the late landlord to himself, two of the magistrates refused to grant it, and it was therefore reo fued, though the third magistrate protested that it was punishing the man too far. The landlord had or. entering paid over £ 700 for good will and fixtnres. The latest and most sensational thing in public 1; an,ue. ments" is being done at Paris, where a trappz" perforn^r allows him«elt to be fired out of a mortar a distance ( f some forty five feet before he catches the swinging bar Tle mortar, moreover, is actually charged with gunpowder which is lighted in the ordinary way, and makes a TTO at alarming report. The effect of the powder is t.o lor, spring which sends the man spinning through sdic- A? first there was some difficulty in adjusting the spring. the required nicety, and when the performer cniM ► r was shot about six feet too far. su=taininc a S shoulder and a broken rib. He persevered succeeded in having himself ej ct.-d ?t the 7 D0W "L'Homme-Obus," as he calls himself it q.U:r' great gun of Paris. Just now the HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND P.LLS-T>, • break of wintry we,uiw 'nPK every afflicted to recover health before unrem^ b/.tbe imr storms set in Tbroil- a;i cold and trj« u' i *n>tm«irt twice a .iay upon "the X". 1° 'owav's treatment is strongly recommend*d e v,ew o, giving immediate ease, preventing pro • peC„ive danger and effecting permanent relief. Th-«e a":l important, ends hi- Ointment and fills can accomplish, ai d wi.l Mir-dv prevent insidious diseases from fastening on the c^iiMitu'ion to display themselves afterwards in those dis- II astrous f,irms that will probstbiy embitter life till death it- self is almost prayed for. HUMPHREY'S (Por martoc) HAIR J'ESTOp.eu never failed to restore F*de Grev, or White Hair to it i aiural color I richness. It is- ot a dye, nor doe- it contain s-v colouring matterhaievec. It does nut lenve the dis^Rreeabie. smell of many restorers, "eithet does it oil the skin or iint-n. S,.b in large bottler, 2s ench. A .ssmpte bo tIe sent. c^rraige naid to any station within 10'1 s, npnn rec-ip'. of 3s 6,1 ir st. -T"p Prepare-? onh by THOMAS B. HUMPHREY, Op- rat ve and Disl I nensing Cheraisr (from Cnrbyn and Company, New Bond street. Londou). Portmadoc, X.,r' h Vkales. Vv'ho«e-; .le of BARUON SQUIRE & Co,. London; EVANS, SONS, & Co., LiverpooL

Exchequer receipts from April 1, to Novemb»r 20, 1875, £ 45 292 236 last year same period, i,44,iyo,027 expei d ture this yenr, C48,275,865, same period last year, £ 47.679 913; balances this year, X2,259,317, latt year £ 2,923,116. r, A deputation, stated to represent the whole of the clerks to the justices throughout England, waited upon the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, on Monday, November 22nd, an d solicited his aid in order to prevent, any alteration in the scale of their remuneration. Sir Stafford Northcote promised to see the Home Secretary on the subject. The John Bull is requested to state that, in view of the unsatisfactory position of the burials question, a powerful organization is now ia course of private, formation, and will shortly be announced, to be called "The Society for the Rejection of the Burials Bill." It will be seen from its title that the design of the new society is the defeat of Mr Osborne Morgan's Bill, or any like measure, unfettered by any compromise or alternative measure, leaving Parliament in its wisdom to find a remedy for the difficulty. So far from interfering with or supplanting any existing organiza- tions, the object of the new society will be to co-operate with and support them in their opposition to the Bill by all available means. HUMPHREY'S (Portmadoc') CAMOMILE PILL- TlIese well known Pills (after a public trial of 35 vears) have been proved in thousands of cases to be one of the best and safest Famll) Medicines known. They are a careful admixture of the mildest vegetable aperients, and do not contain a particle of mercury or any other mineral substance whatever. Thev speedily removl Biliousness, Indigestion, Habitual Cosiiveness, Liver Com- plaints, Plles, Gravel, Loss of Appetite, Rheumatism, Pains in the Head, Chest, and all Impurities of the Blood. Tliev unite a mild operation with a successful effect. The Young and Deli- cate may take these Pills without difficulty or danger. The ag-I d may fly to them with the uimosr safety and benefit.S Id by most chemists in boxes. Is lid 2s JM, nnd 4s Gd each or of th« Pro- prietor, Thomas B. Humphrey (late Henry Humphrey), P"J.t. martoc,North Wale-; wholesale of Messrs B wron, Squire and Co., London Messrs Evans, Sons, and Compv., Liverpool. HUMPHREY'S TUS INE (registered), a n. w and valuable discovery for Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Consumption, Hootring Cough, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Loss of Voice, and ail I affections of the Throat and Lungs Oiiedoze Rives in<tlt1!t re- lief.—Sold by most. Chemists in Bottles Is ilil .2., 9d, ami 4s6d I each, or of th" .Proprietor, Thomas B. Humphrey, Operative Chemist, Portmadoc, North Wules. Wholesale of Messrs ] Barron, Squire, and Co., London; Messrs Evans, Sons, and I Compy., Liverpool.

