The North Wales Express

In the July number of the "Windsor Magazine" there appears a most opportune article on Don Curios, and the fortunes of this exiled king. The following is told of his first attempt to win the throne of his ancestors. "On the night of May 1st, 1872, a little com- pany of men were lying in the grass on the summit of the Pyrenees impatiently await- ing the dawn. They were Carlists, who, with great difficulty, had at length found the means of evading the cordon of French soldiers guarding the frontier, and had crossed to the Spanish side. As the hour of dawn approaohed, the night grew darker, mc", often happens in the South cf France, where, after having shone in the clear heaven until nearly three o'clock, the stars seem sud- denly to disappear, as if annoyed at having so soon to give place to the orb of day. A young man, just awakened, felt the pressing necessity which always characterises the Spanish race—tc light a cigarette-for a Spaniard can go without bread, but he can- not go without smcking! Having no match he turned to his neighbour, and in the still prevailing darkness asked for a light. Wil- lingly his neighbour, who had not slept-as one can well imagine—struck a match. By the light of it the young man recognised Don Carlos. "Viva el Rey, Carlos VII." he cried. "Viva la Espana," joyfully replied the king. When the day dawned the little company de- scended the mountain to a borda, one of the small Spanish farms in the Pyrenees. Here they expected to meet a, hundred we'l-armed men, but instead they found eighteen men and one bayonet! "No matter," said Don Carlos. His followers wished him to recross the frontier, but he refused energetically. Then his handful of men went twenty-four hours without touching food, braving a thousand risks in trying to raise others to join them. A year later the eighteen men had given place to an army of one hundred thousand, fnd Don Carlos commanded in all the North of Spain."

Carnarvonshire Charities I I THE LLANDWROG ALMSHOUSES. On Thursday Mr T. E. Morris, Assistant Charity Commissioner, held an inquiry at Clynnog into the charities of the parish. The following day he held an inquiry at the Penfforddelen Board School into the charities of the parish of Llandwrog. Other present were the Hon. F. G. Wynn, of Glyn- llifon, and the Rev J. W. W. Jones (vicar of Carnarvon). The Commissioner, ia opening the proceedings, referred to the charities re- ported upon by the Charity Commission in 1833, and directed special attention to the charitv of Ellen Glynne, which was con- sidered more in the nature of a general char- ity. By a will dated the 31st March, 1727, Ellen Glynne vested in trustee certain lands on the condition that immediately after her death they should erect a place of habitation for "twelve decayed maiden gen- tlewomen over 50 years of age," to be nomi- nated by the trustees, preference being given to her own poor relatives. They were to constantly attend the church at Llandwrog, the Vicar of the parish being paid JE1 every Christmas for attending them when they were ill. The total income in 1833 was C202 15s, but at that time all the inmates did not attend the Established Church, some of them attending the Methodist chapel. In 1872 pieces of land were sold for the sum of £ 1349, and the proceeds were invested in consols. In 1875 the trustees %i author- ised to erect new a':n"-h'> I". at a cost ii-,t exceeding t1030, and in order to obtain the money consols to the extent of C900 were sold, together with a piece of land called Talwrn for JE150. A condition was laid down that the sum utilised from consols was to be repaid into the accounts of the charity within 30 years, but as a matter of fact it was repaid in two years afterwards. The pre- sent amount of the stock held by the trus- tees belonging to the charity was E1609 13s Ed, and the dividends were paid quarterly to the clerk to the trustees (Mr J. H. Bod- vel Roberts, Carnarvon), who received an annual payment of £10. The latter paid to the pensioners at the almshouses sums vary- ing from £ 4 10s to t6 per quarter. Mr E. H. Morris, representing the clerk to the trustees, submitted the accounts of the charity for the past y ar. The total in- come received was E252 15s 4d, including dividends from Consols, the expenditure