The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

TIPyN^O^BOB^PETH. A cocoa house is in course of erection at Bagillt. Abergele church is to be restored at an estimated cost Of £ 2,000. Extensive preparations are being made to celeorate tlis coming of age of Mr. E. H. Williams Wynn, of Cifn and St. Asaph. The sanction of the Local Government Board has been obtained by the Corporation of Denhigh to a loan of £ 0,600, for the carrying out of the drainage and Smithfield schemes. A On Wednesday, May 22, Dr. James Atkinson, tlie Mayor of Crewe, qualified as a magintrate^ at the Knuts- ford Adjourned Quarter Sessions as a Justice of the ireace for the city and county of Chester. Mr. Daniel Parry Williams, a well-known tradesman of Denbigh, and a member of the Board of Guardians, died suddenly last week. At a subsequent meeung ot the Guardians it was resolved that a letter of condolence be forwaided to the widow of the deceased. A floating bath and boat house are about to be erected on the Severn at Bridgnorth by the Bridgnorth Rowing Club. The tender of Mr. Henry Hudson, boat builder, o! Frankwell, Shrewsbury, has been accepted. It has been suggested that this example might be advantageously followed at Shrewsbury, where a good public floating bath is much needed. On Tuesday, May 21, Dr. Pierce held an inquest on the body of Mary Williams, a domestic servant, who had committed suicide by drowning in the river Elwy. De- ceased bore a very good character, and up to a short period before her death was of a very cheerful disposition. A e, verdict of Temporary insanity was returned. The question of granting parochial relief to the wives and children of "reserve men," who have been called out to join the regular army has been decided in different Ways by different Boards of Guardians. At the meet- ing of the Guardians of the Bangor and Beaumaris Union on Wednesday, May 22, one of the Guardians maintained that the pay of these men was equal to their previous income, and it was resolved to offer the work- house to all the wives and children of reserves applying for relief. At a meeting of the Ruridecanal Chapter of Wrock- W&rdine at the house of the Rev. G. W. Pigott, R.D., rector of Upton Magna, on Thursday, May 23, there was Presented to the Rev. B. Banning, on his resigning the ■office of rural dean, which lie had held for nearly ten years, a beautiful silver inkstand, which bore the following in- scription Viro Reverendo B. Banning, A.M., Chore- Piscopo, Wrockwardinensi, grati Sodales, 1878. "To the itev. B. Banning, A.M., Rural Dean of Wrockwardine, from his grateful brethren, 1878." T On Thursday, May 23, Police Constable Joseph Lancelotte was presented at Knutsford by the Chief Con- stable of Cheshire with a testimonial on vellum, awarded to him by the Royal Humane Society in appreciation of tig gallantry in saving the life of a man named Allen who in the darkness ot the night of the 1st May, fell into the river near Witton Bridge. The services of Police-Sergeant Shaw in helping Lancelotte were also highly spoken of by the Chief Constable. At the Cheshire adjourned Quarter Sessions at Knnts- ford, on Wednesday, May 22, Thomas Dudley, was in- dicted for inflicting grievous bodily harm on John Shearn, at Nantwich, on the 29th of April. The case arose out of a riot that took place in Nantwich between some Militiamen and a number of Irishmen, in consequence of h6 latter having made use of offensive language. Dur- ing the melée, which was of a very serious character, the men used their belts and kicked each other. The pri- soner, a militiaman, was found guilty, and sentenced to six Months' imprisonment, with hard labour. On Wednesday, May 22, the Duke of West Punster opened a three days' bazaar at the Music Hall, Chester, organized for the purpose of Extinguishing a debt of £ 800 on St. Thomas s Church in '•he parish of St. Oswald, Chester, prior to the completion Of the Church. The Rev. Canon Tarver, in moving a "Oto of thanks to the Duke for opening the bazaar, re- marked that if more inheritors of honoured names and estates were to follow his grace's example, he believed "ftftt would do more to suppress discontent and to produce ? good understanding and harmony and mutual respect between class and class in our land than all that speeches °r Writings or any legislation could effect. The bazaar has realized about £ 800. The Master of the Rolls had before him last week the ein re- Grifnths-Barham v. Griffiths. The question in- volved was whether property situated in the county of the eity of Chester was to be severed from property in the COunty of Chester, devised by the testator, a printer and stationer in Chester. His Lordship, in giving judgment, d he thought there was enough in the will to show that testator meant that the devise of lands in the county ^ould include those within the city. A return to the House of Commons details the principal ^itions made to the various departments of the British ^vseuni. Amongst the MS. and documents which are rationed are the"following :—Copies of charters, extracts public records, and other documents, relating to Vlr°Psliire, from the collections of John Mytton and reward Llovd in 25 volumes. There is also a fragment a. gold corslet found at Mold, in Flintshire, presented YJIr. John Evans, D.C.L., F.R.S. ^he Earl of Chester's Yeomanry assembled at Chester Wednesday, May 22, for the usual eight days' annual V^fiing. The officers present were Colonel the Duke of p ^tfonnster, K.G.; 'Majors Scotland and Anti-obus, r^Ptains the Hon. W. Egerton, M.P., Piers Egerton rjy ^"burton, M.P., Viscount Petersham, Hill, Salley, > ^Ueniache, Kennedy, and Tomkinson Lieutenants W. Sl- William* Tatton, G. Barbour, C. Kay, Frost, Birley, ^ndbach and Crum Sub-Lieutenants Earl Grosvenor, ^Irrav B>ocklehurst, and Thorneycroft; Captain and jutant Pope, Surgeon W. C. Watson, and Veterinary ^Ui-geon J. Storrar. The rank and file number 462. The Raiment was engaged on Thursday in carbine practice at inland, and on Saturday the sword competition, of which >j'e Marquis of Ormonde was the judge, took place on the ?