[ BYE-GONES NOTES QUERIES and REPLIES, on subjects interesting to wates awl the Borders, will be. thankfully received for imertion in this column. But they must NOT BE SENT TO THE EDITOR oj the plpe,, or dcliy will enu. In all cixs'is plea&e addreis Byejones, Croeswylan, O,west)-Y." ———————————. ——

November 24, i875. T fills. THE älN EATER. The Academy of Nov. 20, contains the following letter on the subject, in reply to the Rev. Silvan Evans :— In reference to the strange profession of 4 Sin-Eater, mentioned by the writer in Blackwood and doubted by your able correspondent, the Rev. Silvan Evans,let me refer him and your ,eaderi to a well-kuown work, Hons a learbook, on col. 858 of which will be found some records of the practice both in Wales and on the borders. One of the illustrations dates from Herefordshire, in which county, if I am not mistaken, the writer in Blackwood resides. Croeswylan, Oswestry. ASKEW ROBERTS. Thp fcllmninor is the information given by Hone m his Year Book, col. 858 According to Lawrence Howell, History of the Pontificate, Pope Alexander, in the second century, from the passage in Hosea, They eat up the sin of my people," implied that the priest by prayers and offerings did this for the worshippers. In later times, how- ever, Sin Eating ha^ been a very much more vuigar affair, and a letter fr.nn John B ^ford, written in 1715, and printed in Leland's Collectanea,, gives the following account of a Sin Eater on the Borders:— -Within the memory of our fathers, in Shropshire, in those villages adjoining to IV tles, when a person died, there was notice given to au old sire," (for so they called hun) Pre- sently repaired to the yl*ce where the deceased_lay, and1 stood before the door of the house, when some of -he family came out and furnished him with a cricket (or stool) on which he sat down facing the door. Then ^hey gave him a groa. which he put in his pocket; a crust of bread, which lie a^e a full bowl of ale, which he drank off at a draught. Af er this lie go. up from the cricket, and pronounced, with a. composed gesture, 11 the ease and rest of the soul depurted, for which he would pawn bis own soul." /• .• e t(il. Bagford states that he received hIS intormauon now t-Lie ingenious John Aubrey, Esq., who made a collection of curious observations," which he had seen. Among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum may be found accounta of this singular custom, in Aubrey's own hand- writing. In these he tells of a long, lean, ugly, lament- able poor rascal" who lived in a cottage on Rosse highway, Hereford, who was a proessional Sin-Eater. He also says there was a like practice at Brecon at Llanygors, where Mr Gwyn the minister about 1640 could not hinder the performance of this ancient custom." In 1686 Mr Aubrey says the custom was prevalent in North Wales. THE CIVIL WAR ON THE BORDERS (Oct. 27,1875.)—The letters and documents catalogued in the Blue Book I quote are not given in strict chronological order. In my last extract I alluded to one dated June 24, 1644, in which Lord Denbigh writes to say that he had taken more prisoners in Oswestry "than those that took them and we now go back a few days and find one by Col. Mitton. dated Wem, June 20. 1644, in which he re- lates hia ad ventures in attempting to intercept ammunition sent from Oswestry for Prince Rupert. An abstract of this was given in Bve goncs Jan., 1874. In another letter cf Mitton's written late the same night he announces certain intelligence, that there are but 60 foot left in Oswestry, ond that the ammunition is gone past this evening, and he asks Lord Denbigh for 300 foot and 300 horse, with which he doubts not (with God's leave) but to take the town (Oswes- try) and hold it and Wern till Prince K«Pert r?iur^- There is a third letter of the same June 20, f™m Wem and this by The Committee asking for horse and foot, as they are resolved to fall upon Oswestry and eIther take he magazine (the ammunition mentioned in the preceding letter) or else stop it for ever from going nearer the (For