Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

I HOLT. I LARGE MEETING OF MR WATKIN WILLIAMS SUPPORTERS. i A meeting of Mr Watkin Williams's supporters was held in Holt on Friday week. For some time before the hour fixed for the proceedings to commence, the Town Hall was filled in every part; and it was with some difficulty that a deputation from the Wrexham Working Men's committee obtained admittance. Mr Watkin Williams, accompanied by Mrs Watkin Wil- liams was loudly cheered on entering the hall. The Rev. E. Powell was called upon to preside. Some little dissatisfaction was shewn by the meeting at Mr Samuel Harrison pushing his way through the crowd and taking his place on the platform uninvited, but a word. from the chairman immediately put matters right. A number of ladies were present and seemed to take great interest in the proceedings. The Chairman said he hoped they would set an ex- ample to the Wrexham people. He understood there had been a meeting in Wrexham that was not very quiet. He hoped that meeting would be different. He thought they ought to listen to both sides. He hoped the meeting throughout would be calm and quiet, so that they might bear what all the speakers had to say. Thev were perfectly willing that all they had to say should see the light of day. The two men that were before themwere alreadyrepresentatives-one represented Mr Disraeli, and the other represented Mr Gladstone. These ware the leading names that were before the public in this country at the present day-two men of very different characters. They would remember when Mr Gladstone brought forward his Reform Bill, how strenuously :and determinedly it was opposed by Mr Disraeli and his supporters, although it was a very moderate measure. When the Tories came into office they changed about, supported what they had before opposed-in fact, proposed a reform bill which went further than that of Mr Gladstone—which they opposed because he went too far. He was not sure that they all knew the meaning of the word Tory. The original meaning of the word Tory was a robber. (Laughter and loud cheers.) The Tories were against freedom of all kinds. They were opposed to free education, to free religion, to free trade, and to free voting. Then: wish was to keep the people in ignorance—it was part of their policy to do so. After a few words in favour of Mr Gladstone's disestablishment policy the chairman con- cluded amid loud cheering. Mr Charles Hughes was then called upon. He said he did not know why Mr Powell had called upon him first, unless it was because he had the least to say and therefore would sooner be out of the way. (Laughter.) If he thought he could say anything during the few minutes he should occupy to induce any of the electors of Holt to support Mr Watkin Williams, he thought the time would be well spent. A wiser man than he had said-" A Tory government means a government carried on for the benefit of the few-a Liberal govern- ment means a government carried on for the benefit of all." Now that was what they wanted to establish in this country. The question came before them in this form. There were certain duties to be exercised now -they were met to return a man to determine what should be the future policy of the country. There was no policy before the country except that marked out by Mr Gladstone. The other party had no policy. By a policy he meant something to mark the progress and growth of our country. The Tory idea was to let well alone. Mr Hughes then proceeded to condemn the ratepaying clause, and stated that one effect of it had been in Wrexham to cause about seventy persons to be summoned, many of whom could not pay. This cost the town about 920 for fees, and that had been done three times over. The speaker then adverted to the enormous revenues of the Irish Church, paid to men who had scarcely any congregations to preach to. Some of the bishops of the Irish Protestant Church had died worth half a million of money. (Cries of shame followed by loud cheers). Mr W. H. Darby next addressed the meeting. He said he believed the approaching election was the most important one that had taken place since 1832. He unaerstood that Mr Watkin Williams would go up as a staunch supporter of Mr Gladstone, and he hoped he would be returned by a very large majority, and that he would be a long way at the head of the poll in the borough of Holt. (Cheers). He had been asked to say a few words on the policy of the government, which, with the assistance of Mr Watkin Williams, they hoped shortly to see established. One thing they wanted in the country was more trade, and he supposed they in Holt wanted that as well as other parties. He believed that if Mr Gladstone was at the head of affairs, he would abolish a great number of duties which remain, and thus give a new impetus to trade, as well as cheapen certain articles of consumption used largely by the working classes. He had done a deal in that way al- ready when in power. There was no man so suitable to be the leader of the Liberal party as Mr Gladstone. He began life as a Conservative, and was at one time opposed to free trade and free religion. But he had seen the error of his ways, and like an honest man had avowed it. He had had great experience as a statesman, and he could point to the immense increase that had taken place in the trade of the country, and how immensely the people had been benefitted by abolishing customs and duties, and setting trade free and now he began to see the great blessings that would accrue by setting Christianity free. (Cheers). A change, he believed, that had been wrought in his mind by seeing the wonderful success of free trade. (Re- uewed cheeriug). Monopoly in trade had in a great measure gone, and would soon be followed by the down- fall of all monopolies in religion. (Cheers). In 1846 the corn laws were abolished. In 1841 the exports of this country were one hundred and sixteen millions, in 1865 they were two hundred and eighteen millions. (Loud cheers.) Above doubled in nineteen years. Previous to that time our exporls did not grow at all. With a Liberal government in power, they would likely have the duties taken of both tea and ) su-ar. Good sugar might then be had for 31-1 per pound and tea