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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. J C.V.Gr. — Declined with thanks. We rarely publish poetry t in the Cambrian News. ] gIK — \llow me to draw your attention to a paragraph in the Cambrian News of last Friday, referring to a sad 1 case of accidental drowning. The heartless taunt con- tained in the introduction, leads me to suppose that its insertion escaped your notice. The writer makes use of the occasion to insinuate that the Door fellow who lost his life in the presence of his familv had held it cheap, in preferring the open shore and a fresh towel, to the machine accommodation provided on the Terrace beach. His whole account indeed of the catastrophe is so devoid of humane feeling and sympathy with the deceased or the bereaved, as to convey to strangers a very erroneous impression regarding the kind- heartedness of the inhabitants of the Principality. The piteous spectacle of a young man wnose father, wife and children were witnesses of his struggles with .ne combined forces of the river currents and the sea waves, which ultimately overpowered him.. elicited less sym- pathy in the narrator than would be ordinarily called forth by the accidental drowning of a dog in one of the neighbouring water falls. i My chief object, however, in writing is to make a s'lrv'estioH in the interest of humanity, and of town desirous to be considered the Brighton of Wales. It is, 1 oeiieve, well Known that the confluence of the two rivers at the ruouth of the harbour makes the spot where Gough was drowned dangerous for bathers, especially in a strong ebb-tide; and I understand that similar accidents are not unfrequent there in the bathing season. If this be so, surely some warning of the danger should be given to sLr iger6 visiting this coast; for example, by a notice board forbidding aU bathing near the place in Question, under such penalties as the Local Board Health may have power to inflict. Whatever thenensues, the Authorities will have at least performed their duty.- I am, &c., ONE WHO PAYS THE BATHING FEE. Aberystwyth, 8th September, 1879.

ANWYL V. THRUSTON. IMPORTANT RIGHT OF WAY CASE. On Tuesday morning, Sept. 9, was opened at Mach- vi" -th before W. Trevor Parkins, Esq. barrister, the cü" between Jemima Anwyl and Robert Charles Anwyl, Iiiu./wy. near Machynlleth, and Charles Frederick lhrus- ton, Talgarth, also near Machynlleth. <- Mr. Swetenham, instructed by Messrs. Linklater, Hackwood, Addison, and Brown, Walorook, London, ap- peared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Coxon, instructed by Mr. Griffith Junes Williams, solicitor, Dolgelley, for the defendant. t It will be remembered that the case was entered for trial at the last Chester Assizes, when it was referred to Mr. W. Trevor Parkins. t-ff Mr. Swetenham, in opening the case for the plaintiffs, said the plaintiffs were on the 3rd day of June, 18/ J, and still are the owners and occupiers of a house and lands adjoining thereto, called Llugwy, in the parish of Pennal ami cuunty of Merioneth, which said lands are bounded on the south by the river Dovey on the north, so far as it is material to state such boundary, by the township road running from the Aberdovey and Machynlleth turnpike road aL Pennal towards Llwynon, and thence rejoining the said turnpike road on the east by a farm and lands called Pain worn; and on the west by lands the property of Mr. J. H. Nannev. There are over the said lands of the plaintiffs two public paths and no more, and those for foot passengers only. The one starts fiom the said township road, and soon enters a field of the plaintiffs called C w- ffynon, t the north-west corner and crosses it in a souta- easterly direction to the opposite corner of the said field. Thence it goes over a stile erected many years ago for the convenience of the public into and along a private road of the plaintiffs' till it enters their carriage dri ve leading from the said township road to the said house. Thence it fol- lows tiie course of the said carriage drive past the back of the farm buildings. Thence into and across another field of the plaintiffs' called Morfa bach, in a south- easterly direction to the bank of the river Dovey, from whence, on lands not belonging to the plaintiffs, it follows the course of the said river along the bank till it reaches the spot where the Cambrian Railways cross the said river tiear Derwenlas. The other path commences at the junc- tion of the said carriage drive with the township road and passes down the said carriage drive till it meets the foot- path firstly described at the point where it enters the -aid carriage drive. On the 3rd June, 1879, the defendant wrougt ully claimed to use as a public road and go over the private grounds immediately surrounding the said Louse down to the said river, and also to go through a private gate at Llugwy, and also to use as a public bridle road a private cart road of the plaintiffs leading irom their farm buildings into their field called Cae Celyn, and from thence to proceed over the adjoining fields of the pla.iatins' to the river bank and also to go through another private gate of the plaintiffs' leading into their^said field called Cae fiynon. On the 5th day of June, lb7'J, the de- fendant, in assertion of his alleged rights, wrongfully passed on horseback down the said carriage drive, wnere there is only a footpath, and thence proceeded with ser- vants and others under his directions to the said ancient stile on the one side of which there is a swing gate, and on the other a private held gate; and there wrongfully broke the lock of the said held gate, The defendant ab.) on uorsebacK with his said servants proceeded along the said carnage drive, and thence down the said private cart roa.1 of the plaintiffs' to another gate placed across the last motioned road and broke the lock of the said last men- tioned gate, and from thence trespassed over other lands of the plaintiffs' down to the said river Dovey. Afterwards the deleuduiit went with his said servants to a wooden fence of the plaintiffs, near to the said house called Llugwy and nver Dovey, and there threw down a portion of the ornamental wooden fencing, and also passed in front of the said house over the garden ground aad lawn, and there broke a luck on another gate which separates the said carriage drive from the private approach to the house. "he defendant threatened to repeat the trespasses before- -.tioneti, and ti.,o to bring a party of men to assert cer- lleged rights of the public to land anywhere and where on the lauds of the said plaintiffs adjoining J said river. The plaintiffs claim—1, Damages for the wrongs complained of. 2, An injunction restraining the defendant from any repetition of any of the acts complained of. 3, Such further re- lief as the nature of the case may require. The defendant does not admit the first paragraph of the statement of claim. The defendant denies the allegation contained in the second paragraph of the statement of claim that the public paths over the plaintiffs' said lands are for foot passengers only. He does not admit that the courses and directions of the said pitlis are correctly stated. The defendant admits that he claimed as alleged in paragraph 3 of the statement of claim, but denies that he did so wrongfully, or that the said grouuds and road therein mentioned are private as alleged. The defendant denies that he committed the alleged trespasses charged, or any of them. As to the trespasses first alleged in paragraph 4, the defendant says that at the times ot the alleged trespasses there was, and of right ought to have been, a common and public highway over the said land of the plaintiffs' for all persons to go and return tlureon through the said field gate, on foot at all times of the year, at their free will and pleasure; and the defendant having occasion to use the said way then entered into and upon the said lands of the plaintiffs', anil along the said highway, then using the same as he lawfully might for the cause aforesaid; and because the said field gate had been erected and then was wrongfully in and across the said highway, and locked across the same obstructing the same and preventing the convenient use thereof, the defendant necessarily broke the lock and committed the other trespasses charged against him for the purpose of using the said highway, doing no unnecessary damage in that behalf, which are the alleged trespasses. He did not pass on horseback over the said land or footway. As to the other trespasses alleged in paragraph 4, the defendant says that at the times of the alleged trespasses there was, and of right ought to have been, a common and public highway over the said lands of the plaintiffs' for all persons to go and return on foot, and with horses, cattle, and carriages at all times of the year, at their free will and pleasure and the defendant having occasion to use the said way then entered upon the said lands of the plaintiffs', and along the said highway, then using the same as he lawfully might for the cause aforesaid and because the said other gates and fencing had been and then were wrongfully on and across the said highway, and the said gates were locked across the same obstructing the same and preventing the convenient use thereof the defendant necessarily broke open the said gates and pulled down and destroyed the said fencing, and committed the other trespasses charged against him for the purpose of using the said way, doing no unnecessary damage in that behalf, which are tne alleged trespasses. The defendant repeats the sixth paragraph, substituting the words "on foot and with horses" for the words on foot and with horses, cattle, and carriages." The defendant does not admit the fifth paragraph of the statement of claim. Mr. Sweten- ham tneu went on to say that the plaintiffs admitted a footpath running at right angles from the Pennal-road, down to Llugwy House, thence to the north across a meadow down to the river. They also admitted a foot- path, likewise running from the Pennal-road, and joining a previous path about half way between the Pennal-road and Llugwy, and separated from that path by a gateway, wall and swing gate. Over