The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

TIPYN 0 BOB PETR. About 1,200 signatures have been attached in Chester lo the declaration against Var. Mrs Naylor Lsyland, of IN antelwyd Hall has presented an harmonium to Nantelwyd Church. The drainage of Harlech is said to be m a very unsatis- a.ctory stat' Mr. J. Ambery, the owner of Lancaster and other race horses, died srt his residence near Knutsford, last week. The Bishop of Bangor presided last week at a pubu meeting held at Bangor in favour of the Sunday closing of public houses. R7 The total number of borough voters m Wales is b7,441, an increase of 559 upon 1877. In the Welsh counties the total number is 60,272, an increase of 1,029. On Thursday, May 16, Henry Pitt,. described asa farmer, was sentenced to a month S' imprisonme y Chester magistrates for cardsharping on the itooaee. At Ruthin, on Tuesday, May 14, Isaac Jones, of the Cross Guns Inn, Llanarmon, was fined £5 and costs, and his lieence endorsed for permitting drunkenness. Captain Verney, R.N., the Chairman of the Anglesey Quarter Sessions has been invited to contest the Borough of Aylesbury in the Liberal interest. The sudden death of Mr. William Owen, clerk to the Poor-Law Guardians of Llanrwst, is announced. Mr. Owen also held the offices of clerk to the Highway Board, Sanitary Board and School Board. A man named William Connah, of Chester, Ins been sent to prison for four months for inflicting severe injuries upon his wife with a poker because she would not give him some money when he was in drink. Professor Parry, of the University College of Wales, has received an intimation that Her Royal Highness .the Princess of Wales has graciously and with much pleasure consented to accept the dedication of his opera of Blodwen. On Tuesday, May 14, Mr. Dansev, Government In- spector, held an official enquiry into the conduct of Mr. G. Thomas, the master of the Wellington Workhouse. At the close of the .enquiry Mr. Dansey declined to ex- press any opinion upon the evidence, which, he said, was very contradictory. The whole of the evidence would be submitted to the Local Government Board for their deci- sion upon it. i T. An iron chapel and schoolroom for the use of the Welsh- Baptists was opened at Llanfairfechain, on Thursday, May 16. Amongst the ministers who took part in the services, were the Revs. G. Davies, Llangollen, R. Jones, Llanllyfni, O. Davies, Carnarvon, and J. Spinther James, Llandudno. On Friday an English sermon was preached by Mr. Marks, C.E., Llandudno. The Holywell Local Board have sent a memorial to the Secretary of State in favour of the adoption of the Ballot at Local Board elections. At a meeting of the Board, held on Thursday, May 16, for the purpose of receiving tenders for the erection of the Holywell Market Hall, the tender of Messrs. Thomas Hughes and Son, builders, Holywell, for was accepted. In a report, presented by Dr. Lloyd Roberts, medical officer of health to the St. Asaph Raral Sanitary Authority. he states that two parishes in his district, LIanfairtalhaiarn and Dyserth, draw their water supply from streams pol- luted by the drainage of the villages, that at Meliden there is a dip well, which is exposed to risks of pollution by sewage, and which is said to have originated a serious out- break of typhoid fever, and that in other .villages the water is both polluted and inadequate. The members of the St. Asaph Young Men's Reading Society have presented the Rev. W. Morgan, who has been appointed to the living of Pennant with an address, Bishop Wordsworth's Oommentary in four volumes, and a very handsome writing table, with a silver plate, in- scribed-" Presented to the Rev. W. Morgan, B.A., onj his leaving St. Asaph, by the members of the Young Men's Reading Society and other friends, in acknowledg- ment of his valuable services as librarian of that institu- tion, May, 1878." The President of the Society, the Rev. W. Morton, made the presentation. At the last meeting of the St. Asaph Board of Guar- dians Mr. P. Wynne Yorke made some much needed re- marks upon the subject of the comparative expenditure in Welsh Unions. He said that in the four best managed unions the in-door paupers bore a, proportion of seventeen to eighty-three out-door paupers, whereas the worst man- aged 'unions had only a proportion 2*8 in-door paupers against 97'2 of out-door paupers. In the four best man- aged unions—Forden, Hawarden, Ruthin, and Wrexham, the cost of indoor maintenance