The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

HERE ANDTHERE. A Dissenter building a church The Sheffield Ddily Telegraph states that the foundation stone of a new church has been laid at Abbeydale, near Sheffield. The entire cost of the building, site, fittings, and organ, is provided, with praiseworthy liberality, by Air John Koberts, of Abbeydale- park. Though a Dissenter himself, Mr Roberts vests the property in the Church of England, for the double reason that the majority of his neighbours are churchmen, and that, so vested, the church can never be alienated from purposes of religious worship. The Mayor of Sheffield, in the course of the proceedings, expressed his strong feeling of sympathy with the Church of England, though he was not a member of it, and said he hoped the day was far distant when the church would cease to be identified with the State. Mr Roberts's name deserves to be held in long re- membrance. He has done one of the most christian acts (If which newspapers hold record. He helps to revive the waning faith in modern religion. A corresp ndent of the Daily xews gives an account of the meeting of the International at Geneva, prefaced by a sketch of the history of the society. Established in 1834, it has experienced several changes, the greatest of which took place after the Franco-German War, at the Hague Congress. Previously to this, Messrs Odger and Lucraft had with drawn, and the connection of the English trades unions with the International bad ceased. At the Hague, in cons-quence of the arbitrary action of the Council, there was a split into Federalists and Centralists, both of whom meet at Geneva this month. It is the Federalist Congress which the Daily News correspondent is describing. The most interesting reports for English readers were those from England and Italy The report from England was ver\ short. The division that took place constqueiit upon the action of the Hague Congress had greatly retarded the movement. Nevertheless, the communications had been ktpt up, and now there was every prospect of the Association's making progress in England. Though the International had not gained much headway, the labour movement had made rapid strides. In nearly all trades workmen had improved their position, and :l,-re were more trades unionists than there had aVt! been before. The 0 most remarkable progress had been made by the agricul- tural labourers, who had, so to speak, stepped out of serf- dom L.to manly independence. They had now an organ which was most ablv conducted, and they had shown that they fully understood the advantages of united action. The miners, too, had made rapid progress, and now stood in the foremost ranks of labour. Altogether there were great hopes for the future in England.Co-ta reported that the International had suffered much from persecution in Italy. The Government had repeatedly broken up the sections and imprisoned the members but still the Association progressed. It had sections in twenty-eight different towns, and it would not be long before that number had greatly increased. The work was very difficult, for now the International had to contend, not merely against the Government, but also again>t the Garibaldians and Maz- zinians. The Garibaldians opposed the International be- cause it was not prepared to fight on every occasion. The fact was the Garibaldians were no use for an inter- national movement, though they were all very well for a national one. They had no idea of either science or theory. The Mazzinians were opposed to them because the International did not sufficiently reverence authority and rdigion," A thief and a receiver of stolen goods were taken before a London magistrate last week. ODe of them, the receiver, had a sm ill piece of coal in a purse. According to the de- tective engaged in the case, coal is a sort of talisman in use between robbers and receivers of stolen goods. It is a pledge of good faith, a sacred symbol of that proverbial honour which exist2 among thieves. Receivers of stolen goods carry little pieces of coal about with them. When they see a gentleman in the possession of property which he is sup- posed to have come by irregularly, and of which he seems shy of disposing, they quietly approach him, take out their purse, and show him the mystic fragment of coal. This was-we quote the poetical explanation of the detective officer-" to show that the thief mig-ht rely upon their being as faithful as the Bedouin Arabs were to those with whom they took salt." The Alderman on the bench remarked that this was one of the strangest things he had ever heard, and we presume it will be new and strange to most other persons as well. A writer in the Birmingham Post attempts to describe the straits to which the High Church party are put for want of a political leader in whom they can unreservedly trust—"The High Church partv is somewhat distracted by the necessity of choosing between. Mr Gladstone's Liberal- ism and Mr Disraeli's Orangeism. On the one hand, the Premiers's Oxford antecedents and Oxford theology are attractive; while, on the other hand, his enemy is a Tory. On the one hand, too, the Premier abolished the Irish Church while on the other, Lord Derby offered a place to Mr Newdegate, and the present lead :r of the Opposition in the House of Commons is an ally of Lord Cairns, and Mr Johnston, the member for Belfast. Altogether, the per- plexity of the situation is most distressing. It would be very instructive if we could but discover what Mr Disraeli himself irivately thinks of the position of affairs in the Church, and what he thinks of churches generally. Of one thing we may be quite sure, that his real thoughts would astonish both parties." We may be still surer of another thing, that the Liberalism which would interfere with the free action of the High Chuich partv is a shallow thing and in the long run the party will find that Toryism is a broken reed, which will pierce them perhaps before they are aware. But, as a rule, High Churchmen are too much in earnest to believe in Mr Disraeli.

SUICIDE OF A TICHBORNE WITNESS. A correspondent at Kingston writes—Another of the wit- nesses for the Claimant is dead, and his death was of a shocking nature. His rame was Cockle, a newsagent, and he has carried on business nearly twenty years at Surbiton. He was to be called to speak as to a scar on young Tich- borne's hand. For the last few weeks Cockle has been in a strange mood, and has been ciosely watched by his relatives. On Friday night a person sat up with him, and when he thought Cockle had fallen asleep he settled down to sleep also. When the watcher awoke he found Cockle had got away. In the meanwhile the man had escaped from the house and got upon the London and South-wt stern Railway, which runs close to his house. A night porter at Surbiton station saw an object on the line about a quarter of a mile off, and on going down found the body of Cockle with the greater part of the head cut off. An up goods troin had passed the spot about two o'clock on Saturday morning, and it is supposed that the deceased had placed himself on the metals in front of it.

TERRIBLE SCENE AT AN EXECUTION. An appalling scene was witnessed on Monday morning, September 8th, within Kirkdale Gaol, at the execution of James Connor, who was convicted of murder at the recent Liverpool Assizes. Calcraft adjusted the rope and drew the bolt, but the rope was too weak to hold its burden, and broke with the weight of the unfortunate man, who fell groaning to the ground. He was lifted out from the drop, and there had to sit, trembling violently, listening to the ministrations of the Chaplain, until a new rope could be prepared. He exhibited great nervousness, as well he might, under such a trying ordeal, and implored to be let off. He said he had stood it like a brick" the first time, and ought to be let free. The rope having been ad- justed a second time, the bolt was drawn, and the culprit died apparently without much pain.

