The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

FROM THE-PAPERS. "r- A statue of M. Thiers is to be erected at St. Germain, where he died. Eleven sisters of charity have died within four months at Constantinople, while caring for the wounded soldiers. The Atheneeum states that her Majesty has confirmed the nomination by the Master of the Rolls of Mr. William Hardy, F.S.A., as Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. Sir Richard Wallace has subscribed 1:10,000 towards a fund for the erection of a museum of decorative art in Paris. The Eton and Harrow cricket match resulted, on Saturday, July 13, in a victory for Harrow by twenty runs. This is the first match the Harrovians have won since 1873. The Alps last week were covered with snow, and at some points avalanches fell, as in April or May. The flocks have suffered from this sudden cold, and hoar frost has injured the fruit trees. The Vienna correspondent of the Observer states that the Shah of Persia has purchased there six batteries of the Uchatius system, and has given an order for 25,000 muskets of the Wendl model. Jules Verne's famous tour round the world in eighty days has been not only rivalled, but outdone, by an American traveller, who has succeeded in accomplishing the feat in seventy-six days. The new Winter Gardens at Blackpool were opened on Thursday, July 11, with an imposing ceremonial, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, with many provincial mayors, being present. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Aldershot on Monday, July 15, and witnessed a sham fight, which finished with a march past. The fight lasted about two hours, and 16,000 men, 2,500 horses, and 48 guns were en- gaged. 0 The Nuneaton County Court Jud^e on Saturday, July 13, awarded ten guineas to a girl named Sarah Susannah Beeley, who sued the master of the Bulkington National School for compensation for injuries caused by his having struck her on the thumb with a cane. On Saturday, July 13, a lime-burner named Obed Lsher, who was at work at Farnham, whilst labouring under temporary irritation, inflicted such injuries on his daughter, twelve years of age, th it she died a few hours afterwards. Usher at once gave himself up to the police. The funeral of the late Mr. James Aikin, of Liverpool, took place on Thursday, July 11. The magistracy, the Town Council, the commercial community, the charities in which the deceased gentleman took an interest, and nearly all the nublic bodies of the town were represented. A man named Williams, sixty years of age, employed at Lichtield Cathedral as an assistant carver, slipped while working on Thursday, June 11, at a buttress on the north side of the edifice, and fell to the ground. Surgical aid was procured, but he died within an hour. The very energetic measures taken by the authorities at Montreal were happily successful in preventing a con- flict between the Orangemen and the Roman Catholics, the former being prevented from making their threatened 12th of July demonstration. A girl named Wall, thirteen years of age, is in custody at Hereford, charged with attempting to murder her mis- tress by mixing chloride of lime with her medicine. The c, girl was heard to say that her mistress would scold her once too often, and asked whether there would be an in- quest if she died suddenly. Mr. Gladstone took part in the proceedings at the annual meeting of the Charity Voting Reform Association, held in London, on Thursday, July 11. He said he wished not only to remove the abuses of the system, but to remove the system of voting altogether, believing it to be an unmitigated nuisance. Dr. D. G. F. Macdonald calls attention to a simple but perfect precaution against sunstroke. He advises that outdoor labourers should put fern or cabbage leaves inside their hats, or wind bands of rushes, vetches, or green herbage of some sort around them. That would be easily done, and if done it would be all but impossible to be affected by sunstroke. The officials of the Sunday Society announce in a letter to the Times that, by the liberality of Sir Coutts Lindsay, the Grosvenor Gallery Exhibition in London was to be opened free on Sunday, July 14th, to subscribers and members of the Sunday Society, and on July 21 and August 3 to the general public by tickets, which will be forwarded by post on receipt of stamped envelope. Alexandria is threatened with a water famine. The canal, thirty miles long, supplying it from the Nile, has become almost dry. It is choked with mud, the water being diverted by great landowners higher up for their cotton crops. The old Roman cisterns have mostly been broken up for building material, and those remaining are too foul for use. The fanchester Guardian says that owing to the fact that rabies has carried away upwards of thirty of the Holker harriers, the Marquis of Hartington, who owns the pack, has decided to break it up. Now that twenty of Mr. Kennedy's pack of beagles have had to be de- stroyed for a similar reason, the hunting associations of Furness will almost become a thing of the past, the only pack remaining being the Coniston foxhounds. An action was brought at the Northampton assizes against the London and North Western Railway Company by Mrs. Letherland, the widow of the late proprietor and editor of the Wellingborough News, who died from injuries received in a collision near Northampton last October. She claimed k4,000 damages for herself and two children. The defendants had offered £1,300 and had paid a shilling into court in admission of liability. The jury awarded £ 1 250. King Humbert and Queen Margherita entered Turin in state on Thursday morning, June 11th, and had an en- thusiastic reception. The city was decorated with flags, and after reaching the palace their Majesties had to appear on the balcony several times. Processions of trade union and other societies, bearing flags, went to welcome their Majesties. In the evening the city was brilliantly illu- minated, and there was a torch-light procession of work- ing men's societies. In the Queen's Bench Division on Saturday, July 13, an action was tried, in which a silk mercer, carrying on business in the Rue de la Paix, Paris, sought to recover from Lord Dorchester JE43 6s. 6d., the amount of goods supplied to the defendant, who under a judge's order had paid Cl5 to the plaintiff and disputed the remainder. Lord Dorchester defended the action on the ground that he had been charged exorbitant prices; but the jury, without leaving the box, found a verdict for the amount claimed. A special bulletin issued by the physicians of the Ger- man Emperor states that the perfect recovery of his Majesty is delayed by loss of blood, want of appetite, and the terrible shock inflicted upon his nerves. His Majesty finds its difficult to walk, and, although all his wounds are healed, has not yet sufficiently recovered the use of his arms and hands to eat without assistance. The bulletin adds :—" The removal of the present evils in his Majesty's condition may, however, be looked for with confidence through the influence of time, active and passive exercise, and the adoption of other necessary measures." In addressing the Grand Jury at the Manchester Assizes, on Friday, July 12th, Mr. Justice Lopes said it was deeply to be lamented that recently in Lancashire contests had taken place between capital and labour, which, if persisted in, must prove ruinous to both and afford foreign competition opportunities of occupying ground, which, in all probability, it would be difficult, he might say impossible, for British industry to regain. Following upon these contests outrages had been com- mitted which were a disgrace to our civilization, and those who were found guilty of these outrages must be severely punished. <> The London correspondent of the Birmingham Post says :—A very serious hitch has arisen respecting the Cattle Bill. The opponents of the measure have discovered that the proposed regulations for slaughtering Continental cattle at the ports will infringe the most favoured nation" clause of the commercial treaties. This question has been submitted to the law officers of the Crown, and I