The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

NOVEMBER 6, 1878. NOTES.. MUNICIPAL FINES AT OSWESTRY.—Mr. Francis Campbell was the second mayor elected by the Oswestry Council, after the passing of the Municipal Corporations' Act, and he was appointed Nov. 9, 1836. At the same meeting "certain fees were atrreed to, the highest the Act permits, to be levied on all who should decline to act as Mayor, Alderman, or Councillor; other fines were also agreed to for non-attendance of members at the meetings of the Council." JAKCO. PRESENTS TO SHERIFFS AND MAYORS.— Pennant in his History of Whiteford and Holywell, p. 37, saye it was formerly the custom for friends and neighbours to make presents to the Sheriff to assist in defraying his expenses. He gives one list as a specimen, when Pyers Pennant was sheriff in 1612. In this list we have money, cows, wethers, geese, wheat, butter, chicks, capons, muttons, &c. At the time he wrote, 1799, I presume the custom had died out, for he speaks of it as one that prevailed earlier than his time. It would appear, how- ever, that the custom was observed in relation to Mayors at a period subsequent to the date at which Pennant wrote. I have seen a list, in MS., which has been preserved by the family of a Mayor of Oswestry, dated very early in this century, in which the presents to him on his accession to office are enumerated. They consist of wine, tongues, rum, turkeys, cake, sugar, game, geese, nuts, fowls, cheese, candles, malt, &c., but no money. In those days the Mayor was expected to give at least seven dinners during his year of office, viz. :— The grand feast after election, one more select on the Sunday he marched to church, one each quarter to the grand jury after the sessions, and one to the various officials aud hangers-on of the corporation. At "The Feast" given by the Mayor I am referring to, 105 gen- tlemen sat down to dinner, and 129 bottles of wine were drunk. And the officials, who enjoyed the chief-magis- trate's hospitality at the Cross -Keys, were not by any means behind their betters in their performances, for 21 of them drank 31 bottles of wine, besides malt liquor, cyder, perry, and punch. JARCO. QUERIES. COMMANDER INGRAM, R.N.—Can any of your readers furnish me with particulars of time and place of death and burial of this officer. He was living in 1859, but was then close upon 80 years of age. He was a member of an old Montgomeryshire family—the Ingrams of Glynhafren, Llanidloes. N. CHIRK CASTLE ESTATE,—In the Advertizer of Oct. 1G, I notice the following paragraph :— CHIRK CASTLE ESTATE.—By the death of ——- Jones, Esq,, by a fall from an unruly horse, Sep. 9, 1742, 1:18,000 a year, a portion of the Chirk Castle estate, comes to John Myddleton, Esq." Can anyone inform me who this Mr. Jones was, and how came he to receive a portion of Chirk Castle Estate, and also if there are any of his descendants now living, and who and what are they. INQUIBKNS. THE DISCOVERER OF THE MICROPHONE. "Prof. D. E. Hughell, the discoverer and inventor of the microphone, was born in London in 1831. His parents were both Welsh, and emigrated to America, while he was still a child. They settled in Kentucky, and there young Hughes received his education."—CasselVs Family Maga- zine. It would be interesting to know something more of the native place, &c., of Prof. Hughes's parents. The late discussion respecting the merits of Welshmen should stimulate anyone possessed of additional facts to make a note of them in Bye-gones. H. REPLIES. RELICS AT WHITTINGTON CASTLE (Oct. 16, 1878).—Some few years ago, while travelling by rail through Whittington, one of the passengers, a miner, stated that some years ago, when the coal trade was in a depressed state, he and some other colliers borrowed a waggon and loaded it with coals, and with ropes at- tached, drew it from Ruabon through Chirk, Gobowen, and on to Whittington. The Rev. C. A. A. Lloyd was then Rector. He purchased the coals, and engaged the men to mud the Castle pool, and in doing so they found several things of ancient date, which they handed over to the Rector. The ponderous iron fetters which A.B.C." seems rather dubious about, are now, and have been for yeus past, in the possession of the Rev. A. R. Lloyd, Hengoed, with other interesting relics. When the Wes- leyaus of Oswestry had their last bazaar in the Public Hall, they had a small museum in connection with it in a room down stairs, and among other curiosities, these fetters (kindly lent by Mr. Lloyd for the occasion) were very conspicuous. "A.B.C." may have an idea of their nature by supposing he had a pair of heavy pony fetters, without the chain—the irons out on the ancle, and then a heavy bar of iron put through them, and secured by a padlock. Their weight, at a rough guess, appears to be between 20 and 30 lbs. ALPHA. CAMBRIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY (Oct. 16, 1878)p- Alwydd neu Ajcoriad Paradwys cannot be a very scarce book. I saw a copy of it in the possession of a friend some years ago at Weymouth. I copied the title page, but cannot now state whether it was a complete copy or not. On the other side of the title page was the follow- ing John Jones, Glan y Gors, ydyw perchenog y llyfr hwn. Mae yn y llyfr lawer o gelwyddau Sancteiddiol a Bendigedig. Cafwyd y dyfr hwn mewn siop yn Llundain. Awst, 1813." This note may serve to identify the book. E. xx* There are more points of view than one in looking at a question. From Mr. Silvan Evans's doubtless my communication was "unnecessary." From my point of view it was not, and I am glad to find that the editor of Montgomeryshire Collections agrees with me, for he has quoted my information in a note on p. 377 of the second part of vol. xi., recently issued. JABCO. GUNPOWDER PLOT DAY IN CHESTER, 1772.—The following somewhat singular, and exceedingly frightful accident took place in Chester on the 5th of Nov., 1772. The writer, communicating the particulars to the papers on the following day, says :— Yesterday being the anniversary commemoration of the gunpowder-plot, a great number of people of both sexes me, women, and children, went in the evening to see George Wil- liams's puppet-show, exhibited at a place called Eaton's dancing- room, in Water-gate street; it unfortunately happened, that a neighbouring grocer had, within a few days before, lodged a quantity of gun-powder in a cellar under the show-room, which proved the cause of the most dreadful catastrophe ever known in these parts for between eight and nine o'clock the powder took fire, (how, or by what accident is not yet ascertained) and blew up the floor, a room over it, and the roof; shattered the walls, which were of stone, and amazingly thick, and communi- cating with the scenes, cloaths, Ac., instantly set the whole room in a blaze. Thus in a moment were the major part of the com- pany buried under massy ruins, surrounded with flames, without any possibility of extricating themselves; so that (besides those who were burnt to death, or killed upon the spot by the fall of heavy stones and timber) scarce one escaped, without being either so miserably scorched or crushed, that few can survive. The explosion was very great,and attended with a convulsion which was felt in the extremity of the city and suburbs. This alarming circumstance incited many