The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

FROM THE PAPERS. The death of Strauss and Herman Merivale is announced. Paris, Tuesday.—M. Michelet the eminent historian is dead. The coroner's jury on Tuesday found a verdict of Wil- ful murder" against Thomas Lynch for stabbing his brother-in-law, Stephen Mooney, on Saturday. At Dublin Commission Court, on Tuesday, Ann Mar- shall was acquitted on the charge of poisoning a bombardier named Donaldson. In the Queen's Bench on Tuesday the action, Poles v. the Times for a libel, alleging the plaintiff bad obtained possession of papers belonging to M. Thiers with a view to extortion, terminated in a verdict for plaintiff, damagfs fifty pounds. I In the Divorce Court on Tuesday the petition of the Rev. Newman Hall for divorce was ordered to be tried by the Court itself. The Taff Yale Railway dividend will be at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, with bonus of one per cent. After a singular chequered career Professor Anderson, the NVizird of the North," died last week at Darlington, in the sixty-first year of his age. He was a native of Aber- deenshire, and had tlavelecl over the whole world in pursuit of his vocation as a conjuror. In the course of his life he made and lost several fortunes, and it will he re- membered that he was lessee of Covent Garden theatre when it was last burnt down during a bal masque. Baton Meyer de Rothschild, who had for poma time been in a critical condition, died shortly before eleven o'clock on Friday morning, Feb. 6. The deceased was the youngest of the four sons of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the founder of the English branch of the Rothschild family. One or two facta given by the Times correspondent of the ball given by the Emperor of Buss.a, at the Winter Palace will be read with interest. ''In thefirst place,"the cor- respondent says, the ball room was lit by o 6W wax^ghts. and the whole suite of saloons and supper room y The exact number of persons who sat down to s PP- 1,950, and your readers may judge of Ine cost ci when I say that one dish, of which there was far mor^ than enough for all, was of exceedingly fine asparagus. Now they tell me that asparagus in St. Pettrabugh, at this time of the year, for a supper of 2,000 persons, could not possibly have been bought for less than four thousand roubles, or between five and six hundred pounds." The counter demonstration of the Roman Catholics at St. James's Hall drew quite as large and resolute a crowd as as the original Protestant meeting. The Duke of No: folk presided, and a series of resolutions were passed-all moved and seconded by laymen. The first, proposed by the Earl of Gainsborough, expressed sympathy with the German Catholics in their sufferings under the new penal laws. ihe second, moved by Lord Howard of Glossop, denounced those laws as contrary to the rights of conscience. I he third, which was introduced by the Earl of Denbigh, charged the German'Government with an abuse of power in suppressing religious communities against which there was no evidence of crime or of disloyalty- Since the capture of the Kraton by the Dutch troops, the Acheenese chiefs have retreated into the interior, where they have erected forts. The Dutch commander, however, believes that the enemy is no longer in a position to offer a. formidable resistance, and he is waiting to see what attitude the less hostile portion of the people will assume before he recommences operations. It is rumoured that the Sultan of Acheen is dead. The co ,-an,,cr of the Garhat army besieging Bilbao gave notice, on Feb. 4th, that at the end of ei-lit days he Would commence to bombard the town, and that in the meantime such of the inhabitant, aa <Wed would be allowed to leave. The inhabitants are therefore leaving the town in large numlm-?. n his illustrious The Emperor of Russia, an( T, guests have arrived again in St. Petersburg^. y g 0p!CeiVe,d at the railway station by the Ora the Princ„ (lfa^ Ms Staff. Before returning to Ln-;r ] 0f honour has htpS Will visit Cronstadt, and a naval o»' of Edinburgh told off for the occasion. The -L)Uv" Petersbur g'f thanking the English residents ot: • dearest wish their address of congratulation, said it was ciatio of the Duchess and himself that the ties o tween the two countries, which had so lor'i-. JJ imDortar.fc results to their industry and cfinime'c" be still further confirmed and strengthened. f A railway accMent, as usual, resulted from tne oa which prevailed last week. The Great Western from Bristol was proceeding from Swindon to konco a crnrvis train aot in its way and was run over. The guar! of the express train was killed on the spot. A cor- respondent writing from Bath says:—" Painful suspense and much excitement. was_ created in 3ath this evening by the arrival of an authentic report that the three o'clock express, in wh;.ch it was known Colonel Hayter (the newly elected member for Bath) and his wife were passengers, had come into collision at West Drayton with a coal train. Anxiors inquiries were made in every direction where elec- tors had friends capable of obtaining the information, but it was some hours before news that the new m< nil). r avid his lady were uninjured was obtained. It is most singular that the officials at the Bath station had prepared a. art- ment in that portion of the train which has been )r; ;r?d for the lion, member and his lady, but the lacter l a ving expressed her dislike to ride in the forward part of the train the wraps were lemoved, and they took seats in the last carriage but one. This probably saved their lives."

E AVD THERE. -J- I 3, if i ior Liverpool's, that 'i aii • <-t < •.ned to iame •. V'' i' v'r, ol ,-ir :• 4out 2.0 to Lo d i have all the rich men got iicii L a" — r r eh i-r«Uigence? Ilear, hear," and ap- pi -n«C' Have th"i> g.»t that intelligence which is neces- r e ."■■■:■ C'i 0 N-H no;" and cheers), i Now i. X i -v ■ 1 ■ rais" «ngry passions o. ry j '})•> n\, bear) bat I ask vou if you don't know tk;.t"vou h^ve got rich men who are nothing more than niorompoops and sacks. (Great laughter and cheers). I in wd ii'K to stand up.-n my intniugei.ee and knowledge oi th«; requirements »t Liverpool. (Hear, hear). 1 am w.Uiug to ise sei-^ i bj my r ast lift-a-d 'abours. Socially veil have knmvn >u many years—(cheers)—politically I have only con.e to rlie I,OP the last few years. (A voice At the bottom of the poll, you ia-,tn ) Yes, at the bottom the poll; but. gentlemen at, the top politically. (Gr; at cheering). I am at the bottom of the poll, but at .,(,Ij :iiteill (Great cheering)." What would h have ujiid if h,! h-i been elected The Guilders'' Woklff Reporter contains on article on He dthv and Pleasant Hooses. in the form of a paper read before a Belfast Associatio.i, by Dr MacCormack. The Doctor considers our pre-ent iireplaces wasteful and absurd. He s tys of one of his own devising, or rather adapting My fireplace conomiss fuel, warms the room, and pro- motes ventilation as wdl. Imagine, an ordinary, or pre- ferably, a -.tfive ;rat« t n-.a advancing well into the apart- ment, c -at id or coveted with majolica, porcelain, marble, or same I" s costly material, immediately over the commoner ti es which are next the fire. l'h,. bars are straight and low, while the back of the fire t lace i- of iron, but say cup- per as a muc.L better conducting material, opidnd ihe fire, and exttnoing som" v-ay up the smoke-duct, is a hot charn- be- which admits air by chains of sufficiently an pie section from outside the house, which air, when be .ted, is Ltis- chi»rt(ed hv va vular openings ot equal sec:inn in.o the apartment. A d,o>, ^laz, with glass or ta c, single or double, sliding ou wheels .-r iungeo, subsists before the hre. One of the tin-piaco j.1l(jh is made hollow up to the ceihng, and so arranged that the o^u.i.g above shall be covered by the ornamental cornice, wdiiie the aperture m the hearth or fire place blow is in ill such wise as t ) when the door or are do-d, tÍJ fire wi.h the de.teriora ed atmosphere rf JR chamber. When the bre-dooi,indeed, is c!osed, the li. ated air troia toe hot chamber behind the lire enters the room pari passu with the consumption of llH, fo:il-"d air derived from Ur o, the room, in an ordinary open Lnte forty cubic feet or so of r.ir pass, it is I calculated, <ach minute ii;t > t!