probably for 9d a pound. It would also increase the trade of the country by creating a greater I demand for our manufactures. Such was the increase of trade between this country and France since the duties on many articles had been reduced, that in 1859 our ex- ports amounted to nine millions. Since then they had increased to twenty-six millions. Mr Disraeli opposed the treaty by which all this good was brought about. There was a time when we were told the French people were our natural enemies, and the trade between the two countries was almost nothing. Certain custom duties built up a wall of separation between us and almost prevented us trailing at all. If they would look to history they would find these two countries had al- ) most always been at war. France was a large country I and we consume many things that they produce, and they used many goods of our manufacture, and it was wrong to build up a wall of customs duties which ren- dered it impossible to carry on an interchange of these articles by means of which both countries were im- mensely benefitted. (Cheers.) Mr Gladstone was the man to make trade free. He was, he thought, the greatest commercial minister this country ever had. He has lately, by means of his public addresses, been speaking to the whole world; and he has been showing how our taxation, which has of late years grown so enormously, may be reduced. In 1835 our expenditure was eleven millions. It is now twenty-six miliions, an increase of fourteen millions. There was not the least cause for this great increase. In 1835 the volunteer and militia force did not exist. One reason of this great increase was there were so many living upon the taxes-so many who had friends in the House of Commons and House of Lords. The latter house be- longed to that class almost altogether. (Cheers.) Unless they united and were determined this great expenditure would never be reduced. He hoped the voters would vote for the man who supports the minister who was pledged to a reduction, and would give them cheap tea and cheap sugar. lLoUll cheers.) '1 Mr Watkin Williams next came forward and was received with loud cheers. He said it gave him great pleasure to stand up and address them in the borough of Holt, for in no part had lie been more warmly or kindly received. As he told them at the first meeting he ad- dressed there he had been warned by his friends that he would meet with some rough treatment in Holt, and that he must be prepared for the worst. He said he would not believe it. He had now addressed them several times, anl in no place had he been better re- I ceived than in Holt, if as well. (Cheers.) There was ) only one living soul who had endeavoured to interrupt I the course of his addresses, and that individual was a • clergyman. (Cries of shame.) That circumstance had ) caused him some grief, that a person of education, for I he supposed he might call him so, should act in so un- ) seemly a manner. (Cheers.) After replying at some length to the charge that he .had stated in a former ad- dress that education would make them all men of wea'th or what some people call gentlemen, Mr Williams animadverted on the Tory reform bill, which lie said was so hedged round with all sorts of difficulties, or what had been styled safeguards, as to make it to a certain extent a sham and deception,—one of the first duties of the new Parliament would be to do away with the ob- noxious clause requiring the personal payment of rates. (Lond cheers.) The speaker next dwelt at some length on the Irish Church question, on which the sentiments he gave expiession to were loudly cheered, as were also his views on the question of education, a subject that always receives, as it welr-deserves, a large amount of attention in Mr Williams's speeches. In his concluding I remarks he entreated the electors to remember that I they had a solemn duty to perform. If they stood by him he would stand by them. Any attempt at bribery or intimidation was now in law a Misdemeaaonr and punishable as such. He had four or five examples to make at the assizes next spring (cheers), he had them ready (renewed cheers), and he would bring them for- ward as sure as he stood in the Town Hall at Holt. (Continued cheering.) They were not small ones; he intended going at high game. (Great cheering.) He had got the power and he would exercise it. The time had come when they must insist upon having their rights. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) Mr T. E. Minshall said: Having regard to where he stood, on the judgment seat of the ancient Town Hall, he ought to say gentlemen of the jury. (Laughter.) He was not accustomed like his friend, Mr Charles Hughes, to take part in judicial proceedings, and felt that the scene was too exciting for him. (Laughter and cheers.) Now, they had a question to decide greater than any that was ever decided in that hall. What was the question ? It was not merely the question which is the best looking man, Mr Watkin Williams or Mr Main- waring. (Great laughter.) It was not a question of that sort at all. It was a question of right against in- justice-a question of liberty against wrong. (Cheers.) That was the question, and was the greatest question they had ever voted upon. He was anxious that they should look upon it as a serious question. They had all an important duty to fulfil, and there were a variety of things that would have to be brought before them. There was more involved in the question than the differ- ence between supporting Mr Williams cr Mr Main- waring. There was all the difference in the world. It was the vast question of Gladstone against Disraeli on Liberalism versus Toryism. He did not think so much of Watkin Williams personally ag of the principles he represented. He looked upon him as representing certain great principles, and he hoped they all felt the same towards him. One question that would be brought before them that evening was that of Tory extravagance. He need not touch further on this point perhaps as it has been already alluded to. If they wanted economy is this country they would only get it by supporting a Liberal government. Then if they come to the great question of the day—the disestablishment of the Irish Church their only hope is in a