The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

POETRY. AT THE CONVENT GATE. trail and fall Above the of barrier wall; And softly, now and then. The shy, staid-brea.sted dove will flit From roof to gateway-top, and sit And watch the waj-3 0f men The gate's ajar. If one might peep Ah, what a haunt of rest and sleep The shadowy garden soeiqs And note how dimly to and fro The grave, grey-hooded Sisters go, Like figures seen in dreams. Look, there is one that teUs her beads; And yonder one apart that reads A tiny missal's page And see, beside the weU .the two That, kneeling, strive to lure anew The magpie to us cage. Not beautiful—not all! Br each With that mild grace, outhine speecn, Which comes of even blooa, The Veil unseen that women wear. With heart-whole thought, and qUIet > And hope of higher good. < A placid life—a peaceful life What need to these the name of "lfe What gentler task (I said)— What worthier—e'en your arts among- Than tend the sick, and teach the young, And give the hungry bread ?" No worthier task re-echoes She, Who (closelier clinging) turns with me To face the road again —And yet, in that warm heart of hers, ¡ She means thI-J doves', for she prefers • To watcu. the ways of men." —Austin Dobson (in the Cornhill Magazine.)

BANQUET TO LORD DUFFERIN. | Banquet was given at the Reform Club to Lord o^fferin, on Saturday evening, February 22nd. Earl j^^ville presided, and the guests, numbering about 150, jiC'Uded many distinguished members of both Houses of ^"anient. Earl Granville, in proposing the toasts of the the&T? £ eulogised Lord DufFerin's labours in consolidating -Dominion of Canada. He said he thought it was a n^pliment to the Liberal party that Her Majesty's Wfkrnment should have come to them for the only man t>o« •? WorW who had pro red that reforms in Turkey were b^ e. He understood his acceptance of the post had »UP ■■ acc°mpanied by the most perfect conditions^ of iltance to his party. Lord Dufferin, in responding, the offer of the post was made in the most handsome did manner, and though it was not expected it surprise him. L'.>r! Hartington, the Duke of Sp^j^inster, and Lord Rosebery were among the other

RAILWAYS.—Approximate return of traffie for the week ending Februaiy 23rd, 1879. Miles diSaU l7§i Passenger*, parcel!, &e., £ 1,108; rnerchan- rainerals, and live stock, £ 1,850 total for the week, Wi- -Actual traffic receipts for the corresponding week -iZ?ar- Miles oi;en, lT^'i- Passengers, parcels, &c., W'A' > merchandise,* minerals, and live stock, £ 2,118; f°r the week. £ 3 293. Aggregate from commence- £ 23*7^ half-year to this date, £ 21,751; last year,

FROM THE PAPERS. "r' One of the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph has been proposed at the Athenaeum Club and blackballed. Lord Rosebery is to preside at this year's festival of the Newspaper Press Fund, to be held on May 10. One life was lost and great damage to property sus- tained by a violent explosion on Friday morning, Feb. 21, at gunpowder mills near Faversham. The French Chamber of Deputies, on Friday, Feb. 21, passed the Government Amnesty Bill by 240 votes to 99. The Stafford Town Council intend to propose the adop- tion of the Free Libraries and Museums Act in their borough. The death of Field-Marshal Von Roon, who was the German minister of war during the Franco-German cam- paign, is announced. General gratification (says the A thence will be felt at the announcement that Mr. Browning has in the press a collection of short poems under the title of Dramatic Idylls." On Friday, J!"eb..21, at Bradley Green, near Congleton, four men, named Dale, Slater, Barton, and Jones, were remanded on the charge of the wilful murder of the game- keeper, James Beswick. On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Bishop of Rochester issued a monition to the Rev. H. A. Walker, vicar of St. James's Hatcham, directing him to remove the cross and candle- sticks from the super altar. The Melbourne International Exhibition is to be opened on October 1, 1880, and will close in the following March. The Exhibition building has been begun, and is to cost some £95,000. The Duke of Newcastle died, somewhat suddenly, in London, on Saturday, February 22, from an attack of gout. He is succeeded in the title by the Earl of Lincoln, who was born in 1864. The marriage of Mr. Hamar Bass, M.P., with the Hon. Louisa Bagot, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Bagot, took place on Saturday, February 22, at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, London. The Marquis d'Harcourt, French Ambassador, had an audience of Her Majesty on Saturday, February 22, to present his letter of recall; and Lord Dufferin kissed hands on appointment as Ambassador to St. Petersburg. Two police-constables were sentenced at Liverpool Assizes, on