°°dee. On Sunday there was church parade and special vei^ice at the Cathedral. The Rev. Canon Fleming, pri- 4te chaplain to the Duke of Westminster, was the Poacher. At the close of the service, a special hymn, staining the following verses, was sung :— Mav no rash hand, in wrath or pride, n Let loose the flow of bloodshed's tide." ,3.Tuesday the Hon. Charles Thesiger, C.B., inspected the /*aloient, which will "march out" of Chester this day edliesday, ) be Prevalence of diphtheria as an epidemic can always 0 traced to preventible causes, and its extra- 8a • ary f&ta-ity in some parts of Wales points to ftitary defects, which call for the prompt and r^°Us attention of the Sanitary Authorities.—The J^neef states that during the first three months of this £ ar 813 deaths were referred to diphtheria in England and j 0f which 118 were recorded in Wales. The annual j^h-vate from this disease, which did not exceed 0.12 per in England, was equal to 0.37 in Wales. Diphtheria ^therefore more than three times as fatal in Wales as wii The disease was epidemic last quarter in the ^age of Hirwain, near Merthyr Tydvil, where 13 fatal Were registered, in Wrexham and its neighbourhood, Uete 20 fatal cases occurred, and in several parts of the Cardigan. In Cardiganshire 51 deaths from ^.Patheria were registered during the three months, and as « Population of the county does not now exceed 74,000 '^Ifioris the annual death-rate from the disease within that Inty was equal to 2'75 per thousand. Aberystwyth is as one of the three centres of infection in the llllty, but there has been no case there for many months. VL8*' WEEK> the Earl of Kintore in addressing a meeting h: ?e New Hall. Wellington, whilst referring to theEsta- Of p Church of England, said, God bless the Church of Y,ngland, especially that portion embraced in the diocese tjf Richfield. She is now in great want of the guidance Ijj^he Holy Spirit, seeing she has lost her Selwyn. In We found a meek, humble, yet earnest follower in the 0 Pa of our blessed Lord and Master. In him was found tj? 'Who joyfully left his home and its many attractions to in a far off distant land, and expound to the igno- jjjjt the glorious Gospel of Christ. Is it possible for the j^tablished Church ever to have another Selwyn ? During tT kst illness a friend of mine wrote to the Bishop, asking V, grounds upon which he hoped for eternal salvation, Li. to which inquiry he wrote the following reply I that Jesus died for me So simple, so confiding a M was he, such a lowly, meek, and humble follower lljA^rist. Oh, that we might all be made Selwyns to- » He was a thorough Christian; there was nothing -and-half about him. W*-t the meeting of the St. Asaph Board of Guardians on "{L May 23, Mr. Pierce Wynne Yorke returned to of the workhouse test, and made a vigorous re- Vi ome criticisms by Mr. BrownlowWynn, upon his at the previous meeting of the Board. He con- *e<3 that all drunkards ought to be offered the house :• There were 244 out-door paupers in Denbigh, and workhouse they now had 104 inmates, costing the j Payers in round figures four shillings each per week. five> father, mother, and three children, who ^6 k uPon 14s. 6d. a week, would, if they came into 'ith °Use' cos'; the ratepayers a pound a week. Now Wer there was great waste in that house, or the fact W clear, that the pauper was treated better than the by labourer who earned his own and his children's bread ij^the sweat of his brow. It had been said that that would never adopt the hard and fast rules out by the Ruthin Guardians, but he con- that although there would be excep- Vjy^ eases which they might considerately deal they must have some rules, some principles to guide W? and at present they had none. It had been said that it wrono by enforcing the house test to bring the of ^rea of decent married people into the "atmosphere qj^stardy." Did not children born in wedlock and Of Ultimate children mingle and join without reproach the"latamination out of doors? In school, in church, in ^e» both met on an equality, and yet to f Vrere not to meet in a union workhouse. Were they WV^e two sets of schools, of churches, of chapels, of systems, one for those born in wedlock, and for those who we not? Such reasoning was no- but maudlin u/(-sentimentality. Why should they ■» s^n an(l shame of the parents upon the innocent • As the children born in wedlock were more nu- than illegitimate offspring, they had better turn t attr out of the workhouse and have a large house t h thIs legend inscribed on the portals, "The Bastardy baby farming establishment company (limited), W^ted upon purely hygienic> but not hymeneal princi- Guardum Angel, The Matron. He thought the avians, including himself, were a. lot of fogies. So Py did he feel upon the subject that in order to know ^ers°nal experience what was going on in the house cut his hair, have a false beard, cover his 1 yellow ochre, and come in as a pauper for a f ort- l!1 then let them know the result. On the motion ve • • Yorke it was unanimously agreed that the clerk | '^>^aSV'vlcted to write to the Forden, Wrexham, and j ^tterfe" Unions, for copies of their rules, to be sub- •o>oth' NEXT Board, and that copies of Mr. SCI IMT en.,8 recent memorandum upon out-relief be forwarded of the Guardians.

