The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

V LLANWNEN CHURCH RESTORATION. (A Report of the Re.opening Services will be found on P, LUNCHEON. A luncheon was afterwards provided in the school- room, to which about forty-five sat down. Amonest those present were the Bishop, the Dean, and ten or twelve clergymen, Mr. and Mrs Owen The P.li- &c. Before tbey dispersed Mr. Jones, of 'Llwvnvgroes' proposed the health of the Bishop. He said-My'lord ladies, and gentlemen,—I have been informed bv friends' in whose judgment in these matters I am in the habit of relying, that it is customary on these occasions to nronosp one toast, and one only, and that it should he done by a layman. Now, as one of the laymen, as it were, officially connectd with the restoration of our old church, it lw- comes my duty, as it is a pleasure, to do so. Indeed, if it were not for this rule I should like to hear several toasts proposed here to-day. I should like to propose tLe health of that 11,0st worthy gentleman, Mr. Lox.hde, or 7; ±1U.1' Y 18 intimately connected with this ki vvho> at the commencement of our work, am htnnv F a example of lik-ralitv. which I Hu.S nt haf,fbeen velT fairly followed by Mr. Hu{,he^, ot Neuaddfawr, and others, and who has ever since supported us by his advice and ^vumathv and who, I am very sorry, is unable to be present with us to^'exceUenf viclT to our excellent vicar, of Nvhom it is not to,) much to say things, he is a host in himself T Jl,] 1 ri the parishioners and neighbour who have one "^aU subscribed handsomely, and assisted us besides, cheefiX and without grumbling, with their carts and horseq, in carrying all the materials necessary for the restoration without any charge or expense. The only toast, however', is the Lord Bishop of the diocese, and I am sircerelv sorry it has not fallen to abler hands than mine* It is not for me to speak of his piety and learning nor wo-dd it be becoming to do more than mention the universal satisfaction his appointment to this diocese a short time ago gave, when the heart of the whole Welsh nation throbbed approval. I would remind you that the Bishop is a Cardiganshire man, Cymro o waed coch cyfa," who I verily believe studies and understands the wants of the Church in Wales, and is most anxious for its welfare. I give you The Bishop," may lie have a continuance of health and wisdom to rule over the destinies of this diocese for many a year to come. The BISHOP, in returning thanks, said that it afforded him much pleasure in re-opening Llanwnen Church. It was said the Church in Wales was in a decaying condi- tion, but as long as he was called to remote corners of the diocese to re-open churches, as he had been constantly doing since his appointment, he could not believe it. He remembered during his school-days travelling from the neighbourhood of Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury, when the churches visible from the coach-road were in » very dilapidated condition lie had noticed later that, with the exception of one, and that one, he was sorrv to say was in C ardiganshire, they had all been reetorea. He would be the mouthpiece of returning thanks for the toasts the C hairman said ought to be proposed. Mr. Loxdale, wlo was one of his greatest friends, deserved the warmest thanks of the Church in Wales for his uniform liberality and interest in church matters, and in his last letter regretted very much his inability to be pres-sct. The very fact that the Vicar (the Rev. T. Jones) had restored two churches under his charge during his incum- bency, was sufficient proof of his energy and activity as a parish priest. He regretted the distance between his two parishes, oilian and Llanwnen, which made his visits to Llanwnen no doubt more rare than thev otherwise would be, but perhaps the distance he had to travel made his visits more appreciated. He doubted not that Mr. Jones's ministrations were appreciated by the parishioners, who had so unanimously co-operated with him in restoring this ancient church. The DEAN then proposed the health of the Chairman, who briefly responded. The afternoon service commenced at 3.15, when a crowded congregation attended. The collection amounted to £ 18 13s. 5d.

THE BRADLAUGH-BESANT CASE. The Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday refused rule for new trial or arrest of judgment in case of Mr. Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant. The Solicitor General then asked for judgment. The Court sentenced Mr. Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant to six months' imprisonment and a fine of two hundred pounds each, and recognisances in five hundred pounds, not to sell the book for two vears. They were allowed, however, to go on their own recog- nizances not to sell the book till the case was determined by the Court of Error, if judgment is approved, the sentence to stand.