the former footpath Mr. Tliruston claims carriage way down to Llugwy, alongside the house and down to the river. He also claims a bridle path at the back of Llugwy, and through a meadow to the south of the house, and down to the river opposite a place called Quay Ward on the Montgomery side of the river. Acting under the belief that the plaintiff's title was disputed, Mr. Swetenham showed in the first in- stance the title to be derived from Mr. Jonathan Anwyl, who lived principally at Llugwy for considerably over thirtv years, and died in 1852. He who was the owner in fee of the estate, was succeeded by his cousin, Robert Anwyl, who died on the 21st June, 1867. He appeared to be the owner in fee, because lie devised the property to his sister Elizabeth for life, with remainder to John Evans and John Roberts for the term of'eighteen years commencing from the 1st January, 1862, for the purpose of raising money. The trustees did not act, ana Evan Anwyl and Mr. H. Lloyd were substituted. Lloyd died and left Anwyl the only trustee for the term of years unexpired. Evan Anwyl had died and devised his trust in estate to his widow, Jemima, who was one of the present plaintiffs. Thus it was that she was joined in the case with Robert Charles Anwyl. But in addition to that, subject to the expiration of the term of eighteen years, Robert Anwyl devised Llugwy to Robert Charles, son of his brother Evan, for life. Mrs. Jemima Anwyl was also tenant in occupation and had been living at the house from 1868 to 1872. Llugwy was a most interesting place and had been in the possession of the Anwyl family for upwards of 200 years. The family had been exceed- ingly jealous of their rights because people who were iu°the habit of crossing the Dovey in order to go on the Pennal road desired to land at the most convenient PMr. Coxon said he did not dispute the title. Mr. Swetenham continuing, said that recently Mr. Thruston went on horseback, accompanied by his son, carrying a hammer, and five servants and knocked off the lock attached to the gate leading out of the Caefynnon field and a lock on a gate across the bridle path. He then proceeded to the river opposite Quay Ward where he dismounted, and went along the bank of the river towards Llugwy, thence on towards the Pennal road, where he broke another lock attached to a gate at the side of the house. Mr. Coxon said he admitted that. Mr. Swetenham said that the only piece of evidence he should put in was that consisting of two letters. They were « Hall, Machynlleth, June 3rJ. 1879. 1 "Madam,—5n my return home to-day, I found the zate at Llugwy leading to the river locked, so that it was impossible to get to the river bank. As the road is a { public one, leading from the only tolerable landing place 1 m the navigable river, it is of great importance to the rablic that their rights should be kept up, and free access to the river be undisturbed. I am also informed ;hat the public bridle road leading from your farm build- ings to Quay Ward is or was lately closed by the gates being locked and lately I have noticed that the gate on the public road leading from the Marsh, and via Llugwy to DerwenLas, has also had a chain and lock: put on it. I don't wish to do anything disagreeable, or without notice, but I must warn you that unless these obstructions to the rights of the public are not immediately removed, a repe- tion of the episode of the 13th June, 1863, will occur. I must say that I was in hopes that the lesson taught then would have had more effect than it seems to have had.- I remain, yours faithfully, F. THRUSTON." "Talgarth Hall, June 10, 1879. chj.t you claim a right to present people landing on any part of the Llugwy land bordering on the river Dovey, I beg to inform you that the committee propose, on a suitable occasion, to proceed by water with the people of Derwenlas and Penual to assert the rights of the public to land anywhere and every- where on the banks of the tidal and navigable river, as was always the case from time immemorial until the labouring classes were frightened by your threats. Allow me to add that the chain put round the gate on the public pathway from Pennal is of such a nature that it is most difficult both to undo and to fasten again. It took me some minutes to unfasten it yesterday with the loss of some skin from my knuckles, and unless a proper catch is put on the gate, I fear many persons, especially if they are in a hurry, will not take the trouble of trying to close it. A child or weak woman certainly could not do so.— Yours faithfully, C. F. THURSTON." "Youwtll have due notice of the proposed boating excursion." I Mr. Coxon then opened the case for the defence, and called Charles Frederick Thruston defendant in the case, said he had lived in the neighbourhood nearly 56 years, the whole of his life. Talgarth was about a mile and a half from Llugwy. As to the way along the bank of the river from opposite quay ward to Llugwy, he had been in the habit of walking along it ever since lie could remember in front of Llugwy House, and up into the road leading to Pennal. There were some palings fixed into sockets on the site of the present ornamental fence which could be removed by anyone passing that way. The rails couia oe removed and anyone could pass through. Never asked leave, for he considered that there was a public right of way there. He was never obstructed in his passage that way. One time he saw Mr. Robert Auwyl-about 1862- turn back a man on horseback. He (Mr. Thrustou) was walking down from Talgarth, and when he got down within a short distance of the bridle road at the back of the premises, he saw Mr. Robert Auwyl turn a horse and its rider from the direction of Llugwy down the bridle road. The man's name was John Evans, Moroen, on the Montgomeryshire side of the river. The language towards the man was not very polite. Anwyl turned round to witness, and said This scamp, squire, has been trying to ride round my old Llugwy, but i have stopped him, and shown him which is his proper way to go. This," pointing down the bridle road, "is the public riding road to quay ward. The other by old Llugwy," pointing down by the house, "is only a public footpath." lie took witness a portion of the way down by Llugwy to point out what he meant by the public footway. He pointed out the road by Llugwy in front of the house, along the river bank downwards towards quay ward. Witness had used the bridle road repeatedly, previously and subsequently. He believed there was a gateway near the road, but he had itever seen it locked. There was a latch which anyone could open. He did not think that there was a gate at the corner turning down to the river. At any rate there was no locked gate. So tar as he corld say, the gate had only been locked recently. He had heard that it had been locked occasionally prior to this year. The ornamental fence was also a recent erection, but there was a space between it and the river, allowing passage. Recently, however, a wire fence had been carried into the river. That he had knocked down. He remembered the path from Talgarth to the gate in Cae- ffynnon. There was a gate cutting off the footpath from the road leading to Llugwy, but it had never been locked. The gate before the present one, was a tumble down gate, sometimes open, sometimes shut, a specimen of an old Welsh farm gate. There was a rope or piece of wire to fasten the gate by a loop over the gate post. He had seen many people going through the gate- way. The stile he remembered was on the left haiid side of the gate going to Llugwy, about three feet high. The present stile was put up a year and a half ago; and the wall, a modern one, was built by Mr. Robert Anwyl, about seventeen years ago. There was a scrub fence before the wall was built. The present stile is a dangerous one. For a long time previously—about ten or fifteen years- there was no stile there—nothing but the field gate. There was no gate way between the bridle path and the river. It was an open farm road by which cattle went down to the river. The present douule gate leading to the entrance of the house, was not there theu. A iann gate was put up many years ago, but it was never locked. He tre- quently went through that gate way. There was a very convenient lauding place opposite Gild house. The road led from that landing place. He had often landed there, and at all parts along the Llugwy land and he had heard that coal and other things had been landed there. There wai a ford between the end of the bridle path and quay ward, over wnich he had frequently gone on hoiseback. He had not met people when crossing that way. He had seen the late Col. Apperley et-os, near the quay ward, and at another time near the Llugwy pool, lie wa^j on horseOacK. lie weut do\Vu alougside the lluUdè, awl passed over near tne site or the since-erected oruauieutcd path. Ho had always used the bridle path in broad day ii;ilt,ana he must have been seen by the servants and others. Rooei t Anwyl and Jonathan Anwyl, his pre- decessor, both lived at Llugwy.—By Mr. Swetenham: lie rode down alongside the house to the river bank as a matter of right. Jonathan Anwyl and his (witness's) father did not speak to one another. It was not in conse- quence of disputed right. Witness repeatedly walked along the river's bauk towards Llugwy. VViien tie landed any- where from the upper part of the river on the Llugwy laud, he walked across the meadovr until he joined the pathway. He could not do so below Liugvvy because there were big fencos there. lie believed Mr. Jonathan Anwyl made tile dittnes in the lield below the house, but he did not know tiie reason. He had ridden down the road along- side Lluwy when he WcoS ten years of age. Mr. Jonathan Anwyl was then living in the house, lie had ridden down tile road to go into the old .