The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

THE LAST OF THE STUARTS. By the death of the Hon. Lady Louisa Stuart at I Traquair House, on Monday, December G, has passed away the last of the Royal House of Btuart (says one account, though we have heard of more than one last Stuart. ) The deceased lady was in her hundredth year and was Sister of the eighth and last Earl of Traquair. bhe was a I descendant of the Royal Stuarts, and her genealogy can be traced back to John of Ghent, and to Henry V. and IV. The tenure of the ancient mansion at Traquair was only held in life-rent by Lady Louisa. The house, or palace, originally consisted of a tower, believed to have been erected before the year 000. Large additions were made to it by the first Earl of Traquair, who was Lord High Treasurer of Scotland in the reign of Charles 1. The principal gate- way to the palace has not been used since 1796, when it was ordered to be closed, after the death of the countess of the seventh earl, and never again to be opened till a Stuart shoull reign on the throne. Lady Louisa Stuart was are- markable "woman, and by her methodical and stately manners she maintained the dignity of her race, The idea of royalty entered into all she did, and Court style was utu v observed in the house. Her faculties remained un- impaired until the last. The heir ta the deceased lady's property is the Hon. Henry Maxwell, of Terregles, a "fescenJant of the fourth Earl of Traquair.

( SCENE AT BANGOR PETTY SESSIONS. Ðt¡ring the hearing of a case at Bangor Petty Sessions, a i arrnaltercation, which occasioned considerable excitement "1 Court occurred between Lord Penrhyn, the presiding Magistrate and Mr Marcus Louis, solicitor. Moses Roberts Richard Thomas Lloyd, quarrymen, were summoned for having assaulted John Jones, a keeper in the employ 0 Lord Penrhyn. The prosecutor identified the defendants, ^ut failed to swear positively that Roberts actually took Part in the outrage. Lloyd did not appear, and it was Lord Penrhyn. The prosecutor identified the defendants, but failed to swear positively that Roberts actually: took 13art in the outrage. Lloyd did not appear, and it was stated that an important witness who had been summoned by the prosecution was not in attendance, and the Bench, ^Pon the suggestion of Captain B. Hughes, adjourned the further bearing of the case, directing warrants to be issued againit Lloyd and the absent witness. Mr Louis, who re- resented Roberts objected to the adjournment as being I Unfair to his client, against whom there was no direct evi- nce, and who had a full answer to the charge. Lord ■Penrhyn, with some warmth, said the Bench were deter- Titled to do their duty, and remarked that Mr Louis had right to single out any individual magistrate for remark. Louis With all due respect to the court, your lordship as put quite a wrong construction upon my words, and I ?Dst say that it is not the first time you have done so. Lord penrhyn: Is there a policeman in court ? I'll not sit "ere to be insulted. Mr Louis A policeman What do ) 3"311 mean ? I have as much right as you have to be here &nd I won't be insulted in this manner. I repeat that it is the tirst time you have misconstrued my words. Lord "enrhyn • I can only say that that is most improper lan- guage for* any advocate to make use of, or that you should have iistinct.lv selected for remark one of tho magistrates, Captain Bnlkeley Hughes. Mr Louis retorled that he had rilad, no such selection, sud left the court.

c — MR. E. EYTON, M.P., THREATENED WITH t COMMITTAL TO GAOL. At St. Asaph County Court, on Friday, December 10th, before Judge Horatio Lloyd, Mr Louis, Ruthin applied on behalf of Mr VV. Wynne, wine merchant, Rhyl, for a judg- Vrnt 8!llnniona against Mr Ellis Eytou, member for the "ntshire boroughs and registrar of Flint county court. It appeared that, at the last court at Rhyl, to stay proceedings, ^\r Ellis Eyton admitted the debt of £ 50 due to plaintiff for and had consented to pay the debt and court fees A month had passed and no payment was an(j a judgment for his committal to gaol was now applied for. Mr Davies, Holywell, contended that the ^Rttient summons could not take effect because Mr J'ton, being a member of Parliament, was privileged," could not be sent to gaol. This being overruled, Mr rravies contended that the court had no evidence to prove hat Mr Eyton had been able to pay the money since last °hrt, and he could only be committed for "being able and refusing to pay."—His Honour assumed that a mem- of Parliament and a man living at an hotel like a gen- P-Ollrt, and he could only be committed for "being able and refusing to pay."—His Honour assumed that a mem- of Parliament and a man living at an hotel like a gen- feman surely possessed means of paying £ 50 in the course a month.—Mr Louis said he had means, for as registrar ^f the county court he had £ 200 per annum.—The Judge he thought Mr Eyton must have the means to keep up \.e appearance he did if not, he was occupying a very ?.l3honest position. There was only one defence to the ac- Eyton had been unable to pay.—Mr i:avies Mr Ellis Eyton has not been able to pay.—The cjaij that, although summoned, Mr Eyton had not appeared to prove his inability, and could, therefore, | e committed for contempt of court. Mr Davies Intended at length that the judge had not the Power to commit under such circumstances.—Mr Louis intended that Mr Eyton had only raised that question of Privilege to avoid payment, and not becausc he could not fet the means to pay the bill.-Ilis Honour said fortunate- y no member of Parliament in that district bad ever raised sUch objections, and he should, after finding cut his powers, ^cerciae them to the utmost.—Mr Louis pressed for an im- jWiat-e order of committal.—The Judge said he should into his powers, and he believed he bad power to com- mit defendant to goal for contempt of court, and if so, he should make the order almost at once.—Mr Davies read an PP'nion given on the committal of "M.P. f, which was reference to Mr Whalley's case but the judge held that .•'at did not apply to this case. Ihe plaintiff Jlen gave evidence as to the debt, and proved ''it defendant lived at Kelvoir HoceU kept a valet, *>d was apparently a shareholder in the North sfhd South T*aIes Bank, lthyi Pier, Co-operative Bank, and the Hy- t^P'ithic Establishment. "he Jvuitre stopped the examination, saying it was not a West'on whether the defendant had bad £ 50 in his posses- during the month, as Mr Davies argued, but whether th a P0?ition to borrow or raise the sum to meet, L 'I demands of the court. He would consider whether he ami ^ownr to commit, and if he had it would bo wilh costs th *le mem^er f°r t'ie Flint boroughs was an officer of I)ovv County Court, he (the judge) should exercise his full er, and commit him to gaol for the maximum teriri. 0(t: ^d not trouble the advocates f»r further arguments Wonidence' as ought, and could if he HiajJ Pay the lawful demands of his creditor. He should thp f6^3 0T!hjr in the case at the Mold County Court on wing- Friday.

-= of Chester, is preparing a new with r&el)tary on the Acts of the Apostles. Pence, of of Chester, is at present a. new with 1ll;1 failed:?PttHliY'S (Por'madoc) HAIR RESTORER has never and ricu restoro Faderi. Orey, or White Hair to it* natural color blatter ,eBS- It isr' Ot a dye, nor rtoo^ it contain any colourins hlatiy ftp \a'ever- It docs nut Jenvo tho rlis igreeable smell of *arKe bom'^orers- neither does it i-oi. the skin or linen. Soil in I? any I?S' S.I e>ich. A sample bottle sent, cirraiee paiii, ^repar-d4 iU wit,hir. 100 miles, upor. reci ipt, of 3s 6il in at imps. P'NSIN™ 0?NL3R. BY TIIOMAS B. HUMPHREY, Operative and I>is- J4'v'i'lon'» (from Corbynand Compiny. New Bond street, '-<i'iRp'i. >rtm l'loc, North Wales. Who'o-i.Je of lUs.'iUN \-(1,. London; EVAXS, & Co., Livtrpool.

