Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

PRESTATYN. THE ELECTION.—Already political parties are preparing for the fray. The Liberals we are informed have taken a committee room here, and the Conservatives we believe are ready, their organ- isation is thought to be good and there is little doubt that they will give a good account of themselves when the polling day comes. No one can doubt that Unionism is a greatly increasing force here. ACCIDENT.—During the progress of a cricket matoh on Saturday, between Married v. Single, by some means which no one seems able to explain, the ball glided from the bat in an upward direction and hit the captaiD, B £ r H Cross, a serious blow on the head. The wound bled copiously, and was immediately attended to by Dr W. Henry Griffiths, and under his care Mr Cross soon reoovered from the effects of the accident. He was not out" at the time, and had just made 26 runs. RAHWAT WOBKS.—Good progress is being made with the now bridge, and it seems probable that in the course of another month's time it will be approaching completion. There are also signs that the plans for the now station are being prepared, as about a weelr ago the levels were being taken for the purpose by a party of surveyors. The exact position of the station ssems somewhat of a mystery, con- sequently there ara a good deal of speculations, but littli real knowledge on the subjeot. It ia rumoured however, that we are to have an iron fo-t-bridge over the line where the present gates are situated, and if this is oorreut it will be much appreciated, for the people have been seriously contemplating the long journey which they would have to travel by the new bridge, to cross from one side of the railway to the other. There have even been fears that the new bridge would be an evil rather than a benefit, in making one side of the railway an apparently dis- tinot town from the other side. A good deal of this seeming division of the town" would disappear if the supposed foot-bridge becomes a reality. 0

HOLYWELL. PARISH COUNCIL MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Parish Council was held at the Bagillt Beard School, on Tuesday evening last, when there were presentMessrs R. F )ulkea (chairman), John Edwards, Edwin Roberts, Xteitfh Howell, ù. Bromley, P. E. Jones, W. Hollis, A. Langdon, W. Dalies, W. Jones, S. Lloyd, and J. Williams. Clerk—Mr John Maraden. ACKSOWIBBOIOENT, L All acknowledgment of the vote of condolence with Mr J. Herbert Lewis, M.P., was read. HUB SAT COMPLAINTS. Mr John Edwards called attention to the Bryn- eannan well, and said he was told by a Brynford man, that the Brynsannan well was a total failure after the expenditure of JE12 upon it. If it was a failure, they ought to pass a vote of oensure upon the District Council (laughtc-r).-The Chairman said seeing was believing," and he had ssen the well, and could say that it was not a failure, as regards either supply or workmanship. He considered that the district of Brynford in the neighbourhood of the well were rather greedy in asking for the well. He never saw a place better supplied with water. It was not a populous place, yet he noticed that there were several wells in fairly olose proximity, and at nearer distances to the houses than in Bagillt. From what he saw at Brynford, Mr Edward's informant was wrong.—Mr W. Jones suggested that the matter should be deferred until the re- presentatives of Brynford were present.—Mr J. Edwards said, the man who informed him had lived all his days in the district. He was not a member of either council.—Mr W. Jones said he saw the well was well done, and there was a good supply of water.—Mr Langdon said, the Council was too ready to listen to outside tales. The same oomplaint* were made with respect to Holway. It was very possible the oomplaints were made by those who lost the job.—The Clerk said the complaint should have been made to the District Council.—Mr Edwards: The mau simply spoke to me on the road, and he was not a man who lost the job."—Mr Bromley remarked that he had heard the complaints with regard to Holway. They had "lost the job," and it was only human nature. The matter dropped. A NECESsARY PROTECTION REQUIRED. Mr Langdon proposed that necessary steps be taken to obtain the proper protection of Tai Coed Houses, from Abbey Mill pool, and also the pool below the Abbey Mill. The former was a death trap, aud should be fenced. On several occasions children had fallen in, and had been rescued with a rake. How they escaped drowning in such a place he could not make out.—Mr Wm. Davies, in seconding the proposition, said the child of one of the tenants would have been drowned the other day, in the pool below the Abbey Mills by falling from the roadway leading to Tai Coed, if it had not been rescued.—Mr Bromley said it was surprising to him how accidents had not happened at both places with fatal results. It was very urgent that the attention of the aathocities should be called to the necessity of the publio protection of those pools.