SAXIE OF CYFARTHFA IRON WORKS. A few days ago we announced that the negotiations for the sale of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks, which have been pen- ding for some months past, would probably be brought to a c!ose during the present week. The matter stood thus. The, price original asked by Mr Crawshay amounted to £ 1 250 000 and the intending purchasers offered, in round figures' a million, which was refused. The negotiations havinrr remained abeyant for some time the vendor las„ week called upon the gentlemen with whom he had been in correspondence to complete the purchase within ten days, or to adancToa their intention in regard to t. b rom intor- mation which we received last evening, (Tuesday,) alterna- tive has been adopted, and the contract for the sale of this magnificent property concluded and signed. The works have now, therefore, passed into the hands of a number of capitalists, who, as already intimated, will probably them- selves retain the proprietorship of the property, although forming a limited liability'company for the purpose of carry- ing on the undertaking.— Western Mail.

THE WIGAN ACCIDENT. The enquiry into the Wigan accident closed on Tuesday. The jury reiurned a vcrdict of Accidental death," adding a recom- m"ndation that the speed of trains passing Wigan withont stopping ought to be materially slackened.

ECCLESIASTICAL. The Weigh H use Chapel, London, which has n closed some months for rep a.1 s and decorations, was re-opened on Sunday, September 7th, the sermon being preache by the Rev. Dr Binney, the late minister, who preached the first sermon in the chapel when it was built some yye&ra ago. Archbishop Manning has written a remarkable tter to the Primate of Ireland on the condition of that c untry. In it he declares his belief that Ireland is the most Christian country in the world; and he 4, see- future for Imperial Germany or for Revolutionary It or for Spain if it abandons its Catholic tradition?, cr f r France if it continues to deify Voltaire." M. Guerin, who has been engaged for the French (;overn ment in researches in Palestin", has late'y read a ",per in a geographic d congress at Lyons, describing his ..i-oveiy of the tomb of Joshua, the son of Nun. Th -,n b is situated at Titjnd, which he considers to be 1h ancient Timnath Serah, tile heritage of Joshua. M. n be- lieves he has strong evidence of the body of Josh" ii -ving bee" deposited there in the st .tement that the flint knives with which Joshua ued to circumcise 'he ••.ilareii of Isrtel at Gilgal were buried in his tomb. On r-moving the dirt which covered th*- floor of the tomb, a lary^ umber of Flint knives were found, and on making some scava- tions at Gilgxl, the passage of the Jordan, a n. tii if"r of similar knives were also discovered. The pilh. in the vestibule of the tomb are surrounded by a fillet it. e style of Egyptian monuments, and this would argue a period of about the time of Joshua. A letter from the Rhrht Kev. Dr Wordsworth. of Lincoln, to Pere Hyacinth";has ju^tbeen put* i-hed in Geneva, and, though wr/ut n so far b. as Ju ,st, it will net be without interest. It is written in L and sys briBtopber Wordfworth. Bishop of L In, to t", Very Revereid Hvacinthe Lovson,—Alhou.h the testimony of your conscience is more than suSie;• an4 I you have no heed of ourpraists, we are of opiuic-ii. 'o xever, that it belongs to our (IffICz to return thanks t great and good God for what H nas done by yju, 'xcelleot man, whom He has sent amongst the Swiss as a p' a-utr of the true Gospel, and as a restorer of the Cath, I'c nurch, aud whose efforts he ha^ deigned to faYour-wh,, mission he has crowned with a hlppv- success. We have r a with an intense joy and admiration the lectures which have delivered at Geneva, and which were scattered over il parts by the public prints and we fervently ak Godt rtify, direct, and enlighten you by His Spirit, so th. re-es- tablished by your care,_ the faith and discipli "f the Church shall flourish again in her beauty without st m. and shall shine once more in their pristine puritv. £ .1 'ation, excellent man. Look on us as the devoted frie:ni of vour labours.—Given at Riseholnje, near Lincoln, the 5 l. June, 1873." The attitude of Ultramontanism towards mod^r o liberty and nationality is well expressed in the foKowip. assage from the Paris letter of the Westminster Gazette A revo- luti m thst frees man from the Yoke of Chri< cm • "be a prize, because, though it allows man to do exa r v as he likes in this wor d, it plunges him for all eternity irro hell- fire. A revolution to be a prize must not be cmtrai o the law of God, to the principles laid down by t"i-t; it must correct abuses, do awav with privilege, v ut de- stroying religion and principle, without putuu.: up a human system and calling tha,1 system a religion A re- volu'ion, in one word. to be a prize, must have i ir both religion and principle That is why the Comte T) 1 ham- bord is the greatest revolutionist of his age, ann -.) the greatest prize all he wants to do is to restore F ice to its ancient prestige, restore religion and do away v. i h in. fidelity, restore Frenchmen into men who will UHVCT again surrender themselves at Sedan; restore confidence. ,ind do away with Communist cut-throats restore the principle of the white fla: and do away with the system of the t r olour flag which has brought such sad ruins on France."

