The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

Mr. O'Connor Power announces that he does not intend again to speak in the House this session. As Mr. Power is the most forcible and the ablest speaker on the Home Rule benches, and he scarcely uses his voice unless he has something to say, he is one of the few Irishmen from whom such a threat would not cause great pleasure. Mr. Redmond, the new member who entered the house on the Wednesday, and got himself suspended on the Thursday seems to have given peculiar pain to the Speaker. For a few days ago Mr. Redmond was one of the Speaker's officers. He used to deliver out parliamentary papers in the vote office. When lie resigned, he appealed to Mr. Brand to get his younger brother the place." Mr. Brand was anxious to serve him; and the first thing the new member does is to call Mr. Brand a tyrant, 'Tis hard. Mr. Brand has again to feel the force of Sir "Wilfred Li\Vs>ou"s maxim, that there is no gratitude in politics. The Leaguers are preparing for the evil day, and are packing up. Mr. Michael Davitt has already been Provided for, Mr. Patrick Egan has taken time by the ^orelock and gone to Paris, ostensibly to take care of Refunds of the Land League a third agitator of pre- tension has taken passage for Australia, and according to privat J letters received in London, others are pre- paring to meet the reign of coercion by flight. Detect- ive Inspector Williamson, from Scotland-yard, was amongst the private police of the House of Commons taking mental photographs of the Irish members who sit with Mr. Parnell. Williamson is a pale, academic looking man, who, but for his keen and restless eyes, might pass for a vicar in a suit of tweed. Notwithstanding poor Carlyle's defence and advo- cacy of hero worship, lie had a great objection to be treated as a hero himself. He had no sympathy wit.1 the esthetic friend, or with the patronage of litera- ture by fashion. He was too stern to tolerate being adulatell 11Y young ladies. But a!>o\ o all, in; hated being asked for his autograph. The request might be made in a form that made it difficult for him to refuse, but the grant was not gracious. I have seen two or three unwilling donations, and they were both characteristic. E)on't go in to collecting autographs" Was one. "Here is my autograph," ran the other, "I wish it could do you the least possible good." One of the best illustrations of his characteristic bluntness Was his conduct to a clever young novelist, whose book abounded with descriptions of Scotch scenery. The Hovel was sent to the old philosopher, who was a severe critic, but had that sympathy for his countrymen that characterises your true-born Scot. The novelist palled to receive the delightful tribute of praise. "It is all very well, and it is all very pretty," said the old Chelsea satirist, "but when are yon going to write book It will be remembered that the earliest victim of the standing order which cleared out the Irish members, rJI Thursday night, was the late Mr. Whalley. Mr. halley after his manner, was proceeding through a Series of irrelevant remarks which led to his being ttirice called to order. Thereupon the House, with \Vhorn the late member for Peterborough was a great p favonrite, whom they always loved to joke. hilariously called out "Name! name! and the Speaker was obliged to name him. It was a joke, and understood the time, but the record of it stands upon the Minute book of Parliament, and when the circum- stances are forgotten the discredit will remain. Mr. C, Hampden Whalley, who succeeded his father in the representation of Peterborough, proposes to submit a resolution for the expunging of the entry. He will Illakc the motion as soon as the Irish Bills arc disposed 1 A few days ago the death was recorded of the §l'eatest Englishwoman of the century. To-day we *ave to chronicle the death of the greatest man of Jterature of our generation. Thomas Carlyle is dead. he sage who gave to British literature the strain of nVcient Hel >rew inspiration lias quietly passed away in lls Soth year. It seoms but last year that his grand j'1(-ct form was the observed of all observers as he Passed with firm step through the Strand. The ruddy (lvi0 °f health was still upon his checks. The enjoy- „lleut of exercise was apparent in every motion. His a°iilties seemed then to be unimpaired and he has at last—not from disease, hardly from decay, iiiiply from exhaustion, a perfect euthanasia. The j ^found impression created by his death could hardly e deepened. Ho was almost the only living English- on'1 .whom pilgrimages were made. He was the an *1 livinS Englishman to whom great men could 1 Ply the term Master without aflcctation. He made 0lUiething better than an art critic of Mr. Ruskin. He ^10 regions of poetic mysticism to Professor Si--U. For nearly the whole of his life he lived cenP as ncar the model of an ideal prophet as this hut COuhl realise. Some men could not read him, itiaicr') ^oss was theirs. Nobody ever read him with tini.? 1 ian'^ sympatby whose thoughts were not re volu- me if°Ci!eel?one'l> ail(l elevated by the study, lhat to 'understood is part of the penalty he has <>t' or adopting a style which is part of the charm mail w°rks but it arose also from the nature of the Hot nrfi e1was a Calvinist to the last and yet lie was ^vavs v!° °"i"- 'lc most spiritual of men, lie was ^°ok oa\.leaf 11 the gospel of physical force; and few belief ine+i° ou^ li'at he based his theory on a ■^i'dit Tlie u^ter futility of Might which was not Proved thn M aj-S *ruth hi the sneer that lie had ^"°t it u- J u.Ul(; silence in fifty volumes of speech. 'J(Jen un(l,.>S>en speech. The reader who has not lllents thit v S lost one of the highest enjoy- thi»g wel S-I!h hterat«re can afford. If only one ^illlJU worth)11 ff- °*' m*ohty influence it would v Sreat nanie. He opened German !"to unitv n/'fv He brought t^ 'o great empires Copies of i\L 'I1?- He matIe the two Teutonic 0lle another Wo > after a long divorce, understand