>e chimney, but in the fire- place which I have described twic.: or thrice the quantity, if desired and permitted, may, I calculate, be transmitted The heated air, in other respects, may be suffered to escape at pleasure, either directly from the hot-air chamber or from tubes running along the base of the apartment. A fireplace of tfii description would meet, I submit, every artistic and economic requirement- It would at once secure ventilation, supply warmth, and show a cheerful nre wit^ results w hich- other grate ever yet has sufficed to real.ze The Tablet, friend of France though it is, reproduces a bril i int retort of M. John Lemoiune on the Dulie Decazes —" France," said the Duke. ''c'.uld afford to be prudent because she was strong." '"Nothing, observes M. Lemomne, could be more untrue, France is obliged to be prudent, because she is weak." The same writer, after quoting Earl Russell's letter to Sir J. Murray on the recent Protestant meeting, says, with a good deal of truth- This language proves to who, degree an intellect, Jiberai in political matters, may be animated by the narrowest sectarian passion in those which concern religion. Lord Russell exhibits himself as precisely the Husell of former days, and he will remain to the end of his life shut up in the same exclusive circle. He is not only of the Protestant religion, he is of the Anglican; not only of the Anglican, but of the Whig religion." The Conservative and Catholic Tablet cannot give its readeis very definite advice as to their duty in the present election. One thing, the Tablet says, is clear, that they mitftt only vote for the advocates of religious education but when the question comes to be a choice between Air Gladstone and Mr Disraeli, our contemporary is puzzled. For "is or is not Mr DisiaeU fishing in tl1 troubled waters of the anti-Catholic Revolution with his ambiguous refer- ences to the religious struggle on the Continent which 51 many persons— Conservative and Liberal alike-wanlci ap- parently wish to see extended to our tranquil shores ? Mr Disraeli", it is true, deprecates the tendencies of the l,ib.-r- alist fanatics who desire 'altogether to thrust religion from the place which it ought to occupy in the national educa- Has Mr Disraeli, then, repented of his irreligious advocacy of Godless education in Ireland ? We wish we COlÙ! believe so. We areafiaid that Mr Disraeli is one of those Conservatives of mere material interests who b beve them- selves quit of clDerving principles until they discover too late that the material interests can never bedefended separately." The Tablet and all its readers may be perfectly sure of one thill!?, if one only, in their present dilemma—that Mr Disraeli will throw them over the first moment his interests seem to require it and that, we predict, will be very soon. (I n' Toryism and fanatical Frotescantism are inaissolubly united, and Mr Disraeli can hardly avoid the necessity of pleasing the No Popery" party. The Catholics can only trust in the Liberals. There are false Liberals, of course, and weak- kneed Liberals who approve of Bismarckism and cannot see the virtue of liberty bevond the limits of their own church, but in the main the party are true to their old policy of religious equality, towards, which we are gradually growing. Mr W. H. Gladstone, M.P., was referring at Perth the other day to some o' the charges brought against his father, and said—" Personally, he did not himself care for these aspersions, for he was quite content tc leave Mr Glad- stone's character in the hands of the public. He believed it was a character which, like a piece of polished marble, would not bear upon its surface any dust or dirt; and he believed that the public throughout Scotland and through- out England would honour and cherish that cha'a jter as one of the best and purest th It ever adorned the history of their country. (Cheers)." So do we. The Women's Suffrage Journal says—" The sympathies of women will be given, and deservedly given, in particular constituencies to the candidates, and in the country at large to the party, which shows most willingness ta carry ir.to effect this great treasure of political justice (Women's Franchise)." As advocates of that measure of political justice, we are sorry to see its orgaa in the Press discredit- ing it by giving advice so narrow and unsound. AVomsn will best show their fitness for the franchise by giving their sympathies t,) the party they consider best fitted to pro- mote the welfare of the country, and not to that which will simply satisfy their own demands. Sir C. Adderley is a well-meaning man, and we are sorry for him. In an evil moment he, following the bad example of his leader, the great romancer," as Mr Childers calls him, misrepresented Mr Bright. This is Mr Bright's reply-" Rochdale, February 4, 1874.-Dear Sir,—it is scarcely necessary to contradict Sir C. Adderley. Some other of the party would repeat the falsehood at the mxt meeting. What he is reported to have said grossly mis- represent3 what I have said. I hope he thought he was speaking the truth, but he is rather a dull maa, and is liable to make blunders. I thank you for your note, and am, very truly yours, JOHN BRIGHT." The London Mission has just commenced, with the ap- proval of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other prelates. The Rev. Hariy Jones, rector of St. GeorgeVin-the-East, a well-known clergyman, has published his reasons for not taking part in the mission. He says—" Some minds may indeed be thus permanently launched into a new world of sensations; whether they be wholesome or not is a question. But with most, what effect is likely lo be produced I< there not a terrible danger, when the heat of the revival week cools down, that a mischievous reaction will ensue, and leave the souls of the majority in a last state which is worse than the fii s' ? And in case where the 'mission' heat survives, where a patient, after the surrender of the secrets of his life into the ear of the 'misaioner,' accepts the con- tinuous direction of a parson or a priest, what sort of Christian do we get? It is of small moment to what party in the Church these converts become attached. Chronic ecclesiastical guidance in the conduct of life, from what- ever source or side it comes, is, in my judgment, anything but a matter of rejoicing. It tends to set rules over prin- ciples, and human leading above God's life. In short, the whole method of the projected work, with its practis d missioner, its prolonged strain of religious exercises, its 'after-meeting,' when individuals are t) be urged t) private interviews or confession, is ominously charged with influence tending to promote either mischievous reaction, or a state of religious dependence radically alien to the liberty wherewith Christ, hath set us free." The Duilll News contains an article defending the mission. The Church, it says, is blamed first for doing nothing and then for vigorous action The Ellesmore Local Board on Monday passed a vote of cDn°ratulation on their chairman, IMajor Cust s election for Grantham. Rtdioal cynics will ask what Grantham election had to do with the business of the Board but that is hyper-critical. We are veiy sorry to have to aid M.P. to the gallant Major's name, because he has the mis- fortune to differ with us in politics, but if Mr Hughes liked to congratulate liiiu, and the Board chose to support Mr Hughs, it did no harm to anybody. It will not help the Major to get in again when the country has returned to its political senses—or we should chime in with the cynics ask why the Board, which ought to be politically colourless, pissed this irregular motion. It would be fc'shly indecorous of the Wrexham'Council, for instance, to ^onSratulate Mr Watkin William?, or the Shrewsbury lnvwr'10^ to Ct>ngrativato Mr Cotes !—but Ellesmere [is a ?rom Grantham, and the proceedings ot Elles- Vi-vnnntj Board cannot affect the political pulse of the ° a or which Major Cusfc now sits.