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December 15, 1875. iV 0 TES. OSWESTILY RIFLE CORPS (Nov. 17, 1875).- The following is a complete list of the gentlemen who have served as commissioned officers of the Oswestry Volinteers, with dates of appointments and resignations :— CAPTAINS. Appointed Resigized. Nov. lsGO John Hamer, Glanravon Sep. 20, I6b4 Nov. is' 1864 Thomas Savin Dec. 22, 1SC6 Dec." 22, 18G6 Kowland Jones Veuables May 15, 18GIS July 2o, 1869 Charles W. Owen Nov. 27, 1370 Nov. 22, 1871 Stanley Leighton LIEUTENANTS. «mr; I860 John Hamer, Glanravon Promoted Nov. —, I860 G-. Harvey Williams June 4, 1862 Nov. 13, 1862 Charles W. Owen Promoted July 26, 1860 George Owen Feb. 1, 1872 July 27, 1872 J. Whitridge Thomas ENSIGNS. Apr. I860 G. Harvey Williams Promoted July 8, 1861 Charles W. Owen Promoted Nov. 13, 1862 George Owen Promoted Nov. 19, 181m Rowland George Venables Jane 9, 1871 June 8, 1871 J. Whitridge Thomas Promoted ep. 21,1872 Charles Mann May 8, 1875 OSWALD. THE BRITISH GENEALOGICAL INSTITUTE. —This is a title of a society recently established in Lonuon, the expressed object of which is to encourage the study of Genealogy, to torward intelligent labours .in genealogical researches, and to aid in utilizing the results, when success- ful, of important inquiries by co-operating in their publi- cation. It will thereby, it is expected, b3 the means of res- cuing from obliviou many interesting facts in family history, and of illustrating some intricate points not otherwise capable of solution in the social annals of the kingdom. It is intended to issue annually Olie or more volumes of transactions containing the contributions of Fellows and others on interesting and important suojects. The Rooms of the society tire at 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. LLALLAWG. QUERIES. WELSH BARDS AT A DISCOUNT.—In a book I have previously quoted, Rcnry M. Stanley, The Story of His Life, the author tells us that his hero was born in Denbigh, and for the first years of his life was known as John Rowlands. "When his friends &nd acquaintances in Denbigh heard that John Rowlands had changed his name, they were not surprised. In Wales, nothing is more common than for a man, when he has achieved some success as a writer, to assume a bardic or literary patronymic, which he generally prefers to his proper and baptismal name. The change of name being thus satisfactorily established, we shall, for the remainder of our narrative, speak of the John Rowlands, whose fortunes we have so far followed, as Henry M. Stanley, &c., &c. The book is bresumably by a Welshman, for it has I CadwalaLler Rowlands' on the title page as its author, but I am inclined to doubt that Welsh bards ever do more than take a figurative title-afl, for instance, 'Talhaiarn,' Ceiriog,' &c. often attaching these to their own pioper names. Are there instances where the name hits been changed for another proper name ?' In theparticalar instancebefore us itwould seem that all Master liowlanda's "friends in Denbigh were not of the same opinion, for we are told, one, Good Mrs Parry, his aunt," took him to task for adopting an alias, by saving, What is the meaning of this, John ? honest people in this country don't change their names which implies either that' Stanley' was not a Bardic cogno- men, or that bards are not' honest people!' TAFFY. REPLIES. OSWESTRY CHURCH ORGANS (Nov. 10, X875.) An elderley lady near Newtown, now dead, used to say she was present at the festival on the opening of the ore;an at Oswestry when she was a young girl, and that the tickets of admission were sold at a guinea each. W. ANCIENT BRITISH FENCIBLES (Oct. 8, i873). —I have just n^t with an additional newspaper paragraph in connection with the doings of this regiment Ireland, as follows A handbill, of which the following is a copy, has lately been circulated in the Northern Counties of Ireland July 13,1797. Col. Sir W. W. WYNNE, Bart., having received information that there are still graat quantities of pikes and fire-arms concealed in the parish of Newry, gives notice, that unless a quantity of pikes and fire-arms, equal to the lists that he has received, are either delivered in at Newry, or thrown into the garden at Violet-hill, over the wall, by the second lock, before Thursday, July 20, he must, in pursuance of the orders he has received, proceed to act with the utmost rigour." N.W.S. LABYRINTHS IN WALES (Sept. 22, 1875.)—I suspect they were not very uncommon in England or Wales, in some of the larger places. Two years since, in planting shrubs, in the old wood near the house at Peniarth, the workmen came upon some remarkable curving pavements, in more than one place. Upon a portion of these grew a large horse chesnut, and there are a great many old yew trees on either side of the pavements. Questioning an old agent of the estate, he told me that he had heard a tradition of there having been a Caer Troia" at Peniarth. Labyrinths were so termed but this one must have been of very considerable antiquity, for in an old map of the demesne, made in 1765, there appears nothing but rectangular walks—or avenues. One of these avenues re- mains, and the yew trees yet standing may have formed the hedges of the City of Troy." W. r" W." also informs us that in one of the issues of the Archoeological Journal there is a paper about Labyrinths but he cannot readily refer to the number.—ED.] In reading the report of a recent meeting of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House to hear Dr Schliemann's paper on Troy read, I was reminded of the Traditions of the Welsh concerning Troy. The Cymry assert that the city of Troy (called by them Caer Droiau) obtained its name from the formation of its walls or forti- fication. The turnings"—"Troiau"—of its walls foimed a complete maze, so that when a person desired to enter therein he became quite bewildered, fancying himself near when a great way off, and vice versa. A rude represen- tation of the windings of the walls and approaches often served as a puzzle to amuse the young Cymro. I once saw a garden laid out on this plan near Llansilin. The "Caer Droiau" of the Cymry was exactly delineated on the coins of Greece, and a print of one from the collection of the then (1821) Duke of Devonshire, is given in Tran- sactions of the Cyminrodorian, vol. i., p. 68. See also the English works of the Rev. Eliezer Williams, M. A., p. 131. 3 GYPT. THE SALOPIAN BRIDE (Dec. 1, 1875.)-Hulbert on the whole may be pretty correct, as far as he goes, but his book bears tha mark of supernal enquiry He does not give us the date of l< Mr Jones s arrival at Bolas. If exact, or approximate dates had been given we should have been better able to judge of the probable truth or un- truth of some of the anecdotes. The return to Shropshire after the visit to Burleigh House gives an air of consistency to the following anecdote:—"Squire Eyton," as he was called, and who was said to have treated Mr Jones" with incivility (see Nov. 10) one day drove in great state to Bolas Villa. The footman thundered at the door, as customary on such occasions, when the Earl opened a window and, putting out his head, said in a loud voice, "The Earl of Exeter is not at. home!" Quite consistent with Mr Hulbert's account of "Mr Jones's social btus is the following traditionary anecdote:)Ir Hoggins wishing to make a present of a sucking pig to a friend, Air Jones" volunteered to carry it in a sack to its destination, but he afterwards declared that he would never again undertake such a job, for the squeaking of the little prisoner and its desperate attempts to escape from the bag made him despair of successfully accomplishing his errand Another story relates to the Hoggins family amusements one Christmas They were playing hide and seek, and Mr Jones being dragged from his biding place under a bed, covered with dust and down, Miss Hoggins exclaimed Lord, ther! what a divil yo bin!" Another rela^tea to the account of the discovery of a silver spoon that had been missing, and Sally Hoggins's exclamation, At last we proken i' the tato hod, and theer we fund. it. These were doubtless the inventions of Miss Hogglns s female friends, annoyed at the good fortune of their former associate. J. E. WELSH BOOK WANTED (Dec. 1, IS75).