people with a curiosity of enquiry into the cause; which, when known, it is impossible to express the dread which every one was possessed with for the safety of their family and friends. But when the dead and wounded were seen borne upon men's shoulders along the streets, the scene became affectingly deplorable. Some fainting away, others cry- ing in the bitterest anguish, distracted with the loss of nus- bands, wives, children, and relations; in short, the general horror and confusion on this melancholly occasion, is much easier to be imagined than described. The number of dead a e computed at forty that ot the maimed, scorched, and wounded, forty-two, in the general infirmary. Among the former are Williams, the showman, nis wife, and a child about four years old. The number of the wounded are, by later accounts, in- creased to sixty-six. Much damage is likewise done to the adjacent buildings several houses being overthrown, and win- dows shattered to pieces at an incredible distance by the ex- plosion. The foregoing is taken from the Annual Register for 1772, pp. 136-7; and your readers will find a reference to the event in the notice of John Bowden, in Mr. Salisbury's Worthies; second series, now publishing in your pages. NEMO. A WELSH MUSICAL CHILD (Oct. 9, 1878).— In the Wrexham Recorder, a magazine published in 1818, in imitation of the Oswestry serial called Oswald's Well, the following notice of Miss Randies appeared On the first of August, 1800, was born at Wrexham, Elizabeth Randies, daughter of Mr. Edward Randies, organist of the Church, and a most excellent performer on the harp, the same as mentioned bv Miss Seward, in her poein Llangollen Vale. Mr. Randies was blind. Miss Randies appeared before the public when only two years old; she played Ar hyd y IIOS," and The Downfall of Paris," on the pianoforte, at the Wrexham Theatre: and before she attained her fourth year she had the honour of performing before the Court of George the Third, and Queen Charlotte; on which occasion her father played the harp (on which he greatly exceeded all performers of his day), and the good old King came up to him and said. Ha • blind, blind, I see-who taught you to play ?" Mr. Randies said that it was old Mr Parry, the celebrated Welsh harper of Wynnstay. 0 said Mr. King, I remember him well; he and his son used to play Handel's Choruses, thirty years ago, on two Welsh harps: he was blind, too-yes, blind like you-poor fellow-I remember it well-it is full thirty years ago. Through the in- fluence of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Miss Randies was patronized by the first persons in the land, and a large sum was raised for her. The Princess of Wales afterwards Queen Caroline, wished very much to adopt the child and offered to give her the best education, &c., but the poor dark minstrel could not bear the thought of losing .his darling Sappho. She went, however, to pass a week at the Princess's house at Blackheath; and was consequently a good deal with the late Princess Charlotte of Wales. On one occasion when the two little prattlers were amusing themselves, the Princess said to Miss Randies—" Do you know, Bessie, that my Grandfather is King of England, and that my father is Prince of Wales?" "Well," said the little Welsh lassie, And my father is organist of Wrexham." Miss Randies became ultimately a first-rate performer, both on the harp and piano- forte and she fixed her residence at Liverpool. She died in 1829, at the age of thirty. Mr. Randies died in the autumn of 1820 It was on the pianoforte that Miss Randies first made her mark, and we are told in the Gambrian I raveller$Guide, 1813, that "at 6 years of age this extraordinary child could play the most complicated music, and sing anything laid before her at first sight." Her friends took her a musical tour in 1807-8, and she then retired for education, "and has lately," adds my authority, "applied her abilities to the harp." N.W.S.

FACTS AND FANCIES. .r, A backwoods journal has this advertjsemeBt- "Found, a first rate buckskin mitten. If the owner will kindly leave the other at the office of this paper it will greatly oblige the finder." SELF-EXAMINATION.—An art critic (says the Paris Figaro), going into a gallery in a state of mild inebria- tion to criticise some pictures, sees himself in a glass, and taking out his note-book, writes as follows: "First room; head of drunkard ,no signature, has a great deal of charac- ter; red nose remarkably truthful. Must be a portrait from life, I think I've seen that face somewhere. A rustic rhymer being called upon to write an epitaph upon a Deacon Wood, who was present, penned the following :— Within this wood lies a Deacon Wood, The one within the other; The outside wood we know is good, But doubtful is the other. Typographical errors (says Lloyd's News), it is well known, will creep into the most carefully printed works, but we were surprised to find it stated in the official list of awards made to British exhibitors at the Paris Exhibi- tion, that it was "issued by order of his Royal Bighness the Prince of Males This cannot be taken as a new French title for the Prince, seeing that the list is sent out by the "printers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty." ADVERTISING IN AMERICA.—The San Francisco Even- ing Post says :—" An ingenious tailor of this city got a lot of empty pop bottles, put one of his business cards in each, then wrapped up every bottle separately in a poisoned tender loin steak, and threw them into the bay from the ferry boats, one by one. He naturally supposed that the meat would be swallowed by sharks, that the poison would kill the latter, that the fish would float ashore, be cut open, the bottles discovered, the fact re- ported by the newspapers, and an original and effective advertisement secured. That was precisely what hap- pened. Day before yesterday a yatching party picked up an inmense shark not far from Alcatraz. In his stomach was found one of the bottles alluded to, and the card it contained handed to a reporter of this paper. The name of the clever merchant it contained will be pub- lished at our regular advertising rates if so directed by him. See terms on inside page."—American Paper. INGENIOUS BUT FAULTY.—A well-known Sacramentan who had been out with the boys" until three o'clock in the morning, felt a trifle uneasy as to what his wife would say upon the subject, and determined to adopt a little piece of strategy. He entered the house cautiously, noiselessly took off his boots, and made his way to the bed-room. He was not so obfusticated but that he knew it would be dangerous to get into bed so, after disrobing, he took up a position by the side of the baby's cradle, and began rocking it like a 49-er. His wife, aroused by the noise, discovered him, as it was part of his deep-laid scheme that she should, and called out, What are you doing ?" Doing ?" he replied, keeping the kinks out of his tongue by an almost superhuman effort. I'm trying to get this—baby asleep !—she's been crying half an hour, and you've slept through it all His air of righteous in- dignation was well put on, but it wouldn't do—luck was against him. What do you mean ?" his better half sternly responded. I have got the baby in bed here with me, and she hasn't cried to-night When did you come home ?"