lv-ed'witii theLm!,LL?'—This cooling medicine may be Tl a teudt cv1^031 e/eCts w!,en overheated tem a course of ^flami"atory action appears io the ^do^ awav pl-U (lay taken shortly before d;nner the indigestion, fullness, ami fl.tu i^o-indita.i is. of a weak stomach or disordered liver. A ft-w pins tc.wen o.t^ beduinae not as alternatives and aperients they not oniy relieve the bowels, but r,'«u*late e^-ery organ connected with them, overcome alf acrid humours, and entourage a free supply of all the secretions essential to our weh-bem^. Holloway's pills thoroughly de'n-e and perfectly regu.ate tlm circulation, and in hot climates and hi^h temperatures, introduce that feeling of comfort which is the pleasing as.'ompaniment of a high state of lualth.

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February 11, 1874. NOTES. DERIVATION OF WELSH NAMES. It is amusing to find Wrexham (Eric's ham?) derived from Wraig Sam, or Sam's Wife; huthin (Redcigtie) from an inn once held by a landlady of the name of Ruth; Porth- aethwy, that dangerous port or passage near the Atenat Straits, from Porth-aeth-hwy, or the Pt rt-where-they- went, meaning the Romans! Verbs, adverbs, and pronouns are all bundled in niggledy-piggledy, and fragments of history pounced upon to support fanciful theories of de. nvatien. Poor Llynclys, Llyn-y-clys, ortlie Lake-of-tlie. inclosure. is made into Llync-lys, the Swallowed Hall, in spite of the unmistakeable prefix Llyn, the existing lake, and the well kcown words clys, clwys, and clois, used in Wales for any enclosed plantation, land, lake, or common. Upon this error of derivati, n a legend nas Deen iounded, and my unhallowed hands shall net touch that sacred tradi- tion of my country any more. Rhaiadr Ewynol, the Foaming Cataract, after many vicissitudes, has now quietly settled down as Rhaiadr-y-Weuol, or the Swallow Falls. Our ancient falls and halls are gone to the swallows, while Castell Dinas Bran is gone to the crows, because it happens that Bran is a word for a crow as well as for Bran the Blessed, the venerable British Brennus.-J.C.H. Cobottie ib. -Tn recent numbers of Byc-gones the deriva- tion of this name was discussed; some holding that "Bowen v gof" was its origin, and others that it took its rise from a 'cop' or earthwork in the neighbourhood. Among some English families settled in Wales, the late Joseph Morris, of Shrewsbury, describing the arms they bore, says— Jenkin Hope bore argent, three storks sable, with each an emmet in its, bill. But the families of Hope of Dudleston and Hope Owen (now called Gobowen) bore argent, a chevron engrailed between three storks sable (beak and clawa gules)." This offers a different solution to the ety- mology of Gobowen from any which has appeared in Bye- t,ones and as such I send it for insertion, remarking that I copied it out of a book once Morris's property, and the ex- true:, is in his handwriting. HERMES. QUERIES. THE LORDSHIP OF G WAN AS.—How far to- wards Dolgelley did its boundary reach, and did it extend to the Mawddwy side as far as No.nt y Terfyn Was there at any time a prison at Gwanas ? I believe I heard CYSIJDELW say there w&s. YXWCH. RICHARD RODERICK, was the first head master of the Wem Free School when it was bui.t in 1670,and is stated to have been bo'n at Oswestry. He was in orders but did not obtain any preferment. He is described as being an accomplished scholar, and as baving great num- bers of young gentlemen under his care. His youngest son, Charles, succeeded him as chief master in 1674. Who were the Rodericks or Oswestry ? I never heard the name as one connected with the town. D. SHROPSHIRE WORDS AND PHRASES.— Would any but a North Shropshire lad call the core of an apple the" scork" or Ecorkle? "Barley" and "Drger," too,—words used in play,—appear eminently Salopian. And should we hear, elsewhere than in Shrop- shire, such expressions as "Nim-ma-dear" and "Dear Heart Alive" ? N.W.S. I once heard a good story of the odd use of the word Belluck." A man at Llandrinio was very ill, and a neighbour was attending at bis bedside whilst his wife was eating some broth downstairs. In a few minutes the man died, and the neighbour went down to carry the intel- ligence to the widow. On receiving the information the latter exclaimed, Yo' wait 'till I put this basin down, an' yo'll hear a pretty bellitcking I" By the way, does Montgomeryshire borrow ttle word from Shropshire or Shropshire from Montgomeryshire ? J All CO. The words erne, cmer, emcst, as the three degrees of comparison for shortness, are given in the collection of Salopian words and phrasea by the Rev. C. H. Hartshorne and he conjectures that the word may be in some way con- nected with the Anglo-Saxon earn, which denotes a near degree of kindred. Let me hazard a conjecture on the sub- ject. When we wish to tave time in walking we aim at going the nearest way. How if the Shropshire word emt was derived from this ? S.F. I'll a pound it.-This very common expression amongst the common people of some parts of Shropshire is not mentioned, I think, by Hartshorne. What is its origin ? Is it akin to I'll be bound," or to I'll uphold ? Holus Bolus.—I have heard Old Oswestrian3 use thi.s term, where better educated men would say nolens volens." Is the expression a Shropshireism ?" TELL Cold and chilly like Old Bolas.—VOOKSANGER tells us (Dec. 18, 1872) that Bolas "was executed at the Old Heath but Owen and Blakeway (at page 531, vol. 1, of their History) f3ay--11723. Sept. 4.Robert and Wil- liam Bolas were executed for the murder of William Mat- thews and Walter Whitcomb at Beslow, June 19. They Were hung in chains on the south side of the London road, a little beyond the 7th uiile-stone, where the writer of this remember the gibbet in 1775." Which is light ? WREKIN. REPLIES. ATCIIAM CHURCH. (Jan. 21, lS74).-The panels of the reading-desk only are said to be the work of Albert Durer. Those on the pulpit were bought in London by the late Vicar, the Rev. Henry Burton, who died a few months ago. He took great delight and pride in the care of his church, and possessed a store of information upon its many interesting features, much of which has been lost by his death. He used to relate with satisfaction that David Cox, riding by in the old coaching day, declared that Atcbara Church, with its rich hues and varied tints, veiled in places with ivy, and its picturesque situation, pleased his artist eye more than any other he had ever seen. Tiiis Church is dedicated to Eatta the Confessor, a Saxon saint, and mofet, if not all, of the stones of which it is built, were brought from the ruins of Uriooniuui, many of them bearing Roman marks. Of the structure in which Or- deiicus Vitalia was baptized on Easter Sunday, 107\ little, if any, remains. The curiously-recessed west door may be a part A peculiarity of this door is that the pillars on one side are shorter than those of the other. In the chancel there are two leper windows. Near the pulpit is an alabas- ter stone, on which sre incised the figures of Edward Bur- ton and Joyce, or Jocosa, his wife. The former died in 1524 an I was buried in the old Church of St. Chad, Shrewsbury, whence this stone was removed when that building fell. An illustration of it is given in Owen and Blakeway's His- tory, at page 2.30 of volume 2. The chancel screen is of late perpendicular work, and came from Woi field Church. The stained glass in the east window is of very early date. R.E.D. PLANTS AT OSWESTRY (Jan. 7, 1874).