Wrexham Guardian

MR. OSBORNE MORGAN, M.P., AT WREXHAM. Mr G. 0. Morgan. M.P.. addressed a meeting of his supporters in the Town Hall, Wrexham, on Tuesday evening. The chair was occupied by Mr Thomas Chilton,lof Liverpool and Gresford, who was accompanied on to the platform by Mr and Mrs Osborne Morgan, Mrs Chilton, Mr and Mrs Low, Roseneath Mr and Mrs W. H. Darby, Brymbo; Lieut.-Col. and Mrs Jones; Mr Edward Evans, Bronwylfa; Mr Charles Hughes, Mr and Mrs Reid, Mr Tilston, and Mr Lester. The Chairman read a letter from Sir Robert Cunliffe, apologising for his absence, on account of the death of a near relative. He also read letters of apology for non- attendance from Mr Rathborne, MP., Mr T. Barnes, The Quinta, and other gentlemen. In introducing < Mr Osborne Morgan, he said he did not know why the 1 Liberal party should be despondent. He observed that the party was now in a minority, and therefore it was well i that Mr Morgan should come amongst the constituency ( to cheer them for the present and ;to encourage them for the future. The remainder of the speaker's remarks ] consisted of a lengthy review of what he termed the 1 "legislative and administrative faults" of the Govern- < ment. t Mr Osborne Morgan, who was received with loud ( cheers, next addressed the meeting. He said he j was afraid that he could not join in the general 1 outcry led by Sir William Harcourt that the last session had been an idle or barren session and he I did not see any reason why, up to a certain point, 1 he should not give the Government credit for having passed several good measures (hear, hear). He believed the Master and Servant Act was, up to a certain point, a good measure that the Friendly Societies Act was, so far as it went, a good measure; and that the Artisans' c Dwellings Act was, so far as it went, a good measure 1 (applause). He rejoiced to think that they had for the ( first time some protection, though a very inadequate pro- tection, for that class of men to whom they owed so ( much and for whom they had hitherto done so little—he 1 meant the British sailors (applause). But be could not help thinking that even their gratitude for that small ( instalment of justice was not due to Mr Disraph or the t President of the Board of Trade, but to that simple- hearted and noble-minded man whose voice they had been fortunate enough to hear during the last year, who, ( by one single burst of human genuine feeling, more eio- auent than the most eloquent speech of statesman or ( Minister, wrung from a reluctant Ministry—to lend to a < question of life or death—to one of flesh and pood-a I few of those hours which they wished to devote to ques- tions of acres and manure (applause). What he com- plained of was that the measures of the Government could have been so much better they had not been so much boiled dm1 n in passing through the Home of Commons that they lost their strength and their marrow (applause). He did not say anything against the present Government, but he believed that thev never Had a more squeezable Government (laughter and applause). Let them take the Artisans' Dwell'ngs Bill as an example. Several friends of his were most anxious that it should be extended to towns containing populations of over 10,000 inhabitants. The other side said that it ou^ht not to extend to towns of over 50,000 and what did the Government do? They said, Split the difference, and make it 25,000;" and accordingly 25 000 it was, and every town in North Wales was excluded from the bene- ficial measures of that Act (applause). He was told that some such fate was in store for the Burials Bill, and he had been so much attacked of late that perhaps they would allow him to reply through them to the countrv at lirge to some of the objections offered against that bill (hear, bear). In the first place, he might say that the arguments of his opponents reminded him of the Athenian sophist who offered to prove anything in the world if only bis premises were admitted. They began j with the false assumption that, because parochial grave- yards were called churchyards they must be church pro- perty. A churchyard, in the eyes of the law, was merely so much parish land set apart for a particular purpose, vested in the incumbent as to the service and herbage for his own usa, and as to the soil for the use of every one of his parishioners (hear, hear). Every person dying in the parish had, in common law, an equal right to interment therein, and so sacred was that right that if a vicar or rector presumed to resist, he could be punished bv criminal proceedings (applause, and a voice, "Serve him right"). That right, being one of common law, was in no way dependent upon church or creed, and a j Malay sailor, whose body was washed ashore on the Cornish coast, was as much entitled to interment in the churchyard of that parish as the rector himself (ap- plause). To say, as some people did, that in some mysterious way the churchyard became the property of the church by consecration, was to say nothing at all, because the law lecognised no such mode of acquiring) propsrty, and as to the popular notion that because the church stood in the midst of the churchyard, therefore the churchyard must belong to the church, it had no foundation in fact, because in earlv times the churchyard, so far from being near the parish church, was at a very great distance from it. The custom of having churchyards near the church had its origin in the superstition of