—Mr Wm. D ivies drew attention to the unprotected state of the footpath alongside the ditch between Peniel House and Coetia Llwyd, which was 26 yards in length, and f-rom three to four feet deep. Last week a child of Mr John Parry, Tai Drill, fell in, and bad it fallen upon its face, undoubtedly it would have been suffocated fortunately it fell on its baok, and was rescued. He moved that the District Council be asked to interest itself in the matter, for the protection of the publio. -Mr Howell considered the County Council should be applied to, and not the District Council, as it abutted on the main-road.— Mr Bromley contended that the District Council was the authority to whom they should refer the matter. He seconded Mr W. Davies' proposition, which was carried. THB STANDING OBDEBS. The standing orders having been printed, and distributed, much satisfaction was expressed with the arrangement of the orders, and the way they had been turned out.—The Clerk stated that the Chairman and himself bad received three tenders for the printing, and had accepted the tender from Messrs Davies and Co., Observtr Office.-A vote of thanks to the Chairman and Clerk for their services in drawing out the standing orders, was passed, on the proposition of Mr Bromley, seconded by Mr P. E. Jones. THE LIGHTING QUESTION IN GBBKNFIBLD AND BAGILLT. The Clerk reported that a pariah meeting had been held at Bagillt, with respect to the Lighting powers, and a resolution bad been passed for the transfer of the powers from the Inspectors of Lighting forthwith. The Clerk also stated that he had written as directed to the Greenfield Lighting Inspectors, and in reply had received the following letter:- Greenfield, June 17, '95. Dear Sir,—A special meeting of the Inspectors of Lighting, Greenfield, was held this day, when your letters of the 29th and 31st May, and June 12tb, were read. I was directed to inform you, that the Inspectors have to carry out the authority given to them at the last annual meeting (public) at which meeting the ratepayers also had in view the Parish Council Act, 1894, See. 53 (1), and the Inspectors do not at present see what advantage is likely to accrue by holding the proposed meeting of the Parish Council deputation. The Inspectors also direoted me to call your attention to the enolosed letter to the the Overseers of the Parish of Holywell re Lighting rate.-Youre truly, THOXAS HUSHBS, Mr Jno. Marsden, Clerk to the Inspectorj of Clerk to the H'well P.C. Greenfield Lighting. It was decided on the proposition of Mr Wm. Davies, seconded by Mr Langdon. that the contents of the letter be published.—Mr W. Davies asked that a parish meeting be called by the Chairman in order to take the voice of the ratepayers at large and not that of an an independent person-Csasar was still alive (laughter).—Mr W. Jones seconded the proposition.—Mr Bromley said from what he heard no preparation had been made for the r lighting of the district during the ensuing season, fe" -He did not know for certain that it was so. He did not think there should be two authorities in a question of that sort, and he agreed that a parish meeting should be called.—Mr S. Lloyd proposed that the Clerk write to the Seoretary of the Bagillt Lighting Inspectors, and request the transfer of the powers in accordance with the resolution of the parish meeting.—Mr Bromley: Send a messenger for the seals of offioe as Lord Salisbury did the other day (laughter) —The Chairman In this case the Chairman is also an Inspector and does not care to interfere one way or another.—Mr P, E. Jones seconded the proposition EKSrUWEBATION. A somewhat long discussion ensaed upon a pro- posal to remunerate the woman who cleans the schools, for the extra work entailed by cleaning the school after the meetings, and it was decided to grant one shilling per meeting, a proposal to allow 2d. 6d. per month was kst. GBEENPIKLD PUMP. Mr Davies asked had any reply been received from the District Council for particulars of the cost of the Greenfield pump.—The Clerk replied that he bad rectived no particulars.—It was decided on the proposition of Mr W. Jones, seconded by Mr W. Davies, that the Clerk should renew the application. THE PROPOSED AKAXGAKATION BCHKXB. The Chairman said he believed the Committee of the County Council would hold an inquiry into the proposed amalgamation of Holywell Urban and Rural parish in one area during the present month. If that fight was going to take place it was time for some action to be taken to oppose It.-Mr Bromley said there were special circumstances a, facing the Council at the present time—the general j^ajection was approaohing. He thought they should H^Mnsider the matter. Brynford WHS going in for a — Tfep^nte parish, and Holywell with its great hunger for more rateable value, was going to try to collar Greeniield, so according to the eetimation of some people they in Bagillt were going to be left klfiyd; So much the better.—It was decided that thw Council as a committee consider the matter, and; that upon obtaining information reining to the proposed inquiry that the matter be bronght before fha pariah meeting when called on the lighting question.