was only Is. 6id. "per head, whereas in the worst managed unions 01 Anglesey, Dolgelley, Holyhead, and Pwllheli it was 3s. lltd. There was no doubt that the prevalence of hereditary pauperism in Wales, is; as Mr. Yorke described it, a "blot upon the fair fame" of the country, and that the extremely lax and indiscriminate mode of administering x relief which still prevails in many Welsh Union tends to perpetuate an evil of the most serious magnitude. At a recent meeting of 'the Nantwich Board of Guar- dians it was proposed by Mr. E. D. Broughton, the late Chairman of the Board, that the meetings of the Board be held at Crewe and Nantwich alternately, instead of being always held at Nantwich. It was stated that the London and North-Western Railway Company which has its headquarters at Crewe, paid just one-third of theentire amount collected in rates. Mr. Wilbraham Tollemache moved a direct negative to the proposition, on the ground that Nantwich was the more centrally situated, and con- venient place. "Nantwich is not played-out yet' said Mr Tollemache in concluding his speech. She may suffer just now when trade is very bad, in comparison with her rich and more prosperous neighbour, but Nantwich is not played out, and were she played out I for one would not put my heel upon Nantwich and endeavour to stamp out any sign of life that might be in her." At the close of the discussion, Mr. Broughton's motion was defeated by thirty-eight to twenty-four votes. A proposal has been made to form a new Union in order that Crewe may have its own Woikhouse and Board of Guardians. An inquest was held at Wellington, on Saturday mon> ing May 18th, before Mr. R. C. Clarke, deputy-coroner, to nquire into the cause of the death of Richard Hilton, Excise officer, of Horsehay.—Mr. John Stones, platform inspector at Wellington, said that the previous evening the deceased was crossing the line, when a tank engine moving some trucks came along, and although witness shouted deceased did not appear to see it until it was close upon him, when he swerved right in front of it.— The Coroner stated that he saw the accident, as he was in a train going to Ketley.-W. Jones, the driver of the engine stated he did everything to attract the attention of the deceased, but without avail.-The jury returned a verdict of "Accidentally killed," and recommended that the 'railway company should provide some arrangement whereby such accidents might be averted. A meeting of the Board of Conservators of the River Dee Fishery District was held last week at Chester^under the presidency of Mr. H. Robertson, M.P., to consider certain proposals relating to by-laws. The fcrst by-law proposed to be altered was the. one which limits the nets to be used for the taking of salmon to two kinds, the draft- and the coracle nets, and the alteration pro- Dosed was te admit the use of the trammel nets. A memorial had been received by the Conservators from fee fishermen «f Connah's Quay, praying that the use of irfmmel nets might be legalised and licensed. rlhe sup- Dorters of the alteration urged that to legalise the net would not increase the number used, but would bring in a considerable sum of money from licences. An old fisher- man from Connah's Quay, who said he had been a fisherman sixty years said he had alwaya ^ed a trammel net, which was the only one that^ould be used in the nart of the river below Burton Point. It was re solved to allow the use of the trammel net below Burton Point, on the payment of an annual licence of £5 for every fifty vards of list. It was decided that the mesh of the net should be nut less than 2* inches for the middle net, and it was also decided to ask the Secretary of State for power to alter tke scale of licences by the introduction of the trammel net. It was explained that if the licence was fixed by by-law the penalty for not taking out one could only be £5., -whereas if fixed in the manner proposed it could be fixed at £20. A proposal to commence the close season on the 15th instead of the 1st September in each year, and to terminate it on the 1st March instead of the 1st February, was also discussed. The Chairman said he' had known the river Dee as a salmon river for a good many years, ;and he had at his own expense done a good deal to get e,fi8h up in the neighbourhood of Llan- gollen, and he very ,much objected to the proposed change. The beginning of September was the time when the fish to go up the stiver, and it was only then that the fishers in the upper part of the river got any chance of < fishing with rod and .line. The proposed change would be •Very unfair to the proprietors on the upper part of the ,-river. The proposal was almost unanimously rejected. The decision of the 'Conservators to admit the use of the trammel net upon payment of an annual licence, will re- trnva a difficulty of long standing, but the alteration in the bv laws will not become of legal force until it ha3 jce by laws^ Secretary of State. SThe'charity Commi.