praying for the dead —when monks and priests began to offer prayers for souls departed, and asked, for their greater ease and profit, for liberty of sepulture in the churches and places adjoining (applause). iThere could be no doubt as to tne right. The only .thing in dispute was the condition under which the right of burial should be exercised. No doubt in bygone days, when the Church was entirely different from the Church now by law established—the Church which included practically the entire population—claimed foj the ecclesiastical acts the right to refuse interment, the right to refuse the use of its own services to persons who had not been admitted within its pale by baptism, or who were excluded from it by excommunication. However harsh that mighf seem, it was logically de- fensible, and it was especially mitigated by the fact that baptism by a D senting minister, a layman, or even a woman, should bejas efficacious for entitling a person to Christian burial as baptism by the priest himself (ap- plause). The right now claimed was edtirely different. It was not the right to refuse the sen-ices of the Church to those who wanted them, but the right to impose those servises upon those who did not want them, against the wishes of the deceased's friends and relatives—a right against the presumed wishes of the dead man himself—a right to enforce upon the ears of unwilling listeners a service which ceased to be solemn the moment it ceased to b« welcome (applause). Was that a right or previlege whice any reasonable man would wish to preserve ? Was it not a right which Churchmen surrendered many years ago when they repealed the laws requiring Dissenters to be married according to the rites of ths Church of Eng- land ? (hear, hear). Their opponents might say that Dissenting ministers were not allowed to marry their flocks in the Church, whereas by the Burials Bill they would admit them into the churchyard. That seemed at first sight a specious answer, but in one case there existed a physical necessity recognised by the law that some place should be set aside for the burial of the dead, and the law said that were cemeteries did not exist there should be churchyards. It was idle to say that Dissenters might be buried elsewhere, when in nine cases out of ten there was no elsewhere to go to (hear, hear). Why on earth had his opponents brought in four bills to remove that state of things if it was satisfactory ? (applause). The last bill brought in by Mr Talbot contained two provisions. It provided—firstly, that Dissenters might be buried without any religious service at all; and secondly, that provision should be made for the erection of cemeteries in parishes where they did not exist. The firit proposition could not be seriously meant. It pro- posed to confer on Nonconformists as a boon the same mode of interment which the law imposed upon suicides as a penalty, except that it did not propose to run a stake through their bodies, as was the case in barbarous ages. He should like to what Mr Talbot or his friends would say if anybody proposed that their friends should be buried in that way ? (hear, hear). As to the making of cemeteries, the difficulty arose from the reluctance of landowners to give land, and of ratepayers to pay for it. If the proposal meant that, whether a cemetery was wanted or not, every inhabitant of England or Wales should have a cemetery forced upon him provided by the public rates, then all he could say was that such a pro- position coming from a party which had always prided itself upon stubborn resistance to any increase in the rates was simply monstrous (applause). The people of Wales had come forward nobly, and had submitted to great burdens in order to educate their children; but did those present think they would be equally ready to submit to the same burdens in order to save the feelings of a parson being outraged by the sight of a dissenting minister in his churchyard? (Cry of "No.") Canon Ridley had come forward with a proposal to add to each churchyard a Dissenters' corner (laughter). That was liable to the same objection; and as to other objections, he supposed he ought to know something about them, because hardly a day passed without a paper containing twelve reasons for determined oppotition to Mr Osborne Morgan's Burials Bill" being placed in his hands (laughter). When he read the objections, though they resolved themselves into one, and that was that he had omitted some clause in his bill which was equally objected to when he put it into his measure (renewed laughter). They said that he left the Dissenting minister free and bound the parson. That was the fault of the parson himself. No one would rejoice more than he should at any enactment that relieved the parson from the necessity of reading the burial service in all cases, but that involved a change in the rubric, which was not included in his bill. The Bishop of Lincoln had recently used the following language:—" The bishops and clergy and parish priests of England are not owners of the churchyards, but they are only trustees of them under God, who is their proprietor, and they can- not without breach of trust, and without being guilty of a heinous offence in His sight, take away from God a single foot of a churchyard for the purpose of giving a share in it for public funeral services to persons who either rend asunder His Church schism, which is con- demned by Him in His holy Word as a deadly sin, or who deny and