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TIPYN 0 BOB PETH. "'V"<w- It is proposed to open cocoa and cofFee rooms at Llandudno. An order has been issued for the election of a bchool Board for the parish of Stirchley, Salop. The St. Eleth lodge of Freemasons, at Bangor, has com- missioned Mr. J. D. Mercer to paint a portrait of Mr. Bulkeley Hughes, M.P.. „7 The Rev. W. Roderick, late minister of the Welsh Baptist Chapel at Rhyl, has accepted the pastorate of "Libanus," Clwtybont, Llandinorwic, Carnarvonshire. It is stated that Mrs. Theodore Martin has promised to take the part of Beatrice at the opening of the fc»nak- Bperian Memorial at Stratford-upon-Avon. The new cocoa rooms at Rhyl were formally opened on Tuesday, Feb. 4, by Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.land Mr. John Roberts, M.P. I* A Volunteer and Hussar Officers' Ball was given in the Town' Hall, Denbigh, on Thursday evening, Februaiy 6. The proceeds of the ball are to be devoted to t of the No. 3 Volunteer Corps. T Earl Dynevor and Sir John W. B. Hansel were un- successful candidates at the receiu trienma e Llandilofawr, Llandyfeisant, and Bettws (Carmaitaen- shire), U.D. School Board. A new market at Wenlock was opened last week, -ihe new building has been designed to harmonise with the ancient buildings that surround it. Mr. S.. > It is stated that the Grand Lod," e of. Good TerRplars have completed the arrangements for an f Sund'av of the Welsh boroughs, on the question of a Sunday Closing Bili forthe Prmcipahty Tljnrs. At the meeting of the Ludlow 1 town with «f f6'000 — adopted, Mr. Curley^obeth^engine^. Much At Lord Forester s returned to each farm tenant Wenlosk, ten per cent, was rewind °u^f his half-year's rent. Carnarvon,shire, which The vicarage of Dolw^deia de Eresby, has been 18 in the gift of Lady Hushes, of Chester, and de- offered to the Rev. William rtugm-S) u cHned by him. <( Drink Traffic ought it to be The question of A i ;siation? was discussed at made the subject ^J^^erary and Debating Society » meeting of the Ches members unanimously held on Wednesday, leb. o. Toted in Frank well, Shrewsbury, It is said that Mr. n dgtwenty-five miles a day every arural postman has walked each Sunday> for week day and twelve and & miles^or nearly three times and a half the circumference of the world. amateur dramatic perfgrmance in ';y6» Guari," Maddi.on fior- ton's far°e '<wr {or ^rel"sh books and periodi- cals said that the Unifce(i States, and one weekly cals is quite larg }an £ ?uage has a circulation 'jf £ ,000 paper printed m that wngu ,g T_ j copies and "a good Une ot «ive.ra t y Griffiths's Y JJrych, P" liberals held on Wednesday At a meeting of Chester m from sir Thomas evening, *eb. 5th,alette differences between Frost recommending that a they shoald unite the party should be> M Healso advised them to form togetheras one great y- fo[. organizing the committees and to_ taice pn H r • ted Pa^y- An e^ecl't„1^T^c^w of some historical interest was A dwelling-house^ Crosse, on Wednesday, Feb. 5. offered by auction, by resjdenCe of the clergy and The property was the oiiginai reside Guild -n was given, with an eBJowment^oy hag from that period been held in succession by the trustees of the cliarity held last week, the directors l erjty 0f the shareholders *5^ L five cocoa ■undertaking, and s a directors were in treaty houses aiready established^ erection of a with the join 7 end 0{ Brook-street to supply SwanteCof that neighbourhood. A dividend at the rate S teTper cent. per annum was declared and £ 50 was carried to the reserve fund.. ,T „ Thursday, Feb. 6. Mrs. Annie Howell, Carmarthen, the wife of a sea captain, who sailed four months ago wi committed for trial at the Assizes on the charge of ™Mf,?llv murdering her child three months ago. Her SiSi Clement, and before her mama™ she itis-encrally believed'that at the time of the alleged murder the accused was suffering from temporary ^Tn^the Chancery Division on Friday, !February 7, a petition was presented before Vice Chancellor Malms for the windin- up of the Carnarvonshire Slate Company, by MrXrtoS, the holder of 153 shares, fully paid up, and as a creditor for £ 50. The company appeared, and con- ^nted to the winding up. His such instances always held that a fullyp P*™ JP ? holder did not require a winding-up ordei. But lieie it was alleged that the £ 30 was simply due as director s fees. The petition was a most reprehensible waste of time, and would, thereforej dismissed. „ £ At the Chester Assizes, on Friday, Feb. 7, before Mr. Justice Manisty, Thomas Brookes (20) and fhos. Webb (19) were indicted for robbing and violently assaulting John Gibbons. Prosecutor was returning from Northwich to his home at Rudheath, when prisoners rushed out of a hedge, seized him roughly, threw him down, and while one leant on him and pressed a loaded revolver to his head, the other rifled his pockets. The jury found pri- soners guilty, and the Judge said he hardly knew if he ought not to sentence them, in addition to a term of penal servitude, to punishment by flogging. A few years aeo thev would have been hanged for such an outrage. He sentenced each of them to seven years' penal servitude. In a letter to a Welsh contemporary Captain Verney, R.N., gives a hint to begging correspondents, of which we imagine they hardly stand in need. He points out that "with a general election now clearly in view, there can be no excuse for the funds of societies in well managed communities being low. There are many wealthy men longing to get into Parliament, some to whom even to have been a candidate is a coveted distinction They are, as a rule, men who milk freely. It is an intense «niovment to the electors to dangle such a man at the end of a string, particularly if they have already made up their minds to throw him over at the ballot box. In conclu- «ion the gallant Captain makes the rather malicious extensive restoration on n y^ d for open sittings ^iiT&d cs of Staunton stone. The new east ■mndow is fiUed with glass of a beautiful design, and t stained crlass been placed at the west end and filled with stained glass the design of which is partly floral and partly geometrical." The old entrance to the church nas been enclosed by a handsome por■ .