The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

STANDARD APPLES FOR BRITAIN. There are so many bad apples sent out nowaday? that we think it right, that the really good kinds should be made known. Last year we raised the question of the needless number of apples, and the necessity of confining ourselves to the best kinds if ws are to have the best results. Many articles and noles or: the subject appeared then. Our lists stands as below. The list will always be open to improvement, but not to great increase of number. We shall lie always glad to hear of or see fruits of high merit noi included in the list, also local frrdtp, of 'Fie which they are probably some very good ones. Faults, too, of any of those mentioned which warrant their exclusion from tha standard sorts may be considered. The minor lists will, we hone, be useful, as they will prevent the exclusion of fruits with useful secondary qualities. The list is not:, it will be seen, one for the seasons. The first aim is to fix attention on English appies of the highest quality and able to compete with those of any country. apples of the highest quality and able to compete with those of any country. 1. Alfristou. 2. Pes; Pool (new). Blenheim Orange. 4. Bramley's. 5. Claygate Pearmaia. 6. Cox's Orange Pippin. 7. Dutch Mignonne. S. Flanders Pippin. 9. Lane's Prince Albert. 10. Mere-de Menage. 11. Northern Greening. 12. Reinifcte Grise. 13. Ribson Pippin. 14. Stone's. IP. Sturmer Pippin. 1 {;, "V 8Hingto:n. 17. Winter Queeninr. EARLY APPLES.—Oaibsle Coc.iio, Keswicic Godwin, Lord Snffield, Duchess of Oidenbucg, Devonshire Quarrenden, Irish Peach, Olt-m, Early Margaret. FINE-FLOWERED APPLES.-Emperor Alexander, Eawthom- den, Lord SnG.ield. Hambledon's Deux Ans. 'Elenhiem Orange, Court Pendu Plat, Orange Goff, Ivirke's Incomparable, Sharp's. OrDER .APPLES.—Fox-whelp, Garter Apole. Woodcock, Redstreak. TJnderleaf, Cowarne Red, Best Bache, Skyrme's Kernel. Forest Stym nymok Red. Joebv Crab, Stvre Wilding, Egerleton Styre, Royal Wilding, Blaok Wilding, Pym Square, Mmnm's* Rod, Bran Rose, Red Styre, Treralett's Bister, Ellds Bitter, Slack-my-Girdh, Pound Apple or Sweet Backhand, Red Cluster, Sweet Albert, Holmcote Sweet, Cat's- head, Sweet Portugal, Red Rosberry, White Ros-; berry, Tom Putt, Kingston Black, Greasy. LITTLE APPLES.—Golden Harvey, Pearson's Plate, Beachamwell, Keddleston Pippin. ,Ashmead's Kernel' Pine Golden Pippin, Pitmastoa, Pine-apple, Lucombe's Pine-apple, Sain Young. Lod^emore Nonpareil. BEIGHTLT-COLOI: R;:O APPLES.—Incomparable, Hanwell Souring. Cox's Pomona, Brabant, Belleduer. Bauman's Red Reinette, Rvmer, R/3d Hnllandbnry, Alexander, Hoary Morning. Tom Putt, Tyler's Kernel. Striped Beoufin, Fearn's Pippin, Cumberland Fillbasket, Dnchess of Gloucester, Worcester Pearmain, Cellini, Adams' Pearmain, Scarlet Nonpareil, Red Astrackan, N orlolk BeauSn,—Garden. -<>-

DETAIL FARMING. A correspondent called attention in our issue on the 31st nit to the palpable weakness in tbe industry of British Agriculture. As secretary to one of "the great institu- tions of the country" be demurred to the fact of his hav- ing failed after extensive advertising in the Agricultural press to procure fresh country egg-s for the use of the inmates of the establishment with which he was con- nected. He had to fall back upon foreign supplies. although his special desire was to obtain new-laid eg-gs off English fanas. He also gave art estimate of the quantity of eggs which is weekly required for such institutions, and expressed surprise that so little attention is given by farmers and farmers' wives to the output of the° poultry yard. y The present seems an opportune time to bring the matter into public notice. Grain is cheap, and the cost of keeping an increased stocking of poultry would be im- material, wh, the produce of a well managed yard though disposed of by littles, would amount to a good round sum in the course of a year. We question vary j much whether, y ith eggs at 2jd. a piece (as they now are in the metropolis), for any length of time the poultry record would not be the most profitable part of the farmer's balance sheet. Anyhow, such an adjunct would add materially to the revenue of the farm, "and if one looks after ths pcucs the pounds will take care of them- selves. Another matter wuicli has long been seriously over- looked in rural districts is tha production of ham and bacon. These are articica of food, for which there is a growing consumption, and yet no effort has been made to take advantage of the defeand. Or.r agriculturists are easy-minded enough to let foreign countries absorb what might well be made to yield themselves substantial bene- fit. There is no excuse for such obvious neglect as this, seeing that we have the raw material to work with, and' superior skill to employ in its manufacture. Dr. Farquhars m, M.P., has pithily said that if the British farmer ever suceoeded in competing with others who are pursuing his trade under more favourable conditions, it must be by breaking somewhat with the traditions of the past by aiming at quality and variety, and by trying to produce specialities which cannot be produeed equally well elsewhere. 