Saturday, February'22, to seven years penal servitude, for extensive robberies from ships in Liverpool dockg. Miss M. A. Paull, of Plymouth, has been informed that to her has been awarded the prize of £100, offered by the United Kingdom Band of Hope Union for the best tale on temperance specially adapted for children. There were several hundred competitors. # ™, Lord Hardwicke goes to Tasmania as Governor, lhe salary is but £3,000 a year. Lord Rosslyn succeeds him as Master of the Buckhounds, and Lord Mount Edgcumbe succeeds the Marquis of Hertford as Lord Chamberlain. One hundred thousand oysters were seized in Liverpool last week. The oysters were imported from America, and were spoiled by a delay in transit. Two thousand rab- bits which arrived by the same steamer were also seized as unfit for human food. Mr. Joseph Fry, the father of Mr. Justice Fry and of Mr. Lewis Fry, M.P., died on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at Bristol, at the age of eighty-four. The deceased was till within the last ten years a partner in the well-known cocoa factory at Bristol. „ A„ A testimonial is to be presented to Mr. Mundella, ■M.r' in recognition of the services he rendered during the passing of the Fisheries Bill through the House of Commons. The testimonial is promoted by the Piscatorial Association. „ „ Dr. C. E. Appleton, fellow of St. Johns College, Oxford, and editor of the Academy, died on ieb. 1, at Luxor, in Upper Egypt, where he had been staying for the benefit of his health.. In consequence of the prevalence of trichinosis among swine in the United States the Italian Government has prohibited the importation of either pigs or pork from that country. There have been tremendous consignments of American pork to English ports recently, and a week ago the glut in the Birmingham market was so great that it was retailed at less than 2d. per pound. The latest burial scandal comes from Portishead, a vil- lage near Bristol, where an unbaptized infant was refused Christian burial by the new rector, the Rev. James Stuart, the late Rector having made no objection to officiate on similar occasions. The service was eventually read by the Rev. T. W. B. Weeks, a Congregational mimstef. Having reduced the wages of many of their employes during the last year, owing to the bad times, the Direc- tors of the Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway Company proposed at the half-yearly meeting on Saturday, February 22, that their own pay should be cut down from B300 to B200 per annum. The suggestion was not acted UPThere has been an outbreak of fever at the Bristol Work. house, and it was reported at the Board meeting, on Friday February 21, that the well water used for the in. mates had been analysed, and had been found to contain sewage contamination and a large quantity of phosphates, distinctly attributable to direct soakage from the Work- house Cemetery immediately adjoining. The Vice- Chairman said it was diluted sewage, flavoured with decomposed bodies. It is needless to add that the wells are to be closed at once. A Government Bill has been issued to amend the law relating to the holding of Assizes. It proposes to enable her Majesty to unite counties for the purpose of holding spring assizes in the same manner as for holding winter assizes, and provides that judgment of death may be car- ried into execution in any prison in which the convict was confined for the purpose of safe custody prior to the re- moval to the place where the assizes were held. The Local Government Board has issued a circular to port sanitary authorities intimating that, although in- formation has been received as to a somewhat extended prevalence of plague in Russia, there is no reason to ap- prehend immediate danger to England from that disease. They are, however, admonished to provide suitable and sufficient hospital accommodation in the event of any case of dangerous infectious disease being brought or occurring within their jurisdiction. Victor Hugo's poem, La Pitie Supreme," appeared in Paris on Thursday, February 20. Its general drift is that the real objects of pity are not the victims of tyranny or persecution, but the tyrants and persecutors that the lot to be envied is that of Socrates, Huss, &c.; while Pilate, Sylla, Tiberius were looked down upon with pity by those whom they sacrificed. The poet draws a striking pic- ture of Louis XV., whom he takes as a type of the old Monarchy. At a banquet given in Paris on Wednesday evening, Feb. 19, by the French Society of Agriculture, Mr. C. B. Pitman, the delegate of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, urged that it behoved England and France to unite in order to secure the triumph of free trade-" a system based upon sense and justice;" and expressed his conviction that the enlightened spirit animating the Society of French Agriculture would not become the champion of a doctrine that had been for ever condemned. This avowal was made in the presence of M. Pouyer- Quertier, a politician who has closely identified himself with the Protectionist party. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge sentenced, on Thursday, Feb. 20, at the Warwick Assizes, Thomas Millerchip, surgeon, for the manslaughter of George Bastock. The prisoner was medical officer of Coventry Union, and re- ceived the customary order to attend the deceased pro- fessionally. Eighteen messages and notes were sent, ex- tending over four days, but all were disregarded, and he never attended until the child was dead. The judge sentenced prisoner to four months' hard labour, remarking that itlwas necessary to punish such serious neglect with severity. The following remarkable notice has been sent to every Post-office in the kingdom :—" Incivility to the Public The Postmaster-General has recently been compelled to remove two counter-women in consequence of incivility to the public, and he desires to make it known that whenever a complaint of incivility—or even a want of courtesy or attention—is clearly established, he will not fail to inflict severe punishment. His Lordship regrets to find that complaints of this nature have become more frequent since women have been employed at the public counters." The very general feeling of dissatisfaction amongst county justices with regard to the working of the Prisons Act, has led to a determination to hold a Conference in London, on the 2nd of April, for the purpose of discuss- ing the Act in its entirety—the rules laid down by the Home Secretary; the experience of various committees as regards the working of the Act; the questions of cen- tralization, local management, and an independent clerk to the committees whether the Act would not be better worked if each commissioner and his inspectors resided in their respective districts; the duties and powers of committees of visiting justices; and the auditing of prison accounts. The American papers publish the following:—"John R. Reed has been the gasman of the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, for fifty-four years, and has never missed a performance in all that period. He is somewhat eccentric, and in his will is the following provision My head shall be severed from my body, and my body shall be placed in a vault, but the head shall be brought to the Walnut Street Theatre, there to be used as the skull in "Hamlet," and I do bequeathe cathead to the said Walnut Street Theatre for that purpose. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided on Friday, Feb. 21, at a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The principal business was the discussion of a motion to rescind the by-law, passed in November last, at the instance of the Ritualists, exempting candi- dates approved by colonial or missionary bishops or their commissaries from passing the Board of Examiners appointed by the archbishops and the Bishop of London. The by-law was rescinded, and a committee was appointed to consider By-laws 19 and 20. Canon Butler, the commissary of the Bishop of Pieter- maritzburg (Dr. Macrorie) has received from that prelate a long letter complaining that just after Sir Bartle Frere and Lord Chelmsford had ignored Bishop Colenso and attended the Cathedral services, the Dean (Mr. Green) against his parnust advice and protest had introduced vestments, lights, and incense into the cathedral, alienat- ing thereby the whole congregation. The Bishop hastily summoned the synod, by which this conduct was almost unanimously condemned. Nevertheless, the dean persis- tu vu* c?^rse a^ter the bishop had pointed out to him that his position was, equally with that of Bishop Colenso, one of schism. Tne letter adds that most of the cathedral congregation now go to the military chapel. The mwspapwfressDirecloi-y for 1879 shows that there are now published in tne United Kingdom 1,763 news-1 papers Int London 339 in lhe provinces, 1,027; in Wales, 61 ;inSc°tland, 174 m I-eland, 141, and in the isles, 21. Of those 1;here are 107 d dly papers published in England, 3 in Wales, 21 in Scot a id, 18 in Ireland, and 2 in the British Isles, The magazines now in course of publication, including the Quarterly Reviews, number 953, of which ^<34 are of a decidedly religions character. The Press of the country has nearly trebled during the last twenty-five years. 