-oad to Pumwern, and further oil. lie did not go down the road for any other purpose except to go down the bridle path. lie had ridden along the bridle road repeatedly in Jonathan Anwyl's time. Ships were built wheu he was a chiid below Quay Ward, but it did not interfere with the ford, nor did it create a couvenient lauding place at the spot. Referring to what Mr. Anwyl said about John Evans, witness said that the words were said in such an emphatic manner that he should remember it until the day of his death. (Laughter.) There were two notice boards near the ornamental fence, one on eac'i side. He could not say when it was put up, but it was not many years ago. The notice board near Morfa Bach was put up about twelve years ago. He remembered that. Colonel Apperley's daughter took hold of it., said it light to be removed, and called Mrs. Anwyl an old fool. (Laughter.) It had since been taken away and put in a coiner.—Mr. Swettenham The cattle have knocked it (1,) -11. Thruston'* cross-jxamination con- tinued He claiiu-d a right of carriage way down to the river alongside tiie house, and a bridle path around the back of the house. The following letter in his hand- writing :— Talgarth Hail, March 2nd, 1853.—My dear sir,—I write as a matter of form, but as I uufortuuately have ex- perienced some queer rebuffs where I thought that other treatment might have been accorded regarding a right of way, I trust that you will excuse my writiug to you, especially as I feel confident that you would have allowed it without the asking; but in twenty years time it may be different, so I humbly ask you to allow me to land my coal and to carry it from your wharf, as your brother is to join me. Should you want any you could not have a better opportunity. There will be about 15 tons at, I believe, 6s. 3d. for coal, and 6s. for carriage to Aberdovey, making, with the carriage, up some 13a. 9d., cheap enough for any sort of fuel, what say you ? With best regards to Miss Anwyl, believe me, yours sincerely, C. F. THRUSTON." The explanation was that Evan Anwyl wanted the coal, and there was a little jealousy between the brothers, and he wrote for Mr. Evan Anwyl. He did not think any thing then about right of way. He had since discovered that he could have claimed the right.—The next letter put in was written by Mrs. Thruston to Mr. Anwyl, asking that her daughter, Blanchie, might be allowed to go over to Morben Hall, via. Llugwy yard. The request was granted.—The next letter was written by Mr. Anwyl to Mrs. Thruston, complaining that after having allowed Miss Thruston to pass through the yard, Mr. Thruston's son had crossed the river into our field as he passed by the lawn and through the yard on horseback." Air. Thruston replied as follows Talgarth Hall, Machynlleth, July 25, 1868.-Mr. Thruston begs to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Anwyl's strongly worded epistle to Mrs. Thruston, and regrets to find that Mr. Anwyl is so strongly ignorant of the courtesies of the hunting field. He requests that in future Mrs. Thruston may not be troubled with letters of com- plaints, but that they should be sent to the proper person, namely, to Mr. Thruston." Mr. Thruston explained that his son was otter hunting that day.—The next letter was written on 27th July, 1868° and was as follows :— Dear fc>ir,—Your reply to the letter 1 wrote Mrs. Thruston on the 24th inst. was delivered to me by Mr. Williams on Saturday. My motive for addressing Mrs. Thruston relative to your son was because the subject had reference to a note I received from her in March last. You imply that my letter was strongly worded which I can't admit, although your letter to me was decidedly so. But I am resolved that you shall not quarrel with me without a cause, and that I am not desirous of giving you intentionally.J- It is, however, really amusing the cool manner in which you justify the cause of my com- plaint, and especially the grounds of that justification, namely my total ignorance of the courtesies of the hunt- ing field. I atn. W1hing to yield to you the palm in connection with the accomplishment of the courtesies alluded to, but I must beg leaveto enlighten your appar- ent ignorance as regards there being any hunting field at all on Friday last in this side the river. The otter hounds on tht,t day commenced hunting a short distance from Der- wemlas about seven o'clock of course on the opposite side of the river. They hunted up the stream for several miles and were not seen again in the neighbourhood until late in the evening on their return home. I believe your son did not join the chase but spent the day with Henry Apperley boating, &c., so that it appears he had nothing to ao WLLEI tne nunting held and if otherwise it must have been in the next county. In conclusion, allow me to ask you in candour, especially as an admininister of justice, how you would like my son to gallop through one of your best fields and pass your hall for no other purpose than to shorten the distance to his own home ? I have already expressed a desire to be at peace, therefore need not repeat it. God has merci- fully granted me along existence, and whenever he thinks fit to call me, and the curtain drops on my career, I hope I shall close my eyes in death devoid of any angry feeling in my heart towards any fellow being.—Believe me, your truly, ANWYL." To that letter Mr. Thruston replied :— "July 29th, 1868. "Dear Sir,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of a very long epistle from you. I must decline entering into the special pleading of it, or to discuss who is the best judge of what is due to courtesy, but I should advise you before committing yoursfelf so fully as you have done, to ascertain what the real facts of the case are, and not to argue on siippoiitious grounds. I do not approve of men writing long letterstostateliowfullofChristiaufeelingthey are, and then making use of splenetic, and what would be to most persons, irritating language. It savours, to my ideas, too much irreverence to God's Holy name. In conclusion, let me give you one piece of advice, which is, not to interfere, where you haue no right to do so. You are as well aware ts I am that you can take no steps in any matter connected vith Llugwy except by idle threats. Yau have nothing o do with the property, and I have it from the best mthority that your action about these rights or supposed rights is not at all approved of in the proper quarter." Mr. Thruston was then examined respecting the diver- don of the road leading near Llwynonn, between 1874 and L876. In the documents referring to the road leading irom the Pennal Parish road to Llugwy was styled highway being a footpath," running from Pennal to Derwenlas, 120 yards in length.—In reply to Mr. Swetenham, Mr. Thruston said that he signed the document as a ministerial act. He believed all the magistrates who affixed their names, signed without looking at the contents, for they knew that it would have to come before Quarter Sessions. No description of a road between Pennal and Derwenizis would concern a road between Pennal and Quay Ward. He did not remember hearing the Clerk ot the Peace reading at Quarter Sessions out the documents respecting the diversion. [Mr. David Pugh, solicitor, Holywell, produced minutes and rolls of Quarter Sessions, showing that Mr. Thruston was not present on that occasion.] After cross-examination respecting Caefynnon fence, Mr. Thruston, speaking about the letter he had written to the plaintiff, said that the committee referred to therein meant himself, his son, and David Jones, a tenant, the word li committee" was merely a tigure of speech. (Laughter.) In getting up evidence he had heard that Mr. Anwyl had exacted tolls for landing. Re-examined—He was not aware that his wife had written to Mr. Anwyl until he had received copies re- cently. He did not know anything about her asking for leave. VV hen about to view the p oposed divertad road, his attention was not called to the fact that the road was described as a footpath. He merely saw that the convenience oi the pubiic was consulted by the deviation. He had signed the certifieaes because he saw that the new road was nearer and more convenient to the public. The road was described of the width of three feet, but it was wide enough to admit of the passing of two carriages. His signing was a ministerial act. Llugwy was always a farm house-a tumble down farm house. He thought that Robert Anwyl built two additional rooms, and now it was a very comiortable house for its size. If it was Llugwy that was advertised in the Standard some time ago, it must mean the same place. Charles Nisbet Thruston stated that he frequently rode along the bridle path over the river, and out into the turn- pike road from Aberystwyth to Machynlleth. On one occasion he saw old Mr. Robert Anwyl, and asked him the way to proceed. Mr. Anwyl replied, pointing to the bridle road, That, mv bov, is the public riding path," or words to that effect. You cannot go this way," point- ing to the road by the house, "because it is only a foot- path." After fishing witness had frequently passed through the Llugwy yard. In other points witness cor- roborated his father's evidence. Cross-examined—The reason why he asked Mr. Anwyl the way to go was because he (witness) when a child was afraid of Mr. Anwyl. Several persons had passed along the bridle path in company with witness on horseback, but he had never met anyone else coming orgoing that way. David Jones, carpenter, Pennal, over 63 years of age, who lived at Pennal and used to work at Quay Ward, gave evidence showing the track he weut to his work, straight from Pennal across hedges and ditches. When the ditches were full witness used to go through the Llugwy yard aud home by the road. He used to land on the meadow where ne liked. Mr. Horridge and three others landed at Llugwy. People towed on the Llugwy side. Cross-examiiiecl-The stile at Caeffynnon was always in the same place, and always the same height, but the hand rails were higher. He knew Mr. Jonathan Anwyl and his white waistcoat; worked for him and was friendly with him. He used to call witness Di." (Laughter.) Anwyl allowed witness to go where he liked. He had seen notice boards there but they were no hindrance to witness. (Laughter.) The boards remained until they got rotten. When Mr. Horridge went back he laughed and told Mr. Anwyl to do his worst. He did not see a lawyer's letter which had been written to Mr. Horridge respecting his going that way. There was no towing place on the Llugwy side. The ca*e was then adjourned to the following day. Continued on another page.

