Wrexham Guardian

bc ffiljutCft. The Rev. Dr. Briscoe, rector of Holyhead, has been appointed Chancellor of Bar^g0r^ The John Bull hear,, that the Rev. Arthur Tooth, TICIU of St. James'Hatcham, has had left him £10,000 for his orphanar He bas, therefore, resigned his living, and ill take a place at Croydon, near the Archbishop Canterbury's, for a large orphanage; here a proprietary fchapel will be erected, and he will devote himself entirely to extra-pa.rochial work. Mr Tooth, patron bt the living of St. James', Hatcham, has appointed the Rev. Malcolm Maccoll, curate ia charge Cf t. Augustine's, Bermondsey, his successor.

CHURCH SERVICES. 2he Church Lists should reach our Office bti T/twsday, otherwise we cannot insert them. SUNDAY, SEPT. 16, 1877.—STXTEkisTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. LESSORS, &c,—Morning: First lessoa, 2 Chronicles, c. 36; Second lesson, 2 Corinthians, c. 8. Evening First lesson, Nehemiali 1 and 2, to v. 8, or c. £ 5 Second lesson, Mark 18, j V. 14. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 31, 1877.—ST. MATTHEW, APOSTLE, EVANGELIST, AND MARTYR. XiESSCNS.—Athanasian Creed. Morning: First lesson, 1 Ki, c 19 v 15 Second lesson, '2 Corinthians, c 12, v. 14, aad c. li. Evening: First lesson, J Chronicles 29, to v, 20: Second lessen, Mark 15, v, 42 and c. 16.

CATHEDRAL. CHESTER. The hours of Divine Service in this Cathltral are follows: j <0n week days: Morning Prayer said in th« Lady Chapel at 8 o'clock • Full Cathedral Musical Service at 10 a.m. Full Cathedral Evening Service at 4 o'clock, excepting on Satur- j days when it is at Ij, o'clock; Celebration of the Holy Com- mumonatSa.m. on all Saints' days and other festivals, and a short Sermon preached at the evening service <on these days. Sundays Celebration of the Holy OomroCBion at 8 a.m., excepting on the first Sunday in tl*e month, when it takes nlace after the 11 o'clock service; Full Cathedral Morning Service at 11 o'clock; Full Cathedral Afternoon Service at 4 ] o'clock, but no sermon; Special Evening Service in the Nave and South Transept at 6.30. This b a purely Parochial Choral Service, sustained by a Voluntary Choir120 voices under the leadership of Mr Cuzuer.

CHURCHES. WREXHAM. Parish Church.—Sundays. Morning Service at 11 a.m. Eveni'if; Service at 6.30 p.m. W esh Bible Welsh Service at 0 p.m. Cemro union lirst Sunaay m the month at 11 a.m. second Sunday (in Welsh) at 9 :to.m.; third Sunday at 8 DO a.m. and 11 a.m.— eek-days. Morning Service on Wednesdays and Fridays at 11 a.m.; Evening Servios, with a Sermon, every Wednesday Evening at ? p.m.; Shortened Evening Service, with. Bible Classes for Children, every Friday Evening at 7 Ladies' Bible Ctess every Tuesday at 3 p.m. The Sacrament of Baptism is administered at this Church at 4 p.m. every Sunday al the Wednesday and Friday Morning Services, and. at other times if required. The seats are all free and uuapprspriated. All the offertory col- lections are made from the whole congregation, ana are devoted to the repair and expenses of the Oharch, and the poor Rev David Howell,-vicar; Mr E. B. Simms, organist and choirmaster; Mr E. Lovatt, parish clerk. St. Mark's Church.—Sundays. Morning Service at 11 a.m.; We Deum Barnby; JubEate, Whitfeld; Aataern, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord ■God Almighty," from, Hymn ]35;; Hynm before Sermon, 2; Hymn after Sermon, 299. Evening Service at Magnificat and Wane Dimittis, Arnold; Anthem, Jewry is God known," Psalm K, v. 1,2, 3 Hymn before Sermon, 139; Hymn after Seriuorx, li. Celebration of the Holy Communion on the ftrst Sunday in every month at 8.30 a.m. second Sunday at 11 a m third Sunday at 10 a.m., other Sundays at 8.30a.m. and on the principal'Festivals of the Church at 8.30 a.m. xnd 11am Bible Classes, for men and womea, are ^ield at the Church at Sunday and a Public Catechising of the Sunday Schools at 3 p.m. on the first Sunday in every month —Week Bays. Morning Service -en all Holy lays (except when they occur on "Wednesdays or Fridays, when Divine Service is held in the Parish Church) at ] 1 a.m., and dailv during Lent. Service and Sermon every Friday Even- ine at 7 45 p m. during Lent and Advent. The seats are all free and unappropriated. The offertories are devoted to the expenses of the services, the repair of the Church, and the t>oor Organist and Choirmaster, Mr H. Bennett. St.' James's Church, Rhosddu.—Sundays. MorningService at 11 a m Evening Service at 6.30 p.BB. Holy Comiauiiion on the last Sunday in every month atl a.m. Sunday School at 9.45 a.m., and'2 30 p.m. Choir practice every Thursday at 7.30p.m'. Week Evening Services during Advent and Lent. Bersham School Church—Sundays. Evening Service at C 30 p m Holy Communion four times a year. Sunday School'at 2.30 p.m. Week Evening Services during Advent and Lent. Rhosnessney "School Church.—Sundays. Afternoon Service at 3 p.m. Sunday Schools.—A meeting of tlx- Sunday School Teachers is held at the Free School on the Monday Evening in every monthat 7.30 p.m,; and a Special Celebration of the Holy Communion once a quarter at the Parish Church. Visiting Association.—A meeting of the District Visiting Association is held at the Savings ThrllK on the second Monday Evening n each month at 7.30 p.m. BANGOR ISVCOED. Parish Ch»rch.