1 he number of daily papers i 3131, against 20 in 1854. At a meeting of the members ofthe Catholic Union of Great Britain held in London ou Thursday, Feb. 20, the Duke of Norfolk, who was unanimously re-elected presi- dent, moved a series of resolutions, expressing gratifica- tion at the desire of his Holiness Pope .Leo -X.1II. to con- fer on the Very Rev. John Henry the dignity of a cardinal, and congratulating Dr. Newman on this marked recognition by the Holy See of his eminent services to the Catholic Church. The Marquis of lupon, in seconding the resolution, expressed his gratitude to Dr. Newman, as the main earthly cause of conferring on him- self the greatest earthly blessing of his life. > The following is taken from the Times obituary :— On the 14th December, at Hamilton, Australia, from injuries sustained in a carriage accident, Jessie, the beloved wife of Alfred Tennyson Dickens, aged twenty-eight." The lady whose death is thus recorded was the wife of one of the sons of the late Mr. Charles Dickens, who went to Australia some years ago, and is prospering in that pas- toral country. A terrible cloud has fallen upon his home. His young wife was driving out with her little girl, when the horse took fright, dashed along at a. headlong pace, and finally fell, turning the carriage over in its flail. Mrs. Dickens was injured so terribly that she died in a very few hours, and her child was killed. She leaves an infant £ 4-l.n..14

I "WV'- FACTS AND FANCIES. A new Idaho town is named Onegirlia, because there is only one girl there. An advertisement in a New York paper offers board and lodging "for two persons of some refinement, but no flummery." A distant contemporary of ours remarks pathetically :— With the exception of delinquent subscribers every- thing is about a fortnight earlier than usual this year." DIFFERENT STANDPOINTS. — Slaughter of 500 British troops by Zulus-a horrible massacre Slaughter of 1,000 Zulus by British troops—a glorious triumph !-Funny Folks. He was kneeling at her feet and saying, My precious sweet, life lingers to me as a petunia, streaked with glorious golden frettings of a soul which knoweth no love so "Oh, Henry!" said she, "that's the correct card." In the Secession war a Yankee captain, about to receive his baptism of fire (we thank thee, Nap, for teaching us that word), asked his company how many rounds they had. Answer, 20. "Then when you have blazed it all away you may retire. I'm a little lame, so I'll start now." In the States correspondents are dismissed by editors with but scant courtesy. A shrinking maiden forwards some verses upon a Bunch of Violets." The com- position is thus acknowledged "Your poem has seen the light. We lit our cigar with it." A gentleman who had spent some days in the region of the coal-oil wells, in Pennsylvania, says that in his opinion the Government ought to interfere at once, and put a stop to further pumping and boring for oil. He is quite certain the oil is being drawn through these wells from the bearing of the earth's axis, and that the earth will cease to turn when the lubrication ceases! When his friends called on him in Holloway they ex- pected to find him in exceedingly low spirits. His liabili- ties are considerable, his creditors inexorable, and his father not amenable to reason. He nevertheless received his visitors gaily, and put them at their ease by observing, with all the old spirit, "You see, gentlemen, in the midst of life we are in debt." A delegation of Mormon women has just waited on Mrs. Hayes to enlist her sympathies on their behalf. It is said that all their arguments interested her until they urged upon her the undeniable fact that whea a man had ten wives he was less in the way and not so much of a nuisance to one woman who was his only wife. They even sug- gested that, if that entire delegation belonged! to Mr. Hayes, Mrs. H. would never be interrupted in the perusal of a new novel-but what happened afterwards is not known, except that three or four switches, manufactured in Utah, were subsequently found on the floor in the ladies' reception room at the White House. A School Board examiner, performing his. functions in a purely agricultural parish, recently asked a mixed class "What is a husbandman?" No answer was given for some time, till at last a little girl ventured, Please, sir, a man as has got a wife." The examiner became thoughtful, and sorrowfully took his way to a parish owned by a duke, and overawed by ducal establishments. Here he said, tell me what is meant by a nobleman ?" There was silence for a time; at last one smart little boy replied, Please, sir, it's a gentleman as gains his liveli- hood by riotous living STARTING A GERMAN TRAIN.—Great ceremonies are necessary (says the Railroad News) to get a train off in Germany. When all is ready a bell rings. Then another bell rings. Then the engine whistles, or rather toot-toot- teots gently. Then the conductor tells the station-master that all is ready. Then the station-master looks placidly around and says "So?" Then the conductor shouts Fertig?" interrogatively. Then the station-master re- plies "Fertig positively. Then the conductor blows a horn the engine whistles the bell rings; the other bell rings; the station-master says "So!"