Liberal government. He expected that to-morrow or the next day they would have down there a lot of gentlemen who would give them such a representation of Mr Watkin Williams as would astonish them. They would think by the way we are described by these gentlemen that they (the Liberals) are the most awful robbers (No, no, from Mr Samuel Harrison.) Wait, and see. It's the only thing they can say. They talk as if we had never heard of this subject before. Instead of that we have made up our minds on the question twenty years ago. In 1856 Mr Miall brought before the House of Commons a measure exactly similar to the one Mr Gladstone has brought forward at the present time, whicn he supported in a most able speech. They knew all about the ques- tion, and all they were going to do. It was said they were going to rob the church of the poor. TL a, was a most singular statement. What is the church of the poor ? They say the Protestants though few own eight ninths of the land. They hold that up as an argument. On the other hand they say we are going to rob the charch of the poor. The church of the poor in Ireland is the Roman Catholic Church. If they had the least sincerity about them they ought to go and endow that chureh, if there were any reason at all in their argu- ment. But they were not going to do that at all. You will hear when these friends of Mr Main taring's come down here that we are in league with the Roman Catholics, and that wretched cry of no Popery" will be brought to bear against us. Why those people who raise this cry and make this charge are the members of a church that is doing more to throw this country into the hands of the Catholics than all the other churches in the country. Nonconformists have ever been the great bulwark in this country against Roman Catholic- ism. He did not want to know what their religious principles were, that was a question between themselves and their God. He looked upon them as fellow- countrymen. He looked upon the inhabitants of Ire- land as fellow-countrymen whatever their religion might be, and as such they were entitled to their fair share cf all the rights and privileges or whatever else was valu- able to them. How was that to bo done ? Was it by endowing the Roman Catholic religion ? That was the first idea of the Tories, and if they had been left to themselves they would have done it. Now the Tories taunted them with doi"g that. The very thing they were about doing themselves only they were caught in the act. (Great laughter, followed by loud cheering.) Like the Scotchman when he was caught just pushing through a hedge into a garden for the purpose of rob- bing it, and was met by the proprietor who said: Where are you going? To which Sawney replied, "Bock again, sir." (Renewed laughter.) That was exactly what Mr Disraeli's party was doing and were caught by the English people getting over the wall. (Cheers.) Mr Minshall dwelt at some length further on the injustice that was perpetrated by maintaining the Irish Protestant church in its present form, and concluded amid the most edthusiastic cheering. Mr Shone, of Wrexham, next addressed the meeting at some length, and was followed by Mr Edward Williams, who dealt alternately in the grave and the gay, the meeting being intensely amused with the latter. A vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed by Mr Henry Humphreys, of Oak Lodge, and seconded by Mr Joseph Bailey, of Wrexham, and carried with accla- mation, after which the meeting terminated, having lasted above three hours. I HOPE. HARVEST THANKSGIVING.—On Wednesday evening | last, the usual harvest thanksgiving service was celebrated in the Old Parish Church of Hope, when, owing to the unsettled state of the weather, many of the parishioners were prevented from being present. The pulpit and reading desk were most tastefully and artistically decorated by Miss Emma Williams, The Rectory, Miss Byrom, Mrs Chalmers, and Miss Murray, with some choice specimens of evergreens and ferns interspersed with ears of corn as a special reminder of the goodness of Him who doth always bless and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth." The service was read by the Rev. E. Jenkins, of Flint, and an appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. R. Ellis, of Gwersyllt, after which the thank- offerings of the congregation were received, amounting to JE2 9s. 6d. I LLANGOLLEN. DEATH OF MR E. HUMPHREYS.—We have this week to record the death, after a short illness, of Mr Edward Humphreys, of Pen-y-maes, which took place at about two o'clock on Wednesday, the 28th inst. The deceased gentleman was a well-known aucti meer, in addition to being manager of the Llangollen gas works. He was also a member of the local board for the district of Llangollen, and highly respected by the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. PETTY SESSIONS, TUESDAY, 27th inst.-Before Colonel Tottenham, J. Pryce, Esq., Colonel Myddelton Biddulph, Captain C. W. Tottenham, and J. R. Barnes, Esq. Assaitit.-Edward Wynne was charged by Aaron Davies, innkeeper, Glyn, with assaulting him in the Royal Oak, Glyn. Mr Sherratt defended. In the evidence of complainant it transpired that both himself and Wynne were tipsy. The bench stopped the case, as on complainant's confession, the matter appeared to be a little row between two tipsy men. Mr Sherratt thanked the bench, and said that he could have proved the offence to have been on the other side. Shooting without a License.- J. Edwards] was charged with having committed the above offence, on the 9cli of October. Defendant supposed the charge was true. Fined f,2 and 12s. 6d. costs. On the application of defendant's mother he was allowed a a fortnight to pay. Broomstale Practice.-John Jones, of Tyn Llwyn, was charged with assaulting P. C. R. Jones, at Glyn. The police constable said that defendant was very noisy in his own house, and that he had received a letter complaining of him. He went to the house and de- I fendant came to the door with a broomstale, he which handed about. He also took up a piece of brick. He did not actually knock the policeman. Defendant said he was own house, and plaintiff came to him. He wished in his the policeman to bring corroborative evidence. He had a witness to prove that he was not drunk. The bench wished to know what means the defendant possessed. Mr Sherratt (without being sworn), said he had been asked as a solicitor, to undertake the case, I but refused. The man held two farms, the smallest of which produced a rent of E58. Defendant grumbled that he could not understand what they said against him, being unable to speak a word of English. Mr Richards explained the charge and evidence in Welsh. Fined £ 1 and 8s. 6d. costs. Trespass in Pursuit of Game.