The North Wales Express

BOTES OF THE WEEK. It might have been expected that Mr Douglas Pennant would accept the verdict of the county in an honourable manner, and face his defeat with the same manliness with which he had fought. But unhappily such is not the case. It is easier to be uniuly in defeat than to be generous in triumph, but the ex-member for Carnarvonshire, apparently is not equal to tke occasion. It is not difficult to imagine the remorse of so crushing a defeat upon one whose hopes had been so sanguine, but even this is not sufficient to justify the ill-tempered, nay, the most violent language which Mr Douglas Pen- nant hurls at the electors of Carnarvonshire. That he has been deceived is much to be -e- gretted, but it is shameful that a whole con: a- tuency and a nation should be branded as treacherous perjurers because thr« thousand right minded men had voted conscientiously. If Mr Douglas Pennant will enquire into the facts and consult his own cool reason, he will find that the interests of good taste and of the political party he represents will call upon him to recall the most indiscreet expressions he has made in his farewell address. —+ Mr Watkin Williams, M.P., in another column, writes to refute a most absurd and unfounded allegation which has emanated from the Conservative party in reference to the counting of the votes after the Carnar- vonshire election. The purport of this false statement is obvious it was designed to prejudice the iuinds of certain quarry owners in certain districts against their employes, *nd the population which are dependent on them. There is every reason to assume that even the quarrymen of Bethesda were true in their allegiance to iUrPe Linant, actuated, no doubt by the vain threat that under other circumstances their employment might be stol,pal. But the defeat must be avenged, and the Cynffonwyr thought no doubt there could be no better means to use the lash than on the poor quarrymen. It has been clearly pointed out that it was im- possible to ascertain how the electors in any district voted, and the malevolent assertion is so cowardly that no sane man acquainted with the true facts would be influenced by it. Surely Lord Penrhyn does not appre ciate such unworthy acts as these and it would be well if the under-sheriff came forward to condemn those who dare to im- pute his integrity in counting the votes which he performed so satisfactorily. » The Tories of Bethesda held an indigrSa- tion meeting on Monday to protest against the assertion made in the Bangor papers in reference to the way in which they had voted. A report of the proceedings, which were of an amusing character, will be found in another column. This movement has caused the editor of Llais y Wlad to eat the leek this week, for he commences- an article by acknowledging his honest duty to con- fess his error. He admits the mistake he made, but actually in the same article he reiterates the remark for which he was condemned, and challenges anyone to dis- prove it! And yet in the same article he has the coolness to assert that he has been the most faithful friend of the quarrymen! The quarrymen, we are glad to think, do not appreciate this kind of friendship. ♦ There are comparatively but few prominent members of the Liberal party who have been defeated at the election, Mr Rathbone in Liverpool, Mr Waddy in Sheffield, Sir John Lubbock and Sir Sydney Waterlow in Maid- stone, being the most notable. A seat may probably be afforded for Sir John Lubbock by the elevation of Mr Lowe; and it is to be hoped something may turn up whereby the other gentlemen named above may find seats. Radnor would honour itself in offering its vacant seat to Mr Rathbone. Nottingham, which has just lost a member in the death of Mr Wright, may call Mr Waddy or Sir Sydney Waterlow and the elevation of Tory members to the Peerage may bring in all those without whom the Liberal ranks will hardly be complete. 0 The elections are now over, and. the results are as remarkable as they were unanticipated. The constitution of the house now embraces 411 Liberals and 2:34 Consei-vatives-a majority to the Liberals of 177. Deducting 60 Home Rulers, the Liberals have still a majority over the Conservatives of 117 or putting Conserva- tives and Home Rulers together, improbable as that may be, the Liberals will exceed the combined strength of those parties by 57 votes. This is a greater majority than has been acquired by the Liberals at any dissolution since 1832. ♦ A local Conservative contemporary an- nounced last week that at least one thousand electors who voted for Mr Watkin Williams rode to the polling booths in Mr Pennant's carriages. As this paper is so inspired, it may perhaps be able to furnish particulars and to give the names and addresses of those who so availed themselves. 