Jrom the lJap cr5. J. The Taff Vale Railway has paid a dividend of six- teen per cent. In the recent examination for the mathematical tripos, a young lady, Mis3 Clemens, of Newnham College, sustained the standard of senior optime. College, sustained the standard of senior optime. The Army Estimates for the coming financial year, issued on Monday amount to £ 15,545,500 being a net increase as compared with the last year of C 122,200. A new Church of England School, has been opened at Rhyl for the purpose of giving girls a thorough and systematic education at a moderate cost by trained and efficient certificated teachers. Richard Davies. labourer, was sentenced to ten years penal servitude at Shrewsbury on Friday, for two diabolical attempts to upset trains on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, on December lltli. With a view to future legislation, the Lord Chancellor has issued a circular to county-court judges, asking their opinion, infer alia, on the rate of interest which money lenders trading as private bankers should legally enforce when they are secured by bills of sale. A report that the Girl of Devon, from Zante, had arrived at Plymouth with the figure-head of the Atalanta on board is incorrect. A description of the fragment thus found was subsequently received at the Admiralty from the Governor of Newfoundland, and proved to differ in several important particulars from the figure-head of the Atalanta. Major Fairfax William Cartwright, who has re- presented the southern division of Northamptonshire since the General Election of 1868, died on Thursday week at his residence in New Burlington-street. He was fifty-eight years of age. At the Chester Assizes, Ann Smith, aged nineteen, who had been in service near Oswestry, was sentenced to death for the murder of her illegitimate child by throwing it into a brook. Prisoner did not betray the slightest emotion and even when the Judge emphasised the words hanged by the neck" she retained her unconcerned demeanour. Dean Stanley, immediately after the death of Mr. Carlyle became known, offered to find a resting place in Westminster Abbey for his remains. This offer has been declined, as Mr. Carlyle's friends state that they have made other arrangements. It is understood that Mr. Carlyle expressed a decided wish to be buried near his wife at Haddington. A retired military captain, his wife, and six children are now inmates of the Liverpool workhouse. The melancholy circumstances of the case were explained by the vestry clerk, who added that Mr Hagger would be glad to receive information resulting in the ex-captain obtaining employment, he being a man of active habits, and very wishful to earn a livelihood. News has been received that a terrible disaster has befallen a Japanese steamer, the Toyokuni-Maru, which was on a trip from Osaka to Shimonosiki. A fire burst out in the coal-bunks, and it is said she was without pumps or other appliances to extinguish it, while the solitary boat could not be made available for the rescue o( the passengers and crew. Several men, women, and children threw themselves overboard to escape a more painful death others were saved by a vessel that came to their assistance, but sixty-four persons were burnt to death or otherwise perished. The subscriptions sent to form a fund to raise John Duncan, the Alford weaver and botanist, above the need of parochial relief, and provide for his comfort during his remaining years, have already readied a considerable sum, all which has been sent spontaneously from all parts of the country, without the formation of any committee or pressure whatever,—Ghwjow Herald. —Subscriptions sent to the paper named will be forwarded +0 the proper quarter. A series of extraordinary outrages are reported from Edinburgh, in which neighbourhood several highway robberies were perpetrated on Friday night by two men who made such a free use of their revolvers that several persons were injured. At Leith, on the same night, four policemen observed two men lurking about the Custom House, and, on attempting to seize them, were fired at, three of the officers being wounded. One of the assailants was seized, but the other put his revolver to his own head and blew his brains out. The man in custody refuses to give any explanation. Resistance to the Porte is spreading in Albania. Those who are sent to enforce the orders of the Govern- ment are withdrawn to avoid an outbreak of rebellion. The reserves summoned do not obey, and a portion of the Albanian battalion in Salonica recently gave notice to the officers of the nearest railway that any despatch of Turkish troops to Albania would lead tõ I the murder of the railway officials. It is announced from Constantinople that the Porte is making preparations to impose new taxes to meet the necessities of the State. A forced loan is to be raised in the capital, while in other parts of the Empire the land tax is to be increased and payment exacted f°r$,vtt years in advance. A poll tax of one medjidie pci'Vcad is also to be collected from the entire popula- tion. The report of a threatened war with Ashanti is con- firmed by a telegram received at the Colonial Office. The Governor of Cape Coast Castle states that King Coffee's demand for the surrender of the Ashanti Prince who had escaped from Coomassie, was accom- panied by the gold axe, which the Governor was warned meant war. The Governor states that he shall avoid provoking hostilities, and shall act strictly on the defensive. There are a thousand West Indian troops and Houssa police available for the defence of British territory, and four hundred additional West Indian troops have been ordered to the Gold Coast. The Rev. \V. J. Earle, M.A., on resigning his post as sub-warden and head assistant-mastei of Uppilig- ham School, has been presented with the following testimonials :-A pension of £ 150 per annum, voted unanimously by the trustees a purse of £ 270, from the old and present boys of the school and a hand- some clock from the masters. Mrs. Earle also has received a valuable piece of plate from the past and present Brooklands boys. Mr. Earle's faithful services for thirty-one years, have very much contributed to the success of the school, and will long be remembered by all Uppinghamians. Much anxiety is felt in regard to the safety of the Cunard mail steam ship Batavia. She left New York on the 19tli January, and it is understood that, in addition to a fair complement of