FROM LONDON LETTERS. The following characteristic story about Lord Beacons- field was new to me when it was told me this week. The authority for it is the late Mr. John Abel Smith, who was the much respected member for Chichester for so many years. In 1831 Mr. Smith was a candidate for Chichester. He had finished his canvass in good time, and went down into Buckinghamshire to assist his father, who was a candidate for that county. At High Wycombe he met Mr. Disraeli, who had been brought out for the borough, under the recommendation of Mr. Hume and Mr. O'Connell and heard him make a radical speech. Mr. Disraeli was defeated for High Wycombe, and nine days afterwards Mr. Smith heard him make a Tory speech at Aylesbury, under the protection of the Marquis of Chandos —with such suddenness had his conversion been effected. Many years afterwards Mr. John Abel Smith sat in the House of Commons, and listened to one of Mr. Disraeli's furious attacks on Sir Robert Peel for deserting his party. A number of the Whig gentlemen of the day felt deeply the insults which were heaped upon the First Minister, and Mr. Smith crossed over the floor and imparted this story to Sir Robert, telling him that he might use it if he chose. Sir Robert thanked him, but declined, saying that he never would consent, under any provocation, to make the House of Commons the theatre for personalities.8ir- mingham Post. The criticism on Mr. Gladstone's speech at Rhyl does not come within my province, but I may be allowed to say with regard to the failure on the part of the Prime Minister to substantiate the charge against Mr. Gladstone of having used offensive epithets," that the search for them has been made, and has been made as I hear in a Government office by Government officials taking Govern- ment pay for so doing. The result, however, was that it was deemed advisable to let the matter drop.—Birming- ham Post. It is worth stating, as an illustration of the grave dis- like felt in official circles for Lord Lytton's frontier policy, that it was only after persuasion he could obtain the aid of some of the officers he has placed high in command. I have authority for saying that when one very eminent soldier was appointed to the expedition he consulted with his friends as to whether his duty did not call upon him to demonstrate his disapproval of what he was called upon to do by resigning his commission. After all he thought it the part of a soldier to do as he was told- Tha political question was not his business, and he has taken a very high place indeed in the army, Yet ,one can guess, when soldiers doubt whether they ought to fight, what is the feeling amongst the members of Lord Lytton's own council. -Liverpool Mercury. Lord Sandhurst is that strange anomaly a penniless peer, bnt he will not be so long. He is about to marry Miss Beamont, the daughter of Mr. W. B. Beamont, of Bretton Park, Yorkshire, who gives her a sum of £ 100,000 on her marriage. The mother of the bride-expectant is Lady Margaret, daughter of the first Marquis of Clan- ricarde.—Liverpool Mercury. Lord Dufferin's return and his very kindly reception everywhere have been productive of two strange rumours. One is to the effect that he will succeed Lord Lytton, the other that he will succeed Sir H. Layard. What a blessing it would be if we could change either our Indian viceroy or our ambassador to the Sultan. But, of course, we have no reason to hope for any such luck. Our bed has been made for us. We must lie on it.—Liverpool Mercury. Journalism is becoming polite. Imperialism begins to grow meek and quiet. Witness the mode of controversy indulged in by the paper written by gentlemen for gentle- men. Mr. Malcolm Ai'Coll—not of Hatcham, for be is married, but, as he is always called for the sake of dis- tinction, Mr. "Unmarried" Malcolm M'Ooll—declares that the majority of the Rhodope commissioners were unable to sign the report. The Pail Mali Gazette thinks that he made an assertion which can be disproved. It indicates its views by declaring that this gentleman may be a very good Ritualist, and among Ritualists may be accounted a very good priest; but a worse Christian never disgraced the true religion of humanity. As for the veri- ties— Thus abruptly the Pall Mall concludes. But what about the amenity?—Liverpool Mercury.

POETRY. A PARALLEL. [" Look here, upon thiR picture, and on this The counterpart presentment of two brothers."] As some bedizened juggler at a fair, With bleared eyes blinking in the footlights' glare, With hand on breast, and head with tinsel c.owned, Grins to the grinning numskulls hustling round; And as his ears drink to their fatuous shout, Believes himself the greatest Wonder out," And now one trick, and yet another tries, While blue-lights flare, and rockets rend the skies, Too dazed te see, too self-absorbed to hear, The sights, the sounds of terror drawing near; Knows not—or knowing, cares not—that the town Burns with the fire his reckless hand has thrown, — So stands he, in his plentitude of power, Illustrious Cagliostro of the hour,- To whom the world is, and has ever been, Less real than the actor's mimic scene Men hollower than the Stage's hollow shams Ruled by chicane and cheek" -plus epigrams— Reckless of Truth and Honour's sacred laws, So brainless "Jingoes" bellow coarse applause Reckless though Commerce languish, freedom die, Blood flow like water, scorn and contumely Fall upon Crown and people, so that he May pose as lord of the world's destiny, High Jove of persiflage and hurl abroad His igneous word-bolts worthy such a god While ever louder gathers from afar The growl of hate, the tramp of coming war; And outraged justice calls from clime to clime, England, beware I watch and bide my time And this is Peace, with honour 1" -such the phrase He mouthed while listening Europe, in amaze, Heard the mad shouts that hailed it, and laughed low With joyful scora to see us grovalling so, In worship of as very a charlatan As ever wore the guise and name of man; Dupes to a brazen front and flippant tongue, Abettors of his perfidy and wrong; God grant, not victims of the Nemesis That follows close on madness such. as this o England queen of half the world hadst thou Been faithful to thy glorious mission now, As in elder time, thou still hadst proved The Pole-sta of the Nations—trusted, loved, And honoured guide and helper of the weak From strength to strength o mnipotent to wreak Vengeance when Right was trampled by the strong. But now ? Say, hoodwinked People, say, how long Must this great Shame oppress us ? If ye still Cherish the name of Freemen,—if your will, Not wholly paralyzed by ease and gold, "let lives a power within you. as of old,- Arise and act! It is not yet too late To purge your guilt, to escape the righteous fate Of faithless empires, and, like free-born man, To champion Freedom, Truth, and Progress one again —From the Spectator.