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UNIONIST MEETING AT HOLYWELL. ADDRESSES BY THE EARL OF DENBIGH, COLONEL HOWARD, AND MR. P. P. PENNANT. On Monday evening an enthusiastio meeting of Unionists in support of the candidature of Colonel Howard, for the County, and Mr. P. P. Pennant, for the Borougha of Flint, was held in the Assembly Hall. The chair was taken by the Right Hon. the Earl of Denbigh, and he was supported by both candidates. There were also present Lady Denbigh and Mrs. Howard, and a large number of ladies and gentlemen from the surrounding neighbourhood. Lord Denbigh, who was received with much heartiness, said he was very glad to be able to come to that hall to renew his acquaintance with his friends in Holywell in the political arena, and particularly to be able to do so at this moment, when they were all witnessing the most interesting and exciting period of British politics. Ten days ago they little thought they should be on the eye of dissolution. They knew the crash was coming. There were some very ugly symptoms, and there had been some shaky divisions in the House of Commons, The House had beea in discussion over the pro- posed statue to Oliver Cromwell, but had to come down on the Irish vote, and then on Ascot Cup day, when they thought all the Conservatives would have gone racing, they had theDistablish- mont Bill before the House, but to the surprise of everyone, the Conservatives were back from racing, and as a result the Government majority went down to seven. A few days after that, ominous things were said about Mr. Gladstone; that he had ventured to express disapproval with various items in connection with the Disestablishment Bill. If a bombshell had exploded in the House, it could not have caused more commotion. Contradictions appeared in almost every paper, and everybody tried to explain away what could not be explained away (hear, hear). Then came fatal Friday," when the Government was defeated upou a very important question affecting the national defences, by a majority of seven. Instead of dissolving Parliament, which everybody thought was the proper course to take-instead of facing the country, which they so long trusted was still at their back; instead of going to those electors, a vast majority of whom they imagined were still good Liberals-they funked it. There was nothing they disliked so much as dissolu- tion, and nothing they were afraid of so much as an appeal to the country. They would soon witness one of the most interesting and important general elections that had ever taken place in the British Isles. He was particularly glad to be present on a political platform, because in a week's time he should be obliged to retire into temporary oblivion. He often thought, they-the unfortunate peers-were the most oppressed olass" in the country (laughter). They came in for a great amount of abnse; they were not allowed to take any part in an election; they were not allowed the franchise they were not allowed to take any financial question whioh came up from the House of Commons, and still they were made to pay as much taxes as anybody else. If that was not being down trodden," he did not know what was. In a week's time he should have to retire from the political stage, and try and appear as if nothing interesting was going on. He should, however, retire with the satisfaction that the Government who embarked upon the campaign against the House of Lords had been going steadily down hill, and it now looked as if they were going down to the bottom and what was more, likely to stay there for some considerable time (hear, hear, and a voice: "No fear.") Never was there an agitation started with so much bombast and such fearful threats, and never had there been an agitation that had fallen so frightfully flat, and never had people made themselvoa-io intensely ridiculous, as the members of the tato Government in their attàGk upon the House of Lords (applause). He need. only remind them of what happened when Lord Rosebery came into power fifteen months ago. He took up the challenge left by the previous Prime Minister, against the House of Lords, and he said they were going to start the great campaign, which they knew had started at Bradford. No sooner had the country read the speech than it began to go against Lord Rosebery, and ever since the by-elections have been going against the Government. Lord Rosebery saw his phrases were not going down with everybody and tried to explain them away as he had tried with previous speeches, He spoke at two places. At Glasgow he started off with the agitation as The greatest revolution of modern days." At Cardiff he was merely going in for an adjust- ment of the parliamentary relations between the two houses" (laughter). That reminded him of an incidont in the nominations for the ParialL Councils. One candidate followed the occupation of nocturnal excursions in pursuit of game "—a poacher. That did not appear as a very nice description of his occupation, so they entered it on the nomination paper as "bird and rabbit fancier" (laughter). It was very much the same as Lord Rosebery's position. He came out of Bradford as a man who was about to start the "greatest revolution of modern days."