THE DEAN OF BANGOR ON THE JESUS COLLEGE CONXKO VERS if. At a public meeting in the Garth-road National Schools, Bangor, on Thursday evening, September 4, Colonel the Hon. W. E. Sackviile West in the chair, the following address was delivered by the Dean of Bangor. After dwelling at great length upon tne endowments and the Welsh origin of the College, the speaker proceeded to speak as follows of THE FUTUIZZ COLLEGU DESIGNED BY DR. HARPElt. The Principal is still to retain his handsome income of £1,¡;: lis. lic1. The Fellows are still to enjoy nearly 4;4,000 a year, and the ex-Fellows for the present £ 1,224 4s. of the College revenue. The twenty Welsh scholars are to be reduced to ten, and half of the £ 1,600 a year, now devoted to the maintenance of poor Welsh youths at the University, is to be taken from them to form prize scholar- ships in order to attract into the College out of the English public schools, youths who may be more easily manufac- tured into first classmen than those poor Welshmen who have to contend against such manifold disadvantages. The Principal and Fellows are to seek a voice in the man- agement of Welsh schools, by giving to them some small sums out of what Dr. Harper calls the Welsh Endowment of the College, that is, I suppose, those endowments which he cannot possibly alienate, probably the Meyrick Trust Fund, and by giving A;100 a year to an occasional head-master of a school in Wales for three years and possibly more, and encouraging Jesus Codege men to undertake some of the scholastic positions—doubtless the more lucrative—in Welsh Gram- mar Schools. This last proposal with regard to the schools is cleverly framed to secure for the College the maximum of sottish advantage at the minimum cost of sacrifice. It is intended to give very little money to Welsh schools, but, is intended to strengthen the hold of the College oligarchy upon all that is worth having in Wales. The proposal, as I sketched by Dr. Harper is so vague that I will not criticise it further, but simply say that it gives to Wales a promise i of indefinite and, I believe, uurealisable advantages, in order to secure her acquiescence in the alienation of reve- nues which belong to her, as many think, no less truly than the Hulme foundation does to .Lancashire, and the Suell exhibitions at Balliol to Scotland. We are told that it is not intended to throw open at present more than half of the Welsh scholarships. But the statutes suggested to the Commissioners would, if adopted, give to the Principal and Fellows power to throw open every Welsh Fellowship and every Welsh Scholarship whenever they might think proper. We know that schoolmasters are naturally tempted to bid against each other for the boys of the most superior class. We know also that colleges at Ox- ford are liable to the same infirmity, and are prone to use all available resources to attract the most genteel, wealthy, and expensively prepared youths, so as to give social distinction and better prospect of triumphs in the schools. Thus the Principal and Fellows, of whom the most powerful moiety are likely for obvious reasons to be Englishmen, would be continually tempted, if this terrible discretionary power were entrusted to them, to bid for men of social standing, and to improve the poor Welshman out of ^^—^College, probably justifying the process by some i lHH| ;al epigram about the law of selection aud th jSE^ the fittest. It is only fair to acknowledge thi^^J^Trper recognises the justice of our objection to this unlimited power of discretion, and intimates his willingness not to press for it. That is a concession of very great value. But I think we are entitled to ask for further concessions. We have a right to demand that the money hitherto devoted to the main- tenance of Welsh students at Jesus College shall not be diminished, and also that the entire revenue of the College shall be more fairly used, in accordance with the main design of the benefactors, for the purpose of promoting the higher education of Welshmen. If Dr. Harper's proposals are adopted the result will be that. at least £ 7,000 of the corporate income will be expended upon the Principal, Fellows, and ex-Fellows of the College, and only the paltry sum of £ 800 a year upon the maintenance of the poor Welsh scholars. Before I venture to suggest what seems to me a fairer distribution, I must notice THE ARGUMENT FOR OPEN SCHOLARSHIPS. The arguments by which Dr. Harper seeks to prove the necessity of having some open scholarships are more solid than the somewhat airy guesses by which he tries to sug- gest, I will not say prove, that the College was not origi- nally Welsh. His main arguments are that the opening of many scholarships in other colleges since 1857 has drawn clever Welsh youths away, that a large number of youths born in Wales go to other colleges, that the calibre of the men who go to Jesus College is not so good as it was be- fore that date, and that fewer of its students obtain high classes. I am prepared to admit that there may be some foundation, for these conclusions. But they are by no means so unquestionable as Dr. Harper seems to think. Now if the Principal is right in saying that Jesus College has been intellec.ualiy depressed of late, and that its de- pression is attributable to the opening of scholarships in other colleges since 1860, we ought to find that in the twenty years preceding that year, the College had a much larger number of classical Hist and second class-men than during the fifteen years subsequent. But what does the calendar say? During the whole of the twenty years between 1840 and 1860, in which, according to the Principal's theory, the clever youths of Wales were excluded from other colleges by the closeness of their scholarships, and therefore entered Jesus College, there was only one first classman and nine second classmen, in the Final Classical School.. But in the years between 1863and 1875, after theopeningof thescholar- ships in other colleger, Jesus College has had two first class-, men, and 8 seconds in the same school. I find also that during the same period the College is credited in the calendar with no less than 5 firsts and 4 seconds in the Final Mathematical School and 6 firsts and 3 seconds in the other schools. These facts do not bear out Dr. Har- per's theory that the College has been depressed since 1860. I am inclined to think that a careful comparison of the. honours taken by Jesus College men with the distinc- tions won in other colleges would show that in proportion to their number the Welsh students of the former have fairly held their own. It is often forgotten how small is the number of men at Jesus College. In 1871 they are returned as between 42 and 45-a number considerably below that of any other college in*Oxford. I am inclined to believe that the evil under which the College has suffered is the paucity rather than the inferior quality of its stu- dents, and that reform should be directed to the removal of those obstacles that now exclude scores of poor Welsh- men from the College rather than to the attraction of an entirely different class of men. I fiad that Mr. Owen Owen, an ex-scholar of the College, a man of high natural abilities, who, notwithstanding manifold disadvantages obtained a classical 2nd in the First Examinatfon' aud a 3rd in the Filial, and is an excel- lent type of the class of young Welshmen who have honourably triumphed over their pecuniary diffi- culties, published on July 30th of this year, iu the Barter ac Amserau Cymru, a letter in which lie proves that the College, in proportion to its numbers, holds a relatively honourable position. By applying the same standard to all the colleges, and taking into consideration the ave- rage number of students between 1853 and 1878, it will be impossible to prove Jesus College to be lower than ninth in order of merit. In mathematical finals I have dis- covered that Jesus College is far ahead of all other col- leges in Oxford; and also that it is by far the first in natural science. From these lists it will be seen that Jesus College is ninth in classics, first in mathematics, first in science, aud fifth in all three put together." This statement of Mr. Owen's has been be- fore the public for two months, and I have not seen any refutation of it, and I believe that it cannot be refuted. If then it be true, as Mr. Owen maintains, that the Welsh- men in the College have held their own well in proportion to their numbers, and that the College suffers from nume- rical weakness, andnot from the iuteilectaal inferiority of those men who enter, then it becomes obvious that what is needed is the removal of those obstacles that exclude scores of meritorious Welsh youths from its walls. I am firmly convinced that the chief of those obstacles is the want of pecuniary resources, and that it can be so far re- moved, by a righteous use of the Welsh endowments of the College, as to double the number of its alumni. I am quite sensible of the advantage to be obtained, in im proving the social tone of the College, by introducing into it a number of open scholars. Although I have shown that the reasoning upon which Dr. Harper bases his demand for such a measure is unsound, I accept his conclusion that it will be well to spend some few hundreds a year in creating open scholarships. But I will ask WHO ARE TO BE SACRIFICED IN ORDER TO FIND THE MONEY? The Principal, Fellows, and ex-Fellows enjoy 27,000 a year of the Corporate revenue. What educational service do they render for it? Is this money paid in order to purchase tuition for the students ? No. There is another sum paid out of the Corporate revenue for tuition. What is the amount ? X382 9s. Out of a net Corporate income of £10,000 a year, just £ 382 9s. is expended in paying for tuition. The undergraduates themselves—poor men, nearly all-have to pay for tuition S700 17s., nearly twice the sum which the College out of its £ 10,00û a year gives for that purpose, which is the end of its existence. Why, it is notorious that men reading for honours at Jesus