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Jucis anfo fancies. As time is always represented as a bald-headed old gentleman with a scythe and an hour-glass, we suppose the man who took time by the forelock pulled it off. • i. + This is very sad. James Freeman Clarke object to angels with wings as anatomically absurd. Probably Mr. Clarke would attire his representative angel m a yellow ulster and a high collar.. Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is oald if you seize her by the foreloeiv you may hold her, out suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her a;:ain. "'Lady Visitor "My dear, do you know it your mamma is engaged ?" Little Girl of the New York- Period "Engaged! Bless you why she's married." "I should like to see somebody abduct me." said jlrs. X .at the breakfast table of a New York hotel. "Hem so should I, my dear," said Mr. X., with exceeding earnestness. Her (yea shot volcanoes at him! Madam B is the soul of contradiction, They were speaking of a venerable old gentleman who had just left the room."and one said "What lovely white hair )it! "Y Oll may be sure it's dyedl" snaps Madame B. It is claimed that a man never loses anything oy politeness, but this has proved a mistake. As all old Philadelphia!! lifted his hat to a young lady the wind carried away his wig. Longfellow can take a worthless sneet of paper, and by writing a poem on it make it worth$>50. That's ••cuius. Yanderbilt can write fewer words on a similar sheet, and make it worth$50,000,000. That s capital. A man who has been lecturing in Philadelphia, claims to have seen an angel, and each unmarried paragrapher in that city fondly imagines that the lecturer has seen his girl with her best clothes on. A witness under cross-examination, who had been tortured by a lawyer for several hours, :it last asked tor a glass of water. "There," cai(I the Judge, "I think you'd better let the witness go now, as you have pumped him dry." 41 Well, well," said Billington majestically, we mustn't be too severe on the young fellows. I suppose I was as big a fool as any of them when I was young. Yes," replied Fogg, "and you are not -in old man, now, Billington. Sailing down the walk with the grace of a full- vacht in fair wind comes the belle. Exquisite taste in every part of her wardrobe, laces and velvets, plumes and jewellery, just the picture to look upon, but not to covet. It costs too much to frame it. A yount; girl left Dubuuue for New Zealand oyer a year ago, on the summons of her sweetheart, who was to marry her on her arrival there. She has returned alone and unmarried. Finding the man evidently disappointed bccause she was not as handsome as when he had last seen her, she promptly released him. "Oh. :i, young lady entering a public hall the other evening "what a dreadful odour of carburetted hydrogen! "Mum? said tne janitor, with a puzzled countenance. "The smell of the ear- Imrretted hydrogen," she explained. "That's no kind of gin, mum." replied the janitor; "that's garss; the pipes is leaky, mum." An English gentleman observing a servant lassie looking very anxiously here and there upon the ground on Sabbath morning, as if she had lost something, ven- tured to ask her what she had dropped. "I ve dropped naething at a, sir; I'm only looking to see if the maister's gaen to the kirk." The master, it must be mentioned, had a wooden leg. It would be a lucky thing for their congregations if the wood in ministers M as always confined to their legs. --Nir, ORatFerty," said the Recorder, why did you strike Mr. Murphy ?" "Because Murphy would not give me a civil answer to a civil question, yer honour. "What was the civil question you asked him.?" "I Hsked him, as polite as you please, ain't your own brother the biggest thafe on Galveston Island, except yourself and your uncle, who is absent at the penitentiary in Huntsville "And what rude answer did he give to such a civil question i" "He said to me 'Ave course, prisint coompa,ny excepted.' So I said, 'Murphy, you arc another.' and shtruek him wid me list. BKAVE WOIIDS.— "Heroine is perhaps as peculiar a 'Word as any in our language: the first two letters of it are 1nah, the fiist three female, the first four a brave man, and the whole a brave woman. I'oou Fix LOW !— What did you come here after ? inquired Miss Susan Nipper of a bachelor irieml who J¡)atic her a call when the rest of the people were gone out. I came to borrow some matches!" lie meekly •■plied. "Matches: that's a likely story V\ hy •■plied. "Matches: that's a likely story Why don't you make a match ? I know what you cmno for exclaimed the delighted miss, as she crowded the old bachelor into a corner; you came to kiss and hug me almost to death; but you eha'n't—without you nre the strongest—and everybody knows you are BENEFIT OF ADVERTISING.—HI D. W. Clifford, a Voung gentleiur.n living at Leavenworth, Indiana, voeently advertised for a wife. He writes o ie editor that he is thoroughly convinced of the advantages of advertising. He says he had ieeevved, in answer to the advertisement, 7!-t letters, thirteen erreoty lie, likenesses of ladies, two gold Imger- i-iifga, seventeen locks of hair, one copy of lk .Marvel's Reveries of a Bachelor," one thimble, and two dozen shirt buttons, He ought to be convinced.

