The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

TO MR, JOHN PHILLIPS, CALVINISTIC METHODIST MINISTER. IN BANGOR. Sir,—In your letter published in the last North Chro ?'ic", Y?, -all Wales Chronicle you acknowledge as generally correct the report of your lecture, which appeared in the C??tW! Herald. As that lecture iir?t attracted my attention through the medium of a Newspaper, anil as I thought that a report hastily got up might possibly convev, on many points, a different impression from what you intended, I deemed it but fair to yourself that I should express my intention of offering some remarks upon what appeared to be unfair in your mode of handling the subject, in order to give YOIl beforehand an opportunity of either renouncing or adopting the contents of that report. Y ou have now I I I I  l takell the latter course; ana, moreover, t nnu ine whole has been since republished in the form of a pamphlet, which, having your name oil its title-page, conies forth, it is presumed, with your sanction and authority. Of this I am heartily glad, because I may now feel assured that I am not combating an unreal antagonist, or wasting words upon imaginary objections. You tteUusinthebeginningofyourtpcture that you do not deliver your opinions rashly and without consideration; but that the subject has occupied much of yom attention, and that you expect all the words which cscape from your lips to be thoroughly sifted an d examine d All this s hows that you have con fi- dence in your cause, and that you ,it ILi?t think your opinions will bear the test of criticism, and that you yo.r",? are fully capable of defending them. In accordance with t?lc intention which I expressed in my former letter to you, I shallllow examine your lecture, and submit it to the test of that discussion which you almost invited; and if I prove, as I trust I shall be able to do, that your several positions arc perfectly untenable, I hope you will be induced to distrust your present theological learning, and to reconsider the whole question at issue between the Church and Dissent, Although the motive which you assigned for jtlie composition and delivery of this lecture was your anxiety to refute a certain statement which had appeared some time previously in the North Wales Chronicle, yet it cannot but appear that one, if not the only, object in view was to attack a certain portion (If thc clergy, and also to create and circulate a preju- dice against the Church which by God's blessing has been established in this country. The statement re- ferred to, which was the ostensible object of your attack, was" That secession to Popery is a less evil than secession to Dissent;" and in your preliminary observations you express your expectation that some of the clergy would have come forward to retract such an opinion set forth in what you consider their organ, "For," to use your own words, "the Church establishment of this realm, as well as the non-con- forming Churches, hold that Popery is a damnable heresy." lour object, as it appears tome, m men- tioning that the Church establishment holds Popery to be a damnable heresy," is to show, first, that the North Wales Chronicle, although professing itself a Church of England, yet is really a Popish, paper; and secondly, that the clergy, not having cone forward to disown such a statement, although professing them- selves members of a Chnrch holdin, Popery to he a dan,nablc heresy," yet arc guilty of gross unfaithful- ness, and are really Papists in disguise. This was the conclusion which you wished your hearers to arrive at, and you do not seem to doubt the soundness of the reasoning which brought you to it. Yet that conclu- sion depends entirely upon your own assertion, that the Church of England holds that Popery is a "damn- able heresy." If it were so, nothing, not even Dissent, could be worse than Popery. But where is your authority for that assertion I I am one of the clergy, but I never knew until you informed me that our Church held such a doctrine. Where is the act, or the decree in which she declares her opinion that every man professing his adherence to Popery must be eternally damned? I do not wish to defend Popery. I believe it is an erroneous system. I sineerc1y Jam "111 its many corruptions of the Christian faith and I am truly thankful that I belong to a branch of the Church Catholic whose faith and practice are free from those corruptions, and established upon the basis of more ancient and primitive times; yet I feel that truth does not require to be propped up by groundless assertions, and \lntil you produce such a declaratory act on the part of our Church, I shall still think that the Editor of a Church paper, and also the clergy, may consider themselves at full liberty to hold it as their private opinion, that Dissent is a worse evil eveii than Popery, without subjecting themselves to the charge or even the insinuation of unfaithfulness to the important trusts severally committed to them. Even if you had proved, which you do not seem to have atte pie that Dissent is a httle better than P ) eiyI yet believing the latter as you do to be a damnable heresy, that would have scarcely improved your position, for the Christian rule is, not to measure one evil by another, but to measure both by the word of God; and I wonder how it is that you do not see that by that rule the system to which you belong is entirely condemned. I shall not follow you through all your preliminary observa- tions, as I find in them much that is only mere popu- lar declamation, and much that is irrelevant, although calculated to Inislcad the unwary or ill-illfol"H1Cd. I shall, however, notice some few of the most striking and most insidious, pointing out where your inferences are clcarly wrong. In reference to the Church of England you say, It is asserted that high and lofty privileges belong to this Church, and amongst other things, that she is a very ancient institution. Granted; but we must be allowed to answer that there are many things old without beine good, and that truth is not inseparable from antiquity." To this I reply, that truth, if you mean Christian truth, of which alone I speak, is quite inseparable from antiquity; for in Christianity there is nothing true and essentially necessary to be believed now, that was not equally necessary and true 1800 years ago. Next you say "That the Ministers are people of dignity, and that her Bishops are lords. But the Scriptures make no allusion whatever to this as a qualification for the Christian Ministry." To this I reply that, if our Ministers are people of dignity, their orders make them so and if our Bishops are lord" their consecrations make them so, therefore we never supposed that any title conferred by the office could be a qualification for it, for that which is the consequence of the bestowal of a gift can never be a qualification for its reception. You say It is also stated that the nobility, gentry, and aristocracy of the country, are members of the establishment. True, hut great men are not always wise and good: and hitherto comparatively few of the nobles have been fGund devoted to the scrvices of the Gospel and the glory of God." To this I reply that we have never yet grounded the claims of our Church on the fact, whether the rich of this word are or are not members of it. You say It is also boasted, that the National Church is stationary, atHI that nothing is allowed to influence her to a change of the articles or creed or the form of the service. Ay But let us recollect that Mahometanism and Popery assume a right to the same dignity. Nevertheless, they are both destruc- tive systems, which proves that unchangeablencss and purity are not bound to one another." To this I re- ply that the Christian faith must be ever tame and michangable, but not so the forms of the Church's service; therefore, though Mahometanism may lay claim to the same tiigiiit),, still that should be no pre- judice to the Church. If some systems that are bad are unehaiigable, is the Church on that account to change ? If purity is not bound to every thing that is unchangable, does it follow that it is to every thing that is changeable ? Surely you cannot say that, yet this is the inference which you seem to aim at. Again you say It is also maintained that she is an Apostolical Church, and that her ministers are invested with Apostolical authority. Yes! but we must clothe our- r:;olNI abid:;i: to e;l;s:: that the Church of Rome loudly asserts her claim to the very same Apos- tleship. Nevertheless, in the volume of inspiration this system is called Antichrist, which shews that high claims to lofty honours, be they imaginary or real, are not a sufficient guard to keep off corruptions. No, no, we must have truth in principle an s holiness in deportment to subdue what M eyi To this I reply that the assertion of a similar claim by the Church of Rome does not in the least, in our opinion, invalidate ours; and surely when you consider the matter fur- ther, you will not think so, unless you are prepared to maintain also that we ought to renounce every thing which the Chmch of Rome possesses. In that case we should have to part with our creeds, and with much of our present Prayer Book, and in addition to this, with the whole of the Sacred Scriptures. It is to this we should be reduced if your objections were valid, and your principles correct. You will pardon me if I say that your logic is extremely bad. The na- ile ?ia tural inference from your reasoning is, that as there are many bad systems which are ancient and un- changeable, so therefore, Christianity, which is a true system, should be always new and always changing; and that as the Church of Rome asserts her apostolic authority, and is nevertheless a false Church, 1. the Church of England asserting such claim is fabe t 00e. You should, I think, have carried this reasoning one Ste further, and said, that as the Church od Rome laid claim to the possession of the Holy Scriptures, and yet was a false church, so the Calvinistic .Metho- dists laying claim to the same Scriptures, must be equally false. This, sir, is a specimen of your reason- ing, and as I have proved thus far that your accusa- tions are groundless assertions, I hope for your own sake that you will see the propriety of retracting them. I should not have noticed these things so much in dc- tail, if I did not know the influence which your posi- tion gives you over a large numher of our countrymen. I do not speak of you personally, but only as occu- ),ing a certain ministerial position. That influence, !,?t ,0,,? as I believe, fast diminishing, ;?:itill very great: and no doubt there are yet many who receive iatever emanates from such a source with as much implicit confidence as if you propounded to them the most undoubted verities. This discussion I shall con- tinue in future numbers. A MEMBER OF THE GIURCII.