—the passengers swear in various tongues-and the train starts. That is, unless there is a belated fat man-in which case they do it all over again. From Punch. REAL LUNACY.—Trusting the Crescent. A VOICE FROM MIDLOTHIAN. Tree-felling my foes class among my brain-maggots But better, I tell them, fell trees than make faggots. CHEAP.—Landlady: How shall I make out the bill for this artis' in the parlour, John ? Shall I call him 'Mr.' or 'Esquire andlord "Oh, you may write him 'Esquire,' and charge him 'arf a sovereign extry WHAT'S SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE," &c.-Passenger (in second class): I think I've got into the wrong carriage." —Ticket Inspector (sternly): The difference must be paid !"—Passenger (triumphantly): Oh, just so Then I'll trouble you for Three Shillings—I've a First-Class Ticket!" NETEB SPEAK IN A HURRY.—'The hospitable Jones.— "Yes, we're in the same old place, where you dined with us last year. By the bye old man, I wish you and your wife would come and take pot-luck with us again on the The impulsive Brown (in the eagerness of his de- termination never again to take potrluck with the Joneses). —" My dear fellow So sorry But we're engaged on the—a—on the—er—on th-th-that evening!" Poor Jones (pathetically). Well, old man, you might-have given me time just to name the day.-Punch. BETSY PRIGG AND THE THUNDERER. Betsy. Which I'm happy and proud to observe you ve come over complete to my side. Juvitcr. Your side, my good woman 1 You joke! Betsy.. Come now, don't go atryin' to ride The 'Igh 'Oss any more, my dear J., 'cos you see we are ia the same boat, And I got In it fust, you must own; tis but lately you ve altered your note; And mere follerers shouldn't be uppish. Concermn that HARTINGTON now, „ Wy, our lines is percisely agreed. Drat the man I I ad opes as, somehow, „ He would cut hisself loose from old GLADSTING. I give lm the 'int pooty straight, Which I've patted his back all along, and portended in every debate „ To perceive that at heart he wos with hus. Sometimes it was orkurd, my dear, „ When he 'it out a little bit 'ard, and worked up to a Radical cheer. Still I praised him for being so mod'rit, and 'oped as he'd yet toe the line; But I fear he's been got at and nobbled, in spite of your warn- ings and mine. Jupiter. Well-I must say, it is most annoying. The Party is going to pot. The country will not stand much Jmore, but will certainly shelve the whole lot. I have told them so only to-day. Setsy. Yes'; a-echoin what I ve bin sayin' For months. _■ T Jupiter. Mrs. P., you're offensive! The Thunderer, Jupiter, playing The rdle of an Echo Absurd! BeUy. WeU, I don't mean the penny one, Whose voice is that shrill 'tis more suited for Juno a naggin. My dear V, -so don't finger them belts in that fidgety kind of a way; 'Cos you know that damp rockets don't 'urt, and my lirella's their match any day! Jupiter (fuming). Impertinent female B&ts v There there! Why should pardners like hus go and quarrel t The Libs is a wakin' up sharp, and mean fightin, dear J., that's a moral.. The Idjuts! We've piped to 'em long, but to dance to our tune they decline And the consekens surely will be they'll be walloped along the whole line, And be out in the cold lo- TL know I how long. That GLADSTING has smashed up iii.-? party. I'm afeard there's no help for 'em now, as my werry last ope was in HARTY. T. And now he's gone wrong, like the rest-which themjLiverpool speeches raised cheers, But they 'arrowed this patriot buzzum and moved me and SAIREY to tears. To think as the party I've fought for should round on Old England like so! „ A T Turnin' anti-Imperial traitors!—I tell you, dear J., its a blow. Can you lend me a dry pockethandkercher, Jupiter? Mine is that^ k, ^Xr Heaven's sake, Madam, dry up, and whatever you do, do not gush. B It's such shocking bad form Yon,r0 orful stuck. Do you think hain't "learnt elercution, or studied that dear Jupiter. LEMPR,ERE ? Not at all. But emotion, like trimming or making a right-about-face, Needs finish, a delicate blending of subtle gradation and Your sentiment solely needs toning, your cat-in-pan turns are too The trick of artistical ratting, you see, is a veryraregift. ( Betsy. Jest so; and some say as you ve lost it. But there .—no more words. Let us jine In backiu' up BEAKEY like winkin —leastways till thers rayther more sign Of-you know, my dear J. Fraps you'll put it in your own artistical style: Jupiter. Till the country grows tired of the Ins, and means trying the Outs for awhile. Betsy. Jest so. Well, ta-ta! for the presiuk! (Asute.) A pompous, uplifted old pump! Jupiter. I've the honour to wish you good morning I (Aside.) A frowsy, vulgarian frump!