—Sunday. Moraing Service st 11; After- noon Service at 3. The Holy Communion is administered on the la.st Sunday in each month, aud on the great Festivals, after the Morning Service. Sunday Schools at 10 a.m. and 2 pm Reotor, Rev. G. H. M-oGill; organ, the Misses McGill. Eyton School Chapel.—Evening Service on "Sunday at 6.30 the Rector of Marchwiel). BALA. Llajaycil—Welsh Service and Sermon at 10.30a.m. Christ CSaurch.—English Service and geriaos at 10.30 a.m.; Sunday School at 2 p.m.; English Service and Sermon at 3 15 p m • Welsh Service and Sermon at €.16 p.m. English Service on Saint days; Singing Class on Mondays at 7 p.m.; Service ajrd Sermon on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.; Bible Class on Fridays at p.m. > Adminiswationof the Holy Communion en the firsl and third Sundays in each month. BRYJKBO. St Mary's Church.—Sunday. Morning Service (in English et 10.30. Afternoon Service (in Welsh) at 3.15. Evening Service (in English) at of the Holy Communion on the tlrst and third Sundays iB the month and on Holy Days. Sunday Schools at 9 a.m. and 2 nm Singing Class on Tuesdays at 7.30 p.m. Service on Wednesdays at 7.30p.m. Rev W. Jones, vicar; Rev W. P. James curate; Mr J. Mathias, orgaaiet; Messrs J. E. Barker' and J. Smith, churchwardens Messrs O. May, John Powell Richard Jones, and A'ariah sidesmen. Bwlc'hrwyn School Church,—Sunday, Morning Services,— Welsh at 10; and English at 11.30. Evening Service (in Welsh) at 6.30. Sunday School at 2.30 Bible Class OR Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Rev J. W. Jones, M.A., curate-in- ERBIStroCK. Karaite Praver daily at 8, except on Sundays and Holy Days, when it is at 11; Evening P™yer en Sunday at a 30 Holy Communion on the flrst Sunday m the month after Morning Service; on the Third Sunday at 8 a.m. HOLYWELL. Parish Church.—English Services are-hcld on Sundays at 11 a.m and 6.30 p.m.; Welsh Services at 9.4S and t. p.m. There k a Welsh Service on Mondays at 7 p.m., and an English Service at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. Rev R. O. Williams, M.A., vicar Rev E. O. Williams, curate. LLANTTSILIO. Parish Church—Sundays. English Service at 3 p.m (3.30 from first of April to first of October), ateo^n the first Sunday in the month at 10.30 a.m., with celebration of Helv Com- munion. Welsh Service at 10.15 and 6 p.m. Holy Commu- nion on' ti»e third Sunday in the monU.—Rev J. S.Jones, V10ar' LLAN«0ELEN. Parish 'Church—Sunday. Matins at 10:30 a.m, Litany and Children's Service at 3.10 Evensoug at C. Sunday } school at 2 p.m. Holy Communion tvery Snnday and on Saints' Days at 6 a.m.: and on thefittt and third Sundays in each montii after the Morning Service. Daily Prayers at 8.4« a.m. and &p.m„ except on Wednesdays, when Evensong will be at 6 p.1Il. St John's Church (Welsh).-»Sunday. Morning Service at 10.30. Evesiine Service at 6. Sloly CoffiKunion on the first Sunday in each month after the Morning Service. Week day Service on Thursdays at 7 p.m. St Mary's Eglwyseg(Welsh).—Sunday-School at 10.0a,m. Afternoon Service at 2.30. Holy CoauMunion on the last Sunday in«wh month, when the Mornmg fceryice will be at 10 30 with ;Holy Communion. Sunday Scaool at 3.o0 p.m. Prayer Me«t*ng at 6 p.m. W«ok-day Service on the Friday next before-ihe Holy Communion at 7p.ni.; a Preparatory ¡ Meeting. ) St Davids, Fron —Sunday. I £ uglisdi-«ewice at 11 a.m Sunday School it 2 p.m. Litany and Children « Service at 3.15 p.m. Welsh Service at 6 p.m. Holy Communion on the second Sunday in each month after, the Mornmg Service. Berwyn Maasicn Room.—Sunday School at £ p.m. The serving Ministers are—The Rev E. Rhjs Jsmes, B.D., vicarfat tfie Vicarage; the Rev fflenry D. Morgan, B.A at Mr Price's, chentist, Bridge-street.; the Rev Richard Bowcott, R A at Mr ECwardsVlJonfectioner, Castle-street; the Rev William Davies, B.A.j^SI Mr ftroushton Janes', plumber, Market-street. MINEUA. St Mary's Parish Church.—Sundays. Morning Service at I 11 a.m. Afternoon" (Welsh) at 3.46 p.m. Evaniug Service, 6 30 p m Wednesday Evening, 7 pjm. Holy Ccmmunio!J in English 'on the fiW; Sunday in every month. -Sunday School at 2 p.m. Clergy, Rev J. WiWiawa, vicar; Rev J. Thomas, curate. Organist and choirmaster, Mr J. WilliaoES. Coedpoeth Iron Church.—Sundays. Morning Service at ;10.30 Evening Service at 6 pan. Holy Comrriumou (Welsh) on the second Sunday in the month, and in English <,n the fourth. Sunday School at 2 pjE. Weekdays.- Friday, et 7 p.M, y MALPAS. pariah Church.—Sundays. Mor«rn^ Prayer at 10.30. Litany at 11 a.m Communion Service with Sotmon and Cekebratiou of the Holy Communion aA n..t:5 a.m. above serwicesare said together, and commeueeJtt 10.30. The hours for the several services are given as nearly aa possible, for the convanience of those who for any reason aaay be prevented rom attending the whole of the sejvk>ef,,«r wish U. atten one of more only. Litany, Baptisms, and Sermon Ilt2:0 p.m Eventnc Praver and Serman at 6.30 Rec, Rev C. W. Cox and tfas Hon the Rev. W. Trevor Kenyon. Organic, Mis Daiiily. Choirmaster, Mr A. D. Cailcott. CARTON. ParUh Church.—Sundays. Morning Service at H. Hveuing Service at 6. Celebration ot the Holy Commuaion on the lirst Sunday in the month aS the Morning bemee. LHaay, Churchines, and Baptisms, at 3 p.m., on the first Sunday in the montb. Rector, Rev H, Mackenzie; organist, Mrs Battereby. OSWESTRY. Parish Church.—There is service in this Church on SBiidavs ilJ.O services hr-ld daily at 8.