passengers, she carries an exceptionally large amount in United States' Securities. The premium at Lloyd's on Saturday was freely dealt in at £3, and in some instances C7 was paid. The steamer Gallia, which left New York on the 26th January, and arrived at Quecnstown on Friday night, brings 110 tidings of the missing vessel. Hopes are entertained in some quarters that the Batavia may have met with the City of Bristol, and have been detained in rendering assistance to the latter, which left America on the 28th of December and has not since been heard of. On an application being made on Friday, to Vice Chancellor Malins to fix a day for the final hearing of the case of "Lee v. Fairhead," his Lordship spoke strongly of the conduct of the defendant in putting men in possession of a poor woman's property, after demanding E92 for C50 lent for about four months. Sir R. Malins added that lie wanted to look at one of these gentlemen, who generally appeared under false names, and asked him what excuse lie had to offer, after advertising to lend money without fees or securities, for charging some fifty to sixty per cent. The further hearing of the charges of intimidation against the officials of the London and North Western Railway at Liverpool resulted in a penalty of 40s. and costs being inflicted in the case of a man named Murphy, who suspended a fireman after the latter was cautioned as to consequences if he said "no" to the railway company's insurance proposals under the Employers' Liability Act. Considering that Murphy did not occupy an exalted position, the magistrates only imposed the lesser penalty, remarking that the cases heard failed to prove that any man in authority in the company had used intimidation. At the Chester Assizes last week, William Stanway was convicted of the murder of Ann Mellor, with whom he cohabited. Mr. Marshall prosecuted, and at the request of Mr. Commissioner Brown Mr. Dunne defended. James Williams said that deceased slept at his house, at Macclesfield, on the night of the 24th of December, the prisoner being away in Staffordshire. On Christmas morning the prisoner came home, and witness and the prisoner went away drinking for the better part of the day. The same night he saw the prisoner and deceased together in the street, and tle- ceased pointed to her eye, which was blackened, and said the prisoner had done it. The next morning lie saw the deceased in bed, moaning and crying out that the prisoner had punched her in the stomach with a poker. He turned round to the prisoner and asked him what was the matter, as he was nursing his arm, and he replied, I don't know I've either broken my arm or put my shoulder out, and what is worse I have nearly spoiled her with the poker." A doctor was fetched at the request of tha prisoner, but the deceased expired two days afterwards. Sarah Ann Blunt, a child aged nine years, whom prisoner and deceased had adopted, said that when her father came home on Christmas evening her mother had gone to bed. He kept calling to her mother to come down, and at length said, "Come down stairs, or I will come up with a red-hot poker." Her father put the poker in the fire, and her mother came down. "When she got down her father ran her through the belly with the red-hot poker. Her mother fainted, and she fetched water to her from a tap. The penetrated skirt pro- duced was the one her mother were at that time, and the poker was the weapon lie used. I11 cross-exami. notion, the witness said her mother declined to have a doctor when urged by the prisoner so to do, as she said the prisoner would be locked up. The jury found a verdict of "guilty," and the prisoner was sentenced I to death.

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XOTES. PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF CARDIGANSHIRE. (BY THE l.A'iT. MR. Joux HRCIIE*.) 7 WILLIAM III. Day of meeting, 22 November, 1G9-1 dissolved, 7 July, 1698 duration, 2 years, 7 months, 15 days. County.—John Yauglian, Esq., the successor of Sir Carbury Prysc in the last Parliament. ol iii Lewis, Esq., of Cocdmore, County of Cardigan. 10 WILLIAM III. Day of meeting, 24 August, 169,8 dissolved, 19 December, 1700; duration, 2 years. 3 months, 25 days. Count)).—John Lewis, Esq., Member for the Boroughs in the last Parliament. r Charles Lloyd of Maesyfelin, Cardi- ganshire. Knt., afterwards created a Bart. 12 WILLIAM III. Day of meeting, 6 February. 1700: dissolved, 11 November, 1701 duration, 9 months, 5 days. COl!lIt!l.ir Humphrey Mackworth, Knt. JJorotijiht.—John Lewis, Esq., Member for the County in the last Parliament. I" WILLIAM III. Day of meeting, 30 December, 1701 dissolved, 2 July, 1702 duration, 6 months. 2 days. COllllty.-Lewis Prysc, Esq.. of Gogarthan, County of Cardigan. Boroui—Henry Lloyd, Esq., of the Inner Temple, London. 1 A x XL. Day of meeting, 20 August, 1702 dissolved, 5 April, 1705 duration, 2 years, 7 months, 16 days. Count/—Sir Humphrey Mackworth, Knt. Borouj/t.i.—Henry Lloyd, Esq., of the Inner Temple, London. 4 AXXE. Day of meeting, 14 June, 1705 dissolved, 15 April, 1708 duration, 2 years, 10 months, 1 day. (loi(iif ff. -Joliii Pugh, Esq.—supposed to be of Matli- afarn, in the County of Montgomery—a Barrister. Boi-o i(!Ibe. -Lewis Pryse, Esq., of Gogarthan, County of Cardigan. (To he continued.) OLD PARISH BOOKS AT TOWYN. We are now beginning with another subject, and the next extract in the Old Parish Book is the first item that treats of it. The matter is concerning that some at least of the poor of the parish of Towyn were obliged to wear badges as a sign of their receiving parish relief, or forfeit the same. The item referred to above is the following :— "July ye 11th, 1727.