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HERE AND THERE. The Prince of Wales cannot have enjoyed his Spec- tator and Saturday Review last Saturday. Both of them rate him unmercifully for the ridiculous part he played at Willis's Rooms, whtn the fictitious Knights lempiars and H.R.H. went through a series of mountebank per- formances and allowed a reporter to expose them to the world. The Spectator says "nothing more elaborately ludicrous has happened in England since Sim Tappertit ard his Prentice Knights," and "there cannot well be conceived anything more absurd than the mingled mum- mery and merryandrewism, tinged by a sort of sickening solemnity, of such procetdings." The Saturday, in an article'headed "Brummagem Chivalry," is still more severe-" We should think that most people who have taken the trouble to read the account of these proceed- ings must have teen struck by the extreme childishness and silliness of the whole affair, and must have been rather amazed that any men of education and intelligence could be found to take part in such an idiotic performance. An impromptu masquerade of this kind might be excusable enough as a bit of fun in a country house, just to amuse the children; but that grown-up men, men with beards to I their chins, fathers of families, should actually make elaborate DreDarations for such mummery, and should go through it solemnly and deliberately, and send for rep to come and glorify their tomfoolery, is really a astonishing as anything that could well happen. Life, as a philosopher baa observed, !S not all and sMtties and even hunting, races, pigeon shoo 1 ?' ,.t. being Templars does not exhaust its possibiluie.. It may strike some people perhaps as the oddest part of the affair that a real Prince should find any enjoyment in playing at being a sham Prior. It lias sometimes been regretted that the Heir-Apparent in this country should hive so narrow a sphere for public activity. He is necessarily ex- cludtd from politics, and it would probably be resented if he were to connect himself too closely with military affairs. Yet 1 eyond these limits there is ample ticope for a manly, elevated, and patriotic life. A Prince who allows himself to be associated in the public mind only with the pursuit of mere amusement, and that not of the highest and most intellectual kind, is obviously sacrificing a large measure of his legitimate influence." # # It is scarcely necessary to say that the Saturday Review is not satisfied with the Budget. -"flie highest praise which can be awarded to it is, that it might have been worse, although it is impossible to remit several mil- lions of taxation without doing some good." The Review thinks the best employment which could have been made of three and a half millions of surplus revenue would have been the removal of one half the Malt Duty, which is more objectionable than the sugar duty. An excise duty on a wholesome and nutritious article of con- sumption can only be defended on the ground of necessity. The Spectator says—" On the whole, the Budget, if not one of heroic Ministerial virtue, is likely to be popuar, and is certainly not unmindful of the nation o lg e duties. It leaves the means of reducing the-Natior.a t by £ 6,000,000 at least in the two years, besides discharging at once not less than half of what we owe to the United States. And 'for such creatures as we are, in such a world as the present,' that amount of virtuous effort is not wholly despicable." The folly of the Liberal party in not cultivating the friendship of the farmers is positively irritating. Sensible farmers must have discovered that the Tories cannot help them and a great opportunity will be lost if the Liberals, who are able to do much for the country through the agri- culturists, let the present opportunity slip. A weekly contemporary well says :—" We heartily hope that the Liberal county members will not prove to be more grudging than the Toiies in considering the reasonable demands of the tenant farmers. It has been far too much of a tradition with the Liberals, as we have repeatedly ur«ed to look to the rights and wishes of urban consti- tuencies only, in drawing up their party programmes. No nolicv can be blinder than this for the future. The opera- tion of the Ballot iu the great towns will assuredly be for the present to give a new chance to the Conservative candidates. Mr Disraeli seems to have really succeeded in reaching that residuum where prejudice is Tory rather than Liberal, and we shall undoubtedly lose in the boroughs at the next general election. But with the Ballot*we ought to gain greatly in the counties, if we are really prepared to be just to the tenant farmers. And in Mr Howard's and Mr Clare Read's Bill we find the point where the two roads meet, and where the Liberals must choose whether they are to carry a policy of reform throughout the country, or to leave to the Tories, who seem, at present at least, as fairly inclined as the Liberals to lead in this matter—Mr Disraeli educates well-tli3 glory of reconquering the counties for the Conservative interest." The authoress of "Joshua Davidson," writing to the Spectator, vindicates the Commune against its Pharisaical critics. Christ, she thinks, if he had lived in our days, would have demanded political equality and the rights of humanity. We in England believe ill of the Commune, but those who knew more of its roots and meaning HlW the Christ-like effort through all its crimes and blunders- not the Christ who paid ti ibute to Caesar because of the image and superscription on the penny, but the Christ who never failed to defend the poor, and to condemn their sccird superiors, because they oppressed them and lived on their hard earnings." Possibly the writer has missed some of the meanings of Christianity, but she is far too near the mark when she says-" Christians do not relish practical Christianity. It is easier to build churches which provide a comfortable subsistence for deserving younger sons than to do away with temptation to dishonesty by raisin- the iate of wi>ges than to make purity possible by hnildine better houses tor the poor, and furnishing them withb -tter appliances, at a larger outlay of capital and consequent smaller per-centage of interest; than to lessen disease and vice by arrangements which would secure good food and clothing, pure air and water, in return for the work of a man's life than to give our brutish brother the means of essential humanisation by giving him more time for education when he is young, for pleasant recreation when he is older, and for the cultivation of refinement in both taste and affection than to deprive ourselves of the superfluities, which are sapping our virtue and our strength, that we may give virtue and strength to those who are wanting in the elemental necessities of decent living. To say that the poor have the Gospel, and that this is enough for them, is an easy way of getting rid of these social diffi- culties. Class combination will perhaps do more to carry out the doctrines and the views of Christ." Let us hope a statement made by Mr Wynne, inspector of Mines for Shropshire, as reported m our last, has been noted by colliery propneto^. noticed that when men welfare of their men. h 3teadier than when "were paid we«kly they "paid fortni0™Saturday afternoon, as they then took the pit mouth onf, |, v went home first, and got "their wages home, but if tbej weni n then'wen»f0 washed before reviving their wa„es, y sockets the public-house with their■wage ible for There is little doubt that emplove« much ot the drunkenness p ioudly blamed by the men, for which the latter are |jfe is determined masters. The current of ™anO points out, a sober by very small causes as Mr Wynn *• » may depend home or*tipple 1 'Th. on the question of when and ^heretheY!?es Fturn the employer who knows this and neglects to 'try man current the right way—which is the guiltier, he misdirects ? "L. official cal'ing to th«f of his own salary is a spectac'Le for j a,ter almost universal scrambling alter mo J T?URV Vestry at Wrexham, on Monday, the clerk, Idr Bury, said his work bad been greatly reduced by the aboliti.,a of church rates, and he now received more than his set- vices deserved. Last year he had returned a considerable sum to the churchwardens, and he wanted the vestry to settle the matter; which they did by fixing a lower salary, such as the clerk considered a proper one. It would be well if a practice which obtains at the Easter "Vestry at Welshpool were observed in other parishes. The Vicar reads a statement of the Charity Fund re- ceived and distributed, and the parishioners have an op- portunity of obtaining information on the subject ana asking questions. In nany cases complete or almost complete ignorance prevails with regard to the chanties. We wonder how many ratepayers in Oswestry, for instance, know what charities belong to the town, or how the money is used ? We announced the other day that Dr Davies, medical officer of th" Wrexham Workhouse, had come to the con- clusion that stimulants were seldom necessary, and decided only to use them in the most extreme cases, and that, ac cording to the Master's report, the mortality had materially decreased since the new paitce was adopted. Dr R, we now learn, is tryirg tl e m plan at Ellesmere; where the results will be look, d for with considerable interest. It is impossible to generalize fro n (ne or two cases, but if the p'ai should jsuccted at E lesn ere and Wrexham, it will no doubt be tried in i t'ur places.
