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LONDON AND PROVINCIAL BANK. In the report of the London and Provincial Bank directors for the half-year ended June 30, the directors state that the gross profits for the half-year after making provision for bad and doubtful debts, and in- cluding the amount, brought forward from last account are £154,1.94 12s. 4d. and after deducting all current expenses, income-tax, directors' remuneration,auditors' fees aud interest to customers, there remains a balance of f,64,005 4s. lOd. The directors recommended that this amount be appropriated in the following manner, namely, £ 31, 875 to the payment of a dividend at the rate of 16 per cent. per annum, free of income-tix £ 10,000 to reduction of freehold and leasehold premises account and to extinguish furniture and fittings account £2,000 to officer's pension and gratuity fund, F,6, 260 1 Is 9d. to rebate on bills, £ 13,869 13s. Id. carried forward. In pursuance of the intimation given the last half-yearly report to the shareholders, and in exercise of the powers contained in the article of associa- tion, the board issued pro rata to the shareholders 10,000 new shares of £10 each with;C5 paid, raising the paid-up capital to £ 450,000. The premiums received on the new shares, amounting to £ 100,677 10s., have been appropriated as follows £50,000 to the reserve fund, increasing that fund to 9450,000 (invested in Consuls), C42,382 9s. 8d. to writing down the bank's entire holding of Consuls and New Two-and-a-Half per Cents, to 90, and the remaining 9-8,295 Os. 4d. to the Officers' Pension and Gratuity Fund. Branches have been opened at Hornsey and Bermondsey.

Observatory Street, St Giles, Oxford, Messrs Reckitts & Sons, limited. Gentlemen, I have been a Collar Laundress for more than fourteen years, and ha ve ued all kinds of Blue, but consider none equal to your PARIS BLUE. It imparts to the articles a rich tint, the pro- perty other Blues do not seem to possess. I think if once tried it would always be used.—Yours truly, i ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

ABERAYROIV MRS LEWIS' JUBILEE.—As testifying further to the interest taken by the public in this celebration, it may not be out of place to mention that 304 copies of the Cambrian News containing the report of the pro- ceedings were sold. A S-Y.AL.-WIIE-n the Sciue net was being drawn on Wednesday afternoon, a large seal appeared just out- side the outer fringe of the net. It stood up shoulder high out of the water for a considerable time, and it seemed to be ruefully glancing at the tackle which men had devised to deprive the ocean and its occupants of their rightful spoil. Not without reason did it do so for the net brought to shore a magnificent haul of right royal fish. Quite half a dozen out of the dozen and a half muat have been about twelve pounds each in weight. To the angler and sportsman it looked like destruction, but to the man of the world it meant nothing more than a successful industrv. I SALMON.—-The possible resources of the river may be estimated from the fact that on Tuesday morning 25 salmon were caught by the seine net which weighed ISOlbs. On Wednesday morning eight alone of the Salmon caught averaged about fourteen pounds. THE. INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.-On Tuesday night a numerously attended meeting of townspeople was held at the Town Hall. The meeting bad been carefully convened by the secretary, Mr L. J. Roberts,. B.A., and its object was to consider the present position of the movement to erect an intermediate school building atAberayron. Dr Davies was ele ;ted> chairman instead of the Rev W. O. Edwards, who had written to say that he wished to be excused, Mr J. M. Howell was elected vice-chairman of the organizing Committee and Mr B. C. Jone.,3, clerk to the guardians, was elected financial secretary. These, in addition to Mr L. J. Roberts, who has made a most energetic secretary, and Mr Munroe Hughes, whose duties as treasurer have hardly commenced but which will, it is hoped, he onerous in a snort time, are the present officers of the local organizing committee. The number of the com- mittee was largely increased, and gentlemen from the various localities comprised within the district, which, the Aberayron school is destined to provide for, were elected members of the organizing committee, subject, of course, to their acceptance of the invitation. It was decided that the general committee be convened at an early date to elect a working committee to whom will be delegated the collecting of the promised subscrip- tions and of augmenting the subscription list to £1500, the minimum sum required by the Joint Education Committee to be provided by the locality. Portions of the scheme formulated by the Joint Education Com- mittee were read and explained by the Secretary, and a general discussion took place. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. CONCERT.