—At a vestry then held it was voted and agreed that ye within poor shall wear a Badge at ye Charge of ye Parish as wittness our hands or not ba entitled to ye within sunie Edd morgan, A: Owen, Edward Hughes." On the front side of the leaf where the item just quoted is found in the original are the names or signi- fications of persons to whom were allowed certain sums of parish relief, which are given opposite each name or signification, allowed at a vestry held "July ye 11th, 1727." And it seems that the item mentioned refers to these persons. The signatures attached to this list of tire poor and sums allowed them are as follows :— "A: Owen, JolniYauglian, Ed morgan, Edward Hughes." After passing the resolution set out in the item already quoted and referred to above, it seems there is no mention in the Old Parish Book about the badges till Ave come to the year 1729. On one side of a loose leaf belonging to this old book there is an information of a vestry kept in the year after the one in which the resolution was passed, given thus:—"July ye 25th, 1728 at a vestry then held the under named Poor were then allowed as under li s d The Poor of uchbugga — 00—00—0 Immediately following this heading are the names or significations of the poor referred to, with the sums allowed to all of them except the first name on the list placed opposite, and under the list, a line is drawn, then follow these signatures Edd morgan vie, A: Owen, Riclid Yaughan, Lewis Yaughan, Edward Hughes." Underneath these signatures is the folloAving item :— "John Edwards & Ephraym Morgan Church Wardens for 1728 the Church mire for this year to be ye name (?) I for ye Poor lod ye Church use." On the other side of the same leaf is the following account, and that is all It coi,taiiis Is d "John EdAvards Rd from ye Old Avarden—00-16-10 Efraym Rd from ye old Ward 04-10-06" 011 the top of another leaf (not loose) is the following heading:—"The Poor of Ibuga for 1728." Then follow the names or significations of those poor, with the sums allowed to them put opposite, and to one of hem, an Infant," a certain sum from a collection, made especially for her as it seems, was added to the sum alloAved, making in all Xl 15s. The persons whose signatures are given under this list are the same as under the one named before, but are not given quite in the same order. They run thus "Edd morgan, Richd Vaughan, Lewis Vaughan, A. Owen, Edward Hughes." Z, On the top of the first page of the next leaf is the following heading :—" May ye 27th 1729 at a vestry then held the following Poor were then allow d as under Isebuga Underneath this heading we have the names or signifi- cations of the poor referred to above. I cannot say what is their exact number, as in one instance of the list it only states "children belonging to a certain person, Avliose name is given. But to leave these chil- dren altogether out of the number on the list, the num- ber of the poor Avould be tAventy-oue. Of course, in this case the true number is somewhat more. One of the list is an Infant and one a blind Avooman." There are no sums of the allowance placed opposite the names. But against four of them Badgcl' is given, together Avith the month, and the number of the day of each month they were so marked, and they ran in this order:—" Badgd jun 23," "Badg'd July 1st," "Badgd Aug 2," "badgd july 29." On the top of the front page of the next leaf we have the heading :—" Allowed to ye Poor of inchbuga as under." Then, immediately after, follow the names or significations of those poor persons, twenty-four in number. One of these also was a "blind Woman." There are no sums placed opposite their names or sig- nifications; but the abbreviated "Barlgd," together with the month and day of the month they were marked, is given against nine of them, as in connection with the other list, and run in this order :—" Badgd 9bE 1," badgd july 12," Badgd june 23," Badgd 9bE 19," "Badgd 8bE 4," "Badg'd July 1st," "Badgd july 2(?)," Badgd july 7," Badsrd july 29." The year in which they were badgd is not given, y C!1 but as the original of the quotation as to when they were badged are written in a different hand to that of the lists and headings, maybe they were marked in the year in which the vestry mentioned in the first of these headings, Was held. There are no signatures attached to the first of the lists mentioned, but on the same page as the last of them, and at a certain distance underneath, there is a written resolution with five signatures folloAving, and it seemed certain that these were considered as signatures to both the two lists and the resolution. The resolution and signatures are as folloAv\s:—" We whose names hereunto subscribed at a vestry held ye 27th Day of May 1729 have agreed yt ye above poor shall wear Badges on ye right sholder upon their upper garment visibley or forfeit their s' allowances. Edd Morgan John EdAvards Humphrey Price John Woodward Edward Hughes Dolgellau. ROBYN FRYCH. QUERIES. _W. BARRINGTON, OF NORTH WALES (Born 1789, died 1843.)—I ask for any information respecting the above, my grandfather. His history is short. At thirteen or fourteen he ran away from home, because it was against his father's wishes that lie should go to sea, and, joining some ship at a port unknown, lie went in her to India, where lie settled, made a fortune, mar- ried, and died. When travelling in the East some years ago, I made a visit to Calcutta, in the hope of gaining some impcrtant information about him but of those who knew him many nad passed away, whilst those living could not tell me what part of Wales he came from. At length I visited the old cemetery at Calcutta., and on a massive tombstone I read and copied the following inscription "William Barrington, Esq., born N. Wales, June 17, 17S9 died in Calcutta, June 25, 1843." If any of your correspondents could tell me if any brahches of the family are living, or if they have heard of any Barringtons residing in some toAvns or vil- lages in North Wales, I should feel extremely obliged. WILLIAM BAKRIN(-TON. 19, Green Park, Bath. TOWYN PARISH RECORDS (February 4th, 1 SSI). —Your correspondent Robin Frych," I take it, has not been accustomed to the copying of old MSS., or he could know that the month he represents with the fear- ful hieroglyphics i(?)bE" is merely "7ber," a very common method of spelling September; the final "er" being always finished off with a peculiar curl, not un- like a capital E." Again. I note that lie mentions it as somewhat extraordinary that a vestry should have been held on a Sunday but was not Sunday a very usual day for holding A-estries last century ? Then, why does he put" 11" for pounds, Avhen "li" is so common in documents of the age he is copying ? I never met with" 11" in any MS. O-NE IXTEKESTEH.

