The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

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INORDINATELY LONG SERMONS. gin,There is a parish in Anglesey which bus become noted lately on account of the extra- ordinary length of sermons preached in the parish church on Sundays. It must certainly sorely try the patience of the majority of the congregation, tt. Bit down for fully an hour-aud-a-half to listen to these rouiid-atiout harangues. May I suggest, if this meets the eye of those con- cerned, the desirability of greatly curtailing these long discourses, otherwise we shall have the cream of the congregation leaving this sacred 6ditice to find" spiritual consolation "elsewhere. I am sure mosijta ip'* will agree with me that an honr-anl-a halt ought to be quite sufficient, for both Service aud sermon, —\ oars, etc., DAVID.

WELSH BISHOPS IN WALES. SIR, Valerius Corvnf," quoted from the Tim's (iV. fV. C., October 6th, 1888), doubtless gives much sound advice from a peculiar point of view; but if prepared to act the part of Amicus C"iœ in matters spiritual in Wales, he should seemiugly make his advioe distinct, and point out who is fit to take the parts of John Bunyan, CbritmaB Evans, John Elias, and WiDi&ma of Wern. all rolled wto one, Otherwise his lecture seems to be too likethtitof John Morgan, who went to baild au out-house of brick after the usual fashion of bricklayers, he wrought from the inside aud buviug the materials close beside him, the walla were rising fast, when dinner time arrived, and with it his son Joe, with honest pride in his eye. John looked out from his dungeon and asked, How do "ou think I am getting on, Joe •' Famous, dad," savs Joe; but bow are yon going to get out ? you have forgotten the door Looking round, John Morgan said Joe, you have an eye on you You will be au architect }_č, sum as your father is a mason." 'Tis said that son is now building the Kifel Tower in Paris.— Yours, Ac., THE DODO IN AFRICA.

PROPOSED AMATEUR DRAMATIC COMPANY FOR BANGOR. SIR,It was suggested in last week's North Willes Chronicle that such company should be formed. Now, I think that is just what is wanted in Bangor, especially that the winter is ooming'on. There is simply nothing for youug people to do of an even- ing, aud what oould be bettet than such a company by which they could improve themselves, besides passing away many an enjoyable evening and which I am snre would be a great boon to tho pub- lic at large. It seems strange that a town of tuo size of Bangor ehould be without such a oompany. I believe there was one started some years ao, but fell through liKe most of the things in Bangor. The difficulty has always been to get ladies to take part, but I am Rure that if one started, others wuull foli.>w te good example. There is plenty of t.ilem here; and it, as your correspondent suggests, a fa,v respectable young persous formed themselves into «. company, under the tuition of a gentleman qualitied to teoh, and who would work well together, I feel confident that it would be a great success.—Yours faithfully, A.B.C.

SIR,—I note in the last issue of your paper a Y, feri nee to the" proposed amateur dramatic com- pany for Bangor." Beirg the person referred to who l;rat promulgated tha idea. I shall be glad to take the initiatory steps to vatds the formation of snch a company, if I can rely upon the assistance Of one or two gentlcmeu (or ladies) who have the nutter at heart. I have had large experience in the management of companies, amateur and pro- fessional, and feel sure'that a dramatic club,properly constituted and oouduoted, would be an undoubted acquisition to the City of Bangor. Under oble tuition aud management, 8UCC"B8 would be absured. Should any gentleman or lady desirous of taking part write to the following address, I shall keep the trust in confidence. — Anticipating your kindness iu inserting the foregoing, believe me faithfuilv, THKSTON. 2, Garfield-terrace, Garth-road, Bangor. October 8th, 1888.

THE REGISTRATION COURTS AT FESTINIOG. SIR,—As was reported iu your oolumns some two weeks ago the results at the abovo courts proved to be decidedly in favour of the Conserva- tives but our R&dioal friends in their disappoint- ment are unwilling to admit it, and have therefore published figures reversing the result and olaimiug I? not gain on their .ide. The following,however, it the offioial report on behalf of the Conservatives, and however unwilling the Radicals are to admit it we olaira a net gain of 306. The members of the Local Registrat on Committees are deserving of the highest oorapliments for their unswerving activity n assisting ;08 a.:ent3 to attain this glorious victory. Cons.ivative gain a> Blaeuau 225 „ Festiniog 38 Maentwrog 10 Radicals expunged for nonpayment of rates 83 „ who had received parish relief 35 Total Conservative gaius 397 Libe al gains at Blaenau 65 „ Festiniog 4 „ Maeutwrog i 5 Couservati es pI:3 i" ayment of :I mtes I. 12 wi,. halt received pirisli relief 5 Total Radical gaius 91 Thus showine a net Conservative g iin of 306 A. LL. EVANS, (Local Registration Ageut foe Blaenau Festiniog District) Oct, 4th, 1888, Maeutwrog, Tanybwlch.

THE DEANERY OF ST. ASAPH. gig,—People are talking freely of the vaoancy which the removal of Dean Jam causes in tiie diocese of St. Asaph ind as it is the duty and high privilege of the press to form and to guide public opinion, it seems natural and proper that the thoughts of men should find expression there. I have uo claim to represent pubiio opinion I merely wish to state my own view, hopiug aud believing chat I shall flu I maiiy iu sympathy with me. As :'u o1d L.mp?,- ,r .,u, I wish to hrin for- ward the name whiob, iu my judment, deserves ^erycai.'n, favourable consideration, that of ^v U. Davey, vice-principal of St. David's }C, ol, lege. i ;W1 iure that (? j??,, bodv of alumni o my OLD COLLEGE WV. I! T H.V "ITIM*—?"<?'IT and th.' ,f A,aph will heartily 1-?th ?f, th,,t te.?rve better ,y?Hf the Chnrch i..W?)M than oar ol(i v Hi. ?o,,Iti Wtnthew?m?p?t.f??i?.??ewho have come under hi. teach,ng, and the respectful M?.MC??nth.?.ntv?homJ think thare are oth^ ers wiUi .m) ,t,o?:re)..im.. It will be said with truth that thefMtth?L?pet.r?n will approve is uo sufficient re?oa for Mr Davev's appoiutmant, but the true reason is to be found in his personal qualities and in the work he has done If deep aud earnest pietv. the devotion of a life to the oause of religion, extraordinary theological learning and knowledge of the Scriptures, of the services and doctrines of the Church, as well '<8 wide culture in other spheres, constitute a olaim, thau I do not kuow where in Wales we are to find one as stroug as Mr I >avey's; and it seems to me that it is thin, and j :st this, which best becorneij & aud leaning growu grey in the tier- Yioe of the Church. Add his habitual ooartesy, with its old-world flavour as rare as it is delioious, and the pioture is, to my mind, oompfete. AU this appeals to the world at large, bat Lampeter men will remember with affeotiouate gratitude what I they owe to Mr Davey's ranching, to his antiriDg readiness to interest himself in their affairs, and to the lofty ideal of life for the Church which he held up to them. The most obviona objection to lb* appointment whiob I am advooating is that of race, Tnough Mr Davey knows a good deal of Wsls'i, he is not a Welshman by birth. Now, I K that, as a rule, the cry of Welshmen for the Conrch iu Wales is a joat one. But we must examine each oase on its merits. In the first plaoe, it is obvious that the position of dean is one with regard to which the question of raoe is less important than it is for other positions; and secondly, if we do not wish to be branded with the oharge of blind and narrow selfishness, we are surely bound to reoognise, and, as far as we can, rewaril years of hard, patient and successfnl labour in Wales and for Wales. If both are fit for the duties of a post, we ought to krow no difference between a native Welshman and an Englishman who has qualified himself, as Mr Davey has, by sixteiu years of work iu our Church in the Prisci- pality. The writer can, of course, only throw out sugges- tions, like any other member of the comninnity it remains possible that Mr Davey would not accept the deanery, for it is a .?Ltter of notoriety that if he did he would sacrifice a considerable part of ?i! income. On the other hand, are to be placed the attractions of leisure to one who has worked so long and so well. In any case, the offer might be made. B.A.