impugn His divine attributes and the truths of His revelation by false doctrine, heresy, and unbelief. Sueh an aet on the part of the bishops and olergy would be a robbery of God—it womld be an aot of sacrilege, treachery, and cowardiee. It would not prerwxt riiwstshlinhmcat, it weald rather bastes it j and it would deprive bishops and priests of all that generous ] sympathy and loving confidence of good men which would divest disestablishment of half its evil by taking away all its shame." How was it possible to answer such outrageous blasphemy as that ? (loud applause). If any- thing (Ould hasten disestablishment it would be the use of such language as that, coming from one of the fore- most prektes of the English episcopal bench (hear, hear). They m'ght depend upon it that if ecclesiastical questions were to be discussed in that spirit the Libera- tion Socety would have a very easy time of it (laughter). He had the honour of knowing many Nonconformist ministers, and he did not know one who would have < stooped to use the lauuage which the Bishop of Lincoln t had used (applause). Passing to another subject, the 1 hon. gentleman said the question he should like to ask f was—What was to be the rallying cry that was to reunite I the LihTal party ? (bear, hear). In the first place, there f was one undoubted task before them, and that was to c watch over what they had won (applause). Only three f months age, after Parliament had ceased to sit, the c country was startled from its slumbers by a circular such t as he ventured to say never before emanated from a c British Minister. He had always been brought ap in r the belief that the deck of a British man-of-war was the E asylum of any slave, and that his manacles fell from him r, the moment he touched the sacred ground ? He never c expected, however, that he should live to learn that at I the end of the nineteenth century they were about to h undo the most glorious work of its beginning, and to d show to the astonished world that Wilberforce had lived b in vain (loud applause). For the first time, and let t them hope for the last time, in English historv, h instructions hud gone forth to the British sailor that ii discretion was the better part of valoar, and that the time- n honoured traditions of the British navy were to be sur- r rendered in order to avoid disagreeable political t complications. The Liberal party, when in office, were taunted with having lowered the British flag in J order to preserve the peace of the world, but no one s had ever dared to say that'they had ever stained it in s order to surrender a slave (loud applause). He had not s the slightest hesitation in saying that the Slave Circular v was as illegal as it was discreditable, and was not with- t drawn until it had been three months in operation. A t second Circular had been put forth, and what he should a like to know was—why should they have a Circular at c aii ? (applause-). They got on exceedingly well in the t days of old without any instructions from the Admiraltv ( to men-of-war with regard to slaves, and those were I days when the sh.ve-owning States were real powers in c the wor.d and was it to be endured that chey who t dared to brave the slave-owning States of America in the > zenith of their power should truckle to the petty Sultan f of Zanzibar ? (great applause). He expected that the f Ministry would be severely called to task for the matter f next session (hear, hear). As to the purchase of the t Suez Canal shares, commercially speaking, it might be 1 a very tempting speculation that they were able to buy t up on easy terms :he bankrupt stock of a potentate who was on the eve of liquidation but there was a political t side to the matter too, and he could not say into what ( complications that transaction mightnot drift them (hear, hear). Was the task of the Liberal party nothing more < than to watch events? Were they only to fight behind < their ramparts, and never more to sally forth to make a f brilliant attack the same as they did under Mr Glid- stone? (applausej. TLere was the County Franchise j Bili, and he believed that every reasonable man would feei that the distinction between the urban and rural population upon which the county and borough franchise was originally founded was gralually being obliterated (hear, hear). The difficulty of bringing the matter forward, however. was that it involved another change, and that was a change in the representation. There coull be no doubt that there were inequalities of a most disgraceful kind in the present system of representation, but he was afraid that they could not expect much help in the matter in the present Parliament. It seemed to him that there were two other questions round which the Liberal party ought to rally; there were two clouds upon the horizon of England which bade fair to darken i her future—they were, ignorance and drink (applause). If they could not trust a Tory Government to deal with those evils, was it not the duty of a Liberal Government —who were, as Lord Hartington had said, the guardians of the public against class and selfish interests—to do so ? (applause). A to ignorance, he hoped to live to see the day when every child in England should receive the rudiments, at least, of a sound and useful education; but he knew that that great result could only be obtained bv a compulsory system (hear, hear, and applause). But if they were to have a compulsory system they must, in common