learn that they have to-night advised the Government that the objection is insuperable. Thus the Government will either have to place Canada and America on the same footing as the continental nations or abandon this vital portion of the Bill.. Baron Dowse, at the Armagh Assizes on Saturday, July 13, before sentencing a prisoner, asked the governor of the gaol whether the new rules which require a prisoner to lie on a plank for the first month were in force in Armagh Gaol, and whether that meant that the prisoner should sleep in his clothes for a month. Both questions having been answered in the affirmative, Baron Dowse, who declared that judges were not mere automatons, but had their feelings like other men, said that he should give a much shorter sentence, for he considered the new rule nothing more nor less than torture. Lord Truro presided over a meeting of the Sunday Society, which was held at the town house of Lord Dorchester, in Berkeley-square, on Saturday afternoon, July 13, at which a resolution was passed, heartily thank- ing Sir Coutts Lindsay for the opportunities for moral and intellectual improvement that he had given to the public by opening the Grosvenor Gallery on Sundays; and ex- pressing a hope that the example thus set by him would hasten the time when such institutions as the National Gallery and the British Museum will be opened on Sun- day. The Grosvenor Gallery was opened on Sunday afternoon, when 563 persons passed the turnstile. At the Crystal Palace on Saturday, July 13, there was a great Board School festival, the occasion being the dis- tribution of 4.000 Bibles and Testaments, presented by Mr. Francis Peek and the Religious Tract Society to Board School scholars for proficiency in Scriptural subjects. Sir Charles Reed, chairman of the School Board for London, in the course of a brief address, re- minded his audience that the Board had decided to give Bible instruction throughout all their schools, so that now 188,000 children daily heard a portion of the Word of God read to them, not one child in 4,000 had been withdrawn from it, and not one complaint had reached the Board from any parent who had objected to the instruction given. Mr. Maltman Barry having written to the members of the St. James's Club relative to the reception to be ac- corded to the Earl of Beaconsfield on his return from Berlin, the members met to consider the matter, when another letter was read from Mr. Barry, stating that the Conservatives were arranging for an ovation at Charing Cross, and adding, Should the men of Clerkenwell de- termine to hold a hostile demonstration-say at Trafalgar Square-on Monday night or Tuesday afternoon, I shall be happy to bear a part in the proceedings." The club, however, declined to co-operate with the head of the Jingoes" in the proposed demonstration, and declares that, "whilst not approving of the policy of the Premier, believes that the peace of Europe through him has been preserved, and rejects all overtures from such a source." A meeting of the Birmingham Liberal^ Association was held on Friday, July 12th, and a resolution^ unanimously passed protesting against the action of the Government in concluding an alliance with Turkey. A letter was read from Mr. Gladstone expressing his pleasure that the agency of Birmingham was about to be employed in leading the mind of the country to the subject of taxation, He adds, "the extravagance of the Tory Government is deplorable, and there is no sign of amendment, while its wild innovating schemes in various quarters threaten larger additions to the burdens of the country than even its ordinary extrava- gance." A report was presented from the Executive L Committee with regard to the celebration of the 21st anniversary of Mr. Bright's representation of the town. It is not often in these days (says the Pall Mall Gazitte) that one meets with such rancorous religious bigotry as seems to have inspired one of the testators whose dis- position of their property is recorded by the Illustrated London News. This gentleman, Mr. Jacob Yallowley Powell, merchant, has left a personal estate sworn under £ 160,000. His first object in death seems to be the Dis- establishment of the Church of England, for he bequeaths to the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control no less than £ 5,000. A number of missionary and charitable societies get £ 1,000 each, the minister of the Baptist chapel which Mr. Powell attended £500, and the societies connected with the chapel a like sum. Two nieces get £ 20,000 between them but it is pro- vided that if either of these ladies shall marry a minister of the Established Church, or a person holding any office or commission in her Majesty's army, her interest in such bequest is to lapse, and to go among the charitable societies or hospitals enumerated. Finally, the testator directs that he shall be buried in unconsecrated ground.

FACTS AND FANCIES. Mark Twain says "None but the brave deserve the fair," and none but the brave can live with some of them. New Jersey has a millionaire barber. He never spoke except to whisper Next." He had been known to tell a man that his hair did not need to be cut. Heroine" is perhaps as peculiar a word as any in our language; the first two letters of it are male, the three first female, the four first a brave man, and the whole word a brave woman. Man," says Victor Hugo, "was the conundrum of the eighteenth century; woman is the conundrum of the nineteenth ccntury." An American editor adds, We can't guess her, but will never give her up. No, never. READY TACT.—Poet (fingering a volume of his Poems on the Table), Oh I see you have got my poor rhymes, Mrs. O'Flaherty?"—Mrs. O'F. (conscious that the leaves have never been cut). A—yes—er—its a new copy. The other was so dog's-eared and tattered that we were quite ashamed of it, and had to put it in the fire !"—Punch. Says a New Yorker—" People desiring to communicate with the editor will please speak into the phonograph at the door, not forgetting to end the communication with the pronunciation of their names-not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. The phonograph will be turned upside down, like a trombone in an orchestra, every two hours." "Caesar," said a planter to his negro, "climb up that tree and thin out the branches." The negro showed no disposition to comply; and being pressed for a reason, answered—"Well, look heah, massa. If I go up dar and fall down and broke my neck, dat'll be a tousand dollars out o' your pocket. Now, why don't you hire a white man to go up, and den if he falls and kills hisself dar won't be no loss to nobody." A lady (says Truth) who has just lost her husband, re- ceived the following letter. It is, I believe, the habit of Mrs. Ussher" to send these missives to all whose names are advertised in the Times as having had a child, and probably in this case she confused the death-list with the birth-list" Restoration of All Saints' Church, Osmaston, Derby. Will you send any small sum, if only Is., as a thank offering, and in aid of the above work, to Mrs. Ussher, Osmaston Hall, Derby. July 3, 1878." The following translation was made by a Frenchman who professed to teach languages, and who thought he was telling a story in really beautiful English :—" A lady which was to dine chid to her servant that she not had used butter enough. This girl, for to excuse himselve, was bring a little cat on the hand, and told that she came to take him in the crime finishing to eat the two pounds from butter who remain. The lady took immediately the cat whom was put in the balances, it just weighed that two pound. This is all the very much well for the but- ter,' the lady then she said, but where is the cat' ?" Miss Edgworth's father's maternal grandfather was a Welsh Judge, named Lovell, of whom it was related that, travelling over the sands of Beaumaris as he was going circuit, he was overtaken by the tide. The coach stuck fast in a quicksand; the water rose rapidly and the re- gistrar, who had crept out of the window and taken re- fuge on the coach-box, whilst the servants clustered on the roof, earnestly entreated the Judge to do the same. With the water nearly touching his lips, he gravely replied, 1 will follow your counsel if you can quote any precedent for a Judge's mounting a coach-box." WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES.—It is related of a Lin- colnshire clergyman that he on one occasion preached a long sermon from the text, "Thou art weighed in the balances, and found wanting." After the congregation had listened about an hour, some of them began to get weary, and went out; others soon followed, greatly to the minister's annoyance. Another person started, whereupon the parson suddenly stopped, and said, That's right, gentlemen as soon as you are weighed, pass out." He continued his sermon, but no one disturbed him by leaving. Cool as Charles Mathews appeared on the stage, be was rendered very nervous sometimes by loud conversa- tions in the boxes when he was acting; and he was fre- quently obliged to address the offending parties, or appeal to the public to protect him (says the Whitehall Review.) In such emergencies he was sure to be applauded by his audience, who insisted on silence from the obtrusive characters. Once only he was worsted. He used to tell a story of his being "shut up himself with infinite glee. An elderly gentleman had throughout the evening an- noyed him with loud talking. During the last piece the old man rose in his box and was putting on his overcoat, still talking at the top of his voice, when Charles Mathews, unable to stand it any longer, addressed him: "I beg pardon, sir, the piece is not over." Yes and that's the very reason I am going," replied his unabashed tormentor. PLAIN ENGLISH. In mudeel sare Inclay nonare Infir taris Inoak nonis Canamar etoats. NAMES OF PLACES IN WALES. Maengwynedd, the Cymdu, Cefncoch and Cwmblwty, Cwmgwnen, Nantfyllon, Cilanhafon and Glyn, The Castell, the Cadnant,. Maesmochnant and Ceunant, The Henallt, the c: or wall t and Gerwyn. Gartheryr, Banhadla, Plasucha and Golfa, Plas Moeliwrch, Cefnglaniwrch and Llaniwrch, the Llan, Castelhnoch, the Frongoch, the Alltgoch and Clynog, Fronheulog, Llawenog and Lloran. The Bedran and Scrwgan, Wernlydan, Wernlas, Henfacheu, Bodyddon, the LIedron and Llys, GIantanad and Cefnhir, Rhydtir and the Brithdir, Penrhiw and the Briw and Trebrys. [From Punch.) A CASE FOR THE WATER-CURE. I am a 'Abitual Drunkard, And 'ave bin, many a day, I'll own with shame and sorrow Witch don't my looks betray i I am a drunken character, The fact I won't conceal; Likewise a Tipsymaniac, Which the word is more genteel My own affairs unfit to mind, And dangerous also to my kind. There's talk about Asylum-, Retreats for sitch as me, Twelve months kep' in confinement By his own consent to be For intoxicatin' beveridges His cravin' to subdoo, And turn his mind to Temperance ways, Witch it ain't my nater to To try and wean 'im, in a year, From hardent sperrits, ale, and beer. An excellent Institooshun For the drunken Workin' Man, Istahlished on a liberal scale For to 'ouse a hartisan; Respectable board and lodgin', Good breakfast, dinner, and tea; Not like the gaol and the workhus Molasses and skilligolee. If that's their sort, and I was sure, I'd try that 'ere Retirement Cure. But 'ow about the ixpenses Fit places to perwide ? 'Ow is the necessary funds A goin' to be supplied ? A burden with the ratepayers Would peraps refuse to stand, And the 'elpin 'and of Charity The means will then demand. I 'ope all them with 'arts to feel Will then respond to my appeal. Kind Christian friends, before you I appear in the state you see; A regular orful example Through drink you be-old in me. From public'ouse to public-'ouse No longer I wouldn't roam, Could I hnd, for an harbour of refuge, The 'Abitual Drunkard's 'Ome. Bestow your bounty for the same, This poor Inebriate to reclaim.

FROM LONDON LETTERS. The comprehensive sympathy of Dean Stanley appears to be unlimited. On Wednesday he officiated at the funeral of the Rev. Samuel Martin, the late minister of Westminster Congregational Chapel. In performing this graceful act, I feel sure that he was not actuated by the feeling towards dissenters attributed to Sidney Smith, who said he should be delighted to bury all of them. No sooner was this sad ceremony concluded than it was an- nounced the dean had kindly offered the use of the college gardens at Westminster for a reception to be given to John B. Gough, to welcome his arrival in England. The visit of Mr. Gough to this country is well timed. The Eolitical and scientific aspects of the temperance question ave of late received much attention, and it is well that we should now have the more sentimental but scarcely less important side of the subject again urged upon us by all the force of Mr. Gough's oratory. -Liverpool Me)-curl,. A vote for money on account of Cyprus will be sub- mitted to Parliament. At least half-a-million will be re- quired at once as a supplementary estimate of the necessary expenditure during the next six months, and a much larger vote will be needed next year when the Budget is made up. There will be harbour works, arsenals, barracks, and armaments required on a great scale, and most of these works will by that time have been planned out, and probably contracted for. It is computed that five or six millions sterling will be required to make Cyprus an impregnable arsenal, and this vast sum will have to be voted in portions by Parliament during the next half- dozen years. The six millions already voted for war pre- parations are quite expended, and the Government are now preparing supplementaly estimates for money spent in excess of the vote. The cost of bringing troops from India to Malta, and the further cost of transferring them to Cyprus, are additional charges. Canvas tents for an army of ten thousand men are being despatched to Cyprus. They had been already g°t readiness, though their destination was kept secret until now. The army of occu- pation will have to live under canvas and in wooden huts for twelve months or more. No building exists on the island capable of housing a hundred men. The towns are all in squalid decay.—Liverpool rO-sb- Of course, the idea of a dissolution is now reeved. In- deed, people speak of scarcely anything else in the Lobby; and in many a legislative breast dismal calculations are being made on the cost of an election, and the state of the domestic purse. Everything in the action of the ministers at home points to an early appeal to the constituencies. I have already called attention to the civility which is being bestowed all round. Further proofs of this amiable dis- position were given during the present week. Thus, Mr. Cross withdrew the two Scotch Bills for the creation of an Under-Secretaryship and another office which had proved unpalatable to the Scotch members, and with so much "ush as he could infuse into his harsh voice and smart manner, declared that he would be ruled solely by the wishes of Scotland. Then, in answering the demand for an enouiry into the death of Sergeant MacCarthy, the Home Secretary was soothing and deprecatory, aul full of compliment to the Irish members. Still more signifi- cant of an approaching dissolution is the action of the Ministry in reference to the Cattle Bill. They have effected a remarkable change of front on that measure, and the report is that they have not done yielding if the Op- position have not done pressing. They don't want dear meat as well as increased taxation to be one of the cries against them at the hustings. And yet the Bill, they said, was to make meat cheap !—Birmingham Post. The condition of daze and stupefaction is gradually passing away, and people are beginning to form something like a true estimate and a definite opinion with regard to Lord Beaconsiield's Coup de theatre. There can be no doubt that, if as yet it has received no loud condemnation from any quarter, it has as certainly received no hearty approval. Even the staunchest Conservatives are almost appalled by the seriousness and magnitude of the new responsibilities which we have thus hurriedly and thought- lessly assumed. Dizzy has been too bold"—so say even the admirers of our miraculous Premier, as Mr. Carlyle calls him.—Birmingham Post.