CHURCH PROMOTIONS IN THE DIOCESE OF BAN60R. Sm,-The continual cbauges and Church promo- tiO DS in this diocese are such aa few can shut their eyes to now a-days,wben the affairs of thChnrch are more canvassed than usual. The visible revival within its pale and the vague attempts to under- mine its foundations are very prominent, so that it becomes of greaS moment who the diocesan appoints to vacant livings. We all admit that the Bishop uses all the wisdom and discretion he has in this important function but notwithstanding that, it is within our knowledge that very unfortunate ap- pointments have been made which have crippled the Church for many long years. In fact, it is a matter of impossibility for any bishop to know the exaot position of ull the parishes in his diocese, particularly tbose at a distanoe. Therefore, I maintain that, before appointing a successor to an important parish, the cburch-going portion, at least, of the parishioners should be consulted, or they should have some voice in the matter, in order to keep up the progress of the Church and to have the co-operation of laity in Cimrch-work. There may be some dissentients to my views. but I kuow there are hundreds of laymen, even in the diocese of Bangor, who hold to the opinion I have expressed.—Yours faithfully, AN OLD LAYMAN.

DIOCESE OF BANGOR DIFFERENT VIEWS OF PROMOTION. SIB,—now often it ia the case that someone or other is found blowing his own trumpet oe getting a friend to do it for him ? Even the clergy of the diocose of Bangor, or at any rate some of them, are not free from this obnoxious practice. There kppears to be a case in poiut in last Saturday's Sorth War s Chronicle. The paragraph referring to the appointment to Portmadoo gives some people such an idea. But these respective parties look at promotion from a different point of view, and it may be that ueitiiei is entirely free from partiality. However, it is but right that both sides of the question should be h3ard. Be it remembered that it is not intended in these remarks to say one un- kiud word of this young clergyman, or to blame him personally for accepting promotion. What is now written is meant, to refer simply to his appoint- ment. In the North Wale Chronicle the appoint- meut is said to be popular one," and it is further added For once, the Bishop of Bangor has hit a right nail on the head." Now, leot his lordship should be misled by the former phrase, it is but right to add another and a more correct statement, vU :bat ihoa0a ilu ..ppoiutuiciit .ilY be "Ii p p.1.r one" among the fortunate clergyman's friends, it is by no means so among a large section of the younger clergy who are his seniors. They feel, whether rightly or wrongly, that influence goes further thaI) unobtrusive labour. And does not this writer himself more than imply that everything is n t as it should be with regard to patronage in the diocese ? Why, he states that it is only by aooident as it were, "for once," that the Bishop has hit a right nail on the head." Thus, while giving his lordship some little praise for serving his friend, the writer gives him a very nasty left-handed blow. There aro very many people who would not care to go as far as this writer in his general condemnation of the Bishop's actions but who, nevertheless, do uot agree with him in his present approbation. That which is popular in some quarters is unpopular in others. Tho truth is, that owing to the scattered area of the dioceso, and the difficulty of locomotion, it is impossible for his lordship to be personally acquainted with the work of eaoh individual r ler«y- man, and hence it would be well for the Church if otben could be associated with him in the work I of selection. ARFON.

THE LAND QUESTION. Siit — Many Feople object to anonymona writers. For my own part I am glad that E. W. D. W." iH only to me as a voice and not a persouality. From his letter we may conclude Me looks on him- self as a ?pe?ialii3t, and a first-rate one. What his particular line .sy 09, I do !?ot know; but it df)e not lie in the direction of closely tracing out cause aud effect, or, to put it in courteous terms, iu I b:e;"r/ft si:atie:t:odïRr\ have been apparent if his letter and mine bad been in juxtaposition in your columns. What he pnea in inverted commas in his letter is not to be found in mine. Where ha indulges vague and effusive tall-talk about national progress, which must iuclude time as a more or less important factor, only dependent on whether we are led by real reason or by blind leaders of tho blind," he uncenecionely, I presumo, admits the principle I advanced, viz., that time was a passive factor, and that; the progress and increment is due to the energy and enterprise of the inhabitants of it country in whioh case it must be earned and uot unearned." I did not say that there could Dot be in any form an unearned increment. If a mn neglect to till and sow his field which he has been used to till and sow the promised thorns (or rather weeds) and thistles will be the unearned increment which Time will present him with. He might as well say that the stage acted the play instead of the aotors, beoause it was acted on the stae. As to his poser about the Holyhead road, he is consistent in what I call his confusion of thought. If it did become a pay- ing ooncern," Time did not- make it a "concern" at all nd if in time it became a paying ooiieerd, lit will be due to those who made it, owned it, and miinuined it for whatever uoe or profit it was in- tended. A thing is made and brings profit, which under adverse circumstances ceases, favourable circumstances occur, the earning power waslormant but is restored, and it again "earus." With all due reverence we 01lht to reoognise that it is God who gives the increase and who enables man to "earu." He has given us time ill which to work out our enterprises and enjoy the results, which are dependent on Hia will. This gives us a clear and true idea of what eort of a factor Time is and here, as a by-the-way, I may notice a Raving I have seen repeated twice in your columua. I suppose the speaker considered it a great hit. The earth is the I Lord's, and therefore cannot bo the landlords' I oall it all idle and fallacious conceit. The Lord has delivered over the earth to man, therefore there may be landlords, tbogh He remains Lord of the hmdlorde. The Lord is K¡n, yet there may t-.e earthly kings, as Shakespeare beauti- fully pnts it of one, He was a King, blessed of the Kin;; of kings." It is the.. wretched phrases and cenceits whioh are so rampant in the present day against which I protest. F it indignatio t"rwm. It is a feeling of impatience at 'heir c""tintl"d itention that hs incited me a petiy local IVh" husv myself only about my own neighbourhood iu a qui-t hut ready way to take up my pen to denounce them. I do it with reluotance. but it seems to me ab-iolutelv necessary that 80m" strict sifting of them and appeal to common-sense should be undertaken. I would "ryre.1 tn the grest politioal leaders to attend more oloselv to this very important part of the present situation. The wretched trash that the labourer is worKing te support the idle wealthy would have little chanoe with the people if they were fairlv grounded in the simple rudiments of political eoonomy as givan by Adam Smi'h. He is ,vnrki,,1o: to support himself and his family. The old etorv of tile belly and the members of ths holy isng true now as of old. That a mot serious problem is before ua can hardly be doubted. That there is "something in the world an.iss Will scarcely be denied bv anybody,but how are we to find the remedy? From indications in his letter one might guess thnt fi.W.D.H. admits something is amiss I offer a remedy, an he won't take it. He would not be original. Cockle's Antibilious, Parr's Pills, Jacobs Oil, and a oortain more illustrious party have all been eohoing the Rams strain. The'intermedi&tes may be right there won!d be litt'e damage at the worst in trying them but temember Phaeton, and beware of the first and the last. I am trespassing largely on your columns ;] but if people only would ooniider and weigh well what is told them, and determine to examine cause and effect," and what is likely to be the effeot ol what is urged on them, there would be little fear of rash oounsels prevailing.—Yours faithfully, WILLIAM MASSEY.