• acrintiona received towards the restoration iuna «cnptions receiveu Th total cogt was amount to upwards of wa<, £ 1,950. Mr. R. Lloyd Williams, of■ Se architect, and Mr. Daniel Sheen, of Chester, t&e con tractor. The preachers at the openi g throueh Dean <»f St. Asaph (in the absence of the Bishop through illness), and the Ven. Archdeacon Smart. An extraordinary case of imposture noorlv-clad pened a few days ago at Altnncham. A ^orly clad "woman went to the house of Miss ■= > novertv don, represented that she wasinan abje l -n(T dead in and destitution, and that her husband y.. °' the house. Miss Fail-bank informed the she was not in the habit of giving assistance without visiting the houses of those seeking it. The Iter to be good enough to do this, and she subsequently did so She found every appearance of squalor and des- «t«Ton,i„a to v?ri!y the tmth of the she went upstairs to see the corpse, which covered with rags. On going down stairs she ga woman some money and went away, leaving er in the house. She shortly afterwards returned for the tunbrella, when she was horrified and disgusted to find the "corpse" and his wife dancing about the kitchen, ap- parently delighted with the success of their experiment. On Thursday evening February 6, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins delivered a lecture at the London Institution, in which he gave a summary of what has been learnt from Sit and cave explorations of the inhabitants of Britain uring the later part of the later stone age, in whom we found many of the rudiments of the culture which we now enjoyed. Turning to the evidences as to where these "I ..1-1- -.L .1-' people originally came from, the Professor saia mat ine work of archaeologists on the Continent had shown that the Iberian, or as he would call it, Welsh race, was wide- spread over Europe. At fairs in some of the Welsh towns the Iberian element could be traced in some of the people who came to them from out-of-the-wayplaces. St. Asaph was remarkable in this respect. In Ireland, too, small, <lark men were to be seen, who, if put side by side with the Basque, could .not be distinguished as regards type. The "English who invaded the old Welsh" or Iberians of Lr Island were, on the contrary, tall, fine people, with liorht hair and blue eyes, as was known from history. Although these old Welsh were driven to the mountain ^witnesses there could hardly be a doubt that the raven tresses and flashing dark eyes we sometuneB came across to modern. English people were traceable to them. There armears to be some ground tor Hoping that jury- mtv, »'f"hr,,is'*( £ s hitherto been erfe'ultd Wrontde says that at the Chester « caa6) .«had and cheese and a pickled onion. The consequ that instead of being imprisoned for the night in one ot the long square barns at the Castle, the jury were taken to the Grosvenor Hotel at the rising of the Court, pro- vided with a dinner in the commercial room, and lodged in separate sleeping apartments afterwards.' The only difference made between them and other guests at the hotel was that their bedroom doors were carefully locked and a javelin man was put to sleep in the passage ad- jacent, and, it is said, snored there with enormous vigour." It is satisfactory to find jurymen treated a little better than the prisoners they have to try. Our contemporary shrewdly suggests that the change may have something to do with the fact that the judges have insisted that spe- tal jurymen shall be no longer exempted from serving on IIHrlOn juries. Sergeant Major Walker, late of the 7th Hussars, in --hich regiment he served for twenty-six years, died re- "°ently at Chester in his 90th year. He was troop sergeant- in the 7th Hussars. The deceased serve.1, under Duke of Wellington, and was presented with medals services in the field in the Peninsula as well as at Waterloo. After his retirement from the regular army he J^auae attached to the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry ^valry, from which he retired in 1864, having served ^together in the army and yeomanry more than half a rjfltury. Prior to leaving the Yeomanry, the Arley to which he was attached, presented him with a ) .Borne silver cup and a purse of money, as an acknow- ,Ktftent of his efficient services during twenty-six years 6 had been connected with the yeomanry regiment. The i was made by Captain the Hon. A. Lascelles 1° the presence of Lord De Tabley, Sir Philip Egerton, nd others. Captain Lascelles. in the course of his "Pewh, said to the old sergeant-major, Take this cup Place it on your shelf and hang your medal them remind you of the two periods of y°ur life the actively engaged in fighting for your country, the other ?'the more peaceful duty of training the yeomen forher 5.efen0e." The veteran briefly replied, warmly tha,nking g^tuin Lascelles, Lord De Tabley, Captam Adjutant and all the troop, for the honour they had done J*1"! on his retiring from ths active service of the regi raeut.