FROM LONDOM LETTERS. Nobody was more delighted on Wednesday, at the Ion!? prayers with which the ecclesiastical Tones con- signed three Burials Bills at one time to the dust than were the Liberationists. Had Mr. Balfour's measure been accepted and passed, the settlement would have been less complete than they hope to reach. A great engine of agitation would have been taken out of their hands. They would have lost their most cherished grievance against the Establishment. As it is, the Bills are dead, but the question lives. Mr. Osborne Morgan had no chance of getting his Bill discussed this session. If Lord Hartington and Mr. Gladstone appeal for a debate upon a resolution, not only a discussion but a division is in- evitable. The division is a very ticklish matter. Nobody can predict how it will go. The 'old-fashioned Tories are beginning to kick against the pricks. They aver that they cannot fight for the Church over Dissenters coffins. If their principles triumph over their party allegiance, Mr. Osborne Morgan will win in the House of Commons, as Lord Harrowby did, by Conservative votes, and not- withstanding the bishops, in the House of Lords.-Liver- pool Mercury. It is a great pity that Mr. Beresford Hope was not reported in the newspapers when he spoke against the resolutions proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the conduct of public business. As he was not re- ported, I will report him now for the benefit of all his religious constituents. He complained that the Chancel- lor of the Exchequer had surprised him, and had given him too little time. "I was forced" said he "to study the resolutions all day on Sunday instead of reading more pious books." Only fancy the member for the University of Cambridge openly confessing that he spent a Sabbath in this profane fashion! And, moreover, the impiety of his confession did not consist so much in his open, una- bashed avowal of his crime, but in the curious contempt or sneer with which he pronounced those words, "pious books." It surely is high time that the Rock should sound the alarm. But I forget that I am no longer young, and that I live in an era when skating on the Sunday has been declared lawful by the highest clerical authorities, Whether skating or the perusal of Blue Books be the greater infraction of the Judaical law I know not.-Bir- mingham Post. It may now be positively stated that Sir Henry Layard will not return to Constantinople. If all his despatches are published, they will be found to contain the confession that Turkey cannot be reformed without a guaranteed loan. His return is consequent upon his too deep com- mittal to a promise of financial help to the. Porte. One result of his latest despatches is that Lord Salisbury, in conversation, speaks in the tone he adopted twelve months' ago, and not in the sanguine mode of his temporary Turk-ophilism.-Liverpool Mercury.

ROSBACH WATER.—Best Table Water known. I prefer it to the other Mineral Waters before the public. (Professor I Wanklyn's Report.) Sold everywhere. Retail 6s. per dozen Pints 8s. per dozen Quarts. Original packages, containing 50 Quart Glass Bottles, 29s.. or 100 Pint ditto, 46s.—The Rosbach Company, Limited 35, Finsbaty-circus, London, B.C.

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

FEBRUARY 26, 1879. NOTES. PRICE OF LABOUR IN NORTH WALES. The following was the price of labaur by the piece work at the end of last and beginning of this century Previous to 1800 1800 to 1810 Wheat thrashed by the flail .2/4 to 3/2 per qr. 4/9 Barley do 1/4 to 1/8 3/9 Oats do 1/- to 1/1 2/8 Reaping wheat per acre from..5/- to 6/- 7/6 Mowing barley and oats 1/- to 1/2 2/- Mowing hay .1/4 to 2/- .1/8 to 2/8 To the prices from 1800 to 1810 should be added the ex- pence of suppings" (i.e. milk boiled) for Threshers, and ale for Reapers and Mowers. CYEPIN. WELSH PROVERBS.—Mr. T. G. Jones of Llansantffraid, on page 3]0 of Mont: Coll: vol. xi., gives in his list of Welsh Proverbs, "Po nesa i'r Eglwys, pella o Baradwys" (The nearer the church the farther from heaven), as originating with Twm o'r Nant, "a. great satirist, and an observant person, in the last century." This was questioned a few weeks ago in Notes and Queries, and in that publication for Jan. 29, a correspondent quotes from Spencer, "To Kerke the narre, from God more farre;" and Mr. Edward Solly says, "Howell in his Proverbs, 1659, gives, under British or old Cambrian Proverbs (p. 40), Po nessa at yt eglwys pella oddiwrth Brodwys." Mr. Hazlitt in his English Proverbs, gives 1543 as its earliest appearance in print. Ray says it is a French proverb, "Près de l'eglise loin de Dieu." Else- where I have seen it claimed as a Scotch proverb. J.?.R.