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POETRY. THE THREE WATCHWORDS. (From the Leisure Hour,) To watcn, to wait, to work; Ah, me the liery sun, The level, treeless, barren, dew-drained fields I would the Work was done To watch, to work, to wait; Ah, me tie tedious roar i,M Of wreck-strtwn oceans rooftd with som I would the Watch was o er To wait, to work, to watch Ah me! Thou absent Friend, Coinest Thou quickly? so Thou saidst, I would," The Waiting had an end My soul, be still and strong; Sight follows after faith. In all advancement of the true and good, He cometh as He saith. My soul, be still and strong; Here on thy Lord's estate No place is useless, no experience vain. Work on; Watch«n, and wait. ALFRED NORRIS.
QUIPS AND CRANKS.
QUIPS AND CRANKS. If a person has, by the negligence or default of a railway company, sustained incurable injuries, can he recover. No doubt of it; and, sure, the law in this poinc, if it does not, ought by all means to extend to Ireland. Punch. "Mamma, don't forget to ask papa about going to Brighton for a fortnight Hush, dear 1 I'm afraid it won't do You know how dreadfully the sea-side upsets papa for the first week always "Yes; but papa needn't come down till the second week, you know. — ^Ina'Scotch church recently, after the publication of the banns of marriage by the minister, a grave elder, m a sten- torian voice, forbade the banns between a certain couple. On being called upon for an explanation, "I had," he said, pointing to the intended bride, "I had intended Hannah for mvself." His reason was not considered sufficient Propsr definition of Man.—A clothes-prop.—^ww. A GOOD BEASON TOO.-Lucy: "Mamma, Charlie says he would like to be a clergyman!" Mamma: "Tell me, dear, why you would like to be a clergyman. ^harlie "Why, because then I could talk as much as I like in ChItrishsaid Sat the Digger Indians are never known to smile. They must be the original grave Diggers. A medical student of some promise defined the much- talked-of "foot-and-mouth disease" as a combination of chilblains and toothache. A Dan bury youth, who could not sing or play, wanting to serenade his lady-love, whistled for a half-hour under her window the other evening, and when he got over the fence he f und about seventy-five dogs waiting to see what he wanted.—American Paper. SMARTEST OF THE SMART.—An Irish process-server, pro- verbially smart even among that smart race, who had a writ to serve, hscertained that the defendant was dead. Tossing the summons over the wall of the cemctery. he made a return up III the writ that he had left the summons at the last and usual place of abode. A charitable lady sant one of her last year's dresses to a destitute woman. She was somewhat surprised to have it returned with the statement that it wis too full behind for the present style," and "would she ta'ce a breadth out and change the trimming." The man who cannot be happy unless his mother-in-law lives in the samo house with him, is not a resident in New York. He lives in Jersey city. He says she is the only woman who can tackle his wife success fully. They take up so much time in "jawing" each other that he has a peacz!ful life.-American Paper. CRUM AND CRDST.—There have been many arguments as to whether the Crom" in Cromwell shonld be pronounced Cram, and some old gentlemen have got crusty about it. A lecturer classifies his audience as follows The still- attentives," the "quick-responsives," the hard-to-lifts," the won't-applauds," and the get-up-and-go-outs." Overpaid 1^0 dollars on a cheque by a bank, the G-eorgian negro who received them at once returned the money. The local paper says this is another evidenca that the race never can he civilized. The Rev. Canon Woodford, who preached before the judges on circuit at Leeds, must surely be a wag. He selected for his text the words, A clond of witnesses," apparently without reflecting that the picture thus summoned up would be an appalling one to hia learned auditors. Fifteen or twenty "witnesses" often mean a wasted day, but a "cloud" of them would drive the sanest judge stark mad. A Califo.-nia widow lately went for a youth who had wooed and won her, but was disposed to coquette, with a pistol and a marriage license. She took a clergyman with her, who was ready to preach a funeral sermon or perform a marriage ceremony at the same price. The young man chose the latter. Captain of llural Volunteer Corps (calling over the roll): "George Hodge." (No answer.) "George Hodge—where on earth's G-eorge Hodge ?" Voice from the ranks Please, sir, he's turned Dissenter, and says fighting's wicked.— Punelt. The assistant executioner has just died her, probably from over-exertion for, though there are members of the Government averse to capital punishment, the guillotine has never been plied so briskly since the reign of tJrror as at present.-Pa?-i.-? Correspondent.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON'S WAR-N-INCT.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON'S WAR-N-INCT. We have been requested to publish the following from the AlVancc iVeifS :— Twenty years of hospital practice, very extensive admission into titled and opulent fai-nilies as professional adviser, and the reputation of one standing very high indeed amongst his brethren, give to Sir H. Thompson in his pie* for temperance—as contained in a. letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and published in most of the leading journals—a power and an authority of ext.raor- dinary importance. The plea, accordingly, has caused no S senLtion in the public mind. It has been> wide y and much talked about, and has already recei v.d ^fere^ till attention in leading articles of the public^ j f. What the Leeds Mercury says of it we reproduce in an"th^ co'umn. The Birmingham Daily Post is in bearing testimony to the importance of the plea, "Many men," it says, are fairly startled by it, and, we think not without reason. The tone of the letter, its ouietness, and the confidence of absolute knowledge with which it is written, are specially calculawed t > make an impression; and this is deepened by the profession of t ie writer, and by his eminent rank as a medical man. It i; no theorist or