FEOM THE JPAPERS.
FEOM THE JPAPERS. Lady Lytton was safely delivered of a son on Thursday, Feb. 6. The Swiss railways carried last year a million fewer passengers than in 1877. Mr. Gladstone has presented the Rev. Wm. Luther Leeman, son of Mr. Leeman, M. P., to the vicarage of Seaforth, Liverpool. Several new cases of plague in the district of Astrachan, around which a cordon has been drawn, were officially re- ported to the Russian Government on Saturday. The committee of the Reform Club have conferred the privilege of a month's honorary membership on Mr. Bret Harte. The Bishop of Sodor and Man has put forth an appeal, which is endorsed by Mr. Gladstone, on behalf of the re- storation of St. German's Cathedral, in the Isle of Man. The Prime Minister has appointed Sir Richard Wallace, K.C.B., M.P., to the vacant trusteeship of the National Portrait Gallery. The Queen has conferred upon Mr. Francis William Rowsell, late director of navy contracts, the honour of the Companionship of the Civil Division of the Order of the Bath. A call for nearly R12,000 in respect of the costs incurred by the cotton trade riots of last May has been made upon the unions in the Blackburn hundred, and a "riot rate" of 2d. in the pound has been levied. It is feared that this will not be the only call. Sir F. Leigh ton, President of the Royal Academy, was presented with the freedom of the Turners'Company, in the Guildhall, London, on Monday, Feb. 10. A similar honour was conferred on Mr. Charles Manly, President of the Royal Institution of Engineers. An explosion took place on Monday, Feb. 10, in the finishing-house of the Chilworth Gunpowder Mills, which destroyed the building and blew up two workmen, named Goodchild and Baker, almost to pieces. A Constantinople telegram announces that a Conven- tion has been concluded between England and Turkey, by which the former agrees to purchase the State lands in Cyprus, the Sultan retaining his private estates, which are of large extent. Enoch Whistonwas hanged in Worcester County Prison on Monday morning', February 10, for the murder of Alfred Meredith, at Dudley. The execution was con- ducted with strict privacy. Representatives of the press were not admitted, only the officials being present. Mar- wood was the executioner. A curious historical relic, which figuredin the Universal Exhibition of 1867, has just fallen into the possession of a lady in Hungary. It is the distaff which Maria Antoin- ette used in spinning during her imprisonment. It is made of ebony wood and ivory, inlaid with silver, and still bears the hemp which the ill-fated Queen left there on the eve of her execution. A meeting of the friends and supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held on Thursday, February 6, at which rewards amounting to 2423, were granted to the crews of lifeboats for services rendered during the past mouth. Payments amounting to £1,641 were likewise made on different lifeboat establish- ments. A novel incident occurred at Monmouth on Friday, Feb. 7th, relative to the election of an alderman. There were two candidates, Messrs. Hyam and Vizard, and the votes were equal in number for each. The Mayor, Mr. J. Thomas, having an equal respect for both, tossed up to decide, and Mr. Vizard won the Mayor's casting vote. Dr. Norman Kerr, in a paper read before a medical society in London, on "The Mortality Arising from In- temperance," makes the startling statement that he estimates that 120,000 persons die yearly in the United Kingdom from alcoholic excess—40,000 from personal intemperance, and the remainder from proverty, disease, and violence, or accidents through the intemperance of others. The little building in the Rue Rochechouart, Paris, where M. Loyson, better known as Father Hyacinthe, in- tends for the future to conduct divine worship, was opened en Sunday, Feb. 9th. In the course of his sermon Father Hyacinthe said he he was neither the founder nor the preacher of a new religion. He was a French Catholic, and stood by the old Gallican Church recognized by the Popes of the middle ages. The Princess Louise is said, by the Times correspondent at Ottawa, to have declared a liking for her Canadian home. The Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by the Duchess and a Russian fleet commanded by a Russian Prince, will arrive at Halifax during the early summer. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Argyll are under promise to visit Canada during the vice-regal term of the Marquis of Lome. The Bishop of Norwich has been subpcenaed to give evidence in a libel case to be heard in the Court of Ex- chequer next week. The plaintiff is the Rev. George Drury, a Suffolk rector, who claims £2,000 damages from the East Anglian Daily Times, for publishing a report of a scene at the burial of an unbaptised child at Akenham. The bishop will be called as a witness by the cefendant. Senor Castelar, having received an invitation from Pro- fessor Max Muller and other members of the University 1 of Oxford, has answered that he will visit England in I June, after the general election in Spain. He will de- J liver three lectures at Oxford on "Spanish Literature in the Nineteenth Century." Senor Castelar will next month deliver his reception speech in the Spanish Academy on the same subject, Modern Ideals of Literature." The message of M. Jules Grevy, the new French Presi- dent, was read in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, Feb. 6. It was Tery brief. M. Grevy declared that he should never enter into conflict with the national will conveyed through its Constitutional organs, and he concisely indicated what would be the leading points in the policy uf the new Government. M. Gambetfca deli- vered a spirited inaugural address on assuming the presi- dency of the Chamber of Deputies. M. Grévy, in receiving the members of the diplomatic body in Paris, on Saturday, expressed his gratification in being able at his first reception of the foreign represen- tatives to declare that the relations of France with all countries are excellent, and to give them the assurance that the Government of the Republic would do all that was possible to consolidate those relations. On Saturday, Feb. 8, Lord Penzance gave judgment in the case of the Rev. T. Pelham Dale, rector of St. Vedast's, Foster-lane, for ritualistic practices. He held all the charges proved except that