Wrexham Guardian

MR BRIGHT IN BIRMINGHAM. Mr John Bright, M.P., and his colleagues, Messrs. Dixon and Muntz. addressed a crowded meeting of their constituents in Bingley Hall, Birmingham, on Monday night. There were present not less than 15,000 persons. Mr Chamberlain, the Mayor, presided. A vote of confidence in the borough members, affirm- ing that the meeting rejoiced in Mr Bright's restoration to health, and regarded with great satisfaction his in- tended resumption of his duties in the House of Com- mons, having been proposed, Mr Joseph Malins, a leading member of the order of Good Templars, moved an amendment condemning the conduct of Mr Muntz; in reference to the licensing question. Mr George Cadbury seconded the motion. The resolution of confidence was carried by an over- whelming majority. Mr Bright, on rising, was received with much ap- plause. He said great changes had taken place in the country since he last appeared before them. New occu- pants had been placed on the Treasury bench. It has been said very often within the last. year, that the people of the United Kingdom were tired of active legis- lation and of great measures, and that they preferred, at least for a time, to have rest and quiet. If too much had been done, and no more was to be done, there has been consistency in the action of the constituencies, be- cause they have discovered twelve gentlemen somewhere whom they have placed on the Treasury Bench—twelve gentlemen whose especial recommendation is that they never did anything; and further, if they attempted to do anything it was merely to prevent their opponents doing something. Now when this new Government was formed I was asked—beiug somewhat of an eld stager in Parliamentary matters—how I thought it was likely to get on, and I answered with a simplicity which is re- markable. 1 said that 1 thought it will get on very well as long as it kept off politics (cheers). It would not be easy for the Government altogether to keep off politics, and, indeed, instead of doing .that, or attempting to do it, we were surprised to find that they plunged almost at onca into ecclesiastical affairs—the most exciting and explosive branch of political affairs. Speaking of the ecclesiastical work of the last session, he said Parliament first of all dealt with the Church of Scotland. In the Church of Scotland there has be on a thing which is called patronage. There was not much in it. There was none of that remarkable corruption which existed in connection with Church patronage in England but the little patronage was lound to be most dangerous, whilst the committee of the House of Lords recently decided that the enormous and corrupt patronage of the Church of England was a thing carefully to be guarded from destruction. Parliament transferred the patronage iu Scotland from the landed proprietors generally to the congregations. They thought it would prop up the Church, that it would add to its popu- larity, perhaps make it as popular as the Free Church. The Churches in Scotland had decided that the ecclesi- astical affairs of Scotland can never be pieced on a satisfactory basis until the Established Church of Scotland is disestablished and set free (cheers). After dealing with the Scotch bill there came the English bill, introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was nourished and cherished by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Shaftesbury. It was popular, and it very soon passed the House of Lords and came down to the House of Commons. In the House of Commons it was found perhaps still more popular. He never knew the House of Commons unanimous and enthusiastic about anything except at a time when it did not know what it was doing and where it was going (cheers and laughter). The Prime Minister was glad to have anything in his hand that was popular. He tagged himself to the Arch- bishop's apron, and the bill passed the House. Now what is charged in this bill ? It is brought as a charge against some thousands of the clergy of the Church of England that their ecmduct is lawless, and that they re- quire to be curbed. Who are those clergy J Men who know very little of dissenting ministers say that, in op- position to dissenting ministers, they are gentlemen— they say that they are sons of gentlemen, that they have had the advantage of being educated at our ancient universities, that they have been -accustomed to asso- ciate with the great, wealthy, and high blood of the peerage and they tell us, as know, that they are set over us by the State as nstructors in morals and religion (cries of "Oh!"). And yet their own friends, and archbishops and bishops, fnd Ministers of State declare that their conduct i- so lawless that it is neccessary to have special legis- lation to keep them in order (cheers and laughter). Ve have special legislation with respect to another class —the publicans, because