The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

THE CIATTLE PLAGUE. On Fridaj, November 23, at Downing-street, LordBciConsnelci received a deputation from the Council of the hoj. g cultural Society of England, who ur»ed upon the Co the desirability of taking, with as little delay as possu ly necessary sten's to carry into effect the recommendations o. t" Cattle Piague* Committee. Colonel Iviugscote, M.P.. Sir AI. v. Ridley, M.P., and Mr. Randell having stated their case, laY!JJf{ special stress upon the desirability of foreign cattle being slaughtered at the port of debarkation, Lord Beaconsfield saiu he had no hesitation in telling the deputation that the Covern- ment intemlod to introdncf a Hlll on the subject; but saying that it wag diiSc-ult, indeed almost impossible, for him to enter into any details of the question, because that would probably lead to misapprehension. At that moment the matter was under the consideration of the Cabinet. He hoped it would be found that the measure which tlie Government intended to bring for- ward would be conducive to the welfare of the country, and 8.tIS1:1llry to those whom the deputation represented. At tile same time, he would say that between their interests and the general interests of the country he, for one, made no distinction whatever.

EPI-S'S COCOA.—^O RATKFUL AND COMFORTING."By a thorough knowledge 01 the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine propertIes of wellseleete cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a deUcately-havourcd beverage which may save us many heavy doctors bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of did that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist everytenåencv to disease. Hun- dreds of subtle maladies are floating around 'us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fata) shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."—Civil Service Gazette.—Sold only in Packets labtiied, JAMES & Co.. Homeopathic Chemists, LondoIl..

FROM THE PAPERS. -r. On Saturday morning, November 24, a spinning mill at Eden- field, near Bury, and the Worcester Theatre were totally de- stroyed by fire. M. Bonnet, the French artist, is executing a portrait of Victor Hugo, for which his reward is to be simply the poet's autograph. On Friday evening, Nov. 23, Mr. A. M. Sullivan, M.P., already a member of the Irish Bar, was admitted by special call to the English Bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple. In Paris they are HOW converting the Square of Notre Dame into garden. In the course of the necessary excavations many remains of ancient buildings have been found. Vanity Fair hears that Messrs. Benson, Kurr, and Co., have a comfortablo sum laid by against the day when they shall once more be restored to a confiding public. The daughters of the late Air. Richard Cobden, M.P., are now collecting and arranging his correspondence, with a view to its immediate publication. Another portion of the Abernant tunnel fell in on Saturday, November 24, severely injuring two men, one having both legs broken. The work of clearing proceeds plowly. The Official Canadian Gazette promulgates a full amnesty accorded by Lord Dufferin, the governor-general of Canada, to the persons implicated in the north-west troubles in 1869. A violent storm swept the Straits of Dover on Saturday night, Nov. 24, causing a fearful amount of damage to shipping, and the loss of several lives. Thirty vessels are reported ashore between Deal and Ramsgate. The Sheffield Telegraph says that a letter carrier of that town, named Charles Sharpe, has bequeathed to religious and charit- able purposes upwards of £ 1,050, the result of his savings. In the monster political lawsuit now being tried at St. Peters- burg no less than twenty-two ladies and sixty men belonging to the class of 'nobles' are implicated; the religious orders con- tribute about thirty-four persons of both sexes, while the lower classes are represented by seventeen only. At Cardiff, on Monday, November 26, seven seamen were sent to gaol for ten weeks each for refusing to obey outers on boanl the barque Lawrence Coster during the gale in the Penarth Hoads, It was proved the ship was entirely seaworthy, and well manned by twenty hands, and that she had been thoroughly repaired. The Prince of Wales returned to town on Friday night, Nov. 23, from his visit to Lord and Lady Londesborough, at their seat near Selby. The Prince and Primess will occupy Clarence House until Marlborough House has been put in thorough repair. On the ground thaL such an arrangement would be incom- patible with its "economical interests," the German Govern- ment has declined the commercial treaty proposed by the Austro-Hungarian Government on the basis of the most favoured nation clause. The Marquis of Bute has offered to build at his own expense and present to Glasgow University the grand hall according to designs prepared by Sir Gilbert Scott. Tlie Marquis met ir Gilbert in London, and it is expected that the plans will shortly be submitted to the Senate. A bulky biography (says the Globe) is being published at St. Petersburg of Lord Beaconsiield Disraeli," the magnitude of which may be estimated from tlie fact that the first volume, which only carries the Premier's life down to 1840, consists of 750 pages. The Morning Post has authority to contradict in the most dis- tinct and positive manner the assertions which have recently been made by several weekly contemporaries of the approaching retirement of Lord "Beaconsiield from office. Such a notion, says the Post, was never less