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I PORTRAIT GALLERY, i • MR. A. TAYLOR. We reproduce from the Daily Graphic a portrait of Mr. A. Taylor, who will conduct the British expedition to Brazil to observe the total eclipse of the sun on the 16th of next month. Optical refinements hitherto unknown are to be ap- plied to the observation of Ihe phenomena, ami important results are cxpscted from the in- vestigations under Mr. Taylor's direction. Mr. Edward Cutler, whose recent compositions, "An Arab Song" and "Child and Mother," bids fair to rival many of his earlier pioductions in popularity, is a Q C., well known in copyright cases ns well as by the National Union of Tcacherf, for which body lie has nevir lost a case (says the Morning Leader). He is also distinguished musi- cally as the first ati,.x,leur whom the Prince ot Willes lIolloured wi II the ap- pointment, of Grand Or- ganist (Freemasonry). He was born at Canons Park, the seat of his grand- father, Sir Thos. Plumer, Master of the Rolls, and MR. E. CUTLER. was educated at Eton (being in the Eleven in 18191 and at Toumine and Dresden. The family is of IFrencii exlr.te,, tirid el:tiiiis descent from Henry de Guie. Mids Harbara Huntl,y, now appearing in The White Lie," commenced MISS BARBARA HUNTLEY. her stage c ireer (says the Momung Ltailer) at the ago of seventeen with the late Mr. and Mrs Chip- pendale. Then, after two seasons with Miss de Grey and Miss Fortescue, she was engaged by Messrs. Hare and Kendal for the production of Pinero's Hobby Horse." Next she went on tour, and scored a big success as the Barome de Prefont in "The Ironmaster." She also played in Mr. and Mrs. Kendal's last season at the St. James's. Thence she went to the Adelphi for "The Bells of Haslemere," but receiving an offer from Mrll. Kendal joined that lady for ln-r American tour, and will again accompany them across the pond" at the close of the present season. Though Miss Huntley was born in London she was educated entirely in Dublin. Wo reproduce from the Daily Graphic a portrait of Sir Andrew B-trclav Walker, whose de;vth at Gateacre Grange, in Lan- cashire, was announced on Tuesday. The second son of Mr. P. Walker, of Auchinflorn, Ayrshiie, Sir Andrew begun life in humble circuist atices,but owing to a rare business capacity he gradually rose to be the chief partner in one of the largest brewe- ries in the world; He took deep interest in pub- lic affairs and was a deputy lieutenant for Lancashire nnd a magis- trate for Ayrshire. But he was chiefly renowned for his generosity. The SIR A. B. WALKER. splendid-Art Gdlory which bears his name in Liverpool will long remain a testimony to his munificence, to which the municipality replied by giving him the freedom of that city. Sir Andrew was created a baronet in 1886 and he is succeeded by his son. Mi. Peter Carlaw Walker. Miss Marion Grey (says the Morning Leadtr, to whom we are indebted for our portrait) is u charin- MISS M. GREY. ing little acress in her very early twenties who lias made lier debut at tIle I Ilaymarket Theatre as SUlwa in Hypatia," She was Lorn in London, and educated at the High School in Upper Biker- street. Miss Grey made her first professional appearance at Drury-lane in Pleasure when only seventeen years of age. She, however, obtained most of her histronic ex- perience with Mr. F. R. Benson's Shakespeare 1 Company, She was associated with the company both on tour ana at t fie Cxlc- be theatre. Since then she has fulfilled engagements with Mr. Charles H iwtrey, Mr. Ben Greet, and Mr. J. fl. DArnIey. Miss Mary Clayton, now playing at the Avenue, 1 is (says the Morning Leader) a very cLver young actress, whom Mrs. Ken- dal hils honoured with much praise for her per- formance of an ingenue in one of lier new ilia%-i:, "Marriage, 1892." She i, in htr twentieth year, but adopted the stnge as a profession about three years ago. Ihr fiist sea- son was at Margate with Miss Sarah Thome. Later she joined Miss Janet Steer, and while with played many parts, from Galatea to Maggie Alae farlane in Gilbert's En- gaged." She made a most successful London debut last, Julv at the Criterion < MISS M- CLAYTON. in the one-act play. "Idols of the Heart." Slw then