they sell a commodity which Ulfortunately promotes disorder, crime, and even mad- ness. There is & spec:$l legislation for some other classes o traders—for marine store dealers for one (laughter). Some years ago there was special legislation for a small coup of men who want by the name of garotters. It is ¡ .Iso said that there was to be some special legislation for I nen who commit crimes of violence, and for men wex- I -raordinary savage as to beat their wives. All this may oe necessary. la a great bodyllite the Church of Eng- land there will always be strong divergencies of i opinion. It is on account of these divergencies that the Government hav3 assisted to pass a new Act of Con- Iformity. About 200 years ago that celebrated Act, known as the Act of Uniformity, was passsd, and at least 2,000 of the most learned and pious men—clergymen of the Olmrch of England—were ejected from its communion. It was a most blessed secession for the country, for it led to the foundation of a party whieh has ever since been the consistent friends of freedom and the improvement of the law. Under that Act the persons who were -.ejected were the spersons furthest .from Rome." Under J the Act of last session the persons who are to be (restrained are those who are the nearest, and whom it is (acknowledged are continually growing nearer to Rome. There must be great disappointment to every true man or woman within the Church of .England, and to many )f those without it, at this state of things. Yoc. know tuite well that the great argument in favour, of the Church of England is that it represses all zeal which tends to disorder, and that it not only represses zl, but tbit it is a bulwark against that Church from which our foefathers separated 300 years age. They say that we think England wants is not ..zeal, but a gcntle- m& ly conformity to it, and they -are angry now that, sonihow or otller,.eal is creeping into it. Zeal, crept mtothe Scotch Church about 30 years ago, and the fer- menation was so violent that the hoops of the barrel.gave way, the staves fell to pieces, and an immeasurable quality of sound ecclesiastical liquor was lost. This is noW, lappenig to a certain extent in the Church of Eng- land. The right hon. gentleman, in tontmuation, said no dGtbt as far as duess and formal ceremony goes, the Govenment may order a sort of uniformity; but as reg&'ds the faith &nd utterances of the preacher, it would is an utter failure to attempt to bind them in any straight waistcoat of that kind. If the freedom of re- ligion W'1.S to be covered and bound by any decrees af that sortthe days of the Church of England as an estab- lishmenywere numbered (cheers). He referred to the case of i deceased Wesleyan minister, .whose friends wished have the title" Revd." prefi-xed to his name on a tombstone in the parish church, and ridiculed the learned fc;>hop, who refused the request as an instance that kini f arrogance which springs from sacerdotal power and supremacy. There was a wide spread dis- cord betwearl the clergy'.and the congregations, as well us between the clergy themselves, and there was the same strife jetween the bichops themselves. Sn proof of this he instineed the recent visit to England af a colonial bishop on a errand of loce and mercy, whs was pro- hibited froic. preaching in a Metropolitan diocese pulpil. but whose written sermon was read from anofcfcer pulpit in that samediocese. For all these evils the feiMs of last year were included to provide a remedy. T Public Worship Bill-sf last session .was only a trifie. It did not touch t sermons, but only the livings and the position, the millinery, and the candles. Whether the tChurch was regarded as a religious or a political institu- tion, it was remarkably out of harmony with the times. Politically thyT had not received anything of value from the Church f<r- last half century. Its revenues were excessive, andpromotion in the ranks of the clergy was mainly d to private patronage and influence. The only C-Tch in this country that furnished recruits in largclnumbers of the Church of Rome was the Prelatical Church. The Church, according to the shew- ing of its suppliers, vas the Church of the nation but its opposers wet: surely an important part of the nation, and iM thoughh the Church people should be a little better tempered1 than to find fault with those who did not agtee with pem. He admitted there would be also as many thousai ]s of excellent men in it if it were not an Act of Pari ment Church (hear, hear). It was a question of far grater importance than free trade or the extension of th3 adfrage, and should be discussed with fairness aad hont 7 by all intelligent men. Speaking on the abandonm,lllt by Mr Gladstone of the leadership of the Liberal paru he said those (who had oeen him in the Cabinet and tib: House could alone adequately regret his withdrawal frd, t the high and