TIPYN 0 BOB PETR. The marriage of the Bishop of Lichfield to the Hon. Miss Barrington is fixed for the 10th of November. Last week the Mayor of Carnarvon entertained at tea all the Sunday Scholars in the town and their teachers, about 3,000 in all. On the 1st of November, the turnpike gates of the Ruthin Trust between Wrexham and Cerrig-y-drudion ceased t8It is announced as a great boon that the four lb. loaf oan now be purchased at Aberystwyth for 7id. The price at Oswestry is 5-Jd., or at most 6d It is stated that Mr. Lewis Morns author of the Epic of Hades, has accepted the office of hon. sec. of the University College of Wales, in conjunction with Dr. ES'annual meeting of the Chin Agricultural Improve- ment Society was held on Wednesday, October 30 Amongst the speakers were Sir Baldwyn Leighton and ML^&ardrGrosvenor opened a bazaar at Mold on Wednesday, Oct. 30, on behalf of the Cottage Hospital The Duke of Westminster, the Bishop of St. Asaph, and many other influential persons were present. The Rev. Lewis Lloyd, head master of the Friars Grammar School, Bangor, has been offered the post of principal of Christ College, Brecon. The appointment is worth about £1,500 a year. A few days ago a young woman, in the service or Mrs. Welch, the Cross, Malpas, was sitting by the fire when her clothes ignited. She screamed out and assistance was at once given, but she was severely burnt. Miss Simpson, who has gratuitously acted as choir mistress and organist of Yockleton for the past seven years, was the other day presented with an address and a purse containing £20 from the parishioners in recognition of her services. The Athenceum states that a new work by the author wf "The Epic of Hades" (Mr. Lewis Morris) will appear at Christmas. It takes, our contemporary believes, the form of a dramatic poem in monologue. W 8 learn from the A.ihcn.ctu.vti that a small volume of Stray Thoughts," from the notebooks of tho late Dr. Rowland Williams, is now in the press. A reprint of an Essay on Faith is also included in the volume, which is edited by Mrs. Rowland Williams. At Market Drayton Sessions John Hanmer, waggoner. was committed for trial on the charge of unlawfully wounding a horse, the property of Mr. Donaldson Hudson. He denied the offence and said he did not know how the injury was inflicted. The wound caused death. The South Wales bards, probably dissatisfied that the national eisteddfod should be held alwaysin North Wales, have decided to hold a national eisteddfod next year at Cardiff. It seems to be the opinion of the bards that the persens who take part in the proceedings should be ex- clusively Welsh. A meeting of the Wenlock Farmers' Club was held last week for the discussion of agricultural leigislation. Mr. R. A. Benson opened the discussion, and amongst the lubsequent speakers were Mr. Stanley Leighton, M.P., and Mr. Jasper More, as well as the chairman, Mr, Severne, M.P. On Wednesday morning, Oct. 30, a fire was discovered in the stackyard of Mr. Ellis Jones, of Erlas. A messenger was despatched to Wrexham, and the fire brigade went to Erlas with all possible speed, and extinguished the fire, after a stack of wheat, one of oats, and one of straw had been destroyed. The property was insured. The St. Helena Guardian records the death of Thomas Evans, of the 53rd regiment, at the age of ninety, the last of the veterans of the Peninsular campaign resident in St. Helena. Evans.who was a native of Shrewsbury, was one •f the guard which accompanied Napoleon to the island, and he was employed for some years as gardener to the emperor at Longwood. The new parish church at Halkin, which has been built by the Duke of Westminster, was consecrated on Tues- day, Oct. 29, by the Bishop of the diocese. The sermon was preached by the Vicar of Wrexham. At the luncheon which followed it the Bishop said he did not remember to have seen another church like it. It seemed to him to be a model of church building. At Ruthin Petty Sessions last week Wm. Jones, a boy ef fourteen, was charged with stealing 8s. from the kitchen at the Cloisters while the house was locked up the lad, who was employed in the garden, broke in and stole the money. He at first said that a tramp had stolen it and threatened him if he told anyone, but he after- wards confessed. He was sentenced to seven days' impnson- lBent. At the Chester Assizes on Wednesday, October 30, Joseph Garner Coleclough, a young man holding the post •f bugler in the 1st R.C M. staff, at Chester, was indicted for having sent a letter containing a threat to murder Ada Mary Hayes, a girl, who resided with her mother in Pepper-street, Chester. The judge suggested that the pri- soner should withdraw his plea of Not guilty" and enter into recognizances to keep the peace and to come up for judgment when called upon. This course was adopted. At Market Drayton Petty Sessions a man giving the name of John Smith was charged with stealing a horse to the value of £52 at Market Drayton. The horse was lost at Drayton dirty fair, and Mr. George Smith, veterinary lurgeon, of Tunstall, who was at the fair, was informed •f the loss. As he drove home he kept a look out for the horse, and he overtook the prisoner leading it, and took him into custody. The man was committed to the Quarter Sessions, and Mr. Smith asked the Magistrates whether he was justified in making the arrest. The Clerk told him he had done quite right. The coming-of-age of Mr. Reginald Corbet, of Adderley, was celebrated last week by public rejoicings at Adderley. An address was presented, and there was afterwards a dinner at the Corbet Arms, Market Drayton, at which the Rev. A. Corbet presided. The rejoicings were re- sumed on Thursday, Oct. 31, on the Childs Ercall section •f the estates. The tenantry and workmen, to the number •f over 200, dined together under the presidency of the Her. J. P. Noble; tea was supplied to the women and children, a larg* quantity of meat was distributed, and the festivities wound up with a dance. The attack of Russophobia is getting very bad in some