fanatical' teetotaler who gives a general warning on the evils of drinking; b.t a medical practi- tioner of European reputation, who speaks from long and intiinate observation, and who is irn pelled bythe highest possi- ble motive, a sense of duty, prompted by special know ted ge of the habit he condemns, and of the dangers which it en tails." The habit referred to is not what is commonly known as inebriation. It is against what is called very moderate drinking that Sir Henry Thompson issues his ad- monition. The following is a copy of Sir H. Thompson s letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury:— I have long had the conviction that there is no greater cause of evil, nioial and physical, in this country than iVifime of alcoholic beverages. I do not mean by this rhat extreme indulgence which produces drunkenness. VhP habitual use of fermented liquors to an extent far -hnrt of what is necessary to produce that condition, A.,1 fi quite common in all rank, of scc.ety, iniiirPa the l>o(ly ind dMnUta the mental power to an injures L r +v,;nk few people are aware of. ouch, at extent which I thl o{1 observation durine more than « s oi Toferional We devoted to hospital twentv Jearf Ui r nnptiVp in ev^rv rank above it. practice, .SibnSg a v.rv W ,jh,s have no hesitation in attribiitin, verv large proportion of some of the mo i well as those maladies which come un t to the ordinary and Which every medical man has to treat J wbir,h is conventionally deemed moderate. Whateyer may be moment, not^o be silent on a matter of such extreme importance. I know full well how unpalaiable 1S ™ truth, and how such a declaration brings me int0 conflict, I had almost said with the national sentim and the time-honoured and prescriptive usageg of our race. Cherishing such convictions, I rejoice to observe nrlpavour to organise on a large scale in the national Kcl a special g.»d «y.tom.tiS plan, for promot.W Ohurcu i cannot iH,t regard this as an event of temperam e, ?n ;fi j Relieve that no association the highest ^gmficance. e infloence society in a in th s country h s comparable to that existing favourable direction the example and teaching of in the English Chutch, a the other associations its clergy may do more tha Y the Bame object to which have long laboured gu^^eCt, and the diminish the national ignorance obiect is to express consequent national vice. My relation to the my opinion as a professional man a beverag- habitual employment of fermented q express But if I ventured one step further it; won d be.to^^ a believe that there is no single na lities 0f the which so much tends to deteriorate the q -Q t^at race, and so mach disqualifies coni)»*titvon which m the nature of things mi thc in which struggle the prize of superiority mu best and to the strongest. ==-
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BYE-GONE^ XQTKS QUERIES, and REPLIES, on subjects interesting 1 to Wales and the Borders, mmt h*. a&frs*sed to Rye-goac.s,' 1 ijazton Works. Oswestry. Rsal nam's and addresses must, be 1 ijazton Works. Oswestry. Rsal nam's and addresses must, be sent in confidence, and the writing must he. legible. Old neif*- papcrs, books, and MSJS. carefully used and promptly rätlrned.
April 16, 1873.
April 16, 1873. NOTES. POUKINGTOIS.—^The discussion of any question is interesting in proportion to its v.iltic in determining or illustrating a general law. In this instance we see the tendency of the Teuton to move back the regular Celtic accent as near as possible to the beginning of the word. The same characteristic of race may be seen also in the name Caradoc which is a penultimate properly, but an antepenultimate according to the corrupt English pro- nunciation. In discussing the meaning of such a name as Brogyntyn (Jan. 17, 1872) the historical element should have a prominent place. Can the name be compared with Brocinin in Cardiganshire, the birthplace of Dafydd ap Gwilvm ? It is an exceedingly unprofitable and wearisome work to throw out random hints about such subjects, as we have seen in respect to Dinam, (Nov. 29, 1871) or to say that one is inclined to believe" as Uhamoers says in respect to the leek (Feb. 28. 1872). In a. matter of science, we do not care a straw what people are inclined to believe the question is, what evidence can be brought to bear up-m different questions? We have had a great deal too much of this sort of thing in so-called Philology, especially in connexion with Welsh names, and the Welsh language generally. We cannot control such geniuses as write to Notes and Queries certainly, and compel them to keep their Mvfanwys (Aug. 28, 1872) at home but, we can and ought to set a good example in our Bye-goncs before such irrepressibles. I. P. QUERIES. WREXHAM WATERS ?-In the Life of Matthew Henry by Sir J. B. Williams, there is this extract from Henry's Diary, at p. 264. Sep. 19, 1707. This evening Dr Edmond Entwistle, archdeacon, was buried. He died at Wrexham, drinking the waters." What waters are referred to ?—WREXHAMITE. WAS LINN/EUS EVER IN SHREWSBURY? --I have a faint recollection of having read somewhere that this famous botanist once visited Shrewsbury, staying at Quarry Place and shall be glad of any information on the subject. I believe he was acquainted with the Mores of Linley.—WREKIN. THE QUAKERS IN WALES.—A Parish-clerk of the neighbourhood tells me that a person from Birming- ham making enquiries as to the state of the Quakers' bury- ing roulJrl at Hafod-y-fadog near Bala, was told by a farmer who had lived at Hafod-y-fadog, that he had sown barley on it, but none came up; planted potatoes with the same result- then he turned a beast in, but it would not rrra/e And he concluded by asserting that nothing flou- rished there but weeds. Will someone give Byc-goncs a short account of the history of this ground, and its pre- sent condition?—R. REPLIES. MERIONETHSHIRE TO WIT. (Fob 26, Mar. 26 1873-)—Leytanad.—Old John Morris, the Parish Gleik of' Llanvblo'hvel, told me that he had often heard that Abertanad was in the county of Merioneth, and that ad rates, &c., were paid from the farm to that county. this. added the old man, "-was in the reign ,f Elizabeth." May not this tradition have arisen from the fact tnafc Cxwervyl verch, Madog o Abertanad yn Mlodwel" was by her hrst marriage connected with Merionethshire? Lcw.s Glyn Cothi says that the lamentation at her death was equal at Rug a,,i(l,,tt Blodwel.