joined Mr. F. R. Benson's company, and re- mained with Mr. Benson until she joined Mr- and Mrs. Kendal's company for their London season. f MR. FREDERICK JACKSON. We reproduce from the 1 I'aily Grpahic ft portrait, of Mr. Frederick Jackson, who is to lead the new British expedition to the North Pole. The party will leave England in n few months, and will ondeavour to reach the far Nortli by travelling over Franz Josef Land, tho most Northerly stretching anl at present known. Mr. Frederick Jackson is a traveller and sportsman, and is well acquainted with Arctic seas aud the peculiar conditions of Arctic travel. We produce from tho Daily Graphic a portrait j of the latu Madame Jules of the la.te Madame Jules Gievy, widow of the late President of the French Republic. Madame Gt évy had been in failing health for some weeks, and her eild, wliieli took place at eight o'clock on Thursday night, was not unforeseen by her friends and rela- tions. Notwithstanding the distinguished career of her husband, Madame Gievy, who was of a re- tiring disposition, rarely attracted public attention. She was, howevtr, deeply interested in works of chariJy. MADAME GaEYY.
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OUR PARIS LETTER. PARIS, JlARCH 7. THE PANAMA SCANDAL. Like Banquu's ghost, Panama will persist in taking the chair." Public opinion would be delighted to have the whole matter in the deep bosom of the ocean buried till the October general elections. It seems that no matter how it may be scotch'd," it cannot be lulled." It bids fair to resemble the poor—" ever with us." The recent trial of the directors has set the bench and the bar at loggerheads. Figaro has ob- tained portions of the indictment for bribery which will be heard before a jury these premature revelations are the verbatim examinations of MM. Floquet, De Freycinet, and Clemenceau before the police magistrate Franqueville en camera. Their evidence is contradictory as to dates, and one is forced to decide between the assertions of M. Charles de Lesaeps and their opposing statements. Patience for the cross-examinations, and the certainty of surprises. The Figaros special commissioner sent to the isthmus to examine the state of the enter- prise cle visu has handed in his report, accom- panied with explanatory sketches. It strikes the reader as being an impartial and correct document—extenuates nothing, nor sets down aught in malice. Its immediate effect will be to kill any reviving intention to privately finance a resurrection company. In a few bold touches the writer focusses the situation —the shareholders subscribed 1.400 million francs; 441 millions, including all extor- tion to wit-were expended on the works, the rest for materiel. The surveyed value of the canal, in its present salvage condition, is 300 miliions, of which 70 is for plant and the balance for achieved work. The writer brings out for the first time this important fact, that all the work accom- plished was the easiest in the enterprise, but that the real difficulties remain difficulties still. Nay, more, the commissioner, who was aided by teohnical authorties, asserts that the flourish of trumpets executed over the two ends of the canal so far opened do not repre- sent at best more than one-fourth of the total work to be executed. It will require 1,050 millions to terminate the canal, and even that estimate should not he accepted as final. And were the canal to realise reoeipts annually for the amount of 50 millions in the course of eight years after the opening that would not pay the new capital only 4 to 5 per cent., while the victims of the old company could cot receive even an obctle in the form of a consolation dividend, The fresh millions will be forthcoming if the State guarantees the loan if not, the Colum- bian Government has but to ring down the curtain, to be later rolled up for the auctioneer and speculative financiers. VOLAPUK. Volapuk is dead. "is he any relation of Dr. Herz ?" asked an old man from the country, when the news was gently broken to hiiii. Volapuli was intended to be the keystone language of the United States of II,urope, acoording to some, or of the Millennium, fol- lowing otil.. One enthusiast even alleged