entertained by the -Prime Minister than at the present moment. The "almost unequaled collection of marine treasures, com- prising innumerable coruls, shells, walrus and seal skulls, etc., obtained during the cruise of the yacht Sunbeam, have been deposited at Normanhurst Court, the scat of the owner, Mr. Thomas Brassey, M.P. The public will soon have the privilege of seeing this splendid collection. Mr. Whalley is said to be greatly excited at the approaching estahlishmbnt of a regular hierarchy in Scotland, and lias of- fered. his services to the Scottish Reformation Society to rouse the country against the new "Papal aggression." That body however, has, declined to avail itself of the offer of the honour- able member for Peterborough. A party was held at the house IiIf Mr. Joseph Stewart, Mount Pleasant, Guisoley, Yorkshire, a few days ago, in celebration of the birthday of Mr. John Isles, sen, Oswald-place, Guiseley, aged 91. No fewer than 57 of his relatives and friends sat down. The relatives of Mr. Isles are as followsEight children, 56 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren, 87 relations not included in the above total, 20D. Two petitions have been filed in the High Court of Justice (C\.t:110U Pleas Division) against the rckrnLof S, Goss and J. R Richards, both oi whom were declared duly elected for the Town Council of Newport (Monmouthshire) on November 1. The petitioners in cach case are defeated candidates. It is aliegnl that bribery, trc:1.ti!1f! and gross corruption pre- vailed in the Central and North Wards. On Friday, Nov. 23, a fire broke out in the warehouse of the London and North-Western Railway Company at Heaton Norris, about four miles from Manchester. A perfect hurricane was blowing at the time, and the flames spread with great rapidity, completely burning down tlie large building and destroying its contents. The property destroyed was cotton, corn, and general merchandise. The cstirnatedloss is :2ÜO,OOO. One of the gang concerned in the robbery of Lady Aberdeen's jewels at Halstead, was on Sunday, November 25, captured by Supt. C,iffonl, of the Maidstone police. The man has n1<\Üe im- portant statements with regard to the disposal of the stolen property, a portion of which will, it is believed, be traced; while information has also been obtained as the whereabouts of his confederates. At the Warrington County Court on Thursday, Nov. 22, a case of some importance as regards the liabilities of innkeepers was heard. A wine merchant at Warrington sued an innkeeper there for the value of a new umbrella which was abstracted while the plaintiff and r- friend were having tea at the defen- dant's llOns, The judge held that the plaintiff waf. iiott tra- veller or guest in the proper sense of the word, and he was non- suited. A meeting was held on Fddy, Nov. 2:, at the Birmingham Town Hall Committee Room, to consider the prcsent high rate of infant mortality in Birmingham. The Mayor (Alderman Kenrick) presided, and amongsttiio.se present were Alderman Chamberlain, M.P., and Mr. lL W. Dale. Resolutions were passed deploring the present rate of infant mortality, a large proportion of which arises from preventible causes and also affirming the desirableness of disseminating a knowledge on health subjects, by lectures, classes, and other agencies. An appeal from a conviction at the quarter sessions for Lancashire, "The Queen v. Dodd," was decided in London on Saturday, November 2-1. o counsel appeared either for the prosecution or the prisoner, and the sole question involved in the legality of the convietion was whether a duck was an animal" within the meaning of the 24 and 25 Yie. c. 100, sees. 61 and 62. All the learned judges, with theexception of Nlr. Baron Huddleston, were of opinion that it was not, and the conviction was therefore quashed. The ACfldc1H)f states that the Sunday Shakespeare Society's members have resolved to rend through Shakespeare's plays again in chronological order, and they begun last undy even- in with" Love's Labour Lost," at the rooms of the Sunday Society, Charing Cross, London. The Sunday Shakespearc Reading Party of the College for Men and Women and the Working Men's College is seeking for ;t larger place of meeting, one 1.,jng llo)]i('11 them at both colleges. Michael Walker, on heing sentenced at Liverpool Police Court, on Friday, Nov. 23, to fourteen days' imprisonment for a theft :tt the docks, thanked the magistrate as he retired. Mr. Raffles thought this a suspicious circumstance; and it was discovered, on search lwing made, that he had been four times previously convicted of dock thefts. He was thereupon recalled, and his sentence extended to three months in gaol. The monument to King Robert the Bruce, at Stirling, was on Saturday, November 24. inaugurated with great solemnity. The two-handed sword of King Robert was borne in the procession by the Grand Marshal. Sir Jaines Alexander presided at the ceremony. The statue was formally uncovered by Lady Alexander, and a salute of twenty-one guns was fired from the Castle. The edifice oecupies a con"na:ldin; position in front of Stirling Castle, being placed on a spot whence may be seen the battlefields of tirlin and Bannoekburn. Mr, Bright puhljIies a very courteous letter which he has ad dressed to the Bishop of Peterborough, in reference to a state- ment made recently by his lordship with respect to the right hnll, gentleman's speech on the Burials 13m in the House of C(lml:10n. Alr. Bright points out that he did not use the word "consecration" in a- sneering way. His speech upon that oc- casion was entirely