- "Above Oswestry, on the Welsh side, is Hayes, a very ancient stone house, built in the form of a cross, and lat-dy surrounded with very thick and large woods. The front windows contain stained glass, very ancient and curious. This place is chiefly remarkable for having been the seat of the late Richard Hill Waring, Esq barrister-at-Iaw, and I Recorder of Oswestry; a man highly eminent for his clas- I sical and scientific learning he had made the grand tour of Europe, and spent a long and laborious life in the pursuit of knowledge. His singularity of manners and dress (though clean and neat to an uncommon degree), and his attention to economy, occasioned the babbling and the ignorant to form strange opinions of him; nay, some have even dared t) stigmatize him with the horrible appellation of avai icious but since his death a very different opinion har prevailed, and it has been clearly seen that his abundant riches could not have been held by a worthier possessor. He maintained a regular and uninterrupted correspondence, for nearly fifty years, with the late John Dov.iston, Esq., West Felton, where a very large collection of his leitersi3 still preserved, on natural history, philosophy, and antiquities. Botany was one of his favourite pursuits, and many of the rare plants found about Oswestry are stragglers from the Hayes, which passing botanists have set down as indigenous." This is extracted from Nightingale's Shropshire, published in 1810, and the John Dovaston referred to (who died two years earlier, at the age of 6S) was the father of Mr J. F. M Dovaston, of wider fame. JARCO. ARGY (Feb. 4, IS74).—Probably this is a corrup- tion of the Welsh word Argae," which is defined by Dr. Owen Pughe as "an inclosure; a fence; a dam or look in a river." There is an embankment locally called "The Argy Bank," on the north side the river Severn, commenc- ing near Pool Quay, and following the course of the river fur some miles in the direction of Llanymynech, which has for its object the damming out from the adjacent lands the water (.f the Severn on high floods. As thei e is no Welsh spoken in that district at present, do^s not the name suggest considerable age to the earth work ? It occurs to me there are several names of places in that district wlitch are now so disguised, that those who attached them to the places they represent would scarcely recognize them were they on the hnrl of the 'living-for example, Tr.wcn (f,r Trewern), The Miees (for Y-MaesydJ), The Tcx'.nn (for Rhyd-esgyn), HERMES. HOLLY BUSH INNS (Feb. 4, IS74).-Tliere is in Welshpool, just on the outskirts of the town in the Berriew-road. an old blacic and white house, called The Holly Bush;" whether it was at one time a licensed tavern I am unable to say. Iu Mr Hancock's history of Llan- rhaiadr-vn-Mochuantin the AfoiiiflWDiciv/iS/lire Collections(v il. ihaia(1 vn..N vi., p. mention is made of these extemporized inns in the following passage The evening of the day fof the wakes] was spent in drinking and rioting, additional facili- ties for drinking were afforded, on these occasions, by pri- vate houses clainvng a light by ancient prescriptions to sell ale without licence. These houses were distinguished by a holly bush being placed above the door. This was a custom also at all fairs." "The;privilege of selling ale without a i license is remarkable. 111. The custom of opening temporary houses of enter- tainment under the holly bush is far from beim? in-rely local' but seems to have existed in various parts of the kin"dom. In Willow-street, Oswestry, a few doors below Arthur-street, stands a house still known to many as the -old Brown Cow," which was within the memory of per- g,,rs now living a a inn of this description. Another <t«*4 ncarlv opposite the old well in the same street, somewhere about the year IS30. The writer remembers a booth at race time erected near the entrance to The Hayes, in which a man well known as "Dick the Ostler" vended arti other liquors under the holly bush. The old adege, Good wine needs no hush not only ghows the antiquity of the practice, but implies that at some period all houses of en- tertainment were thus distinguished. BE); STALCH.

I TIPYN n. 8;'8 P TH. Mr R. 'G Williams, a well-known Welshman, is one of the new Q. C.'s. He travels the Northern Circuit. A corre-j.oii.itnt says—" lire c "lnuuii C itor to this column is respectfully requested whrm tie text pass(s the Cwmbelan schools to read the inscrii ition on rSr- tablet in front of the new schools without magnifying g a>s»s." The Chester Chronicle is informed that the C r.servaliv Good Temn'ars of that citv voted, verv pro er'v, for M Raikes, while many of the Liberal Templars abstained from voting. About 500 electors remained unpolled-almost all Liberals, it is said. The Tories, at any rate, sometimes show a due apprecia- tion of their own "policy." They let off fireworks last week in Anglesea in honour of their candidate. The fire- works were typical of Mr Disraeli's poliev-aiad what it will end in. In an account of the marriage festivities at St. Peters- burgh last week we read.—" This evening the Empress received a small party at the Winter Palace, at which Mr John Thomas had the honour of performing on the harp." One of the electioneering squibs at Denbigh was the figure of a huge elephant bearing the words, "thisrepre- sents the strength of Mr Watkin Williams and the speed of the Hon. G. T. Kenyon." But the elephant does move forward, whereas Mr Ke Dyon's political progress would be backwaid, if we are to judge from the life of his grand- father. In an account of the improvement in tne salmon Fisheries the Standard says:—English and Welsh ve shared in the general improvement, the Severn taking the lead, though, as usual, anglers did not fare well in these waters. The heaviest fish of the season is claimed by this river but doubts have been thrown upon its reputed weight of 781b. Mr E. Wynne Powell, who intended to oppose Mr Bulkeley Hughes for the Carnarvon Boroughs, but retired at the last moment, has issued an address in which he an- nounces that he hopes to come forward again for the s.me constituency. He calls Carnarvonshire "the county among whose mountains my ancestors lived, from that remote time when fact was obscured in the shadowy mists of tra- dition," or, as one paper makes him say, the shadowy midst of tradition," but it doesn't matter which. Mr Powell has succeeded in saying something vague enough to be con- sidered fine, and his object is equally accomplished which- ever version we accept. We are not at all sure that Lord Westminster, in a recent speech to the Chester Society for Organizing Chari- table Relief and Repressing Mendicity, did not make a sug- gestion in which will be found the ultimate solution of the out-door pauper question. He said he believed it would be a very good thing, though he did not think there was a pos- sibility of accomplishing it, at least for some time to come, if the whole of our out-door pauperism could be attended to by charitable organization. If the Poor-laiv could be rigidly confined to the House" without inflicting unjus- tifiable suffering, there is no doubt pauperism would be diminished. We must hope that charitable societies like that of Chester will greatly increase, and then the Govern ment of the day may be able to take the matter in hand. At a Baptist chapel in the Llanelly borough, says a cor- respondent of the Welshman, a deacon, amongst the an- nouncements for the week, gave out a meeting