-Bo-.tDEEtErt, In Mont. Coll., vol. iv., p. 36, Abatanal is said to be in Denbighshire. But in all the maps of Montgomeivshire and Shropshire, from those of Speed, 1610, down to the pres- ent time, to which I have been able to r. fer, it is shown to be in th-, 1-itter countv. It is situate, as the name implies, a', the confluence of the River Tanat with the Lyrnyw The boundary line marks out plainly the trotct annexed by 34 anrl 35 Hen. VIII., c. xxvi., s. 87, to the county of Salop. But how it could have belonged to Merionethshire I F.m not able to say, except that that county extended beyond its present, border, as seems to be admitted bybirJohn Priee in his Description of Wales, p. ix when he states that it keepeth its name to this day (1697), but not within the same mears," or boundary.— LLALL VWG. It J. PETER will consult the Ordnance Survey of Montgomeryshire he will see Abertanad between Llany- mvnech and Llansaintffraid, it is, I believe, a part of the narish of Llanyblodwel, and probably escaped the attention of the Legislature when 27 Hen. VIII., Chap. 26, was enacted. The fact of its being then reputed parcel Oi the county of Merioneth prevented its absirption into Shrop- shire or Montgomeryshire, but it was soon s?en that a little bit of land detached so far from the County to which it was stated to belong, would be an inconvenience to all parties concerned. Hence the section in stat. 34 and 35 Renry VIII. This is only my idea, and it may in reply be sail that a similar anomaly now exists adjacent to this very spot -namely, that part of Denbighshire which is detached therefrom, in the vicinity of Llanyniynech. How Abertanad could have ever been a part of Merioneth I cannot say. The formation of that county too;" place some two hundred and fifty years earlier than Denbighshire or Montgomeryshire, but Abertanad might have been considered in those days a part of Edeimion, which wag one of the commotes that by StatuhM Wallien (12 Edward I.) was declared to be a part of the then new county of Merioneth. 1 BARJIAIN. j, Herbert.—In the summer of 146S Jasper Tudor cam with three French ships to Harlech, L where he landerl with fiftv persons. In his march from Harlech to Dcihi"h 2 000 persons are said to have flocked to his stan- dard After ransacking the town he was attacked by an f jo 000, under Sir Richard Herbert, and routed. YfiZ this victory Sir Richard proceeded to Harlech to lay o p to the castle. In his journey thither '"in somi p'acss „,f.Pndod the mountains, he was forced to creep; W r! plspwhere in descending he had to tumble down with h'u soldiers- whence that way is calied by the neighbours at this day"(1(395) Lhe Herbert, "Herbert's way." (Cam- a > 7?.7 1695, P 655). It should however be observed fhat*Camden mentions not Sir Richard, but that it wis William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, who had to force his way through the midst of the Alps of Wales." Lhê Her- bert must therefore undoubtedly be looked for in the region Jying between Denbighshire and Harlech. Persons who are personally and intimately acquainted with that district may be able to point out what part presented the difficul- ties in the march, which had to be surmounted as mentioned above, and whether any spot, track, or road still bears the William.-A book of Medical DirectionR and "Receipts was written by him, whicn is said to be extant transcript of it «VZo* in the possession of lioan LleiBad, ^MchP an(! English, in also a pretty of Herbs, and'their medicinal wh.ch a ™ s[^j 3 op a i7l to be extant in MS. Bnt neither of these books are included in the catalogues of Welsh MSS., which lV« Jrinfed in Vau-Ws Practice WaUicc 1672, the commote to be annexed to the county of Merioneth,, a^bv S t-» i. • at lartre bv R.eble. lo<o, ana 03 cmnmote is Mouthway, with which there■ can be 110 difficulty in identifying Mawddwy. Spee^ 101iu nrmnthv Previous to the passing of Jl Hen. V1U., c ^1, Mawf'lw/ formed part of Powysland, and was a Lordship Marcher'which it is said to have become,_ not by conquest of the 'English lords, but by the judicious policy of Groffydd ab Meredyddab Bleddyn, who submitted himself to Henry I., and yielded obedience to him as his sovereign ]onl But bv the provisions of that Act, which were; c firmed by 34 an I 35, Hen. VIII-, c. xxy. the county of Fefcrrin" to my reply to J. F t 'l' note Of I happened the other day to be on with a gentleman in the nejghbourhood of mentshe made h re about this Commortha, TnTl asked him did he know the meaning of the di 1 and lie knew a good deal more, ^aid he, -J lived at myoId housE', in It manor, I paid for many year^ Comgor-tha. « £ «M thfl m the manor, but the last ^ment used to vary from it (twenty years ag )• married people paid f™™/iSih- ofn -nnt ihat^ ^-h people did, and the smallest double the am./Uni m.a -n.^i i i l.,r^est farm tenement in the manor paid as muchi as the aT"helord let and attached to this was a curious cu"t^ couect it out this Commortha' to the u; t0l)k piace on for the lowest sum per head, and tins let P .hill betweenheie and Rh.ya.Ier, l^rl napfj to meet the persons who were de I the Commortha.' He "sed to dig a c> ? informant they used to meet at some hole in the. n i y was not very clear on this ho'le o{ the manor, amount he required in total fiom t et;t;on of those the Commortha was 0^rr f^ \1to levy the lowest sum then ,resem, ..nd h« 'u nate possessor of the power per he--d was declared the i i Pan tiie tenants of the toassess so many pence pe, h^ l on ^tentlon o{ eur manor. Now this note of Montgomeryshire antiquarian friends in the iq P-r P to the custom on the Radnorshire siae. I«ee GX worth in Williams a H^ory of recent period tho noting because it brings down to a "ce?t Jted'» the lew of a "Commortha o, aid. ilavin^ ation as fads c m som 4 s«- a oyml)0rth ?" The to tha original object oi me ot tins y manor wa^ f, rnv^rly Crown pi«?ERT}.-PEALM, WELSH MOTTOES (Feb^19• DlCn -motto, h:s.' n to he Weh' me.! a; thÚr future rriDCt'BIGÁ- TIAO.