-aioaers ^ave published a draftof an aSiedScheme for tfw management of DenbighcGrammar School It is now ordered that shaI1 be twelve-one ex-officio, .the itayor of Denbigh five repre- sentative, and six eo-optative re" ffq^teTs^im^ Town Council, antftwo by BionSattend for two ysars .vaca^s the post. Rfr-^u., opinions or attendance a < Ur fonc'of religious worship shall not in any^ the qualification of any p^on for being a go er«or this ichAsic The present master, the Kev. J. ■> £ <« Robertas to remain, if he <ehoseS>, under the new The scho< £ is to be a day md boarfcmg school, and the present buildings may be taken aver or others built, tor which purtlç-se £ 1,600 is allowed. The master must In » graduate at some university 6« the tUnited Kingu j.. 'The paymejxis for boys not less than £ 6 nor mof •than £ 12 far day boys within the limits of Denbigk, :and not lees than £8 nor mere than B16 for resident elsewhere. Boarders to pay £30 to £40. Scholars may fee exempt from attendance at prayers or re- ligious worship without deprivation of an* Advantage Gr emolument." .Scholarships and exhibifii<s?}S are to be provided as soon as the funds will allow. he scheme differs materially from the former one of 1872, «orne rp,son or other, wa3 never carried out. A scheme altrissued ill 1872 by the Endowed Schools Com- laiasSnn f,,r the' management of the Bluecoat School at aife taded of Mm OMSeW, and aUgtDpT^wl bv Richard Wilding. This scheme provided thfuh^overnfng body .Jould be the <?*«»«<* the School r and that the.endowment should be eon- ■olidated with the endowment of the Grammar feohool. ^though this scheme has never been earned out, the new «°heme contains no mention whatever of the Bluecoat which is consequently left entirely under the Management; of the Rector.

2 £ concerning ?arl health that his lordship had passsd as a ui-ht as could be expected, and remained m ^°Ut tlie same conditton, there having been little or no sine? Friday. •

FACTS AND FANCIES. "rv'f'V"r" A temperance editor, in drawing attention to an article against ardent spirits in one of his papers, says, For the effect of intemperance see our inside." The editor who saw a lady making for the only empty seat in a car found himself crowded out to make room for more interesting matter." A Yankee merchant advertises for a burglar. He has broken the key of his safe, and cannot get at the valuables. Josh Billings says persons who have been afterwards hanged were remarkable in earlier life for being able to walk up a church aisle with squeaky boots on without getting embarrassed or red in the face. An Iowa postmaster neglected to certify on oath to the correctness of his recent report, and wrote to the depart- ment in justification :—" If i hant give oath enuff then you can take the office and I shall be very glad of it-I shal do the Best i can for the united states that i don't think it pays to go so far to a Justes once in 2 years is a nutr-i should have to hier a. horseit is up hill." A lawyer once asked the late Judge Pickens, of Ala- bama, to charge the jury that it is better that ninety and nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished." "Yes," said the judge, "I will give that charge, but, in the opinion of the Court, the ninety and nine guilty men have already escaped in this county." To some pungent remarks of a professional brother, an American barrister commenced his reply as follows May it please the court, resting on the couch of Repub- lican eauality as I do, covered with the blanket of con- stitutional panoply as I am, and protected by the aegis of American liberty as I feel myself to be, I despise the buzzing of the professional insect who has just sat down, and defy his futile attempts to penetrate, with his puny sting, the interstices of my impervious covering. BEAUTIES AND BELLES.