in support of the T, ry candidate. The minister (a stranger) "im- proved the occasion by exhorting the congregation to be true to their Liberal principles; and then another Tory deaeon protested against the minister's political speech." But what about the political announcement ? We are curious to know whether the Tories objected to this novel form of the "chapel tcrew," as they themselves have dubbed it. On Monday a prayer meeting on Tuesday a meeting for supporting Toryism, and trying to prevent j ust legislation to Dissenters It is a strange world, my masters. It is related in the Wellington Journal that, after the recent re-election of the members for South Shropshire at Church Strstton, it was expected that they would meet their constituents at the hotel, where, accordingly, dinner had been ordered for sixty. Most of the clergy aDd gentry pre- sent, however, repaired to the rectory to dine, and the High Sheriff, the nominator of one of the candidates, aad one or two election agents were left alone to "do justice" to the repast. It was the parable of the guests who were bidden to the feast and did not come done into real life. Messengers were despatched to the highways, and we may say to the political hedges, for it is said that Radicals as well as Conservatives were" compelled" to come in, and at last about thirty guests partook of the good things pre- pared. The Board of Trade having considered the reports of Colonel Hutchinson, R.E., and Captain Richard, R.N., and in pursuance of the powers conferred on them by The Birkenhead, Chester, and North Wales Railway Act, 1S73," have directed that the height of the pro- posed bridge over the Dee be reduced to eighty-five fett in the clear above high water mark of a moderate spring tide, as defined by "The Dee Standard Restoration Act, 1851." And the Board in further pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by the Act of Parliament, have extended the time withm which their approval is to he given to plans and sections describing the gradients of the approaches, as well as the details of the proposed bridge (other than the spans thereof provided for by the 30th section of the Act) until the 4th day of May next. In an account of the last meeting of the Philological Society the Academy says :—Mr A. J. Ellis gave an ac- count of a system of scoring sheep said to have been intro- duced by Scotch shepherds into Yorkshire, now nearly ex- tinct, or only known to very old persons, and used in school games. Versions were adduced from Scotland, Durham, and,Westmorland, as well as Yorkshire, and, strangely enough, from three North American Indian tribes (com- municated by Dr Trumbull, of Hartford, Conn., U.S.) The foundation of the i-ystem is Welsh (not Gaelic) as shewn especially by the words for 5, 10, 15, and the system of counting 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16, 17, 18,19 as 1 and 10. 2 and 10, &c., and I and 15, 2 and 15. &c. The words for 20 are perhaps all deformations of the Welsh. The words for C, 7, in some versions seem also to be deformations of Welsh but in others, as well as 8, 9, differ much from the Welsh, and follow several different systems not et traced. The 1, 2, 3 are generally mere varieties of ane, t'ane, fother, but 4 is clearly Welsh. The persons who use the system being perfectly ignorant of the meaning, deface the words ad libitum, run off into jingles, and often confuse the order. At the present time it is interesting to recal the names of some of the members who sat in the famous Long Parlia- ment for constituencies in this district. Several of the names will show how conservative the nation is in the choice of representative?; the old families, then as now, sent a large proportion of the members to Parliament. It is more than 200 years ago since the Long Parliament sat. Here are some of the members :—Bridgnorth, Sir Edward Acton, Knt. [The recent candidature of Sir J. Acton (now Lord Acton) for the seat, will be remembered], Sir Thomas Whitmore, Knt. [Mr Whitmore was a recent member], Robert Charlton, Esq Robert Clive, Esq. [Sir E. Acton and Sir T. Whitmore were disabled from sitting]. Bishop's Castle: Thomas Isaiah, Esq., John Corbet, Esq, Sir Robert Howard, K.B. [ Disabled], Richard Moor,Esq. [ Died.] Shropshire Sir John Corbet, Bart., Humphrey Edward. Esq.; Sir Richard Lee, Bart. [Disabled.] Montgomery: George Devereux, Esq.; Richard Herbert, Esq. [Disabled.] Shrewsbury: Thomas Hunt, Esq. William Masham, Esq., Francis Newport, Esq. [Disabled], Sir Richard Newport, Knt. [Disabled; afterwards made Lord], William Spurs- tow, Esq., merchant [Died]. Merionethshire: John Jones, Esq., Roger Pope, Esq. [Died], William Price Esq [Disabled.] Cardiganshire Walter Lloyd, Esq. [Disabled. Qy. Connected with the family of Sir T. D. Lloyd, late member for the boroughs ?], Sir Richard Price, Bart Flint: Thomas Middleton, Esq, John Mostvn, E-q. [Disabled], John Salisbury, jun.. Esq. [Disabled.] Breck- nockshire: William Morgan, Esq. [Died. The present member is Major Morgan.] Montgomeryshire: Sir John Price, Bart. [Disabled], Edward Vaughan, Esq. Denbigh Simon Theloall, Esq jun. Flintshire: John Trevor, Esq. Cardigan. John Vaughan, Esq. [Disabled], Thomas Wogan, Esq. Cirnarvor,shire Sir Richard Wvnn, Knt. Liverpool: Sir Richard Wynn, Bart. [Died.] Speaking after his election at Peterborough Mr Whalley said —" Not one word had been said from which the least idea could be formed why it was that the Noncon- formist joined the combination against him. The dis- senters were putting forth pretensions at the present moment to take into their charge the religion and morality of the country. JUid they cot ask tor We disestabiisnment ana disendowment of their own Cathedral (cheers), and wish to take into their haods the religion and morality of the country ? Was the way in which they had acted during the election the method by which they would show them- selves qualified to take the responsibility ? (Laughter.) By every obligation, by every tie with which a man could be bound to his political supporters, was he bound to his Nonconformist friends. He wa joined t) them by all they had said and by all he hal ever said or done or tried to do, and there was a bond of union that would have been thought impossible to sever between him and the Nonconformists. Not one word of reason was given for the disunity. When it was seen his conduct was at stake, and he was imprisoned in the face of all Engla id, then the Nnonconfornmts thought fit to turn their back upon themselves when they turned against him. (Hear, hear.) Let tho m do as he said to Trades' Unionists, look to their leaders, let them see that the great principles of civil and religious liberty were maintained, and lay some better claim than their uncertain vacillating conduct to take the charge, if the Established Church was disconnected with the State, of the religion and morality of England. Let the dissenters look to those leaders who used their pulpits for the purpose of maligning, traducing, and vilifying a man behind h;s back, without venturing to face him. (Cheers.) He said these words more iu sorrow than anger, now let them be forgotten. Mr. Whalley does not seem to recognize two things 1st. That the part he has taken in the Tichborne case may have disinclined some of his old friends to support him and second, that the Non- confoimists may like lcligiom liberty for others as w, It ai themselves, and therefore disapprove of Mr Whalley's No Popery" cry.