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HOLIDAY NOTES BY A BANGORIAN. We append some rougli notes made by Mr Francis, naturalist, .,11.street, B'or, during a recent trip from Baugor to Llangync Accompanied by my wife I started from Bli ir by the six a,m. train via Rhyl, Denbigh, Ru'.hiu, and Corwen. Arrived at Corwen at 9.45 am. Corwen is a market town situated at the foot of the Berwyn MourtainB. on the banks of the Dee. The house of the celebrated Owen Glvndwr was situated in this parish, tfee renowned and formidable opponent of Henry IV. Within fhe church, under an arch on the north side of the altar, there is a very ancient coffin-lid, in high preservation, bearing the following iuaorip- tion; Hio l'acit Torwerth Sutiou, Vicarius df, Corvaen. Ora pro EO." There is also a fine cross fixed in a circular stone to the west of the steeple. Here my stay was brief. I left Corwen by the 10.27 train via Llandderfel. Here I was received by two jolly ladies of the old school of mountaineers, Mrs Roberts, Ty'nypant, and Mrs David Roberts, Hen. drefawr. The former was the second Jehu, as she drove Polly in excellent style over the black and dangerous Berwyn mountains. We left Llandderfel village, turned on our left into a narrow glen, passed Pale Hall, the seat of the lats Mr Robertson, civil engineer, much wooded, watered by a rude torrent, and bounded by high bills. Here we had to ascend a very steep hill, where I bad the pleasure of walking to Have poor Polly, until I passed an alpine farmhouse. I should call it Blaeu y Cwm, as it is in the ex- tremity of the Cwm. Our jolly female Jehu drove Polly very steadily. Presently we entered through the mountain gate and into the moorlands, where there is an abundance of grouse amongst the bloom- ing heather. The next place of note we came to was Pontypydew, a noted and dreaded place in ancient days for robbers and brigands, and I have been informed there were many lives lost at this lonely place. We soon arrived on the summit, where I found a boundary stone that divides the county of Montgomery and Merionethshire. The height on this part of the mountain is 2027 feet above the level of the sea. We now came in view of Cwmyrheweich and Llangynog at a distance about four miles. We begin to descend Milltir Geryg or the stony mile—a briich or pam amidst the Berwyn hills, with the mountain hlnck with heather, soaring on each side to a stupendous height and the Cwm below with green verdure—a sublime sight for alpine travellers. It became now the duty of our female driver to keep Polly Well in hand, and the way she handled the reins and the way she performed tUs part would astonish some of ths Loudon Jarvies or Jehus. Within half an hour we arrived safely at Ty'nypant, a farmhouse situated at the extreme norih end of Cwmrhewerch, where we were hospitably received by Mr and Mrs Roberts. After doing ampl" justice to the splendid tea and hatii and eggs, we walked a distance of two milss to Heudrefawr, where we were reoeived by otiv worthy host and hostess, Mr and Mrs Dd. Roberts. The next day, Juue the 5tb, we started at ten a.m., and walked over the mountain to Llanwyddyn, a distance of about five miles from Llangynog in oompenv with my cousin Jane anil her son David, and a stiff walk it was for the ladies through the bogs and morass. However, we were all amply re- warded,as the scenery here is sublime to the human eye. We now desoeuded by the mouuW.n path through the Btone quarry, where there were hun- dreds of stout men at work,and they seemed to me to take it very easy and comfortable These large bonlders, of many tons in weight, were conveyed by locomotives to construct the huge embankment, about three parts of a mile across the cwm or valley of Llanwyddyn. When this stupendous work is com- pleted, it will be one of the most splendid sheets of artificial water in the kingdom. Well may the Liverpool poople be proud of the pure water from the River Vyrnwy. I should judge from my observations that the length of the reser- voir or the above artificial water would be about seven miles. The old church of St. Wyddyn and the ancient village will be submerged in the lake. They have now built a very handsome new church on the south-east of the; reservoir, and a new parsonage for the rector. I must leave this romantic and mountainons neighbourhood and this modern wooden village, where we enjoyed a good cup of tea in one of the wooden buts, and start on our return journey to Llangynog, where we arrived safely at seven p.m. This is the end of my second day tour. On Tuesday, June the 5th, we visited Llangyno, liontgomeryshire, a small village situated in a pleaBing slip of fertile land, above which rises a stu- pendous rock of coarse slate. The river Tanat, which runs through this village, is celebrated for its delicious tront. The river Rhewerch and Tanat meets here. The upper end of the Yale is bounded by two vast promontories of Moel-ddu-Fawr at Craig-y-Cribin, In this parish theri' are some quarries of excellent, blue slate of strol1 and durable quality. This pariah is the dioceee of St. Asapb. This place was the source of short-lived wealth to the maternal relation of the present Earl of Powis. The old lead mine was discovered in the year 1692, which war, in most parts, a vein of three yards and a half thick, and was worked to the depth of a hundred yards, when the water became too powerful. It continued in a flourishing state during a period of nearly forty years, yield- ing about four thousand tons annually. It was sold at Beten pounds a ton, and smelted on the spot, and bronght in a clear revenue to the Powys family of twenty thousand pounds a year. Rbew. erch Slate Quarry is now the property of Captain Pennant Llovd, Pentre Hobbin, near Mold, Flint- shire. At the above quarry there are only four or five men at work at present date. What is wanted here is a railway from Llanfyllyn to take away the mineral wealth from the miues in the neighbourhood. About 904.000 were sold from November 1st, 1775, to November the 1st, 1776, at the rate of from 6s te 20s a thousand, but the want of carriage is a great loss to the working people here. About two nules distant from Llangynog is the church of Pennaut jMelangell. I turned up a valley to the right to pay my devotions to the shrine of St. Monacella. Her legend relates that she was the daughter of an It ish Monarch, who bad determined to marry her to a nobleman of his court. The princess had vowed celibacy. Rbe fled from her father's dominions and took refuge in this remote place, where Bhe lived fifteen years with- out seeing the face of man. Brochwel yscythrog, Prince of PowYG.land, who lived abont th?? year 607, is said to have had his palace on the Bpot where St Chad's Church now stauds. The Welsh called it Pengwern or Ymwythig (Shrewsbury). The period in which the town arose is not certainly known, but it is apposed to have been on the ruin of the Roman Uricouium. The Vrekon Craster of the Saxons and the modern Wroxeter upon Severn, where may be still seen a large fragment of the ancient wall. Prince Broch- well Yscythrog, having been one day hare-hunting, pursued his game till he came to a great thicket ill the Glen or Cwm Pennant, when he was amazed to find a virgin of surprising beauty engaged in deep devotion, with the hare he had been pursuing under her rohe, boldly faoiug the hounds who retired to a distance howling, not- withstanding all the efforts of the sportsmen to make them seize their prey even when the hujits- man blew his horn it stuok to hi lips. Broch. well heard her etory and gave to God and her a parcel of lands to build a sanctuary to all that fled there. He desired her to found an abbey on the spot. Sho did so, and died abbess in a good old age She was buried in the neighbouring church called Pennant, and from her was distinguished by the addition ot Melangedd, Her hard bei is abowt) in the cleft of a neighbouriiig rock. Her tomb wan in a little chapel or oratory adjoining the church, and now used as a veatry- room. and is still called Cell y-bedd, or the Cell of the Grave. Her reliqnesas well as her image have been long since removed, but I think the last is still to be seen iu the churchyard. Phe let,end is parpttrated "Y some rude wooden carvings of the int, with mambt-ra of harcfi setittling w her for protection. She properly became Itheir patroness, an l they were called 41 Wvn Mt langell" (" St. Monaoelia's lambs"). Till the Hat century, so s'rong a superstition prevailed that no person ITOUM kill a hare iu the parish and even later, when a hare was pursuerl by dogs, it was firmly believed that if anyone cried. "Goll and St. Monacella be with thee," it was sure to escape. On the sonth-west within the church is a stone with the figure of 1\11 armed man. bat once covered the remains of the eldest son of Owen Gwynedd, prince of North Wales. Iorwerth Drwyn-dwn, or Edward with the broken nose," who was put aside from the succession on aocount of this blemish. Iorwerth Drw VI).dwn was the eldest son of Owen Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales. In 1167 he fled from Carnarvon from the contention of his brother David for the sovereignty of Wwynedd, and took refuge with Owen ab Caradog at Caerlleou-ar-Wysg. In a shcrt time he returned to Gwynedd under a promise from his brother David of granting him suitable possessions; but soon afterwards he had to flee the second time, and he took refuge this time at the abbey in Pen- nant Melangell, and tradition says that he was soon murdered here at a place eallecl to this day "Bwloh Croes Iorwerth." He erected a monu- ment for him in the charehyard, and inscribed on it: "Hio Jaoet Edward." This ml Ibe late of Igrwettb, so. called" Drwyn--dwn." Hi. son, Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, when he came of age, was crowned Prince of North Wales by his "Iorwerth Drwyn- dwn." At his Bide layeth the figure of I Monacella,' the patron Baint of Pennant Abbey. There was a monster rib upon the figure called I giant rib' or assen y oawr.' I came to the conclusion that it was not the rib of a human being, but the rib of a specimen of the Dottle-nose, which was probably brought to this anoient abbey as reliq ne amongst others to enlarge the revenue of the monks, as it was a solemn retreat for devotees in the days of the Roman rule in Wales; and I mnst say,superatitions and arbitrary. On the sile ofthis valley isthe house of le-hweddgarth, formerly the property of Thomas Thomas, Esq., and now is the property of the late Mr 'Griffith, of Caerhun, The hospitable and respected Rev. J. Lewis Davies is the rector of Llangynog and Pennant Melangell. I regret to say that the ancient shrine of St, Gyr,og is in a dilapidated state, and the attention of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, landowners, parish. iouers, and others should be called to it. A Roman void leads through this ancient and remote village from Uricouium fwroxeter) to Conoviura (Caerhun), and (Segontiam) Carnarvon (Cwm yr Heweroh pass was of great im; ortacoe to the valiant and brave Welsh warriors in the days of yore. On the extreme north end of Cwm yr Hewerch is to be seen the ruins of an ancient village with its small church and churchyard. and a Roman path about 40 yards. Above this medieval village is to be seen a waterfall. This romantic place is called Y Cell, or the Grove, distauce from Llangynog two miles and a half. The Roman road to Bala, called 'Milltir y Gareg,' runs through this ancient ruin over the Berwyn Mountains. On the summit of Craig yr Hewerch are to be seeu an ancient Roman fortifioation in ruins wuh.its fOils forts and pharos, and is called Maes y 8aethau (or Arrow Plain) In the year 1092 Roger de Mont- gomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, entered Montgomery- shire with au army at his command, and made a great havoc in this county, Roger fortified the strongholds in 1094. The Welsh retook several castltB and put the garrison to the sword, and carried destruction through this county and the neighbouring parts. King William Rufus assem- bled ? vast army, and repossessed himself of the low parts of the country. The Earl of Shrews- bury rebuilt the strongholds which the Welsh had destroyed, and Castell Craig yr Hewerch was laid in ruins about the same period, after a severe and bloody bat tle.