EMIGRATION TO QUEENSLAND.—The barque Scottish Bard," of SlG tons, Captain Lamb, sailed from Gravesend on the nth July, with the following number of emigrants for Rockhampton, Queensland, viz., 36 married men, 37 married women, 115 single men, 40 single women, 48 children, and 13 infants, making a total of 289 souls, equal to 252 statute adults. The single women are under the care of Mrs. Tozer, Dr. Lightoller acting as Surgeon-Su- perintendent.

BYE-GONES NOTES, QUERIES, and REPLIES, on subjects interesting to IFales and the Borders, must be addressed to ASKEW ROBERTS, Croeswylan, Oswestry." Real names and addresses must be mven, in confidence, and MSS. must be written legibly, on one side of the paper only.

PORTRAIT OF W. W. E. WYNNE, ESQ., OF PENIARTH.— The Editor of Bye-gones has much pleasure in in- forming his readers that he has permission to offer to any of them who may wish it, copies of a very excellent likeness of Mr. WYNNE taken by MACLARDY of Oswestry. These will be mounted on plate paper nin. x Tin. for the purpose of binding up with either of the Bye-gone,' Volumes or of Archceologia Cambrensis, the Montgomeryshire Collection. the Cymmrodor, or any kindred publication. On receipt of Is. 2d. in postage stamps, by ASKEW RoBFitTS, Croeswylan, Oswestry, a copy, mounted and securely packed, will be sent post free to any address.

JULY 17, 1878. NOTES. FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR.—The follow- ing letter was found on a loose leaf with some other papers in which a number of books received from a London dealer were wrapped. The leaf appears to have been torn out of a book in which it formed part of Appendix No. II. The title of the book is not given, but it was printed partly in French and partly in English. As French Prisoners of War were known to be placed in many towns in England, at the date of the letter, it is desirable as a point of history to know if there were any confined at that time in any other town in Wales besides Pembroke. Pembroke, May 21, liGD. We the undersigned being Prisoners of War to his Majesty the Kins of Great Britain, and now in confinement at Pem- broke, South Wales, beg leave for ourselves aud fellow prisoners in this place, in number eighteen, to return our most sincere and hearty thanks to the Honourable Committee for cloathing French Prisoners of War. tor their generous and seasonable supply of cloathing to us; without which many amongst us must have been in the most distressed condition, from which we are happily relieved by the necessaries delivered to us by the order of the Honourable Committee. In grateful acknowledgement whereof we have hereunto put our names, this twonty-tirst day of May, 1700. The mark of Cotorel, Jean x Ragou, F, Graverend. Among the eighteen prisoners of war at this place, there is no officer of any rank and of the private men, but the above two that can write their names: but all expressed gre.it thankful- ness for the favours received, in presence of Morgan Meylett, Mayor, J. Ferior, Agent for Prisoners of War. LLALLAWG. OLD OSWESTRIANS (Mar. 13, 1878).-Johii Lloyd. I find this name amongst the list of Mayors, under the date 1769. He died in 1797, and Mr. T. Longueville Jones succeeded him in the office of Coroner. Mr. Lloyd I believe was a solicitor, and Cathrall states (but without giving his authority) that the Oswestry Association for the Prosecution of Felons was formed in 1771 by Mr. Lloyd, and that he was the originator of these societies in Eng- land. I have been told that he was the father of Mr. Robert Lloyd, who built "The Big House" in Church' Street (UtlW divided into" Belan House" and "The Vicarage.") Mr. Robert Lloyd died at Swanhill in 1803. He was one of the original guardians of the House of In- dustry, in 1791, representing Selattyn. His daughters be- came, respectively, Mrs. Gatacre and Mrs, Wynne Eyton. JARCO. A WELSH POET AND PROPHET.—The fol- lowing legend of Montgomeryshire is related in the Gossimna Guide to W(tles :— Soon after we pass Cemmaes Road Station, we may observe to our right a farm house close to the Dovey, just at the point of the confluence of a large brook with the river. This is called Mathavarn. In 1470, a 'great poet and scholar,' one David Llwyd ap Llewelyn, lived here, and one night entertained the Earl of Richmond (afterwards Henry VII.) as his guest. Henry was on his way from Milford Haven to Bosworth, and was naturally anxious to take safe peeps into futurity so he asked his host (who added the science of astrology to his stores of knowledge) what would most probably be the issue of his journey? Now Davie was a wise as well as a learned man, and his poetic nature was balanced by the possession of a practical wife. So David asked to sleep on the question and when the shades of evening and the matrimonial curtains had closed around them, the wife had little difficulty in discovering that her husband's mind was troubled, and what that trouble was. So she recommended that Richmond should be told a flattering tale for, said she, If you prophesy good for him, and he gains the victory, he will reward us and if he does'nt, and gets killed, he won't trouble us This circumstance is said to have given Wales a proverb, I I C)?n,hor gwraig heb ei ovyn;" which being very freely rendered, signifies, "The unsought advice of your better-half is worth taking." The other day, in an old newspaper, I found another version of the story, with the following addition The morning soon came, and the duke was delighted to hear that the heavenly bodies smiled on him. 'And, Lloyd,' said he, 'As I shall win, lend me your grey horse" Lloyd would have said No. but dare not, so it was at the duke's service and he rode the same horse to the battle of Bosworth, but it was never heard whether Lloyd got his horse again, or was promoted to honour." N. W.S. [A version of this anecdote, without the addition, is given in the Cambro-Briton, vol. 1, page 310. One is also published as a note on p. 449 of the Works of Lewis Glyn Cothi.—ED.] QUERIES. DYLIFE (May 8, 1878).