—On acknowledging The Navy," at the Royal Academy Dinner, Mr. W. H. Smith said :—" My friend sitting on my right has complained to me that the ships of the present day are unpaintable. That is no doubt to be regretted, but the sailor always conceives that to be a beautiful ship which is capable of doing its duty thoroughly, and maintaining the honour of its flag." Although our modern ironclads are unpaintable, they are nevertheless beautiful enough to be beauties without paint." So are our muslin-clads, all of them—if they would only think so.—Punch. RISING WITH THE LARK.—Rising with the lark at this time of the year would entail getting up before daylight, according to a correspondent of the Lwe Stock Journal, who. when recently out in the woods taking notes or the wild birds, heard seven or eight larks singing high up 111 the sky at 3 a.m. It was then twilight, and not another bird was stirring but a quarter of an hour later the rooks began to caw, and five mmutes after tlw plover was heard The blackbird followed, then the thrush, and soon after 3-30 all the birds were in full song and contin- ued until 4 when they were aU silent, evidently either feeding or buifding their nests. The wnter adds that he finds birds so tame in the early morning that they will al- low any person to approach quite close; but after 5.a.m., they become wild again, while they rarely sing if the temperature be lower than forty-five deg. THE BISHOP AND THE Baby—Mat/fair nays .— There are many stories current about the late Bishop Selwyn. and all tend in the same direction. Here is one I heard some years ago from his own hps. It was simply told in illustration of the possibility of a naturally helpless man overcoming the difficulties of suddenly finding himself placed in charge of young children During one of his expeditions along the coast of New Zealand, Dr. Selwyn had given a passage to woman who had with her a baby just weaned. The voyage was rough, and she became ab solutelv prostrate with sea sickness. The baby remained preternaturally lively, and the question, What to do with it," became one of serious concern for the officers and crew Dr. Selwyn solved the difficulty by taking the child under his own care. There was an apprentice on board who took naturally to children, and he was in- stalled as under-nurse. The voyage lasted eleven days, the bishop said, 'during which time the mother was wholly incapable of doing anything. I had not much idea what to do with the baby, but with the assistance of Tom, we got along splendidly, and at the end of the voyage our chief difficulty was to get baby to go back to its mother.

FROM LONDON LETTERS. It was understood that a compromise had been effected with regard to the Sunday Closing Bill, and that the even- ing would be comparatively quiet. The Committee of Supply was reached at an early hour, and Mr. Raikescame bustling in with cheerful face. But, alas! our hopes were speedily dashed, for an excited wrangle.ensued over the stationery vote, the ingenuity of the Irish members having discovered that probably part of this vote would be spent on paper and pens for the Queen's Colleges. But I am bound to say that, as before, the Tory members were largely answerable for the personal vituperation which ensued and the horrible loss of time. Mr. Cave, too, a Liberal member, .was foolish enough to assist them. If the Irish members were only left alone, I do not mean to say that everything would go smoothly, but certainly the obstruction would not be increased, JBirftiifiyham Post. Mr. Bass had a very warm reception when he took his seat, one of the.warmest which has been accorded to a new member for some time past. When he went up to the table to sign his name, his father, who had introduced him, was congratulated, not merely by members on his own side of the House, but by the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, and those who sat near him. Mr. Bass, in fact, is as popular in the House as his own bitter beer, and the House was glad to see him restored to health. Hirtninrj- ham Post. Mr. Hussey Vivian took the opportunity, when the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill was read a third time, to make some observations upon the despatch of the troops to Malta, and upon Eastern affairs generally. He is a personal friend of Sir Stafford Northcote, but this did not prevent his speaking his mind, like a true Welsh Liberal, with much plainness. He is rather all adept, too, at plainness of speech, although he is not an orator. After making some very free comments upon the conduct of the Government in withholding their