unpremeditated, and when he came to the word" consecration" it e.1tirdy escaped him, and for the mo- mant he could not recall it. He does not believe in consecration, but (lie adds) "it is not necessary to ridicule all that one can- not believe, although it is certain that ridicule has had its share in clearing the world of some portions of the superstitions which have misled and afflicted it." The deplorable state of the mining populations of South Wales, to which Lord Aberdaro called attention some days ago. does not seem to put, even a temporary stop to strikes. On Saturday, Nov. 24, 1,000 men employed at the Nantyglo Works were paid off in consequence of their refusal to accept a reduc- tion of twenty per ce-iit. and this will, of course, largely in- crease the existing misery, which is reaching the proportions of a famine. Oil the occasion of the last great strike ill onth Wales the Guardians in some districts refused to give relief to men who rejected the offer of the masters to employ them at the lower wage-rate; but this proceeding was strongly resented by the hands, on the ground that it made the administrators of the Poor-law the arbiters in trade disputes. The three detectives, Meiklejolin, Druscovich, and Palmer, and Froggat, the solicitor, were on Saturday, November 24, re- moved from Newgate Prison to the House of Correction. It would seem (says the Dispatch) that, pending the proceedings against the prisoners, Meiklejohn made repeated overtures to the Treasury authorities for the purpose of being admitted af; It witness for the crown. This offer was declined. vince the con- viction the prisoner has made statements implicating a number of other persons in the illegal proceedings. If the authorities should feel it their duty to initiate any legal proceedings in the matter against the parties said to be implicated, the inquiry is likely to be of an even more extraordinary character than the one just brought to an end. It is unllerstoodthat the in- tter IS under careful consideration by the Home Secretary and the authorities of Scotland-yard. The Exchequer Division considered, on Saturday, November 2-1" an important special rasc stated for its opinion by the Judge of the County Court of Nottingham, in a suit of the Society of Apothecaries v. Shenperley. The society sought to recover from defendant a ponalty of £20, under the statute of George III., for acting and practising as an apothecary, by attending and advising, and furnishing and supplying medicines" to certain persons, without havllIg obtained a certificate in accordance with the statute. The County Court Judge found that in one instance defendant heard a patient state his complaint, examined him medically, and supplied the patient with medicine of de- fendant's own prescription, and in another instance supplied medicine to a patient for an eruption on the face and then raised the question for the superior court whether the facts as stated rendered the defendant liable to the penalty. The Lord Chief Baron directed that a new trial should take place, in order that the custom of the trade should be more clearly stated than had appeared on the judge's notes. On Friday, Kov. 23, Mr. Gladstone lectured at Hawarden on "Turks and Bulgarians.' The lecture was virtually a reply to the article of Mr. Archibald Forties in the Nineteenth Century. Alr. Gladstone admitted the general accuracy of Atr. Forbes's descriptions of the scenes about which he wrote, but disputed the correctness of the deductions he drew from them. Mr. Gladstone strongly cond-mned the conduct of the Turkish Government, which he said was unparalleled for wiekedncsH in the whole history of the world. The Government itself was a combination of fraud, falsehood, and robbery. Systematic lying and systematic slaughter were the daily instruments by T1 which it carried 011 its work. The right honourable gentleman said fliat for some time it had been the object nearest to his peart to cherish sympathies between this country and the sub- ject races of Turkey, and to make the existence of those feelings Known in Europe, and in that course he would persevere. The attitude of the Liberals on the Eastern question he de- H7«V (J",e conditional quietude." If the necessity arose I;u < desist from quietude, and take care not to "be res- 'lo! ;;L j, or .national disgivce and crime. As to the future eon- duet 01 luissia, iK! believed in the honour of the Emperor and ai l"18 humanity of his people. If Russia bed the moral strengtn to resist the temptations of victory, she would, in the liberation of many millions of subject races from a cruel ami despotic yoke, have conferred upon mankind a lioou amongst the most splendid that history records.

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AND FANCIES. I A New York firm hangs out a sign, In Providence we trust everybody else cash." A remarkable case of presence of mind was that exhibited by a burglar, at Pompton Plains, New Jersey, the other day. A baby in the cradle showed symptoms of awaking when the robber in- stantly rocked it to sleep again. The attacks on mothers-in-law, it will have been observed by the double-sighted reader, have been growing much less fre- quent. It seems that one by one the writers of paragraphs against mothers-in-law are being drawn into matrimony and, doubtless for prudential reasons, the great American mother-in- law is permitted to occupy a less prominent position before the reading public. A new Hampshire editor sat himself down to describe a stag nant pool, which he considered a nuisance, and achieved this —"Mantling