distinguished position he had so long oocmied. In conclusion, he said he did not ask them to diUare for the disestablishment of the English Church, hø, nly asked them to consider it and to consider it as inteliifl ntand reasonable beings. He should decline to enter onaany crusade or any agitation for hastenits disesttnlishment, and he would only tell them s; fould be a 1 at day for freedom in this country, for Protestantism, ape for Christianity, which should witness the full and disestablishment of that Church within the realms of su gland (applause). On Thursday nigbes Bright attended a soiree of the Birmingham Liberia Association, and passed a high enlogium upon the eolicfitution and proceedings of that body, holding it forth ada model of effective organization. He then glanced at t1 causes which had led to the Liberal reverses. Ehe "rincipal ones be held to be the publicans, each the cen of a drink-loving coterie; the want of union amongsie Liberals, and consequent multi- plicity of candidates; t3 almost universal hostility of the church; the prospeEcP which rendered a man who had acquired a big balanh5 at his banker's timid in his political action; and, lasla'» the enormous lying in which their opponents had indu aedJrom top to bottom of their organisátioIt against Mr.t Gladstone and his colleagues daring th$whole time the v were in office. On the sub- ject ot wofking-slass reprep^tatives, Mr. Bright was very, ax emphatic, declaring that the setting up of a class repre- ] 1 sentation in the House of Commons weuld be the greatest ] calamity that could befall the party and the country. 1

I MR BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM. J OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 1 The Times says Mr Bright's speech must sadly dis- j appoint those who hoped to be strengthened and refreshed by its perueai. Everybody was waiting to hear what he had to say. Instead of toineihmg sub- t stantial, we are mocked with barren trivialities about tne I organisation of the English Chinch—trivialities which a are worthless even for the object Mr Bright must be a supposed to have placed before himself. Mr Bright shirked the especial business of the hour as something i; too onerous to be undertaken, and fell back upon an old c and easy theme of declamation. The text of his dis- j- course was that "thej State Church, as we have it now, t is not, and cannot be, in harmony with the age.' There are some who think that all churches are out of harmony with the spirit of this generation, and, though we do not suppose that Mr Bright would have us regard that a as his opinion, we are left wholly in the dark as to his t reasons for thinking that the English Church, as a "Ii religious institution, is not in harmony with the times. g As for his illustrations of disorder in the government of I the English Churchy they may be paralleled in the r contemporary hist.t.of Jises'ablished Churches. Mr I: Bright has only to cross the Atlantic to find in the 11 United States the tame differences that exist here, oily lJ passing into more flagrant acts of disunion. But we need f not go so far. The treatment of Mr Knight as a minister t of tne Free Church of Scotland is not less remarkable than the tieatment of the Bishop of Natal by his brother 8 Bishops in England. The crowd at Bingley Hall hailed t Mr Bright when he rose to address them with great and 1 natural enthusiasm, but they were told a few minutes t later that the House of Commons was never enthusiastic, e except when it did not know what it was doiii^and where it was going. We will not ask whether the same r innocence and ignorance prevailed on Monday, but we t cannot resist the conclusion that when the audience 1] dispersed a feeling of profound disappointment must t have come over them. They expected so much and had b got so little. The Standard cannot think that the friends who have S dragged Mr Bright from his retirement to set him once v more to the task of cursing his enemies have done a good 0 service either to him or to bis party. It would have been more generous to a reputation which obviously belongs to t a past age in English politics, had tney excused Mr Bright g this last piece of party work. The very fact that Mr 11 Bright is reduced to a criticism of the ecclesiastical poiicy c of the Government must prove how bairen is the fietQ which once yielded such rich material to his genius; Upon the ecclesiastical question involved m the Public' Worship BIll, Mr Bright's is probably about the last opinion with those who are interested in the matter a would take. Being avowedly hostile to the Church of I England, and eager for her destruction, his criticism of 11 the ecclesiastical policy of the Government cannot possibly t be of any interest to any human being, except as justify- 1 mg indirectly the conduct of those who were responsible J for the Public Worship