WEST COAST OF WALES DIRECTORY. Last year we devoted a page of the Cambrian News to a directory of lodging-houses. The fee was 2s. 6d. for the season-a merely nominal sum —to enable us to know where to begin and where to leave off in collecting visitors' lists. The plan -was very satisfactory, the lists being much more complete than in former years when no fee was paid, and the lists were collected from the houses without our being able to know which were re- gular lodging-houses, and which were not. A complete list of visitors is of great importance to watering places, and we trust the lodging-house keepers will render us their assistance this summer in making the list more complete than last year. Houses will be registered for the season on pay- ment of a fee of 2s. 6d., and visitors at registered houses only will have their names published. The form to be filled up is as follows :— Name of Town Name or Number of House Terrace or Street Name of Town Name or Number of House Terrace or Street Name of Occupier On receipt ot this rorm nnea up, ana us. Oct., the house will be registered, and when the season commences the visitors' lists will be regularly collected week by week. Persons requiring fuller information can be sup- plied with particulars, either by letter or person- ally, on application to any of our agents, a list of whose addresses is published below.

NORTH CARDIGANSHIRE AGRI- CULTURAL SOCIETY. ON Monday next, at the Town Hall, Aberystwyth, the meeting of the Agricultural Society will be held, at which the prizes to be given at the forthcoming show in September will be fixed. No doubt some changes in the prize list will be made, and it is not improbable that those changes will tend towards increasing the total amount of prize money. Whether the R339 offered at previous shows will be exceeded depends on the success that has attended the constant efforts made by Mr. WILLIAM MORGAN, the clerk to the Secre- taries, to get in subscriptions. Last year the funds were assisted by several subscriptions paid for the year 1875, when, owing to the foot and mouth disease in the country, no show was held. On the other hand, however, the funds must have suffered materially by the omission of a show in the second year of the society's existence. The only extra prizes have been given by Mr. LEWIS PUGH PUGH for one-year-old oxen. It is curious in a large district like that covered by the society that a large number of extra prizes have not been given to encourage special departments. Among the special prizes might be one for donkeys. There is perhaps not a watering place in the United Kingdom where a sorrier set of beasts can be found than Aberystwyth donkeys. Five pounds spent in prizes every year would not only tend to improve the breed, but, what is of more importance, would induce those who keop donkeys to take more care of them. Again, prizes for clean, well-kept plantations of larch would serve higher purposes than those sought by the prizes given to encourage the growth of wheat Something might be taken with advan- tage from the amounts of the prizes offered for cattle of any pure breed, except Welsh, and be added to the prizes given for black cattle of pure Welsh breed. The same may be said of sheep. The mixture of breeds in cattle tells heavily against farmers when they bring their animals to the fairs. Dealers look at the motley herds and bid prices which would never be offered if there was anything like uniformity in breed and colour. The breeding of poultry is another department where the stimulus of more valuable prizes and greater interest from the outside is needed. It is questionable, too, whether a silver medal for the best sheep dog would not be more popular and useful than the prize for a drake and two ducks, and that offered for 56 lbs. of Welsh skim milk cheese. If the milk sold at Aberystwyth is fresh, the cheese from skimmed milk must be a test for teeth and more than sufficient to turn the edge of an ordinary knife. It is easier, we readily admit, to suggest new prizes than to say where the money is to come from to meet them. There is, however, one set of prizes which we suggest once more to the consideration of the committee, and confidently assert that the receipts from en- trance and admission fees will more than cover the expenditure. Nothing is more popular than a contest for leaping horses. The water jump alone provides rough fun with just a spice of danger and a charge of sixpence for admission to the field would certainly be willingly paid by a large number of visitors. The only serious diffi- culty in the way would be to find suitable ground where the public could not see without first ob- serving the formality of paying. Most likely the secretaries, as on previous meetings of this kind, will bring before the subscribers on Monday next a number of suggestions well worth careiul con- sideration. and the result we firmly believe will be satisf,,icfory. If the third show turns out to be as marked an advance over the second as the second was over the first, every body from the President down to. the lowest subscriber will have ample cause for satisfaction.