—A grand concert was held at the Town Hall, Aberayron, on Friday evening, July 24th, in aid of a fund to defray the expenses of the local male voice party which is now being trained to take part in the competition at New Quay eisteddfod. Although the nucleus of the party is at Aberayron there are sub- sections at New Quay, Llanarth, Mydroilyn, Dihewid, etc., and inasmuch as to meet for practice entails expense, it was decided to hold a concert with the view of defraying that expense. Although neither posters nor programmes were printed the hall was filled, and to quote a "society" phrase, it may be correctly added that I- everybody was there and were thoroughly pleased with the performances. The pro- gramme was as follows Address by the chairman, (Mr J. M. Howell); Fife quartette, "Let the hills resound, Mr Edwards, National school and party song, The Lifeboat," Mr J. R. Phillips song, "The Angel's promise," Miss Agnes Davies. London House song, The Whaler's yarn," Mr Tom Timothy, New Quay; song, "Love's golden dream," Mrs D. O. Rees, Naw Quay recitation, The Star of Bethlehem," Miss Olive Jones;song. "Y tairfordaith,IrG. Ivor Davies, New Quay song, Yr esgid ar y traeth," Miss Kate Jones song, Neges y blodeuyn," Miss Nettie M. Davies, New Quay recitation, "The old armchair," Miss Olive Jones song, Anwyl yw Gwalia, etc," Mr D. O. Rees, New Quay song, Hunting song," Mr Munro Hughes, the audience joining heartily in the chorus; srmg, Roedd mam a'i baban," Miss Agnes Davies song. Ora pro nobis," Miss H. M. Davies catch, Mr J. T. Edwards and party chorus. Wyr Philistia," male voice party conducted by Mr J. R. Phillips song. "Gyda'r wawr," Mrs D. O. Rees; comic 8m, Mr A. Lloyd Rees, Llanarth. Mr Rees has inherited some of the natural aptitude of his father for comic song rendering, but he has yet much to acquire in order to unable him to acquit himself with that unique nonchalance and grace which made his father so much of a favourite. Notwithstanding, Mr Lloyd Rees did very well, and he well deserved the re-call; finale, God save the Queen," the solos taken by Miss H. M. Davies. The accompanists were Mrs T. Z. Jones, Mrs D. 0. Res, New Quay, Mrs Munro Hughes, Miss Maggie Davies, London House and Miss Griffiths, Old Bank. The Cnairmau expressed the thanks of all concerned in the success of the concert, to the New Quay friends and wished that the friendly intercourse which had been brought about by the fusion of the sing- ers that night, should spread and permeate through the communities. The two places could do great things together. He trusted old misunderstandings and sus- picions would cease, and that that accidental meeting would be the beginning of a new era. A vote of thanks to the chairman was accorded on the proposal of Mr Munro Hughes.

ABERDO VTB\. PRINCIPAL ROBERTS.—Great satisfaction was evinced by the inhabitants of this place when the news reached here on Friday that Professor Roberts had been appointed principal of the Aberystwyth College. The new principal hails from Aberdovey, although the family afterwards removed to Towyn. On Tuesday afternoon a public meeting was held at the Literary Institute to consider how best to celebrate the event. It was unanimously decided to treat the children of the place to tea and cake on Friday, August 31st, and to hold a public meeting iu the evening. Principal Roberts will probably be present, and also Mr T. E. Ellis, the member for the county. Alderman Hughes Jones, J.P., will take the chair and the meeting will be non-political.

LOCAL LAW CASE. At the Chester Assizes on Wednesday, the 29th July, a case from Cycwyd, near Corwen, came before the Court. It was an action brought by Thomas Jones Lloyd. commercial traveller of Liverpool, and John Pitrce, geutleman,of Rhyl,against Lewis Thomas, of Siamberwen, near Cynwyd, Corwen, for the re- covery of an estate called Siamberwen Estate. The plaintiffs said that they were entitled to the estate under the will of one Margaret Ffoulkes, deceased. The defendant,Lewis Thomas, said that he was entitled to the same under the will of one Catherine Jones, deceased, who had lived in Siamberwen for over forty years. The plaintiffs alleged that Catherine Jones was not the owner and had no right to make a will over it. A large number of witnesses had been subpumed on both sides and the c&se was likely to take considerable time. Mr Marshall and Mr Bankes (instructed by' Messrs Herbert Lewis and Davies, Liverpool) appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr Bowen Rowlands, Q.C., and Mr Griffith Jones (instructed by Mr C. Millard, Dol- gelley) appeared for the defendant. Mr Marshall and Mr Griffith Jones mentioned to the Court that the parties through their solicitors had come to terms and asked the Court to make an order in the terms agreed upon, and an order was made accordingly. It is said the terms agreed upon were that the estate should be sold and that the plaintiffs should pay to the defend- ant a substantial sum including his costs.

