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9 i-jlWORKMEN'S TOPICS.
9 i jlWORKMEN'S TOPICS. [ BY MABON. 1 THE LORDS AND THE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL. Lord Battersea, better known in Wales as the late Mr Cyril Flower, when at Pontypridd, said 1 that the Employers' Liability Bill was one of the greatest reforms of the century that it had more influence than anything that had ever been attempted before by Parliament to bring equality between capital and labour. If they scanned the Bill carefully they would very soon see why Lord Salisbury was opposed to and -condemned the Measure. The Opposition rose from the fact that RIte Bill was the united opinion of all the Trade Unions of the country, and that the Democratic party were determined not to lose its faith in the people of the country. This bold assertion, though sounding somewhat I strange, we have reasons to bel eve is only too true. And it will also amply bear out what, in ipplication, is the distinctive difference between zhe two great political parties in dealing with Questions bearing upon the real welfare of the jOeople—distrust of them on the one hand, and implicit trust in them on the other. Lord Salisbury himself, in his speech on thequestionintheHouseof Lords, distinctly said that the Government of Mie day had passed this measure in order to please And to catch the votes of the Trades Unions of lihe country, admitting at once that they at least Were in sympathy with the wants of the people As expressed by Trades Unionises. That being lo, coupled with the fact that the Trade Unionists 4f the country, through the power of their organisations, have voiced, not only their own, )ut the grievances of all the Unorganised and un- ikilled labour as well, and have been the means of Jemanding every industrial and social reform that jur British Parliament have passed of late years, lot for themselves only, but every class of industry a the United Kingdom, Lord Salisbury way and :ertainly will find to the detriment of his party, /.n days to come, that his jibes and sneer-t at the totes of Trades Unionists will cost them more than De has bargained for. For he will certainly find ihat among the workmen of Tory Lancashire is staunch supporters of the Employers' Liability Bill as there are among the colliers and others a Liberal Yorkshire. As to the purpose of the Bill itself, we need not spend any more time to explain. And as to the action of the Lords in Mutilating it being a slap in the face to jha Trades Unionists of the country there 5an be not the slightest doubt. Lord Salisbury tell knows that the Trade Unions of the country will rather be without the whole Bill than co kccept a mutilated one. They have told him and AÏ8 late Government so over and over again. A.nd as he, when in poww, failed to give them a Bill that they would accept, he now, when out of power, will use his power and Influonoe with his brother peers, unrepre- sentative and irresponsible as they are, or, at least, the great majority of them, to prevent any other Government to give them the Bill they r/ant. It is his day of revenge. But as true as the day followa the night, the day of retaliation will come. Great numbers of people, in all probability, will have forgotten that the Tory leader and his Government took office in 1886, with a distinct: Promise to the workmen of the country that they would receive from them an amended Liability Bill in accordance with their desire. It was even mentioned in the Queen's Speech. In 1888 Home Secretary Matthews brought in a Bill, which in several ways was a better one than the original Act. But it failed to meet the wishes of the workmen af the land, especially the Trades Unionists thereof, inasmuch as it contained the dis- tasteful contracting-out clause—m other words because the Bill proposed by the Tory Govern- hlent contained a clause that made it possible to minimise and nullify its own real objeots; the workmen would not have it, and they were never tired of calling the attention of that Govern- ment to its broken pledges upon that point. In the Trades Congress at Dun- dee, in September, 1889, a resolution was Passed calling upon the Government to amend the Act. In the congress, held at Newcastle- upon-Tyne in 1891, the Parliamentary Committee called attention to the matter in the following Words :—" Since 1888 the Government have made no serious effort to amend the Employers Liability Act, notwithstanding their promise in each successive Session to do so. The possibility of a private member being able to carry such a measure successfully through all its stages in Par- liament is very remote, and unless the Govern- ment undertake the duty we fear the law on this Subject must remain for some time in its present unsatisfactory state, but it would be better, in our opinion, to retain the law as it is than to accept the arrangement proposed by the Home Secretary in the Bill of 1888. Your committee, as instructed by last congress, have prepared a Bill, which was introduced by Mr Thomas Burt at our request, the provisions of which, we hope, you will be able to approve." Mr Burt obtained an unfavourable position in the list, and consequently the Bill could not be con- tidered. As to the general character of the con- gress, it is well outlined in the president's address, wherein, among other utterances, he says :— Well, I see before me perhaps—indeed, I think I may omit perhaps' and say—the largest and most representative body of TradesUuionists that aver has met within the boundaries of this Empire; I think I may still go further and say that has ever met anywhere in the civilised world. We have the unskilled labourers represented as they never were before. I hardly liked to say unskilled. I would rather say less skilled, because all labour, even the rudest, requires a considerable amount of skill. All honour to the men that have organised these masses. I, for one, rfjoice at their success. Let me refer for a moment) to the representative power of this congress. I believe you represent something like two millions of workers. Even allowing for a little exaggeration, ihis is an enormous number, and your strength is not to be measured by a million and a half or two millions. The organised, when they win a Victory, win it for the disorganised as well as for themselves." The Parliamentary Committee again called the attention of the Congress held at the City Hall, Glasgow, September, 1892, to the same question, .nd speaking of the Tory Government that had been turned out of office in the early part of that year, says The late Government announced their attention again this year of attempting to toake progress with this measure. Nothing fur Mier, however, was done beyond referring to it in ihe Queen's Speech as a subject on which legisla- )ion was nectary. That. Bill was not even printed, although the Home Secretary declared, Hi reply to Mr Broadhurst at the OPtning of the Session, that he would deeply regret if the Par- lament came to an end without him having an Opportunity of taking the judgment of tne Rouse Upon it." In winding up the business of the Session and of the Parliament, the late leader ot the House n*ver once referred to this subject tior even for the purpose of expressing regret khe Government had not been able to find time 'to fulfil their pledge with regard to it, showing at fcnee what real sympathy they had with an Eni- P'oyers'Liability Bill of the character required *ith the Trades Unions of the country. But that congress went even further than lowing how ruthlessly regardless of the interests M the workers of the country the late l'ory Government bad been, but in committee gainst Lord Salisbury and his friends the un. pardonable sin of expressing its trust in the Present Government, and the hope that they "ould take an early opportunity of dealing with ihe question, and the fact that bv dealing with jhe question so promptly and effectively '•hey «ave demonstrated how wrrthy they are of the Confidence reposed in them by such vast unmbbrs bf the workmen of the country. But to prevent 'hem from being able to completely fnlfil their Promise, Lord Salisbury and his Tory minions jjave refused to accept that one clause that the trades Unions of the country so stonily and 80 ^intently requested. if