Antiquarian Notes. I [By ALLTUD EIFION.] The Crown pieoe of silver of Henry VIII., struck in the year 1545, to perpetuate the memory of that I remarkahle epoch,when KiugHenry took upon him.. self the title of Defender of the Faith," by virtue of an Act of Parliament, in 1534. Here you have the King's demy-fuit figure, the face a little I inc\illilJ to the left, orowned, and holding in his right hand a dr?wn sword resting on his shoulder, and in hia left an orb with the oross, signifying his power and readiness to defend his dominions, and the Christian faith by his sword. The epigraphe is in Roman capitals HENRIC; 8. DEI. GRATIA.ANGLIE.FRANCI. Z. HIBERN.REX." On the reverse are the arms crowned,and supported by the lion and dragon, with this inscription 11 ANGLICE. Z. HIBERNICE. ECCLESIE. SUPREMUM: CAPUT." which is the same title he bad assumed before on his Great Zeal. TRANSFORMATIONS. It is strange that out of the multiplicity of their appellations the heroes and heroines of the old Arlhuriau legendB can be identified by the readers of those legends in their vi rious guises of Welsh, English, atd French. Guinevere is to be met with as Genaura, Genievre, and Gwellbwyvar. Iseult of the White Hand is Yseullt in one place, and in places of earlier record yet figures as Esylt. Ywayne is no other than Owen when properly translated. Cordelia, the daughter of King Lear, is Creiddylad, daughter of Llyr. The knightly Gawain is more often Gwalchmai, which being interpreted means the Hawk of Battle, and which is unaccountably Latinized into Walgamua and Walwevn. Peradnr, again, when given by the bards, is Bedivere when we come acrOES him in the Mnrte d'Arthnr and Luned, the fair maid, is Elined in oue place, and is known to Tennyson 1\9 LyDetLe-all of which is more or less interesting to the lovers of the Idyls of the King.From an American peper. LATIN STANZ\S. Written from Pwllheli to Rev. Richard Rathbone, cnrate at Llanyatnmdwy, by Goronwy Owen, in the yellr 1742 ;— ]. 0 Viro nullos milri post sodales Muaa dilecto pariterque fido, Gaudiura quaeto, refer et sdutem-Resque secuuhas. 2 Fore ?i qnBLrat, quid sgam? re8olve Rlento non firmnm relifiuis valere, 1::t:inIs!!I:; -%bsque sodale. 3. Deinde. si causaw) (pidet sh fateri) Postulet noraen tacite Phillippae Auribus nmda simul et Busures—Flagret amore. 4. Die. ut infurmum mitri pectus ardet Anxio q uale., partiaroque luces Nocte qui somnm fugit at que rodant-Pectorae curae. [To the Editor of the North Wales Chronicle.] Sin,The following remarks of early date on the word Moch and Mochros, prevalent in Wales, may be interesting to some of your readers Mocros, Mochros, Bryt. i porci locus.—Dr Kains (which in his Boke De Antiquitate Cantabrig. Academic, calleth himself Londonensis), sayeth that he read in an auncient Chronicle (the title whereof was De Vitis Sanctorum Wollensium) that Dubritius, Archbishop of St. Davyes, in tyme of King Archure, was so renowned for his learnings throughout Britaine, that they sought him from 81 Partes to be instructed of him in so muche that seven yeares together he had 1000 scolers whom he taughto at a plaoe npor. tho Ryvcr of Wye, called Kentlan and that departinge from thence he choqe the place where he was borne, standing likewise npon the same Ryver in the lie of Miserhdyl, wheare also he taught theim many yeares; and by reason that be was admonished in a vision to buyld an Oratorie, wheresoever he should find lyinge a white Sow withe her Figges, he named this place lkfoobroe-tbat is, the place of the hogge or sowe. The swyne at those dayes were so myred in the puddles of filthye superstition that they thoughte nothinge wel attempted,whereto they weare not pro- voked by the illusion of some drowsie dreamer; wherein I oaunot tell whether I may say they matched, or muche exceded ths superstition of the heathen for as Brate had none other guyde when he songht the Knowledge of his Adventure at the Tem- ple of Diana, then the Direction of a Dreame, and as Misertdyl, an Iland in Wales, environed withe the Armes of the Ryver Wye, wheare Dnbritins, archbishop of Caerleon in Wales, was borne, as the title of Mochros before at large appearetb. WILLIAM LIMBARUE, Esq., of Kent in A.D. 1577. There are several places in Wales with the word Mooh either in the beginning or the end of the word, snch as Bwlcbvmoch, near Tremadoo Cae'r Moch, Dinas Moch, Llwvn Yr IT*oh, in the parish of Bedd. gelert; Mochros, Llanerch y Moch, Dolymoch, in Merionethshire Moohdre, near Liandiiano, It is very obsenre what may he the original derivation of the word. Some say it refers to the rising of the sun, others say Moch is synonymous with mflr and Mon the sea. Some of your iearued readers may be able to !ive further light on the word M.ch.- ¥nl1re, &0., ALLTUD EIFI0N. Tremadoo, October 4tb, 1888. P.S.—From the above notes by Lambarde, one would suppose the word is derived from the swine or hog.—A.E.