j FROM THE PAPERS. The phonograph cannot pronounce the letters K and W. It is stated that Mrs. George Cruilcshank is to enjoy a continuance of her late husband's pension of £ 95 a year. Friday, Slay 24th, was the fifty-ninth anniversary of the birth of the Queen. A Cabinet Council, attended by all the ministers, was held on Friday, May 24th, in Downing-street. It is thought improbable that Ministers will carry the County Government Bill this session. Many Conserva- tives dislike it, and it excites no enthusiasm anywhere. The Shah of Persia arrived in St. Petersburg on Fri- day, May 24, and was received at the railway station by the Emperor Alexander. A fire broke out in Constantinople, on Wednesday night, May 22, within the precincts of the Sublime Porte, de- stroying most of the public buildings. Its origin has not been discovered. A fire broke out at the back part of the Times buildings, in Printing-house Square, on Sunday, May 26, but was soon extinguished. The damage was slight. The telephone has been adopted as a means of commu- nication at the County Lunatic Asylum, Lancaster. One of these instruments has been fitted up in the house of the medical superintendent, and it communicates with the superintendent's office, the steward's office, and the sur- gery. It is found to answer its purpose completely. The Atkenceurn says :—" The subscribers to the Splugen Fund may like to know that the drawing has been placed ,g in Mr. Ruskin's possession, and that particular acknow- ledgment to the contributors will be made at the earliest possible opportunity." The attempt to revive falconry as an English sport ap- pears to be making way. The Duke of Connaught has joined the committee of the Falconry Club, headquarters have been selected at Aldershot, and a Master of Hawks has been appointed. A meet is expected to take place in about a fortnight. The Court Journal says: Ntr. Gladstone has, after some hesitation, at last definitely consented to accept the invitation of the Edinburgh Liberals to contest the city in conjunction with Mr. Duncan M'Laren at the next election. Mr. Cowan will retire in his favour. The Duchess of Argyll died suddenly on Saturday morning, May 25, at Argyll Lodge, Kensington, from a fit of apoplexy. Her Grace, Lady Elizabeth Georgiana, was the eldest daughter of George Granville, second Duke of Sutherland, was born in 1824, and was married to the Duke of Argyll in July, 1844. The London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury says that Mr. Raikes has declared he will not act again as Chairman of Committee when the Irish Sunday Closing Bill comes on. The O'Conor Don has fixed it for Wednes- day, May 29, but as the English Sunday Closing Bill is down for that'day, the former measure will prrtbablvnot then come on. Its supporters are sanguine of passing it. A very sad case of death from hydrophobia occurred at Crewe on Monday, May 27. A little boy, aged about five years, son of the Baptist minister (the Rev. F. J. Green- ing), was bitten by a rabid dog in the neighbourhood of his own home some three months ago. After suffering for three days the poor little fellow expired in great agony. It is evident that the authorities throughout Germany are about to initiate an official crusade against the Socialists. A meeting at Chemnitz has been stopped by the authorities in Saxony, and five journals which have published articles on the recent attempted assassination of the Emperor are being prosecuted by the Prussian Gov- ernment. On Saturday, May 25, about 400 Mormons, gathered from various districts in the United Kingdom, and includ- ing a number of children, left the Mersey on board the Guion steamer Nevada, en route to Utah. They were accompanied by five Mormon elders, who had been on a visit to this country to conduct a Mormon mission. The Duke of Sutherland makes an urgent appeal for contributions to the Stafford House Fund. By the last accounts there were, he says, 23,000 sick and wounded Turkish soldiers in Constantinople, a large number also at Gallipoli. There are now no English doctors with the army, but a number of efficient surgeons are willing to go out if the necessary funds are supplied. The chief priest of the fire-worshippers at Yezd, in Persia, the principal seat of the sect, died at the beginning of the year. On the 7th of March the priest Hormunga Mori Azmida, from Yezd, who is only 28 years old, was elected his successor. Great rejoicings took place on the occasion. The fireworshippers enjoy now in Persia per- fect liberty of worship. In a speech at Bradford, on Friday, May 24, the Bishop of Manchester reproved the jealousy which has been dis- played by several towns with regard to the movement for the granting of a university charter to the Owens College. His lordship suggested a conference between the bodies interested for the arrangement of matters without one selfish motive or one individualising aim." The new Prisons Bill contains a clause providing that Jewish prisoners shall be exempt from labour on the Jewish sabbath; but no exemption is made with respect to the festivals which members of the Jewish persuasion are very strict in observing. The Board of Jewish Deputies has written to the Home Secretary stating that this step is retrogressive, as Sir George Grey, in 1856, assured the Board that the Jewish festivals would be in- cluded in the exemption from labour applied to Jewish prisoners. The Spectator has invented an appropriate name for Sir Stafford Northcote. It calls him" the oilman of the Government." As to the division on Lord Hartin;/ton's motion the same journal says If the Government, had suspended temporarily five of the Ten Commandments, and Lord Hartington had offered a resolution of temperate and guarded prot@st against such a course, it is pretty certain that the result would have been the same. The House of Commons is at