The Daily St f* says: "Driven by stress of Irish loquacity in the House of Commons, Sir Alexander Gordon has hit upon a new means of influencing the opinions of his colli agues. He has something to say leaving on the condition of Ireland and the proposed legislation thereupon. The proper occasion would Naturally be found in the course of debate. But as nuiall opportunity is left for either English or Scotch l«embcrs to catch the Speaker's eye, Sir Alexander -)ii has caught the postman's, and sent him round \lth a circular addressed to hon. members. Sir Alexander's speech, delivered in the new fashion, is '»vief, but very much to the point. Addressing the ib)U;so lately. Lord Hartington, speaking of agricultural Giants in Ireland observed that sometimes many Giants reflected that they are not so badly off after ;dl." In harmony with this aside of Lord Hartington's, -"m- Alexander Cordon has made a study ot the ;iSiicv.ltural statistics of Ire land presented to Parlia- last year, and there he linds that, taking the >,v'holo of the country, the increase of live-stock in the oSiiession of occupiers of agricultural holdings in 1879, H51 compared with the number in 1877, has very 'f)llsiderabiy increased. Of horses there are 19,614 ,'()1'e: of mules and asses, 4,775; of cattle. 70,180; of ^neep, 30,394; of goats, 11,546; and of poultry nearly a Tiarter'of a million. From these statistics Sir Alex- ^Vll'er Cordon deduces the argument that farming J °fationy in Ireland are not so very unprofitable as .l|iembers of the Land League represent, and he ,n*'lr*ises that this condition of comparative prosperity t|1(? Account for so many tenants being willing to pay (.[ ll> tents if they dared. He adds, what seems to lR'l the argument as far as it is affected by an excep- of increase of prosperity in the agricultural districts \1" l'eland, that both in England and Scotland there tlj a decrease of live-stock in 1879 as compared with ;is' Previous year. This communication has its valuo ha, ^^ng upon the condition of Ireland. But it also ^gnificanco as showing within what limits a hir of the House of Commons may comprise a Weighty speech. T]'L>PS''S COCOA.—GRATKLTL AND COMFORTING.—"By tile lorough knowledge of the r; laws which govern '-ar .|°^erations of digestion and nutrition, and by a. ^oco -Application of the line properties of well-selected^ a ^r- Kpps has provided oui breakfast tables with ^tely-tlavoured beverage which may save us of s *leavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use n artieles of diet that a constitution may be tciu\Ja y l'udt up until strong enough to resist every Uo*ti,ncy disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are AV(iak'?rouud us ready to attack wherever there is a ^('0ihn'01nt' ln:iy escape many a fatal shaft by !r,lX'rP °ui'selvcs cll fortified with pure blood and a Nold o1TwUOUnshed trf!11ic- '—Oirll Service, Gazette.— lf°iii(coDatvn oi*ack<5ts 1:lbtllcd, "JAMES EPPS & Co., H(»iSv v" Chemists, London." ^ost diseiite^Jf ^i1^' ~"LivLT' ^"S3. Kidneys,— (,l,struciir>na' tllefie depwrative organs arise from Celebrated p'nuVei Vtini0val which these t°Ul^e of them i ?^lC1S0,t!K: lnoat perfect control. A l" ,;ueh chroni y leconimended as a remedy ^'UyestiLo afK'ct,011;s l^er enlargements, 0t,4 bmet^S l of the lddneyn, and ^riiig and 'if i\A. l!.Ut' 1 c;luse much present p. u"« chcc?f'oSrsr'^Ur.rom thc n°d

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Jfrom the Jhtpcrs. ;r->r-r-r- 111'. E. Jenkins, late M.P., for Dundee, intends to contest Edinburgh in the Independant Liberal interest. Probate duty, with stamps, &c., on the will of the late Mr. JHtrk Firth amounted to over £ l.000. It is said that the Calvinistic Methodists purpose ] collecting £100,000 as a memorial offering at their forthcoming third Jubilee. Mr. J. W. Cross intends to write a biography of the late Mrs. Cross ("George Eliot") and will shortly set about the collection of materials. It is said that the living of Gresford, wear Wrexham, has been accepted by the Rev. D. Lewis, (nibtidd. Montgomeryshire. Mr. Edward A. Sothern, the well-known comedian, died on Thursday at his London residence, from rapid consumption and inflammation of the lungs. He was in his fifty-first year. Mr. Blennerhassett has completely severed his connection with the Home-rule Party, and has an- nounced his intention of acting as an Independent Liberal. Mr. D. Richards, from Christ's College. Brecon, lias been elected to the vacant, mathematical postmaster- ship at Oxford University. It is of the annual value of £ 80. The Sergeants of the Brigade Depot and Permanent Stall'of the Royal Denbigh and Merioneth Rifles gave a quadrille party in the Wrexham barracks last week, at which a few special friends were invited. Last week a tire broke out in a room at the back of the booking ofiice at the Carmarthen Railway Station. The fire was extinguished in about twenty minutes by the police. The damage, which is covered by insurance, is estimate 1 at 1:1(5. Lord Londonderry, the owner of the ill-fated colliery at Seahani Harbour, has determined to re-open the colliery at Old Durham, in consequence of the men at Seahaui refusing to work until the entombed bodies arc recovered from the Maudlin seam of that mine. A disastrous boiler explosion occurred last week at Providence Mills, between Heckmondwike and Batley, resulting in the death of eleven persons and injury to sixteen," among the latter being Mr. G. Hirst, son of the proprietor of the works. A working brewer at Wrexham was bound over to keep the peace last week for having assaulted his wife. The man came home at night, accompanied by a dog, which lie wanted to take to bed with him. The better-half objected, and an assault occurred. A Jury at the Worcester Assizes on Saturday gave a verdict against a Town Councillor of that borough, with four hundred pounds damages, for bribing three voters to vote for a certain candidate at the Municipal Election in 1879. The Chilians have won a victory over the Peruvians and