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[ MR OSBORNE MORGAN, M.P., AT RHOS. I Mr G. Osborne Morgan, the re-elected Liberal member for the county of Denbigh, addressed his Constituents in the 'e-" -P're' rugog, on Wed'siay F-0 4 ro Poere were a very lar^e number of the inhabitants f tbr vi]' ige and neighbourhood present and the hon. gentleman's remarks were frequently applauded. The Rev. John Foulkes presided. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said that so f.¡r the elections bad ^iv-n majority to the Conservative party. In one sense this might grieve them, because there was un douoc th. tii re was goiug on on the continent of Europe a .{rtat struggle between reaction and progress, and it would have been a material help if the voice of this coun- try had pronounced unmistakably in favour d Liberal and advanced opinions. But still, it might be that good would come out of this evil. There was no denying the fact that i? "beral party was now for different reasons a some- what disunited party. There was no doubt that the action ot the Government as resided some me:" ures passed dur- ing the last session of Parliament had great offended, he might say hurt, the great Nonconformist party of this king- dom. He need only point to the 25th clause, a clause which Mr Forster, in one of his speeches at Bradford had called "that miserable twopenny-halfpenny 25th clause." But they knew that the clause had produced a vast amount of rancour and strife througuouc the length and breadth of the country, and the School Board contests, instead of Deing neaithy stTiggtes tor tne Dest moae oi educating the children of this country, frequently degenerated into a mere trial of .strength between Church and Nonconformity. It was a c ause which must be abolished, and they all rejoiced that Mr Gladstone, in one of his able speeches to his con- stituents, had said that it was a clause which might be, and mast be, modified in some way. It might be that good would come out of the Liber d party not having a majority, if after a short period of rest, should again proceed on its illustrious career of progr.-ss arid victory, such as had charac- terized it during th last forty years. (Applause.) Mr OSBOKNE MORGAN was received with cheers. He said—I little thought that wuen only a few weeks ago I acceped your very Pin, i. vitation to ctne and address you that the occasion for my doing so would also be the occasion of my returniug thanks for th" high honour you have done me in returning me for the second time as yuur representative- But I cannot help thinking that there is a certain appro- priateness in my coming to the Rhos to return thanks for that honour, f jr I cannot. forget, I shall never forget, that it was he- e in Bhos, in 1863, tae tide which was running verv strongly against me, was turned. I cannot forget that the men at Rnos at the time when I was going down, down, down upon the poll came forward almost as one man, and by their united efforts placed me in tnat distinguished posi- tion which I am happy co b-ty I now occupy again. (Ap- plause.) And I havt very lit le doubt that if the necessity bad arisen you would have acted in 1874 as you acted in 1868, and that you would have again returned me. I am also glad to address you for another reason. I have been told that for some reason or other I was losing ground in Rhos. Weli, I was a little astonished at this. I knew the men of Rhos well enough, and I began to be afraid that I had in some way unknown to myself been a traitor to the cause of civil and religious liberty. But to my great sur- prise I found that the ground upsn which I was said to be losing fav< ur in Rhos was. not any cjnduct of mine, but the fact that lately, I beiieve, you have been going through the process of re-valuation, ana that some of you had had your rates raised. (Laughter.) lam told that a gentle- man, high in authority in this parish, a parochial officer, has been going about the parish telling; you, when you com- plained of having your rates raised, That's the result of sending Saucepan Morgan to Parliament." (Laughter.) You see what comes of shouting "Saucepan Morgan for ever (Renewed laughter.) If you have your rates raised I am sure I am very sorry lor you. There are no visits I dislike so muca as the visits of the tax col- lector but I can assure you that I have had as little to do with the rating of the parish of Ruabun as I have had to do with the rating of Timbuctoo (laughter) and you might a, well blame me for the raising of your rates as to blame me because the rain comes through your roof or be- cause your children catch the measles. (Laughter ) Well, just one word more of apology and then I have done with mvself. I am very sorry that I could not address you last Friday but the fact was, that owing to the care of my friends in Denbighshire took of my seat in my absence, it was considered, and I thought it so myself, that, I might be better employed in helping my friends than in taking care of my own seat. Accordingly, I have been doing my best —in fact, I may say that I have been working like a horse during the last four or five days, not for myself, but for other people, and I can bring you good news I think from the different districts in Wales. I can bring you good news from Anglesea. (Applause ) Mr Richard Davies is sure to be returned. (Hear, hear.) I can bring you good news from Carnarvonshire, where my friend, Mr o ones- Parry, is sure to be returned. (Applause.) I can bring you good news from the Flintshire boroughs, where my friend, Sir Robert CunUfe, is maintaining a gallant fight against two adversaries—one beh.nd and one before. And last, but not least, I can bring you good news from the Denbighshire boroughs, where our opponents seem to think that if they cannot penetrate into the inside of our heads the proper thing is to attack and break the outside of our heads. ("Shame," and applause.) Well, gentlemen, the chairman said that things were looking rather badly for the Liberal cause, but the elections are not all over yet. I still entertain hopes that if the Liberal party be but united, as I am happy to say it is in Denbighshire, it would still be well for the Liberal party, and we might still hope, and Mr Gladstone might still hope to obtain at least a working majority. (Loud applause.) But I quite agree with him (the chairman) that Nonconformists have some ground of complaint, not in what Mr Gladstone says, but in what he does not say. (Hear, hear.) To tell you the truth, I would rather trust the present Government with my purse than I would with my conscience. (Laughter.) There is one subject npon which I cannot disguise from myself the fact that Mr Gladstone has hardly spoken out with the frankness with which he ought to have spoken out, and that is the Education Act, (Hear, hear.) I think no man is fit to ad- dress you as a candidate, much less as your representative, unless he has clear and distinct views upon that most im- portant question of education. I will not for a moment hide from you what my views are upon this subject. I repel altogether the charge which has been brought against us advanced Liberals, or Radicals as we are sometimes called, that we are against religious education. As a man gets older, as gray hairs begin to grow upon him-and I am very sorry to say that they are growing very fast and very thick upon me—he feels more and more that life withoutasolid substratum of religious teachingis a very poor fare indeed. (eear, hear.) Therefore I say that as far as religious teaching goes, I would go with any man in favour of it. But I fear, to make education truly religious, you must have to some extent doctrinal religious teaching. I do not believe in teaching the Bible without note or com- ment. You would not attempt to teach any other book without note or comment, and I say that