quarters. A Conservative contemporary of last week gays "The worst phase of Radicalism is again rampant among us, and the boisterous atrocity fanatics, after having in turn bespattered Russians, Bulgarians, and Monten- egrins, with the slime of their approbation, have now set upShere Ali, the enemy of England, as their champion, to whom unpatriotic Radicalism must reverently bow. Russia, the arch-treaty-breaker who has recently disgraced humanity by her scandalous and inhuman war, is about to deluge Europe again with blood, and has set up the Ameer of Cabul to insult us before the world, while the Ctar plays his blood-thirsty game on tha European chess- board The prizes won by the Ruthin Volunteers were distri. buted on Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the Assembly Room, where Mrs. Naylor Leyland presided, supported by Mrs. Capt. Adams and Mrs. Goodrich. Capt. Adams in a short speech said they had 95 efficient volunteers out of a popu- lation of 3,000, and there was hardly a town in England with so large a proportion of men who gave up three or four evenings a week to drill. At the close.of Capt. Adams's speech two squads contended for a prize in the bayonet and review exercise, and the winners were declared to be Private Robt. Middleton and Corporal Wm. Gill. A ball was afterwards held in the Assembly Rooms. On Sunday morning, Nov. 3rd, the Roman Catholic school-chapel, dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, at Saltney, near Chester, was opened with the customary ceremonies. The Very Rev. Father Pacificus was cele- brant. In the afternoon there was luncheon in the schoolroom. Among the toasts were Pope Leo XIII," "The Queen, "The Bishop of Shrewsbury," "The Earl of Denbigh, "The Duke of Westminster," "The Countess of Denbigh and the Ladies Fielding," "The Tophain Family," "The Altar," &c. At night there was a grand procession of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Francis's. The school-chapel at Saltney has been erected at a cost of about £1,000. A paper in Notes and Queries gives a description of the weights and measures used in Cheshire. The measure" •f wheat varies from 70 to 75 and 80 Ibs., and four measures make one load. But it is more common to stipulate that wheat shall be 14, 15, or 16 scores to the load, and grain is always sold by measures, half-loads, and loads. Potatoes are sold by the score of 21 lbs., and by the load of 12 score 12 lbs., i.e. 2521bs. cheese is sold by the long cwt. of 120 Ibs. A peck of apples weighs 14 Ibs., of pears 16 lbs., of plums 18 Ibs. Cheshire square measure ruus thus :—64 yards = 1 rood; 40 roods or 2,560 yards = 1 quarter; 4 quarters or 10,240 yards = 1 acre. In the standard code 4 gills make a pint; in Cheshire a gill mems invariably a pint.

CHARGE OF STABBING A GAMEKEEPER AT WELSHPOOL. Robert Horley, a person of notorious character, was arrested on October 28, on the serious charge of stabbing Thomas Jones, gamekeeper on the estate of Lord Powis. The wounds inflictedupon Jones fortunately did not prove to be dangerous. The prisoner was brought up in custody on Wednesday, October 30, at Welshpool, before Samuel Davies and D. P. Owen, Esqrs. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Charles Jones, Welshpool. Thomas Jones said—I am under gamekeeper to Lord Powis and live at Hope, in this borough. Last Sunday, October 27 I was ont in a wood at Cletterwood, belonging to Lord Powis. At half-past eleven o'clock in the morning, I saw the prisoner on land occupied by Mr. Bickerton. He turned up to the gate of a field and stood there. Then he went across the land. I went up to him, and he said, ."Good morning" He was walking away, and I said, You have got a good hare under your arm," and I caught bold of the hare when he drew a knife and cut me across the arm. I followed him, and he threatened to rip me up. But I overtook him at a place about two miles away. I asked him for the hare, and he threw on the ground a handkerchief in which it had been wrapped. It contained nothing then but ferns. Prisoner said, "Give me my handkerchief." He still had the open knife in his hand. I then left him, and returned and found the hare near to the place where we first met. Prisoner—Did you follow me with sticks ? Witness—Yes, I had a stick. I Prisoner—How many times did you strike me with your stick ? Witness-I struck at your arm when you had the open knife in your hand. Prisoner-Was the hare shot ? Witness—It looked as if it had been hanged, and it was fresh killed. rp, T Mr. E. T. D. Harrison said—i nomas Jones came to me yesterday, Oct. 2!J, and on the right arm I found a severe cut, and I dressed it. It is just such a wound a* would be made by the knife produced by Sergeant Breeze John" Hughes said—I am nephew of Ihomas Jones, and am on a visit to him. On Sunday, Oct. 27, I was out with my uncle at Cletterwood. [Witness then corroborated the prosecutor's evidence.] „ „. T Field Evans said-I live at the Gelli, Cletterwood. John Hughes came to me on Sunday, Oct. 27. I accompanied Thomas Jones and John Hughes to the Irydd, where we found the prisoner under a hedge. '1 he prisoner had an open knife in his hand, and a bundle by his side. 1 he prisoner ran away, and we three followed him to the top of the hill. He had the knife in his hand, and he turled back and struck at Thomas Jones, but did not hit him. Prisoner told Jones to stand back or he would rip him up. Prisoner then ran away, but we followed him, and fuwind him under some bushes.—After this witness had been questioned by prisoner, i i .i_ Sergeant Abraham Breeze said—I apprehended the prisoner on 28th October. I met him at the Powis Arms, and charged him with unlawfully wounding Thos. Jones. He said he had his knife in his hand at the time trimming his nails, and he him a cut across the arm to keep him off, as he thought he had no right to interfere with him. I asked him for the knife, and he gave it to me. The kll1f. produced is the one he gave me. The pri-one:1 was then committed to take his trial at the next quarter sessions.