Parliamentary History of Radnor.'…
Parliamentary History of Radnor. 1715.—Thomas Lewis, junior, of Harpton, who defeated Lord Harley, whereupon his lordship presented a petition, which was unsuccessful. He was the eldest son of Col. Thomas Lewis, of Harpton b. 1690, and represented Radnor for 46 years from 1715, until unseated on petition 1761, at which time he must have been one of the senior members of the House. He supported Sir Robert Walpole on the matter of the Hessian troops, 1750 Excise Bill, 1733 Septennial Act, 1734 and the Convention, 1739, and is men- tioned in a list of members in the Gentleman's Magazine" as having "a. brother in the Customs." which brother, Henry Lewis, was appointed Surveyor-General of the Dnties on Houses in South Wales, July, 1741. Mr Thomas Lewis, m. Sept., 1743, ad. and co. h. of Sir Nathan Wright, Hart., Lord Keeper of the Great Heal, 1700-5, and d.sp., April, 1777. He was re-elected for Radnor 1722, 1727, 1734, 1741,1747, 1754, and 1761; and his return was three times unsuccessfully petitioned against—in 1727 by John Verney, in 1734 by William, Lord Bate- man, and in 1741 by the burgesses. 1761, April.—There was a double return of Thomas Lewis and Edward Lewis, but the House, on petition, decided that Edward Lewis was the duly elected member, Nov., 1761. In March, .1768, John Lewis was returned, but on petition the seat was awarded to Edward Lewis. John Lewis was again returned Oct., 1774, though the votes were :-Edward Lewis, 619; John Lewis, 201; but Edward Lewis was again seated on petition Feb. following, while, extraordinary to relate, exactly the same state of affairs occurred at the next general election, when John Lewis was returned Sept., 1780, but a third time was unseated on petition, and Edward Lewis declared duly elected, Feb., 1731. In 1784, however, Edward Lewis was returned in quietude, but was defeated in earnest in 1790. He was of Downton. John Lewis, of Harpton, was the son of Henry L., of Crawford, Middlesex, and nephew of Thomas L. (see 1715), and sutfe. to the Harpton estate on that gentleman's death in 1777. He was b. Oct., 1738, m. (1) Dec., 1761, Mary, d. of Commander Charles Coldby, R.N., Commissioner of the Navy. She died Oct., 1774, and he m. (2) March, 1778, Anne, d. of Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart., of Thirkleby Park, Yorkshire. He was a J.P. for Radnorshire, and high sheriff Jan., 1756-7, recorder of New Radnor, appointed March, 1763, receiver of the King's revenues in the counties of Monmouth, Hereford, and Gloucester, and died Nov., 1797. 1790.—David Murray, of Hattonknow, co. Peebles, 609 Edward Lewis, 313. This gentle- man was b. May, 1748, the second son of the Hon. and Rev. Gideon Murray, D.D., Prebendary of Durham, and brother to Alexander, seventh Lord Elibank, and owed his seat for Radnor to his marriage in Oct., 1783, with Elizabeth, fifth dau. and co-h. of the Hon. and Right Hon. Thomas Harley (M.P. for Hersford, and Lord Mayor of London 1767-8), which gave him the Harley interest in the borough. Ho was M.P. co. Peebles 1784-90, and Radnor 1790 till his decease, which took place at Lord Rodney's house in Hanover-square, London, May, 1794. He was the last in the Harley interest to represent Radnor, the family having thus supplied four members. 1794, May.-Georgo (Capel-Coningsby) Lord ViscountMalden, vice Murray, dec. This nobleman, who was b. Nov., 1757, sat for Radnor till March, 1799, when he succ. his father as fifth Eurl of Essex. He m. (1) June, 1786, Sarah, relict of Edward Stephenson and d. of Henry Barzett, of St. Helena she d. Jan., 1838, and he m. (2) April, 1838, Catherine, d. of Edward Stephens. His lordship, whose mother was Frances, d. and co-h. of the Right Hon. Sir Charles Hanbuiy- Williams, K.B. (see co. Mon,, 1735), inherited the large estates of his maternal ancestor, Thomas, Earl of Coningsby, of Hampton Court, co. Here- ford, and thereupon assumed the additional surname and arms of Coningsby. Lord Essex was recorder and high steward of Leominster, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was created hon. D.C.L. of Oxford Univ. He d. s.p. April, 1839. 1799, March.—Richard Price, of Knighton, vice Lord Maiden, called to the House of Lords, He was the eldest son of Richard P., of Knighton (the youngest of the five sons of John P.,lof Knighton, and brother to Chase Price, M.P., Radnorshire, 1768), and was for many years Lieut.-Col. Commandant of the Radnorshire Militia. Col. Price, who acquired the seat of Norton Manor, and High Sheriff of the County 1794, and February to 6th March, 1799, sat for the borough for 48 years, from 1799 to 1847, being the longest period on record during which the same member represented Radnor. He was re-chosen 13 times, in 1802, 1806, 1807, 1812 (when he defeated Percival Lewis by 154 to 38 votes), 1818, 1820 (when he again defeated Percival Lewis by 207 to 59), 1826, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1835, 1837, and 1841. He died at a great age in 1861. Percival Lewis, of Lincoln's Inn, m. Aug.. 1788, the dau. of Jeremiah Cray, of Ibsley, Hants. 1847.—Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, Bart., of Harpton Court, who has been treated of as member for the county 1828. He was re-elected 1852, and died 1855. 1855, Feb.—Rt. Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart., of Harpton Court, vice his father, Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, dec. This distin- guished statesman, who, but for his premature death would very probably have been Lord Palmerston's successor as Prime Minister of England, was born Oct., 1806, educ. at Eton, graduated 1st class classics and 2nd class mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple 1831. He m., Oct., 1844, Lady Maria Theresa, widow of Thomas Henry Lister, first Registrar-General 1837-42. and sister to George, fourth Earl of Clarendon, and was app. a commissioner of inquiry into the relief of tho poor in Ireland 1835, and into the affaire of Malta 1836, and succ. his father as Chief Poor Law Commissioner Jan., 1839, which position ho occupied till he entered Parliament in Aug., 1847, as member for Herefordshire. He was Joint Secretary to the Board of Control for the affairs of India Nov., 1847, to 1848 Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department May, 1848, to 1850; And Financial Secretary to the Treasury July, 1850, to Feb., 1852, in the Administration of Lord John Russell. He lost his seat for Herefordshire 1852 and was the same year unsuccessful at Peterborough, and, consequently, was not included in the Earl of Aberdeen's Ministry but having succ. his father both as second baronet Jan., 1855, and also as member for Radnor Feb.. 1855, he was the following month added to the Privy Council and appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Lord of the Treasury bv Lord Palmerston, which offico he filled with the greatest credit to himself till the change of Ministry, Feb., 1858. He was Secre- tary of State for the Home Department June, 1859-61, and was appointed Secretary of State for War on the reorganisation of the Cabinet on the death of Lord Herbert of Lea July, 1861, and this office he held at the time of his lamented death in April, 1863. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, who enjoyed the confidence of the country as a sound, honest politician and sterling man of s business, was well-known in the literary world as the author of Tho Origin and the Formation of the Romance Languages," and essays on The Use and Abuse of PoJjtical Terms" and the, Irish Church Question and from 1852 to 1855, when out of Parliament, was the editor of the "Edinburgh Review." He was appointed an Ecclesiastical Commissioner March, 1862, and was one of the trustees of the British Museum. He had a curious disbelief In the existence of centenarians, (To be continued).
AT THE CATTLE SHOW.
AT THE CATTLE SHOW. COUNTRY YOKEL Call these yer prize cattle ? Them ain't nothin' to what our folks raised. My father raised the biggest calf of any man in our parts. SARCASTIC BXSTANPBB I dop't doflb* the noisiest
------WELSH GLEANINGS.