4 The Welsh elections culminated on Satur- day in the return of Mr Stuart Rendel for the county of Montgomery, in the place of Mr Charles Wynn, who had sat in the Con- servative interest for eighteen years, and his father before him for fifty. The landed in- terest in this county is entirely Conserva- tive, and it being an agricultural county the electors generally are much more exposed to Tory arrogance than in an industrial county like Carnarvon. The Liberal candidate came to the constituency about two years ago, a perfect stranger, but his vigorous speeches contrasted with the lame oratory of the sitting member that in a short time he became highly popular. The contest was an exciting one, but the electors of Mont- gomeryshire have asserted in the most em- phatic manner that their convictions will no longer be influenced by the thraldoms of Toryism. The majority of Mr Rendel, com- paratively speaking, is as decisive as that in any other Welsh constituency. Mr Charles Wynn has issued the most moderate valedictory address we have yet seen. He holds out no hope of again re- presenting the constituency, but merely thanks the 2041 electors who have sup- ported him, and hopes that all animosity and ill-feeling will disappear. Mr Pryce- Jones, the Newtown flannel merchant, who contested the borough in opposition to Mr Tracy, makes much more out of his defeat, and believes that as Conservatism is growing in these boroughs he will be able to lead them to victory on the next occasion. ♦ Since our last issue, Cardiganshire has also pronounced itself in favour of Liberal- ism, Mr Lewis Pugh Pugh being returned with a majority of over 800 votes. The representation of Cardiganshire, a thoroughly Welsh county, has been more changeable than any other county in Wales, the party in power invariably, carrying the seat. But on no occasion previously has there been a considerable majority. Hardly ever did it exceed over two hundred, but the result of Thursday's polling is Very significant. Thursday and Friday last witnessed the sweeping away of two Conservative seats. The Principality is thus represented by 28 Liberals and- two Conservatives, the seats of the latter being uncontested. + The deliberations of the Carnarvon Town Council are not altogether devoid of in- terest to the outside public, who can al- ways enjoy an occasional bit of the wisdom shed forth within the precincts of the council chamber. At the last meeting, even the formal business embraced a variety of subjects which afforded worthy councillors a means of displaying, each one in his own way, the proclivities which they respectively excel in. The economising course adopted by some ii commendable. But we doubt whether the townspeople generally would endorse a proposal to extinguish the light in that useful clock just erected at the Post Office at nine o'clock. Mr Thos. Williams will deserve the thanks of all for calling attention to an important Act of Parliament which, strange to say, has hitherto been neglected in the borough, viz,, that pro- hibition should be made against selling bread otherwise than by weight. Another important subject to which attention was called by the Town Clerk was the absence of any hospital accommodation for the isolation of infectious diseases; but the result of a discussion upon the subject will be found in the significant, but by no means rare sentence,. the subject then dropped." + Similarly, the transactions of the guardians of the Carnarvon Union are in- teresting, for this board strikes out a course which is peculiarly its. own,of administering the Poor Law in a; manner which shall differ from other boards. As we have re- peatedly pointed out,. the transactions are carried on in Welsh, and the attendance of intelligent, practical- administrators and magistrates is thus excluded. It is strange the magistracy has not, ere this, asserted its right to share in the deliberations of such important authorities as the Assessment and Sanitary Committees. Considering the former body controls an expenditure five times as great as that of the Carnarvon Corporation, it is strange so little interest should be evinced by ratepayers in the doings of a body in which such a degree of rating power is vested. The board of guardians, however, seems to pull amicably, as we find the last meeting was devoted to voting thanks to everybody — from the chairman and clerk down to the remotest official in the pay of the board., — 10 Speculation is rife as. to the reasons which have prompted the Carnarvon Choral Union and the Eryri Choir to refrain from com- peting at the forthcoming National Eistedd- fod. It seems somewhat anomalous that the former body of singers, who were two years ago, in a state of feverish anxiety to meet all comers in Paris, should view the inducements held out. by the. Eisteddfod Committee with indifference. Surely if the Carnarvon Choral Union were in a position to eiitertain a project that would entail so much. cost as a trip to Paris, It is scarcely logical to say that the expenses of a contest at home are sufficient to deter them from entering the lists. And yet we are told that is the reason why our excellent local choir holds aloof from an Eisteddfod which is likely to be one of the most nourishing that has been held for some years. The Eryri Choral Union does not display that pluck, which we expected would distinguish a choir that had made a splendid start on the path of victory at Birkenhead. We were in hopes that the triumph scored on that occasion was but the first link in a brilliant chain of successes. However, they are free subjects, at liberty to hand over without a struggle—if they think fit to do so—the laurels they have wo a, to the cus- tody of less pretentious but more courageous choirs. We are informed that several choirs are already rehearsing for the chief and minor prizes.