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r Political Memoranda. The Marquis of Salisbury and Lady Gwendoleu Cecil arrived at Hatfield House on Saturday even- iog from Ni iD3:oI!1iaD delel;lates, who visit Birmingham on November 6th and 7th, will be also addressed by Sir W. Harcourt and Mr John Morley. Mr Alderman Whitehead, Lord Mayor-elect of London on Tuesday conaented to again contest North Westmoreland in the Liberal interest. The Conservative members of the Liverpool City Council, at a private meeting on Tuesday, ap- pointed a oommittee to select & successor to Mr Oakshott in the mayoral obair Sir George Trevelyan was the principal speaker at a Liberal meeting in Hull on Tuesday: and, after condemning the tone of Mr Balfour's Glasgow speech, said it was obviously impossible to go on with coercion indefinitely. The English people, he added, were beginning to understand the Irish question, and ho believed that before long they would put into office a Government that under- stood it also. Speaking at Leeds, on Tuesday, Lord Rosebery criticised the recent utterances of Mr Balfour and arquis of Hartington, observing, &a to the tlhae tterM, that while he fa).y acknowledged the los" which his aecessiou was to the Liberal Party, he could only apply to his Inverness speech the language of a Government newspaper in reference to the Home HloretfLry-that it was "helpless heedless, useless." Liberals, he added, might rest assured that Mr Gladstone, once in office, wonld lose no time in formulating a'policy for the govern- ment of Ireland. Sir William Harcourt on Wednesday addressed a meeting of Liberals at Oldham. In reply to an ad dress, he condemned not only the Irish Adminis- tration, hut the tone and temper of its poliov. Mr Balfour was making the worst of a bad policy; it was a policy of coercion with insnlt. lie was administering Ireland upon the Hottentot principle of contempt and hatred of the people with whole fate he was charged. His insults were so many nails in the coffin of Unionism. Mr Balfour was a practical, and Mr Chamberlain a theoretical, coerciouist, and the latter was also heaping insults upon the Irish people He had declared it dis- graceful to associate with them, but he was not himself so squeamish in 1885, when he was con- certing measures with Mr Parnell to effect a revo- lution in Irish government and fathering a plan he afterwards confessed he got from him. His lan- guage about paid agitators and a kept party was not the language of the demooraoy but of a purse-proud plutocracy. Lord Hartington took a despondent view of the fntnre of his party, and his policy was one of desperation and paralysia. CONSEBVATISM IN LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.— Mr F. S. I'ovell, M.P., presided at a council meet- ing of the Lancashire and Cheshire Division of the National Union of Conservative Associations at Manchester on Saturday afternoon, supported by Sir James Fergusson, M,P Mr J. W, Maclure, M.P., and Mr Elliot Lees, M.P. Letters of apologv were received from Lord Claud Hamilton, Sir W. H. Houldsworth, M.P., and Colonel Sandys, M.P. Sir James Fergusson, in moving the adoption of the report, said the union was second to none out- side the metropolis' in the amount of support given to the Conservative Party and the present Government and the interests it represented. The constituencies had become well informed politically through the efforts of the union, and there was no fear of the general election being carried by a sudden rush or agitation against the sound principles represented by the Government.— Mr Maclure seconded the motion.—Mr Powell, who supported it, said there never was a time when the principles they upheld were so dear to the people of the country. lIe believed there was no party more thoroughly popular at the present moment than the Conservative and Unionist Party.—The report was adopted. In the evening Sir J. Fergusson was initiated a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters at a special gathering held in the city. Alit BALFOUR IN TWO CHARACTERS.—The Saturday Renew oonsiders the puzzlement and aunoyance of the usual Gladstonian at llr Balfour's appearance at the Church Congress must have been fertile in amusement to Mr Balfour himself. Gladstonian papers, not always provincial. have admitted letters asking how ministers ot Christ cau admit to their platforms persons gnilty of such crimes aa Bomba the Third's. This appeal auggesta a atory which may have been told before the story of the child of tender years brought up iu strict Protestan- tism, who,on seeing some live Roman Catholics for the first time, asked in horror. "How can they look so happy when they know they're so wicked ?" Others (whose knowledge of Mr Balfour's philo- sophical standpoint is confined to the fact that he once wrote a book with "doubt" in the title) appear to oonfuae him with some prominent member of the army which besieged Mansoul in the Holy War. As these good persons have dragged politics into the question, it may not be improper to keep them to somo extent to their contention, however inconven- ient it may be to themselves. There is certainly a resemblance between Mr Balfour's treatment of philosophico-religioui; and his treatment of politico- moral questions. In both respects he has displayed himself as the mortal foeof shams and of big words and of systems based on words and shams. A most instructive, and to Gladstonians an exceedingly disagreeable parallel, might be worked out between thellcultivation of emotions at high tension towards humanity" and the cnltivatioD of emotion at high tension towards oertain other things. THE OPPOSITION'S POLICY.—The Economist declares that unless and until the Opposition frankly lay their policy before the nation, the electors cannot help refusing to displace the present Government. It is naeless for Mr Morley to say that their policy is to let the laws for Ireland be made by men who love Ireland, like Mr Dillon, not by men who despise her, like Mr Chamberlain. That is not, and is not sedouõly meant to be, a statement of policy. It is in truth uothing but a rhetorical flourish produced to hide the absence of exposition, and will be generally recognised as such. Yet farther than this Mr Morely entirely refuses to go. Of the results of such procedure no Unionist- need, of course, be afraid, for it places them before the country in a position far better than that occupied by the Gbil. stonians. The Unionists know their own minds, and let the electors know the exact principles upon which they are acting. Their opponents, on the other hand, even if their leaders know their own minds and can agree on a policy,liave not only failed to explain that policy to the country, but have absolutely refused to give the slightest information as to itsjdetails. As long as this state of things con- tinues, can it be doubted which siJe will retaiu the confidence of the nation ?