WELSH GLEANINGS. By Rhydycheinwr. The Welsh University, It is stimulating to find that one by one the Welsh papers are awakening to a sense of the momentous importance of the movement which has resulted in the formation of the Welsh University. Parochial politics still, however, engross the attention of too many of them to the exclusion of this question of immediate and national interest. The leading article in Seren Cymru, from the pen of the Rev. J. A. Morris, deals with the subject with unusual comprehen- siveness, and not in that fragmentary and super- ficial manner in which it is too often discussed by journalists, whose interest is concentrated on purely political matters. "In the midst of the political ferment and of our denominational agitations it is," says the Seven, "very possible for us as a nation to forget the important, but long-expected, action of the Liberal Ministry, in giving us a national University. The 23rd of November, the day on which the charter was signed by her Majesty, will be one which will be remembered by generations yet unborn. The idea of a Welsh University is not a new one. Owen Glyndwr saw it in visions 200 years after him the famous James Owen, of Oswestry, zealously advocated it. But the ideals of great men permeate thi masses but slowly. Dr. Lewis Edwards, Bala, Sir Hugh Owen, Dr. Nicholas, and Dr. Charles strove for a Welsh University but it has been reserved for us to see it an accomplished fact. Wales has passed through wonderful revolutions of late, and that almost unconsciously to itself. TlieEiementary Education Act, the establishment of the three col- leges of Aberystwyth, Bangor, and Cardiff, to. gether with the passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, have utterly transformed Welsh life. When the Welsh University and the inter- mediate schools will be in full swing, our educa- tional position will be inferior to that of no country on the face of the earth." The writer then proceeds to dilate on the points in the charter with which he does not agree. He admits the advantages of the residential system from the point of view of culture, but thinks the charter is too rigid on this question. He does not approve also of the inclusion of theology as a subject for graduation. On the burning question of the loca- tion of the University he Bikugor and Cardiff have no claims, as they are situated on the extreme cornersof the coun try. It is true th atCard i ff, with its accustomed bombast, makes vigorous efforts to secure it. It is said that its town council is very lavish of promises this time again, if the Welsh University will be located there but what, pray, of its promise to give a fro site for building a college if it was decided to locate the South Wales College there rather than at Swansea? Let it first fulfil its old promises. Aberystwyth is incomparably the most central and most suitable place, and if Aberystwyth does not get it, then let the University be located at the populous and central town of Swansea." The Wesleyans and the Welsh University. An animated discussion has been going on in the Gwyliedydd, the weekly organ of the Welsh Wesleyans, on the position of Welsh Wesleyan ministerial students in the Welsh University. The Wesleyans have no college for the training of their ministers in Wale3 the obvious solution of the difficulty seems to be that they should lose no time in establishing such a college, or a hostel in connection with one of the University Colleges. Some of the papers announce that such a decision has been arrived at, and it seems a most sensible step to take. All the other denominations—the Calvinistic Methodists, the Congregationalists, the Baptists, the Unitarians, and the Established Church-possess colleges in Wales, where candidates for the ministry are trained. Why the Welsh Wesleyans have been content to remain so long in the anomalous posi- tion of having to send their young ministers to England to be educated seems passing strange. The difficulties under which they at present labour are thus put by Monwyson in the Gioyliedydd for this week :—" Supposing that a Wesloyan student at Bangor is anxious to take his B. A. degree, and wishes to take theology as his subject, as he may, though this cannot bo done in any other University in the kingdom, he will have to go to either the Congregational or the Baptist College in the place, for the obvious reason that the Wesleyans have no college there." So would a Churchman, or a Calvinistic Methodist, or a Unitarian. By the way, it is not time to say that theology cannot be taken in any University in the kingdom it is one of tha degree subjects at Oxford and Cambridge. The Wise Men of Anglesey. The numerous candidates in Anglesey for selec- tion by the Liberal Association have now dwindled into two, Mr Ellis Jones Griffiths, M.A., LL.B., Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and Mr William Jones, an ex-elementary school- master, of Oxford. Tho running between the two is followed with uncommon interest by tho North Wales papers, the Cy-vn.ro, the Herald, the Genedt, Gwalia, and tho Celt. In the last- mentioned. Dr. Pan Jones, under the heading The Wise Men of Anglea," expresses discontent with the method of selecting a candidate. He is not satisfied with either candidate; the pro- jrarcme of each is commonplace, and is not sufficiently advanced. But, then, where can we find a candidate of Dr. Pan's views who would at the same time commend himself to the majority of the electors ? The Goleuad says The two candidates have undertaken to pay the elec- tion expensos, and to abide by tne decision of the association. There is no necessity to con- ceal our hope and beliet that Mr Ellis Griffith will be selected. I say this in spite of the fact that he is a barrister." The Cfenedl lias a long article tracing out the development of matters, and is brimful of letters on the respective merits. Mr Ellis Griffiths's supporters rely on his bril- liant attainments, his previous experience, and his position in the poiitical world. Mr William Jones's supporters eulogise his rapid c-ducational rise and his position at Oxford; others pointedly ask if Mr Jones, after his five or six years' resi- dcnceat tbe;University, has graduated or has passed any examination at all ? The Baner judiciously refrains from advocating the claims of any ono of the candidates, and promises to do its best for the candidate which will ultimately be selected by the Liberal Association. "Gwladwr," in the Tyst, hopes Caplain Owen Thomas wili come out. He is emphatically the man for us, and he outweighs the other two com- bined in those things which we consider as essential qualifications for an agricultural district like Anglesey," The Cymro says that between the two candidates mentioned (Mr Griffiths and Mr Jones) there should be little room for doubt. But the Liberal party in Anglesey know as well as anyone which of the two to select." Ap y Freni Fach." More than once I have pointed out in this column that the Celt, although it has many demerits, has a few merits which distinguish it from the conventional Welsh newspapers. It is supported by a remarkably zealous and able hand, whose contributions under various noma de plume or initials partly, but not altogether, con- ceal their identity, such writers as Eynon," the Rev. Vyrnwy Morgan, Ap y Freni Fach," D.S.D., and Dr. Pan Jones. These are all strikingly original writers, and theircontnbutions are generally the spontaneous thoughts of their own vigorous minds, and not the watery imitations of English articles in stiff and unidio- matic Welsh. They may not write with cultured, elegance, but their contributions are idiomatio, forcible and raoy. Ap y Freni Fach," fcha South Wales correspondent of the Celt, is peculiarly sound on industrial questions, and his remarks on coal trade disputes are inferior to none in the Welsh Press, with the exception of occasional articles in Tartan y Gweithiwv<, Quoting from one of his contributions the other day, I casually asked why such an awkward name! This week he has done me the com- pliment of abrogating the Fach for the future m deference to my musical ear." Certainly Ap y Freni is easier for quotation, and such a curtailment might be advantageously followed by many Welsh writers, whose anonymous names are a triae cumbersome {tqd unwieldy.