TO THE REV. JOHN PHILLIPS. Sir,—In your letter of the Gth inst., to the Editor of the North Wales Chronicle, you assert that your lecture at li-iiigor "not delivered for the purpose of attacking the Church Establishment." Whatever your lectin e may have been in intention, it was, in effect, the most unjustifiable, virulent, and false-hearted attack that has been made upou the Chmch of England since the days of Cartwright the Puritan, or Fisher the Jesuit; and it consisted of such inconclusive and declamatory arguments, as would have done credit to a Collins or a Toland, while you seasoned and peppered it, to suit the corrupted palate of your audience, with the flippancy and false wit of a Voltaire. I find you have issued this lecture into the world in the form of a pamphlet. In my former letter to you, I have shewn that it is disfigured with many false ar- guments, and disgraced with several untruths. You have sent it forth, with all this deformity, the result partly of your ignorance, partly of your malice, amongst the simple peasantry of this country, who do not suspect your logic or your veracity among whom therefore it is likely to do considerable mischief. You will have to answer before the throne of the God of truth for thus disseminating falsehood under the garb ofreligion I pray you may have repentance and forgiveness before you die, at his merciful hands. But you will have to answer for it too before the tri- buna? of the ublie, to stand before which I now sum- mon you. You must not flatter yourself for one mo- ment that a man of your fame can with safety venture now to shrink from the ordeal. My indictment against you is comprised in my first letter: I call upon you to answer for yourself; and I do so with authority, as a minister of the Gospel in that Church which you have so ungenerously vilified in what you supposed to be her weakness of condition, surrounded as you find her to be by so many religious and political adversaries,- Should you cowardly evade the contest, for which I am ready on the ground of Scripture and right reason, you are already gibbetted before a hissing and an execrating public. I do not wish to alarm or frighten )-oil; nor am I unkind or unjust towards you: no the challenge is yours; it was you who threw down the gauntlet; and you must abide the conscquences. While you were content with your own sphere of activity, you were let alone but now that the die is cast, now that you have passed the Rubicon, and charged the Church with blasphemy, I darc not, as a Churchman, allow you to escape without a trial. Had you been an obscure in- dividual, I should not have noticed you; had the matter in question been of trivial moment, I should have left you to spit your venom undisturbed but as you are a man of fame, of learning, and of influence, anil as the cause in band is the cause of truth, of the Church, and of the New Testament, I once more sum- mon you, and as many Advocates as you might wish to retain, before the bar of an impartial Public, in their judicial capacity, to plead your cause, and to make good your unblushing averments about the blasphemy of our services, and your unscriptural argu- ments relative to your own pretensions to set your- selves up as Ministers of the Gospel. And I piedge myself to meet you with calmness, and to draw my conclusions by fair argumentation from Scriptural premises. r While I thus respectfully but fearlessly accept youf challenge, I do myself at the same time the honor 0 subscribing myself, Sir, Your obedient Servant, CAMBRENSIS. I