— Isaac Edwards was charged with the above offence. He did not appear. Service of summons proved by P.C. Lindsay. John Edwards, a gamekeeper to three Liverpool gentlemen, who took the game from the farmers of the district at an annual rent, proved the case. Mr Capper, the owner of the farm, said that he had not given leave to Edwards to shoot rabbits. He had a right to give permission to persons to shoot rabbits on his farm. He thought the rabbits did more trespass than anyone who went to shoot them. He said anyone was quite welcojae to shoot his rabbits. He had not given per- mission to defendant to do so. He had given him permission to shoot crows last May. The magistrates I said, that as Mr Capper had not given defendant per- I' mission he must be fined. He might also be fiaed for shooting without a license. Fined JE1 and 13s. 6d. costs. Ratepaying Cases.- John Roberts, fruiterer, was charged by the district rate collector, Mr J. Jones, for non-payment of £ 2 general district rate, and 21 4s. water rate. Defendant did not appear. The service of summons was proved by Inepector Paterson.— Mr J. Jones, being sworn, handed in the ratebooks, which were examined by the bench.—Colonel Biddulph For what do you want such a heavy rate as two shillings in ( the pound ?--The. Collector To cover the expenses 1\ your worship.—Colonel Tottenham You have a very heavy rate. What is it you mean by turnkey-is it the turncock of the water ?—Collector Yes, sir.—Colonel Tottenham What clock is it they charge for winding and regulating. Is it the church clock ?—Collector Yes, sir.—Colonel Tottenham It is done very badly for five shillings a week.—The Clerk said That the man who had had charge of the clock had given it up, another man is now appointed—Mr Hughes, Castle- street.-Colonel Tottenham asked what was meant by the exemptions.—Mr C. Richards They are vacant houses.—Chairman inquired whether this rate included the keeping of the reservoir staunch. (Laughter.)— The Collector: Yes, sir.—Ordered to pay on Saturday. Loan Society.-The secretary of the Loan Society, Mr John Jones, sued J. Humphreys and J. Jones, for ( amount of loan due since forty weeks. Ordered to pay on Saturday. Assault.- Two Versions.- Richard Andrew was j charged by Richard Roberts, with assaulting him at the top of Chapel street, on the 21st of September. Com- plainant being sworn said: I was going down the j street, and I stopped to talk to Richard Morris, Richard Andrew came down the street, passed Richard Morris, and struck me under the chin till I was sprawling on the ground. It was about half-past six. I was sober and so was he. I knew of no cause for such an act, unless it were a quarrel we had some nine years ago as going up Allt y Badi.-Colonel Biddulph: Did he hurt you ? Yes, I was very much hurt and could not well speak. I got up and asked him why he knocked me, he asserted that he did not. My speech was affected for two or three days.—Defendant said he was going: down the street, and when about five yards from Roberts he (Roberts) fell down, then got up again aad II asked him why he knocked them. (Laughter.) He told him he saw no one knocking him. Richard Morris and he were quite drunk.—Richard Morris was called by complainant. When this man heard the words of the oath-" the whole truth and nothing but the truth" —he growled out: I have no truth to say only a word or two.—Mr Richards reminded him that he must be sworn. Morris then took the book, rose it to his face, but only pretended to kiss it.—Captain Tottenham said he did not kiss the book.—Ultimately Mr Richards induced the man to behave becomingly.—Examined by complainant: I did not see him strike you.—To Colonel Tottenham I did not see any man strike him. —To the Clerk I did not see the man on the ground. —To the Bench: I can't say whether Roberts was sober.—The Bench: Why can't you say ?—It was not my business to look whether people were drunk or sober.—The question was repeated, but witness was in- corrigible and determined to know nothing of the whole transaction.—Robert Morris, being sworn, said I live at Nantyr Bank. Richard Roberts came from Glyn r about three o'clock. We went to a house in chapel- street for food. We were there about two hours and a half. I am a brother-in-law to defendant. This wit- ness several times asserted that he could bring a proven that complainant was sober. He also said that com- plainant had JE20 in his pocket, and was cross-ex- amined by the bench as to how he knew that. He had seen complainant on the floor on his hands and knees. Either Richard Morris or Robert Andrew must nave hit him. He could not say which. The case was dis- missed, Colonel Biddulph observing that only one of the witnesses-the last-gave evidence which was at all reliable, and he could not say whether the witness or defendant struck the man. Indeed it did not appear that he was struck at all. Drunk and 11 Righteous. "-P.C. Horniman, Bryneg- lwys, charged David Thomas, with being drunk and righteous" (was it riotous ?) Defendant did not appear. Fined 5s. and costs or seven days' imprisonment. RUABON. I VOLUNTEERS.-The 2nd Denbighshire rifle volunteers will hold their next monthly drill on Wednesday, the 4th proximo, in the schoolroom. Members holding rifles are requested to bring them in, by order of Captain Wilding Jones. REJOICINGS.—As we briefly intimated last week, the bells of this village church rang a joyous peal on hearing that Lady Williams Wynn had given birth to a daughter. The merry peal was continued throughout the day, and several business places and private residences were brilliantly illuminated with gas, in the evening. Mr David Jones, Cross Foxes, used great exertions in getting the ringers together and other ways contributed to celebrate the event in a joyous manner. I RUTHIN. SUDDEN DEATH.