PROMINENT PREACHERS,If. -…
PROMINENT PREACHERS,If. 0 K, t'9' ,¡ THE REV. W. h. WATKINSON. w I By his able services with his pen, the official editor of the Wesleyan Society has well earned tha honour which his brethren conferred upon him a few, months ago in appointing him to his present dignified and responsible office. For many years he has been known as one of the most accomplished critics in his denomination in mere literary effectiveness, indeed, he probably has no equal among his brethren. Among them there are no doubt a few men with an equal, if not a larger, acquaintance with philosophy and theology but it is to be doubted if there is any- one who, having as much theology and philo- sophy as ho, is so well versed ingeneral literature. But it is as a. preacher and speaker that we are at present concerned with him, and here also he must be awarded high rank. A born debater, he is always ingenious and cogent, and often brilliant and witty. In style he is at once precise and picturesque; frequently his sentences are strings of graphic epigrams. The manner is admirably congruous—grave and measured, and in his more serious moods suggesting a fervour which is all the more contagious from the restraint to which it is subjected. As is the case with another preacher noticed in this series, at the outset he may give the unprepared hearer an impression of coldness and pedantry. He is, lot us say, called upon to follow another speaker at a missionary meeting. Slowly he rears his tall spare form to its full height (once, we remember, he bsgan by apologising for himself as always a long" speaker), and with a deliberation that is almost provoking to anyone but a shorthand writer, starts with a tight reference-not always free from mockery—to what someone else has said. Then he sets off at the same measured pace on his own line of thought, enunciating every smallest syllable with the utmost precision, and appearing rather to be thinking aloud than to be addressing n audience. If the listener has no particular ear for a finely-poised sentence, and no special appreciation of choice diction, he may begin to wonder if he is in for a bad half-hour. But before he can get fidgety a sudden turn of thought, a sallyof dry how our, a glowing phrase, I a. display of simple but convincing logic, a felicitous quotation, an opposite illustration, arrests his attention, and he settles down to listen in comfort. And as the quick minutes pass, gradually he becomes conscious of a change in the speaker's manner. The speech is still deliberate and scrupulous, but it is touched with emotion;" and though the speaker never Jeta himself go, yet by the time he has reached his climax, perhaps a splendid passage from Holy Writ or from some other great book, it is difficult for even the hostile hearer not to be carried away by his infectious fervour. Mr Watkinson's admirable qualities as speaker and writer are all the more remarkable from the fact that he has always had delicate health, which limited his stay at the Training College to three months. Born at HuH in 1838, his parents Metho. dists of lowly degree, ho spent six years in COnt. mercial life, and when at the age of 20 he sought to enter the ministry, he was put back for special medical examination, so unpromising was the state of his health. A well-informed magazine writer tells us that when he presented himself at the Mission House for this purpose, the doctor said to him, Oh, you are too long to be good for anything!" At that moment the young man's sharp eye caught sight of the counterfeit presentment of the tall, thin form of Richard Watson. Was he too long to be good for anything, doctor?" he asked triumphantly. "Ah, you'll do," said the doctor, laughing. And he has done. He has been stationed in many different places having very different require- ments-at Stratford-on-Avon, Oldbury, Hinck- ley, Tipton, Wednesbury, Bacup, Nottingham, Bolton, New Barne', Sydenham, Harrogate, and Cheetham Hill; and everywhere he has quickly taken his place as a man of mark. In the early years of his ministry he was not insensible of the disadvantage of having missed the ordinary theological training, and with no common determination and perseverance he set himself to make up for the loss. Thus it is that all his ife he has been a diligent student, especially in the byeways of literature and such has been his industry and his aptitude that no one, even in the early days, would ever have suspected that this man of polished, scholarly speech, had spent only as many months at Rich- mond as the generality of ministers spend years. Beyond most men he may be called an extem- poraneous speaker. It is not merely that he dis- penses even with notes while speaking, but he is not given even to writing his sermons and addresses beforehand yet he expresses himself with such admirable precision and conciseness as to suggest that he is speaking mcmoritcr rather than making his sentences as he goes along. As a specimen of his polished but forcible rhetoric lot us quote half-a-dozen sentences from one of the "noonday addresses" he delivered at Manchester some years ago. He is defending the Christian faith from the reproach of narrow. ness, and he does so by distinguishing between a true and false narrowness. "Christianity," he says, "ie wide enough for all moralities; it shuts out Roman amphitheatres and modern prize-rings, and thank God for the narrowness that shuts out brutality and blood. QUriatianjty is wide enough for all art; it shuts out Poncpeian chambers of obscenity, and thank God for the narrowness that shuts out beastliness and ghastliness. Christianity is wide enough for love and friendship and home life; it shuts out Venus's temple and Mohammed's harem, and thank God for the narrowness that shuts out the degradation of woman. Christianity is wide enough for all true commerce, wealth, pleasure it warns us against covetousness, licentiousness, materialism, and thank God for the narrowness that prevents our taking the big barn of Dives for the goal of life." The reader may imagine for himself the effect produced by even a slight accession of emphasis as the preacher, at each clause beginning "thank God," turn& from de- finition or description to denunciation. We have spoken above of a hostile bearer," and the expression was used advisedly. Mr Watkinson has besa ever a fighter. Conservative by temperament, he is never weary of contending unsparingly for the old ways, both in thought and in action. The reformers within the borders of the society have often felt the point of his keen, swift rapier. The experience has not been pleasant at the time, probably; but many who have been pinked by hia weapon must afterwards have admired his brilliant swoid-play. Still more is he the determined and relentless foe of Positivism and of every form of unbelief. With simple defence he is not content. J his more favourite plan is to take the offensive-- sometimes, it must be allowed, in more senses than one. His Fernley Lecture on the "In- fluence of Scepticism on Character" is a Jnarbinulftrb*aMe _niooe ot work, and it is not surprising that it should have attracted much attention at the time and have run through tseven or eight editions. It contains, some criticisms of George Eliot and John StuartSffiili of which it is mild to say that they are strinwit. Their author, it must be conceded, is not witnbut the defects of his virtues. Before all things asladiator, his dash and intrepidity. his skill iit íffe use of arms, are admirable. But it is not to men of his com- bative temperament that we must look for the charity which, in this connection only a finer fi)rm of justice, is never out of place, even in dealing with an antagonist. Notwithstanding this defect of temper, the lecture could hardly be over-praised. Easy reading it is, but not from any lack of vigorous thinking, but because the writer cannot be other than precise and lucid. It is somewhat curious, how- ever, that in this grave treatise he should have allowed himself more rhetorical freedom than he generally indulges in on the platform or in the pulpit. It is not often, for example, that in sermon or speech lie delivers himself of anything so elaborate or highly-coloured as this In southern Italy spreads a landscape of extreme loveliness. Roman posts and orators celebrated its groves and gardens, its sky and sunshine, its blue bays, its nightiugalcsoQnd rosos and gazing upon the same scene to-day yon feel the landscape is not indebted for its fame to the poets, but the poets found their inspiration <n the landscape; it is a favoured spot, where none may witness unmoved the lasting bridal of earth and sky. And yet the whole region is volcanic, the garden of glory being literally a paradise within the crater of a volcano. You strike the roeky earth and it rings hollow. Close by the caltn lake is a boiling spring; pluck a flower out of a mass of aromatic foliage and your hand is scorched, out of the very heart of vineyards and orangeries rise columns of smoke and steam, the hiss of lava jars on the music of summer, and the scent of sulphur mingles with the scent of the rose Beneath all this opulence of colour, minstrelsy, fragrance, rages a colossal furnace, and only the other year a terrible eaithqnak3! slipped how much is still to be feared from this fathomless abyss of flame and fury." Meeting with this passage torn from its context, the reader may suspect that it is over-strained. But this is not so. The writer is trying to communicate his sense of the instability of modern civilisation, in spite of its fair seem- ing. Let us freely rejoice," he proceeds, in all triumphs over brutality and barbarism, in all that in our midst which is pure and bright, in all the gold and blue of our laws and literature and life, but let us not disregard the many signs before our eyes at this very hour of the seething abyss beneath our feet. Our civilisation is a paradise within a crater, and the wisest man knows best bow thin is the crust which divides from raging depths, how easily the slow, bright growths of generations may be swallowed up as in a moment." The image, it will be seen, by no means outruns the thought. H. The subject of the next article will be THE REV. STOPFORD BROOKE.