FACTS AND FANOIES. Pji.gkim.-s ,um PILGRIMS—Ancient Pilgrim—Ah fair sir all is changed since my tune! Jso peas IDI J OU now-no toil—ro robbery-no danger-e/eryth^ made e-nsv in f nmte a pleflcinh excu't-Mn. grim—"No robbery?—no danger? Does °gC^a(je" by my venerable friend, that our 'pilgrimages rail ?' (Ancient Pilgrim shuts "P ™sts UD the fol- A barkeeper in Virginia city, Nevada,P P lowing "regulations" by his bar■: pay c0in for what buy them at this bar; ent a light mucl1,^1J frieIlds to you get; drink hght, but oftc'n tQ gpar t]ie bar- drink do'.i t beg tooth-p, c -> don't steal the daily keeper; keep six-shooters unc0^ a Daper=> be virtuous and von will be happy. paper.. <e wnuous, auu fc arg y f(m(j An aged couple on a ^ntlv. When he beats at checkers, *1 play qm £ 1'Q { d ;h„ wi!] n,)t the game she loses her ^have her act so, hut h„ Cl,n. play ^ain-. an(j talks to her about it. He tells her trols ir people at their a^e in life to be disturbed bv^such 'tnfles, and shows her so clearly the folly of such a course that she becomes ashamed of her weakness, and r turns to the game and plays so well that she bears him. Then he throws the checkers in one direction and kicks the board i.. another, and says he will never play with anybody who eb,-ats,o alifire(Ily, and s .alks moodily to bed andleaves het to p;ck up the things.. SOME KACTS FOR MR. DARWIN.—Mr Darwin and other u.\turalists, in seekiiig to define the L „„ •which d s'inguish man from the lower ^j.)r, omitted to mention one very remarkable ^inalH;?a;or' i, is the only ••■nimul that blows his '}' y()WS it. The a nose nearly two feet long, bu. I tickle his hind elephant can reach over wi h« g Th(, b,u__ legs, and often dees bvit ^e n nose lbb?\I\^as;l°|l:tutIit goes unblown. The double- STpI h- P.n"»-e„r»p,ci,y fur blowing, b», W never will; and the oyster, whose nose reaches clew around to its back, refrains from exercising it. Man alone has reached to the height of a pocket-handkerchief, and he nroudiy waves bis bandanna as a sufficient evidence of his immortality.—Amtrimn F'lp?V. The Memphis Presbyterian tells the following good story ii, his buggy alone, not h:.g ago in going to one of his appointments, one of our good brethren in the Pre«byte-v of Memphis overtook a tramp with his carpet bag in Iiis haiid. The roads were muddy, and he was just at the time about enteringfa miry bottom. With the polit.e ness for which he is noted he asked the pedestrian (an entire stranger) if he would take a seat in the buggy until, at least, they had crossed the mud and mire. The invitation was readily accepted, and the conversation for a'time was^ ree and easy, about things ordinary and general, rrese y, however, the good brother, with a view to versatiou profitable, asked the stranger if he Y die. Not knowing the character of the person who had invited him to a seat with him, and misapprehending his mea; irg, and suspecting foul play, he waited nOo to reply but sprang from the buggy, and ran for life through slush and water. The clerical brother wishing to assure the stranger that he meant no harm, called to him ar, the top of his voice to stop. But this only hastened his speed, and like a scared hare he ran until beyond hear- ing and sight, In his hastv flight he left his carpet sack, which our brother now has in his possession, being richer for hi* faithfulness bv the addition of a coanle hlrt, A Tmir of th. t.:irl>iuro frr.iuera and a little "backer. A writer iu an Oxford paper tells the/"j^veftenkv it I went to Peterborough^ Catheja^ kee awake e-uriyig the service. The attendance was what I should call a bumper,' and you may depend upon it no one had left their best 'togs' behind them—not to mention the ladies. Well, whilst the Dean was reading the service, the dim religious light that fell through the stained windows on to the shaded floor was suddenly spotted by the appearance of a black bird, which, though a black bird, was not a black bird, but a magpie or jackdaw, or whatever you call those chattering imps. Perched himself on an empty pew near the reading desk he listened for a few minutes very at- tentively to the responses, merely hol.iinghia head wise y on one side, and occasionally beating tun with his beak on the f dee of the Dew to the intonations of the choir, The reading- ag:1in commenced, but be hgid evidently had enough of it, for he began to talk excitedly, and seemed to be pro- muRitiu" a law in an unknown tongue, aI, ogether adverse to the Dean's. Owing to his defective articulation, how- ever, it was difficult to arrive at his real sentiments, but that they were entirely heterodox may be gathered from his concluding words, which were, "Jack, Jack, shin up, and frequently and emphatically repeated. \V hen the choir began to sing the anthem, he left the empty pew and flew across the chancel, perched himself within snapping distance of a little red rosy cheeked boy, whose ruddy face was, no doubt, a tempting bait to this feathered cannibal. One of the choristers attempted to catch the bird, but 'Jack flew away, and lighted on the sacramental cup which contained the wine, which latter this sacreligious bird com- menc, d to imbibe, till driven away by the presence of the verger, whom the bird irreverently called Pickles Pickles which so exasperated the former, that he rushed upon his feathered victim and upset the chalice, the bird maliciously screaming as oth^r'assistance cauftt^rii-re^ ft and carried him out in triumph, Jack all the while screaming Llir 'Shut up, tat, rs, pickles, here's a row, to the infinite amusement of ill juveniles present, and to the astonish- ment and,, of course, indignation of all old aud religious adults like your obedient servant."

<<!) The ordinary general meeting of the Carmarthenshire Anthiacite Coal and Iron CompDiiV wiis held at the .Ter- minus Hotel, Cannon-street, London, on bept. lbt, Mr J. W. Johcs in the chair. Tlierepoit stated that notwith- standing the rise it. wages Mid material, and the manner in which contracts III hitid and taken over had been thereby affected, the profits of the year permitted the payment of a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, par annum for the year ending oOJi me k,st, and the carrying forward of £ 309 to credit of profit and loss. Ihe Chairmnn stated that there were two items refeired to in the auditors' report that of the stock, which *a« s-t down at los per ton, which they thought rather too high but he imghc say that the whole had since b.en s„ld at that price, which must be rPgarded as very satisfactory. T ben as to the purchase mon^y Un- paid and the iuterest tnereon, he blight sUte that the pay- ment was spread over a period ot six °f the directors showed them tue s'-ate oi the companj s, affairs. Th'-labour question was au unfavourable consideration, the collieis appearing to h .ve the best of the masters o e pre- sent, but he hoped the action the masters were taking lute matter voiill bring about a better soate of tbniLS. Ile c v- V returned from visiting the works, and had to inform fciV meeting that they were progressing very satisfactorily ■wi. h the new pit, and might be expected to be putting out large quantities of coal in October next. Everything was very encouraging- and he hoped when he next had the pleasure of meeting the shareholders to be enabled to re- comrHfnd an increased dividend. The report wps adopted and the dividend declared. Morning Post.

A few evenings ago Mr Roberts, jan., of Lledwigan, incrlpKea. left Bangor in a small boat to proceed to Llys- d«lM With a ere- of tw-n lads. who. like himself, knew little about the management of the craft. The wind blew them from shore, and they found themselves helpless, at the mercv of a rough sea, and with no light. There was nothing for it but to shout, in the hope of attracting help, and shout they did till two o'clock the following morning, when a Liverpool pilot-boat heard and rescued them five or six miles off Point Lynas. SOEES, BAD BREASTS SOUE LEGS, King's Evil, Sore Heads, St. Anthony's fire, scrofula eruptions,^ burns, all wounds and skin diseases. Such complaints disnppe^r in a miraculously short time and the scource of mischief is extracted by the use of HUMPHREY'S (PORTMADOC) GLYCEROARNICINE OINTMENT, as many thousands can testify who have been cured, after having suffered many years. It is surprising the numbers of old wounds that have b?en completely cured in a short time (to the wonder of all), doing aWtiy with the use of crutches in a few weeks. Numbers have been cured who have suffered frightfully for over forty years, and has long given up all hope. Many cases discharged from Hospitals, Infirmaries, and given up by Doctors us incurable Testimonials and directions with each box. The following are extracts of testimonials, and are published only by permission :—Mrs Jones, Ruddland, had 16 ulcers in her leg for 27 years, and was cured bv this ointment; Mr Griffith Lloyd, Tremadoc, sore leg for 40 years, cured; Mr Ellis Roberts, Pantyclegor, Maen- wrog, bad leg for 46 years, cured Mr Robert Williams I'enrhos, Bangor, bad leg for 38 years, cured; Mr Wm' Jones, Penrhyndeudraeth, had 34 ulcers on his leg for 12 years, was cured. Ask for Humphrey's (Portmadoc) Glyceroarnicine Ointment. Hold by all Chemists, in boxes 4.2 'f thonrriran 4' each; and for stamps £ 0Stiw'i vtttr'tHe1'?ry Humphrey, Portmadoc, North ales. Wholesale of all medicine houses in Great Britain.