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I TYPYN 0' BOB PETH Four y(,uug iiien have bet,-ii sentence(i t) seven i.W J imprisonment each, for playing a piich and toss ntar Suedshill, Shropshire. An old man named Lewis was crossing the Severn V.Hey Railway on Thursday, when a train knocked him down and killed him. Thirty English School Boards have adopted Mrs Craw- shay's form of petition to the Government in favour of a decimal system of coinage. A firm of diapers in Carnarvon han removed to larger premises, and one of our contemporaries recorcl, the event as news in the most approved penny-a-liner's style Several children have been recently astonished at Nantwich by being compelled to support their aged and infirm parents. The postal service between Carmarthen and the diKtrict* of Llangadock an I Liandovery is very unsatisfactory, and hitherto every effort to obtain an alteration has been defeateel by the authorities. The Improvement Commissioners of Rhyl are proceeding ag-ainst persons who keep pigs within the precincts of the borough. Mr H. S. Giffard, Q.C., hacbeen eL-cted to the chair- manship of the Carmarthenshire Court of Quarter Ses- Sl°The guardians of the poor for Carmarthen have at last discovered that tho public are dissatisfied with the excessive amount of paupeiism, audi, is not unreasonable to sup- pose that this discovery will be followed by an effort to b,in,l the expenditure within more reasonable limit". At the last meeting of the Holywell Board of Guardians it was stated that the sanitary condition of Bagillt was deplorable, and an opinion was expressed that Bagillt was the worst corner in the union. A requisition has been numerously signed at Pen- maenmawr asking that a branch of the National Provin- cial Bank of England shall be opened in that place two or three times a week during the summer months. The Welsh Herald states that there is not the sha- dow of any opposition to Mr Morgan Lloyd for the Amdesea boroughs, a'.d that the attempt to get up an opposition to Mr It. Davies for the county has signally A few weeks ago the Star of the Sea become a wreck at the Soldier's Point, near Holyhead. Part of the cargo was 420 casks of rum. About 40G of these were saved, and a contemporary compliments the Good Templars that the I rum was not stolen Mr Peter Ellis, Eyton, solicitor, Flint, has announced his intention to contest the seat for the Flintshire Boroughs at the next election in opposition to the present Liberal Uletn her Sir Itobe; t Cunliffe. Mr Eyton is also a Liberal, but thinks that as a Flintshire man he has claims to the seat superior to those of a resident in Denbighshire. It is said that the village of Llechryd is threatened with an inundation similar to that which tradition says once overwhelmed the county of Cardigan. Major-General Worthaifj the General Superintendent of turnpike roa is, is of opinion that the heap of debris at the Cilgerran Quar- ries is liable to be precipitated into the bed of the river. An effort is to be made to prevent the occurrence of this calamity. Llandudno has commenced to puff itself with a view of seeing a rush of visitors this next summer, and to read all tint is written in praise of the place one would imagine that death, disease, and dirt had been banished to less favoured localities. Llandudno seems to be as powerful a remedy for all diseases as Holloway's pills, and its virtues are announced in much the same way. On Saturday, April 12tb, the foundation stone of a new Welsh Presbyterian Chapel was laid in London. The new chapel is in Sussex-road, Seven Sisters road, Hollo way, and will cost 1,59S.. The foundation stone was laid by the Rev. Mr Davies amid great applause, and addresses were also delivered by the Rev. Roger Edwards, of Mold, who spoke in Wdb, and gave some humourous anecdotes with respect to Welsh being mistaken for German by Mr Ellis Jones, of London the Rev. F. C. Jcnes, London Mr H. Owen, London and Gohebvdd. A Carnarvon pauper in receipt of out-door relief was the other day found with three other men helplessly drunk. They had a sovereign's worth of whiskey in their posses- sion, and it appears that the pauper, whose wife is a wtl!- kuown beggar, had hoarded six pounds which her husband found, and, of course, divided, leaving the woman two pounds as her share. We expect that the ratepayers will sooner or later object to this cultivation of immorality at their exoense. On Thursday morning, April 10th, as the 9 20 p.m. down tr,in was nearing the Coalport Station, on the Severn Valley Railwav, an old man named John Lewis, alias "Jack of the Hoat," was crossing the line, and was knocked down by the engine. His legs were severed from his body, and part of the skull taken off. The discovery of the accident was not made until the train drew up at the station when the body was perceived lying on the line. On Monday afternoon, April M b, a shocking occurrence happened at Merthyr. A man named Jamea Magnor, was quarreling with a neighbour, nimed Charles Doran, and in the course of the dispute the former called the wife of Doran by an opprobrious epithet. Stung by the insult Doran seized some tilunt weapon, and struck Magnor on the head several time, knocked him down, and kicked him so severely that he died shortly afterwards. Doran has been arrested, and it is thought w.ll be charged before the Magistrates with murder. Some sailors, who said they preferred going to gaol to be- ing drowned, have been sent to prison for a month by the Tenby magistrates, for refusing to proceed to sea in a ship, the Huvost Home which they alleged was unseaworthy. The chief mate slid he was quite prepared to sail in the vessel, but one of the defendants, said the ship was not fit for anyone to go in; he had been at sea eighteen years, aud never was in one like it before she leaked badly, and when they got into a s-iway he was confident she would founder. Another of the men said the rigging was rotten, and when the men were in their banks the water rushed through the seams, and wet them through. In addition to this the boats were bad, and one of them was very rotten. Notwithstanding this evidence the Mayor said the men had not made out their case, as the car- penter and mate were willing to sail in the ship, and the eleven men were sent to Haverfordwest Gaol for a month The quarter sessions for the city of Chester were held at the Town Hall, Chester, on Thursday, April lotb, before Horatio Llovd, Esq., Recorder. There were only two prisoners, both of imperfect education for trial. Peter Buckley,' aged 22, labourer, of Handbridge, an old offender, for stealing two sheep, the property of Mr Joseph Roberts, farmer, of Brewer's Hall Farm, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour, and to be under the surveillance of the police for seven years. Eleanor Hughes, aged 42, a married woman, for stealing forty.six yards of cotton skirting, the property of Mr Elias Williams, draper, Foregate-street, was sentenced to four months' im- prisonment, with hard labour. The Chester Chronicle says Some complaints have been made by the Flintshire ratepayers of late of the ex- travagant expenditure of the county magistrates upon their new prison and other matters the statements even- tually made being that the rates had come to be heavier than in any other county in North Wales. In order to show the inaccuracy of this assertion, the clerk of the peace 4 has collected statistics of the ratal in the pound for county and police purposes in the six counties of North Wales, ami rPRnlt Droves to be as follows :— 1869 1870 1871 Average d. d. d. Merioneth 62 7:1 7 Carnarvon 7 7 7 7'OT Denbigh 52 4J 9 6"416 Montgomery 6 6 6 6 00 Flint. 4J 6g 5 95 Anglesey 41 m. 5} 5J 5*08 In Flintshire the rates were heavier during these three years than at any period during the last twenty years, as will be evident from the following statement, showing the average of the countv rate for each period of seven vears from 1852 onwards :—1852 to 1858. 31d. 1859 to 1865, not quite 3d. 1866 to 1872, nearly 32.1. The police rate has hardly varied, being about 2.1d. from the commencement to the present time. The rateable value of property in the county we may add, was 2192,000 in 1852, E277,695 in 1858,'in S323504 in 1868." Our Merionethshire readers will doubtless'feel inclined to ask how it happens that in Merionethshire the rates should be higher than else- where.
CO-OPERATIVE CONGRESS.
CO-OPERATIVE CONGRESS. The co-operative congress resumed business at Newcastle- upon-Tyne on Monday. A breakfast was given to the delegates by the members of the Ouseburn Co-operative Engine Works. The Chairman mentioned that some artizans at the works were earning 2s, an hour throughout the year. It was resolved that the mortgage on the works should be placed in the hands of co-operatives only. Several questions connected with co-operation, including that of co-operative banking, were next discussed. A re- solution in favour of an industrial bank was passed. The annual congress of co-operative societies was opened on Saturday at Newcastle, by Mr Joseph Cowan. In the course of his address he stated that the societies now com- prised 262 000 members, and had done business last year to the amount of nearly nine and a half millions sterling. In the evening a public meeting was held, presided over by Mr Thomas Hughes, M.P., and Mr Walter Morrison, M.P., moved the following resolution :That it is of the essence of co-ooeration to recognise the right of labour to a substantial share of the profits which it creates. He referred to the difficulties and disputes between capital and labour, and said they would never get a complete answer to those difficulties until they found productive co-opera- I tion spread throughout the length and breadth of the land. I — C L-
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Great distres3 prevails among the population or me islands of Baffin and Shark off the coast of Galway. The sheep have died of starvation; and the potato crop of last year being a failure, the people have no seed to put in the ground, The fishing season has commenced, but the men have no gear and they cannot obtain net.^ and lines on credit as they did before. Mr T. F. Brady, whose position as Inspector of Irish Fisheries brings him in contact with ths fishermen, baR issued an appeal on their behalf, in which he says, as the system of giving money gratuitously is not considered a good mode of affording relief, it is pro- posed to raise a. fund by private subscriptions to enqble loans to be made to fishermen on their own security for the purchase of twhing gear, and thus enable them by their own exertions to surmount their present great difficulties. Mr Brady adds that not a moment is to be lost in in«-etin0 the present emergency. An inquiry of considerable interest has ju., eluded at Reading. The Town Council had obtamod powers to purchase compulsorily the sewage farm at Whit- ley, the property of Mr Attenborough. An Under Sheriff s Court has been held during the last four days to assess the amount of compensation. The Corporation offered £ 35 000' Mr Attenborough asked £ 60,000. The jury gave bim 213,262.