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Songs for the People. a Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, wrote "I know a very wise nan that believed that if a man wero permitted to j*a.ka all the ballads he need not caro who skoula igalce the laws of the natian."
THE OLD YEAR.
THE OLD YEAR. If all the old year's days could speak, I wonder what they'd say— The snowy days, the blowy days, The flowery days of May The summer days, when shady ways Were made for children's feet; Vacation days, when for their plays The country was so sweet i If all the old year's days could speait- Just think of it awhile— Would their report bring bitter tears, Or the sunshine of a smile ? Ah could they speak from week to week Of honest work well done, Cf well-used powers in study hours, Of fairness in the fun ? Of thankful thought for kindness wrought Where homes are rich and glad Of tender care to give or share Where homes are poor and sad Of pleasant ways in dark, dull days } Of little, gentle deeds -Jp Of earnest hours among heart's flowers, In plucking hurtful weeds ? Can the year speak of patience mock Where grief has stopped a while, Of courage bold,. for weak and-old A loving word or smile ? Methinks the year must seem most dear If thus its speech can be O'erfull of joys for girls and boys- A year of jubilee.
THE MISTLETOE BOUGH;
THE MISTLETOE BOUGH; The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall, And the baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday. The baron beheld with a father's pride His beautiful daughter, young Lcvell's bride While she with her bright eyes seem'd to be The star of the goodly company. Oh tho mistletoe bough. Oh the mistletoe bough. 4, rm weary of dancing now," she cried; Here tarry a moment; I'll hide I'll hide I And Lovell be sure thou'rt first to trace The clue to my secret lurking place." Away she rau, and her friends began Each tower to search and each nook to scan; And young Lovell cried, Oh, where dost thou hide ? I'm lonesome without thee, my own dear bride." Oh the mistletoe bough. Oh the mistletoe bough. They sought her that night, and they sought her nextday, And they sought her in vain when a week pass d away. In the highest, the lowest, the loneliest spot, Young Lovoll sought wildly, but found her not; And years new by, and their grief at last Was told as a sorrowful tale long past; And when Lovell appear'd the children cried, See, the old man weeps for his fairy bride P* Oh 1 the mistletoe bough Oh the mistletoe bough I At length an oak chest that had long lain hid, Was found in the castle they rais'd the lid. And a skeleton form lay mould'ring there, In the bridal wreath of the lady fair. Oh, sad was her fate in sportive jest She hid from her lord in the old oak chest. It closed with a spring, and her bridal bloom Lay withering there in a living tomb. Oh the mistletoe bough Oh the mistletoe bough
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DILIOATS FLATTFRY.-Mi."TD town(bacoloured servant who is cleaning the hall): Hand me my overshoes and umbrella, please, Jackson.—Jack- son Yeah's de umbrill, miss, but yoh obahshoes ain't yeah.—Miss Uptown Why, of course they are. Right there by the hat-rack.—Jackson Bress my soul, Miss Uptown Is dem yoh shoes Well, ef I didn't t'ink dev wuz some little chile's shoes, oho' nuff l"
Profitable Rural Pursuits.…
Profitable Rural Pursuits. BY AN EXPERT." A COLUMN FOR FANCIERS, FARMMK, FRUIT GROWERS, AND ALL INTERESTED IN RURAl. TOPICS. Cage Birds. One can scarcely discuss the subject of cage birds without wishing that everyone who takes an interest in them would pay a visit to one of the bird shows that are now so popular. A peep into a bird-fancier's establishment is also most instructive, and one may learn much that way that will help us to care for our pats in a. kindly and judicious manner. The towns iii ^Lancashire are great centres for cage-birds and fanciers, Preston perhaps taking the k td. Most people in Preston know the establishment of Mr J. Sandiford, in North-road, wheie the most rare as well as the most popular breeds of cage and song birds may be seen. Possibly the keeping of birds in cages was first commenced by someone taking home a nest of young sky-larks. The song of the lark we all love. It is the wild British songster whose notes most fill us with delightful feelings of free- dom, and cf happy appreciation of the beneficence of Nature. Is it right to cage wild birds? Look there is a lark up there in the blue: you. scarcely see it it has soared up so far, but you can bear its glorious and joyous lay being poured forth with a freedom and a rapture that a caged bird can never feel. But there, far away in that wild and rugged go'd-nJning district, where man meets his brother man with distrust and sus- picion. and where the rush for gold and the greed for gain has crushed out most: of the milk of human kindness from the human breast, how sounds the sweet, familiar note of the British skylark, think you ? A young Cumberland miner once went out there, and he took with him a favourite lark. It was the first that had been seen or heard in such a place. Its songs were appreciated there as surely lark notes had never been before, and as they listened the soil-stained gold-seekers felt their hearts fill with thoughts of home, and of their oft-forgotton ones there Shall we say that the Sunday morning audiences that lark drew around it in the gold-field were not benefited by its sweet discourse ? Yes, we may cage the wild birds for our pleasure and for our information, but we are to feel the responsibility of our task, mid to treat our prisoners with careful kindness. Cage birds bred from the sky. wild denizens of other countries are usually kept for the handsome and gay plumage and feathers they wear, or for the sweetness of their notes. In England and Scot- land canary keeping has developed some remark- able types and phases of late years. Our illustra- tion, taken from a group of the most popular favourite", as described by Mr W. T. Greene in the Live Stock Journal Almanac," shows how much breeding by selection, and feeding on special foods can do in producing and fixing types. The Lizard is a true breed, the Hartz Mountain, the crested canary, and the coppy—so dear to the good people of Lancashire—are also probably true breeds. From these and two or thre<> other im- portecljbreeds, such as thf jDutch and the Belgians, most of the fashionable and fancy breeds as seen at the shows are obtained. The tine, upstanding Yorkshire, with its slim and elegant figure and its rich yellow livery is the English canary we are aU most familiar with. The Poer Man's Cow. Of course every poor man should own a cow. A cow will not prove his salvation from poverty alone he should have some land-if not the pro- verbial three acres. Last week, when fining five Battersea, butter dealers for selling adulterated butter when one of them complained to thl) magistrate that real butter was so expensive, the magistrate remarked that as he could sell butter containing 75 per cent, of stuff that was not butter, it seemed hardly necessary to pub any butter in it at all." This was meant in sarcasm, we know, but how it sets one thinking 1 If every poor man had a cow there would be no use for foreign artificial fat to take tho placs of butter Our picture of a Jersey cow CHKSTNUT 2nd, I taken from the "Live Stock Journal Almanac," shows one of these butter-fat yielding animals, whose yield of butter is out of all ordinary concep- tion of what cows do as a rule. High feeding on the soiling system which every poor man who has land should adopt, is the best for getting a. big percentage of butter from the milk. In some parts of the country cows of the breed we are referring to cannot be kept summer and winter under ordinary, conditions. The bleak and cold districts suit animals of a more hardy nature, such as the Ayrshire and the Kerry, But where stall feeding on green-cut produce and roots can ba practised, if there is only half an acre or so of grass paddock for the cow in summer, surprising results will be ob- tained. The drought of last summer taught us the importance of having a good stock of green forage to fall back upon. Fourteen pounds of good butter per week from one cow is not unusual when the cow is a Jersey. The butter test at the British Dairy Farmers' Show last October was won by Chestnut 2nd, who proved herself capable of yielding 321bs. of milk, containing 2lbs. 8oz. of butter, at one milking. Another Jersey cow at the same show gave Stlbs. 