it was the langu of Paradise, which was rank blasphemy, as is claimed to be the vernacular among n n^els and archangels. Per- haps M. Flammariou's telephone to Mars may decide the point, or it may be among the hidden wonders of the Columbian Big Show. Some years ago at a press dinner a confrere in returning thanks for the press spoke in Volapuli at first no one wished to betray his ignorance, so smiled at the beauties to compliment his vulgar tongue at last a pet dog belonging to one of the guests that was lying in a corner oommenced to growl, and next to belligerently and defiantly bark at the speaker. Ultimately the orator was asked to sing his words, for Figaro holds that is the best way to comprehend the incompre- hensible. The orator died a few months later, but as no coroner's inquests are held in France the cause of his death must remain undisclosed till the Day of Judgment. Colonel Tchang-Ki-Tong, who is a Maggofanti, swore to me by 42 of his ances- tors and three pagodas that Valapuk was known in his country some thousands of years before the Christian era; that evidence of the fact could be found in the early files of the Pelcin Gazette if any dryasdust desired to follow up the search. Note: The first number of this Gazette was contemporaneous with Ramses II. M. JULES FERRY. M. Jules Ferry has proved all that could be .E,l lesired since his senate election he has ex- pelled no religious orders, demanded the heads of no Boulangists, has not threatened the Radicals with extermination, or China with i war of revanche. He assured the fathers they may sit easy in their curule chairs he same not with a sword, but as a boon and a Messing to all who desired to make the Republic open, tolerant, and pacific He thus "roai-sasgenly as any sucking dove.' He is one of the reserved forces of the re- public, and may prove "the daring pilot in xtremitv." He dwarfs all rivals already, lIId possesses the advantage of being the only. hief the Legislature possesses. lie has not been fairly treated by h i h orsaries, and there is no reason to doub. a is ten years' af ostracism has taught him the "sweet uses of adversity." 1848 FORGOTTEN. No ceremony took placo this February to keep the 1848 insurrection or revolution .,reen in the souls of Republicans they seem bo rank that proceeding as politically on a par with the dynastic in me mor iam for Louis XVI. Not a soul dreams of organising a refresher in honour of that jolly old sinner, Henri IV., who did so much for the unifi- cation and the material development of France. Of course, it would not be good form to execute a Te Deum on tbe occasion of the disappearance of a bad sovereign. Some original N(-tes on the events of 1848, by Alexis de Tocqueville, have just appeared; they are, besides, words in season, There is only one foreign correspondent in France who was present at the invasion of the Chambers j of Deputies by the people in 1848. I have heard him tell the story several times. When the Duchessed'Orleans, with her two boys, the present Comte de Paris and the DucdeChartres went to claim the Regency in favour of her son she was answered by a levelling of muskets at her and her friends a c; skedaddle" ensued i the Due de Chartres was separated from his mother the Our Own rescued the little blubberer. In 1870 Robert le Forthen, aged seven, remitt d him to the Russian Ambas- sador's valet, who placed him between the bands of his uncle, the Due de Nemours. M. Carnot has to kiss when on an official outing quite a legion of pretty girls, who come to welcome him and present flowers; it is an extra of his salary of ljf. million. 