the feet of Lord Beaconsfield." The recent acquittal of Vera Sassulitch has led the Russian Government to the conclusion that it is necessary to abolish trial by jury in all cases of attempted assassin- ation for political motives, or acts of violence committed against public officers in the execution of their duty. The authorities are said to be engaged in drawing up special laws to meet this object. Another result of the Sassulitch incident is the resignation of the Minister of Justice, Count de Pahlen. The Old "Green Dragon" Inn in Bishopsgate-street, London, one of the historical cluster of ancient hostelries, has been pulled down. The inn had a curious quadran- gular yard surrounded by wooden balconies leading to the upper floors, and a quaint dining-room divided into sepa- rate boxes by high partitions. It is supposed that Shake- speare's plays were often performed in the yards of the Bishopsgate inns before Queen Elizabeth granted permis- sion for a regular theatre to be built. The Countess of Newburgh, a peeress of Scotland in her own right, died recently at Rome, at the age of eighty- two. She married, in September, 1815, Charles, fourth Marquis Bandini, of Lanciano and Rustano, in the Roman States, but was left a widow in 1850. Her son, Sigismund, fifth Marquis Bandini, and Prince Bandini Giustniani in the Roman States by creation, now succeeds his mother in her Scottish titles, as Earl of Newburgh, Viscount Ivynnaird, and Baron Livingstone of Flacraig. The Birmingham Post in reference to the illness of Mr. Robert Crawshay, says :-Many of the graver symptoms in this gentleman's malady have considerably subsided, and for the past few weeks he has been in slightly impro- ving condition generally. He remains helpless as to one side, but has a better appetite than he had, and is, in fact, in that condition in which, with careful medical direc- tions, he may continue for years as an invalid, getting neither better nor worse, except for slight daily variations. A murder is believed to have been committed near Hereford, the dead body of a woman having been found in an advanced state of decomposition in a wood some miles from the city. A struggle appeared to have taken place on the spot, which is a hundred yards from the highway, and there are appearances which point to a double crime. At an inquest, opened on Friday, May 24th, and adjourned, it was stated that there were two fractures of the skull, undoubtedly inflicted during life. A Liverpool town's meeting was held on Friday, May 24th, under the presidency of the mayor, to consider the proposed establishment of a College for Higher Education in Liverpool. The following resolution was unanimously adopted :—"That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is desirable that a college be established in Liverpool to pro- vide such instruction in all the branches of a liberal edu- cation as would enable residents in the town and neigh- bourhood to qualify for degrees in arts, science, and other subjects, at any of the universities granting degrees to non-resident students, and at the same time to give such technical instruction as would be of immediate service in professional and commercial life." People who can choose their own time for going to the Paris Exhibition are asking when it is likely to be least crowded (says the Pall Mall Gazette.) There is no reason to suppose that the flow of visitors will vary much in its course from that which it took in 1867. Foreigners will come and go according to their usual habits. The Ger- mans will be early, the English late, and the Americans at all times. The Parisians themselves will be among the first and the last visitors, and their summer absence will be as marked as usual. The provincials will be occupied with either harvest or vintage, and so take their trip early, except in the case of those independent enough to think of the children and wait for the holidays, which begin during the first ten days in August. 0 0 At Friday's sitting of the national health congress, in London, Mr. Henry Rawlinson, C.E., addressed the meet- ing on the ill effects of discharging sewage into the sea. He advocated a system of deodorising the sewage before it is sent into the sea, as in many places miles of shore have been polluted. A resolution was passed requesting the Society of Arts to urge on the Local Government Board that all drains intended to be connected with the sewers of a sanitary authority ought to be made by such authority in the same way that house services are made by gas and water companies to their mains. The House of Commons' annual select committee on Turnpike Acts state in their report this Session that, con- sidering the delay m passing a Highway Act and the pressing necessity that something be done to prevent the further deterioration of roads which have been disturn- piked, the committee recommended that, without preju- dice to further legislation on the subject, provision should be made this Session in the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill empowering quarter sessions to place upon the county rate, so far as they shall think fit, the maintenance of roads which have been disturnpiked since the 1st of Jan- uary, 1870. A terrific tornado swept over part of the State of Wis- consin on Thursday night, May 23, and completely devas- tated a long reach of country, demolishing everything in the direct line which it traversed. Reports received up to Sunday show that thirty persons have been killed and fifty injured. The Times correspondent at Philadelphia states that several of the dead were carried to long distances by the whirlwind, and then dashed to the ground. Those injured were generally in destroyed buildings. In one case a schoolhouse, with the teacher and scholars, was carried away several rods, three of the I scholars being killed, but some escaping unhurt.