-At the Abergavenny Eisteddfod in ISl^i ta'i \\illiatn Roberts (Nefydd) of Blaanau, Monmouthshire, gained a prize for a historical essay on "Man Lwyd ( Blesseci Mary') or the Superstitions of the dark ages. This with another essay and an appendix, comprising the Welsh Calendar," kc., he afterwards published, and it is, I have no doubt, the work wanted by MB FITZGKRALD, It is, however, some time since I saw a copy of it and I forget the publisher's name. Mr Roberts was ft Baptist minister, well versed in Welsh antiquities, and an able writer. Pl. AV. "Cambrian Popular Antiquities, or an Account of of some Traditions, Customs and Superstitions of Wales, with observations a to their origin, &c., illustrated with copper plates coloured from nature. By TETEE KOBEETS, A.M., rec.,or of Llanarmon, Yicar of Madeley, and author of Cohcctaaca Cambrica, etc. London: Printed for E, William-^ bookseller to the Duke and Duchess of York, No. 11, Strand, 1815." The above is the title of the work enquired for by DAVID FITZGERALD. It is a book of 354 pages and ten platen, Svo. My copy contains a portrait of the author. J.J. Brecon. [similarreplies liavo been received ttom CYFFIN, N.W.S., ami D.R.T. There have boon two or three aUudons to the R JV. Pi ter Roberts in Bye-gones.]' TALES ABOUT WALES (Nov. 24, 1875).—Eliza Constantia, eldest child of Richard Pryce, Eq, of Gunley, Montgomeryshire, was boru Jan. 8, 179-3. Her luothei's maiden name was Edwards (of pqrtre Hall). She married, in 1S2G, Robert Campbell, Commander in the Royal Navy, with whcjui she resided in Edinburgh, and had three sons, of whom the eldest died at the age of 2$years. Her husband died in December, 1832, leaving ber with two surviviug children in very straitened circumstances. She succeeded, hew-, ver, in giving them a good education, and in 1844. when her eldest son W,IS 14, she was married to her second hus- band, Capt. Hugh Morrieson of the East India Company Service. She lived with him in Edinburgh till his death in 1859, and continued residing in Edinburgh till her own death in 18C1. Ofhcr t.vo sos-s the elder, Lewis, is Pro- j fe £ ?cr of Greek in the Univerji -y of St. Andrews, N.B the younger, Robert, is a barrister at Lincolns Inn. Capt. Campbell was buried in Forden churchyard, and a tablet to his memory is placed in the porch of Forden church. L. C. The first edition of the book that afterwards was called by the shorter title of Tales about Wales, and men- tioned by L. C. Nov. 10, was printed (1833) in Shrews- J bury, by JohnEddowes, and published in London by Long- mans. The second edition (1837) was printed as well as published in Edinburgh, although Whittaker's name ap- peared on the title as the party from whom it was to be had in London. In compiling her book about Wales, Mrs Campbell received some valuable assistance from Dr Owen Pugh. In the Life of Campbell the Poet, by Dr Beattie, some particulars about the authoress are to be found the poet thought very highly of her taste, and of his cousin's character, G.G. TRINITY SUNDAY CUSTOM (Nov. 24, 1875).- It is the custom for people to meet at a spring on Trinity Sunday—to drink sugar and water, and to shout aloud. The place of meeting is called Trinity Well; and is about a mile from Guilstield-where three springs join their waters to form one brooklet. There is a similar Trinity Well about a mile above Buttington, in the Cwm-y-Sul. I have not heard of people meeting there on Trinity Sunday. But in the township of Heldre, on the eastern end of the Long Mountain, the people used to have games on Trinity Sunday, at a well on the mountain side. Whether they diank sugar and water I know not. j.here ia another Trinity Well on the western side of the Moel-y-golfa. I know of no meeting there. Thus I am able to point out no less than four "Trinity Wells within a small tract of country in Montgomeryshire. I also remember, when a hoy, being present at much the same kind of meeting on a Sunday afternoon near Ruyton-XI-Towns—I forget the name of the place. The little boys scrambled for lumps of sugar thrown into a spring. Whether this now continues I cannot say. D. PHILLIPS LEWIS. Guiisfield Vicarage. Drinking Stig,-tr-aiicl-Wator was customary in the parish of Llat, saiiiifi-aid, Oswestry, but not on Trinity Sun- day. M Merry Green ',i cL' the ceremony was observed on Palm Sunday probably at the annual opening of The Green for Sports. At the Voel Well the fourth Sunday in Lent was the High-day. At Llanymynsch the people met at the Three-county Well to drink sugar and water, but on which Snuday I am not informed but very likely on the patron sainti day (St. Agatha), or the Wakes, on or about Feb. 5. the ceremony was part of the Wake ob- seivauces, and very general. CYFFIN, LORD KENYON AS A POET (July 29, Sep. 2, 23, 1874).—The I Ion. George Kenyon in your issue for Sep. 2. 1871, gives as his reason why the lines in honour of Sir Watkin were written in 1749 the fact that Sir Watkindied in that year. Anyone who has access to the complete poem will see that it was penned at some period subsequent to the death of the baronet, but, I tike it, the second Lord Ken- yon fixed the date conclusively—and showed that the lines were by the articled clerk at Nantwicb, and not the school- boy at liuthin. His Lordship says (in sending the poem to Lord Ashley for the Camb. Quar. Mag.), in Jan. 1830, "I beg to offer you the enclosed, which is copied from the original in my honoured fat her's handwriting, and sent by him to his father (who preserved it) from Nantwicb, ac. cording to its date (Sep. 19, 1751). He was at Xantwich at that time under Mr James Tomkinson, an eminent country solicitor, he being then second son of his father, and of the age of eighteen." In the poem the young lawyer pictures Sir Watkin in an elysium in the company of England's Edwards, Henrys, Charleses," and other wor- thies, consorting with wbom, it is to be hoped, will not injure the morals of the good baronet ANON. OSWESTRY SCHOOL (Nov. 3, 1875)-The Rev- Owen Reynolds is said by our local historians to have become head master about 1769. There are some entries extant in his handwriting, dated oil that year, and which refer to the letting of school land. Thus— "March 25th, 1760. Mr Jennings hath agreed to pay for the Itmds that were in Troy's holding adjoining to what he held himself before, both together 181., and also for a quillet above the smith's shop in Swiney, adjoining to Widuw Dankb's ltiid, 21., so that his whole reut now amounts to 201. Commencing as a fore rent the date as above.—Ow. REYNOLDS. Another entry of agreement of Mr Reynolds's is dated 1771, and refers to two portions of land at Maes Swiney issa, let to Dr Browne for J34. Mr Reynolds died in June, 1772, and was succeeded by the Rev. Charles Anson Twdale, in whose time the school was built (see Mar. 24, 1875), and, from a memorandum signed by Mr Tisdale, the rents of the school lands in 1773 amounted to 2100 10s 6d, the sum being made up as follows:—Edward Jennings, k20, Edward Jones, £ 21, John Jones, £ 20, Henry Humphreys, C23 10s, Dr Brown, 24 6s, Dr James, £ 3, Mrs Gittins, 1:5, Mr Bassnett (for the Mill), £1 Gs 8d, Miss Barrett, 8s, Sir Watkin Wynne, 2s, Thomas Sides, 10s, Bounty Moaey, 91 3s 4d. Twenty-one years later, when Dr Donne was master, the rents amounted to £ 169 10s, the sum being made up thas:-Richard Croxon, Esq., The Holbeaches, IE94 10s, Mr Jarvis, of The Nant, a held by The Nant and a field by the Smithey, fS, Davies of Crickheath, zC30, Edward Francis of Maesbury, JE20. T. N. Parker, Esq., of Sweeney Hail, being the two divisions of Maes Sweeney Issa, now rented at £ 4, the tenant of The Drill for one acre near The Nant, I-PI lis GJ, Lazarus Venables. Esq., lands in Treflach, JE5, Mrs Hilditch, £3 (These two lots by the ancient survey amount to 20a. lr. 5p), Mr Bassnett for Maesbury Mill, X-1 6s 8d, Mrs Barrett's successor, 8s, Mr N. Jones, by R. Croxon, Esq., 6J Debenture out of the Exechequer paid by White, Parliament-place, Old Palace-yard, £ 1 13s 4d. In Dec. 1805, there was a difference of opinion between Mr Donne and Mr Parker concerning the amount of school lands at Maes-Sweeney-issa, and the matter was investi- gated by the Rev, W. W. Davids, rector of Whittington and after evidence was taken before that gentleman Mr Parker proposed to call in Lewis Jones, Esq., and to refer all matters in dispute to him. His decision was that Mr Donne had made good his claim to the land, and it was agreed that Mr Davies and Mr Bowman of Knockin, should mark out the boundaries. These gentlemen did so on Ap. 22.1806, and afterwards Mr Parker paid 28 5s per annum rent, instead of Yl as per agreement between Dr Brown and Mr Reynolds. A further reference to this dispute will be found in the Report of the School Commission of 1830, see Bye-gones, Mar. 10, 1875. JARCO.