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. To the Editor of the North Wales Chronicle. SIII,- What do people get by railway is a qucstion often asked, first by one and then by another. I will, therefore, by your permission, Mr. Editor, furnish your readers what Mr. William Hughes, Llaneilian, got by it, and that clear into bis own pocket. Mr. Hughes lives on his own freehold, and what lie does in the way of improvements on his premises, are, of course, done for his own permanent advantage. Busi- ness led him lately to Bangor, and being there, he ex- tended his walk to Port Penrhyn, to see the quay, the slates and shipping, lie asked the price of varions sized slates-and was informed if lie only stepped into the office, he should have the full and true particulars. Those that snited his purpose were what are termed moss slates; and the sale price was fifteen shillings a thousand,-inliereas the same kind of slates, of much inferior quality, would have cost him thirty-eight shillings a thousand at Llansantttraid Glan Conway. He bought a thousand and a half for fl 2s. (id., cart- age from the port to the station, 3s, Gd" carriage by rail to the Colwyn station, 5s; being two tons weight, in all, tl 11s. Od. This saved him six miles of cartage, a turnpike gate, and £ 1 (is. Od. clear to his own pocket, when compared with the sum of £ 2 17s. Od and if the communication had been direct with the rail- way, there would have been a further saving of 3s. (id. or a little more than 15 per cent, an amount not to be despised, as every shilling in these days is needful to one who lives by the plough. Now, cannot the great railway officials, and our great landed proprietors join in feelmgs of kind charity to those in humble life, and like the Man of Ross, do what in them lies pro bono publico ? I p,;blieo! ARUUS. Juxta Montana, Dec. 17, 1850.

THE JONES'S AND SMITHS.—The labours of the Regis- ter Otrice afford some highly curious facts as to the relative number of persons of different names living in England and Wales. From time immemorial it has been thought that Smith was the commonest of names. The Smiths are soldiers, and sailors, and parsons, and tailors, and bakers, and authors, anil, indeed, everything. But the exact figures of the Registrar upset the long cherished fallacy that they form the most numerous of our clans, The Jones's outnumber them and stand at the head of the list; Smith coming seeond. This question of the frequency of particular names must interest so many per- sons that we give the followmg hst of the fifty most common appellations, in the order in which they are found to rank in the books of the Registrar, together with the number of each name, who were born, married, or died, in the year June 30th, 1837, to July 1st, 1838. Jam, 13,429 Smith, 12,6:37 Williams, 8,743 Taylor, 0 440 Davies, 5,.)K9 Brown, 5,080 Thomas, 5,278 Kvntis 4,930; Roberts, 4,19H; Johnson, 3,743; llobin- son, :¡,(j55; Wilson, 3,3tm; Wright, 3,2!J!J; Hall, 3,227; irirlics, 3 180; Wood, 3,177 Walker, 3,1-18 Lewis, 3134; Green, 3,112; Edwards, 3,097; White, 3,087; Jackson, 3,040 Turner, 2,908 Thompson, 2,871; Hill, OH.H; Harris, 2,771; Cooper, 2,693; Cl.uk, 2,iiS3; Daris, 2,061 Harrison, 2,502; Baker, 2,3*5 Ward, 2 '318; Morris, 2,299; Morgan, 2,296; Martin, 2,272; james, 2,209; King, 2,150; Clarke, 2,145; Cook, 2,135; Allen, 2,110; Price, 2,090; Phillips, 1,997; Parker, ] Moore, l,9S5; Watson, 1,908; Carter, 1,882; Richardson, 1,817; Lee, 1,815; Griffiths, 1,801 Shaw, 1,7 ;j4,-llotlsc1wltl Words. CLKIOSITIF.S FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—A boot on the "last of the Mohicans." A shirt-sleeve from the arms of Morpheus." A barrel made of musical staves. Indian war hoop, f-Illitili- A nosegay containing the pink of perfection, the lfower of the family, and leaves taken at parting. A towel for wiping the face of the country. A fight between two striking likenesses. The exact amount that Marmion wanted Chester to charge. A Roman Catholic Cathedral, Convent, and, College, are to be erected at Edinburgh, says the Builder, The Cathedral is to be a50 feet long, and to have a spire 3Ha feet high the two buildings are to be connected. The funds required for the erection are said to be L400,000 more than half of which has already been obtained through large donations and bequests," 0