captured Lima the capital. The diplomatic agents in the Peruvian capital have interposed suggestions for an armistice, and requested that the person of the Peruvian Dictator, Pierola, who has fled, should be respected. The Dictator's brother and the War Minis- ter of Peru are prisoners in the hands of the Chilians, On Friday, the coroner's jury who have been in- vestigating the cause of the Pen-y-Graig explosion, by which 101 lives were lost, returned a verdict that it was caused accidentally, but strongly censured the manager for several omissions of the rules. On Saturday night last week the Holyhead Police captured a father and daughter on a charge of having stolen X150 at Leigh. The father had the appearance of a labourer, and his daughter of a domestic servant. The girl had JE140 in her purse, and both were on their way to Ireland, no doubt intending to go eventually to Amerioa. A sad accident has happened on board the Nova Scotian ship Annie B Law, lying in the Albert Dock, Hull. Eight of her crew were engaged shipping the foreyard, which had been twisted. They were oil the yard, which was not secured, when the truss support- ing it broke, and the eight men fell with it. All had one or both legs broken, and one had his back broken and cannot recover. Mrs. W. H. Gladstone has been mainly instrumental in erecting a cottage cocoa tavern at Hawarden, an interesting feature in connection with which is that the room is to fee open on Sundays from two till six, during which time papers and periodicals will be supplied for the instruction and entertainment of those who chose to attend. The experiment is being watched with much interest. Ö The Chinese Government has approved of the terms of the Russian Government agreed to by its Ambass- ador, and it now only remains to draw up the treaty, subsequently to be ratified. Russia restores all Kuldja to China except a small extent of territory having no strategic value, which is reserved as a place of refuge for the Dungans who may claim to become Russian subjects. An inquest was held at the "Windsor Hotel, Llan- trissant, on Friday morning, touching the death of Mr. Stanistreet, surgeon, Cowbridge, whose remains were found on the Cowbridge line during the previous Tuesday night's storm. The jury returned a verdict "Found dead on the railway, and supposed to have been run over by a passing train." Sir Sydney Waterlow has announced his intention to move that a Select Committee of the House of Commons be appointed to consider the working of the Artizans Dwellings Act, 1875, the Metropolitan Streets Improvement Acts, 1872 and 1877, and especially to inquire into the causes that have prevented the recon- struction of dwellings for the poorer classes to the extent contemplated and authorised by the same Act of Parliament. In the French Chamber on Friday, M. Gambetta made a speech, thanking the members for his re-election as President. He said that the Chamber would not separate before emancipating the Press from its present restrictions and sanctioning the right of public meeting. It had accomplished its task amid profound peace which was menaced by no adventurous enterprise, and was guaranteed by the very spirit of the Republican Hyston. In conclusion, M. Gambetta said that the Republic nur.t be surrounded by Liberal institutions. In the Senate, M. Leon Say returned thanks for his re- election as President. The following pensions from the Civil List have been approved by the Queen on the recommendation of Mr. Gladstone — £ 200 a year to Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace, in recognition of his eminence as a natuialist. £i5 a year to Mrs. Rodgers, in recognition of the services of her late husband, the Rev. John Rodgers, in the cause of public elementary education, f50 a year to Dr. Sehmitz, in recognition of his services to classical education and literature. £ 55 a year to Mary Lady Duffus Hardy, in addition to the pension of £100 a year granted in 1879, in recognition of the historical, literary, and public services of her late husband, I Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy. At the Maidstone Assizes on Thursday, John Slater Nye, thirty-six, clerk in holy orders, was charged with stealing a half-hoop diamond ring, a cluster diamond ring. and other articles of jewellery, of the valuo of 9310, the property of Thomas Edward Payne, under circumstances recently reported. Several respectable witnesses gave the prisoner a very good character, and said that his services as a clergyman were highly appreciated in the neighbourhood where he officiated. The jury found the prisoner guilty of obtaining the goods under false pretences. Mr. Justice Hawkins said this was not the question, and they must say whether prisoner obtained possession of the goods by fraud, intending to steal them. The jury said that was their verdict. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' iniprisoiliiiciit. The lifeboat George Moore, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, stationed at Portlulin- llaen, was twice launched to the assistance of the crews oi distressed vessels last week. The wind was blowing a very heavy gale from the E.N.E.; it was freezing hard^when she was first launched at half-past one o'clock in the aftornoon, and it was only with difficulty that she was enabled to rescue the crew of three men from the smack Fishguard Lass, of Aber- soch, which was then at anchor in the bay in a dangerous position, and which shortly afterwards parted with her second chain and drove ashore. Some hours afterwards, the gale still blowing very hard from the same direction, the schooner Miss Beck, of Carnarvon, parted her anchors, and drove on a rock called Carreg Oysters. The lifeboat quickly proceeded to her assistance, but the vessel was in such an awkward position that the greatest difficulty was experienced in rescuing the crew of five men; the boat being out nearly five hours before she was enabled to accomplish the rescue, and sustaining some damage on the occasion.