relating to the use of unleavened bread, and he admonished the respondent (who did not appear) to abstain from the objectionable practices in the future. A large gathering of representatives of the new crusade against free-trade was held in London on Monday, February 10. Resolutions were adopted to memorialize the Premier in favour of a parliamentary inquiry or royal commission, with the view, if necessary, of modifying our free-trade system. One speaker urged the imposition of a duty of fifteen per cent. on all foreign manufactures while another pleaded that silk goods might bear a duty of twenty per cent., and woollen goods ten per cent., and that the American tariff should be met by a duty on corn. A new [?] invention of a practical character (says Nature) has just been made by Mr. E. A. Cowper, the well-known mechanical engineer. It is a real telegraphic writing machine. The writer in London moves his pen, and simultaneously at Brighton another pen is moved, as though by a phantom hand, in precisely similar curves and motions. The writer writes in London, the ink marks in Brighton. We have seen this instrument at work, and its marvels are quite as startling as those of the telephone. The pen at the receiving end has all the appearance of being guided by a spirit hand. The apparatus is shortly to be made public before the Society of Telegraph Engi- neers. At the Middlesex Sessions, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, a man named Hall was fined forty shillings for refusing, when called upon, to aid and assist a police-constable to prevent his being assaulted by two men unknown. The constable was at the time endeavouring to capture two thieves, by whom he was severely assaulted. The Assis- tant-Judge, in inflicting the penalty, remarked that it was to be wished that the common law of the land were better known, which empowers a constable to call upon anyone in the Queen's name to assist him in apprehending an offender in time of necessity. There were once two Quakers (says Th Echo) gentlemen of the name of Lucas, one of whom became a Catholic and the proprietor of the Tablet, the other veered towards Scepticism, and was manager of the Radical Morning Star. There are two brothers yet living who were brought up in a strictly Evangelical family; the one became Father Newman of the Oratory, the other Professor Newman, author of Phases of Faith." In the borough of Mary- lebone there are two Stanleys. One, the Hon. Lyulph, is a member of the London School Board, and during his candidature was denounced as a Freethinker and some- thing more; the other, the Hon. and Rev. Algernon, has j us-t left the Church of England for Rome. The Bishop of Oxford will please to note that Rome s latest clerical convert, Mr. Algernon Stanley, was a Cuddesdon College man. Sir W. Vernon Harcourt has published his recent speech to the Liberal electors of Oxford, with an explana- tory and defensive preface. He denies that he indued in predictions I- what he said was based upen facts already accomplished. He reiterates his remarks with respect to the failure of the Anglo-Turkish Convention and the oc- cupation of Cyprus as already proved beyond cavil. His decription of a "Jingo" was an anatomical preparation for preservation in the political museum of an animal that would soon be extinct. As to the treat- ment of Parliament by the Government, it was not cor- rect to say that it was incredible on the part of English Ministers, for they had actually so treated it. The Liberal policy would have been to help the emancipation of the Christian races, and make them friends and not enemies. The future of Eastern Europe belonged to them, and the policy of the Government in the hopeless attempt to support a wicked tyranny, which was neither desirable nor practicable, had alienated and thrown them into the scale of Russia. Edward and George Henry Pennington, aged ten and twelve years respectively, sons of a tailor living at Little Budworth^ were indicted, at the Chester Assizes, on Friday, February 7, before Mr. Justice Manisty, for shooting at Alfred Barnard, gamekeeper, with intent to murder. On the 20th November the younger prisoner went to prosecutor's house and told him a gentleman named Walton wished to see him. Barnard went to Mr. Waiton B, and was told he had not been sent for. On the way home through a wood someone fired at him, and 117 shots were lodged in his person. Suspicion was directed towards the prisoners, on the elder of whom some shots were found which corresponded with the shots extracted from Barnard. On the younger prisoner were found gun-caps corresponding to the cap on the nipple of an old gun found concealed in some bushes hard by. The prosecution called witnesses to show that the boys were in the wood, with a gun shortly before the occurrence. When arrested, the prisoners said they were at school, but investigation revealed that they had been playing truant for a month. The defence was that there was doubt whether prisoners were actually the persons who fired the gun. The jury gave them the benefit of the doubt and acquitted them. The will of Mr. Frederick Thomas Mothersill, of Woodside, Bowdon, and 2, Marsden-street, Man- chester, was proved at Chester on Nov. 30th last, under £ 60,000 by his executors. The following are the charitable legacies:—To the trustees of the Owens College, Man- chester, £ 10,000; to Barnes Convalescent Home, Cheadle, which is in connection with the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, 23,000, considering the Infirmary itself to have quite sufficient funds to meet all its requirements as a charity if they were only properly disbursed; to the Masonic charities £ 1,000, to be disbursed on the recom- mendation of the worshipful master and his wardens for the time being of the Lodge of Friendship, No. 44; to the poor of Altrincham and Bowdon 21,000, of which £500 is to be disbursed on the recommendation of the Rev. Canon Gore or the vicar or rector for the time being of Bowdon parish church, and £500 on the recommendation of the senior Roman Catholic priest for the time being officiating at Altrincham; to the trustees of the Children's Hospital, Pendleton, near Manchester, 25,000; to the trustees of St. Mary's, Manchester and Salford Lying-in Hospital, 21,000; and to the Female Penitentiary in Embden-street, Greenheys, 21,000; making a total of 222,000.