ex- ceeding this sum by £10. By consent of the Charity Commissioners the trustees were allowed to reduce the number of pen- sioners at the almshouses to ten, to whom a sum of t224 12s lOd was paid uuring the year. He considered that the present in- mates were -ecayed maiden gentlewo- men." The Hon. F. G. Wynn: Not in the strict sense of the word. Twenty pounds a year in the days of the founder might be consid- ered a nice income to each of the pensioners, but at the present time the anauity is too small for the purpose of giving hrbit tion for gentle ladies. Once upon a time there were applications received from thewidows of clergymen, but there are very few of the kind at present. I think the trustees have been very extravagant in building a lodge in connection with the almshouses. It is a expensive in a short time. Mr E. H. Morris, continuing his evidence, said that there were at present eight pen- sioners in the almshouses, and the vacancies wetre advertised an the niewspapers. The trustees had now three or four applications, and the delay in filling the vacancies had been caused by want of funds. A number of smaller charities were also inquired intor and the Commissioner stated that during recent. years two new charities had been founded, one of which was in opera- tive owing to the widow of the founder being still alive. The ether was that of Ann Price Griffith, who had left a sum of E215 to the rector of Llandwrog to divide the interest amongst the poor people attending the church, after repairing a certain tablet. The Rev D. A. Jones, rector of Llandwrog, addressing a general question to the Commis- sioner, asked whether people in receipt of charity had a right to vote in parochial mat- ters ? The Commissioner replied that the fact that a man received charity did not take away his right to vote at elections. At the close of the inquiry a vote of thanks was accorded to the Commissioner, on the motion of the Hon. F. G. Wynn. On Saturday Mr Morris held an inquiry at Rhostryfan into the charities of the parish of Llanwnda.

The Festiniog National Eisteddfod ENTRIES IN THE AKT AND MUSIC SECTIONS. In addition to the list of competitors in lit- erary and poetical subjects already pub- lished, the committee of this vear's National Eisteddfod have now received the entries in the art section, as well as for the musical competitions, which are to take place on the Eisteddfod day!?. For the Chief Choral Competition (120 to 150 voices), (a) "De- stroyed in Babylon (Spohr), (b) "Y Cynfab Tragwyddol" (Dr Parry), (c) "How sweet the Moonlight Sleeps" (Emlyn Evans). The entries to hand are those of Holyhead Har- monic Society, Builth Choral Society, Car- narvon Choral Society, Builth and District Harmonic Society, and Llanelly Choral So- ciety. Seven choirs entered for the Second Chief Choral (60 to 80 voices), viz., Pendref, Machynlleth, Nantlle Vale, Ogwen (Bethes- da), Maentwrog, Pwllheli, and Prestatyn. The following are the entries for the remain- ing choral competitions: —Male voice (40 to 50 voiceis): Gwalia, Llanberis, Port Talbot Glee Society, Meib yr Eryri, Cefnmawr, Rhos, Corris anu Abergynolwyn, and Work- ington (8). Ladies' choirs (20 to 30 voices): Beaufort, Swansea, Nantlle Vale, Manches- ter Mill Girls' Institute, London Kymric, Gwalia and Tegid (7). Juvenile choirs (40 to 60 voices): Trawsfynydd, Corwen, Ogwen, Brynbowydd, Penmachno, Penrhyn, Aber- dovey, and Tegid (8). Quartettes, duets, soles, &c., are a follow:—Quartette, 24; trio, 28; duet (tenor and bass), 38; sop- rano solo, 43; contralto soto, 45; tenor solo, 52; baritone solo, 64 bass solo, 46; penill-, icn singing (South Wales custom), 4; do. (North Wales custom), 10; do. (confined to I those who have not won before), 7; quar- tette reading at first sight, 6; string quar- tette, 1; violin solo, 10 do. (competitors. under 18, 14; triple harp solo, 2; competi- tion on one of four instruments specified, 6; pianoforte competition, 15; do. (for com-, petitors under 16), 14: organ so'o (confined I to amateur organists resident in Wales), 6. The entries for the trass band competition (open to the world) are Ferndale, Nantlle, Oakeley, Whitewell Vale (Rossendale), Llan (Festiniog), Blaina (Lancaster), Wrexham, and Holywell. There is also a contest open: to Welih bands only, for which the