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FROM THE_PAPERA George Francis Train has been pronounced insane, and Judge Daly was expected to send him to an asylum. The value of the'diamond? exported from South Africa during the past twelve months is estimated at £ 1,500,000. Eidwell has been reca; turcd on the sea shore twm'y during the past twelve months is estimated at £ 1,500,000. Eidwell has been reca; turcd on the sea shore twm'y mih's above Havana. He was severely bruised in the hands and leg while escaping from prison. Advices published in New York on Sunday, April Iltli, report a terrible earthquake in San Salvador, by which 800 persons perished, and property to the value or 12,000,000 dollars was destroyed. On Monday, April 15th, some members of the Oldham volunteer corps (31st Lancashire) were shooting at tlieir range at Chadderton, when a bullet passed through the mantlet seriously wounding two members of the corps who were marking. The mortality last week in twenty-one leading p,acec, of the kingdom was at the annual rate of twenty-five per thousand. M. Barodet, in his address, says it is necessary to give Versailles a firm but moderate warning, and calls on the Electors of the Seine to give the signal for the dissolution of the Assembly, and the establishment of a Republic. Princess Beatrice's sixteenth birthday was observed at Windsor on Monday, April 14th, with much evidence of sympathy and esteem on the part of the public. A Royal salute was also fired at Portsmouth. President Grant has instructed Central Sherman to so attack the Modoc Indians that their fate shall be com- mensurate with their crime. He considers that their exter- mination would be justifiable. ? The breakfast to th" liberated (:n stokers at Maidstone on Tuesday was presided over by Mr Totter, who spoke on the progress of trader, unions and the necessity for direct repre- sentation of labour. Mr Jones, one of the liberated men, re- turned thanks for the support afforded to their families. Another ca^e of rattening occurred at Sheffield during last week: T. Wilkinson, a grinder working at Marsden's Wheel, Bridge-stre.t, left his place all right on the Tuesday, but two wheelbands of some vaiii-f were next morning missing. The police are looking into the matter. These cases have not been frequent of late. A despatch from San Franci-co, dated March 2S:h, says- Last week the schooner Lark sailed from San Diego for Eusenedas. Among the passengers were six convicted mur- derers to be taken to L. Paz, Lower California. The b-dies of the felons have been found washed ashore and chained tog-ther. Piece4 cf a wreck have been picked up near where the bodies were discovered, and it is inferred that the vessel was lost with all hands." We have n it yet heard the last of the great "Byron secret." The illustrated Ilrriew declares the real secret was that Lord Byron ha i a wife before he married Miss Millbank. This'remarks the Guardian, would assuredly explain everything; but the results of such a revelation would even now be disastrous to many persons." This is, no doubt, true; but if it would once for all clear I.o Byron's memory of a horrible charge, would it not be as well that the "disastrous" truth should be told? A terrible calamity occrured in Giystreet-cne of the poorest and most thickly populated localities of Liverpool — on Sunday morning, April 13:h. A fire which is suppos- ed to have'originated through the upsetting of a paraffin lamp by a drunken man, was discovered in one of the houses, in which there were ten inmates, and before they could be rescued seven of them were so severely burnt that they died soon afterwards. Six of the victims belong to one hmiJy-husband, wife, and four young children. On Good Friday, at Preston, numerous pleasure parties were boating on the Ribble. One boat, containing four men from Blackburn, capsized. In going to their aid, another boat, containing three men, was also upset, but, aid beizig at hand, all, with one exception, were rescued. The drowned man was about forty years of age, and leaves a wife and six children. A "hocking event happened at Bradford on Good iridiy morning. A man named Brayshaw, who had f.,r some years lived with a paramour named Clough as her lodger, was informed by her that he must get lodgings elsewhere, as she was to be married to another lIBU next day. Brayshaw thereupon struck her a heavy blow on the head with a ham- mer. He then shut himself up ard cut his throat with a razor. The man died immediately, and the woman's life is despaired of. The Iron says—It is from a general economy in con- sumption, and from scientific improvements in the:manu- facture of iron, that the greatest results are to be expected in diminishing the pressure upon the collieries, and conse- nuentlv easing the market. But after all is done in these directions that can be reasonably expected the prices that have experienced such extraordinary inflation cannot, ex- cept for a temporary period during a general collapse or panic, suffer an equally extraordinary relapse. Succeeding tides may not, for long, again reach the recent high-water mark, but recede to the low-water margin of ten years ago they never will. To the question then with which we be- Ln this article, "When will coal fall to the old price,? we have no hesitation in replying that to the average price of the ten years ending 1S70 it will never fall again. The Manchester Conner say3that a very decidtd down- ward movement in the prices of coal has begun in some parts of Lancashire. The demand in the V, igan districts has fallen off so considerably that at some collieries stack- inc has commenced and coalowners as a rule, ar, now wil- ing to sell at a reduction of from 2s. to 3s per ton upon fWates current a week ago. In the immediate district of Manchester, however, a steadier tone prevails. The de- mind for steam and furnace coal is sufbciently bn.k to Xorb supplies, and prices consequently are main- tained • but there are not nowso many complaints of delayed deliveries. In house coal there is more ease, but prices are unaltered with the exception of those which have been verv high, and the top price, which, m some cases, was a sho?t time ago 30s., has now fallen to 2os. 8d. per ton Mr G. W. Johnson, a Liverpool cotton broker, brought an action at the assizes in that town, on Saturday, April 12th, against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, to recover compensation for injuries received on the defen- dants' line in a collision. In September last the plaintiff was travelling from Ormskirk to Liverpool, an I wh-n near the Tithfcbarn-street Station, the train came into collision with a number of empty carriages. He w-as tarown for- ward, and was so seriously injured that he has been unable to attend to his business ever since, the profits of which were jBLOOO a year. The jury returned a verdict for the 'a-, plaintiff—damages £ 2,500.. Jurors have been summoned