8\Ve would go further than the Aberdeenshire member. Whether the same variety of food can be M well raised elsewhere or not, economical management, at least as regards the details of the farm, will enable British farmers to hold their own in the face of the world. It is chiefly, or at any rate to a very iarge extent, with English-bred stock, that foreign countries have been monopolising the British pork trade. There is no reason why pig-breeding and fattening should not pay qnite as well as in the British Islands as it does, for example, in the United States, where it has been the most remunerative branch of stock-raising for some time past. We have not the huge piles of Indian corn to feed with, but there is invariably as much roughness about an arable farm, such as spoilt grain, potatoes, &e., as would obviate any great expenditure in purchased foods. It is only a couple of weeks since we were told by a public speaker that agriculture must" give way to fruit- growing. It is with no sense of timidity leet such a revolution snouid come about tnat we suggest that a little more attention on the part of farmers might with advantage be directed to the cultivation of fruits. According to the northern authority whom we have already quoted. "Mr Gladstone's advice hits the bull's eye right in the centre." In this, Dr. Farquharson may be right, but while we fully sympathise with the popular opinion that iruit-growmg be mane a fertile source of revenue to the country, we place no great ootiSdenoe in it as a panacea for agricultural depression. But ff it contributes to the coffers of the farm, nv matter how little, by all mesns give it a trial, for it is, after all, the myriad that makes the mass. 0 Then it is to be hoped the Eafl of Aberdeen's recommenda- tion to his tenantry a few years ago has not been forgotten. We refer to the apairy. BJe-keeping is an industry which is susceptible to the effects of bad seasons quite ae much as crop-growing, as has been put too con- spicuously exemplified this year. Yet a good harvest of honey, which seldom brings than 8d. per lb., is an item of no inconsiderable moment. Without much trouble or expense, bee-keeping might be vastly emended—added to the roll of detailed ,farming. Whatever is made of it is found money, and there is always a good demand for home-made honey, as much of the honey imported from the United States and the Antipodes is the produce of artifice and not of the ve-;t,able bee. Lane. Lspress. .00-

"VIEW OF TEE BRITISH CORN TRADE. j of singularly finB and pleasant weather for enabled farmers to get on well with wheat- hing, and thresiisng. The aci'ssge now generally regarded as about the same as •sing a slight mere ,se on the lighter, and n the heavier F;oill, T-hq 'v bsajrded, and th3 reports received ng of their favauvable aspect. We that despite the poor yield therefrom -headed varieties of wheat appear to have been in no wise effected in fanners' favour. The causes of last year's failure are believed to be quite excep- tional, and the opinion that in ordinary seasons the j square-headed wheat gives the last yield per acre is Ivery wide-spread. In France, and also in the United States, spring wheat seems to be growing in favour, while in the north-west of Canada, with its vast acres yet to be reduced to the plough, the question of the hour is to dis- in the north-west of Canada, with its vast acres yet to be reduced to the plough, the question of the hour is to dis- cover the sort of spring. wheat which shall combine rapid j growth with hardiness of habit and fecundity of yield. The price of really good milling qualities of English wheat has not been affected by the events of the past week. and damp samples have been a trifle improved by the drier state of the atmosphere. The large proportion of inferior wheat offered at the agricultural markets this season tend", to impart an apjtoarance of greater depres- sion than actually exists on these exchanges. On the other hand, millers are more frequent visitors to the port markets, and their admixtures of good Russian and other imported descriptions are much more extensive this season than last. The Imperial average, which of course relates to farmers' deliveries exclusively, con- tinues very low, but quite half-a-crown per qr. may be ascribed to inferiority of milling value. The close correspondence with 1888 prices, therefore, is apparent rather than real, and for all unsound wheat there is to- day a better market, and at a higher price than was the case a year ago. The Imoerial average for English wheat at the 187 statute markets last week -as 62,6!?