its surface, a living scum of ghastly green feeds upon such poisonous elements as vegetations may grasp. It is the last eifort of pitying earth to check those poignant assaults which reach humanity through the tonder bosom of the insulted air." A friend of the Detroit Free Pros was out in the country buying poultry, and lie stopped at a farmhouse, made 'em be- lieve he was a distant relation, and got his dinner for no- thing. He came home and told it as a big joke and he grinned around for a week, and now you should have seen him when he comes up to dinner and finds those relations squatted around his table and consuming the winter stores with the utmost Tapidity and relish. The Detroit says he has put the joke out of print, but we give him the benefit of another para- graph. There was a law in Boston against smoking in the street. A down-easter strutted about the city one day puffing at a cigar. Up walked the constable. "Guess you're sinokin' he said. You'll pay two dollars, stranger." "I ain't smokin' was the quick respodse try the weel) yourself, it ain't alight." The constable took a pulf at the cigar, and out came :t long puif of white smoke. "Guess you'll pay me two dollars," said the down-easter quietly. Wal," replied the constable, "I calc'late you're considerable sharp. S'pose we liouor." Professor Blackie has been delivering himself in a Scotch kirk on the subject of music, liquid sounds, and liquid drinks in com- bination. Amongst other things he said, He could not exist without singing." He would think life thoroughly intolerable. Ast-o'Auld Lang Syne,' he did not know whether it could be sung with cold water he never tried it that way, and did not intend to. It was too much to ask him to live all his life on cold water lwcause some persons made beasts of themselves. He was willing to die for his country, but he was not willing to die for a parcel of fools." When the young husband came downstairs the other other moming,he remembered that his wife, who was preparing the breakfast, had not spoken to him when she got up, and so he cheerfully aid, Good morning, little lady." Not a word came in reply, (Too(I morning," said he again, in a higher key, thinking that she might not have heard him before. E'm— 'in—'in," was all that escaped from her sealed lips, as she kept on with the work. "Why don't you answer me?" exdaimNl he, in surprise. "What's the måtter T What have I done to offend vo,,iy" "E'm—'m," was still the only sound elicited. "Look here?" then exclaimed the husband, as he jumped up and knocked over a cup of coffee; "I don't swallow a mouth- ful of this breakfast until you tell me what's the ll1:Üt,;I' What's the matter?" echoed she, suddenly turning upon bin with flashing eye. And then she continued, "John Adell 81llithF.on, the next time that I dream I see you kissing another woman, 1-1-1 will leave this house." One has heard often of men who, like brave Cobliam," "feel the rlllin passion strong in death," but the said ruling passion displays itself in a far more amusing, if not so dramatic a form in the state generally known as serewedness. I was witness d a remarkable instance of this the other day in the Park. A gentleman who had evidently just quitted the society of some club friends, with whom he had been dining not wisely but too well, was making his way along with crooked gait just at the back of the Horse Guards when a treacherous pebble caused him to stumble against f. tree. He pulli-d himself together with Ulli.rn,!1ülw rapidity, and taking off his hat with_exquisite polite- ness bo wed, and in the most courteous tone conceivable ó!:J::chim üd, I heg your pardon, realiv." He recovered himself, reeled on for a few yards, and ag-ain came in contact with P. tree. Again he apologised with a polished gravity that was quite touching to see. A few steps further a similar accident occurred, and was followed by a similar apology. Suddenly hll idea struck him. He halted, looked round with an air of indescribable wis- tlom, and then sidling up to tree number 4 muttered to him- self, "I shall wdt till f«h' processhion's I\asshed."S1iort'ing Gao?tte.,

FRO:.l LONDO LETTERS. Mr. Tooth has decided that he will not, after all, preach a valedictory sermon before leaving Hatchani. It i f probable that !to will occasionally visit his 01(1 }1:nishioners after nis successor has been install¡.>(L The trial has cost him about £ 200 beyond the costs which he will be able to recover from the other side. I am told that these are about £4;)0 and will have to be de- frayed by the three aggrieved parishioners, or by the Church Association in their behalf. The Church Times declares that the total sum which they will have to pay is about L4,000, but this must be considerably above the mark.—Li verpool Mercury. There is a good time coming for the British farmer. It has been long delayed. The Conservative Ministry, from which such great things were expected, has done nothing for him hitherto, but at lagt I.rml Beaconsiield lias told him that he will next session introduce a Bill which will prevent the importation of foreign live stock. Of course, that is not done ostensibly to "protect" the British farmer, but it will have that effect all the same, and allow him to charge us famine prices for all English-grown meat. So if ncxt ye:,r the much-enduring British householder finds his butcher's bill much swollen he will know whom to thank-to wit, the minister who boasts that be holds office by trying to make things pleasant to classes. The publi- cans had their turn first, then the adulterating shopkeepers, then the officers in the army, and now the British farmer Meanwhile Wi.