The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

EVENTS OF NEXT WEEK. MONDAY, December 27th.—Bank Holiday. Mr D'Oyly Carte's Co. The Mikado at Rhyl. The Anglesey Harriers will meet at Valley. Col. Dyke at Penrhyn Hall. TUESDAY, December 28th.—Gynnasiuoo. The Mikado" at Rbyl, WEDNESDAY, December 29th.—Sale by Mr John Pritohard at Brynhyfryd, Beaumaris. The Mikado" at Llandudno. Primrose League entertainment ai the National School, Garth- road. Dancing class at Penrhyn Hall. THURSDAY, December 30Lh. The Mikado" I!.t Llandudno. Gynnasium. FRIDAY, Deoember 31st.-Closing of Mr R. Davies's preseLtation fund. The Mikado" at Bangor, also on Saturday.

CHRISTMASTIDE. I THOUGH CHRISTMASTIDE comes but once a year, it is extremely difficult to say anything concerning it which can claim the charm of originality. Christmastide, ever since its in- stitution, has met with the favour of all sorts and conditions of Christians throughout the wide, wide world; and it is one of those visitors always welcome upon a return visit. CHARLES DICKENS -who has been aptly described as the spokesman of the people during the present century, the poet of their common joys and sorrows, the laureate of their vulgar !ife -says that the man must, be a misanthrope indeed in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused -in whose mind some pleasant association is not awakened-by the recurrence of Christmas. Yes; the individual who hates Christmas time cannot escape from the reflection of being a hater of mankind. The observance of Christmas has varied in the past, and it will, no doubt, vary considerably in the future. We who live in the nineteenth century are told that Christmas has been shorn of many of its ancient and festive honours. That, no doubt, is true; but for all that Christmas is still a period of delightful excitement in England, Wales, and Ireland, though Scot- land bestows more favour upon New Year festivities. The preparations observable on every side for the social board that is again to unite friends aul kizidred-tlie presents of good cheer passing and repassing, those tokens of regard and quickners of kind feeling—the evergreens distributed about the houses and churches, emblems of poace and gladness—all these have the most pleasiÚg effect in produc- ing fond associations, and kindling benevolent sympathies. Waits are almost unknown in Wales, but in those places in England where their rude minstrelsy breaks upon the hours of a winter night, they are rewarded more for a reverence of an ancient custom than any high appreciation of their vocal and instrumental abilities. They conjure up before the listener peace and goodwill to men, drive away dismal reminiscences, and make most, if not all who are fairly blessed with this world's comforts, feel for the adversity and misfortune of those who live around them. Tiiere are, it is un- happily true, hundreds, 5nay thousands of SCIIOOGES, but many such case-heardened wretches are annually compelled at Christmas to throw off the mask of misery, and aid others whose condition is infinitely more deplorable than their own. Yes; amidst the general call to happiness, the bustle of the spirits, the stir of the affections which prevails at this period, what bosom can remain insensible 1 Christmas is, in the truest sense of the word, the season of regenerated feeling-the season of kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the palace, the hall, and the cottage, but the genial flame of charity in the heart. The scene of early love again rises green to memory beyond the stetile waste of years and the idea of home, fraught with the fragrance of home-dwelling joys, re-animates the drooping spirit-as the Arabian breeze will sometimes waft the freshness of the dis- tant fields to the weary pilgrim of the desert. CHARLES DICKENS did well when he said let no one select the merriest of the three hun- dred and sixty-five days in the year for doleful recollections, but let everybody put a good face on whatever trouble may be upper- most in the mind. The festival of Christ- mas comes but once a year let that one day above all others be happy. This is an age of philanthropy, and attempts are made to make even the prisoners and paupers in our land forget their unhappy positions oil Christmas Day. It is by endeavouring to make others happy that we can alone hope to realise the true joys of the present festive season—a season which seems to have magic in its very name. To one and all our readers-high, low, rich, and poor-we heartily wish A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AXD A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.