The Leicestershire Agricultural Society announce that the next wool fair will be held in the Market Place, Leicester, on Wednesday, February 9th, under the usual rules. The Hughenden tenantry will receive a remission of twenty per cent ou their Michaelmas rents at the next audit. RKCKITT'S PARIS Br.n-;—The marked superiority of RKCKITT'S PARIS Br.n-;—The marked superiority of this Laundry Blue oiler all others and the quick appre- ciation of its merits by the public, has been attended with the usual result, viz. a flood of imitations the merit of the latter mainly consists in the ingenuity exerted, not simply in imitating the square shape, but making the general appearance of the wrappers resemble that of tho genuine article. The manufacturers beg therefore to caution all buyers to see Reckitt' Paris blue" on each packet. "111! DOME differs from the ordinary kinds in the following important points :it is manufactured only from selected materials of the BEST QUALITY, and heingprepared by a special processitnotonly POLISHES MORE QUICKLY than other blackleads, but al so ad- heres at once to the stove or grate thereby AVOIDING- INJURY TO THE FURNITURE from dust. Sold by Grocers and Oilmen everwhere. E. James and Sons, sole makers, Plymouth

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XOTES. PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF CARDIGANSHIRE. (BY TIIE LATE Mr.. JOHN HUGHES.) WILLIAM AND MARY. (Continued). Upon the Poll, the numbers were,— For Sir Carbury Pryse 185 For Mr Yaugban 91 That there is an Act of Parliament, I Marke, which says that the Sheriffs' turn shall be held A'ienrix l'i,, '*I)it. at Aberystwyth and Cardigan. At this time it was to be kept at Aberystwyth. That the Sheriff came down the 9th of March, was not sworn till the 11th, and the Election was the 19th. That the Sheriff, some time before the Election, declared the turn was to be kept at Ahcrystwyth but for the ease of the County he would adjourn to Cardigan. For the Petitioner. Marmaduke Williams said, the Sheriff declared all the Voters should be polled at Aberystwyth before he adjourned to Cardigan that the Election began the 19th of March, when the Voters were called by several lists, and some were polled on both sides and the Sheriff adjourned the Poll till the next day. and promised Mr Vaughan his list should be called first; the next clay the Under-sheriff came and began with Sir Carbury Pryse's li&t; afterwards Mr Vaughan delivered in a list of 150 freeholders, of which only 24 were polled and the Under-sheriff said, "Adjourn to two at Cardigan," and so adjourned to Cardigan without proceeding in that list, though lie believes there were several hundreds ready to poll for Mr Vaughan, and many cried out to be polled. Jones said to the like effect; the surprize of the adjournment; and said. besides the 91 polled for Mr Vaughan, he knew of of 273 freeholders more, ready to poll for Mr Vaughan at Aberystwyth. Haberly said, besides the 91 and 273 spoken of by Jones, he knew 49 other freeholders ready to poll for Mr Vaughan. Rice Vaughan said there were 485 freeholders who would have voted for Mr Vaughan, whereof 394 did not poll. That on behalf of Sir Carbury Pryse were called William Powell, who said he believed there were 100 unpolled for Sir Carbury Pryse at the adjournment on the 20th of March, 12 o'clock; that the reason the SI) gave for the adjournment was, because he was advised that that being the day of the return of the Writ, lie could not adjourn after 12 o'clock that there was a Proclamation, but whether before or after the adjournment, he could not be positive. Lloyd said there was a Proclamation before the adjournment: that when they came from Aberystwyth, he believes there were 100 to poll for Sir Carbury Pryse and they were forced to get boats, because there were not horses enough. Another Lloyd said that the Sheriff came at the time of the adjournment to Cardigan and upon notice that Mr Vaughan would come thither, he stayed an hour or two expecting him from Aberystwyth that Sir Carbury Pryse had 100 came with him and he might have 300 more about Cardigan. Erasmus Davies said the Sheriff sometime before the Election had ordered Proclamation to be made in the Market Towns of the designed adjournment to Cardigan and he heard such Proclamation made at Lampeter. George Powell said that several houses were taken up at Cardigan for Mr Vaughan, but he never came or polled there and Sir Carbury Pryse polled about 37. Upon the whole the Committee resolved,- "That the adjournment of the Poll taken at the Election of a Knight of the Shire for this County, by the Sheriff of the said County, from Aberystwyth to Cardigan, is a legal and good adjournment. "That Sir Carbury Pryse, Bart., is duly elected a Knight of the Shire to serve in this present Parliament for this County These resolutions were read twice and upon the second reading, tl'e first was, on a division, agreed to by a majority of three, and the other by a majority of one only.