>, who do not belong to these classes, have to pay. L1Verpool Jrt!í\ /1/, A good manv of llS will feel keen satif¡1ct:o)n at learning that the Americans" have to hand back some- of those three ant. a half milIlOns sterling which we hall to pay for the escapades of Mr. Laird's Alabama. A telegram has arrived to-day that the Fishery Commission has decided that the United States Govern- ment is bound to pay five and a half million dollars (about one- third of the above amount) for brcacl1C'H of the convention—in other words, for robbing our American fellow subjects of their tisli.—Liverpool Mercury. Tho working- of Ritualism towards Church disestablishment should never be lost sight of. Ir. Tooth's friends in Hateham have held a melt1Uf!: and considered a resolution that the primary reform colled for in the Church of England is to relieve the Bishops from their attendance in the House of Lords. Mr. Hill, an active ritualistic friend of Mr. Tooth, was so desirous of seeing the Church disestablished as the sole remedy for pre- sent grievances that he only doubted whether, if the Bishops were li1'crate(l from their attendance in the House of Lords, tho Disestablishment of the Church would seem so necessary as it now did to many Churchmen. The debate was adjourned on account of its importance, but it is intended to hold meetings of Churchmen to discuss the whole subject during the winter months.—Birmingham llost. It is believed that the War Office means to make an import- ant change in our Volunteer force by amalgamating small corps of less than ,;r10 strength, to utilize the services of adjutants and the drill staff. Such an order would affect the London Volun- teers much more than their comrades in the country, for here in town there are several corps with fewer than 500 men.—Liver- pool Post. Dean Stanley's latest move is much more startling than Canon Farrar's recent sermul1S. The Dean, who is the staunchest ad- vocate of State Cltnrclws in En rr1:mc1, is writing: pamphlet oil the Marquis of Harcinston's late speccii about the Scotch Estab- lishment. Instead of taking up the Conservative view, arguing in favour of tolcr:1,tion and so forth, he gives up the case so far ■is the Highlands are concerned, and would disestablish, or at least disendow, the Kirk in the Highlands. Thus lie hopes to save the I,owla!HIs. It is very evident that the Dean thinks that he has read in the Scotch speeches of the leader a very significant skn of the times. 1 10 not quite understand the stir. Canon Farrar has preached in Westminster Abbey two sermons on the vexed question of eternal punishment, and has pledged his reputation as a sennlar and a theologian to the truth of his^assertion that the words "hell," "damnation," and "forever," as we under- stand those terms, do not appear in the New Testament.^ With much rhetorical force and indignlttion-in fact, in a whirlwind and torrent of p:lssion-Jlo has denounced what useil to be called the popular lloctrine. Well. we have heard all this hdore. I myself have heard something very like it in Westminster Abbey, But Orthodox London professes to stand aghast. The religious papers are full of it, and there is a wille demand for the publication of the Canon'ssermons, that he may be answered. I understand that they will be published when the course is complete. What I do not understand is why the sermons have created such an amount of fuss. One would imagine that Mr, Maurice was already forgotten, Ir. Stopford Brooke unread, and Mr. George Macdonald's novels tabooed. Canon Farrar's ser- mons were only a forcible rendering of the very common-place of Broad Church teaching for the last fifty years—Liverpool Pout. -»

POETRY. f THE LAST REDOUBT. [" With^Mehemet Ali. lide the Tim-en, September 29.] Kacelyevo's slope still felt TLe cannon's holts and tho rif1('s' pelt; For a last redoubt up the hill remained, By the Russ yet held, by the Turk not gained. Mehemet Ali stroked his beard; Hislips were clinched and his look was weird; Round him were ranks of his ragged folk, Their faces blackened with blood and smoke. Clear me the Muscovite out! he cried. Then the name of Allah echoed wide, And the fezzes were waved and the bayonets lowered, And on to the last redoubt they poured. One fell, and a second quickly stopped The gap that lie left when he reeled and dropped The second,—a third straight filled his place; The third,—and a fourth kept up the race. Many a fez in the mud was crushed, Many a throat that cheered was hushed, Many a heart that sought the crest Found Allah's arms and a houri's breast. Over their corpses the living sprang, And the ridge with their musket-rattle rang, Till the faces that lined the last redoubt Could see their faces and hear their shout. In the redoubt a fair form towered. That cheered up the brave and chid the coward; Brandishing blade with a gallant air, His head erect and his bosom bare. Fly they are on us his men iniplored But he waved them oil with his waving sword. It cannot be held 'tis no shame to go But he stood with his face set hard to the foe. Then clung they about him, and tugged, and knelt. He drew a pistol from out his belt, And fired it blank at the fi'-st that set Foot on the edge of the parapet. Over, that first one toppled but on Clambered the rest till their bayonets shone, As hurriedly fled his men dismayed, Not a bayonet's length from the length of his blade. "ïellI But :110ft his steel he flashed, And down Oil their tecl it ringing clashed Then back he reeled with a bladeless hilt, His honour full, but his life-blood spilt. They lifted him up from the dabbled ground His limbs were shapely, and soft, and round. No down on his lip, oii his cheek no shade Biswiillah they cried, "'tis an Infidel iniffld Mehemet Ali came and saw The rjddlld breast and the tender jaw. Make her a bier of your arms," he said, And daintily bury this dainty dead Make her a grave where she stood and fell, ;:ti tist the jackal's scratch and the vulture's mell. Did the Muscovite men like their maidem right. In their lines we had scarcely supped to-night." So a deeper trench 'mong the trenches there Was dug, for the form as br,ive as fair; And none, till the Judgment trump and shout, Shall drive her out of the Last Redoubt. -A If red A 1i.,tin (In Cornhill Magazine.)