$ qrs. at 39s. 2d. per qr., against 61,699J qrB. :b 30s. 1M. per qr. in the corresponding week of last year. The London average for the week ended with Tuesday was 31s. lid. per qr. on 1,816 qrs. This is a disappointing price, but the sales were hardly large enough to form much of a test of value. The flour market has been dull, I the open weather tnd higher temeprature for mid-winter materially limiting the retail demand. A fall of a franc per sack in Frencn flour prices has contributed to the depression of the larger British markets. Foreign wheat has been a weak trade, from the open- ing days of the new yenr. The firmness of holders was at first fully maintained, owing to the news of severe weather in Russia, but the large quantity of Californian wheat on passage constituted a standing menace to the j markets, and it only required a loss of heart at New York and Chicago in order to set up a general movement in wheat. This has been the chief event of the week the disposition manifested by America to meet European ideas of prices, and, by meeting them, to resume ship- ments from the Atlantic ports. It is, in this crisis, to be remembered that the operations of the American markets, however ingenious, cannot effect the fltcl of the 188.8 crop affording a small export surplus in any event. To this circumstance we shall recur more particularly in our foreign review. The receipts of wheat and flour into C London for the week ended with Friday comprised 3.000 qrs from India, 1,549 qrs. from Australia, 4,740 qrs from New Zealand, 14,718 qrs from the Baltic, 7,400 qrs. from the Black Sea, and 2C2 qrs. from Frauoe, which with 3,614 qrs. English, and flour equal to 30,480 qrs., me a total supply of 65,763 qrs. for the week. The downward tendency of the week's markets has had a somewhat noticeable exception in the case of barley, for which staple twenty-four of the more prominent exchanges have recorded advancing prices against eighteen of a week character. The imports of this cereal having in- creased in the same period from 109,400 qrs. to 146,000 qrs.. the gsnuinness of the improvement is the more marked. The deficiency of the home yield eeems to be greater than the Privy Council estimators have led us to suppose. The barley of 1888, so far as we have observed, threshes stack for stack nearly the same as wheat, but as there were more stacks of barley on a given ares, so its yield per acre is not so seriously short as in the case with the wheat Crop. At the same time the average is by no means reached, and since tbe; heavy threshings of the past six weeks, many farmers may be found who reckon the barley crop quite 10 per cent, below the mean, besides being remarkable for the general poorness of colour and abundance of stained samples. The better aspect of the matter is the satis- factory malting properties of the crop whatever the more or less fancy element of colour is not involved. The maize trade has also improved in tone, though the large Americau surplus prevents prices being quoted at anything above the most moderate value. Sale of oaAs have not been so easy to effect as holders had hoped the mild season tells with especial force against a grain which is fed with freedom to horses in frosty winters when generous diet is neoessary. Beans and p#« are substantially unaltered for home produce, but Egyptian beans are quite a shilling per qr. lower than a week ago. Mark Lan. Express. E=:== f' „„ t); J

itlnrkci llmrrts, I n1 CORN AVERAGES. For the weekending January 19th. The following pre the quantities sold and the prices this year and last year:— QUANTITIES SOLD. VETOES. This yeas*. Last year. This year. Last rear Wheat. 62,359.„ El.699 80s. 2d 80s. "lid Sarlev. 113,923. 83,783 27s. 04 30a 2d Oats. 10,809™ 9,275 16s. 4d 16ig. Id CORN, æG. LONDON. Monday,—Miserable weather kept the raarkvit attendance small, and business was in langnish- ing conditioa. English wheat sold very slowly at 6d decline on all but the finer samples. Foreign wheat was fairly steady for Indian and Russian, but was a weaker market for American sorts. FlouT was neglected at nominally form-li, quotations. Maize was a trifle I steadier ivom a week ago, especially for roand corn. I Ikrley was steady, both for malting and feeding qualities. There is some much wanted good malting I barley now oa its way from California. Beans and peas were a weak poor trade. Oats sold slowly at previous »-ate3. CURRENT JPHIC3S OF GRAIN- S. a. 8. a. Wheat (red) 28 to 42 .white 80 44 Barley (grinding) 22 to 26.