8oz. weight of milk and at a trial made in Jersey last summer 391 bs. 8oz., 46lbs. 8oz., and 36!bs. were yields from three Jersey cows. A poor man may with one of these cows and an acre or so of land, cultivated under the soiling system for green and root crops, equal such yields ot milk and butter. A good yield for a shorthorn cow would be 581 bs of milk, contain- 2%lbs. of butter. Two of these cows would require more food than would three of the Jersey breed. Fortunately for the poor man, the best butter cow is a. small animal and a little eater. We may add that a gallon of milk is calculated to weigh lOlbs. Turkey Breeding. The demand for turkeys is not only at the festive season that comes during the short, dull days at the latter end of December. In good hotels, iestaurants, and private houses, turkey is in demand during the whole of the winter. But it is at Christmas that those who rear turkeys for profit look for their rich reward. Turkey rearing is no play business. The Norfolk breeders, who know most about it of anybody in this country, get the heart-ache sometimes over the trouble- some, although profitable, gallinaceous birds. The wise turkey breeder selects his breeding stock before December is out, or as early in the new I year as ho conveniently can. If in only a small way, he keeps three or four hen bird's, and he usually depends for the services of a cock bird for them on some neighbour who keeps a larger quantity. I A cook bird of the memud-voar is beat to keen it one must be kept. Care should be taken to see that he is well-rriade and straight, more particu- larly in regard tq the breast-bone, which often in young turkeys that are allowed to perch too soon gets curved and oqt of shape. This defect is per- petuated in the offspring Old turkey cocks are best for show and strut, but they are not profit- able to keep for use, as they become vicious, and knock the hens about cruelly. As to the good points in turkey-keeping, they are many and various. The b'st is that the larger and more bulky a turkey is when ready to sell, the more its value is, in comparison that is per pound weight to smaller birds. Thus a bird of ten pounds' weight is not so well worth in the markets 7d per pound as one of 20 pounds' weight is worth 9d per pound. The best age at which to expect strong, fast-growing young from hen turkeys is when they are between one and four years. Strong, large-boned hens should be selected, and small-boned, weedy ones overlooked or "potted" as soon as possible. Almond Tumblers. The pigeon for real pleasure to all boys and most men in the country town or village is doubt- less the tumbler, of which there are several types: These types are generally classed under two heads, the sshort and the long faced. The face of the bird is the part from the front of the sknll to the set on of the beak. Our illustration of a short. faced A'.mond Tumbler is from a perfect speci- men-a, prize-winner at the Dairy Show, ex- hibited by Mr W. H. Stone, and reproduced from "Poultry," which gives it as "a good- headed and well spangled cock." Among the short-faced tumblers are, besides the almond coloured, the black mottled, yellow and black, white, and red, self-coloured, agate, muffed, and rosewing, the barred, blue, silver and chequered, the red bald. and the black bald varieties. The long-faced tumblers include also muffed, mot- tled, and rosewing, with yellow, red, white and blaok self colours, balds, and beards, and some other colours. The next letter under this heading will include 1. Farm Poultry (illustrated). 2. The Home -Boys and Girls. 3. Bull Terriers (illustrated). 4. Soiling Crops. » „
The Household. ..
The Household. A Prevalent Folly. The errors that prevail with regard to early morning exercise nre simply monstrous. Even tho strong and atbletic are liable to injure them- selves by exercising long and vigorously in the early morning on an empty stomach, while the delicate, the dyspeptic, and the nervous should not allow themselves to indulge in any sustained activity of brain or muscle until the system has been fortified by r.t least a preliminary breakfast. Farmers sometimes injure themselves by working too hard and too long before breakfast. Moderate exercise, such as walking, the lighter forms of gymnastics, and easy games can be taksn indiscriminately, just before or just after meals, without injury but the severe tasks—rowing, active games—should usually be reserved for the middle of th3 fore- noon or afternoon, or for the evening. Ic is not well to go to our meals in a condition of exhaus- tion either of the bra.in or the muscle?. It is not well to be over-fastidious about exercising just after meals, for our own feelings will usually guide us right. Hints, PANCAKES.-Put a breakfastcupful of flour into a basin, break two whole eggs into the flour, stir- ring the eggs and flour well together. When the eggs and flour are well mixed, moisten the mix- ture with teacupful of cold water, beat this up well with a wooden spoon, put a piece of dripping in the frying-pan. When it frizzles put in three tablespoonsfuls of the batter, see that it runs all over the pan when set turn it over with a knife; when brown roll it up, and keep hob while you fry the remainder of the batter. Serve with treacle or sugar and lemon. FISH Pnt.-Gl,t a large haddock or plaice, wipe it, and cut it in four pieces, peel four large potatoes, cut them in thick slices, and lay tlHtln at the bottom of a pie-dish, sprinkle them with pepper, salt, a little chopped parsley and onion, lay the pieces of fish on the potatoes, then another layer of potatoes. Make a paste with two ounces of dripping and half a pound of flour; half-till the dish with hot water, cover at once with the paste, bake in a moderate oven half-an-liour. MACAROON PUDDINGS.—Crumble half a dozen macaroons; squeeze the juico of an orange over them, and add the grated rind. Pour enough cold water over one teacupfnl of cornflour to moisten and make it smooth, and on this pour gradually enough boiling milk to make a thin paste, and add to it the macaroons and orange; when this becomes cool add two table. spoonfuls of butter, the yolks of four well-beaten eggs, and a teaspoonful of extract of lemon; stir thtse ingredients well, and put them in a buttered pan to bake. When this is done, beat the whites of the eggs with one cupful of powdered sugar and as much grated cocoanut; spread it over the pudding and return it to the oven to blown delicately on top. BLANC-MANGE CAKKS.—Make a cake with one cupful of sugar, one of milk, one well-beaten egg, a pinch of salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and two cupfuls of flour. Beat this cake well, and pour it in a square low tin to bake. To make the custard, heat fouccupfuls of m;lk in a rice boiler, or a pail set in » kettle of water be- fore it boils pour one cupful of it on three eggs beaten with one cupful ot sugar and tjiree tea- spoonfuls of corn starch then pour all together and cook until it thickens. Flavour with vanilla. When this is to be served the cake is cut into small squares, one of which is put on a. saucer or individual pudding dish. A spoonful of nice jelly is put on each square of cake, then the custard ia poured around it.