1 UP. A JOLLY FLARE VP." CFrom I'etidennis Old Pendennis had no special labour or billt to encoun- ter on the morrow as he had 110 affection at home to soothe him. He had alwaysmmieyin his desk suiffcient for his wants; and being by nature and habit tolerably indifferent to the wants of other people, these latter were not likely to dis- turb him. But a gentleman may be out of temper though he does not owe a shilling and though he may be ever so selfish, he must occasionally feel dispirited and lonely. H" had had two or three twinges of gout in the country- house where he had been staying: the birds were wild and shy, and the walking over ploughed fields had fatigued him deueedly the young men had laughed at him, and he had been peevish at table once or twice he had not been able to get his whist of an evening: and, in fine, was glad to come away. !n all his dcaUnsi with Morgan, his valet, he had been exceedingly sulky an d tlircoiiteiited. He h.? sworn at him and abused him for many days past. He h?d scalded his month with bad .nup at Sviullon. Je 1,,1 I left hw umorella 111 the rail-road ca.nage, at which Pil?'. '?forgetfutnef.hewasinsueharagethathecu?ed Morgan more freely than ever. Both the chimneys smoked furiously in his lodgings; and when he caused the windows to be flung open, he swore so acrimoniously, that Morgan was inclined to fling him out of the window, too, through that opened casement. The valet swore after his master, as Pendennis went down the street on his way to the club. Bays's was not at all pleasent. The house had been new- painted, and smelt of varnish and turpentine, and a lare streak of white paint inHitled itself on the back of the old bey's fur-collared stirtout. The dinner was not good and the three most odious men in all London-old Hawk- sliaw, whose cough and accompaniments are fit to make any man uncomfortable old Colonel Gripley, who seizes on all the newspapers; and that irreclaimable old bore Jawkins, who would come and dine at the next table to Pendennis, and describe to him every inn-bill which he had paid in his foreign tour: each and all of these disagree- able personages and incidents had contrabuted to make Major Pendennis miserable; and the Club waiter trod on his toe as he brought him his coffee. Never alone appear the Immortals. The Furies always hunt in company; they pursued Pendennis from home to the Club, and from theCtubhome. Old Pendennis returned from the Club, and went up stairs to his rooms. lr. Morgan swore very savagely at him and his bell, when he heard th latter, and finished his tumbler of brandy before he went up to answer the summons. lie received the abuse COJl8C(¡Uent on this delay in silence, nor did the Major condescend to read in tlie flushed face and glaring eyes of the man, the anger under which he was labouring. The old gentleman's foot- bath was at the fire his gown and slippers awating him there. Morgan knelt down to take his boots off with due subordination: and as the Major abused him from above, kept up a growl of maledictions below at his feet. Thus, when Pendennis was crying Confound you, sir; mind that strap—curse you, don't wrench my foot off." Morgan soto voce below was expressing a wish to strangle him, drown him, and punch his head off. The boots removed, it became necessary to divest Mr. Pendennis of his coat and for this purpose the valet had necessarily to approach very near to his employer so near that Pendennis could not but perceive what Mr. Morgan's late occupation had been; to which he adverted in that simple and forcible phraseology which men are sometimes in the habit of using to their domestics; informing Morgan that he was a drunken beast, and that he smelt of brandy. At this the man broke out, losing patience, and flinging up all subor- (iiiiatiori "I'm drunk, am II I'm a beast, am I l'iii d-d, am It you infernal old miscreant. Shall I wring your old head ofï, and drownd yer in that pail of water? Do you think I'm a-g,)in' to bear your confounded old harrogancc, you old Wig. by Chatter your old hivories at me, do you, you grinning old baboon 1 Come on if you arc a lIIan and canstawl t< a man, IIa! you coward, knhes, knives If you advance a step, I'll send it into you," said the Major, seziiig up a knife that was Ol the tab I: near him. "Go downstairs, you drunken brute, and leave the house send for your book and your wages, in the morning, and never letme see your insolent face again. This d-d impertinence has been growing for some months past. You have been growing t o rich. Yon are not fit for service. Get out of it, and out of the house."—"And where would you wish me to go, pray, out of the ouse 1" a:ked the man, "and won't it be equal convenient to- morrow mornin'?—tootjifay mums shose, sivvaplay, mtin- seer lit —"Silence, you beast, and go!" cried out the Major.—Morgan began to laugh, with rather a sinister laugh. Look yere, Pendeniiis," lie said, seating himself; "since I've been in this room you've called me beast, brute, dog and d- d me, haven't you ? How do you suppose one man likes that sort of talk from another ? How many years have I waited on you, and how mn)1 damns and curses have you given me, along with my wages Do )'ou think a man', a dog, that )OU can talk '0 him in this way? If I choosc to drink a little, why shouldn't 11 I've seen many a gentleman drunk formerly, 81111 pernps have the abit from them. I arnt' agoin' to leave this house, old feller, and shall I tell you for why The house is my house, every stick of fumitur' in it is mine, excep' your old trap, and ,our shower-bath, and )our wig-box. I've bought the place, I tell yon, with my own ;ft'an;e' 'Icanshowahundrcd pound, where you can show a ti.'ty, or your damned supcrsellious nephew either. I've served you honourable, done every- thing for you this dozen years, and I'm a (log, am I I I'm a beast, am 11 Tliit's the language for gentlemen, not f,ir our rank. But I'll bear it no more. I'll throw up your service I'm tired on it I've combed your old wig and buckled your old girths and waistbands long enough, I tell you. Don't look savage at me, 1111 sitting in my own chair, in my own room, a-telling the truth to you. I 11 be your beast, and your brute, and your dog, no more Major Pendennis Alf Pay." The fury of the old gentleman, met by the servants abrupt revolt, had been shocked and cooled by the con- cussion, as much as if a sudden shower-bath or a pail of cold water had been flung upon him. That cfFect pro- duced, and his anger calmed, Morgan's speech had inter- ested him, and he rather respected his adversary, and his courage in facing him, as of old days, in the fencing-room, he would have admired the opponent who hit him "Y'ou'rc no longer my sen-ant," the Major said, "and the house may be yours; but the lodgings are mine, and you will have the goodness to leave them. To-morrow morning, wlien we have our accounts, I shall remove into other quarters. In the meantime, I desire to go to bed, and have not the slightest wish for your further company." We'll have a settlement, don't you be afraid," Morgan said, getting up from his chair. "I ain't done with you yet; nor with your family, nor with the ('layering family, Major Pendennis; and that you shall know." He sate and mused by his hreside, over the past events, and the confounded impudence and ingratitude of servants; and thought how he should get a ne-v man how devilish unpleasant it was for a man of his age, and with his habits, to part with a fellow to whom he had IHcn accus- tomed how Morgan had a receipt for boot-varnish, which was incomparably better and more comlortablc to the feet than any lie had ever tried; how very well he made mutton broth, and tended him when lie was unwell. Gad it's a hard thing to lose a fellow of that sort: but he must go," thought the Major. He has grown rich, and impudent since lie has grown rich. lie was honibly tipsy and abusive to-night. We must part, and I must go out of the lodgings. Dalllmy, I like the lodgings; I'm used to 'em. It's very unpleasant, at m) time of life, to change my quarters." And so on, mused the old gentleman. The shower-bath had done him good; the tcstiness was gone the loss of the umbrella, the smell of paint at the club, were forgotten under the superior ex- citement. Confound the insolent villain!" thought the old gentleman. He understood my wants to a nicety: he was the best servant in England." He thought about his servant as a man thinks of a horse that has carried him long and well, and that has come down with him, and is s?fc no )onger. How the deuce to "place him 1 Where can he get such another aiiimal ?