College have always been obliged, before they could hope for success, to employ a private tutor at a cost of 230 a year. Poor men could not do this, and I will venture to assert boldly that the men who have won high honours in the College have done so by expending large sums upon private tuition, and that men naturally abler came short of those honours because their parents were too poor to pay for private tuition. It will be difficult, I think, to convince the world that a College which only spends out of a Corporate revenue of 210,000 a year the paltry sum of £ 382 k on the tuition of its students is using its re- sources righteously. I am quite aware that in some of the other colleges the amcant devoted out of the Corporate in- come is as small as at Jesus College, and that some of those colleges are successful. Where the students are numerous and comparatively wealthy, the fees secure good tuition. But in Jesus College, which has a small number of poor men, the tutorial staff ought to be kept iri vigorous strength by liberal payments out of the Corporate income. And there is another grievous abuse. Some of the ablest tutors in the College have, I suppose, owing to the scanti- ness of their pay, been taking large numbers of men from other colleges as private pupils. Consequently, the students in the College sometimes only received the dregs of their teaching, were obliged to go to them at inconvenient hours, when the out College men, who paid them fees for private tuition did not choose to come. Before declaring to the world dogmatically that Welshmen must give up their places to open scholars becauses they do not win honours a they should, it would be well to try what could be done by spending more than 1:382 93. upon their tuition. I must here notice one other point in Dr. Harper's speech. He says, In 1857 local limitations as to scholarships were abolished at every other college in the universities." It would be difficult to frame a sentence more likely to mislead readers unacquainted with the facts. Verbally the sentence is true, but substantially it is utterly untrue. What the unsophisticated reader would infer from it is that all the scholarships in other colleges are open to all comers. But Mr. J. Davies in his pamphlet has shown that nothing of the kind has been done. The truth," he says, is that the English Colleges out of an aggregate of £36,12710s. 7d. still reserve a sum of at least E15,440 a year for persons educated at particular schools, or born in particular localities other than Welsh ones." Dr. Harper chooses to speak of endowments which no boy can win, unless educated at Winchester, or Tiverton, or Westminster, as freed from local limitations, because all boys can, if their parents are rich, go to the public schools. But to tell the poor parents of Wales that these prizes are open to their sons, if they can spend hundreds of pounds in sending them to these public schools, is something very like mockery. Limitation to boys trained at public schools is limitation not only to a locality of training, but also to a class of society, and that the least necessitous class. This argument of Dr. Harper's must be reconsidered. It is not based upon reality, but upon words. I must also observe that when he applies the words local limitation to the Welsh scholarships he uses an expression utterly inaccurate and misleading. The distinction between one English county or diocese and another may fairly be called a "local distinction." In both the people are of the same race, speak the same language, and enjoy the same advantages. But the difference between Wales and English districts is much more than local. It is a difference, not only of locality, but of nationality, and all that is implied in it. And this brings me to the treatment of another question.— WHY WELSH ENDOWMENTS OUGHT TO BE DEALT WITH B SCEPTIOUALLY ? The answer is easy. If the entire population from which the students of the University are drawn were homogenous and living under conditions equal in all respects, then it would be possible to argue that all educational prizes should be open to free and unrestricted competition as best calculated to draw out the ablest in- tellects in the country. But at present the conditions of England and Wales are so unequal that in competition, especially for classical scholarships, the average Welsh youth, even if he were naturally far superior in ability, must inevitably be beaten by the average English youth. The difficulties of the Welsh youth are manifold, but two are especially worthy of notice. 1. His distinct language. 2. The great lack of intermediate educational endowments. It is perhaps hardly realised by Englishmen how exten- sively the Welsh language still prevails among the middle and working classes in Wales. In a speech delivered in the House of Commons on the 1st of July this year, Mr. Hussey Vivian used these words, At present the number of Welsh-speaking people was estimated to be over a million. The Calvinistic Methodists, the Coiagre- gationalists, the Baptists, and the Wesleyans in Wales numbered in their ranks 686,220 persons exclusive of chil- dren under the age of ten, and of that number only 35,000 worshipped in the English language." How does this prevalence of the Welsh language affect the question of higher education in Wales, and the opening of Welsh en- dowments at Oxford ? It affects it most materially. To a very large number of Welsh youths, who seek University education, English is almost a foreign language. Hence, as was recently pointed out on two occasions by the most distinguished Welshman in the University of Oxford, Welsh boys, who are being prepared for the Universities, have a very great difficulty in attaining that command of a good English style that is necessary for success in com- petition for open scholarships. As long as this national distinction exists, it is unfair to deprive them of their national endowments, and to treat as local" limitations which are based upon nation- ality. In his report upon the Welsh Schools, with that keen insight characteristic of him, Professor Bryce recognized the existence of this disadvantage, though he hardly seems to have realized its full extent. The second of the grounds upon which we demand exceptional treatment for Wales is that it is exceptionally destitute of school endowments, and of school exhibitions to the University. I will let Mr. D. J. Davies' pamphlet (for he is an authority upon this subject) state the extent of that comparative destitution. He writes :—"In the Endowed Schools Commissioners' report of 1868 I find that the total net income of English Endowed Schools amounted to 2271.992 yearly, while that of the Welsh Schools was £ 5,008 only. Takiag the population of the two countries as given by the census of 1871, it appears that for every million persons in England there was a school endowment of 1:12,800 yearly, but that for every million persons in \W»les the endowment was only £ 4,174 yearly. In this re- spect, therefore, the English people are more than three times as rich as their Welsh neighbours. Putting it in another way, suppose that the school endowment in a certain Welsh district issufficienttogive a poor meritorious boy the benefit of a University education, in an English district of the same numberof inhabitants there would be sufficient ton. dowment to educate three or four such boys. But this is not all. From the same report we find that the value of School exhibitions to the University amounted to 213,939 in England, and to only £ 325 in Wales. Surely it cannot be in accordance with any principles of educational justice that Wales, out of her meagre educational resources, should be made to contribute to those of England, which are so much greater than her own." I must allude to one other exceptional disadvantage under which Wales has laboured. Iu England and Scotland the National Church haa fostered the higher education of the people. What has been the extent of that fostering influence in Wales during the last 170 years ? Let tho Right Hon. W. Ewart Gladstone answer the question. On July first of this year he said in the House of Commons As to the Church, the National Church of Scotland did immense service in fostering the national intelligence. The case was the same in Wales until the unhappy system of proscribing the Welsh tongue was established. After the revolution English Bishops were appointed. Every deanery, canonry, and living in which a decent main- tenance was to be had was given to Englishmen, and the dregs were left to the people of Wales. The people of Wales were driven out of connection with that great na- tional institution which in time would have afforded means for the cultivation of the national .intelligence; so that Parliament and the British Government had not only done nothing for Wales; they had not only withheld from Wales the aid that had been given, especially during the present century, to Scotland and Ireland with more or less liber- ality, according to the views they maintained, but posi- tively drove the people of Wales out of the enjoyment of the only institution which offered any means of fostering and educating the national mind." I have now proved that Wales labours under educational disadvantages of an exceptional kind, arising from a distinct language, poverty of School endowments, and the effect of scan- dalous ecclesiastical abuses in the past. To remedy this complicated ailment Dr. Harper has one sovereign remedy, "open scholarships," the effect of which will be to give the dull son of wealthy parents, by virtue of his expensive school training, the power of ex- cluding from the University much abler, but less prepared Welsh youths. This measure, even if limited to the alienation of ten Welsh scholarships, will be not slightly disastrous. It will exclude ten Welsh- men from the University in each generation, and give to Wales in every thirty-fiva years 100 graduates less than she would otherwise have had among her sons. OpeiL scholarships are doubtless an efficacious remedy for many evils. But a physician who has one bottle for all diseases, simple and complicated, is in danger of earning the title of quack. Having thus ventured to point out the defects of a reform which aims at converting the Welsh College-a College founded, bear in mind—not by a member of the genteel classes, but by a Welsh clergyman, Hugh Pryce, the noble-minded son of a humble Weish butcher-into a genteel little Anglo- Welsh establishment for the education of fifty or sixty superior youths at a cost of more than £ 10,000 a year of money left for the benefit of the Welsh people, and out of which the humbler Welsh youths—if we may judge by the depreciatory animus daily exhibited towards them—may not improbably be gradually improved, I will venture to suggest some. CHANGES DEMANDED BY JUSTICE AND EXPEDIENCY. 