the particulars of the siege of Oswestry, June,22, 1644, see Bye-gonez Jan., 18741.. T Another letter in the Denbigh Collection is from La d Wharton, London, June 25, 1641, congratu.atmg Lord Denbigh on his success at Oswestry [on June 2], and on. July 5 the Committee of Wem writa a letter representing that Mr Newport [taken in the second siege of Oswestry, July 3] and three other considerable prisoners should be re- moved in regard of an especiall respect this place [Wem] beares unto my Ld. Newport and his friends." There is also a letter from Francis Newport himself, dated Wem, July 5, reminding Lord Denbigh of his assurance that he (Newport) should not be removed "from these partes" till it was seen whether some exchange might be found for him. We have also the following letters Sir George Boothe, Wem, July 5,1644. He fears that the fragments of Prince Rupert's routed army will molest us in these counties if not prevented," and suggests that Oswestry should be victualled and manned and that Lord Denbigh should draw nearer Cheshire in order to prevent the passage of the Lancashire forces to those of Shrewsbury, and check the inroads of Prince'Xpert's broken forceg. Mijor Ratuqey, Wem, July 13, 1644, reporting the "ill fra-me "of things since Lord Denbigh's departure in the diminishing of his regiment and want of money and clothing for the men. The Committee of Odwestry, July 13, 1644. respecting Mr Thomas Hanmer a very active man against the Par- liament," and who, as they advise, should be kept prisoner until he either ransom himself or be released by way of ex- change Col. Mitton, Wem, July 14, 1644. The Committee re- fuse to set Mr Hanmer at liberty for a month to settle hilt affairs. They are putting their power of placing ministers in churches in execution. Ask for a commission for Mr Robert Powell wha has come with his family into Oswestry, to raise a regiment of horse. The Committee of Wem, July 15, 1644, deprecating the enlargement of Mr Francis Newport, a man exceedingly potent in the county, and very active in raising men and monies. They request that Lord Denbigh will admit of no exchange for him, but send him to the Parliament to be dealt with, bee being a Parliamt. man" and soe active agst. ye Parliamt. from the beginninge." W. Crowne, London, July 18,1C44. Cannot get money or arms from the Committee ["of Both K'titguloins," -fur tl,e use of Lord Denbigh] but believes the ordinance-giving Sir Thomas Middleton Lord Newport's and his son's estates to pay his troops with will never go further, for Mr Corbett doth joyne wth. mo to stoppe it, and bee produseth 2 ordinances that giveth the Shropshire gent: power to seize upon all delinquents estates." Col. Mitton, Oswestry, July 18, 1644. "P. Rupert is retreatinge this waie. Where I shall have releilfe I cannot imagine. I will referre all to God and defend the towne to'the utmost of my power, and if the enemie game it I hope you shall heare yt. there shall be no neglect in your most humble servant, Tho. Mitton." JARCO. QUERIES. TRINITY SUNDAY CUSTOM. --Can anyone tell me of an old custom of meeting at a spring to drink Bugar and water on Trinity Sunday ? E.K. [Our correspondent has omitted to say where this custom pre- vailed, hut we presume, from another query sent with it, that the Llanjmynech district of Montgomeryshire is referred to ED] DIO THE DEVIL.-Can any one tell me anything, or refer me to any account of Dio the Devil, the Black Robber of Cardigan, mentioned by Roscoe ia his North Wales ? D.F., Hammersmith. I In Notes and Queries. REPLIES TALES ABOUT WALES (Nov. 10. 1875).-Will your correspondent L.C." or some one else kindly furnish further particulars about Mrs Campbell-her Christian name, the dates of her birth, marriage and death, &c.&c.? THE WHITE HORSE, OSWESTRY (June 26, 1872).