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. PORT PENRHY, BAGOR.-Arri\'ed, I ?' '??? Hob-head Trader, Davies; !Ianict, Jones Amethpt, Leatham Mary, Sloan Ann & Sarah, Hughes A.i??th Parry; Wardlow, Templeton; lalacrc, OweM; John, Pugh; Stag, Hughc.i Temple, Jones; Ellens, Griffith and Margaret Ann, Griffiths. Cleared out, the Charlotte, Williams; Rose, Irving Rechab, lUehards; Raven, Owens; Indefatigable, "ïlliams; Anu & Catherine, Williams; Lord Exmouth, Hughes Port Penrhyn, Owens; Vine, Evans; and the Highland Chief, Young, all with slates. PORTMADOC, Dec. 19.—Arrrived, the Eagle, Jones; Den Ilcweston, Lloyd Andeona, Richards; J ane, Richards; Gwcn Jones, Jones. Sailed, the '^ovc, Jones; and the ulcan, tnompson. CON WAY, Dec. 19.—Arrived, the George, Gardiner Hopewell, Holland Betsey, Lloyd; York, Thomas Gwydr Castle, Gamctt, Amity, Williams; Alice Anu, Hughes Anne. Owcns ¡ Connoyimn, Parry; John, Hughes; Jane & Catherine, Roberts; George, Evans; 13usy lice, Jones.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ?Ir.'Pars ,ill mcet on Tuesday, D,?. Mth s;. Mile stone, Holyhead road. 'rill'Ild"lyl 2??tli -rititon Arms, Sarntomt. Saturday, 28th •••••"•" ""•dl'rfalS' Kach?yaLtEtevm o'clock. Sir W. NV Wynn's h.L?.?d? ,ill meet on S?,t.rd?v, D". bt, at l eo o'clock "'Y" I