justice, entirely separate secular from religious education—they must leave the one to the churches and devolve the other upon the State (loud applause). Did they think that the Tories could be trusted in the matter ? (Cries of No, no.") Could the Conservative party be trusted to deal with the terrible evil of drink ? (" No.") Why. they got into power on the backs of the licensed victuallers, and it was not likely they would desert their friends (applause). The fact" was the Tory party had sold themselves to the publicans (applause). After referring to the opposition given by the Conservative party to the Sunday Closing Bill, Mr Morgan said he j hoped he had shown his hearers that the Liberal party had plenty of work before them (hear, hear). It might be that they bad to learn how sweet were the uses of adversity, and, perhaps, in the cold and bracing air of Opposi; IOn they might have to learn what they were too apt to forget in the days of prospeiity—that disci- pline and tLOn were essential to party government (applausej. But, in the meantime, they might depend upon it that the germs of future change, like the kaf within the bud, which only awaited the first genial touch of spiing to burst into fuller leaf, were slowly and steadily maturing and it might be that they might live to witness again reforms as alarming in prospect, and he might add as beneficial in operation, as these passed in the glorieus days that had gone by (loud applause). On the motion of Lieutenant-Colonel Jones, 'seconded by Mr Charles Hughes, and supported by Mr Low, a resolution was passed expressing unabated confidence in Mr Osborne Morgan, and expressing an earnest hope that in the next session of Parliament his labours in connection with the burials question might be rewarded with success. On the motion of Mr Darby, seconded by Mr Lester, the following resolution was also passed:—" That this meeting records with satisfaction the great progressive laws passed under the auspices of the late Liberal Government and the leadership of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and deeply feels the importance of secur- ing their administration in the spirit in which they have been conceived, as well as of further development of the principles involved in them." A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. l

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. The Standard says :—Mr. Morgan in no single instance fairly stated or met the objections urged against his Burials Bill. He started with a misrepresentation which is discreditable to him both as a lawyer and a member of Parliament. He laid down without the slight- est qualification the proposition that the entire body of parishioners have a right to interment in the parish churchyard. He forgets that this unalienable right has already been swept away in thousands of parishes by the law prohibiting intramural interments. We may admit that Nonconformists, as parishioners, have an equal right with Churchmen to interment in the parish grave- yard, bat we dispute altogether the assumption that Dissenters any more than Churchmen have a right to prescribe the service at the funeraL That is fixed by the law of the land, and Mr. Morgan does not attempt to show that Nonconformists have a special right to hold services other than that appointed by the law. Mr. Morgan protests that the right now claimed was never contemplated when the law and practice now in ques- ] tion first grew up." What is the right now claimed ?" ( There is no claim whatever put forth on behalf of the Church. She is content with the law as it stands and as it has stood for centuries. It is the Dissenters who are now demanding rights which neither they nor any other section of parishioners have ever enjoyed. Mr. Mor- gan endeavours to produce the impreesion that the Church is striving to establish new restriction. This is an absurd perversion of the facts of the case. Mr Morgan rejects as utterly inadmissible the proposals to add to the existing graveyards pieces of unconsecrated; ground where persons may be buried with any kind of service which their friends may desire or to provide cemeteries, where there is any real necessity for them, at the cost of the rates. The grievance" is of the most shadowy description. Churchmen know that in- variably the Dissenters resort freely to the Church for ( baptism, marriage, and burial, and would consider it a 1 real grievance if these offices were withheld from them. 1 This is especielly the case with burial. Thousands of non-political Dissenters prefer to be buried in the parish graveyard, and not only do not object to, but desire that ] they may be laid to their rest with, the solemn and beautiful office of the Church. It is a fact within the 1 experience of a large number of incumbents that Dis- 1 senters not only attend the burial rites of their r^lativtss i or friends in the Church or at the pave side, but even ] make a point of attending the Chureh on the following 1 Sunday. For the sake of peace and charity Churchmen E have proposed various modes of removing all possible ( grounds of complaint. Tbeir offers have been rejected, j but Mr Morgan is quite mistaken in assuming that in s any of these proposals there has been any surrender of 1 the ground upon which Churchmen oppose the Bill. The political Dissenters are fighting for a principle, < and that principle will never be conceded as long as | Churchmen and the Conservative party hold together, The