A SHIPPING CASE. In the Admiralty Division on Saturday, before Sir C. Butt and Trinity Masters, a claim was heard for salvage services rendered by the steamship Morglay, (commxnded by Captain B. Hughes, York House, Borth,) to the British Peer in the Atlantic Ocean on the 14th, 15th and 16th March last. The Morglay, a ship of 1,525 tons, while on a voyage from South Wales to Marseilles, laden with coal, observed signals of distress from the British Peer, an iron sailing ship of 1,428 tons. With difficulty communication was estab- lished between the two vessels. The British Peer, it was found, had been in collision with another vessel. The towing was difficult and dangerous, both vessels pitching and rolling heavily. Ultimately, however, the British Peer was towed into Falmouth Harbour. Her value was £ 20,032 and that of the Morguay, i'10,000. The Court awarded 1:2,000 1:>'

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T, INDIVIDUALISM. H™ V "ave neither the desire nor—I hope—the presnnm- 1 of mterposing between your good .self and Mr h'Jcnl LN, ^rmVth yo,r Permission, I desire to d0 is to II tt 0 'mentions which I conceive to be fundamental to ben^n iv •7'U ? l'Utween individualist and Socialist, or h aU'I that much lar?el' Class> the n M>" first question has the relation sn-h ri^ht-^h au<i my second question to- turn. Contradictory aiLwera are*"?ven t° »hlimitin5 conf" the Socialist and the Individualist. \VhicheterUtnswe? be true, the other must be false. mciievei answei be mindanTbX? Ugh-1Mant0 S°Vereign over his Second question —Ought toe to be any limit to the exer- cise of man s sovereignty over his mind and body more than is absolutely requisite to the like exercised by CWCIT one e t ilf" hbcrty of ench limited alone by the like liberty of Ti™ 7 n9.one wil1 deny the important issues raised by thp dkimte f principlcs thcy their validity one may gradually proceed J "PPbcation of them to the numerous con- ciete problems to which you refer in your leader. Probably S3S-18 ^terestmg to the student of logic than the disputes m which we so frequently involve ourselves Hf'fi'111,1'! our arguments too rigorously from the intrusion of terms of doubtful significance. H i111ir my duty were I to omit expressing my thanU to you tor introducing the question of Individualism to the notice of your readers.—Sincerely, W. SIMPSON. Broomtield-road, run,„n, „ j. .Heaton Moor, Stockport. [Whether man to be sovereign over his own mind and +i?,J,1S|°nf? f)f those ""luestmns which is of less importance br>'V\T hetlier i;Kin is sovereign over his own mind and Doily. It a man had no relations and were born full grown and without all sorts of conditions, limitations, and influ- ences which control his mind and body during childhood. m'fu^ve mWitT hmi whit he is when he becomes a. that AsV 1'-a" °U"ht to bc this or tnat. As a matter of fact a man is just what he is made bv forces over which he has no control whatever.' TheSecond question is as little .to the Jpoint as is first— If man lived alone he might talk about the sovereignty of man i°Vtra^1S minw ar y" .'J'he point is that man does not live alone. He lives in relations and every relation limits him. The man who is first of all a child spends years of the most important period of his life subject to the will of others aud to laws that are not his own He em^r^es a creature of forces which he cannot control, and is "placed in conditions which he must obey. A man's own physical needs are imiieiative and cannot be ignored. He must run in ruts or be destroyed. He is one of millions, and his first concern is to save himself moment by moment from destruction. Man in relations is not sovereign overlhis own. mind and body, and whether he likes it or not, and whether it ought to be so or not he is fura-d to obey all sorts of laws, influences, and conditions for which he is in no sense respons- ible. The whole question to us seems to be on what terms each individual is to live in relation to other human beings, from whom his life is inseparable, and {how the greatest individual liberty is to be secured subject to those condi- tions of existence over which we have no possible control. JjCi. C.. J C r R^A!VD1)A<'H FISHERY BOARD. • ,VL small thank you to correct youu report of Sthe meet- ing ot the Dovey, JIawddach, and Glaslyn Fishery Board held at Barmouth on the Pith ,) nly, wherein my name appears several times as having taken part in the proceedings, and on saj ing things quite contrary to my views. The state of my n ?u .rT1'"1At "\eth.' meeting at all, and ( orM,L ,,l*Mnesv.- Yours faithfully, Leinm-s,, July -oth, 1891. DAVID EVA.VS. c tu X1VISAXCES ox THE TERRACE, w A Aberystwyth, The Queen of elsh watering places, is about the last place where anyone would expect to hnd nuisances, or where they ought to be allowed to exist; but there are nuisances here and the is number is increasing. First, there are the donkeys. The constant tramp of these animals up and down, and the noise made by the urchins following and beating them with sticks is, to say the least of it, very unpleasant both for visitors and residents. Then there are two stalls containing fruit, cakes, ginger beer, &c., an ice cream stall; and. of an e\ ening, men with baskets of oysters, toys, and bags of sweetmeats. Who is to blame for these nuisances.