—This Ecclesiastical Dis- trict was formed in the year 1856, and comprises parts of the mother parishes of Darowen, Llanbrynmair, Penegoes, and Trefeglwys. Llanbrynmair contributed 1,200 acres, and Trefeglwys 6,500 acres. Will the incumbents of the two other parishes kindly inform the readers of Bye- gones the acreage taken from their respective livings? IDLOES. LORD MAYOR SWINNERTON. -The follow- ing scanty biography occurs in Price's History of Oswestry, p. 132 JOHN SWINNERTON, son of Thomas Swinnerton, of this town, being bred a merchant-taylor in London, was lord mayor thereof, in 1012. He founded a monthly sermon to be preached in this church, and the churches of Shrewsbury, Ellesmere, and Whit- church, with an annual bequest to the poor of each place. The authority for this is quoted as Rev. W. Roberts's MS." Mr. Roberts was rector of Whittington and Selattyn where is his MS. deposited ? The Swinnerton charity has long been lost to Oswestry (see Reprint of Bye-gones, 1875, p. 209), the money being expended in ob- taining the "Street Act" in 1808-9. What more is known of Lord Mayor Swinnerton? I have seen him styled "Sir John." Why was he knighted ? Is the family still repre- sented in our neighbourhood ? As far back as 1769, in a Turnpike Minute-book, I have seen the name "John Swinnerton of Pentreclauth, labourer," appointed "De- puty-Surveyor at twelvepence per day," and half a cen- tury earlier we have the name in the Parish Registers in 1793, there is also Phillip Swinnerton," a constable ap- pointed by the Oswestry Incorporation. When the siege of Oswestry was raised, July 3, 1644, by Sir Thomas Myddelton, amongst the prisoners taken was a Captain Swynerton." Was he of the same family ? JARCO. REPLIES. SIR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN (July 4, 1877). At this date N.W.S." asked at what works in the neighbourhood of Oswestry Sir Watkin employed miners in 1801, and supplied to their families grain at a reduced price? In the beginning of this century there were collieries at Llwynymaen opened by Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Longueville's grandfather. Llwynymaen at that time was not entirely Sir Watkin's Mr. Gibbons had a small portion of the estate, and so had a gentleman living at Wem; and their shares were afterwards purchased by Sir Watkin. In an article on "Shropshire Patriotism" in the first volume of the Transactions of the Shrop- shire Archaeological Society" (1878) it is stated (p. 275) that the Llwynymaen colliers gave £4 6s. 6d. to the Patriotic Fund of 1798. F. WELSH JUDGES (June 19, 1878).-1 have always understood that the Welsh Judges did not vary their circuits, as the English judges do; and the following extract from a List of Peers, M.P's., and officials, in 1769, will go to prove it Judges of the Grand Sessions for the County in Wales, Chester, Montgomery, Flint, and Denbigh ShiresJohn Morton, Esq., ch. just. Taylor White, Esq. Brecon, Glamorgan, and Radnor Shires;—John Williams, Esq., William Whittaker, Esq. Cardigan, Pembroke, and Caermartlien Shires ;-In. Pullen, Edw. Poore, Esquires. Anglesey, Carnarvon, and Merioneth ShiresHon. Dames Barrington, Esq., James Hayes, Esq. This list follows that of the English judges, who are all given under their respective Courts of King's Bench. Common Pleas, &c. G. G. In June, 1802, Mr. Hugh Leycester, attorney- general of the Chester circuit, was appointed to the Welsh Judgeship on the Anglesea Great Sessions, in the place of Sir Thomas Manners Sutton, solicitor-general, who re- tired. Mr. Maniey was appointed to the attorney- generalship on the Chester circuit, rendered vacant by Mr. Leycester's appointment. It will thus be seen that the judgeships were for separate Welsh circuits, and not for the whole of the Principality. N.W.S. OA the 14th of June, 1828, the late Earl Cawdor addressed a letter to Lord Chancellor Lundhurst on the "Administration of Justice in Wales," in which his Lordship pointed out several glaring abuses, one of the most notorious being the following- Sir Having been directed by A B. to apply to you for ko is. Od. due to him, I have to request you will pay me that sum, together with my charge of five shillings, on or before Saturday next, as I shall otherwise be obliged to commence an action against you for the recovery thereof without further notice. —I am, your obedient servant, C. D. Soon after the publication of Lord Cawdor's letter, a Royal Commission was issued, and two English Judges were sent to South Wales, North Wales, and Chester, who held the Lent Assizes on the circuit in 1831. Before the abolition of the Welsh judicature, the same judges attended, four for South Wales, and the same number (I believe) for North Wales and Chester. F.S.A. Brecon. THE REV. RICHARD EDWARDS (June 26, 1878.)-In the Gents: Mag: for July, 1807, there was an account of the monuments in Oswestry Church, in which was given the following inscription from a brass plate :— The body of Svsanna ye wife of Richard Edwards, viear of the narish davghter of Iohn Parry of Llanbeder m the covnty of Denbigh Esqr was here intered the 13th day or Ivue 16Here alsoethe body of her hvsband Richard Edwards vicar of Oswestry son of Robert Edwards of Rhyd y croese in the parish of Lansilin in the covnty of Denbigh gent was in terred the 24th of Ivne 16SO the memorie of the Ivst is Blessed Pro x 7 As was stated in Bye-gones in 1874 (see p. 47 of reprint for that year) Mr. Edwards's death was recorded in the diary of Philip Henry, in which he was spoken of as a pious, peaceable, and good man." N £ :.IO. BALLOTING FOR THE MILITIA (May 29, oid newspaper records on this subject are curious as shewing the fluctuation in the market price of substi- tutes," and in the pluck and patriotism; or perhaps we should rather say bounce or Jingoeism of Britishers. Thus in 1795 there was such a row at Denbigh because the public anticipated an addition to the militia, by means of a ballot, that a riot ensued, and six men were committed for trial. On the other hand, early in 1797, when the first allotment of supplementary Militia was made in Shropshire, Several respectable tradesmen determined, with a true military spirit, to serve their country personally, and not to hire substitutes. No doubt part of this pluck was due to the fact that active service was not expected, for we find our neighbours in Montgomeryshire, assembling at Cann Offire, during the same month, and deciding, under a bond, not tu pay more than Two guineas for a substitute. However in a little more than twelve months the aspect of atiairs changed, and we are told that, in Sep., 1798, the price of substitutes in Shrewsbury rose to Twenty-guineas each," and that some were punished for engaging them- selves to one man and then selling their service to another. Between these dates the war-fever had been very bad indeed, and the nation had been bled very freely in com- pulsory and voluntary taxation so, as usual, {here was a reaction and the British Lion roared as gently as a suck- ing dove.

Lord Beaconsfield has accepted an invitation to the Ministerial banquet at the Mansion House on Saturday August 3rd.