-On June 26, 1872, I published a note in Bye-gones about the old sign of the White Horse in Church-street, Oswestry, which had then been temporarily removed for the house to be new-fronted. That note called forth the following paragraph in a letter from the late Mr Shirley Brooks, who always, as our readers know, kept up his in. terest in the town of Oswestry:— "I see you notice the Old Whito Horse. It gives me a sensa tion, to this hour, to think of that sign. It was opposite our house. One day I Saw a log tied by a rope, outside the bars of the window on the first floor. A man's leg had been badly set, and the surgeons (prpbably Mr Cartwvight was one) had to break it again, in order to its b-iing properly set. This wail between 1830-33. I have seen worse things done since, but my nerves were then young, and I had a night-mare for a week. A.R. A MONTGOMERYSHIRE ELECTION SQUIB. (July 21, Aug. 11. 1875).-The Wonderful Prophecy" given ou the earlier of these dates seems to have been fol- lowed by another squib, of which the following is a copy :— WONDERFUL PROPHECIES FULFILLED AND FULFILLING. WonrJfrs on wonders now are seen (I tell no idle story), Our Wpnn" is turned, if not to "green," At least from Whig to Tory. And by this sign it doth appear (Jr I'm beside the mark) A change like this is very near- A change from light" to "dark?' And what was "dark as dark could be, (The way John Bull was rulM) Is now si "lig-t" that he cael se How sadly he's betn faol'd. Wonders on Wonders more we see 'Tis true—I have not forged it, One Uwy-r has refused a fae, Another has disgorged it And the way it, my belief ( sure as hops U'H hops) To turn their nice fat rutuys of beef" To skinny mutton chops." To 1, Tin t Free-born men a> e In night aud sold "— Alack and trior* the pity, It makes my very blood run cold, And so cuts short my ditty,— Or T ni' wonders would rehearse Than e'er was told in afory. But i,ov :'01 fain to check my vrse, A.'ul fur SSngland's glory. One wonder more, and I must end, Its wh-it you'll all n nic-mber, MOIITU"; X-V"Wire a' hst will sEnd An Ir.dei)ei,d.m Member NIXON, JuNIOB. The originals are b..th orinted in r(1 ink, and are pretty nearly uniform, without any date and bear the imprint Owen, Priuter, Pisol." NEMO,

J TIPYN 0 BOB PETH .r' Councillor John Davies, of the Lodge, has been elected an alderman of Denbigh. The artist of the Denbigh Reredos has been instructed to remove the portion objected to. It eeems that the tolls on the Wrexham and Whitchurch road close on the 1st of November, 1876, not 1875. A man named Edward Roberts, who had lived at St. George's, near St. A a"h, in a wretched condition, died the other day. He left PL,600 behind nim. The Mayor of Wrexham has effered a prize to be com- peted for by the students of the art class, at the Govern- ment Examination. John Evans, labourer, the man who broke into the Llewelyn Arms, Crimea, Dolwyddelen, as we reported som& time airo. has been committed for trial. The fti.1 of the old Conway Corporation has been affixed to a petition to the Privy Council praying for inporpora- tion under the Municipal Corporation Act. A movement has been commenced for presenting a tuctii)ionial to Mr G. W. Latham for his services to Cut-shire. I\ir Griffith Davies Dew has beep appointed to succeed his fafhtr (resigned) as registrar of Llangefni and doiyhead County Court. It is announced that Professor Grimley, of the University College of Wales, is about to publish a volume of Tremadoc Sermons, btiL3g discourses preached at that village and that Canou Phillips, of Aberystwyth, has undertaken to edit a volume of Welsh sermons by the late Bishop Thirl wall. The death is announced of Mr Binger, of Chester, a Londoa and North-Western Railway official of many years' standing. A testimonial of nearly C800 had just been sub- scribed to show the estimation in which he was heid, but he did not live to receive it. Late on Friday night, November 19th, the Rhyl police succeeded in capturing two tramps suspected of being con- cerned in a robbery of jewellery. Among the articles found on the men were five watches. Captain Philips, of Rhual, a county magistrate, died suddenly on Thursday night, Nov. 18. He had attended a meeting of the School Board in the afternoon, and was dining early in order to go to