A TRADE SOCIETY'S REPORT. 11WENTY years ago trade societies were looked at as organizations intended chiefly to encourage and perpetuate strikes. A Unionist was deemed a fit object for suspicion, and every trade dispute, however originated, was attributed to his action and influence. Since 1857 great changes have been made in public opinion respecting trades 'unions, and a careful study of the annual report of any important society shows clearly how much these societies do for their members, which, twenty years ago, was either done by poor-law unions or left undone. A few facts and figures from the twenty-sixth annual report of the Amal- gamated Society of Engineers will make this clear. The members number 44,568, and the total in- come for 1876 was X120,206 10s. Id. Of this large &m buak interest realized 15,977 9s 10* d 1 The exfcnditare on all accounts amounted in the year to j IQ^QO. Of this sum less than 24,000 was nnntra<Je disputes of all kinds. Nearly v,s expended in ralieving members en^8 the depressed state of trade throughout ti country. A sum of £ 22,840 was 19 2d *k members' and £ 12,538 "• j.1 superannuated members. n^^oQ1 Ukra'lS account reached the sum of £ 7,589 15s. « The (ocW has >n accumulated fond, -0275,146 15s. 9d. In ad- dition to the guaraed benefits members in dis- led circumstan? „e from a benevolent fund, and 1876 fte lg fromthis fund to 754 cases of ex,me necessity amounted to the large sum of £ 8,7, The meiber8 a shdlmg a week towards t. fmd, of the „ and there can be no doubt, th„ min(, of who reads the report before that fte fort ffour thousand members of this onv„ • L I I half a million of the populaC'fy ke6p ,,ear^ parish relief. Year after Society of Engineers, and rimilh associatijns in other trades, carry out their gre. work of self- help. Families which twenty ye ago would have been thrown upon the parish alhe first ap- proach of sickness, shortness of work,r bereave- ment, are now maintained in independvce oa^ 0 £ funds raised by themselves in times of psperjt All over the country pauperism is decre^ng proportion as these great organizations suce^ jn obtaining wider influence. It would be abid to say that trade societies have never fough^n. wisely, but it should always be remembered It trade disputes are less frequent and less disastrc, now than they were when workmen were dit organized and masters knew not against whorr they were contending, or with whom they were to make agreements. A strike of ten thousand men in South Wales or in the North of England is bruited all over the country in a couple of days. People who know very little about anything and nothing at all about trade societies, are alarmed at the figures, and at once conclude that the War in the East, the rise in Three per cents., and Asiatic Cholera, are in some occult way intimately connected with trade societies and strikes, which they imagine are quickly bringing the country to ruin. Nothing is heard year after year of the im- mense sums distributed among workmen in times of sickness, bereavement, and distress. A large works may close, and a thousand men be thrown out of employment, but nobody asks what be- comes of them, or how they are enabled to re- move their families long distances, to districts where work is more plentiful. A million and a quarter of money has been expended among its members by the Amalgamated Society during the past twenty-six years of its existence. The rules provide that any member fifty years of age, who has been eighteen years successively in the society, and who through old age and infirmity is unable to obtain the ordinary rate of wages, shall be en- titled to a superannuation allowance (if he applies for it) of 7s. per week; and if twenty five years in the society at the time he first commences 1o receive superannuation benefit he shall be entitled to 8s. per week and if thirty years in the society he shall be entitled to 9s. per week and if forty years in the society 10s. per week until his death. Out of this fund there has been paid £ 123,933. Seeing that previous to 1820, combinations among working men for raising wages were pro- hibited by law, it is surprising that the combina- tions since formed have been kept as free as" they are from absurd rules. An address issued by the Executive Council" of the society after setting forth the great advantages of the benefits con- ferred by membership says :—" But the trade advantages which may be gained are of even greater importance than those which are secured to individuals. Each man should understand that in the well-being of the trade his own pro- sperity is inevitably bound up. Enough, and more than enough, evil has been experienced from the selfishness which prompts each to re- gard his own interests as apart from, and inde- pendent of, every other man's. The ameliora- tion of the condition of each individual and the elevation of his social position, is not to be ob- tained singly, but only by the growing prosperity of the mass. Efforts made without concert are powerless, but power springs from the combined action of thousands. Union wisely directed is the only method of permanently bettering the condition of the labourer. Out of union grows a public opinion affecting the whole trade, which acts with greater force than a law in preventing men from betraying or sacrificing others by the side of whom they work. Through union, customs arise which, made for the men by themselves, tend to regulate the trade and to keep it in a healthy state. By means of union, and in consequence of i the necessity for intercourse which it creates, a medium of communication is opened between those who have common wants and common in- terests. This renders information and counsel accessible to all, gives them the knowledge of where labourers are in greater plenty than the work to be done, where men are wanted, and therefore likely to be better remunerated, while the society defrays the expense of transit from one place to another in cases of emergency. Thus members are enabled to avoid the localities in which the labour market is overstocked, and to place themselves in the most advantageous attain- able position." This temperate statement of temperate objects might have been issued by a Council of Employers. It contains nothing out of accord with those principles which are supposed to govern men living together in civilized commu- nities. From time to time there will be trade conflicts, but it is satisfactory to know that the great societies formed by working men, to protect their interests, spend the bulk of their in- come in fostering that desirable spirit of inde- pendence which induces men to provide out of their own earnings for times of sickness and dis- tress, instead of appealing to the parish for relief.