SAD CASE OF DEATH BY DROWNING. On Wednesday, Dec. 8, an inquest was held at Mr Josiah Jarvis's, the Lord Hill, Whixail, before J. Allen Walmsley, Esq coroner, and a jury, of whom Sir Joseph Hales was foremau, on the body of William Williams, aged eleven years next March, who was drowned on the previous Sunday. From the evidenco it appeared that on the afternoon in question Thomas Powell, aged fourteen, Edwin Slack, aged sixteen (the witnesses) and two other lads, together with deceased, went to enjoy themselves on tho ice near to what is known as Dobson's Bridge, instead of going to the Sunday School, whore they had been sent by their parents. Tho ice seems to have borne them pretty well. About four o'clock all the lads, with the exception of deceased, started for home. They had proceeded a little over one hundred yards, when they heard a scream proceeding from the direction of their late companion. Thoy at once turned back, and perceived Williams in the water, with his arm on the ice. They procured a rail, but this was hardly long enough to reach him. A rope was then fetched and thrown to deceased, but owing to the length of time he had been in the water from twenty minutes to half an hour—he must have become numbed with the cold and although the rope was on the back of his hand he was unable to grasp it, and in sight of those four youths, who made no further effort to save him, he went under the ice and was drowned, Robert Dulson, who works on the canal, shortly afterwards, with a weed rake, got Williams out of the water, and he was taken to the house of his father, who is a turfman, and lives at the Roving Bridee. The jury returned a verdict of Accidentally drowned." The place where the boy met with his llelth is lmnwn as Alexandra arm," and the water here is not more than four feet deep, and had any of the lads broke their wav to the poor boy they could not possibly have been drowned. The bov was not more than three or four yards from the side of the canal, ftud to meet with a watery grave under such circum- stances was sad indeed. Deceased s clothes, near the arms, were mu«h cut by the ice, caused by his fruitless attempts to get out of the water on to the ice.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—At the last Meeting of this Institution at. its house, John Street, Adelpbi, London, Thomas Chapman, Esq., F. R. S., V.P., in the chair, the Second Service Clasp of the Institution was voted to Mr James White, coxswain of the Fishguard Lifeboat, and 236 1-is. to himself and tha other men forming the crew of the boat on the 15th November, when it put off four times during a very severe gale from the N. E. and in a tremendous sea, and saved the crews, numbering al- together sixteen men, from the schooners Eleanor and Mary," of Milford; Independence" of Carnarvon; Princess Royal," of Cardigan and the smack Laura," of Carnarvon. The tcanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, were voted to Mr J. G. Annal, Chief Officer of H. M. Coastguard at Groodvvick, for his co-operation on the occasion of these gallant services by the Fishguard Life- boatmen. Similar thanks were also voted to Mr John Morgan and the Rev. James Webb, Honorary Secretaries respectively of the Cardigan and Hornsea Branches of the Institution, for their active co-operation on receut occasions when their Lifeboats were called out on service. Other rewards to the amount of £ 454 were also granted to the crews of different Lifeboats of the Institution for services rendered during the past month. The Cardigan Lifeboat had saved, under very gallant circumstances, the crew of five men from the schooner I') ohanna Antoinette," of Grravenhage, Holland, when that vessel drove ashore on Cardigan Bar. Other rewards were also granted to the crews of shoreboats for saving life from shipwrecks on our coasts. Payments to the amount of £ 2,689 were ordered to be made on different Lifeboat establishments. During the current year £ 28,500 had been expended by the Society in the formation of new Lifeboat Stations, and in the main- tenance of its large life-saving fleet, now numbering 2;)1 boats. In the same period the Institution had contributed, by its Lifeboats and other means, to the saving of 740 lives from various wrecks, besides rescuing 29 vessels from des- truction. Various contributions to the Society were an. nounced, including £ 500 from Miss Da eosta. £10 proceeds of Penny Readings at Grundisburgh, Suffolk, per R. F. B. Perry, Esq. £ 3 os. from the matron, officers, and children of the Licensed Victuallers' School, towards the support of their Lifeboat at llnnstanton; and S2 6s. 8d. from the teaebers and scholars of the Haverstock Hill Congregational Sunday School. The late Mrs Stead, of Helensburgh, had left the Institution a Legacy of £ 100 and tho late John Finnte, Esq., of Altrincbam, had bequeathed it £ 1,000 on behalf of tho Ayshire Lifeboats. A new Lifeboat had re- cently been sent by the Society to Penarth, South Wales, I and new boats were also about to be forwarded to Tyrella and. Balbriggan, Ireland; another was also ordered for Car>r)beltown, N.B. TNN Ti-AIR.-lor 40 yoars Irs S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER has received the commeudaUon and favour of the public. It has ticqtiiretl the hitfliest place that can be obtained for any moderate enterprise, and contrihuted to the adornment of tenant thousands of persons, who have the proof of its service- able character. It will positively renew and restore the original and natural colour of grey, white, and, faded Ilair. It will strengthen and invigorate the Hair, stop its falling, ami induce R hea thy and luxuriant growth. No other pr,, parittion can pro- duco he same beneficial result. Sold by all Chemists and Per- fumers, in largo bo'.tlos, C-s. D*pot, 114 ct 110, Southampton Row London.