—He was a revolutionist-that was the name applied to people who start revolutions, but it had a nasty sound about it and particularly when it came from a Prime Minister, so when he got to Cardiff it had resolved itself into the mere adjustment of parliamentary relations" (laughter). They knew it was the custom of the Government of the day on the Queen's birthday, and upon going out of power, and at different times to give certain rewards—honours to those of their party who had rendered good service. When the birthday list of honours came out, it appeared there were to be no more members of the Upper House. "Bravo" said the Daily Chronicle, "it shows the bloated hereditary legislators are going to end," and so the play was kept up. But. there was an announce- ment in that morning's papers of the honours to be conferred: Amongst them was a list of not less than five or six additions to the House of Lords. The inconsistency of the thing I What an absurd position for a man to be in I Lord Rosebery started the campaign fifteen months ago. Ho said he was "going to draw its teeth, and render it useless." What a foolish position for a Prime Minister to throw up the sponge, and admit he is beaten, simply because he finds the people of England are not at his back. He would ask them to remember why it was that the agitation had fallen so dis- mally flat-the reason was, the British nation —the United Kingdom; with the exception of part of; Ireland-Great Britain especially has been particularly grateful to the House of Lords for having saved them from the Home Rule Bill. Many people who were rather taken with the Home Rule proposals of Mr Gladstone- said it was a fair thing for the Irish to govern their own affairs, but when they saw the bill in print; when they found that the Irish members were to sit in the House of Commons and vote on English, Scotch and Welsh affairs, and the latter have nothing to say on Irish affairs, and that it would cost a large amount of money in order for the'Irish to have the great privilege of governing Irishmen when they found that it would be just as great a sore as before, and the more they looked at it the less they liked it, but for all that it was forced through the House of Commons by the closure the greater part without any discussion. When it came to the House of Lords it was sent back, and the Lords said they would not pass it into law until the British people had expressed theii approval or disapproval of it (hear, hear). It was for that that the great Liberal party started the agitation, and it was also on account of that that the British nation refused to follow in that agitation into which they were tempted to be led. He thought it said much for the British people: It said much for them, that they have gradually realised that progress and prosperity are not necessarily ensured by the destruction of all their ancient institutions, and now that the people have seen the fate of this bankrupt Government-bankrupt, when it had so many bills out, when the time came to meet them it could not. The people were now realising the absolute futility of a weak Govern- ment trying to pass such measures as had been before Parliament for the last two or three years; they were realising that the Government was of no strength when composed of such factions as the late Government. There was the trade of the country—distrust where there should be confidence and ability to carry abroad that honour and respeot in which the name of the British Empire should every- where be held (hoar, hear). Ho should like to say a few words upon the results or some of the attempted results of the late Government. There was that question of Welsh Disestablish- ment. There were some curious ideas amongst the people with regard to that proposal, and one was that when once the Church was disestablished, they woald no longer have to pay the tithe. He, a short time ago, spoke to a Radical, a well-informed man and a leading man in his own village. He had a singular idea, so he referred the man to a speech of Sir W. Rarcourt, that tithe would go to some other purpose than where it does now. Then other people, specially of the Nonconformist bodies, have had the idea that they would in some way be benefitted if the Church of England should be disestablished in Wales. He thought that now, after having read the bill and the debates in Parliament, that those ideas must have been dispelled. Speaking personally, he objected to the proposal-he objected to money left for religious purposes being diverted to something totally different (hear, hear). Speaking as a Catholic, he might say that the view of they Catholics-he had no doubt some dissented from the view,—but the views of himself and other Catholics, were that they were the rightful owners of the tithes now held by the Church of England, and if it was a question of what is known as concurrent endowments—if the tithes now held by the Church of England were going to be divided amongst the various religious bodies, and the Church to which he belonged was going to receive back what he regarded as its rightful inheritance, then, he said, he could not conscientiously oppose Welsh Disestablish- ment. But that was not the question before them; it iJ no question, of