—The Rev. Robert Davies, Calvin- istic minister of this town, died very suddenly on Thursday evening week in the chapel house, whither he had gone to attend a committee. THE BOROUGH ELECTION.—On Monday evening last, a great number of the working men of this town, who feel an interest in the election of the Liberal candidate, Mr Watkin Williams, met together at the Clwydd Bank Schoolroom, for the purpose of declaring their determi- nation to be strongly united to withstand every" screw" which is in various ways attempted to be imposed upon them in this election. There could be no less than one hundred electors present, independent of a number of talented friends and supporters of Liberal principles. Mr Edward Roberts, clothier, Clwydd-street, was called upon to preside. The meeting was briefly addressed by the chairman, Messrs David Morris, Moses Hughes, J. Jones, Ruthin Mill; J. P. Jones, Hugh Morris, John Morris, Gabriel Roberts, Plas-y-minffordd Berry Ro- berts, Robert Williams, Prior-street; Samuel Owens, Levi Jones, Evan Jones, ironmonger; Peter Jones, joiner Thomas Jones, baker T. ab Gwilvm, Ruthin, and others. The clear and striking reasons assigned by the various speakers why they came forward with scores of other working men to support Mr Watkin Williams in preference to Mr Mainwaring have evidently shown to all that they were competent to judge between Libe- ral and Tory political principles, and how they should rationally and conscientiously exercise the franchise given them by the New Reform Act. Therefore this meeting was an undoubted demonstration that there can be no truth in the declarations of many reverend clergy- men that it would have been better to give the working man a a loaf rather than a vote." The march of in- tellect of late in the political world, as was evident at this enthusiastic meeting, has brought with it great moral strength into the mind of poor humble workmen. Wearing the shield of reason, when threats, like poison- ous darts are sent flying about them from the Tory citadels, they naturally smile and exclaim better times are coming, boys Great laughter was created by va- rious speakers in the course of the meeting, in describ- ing the means applied by the Tories to tickle the elec- tors by calling their attention to the bright silver given in charity on St. Tbomas's Day, and the sparkling gold given in twenty or more sovereigns to apprentice their children, with the good prospect for constant work dur- ing the forthcoming winter. These, and other baits of a similar kind, there is no doubt about it, will fail to accomplish the end which the Tories have in view in the application of them. The mentioning of the said baits was met by all the electors present with a loud exclamation-" Watkin Williams for ever Joyous mirth ruled supreme ;through the meeting, though it lasted very nearly three hours. The meeting came to an united determination, so as not to be of trouble to one another on the election day, to marshal themelves early in the morning, or as Mr Watkin Williams's com- mittee shall otherwise decide, and walk in grand pro- cession to the poll. A most pleasant and edifying meet- ing was spent, and all the speakers expressed their ad- miration of the untiring perseverance of Mr Williams, and their conviction he would be a mosi useful member of Parliament. The meeting ended with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman, and hearty cheers for Mr Watkin Williams.-Commlwic:aterl.

THE FREEDOM OF WORSHip.-Tlie congregation as- sembled in the now notorious St. James's Chapel, Brighton, were thrown into a needless panic on Sunday last. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the usual pro- cession had nearly gone round the church, the whole place being filled with the smoke of the incense, when a man started up in one of the pews and held aloft wliat appeared to be a placard. He at the same time shouted out some remark, and was thought by those near him to be about to throw a book at Mr Purchas's head. A rush was made at him, and instantly a scene of wilcl excitement and disorder was witnessed. The whole congregation arose and left their pews. The priests and choristers fled precipitately to the altar. Mr Pur- chas among them, and the man with the placard was seized by at least a score of hands. The doorkeepers and attendants seemed to be prepared for a disturbance of this kind; aad several of them hastened to their seats and brought out thick staves, with which they re- paired to the pew where the fight was goiug on. The noise these made and the cries of the people threw the congregation into an extraordinary state of agitation By and by the demonstrative Protestant was removed and Mr Purchas commenced the service in a tremulous tone which showed how great his alarm and excitement had been.

DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTER- I BURY. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest dignitary in the English Church, died on Tuesday. Dr. Long- ley was in his seventy-fourth year, and has occupied the See of Canterbury since 1862. His death places a rich gift in the hands of Mr Disraeli. The primacy is worth E15,000 a-year, and carries with it the patronage of not less than 177 livings. The deceasedArchbishop Charles Thomas Longley was the son of the late John Longley, Esq., the Recorder of the city of Rochester; he was born in 1794, and married in 1831 Caroline Sophia Parnell, daughter of the first Lord Congleton, who died in 1858, leaving issue, now living, three sons and three daughters. Dr. Longley was educated at Westminster School, from whence he proceeded as a student to Christ Church, Oxford. There he obtained a first-class in classics in 1815, and took his M.A. degree in 1817. He was ordained deacon in 1818, and priest in 1819, by the Bishop of Oxford. He was censor of his college, and one of the University classi- cal examiners in 1825, and the same year became per- petual curate of Cowley, Oxon. He was appointed rector of West Tytherley, Hants, 1827 Head Master of Harrow, 1829, when he took his degrees of D.D.; was consecrated Bishop of Ripon, 1836 translated to Durham 1856, to York 1860, to Canterbury 1862.