(malting) 26 42. Malt, English (new) 84 44 Oats, English feed IS 23 Jans, English (Msaagan) 26 38 Peas,white boilers (English) 30 83 (Canadian) 29 31 Maisse, Flour, best Town Whites, per 2SO lbs, 308 to 81a. LIVERPOOL CORN, Tuesday.—Wheat Canadian 03 0d. to Os. 01; Oregon, 03. Od. to 0s. Od; Californian 78^-d. to Ss. QI; red winter, tis. 2d. to 7s lld;Chilian, 7s. 8d. to 7s. Sd Bombay, 7s. 7d. to 73. 8d. Wheat: dull trade at £ d under Friday's. Flour unchanged, i Maize moderate demand; old mixed American, 4s 4d to 0s. 0d. new, 4s. 0Jd. to 4s. Id. Round corn un- changed. B^aiis, peas, unchanged. Oats, more enquiry at previous rates. FRIDAY'S PRICES. s. d. s. d. American Wheat. ;V 100 8 3 to 8 5 Chilian Wheat, 100 lbs 77 7 9 Canadian Flour, r- 260 lbs 00 0 0 Grin(ling !OC lus 00 0 0 'English Oats. 100 lbs 00 0 0 Oatmeal, 100 lbs 00 0 0 Oana<5win Peas, 100 lbs 5 II 6 0 Egyptian Beans, qr 29 6 29 0 Indian Core, American new mixed 4 5§ 4 0; SHREWSBURY, Saturday.—This market was fairly attended. Wheat sold slowly at Id. per bushel1 reduction. Barley was quiet at last week's quotation. Quotations :— S. Q. (5. White Wheat, per 75 lbsi. 4 8 to 5 0 New ditto 00 0 0 Red ditto 44 4 8 New ditto 00 0 0 Barley (malting) per 10 lbs 4 0 5 0 (feeding) .„w; 36 8 9 Oata (white), per 2251bs 18 0 19 0 New ditto 12 0 13 6 Oatr, (black) 00 0 0 Peas 00 0 0 Beans, per 240 lbs 19 0 20 0 New do 14 6 15 6 BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—English wheat difficult to sell at last week'3 prices, but not quotably lower. Foreign wheat unaltered. Malting barley, common qualities 6d. held for Is. advance. Other! grain unaltered. BRISTOL. Thursday.—Wheat: Price firm for best qualities of foreign, but inferior neglected. English in fair supply, conditioa somewhat improved, and sells at. fully last week's prices. No alteration in malting barley. Grinding barley Is. more money asked. Flat maize barely maintains price. Ronnd maize scarce and rather higher. Outs unaltered. Flour at demand continues good at lata rates. CARMARTHEN, Sritarlay.-The supply of all kinds of srrain was small, and sold at, for wheat, from 35s. to 40.3 barley, 30s. to 32s white oats, 18s. to 20s; black ditto, 16s. to 18s. CA TTLE. 1 LONDON. Monday.—The total imports of foreign stock into London last k amounted to 16,653 bead, In the correspond in» period of last year we received I 9.692, in 1887, 8,062 in 1886, 6,923, and in 1885 5,457, head. At Liverpool were received 197 beasts from Boston, 944 besets from New York, and 190 beasts' from Philadelphia and at Southampton 3.beasts from I Jersey and Guernsey. Per SIb. sinking the offal. s. d. s. d Coarse aad inferior Beasts 2 6 to 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 0 4 0 Prime large Oxen "ø. 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots. &c 4 8 4 10 Coarae and inferior Sheep n 3 -6 4 6 Second quality ditto 40 52 Prime ooarse woolled ditto 5 8 6 2 Prime Southdown ditto 6 0 6 2\> Prime Southdown ditto 6 0 0 21, Lambs 0 0 0 0s Large coarse Calves 8 8 4 4 Prime small ditto 4 6 5 6 Large Hogs 2 6 3 6 Neat Small Porkers 3 6 3 10 BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday.—Beef realized 6d. to 7J.-I. per lb. mutton, 7W. \0 91d. vnal, 6d. to 8d. per lb.; lamb, Od. to 0.1 bacon pigs, 89. 9d. to 9s. Od. per score; sows, 7s. 3d. to 7s. 8d.; porkets, 9s. Od. to 9s. 6d. MISO ELLA NEO US. CARMARTHEN CHEESE, Saturday. A fair supply of cheese, which sold at late quotations, being from 20s to 23s per cwt., according to quality. CORK BUTTER, Saturday.—Firsts, 0003 seconds. 124s.; mediums. 115a thirds, 101s. Kegs-Firsts, 00s seconds, OO3 thirds, 00s. fourths, 86s. Mild- cured firkins—Superfine, 000s. fine, 000s.; mild, OOO3. Do. kegs—fine, 000s.; mild, 00. In market— 67 firkins. CARMARTHEN BUTTER, Saturday.—There was a large supply of cask butter at our market to-day, which sold at, for the finest quality, from Is. ll'1. to lB. 2d. per lb. Inferior sorts sold at from lid. to Is Od. per lh. Fresh market pound butter at Is. 3d. to Is. 5d. LONDON, PROVISIONS, Monday.