2 De Tocqueville relates that in February, 1848, a deputation of virgins of the wise order, like rosieres, waited on Lamartine: one was delegated to reoite an ode eulogising his con- duct during the glorious days." Excited by the enthusiasism of the crowd the virgin drifted into ecstasy and profuse perspiration; then she presented her two fat cheeks, covered with bead drops of heavy dew, for the poet to kiss, and which he did with the tips of his lips. On one ocoaaion Roohefort had to do pptriotio embracing under difficulties. The market women of Paris-411, "stalwarts "-flocked to ahare their joy in September, 1870, on his release from prison. All wished to kits him. Rochefort objected to such a profusion of effusion, and suggested that he should em- brace the lady longest established in the pro- fession on behalf of the rest—and kept bis word. De Tocqueville is only tender with his cynical and keen pen for Prince Louis Napo- leon he did not think much of Louis Philippe, whose conversation was a sentence without punctuation or finality. The King avowed that the Spanish mar- riages question had shaken his throne, and that- Palmerston was a blackguard— I'polisson," We rarely rank those who crow our plans among the cherubim and seraphim. When Marratt prepared a list of the iieinb-ers for the provisional Government he banded it | to Lamartine to read out to the crowd :_h I 1cannot do so, as my name is included," he re- plied. The list was next handed to Uremiewm —the first Jew admitted to Parliament, and whose briefs in later days Gaiiibetta devilled I cannot read it, as my 'name is omitted," he answered. "1 woaM like to twist the neck of that vulture,* observed one of the invaders of tb. Chamber, pointing to the deputy mottk Lacordaire, who sat lonely and silently, glaac- ing around him, his long bare neck rillig Od of his grey hood his shaven^snalp and border of black hair, a falling crooked nose and piercing black eyes, did recall that bird of the Zoo Gardens. The mob caught up tiny Louis Blanc, who orated against all the tyranoiee while endeavouring to free himself from the shoulders of his admirers. The comical spectacle recalled the wriggling of a snake bdd by the tail. The author draws attention to th, irresola- tion and the tendency to be off the head when skilled and brave generals are called upon to act against a crowd, which is so differentfr-asa an organised foe; the generals are also dig- turbed by the possibility that the soldiers will not obey. In 1848 that may have been thus; but in the case of the 211d of December coup d e/at, Gt nerah H. A maud and Canro- berfc could not be so classed. At least ask Parisians. Other remark: a revolution com- mences by a crowd, one half of whom are rascals and the other half idlers, who come to see the sport, but when the fighting arrives it is marvellous to note the method and discipline with which it is executed in the absence of all concerted plan of accepted leaders or desig- nated flag. In the outbreak of the Reds in June, 1848, the women fought, if anything, better than the men but then they believed they would possess the property of the rkli for their husbands and children. Something similar was to note under the Commune. HOME RULE IN RUSSIA. As England is more or less occupied with plans to end or mend the House of Lords, it may be apropos to indicate the Home Rule3* Bill presented by the Comte de Uobrinsk-oy -for reforming the Upper House in Holy Russia. In Muscovy princes are said to be as plentiful as blackberries; none, it appear^ are genuine unless they possess the "hall mark" of having been presented to the Czar. Tfea may explain why probationers for that stamp- ing are to be found among the drivers of druskis in the Russian cities. A fair sprink- ling of them turn up also in the French police courts. Comte de Bob-etcetra rejects the acqiv- sition of nobility by rank or decoi-ations-otiiy the Czar can make a belted knight, a mar- quess, duke, and a' that," but he would adrieit to the assembly of nobles the proprietors, since the remotest times, of unlimited broa4 acres or those having a Peabody or Jay Goatd purse to purchase vast estates. But merit or small income will not be allowed to take even a back seat. The Russian Ravenswoods mttak go despite all the veneering tactics pi their Caleb Balderstones. Alas for la inistre « habit noir. THE REPUBLIC AXD ITS ARISTOCRACY. The Republic has its aristocracy according to a happy improvisation of Madam* Floquet. The constituency of MoyenneviJl^ however, insists that if it be thus the article must. be genuine; hence its petition to th* Chamber that no deputy whose name appeass in the Journal Officiel be given a title until he has submitted his parchments to a search- genealogical examination. The petitioners are compelled to take this step, Le- caose a