it would be almost an in- sult to the Bible to profess to teach it in a less thorough way than you would any other book. But if you teach the Bible with not or comment., do not you see that you at once get into the rfgion of religious and doctrinal contro- versy ? You cannot help yourselves. I am not against that. On the contrary, I say, give full scope to doctrinal teaching but I say, let that doctrinal teaching be given by the churches, ar.d do not let it begiven by the State. (Ap- plause.) The State ought to be entirely neutral in the matter of religious teaching—aye, and in the matter of religion altogether. (Applause.) Therefore I tell my honest opponents, and I hope they will believe me, that upon this matter of religious teaching we are agreed as to the end; we only differ as to the means. But I am speak- ing now of my honest opponents. I know there are a great many other persons who are opposed to me upon this sab- ject who are not honest. I do not myself believe in people who go about trying to rouse the country with the Bible in one hand and the gin-bottle in the other. (Applause.) I was passing the other day through the streets of Wrexham, and I saw a placard stuck up iu a public-house, which ended with the words—"Beer and the bible; a national church and a national beverage." I do think that it would be an extremely good thing if our opponents who really believe in religious education were to make haste and I dis-associ ite themselves from that unholy alliance. (Ap- plause.) Leaving this subject of religious education for a moment, I think with regard to the rest of the programme of Sir Gladstone that I must say that it seems to me a mag- nificent one. (Hear, hear.) Mr Gladstone having been in office five years comes forward to the country, and he says — i nave removed the enormous injustico of the Irish Church I have redressed the wrongs of the Irish landlords; I have opened the universities to the DissentHs-it can no longer be said, as formerly, that the book of knowledge can be opened only by a church door key I have made the army, whick was the property of a class, the property of the nation I have given to the poor voter the protection of the ballot." He says all that and what does he say as to tax- ation ? He says-" In the course of five years I have taken off twelve and a half millions of taxation "-Dot twelve and a half millions altogether, but twelve and a half millions a year; I have reduced the national debt by twenty mil- lions." That is what Mr Gladstone says as regards the past. And what does he say as regards the future ? He says—" I am ready to do that which I am. quite sure must be a great boon to every poor man-I am ready to reform the land laws I am ready to b ing in a Bill under which it shall no longer be possible, as it is now, that when a poor man wants a little Lit of land, and goes, as he is obliged, to his lawyer, that he will bave to pay to his lawyer almost as much as the cost of the land itself." More than that, he says-" I have a surplus of live millions, and I am prepared to take off the it-come tax, and I am prepared to give you something more towards a free breakfast tible, and lam prepared to lighten those rates of which," as I said just now, "you so m rich complin." (Applause.) IVell, how does Mr Disraeli meet his opponent? You know I am a lawyer, and we lawyers have a way—I was going to say a trick, but I will say a resource, which is, perhaps a better name for it-we have a resource when we find ourselves in difiicul- ties. For instance, when a Denbighshire man finds that he has no chance of winning his action in Ruthin, and he is too well known there, he does what is called changing the venue," he applies to change the venue to Liverpool or London, where he is not so well known. That is just what Mr Disraeli has done. Being challenged upon this question of finance, he has changed the venue to the straits 0f Malacca. (Laughter and applause.") I wa seducated before the days of the Education Ae, and I am afraid I must con- fe-s, that I am not very clear as t) where the straits of Malacca are. (Laughter ) And I do not think, to tell you toe truth, that Mr Disraeli is a bit more clear where they arc than I am nr. self but I believe that they are as far u* possible from this country as any place can be frota r.u. tier on the face of the habitable globe, (Laughter.) But," savs Mr Dis aeli, when he is driven to close quliters, "you (Mr Gladstone) wish to repeal the incanie-tax. Why, all mv lifetime I have been wishin^ repeal the iccome tix." Then, I say. why in n, me did not he do it? (Hear, hear.) I wi I tell you >, because he rever had the chance-(laughter)rTbecause he put on auchan amount of taxation, and he lobbed so i and he wasted morny so, that he never had a shilling left I -Nonoft in the till. It is easy enout;n to talk of surplus bat. ME Gladstone said the other da- Greenwich, do not grow like mushrooms—in night. There t piay jB not grow like mushrnoms-in night. There t play in 1 Shakespeare—which some of you have read, and which I hope when your library in toe Rhos is complete, vou will all have read-in which our great countryman. Owen j Glyndwr, is made to boast, can call spirits >m the j mighty deep." And then Hi. %spur answers him. Why s<j can I, and so can any man; bu will they come -s h -n voir x? n1 them." (Laughter.) So I say,"it is very asy~foE r t0 call surpluses fr< m the vasty deep, hut they LJer come when he caiied npon them. (Hear, hear.) nredom^1 ^ack our uP',n ltle Tory Pohcy b>ch was P-v- n ant some thirty or f orty years ago. To; was a hand fA er,w^c^ taxation a*.d monopoly went and iir has his LWh>' was Mr Disrae'i ? What pinning with „ reer ^een bui ,i iefence of mouopob s—be- monopoly ol bmSi',°0p°^ ™d e"d'"e St a '• 1»o :S S2 £ Tory rule was predominant—verv thine-- was X think it was Sydney Smith who s.t;d that in Engl- every- thing was taxed, from the po, ivhich Je«ed of the judge to the r.pe wa.en n.ed the criminal whom he condemned. An Lngnsnw«o was taxed as "ro"r. as he was born, almost before he w o b irn. He was f d upon taxed pap; he sat down to a T i-xttd table upon a taxed chair he ate taxed bread, an tliik taxed tea, pwe-tened with taxed sugar; he read a tax- newspaper, through the light of a taxed window; WL,el; he grew sick, he v.-»s cured with taxed pills, administered h a taxed doctoi „Qd if the pills did not cure him, aad isuccumbed to hi- 6ease, he was put into a taxed c,,th rewed down v, i axed nails, aud driven off in a i ntars-, drawn '.axed horses, to his grave, there it is t, be hoped, to h. ■ x ed no more. (Laughter aed appiau-- ) That was the te of things under the Tory 'rule H _ve not thirds .