MR. T. BARNES, THE TORIES, AND THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. Mr T. Barnes, of the Quinta, like other Liberal members of parliament, has been the subject of Tory attack on the church question, in which, however, he has effectually worsted his opponent. The case is as follows :—Mr Barnes, from a political speech at Bolton —replying to a question—says that so far from the poor being especially considered in connection with the state-provided church, in a church that he knew, and which was a picture of nearly all parish churches, a large portion was railed off for the noblemen, another part for the farmers-in fact, the nobles, the gentry, the farmers, and the well-to-do occupied the church, and if the poor could not find room they must keep away." On seeing this in one of the newspapers a Mr Greenhay writes to Mr Barnes to ask the name of the church to which he alluded as a picture of nearly all parish churches," and also to name one other of similar character." Mr Barnes replies by observing that it was to agricultural parishes" he referred, and that "his own parish church, in Shropshire, three miles from Chirk" was the one in his mind when he made his speech. Mr Greenhay answers this by a not over- polite or gentlemanly letter, in which he hints that Mr Barnes is telling an untruth in the one instance, and says even if he is not he is begging the question by pretending that he referred to agricultural' parishes. 1Now one would have supposed that any man not wholly I devoid of reasoning faculties, when he read the paragraph in the reported abstract of Mr Barnes's speech, and found that the farmers and their place in church were 1tivice mentioned in it, he would hive had a faint idea that it was not a city church that the Hon. M.P. meant, but then Tories either havn't got reasoning faculties, or won't exercise them and so they rush into print and I make themselves look silly as this Mr Greenhay has done by sending the correspondence to the Bolton Chronicle. In one paragraph of his letter this foolish gentleman says to Mr Barnes :— However, sir, it shall not be my fault if your parish church, near Chirk, is not altered. I shall send a copy of your remarks and note to the clergyman of the parish and the nobleman, drawing their attention to the scandal the appropriation has brought upon the church generally by a not very scrupulous neighbour, and suggest an amendment. In replying to this letter, Mr Barnes asks whether the case is much different in- Bolton parish church ? Whether the seats and pews are not appropriated and even sold through advertisement ? and whether owner- ship obtained by purchase has not conferred a vote for the county ? In support of his assertion that the Established Church is not the church of the poor, Mr Barnes says Some time ago a church society For Promoting Freedom of Public Worship" was establishtd, with which Mr G. ought to be acquainted, and in its advertisement were the following expres- sions There is a great evil which has grown up in the Church of England; it is one which no one denies, and which no one defends. It is the acknowledged fact that the Church of England, in our towns at least, has become the church of the rich, to the exclusion of the poor." We are invited to judge for ourselves whether the poorer classes are not almost entirely excluded from many of them; whether the very buildings themselves, with their appointments and arrangements, do not seem to invite the rich alone to worship God, as though the poor had no share or part in Christian worship." To prove that state churches are built and the clergy- men paid by the state, Mr Barnes quotes the following facts and figures In the session of 1843 a return (No. 572) was made relating to Religious worship and church property." From this return I find that between 1800 and 1813 the following sums were voted for the following purposes:— Issued to the Commissioners for building churches pursuant to 58 George III., c 45. 1,000,000 0 0 Do. 5 George IV., c 103 500,000 0 0 Amount received by ditto from various specified sources 89,406 9 8 Grant- of Parliament to the governors of Queen Anne's bounty for the maintenance of poor clergy from 1809 to 1820. 1,100,000 0 0 Amount paid by the Paymaster of Civil Services 2,043 19 2 Drawback on materials used in building Churches 244,196 9 6 I Total £ 2,935,646 18 4 This is in England alone; if Ireland were included the case would be still more striking. Here are churches built and ministers paid by the state. Of course no one means to assert that the clergy of the Established Church receive stipends direct from parliament out of the general annual taxation. But their incomes (except in the small number of cases where they are provided for by private benefaction, or endowment, or pew rents) are nevertheless the provision made for them by legislative enactment and they are in fact stipendiaries of the state. The parochial endowments of the Church of England consist in great part of tithes or rent charge, and these are the creation of law. In the year 1200 there were not more than 2,500,000 acres of titheable land now, at a moderate estimate, there are 24,000,000, and of these, the tithes of 21,500,000 are clearly traceabie to legislative enactment. as is also a considerable proportion of the remaining 2,500,000. Even within the last 100 years by means of enclosure bills 7,^50,577 acres have been brought into cultiva- tion and made titheable. By the Tithe Commutation Act, 1836, rent charges were substituted for tithes, the state by this act of alteration asserting its ownership of the funds with which it dealt. Then, as a matter of political economy, we know that the consumer (th?t is, the whole body of the people) pays for the articles produced on the land, whose price is increased by the rent charge which goes to the support of the parochial clergy. If this be not the people paying for the church and its services, will Mr G. tell us what it really is 1