decision from the House for so long, he blurted out that the British fleet had been sent to the Sea of Marmora "with a lie in its mouth," and he objected to the fleet telling lies. We had always prided ourselves upon our straightforwardness, and it wa.s the fi rgt time in our history, he believed, in which we had made our fleet, which is supposed to be symbolical cf our sailor-like frankness, perpetrate a false- hood. This hit was exceedingly telling, because the party opposite are never weary of contrasting their own trans- parent honesty with the trickery of Russia. I thought Mr. Vivian had gone too far, 4ind that he would be hooted, M" even called to order. But, strange to say, hardly sound of remonstrance was heard. The fact was that the Tory gentlemen, however earnestly they may have desired to contradict Mr. Vivian, absolutely could not decency, and I wEl do them the justice of believing that they were as ajskamed as we were of the i miserable subterfuge which excited the scorn of Europe.— Birmingham Post.. The mner of the Newspaper Press Fund on Saturday, Willi a somewhat remarkable one. The presence of Salisbury as chairman was sufficient to create such a de- mand for seats that the committee had scarcely enough room to accommodate all who were desirous of being present. The Prince Imperial, Midhat and Holmrt Pashas, Lord Napier of Magdala, and Cardinal Manning were all near the chairman, and the rest of his table was occupied by distinguished rsoaages, whilst elsewkere there were to be found an exceptionally large number of the members of the Lower House. Lord Salisbury's speech in proposing" The Health of the Queen, was singu- larly graceful. Mr. Archibald Forbes gave the toastd the forces, and he was greeted with ehormous applause when he expressed a preference for war rather than national dis- honour. Lord Salisbury's speech, in proposing the teast of 'The Press Fund," was excellent. He was firstly playful and humorous, and then his appeal on behalf of the fund was very strong and telling. Phe Prince Imperial was good in manner as in matter, and-there was something very like enthusiasm manifested a.s be rose to speak. His-accent is but slight, and his voice thoroughly fills a large room. Mr. Henry M. Stanley, the African traveller, made a grievous mistake in his tone respecting the relations of England acd America. Mostrpersons in the room objected to his speect, and some made their objections felt so strongly that Mr. Stanley brought his oration te an un- timely and .rery abrupt end. "Cardinal Manning's speech was exactly & politlCal mal11festo, a.nd every one present was able to,-tee that the weight of his influence was to be thrown intOvthe Government aeale. Lord Salisbury's final and very weighty words produed an effect fiiost striking to witness. His appeal for union in support of the Government during the crisis was received with much warmth.—Liverpool Post.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have made a grant of £10 per annum to the vicarage of Llanfihangel Abery- thick, Carmarthen, to meet a benefaction of J6900, and also B600 for a parsonage. The London Correspondent of-he Manchester Examiner and Times of WedResday said— Welsh literature is re- ceiving a good teal ef attention at present, and I hear that at the meeting of the Cymnsrodorion Society on the 29th May, ProfessorjCowell will read paper on Daíydd ap Gwilym," a Welsh poet of the 14th century. Pucfes- sor Cowell has been engaged in tfce study of the works of this poet for a comiderable time, it is understood ihat the has translated good number of his poems, which are chiefly of an amati^y character, anti it is believed that the -scientinc criticism v-bich he has brought to bear on the peat's writings has produced results .of considerable liter- JiMW value. The chaar at the meeting will be taken by the Bifoop of St. David's ?^ho has been aeked to preside on ac- count of his own researches into Wei stand kindred lit<ya- tHre, his chief work :b«s«g "The Traces of the Gael ia ^S^KING OF CHAPMAN'S ENTIRE WHEAT FLOUR,' a World ?ayB-«afcny of the first physieitsss of the day we prescribing no .Qtfier medicine for their li'otie patients, and is astonishing .sometimes how children who have pi nsd or. a dietoi'fine wlnn baker a breaci, will thrive when fed on w<*B cooked porridge made of this 'Entire Wheat Flour. by Chemists in 6d. and Is. P^EXAN^f pALACE.The ;«*asoB Programme of the Alex- andra Palace has just been issued. Among tne attraction! offered are 'fcfee horse show, a :mse frequent displays of fireworks., exhibitions of .Japanese daylight fireworec«, four race meetings, dnus.atic performances,, .