entries are the above-mentioned (with the excep- tion of Rossendale), together with Voelgaer, I Bagillt, and Port Dinorwic. The competi- tion for orchestral bands has but two entries, those of Rossendale and Carnarvon (Alex. I Corrison). There are 16 entries in the com- j petition on one of three instruments—cor- net, euphonium, or trombone. The entries in the art and miscellaneous sections are thus distributed Painting of historical subject, 4: landscape, 12; water-colour, 4; sketches of Welsh subjects, 12; sculpture and modelling (four competitions), 7; wood carving, 4; pen and ink sketches in Wales, 1: pictorial poster advertising for the Na- tional Eisteddfod, 5; black and white study from life, 13 design for national memorial of Llewelyn Ab Gruffydd, 2; design for wall paper, 7 design for bardic chair, 8; Eis- teddfod certificate, 4; metal work, 1; archi- tecture (two competitions), 16; photo- graphy (four competitions), 4; bookbinding, 1; etching, 1 collection of ferns, 2; geo- logy, 1; domestic art (seven competitions), 96; freehand drawing, &c., 16: slate split- ting (two competitions), 3ii; Wel-h tweed, flannel, and linsey, 51; spinning on tie plat- f form, 7 j recitation, 52 >

I Royal Agricultural Show. LOCAL WINNERS. At the Royal Agricultural Show, held at Birmingham last week, the following awards were made — Class 107.-Bull, born in 1893, 1894, or 1895 (4 entries).—1st, £15, Colonel Henry Piatt (Madoc Lad); 2, EIO, Mr R. M. Greaves, Wern, Portmadoc (Bryntwr); r., Lord Harlech, Glyn, Talsamau (Merioneth). Class 108.—Bull, born in xtt96 or 1897 («< entries).—1st, £ 15, Mr R. M. Greaves (Madoc Boy); 2nd, £ 10, Mr W. E. Oakeley, The Plas, Tanybwlch (Cawr) c., Lord Har- lech (Goliath). Class 109.-—Cow or heifer, in milk or in calf, born in 1895, or previously (4 entries). —1st, zL15, and r., Colonel Henry Plat t. (Queen of Spades 2nd and Kate 2nd): 2nd, £10, Mr W. E. Oakeley (Mair 4th). Class 1l0.-Heifer, born in 1896 (4 er- tries).-Ist, £ 10, Mr W. E. Oakeley. Tany- bwlch (Tecwynisa); 2nd, £ 5, Mr R. M. Greaves, Wern, Portmadoc (Minx): r., Col. Henry Platt, Gorddinog, Ltanfairfechan (Gwladys). Class 111. Heifer, born in 1897 (5 en- tries).—1st, £10, Mr R. M. Greaves (Tre- madoc); 2nd, t5, and r., Colonel Henry Platt (Cambrian Princess 3rd and Black En press 2nd). Class 212.-Two shear or shearling zatm,. —1st, £ 10, Mr J. M. Dugdale, Llanfytin- 2nd, t5, Mr »•. E. Williams, Corwen. Class 213.—Three shearling ewes, of same flock 1st, 210, and 2nd," £5, Colonel R- Platt, Llanfairfechan. <

PERSONAL AND GENERAL It is said that Mr Leiter's tcbl losses amount to 5,500,000 dols. A fine of £ 20 and costs was imposed at Bolton for selling margarine for butter. Scarlet is the mourning colour for un- married women in Brazil. There are 230 glaciers in the Alps said to be over five miles in length. There is a cafe in Venice which has never 7been closed, night or day, fcr one hundred and fifty years. Among the Chinese a coffin is considered a neat and appropriate present for an aged person, especially if in bad health. Li Hung Chang has become predominant at the Tsung-li-Yamen, and is favourable to Russia. Mr Ritchie says that enormous advantages will arise from the agreement with France as to West African affairs. Mr John Kensit c ntends that the blame for the present condition of affairs rested in great part with the bishops. Riots of an anti-Semitic character have taken place in Galicia. The gendarmes fired on the mob, killing nine peasants. A Sheffield young lady was thrown from a carriage while on the way to her wedding, and died from the injuries she received. It is expected that the British and Egypt- ian flags will be flying over Omdurman and Khartoum about the middle of September. An Irish farmer during a dispute about the ownership of a farm, struck his father with a shovel, smashing his skull and causing al- most instant death. A fireman was ureaking coal on the tender of a Newport train with a pick when he acci- dentally struck his own head, inflicting a ter- rible wound, from which he expired. Sir Gordon Sprigg's Ministry have been defeated in the Cape Parliament, a resolu- tion of "no confidence" proposed by Mr Schreiner, being carried by 41 votes to 35. The Government of Queensland has re- ceived a proposal from a Copper Compa. »y to