I FAIR AND UNFAIR WARFARE AGAINST THE CHURCH. AT the request of theLord BISHOP OF BANGOR, a religious census was recently taken in the parish of Bangor, which includes Pentir, Glas- ynfryn, and Penrhosgarnedd. The work was entrusted to forty persons, who, we have every reason to believe, conscientiously discharged their somewhat onerous duties. The result of their combined labours is as follows :-Church people, 3430; Methodists, 2843; Independents, 1200; Wesleyans, 1020; Baptists,674 Roman Catholics, 349. The total of these figures is 9516, so that it will be seen that there is a large number of persons in the parish who habitually absent themselves from public worship. The parish of Bangor has a population of 14,957 therefore, according to the census before us, no less than 5441 men, women and children attend neither church nor chapel; but the magnitude of these figures is greatly lessened when we consider the children who are too young to attend a place of worship. The census is highly satisfactory to the National Church. It proves that the Church in this district is not as weak as is generally supposed, but that it heads the list among the various denomina- tions. The Church census was openly and fairly taken. Dissenters and Churchmen iilike were asked to say what places of wor- ship they and their families attended, and they are described accordingly. This is a far more just method of preparing statistics for the use of Parliament than by taking the names and numbers of those who attend a particular church upon a particular Sunday. The publisher of a certain local news- paper issued a circular, on the 10th inst., to the leaders of Dissent in Carnarvonshire, requesting them to secretly take a census of Church-people on the 19th inst. Whether the wishes of the publisher of gur contem- porary were complied with, we are unable to say but this we will say, that if a census was taken last Sunday, it would be thoroughly worthless. Sunday last was a bitterly cold day, and snow lay on the ground in many districts to the depth of several inches. Yet this was the day upon which the Genedl census was prepared. Would figures obtained on such a day as Sunday last be worth the paper upon which they were written 1 Assuredly not. They would rather show that untrustworthy evidence was sought to strengthen the case of the Liberationists, who are mean enough to stoop to anything to serve their own ends. The Genedl may publish the fruit of its labour, but that fruit, we feel assured, will only be com- parable to the mouse which was born of the mountain. A neat little trick has been found out. Churchmen in and out of Parliament have had anofler example of the subt V;y of the enemy and it is their duty to be on their guard against those who weary not day nor night in striving to overthrow the grand old National Church. It is one thing to prove that Nonconformity is altogether in the ascendancy; another to establish the fact that all Dissenters are in favour of disestablishment and disendowment. Non- conformists in Wales are by no means agreed upon these matters. The majority may desire disestablishment, but not ten out of a hundred really know what disestablish- ment and disendowment mean. Whatever may be the fate of the Church in Wales, she has a right to demand that the battle which is waged against her shall be a fair one. False statistics touching the strength of her mem- bership are not fair, but unfair weapons of warfare. If the battle is to be fought at all, in the name of everything that is honourable let it be waged openly and straightforwardly.

I NOTES AND COMMENTS. The season which is supposed to be one of peace and good-will among men has seldom d iwned on a world that looks less intent on peaceful matters. Submarine boats, new ships, repeating-rifles, increased armies-these are the topics on which the rulers of the earth are just now busiest. "Twenty new cruisers,' Lord Charles Beresford said on Saturday would Le an acceptable new year's gift for the British nation. Speaking on the same occa- sion, Sir A. Alison intimated that it would be agreeable if the lion would lie down with the lamb; but, as things stand, if the lion were to lie down with the lamb at night, there would be nothing left but mutton- bones in the morning." "A state of matters existed in Europe," continued the gallant general, which was likely to termmate in war, and in speedy wai. He could not recollect any- thing like it." This is not a cheerful prospect; but it is just as well to look at it without blinking. In connection with the Welsh Church it will be seen from the following that Mr Gladstone has spoken with two distinct voices. In his speech against Mr Watkin Williams's motion for the Disestablishment of the Welsh Church, he said:—"lam not prepared in any shape or form, to encourage the creation of expectations which it would be most guilty, most unworthy, most dishonourable on our part to entertain, lest we should convey a virtual pledge. We cannot go in that direction, we do not intend to do so, we deprecate it, and we should regard it as a national mischief." Mr Gladstone, writing the other day to the Rev. Morgan Jones, Caergwr!e, with reference to the Disestablishment of the Welsh Church forming a prominent part of the Liberal programme, said he relies upon the Welsh people to afford the most effective aid towards the settlement of the Irish question, which, since the election and change of Government, has come under new and serious complications. They will thereby clear the yroundfur practical vonsideraiion of )ii(tity and great matters in which Wales, Scotland and England are deeply concerned. He does not propose to add for the present to previous declarations on these questions. Touching the alterations in the circuits of the judges, a correspondent of the Times writes It is understood that the present system, which has been in force for some time past, by which one judge alone goes round a considerable part of each Win tor and Summer