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. ■ ana on Thurs- days at 7.30 p m. The new edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern is used.—Sunday. Early celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Morning Prayer at 11: Venite, j Keiway in D Psalms, Goss in E, Diepin in B flat; Te Deum, Wesley in G; Jubilate, Ouseley in E; Hymns, 224, %14, and 235 Afternoon Service at 3.30 p.m (Special service used): Evening Service at 6.30 p.m.: Glorias, Ouseley in E Magni- ficat, Langdon in F; Nunc Dimittis, Hayes in E; Hymns, 431, and 252.—Rev W. Howell Evans, vicar; Mr G. Irane, organist. poNTBLYDDYN. Christ Chnixsh.—Sundays. Morning Senate at 10.30: After- coon Serrice at 3.15; Evening Service (in Welsh) at 6.30.- Wednesdays Welsh Service at 7 p.m. Leeewood National School—Sundays. J," SenriceCitt flngUA; at 6.a«.—Fridays. Bible Class at 7 r.m. { PwtMyd&w Sfctie&ftl S'^l.-Tbursdayij. l;j¡ .t RUTHIN. St. Peter's Church.—Snnday. New edition Hymns Ancient and Modern are sung. Morning Service at 11. Responses, Rimbault; Venite and Gloria tri, Battishill; Te Deum, Helmore; Jubilate, Rimbault; Creed, Cruse; Hymn, 808; Kyrie and Doxology, Gounod Hymn before Sermon, 365. Evening Service at 7: Responses, Rimbault; Gloria Patri, Bar- row; CaHtate, Bennett; Deus Misereatur, Barnby; Creed, Cruse; Hymn after Third Collect, 210; Hymn before Sermon, 248; Hymn after Sermon, 236 Miss Edwards, organist; Mr Lloyd, choirmaster. ■RHYL. Trinity Church.—Sundays. Morning Service at 9.45 Even- ing Service at 6.30; Bible Class at 2.30 p.m.—Thursday. Evening Service at 7. The above services are in Welsh. There is an English service at 11.15 a.m., at which all the sittings are free. St. Thomas' Church.-Sunday. The Hymn Book used at this Church is that published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. There is a rehearsal of Church music every Sunday after the Evening Service. All the sittings un- occupied after the commencement of the service are free. Mr F. Wrigley, organist. Yale-road Schoolrooms.—Sundays. Bible Class in the Afternoon at 2.15. Wellington-road Schoolrooms.—Sundays. Bible Class in the Afternoon at 2.15. Clwyd-street Schoolrooms.—Sundays. Bible Class in the Morning at 9.45, and ia the Afternoon at 2.30. RUABON. Parish Church.—Sundays. Morning Service at 11; Even- ing Service at 6.30; Welsh Service at 3.30 p.m. Baptisms at 4.30 p.m. Holy Communion at the Morning Service on the Srst Sunday in the mouth, and on the great festivals.—Week- days. Evening service and Sermon on Wednesdays at 7 and during Advent and Lent, Morning Prayer on Fridays at 11. There is a rehearsal of the Church music for the following Sunday after the Sunday Evening Service; also, a singing practice after every Wednesday Evening Service. The Hymn Book used isHymns Ancient and Modern." Sunday Schools Rev E. W. Edwards. M.A., vicar; Rev Stephen Thomas, B.A., curate; Mr Sparrow, organist and choirmaster; Mr R. Lloyd, parish clerk. Bryn School-Church.—Sundays. Morning Service at 11 a.m. Holy Communion on the third Sunday in the month. WYNNSTAY. Wynostay ChapeL-Sundays. Evensong at 3-30, and Sun- day School at 2.30 p-M. The Rev Studholme Wilson, M.A., private chaplain Mr Sparrow, organist (aad private organist to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart.,

FRANCE. M. Thiers was baried in Paris on Saturday. The religious ceremony was celebrated at the Church of Notre Dame do Lorette, the Archbishop of Paris having refused to sllow it to be performed at the much larger Church of the Madeleine, on the ground that it was not a state funeral. The remains weretinrerred at the ceme- tery of Fere Ie Chaise, six orations being delivered at the grave sidle by :\1M." Jules Grevy, Jules Siman, Julea Favre, Sylvestre ae Sacy (in the name of the French Academy), and Vitry (on behalf of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences). There was an immense crowd along the whole route of the funeral procession. Perfect order was preserved, and the cortege passed along in silence, except that a cry of Vive la Kepub- liqte" was occasionally raised, but was immediately chequed by the Republican leaders in the procession. Thr coffin was hidden "from view by the wreaths with which it was covered. The members of the committee of the Left Party in the Senate have sent to Madame Thiers an address thanking 'her on behalf of tboir colleagues for jthe courage and patriotism shown by ber in preferring the spontaneous tribute of a nations respect towards her deceased husband to the restrictions cl. a state funeral. M. Oambettaand his companion in'trouble, M. Murat, publisher of the ikpabiigue Franchise, seem to have been dealt with rather harshly by the Correctional Tribunal. They were changed with insulting Marshal Mchbøn and the Ministry in a speech delivered by M. Gambetta and published in M. Murats papor. The council en- gaged by M. <?aaibetta was unable to discharge his duty owing to an attack tt paralysis, aad another council de- clined to take the case on tbe ground of insufficient notice. Application was therefore made for an adjourn- ment of the trial; but this being refused, neither of 'the defendants appeared on Tuesday before the Tribunal, which passed upon M. Gambetta a sentence of three months imprisonment, and ordered him to pay a. Sne of two thousaed francs. Gambetta has lodged an appeal against the sentence.