-n-zect now ? tt, can remelaiber the time when tea was s for 7F,. a lb. in NVrexhaiii. What ,{ro.o\ it sell for now ? Not one-half-I sappose about 3-. a. the most. To whar do we owe that ? Isay distinctly that v. owe it to the wis- Ircl en- lightened policy that has been p,.l'u<,d by a Liberal G vern i medt. (Applause.) W heri -i sits down he drirVs tea tfxed It IS true, but not taxed by ulle-third so much as it was twenty years ago, and he drir.: s tea sweetened hv sugar which is not taxed two-thirds a- leuch as it was a-'d what is more, he eat his bread a:i,t drinks his ea without feeling that either is r, by a sense of injustice. But there was another tax I wai going to mention to you. You al know Mr Henry Ruber son, whom I am happy to tell you was yesterday retu-n d as member for Shrews- bury-(applause)-ancl whom I -ail be happv to welcome as my colleague in the House of ,"mmons. Mr Robertson said to me the other day that wh. n he first came into this country, now about thirty year he paid his w rkmen exactly the same wages per week as he now pavs them per day. It is said Oh, but th. price of necessaries of life has increased in propoition." I ly it is not so. The price of most of the necessaries of Ii'" has actually decreased. It is quite true that coals have up, but that is a matter with which T expect you men of 1: hos do not care to t-ouble yourselves very much about. T \at e-ems to agree very well with your constitution. (Laughter.) Alar. fo coal owner said to me the other day, 'Tou are grumbling about the high price of coa] it is all owing to you • it is all because you chose to pJ the Mines Regui-ition Act." I said to him, as I say to ) o,i now, that if the result of the Mines Regulation Act \a' to raise the price of coal, all I can say is, I shall pay my 4J. or 50. or 10;. ex:ra per. j ton for coal with the greatest cheerfulness—(appiouse)— j because I shall think with eveiy extra shilling toa' I am paying to warm myself I aui I)--r-iaps saving the life of some poor miner. (Loud apph.use.) I sav what Mr Bright has said-I repeat what h,- said so eloqiient! *v-that every man in this country, from the Prince in his p.lace, to the collier in his cottage, is -ei.er and happier ttun he was twenty or t-hiity or forty years ago. (Hear, hear.) During the last few days": have been travelling through the length and breadth of this couoty with my eyes open, and wherever I havegonel have s--enhappv homes, smiling, rosy, and contented faces. Ir that is the result of plun- dering and blundering" Gdd gT;tnt that we may have more of such plundering and blundering--(hear, hear) —but if it is, as I believe it to be, the result of a wise and just and enlightened policy, 1 ask you to rally round the man WHO inaugurated that policy. j (Applause.) Let us not go out of our way and hope that we shall get the same results let us not. when one man has served us well, try to change masters. The tree is known by its fruit s: and we might a, well expect to gather grapes from tho-ns and figs fro:n thistles as to gather financial prosperity from the worn-out stup of Tory re-action. (Loud applause). Do not be led away by Ipromises, however specious, but rally round our party and round the man who, if he ^quitted office to-morrow, would leave s. man unstained by a single dishonourable act—a name which would be remembered with gratitude and veneration in every home, in every household in this coun- try, and nowhere with more venerftion than in the humble cottages of the poor. (Loud applause, amidst which the honourable gentleman resumed his seat). A collier named CHARLES DOWSES asked if Mr Morgan would support a measure rendering it compulsory to pay wages weekly instead of fortnightly. Mr MORGAN thought that was a matter to be settled by the employer and his men, and not by the legislature, lr Downes asked was he opposed to the truck system, to which Mr Morgan replied that he was, and thought that all wages should be paid in money. Mr DOWNES Will you support a bill enabling t- m to claim compensation from their employers in case of acci- dent or death, when tha'. has been the result of the negligence of the employer ? Mr MORGAN said that was already in force, and in such a case, a man might bring an actbn against his master. Mr DOWNES Will you support Mr PLimsolTs Bill for the j better protection of seamen ? Mr MORGAN Most certainly. (Applause). The Rev. W. ROBERTS, Penycae, proposed, and Mr E. EVANS, Bronwylfa, seconded That this meeting congra- tulates G. Osborne Morgan, E-q., Q C., on his re election unopposed as one of the members of Parliament for this coanty. The following motion was rdso carried-" That the best thanks of this meeting be sccorded to Mr Osborne Mu gan for his excellent address, and for his able and eminent ser- vices during the last Parliament in support of Liberal principles, and hereby expresses its contidence in him in the future."

MID-WALES RAILWAY COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this com- pany was held at the London offices, 75. Ethelburga House. Bishopsgate-street, on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 4th, Mr Samuel Gurney Sheppard in the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded bv Mr JOHN BORRAUAILE, the following report wai aiopted, and the retiring Directors and auditor re-elected :— DIRECTORS' HFrORT. The Directors are glad to report t i their shareholders vnnn the improved aspect of the Company's affairs, 1Sevidenced bv the accompanying balance sheet. Afiertlielvill-I for the interest upon the debenture debts up to the 1st of July last and othe" capable to net revenue, amounting together to remains a bal mca of £ 730 4s. 6d. is the re- \be last half-year s workmg. This result is all the more satisfactory as the increase has been s. cured by the expansion of the passenger traffic, which gives substantial proof that the public generally have beguu to appreciate the service and the arrangements for their accommedation. More than 20,000 pas- sengers have been carried during the half-year in excess f the arrangements for their accommedation. More than 20,000 pas- sengers have been carried during the half-year in excess d the corresponding period of ls72. The two locomotives referred to in the last report have been arranged for and are at work upon the line, and the Directors are now considering what further additions to their rolling slock will be required to enable them to compete for the traffic, as there is still, unfortunately but little disposition shown by other companies to carr. out arrange- ments for the greater interchange of rolling stock, to the ab- sence of which this Board called tha attention of the share- holders » short time back. The expenses for working are still hifVi^l0al havlDg increastd the cost bvtwo and a-half per een.. of the gross receipts compared with the corres- Sov 1ICn although 'n that ha.f-vear the increase was lire pci unt. over 1&(1. The strictest economv, consistentlv with efficiency aud safety has been exercised. During the half-vear eighty-five tons of rails and 2.507 sleepers h:ve been laid down. Several Bi Is are bein- promoted in Parliament this session affecting the Company's interest, which will require careful watching. Samuel Gurney Sh, jrpard, Eq, a ad Abel Chapman, Esq., are the Directors retiriug William Wilding, Esq., is tha retiring auditor, all of whom, being eligible, offer themsdve; for re-election.

— — I (From Punch.) THE SITUATION. February, 1S74. Gladstone spake unto the Xation, If you'd have me keep my station, Vote your wish that I'd do so." He dissolved and then th? Nation Answered, without hesitation, "Dearest Wiliia, "i-you Cbll gJ." ELECTION EPIGRAMS. J. A. Roet,wl:. A well-earned laurel, brave and veteran kni dit, And at the eventiae there shall be light." Guildford Ou si ow. A doubly bitter blow, O Knight of Grot A cousin s hand con?:gneth tine to pot.' Tl +1 C°iCS- The pen that now congratulates the-, Cotes, Helped to secure thy sire North Shropshire votes. JSTv O mildesi Indian, have they turned thee out 'i comes of too much gentleness. Be stout. Mr Whaliey. uat, in again Our happiness is thorough. A health to Earlswood, and to Peterborough Mr Jacob Lright. And thou extrudt d -d ]¡>1' tJk an 1 s?dder We thought our John wo-ild be our Jacob s ladder. Mr Osborne. \Vt.ll miss thee. 0 n,. 'I is nper.al. But quickly find another scat, our Bernal. f Sir John Kari slake. Ivarslake the lucky. Hi her cometh Le, A goodly piesence lor H. M. A. G. Jur Jenki: s. High in the No' th in fa, t at fa'r Dundee High Jink s Bain marirn lading see.

=—■ — > Exchequer returns t) Feb. 7t.h.—R, ve me, (;I,Iû 1.932 last year, 62,420 077: expenditure, 6C 321322 iassyeir, 60,933,243 bahnc, \OlO.S); last v. ar, 8,128.4-11. THE LONDON AND IN JICTH- 'VI>TR I.X Secretary of theLondon end X^rtb-Wistern Rai.'way states that the accounts for the past hslf-yeir, thougk rot yet finally audited or approved by the Board of Directors, show a balance sufficient to admit cf a div:dend at the rate of s per cent. per annum. V I