—I am, Sir, Ax OXLOOKKR. AMERICAN DEGREES. SIR,—It appears to me that you take much unnecessary interest in the matter of Mr Rees, Bronaut and his newly- acquired title. By giving the subject a place in your leading columns, you have given it an importance, in my mind, that it does not merit. ] n your last issue it appears as a discovery ot the truth of what you had previously hazarded, viz "A practical joke upon Mr Rees," and now it is declared to be a Hoax perpetrated by the wags of the village of Llan- granog. I think you should make proper inquiries of Mr Rees, or of me or of several others who could have enlight- ened you before making a public show of the Rev gentleman, and dragging the name of a noted village through the mire. As one that had a little to do with procuring this title for Mr Rees, I beg to be allowed to inform your readers, that it was not a Hoax and that it was not a Practical joke." He was presented at Llangranog with a genuine diploma from an educational establishment in Amerioa. The matter printed and lithographed in an expensive manner, which was much too costly for the villagers to get up for a Practical joke." Besides, it had the seal of the lioveniur, and Secre- tary of Records, which every reasonable man will own that we could not possibly obtain for our joke." Besides that again, there are the signatures of those two gentlemen attached to it, which every one will own we would not l>e such fools as to forge. I am quite willing to give the history of this little transaction from beginning to end if anyone will undertake to give the history of the other doctors from Mr Saunders up through Cynddylan aud Mr Dickens Lewis, Mr Herher Evans and Mr John Thomas to the highest American Welsh doctor, Mr Owen Thomas. Allow me in conclusion to say that Mr Rees by his inces- sant labour and industry well merits the little distinction given to him amongst his less useful compeers. DAVID <TRIKI-ITH.-<, T Nantypark, July -oth, ISill. Llangranog. [The Editor of the Dri/ek says there is no such institution in Buffalo as is said to have given Mr Rees two degrees. We believe this is a most important question, and we trust our correspondent will give the history of this transaction We wish it were possible to obtain the history of every American bogus degi-ee.ED. C..V. | DIRTY WORK. Siiz,-The other day I went to the House of Commons and heard the Welsh members talking. These men make no impression, they are merely tolerated in a o-ood natured poor-fool sort of mumer. The member lor Merioneth actually begged pardon for putting t«o questions one putt after the other Now, is this the kind of man we want V It is very easy to talk boldly to your constituents, but it is difficult being bold in Parlia- mcnt. I should like to see a little more of the Cardiganshire I element in the House the .Sammy Breeze style of man Vho hegs no pardons." We shall never be respected until we are feared, and until we are feared they will not even listen. And to be respected we must respect ourselves. Is there nobody in our own county fit to represent us? A Welshman at Westminster is looked upon as a. fool as an Euglish. member said when another talkative man spoke "Oh I sup- pose he's another Welshman." The word is a word of derision. They are an amiable lot of gentlemen these members for Bunkum. 5'r" The,'e^ a. lot of dirty work wants doing. What of the lead mines of Cardiganshire, who cares about them >V hat of the shams and filth and fooleries in Wales who daro speak of them? These are the Jtwls cf our country, and who j to cast them out ours truly, HKXRY BOXSALL. Cwm, Aberystwyth, July 2!)th.

vort5 anb Jiltletics. CRICKER MACHYNLLETH V. BARMOUTH. Played at Barmouth, Saturday, July ISth, resulting in a win for the visitors. Score :— MACHYXLLETH. W. M'Pherson, b E. Davies 5 W. Roberts-Williams, run out 10 E. McMaster, b Janson 3 N. LI. Jones, c Janson, b Davies. 9 J. G. Martin, b Farrer. 5 R H. Williams, b Farrer 4 P. Vaughan, b Davies a G. Griffiths, run out 6 A Edwards. I.b.w, b Farrer 5. H, Lewis, not out S O. Arthur, b Farrer S Extras 20 Total 88 BARMOUTH. F. W. Janson, c Vaughan, b LI Jones 12 C. Gardiner, c Martin, b McMaster 19 S. Teddbutt, c McPherson, b LJ. Jones 0 E. Davies, b Vaughan 8 H. C. Mason, c W. R. Williams, b McMaster Q E. Mor ris, run out -j W. H. Jones, b McMaster Q T. Pughe, not out 3 H. R. E. Farrer. run out 6 T. Edmunds, c Vaughan, b McMaster 3 J. Evans, b LI. Jones. 0 Extras 9 j* Total gg

§ixthsf <4ftitrrtagcs, anb graths. N^Ukenticat!nntSf °f mama3cs «''« inserted without sufficient on, for want of which announcements to us arc r A charge of Is., paid in advance is mado j e word6' JVo Cards," <fce., in marriages, and an addition to the simple record of deaths. MARRIAGES. HUMPHREYS—OWEN*—July 29th, at the Welsh Calvin- inistic Methodist Chapel, Princess-road, Liverpool, by the Rev John Davies, Bontddu, supported by the Rev John Roberts, Huyton Quarry, the Rev Edward V. Humphreys, Bontddu, to Mary A, Owen, Gareg- lwyd, Barmouth. DSATHS. HoMFRAY—July 23rd, at Portmadoc, George Homfray, aged 29 years. THOMAS—July 26th, at Llysteg, Aberystwyth, Mr Meurig Thomas, agei 24 years. ROBERTS—July 23rd, at Tuhwntirbwlc'i, Portmadoc. Dr Robert Roberts.