TIPYN 0 BOB PETH A spelling bee has been held at Tarporley. It is said that a railway from Bangor to Bethesda will be shortly commenced. Mr N. S. Scotcher, High-street, Wrexham, has been ap- pointed distributor of stamps in succession to Mr R. Potter. Mr Yorke, of Erddig, has given a site over Bersham Col- liery for the new church of Esclusham. The name of the Marchioness of Londonderry appears amongst the new subscribers (L3 3s), to the Salop Infirmary. A meeting has been held at Denbigh to celebrate the opening of a club and reading rooms for Conservative work- ing men. The Shrewsbury Ladies' Educational Association purpose to secure the services of a certiiicated instruetres3 in cookery, and to open classes in spring. A young man named George Williams, has been fined 22 141 6d, with the alternative of fourteen days' imprison- ment for maliciously throwing stones, at Shrewsbury. Mr Stewart Lawson, Liberal, has been elected unopposed, to fill the vacancy caused in Shrewsbury Council by Mr Bratton's elevation to the aldermanship. A bonded warehouse for the deposit of wines and spirits duty free has been approved of by the Board of Inland Revenue and opened at Wrexham. Mr E. M. G. Eddy, assistant superintendent, has been appointed district superintendent of the London and North Western Railway, vice Mr J. O. Binger, of Cheater, de- ceased. John Williams, of Brynmidog, near Carnarvon, was all in his Sunday best one Sunday morning when Elizibeth Williams threw a bucketful of dirty water over him, to vindicate a right of way! He sued her in the County Court for E5 and gained his suit. The colliers have all gone to work at the collieries round Wrexham. They also went in on Monday morning, Dec. 13, at Hafod and Plaskynaston, the only colliery in Ruabon parish now standing being the Wynnstay Colliery, called by the men the Green Pit. Henry Read, an engine driver frox, the Vulcan Foundry, Warrington, was taking a new engine from Warrington to Derby on Wednesday, December 8, and stopped at a points- man's box at Crewe to take his supper. As he returned to his engine a goods train came up, knocked him down, and cut him to pieces. Thd Jubilee Singers, who have been visiting Chester, were invited by Mr Gladstone to spend a. day at Hawarden Castle. Carriages were sent to meet them, and every thing possible was done to make their visit agreeable. Before leaving the Castle they sang several of their songs, includ- ing a new one relating to the Admiralty Slave Circular, and Mr Gladstone's favourite, "John Brown," on hearing I which he exclaimed, "There's nothing like that song; it's wonderful; it's an inspiration. A critic in the Chester Chronicle continues to take soma of the compositions in Hymns Ancient and Modern to pieces. He tries to picture the author of the ines- If I ask Him to receive me Will he say me nay ? Not till earth, and not till heaven Pass away, in the agony of composition. No doubt, be says, a, list of endings were written- horse and shay," "on full pay," "break of day," "dappled gray" were tried, till "say me nay" had with a sigh to be adopted. This critic is under the pleasing delusion that the "collection" commonly found in Dissenting places of worship is much superior The death is announced of the Rev. "William Williams, Independent Minister, Beaumaris, who was widely known in Walei as Cromwell." He studied at Bala College, and afterwards accepted the pastorate of the English Congrega- tional Church at Harwood, near Wr. xham, from which be removed to Malpaa. From th"re he went to Beaumaris, his native town, where he remained for the rest of his life. He died at Carnarvon on Sunday, Dec. 5, and was interred at Beaumaris. The lad who was found in a railway carriage at Chester the other day, as we stated, and who said his father bad de- serted him, seem3 to b an accomplished liar. He ran away from the tradesman who sheltered him, and when en- quiries were made it was discovered that he had run away from his father and caused him great trouble. He has been lodged in the workhouse. At Mold Petty Sessions Mr Evans, H. M. Inspector of Mines, summoned the Lords of Mold, under the Metalli- ferous Mines Regulation Act, for not fencing a disused shaft. After a long discussion as to the meaning of the Act, the case was adjourned for the clark to go through it and advise the justices. It is to be hoped the law will be found clear enough to compel somebody to fence these dangerous places. At Denbigh, on Wednesdy, Dec. Sth, the magistrates were engaged for several honrs in investigating a charge of assault made on behalf of William Jones, a notorious poacher, now undergoing imprisonment, against the three gamekeepers who effected his capture recently. For the defence it was alleged that Jones brought the injuries on himself by his desperate violence when resisting capture. The case was dismissed. The vagaries of a prize boar, the property of Mr T. H. Newton, of Oldfield, Altrincham, have caused the inhabit- ants of that neighbourhood considerable alarm. The boar has on several occasions broken loose and roamed in the lanes, to the terror cf passers by. Two persons have been bitten by the beast, and removed to the Altrincham hos- pital. The superintendent of the police ordered the ani- mal to be destroyed, and for that purpose P. police officer went to Mr Nekton's on Friday, Dec. 10. The beast, which could not be approached, .was shor. Sir Hardinge Giffard, Q.C., the Solicitor-General, was entertained at dinner on Saturday evening Dec. 11th, by the members of the United Welsh Circuit. Mr M'lntyre, Q.C., presided, and the company included Lord Justice James, Mr Justice Grove, Mr Oiborno Morgan, M.P., Air Morgan Lloyd, M.P., Air Raikes, M.P., and the Hon, Robert Bourke, M.P., most of whom spoke in response to the toasts. The Solicitor-General was warmly congratu- lated upon his appointment. Racing on the high roads in Cheshire having become a is nuisance, the magistracy have determined to put a stop to it. Thomas Hunt, an artificial flower maker, of Cheetham, Manchester, owner of a trotting horse, was summoned at the Knutsford Petty Sessions, Ust week, for racing on the Warrington and Knutsford Road, on November 24. Ou the day named there was a trotting match between the defmdant's horse, which was attached to a gig, and a saddle-horse. There was a great obstruction of the road. The Bench fined the defendant and £ 1 lis 6d costs. A remarkable poaching affray too piac; at Wonvoe, near Cardiff, early on Saturday morning. Several keepers and a police constable did battle with three poachers who bad pheasants in their possession. One of the poachers shot a comrade by mistake, and ono of the keepers cudgeled a brother keeper in the dark. The poacher shot was not expected to live. Two men are in custody. All concerned were greatly injured. A number of men were lowered int) the Woodhouse pit at Oakengates the other day when the sump" was un- covered, and the consequence was that one of them, Samuel Rushton, was drowned. The jury returned a; their ver- dict, That the deceased was drowned in the wateis of the sump, and the jury are of opinion that great blame attaches to the banksman and reeve in allowing the men to descend without having taken the necessary precautions for covering the sump, which would have prevented the accident." Some time ago an advertisement for a house keeper, ap- peared in a local paper, and was answered by a farmer's daughter residing n"ar Baschurcb. Correspondence passed of a romantic kind. and at last a meeting was fixed for the Quarry at Shrewsbury. The young lady, however, had placed the matter in the hands of a number of young men, whJ intended to giv? the advertiser a warm jeception. Fortunately for himself he fell into the hands of a police- man. who advised him to return home without his house- keeper, and the young men were disappointed. At a meeting of the congregation of St. Mark's Church, Wrexham, last week, called to consider a matter relating to the organist and choirmaster," Mr J. Lewis moved that the reporters should be requested to withdraw, on the ground that the squabbles that took place in chapels and the dif- ferences in the Romish communion" (observe the delicate distinction) were not made known through the Press. Mr Lewis should be called to order for f)rg"tting that the Church is national, and placing it "on a level with the sects." It strikes one as particularly coil to keep the people in the dark about the doings of their own church. How- ever, Mr Lewis's motion was carried, Mr James Maurice, County Treasurer for Denbighshire, who resifltd for many years in Ruthin, and identified him- self with the public life of the place, where he was greatly respected, died at Reading, on Tuesday, Dec 7th, at the age of sixty-five. Mr Maurice was a native of Marlborough, in Wiltshire. He was a magistrate for Denbighshire, and at one time proposed for the Chairmanship of Quarter Sessions but he retired in favour of Mr Hughes. He was so long Mayer of Ruthin that he acquired the title of perpetual mayor," and he was chairman of the Board of Guardians for upwards of twenty years. H left Ruthin about two years ago for the south, on account of his health. Mr Maurice once, in the Liberal iateresr, opposed Mr Town; hend Mainwaring for the Denbigh Boroughs, but was de* feated. At Chester police court last week Messrs Huxley, brewers, summoned the toll-taker of the Grosvenor gate for taking excessive toll, to wit, 1)1 instead of 6d. The question arose out of the wording of the hhl of toJlQ, which stated that every horse, &c., drawing Aiiy et),icli,&-c.,or any carriage, known by the name of a taxed cart, or other form of a two wheeled carriage of the like kind-, should pay 91, and that any horse, &c., drawing any waggon, wain, drag, cart, or other carriage of the like kind, should pay Gd. The cart in question was a two wheel. d one on springs, used to deliver goods. The defendant had adopted the plan of charging ail vehicles oil springs 9d and others od. The Bench decided that the toll should have been dd on the ground that the cart was used for business and not for pleasure. At Wellington School Board the temporary chairman (Mr Hurst) moved that the Bible be read wit nout^note or comment, and that the Lord's Prayer be read, and a number of selected hymns sung. The Rev Mr Banning moved that the system of reading the Bible with explanations be con- tinued. Mr Hobson said t at to neglect the explanation of the Bible in schools would be fraught with the greatest danger to religion and morals. (Poor religion !) Three voted for the motion, and three for the amendment. The chairman gave his casting vote in favour of the motion, and explanations will therefore be discontinued. We shall see what happens to religion and morals. At the rent audit of the Rev W. G. Garnett B'd.field, at Bishop's Castle last week. it was stated that Mr Botfhd 1, after full consideration, had resolved to give all his tenants notice that the Agricultural Holdings Act would not app\y to their holdings, as be believed teuants would be in a much better position without the Act in cases where a landlord recognized, as he had alwavs, the principle that a tenant was entitled to receive the value of all unexhausted im- provements. It was also stated that Mr Botfield would pay to each tenant a prop irtion of the building rate payable in respect of the new Board Schools.