dividing the tithes amongst the religious bodies of the country. It is taking them away from the Church, and transferring them to seoular purposes, for which no person can pretend to say they were possibly left. When he saw that proposal held forth, he thought it made the holders of other endowments feel rather unsafe. They (the Catholics) had considerable endow- ments in their Church and many Nonconformists had large endowments. If they were once going to start the principle of confiscating the endowments because you don't agree with the principles of the Church to which they belong, he wanted to know how he was to be certain that their (the Catholics) endowments were to be respected? (hear, hear). So much for the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, he thought it had probably by now received decent burial (laughter). There was another bill with which they had been threatened during the life of the late Government-the Local Veto Bill. As the second reading came nearer and nearer that bill got more and more unpopular. There never was a bill introduced into the House that so i soon created so much dislike, and the reason was, like the Home Rule Bill, the more thoy j "looked at it the less the people liked it. The Local Veto Bill was a very good sample of that class of bill, which the Radical party were so fond of bringing forward, which interferes so much with private liberty-they glossed it over with the word liberty," whereas he thought they should plaster it over with the word I "tyranny." They cloaked it up and tried to make people believe that they will have the enviable option of saying whether they shall have public-houses or not, instead of having them forced upon them by a benoh of magis- trates. From the conditions of that bill it would mean that an average of 320 electors out of a population of 3000 could determine whether or not to have the public-houses in the place abolished, and very probably the majority of that two-thirds vote of the people, would be people who never went into a publio-house, because they had their own cellars to fall back upon, and that was what the Radicals called the liberty of the subject." Added to that the bill made no provision for compensation if the license was taken away. Mr Gladstone spoke very strongly on what he called equitable compensation," and he said it was not right to treat a publican different from other tradesmen, because his trade was to some extent a publio misohief. No wonder the bill was disliked and caused divisions in the Radical party itself. Lord Eosebery aatr the rocks looming in the distance, on which he knew his Government would be wreoked. The Radicals urged it on, and he found he was somewhere known as between the devil and the deep sea"— (laughter),—and he thought, on the whole, he was rather glad to be sent out—(applause)— after the orisis of that Friday. He was not saying a word against the oause of temperance. He knew full well all the evils of intemperance, yet, he thought it was somewhat exaggerated by the advocates of the temperance party. It was a noteworthy fact that crime has been steadily and gradually diminishing, and if they say crime is due to drink, and drink is not diminishing, he wished to know how they accounted for the extraordinary decrease in criminality in the oountry. It was also a noteworthy fact that they did not abolish intemperance by abolishing public-houses. In fact they encouraged the growth of those In fact they encouraged the growth of those illicit clubs which he looked upon as drinking hells and shebeens, and other places where drink of the vilest description is supplied, and no sort of control exercised places which cause more damage to the people than any number of public houses (hear, hear). He had spoken of two failures of the late Govern- ment he would give them credit for carrying the Parish Councils Act through. It was a good thing (hear, hear). The people however, were led to believe many things concerning Parish Councils, but they were disappointed. People find wages do not rise because of Parish Councils nor is work more plentiful. Parish Councils could not raise prices and it seemed to him from what he saw in the newspapers in some places that they could do very little bayond squabble amongst themselves (laughter). A word or two about trade-the trade of the country does not necessarily improve or go down with the Government of the day, but it is an undoubted fact that trade depends upon the general confidence of the country (hear, hear). It depends upon the confidence the capitalists have, that encourages them to invest their money in industrial undertakings. If they had a Government composed as the late Government was-of an extreme seotion amongst which it denounces all capitalists as being the enemies of the working men,—it does its best to drive all capital out of the country, and such a state of distrust is created which cannot possibly do anything but harm to the trade of the country, and it is not surprising if the trade falls off, & trade under the Liberal Government was considerably worse than the trade under the Conservative Government. It was a note- worthy fact that the trade of the country from 1882 to 1886 in exports was X 1, 140,000,000, and