FROM LONDON LETTERS. The magnitude of the ministerial majority was not un- expected from the time it was known that Mr. Joseph COWell had held a meeting of his friends, and that about twenty of them had resolved to join with him in absent- ing themselves from the division lobby. That the Radical member for Newcastle-on-Tyne should take this course shows how far his RussOphobia has prevailed over the old Radical jealousy of the royal prerogative. Including the tellers and the Speaker, there were 578 members present when the question was put. The House at the present time consists of 649 members capable of voting, the two for South Northumberland, elected the other day, being forbidden to vote, and Sir Bryan O'Loghlen never having taken his seat. Thus there were seventy-one absentees. Of these, no doubt some were paired. Sir Wilfrid Law- son was not well enough to brave the cold night air, but Mr. Bourke defied his congestion of the lungs, and voted with his fellow ministers. Mr. Whalley, still a great invalid, came up to town expressly to take part in the division, the first vote he has given this session. He had the satisfaction of seeing his fellow Protestant, Mr. Newde- gate, go into the same lobby-the only Conservative who did so; for at the last moment Sir Alexander Gordon, though highly disapproving of the conduct of Ministers, decided not to vote against them, and went away. A con- siderable number of the Home Rulers followed his exam- ple. Neither Mr. Butt, Mr. Biggar, nor Mr. Parnell voted. Mr. O'Donnell, Mr. O'Connor Power, and Major Nolan supported Lord Hartington. Major O'Gorman voted with Ministers. After the questions were over [in the House of Com- mons on Monday] the Speaker called to the members who wished to take their places to come and be sworn, and the first to appear was Mr. Talbot, who was, of course, received with triumphal music from his own side of the House. He was followed by Mr. Palmer, who was greeted in the same fashion by the other side. Lord Castlereagh did not present himself, as it was expected he would do. I may remark, in pass- ing, on the extraordinary attempt made to magnify his lordship's victory in Downshire. It has been said that this victory is all the more remarkable because his lord- ship bears a name which is unpopular in that part of Ire- land. All I have to say is, that the present Lord Castle- reagli's father was in the House for twenty-six years, as member for Downshire, and if Lord Castlereagh had been able to come forward as a candidate in 1874, Mr. Shar- man Crawford would not have stood the ghost of a chance, the influence of the Londonderry family in the county being irresistible. -Birminghain Post. Mr. Gladstone began his speech when the House was somewhat enfeebled by attention to the strictly forensic eloquence of Sir John Holker; but the benches filled up fgam with great rapidity as soon as it was known that Gladstone was up." He gave us a most wonderful speech, wonderful because it was really a debating speech, made up not so much of what had been elaborated in his own study days beforehand, irrespective of anything which might be said by his antagonists, but consisting mainly m a most effective reply to what had immediately pre- ceded him. It was perfectly marvellous to hear him deal with point after point what had been urged by Sir John Holker, and to see what perfect command he had over all the political and constitutional history which he had ever read, or had assisted to create. What an amazing gift is that power of accurate reproduction by the memory of whatever has been committed to it! Those of us who know the difficulty of assuring ourselves of a single item, who are ever tormented with feebleness of hold over what we think we recollect until we are forced to use it, look upon a mind like Mr. Gladstone's as a mysterious and al- together miraculous piece of mechanism. The applause when he sat down was loud and long, and as it was an hour past dinner time members crowded out of the House in a body. Nobody of course liked to rise, and the Speaker could do nothing else than proceed to put the question. He made all the delay he could, turning over the leaves of the notice paper, but still nobody volun- teered, and the debate was on the point of coming to an untimely end, when Mr. Balfour sacrificed himself for the good of his country, and kept the ball moving.-Birining- ham Post.. Why do the newspapers, including the court newsmen, insist upon calling the son of Napoleon III. the Prince Imperial ?" There is no French empire; there is never likely to be another, seeing that the first led to Waterloo and the second to Sedan; there is, therefore, no sense in calling Prince Louis Napoleon Imperial." He himself does not use the adjective. By all means, fete him ask him to balls, routs, public dinners.. Let him be made such a lion of that (as one of the society journals tells us) he finds it Recessary to have a room at Marlborough-gate, because he can't got away from town in time for the last train to Chiselhurst. But let us not call him by a name which is a lie, and rather a mischievous lie.—Liverpool Mercury. The Record states that the Lord Chancellor has ap- pointed the Rev. Boyd Carpenter to Mr. Maclagan's post at Kensington. I mentioned some time ago that he was a very probable selection. Mr. Carpenter is one of the ablest members of the Low Church party, and preached the Lent lectures at St. Mary Abbott's during Mr. Maclagan's absence from England.-Liverpool Mercury. Rip Van Winkle is a grandfather. Mr. Joseph Jeffer- son's daughter has borne a daughter to her husband, Mr. B. L. Farjeon, the novelist. The grandfather has had a brilliant time in the United States. He has been getting B160 a night at Boston, and the proprietor of the theatre has made a profit of 21,600. -Liverpool Mercury.

I BYE-GONSS. .r'J' NOTES, and on subjects interesting to Wales ti.-t(i tlte Borders, must be addressed to ASKEW ROBERTS, Croeswylan, Oswestry." Ileal names and addresses must be given, in confidence, and MSS. must be written legibly, on one side of the paper only.