[ NO i'KS, and /i ab, 0,1 swjicci* interesting to ty'tUnf and Of, iJo'den. wiV >><?• addrvwi to Caxton Works, Osw,stry. Elcfti t<t"K.! wid faddirpssGs must be sent, in confidence, and the writing must, be legible. Old news- papers, books and MS.S. carefully used and promptly returned

September 10, 1873. NOTES. ROYAL VISITS TO "WALES.—I observe that the North Wales Chronicle of August 30, gives an account of a visit paid to Holyhead by George IV., in August, 1821. The information is derived from an old broad sheet "printed at the Venodocian Press, Trefriw." A very full account of this visit will be found in Parry's Royal Progresses in Wales, pp. 421-426, with very superior engravings of the Landing at Holyhead; Plas Newydd (the seat of the Marquis of Anglesea), where his Majesty rested and the Triumphal Arch erected at Holyhead. Another Roval Visit has been noticed in Bye-gones, Decembtr 20, 1871, when George, then Prince of Wales, planted an oak in Mont- gomeryshire in 1806 and in the same week's issue the visit of the Princess Victoria to Beaumaris Eisteddfod was noticed. NEMO.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD DAVIES, THE WELSHPOOL QUAKER. (Aug. 13, 1873.) The Priest and the Quaker— Davies continued at Welsh- pool, and, by the man, at least, he was treated as a parishioner, for, says our hero,—"Some time after this he sent the clerk of the parish to me for Easter-reckonings. I asked the clerk, whether his master did expect anything of me, that had nothing from him and bid him tell his mas- ter,' I would come to reckon with him by and by. So the clerk went his way. And in a little time I made myself ready. When I went to him. there were a pretty many people with him. I I'^m, nis cierk had been v?ith iui urn him, for that which he called Easter reckonings, and I was come to reckon with him if he coull make it ap- pear I owed him anything, I would pay him, and I ex- pected the same from him. He said, I owed him for several years for the Sm-meut. I asked him, what he meaned by the word sacrament, for I found no such word in the Scripture; he said, It meaned the bread and wine which were used in the church. I told him, I received none of him, and therefore not liable to P^y- "-e ^nswered acain Why then you might come to church and receive it i told him, I did not believe that church was the true Church of Christ; and I did not believe he was a true minister of Christ, commissioned by Him to break the bread, and give it to the people; much less to sell it, or take money for it of the people for I did not read in all the Scripture, that the true ministers of Christ did take money of the people for that bread they delivered unto them. He said then, that the labourer was worthy of his hire; and under the law it was said, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. I told him he trod out no corn for me and though he was an hireling, yet I never hired him. 0 The people coming thick to pay him for the bread and wine, I a-ked him, how in conscience he could take s) much money for so little bread and wine it being, I sup- pose. about ten pence for man and wife. I asked him what Scripture he had for it; and desired him to prove his prac- tice by Scripture. He asked me, What Scripture I had to eat flummery. I told him I had Scripture to eat it. Paul said to Timothy, For every creature of God is go,,d and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanks- giving for it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer (1 Tim. iv 4-5). His communicants who were present, were much dissatisfied that he had no better answer and proof for his practice. So I desired the people to take notice, that he could not make it appear by Scripture, that I owed him anything but I told them that he owed me some money, and I desired him to pay me which he did, SO we parted fairly. We have a saying, That even, or often reckonings make long friends. He was veiv friendly after. wards, and never sent to me more for E Ister-Reckoning, And as for the tithe, in time of harvest, he charged his servants to take from me no more than their due, nor so much. I waw informed he should say, He knew not why he should take anything frome roe, seeing I had nothing from him. He lived here among U3 many years, a good neighb >ur and though in the time of great persecution, yet be had no hand in persecuting any of us." This was in 1663 or 1664, and Davies then went to Lon- don again; and there he found some old Friends fallen away from the faith. One John Perrot, who had arrived from prison in Rome With much seeming humibty' spoke evil of Friends that had borne the burden and heat of the day," as dead and formal." Davies, always im- pressionable, joined, with others, the standard of Perrot, and they kept on their hats in time of prayer." Whilst this "veil of darkness" was on him, he thought lightly of George Fox and other old associates, which was a great grief to him. But the "veil of darkness was rent," and he I returned to "Welshpool rejoicing,—only to find his way to his old quarters in prison QUERIES. DOLFIN ABBAS, LLANDINAN.—In the Arch. Cambrensis for 1860, p. 330, appear some charters extracted by the Rev. Robert Williams, M.A., from an in- teresting volume which was destroyed in the lamentable fire at Wynnstay; "DoISn Abbas, Llandinan," appears as witness to one of these charters. Is there anything fur- ther known of this Dolfin. who was a contemporary of Madoc, Prince of Powys, who died 1160 ? Where is Llan- dinan ? It cannot be a misprint for Llandinam for there was no abbey in the latter parish, neither can I find any mention of the existence of one iu the parish of Llanidan. REMAH. DR SACHEVERELL.—Who presented the living of Selattvn, Oswestry, to this impudent theologian when was it presented—and why was it presented ? I ask be- cause there are conflicting accounts in the various notices of his life. According to Price's History of Oswestry (p. 71), the living was presented to the Doctor in 1709, not so much on account of its value, as to give him an opportunity of making a progress through the extent of the kingdom, and of trying the inclinations of the people in the rich and populous counties he was to pass through." The same work fjoes on to say that his trial before the Peers began the 27th Feb., 1710, and ended the 31st Mar." So accord- ing to this the Doctor's triumphal march preceded his trial. Cathrall, in his account ( Hist, of Os. p. 87), no doubt cor- rectly places the presentation after the tiial, and he also says "A Gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of s- westry, Robert Lloyd, Esq., of Aston, sympathized with the suffering Sacheverell, and became his friend. Mr Liov, i had been the doctor's pupil at Magdalen College, Oxford and as the rectory of Selattyn, in his gift, became vacant at this juncture, he preseuted it to the high-church m'teor." In the New and General Biographical Directory (1784) it is stated that the Doctor had "the valuable rectory of St. Andrews, Holbourn, given him by the Queen, Ap. 13,1713." Was Dr Sacheverell in residence at Selattyn during his suspension," and did he ever do duty there ? ° PURITAN. LORD CHANCELLOR BROMLEY. In the old M.S. I have previously quoted I find the following:- April 5, 1585, Lord Chancellor Bromley died a great friend to Shropshire." In what way was this friendship shewn ? SCHROBBESBUBY. REPLIES. HOUR GLASSES IN CHURCHES (Ang. 13, 1873).-Attached to the pulpit in Easthope church, near Much Wenlock, is an old hour glass. It stands in an ornamental iron frame which bears the date 1662, and the initials S. S., with a heart between. In January, 1866, it was shown at a meeting of the Arhseological Society of Great Britain. At a visit of the Severn Valley Field Club to Easthope in the same year, it was stated that very few ot these glasses now exist. WREKIN. HOLY WELLS (Mar. 6, 1872).—PEARMAIN gave some interesting extracts from the Rev. D. R. Thomas's new book on St. Asaph, touching Welsh Wells where pins were offered for the cure of warts and sore eyes, and PAJO (June 11, 1873) told us something about one at Llanfair- Caereinion, the liquid from which was known as eye- water.' In audition to these, Notes and Queries, vol 6, p. 497, had a record of a similar well at Sawr, a little hamlet about six miles from Llandilo Fawr. in Carmar- thenshire, which was "much resorted to for the cure of sore eyes," also of a "Holy Well" on Cefyn Bryn (a mountain which runs down the peninsula of Gower), which was supposed to be under the patronage of the Virgin Mary, and where "a crooked pin is the offering of every visitor." Another well, mentioned in N. & Q.J (vol. 6, p. 96), between Tenby and Milford Haven, not only cured sore eyes, but scrofula, dropsy, and other complaints No doubt there are other wells in Wales quite as wonderful, if contributors would communicate what they have heard about them. TAFFY. PRISONERS OF WAR IN OSWESTRY (July 9, 1873).-The tombstones referred to by JARCO stand under the elms in the corner of the churchyard near Lloran Cottage. There were originaily, I think, seven or eight of them, but on visiting the spot a short time ago I could only find three this might be owing to the length of the grass, which would conceal the remainder, some of them being very small. The tomb more particularly referred to is easily found, although in my late visit I did not at encr. recognize it. It is a regular four-sided structure, and was originally decorated with some well-executed sculpture. Now, however, most of this has disappeared, and the whole has, apparently not long ago, been renovated, and some of the inscriptions obliterated. In a lozenge on the north side is the following :— Ci Git I.. I. C. Fagost, Capitaine d'Artillerie de Marine au 4ieme regiment, etranger, mort prisonnier de guerre a Oswestry, le 7 Avril, age de 45 ans." (The year is not given). Opposite to this is a similar lozenge, but the inscription has been erased. On this side, if I mistikenot, was a motto in the so-called "Mock Hebrew or cabalistic characters" hich really were a cypher tolerably well known, the first eighteen letters being formed by me;,lls of two pairs of lines crossing each other at right angles, and the remaining eight of a St. Andrew s cross. On the east end is inscribed :— "Natus pro gloria, iV Vixit gloriole, ( Et pro patria sua mortuus est.' Within a short distance is another memorial, originally a headstone, but now laid flat and mounted on a plinth seemingly of recent date. This is in memory of a Baron of the Empire, and bears on the top a coat of arms, the shield of which reminds us of our own Shropshire logger- heads." It would seem, but this is only conjecture on my part, that the relatives of the deceased, in these two in- stances, had recently gone to some expense in order to show respect to their memory. BEN STARCH.