&nd three mus*e festivals on June 1st, mh, and July 27th <*feen the works Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn will respectively monopolise the major part cf the programmes, andutfr which Mr. buns Heeyes, Signor Foli, Madame Lemmens Sherrington, Madame iatey, and other equally eminent artists ka&e been engaged) Besides these festivals, the musical arrangements include concert* in the Grove, classical concerts every Fii<Jay, evoning orchestral concerts once or twice weekly, &c. The orchestral band will play twice daily under Hr. Frederic Arcter, to whom the entire jiiiisical arrangements haee been entrusted, and whose services as organist will still be retained. The military band has been re-oraanised and placed unlierthe control of Moris. Janssens, ] late bandmaster of the Belgian Grenadiers. A second. Nfibian caravan is expected to arrive at the Alexandra Falace before the end of the present month. Season tickets will be as heretofore issued for an entire year, dating from the first of Mb month, at half-a-guinea, j

ECCLESIASTICAL. The Congregation of Cardinals at Rome appointed to examine the Peter's Pence returns has found that the pro- duce of the last four months is about one-third less than for the similar period of last year. This discovery has produced a great impression in the Vatican. Means are to be taken to rouse the liberality of the Faithful." The Pope on Saturday, May 18th, received a deputa- tion from the English Roman Catholic Union, at the head of which were the Earls of Denbigh and Gains- borough. Replying to the address which was presented to him, his Holiness referred to the re-establishment of the I hierarchy in England and Scotland, and prayed that the works of the good Catholics of these countries might re- store to the bosom of the Catholic Church all the chil- dren of that nation which was formerly called the land of saints. Dr. Falk, the German Minister of Church and School Affairs, has tendered his resignation in consequence, it is said, of the orthodox appointments in and by the Supreme Consistory of the Established Protestant Church of the kingdom. The Supreme Consistory being controlled by the King, not in his Royal capacity, but as Summus Episcopus, the appointments are constitutionally those of the Minister, who, however, is supposed to advise and secure the prevalence of identical principles in his De- partment and the' supreme Ecclesiastical Board. It ap- pears that the Liberal views adopted by the Protestant Consistory when the State began to legislate against the Catholic establishment are gradually being relinquished, the growth of atheism among the labouring classes being thought to demand an immediate return to stricter prin- ciples. Dean Stanley was present at the mid-day service at St. A1 ban's, Holborn, on Sunday, May 19, and witness id the celebration of Low Mass," which was performed with all the most striking Ritualistic adjuncts. The Dean stayed until the act of elevation was over, and then left the church. Prior to the sermon the Rev. A. H. Stanton asked the prayers of the faithful for the repose of a departed soul. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian writes :—The Roman system of retreats is becoming more common among the Anglican clergy than most people imagine. There are some twenty-four or twenty-five, one of the number being for candidates for holy orders (dea- cons or priests), already arranged to take place between the present time and the end of November. They are to continue over a period varying from four to five days each, and are to be held in nine several dioceses. Amongst these are the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph. The retreat in the diocese of St. Asaph is to be celebrated at Hawarden, and is calculated to accommodate twenty- four clergy, who are to be under the conduct of the Rev. R. M. Grier. Candidates who may wish to assist at the retreat are invited to communicate with the rector of the parish, the Rev. Stephen Gladstone. Four of the eontem- plated retreats are to be conducted by the Rev. Father" Benson. If all the places should be taken, it may be reckoned that an aggregate of over 400 clergy will go into retreat during the season, without reckoning those retreats which are professedly regardles of number.