bill of Mr Morgan is based upon the assumption ] that the rights of the Dissenters as parishioners in the r parish churchyards entitle them not only to interment ( therein, but to be buried with any kind of service thoy ] may prefer. Having obtained exemption from Church rates on the ground that they disapprove, and do not participate in the services of the Church, and set no value upon interment in consecrated ground, they now demand ] privileges far larger than those accorded to Churchmen, ] who hear the cost and maintenance both of the fabric and 1 the graveyard. Without paying one farthing they oan enjoy all the privileges conceded to Charehmtn; but, not satisfied with this, they claim a special UOMM for than- selves. The rights of Nonconformists as parishioners in the parish church and churchyard are identical. If they are to be entitled, in virtue of those rights, to hold their services in the churchyard, upon whst grouai can they be debarred from exercising similar privileges in the church ? Under the existing law they a; e entitled to a place in the parish church whenever it is open for public worship, and to be hurled in thp churchyard with the service of the Church. But iB neither case'have they the slightest tille to prescribe or vary the services. Parlia- ment :s now asked to pass a measure providing that they may hold any services they please in the churchyard. Can anyone donbt that if Parliament gave its assent to the bill it would next be called upon to complete the logical fulfilment of its concession by making it lawful for Nonconformist ministers to hold their services in the parish churches? The bill is exposed on the double ground of its initial injustice an of the logical conse- quences which it involves. Mr Osborne Morgan has failed to adduce any justification for the proposed invasion of the churchyards. He has not one word to sav as to the conequences which would follow if his demand werfr coHceded. He knows perfectly welt that C iurchnaen regard his bill as a step towards putring tile Nonconfor- mists in possession of the fabrics, preliminary to a measure of disestablishment and disendowment. He makes no attempt to reassure Churchmen on this point. He makes no complaint that the scope and intention of his bill have been misrepresented and exaggerated. He doesjnot pretend to disclaim the motives attributed to himself and his supporters. He shrinks from meeting the imputations which Churchmen are alleging against his bill all over the couo try. His silence is eloquent. It is a confession that the purpose of his bill not been misrepresented, and that under the guise of a measure to redress a sentimental grievance he is seeking to prepare the way for disestablishment. The Liverpool Courier remarks that till Mr. Osborne Morgan undeceived its we really thenght that the Con- servative Government and party had performed a few slight services for the nation. Other speaker;, of varied shades of opinion have credited her Majesty's Ministers with some small intelligence and wi„ii a desire to exert this for the public weal. We have been led to consider the present Foreign, Colonial, and Indian Ministers as among the best chiefs of thsse departments that the country has ever possessed, whje few even on the Liberal beaches have disputed the adn; nisirative abilities of Mr. Cross, Sir Stafford Northcote, aud Mr. Haroy. But Mr. Morgan was not i' the vein to accord the ti.vour of his countenance "to those who displaced his fr: ends and left them in that cold and bracing air of opposition, from which he hopes for great benefits. The labour iaws and friendly societies and artisans dwellings acts are very good, so far as they go, but what might not these mea- sures have been if the Liberals had framtd hem. and if they had been carried by a Liberal Parliament ? The Denbighshire legislator did not suggest any reasons why the people's William and the tyrant ii,,aiority who acknowledged his sway never attempted to deal with these matters; nor did he explain away the L beral ridi- cule which used to be heaped on Mr. Disraeli for the- speech at Manchester wherein he enunciated what his opponents were pleased to call his ■' policy of sewage." Of course the hon. member made some capital out of the slave circular, though he coiifessed he was not in a position to discuss it without hIs law books. The Den- bigghshire M.P. gleefully rubs his hands as he anticipates the severe strictuies which wil. be passed on th circular and the amended document vi bt:n Parliament assembles next month. But after all the great blot on the Con- servative party is their opposition to nn Burials Bill, about which he feels more solicitude than ever, not so much with respect to the ultimate fate of tiw proposals, if they should again be rejected, but becaiw of the spirit of compromise that is abroad, a spirit which deprived, little Welsh towns of the benefit ot the Annans' Dwell- ings Act. He does not like the give-and-take principle, and he means to fight for the whole bill in its integrity. The Lie-erj) ,ol Mercury, in commenting on "the great meeting," makes the ioliowing rem.lrks \Ve are curious to know when the Aim ghty—with whoe sacred name the Bishop of Lincoln mah. s fiee—made him a trustee' of the churchyards of England. We should like to see the document, day and uait, and all the parti- culars of signed, sealed, and delivered.' We must leave it to Mr Osborne Morgan to determine what kind of language this is.