utilise the Barcn Falls to provide power for electrolytic works at a cost of £ oO,UUU. Fifteen cyclists were summoned at Kings- ton a couple of days ago for furious riding. The magistrates inflicted fines of from 15s to 40s in every ca.se. The Rev Elvet Lewis slronSly advocates the erection of a. memorial stone over the grave of the well-known Welsh -Morgan Rhys-in the churchyard of Llan fynydd. The mosque at St, Sophia, Cons,^tl" nople, is remarkable among other thmg for the ./agrance of musk, which continue^ through the ages, though it is never re- newed. A pneumatic tyre has recently been placed on the market the interior of which is coated with molasses and sawdust, thus preventing the escape of air through small holes in the tyre. Mr D O. Jones, of Tanygrisiau, Festimcg, Sident of the Bala College School has just been awarded the Dunca Scholarship, worth £ 80 per annum, for three years. Mr Jones will shortly proceed to Cambridge. Verv young children are not sensitive to pain to any great extent A doctor calcu- lates that sensibility is seldom clearly shown in less than four or five weeks after birth, and before that time infants do not shed tears. It has been decided to hold a proclamation ceremony of next year's National Eisteddfod in the Cathays Pnk, Cardiff, on Monday, the 4th of July. The ceremony is to be under the direction of the Archdruid Hwfa Mon. The amount of ash given by tea-leaves when burned is said to be a measure of the quality of the tea. The difference is small amongst good samples, buj, the quantitiy of ash increases amongst the inferior and adul- terated samples. The cactus is an extraordinarily useful plant. The Arab finds in it food, drink, and also fodder for his cattle and camels. The figs he eats, and drinks the abundant supply of juice found in the fleshy leaves, while the camels chew up what remains. In France there exists an order of merit founded by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of which the mem- bers are dogs which have distinguished themselves by deeds of bravery. A "collar of honour" is awarded to the dog considered worthy of distinction. The Peruvians were the greatest road- makers of the world. Their roads were built of heavy flags of freestone, and alo- them were posts or small buildings about five miles apart, attached to which were a number of runners, whose business it was to carry for- ward the despatches of the Government. The so-called "disappearing carriages" are among the most wonderful of new £ >ns for war purposes, rendering it oracticable to conceal a battery behind the enbankment and to expose the guns to the enemy s fire for only a brief moment while they are being discharged; then imine(liate,y they are lowered out of sight. Although rnitariinism has not flourished in Wales hitherto, its position and prospects have apparently undergone a favourable change. The annual report of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association remarks, in reference to the recent visit of the Ksv Dr W. Griffith to North Wales, that "a marked improvement has.takeu place in the attitude of the people towards liberal religious thought during the interval (i.e., since his previous visit). He was everywhere met with a re- spectful heariag, 'Hid .people have shown the deepest interest in the message he delivered." The Rector of Graffham, Sussex, recently allowed Rev G. Bennett, Congregational minister, of Petworth, to conduct part of funeral service of a Nonconformist parish loner in Graffham Church. This was too much for some local Torv haters of Dissent who reported it to the Bishop of Chichester and he with businesslike promptitude has forbidden the repetilition of the illegal pro ceeding. A descendant of Cromwell has passed awa in the person of John Henry Cromwell Rus Rell, whcsr> death is announced from Schwvz, Switzerland. Mr Cromwell Russell, who 1,,(1 ir.iehfd the great age of ninetv-two Year-, v,1.