representative, Ii the issue of < respectable family of tailors, mercer?, and tanners," goes about proclaiming himself the direct descendant of Charlemagne. Whether the deputy or the petitioners are the greater lunatics time will show. Beyond doubt the Comte de Paris and Prince Victor Napoleaa —misfortune makes strange btidfellow,3 -have a hand in this intrigue; clearly they spy a rival pretender. And at this moment the worthy descendant of a tanner," having arrived at exalted station, has quietly passed away; the father of the once Narbonne beauty, Mdlle. Fraisse--possemii. ing thus a natural right to the strawberry leaf"-bet!er known as the widow of ex. President Grevy, belonged professionally te the guild of Simon the Tanner." She' wu an unassuming lady of the household, who saw in high latitudes only profound ennuis, and longed to escape official glory for the simplicity of her domestic hearth, At receptions I have watched her marked re- pulsion of having to preside at fetes, which she quit for ever in favour of her daughter—more a jolly Anglo-American than a French girl-as soon as it was decently possible; she could never acquire an official smile: grinning, either on the part of functionaries, shopmen, or knaves, exacts a special development of the india-rubber group of muscle&,
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,NODIADAU CYMREIG. fiWRON LLKWELYN BRENN, EGL WYSILAN. El WRTHRYFEL. Y BRENIA1 ldwald II, A LLEWELYN. ^NYddiad LLEWELYN YN nghaerdydd. svr?U0Gi YK uchelsirydd, f>r^lLLlAM Fi'KMING, AM I^OLLFAlilSU LLEWLLYN. Gan MORIEN," Ma ™ai plwyf Eglwysilan, Mor- etgy(ji y anrhydedd o fod wedi taraw yr ^0rKan £ erh?ny £ a^a Normanaidd yn Ue^eln r^waS marwolaeth y Brenin Gruffydd yu Rhagfyr, 1282, a ^*ain pi daranfollt hono, y Tvwysog "Oiv.ir. vr» y hwn a alwai y beirdd Lawgoch," yn y flwyddyn 1400, E «** ^^Jsy<ld Morganwg ar achlvsur y ilah w'adgarol a dorodd allau yn Fglwys- flwvXi/ h°n a gymerodd le naill yn y ^renn #1 neu 1316—oedd Llewelyn ^edi p'- re^afj mewn canlyniad i'r hyn wyf P'ssw Jr ^arSaBf°d yn ddiweddar, ei fod yn y <( r>^ ar 'an y Taf. ynagos i'r fynedfa i heol y r nshl, Glan y Bâd, pi wyf F1 wysilall. aeth i i ij,ewelyn Brenn yn hanu o hiliog- SaQt pWe'Jn Brenn, Ai Iwydd Caerphiii, neu Vr yn yr unfed ganrif ar ddeg. heith p yn un ° r oedyni a wnaethant eu ^yne^/0- y flwyddyn 1093—wyth can' i eleni—i wrthweithio dylanwad y MorL mawr a wnaeth Iestyn, brenin i jrgaiiwgI yn gwahodd y Normaniaid l»loe» Morgan. Ond oherwydd gallu Morn? croesi yr Hafren i oryrau 0Vir £ » a Berth Oaerloyw yn croesi Afon Non^^odd pobl Morganwg a gyru allan y gau ta ollyngwyd i mewn i Forganwg ^eddp Mae Morganwg yn dioddef hyd JHae i °herwydd yr anffawd. Er engraifft, l,i4n rethoedd tirol a berthynai i Athrofa yn to Fawr cyn dyfodiad y Normaniaid °yw»np heddyw i gynal Esgobaeth Caer- aria,, CYn iddynt fyned yno, cynhaliai yr oyny fynachlog fawr Tewkesbury. 4,11 Llewelyn Brenn,olynydd yr ue' Bren; son am dano yn awr. Talfyi: J y^ JSa.^w »' Bren," hen Brenn a thebyg frejj..&1 oherwydd bauiad y teulu o linach X'oe/to Mabwysiadaaaut y oyfenw hwnw. 'Vidt arferiad gyfrwya gan y Norman- iatb a, Ollddynt amddifadu Cymro 0 I etlfedd- ,l w osod mewn rhyw awdurdod o danynt etifeddiaeth a berthynai iddo gynt. *rth • yrawdurdod ond rbith, a'u hamcan r^OQdi i'r Cymro oedd ei ddallu, a dri oedd felly yn cael Wy^w « Gogr Anwiredd." Yroedildros ^fod"0811' nalyne<l<i wedi myned heibio er'a ^°rodr?^ Normaniaid i Forganwg pan 8wfthrjfel Llewelyn 13renn allan yn p^jj^^gJwysilan. Yr oedd Castell Caer- Ujir Wedi bod er's oesoedd yn nwylaw y Jedd °^ou Clare, pa rai, trwv ochi y bais, y hanu o'r Dy wysoges Nest, merch yjj Ivhys ap Tewder, yr bwn a laddwyd Ii?'' ^hya, Morganwg—lie a enwir lre(jj °! ef- Ond yr oedd yr olaf o'r De Clares yn mi'wydr Bannockburn, yn y 'Jdwt. u ^1^- Gadawodd yr hwn a laddwyd 0". Waer unig, a rhoddodd Edward II. °Jfani 1>ynt wraiS i an Hugh de le Spencer, i & Diawr i'r brenin. Gyda hi rhoddwyd Arglwyddiaefchau Meisoyn, Glyu • a Chaerphili—yr olaf yn cynivys y UffJQaiach Ar OPQ J Pryd hwn, Llewelyn Brenn oedd prif .