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FACTS AND FANCIES. Sydney Smith once said I remember entering a room with glass all round it, at the French Embassy, and saw myself reflected on every side. I took it for a meeting of the clergy, and was delighted, of course." CRUEL.—Fair One (during an interval in the valse): "You're very fond of dancing, ain't you?" Brown: "Yaas. I go in for it a good deal."—Fair One: "I wonder you don't learn "-Putich. There was an ingenious amount of devotion implied in the reri ark of a love-sick millionaire when the object of his affections became ecstatic over the beauty of the Even- ing Star. Oh do not, do not praise it like that! he cried, I cannot get it for you." A SEQUITCB. The deed's done for which France has looked Through crooked turns and courses wavy; Now that the Marshal's goose is cooked, Tis natural to call for Grévy. -Punch. A Bill has been introduced into the St. Louis Municipal Assembly making it a misdemeanour, punishable by fine, to ring bells on churches, convents, schools, or factories, or anywhere that the noise will disturb the people. There are not a few Londoners who will sometimes wish the nearest church at St. Louis. A gentleman was one day relating to a Quaker a tale of deep distress, and concluded very pathetically by saying, I could not but feel for him." Verily, friend," replied the Quaker, thou did'st right in that thou did'st feel for thy neighbour, but did'st thou feel in the right place- did'st thou feel in thy pocket?" A missionary in the Chinese waters having distributed several copies of the Ten Commandments on shore, they were sent back the next day with the request that they might be distributed among the French and English, for the tracts contained admirable doctrines, and these people evidently much needed them. The art of printing was practised in Germany, Italy, &c., as a genteel pastime, in the houses of the educated and wealthy, who, however, could not entirely dispense with the aid of the artisan. From this intermixing of rank arose the privilege of the printers to wear arms (to be an armiger, esquire). In 1541 Francis 1. suppressed that right as regarded journeymen and apprentices. STAuNcH.-Old la.dy (wha had been buying eggs). 'Deed, Mr. McTreacle, butcher's meat's sae dear now-a-days ah'm no able to buy 't!" Grocer: "You should turn a Vegetarian-" Old I.dy "A Veegetarian !—Na, na ah was born an' brocht up i' the Free Kirk, an' a'm no gann ta change ma releegion i'm' auld days "-Punch. The Czar wished to shoot a bear. A bear was accord- ingly found, a ring of peasants surrounded it, and a word of its whereabouts was sent to the Imperial sportsman. Unfortunately, whilst these preparations were being made, the creature contrived to slip through the ring and escape, What was to be done? That the Emperor of all the Ru.ssias should come and find no game would never do. A happy idea seized one of the foresters. Regardless of cost, a tame bear was procured in the nick of time, turned loose within the ring, and now all was ready. The circle closed in Bruin was discovered at the foot of a tree; the attendants fell back; the Emperor advanced to fire; but now came the climax just as the trigger was about to be drawn, Bruin rose slowly on his hind feet, and began to perform the national dance! This exhibition saved his life, but it did the reverse of securing for those who introduced him to the presence that Royal favour which their ingenuity deserved. ADVICE TO NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS.—The Bur- lington Hawkeye gives the following directions to its cor- respondents as to the manner of supplying manuscript Never write with pen or ink. It is altogether too plain, and doesn't hold the mind of the editor and printers closely enough to their work. If you are compelled to use ink, never use that vulgarity known as the blotting pad. If you drop a blot of ink on the paper lick it off. The in- telligent compositor loves nothing so dearly as to read through the smear this will make across twenty or thirty words. We have seen him hang over such a piece of copy half-an-hour, swearing like a pirate all the time—he felt that good. Don't punctuate. We prefer to punctuate all manuscripts sent to us. And don't use capitals. Then we can punctuate and capitalise to suit ourselves, and your article when you see it in print, will astonish, even if it doesn't please you. Don't try to write too plainly. It is a sign of plebeian origin and State school breeding. Poor writing is an indication of genius. It is about the only indication of genius that a great many men possess. Scrawl your article with your eyes shut, and make every word as illegible as you can. We get the same price for it from the ragman as though it were covered with copperplate sentences. Avoid all painstaking with proper names. We know the full name of every man, woman, and child, in the United States, and the merest hint of the name is sufficient. For instance, if you write a character something like a drunken letter S," and then draw a wavy line, we will know. at once that you mean Samuel Morrison, even though you may think you meait Lemuel Messenger. It is a great mistake that proper names should be written plainly. Always write on both sides of the paper, and when you have filled up both sides of every page trail a line up and down every margin, and back to the top of the first page, closing your article by writing the signature just above the date. How we do love to get hold of articles written in this style! And how we would like to get hold of the man that sends them Just for ten minutes. Alone. In the woods, with a revolver in our hip pocket. Revenge is sweet, yum, yum, yum. Lay your paper on the ground when you write, the rougher the ground the better. Coarse brown wrapping paper is the best for writing your articles on. If you can tear down an old circus poster, and write on the pasty side of it with a pen stick, it will do still better. When you article is completed, crunch your paper in your pocket, and carry it two or three days before send- ing it. This rubs off all superufluous pencil marks, and makes it lighter to handle. If you can think of it, lose one page out of the middle of your article. We can easily supply what is missing, and we love to do it. We have nothing else to do.