SPEAKIXG OF CHAPMAN'S ISNTIiili WHEAT FLOUR,, a writer in the Christian World says-"Many of the first nhvsicians of the d.ty are prescrioing no other medicine for their little patients, an.1 it is astomsiiiiig sometimes hov, children who htive IJined on n. diet of fine white Inker's bread, will thrive when fed 'on well cooked porridge made oi this 'Entire Wheat Flour. Sold by Chemists in Gd. and 8 packets, and 3s. tins

FROM THE PAPERS. The Nottingham cotton operatives have unanimously resolved to oppose the ten per cent. reduction in wages. A telegram from Naples states that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius appeared to be at its height. In the Lower house of the Hungarian Diet, on Satur- day, iiov. 2nd, Herr Tisza laid a copy of the Treaty of Berlin on the table. Mr. Justice Lush and Mr. Justice Denman have been placed upon the rota for the trial of election petitions dur- ing the coming year. Two of the wings of Maynooth College were destroyed by fire on Friday morning, November 1, the damage being estimated at £10,000. A fire which destroyed property worth some £50,000 occurred in a linen warehouse in Manchester on Saturday, November 2. A great lockout of agricultural labourers in Kent and Sussex commenced on Saturday, November 2, the men refusing the reduced pay offered by the farmers. The Crucifix which Louis XVI. wore on the morning of his execution has bean left to Pope Leo XIII. as a legacy from his cousin Mgr. Prosperi, who has recently died. It is stated that the Pope will confidentially take the opinion of the British Cabinet as to the appointment to the vacant see of Dublin. A meeting of the Committee of the National Feder- ation of Liberal Associations was held on Tuesday in Birmingham. Representatives were present from a large number of towns. The correspondent at Rome for the D&ily News states that by the side of the Valle Theatre, a church, built by the American Baptists at a coat of £4,000, has just been opened. The first service was held Oil Saturday night, November 2. It is seurii-oiffcially stated that the ultimatum which has been sent to the Ameer requires that his reply shall be forwarded to Peshawur by November 20, or else the British troops will advance into Afghanistan. The municipal elections in the boroughs of England and Wales took place on Friday, November 1. Most of the contests were governed by political considerations, and upon the whole the balance of change was favourable to the Liberal party. The death is announced from Paris of M. Garnier- Pages, who was one of the organizers of the reform ban- quets which led to the revolution of 1848, and was Minis- ter of Finance under the Provisional Government. The Telegraphic Journal has authority for stating that the Edison mode of electric lighting is by the incan- descence of a resisting metal. It is proposed to bring out at an early date a large c. Edison Electric Lighting Com- pany," with a view to filling the immediate demand for electric light (until Edison's system is ready) with the other means at command. None of the City of Glasgow Bank Directors were liberated on Tuesday, so that all are still in prison save Mr. Stewart. The Glasgow subscriptions to the fund for the relief of the City Bank shareholders, now amounts to £61,500. Some dissatisfaction is expressed at the an- nouncement that none of the money raised by the national subscription would be allowed to go to assist shareholders in meeting their calls. The coroner's inquest regarding the Princess Alice disaster was resumed at Woolwich on Tuesday. The Coroner stated that he intended to call Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Mare as to the construction of tae Princess Alice. The inquest was then further adjourned until Monday next, when the Coroner will sum up. The Foreign Office issued on Tuesday Bight some im- portant correspondence which has passed between the Governments of England and France relative to the policy of England in occupying Cyprus and undertaking the protectorate of Asiatic Turkey, and the effect of that policy upon public opinion in France. In the Arches Court, on Saturday, November 2, Lord Penzance referred to the interference of the Court of Queen's Bench with the monition issued in the Prestbury ritual case, and expressed his opinion that the Lord Chief Justice bad usurped the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, and exceeded his power with respect to writs of prohibition. The point will shortly be discussed in the Appeal Court. The Medical Press and Circular learns that already more than 100 medical men have succumbed during the yel- low fever epidemic in America. Whilst the citizens of all shades and grades were panic-stricken and in full flight, to the honour of the profession be it said, not one quitted his post of duty, and many even volunteered their services from parts where the fever was not raging. The gratify- ing announcement has been made by the Board of Health of New Orleans that the epidemic is at an end. Mr. Stewart, one of the City of Glasgow Bank direc- tors, was on Saturday, November 2nd, admitted to bail, the amount of the bond being £15,000. On Saturday, at a private meeting of leading citizens of Glasgow, to consider the best means of raising a relief fund for the distressed shareholders of the bank, a sum of over £30,000 was at once subscribed. It is said that the other Scotch banks are considering the propriety of voting a large sum out of their reserve funds. It is calculated that without unduly reducing these funds, the banks might between them. con- tribute a million sterling. Dr. Pusey was announced to preach the University ser- mon at Oxford, on Sunday, November 3, and St. Mary's was crowded with members of the University long before service commenced. Dr. Pusey was, however, too unwell to be present, but his sermon, whijh was read by Canon Liddon, was an eloquent defence of theology from the at- tacks of natural science, which was welcome to its conjec- tures so long as it did not claim to have them received as truths. Professor Huxley, speaking at Manchester an Saturday night, November 2, said he did not believe in the natural decay of nations, and was inclined to think that theory was invented by cowards to excuse knaves. His belief, so far as the old English stock was concerned, was that it had as much vitality and power as two centuries ago, and that after pruning and weeding we should get pro- ducts as good as we had had before. The weeds he recegnized were three—dishonesty, sentimentality, and luxury. On Tuesday Oct. 29, at Chester Assizes, Lord Justice Thesiger sentenced a brutal young fellow named Stanton, of Birkenhead, who first struck his wife twice heavily with the poker, and then kicked her on the>ihead and jumped violently on her breast, to twenty years penal servitude. His Lordship observed that he could not help thinking that too much leniency hati been extended to crimes of violence as compared with crimes against pro- perty, but as long as he had the honour of a seat on the Bench he would do his utmost to vindicate the law in all such cases, The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by their suite and Sir Cunliffe Owen, on Saturday, the 2nd November, visited the Bible stand at the Trodadéro entrance of the Paris Exhibition. They examined the various editions of the Scriptures with great interest, and were informed by Mr. Alexander, the manager of the Paris kiosque, that the Society had dis- tributed a million and a half of Bibles in twenty-two languages. Their Royal Highnesses accepted and took away with them one of the smallest Bibles in the world, printed at Oxford. A gentleman living near Calcutta, has (says the Times of India) discovered a new practical use for the microphone, which promises to render it useful in the detection of crime. Having for some time missed oil from his godown, he fixed up a microphone near the oil cans, carrying the wire upstairs to his bedroom, and after the house had been closed for the night sat up to await the result. He was not long waiting before he heard the clinking of bottles, followed by the gurgling sound of liquid being poured from one receptacle to another. Hastening down he caught his bearer in flagrante delicto filling small bottles with oil, for easy conveyance from the premises. A frightful accident occurred on Friday, November 1st, at the new station in course of erection by the London and North-western Railway Company at Holyhead, by which two men were instantly killed, and another seriously in- jured. A number of bricklayers had just completed the fixing of a heavy cornice of brickwork on one side of the wall, fifty feet high, and, as they were onthe point of leav- ing, the overhanging portion proved too heavy for the hold which the cornice had on the wall, and gave way. The weight smashed the scaffolding on which the men stood, causing them to drop to the bottom of the wall, accompanied by broken planks, bricks, and stones, which