—Journal* of the IIou.se of Common*. (TQ be continued.) OLD PARISH ROOKS AT TOWYN. The Tho: Griffith, whose initials are given as his signature underneath the following receipt, is Thomas Griffith, the joiner who worked the steeple. This is evident from the Welsh agreement which is written in the Old Parish Book, on the page opposite to that which contains the receipt. It runs thus :— "10 bE 31 173S Reed then & before from ye wardens of Towyn two and twenty pounds in part of my agree— for working Towyn steeple by me Tho T G Griffith" Next; comes the Welsh agreement referred to, and also an account of money paid to him, with information from what sources he received them. They are both in the same language, and run thus » "Cytundeb Thomas Griffith y saor coed am weithio Clochty Towyn oedd eael wen diwedd 11 s d ei wa-ith —— 52 00 00 17:;5 Efe dderbyniodfl yn Rhodd itirs owen — 5 00 00 yn Rhodd iiirs Glyn — 1 1 — yn Dreth am 1737 — 1 10 bE yn Dreth am 1737 9 9 — 10 30 (a) yn Dreth n-irs Owen am 1736 2 t) yn Rh<VIA sr win wyn drwy law mrs O. — 1].)- yn Dreth am 1737 n- 11) o'r un Dreth end yu Hog am arian 1739 ei Gytundeb o Glammai dan Glan bE Gauaf diwaethaf — IS — 10 12 vn lldir i Glan saiaf — 10 Whether the fobowing account bears relation to the erection of the steeple or not is not mentioned. It is placed in the original on the top of the page where the first two items of the next four that follow immediately after it. The last two items of the four mentioned are given in the original on the top of the opposite page, and that is all it contains. "At a vestry held and kepd at the Parish Church of Towyn ye 4th Day of July 1738 I The Present Wardens for ye said year Recvd from their Predesesos as under 11 s d Francis Robert Receivd from Humphrey ) Willian r 1=19 = 01 Lewis Vaughan Receivd from Daniel ( Jenkin his Predicessor ye Sume of—(01 = 17—01 The following are the four items mentioned in the last note. It will be seen by the first two that the glazier is honoured with Mr." before his name, while I we find by previous quotations that the mason and joiner are simply referred to by their names without the Mr." The items arc as follows "Diw to Mr Griffith Owen Glazier for) L S d1 Glazeing ye great window of the Steeple- ye sume of J 01 oii.-oo e ffrancis Robt ye present warden for 1738 I 00 j0 paitl in part of ye above Sume ( "Mr Morgan Receivd from Humphrey I I s d Willm ye warden for 1737 of Steeple ta.x 01=01—03 "Mr Morgan Receivd also at ye same l 02 = 02 = 11 time from Daniel Jenkin of Steeple tax ) 2 The following item and signatures about the Steeple is placed in the original immediately underneath the (litferent sums "allowetl the poor in Jsbyga" At a Vestry in November 17th 1738." The names of those poor are given opposite the sums so allowed. Here follow the item and the mentioned igJlatures ye Chur Poor & Steeple rate is Continuerl at ye same Rate as Last year Edd morgan vie An: Owen Hum: Edwards— Screven Hughes Owen Griffith Rice David Edward Hughes." 8 (?) bE 11th 1739 At a vestry then held Griffith Pugli Reed 11 8 d from Lewis vaughan warden for i738 10 10" "Eddmorgan vie Reed Steeple Tax from 11 S d Lewis vaughan at ye same vestry 6 10 10 lObE 26 Reed more 16 ::? Edd morgan vie Peed Steeple Tax from 11 S d Francis Robert warden 5 16 lObE 26 Reeed more 1, "Griffith Hugh and ffrancis Robts pd for ale at a vestry held ye 11th day of October 1739 the Sum of 2 shill which shall be allowd them .in their next account" "2011—The money borrowed from Eliz Rys to pay Owen Humph was payd her wth 20 11 borrowd from Samuel Griffith may 22 1739." 8 (?) bE 13 I739 1 Edd morgan pd Sam Griffith 15 11 being Steeple Rate in my hand.—And 8 (7) bE 16 iiii-s 0Well & myself gave him or Bill for his remaining 5 11, wch Bill is to lie discharged by ye wardens for pKscnt year out of ye Steeple Bate as soon as receivd. Sam trust bE 16 1740" Dolgellau. ROEYN FRYOII.

American telegrams announce that General Grant has accepted the position of President of the New York Commission arranging for the Exhibition of 1S82. The erection of extensive flour mills has been com- menced in Victoria, British Columbia.

LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. Even Mr. Gladstone's title as a peer has been kindly found for him before he has agreed to go into the House of Lo ds. He is to 'he the Karl of Liverpool thus connecting his name with the city of his birth and early years. So they are saying. All that I know about it is that his friends speak of it as probable, and Lord Beaconslield as certain. My lord is looking forward with eagerness to a renewal of the old lights with his rival and opponent. He thinka he has nobody exactly worthy of his steel just now in the Upper House, and would like once again, in "the place of departed spirits," as he is said to have called the House of Lords, those old contests which he says gave liim such 'f rapture in the lower world of the Commons. I hear that one of the most famous of the professional beauties, whose face has made the fortunes of photo- graphers, and whose dresses, if not her sayings, are extremely quoted, is about to retire from private life and to adopt a profession. For many seasons her portraits have been 111 the shop windows side by aide with those of beautiful or accomplished actresses. In a short time it is said she will belong to the class, with the members of which she has so often been associated. It is even said that the theatre in which she will make her first appearance has already been selected. The lady may bear the genius of Mrs. Siddons as well as her beauty. But beauty she certainly has, and the other gifts will be sought for. I hear that one of the smallest theatres in London has been chosen for her debut. Sothern is dead. The great creator of a comedy style, and one of the most perfect.actors within his own limits that our stage possessed, he is dead at the age of iifty-one. He was born at Liverpool, and was intended to grace the pulpit but he liked the stage better, and he went upon it. His early attempts in England were utter failures. He loved to tell how at length even his friends declared that" they had never seen such a fool in their lives." His apparent unconsciousness and innocence when uttering some humorous remark, his great naturalness and his refusal to roar and bellow, were at first mistaken for unintclligence and, finding that Englishmen did not appreciate him, he departed to America. Here he achieved a success. His style was understood; and when he came to his own country again, it was with a reputation. He appeared as Lord Dundreary at the Haymarket. and all England rang in a few weeks with its jokes. Why does a dog wag its tail?" is a "widdle" which has entered into literature. In nearly everything else that he now appeared he succeeded. His David Ganack was a piece of perfect acting and though Lord Dundreary degenerated from comedy into farce, Mr Sothern himself did not de- generate. His brethren owe him much gratitude. At a time when actors were not supposed to be known in society, he—because he was a gentleman—broke down the barriers, and helped to make that improvement which has been going steadily OIl ever since. He was a reckless practical joker. The lirst thing he did after an introduction to some new acquaintance was to tell him some "yarn," as if to try his susceptibility. A thousand stories—seme of them invented by himself— are told of his freaks How, when the officers at Woolwich, having invited him to dinner, pressed him to pay for his entertainment by a performance, he enacted the drunken scene in "David Garrick,"and pulled off the table cover and. smashed the most valuable china; how he tossed a "Yankee," who would insist upon asking him questions, out of a railway carriage window how he made "April fools" of a whole dinner party by proposing that they should get under the table upon the arrival of a late feaater, and then told them that he had no idea that they would have been so silly. It is sad to think that a man whose every action seems to add to enjoyment should have gone. He leaves a son and daughter on the stage. It is a melancholy statement, but the responsibility of the fact does not rest in England or Scotland, that it is many years since a minister, introducing an im- portant measure, was greeted by such a univorsal acclamation. The Land Leaguers were evidently cowed by this demonstration, and there was no attempt at counter-cheering. The Act is short, and terribly to the point. It simply places at the disposal of the Lord-Lieutenant the power of im- prisoning for a maximum of eighteen months any person whom he reasonably suspects of having been guilty, as principal or accessory, or high treason felony, treasonable practices, or of crimes punishable by law tending to interfere with the maintenance of law and order. What makes this engine more power- ful for restoring order is that it is retrospective in its action, for it gives the Lord-Lieutenant power to proceed against persons who have been thus guilty before the passing of the Bills. Little less than this could have been expected, but the Irish members are momentarily paralysed, and feel the greater incon- venience from the absence of Mr. Parnell. Neverthe- less, they talk bravely of obstruction, and. do not abate one jot of their threats with respect to the date at which the Bills shall pass. The second Bill mean- while stands over. Its simple proposal is that a licence shall be needed to carry arms in Ireland. All unlicensed arms will be seized.

CSOWN MANORS—WALES. Return to an Order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 7th June, 1880, for a Return of the Acreage of the Commons and Waste Lands belonging to Crown Manors in Wales, with an account of the pro- fits therefrom, as annually received by Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests from the tenants of the said Manors for the exercise of Commonable rights over such Manors Acreage of all Commons, Waste Lands, belonging to Crown Manors in Wales, 85,150 acres. Account of the profits therefrom, as annually received by Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests from the tenants of the said Manors for the exercise of c Commonable rights over such Manors, nil. This return gives the acreage of all the Commons and Waste Lands of which surveys and measurements exist, but it must not be regarded as comprising every- thing to which the Crown is entitled. The acreage is also subject to revision depending on the issue of ad- I verse claims to portions of land claimed as belonging to the Crown. No prolits are received by Her Majesty's Commis- sioners of Woods and Forests from the tenants of Crown Manors for the exercise of Commonable rights. It is not the enjoyment of a privilege subject to the will of the Lord, but of an ancient prescriptive right for which no payment is due. But although no profits are received from this source, the annual profits from other sources are considerable, including profits of mines, rents of sporting, acknow- I Vl ledgments for encroachments, estrays, &c. (Signed), JAMES H. HOWARD. Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods, forests, and Land Revenues, having the management and direc- tion of the Land Revenues of the Crown in Wales.