¡ ABERYSTWYTH. SCHOLASTIC.—M. Ellis, a pupil at the Grammai School (R. A. Pope, M.A.; has obtained a second class certificate of the College of Preceptors. SilipplN(:. --Last Saturday the barque Viking arrived from New Richmond, America, with a careo of spruce deals and other timber for Messrs R. Rubuts and Sons She uas tow ed in by the s.t. Countess of Lisburne. She is a Norwegian vessel, sailed on the 17th June and ran short of some provisions on reaching Cardigan Bay SALE OF A -The vessel, Eleanor Thomas, of Aberystwyth, was sold last week at Goole. (Yorks,) for £ 425. The owner is Mrs Ann Jones, Richmond House. Messrs Smith, Owen, and Davies represented the mortgagee and atten(led the sale. SHORTILAN.D.Ilr David J. Davies of Wan llyn, Trisant, has passed the first examination entitling him to Mr Pitman's certificate. Mr Davies is now em- ployed as clerk by Mr Griffith Williams, Timber Mer- chant. VOLUNTEERS.—The Shropshire Volunteers will ar- rive at Aberystwyth, on Saturday night and will en- camp on the Plascrug Meadows. The Wem, Whit- church and Oswestry corps will arrive about six o'clock on Saturday evening, and the Hadnet, Market Dray- ton and Wellington contingents at 1. 50. on Sunday morning. SURCHARGES.—The Rev Llewelyn Edwards and Mr D. C. Roberts, members of the County Council, have been surcharged in respect of payments made to Aber- ystwyth Guardians on account of pauper lunatics and to the late Chief Constable Evans. The amount in the latter case is f-73. Miss F. E. Ankers, daughter of Mrs Ankers, matron of the Infirmary, has passed the examination and obtained the Diploma of the Obstetrical Society of London. Miss Ankers is now certificated to act as medical, surgical and mid-wifery nurse and intends to settle in Aberystwyth. U-NTUERSITY COT-LECE Or WALES, ABERYSTWYTH.— Mr W Jones, Ashted Row, Birmingham, has sent a letter to Principal Edwards to inform him that he will subscribe £1,000 towards the Restoration Fund of the College. Mr J. Deffett Francis, of Swansea, has pre- sented the College with three valuable steel engravings 5 in handsome oak frames with gilded borders. 0 ATHLETICS.—Next Wednesday an athletic festival will be held at Aberystwyth. THE PARISH CHURCH.—A grant of E200 towards the building of the new St. Michael's Church has been made by the Church Extension Society, ENGLISH WESLEYANISM.—The Rev Lile Stone will succeed the Rev T. Wynne Jones as pastor of the English Wesleyan Church in Queen's-road. THE LIFKBOAT.—On Wednesday afternoon, the Aberystwyth lifeboat was taken out for the exercise of the crew in the presence of a large number of visitors and residents. Some of the men jumped overboard and swain ashore. PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL.—On Tuesday evening at the National schools, the Rev Lloyd Williams ad- dressed a meeting on behalf of the society for the Pro- pagation of the Gospel. The Vicar of St. Michael's the Rev J. H. Protberoe, presided. LADIES ORCHESTRA. -A pleasing and varied enter- tainment is given each evening in the Hall in Terrace- road by the Ladies Orchestra. The programme includes concerted instrumental pieces and solos; vocal solos, duets and trios, recitations, &c. EDUCATIONAL. Of the three 910 bursaries at Dumfries Academy, the first has been awarded to Edward Rowland Jones, Milton House, Llanbadarn- road, Aberystwyth, by the governors of Dumfries Educational Trust. SALMON.—During the past three weeks the catches of salmon in the Rivers Tivy, Aeron and Dovey have been exceptionally large. Mr Saycell, fishmonger, North-parade, has received immense supplies and has sold salmon at 9d per lb. during the past week. Owing to the low prices at which he has offered the fish, Mr Saycell has been able to sell large quantities during the past fortnight or three weeks. MARITIME SUCCESS.—Mr Richard Lewis Daniel. native of Borth, and son of Capt Daniel, Barque Bertie," now residing at 15, Portland-street, Aber- ystwyth, has successfully passed the recent examina- tion held by the Board of Trade for Extra-mastership. Mr Daniel has only just attained his twenty-third year, and this distinction reflects very creditably on him. He is the only one of his age, who has gained such high distinction in this neighbourhood. ECCLESIASTICAL.—The Rev Mr Roderick Cockett, Swansea, the well-known Welsh preacher, who has been staying at Aberystwyth for the past fortnight, preached an eloquent extempore sermon last Sunday in Llanbadarn Church on the words Onid oes balm yu Gilead ?" It vas known that the rev gentleman was going to preach and there was a large congrega- tion. CONCERT.—An evening concert will be given on Saturday in aid of the organ fund of Trinity Church, when Viscountess Parker and other distinguished amateurs will give a selection of vocal and instrumental music. PERSONAL.—Mr Morgan, who was recently injured while shunting at the harbour siding and had to have his leg amputated, has this week left the Infirmary, the operation having been performed with successful results. While in the Infirmary the patient had to undergo a second operation of a dangerous nature which was also successfully performed. OBITUARY. — On Sunday morning, Mr Meurig Thomas, eldest son of Mr Thomas Thomas, Llysteg, died at the age of twenty-four after an illness extending over eighteen months. The cause of death was consumption. The deceased assisted his father while in business in Great Darkgate-street and succeeded him, but subsequently retired. He was a member of the Welsh Congregational Church in Baker- street, where he acted as organist for many years and filled the office of secretary to the Sunday School. He was also secretary to the Junior Radical Club. The body will be buried at the Aberystwyth Cemetery this (Friday) afternoon, the Rev Job Miles and the Rev T. A. Penry officiating. WELSH FANCY FAIR.—The Fancy Fair in the Queen's Hotel Assembly Rooms on behalf of the building fund of S.S Michael and All Angel's Church, will be held on Monday and Tuesday next. The Colonel and Officers of the 2nd Shropshire Volunteers, who will then be in camp here, have kindly promised to patronise the fair, at which national costumes will be worn. A good attendance may well be expected. THEATRICAL COMPANY.—Mr Charles Hermann and his excellent company increase in popularity as the season progresses. This week began with Check- mate," a farcical comedy which gave Mrs Hermann an opportunity of displaying her powers as a comedienne, and well she acquitted herself. Last night the American drama The poor of New York was produced when Mr Hermann by his humorous impersonation of Badger carried through a successful performance. With the limited space at his command Mr Hermann and his resident artist gives excellent effect to stage display. As will be seen by our advertising columns next week the ever popular East Lynne," will be placed on the boards for the first three nights, to be followed by a special adaption of Ouidla's celebrated novel Moths." Visitors can always spend a pleasant evening with this clever and refined company. ATHLETIC FESTIVAL.—At the Athletic Festival to be held on August 5th there will be a grand display of fireworks by Messrs Brock and Co., London. The programme is an exceedingly good one and the display will be the best that has been given in Aberystwyth for many years. The prizes to be given to the suc- cessful competitors at the sports are now on view at Messrs Wheatleys', Terrace-road.