MOLD COR\ MAUKET-WEDNTSIUY. Wheat, 13s 6d barley, lis 5s (j vs .,1; p^ut^ os to os Cd per hobbet.

I MEAT MARKETv NEWGATE AND LEADENHALT.. Thurslav, Decemlvrl' — Beef, from Vs od to as Jd; mutton,"2s 4d to ;s tiJ; veil, 2s 8J to os 6d: pork, 2s Cd to d per Sibs, by the carca<- SOUTH ALL, Dec. 19 —Beef :ro;U os. to 4s. od.; Mut- ton, o>. 2d. to 4s. 2,1. Pork, os. to 3s. 8d. per Slbs to sink the ofi'ds. T!ie market wdl supplied with e.eh kind of lilt stock, in which very little business transacted. 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. Veal, 2s. 8d to os. Gd.; Pork, 2$. l"-j to 3s. 8.1 per 3lbs. Suckling Calves los. to 23s.: Quarter-old Store Pigs, Iii., to 20s. each. We have ex- perienccd nn unusually dull trade here this morniCe- HAILSIIAM, Dec. 18.—Beef, froo. 3s Id to l<; mutton. 3s (U to 4s 2i poik, 3s to 3s Od. per olbs to the otiuls. Even the primest stock, tit far Chiistmas consumption, was very dull, and prices unusually low. CHICHESTER, Dec. IS.—I>eef, trom 3s. iM. to 4$.. 2d.; Veal, 3s. 2d. to 3s. (3d. Pwik, 3s. to 3s. 'JU- pec SIbs. The maikc-t was heauy, at drooping pricis.

-I,- THE DENBIGH COUNTY MEETING. To the Editor of the North Wales Chionicle. Sir,—As a subscriber to your excellent paper, I beg to otter a few remarks relative to proceedings at the late Denbigh County Meating, at which ,r was present. I could have wished, sir, that some one in behalf of the clervtv had proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Ffoulkes for his very truthful and manly speech, against allegations charging them as being chieHy accessory to the Pope's aggression. The resolution containing such a charge expressly stated th.t Trac- tarianism, &c. existed amongst us in this aid the adjoining cliocese. But the latter statement was no sooner uttered, than it was almost immediately niter- wards retracted! Now, what must every impartial person think of the staple of such a resolution ? (Dis- allowed, indeed, as it was by the veto of the High Shcriff, who would not includa it in th copy of the Address to be presented to Her Majesty.) As to the correctness, or otherwise, of the charge of iractariau- ism, &c. with respect to this Diocese, I need but refer you to the testimony of one, at least, competent to judge of such a thing—that of oiir ltiglit Itev. Dio- cesan, who, in his answer to the address of the Bangor Clergy, has expressly stated that those objectionable opinions do not exist in this Diocese. And yet, the tontrary assertion was attempted to be palmed upon the meeting, and upon the Queen, by members of the Church itself, alas! alas! Sir, without stoppin to consider th, morc il/lm- diate and proximate causes that have encouraged the Pope in his attempt to establish his supremacy again in this country, I shall at once go back to the grand and primary cause of all this movement. Whicb, I maintain, to be the fatal bill of 1829. I recollect when that measure, (viz., Roman Catholic Emancipation) was passed, it was said, I believe, by Lord Chancellor Eldon that then the s>m of England wis sct. How true this has proved itself, we have ever since lived to see. By the suu of England I prcsr.me was meant, Protestant ascendancy. That once down, v. hat fol- lowed? P<>pish agp,ui(1izcmnt-popi,h equality. It were well if it would stop there. But no popish aggression—popisli usurpation—and, it not timely checked, Rum:¡¡¡ Ca/ilO!ic asc:'Il:l(lIIcy! It was then, in IS:), the Hood-gates, those barriers of old against the encroaehmellt of ambitious Home, were first opened. Afterwards followed the torrents of conces- sions, never satisfying concessions, under various administrations, 011 after another; until at last the sequel proves to be what was always anticipated by those" intolerant" persons who were opposed to those concessions. And permit me to add, it was then in 1829, that the University of Oxford so gloriously assisted her Pro- testant principles, and kicked out her representative, .Sir liobert for hi, ,¡a:n--rll] tergiversation and inconsistency. And as long as I live, do I fee! proud in having on that occasion, assisted in the triumph hy recording Iny vote against hilu. And now, sir, I shall have done, by expressing a wish that you, or some one else more capable than myself, would take up the subject, and endeavour to set the public aright with respect to the unjust asser- tions cast upon the ministers of the Church in North Wales. For, I am persuaded, that, because these have been passed over too silently, we arc at this moment deprived of the good opinions of too many of (Mir parishioners and oiir congregations proportionably diminished. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient servant, Tllos, H COIlES, Clocaenog Rectory, Dec. 13, 1851).