MAY 29, 1878. ARMS OF THE JENKINSES.—Our esteemed contributor LLALLAWG asks, in Notes and Queries of May IS, to what family of the name of Jenkins in Wales the following arms and crest belong :-Arms Party per pale, argent and san- guine, three ileurs-de-lis. Crest Battle-axe on a wreath.

FACTS AND FANCIES. BEATI POSSIDENTES. — Query, when possession costs 2200,000 a day ?—Punch. A Cincinatti minister advertises that he will perform marriage services with neatness and dispatch." MYOPIA.—Little Binks (to unsteady party who had lurched heavily against him). "I beg your pardon, I'm sure,-but I'm very short sighted -I)issil)ated Stranger. Do' mensh't, shir—I've met goo' many shor'sight peopl'sh morn', bu' you're firsh gen'l'm'sh made 'shilsht pology !"— Punch. It is in their perorations that they shine in Ireland. May the blessing of Heaven follow your honour all the days of your life," whined an old hag, as she trotted after a gentleman; and then, seeing at last that her entreaty had not moved him, she added, "and never overtake you." One of Bishop Blomfield's latest bon mots was uttered during his last illness. He inquired what had been the subject of his two archdeacons' charges, and was told that one was on the art of making sermons, and the other on churchyards. Oh, I see," said the bishop-" composition and decomposition." AN ALTERNATIVE.—(Time, 9 p.m.) "Charles, love, Lady Ledbury is at home to-night, and Mrs. Gelasma has a concert, and there's the Duchess of Ipswich's dance. Now, are we going these places, or not ? For if we are, it is time for me to go and dress; and if we are not, it is time for me to put a mustard.plaster on my chest, some flannel I'ound my throat, and go straight off to bed !"— Punch.. The following is from the Court Journal :-Madame (a Parisian lady, of course) asked her husband for a new out- fit. "My darling," he replied, that would make the third in two months, and times are so hard that—;—" "You will kill me," exclaimed the lady, bursting into tears, and my funeral expenses will cost you more than a new dress Ah, but I should have to bury you only once," was the comforting rejoinder. A contemporary describes a new bracelet that has lately been thrown on the American market as outwardly of a most chaste, innocent, and beautiful design, but inwardly a ravening wolf. It has a wicked little secret spring that reaches out and nips a fellow by the cuff the moment he touches it, and holds him there until pa' can come into the parlour, and, gazing sternly upon the affectionate and perturbed tableau, demand of the young man what are his intentions." The first newspaper in Nor h. America was printed in Boston, in 1690. Only one copy of that paper is known to be in existence. It was deposited in the State Paper Office in London, and is about the size of an ordinary sheet of letter paper. It was stopped by the Govern- ment. The Boston News Letter" was the first regular paper. It was issued in 1704, and was printed by John Allan, in Pudding Lane.. The contents of some of the early nnmbers are very peculiar. It has a speecp of Queen Anne to Parliament, delivered 120 days previously, and this was the latest news from England. An irate youth of seventeen said to a girl of fifteen, A woman was made to be kept under a man's thumb she's the weaker vessel; the Bible says so; she can't reason like a man, she jumps to her conclusions by in- stinct that's how you go ahead of us in the lower branches, but you fall behind in college, for you haven't the in- tellect nor the physical strength to dig deep." A few years later, when this boy had become a man, and the girl a woman, he asked her to be his wife. Taking his hand, and looking intently at it for a moment, she replied No, John your thumb is too small!" The influence of the Fool of King Charles the Simple, of France, was so great that the King once remarked to him he thought they had better change places. As Jean did not look well pleased at the proposal, Charles asked him if he were not content at the idea of being a king. Oh, content enough," was the reply; but I should be exceedingly ashamed at having such a fool." It was this fool who once tried his master's nerve by rushing into his room one morning with the exclamation— Oh, sire, such news!—four thousand men have risen in the city! What!" cried the startled king with what intention have they risen ?"—" Well," said Jean, placing his finger upon his nose, "probably with the intention of lying down again at bed-time." A JAPANESE NEWSPAPER.—A Tokio correspondent of the Chicago Tribune has been visiting the office of the Nichi Nichi Shinbun (Daily News) the leading paper of Japan. The paper pays thirty-seven per cent, dividend annually on a capital of 50,000 dollars. Besides its editor, Mr. G. Fukuchi, a gentleman who visited America and Europe with the Iwakura Embassy, the paper employs six editorial writers and eight reporters, and local correspond- ents throughout the country; there are twenty-three hands in the composing-room, including a foreman and two proof-readers the business office and press and mail- ing rooms employ some forty men, and there are forty-five carriers. The average daily circulation is 8,700. Includ- ing the job presses, there are eleven presses employed, one e a Hoe cylinder press, wnich, by the way, is operated by hand, labour being cheaper, as a motive power, than steam. A full fount of type comprises 50,000 characters, 3,000 of which are in constant use, and for 2,000 more there are frequent calls, so that it is no wonder that the proof-readers have to be persons of intelligence and high scholarship. The type is disposed about the room on racks like those in a reading-room, and the compositors wander up and down the aisles, setting type and taking exercise at once.