(Øur S0tt.b0fl QtlJrrtzp-onhent. The Queen will be at Windsor in a few days at furthest, and as all the elections except Orkney will then be over,the outgoing minister may without difficulty place his resignation in Her Majesty's hands, when the game of ins and outs will begin. Whom the Queen will lend for, and whether Lord A will consent to lerve under Lord B may occupy the Press for a few days; but the main outlines are distinct. Lord Granville is the formal and Mr Gladstone the real representative of the Liberal party,and till they settle their respective positions, we may be left to conjecture. Mr Gladstone will be much obliged to the TimeS "for its advice, but he will receive as a piece of grave irony the suggestion of the popular misleader" that he should extin- guish himself by going to the Upper House, solemnly to dose on the red bench* so opposite Lord Beaconsfield. Was it for this he went down to Mid-Lothian and bearded the bold Buccleugh in his den ? Really, the Times has become as soporific, so drenched with pleuto- cratic ideas, that it writes as if its opponents were bereft of common sense I do not believe a word of the story that Lord Salisbury wants to make a statement in the House of Lords with regard to his foreign policy before he resigns, and that, accordingly, Lord Beaconsfield will stand his ground and face a direct vote of want of confidence. No- thing, of course, is impossible; but this is im- probable in the extreme. Lord Beaconsfield is not the man to trust the defence of his policy to such a leader as Sir Stafford Northcote, and rather than court such a damaging exposure he will certainly resign. In fact next week we may assume the whole farce will be over. Mr Cross making defiant speeches to the last, and stumping Lancashire even after the interest in the fight was over, has filled us with a mute surprise. I can only compare it to the shotted guns going off by themselves in an old three-decker when she is on fire and her crew have gone overboard. This resolution pot to know that they are beaten may be magnificent; but it is not wax. In fact, Mr Cross has mis- taken his part, and being essentially a pacific man of the heavy banking type, When he comes out in this melodramatic fashion he villanously overdoes his part. It is Bottom the weaver as lion, nothing but roaring. The Liberal party were wara ecl some years ago not to attempt to drive six coaches abreast through Temple Bar, and though that gate- way-^symbol of civic exclusivism—has been re- moved, the warning is still as applicable. In their first flush of triumph it is alarming to hear that there are no fewer than 22 measures of first-class importance which are waiting the return of the Liberals to power. The Larina of Liberalism is in danger of being crushed to death, like her Alban namesake, by the gifts o her too ardent lovers. There is only one opinion among London Liberals that one of the very first measures which call for settlement is that of municipal reform. Tory lawyers have told us sometimes, with their tongue in their cheeks, that Parlia- ment could not dare to make one great munici- pality of the Metropolis, lest we should have to rival Parliament in Spring Gardens to that at St. Stephen's. I do not believe a word of this. In any case, London wants some Home Rule, and means to have it. The City has its snug monopolis, and is going to erect a sham Temple Bar as a symbol that it wishes to shut its gate on the Metropolis at large; but I hope a Liberal Ministry will teach the City better manners. Is it the breath of reform which has swept over the country ? I hear of one churchwarden who talks of resigning. He sees only too clearly that the day of snug City sinecures is over. The Drapers' Company have also offered £ 10,000 to the new Schools of Technical Science in Cowper-street on condition that the like sum is raised from other sources, which it is likely to be. Glearly these old City Guilds feel that they must set their house in order. We may thank the Liberal victory for this instal- ment of Justice to Londoners. It is inconceivable on what small issues elec- tions may turn in some small boroughs. A respectable Liberal, Sir Julian Goldsmid, lost his seat at Rochester owing to the Anti- vaccination craze. The Anti-vaccination League had a hundred pledged members in Rochester, and as the Conservative was more pliable than the Liberal, the result was one of those few Conservative victories which seem to be almost limited to the Southern Counties. Why the Kent boroughs have done so much for Conservatism it is not very clear to see; but Greenwich, Dover, Maidstone, and Canterbury, all return two, and Rochester one member, who with the four members for West and Mid Kent almost throw the entire vote of the county into the Conservative camp. If we escape a war with Burmah, it will not be for the want of provocation. A