^ the second grandson of Oliver f 'romwell. of Cheshunt Park, the last of the Protector's de-ceixdautfc to bear his name. Protector's de-ceixdautfc to bear his name. V Among other choice subjects announced bv sensational preachers in America appear the following: "Only Half-Baked," "A Speaking Donkey," "A Bag with Holes, "Smidned Skeletons Equipped fcr War." One of these ingenious brethren lately held forth on "Bad Breath," taking for his start- ing-point the text about "Saul breathing C, out threatening and slaughter against the disciples." One of the religious journals calls such practice "yellow text-making." There has just passed away, in Samoa, Miss Adelaide M. Ide, of whom, in connec- tion with the well-beloved novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson, a delightful story is told. She was born on February 29th, and was grieving that she could not have a birthday as often as other little girls. Thereupon the kind story-wiiter agreed to give her his own birthday, and had a deed drawn up in full legal form, making the transfer. The acknowledgments made through the Press by Mrs Gladstone and family to the multitude in "Great Britain," the United "States and iorei-n countries" who have sent messages of respect and sympathy has been commented on by American journals, who notice in this unstudied expression of a circle of mourners the spontaneous lecogni- tion of the now well-established fact that the United Kingdom and the United States are not foreign to each other, but stand as one people in relation to the foreign world. 0 Lord Salisbury replied to a deputation which urged an alteration in the law relating to the rating of the clergy, and observed that it was not necessary to dwell upon the reality of the grievance, as it was generally admit- ted the difficulty was to apply a remedy. A Commission was at present sitting, and the Government could not deal with the question until they had the whole of the facts before them, but once an interim report had been presented, they would welcome any opportunity for relieving persons whose grievances were so real, and who so deeply deserved their sympathy. Judging from the list of entries in the vari- ous departmens, the Festiniog National Eis- teddfod will be a successful festival. Twelve odes have been sent in for the Chair Prize, and the same number of poems for the Crown Prize. There are 53 "Hiv a Thoddaid" in memcry of Gwalchmai, and 117 competitors in the Englyn contest. The choirs that have entered for the chief choral competition are Builth, Holyhead, Carnarvon, Llanelly, and the Builth and District. In the second choral competition the choirs cf Pendref, Bangor, Machynlleth, the Vale of Nantlle, Bethesda, MMaentwrog, Pwllheli, and Pres- tatyn have entered. "It may be true, as some one recently ob- served," says a writer on "Some Aspects of Courage," in the "North American Review," "that our brave forefathers went to battle with stouter hearts than we take to the den- tist, but they went to battle two or three times a month, and we to the dentist once a quarter." It may be added that they doubt- less quailed more themselves at the prospect of the wrenching tweezers than their de- scendants would on the battle-field. Cer- tain it is that an ex-dentist of large practice once assured us that soldiers were the least courageous patients he had, while school- girls, strange to relate, were the most coura geon.s! In a recent issue the- "London Kelt" stated that some of the students of the Bala-Bangor College have been disappointed by the nomin- ation of the Rev Dr Lewis Probert to the principalship, and that they desired the elec- tion of the Rev David Adams, B.A., of Liver- pool. Dr Owen Evans, of London, has re- plied to the statement, and says that perhaps the students are not the most capable judges of the situation, and that their knowledge of dogmatic theology cannot be"verye xtensive, else they would not require a teacher. He contends that although the statement that Dr Probert's theology is "old" may be correct, it is nevertheless "fresh," and that all old things are not to be de- pised. Great alarm is being taken at the fact that Nonconformist ministers are being allowed to officiate in workhouses, and at the Ely Diocesan Conference a. resolution was spe- cially passed to guard against this "evil," as some clerics regard it. This resolution was in the following terms —That it is the duty of Churchmen sitting on boards of guardians to promote the spiritual as well as the tem- poral welfare of the inmates of Union work- houses, more especially by insisting on the appointment of a properly qualified chaplain, and bv appealing to the Local Government Board