a missionary service, when he was taken ill, and in a few hours he died. Mr George Goodall, a Cheshire auctioneer with a gcod practice, committed suicide on Monday morning, Nov. 22, by drowning himself in an old well, near his residence at Ecclestone, by Middle wich. A gamekeeper in the employ of Lord Wintuarleigh, accompanied by his dogs, was going his rounds, when one of his dogs on passing the well behaved in such an unusual manner that his attention was attracted to the spot, and he then saw the dead body of Mr Goodall in the water. In a debate at a meeting of the Vale of Clwyd Church Association the other day, the Rev. D. R. Thomas having moved a resolution in favour of including endowments Among the items of school income, in estimating the Government grant, the Rev. W. Hicks Owen said, taking his stand upon the fact that the Church was established by law he could not help thinking it was a great mis'ake on the part of churchmen to oppose Board Schools, which he considered a great blessing to the country at large. They were accomplishing a vast amount of good in large towns, and for his own part he did not know why little country places should object to them. Another fatal result of disgraceful carelessness is reported from Knighton Mount, near Adbaston. Three men were hanging up a pig that had been killed, when they asked the cook, Harriet James, to help them. Su >> came up, and a moment afterwards they heard her sayin,, What do you think of this," and one of them, Joseph J, fell dead, while the cook ran screaming away. She, i had taken up a gun in sport, and accidentally discharged it. The jury, in their verdict, recorded their opinion that the groom, William Arnold, was greatly to blame f leaving the gun about loaded. It was stated in evidence that the cook and the deceased were on very good terms. The Hawarden festivities were concluded last week, by a banquet, at which Mr W. E. Gladstone. M.P., Mr W. II. Gladstone, M. P.,MrEvton, M.P., Lord Hanmer, and Lord Selbourne were among the speakers. The latter, in referring to the Ex-Premier, said—Those who are here members of the House of Lords cannot forget that under the grace and favour of their Sovereign they owe their places in that as- sembly to your most distinguished guest. (Cheers ) Those who are here members of the House of Commons cannot but remember here, everywhere, and always with pride, that the same distinguished guest of I his assemblage is, and has been for many years—and God grant may be for many years to come-(cheers)-the grace, the honour, the orna- ment, and the example of that assembly. (Renewed cheers.) The introduction of Hymns Ancient and Modern into the services at Chester Cathedral is still exciting public attention. A writer in the Chester Chronicle cites some or the hymns, and among them this, which he says is redo- lent of the banjo"- Christian, dost thou see them On the holy ground, How the troops of Midian Prowl and prowl around! Christian, up and smite them, Counting gain butluss; Smite them by the merit Of the holy Cross (!). "A knuckle chorus from 'prowl and prowl' to the end of the verae," be says, "might be effective here, rith 'yaps' at proper intervals." There is too much truth in the criticism, but surely the writer does not mean to say it is unusual to find nonsense of this kind in hymn books, or that Hymns Ancient and Modern have a larger sbare than other collections used by various churches throughout the land. Sunday, Englishmen who thiuk themselves, on the whole, very virtuous members of society, and consider they have rather done the Almighty a service by going to church and chapel, stand np and call themselves" worthless worms," and cover themselves with opprobrium-which they consider "singing to the praise and glory of God." The notion seems to be that the Deity is raised in propor- tion as man is lowered, and some hymn writers evidently labour under the impression that unless the creature its put down considerably" the difference between him and the Creator will not be sufficiently apparent.

