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A MATRIMONIAL HOAX IN SHREWSBURY. Towards the latter part of February a gallant knight of the Bodkin residing in the pretty district of Knighton, Radnorshire, being tired of the cares of "single blessedness" resolved upon trying the comforts of matrimony, and in an unwise moment rushed into print with "Wanted a Wife." Among the number of letters of the forlorn and love-sick damsels (?) who were ready to enter the.bonds of matrimony came one from Nellie- dating from Shrewsbury. Now whether it was the superior beauty of our Shropshire lassie—a fact beyond doubt we imagine—or whether it was the euphonious and facinating name, which attracted our gay Lothario we don't pretend to say, but certain it is that on the 4th of March Nellie received the following Knighton, March 3, 1874. Dear Madam,—I reply to your of the 1st, according to request I have sent you my C.D.V. and should wish for an interview at your earliest convenience should you like to see Knighton it is our Fair on Friday next or if you would rather me come to Shrewsbury you will please appoint your own time awaiting your reply I remain yours truly, Garth Rd. Knighton, Radnorshire. It happened however, that "Nellie was a lady," and did not care about Knighton fair, and so preferred to be wooed in Shrewsbury. Now, considering that the love-sick swain was past his dancing days, for" sixty summers had beseiged his brow," it is perhaps excusable that he did not at once fly OR the wings of love, and so he sends Nellie another invite:— Dr bla(lame,-In reply to yours I think it would be as Well "if you could make a Holioday and Spend The day with me Then I Cculd Explain Affairs wich would be better than writing but should you prefer me coming to Shrews- bury I will do so. You have ample time to Consider wich you would prefer and should it happen That I am called out on business I.would get a woman who comts in to work for me to meet you. My Residence is about ten minutes walk from the station. I am in business Apart from my Dwelling, and with Respect to Age the Disparity is on My side. Other particulars I can Explain when we meet.— Yours faithfully, ————— Garth Hi Knighton, Radnorshire. But Nellie preferred to spend the "holioday' m Shrews- bury, and so she told him, and wishing to hasten the wed- ding day, named the Racecourse as their trvsting place. Nellie's epistle was too much for him, and he determined upon a visit to Shrewsbury. March 9,1874. My Dear Miss -Yours to hand if nothing happens to prevent I will leave Knighton by the 1 o'clock train on Wednesday, and be where you wish to meet me and I will have in my hand Either a book or paper, but should any happen to prevent you Keeping your appointment Such as bad wether or any thin Else I should Come to your address unless I hear from you t.) the contrary,- Y OUT" Sincerely Some how or other, our active and intelligent police got wind of the affair, and an officer was a, once sent to stop the victim of misplaced confidence, but in this they failed. True to his promise he arrived in Shrewsbury by the ap- pointed train, and on Wednesday afternoon a gentlemanly- looking man, with black billycock hat and dark overcoat might have been seen making his way in the direction of Abbey Foregate, inquiring his way to the racecourse. In a convenient hostelry on the way to the appointed meeting "Nellie had assembled all her admirers, and the mirth and fun ran fast and furious" at the expected meeting of their simple rival. But just as the course uf true love never did run smooth," so "the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley," and the anxiously-waited for lover passed by unseen. After travelling the racecourse round without catching sight of Nellie, he was met by a member of the borough police who had been sent to his pro- tection, and who by instinct seems to have hit upon the right individual. Have you got a paper," said the police- man. With the utmost naivete our traveller replied Yes, it is in my pocket, and I should have produced it if I had seen a lady coming towards me." Being certain of his man, the officer then informed him that he was the victim of a matrimonial hoax, aad that "Nellie's" friends were some- where about waiting his arrival. With the utmost concern he claimed the protection of the kind policeman, and ac- companied him on his way to the police office. Arrived in Abbey Foregate they were soon spied by the delighted friends of Nellie," and one of thein, taking another look at the C.D.V. shouted out "It's all right; that's him." No further demonstration, than a little hooting, however, accompanied his reception, and he was quietly allowed to go in peace. He remained in the police office for some time, when a cab was procured, and he was started on his return journey, being very anxious to return, and that his name should not be known. The same evening he arrived in Knierhton anything but pleased with his 11 holloùay" at Shrewsbury.—Shrewsbury Free Press.

THE ORTON CASE. James Brown, described as an eating-house keeper, of Sutton-street, Shadweil, was brought up on remand at Bow-street, on Saturday, March 14th charged with having committed perjury in the trial at bar Ot the Tichborne claimant. Mr Poland, who conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Treasury, called several witnesses in support of the accusation against Brown. Amongst these was Captain Oates, who repeated the evidence which he gave in the Court of Queen's Bench on the 23rd of May last, when he described the circumstances under which Roger Tichborne went on board the Bella at Hio, in April, 1854. Captain Robert Hoskins was also examined, and another re- mand was granted, the prisoner declaring that neither of these'witnesses was alluded to by him in the testimony upon wfcich the present charge is based. Arthur Orton left Newgate for Millbank on Saturday afternoon. The statement made some days ago that an attempt would be made to get a new trial is confirmed. The Spectator says—Charles Orton has made a clean I I I breast of his collusion with the pretensions oi ms urotner Arthur, to a correspondent of the Daily TePtgraph, having confessed with much naivete that he should never have deserted his brother but for the want of punctuality shown in paying him the E60 a year promised him by the Claim- ant. He declares that he originally threatened to give evidence against the Claimant, in the hooe of being silenced by an allowance that he received the allowance, and that many of the notes paid to him by the Claimant hav; been traced by ponce to the bank at Alresford, whence they had been drawn oy Arthur Orton in his character of Sir Roger Ticbborne. In return for his allowance Charles Orton signed statemens declaring that he recognized no likeness between the P ? the Claimant and his brother Arthur; and subsequently, that he saw no like- ness between the Claimant, himse f and that brother. After his desertion to the enemy, nis isters, Mrs Jury and Mrs Tredgett— who have been re°eV'.1"e "n ^lowance, accord- lng to Charles Ortou—regard him as a „rait.or, and de- nounce his statement. On thew..de, ho "ever his COn- fession reads exceedingly h-ie c'q„p g • does not add much to the strength J?" ca,e a^nst the Convict. A man who asserts tha- t- mi, ceavrcj for a bribe, made false statements under -he imluenc'e c>f the bribe, and turned round only when the p>«y teiisrtli ceased, is hardly very good evidence, even w Orton was weighed when he arrived at TvLiil i- "wf prisoner's bulk, though said to have been some*ivn< u Bened since his last appearance in the Court of ie n Bench, is still enormous, and has been the cause ol S0I^° perplexity to the governor of the gaol, in finding a call large enough for so unweildy a captive. Orton was found to weigh 392 pounds, or just twenty-eight stone.