TIPYN 0 BOB PETH. Mr Whalley returned home from America last week. He is to have a Conservative opponent at the next election. Mr iionnor, stationmaster at Wrexham, has been pro- moted to Swindon. The case of sacrilege at Mold, reported in our last, was at the Euglisii Congregational Church, not the Parish Church. The Denbigh magistrates have agreed to allow the public houses to be kept open till eleven on week days, on the understanding that the f ublicans will close them altogether on Sundays. Joseph Williams, charged with the manslaughter of a horse dealer named George Mills at Ruthin, has been dis- charged by the magistrates, who believe that the blow given bv him was entirely in self-defence. The Rev. Samuel Evans, of Pontblyddyn. at one time curate of Ruabon, has been preferred by the Bishop of St. Asaph to the living of Llysfaen (£300 per annum). The Merthvr Guardians have decided that all permanent paupers under sixty-five years of age shall be brought before the Board, to have their cases investigated, in batches of ten a week. A few days ago a man named John Hughes was adjust- ing a strap at the Birmingham Wasgon Works, Chester, when his arm got entangled in the machinery and torn from its socket. He died at the infirmary. Speaking at Chester the other night, Miss Becker said they had been told that this country had drunk itself free from the Alabama penalty, but it bad only been done at the expense of the wives and families of the drinkers." The Chester Chronicle points out that this was an unfortunate remark in a city which has become almost notorious for the number of drunken women apprehended in its streets. The Shrewsbury Chronicle, once the organ of Whiggism in Shropshire, under the heading "Liberal Programme for next Session," gives, in the place of a leader," bitter ex- tracts from the Standard and the Manchester Courier. The Chronicle scarcely needs to be so demonstrative in its professions of Toryism nobody can doubt that its con- -=ion is genuine. In the report of t^ie great fair at Barnet last week, we read—In the Welsh cattle fair there was a great falling off in the supply this year, and healthy beasts were in good demand: well-grown steers at E15 to kIS per head second ditto and heifers £10 to kl3 and Welsh milking cows, R12 to 216. At a meeting of the Dee Commissioners the other day, Captain Bush reported that during the past season the num- ber of fish to have been taken by nets in the Dee was—salmon. 1834 grilse, 2458 sea trout, 1464 making a total of 5,756. The average weight of each fish taken he had estimated at 131hs.. and at Is. per lb..the value of the fish bken would be 1-3,741. At the annual meeting of the Crewe licensed victuallers last week, it was resolved, That this association, being desirous to carry out the existing law of the land, consider it their duty to assist the authorities by every legal means to prevent parties trading during prohibited hours, well knowing that the practice, wherever it exists, brings the trade into disrepute." In an official list of Loans to School Boards from the Public Works Loan Commissioners, up to the 31st of May last, we find the following :lberystwyth, 25,765; Car- digan, E2,200 Beddgelert, £ 3514s. Id Ruaben, £ 4,011 7s FetmlOg, £ 3,070 > Gwyddelwern V,767 Llanf or, E680 Llanycii, £1,245 Llandinam. 900; Trefeglwvs, 91,563. At Wrexham, where the magistrates adopted the earliest closing hours allowed by law, the number of drunkards proceeded against in 1872 was 100; in 1873 it was 154. At Bromfield, with the same hours, the number increased from 29 to O- At Ruabon, where half an hour longer was allowed, there was a decrease from 25 to 17. At Llan- g-ollen and Llansilin there was no material difference. At tiolvwell the convictions increased from 131 to 134. The estate of Mr Thomas Jones, a brewer's traveller, at Llanfairfechan, North Wales, who suddenly disap- peared some months since, and was afterwards made a bankrupt by his creditors, has realised a first and final divi- dend of 14s. 3d. in the pound. No positive informa- tion has been received of Jones, since his disappearance, but it is sup, o 'ed that he ii an active member of the Carlist army in Spin! The Court Journal is responsible tor thetollowing:- At the eisteddfod of Mold. Mr Gladstone's allusion to the bsautits of Llarifairpwllgwyngyllgogervchwyrndrobwllty- silio^ogocfc rather puzzed most men of letters. The meanintr of this wonderful collocation of letters is now said to be The Church of St. Mary by the foot of the white baz'ls. near the whirlpool «f St. Tysiiio Rupert the Red.' Mr Disraeli cannot do better than consult our contem- porary, the Chester Courant. The leader of the Tories an- nounced in his famous speech that his party had no pro- gramme, and could not be expected to have one until he had ransacked the papers of the Government offices. The Courant knows better. The principles of the Conserva- tives are fixed," and their policy is pronounced The policy" of "abusing the plaintiff's attorney" is the only one of which the party has yet given any sign. In one of its periodical attacks upon Mr Osborne Morgan, the Wrexham Guardian coolly asserts that he won the favour of the constituency at first by working upon its weak points-namely, the ignorant and religious big.,try of the lower strata among the electors." The language is not very elegant, but let that pass. To assert, however, that a member who was elected by Welsh Protestants, to do an act of justice to Irish Catholics, won his seat by working upon the bigotry of the lower orders is to show an immense faith in the short memories or gullible minds of the readers of the Guardian. The poor-law guardians of Chester have decided not to adopt the Mettrav system for educating the children. It was not deemed desirable to upset the plans for the new building which is about to be commenced; and it was also believed that the M^ttray system would be more expen- sive. The latter argument is not a good one if, as we imagine there cauj be little doubt, the plan of bringing up pauper children in separate cottages helps to destroy the pauper taint which works such sad mischief in the future. But does not the ordinary system of boarding out effect this most important of all purposes better than any other plan that has yet been devised ? At the Crewe police coart on Thursday, September 4, a man who gave his name as David Brown, was charged with stealing a portmanteau belonging to Dr Brown, a Bradfoid physician. It appeared that the doctor was a passenger from Whitchurch to London, and on arriving at Crewe station he gave his luggage in charge of a porter, who placed it on the platform. It was shortly after- wards mining, and could not be found. Subsequently it was discovered that the prisoner offered the articles, in- cluding three diimond rings, in pledg" to a youth named Arthur Hill, a pawnbroker's assistant, at Burslem. He suspected they were stolen, and gave the prisoner into cus- tody. He was sent to prison for four mjnths, with hard labour. The profound ignorance which still prevails as to the principles and objects of the advocates of State secular education is illustrated in the leading columns of a North Wales coftemporary. Because certain members of the Education League, who have always cared as much for re- ligious training as the most enthusiastic advocate of the sectarian system, have started a society to provide religious instruction for children attending Board schools, our con- temporary says "Some of the Nonconformists are already beginning to show sign3 of distrust in their own pet scheme of "secular education." They are, of course, doing exactly the reverse—giving an additional pledge of their deter- mination to oppose religious education in State schools by providing that it shall be given elsewhere. Mr Gladstone has enough to bear, and so has Mr Lowe, and it is rather too bad that, in their rfckless hits, the Conservatives should lump them together and blame each for the faults" of both. The Cheshire Observer, referring to an alleged rumour that Mr Gladstone will be asked to stand for Chester, says the working men can say de- cisively whether the minister whose conduct the London Trades' Council considers 'calculated to carry out a haughty, heartles, and vindictive policy towards the working el. which their conduct do., s not merit,' is the man for Chester." It happens that the resolution in ques- tion refers to Mr Lowe, and no one but a Tory editor, hard up for some new method of vilifying Mr Gladstone could have dreamed it was intended for him. Many honest tradesmen are, properly-enough, summoned by the inspector for incorrect weights and measures. Some of the offenders may not know how to avoid the unplea- santness. Our contemporary, the Wrexham Advertiser, gives them this i(lvice :First, keep a registrar of all your weights ir: a small book in two separate lists or differ- ent columns. Second, send the weights on the first list on the first Tuesday next month, and the second list on the first Tuesday the following month to be stamped. Third, obtain the signature of the Inspector to each list with the date of stamping. Fourth, send tliam -twice a year, and snap your fingers at the Inspector. So much for your weights, and now for the scales. The general observation of the Inspector is that the scale is fixed with a draught against the purchaser, and that it requires a smaller or larger weight to resto, e the balance perfectly even. This is, of course, a matter that can be regulated every morning when the shop is swept and the counter dusted. Clean your scales and see that the balance is even. Moreover, when they f"re at rest with a we'^t in weight end, see that the cock of point in the centre of the beam is perfectly straight. and in lino with the framework, showing a per- fectly balanced beam." A short time ago Mr John Jones, landlord of the Cock Inn, Barton, received &letter. signed "Cuzner," from Sandi- way Head. engaging stabling for a couple of horses and accommodation for a groom. Soon afterwards a respect- able-looking young man, dressed as a groom, arrived, and began to make arrangements for the horses, which were to follow. After a while he produced a post-office order for £51; 6d, drawn oa Malpas. and asked the landlady to cash it, Or at least, let him have £ 1 10s., as he required that sum to pay for horse boxes; The landlady asked the mm if he did not know that the newspapers had contained cautions against swindlers, but he replied that post-office orders were as safe as Bank of England notes. The land- lady, however, made enquiries of the local post manager, who assured her that the order was all right, upon which she gave the cyro m" Li 10s. He ordered a couple of bran mashes to be prepared by the time of his return, disappeared, and was not seen again. Enquiries at Malpas showed that the order was for Is. 6d., and that R5 had been added. The drawer of the order seems to have for- gotten to comply with the direction that when the sum is only shillings and pence the £ shall be crossed out.