THE NORTH WALES MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting oi the North Wales Branch of the British Medical Association was held at Llundudno on Thursday, July 11. The president for the ytar, Dr. Wni. Jones, Tynewydd, Ruabon, occupied the chair, and amongst those present were :—Dr. T. Eyton-Jones, Wrexham, Dr. Tumour, Denbigh, Dr. Eyton Lloyd, Rhyl, Dr. Lodge. St. Asaph, Dr. Williams, Denbigh, Dr. Rees, Carnarvon, Dr, GtiflBths, Abergele, Dr. Roberts, Chester, Dr. J. R. Hughes, Denbigh, Dr. Pritchard, Conway, Dr. Davies, ColwynBay, Dr. Evans, Wrexham, &c. The President for the year, Dr. WILLIAM JONES, Ruabon, on taking the chair, was loudly cheered. He said—Gentlemen, and Members of the North Wales Branch of the British Medical Association,—My first duty on taking this chair is to acknow- ledge the honour you have done me in selecting me as your president. I regard your kindness the more highly as I succeed a gentleman so respected and honoured as my "friend Doctor Roberts, of Portmadoc. It is eleven years since we last met at this fashionable watering place, uuder the presidency of Doctor Eyton-Jones, of Wrexham. In a society like ours, consisting of so many members, it seldom happens that our meetings can be altogether unchequered and without alloy. Since our last meeting at Llandudno, many of our members have been taken from us, viz., Doctors )Iaug,haru, Carnarvon, Thomas, of Menai Bridge, Turner Jones, Denbigh, Benjamin Jones, Llangefni, and Doctor Griffiths, of Wrexham, our twice president-elect, who died full of years and full of honour, and who was scarcely ever absent from our meetings, and who always felt a lively interest in all professional matters. The main objects for which we are associated are—the advancement of medical science, the promotion of harmony and good feeling amongst our members, and the collection and diffusion of fact- which may serve to render medical science more signally beneficial to mankind, and the maintenance of the honour and respectability of the pro- fession. These objects are intimately connected, for unless science he diligently and effectively cultivated, the honour and respectability of the profession would rest on a very slight foundation, and no advance in science could vindicate its claim to that high estimation in which it has through ages been held, and which, I trust, it will ever with sensitive jealously preserve. There is one subject which I think ought to be well considered at this meeting, viz., the unqualified assistant," to use Sir Dominc Corrigan,of Dublin's, words at the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, on the 2Sthof June last, when he stated one could not take up a single number of the Lancct without reading numerous applica- tions from unqualified assistants. When an assistant adver- tised he did not think it necessary to say that he was acquainted with the profession, but that he could ride and drive well." Surely something should be done to remedy such a state of things. It was notto be wondered at that the Medical Council had refrained from reporting the examinations of different medical colleges as insufficient, when it had overlooked such gross abuses as those which had existed for the last twenty years. As it is generally a custom to say a few words about the place of meeting, I think I can say that few places can boast of a better sea front or a finer promenade, and one of the most beautiful marine drives in the kingdom, embossed as it is by mountains and by its two promontories, and being three parts surrounded by water, I may say almost an island, andjthe Great Orines Head protecting the town from the north wind, and the porous nature of the soil in keeping it clear from fogs, <fcc., it must bean ex- cellent place for the valetudinarian. (Loud cheers.) The President afterwards showed to the members a number of new, beautiful, and curious surgical instruments, manufac- tured by Messrs. Salt and Son, of Birmingham. Many of them were very minutely examined by the professional gentlemen present, and several appliances relating to sanitary medicine. Dr. Jones also spoke about various new remedies and applications, which indicated the progress that medical science was constantly making. Mr. S. GRIFFITH, Portmadoc, rose to propose thanks to the President for his address, and said We all know him we know him as a sound surgeon, and fond of his profession indeed, he is the very soul of wit; and I am sure in listening to his speech to-day we must all agree that he has admirably sustained his reputation. I beg to propose the thanks of the meeting to Dr. Jones for his address, and that it be entered upon the records. Dr. LODGE, St Asaph, seconded the motion, which, having been put by Dr. Eyton Jones, was carried unanimously. Dr. JONES returned thanks. The hon. see., Dr. EYTON-JONES, read the report of the Council, and which contained the following suggestions:- That the Council recommend Dr. Lloyd Roberts, Denbigh, for the appointment of hon. see. That Dr. Williams, of the North WalesJ Counties Lunatic Asylum, be appointed hon. treasurer. That the intermediate meeting be held in February, 1879, at Llangollen. T'lat the annual meeting for 1S79 be held at Carnarvon in July, and that Dr. Rees be president. The report was agreed to, and a vote of thanks was passed to the Council for their services. On the motion of Dr. PRITCHARD, seconded by Dr. MORRIS, Dr. Rees, Carnarvon, was elected president for the ensuing year, and it was arranged that next year's meeting be held in Carnarvon, and the intermediate meeting at Llangollen. Dr. REES, in returning thanks, said he should do his utmost to give his professional brethren a cordial reception at Carnar- von. The officers were then elected. The Council nominated were Drs. Roberts, Griffiths, and Morris, Portmadoc; Dr. Roberts, Festiniog Drs. Richards and Lloyd, Bangor; Dr. Hughes, Menai Bridge Dr. Owen, Beau- maris Drs. Pritchard and Hughes, Conway. The following were elected representatives on the General Council of the As- sociation, which is to be hela at BathDr. Lodge, St. Asaph Dr. Roberts, Portmadoc Dr. Eyton Jones, Wrexham; and Dr. Williams, Liverpool. Dr. Hughes, Menai Bridge, was elected representative on the Parliamentary Committee of the General Association. Dr. EYTON JONES announced that his business engagements now prevented him from retaining the secretaryship of the Association, a position he had held since the death of Dr. Kemp Jones. He would like to propose the election of Dr. Lloyd Roberts, Denbigh, in his place. (Applause.) He reminded them that Dr. Roberts had been the treasurer, and it was not only for the most admirable manner in which his accounts were kept, but he was most courteous in his business transactions, so much that the treasurer of the General Association, Dr. Foulkes, of London, said that in all his communications he never met with his equal. Dr. Eyton Jones believed that he would make an able and most agreeable secretary. (Applause.) Dr. HUGHES (Denbigh), seconded, and it was earned most enthusiastically. Dr. LLOYD ROBERTS thanked the meeting for the kind manner in which he had been treated, and expressed his unfeigned regret at the retirement of Dr. Eyton Jones. He should do his best to follow in the steps of his predecessor, and give them satisfaction. For the treasurership Drs. Lodge and Williams (Denbigh), were proposed. The latter was elected by eleven votes to five. A number of surgical instruments and specimens of drugs in bottles were exhibited. Papers were read by Drs. Williams, Merris, Jones, Llanrwst, and Roberts, Chester. The banquet took place in the Imperial Hotel. Nearly all the medical gentlemen were present, and the visitors included the Rev. Mr. Nicholas, Rhyl, Rev. H. Rees. Conway, Mr. Roberts, solicitor, Rhyl, Mr. Dew, solicitor, Llandudno, Mr. Felton, auctioneer, Mr. Pritchard, National Provincial Bank, Denbigh, Mr. E. Jones, Ty-newydd, Ruabon, &c. In the course of the day those present at the meeting attended Mr. Smith's stHdio, and were photographed. —