t lüe cenms rertUllô of France show just the same ten "IcY of population to leave the rural districts Stat ^0VVD* as '8 shown in England, the United incr ^ustra^'a' auc* other parts of trie world. The jj0^easa ilfr'Ouats to 208,584 in five years and is chit fly j>a^.C"d^e 'n the large towns and the suburbs of Onl »*' an^ *3 sPrea<^ over tweuty-eight departments j0 ^tfty-riiDe departments show a decrease of (H8jUia"011' tn's noticeable specially in the ru;ul ,ric^8. Sooner or later something must be done V^ers to induce the people to remain on *id thirty years ago landowners who got $ejv° 'tourers from their estates considered theni- 08 be somewhat clever. Cleverness in a short lab testfcd by successful efforts to bring °Urers from towns into the country. rovincial Editor received an intimation from 'ue k°n(^0D> Chatham, and Dover Railway that (>0nrt.kVf"^e^ers will iu future be conveyed only on *0 l°A of the full postage being paid, ia addition Can C ordinary cairiage rate. This intimation Sed the Secretary to the Newspaper Society to ln<iuiries into the intentions of that Depart- that '• an^ ^las receive<l a letter which says lt is not the intention of the Department, f0[ *^e 'lew arrangements which have been made e conveyance of single post letters by railway, rohibit or interfere with the transmission by a3' Companies of packets containing news for- Pan by newspaper correspondents to the news- \f0 ,s ^or publication. This is satisfactory, but it C}j ^e interesting to know how the London, c0h aill» aQd Dover Railway Company reached the t>a,r 1Slon ^^at postage was to be charged on news ^oU](jS' know, of course, that Mr RAIKES kuev?. Very much like to abolish newspapers if he how the thing could be done. SoQ^ CARRXXGTON has been making a speech in Bucks in favour of the candi- 4^ °f the Liberal candidate, Mr opetJ. °NY H. HAWKINS. Lord CARRINGTON in his affi rmed that he had come back tk. Sonth Wales a better Liberal than ever, thethat was because for five years he had lived in ^'berally-minded community that the world *«ive hal ever seen. In Australia they had suffrage, triennial Parliaments, no State ^ree education. On Sundays all the museums °Pen and all the public houses were shut, f aQs^er aQ(l sale of land was easy and cheap, ht tItles could be registered for a very small sum. ^j^68u^ of that was that small plots of land were avallable and obtainable by the artisan classes. 1l:oll great thing in Australia is that there is no ti4a tlllble of Lords in that country. In Wales both houses and museums are supposed to be shut, ^6 d ? public houses are open to the traveller and r,oking person travels r8 Of the MARGARET ASHLEY has given some account >U p, P°sition and prospects of domestic servants $Jng].a/Ul^a- She is of opinion that a trained "it f co°k or housemaid would lose by going ° ^ana(la> because the additional work >U j., °f her, and the increased cost of clothing ^Sh iutensely Pr°tectionist country would out- 0ne advantages of higher wages. There is W lawback to emigration which Mrs ASHLEY ers i« never realised cave by those who have J* e^' Workiog men and women who come life a colony virtually break away from the old to altogether. They rarely get an opportunity back. They are bad correspondents, for babit of expressing themselves in ^ite Even if they make a steady effort to their English friends, their letters are less °tly answered for friends at home have other lIlotltlore pressing interests close at hand. Yet horne Settlers have a strong lcnging for the old ^ch' under such conditions, robs life of its brightness. It is their children v, ho ^°th' benefit, growing up with better food and O*' fresher air, and a good chance of rising in °r^" How is the poor emigrant, who has Sftto .zed out of this country, to work his way again ? The task ia an almost impossible P00r have vefy little margin, and any that entails a reserve of £ 5 is in millions of *>,0^ •'npoesible as if the reserve required were This is a fact that people who discuss the *Cc0u °n °f the industrial poor will not take into Mty The emigrant is transported, and almost s loses far more than he can possibly gain. lte ^e Purest sign that the days of the Government ^bered is beginning to appear in the papers, took 0tough Benches of magistrates are being He^ with Tory partizans ki view of the time Liberal LORD CHANCELLOR will pack the ^teses the Liberal interest Some new magis- have been made at Liverpool. At Aber- .c 1 every Tory, likely and unlikely, has been made V/^ate, but there are still a few waverers whose ^e support might be secured by being put on ber 'ornmission of the peace for the Borough. is almost as well off for magistrates $ee^ublie hoiises, but it is not always possible ^HiegCUre two justices to discharge the ordinary ^Sfee position. The magistrates will not to s. *° a rota because they might not then be able !Vrfo!0 cases in which a single vote might be We are waiting with interest to see the Sl: ot magistrates. ^elsh gold mining craze has almost died tSlie bUt we trust the people who believe or 6Ve 'n the craze will not imagine that the dic() g t0yalty demanded by the Crown on gold fi V 6re^ in Wales makes the difference between i°ss in Welsh gold .uining. More money Vn spent in getting gold in Merionethshire ku tbe gold is worth by many thousands of d' wbole thing from the first cau be as a wil^ speculation in which we "()lt(; 110 ^il^ves lost any money. Mr PRITCHARD fighting to