FROM THE PAPERS. A cotton mill belonging to Mr Longshaw, near Pendle- bury, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. Damage, thirty thousand pounds. Bishop Jermyn, late of Colombo, was on Tuesday unanimously elected Bishop of Brechin. Bombay, Tuesday.—A severe shock of earthquake was felt last Sunday at Lahore and in the Peshawar district. Several lives were lost. A man named Mag wood was murdered on Monday night, near Scotstown, on return from Monaghan Market. No arrests have been made. The Rev. William Arthur, the well-known Wesieyan minister, is writing a history of Ultrainantauism, based upon documents not hitherto made public. A youth of eighteen was on Saturday, December 11, at Durham assizes sentenced to penal servitude for life for highway robbery with violence. Prince Leopold left Oxford on Saturday, December 11, for W mdsor Castle, having completed his university career. The trial of Mr James Mooney, wine merchant, DuKio, for an indecent assault on the wife of a soldier in a firsf- class railway carriage, terminated on Saturday, December 11th, in a verdict of acquittal. It is understood in Cardiff that Mr Crawsbay's Works are about to be re-opened. The extensive establishments at Plymouth and Abernant, with which Mr Fothei gill is connected, are also to be re-opened by a limited company. After having been on strike 1G weeks the men of West Stanley Colliery, in the county of Durham, were ejected from their houses on Monday, December 13th. The work was performed by a large staff of persons kuown as Candy men, who were guarded by a body of cor stables. "The Wbitechapcl Tragedy," a dramatised version of the Wuinwright murder, was announced to be performed on Friday night, December 10, at the Theatre Royal, Sun- derland, but was not produced in consequence of the receipt of a telegram by the mayor from the Lord Chamberlain's office, calling attention to the fact that the play was not licensed and that its performance would be contrary to the Act of Parliament. Robert Edwards, a labourer, 42 years of age, who was admitted a patient of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital on Saturday afternoon, December 11, e»c sped from the care of the nurses early on Monday morning, and murderously assailed five boys who were inmates of the institution, three of whom died. Edwards was brought before the magistrates, and remanded. Attachment to the service has induced an old subaltern of the o.'d Dragoon Guards of excellent family to enlist during the last few days in the 16th Lancers, iu the hope of again obtaining a commission. It is surprising how many instances have occurred since the abolition of pur- cha-- where retire-Tomeers have entered the rank?-—Army and Navy Gazette. Elizabeth Goodman. a domestic servant, was on Thurs- day, Dec. 9, committed for trial at the Chester assizes by the Birkenhead stipendiary, charged with having committed perjury in the evidence given by ber during the recent in- vestigation of the charges preferred against the Rev. Dr Redhead, vicar of St. Peter's. Rock Ferry. The secretary of a local friendly society was summoned before the Liverpool magistrates on Thursday, Dec. 9, for having illegally expelled the complainant, though le had been a member for fifteen years, and had paid Is 4d a week. The reaSdn alleged for the expuision was that com- plainant had formed another society, one of the rules being that a member should not bi entiiird tJ RECEIVE tn' than pi a week from any source. The Bench ordered com- plainant to be reinstated in the society, after which the question as to the infraction of the rule might be con- i sidered. The Registrar General reports during the week eriingI la«fc Saturday, 5,500 births and 4 214 deaths iu 21 large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The average mortality in these towns was at the annual rate of 28 per 1,000. The rate in LÚLdùn was 2:3, Edinburgh 22, Glasgow 31, Bristol 20, Bradford 21, Sunderland 17, Dublin 34, Portsmouth 17, Newcastle 21. Leicester 21, Leeds 2G, Birmingham 23, Liverpool 30, Nottirgham 32, Sheffield 32, Wolverhampton 33, and Manchester 34. Scarlet fever was fataiiy prevalent in Bristol and Sal ford. There were in London 530 deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs. The trial of the action brought by Mr O'nagan, manager of the London and Liverpool Financial Association,against a Mr Wright, to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution in reference to the sale of a colliery, ended on Thursday, December 9oh, when the lorct Chief Justice ruled that the defendant had reasonable and probable cause for giving the plaintiff into custody on a charge of fraud. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant on all the i,>sues, but leave was reserved to the plaintiff to move the court above to enter the verdict for him for £ 350 (the amount assessed by the jury) in the event of the superior court thinking that the ruling was wrong. A crowded public meeting was held at Chestetfield, on Thursday. December 9ib, under the presidency of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire, to raise funds to build a public hail in memory of George Ste- phenson, the engineer, who lived many years at Chesterfield, and is buried in one of ths churches of that town. The ball, it is stated, is to be devoted as a home for the virious literary, educational, and scientific institutions of the Derbyshire coalfield, of which Chesterfield is the natural centre. About £ 6,000 was subscribed. Mr Ellison, judge of the Sheffield County Court, on Thursday, Dec. 9, save an importaut decision affecting money clubs throughout the country, it being the first time the point had been decided. He htl 1 that unregistered' money clubs were illegal societies under the Companies' Act and that none of their officials could prove a debt or vote at a meeting of creditors. He further held that notice of a creditors' meeting sent to the officers of a number of these clubs was nugatory, and that the notice fehouid have been sent to each member. The point was raised under liquidation proceedings against the treasurer of the Burn- grease funding clubs, to the membeis of which he owed between k2,000 and £3,000. A carious illustration has been given at Port Glasgow of the amenities of magisterial life, when a person named Fyfe for the first time occupied a seat on the bench. The court having assembled, Mr Fyfe thought it would be well to in- voke a divine blessing on the proceedings, and accordingly offered up a prayer but the newly-fledged bailie's eccen- tricities did not end here. A well-known character was placed at the bar, charged with committing a breach uf the peace. The accused pleaded guilty, but the sympathetic bailie thought he would be Jenient, as it was his first case, and remarked that the fine would only ba 2s. 63., and he would pay the line himself. The next yr'soner was fined 3s. Od. for a like offence. In this case, however, the magis- trate proffered a piece of good advice. Addressing the prisoner, he said, Sir, if you would <"PFly your talents to a good purpose, you might rise to occupy the place I now fill, as I was once a young man like yourself."