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HERE AND THERE. The militant teetotallers have carried the campaign into Washington, and issued the following mes-age We earnestly entreat you, for the sake of your own spiritual welfare, and for the presu-va! id rnm rljp of ou,. husbands and son. that you abandon the immoral and wicked busi- ness of selling intoxicating liquors. We will be at your pl,ice of business to pray with you next Saturday. Come with us and we will do you good, and may God have mercy on your soul! Byo>der of the committee."—Is the same system to be pursued with regard to theatres and any other places of public resort these gallant ladies object to? If not, why not ? The worst of IC all is, the re-action will be a terrible one The Daiy News is responsible for the followingA Piofessorship of Education is a novelty in our universities. The experiment we believe, is about to be tried in the University of St. Andrew's, the trustees of the late Dr. Bell having handed over to the Senatus a sum sufficient to make a fair endowment for the chair. Somethinz of the kind has often been proposed by academic reformers in Scotland, and it has long been f-It. that the Privy Council Training Schools have done imthense harm to education by with- drawing the whole class of intending schoolmasters from the universities. The Normal Schools, with their strong deno- minational bias and grossly inferior training, were, in fact, fixed upon the Scotch by politicians who knew nothing of popular education except what they saw in the miserable sectarian schools of England." A London correspondent, whose tone may be regarde as somewhat sensational, says-" It is highly probable that we shall see, during the present session, an attempt made to deal with the present lawless condition of the English Church. Two years ago, Lord Shaftesbury brought in a Bill, which was very absurd in its provisions, and against which Bishop Magee made one of the most brilliant and sarcastic speeches ever heard. The Bill could not survive that speech, and Lord Shaftesbury had to put up with a promise that the bishops themselves would take the matter in hand. Since then things have gone from bad to worse. Judicial decisions by the highest court in the laud have been openly set at naught, and the condition of the English church is little better than organized chaos. The attempt to set the law in motion is extremely costly, and when judgment has been obtained it is almost impos- sible tc enforce it. The bishops are understood to have taken this serious state of things into consideration, and it is hoped that the result of their deliberations will be a Bill introduced from the right reverend bench itself." We don't believe it. The bishops are too wise. They know that the church must either be left in its present "lawless" (query "free"?) condition, or entirely revolutionized. If judicial decisions have been set at naught so completely, the bishops may well ask whether fresh legislation will re- ceive more respect. On the whole, the" lawlessness" of the church does not strike us as the profoundly melancholy spectacle which some observers consider it. It is the law- lessness of life and thought at any rate, aud better than a dead uniformity.. The teetotallers have a great authority on their side in Sir Henry Thompson, ttii eminent physician. At the annual souce of the students' Total Abstinence Union, at New College, St. John's Wood, the other day he said:— It was of the utmost importance on physiological grounds that people should abstain from the moderate use of alcohol drinks." Perhaps the most remarkable utterance on the subject ever made by a man of great weight. We are more concerned, however, with the obvious, but forgotten truths which Sir Henry proceeded to impress upon his audience. "It is because," he said, "you and I and our fathers and forefathers have failed to educate this class (the working men) that we see them what they are. All men of action, whether educated or not, require a foil of some kind to their hours of blank toil; they need a totally different condition of the nervous system which shall be a relaxation from that which exists during the strain of prolonged labour. In approaching this class we must recollect that their sources of relaxation are very few. They have only now and then a chance of meeting a light and brilliant ray across their path to chequer agreeably the hard lot of monotonous toil. Most of us have several sourccs of pleasure—they are shut up to sensual enjoyment, because by want of education they have no power of appreciating better things. It is useltss for you to say, give up your liquor, if you have nothing better to put in its place. You and I can do it. We hive painting and music; our resources are manifold the art of fiction, the studies of history, philosophy, literature, the appreciation of natural beauty, and studies of travel. We have games of skill and a thousand things not possible to the unedu- cated. These are the bright beams which diversify our labour, and fit us for it. The working man has none of them. Do you wonder then that he seeks that elevation of spirit, that buoyancy of heart which he can buy for so msny pence, but which, as the habit grows, certainly re- sults in injury to the body, and in debasement to his mental and moral nature ? You may give these men your tracts in which you show that the habit is bad for this world and worse for another; but all this is poweiless, and will be so with the majority. You must provide for them other recreation you muse create and cultivate the t-tite by which they will appreciate other forms of recreatio before you will do them any widespread good. You mus mix with these men, not in your obviously professiona character, which they more or less discredit or suspect, but you must personally devise and superintend plans for mak- ing them comfortable, such as clubs and recreation rooms, eating-houses like those in Glasgow, with amusing re- sources in games and free libraries." If people could only be persuaded to believe that, and act upon it, what an advance in the sobriety of the people might result The Ellesmere Guardians having been offered "tea" at Is. 6d., Major Cust, ..M.P., at the meeting this week, asked whether it was possible to procure the genuine article at that price, and he and Mr Hodgson gave the re- sult of their enquiries on the subject, which seemed to answer the question in the negative. The Guardians wisely resolved to have be tea analysed, and we await the result with some curiosity. P'pv 'V- BBg^——————W—1^^——

BILLIARDS. MONS. ADRIAN IZAR v. J. ROBERTS, JUNR. On Friday afternoon, March 1:3h, a display of skill in billiard playing took place in the Public Hall, Wrexham, which attracted a small audience of admirers of that game, a number of ladies being present. The pl&vers were Mons. Adrian Izar, a French gentleman, and Mr Roberts, junior, the celebrated player. The game played was a peculiar one, Mons. Izar playing with his hand, without the cue, while Mr Roberts handled the cue. It was also a cannon game, pots not counting. The play was very interesting, especially the marvellous all-round cannons made by Mons. Izar, which the game seemed specially to show, Mr Roberts appearing only to act as a foil, hence when 46 was scored to the hand, the cue only showed a score of 24-66 to 32. However, after this, Mr Roberts rapidly pulled up his score to 60, making some capital strokes, which were applauded. Mons. Izar then shot ahead, reaching 7S in the next break, and again to 90, when Mr Roberts put on a spurt with his peculiar cannon game, and passed his opoonent up to 98, Mons. Izar took his score up to the same figure, and after another miss got into the first hundred, being soon followed by Mr Roberts. However, the Frenchman ran off with the game and won, the number being 150. This was fol- lowed by a game in which the pockets counted, and Mons. Izar made 125 in one break by going in off the red. The game went on with varying success, but Mons. Izar in- creasing his score at a much more rapid rate than Mr Roberts, scoring 300 to his opponent's 139, and ultimately won the game of 500 up.