THE WAR. GKLlT BATTLE AT PLE? <?. A. A WEEK'S BOMBARDMENT. Bunaj the last ten days the events in BKigt.r.a have been of the greatest possible significance, and the crisis of the 'i'.r may said to have been reached. €E Fridav morning the Kusso-KacDaanian column around Plevna, said to number 100,000 iaec, began to ciGse in nearer to the Terkish position, under cover of a fierce artillery fire, Very little progress appaars to have been mf-de on that d-iy, but the attack was renewed next morning, and it is ciaimsd in a despatch fiom the Russian headquarters thattcwardB evening their left wing succeeded in occu- pviu £ certain heights south of the town. As a loss of 500.is admitted in tbit: portion of the attazking force. while the despatch says thHt" our losses m the centre and on the right wiufj are not great, 00 the whole," it may be safely assumed th&t the assail&cts suffered | severely in achieving what seems to be a-very modified success. On Sunday and Monday of Plevna was being continued The Emperor of Russia was1 present en the sold of battle. According to a Simes telegram from'the Russian bead-quarters the troops were to assault the strong- holds on Friday. The fire of the artillery from the batteries was supported by heavy gucs scattered along the allied position. Field bari-teriee posted iccre closely to the works aided in Ike bombard- ment and searched out the trenches with shell, while the heavy.f^uns scourged the parapets of the redoubts with fire. It was anticipated in th. Itessian camp thet this heavy cannonade would so dismantle the defensive works and cow the spirit of the garrison that the assault wosld be delivered <OCL Friday afternoon. The storming columns were by that time ready formed, and lay:in advance of the batteries among the standing iIndian corn, which clothes the undulating ground, while the shells from either side whistled over their heads. The supports reserves were also held ready to advance, but kept out of fire on the .-reverse slopes of the hills on which the batteries were placed. But the bombardment did not effect the results that were expected fiom it, and when the-enn went down I mot only were the Turkish guns not silenced, but they were answering energetically to the fire of the field batteries of the attack. Ey Sunday, heavier guns were brought up and the bombardment pro- ceeded. But the landmarks chosen fcy the Russian officers to regelate the aim of their artillery- men during the darkness muet have been in- accurately choscn, for each morning saw repaired the damage done to the Ottoman parapets during the previous day, and the Turkish artillery kept re opening fire with undiminished force. For ceveral days the Russian infantry mzjs, drawn out ready to make the assault; each evening the battalions were-cent back to their bivouacs without 'being led to the attack. The only success that the Russian official account of September 11th could claim, was the capture by General £ kobelef, the hero of Lovatz, on one of the heights neighbouring to Plevna. This" it is said, would enable the Mus- covite guns to bombard the enemy's positions and tie town itself. The advantage thuc gained has dot been productive of any decisive result. The three redoubts between Gravitz and Plevna, which form the key of the outer Turkish line of defence, zree still so little injured that the Russian engineers recoil from the idea of sending columns forward with the view of earrying them by escalade. It is thcught that there is a possibility of the Russian bombardment dying away from the arkaustion of stores. The roali towards Widdinna.s pparently hoon left open, and by this the Turfc can draw their food and supplies. THE BATTLE OF KAZALIIPX). Details of this battle fought last weak, have been received. It began ty an attack upon the part of the Russians on the advance posts of the Turkink armv on the plateau between Vhe Beli Lorn and the iEara Lorn. The Turks being reinforced, took the offensive, and drove them back to their entrenchments. Further troopti.arriving, the Tuiks carried the entrenchments by storm. About mid-day the Russians, having lost their hold oc the entrenchmer.ts, retired ia confusion .down the heighte-into the valley of the Kara Lam, and At once crossed the river, under aover of their guns. -8G eager were the Turks that one battalion, led by its major, crossed the river and mounted the heights into Ablava. Finding itcelf unsupported; and in danger of being sur- rounded it fell back to the river. The Russian account states that the Russians were much inferior in numbers, and defended their position with great obstinacy but were compelled at last to fall back on Ostriaa with great loss. The Russian 6elumn at Ablava was also assailed by ■& large force, but repulsed all attacks, and maintained its position. Ga Saturday the Turkish advance was renewed. Nednt Pacha crossed the river with kis divisbn, and After a severe struggle occupied Opaca, a village lying about half way between Popkei and Ablava. The Turkish lost in the encounter was six hundred men. In consequence of this reverse the Russians evacuated Popkoi, and fee surrounding country and fell back by the Biela road. j Since this battle Mehemet AU seems to have been very apathetic. A ureek has passed since he fought the action. But the Cesarewitch's army was allowed to fall back leisurely without being hampeced in its retreat, and permitted, without moleetalion, to take up fresh positions to bar the passage of the Jantra, Nor as yet have we 'any account that it has been here assailed. The troops of Mehemet seem to be exercised in parade move- ments a.nd driltgrollnd manoeuvres in the highlands between the Levi: nd the Jantra, when they should be hurryinft by forced usareheE to the relief uf PlevD CAPTURE OF NICKSIC3. Nickaics has at last fallen. The Montenegrins carried all the defences, and the garrison and inhabitants were permitted to retire to Gatcho, and effected their retreat in safety. The fall of Nicksics will be a matter of great mortification to the Turks but frem a military point of view, it ought never to have been defended, for its position is entirely isolated, and the only approach being up the Duga Pass, its relief has cost the Turks thousands of men, who might have been of vital use upon the Danube. This event probably closes the Montenegrin campaign for the year, as the season is too far advanced to render active operations much longer possible. THE ATTITUDE OF SERVIA. The Servians have been waiting the result of events at Plevna before embarking in the war. It is reported at I Belgrade from Turn Severin that the Prefect there has been ordered to have everything in readiness for 50,000 men of the Russian Army, who will march through Turn Seuerin on their way to cross the Danube and enter Servian territory. During the march the Staff will remain in Turn Severin. On the Servian bank every- thing is prepared for the crossing of the Russians. Operations will be directed against Widin and Sophia, while on the Drina the Servians will keep a corps of I observation. The acknowledged Turkish loss in the Shipka Pass amounts to 12,000 men, the flower of the army. It is said the Russfcns have removed the bridge at Pirgos and taken it to Petroscau. higher up the river. The officers of the English fleet in Besika Bay have subscribed a considerable stun in aid of the Turkish wounded. I Important operations were, according to the latest intelligence received from Erzeroum, shortly expected in 1 the Ardahan