H U NTING. SIR W. W. Wl'NVS HOUNDS WILL MEET ON Saturday, January 8 -.Aldersey Monday, January 10 Marchwiei Toil Bv eduepday, January 12 Park Hull Friday, January 14.V:BroughSS Saturday, January 10 Wiiitcku.ch Station At 10-34. THE NORTH SHKOl'iHIUE HOCXDS WILL MEFT ON Monday, January 10 Acton Reynald \v tdDt'»d*y, January 12, „.Ercaii Mill At 10-46. Friday, January 14 .Baitletield I At 11-10. THE SHREWSBURY HOUJTDS WILL ALEET OK Tuesday, January 11 Licion's Heath At 11. Friday, January 14 Atcham Bridge At 11-30. THE LUDLOW HOUNDS WILL IEET 0 Saturday, January s Hopton Court luesday, Januar y 11 Downton Catstle At iO-i-O THE B. C. C. HOUNDS M ILL MLET ON Tuesday, January 11 Loggerheads, Mold Friday, January 14 Liautremiew At 10-S0. THE ALBEIGHTON HOUNDS M ILL MLtlT ON Saturday. January s .Stauleford Bridge l Monday, January i > Davenport House Tuesday, January 11 Strmon Thursday, January 13 a LOU Saturday, January 16 ciii; uftUM At boLo THE UNITED PACK WILL MEET u:; Tuesday, January 11 Clunton Friday. January 14 Church Stretton At 10-30. THE VALE OF CLWYD HARRIERS WILL MEET ùN Saturday, January is Y-,trad Wednesday, January 12 .Dyserth CIL-Lie Saturday, January 15 iihydycilewyn At 11. e. THE FLINTSHIRE HARillERS WILL MEET ON Saturday, January 6 Jferauto At 11. Friday, January 14 Gwysannev l At MARQUESS OF LONDONDEBRY'S HAEEIERS WILL MEET ON Tuesday, January 11 Cefngwyddrog At 10. THE NORTH MONTGOMERY HARRIERS WILL MEET ON Saturday. January 8 Trefnanney Wednesday, January Vi Bwiehycibaa Saturday, January 15 Llanfechaa Wednesday, January U» TanybwJch Saturday, January 22 ..Brvngwyn Turning At 11. THE TANAT SIDE HARRIERS WILL MEET ON Tuesday, Januarv 11 Black Horse Friday, January 14 Four Crosses At 11. THE CHESTER BEAGLES WILL MEET ON Saturday, January 8 Bed Home At 12.

FOOTBALL. WREXHAM v. PLASMADOC —The return match between these clubs will be p ed this day (Satur- day), at 2 30 p.m., in Plasmad Park. A match was played on Sa 'day afternoon last between the Wrexham and I O on clubs, on the ground of the latter. The din -as beautifully fine and the ground in excellent order. The boundry was well defined by prettily painted flag posta. Ruabon won the tosc and choose the top goal- Wrexham then kicked off, and for the first half- hour the ball was well l:r in the vicinity of their opponents' goal. A cap shot was made by Mr E. Evans (Provincial) foi the Wrexham, the ball falling on the goal rope, and then through the goal. The Ruabon umpire was appealed to, and gave a goal for Wrexham. The Wrexham umpire (Mr Tomkins, Plasmadoc), also concurred in the decision. Several of the spectators, however-who. by the way, were rather numerous and fearfully noisy-stated that the ball had fallen over the rope- Some one or two of the Ruabon p/iayers also pro- tested against the umpires' decision, and refused to play any further unless the umpires ware changed. This was accordingly done and play resumed. At half-time, when ends were changed, the Ruabonitee made some dashing charges to recover the lost- goal, and all but succeeded but the excellent back play of Mr Ll. Kenrick soon tdd, and they were forced to fall back to defend their goal. Several sharp scrimmages now occurred, and the game was contested with much spirit on both sides, when, just before time was called, Mr G. F. Thomson succeeded very neatly in passing the ball through the Ruabon goal—thus scoring a second goal for Wrexham. The playing of Mr LI. Kenrick and Mr G. F. Thomson (for Wrexuam), and Mr H. Kenrick (for Ruabon), was really uinch admired. The following composed the Wrexham team:—Messrs. E. A. Cross, A. McDermott, L. Kenrick, G. F. Thomson, E. Evans (Alliance), E. Evans (Provin- cial). A. Davies, R. Mills, E. Capel Smith, H. Loxham, H. Cross, E. Kenny, and G. Jewitt.

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