SPEAKING OF CHAPMAN'S ENTIRE WHEAT FLOUK, a writer in the Christian World says—"Many of the first physicians of the day are prescribing no other medicine for their little patients, and it is astonishing sometimes how P' children who have pined on a diet of fine white baker's bread, will thrive when fed on well cooked porridge made of this Entire Wheat Flour. Sold by Chemists in 6d. and Is. packets, and 3s. tins

Eprs's COCOA.-GRATEFULAND COI&ORTING.By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency 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 labelled, JAMES Epps & Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London.' BUSINESS ADDRESSES. ADERYSTWYTIL E. JONES, COACHBUILDER, Moor Street, Aberystwyth. CARRIAGES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER Repairs executed by First-class Workmen. JOHN BAKEPT, Rhydypenau Farm, Bow Street. BY the request of numerous friends lias 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 AGRICULTURAL SEED, 1877. EDWARD-" ELLIS, 7 & 8, PRINCESS-STREET, ABERYSTWYTH, BEGS respectfully to return thanks for the kind support given him during the last 25 years in the seed trade, and calls particular attention to the splendid stock he holds this season of all ki-nds of Agricultural Seeds, Seed Potatoes, 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. JE200 to R400 may be had on mortgage on freehold property.—Apply to E. ELLIS, Auctioneer and Valuer. FOR SALE, 800,000 BRICKS, Ready for delivery at any station on the Cambrian o Manchester and Milford Ralways. Also GLAZED AND COMMON DRAIN PIPES, RIDGE AND FLOORING TILES, COAL AND LIME, &c., &c. APPLY TO WM. THOMAS, Wholesale Merchant and Commission Agent, STATION YARD, ABERYSTWYTH. Sole Agent to the Powell Dyffryn Coal Company, whose Coal will be forwarded to any Station on the above Railways. A Cargo of WHITE'S CEMENT will arrive shortly. iRS. E. EVANS'S DINING AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS, u 8, Market-street, Aberystwyth. Hot Dinners daily at one o'clock. Roast and Boiled Joints, Chickens, Ducks, &c., always ready. 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 and Coffee at any hour of the day. GOOD. NEWS. CHEAP COAL. Owing to a favourable contraot PETER JONES, Railway Station, Aberystwyth, I Is now able to sell for cash on delivery BEST NEWPORT, 16s. per ton. BEST RUABON, 16S., Booking Price, 2s. extra. PAPER HANGING WAREHOUSE. T. THOMAS, ,1 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. T. & W. BUBB, PAINTERS, PLUMBERS, GLAZIERS, GAS- FITTERS, HOUSE DECORATORS, PAPER HANGERS, & GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHERS, Terrace-Road, Aberystwyth, and Newtown. Agent for Broner's BURNERS, and Wright's GAS STOVES. ESTIMATES FOR WORK ON APPLICATION. Agents for Atkins & Co.'s Patent CHARCOAL BLOCK WATER FILTERS. GADD'S PATENT REVERSIBLE HANDLE PERAMBULATORS. BATHS AND PERAMBULATORS ONGHIRE. DOLGELLEY. JAMES B. MEE, FISHMONGER, GAME DEALER, FRUITERER, &c., &c. Bridge End House, Dolgelley. Constant Supplies of various kinds of fresh Fish, Game, &c. according to Season. ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO, And anything not on hand procured on the shortest notice. Ice always on hand, and supplied by the pound and Upwards. JtF Note the Address :— Bridge End House, Dolgelley. RICHARD ELLIS, Unicorn Lane, Dolgelley, GENERAL BILL STICKER, POSTER MESSENGER, fe. Contracts may be made with Auctioneers and Publishers MR. CROSSLEY, Organist of the Parish Church, Dolgelley, RECEIVES PUPILS. Organ, Pianoforte, Harmonium, Singing, and Harmony. Bank Buildings, Dolgelley. When you ask for Reckitt's Paris Lie See that you get it, as bad qualities are l often substituted. il SHIPPING. "v' L L A N LINE SHORTEST OCEA. PASSAGE TO M E R I c A HALIFAX, CANADIAN, AND UNITED STATES MAIL. COMPOSED OF TWEXTY FIRST-CLASS STEAMERS. Leaving LIVERPOOL every THURSD YY and LON- DONDERRY every FRIDAY, for HALIFaS QUE- BEC, PORTLAND, and BALTIMORE Through Tickets to BOSTON, NEW YORK, PHILADEL- PHIA, and to all points in CANADA and the STATES. Low Fares and excellent Accommodation. Passengers who secure their Tickets before leaving home are met at the Railway Station by an appointed Agent of the Company, who takes charge of them until they go on board the Steamer. The Canadian Government grants ASSISTED PASSAGES by the ALLAN" LINE. IX Ar l^XITOBA1''6 Pamphlet DUFFERIN Apply to ALLAN BROTHERS and Co., Liverpool or Londonderry, or to Or to the Agents— EVAN .TONES, Builder, Bala. 1. T. PARRY, The Bazaar, Cross-street, Oswestry. "WHITE STAR" LINE ROYAL AND TTNTTFn z- STATES MAIL STEAMERS. » NOTICE.