fell upon them and caused instant death to two. A third almost miraculously escaped with some severe injuries about the head. Her Majesty's troopship Malabar, three guns, which left Portsmouth on Friday, November 1, with troops for Plymouth, en route to India via Suez, was towed into Plymouth on Saturday in consequence of her machinery having broken down. She was found at 5.30 on Saturday morning seventeen miles east-south-east of Start Point, signalling for assistance, by a steamship Benjamin Whitworth, from Carthagena, and taken in tow and brought on to five miles east of Plymouth Sound. The Malabar and Benjamin Whitworth were joined by two Government tugs, and the troopship was thus brought into Plymouth Sound. The M labar has 100 troaps on board. The son of Colonel Lovett. of Belmont, near Oswestry, is an officer on board this vessel. We are sorry says (The Law Times) to receive con- firmatory evidence of the prevalence of perjury in county courts. A solicitor and advocate in county courts writes —"I have for many years practised in the district in which Mr. Barrow now presides as judge, and in which Mr. Serjeant Miller formerly presided. The latter may fairly be considered one of the most acute and learned judges who ever sat on the bench, and he unfortunately had frequent occasion strongly to pronounce his opinion as to the prevalence of perjury amongst witnesses. Mr. Barrow, our present judge, has been struck by the same utter disregard of truth in the witness-box. The matter is serious enough to invite inquiry, and I venture to think the testimony of our county court judges would be unani- mous upon the subject. After making allowances for mis- takes in certain cases, and after giving the world at large credit for truth and honesty, my painful experience com- pels me to agree with Mr. Barrow in his estimate of per- jury in the county courts. Its existence is unfortunately too palpable to be doubted, except indeed by those who close their eyes to facts." It is surprising (says the Lancet) to find anyone, unless pledged to the maintenance of the exploded system of train- ing in Workhouses.extollingthe value of these institutious as homes for young children, as compared with the boarding- out system when properly worked. The assertion that the physical results of the training in district pauper schools are pronounced by physicians, and proved by statistics, to be of the highest order," is so astonishing that we cannot help thinking there must be some mistake as to the fact of any sensible person having made the statement even at a meeting of the Social Science Con- gress. The reverse is the truth, as must be perfectly well known to the medical officers of Workhouses and all who have had opportunity of forming a practical judgment. We leave to the common sense of the country the question whether it is true that the outcome of these institutions is of the highest order, enabling children to get good places, and keep them in after life;" but as to the health and physical question generally we have no hesitation in giving the assertion credited to Mr. Tufnell an unqualified contradiction. The condition of the children in the workhouse schools is very far indeed from being satis- factory to the medical profession, and we hay; recently pressed for an enquiry as to the causes of the unhealthi- ness and mortality that prevail. It would be well if the warm advocates of any system or policy would take their own strength of view as a reason for being especially careful not to regard, and consequently to represent the facts in a way calculated to mislead.

The Medical profession are now ordering Caaoi.ry s Cocoa Essence in thousands of cases, because it contains more nutritious and flesh-forming elements than any other beverage, and is preferable to the thick starchy Coco, ordinarily sold. When you ask for Cadbury's Cocoa Essence be sure that you get it, as shopkeepers often IJlUÓ imitations for the sake of extra profit. Makers to the Queen. Paris depot: 90, Faubourg St. Honore. Tumble over and die on the spot." HILL'S MAGIC VEK- MIN KILLER is certain death to Rats, Mice, Ants, Beetles, Cockroaches, and all kinds of Vermin. Sold by chemists, Ac., in pi'.jKets, 3d., Gd., and Is., and by the proprietor, E. Hill, Wellington, Somerset. Sent post free for 7 or 14 st:tlUps. Lon: don Agents Barclays, Sangers, &c. Local Agent: G. J. Saunders chemist Oswestry.

THROAT IRRITATION.—Soreness and dryness, tickling al1: irritation, inducing cough and affecting the voice. For these symptoms use Epps's Glycerine Jujubes. Only in boxes 6d. ano Is., labelled "JAMUS Errs < £ Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, 4 Threa.dneedle St., and 170, Piccadilly, London." AN EVENING BEVERAGE.— Epps's Cacaoine (Quintessence of Cacao) is equally liquid and refreshing as tea, afforiing more- over a sterling support to the system. Unsweetened. Each packet (6d.) is labelled JAMES & Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London. Chest Complaints.—Thousands die annually through neglect- ing a simple cough or cold. MEDICATfclD BALSAM gives immediate relief, and completely cures coughs, colds, in. fiuenza, asthma, bronchitis, difficulty of breathing, consump- tion, and all chest complaints. It contains no deleterious sub- stances, i8 agreeable to taste, and can be taken by the most delicate adults and children. Testimonials have been received from a)l parts of the world. Sold in bottles. Is. ltd., 2s nel 4s. 6d., and 11s., by the maker, Edward Hill, Wellington, Somer- set.-London gents: Barclay & Sons, II arrlOgdoll-street, and F. Sanger & Sons, 150, Oxford-street, and most other chemists throughout the kingdom. Try it, and recommend it to your friends.—Local Agent: G. J. Saunders, chemist, Oswestry. IIOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—Shortness of Breath, Coughs, and Colds.—Thousands of testimonials can be produced to prove the power possessed by tltest corrective remedies in cases of asthma, incipient consump- tion, and all disorders of the chest and lungs. The Oint- ment, well rubbed upon the chest and back, penetrating the skin, is absorbed and carried directly to the luii'p, where, in immediate contact with the whole mass of cir- culating blood, it neutralises or expels those impolitic, which are the foundation of consumption, asthma, bron- chitis, pneumonia, and similar complaints. On the ap- pearance of the first consumptive syinptons the back ami chest of the patient should be fomented with warm brine, dried with a coarse cloth, and Holloway's Ointment then well rubbed in. Its absorption will subdue advancing symptons, and baffle this formidable foe. ,0

THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. Sir William Harcourt, writing to the Times upon the subject of the execution of the Treaty of Berlin, says that that fate is overtaking the foreign policy of the Govern- ment which sooner or later arrives to all shams—it is being found out. It is understood that now, instead of peace with honour," what the Government is driving us to day by day is the dreadful alternative of war or dishonour. The Daily News ventures to think that the present Gov- ernment will soon find a good many of their followers who were noisy and wild a little time ago about the Berlin Treaty growing sane again, and will have an unpleasant time of it under the altered conditions. The painful growth of cool reflection has been very marked indeed since the day of the red cloth and the triumphal entry to which Mr. G ladstone made allusion in his speech at Rhyl. The Spectator says that Lord Beaconsfield, it is gener- ally admitted, appears to have no intimates and but few close friends. That Lord BeaconsfieLl has almost illimit- able audacity no one who knows his career *nd his books can doabt. It has been his greatest inheritance. Very few of his colleagues have shared that audacity, and con- sequently perhaps their genius has qn-i')"d liK

The Academy says—The lie v. liooeru Wnuauis, ot Rhydycroesau, has now ready Part IV. of his Si lections from the Hetuiwrt MSS. at Penial.tlt, containing Campeu Oharlemen" and "BownoHamton," being the medi- aeval romances of the" Gests of Charlemagne" and" Bevi" of Hampton," in WeL-h prose of A.D. 1:>3(;. We are sorry to find that Welshmen do not support Williams's im portant series in the way that Scotchmen do their anti- quarian publications. The present part is only a guinea, and we hope it will bring in many additional subscriber-. KEOKHTS PAltIS BLUE.—The marked superiority ci this Laundry Blue over all others, and the quick appre- ciation of its merits by the public has been attended with the usual result, vi/„ a tiood of imitations the merit oi the latter mainly consists in the ingenuity exerted, not sitnply in imitating the square shape, but making the general app .'arance of the wrappers resemble that of the genuine article. The manufacturers beg, therefore, to caution all buyers tOj;0e ICeckitc's Paris Blue" on each packet.