THE WIMBLEDON MEETING. In the competition for the Queen's Prize on Tuesday, July 9th (200 yards—seven shots) Private Davies, 15th Salop (Oswestry), made 34 points. In the Alexandra competition, the first stage of which is 500 yards, Sergt. Woodville, 1st Denbigh, Corporal H. Jones, ditto and Colour-Sergeant Jones, 2nd Denbigh (Ruabon), scored 30 each. In the Queen's Prize Sergt. Smith, 1st Denbigh (Wrexham), 59; Sergt. Woodville, ditto (retired), 41 Private F. Jones, ditto, 71; Corporal H. Jones, ditto, 77; Sergt. Shore, 2nd Denbigh (Ruabon), 71 Colour-Sergt. Jones, ditto, 51; Lieut. Ward, 2nd Flint, 78; Private J. Newton, ditto, 62; Private Bailey, ditto, 73 Private W. Newton, ditto, 68 Sergt. Woolley, 6th Cheshire, 93 Private Boulter, ditto, 85; Sergt. Parry, ditto, 77. Sergt. Woolley is the sixth in the list of lucky marksmen in the sixty to shoot in the final stages of the Queen's Prize at 800, 900, and 1000 yards. In the Cottage prize, 200 yards, Corp. H. Jones and Private F. Jones, 1st Denbigh, made 29 each Sergt. Smith, 27 Sergt. Wood- ville, 18; and Lieut. Wyatt, Ellesmere, 34. Mr. Wyatt also scored 33 at 800 yards for the Graphic prize, and 30 points at 1000 yards in the Henry competition. Will's Prize, Captain Bury scored 42 points, and in the Daily Telegraph prize 31 points. Gen. Albyn, Private Price, 4th Denbigh, scored 34 points. On Thursday, July 11th, the Alexandra Prize of fifty guineas was won by Private Cameron, of the Queen's Westminster, with an aggregate score of 63, out of a possible 73. Three men tied for the silver medal, given for the highest aggregate score at the three shorter ranges, for the Queen's Prize. These three were Sergeant Lamont, 1st Queen's Edinburgh; Corporal Molyneux, 40th Lancashire and Private Lowe, Queen's Westmin- ster and they each scored 95 out of a possible 105. Corporal Betts won last year with a score Qf 92. The average shooting on Thursday was considerably higher than last year, and twenty-five men, with 88 points each, will have to shoot off for eight places in the sixty. On Friday, great interest was manifested in the shoot- ing off the ties for the silver medal, which, amid much cheering, was won by Private Lowe, of the Queens's Westminster. In the St. George's Challenge Vase Com- petition (500 yards) Lieut. Bury (5th Denbigh) made 32 points and won 98; Lieut. Ward (1st Flint) made 32 points and won 27; Private Skitt, of the Whitchurch corps (3rd Salop), made 32 points and won k6. The highest score made was 31 points. In the|Glen Albyn competition, 200 yards, Private Price (4th Denbigh) made 34 points and won JM. In the Alexandra competition, 500 and 600 yards, Captain Bury (5th Denbigh) made 56 points. On Saturday, the chief competition of interest was that for the National Challenge Trophy. The Irish Twenty were ahead at the two hundred yards range, but the English team ultimately won by 70 points. The St. George's Challenge Vase ties were shot off amid great ex- citement. Sergeant Gratwicke (1st Exeter) and Sergeant Peat (Surrey) tied after three shots with 12, but Gratwicke having made a bull's-eye to Peat's outer, won the £100. The China Cup, 500 yards, was won by Devon, with 2C4 Edinburgh winning £15. with 256. Corporal King (15th Middlesex) won the Snider Association Cup with 34. The Belgian Cup, for volley firing, was won by the 1st Berks. In the National Trophy scores on Saturday, Lieut. Bird (18th Salop) made 23 points, at 200 yards, 16 at 500, and 20 at 600—total, 59. The highest score was 97. Lieut. Ward 2nd Flint, shot with the Irish Twenty and made 24 25 and 24 points—total, 73. The highest score was 90! In the Graphic prizes Private Wyatt, of Ellesmere, made 33 points and won £ o. The highest score was 34. On Monday the shooting for the Albert Prize, which was won by Private Humphry, of Cambridge University, was attended with much interest. Mr. Humphry s score at the three ranges was made up of eighteen bullseyes, two inners, and a magpie, and thus only three shots were outside the bullseye disc. At the 200 yards in this com- petition there were thirteen highest possible scores, and Sir Henry Halford made fourteen successive bullseyes at 200 and 500 yards. The marksmen whose aggregate scores were the same as Mr. Humphry's were, Major Young, of the 39th Middlesex, and Sergeant Scrivens, of the Vic- torias. In the Albert competition at 200, 600, and 000 yards Lieut. Ward (2nd Flint) made 33. 31, and 33 points, total 9/, and won £ 10 and Private Wyatt (Ellesmere), shooting with the Metford rifle, made 33, 32, and 31. total 96, and won £ 7. In the Curtis and Harvey competi- tion at 1000 yards Lieutenant Ward made 3^ points, and won k3 1.5s. In the Henry competition, Private Wyatt (Ellesmere) made the highest score of 30 points, and won £20. Private Rae, 11th Sterling, has won the Queen's Prize with a score of seventy-eight.

TIDE TABLE FOR ABERYSTWYTH, ABERDOVEY, AND BARMOUTH. July. Aberystwyth. Aberdovey. Barmouth. a.m. pTmT a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Fri 19 10 10 10 31 10 45 H 0 10 25 10 40 Sat' "20 10 47 11 4 11 16 11 33 10 56 11 13 Sun.21 11 21 11 39 0 8 11 30 Mon °2 — 0 16 0 26 0 45 0 6 0 2o Tues'23 0 37 1 1 1 6 1 30 0 46 1 10 Wed .24 1 27 1 56 1 56 2 25 1 36 2 5 Thiv .25 2 30 3 12 2 59 I 3 41 :2 39, 3 21

CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS.—Approximate return of traffic receipts for the week ending 14th July, 1878. Miles open, 178^. Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 2,489; mer- chandise, minerals, and live stock, £ 1,640 total for the week, £ 4,135. Actual traffic receipts for the eorrespoml- in" week last year. Miles open, 178}. Passengers, parcels, &c., £ 2,599; merchandise, minerals, and live stock, £ 1,743; total for the week, £ 4,342. Aggregate from commencement of half-year to this date, £,OHJ; last year, £ 8,346.. Th3 Daily News Constantinople correspondent, tele- ) graphs that a great conspiracy against the Sultan has been discovered, and that more than fifty persons have been arrested. It is said that several people in con- gpicuous positions are implicated.