horrible story comes from Mandeley of the burying alive of 700 persons as a peace-offering to the manes of Theebaw's son and heir, an infant of a few months old, who has died of small-pox. There was a rumour that Theebaw himself bad suc- cumbed to the malady but this news was too good to be true. So we must put up a little longer with this monster. It may be necessary for the sake of the Burmese that he should be got rid of but it would be doubtful policy for us to interfere. In most cases a little patience brings the right remedy and in the right way. A correspondent, on very slender authority, as I think, reports that Count Munster is to be recalled from the German Embassy, and the reason alleged is, if possible, still more ridicu- lous. It is said that Prince Bismarck is irrita- ted at being misled by his Ambassador as to the result of the elections in England. Really these left-handed compliments to a Beaconsfield Administration, as if it were a necessity to Bismarck, are a little overdone. For my part, I believe neither in the recall nor in the reason alleged for it. CQunt Munster may have his own reasons for wishing to return to Germany, but he is certainly not recalled. It was inevitable on the amazing success of the Liberal party that existing Gladstonian journalism should receive a fillip, and under- takings in the same line be projected. The Daily Chronicle has come very much to the front during the election, and would have made a more considerable advance if the writing throughout had been of a higher order of merit, while it is manifest that the Echo has estab- lished itself on a higher platform than it ever attained to before. From certain inchoate ideas which are the subject of conversation in Fleet-street and the 5traud, one may expect at least one perfect candidate for radical favour- whereof more will be known in the course of a fortnight. It is a cheering sign of the times that paper and print are already receiving the attention of careful capitalists who have hitherto held aloof from speculating therein. Amongst the new papers which are talked about is one which will embrace some of the leading features of the Athenaeum. The Examiner has again changed hands And Mr Robert Wil- liams is once more the editor. Life is the pro- perty of the new owner of the Examiner, and Mr Williams is understood to be giving an eye to that also. Sport, the newest aspirant to success, is the property of Mr James Peddie, a gentleman who was some years since rather prominently connected with journals of this description. It is not badly written but the illustrations are certainly not up to the highest standard of the art. Moreover, compared with some of its older rivals Sport is a small penny- worth. There is not enough for the money.

&crm.qmtbma. We do not necessarily identify ourselves with tll, sentiments of our correspondents. TilE CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST THE CARNARVONSHIRE ELECTORS. SIR,—I deeply regretted to read the unjust and insulting language-addressed by Mr Douglas Pennant to the electors of Carnarvonshire, charging them with wholesale falsehood and deception. The charge is absolutely false and unfounded. Mr Pennant was deceived, not b) the electors, but by the' army of hirelings whose interest it was to mislead him and keep him in the dark. As against his accusation, I can state that I polled almost the exact number of promises returned by our volunteer canvassers. It is also a fact that we daily in the course of our progress came across bodies of Mr Pennant's canvassers who were making a joke of the whole affair and spending their time smoking and drinking and singing at roadside public houses, and returning at night with their books made up of promises from per- sona whom we ascertained they had never even seen. Their newspapers also are full of the most transparent falsehoods, which nobody thinks it worth his while even to contradict. It is a pity that these gentlemen do not open their eyes and see the truth instead of charging innocent people with falsehood and deception. WATKIN WILLIAMS. 97, St. George's Road, London, S.W. JOURNALISTIC DESPOTISM.—" AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM." SIR, -The following paragraph appeared in the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald of the 3rd inst. Mr Watkin Williams having stated at one of his meet- ings that the great strength of the National Eistedd- fodau was derived from the Liberal side, Mr Dan Rhys, whose local duties consist in attending to the prelim- inaries of the forthcoming successful or unsuccessful Eisteddfod of 1880, was ushered forth from the shades of Grove House, Bangor-street, and spared the Tory- candidate the chance of a reply. Mr Dan Rhys refers to certain subscriptions of the Tories m aid of the forthcoming Eisteddfod. He forgets that the Liberals, as in the case of the Duke of Westminster, &c., have also responded to his appeal. Let Mr Dan Rhys keep to his own grove, and stick to his last. Politics, for- tunately, have not been introduced into the Eisteddfod so far, and it would be better for Mr Dan Rhys to leave this to abler hands if a change of programme is to be introduced. On the 6th inst., I forwarded a letter to the Herald in reply to the above. Anyone ignor- ant of the peculiar notions of fair play which find favour in the sanctum of the Herald would have expected that a newspaper affecting to lead the enlightened opinion of Carnarvon and Denbigh would have been magnanimous enough to afford to the humblest of its readers an op- portunity to defend himself after being unfairly attacked. Not only was that measure of justice denied me, but the editor (or some one in authority) declined to return to me the letter which had been "set aside" on the ground that any "remarks tending to support the Tory party in this county would now be futile." How far the contents of the following letter can be construed to mean anything in support of either political party I will leave your readers to decide. I am not surprised that those who have prevented me from replying to my critic in the columns where I was abused, should endeavour to wake it impossible for me to do so through any other medium. I enclose you copy of the letter referred to word for word as closely as my memory enables me to reproduce it, and would thank you to insert it in your next issue.—Yours, &c., D. RIIYS. Carnarvon, April 14th, 1880. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "CARNARVON AND DENBIGH HERALD." SIR,-In your issue of the 3rd instant you were good enough—notwithstanding the pressure upon your space on the eve of the county election-to permit someone to misrepresent the motives which led me to write a brief letter to two of your con- temporaries of the previous week. I regret very much that the reckless misrepresentations con- veyed in the paragraph in your columns render it necessary for me to refer again to the remarks re- ported to have been made by Mr Williams, the respected Liberal candidate, especially now that that gentleman has, with that candour and regard for justice which invariably characterise an English gentleman, publicly stated that he had been inac. curately reported. Knowing as I did that the nobi- lity and gentry of the Principality, without reference to political or religious opinions, had always been found the willing supporters of the Welsh nation's time-honoured institution, I regarded the utterance of any remarks which might not with fairness be applied to the Conservative party, as having a tendency to alienate from the Eisteddfod the support of a numerous, wealthy, and generous section of society in the Principality. With a view to retaining that harmony which has hitherto pervaded the meetings of the Eisteddfod, I -with no intention of departing from that neutral atti. tude which alone becomes the official of a national institution—took occasion to point out how the National Eisteddfcdau were indebted for their success to Liberals and Conservatives, Churchmen and Nonconformists. It is a noteworthy circumstance that not a single complaint against the terms of my letter has emanated, to my knowledge, from any other source than the office of a paper to which, by some oversight, a copy of the letter was not fur- nished. Pardon my egotism in pointing to this incident. Even your correspondent does not by the most meagre analysis attempt to condemn that which he garbles and distorts and I confess I am somewhat disappointed to find a paragraph commencing with gross misrepresentation ending with nothing more vile than impertinence. Your correspondent wrongs Mr Watkin Williams by attributing to him words which lie never used he does me an intentional injustice when he falsely accuses me of "forgetting that the Liberals, as in the case of the Duke of West- minster," had responded to the appeal for aid alld you deprive me of an opportunity of recog- nising my abusive critic by inserting a paragraph brimtul of personal animus. as an anonymous item of local news. I do not feel called upon to thank you for your gratuitous advice to me to stick to my last whatever that may mean. When the staff of your paper furnishes so many examples of persons who have not stuck to their lasts," you must not be disappointed to find your correspondent's advice on this point deprived of much of its force. May I revert for a moment to the charge of in- gratitude preferred against me by your corres- pondent ? Permit me to state a few facts to show how far such an accusation can be sustained. On Thursday last—twenty-four hours before the edi- tion of your paper containing the paragraph alluded to, was published-I handed in at your office a list of subscriptions to the Eisteddfod Funds, for