GENERAL AV?AGEFK?S OF BRITISH CORN P 11, u) -1?lill ?1) fl""? the Fo? tl?, weel\. enHlng Vl'C. I\.}' 'I .U'" -L Ueturnsof The Ins^tfrs ..??-' ?'? ?? ?-? in England and Wales, per I??Qr.  ° rij I .9. 5d PRICE.. .tJ t.RL '?? !!3?.j!?l? nk% ??g ? yoREH,N CORN.  tt OATi I KY* B«AW» WHEAT I I, OD ,S 0D I L" 0D I I  Ry,, 60; Be& u,w8 reA' 1,8C8 'lff,

BIRTHS. MARRIAGES. & DEATHS Wo wMi it to bo plaiulv understood tint*4f Births, Deaths, or Marriages received from aw" unlinowntous, win not be inserted in oMr column. transmitted to us through our Kccrditrrl 19cn: deem it necessary to ?d.lt ti,i? eoa -e, in order a ■' as [mssiHe to .I)pr"? a system of imposition, whkn? t too frequently been a souice of vexation ami aunMar' 1. th? pub), IHitTIIS. Htll inst., the wife of Mr. John Morris, Ore: F j street, Cardiff, of a (lautliter. 16th inst., at Wind-sticet, Swansea, the .v 1 rf''r W. Williams. MARRIAGE S. 13th inst.. at the suporinter.'i.ist r. 01];. r heli, Mr. William Jones, Ty'nllao, Ede' vrn to Vii'' j, hcti. Mr. \\it)mm Jones, Ty'MUaa, Ed?m'"tn?-t''?'L!. Williams, of Nlorfa? 13th inst., at St. John's Episcopal ehapd, E(linbur?b Hon. Cliaries- .couci ,u tik. far Dunmorc, and nephew of tho Duke of Ihmi!t v Eli,?l,th W?d?worth, of*,)" Nlr. worth, of Gcncssee, New York. Hth inst at GviBn church, by the ne., M- Prj,.i„ fc EHa?" s'!?f Mr. '?oi!??''?:? D.16I, to Grau, dauj£ ? of Mr. William Roberts, Bryniau, both of t'se above «! of Mr. II ,,¡,am Hoherl-, Br?uau, 'Mthof;?., -°?' ]4t'ii iiist,, It 31" 1 h,z.. WiUnm. to Miss Maria H?..r, 'botii 01 Morriston Hth i.?t., at St. David's church, Liverpool, by the p W. Hughes, Mr. JO?LPII ilu?hc., mariner, to L'I v Jones, Amlwch I th in»t., at Iluabon church, by the Rev. Riciu" a. h curate, Mr. John Lindoss, MM Emma Lea. t?th' m?.,at ?ov?/Mr. ThM?.' i-evor. :J, i?j! fJ:¡;i!f;i:JjJ;¡, Mrs Sophia Jane Jenny, wi 01 ii-c I j "j r Esq., w h o, ith ?'?" ="?"?<' at ?f; Hall, by Kuh 1 Sth iu?t at the ,upcrinten[knt rcgistr .r's o:Hice p?. hdi, Mr. Thomas Roberts, joiM'r,M.jmtt,jL:<inrn/ j, \i, Anne Parry, of Glanrhyd, Ci-idio. DEATHS. nth i.?t., g,d 72, Mr. Etau H.,?it-, l'uY:"yn, r." Llansilin. 11th inst., at the advanced c; of Madura k Grcenhill-strect, Swan,ea, 12tll itist., at Dorkii?z, ill t?? efi4rtv of S?,,rrcv @g,! Thomas, ?,d son of Mr. IlicUmuii 'of l Ca?tle Park, Montgomeryshire. 12th inst., at 8, Dynevor-pLee, Swansea, Mr>. Maw Mahon, aged 72. 13th inst, after a long ilinev. Ilr. Suarrl Ev" m" 1:3tli iust after i loii?- ?r. E, 13th inst., at Ashwell Thorp Park, Norfolk, aged 4?), th H??,. and Rev. 1, ?,t Wilson. 1'Uh mst.. ?t Uu-) H?), !i.r IXrbv, a*. a?-an?i?. of 8.), Lady Scar>dale. She was second wife of th, k, Lord Scarsdale, whom she man ied in lw», aud bv whi she had issue two sons and two dau^htt.rs. 14th inst at the Menai liridsr. in her 2ht year, Emmt, fourth daughter of Mr. Henry l ^hcr. i i tli i:ist., in tliu GOtli ot' a-c' Mrs. Mary Humphreys, Plastudur, Liauacr, re- late Mr. Hobert Humphreys, of tho ;ame p:aeL 14tli iiist., Jane. tlic? wif? of 311. L,,i? Pcnl6n, Pwllheli. 14th inst., aged 63, Harriett, the wife of Mr. John Gror of Camden Cottage. Swamca loth inst., in the ;51.st year, highly respected, David EvaE, Esq., Pwllheli, eldest sou ofthclate Nlr. Evans, of Lhauc:! Llannor. loth inst., at Camden-place, Swansea, aged -5 years aui 7 months, Thoma. Winstone, the only son of Mr. WinsM,, Siiiiiiionds, surgeon. loth iust., aged 52* year;, Gen. the Hon. Sir Willix Lumley, G.C.13, a distinguished eavalrv ^ti:r, and sou the fourth Karl of Scarborough 16th in-t., Elleu, the wife ot Mr. HMI: v Lov;>. V Pwllheli. 19th inst., in this city, in printer, iVondug-strect.