THE DEUTSCULAN.D. Berlin, Tuesday evening.—The Official Gaulle of the empire of this evening publishes the list of persons saved and missing, both of the crew and passengers, of the North German Lloyd steamer Deutschland. Forty-eight male passengers, 21 women and children, and SO of the crew were saved. Forty-four passengers are missing, including the bodies landed, but not yet identified. It is estimated that of the crew 20 perished. Measures are beirjg actively carried on for saving the cargo, but the vessel appears to have become a total wreck. The adjourned inquest on the bodies recovered from the wreck of the Deutschland was continued at Harwich ou Tuesday. A number of witnesses having been examined and the Coroner having summed up, the jury retired. Thev were absent three hours. The verdict was to the effect that deceaseds came to their deaths by exposure and drowning, the primary cause being that owing to the state of the weather the Captain lost his reckoning, but they (lid not attribute to him any criminal act. The Jury furth.r expressed regret that the Deutschland had not on board the best known appliances for ascertaining the distance run, and the best apparatus for lowering boats at s-ca. They, moreover, declared great credit was due to the captain and crew of the steam tug Liverpool.

« AN IMPORTANT LAW CASE. The of Holr v. Everall, which was heard by Vice- Chancellor Hall on Monday, DeC. 1., raised a singular and important question upon the 10:h sec. of the Married Women's Property Act, 1S70, which enables a man to effect an insurance upoo his life for the bentiit of his wife and family. The Lit" Mr John Edward Everall, tanner, of Wem, insured in two policies of £ 500 each, in March. 1S70, in the City of Glasgow Assurance Company, of whioh he was the agent. The Married Women's Property Act came into operation in the August following, and Mr Everall wrote to the secretary bask whether old policies could be renewed so as to act for sole use of wife and children." The secretarv replied that he did not think so, but that if any such question should arise the solicitor should be consulted. On the 23rd of March, 1S71, Mr Everall had two new poli- cies substituted, and the secretary gave him a receipt, saving that the old ones had been deposited to be cancelled, in order that two new settled policies might be issued in lieu thereof. These new policies provided for the p ivment of the money to Mrs Everall for her sole and separate use, and each bore an endorsement to the effect that notwithstanding its date it should be entitled to the same privileges as a policy opened with the company in March, lSid. In January, 1S73, Mr Everall filed a petition for liquidation under the balÙ- ruptcy Act, 1SGD, and Holt was appointed trustee by the creditors. In June, 1873, Mr Evtrail died, and the ques- tion now was whether the policy moneys were payable to his widow or to the tiu.-tee of the creditors. The question of law turned upon the effect of the 10th section of the above-named Act of 1870 and the 91-t section of the Bank- ruptcy Act, 1S09. By the former it is provided that any policy by a married man on his owu life expressed on the fiic," of it to be for the bentfii ef his wife or children shall be deemed a trust for their benefit, and shall not be subject to the contiol of the husband or his ere liters. The latter enacts that settlements made within two years of subsequent bank i uptcy shall be void as against the tru-tee of the bankrupt. The plaiutiff contended that the substituted policies were settlements within the meaning of the Act. Mrs Ever all asserted that the policies should be deemed settlements made by her, she having, as she alleged, an arrangement with her husband for the payment of the premiums out of Certain property which had b en settled^ to her^separate use upon her marriage.—The \ice Chancellor hela that for tho purposes of the 91st section of the i3anKruptcy Act, lSr:t). the substituted policies of ISil must oe treated as policies 1 of 1370, and further that the Married Women's Propertv \ct not operative as to cases falling within the 9ist sec;ion of the Bankruptcy Act. He further btld that the aliegt-.l a:r"élngr-ll1:;nt with to the premiums was not possible in the 0: 1 of i.11 marriag'- ttl,iient, His Honour -f Irt: decided that the plaint.ff w i-i .nitled) the money with the exception cf the premiums paid by Mrs Eve; all" after her husband's banKiuptcv, an i that she and the company must be paid their c sis out cf ths fund.

1 POLITICAL is Pro.r°gued till Februarv Sth. MrCobWl, VP. for Ipswich, died on Friday niehf, December 10 at his residence, Tne Cliff, Ipswich, fWan attack of scarlet fever. Sir Harding* Giffard, Q.C., the newly-appointed j Solicitor-General, to wnotr. a requisition was presented ashing him to come forward for Leominster, iu the place of ) Mr Richard Arkwright, reigned, Las declined lo divide the Conservative interest in that borough. Lord Arthur Itussell, speaking at Tavistock, on Thursday night, December 9th, said Ue Agiiculcural Holdings Act, though ridiculed, had altered the law in favour of the tenant. The Burials Bill question would soon be settled indeed, he would not be surprised to see Mr Disraeli take it. up. Ihe Army an-lN'avy Gazette refuses to give credence to » reports about Mr Ward Hunt's intended resignation. < iniral Tarletcn," says the Gazette, "strong in his own conviction of innocence, is resolved to remain in office Un j themeenng of Parliament, when Mr Ward Hunt will undertake the task of justifying him before the country." he correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury saysIt ia rumoured t. -Ir Thonias Salt is to succeed Mr Head at I;ocal Government B„ard. This would be a very good selection. Mr ba „ is one of the most rising members of the Conservative party, and his UOLservatism is of the Liberal type which birctafforo.,ornhcote adopts. TIe could hardly A -\ory BceinKtlia-t ue was educated at Kugby and at Balliol College. He h*-s introduced one or two cccle- siastical measures of n verv tolerant '"hn-ac'-er his Public Worship Facilities Rill, which w~s j4fe7red]a%t session to a select committee. In fact, he etyies himself in DOQ a moderate Conservative." He has been a*banker, but, I believe, is o.,w out of busiuecs. He is fortv-live yeare old, and rir-.t entered Parliament when iie was twenty- nine. Be sat lot Stafford from 1859 lo 18tif>, but did not stand in that year nor in 13GS, but, on the unseating of Mr Pochin he was re-elected, and again wen the seat last rear. If chosen he would do something to diminish the dispropor- tion between borough and county ivl.IYs iuthe Ministry. Since this was written Mr Salt has been appointed.