PUTTING THE SCREW" ON.—A singular attempt at electoral coercion was before the Burton-on-Trent ma- gistrates on Tuesday. Mr Ilu-h Brooks, a gentleman of property, was charged with intimidating a voter for South Derbyshire, named Thornley. Mr Brooks had lent Mr Thornley 2180 on mortgage, and failing to ob- tain from him a promise to vote for the Conservative candidates, he wrote demanding his principal and in- terest, and threatening to sell the security. This threat was the ground for the charge, and the magistrates, by the casting vote of the chairman, resolved to send the case for trial. THE EXTKAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS NEAR LUDLOW.—The inquiry into the history of the human remains found near Ludlow on the 5th inst., under circumstances already reported, advanced a further stage at the adjourned inquest held before Mr Moore, coroner of the district. Caroline Pavto, wife of a groom living at Overton, deposed that, being at the railway station, Ludlow, on the 18th August, her attention was drawn to a young girl, about twenty years cf age, who had just arrived by train from Shrewsbury. Her dress was wet through, and the witness making a remark thereupon, she explained that she had got wet when walking from her master's house to the railway station at Shrewsbury. Mrs Payto prevailed upon her to change her dress, and the witness identified the portions of dress found near the remains as pieces of that which the girl she spoke of took out of her box and put on in the waiting-room at Ludlow station. In the course of the conversation which ensued she stated that she bad left her situation, and was going home to Wigmore. She seemed greatly afraid to meet her mother, who, she said, would murder ber-an assertion she repeated several times, adding, that had it not been for her mother she would not be in that state. Mrs Payto, believing she was not in a fit state to undertake so long a journev, tried to dissuade her from walking to Wigmore, but she was resolute in her purpose, and after leaving her boxes in charge of the station-master went away. John Chandler, a labourer living at Wigmore identified the clothes found near the remains as those of his daughter Elizabeth. She was nineteen years of ? f February, and for seven months previous to the 30th of June b?d been living in service at Shrews- bury. On that date she had paid a visit to Wi° gmore and had remained at home till the 15th of July when she left to return to her master and mistress, who were to America, and wished her to go with them ?r -1 11 Mrs Onandler said her daughter was in delicate health when she left home, but, as far as she could judge, '¡ she did not think there was anything the matter with her, nor did she know of any reason why she should commit suicide. In reply to the coroner, Chandler he had not seen the remains of his daughter, nor the place where they had been found. He had been asked if he would take them and bury them, but he had declmed. They were, he believed, buried by the parish authorities but he had not attended the funeral. Mrs Chandler having similar questions put to her gave similar replies, and the coroner commented in strong terms upon this conduct, which he stigmatised as disgraceful and unnatural. A youth named Merriman having deposed that some time in the second week of September he saw a woman, apparently asleep, lying I down in the wood where the remains were found, the inquest was adjourned.

l EPITOME OF NEWS. ¡ Upwards of 300 freshmen have come into residence at Oxford this term. The result is that the colleges are so full that many of the freshmen have been sent into the town to lodge. An action has been commenced against the London and North Western Railway Company, in one of the Irish courts, for the recovery of the value of the paraffin oil lost on the occasion of the Abergele catastrophe. On Monday last, a party of five gentlemen left Guernsey for a trip to Sark. On their return the weather was exceedingly rough, and as their boat has not since been heard of it is feared that all have perished. Extensive reductions are being made in the dockyards. In the customs department permanent clerks are no longer engaged. Temporary writers are employed for extra business, who are discharged when no longer re- quired. The Lord Primate of Ireland, at his triennial visita- tion at Sligo, expressed a general approval of the recom- mendations of the Irish Church Commission, but hoped that the reduction of the number of Irish bishops would be avoided. A terrible disaster occurred on Friday morning week, off the Land's End. The Government lighter Devon" was driven on the Brisson Rocks, and almost immediately went to pieces. Sixteen persons were drowned, only one man escaping. The passengers by the Leichart steamer for New Zea- land have had an inauspicious commencement of their voyage. While anchored off the Nore, on Friday night week, the Leichart was run into by a Norway steamer, and went down immediately. The passengers and crew weie saved. Dr. Atley, Bishop of Hereford, has, by the death of the Bishop of Peterborough, become entitled to a seat in the House of Lords. Dr. Atley has only been consecrated a few weeks ago, and it is seldom that a new prelate succeeds so soon to a seat on the bench of bishops. In a case heard at the Westminster police court on Saturday last, Mr Selfe stated that if a person encour- aged street musicians to play after they had beea ordered by another to leave a particular locality, he or she was liable to be prosecuted and fined equally with the street players. The Bristol Post says that a Cardiff journeyman painter, named Ashton, is at present in London, com- pleting arrangements for coming into possession of estates of the value of about £ 80,000," left him by a deceased nephew, a medical gentleman, who lived in Australia for many years. One of the estates, it is said, is in Carmarthenshire. The Nonconformist papers state that the Wesleyan Conference has refused to allow a request, made by the Canadian Church, that the Rev. W. M. Pun.,hon should be the president of its next assembly, the reverend gen- tleman being at present in Canada. His name is also to be dropped from the legal hundred." This condemna- tion is to be carried out in consequence of Mr Punshon having, on leaving England, married his deceased wife's sister. The Examiner is glad to notice that the military authorities are, for once, unanimous in a generous recog- nition of the merit of the Moncneff gun shield, although it springs not from a professional soldier, but from an oiffcer of militia. The War Office is, it is said, equally well disposed and it is hoped that, pending further ex- periments, the threatened expenditure for iron shields will be deferred, for there can be no doubt that, for de- fensive purposes, the new invention will prove invaluable, whether on land or at sea. It isn t love only that "laughs at locksmiths." A prisoner made his escape lately from the Hull borough gaol, by means of a spoon, out of which he ingeniously constructed a key, and with which, after surmounting endless difficulties, he managed to turn the lock of his cell door. It should be stated, however, that the credit" of the contrivance is mainly due to an incorrigible mate, who was