districts. j There is no foundation whatever for the rumours of negotiations for an alliance between Greece and Russia binding the former to military intervention against Turkey. According to intelligence received at Constanti- nople, on Wednesday, from Shumla, Suleiman Pasha had crossed the Balkans and occupied Bostefe, south of Gabrova. The Porte is about to require all foreigners coming to Turkey te have a passport, which must be exhibited to some Turkish authority before the holder can quit the Sultan's territory. When travelling in railway carriages in Bulgaria the Circassians kept worrying the guard by firing out of the windows. Anything just in sight, from a. Bulgarian girl in a red petticoat to a buffalo, served as marks for them. It is stated that immediately 'after the fighting at Shipka the British Government addressed the question to the Powers whether they did not think the moment opportune for attempting mediation The answers are said to have been encouraging. The Etrperor of Germany telegraphs his good wishes to the Russian regiment bearing his name, trusting that its colours will be adorned with fresh laurel wreaths, in the present war, and that the regiment will come out of the fight as brilliantly as his own soldiers did seven ye&rs ago. i Seme difficulty has arisen between the Porte &nd the Khedive on account of the Egyptian Convention respect- ing the suppression of the slave trade in the Red Sea. The Porte objects that the clause respecting the right of search aad seizure exceeds the powers of the Kheiivej as it partly relates to waters which are entirely Ottoman. The Russians report that at the capture of .1 of Loftcha, on the Srd instant, they took two Turkish standards and a quantity of arms and ,ammunition. They baried 2,200 of the Turkish dead. A large number of Turks were sabred by the cavalry in the pursuit. The Russian loss did not exceed 1,000 men. Prince Charles has issued a proclamation to the 1/. Roumanians, dated from his head-cuarters at Poudim, in which he details the reasons which have imperatively required him to take up arsis against Turkey. The address concludes thus —" By the side of the Russian ifiag, on which is inscribed The emancipation of the Christian peoples of the East/ we raise the Roumanian flag, which bears the device Independence of Roumania"

TEE ASSISTANTS' EAILL.Y CLOSING MOVEMENT AT WREXHAM- TO THE CDITOR OF TRK GUARDIAN. Sir,—Kindly allow me through the medium of the t&uardian to call attention to the above move- ment. Once more the drapers' assistant*; are making an effort to obtain early closing of the respective places .of business at which they are employed, and tæ get some fhours universally adopted at which all drapery establishments should cease tc be open at & certain time. At present we have no stated hours of closing, but every one followe his own course independently. The disadvantages of such a state of things, both to employer and employed is apparent, as it also pladte the tradesmen vrho close first at a disadvant- age, besides which every draper, ts well as his assistants, know that t1:.3 business transacted durirg our present long hours could easily be condensed into a shorter space of time, without inconvenient and from a point of economy as well as duty to the assistants, ajrould be advisable. The hours which we hope by the consent of our employees eventually to establish, a.re seven o'clock ordinal^- evenings, eight o'cloei on Thursday, and ten o'clock on Saturday, which the general public, I am sure, will agree with us, is quite long enough to be con- fined in the unhealthy atmosphere of our gas-lighted shops. Our present hours of closing are too late, to admit of us attending any meetings for our amuse- assent or instruction which maybe held in the town. The proposed hours would secure us this benefit, as well as add a, little to our limited hours of rre- a&oa and mental culture. I think that a fair consideration of these state- ments will elicit on our side the public sympathy, and secure to us their universal co-operation: T say j co-operation, for by making their purchases early in the d&y, they can materially assist us in our < efforts. | We ask only what iø allowed to citr more fortun- ate fellow aeeistanter in neighbouring towns, and wfcat ha. horc enjoyed by OUT. predeoesHoro it. Wrexham at a time when business was much more brisk and more difficulties stood in the way than is the case at present. We hope therefore that this, our reasonable not be disregarded by our employers when the deputation calls upon them. ONE OF THEM.

LLANGOLLEN LOCAL BOARD \1. THE CLERK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN. That inasmuch as Mr Richards is professionally employed by 80 numy conflicting interests, and th£r{Yy unable im- partially to advise the board, it is inexpedient that he should continue to act as its clerk." SIR,—This is the resolution of a well-known caucus meeting of members of the board hatched in camera obscura, and which for the first time saw the light of day in a public meeting which was duly reported in your columns in the early part of August last. This is a serious charge to bring against a professional man, for it implies pro- fessional dishonesty. How was this charge sus- tained ? After much flippant talk about doing what was disagreeable, &c., and after a vain attempt te trap the clerk into resignation, the chairman gravely summed up the grievances of the board into two heads—Mr Richards was clerk to the magistrates and also secretary to the railway company, and therefore he could not impartially advise the board. Hence we must conclude that the interests of the Llangollen Local Board are, or soon will be in coniict with the bench of magistrates and the railway directors. When pressed, however, the chairman was forced to admit that there was no actual conflict between these august bodies, but that he was simply advancing a suppositious case; thus admitting that on the strength of supposed conflicting interests the clerk must be summarily dismissed after twenty years' service with a sup- posed slur on his character. This is the sum and substance of the whole case as stated by the chair- man and it is perfectly astounding that eight men can be found walking the streets of Llangollen who have the audacity to face the public with such a trumped-up indictment as this. Surely this can- not be the real reason why Mr Richards is so sum- marily dismissed. What can it be ? The public have a right to know. As the case was bad, so also were its supports. No one knows better than the chairman, whatever may be his own advanced ideas with regard to Bible truths, the great respect which Welshmen have for Holy writ. Hence he must needs pander to this respect for the grand old book by misquot- ing from its Holy pages. No one knew better than he did what a clever thing it was to misquote Scripture in suc-L company, but he must have for- gotten for the ncnce the signal failure which speedily overtook the first one who eared knowingly to misquote Scdpture for his own fell purposes. The bait was greedily swallowed by an honourable M.B., who, in support of the chairman, said in great simplicity of heart "That as Mr Richards had so many offices-at least three—the Bible had long ago settled the whole question: for it is impossible two masters, That we know is unanswerable as regards wisdom and truth; and therefore upon that ground I think Mr Richards cannot say that it is proper to do that which the Bible