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NOTICE.—The" steamers of this J ->E' line take the Lane Routes recommend- ed by Lieutenant Maury, on both the Outward and Home- ward passages. LIVERPOOL to NEW YORK Forwarding Passengers to all parts of the Gnited States and Canada. Thesa well known magnificent Steamers are appointed to sail weekly as under, carrying her Majesty's and the United States Mails GERAIANIC Thursday, Dec. 6 BALTIC Tuesday, Dec. 11 ADRIATIC Thursday, Dec. 20 REPUBLIC Thursday, Dec. 27 CELTIC Tuesday, Jan. 1 From QUEENSTOWN the following day. These splendid Vessels reduce the passage to the shortest possible time, and afford to Passengers the highest degree of comfort hitherto attainable at sea. Average passage 8 days in Summer, 91 days in Winter. Each Vessel is constructed in seven water-tight compart- ments. The Saloon, Ladies' Boudoir, State Rooms, and Smok- ing Rooms are amidships, and are luxuriously furnished and fitted with all modern conveniences pianos, libraries, electric bells, bath-rooms, barber's shop, &a. Saloon Passage, 15, 18, and 21 guineas Return Tickets at reduced rates. The Steerage accommodation is of the very ftiiihett iharat- ter, th rooms are unusually spacious, well li^htfd, ventilated, mid warmed, and pasnengers &/ thli8 claw will find their com- fort carefully ttudied, and the provisioning unsurpassed. Stewardesses iK Steerage to attend the "Women and Children. Drafts issued on New York free of charge. For Freight or Passage apply to ISMAY, IMRIE AND Co., 10, Water-street, Liverpool, And 34, Leadenhall Street, LONDON, E.C. Or to the Agent— J. D. HumEs, 1, Railway Terrace, Aberystwyth. m Ii A N S A T L A N T I C LINE. 1 NEW YORK. The General Transatlantic Co.'s MAIL STEAMERS, classed 100 A 1 in English Lloyds, LEAVE PLVMOCTH FOR NEW YORK DIRECT EVERY ALTERNATE SUNDAY AT 7 A.M. LABRADOR SANGLIER, F.R.N. 4,500 900 Nov. 11th. FRANCE .TRCDELLE, F.R.N. 4,500 UOO Nov. 25th. Average Passage 9iv days. Fares from any Railway Station to New York, Boston, or Philadelphia— Cabin, 13, 17, and 21 guineas Intermediate, JS7 7s. STEERAGE, £5 15s. Bedding and Mess Utensils free. Apply to LuHcoifBE, BELLAMY, & Co., Plymouth. Agents wanted in all unrepresented districts. \IaU; 'I.' BUSINESS ADDEESSES "r"r-r,r, BARMOUTH. v. T', ..1 MR SELLIS, SURGEON DENTIST, Barmouth. Consultations at home every MONDAY, and on other days by special appointment. Reduced fees made to patients attended to on Monday. Attendance at the following places :— DOLGELLEY—Mr. Owen Rees, printer and bookseller, First and third Saturdays in each month. LLANIDLOES—Mrs. Ashton, Bethel-street. Second and Fair Saturdays in each month. NEWTOWN—Mr Hugh Davies, grocer, Broad-street Every Tuesday. PORTMADOC-—Mrs. Bennett Williams, dress maker, &c. 12(1, High-street. Second and Fourth Friday in Each Month. TOWYN—Mrs. Jones, Cantrev House, High-street. First and Third Friday in Each Month. HUGH OWEN, GOMEBIAN HOUSE, BARMOUTH, PHOTOGRAPHER. BEDFORD'S AND OTHER ARTISTS' VIEWS. WINDSOR AND NEWTON'S ARTISTS' MATERIALS AND COLOURS. STATIONERY. LADIES AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING. D R A P E R Y — A GOOD STOCK OF HATS, BONNETS, & MILLINERY Always on hand. PORTMADOC ROBERTS. LEWIS, & CO., GENERAL MERCHANTS, PORTMADOC. ROBERTS, LEWIS, & Co., beg to announce that they have opened new and commodious premises near the Cambrian Railway Station, Portmadoc, where they have a large assortment of goods. The Builders' Department. consists of :—Kitchen Ranges—close and open fire, Regis- ter Grates, Sham Registers, Mantel Shams, fantel Pieces, Marble Chimney Pieces, Cast and Sheet Iron Ovens, Sash Weights, Eaves Troughs, O.G. and other Ornamental Guttering, Rain Water Pipes, Stove Pipes. Wrought Iron Pipes—black and galvanized, Sheet Lead and Zinc, Glazed Sanitary Pipes, Bricks, Paving and Ridge Tiles, Chimney Tops, Cement, Plaster Paris. The Agricultural Implement Department. consists of :—Mowing and Reaping Machines, Haymakers, Horse Rakes, American Rakes, Chaff Cutters, Turnip Pulpers and Slicers, Machinery for bruising, grinding, and splitting Grain, Winnowing Machines, Ploughs, Cul- tivators, Chain Harrows, Zig-zag Harrows, Clod Crushers, Field Rollers, Mangold and Turnip Drills, Wrought Iron Gates, Hurdles and Continuous Fencing, Waggons, Carts, and Market Cars, by all the leading makers. The Mine And Quarry Department. consists of — Circular Slate Saws, Files, Octagon Cast Steel (L), Blister Single and Double Sheer Steel, Cast Steel and Iron Hammer Moulds, Crucible Cast Steel Waggon Wheel and Axles, Bar, Rod, Hoop and Sheet Iron, Pumps, Crane and Rock Chains, Wire Ropes for inclines, Anvils, Vices, Smiths' Bellows and Tue Irons, Portable Hearths, Machine Belting, Oils for Machinery, Fuse, Dynamite. AGENTS FOR NOBEL'S EXPLOSIVES CO. Applications for quotations are invited. Second Hand Quarry Materials bought and for sale. SIMPLISSIMUS—THE AUTOMATON CLERK. Mahogany, Oak, or Walnut. This new patent Letter and Invoice File and Manuscript Holder super sedes Letter-copying Books, Pigeon Holes, and Boxes, dispenses with Docketing. Folding, Piercing, Binding, or Fastening of any kind. SIMPLISSIMUS FILES need no implements or extras of any kind. SIMPLISSIMUS lasts for ever. When filled, transfer contents, just as they are, to Simplissimus Case. This is all the direction required. Simplissimus Case and Index complete, Five Shillings per dozen. No Invention has been more honoured by notices of the Press, a few extracts of which are subjoined. hiillionist.