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FROM LONDON LETTERS. Trade still shows a declining value. The Board of Trade returns for the past month are out this morning. I looked to them in the hope that they would give good news. What I found was that imports worth nearly thirty- three millions sterling in 1877, and more than thirty and a half millions in 1878 have declined in the month of January, 1879, to £ 26,344,600. That does not look very prosperous. The export for the month, however, is a little better. Nearly sixteen millions in 1877, nearly fifteen and a half millions in 1878, the total for January, 1879, is 214,196,000. But there is not much improvement even here, and the whole compilation is almost depressing to be studied.— Liverpool Mercury. It is very difficult not to suspect Mr. Lowe of a little insincerity when lie declaims so vigorously against Latin and Greek being taught in schools. I do not know a single member of the House, save Mr. Gladstone, who rejoices more in an apposite Latin quotation than Mr. Lowe nor, saving Mr. Gladstone, do I know a single member whose acquaintance with Latin and Greek authors is more pro- found. I sometimes fancy that Mr. Lowe's depreciation of Latin and Greek is mainly due to his lack of sympathy with the people. You learn Latin and Greek," I imagine him saying to himself; you had better stic.c to Dickens' novels, or even to 1Jack the Giant Killer' and 'Cinderella. A good deal might be said on the other side of the question, which I am not going to say now; and if this theory is really due to his Conservatism, I pardon him for the sake of a story I heard of him the other day. He was staying at a friend's house in the country and went to Church on Sunday morning with the rest of the party. On the way home it was much discussed why the Parson had used the form of prayer for those who are at sea, and Mr. Lowesaiditwas perfectly obvious-he was praying for her Majesty's Ministers. -Birmingham Post. Talking about the Premier reminds me that the Rock informs the world that it has received a small sum of money to be devoted to sending copies of the paper to him, and the Rock promises that the fund shall be strictly applied to the purpose which the donor intended. The joke is almost too good to be true, and if it had ap- peared in the columns of a merely secular print would co nt would have been set down as a humorous, but wicked inven- tion. But the Rock gravely makes the announcement in its own answers to correspondents." I imagine his lordship at breakfast with Mr. Montagu Corry, and faintly conjecture the comments of that worthy pair upon the account given by the Rock this week of the reasons which induced the First Lord of the Treasury to put Dr. Lightfoot in the see of Durham. The Rock sup- poses that several of the bishops applied for translation, and that their claims were settled by the head of the Church, i.e., his lordship, in the following fashion. The Bishop of Peterborough must be passed over, because al- though a man of parts his face is "sometimes turned to- wards the Sun of Righteousness, and sometimes in an opposite direction." The Bishop of Exeter, is also con- demned because he substitutes the Church which has exalted him for Christ who would keep him low," and be- cause he "attaches more importance in the exercise of his patronage to human learning than to spiritual capa- city for the work of Christ;" The Bishop of Manchester must be content with his £ 4,200 a year, because he "seeks to be distinguished more as a philanthropist than as a Christian;" because, although he is "a popular lecturer, a man of refined taste and mental culture, he is better calculated to assist in advancing the arts and sciences than in promoting the cause of Christianity in a parish or a diocese—one who is a lover of the drama and its defender against the scruples and objections of religious abstainers—a man, in short, more likely to be useful in any capacity than that of a Christian bishop." Ima- gine, I say, the Premier seeing himself as in a looking glass, and imagine his observations thereon, and those of his private secretary, over their coffee and toast.-Bir- mingham Post.
I POETRY.
I POETRY. THE ENGLISH IN AFGHANISTAN-1879. All the villages under the hill are in flames.(Telegram from Afghanistan.) For the Blackburn mob to burn and rob, Was reckoned a sore disgrace, And we blamed, that day, the men who could play A part so cruel and base. But six months have gone, since that deed* was done, And our nature has changed since then; Now with joy we read of the self-same deed As was dons by the Blackburn men. With pride we hear the British cheer, As the lurid flames arise, Where to swell the fame of the English name, The wretched Afghan dies. With fire and sword, root out the horde, Who infest those Eastern lands— What right have they to stand in the way Of our holy Christian bands ? Their homes we bum, and their bodies spurn, 'Mid the smouldering ashes gory Then the anthem of praise to Heaven we raise, For Beaconsfield and glory And the banners shall wave in the sacred nave, When their course of glory's run And holv hands shall bless the bands Who the noble work have done. And history's pen shall tell of the men- The Christian sons of pillage- Who served the Lord with fire and sword. And burned the Afghan village. For we swear again we are Christian men-- By Jiilgo we are so still And for many a day we'll burn and we'll slay, As we did on that^Afghan hill! Carlisle. y"
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FEBRUARY 12, 1879. LLwVlVS HISTORY OF WALES.—The book ENQUIRER, Cardiff." possesses (minus a title paze but lettered as above on the hack), was first published in 1584, under the auspices of Sir Henry Sidney, who possessed a copy of Humphrey Llwyd's imperfect MS. Or. Powel, who edited and enriched the work with much additional matter, was Sir Henry's chaplain. As" Wynne's History of Wales" modern editions of the book are often to be met with. Llwyd's work was chiefly a translation from Caradawg of LI-ingarvan.