Act. It is strange only to find ( Mr Bright taking the side of the Ritualists in this ques- t tion, and declaring that if their freedom of worship is a interfered with the days of the Establishment are J numbered. That Mr Bright should dwell at so much 1 length upon this ecclesiastical question, sheading his) counsel upon bishops and curates—now assailing those, J who are of the Established Church and now defending i them against tyrannous legislation—is a very curious f phenomenon, which we feel is not altogether explained by his anxiety to mask Mr Gladstone's recent ecclesias- f tical escapades. No two men should be more unlike in ] their spiritual natures, and yet we have Mr Bright, who ] is an open enemy of the Church, clamouring for liberty of t worship almost in the same tones as those of Mr Glad- stone, and using the same arguments against the Public Worship Act. Whence this sudden interest in religous affairs? The beating of the drum ecclesiastic from the demagogue's tub is a portent of fell significance. 1 The Teleyraph remarks that Mr Bright was generally expected to speak about the collapse of the Liberal party, the Conservative reaction, and the leadership of the Liberals; but hes studiously refrained from saying more than a ,few words about these themes, and some of them were more pungent than just. He said, for example, that the Treasury Bench was now filled by twelve gen- tlemen whose distinction was that they had never done anything. But Mr Disraeli has done something that will live in memory as long as the repeal of the Corn Laws. The completion of Household Suffrage may surely be remembered by the most fervent of Liberals. Mr Bright, however, had no time to blunt the point of his epigram with explanations, for he was anxious to reach the real subject he had in hand—and this tvas the expediency of disestablishing and disendowing the Eng- lish Church. The address may be regarded as the opening of a new campaign by the most advanced Liberals; but at the end of his speech, after he had de- scribed the scaadals and disorders of the Establishment in eloquent language, he was careful to say that he did not seek to begin such a campaign. He dreaded the turtnoJ., which would ba almost like a revolution, and he desired peace with an almost Conservative plaintive- ness. He also protested against exacting any pledges from members that they would vote for disestablishment. The time, he said, bad not come for such rigour; neither the Liberal party, nor the House, nor the nation was ready. The speech will be welcomed by the Dissenters in the fond belief that it has given a new start to the avowed doctrines of a considerable section of the Radical party. But though when Mr Bright sat down there were cheers of sympathy ringing through Bingley Hall, the Conservative party has reason to rejoice • since, a speech which bids for popular favour by proposing Church Disestablishment in England, completes the dis- organisation of tke Liberal party. The London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury says the speech has caused profound disappointment. Speakiag in the very midst 01 a crisis more serious than the Liberal party has sustained for nearly half a century, he had not a word to say about that crisis; delivering it at the, moment when had to select a leader and devise n policy, he uttered net a syllable about the leader, and indicated a policy, which, as he admits himself, cannot possibly be brought to a practical issue for many years to come. It was unfair as well as most incomplete. For instance, Mr Bright made a great point of the fact that a certaisprty in the church are trying to bring in Romish ritual and doctrine, and yet he scoffed at the Public Worship .Act, which was at least an honest attempt to restrain the Romanisers. He seems to hold the strange notion that if the church were disestablished—that is, if the Ritualists were setifree from the control of the State they would do less harm than the j do, now that they are restrained and curbed by the State. Mr Mackonochie and his friends did not think so when they pronounced for disestablishment. Quite irrespective of these con- siderations, Mr Bright's speech was a lamentable mis- take, for it treated this question as if it were the Alpha and the Omega—nay, the whole alphabet—of politics. Yet at this time it is about the iast matter which the country, as e. whole, is thinking about. Sanitary lation, land tenure, dwellings for tbe working classes, local taxation—such are the things which really interest < us. Yet upon all these he had not one word to say* and he evidently thought them beneath his notice. The logical deduction from his speech is that the only policy ] of the Liberal rty is disestablishment; that this policy 1 is not practicable for many years; that until it is prac- ] ticable the Liberal party must remain out of office; and] ithat having