CKAHiriES OF MONTGOI.IEiiYSHIEE. (Cohtinud.) PARIS 1 OF KERRY-THE SCHOOL. The siid testator, by hie first codicil, bearing date 21-t June, 178 br'oueathed the further sum of £ 400, Five per cent, annuities, to be trar;s-cr--kd. with! a six months after his decease, into the names of the then tenant or occupier of Biack Hall, m th* said parish of Kerry (for the time being), and the then Vicar and Churchwardens of the same parish Church of Kerry and other the then trustees (if any) of the possessions or revenue of the said charity SCOOl upon the same trusts Rs were declared of ths £(;00, Five per 'j ac'^ vr3,s Prov'(,'l that the owner of Black i f esne iioiise (in possession) of testator's naraa and family and also tbe tenant or occupier thereof (for the time being ) should always be two of the nuinber of trustees as well of the said ±'600, as of the said further stock thereby bequeathed, with power for the trustees of the sJd £ 60G and £ 400 or the major par* of them, from time to time to sell and dispose of all or any part thereof, the said owner of Black Hall and tenant being two of the major part of such consenting trustees, and to lay out the same in other Parlia- mentary securities, or upon mortgage of any freehold lands in or near Montgomeryshire, or upon any Turnpike secuiities there, upon the trusts aforesai. The said t«ta*or, hy a second codicil to his will, bearing date 1st April, 173o, becufathed the further sum of £ 1.00(? Three per cent. consolidated bank annuities unto the said Richards, Eiven, and Joves, their executors and adViaig. trators. upon trust to pay the clear yearly dividends thereof to the said M-ry Castle for iter life, and, ofter her decease upon trast to transfer < he said £ 1,000, Three psr c*n\ con- solidatel bans annuities, in. the names of the tenant, or occupier of Black Hall for the time being, and the Vicar and Churchwa'dens for the time being, and others the then j trustees (if any) of tho said charity school, upon the like trusts. And he also gave £ 500 to be laid out in erecting a monument in K-rry Church, to perpetuate the donations he had bequeathed to the charity school, to be erected under the inspection of the trustees of the said charity school for the time being, w:;h a suitable inscription; and he directed that in case tiie .said £ 500 should be more than sufficient for the purpes? of his monument in the judgment of ]--is executors, that the surplrs should be laid out in the pur- chase of stocks in the public funds or other securities for ever, as an addition to his other bequests to the charity school of Kerry. The testator, by a third codicil to his will, bearir.r date the 5th of May, 1787. bequeathed the further sum of £ 1.000 Four per csnt,consolidated bank annuities to the said RichI ards, Sir en, and Jones, their executors and administrators upon trust- to pay the yearly dividends thereof to the saiå Mary Castle, for her life, and, after her decease, upon trust to transfer tl £ 1,000 stock mto the names oi the tenant or occupier of Black Hall (for the time being), and the vicar and churchwardens (for the time being), together with the trustees (if any) of the said charity school, upon the trusts before mtnti:.r.cd. And the testator declared that his nephew John Jones, should be a trustee for all and every part of the charitable donations in his said will and codicils regarding the said charity school, and that the said John Jones and his father, Job-: J ones the elder (testator's eldest brother), and the survivor of them, and the heirs of sach survivor, residing at Black Bail, or within the parish of Kerry, or in London, or within the county of Montgomery, for the time being, should have the sole nomination of the poor children to be educated, clothed, and victualled (boys or girl's) at the said charity school, and the apprenticing of the poor boy's, and tiii,t this charity should be called the Black Had Institution, as being founded bv the testator, a descendant of that family born at Black HalL The said testator by a fourth codicil to bis will bearing date ICih Mc.y, x.SS, reciting that having oa Sundav, th! 4th duy of March, then last past, established at his own expense, a Sunday school in the parish of Kerry, where children and others were taught, to read only, bequeathed- the sum of £ "00, Three per cent Consolidated BankAnnui ties, to be t'r.nsferred within six calendar months after his oecrase, by Lis executrix and executors, or the survivor of them, into tne names of the owner of Black Hall demesne (in possession; tiien being John JoUes, j unior, t :Le tenant or occupier f Black Hii!! farm, then being John Jones, senior, and the vicar and churchwardens of the same parish of K;rry, a- 1 other the then trustees. Mr Roger", of New House, in Kerry, one of the then tiustees (if living), to be one of the trustees in the bauk books with the said John Jones, senio". John Jones, junior, upon trust to apply the clear yearly dividends (aft- r deducting all expenses at. tending receiving the same), for and towards finding proper teachers and books for the said Sunday school in the parish J of Kerry, for the objects d this charity which were to be poor persons of either sex and of emf age, who were to be taught to read only, at such times and iu such placs, on Sundays, as the trustees or governors should appoint, and bread and cheese for such poor children as came from a distance to the said Sunday school in the villpcre of Kerry, whose parents cou!d not afford to send a bit of dinner with them, as far as the yearly incom" would admit, at the jis. cret'on of the said trustee, or govenors and the'said testator declared that the owner of Black Hall, and the tenant ->r occupier thereof, shored be for ever of the number of trustees to apply the interest and dividends of the said trust stock of £ 700, and that, as often as the trusfe« were by death or otherwise, reduced to the number of three acting trustees, the surviving trustees should transfer or assign the said trust stock into the juint names of them- selves and the then vicar and cnurchwardens and overseers of the poor and the trustees of the chsritv school of Kerry aforesaid, the owner and occupier cf Black Hall being two of such trustees; Mid, in case of redemption of the said k70) Stock by Parliament, the trustees were to lav out the same on other public securities, or upon turnpike "roads, or other safe securities in or near Montgomeryshire. And he directed that this charity should be called for ever there- aft-r the Kerry Charity Sunday School on the Black Hall Institution, and that any one of his name and family re- siding at Black Hall, in the parish of Kerry, or within the county of Montgomery, for the time being, should have the nomination of the poor children (boys or girls) going to the said Sunday School and the said testator declared that, in case any of the legacies which he had given in trust for charitable purposes should be suspended or his intention expressed in regard thereto could not be complied with. then and from thenceforth such trust thereof should cease, and the same should thereupon go and be paid or transferred to and for the benefit of bis nephew John Jones, of the Temple (if living), and, if dead, then to such other pers,n or persons as should then be or answer the des- cription of is heir or heirs at-law. Commissioners' Notes,—The sum of £1,000, the proceeds -v from the P- Navy Five per Cents when paid off, was lent out by the trustees of the charity school to the com. missioners rf the first district of roads in Mont^omery at 5 per ceit., and is :>rcr"d by two mortgages, both bear. ing date the Gth day of April, 1827; one for ?200, charge- able on the road from Abrmule, through Kerry to the confines of the county and the other for £ 300, chargeab'e on the road fr m Newtown, through Kery, to the Bishops Moat £ s. d. The interest received from tms mort- gr.r^e is ••• • • 50 0 0 There is also £ 1,050 Xew Three-and- a-half per Cent. Annuities (substi- tuted for tbe £ 1 000. Four per cent. in paying oJ the latter), and £ 1 700. TbrPd per Cent. Annuities, both standing in the names of Horace Monro (clerk), vicar cf Kerry, Sir Charles Thomas Jones, of Broadwa^ Chorl^ Jon s, Esq., of Black Hal'' and V, ill:am Pugh. Esq of P.r-n- byvarcti the dividends upon which two sums amount per annum to 57 10 0 Total income arising from Jon's'* Parity £ ]q7 10 0 ok J"re a m to tbe preceding charhies, of f1n!1U^i"V p charity school, and a dinner given tne sob o,master, which is chargeable ou the rectorial tunes, ana it has been paid from time immemorial but the pari-n. h^.ve deed or document explanatory of the origin of this payment. P?! -Will;tni Pugh, Esq. of Brynllywarch, in the year 1823, gave a donation of £ 1C0 in aid of the school fnnrh, which was secured by him on a mortgage uf the first district of roads in Montgomeryshire, bearing date 25tii March. 1?>24 j and £ 0 interest is annually paid account of it to th-- treasurer of the school (To be

Fx^hpquer receints from April 1. to T)ecs jjb-r, 11 IS~5 £ 49,437,312. last ye-r same p- rio-l, £ 4-9,601.442expendi- ture this ye.r,_ £ 51.17^.541, period ];nt year balances this year. £ 5,620,405, last year £ 4.202.372.