—A triumph of mechanical ingenuity and skill. The cost is a mere trifle. Money Market littxeic.—Very valuable in business houses. Financier.—A New Invention.—The newest article for oinoe use is the" SimplisGimns," which commends itself I to business people for its simplicity and its usefulness. DAVID LLOYD, Printer and Stationer, Portmadoc. Sole Agent for Portnaadoc and surrounding district. -=- -=-=-L:- TIDE'S PATENT AMERICAN EYE LIQUID J has proved a blessing to thousands. The Cures this Licpiid is effecting every day are Marvellous Dimness, aged, weak, watery, sore, bloodshot, keels, cataracts, specks, col(1s, inflamed, near-sight, over-worked, and every disease of the Eye can be cured in a few dressings. Sold by all Chemists. Is. 1(1. and 2s. 9d.; from EDE'S Birmingham, 15 and 33 stamps. Book on the human eye three stamps. I BUSINESS ADDRESSES. I "vvvv.vvvv. ABERYSTWYTH. M. JONES, COACHBUILDER, Moor Street, Aberystwyth. CARRIAGES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER Repairs executed by First-class Workmen. JOHN BAKER, Rhydypenau Farm, Bow Street. Y the request of numerous friends has been in- duced to take a VALUER'S LICENCE, and he will be happy to attend to the commands of gentlemen leaving their farms or requiring a Valuer's services con- nected with land or stock. BINDING OF ALL KINDS CHEAPLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED. ORDERS RECEIVED BY J. GIBSON, 3, QUEEN'S-ROAD, ABERYSTWYTH f U SIC W A R EIIOUSE. A STOCK of First-Class PIANOFORTES and HARMONIUMS FOR SALE OR HIRE OX MODERATE TERMS, AT M R. E V A N S'S Organist of St. Mic-hacl's Church, No. 8, PIER-STREET, ABERYSTWYTH. Agent for Messrs. Chappell & Prize Medal Piano- fortes, and Alexandre's Organ Harmoniums. All new Music at Half Price.—Pianofortes Tuned. AGRICULTURAL SEED, lSïï. ED WARD" ELLIS, 7 & 8, PRINCESS-STREET, ABERYSTWYTH, BEGS respectfully to return thanks for the kind support given him during the last 2.5 years in the seed trade, and calls particular attention to the splendid stock he holds this season of all kinds of Agricultural Seeds, Seed Potatws, Early and Late. E. E. begs to acquaint the nobility, gentry, agricul- turists, householders, and others, that he holds an Auc- tioneer and Valuer's Licence. SALES AND VALUATION UNDERTAKEN WITH CARE. £200 to £400 may be had on mortgage on freehold property.—Apply to E. ELLIS, Auctioneer and Valuer. SPECIAL NOTICE. MRS. HAWKINS BEGS to thank her customers for their past favours and wishes to make known that she has removed her business to CHELTENHAM HOUSE, ABERYSTWYTH, where she intends carrying on the Millinery and Dress making in all its branches, with a superior stock which she has just selected from some of the best London houses.— Mrs. H. wishes to call particular attention to her having added the Dressmaking to her business. She has engaged a first .class hand, in whom she feels she can confidently trust to give every satisfaction in fit and style. The Show Room will be opened on Tuesday, IGth Oct., 1877. COALS. RICHARD JONES, Lewis Terrace Coal Yard and Weighbridge, SUPPLIES all kind of Coals as follows « kJ per ton. NEWPORT 18s. BEST CANNOCK 18s. SMALL 13s. Best Ruabon Coal at 10s. per ton in quantities of not less than 5 tons. Delivered to any part of the town for Is. per tonfextra. Fresh burnt Lime always on hand at the Bridge End Kilns. MRS. E. EVANS'S DINING AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS, 8, Market-street, Aberystwyth. Hot Dinners daily at one o'clock. Roast and Boiled Joints, Chickens, Ducks, &c., always readv. Mrs. Evans begs to call attention to her Pies, Puddings, and Tarts, made daily or to order. Oyster and Veal Patties. Fruit and Preserve Tarts. Cakes, Buns, &c., fresh daily. Tea raid Coffee at any hour of the day. GOOD NEWS. CHEAP COAL.. Owing to'a favourable contract PETER JONES, x Railway Station. I Aberystwyth, Is now able to sell for cash on delivery BEST NEWPORT, IGs. per ton. BEST RCAF.ON, IGS., Booking Price, 2s. extra. PAPER HANGING WAREHOUSE. T. THOMAS, PAINTER, &c., 12, Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth. A CHOICE STOCK OF PAPER HANGINGS, From the Best Manufacturers. CHIMNEY AND OTHER GLASSES. A Good Assortment of OLEOGRAPH PAINTINGS, PHOTOS, &c. Pictures framed in Gold, &c. All kinds of Moulding for Frames Paints, Oils. Varnishes, Glass, Lead, Closets, &c., &c., at very moderate terms. E. P. TAYLOR, New Market Hall, GEXERAL PROVISION AND SEED MERCHANT. DEALER IN GAME. T. & W. BUBB, PAINTERS, PLUMBERS, GLAZIERS, GAS- FITTERS, HOUSE DECORATORS, PAPER HANGERS, & GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHERS, Terrace-Road, Aberystwyth, and Newtown. Agent for Broners BURNERS, and Writ's GAS STOVES. ESTIMATES FOR WORK OX APPLICATION. Agents for Atkins & Co.'s Patent CHARCOAL BLOCK WATER FILTERS. GADD'S PATENT REVERSIBLE HANDLE PERAMBULATORS. BATHS AND PERAMBULATORS ON HIRE. THOSE LADIES WHO SAVE THEIR JL COMBINGS OF HAIR can have them disentangled, roots turned, and properly pre- pared and arranged into Twists, Plaits, Coils, Chignons. &c.. by H. P. HAWKINS, ARTIST IN HAIR, 23, Pier Street, Aberystwyth. ORDERS FOR PRINTING AND iiUOKBIN I) ING KECEIVZD BY J. GIBSON, 3, Queen's-road, Aberystwyth. THE CAMBMAN NEWS, iftmotuihshirt taltùarb .