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PATENT AMERICAN EYE LIQUID 1 li has gaiued a world-wide reputation, and is acknow- ledged to be the most invaluable remedy ever introduced into England dimness, aged, weak, watery, sore, blood- shot kills specks colds,inflamed, near sight, overworked, and every disease of the eye cured, ncr matter how long standing. Sold by all chemists, Is. lid. and 2s. 9el.: from EDE'S Eye Liquid Depot, Birmingham, 15 and S3 stamps. See Testimonials and opinions of Pre-s, Post Free. BUSHTRSS ADDRESSES. ABERYSTWYTH. E. JONES, (Late MORRIS JONES) COACHBUILDER Moor Street, Aberystwyth. CARRIAGES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER Repairs executed by First-class Workmen. JOHN BAKER, Rhydypenau Farm, Bow Street. BY the request of numerous friends has been in- duced to take a VALUER'S LICENCE, and he will be happy to attend to the commands of gentlemen leaving their farms or requiring a Valuer's services con- nected with land or stock. BINDING OF ALL KINDS CHEAPLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED. ORDERS RECEIVED BY J. GIBSON, 3, QUEEN'S-ROAD, ABERYSTWYTH FOR SALE, 8 00,00 0 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. 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 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. Well.aiM Beds. 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 OX-HIRR. ¡ SECOND HAND MACHINERY j DEPOT. NOTICE To Mine and Quarry Proprietors, Agents, Ac. McILQUHAM, MACHINE BROKER, ABERYST- WYTH, HAS always Mine and Quarry Plant and Machinery for sale, and is open at all times either to purchase or sell the same on commission. Wanted wrought scrap iron, condemned hemp and Manilla ropes, ¡ metal, &c. Parties who want to sell Surplus Ma- chinery, or who wish to purchase Mine or Quarry Plant,cannot do better than apply to the above address. I have now on hand several good Second-hand Waterwheels, from 150 down to 18 ft. diameter; Steam En- gines, Boilers, capital Drawing Machine, Pumps, Miners' Tools, Steel Borers, Air Pipes, Strapping, &c., &c. I will supply New Bridge or T Rails from 14 up to 23 lbs. per yard, on rail at Aberystwyth, in not less than 2-ton lots, at £.6 10s. per ton nett cash. IDOLCIELLEY. —' JAMES B. MEE, FISHMONGER, GAME DEADER, 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 notioe. Ice always on hand, and supplied by the pound and Upwards. BlNote the Address :— Bridge End House, Dolgelley. RICHARD 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 Darien.—Carefully selected May, 1878. A Cargo of FLOOR BOARDS, planed and square- jointed. Very clean and well manufactured. Worthy dt inspection.—July, 1878.1 SEVERAL CARGOES EXPECTED TO ARRIVE. WINDOWS, DOORS, all sorts of MOULDINGS Angle Beads, &c., manufactured on the premises. JONES AND GRIFFITHS, ABERDOVEY, YNTSCAS, AND MACHYNLLETH. IS" Orders te be sent to Aberdovey. Saw Mills at Ynyslae. When you ask for i it I £ i- W. i I J.. 'r.,ot..¡" -I ¡ ¡ B" ë./ I 1: 1' ¡ J 'Q!.). See that you i.t, asbad^qualities are. often substituted.; 1. Ii U. t. "SANITAS." This incomparable colourless Fluid is the most powerful, cleanly, and agreeable Disinfectant and Antiseptic known A REALLY MARVELLOUS DTSrowpv." "O AN IT AS" is the best prevents, against tr>« O spread of Small-pox, Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever, Hay Fever, Foot-and-mouth. Cattle, and all Infectious Diseases. IT IS NON-POISONOCS and has no injurious action on the priest clothing, fur- niture, carpeting, &c. It is strongly recommended by the highest medical authoritW Ct C* ANITAS is the only preserve;n kept fO in the house; two fluid ozs., c>>st'ins; a few pence, should be added to the 9-gallon cfl-k O ANITAS should 1¡C used iu eve. > I. u .NOKV to bleach the clothes and prevent the >read of infec- tion. Half a pint should be addwt t. > very 20 gallons of water used in rinsing the clcthes. Prices.—Bottles, 1st Quality only, 1., h. 2s. Gd.; or in bulk, ht Quality, 20s. per gallon, m i Quality, 5s. TOILET This preparation is the most luxr.riou- of its kind; it removes the oiour of tobacco, sweeten-, no breath, im- proves the complexion and the growth of ,ir it whitens the teeth and prevents dental caries. It; Elegant Bottles at 2s. 6d. Pamphlet with all particulars free on application to the "SANITAS" COMPANY, 57, Moorgate-^tr^et.' London, E.C. SAIN HAS niaj. be hud of Clieirnst.- and W^holesalo Druggists or direct from the Company.