NOTES.
NOTES. SHROPSHIRE COMPOUNDERS (Nov. 13, 1878).—The following names were omitted from the list given at this date :— Acton Walter, Newdenham 3 6 8 Baldwin Charles, Elsick, Esq 586 0 0 Butts John. of Ludlow, gent 3 6 8 Eyton Robert, Pentree Maddock, Knt. 8 6 8 Gondwin Ralph, Iradlow, Esq. 412 10 0 Jennings Philip, Dudleston, gent. 137 4 6 •Tones Edward, of Martins, gent. 74 5 0 Lee Sir Richard, of Langly, Knt. and Bar- ronet, with 1691. 9s. per an. set 3719 13 4 Lacon Rowland, Kinlet. Esq. 66 0 0 Lloyd Richard, of TIoya-Amain, Esq. 480 0 0 Newport Sir Richard of High Archell, with 1701. per annutn settled 3287 6 8 Newport Francis of Eyton upon Severn, Esq. 5284 0 0 Newport Earl Mountrig, with 401.. per annum settled upon the minister 4179 0 0 Penn Humphrey, Ashford-carber W7 0 0 Screven Richard of Frodgly, Esq 117 0 0 Smaleman Robert Wildertop, Esq 140 0 0 Talbot Sir John Salop Lancaster, Knight 444 0 0 Wolridge Sir Thomas, Dudmaston 730 14 0 Wallascot Katharine widdow of William 173 0 0 Weld Sir John senior of Willy ll'^l 4 Weld Sir John junior of Wiliy, Knight 757 2 0 Wliitmore Sir Thomas Apley 5000 0 0 The foregoing are taken from a small 8vo. book en- titled A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentle- men that have compounded for their Estates. London, printed for Thomas Drinsr. at the signe of the George in Fleetstreet neare Cliffords lime. 1655." The book is prefaced by the following dedication :— To those Noble persons that are concern'd. the Stationer humbly dedicates the enming Pages. Protesting, that he hath no desire to revive your past mis- fortunes, or to involve you in newe ones: could be harbour a just fear, this black legend should be more gladly sacrificed to the flames, then offered to the world He knows you too Generous, to gather solace from the sufferintrs of others, or else, to shew you, that your affliction is not solitary, would be a sufficient excuse to patronize this publication. 'Tis a Melan- cholly thing to reflect upon crimes, but not alwaies so upon losses, since we may be necessitated to imbrace the last, out of a conscience to evade the first. This book is hut an index to a greater volume, such as hare been scourged by the times, use to number many snch lashes as these But 'tis not for us of the lowest sphear, to censure or moderate in those intricate contests, which our home-divisions have engendered, our inconsiderable- nesse has redeem'd us from those snaring Eniarma's, those Rocks, upon which the greatest Reasons and Estates have dash'd and perished, yon your selves best know your own in- gac-ements But in (Theqi) this may be received as a sober truth, that he happilie consults his Treasure, who honestly loses, or piously expends it; yea more, every drop of Mood that is shed in a good cause, shall commence a Ruby in hftfl-VPTl, The meanest of those that serve and honour you, T. D. Another week we hope to give from the same source a list of the compounders" in the Welsh counties. En. CHURCH AND "KING RIOTS IN WREXHAM IN JULY 1715. In the Registers belonging to Chester-street Chapel, Wrexham. the following extracts from the Diary of the Rev. John Kenrick have been preflerved:- "July 16. The rioters broke into our Meeting House at Wrexham, pulled down the pulpit and pews, and threw them into the pool; broke down the door, and battered the windows. The old Meeting House was uncovered, the slates and laths and walls destroyed the same night. 17. Being Lord's Day the children and young people did a great deal of harm to the new [qu. old] meeting house. "17. Being Lord's Day Mr. Williams and I preached at Mr. Hugh Roberts's house to a numerous and mournful assembly. From that day till the old Meeting House was repaired Mr. Williams continued to r>reach The Word and administer the Sacrament at Mr. Roberts's as at Mr. Nicholls. "18. The colliers came to town to protect and assist the Rioters. We applied to Mr. Watkin Williams who was at an Audit same day in Wrexham. He came with his hat in his hand, and desired them to forbear. He took away one of them along with him, and told them not to do anything while they stayed in town. Afterwards the colliers were prevailed upon and prevented from doing mischief until evening and for fear. At night the town people did a great deal of harm, uncovering the roof, breaking the timbers, demolishing the entire walls, break- ing the door frames and window frames. 19. In the evening they came to their work again. 20. The rioters are at it. "21. A great deal of harm done. "28. At it in a most violent manner, staid till morn- ing, then went about town in a most violent manner. 