insertion as an advertisement in your columns. Among the contributors were the names of Lord Penrhyn, the Duke of Westmin- ster, the Hon. Douglas Pennant, Mr W. Bulkeley Hughes, M.P., Major Cornwallis West, and others. That advertisement did not appear, and no reason was assigned for its suppression before the publica- tion of the paper. Thus at a moment when you knew—or might have known-that my grateful acknowledgement for every contribution or pro- mise of contribution received was in the office of your paper, you published an article charging me with ignoring the generosity of Liberal subscri- bers Considered in the light of the above facts, the meanness of such an accusation becomes at once apparent. Personally, I would have hesitated to notice an anonymous detractor, but viewing the matter in the light of an attempt to misrepresent my conduct in connection with the forthcoming "successful or unsuccessful" Eisteddfod, I am reluctantly com- pelled to ask you to give to this the same pub- licity as you accorded to the paragraph which has made it necessary for me to trespass upon your space.—Yours, &c., D. RHYS. Carnarvon, April 6th, 1880. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD. SIR,-In your issue of last week I heard for the first time that the Prince of Wales would visit Holyhead in June. I consider that the occasion would-as you say—be a most appropriate one for a deputation on behalf of the Eisteddfod com- mittee to approach his Reyal Highuess with a view to inducing him to attend the high festival of the people whose Prince he is. Lord Penrhyn, who is. president of this year's Eisteddfod, would, very probably, with that patriotic spirit which his lordship has always manifested, use his influence in the matter. I am not aware that the Prince has hitherto attended the meetings of any Eistedd- fod, and I question very much whether his Royal Highness has ever had an application oft hat kind properly submitted to him. Our gracious Queen -in the zenith of her youthful popularity— deigned to grace the Beaumaris Eisteddfod with her regal presence. To the Heir Apparent, Car- narvon should have a strong claim upon his sympathy as the locality of the grand old edifice which has for six hundred years been intimately associated with the history of the Princes of Wales. It is to be hoped that the committee will lose no time in considering the matter.—Yours, &c., TWR Y GLOCH.

MR WATKIN WILLIAMS' TELE- GRAMS, CONGRATULATORY AND OTHERWISE. A contributor has furnished us with copies of a batch of telegrams which dropped out of Mr Wat- kin Williams' hat as he bowed to the enthusiastic crowd at Ruthin on Wednesday last. The tele- grams did not all pass through the post office:- FROM EARL BEACONSFIELD. "I cannot rejoice in your success, which you acquired through unsparing denunciation of my spirited policy. I had always believed Carnarvon- shire was enlightened enough to leave the consi- deration of politics to landlords and agents who are the most able to deal with them. I really don't envj you the representation of a county which does not know on what side its bread is buttered. So much for Carnarvonshire, which could reject so docile* a man as Pennant, whose vote I could always command." FROM MR GLADSTONE. You have fought the battle of right against might; you have evoked the honest and unre- stricted opinion of Welshmen on the doings of my illustrious opponent; and you have defeated the son of a nobleman who always indignantly left the House when I would rise to speak. What can we do for « poor little VV ales in return for all this ? Do you think a vote of five millions to endow Nonconformist chapels would take ?" PROM YAKOOB KHAN. "Your victory teache3 me that Welshmen do not endorse the conduct of those who stole my father's country and then his life. As Beacons- neld is going to Jamaica, I can now breathe freely. the coiintryn?"BCteUtifiC ta the FROM THE EX-KING CETEWAYO. "You are victorious, and I will be free I am gl id you have ousted one of those who robbed me of my country slew my men, and made me pri- soner because I fought for my fatherland. And they said it was in order to Christianize and ^ulus! Your election leads me to think that Carnarvonshire does not believe in Christianity and civilization of that sort. Have you ^y idea how many wives the Liberal Govern- ment wiH allow me ?" FROM LORD N Am heartily glad you have won. Let me know how Pennant stood his defeat." FROM MR D —GL—S p-N-T. "I have been betrayed somewhere, and must enquire personally into the matter. As you have taken mv seat I will refer all those who seek alms and favors at my door to you, and I hope you will save me the mortification of asking my father to put you on the commission of the peace. I should the FROM MR JONES PARRY. Well done, old fellow Didn't I tell you you would go in like a hot knife through a pound