come into office expressly to do this one thing, they must go out of office again as soon as it is done. No wonder that the Conservative papers are jubilant, and that the Telegraph admits that this speech ".completes the disorganisation of the Liberal party." No wonder that Mir Gladstone has retired in disgust, and ( that no one has even mentioned Mr Bright as a posssble 1 successor. The Daily News, :says a great part of the speech was. e indeed, an elaborate arraignment of the principle on which the Establishment rests. Still we should not be surprised to hear that some of Mr Bright's more eager c followers felt a httle disappointment at the moderation [ of the counsel which he gave on the subject. He not only deprecated violent agitation, but he deprecated im- ( mature political movements of any kind in the way of £ disestablishment.

t THE LIBERAL LEADERSHIP. 4 s The Sun understands that Mr Gladstone has 1 informed a prominent member of the Liberal t party that he thinks Lord Hartington well fitted to succeed him as leader. I Mr Adam, the Liberal Whip, has issued a.circu- ij lar to the members of the Liberal party simoon- p ing a meeting for the purpose of condWihg the si future conduct of public business in the House d of Commons on the retirement of Mr Gladstone." The meeting is to be held at the Reform Club on a Wednesday, 3rd February, at three o'clock. Speaking at Sunderland a few tdays ago, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, after alluding to the Liberal aJ Party needing a cry, said, why should they go' « into the wilderness of conflicting theories for a cry: n when they found pauperism and drunkenness? ti Was there not there a cry of sorrow ? The cry of the'sufferiDg wife, the cry of neglected children— fa were not these sufficient cries for the Libera bl Party? Let them take* up these two subjects and ir make them their central points. They were far I more important than any question that had ever I come before the Liberal Party in any country in the world. Oh, if the Liberal Party would take that advice, then they might be united, and shoulder to shoulder they would march forward to gj the greatest victory that this country had ever Been. He would give one word of advice to his dE Liberal friends who did not like to sit on the op- h posite side, and who naturally would like to be si back again in power. He was not fond of pro- pi pheeying, but he felt so sure of his ground now pi that hewould prophesy, and let them take it to cc .1 v y :■ i heart if they had ears to hear. The Liberal Party would never get back to power until they broke with the publicans and took up the Tem- perance Party. The country were now being amused by discussions as to who was to be the leader of the Liberal party. He could not find much about what the. Liberal Party was to do, but there were plenty of discussions as to who was to lead it. He proposed that an advertisement should be put Üo the Times. He made this suggestioa to those gentlemen who managed the Liberal Party, and he presented him with a copy of the advertisement for them to use if they adopted his advise :—" Wanted, a leader for the Liberal Party —a respectable young man. The work is very light. No person need apply who -is addicted to crotchets, or who is encumbered with any princi- ples." That seemed to be the general notion as to the man ti4.ey wanted, judging from the newspaper articles they read. If-that did nOt answer. and they were sutl in a difficulty, he would propose another plan—that we "swop" with the Opposi- tion and make an eNer to Mr Disraeli to See if I10 would come over and-lfead them, and they would give Sir William Harcourt to lead the other side. He thought that if they could only get Mr Dis raeli over to their side—for be liked to fight in a minority, it showed his skill and eloquence fat more than trhen*he was in power—he would prove himself to be-what he had always J|n his heart felt firmly convinced he was—the biggest Radical in the country. But their duty as friends of national sobriety was to act with no party which had not the promotion of national sobriety as a plank in its platform. Surely that was something better than fighting for merely personal ends or party ends. A London correspondent writes The retire- ment of Mr Gladstone must be a goad deal more thorough than is generally supposed if the state ment be true that on the day his letter of re8igna. tion, addressed to Lord Granville, was published he wrote to Messrs Hansard discontinuing bis sub- scription to their issue of the debates. This step would imply that he has no intention of speaking, or taking any interest in the debates." According to the Hour, a letter has been written by Mr Disraeli to Mr Gladstone expressing the great regret he feels at bis resignation of the leadership of the Liberal party. The letter id couched in most cordial an,d sympathetic terms.