$:: ¿\btr115:t1J]1tlt Uimrs Is the LEADING JOURNAL for an EXTENSIVE DISTRICT in NORTH and SOUTH WALES, INCLUDING Merionethshire, Cardiganshire, South Carnar- vonshire, and parts of other Counties. The CAMBRIAN SEWS is sold oy AGENTS in the folloi'si rig places :— CARDIGANSHIRE. ABERYSTWYTH (a Parliament Mr. J. tary ana Jiumcipal Borough, (Publishing Office of the a seaport, and one of the fa- Cambrian \'eye ) vourite wittering places of the Messrs. Smith and Son Kail- Ivmiraom. In the neighbour- way Bookst-Ji Ivmiraom. In the neighbour- way Bookst-Ji hood are a number of impor- Mr. K. Edwards' Great Dark- tant mines. Trie L nivertitv gate-street. College of Wales is situated here. AVierystwyth is the ter- minus of the Cambrian R:J1- College of Wales is situated here. AVierystwyth is the ter- minus of the Cambrian way. and the Manchester and Miiford Iiaiiw;iy. J ABERAEROX (Watering pbce, ) Mr. XC. Griffiths, chemist, seaport and quarter sessions. stamp Oistrlbatur and sta- town. ) tioner. BORTH \-ir. ETans, Rhytl, nrPost-office BOW STREET j{r. j. yWr,« CAPEL BANGOR Mr. Blackweli, l"ost-Ofiace. CARDIGAN (Assize Town, Par- ) li.uiientary a.nd Municipal -Mre. Wiliiains, bovkseiler. Borough and seaport.) ) CWMYSTWYTH Mr. C. Eurrill, Posi-OSee GOGINAN"(Situate near several lead jrr. P. JCichoIls, Druid LiD. LAMPETER (Parliamentary)^ T. « borouch. St. David's Cohere -*r- J T> kvans, MedieeJHaB is here.) & j Mr- D- Rees, draper. LLANDDEWI BREFI Mr. Thomas Jones grooer. L.LAN\BiTHEh Sir. Evan Evrms, newsagent^ LLANGEITHO Mr. Stephen Jones, postman. LLAXGV il-i J?i\QS Mr. R. J. Morgan, Bridge end House. LLANILAR Mr. Jenkin Morris, draper LLAXON Mr. Daniel Jones, grocer LLAXRH\STiD ROAD Stationruaster. POXTEHWYD (Waterfalls and ) Mr. William Cl&rlJge Goger- lead mines iH neighbourhood) f ddan Arms. POXTRHYDI E-CDIGAip Mr. J. Thomas, dranw POXTRHVDYGROES Mr. T. II. Davies, Po^t-Office SWYDDFYXXOX Mr. Evan Jones, shopkeeper TALIKSIX (Lea l mines) Mr. Thomas Jones, Poet-Office TALYBOXT (Lead mines) Mr. John Pritchard TREGAROX (A market town where large fairs are held) Mr. E. C. Evans CARNARVONSHIRE. EEDDGELERT Mr. R. O. Glaslyn BAXGOR Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, Railway Booiistail BETXW S-l-COED Miss Jones, Post-Offica CARXARYOX )1r. D. W Davies, printer and stationer. CRlCCIETH Mr. Dowell, chemist DOLYDDELEX Mr. Ellis Pierce PORTMADOC (Terminus of Mr. D. L!oyd (Pubhshing-Office the Festiniog Railway. An f of the Cambrian Sctvs) important shipping port; a iMrO. P. Williams, a Bank-place growing town) J r R. Humphreys, stationer P\\ LI.HLLI Mr. J. T. Evans, bookseller, Church-street rALYSARX Mr. David Thomas, bookseller MEBIG NSTIISHIRE, ABERDOYEY (Seaport and Watering place) Mr. R, Rc-cs, chemist ABERGAXOLWYX (gre.tt slate quarries in the neighbourhood) Mr. E. Jones, Post-Office BALA (theCalvinistic and Inde-x. pendent Colleges are situated { .Joaes, High-street here, and it ismueh visited !>v f °™ce the tourists) ') LamurMii loss) BAniOLTH (one of the favour- ite watering places of Wales).. Mr. John Evans, grocer Messrs. W. K. Smith and Son CORRIS Mr. Robert W. Evans, grocer Mr. D. If or Jones COiVWEX (a m:,] ket town) Mr. T, Edmunds, printer DIXAS MAWDDWY (Terminus of the Mawddwy Railway) Messrs Evans and Sons DOLGELLEY (Assizeand Qn:'r- ) Ir. Owen Rees, printer ter Sessions held here. One of Mr. R. O. Rees. chemist the head quarters of Tourists, i" Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son Manufacture—Welsh Tweeds)) DYFFRYX Mr. J. Roberts, Shop Isaf FESTIXIOG (the great slate dis-"j Mr. Ellis Roberts, bookseller, trict of Wales. Terminus of f_ Four Crosses the Festiniog Railway. A ):1,. H. u. Roberts, ditto, very populous place) ) Jlr. Evan Lloyd, Sarn. HARLECH Mr. J. George LLAXBEDR Messrs. J. Evans and Sons LIAXEGRYX Mr. Pughe, chemist LLAXELLTYD Mr. T. Griffiths MAEXTWROG Miss M. Richards PEXXAL Mr. R. Humphreys PEXRHYXDEFDRAETH ( A populous place; Mr. A. A. Miteherd TALSARXAU Mr. G. Williams, postmaster TOWYX ( favourite watering ) Mr. J. Jones, Post-Office place) ) Mr. Evan Xewell o MACHYXLLF.TH(markettown) Mrs. Pugh, newsagent In tlie neighbourhood are Messrs. Smith r nd Son. Rail- several mines) ) way Bookstall LLAXDRIXDOD Messrs Smith & Son, Ixxikstall Mr. D. Ch. Davies, bookseller LLAXBRYXMAIR Mr. Maurice Jones, Winllan XEWTOYVX Messrs Phillips ctSon, printers WELSIIP JOL Messrs. Smith and Son, Rail- way Bookstall OSWESTRY Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son Askew Roberts, Woodall, and Venal lies LIYERPOOL Messrs. Fonlkes and Evans, 16, Ti the barn-street LOXDOX Messrs. Davies and Co., Xo. 1 Finch Lane, Cornbill >> Mr. Wm. Pugh, Aldersgafce Buildings, 91, Aldersgate-st. Mr. E. Evans, Fairbank- street, East Road CHESTER Mr. J. Rr.thbume, Roman Bath, Briige-strei-t CARMARTHEX Messrs. W. K. smith and Son, Bookstall LLAXELLY Messrs. H. Smithand Son Bookstall. MAXCHESTER fr. JasRo)-1e, 2, Old MHI-gate BIRMINGHAM Messrs. W. H. Smith and So* Great Wistem Bookstall LLAXIDLOES Mr. J. H. Mills Mrs. Pierce, China-street ADVERTISEMENTS and oilier communications, in Welsh and English, fhould be sent not, later thftB Thursday morning to the Publishers— JACOB JONES, High-street, nah. J. GIBSON, 3, QueenV-road, AkerystwvtV or D. LLOYD, Portmadoc.