says is not right." Let the author of this remarkable speech read the context of his garbled misquotation and ponder upon its application. How sad to see men who are leagued together to shut out the Bible from our board schools thus lugging it in so unceremoniously into their Local Board to settle a disreputible squabble by a misquotation. It must indeed be a bad case which claim no better support. There are also of the number of our local M.B.'s two who are commissioned to represent the Majesty of the Crown on the magisterial bench of Llan- gollen. The chairman of th-e boarr-d when it suits his purpose plays off one of these trumps against the other. One of them nobly stood out for the honour of the bentt. and beidly repudiated the idea of having anything to do with caucus meetings and short notices, -&o. He went in for public meetings and for everything open and abovefcoard. Mr Richards- had never given partial, and therefore dishonest advice to the magistrates. It was an insult to the benches well as its clerk to make any such insinuations. The other magis- irate supported the resolution, and wrote even from iParis on its behalf, in <2rder to eep the team tight to vote as dummies as they had promised to do in -the notorious caucus meeting which he had also | attended. By such sc. course this M.B. stands self- condemned, fox if Mr Kichards is not fit to be clerk to the Local Board, c fotihri, he is not fit to be I' clerk of the magistrates and secretary to the rail- way company, of which it eeems that this M.B. is also a director. How can this M.B. serve the Local Board and the Beach; and'the railway company— these conflicting iEtereste—how can he serve so many masters a cashier the clerk for dsing the same thing ? Such is the dilemma in which he has placed himself. Others *are also in a similar dilemma, for scsse of then have something to do with the gas company, and we know as a matter of fact that our Local Boa?dis often in conflict with this company. The purity of the board demands that they should resign their seats, for it seems that no man who has -any other interest to serve can, at the sasn-e timer~eerve the Llangollen Local Board. There is a very Tulgar tone about the "whole debate. The only idea vhich the members seem to have of their relation to their clerk is that of master, and he their humble servant at.£25 a year. Is jit not ratter an honorary office, and one of mutual trust and confidence ? To this it may be said that after 30 years of faithful service the present members have lest all trust and confidence in their clerk;, and wish to change him. Be it so. But why not do this in an open manner ? Why call a caucus meeting in camera obscura, where assertions seem to have been made that cannot stand the test of daylight. Much stress is laid upon the impossibility of Mr Richards acting in a double capacity without being partial either to the bench or to the board. Is it not'possible that members of the board may have Acted in a double capacity of that they have dared to say in the dark aboat MriRiehards what they would not venture to state in open daylight ? It appears to me and to many others that the resolution at the head of this letter if it is fairly to represent what has been said and done, should be revised and stand thus;—" That; inasmuch as Mr Richards is profeasionaltvempJoyed by Squire Bieirin as his agent, and the board have been signally beaten by the squire in their injudicious lawsuit with him, it is expedient in the face of such conflicting interests to cashier the agent after repeated iaitures to crtish the squire and to dismiss hiznfrom being clerk to the Llangollen Local Board: Is not such a policy ae this liable to the imputation of appearing a spiteful policy, and that 'by a public board acting in their public capacity:? I will not farther trespass upon your valuable space to-day, but will en another occasion-ehow that the advice which the. clerk gave to thesehool board in their squabble with Squire Dickie was the best possible advice, and if they had acted upon it they >would have saved the public purse mueh ucaecesary .expense, and tfeemseh es much discredit. AN IMPARTIAL LOOKER-ON.

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j IKON. I BARROW-IKJF!ILBi-?ESS.—The iroE trail is remarkaWv I steady in all tie various departments associated with hema- tite, and although dur-ng the past week cr two the i- j.iue*, -lone has been a good average, and with .the orders in .and the business likely to be done before tie close of th 3 hipping season, there is every reason to beiieve there will .be a satisfactory winter, a.nd that local smelting furnace* j works, aad other industries connected with "the siacie trade will find a season of good eiopioyuject^itunnt- the 5> jraimng months of tho_*resent year undsor js-oiae tiiuein the early purt of next year. Prices are steadily ia.Vt, :md the srles reported are at fv 11 values or thereabj.rts Iron ore is I celling well at unchanged quotations. Ai.1 t.b"- mill- are a; wrk in the productioT of steel rails <" eL"1 iij -tcl.. it steel. There is (inly a fair trade in iron 'sLijmuildixnir bat «>rne local builders are in favoured positions. General in- dustries are pretty regv larly employed, -and it is likelv thev will remain so. There i" a quiet demand ior 000, and price", are easy. Foreign shipring brisk. JTIDDLESBEOUGH. Tuesday.-A-. to-da^V market pig iroc was firmer, there I.,e:-ug better inquiries* for forward de- livery. The firmness that arose early in Augrst and gave way again to weak holders is present again. -No. to-day was fully 40s Gd No, 1, .44? tid, being an advance oi 3d on last weel- forge iron. 9s 6d. Hopkin, Gill-e, -lid, (\1., Middles- borough, are offering a Epecial brand of' the Danks proof s at LS. WOLVERHAMPTON; Wednesday.—tew <^ulities of hetaatite pigs were to tojie had at a drop ol Is id io L's 6d upon previous purchases. One transaction ,W;I,S at 70s. Barrow hematites re firm at a shade ender 7-V, Staffordshire mine pigs werr 80. Middlest-oroujrh forge iroia' was a trifle stronger. Beat bars and boiler plates steady. Galvanising sheets active, and inferior qualities of finished iron no less in demkund. 1I at iirJL. rates. Best coal for smelting and manufacturing purposes in ^rowinjr .r-uestat sellers',full rates.

AGRICULTURE The MwkUiiM Exprux save—" Durill the past L- dry days a considerable quantity .Q1 corn has been secured, al- though it is feared in anything but prime condition. Much still remains in the fields, but tiere now apuears reasotable hope that the crops, at any rate in England, have suffered their worst £ rcm the weather, iu Scotland, howercr, s large proportion of the cereal crops is pet uncut, oats in some dis- tricts beingf-elorted quite green. On the lighter soils some barley has i;t>en cut. but the frreater poition of the croj) is yet unsecured, and will probably turn out coarse and aisl coloured on thc-asbing, eVen if w,) sprouting tJke" plaet The .e,rol), which a^r-ear lightly to turn out beat, as far as yield is concerned, are oats, peas, and beans, wheat bemg- largely dercient. Boot, do not appear to have made much progress ci late, and potai oes are effected by disease in nearly every district. In short, the yield of'agricultural produce generally is far from abundant. The offerings of English wh^f.t have been fair. bc>th at Mart-lane and in the country markets, hut a very i:ma. proportion of samples have been ia cjn- diticu. Foreign gixin has improved Is t0 2s."