LOCAL AND DISTRICT NOTES. On the 1st of July gas at Aberystwyth will be reduced from 6s. 8d. per 1,000 feet to 5s. The coucession is one that has been urged for years. An allowance of five per cent. on payments made within twenty-one days would save the collector an endless amount of trouble. Under the present management we should not be surprised if the Directors saw their way to a further reduction. Cheap gas will pay the shareholders as well as the public. Lampeter School Board required a site and found one that would do. The Estate will not grant that, but points out another that will have to be made to do. With care the Estate may keep Lampeter a village for some years to come, but the town will win in the end. There was some conversation at the last meeting of Lampeter Local Board respecting the circular sent bv the Hon. Sec. of the University College of Wales to the pub- lic bodies of the Principality, suggesting that a resolution should be passed in favour of a Parliamentary grant to the Aberystwyth College. Professor EDMONUKS is still doubtful whether there is satisfactory evidence at Aber- ystwyth as to the utility of the College. There was a tone of dread that there is a disposition to put Lampeter in the shade. There is much that might be stronger in the management both at Lampeter and Aberystwyth, but whatever success comes to Aberystwyth, Lampeter cannot suffer. Lampeter's danger is in neglecting the great work it has been engeged in for half a century. The University College would be glad to secure an enquiry or a grant, but there is no immediate prospect of either one or the other at present. Before, Government makes a grant. Wales will have to help her- self to ja far greater extent than hitherto. It is not sur- prising that Saint David's College suffers from mis- representation when Its PRINCIPAL and one of its Profee- sors cannot speak of a similar institution without mis- representations, and implied doubts^which are childish in the presence of facts which nobody ventures to dispute. A Board School has been opened'at Mi If or d. Amon-st others, the Rev. W. PARRY, the vicar ofjStaynton, was invited, but the rev. gentleman wrote to saythat he could not attend with any pleasure, because the Chairman of the Board, though churchwarden, "withheld every kind of countenance and substantial help from the work of repair- ing and furnishing the National School, though the open- ing of it will save the great expense of enlarging the pre- sent Board School." Mr. PARRY was as well at home, and most likely those who heard his letter read thought so. It is generally believed by people who seldom enquire how the poor are housed and fed jthat poverty tends to longevity. Lord BEACQNSFIELD, in a speech delivered on the occasion of opening some buildings erected by the Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwelling Associa- tion, said that the average death rate in London was from twenty-two to twenty-five per thousand, but in St. Giles's it was from forty to sixty. sfcWhat is true in London is true in Wales. The death rate is higher in mud hovels than in well-built and well-drained houses. Llanwnen Church, near Lampeter, was re-opened after restoration on Tuesday, June 26, by the_Bishop of ST. DAVID'S. There was a large attendance at the services. A report of the proceedings appears in another column. The Council of the University College of Wales met at Aberystwyth last week. There were also two public meetings, at which the speakers apologised for being called on to speak without notice. Professor HuGHEsTwas an nounced to speak, and he didnotnow untillhe was miles away from the place of meeting. The public may depend upon it that if the business arrangements in small mat- ters are defective,, improvements jwillj_not beT found in jnatters more important and complicated. "j Somebody lust be to blame for (theJ absence of order and arrange- ^nt at the College. At one meeting Professor HUGHES t^nounced to deliver a speech, and is not informed of "act. Mrs. WATTS HUGHES is asked to read a paper until10' and VGry feW Pe°Ple know anything about it lege buate' ThiS nUH'1)6 the right Way to conducfc Col- t^st bfSS' but the results are not satisfactory, and we October 6 <ouncil meets at Aberystwyth next which mee PaPer be published, showing giving the 3X8 P"vate and which public and also the College and their subjects- Tt is not well for for orators Wh°m nature never tended the audience thl, ? UP°." a Platform to inform would be far ,aVG nothlnS whatever to say. It cannot be properly W no Public meetings if they c c J nounced and arranged. The business at thti r, heavy, and tends to Court is very j ^6 heavier with increasing popu- lation and prosperity. r i i_ j,. >ere are cases now awaitincr trial which have been adjourn £ t is no prospect that they wfrom court to court, and there able time. Suitors are glaj* heard Wlthm .reason- references instead of having tfeS°rt compromises and court. Juries are called, witiv cases air'y tried in open distances, solicitors are put to68 ar^ r0uorht from long the cases after all are adjourned,at 1IJconveniences, and times. It may be that the judge^e'lrneS 'hree or four judge ought to be expected to ge,m°re than anJ more likely, Mr. HOMERSHAM Cox's r<?U° ,°r' what *s be such that he cannot discharge his* ° ° ea m.ay satisfaction to himself and the public, uties u-it painstaking, strictly conscientious, and j.a U °e question, but anyone who regularly att", Can must feel that public business is delayed to extent that loudly calls for amendment. ex en^ a^

The Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund no to about £ 21,000. amounts A Conference convened by the Church Defence „ tion was held in London on Wednesday, June 27tht?tU~ resolutions were passed declaring that the union of Ci and State was threatened by the present position of Burials Question, and approving of the principle of Government Burials Bill. On Tuesday, June 26, a complimentary breakfast wawj given in London by the Anti-Slavery Society to Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, the veteran anti-slavery leader. A number of members of Parliament were present. Mr. Garrison gave an interesting retrospect of the ten years which have elapsed since he last visited this country. He showed that the predictions of those who declared that the abolition of slavery would end in the destruction of industry in the Southern States, have not come true. He said it was not true that the negroes would not work. With motives for labour they would work, and they had increased the yield of the cotton crop. In fact, the coloured people were the only people who would work in the South. Mr. Garrison paid a high tribute of praise to General Grant, who, he said, had guided the affairs of the country during the past eight years with wonderful skill. He expressed a fear, however, that the policy of Presi- dent Hayes might be fraught with evil consequences, and that the South would regain the supreme power at the end of his term of office. The Globe states that the health of the First Lord of the Admiralty is such as to cause anxiety to his friends. Mr. Ward Hunt left England for the Continent on Wednesday, June 27. It is reported that he has requested to be relieved of his official duties, and that Mr. W. H. Smith will probably be his successor. A boiler explosion took place on Tuesday, April 26, at the Ravensdale Works, Chatterley, Staffordshire, by which six men and two boys were killed and several others seriously injured. The damage to property was esti- mated at £ 5.000. The cause of the explosion has not been ascertained. The Daily Express gives currency to a curious rumour which originated in the lobby of the House of Commons on Monday night, June 25, regarding The Priest in Absolution." It was that a member of the House, hav- ing obtained a copy of the book, had had it printed, and intended to institute a friendly prosecution against the printer, with a view to obtain a judicial expression of opinion about the book. At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, June 27, Richard Mason Watson, who had pleaded guiltv to a charge of sending a threatening letter to a lady at Bath, demanding money with menaces, was brought up for judg- ment. The prisoner, a clerk, was in holy orders, and was, it was stated, the father of a child to which the prosecutrix, his wife's sister, had given birth. Under a threat of ex- posing what had taken place between them, the prisoner j obtained large sums of money from the prosecutrix. In March last he sent a letter demanding £ 200 from her, and this led to the present charge being instituted. It was stated that several other young women had also fallen victims to the villainy of the prisoner. Mr. Justice Lush passed upon the prisoner the exemplary and richly-merited sentence of twelve years' penal servitude. The 25th of July is fixed as the date for Mr.'Bright's visit to Bradford to uncover the Cobden statue. Mr. Bright will address a public meeting in the evening of the same day in St. George's Hall. Mr. Cotton, Q.C., who has been appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in the place of the late Lord Justice Mellish, will be knighted and made a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter, in reply to a request from the Tower Hamlets Radical Association, that he would assume the position of leader of the Radical party. The right hon. gentleman says that he is neither in the present nor in the future a leader of any party or section. He looks upon the Liberal party at large as that from which the country is to expect reasonably goad govern- ment, and his desires are to urge its union and promote its interests as a whole.