Circuit, having been found to work unsatisfactorily, a scheme is now under consideration whereby an entire alteration will bo effected in the mode of holding the circuits generally, after the ensuing Winter Assizes are over. Grouping the circuits will, it is understood, form one of tho principal features of the proposed alterations, and two judges instead of one will, in future, go to each place. As it is not intended, I believe, to materially alter the existing arrangements for the criminal Assizes in April and October, the contemplated alterations will not probably coma into effect until the next Summer Assizes. Mr Gladstone was right for once when addressing a deputation who, on January 21st, 1874, waited upon him to urge the extension of the Household Franchise to the counties, Mr Gladstone said: "I should say there are a great many agricultural men who aro anxious to have the franchise, who would afterwards give stout Conservative votes. I think this is very likely to happen." Mr Dillon, when defending himself from the charges of conspiracy against the payment of rent, quoted as an authority for his proceed- ings an opinion attributed to Sir James Caird, to the effect that, with the present prices of agricultural produce it was impossible to get any economic rents from the Irish tenant. Sir James Oaird's opinion as one of the Com- missioners of the Land Acts would naturally carry great weight if he had uttered it. But he did not. In a letter to the Times on the 20th March last, he said —" There are two classes of land in Ireland as in most other countries, the good land, whether arable or grass, and the inferior land, the last to be taken into cultiva- tion by the exigencies of the people, poir in quality, and with least shelter from severity of climate. The 'strong' farmers are strong because they hold the gend land, the weak farmers are weak because they hold the poor land. If the present prices of agricultural produce continue, I should fear that, from much of the land held hy the large body of poor farmers in Ireland, any economical rent has for the present disappeared." The facts on which he relied were instaniiy challenged by several well-knowa landowners in Ireland, and, in a further letter, which ap- peared in the Times of March 20th, Sir James Caird acknowledged the general accuracy of their criticism, and, while maintaining his own ground on several points, he concluded by say- ing :—" I deeply regret to find what I did not observe at the moment of writing, that the words I used admitted of a much wider signi- ficance." Notwithstanding this, however, the Nationalist leaders have ever since continued to refer to his statements as a warranty for the no-rent campaign which they have undertaken. The fact is an excellent illustration of the methods of controversy adopted by AIr Parnell and his allies. A number of Denbigh Liberals, including gen- tlemen of peculiar astuteness, having determined to go and hear Mr Mundella at Rhyl, got into the Chester traia with a circuitous intention, which is rather mysterious but as Liberal tactics are generally described as such, it is not perhaps remarkable that when they were advised to go straight to Rhyl they found the train had gone, and they went home without the consolation of Mr Mundella. Considering that they sat in the train to Chester twenty minutes after the Rbyl train had left, their politics can hardly be called progressive. Christmas has descended on the Vale of Clwyd, presumably with other places, with due and proper eclat, and at the time of writing the snow lies white upon the ground, very possibly because it is not black, and the trees are denuded of their foliage, which they retained with wonderful pertinacity till the storm came a few days ago, and having purified the past, ushered in the new, with wholesome, crisp, invigorating air, and that Christmas landscape appearance which is so much prized by the devotees to Christmas cards. In Denbigh there is no particular privation, and what there is will be generously met. Welsh Home Rulers in some districts are feebly attempting to imitate their Hibernian friends. The Vicar of CJlwyn Day received last Sunday morning another anonymo us threatening letter, which, we hope, he will treat with the contempt it deserves. The hair- braiued authors of these letters may rely upon this that if they are discovered they will soon be made acquainted with prison rule. Llandudno will be ay enough in all conscience l1e::t week. Considering the number of amuse- ments to come off, it might be a week transposed from August. The events include a ball at the Masonic Hall, the popular "Mikado" opera at the Pavilioa two evenings, and drama at St. George's Hall. The Welsh Wesleyans hope to mako a big stride towards clearing off a debt on their chapel. They have arranged a grand concert,also a two-day bazaar. The week closes with the annual literary meeting of the Welsh Baptists. We regret to find that financially the Vale of Conway Agricultural Society is not flourishing. From the report of the annual meeting of members held at Llanrwst on Tuesday, we gather that the balance in hand has seriously decreased during the past three or four years. It was resolved to ask Lord Penrhyn to accept the office of president next year, an invitation which it was earnestly hoped his lordship would accept. It is certain that if Lord Penrhyn con- sents to extend his influence to the event, and honour it with his presence, it would be a groat stimulus towards an unusually successful show next year, and that is what is wanted for the society to regain its position. The changes effected in the rules on the motion of Mr Hargreaves will probably conduce to additional interest in the society's proceedings. The Llandudno justices put in a full day at the Petty Sessions on Monday. The sitting lasted from noon until 6.30 p.m., and there was no adjournment for luncheon I The magistrates residing at Llaududno stood sandwiches to their brethren from Conway.

LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS. LORD AND LUJY PSNRHYN will spend their Christmas at their seat at Stoney, Stratford. BANOOR WOBKISOMES'S CONSERVATIVE CLUB.—MR William Thomas, West End, has been appointed oare-taker of this club. BANGOR MUNICIPALITY.—THE APPEAL TO THE HOUSE or LORDS,-Notice of appeal on behalf of Mr John Pritchaid, has, we believe, been served to-day, and every effort will be made to have it heard at the earliest possible moment. THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD OF 1886.-It is stated the net surplus of the Carnarvon National Eistedd- fod to be JE60 odd. The committee have decided to make a donation of R30 to the National Eisteddfod Association, the remainder of the balance being applied to the funds of the Carnarvon Literary and Scientific Institute. MR J. D. MCGARSL HOGG, the master of the Household Brigade Drag Hounds, has met with a severe aocident. He was attempting a timber jump, and his horse refusing, he came down under the animal. He is progressing favourably at the house of his father, Sir James MoGarel Hogg. FATAL PIT ACCIDKNT AT WREXHAM.—A vouug man named John Harlech, aged seventeen, iú the emfloyof the Ruabou Coal and Coke Company, was killed on Saturday while engaged filling coal into a waggon, the roof of the pit falling upon and burving him. BANGOR SCHOOL BOARD,—The following gentlemen have been declared duly elected members of the Bangor School Board Messrs John Price, Normal College; Donald Cameron, draper; Richard Gray, eolicitor; Griffith Roberts, rate collector; Henry Lewis, Mirket-place Meshach Roberts, chemist; T. C. Lewis. Caederwen D. G. Davies, draper; and Robert Roberts, postmaster. LLANDOVBRY COLLEGE.— Increase of Staff.—The staff of this school has been increased by the ap- pointment to an Assistant Classical Mastership of Mr R, J. Edwards, M.A., late open Classical Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford. Mr Edwards took high double honours at Oxford, having ob- tained, in addition to classical honours in Finals, First Class Honours in Classics, and Second Class Honours in Mathematics in Moderations. Mr Edwards held for several years-with marked success-a Classical Mastership at King William's College, Iale of Man. This is the third time that the staff of Llandovery College has been increased d iring the present year. ORDINATION AT ST. ASAPII CATHEDRAL.—At a general ordination held by the Lord Bishop ot St. Asaph, in his Cathedral Church, on Sunday, the 19th inst., the following gentlemen were ordained. Deacotts: John Allen Jones, B.A., St. David's College, Lampeter; William Pownall Owen, B.A., St. David's College, Lampeter. Priests: Alfred Parmenter Kerry, B.A., New College, Oxford; George Adney Irving, B.A., Non-Collegiate, Oxford. His Lordship afterwards licensed the Rev. John Allen Jones to the curacy ot LJ.nrwet, and the Rev. William Pownall Owen to the curacy of Northop. VATNOL-HAI.L CHARITY.—Tbe customary gift N 120 from Mr Assheton Smith to tho poor of Ll". ddeiniolen has been given this year again. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NOBTH WALES. The- College Autumn Term ended on the 17tb inst. The Spring Term begins on the 10th January. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.—The last moment up to which letters may be posted on Christmas Eve at the Bangor General Post Office will be eight- o'clock. CUBISTUA3 CAROLS.—There will be a children's service at St. James's Church, Upper Bangor, on Sunday afternoon, when several Christmas carols will be sung. WELSH CONGREGATIONAL UNION.—The Rev. Thomss Roberts, of Mold, has been elected secretary of the Welsh Congregational Union of Flintshire and Denbighshire, iu succession to the Rev. H. Ivor Jones, who is leaving the district for tho Memorial Church, Portmadoc. A CURISTIIIUS WARNING.-The Postmaster-General again calls attention to the fact that the lea,t desirable manner in which appreciation c),n te shown of the labours of the postmen during th Christmas and New Year season is to offer them drink whilst in discharge of their official dutieo. This is an act of mistaken kindness which is calcu. lated to bring them into trouble and disgrace. Tie Postmaster-General earnestly hopes, therefore, that the public will refrain from putting such tempta- tion in their way. WHO LOCKED THE DOORS OF THE BANGOR CATHKDRAL?