EXTRAORDINARY BIGAMY CASE. At the Central Criminal Court, last Aveek. Henry Wiltshire, aged thirty-five a person of gentlemanly appearance, was indicted for feloniously marrying Edith Maria Miller, his first Avife being then living. There were other counts charging him with having been previously convicted of bigamy. Mr. Montagu Williams and Mr. Purcell prosecuted for the Treasury; Mr. Ripton defended the prisoner. The evidence went to show that the prisoner was married in September. 1879, to a lady named Laviss, the marriage with Miss Miller being contracted in the following year. Accord- ing to the opening statement of Mr. Williams, the prisoner's career seemed to have been a most extraor- dinary one. In 1864 lie was married to Ellen Erie, by whom he had one child. They were separated, and in 1875 he was tried for forgery in connection with the marriage, and acquitted. Then, in 1869, he married the daughter of Sir Neville Leslie, and on the 20th of April in that year he Avas arrested and tried at the Central Criminal Court for forgery, being sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Previous to this, however, he had been divorced from his second wife, and on the 12th of June, 1872, he was released from custody with a ticket-of-leave. In 1874 he married a Miss Marshall, and 1876 he was divorced from her for cruelty, being in the folloAving year sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for perjury. He was released in June, 1879, and then committed the offence now imputed to him.—Mr. Ribton did not attempt to dispute the facts, but he raised a technical objection, contending that as there Avas 110 proof that the first Avife Erie Avas living, or that the prisoner knew she Avas living Avhen he contracted the subsequent marriages, the indictment must fail. The subsequent marriages were merely invalid.—The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the common Serjeant respited sentence in order that he might consider whether he ought to reserve the legal point raised by Mr. Ribton for argument.

THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. The syndicate appointed at Cambridge to consider the memorials relating to the encouragement to be given to the higher education of women have reported to the senate as fol,'oN%-s The syndicate share the desire of the memorialists that the advantages of academical training may be secured to women, and that the results of such training may be authoritatively tested and certified. For various reasons, however, they are not prepared to recommend that Avonieu should be admitted either to the degrees of the university generally or to the B.A. degree alone. They believe that the two objects above mentioned may be in a large measure attained, and great encouragement be given to the higher education of women, by the formal admission of female students to the honour examinations of the university, together Avith an authoritatiA-e record of the results of their examination inimhlished class lists. The aclvantarres of allowing women to enter the general and special examinations for the ordinary B.A. degree are less obvious, and the syndicate abstain from making any recommendation on this head. They think that women admitted to the honour examinations should be required to have fulfilled the same conditions of residence as arc imposed on members of the university; and that they should either haA-e given the same evidence of preliminary training by passing the previous examination or one of the various substitutes already accepted for it, or else should have obtained an honour certificate in the higher local examination, with the condition of passing in certain specified groups. They propose that each successful candidate should be granted a certificate setting forth the canditions under which she has been admitted to the tripos examination, and the standard to which she has attained. Should the recommendations of this report be approved by the senate, the syndicate propose to deal in a subsequent report with various points in detail, such as the amount of the fees to be paid, the places and conduct of the examinations, and exceptional regulations with regard to standing." The syndicate proceed to recommend "That such residence shall be kept at Girton College, at NeAvnham College, or other similar institution hereafter recog- nised by the university by grace of the senate," and that the above regulations- come into operations on the Easter term, 1881."

THE STORMING OF GEOK TEPE. General Scobeleff telegraphs from Geok Tepe to St. Petersburg, under date the 16th January, some particu- lars of the storming of that stionghold. The army was divided into four columns, of which one, seemingly under the immediate command of Scobeleff formed the reserve, the other three being led by Colonels Kooropatkine, Kozelkotf, and Haidaroff. Colonel Haiclarotf opened the fighting at seven in the morning by an attack upon the fortified outwork on the south front, which he took and held until twenty minutes past eleA-en. At the same time a breach, already commenced on the 8th January, and completed on the previous night by explosions of dynamite, was battered by thirty-six guns to prepare the way for the second column. At 11.20 a mine, containing a hundred and twenty- five pounds of powder, was exploded under the eastern front of the" all. destroying several hundreds of the defenders, and serving as the signal for the attack by the first two columns. In ten minutes both lines of defence were captured, and a bloody hand to hand fight ensued for the posses- sion of the innei wall. When this struggle had lasted for an hour part of the reserve was ordered up, and one battalion escaladed another part of the wall. At half-past one the third column mounted the south-western wall by means of ladders, and the fight raged within the fortress. At two o'clock the redoubt on the hill of Denzil Tepe was captured, and the Russians were masters of the place. The Tekkes fled, abandoning the camp, and their goods, wives, and children, and the fugitives were pursued with slaughter for fifteen versts by a flying column of arms. Four thousand Turcoman corpses lay in the fortress, besides those that filled the ditches. The victors took possession of quantities of guns, rifles, ammunition Avaggons, stores, and forage, to- gether Avith four thousand families, amongst them those of three Imauns, and seven hundred Persian captives. The Russian losses from the 20th of December to the 12th of January were :—Killed, sixteen officers and two hundred and sixty-seven men wounded, forty- two officers and six hundred and forty-seveii men besides which there recevell contusions thirteen offi- cers and one hundred and twenty-three men. One hundred and,forty-three horses were killed, one hundred and tAventy-one wounded. On January 2Sth the Russians occupied Aschabad, another Turcoman fort on the road to Merv. An immense camel train having been sent after the ad- vancing column, the design of proceeding east can 110 longer be doubted. A11 uncommonly mild Avinter seems to favour the plan. In conformity with the altered state of things, the Russian Government will shortly appoint a special Military Envoy to Persia.

The Rev. W. H. Mills B.A., head master of the Ruthin Grammar School has resigned the position of head master which he has held for several years.