SHELLEY IN WALES. (Pront the Academy.) King's College May 11, 1878. With the permission of my friend Prof. Craig, Univer- sity College of Wales, I give the following extract from a letter lately received from him "I walked the other day te Rhayader. You remember, no doubt, that Shelley went there on a visit to his cousin T. Grove in 1811 and that it was from there that he went up to -London, urged by the prassing letters from poor Harriet Westbrook. I saw the house it is about five miles-from Rhayader. I did not succeed in finding the exact house in which Shelley lived when after his marriage with Harriet he came to live there for the second time. As you remember, this* was shortly after his return from Ireland (from his second visit) and jest before he went to Lymouth, Devon. It was at N-Int Gwillt he lived, going there after Shelley-like, traversing the whole of North and part of South Wales for a house I think about the end of April, 1812. All I can say is that he chose well, for a more delightful valley than this CWill Elan I never saw. I went to Nant Gwillt House, and was referred to a certain old gardener of eighty-tive. He did not know much [about the object of my enquiries]; but I had a most interesting conversa- tion with his wife, an eld woman of seventy-eight or so. She said that she had never heard of anybody of the name of Shelley; but that she knew the Groves, both the old gentleman and the young one. I take it that the young one was Shelley's friend. She carried the post-bag to the house when a little girl. I d:d not expect to get any information from her; but, as I was waiting for lipr husband, I asked her about the Groves. She said they had often visitors. J asked did she remember any of the voung gentleman's visitors. She did not at first; but at last recollecting herself, said '0 there was a very strange gentleman' used to come here, he who put the £5 note on the boat.' This made me prick up my ears, remembering Hogg's tale about the P,5 note Shelley set a-sailing on the Serpentine; and I asked her what she meant. It came out that this visitor, who must surely have been Shelley, used to do a great many strange things. He used to go about with a very long pole to keep out of the roeks and from the bank his little wooden boat, about so long'-i.e, about a foot; and that she herself saw him put a Z5 note on it to sail it [which got lost], but it was brought to him afterwards by a man. I showed her a likeness of Shelley, a bad one, in that little Dugdale's 2-vol. Shelley. She said it was sometning like him, and that he always used to keep his neck bare and his shirt open (just as he is always painted), but hot Be open as in the picture. She then remembered that he afterwards was there with his wife, and ladies, I think she said [Eliza Westbrook was with them], and that his wife was very pretty. She could not exactly remember where they lived, but spoke of two houses, one of which it must have been (there are very few houses there), but she told me that she would find out more from her brother and another old man. I will go again and find out the cot- tage which Shelley described as all covered with roses, I think, and in which he would have stayed longer if the farmer who owned it would have allowed him." I feel sure your readers will think that this picture of the young poet with his very long pole" and his boat and its costly paper-sail is not one to be lost. "Ipseratem conto eubigit, velisque ministrat" with a B5 note. In one of his letters he writes thus of the neighbourhood in which he presented this strange figure :— We are now embosomed in the solitude of mountains, woods, and rivers, silent, solitary, and old, far away from any town, six miles from Rhayader, which is nearest. A ghost haunts this house, which has frequently been seen by the servants. We have several witches in our neighbourhood, and are quite stocked with fairies and hobgoblins of every description." In another, to Godwin, he speaks of this scenery- mountains and rocks seeming to form a barrier round this quiet valley, which the tumult of the world may never overleap." JOHN W. HALES.

MR. OSBORNE MORGAN ON THE MOVEMENT OF INDIAN TROOPS. In the debate in the House of Commons on Monday, May 20, on Lord Hartington's motion, Mr. OSBORKE M'ORGAN said the Colonial Secretary had achieved nothing less by his amendment than the distinction of adding a new chapter to the Constitu- tion The proposition which the right hon. gentleman laid down came to this-that because the House could undoubtedly refese to vote supply, therefore it was competent to the Crown to raise 100,000 men in India, or, as far as he (Mr. O. Morgan) could see anywhere else, without the consent of Parliament, and brine those troops to Malta-, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands, in sight of these shores, provided only they did not land them in Great Britain or Ireland. He must say a more startling proposition, coming as it did from a leader of the Constitutional party, he never heard. (Hear.) It was not his notion that the Government might do anything, provided, after they had done it, th'ey obtained the consent of Parliament. His theory of the Constitution was that it was intended to operative prospectively, and not retrospectively. Salus populi suprema lex was the first maxim of