to order the guardians to -a,noint in cases where the majority have refused to do so. The oath of the Deemster and other judges in the Isle of Man is one of the most curious of our survivals. It runs: — By this Book and the holy contents thereof, and by the wonderful works that God has mira- culously wrought in the heaven above and in the earth beneath, in six days and seven nights, I do swear that I will without respect or favour, or friendship, love or gain, con- sanguinity or affinity, envy or malice, exe- cute the laws of this Isle justly between our Sovereign lady the Queen and her subjects within this Isle, and betwixt party and par- ty, as indifferently as the herring's back- bone doth lie iu the middle of the fish." The ingenuity of "The Church Times" in packing a whole series of misstatements into a doren lines is to be admired, if not com- mended. In reference to Dr Parker's state- ment at the Welsh Congregationalists' meet- ing, that they "believed a Church esta blished bv law could not represent the religion c? Christ," it says:—If Church established by law' connot represent the religion of Christ,' Welsh Independency is self-confes- sedly anti-Christian, for it had no other crigin but secular 'Law.' It was purely a creation of the State, it was established and endowed bv the Rump Parliament in 1650, and the alien English troopers, who first set up In- dependency in Wales, treated with phari- saical scorn the religious convictions cf the great mass and majority of Christian Welsh- men. Welsh • Congregation ajlism was an Erastian State-religion, and very earlv In- dependent and Anab iptist preachers in Wales was a salaried official of the English Rump oligarchy. The founders of Welsh Congre- gationalism were sent into Wales to put down 'Sacerdotalism' with sword and gun, and they had no 'mission' except from the State." Has the "Church Times" never heard of John Penry, the apostle of Welsh Independencv, who was done to death at Tyburn in 1593? This single fact disposes of its entire tissue of absurdities. All that Welsh Congrega- tionalism has owed to the State has been persecution, under which it has flourished exceedingly. It is true enough that under the Commonwealth, in WalesJs in England, the services were purged of Romanistic ritual, and the ministers were required to be Bible ministers, but Welsh Independency was half a century old at the time, and in so far as the State controlled the churches it ceased to be Independency. That control, such as it was, lasted for ten ye irs only, but Independency continued, and has continued, drawing its support from the willing offer- ings of the poor, while the Episcopal Church has legally pillaged the poor for the suppcrt of an alien and hated Establishment.—The Christian World." A cube of cast-iron one inee each way wJl be crashed under a pressure of ninety tons There are four sovereigns and nine heirE- apparent among the fifty-seven living de- scendants of the Queen. In thirty years Germany, from being little more than self-sustaining, has become the largest sugar exporting country. It is said that no fewer than 200,000 books for the blind are borrowed annually from the 11 free-lending libraries in different parts of the country. Servia is said to have more centenarians than any other country in the world, 575 of her 1,300,000 inhabitants having lived for over a hundred years. From cork chippings, once thrown away, thousands of yards of linoleum are now made at Delmenhorst, Germany, where the indus- try is quite an important on*. There is a church in America with several "babies' comers"little rooms divided off by curtains, where infants can sleep while their mothers attend the service. To walk through all the streets, avenues, lanes, and alleys of London, never travers- ing the same one twice, would require a ten- mile walk every day for nine years. The land occupied by olive orchards in It- aly is estimated at 1,300,000 acres, and the quantity of olive oil annually produced at from 7 u,000,000 to 75,000,000 gallons. A Church correspondent of a Norfolk journal shows that there is roam for more voluntaryism in local Church offertories, churchwarden of a rising seaside resort re- ports the following Sunday evening dialogue -Rector: "The offertories are falling off sadly, I fear." Churchwarden: "Yes, sir, fear they are, only 7d. to-night." P --ctor "Well, 1. don't like to mention it, but, as matter of fact, 4d of that came from the rec tory." Churchwarden: "And, perhaps, ought not to say it, but I gave tho other 3d." The Vicar of Heckmondwike (Rev E. E Jones), writing in the current number of the parish magazine, complains of the poor and, in some cases, the non-attendance at the church services of parishioners, especially men. At the daily service the clergy alone represent the parish, and on Sundays at the Holy Communion at 8 a.m. the idea of proxy is painfully evident. Men seldom come, proceeds the Vicar, to this most solemn of all solemn services; some will allow their wives and children to represent them. One in a family, often onl- one in a street, acts as proxy at the early servioe. At 10.30 some men come to the service, but ninety per cent. are women and children. At 6.30 p.m., the number of men present is a little larger, but the vicar concludes by saying that "many, if not most, of the people do their religion by proxy." The war in the Philippines has already enabled both the Spanish sailors and the American ones to give abundant proof of self- sacrificing courage. That virtue does not, however, seem to flourish equally amongst the local ecclesiastics; for, instead of re- maining to share the hardships and solace the anxieties of the siege, the Jesuit Fathers of Manila have fled to the secure province of Batangas, and the nuns to that of Laguna. Meanwhile the Archbishop of Manila has set sail for Europe, blandly telegraphing to Madrid that he does so from religious mo fives, "to avoid irritating the insurgents bjr his presence, and provoking them' to acts of impious violence." Like his brother- Archbishop of iViilan, who got out of the way when the riots took place last month, the right reverend prelate evidently feels that martyrdom would be quite out of his line. It seems rather curious, but it is a fact, that every little of the rain which falls in England is home-made. Most of it comes from the Atlantic Ocean. Some showers that fall in London have been taken out of Lakes Superior or Michigan, and are either Canadian or American, according to which side of the middle line they come from. Our flowers are occasionally refreshed with the water of the Swiss lakes, or the Rhine or the Rhone rivers. Often our top-hats are spoiled by some of the Danube. The con- tents of the Suez Canal, the Black Sea, the Indian Ocean., the Red Sea, and even the Pacific, all fall in our streets and on our fields. And when you see a horse go down on slippery asphalte, you will be right in thinking that he owes his fall possibly to a lake in Mexico or Argentina, or even Aus- tralia. In the same way nearly all the water we drink comes from abroad, since it is ac- cumulated rainfall. So that there is pro- bably no one in these islands who has not had a draught of all the great oceans, lakes, and rivers of the world. With the July number the "Naval anfl Military Magazine" commences its third volume. Like all its predecessors the cur- rent issue is full of interest, not only to Service readers (to whom it naturally strong- ly appeals) but to the civilian public. Its speciality from the first has been to be up to date and readable, and consequently it is not surprising to find that Maicr Field should have chosen France for his interesting series of the navies of the world. At a time when our Government is putting our own fleet on the alert" it is well to have particulars of the flotillas of friends and foes. A spirited accbiint of "How the Royal Navy adds to the British Empire" is excellent reading, showing as it does the modus operandi of English annexation. Papers upon Volun- teering in the Olden Time" and the "Eton College Cadet Corps" link together the past and the present of the Army of the laist line of defence. The Royal Naval Reserve is also dealt with, and Mr Arthur a Beckett writes a story of the Commune of 1871, with life-like portraits of the people of the period. Capitally written, profusely illustrated, and judiciously edited, the "Naval and Military Magazine" in its third volume seems bound to continue its career of well deserved suc- cess. The members of the Lampeter College Council will meet to elect a principal for the college in