in the approaching case Regina v. Castro, otherwise Orton, otherwise Tichborne, Bart." On each of the two indictments for perjury there will be twentv-four special jurors called upon, and the pri- soner will have no right to challenge. On the third indict- ment for forgery, between thirty and forty common jurors have been summoned. A case was tried at the Leeds Assizes on Saturday, April 12th, in which a young woman named Georgiua Goodacre was the plaintiff, in an action for false imprisonment airainst her former employers, a firm of pork-pie and sausage makers, carrying on business at ShelB dd. She had been given into custody on a charge of robbery, but the case was dismissed by the stipendiary magistrate hence this action. In her cross-examination, however, sh- completely broke down, and not only admitted that she had been guilty of theft, but was accused by the Judge of having committed perjury. The jury, by his lordship's direction, returned a verdict for the defendants. It is announced from Xew York that Brigham Young has published a long statement of his policy. He says that after forty years of incessant labour, he now, at the age of 72, needs rest. His position as President (,f the Church is not affected by his withdrawal from various secular cares. The settlement lie intends to establish in Arizona will, he believes, beneficially influence the Apaches, in whose country it is situated. He hopes to assist in the construction of the railway which is proposed there. In conclusion he invites good citizens to settle in Utah, and urees capitalists to invest their money there promising that their property will be protected and lightly taxed. News has reached Woolwich of a terrible disaster which has occurred to three English artizans who left there some time since to enter the service of the Chinese Governmei t in superior capacities. A chief engineer, named Stokes, was about to return to England from Ciiina, and a party of his friends met one night to bid him fareweli, in the Government factory, ab ut five miles from Shanghai. About eleven o'clock, Mr Maidling, the principal naval architect; Mr Christy, master shipwright; and Mr Stuart, the master engineer, retired to rest in one apart- ment in the officers' quarters attached to the factory, leaving a fire in an American stove on the floor. It is conjectured that the flooring ignited, and that the three officers were suffocated in their sleep, for when the build- ing burst into flames nothing was seen of them, and osly their charred bones were found in the ruins. Ayourg woman named Robson recently gave birth to a child, and after cutting the limbs from the trunk, she made a hole in the wall of one of the rooms of the house where she lived, and put in the limbs and the head. She next mutilated the body, and then covered the hole with a piece of paper of a pattern resembling that on the wall. Although suspicions were aroused and a search was.made, no traces of the body were found for a day or two, wh"n an offensive smell arising, a close inspection of the room allulled to was made, and the body found in the place and manner described. The girl, on being questioned b_\ t e inmates of the house, acknowledged giviog birth to the child, but denied that it was born alive. Robaon has been child, but denied that it was born alive. Robson has been committed for concealment of birth. The Atliena um publishes the following caai acUrr-.ic story of Charles Dickens. An Oxford undergraduate with the natural modesty of the race. ent to the editor jf Household Words, at the end of the Cnm >an \v r, a copy of verses on the return of the Guards, with this note Sir,-Understanding that you insert Khy.ues in your Serial, I send you some To wjich Dickens answered, u gjr \ye (j0 net insert jwyme-s wiinout reason. A solicitor and an auctioneer in Windsor do not happen to be good neighbours. The auctioneer's child-en annoy the solicitor by beating tin kettles, and the ,n:icitor retaliates by firing off pistols at th" rack door and ex- hibiting threatening notices in his window. For these peccadilloes he has been summoned before the petty sessions, and required to find surety fur keeping the peace towards his friend Mr Cleave.
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WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC. At the adjourned investigation into the wreck of the Atlantic, the Captain stated that he had an in-ufiieiencv of coal allowed for the eurrent'pas^age, but contradicted several statements made by Quartermaster Th nnaa. The New York papers of the 3rd April contain a statement by the Captain of the Atlantic. lie says the heavy westerly gales had reduced the speed of his ship to 118 miles a day. On March 31st the cl if engineer reported that he had olllv 127 tons of coal on beard they were then -1/30 mili-, from Sandy Hook. The -,es3-1 w..os accordingly turned towards Halifax.
! POLITICS.
POLITICS. -r. j ?'-r Bouverie, M.P. for Kilmarnock burg, has sent a reply to his constituents, who disapproved of his opposing the Irish University Bill, and adopted resolutions aoprov- i:ig of Mr Gladstone's policy. Mr Bnnveiie, in his letter, lays he will not, so long as he remains in Parliament, be I the mere mechanical mouthpiece of any portion of his con- | stituents by giving indiscriminate appiob.ition to the policy ef Mr Gladstone or any minister. While giving due weigh t to the requirements of party disc ipline and allegiance, to wnich he is not indifferent, he will exercise his judgment as to the limit of these requirements, Mr Halliday has announced his intention to contest Merthyr at the next general election, having been appointed by the Miners' Conference to come forward as a representative of their interest; in Parliament. The an- nouncement following so soon after his contradiction of the rumour at Newport, has excited considerable ion in the district. Mr Holden, the candidate of the Liberation Society, who was defeated last year by Mr F. S. Powell, in the North- West Riding of Yorkshire, has intimated his intention of again coming forward. In the bill on married woman's property, in the H"use of Commons, it is proposed to enact that every woman shall contribute in proportion to her income a reasonable amount" for the joint expenditure, cf the family and the education of the children' The death is announced, at the age of seventy-nine yesrs. of Captain Henry Boldero, who for many year s represented the borough of Chippenham in the Con'sei vanve interest. He entered the Royal Engineers as lieutenant in 1814. but retired with the rank of captain in IS 10 and was Clerk of the Ordnance from 1841 till 1S4G. During the passing of the Reform Bill he endeavoured to preserve two members for Chippenham, and :to commemorate the success of his exertions his constituents presented him with a silver cup. He sat for that borough in the Parliament of 1831, and again from 1835 till about 18-59.
^ EOCLESIASTICAL.