deprive the public of their limited interest in the minerals of the ajj" ^hat have the people to say who think ° the c<^e minerab of the country ought to belong ^tata tkA lettpv. Ho s aPP9are(i iQ the papers stating that National Lifeboat Institution last year the 3-000 more than it received. This deficit Urai result of extravagance and waste. At al°ne during the past twenty years t to sums of money have been wasted in The lifeboat-slip for in&tance has cost P°uuds and is in cur opinion not worth "^t the present time another erection is °t;hi11 Ut UP at considerable cost that will add noei^ber to the beauty of the Aberystwyth usefulaess °f the Society. The Ssociation has had too much money to deal „ a i'ttle fctress will bring about much- econorrm l8*1 P°'icy pursued so long by railway >s, ag3 13 beginning to tell upon their own re- the ^Ve'l as upon the population and industries Peech COUntry. Sir E. W. WATKix, M.P., in his V, 'eld ° shareholders of the Manchester, Lincolnshire Railway Company, last j. aSit i|buted the unsatisfactory result of the the h-ear'3 workiag to the high pricc of coal Q^eriditUl!Sh rate of waSes having increased the r^61" tra]6' atU* t0 t^le c^ePres3'ori in the iron and oj G 'ftore68 ^av'ng 'njnriously affected the receipts, "j^'t^ea Population is massed in a few large great6 ^°r3e 't will be for railway companies. Se°'boaaim 'arM° manufacturers is to get to ^V-Q i,j so as to be independent of railways. js ^at-§e inland towns the competition for j^coVer eome of these days railways will ^.° <ieveia ^)es': way t° increase their returns Jit,0'0'1 they r"0' s^arve the distriots through I, the \T JU,U" "he Cambrian Railways Company ai6 t\y0 lic Jfster and Milford Railway Company, sho m^anieS We haVe in tllia disfcrict, have aeVeloPm^rnr the supremest contempt for the .,tl,e dis:riot- w« «. « tar fv.«n "» railway p0iicy, L One of the scandals of this age is clerical poverty. A Vicar has written a letter to a church paper on this subjecc, and in it he says that while owning to the full the hard lot of many of his brethren, and the impossibility in some cases of making both ends meet, he doubts whether the remedies most in vogue do not tend to perpetuate the existing state of things. Clergy pensions, clergy holidays, spiecia.! terms for the -oi.s of clergy, are all of theni of the nature of doles, and cannot fail to undermine the self-respect of the recipients, and also to lessen the responsibility which every congregation ought to bear for the adequate sustentation of its minister. The rich expect to be taken to heaven for nothing, that is the long and short of it, and until the Church of England is disestablished and disendowed we shall never hear the last of clerical poverty. Amongst the curiosities of advertising the follow- ing, taken from a London daily paper, is not a bad specimen W J.-Half.note received. Overwhelmed with thankfulness and astonishment. What an inscrutable but blessed mystery 1 So opportune. Half goes to Brother BENJAMIN'S children, whom I have to see to. He died Barcelona 1886. Oh, that I knew you !—J. K. J. Suppose J. K. J." never receives the other half of the note the mystery will still be more inscrutable and far less blessed. Perhaps Brother BENJAMIN" did not die at Barcelona and has woke up to a sense of his duty. Whatever the explanation is, we have here a glimpse of what appears like a poem from daily life, which is not by any means the dull mill-horse round it is often represented to be. The people who are always talking about the national salvation that would immediately result if men could be allowed to settle freely upon the land refuse to look at the fact that the first object a young man aims at is to get away from the land and its monotonous, hopeless, ill-paid drudgery. The labourer at fifteen years of age will be a labourer at seventy, and there is no alternative but the workhouse. In towns there is a chanae of pro- motion, but in the country there are only so many farms, and once a labourer always a labouier is the rule. The chance of fortune that towns offer is irresistible, and it is useless to say that life in the country is on the whole cleaner than life in towns. It is progress that the young desire, and so they leave the rural districts and take any employment, however dangerous and precarious, that emancipates them from drudgery. In the old times it used to be the boast of Welsh Members of Parliament that they did not make things uncomfortable for governments, and every now and then they were complimented on their silence in the House and on their willingness to assist in the work of legislation for other parts of the United Kingdon, In these days a different spirit is abroad and V7elsh Members bring in Bills and insist that Wales shall not be ignored. The first stage in the awakening of the Welsh Mem- bers was the question stage. That has been passed and now Bills are brought in embodying the wishes of the Welsh people. At the next election the inhabitants of the Principality will make their representatives understand that even the present measure of activity is not satisfactory. Wales has many needs and they must be attended to even at the cost of personal inconvenience. The Bishop of BA(;oR has been again speaking on Welsh Intermediate Education and what he says deserves attention. At the distribution of prizes at Beaumaris Grammar School last week the BisHop said He agreed with the principle that it