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The sudden death is announced of the son of Rothschild. A Nottingham milk dealer has been heavily fined for Belling watered milk. General Grant was presented with the freedom of Inverness on Saturday evening. Liverpool's contributions to the Indian Famine Relief Fond now amount to .£15,000. Mr E. Dwyer Gray, M.F. for Limerick county, has been received into the Roman Catholic Church. The senior of the Mormon twelve apostles," John T&ylor, has been appointed successor to Brigham Young as president of that community. A bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister has been passed by the Legislature of Natal, and approved by the Lieutenant-Governor of the colony. Professor John Morris has announced his resignation of the chair of Geology and Mineralogy at University College, London, which he has held for more than 20 years. The lIon. W. F. Tollemache, M.P., ha.s been accidentlv shot in the leg by his son while out shooting near Stone Lodge, Cheshire. The injury is by no means serious. A large portion of the premises of Messrs W. and A. K. Johnstone, the well-known publishers of atlases, &c., in Edinburgh, has been destroyed by nre. The loss is estimated at £12,000. Considerable sensation was caused in Bow-street Police Court on Saturday, when Senior Chief-Inspector Clarke was placed in the dock with the prisoners Meiklejohn, Drnscovich, Palmer, and Froggatt. The supply of live stock and fresh meat at Liverpool last week was in each case very small. Of the former only 70 head of oxon arrived, while the quantity of fresh beef was 1,850 quarters and 202 sides. An entire quarter of the town of Dieppe has been destroyed by a fire which broke out on Monday night, and was not got under until noon next day. The damage done is said to amount to a million francs. The Government of New Brunswick has written to the Lord Mayor to thauk his lordship, and through him the public, for the liberal and timely assistance rendered the sufferers by the late disastrous fire at St. John's. M. Thiers' entire fortune is valued at 16,000,000 francs. He made 2,000,000 francs by his 4* History." The bulk of his possessions he left to the widow for whose devoted affection he expressed himself profoundly grateful. The Rye Highway Board, acting under the advice of counsel, has decided to prosecute the owners of all trac- tion engines with "rough-soled" wheels which shall be found travelling in the district after the 15th of the pre- sent month. With regard to the famine in India, a private telegram from Madras says there has been fine rain everywhere during the past week in the districts dependent on the south-west monsoon, and that there are fair prospects for the later crops. By direction of the Home Secretary, 1G distressed British subjects from Constantiaople who arrived at New- haven in one of the Brighton Company's Dieppe steamers on Tuesday afternoon were sent on per rail by the New- j haven parochial authorities to their destination At the Holyhead Petty Sessions, on Monday, Francis Jones, farmer, was charged with neglecting to report to the local authority that a heifer upon his farm was affected with pleuro-pneumonia. The offence was con- sidered proved, and defendant was fined £20 and costs, Mr Butt, in a letter to the secretary of a local com- mittee of his constituents, writes :—" I am not without hope that a calm and careful review of our present posi- tion and prospects may lead to the suppression of that dissention which appears now to threaten the Irish cause." Several new and powerful steamships are about to be built for the Cunard line. Messrs Thompson, of Glas- gow, have been entrusted with the construction of three the first of these is to be a steamship of 5,000 tons for the Atlantic service, and will be the largest vessel in the line. A boy five vears of age, named Dawe, son of an ont- fitter, died on Tuesday at Barnstaple, from hydrophobia, The child was bitten by a retriever a month ago, and before the animal was driven off it had inflicted 2IJ wounds upon the child, who was much injured and considerably disfigured. A rather serious mutinous outbreak is reported from the Curragh Camp. Discontented, it is said, with the amount of extra duty imposed on them, a comber of tht men of the 19th Hussars left the camp late at night, but quiet!y returned on being followed by pickets. S^venty-Sve men were placed under arrest. Iuquefcts were held on Saturday by the borough coroner of Liverpool on the bcdyof a woman, aged 60 and a man of the age of 40, who had died of heart disease, brought on by excessive drinking. A verdict to that effect was returned in each instance. In the case of the man it was stated that he indulged in a spree extending from Good Friday till Wednesday week. It is proposed to erect a monument to Mr Roebuck during his lifetime. The recommendation comes from a clergyman, who suggests that the working men of Sheffield should erect a statue of Tear'em," with the cloeing words of his Cutlers' Hall speech inscribed on the pedestal—" Peace, peace, my coontrymen, but dout be afraid of war." The demolition of a rookery of old houses in Kidder- minster was proceeded with last week. Notice had been served on the tenants, but they refused to leave, and the houses were pulled down over their heads, and it was only "hen their goods were damaged by the falling bricks and tiles that they removed. At night the womea aad children have sheltered themselves in the rains, and the men carouse around a camp fire in the open air. An aged man, named Francis Harvey, a has James Williams has been charged at Dorchester with begging a penny at the residence of Mr Middleton, a Dorset- shire magistrate. The prisoner had been convicted nine times, and had undergone penal servitude. He asked the magistrates to have mercy on him for the sake of his old woman at Yeovil," but they committed him for trial at the g tarter session?. At the last meeting of the Liverpool Town Council the question of extending the tramway system throngh- out the town came under consideration, and a number of recommendations upon the matter were brought forward. It was ultimately decided to take no immediate steps, but to instruct a committee to negotiate with the tramway company as te the terms upon which a portion of the lines could be purchased and to bring np a report upon the-srbject. At the Greenwich police -court on Tuesday, Thomas Hyslope, aged 19, and John Dinham, 16, bakers, et Portsmouth, were charged before Mr Slade with stealing by means of a threat by presenting pistols, from the person of Mr Hodgson, assistant solicitor to the Treasury, the sum cf £li 5s, after stopping his carriage at Biack- heath, on the 28th May. The prisoners were remanded till Saturday. Pistols, and copies of" The Yoong Bnton," Boys' Standard," and "Claude Duval," were is their possession when apprehended. A gentieuian residing in London reported to the Great Western Railway Company's officials at Birmingham, on i Tuesday, that he had left a bag oontaining £50D in notes f and cash in a railway carriage. He had come froa Warwick races, and the fact of leaving the bag in the carriage did not occur to him notil after he had got cut of the station. As a great many extra trains had been running during the day, it wa« difficult to identify the carriage in which he had been riding. A search ol several -(cains was made, but without success. The following morning a porter employed b tht company went to Quodsworth to clean soffie"carriage? which had been ese- £ on the previoui day. On enr-ehop « com- parfmeDt of one of the carriages he found the missing containing; the whole uf the n>on*v. He at onee cominunior.ted with Mr Bmlicson, the divisional saperin- j tendent. The owner was t»ent for. und the r»a« *nd its contc-m.