our law and our Constitu- tion He did not deny that circumstances might arise which would iustifv arbitrary, even illegal and unconstitutional, acts; for necessity had no law. But would anyone earnestly and honestly assert that any such necessity as that had arisen in the present case? (Hear.) Would anyone assert that when Parlia- ment was sitting the safety of the nation, to put it as high as that required that these Indian troops should be sent to Malta, not only without communicating the fact to Parliament, notonly without obtaining the consent of Parliament, but with an almost ostentatious disregard'Of'the wishes and opinions of Parliament in the matter. (Cheers.) He never saw sfich disproportionate means to an end as in this case. It was a most monstrous thing that for the sake of getting transports cheap, for the sake of saving a few hundred pounds, the British Constitution should be valued at the price of old rags. If that plea were put aside the question resolved itself into a purely constitutional question. He knewtb-j difficulty of arguing a grave constitu- tional question before a popular assembly. Such questions always had been and always would be debated and decided on party lines; and, unfortunately, when a lawyer tried t-lt 1MidreSli an audience as if they were a bench of Judges he was itold he was splitting straws. Be believed this course on the part of the Government to be opposed to the letter of our law and to the soirit of our Constitution. India wasexcluded from the Mutiny Act because she had a Government of her own, a liad<r«tof her own, and a military system of her own. Antecedently to the passing of any Mutiny Act, there was a contract between the Crown on the one eihe and Parliament on the other- Mr. Clode; in his work on Military Law—a great authority, said, This limitation cfeated a Parliamentary compact that no terser num- ber of soldiers than are here stated should be continaed on foot by the Crown during the period of time to which the Act had reference." Frftm Magna Charta downwards our Constitution had abhorred military law, which only existed on sufferance in England The exigencies of the State requiring a certain num- ber oftnen to be kept in the army, Parliament every year gave permission for the levy of that number of men, and no more. Having further referred to the recitals of the Mutiny Act, the hon. and learned member argued that two distinct propositions were there maintamed-firstly, the financial right of aentrol possessed by Parliament, which applied to every branch ti the service civil as welLas military; and, secondly, that no man-aould be placed under martial law in time of peace without the con- sent of Parliament, which was only given from year to .-year. Hallam in his "Constitutional History," said— "These are the two effectual securities against miliary power; first, thalsno jpay can be issued to the troops without a previous authorisation by the Commons in a Committee of Supply, and by both Houses in an Act of Appropriation:; .and secendly, that no Officer or soldier can be punished for dis- obedience, nor any Court-martial held without the annual re- enactment of the Mutiny Bill. By the Bill of Rights it is declared unlawful to fcecp any forces in time of peace without consent of Parliament. This consent by an invariable and wholesome usage is given only from year to year, and its necessity may be considered, perhaps, the most powerful of those causes which hare transferred so much even of the executive power into the management of the two Houses of Parliament" The hon. and learned member then denied the correctness of the construction which had been put bv the Colonial Secretary on the 55th section si the Act of 185S for the government of India contending that that section did not provide that Indian ;troops miffht be employed -for operations beyond the Indiau frontier. He did not accuse Her Majesty's Government of mala fides but they had made a V.tamdgr, which was sometimes worse than'a crime. If the Colonial Secretary had admitted that Ministers had misread the Mutiny Act, a generous House of Commons would have met them half-way and said that by- gaees should be by-gones. But the right hon. 7gentlelwin had very different language, insisting that they had not vifl £ sied one iota of the kw or Constitution. They could, no doukt, rely on the docile majority behind them but that only In their case worsa, because they ought to have obtained the apprcs-al of their majority to this proceeding in the first instance instead of seek'ing it now. The result of several recent elections did not give the Government much encouragement for believing that ik-t country was sa entirely on tkeir side as some supposed, and he would warn them that they were now treading -oil ground,— Incedens per ignes Suppositos cenere doloso." In conclusion lie asserted that the arguments and authorities which had been adduced by the noble marquis in support of the resolutioa were quito-unanswerable.

The death is announced of Sir William Grey, K.C.S.I., formerly Lieutenritit-Governor' of Bengal, and more re- cently Governor of Jamaica. He was the son of the Hon. Edward Grey. K'shop of Hereford, was born in 1818," and was educated At Haileybury College and at Christ Church, Oxford. j

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