Trie Customs and Inland Revenue Act of la-t session enacts that the person v '.i, hires a carriage { a Yt'i r or upwards i to be deemed the person keeping such carriage, and consequently ii >b!e 'II the excise du y in respect of such carriage. The excise duties or licences to brewers of beer are very considerably reduced by this Act.

-FANCIES Change of Name (suggested for the new dtrJ^JTrhe Emma .u.iue— Ihe Dii-Emma Mine.—Pun^h The proper cbaracter for a swearing actor-there are such —is, of course, Oatatlio !-Fun. A ne.ro was scalcirii to death from a boiler explosion and on his tombstone they chisied deeply "Sacred to the memory of Ollr stealIja friend." A 1 ankce eoitor, in response to a subscriber who grumbles jthat his morning paper was intolerably damp, savs "that it is because there is so much due on it." On dit that Air Disraeli, with his raregeniii- for apt nom- enclature, has designated the Cabinet Council chamber the withdrawing room."—Punch. "He wooe.: and she wouldn't" is the way they put it in Frisco when a young woman declines a proposal of marriage. Some men," said a stonemason, become useful citizens and others become vagabonds just as some slab* of marble become useful doorsteps, and others become lyintr tomb- stones." +T -UVFRI^EHT EXPLAINED.—It is statistically computed tha- 1( ,000,000 nuts of various kinds are anncady eaten in America. Which fact the New Oileaus Picayune thinks m.iy acC.iUn^ for the prodigious number of colonels A I.-It 13 not rULUoured that the First Lord of the Ad- miralty contemplates changing his constituency at the hrst opportunity. I Jt Were gbou,d wreck4end him -s to try Wrecss em. — Fun. A WEEK AFTER MARRIAGIS.—Mr /„ ("7. p. T yp v fcqmy „ lv,W8 th Law." M\.s yJf,wU,rmerlv Miss E'j«itp {calmlv). O that was so before marriage"; but> now I am to i uie. [Sec Judicature Act, 1873, we 25 {lV\Puncn. lu conseqnence of the advance of Rus,ia into Asia and her rapid acquirement of territory, the Royal Societv for the Perversion of the English Languages have conferred unon the Northern Power the honorary title of the Asiatic Collarer.—Fun. Mr Bull having been very properly reproved by his wife for using bad language in connection with Turkey has bound himself not to say anything worse of that rèpudia- tive power than Devil take Turkey till Uhrietinas, after which he must use stronger language.—Punch. CRIMES AND DISASTERS.—" Sloper" in Judy, says: Within the last twelve months four prisoners have escaped r ut of Wrexhaui gaol. Three of them climbed over the wall, so the authorities built the ail iiigber. The fourtn prisoner WHS therefore obliged to slip back the bolt of his ceil and walk cut of the front, prison door. It would have been almost insulting to the authorities, you see, if he had climbed over the wan toe" The tifth prisoner has not as yet quite made up his mind which way he is going." A LONG TERM.- Prisoners seem to be put in the Wrexham gso. just to give them an opportunity of getting cut again by their own devices, aud without invoking the aid of law or justice, judge, or jury. The, men having, at virions •"lines, escaped by the walls, these were heightened; but toe fourth man, when his turn came, scorned to be deterred t'liig so he quietly opened the door of his cell, and walked t -• "e principal entrance. The local authorities think t.iiat -rue genius w:!i always find its way out," and feel quite proud to think that at last something like ability has shown itself m tueir neighbourhood—even though, so far, a' °i;- i aPPear?<:1 among the prisoners, riut being so m or, a Jttle may iu time be caught by tbe Guardians, and then Well, we'll wait till then.-Fun. REVEALING TOO MUCH.—Spiritualism at San Francisco has received a curious check. It was announced that one night tue spirit of "a young Indian warrior" would ap. pear to a seiect circle. "U hen the lights were turned down, ad retired to his cabinet, there came a suduen tremendous crash from the ceiling to the fi i,r, and the timnl spiritualists skedaddled downstairs, tumbling over eaca other in their panic. Some of the bolder remained. limits being turned up, a lar^e hole was visiWle in the Criiinr' 44 a 17nnn » admirably dressed for the pj.rt, lay groaning on the floor with his head broken. The tableau was complete when the medium emerged from his. cabitie,, and exclaimed, angrily, What made you step between tne j'ists. That's just but the whole business."