OSWESTRY. PROPERTY SALE.—On Friday, Mr T. Whitfield sold by auction at the Queen's Hotel, six dwelling houses called Bridge-teirace, and several pieces of building land adjoin- ing the property of the late Mr Charles Pratt. Lot 1, two d selling houses, Nos. 5 and ô, Bridge-terrace, were knocked down for £710; lot 2, two dwelling hoases, Nos. 3 and 4, Bridge-terrace, £703, Mr Lashmore, of Church-street, being the purchaser of both lots. Lot 3, two dwelling houses, Nos. 1 and 2, were sold for £ï30; and lot 4, a building site containing 695 yards, realised £139 16s, Mr Higuett being the purchaser of both lots. Lot 5, a piece of building land, containing 2.190 square yards, fetched and was secured by Mr Davies, Liverpool House, Beatrice-street. Lot G. apiece of build- ing land, containing 1,683 square yards, and lot 7, another piece, containing] ,324- square yards, £232, both lots being secured by Mr Lashmore. Lots from 1 to 7 realised over £3,000. Lots 8 to 21, several pieces of building land, situate near Albert-road, were put up for sale, but the competition was not good, and the whole of tbem were withdrawn, although 4s 7a pec yard was offered for two of them. TEACHERS' MEETING.—The annual meeting of the Oswestry and Welshpool Teachers' Association was held in the National school on Saturday. The attendance was small. The president, Mr Cadwalladr, occupied the chair. Thiee new members were elected, namely, ME: Smith, Llanfair N.S.; Mr Dudley, Llanblodwel N.S. and Mr King, Ivnoekin After the reading of the reports of the treasurer and secretary, the following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year:—Pre- sident. Mr Cadwalladr, vice-president, Mr Hall, treasurer, Mr Nelson, secretary Mr Feather; committee: Messrs Blair, Leache, Ouver, and Pugh, and Miss Rowlands and Miss Jones. It was decided to send a deputation to the Easter conference at York. Mr Feather was desired to write to Mr J. R. Ormsby Gore, M.P., on behalf of the meeting, enclosing the form of petition for pensions for teachers who entered the profession before 1861, and beg his kind support in the House of Commons when the motion is brought forward by Mr Whitwell, M.P. The annual subscription for this year is 4s. as considerable expense was incurred in the formation of a district union, to be held in Shrewsbury, of teachers in the counties of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire, A petition was adopted in favour of granting pensions to teachers who entered the profession before 18G1.