1. In 1871, about £ 7,000 of the College's corporate in- I come was spent upon the Principal, Fellows, and ex-Fel- lows, barely £ 1,000, I imagine, after deducting the money taken from the Trust 1 und, upon the maintenance of the twenty Welsh scholar's, and the sum of 2382 9s. upon providing tuition These figures prove that hitherto the ruling idea in the governing minu or tne College has been to pamper the Principalship and Fellowships-which are virtually dignified sinecures—and to starve the tutorships and scholarships, which promote the real work of the Col- lege. This idea ought to give place to a new one. It ought to be realised that the Principalship and Fellowships exist for education and not education for these comfortable sine- cures. Sir Leoline Jenkins expressed his estimate of the relative sum due to Principal, Fellow, and schoiar by the figures £50,£20, £ 10. Something like that proportion ought to be restored. 2. Inasmuch as Nonconformity greatly prevails in Wales among the middle classes, out of which a large proportion of the best intellectual raw material of Wales must be drawn, restrictions which dis- courage Nonconformists from entering the College ought to be removed as far as it is possible. I understand that this reform has been to a great extent already effected, and that all the exhibitions, scholarships, a large portion of the Fellowships, and even the Principalship itself, are open to Nonconformists. As the College is the national Col- lege of Wales, all Welshmen ought to have the fullest fair play that can be given within its walls. 3. As it is important that Welshmen should be associated with Englishmen, it is desirable that a certain number of open scholarships should be created. If it were possible to form out of the income of the College a large number of valuable exhibitions tenable at any college in Oxford, it would be a still more beneficial reform. But as that may not be feasible, it would seem desirable to convert ten of the Welsh scholorships into Welsh exhibitions, given not only as prizes for knowledge, but as aids of poverty, and therefore not carrying with them the dis- tinction of a seliolar's gown; and to create ten open scholarships by the suppression of three of the Fellowships, inasmuch as ten Fellowships would be amply sufficient. 4. For the ten Fellowships Welshmen should have a pre- ference, but if no Welsh candidate having taken a 1st or 2nd in the Final Classical School or a 1st in the Final Mathematical School should present himself, the Fellow- ship vacant should be thrown open to all comers. The preference to Welshmen would secure for the College tutors, who knowing the difficulties and sharing the national temperament of the Welsh students, would be likely to prove, as experience has shown, more successful in teaching them than tutors less sympathetic. 5. The College possesses the advowsons of twenty benefices hav- ing a net annual income of £8,:365 a year. As the Fellow- ships have been diminished in number, and have ceased to be exclusively clerical, the possesoiou of so much eccle- siastical patronage by the College is an anachronism, is not required by the College, and is of doubtful advantage to the Cnurch. It would, therefore, seem desirable that a number of the English advowsons should be sold, and the proceeds devoted to the augmentation of the Welsh benefices, towards which the College has obligations, so that the el,224 4s. now spent annually up m such augmen- tation, may be devoted, as it ought to be, to genuinely educational work. It might even be possible to sell a suffi- cient number of the English advowsons to furnish an adequate income for the Principal, so that the £1,173103. 2d. net drawn by him from the poor parishes of Llandyssul, Clynog Fawr, Llanwnda, and Llautaghui may be devoted to higher education in Wales. These two sums so re- deemed, amounting to £ 2,397 0s. 2d. would provide a large number of school exhibitions, and afford to higher educa- tion in Wales that stimulus which it so sorely needs. 7. The income of the Principal is excessive in the national College of a poor people. It ought to be reduced to £ 1,000 a year on the next vacancy, so that JE822 might be devoted to fostering the education of Welshmen. 8. The College, if the Corporatepncome were devoted to educational work instead of the maintenance of sine- cures could well afford to resign the entire income of the Meyrick Trust Fund. It would suffice to form forty or fifty valuable school exhibitions tenable for four years at grammar schools, and open on perfectly equal terms to all Welsh boys without restriction. Such a reform would draw out of the population its best intellectual talents, and give the grammar schools such a stimulus in Wales that the Welsh College at Oxford would soon be crowned by Welsh youths well prepared to win dis- tinctions in the schools, and to satisfy even Dr. Harper's craving for first class-men. 9. Above all, the tuition of the College ought to be strengthened at the expense of its Corporate income. It seems extraordinary that out of 210,000 a year the College of poo,' Welshmen should spend on its tuition only the paltry sum of £ 382 9s. The tutorships ought to be well paid, and no Col- lege tutor ought to be permitted to alienate his energies from his College work by taking private pupils. In 1871 Keble College, without any Corporate income, educated ninety-one men at a cost oft;Sl per annum each, everything included, and expended upon its staff, warden, and bursar, and tutors only £ 2,250. Can it be said that Jesus College is doing what it ought to do, if we compare its income and its work with those of Keble ? 10. A thrifty Welsh student can live in lodgings at Oxford for less than C40. Many are living, unattached, at present for that sum. The great difficulty under which those poor men labour is the want of tuition. Is it too much to ask that their national College, so richly endowed, should afford them tuition at a nominal expense ? If that were done, scores of Welsh youths, who are now obliged to subject themselves to the life-long dis- advantage of being trained in some obscure local establish- ment, which only those who have an interest in the sale of its wares can venture to recommend, would be able to ob- tain those advantages of a University training, which are difficult to define, but of unquestionable value. 11. It is earnestly to be hoped that in the redistribution of the re- sources of the College, the Commissioners will tind means to create a considerable number of junior Fellowships tenable for five or six years, to enable poor graduates of ability and character to make a fair start in a professional career. Such Fellowships, though not exceeding the modest value of 2100 per annum, would be of the greatest service, and far more fruitful in good results, than the sinecure Life-Fellowships which have often tempted many men to life-long idleness. It seems a monstrous hardship that, while there is a Welsh College in Oxford, enjoying a revenue of Cl2,000 a year in all, poor Welsh youths should be obliged, as they have been obliged, absolutely to knock at the doors of other Colleges to ask charity in the form of a little tuition. 1 have known many cases of the kind. Some of the distinguished men at Balliol, University, and New College, have given of their charity to poor Welsh youths that aid which was never offered them by their own National Col- lege. I understand that an effort will shortly be made to establish exhibitions to transfer the ablest youths out of the elementary schools into the grammar schools in Wales. No movement could be more deserving of support, or more calculated to confer blessings upon Wales. I hope that some benefactor may arise to give a sum of 240,000 or R50,000 as a permanent fund for such exhibitions. Is the spirit of patriotism and benevolence dead ? Have reformers like Dr. Hnrper, by ignoring the clearly un- derstood wishes of benefactors, killed the goose that lays. the golden eggs of educational endowments, by leading men to fear that, if they give money for the benefit of their countrymen, it will be alienated to a very different purpose ? In con- clusion, I venture to express a hope that those Welshmen who are determined to seek justice upon this question will meet ere long in a public conference to dis- cuss all its bearings, and appoint a deputation of sixteen persons,—two Churchmen and two Nonconformists from each of the four Welsh Dioceses-to wait upon the Oxford University Commissioners so as to plead for justice to Wales. Welshmen must move, unless they are willing to lose their inheritance. We have right to complain when the interests of poor struggling students are sacrificed to the desire of attracting those of a higher social caste. We have a right to ask the Commissiuners to bear in 8'u mind that the College was established, as declared in the charter of its Foundress, not only Ad juventutis in pietate et virtute ac discipline et scientiil educationem," and in the widest sense Ad Ecclesiae Christe communem utilitatem," but also "Ad pauperum et inopia afflictorum sublevationem. I have now said to the best of my ability what I believe to be the truth on this ques- tion, and may God defend the right.