LOCAL AND DISTRICT. "r-J"J' -v THE NATIONAL FREE AND OPEN CHCRCH ASSOCIATION. —On Tuesday evening, June 26, a public meeting of the Association was held in the Town Hall, Swansea, kindly granted by the Mayor, who had promised to preside, but was obliged to go to London on particular business. The chair was taken by the Rev. Eli Clarke, incumbent of Christ Church. Swansea; and Mr. Herford explained at length the objects, principles, and working of the National Association. Resolutions affirming the Society's prin- ciples and formine a branch committee were unanimously adopted, after addresses by Messrs. R. Glascodine and C. H. GlascodiriK Parminter, F. J. Bowles, Mowatt, Rickard. and Lewis. THE MANCHESTER, MILFORD, AND MID-WALES RAIL- WAY.-On Friday, June 22. before the House of Lords Committees on opposed Bills, the preamble was not proved of the Manchester and Milford and Mid-Wales Railway (Indemnity) Bill. THE SUMMER ASSIZES.—In the of Commons on Monday, June 2". Mr. C. Wynn asked the Home Secretary, with reference 1 to the clashing of the assizes and the quarter se-sions; whether lie was aware that the Lord Chief Baron, who had been selected for the Welsh circuit, had stated that he should decline to try the prisoners who had been committed to quarter sessions. Mr. Cross was not aware that the Lord Chief Baron had expressed any opinion, and if the hon. member would repeat the question on Thlr.d:1.Y he would make inquiries.

BIRTHS. MARRIAGES. & DEATHS. .w, No annmmcemetU* oj marriage* are inserted without sufficient authentication,Jor want of aiuwititcei/ieiits sent to us are sonvetjines om.ihd. A charge of is. is made for the toordt Ao Card. f-c., in marriages, and any addition t(, tl,, simple record of deaths. BIRTHS. HUGH—June 24th. Mrs. M. Hugh, wife of Mr..John Hugh, Custom House officer, daughter of Mr. John James, polIceman, of a still-born son. M.A R R I.A G E S FOXCROFT—THOMAS—June 20th, at Dolvddelen Parish Church by the Rev. H. E. Williams, vicar, Mr. Samuel Foxcroft' mechanical engineer, and foreman at Shaft No. 3. Festinioc' to Miss Jane Thomas, eldest daughter to Mr. Evan Thomas' shopkeeper, Pen y-groes, Dolyddeien. JON,Es-EVANS--J une 20th, at St. Mary's Church, R>ol"elle" hy the Rev. J. Hughes, curate, Mr. John Jones, MaytieM H'o'use wavertree, Liverpool, to iss Susannah Evans, daughter of the late Mr. Evan Evans. coaehbuilder. Dol-ell.-v HAW JONES June 21st, at Zion Chapel, Hrvnea;lwys, by the Rev, David Hughes, assisted bv the Rev "John 'lias Hughes, Thomas Maddocks, eldest son of Mr. Shaw, wll Farm, Bangor-isycoed, to Sarah, fourth daughter of the e John Jones, Esq., Ty nycelyn, Bryneglwys. BAI DEATHS. fyl/une 22nd, aged 88, Robert Bate, Church-street, Llan- EDWA Llwy,~June 21st, aged 19. Kate, daughter of «a,, Evws—Hall, Llantihangel. „ David le 18th. aged S8, at Burgedm, Mary, wife of Mr. VanghaiJ8' an(* last survivin £ daughter of the late Arthur F(Fos™rCaJ5^f in her 30th year, Jane, the wife of Dr. T. S. 1.,♦ „ \ir "v^square, Carnarvon, and fourth daughter of the shire.' '.m Hopkins, Glascoed, Meifod, Montgomery- Llanidloes1116 aged 18, Miss Elizabeth George, Penygraig, JOtESVJulE; 15th. d 77. Gwenllian, wife of Mr. Geo. Jones, LMochdreUne mh' Mr. Edward Lewis, Ceedpoeth, MtSe, Llanidl^'S, Mrs. Elisabeth Morris, Wellington- OWF.June 21st, the Re\"{? Owen Kerry, forinerly Baptist minister at Caersws and ° Ne^owT 25th' agCd 51 "dward Owen, Milford Cottage, son of Mr-Jas-Payne' ^street* ^wd. Turner, masen, Crown-