—The arrivals last week from Xrelaud were 4,880 bales bacon, and from foreign ports 1,200 bales bacon. There was a steady bacon market last week, with comparatively light supplies, still the trade was not too good. Buyers found it more easy to operate, and in some cases at less money. The butter market was steady, with an extra- ordinary demand for under-priced goods, from 94s. to lOOa. Fine descriptions were weaker, and offering at less money. LONDON FOTATOES (Borough and Spitalfields), Monday.—There was a moderate supply of potatoes on sale. The trade was dull at the annexed prices Regents 60s. to 1203. per ton. Magnum bonums. 60s. to 115. Hebrons.. 60s. to 110s. „ Champions 50s. to 80s. „ Early roses 00s. to 00s. BRADFORD WOOL, Thursday,-The wool market to-day has a hopeful and confident tone, though business ia English and skin wools is still done with caution and for immediate consumption. Late prices are well maintained. The finer classes of wool are in steady demand, and prices hare a slightly hardening tendency. Botany wool and tops are in active request at late rates. Mohair and alpaca are in moderate demand. The yarn market is without appreciable alteration. Yarn merchants are buying small lots of various classes of yarn for export. There is no pre- ceptible change in prices. Owing to the marked firmness in wool, spinners are unable to yield concess- ions in price, and the firm attitude they maintain tends to check operations on the part of yarn merchants. A good business is doing in yarns produced from Botrtny wools, particularly for the home market, and prices are firmly maintained. Mohair yarns are also in good reqsest at late rates. The piece market is without chcssgs. Manufacturers continue well employed. HAY AND STRAW. WHITECHAPEL, Saturday—A large supply was am sale. The facade -was quiet at late prices. Prime dover, old, 120s to 144e ditto new, 80s to 110s inferior, 45s. to 75s. Prime meadow hay, o!d, 120.. to 130s.; ditto new, 80s. to 105s.; inferior, 30s. to 70s.; old straw, 4219 to 48a.; and ditto, new, 80s. to 44s. per load. l"r" .11.1!

ABERYSTWYTII. MONDAY.—Wheat (new), Os Od. (eld), 65 Od to 6s 3d 0 65 Ibs; barley, 3s. 9d. to 4s Od., sate, white, old, 2s. 9d. to 3s. Od, black, 2s. 6d. to 2o. 9d.; eggs, 16 per Is butter (salt) lid to Is. lb., fresh, is 21 to Is 3d.; fowls, 3s. 6d. to 5s. Od. 11 couple; chickens. Os. Od. to Os. Od. V couple; duoks, 4s. Od. to 5s. Od. iv couple geese, 58. Od to 6s. Od.; turkeys, Os. Od to Os Od each; old pota.toes,5 Od to Os Od per cwt.; new, Os. Od. to Os. Od. per cwt. NEWTOWN. TUESDAY. —Wheat, 16s Od to I ft. 6d per 240 lbs. barley. 41s. Sd to 5a. 6d iV 70lbs; oatr,, 17s 6d to 21s W 225 Ths; eggs, to 12for Is; butter, Is. to la 2d. per lb. fowls, 4s. Od. to 5s. Od. per eouple; ducks, 4s. 6d, to 6s. Od. per couple geese 5s. Od. to 7s. Od. each turkeys, Os. Od. to Os. each; potatoes, Is.$16 lbs. beef, 5d. to 7d. v<*rlb.; rautton, 6d. to 8d; veal, 8d. to Oti. pork, 7d. to 8d. lunb. 10d. WELSHPOOL, MoxDAY. -Whazt, 0s 0d. to Os. Od. 9? 75lbs.; barley, Oe. Od. to Os. Od. 70 lbs; cate, Os Od. to Os. Oct; eggs, 0 to 12 for a shilling butter, hI. 3d. to Is. 4d. 0 lb fowls, 4. Od. to 5s, 6d. 0 couple; ducks, 4s. 6d. to 6s. Od. t? couple geese, Ü8 Od to Os. Od. each: turkeys, Os. Od to Oe Od. each; potatoes, Os. Od. to 0s. Od. per 90 lbs. r JL

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH The Right Rev. Joshua Hughes, Lord Bishop of 81;. Asaph, dieO at Crieff, in Scotland, on Monday after- noon, after a lingering Illness. He arrived at the Drummond Araas Hotel, Crieff, in August last vear, in the course of a projected tour through Sootlond. He intended to spend only a few days in the town, but the day after his arrival he was sewed with paralysis, from the effects of which he never recovered. He had been quite helpless and in an unoonscious condition almost continuously since the seieure, and was unable even to sign the deed of resignation of his diocese. He was nursed throughout hit (ifrress by Mrs Hughes and the wattle of the family were preswit at the closing scene, which took pktee at twenty minutes to three o'clock on Monday afternowi. His lordship was in his 82nd you,. The Right Rev Tee-hue Hughes, D.D., Bishop of St Aouph, was, says "Men of the Time." born at Newport, Pembrokeshire, in 1807. He was educated at Cardigan and YsrfcrRd-meurig Schools, and subse- quently at St David's Oellege, Lampeter, under I>r Oilivant, the kte Bishop of Llandaff. Having taken orders, he began his ocreoc in the Church as curate to the late Archdeacon Hughes, of Aberystwyth, Sub- sequently he was promoted to the incumbency of St David's, Carmarthen, and soon afterward* to that of Abergwili (1637), in which p%rish the B,?shop of St David's resides. When there he rebuilt the parish church and restored the chapel of Llanfihangel- Wochwili. His popularity there, and the zeal and energy