RUTHIN. SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE AND FESTIVITIES AT LLAKYNYS.—'Mrs M. Richards, the owner of the Cerrigllwydion property, in accordance with her annual custon, lately sent to the vicar of Llanynys a quantity ot flannel and the sum of £5 to pur- chase coal for distribution amongst the poor of the above parish. The gifts were highly and gratefully appreciated by the recipients. The funds at the disposal of the vicar and churchwardens were also very kindly supplemented by handsome donations from Miss Lewis, Rhyl: R. Wynne, Esq., Bachym- bydd; and T. Jones, Esq., Rhyd-y-cilgwyn; so that the vicar was enabled to cheer the hearts of the poor of the parish by very substantial and suitable new year's gifts.—On the 21st inst., through the kindness of T. Jenkins, Esq., Plasynward, the church choir and teachers in the Sunday school, numbering about 33, were entertained to a most sumptuous repast at the Cerrigllwydion Arms. During the evening the proceedings were enlivened with some excellently performed airs on the harp by T. Jones, Denbigh, who had been engaged for the occasion. The health of Mr Jenkins was en- thusiastically drank, and other toasts were also- given. Various members of the choir also gave- musical selections, and a most pleasant evening was spent. » COUNTY MAGISTRATES' COURT. MOSTDAY.—Before R. G. Johnson, Esq.. Lieut.-Col. Jones-Mortimer, James Goodrich, Esq., and J. F. Jesse, Esq. THE DRUNKARDS' LIST.—Evan Roberts. Peny- coed Issa, Llanfwrog, was charged by P.C- Hughes with being drunk and disorderly on the Januafy. Fined 10s and costs.—Edward Peters, Perthichware, charged by P.C. Roberts with being drunk on the 26th December, was fined 10s and costs.Benjamin Jones, Pantyfford Ucha. LIanar- mon, charged by the same officer, was fined 10s and costs.—John Williams, Penycoed Issa, charged by P.O. Hughes was fined 3@s and costs. NON-SUPPORT OF PARENTS.—Evan Roberts, Ffyn- nonycwrw, Bwlchgwyn, Wrexham, was charged with allowing his mother to become chargeable to Ruthin Union. The prosecution was conducted by Mr Humphrey Roberts, clerk to the Ruthin Union. —An order was made upon defendant to. contribute 2s 6d. weekly, and pay costs.

The Oxford and Cambridge boat race will take place on March 20th. Both crews will commence regular training in the course of few days. Advertising for a situation, a man in Newport explains, "Work is not so much an object as good wages." "No Shooten Aloud Here" is the warning which confronts the sportsman at the gate of a held not twenty miles from London. Formula of divorce used by a negro Justice in Desha County, Arkansas As I jined you, so I bust vou 'sunder. So go, you niggers. Yau go There is a purple half to the grape, a mellow haif to the peach, a sunny half to the globe, and a better half to the man that is so fortunate as to have a good wife. Reproving a youth for the exercise of his fists, a schoolmaster said, "We fight with our heads here." The youth reflected for & brief while, and replied that butting hadn't been considered fair at his last school. A person named Danger kept a public-house on the Huntington Road, near Cambridge. On being compelled to quit the house, which was not his own, he built an inn on the opposite side of the road, and caused to be painted on the sign, Danger from over The His successor in the old house retorted bv inscribing over the door, There is no Dagger here now." Yankees are universally allowed to be unexcelled in asking questions, but unite Irish loquacity with Yankee interrrogation, and the cup in full. A girl of Irish descent, but reared in Vermont, was rebuked by the lady with whom she was living for her interminable propensity to ask questions Closing the rebuke, the ladv remarked. You beat the Jews at asking questions." When, true to nature, the girl rejoined, Do the Jews ask manv ques- tions ? .< Mother," said little Ned one morning filer having fallen out of bed. think I know why] fell out of bed last night. It was b-cause I slept too near where I got in." Musing a little while, as if in doubt whether he aad given the right explanation, he added that wasn't the reason JLfWtli because I slept too near where [ fell out." anuComfortmg —'•By a thorough know dge th natural laws which govern the operations cf tion Jic^virou, and by 1 careful application of tMJnit of v.d-selecte- jocoa, Mr Epps has pro«*dfcuibL/kfast tables with* lelicateiy fiavo'ired be Ii W 1 save us heavy doctors' bills.f Civil ,Service Gazette, tade simply with boiling water or milk. Sold by grog's in packets only, labelled "James Epps and Co., Fmiflpo- ?athic Craemrete, 48, Threadneedfe Street, arid »dill|yWork8, Eastoo road, j^6a<km.' 1