LLANILAR. PETTY SESSIONS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TR.-Before Vaughan Davies, Hugh S. Richardes, and John Wad- dington, Esqrs. Application. -Anne Brooks, who was married to Thomas Brooks in Llanbadarn Fawr Church in 1851, and lived with her husband up to 1871, when he deserted her, applied for an order of protection against him, because he was in the habit of occasionally coming home and threatening to sell the whole of the furniture of the house. He also threatened to bring home another woman and turn his wife out.—The application was granted. Highway Offetices.-Richard Owen, Tynrhyd, was fined Is. for leaving a large stone on the road at Devil's Bridge, when there with a waggon and four horses; and Owen Owen, of the same place, fined Is. for neglecting to have his name painted on the waggon. Dr uitkenness. -David Jones, Castell, was fined 10s., and costs, for having been drunk on August 1st and for having refused to leave the Falcon Inn, Llanilar. -William Jones and David Edwards were fined (Jones 10s., and costs, and Edwards 5s.) for having been drunk and disorderly. Furious Driving,—William Davies, Pontrhydfendigaed, charged with having driven furiously on August 12tb, was fined 2s., and costs, Cattle Strctyittg.-Tsaaa Isanc, Tynewydd, was fined Is., and costs, for having allowed pigs to stray on the highway between Llangwyryfon and Rhydygwin on Aug. 25th. Keeping Dogs without Licences.—The following persons were fined for keeping dogs without Licenses :—David Jones, Glangorsfach, Is. William Rowlands, Ystrad- meurig,j5s.; Anne Evans, Henblas. 6s.; William Thomas, Seren, 5s.; Richard Edwards, Falfadyn, 5s.; and laaac Lludmond, Elaendol, 5s.

ABERYSTWYTH. BOARD OF GUARDIANS, MONDAY, SEPT. B.-Pre- sent: Mr. H. C. Fryer (chairman), Mr. Edward Hamer (vice-chairman), Mr. Vaughan Davies and Mr. T. W. Bonsall (ex-officio), Sir Pryse Pryse, the Rev. J. T. Griffiths, Messrs. John Evans, Berthrees, James Jones, Piercefield, John Jenkins; Ed. Edwards, Jas. James, Hugh Jones, David Jenkins, John Jones, Elerch, David Rees, Isaac Morgan, J. J. Atwood, Robert Roberts, Richard Morris, John Edwards, John Morgan, Bwa- drain, James Morgan, Pwlley, David Jones, Rest, Hugh Hughes, clerk, and David Jones, Assistant clerk. statistic,s.NLumber in the house 77, increase of 15 on last year; vagrants relieved during the last fortnight 133, an increase of 86 on last year. Out-relief administered during the past fortnight :-Aberystwyth district, per Mr T. G. Thomas, 247 3:3. 6d., to 224 paupers; Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn district, per Mr. John Jones, 264 2,3. Gd. I to 271 paupers and liar district, per Mr. Joseph Morgan, £ 51 2s., to 209 paupers. Balance in the bank, 2720. Vagrants.-A conversation occurred respecting the large number of vagrants which infest the district, no fewer than 133 having been relieved during the past fortnight. It was stated that good systems were in vogue in the Merthyr Tydfil, Carmarthen, and Swansea Unions, and it was decided to ask the House Committee to take the subject into consideration, and in the meantime to write to the Merthyr and other unions, asking them to give an account of the systems adopted. Workhouse Expenses.—Mr. Isaac Morgan said he should like to see a statement showing the total expenditure on the workhouse.—The Clerk was directed to prepare a statement. Aberystwyth. Collector of Rates.—Mr. John Jenkins said that a great many of the Aberystwyth ratepayers were of opinion that two rate collectors were being paid at the present time.—The Clerk replied that Mr. Kenrick was not now engaged, and at no time were two collectors paid for getting in the rates. TOWN COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING, FRIDAY SEPT. 5.—Present: Mr. David Roberts. Mayor, Alder- men Thomas Jones, John Watkins, John Davies, and Philip Williams, Councillors John Jones, Bridge-end, Peter Jones, John James, J. R. Jones, Edward Humphreys, John Jenkins, T. D. Harries, J. J. Griffiths. Mr. W. H. Thomas, town clerk. Mr. David Lloyd, Mr. Rees Jones, surveyor, and Mr. David Jones, borough accountant. APPOINTMENT OF ENGINEER. I The MAYOR read^ the following report which had been made by the Committee appointed at the last meeting of the Council to consider the applications sent in by engi- neers a ° A meeting 01 tne special committee appointed by your Coun- cil on the 2nd Sept., to report upon the applications received for the appointment of an engineer to carry out the scheme for supplying this town with water from Uyn Llygad Rheidol was held at the Surveyor's Office at 2.30 p.m. on Sept. 3. Present Mr Roberts, mayor, Messrs J. Watkins, J. James, P. Jones, J. Jones, Bridge-end, T. D. Harries, Rees Jones, surveyor. Applications with testimollial aml terms were received from fourteen persons, and firms all of which/were read and carefully considered. The Committee hereby recommend the following for your consideration, namely, Mr Thomas S. Stoofce, C.E., Aber- gele, preliminary expenses and enquiry i"2C 5s, to merge into 2 percent, commission on cost; Mr Henry Bancroft, C.E., ?fan- chester, £52 10s., to merge into 3 percent. Mr J. W. Szlumper C.E., Aberystwyth, P.10, to merge into 5 per cent., but offers to deduct zC300 out of commission towards expenses- re- ceived already thus, on estimated outlay of £16;,00", to 3i per cent. commission on cost. Those were, continued the MAYOR, the three gentlemen recomriliended by the Committee. At the same time the Board were at liberty to select any one of the other ap- plicants. After some conversation relative to the different charges made by the engineers, which were shown by the report, published last week, Mr. PETER JONES said, as a member of the Committee, who had gone very carefully over the testimonialhe thought the Board could not do better than appoint Mr. Stooke, Abergele. He had had experience in carryin -» out the St. Helen's water works, which entailed an exper of £ 36,000. He received very flattering testimoniadit the way he carried out those worics, and also from other places where he had been engaged. The Corporation must remember that the town was already heavily taxed, and therefore they must be very cautious on the subject of expenditure. From what he could judge of the feeling of the Committee, he thought that they were almost unanimous in recommending Mr. Stooke, as his appoint- ment, compared with the others would save 2160. He had great pleasure in proposing the appointment of Mr. Stooke. Mr. J. R JONES seconded the proposition, and said that no doubt the majority of the applicants were one as good as another, and, therefore, the cheapest should be° ap- pointed. The Committee, of course, would not recom- mend a man unless he were qualified. Alderman JONES proposed, and Alderman PHILIP WILLIAMS seconded, the appointment of Mr. Szlumper. Di. HARRIES said it would take the gilt off the scheme to appoint an engineer at 7H per cent., although he might be the best man. All the applicants were, however, well qualified to carry out the scheme, and, therefore, the Cor- poratiou must; study economy. Mr. J. 1: JoEfM said that the difference between one application and another was about £ 200— nearly a 2d rate. If the Committee had recommended three men equal, the Council had better appoint the lowest. A 1 SARBiES aoain roae a»d said he had not the slightest doubo that morning as for whom he should vote. Since j1/11! altered his mind. If Mr. Szlumper were ap- pointed the scheme would be carried out for a less amount than if any ot the other applicants were appointed. He should not give his reasons for that statemeut, but they would know in less than twenty-four hours. The MAYOR said he had received a letter from the Rector ot Merthyr, gmug a very flattering testimonial to Mr. Harper. Mr. JOHN JONES said that they sometimes even grumbled to vote 2.5 for paving, and. therefore, they should be care- ful in saving £160. The Corporation ought to deal with the public money economically. (Cheers.) The MAYOR then put the amendment to the meeting, that proposing the appointment of Mr. Szlumper. For it there voted Aldermen Jones, Williams, and John Davies, Messrs. 1. D. Harries, John James, and J. J. Griffiths. For the motion proposing the appointment of Mr. Stooke there voted Alderman Watkins, Messrs. John Jones, Bridge-end, Peter Jones, J. lL. Jones, John Jenkins, Thomas Griffiths, and Edward Humphreys. The motion was carried by a majority of one. Tha Mayor did not vote.