—The steamers of this line take the La.ne Routes recommend- ed by lieutenant laury, on both the Outward and Home. ward passages. LIVERPOOL to NEW YORK Forwarding Passengers to all parts of the United State and Canada. These well known magnificent Steamers are appointed to sail weekly as under, carrying her Majestv's and the United States Mails 0 From LIVERPOOL. BALTIC Tuesday, June 4 ADRIATIC Tuesday, June 11 BRITANNIC. Thursday, June 20 CELTIC Tuesday, June 25 GERMANIC Thursday, July 4 From NEW YORK. ADRIATIC Saturday, May 25 BRITANNIC Saturddy, June 1 From QUEENSTOWN the following day. These splendid Vessels reduce th3 passage to the shortest possible time, and afford to Passengers the highest degree of comfort hitherto attainable at sea. Average passage 85 daysjn Summer, 9-21 days in Winter. Each Vessel is constructed in seven water-tight compart- ments. Saloon, Ladies' Boudoir, State Rooms, and Smok- -g Rooms are amidships, and are luxuriously furnished and fitted with all modern conveniences pianos, libraries, electric bells, bath-rooms, barber's shop, &c. Saloon Passage, 15, 18, and 21 guineas Return Tickets at reduced rates. The Steerage accommodation is of the very highest charac- ter, the rooms are unusually spacious, well lighted, ventilated, and warmed, and passengers of this class will find their com- fort carefully studied, and the provisioning unsurpassed. Stewardesses iR Steerage to attend the Women and Children. Drafts issued on New York free of charge. For Freight or Passage apply to J. D. HUGHES, 1, Railway Terrace, Aberystwyth. ISMAY, IMRIE AND Co., 10, Water-street, Liverpool, And 34, Leadenhall Street, LONDON, E.C. ^BUSINESS^ADDRESSES BARMOUTH. HUGH OWEN, GOMERIAN HOUSE, BARMOUTH, PHOTOGRAPHER. BEDFORD'S AND OTHER ARTISTS' VIEWS. WINDSOR AND NEWTON'S ARTISTS' MATERIALS AND COLOURS. STATIONERY. LADIES AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING. DRAPERY- A GOOD STOCK OF HATS, BONNETS, & MILLINERY Always on hand. POitTMADOC 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, Mantel 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. BENSON'S WATCHES. Watch and Clock Maker to the Queen and Royal Family, and by Special appointment to the Prince of Wales and Emperor of Russia. Old Bond-street, and (Steam Factory) Ludgate- hill, London. BENSON'S WATCHES of every description, suit- able for all climates, from £ 2 to 200 guineas. Chrono- graphs, Chronometers, Keyless, Levers, Presentation, Repeaters, Railway Guards, Soldiers, and Workmen's Watches of extra strength. ENSON'S ARTISTIC ENGLISH CLOCKS, decorated with Wedgwood and other wares, designed to suit any style of architecture or furniture; also, as novelties for presents. Made solely by Benson. From 25518. ENSON'S PAMPHLETS on TURRET CLOCKS, Watches, Clocks, Plate, and Jewellery. Illustrated, sent post free each for two stamps. Watches seat safe by post. Benson's new work, Times and Time Tellers 2s. 6d. S A N I T A S. This incomparable colourless Fluid is the most powerful, cleanly, and agreeable Disinfectant and Antiseptic known. A REALLY 1IARVELLOC3 DISCOVERY." "SANITAS" is the best preventive against the ks spread of Small-pox, Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever, Hay Fever, Foot-and-mouth, Cattle, and all Infectious Diseases. IT IS NON-POISONOUS, and has no injurious action on the finest clothing, fur- niture, carpeting, &c. It is strongly recommended by the highest medical authorities. ls SA-NLITAS is the only preservative of BEER kept in the house two fluid ozs., costing a few pence, should be added to the 9-gallon cask. "SANITAS" should be used in every LAUNDRY to bleach the clothes and prevent the spread of infec- tion. Half a pint should be added to every 20 gallons of water used in rinsing the clothes. Prices.—Bottles. 1st Quality only, Is., Is. 6d., 2s. 6d.; or in bulk, 1st Quality, 20s. per gallon, 2nd Quality, 5a. TOILET "SANITAS." This preparation is the most luxurious of its kind; it removes the odour of tobacco, sweetens the breath im- proves the complexion and the growth of hair; it whitens the teeth and prevents dental caries. In Elegant Bottles- at 2s. 6d. Pamphlet with all particulars free on application to the SANITA8 COMPANY, 57, Moorgate-street, London, E.C. "SANITAS" may be had of Chemists and Wholesale Druggists, or direct from the Company. THE LEADING PAPER FOR CARDIGANSHIRE, MERIONETHSHIRE, SOUTH CARNARVONSHIRE, &c. "PVELIVERED by Post, or at any Station on the L/ Cambrian, Great Western, or Manchester and Milford Railway, for Twelve Months, for 8s. 8d. in ad- vance. THE CAMBRIAN NEWS. Delivered by agents (through whom it may be ordered) on Friday morning, for twelve montns, for 6s. Gd. in ad- vance, t all the places mentioned in our List of AgentB on page 7. Published by ?/' J. GIBSON, Aberystwvth JACOB JONES, Bala; D. LLOYD, Portmadoc.