^hwyhwr J)e Clares yn Nghaerphili, os 7r oil o Arglwyddiaeth Morganwg, yr cynwys y lleill i gyd. Ond Xlew Spencer yn ben diswyddodd le< »_ yn Brenn a gosododd Norman yn ei yn debyg fod Llewelyn Brenn yn cael a'j bron fel y mynai o dan y De Clares, c4d hI wedi bod felly hefyd yn amser ei ei if1 a'n bod hwythau yn edryoh ar per^eri etifeddiaeth mewn enw yn unig yn Hjew 1 pe Clares, ond mewn gwirionedd ac Vr ? SWeithred, yn aros yn eu teulu hwynt. 0]4res^° a wnelent oedd talu treth i De Ul. In a wilelent oedd talu treth i De ,res. „ rv l*le\p i Spencer, yn awr, wrth ddiswyddo ?-n Brenn, nid yn unig yn taflu y pen- *rilo on<l y» cymerya oddi ,etlfeddiaeth ei henafiaid. Mae yn amlwg rol, Yuia y wedd a welai gwyr Morganwg o'r 0Wrfe^ryr hyn a wnaeth De le Spencer. e*l h ^So<^ ^dyrn Morganwg hen gleddyfau a chyn pen fawr o amser vr oedd Brenn ag ugain mil o'r boys Cvm- e' ganlyn tua Chaste! 1 Caerphiii Ni Aj0 castell erioed yn hir o flaen gwyr a»an, nw8'i ac ni fu eithriad y tro hwn. Tor- >* awr y mur ag oedd yn dal cronfa l.Iedr i am,,ylchu"y castell a ffoa ddofn. a 'i:V a'lan yn rhaiadrau crochwyllt. °yfeir'ad rhnthrodd cenllif digofus i mewn i'r castell a dangosant i'r cha!°n ^en wae^ -Esyllwg mor danllyd ac°jao y ^PJ8 mor nerthol ag eiddo eu fntj Llawer Morgan a lamodd oddiar ^acKi jaer Bhiiip y dwlhwn hwnw, ac erbyn i°j* h*ol yr oedd y castell a'r boll wlad 4aybad D°' rae^<an'1 Llewe^n Brenn o Cy t Oblad d yr boll deyrnas gan yr amgyl- Yr oedd Morganwg wedi codi yn itor» Brydain, canys, felydywed Clark, 3eyr^ftDwS °edd magwrfa dewrion penaf y N0rmas- Yr oedd y gwahanol arglwvddi Vr ar oryrau Gymru wedi dychrynu. teijjji Q -welyn Brenn a'i ugain mil yn lleoawr o fan i fan, ac yn aurheithio y 1q Normanaidd. Cododd larll Henffordd John f|>Wr''l1wynebu, ac anfonodd Edward II. i»yne, Arglwydd Bronllys, i'w gwrfch- i'r jj.,0' ^nciliodd Llev/elyn a'i wyr arfog etL Ynvd o, dd.. Yr wyf hyd yn hyn wedi Jtn U a/dyfod o hyd i hanes y brwydrau a a'¡ erodcl 1", YI1 awr. Oriel caf banes iddo ef ymladd a lladd llawer o'r gelynion.j Ll0r^ at«lwg fod y Normaniaid a nerthoedd fon0Jj We.^i nietho eu darostwng, canys an- Oag^n _|>dwavd II. genadwr brenbinol o ^an o y^sor i siarad a Llewelyn Brenn. fot* y genad Morganwg cafodd lh-/nyd<»iTe^n Brenn a'i fyddin ar ben un o'r leb °e(^^—mynydd uchel Eglwysilan.yn ol "^an dderbjniodd Llewelyn y ^}<3 cynrychiolydd Edward If. ar y ^e§e? u aros er mw?n °yflen tjjn y ^renin, aeth Llewelyn i lawr wrtho ei l»reQj y^edodd y genad fod ei fawrhydi y yn ei wahodd i ddyfod i\v weled yn yft oj0r» ac yn rhoddi iddo ddiogelwch JU»] a blaen a bod y brenin am °'i enau ei hun beth Li»i.?chosi -v. cynhwrf yn Morganwg. 61 fod yn yn ol at ei fyddin, a dywedodd ^enjW Penderfynu derbyn cynygiad y ^"elTd > ac yna cyngborodd bawb i ddy- »^aPrj \T a oartrefleoedd. Hyny a *.fca»ir "■r! yn sicr fod Edwarcl y hwn 7,arad vr ?ward o Gaernarfon," yn medru ^l (*erth n1^ Gymraeg. Cymraes, o Dre ej gaernarfon, oedd ei famaetb, a toFsedd 1 i ^0<! y hachgen wedi esgyn i *U>klarkH°?i^' a gerddodd, medd Mies valves of the Queens of England) bob cam o Gaernarfon i Lundain i'w weled yn "eisteddareiorsedd." Ei henw hi oedd Mari. Cafodd y groesawiad gwresocaf gan Edward II., ac y mae yn nyddlyfr Edward gofnodiad am y swm o arian a roddodd iddi hi. Felly mae lie i gredu i'r brenin gyfarch Elewelyn yn yr hen laith, vii ol dull y Gogledd- wyr o'i siarad hi. Yr oedd sain yr hen iaith yn galondid mawr i Llewelyn, ac yn peri iddo edryoh ar Edward 1L mal brawd iddo ef ac i bob Cymro arall. Cafodd, yn ddiaii, adrodd ei gwyn yn ei ddtill ei hun. Cafodd bob grossaw gan y brenin, a phardwn am yr byn oedd wedi ei wneyd yn erbyn De le Spencer. Dychwelodd tua chartref, ond ar ol iddo gyrhaedd Caer- dydd ymaflodd y Normaniaid ynddo, a thaflodd Syr William Fleming, yr Uchel- sirydd, ef i garchav ystafell yr Oged. A chododd Syr William grogbren yn ymyl y Twr Du, o fewn mur a amgylchai ystafell yr Oged, ac achosodd i Llywelyn Brenn i gael ei grogi. Ond cafodd Syr William ei dalu am y weith- red. Pan gyrhaeddodd y newydii y brenin gorchvmynodd grogi Sir William Fleming ar yr un crogbren ag y cafodd Llewelyn Brenn ei osod i farwolaeth. Claddwyd y ddau yn mynwent y Mynachod Gwynion, lie mae yn awr erddi Arglwydd Bute, tuol i dai ochr ogleddol Ileol Llys y Cawl (Crock- herbtown), a gwelodd Leland y ddwy gist coffadwriaeth ar eu beddau