from 1887 to 1891 during the late Unionist Government the exports were £ 1,266,000,000. There was also an immense difference in the imports and the general trade of the country, and he defied anyone to say that the trade of the country did not go down in Mr. Gladstone's Government, that it went up in Lord Salisbury's Government, and had gone down during the late Government. Referring to agriculture and low prices he said he maintained that low prices were great advantages for large towns, it was not so for the agriculturist; it did not pay to cultivate the land, and the words of Sir William Haroourt that he did not wish to raise prioes would do more harm to him than anything he had ever said or done (applause). His lordship concluded his speech by recommending both candidates to the hearty support of the eleotors present. Mr. Pennant, who was received with continued applause, expressed the pleasure it gave him to again appear before a Holywell political gather- ing. There was no need of introduction. Proceeding, Mr. Pennant pointed out the effects of the last Unionist Government. Then trade was good and prosperity reigned. Taxation was reduced and considerable grants were made to the oountry. In addition to that domestic matters were not negleoted, several measures of considerable importance, and eduoation received great attention and received considerable impulse by free education being granted. He alluded to that in particular, because it was a difficult measure to compass. It was a measure no Government would have dared to give the oountry, if it had oaused any extra taxation of the oountry. It cost two millions a year. How were the Unionist Government able to do it ? By good management and the confidence the country had in the administration made the works and businesses of the country go ahead, go that the revenue of the country went forward with leaps and bounds. and enabled the then Government to grant those and other boons without affeoting the taxation of the country in any way (hear, hearj. During the last three years was that the condition of things they had seen ? On the oontrary, they ha 1 seen the taxation very much increased, and altogether not quite fairly. Inoome tax had been increased by twopenoe in the pound, in two stages of a penny each, and in addition there was the enormous increase in the death duties. That, and the taxation on buildings and land, were matters that would requirel re-adjustment at the hands of the new Government. The trade of the country was bad, and also in other parts of the world; Also, no doubt, they were dependent upon the state of prosperity in America and other countries, but there was one great reason for the disappearance of prosperity, and that was the want of confidence in the Govern- ment (hear, hear). And in proof of that he need only refer his hearers to the Bank of England, where there was more money locked up than was ever known, and capitalists were only waiting to take it out and use it in aotive enterprise and specula- tion in this oountry, as soon as their confidence is restored. Restore the confidence of the people, and then they would see coming back again, activity of trade (cheers), Monetary confidence was a plant, and was no respeeter of persons nor parties, but it was a timid-and extremely timid plant, and shrinks away from anything like want of confidence. For the past three years they bad had in power a Government that bad steadily turned its face away from attending to the ordinary domestio business of the country, and given itself up to attempting great constitutional changes, which it was too weak to oarry through. With the experience they had had he thought there could be but little doubt what step the electorate would take on this occasion (applause). A member of the American Senate was once pushing a very important matter forward, and he telegrahed to his constituency what was he to do; go on or not. The single word he got in reply was "stiok," and he gained his point. Ever sinoe he heard that story he made it his motto—(loud applause)—and they would just see whether he (the speaker) would not gain his point in the end (loud cheers). Speaking of his opponent Mr. Herbert Lewis, he admitted he was an awkward opponent to tackle. He was a man of ability and he was one who was deservedly respected (hear, hear). He had never said one word against Mr. Lewis in his life And he never should because he had had opportunities of being acquainted meet intimately, and he respected him as much as anybody in the county (hear, hear). But for all that, much as he respeoted him, he said, many of his opinions were most abominable (hear, hear). When he said abominable he meant in this way, that they are most dangerous to the prosperity of the country. The questions they had to deal with at elections wero not personal questions, but relating to the welfare of the country (nour, hear). Colonel Howard was accorded a hearty reaction, and delivered a trenchant speech dealing with com- merce. He notioed tnat Mr. Herbert Lewis, and Mr. Samuel Smith had been speaking at Flint on Saturday, and what they said appeared to remind him very much of what the little boys said when they saw .the master with the biroh in hand- "Please, sir, it