T COOK'S GREAT BILLIARD HANDICAP. This handicap, the spot stroke barred, commenced on Mon- day night, March 16th, at the Guildhall Tavern, Gresham- street, London. F. Bennett (140) defeated J. Stammers (250) by 42 points, Morris (160) beat Evans (140) by four points, and Kilkenny (140) beat J. Beunett (scratch) by five points. The conditions of the game precluded large breaks, the best being- by F. Bennett, 75, and J. Bennett, 71 and 60.

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BYE-GONES Vyrif* QUERIB9, en. UJSPLliiC, on subjects interesting :-i Walts and the Rordevz. 'itIM! addressed to Bye-gones,' Cr.-e^tofflan. Oswestry. aea, MUMS and addressee must be ".at. in confidence, and the, writing viust be legible. Old neoi II;1,oerl;, books, and MS.s. carefully used and promptly returned.

r March 18, 1874. NOTES. SCORING SHEEP.—In the Oswestry Advcrtizcr, Feb. 18, was published an interesting extract from the Acaiemy, respecting the old-fashioned and oosoiete words used by shep- herds in Scotland, Durham, W estmordaud, Yorkshire, and by North American Indians as equivalents for our one, two, three, &c. Basis of the system appears to be Welsh and not Gaelic as the Scotch shepherds supposed, for we in Wales have the peculiar un-ar-ddeg, pedwar-ar-ddeg, pedwar-ar- bymtheg, &c., for eleven, fourteen, and nineteen. I should be vllry giad if any of your contributors could furnish this column with the very words used by the shepherds in the districts named above. If the word ugain in Welsh is similar to the American Indian words for twenty there will be a new clue to that lost tribe of ours, the Welsh Indians in whose existence and claim for the discovery of America I have never been able to believe. JOHN HUGHES. QUERIES. ATCHAM CHURCH (Feb. 11, 1874).-Bia2ich Parry A writer in Notes and Queries, July 20, 1873, quotes the following: -I' Blanch, daughter of Henry Miles Parry, Esquire, of Newcourt, Herefordshire, by Alicia, daughter of (Simon Milborn, Esquire, chief gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's privy-chamber, whom she faithfully served from her highness's birth, dying at Court on the 12th of Feb., 1589, age of 82; entombed at Westminster, her bowels at Bactoa, in the county of Hereford." This in- scription lie takes from a memorial window at Atcham, near Shrewsbury, and he asks the position of the tomb at Westminster? To which the editor adds a note, as fol- lows: Blanche Parry, Queen Elizabeth's old maid of honour, was one of the learned women of the day. She was born in 15J8, and died, blind, in 1589. She was an al- chymist, astrologer, antiquary, and herald, and a great crony of Dr. Dee, the conjurer, for whom she obtained the mastership of tit. Cross Hospital; and, it is probable, kept up his connection with the Queen. Consult George Bal- lard 3 Memoirs of several Ladies of Great Britain, edit. 1775, p. 124. Baliard says that her body was buried in Westminster Abbey, and her bowels in the church at Bacton, Herefordshire, and that in both places monuments were erected to her memory, the one at Westminster beinf on the south wall of the chancel.' Of the latter monument there is no vestige whatever." In N. & Q.\ Sep. 7 another writer states that Blanche Parry was the daughter of Henry, and granddaughter of Miles; and su«-pests Henry ap Miles as a reading, and he says she was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster, and that a monumental portrait of her hangs high up in the tower of that church He also states that two windows at Atcham have painted glass relating to the Parry family, but these windows were originally at Bacton Church, and were removed from thence by Mrs Burton to preserve them. At Bacton they were exposed to the boys, who pelted stone3 at them. At Atcham they were near to the Vicarage House, where Mrs Burton lived. Mrs Burton was a long time in getting pos- session of them, but one day she went to Bacton, treated the churchwardens, and (according to her suggestion) made them too merry, and they gave her permission to take away the window. They afterwards repented, and sued Mrs Burton to regain them. How Mrs Burton got off from this suit I do not know but she did not say a word about the suit to her children for many years." Yet another writer enters into the narrative, and he says there is a monument to Blanche Parry in the chancel of St. Margaret's, in the north aisle of the chancel, nearly opposite the door. Another says the entry in the parish register is "Mrs Blanch of Pary." A sixth scribe mentions that on the patent rolls of Queen Elizabsth the la.iy is named Blanche a Parry- apparently the middle term between Parry and Ap Harry." Some notices of her, says this writer, may be found in Miss Strickland's Queens of England, and that the Sloane MS. contains a list of jewels given to the Queen by "Miss Blauuche Parrye." In all these statements not one word is said as to the birth of the heroine. I do not ipossess Miss Strickland's Lives, or Ballard's Memoirs, or perhaps I might find what I want; which is,—where Blanche Parry was born, and why Mrs Burton was interested in getting the windows to Atcham ? R.P. REPLIES. THE BATTLE OF CROGEN (Dec. 4, 1S72.)— From enquiry made on the spot it would appear that at Chirk Castle there is no armour supposed to have been worn at the battle of Crogen. The Pass of the Graves," where, according to local tradition, the battle was fought, is on the bank of the Ceiriog M the Castle Mill. R. GUNGROG (See Argy, Feb. 25, 1874.)