tua'r flwyddyn 1540. Dywed lihys Meyrick, yr hwn a ysgrifenodd yn y flwyddyn 1578, fod tomb Syr Wiliiam o feini ac un Llywelyn o goed, ao i'r ddau gael eu newidio pan ddadwaddol- wyd y mynachdai yn 1535. v Yn mben tua deg mlynedd ar ol hyn, ar brydnawn dydd Sul yr oedd Edward II., De le Spencer, a dau neu dri eraill, ar ol croesi y mynyddoedd o Gwm Nedd, yn myned i lawr trwy Gwm yr Yetrad. Yr oeadynt ar en taitb tua Chastell Llantrisant. Yr oedd gwrthryfel wedi tori aHan yn Lioegr, a'r Frenhines a'r barwniaid yn blaenori. Daliwyd y brenin mewn Ile a elwir fyth Pant y Brad ar yr heol rhwng Tonyrefail a Llantrisant. Daliwyd De le Spencer ar WaunFeiscyn rhwng Llantrisant a Croes y Cad. Gosodwyd Edward II. i farwolaeth mewn dull barbaraidd i'r eithaf yn Nghastell Berkeley, a De le Spencer i farwolaeth mewn dull cythreolig yn Henffordd. Ll<5lgwyd rhanau o'i gorph ag yntau yn fyw a. haiarn eiriasboetb. Ond etifeddodd ei fab ar ei ol ac yn nirwydr Cressi yr oedd yn arwain Heng Morganwg yn erbyn y Ffrancod. Gwnaeth gwyr plwyf Llantrisant ryw wrhydri mawr yn y frwydr acfel cydnabyddiaeth am hyny gwnaed a'u plant a'u hiliogaeth dros byth yn wyr byddion, a rhoddwyd llawer o diroedd heblaw y Cymle iddynt.
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DOWN THE MOUNTAIN TO DEATH. At four o'clock on the moming of November 8-1). 1875. in express train on the Loliigh Valley Railway, in America, was on the top of a moun- tain, eiglieen miles nbove the city of Wilkesbarre. Among the passengers were the President of the United States and several members of his Cabinet, in a special coach. From this puint the grade was very steep and the road full of curves. It was the custom to keep the brakes set all the way down. If they failed, disnster was sure to follow. Within a minute after the tiain started the driver noticed that something had suddenly gone wrong with the brakM. The train kept pushing the engine. He reversed, but without checking the speed- Seeing this, the guard and one or two other train men jumped, and escaped with only flight injuiie*. The train now ran faster and faster, and a horrible death "eomed waiting fn all on board. The driver blew the whistle continuously to warn trains at the foot of the mountain of his approach. When the runaway passed Nescopeck Station it was going ut the rale of neary 70 miles an hour, and the faithful driver stood at his pos', bareheaded, holding on, aud still blowiiig i lie whistle. At the foot of tile mountain all Ihe !rains had got out of the way except the rent- end of a c' a.) train which was just shunting. It to this the passenger train dashed with a crash that was heard for miles around, knocking the coal cars in all directions. The passengers were badly shaken, anrl some were bruised, but none were killed. Bitt where wns the bmve driver ? From under the wreck of the overturned engine ie was taken an hour after ward?, crushed and dying, but still able to speak. Is dIe President safe ? he ,pe, "Ye-, and everybody else," was the ,,as answer. Thank Gcd for that," he sahi, and never "poke again. A splendid deed, truly, yet there is not a driver in a hundred who would not flave stood to his duty with the'same fidelity. Exposed to all Rorts of weather, to constant danger, and laden with responsibility, the engine drivers have a com- mendable record, and deserve higher appreciation both by the companies and by the public. "I iim an engine driver," says Edward Roberts, "and have been for eleven years. My health was always good until Ju.y, 1885. Then something came over me that I couldn't account for. I felt tired, sleepy, and languid. My atoma.ch felt sour nnd cold, my mouth tasted awfully bad, and my tongue was thickly coated. A disagreeable fluid canie up into my mouth, and my appetite failed. No food, however light, agreed with me, and I had great pain after eating anything at all. In ten minutes my stomach would be all in a ferment, and swell like a balloon does when the gas is running into it. I had also a miserable tightness around my chest lIod side, Later on I had awful p-sin in the kiiin".ys. I could not rest at night; I had dreadful dream?, and would turn and turn in bed, but found no eise. As time went on I got weaker