Literary Notices. I The Official Illustrated Guide to the London and Iftrth Western Railway.—To thoroughly enjoy a ruu over the London and North Western Railway and ten other systems connected with the Royal Mail Weat Coast Route to Sootland, Wales, and Ireland, the traveller should provide himself with the official guide published by Measra Caasell and Co., London, a new edition of which is now before us. Handy in form, many additional pages have been added to the work, the plans of towns and several offioial maps appear for the first tima, several new illustrations have been prepared, the section deal- ing with the Irish Railway appears for the first time, notes respecting the daily and weekly press have been added, and fares from London and other important stations have been added. The illustra- tions are vastly superior to those we find in ordinary gnide books,whilst the maps are extremely valuable. The Official Guide to the Londou and North Western Railway Company" will prove a good shilling investment. Having tested its worth we can thoroughly recommend it. The quarterly issue of the Oeni'ien is now oat-, and with it the prospectus for next year's issues. The Welsh readers are promised articles on interest. ing tipics from the pena of some of our most eminent writers, including Principal Edwards, Professor Silvan Evans, Dewi Won, Vulcan, Kilsby, Dr. J. Hughes, Professor Lloyd, E. J. Griffith, M.A., Tndno. Dr. Joseph Parry. Gweirydd ap Rhys, and many other vVelshmen of note. The present issne oi the magazine is no to its usual mark of litorary merit, and its contents will be found interesting. Professor Rhys has an article upon several matters of antiquarian note in Anglesey. Mr Morgan Lloyd, Q.C., writes on "The administration of jus- tice in Wales," and Mr Henry Richard. M.P., deals with "The relation of Walas to England." The Rev. W. Roberta has some good notes upon the late Bishop Morgan, D.D. The whole of the artiolea are very interesting, and cannot fail to please Welsh readers who like to peruse a magazine in their own language, purely unseotarian and non. political. Messrs D. W. Davies and Co., of Carnar- von, are the publishers.