DEATH OF MR. THOMAS CARLYLE. Mr. Thomas Carlyle died on Saturday morning at his residence, Cheyne-row, at half-past eight Avithout suffering any pain Avhatever. All the household were present, his disease having been imminent for some days past. For a considerable time his health has beeif failing, but it was not until last Sunday week that his illness assumed a serious character. The various reports issued from day to day since then have given no hope of his recovery. It is understood to have been Mr. Carlyle's Avish that lie should be laid to rest Avith his Avife in the ruined choir of the cathedral at Haddington, but an effort Avill certainly be made to place his remains in Westminster Abbey, where he was an occasional worshipper a few years ago. Mr. Carlyle himself had all an Englishman's admiration for that grand pile, and he was especially conservative in his vie\Y5 as to who should be buried there. It will be remembered! that a few months ago he took a leading part in pro- testing against the Prince Imperial Memorial. "Thomas Carlyle, essayist, biographer, and his- torian, was born in 1795, at Ecclefechan, a small village in Dumfriesshire, where his father, a man of intellect and earnest religious feeling, held a small farm and received the rudiments of his education at Annan. At the age of fourteen he entered the Cni- versity of Edinburgh, passing through a regular curriculum, aud studying mathematics under Professor Leslie. Intended by his parents for the ministry, he remained at the university upwards of seven years, spending his vacations among the hills and by the rivers of Dumfriesshire. At college his habits were lonely and contemplative. After teaching mathe- maties in a school in Fifeshire for about t'.vo years, he determined to devote himself to literature, and in 1823 commenced his career by contributing to Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia.' some able articles on Montesquieu," Montaigne,' Nelson," and the 'Two Pitts,' and literary notices to the E'Jlnhunjh Eerien\ In the same year he completed a translation of Legendre's Geometry,' to Avhicli he prefixed an Essay on proportion,' and published his translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister,' a work which showed a direction of reading destined to influence materially his future career. On the com- pletion of this translation he commenced his 'Life of Schiller,'which was published by instalments in the London Magazine, then sustained by the talents of Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincy, Hood, John Scott, and A. Cunningham. For Goethe and Schiller, two of the true sovereign souls of German literature,' his admira- tion has ever been unbounded, and his letters to Goethe have appeared in the poets published correspondence. Having married in 1827, lie resided alternately at Comley Bank and Craigenputtock, a small estate, fifteen miles to the north-west of Dumfries. From this secluded spot lie occasionally contributed to the foreign and other reviews of the day. Between 1830 and 1833 he Avas engaged in Avriting Sartor Resartr.s,' which appeared in the latter year in Frazer'-i Jlajazhx During the negotiations for the publication of this work he was induced to remove to London, where he has continued to reside, we believe, since 1834. In IS;j7 he published The French Pc-N-oliitioi, a history abounding in Nivid and graphic descrip- tions. Chartism, and five A-olumes of his Essays.' collected for the most part from periodical publications, appeared in 1839, and in 1840 he delivered a series of lectures on Hero-worship, which were afterwards published in a collected form. His 'Past and Present' appeared in I S43 Latter-day Pamphlets,' essays suggested by the convulsions of ] S-!S-an era which he calls 'one of the most singular, disastrous, amazing, and, on the whole, humiliating years the European Avorld ever saw,' in 1S50. His 'Life of John Stirling,' has been described as 'one of I the finest biographies ever written.' In 1845 Mr. Carlyle produced his great work entitled Oliver CroniAvell's Letters and Speeches, AYith Elucidations,' which gave him a distinguished place among the his- torians of the age. On the death of the Earl of Ellesmere, in 1857, Mr. Carlyle was appointed a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. In 1860-4 he published his 'Life of Frederick the Gi'eat.' Mr. Carlyle's cliaricteristic.' says one of his admirers, 'is a rugged earnestness of expression, and a range of thought Avidened and deepened by his acquaintance Avith the Avritings of the great German thinkers." Mr. Carlyle, elected Rector of Edinburgh University November 11, 1865 delivered his inaugural address April 2, 1866. In 1870, on the death of Lord Claren- don, he became President of the London Library. In December, 1873, the Chapter of the Civil Class of the Prussian Royal Order For Merit' was presented --to II Mr. Carlyle, the vacancy having been created by the death of Alessandro Manzoni. In 1S75 he declined an offer which AA'as made to him of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath."