and weaker utitil I could scarcely crawl to my work, but having a large family to support I struggled on as best I could, when many auother would have been confined to bed. As it wa, my suffering was so great that I went to bed as soon as I returned from my work. For ov<r four years I went on in this fashion, about half alive and half dead, obtaining no relief from the medicines the doc to: S save me. I took ix boi ties of pepeine, but it did no good, neither did the seven bottles of a medi- cine we sert over and got from Dublin. In May, 1890, a lady who called at my house told, me of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Syrup, and recommended me to try it; so I got a bottle from Mr. Wilson, at Drug-hall, Holyhead, andb gan takinr it. In a week I felt better, iny stomach was easier, and my food digested, and I graduallv gained strength. By the time I had taken six bottles I was btrong its ever. I could eat anything and have kept. well ever since. I have told of my recovery everywhere, and many of my friends have used the Sfrup with benefit. I wish I my experience to be published, and will reply to inquiries a.bout my case." (Signed) "EDWAHD ROBERTS, N, 9, Tyn Pwll-road, Holyhead," What originally brought on this wretched attack of indigestion and dyspepsia—which through lack of the proper remedy became chronic—Mr. Roberts does not say, even if he knows. Probably the caue waS exposure, and a hasty and irregular habit of eating. At nil events, lie was for- tunate in learning of Mo;her Seigel's Syrup before it was too late. We congratulate him on this point, and are confidant his frank statement will be of use 160tliers of his honour- able and responsible caliing. For one, the writer of these lines never lies comfortably back on the cushions in a first-class carriage on the excellent North-Western Railway without hoping (se'fisiily enough, to be sure) that ftliawcUtn mind and b >dy with tho man who drives the iron horse. L. 501
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A Dit'zi, I telegram from Birmingham, Alahnma says. Two respectable farmers named Wyllie and Frintt, who live in Cherokee C uiity, have been the victims of a brutal assault by Whiteboys. Some time ago they pointed out to the Excise officers the whereabouts of several illicit stills, and on Saturday night their house was visited by 26 masked men. They were dragged from their beds and stripped, after which they each received 78 strokes with a hirkory stick. The Whiteboys com- pelled a crowd of women nnd children to witness their brutal treatment of their victims. STEEDMAN'S Soothing Powders for chiHfren cutting their teeth have now been in use over fifty years. They relieve feverish heat. prevent lite, convul- sions, &C., and preserve a healthy state of the con- stitution during the period of teething. Manufactured only at Walworth, Surrey. Sold everywhere. Please observe the VE m ijtadw&n. IAIUS
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A FRIENDLY WARNING. Floating Shade: Who are you P Beautiful Spirit: I am the Angel of Peace and am flying back to earth. bloating Shade: Well, if you stay ovei night in Europe you'd better roost high. NOT SO MUCH TO LeSE. Bingo When you andyonr wife come ovea to my house to-night you had better bring along your umbrella. It looks like ram. Kingley No I'll bring my cane. it didn't cost as much as my umbrella. LIFE ASSITEANOE, Hobbs, believing that insurance was a profitable plan, 011 his life one hundred thousand dollars carried; And I must endorse the judgment of tliitvery prudentjnnn, For unto his charming widow now I'm married. THE NEW YORK Boy. The New York Boy is not precisely a child of the devil, but for malicious mischief he is hard to beat. One of them was overheard initlatinga strange boy from the lawless'Soutb into the mysteries of New York life, Winter is the best time to throw stones at windows," said the New York boy. Why is winter the best time r" asked the unsophisticated youth from the South. Because, you see, the houses have double windows, and you can break two panes with one throw and you only get one licking, just the same as if you had only broken one pane."
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