—A writer in Truth, newspaper last week says :-The cathedral authorities at Bangor have been trying an exceedingly simple plan for compelling proper attention to the cathedral ser- mons. The congregation, it eems. have got into a disrespectful way of going ont of the church in a body at the conclusion of the anthem. A Sunday or two ago this unseemly exodus was checked by the discovery that all the doors were locked. en- fortunately the people, instead of quietly taking the hint, made such a disturbance that ultimately the doors had to be opened. Is IT TRDE?—A corresponde. t of the Liverpool Courier has heard a report that a short time ago Mr T. E. Ellis, M.P. for Merioneth, visited a place called Llawrybettws, near Corwen, for the purpose of giving a lecture or holding a meeting. At this meeting a wooden model of the chancel of a church as well as some crosses are said to have been covered with petroleum and set on fire. It seems incredible that this statement can be correct, but if the incident really occurred it should be made pub- lic. Can any of our correspondents in the district furnish information, either confirming or refuting the statement? ORDINATION AT BANOOR.—On Sunday, the Bishop of Bangor held an ordination in Bangor Cathedral, when the following were ordained D -acotu.— Owen Kyffin Williams, B.A., Jesus College, Oxford, licensed to the curacy of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey; John James Ellii, B.A., St. David's College, Lampeter, licensed to the curacy of Lllin. teris, Carnarvonshire. Priests. John Daniel James, B.A., Magdalen College, Cambridge, curate of Llangefni John Harries, B.A., St. David's, Lampeter, curate of St. David's, Festiniog David Williams, B.A., St. David's, Lampeter, curate of Feetiniog and Maentwrog; Morgan Richards, St. David's College, Lampeter, curate of Llanen. ddwyn; Thomas Harris, B.A., St David's College, Lampeter, curate of Llanddeusant, Anglesey; Thomas Davies, St. David's, Lampeter, curate of Llanfaethln, Anglesey; F. P. Watkin Davies, B.A., Magdalen College, Oxford, curate of Llanrhyddlad, Anglesey. MR ASSHETON SMITH AND HYNDMAN, THE SOCIALIST. -A London correspon,lent says :-One of the sensational trials expected next term is that of Smith v. Hyndman. Mr Assheton Smith has been denounced by Mr Hyndman in Justice as a wicked capitalist who spends his time and his money, wrung from the sweat of the labourers, in courses which Socialists believe to be immoral. Mr Smith brought an action against Mr Hyndman. All of us expected a fine case. Mr Hyndman himself-looked forward to an advertisement which, under the cir. cumstances, would cost him nothing. Alas for tbe hopes of the sanguine! The trial will not come off upon the ostensible ground that it is useless to pro- ceed against a man of no means, Mr Assheton Smith has withdrawn from the case and has paid Mr Hyndman's costs. A CLOSF. TIME FOR HARES.—At a special meeting of the Field Sports Protection aDd Encouragement Association it has been unanimously resolved, 11 That, having regard to the well-known and in. creasing scarcity of bares throughout the country and the grave reasons that exist for believing that their total extermination under the existing state of the law is only a matter of time, it has now become necessary that the provisions of the Ground Game Act should be modified by Act of Parliament, and that a close time for hares be provided, not only in the interests of field sports, but also to prevent the nation from being deprived of a valuable supply of food. Also that the hon. secretary be directed to collect correspondence on tbe subject, and be era- powered to have the same printed and circulated throughout the United Kingdom and, farther, that the public be invited ta express their opinion on the matter, and to assist the Association in its object by every means in their power." LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMF.NT.—Most of the private Bills to be promoted during the forthcoming session have now been deposited in the Private Bill Offices of both Houses of Parliament, in accordauce with the standing order. The following are sum- maries of those of local interest :-Jlerionet/¡<hirt Railicay.