-delivered an to him. He pretected the porter THE Pao-GE MTSTERT.—In this case all :1e witnesses have received subpoenas to attend the forthcoming trial I at the Central Criminal Court, which is to commence on the lfth inst. Lord Onief Justice Cjckburr n to preside. Patrick Staunton, who wat coEfcned in Newgate of twins, has quite recovred; and a; thl" other j defendants tee iu the eDjoyment of good average health nè, moreover, as it is stated that the defecw in prepared t .-are is no reason to think that there be toy postponement cf the nase. Both the children of n; Patrick sltaunton and Alice Rhodes have Wen ttsvay from the mother? In accordance with pr.&oti rates waich prohibit the suckling of a child after cer:<uc ume- ay the mother. AMERICAN <jossir ON ENGUSH HEIK.EESE-. Lon- doE letter in an American ptper savs:—Tr.-c ?5chest heiress now on the engaged list is Miss Craw«Uy. the daughter of the Vulcan of the Hills in Soutr Wales. Her dowrv is$ti<S to be £;:)00,000, and be i; ttoat to bestow this with her blind nnd heirt upon 1. 'neflew barrister on the South Waies, circuit. ] sbcaid be v-fery happy to take her sister oa the "itJIle terms, if I felt inclined to marry—for These ironmasters' daughters have a very considerate tvar of selecting poor men for tbir husbands, ior Elliott's daughter marri-d one of the special c ;"t"poo- dents of the Daily and a few days o heireai of a Durham colrery proprietor bolted with the e.i tor ei a noith country hewspaper. It is said ot ore Indies, perhaps it w uia be cruel to ssv «i.-r, Ior the marrenvre. all. was innocent eciy:t—that meeting with a gentiemon oa board a ftiaacei whieji was engaged in laving- a deep-sea cable IL A'iuatie, they very natarally took to flirting on the cuaiierdedk. The lady was a11 aioue except with ptJpa. tall han6- some, of cours-e »oon ingratiated himself daughter. One day. Snding himself >1,{t, t pro- posed. there and then, •• Hush said the -y-°p« is asleep cu the soia and might hear yoa. L • y* taiq a stroll on deck." "I am very sorry," fNhl tf.5 i&dv, Ie- sun-ng the conversation en seek," f< but o* c'Lcrse yon did not know when you were lalkicg to aM t.itG vfcat I was engaged. But i have sister at v.c is exactly like me. w .uldtiot know uyaptr Mbee we return home I will introduce you Tfce introduction followed in due course, and the vwrne* monthi. *4) tct-u fa f><cx_v. •

THE LATE INQUEST AT DENBIGH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CTIAKDIAN. SIR,—1 have read Another Observer's." letter in your paper of last Saturday on the above subject, pur- porting to be a reply to my strictures. The letter so entirely fails to answer them, and is so evidently intended to sou-ad a blast for the Coroner, that, but for one sentence, I should have treated the poor effort with silent contempt. Another Observer gives as a reason for net calling -Dr Hughes the Coroner's desire to save the county the amount of a fee. He either is or pretends to be ignorant of the law which prevents an ofneer of a public institution receiving the usual honorarium for medical »videcce in cases where the isquiry is concern- ing a death in a public hospital, so that t'natconsideratioe can Dot have formed any ground for his conduct. Bet assamin? the case had been otherwise, and that Br Hughes's evidence would have tost the county one guinea, surely it was the Coroner's duty to have availed himself of it, rather than have acocpted the evidence cfc-s gentleman who had not seen the patient for four days before he died. Let "Another Observer" ecpkm this coaciuct of tie Coroner if he can, rather than waste time and fulaoce words in praise of him.—Yours, i&c., 0BSEET«3X,

TEE ALLEGED POLICE IRREGULARITIES FLINTSHIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE GUARD:AN. Sis.—You will greatly oblige by allowing me a sze&Il space in your paper to correct a report which I lead in one of the Wrexham papers the 8th inst., ucder the above heading. The wnter says he is glad that-soace of the irregularities indulged in are likely to befllrther bought to the notice of the that there are many kinds of them, and not the least serious is the fact th&t it often occurs'ihat prisoners are\tept for forty-eight hours in the cells without being brought before a magistrate, I j and in defiance of the law. When such f agrant ir- regularities as the one reported last week, the keeping, of ittdividuals more than twenty-four hours in custody without a lawful remand, and the searching of booses vithout warrants, are contiwarily and persielently io- bulged in, the powers that be would do well to inquire into the circumstances and see whether a reform cannot II be effected." I cannot for the life of me find where the writer Habeas Corpus" has received his informative from. He weald do well if he-would only try again and see if he cannot get at the trcth of all the above assor- j tiens, for he aeems to have lest himself in lo7e to the police and has lost all control >cf truthfulness of reporL t am not aware of any one that he refers to having been j leaked up lasi week that had been in the lock-up more than 24 hours The man referred to was waly taken into custody-at about 7.30 pm. on Saturday evening, ] and he was brought before the magistrates et 11 a.m. 1 oc the following Monday, so the prisoner could not be brought sooner unless this (i well-wisher of the police < be able to get the law changed and get magistrates to take the Bench on Sundays. Neither am I aware that ¡ prisoners are kept for 48 hours>without a remd, unless the prisoner locked up of. Saturday and kept till Monday. Sometimes the magistrates are very difficult to be had. I am, not aware that any houses have been searched by the police without e warrant for some years past- It is easily seen that the writer has been at a loss to know hew best to cooepliment the Flintshire ¡ police. 1 am -afraid he has gk en vent to his private feeding and has forgotten the acany kind terms he lias received at the "èands of the Flintshire police.—Yours I k, FAIR PLAT.