B.YXGOll COtt MARKET, & Friday, Dec. >i. j xne atteuaauce at our m:.nï..d to-cuy was nory gooi; e.: grain samples offered were more than "found purchaM.rs, a: the trade in every description of grain was somewhat of i dull aspect. Although the pr;ces of our last wctk'» fixa- tion were supported, the trausactions were mho: buyers providing only for immediate wants; con* y there will be no alteration in our currency of th> •; WI??,t. b??t I} (i i: 0 Middling and inferior .37 0 yj 0 Harler of fin^ quality t' 0 i 0 Do. grinding o 0 u u Grey peas p?? do 0 u u u Oat.s.J.??? H 0 I: 0 Oatmeal, per 2l 'lbs 0 v ■) Vetches per cibbin 0 I) V II

MOLD MARKET—SATI;IU>.VY, December W These markets hal to-day as usual a good su.y»y 01 very superior meat, but from the very boisterous 'au of tit; weather, there was not a large attendance, '"t't t¡1I,: butchers were not inactive. It is much to be rl.grdt(J that tÍ.I spirited shareholder of these spLudid .k,t halls do n: nrovido «omc I,J" u_ ,J.h"" .l" ",u.,l "lvL, dealers may assemble in thi? inclement season tfe<.f, oi to Gd; mutton, 4d to 5d; veal, tl pork, I i I to od per lb. rabbits, 8d to 9.1 each cod fish, 4d per lb.; soles, 8d per lb; potatoes, 31b for a Id; ducks, -s 0d per couple; fowl, Is 4-J each; fresh butter, lid; salt do., led per lh, onions, H tJ l^d per lb.

LLANGOLLEN* MARKET, J>AU; av TIcef, -3d mutton, 4itl to od per 11). rabbits Vi to J; butter, 10d per ii) alt tÍo" Ud Hour, Is per Mb; geese, ,j! per lb; pork, 4id per (lo.

LIVERPOOL PROVISION* MARKET—TIK>I'Y. W e have had a moderate dennnd for butter, at ab-nu t- .t(?s of thi day ,?k any alteration, hj.vcver, is m t?,,)- of tho buyer. Bacon is in fair reque?t. I j Buttcr,perimb. Landed. LMM. Waterford 7?.to 8?. Baubridge 7:t)? Carrick 7(?s. to 7M. Newsy ?s. t,? <\ Cartow&Kiikcny??.tu7"?U?t?k.?.tot' Wexford. 0.td?.L.trd,bhdd?!KO-. Limerick 71,? to 7i.. kegs Jcfirk. 0>. to ?. Belfast 70s. to 78s. Bacon, ii)n mid. 37s. to J'&. \:I'&èiI'a'i I,:lj, :.tl: J; jg Cork ,e" ns.to ?. Hm. dry ?.t??.

1 LOXDOX HAY MARKETS, Thursday, Dec. VJ. SMITH MEADOW HAY tZ >s to L ); "I"" £ 3 0s to £ 4 0s and Straw, £ 0s to £ l lys per load. Supplv good, and trade dull. WHrri-cii.U'iL. — Meadow Uay. £ G, !) £:; l Clover, £ ';i Os to £ t 2s; and Straw, £ 1 <h to t'l ts ;r load. Trade dull, at latc ralc;

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