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Illustrated, sent post free each for two stamps. Watches sent safe fey post. Benson's new work, Times and Time Tellers, 2s. 6d. _————————— A RID ETa K H I V A. BY CAPTAIN FRED BURNABY, Royal Horse Guards. Page 13 says :—" Two pairs of boots lined with fur were also taken; and for physic—with which it is as well to be supplied when travelling in out-of-the-way places—some quinine and Cockle's pills, the latter a most invaluable medicine, and one which I have used on the natives of Central Africa with the greatest possible success. In fact, the marvellous effects produced upon the mind and body of an Arab Sheik, who was impervious to all native medicines, when I administered to him five COCKLE'S PILLS will never fade from my memory and a friend of mine, who passed through the same district many months after- wards, informed me that my fame as a medicine man' had not died out, but that the marvellous cure was even then a theme of conversation in the bazaar." SEE BURNABY'S RIDE TO KHIVA, page 13. GOOD FAMILY .N/EDI CINE CHEST, with a prudent use, has saved many a life and vet we think the idea may be improved upon, and reduced to a more simple form. Take some good compound, such as COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, and we find that the desired end may be obtained with- out scales and weights, or little mysterious compartments or enchanted bottles, with crystal stoppers. Others might be UBed, but C0CKLE.S pILLS, as tested by many thousands of persons, and found to answer their purpose so well, may be set down as the best. -Obsemcr. Cockle's Antibilious Pills, In use for the last seventy-eigh years for INDIGESTION. In boxes at Is. lvsd., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. 2 Cockle's Antibilious Pills, In use for the last seventy-eight years for BILIOUS AFFECTIONS. In boxes at Is. lid., 2s, 9d., 4s. Gd., and Us. Cockle's Antibilious Pills, In use for the last seventy-eight years for LIVER COMPLAINTS. In boxes at Is. 1., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. Cockle's Antibilious Pills, In use amongst all classes of society SEVENTY-EIGHT YEARS, ay beIIJ had throughout the United Kingdom, In boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lls. 2 18, NEW ORMOND STREET, LONDON. BUSINESS ADDREBblib- ABER^STWTTm E. JONES, (Late MORRIS JONES) COACHBUILDER Moor Street, Aberystwyth. CARRIAGES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER Repairs executed by First-class orkmen. JOHN TJIKBR, RLydypenau Farm, Bow Street. -N_ BY the request or numerous fnend- duced to take a VALUER'S IJCE^CE, and he will be happy to attend to the commands oi con_ leaving their farms or requiring a Valuer s se Dected with land or stock. BINDING OF ALL KINDS -TED CHEAPLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED. ORDERS RECEIVED BY rr.lirVTS J. GIBSOX, 3, QUEEN'S-ROAD, ABERYSTW FOR SALE, 800,000 BRICKS, Ready for delivery at any station on the Cambrian 0 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 CoiKpanJ^ whose Coal will be forwarded to any Station on the above Railways. A Cargo of WHITE'S CEMENT will arrive shortly. 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, Puddmg^ and Tarts, made daily or to order. Oyster and >e* Patties, Fruit and Preserve Tarts, Cakes. "Buns, &c., fresn daily. Tea and Coffee at any hour of the day. T. & W. BUBB, PAINTERS, PLUMBERS, GLAZIERS, GAS- FITTERS. HOUSE DECORATORS, PAPER HANGERS, & GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHERS, Terrace-Road, Aberystwyth, and Newtown. Agent for Broiler's BURNERS, and Wright'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 0X4rHIRE. DOLGELLEY. JAMES B. -NIEE, 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 alicays on hand, and supplied by the pound and Upwards. IfF Note the Address:- Bridge End House, Dolgelley. RICH-KRD ELLIS, Unicorn Lane, Dolgelley, GENERAL BILL STICKER, POSTER MESSENGER, &c. 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. TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. NOW Landing, an excellent cargo of PITCH PINE, ex Glanalvon," from Danen.-Carefully selected May, 1878. A Cargo of FLOOR BOARDS, planed and square- jointed. Very clean and well manufactured. Worthy of inspection.—July, 1878. SEVERAL CARGOES EXPECTED TO ARRIVE. WINDOWS, DOORS, all sorts of MOULDINGS, Angle Beads, &c., manufactured on the premises. JONES AND GRIFFITHS, ABERDOVEY, Y.NYSLAS, AND MACHYNLLETH. ø- Orders to be sent to Aberdovey. Saw Mills at Ynyslas. "01 When you ask. for Reckitts Paris Blue See that you get it, as bad qualities are often substituted. "SANITAS," This incomparable colourless Fluid is the most powerful, cleanly, and agreeable Disinfectant and Antiseptic known- A REALLY MARVELLOUS DISCOVERY." "QANITAS" is the best preventive against the >0 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, fu*T niture, carpeting, &c. It is strongly recommended by the highest medical authorities. Q AN IT AS is the only preservative of BEER kept io in the house two fluid ozs., costing a few pence, should be added to the 9-gallon cask. QANITAS should be used in every LATWDKV to bleach the clothes and prevent the spread of ^eC~. tion. Half a pint should be added to every 20 gallon of water used in rinsing the clothes. Prices.—Bottles. 1st Quality only, Is., Is. 6d., 2s. Gd.; in bulk, 1st Quality, 20s. per gallon, 2nd Quality, =*• TOILET "SANITAS." j{ This preparation is the most luxurious of its removes the odour of tobacco, sweetens the breatn, proves the complexion and the growth of hair it wW the teeth and prevents dental caries. In Elegant ±>° at 2s. 6d.. v Pamphlet with all particulars free on application "SANITAS" COMPANY, 57, Moorgate-street, l^ncl £ "'leSije SANITAS may be had of Chemists and Wn Druggists, or direct from the Company. THE LEADING PAPER r0Iv t?TS CARDIGANSHIRE, MERIONETHSHIRE, s° CARNARVONSHIRE, DELIVERED by Post, or at any 2d Cambrian. Great Western, or -gc( jn ad- Milford Railway, for Twelve Months, tor e • vance. Tr,UTfl THE CAMBRIAN *f may be order*') Delivered by agents (through whom i ,;<i. in a* on Friday morning, for twelve mor.ttis, ^.gt At'e;; vance, &t all the places mentioned in Published by J. GIBSON, Aberystwyth; — Q T> a 1 & i JACOB J O > E s D. LLOYD, Portmadoc. +