—Dr Owen Pughe seems to have noticed the word Argynghroeg," and defines it a3 very much covered fruitful." He also refers to me Mabinogion and to Ronabwy. Dr Owen Pughe says— Ymdaith a orug oni ddaeth i fewn—maes argynghroeg." He travelled unt:l he came into a luxuriant field." BR RONABWY-MABINOGION. Whether this interpretation is consistent with the char- acter of the district, and whether the term as applied to the place for a descriptive name of it, is sufficiently exact I leave to Z and others acquainted with the locality. CHATTERTOX. HARLECH CASTLE. (Feb. 18, 1874.) The following account of the numbers of men, and their pay, in the army of Lord Herbert in North Wales, in 146S, is from Hengwrt MS. 85, which is entirely in the auto- graph of Robert Vaughan, the antiquary of HeDgwrt. It is marvellous that Lord Herbert should have allowed an attack upon the Welsh Lancastrians with so insignificant a force, nor is it surprising, unless the force was greatly enlarged, that Harlech Castle should so long have held out. We read in Pennant, that Lord Herbert entrusted the siege of it to his brother, Sir Richard Herbert, nor do I recollect to have anywhere seen, upon reliable authority, that Lord Herbert was at any time present himself, during the campaign. W. A° 1468 y daeth arglwydd herbert i wynedd dan ladd a losgi a chodi dirfawr dreth ar bob cwmwd y gwynedd ar cymwd Penllyn. vj gwyr x £ i- bobgwr 60 £ i- vj gwyr viij £ 1- bob vn 48fi- I vj g. vj« xiijs. iiijd. 40 g. d. | vij g. v- vja- viijd- 37 6 8 xij g. bob vn 60 | £ d_ xxiiij g. uj"- vjs- viijd, 80 533 ig 8 xxv g. iji. xiij. iiijd. 66 13 4 xxviij o wyr xxxiijs- injJ- 46 13 4 I liiij o wyr xiijs iiijd- 33 6 8 lxxvij o wyr xs. bob vn 38 10 0 lxxxv o wyr vjs- viijd- 28 6 8 J Swm 575 £ i- xs." It i; not clear whether this is intended for xiijs. iiijd. or xijs. iiijd.—the last stroke in the xiijs. appears as though it were intended to bs obliterated-but in either case, the summing up is wrong in the one it would be zC3,3, in the other X33 6s. The total, at the bottom on the left hand, is decidedly wrong. DERIVATION OF WELSH NAMES. (Feb. 11, 1874.)— Wylc Cop (Llanwnog). I beg to submit the fol- lowing explanation of the name Wyle Cop-asked for some tim ago in your Byc-gones column Wgle from gwil, a Welsh substantive meaning a shunning, a toatch, or a look- out place. The same root is found in gwilio, to watch. The omission of the initial g is not uncommon, as in Wrex- ham, for Gwrfccsam. The remaining changes in the spell. ing are only such as were common enough before ortho- graphy became more definitely fixed by the art of printing. Indeed gwilio is now often spelt gwylio, and where this is the case gioil would become gioyl. Cop signifies a mound or ridge. The same root occurs in copa, the top (summit), and also in gob, a mound. The two words ttken together (Wyle beiag used adjectively) signify a look-out mound— a place probably used by the ancient Britons for hiding from, or watching for, invaders. Explanatory of this I may state that in a field adjoining the house known as Wyle Cop (I speak of Wyle Cop Llanwnog only), there are two artificial and parallel mounds, or ridges, which form something 'like arcs of two concentric circles. These mounds arc about 200 yards in length, and from thn-e to six yards high. Further, Wyle Cop is situate on the side of the hill Alltwnog. Alltwnog overlooks the valley, in mounds are about 200 yards in length, and from thn-e to six yards high. Further, Wyle Cop is situate on the side of the hill Alltwnog. Alltwnog overlooks the valley, in the centre of which stands Caersws. Caersws is said to have been once a Roman city. SHAD. GobOlcCIl.-HETI}lES' note, though interesting, does not offer to me a new solution of the etymology, inasmuch as Gop and Hope are identical. The G in Welsh is inter changeable with If in English, the following words to wit: -Goitest for Honest, Gorwel for Horizon, to Gutu for to Hurry, Gwrisg for Hu"k, Gaho for Halloo, and the very word in question, Gob-aith, is the Welsh tor Hope. Gop or Gob Owen must be one and the same meaning as Hope Owen. It is not likely that any place should be called Hope, Despair, or Charity, and Gobowen was the name of the place in question before Mr Jenkin Hope was born. J. C. ii. The change from "Beatrice Street" to "Stryt y Petris," and again from Stryt y Petris to "Partridge Stre&t," recorded by J. C. H. (Dec. 31, 1873) is a remark- able instance of corruption of names based ia the first in- stance on a similarity of sound, and in the second on a translation of the new name into the language of the ori- ginal one, thereby transforming it in such a way as to defy recognition. A remarkable instance of a similar transmu- tation is given in a note to the Iolo AISS. by the late Iolo Morganwg in the case of the Valley D'or, into which it was corrupted by the ISorman invaders from Dyffryn y Dwr" (the Valley of Water) itself corrupted subsequently into Valley Dore,' a name of no significance whatever, after having been translated into Latin Aurea Vallis, and that again into the Golden Valley" of the vernacular. I scarcely think that J. C. H.'s old man's traditional interpre- tation of Croes Wylan' by the Cross of Wylan,' a man's name, can be correct, as in that case the Welsh name would have been Gwylan, not Wylan, and I know of no example of the existence of such a proper name in ancient docu- ments. The suggestion that "Wallia" and "Willow" are merely corruptions of "Y Waliau or The Walls of Oswestry, merits consideration, but is open to a similar objec- tion. as the Welsh law of inflection would require Y Gwidiau not Waliau," as in the name of the hamlet of Rhos y Gwalial(, near Bala, in Merionethshire; but this again, as was once suggested to me by an excellent Welsh scholar the Rev. John Lloyd, late Rector of Cern y Drudion, may have been corrupted from Rhos y Gweliau (the Plain of Wounds), suggestive of a battle field. Sup- posing the G to have been dropped out of the word, the same suggestion might perhaps apply to the street in Oswestry. H. W. L. Oswestry. H. W. L.