of butter i PennaLt did not study the people, and the people consequently did not study his politics In your case it was exactly the reverse, and the result will teach the Tories a lesson. What a deuce of a majority, wasn't it?" FROM THE HON. G. T. K I rejoiced in your candidature in Carnarvon as your leaving the Denbigh Boroughs was my only hope of securing a seat in Parliament. But strange to say Cunliffe is in after all. Would you advise me to contest again? If so, perhaps you will kindly lend me that book "How to raise a majority," so that I may study it at my leisure. I have a strong inclination to turn Liberal." FROM THE D-N OF B-. Though I do not meddle in politics, I trust you will not broach the question of Disestablish- ment in Wales, or I shall have to tackle you As my influence helped you in, the best recompense give me will be to strike into the question f ?1!h0pS, and give my name aQd address to Mr Gladstone. FROM 14 T BRA WD H rr a pouservative> and was born so but as the Tories shelved me after the first meeting I am not sorry they have lost. Have you ever heard my speeches? I was the means of putting Whitley in Liverpool. I shall be glad to make you the subject of my next penny book. The next time you wish to be photographed, please call at my shop." FROM MR R. R. W. Having lost a few bets on the election. I have to offer for sale the following list of useful articles which were not used on the 7th inst. Any reasonable offer will be entertained. Please let me know whether they would be of use to vour party:— J 1 J.A £ 0ze? mixed Rocket8> at 2s 6d each. 1000 Crackers, at ^d each. 200 Roman Candles, at Id each. A large assortment of Fireworks, Blue lights, Shells, Indian fire, Catherine wheels, Squibs &c., &c. (cost about £ 50.) About 50 cwt of Gunpowder. A magnificent Imperial Crown, perforated for gas. This is a splendid lot, and is highly recommended. 500 Tin Candle-sockets for window illumina- tions. Two cwt. of half-pennv Candles. A few cases of Champagne. A load of empty Bottles. Twenty-five yards of Rope. -The whole may be viewed on application at the Conservative Rooms." FROM THE COLLECTIVE OFFICE-BOYHOOD OF CARNAR- VONSHIRE. "As you are a brother chip, we congratulate you on your success. We were only paid the paltry sum of six guineas a day by the Tories, which was scarcely enough to clear one in cigars and champagne. Had we been decently paid we could have won the election for Pennant. Shall be glad to know whether you would like to retain us en masse for the next election, at twenty guineas a day each." FROM THE SONS OF BILYRT. "Should the quarries be stopped, we hope you will organise a great company, and buy a mansion to reside in our midst. We would advise you to bring a Bill in the New Parliament for the exter- mination of Landlords and Agents."

Mr Talmage, it is said, appeals with great energy to all who read his sermons to send him one dollar to clear the debt off his church, on which there hangs a debt of £12,000. The Bacchante, with the sons of the Prince of Wales on board, is expected to arrive at Ports- mouth in a day or two. The young princes have been promoted to the rank of midshipmen, with an increase of pay to Is 9d per day. On Monday night, while a number of men were raising iron girders to the roof of the Bessi- mer Works at Dowlais, the hoisting chain broke. Seven men were injured by the falling of the heavy mass. One man lies in a critical condition. „ A la*g6 quantity of wreckage, marked s s. Itathmore, Liverpool," has been washed ashore on the south side of the island of Malta and there is no doubt but that the steamer abeve named has foundered in the Mediterranean. Bend Or, which is now the first favourite for the Derby, is the property of the Duke of Westminster.

WATKIN WILLIAMS, M.P. Watkin Williams, Q.C., is now an M.P., And member for Carnarvonshire Douglas Pennant, before, was greatly adored, Now stands in Conservative mire. To represent me has long been agreed By all Liberals that he is the man, Who for our rights will in Parliament fight, Along with our Osborne Morgan. His reception in the shire, we greatly admire, Though rejected at Denbigh last time For Conservative power then won the hour, But now Liberalism doth shine. Wales long by Conservatives has been mislead, And daunted by Beaconsfield's feevour; But through thick and thin, we'll run Glad- stone in- Who patiently for Wales will labour. The Liverpool Courier the other day said That no ministry Liberals could form, Whilst results from the country do very well test That a Conservative Cabinet they scorn. We have suffered eo long, 'tis time to be strong, Rise up, all ye Welshmen, and claim For our country—though small—e'en justice to all, And denounce the Conservative name. HUGH DAVIBS.

The wages of the operatives in all branches of the cotton trade in Wigan have been advanced 5 per cent.