OSWESTRY CORPORATION RECORDS. (Jan. 22, 1879.) THE SPANISH ARMADA SCARE. In the old records we have extracted from time to time from the Corporation Minute Books, we have given more than one list of the charters, weights, measure?, seals, &c., handed over from the Bailiffs to their successors. We purpose giving further lists of these charters, &c., as they nearly all vary in small particulars. This week we go forward a few years to note a new element in the Corpor- ation property, for the safe- custody of which the Bailiffs were responsible. We refer to sundry warlike articles the Corporation seem to have acquired. The culivers' and I moriens' referred to were probably part and parcel of the arms and uniform of a volunteer company raised at the time of the Spanish Armada scare. The first record is as follows M,d, the xxiiijth' day of October 1593. That we John Trevor and Hugh Moris nowe Bayliffs of the Towne of Oswestre have receaved of Gryffyth Kyffin & Thomas Cowper late Bayliffs & these Armores followinge Imprimis two corsletts Itm. iiij'or Calivers with iiij'or morians w'th flasks and towchboxes belonging to every of them. Itm. vj'e swords and v'e daggers & iiij'or Gyrdles. Itm. the lox and the nene charters w'th all other boxes & writings according to the not and as they were Deliv'red to them the syd gryffith kyffin & Thomas Cowper the yeare before. Itm. ij'o seales to seale the bushells and pecckes. Itm. one Iron balfe eln & one Iron yarde. Itm. ij'o towne bookes w'th all their belonging to tha box and chest of the sayd towne. Itm. the com'n towne seal of brasse. It. one greate chayne of Iron, a payre of smale shackles one boult w'th two fetters belonging to the saide boults one other pr. of shackles two other boultes w'th three fetters all the whych above named p'rcelles wee confesse our selves to have receaved of the said Gruffyth kyffin and Thomas Cowp'r. John Trevor. Hughe Moris. "Gryffyth Kyffin" mentioned here as one of the Bailiffs handing over these articles to his successors, seems to have been a careful and orderly person, for we shall see by the next extract that he looked after the "skouringe of the Armoure before he gave up the Corporation property Receaved the yeare aforesaid by me Gryffyth Kyffin one of the Baylyffs then for the towne by a cessment for the ffurnishinge of a man for her ma't's service to Ireland the some of nyne& ffourtie shilings whereof I dispursed as foloweth It. delyv'red to Evan ap Edd glov'r—xs. to go w'th the man to ye must'r the which money was delyv'red to Richard lloyd of Sweeney by the Justices. It. for skouringe of the Armoure of the Towne to Richard ap Rob'lt Smith- x s. It. Delyv'red to the felow that was prest towards his diet xijeZ. It. of pres money iiijd. The rest being 27s. viijd. we John Trevor and hughe moris baylifs for the year folowing do acknowledge the Recept 0 and an acomptant for the xxviijs. viijd. the sayd John Trevor. Hughe Moris. These warlike appendages, with some trifling additions (as we shall see another week) are repeated up to the year 1601, when they seem to have dropped out of the Cor- poration belongings. ED. QUERIES. HENRIETTA RHODES, OF BRIDGNORTH.— In the Gents: Mag: for April, 1817, the death is announced of Mrs. Henrietta Rhodes, a maiden lady aged 61, the daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Rhodes gent., at an earlier period resident at Cann Hall in that town. In early life Miss Rhodes wrote poetry, and in 1811 pub- lished a novel entitled Rosalie, in four volumes. In 1814 she issued a volume of Poems and Essays, by subscription, and amongst her subscribers were the names of many of the first nobility and gentry of the land." According to the short notice from which this is sum. marized, Miss Rhodes, at the election at Bridgnorth in 1784, became an active politician, and "shone forth in animated zeal for her Naval Friend, who, however, was unsuccessful." Her novel of "Rosalie, or the Castle of Montalabretti," seems to have provoked criticism, and her Essays were somewhat antiquarian. She is stated to have had a few particular friends in the higher circles, who were much devoted to her welfare," but she led a recluse and solitary life, owing to her unhappy and changeable disposition." She died in East Castle St., Bridgnorth, on Feb. 28, 1817. Was she a Salopian by birth ? NEMO. CRAIG I-IOWELL.