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FROM THE PAPERS. Mr Disraeli has fixed the 19'h of November for his instal- lation as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. The King of the Belgians arrived in Scarborough, on Friday. September 5th. The visit wa- private. 0' We observe that Messrs Bryant and May have been awarded a "Medal of Merit" at Vienna, for their well known Patent Safety Matches, Vestas, &c. Among the papers of the late Duk- of Brunswick there has been found a correspondence with the late Emperor IVapoleon. which is said to be of a very curious character. The Cologne Gazettee learns from Vienna that the Em- peror of Austria will probably be present atthe mairiage of the Duke of Edinburgh, and the tirand Duchess Mane Alexandrowna, at St, Petersburg On Saturday, September 6th, at SKinningrove, near lJar- lington, a boat containing eight miners was carried out to sea, and capsized by a heavy wave. Five of the eight occu- pants were drowned. On Friday afternoon, September 5th, two children were burn to death in an outbuilding filled with straw at War- burton, nea Warrington. It is supposed they Sad set fire to the straw by playing wit;) matches. On Sunday night, September 7th, two gentlemen were drowned off St. Ives by the capsizing of a boat, caused by the occupants endeavouring to change places. Two other persons had a narrow escape. Persons who have received from the Shah the distin- guished decoration of the Order of the Lion and the Sun will be interested, if not pleased, to learn that his Majesty has conferred the same honour upon a conjuror who amused him at Constantinople. M. Thiers, replying to an address presented to him by the French re8ÏdelJts at Lucerne, said that he had found from a life-long experience that it is impossible to found liberty in France under a monarchy, and he has therefore determined to devote the remainder of his life to the fur- therance of a Republican Government. Sir Samuel and Lady Baker are ex:ed to arHve in England during the present month, when fuller details of tSeir ratnns will, It hoed, be communicated to the public through the geographical section of the British Association at the meeting at Bradford. Oil lamps have been substituted for gas in the streets of Drogheda in consequence of the directors of the Gas Light Company having declined to aree to a proposal by th? Corporation that the town lamps should be supplied with gas at a contract price. At Wolverhampton an outbreak of typhoid fever of a most virulent character, which has already attacked sixty persons, has been traced to milk supplied by a dairyman who had plentifully diluted it with water from a well adjoining a house in which there was a case of typhoid fever. Seven children—one of whom, the oldest, is de d—have been poisoned by eating foreign beans picked up about the Liverpool docks. The beans are described as !,ein; fl it, and had apparently been steeped in some poisonous sub- stance for the purpose of killing vermin. The sales "f waste paper from the various public depart- ments reslise something like 216.000 a year. Ab iut £ 8,000 worth of this waste is "confidential" paper, income tax returns, kc., all of which is sold direct tD paper makers, who reduce it to pulp and re-malnu ae- ture it. During the trial of a man and his wife at Leeds the other day for vagrancy, it was stated that the male prisoner, a cripple, had told the police it was a poer day's work for him when he did not make 25s. a day. (Laughter.) It was known, too, that they had been living upon the best of dainties—oysters and similar luxuries-at their lodgings. (Laughter.) They were remanded. By virtue of an act passed in the recent session (36 and 37 Yie, c. 49), the Treasury is empowered to issue k3,000,000 out of the consolidated fund to the public works loan commissioners, to enable them to make loans to school boards m pursuance of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, and to sanitary authorities under the Public Health Act. A terrible fire has occurred at Havana, resulting in the destruction of a square of buildings known as the Plaza Vapor. Twenty lives are said to have been lost, and the value of the property destroyed is estimated at 8,000,000 dollars. The fire i* believed to have been the work of incendiaries, and the supposition is confirmed by the fact that it appeared at all the four corners of the' square simultaneously. There has been a sad sensation at Madras, in consequence of the suicide of Mr Norman Edwird Pogson, son of the Government astronomer, to whom he acted as assistant. The unhappy man was deeply attached to a daughter of a Mrs PatterSon. The father opposed the desired match, upon which the son resigned his appointment in official form, went to Mrs Patterson's, and there put an end to his existence with a pistol. Inconsequence of the decision of the Cortes that the punishment of death should remain part of the military code, the Madrid Min stry resigned last week. The Cortes have elected Senor Castelar president of the executive power, tlnd he has succeeded in forming a ministry. It is announced that he has resolved to call out 150,000 men of the reserve, and to arm 500,000 militia, for the suppression of the Carlist and Communist insurrections.. Mr Piimsoll, M.P., was present on Saturday, September 6th, at the launch of a large iron vessel belonging to Messrs G. Thompson and Co., of London and Aberdeen, at Aberdeen. The ship was named, "Samuel Plimsoll." The member for Derby, after the launch, delivered a speech, in which he sóld the honour done him that day would prove to the people of inland towns that the respectable shipowners were with him in his endeavours to lessen the dangers and perils of those who go down to the sea in shins. A dreadful instance of savage revenge was disclosed at the Lambeth Police Court, on Saturday, September Gth. A young woman, named Dickson, a bo >teloser, was charged with attempting to cause the death of a child six years old, named Rose Alice Catheron. The prisoner avowed that she had tried to kill the child to revenge herself on the child's father, who had ruined her. She had administered precipitate powder to the child, and taken oxalic acid her- self. Both suffered grsatly, and were for some time in danger of dying, but are recovering. The prisoner was re- manded. In the case of the people killed in the Retford railway accident, the coroner's jury has returned a verdict of man- slaughter against the diiver of the fish trda. The ad- journed inquiry conducted on behalf of the Beard of Trade was resumed by Colonel Rich on Saturday, September 6th. In the course of the day Colonel Rich expressed a strong opinion against level crossings, which he said could not be worked without danger, but said it appeared that. Parlia- ment having sanctioned this one, it was out of the power of the Board of Trade to make any alteration. The in- quirv was adjourned sine die. King Victor Emmanuel will set out from his capital on he 20th September. He will spend eight days at the Court of Amtra. Two of his Ministers, MM. Minghetti, President of the Council, and Visconti Venosta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will accompany him. The political significance of the visit is no longer doubted. All the Italian journals agree in dwelling on it, and foreign journals equally admit it. A letter from Vienna to the Pesth Lloyd savs: 'The visit of the King of Italy to Vienna is looked foiward to in diplomatic circles with the most lively in- terest. The visit of the King of Italy to Berlin and Vienna is regarded as a guarantee of the greatest import- ance for the maintenance of good relations. Sir H. S. Ibbetson suggests that, in connection with railway trains, a continuous brake that will app'y itself at once to all the carriages should be adopted. He says the brake p )wer in present use, applying, as it does, only the dead weight of the van it is fitted upon to stop the train, has been long shown to be insufficient, even where coai- panies are in the habit of running more brake-vans with trains than is generally the practice; while the time lost in screwing the brakes down is always valuable time wasted, and in cases of emergency united action between the men in charge of the different brakes throughout a train is almost impossible. The advantages of a system of con- tinuous brakes may be summed up by saying that they can be applied by any one in charge of the train univer- sally over the train, that they apply instantly the dead weight of the whole train in reduction of the speed, and that where a breakage or disconnection occurs, the very fact itialf brings the brake into action. The British JIedical Journal says that the epidemic of Asiatic cholera at Havre has assumed a serious character, and has caused much excitement in the population. Of twenty-one civilians treated in hospital nine have suo- cumbed soon after admission, with grave symptoms. Of twelve soldiers attacked during the week, five have died. in the -fatal cases the rapidity of the onset, the short dura- tion of the affection, and the violence of the symptoms have been -remarked. The concealment of the general civil mortality, which is considerable, causes increased alarm. The cholera was imported by ships arriving from infected ports in Germany. Montevilliers and Harfleur and the suburbs havebeen equally affected by th^ epidemic, but details are wanting. The disease has also' appeared' in Rouen, where, according to a French medical journal on August the25 h there had been seventy-four cases' with thirty-nine deaths, in the two hospitals At the recent meeting of the Institute of South Midland Engineers at Woiverhampton, Mr E. Jones, mining en- gineer of the Lilleshall Iron and Coal Engineering Com- r>any- said experience had shown that the quantity of fuel left unworked in our best coalfields was less than the coal commissioners estimated. He was therefore inclined to the opinion of Sir William Armstrong that the country was nearer the end of its fuel supply than the out- side worM had any idea of. Let the members take as an illustration the counties of Stafford, Worcester, and Shrop- shire, and view them in relation to our future supply. The first yielded an annual output of ten millions of tons, and the quantity brought to bank throughout Shropshire was in proportionlto that in Staffordshire. At this rate of consumption, and if no further fields were discovered, a few more years would see the exhaustion of the supplies of best furnace and house coal in those counties. Speaking of his own county (Salop) he regretted to say that the end was not far off. They were making no new discoveries. Boring in the north of the county, at Child's Ercall, had been conducted to a depth of 1,100 feet without trace of coal, and though C6,000 and five years of time bad been spent, yet it had t'ow to be suspended. The borino-s made on the Preston Hospital estate, near Wellington, touched the igneous rocks at a depth of 300 feet, thus confirming the opinion he had expressed in a paper to the Severn Valley Field Club in 1866. As recently as Saturday last, Lord Hill ceased boring at Woollerton, the igneous rocks having been found at :!85 feet. He had recommended that the work should stop at 300 feet, for previous sink- ings had led him to conclude that there W..s nothing Hit drift clay overlying the upper new red sandstone. Finally on the east side of the field near to Shifnal, the around was found to be much broken and faulty, with strong evi- dences of denudation. Unless the trial sinkings at .indwell and other places should prove successful, te rewwin- nings, at Cannock would not make up fur the rapid ex- haustion of the thick coal in and around Bilston, Dudley, and other places.