serving a ninth term of imprisonment, and who had successfully tried his 'prentice hand" at prison- breaking at Dartmouth. Attention has been drawn by the London papers to the destitute condition of two little girls, grandchildren of the late Sir Henry Bishop. Their mother was last week sentenced to twelve months' imprionment for attempting to defraud the Great Northern Railway Company, and the fatherless children are without a home. Sir William Brokin, Assistant Judge of the Middlesex Sessions, and Sir Robert Carden have taken up the case, and it is hoped that the members of the musical profession will render assistance. Lord Bury has just had a letter addressed to him which will recommend him more to the seafaring part of the Btrwick-on-Tweed constituency than the strongest cer- tificate which it was possible for Mr Mill to have written in his favour. His lordship lately, at great personal risk, saved the life of a fisherman at Mudeford, near Christchurch, and so deeply impressed was the Queen with the account which she read of the deed, that her Majesty has, through Sir Thomas Biddulph, sent a letter from Balmoral congratulating the noble lord on the suc- cessful performance of his "most gallant action." The Queen enquires in the letter what can be done for Lord Bury's companion in the enterprise, who also, it is stated, deserves her Majesty' warmest commendation. Serious disasters happened on land and on sea during the high gale on Saturday night. Near Newcastle, a new Wesleyan chapel was blown down, and partly fell Hpon a house adjoining. The roof of the house gave way, and three of the inmates-a man, with his wife and child- were killed. Several other persons were severely injured. A sad accident also happened at Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax. During the violence of the hurricane a dila- pidated house fell, killing a woman and her infant. The mother was quite dead when help arrived, and the child only lived about an hour after. At Chestarfield a sign- board fell upon a man and a woman-killing the former on the spot, and very severely injuring the latter. Mr Doulton, M.P., has been charged before the Cor- rectional Tribunal of Brussels on an indictment accusing him of fraudulently obtaining a sum of 148,775 francs, through the Belgian Public Works Company, of which he was a director. Mr Doulton denies the competency of the court, and therefore did not appear. The trial proceeded in his absence. A telegram states that the judges of the Correctional Tribunal, before whom Mr Doulton was tried, gave their decision on Thursday morning. The court decides that the "fraudulent manoeuvres" charged have been proved, but that, inas- much as the fraud was committed against foreign (that is, English) interests, the new Belgian penal code does not apply to the offence. No sentence is therefore pro- nounced against Mr Doulton. JEST AND EARNEST: AN ACTRESS SHOT.—A little tragedy in real life was enacted a few evenings ago at the Swansea Theatre. It appeared that a coloured actor, named Mr Morgan Smith, had been engaged for a short time to take the principal characters in sensa- tional dramas and tragic plays. During a desperate encounter in one cf the pieces Mr Smith had been furnished with a loaded pistol, which, unfortunately, had been rather too heavily charged. When he had to fire at the heroine in the plot, the loud report startled the audience, and the unfortunate actress staggered back desperately wounded in real earnest. The wadding struck her on the arm, causing a severe lacerated wound, which rendered it necessary to have her re- moved to the infirmary, where the poor woman will re- main for some time. SERIOUS COLLISION IN THE MERSEY.—On Saturday last, a collision of a serious character occurred in the Mersey. The steamers Trojan and the Demetrius, oii coming up the river-the one from Patras and the other from Alexandria—collided. The Demetrius struck the Trojan on the foreward port bow, knocking in all the bulkhead compartments and flooding the ship. Steam was at once generated. At about six o'clock a.m. the Demetrius was moored alongside the Prince's Dock- gut, with her head down and stern high above water. The Trojan was cut amidship, and the pilot in charge was compelled to beach her at Seacombe, where she now lies. The cause of the collision is attributed to the thick fog which prevailed on Saturday morning on the Meraey; but no doubt a judicial investigation will clear up the matter. A.RCHDEACON SANDFORD ON THE IRISH CHURCH. Archdeacon Sandford, at a Liberal meeting at Birming- ham on Friday night week, said he was pained and grieved to see the clergy take up a position antagonistic to the people on the Irish Church question, as they did with regard to reform. It was painful to him to see the order to which he belonged imperil its position and sacrifice its usefulness by the course which it too generally took in political matters and in great national emergencies, trifling with the confidence and affection of the people slighting, thwarting, and neglecting them. He felt this keenly when he heard 6,000 Pro- testants cheer a Roman Catholic archbishop at Man- chester because he advocated the interests of the people, and when he saw the ovation given to Mr Dale, Dis- senting minister, at Birmingham. No body of men ever had a more glorious platform than the English clergy, but thoy did not avail themselves of it. DIZZY "NAPPING."—A story comes to us from the North which shows that even the great modern cham- pion of the Church may sometimes be caught napping, in a very literal sense we fear, when the pecuniary in- terests of the Establishment are at stake. W--en Mr Disraeli attended her Majesty, at Balmoral, he went on ounaay, as a matter of course, to the Parish Kirk at Crathi^, and at this old-fashioned kirk the practice is ob- served of sending round the "ladle" to take up the collection." When the ladle" reached th ? royrd pew the Premier was absorbed, it is charitably ;bSllm u) in profound meditation and before he was fully alive to the situation the collector had gone. The coin, how- ever, was sent after him—one person after another handing it on as hurriedly as possible after the retreat- ing money-box; but it was too late, and the offering found its way back through the same number of hands to the Premier's purse. The congregation, we are told, seemed intent on walehing the scene and no wonder, when they beheld such an ominous oblivion to the call of duty on the part of the man who, their Tory pastors I tell them, is the bulwark and defence of what the Scotch kirk-goer reverently calls the National Zion."