EPPS'S COCOA.GRATEITL AND COMFORTING.—"By a thorough knoAuedge of the natural laAvs Avliich govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has proA-ided our breakfast tables with a delicately-Savoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack AvhereA-er there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."—Ch-il Sen-ice Gazette.— Sold only in Packets labelled, "JAMES Errs & Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London." FOR THE PRESENT SEASON. ROYAL DEYONSHIRE SERGE.—Is the best, the cheapest, the most fashionable, and the most durable of any article woven, The Queen says it has no rival either in appearance or utility. It is made of selected and elastic staple AVOOIS: produced in the latest fashion- able colours and mixtures. Prices for ladies' Avear, ls.Gid., ] s.l Id., 2s.3d. and 2s.9d. per yard. Extra milled and strengthened for gentlemen's suits and boys hard Avarc (new patterns) from 2s. lid. per yard, 54 inches in width. The Factors cut any length, and pay carriage on all parcels into London, Dublin, Belfast, Cork. or Glasgow. In writing for patterns, which are sent post free, state whether for ladies' or gentlemen's Avear. A(lress, Spearman and Spearman. Royal Deyonshire Serge Factors, Plymouth. Special attention is called to the fact that this Firm is deA-oted exclusively to the production of pure wool materials for ladies' and gentle- men's wear. Stages sold as used by Her Majesty's Government. "THE DOIE" differs from the ordinary kinds in the following important points It is manufactured only from selected materials of the BEST QUALITY, and being prepared by a special process it not only POLISHES MORE QUICKLY than other blackleads, but a] so ad- heres at once to the stove or grate thereby AYOIDING INJURY TO THE FURNITURE from dust. Sold by Grocers and Oilmen everAvherc. E. James and Sons, sole makers. Plymouth 'STKENGTH FOR THE WEAK The attention of the feeble, and those in failing health is particularly called one of the greatest discoveries of modern times, known as LIEBIG'S CHEMICAL FOOD, (;r JrlXE UF PHUSPHATE" A Nutritious and Invigorating Essence, highiv recommended by the most eminent of the Medical Profession for the Cure of Nervous Head and Mind Complaints, Coughs, Asthma and Incipient Consunip- tion, Nervousness. Weakness and Exhaustion Dimness of Sight, Shortness of breath, Headache, Depression, Palpitation of the Heart, Drowsiness: Indigestion, Singing Noises in the Head and Ears, Trembling, Loss of Memory, Want of Appetite, Neuralgia, Pains and Aches, Wasting Diseases. Loss of Energy, Impaired Nutrition, InactiA-itv of the Dram. Avith dnlness of perception and delusions, and al mother low states of the system indicating the presence of disease, which if not attended to in time may become serious. Testimonial from Sir CHARLES LOCOCK, Physician to the Queen. "I have for some years recommended LIEBIG'S "CHEMICAL FOOD in cases of general ill-health with the most beneficial results. I find it to be a A-ery pure preparation, containing amongst other "things free and unoxydizoil Phosphorus highly diffused, and when persevered Avith has always "seemed to give fresh life to the languid and "exhausted, and health, strength, and energy. 3v its use dull, the sluggish, the lazv and languid "arise in the morning well and refreshed an "appetite for food, and fit for study, society or business. "CHARLES LOCOCIv. M.D." LIEBIG'S CHEMICAL FOOD Is the true strength-giver and health-restorer. nourishing both body and brain, supplying mental 1 lI and physical poArer, and nerve and brain food. It is not at all like medicine, being entirely different to anything ever before introduced to the public, and tastes like some balmy, fragrant, and delici- ous nectar. LIEBIG'S CHEMICAL FOOD Purifies and Enriches the blood, thereby rendering the skin clear and transparent, sharpens the intellect, strengthens the constitution, re-estab- lishes the health, thoroughly revitalises the system and is the one unfailing remedy for debility from Avhatever cause arising. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "Far superior to beef-tea, port wine, and all tonic medicines."—Lancet. "A medicine suited alike to young and old, that cannot harm the most delicate, and very strengthen- ing. '—Practitioner. "Nervous Debility, caused by the constitution having been injured in early life, can be cured by this remedy if taken iii(liclorslN-. Time*. The nearest approach to the cure of Consumption that has yet been discoYtTed. "r;ri.ti,h Aledicai Journal. "Particularly adapted to the female system. Ac?'1 I orl: Journal of and Surgery. Seems to be a specific for every form of wcaknes and cures most diseases."—Dublin M'edical A mild remedy of universal application, and good family medicine.' —Monthly Journal of Pharmacy. "Lays the foundation of health in the young, and soon builds up a strong constitution.—LirvitCi Suryeons J-adv-illecilm. Will save ten times its cost in doctors' bill." American Pharmaceutical Journal. "It is one of the few preparations that can be depended upon, and must, in course of time, entirely supersede quinine, iron, cod liver oil, tonics, bitters, and the thousand and one fashionable, dear, and doubt- ful remedies."—CJiernUt and Dru>;<sf. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.. and lis., and also in 33s. and C.5 Cases. Any Chemist not mwing it in Stock will procure it to order; and there is a great saving in buying the larger sizes. X To prevent confusion when you ask for LIEBIG'S CHEMICAL IOOD see that you get it, as our Agents sell all our Nutritives and Preparations which are numerous. Remember that LIEBIG'S CHEMICAL I OOD is a medicine sold in bottles and bearing the Government Stamp. London Agents: Barclay and Sons. 9.), Farringdon- street; Edwards and Sons, 1¡j7, Queen Yictoria-st.; Newbery and Sons. 37, Newgate-street: Millard and Sons. 40, Charterhouse-square; Sanger and Sons. 150 and 252, Oxford-street; Hovenden and Sons, 5, Great Marlbourough-street, W., and 93 and 95, City-road; Sutton and Co., 10, BOAV Churchyard; Butler and Crispe, 4, Cheapside; Maw, Son, and Thompson, 7 tc 12, Aldersgate-street; Lynch and Co.. 171 A ¡tIllll í I n, Aldersgate-street; AN-illiztiii Mather, Farringdon-road; and J. C. Thompson, 121, New North-road. ORDER OF ANY CHEMIST. LIEBIG AND CO., WANDSWORTH ROAD, LONDON, S.W. Chemists are cautioned against making or offering for sale preparations and calling them "Chemical Food," as it was decided in the case of Liebigv. Scully, that we we.. the originators of the name and had the sole right to use it, and all persons selling other articles by this name not only render themselves liable to an action for damages, but also to Chancery pro- ceedings. RIDE TO KHIVA D ET CAPTAIN FRED BURNABY, Royal Horse Guards. Page 13 says :—" TAVO pairs of boots lined with fur were also taken and for physic—with which it is as well to be supplied when travelling in out-of-the-way places—some quinine and