with which he laboured, induced the bishop to present him to the vicarage of Llandingat, near Llandovery, in 1846. There he restored tne parish church of Llandingat, and also that of Llanfair-y- begon, and also buSt two school ehapeh. He also became rural dean, surrogate, and proctor In convocation for the diocese of St David's. In March, 1870, he was nominated by Mr Gladstone to the see of St Asaph. Bhhop Hughes was an effective preacher both in English and Welsh. The funeral has been fixed for Friday (to-day). life remains will be interred on the west side of the cathedral yard, in a vault in which are the remains of the Bishop's step-daughters and his sons. By the death of the Bishop of St. Asaph a responsi- bility of no common order devolves on the advisers of the Crown. Within the last very few years the con- dition of the Welsh Church has come prominently before the English public, and the Liberation Society have made it one of their principal arguments for Disestablishment as a general principle. Mr GlAd. stone hm more than hinted that he should be prepared, if coo reelect, to treat the Church in Wales as he treated the Church in Ireland and no one in fact, can tell what serious issnee may depend upon the character and abilities of the Welsh Clergy and Episoopate during the remainder of this oentury. It is oertain that the Disestabliahment of the Church in Wales would be the signal for a renewed attack upoh the Church in England, under circumstances far more serious than any which have yet arisen. To fortify the National Church in that quarter of the Kingdom by every means at our disposal becomes, therefore, the imperative duty of all who have the will and the power to strengthen the arrangement between Cbnrch and State, which has existed for so many centuries, and been productive of such countless benefits. No more effectual means for attaining this result can be adopted than the selecting for the Welsh Sees men who possess the special qualifications for attracting and impressing the Welsh people. A great improvement has taken place in the system of appointing Welsh Bishops of late years but they are not even now all that the urgency of the oese requires, or all that is neoeeeary to silence the complaints and the innnendoa of the Nonconformists. The old theory, accepted £ by Mr Gladstone himself some six- teen or seventeen years ago, according t which the drepression of the Welsh j Church during the Eighteenth century was part of the deliberate policy adopted by the Hanoverian Government for alienating the people from the clergy, and thus extinguishing the remnants of Jaoobitiem which still lingered in the Principality, has been shown by later researches to be quite unfounded. But there can be no doubt at all that in these days no care what- ever was tsken to make the Church acceptable to the peasantry and that by the great poverty nnder which she laboured, due partly to the Reformation, partly to arrangements cf a later date which were distinctly scandalous, the disadvantages which she endured were greatly aggravated. In England, if the bishops were negligent, and the parish cleigy devoid of much spiritual enthusiasm, at least the services of the Church were duly performed, and were within reach of all who cared about them. There were resident clergymen, either curates or vicars, in most co entry parishes, ang nobody was driven to the Methodist chapel because there was no church to go to. But in Wales the state of things was very different, and in the scarcity of the churches and the poverty of the incumbents, we have the root of all Welsh Nonconformity. It increased and multiplied through sheer ignorance"of what the Church system was nnd it is only by bringing home to the minds of the people what it really is, and by incessant evangelical labour among the people of all clasts, that the mischief can ever be undone. What is wanted, then, in Wales are Bishops who will impress this necessity on their Clergy, and "take a lead in the good work themselves. Th Welsh are a people peculiarly «kec*«.th?o f "k, b-fliveo* rJ ment, imaginatian, ana L," ¡'ú L m^iiy be called the poetry of religion. It is useless to appeal to them in the sober, common-sense language of an ordinary village sermon. They require born preachers and orators, and active and indefatigable pastors. Church- men as well as Dissenters have a good deal to say on this subject. The Bishop of the Diocese should be the centre of a Mission. He should be one whom all alike are bound to lock up to with respect whether they agree with him or not. If the head of the Church in every Welsh diocese were universally recognised as