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Items for Farmers. There are over 80,000,000 sheep, cattle, aud horses ia Australia. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IN GERMANY.— Much sur- prise has been expressed, says a contemporary, at the fact that an English firm whioh had undertaken the preparation and sale of phosphoric slag as manure, nnaiug no market for its produce at heme, is now shipping the whole of it to Cerniaiiy and the question is asked, Why do the German igrisnl- turists use this materal when the British farmer will not look at it ? Perhaps the answer is to be found in some of the reports of the chambers of commeroe recently issued. In these it is said that the adverse circumstances from wh.ch a!!ricull1re has been goffering have been the occasion of a great advance in agricultural science, and that the farmers of Western and Xorthern Germany iu particular have been sarnulated thereby to work their land more iu accordauce with the teacbil1"B of modern science. As one result of this improvtfl state of things, artificial manures are being ex- tensively used. OLD HENS.—Heus two years old past, and all that are not desirable to keep over for breeders, or for laying stock next season,should be sent to market he. fore they begin to grow new feathers. Hens do not usually lay much while moulting, and if in ordin- ary good condition, as most old fowls on the farm are at. this time of jear, will bring nearly or quite as much as they would if kept until lat in the fall. Ev-eil if vou do not iter as much now as von would then, hear in mind that by selling new yon savet be feed for iiil two or three months while they are putting off their old feathers and growing new ones. Of course this advice does not appiy to farmers who are so far from market that poultry can hardly be sold at any price except for a while in the late fall. Ou such farms, where the poultry have free range, they will pick up mast if not all of their living through warm weather, ani be in fine condition to fatten rapidly later iu the fall; and there are some hene-we have had a good many of them --that will do fairly well, more than enough to pay their way, right through moulting time. Of course, ic won't pay to sell such hena. EARLY MATURITY.—The days of long feeding are, or should be.over with all kinds of MtJck, it mattera not whether it be for beef, mutton, or pork. Under no circumstances whatever should stock hogs, brod aud fed for market, be more thau ten mouths old when ready for the butcher. In many instances this period should be shortened by at least two months, as it frequently means either farrowing in cold weather or encroaching on the winter for feeding, both of which featurea are objectionable. It has beeu clearly demonstrated that by judicious feeding any of tha standard breeds of hoga can be made to average two hundred pounds at six, certainly not over seven mouths old, hence it is safe to assert that eight months is a reasonable limit to fix for tbe age of a pig fattened an 1 ready for the market. To reach this point it will be necessary that pigs be pushed from the start, and that a vigorous growth be maintained throughout. With proper care and management the same amount of feed which by some is extended over a period of twelve mouths can be fed in seven, the result being earlier maturity, a great caving of time, and a large profit for the feeder. FARM-YARD MANURE.—Butapart from satisfactory results as a source of plant food, farm-yard and stable manuie have a marked effect also in improv- ing the mechanical condition of the soil. In this also its all-round character is again apparent. When applied in its rank and fresh state to stiff clay land it Berves to open up the soil aud make it less closely compacted. The liberation of its nitrogen and carbonic acid hlo tend to make the soil more friable; and as these soils are very reten- tive, there IS !ittle or no fear of the nitrates being washed out of them. On the other hand, where sand predominate instead of clay, farm-yard manure should be applied only in its well-rotted state, as such soils require to have their openness abated rather than otherwise. Well-rotted man- ure makes these lighter soils less liable to suffer from drought, as they iucreaae the water-holding capaoityof the ground and giveoff a moisture of their own as the result of decomposition, besides enabling the plauta to draw moisture from the lower strata of soil by capillary attraction. In these respects also it possesses an immense advantage over artificial manares,which are often a failure in a dry year. TUB WHEAT PRODUCTION OF THE WOBLD.—The returns from different foreign countries as well as the home estimues are now sufficiently definite to allow of a fair ealoulation being made as to the estimated wheat production this year, and the estimated requirements of variona countries. From the tables published it appears that the total wheat production of tho world is 258,336,255 quarters, and the requirements are estimated at 260,850,000 quarters. This shows that there is leea wheat pro- duced thalt will be required, and we are likely to be confronted with a period wherein the resources of international commerce will be taxed to move from the producing to the purchasing countries of the world the wheat required for the new cereal year. A couviotion thai the effort will be a carious one is to be seeu in the rise in freights which is practically universal, most noticeable at the Black Sea ports and at the American Atlantic ports, but also to be found at the Baltio, Indian, and South American points of shipment. Even stronger evidence is to be found in the excitement which has prevailed in the United States, where red wheat has rapidly risen from 30 to 37s per quarter; white wheat in the Pacific States rising about half a crown. SELLING BY LIVE WEIGHT. G. A. H." writes in the Agricultural C)ritzette:- "I had all auction of sheep and cattle the other day. I had fifty-three cows and heifers, which had been a good time getting six lb. per head per day of mixed cake and corn, an,1 were in forward condi- tion as good stores, some being half fat and suitable to kill for country butchera, others needing from six to ten weeks' more feeding to make them fu:l fat. I began selling (before my auciion) at 3ld per lb. live weight, as taken out of the field and passed over a weigh bridge (that was nianv weeks ago). and my iast 8-1,s "'He at .Id per lb., but aa I bad an auction of ow ?t? an! lamba coming off I stopped selling privately in order to offer the whole lot by auction. Four days before the auction I weighed every beast myself, and calculated out the value at 3id per lb. live weight, and put that paper into the aactioneer's hand, and said that unless the cattle went for that price I was not inclined to sell. Lot after lot was put up, and only two lota were aold, one at 3 31 100d and the other at 4 5 10d per lb. live weight, while all the reat were oflered for (until I stopped the farce) at from 2id to 2Jd, or from 1!-i to Id under the price I had been realising by private ale.Now,if I lind not known the weight of the beasts, I would have been trapped into selling them far below their market value, for many people think that at an auction things are sure to bring their market value. Of oourse, there was great dissatisfaction, bllt I reminded the buyers that thenry same thing bad happened last year, when one beast was actually knocked down at about three farthinga per pound live weight? Farmers are not judges of the size and weight of animals. A few may be, but, if so, it ia a gift," just as a fine voice or a correct ear for musio is a gift; and those who do not possess the gift are simply fools if they sell any of their iive stock witbont weighing it. When I stopped my auotion I got upon the aoutioneer's stand and told the geatlemeu present why I did it. I told them I knew the weight of every beast ad weighed four days previously, that I had calculated oat the value cf every beast at 3i,i per pound live weight—a prioe which I knew I had been getting,aud which I knew, from friends who also weighed their beasts, was rather below than above the current market price. I see Mr Westley Richards is getting 4d per pound. Now, that agrees with the sales of a izentleirsi) I kuow in the midlands, 'sho sells his beasts at a weekly auction mart two or three miles from liii farm. He weighs every beast the day before it goes to market, and sande his reserve price to the auctioneer, and if it does not realise that price it comes home again unsold. Let me advise evaryone who sells in these local auction marts to do the same, for there is no doubt whatever (as my friend found out by experience) that the butchers form 'a ring,' and if theie is no outsider present they get at -their own unfair price evory beiat which has not had a reserve price put on to it. Even if there is an outsider present they let him buy (taking care to run him up to full market price), and when his purse or appetite is exhausted they sweep all the remaining I unre.ervd' beasts into their own net at mnab below market price and divide the profit amongst the members of the rlDló!'¡ N?,? the auctiouera are practically h,lpless against these trade rings, and if the farmere are wilse they will help the auctioneers by alway. weighing their beasts and putting a reserve price upon them-of coarse, what they believe to be a fair market price-and then the I rings' will be defeated. But how is a man to know market price?' Well, it seems to me that all the agri- cultural papers should ask their farmer readers to weigh their beasts alive' before sending to a market or to a fair, and, if sold, report the price ob. tained then we should have a true report of what store cattle or fat beasts are bringing per pound or per atone (per stone is the best unit) week by week, and we should no longer be at the mercy of I rings made by dealers and butchers."