LAMPETER. BOARD OF GUARDIANS, FKIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.- Present: Mr. W. Jones, Lhvyugroes, chairman, the Rev. R. Tp.,lkiiis an(I Mr. Lewis Davies, vice-chairmen, Mr. T. H. R. Hughes, ex-officio, the Rev. D. Jones, Lampeter, Rev. James Jones, Cellan, Rev. D. Griffiths, Trefilan, Messrs. Joseph Morgan, Lampeter, Evan Jones, Llantairchydogan, Evan Davies, Llanybyther D. Lloyd, clerk, Abel Evans and Herbert' Davies! medical officers. Statistics. — Out-relief administered during the past fortnight, Lampeter district, per Mr. D. Parry £ 39 to lbs paupers Llanybyther district, per Mr. John Jones no return presented. Number in the house 8. County Court Accommotlation-The Chairman read a letter from Mr. D. Long Price, Registrar of the Lampeter County Court, enclosing a letter from Her Majesty's Office of Works, which ran as follows Referring to you* letter of the 10th August, and previous correspondence re- specting the accommodation for tha i-itti^s of Lampeter County Court, I am directed by the First Commissioner of her Majesty s Works to acquaint you that the Board proposes to use the Board-room of the Poor Law Guar- dians for County Court sittings in future, under the Act 13 and 14 Vic., c. 61, and will be prepared to pay the sum of <s. bd. per sitting to meet the expenses contem- plated by the Act." The Board had no objection to al- lowing the use of the room, but thought that 7s. fid. per sitting was inadequate to iiiect the expenses of cleaning, fares, &c. Committees.-Meetings of the School Attendance and Assessment Committees were field, Mr. W. Jones Llwyn- groes, presided over the Assessment Committee, and Mr. 1. H. R. Hughes over the School Attendance Com- mittee.

COR WEN. ?*TEPBI3ATP ^ICHFIEL" WAS HERE LAST WEEK fishW. About 200 were booked at the Corwen station With the annual trip to Bell.- Vue Gardens, Manchester on Monday, Sept. 8 1 he excursionists arrived home by two o clock on luesday mornin" STREET LAMM.—The Gas Company are busy PLACING wofS lighted'durhiV'the winter months!1" Cl°Ck SPTS?IAT £ EIRN SESSMNS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 2.- Before J. R. Walker, Esq. Alleged Stealing Gate —Sarah Jones, Cynwvd was charged with having stolen the sum of £ 2 34s lHd FMM the hoiise of Margaret Hughes, Ciian Gate, LtaSriil?S Friday, August 29.—Margaret Hughes said The prisoner WM assisting me in the house from Wednesday until Friday evening about seven o'clock. I left prisoner in the house on F riday while I was at Corwen, attending the magistrates meeting. I used to keep the gate money ™ an old tin. On my arrival home on Friday, I had occasion to go to the tin box, and found the money had been taken away, and I went and gave information to P.C John Roberts.—Mary Hughes, daughter of hist witness, said: I am a servant at Pale. I came down on Wednesday morning to help my mother in making up her accounts. I assisted her in counting the money, £2 14s. l1d. in silver and copper. It was afterwards placed in a purse which my mother took. Prisoner was not then at the house. I did not see the money afterwards.—P.C John Roberts said I am a police officer stationed at Llandrillo. From information I received on the 23th August, between nine and ten p.m., I went to the gate house and made a search there, and saw the tin under the bed with a brown purse in it, and some papers and four halfpence. On the following day I went in search of the prisoner, and found her at her lodgings in Cynwyd. I told her Margaret Hughes had lost some money, and afterwards entered the house and searched her boxes. P.C. John Lewis was with me, and he took from the prisoner's hand a purse which contained some money.—P.O. John Lewis said: I am a police officer at Corwen. From information I re- ceived on Saturday, August 30. I accompanied P C John Roberts.t) Cynwyd, and there examined prisoner's boxes, and found amongst the things a purse, which the prisoner picked up, and after running about the room I managed to take it from the prisoner, and found it to contain k2 5a. -P.C. John Roberts, re-called, said I made a further search,and found Is. 5d. in another box. -Prisoner pleade& uot guilty, and was committed for trial at the next Quarter sessions. Prisoner said she did not want bail. JJrv.nk and Diso?-derlz,. -Michael Solomon, hawker from Wrexham, was charged bv P.C. John T,w;" drunk anti-disorderly at Corwen about 10 30 p.m. on 11 l day, Sept. 1.—Prisoner admitted the charge, and said he ■ would go home at once if set at liberty.—Sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.

An order in Council has been issued for the discon- tinuance of burials with certain reservations in favour of family graves in the churches of Bicton, near Shrewsbury and Knighton in Radnorshire. The Duke of Sutherland has offered the-incumbency of Sheriffhales to the Rev. C. R. Bradburne, Vicar of Liiles- hall, who has accepted it. The vicarage of Lilleshall has now been conferred by the Duke on the Rev. W J. Price M.A., senior curate of St. Peter's, Wolverhampton HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.— Never at fault.—In all irritations of the skin, sores, ulcers, burns, and scrofu- lous enlargements of the glands, Holloway's Ointment presents a ready and easy means of cure, which never disappoints the most favourable expectations. It manifests a peculiar. power in restraining inflammation, removing stagnation, cooling the heated blood, and checkin" all acrimonious or unhealthy discharges. Whilst thus acting locally, the Pills are no less remarkable for their power in improving the general condition and habit of body which renders the cures complete and permanent. Under the- general influence of these potent remedies, the puny infant becomes the robust child; the pale and emaciated regain colour and rotundity, and the dyspeptic cata freely. ithout fear. J