"TETE-A-TETE."
"TETE-A-TETE." He I don't think the world is exactly fair to men. SHE Why NOT? HK Well, the man who has a head, for instance, gets ahead, while the man who hasn't "De doesn,
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Welsh Tit-Bits, Neu Wraichion Oddiar yr Eingion. [BY CADRAWD] The Life and Characteristics of lolt Morganwg. The bard at one time was strongly of the opinion that a Welsh tribe was among the Indians of North America, and made up his mind to go out in search of them. He calculated, of course, that he would have to experience a good deal of hardship, and to prepare himself for the task he decided to first try and live out in his own country on fruit and roots, and it was said that he made the attempt once to eat grass. Sleeping out on wet nights and on such means as we have mentioned caused him to take a severe cold, whiofe^eveloped into an attack of rheumatism, and he was laid up for a considerable time. This made him giwup the idea of going to America. Though Iolohfmself gave up the pilgrimage, heattd Gwillim Owen, afterwards the renoivned Dr. W. O. Pugh, succeeded in persuading a young man from North Wales to undertake the foolish search. We find in the "Cambrian Biography" the following note:—"Evan Jones, an ad- venturous young man, of Caernarfonshire, who, about the year 1790, went out to America with a view of discovering the Welsh American Indians, or descendants of Madoc and his followers. After surmounting many difficulties, and penetrating about thirteen hundred miles up the Missouri River, he was obliged to return to St. Louis on the Mississippi. The commandant there en- couraged him to try another voyage, with atten- dants, and with every necessary to make dis- coveries. Unfortunately, Evan Jones died of a fever there (St. Louis) in the year 1797, when everything was got ready to insure success to his enterprise." It is very strange that antiquaries such as Iolo Morganwgand Idrison could have fallen into such error as to believe that Prince Madoc or his men ever crossed the Atlantic. The Rev. Gwaltter Mechani, who was a disciple of Iolo, knew too well that the prince was killed in his own country, and that he was never outside the Principality. It is true that some very able historians had been doubtful on the subject, such as Carnhnanawc, &c., but it has been very clearly proved since he wrote bis Hanes Cymrn," that the tale of Madoc and his 13 ships leaving this country for America was never known until Columbus and Amerigo Vespercius discovered that vast Continent. Iolo had three brothers—Thomas, a sculptor; Miles, and John both were bricklayers. These brothers went together to the East Indies, and accumulated great wealth. Being well aware that their brother Edward was spending a good deal of his time in literary pursuits, and that he had the care of a considerable family, they sent an order of j350 to him, with the assurance that they intended sending the same amount every year, that he might follow his labours of love, and serve his country without loss to himself and family. This generous and well-intended offer from his brothers was declined by him with thanks. His brothers bad accumulated their wealth in tbe land of slavery, and had made their capital by dealing in slaves. He became more resolved the more he considered the offer, and to one of his friends who was trying to per- suade him to take the money, he finally ex- claimed, "No; I will notpolutemy hands with such money; neither will I have anything to do with them, for they are the price of precious blood, the valne of the birthright of mankind. Let their money be with them unto destruction. I would sooner die of want of bread than to receive a living from the hateful slave trade." In Course of time his brothers died and left a con. siderable amount of money after them in their wills for Iolo, something like £20.000, but he would have no th i»g It) uo with it" however, much his most intimate friends and well-wishers en. treated him to accept even a portion of it, which was much wanted by him and his family. He was determined. He would go, be would say, to Jamaica to free the slaves, and divide the money left: by his brothers between them, but not one penny would he take of it for himself. Neither would he allow any of the family to accept of any of it to be the means of corrupting their consciences. From tbe very depth of his heart he bated slavery and e7ery kind of oppression. It WRs about this time he had started a business at Cowbridge as a grocer, and one of his charac- teristics may be seen in the care he took to label his sugar with the followingNot con- taminated with human gore." While at Cow- bridge he had occasion to go to Bristol, probably to purchase goods for his stores. Just as he was entering the city, he could see that something extraordinary had taken place. The bells were pealing in every church, and the people every- where appeared to be overtaken with joy. Seeing all this he inquired what had happened, and what was the cause of all such rejoicing? The answer was that the news had reached the citizens that Wilberforco's motion in the House of Commons to free the slaves had been defeated by a large majority. As soon as he heard this he turned round and left the city without doing any business at all. j
The Book ef Baglan.
The Book ef Baglan. SOUTH WALES. llys ab Tewdwr, Prince of South Wales, ma. Gladice, da. and heiro to Ryallon ab Cinfin, Prince of Powis, sone of Gweirstan ab Gwaith. foed, sone of Glothien. Hee beareth gules?, a lion orr rampant in a border gravelled. She beareth orr a lion gules rampant. Gru. ab liys, Prince of S., died ano. 1138, ma. Gwenliiau, da. to Grn. ab Conon, Prince of North Wales. She beareth gules, 3 lions passant argent. Lard Rogs ma. Gwenllian da. to Madock ab Meredith, Prime of Powis. Sbe beareth argent a lion rampant sable. Rfcc? Greigge, Prince of the Cormott of Istrot- lowin, died 1193, and was buried at Su. David ma. Jane, da. to Richerd of Clare. She beareth S. chepheron gules et orr. Rice Vaughan ab Myoliydd, Prince of Ystrotty wie, ma. Gladice da to Grn. ab Liu. She beareth gu'es et orr quartered 4 lions or et argent. Mar- garet da. of Rys Mychidd ab ReesGreigge. Madock Criple lo. of Glyndyfirdwy, and the one half of Bangor and Cenlloyrth. Phe ab. Rees Vaughan, ma. Margaret to Gm. Maelor lord of Bromfield. Madock Vaughan, lo. of Glindgrdwy ma. Gwenllian da. and Ithel Vaughan ab. Ithel Garu. ab. Meredith ab. Fedrind, hee beareth et g. payle, a lion rampant S. She beareth b. a lion passant A, Gru. ab. Rybhallb lord of Glyndirdwy ma. Eliza da. to the Lo. Starainge. Shee beareth g. 3 stagge's heads capised 2 lions passant a. Rees the sone of Phe married— Meyrick the gone of Rees rna.—- Syr Howell ab. Myrick, knight, ma., the da. and one of the heiros of Sir John Oiamsbowe, knight. rowia. Blethin ab. Cynfin, prince of Powis, died Ano. Do. 1073. ma. Haer da. Cyllyn ab. Blethin Rydd, or gest yn yiddyonydd in the cou. of Carnarfon hee beareth orr a lion (g) rampant, she baarith (B) a wolfe paseant argent. Meredith ab Blethyn ma. Hynydd, da. of Einydcl, sone to Morgenaye, Lo. of Llyn, and ESonead, in coun. of Carnarfon. Shee beareth B, a lion orr rampant. Madock ab Meredith ma. Susanna, da. to Gru. ab Conan, Princc of North Wales. She beareth (G), 3 lions passant (A). Grn. Maylor, to. of Bromfield, the 2 Maylors, Hope, Nantreyddwy, Mochiau«, Cynllaeth, Glindirdwy, and Ynle, married Anghariad, da. to Owan Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales. Shee beareth (A), 5 cliepherons charged with 3 splayed eglees orr. Madock ab Cru. Maylor enjoyed his father's possessions milo, Gru., lo. of Dinas Bran and lo. Bromfield, en- joyed his father's inheritance, married Emma, da. to James, lo. Awdleye. She beareth gales and Tristans Knott orr.