THE IRISH STATE TRIALS. The Queen's Bench in Dublin was crowded on Friday to hear Serjeant Heron's reply for the Crown in the State prosecutions. Counsel sketched the history and development of tne Land League agitation in Ireland, and stated that its principle was that of Socialism, and that it had a Communistic end in view. It was an agitation that O'Connell would denounce were he alive. He quoted from the speeches of the traversers extracts to show that they designed to establish in Ireland an organised system of terrorism, under which no one would dare to pay his just and legal debts. It would be an unfortunate thing for the country if the jury by their verdict assisted this foul and treasonable con- spiracy. The State trial was brought to a close on Tuesday evening, shortly before seven o'clock. When the judges sat this morning the court was crowded. Mr. Justice Fitzgerald continued his charge, point- ing out that the speeches of Messrs. Dillon, Boyton, O'Sullivan, Sheridan, Walsh, and Gordon, clearly showed that the object of the conspiracy was to crush and starve out landlords. Some traversers expressed their intention to do away with British rule. He told the jury.J to discharge their duty without fear or favour, and to have respect for the sanctity of the oaths they had taken, by returning a verdict according to the evidence. The jury retired at 12.30, and Mr. Parnell entering at the moment, was loudly cheered. Mr. Mac' Donogh, Q.C., took objection to the direction given to the jury as to the law of conspiracy, and the court ruled that if he applied for a new trial, and the rule was refused, he could proceed by writ of error. At five o'clock the jury were sent for, and. in reply to Judge Fitzgerald, the foreman, said that they were unanimously of opinion that they could not agree, a statement which caused laughter. Two jurors asked for a further time to consider, and a third said they were ten to two. This wis received with cheers, which caused Judge Fitzgerald to tell the Jury with warmth, he could only receive a unanimous verdict. The jury having returned into court twice and stated that they could not agree, M'Donogh applied that they should not be discharged until they had time to consider all the evidence. Judge Fitzgerald told the jury that he should lock them up all night, but ulti- mately consented tO'see th £ m again at nine o'clock. He said, when the jury had retired, he was afraid, after the scenes in court that day, they wera not likely to have a free and unanimous verdict. He directed the sheriff to increase the force round the court so as to prevent disorder or riot, and to see that no one was allowed to communicate with the jury. Great excite- ment prevailed in and near the court. The foreman entered shortly before eight, and said it was utterly impossible for the jury to agree, and they were dis- charged.

I A LOCAL BIGAMY CASE. I At the Halifax Borough Court, a clerk named Edinond A. Nourse, recently in the employ' of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, and living at Heptonstali, was charged with having com- mitted bigamy. In 1870 he married a young woman I named Mary Jane Breeze, at the' parish church, Llan- dinam, in Montgomeryshire, by whom he had children. Two or three years ago lie went to reside at Hepton- stall, and there he made the acquaintance of Miss Alice Patchett, who was in charge 01 the post-office at Heptonstall. On the 5th of November, 1879, they were married at the Halifax parish church. Mr John I Nourse, architect- and surveyor, said he was present on the 14th December, 1870, at the parish church, LJall- dir.am, when defendant married larY Jane Breeze. He could not say that prisoner's first wife was living. Robert Patchett, woollen draper, Luddenden Foot, said he was present at the Halifax parish church on the 5th of November, 1879, when the prisoner married his (witness's) sister. Up to Saturday last they resided together a:- man and wife. A letter had been received from prisoner's first wife, stating that she- would be present at the assizes. A. remand w as asked for by Mr j Storey, who appeared for the prosecution, in order that he might bring a witness who could prove that the prisoner's first wife was alive when he took a second.

A HOLYHEAD FAMILY QUAItREL. Mr. Justice Fry and a special jury were engaged the whole of Saturday last. at the Anglesey assizes, in trying a cause which Mr. Owen Roberts, a chemist carrying on business at Amlwch, sued his father-in-law, 1 jl Mr. William Jones, London House, Holyhead, for the recovery of £ 110, the value of jewellery and other articles belonging to his deceased wife, and ;80 damages for such detention. The defendant set up a counter claim of £ 126 19s. SW. for goods sold and delivered £ 250 the value of articles detained by the plaintiff, and £ 50 damages for their detention. Mr. counter claim of £ 126 19s. 8;d. for goods sold and delivered X250 the value of articles detained by the plaintiff, and E50 damages for their detention. Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Q,C., M.P., and Mr. Marshall (in- structed by Mr. Fanning, Amlwch) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Swetenham, Q.C., and Mr. Higgins (instructed by Mr. E. G. Roberts, Holyhead) for the defendant. The circumstances of the case were of a painful, complicated, and of a somewhat peculiar character. In December IS7S, the plaintiff married a daughter of the defendant, who carries on an extensive drapery business at Holyhead. Her parents and other friends gave her a number of valuable wedding presents, the ownership of which formed one of the subjects of the present litigation. In November, 1879, she returned to her father's house at Holyht-ad, where she died in the February following. A few days prior to her death, in the presence of her father and mother, Mr. Edward Owen, a brother-in-law, and other j witnesses, she told her husband that it was her wish that those things she had taken to Amlwch should be given up to her father and mother, to which he replied that if such was her wish he would endeavour to carry it out to the utmost of his power. The plaintiff believing, on consideration, that undue pressure had been brought to bear upon his wife, declined to carry out the request, ani instituted proceedings against the defendant for articles belonging to her and detained bv him. Thereupon his father-in-law sent in a claim of L126 19s. Sid. the value of furniture and) other household necessaries supplied from his shop immediately before and subsequent to the marriage, f further claiming E250, the value of certain wedding presents which remained in his possession, and which, it was alleged, were to be returned to her parents at her wish and with the consent of her husband. It was contended that the furniture and household necessaries for which the defendant had set up his counter claim were gifts towards assisting the young couple in start- ing housekeeping, and were not supplied i:1 the ordinary- way of business, Mrs. Jones having told the plaintiffs mother that a gift of linen to the amount of at leist £ 100 would be sent from the shop. It x-, a-, admitted that Mrs. Owen Roberts had before her marriage received £ 300from herhusbandtowardsfurnish- t ing*the house. His lordship in summing up, said that the jury would agree with him in expressing regret that such a dispute between members of a family should have come into court. He pointed out that it was somewhat remarkable that in his reply to the interroga- tories, the defendant had sworn that the only wedding presents given by him to the plaintiff's wife were a sewing machine and timepiece.—The jury found for the plaintiff, allowing on the defendant's counter claim £ 15 13s. 8^u. for goods admitted to have been supplied after his daughter's marriage.—Upon the application of II Mr. Higgins, the motion for judgment to be entered was deferred for further consideration.