1 TIPYN 0 BOB PETH. 1 The Taff Vale Railway Company have advanced the I wwrw of their izcoir and mineral guards 2". per wee' Sir W. W. Wynn has promised to preside over one of the meetings of the Bangor Eisteddfod. A banquet is to be given to Mr Kenyon at Wrexham on Easter Monday. Tnree handsome stained-glass windows have been put up in Flint church at the expense of Mr Ellis Eyton, M.P. Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P., and Lady Wynn, were on I the platform at Paddington to receive the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. Mr Ellis Eyton, M.P., is ready to resign the town- clerkship of Flint, and it is probable that Mr Taylor, of Chester, will succeed him. The Rev. R. Killin, rector of Festiniog and Maentwrpg, has been appointed chaplain to the High Sheriff of Merion- eth, Mr W. E. Oakeley, Plas Tanybwlch. The Daily Telegraph in a notice of Miss Mary Daviea's singing, says—" We anticipate much from this young and obviously gifted student." A Rhyl correspondent says it is rumoured that Mr Glad- stone is about to rent a residence in Rhyl, for use during the ensuing summer. We cau't believe it. Mr Gladstone has better taste. The Board of Trade have granted the application of the Anglo-American Oyster Company for powers to lay down an oyster bed in the Menai Straits between Bangor and Beaumaris. A fox, pursued by Sir Watkin's hounds, ran into Pen- ybryn, Wrexham, the other day, and leaped into a midden adjoining the Bowling Green. A large party of ladies and gentlemen came up, including Sir Watkin, and Reynard was taken from his hiding place with a pair of tongs. The Education Department have issued an order for the formation of a School Board at Llanfihangel Ystrad, Car- diganshire. The district will comprise the parishes of Llanfihangel Ystrad, Llanerch-ayron, Cilie-ayron and Diheiweid. The parishioners of Rhyl propose to subscribe JE600 or JE700 to purchase a peal of bells for St. Thomas's church, in celebration of Canon Morgan's refusal of the living of Chirk. Earl Grosvenor, who completes his majority on the 23rd of April, is travelling in Egyyt. The Duke and Duchess of Westminster intend to give a series of festive entertain- ments in celebration of their son's coming-of-age. The valuable rectory of Wistanstow, near Shrewsbury, i vacant by the death of the Rev. Edward Christopher Swainson, at the age of sixty-three. It is worth about £1,000 a year, with house, and the population is about 1,100. The living was the property of the late rector. At a meeting of the house coal proprietors of the South Wales district, held at Cardiff last week, it was resolved to reduce the price of coal 3s. per ton, and the wages of col- liers 6J. per ton from the 1st of April. The correspondent of a contemporary objects to the charge for shaving the Festiniog paupers. He asks why the ratepayers should be called upon to pay for so unneces- sary an operation. A very proper question. Let the paupers Wt ar the beards that nature gave them. The Arvon Branch of Good Templars, assembled in dis- trict lodge at Bangor, have passed a resolution expressive of their sorrow and shame" that the representation of the county of Carnarvon should have become so favourable to the liquor trade." A meeting has been held at Shrewsbury to start a "British Workmen's Public in Frankwell. A letter waa read from Mrs Marsh, of Carno, offering to pay part of the rent, and a committee was formed to consider the matter. The fourth report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts will contain an account of collections belsng- ing to Mr J. R. Ormsby Gore, M P. (which had a some- what narrow escape from destruction at Brogyntyn on Saturday, March 14th), Lord Mostyn, the Barl of Denbigh, &c. From replies which have been received from the Com- missioners of Inland Revenue in connection with a case at Denbigh, it seems to be allowable for a farmer to carry coals for a neighbour, from a place to which he has been driving his team, without taking out a licence. The journeymen painters of Rhyl and the district have struck work, in consequence of the masters' refusing to in- crease their wages to 6d. per hour, the working week to be fifty-five hours. The masters seem determined not to give in, but the men feel confident of success, because the work of house decorating for the ensuing season will almost immediately commence. The death of the Hon. T. Pryce Lloyd, of Pengwern. Flintshire, a son of the first Baron Mostyn, is announced. Mr Lloyd was Constable of Harlech, Conway, and Flint Castles. Mr Lloyd, who was seventy-three years old, traced his lineage back to Tudor Trevor, founder of the Tribe of the Marches," who lived in the tenth century. By Mr Lloyd's death the Nannau Estates in Merionethshire, in which by the will of the late Sir R. Vaughan he had a life interest, pass to Mr John Vaughan. A terrible accident has befallen Mr Haigh Allen, a Here- ford magistrate and large landed proprietor. He was in. specting an agricultural machine worked by horse power, when bis glove became entangled in the cogs of a rapidly- revolving wheel, and his han 1 and arm were drawn in and frightfully crushed. The unfortunate gentleman had to endure the additional torture of the reversal of the machi- nery before he could be released. He then submitted with great fortitude to amputation of the limb, refusing chloro- form. There are strong hopes that he will recover. We learn from the Liverpool Mercury that Mr Ellis Eyton, M.P., has offered to build a magnificent concert hall at the entrance to the promenade and pier at Rhyl; and this generous offer having been accepted M: Eyton has left the whole of the arrangements in the hands of Mr J. Churton, J.P., and the Directors of the Pier Company. On Friday afternoon, March 13th, Mr Hornblower, of Liverpool, who is the architect, had an interview with the building committee and completed the preliminary arrange- ments, so that the work will commence immediately. The Choir, in noticing the Ancient Britons' Festival, says —The natives of the Principality held festival last Satur- day at the anniversary of the Society of Ancient Britons, when music was well represented by Mr Brinley Richards, and a party of his countrymen and countrywomen who gave their services in the good cause of charity. The na- tional anthems, God save the Queen and God bless the Prince of Wales," were sung in true loyal fashion, and Mr Richards's spirited chorus, "Let the hilla resound," was a ho very effectively given by a choir conducted by Mr William Davies. The two nrincinal solos. "The Harner's Grave" (Brinley Ric-hads) and "Adieu to dear Cambria," were given with great success by Miss Mary Davies and Miss Marian Williams. One of the features of the pro- gramme was a solo by a young Welsh boy on the National triple-stringed harp, which was loudly encored. The re- ceipts amounted to £ 900, including a donation of £ 7 from Mr Richards, to whom much honour is due for his exertions to help his poorer countrymen. According to a report which we have received from our Whitchurch correspondent, the bones of John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury, have been discovered in the Parish Church of that town, where an urn, said to contain the pmbalmed heart of the great soldier, was already known to exist. A few days ago, while some workmen were repair- ing the monument bearing the recumbent figure of Talbot, in the south aisle, the remains of a coffin were discovered, with a number of bones. The rector and churchwardens were informed of the discovery, and carefully removed the bones, which were wrapped in cerements and in a wonder- ful state of preservation, and they found th,t only a few of the vertebral bones were missing. At the back of the skull was an opening, evidently made, it is said, by a battle- axe while Talbot was in a recumbent position, and the probable cause of death. The Antiquarian Society, with whom th° rector communicated, desired him to take casts of the skull and other parts of the skeleton, and informa- tion of the discovery was also sent to the present Earl of Shrewsbury and other persons interested in it. A coffin has been prepared, and it is expected there will be a public interment of the remains in the porch, where the heart is believed to lie.—Oswestry Advertizer. The Academy of March 14th, says, "Under the some- what ambiguous title of Bye-gones we are presented with a collection of notes, queries, and answers, which appeared from week to week in the Oswestry Advertiser and in the Cambrian News, in the years 1871-73. These Bye-gones are stated to relate to waies am. — t but more correctly they may be said to relate to the ancient principality of Powys, the district in which these papers principally circulate. These jottings contain a good deal that is interesting and curious respecting bygone times, and some of them are of considerable value. Of the latter class we would especially mention the numerous notices regarding Colonel .Jones, the regicide, and Lewis Owen, generally called th-» Baron Owen, who was murdered by the Red Banditti of Mawddwy in 1555. Most of these con- tnbutions are from the pen of a well-knowa Merionethshire antiquary, who possesses sources of information not acces- sible to the general public. We hope, however, that we are to have no more extracts from the Autobiography of Richard Davies, the Montgomeryshire Quaker, a book which has gone through several editions, and is by no means scarce and we much doubt the propriety of introducing into a work of this kind, which ought to be perfectly free from party bias, constant allusions to, and free remarks upon, the misguided zeal of some of the ecclesiastics of the latter half of the seventeenth century, as if their sue cessors at the present day subscribed to their views or were responsible for their conduct. Archaeology has no political or religious creed, and should not be made the vehicle of any dogmas. The index, which is only partially alpha- betical, is not so complete or convenient as it might be and we hope it deficiencies will be remedied in future in- stalments." We may say in reference to one observation in the foregoing notice that the free remarks" alluded to were extracts from the Autobiography, and not latter-day comments; so the writer could not possibly say how far this generation would subscribe, to his views." Bichard Davies was very useful as "padding to a new venture- now, we' are glad to say, in want of no such help-and being local history unavailable to niaety-nine out of every hundred of our readers, it has proved very acceptable to a large class.