-Is a spot called Craig-Howell, or Craig-Owen, still shown inAnglesea, as connected with the wars between Charles and the Parliament? "O.J. who seems a somewhat prejudiced royalist, and very ready to believe in any amount of atrocities on the part of the Parliamentarians, relates some interesting passages concerning the wars in the pages of Arch: Camb 1850. He says :— Amongst others who fought for the King at St. Mary's Field was a substantial yeoman of the name of Howell, who resided at Wern Llanddona. This hero, when he found that the loyalist party was routed, and had fled for refuge to Beaumaris Castle, retired stealthily to the beach of that town, under the Green, and having turned one boat on the top of another over himself, he firod from his hiding-place on the besiegers, who were on the Green, until his ammunition was all spent. He then crept from between the boats, and reached the Friars unobserved where a servant was waiting for lhim with a horse, which he mounted, and rode towards home with all speed. However, by the time when he was on a part of his own land, called Mynydd y Wern, he was surrounded by a party of Parliamentarians, who seemed deter- mined to take him prisoner; seeing which he urged his horse over a precipice, and was killed on the spot, or, perhaps injured greatly by the fall, and finished by tlhe enemy at this very spot, undfer the brow of a rock called to this day Craig Howell or Craig Owen. The writer goes on to say that the horse and its rider were buried together, and over the grave a mound of stones was raised which, until a comparatively recent period in the recollection of Mr. W. Owen, tenant of The Wern, were occasionally whitened over by the descendants of the loyalist hero. N REPLIES. OLD FOLKS (Feb. 12, 1879).-Died at Berriew, Montgomeryshire, Feb. 25, 1818, Richard Booth, aged 107. He retained the use of his faculties to the last, and could read the smallest print without the aid of glasses." Here is a case so comparatively recent that one would like to know what the Berriew registers say on the subject. It may be they would tell of the birth as well as the death of Booth. SCEPTIC. SHROPSHIRE INN SIGNS.-(Sep. 25, 1878). The "Coaeh and Horses" is not a Shropshire sign any more than it is one of any other county, but a writer on "Signs" in the Gents: Mag: calls attention to the fact that "the first coach ever seen in England formed part of the equipage of Henry Fitzalan, the last Earl of Arundel, of that name, who died in 1579." If this is so then may Shropshire, and especially Oswestry, claim the sign emphatically as its own. Coaches," says the same writer, were invented by the French, as was the Post- chaise also, which was first introduced into England by the son of the well-known writer on husbandry, Mr. Jethro Tull." FITZALAN. THE BATTLE OF CHIRK BRIDGE (Feb. 19, 1879).-Special constables sworn, and yeomanry in at- tendance, Oswestry was ready tor its collier invaders. They did not come, however, so the Yeomanry went out to Chirk to look for them, but found no foe in the field. The prompt actio i on the part of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry seems to have been duly appreciated, and a meeting of the inhabitants of Osweati-y was called to P(\S a vote of thanks to their colonel. The official minute of this is as follows Jan. 8,1S31. At a meeting of the magistrates and inhabitants of the town and liberties of Oswestry held this day; it was re- solved; That their unanimous and most cordial thanks be con- veyed to Sir Rowland Hill and the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry for the promptitude and zeal evinced by them in assembling together at Oswestry on the shortest possible notice in the instance of the late threatened disturbances. For the manly and steady conduct displayed by them in the execution of their duty when assisting the magistrates of the neighbourhoo(I in the suppression of riot and tumult. And also for the very orderly and proper behaviour which has distinguished the corps on this and every former occasion when quartered in the town. Thomas Lovett, mayor, P. Cartwright, coroner, Th. L. Longueville, Rich. Croxon, John Jones, jun., John Jones, Edw. Edwards, Edw. Edwards, Robt. Morrall, James Lowe, Wm. Hammonds, Jas. Knight, G. Cooper, Chas. Lewis, overseer, Edw. Williams, Jas. Williams, Thos. Hunt, W. Bolas, Chas. Osburn, F. Lucas, H. Hughes. In addition to the vote of thanks by the inhabitants as- sembled, the magistrates of the hundred also passed the following resolution The Magistrates of the Hundred of Oswestry assembled the 9th of January, JS31, beg to return their sincere and most grate- ful thanks to Sir Rowland Hill and the officers, non-commis- sioned officers, and privates of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, for the alacrity and z sal evinced by them on the late occasion when their assistance was required in consequence of the riotous proceedings which have taken place in this neigh- bourhood. (Signed), Thos. N. Parker, H. P. T. Aubrey, J. V. Lovett, W. O. Gore, William Lloyd. In reply to this Sir Rowland Hill sent a letter to the Hon. Thomas Kenyon, in which he expressed himself "much gratified by the approbation the magistrates of Oswestry have expressed of the conduct of the Yeomanry when in that neighbourhood." JARCO.

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