Mitirat. t Mr W. H. Gladstone, son of the Premier, a(Urt"in his constituents at Whitby on Thursday night, September 4rh, ol jected to the English Church disestablishment dis- turbing the present politics. If they wanted disestablish- ment. they must get another leader. The Premier :-ought that the question belonged not to him, but to a: r era, which he was not the man to inaugurate, and which would not arrive until the prominent figures of to-day had i)ssed awav. The "Independent member," writing in the Birmingharn Post, says-" I am told that the great measure m next session will undoubtedly be something financial, but whether it will be the abolition of the income tax it i- diffi- cult to say. How would the country take the abolition of tbe malt tax ? It would be immensely popular with the farmers, and would do no more to turn the- hearts of the agricultural constituencies to Mr Gladstone ihan the reduction of the county franchise, the first effect d which would certainly be Conservative. But whether it lie the malt tax which is to fall or not, we may take it for granted that this time next year if all goes well we shall be living practically under a new fiscal system." The Western Morning News publishes the following letter letter, addressed by the Dowagr Marchioness of "West- minster to Mr Danby Seymour, the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Shaftesbury:— "lotcollibe House, August 22. Is73. Dear Sir,—I beg you to excuse my intrudiuL- on vour time with a few words to set you right on some particulars respecting myself. As you announced in a spetch a few days ago that there was a false impression that I was deeply interested in the coming election for Sha'te.sbury,' I beg to undeceive you, and to assure you that vou are entire'y mistaken; and that I am most anxiou- for the success of the Conservative cause, connected as it is with the preservation of our religion and our loyalty to the Queen. In this feeling I am only following" up the con- viction of those whom I have most honoured and revered that what were formerly tetmed Whigs and Libera s have now degenerated into radicals and revolutionists. I am also aware that your relisious principles differ vprv widely from my own, and therefore I cannot be surprised that in your possible ignorance or disregard of the fifth command- ment you have considered it a justifiable policy to induce a son to openly defy his mother. I remain, dear sir. truly vours, E. M. WESTMINSTER." Mr Seymour replied to the above that he was extremely grieved to receive so very severe a letter, and, as he con- sidered, hardly deserved exnlaining that Lord Richard Grosvenor was a member of the Liberal Governmen t, and could hardly have remained neutral.