succession to the late Rev George W. Gent, on Tuesday, tne 5th of July. The following is a list of the candidates for the post: -The Rev L. J. M. Bebb, M.A., Braae- nose College, Oxford; the Rev Reginald Boughtoa, M.A.. Haddon Hall, Boscombe, Bournemouth; Rev F. J. Foakes-Jackson, M.A., Jesus College, Cambridge the Rev H. de B. Gibbins, D.Litt., head master of Liver- pool College; the Rev A. E. Humphreys, M.A.. Fakenham Rectory, Norfolk the Rev W. H. Hiitton. B.D., St John's College, Ox- ford; the Rev Edmund O. Jones, M.A., vicar of Llanidloes the Rev G. Hirtwell Jones, M.A.. rector of Nuffield, Red Hill. Surrey; tho Rev J. Middleton Macdonald, M.A., Kennington-park-rcad, London the Rev G. Preston, M.A., Fransham. Magna, East Dereham; the Rev Thomas Randell, D.D., rector of Sunderland; the Rev Canon Ro- binson, M.A., Ripon the Rev T. A. Walker, LL.D., Peterhouse, Cambridge the Rev Canon Whittington, M.A., St. Wilfred's Rectory, Northenden, Cheshire; the Rev Professor Robert Williams, M.A., St. David's College. Lampeter PTld the Rev C. H. H. Wright, D.D., Reek Ferry. I I The number of Chinese in San Franc'sco about 20,000, including 2500 women. Paper-hangings for use on walls were in- troduced into Europe from the East in 1675. Every good Sikh is obliged to die upon the bare ground. No matter what his rank or age, no rug must intervene between him and mother earth when he breathes his last. No comet, so far as is known, has ever come in contact with the earth, or mingled its substance with our atmosphere. The nearest approach ever observed was the comet of 1770, which approached to within 1,400,000 miles of our planet. The longest wave hitherto observed is said to have had a length of half a mile, and to have spent itself in twenty-three seconds. During storms in the North Atlantic waves sometimes extend to a length of 500 and 600 feet, and last from ten to eleven seconds. The flesh of young giraffes, especially that of a young cow, is extremely good, some- what like veal, with a gamelikf- 1 v-jiir. The tongue, from eighteen to twenty inches long, is also very good. But the marrow-bones afford the greatest luxury to the South Af- rican hunter. The timber rafts of the Rhine are a cur- ious sight. A single raft has often eight or ten small houses on it, and from 400 to 500 workmen, rowers, and pilots. The vast pile is steered by means of immense oars, and is so constructed as to twist a huge snake in the narrow channels.

A Tribute to Mr Tom Ellis, M. Ð Dr Guinness Rogers, in last week's "In- dependent" pays a glowing tribute to the "unflinching consistency," which has marked the nonconformity of the Liberal AV hip: The news that Mr Thomas Ellis's wedding tour has been turned into a period of suffer ing and anxiety by an attack of pneumonia t, y will be received with universal regret, nofe- only by the large circle of his friends, but by political opponents as well. Mr Ellis is man of whom not only Liberals in general but Free Churchmen in particular, have every reason to be proud. When the diffi- culties under which his work was done dur- ing the late Administration are taken into account, his success must be regarded as very remarkable, and certainly it was due more to his tact and skill than to the flexi- bility of the materials with which he had to deal. But my own personal esteem and admiration for him are called forth still more by the unflinching consistency with which he has adhered to the simplicity and purity of his old Nonconformist faith. We have often seen men who owed everything to thei Nonconformist training, and who in trut were raised to a political position by Non conformist support, forgetting in the hour of their prosperity not only their friends, but the principles of their earlier days. I veil ture to think the time is past when Noncon formists will regard this kind of desertion with the easy indifference which in former times they have been accustomed to show. A man who yields to the seductions of so- ciety and forgets his old Nonconformist as- sociations cannot expect to retain Noncon- formist confidence and Nonconformist sup- port. All the more ought we to honour the man who in a position of grefit political in- fluence is true to his early convictions and professions.

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