the ablest man and the most eloquent preacher it contained the moral effect would be immense. It is for men of this stamp that the English Government must inquire whenever a Welsh bishopric becomes vacant. The power of addressing a congregation in fervid and glowing language is the one thing that the Welsh people understand and appreciate. Clergymen who can do so even now fill the village churches to Over., flowing. But it is net enough for a certain number of the parish clergy alone to possess the gift of rhetoric. It is the bishop that is talked about by the Welsh Nonconformists, whenever they fall into any discussion with a Churchman. The very best speakers and orators which the Ohurch of England can produce ought to be selected for these particular posts, and then one fertile sonroe of the reproaches levelled at the Church in Wales by Dissenting controversialists would be dried up. It is unnecessary to add that a Welsh bishop must understand the Welsh language. Nobodv nowadays disputes that point. But he must also understand the Welsh character and temperament, and be eble to produce a deep impression on them, when- ever he appears in public. A bishop of this kind, able to inspire his clergy with his own zeal, and to develop really good preaching both by example, pre- cept, and patronage, would, we are convinced, work a very great change ic the Welsh people in a compara- tively short time. Their Dissent, be it remembered, did not originate, I;ke English Dissent, ip opinion, but in necessity. The Welsh people never quarrelled with the doctrines and littirgy of the Church of Eogknd, but only with the want of them. The distinction is one that is too often lost sight of. If it were turned to good account by an episcopate and clergy such as we have described, thousands might be won back again to the Church who now help to swell the statistics of the Radicals, and to produce an appearance of strength which tar exceeds the reality. The great agent in the revival of the Welsh Church must, however, be the pulpit. The sermon is what the congregation are most deeply interested in, often expressing their approval or disapproval of the preachers' sentiments by all audible hum or groan. This is the religious temper to which the Church should address herself, and she may leave historical dissertation to the scholars and divines whose bisiness it is to disabuse the educated mind of England of oertain prejudices and delusions. That there is good hope of regaining for the Church the ground which she has lost in Wales can hardly be denied by any one acquainted with the writings of Colonel Bevan, or with the statistics and other evidence supplied, not only by Welsh Churchmen, but by Welsh Nonconformists aiso, and the representatives in the Press. The extraordinary activity of the Church of Fngland is now complained of by her -,Ci?ponent-B.i the result of it being seen- in the increasing proportion of Churchmen to all .other denominations, and in the growing number of candidates for confirmation by the Welsh Bishops. In fact, the rapidity with which the Church is extending herself, and bringing back the people to her fold, is now adduced by the Liberationist as one reason for Disestablishment. She has become a Pro- pagandist Church," and must, therefore, be chastised. Once she was said to deserve Disestablishment because she did so little. Now she deserves it because she does too much. Logic of that kind tells its own tale, and is a most enoouragmg sign for all friends of the Church. But to keep this progress alive, it is absolutely necessary that the Welsh Sees should be occupied by men of very exoeptiooal quahticatjcms, who are not to he found with- out being looked for. They alone, besides the personal influence to which we have already referred, can cement the ne"mzry organisation cf which all Church effort stands in need. We have not a word to say against the T present Bislwp2 They are doing, we believe, all that they can, all feat their health and strength permit of. | But to do the work tfcorenfehly, men of commanding ¡ abilities, great force of charaoter, and heart-stirring I eloquenee are required, men like Wilberforce, New- rctati, or Irving. If these met? are not to be obtained, then those who most resemble them should be chosen. At all events, it is desirable to see in the appointment to the vacant Bishopric some recognition and apprecia- I tion of the real wants of the Wels'r, Church. She wants money, and though, during the last twelve years, be- t ween two and three hundred new churches have been, I built, she still needs churches. She wants skilful and well-informed lecturers and writers, to expose to the l public eye the fallacies and misrepresentatkms of her I foes. But what she requires most of all are bishops I who can take a lead in the work now before her can I exhibit before the people those great qualities which men instinctively worship, that noble faculty of oratory -which is especially powerful with an emotional people ;like the Welsh, and that lofty character in general., which proclaims tbe true leader of man, which dignifies |even religion, and puts infidelity to shame.—Standard. « o —