-This is a Bill for the abandonment of the railwavs authorised by the Merionethshire Railway Act, 1877. The preamble states that only a small portion of the capital authorised by that Act has been raised, and the funds of the company are wholly insufficient for the making of the railway. None of the powers in relation to the taking of land or the making of the railway have been exercised, and it is expedient that the railway should be aban- doned, and the affairs of the company wound up and the company dissolved. Provisions are made for compensation for damage to land by entry and for non-completion of purchase. There is also the usual provision for release of deposit. Messrs Wyatt, Hoskins. Hooker, and Williams, Westmin- ster, are the Parliamentary ageDts. Welshpool and Llanfair Raihcay nill,-This Bill incorporates a company, with William Page, John Greenbank, John William Ransoms, and two others to be nominated by them as first directors, for the pur- pose of making a railway over ten miles in length, commencing in the upper division of Pool parish, in the county of Montgomery, not far from Welsn- pool Station, and terminating in the parish of Llan. faircaereinion, in the same county. The railway is to be constructed oil a gauge of three feet, and the proposed capital of the company is P45,000, with borrowing powers to the extent of £15,000. Clauses to protect the Shropshire Union Company from injury during the construction of the works are inserted, and special conditions are laid down as to the construction of the railway throuh the Dyserth estate. The power to acquire lands is limited to three years, and the works are to be co.pl,,t?d in five years. Power is also sought in the Bill to enter working agreements with the Cambrian Com- pany. The Parliamentary agents for the Bill are Messrs Sherwood and Co., Westminster. THE LADIES' WORKING GUILD FOR THE Poon IN ANOLESEY.- This Guild, which was started a few months ago, under the presidency of Ladv Magdalen Bulkeley, promises to work very successfully, judg- ing hy the numbers who have already joined the Guild, and the amount of very good clothing which has been contributed. The object of the society is for the collection an 1 distribution of clothing in the various parishes of Anglesey in November and March, when warmer and lighter clothing will be required respectively. Owing to the society having been started late this year, the winter distribution will take place in tho last week in the year, but this will make no difference with regard to the distribution in March, 1887. Three hun- dred articles of clothing have been received by tbe president from various ladies. The subscription money has purchased forty-eight blankets in addi- tion, and it is proposed to distribute the clothing and blankets among twenty-two of the parishes on this occasion, in accordance with the needs and p>pulation of the parishes. Paiishes which do not receive now will receive next time. Ladies who wish to become members, subscribe one shilling per annum, and contribute at least two separate articles of clothing each half-year. This society really deserves every encouragement; and there can net be many ladle" who would not give a little of their spare time to work for the poor, as the clothing is given in each parish to the poor with- out reference to their religious denominations. The president regrets not having been able in some instances to acknowledge the receipt of parcels as there was no address forwarded with them. The following is the list of the articles sent in to the president18 blankets, 80 flannel petticoattl 21 linsey do. 3 large shawls, 3 small do, 11 woollen do, 27 chemises, 1 night gown, 7 linsey gowns, 18 pair woollen stockings, 4 do mittens, 2 do linen sheets, 1 pillow, 2 pillow cases, 15 men's flannel shirts, 3 linen do, 9 flannel vests, 4 pair flannel drawers, 16 woollen comforters, 8 pair woollen socks, 2 flannel jackets, 19 children's flannel petticoats, 2 infants' do. 2 do shirts, 4 do petticoats, 3 do hoods, 3 pair do boote, 1 do hat, 15 pair children's stockings, 5 boys' frocks, 7 children's coats, 1 bovs' blouse. The president hopes that all subcribers will come and view the clothing on Monday, the 27th of December, at Baron Hill. Lady Magdalen Bulkeley will bj at home from three to six r. m.-Communicated.