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WITHIN Two OF IT.—McGlynn So yes are back, areyz, Tarance? An'phwhy didn'yezgit ma re id pluvileyez was over ch'wather.—O'Blynn: Arrab, now, an' yez'd be surprised t' know, wouldn' yez, Teddy, thot Oi kern near marryin th' purtiest an' th' richest gurl in Oireland !— MeGlynn Oi wnd. An' how near did yez cum t' i t Taranc? O'Blynn Well, th' fayther was dead, an'all Oi:d t'do wa3 t'obtain th' coasint av tl»' gurl an' her mother an' 'i,wud hov bin done. A SAD DISAPPOINTMICNT. —Rich Uncle So.my dear boy, you haven't forgotten your uncle's birth- day, have you ? You have brought me this nice smnkmg-cap. Thanks, little nephew Here is half a dollar for you.—Little Nephew Boftooh- gob. It cost 15 cents.
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—— There are over 9,000 brass bands in the Salva- tion Army. Nearly £300,000 worth of articles are pawned in London weekly. Over 20 b..ys, under 18 years of age, have wot the Victoria Cross. A paper in the Cherokee Nation is o&W John Thrtf Sixteen. <% All the gold and iron and oeal which AusbrtSU produces in fifty years it drinks in ten. Miss Braddon, the now famous novelist$$W* once a utility actress in the provinces. The estimated number of persons at present- of work in New York is put at over 70,000. Nearly 60,000 tons of corks are used for bottled beer and mineral waters consumed annually in England. An inveterate smoker is troubled to know why the tramways company does not provide canfol smokers. A strike of bakers in Madrid, which it wat feared would lead to a bread famine, has been postponed. Naples is proportionately the most criminal city in Europe, the number of murders yearly being over 65. There were 15 couples united in the bonds of matrimony at the office of the Neath Registrar of Marriages on Saturday. General Booth has left London for Stockholm, to begin a three weeks' speaking tour through Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. The Government of Japan gets a large propor tion of its revenue from the railroad and telegraph companies that it owns and operates. A titled lady is causing a sensation in Whit* chapel by driving a costermonger's oart. She does this for a philanthropic purpose. The Chief-Constable of Cardiff has received a postal order for 203 from an anonymous donor on behalf of the Waifs' and Strays' Society. The bell of Big Ben weighs 14 tons; the bell of St. Paul's Cathedral new clock, set going on Thursday, has a weight of five tons. In all things throughout the world the met who look for the crooked will see the crooked," says Ruskin, and the men who look for tht straight will see the straight." Miss Mamie Ryan, of Geneva, Wis., is suing a. Chicago hairdresser for damages for having u,v her portrait in a before and after" pictorial "ad." A Spanish inventor claims to have made an automatic soldier which works by electricity. The ri!:e it carries is capable of firing 50,000 shots in 15 minutes. The largest church of the Baptist community is the Metropolitan Tabernacle; the smallest is at Nantmawr, Buckley Mountain, Flintshire, with a communicants roll of only six. It is reported from Abilene, Kansas, that plot has been discovered there to kidnap Mia: Ruth Cleveland, the President's eldest daughter, next month, in order to claim a heavy ransom. Two women are implicated in the affair. The Queen has accepted a poem entitled, "Memorial Sonuet to M. Charles Gounod," written to the memory of the late celebrated composer by Miss Sarah Ann Stowe, of Here. ford. A large number of parcels of gifts contributed by readers of "Li'fwFo'kS1* have witlitoflha past few days been distributed by the editor of that magazine among the children's hospitals throughout the United Kingdom. One of the most remarkable blind man in t&. world is John Herreshoff, the Rhode Island boat- builder, whose fast yachts have made his name known in all waters. Since he was only 15 he boa been absolutely blind. The modern expectations of life may reasonably go well beyond the Scriptural three score and ten. A correspondent points out that the united ages of 15 out of 29 persons mentioned in the Stcmdard obituary on Tuesday amount to 1,205 years, giving an average of over 80 years to each person. A horrible crime has been committed at the house of a priest named Dubois, at Ranbot, neat Charleroi. Father Dubois celebrated Mass at the church, as usual, and, returning to his house, which was next door to the church, he was horrified to find that his mother had been m- dered. Rudyard Kipling passes most of his leisure time in cultivating flowers. The novelist wrote to Mrs W. S. Dana, in regard to her book on New England wild flowers, that he disliked ta transplant flowers, as in digging them up it "made the roots of the poor little thingc squeak I" The aged exile Louis Kossuth found himsktf under the necessity, some time ago, of selling Ins library. A committee was formed in Peatb. and bought the whole collection for the National Museum. The needs of Kossuth mas, have been very urgent, as he parted with all his books for. aboub JB130. At the meeting of the council of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, on Wednesday, it was resolved that application be made to tbM Education Department for permission to establish, in connection with the college, a day training department for schoolmasters and school mistresses. A novelty in the way of trade organisations ira "Woman's Industrial Defence Committee, which has been formed in connection with tim Berners-street Society for the Employment of Women. Its object is to resist the efforts of those who appear inclined to interfere with women'* competition with men in certain branches of labour, Christina, Queen Regent of Spain, is a great advocate of tobacco. She consumes a large quantity of Egyptian cigarettes, and there is nothing that her little Bubi," King Alphonsc XIII., enjoys more than when his mother permit* him to strike a match and apply the flame to .be end of her cigarette. A well-to-do master baker of Birmingham conceived some time ago a mania for collect- ing ladies' handkerchiefs, and paid such ex- orbitant prices for thorn that his hobby how now ruined him. No fewer than 1,434 do. licately-perfumed handkerchiefs have been found in his apartments. Another sign of the time! One of the mem bers of the Glasgow Town Council moved, at the- meeting on Monday, that the minimum wage ot men employed by the Police Commissioner* should be 2ts. Hn did Hot e%fjry ttia motion, btrt accepted an amendment referring the matter ig the different con)mittoes for cotMidentttoO m WBWt.
A SATURDAY SERMON.
A SATURDAY SERMON. The tendencies of the times favour the idea at self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his owe tour;titution, which wodc with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraint". The movement in this direction haa been very marked in modern history. Much hot been blind and discreditable, but the nature ct the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters. The power of love as the basis of a State has never been tried. We mviM not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender Protestant be net compelled to bear his part in certain social con. ventions nor doubt that roads can be built. letters carried, and the fruit of labour secured, when the government of force is at an end. Are our methods now 80 exoellent ? Could not a nation of friends even derls* better ways! On the other hand let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature eu'Tender of the bayonet and the system of force. For according to the order of nature, which is quite superior to our will, it runs thus !There will always be a government of force where men are selfish and when they are pura enough to abjure the code of force, they will be wise enough to see bow these public ends of the post-office, of the high* way, of commerce, and the exchange of proper^, of museums and libraries, of institutions of tr andsctafte, can be answered. i £ T RAI<FB WALDO SUZKBOS J