Cockle's pills, the latter a most invaluable medicine, and one which I have used on the natives of Central Africa with the greatest pos- ible success. In fact, the marvellous effects produced upon the mind and body of an Arab Sheik, who was imperA-iousto all native medicines. when I administered to him five COCKLE'S PILLS will never fade from my memory and a friend of mine, who passed through the same district many months afterwards, informed me that my fame as a medicine man' had not died out, but that the marvellous cure was cyen then a theme of conversation in the bazaar.' SEE BURNABY S RIDE TO KHIYA, page 13. A GOOD FAMILY MEDICINE CHEST, Avith a prudent use, has saved many a life and yet Ave think the idea may be improyed upon, and re- duced to a more simple form. Take some good com- pound, such as COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS and we find that the desired end may be obtained with- out scales and weights, or little mysterious compart- ments or enchanted bottles, with crystal stoppers. Others might be used, but COCKLE'S PILLS, as tasted by many thousands of persons, and found to answer their purpose so well, may be set down as the best. Cockle's Antibilious Pills In use the last eighty-one years for INDIGESTION. In boxes at Is. lkl., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.. and 11s. Cockle's Antibilious Pills, In use the last eighty-one years for BILLIOUS AFFECTIONS. In boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. Cockle's Antibilious Pills, In use the last eighty-one years for LIVER COMPLAINTS. In boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9., 4s. 6d., and lis. Cockle's Antibilious Pills, In use amongst all classes of society EIGHTY-ONE YEARS, May be had throughout the United Kingdom, In boxes at Is. lid.. 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 11. MR. EDWARDS. SURGEON-DENTIST, FFESTINIOG, Attends Dolgeliey at Mr. Davies, Eldon House, the first and third Saturday in each month. 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THE ARREST OF MICHAEL DAVITT. Michael Davitt Avas brought to London on Friday morning by the Irish mail, Avhicli arrived at 6.45. He Avas accompanied by a number ot police and detective officers in plain clothes, and a pilot engine ran in front of the train from Holyhead to London. On the arrival at Chester the railway station was found to be guarded by a large force of city and county police, under the direction of the mayor and deputy-mayor. The railway stations at Holyhead, CreAve, Stafford, Rugby, and Willesden Junction were similarly guarded. Those who had Davitt in charge were extremely reticent. The prisoner was brought before Sir James Ingham in the magistrates' private roeni at Bo-,i--sti,eet at the unusually early hour of eight a.m., on a warrant granted by Sir James on the 2nd of February. Arriving in London, the prisoner was at once taken in an ordinary police van, guarded by several mounted constables to BoAV-street, where Sir James Ingham was in waiting, according to arrange- ments made with a view of preventing any possible disturbance which was feared if the prisoner were brought up in the ordinary way at ten o'clock. Besides Sergeant Williamson the prisoner was escorted by Chief Inspector Shore and Inspectors Butcher. Swanson, and others of Scotland-yard. Mr Howard Yincent, director of the Criminal Investigation Depart- ment, was also present at the inquiry. Sir James Ingham signed a warrant for the committal of the prisoner to Mill-bank, to which prison lie was at once conveyed, escorted in a similar way to that on his arrival. At a latter hour there was a considerable crowd assembled in Bow-street, in the expectation of seeing Davitt brought up, and much angry feeling was displayed when it became known that his examination was concluded, and that he had been remitted to prison. A memorial is being prepared in favour of Michael Davitt, asking that, in consideration of his state of health, he may not be treated as an ordinary convict, but as a first class misdemeanant, as if he had been arrested under the proposed Coercion Act. The petition is being extensively signed by English Radical members of Parliament and by the more moderate Irish members, but the Parnellites abstain from signing.

AMENDMENT OF LICENSING LAWS, The following Bill has been brought into lle House of Commons by Mr. Lewis Pugh Pugh :—"A Bill to Amend the Licensing Act. 1872, so far as relates to the Disqualification of Justices by making the Disquali- fication of Justices who are Retailers of Intoxicating Drink absolute within the Districts specified in the Act. Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows: 1. Section sixty of the Licensing Act, 1872, is hereby repealed. 2. Xo justice shaH act for any purpose under any of the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Acts, except in cases where the offence charged is that of being found drunk in any liigliAvay or other public place, Avhether a building or not, or on any licensed premises, or of being guilty, while drunk. of riotous or disorderly conduct, or of being drunk while in charge on any highway or other public place of any carriage, horse, cattle, or steam engine, or of being drunk when in possession of loaded jjrcarms, who is, or is in partnership with or holds any share in any company which is, a common brewer, distiller, maker of malt for sale, or retailer of malt in the licen- sing district, or in the district or districts adjoining to that in which such justice usually acts and no justice shall act for any purpose 1111-ler any of the Intoxicating Liquor Acts, in respect of any premises in the profits of which such justice is interested, or of which he is wholly or partly the owners, lessee, or occupier, or for the OAvner, lessee, or occupier of Avhieh he is manager or agent; and no justice Avho is, or acts as. or assists in the business of, or is in partnership with, or holds any share in any company Avliich is, a retailer of any intoxicating liquor, shall in the licensing district where the business in which he is so concerned is carried on, or in the district or districts adjoining thereto, act as a justice for any purpose Avhatever. Any justice hereby declared not to be qualified to act, who knowingly nets as a justice in contravention of this Act, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, to be re- covered by action in Her Majesty's High Court of Justice provided tliit,- (1.) .No justice shall be disqualified under this section to act in respect of any premises by reason of his having vested in him a legal interest only, and not a beneficial interest, in such premises or the profits thereof. (2.) No justice shall be liable to a penalty for more than one offence committed by him under this section before the institution of any proceedings for the recovery of such penalty. (3.) No act done by any justice disqualified by this section shall by reason only of such disqualification be invalid.