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I FROM THE PAPERS. The case of Dr Hayman is at present before the Courts, on a demurrer. The Wigan and St. Helen's colliery owners havine- given notice of a fifteen per cent reduction in wages, the men j met on Monday, March 16tb, and resolved to propose ar- I bitration. Mr Disraeli was, OH Tuesday, re-elected for Bucks, Mr Cameron for Invernesshire. and Sir Stafford Northcote for ^Jorth Devon. At a meeting in Norwich, on Tuesday, a snbscrintion bitration. bitration. Mr Disraeli was, OH Tuesday, re-elected for Bucks, Mr Cameron for Invernesshire. and Sir Stafford Northcote for ^Jorth Devon. At a meeting in Norwich, on Tuesday, a snbscrintion North Devon. At a meeting in Norwich, on Tuesday, a snbscrintion I was opened for the Bengal iamine relief fund JMOO was subscribed. Colliery proprietors in West Yorkshire and North Derbyshire on Tuesday resolved to give notice of reduction of wages to the extent of 25 per cent Exchequer accounts to March 14th is as follows :-Re- venue JL.7O,OOO,117, last vear £ 7^(140 180- £ 71.972.091, last year £ 66,975 176 baSnce. T £ 12,214,448, £ 8.004,543. balances> y«. At Birmingham, on Saturday, March 14, collections were made at nearly all the leadmg factories and workshops, and also at most of the hotels and public-houses in aid of th* medical charities of the town. The death is announced of the Dowager Duchess of Richmond at her residence in Portland-place. Her Grace who was a daughter of the first Marquis of Anglesey, was 78 years of age. It is rumoured in the clubs that a marriage is not unlikely to be arranged between the Princess Beatrice and the Marquis of Stafford, M.P. for Sutherlandshire, and heir of the Duke of Sutherland. A calamitous incident of the Mecca pilgrimage is re- ported from Algiers. Just as the steamer l.aconia was leav- ing Tunis, with 278 pilgrims on board, a huge wave washed overboard 117 of them, who were all drowned. The grand jury at Devon assizes have ignored the bill charging the Rev Thomas Curling Lewis, cutate of the parish church, Ilfracombe, with an assault on a servant girl named Mary Ann Lovering, who was in Mr Lewis's service. A woman named Butcher was on Tuesday found mur- dered in a field close to the turnpike road at North Perrott, near Crewkerne. The appearance of the body suggests that the unfortunate woman waa brutally illused and then killed. The police have a clue. The Times states that Mr Hawkins, Q.C., has been re- tained in six different petitions, with a retaining fee in each case of 600 guineas, and 100 guineas refresher every day. Mr G-iffard, Q.C., holdf eleven retainers, Mr Serjeant Ballantine nine, and Mr J. J. Powell, Q C. five. ,« -t>rooKs, the son of a gentleman living in St. Mark s-square, South Hackney, London, was on Saturday sent to prison for fourteen da) s for cruelly beating and killing a cat, "which was in the habit of coming after his pigeons." The Cologne Gazette asserts, on authority for which it can vouch, that it is the intention of the Queen to pay a visit of some duration to the Ducal Court ot Saxe Coburg in May next. Her Majesty will, it is said, be accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. Among the passengers by the steamer Garonne, belong- iRg to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, which ar- rived in the Mersey on Monday morning. March 16th, was MrH. M. Stanley, the discoverer of Dr Livingstone, who had acted as special correspondent of the New York Herald at the seat of war iu Ashantee. Mr Stanley confirms the chief points of the treaty already published. The Queen of Greece has had a very narrow escape from the consequences of furious driving in the streets. Her Majesty, accompanied by King George and his uncle, Prince William, were taking a walk on foot on the Patissia road, and were crossing from one foot pavement to the other of one of the side streets when a carriage came dash- ing down the street. The Queen was on the point of being overturned and inevitably troddtn down by the horses when Prince William rushed forward, and. seizing the reins of the horses with one hand, pushed th Queen to the wall with the other. It was only the presence of mind and the muscular strength of the prince that saved us from an accident the consequences of which might have been most lamentable. The reckless driver was imprisoned, but Queen Olga, with her characteristic tenderness of heart, insisted upon his being at once set at liberty. Un Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer received ? deputation of railway directors who were introduced by Mr Leeman, M.P. (representing shareholders to the extent of five hundred millions), who urged the repeal of railway passenger duty, especially as regarded third class passengers, it being submitted that fast third class trains must be discontinued unless some relief was afforded. Sir Stafford Northcote said no one doubted that locomotion should be made as free as possible, but in reducing these burdens regard must be had to the altered circumstances of railways in relation to the state for instance. As to the con- veyance of mails, no government would be justified in taking off the dutywithout dealing with the general security and convenience of traffic throughout the country. There was a desire on the part of the country that the In- convenience resulting from the practical monopoly which bad fallen into the hands of the Railway Companies should be carefully considered when they were dealing with the entire railway system. A hawker, sixty years of age, has been charged at the Marylebone Police-court with disorderly conduct, and causing a crowd to assemble in the Hampstead Road." He was carrying boards, showing drawings of whips balls cat-o-nine tails, thumbscrews, &c., and there were.inlar^e letters, the words, 4t These instruments of torture now in use in the English convents. A plea for the inspection of convents. This led to the assembling of a crowd, and as the prisoner refused to go away he was taken into custody, the crowd crying Shame" on the constable. It appeared that the man was employed by the Protestant Evangelical Union, the secretary of which society, Mr Robert Steele, attended to state the fact. The magistrate, Mr D'Eyn- court, after looking at the placards, said he found that a case was quoted from that court, and it was a gross mis- representation of the facts, and also a gross libel on the two Roman Catholics who were charged. The placards inferred most atrocious and abominable offences, and they could be read in the public streets by women and children, which was disgraceful. It was perfectly abominable that the Union should allow the prisoner to go about with the placards. The Union might be prosecuted, and very pro- perly so, by the two Roman Catholics on a charge of libel. The prisoner was ordered to find two sureties in the sum of i £ 5 each to keep the peace for the next three months. The Prince Imperial attained his majority (at the age of eighteen) on Monday, March 16th. In the morning, there was a service at St. Mary's Chapel, after which the rmpres8 and the Prince returned to C xniden-place, and received the congratulations of many prominent Bonapartists who had assembled to celebrate the event. The Prince, in reply to a formal address, began by declaring that the public con- science bad avenged the Emperor's memory from calumnies, and saw his character in its trie light. His reign was a constant anxiety for the good of ail; his last day on the soil of France was one of devotion and self-denial. The material order which now existed in France was not se- curity the plebiscite was their safety and their right, the restoration of power to authority, and the reopening of an era of long security to the country. The Imperialists were a great national party, a party neither of conquerers nor of the conquered, but which raised itself above all in order to conciliate alt. United to mv mother by the most ten- der and affectionate love," continued Prince Louis I shall labour without intermission to outstrip the progress of years, and when the hour com.s, if another Government BhaU.pombme in its favour the suffrages of the majority I shall bow respectfully before the decision of the countrv. But if the name of the Napoleons cOIres forth for the eighth time from the popular voting urns, I am ready to accept the responsibility imposed upon me by the votes of the nation." Many thousands of Frenchmen took part in the day's demonstration. —