THE IRON DUKE ALMOST SUNK. Her Alaje-t Iron Duke had a narrow escape on Saturday, November 20. She went ou" from Plymouth on a trial trip, and was beginning the trial about two mile out- side the breakwater when, according to one account, the spring of an important val ve suddenly broke, but accord- ing to another, the valve had been left open. The valve traye way, and a tremendous body of water rushed ibto the shir). There was not a grain of powder on board with which to fire an alarm, hue signals of distress were hoisted. The valve was shut by oae of the crew, who was up to his waist in water while so doing, and had he been two minutes latar he could not have accomplished it. As it was, the water rushed in with such force that in a short, time it was several inches above the stokehole plates. The valve being shut, the 40-horse engine was immediately put to wcrk, and the water reduced. Then the Iron Duke returned to the Sound. There was great c-msfcernation on board amongst all hands. Most of the craw had been turned over from the Vanguard to the Iron Duke after the recent collisiou. s -o

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO KILL A BROTHER NEAR CARMARTHEN. On Friday afternoon, November 19th, a magisterial en- quiry was held at Lan Farm, Ncwchurch (before Mr G. Lewis Philipps), when John Jones, who Ii reùltt the above- named farm, was charged with feloniously attempting to kill his brother, David Jones, by cutting and wounding him in the neck and face with some sharp instrument, on the previous Monday night. Prisoner was in the first instance brought before a magistrate on WTedneaday, and remanded until Monday, but as it was afterwards found that the- in- jured man was in a precarious condition, the enquiry was held at the house on Friday afternoon, in order that his de- position might be taken. David Jones, who is a grocer, carrying on business at Aberdare, deposed that after returning from Curojarthen fair on Monday night his brother wanted to take a Lorse out of the ehble, but he interfered to prevent him from doing RO. A struggle then took place between them, ill the course of which witness found a quantity of blood running from his face. He called out, and his mother and some neighbours came, and he went into the bouse. He got tbe cut in the struggle with his brother, but could not say how it was inflicted. Mary Lewis, mother of the two men by her first husband, said that on Monday night she heard her son David call out, "Come out, ali of you," and on going out into the vard saw her son John crying and David bleeding from the face. There was also blood upon John, who afterwards Wtcm for a doctor. Witntss did not know how David got the cut on his face. Her son J-,iiu was drunk at the time. John Bowen, a neighbouring farmer, said prisoner came to him on Monday night, and asked him to come and stop his brother s blood, as they had been fighting. Witness went with him, and found Uavid lying on a bed with a cut on the left side of Lis face. He asked prisoner how his brother got the cut, and he said he did not kn, ,w. He heard David say during the right that he had got the cut from his brother. Mr E. P. Davies, surgeon, deposed that about one o'clock on Tuesday morning- he saw David Jones. Prisoner told him he had had a scuffle with David, who had fallen on the scraper of tbe door. Witness found David Jone" •"n bed with his face bandaged. There was a clean incised "wound nve inched,;n,- expending from behind the left ear across the necii auu face almost to the angle of the After removing the cioth the wound b;ed Very much for a lone time. W itness believed the wound was inflicted by a clean but not sharp instrument. It was possiblv, but not probably po- duced by the scraper. The cut was half an inch deep in one place. Erynpelas h"ù since set in on the face, and the patient was not out of danger. Inspector Scurry, who apprehended the prisoner on Wednes-ay sa,d prisoner told him that he and hi. brother fought and fell, he being drunk and his brother sobe- Prisoner Was cumitted for trial at the ensuing as,ize, bail being refused.