wasn't me" (laughter). When they were attaoked on the trade of the country, why should they cry out like the little boye. lie claimed they were responsible for the trade of the )ountry. The country had seen that the Newcastle programme was thoroughly delusive, and quite inoapable of realisation. Colonel Howard proceeded to refer to certain measures he favoured-the pro- tection of British agricultural industry by the marking of imported meat, kc., the equalisation of railway rates, the imperialisation of educational and other rates; In referring to the lead mining industry in Flintshire, he took that opportunity of reading an unexpected letter handed to him that evening, from Captain Matthew Francis, of the Halkyn Mines (applause). The letter was as follows:- Halkyn, Holywell, July 1st, 1895. DEAR COL. How ARD,-I greatly regret my inability to be present at your meeting this evening. Liberal though I am, I yet will give you my vote on this occasion, and I will do so for the following reasons (1) Because you are a member of the political party which most sympathises with the large classeu in this country who are so prejudiced by the unfair, if not iniquitous conditions under which British produce oompetes with foreign, and recognises that something ought, if poisibla, to be done, without detriment to the interests of the community at large, to obviate these conditions. (2) Because the party to which you are opposed fails to recognise any other interests than those of the consumer, scouts with contempt avy proposal to ameliorate the condition IIf the producer, and is apparently so determined that our present fiscal policy shall be continued, that it will not consent to depart from it, even if it can be departed from in the interests of the producer, without injury to the community at large. (3) Because the leaders of the Liberal party are apparently so infatuated with our so called Free-Trade policy, as to iegard it as a sort of fetish or dogma, which it is a kind of profanity to assail, and in its blindness fails to recognise that the defection fiom its ranks which have led to the recent Parliamentary losses is almost entirely attributable to this. For these reasons I consider that I, although in sympathy With the Liberal party with regard to a large part of its programme, am amply justified insupporting you on this occasion, and in subordinating my predilection on other points to the "Bread and butter" question, for after all it is the main question, for we must exist to be either Liberal or Tory. I do not dogmatise, I do not say that anything can be done for the producer, but let us at least have an enquiry into the subject so that the producer may be satisfied, if he has to be sacrificed, that it is for the bonettt of tho community at large which, at present he is by no means disposed to admit.—Yours truly, MATTHBW FRANCIS. After further references to several matters in which he said he would support an inquiry into the con- dition of lead mining industry, a vote of thanka to both candidates was proposed by Mr. J. Lloyd Prioe, seconded by Mr. Adam Eyton, and received with aoolammation. Mr. Pennant replied and proposed a vote of thanks to the noble Chairman for his excellent speech.—Col. Howard seconded the proposition, which was carried with hearty cheering. The Earl of Denbigh, in replying, said he had heard" one in the audience pass the remark "snatoh vote," when Mr. Pennant was speaking. It was the cry of all the Radical newspapers. They said it was snatched, and could have been reversed on astand-up fight. At first they spoke of having a full-dress debate on the following Monday, and the Whips were to whip up their supporters it was abandoned. The Westminster Gazette stated that when Mr. T. Efiis went round to see how many men he could muster, he found th-3 majority be would be able to produce for Sir Wm. Haroourt, was the insignificant figure of two-so much for "snatch votes" (laughter). The late Government felt that a majority of two was hardly sufficient for a Government that wanted to oarry out the great constitutiona changes. The meeting closed with the singing of thi National Anthem.

THE FLINT BOROUGHS ELECTION. The polling for the Election of a Member o Parliament to represent the Flint Boroughs will it every probability take place on Saturday, July 20th

IM EADYFEEL20 PER 0EMT. r.EijTE3. I24 IIAN'.JYLR SQUARE, >■ ISKADI OXN, Jan. 7th, CxVTLEMEN', — I am thankful for the bottle of "GwHym Evans' Bitteps" you sent me by I have only taken iufew tjood strong doses, and I already feel 20 per cent. bettor, but having suf- fro iii Ague for sonIc months in [ndla.I.I do not expect it to work wonders at once. To day, while (lining in the town, two of my 'friends remarked that I was looking much better. I told them that the cause of it was my taking your Quinine Bitters when a gentleman sitting opposite asked me'the name of lt. I was very pleased to tell him and also where he could get it in Rradford/ \le has been suflcnng from Indi^nion and I hope "Gwilym Evans' Bitters" will do hm. as much good as it has done to me ~"7 w,sh;?<- success, I ara, Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, J. C. K. THOMAS,

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