was a duty to bringeducation within the reach of the mass of th0. people but were they doing this by establishing in Anglesey five schools instead of three good ones, for some of these five schools would degenerate into pure nonentities and have very little influence upon the lives of the rising generation in Anglesey. What he would like to see would be the inclusion in the Intermediate Education Act, or, if that was not feasible, the passing of another measure containing a clause empowering the joint committees or the county councils to graft upon the leading elementary schools—whether board or voluntary-a class or classes for higher grades, and then by the means of the three schools and such classes the educa- tional machinery would be perfect and its facili. ties within the reach of every boy and girl. He made that suggestion some time ago, and probably the reason why it had not been carried out was that he, and not someone else, was responsible for the recommendation. Every county should have at least one great leading school, around which the smaller schools should be grouped. The policy the joint committees seemed bent upon adopting was that of levelling down instead of elevating the schools to a higher standard, and to that policy he was bound by honour, by position, by past antecedents and present associations, to offer the most determined opposition." We have no doubt that in time the people will recognize the fact that great Inter- mediate Schools cannot be established in every village in Wales. The people who are clamouring most loudly for Intermediate Schools are in small places whose inhabitants have resisted the establish, ment of Board Schools and where nothing whatever has been done for education. As we have frequently tried to show. something of the kind suggested by the Bibhop of BANCOK is all that many places require, but is the Church of England prepared to assist in the establisment of School Boards in places where Boards are prevented by Church of England Schools ? The sub-editor of a Silesian newspaper has been coudemned to fourteen days' imprisonment on account of some disrespectful remarks he had published in reference to the Holy Coat at Treves. This relic is said to be a veritable seamless mantle worn by JESUS. In the year 1810 NAPOLEON the First assented to its being shown publicly for the second time, but in giving his sanction he added that the working of miracles" was to be forbidden on that occasion. The Coat is again to be exhibited, and on this occasion there is no NAPOLEON to forbid the working of miracles, and we suppose the wonders performed will be worthy of the occasion when, for the first time during the present generation, the Holy Coat of Treves is shortly to be publicly exhibited in that city. The mere announcement is already doing wonders for the tradespeople of the place, where an enormous number of visitors are expected to arrive from all directions of the compass. The Railway authorities, for example, have already had three new temporary stations erected, with spacious waiting and refreshment rooms. The local tramway companies have also laiddown two new sets of rails. As many as one thousand three hundred citizens have already petitioned the Town Council for licences to set up temporary beer saloons and public-houses for the accommodation of the pilgrims during the period of the fexhibition of the sacred garment. The last time it was exhibited was in 1S44, and on that occasion the mantle was reputed to have performed numerous wonders in restoring sick people to health. The approaching exhibition will be only the fourth time it will have been shown in the past three centuries, and the event is naturally awaited with the greatest interest by all good Catholics in Germany, and far beyond the irontiers of that Empire The Nonconformists of this district do not believe that the Holy Coat of Treves can work miracles, but are they themselves free from superstition. A corres- pondent in a daily paper says that the Holy Coat of Treves is not the only garment that has worked miracles. When he was :stationed with his vsgiment ftt Lahore in the year 1849, a fire broke out in the City, burning downing a number of houses, aud only stepped when it reached a house which was said to" cotuaiu a pair of the Prophet MoohumudV pyjamaH. The Roman Catholic Church I know a how ktiie people delight in the marvellous and sanctions miracles. r Mr W. MAOLAREN, M.P., said last week at a London drawing-room meeting, to further Women's Suffrage, that lie feared women would never get the franchise unless they were more earnest in pressing forward their demands. We have said for many years that Women's Suffrage is not to be won by drawing-room meetings and nice little speeches at five o'clock teas. Mr WALTER MACLAREX may depend upon it that the battlefor freedom is a rough- and-tumble business, and those who win it are otten draggled and bloody, and anything but fit objects for drawing rooms. The battle for the emancipa- tion of women will most assuredly not be won in drawing rooms, and we are glad to find that dear WALTER is making this discovery for himself. If women want to be free as men are free they must fight for freedom as men have fought for freedom. It is in prisons, on scaffolds, at barricades and in fierce conflict that freedom is won, and not at five o'clock teas, where fine ladies are told that they must really be more in earnest, don't you know.