THE FATAL QUARREL OVER A POMATUM POT. Sylvanus Sweet, a young man of independent means, was tried at the Exeter Assizes, for the murder of his wife at Plymouth. They had been married only six years, but in that brief time there had been much unhappiness. The wife presented a petition in the Divorce Court which failed, and then they separated, Mrs Sweet goiu" to live with her father. Six months ago they resumed cohabita- tion, but it proved a fatal reconciliation for the poor woman. One day, last January, they (i uirrelied in the bed room, about the use of oil or poma umfor the hair, and Sweet became so excited that he attacked his wife with a sword and so hacked her about the head as to render her quite unrecognisable. She lived only about an hour after- wards. At the trial, on Saturday, it was shown that Sweet had suffered from epileptic tits for twelve years, and the medical evidence was to the effect that he was under the influence of epileptic furor when he committed the murder. He was acquitted on the ground of insanity, and was ordered to be detained in a criminal lunatic asylum. — "*•

HORRIBLE ATROCITIES BY A MOTHER. At Exeter AsiZè, Jane Parnell, a widow, forty-two years of age, living at Plymouth, was charged with t e murder of her newly-born child. The circumstances were very revolting. The prisoner cut up the body and boiled portions in a saucepan, and put other portions into the fire. The stench attracted the attent:on of the neighbours, and led to the detection of the atrocity. Fragments cf the corpse were founH forced down a water c]oset and thrown into the street. The lungs of the deceased were so charred that the doctors could not tell positively that the child was born alive. Under these circumstances, the piisoner was convicted of concealment of birth, and sentenced to nine months'imprisonment.

A SCHOOLBOYS' DUEL An extraordinary burhsriu-f.n tha i» „ V u been enacted by a couole ot I u .noncur has had a » difficulty." and one ch-d? A'0 7 The challenge being aecent-1 iV-S '° CUeli the weapons were bought aVatov^ -agre('a °a'.and The combatants, w-'thl LS i 1' ;rfSIXPer|?e a/lec!" where tV.o r,;a* V lr S(-Conds, wcnt to a r 'tired spot, "t the Aere 10adeJ with powder and bui and ;b» Snn? nr ?f ^'lrteen pnees both men •• lired at 1. I ppii'g Ot a handkerchief. Fortunately, bo'h missed, b«t one of the silly ]aJs wa.< wruaded in Vbe leg by the mrstmg of his pistol. Jerrold Maurice Burn, one 01 the boys, was brought before the Lindsey m.-ige-'ra'-s on Saturday, March 14th, ani committed for tri,J ;i.; the n^ssizes. The biy? who acteJ a? seconds were i!, £ v..v-.rgfc4;. Seagrove, the other b iy, is going on weii. At the Lincolnshire Assizes on Tuesday, a of acquittal was returned in the caM of the schoolboy, '^rrold M. Burn. charged with c"le of ids s' with a pisto!. with intent to do Uttn i.'iievow •

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I ECCLESIASTICAL. The Unitarians of Melbourne have appointed a lady aa theirminis-ter For some time they have beer, with mt any recognised teacher, and persons nominally belonging to the denomination occasionally forced their way into the pulpit to promulgate peculiar and e^ravagant views to the ,reat aniaoyane- of the congregation. To avoid these ariiya'i ,1SS Turner was induced to officiate tempor* formallv r, a few months' experience she has been wi thou fan vti to e church- Sfae conducts the service nrprur^ „Z_ arassment, and her sermoLS a.:e carefully A rs' delivered. Weigh-housegChapeindn in <r°Ur8f, of. Pr^ration foe memorate Mr Binned forZ*3 on^nally 'ntendea to com- now nearly completed and Pa9t?j-e ^ere- window. The .ubjfct .s T r ^nsidered a memorial cartoon, "Paul poaching at lthens°"J" RaPha21! to procure a likeness of Mr Binnev fiv!* f° minister's vestry. Qney' to be ^lacea the