I SERIOUS CHARGE OF EMBEZZLE- | MENT. At the Guildhall Police-court, London, on Tuesday, Edward Brown, 47, of Moss-bank, North Finchiey, I clerk, formerly in the employ of Messrs Witherby and Co., law stationers, of Cornhill, was agam brought be- I fore the Com-Ii charged on remand with embezzlement. —It ws stated on the last occasion that the accused, whose name was not Brown but Huddleston, had been in the prosecutor's employ for óobout twenty years, and 6 ixring that time every confidence had been piaced in him. During the past eight years he had been em- powered to sign the firm's cheques for business pur- poses, and had taken opportunities of drawing them for his own use, and to cover the drawings he had falsified the books. The warrant upon which he was arrested charged him with embezzling three sums— £ 27 h., C-15 Is., and f31 7s. C)fl.. but he had confessed to stealing about 95,000, adding, "I have destroyed every trace, so you will never find out how I worked." From tiiv defendant's private books and papers, which Detectrve-sergeant Fluister had seized, it was discovered that he bwd been in correspondence with a lady in Wales, and had promised to marry her, although he was a married man.—Mr Richards, who prosecuted, thought that if that lady attended some light might be thrown on the case. On that the accused was re- manded.On Tuesday afternoon Mr Payne, who now prosecuted, stated-that since the remand the books of the firm had been carefully examined, and deficiencies to the large amount of £ 10,000 had been discovered.- After the evidence which was adduced on the last oooasion had been read over, Mr Witherby gave evi- denoe as to the falsification of the books,which,he said, were in a very confused state, the accused having entered goods as received whereas no such goods had bee* received or paid for.—Mary Goddett, a lodging- house keeper, of 55, Marine-terrace, Aberystwyth, was theu called to prove that she had received money from the prisoner which the prosecution alleged was stoleD from the prosecutor.—Mr St. John Wontner objected to the evidence, as it was perfectly impossible for the lady to trace banknotes of which even the prosecutors knew nothing.—Mr Alderman Hart then adjourned the ease, in order that the charge of falsification of accounts might be brought before him in a more complete manner than it now was.

GoUT.-Rightly or wrongly the Medical Profession eem to be pretty well agreed that where stimulants are necessary the best drink for those who suffer from, or are threatened with gout, is good Whisky, thoroughly matured and plentifully diluted with some reliable mineral or potass water. This will go a lung wdy to explain not only the popularity of the article named, and its increased consumption, but also the weftt competition which exists amongst the principal Wine Merchants in the gale of Whisky. As an ilius- fcpwwon of the keenness of this competition we may state: that one of the largest and best-known firm—W. A. Gilbey—-lately purchased one of the celebrated Scotch- Discill«ries in the Glenlivet district named Glen-Spey,so as to acquire the exclusive distillation and sale of this article direct from the distillery through their various depdts. Fortunately the public, as usual, are the gainers by this race" for trade, for certainly none but reliable fbrands now find purchasers. Our attention has been called to this fact on the ground that medical mm are particularly interested m' knowing what brands 00 recommend to their patients as supplyicg an alcoholic beverage which fulfils the above necessary conditions osjder the guarantee of a reliable house. Whisky and l^fcass, however,* although they may constitute the IJfest drink for tnejjgouty will not cure gout, and it yet IJfest drink for tnejjgouty will not cure gout, and it yet remains for science to find a remedy for that once fashionable but now very universal malady—indeed acidity of the blood is beyond all doubt the iilness of the j pfSgsent generation, and must result in some way from t mode of living. -Metlical Pras, Sept. 26th, ?88.

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