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I Gossip. I The Marquis of Salisbury and Lady Gwendolen Cecil have arrived at Hatfield House from Nice, I" is reported that Mr M.?t?. has refused the offpr of Captain Machell of E5000 for a brother to Satiety, by Iaonomy ant of Wifey. Mr W, S. Gilbert sotf.. r< from an uncoaqnerablo nervousues- This h, reveuted him seeing CDe of his own plays fron, front of the house after tbe rehearsals b re over The Emiieror Wilh* has privately intimated his intention of comi) to England next year; but not before the of June. Mr. Hodgson Bn, author of Little Lord Fanntleroy," was pv^- at a reception given in her honour on Saturday evening in Manchester, her native citv. The Queen and other members of the Royt family, according to present arrangements, will return to Windsor Castle about the 15th November. The Empress Frederick of Germany has abandoned her intention of going to Scotland on ft visit to the Qaeeu, and has returned to Berlin from Kiel, to take up her winter residence iu her own palace. Madame Modj^aka has bought a property in California, and has built a house there. She in- tends shortly to retire from the stage, and to spend her days iu her American house. She lately visited Poland, and removed furniture and the numerous trophies of her triumphant stage career to California. A Londou correspondent says There is a rare chance for a steady reader likelv to find time hanging heavily on his bands during the coming winter. The authorities of the British Museum have just received as a gift from the United States a full reaord of the proceedings before the Alabama Claims Commiasion. This interesting work-a library in itself—comprises 15:i volumes. The marriage is announced in a Hyderabad paper of the infant daughter (aged seven months) cf the late Sir Salar Jung with the son (aged four years) of a rich nobleman of Hyderabad. II Happy is the wooing that's not long adoing." Lord Tennyson is becoming very infirm, and il very much afflicted with failing sight. Neither he nor Lady Tennyson are able to spend the winter in England w,th any safety. This year they will spend it in the South of France. Baldwin, the American aeronaut, must be doing a very good business. He made an ascent and drop at Leedi on Monday, and, according to his own statement to a Press representative, his torme were f300 and a share of the gate" money. TLis rrns his twenty-seventh performance since coming to England, He has just reoeived an offer from Australia for a prolonged tour in the colonies, at an assured remuneration of £200 per ascent and half of tbe proceeds. The Yeoman of the Guard" has not, says Spectator in the Star, proved so expensive in the mounting as some of its predecessors. The only costly dreases ate the uniforms of the Tower warders. Tho rich satins and brocades worti in Iolauthe" and II Princeea Idto" ssnt the cost of those operas up to £5000 apiece, as much as R120 being expended on a giti6-le chorister'^ dre-s. "Pinafore" and The Mikado," on the other hand, only ran into about E2000 for moaatiug. To bear that the Drury-Iane Pantomime is already in rehearsal makes one think of Christmas, but it ia a fact nevertheless. Mr lhrris means to outsh;ne all previous efforts with" The Babes in the Wood." There will be two very big scenes, and perhaps a third. In the first there will be a grand ballet of toys, and in the second some of the loveliest wood- laud scenery ever seen on the stage. Mr Harris's only anxiety is what to do with" The Armada," which is doing bigger baaiuesa than any other piece produced under his management. Though arrange- ments had been made for a pantomime at Covent Garden they will properly fall through, as Mr Harris has almost settled terms fur" The Armada to be removed there. It is a proof of the position which Mr Balfour has obtained iu the eyes of the public that even what might be regarded as a matter purely con- cerning himself forms food for mach conversation in political circles here. For some time it has been rumoured that the Irish Secretary, who has re- mained a bachelor thus far, and who in that capacity officiated as "best man" when his brother, Mr Gerald Balfour, was lately nnited to the daughter of LordLyttoo, is about to be married, but secrecy has been displayed as to the name of the destined bride. This, I learn, will shortly be authoritatively announced but in quarters usnally well informed upon euch matters it is already positively stated to be a daughter of the Marquis of Bath. A contributor to the Berlin Neue Musikzeitung elaborates the theory that the character of a mar is to be predicted from the special vowel which pre- dominates in hia laughter. For instance, persons in whose laughter the letter A (sound ah) is dominant are open, jovial, honest folk, who delight in noise :.ud movenn it. "Laughter in E" is au iqdication of the p ilegmatic and melancholio. Children moit iuvarmbiy "laugh in I," and this is also observable in person* of a naive, docile, modest or undecided character. "Laughter in 0," which the writer regards as the moat dignified of ail the laughing ton6a, is the mark of noble and bold tem- per.. The worst of all the laughters is that in U, which is the characteristic of the misanthropical. Concerning the withered arm of the present Emperor of Germany, a writer of some Random Recollections of Coartg and Society" gives the following particulars At the end of January, 1859, the booming of cannon 101 times repeated, announced the birth of the son and heir of Prince Frederick William aud Princess Victoria. Lord Bloomfield had been hastily sammoned to the palace of the Prince daring thp night, and remained there till the child was born. For nearly all hour anxiety was fait, respecting the -jafety of the mother, but the cause disappeared, and free scope was given to the joy elicited by the event. It was soon known that the Royal baby was afflicted with a slight malformation of the left arm the limb appeared dit-coloured and \V!ttH1r"l nf"ow tfcft oVryy, but stioup hopes were entertained that time and science would, if not utterly restore the arm to a naturally healthy condition, at least make it available for all ordinary purposes. This hope has beeu justified, for aulese prepared to examine Prince Wilhelm very closely, it is difficult to perceive that he has not the equal use of both his arms." We walked on Friday th- gli a portion of the district which has recently been much talked about in consequence of the commission in it of a number of horrible and revolting murders. There certainly was n >t so much excitement as one might have imagined from the display bills of a section of the daily papers, and people seemed to be goin about their business pretty much the same as usuaf In fact, two of the people whom we asked to direct us to Mitre-square, when we were within a couple of hundred yards of it, did not know where it was. When we got there we found a small knot of persons quietly discussing the affair, and apparently anxious to show to fresh coine.'s the exact spot where the murder W," committed. The square is almost entirely compos- of warehouses, and there are two public lamp- in it. There are three separate passages lea ng iuto the square. The murderer is Mill at large. A number of blood- hounds are being train< d in order to catch him in cast; he lias sufficient temerity to repeat his das- tardly crimes.

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