POLITICS^ Mr Disraeli has issued his address to tbe electors of Buckinghamshire in which he asks for re-election on his appointment a? First Lord of the Treasury. The right hon. gentleman savs that in forming a Ministry he has recom- mended to the Queen "a body of gentlemen who will up. hold the institutioni of the country, and defend the rights of every ciass of her Majesty's subjects." w ff.^ort time ago the Liberals of Tunstall forwarded to r (jia Jstone a resolution of confidence in him as the ea er of the Liberal party. In reply theri_:ht hon. gen- •'—"I do not disguise from my elf the iropor- rpcTQwio the verdict given at the late election, either a3 rpJrwt. t lJersonally> or in other and mo-c important neorfli» ut I neither can repent having confided in tbe tn HIP'C ?easP to confide in them similarly with reference M I3?encies of the future. Lord"AdvocateeofCsrSla?d1]ha* B.efto t0^e LiberalReSi^^ S~ vent Colonel0 Wilso^1pfttTn^a t0 jWyresdale, of WinmarleLh ™ T^'i tt l"marieign, on his elevation to the J h the title of Winmarleigh, of Winmarleigh, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.— The Parliamentary Committee of Trades Unions on iuesday protested against the proposed commission and -1 declined to take part in any inquiry by a Rova' Com- mission into the law affecting labour. The election for the city of Oxford consequent upon the elevation of Mr Cardwell to the peerage toek place on Monday, March 16th, when Mr Hall, the Conservative candidate, polled 2,554 votes j and Mr Lewis, who stood in the Liberal interest, 2.092. Saturday, March 14th, was the last day for filing elec- tion petitions, and the list is now closed. Only twenty-one petitions in all have been lodged. Of these, t .vo relating to Rath have collapsed, and the number may be further reduced. The election judges for the year are Mellor,Grove, and Bramwell. It is not anticipated that the trials will take place before Easter. Tne list now comprises Hack- ney, Kidderminster, Stockport, Wakefield, Windsor, Petersfield, Dudley, Boston, Barnstaple, Water ford West, Stroud, Launces,on. Durham City, Bolton, Po de. Isle of Wight, Pembroke, North Durham, and South DLirl- zim.

MR GLADSTONE AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE LIBERAL PARTY. The following circulars have been issued by Mr Gladstone and Lord Granville, as Leaders of the Opposition in the two Houses of Parliament, to their supporters 11, Oar)ton-house-terrace, March, 12,1874. Sir,—I have the honour to mention to you thot the Address in answer to the Royal Speech will be moved in the House of Commons on the 19th inst., and to express a hope that you may find it convenient to be in your place.—I remain, Sir, your most obedient and faithful servant, « IV, E. GLADSTONE," Carlton-house-terrace, March 12, 1874. y L»orfc, I have the honour to inform you that the Address in answer to the Royal Speech will be moved in the House of Lords on the 19th inst., and to express a hope that you wiil find it convenient to be in your place. -1 have the honour to be, my Lord, your obedient ser- vant, "GHANVILLE." Mr Gladstone has addressed the following important letter to Lord Granville in explanation of his relations to the Liberal party:— 11, Carlton-house-terrace, March 12 1874. "My dear Granville-I have issued a circu-ar' to mem- bers of Parliament of the Liberal party on the occasion of the opening of Parliamentary business. thiq^dntv necessary that, whilst discharging this duty I should explain what a circular cou'd not convey with regard to illY individual P^-ti >n ai the pre- sent time. I need not apologise for addressing these rxp'anitions to you. Independently of other reasons fur so troubling you, it is enough to observe that you have very long re- presented the Liberal pirty, and have also acted in behalf of the late Government from its commencement to its close in the House of Lords. .For a variety of reasons personal to myself, I could not contemplate any unlimited extension of active uditi. cal service. And I am anxious that it should he clearly understood b those friends with whom I have acted in the direction of affairs, that at my age I must reserve my en- tire freedom to divest myself of all the responsibilities of leadership at no distant time. The need of rest will prevent me from giving more than occasional attendance in the House of Commons during the present Session. o c I should be d,sirous shortly before the commence- ment of the Session of 1S75 to consider whether there would be advantage in inv placing my services for a time at the disposal of the Liberal Party, or whe her I should then claim exemption from the duties I have hi herto dis- charged. If, however, there should be reasonable ground for believing that instead of the course which I hav- Fk, tched it would be preferable in the view of the party nc-rally for me to assume at once the place of an in impendent member, I should willingly adopt the latter alternative. But I should rettin all that desire which I have hiv.hert.ni felt for the welfare of tii(, partn-. And if tbe gent'-men composing it should think ti { either to choose a ^eader or to make provision ad interim, with a view to the con- venience of the present year, the person designated would, of course, command from me any assistance which he might find occasion to seek, and which it might b» in my • power to render.-Believe me, my dear Granvili., aiways "^S'Sra.nne, K.G." W' &

ASHANTEE. Advices from Cape Coast Castle announce thai Sir Garnet Wo.seley arrived there on the 19th F.-brnary. Great rejoicings took place in the town and rvj.l sjiutes were fired by the ships in the harbour. It was exoecied that Sir Garnet Wolseley would leave for Kngl-md about the 7th inst., and reach this country about the 2~th inst. He was previously to pay a visit to Ao*r>. tain Glover and Mr Goldsworthy had returned t,) 1 ■.e Yolta. The former, with 1,003 men, entered Coomassie two days after it had fallen. The treaty signed hv th of Ashantee was expected in a few davs. On tht ~7ih of SWJThVr00PS bad lH-t Cape Coast Caftle^cept the 1st \Vest Indian Regiment, which was to remain for about a month on the Prah, with a gun and rocket detach- ment from Bait's Artillery. The two native >-ogi>oents temporarily raised li vi 1)e-ii disban^cl. The "Victor Emmanuel was to make a slow voyage from Paps Coasi; Castle to Gibraltar with the most serious cases of sick and wounded on board. A supplement to the London Gazette.published r,n Tupsday night, contains despatches from Sir Garnet Wolseley, dated Fommanah, February 13-h. The General sen the texc of the treaty of peace, which he submitted to the King of Ashantee; but which at the time of the-ie d-spatches had not been signed. The treaty provides for the raiment of .)1J.UUU ounces or gold as an indemnity, 1,000 onnees down, and the remainder by such instalments as her Maj ."ty's Government may from time to time demand. Th» Kino- renounces for ever all right or title to tribute or homage from the King of Denkera, Assin, Akim, Adan-J, and the other allies of her Majesty, formerly subject to Ashantee. Freedom of trade is guaranteed between Ashaot-T and her Majesty's forts on the Coast, an,l the Xing promire* to keep a road from Coomassie to the Prah open and free from bush to a width of, fifteen feet. Lastly, the KLf'. promises to use his best endeavours to check the practice oi huma.n sacrifice, with » view to putting an end to i alfcof ther hereafter.