80. Last night these workers of iniquity were em- ployed. Mem. 12 July, 1715. There was a riot of the Trades- men and some of the principal inhabitants of the town. Aug. 1. Being the King's Ascension to the Throne was not at all observed at Wrexham except by the Dis- senters, who had a sermon preached that day and their shops shut. But there was no bell-ritaging, no bonfire, nor illumination—the ordinary marks of public rejoicing. But the windows were broken in a certain inn where some loyal persons were drinking the King's health. &c. Sep. 15, 1715. Informations were given in at the Great Sessions at Ruthin against 31 of the rioters. Oct. 20. The King's Coronation Dav. The bells rung, but at night great riots and disorders committed. The Dissenters' bonfire put out, their windows broken, the Meeting Houses threatened, and the mob beat at the door. Treasonable songs were sung about the town, and great disorders allowed.. They went about the streets and made noises like dogs —behold fire out of their mouths, swords were in their L -Lord be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. "Nov. 14. No ringing of bells, no illumination, no banafire except at a Dissenter's house, though there was abundant demonstration of joy on account of the successes of the Rebels at Preston. "Nov. 22. The great news of the victory over the Rebels in Scotland, but no public demonstration of joy at Wrexham. 'There were great threatenings by the wide and bygotted rabble respecting the Rebels from the Horth, who cams as far as Preston in Lancashire with a design of coming up towards London, but were hapnily prevented by the King's forces, under Major General Wills, who came down with special orders to attack them wherever he met them. He was to have had ten regiments under his command, but he attacked the Rebels before his troops all came up, and forced them, after a bloody engagement, to surrender prisoners at discretion. There were signs and appearances of a Kind Providence that the Rebels were so entirely swallowed up at once, suffered to come down so far so that the disaffected might discover themselves, yet no further that the loyal people might be put out of fear. This blow to the Rebels quieted the mad and disaffected in this town, who were so violent and daring, so outrageous al1" One^person who had been the great encourager of the mob in pulling down the Meeting Houses was actually at Preston, and taken with the Rebels there. He had gone with a design to acquaint them about the forwardness they were in to receive them here, and to direct and en- courage them in their wicked designs and rebellious pro- gress. He was discharged and returned to Wrexbam. Th« bells were rung for his escape and safe return. "May 28, 1716. Being King Georges birthday but A. very great riot and ringing all day.^ "June 7. Thanksgiving Day. They did not begin till far in the day. No sermon. Tune 10. They began to ring about 8 o clock and continued ringing only when chiming for service tirne till Hff» at night. They wore feathers in their hats and oak boushs and openly blessed the Pretender. "Mem. Mar. 28,1717. The rioters being removed by certiorari to the Crown office their trial came on at balop. Here the extracts end. A short record of the trial would be interesting, also something further respecting Mr Watkin Williams's connection with Wrexham at so eariv a period as 1715. That gentleman did not come into possession of the Wynnstay estate until after the death of Sir John Wynn in 1719, and I have understood Sair John had not always intended that he should be V,?; W The Kenrick Diary would lead us to suppose +W as early as 1715 he who five-and-twenty years after- wards became the first Sir Watkin, was already a power in the district. M.R. QUERIES. MILTON'S WIDOW.—I have seen it stated that the widow of John Milton died at Nantwich in March 179fi Can any one give something connected with her residence there. R. ROSSE TEwK, B.A. HARDWICK PEW IN ELLESMERE CHURCH. rm,. frtiiowinsr are Lines found on a grave-stone^ under- neath Hardwick pew in Ellesmere Church in April 1839, on opening the ground for a vault for Sir Edw. Kynaston, Bart." Our lucke was harde as seemeth unto wee p When we should have the only branch and tree Untimely fallen, by Thomas Jennings hand Had pleased God thou hadst been better man." TJnnnd these lines there was the following inscription "Herelyethburyed the bodye of Phillip Lloyd gentle- man sonne and heyre of Francis Lloyd of Hardwick ponn'ire who departed this life the 4 day of June anno domino 1615. Glory be to God Amen." Can any reader of Bve-gones afford an explanation of the inscription ? 1 C. REPLIES. SALESBURY'S WELSH TESTAMENT. (Jan. 29 1879.)—A copy of Salesbury's Welsh Testament has been recently found amongst some old books, at Chirk, minus the fly-leaf. OWEN. [OWEN does not, we fear, describe the missing leaf sufficiently. And as one object is to preserve a record of the pcssessoTS of Salesbury's Test. of 1567, his communication would be additionally valuable by the publication of his name.—ED.] MORGAN OF TRAWSFYNYDD. (Feb. 5, 1879.)-You have published a wonderful list of Welsh and Border Centenarians from time to time in Bye-gones, and, at last, seem to have hit upon one that may be capable of proof. I refer to Mr. Morgan of Trawsfynydd, who died early in this century, and as stated by the Gents Mw: of 1817 at the age of 110, but who, according to his descendant, Mr. EDMUNDS of Leighton, was really believed to have been 113 years old when he died. If Mr EDMUNDS will only give proof of this, he will silence a host of doubters, who hold with the late Sir Cornewall Lewis, and Mr. Thorns, that these instances of great age, when they come to be investigated, invariably turn out to be myths. SCEPTIC.
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