CARMARTHENSHIRE WINTER ASSIZES. Mr. Commissioner Bowen. Q.C.. opened the Assizes for Carmarthenshire at Carmarthen Guildhall. On Thursday morning the court was opened at ten o'clock. There being no business for the borough grand jury, the jurors were discharged. For the county the fol- lowing grand jury were sworn :—Captain Grisinond Philipps, Cwingwilly Colonel Jones and Messrs. Edward Jones, Velindre: R. Goring Thomas. Llannon; T. Morris, Cwm E. M. Davies, Uplands John Peel, Llangadoek II. S. Morgan. Tegfynydd T. J. Evans, Clynderwen G. G. Philipps, Wauniago J. Lewis Philipps, Bolahaul Morgan Jones, Llamniloe W. P. Lewis, Waungron Llewellyn L1. Lloyd, Glan gwilly. The Commissioner observed, whilst addressing the grand jury, that the only case presenting any diffi- culty was a charge of perjury against a man named Davies. The serious charge against John Thomas, an ostler, alias Jack Cow," which was heard at the sum- mer assizes before the late Justice Thesigcr, was the only one dealt with. It will be remembered* that Thomas was charge d with ilfecting a little girl named Elizabeth Richards, about five years of age. with several forms of obnoxious diseases. He was now defended by Mr. W. Bowen Rowlands, whilst the prosecution, as on the previous occasion, was conducted by Mr. Abel Thomas. After a hearing of nearly eight hours, the jury returned with a verdict of guilty, and the Judge sentenced prisoner to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard labour. The result created considerable sensation in court, which was crowded 11.11 day.

TURKEY AND CREECE. What has been repeatedly foretold in this correspon^ deuce has come to pass. The fact of the moment i the understanding between Germany and France Germany, who took her lead from England in the Montenegrin business, in matters Hellenic is content to be guided by France. Germany approves of the formal withdrawal of tlje Arbitration proposal. That proposal having been declined by Turkey and Greece, there is no occasion for special repeal except to extricate France from a diplomatic perplexity. Besides lending her assistance for this purpose, Germany concerts joint action with Fiance in regard to the Turkish counter proposals, and altogether displays a marked readiness to hold the same course to the end of the chapter. As an earnest of her inten- tions Germany cordially acquiesces in the acquisition virtual or positive, of Tunis and Tripoli by France. Italian remonstrance promises to be of little avail. M. Jhrthélemy Saint Hilaire's friendly relations tc Prince Bismarck are beginning to bear fruit. Reputed anta- gonists co-operate. With reference to Turkish counter proposals. France and Germany adhere to their opinion that Turkey had better mention at once what she intends ceding beyond the territories offered on October 3rd. As Russia objects to the formal notification of a joint demand to this effect, Germany and France are endeavouring to elicit the desired reply by indepen- (lent action. The Porte in her turn, finding the Powers divided and dreading to commit herself to a final reply which might induce a rupture, continues to negotiate with everybody in the shape of settling matters easily when the snow melts and decision one way or another becomes necessary for Greece.

SAD DEATH OF A CHILD. All Paris have been deeply stirred by the shocking fate of a little girl of nine, Georgette Babin, the only child of a prosperous green-grocer of the Rue Bc-lzunce. She attended a day school, to which her father every morning took her,' and fetched her back at noon. Two days ago they were walking home, hand in hand, rejoicing in the bright sunshine which had come out after the snowfall. The streets they traversed were busy with traffic, and squadrons of sweepers who were pushing heaps of snow towards the sewer-traps purposely opened to receive them. At the corner of the Rue Hauteville, the child let go her father's hand to tighten her muffler. Just then a waggon drawn by a restive horse rumbled by. Babin instinctively moved backwards, thinking his daughter was by his side, but when he turned round to look for her she had disappeared. It was evident that in backing out of the horse's way she had fallen into a yawning sewer, which was of great depth. Cries for help were heard for a moment, and then ceased, The child had clung doubtless to the edge of the subter- ranean platform, and had then been swept away by the force of the current, which was swift and swollen, The sweepers who flocked around could scarcely restrain Babin from jumping in after his child, who must have been instantly drowned. The district fire brigade was summoned, and came immediately, but too late, and the Police Commissary of the quarter telegraphed to the overseers of sewers to watch all the gratings between the Rue Hauteville and Asnieres. A fireman was lowered with ropes into the sewer, and remained immersed for twenty minutes. Others ran along the platform to explore, but nna\ ailingly. The poor child's body has not been caught by any of the gratings, and may already be devoured by rats.

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