LATEST mTELjrGENCE. By Press Association Telegram. THE WAY THE CROSSING OF THE I).XUBE Buchare.1- Thursday. The Grand Duke Nicholas. at the head Or'he 8th Army Corps crossed the Danube on Thursday at daj3reak near Semnitza. The Turks were driven from theii.)Ositizons. Rustchuk, Wednesday Micnjcdit. The Russian troops, thenumbers of which are unsown are trying to cross the Danube at Sistova, no- far from Jantra, Terrible fighting is now going on. The bombardment of Rustchuk continues. The Pacha:s house, the hospital, and the mosques have all been burned. The Turkish artillery practice is splendid. A Vienna telegram states that 15,000 Russians are ex- pected to cross at Turnu Magarelli. Mouktar Pacha s head-quarters are at Hassan Kale. A Times telegram from Schumla on Wednesday states that on Tuesday a Russian force, estimated at four to six battalions, supported by six battalions recently collected at the mouth of the Artiz. occupied an island in front of Turhikay. The superior Turkish artillery and musketry fire compelled the Russian troops to retire towards Ispantcha. One hundred and seventy shells fell within the Turkish camp without doing any great harm.

GENERAL. The marriage of Miss L. Ashworth, of Bath, niece of Mr. Bright, to Professor Hallet of the Bristol University, was celebrated on Thursday, at the Friends' Meeting House, Bath. ° The body of a female child, supposed to have been mur- dered, was discovered on Thursday morning, in a third- class carriage of a train leaving London Bridge for New Cross.

ANNIVERSARY OF HER MAJESTY'S CORONATION. The anniversary of her Majesty's coronation was celebrated on Thursday, June 28. at Windsor, with the usual rejoicings.

A COLLISION BETWEEN STEAMERS, A collision took place early on Thursday inorninrr at Souter Point, near the mouth of the Tyne, between the screw steamer Prometheus, of Sunderland, and tl' screw steamer Lily. The latter was so much injured that she foundered. The crew were all saved.

BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET.—THURSDAY. There was a fair attendance at our market to-day but business was very quiet. The wheat trade was scarcely so good as on Tuesday last, but foreign wheat was a shade dearer, though with a very slow trade. For English wheat more money was asked, but buyers refused to give it All feeding stuffs are rather lower than they were last week.— Weatlier fine.

BRECON AND MEETHYR RAILWAY (61 miles ouen).— Return mf traffic for the week endincr June 24. 1877 Passengers, parcels. &c., £ 333 3s. 4d. goods and live stock, £1,31S 4s. 1(1. total, £ 1.051 7s. Id f:7 Is. 5d. per mile per week. Corresponding week last year (fjl miles open): Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 275 i8s 9d • ?on a"'1 livi' stock> ~9r'9 18"- 3d total i'1^235 17s. 0d • 7.1-?-as' l)er m''e P61" week. —Increase for this week' £ *u> 10s. 5d. Aggregate for 25weeks. 1S77, £ 30 1*718s 8d • aggregate for 25 weeks, 1876, £ 30,934 16s 4d" for 25 weeks, £ 740 17s. 8d. A~"ea&e