EOCLESIASTICAL. 'r- On Thursday, April 10th, the Pope was so far recovered that he was able to leave his bed and hear Mass. He afterwards received several persons and transacted business. A letter published by the Libcrta states that there is reason to believe that his Holiness will shortly nominate some new Cardinals, among whom may be reckoned Monsignors Mermillod, Lachat, Leùolchoski, Gnibert Freppel, Ketteler, Archbishop Manning, and four Italian prelates. On Saturday evening, April 12th, a public meeting was held in St. George's Hall, Langham-place, London, to her an address from Mr Ma= m Jones, on the disestablish- ment and disendowment of the English Church. A resolu- tion was carried, with only two dissentients, That the policy of religious equality demands not only the dises- tablishment and disendowment of the Eneiish Church but also the repeal of the 25di clause of the Education Act, and and the withdrawal of all State aid from denominational education." An agitation is on foot for the division of the d.ocese of Lincoln and the formation of a separate diocese for the county of Nottingham, and a memorial to the Ecclesias- tical Commissioners is in course of signature by the lead- ing Iiity of X otts, Feiting forth facts and reasons fr the change. On Monday, April 14th, a grsat meeting of the Educa- t:on Union was Leld in the Free Trade Hall, Manches- ter. The Bishop of Manchester presided, and made a vigorous speech in support of education w t'i a religious basi- Resolutions setting forth the vievs of the union were
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J THE NORTHUMBERLAND 00LLIEKY ENGINE MEN. A meeting of the members of the Northumberland Colliery Engineman's Mutual Protection Society has been held at the Newcastle House. Morpeth, with a iew of agi- tating f"r a ri-e of wages which had been refused by the employers. A delegate from Cambais Colliery occupied the chair, and opened the meeting by explaining that its object was to give them nil an opportunity to express their opinions as to what was best for them to do in the posi- tion in which they were now placed. If they thought them- selves fairly entitled to the advance wfci-^h the masters had refused them, it would b* their duty t.o make a stand and assert their right to it, Enginermen as a class were indis- penzable to the working of cil leries, and pits not be worked now as they used to be by the horse and gin. He could tell them that when the deputation last waited upon the owners to state their wishes, they were listened to with very little attention by those gentlemen. He hoped they would be able to gain their ends without having to resort to extreme measures, but if extreme measures were necessary, he for one was fully determined to stand out for what they wanted. The Secretary then read the letter which he had addr,ssed to the Cc.dr.wners' Associa- tion, requesting a further advance of wages. He had re- ceived a reply to it from Mr Theo. Bunning, secretary to the Association, which he also read to the meeting, and which was a simple reply in the negative to the request of the men. This meeting, he went on to say, was the most important they had ever held. They ha I met that day to decide whether they would be content with the ad- vance of 10 per cent, which they had received, c r whetber they would stnnd out for Gs. a day. It was true they had received advances equal to 23 per cent., but then even the very smallest of small coal had advanced 200 to 300 per cent. Under the circumstances they were quite justified in demauding the Gs. a day. They were now fully 5 per cent. lower paid than the eriginemen in Durham, but he hoped they would not rest until they got their advacc.e. -The deputy from Backworth said h ? would like, as well as any man, to have 6s. a day, but h must c'nfcss he Wuuld like to see his way clear to the actainment of it without a strike-The deputy from Sleekbum, N. W., reminded the meeting that the request of an ce had been made in December, and then they were told to wait until the spring, and after waiting so long, they got only a miserable 10 per cent. He proposed that they should go in for the Gs. a day pure and very simple.—The proposal to stand out for Gs. a day was then seconded, and after a desultory discussion, the votes were taken, and a large > majority was shown for 6s. a day, and no surrender."— It was then agreed that the whole of th men were to hand in their f,,ur been days' notice on Monday morning, after which the meeting broke uI
THE BLAST FURNACE MEN AND…
THE BLAST FURNACE MEN AND THEIR WAGES. On Tuesday, the blast furnace owners of the North of England held a meeting, at tile Royal Exchange, Mid- dlesborough, to take into consideration the application of their men for an advance of wages. There was a large attendance of masters and managers, and the proceedings were private. A contemporary says —We are informed that the applications were not uniform for an advance equivalent to 25 per cent, neither had the whole of the owners received notice from their men. The subject was fully elisciused, and, at the conclusion, the following official statement was handed to us Th-a meeting hav- ing considered the demands made by certain the blast furnice workmen, it was resolved that the advances of wan-es already conceded amount to as much as can reason- ably be expected, and that as to the extra time demanded no change can be made."
THE STRIKE OF BLAST FURNACEMEN…
THE STRIKE OF BLAST FURNACEMEN AT MIDDLESBOROUGH. The whole of the Irishmen employed at Messrs Bell Brothers' blastfurnaces, Port Clarence, Middiesboroigh, have given in their notices of thjir intention to leave in a fortnight. The firm decline to dismiss a labourer, who had summoned three Irishmen for him. Mr Thomp- son, the manager of Messrs Bell Brothers' furnaces, has bad an interview with the men, and pointed out to them that the tirm could not dismiss the man because he bad had a private difference with some of his fell, He offered to refer the question whether the firm ought to dismiss Walker to Mr Kane or any other representative of a union, and abide by bis decision. Theie are 400 Irishmeu employed, and if thev refuse to work, the whole of the eight blast furnaces will be stopped, at serious loss to the tirm, and about 700 men will be laid idle. At Messrs Bell Brothers' works the blatt furnace keerers are paid 24 2s. Gè. per week, the chargers, upwards of £ '3 the sniggers. C2 5i. and the mine tillers, 5s. per day, but they usually make, with (xtri sliifti, about 3k per week. Until three or four weeks ago the fitiii allowed their workmen housesand coals at 3s. GJ. per week, and now, since fuel ha? advanced in price, they charge oaly 6s. per ton for coal.
. AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. Tho Liverpool Mercury describes an extraordinary scene that was witnessed in the village of Bebington last Satur- day week. A Scotchman, named Stuart, thirtv-Sve years of age. made the acquaintance of a y ung lady (,f "ccDsidera.ble Iprsonal attractions," who resided with her parents in Liverpool, and falling in love at first sight, pro- posed marriage. He gave himself out to be the monger of a publishing company having a branch in that ciiv, and pretended to Le well off. The young lady accepted him, but her parents wanted more information, and, owing to this difference, she went to stay with a brother at Bebington while preparations for the marr.age were being male. Sa- turday 1:.st was the day fixed, and it was "nly at the eleventh hour that the brother found the man was an im- postor, and that he bad already a wife and three children living at Edgehill, and that he*was only a book canvasser. It had been his intention to take the young lady abroad immediately after the marriage. Stuart cam.* at the ap- pointed time, and was taken on some pretence to the George Hotel, at Bebington, where he was led to a room that was fried by a company consisting: chiefly of young men from Liverpool or resident in the village. Thp door having been quietly locked, a well-known L-.verp~.ol artist was voted to the chair, and opened the court with an ad- dress, in which be de pic ted the fellow s heartless conuuct, and called upon him to defend himself, if he could, against the accusations brought against him. The man tried to treat the affair as a joke but he had fallen info the hands of those who were in no joking humour. While be was deli- vering himself of his defence two females who wire in the- room "poured about a pound of treacle upon lis head, and he wa3 pelted from all sides with hags containing flear and treacle. lie was compelled to admit that he was a married man and after this avowal was madeja candle^vas stuck in h'is mouth. He was then adjudged to pay glasses ruine., which lie did, and wh'uh cost tiim all the morny he had with him When he left, a crowd was waiting, and though policeman was brought to escort him, he had the greatest difficulty in escaping.
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