EXTRAORDINARY SMASHING CASE. On Saturday, September 6th, at the Bow-street police court, London, Henry Williams, a respectably dressed man of about thirty years of age, was charged on remand, be- fore Mr Flowers, with beJli: g ten counterfeit half-crowns to ElizaGiffard, and al-o with having lOcounteifeit half-crowns and eight florins in his possession. Eliza Giffard, a dress- maker, residing at Kensington, whose evidence was some- what remarkable, stated that in August last she was tried at the Old Bailey, with her husband, on the charge of passing bad money. He was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for the offence, but she was discharged, on the ground that she was his lawful wife. Soon after her discharge, she went to the Paddington police station, where she saw detective Urban, of the X division, and she re- ceived the sum of 3s. 6d. in silver, which was privately marked, and certain instructions from him. She went to a public house namtd the Shin, and while she was there, the prisoner entered and shook hands with her. She told him, in reply to his questions, that her husband was sentenced to seven years. Tbf prisoner said that he was sorry to hear it, but congratulated witness on being acquitted, and said that he would do all he could for her. Witness' said that she wanted some coin, and asked him when he was going to see Tom, the seller." The prisoner replied that Tom was not selling now, and that he (prisoner) was Koing to see the "maker." Witness said she wanted lOi. worth,but not in 5s. pieces, as they were so "awkward," 80 si,e pre- ferred them in half-crowns. The prisoner said that he would bring her half a load of halves." Witness agreed to meet the prisoner at a public house in Tottenham Court- road. He kept his appointment rather late, and said he was sorry to disappoint, but the maker was on the drink. The result was that another appointment was made. The second appointment was kept, and ten counterfeit half- crowns were given to witness, who paid 3s. 6d., marked by the police, for them. The prisoner asked her what she was going to do with them, as he knew some one who would "work well" with her. He added that all the coins he could get were twenty-eight. The ten which he gave her were wrapped up in blue paper. Witness then gave the warning to two police officeis, who entered The prisoner then called out, Land.ord, landlord, have this woman searched. She has Counterfeit coin in her possession. She has had half a load of monev iaVlT STtm P°cket-5'" was appre- hended, arid,the coin found upon him. T-he prisoner cross- examined witness for nearly two hours with a view to show- ing that she had placed the money in his pocket, and that she had conspired with the police to get him into trouble The evidence of several police officers was adduced and the prisoner was fully committed for trial.

ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT Three persons were killed an 1 manv i-inre,! accident on the South-Western R-i'wav a railway Guilford and Godalming, to the 12 ->j nn Z"esd;4-V' between mouth. Ten carriages were thrown np"tr?lin Ports- arcnont is sail to have been^a™ dTv 7 Th° the line. u u. & uuau'jK stravms; on

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